Sloopy got his Christmas present from SP, which was some customized golf balls (not your cheap pieces of shit, either- Titleist Pro V1s with a custom imprint). This backfired a bit, because in his anxiety to try them out, he blew off morning link duty. “Eh, some Jew can do it, they don’t do Christmas.” So as famous Jew-Hater Martin Luther once said (or would have said in this situation), “Hier schreibe ich, ich kann nicht anders.”
In Jew News, the UN voted to condemn US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Note that the NYT positions this as “Defying Trump.” #resist!
“I think this was a significantly self-inflicted wound and really unnecessary, clumsy diplomacy on the part of the United States,” Stewart M. Patrick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said of the outcome.
“In this case what you had was the Trump administration basically changing the rules of the game that the international community had accepted,” he said. “More than that, I think it symbolizes the self-defeating notion that for the United States, ‘it’s my way or the highway.’ ’’
Because “changing the rules of the game” that have had zero positive effects on the petty border dispute that is the singular cause of all of the problems of the toilet known as “The Middle East” and requires the full attention of the 99.9% of the world is just CRAZY SHIT.
In other TDS News, one of the lawsuits against Trump for supposed violation of the emoluments clause was tossed. Here’s a gem from the story:
The third federal lawsuit was filed in June by nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress. Some legal authorities consider that suit to be a purely political move…
What would we do without legal authorities?
What’s worse than a pedophile priest? A pedophile priest who fucks up traffic at rush hour.
My biggest objection to the current wave of executive purges? That someone is purged because of non-PC comments rather than for the much more valid reason of selling shitty pizza and making commercials with Mr. Potato Face Manning.
BIG SCANDAL! People make crude jokes and speak honestly via private e-mail! This MUST CEASE IMMEDIATELY! The old “how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb” joke immediately comes to mind.
And in Department of Futility, sensing an opportunity with the public dissatisfaction with the NFL, Vince McMahon is trying to revivify the failed XFL. I will let the jokes write themselves on this quote:
The company also sought to trademark “URFL.”
Because the answer to a league that sufferes from too much expansion and the dilution of talent is to add more teams. Riiiiiight.
You thought you’d get away without Old Guy Music. You were wrong. One of the perversions that SugarFree and I share is a love for the Magnetic Fields, a band led by a deeply weird guy who cranks out brilliant songs as effortlessly as my dog sheds fur. So, here we go.
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So I wonder as I start an ambitious project whether I should document it and do a fluff piece write up. It is different from my woodworking endeavors, because it falls within skillset I’ve actually demonstrated. (my cutting board has been delayed because I’ve been less than adept at the practice project of assembling a cedar box). What am I rambling about? Well it would be an attempt to convert a model of a hover IFV into an animal-drawn wagon, as it’s lacking the stand it’s supposed to sit on.
The working title would be “Kitbash: For Want of a Sprue”, and if documented to the proper extent would necessitate serialization.
The only question is whether it would be of interest to anyone but me.
As a grognard and painter of tiny men, I’d be interested.
grognard
Alkyl magnesium bromide?
Think more potassium nitrate.
Rum and sodomy in the Cambodian navy?
Sounds like a plan.
Little women on a boat who like the little man in the boat.
HM’s ready access to niche female asian military stock photos is impressive.
lol
I like what I like.
The Cultural Revolution cosplay was truly amazing, if more than a bit disturbing.
Gustave,
That is exactly what we think of HM.. “Truly amazing, if more than a bit disturbing”
🙂
I’m very interested to find out WTH you’re talking about.
Be prepared to leave all sanity and human emotion behind. HM is the abyss that looks into your soul and STEVE SMITHS it. You have been forewarned.
*Flees room, turns around and strolls back in* “HM isn’t UnCiv”
Yeah, at worst you’ll be bored and go “oh, that’s it?”
Throw race into it and make a coloring book.
Will the Space Marines be female?
Asking for a friend.
No, I don’t play Slaaneshi cultists.
I’m not into WH40K at all, but Sargon had a 30 minute rant about GW memory-holing the background of creating Space Marines – it almost got me interested in playing it. Almost.
There is One, and only one way you can end up with Female Space Marines – the warping powers of Chaos. Like so.
Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! I’m a bit of a kit-basher myself and would absolutely love to read about the works of others.
All right. I’ll get on it once the workday ends.
Step 1 – clear unrelated projects from workbench.
Step 2 – install better lighting on workbench for photography.
http://imgur.com/hxvdG1E
http://imgur.com/oKCWNJ0
http://imgur.com/QmfprKm
Cedar boxes built by Lachowsky. I cut the trees down (actually recovered the trees from a forest destroyed by a tornado) Sawmilled the lumber out of the trunks, and turned the boards into these.
Aw shit, awaiting moderation. The three links are good almighty glib masters. They are just pics of some cedar chests I built several years ago.
How did you cut the dovetails? By hand-hand or Keller Jig?
I’m not near good enough to do that by hand. I bought a Jig from sears. (I think) It’s still pretty tricky to do, even with the jig.
Took me a while. I can (still?) do a 3- or 5- fingered joint by hand, but for that kind of thing – a jig was the ONLY way. It’s all about “measure-thrice, cut-once” but the statistical chance of fucking up an edge as the fingers increase eventually gets damn near unity.
My father is better at this stuff than I am. When I was a teeneger, we built a coffin for my grandfather out of cedar. He asked us to, so don’t think I’m wierd or something. We dovetailed all the joints on it. The coffin was in the traditional shape, so we dovetailed joints that were at about a 125 degree angle. He made it work. I don’t know if I could do that. It did take a bunch of trial and error on scrap boards before we got it right.
I find dovetails far worse than the three-dimensional challenge of chair-building. I built a set of shaker-style kitchen furniture out of maple about 20 years ago that damn near drove me insane, although having the right drill press helps a lot.
Which reminds me, the breakfast bar stools need refininshing.
Don’t leave out the money shot where your grandfather laid down in it to make sure it fit after it was finished. That’s the best part of the story.
Funnily enough, my maternal grandmother’s family were an old-fashioned funeral director in London. I was to young to know anyone in my great grandfather’s generation, but a great uncle (who wasn’t known for being a joker) told me that in the ‘yard’ behind the business, they used to build the coffins for their clients.
At night, the apprentices who lived on site, would set up beds under then benches where the coffins were being built, and when a particularly fancy coffin was nearing completion and the lining was in, the kids (well, 14-17 year olds) would often sleep in them.
Gustave remembers. When were finished building the coffin, we bright it to his house to store it in his basement. The first thing grandpa did upon seeing it was ask if it fit.
To see if it did, he took the lid off and laid down in it. it was macabre, but funny when he got out and said, “looks like it fits, good job”
Thankfully, that coffin stayed in his basement for 10 years before it was needed.
Seems very practical rather than macabre, and speaks well of your grandfather.
The man was born in 1919 on a sustenance farm. He knew the value of money. Funeral home supplied coffins are ridiculously expensibe. Yes, it was a wise play on his part and me father and I spent a lot of hours together building the coffin.
You are correct. It was wise decision on the part of my grandfather.
I bought a Jig from sears.
There’s a racist joke about human trafficking that a sick person might point out.
Don’t ask to see what’s in the box.
I was expecting a clip of Justin Timberlake’s todger,
God damn, if offering to store a ladies sweaters in there doesn’t get you some strange, nothing will. I would say I want some of those in my house, but it would probably take about 3 minutes before one of my kids uses it to part their scalp.
The largest one I built while my wife way pregnant. It’s my boy’s toy box. He’s almost six and hasn’t split his scalp yet. I think I’m in the clear at this point.
I have a very small scar located right between my eyes. When I was first learning how to walk, apparently the corner of a coffee table and I had a violent interaction.
I have the same exact scar, except mine was incurred while doing some kind of spinning dance near the coffee table while watching Mr. Rogers.
http://imgur.com/chjy4oW
That one is the most intricate I have ever built. It sets at the foot of my bed and holds all my linen and such.
The reason ceder chests are so popular for storing blankets and linen and the like is because the wood is a natural repellant to insects. It’s like permanent moth balls. A few year after buying my house, I lined all my closet walls with 7/16 cedar that I sawmilled. The one suit that I own, has hung in there for for half a decade with no damage from insects.
I lined a whole closet back at Chez 6, but most of the stuff in it isn’t subject to moth damage. A chest would have been far smarter.
All that talent, and yet you sleep on a mattress and box springs on the floor?
It’s just the camera angle. I have a perfectly respectable set of bed railings under that box spring, and a head board to boot.
