I hope everybody had a great weekend. Ā We finally started getting our pool ready to open but the rains yesterday, as well as the howling winds, tornadoes in the area and general unpleasantness mean that we probably won’t get it done until this next weekend. Ā Oh well, that’s life…
Anyway, let’s get to the links.
President Trump finally spent some time talking healthcare with the right guy.Ā Let’s hope the golf outing helps him realize that the better way doesn’t have to initiate from his or Paul Ryan’s desk.
Apparently they like the strategy and the DNC says new chairman Tom Perez will not stop talking shit about the GOP or Trump’s victory not being a real victory.Ā Nobody asked his spokesperson if either of them understand electoral politics or if they have proof the Russians and Trump campaign actually colluded. Ā But it was Dave Weigel, so what did you expect?
At leastĀ one man is laying out his evidence that Obama’s administration spied on his political opponents.Ā And he also believes ::gasp!:: that the media is covering for him.
One of the greatest tragedies in sports that I can remember happened yesterday.Ā And no, I’m not talking about major league opening day not starting with the Cincinnati Reds playing their game before all the other openers.
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356 responses to “Monday Morning Links”
These are some early links… thank goodness I beat the rush.
Indeed, I wasn’t expecting them for ten more minutes still.
I guess sloppy has things to see, people to do.
Looks like Susan Rice did-done the unmasking… https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-03/top-obama-adviser-sought-names-of-trump-associates-in-intel
Land down blunder: teen heading to Australia lands in Sydney, Nova Scotia
At least there are fewer deadly animals roaming the area.
Deja Vu all over again. š
His first clue was when they said “take off, hoser” instead of “put some shrimp on the barbie.”
The fact that he had to make, like, 5 connecting flights didn’t give him a clue?
Right? I forget where I’ve parked by the time I enter the grocery store, but I think I could still manage to successfully book a flight to the correct country, at the very least.
If only someone had linked that yesterday…. https://glibertarians.com/2017/04/sunday-afternoon-links/
Some people have a life and don’t read everything posted here.
Is your life collecting links to post in the links articles? If so, kudos.
You appear to have had time to gather quite a number of links….
*narrows gaze*
A life, you say? Life cereal? The board game? A Blu-Ray of the movie starring Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence? I don’t follow.
Life cereal?
I’d forgotten such a thing exists, and I’d thank you for not bringing it up again.
How dare you. Life cereal is awesome.
It got soggy too quickly and turned into mush.
I don’t even mind the soggy part, it’s the tasting like Cinnamon Crunch without the cinnamon part.
Actually I’ve gone off sweet breakfasts, so maybe I’d like that now.
We’ve had an extremely wet March, complete with a tropical depression caused by a cyclone further north, so he’s probably best off in Canada
Said no one, ever? Not even Rufus?
You’re a snowbird, so surely you’d prefer a snow-covered landscape with centralised sales of alcohol to a soggy sub-tropical city too.
No, I can’t believe I typed that either. FREE THE SCOTCHKA!
August at Perisher sounds lovely, tho!
(holy crap – Perisher is owned by Vail??? Vail is the Kochtopus of skiing)
Is that good or bad? I can’t tell… anyway go to the Snowy Mountains in winter and support Vail, or go in summer and get stung by the poisonous spurs of a platypus. Either way, stop in Sydney on your way there and I’ll take you to some shitty dives and get you drunk
Sa-weet!
I don’t care one way or the other about Vail, but their existence sure is a thorn in the side of ski snobs and elitist purists. So I guess I kinda like Vail because they cause such consternation among the bearded masses*.
*Even though their season passes are about 1/2 the price of most resorts and can be used at any Vail-owned resort. Sub-rant: the same people that bitch about skiing being an inaccessible rich-man’s sport are also the same that bitch about Vail buying up ski areas and offering cheap season passes.
Hahaha, I’m originally from Sydney, NS. It is a lot different to the Sydney is Australia. Sure, it has more of a city aspect than the surrounding areas of Cape Breton, but it’s still incredibly than what one comes to expect.
Oh great.
Hopefully just a threat to scare the Republicans into getting on board.
Aren’t most house members of the Freedom Caucus in districts that aren’t vulnerable? Seems odd that he’d pick a fight with people that are basically invulnerable to his threats. Maybe it was that 9D chess again.
