Listen, don’t get too close. The two year old is sick and has been clinging to me like a tiny, sick little ape. Luckily, this is not a gut-distress sickness. Poor guy. I like our doctor’s nurse’s advice to my wife on the phone. “Don’t worry unless you give him medicine and doesn’t perk up at least a little.” Clear, easy-to-follow and doesn’t depend on trying to get a two-year old to hold still for a thermometer that isn’t that accurate.
Is there anyone who doesn’t have to resign? There’s the ESPN President stepping down over drug addiction — which in retrospect makes total sense. And I’m guessing young kids and/or actual rape given how fast Kozinsci pulled the eject handle. I like how this attack on Teflon Don and the Hair has done more to discourage sexual harassment and punish harassment than anything since the personal audio recorder.
Is something really homeopathic if it contains enough of a dose to injure or kill you? I’d think there’s a fraud complaint waiting to happen.
Germans make strong bid for Central Asian, Welsh sex tourists. Meanwhile, in other sexual news…
And based on that last link, I must torture you, today.
Comments
541 responses to “Monday Afternoon Sick Kid Links”
First!
First in war, first in peace, and last in the American League.
No reference to a linky I win
That’s like saying Hillary is president because she got more votes.
Besides, according to the picture these links are infested with cooties. I saw that and bailed right to the comments.
Actually, you’re Hillary in this case.
So mean.
I don’t make the rules, I just follow em,
As every one rushes in, He will be missed ,why no Rehab? afraid of weinstein?
This is in reference to the ESPN link, why not first?
Ahhhhh, OFFICE MANAGER IS PLEASED NOW YUSEF WILL QUIT WHINING! ALOLOLOlOlOOO!
Children are icky.
There- I said it.
Charlottesville police chief retiring immediately after report critical of his handling of Unite the Right rally.
Where else can you retire after working for the organization for only one and a half years?
The UN?
Well, they are sort of like a government.
Congress?
Pretty much any type of government, as long as you meet the age requirement.
Well, is it retirement as part of the cop pension system or city? He could have had a lot of years in lower ranks and/or with other departments.
His previous gig was chief of police at another small town in Virginia. I think that municipalities can camp on to the state retirement system if they don’t have their own. But, still…
OK, the Justin Bieber sex doll has to be a plot from ZARDOZ to determine who gets cleansed first right?
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN PLOT DETERMINING ONE. THE PENIS IS EVIL BECAUSE IT SHOOTS SEEDS THAT CREATE NEW LIFE. UNLESS THIS PLASTIC CANADIAN CREATES NEW LIFE, ZARDOZ IS ALL IN FAVOR OF IT. LET THE BRUTALS MATE WITH A DOLL, AND NOT CREATE A PLAGUE OF MEN, AS THERE ONCE WAS! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Gotta catch em all!
STDs?
Repost:
If you haven’t already, vote in the runoff for best rack of 2017!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HP28WC5
I did my civic duty, and I’m glad to see my choice from preliminaries at #3.
Now to make like a Chicago voter…
Was that the brunette with short hair? That was my choice.
Vote early, grope often? Is that how this works?
#metoo
(I wish)
The survey won’t let me look at the options again once I voted. That gives me the sadz
The red head. Is she #2?
I tried voting multiple times. I couldn’t. Sad. They are all winners.
WT HOLY F?
WHERE IS THE HOT ASIAN CHIC IN THE POOL? THIS SHIT IS RIGGED. THEM BITCHES COLLUDED WITH PUTIN. I DEMAND A RECOUNT!!!111!!!!
I mentioned over the weekend that I am interested in how my alma mater reacts to the Jerry Richardson thing. He is a huge donor and, well, the brand new indoor stadium is named after him (and several other facilities around campus). I can’t say I am surprised that the allegations surfaced though, he put himself in the cross-hairs when he made his stance regarding kneeling for the anthem known.
Ladies displaying their high reproductive value.
http://archive.is/vJW98
7, 10, 22, 29.
NB: I used to live in the apartment complex displayed in 37. I’d recognize that pool/pool sign/office in the background anywhere.
It’s Marina Bay Apartments in Ft. Lauderdale, I lived there for 6 months before I fled SoFla.
I work in Fort Lauderdale. Know where that is. Though it’s called “The Falls at Marina Bay” now I think. Maybe that’s a different place.
Good call escaping this damned place.
Falls at Marina Bay, that’s it! Yeah, I was never real crazy about South Florida. I enjoy going back to visit every now and again, the beach is nice and winter weather is great, but the traffic and the people are just the pits (present company excluded). I’ve never lived anywhere where everyone seemed so miserable.
Single city?
?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fodTiDnXNWA
Well done Playa. That clip is exactly what I was thinking.
“You’re livin’ in fuck city!”
I like the productive subtlety of #5
#26 is Riki “R1ddle” Lecotey, a British Columbia native now calling Atlanta, Georgia her home, and is an extremely well-known cosplayer. She also works in TV/film making props, prosthetics etc. And her mammaries, while wonderful, are sadly mostly synthetic (she enhanced herself to do her cosplaying stuff with more, er, “realism”). Look up her costumes — ZARDOZ would NOT approve. 😉
Also, I don’t know who she is, but #7’s got a nice face and makes me think wildly impure thoughts.
Damn, when’s my wife comin’ home from work again? Daddy’s got hisself a fearsome appetite tonight!
This is what I do; I keep marriages happy.
Ah, screw it. Here, allow me to enact your labour for you.
She got herself a heckuva surgeon.
Indeed she did!
Here she is paying homage to her Canadian roots. And here she is in my favourite costume of hers.
So do we get to lick the maple syrup off her or what?
Normally implants make me sad, but unlike stupid piercings, they don’t require an exclusion from the orgy.
I am pretty sure I know #18…if not she looks like someone I know. Eitherway….#18
And you didn’t get either of the women in #37’s phone numbers?
#7 is a repeat, and like #2 from a few days ago reminds me of a woman I asked out and got shot down by.
#36 excluded from the orgy on account of stupid piercings.
Emily Yoffe tries to explain the completely intended consequences of the Obama DoE “Dear Colleague” letter at Politico
Statistics on the scale of the sexual assault problem on campuses nationally are controversial. And there are no good numbers about the breadth and nature of schools’ responses. But we do know that since the Dear Colleague letter was issued in 2011, more than 200 civil lawsuits have been filed by the accused, almost all males, against their universities, according to one advocacy group that tracks such suits. And these plaintiffs are getting an increasingly positive response from judges, who often express astonishment at the campus procedures that have been promulgated. In a scathing rebuke of today’s investigation and adjudication processes on campus, the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, a leading Title IX consulting firm, released a white paper in April accusing many Title IX officers of “victim-favoring” and putting students’ “sexual decisions under a microscope.” The paper warned that unless campus processes were reformed, a backlash could “set back the entire consent movement.”
NO kidding.
Remember this guy? As I recall, a certain so-called libertarian organization was calling him a friend of freedom, or some such drivel
Democratic politicians in particular have acted with disdain for the rights of accused male students, and with disregard for ending their education and professional prospects. At a 2015 congressional hearing on campus sexual assault, Representative Jared Polis of Colorado suggested that anyone accused of sexual misconduct should be dismissed without any fact-finding at all. “If there are 10 people who have been accused, and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, it seems better to get rid of all 10 people,” he said. “We’re not talking about depriving them of life or liberty. We’re talking about them being transferred to another university, for crying out loud.” (Polis was heavily criticized and walked back his remarks.)
Blowback? that’s not something Good People should have to worry about.
Better ten innocent men suffer, than one guilty man go free.
If somebody made that comment to me, I’d immediately accuse them of sexual assault.
Polis is an insanely large shitstain and the fact that reason wanted to blow him was evidence of their increasingly shaky understanding of libertarian principles.
Pretty desperate for a “libertarian Democrat” they can gush over at the cocktail parties…
That scale of insanity is enough, Shitstain is just getting started, Fuck just set up the camps already
Gay Democrat who likes video games seems to be Gillespie’s ideal libertarian.
Jared Polis molested me.
#metoo
*points to area on doll where*
a backlash could “set back the entire consent movement.”
Well, if they are referring to the “affirmative” consent movement, I don’t think that’s a bad thing. And if they mean the “retroactively revocable” consent movement, its a very good thing, indeed.
Blowback?
Is that like the common courtesy of a reach-around?
STEVE SMITH NEVER ONE TO STAND ON COURTESY
Hell, I like you – you can come over to my house and fuck my sister!