Thousands are gathered around downtown Louisville, ready to see the white smoke coming from the pizza oven signifying the announcement of the new Papa John.
Thousands?
Papa Pious XII Pizzeria. He doesn’t see any smoke.
Papa Murphy is pretty much made for this, he has just been waiting for things to heat up.
Oh yeah, well played, JB.
HQ is out in the burbs. They wouldnt be downtown.
Just checked the map, it is JUST inside the Jeffersontown city limits (the border is the street on the backside of their land). Which means their employees get to pay the bonus 1% extra tax.
I look at that and the noise it prompts sounds a lot like “awful” or “Errful”
Man With World’s Second Biggest Penis Accuses Man With Largest Of Cheating
“Just take out enough to win the bet for me.”
“Jonah Falcon”.
Why not “Eaglebones Falconhawk”?
An actual dick measuring contest and not the hand-drawn facsimile that you’d see every Friday night in every tavern.
STEVE SMITH CHALLENGE ALL
AND WHEN SAY “CHALLENGE”, MEANS “RAPE”!
Hooman penii… Steve is disqualified, but always satisfied.
STEVE NEVER SATISFIED
ALWAYS WANT MORE
Cock fight!
Two Cocks
Two Cocks Enter, Only Porn-hub Can Decide!
Tom Waits and Peter Murphy sing a Christmas song. “The bottle is empty, the sleigh has a flat. The stripper in my bed is ugly and fat….”
(Not really them, but a hell of a parody!)
Go Fourth! Where’s my ass-slapping gif? That’s a lovely song , OMWC.
Kicks leaves. Revenge of the sixth.
There dancing numbers are giving me the creeps man.
Very mature. Droll even.
“I think this was a significantly self-inflicted wound and really unnecessary, clumsy diplomacy on the part of the United States,” Stewart M. Patrick, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said of the outcome.
The Council on Foreign Relations needs a… you know… cleansing. Preferably with fire.
Why is Jean Luc Picard commenting on this, anyway?
Would you prefer Wesely Crusher’s deep thoughts?
Look closer, it’s the Mirror Mirror Picard.
With a goatee, of course
I fail to see how this actually harms the US.
We might get a strongly worded letter. STRONGLY WORDED!
So long as it’s not THE COMFY CHAIR!!
Being Canadian I’ll just abstain and sit here like the quiet little cunt that you know and abhor.
Seriously. Harper would have sided with the USA. Not like these jerkoffs running Canada at the moment.
Does anyone know which countries did side with the US on the vote?
http://imgur.com/rdHLcIk
Show this to them and get their responses and they you will know who did and who didn’t vote with us.
The few that actually sided with us were… not countries of great significance. Togo, Palau, etc. However, a larger number abstained from voting, including Canada and Australia.
And Poland, stalwart bastion against the Saracen hordes.
I never “got” the Harper Hate. Who the fuck hates your accountant? He was as mild as a Melcher.
He was awesome in retrospect; especially compared to the current cuck in power.
Canada seems to be in an impossible position – as is usually the case when it comes to the USA.
https://ipolitics.ca/2017/12/21/canada-abstain-un-vote-jerusalem/
I kinda get the decision. If you’re gonna make a choice take the one that doesn’t go against the USA directly on this issue. Of course, the lefties hate it.
Skimming the article, I don’t see anything that states why they couldn’t just vote with the US on it, or why it was a “Tough position”.
The reality is that the UN has no practical power over the US, but it does have some ability to ruin other countries’ days.
Abstaining makes rational sense. The Americans will jeer at you and do absolutely nothing other than ridicule you. The other countries can’t take much action against you because you didn’t “oppose” them. And you can still hold onto the flimsy rationale that you’re still part of the international community.
If you vote with America, you’re lidderaly Hitler, and unlike America, you’ll suffer some consequences for siding with them. Especially if you’re a net beneficiary of the UN’s largess (in money, or reputation).
So abstaining makes perfect sense. It looks pusillanimous and weak *to an American*, but it’s not irrational.
That’s because there isn’t a *real* reason to do so UCS. I think Number 6 is onto something.
I fail to see how a bunch of other counties can tell a sovereign nation where to put their own capital. It would be like the other states telling Washington they can’t move their capital to Seattle. Which is where everyone already thinks it is. Who knew Tel Aviv weren’t soap operas? My spell checker doesn’t even think it’s a word.
It going our permanent record.
Damn it. It’s going on our permanent record.
Forest Produces Bizarre Sounds That Can Be Used In Horror Movies
STEVE SMITH JUST PRACTICING
I knew we shouldn’t have sent STEVE SMITH a rip of In and out of Focus
*bursts out cabin door with revolver, first blindly into trees*
Timeline of Pres. Obama trying to fix the 2016 election in H. Clinton’s favor
Couldn’t read. Stroke inducing.
It’s said that when Sulla invaded Rome, only one of his officers agreed to join him; When Caeser did the same, only one officer refused to join him. What I’m getting at is that I don’t think rigging elections is new, and as evidence of that, the way in which huge departments were ready to step up and do their part.
“Clinton interviewed by FBI and Peter Strzok for 3.5 hours; she is not placed under oath nor recorded”
That is some serious bullshit.
The FBI doesn’t record interviews and it is a crime to lie to them even if you’re not under oath.
There is a “recording” of sorts. It’s made with pencil and paper.
So, an uncontrolled, unaudited and largely unaccountable Star Chamber then.
The FBI also did not keep notes of Clinton’s interview, which goes against standard procedure.
Strozk didn’t want to keep records of him fawning over Clinton for 3.5 hours.
Laws and stuff are for the little people.
the timeline starts to spiral out of their control there at the end.
Well it would be an attempt to convert a model of a hover IFV into an animal-drawn wagon, as it’s lacking the stand it’s supposed to sit on.
Will it be pulled by a team of space stegosauruses?
That option was available – but was too expensive.
“In this case what you had was the Trump administration basically changing the rules of the game that the international community had accepted,” he said.
You can go hump your own leg, you grisly goblin.
“In this case what you had was the Trump administration basically changing the rules of the game that the international community had accepted,” he said.
Good, it’s about fucking time.
The “International Community” is fully of very shitty countries. Letting their petty envies rule us is stupid.
Exactly – the US bending its policy to the desires of a bunch of dictatorships and kleptocracies makes no sense.
Can I hump Ambassador Hally’s leg?
You want her daughter. Trust me on this.
I’m old enough to appreciate both. Each have their own merits and I’ve never been picky.
*Addendum* (Whilst in my cups)
I don’t think it’s safe to take the advice of OMWC when he says “You want her daughter”. You might get a visit from Chris Hansen.
Frame your request as a denouncing of Israel, and I guarantee that the UN will vote to allow it.
Unfortunately for you the vote of the UN carries exactly zero weight without the US to enforce it.
What’s worse than a pedophile priest? A pedophile priest who fucks up traffic at rush hour.
How’d you like to be walking down the street and look up and see that screaming down on you?
There’s a STEVE SMITH joke in there.
STEVE SMITH SAY TO SATAN “HOLD HIM TILL I GET THERE. NO LUBE”
The company, which has more than 5,000 locations worldwide, said in a statement that Schnatter will continue to “pursue his personal passion for entrepreneurship, leadership development and education.”
And Nazism.
‘I Am So Sick of White Guys’ coloring book authored by — wait for it — white guys
Hey, if he’s going to make money off idiots buying that, more power to him.
He’s right, I’m sick of him.
…an adult coloring book, “I Am So Sick of White Guys,” which offers a message about white privilege and unchecked power.
That’s not an adult coloring book.
“I Am So Sick of White Guys,” which offers a message about white privilege and unchecked power.
Yeah, white guys are so powerful they are the only group that can be mocked and openly discriminated against.
Well, white guys and furries.
Well, for now. Until the Furry Acceptance Movement takes hold. Then bakers will be forced to bake Furry wedding cakes.
SCOTUS will slice an exemption for them.
These people are sick in the head.
They truly are.
ADULT. COLORING. BOOKS.
We need a legit World War to get our priorities in order.
Holy fucking shit! How long does this article go on? Middlemarch was more concise, geez!
Slut shaming and fat shaming someone in a private email they were never supposed to read. *Mind blown*
OT – My eldest Granddaughter just got busted for sending nasty messages on her new Step-Dad’s Facebook account to his biological kids. She somehow finagled his password and almost covered her tracks. Shit-disturber? Orphan Minder? Criminal Mastermind? The next Elon Musk? She is 8 years old but I think I want her on my team if shit goes down.