Never let the shitty be the enemy of so-so.
Empty threat if I’ve ever seen one. The Party of #Resist will not work with him on anything, much less health care, unless he floats single payer.
They would still impeach him, afterward.
So I’m literally the only person who knows that “care” and “coverage” are entirely different things?
Cops collar condom waving woman
Lucky to be alive.
I saw a woman at the mall yesterday with thigh-high boots that looked like giant condoms. True story.
STEVE SMITH LIKES BONDAGE, NOT CONDOMS THOUGH.
She looks like Fred Flintstone.
magnum condoms for her magnum dong?
Dr. Toboggan is that you!?
I’ve been sad and puzzled that my favorite Hate Radio guy, the hilariously unhinged Wayne Besen, disappeared off the airwaves. Apparently, it’s one more case of the left eating its own.
The schadenfreude, it is so sweet and juicy.
Yummy, even better than deep dish pizza.
Schadenfreude is something that actually exists.
Oh my fever dreams. What is happening to me??
Man there’s a lot going on in those gfx
If we actually had real consumer protection laws, people like Uno wouldn’t be allowed to advertise their deep dish as “pizza.”
I will defend deep dish against all comers….but Uno’s….ugh.
Deep dish is great. Or can be great. It’s just not pizza.
Oh, and Malnati’s ftw.
Deep dish pizza is delicious, but it is to actual pizza as a dolphin is to a fish.
Deep dish pizza is delicious, but it is to actual pizza as a dolphin is to a fish.
A tasty surprise in your tuna?
Deep dish can be delicious. It’s neither fish, mammal, nor pizza.
Judge Gorsuch and What Could Have Been
Since the 1970s, I spent my career hoping to one day witness the return of a liberal Supreme Court. Now Iāll never have the chance.
“It was a near run thing. The nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.”
, how many grasp how much the country would have changed with a left-of-center Court?
This is what is wrong with our country. The court shouldn’t be changing anything, it should be upholding the Constitution.
Exactly the problem. Gaining control of SCOTUS has become tantamount to being able to change the constitution without having to go through the amendment process.
” liberal moderates ” is an oxymoron. And the court has been deciding things mostly in the leftist direction for decades now. I guess anything short of full-on communism gives this idiot a sad.
I have no idea how McCaskill and Tester expect to be re-elected while opposing Gorsuch. Montana and Missouri don’t strike me as friendly territory for the #resist movement. Maybe they’re just angling for a job with one of the Left-wing groups, expecting that their chances of reelection are terrible as it is.
McCaskill expects Todd Akin to run again.
Only if she can help it.
Montana is very incumbent friendly and mildly schizophrenic (See our 16 years of oily Democratic governors). And, as with all voters, their memories are very short.
Cannot say I’m surprised Tester is voting against Gorsuch. He caves to party leadership on most things. Worthless ass.
Moderate “liberals” went extinct probably twenty or so years ago. Now you have to embrace radical progressive ideals just to get in the “liberal” door. Maybe the closest to one I’m familiar with would be Jim Webb, and what’s he doing these days?
Last I checked, he tried running for president in the last election cycle, ‘member? Yeah, neither does anyone else.
I’m late to the party, but FYI Jim Webb is apparently declining an honor from the Naval Academy due to protests over an article he wrote in 1979 opposing the expansion of the role of women in the military, so I’d say his case is a prime example of the point you were making.
And therein lies the problem.
That…. I…… You know what, I’m gonna go suck start a Glock.
Rule of Man is so much better than Rule of Law. So long as your side holds the power, anyway.
That is the substance of the message the Dems have been squawking. They still dont understand why they lost.
And this guy is a lawyer.
“…it is in some respects the most powerful of all branches, because it can change the Constitution.”
Yeah, it was the Russians that threw the election. All their fault.
“because it can change the Constitution”
Fuck this guy.
because it can change the Constitution
Ummm….no.
The Legislature is the only branch with that power, with approval from the states.
[The states, of course, can bypass the legislature and do it themselves]
You don’t need to actually change the words if you can change what the words mean.
When people go to law school they seem to experience some sort of brainwashing that involves them emerging three years later claiming that words to not mean what they say and that laws should not be enforced as written. Three years in an apocolyptic religious cult would do less damage on people’s brains than law school seems to do. Yet these are the people who man our courts.
