I was going to do a theme for today’s links. But I ended up stumped. So you get a lovely potpourri of links! … OK, how about a mess of unrelated links? Yeah…that is more honest. But, whatever you call them, here they are for your enjoyment, ignoring or whatnot.
- In the name of all that is Holy..NO!!!!
- You know who else had explosives in Potsdam?
- A heartwarming story of “team” for the holiday season!
- Admit it…you ARE going to click on a story headlined “YouTube singer’s teenage gang of skull-masked moped robbers are jailed for 13 years for targeting commuters in string of knife-point thefts” aren’t you?
- NOTE: I didn’t put any links to Flynn-a-palooza, since I am observing the 48 hour rule. But feel free to bat the story around in the comments, should you desire.
SUPER BONUS FEATURE!!!! BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT! STEVE SMITH GEAR.
Comments
481 responses to “Friday Afternoon Links of …. Something.”
Are you saying initial reports may not be entirely accurate?
From LEFT: HE IS TAKING DRUMPF DOWN WITH HIM11!1!!! IMPEACHMENT STARTS MONDAY MORNING!1!11BLARGH!!!
From Trumpaloes: SEE, NOTHING HERE! YAWN!
From Me: Meh, I’ll wait until something happens, further.
Dammit, Chips, why aren’t you overreacting! Panic, damn you! Or gloat! Gloat magnificently! This news is too important to merit indifference, just like literally every other headline item related to the Trump administration!
What about Comey quoting some bible verse?
I’m beginning to dislike that self-righteous twat almost as much as I dislike McCain.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/12/01/former-fbi-director-james-comey-tweets-bible-verse-about-justice-after-flynn-pleads-guilty/CFG1G7xsxUk6lnQ76vJsnM/story.html?p1=Article_Related_Box_Article_More
STEVE SMITH APPRECIATE MODELS IN NEW CLOTHING LINE, AND BY APPRECIATE, MEAN… WELL YOU GET THE IDEA
Well, there is a 50% chance STEVE SMITH will be doing tonight’s Links. If so, he might have something to say about it. If it is ZARDOZ, I wonder if he would be jealous?
How could he not be (jealous)? STEVE SMITH is out there with a clearly evil penis, and now he’s got merch. I can almost hear ZARDOZ harumphing.
Hmmm. You raise a good point. But does STEVE SMITH “create new life”? SON OF SMITH, so to speak? And STEVE SMITH did let ZARDOZ dry out in his cave, so there is that.
STEVE SMITH REPOPULATE FOREST SINGLE-RAPEDLY
Just curious – is there an origin story to the STEVE SMITH jokes? Because I really hope it isn’t this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steven-smith-executed-ohio-man-who-killed-raped-6-month-old-given-lethal-injection/
TW: horrible gut-punch story, but in the end the murder-state scored one for the good guys.
Not even close: Summary here.
Not a Steve Smith music link….
Here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJRxryYpNGI
STEVE SMITH
SAY RELAXGIVE DONKEY PUNCHTHAT HOW STEVE SMITH GET YOU TO RELAX!
WAIT TIL RUSTY TROMBONE SOLO
Have you set up your IT guy to get him fired yet?
No…
*looks around*
Ford sues John Cena for reselling GT supercar.
What does the contract say?
The contract says he’s going to pay up.
Fools. They can’t see him, how can they sue him?
Good luck finding him.
Sweeeeeeeet. Although “light-weighting” is a weird phrase.
Gorilla-glass windshield?
That sounds very sharp and stabby.
Nah, they make a tempered glass protector for it.
But it keeps coming loose around the edges.
*holds up folding chair*
I say they settle this like men.
Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio once wrestled for custody of the latter’s kids. If you can wrestle for that, you can for this as well.
I like the timing too. An ex-CNA cowworker said nursing home residents are gropey as all hell.
Gotta get your locks in before you check out permanently.
Licks
Dicks.
Oil slicks.
What’s grosser than gross?
Sitting in Grandpa’s lap and he gets a boner.
Kissing Grandma and she slips you some tongue.
Cum on Eileen?
Is suicide an option?
Candle wicks
My wife works in a nursing home. She has been telling me for years that getting harassed by senile old men is part of the job.
My SiL had an old guy who would try beat them up.
It’s a great way to get the oven pre-heated.
So, good news for libertarians: pro-NSA and pro-surveillance Tom Cotton will not be CIA Director, at least not if Trump has his way. Donald Trump has called the alleged Tillerson exit fake news on Twitter, and he wants him to stay long-term. A lot of mainstream conservative pundits are angry about this, but I think that he’s done a good job as Sec. of State.
After reading this article, I know Rex is my kind of Sec. of State:
I wish I could mind read like this.
He will bring journalists back onto his plane and schmooze them
To be sure, this isn’t the actual reason the press hates Tillerson.
“It is divided, at the most fundamental level, between those willing to sell their souls completely and at a discount in the service of a man who is doing great damage to American norms and institutions…”
Ah yes. Norms and institutions. Another thing the smart set are suddenly worried about. Plus, if there’s one outfit that should have its norms anally probed, it’s the State Department.
STEVE SMITH PROBE STATE DEPARTMENT ANUSES….ANUSI?
WHATEVER…CHECK OUT STEVE SMITH’S FOREIGN JUNKETT!!
This is fucking retarded. Pompeo has been running CIA for the same amount of time that Tillerson has been running State. The difference is that the apex of Tillerson’s career at Exxon-Mobil, he had years and years of successful experience managing an organisation as complex and wealthy as a successful nation-state. At his own Senate confirmation hearing, he acknowledged that State and Exxon-Mobil have a similar number of employees, around 70k.
All week I have been listening to idiot commentators moan about how State is in shambles and how Tillerson is a “failure” just because there are vacancies — in a massive bloated bureaucracy with too many useless make-work titular jobs. Some of these people are either plain stupid and couldn’t conceive of the concept of cutbacks and efficiency, or are truly fucking mendacious.
Why can’t it be both?
Inside baseball with Eliot Cohen, shitheel muckracker author of the Atlantic article
Dude, this guy is a full on cheerleader for federal government fiefdoms. Fuck this guy.
In college coaching news:
1. Phil Fulmer appointed as new Tennessee Athletic Director. $20 says he appoints himself as head coach within the week.
2. Knoxville, TN sports radio is the greatest thing in the world.
3. Jimbo Fisher leaves Florida State for a shitload of Texas A&M booster cash (10 years/$75-$80 million), becoming the first coach to leave the ACC for the SEC since Spurrier went from Duke to Florida. Florida State’s going to poach Willie Taggart from Oregon.
I texted this to some friends earlier. I mean, who in their right mind would want this job now?
The Bill Snyder model… “I let someone else run the show for a few years and it goes to complete shit. Give me the keys back. I’d rather coach this team to my early death than let you incompetent fools run it.”
But Snyder’s a competent coach. Fulmer hasn’t coached for a decade and wasn’t all that good at the end.
I’d take it. I assume it pays well.
I’d probably get fired within a month, however.
Schiano was only the coach for an hour or two before the fans revolted, and it looks like he may end up getting a few million out of the deal, so…
As a Tar Heel I really enjoyed ncstatelol’s part in this. Signing Donut Dave to a 8 year/$24mm contract is the height of hilarity. He’ll be out in 3 years tops and they’ll have to pay him the entire amount. Yow is going to bankrupt the wolpfack like she did Maryland.
I’m not so sure Taggart won’t just stay at Oregon. Phil Knight can bankroll whatever salary they choose to give him, and the biggest reason Jimbo wanted out of FSU was the administration doesn’t want to upgrade the facilities – again, not a problem at Oregon where those sweet Nike bucks have built them a facility NFL teams envy.
If Taggart stays put, FSU will go after Brian Fuente, at which point I will point at the Hokies and laugh. It’ll be even funnier when Buzz Williams bolts in basketball, too, which is just a matter of time. He already played footsie with Ohio State over the summer before they hired Archie Miller.
Durrr I mean Chris Holtmann….got my Big 10 coaching searches mixed up.
In other college football coaching news, Arkansas fired theor AD and football coach last week and appear to not thought must past that.
Looking at this mess, we’re lucky that Gary Patterson (and his wife) absolutely love Fort Worth. Apparently they had a discussion with Tennessee and decided TCU was the right place. (per an interview with Patterson)
A heartwarming story of “team” for the holiday season!