Meh. She probably picked up a keylogger from the nerdy kid that sits at the back of the class. The most pressing question is – “How dank are her memes”?
#6.2 is probably close to getting his Shitlord Expert Marksman. He’s posted about 150 instagrams on his troll account and had over 130 taken down as ‘inappropriate’.
Don’t mind me, these onions I’m dicing are unexpectedly strong today.
The thing being is that she comes from pretty average stock. Grandma shamed her hard but I was thinking about weaponizing the little scamp for when I’m in my hover-chair. Lift my finger and such what-not!
We might get a strongly worded letter. STRONGLY WORDED!
“Scorn and defiance; slight regard; contempt.”
And anything that may not misbecome.
The mighty sender, doth she prize you at?
/Nikki Haley in plate mail
BRIAN BLESSED!!!
TW: WND
Suicide Hill: The last libertarian refuge for kids
We had a place like that in Butte. When my (then) 9 year old wiped out and got bruised, he cried for a few minutes, then said, “That was fun! Let’s do it again!”
When I was a kid in Lockport, NY there were amazing sledding hills at the site of a country club. Giant hills. Ramps. A lake where you would either skid across of fall in. Absolute madness. Each year the club would post an ad in the paper saying that sledding was forbidden, and every year a hundred kids would spend every day ignoring the ban. The insurance company was satisfied, the kids were satisfied. The perfect solution.
Somehow I doubt that happy arrangement of decades still exists today.
What the hell is it with flyover yokels thinking that the East Coast is Mega-City One? Does this bitch not know that NH is the most forested state in the Union, with Maine and Vermont close seconds? In my town, our “Suicide Hill” is the public golf course. I don’t know exactly how tall it is, but as a kid it seemed like Mt. Everest. My kid goes there to this day with her friends to sled. The bottom of the hill stops at snow-covered sidewalk, which provides about less than one foot width before a major road.
Christ, what an asshole!
HM just doesn’t know what he’s missing out on.
VT is not on the east coast, and NH only is by technicality. What does it have, 3 ft of coastline?
Who am I going to believe, you or Wikipedia?
And it’s a full 19 miles, thank you. That’s almost as long as a marathon!
Guys I went to grad school with who were from Kansas, used to refer to me being from the East Coast. I always asked them what KY beach I was unaware of.
Along the river, duh.
The beach at Lake Cumberland, duh.
You don’t go to Nolin or Cumberland?
I have been to both.
Dale Hollow more than either of those.
Green River Lake State Park has a beach.
That’s nothing. When I was a kid we had to sled uphills both ways.
Look, there are tradeoffs to living in Escherville, but at least it wasn’t Inner-city R’lyeh.
R’acist!
*a’pplause*
And in the snow no less.
Snow? Luxury! We dreamed of ‘avin’ snow!
Awesome used to sled the suicide hill in this article when I was a kid. There was another hill closer to my house that went down into a creek. It was in a park and they never stopped kids from sledding it even though there were multiple injuries a year.
My property offers very little in the way of hills. It’s looking like we may get some snow next week.
I have the hood off a 72 chevy Cheyenne, some rope, a polaris ranger, amd the will to use it. Powered flatland sledding can be fun.
The man who founded Protestantism had an inner ear imbalance and suffered from scrupulosity.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2529669
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrupulosity
Border patrol agents furious after tricked into providing security for ‘cartel wedding’
Well this takes trolling to a whole new level.
How do you get tricked into doing a cartel wedding? I’d it like tripping and falling into a woman’s vagina? Or when you are processing drugs and some accidentally end up on your finger and you get the sniffles?
At that point my clothes accidentally fell off
No, that’s the story they told the IG when they figured out those agents were on the Cartel’s payroll.
Man dies weird death while wearing virtual reality glasses at home
Max Headwound.
B+
That is harsh. A-
Maybe harsh. But I know Straffin can do better.
You see Swiss, it’s important to maintain high referential humor standards here at Glibertarians. Otherwise, we run the risk of becoming *unfunny* assholes. AND THAT CAN’T HAPPEN!
You mean we can’t allow an “unfunnyiness gap” to develop, Mr. President?
?
I wonder if vodka was involved?
So which needs to be regulated, virtual reality or glass tables?
Yes.
When Wifey and I were newly together I jumped onto the couch and bounced off straight onto her glass table-top. Stories like that, I’ve got plenty (and all the scars to match)!
“bounced off straight onto her glass table-top.”
Euphemism?
Tom Cruise! Good to meet you, man!
Was it Glenallen Hill?
Aha! So if you die in real life, you die in virtual reality as well.
What if you don’t?
I want to believe.
Dammit, SAO warned us, but no one listened.
Wreckers and Kulaks, the lot of them. Venezuela’s socialist paradise stands tall.
You know who else fled to parts of South America…
Che Guevera?
Dom Pedro I?
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
This guy – duh
Kreigsmarine Captain Hans Langsdorff?
Mark Sanford?
Where the hell we gonna flee when the socialists take over here?
Costa Rica? Chile?
Switzerland.
Oh, you said “we”…
I thought many of the Cantons were heavily socialist?
Where the hell we gonna flee when the socialists take over here?
I, for one, will flee to my gun cabinet. Then I will flee to join the other like-minded souls in my community. Then we will all flee to the closest politburo and remind them of the limits of American patience.
-1 Gulag Archipelago
“When”?
Isn’t this how socialism persists? People flee, but then vote in the same policies in their new areas?
Amid decades of a bloody civil conflict, millions of Colombians fled abroad, including to Venezuela.
Only socialism could make you wish for the good old days of living in a CIA fueled narco state.
So Starz just gave me a free 30 day trial (again), and looking through the movies, one stood out to me.
” Thought-provoking, riveting science-fiction.”
“A meme for all the cool kids on the Net that think they are cool!”
I’m pretty sure I get Starz on Demand on my cable box. Now I can watch it.
Those must have been some swingin’ parties.
“Catholic Singles on Fire for Christ”
A term also used during the inquisition.
Jeanne d’Arc lookin for a hook up.
No, that’s what unmarried Catholics call VD.
I was raised Catholic. Let me tell you, the Catholic Church events I attended were way better than the Baptist ones I went to.
The first girl I ever made out with snuck off from a church event with me. We climbed the stairs to the top of the bell tower and made out 90 feet in the air.
The 30 Yard Club?
Well the altitude of the mountain the churich is located on is about 920 feet above sea level. Add the extra 90 feet to that and you 1100 feet above sea level. Since a mile is 5280 feet and 1100 over 5280 is .20833, and .20833 over 100 is approximately 1/5, then I will consider myself a member of the one fifth of mile high club.
Catholic girls had less to rebel against, so they tried harder, IME.
Internalized repression and guilt make for great kink.
I was hoping to see sloopy’s take on FSU not actually being bowl eligible (due to an obscure rule that apparently the NCAA has forgotten about and has never enforced).
Rules wouldn’t be worth the paper they are written on it you couldn’t arbitrarily enforce them.
trshmnstr: Long time lurker here, saw your post on a Monero pool. I’ve been looking into this myself and would definitely be interested if you’re getting a group together.
Kind of loving this tax bill and the accompanying tears. I’m sure there’s something bad about it (government, amirite?) but damn, I can’t help but hope that if it really helps the economy take off the leftists can be beaten back a bit.
The leftists are hysterical over it because they fear it will boost the economy, which spikes their chances for regaining power in 2018 and 2020.
I think it goes further than that: a successful economy that can be attributed to tax cuts “for the wealthy” hurts their argument that tax cuts are a bad idea.
And I mean, their argument to themselves.
“If I am wrong about tax cuts, what else am I wrong about? Yeaagh! I need to get to my safe space!”
They won’t be able to allow the thought that they were wrong, they will merely attribute the economic upswing to Obama or some other lefty bullshit that actually had nothing to do with it.
You are right, of course.
*grinds teeth*
*Sucks Marmelade Donut Holes*
Interesting euphemism…
All of the newspapers will suddenly discover the homeless population and run multi-page, in-depth articles about them.
That’ll be after all the “Obamaville” placards get removed and replaced with “Drumpfburg” ones.
Oh, and thanks for moving the scroll tab to the left. Much easier to read comments!
Ethics commissioner drops hammer on Justin. He’s ‘sorry not sorry.’ Xe can’t even lie properly.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-ethics-aga-khan-1.4458220
Does the Canukistani Ethics commissioner have any teeth, or is it like Congress’ ethics inquiries here?
No real teeth or else The Idiot would have resigned but it does hold a lot of sway among Canadians as an independent.