Bigfoot Is Not the Only Elusive Creature Said to Roam the Canadian Wilds
The DNC?
The Wendigo and James Carville. Has anyone ever seen them together?
Hmmm ….
JAMES CARVILLE SO DREAMY. STEVE SMITH
RAPELOVE HIM LONG TIMECarville is not a wendigo, he is a Loup Garou.
According to another variation, the wolf-like beast will hunt down and kill Catholics who do not follow the rules of Lent[citation needed]. This coincides with the French Catholic loup-garou stories, according to which the method for turning into a werewolf is to break Lent seven years in a row[citation needed].
This coincides with the French Catholic loup-garou stories, according to which the method for turning into a werewolf is to break Lent seven years in a row
Well I’m fucked. You all might want to avoid me during a full moon.
The curse only applies to Catholics, and maybe Greek Orthodoxics.
Eddie would be the one every one needs to keep an eye on. If he starts trying to date a girl whose other boyfriend sparkles in sunlight, then we’d have a pretty good idea that Eddie’s gone Furry.
STEVE SMITH NOT WANNA TALK ABOUT EX.
THIS WHY STEVE STICK
TOIT IN HIKERS… NEVER STICK IT IN CRAZY!That brought back memories of one of my favorite books when I was a kid, Curtis MacDougall’s “Hoaxes.” It was there that I first encountered the legend of the wendigo.
I cannot recommend that book highly enough.
The Wendigo is a very interesting subject. It appears all over the Americas from pole to pole in various versions. I haven’t looked into it yet but I suspect it appears in the old world as well, probably originated there.
Originated with the Algonquins.
Did it? I suspect it can be traced back to Asia. I have a clay figure from Peru of a man in a horned animal mask performing human sacrifice.
That would be me.
When you said you are an old man you weren’t kidding, were you?
I did Lazarus Long’s bris.
There you go pushing that old world imperialism… Or is behind the story to be original to the America’s, American excetionalism… And anti-science, since humans went over an ice sheet to get to the America’s. I don’t know what to think, I need a safe space from myself until I can read a huffpo article that tells me what is right and wrong.
So, First Nation people potentially guilty of cultural appropriation beyond alcohol, horses, firearms etc?
Do tell.
Well, the bulk of mesoamericans came from asia…so….
I remember when the USSR fell apart. I saw an article that got little attention where some alaskan eskimos were saying “thank goodness. Now we can go visit our relatives again.”
Some form of the wendigo, a man-like beast that eats humans, is some kind of religious metaphor for cannibals or personification of cannibalism. Cannibalism was widely practiced in pre-columbian America but it sure wasn’t invented here. I would bet the animal metaphor goes back to the days of human/neanderthal hunting and eating each other. Literally the bogeyman.
I would point out the myth of King Lycoan, from Greece. For the transgression of serving human meat at a dinner, Zeus transformed him into a wolf, and giving English the word lycanthropy. The original European werewolf myths are very similar to the American Wendigo myths. This is a near universal theme.
That’s supported by Cro-Magnon cave art.
What isn’t?
The themes of the Wendigo myth aren’t unique, but the Wendigo itself is limited to the Algonquin and tribes that came in contact with them. People being punished for breaking taboos by being transformed into monsters is a pretty common theme throughout the world. Similar to how vampires, the folklore versions not the literary ones, came from from eastern Europe but almost every culture has some form of predatory undead. ‘Don’t eat people’, ‘ honor the dead but otherwise leave them alone’, seem to have been near universal feelings in ancient people.
I am so glad we modern humans don’t have to worry about such superstitious strictures.
Modern humans? Inferior!
*TW this guy is waaaay out there.
(((waaay out there))). Didn’t realize how far until I read the comments.
Ah, the bad guy in Pet Sematary.
To think the Canadians could come up with something that scary. But it took a guy from Maine to really bring out the fear.
Well he can hold his own against Wolverine and the Hulk, so that makes him really damn scary.
Do you refer to the Todd McFarlane set of books?
PAD and Claremont mostly, never really cared for McFarlane’s work.
My mistake, Len Wein actually wrote the Wendigo story I was thinking about.