Kind of torn here. As he says, it’s an asshole move to not tell the employee earlier, but should the Marlins renew his contract because he’s sick? Or because it’s close to Christmas?
Jeter is a douchebag regardless.
He played for the Yankees. Of course he’s a douchebag.
*nods*
Didn’t he give a couple thousands chicks herpes?
Did he at least give the guy one of his famous ‘one night stand’ gift bags?
The deluxe model, with the macadamia nuts and the Jeter-autographed mini helmet.
“Jeter-autographed mini helmet”
Now that is a fine euphemism.
I weep for our children.
A “Man on the Street” story about what people think about changing the name of Lake Calhoun to Bde Maka Ska. (It was named after John Calhoun and people are really mad we are honoring a slave holder. Super hard to tear down a lake too. The new name is the original Dakota name. (Bde is Dakota for Lake, so I guess we can’t even use that racist name either)).
There is a link between age and stupidity in these articles. Minneapolis is doomed.
I can hardly wait until the rich progs who own property on Lake Calhoun realize that they are going to be pushed out of their houses so Kyle can have his Dakota compliant ecosystem.
Why is there a lake in Minnesota named after John Calhoun?
*Kyle from the quote up above is so fake woke. If he really cared about Indians, he would know that the significance of the name change to the Ojibwe is that the “dog eaters” (what the Ojibwe call the Dakotas) are getting some extra love from the white eyes.
If I remember my history classes from long ago, “Dog Eater” was a pretty powerful insult by/against Native Americans, wasn’t it?
Yes.
I grew up near a big Ojibwe rez and they couldn’t stand the Dakotas. Since they didn’t eat dogs, they thought the Dakotas were barbarians for doing so.
I read some history long ago indicating that that’s what the Incas called their poor unacknowledged brothers to the north, up in Shitland…N. Mexico, Texas, New Mexico.
I would venture to guess that our buddy Kyle has never met a real Injun. I know he’s never set foot on a rez.
Probably a Wayzata kid.
But he’s “very interested in their issues”. He gets some Virtue Points for that, right? Or does he just lose some negative “White Male Anti-Points”?
Rory Calhoun. The person who’s always standing and walking.
Is this one of those tests you said you’d try to pull on me?
See my vest, see my vest…
Nice work. Next, we’re going to level 2.
There might even be another one in this thread.
Oh goddammit.
I don’t think there is one, unless the siberian tiger reference is to the casino episode. If I’m missing one, I hang my head in shame. I’ve watched every episode from seasons 1-12 at least a dozen times, I should get this kind of reference.
I told you it was level 2.
It involves gazpacho.
Aw crap (just got home from work). Now I get it. I feel shame.
(Lisa says “Good News, Everyone” while suggesting that everyone have the gazpacho. Wonder if that’s the origin of it being Professor Farnsworth’s saying)
You don’t win friends with salad, you don’t win friends with salad…
Bidet Make Ska.
They’ll call it “Lake McCaskill”. Give it five years.
Contrary to popular belief, girls with big tits are actually smarter!
http://www.medicaldaily.com/double-trouble-how-your-breast-size-speaks-volumes-about-you-313692
On average 10 IQ points.
http://archive.is/rt57W
2, 18, 26
Sweet Jesus!
1 and 5 please!
My sister, with her custom made “D cups, A student” t-shirt would agree with your assessment.
I’m so disappointed with you.
PICS, DAMMIT!
Nope. I can take my sister in a fight, but her wife scares the bezeejus out of me.
Your story is getting better and better!
See if number 6, my English nemesis can get a picture for you. They live in the same town in Connecticut.
So…. you’re saying you want him to get beat up?
*nods*
Beaten up, mobbed by slightly insane though attractive lesbians, potato, patato.
Do you have a club I could join?
I’m not sure if there is enough hate in my heart for two oddly shaped blue nemeses, but I think I can manage it for you, Q.
If I read that right, you have an … erm .. sapphic sibling? If that is indeed the case, and her partner is somewhat daunting of mien, yes, I think I know them.
It’s a small-ish town, and its “characters” are quite distinctive.
Bless America!
I’m still not feeling too well so I’ll just take #1 and #2.
They’re probably smart enough not to be vegans. Handy protein for the win.
Smaller mouths tend to relate to higher IQ. At least quieter ones.
I like overalls. #14
#7 please. And also, #9 likes ’em slapped and pinched you can just tell. When she isn’t conducting research to replace power plants with Electrophorus electricus farms.
I just skip to the comments.
I would, but DailyMail is blocked on my company network. It hasn’t always been!
/back to work
WE GOT HIM! WE FINALLY GOT TRUMP ON TREASON!!! NOW WE CAN UNDO THE ELECTION AND APPOINT HILLARY!
These people have *zero* self awareness. Like, less than a paranoid psychotic.
It’s either cling to this kind of thing, or have to admit that they were wrong and Trump isn’t anywhere near as bad as they thought. So they double down on crazy.
Straightforward from here:
1. Impeach Trump and Pence
2. Constitutional Crisis
3. New Election
4. Ryan v. Clinton
5. Bobcat re-escapes from DC zoo, eats both Ryan and Clinton
6. President Bobcat
I, for one, welcome our new bobcat overlords.
Goldthwait?
I’d vote for ‘im!
^^ This guy gets it.
7. Bobcat turns out to be Siberian Tiger.
Siberian, eh?
I see the Russian connection.
Go back to Russia!
Are you sure the bobcat is going to eat Hillary? I thought she was the pussy eater…
STEVE SMITH RAPE BOBCAT. THEN STEVE SMITH SERVE AS PRESIDENT. BY SERVE, MEAN RAPE.
If we’re going to have an administration led by a character from The Oatmeal, I’d prefer something more like President Mantis Shrimp.
A president who can kill people by snapping his fingers?
I like this.
That doesn’t pass constitutional muster. I recently heard a Dem strategist suggest the following:
1. Wait until 2018 midterms
2. Dems win House
3. Swear in new Speaker (a Dem, of course)
3. Then impeach Trump and Pence
With all the other crap the courts have “found” in the constitution, I absolutely believe they could find a bobcat clause and make this work.
What’s their follow-up plan for convincing the Trump voters that there’s still some means of reining in the swamp via democracy, rather than “2nd amendment solutions”? Swamp critters right now remind me of Pharaoh somewhere in the midst of the plagues (Pepe memes were the rain of frogs in this telling, I guess?), minus even the insincere contrition. I’m just waiting for the part where the sea swallows the bastards.
That’s a great plan for them except the science-fiction part: “Dems win House”.*
I mean, they could, like, NOT double down on the Critical Theory, Queer Studies, Identity Politics stuff, but then I already criticized science-fictiony conjectures, so never mind.
*-unless I am badly overestimating the number of sane people still remaining in this country.
Come on. The only true president is President Rhino.
All Hail President Rhino!
Baby making music about murdering your girlfriend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_461ZrJb8
I was expecting this: Hey Pete
The best Girlfriend killing song of all time.
Question (never having been interviewed by the FBI)” Do they tell you upfront that you are under oath? I imagine there’s no Miranda warning if you aren’t being arrested but why no perjury warning if your responses turn out to be false either willfully or unwillfully? Same rules if you don’t tell truth to the local LEOs?
I think it’s like anything else; if they haven’t arrested you and charged you, you can walk out. If they do arrest you, you can zip your lip until you have a lawyer.
If they don’t arrest you, you STILL zip your lip until you have a lawyer. They’ll say that “you’re not under arrest, they just want to talk”. Never, under any circumstances, should you talk.
THIS! Watch 4 or 5 episodes of Dateline, and you’ll see that they interview a bunch of people and pretty much have the case solved based on what the people say within 24 hours. The next 6 months is gathering enough evidence to make it stick in court.
Of course, most Datelines are dramatic because they “solved” the case with the wrong perpetrator, and the 6 months of evidence gathering made it fairly obvious that the guy they “knew” did it was actually smoking a joint at his 2nd girlfriend’s house, thus the evasiveness.
Exactly! Watching Dateline episodes is what finally opened my eyes to the fact that you never ever talk to the police. There are so many of those stories where a conviction is reached on very flimsy evidence because the accused ran his mouth to the cops.
Watch any first 48. Most of the guys cop to the murder within a few minutes of questioning by the cops.