And Trudeau knew damn well what he was doing.
So unlike their speech commisars?
Or language commisars.
But they could fine politicians and make recommendations that do get consideration.
So, nibbles, but not able to drag them under without help.
Here’s a run down. The EC is appointed by Parliament and answers only to Parliament not a political party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_Commissioner_(Canada)
Some animals are more equal than others.
Oof. Him. Rent seeker. My sister in law gushes over him. Blech.
Man Had So Many Prostate Orgasms He Couldn’t Stop, According to New Paper
STEVE SMITH LIVE LIKE THIS. NO ONE FEELS SORRY FOR STEVE SMITH.
WHEN STEVE STIMULATE PROSTATE, IT AM NOT STEVE’S
Faux-intellectual TDS
If Republicans were as loyal to the country as they are to the president, they’d want to know exactly what had Strzok so alarmed. Instead, according to Politico, Devin Nunes, Republican of California and leader of the House Intelligence Committee, is running a secret inquiry into anti-Trump bias at the F.B.I. and Department of Justice. The goal, Politico reports, “is to highlight what some committee Republicans see as corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement.”
It is, as they say, not normal for erstwhile law-and-order Republicans to attack the F.B.I. for being overzealous in its pursuit of Russian subversion. Nunes’s inquiry appears similar to Trump’s voter fraud commission, invented to substantiate right-wing fantasies about Democratic vote rigging. The point, in both cases, is to flesh out a lie rather than find the truth. Hannah Arendt once wrote of this sort of policy-as-disinformation: “Totalitarianism will not be satisfied to assert, in the face of contrary facts, that unemployment does not exist; it will abolish unemployment benefits as part of its propaganda.”
Name-dropping Erich Fromm and Hannah Arendt in your obsessive-compulsive Trump bashing makes you look ultra effete and cool.
Hey, here’s a fact, the investigation into Trump-Russia collusion had been going on for well over a year and has found zero evidence of any collusion. Meanwhile, abundant evidence has been exposed of FBI and DOJ partisanship and bias.
Which is why, I think, that Trump isnt shutting it down, while faux-complaining about it.
“exposed of FBI and DOJ partisanship and bias”
Unintentional feature, not bug.
The longer he lets these people chase their own tail, the more it discredits the agency, and while it’s grabbing all the limelight, Trump’s own investigation looks less intimidating.
That said, the chutzpah and brazenness of these FBI satraps is breathtaking.
Aren’t these FBI guys the ones who are supposed to be one step ahead of everyone else in terms of motives and such?
Back in the day, being part of the Treasury Department, and small, I think they were manned by a cadre of lawyers at the top, and rank-and-file pipe-hittin’ LEO people as the troops, and genuinely relied on the kind of investigation you saw in The Untouchables. Build a case the old way, because they had few advantages over and above the state police forces other than access to federal-level evidence such as tax returns. But senior officials were still part of the Treasury Department and subject to oversight by ‘civilian’ management.
What we see now is what looks like ‘career FBI’ with no day to day oversight by anyone outside of the organization. The oversight body that maintains standards consists of guys who were doing the job of the people they are investigating, two promotions ago. And therefore, it looks far more like a local police department in structure, but with federally protected lack of transparency.
Well yes. Keeping the circus open makes it easy enough for a reasonable person to see Trump’s claims that everyone is against him have some merit.
Devin Nunes…is running a secret inquiry
How secret is this inquiry?
Evidently not at all.
If Germans were loyal to Germany rather than Kurt von Schleicher, they would ask themselves what has Adolf Hitler so alarmed about the Jews.
“It is, as they say, not normal for erstwhile law-and-order Republicans to attack the F.B.I. for being overzealous in its pursuit of Russian subversion.”
It’s also strange to see Democrats hanging on the edge of every word published by the CIA regarding the matter.
The fuck would I care what Strzok thought so alarming as to write bitchy missives to his mistress rather than make public? Especially if doing so potentially compromises a sensitive investigation. That’s amateur hour, and none of the emails we’ve seen so far makes a credible allegation or even insinuation. The guy was a partisan Clintonista. That’s no crime. Tainting an investigation isn’t, either, at least I don’t think it is, but it certainly doesn’t characterize the worries of a high-level agent as particularly serious-minded.
So… if the FBI feared that Trump was really just a puppet for Putin, surely that was all Strozk and Page talk about in their texts to each other, right? “OMG, the Russkies are taking over! It’s a real life Manchurian Candidate! Democracy is doomed!”. I mean, sure, he might also be a stupid asshole with stupid policies on top of Russian puppet,, but stupid assholes running the country is par for the course, unlike elections being rigged by foreign powers to put their preferred candidates in office. So, obviously that’s the focus of their whining, right? Not the stupid asshole part?
Because, if it isn’t, then may I just suggest that they didn’t in the slightest believe that Trump was a Russian puppet or that there was some sort of election interference, and instead had more of a problem with Trump being a populist, which is to say that they had a problem with the idea that the country might be run with the interests of the people in mind.
Carryover from last night: If anybody is interested in possibly joining a glibertarian Monero mining pool (Monero is a cryptocurrency), please let me know. The pool would be set up to donate some of the proceeds to our favorite news and links site, and Monero is still small enough that we may truly have a chance to make some coin.
It isn’t really worth further investigation unless we can get around 12 people in the pool to start. 5 glibs showed interest in yesterday’s afternoon links.
I’m up for it.
Thanks for putting me on to Monero, Q! I’m finishing up syncing this morning, and then I’m going to try some mining to see how lucrative it is before committing to setting up a pool.
Sounds good. When you get to that point, drop me a line.
*shifty look*
Um…I’m interested.
I found your coin, QC: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tittiecoin/
I’m still in if you can tolerate cooperating with a cryptocurrency ignoramus.
Now, what is the cost?
Presumably, the cost of the electricity to run your CPU at 85% utilization all the time when you’re not playing Fallout 4.
Considering all the time I waste between saves when FO4 randomly quits to desktop with no explanation, I may as well be mining cryptocurrency.
Oddly, despite being a victim of Bethesda CTDs often in the past, FO4 didn’t do that to me that I recall. (That means if it happened, it was rare enough that it didn’t make an impression given the number of hours I was ingame)
I had dared to hope they fixed it.
Electricity and CPU cycles on your computer. Essentially (and without spoiling part 3 of my cryptocurrency series), crypto mining is using your computer to do math with random numbers, and if you get lucky and complete the math the fastest, you get currency. The pool spreads out the risk and the reward across the pool members.
So, what would I need to do to join this venture?
No technobabble, please.
Just, “hit the green button on Thursday, the blue one the following Tuesday” type instructions.
Fuck. If it’s THAT complicated, count me out!
I think all you need to do is wire $10 a day to my account #
All you need is pencil and paper, really.
With sufficient orphans on the job, it becomes feasible.
You shouldn’t even be teaching them to read.
I find that the numerate and literate ones command higher prices when I sell them on the secondary market, once their tiny bodies are broken and scarred from the harsh conditions in my Reardon Metal foundries.
Can it be worked from a smartphone?
I only have Internet through my phone.
No, you need something stronger than a smartphone. I’m working right now to attempt it using a laptop, but I think even my laptop is going to be a bit underpowered. It’s not that the smartphone can’t do it, but you need a bigger processor than a smartphone has in order to have any success. Laptop is bare minimum, desktop is safe minimum, gaming rig is preferred.
I have an i-7 (gen 6?) linux server that is idling 24 hours a day, plus a desktop rig with 32Gb RAM and a relatively new i-9 (gen 5?) windows box.
*begins salivating*
I have an old i-5 (gen 3?) with a dual head NVidia GPU, a laptop with an AMD A8, a laptop with an AMD Turion, and a Raspberry Pi board. (Oh, and maybe an Arduino)
Arduino Mesh Mining rig?
Whoops – count me out then…I have … limited computing power.
Can’t run with the big dogs, eh?
So I’m curious… When you run this program that “mines” the cryptocurrency, who is getting something in return, and what are they getting? What kind of trade is taking place here?
I’m interested. If you’re on Discord, DM me as InternetNerdRage.
Mentioned above, but if you’ve got room for a lurker I’m definitely in.
TULPAAAAAAAAAA!
Shhhhh
*waves picture of food truck*
The power of liberty compels you!
The power of liberty compels you!
The power of liberty compels you!
Tempting, but frankly I prefer the pictures Q provides
I could be in. I’ll have to see if my 970 is even worth it to try mining on at this point.