Ugh, from the WaPo comments:
Rainer_Pitthan
3:10 AM EDT
The 40 year witch hunt against Hillary Clinton goes on. There are still Republicans out there demanding justice for Vince Foster, but never acknowledging one of her finest achievement: to get Arab Forces involved in the Libya campaign, something the George W. Bush Administration never achieved, thus laying the ground work for fighting ISIS without having 100,000 US troops on the ground.
Derrrrrrrp
So…. That person hasn’t looked at Libya lately I take it.
Alternate retort “so your saying her crowning achievement was laying the ground work for the death of thousands of women and children?”
I could be wrong, but I’m assuming that creep Gquaddaffi had “ISIS” locked down pretty tight for a while. Chronology is really hard.
WHAT! Getting involved in another conflict was her finest achievement. Actually, I can believe that, but it doesn’t say what the author probably wants it to.
Oh, she got Arab forces involved in Libya alright. She did do that.
Rage finally proven right. Those who work forces are the same that burn crosses*
*crosses being on the necklaces of Christians
::Tom Morello genius guitar chord sequence::
He’s a Commie motherfucker, but damn if Tom Morello can’t play the hell out of the guitar.
A commie anti-capitalist who got rich via capitalism. What a douchebag.
That’s why I love the guy. Try as he might, he could not avoid the iron law of the market. An object lesson for young and confused kids everywhere
I used to dream, back in my young days when RATM was a huge band, of interviewing them and asking them a)how they lived with themselves for being under contract to Sony, a gigantic multinational corporation b)why they didn’t do what Fugazi does and charge only $8 for CDs and $5 admission at shows. Why are they so greedy and charging so much money? They don’t need that money!
At the very least, they should be redistributing all that money to the less fortunate. Why won’t they?
My theory: in most people the creative/imaginative/artistic part of the brain becomes highly developed at the expense of the rational/moral part of the brain.
Tom Morello is overrated and a commie. Gadget guitarist.
Why are people still pretending like the action in Libya was in any way a success? Are they purposely ignoring reality or do they just never read anything beyond the propaganda piece that is the Washington Post?
If anything, Libya showed other tyrants not to cooperate with the West. Remember that Qaddafi had relinquished his weapons of mass destruction after the Iraq War and had gone on a tour of Europe to rebuild relationships. After seeing how the West threw Qaddafi under the bus (along with Mubarak in Egypt), why would any nation, currently at odds with the West, ever try to meet us half-way? The countries that refuse to cooperate seem to have been more successful, like Iran and North Korea.
do they just never read anything beyond the propaganda piece that is the Washington Post?
Bingo! Well, I guess they also read the NYT and watch MSNBC.
Whenever anyone touted Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy chops it drove me absolutely insane. She took our crap relations in the Middle East and decided to take it a step further by sabotaging what improvements we had made. Like when people wring their hands about Trump’s lack of experience and foreign policy leanings I just think of how god awful Clinton was and how she was so arrogant that she couldn’t even admit her mistakes, and I thank the EC that she doesn’t have the launch codes.
Clinton had foreign policy experience like Typhoid Mary had catering experience.
Getting an Ambassador murdered and dragged through the streets is her finest achievement?
Shut your mouth, woman, She’s the most qualified candidate ever to run for president
What could be greater qualifications than riding the coattails of a serial sexual assaulter and rapist while covering for his malfeasance?
Nothing says “qualified” like being a politicians wife for 30 years.
Well we’ve been getting fucked by politicians our whole adult lives, so at least she can relate.
Start with a stable country and a leader who had willingly given up his WMD program – Bomb the place, get said leader raped and killed, and the place turned into a terrorist resort.
That is the kind of achievement you want on your resume.
Right. As Secretary of State her major achievement was ensuring that nobody will trust anything we say ever again.
That was her major achievement with everything she ever did.
For immigrants fighting deportation, a push for government-funded lawyers
They’re not facing “exile” from their home, they’re being sent back home.
Nobody asked his spokesperson if either of them understand electoral politics or if they have proof the Russians and Trump campaign actually colluded. But it was Dave Weigel, so what did you expect?
Let’s face it this narrative is already on its way to highschool history books. Everyone will know how Trump and the Russians colluded to steal the election from what should have been the first woman president. Also the whole email scandal, and the server will be forgotten.