Lying to federal agents is a federal crime, and it’s plainly unconstitutional.
Yep. And the FBI’s standard procedure is that one agent takes notes during an interview which is then written up as the official record of the interview.
No issues with that at all.
The trick of it is that they’ll ask you something, anything that relates to an investigation (which they won’t tell you about) and if you say anything false (including I don’t know X, I was never at Y) even if they already know the answer to the question (which they probably do) you have committed the heinous crime of lying to the government (and implicitly trying to frustrate an investigation). Oaths, warnings, none of that need apply.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448755/trump-investigation-shows-how-easy-it-feds-create-crimes
This is why you say nothing.
It will eventually make their job harder as people wise up and absolutely no one wants to cooperate with the Feds on anything.
People are too dumb for that. In the classic don’t talk to cops lecture after a half of hour of being told it’s a bad idea, the cop agreeing it’s a bad idea, several students still raised their hands admitting to speeding.
Point conceded. Nevermind.
I watched the guy who lived across the street from get arrested one night for being a convicted felon with a weapon. Said weapon was a miniature baseball bat they found in the back seat his car. All that dumb idiot had to do was keep his mouth shut, but for half an hour he stood there blabbing to the cops about where it came from and why he had it and yes that’s his car on and on. Then he yelled, “You’re kidding me!” when they brought out the handcuffs.
You can talk to them, just choose your words very carefully. Playing their word games with them can be quite amusing.
Sounds like Jeter is a real jerk.
And a gutless one at that.
I love Maggie McNeill
What a whore!
It’s the reason for the season. Well Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of whores at any rate.
Correction: Not ALL penises are magic.
Aw, hang in there Playa. I heard OTC help is imminent.
I know, right? Clearly she hasn’t experienced the Chipwoodie.
You know who else had explosives in Potsdam?
*Looks up tonnage of explosives dropped on Potsdam and failure rate of WW2 aerial bombs*
Approximately all Potsdamers.
The White House is filled with mice and roaches and apparently needs some repair.
Only a racist wouldn’t want to share a John after Obama.
So the last renovation lasted about 65 years.
A half-wit racist.
I mean the toilet not………
…never mind.
Fuck you, you lying prick.
The White House is filled with mice and roaches
But enough about the White House Press Corps . . .
See what happens after a black family moves in?
Well, it’s public housing ya know? Not like they’ve got any pride of ownership.
Nice.
Of COURSE you had to.
This proves one thing: There can be no such thing as Peak Guardian
“OK, So You Think You’re a Vampire. Whose Job Is It To Tell You You’re Not?”
Dr. Van Hellsing, obviously. Mina Harker, less obviously.
Meet the Special Interests Keeping Marijuana Criminalized
Plenty of slavers in her list.
Still makes my blood boil, even after all these years.
As if I didn’t hate them enough already.
I can’t say that outloud without spitting.
The American federation of government employees wants to keep laws on the books that violate the shit out of every single person in this country’s civil liberties, are counterproductive to their stated goals, are immoral, and actively cause the deaths of thousands of people each year all because they want to keep their cushy, taxpayer funded, and largely useless positions.
Fuck Them.
But without the union, government employees would have no voice in the decisions made by the government.
// VHA Union Rep
I could not stand that guy. That’s a real quote by the way.
I don’t think that punching someone who says that to you would constitute a violation of the NAP.
That’s why they call them “public servants”, yuk yuk yuk.
Too soon?
Burn it down. I hate thieves.
What I still don’t understand is how asset forfeiture can possibly not have been struck down decades ago in a Fourth Amendment challenge. How can this be allowed to continue?
You act like there is a Supreme Court or something tasked with protecting the Constitution.
Silly.
An incredible amount of mental gymnastics, and judges from district courts up to the US Supreme Court who love to rubber stamp everything legislatures and cops do for “crime control”.
Public employee unions was the worst fucking idea ever created by our government. I didn’t even realize they were among the groups lobbying to keep weed on the Fed Schedule 1, and I already hated them.
Now I know for sure that when rumors say “White House”, they mean the career bureaucrats in the administration.
I’m beginning to think Trump’s inner circle has wised up a bit about who is talking to the press and make up rumors for them pass along for the press to lose their minds over.
Fucking tiresome. This shit is far more tedious than leaving TMZ or Access Hollywood on 24/7. Swiss’s 48 hour rule is like a golden rule for this press.
Don’t suppose you have a quote of him saying that?
Vox cuts the open bar from their holiday party, because even the woke can’t be trusted not to sexually harass others while drunk
*imagines sadbeard drunkenly groping an intern*
More like sadbeard softly weeping while masturbating in the Men’s room.
Softly?
Men’s room?
While?
I wouldn’t put that imagine in my brain for all the bitcoins you could imagine.
A filter set to catch “SJWs+Sex” can save the cost of a lot of brain bleach.
Yet another point where they’re completely right.
If you don’t think you should own guns, don’t. If you don’t think you should have kids, don’t. It you can’t trust yourself when you’re drinking around the opposite sex, don’t.
All I ask is that you don’t assume the same for me.
Yes, but as an employer there is no way I would have an office party with liquor nowadays based on liability issues.
If I owned Vox? Absolutely. It’s a bunch of children with out any self-control.
If we had an office party without booze, nobody would show up, including me. Great cost savings, I guess.
The company picnic is BYOB, and boy do we ever.
The company I work for asked for employees to buy tickets to a holiday party one year. Another year, they gave $15 gift cards to everyone who didn’t go to the company party, causing people who went to the party to get upset. I’ve heard nothing about a holiday party this year, so I’m guessing there won’t be one.
My workplace makes you pay to go, and they won’t let you drink, because the general’s daughter has a drinking problem.
Fucking authoritarians. Just because you have a problem doesn’t mean we can’t hold our liquor.
Mine stopped them a couple years ago. Some of the long-ago parties were legendary.
Yeah, pre-2008 our restaurant’s Christmas parties were insane. Pretty much what you expect with a bunch of service industry people who don’t have to work the next week.
Worked at a country club for a couple summers. They had the holiday party in the banquet hall with an open bar. I was underaged and asked for a 7up. I got a 7 and 7. Decided I liked it. It was a great party.
Servicing one another?
Yeah, they’re used to partying. When I was 18, I worked at a grocery store and went to the Christmas party. There were a number of girls my age and a number of older guys who stocked the shelves. Some of the wives of these guys were hammered and were jealous that their husbands were talking to these young girls. It was getting pretty chippy and finally one of the wives went ballistic. I got the hell out of there and went to a real party with my friends from my other job where I was a line cook at a steak house. Much calmer:) the pot probably helped.
The company I work for is giving a free lunch in the cafeteria. That’s our holiday party. Yes I know TANSTAASFL.
Yeah, that’s our party as well. Italian pasta buffet next Friday in our cafeteria. Should get out early though. My smaller department is going to the movies the Friday after that when the new Star Wars opens.
Same for me.
And a princely $25 Christmas bonus.
Open bars are an intense liability list.
Amen brother. I love booze. I really love free booze. But free booze at a company event? Nope.
I don’t even attend them. If I’m gonna get accused of some ridiculous fake-rape shit, I’ll be under the influence of booze paid for with my dime, in my own time, on premises not paid for by the firm.
I’m the Mike Pence of Hedge Fund staffers.
I have one and then I’m done. I’ve seen enough senior people act the fool at the company party to learn their lesson for them. Lawyers are trailer trash with fancy cars.
Hedgies are still rapey people, but unlike their bosses, us minions don’t have the SMV to risk getting busted, and don’t have the slush funds to pay off the bimbos.
Repost cuz I think it’s funny.
http://www.collegehumor.com/post/6997770/the-50-states-sex-moves
I ‘specially like the four corners one (since I am a four corners denizen).
TW: Slideshow, but it’s worth it.
I didn’t realize collegehumor.com was still a thing.
Despite not feeling well, I went out and picked up some Founders CBS. Once I’m over this cold I’ll have some.
Place by me has a bunch of bottles, but I’m not sure I want to spend $25 for it. Dammit. Who am I kidding?
I went out last night and tied one on. Was planning on going out again tonight but not sure it’s worth it based on how I’m still feeling. Wife’s home late so it’s basically a free night out. Wish I was younger:) Might put up tree, take a shower, and just go.
Best cure for a hangover is more drinking.