The nice thing about Monero is even the biggest pool is doing just over one MHash per second, and there are pools in the top 10 that have ~50 members, so we can definitely win a few blocks. The question in my mind is whether Monero is actually going anywhere, and whether setting up a pool is as straightforward as they make it sound.
I’m in. What do I do next?
Wait for the signal. The codeword is “glibboleth”
Count me in as well, though I park my laptop in the handicap spot and will require assistance, TIMMMY TIMMMY TIMMMMMEH styles.
I am also interested.
I’ve got a few computers sitting around not doing anything, I’d be happy to pitch in.
I guess I’ll try to play along.
Just a lurker, but would be very interested.
Tulpa again! Is there no end?!
We are all Tulpa.
You kids have fun and be home by midnight. And put some gas in the car, will you?
Why not. I have a few spare machines that do a little better than 1KH/s, combined.
Though, I have the feeling monero might want a bigger pool. I am mining electroneum at the moment.
As I said yesterday, I’m in. Somewhat limited tech access since I’m no longer working in that sector, but I have a couple of machines I can run at the distillery.
I’d be game.
Interesting. Possibly.
I7 1.87 ghz 8 gbs ram
If this is useful, I’ll help
I answered very late to yesterday’s post, but count me in.
Another recovering lurker here, usually on the Discord. I would be interested.
I’d be interested. I’ve got 4 older laptops in the basement I’d like to find some use for. They’re from 2010-2013ish. Curious if they’d be up to the task.
I’m game, but I won’t be back to Discord until the 28th.
glibboleth
Core i7-6700K
16 GB DDR4
GTX 1080
“Men with more masculine 2D:4D were coupled with women with significantly lower waist-to-hip ratios. They were also four times more often partnered with women who had both relatively narrow waists and large breasts.”
– Kuna B., et. al., “Men with more masculine digit ratios are partnered with more attractive women”, J. Pers. and Ind. Diff., 124 (2018)
http://archive.is/Wjn0B
Hoo doggy, I may have to take a DEG-style orgy today cause I’m having a hard time picking just a few. I’d be satisfied with 1,2 and 3 though.
1,2 and 3 are nice. 38 too.
11 is excluded.
43, keep the hair on.
The rest of you, pile on.
The Marge Simpson cosplay will cause a meltdown at the local Nuclear Facility.
9, 12 and 22.
Honorable mention of 43 just for the weirdness.
The Cult of the Orgy is all welcoming.
I’ll give a bonus to #30 though… I’m a product of Catholic schools and I like the Tilted Kilt.
Parody of NPR Serial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXbJjuZqbc&app=desktop
Funny.
Gently skewers the crap I have to listen to when my wife is driving.
So, on this other site I look at from,time to time, an association is being made between Papa John resigning, and this executive order by Prez Trump.
It’s a trap!
Nowhere are the contradictions between Mr. Trump and the strategy document more obvious than on the subject of Russia. Introducing the strategy, he described Russia as a rival power that, with China, seeks “to challenge American influence, values and wealth.” While he’s right about the threat, in practice he’s failed to address it.
After nearly a year in office, Mr. Trump is still refusing to accept the intelligence community’s conclusions that Russia launched an attack on American democracy by interfering in the 2016 election on his behalf. This finding has led him to lash out at investigations by the special prosecutor and Congress, and his views have compromised the administration’s ability to hold Russia to account. Mr. Trump reportedly has never convened a cabinet-level meeting on Russian interference.
NYT editorial board reads Trump admin security statement, is incapable of reconciling their agreement with much of it.
You know what these leftists aren’t seeing?
They arent seeing that Trump is undermining Russia’s agenda by hitting it where it hurts: its pocketbook. By opening up oil exploration in Alaska, Trump* is assuring lower oil,prices. Russia is dependent on oil revenues, as I understand it, so lower oil prices is one way that Russia is hindered in its attempt,to project power.
*I say “Trump” as shorthand for the current GOP-controlled government
Yeah, I’m sorry, but that’s idiotic. You think all the posturing in the Pacific is JUST for North Korea? They’re the immediate threat, but not the long term one. I’d go so far as to say that they’re the only thing keeping a much larger conflict at bay by being a distraction. If he isn’t the one that’s recognized the threat there then he’s at least unleashed the people who do recognize it.
Most news outlets, even the less ideological ones don’t ‘do’ geopolitics very well. Analysis is weak, because realpolitik to them is what you do to finagle a corner office and a fat expenses budget.
If TR had sailed the White Fleet around the world today, they’d have thought it was a make-work mission. They would also have lauded it as a huge success, considering that TR would have been 150 years old, applauded the cut of his suit, and maybe wondered if the Japanese might have been made to feel ‘uneasy’ with the mission.
“Mr. Trump is still refusing to accept the intelligence community’s conclusions that Russia launched an attack on American democracy by interfering in the 2016 election on his behalf”
I don’t accept them either.
I don’t think you, I and Mr. Trump are alone
Ummmm, why? Just why?
https://spotmebro.com/denise-rutkowski-bodybuilder-before-and-after/
Body dysmorphia is not limited to taking a dislike to your genetalia. It’s a mental illness, and just as harmful whatever element is judged wrong.
thicc
I was thinking about getting a new laptop, but decided to try upgrading an old one instead.
I’ve got an old Chromebook from 2014, I think, and I nixed the Chrome OS and installed Gallium OS instead, which is a Linux distro made especially for Chromebooks. (They have unique distros for each Chromebook model’s processor–with all the drivers specific to your machine, which can be a problem with other Linux distros.
I think it’s now my favorite laptop–ever. It’s light, it does everything I want it to–although I haven’t loaded Civ V for the airplane yet, I don’t expect any problems with that.
If you’re thinking about getting a laptop in the after Christmas sales, consider going cheap and converting a Chromebook via GalliumOS. Highly recommended.
I should add that I went for full install instead of dual boot because disk space on these things is already limited.
P.S. requires some surgery–you may have to crack your Chromebook open, take out the motherboard, and remove the write protect screw. Oh, and you’ll need an edited bios.
But if that stuff doesn’t scare you–and it shouldn’t . . .
Gah…are we back to the day of putting tape over floppies?
Or punching holes to make them double sided?
I had a customer once who realized his system used hard-sectored floppies and all he could find were soft-sectored, so he decided to improvise. Needless to say, we had to have some words.
Wow, those actually have a physical mechanism to write protect? That seems so old-timey like the plastic tabs in VHS and audio cassettes.
Write protect tabs are great. I’d kill to get a reliable USB thumb drive that incorporates a read-only tab I can trust.
Modern day, manufactured in 2017, electric motor drives have a dip switch on them that you must flip to one to enable programming.
I think they’re concerned about being able to sell them to corporations.
That’s probably one of the plusses for a lot of companies. Preventing someone from screwing the bios by putting the screw on the underside of the motherboard prevents someone from borrowing your computer for a minute and installing a keylogger, amirite?
You let your stupid kid amuse himself with your computer on road trip to grandma’s house, and he’s got more knowledge than sense–decides to go to some crazy stuff.
It’s like having a car alarm. No, it won’t stop the pros, but it may prevent a lot of lesser headaches–and it only takes putting a screw under the motherboard?
I’m on board with that if I”m a corporate IT guy. Aren’t most of the problems those guys deal with self-inflicted? Anything they can do to stop people from shooting themselves in the ass is probably a good thing to them.
Incidentally, these are the instructions I followed:
https://wiki.galliumos.org/Installing/Winky
I think it’s scary invasive to a lot of people–your casual user never opens up a box. Even if your average enthusiast opens it up at first glance and it’s harder to change an oil filter on a car.
I didn’t use the bios tweak he gave me either.
Oh, I’m not saying it isn’t practical, just that on a motherboard it seems like something that could fairly easily be done in firmware.
Whoever writes the firmware decides when the firmware setting can be ignored.
Free the pussy!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/tinder-dating-sex-saudi-arabia-where-love-sin-n824101
The party of SCIENCE! strikes again.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/kansas-state-university-class-gender-is-not-determined-by-chromosomes/article/2644162
There is a useful distinction to be made between sex and gender. This is not it.
“Professor Genna Reeves-DeArmond shared several messages about the construct of gender in her “Dress and Human Behavior” class. According to one powerpoint slide, obtained by Red Alert Politics, gender is a spectrum; gender is a range of expression; gender is how you relate to yourself; gender is a personal identity; gender is not just male or female; gender is not defined by body parts; gender is not sexual orientation; gender is not determined by chromosomes.”
That’s pretty much true. Although the “gender is how you relate to yourself; gender is a personal identity; gender is not just male or female” part can get stupid fast.