+1 name, +1 ass
Much of the Obama administration’s policy was at the initiative of Biden, for whom the issue of violence against women was career-defining.
There’s some irony for you.
Biden is largely responsible for the VAMA.
Whoops. VAWA.
Polis is the Nick Gillespie of libertarian leaning politicians
Appropriate.
And if he comes from a big city area, they can call him Metro-Polis.
*narrows gaze*
-1 Fritz Lang
The paper warned that unless campus processes were reformed, a backlash could “set back the entire consent movement.”
This is pathetic. The problem with these rules isn’t that they risk setting “back the entire consent movement”. It’s that they jeopardize innocent men’s lives. Even in challenging the witch hunt, the victims of the witch hunt are incidental.
A bittersweet walk through Prague by a German who is nostalgic for the days of not being assaulted on the streets.
So not Reinhard Heydrich?
DAMMIT!
Nah, Heydrich’s already got his Czech memorial
http://www.prague.eu/en/object/places/565/national-monument-to-the-heroes-of-the-heydrich-terror-narodni-pamatnik-hrdinu-heydrichiady
Went there last year. It was a beautiful and somber memorial under St. Cyril and Methodius. The movie Operation Anthropoid was about them – pretty awesome movie.
That movie was surprisingly good.
Very good movie. Last summer I had a young proggie claiming they were part of the resistance against the fascists. I suggested that they watch “Anthropoid” since it might teach them how to resist better. He took the bait. Afterwards he said I “was minimizing” the struggle and I replied “You are correct. That was a resistance against fascists. You are upset your chosen candidate lost.”
That movie catches so many small details so well.
You’re missing out if you don’t catch Lang’s take – mid-WWII. Yes Brecht was also involved but he got overruled. Excellent blu-ray!
Didn’t work out for Wilhelm Frick, either.
You know what other German walked the streets of Prague, unafraid of being assaulted?
Klaus Meine?
No way.
Klaus Meine?
Whoa….
TIL that Tundra and PBR are the same person.
Tulpa?
No I’m not.
No, I’m not.
after this mornings revelations, I don’t know what to believe.
Kafka?
I’ve never been to Prague. I am going to rectify that.
Go. It is a great city. Watch out for pickpockets.
Czech Beer Festival. When I arrived in Prague, I arrived too late to enjoy this festival.
You absolutely should. I got to do it as a young single college guy. Lots of fun.
since we’re complaining about stuff related to kids..
i’ve been browsing biathlon rifles for my girl. if she skis like her kraut mom and shoots like her ugly American father, then it’s really a no-brainer. so i’m going to use this forum to bitch about the price of biathlon rifles. $3K!?
the patent for the Fortner action was filed in ’86.
https://www.google.com/patents/DE3432537A1?cl=en
wouldn’t it have expired (20 year patent) by now and other manufacturers have jumped into the market?
apparently not..
https://qz.com/54254/this-german-invention-is-used-in-95-of-rifles-in-biathlons/
i’m not gonna lie. those are some fancy bearings.
Guns, guitars, horses… However much money you have, someone has something to sell you that is “worth” it.
Lol. I just bought my 15 year old daughter a MIM Fender bass. The wailing and gnashing of teeth from a couple of my guitar collecting acquaintances was hilarious.
No, I’m not paying more than double for a guitar that will be toted around by a teenager.
The fortner is a wonderful action.. and the Anschutz trigger pull, wonderful. With that rifle you know if you missed the target… it is you.
If you can find/import a 94 biathlon, that would be plenty for starters:
http://jga.anschuetz-sport.com/index.php5?produktID=1363&menu=99&sprache=1&produktShow=detail
The other standard biathlon rifle is the Marlin 2000 action… Search on ebay for old biathlon conversions
Another one is the LakeField, ne, Savage mkII action.
Savage Mark II FVT (price $426) is damn close to the classic without the rails, etc.
Can’t find any current Izhmash production.
I know I’m later than the white rabbit in alice in wonderland but can’t you just buy her any old bolt action rifle first to see how she does? Crappy triggers build character.
My recommendation was along those lines.
For biathlon you really need the 5 round magazine and aperture sights. A lot of the starter .22’s were single shot. Or they have rails/iron sights.
That Savage is perfect for a first shooter, and the only thing keeping it from being a full racer is the stock. At 50m you need the prone cuff to hit the small targets (when racing). That MKII trigger isn’t bad.
There was a custom stock person doing those:
http://www.easternsierraarmory.com/blog/?p=198
I’m also late (as usual) but was going to ask the same thing. They used to use the 6.5×55 Swede but I see that they are now using .22LR. I’m not an expert but I know that you can get some hella accurate .22LR rifles for starting out on for much less than $3k.
When a teen I won turkeys for the family a few years running with Dad’s Winchester M62A with open sights. I recall one year going up against some guy with a fancy gun with thumbhole stock and peep sights. Took him in the final round.
… Hobbit
yeah I was looking at that Ruger 10/22 Target Lite for $455.
CZ 455 Scout months ago.
Rec. biathlon racer here. Most of the non-Anschutz guys I race with use izhmash 7-3 or 7-4. Those are no longer imported to the US, but if you can find a used 7-3 for your daughter, they shoot really well as long as temps above about 15F. The other option is to convert a savage mark ii fvt with an ESA stock. By the time you finish with all the bells and whistles (sling, handstop, cuff, rear sights, blinder, etc.) an Anschutz will go close to 4K, (3500 used) a used izzy will be 2000 to 3000 and a mark ii conversion will be around 2k.
I’ve shot all 3 and you definitely get what you pay for with the 1827F.
Thx for this.
I have 2 kids home sick today.
One just put away a 10 piece McNuggets and a Double Cheeseburger. He’s going back to school tomorrow.
I dunno. I’d wait and see what that McD’s selection does to the insides…
^^ This. Kids aren’t exactly models of self-awareness when it comes to eating things that might make them sick later.
Home sick? Didn’t school end for the year on Friday?
My son is home, making messes and demanding to be fed for some reason. And I can’t just tell him to go to the school cafeteria.
We go through this Friday.
So our poor teachers can be in Aspen and Park City for New Years.
We also have the entire week of Thanksgiving off, and a week in February.
My kids do that–constantly.
Luckily, this is not a gut-distress sickness.
More of an oozing-mucus type thing, then?
That and a pretty rocking fever. Enough that I didn’t scoff when she called the doctor’s office.
Trump was aggressive in trying to pick up Stacey Robitaille:
https://nypost.com/2017/12/12/ex-rangers-wife-claims-trump-was-aggressive-with-her-in-msg-elevator/
Bullshit, the Hair would never allow a move on that tactical pantsuit
This came up a week or so ago. It boils down to he hit on her pretty much the way you would expect him to, she turned him down and laughed at him, and NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED.
I love the disclaimer that she’s not looking for attention. Which explains why she broadcast it to the world on Twitter.
Seriously. Why she bothered to bring it up is lame.
and NOTHING ELSE HAPPENED.
That consistently seems to be the story with Trump. It’s pretty much the way a certain kind of guy operated for years – he tries to pick the woman up, if she says yes, awesome. If she says no, her loss and move on to the next. It was also what he described in the bulk of his “grab’em by the pussy” conversation. It’s essentially an opportunistic approach. It may be a little uncouth or unrefined, but in no rational sense is it harassment. And a lot of the guys who have been screaming the loudest about Trump have engaged in behaviors a lot closer to what might better be labeled harassment or even assault.
Perhaps if Weinstein had tried this method….?
I had a friend whose pick up strategy was ‘wanna fuck?’ on the premise (according to his math) 1 in 20 times it works.
And he had the patience and energy to ask 20 women this per outing.
He reasoned, 19 times they say ‘no’ and this didn’t bother him one iota. He just moved on to the next girl.
So yeah. A little unrefined but no one was being hurt.
Was his success rate actually that high? And what kind of women were accepting?
And what kind of women were accepting?
Duh, the best kind.
It’s what he said. He’s a bull shitter. But it is Montreal. So…who knows?
Mind you, he was a pretty honest guy in that he told it like it was/is so there really was no reason to question him except his methodology. /wink.
I can’t speak to the quality of the girls. But knowing this guy, despite okay looks, he probably bagged a couple of hotties.
It’s all in the confidence and this guy had it in spades.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
— some other Canadian
I had a friend like that too, although not quite as brazen as “wanna fuck?”. His ratio was probably more like 50:1, but when you consider he was probably hitting on 20-30 women a week, he got laid a hell of a lot more than a guy who looked like him should have. Not many dogs either – most of them were at least reasonably attractive, and a few times he landed a real beauty.