Spain appears to back independent Scotland’s membership of EU as row over Gibraltar escalates
He’s a make love not war kinda guy, so they are totally misinterpretingā his “go all the way” comment.
Spain says I want a rock” (may be NSFW).
Everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around.
+ 2 Giants
I’m sure England will repay the favor by supporting an independent Basque nation for the UN.
Great powers supporting breakaway movements in their enemy’s backyard. That’s popcorn time.
Basque, Catalonia, Andalusia, Galicia. Spain has a shit ton of separatist movements, and they refuse to recognize Independence votes from them. At least the UK have Scotland a chance. This is not the angle they should push to come out looking the good guy.
Also covered yesterday….*sigh* https://glibertarians.com/2017/04/sunday-morning-links-2/
Do you even read muh lynx, LH?
We’ve already covered that LH doesn’t read your links. *Now I, on the other hand, tend to post my own link after having commenting on one of the provided links.
I don’t pay my own links cause all y’all are just so good at it.
I wasn’t on yesterday – sheesh – I was too sick except for some Xcom playing later in the afternoon. I posted in the weightlifting article though – don’t know if that was Sat. or Sunday.
We have offered to have you do Guest Star Links….offer is still open.
Chicken who laid baseball-sized egg doing well, owners say
Owner says she’s feeding unnamed black chicken garlic and apple cider vinegar to help her recover
That’s where the velociraptor embryo went.
Kirsti and Dennis Goslow had planned to crack open their henās egg to see whatās inside
My guess is panty hose.
*prolonged applause*
Owner says sheās feeding unnamed black chicken garlic and apple cider vinegar to help her recover
GIMME AN EPIDURAL MOFOS
Chicken who laid baseball-sized egg doing well, owners say
Looks like that one was a…
*dons sunglasses*
…fowl ball.
YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
Speechless.
If I got up to thunderous applause Swiss-style I’d faint.
Also: Damn you Cubs for coming back in the 9nth and then blowing it to the Cards. Sigh. The Grind has begun, and I for one welcome our new Boys of Summer overlords.
Shouldn’t that be “African-Canadian”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I5UqtQbHhU
SIV baby?
LA Times: Our Dishonest President
if they are not reversed, will rip families apart, foul rivers and pollute the air, intensify the calamitous effects of climate change and profoundly weaken the system of American public education for all
This was the moment that the rise of the oceans began to [speed up]..
I can still be amazed at how badly some people really want their lives to be controlled by government bureaucrats. Is liberty really that frightening?
Oh, goody. I love the shell game where you mix up insure and healthcare.
*Narrows gaze on shell with “healthcare” nut etched in it*
Interesting choice of words. Generally speaking, humans fear animals with fangs. When you defang something you reduce it’s ability to do harm. Was this a Freudian slip by the LAT?
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
“The crazy thing is, that woman actually spent more spraying the carjacker with gas than her car was worth. Yeah, true story.”
– Jay Leno, circa 2008
Manic Monday
What’s pathetic is that none of those are the least bit funny.
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Balloon juice is the unrendered product of a swollen pecker. Finally it all makes sense.
Have you had a look at The American Capitalist Party?
*NOT an endorsement. Geez.
About effin’ time somebody said it.
True. Hold off until you hear their Cytotoxic foreign policy, though. These are basically objectivists.
In their defense, war is inherently immoral. The attempt to conduct war in a limited manner has generally not been successful. I would say that their position on using war as a policy tool is half right. The other half should be “war is the policy of absolute last resort”.
Here’s the interview where I heard of their party. It sounds like he’d leave the door open to intervention a lot wider than I would prefer or even past historical mistakes would suggest.
That’s unfortunate.
Annihilation of *whom*? These kind of people tend to play a bait-and-switch game. “Grrr…we have to fight the terrorists, don’t you agree?…Oh, and of course that means civilian casualties, but only morons care about that sort of thing.”
You can certainly argue that had Afghanistan and Iraq been massive but brief punitive expeditions rather than nation building exercises we might be better off.
I’d agree. Luckily it’s not a binary choice.
For all their faults, Cheney and Rumsfeld were right at least about that point. They wanted to go in heavy, kick ass quickly, and turn the mess over to Chalabi and the Iraqi exiles, getting the hell out of there. Unfortunately, Powell’s trite “You broke it, you bought it” philosophy was the direction that Bush decided to go.
