The sports world is abuzz about the end of the Steelers-Patriots game. I’m sorry, but that was a terrible call…or a terrible rule…or whatever caused that obvious touchdown to be overturned. That’s just a fucking travesty. I don’t know what else to say.
The Carolina Panthers are up for sale after the #metoo movement claims another scalp. Rapper Sean “Puff Daddy” “P-Diddy” just plain “Diddy” Combs said he wants to buy the team. And plans to make some moves that will generate a lot of buzz. And a lot of empty seats. Steph Curry wants ion on the action as well.
Too many things going on today to dwell on sports except to note the Australia have retained the Ashes after absolutely demolishing England in the third test by 41 runs and an innings. For those of you who don’t know much about test cricket, thats the equivalent of the slaughter rule (and then some). Its a grim day for the English. Which, come to think of it, is most days.
I promised you links. Well, here are…the links!
Obama stopped our intel organizetions from taking on the criminal terrorist organization Hezbollah so he could send Iran billions of dollars and strike a nuclear deal with them, every one of which they’ve ignored in the past. Way to go, asshole. You managed to fund terrorism for probably a decade or more and give an ostensibly theocratic hellhole the means to create more nuclear material when you didn’t have to do either.
President Trump has not discussed and has no plans whatsoever to fire Robert Mueller. Which means the major news outlets have talked about very little this weekend other than the possibility that he will. Hell, even the always-honorable Eric Holder got in on the act saying he’d organize protests if it happened. He should make sure not to wander too close to Capitol Hill if those protests materialize. Just in case that contempt of Congress warrant is still out there for him refusing to hand over docs about his secret “guns-to-cartels” operation known as Fast & Furious.
Everyone’s favorite feminist anti-Semite and pussy hat hijab-wearing assclown Linda Sarsour is being caught up in the #metoo movement as well, after allegedly enabling the sexual assault and ongoing harassment of a person actually willing to go on the record and name names.
Allegations of groping and unwanted touching were allegedly brought to Sarsour during her time as executive director of the Arab American Association. In response, Sarsour, a self-proclaimed champion of women, attacked the woman bringing the allegations, often threatening and body-shaming her, these sources alleged. The most serious allegations were dismissed, Asmi Fathelbab, the alleged victim told The Daily Caller, because the accused was a “good Muslim” who was “always at the Mosque.”
“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” said Fethelbab, a former employee at the Arab American Association. “Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.”
If true, the allegations would cost most people their jobs. We’ll see if the mainstream media, of which the Daily Caller is definitely only a fringe member of at best, covers it with the same level of exasperation they’ve covered accusations against those lower on the SJW pyramid of grievances.
John McCain going to Arizona because he’s incapable of doing his job because of a brain tumor. Of course, he won’t simply retire so someone physically and mentally capable of handling the rigors of being a U.S. Senator can take his place. That would be the right and honorable thing to do crazy!
Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport got the power back on finally. But 400 flights for Monday are cancelled and everything is still a complete shitshow there. The world’s busiest airport had already cancelled 1,100 flights on Sunday. I hope they have their shit together before I fly there late Thursday.
An unnamed person fired some shots and then barricaded himself in the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco over the weekend. He was allowed to surrender peacefully a couple hours later. Now, see if you can guess why his name is being withheld and why he was probably allowed to surrender peacefully.
The most predictable thing to happen in the last week. (Well, aside from the Patriots managing to have the most important game of the season gifted to them.)
LOL, Jesus Christ. I especially like that he went for the “I’m gonna shame the alleged victim of my husband’s sexual assaults and harassment” Hillary image rather than the “what, like with a cloth?” visage. Stunning. And. Brave.
Hope your week gets off to a good start, friends.
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Diplomatic Immunity?
*looks at article*
Close.
Yay! Monday – have a funeral, job interview, and a day off. Oh and my wife’s birthday (which is the same day as her father’s funeral – wow.)
*this week that is.
I would have expected you to take a day off to attend both a funeral and a job interview.
Both are by phone, strangely.
Sorry for your loss. My thoughts and prayers to your family. Good luck on the interview.
Thanks, Brett. It was a rough day yesterday, and last night. My wife didn’t get much sleep. And, given her solo practitioner job, she can’t just call in to work. So she went in today to change her schedule around for the week.
My sympathies to you and your wife.
Thanks to all the glibs who expressed their sympathy yesterday. My dad was a wonderful man, and I can’t begin to describe how he lived by example. Thank you too, to my dear Lord H, who looks after me, he does a great job.
*feels stupid*
Sorry Elspeth. Never put two and two together.
Thinking of all of you today.
So sorry for your loss.
Sorry about your loss.
You blew are cover /no euphemism implied
*our
::gets more coffee::
It’s like one of those novels where suddenly everything snaps into place and the connections become obvious.
Tulpa is married to Tulpa?
Sorry! I’ll go back under cover in a few days and this will all pass over. 😉
From LH’s description, your dad sounds like he was a real character, in the positive sense. My sympathies as well, but you’re lucky to have had him in your life and for that, I’m sure you’re grateful.
One example: He took engineering classes for a while, all while working full time, and raising four girls. For fun he still used to do trig problems, even when he had no classes.
That got Richard Feynman looked at by the FBI. “He does calculus problems for fun.”
Sorry 🙁
Sorry to the both of you.
Sorry for your loss Elspeth & LH
Sorry for your loss isnone those painfully predictable things to say, but at a time like that, what else is there.
Thoughts and well wishes to all.
I offer my best wishes to you both.
So sorry for your loss. 🙁
My condolences
Sorry Elspeth.
I’m sorry to hear that. Sounds like you have a hell of a week.
Thankfully, I decided to cancel a trip to my office planned for today.
Why is there a dancing “1” on the third comment?
I presume it’s because I requested not to be decorated, and Lord H was not referencing the links.
Okay, I guess we’ll go with that.
Too exciting to have a gif on your comment.
LOL
Lmao
UCS threw his #1 over the White House fence like all those ‘Nam vets.
A Justin Bieber Look-A-Like Sex Doll Is On Sale, If You’re Interested
Is he just a sex object to these women? E need to end this structural abuse
buyers can choose the penis size ranging from seven to nine inches, apparently, so when you put it like that, who can afford to not have one, eh?
Why just one, when you could get all the sizes. Like collecting Pokémon.
Whoever said Doug Jones wouldn’t be seated before he had to resign was probably right…
Translation: “When the accusations about me come out, remember that I was voted in so leave me alone.”
(T)hose allegations were made before the election, and so people had an opportunity to judge before that election,”
Hmm. That’s not how I thought it would go down with Moore, I thought the Senate was c supposed to refuse to seat him.
cavalier973
cavalier973 on December 17, 2017 at 7:04 am
It would not surprise me at all, either, if news came out that Doug Jones is having to withdraw from the Senate before he is even seated, because he was caught on video with a dead girl AND a live boy, and Alabamans have to go through another special election.
That, or angling to keep the job in 2020 by tacking sommat to the right.
This. He knows his grip on the seat is tenuous at best, and that Trump’s relative popularity in Alabama exceeds his own.
He’s not dumb.
Also, I have a natural liking for the guy given all those games he saved for Cleveland back in the day.
He was really good in the Hellboy movies, too.
I clearly don’t have the tolerance for caffiene I thought I did. I needed to brew up coffee as an ingredient for something I was cooking, then I got the bright idea of drinking some. I was up all night, and not just an “I can’t sleep” but “I’m wide awake”. I’m still awake from yesterday, and trying to figure out how well I’ll stay awake.
I still don’t care for the taste.
How about a nice Sanka?
Decaffinated??
For someone not fond of the taste of coffee, that ends up being the worst of both worlds.
It doesn’t keep me up at night…
Thanks for that!
Remember: when Joltin’ Joe’s not stuffin’ Marilyn Monroe’s loose vagina, he’s slurping down instantly-delicious Sanka!
Caffeine is probably the most powerful performance enhancing drug you can take, but it only really works once or twice before the body adapts to it. Then you have to completely clear it from your system.
Nonsense! You can always take more!
/chases dragon
Some of us are on our 3rd cup and will continue to drink it until this afternoon.
Just to keep the headache from coming.
/Caught dragon
Is FCC Chairman Ajit Pai A Closeted Alt-Right Sympathizer?
Translation: “Is he to the political right of Mao?”
Laura Loomer is Jewish.
“Does Ajit Pai know more about the Internet and how it was built than any other FCC Commissioner and 99.9% of the reporters on this issue?”
From the evidence – yes.
He wouldn’t have to know very much for that to be true.