Antifa?
That would prove interesting.
Does anyone else smell subpoena?
Apparently there was ‘something’ on the tracks. And I mean at this point, it could have been anything, but if it turns out to be something someone put there, then…
*sniff, sniff*
Yup.
Even if this group wasn’t responsible, I bet they still get sweated in front of a grand jury.
Well, I mean the Democrats did tell them that they have to ‘resist’, right?
And it was clear that was a dangerous section of track/Interstate, now I got my Aluminum Foil hat on
Wait…
So do they like trains or not?
They like cattle cars for the masses but want to derail them is carrying fracking equipment because environment.
I seem to find myself swerving off into conspiracy theory territory stuff here, but it’s hard not to considering the left’s violent rhetoric. I mean I found myself starting to wonder if eco-terrorists are starting the fires in CA to force that crazy Hitler like guy in DC to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord. And yes, I am fully aware of the prime conditions for forest fires in Southern CA, I lived there.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Do you have a newsletter?
And waving around a 20 dollar bill at a Homeless camp could yet it done for you, clean hands…..
Cattle cars? The news report I just heard said there were 78 passengers on the 12 cars. WTF – 6.5 people per car? Goes to show just how needed that train was /sarc
You haven’t been to the NYC area lately have you.
They were talking about a specific portion of track that they were “occupying” at the time. They got spooked and took the post down, but nah. Nothing there.
(they’re still assholes though, obviously)
That wouldn’t stop Preet…
Also going down
Object on tracks may be cause of deadly Amtrak derailment
Ayn Rand would have a post on how those people deserved to die.
Good One Ted,I’m still laughing
That bit of Atlas Shrugged really, really bothers me.
That bit isn’t saying people deserved to die. It’s saying a handful of people on the train encouraged the same sort of conditions in their own fields that led to this train tunnel accident. It’s a metaphorical warning.
Exactly.
WITNESS was a great book. But, Whittaker Chambers’ review of [i]Atlas Shrugged[/i] in NRO is embarrassing.
Don’t worry, Ted. It was just ink on paper. No real people died in that train accident. But I know what you mean.
Also completely fictional, but also bothered me — blowing up the building in The Fountainhead.
“deserved” seems like a strong term. If I stick my hands on a lit stove top, do I “deserve” to get burned? Or is it just the natural consequence of my action? Rand was arguing that the tunnel disaster was the natural consequence of certain philosophical beliefs. Beliefs shared by the people on the train in the novel.
https://giphy.com/gifs/movie-western-BZQziX6q2hmX6
So anti-slavery Republicans helped give us Communism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New-York_Tribune
Interestingly both Greeley and Dana broke with the Republicans over Grant’s corruption…
Reposting an OT link, again? Have you lost rack of which ones you have already clogged up another thread with?
Are there really OT links on this site?
Not to you, apparently.
4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18 are offtopic.
I prefer Q’s numberings.
Grow up and Pay Attention!
Too much ink on #10 for me. I like ’em short and sweet.
“Have you lost rack”
‘Lost track’. I believe Q is the one that manages the ‘racks’
Golf clap.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByeqZLPCEAASt1q.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQkJXrKU8AANWnm.jpg
Darn Photoshop, she’s purty
Niiiiiice
No the train lost the tracks not us.
OT? I’ll show you OT.
I was watching an old Doctor Who episode the other day. It was the Horror at Fang Rock. One of the woman characters got hysterical. The Doctor’s companion, Leela, hauled off and smacked her. I actually lol’d. She was a great companion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKKvHxD_FmI
Named after a Palestinian Terrorist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Khaled
Also what do you think of Chuck Swarsky?
Sorry dude, you lost me there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_broadcast_signal_intrusion
Swirsky, Swarsky, close enough…
I was completely unaware of this.
Nice.
Oh my!
Clutch Cargo? How cool is that? Any mention of Spinner and Paddlefoot?
OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED SAYS: WATCH OUT FOR CATBUTTS! INFIDEL!
The best companions are redheads.
Amerikkka
A United Nations official investigating poverty in the United States was shocked at the level of environmental degradation in some areas of rural Alabama, saying he had never seen anything like it in the developed world.
“I think it’s very uncommon in the First World. This is not a sight that one normally sees. I’d have to say that I haven’t seen this,” Philip Alston, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where “raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.”
The tour through Alabama’s rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
Finally, we’ll get justice; the UN’s on the case.
Are you sitting down? This article removes an extraneous reference to President Donald Trump.
I knew it was Trump’s fault.
The UN does know Roy Moore lost, right?
I wonder what their definition of “sewage” is. Is it piss and shit or just water from a sump?
Their definition is that it is simply stinky.
Raw sewage flows out of my house in exposed PVC (well, the cleanout plug is exposed) into a pit. That’s sorta how septic tanks work.
Where’s my UN victim money?
Trump’s holding it up, because he’s literally Hitler.
My first time in Bangkok, in 1988, we walked multiple times on bridges over open sewer rivers. Brown, slithering flow and reeked like you’d imagine. Weirdest aspect — some people had houses with balconies over the sewer river, just like you’d do if it was a vacation or entertaining home over a fresh-water river.
Did Antifa just make the jump to terrorism with today’s train crash?
See above…
So did the train.
Too soon?
Probably a bit too soon. Maybe not.
Horseshoes, hand grenades, orbital bombardments and all that
Was the train on time, though?
Hyp covered this, but damn sure they did this, they bragged about it already, have done it already, someone just upped the Game IMO
Antifra?
Antifrieght?
Antifascistrail?
Anderail?
the patent for the Fortner action was filed in ’86.
Is that the thumb-flick “bolt action”? Those things are pretty sweet.
Also, how in the fuck do those people shoot at that level of accuracy with heart rate and respiration so high? I probably couldn’t hit the broad side of barn after walking up a couple flights of stairs.
Lots and lots of practice.
Yep. It’s a brilliant action. Still don’t think it justifies that markup. Niches though.
Practice, but you are shooting at metal drop down targets @ 50m .. so you have to be just accurate enough not to miss.. You get your speed up to where you start missing targets and then slow it back down 10%. It is better to take that extra breath and hit the target than have another 150m penalty loop.
You also time the targets in between breaths and take a stance that re-enforces skeletal connections rather than muscle tension.
Sorry, Al, we need you to leave so that we can paint our opponents as sexist rapists in 2018…oh wait, Roy Moore lost? Wait, come back!!!!
If Franken doesn’t resign, I don’t think Democrats can count on winning that seat again
Trump only lost by a couple points here. I think that seat is up for grabs.
Of course only until the Stupid Party runs a complete shithead.
I’m writing in Pope Jimbo.
I don’t know his holiness that well, but based upon his comments I imagine that the Pope has several pending #metoo charges.
Yes, but those chicks will be bragging, not complaining.
I like the Pope’s style: “Keep ’em wanting more (molestation)”.
Vote Pope!
“Well, it started as rape… then I kinda liked it…”
Get Q Continuum to run you a boob-based campaign and Pope will have a good chance!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQkGrX0V4AEpt8X.jpg
The seat is definitely up for grabs.
HEY NOW.
What are the shithead options in MN?
Me, Pope Jimbo, Hayeksplosives, Left Hand of Radar…
Just kidding. The Minnesota Repub party will likely regurgitate some of the weak fucks that have had success here: Norm Coleman, Tim Pawlenty, Erik “common sense gun control” Paulsen, the usual suspects.
Here’s an article about it.
I suspect Roy Moore has plenty of time to establish residency in MN and run for Franken’s seat.
Being that MN is only recently trending red, it makes sense that most of the most well-known names are squishy. Also, reading about Coleman and Paulsen, they do have some excuses for squishiness, mainly being that they both represent or represented majority-Democratic areas. Clinton won Paulsen’s district by 10 points last year.
I really believe that it was a case of ‘Trump is icky’.
What’s your opinion about those Northern MN districts that have DFL history running back many decades; do you think that they’ll eventually flip to Repub like other rural, largely white districts seem to be doing?
It depends. If the economy keeps cruising along and the mining gets rocking, the Repubs will coast. I think the people up there are getting sick of being Ike Turnered all these years.
What about Michelle Bachman?
*runs away*
Can’t they find an old Viking like Mitch Berger to run?
Is Jimbo considered complete?
The LG must be upset…
Also I’m shocked, shocked at the possibility that Franken’s “resignation” was just to get Doug Jones elected.
Your winnings sir.
Your winnings sir.
Oh, thank you very much.