Yeah, if I can get off the couch:)
Huh. On the rare occasion when the wife is gone I just stay home and enjoy the silence. Couch, vodka and watch what I want on the TV
I’m staying home which is probably good because I’ll be heading out to the bar around 3 tomorrow to drink beer and watch football until late.
For breakfast?
Soon, but maybe not this weekend. Whether or not I’m fully over this cold I need to clean up the leaves. It’s December in New Hampshire and there is no snow on the ground. I’m on borrowed time for leaf clean-up.
I heard beer is good for colds.
Office prog is very very very very excited about Flynn’s cooperation. This is like the 30th time in the past year he has read some article and pronounced THIS IS IT!!! THE SMOKING GUN!!!! HES GOING DOWN!!!!
It would be comical if it weren’t so sad.
Was Office Prog cloned? Because that sounds eerily familiar.
They all read the politics Reddit, which always has like 10 articles a day about “THIS IS IT WE GOT HIM!!!!”
You would think after literally a year of the same fucking article thrice a week, they would be more skeptical.
But if they were skeptical, I don’t think they’d be progs.
Hivemind.
Electoral college delegates will nullify this! Emoluments clause! Russia! Deemed unfit! Impeached for…. something! Russia!
*blood vessel bursts in forehead*
Hello President Pence!!!!
Nice shirt, who’s Steve Smith? Umm…
Gather ’round the campfire and let me tell you a story.
File under Fluff
“As Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not”
Ok, I call heap big more bullshit. Ok, I get it, Lizzie Pow Chow doesn’t really identify with you guys and isn’t in DC to fight for whatever your cause might be. I get that’s the ‘social construct’ side of the deal. But for me, I don’t know if either one of you is more or less Native American than the other unless we see some DNA results. The new Injun on the scene here doesn’t look any more Injun to me than Sitting Senator Full Of Bull.
What a nagler.
So anyone can become a citizen of the Cherokee Nation? It’s a not based strictly on your race/ethnicity, right?
Nagle and Warren heartily agree. Let me just ask you this. What is it about Cherokee that’s so cool and trendy?, because I’ve never seen anyone want to be a member of any other Native American tribe. Is it just the way the word sounds?
When I decide to be an Indian I’m gonna break the trend and be an Apache, so everyone will be scared of me and stay off my lawn.
I’d say jump on it, but the Sugar Hill Gang already beat you to it.
So did Lt. Aldo Raine, First Special Service Force
Comanche or GTFO.
Fake Apaches and Comanches team up to scalp some fake Cherokees and appropriate some culture! I’m getting sick of these fake Cherokees!
Yeah! Comanche’s kick fucking ass.
I don’t know who suggested the book Under a Summer Moon that was all about the Comanches, but I’m really liking it. The author isn’t too much of a writer, but the subject material is awesome.
Too bad Ken Burns is such a prog. It would be great to turn that book into a series. It can’t happen though, because it doesn’t fit the narrative of Indians being Noble Savages who lived in harmony with nature.
The Comanches were badasses who killed and subjugated all their neighbors once they got a hold of horses.
Do you mean This
Nisga’a are basically Vikings of PNW.
They also were the first (possibly still only) Canadian First Nation to allow private ownership of tribal land
“What is it about Cherokee that’s so cool and trendy?”
The casino checks?
No casino check sadly.
It’s extra victimhood status due to the Trail of Tears.
Cher?
Back home in the Old North State, Cherokee was the Indian (feather) of choice as it was either them or the loser ass Lumbee.
It’s the only one they can remember thanks to the convenient reminder located in the Whole Foods parking lot.
ᎦᏔᎻᏕᎠ ᎩᎧᏍ “ᎠᎸᏩᎺᏔ.”
I suspect they must have been the “fuck everybody” tribe, and had the horses to get around. I got Indian from all 4 grandparents and 3 of the four were cherokee (and they were from Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Mississippi, so my “many horses” theory might be sound. Probably COOL convertible horses that made a rumbling sound. Turns on the squaws.)
Wow, I didn’t realize there’s a reservation here in Balmer, lol.
This calls for the Incredible Bongo Band.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WY-Z6wm6TMQ
Cultural Appropriation!
Yeaaaah. I am more injun than she is. That means exactly jack shit.
Fuck this chick with a dull flint tomahawk.
Real Indians are just like us, they don’t care what color the person they have to bribe is.
The story is all about how the Indians in Minnesoda learned how to use the casino loot just like any other group that has come into big money. Lobby Congress to block out your competition.
I don’t think any of them care a bit whether the pols they are bribing are natives or not. And that chick is not close to a full blood Cherokee.
Too Chicken-shit to put “RAPE” on any of the products. I’d love to give a mug that says “RAPESQUATCH” to the office proggies I’d like to see fired.
STEVE SMITH APPRECIATE SECRET SANTA. BY APPRECIATE MEAN RAPE.
There might be a small flaw in your plan, but what the hell, go for it.
However much you may dislike Andy McCarthy, and lord knows there are plenty of reasons, he does know something about how federal prosecutions operate, and he says the Flynn plea looks like no big deal:
Whatever Chip. They finally got him. Trump is done for this time.
“this time”
Again, for real this time.
Do Progtards not realize that Lucy always pulls the football out from Charlie Brown?
They’re so used to being Lucy when dealing with normal team reds, they don’t see this time around they’re not the one’s with the ball.
^Perfect^
The left are of course going apeshit. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI. He admitted that months ago. Now the leftist media are saying Flynn will testify Trump told him to meet with Russians. To talk about Syria. That has nothing to do with any sort of collusion or stealing elections. They have nothing, same as they had to start with. Mule face is wasting millions of tax payer money to run a circus and bring some unrelated charges against anyone ever involved with Trump in any way. I bet Trump rues the fucking day he ever hired that shit weasel Sessions.
More info may come out, but it looks like a “we wasted how much time on this? Well we need something. Find some crimes some people committed sometime, (three felonies a day) and nail them for that to save face.” The media is screaming from rooftops that Trump told Flynn to meet with the Russians as proof of a conspiracy, even though he had won the election by that point and had completely innocent reasons to start working with them.
They haven’t come within a mile of proving that the Russians even did anything in the election at all. They bought facebook ads, cool. Maybe they hacked some emails, and maybe they also released them. No conclusive proof of that, but its been said so much, that it’s just accepted fact now and you’re a crazy person if you want to go back to that point and reexamine it. Even then, okay so the voters were better informed about what a shithead Hillary was. The only way it’s a problem is if there’s some quid pro quo. Nothing even remotely suggests that. I’m so sick of this shit. How about attacking Trump on policy or stuff that actually matters? No. Fuck you then.
It doesn’t even matter then. The only thing about information that matters is its veracity. The Clinton wikileaks were damaging because they were true. If they had been false, they would not have been damaging.
If it’s true, it doesn’t matter if Space Mongols and Nazi Zombies hand deliver it. Truth is truth.
Friday news – a big nothin’ then. At least that’s my theory.
The story I read said Kushner wanted to push back the vote date for a UN resolution. The UN resolution was about condemning Israel for something or another. Every time it came up before the US vetoes the resolution but Obama planned to abstain allowing the vote to pass.
Supposedly Netanyahu asked Kushner to push the vote back a few weeks until Ibama was out of office and Kushner asked Flynn to help with that. Flynn contacted a Russian ambassador for help pushing the vote back (didn’t work, resolution passed).
That sounds to me like an incoming administration laying the groundwork for policy, which seems like a normal thing to do.
The guy from Webster?
We may have stumbled on a new physical paradox: is it indeed possible to relax while wearing a STEVE SMITH thong?
Some people want to be found by STEVE SMITH.
Some people want to be eaten first by Cthulhu. I guess it takes all kinds.
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Yes, but those are mostly useful idiot hikers who don’t realize they will be the first ones bent over the tree stump.
STEVE SMITH RELAX YOU WHILE WEARING STEVE SMITH THONG AND BY RELAX MEAN RAPE.
STEVE SMITH SAY RELAX AND BY RELAX HE MEAN GET RAPED
Well..nuts. https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa
Not sure if I’ll try uploading at Daily Motion, etc as a back-up. Not like I’m making any views or anything, but it’s also the principle of it – with youtube gaining more market share…how soon before they get even more stupid with the censorship, etc?
Son of a bitch.