Well, since reporters don’t know jack shit about anything and FCC Commissioner is a political post, I’d say the odds were probably pretty good.
Dude, like, Google invented the internet. We have to trust industry experts on this! Just not the people who build and maintain commercial networks. They’re corporate scum!
I have noted the left media aren’t covering the racist caricature twitter is passing around of him.
https://twitter.com/psychicpebble/status/941547826080710661
Wow. I can only imagine the media’s reaction if that style of drawing had been used for an Obama appointed official.
Or something like this?
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/08/16/mayor-emanuel-racist-cartoon-education/
I have no problem with it but I bet he’d never do a Muslim or Obama I reckon. If he never did it’s because he’s a gutless punk. But let’s attack the Republican minority over a stupid issue!
And it’s jus more proof of a double standard out there. He’s also a little smart ass in the comments.
“Most hated man in America”
I contend that he’s the most hated man in your small circle-jerks, but is largely unknown in the U.S. as a whole.
Lefties seem to have a problem with a lot of Southeast Asians… Ajit Pai, Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal…
Just look at him…dude’s obviously a white nationalist.
Pai’s got some stones. He seems to revel in the daily internet roasting he receives. I admire his tenacity.
And that video he made for the Daily Caller was funny. Well, not as awesome as Remy, but pretty good for government work.
God, I’m getting so sick of hearing “Alt-Right” and we’re just barely into Trump’s presidency. These white nationalists are such a tiny fringe group that no one would know anything about if these media clowns didn’t constantly talk about them and call everyone Alt-Right who doesn’t freak out about Trump like they do.
“arguing that websites and social media platforms, rather than internet service providers (ISPs), posed the greatest threat to an open internet. ”
This. Who is actually doing the censoring right now? The content producers on the internet have gotten people rilled up in fear about what ISPs could do and totally disregard what they do themselves. This whole thing has been a fight between ISPs and content producers about who should pay for resources used, and the big companies like Google, Amazon, Netflix have done great at convincing everyone that the ISPs are evil.
Why not both? I personally detest Comcast (who luckily, I don’t have, but my brother does). Therefore my brother lets me use his sign ins for the paid channels so that I am effectively pirating from Comcast. I also detest all the censorship Google and Twitter are engaged in.
It’s been pretty funny seeing Google with 89.5 billion dollars in revenue in 2016, Amazon with 136 billion dollars in revenue in 2016, Apple with 214 billion dollars in revenue in 2016, and Facebook with 27 billion dollars in revenue in 2016 somehow pitch themselves as the courageous underdog against the robber baron Comcast with 80 billion dollars in revenue in 2016. Fight the KKKORpORASHUNZ!!!!!
Also note that Google has abandoned their Google Fiber project, implicitly admitting that being an ISP is not as easy as they made it out to be when they started.
Also note that Google has abandoned their Google Fiber project
I’d say “halted expansion of” is more accurate, at least for the moment. Although, it doesn’t affect your conclusion.
I have a friend who has been waiting for Google fiber for over a year, because none of his neighbors showed interest. Something something, ISPs should give service to anyone despite the costs.
Why would google expand there when NN could be used to force existing ISPs to bear the costs for them. High speed internet is a human right after all (yes, I have actually been told this).
I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember Obama endorsing that view in some way.
I like how it has to be high speed. Dial-up – which is perfectly sufficient for bill paying and other basic uses – is a human rights violation, apparently.
Human rights are those intangible things every human being owes to one another mutually; the right to speak freely, the right to worship freely, the right to be safe in one’s person and property, etc.
The perversion of this meaning into tangible things that human beings “deserve” by pure virtue of their existence, which must be provided by others, demanding by their very nature the transfer of time, labor, and capital from one group to another, undermines the original meaning entirely.
This will all fade away once people realize the fear mongers are full of shit and their ability to access the internet and see what they want to see isn’t going anywhere.
You have more faith in humanity than I do. People see much more likely to forget about it but never recognize that they were wrong.
It *would* take a special kind of stupid to not see they’re wrong if nothing they said would happen, didn’t; that everything stayed as before the killing of NN.
Or. They’ll try to pin anything they don’t like in the future on…killing NN.
There’s a meme going around where Pai killed people’s ‘fundamental human rights’.
They’re ignorant hyper retards is all they are.
Stealing this
The fuck is a National Memo? A new source of derp?
The fuck is a National Memo?
It’s like a national conversation, only without the flimsy pretense of the communication being bilateral.
Nice.
Just as long as we keep our priorities straight
Some people close to Richardson will tell you that he’s a good person. People in his community will tell you that Richardson has done a lot of good for Charlotte. Richardson was one of the more powerful owners in the NFL, and along with the Houston Texans’ Bob McNair he held the distinction of being one of only two men to have owned his team since its inception.
After purchasing the rights to start the team in 1993 for $206 million, Richardson has grown the Panthers into a $1 billion organization.
But sexual harassment outweighs any good he’s done.
Actual on-the-field cheating? We can live with that. Sexual innuendo and butt pinching, however, require a death sentence.
I’m curious what they have to say about Bill Clinton these days.
Shut up!
*sticks fingers in ears*
I’m curious what they have to say about Bill Clinton these days.
Bill Clinton has served his purpose and he’s now politically impotent. They’re all too happy to throw him under the bus.
You’ll know how they feel if Franken stonewalls stepping down and suddenly everyone buttons their lips about it.
Already started.
Please let Daniel Snyder be found to have made a hooker joke in the distant past. If #metoo can help us be rid of odious sports franchise owners I will support it whole-heartedly!
I second that…
Here you go, headbangers.
My favorite Christmas song! Comments are funny, too.
This one is my early fav:
I liked when Dave Mustaine was in Trans-Siberian Orchestra and they did the Four Horsemen.
A seminal moment in rock history, to be sure.
I wanna see that!
For those who don’t know, while the comment was a joke Al Petrelli from TSO used to be lead guitarist in Megadeth.
I’m surprised Metallica hasn’t had it taken down.
The sports world is abuzz about the end of the Steelers-Patriots game. I’m sorry, but that was a terrible call…or a terrible rule…or whatever caused that obvious touchdown to be overturned. That’s just a fucking travesty. I don’t know what else to say.
I was watching with the sound off. I watched the replays and thought, “Oh, well, they’re going to spot it at the one and make them jam it in.”
I couldn’t believe it when they called that “no catch”. WTF? I couldn’t give a fuck less about treason and sedition in the NFL. They’re digging their own grave with calls like that.
I saw a video posted where an NFL official “explains” the call and proceeds to contradict himself during the “explanation”.
Third Revisit: “Fuck you, that’s why.”
According to the way the NFL rules are worded, you could catch a pass on your own 1 yard line, run 99 yards untouched but if you jumped into the endzone and the ground knocked the ball loose it’d be “No Catch”. Maybe I’m missing something, but that’s how I read it.
No, somewhere along the 99 yards you have established possession.
In this case, based on the wording of the rule, James does not establish possession until he makes contact with the ground and does not have the ball jarred loose.
But he did have the back hand knocked loose on contact with the ground, meaning the ball was on the ground.
Under current rules, no catch.
I hate the Stillers as much as the Patsies, so the asterisk everyone will put next to Brady(*Cheater) and the bitching by Stiller whiners is gold.
“But he did have the back hand knocked loose on contact with the ground, meaning the ball was on the ground.”
My issue was there was not incontrovertible evidence he lost control of the ball with the front hand under most of the ball.
How about we start the Real Time League and forget replays altogether? What was supposed to be a benefit has turned the game into a shitshow.
Bingo. These replays are doing a lot of damage to the league. They kill the pacing and momentum of the game, and they only amplify referee controversies.
My proposal:
(a) The NFL speeds up the game by getting rid of some of the commercial timeouts and generally trimming time between snaps.
(b) They work a deal with the networks – no more than two replays per play during the game (except halftime).
(c) Plays stand as called, but each coach gets two challenges per half, period. Failed challenges cost a timeout. Successful challenges don’t get you another challenge. If you are out of timeouts, you don’t get a challenge.
The endless committee meetings and delays while both obviously correct calls and coin-toss calls are micro-reviewed not only kill the watchability of the game, they erode the refs’ credibility, which is also bad for the game.
I think they need to reduce the number of things that they use replay for. In my NFL, everything is a catch, so fuck that shit right in the ear. Use replay to see if someone went out of bounds or if their knee was down, that’s it.
That’s what I meant, my response was not typed very well.
Vikes got nailed with that stupid rule last week. Not that it matters today (suck it, GB!)