Democrats are junkyard dogs from a moral standpoint; their only use for morals is if it benefits them politically, and unfortunately such political hitjobs do work sometimes, like in AL, because they know that enough conservative voters care about the “moral high ground” to swing an election.
Libertarians too.
This is utterly unsurprising.
Libertarian moment?
Neigh.
Prude
Like a lamb being led to the orgy, er, slaughter.
Related to the Antifa terrorist stuff:
https://nypost.com/2017/12/18/object-on-tracks-may-be-cause-of-deadly-amtrak-derailment/
Confirms that it was objects on the track that led to the derailment and that maintenance is unlikely to be the culprit. If it were Islamic, you’d think they would be taking credit already. Could just be an accident, or Antifa may have actually upgraded themselves to legitimate domestic terrorists.
this would surprise me. Leftists normally love government operated trains
I know that section of RR line and it is part of the mainline from California to the Port of Tacoma and Seattle. Large freights run over that section every hour of the day and night. There is no way maintenance debris caused the derailment unless they were finishing up work before dawn.
There is nothing new about the routing over this part of the line since it has been used over 100 years. The new routing was up around Tacoma to bypass an bottleneck at the tunnel near Pt Defiance. The pictures and videos don’t show obvious rail damage from a collapsed rail. That is because US rail companies use continuous rail on mainlines and this track is owned by Union Pacific who want their freights to be able to move quickly and efficiently.
Count your blessings that your kid isn’t sick with ‘hand, foot, and mouth’. Not a fun one to catch from your kids
I thought that was a livestock disease?
So did I…so did I….
Too much German tourism!
We’ve gotten exposure notices from the school, but the kids haven’t caught it yet.
Spray your kids with bleach when they get home from school. That shit is for real. You don’t want that
That’s Hoof and Mouth. The kid version sucks. One of my kids had it.
I got that from mine when she was in preschool. That sucked.
yup, my nephew recently had that. Nasty stuff.
Do you live in a Third World Country like America? – Rerporter for The Guardian
Well our government is pretty Third World…
One thing that jumped out at me when I read an article about the train crash, is that the train was well below capacity. Thank God Amtrak is a boondoggle hardly anyone uses. Otherwise, think of how many more lives would have been lost!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_the_Army_(Japan)
Does this remind anyone of the American Intelligence Agencies?
Who are you? Derpitologist?
Kurt Eichenwald, secessionist
You Know which other Democrats wanted to secede after the Republicans won due to the Electoral College?
Hitler?
Stalin?
Roy Stalin?
Is there any other?
My favorite Eichenwald take was when he advised everyone to take their money out of the stock market after Trump’s win, as he predicted a downturn. Too funny
That’s my favorite Krugman quote — that he thought the market would “never” recover after Trump’s win.
And he was proven wrong on the exact same day too, sometimes there is Justice in the world.
If there were justice, he’d be working in the fast food industry.
I got the quote from the most honest lefty I know of, @notwokieleaks, who has a pretty good take on it. https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/942871347411210242
Yeah, but the whole issue of ‘net takers’ is stupid anyways. What the states are ‘taking’ is primarily Medicaid funds (which is the largest federal expenditure to the states) and that is based upon median income relative to the national median which is a stupid way to determine poverty ($30,000 California versus Alabama is a huge difference). So, what Leftists are basically saying when they say ‘net takers’ is that we should completely redo the Medicaid system, which I fully support.
By redo, you mean remove, right?
Yes
A big chunk of the federal spending they count is military, too.
I recall looking at CA when it was claiming to be a net giver state in connection with secession. On some rough numbers, it looked like a lie. Can’t recall the details.
They don’t usually count military spending, because that’s not a direct payment to the state government. But, you’re right that that is as much a subsidy as anything
W T F ?
To strengthen Americans’ economic security, it’s not enough to reduce basic expenses. We must also protect retirement — and that means pensions and Social Security. It was Wall Street greed that made our economy crash in 2008, not America’s truckers, warehouse workers, retirees and widows. But as a consequence of that crash, the pension funds of many workers are now on the brink of failure. Congress can use this funding bill to shore up these retirement plans and make sure nearly 1.5 million American workers aren’t left holding the bag for Wall Street’s mistakes.
It’s Bernie Sanders, so you cannot really expect a coherent argument, but… come on.
Weren’t those pensions fucked even when the economy was rolling? IIRC they were still relying on unsustainable stock predictions that had the funds growing at a faster rate than they actually were before the crash.
Yeah, pretty much. They’re not failing because they invested too aggressively and lost money through the ’08 market. They’re failing because they’re not invested aggressively enough since then, and are only getting like 1% returns. On the flip side they promised benefits assuming like a 7+% annual return. Some of the blame for the low returns can also be placed on the socially responsible investing taken on by many pension funds such as the California state system. So they wont invest in evil, yet return-producing, companies like Phillip Morris. So even as the economy has done well, they’ve restricted the allowable investment options and shot themselves in the foot all in the name of social justice, and now Bernie wants taxpayers to bail them out.
Good stuff
Dems are panicking because the economy is recovering so well right now (I’m still not convinced it isn’t a bubble,but we’ll see). It’s shining light on the lie that lefty economics are at all effective.
Rich people shouldn’t have to give money to social safety nets if they are going to be used by icky poor people. Its only for henti and science papers.
It was Wall Street greed that made our economy crash in 2008, not America’s truckers, warehouse workers, retirees and widows.
I don’t think it was Wall Streeters taking out zero downpayment, zero documentation loans.
You don’t remember hordes of banksters assaulting underprivileged households under the cover of the night, forcing them to sign low-rate mortgages for houses they could never afford, so they could take those houses away from them?
Trump’s America, comrades!
You gotta love this shit. It’s Wall Street’s fault that you put your retirement savings in risky investments?
It was Wall Street greed that made our economy crash in 2008, not America’s truckers, warehouse workers, retirees and widows.
Yeah and evil speculators flipping houses on borrowed money. So, Bernie, when are you going to present a bill demanding Elizabeth Warren be removed from the Senate?
No explanation of how they’ll pay for it, of course: https://theintercept.com/2017/12/15/fcc-net-neutrality-public-broadband-seattle/?comments=1#comments
Help … laughing too hard … can’t breathe …
That is easy, they won’t
And among the other problems:
I’m uncomfortable enough giving my browsing and other data to a private corporation like Comcast, which is why I browse through a VPN. I don’t think I’d enjoy much if I was giving it directly to the government (and don’t pretend like they wouldn’t keep and misuse that data).
And I don’t access really many sites that could get one in trouble. Anime torrents and PornHub would be the “worst” of my browsing.
But still.
Which Q is better? Our Q, John Delancie, Corbin Bernsen, Desmond Llewellyn, Ben Whishaw, Alec McCowen or Geoffrey Bayldon?
1. Our Q. The others don’t deliver boobies.
2T. John DeLancie, because I’ve met him and he’s awesome.
2T. Desmond Llewellyn
Doesn’t matter after that. My wife thinks Ben Whishaw is hot.
Well duh. And your wife has interesting tastes…
It’s the only thing that can explain why she thinks *I’m* good looking.
My wife thinks Ben Whishaw is hot.
I’ve got some bad news for your wife…
When I first saw Ben Whishaw as Q my immediate reaction was disappointment they didn’t cast Richard Ayoade.
Quincy Jones.
Ours. Don’t be ridiculous.
Let me help you decide…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_VczSSV0AAQMte.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZ8ytDVCYAAPOKI.jpg:large
cool! one for me!
Holy fuck, I should have refreshed before answering!
Q Continuum responsible for 95% of all work related stiffies since 2016
Just don’t let OFFICE MANAGER MOHAMMED know or you’ll find yourself being stoned.
The Public BROADcasting System is really into tits. Who knew?
Desmond Llewellyn
I love our Q, but damn, how could you not?
Think the Swedes mind working longer to pay to turn their nation into a multicultural paradise?
Sweden Forced to Raise Retirement Age To Pay For Mass Immigration Policy
Utopia requires sacrifices peon!
They just need to talk to Shika. She’ll tell them why their wrong.
It begins.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/12/18/brain-implant-could-stop-sex-predators-prevent-suicide/
We already have Neil Breen…
Something about G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate?
Only a % of a % will turn into reavers.