I expected it but not this soon. Video hosting ain’t cheap or easy, and advertisers are realizing they have all the power so they can fuck the providers as much as they like.
that’s really too bad. I was hoping they would be the ones to upset Youtube.
OH MY GOD THEY KILLED (hashtag)NETNUETRALITY AND LOOK WHATS ALREADY HAPPENING TO TEH LITTEL MOM AND POP WEBSITS!!!!!!!11!!!!!!11!1111
/prog
It is interesting that they gave literally no advance notice. Styxhexenhammer is ranting on Twitter right now about a few things like that. Folks who’ve been pulling in thousands of views are suddenly blocked from uploading with no notice and the entire site gets pulled in 2 weeks.
It’s likely that they were bleeding out cash since day one and their remaining capital just dried up. This type of abrupt shutdown seems to be SOP for a lot of new tech companies these days.
I don’t like posting things twice, but I tried this yesterday and probably just bad timing since I know we have some whiskey fans around.
Anyone here know much about single barrel Bourbons? I tried today to buy a bottle of Blanton’s and tried the 3 biggest stores near me, all sold out and not sure when they’re getting more. Has anyone knowledgeable on this topic tried Rock Hill Farm single barrel? My son-in-law is visiting next weekend and he’s wanting to try a good bourbon and I’d like to find something nice to share with him and gift a couple bottles. I’d really appreciate any good suggestions. He’s bringing me 2 bottles of top shelf Cachaca and I have to reciprocate.
Basil Hayden’s is some really nice stuff that I see for around the 40 to 50 dollar range. Not sure if it’s single barrel, but it is small batch (made by Beam/Suntory). It is super smooth to sip.
Thanks! I’ll give that one a look.
I seem to vaguely recall that perhaps Jesse.in.mb and I consumed some of that, previously left at my place by SugarFree. And, if so, we enjoyed it. But I somehow don’t really remember.
It was Basil Hayden. A Silver Bourbon, a fairly rare style.
A Knob Creek single barrel would be nice, or Booker’s if you would like something a little more hi-test.
I think I’ve seen Knob Creek in my local store. Will have to give that one a look too.
Seems like all the new bourbons I’ve seen come into our local upscale stores are all ‘cask strength’, which all seem to be 93 or higher proof.
I’m not that picky myself, I like scotch blends like 12 year old Chivas, but I want to impress someone with a bourbon, the rum he is gifting me is top top shelf.
I like the colonel e h taylor. even their small batch version is quite good.
Any distiller who puts out a single barrel variant is going to be happy with what is in it. Keep in mind that these barrels are specifically selected to represent the distiller at their best, instead of just being blended into one of the regular releases. If you want to find a rare treat, you can look for a cask strength bottle which will be released at the proof in the bottle instead of being watered down. If you go cask strength, I would recommend serving it with water to allow people to cut it as they see fit.
I have no idea who this person is (except that they’re apparently an “unabashed socialist” according to their Twitter bio), but I find this map interesting in the years track with the decline and fall of socialism in the region:
https://twitter.com/lumatheodoro/status/935898792104140801
Perhaps it was posted as an endorsement of capital punishment?
*in HOW the years track
Shes hot, but as a socialist, she is definitely on the wrong side of the hot/crazy matrix for me.
Cancer update.
they’ve finished with the cutting bits. Not sure on future chances of having children, but she’s doing pretty well considering.
Thanks everyone for the advice, I appreciated it.
We’re getting close again, which I’ve missed.
I must have missed something, hope her recovery goes well.
An ex girlfriend I’ve stayed close with during my stint in CO has (had?) cervical cancer. It hit me a little hard, mostly because I wasn’t expecting people my age and younger, people around me, to have it. which sounds stupid, but that’s what you get in your 20’s. I didn’t know what to do or how to process it, but the people here gave me a good outlet to just come back to some reality.
Sorry. I hope she pulls through.
It’s looking up!
I think that makes sense, statistically it is unlikely.
I’ve never stayed close with an ex. All 1/1 times.
She’s the only one, actually. so I guess 1/3.
Do you find it makes it more difficult to find dates/keep the g/f in check if they find out you’re still friends?
My wife kind of freaked out (a long time back) because I had FB pictures of me and the ex together, like she still meant something to me rather than I’m a lazy guy who doesn’t give a fuck about facebook. *eyeroll*
I lost one really quick over it, before it even started. The other was okay with it, but it would come up in arguments.
At some level, if they freak out over a friendship that is miles away with some history, it isn’t worth it. On another, they probably had a point. I also got jealous if they had the same situation.
with this woman, I’m not sure what’s going on in that way. I’m not trying to make anything of it while she’s dealing with it. Just be there for what she might need and offer some support.
People make life too complicated, but I’m practically a hermit, so that makes life easier.
Yeah, I assumed as much. You seem like a decent person, for a glibertarian. 😉
I learned my lesson on that one the hard way. She was friends with a couple of her exes, and it ended up she was screwing them on the weekends I wasn’t around. Even before I knew about that, she made plenty clear that I was easily replaceable at the drop of a hat.
After that experience, I decided that being “just friends” with an ex was a huge freaking warning sign.
I’ve also been there. It sucked, and I spent the week after learning about it so baked I couldn’t think about anything at all. I don’t blame anyone for cutting people out for holding on to ex’s or those red flags.
I’ve stayed “friends” with exes – with predictable results.
Thats pretty fucked up.
Also gross, if it was bareback. Cheating is one of the things that seems worse if a woman does it for that reason… >.>;
I know DOOM is around my age (a little younger), how old are you trshmnstr, if you don’t mind my asking?
I also thought DEG was an old man, but I only associate thinking about exes with young people.
I tried staying friends with two ex-s. One I was being too nice too and should have just cut her off. Eventually she went her and disappeared from my life. The other disappeared because of me being a dumb shit, that one I wished worked out differently. We were much better friends than lovers.
It’s a balance, and I don’t think every girl (or guy) should remain in the friend area.
This one is worth it, but she’s the exception.
Damn, dude. I’m sorry to hear about this (it’s news to me – I should probably pay attention better around here), but I’m glad that things appear to be getting better. Hoping for the best for her and you.
It was brief, and right around thanksgiving. I don’t think many saw it.
Thanks, Michael.
Yeah, my one and only ex is probably in that category. We really had a strong synergy, and one fo the few people IRL I’ve found agreed with me. But I was also young and stupid, and am glad we were together at all.
Hope she recovers quickly. Best wishes.
Thanks for the update, Doom. Glad treatment is moving along well.
Me too. I can’t thank you all enough for the advice and sound boarding.
Looks like it’s going to pass
I think what a lot of people are overlooking here is that, as far as I know and I’ve been trying to follow it, the individual mandate repeal is still in there. I think that’s effectively doom for the ACA, a repeal without a need for repeal. Hopefully we all get some relief from that as well as the tax cuts.
That would be huge. Pretty sure Flynn pled guilty at just the right time to distract everyone.
87th dimensional chess.
Time to start hurling grannies off cliffs?
Nuns holding babies.
STEVE SMITH WAIT AT BOTTOM, AND BY WAIT . . .
Oh boy, Brendan O’Neil takes his hatchet to Ta-Nehisi Coates and people who worship him
Trigger Warning: longer than a Kenpost on Rand Paul.
Is it longer than a shitty Atlantic article by TNC? God that guy is terrible, not sure he really deserves to get a hatchet taken to him, as his continued relevance among the left only serves to prove their racist and philosophically bankrupt status as the worst of the authoritarians in the USA.
To be fair, it’s much more about whites who adore Coates than the man himself (though he does get some shots in). Lengthwise I’m not sure – waaay back when I was reading The Atlantic, Coates was on their blog, so he never went over four screens or so…
Four screens or four pages?
Either way that is too many pages of a nonsensical asshole’s reverse navel gazing.
Four screens. It’s my measure of web article length.
I swear, he’s gotten much much worse over time. I guess he’s a good businessman at heart, find out what works and keep offering it.
Coates is the Krugman of identity politics journalism.
Probably an accurate comparison – I doubt Krugman believes half the stuff he dumps onto the page, either. But, they know their audience and they’ll serve them well. Krugman as a benevolent daddy figure explaining why they are the smart ones, Coates as a dominatrix chastising them for their failures.
I bet they don’t even read one another.