Enjoy the 15 minutes!
Queens have a good team and a good coach now, so they are rolling. They better pay Barr a bonus for winning them the division!
The rule is shit, but it was a shit rule adjudicated correctly on the field. I’m sure Calvin Johnson or any lions fan can tell you about it.
The game turned on it. It also turned on that missed INT, SINGLE COVERAGE ON GRONK ON A 2 POINT CONVERSION WHAT THE FUCK, and running the ball for no yardage when you need first downs to kill the clock. Steelers lost this game, just like I and every single other Steelers fan on earth expected. Having about the second best coaching staff, the second best end-of-game offense, etc is why the Pats always eat our lunch.
But it came down to a coin flip instead of a blow out. That’s a big deal, and will make the inevitable heartbreak of fucking up the AFCCG in Gillette Stadium that much worse.
Is it too late for the Giants to make a playoff run?
Even though the refs thoroughly STEVE SMITHED the Steelers on two bad replays, the Steelers still coulda shoulda won. They had terrible offensive playcalling on their last two possessions, and terrible defensive playcalling on the last Patriots possession. Who the fuck gives Gronk single coverage on a short pass into the endzone? The game was theirs to lose even with the bad calls. And they lost it.
Pfeh.
The Cowboys managed to simultaneously embarrass themselves and win a game. That’s real professionalism, there. I mean, c’mon. Anybody can embarrass themselves while losing a game, but when you only win because the other team’s QB managed to fumble the ball through the endzone for a touchback, that takes . . . talent?
I like the cut of your jib.
I was up all night, and not just an “I can’t sleep” but “I’m wide awake”. I’m still awake from yesterday, and trying to figure out how well I’ll stay awake.
Red Bull.
I thought we were libertarians?
4LOKO!
Adderall
Cocaine
This subthread makes me wanna put on some Queens of the Stone Age.
Australian cross-dressing pro wrestler singer Ladybeard is a hit in Japan and China
I’m big in Japan!
Well yeah but even Tom Cruise is big in Japan so that’s not saying much
Adrian Adonis lost a lot of weight.
Gorgeous George was the original.
My grandfather would lose his mind when he came on TV.
Today is the day that the trucking industry as we know it begins it’s long descent into hell.
I expect that when the ‘soft enforcement’ (oh the euphemisms) ends many truckers will be fleeced for failing to take on the mandated digital hitch-hiking spies into their rigs. The next few months are going to be interesting, watching how the market responds, where rates end up, and just how many guys check out of the business.
I think a lot of the rate increases have already been slowly priced into freight rates as guys have been turning their ELDs on over the past month in order to get used to them. Still, I predict another 5% bump on top of what have already been record rates for dry van loads this quarter
Escorted loads are gonna see a bigger spike. When you’ve got three drivers out there (front escort, truck, rear escort) subject to this bullshit and the clock starts running way before you all hit the road, that’s bound to create some issues.
Lowboy operators are gonna be spiking rates to the tune of 20% would be my guess based on the rates I got quoted for moving a D10 for the first of the year. It didn’t register why they were so high until just now.
Depends on the loads. Many oversize loads are governed by sunrise and sunset more than anything else, as well as metropolitan area traffic curfews. Depending on what time of year it is, and where you are, sunlight and curfews are going to park you before the ELD/HOS rules do.
This is true.
An extra 5% could never recover the cost in lost efficiency, nevermind convince me to overlook the fact that the government is monitoring me all day at work.
I thought April fools was the day it would start being enforced. Also,
Refresh my memory: will they be able to issue speeding tickets by checking the ELDs, or are thry not connected to GPS units yet?
Unknown if they are allowed to issue speeding tickets based on info found in the ELD. Wouldn’t surprise me if they tried, but I’m thinking that the information which is allowed to be seen during roadside inspections by the cops and DOT would be restricted to HOS enforcement – where you were, what your log in/log out times are, etc.
I never did hear about April 1 as being an enforcement start date.
Ah, here you go. FTA (emphasis mine):
“Enforcement personnel have been trained in anticipation of the ELD rule, and now that it is in effect, inspectors will be verifying hours-of-service compliance by reviewing records of duty status requirements electronically,” he added. “And on April 1, 2018, inspectors will start placing commercial motor vehicle drivers out of service if their vehicle is not equipped with the required ELD.”
I thought some states, Texas included, weren’t going to enforce the rule until they were compelled by the US DOT, which occurs on April 1.
You would have to be an April Fool to stay in this business.
Nice truck you have there, be a shame if anything happened to it.
This just seems like one (of many) mandates that was implemented by folk who have no knowledge of, or experience in, the industry they are trying to regulate. I do some receiving work for a regional grocery chain and some part time work at a national housewares retailer and our drivers are often asking if they can park and sleep in our lots because the box in the truck will tattle on them if they try to keep working; it’s insane.
Please to enjoy one of my favorite Vandal’s songs.
Right on, haven’t heard The Vandals in ages.
I’ve seen them 5 times (3 California, 2 Florida) and 4 of those shows had completely different lineups; all of them were were tons of fun and there were slight variations to the songs making it even better. Once in SF, on a 48 hour pass from Ft. Ord, my giant skinhead roommate and I, getting really drunk, start screaming for a song we really wanted them to play. “LONG -HAIRED QUEER! LONG-HAIRED QUEER!“ we kept screaming. After about 5 minutes of our caterwauling, a wee hippie looking fellow turns around and starts screaming at us – “WHAT?!? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT, MAN?” We broke down with laughter and with some inebriated difficulty, explained that we just wanted to hear a fine song.
Why the fuck is anything on or about SNL treated as “news”? The New York Fucking Times has some idiotic story about an SNL “Trump R D-U-M Dum” sketch.
Does anyone still watch that?
Leftists love it.
The ratings are decent and steady.
So yes.
My wife still watches it out of habit. She doesn’t find it all that funny but she does. She likes one of the girls – I think the one who does The Cunt.
I’ve recently downloaded a complete run and am slowly working through it. It was once a very irreverant show and was quite non-partisan in their choice of political targets until the 2nd Reagan Administration when they really started leaning heavily to the left. There was a major tack back during the Clinton era; Norm Macdonald was particularly brutal to the Arkansas Mafia. that’s about where I am now in the series.
Dude. No kidding. Obama gave Lorne Michaels a Medal of Freedom.
Think about that for a second.
As a Patriots fan:
1. Suck it.
2. I thought it was a silly reversal too – and I thought it was going to bite the Pats in the ass. The Steelers had left too much time on the clock for Brady to come back. By reversing the touchdown, it was going to give the Steelers time burn off the remaining time and score if they kept their shit together. Instead they fucked it all up.
I thought the reversal was correct, and pretty clearly, too. I’m not a fan of either team, but at this level you’re supposed to hold onto the ball in order for it to be a catch. Having said that I’m not surprised it was called a catch on the field because the drop part happened quickly and the officials were screened from it. That’s a play that’s not overturned without replay. But other than the emotional roller coaster part of it, I don’t get the controversy on this one.
I don’t know. Maybe it’s because the player caught the ball, and while turning took two steps and crossed the plane as he went down quickly to avoid being downed short of the goal line, which is what caused him to go hard to the ground AFTER HE HAD CROSSED THE PLANE IN OBVIOUS CONTROL OF THE FUCKING BALL.
took two steps
No he didn’t.
He never secured the ball and never even took one step. The steps don’t count until the ball is secured.
He wasn’t tackled, and went to the ground as part of the catch. If you fall down catching the ball, you have to hold on to it. He didn’t. This isn’t the minor league football one-foot-in-is-a-catch football.
I’m with sloop on this.
When he crossed the plane, he had the ball in two hands, it was in control, and he had made the requisite “football move” downfield. His feet moved as he lunged forward to give him momentum – football move. At that moment, he has scored a touchdown and the play is over, regardless of what happens next.
This is why its different (or should be) compared to catches in the field of play. On the field, the play isn’t over until the player is down, so the ball coming out as he is downed can be an incompletion. In the end zone, you should look at the instant the ball crosses the plane, not the instant the player is down.
Of course, that was the second of two terrible replay calls. The first was giving the Patriots a touchdown when the player catching the ball came down on the back end zone line. A 14 point swing on two bad replays that reversed correct decisions on the field, IMO.
I just watched it again. He had to leave his feat, jumping sideways to catch the ball. There were no steps, no “football move”, one knee hit the ground and he lost control when he hit the ground. Whether he was over the goal line is completely immaterial in that case.