“Miranda”
I was waiting for the Amtrak derailment to morph into the obvious “we need moar spendings on the infrastructures!!1!!”
i think Trump was on that shit within seconds. but the media seemed to have taken a few hours. Don’t worry, they’re on it.
if you think the “bullshit rape stats” gets me heated, omg, the “our infrastructures is crumbling”-lies would take me a week+ to purge.
david stockman is a little crazy and a lot wrong about some things, but his piece on “infrastructure” is essential reading.
something he may or may not touch on: its really just a code word for letting the federal govt dump huge amounts of money back into states to try and shore up their pension-problems. which is the same shit Obama’s ARRA was. Every president uses their first term to create huge spending boondoggle. What’s amazing is trump got his tax cuts in BEFORE doing so. Which is why i think this year has been so slow for anyone in congress to pass legislation. They’re all still standing with their hands out.
I was waiting for the Amtrak derailment to morph into the obvious “we need moar spendings on the infrastructures!!1!!”
It’s the Perpetual Infrastructure Spending Cycle:
Planners: ERMIGAHHD!!! WE NEED TO INCREASE SPENDING ON INFRASTRUCTURE OR WE’S IS ALL GONNA DIIIIEEEE!!!1!
Taxpayers: Cripes! Didn’t we just shell out for a bunch of infrastructure spending?
Planners: DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND? IF WE DON’T SPEND NOW WE’S IS ALL GONNA DIIIIEEEE!!!1! DO YOU WANT TO SEE LITTLE CHILDRENS DIIIIEEEE?!
Taxpayers: Okay, okay. We’ll write your check….
(Taxpayers write check and give it to Planners)
Planners: Of course, I hope you do realize that before we start these projects, we’ll have to do extensive community and environmental impact assessments. And a public aesthetics evaluation. And the projects are going to have to use union labor. And, did we forget to mention that we’ll need to arrange for the appropriate set-asides for formerly under-represented contractors. Oh, sorry, but I forgot to mention, our studies show that Senator Dinglebury’s district is in need of economic development that additional infrastructure could bring. We’re going to have to make those a priority in our funding decisions. But, while we’re thinking creatively, what’s so special about roads and bridges anyway? The Chinese are doing some amazing things with high-speed rail and bicycle paths…..
(two hours later)
Planners: ERMIGAHHD!!! WE NEED TO INCREASE SPENDING ON INFRASTRUCTURE OR WE’S IS ALL GONNA DIIIIEEEE!!!1!
yep.
and all the stuff they spend their infrastructure funds on is stuff that needs constant reinvestment. then they scream when their one-shot money isn’t being renewed every year, and moan AUSTERITY, DRACONIAN CUTS when anyone suggests that maybe they made bad investments
Yeah…somehow they’d already spent 800 million upgrading that portion of the track and how’d that work out?
Where was this smarmy asshole or critics like him when Democrats jammed the ACA through? really cute intro, dickhead.
Choke on a cock and die, public media star Todd Zwillich.
I thought that there was a shortage of organs available?
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2017/12/18/did-worker-find-human-organs-at-detroit-wastewater-treatment-plant/
What do you guys think of the “fiscally conservative socially liberal” slogan? The Republicans aren’t very fiscally conservative and “social liberals” don’t have very libertarian ideas about social issues. Not to mention the “social liberals” want free shit and regulation which negates the “fiscal conservatism” aspect.
Didn’t you ask this last week?
Winston is just a bot with a limited number of comments that endlessly repeat themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tILn5TbUH9A
I maintain that I’m fiscally conservative and socially liberal. That others misuse the term (check the number of idiots who consider themselves to be “libertarian”) isn’t my fault.
What do you mean by “social liberal”? The term when used by libertarians doesn’t mean what most leftists mean by it. And today many leftists are increasingly against free speech, free association and support self-censorship.
The vast majority of leftists are not liberal.
I’m not fiscally conservative or socially liberal. I just want less government in all aspects of life. I don’t care about the latest sexual fad or the latest cost reduction to a certain program. I just want less government. Period.
I would also never refer to myself as ‘socially liberal and fiscally conservative’, because that usually means you are neither tolerant of other people’s beliefs nor are you particularly concerned with reducing spending if it effects things you like
‘Liberty and justice for all’ about covers it.
Same here. Though, I align almost as well with constitutional conservatism as I do with libertarianism, especially considering my pro-life leanings.
Fuck you, cut spending. And stay off my lawn.
“Conservative” and “liberal” are now meaningless labels. It all comes down to where you stand on self-determination, coercion and private property rights. Basically, do you support self-ownership and personal responsibility or not?
Now?
I’m generally OK with it if you approach it from the fiscal side.
You can argue with an honest fiscal conservative to not spend money on social issues. Keeping government out of social issues gets you to socially liberal goals.
But going from the other side just turns into a shit-sandwich. People who advance from this side are almost invariably looking for government solutions.
Well, most people get confused when I say I’m a Constitutional Property Rights Minarchist.
Aside from the political buzzwords, I translate this to “Minding my own business”.. which is pretty libertarian.
What do you guys think of the “fiscally conservative socially liberal” slogan?
As a practical matter, it simply doesn’t work. Socially liberal, at this point, has nothing to do with personal liberty. Social liberals don’t want to be free to buy birth control. They want to force others to pay for it. Social liberals don’t want gay people to be free to marry. They want to force Christian bakers to bake them a cake. Social liberals don’t want men and women to be free to sleep with whoever they want. They want men to be held responsible for any woman’s regret with no legal defense. Social liberals don’t want people to be free to speak their minds. They want to harangue you and forbid you from saying a word in contradiction. People above were commenting about what a shitstain Jared Polis is, and I agree. But, Jared Polis is a modern “social liberal”.
On the other side, “fiscal conservative” seems to only capture a small part of my economic views. But, that’s another rant.
It means nothing. Libertarian social policy isn’t liberal or conservative it non-existent. To describe it that way is to signal a preference of society that appears to almost always mean the “socially liberal” part of their ideology is more important than the libertarian part.
“And based on that last link, I must torture you, today.”
That is truly insufferable. Auto-tune is the Nikki of audio effects. It’s what okra is to vegetables, or speed bumps are to driving. Now, I’m not saying Andy Hildebrand is worse than Hitler. That would be silly. But he’s at least as bad as Göring or Goebbels.
Just Sayin has a sad.
Yeah, the Count’s making no sense. Should read “is the Nick Gillespie of audio effects”.
Rock Vocal Power!
Okra is a fine vegetable, you just need it prepared proper.
I.E. fried or pickled.
And on someone else’s plate.
^^
its not a hill i’d plan to die on. but its good eating. the indians (dot not mohawk) do a good job w/ it too.
Yes. Baby okra, no larger than your little finger, cooked in chicken stock with lots of bacon. I can sit down with a pot and eat the whole thing. If they get any bigger than that they are awful.
^^This, but bigger than that can be good crispy fried or pickled.
I love okra too. You could call me an okra-homie.
Best served in gumbo, if you ask me.
The inaugural run of the amtrack Seattle to Portland Hugh speed train derailed.
Needz moar tax dollars.
Trumps on it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-train-crash-shows-need-infrastructure-fix-details-come-193836025.html
It’s funny: I think that Trump’s done a good job as president so far, certainly more conservative than I ever thought that he would be. OTOH, it’s also incredibly frustrating that he buys the idea that it’s somehow the responsibility of the feds to build infrastructure, ahem, THE ROADZ!!!
His “conservatism” is due to a fluke. Not being part of the political class means he hasn’t been “bought off” so to speak. The progs and GOPe hate him so many bipartisan boondoggles have been avoided. Hell this hatred of him could torpedo this infrastructure spending. And the Deep State hates him so he hates them back.
I don’t care if it’s a fluke or not; I care that he’s actually prioritizing conservative ideas to a far greater extent than any president in 25 years. That warrants good cheer over sarcasm IMO.
“Seven trillion dollars spent in the Middle East while our roads, bridges, tunnels, railways (and more) crumble! Not for long!”
Well, he’s half right. Maybe we can get out of the middle east and not dump trillions of tax dollars into infastructure spending.
Hugh speed train
I think I might see where the problem is…
Would… require approx 3 beers to be would.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/18/ex-christian-school-teachers-husband-busts-her-in-bed-with-teen/
17 year old Bob would have shot her across the room like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVLyfVkMAKg
A bit chubby but surprisingly good for a booking photo.
Gonna need more than the mug shot to make that determination.
I know, right?
I’m not going to have sex with her face or anything!
Wel….
At what hour, in a normal night, do you reach 3 beers? Asking for a friend, of course. I know a lot of guys who would pound three beers and then pound her by about 8pm.
Night?
Reasonable question. Depends on the night I s’pose. If it’s a work night, I would probably limit myself to no more than 3 beers and be home by 9 or 10. Weekend, who knows?