Let’s face it though, if it is that Mark Pellegrino, it’s one less raving leftist loon to deal with in Hollywood.
Their platform didn’t mention monocles it orphan run factories, so they really don’t get capitalism.
No mention of homo cakes or vaccines, either!
Looks like the domain is owned by a dude named Mark Pellegrino, high degree of confidence it’s the guy who acted in teen-ish-show “Supernatural”.
Yes. And “Lost” IIRC.
I only know of Supernatural via Teenage Libertarian College Student Daughter really. Not much of a TV person.
go on….
Hey, I’m certainly not gonna pimp my own daughter out here.
She can do that herself. She has the URL.
Just tell us, is she a cylon?
Nah, not at all.
She’s a kind-of proto-Kennedy in many ways. We’ll know for sure in a few years.
Ted Kennedy?
*runs away*
From Wikipedia:
“he considers Libertarianism to be an anarchist political ideology and has distanced himself from this ideology”
Yeah, that Gary Johnson was a real extremist.
*ding ding ding ding*
Winnah winnah chicken dinner!
Randbots. Can we spot them or what?
That just says that Pellegrino takes Libertarianism more seriously than Johnson.
Zing! It hurts because it is true.
Fuck, even Hillary took libertarianism more seriously than Johnson.
He IS the devil!
/proglogic
For those who’ve never seen the show, he plays the human vessel for Satan.
Weekend thoughts: A lot of coughing and hacking, along with almost throwing up when I tried to my regularly scheduled workout.
I watched, via the library, a little cold war movie called Escape From East Berlin (1962) which has a group of East Germans digging a tunnel from their house into West Berlin. Some good anti-commie propaganda, with actors speaking English in German accents. And the PPSH-41, which looks a lot larger than I imagined (that’s what she said).
Also a Sunday afternoon of watching Stephen Romano Presents Shock Festival DVD, which is a collection of trailers from mostly the 1970s, but also any number of b-movies from the 1950s-1980s. Lots of skin, bad SFX, karate, and el-crapo horror movies. The funny thing about trailers, i actually prefer them over the actual movie since they usually show the best parts. A small sample here.
Equal pay for men and women? Iceland may audit employers to prove it
Iceland is so woke
Unconscious bias. Didn’t the Celtics waste a draft pick on that?
This is quite possibly the most offensive joke ever made either here or on that other site. Congrats!
I didn’t even realize what I was doing. Not my fault. Oh wait, I guess it is my fault then.
That was just…awesome.
Ha, this simple trick will keep you from being audited. Just Hire only men or only women. Simple.
On a serious note, people don’t get that these sorts of intrusions make the hiring process more difficult, and biased towards one gender. Are things like tenure, and job title taken into account? Why bother with uncertainty. Especially when the law has just become a bludgeon against wrong thinkers.
“self-reflection”
Is that like self-criticism?
Struggle session
Argues in favor of even greater deployment of non-gendered mecha-Icelanders.
Don’t you not gender those robots!!!
You need to ask them what gender they prefer.
Did anybody else see Lexi Thompson get completely screwed over by the LPGA and some asshole with a 4K tv yesterday?
That was fucking ridiculous. It was also ridiculous when the USGA did it to Dustin Johnson last year (though at least that was during the same round).
Well, in DJ’s case, they gave everybody info on local rules determining those waste areas as a hazard. He just didn’t read the rules.*
*That determination was pretty bad, but at least he was given advance notice. And he could have asked an official before they approached the area since they’d been bragging about the 8000 sand traps on the course.
I’m not saying that DJ didn’t break the rules
I’m saying that there’s no way in hell that the PGA or USGA or LPGA should ever pay attention to some jackass jerking off in his mom’s basement calling in or e-mailing in a rule violation, whether or not it actually happened. If the rules officials didn’t spot it and her playing partner didn’t spot it, that should be the end of it.
Bingo.
I know what some of those words mean.
Something tells me that what you’re referring to isn’t what I’m thinking though.
It was the first major of the season and Lexi Thompson had a four stroke penalty assessed on her because some dickface emailed the rules officials about her spotting her ball 1/4″ off from the previous day. They told her after she walked off the 13th green. She gathered her shit and still managed to get into a playoff, but she lost on the first hole.