The targeting/helmet-to-helmet rule in the NFL says it’s illegal for a receiver to take a hit to the head, but when he becomes a runner, it’s not a penalty. Are you telling me there’s any point prior to the ball coming loose where he was a runner and a shot to the head would be legal?
I’ve seen a lot of plays in pro and college football recently where the play went wrong when a player did the reach for the endzone during a tackle – fumbles and incomplete passes. If I was a coach, I would tell them not to do the reach.
Agree. There was another play this weekend where the qb stretched for the end zone and fumbled out of bounds through the end zone. I guess competitive juices lead one to try to score no matter what, but sometimes it is better to go down instead of getting hurt or losing the ball through extra effort. Maybe Carson Wentz has some perspective on this too?
That was the Raiders Cowboys game, where the Raiders had a good shot to win it at the end or were pretty much guaranteed to be able to kick a FG to get to OT. Instead Carr tried to do too much and lost it, losing them the game. He’s had a REALLY bad couple of weeks!
I would favor the Real Team League, and let the chips and calls fall where they may, made by fallible humans, and not this sort-of hybrid thing where officials are human and see things happen in real time and then having to go to another source to frame-by-frame review stuff to make sure calls are “correct.”
Thus, Real Time League would not use instant replays to make calls. It would understand the speedy nature of the game and the fact that everyone on the field is human.
Team = Time. Ugh.
It was the correct call after I read about the rule. I thought too it was better to just take the TD and let Brady give it another whirl.
But Pittsburgh lives and dies by lucky calls so…whatever.
And then they made a mess of things on not spiking and play calling.
NE are absolute and total clutch. They’re unfuckenbelievable.
As somebody who hates both teams, I take solace in the fact that I spent that part of my evening in front of my grill. Cooking steaks for dinner. You know what? They were delicious.
Jane Austen: A role model for the #MeToo generation
– Twain
Did he really say that? Cause Mr. Clemens just got a lot more awesome.
THIS!!! Just because she’s a Regency Era author doesn’t make her novels any more than cheesy romantic comedies.
So…she didn’t persist?
That’s odd, the only result I currently see is women accusers being celebrated and men’s lives being destroyed on their mere word. The danger doesn’t seem to be to women.
So, she whored her work out. But, she felt bad about it. So we should admire her for detesting the right people.
So, she whored her work out to someone she detested. Why that makes it OK, I have no idea.
It’s difficult to know exactly who Pai had in mind, but Slate’s April Glaser notesthat Twitter recently deverified the accounts of several prominent white supremacists, including Laura Loomer and Jason Kessler.
I’m gonna hafta see Slate’s detailed definition of “white supremacism” before I issue a ruling.
“Not a Progressive Zealot”
Take one of those paint swatch things from Home depot and anyone who is ‘Pai Brown’ or lighter.
Twitter would only ban white supremacists, They were banned, therefore they are white supremacists.
Political Purism Isn’t Principled In An Impure World
TW: very long article
“Realism” means never having to say you’re sorry.
A call to Mesa’s tattoo shop, No Idols Tattoo in Manhattan’s Chinatown, confirmed that the Instagram posts were not a joke or part of some elaborate SNL setup: Davidson did in fact get inked with a mini portrait of Clinton on his right leg Thursday night
Irony is well and truly dead.
Ha Ha! It’s Chris Matthews‘ turn in the barrel.
STEVE SMITH WILL PUT YOU IN THE BARREL.
THE RAPE BARREL.
‘Former Area 51 worker’ claims he’s FLOWN a UFO and travelled through TIME
Too bad he couldn’t go back in time and tell himself to lay off the donuts, and to buy a better wardrobe.
What ever happened to Bob Lazar?
I see the brits are still pushing the alien angle. They must have overheard Krugman’s suggestion of a fake alien invasion and taken it seriously.
How am I supposed to honestly give council to a kid with a pepe shirt on?
Well, first of all, learn the difference between “council” and “counsel”.
“OMG, how can I counsel kids who don’t share my far-left politics?!”
Christ, what an asshole.
You’d think requirement number one for a high school counselor would be empathy and understanding? Maybe not.
I dunno, how do you counsel the kids with a che shirt?
Che meant well though and all the people he killed were wreckers and saboteurs.
Che meant well though and all the people he killed were
wreckershomosexuals andsaboteurschildren.Same thing.
That is a clear admittance they they are incapable of doing their job. No wonder the name is redacted.
>goes on a political social media rant to complain about /pol/ kiddies injecting their right wing politics into everything
>mfw
Yeah, that’s a real thinker. I mean, you could go talk to his history teacher and see if the touch on any of the times (thinking off the top of my head) the Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, Russian, Sudanese, Mayan, or the Trippe Alliance did some really bad shit to demonstrate that his history education isn’t run by a racist, ahistorical fuckwit that does blame white people for all of histories problems. That seems like it would be pretty easy to do.
The best defense to these crazy 4chan kids is… being a reasonable educator providing a reasonably unbias education. But that’s too high of a price for this asshole. This asshole’s problem isn’t that he wants to demonstrate to them that they are wrong. He wants them to not exist.
Fortunately, the universe has already spun a more insidious and painful punishment on him than any one man could devise – it made him a guidance counselor. Too bad there’s so much collateral damage when he interacts with children.
Seriously dude, find a different line of work. Maybe the local porn store needs a janitor.
I’ll take “shit that never happens, Alex.”
if you jumped into the endzone and the ground knocked the ball loose it’d be “No Catch”.
This is obviously a purely rhetorical question, but what the fuck happened to “The ground can’t cause a fumble”?
1) Its been out of the books for a while. And it was never in the books exactly like that anyway, John Madden was wrong (or at least covering over a more complex set of rules)
2) A fumble is not the same thing as an incomplete pass.
And the ground can’t cause a fumble. If you had full possession of the ball, contact with the ground is ‘down by contact’ and if you didn’t have full possession, then either ‘incomplete’ or ‘fumble’ before hitting the ground.
If a runner falls without being touched by the opposing team, and the impact with the ground causes the ball to come out, the runner has fumbled the ball. The “without being touched by the opposing team” is an important part, because in the NFL, you aren’t down until you are touched down.
*chortle*
Cosmic Crash That Knocked Uranus Sideways Also Made Its Moons
Good Lord, talk about euphemisms.
STEVE SMITH ALSO KNOCK UR ANUS SIDEWAYS!!
and Earth by about 23 degrees
IS THERE NO END TO TRUMP’S PERFIDY?!
I like seasons
How long do we wait for a discrimination lawsuit based on a company owner’s refusal to hire women?
“Well, I’m sorry, but it’s for your own good, honey. I’m an old fashioned guy.”
The way that Feminists want to arrange society, there will be no men in the workforce, only women. A few men will be kept around in cages, until an artificial sperm that can fertilize their eggs is developed.
+ 1 boy and his dog.
Death by Snu-Snu!
“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised!”
Guess who the only non-cop in Atlantic City with a CCW is?
If you guessed the Judge throwing people in jail for carrying a gun, you win.
How the fuck is that anywhere close to constitutional?
FYTH.
It’s not, but the courts don’t care.
I’ve been curious to know exactly what it would be like to try for a CCW in NJ. But it seems like too much of a waste of time and money.
Unless you can show a specific “need” that the authorities will accept (e.g – a verifiable and credible threat of violence or death made against you) you will be denied unless you are politically connected. So it’s a waste of time and money to try.
In NJ the usual way is to become a “Deputy Sheriff” (county political), or a Fish and Game warden. and just happen to be “on the job” anytime you want to carry.
There is no way to get a CCW without being a licensed security guard (only on the job) , Federal Judge/court officer or actively stalked by an Ex who has already shot at you. (Otherwise your need is only theoretical)
You don’t want to apply and get denied, because then you always have to list the denial on all future dealings with the state. Even local politics won’t get you a CCW since they need to be approved by the county judge.
For those following along, I got my DIY tube amplifier up and running: Pic
Now I just have to build another one so I can have stereo. That may be a few weeks.
Looks cool!
Noice.
I had to look up 12HG7. What led you to that tube? Transconductance is nice and high, but so is the requisite idle current.
The retro analog meters look very nice!
The true hero during the Atlanta airport Black-ops blackout:
Chick Fil-A
I bet they didn’t serve the gays.
I like everything about CfA. I hope the founder cries himself to sleep on a giant pile of money knowing there are people out there who hate him.
Their fucking chicken breakfast sandwiches are addictive. Luckily I rarely go to the office next to a CfA otherwise I would be a total fatass.
I met him once, seemed a cool guy.