Here’s the problem I have with this, while I appreciate the “gender is not the same as sex” argument, gender was linked to sex. And there are two sexes. So to say there are more than just male/female genders breaks the link that give the word meaning. If you are saying that, what you are saying is that gender really is just your personality. That’s fine, but I shouldn’t be required to accommodate your personality. And it means that this has nothing to do with transgenderism, or sexuality.
There’s no one definition, but I prefer to use gender as a social role. Its a social role that’s tied to biology, but not perfectly. There’s nothing in biology (that I know of) that says males should have short hair while women don’t. That’s a social role. Or a social rule. There is something in biology that says women shouldn’t have facial hair (what is up my Greek ladies?).
The issue I have, and probably the issue you are having, is that these two gender rolls aren’t accidents of fate. They aren’t the result of the roll of dice. They came about because there are some facts about human biology and human cognition (which is a product of biology) such that when a group of human get together we make a society. And we usually do it in particular ways. One of those ways is to create gender roles in the society.
These gender rolls can’t just be changed the way, say, men’s facial hair fashion can change. That’s not how society works because that’s not how humans behave.
There is a deeply, deeply erroneous assumption on the left that every person is a “blank slate” and that we can be any kind of person if our environment encourages it and if we want to try hard enough. Its not true.
We can no more expect a society to have more or less than 2 genders than we could expect a society to tell people they can’t touch those they care about. There are some weird societies out there where people don’t touch each other. And there are some weird societies out there where there are more or fewer genders. But they are notable for their rarity, not for their common occurances.
A part of me is really kind of sad about this. I’d love to live in a utopia where everyone can seek out their ‘authentic self’ or ‘let their freak flag fly,” or say “on the internet, no one knows your a doge,” no matter what their self, flag, or breed is. I would also like a million billion dollars and a working lightsaber. But none of those are reasonable.
Yes, there are two sexes. Both sexual dimorphism and gender are bimodal. Most people are at not at either extreme, nor in the middle. And the two peaks strongly correlate. So gender is “linked” to sex, and saying that there are more than just masculine and feminine genders does not break that link. There are, and have been, societies that recognize a third gender. Although claiming there is a multitude of genders is silly. As social constructs are not manifested by teenagers making laundry lists on tumblr. Therefore, even though behavior is clearly a large part of gender, it is not just someone’s personality. Nor should you, as an individual, be required to accommodate someone’s gender.
I am not that good
it is a fun game, though.
re: Ohio pedophile priest throwing himself off of a building
Father Csaszar > New Albany, OH > (((Les Wexner))) > (((Jeffrey Epstein))) > Democrats > Pizzagate
Am I doing it right?
Heroic Mulatto is a national treasure. I couldn’t stop laughing after reading his post yesterday.
Also, the whole Nick Gillespie thing is just a joke. It all started when Swiss cat butted me for comparing him to Nick Gillespie. Gillespie isn’t terrible- he’s just so easy to mock.
I was bored at work late last night. I was reading a few reason articles. I saw you sticking up for the glibs in the comments against hail ratataxes. Well done just say’n.
Retaxas is a disingenuous ass. Like a good cosmotarian his only use is to smear others who don’t hold his watered down progressive values.
Yerp.
I wouldn’t even call him a cosmotarian. From what I can tell he’s a progressive that somehow gets joy out of reading libertarian boards. That kind of psychology, I don’t understand.
This, maybe?
Link?
https://reason.com/blog/2017/12/21/new-year-new-logo-at-reason#comment
I haz sadz that bacon can’t post here from work anymore.
We all do
My biggest objection to the current wave of executive purges? That someone is purged because of non-PC comments rather than for the much more valid reason of selling shitty pizza and making commercials with Mr. Potato Face Manning.
The article mentions Schnatter stepped away before and came back, so maybe he’ll come back again. He is also still Chairman of the Board.
As for their pizza, my parents like Papa Johns. Why? After they moved to the countryside of North Carolina, they went looking for good pizza joints. The best they could do was a Papa John’s 20 miles away.
Also, leave Peyton Manning alone. Best quarterback of the last twenty years (better than Brady by a mile)
You’re meant to be screaming this hysterically while your tears ruin your mascara. You’re also meant to be filming it and uploading it to YouTube.
By a mile?
Yeah, see it’s kind of like a ‘meter’, but longer.
Excuse me: “kilometer”.
I think they spell it kilometre.
Who had better receivers as a whole over their careers?
You want to do this, Rufus?
Are you really saying that Brady had worse receivers than Manning had with the Colts?
No. I’m just asking.
Line ’em up!
You might want to dial back on that praise, you’re gonna give the guy a big head.
He is also the worst QB to ever win a Superbowl.
That last title was all DEFENSE. The Broncos would have been better with Trent Dilfer or Brad Johnson.
They were better with Broke Assweiler.
That year he was shit. Previously, he was the only thing dragging the Colts into contention year after year.
Manning 2005: -325 DYAR, -25.8 DVOA
Dilfer 2000: -187 DYAR, -22.8 DVOA
Johnson 2001: 500 DYAR, 1.9 DVOA Johnson was actually a top 16 QB that year, but we remember his as crap because he was still the worst we had seen win a Super Bowl up to this point. He wasn’t Tom Brady, but he wasn’t Dilfer either.
I think you are confusing him with Trent Dilfer.
I do think Papa John’s is the best delivery pizza. If I weren’t doing this whole “healthy” thing, I would still order from them.
Nikki Haley’s speech on the Jerusalem resolution was fucking awesome, now that I’ve finally heard it.
Of course (((you))) would say that.
No, seriously, despite my own dissenting views about the embassy move to Jerusalem, it is about time that the US called out Western Europeans for being ungrateful fair-weather allies. No international body should be dictating to us our foreign policy. Especially not an international body polluted with rabid anti-semites
for no particular reason (I’m a closet homosexual? I like their music? I’m a weirdo?) here’s some A-ha from 2001: Summer Moved On
I like Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’. One of the best songs ever made
greatest song ever
https://youtu.be/_f5spy3-9XM
Not kidding. That man is America’s best singer/songwriter and will never again be matched.
I knew who it was going to be before I clicked on it.
Not that I necessarily agree with you…
Diamonds in the Rough
Growing up we had “Hot August Night” and the prologue is awesome. I still listen to that double album.
Who can forget the promise of this song?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwSzZQ4MVI
In elementary school, first girl I ever had a crush on was named Caroline. At the time, “Sweet Caroline” was constantly on the radio, and my mother had all of his albums. *sigh*
Thanks for the memories. Guess I’ve got my music picked out for the day.
Just means you’re hip and modern. A-Ha’s being played everywhere, and not as elevator muzak.
I’m still not totally sure whether a lot of the play is intended to be “ironic” (although, what is it about them that would be ironic), but no, the kids today would think you were cool as fuck. Follow it up with some Green Day and you’ll be the envy of OMWC.
This just means you’re not in the closet anymore.
Like running around in a hockey mask and jock-strap wasn’t a give-away.
NTTAWWT
Hockey is gay?
Who’s up for some talking point bingo?
The centerpiece of the legislation is a huge tax cut for corporations. Republicans claim that this tax cut will be passed on to workers in the form of higher wages, but most independent studies conclude that even in the long run only between one-fifth and one-quarter of the tax cut will trickle down to workers. And the fraction will be much lower in the short run — say, the next few years. So this is basically a tax cut for shareholders.
And who are these shareholders? About a third of the total benefits will go to foreigners. Among U.S. residents, while many people have some stock in their retirement accounts, those amounts are generally small. Even including indirect holdings through mutual funds, the top 1 percent of domestic households owns 40 percent of stocks, the bottom 80 percent just 7 percent. So when Tax-Cut Santa comes to town, it’s definitely good to be rich.
———–
You see, the second most important piece of this tax bill, after the corporate tax giveaway, is a drastic tax cut for business owners, who will end up paying much less in taxes than people with the same income who work as someone else’s employee.
It’s hard to come up with any good rationale for this move, which will discriminate among taxpayers in a way that bears no relationship to any coherent policy goal. It will, however, offer a big financial windfall to a number of elected officials, especially Donald Trump.
Poor Krugabe. One of these days, his maid’s going to find him swinging from a silk rope, dressed in a tutu.
As soon as someone uses the term “trickle down” to discuss economic policy, the veil is lifted. Not that Paul has much veil left to begin with.