“Andrea has always felt called to work with youth and is very excited that God opened the door for her”
Yeah buddy! High five!
“very excited that God opened the door for her”
Euphemisms?
I’d hit it. Of course my BAC is at .06 before I start drinking.
wait a second…. how…. exactly…..
Probably oral sex. Many states have ridiculous laws still on the books that anything not P-V is “unnatural”.
Ah. I see.
One question….
what’s the P stand for?
Now I want to know what you think the V stands for.
I was told it was “Ventilation”?
Pro Veterinarian?
In some states, anything not PiV is sodomy. So oral, would be my guess.
With statutory rape, the statutory rapist can be charged for the sex act, even if they’re the receiver. Or the pitcher. Sodomy also includes oral.
I love sodomy
Would titty-fucking be considered sodomy?
Have to see more if penetration is possible.
Let’s just say it is
It’s fun, so, yes.
“…in recent years the number of people believed to be participating in such acts has increased significantly.”
Uh huh. I think there is some significant information missing from that story.
You’re clearly racist for even thinking it.
Yeah, that was my first thought when I saw the headline. They can’t do any story without mentioning ethnicity unless it goes against the script.
Import goat fuckers and you are going to have goat fucking.
Rocket. Science.
Lucky goats?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRLc43yXkAAfPLD.jpg
Sportscasters get increasingly desperate to stay relevant.
https://twitter.com/mccartyconnor/status/942623447032590336
(NSFW)
Is that real?
Yup. Don’t know if it really was a hack on his account or if he just sent it out by mistake, but it actually happened.
Quick question:
is the repeated mention that the person in question is “White” supposed to tell us something?
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess this isn’t the first time 2 college roomates didn’t get along.
Well, as you know, the fact that she’s already guilty of the crime of being white means that the (I assume) menstrual explosion is just frosting on the cake. I think a sentence of at least 15 years in SuperMax ought to be enough to teach her that being white is shameful (and to use a tampon).
Pro-Tip:
Stay away from Q’s birthday cake.
Notice that i am also a classy guy, who didn’t even mention how she’s a real hot+sexy looker
Or the first time a toothbrush wasn’t molested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYcO_LjU_u8
Whiteness is the biggest crime of all.
Latest in the saga of my trying to be a productive member of society: my company (the prime) finally gave me a timesheet login, but didn’t give me a project code to which I can charge my time. And their lookup system is…not robust.
Are you sure they actually hired you?!
You need to be more assertive, Carlton Whitfield didn’t get his corner office just waiting for them to give him what he needed to do his job.
You might as well call me Dr. KK, DDS, because I’ve been pulling teeth for a month!
Also, I asked for logistical info about the security briefing I’m signed up for tomorrow. Wondered whether I need to bring any additional documentation to the badge office other than the briefing letter of completion.
I can’t get my badge tomorrow, apparently, because they haven’t completed the paperwork yet.
If this is what it’s like to get hired with an active, current security clearance, I can’t imagine what new people go through!
I can’t do my job until I have a badge. And my introverted colleagues are really fucking sick of having to narrate everything they’re doing as I “shadow” them. I’m totally ready to get started, as everything they’ve showed me is very straightforward, and I’ll get to learn all the little nuances as I go.
For the record:
If there’s an object on the road, I drive around it. It doesn’t make my car fly off of the road.
That is all.
But, if you don’t go around it…
I mean, I guess that’s sarcasm.
If you love trains so much, why don’t you…
All kaepernick really needs is to start at QB with Diddy as owner
Ok, this is going to work out great, nothing could possibly go wrong.
The Brown’s are crossing their fingers that this happens.
They’re gonna go from playoffs to Browns in 1.5 seconds.
With what money can Kaep buy into a team? Give me a break.
Kaep would be the QB, not the owner. P Diddy would be the owner.
I thought he wanted to buy a piece. I heard the story in the radio this morning and that’s how they made it sound.
So let me rephrase. With Cam Newton there and a far better QB than Kaepernick, does he think Diddy Puff is gonna bench Newton?
And Diddy can’t afford an NFL team on his own anyway.
I wonder how they would spin firing a black QB (with a demonstrated success record) in favor of a washed-up never-was semi-black QB.
Heh. Good one.
Who hangs out with anti-American morons.
But where would Cam Newton go?
He stopped short? That’s my old move!
God Bless You.
Re: children, sick or otherwise.
That’s me 100%.
This is a zucchini:
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/942508334900502533
OT for any electrical glibs out there.
I just hooked up my outside LED streetlight and it’s not working properly. It’s getting power because maybe half of the 50 individual LED bulbs inside it are on, but are so dim that you can’t see it unless you stand directly under the light.
It’s clear that it’s getting power if some of the individual bulbs are on (if barely). The company said there’s nothing I did wrong and the light must be defective. I’m not sure though. Is there an error I could have made in running the conduit or in the final connection that would have caused the light to barely come on?
Measure the voltage at the light. If it’s what you expect, you did nothing wrong.
mad has a point. Unhook the light and measure the voltage.
Then hook the light back up and measure it again. If there is a signifigant drop, then your wire is too small to carry the load or there is a problem with the light. Since its an LED, I would suspect the problem is in the fixture unless you ran wire a long way or you ran wire that’s really small.
Thanks both of you. I will try that, though probably won’t get a chance until this weekend.
It’s 12 gauge wires and the distance is not far at all. Maybe 60′, including the run up the pole.
I doubt you did anything wrong. If half the bulbs are on, then you got power to it and power is all the thing needs to run. If you can gimme a model number and brand on the fixture, I can look it up and tell you if there is anything special to it.
Thanks Lachowsky. This is the fixture, but their support person said it’s just a simple connection. It’s got power and is humming, but barely any light (can’t see unless you’re standing directly under looking up).
http://www.torchstar.us/dusk-to-dawn-led-outdoor-barn-light-photocell-included.html
That’s a 40 watt light. It’s only going to pull 1/3 of an amp at 120 volts. 12 gauge wire over sixty foot is more than adequate. I bet you got a bad fixture.
I hope so. The company just shipped out a replacement, so I’ll test the connection at the same time to be sure while replacing.
Next week while I have off, I plan on renting a trencher and running power down along my driveway and out into the backyard. I am going to install a few more of these lights, along with outlets for future automatic gate openers and security cameras (though I think I’m going with Arlos instead). This was the test run before that project… it’s not off to a good start but I think it will work out okay.
I’ve been thinking that the solar powered lights would be nice for driveway lighting (unless you have lots of trees) – since you can just stick them in the ground anywhere. But I guess as long as you’re running wires for other projects may as well take advantage.
My end state – if/when I get some property is to set up some driveway lights to mirror a shipping lane – ie. “Red Right Returning” – so that you see red or green depending which side you’re on ;p *nerd*
“We are not yours: I’m tired of white women’s racial-sexual terrorism of my BlaQueer body
Being a BlaQueer—simultaneous, uncompromisingly, and openly Black and Queer—I must be doubly aware of how my body is being desired, feared, and chosen for discipline by all genders, Black or White, straight or otherwise. However, white women are perhaps my most frequent assailants.
One could be forgiven for thinking that the unbridled spectacle and performance of white women’s desire for my body would be less than that of white men’s open desire and contempt for them. One could be forgiven for this notion, but one would be catastrophically wrong.
White women sexually assault Black men every damn day and I’m tired as hell. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired. I’m tired of trying to spot oncoming white women in the club, knowing that I have only a few moments to two-step out of her reach and communicate an “I will kill you glare” while managing not to miss a beat or spill my drink, while also hoping that the bartender doesn’t kick me out for being out of line in defense of myself.
I’m tired of white women touching my hair and chest at the club; as if I’m their newest push-up bra and wig combination. I’m tired of white women thinking it’s cool to grab my arms or my waist, ever. I’m tired of white women dancing on me and loudly slapping and grabbing my ass; loudly and dramatically enough for all to see what she has in possession, a blatant demonstration racial-sexual power. I’m tired of white women cupping a feel of my dick; whether straight to the bulge or sliding their hands in my pockets or jeans.
I have this screaming voice in my head that wants to unleash, “He doesn’t want you, I sure as hell don’t want you, and you’re only still alive because the way whiteness works in Amerikkka, the way gender works in Amerikkka, the way sexuality works in Amerikkka and the way Blackness is consumed, targeted, fucked and disposed of in Amerikkka.”
I’m tired of white women being the face of sexual assault survival when white women have been my most consistent and unrepentant racial-sexual terrorists; whether at work, in the classroom, or in BlaQueer spaces.”
https://blackyouthproject.com/im-tired-of-white-womens-racial-sexual-terrorism-of-my-blaqueer/
totally didn’t see that coming.