That sounds good for lunch. Love the spice deluxe sammich.
The ACLU is probably going to give her another award, while the SPLC will accuse the woman of being an Islamophobe.
Anybody else paying attention to the Clive Bundy trial?
The judge sent the jury home while considering arguments about whether to call a mistrial, dismiss all the charges, or continue–all this in the wake of revelations that government prosecutors have withheld evidence from the defense. Part of the evidence includes an internal investigation by the BLM that found gross misconduct on the part of agents in the very case that’s now being prosecuted. Here’s a sample:
—-The Oregonian
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2017/12/blm_investigator_alleges_misco.html
Given that exculpatory evidence was willfully withheld by the Bureau, I don’t see how this could lead to anything other than a mistrial.
Given that it may be impossible to tell whether all the evidence that was confiscated from the investigator “computer hard drives, collected emails, text messages, case notes and “lessons learned” will be returned in a way that can be reliably said to have not been tampered with, I don’t see how the judge can fail to dismiss the charges.
If they produce said hard drives, are we supposed to take the BLM’s word for it that this is all the information that was on the hard drive, that these are all the text messages, etc.?
I think disbarment woukd be a good incentive to keep prosecutors in line.
LOL
I’d like to share your optimism, but given the absolute fucking railroading that this case has been from the get go absolutely nothing would surprise me.
I see no way a judge can include exculpatory evidence with any confidence that further exculpatory evidence that’s embarrassing to the Bureau hasn’t been destroyed.
I’m not even sure the prosecutors from the Department of Justice can prosecute further with evidence they know to be unreliable. I suspect they’re stalling for time to figure out how to cover their own asses. Right now, they can blame the BLM. If they prosecute on this evidence in the future, knowing that exculpatory evidence may still be hidden or destroyed, that will be on them.
If I were the U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuting this case, I would have no confidence in the evidence the BLM supplies at this point. To save their own asses, the best course of action might be o fall on their swords in favor of dismissing charges.
Clive Bundy can’t get a fair trial on these charges anymore–because the exculpatory evidence can’t be relied on anymore.
If the BLM doesn’t like that, there’s an easy way to avoid that outcome in the future–don’t withhold exculpatory evidence.
I’m with you entirely on the facts. I’m just not confident in the political neutrality of judges anymore. If there’s any possible way to avoid a mistrial and save the government’s case I think the judge will try to find it. That said, I would think even if it proceeds and they get a conviction there would be excellent grounds for appeal.
What, exactly, about this case makes the left opposed to the Bundy family so vociferously? I mean seriously, this case ticks a good many boxes on the “should be a rallying cry for the left” checklist.
WTF has happened to politics in this country?
The Bundy family are right wing rednecks so they deserve summary execution for grazing cows on BLM land that’s been disputed locally for a century or more. Squatting on federal lands is only kosher if you deliberately cause major environmental damage by sabotaging oil pipelines and indiscriminately dumping chemical toilets after your star-studded celebrity campout.
You dont remember Obumbles speech about the ridiculousness of self-reliant individuals and how it dripped with contempt? They are collectivists. They despise individualists.
It seems to me like the Bundy family’s most important and unforgivable crime was to get fucked with by the Federal government under Obama. The sainted Messiah’s name shall not be tarnished!
That and that people had the audacity to stand up to Government. You might not agree with them but that takes balls.
You called it right Suthen…
The proggie cult can not tolerate anyone that thinks they are better off on their own existing. All should worship the state… Or else.
It’s all signaling.
The Bundys make an excellent stand-in for everything the left hates about rednecks.
TL/DR
My contribution to that was three sentences. The rest was . . .
And to think I almost led off with something about how sloopy links are the best links in the whole wide world!
You know why I cut that part out?
Because it made the post too long.
So you just think about that the next time you want to complain about the length of my posts.
Lol. Now that’s good.
I suspect he will manage somehow.
SP’s links are the best.
Its weird but I was reading an article about an historic watermelon that has a handle. It turns out that Cliven Bundy is/was a huge historic/heirloom seed preservationist.
appeal for those who’ve already plead to lesser charges?
So, basically, everything that Bundy and his supporters were saying has essentially been shown to be true. If I were on the jury, I’d be inclined to not only dismiss the charges, I’d urge the judge to remove any qualified immunity the officials at the BLM have and urge Mr. Bundy to sue. Let him walk away from this with their property.
The right thing? Dismiss the charges with prejudice, and bring a case against the feds for conspiracy to deny civil rights.
The odds of the right thing being done? Maybe 1 in 10.
*wants to check weather*
weather.com front page: climate change
wunderground.com front page: climate change
noaa.gov front page: climate change
1. Can I just check the goddamn forecast without propaganda?
2. Remind me again, when did meteorology and climatology become the same thing?
3. … Why can’t I point out that your inability to predict tomorrow’s weather accurately speaks poorly of your ability to predict “climate change-related events”?
https://www.accuweather.com/
DAMMIT!
Accu weather doesn’t care that they are b helping destroy the environment.
Interesting. They’re certainly not climate change “deniers”. Is the difference that they don’t hype it? Or that they don’t focus on the “catastrophic” or “human-driven” views? Or is it that they keep their weather and climate reporting separate?
Link was meant to end before the first period.
Pedo?
On second thought:
“That’s what OMWC said.”
They just tend to be a little more focused on the weather and not the shrieking.
Ok, thanks.
https://www.ventusky.com/
Weather isn’t climate, except when it is.
https://www.accuweather.com/
So, now that Moore had the election stolen from him, four senators say ”Don’t go, Al! Your saying you’d leave had the needed effect of giving us the appearance of the moral high ground in our attacks on Moore! But we don’t need the moral high ground anymore, so please stay!”
He’s not going anywhere.
“I have decided, after much reflection and prayer, that I have too much important work left to do for the great state of Minnesota” or something thereabouts.
Well, he already defrauded the voters of MN and they rewarded him with a legitimate election a couple years later, so what’s a little indisputable, documented groping of a sleeping woman?
He’s mugging for the camera and his hands are not touching her. It was a stupid juvenile ‘joke’ but not a groping.*
*not to be construed as an endorsement of the asshole otherwise.
That’s not what it looked like to me, although I didn’t look that closely and can’t dig it up right now.
If we are talking about the same picture the mugging bit is plainly obvious, there may be some argument on whether he’s touching or not but to my eyes there is shadow under his had that indicates he’s hovering over, that and the obvious mugging leads me to believe he wouldn’t actually grab her if he knows someones snapping pics.
To me it looked like his right hand was hovering but his left hand had contact.
This discussion is weirdly merging with the discussion about the refs in the NFL.
*shocked face*
I kinda hope Franken stays. As much as I loathe him, the off chance that the Repubs will run a bare-knuckle campaign against him, featuring many ads and billboards of Franken the gropemonkey, and clips of him promising to resign, would be worth it.
How am I supposed to honestly give council to a kid with a pepe shirt on?
Well, first of all, learn the difference between “council” and “counsel”.
The best part of that little temper tantrum is her bitching about how these keeeds inject their altrightwing politics into everything.
Buy a mirror, Doris.
Some of us were hating on Cory Doctorow yesterday in the Linkses, and I find him to be a pretentious little hipster twerp also, but didn’t he write a libertarian-leaning young adult novel, LITTLE BROTHER? Has anybody read it? I’m curious to know just how glib it actually is.
Never heard of him or read the book, but based on this:
I would venture to guess somewhere between “insufferable” and “suicide inducing” on the glib scale.
“and post-scarcity economics.”
So intense, useless navel gazing. Any PhD economist who uses the phrase ‘post-scarcity’ needs to lose they’re credentials. They are nothing more than reborn utopians.
It’s an interesting thought experiment, but not something academics can quantify because it all hinges on presuppositions about how people will react to such conditions.
Read it. I even reviewed it.
Basically, it’s a mixed bag. It’s good in some ways and bad in others.
Thanks for this.
For those following along, I got my DIY tube amplifier up and running: Pic
It would be cool to have a tube amp, but since I’m cheap, I have a T-amp
It provides surprisingly good, rich sound. (Your Ear May Vary)
Oh yeah I used to have a T-amp too. Great bang for the buck.
Apparently, they don’t make them anymore, nor the more expensive second version.
Hrm.
Got a care package from the family and will be basking in comfort food in the form of Steak n Shake chili (arguably the best in the world) and EZ Cheeze and Triscuits. The latter of which is apparently $19 bucks here in Korea before shipping. Bastards. I’ll see what the Koreans think about it tomorrow.