TL;mabye later
But I think he’s on to something. I don’t find the pompous ravings of a nasty racist to be very appealing myself, but lots of woke progs seem to love to signal their “guilt”.
It is ‘impossible to read [him] without wincing’
She got that right.
Not bad. Thanks for the share. I’m glad someone else is willing to deep-dive into these issues, because—like most of the intellectual left’s output—I find writers like Coates tedious, sophomoric, needlessly opaque, and ultimately pointless. Most people don’t live like Manhattanites. We’re not driven by feckless countercultural outrage. And for the love of God, what culture are they countering? They are the culture! They stew in progressive clichés and pieties every waking moment! They set the cultural tone, produce the cultural content, decide what’s acceptable and what isn’t. And at the end of the their fraught days being the culture, they sit and seethe in their wholly self-inflicted sense of cultural shame.
I have lived in Manhattan and most Manhattanites don’t live like Manhattanites. FWIW.
Did you get your Stiglmeier meats?
“Out for delivery” at 8:30am. Still waiting.
I’m sorry.
Got it.
Me: “Why is it a day late?”
Idiot: “I don’t know.” *stupid grin*
Me; *takes package, slams door in face*
Wow. Well, at least you have it!
Yeah! And most of the shit was still semi-frozen to my surprise.
Is that what they’re calling it now?
Just finished Drip Drop Coffee Stout by Otter Creek, too bitter for me, maybe a little too much coffee flavor, a sad showing for a style of beer I normally enjoy. 3/5 (5.6% ABV)
Starting on Claymore, a nice little scotch ale from Great Divide. This doesn’t reach Dirty bastard levels of goodness (which will remain the baseline I judge all scotch ales from), in fact my first impression of this beer was pretty negative, but somehow the sixth one is tasting quite a bit better. Not sure if this is just a result of reaching the right temperature or what. 3.5/5 (7.7% ABV)
otter creek is a meh.
BUT ORGANIC ALL NATURAL DOOM
I’d probably drink any Otter Creek. It’s been a while though
The Claymore is good, but both Scotch Ales are in different leagues. I suppose I could explain why…
Did you already write a post on both of them? I vaguely remember you reviewing a scotch ale, but I don’t know which one(s).
I like Great Divide’s beers. This is my favorite of the Yetis.
Wait.
Are oatmeal stouts a subsection of imperial stout? I’m so confused.
Oatmeal stouts are brewed with oatmeal. You steep the oatmeal in the wort, then remove before fermentation. You can do that with an imperial stout or a regular stout.
Ah, okay.
Because I dislike oatmeal stouts, but have a soft spot of some Rasputin.
I like Old Rasputin.
I need to buy a 4-pack just so I can put part of the box on the backstop for my dartboard. I’ve decided to get a small token from each beer I drink and make a collage of sorts for my backstop.
Oh, I never finished that thought… the art is amazing, and I kind of look like Rasputin, though my face isn’t as wide. I think he must have had a little Siberian in him.
The collage is an excellent idea.
I think so, and it gives me an excuse to drink like 100 different beers. 😛
Beer is too expensive in Virginia. So is all alcohol.
And housing.
Those are the two necessities of life (because cops will hassle you for getting fall down drunk in public). Time to GTFO brother.
You’re too close to Maryland. And DC.
Isn’t there some kind of tax that shoots it up? In Wisco, they almost pay you to drink
Well, I know that in VA, all the stores are still controlled by the state, right? Or is that only PA I’m thinking of? The liquor laws here in MD are pretty relaxed now, very few bans on Sunday sales (Balitmore Co only one I know of), growler sales allowed, home delivery allowed. Still no shipments from out of state or any sales in Supermarkets, gas stations, etc. And the taxes are still fairly high. Really, the only decent way to buy here is at the super stores like Total Wine and More. Fortunately there’s one about 10 miles away from me. I just go there and buy enough to last me few months.
They can sell wine and beer in the supermarket, but all the beer seems to be 2 dollars more than the Wisco price. And yeah, the ABC stores sell everything at 5 bucks over (at least the stuff I would buy — Angel’s Envy and shit)
Angel’s Envy… That’s bourbon, right? I’m looking for bourbon advice, trying to find Branton’s but not happening. See my post upthread. I need to find some great sipping whiskey before Friday of next week. I have nothing in house, I have Scotch, but my guest is wanting Bourbon.
Woodford Reserve
Woodford is awesome, but Angel’s Envy is Ambrosia.
I would definitely call it the best sipping bourbon within normal price ranges.
angels envy is good.
Going to have to agree with Aerozppln here. Angel’s Envy is amazing, especially for sub-$50 a bottle.
Hmm, I had heard enough about Angel’s Envy that I knew it was bourbon, but all my friends have talked about is Branton’s, Elijah Craig Barrel Proof B517, and Rock Hill Farms Single Barrel. I cannot find a single bottle of any of those in my area. I’m sort of new to bourbon and scotch, but I love scotch and want to try some good bourbons myself.
Jewsday Tuesday idea (if that’s still a thing): review the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife. It’s topical, what with all the recent furor over sexual harassment, and I think it would be entertaining to read OMWC’s take on it.
Indeed, OMWC assures me it is. Work life has sucked all other life out of him lately (not a euphemism, you filthy-minded bums), but he has a great post for next week!
I *was* going to do a “Nice work if you can get it” comment in at this point, but thought better of it, since you also have the power of the cat butt.
Glad to hear it’s still a thing. Always a fun read.
Obama didn’t send some flunky to meet with the Russian ambassador during the transition in 2008.
He phoned the Russian president himself.
It’s indicative of nothing, of course. It’s much less indicative than his whispered assurances to Medvedev years later. But it goes to show what a stupid farce this collusion business is.
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We’re willing to give you a daily post, you know.
I kind of like him as a ‘spice ‘ added to every post. 😀
Excellent.
The 11th Commandment:
Thou shalt not not look at boobies
The first one Q, you could have stopped there.
But he went on to the third one, so be thankful.
Meh, first one still wins. Third one reminds me of a friend’s ex who would always hit on me when she was drunk. Fucking sexual assault mang.
Bad touch! Bad touch!
Sweet Jesus, look at those.
RE: the sex in nursing home story: I guess he’s not going to talk about STDs spreading in nursing homes?
I blame GILF pr0n.
While theres nothing wrong with GILF porn, it’d be great if they didn’t post it to the main page of porn sites so I don’t have to ever, ever see it.
We old horndogs hardest hit.
Is that what you really prefer to watch though?
Me watch? I was just asking for a friend.
I can’t believe I can use this twice in two days!
Great Grandmas.
You just need to put your hand over your right eye and click on your preferred category on the left. (friend told me this).
I can’t wait to be in an old-folks’ home.
To pinch the cute nurses and claim you have Alzheimers?
I’m not going to go to one.
Me either. I want to die standing up with my boots on.
“Dying is what happens while you are making other plans.” – Samuel Clemens.
Damn straight.
Most oldies homes are fucking terrible and will let you get sores on your ass that get infected by superAIDS (TM) causing you to go insane, and then your family won’t put you down and no matter how many times you scream “KILL ME!!” they can’t because now you’re just a crazy old man who doesn’t know his best interests.
There was a study done back in the nineties that found 95+% of nursing home residents had STDs
Less than half of them had had sex since entering the nursing homes. The conclusion was that most people get exposed to some STD at some point in their life, the bug stays dormant until you get old and feeble and your immune system starts to be less efficient, then the bug pops out.
I guess that is something to look forward to.
Well, if it’s going to happen anyway, then why is there any reason to not be a dirty old man? Thanks, Suthen, I have seen the light!
*thumbs up*
In case anyone misses my point that means that 95+% of people walking around on the street who are symptom free actually have an STD.
What’s the percentage in nursery schools?
It varies wildly depending on their proximity to OMWC.
Within a 50 miles radius of OWMC’s house or beyond?
Evidently, it is known.
What about the ones that do have sex? At their age with atrophied muscles, do they end up getting BengAIDs?
Prof slams OkCupid for privileging ‘white, heterosexual’ men
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10218
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A Trinity College professor says popular dating site OkCupid “invisibilizes” LGBTQ people through an attractiveness algorithm that favors “white, heterosexual, cisgender, Western males who are able-bodied, healthy, and aged appropriately.”