WTF is with that hair touching curiosity?
DONT DENY YOU WANT TO ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE CONSTANTLY TRYING TO TOUCH BLACK HAIR AND THEREBY DRAIN OUR LIFE FORCE
I had a diversity training at work last week. The speaker was a queer woman of color. While discussing micro-aggressions she brought up the whole “touching my hair” thing. Honestly, do black people in 2017 have a dozen white people a day asking to touch their hair? She also said that she was constantly being told how “articulate” she was. It took every fiber of my being not to stand up and say, “I’ve been talked-at by you for an hour and I find it hard to believe that ANYONE would accuse you of being articulate!”
“How do you manage it? Not only are you beset by racists, they are liars, too?!” would have been my preferred response…
Clearly you need more diversity training.
yeah, sure, dude. You’re that hot that nobody can resist you.
Why do people continually feel the need to obviously inflate claims into some ridiculous level that undercuts whatever they’re trying to say? Like, some chick felt you up in a club and you felt degraded? I buy that. But ‘everybody molests you all the time everywhere’ is obvious self-aggrandizing bullshit.
He doesn’t want you, I sure as hell don’t want you, and you’re only still alive because the way whiteness works in Amerikkka
You’d kill all whites if it weren’t for the Klan?
Blah Queer? She certainly is tedious.
“Matt Damon says we aren’t talking enough about all the men in Hollywood who aren’t sexual predators”
http://www.businessinsider.com/matt-damon-talks-about-sexual-misconduct-in-hollywood-2017-12
“both of them are great guys”
good one
This from the guy who’s a big advocate for public school teachers. Considering they have a higher rate of sexual assault than the Catholic Church, it makes sense.
None of the 3-4 Hollyweird conservatives has been accused of sexual assault, AFAIK.
Hmmmm…
If you believe that people own themselves…
That is probably a factor. Also being secure enough to be a conservative in Hollywood. Self-secure people don’t assault.
I hadn’t thought of that. You are correct. The two go hand in hand; secure enough to be intellectually honest.
Plus, if Kurt Russel, Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson in their prime wanted to get some, they’d have to fight off dozens of candidates.
I’m sure most successful people in Hollywood have no trouble getting some strange. It’s not about who you can get, it’s about who you can’t get.
Didn’t Eastwood make a movie about that?
Clint Eastwood and… Carol Channing?!
I was thinking this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Misty_for_Me
Hey Q, are you still around?
Just talked to my father on the phone. I think there is a good chance you two know each other. He graduated from Rolla school of mines in the late 60’s. You know any metallurgists that fit that description?
Doesn’t ring a bell, sorry.
Me too (should that be #metoo?). University of Missouri-Rolla, class of ’76. Although now it’s called the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T for short).
Your daily dose of TDS:
America Is Heading for an Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis
Any fucking day now, guys! The noose is tightening and that durn ol’ carpetbagger Trump is gonna get run out on a rail! You’ll see!
This one really needs to be read to be appreciated. This guy basically claims that once Mueller actually does get his hands on Trump, Trump is going to become a dictator and fire Mueller and pardon everyone involved.
FP is now “Pretentious version of Time Magazine”, and Max Boot is an utter lunatic who thinks shrieking “Russiagate!” is a great strategy for the Hawkish wing of the GOP to regain power.
Pretentious version of Time…
Considering how permanently up their own ass TIME is, that is an almost impossible amount of pretentiousness.
I remember that guy during the Bush years selling the Iraq war (which I bought into – hey, I was dumb) using the neo-con play book.
One thing I’ll give President Trump a great deal of credit for is stripping away the Top Man pretense of the punditry class. Guys like Cohen and Boot relied on public perceptions of them as particularly knowledgeable, thoughtful or mature. Their reaction to President Trump has revealed those perceptions to be wildly out of sync with reality. They’re acting like bitter schoolgirls upset that someone from outside their clique got to be the Homecoming Queen.
Even though those guilty pleas have nothing whatsoever to do with Trump, it is drawing ever closer to the White House. I bet Trump is chomping down on a Big Mac right now and laughing while these idiots chase the laser spot around on the floor.
I thought Ty Cobb was dead. Fitting somebody branded as a racist would be reincarnated and work for Trump.
SPIKES UP!
FP is so shitty now.
This story is a few days old, but it’s worth checking out if you’re curious about what kind of amoral pig fuckers run Illinois – particularly Cook County:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-berrios-kaegi-raila-1215-20171214-story.html
The old joke about how if their enemies didn’t exist progressives would just make some up is very much on the nose here.
I thought the story from earlier in the year that exposed how the (handpicked by Rahm Emmanuel) head of the Chicago public school system redirected millions to cronies in exchange for kickbacks was more than enough to illustrate how perma-fucked they are
You know what? I like you guys. And it’s not just because I’m drunk. Honest.
Some of us also find you moderately tolerable…for a mammal
I keep forgetting to ask, are there any vacancies in the Quisling division?
I for one welcome our new reptilian overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trained engineer I would be quite useful in maintaining their death rays and other instruments of slavery.
I’m sorry but we are only hiring level 4 assault shuttle maintenance supervisors. However we will definitely need ‘transition coordinators’ once our invasion permit is approved…
But you were my last hope against “trans bathrooms” nonsense….
The Lizard Overlords are very much into transitioning people from living to vegetative ooze.
Just think of it as the whole body version of one night in Bangkok.
It makes a hard man humble.
Where do you file the invasion permit?
With the Intergalactic Commision which is located on Perseon 7 in Alpha Quadrant. Approximately 532 light years towards the center of what you blithering warm-bloods call ‘the milky way’
As a former bureaucrat I may be useful in working the system to expedite the permit process…
Well our permit was going along just fine until an episode of one of your ridiculous mammal antics shows was leaked to the commission. (Something about 8 mammals living in a house in jersey) Since then the permit has been delayed with endless motions.
8 Mammals Are Enough?
“Reptilian overlords”
I’d like to point out that I was very good to my pet desert horned lizard. I expect the same treatment.
Whoopty shit, to you it’s a pet. To us it’s an inedible reptile…although the sentiment is appreciated. Please apply as a transition coordinator, it is better to be a reptile sympathizer than a reptile dinner
*stocks up on mothballs*
hey my california king seems quite happy in his tank. It’s always warm, theres plenty of water, places to hide, a nice fat mouse every week.
I love you glibs, too. I’m only 14% drunk.
Thanks for the education, laughs, advice,
and moral support.
14%?…I find your lack faith in your alcoholism disturbing…
We prefer the term alcohol enthusiast.
Reptiles are a little more blunt. Although I can’t talk too much shit. I’ve been reduced to sipping the silver bullet this evening. My human friends drank all my Jai Lai
Don’t make fun of RoadS’s drinking problem!!! She is doing the best she can. She doesn’t have the experience the rest of you have.
Saw your comment in a previous post about the Job Offerer heading to where you are again. What a “coincidence.”
Uncanny, eh? 😉 Well, all I have to do is another day of wrench turning and electrical probing tomorrow, some report writing, then head home Wed morning. So if anything I might pass by their group in the lobby and politely greet them Tuesday night.
Should turn out fine.
I have two confessions to make.
I have had no alcohol today.
I like you guys.
“I have had no alcohol today.”
Wuss!
“I like you guys.”
Geh!
STFU, Tulpa.
We are legion.
Is anyone else irritated as fuck by Volvo’s current ad campaign? Self-serious, ridiculously improbable claptrap.
Isn’t that how most car companies market themselves?
I was rather fond of this one from Porsche.https://youtu.be/2DJw1–8Tcs
This brief burst of brilliant silliness from ten years ago still amuses me.
Now I want a Bently. If you excuse me I have several banks I need to rob.
Most car companies show their cars driving through snow or rain or some shite. These little Volvo “stories” about impossibly beautiful, deeply depressed rich people make me want to punch something.
Maybe they’re branching away from the professor/lesbian with money crowd to the, I dunno, Things Remembered crowd?
They’re just trying to be a Swedish Audi. https://youtu.be/G6u10YPk_34
Ugh, that was difficult to watch.
“What do I tell my daughter?”
Tell her that as a female in a Western first-world country, she belongs to one of the most privileged demographics in the history of the world.
I must say that is an aggressive sweater on the male mammal…
My favorite pretentious car commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1dYv_gKTA8
I lasted about 15 seconds
No seriously watch that whole thing its fucking hilarious.
BEST CAR COMMERCIAL OF ALL TIME?