I assume he skates right by the part where a corporate tax cut makes American companies more competitive globally. Also, again with the “Donald Trump is getting rich off his tax cut” talking point. Because every tax accountant worth his salt will tell you that if you want to lower your tax profile, run for president.
I can’t wait for someone to say this to me so that I can point out that the bill is merely taking our corporate tax rate down to the level of Iceland and Finland. Lefties always say we should emulate Scandinavia on economic policy, right? So what’s the big problem?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax#International_corporate_tax_rates
From the Papa John link:
He wasn’t the pitchman because he was the CEOs, he was the pitchman because he founded the thing and his fucking name was on the company. Dumbass. Another retarded management consultant that missed the forest for the trees.
Evil Nazi Funds Lebensborn.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5206029/Taylor-Swifts-fan-reveals-pop-star-bought-HOUSE.html
“Did Melania design the White House decorations as a sweet snub toward Michelle Obama? The First Lady’s candy room – full of ornaments made from sugar – seems to aim as a pointed response to Michelle’s healthy eating
First the Merry Christmas greeting, and now the candy-covered rooms at the White House – are the Trumps trolling the Obamas?
Newly seen photos from the Red Room show Melania Trump’s take on decor for the special space – which is shown decked-out in candy canes and other sweet treats.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5204783/Melania-mocks-Michelle-candy-filled-Red-Room.html
It’s all about Obama and reacting to Obamas. Not this is normal and Obamas were extremist lunatics in just about everything they touched.
Yep, candy canes and the other sugar filled junk are a longstanding Christmas tradition and also one of the best things about it.
Or it could be just, I don’t know, treats (made from sugar!) associated with the holidays.
The only way for sure is to watch the CCTV footage and see if Trump sneaks in there at night and pees on the nonpareils and ‘augments’ the frosting on some of the confections.
And all the children proclaim “We love nice Slovenian candy lady!! She gives us cookies and treats! She’s much better than the mean, old, Wookie lady who made our cafeterias serve us crappy food!!”
I certainly hope so.
Gee whiz, who could have guessed that after a year away from public transport and a month of not going much of anywhere, I’d be struck by the viral plague?
Gotta build up that immunity with constant interactions, right?
Drink lots of fluids and eat Christmas cookies. Or something like that.
“Gendered occupational interests: Prenatal androgen effects on psychological orientation to Things versus People”
http://www2.pitt.edu/~bertsch/CAH%20and%20jobs.pdf
Re-education camp. Now.
I have to say, in Table 3, a Cohen’s d of 2 is an impressive finding. However, I’d prefer a larger sample from a population that is more generalizable before I put all my chips down.
Misc minor annoyances: I ordered Duran Duran – The Wedding Album CD… and ended up with the correct case, but a 2PAC Greatest Hits disc.
How many tracks in were you by the time you noticed?
My immediate response, with a snort, was wondering who the other guy was, and what he thought.
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Too bad, since DD unknowingly created a libertarian anthem on that album
I am I, myself alone
Realize I never need to use no one
When it comes down to my soul
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
There was a time I was so afraid
Of everything people around me said
That I wanted to hide my face in the shadows
There was a time on a bed of nails
I was dreaming a plan up that could not fail
But no power under the sun could pull it together
[Chorus:]
Can’t take this attitude
Got to show now I’ve got to move on
God knows where I’m going to
Its a lonely burning question
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
If there’s a time that we ever see
The nature of life in reality
Then I want to be there
To kick at the answer
[Chorus]
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
When it comes down to my soul
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
[MIDDLE]
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
When it comes down to my soul
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
I am I myself alone
Realize I never need to use No-one
Money, power, Holy roads.
Freedom puts my faith in none of the above
None of the above
My faith in none of the above
None of the above
I stand by none of the above
None of the above
I stand by none of the above
^ old people
So when you said ‘out of the closet’ you were hiding the fact that you’re a 13 year old girl?
Those 13-year-old girls are now 45-year-old women.
FFS.
He might actually turn out to be an improvement over what they have now.
I’d like to talk about an actual link…
“BIG SCANDAL! People make crude jokes and speak honestly via private e-mail! This MUST CEASE IMMEDIATELY! The old “how many feminists does it take to change a light bulb” joke immediately comes to mind.”
The subhead for that article reads:
“Internal correspondence reveals name-calling, slut-shaming and fat-shaming in emails between the Miss America CEO, board members and a pageant writer.”
In order to slut- or fat-shame someone, don’t you have to do it to the actual person, perhaps in a public way, and not to a third party via private e-mail? Seems to me that’s the “shame” part.
It’s psychic shaming. It sullies the victim’s self-esteem via aethernet without their knowledge.
If they had a clue, they’d tell these people to piss off. Seriously, does anyone in their right mind think if management was more respectful of the talent, feminists and other social justice warriors would all of a sudden become okay with beauty contests? These people hate beauty contests in and of themselves.
Right. Stop trying to please people who are always going to hate you anyway.
This one goes out to all the Tinder users in Saudi Arabia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NIAMTdql_g
Related: How is that I’m just now realizing that “Tulsi” spelled backward is “I Slut”?! Just Say’n, you’ve got a chance.
YES!
“Strap on” spelled backwards is “No parts”.
*opera applause, with one extra “bravo” thrown in*
“If I was a conspiracy mongering type, I would note that the flood of fentanyl into the US heroin supply corresponded directly to momentum for weed legalization & criminal justice reform”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/943843557957361664
Well that and the journolist coordinated freak out about “MUH OPEEOIDZ!”
It’s cut with the stuff to increase potency and because it’s easier to obtain and cheaper. There’s no reason to go all moon landing on this one.
This sort of thing would be readily apparent to anyone who worked in any job related to actually making things that people want to buy. Don’t hold it against her. She’s a journalist. She isn’t supposed to “know things.”
More Krugabe:
And it will also open the door to a lot of tax-system gaming.
Because tax-system gaming was unknown in the Golden Era prior to the brutal reign of of Trump’s America.
This is especially entertaining coming from a prominent mouthpiece of Team Jackass happily willing to point out the difference between nominal and effective corporate tax rates in the run up to the passage of the Bill. “Oh, pshaw! Nobody pays that rate, anyway, so there is no need to change it.”
Christ, what an asshole.
tax-system gaming by the states as they shift tax burdens from income and property (subject to $10K deduction cap) to fully deductible taxes like charitable donations and payroll taxes. no shit. this is an actual concern of critics of the tax bill.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3089423
1. Employee payroll taxes. The conference bill does not alter the analysis as to the potential shift to employee payroll taxes. Taxes imposed on a business are still deductible. Therefore states can shift from non-deductible over-the-cap state income taxes to still-deductible employer-side payroll taxes. It is important to repeat that that states already impose a payroll tax for unemployment insurance purposes, and many localities impose an additional payroll tax as well—and employers currently can claim a deduction for their portion of these taxes.
2. Charitable gifts. The conference bill does not alter the analysis that the new law would permit the shift from use of non-deductible over-the-cap state income taxes to deductible charitable contributions to state and local governments. One point bears further emphasis: Many states already have laws in place granting state income tax credits for donations to certain funds, and the IRS has allowed taxpayers who take advantage of these credits to deduct their payments as charitable contributions rather than as state taxes.
pure insanity.
Krugman is a caricature at this point. You can safely ignore, or even treat as fundamentally wrong, anything he says.
“A Trump bump to the bottom line
As Trump lambasted media outlets as purveyors of “fake news,” consumers lined up to support them. The “failing” New York Times and the “Amazon” Washington Post both reported subscriber surges under Trump, while Vanity Fair, whose editor, Graydon Carter, spent much of his career ridiculing Trump, also saw a rise in subscriptions.
The rise and fall of the pro-Trump press
Trump’s rise was fueled in part by a traffic boom to conservative sites like Breitbart and The Daily Caller, but a year after his election those outlets have seen their audience numbers collapse or decline. Meanwhile, more mainstream (and more liberal) publishers have experienced a bump in traffic.”
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/2017-journalism-awards-feuds-trends.php
TL;DR
Journalism wants its own Hockey Stick graph.
Columbia Journalism Review
Where journalism goes to die.
or… Dem president in office, team members don’t care as much about politics.
and Republican president in office, and then, surprise!, liberals, progressives, etc lap the attacks on the president up
swap teams as needed.
I like the oppositional equivalence drawn between Breitbart and the WaPo.
The Washington Post, the Breitbart News of the left.
Good catch. I’m sure the Columbia Journalism Review is otherwise a defender of the idea that outlets like the Washington Post are unbiased truth tellers.
“Internal correspondence reveals name-calling, slut-shaming and fat-shaming in emails between the Miss America CEO, board members and a pageant writer.”