A spokesperson for OkCupid vehemently denied the claim, pointing out that it has 22 gender options and 12 orientations to choose from, and even lets users select up to five descriptions at once.
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*slams head into desk until this gibberish makes sense*
“says popular dating site OkCupid “invisibilizes” LGBTQ people”
If we’re talking about the loudmouth lefty activist ones, then I hope so.
What it’s like to be me as I read this: https://youtu.be/sjdnCC6n4xk?t=7m21s
That is hilarious.
Since everyone left TOS and came here it would be difficult for me to make a list of favorite commenters. Everyone here is sterling. If I tried to make such a list of top tens it would be impossible not to have Derpetologist at or near the top.
I can’t decide if he is my third favorite poster, or my most hated.
I’ve got a much simpler and shorter list – posters I wish had made the jump:
sarcasmic (in spite of his opinions on snobs)
Citizen X
lap83
Fist of Etiquette (he has financial reasons to stay, is my understanding)
I’m probably forgetting one or two.
Pre-spurning crusty, too.
I thought X was here… >.>;
Rich, too.
I don’t know why but that got my Boston howling.
“Invisibilize” is the stupidest post-modernist academic neologism I have ever seen. It sounds like something Don King would say.
Assuming that this is true, doesn’t that just create a space for sites specializing in “alternative” attractiveness? Jesus. Learn2fetish.
Fetlife.
Hey now. Don’t talk shit about Don King.
You’re having a moment of religious epiphanosity?
But… but, we read Invisible Man back in high school, and cant virtue signal our superiority without making up a word that references it!
It must be a reference to Ellison’s “Invisible Man”, amirite?
Sort of like “Kafkaesque” but enverbiated *
*I’m proud of that one.
God fucking dammit. That is stupid.
well…. If you consider that 98% of their potential paying customers are heterosexual, cisgender, Western males I would certainly hope that would be the primary focus.
You don’t build a mainstream business by running off 95% + of your customer base.
Jeez, progs; quit being fucking stupid!
I just looked through all the Steve Smith merch and am sitting at my desk at work laughing out loud. I really want one of those shirts but where the hell do you where it without having to explain what it means to everyone who asks? I may have to go with the coffee mug.
The site is acting funny. I can’t tell if it’s y’all or me.
Speaking of which… monocle seems to have an issue where I select some text and hit ‘blockquote’ but instead of blockquoting it tries to post an empty comment. I’m on Safari if that matters.
Yeah, that’s a known bug… I haven’t been able to track it down yet.
Ah, OK. Thanks.
I was going to add that it only started recently, like in the last week or two. Not when I switched to Safari – it was working fine then.
Sometimes it’ll do a similar thing when trying to post links with it. one the second try, it has both the text and link saved, but you have to make sure they turn yellow for it to post.
no real complaints, you did a really good job and I am grateful you made it.
Many thanks! I can’t take all the credit, it’s a group effort. I just wish that I had more time to make it better.
Thats funny.
I am not having any issues, FF user.
North Korea seeks U.S. recognition as nuclear weapons state
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Dec. 1 (UPI) — North Korea said the only way it would negotiate with the United States is if Washington agrees to recognize it as a nuclear weapons state, according to Russian delegates who recently visited.
Vitaly Pashin, a member of the delegation, told Russian news service Interfax that North Korea is “ready to sit at the negotiating table.”
“We met with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea,” Pashin said. “He said North Korea is ready to sit down at the negotiating table.”
The only condition under which Pyongyang would agree to negotiate is if the United States recognizes the regime as a nuclear power, said the member of the Russian State Duma delegation.
The Russians were also told the North had successfully launched the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-15, and that the country had already achieved its aim of becoming a nuclear weapons state.
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You see that faint blur on the horizon? That’s the horse that used to be in this barn.
Strategic patience. Somebody get a rope.
I was more conservative than libertarian in my early college days and I once wrote a short essay expounding the virtues of going after N. Korea before they could get the bomb and lambasting Bush for sending them oil in exchange for things. Professor was a lefty, but gave me an okay grade, wonder if that would happen today.
Also, it sucks being right, though I now wouldn’t countenance initiating force, I was right about them playing our presidents and getting the bomb regardless.
last 48 hours
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2017.12.01 Pakistan Peshawar 9 37 The Taliban storm a university campus disguised in burkas and gun down nine innocents.
2017.12.01 Syria Deir Ezzor 10 0 Video surfaces of ten religious minorities beheaded by the Islamic State, which afterwards tossed their head ‘from a high place.’
2017.12.01 Afghanistan Khorasan 1 0 Two child members of the Islamic State chop off a man’s arms before beheading him.
2017.12.01 Pakistan Chaman 1 2 Terrorists kill a child at the gate of a Christian community.
2017.11.30 Nigeria Kwaya Kusar 2 2 Two children are hacked to death at their school by a man thought to be with a Islamic group opposed to Western education.
2017.11.30 Israel Arad 1 0 A guard outside a mall is stabbed to death by Palestinians.
2017.11.30 Afghanistan Farah 4 0 Muslim extremists open fire on a police vehicle, killing four occupants.
2017.11.30 Pakistan Spinkai 5 1 A teacher is among a group of five people purged by Taliban bombers.
2017.11.30 India Nautan 2 0 A Muslim family murders their 14-year-old daughter for having an affair with a Hindu boy – as well as the boy.
2017.11.30 Pakistan Kot Digi 3 9 Deobandi followers fire on a rally for a rival theological group, killing three members.
2017.11.29 Iraq Mosul 14 0 Fourteen civilians are found mudred by ISIS.
2017.11.29 Nigeria Wuna 5 0 A group fighting for ‘Allah’s law’ rampages through a village, burning homes and killing at least five residents.
2017.11.29 Yemen Aden 5 12 An ISIS suicide car bomber kills five people outside a finance institution.
2017.11.29 Pakistan Islamabad 2 4 Gunmen spray bullets into a Shiite mosque, killing two worshippers.
2017.11.29 Iraq Hit 40 0 Forty victims of ISIS execution are found in a mass grave.
2017.11.29 Syria Tal Dakweh 1 0 A pilot is chained to the ground and set on fire by the caliphate.
2017.11.29 Iraq Baaj 340 0 The remains of three-hundred and forty religious minorities are discovered in a mass grave.
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https://www.thereligionofpeace.com/attacks/attacks.aspx?Yr=Last30
I’m seeing “cuck” used in various ways.
I’m aware of the official entomology. I’m aware of the political implications and usage.
Still, the meaning of words change over time. “Harambe” was like that–first it meant one thing and then it meant another.
I’m starting to understand “cuck” as a new form of how people used to use “fag”, but stripped of its homophobic associations.
When dudes used to call each other “fag”, “homo”, etc., it generally was not meant to be taken literally. “Don’t be a fag” was meant to say not to be effeminate, not to be a wuss, etc.
It’s a little confusing because the people who use the word “cuck” often seem to think they’re flying in the face of political correctness, but to my eye, it seems more like a politically correct way to call someone effeminate without using a slur that’s offensive to gay people. That may not be the intention, but that seems to be the way the word has evolved. There’s nothing homophobic about accusing someone of being the kind of wuss who would stand by and do nothing while someone else walked in and screwed your wife.
We needed a word like that. If “cuck” hadn’t or doesn’t move into common usage, we’ll eventually invent some other term for the same thing, but my money’s on “cuck” for the win.
The main use of “cuck” I hear is the type who lets another culture come in and fuck them. One variant anyways.
Only if you include so called ‘coastal elites’ as another culture.
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(which it could be argued is true)
I think some of the “alt-right” may have used it as a suggestive that their opponents specifically enjoy watching black men lay down the pipe with their wives, so there may be a racial component to it. I honestly don’t know for sure though because I tend to immediately tune out anyone that uses terms like that in a non-comedic way.
I don’t think there was a particularly racial component to start (I have no idea about now). Back then, it was about calling them beta males who have to call on a real man to pleasure their woman.
It is a big part of the whole culture wars thing. Red pillers hate nothing so much as ‘male feminists’ who are often “beta males”, kowtowing to people real men wouldn’t give the time of day.
Cuck is inherently comedic.
This is probably a good example of what I’m talking about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggwo_31LFfo
It’s “I Am a Cuck” set to the tune of Simon & Garfunkel’s “I Am a Rock”.