Colitis is fun. Now my right kidney is incredibly sore—feels like a muscle pull. I have a follow-up appointment with the docs on Friday and I hope that it’s nothing serious. I have to go to the psych doc tomorrow and hopefully can get some stronger anti-anxiety meds. One day at a time.
I have finished my 1.5 draft of the US/Korean healthcare article I was working on. Still need to write the conclusion. If anyone wants to read my draft I would appreciate it. It’s hard to separate personal experience and emotion from my travails and I want to make sure that everything is focused. It’s two pages on Word if anyone is interested in helping me out to keep it on-point.
I hope everyone is well.
Hope you make a full recovery. Can’t help you with the editing, but I’ll be interested in reading the article once you finish it. I wouldn’t worry too much about making it overly personal. Your anecdotal experience is still valuable.
Look forward to it.
Stay strong.
Looking forward to it, bud.
If you want an impartial and unprofessional proofread, my handle at protonmail.com
Looking forward to it. Do they have any idea what precipitated your intestinal malady?
Given that it’s Korea, 3 straight days of starcraft would be the safe answer.
(I hope the kidney pain is nothing serious)
One of my main points in the piece is that you get such little information from the docs. I’m fairly certain that my problems stem from being a raging alcoholic for over a decade.
I’m making progress on that front. It can work in my detriment, but I have a pathological inability to get negative or angry about things. Something is certainly wrong but my head and spirits are above the water.
Onwards and upwards.
I know you said you had problems with anxiety, could you have been self-medicating with alcohol? It’s pretty common, but over the long term actually increases anxiety. You might find if you quit for a while, your anxiety actually goes down.
I can definitely attest to this.
I’ve been pretty good recently. It’s definitely the biggest problem that I face now. But those other meds really helped me out. Being able to go to sleep without passing out has helped immeasurably.
Monkey is on my back but I feel so much more confident in shaking it.
Get well soon.
I hopr you feel well soon.
#metoo gets Kozinski. Apparently he was a perv.
Shit.
Was just about to post that.
One of the few decent judges out there.
With this and with Janice Rogers Brown retired, the only libertarian-minded appellate court judge left would be the recently confirmed Don Willett. Sucks.
He had a run in with the powers that be years ago because he kept “funny” images on his computer, like “people raping donkeys funny”. This isn’t much of a surprise.
I met Kozinski years ago at some law school symposium thingy. He definitely seemed like an oddball. I think he was also really short.
Vote on the great rack runoff of 2017!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HP28WC5
Polls close 7 pm MST on Tuesday.
Yeah, the first one was my initial pick. The 3rd one down was another of my top fans.
Have some pre-holiday titties, on the house.
http://archive.is/7Bvxc
1, 31, 35, 37
19 looks like she’s about to run into STEVE SMITH
44, of course.
*sigh*
Cleavage does not equal titties.
I’d be more than happy to start posting NSFW, but then we’d lose our family friendly rating.
Sounds like you need to make an email list.
I wonder if #22 is a preacher’s kid? Jesus probably worked overtime dying for her sins.
Very prominent areolae.
18 and 19. Back to back!
Roger Goodell should decree it’s time for a woman to own an NFL team. Maybe Linda McMahon could put together a bid.
There were rumors last week that Vince wanted to bring back the XFL. Maybe he can just buy the Panthers and turn them into an XFL team. He Hate Me played on the Panthers after the XFL folded.
Related:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/12/nfl-hell-sea-empty-seats-plague-stadiums-across-league-week-15-photos/
Well, I suspect the empty seats at the Browns, 49ers, and Giants are mostly due to the home teams sucking coupled with the weekend before Christmas shopping idiocy.
I do think political bullshit is contributing, but not the only factor.
49ers suck? Someone missed the last few weeks.
Yes, yes I did. I replace my “suck” with “no chance of making the playoffs.”
Absolutely. Still, you’d think the fans would want to see Jimmy G play. He looks like the real deal and the team was hindered by injuries. Next year they could make a run.
Sober analysis of Tax Bill.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/18/columnist-gop-tax-bill-worst-law-since-fugitive-slave-act/
Sounds about right, actually.
Yes so much worse than the Sedition Act of 1918, the Chinese Exclusion Act, PATRIOT Act, AUMF…..
I hate the bill as it seems to have failed miserably with actually simplifying the code.
As someone with a 401k and hopes to retire some day, I am happy.
Here’s one relatively free-market guy (not a libertarian by any means) who thinks the growth projections are way over-rated:
http://www.mauldineconomics.com/connecting-the-dots/how-tax-cuts-will-trigger-recession#
Anybody here an aquarium buff? I’ve been out of the hobby for a few years, but am contemplating getting back into it. I used to have a 75g planted freshwater tank with a huge colony of dwarf Indonesian shrimp and various tetras and discus.
I’m thinking of starting small and salty this time around. Any recommendations? The new LED fixtures look quite nice and cheap to boot! Are they any good?
Never done a saltwater, but I enjoy the freshwater. Salt is a whole different ballgame, gotta monitor the water like a hawk, those guys are incredibly sensitive. I’d buy the premixed water to start.
Thankfully, of all things in my town of 300, there’s a saltwater aquarium shop almost walking distance from my house, so getting premixed water is a breeze for me. I don’t have my RO/DI system anymore (planted tanks can be quite sensitive to water issues, too), but the long term goal is two massive and mostly automated tanks, one planted freshwater and the other reef.
You’ll want to get one anyway. They are inexpensive and there will come a time when there’s an emergency and you need to make water.
I have a 200 gallon reef tank, and it is a blast. I started it about 5 years ago with a 120 gallon I got for free. I work from home and I thought having an aquarium would be therapeutic for me. Which it was a bit. I eventually got into it and moved to a bigger tank.
The SPS corals have now all grown out really far and when people come to see it their jaws drop.
My LEDs are Ecotech Radions (yes, very pricey), but there are cheaper LED fixtures. I like that I can program them because I can get different looks throughout the week.
I have a 200 gallon reef tank, and it is a blast.
*drools all over the front of the phone *
You otter post some pictures.
OT: Did you know you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish?
Me, to niece (she’s 9): How do you get down off an elephant? You don’t, you get down off a goose.
Niece: …
Also, “What’s the difference between a duck? One has both legs the same.”
I do. All I have is a shitty phone camera that washes everything out. I need to figure out how to take some good pictures.
I’ve found that it’s really hard to get a good picture with a phone camera without additional lighting to even it out over the depth of the tank.
This is about as good as I’ve gotten without getting the SLR and the tripod out.
I haven’t had an aquarium in probably 15 years. But I did have a 30 gallon saltwater tank at one point, It wasn’t as difficult as I was told. Once I got it set up and stable, it stayed that way. I think I tested the water a little more often than fresh water. As a rule salt water can handle fewer fish per gallon, so I had just a few fish, but the colors on even the cheap ones were spectacular. Also remember to top off the tank with fresh water, not salt water, otherwise your salt concentration will go up.
Here’s one thing I did that saved me a lot of money. They saltwater shells and coral from the pet store are very expensive. So while I was on vacation in Florida, I bought a bunch of big shells and coral from a souvenir shop. They just had open bins of shells, nothing packaged or obviously altered (colored or whatever). Stuff that looked like it just came off the beach. I got some clusters of big barnacles that looked cool, and paid about 25% of what they charged at a pet store. I think I washed it all really well when I got home (maybe using a mild bleach solution?) But I was able to put together a pretty dense display for very little expense.
Interesting! I’ve seen folks go get their own manzanita for their freshwater tanks, but haven’t heard of salties getting rock and shells direct from the source. It makes sense to do it, though. That stuff is expensive!
You’re not allowed to take live rock from the ocean anymore (and the authorities are complete dicks about it), but with a fishing license in Florida there are some animals you can legally collect.
A writeup on the regulations impacting the aquarium hobby would be fascinating. I may have to add it to my list. I have a great story about a pre-ban shipment of a beautiful but invasive species of swamp plant that was federally banned. You know, because this species that wasnt even remotely freeze tolerant was going to grab a foothold north of the Mason-Dixon
I know that it is more difficult to get iodine because of the WOD.
I used to have aquariums. My general take on salt water aquariums is the bigger they are, the easier they are to maintain because you need to keep the salt and mineral content of the water just so. The balance for smaller ones is more easily thrown off just because they are smaller.
Up to a point that’s true. When you get to the really huge ones, then all of a sudden you need a bunch of other things. But yes.
“Small and salty” was my nickname in…oh, never mind.