I don’t know about slut shaming, but in a contest *not* known as “Miss Fat America” comments about excessive body fat can hardly be considered out of bounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBwdXUcu-O0
Wait, what?
Trump is signing stuff.
We’re all gonna die!
“How Twitter protects Planned Parenthood from the truth”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-twitter-protects-planned-parenthood-from-the-truth/article/2643826
Fuck Twitter…Razorfist on his recent Twitter ban.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZs-1XLw0s
he moved to Gab. is that where all the nazis are?
I have a Gab account. I dont really look at it, though.
Gab are starting to spam me with enticing emails like:
Which – for me – is a disincentive to log into gab very regularly. Not because Jessica isn’t likely to be one of the chicks in Q’s links, but because while Gab is a social platform, doesn’t mean I don’t want to be as antisocial as I am everywhere else.
I think I read somewhere that Twitter is now banning people who refer to others as subhuman? Since that’s what PP and the pro-abortion side considers fetuses to be, I feel like some fun could be had in abusing (or, properly using in a way that pissing Twitprogs off) whatever reporting tools they have. I’m sure you can easily find tweets that call some humans “a clump of cells” or something similar.
Ugh…looks like cynicism was the way to go.
http://www.france24.com/en/20171222-separatists-claim-election-victory-catalonia
The people have spoken
Train to Chicago was supposed to leave at 8am, but is delayed. Not a problem; no agenda. We have a sleeper car, and Mr explosives doesn’t know it yet, but I have a bottle of mead in my backpack waiting for us…
Do you have different accounts for on the road versus home?
Yup. I am Hayeksplosives when home.
I never did get the train traveling math problem.
If the pullman is a rockin’, don’t come knockin’
Meanwhile, in Canada….
“This TV Host Stir-Fried a Cougar So Laureen Harper Said He Has a Small Dick”
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/3k5bmv/this-tv-host-stir-fried-a-cougar-so-laureen-harper-said-he-has-a-small-dick
Sort of relevant to your post. I wonder why there is so much hate for Stephen Harper in Canada.
stir fry? i’m not saying i condone the death threats.. but i understand them.
It’s not slander if it’s true.
Genius at work.
http://theweek.com/articles/744702/most-respectable-conspiracy-theory-washington
The most respectable conspiracy theory in Washington
stir fry? i’m not saying i condone the death threats.. but i understand them.
^#66
“That Trump in some unknown and indescribable but absolutely significant manner “colluded” — whatever that might involve — with “Russia” — a vague entity that might refer to anything or anyone from a nameless academic to Vladimir Putin himself — in order to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton, who was otherwise an attractive candidate with a firm base of support even in the states she didn’t bother to visit, is now one of the most begged questions in American history.”
There was nothing attractive about Hillary Clinton. And that’s not what “begging the question” means.
Although, overall, it’s a decent article about how silly this ZOMG RUSSIA crap is.
“There was nothing attractive about Hillary Clinton.”
I’m pretty sure that whole phrase was sarcasm, blaming Hillary for being a shit candidate and running a shit campaign.
Gotdang. I had no idea they got so big.
The hell? I made the same mistake as Raston.
Good article, though. Maybe a little overwrought at the end, but I respect a man who expresses contempt without grabbing for every weapon at hand, however ephemeral or ineffectual. The left’s TDS is only half entertaining for its histrionics. The other half is their desperation, their willingness to become happy Pizzagate-level conspiracy theorists because they have nothing else. Critique his policy specifics? Nah, that would “legitimize” Trump. Wail and shriek over Donny J. meeting with a Russian attorney on a pretext she admitted to lying about? Now that’s some good journ-o-lism.
“It’s time to marginalize the university. Universities have come to play an outsize, unwarranted, and often malign role in American life. But their influence and prestige doesn’t stem from any recent intellectual accomplishment or even insidious political agenda. Instead it comes down to “power” to use a word much in vogue among academics. And this power, more than anything else, is economic.
Without this power, why would people take academics’ more ridiculous pronouncements so seriously, or seriously at all in the case of communication studies departments?
The limitations and drawbacks of North American academia are obvious. This goes beyond the intolerance, irrationality, illiberalism, even violence associated with some “studies” or other departments that see advocacy as their primary mission. Less remarked upon are the catastrophic intellectual failures of the social sciences. This includes the complete inability of foreign policy researchers to forecast the demise of the Soviet Union; the failure of political scientists, with few exceptions, to predict the rise of Trump; and the deeply embarrassing record of macro-economists in terms of warning about the possibility of a financial crisis or even understanding it once it was taking place. There has been no true reckoning following this serial incompetence.
At the same time, many academics’ cultural roles have become inflated. No longer seen as mere educators or truth seeking specialists, given the rise in status of universities they now wield broader cultural authority – or at least they think they do. This is revealed in the grandiose and also touching comments of Lindsay Shepherd’s Wilfrid Laurier University interrogators who made reference to themselves as “educators” and “academics” but also as “scholars” and “public intellectuals.””
http://quillette.com/2017/12/21/time-marginalize-university-revive-cafe/
The university is a relic of medieval times. It has become increasingly irrelevant with the invention of cheap, mass-produced books that can be mail ordered and, of course, the Internet. With these technologies, college could just be a program of independent home study with occasional lab sessions at some kind of facility. And if some people find that they learn better in a classroom setting, the market would supply that for them.
The only things propping up the modern university system are government subsidies and occupational licensing laws that force people in certain lines of work (like hairdressing) to purchase the university’s services.
I have been productive. Garlic parmesan pretzels done (and delicious), the hot tub drained, cleaned and refilling.
Can anyone recommend another picture sharing site besides imgur? It isn’t playing nice with my tablet.
I just kneaded up some dark rye bread with caraway seeds. I recently discovered the technique of baking round loaves in a Dutch oven which results in an absolutely amazing crust.
Ooh, sounds good!
Reminder SpaceX is launching Iridium-4 tonight, 8:27pm EST. Would be a shame if it were to, say, explode at liftoff or crash into the ocean.
You’re not holding a grudge, are you?
I wouldn’t mind a little shot of schadenfreude. But I’m quite happy to be where I am right now. Nothing will come close to working on a team with which you can bond.
Your new job is with the glue factory?
/deliberately missing the point.
I tried to come up with some horse puns, but I’m too sick.
Shame. Punning is one of my ten favorite passtimes.
Launching from Vandenberg, so I might be able to see it from here around dusk. Woohoo!
Is anyone immune to the temptation to argue from self-interest?
The tax bill, we are told, aims to promote economic growth by creating an environment more favorable to investment. That is the main argument for the cut in the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from 35 percent.
But the investment that leads to growth is not just in plant and equipment. It also includes human capital, which means educating our labor force. And it includes the knowledge that flows from basic research. The United States is an economic superpower in part because we have the best university system in the world. The tax bill undermines that.
Republican leaders say that they want to help the middle class. They claim that over time, as corporate tax cuts encourage investment and increase productivity, the benefits will accrue not only to wealthy shareholders but also to workers in the form of higher wages. I believe that, but I also believe that for many people, the surest route to higher wages is increased skills.
Greg Mankiw isn’t. And, of course, he freely conflates “some” college degrees with “all”. But the Ivy League’s special status must be maintained.
ps- end non profit status for everybody.
Eliminate taxes then we don’t have to worry about tax exemptions.
Senator Kennedy may be correct that most faculty members at elite universities are liberal. But so what? Most professors leave their ideology at the door when they teach the next generation of leaders. And even if they don’t, students are smart enough to think for themselves.
a) *outright, prolonged laughter*
b) If those students are “smart enough to think for themselves” it is in spite of, not because of, the efforts of their professors.
Wonder if he’d be so sure about that, were things switched around such that the word “liberal” was replaced by “religious”, “libertarian”, “gun enthusiasts”, etc, etc.
Easy to tell others to calm down, when it’s your team that’s in charge.
Dunno who this guy is…
So… the money that was taken from me wasn’t “taxed”?
WTactualF?
Good. Public education is almost universally recognized as being vastly inferior to private education. That’s why almost everyone – most Lefties included – send their kids to a private school if they can afford to do so.
Despite the disingenuous pleading from teacher’s unions who claim that their schools are underfunded, the amount of money spent on public schools has gone nowhere but up while student performance has stagnated or decreased. Some of the worst-performing school districts are spending upwards of $20,000 per pupil for one year of school.
If pouring money down the toilet has not fixed anything, pouring even more money down the toilet probably won’t solve the problem, either.