Heidecker is trolling them big time, and the crowd is full of cucks. They’re so cuck, they don’t realize that he’s making fun of . . . the left, not celebrating his own coming out of the closet.
I am gay
And I voted for Obama
I am a shill
For the Clinton campaign and the left wing mainstream press
I’m a pussy who gets fucked right up the ass
[Refrain]
I am a cuck
I am a libtard
[Verse 2]
I’m a fag
Who wants blacks to live amongst us
And Arabs to have equal rights
I have no love of country, white folks are all bad
But when the alt right folks attack it makes me sad
[Refrain]
I am a cuck
I am a libtard
[Verse 3]
Don’t talk of trump
‘Cause nothing scares me more
I really should call him daddy
He could be the saviour and go down in history
And save us all from douchebags just like me
[Refrain]
I am a cuck
I am a libtard
[Outro]
And a cuck has no fun
And a libtard always cries
That’s what the political meaning of the term “cuck” was just before and after Trump was elected.
I”m hearing people use the word just to mean “unmanly”. They don’t want to say, “Don’t be gay” like they used to, because that might be offensive. So, instead, they call you a “cuck”. It sounds like a slur, but it isn’t really homophobic at its core.
Cucks think anything pro-Trump is misogynist and racist, but I’m talking about real people who aren’t so far our in left field.
Incidentally, Heidecker said he was called or accused of being all those things by the alt-right.
I just think the word has morphed into something different, and there needs to be a word that sounds like a slur for someone who is unmanly–but isn’t necessarily misogynistic or homophobic.
CDC: Utah’s teenage suicide rate rises 141 percent
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The teenage suicide rate in Utah jumped 141 percent between 2011 and 2015, according to a federal report released Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the teenage suicide rate in Utah has increased four times faster than the national average. During the five-year span the CDC studied, 150 Utah teenagers took their own lives.
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First reaction: Wow, thats a lot!
Oh, thats nothing, right?
Also, Mormons least hit. I’m guessing it has to do with the state becoming more ‘diverse’?
Venezuela is collapsing. Why is its president messing with the one thing that works?
Venezuela’s president has fired or arrested nearly all the people running the oil industry. Here’s why.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/12/1/16723458/venezuela-oil-corruption-arrest-nicolas-maduro
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has fired or arrested nearly all of the people running the company’s massive oil industry and put a general with no experience in oil whatsoever in charge. It’s a dramatic purge that has rattled the industry in the midst of the country’s severe economic crisis, and another sign the country is growing more authoritarian.
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But this is about more than just installing a leader with loyalty to Maduro. It’s also a gesture of Maduro’s loyalty to the military. Maduro is faring poorly in polls, he’s presiding over the most dire economic crisis in South America, and he’s continually resorting to authoritarian policies to keep his grip on power.
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But during his nearly five years in power, Maduro has never shown an eye for making the hard decisions needed to improve the economy. What he has shown is that he’s willing to do just about anything to cling to power.
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Curse you, state capitalism!
That’s as old as the hills.
Want the army to support you as king?
Give them titles to the lands they conquer. That way, if you lose to a foreign invader, they lose everything, too.
Doesn’t work so well when it looks like you’re going down to internal dissent. See Mubarak.
If the military thinks you’ll lose your power (and they their property). that makes them more likely to step in and depose you themselves.
That’s a good bet for how Venezuela goes. The army steps in to protect their oil interests and forms a new government–where their oil interests become untouchable by the new government.
Just what we need, the South American Russia.
It’ll be like Egypt.
A lot of places were like that.
There is a lamp post with his name on it. Don’t bet against that, the bet is on how long before he christens it.
Bus drivers make the best rulers. It is known.
Just a couple of days ago, someone on DU was linking to an article hailing Maduro for arresting one of the corrupt capitalist leaders in the oil industry and claiming that Maduro is now showing how he’s going to turn the tide against the evil capitalists.
It seems that things idiots read and parrot mindlessly are cyclical, and “trickle down economics” is once again making the rounds. If there has ever been a single lefty talking point that heats my blood to the highest raging boil possible, this one may very well be it.
Umm, Pie? You have some explaining to do. Don’t pretend that this isn’t you.
I thought that pie looked more like this.
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Wellll shit
http://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2010727/300.fangs.lc.082710.jpg
Found footage genre. Cloverfield meets Blair Witch in eastern Europe and locks her in a basement. Beautiful.
In the Middle East and South Asia, there is a custom of segregating and secluding women. It is called purdah, which comes from the Persian word for curtain/veil.
In pre-Islamic Arabia, tribal feuds were common and many feuds were the result of women being kidnapped, raped, or assaulted. In order to minimize this, women were hidden away to minimize risk to them and to decrease the chance of getting into a feud with another tribe. This pre-Islamic tribal custom became incorporated into Islam and spread to other countries with it.
It appears a similar custom may appear in the US. If public pressure to “do something” about sexual assault continues to mount, it will result in an American version of purdah. You feminists say you want a society free of rape, sexual assault, and the objectification of women? Be careful what you wish for.
Seen on Twitter: Mike Pence has a button under his desk that prevents the door closing.
At this point, there is already little difference between Islam and the left. The American left are the new Puritans. Which is why Islam are their new specialist special snowflakes.
It’s not a well-known fact, but in ancient Greek and Roman culture, an upper-class woman was expected to be veiled when going out in public.
I guess this was before the Roman public baths?
Correct. The baths were sex-segregated for the entire republican period. They started being mixed in the first century AD, which commenters at the time took as evidence for the decline of Roman mores.
“evidence for the decline of Roman mores”
That’s what I was thinking. The downfall of another empire caused by hedonistic libertarian types.
Has anyone else noticed that Drudge has also went full on TDS? TDS, it’s all the rage, no one is willing to miss out. I think that Drudge is still all wee-weed up because Romney lost.
I think it has more to do with the fact that Drudge loathes Steve Bannon.
What’s that all about? I think I missed that one.
I have no idea, but didn’t Bannon and Andrew Breitbart come along and eat Drudge’s lunch?
I hate it when people eat my lunch.
I don’t really know that that means. I mean Breitbart is an actual news site, where Drudge is just the aggregate site. I also think that Drudge has a hell of a lot more traffic that Breitbart. And, didn’t Trump and the hobo pretty much break up? Why is Drudge mad?
Breitbart was working for Drudge when he started his site.
Drudge had to sit there and watch Bannon become . . . the evil genius behind the throne.
If he isn’t jealous of Bannon, there’s something wrong with him.
Supposedly, Drudge didn’t like the fact that when Bannon was in the White House, he was leaking shit to the media about Kushner because he didn’t like him. So Drudge began running articles critical of Bannon. Bannon blames Drudge for being ousted from the position. There’s been a low-key war between them since the summer that has just escalated and escalated in mutual hatred..
I see, I completely missed that.
Podesta doesn’t believe her.
Man, I really can understand why they are calling DC the swamp, it is full of the creepiest fucking human beings on the planet.
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these people are shameless liars and they don’t even tune their lies to be plausible with anyone with half-a-brain. They know their most-bullshitty lies convince the majority of dullards, so simply repeat them.
one: neither he nor clinton herself would have had the right to “publish” all of her email from her State-account. It was ()#*$()@*$ littered with classified information and was technically State Department Property – which is the key reason why her offsite storage/management of that shit was illegal to begin with. He’s basically continuing to perpetuate lies while pretending he sought nothing but ‘full disclosure’.
…90% of whose communication was, “print that for me”, and or – “forward to x person who does that for me”. “What they would have seen” my ass: you had over a year to demonstrate all her shining qualities and all we saw was Empress Grandma nearly getting politically curb-stomped by the campaign of Grandpa Communist… who, incidentally, never had a real job in his life.
My buddy rodney wrote a book about a year he spent living in Century Village (retirement community in florida) right after he quit his job as David Letterman’s head-writer. His grandmother had died and he had gone down there to dispose of her stuff, but ended up living in her crib and writing this book instead.
Its mostly a comedic look at how old people in retirement-homes act like junior high kids, and are constantly intriguing and flirting and – yes – banging each other. STDs were a real problem. He also got on the Bocce team, if i recall. Its a funny book. They made a TV pilot about it as well. I think he made a pilot with fox right after the book was written, then they took another stab at it 5 years later.
I saw that Seinfeld episode.
In other words, the Vortex is real and Zardoz is a documentary.