“Too many things going on today to dwell on sports except to note the Australia have retained the Ashes after absolutely demolishing England in the third test by 41 runs and an innings…”
I, for one, wish to express my appreciation for Sloopy’s cricket updates.
He means “regained”. Australia haven’t won a series in England since 2001.
Ah, yes. I missed that in my never-gets-old delight in dismantling England.
Actually, I did mean regained. I blame autocorrect.
Any of you a fan of mystery novels? My dad is, so I’m looking for something very new or somewhat obscure.
Any particular sub genre? I enjoyed the Cragg & Fidelis series and the John Madden series, both historical mysteries, 1700’s for the former and post WWI for the later.
He’s all over the place. Modern, procedural, noir, historical, supernatural. I knocked it out of the park with Gillian Flynn last year.
So far I have G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown series in my basket. No idea whether he’ll like it, but I doubt he’s read it. I’ll check out y’all’s suggestions. Thanks!
I too would like to find some new mystery books to read. There is a huge glut in the market so it’s hard to dig through all of the material.
Not that obscure: For Bwitishness, I enjoyed the Inspector Morse and Adam Dalgliesh series. The Rumpole series are also good but they are more like quickly read mini-mysteries than full blown cases.
My go-to writer, for all seasons, is Raymond Chandler. I’ve read all of his novels multiple times with The Long Goodbye as a favorite.
And there’s my own shitty novel: The Dead are Sleeping
This?
I have your Book, I need to read it though,
I really like Lawrence Block. He has a few different series going. His most famous two are:
Matthew Scudder novels; He’s an recovering alcoholic private detective in NYC. They are very good and very “hard-nosed.” One of these novels, A Walk Among the Tombstones was made into the movie string Liam Neeson as Scudder.
The “Burglar Who…” novels; They star a burglar named Bernie Rhodenbarr. These are a little more light and comical. But they are still serious mysteries.
The most recent installment of the Burglar series was a bit of a weak entry. The middle of the run was really the strong points.
I have to admit I haven’t read any Block for a few years now…but that’s because I’ve read very little of anything for a few years. I need to catch up with Block. Although not until I’ve read your books, of course.
Highly, highly recommend the Rebus novels from Ian Rankin.
Cadfael. Great historical mysteries set in 12th Century England.
Thank you all. I’ve got his gifts covered for years.
More crime than mystery, but the Friends of Eddie Coyle and Cogan’s Trade by George Higgins are excellent.
There’s finally something that New York is #1 in…
Oh please, please add the gif.
I’ve always thought that the ‘State of Opportunity’ handle New York gave itself was a cruel joke.
I always thought that if there’s one state worse than mine, it would be New York.
Time to compete with Q. Ready for some lesbian action?
I was expecting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_bQwBWqKjo
Hawt.
https://twitter.com/iheartmindy
I think Q is going to like her political views.
More from Mindy
http://www.americanafmindy.com/the-creepiest-santas-you-cant-unsee/
She’s got my vote.
“BuzzFeed Editor: ‘All I Want For Christmas Is Full Communism Now’
Science editor for the site’s U.K. operation quickly disables her Twitter account after coming under fire”
https://www.thewrap.com/buzzfeed-editor-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-full-communism-now/
All I want for Christmas is a gulag.
All I want for Christmas is mass starvation.
and rape and murder. Because this is what you get with communism.
That’s not real communism though.
Why am I not surprised in the least that she appears to be a twenty-something with nothing on her CV other than university and writing for lefty publications. I assume they’re lefty, they’re all based in London. I’m certain she hasn’t spend time inside a lab since graduating.
Could there be a more useless job than science communicator? Hey, dingbat: you’re not Carl Sagan. You’re not even Bill Nye. You’re just another hack journalist-activist.
“I assume they’re lefty, they’re all based in London”
A guide to British papers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
Hah. Love that show.
Hah!
Can We Be Honest About Women?
Because it is part of their nature.
There’s the badthink, right there. Proggies, lefties, commies, whatever brand the collectivists hide behind for today’s news cycle, their creed requires that they believe that people are born as blank slates, who can and should be (re)programmed by the Almighty State. They cannot accept that there is such a thing as human nature, because that would require them to give up on the utopia that they must believe in, lest their many horrible crimes lose their justification and their lives lose meaning.
+1 New Soviet Man
The rules for feminist Lefties seem to be:
1. “Female nature” either doesn’t exist or it consists wholly of positive things
2. “Male nature” exists, and it is wholly negative
Boo hoo hoo, the mean old Republikkkinz is pickin’ on me
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Sunday said the GOP tax bill starts an “economic civil war,” arguing that it punishes some states, including his, disproportionately.
“What they did here was reprehensible. I call it an economic civil war,” Cuomo told host John Catsimatidis on the New York-based radio show “The Cats Roundtable.”
“It is a dagger at the economic heart of New York,” he added.
Cuomo argued that New York and other Democratic states will be paying a higher level of taxes because the Republican tax bill plans to eliminate “the deductibility for state and local taxes.”
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“They use New York and California and other Democratic states as a piggy bank, the funding mechanism, to fund the other states,” Cuomo said, saying the measure was drawn up “along purely partisan lines.”
That’s pretty goddam rich, coming from somebody who uses the citizens of his state as a “piggy bank” to fund his pet social engineering projects.
So, the Repubs left the repeal of deductions for SALT in? Good.
capped the deduction at $10K. it’s going to pound high earners in NYC.
and of course McCain leaves Washington before the vote. christ what an asshole.
I hope his fucking plane crashes. Arizona expected better of you McCain.
They are expecting flight delays on the east coast. We’re not that lucky.
Even if no taxes were lowered in the bill, getting rid of the SALT deductions would be a net good.
well guess fucking what, a-hole.. if the Dems participated, then maybe they could’ve gotten something in return.
Yep. Republicans are lucky to have such dummies for opponents: if Dems cozied up to Trump and bargained with him, Trump wouldn’t hesitate to shut out recalcitrant Republican senators. And I could see a huge swathe of Republicans breaking from conservatives to join whatever unholy coalition Trump and Dems formed. “We’re being bipartisan!”
This. Particularly since Trump himself is a NY resident and will likely get the short end of this.
DC resident now…
See Unciv’s post above at #44 re the two economically unfreest states in the country. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of bureaucrats.
But what about us? Don’t say Leave either
Not stay?
Go on welfare?
More seriously, it would be hoped that the voting population in said states would adjust their choices so that their states would bring taxes down from a less punitive level. It’s cold comfort to people like you who already probably do vote that way and understand economics, but I think the theory is that if the residents of the states feels some of the pain, they’ll change their voting pattern.
Is “going Galt” an option?
Be honest about women?
NEVER!
Here’s what’s bizarre to me: Almost every female I’ve ever met has expressed some or all of the following views:
– Women are naturally more contentious and petty in social interactions
– Women are prone to emotional swings and illogical thinking while men are generally more level-headed and consistent
– Women are naturally suited for a nurturer/caretaker role in the family while men are better as the protector/provider
– Men are better leaders
– Men are tougher and better suited for dangerous or uncomfortable work
Yet, I’m sure that many of these same women also believe that any differences in the collective situation of males and females (in terms of career choice and salary) is purely the result of malicious discrimination.
“Hunger in North Korea Is Devastating. And It’s Our Fault.
Led by the United States, the international community is crippling North Korea’s economy. In August and September, the United Nations Security Council passed resolutions banning exports of coal, iron, lead, seafood and textiles and limiting the import of crude oil and refined petroleum products. The United States, Japan and South Korea have each imposed bilateral sanctions on Pyongyang to further isolate the country.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/17/opinion/weapons-north-korea-hunger.html
Because Cuba, which enjoys trade relations with the rest of the world other than the United States (and now the United States) has always been known as a land of plenty. Breadbasket of the Caribbean, they call it.
The really deft part on the United States etc. is how they managed to cut North Korea off from its own natural resources and arable land. That’s some crafty capitalist trickery, right there.
“The Washington Post report that the government health CDC’s plans to ban politicized terms like “entitlement” and “diversity” is false.”
https://www.dangerous.com/38973/fake-news-cdc-isnt-banning-terms-like-fetus-science-based/
I knew it. Released on late Friday so it would run the whole weekend before it could be debunked.
That’s the first time I noticed that these rules only apply to budget documents. I recall a lot of media outlets failing to make the distinction between this rule and banning those words from ever being used in any CDC publication or study.
Today, in everyone is literally Hitler:
“CNN contributor Hilary Rosen sorry she called Georgetown student anti-Semitic for wearing bacon suit”
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/18/cnn-contributor-jumps-to-conclusions-and-is-left-eating-crow.html
She’s certainly sorry, but probably not contrite.