This one (I bet Kia is kicking themselves for not coming up with something like this)
Stop watching the TV, Kristen, it works.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42372955
WTF? Man walks into the police office and threatens armed police with a knife. They then shoot him only in the leg? Are they stupid or just lousy shots?
Let me guess, witnesses heard him shouting “Ayn hu almaktab almafqud walmuktashf!” as he entered.
That’s Amish, isn’t it?
Its obviously welsh ya fookin racist!
Dutch Amish. Sure.
They’re wild during Rumspringa.
Probably lousy shots. I read a police report on an inmate once where all the cops.on the scene emptied their magazines (70 rounds total) and none hit the Perl, who was scared shirtless and surrendered as his family was.in the house behind him.
I must admit that our enforcers have horrible aim as well. Despite being armed with plasma rifles that are not subject elevation correction, they tend to suck at hitting individual targets.
Chuckling as he imagines smug reptilians in redcoats in a British square.
mental sandbox time
Suppose a troop carrier was designed to be up-armored with sandbags. When it comes off the plane, stick on the sandbags. When it needs to go back, just cut them off.
Take the principle of the HESCO barrier and apply it to a vehicle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
I can imagine that would be insanely heavy.
Sand is lighter than steel. 3 or 4 inches of sand will stop most bullets.
https://www.concealedcarry.com/survival/how-much-sand-is-needed-to-stop-a-bullet/
Now that you mention it, yes, a small amount of sand will stop a bullet. What if you didn’t even put enough to stop the bullet but enough to absorb enough of the bullet’s energy that it cannot penetrate the vehicle’s body? A damper, so to speak.
The question is whether it will have any impact on an armor piercing anti-tank round. Will 3 or 4 inches of sand do anything to a bullet that penetrates that much steel? I’m thinking that it wouldn’t do much given that tanks typically don’t use other types of ablative armor.
As I understand it the AP tank round is a shape charge the detonates on impact blasting through the armor. Armor is reinforced with a thin layer of steel that is a foot or so away from the heavy armor to defeat this. The sand might perform the same function.
An AP tank round is an APFSDS round – Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot. Basically a very hard, very solid lance (often cobalt or DU) that will punch right through anything. ERA (Explosive Reactive Armor) will generally stop non-tandem RPGs, but a sabot is a different story – course it all depends where you hit. Armor even on an MBT is distributed based on probability of hit/vulnerability/etc – which is why there’s almost nothing on top….although that could change.
How about potential issues with sand breaking down the machinery?
That would come at a high cost in fuel, range and speed. Sand is heavy.
The same applies to the MRAPs and such that are used now.
The difference is the MRAP is heavy as hell when it is being loaded.
That’s kind of what was done with non-uparmored HMMWVs.
The weight penalty vs. protection also. Minor damage can mean your protection dribbles off the vehicle. Vibration and movement would require more structure than a conventional popout HESCO barrier.
It may be more effective to use claymores, instead.
Take an aluminum vehicle like the M113- aluminum is light, but offers little protection. You could modify it so that it can be covered with sandbags easily.
Sherman tank crews were big fans of sand bags.
Sand is about 100 lb/ft^3, aluminum is 167 lb/ft^3, and steel is about 500 lb/ft^3.
You could make well-protected vehicle with a steel frame covered in sand bags. It’d be ugly as hell, but it would stop bullets and shrapnel. And it would weigh a lot less than an MRAP. It weigh very little without the sandbags.
MRAPs weigh 14 to 18 tons.
One thing missing from the analysis is the protective power of each. If 1 inch of steel protects better than 5 inches of sand, then it’s a wash (minus the portability aspects). I’m guessing 1 inch of steel protects significantly better than 5 inches of sand.
For example, it took 7″ of sand to stop the handgun in this link.
Hmm. But what if you combined a sand layer and a metal layer?
Looks like someone had this idea already:
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The earliest known composite armour for armoured vehicles was developed as part of the US Army’s T95 experimental series from the mid-1950s. The T95 featured “siliceous-cored armor” which contained a plate of fused silica glass between rolled steel plates. The stopping power of glass exceeds that of steel armour on a thickness basis and in many cases glass is more than twice as effective as steel on a thickness basis. Although the T95 never entered production, a number of its concepts were used on the M60 Patton, and during the development stage (as the XM60) the siliceous-cored armour was at least considered for use, although it was not a feature of the production vehicles.[1]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_armour
What you’re describing kinda sounds like NERA, although NERA usually uses rubber in between the armor plates.
Sand is cheap. How do you expect the military contractors to make a decent, obscene profit?
extended warranty? undercoating?
A sand-bagged humvee goes from weighing 5200 pounds to 6800 pounds.
That’s pretty close to its max weight of 7700 pounds.
For an M113, the weight would change from 24,000 pounds to 25,600 pounds.
You could build a vehicle that has the engine and transmission of an M113 and a steel skeleton. The sandbags would be the skin and the armor.
It’d be a lot lighter without the metal, but with better protection that a humvee.
Now I want to go build one and see how much punishment it can take.
Looks like Willett is back, baby! That’s, like, 3 Tweets in the last week!
So, I think the question is when does Trumputin get to appoint this shitlord to SCOTUS. Isn’t that old bag dead yet?
I maintain that it’s a Weekend at Bernie’s situation and she’s been dead for at least a year.
I don’t twitter, so I appreciate it when you link Willett’s tweets. Thanks KK
today I learned
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The Hassan uprising was a rebellion among the Moro people of Jolo during the Moro Rebellion.[4] It was led by a Muslim datu named Datu Hassan the youngest son of the Great Raja Muda Ammang. Panglima Hassan had assembled followers in Jolo’s Crater Lake region, preparing to attack Jolo.[5]:100 Leonard Wood led a force of 1,250 soldiers, including Robert L. Bullard’s 28th Infantry, in an attack on “Hassan’s Palace”, the “strongest cotta in the Sulu Archipelago”.[5]:100–101 The Moro’s fled and the Americans burned the fort.[5]:101 Hassan surrendered but then escaped,[6] which led Wood to destroy every hostile cotta he encountered, resulting in the death of Datu Andung on Mount Suliman.[5]:101 Although never capturing Hassan, Wood did end up killing 1,500 Moros, which included women and children.[5]:102
The uprising ended in March 1904, when Hassan and two others were cornered by 400 men under Scott’s command at Bud Bagsak.[5]:102 It took 34 gunshots to finally kill Hassan.[5]:103[7] The Moros only had a few rifles and kris blades. An American who was injured was almost reached with his mouth holding a kris, by the injured Hassan.[8] [9][10] [11] It was only a head shot with a .45 caliber which killed Hassan since an American was about get hacked with a barong wielded by Hassan despite being shot 32 times already by Krag rifle bullets.[
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_uprising
today I learned
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After the American government informed the Moros that they would continue the old protectorate relationship that they had with Spain, the Moro Sulu Sultan rejected this and demanded that a new treaty be negotiated. The United States signed the Bates Treaty with the Moro Sulu Sultanate which guaranteed the Sultanate’s autonomy in its internal affairs and governance, including article X that guaranteed preservation of slavery, while America dealt with its foreign relations, in order to keep the Moros out of the Philippine–American War. Once the Americans subdued the northern Filipinos, the Bates Treaty with the Moros was adjusted by the Americans through removal of article X and they invaded Moroland.
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So the reason the US fought them was to abolish slavery.
My father in law was there in the early 1970’s. They were still holding slaves, taking heads, and engaging in ritual cannibalism. Getting something like that out of a culture is nearly impossible. Look at the shit we do that comes from 10,000 + years ago. We dont even know why we do it, but we do.
I’m very late. It’s probably a dead thread now. And I’m not gonna read every comment. But I hope in the name of Zardoz that someone posted this Cooties PSA.
interesting- water is only 62 lbs/ft^3 and it can stop bullets- though the required depth is extreme
mythbusters says
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Hiding underwater can stop bullets from hitting you. partly confirmed. All supersonic bullets (up to .50-caliber) disintegrated in less than 3 feet (90 cm) of water, but slower velocity bullets, like pistol rounds, need up to 8 feet (2.4 m) of water to slow to non-lethal speeds. Shotgun slugs require even more depth …
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I remember that episode. It was very interesting.
This sounds familiar…
this song always gets me thinking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOB4q01VCVg
Being hypocritical is their bread and butter so it’s hard for me to see how this hurts her.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/12/i-am-still-furious-that-franken-was.html
There you are. did you see my message above?
I see you did. Probably separated generationally. Do you work in mines?