If I was running Fox, I’d have a half hour, maybe an hour every day called “Fake News Watch” that was completely devoted to debunking fake news. You’d have no problem at all filling the time.
That photo makes her look like she has a strip of bacon or two under her eyes.
Wood or woodn’t?
is-left-eating-crow
Is crow kosher?
I didn’t see the Steelers game, but what are your guys thought on that replay in the Panthers v Packers game? Are they going to start slowing every sideline catch down to frame by frame to see if any part of a foot/knee/ass touches inbounds a millisecond before the rest of that same part lands out of bounds?
Another bad replay reversal. To me, the critical freeze-frame did not show clearly that he was in bounds. This was, at best, a “coin-toss” call that should not have been reversed.
Yeah, I don’t see the irrefutable evidence. By the time the left buttcheek is supposedly down, it’s obscured by his back.
“Twitter is days away from finally banning the Nazis. Yes, really.
Lots of people are justifiably skeptical. But I’m still hoping for the best.”
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/12/15/16782428/twitter-ban-nazis
That’s because you are an idiot.
I would have no problem whatsoever with Twitter going ban happy and barring anyone more conservative than Dave Weigel. Watching it collapse in on itself would be much needed denouement for a pathetic chapter in American political commentary.
Unless Trump moves off it they’re getting a bailout.
I would have no problem whatsoever with Twitter going ban happy and barring anyone more conservative than Dave Weigel … provided that they make it clear on the TOS that their service is a platform for espousing their approved political views, and not a neutral platform for free and open discussion.
They want to eat their cake and have it, too.
*EDIT FAIRY HELP!*
Goddamit. The italics are supposed to end after the quote (“… more conservative than Dave Weigel”)
Fucking stupid em tag. It’s not emphasis, it’s italics!
making more proggunist inroads. way to read the room.
Razorfist thinks he got purged for calling out the lies of the net neutrality narrative.
that dude’s a riot. when was he banned?
i just went to his twitter feed.
“Purged” sounds like they removed his posts but not his account.
Apparently he’s just not allowed to tweet or something. I don’t use twitter so I don’t know.
Also important to note that despite being subscribed to his youtube channel, his video is not showing up in my subscriptions.
“Hipster Himmler”
LOL
LOL
This one is not insane, nosiree.
“The Problem with “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” Isn’t Consent. It’s Slut-Shaming.
Emphasis added by me. The lady here expresses her concerns through a whole lot of words like better, gotta, and must. But not once does she say she wants to go or would rather call it a night or would prefer to GTFO. She anticipates admonishments from every member of her shitty, judgmental family, but she never implies the slightest moral qualm of her own.
What’s happening here isn’t all that hard to figure out, especially if you remember that the song was written in 1944. The woman wants to spend the night with her date. She just knows that if she does, she’ll be scarlet-lettered by her community for having the audacity to make her own premarital sexual choices. She’s not consternating over letting this guy down; she’s consternating over being publicly and privately maligned for doing what she wants. And clearly this is normal for her, as well as for listeners at the time, who were expected to understand all of this and relate. The problem with this song doesn’t have to do with consent. The problem has to do with slut-shaming.”
https://medium.com/@cammila/the-problem-with-baby-its-cold-outside-isn-t-consent-it-s-slut-shaming-cf672009d2c5
*roll eyes*
At some point, contesting this shit on a rational basis is a waste of energy. These goons have no interest in rational thought
This is actually correct. The song was written at a time when a lady was not allowed to say yes.
When a lady says no, she means maybe. When she says maybe, she means yes. If she says yes, she’s no lady.
Which isn’t “slut-shaming,” it’s the eternal conflict between man and community, or man and society, or man and his conscience, or man and his God.
Hey, let’s just burn down the entire canon of fine literature. It’s super inconvenient that people sometimes have to choose between the immediate and the consequent.
Which isn’t “slut-shaming,”
Let’s just say that “slut-shaming” is a loaded phrase much abused by young feminists.
But the overall idea that the song is about avoiding the public shame of being caught having sexual relations outside of marriage is fundamentally true. And young women that bitch about the song being “rapey” are completely out of line.
True and true. It’s painful to watch a motif of human existence reduced to a slogan, and an insipid one at that.
Hey, let’s just burn down the entire canon of fine literature.
I don’t think that’s what this is about. The use of the word “problem” does not inherently imply that the thing it’s describing must be destroyed.
Fair enough. I do think it’s absurdly reductive, stultifying, and anti-intellectual. And godawful boring.
What about ‘man and his penis’?
There are already cries of discrimination because ***English*** Literature courses have “too many white males” in the curriculum.
But I like sluts. ::mopes::
This is why being a libertarian is so liberating (no pun intended); being able to say “IDGAF about this, IDGAF about what people do, you are insane for thinking a harmless holiday song from 70 years ago is “problematic”, GFY and die.”
I usually start at the ‘GFY and die’.
Since they won’t listen anyway.
Not the monorail. Amtrak train derails from bridge onto highway.
Just saw that and somewhere a mention that they were warned the new line from Seattle to Portland could cause serious accidents. Oops.
““Multiple female employees recalled to SI that Richardson asked them if he could personally shave their legs”
https://twitter.com/benpershing/status/942562206587277316
I really don’t get gifs that have meaningless motion with words pasted on them. That could just be a still image, the motion ads nothing.
Seems appropriate here
I don’t think your link has healthy levels of insulin.
And talking about foozball, even though I really no longer care, the Raiders were doing pretty well against the Cowboys and the entire officiating staff, until Carr wanted to play hero and instead of sliding with the ball for a first and goal on the 1-2 yard line, decided to try to stretch the ball across the pylon for a TD (which from my angle on my sofa, was clearly impossible) and instead managed to fumble the ball out of the end zone DOHHH!!!!. LOL, WTF? That has to be one of the worst rules ever, but alas still on the books. Also, have to mention the grinning shitball looking head official deciding a first down by sticking a folded up piece of paper between the ball and the yardstick. Even more WTF? No wonder stadiums are half empty.
“‘Blood will be on their hands’: Morning Joe says Fox News ‘coup’ talk could inspire the next Timothy McVeigh”
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/blood-will-be-on-their-hands-morning-joe-says-fox-news-coup-talk-could-inspire-the-next-timothy-mcveigh/
The dark night of political violence, forever descending on the right and landing on the left.
The comments over there make Democratic Underground look sane.
One is lead to wonder what kind of shit a diligent poster could come up with as to comments by Mika on Trump that would inspire the next Red Brigade/Weather Underground.
From comments on the SFGate article about the cop shooting up his room in the four seasons:
“Sometimes a hero wants to turn off the TV but realizes he left the remote across the room.”
Which one of you was that?
Video…
I don’t mind giving gifts. I hate having them opened in front of me.
Maybe if you got better gifts, the pained looks wouldn’t cut so deep?
Ain’t nobody got time or money for that.
Thanks for the coffee cup, Uncle CS,… WTF is a Glib?
“‘Blood will be on their hands’: Morning Joe says Fox News ‘coup’ talk could inspire the next Timothy McVeigh”
If anybody knows about irresponsible hysteria…
Any of you a fan of mystery novels?
I liked Robbie Coltrane in the Limey series “Cracker”. I think that was based on a series of mystery novels.
Thanks. Added to the list.
And of course the reverse of what to get your husband consists of only 2 tips:
1. Show up naked.
2. Bring beer.
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/six-tips-getting-right-christmas-presents-wife/
I tend to splurge on some luxo-item: Gucci, Versace, Hermes, Louis Vuitton scarves, belts, or jewelry are always a hit. And she wears them for her job where it pays to look successful (or so I hope). I tend to stay away from purses/bags since they cost a lot more and a woman is bound to be more picky in what she wants there. Also no shoes.
Also no shoes.
A good start on barefoot and pregnant.
just wondering where a Roomba fits on this list. sure, it’s an “appliance” but not one that you have to operate.
C.cooke’s takedown of Jen Rubin would, in any sane world, end her career in hackery
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454701/jennifer-rubin-trump-obsession-mindless-opponent
no one will notice
He could have substituted “David French” for Jennifer Rubin throughout the article.
I’ve never read french, really. I’ve heard his name tossed around.
do you have any relevant example of an about-face he’s made?
Man, the comments. An average fifth grader has more reading comprehension than any of the commenters, and could come up with more interesting insults too.
Maybe Glibertarians needs to go to a Facebook based comment system like Nat Review did.
*narrows gaze*