How she held it together for those last 6 holes is amazing.
Can you imagine the entertainment value if that had happened to John Daly?
Almost as entertaining as it would be if they gave him a breathalyzer between each hole so we could gauge his performance relative to his BAC so he can find that sweet spot.
Yeah, that was some shit. Can you imagine some couch-bound nerd sending an email to the NFL during halftime in a playoff game and having penalty yards added to a down in the 4th quarter? It’s insane.
Didn’t a viewer call in and bust a PGA event for piping in bird sounds a few years back?
Jesus, that was almost 20 years ago. I had forgotten.
Brian Regan does a comedy bit on that.
“How would you like to have been the guy taking that call?”
“Hello?”
“Yeah, does thus sound right to you: [makes whistling noise]?”
“Uh, no.”
“I guess I’m supposed to believe that the yellow-bellied whipperwillow changed its annual migratory pattern just to enjoy a little golf! I think the sound you were looking,for was: [makes raucous bird call].”
“Oh yeah? I got one for you: CUCKOO!”
I’d like to see Lexi Thompson get screwed, if you know what I mean.
Nobody needs a pool.
/Bernie, from the lake house
Stop misquoting Sanders. He said: “no one needs another pool at their third home”. He was referring to how modest his third home is and how he choose to forgo a pool. He further stated: “If I want to go swimming, I’ll just fly to one of my other two houses”. Like a good socialist, he is not ostentatious about his wealth acquired from government.
I wonder if he actually refers to those other homes as dachas?
That would be accurate
I don’t watch golf at all, but most sports have a “statute of limitations” for rule infractions, penalties, fouls, etc. It seems excessive that a penalty can be assessed a full day later.
Yeah, and most other sports don’t let fans email in and initiate a review. Especially when there are rules officials walking with each group and the tv coverage from group to group isn’t consistent.
This was unconscionable.
We’re not talking about sports, the subject is golf.
Every now and then Charles Koch says something that comes out quite principled-sounding.
Jane Mayer and Slate show they still don’t understand libertarianism
I love how Leftist publications have been oscillating between praising the Kochs for opposing Trump while still assigning them ‘super villain’ status. My favorite Left-wing hit on the Kochs was that time when they said: “Murray Rothbard didn’t like the Koch brothers”. My first thought was: “wait, so you like Rothbard more than the Kochs? I can dig that”.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/late-libertarian-icon-murray-rothbard-charles-koch-considers-himself-above-law
I’ve had many, many lefties try to ‘splain to me what libertarianism is, and that my principled stand on any given issue isn’t libertarian. Same people who wouldn’t know a principle if it was shoved up their ass. It’s way worse than mansplaining. It’s Progsplaining.
Hey, as a libertarian you’re not being consistent of you don’t fit into a set of precoceptions that I have. You shouldn’t be giving to charity because you Bernice that some people deserve to be poor and helping them out only hurts society.
I Bernice that your auto-correct screwed up.
*mumble mumble* damn autocorrect gone made a fool out of me again *mumble*
The question is: who is Bernice and is she hot? And does she bob her hair?
My prog wife routinely tells me she’s more of a libertarian than I am and then either berates me for arguing from principle or tells me about how rights don’t exist independent of the government giving them to you.
What is more amazing is how you manage to stay married to such a woman………
You know, it’s funny. She’s like a lot of progs I know. She’s funny, smart, kind, not blessed with a ton of common sense but no worse than a lot of other normal, functional people. But, man, if she senses that a conversation is turning political, it’s like the Manchurian Candidate. She transforms.
Itās no secret that the Republican Partyāand indeed our politics more broadlyāhas been under the influence of rich, often secretive donors
What’s truly mysterious is why the same thing about Democrats is still a huge secret to most people.
Soros literally overthrows governments (Ukraine). I’m just saying
He ran out of Jews to burn.
That was just awful. They donāt want tariffs on their products. Selfish bastards. Wait, I bet neither do their customers.
The author of that, one Isaac Chotiner (why do these people always have such pretentious sounding names?) is the cunt who waited about 90 minutes after Alan Colmes’ death was announced before posting a piece ripping the man to pieces. I have no particular affection for Alan Colmes, but basic fucking manners, man.
While I don’t share his political views, Alan Colmes had a great sense of humor and was an all-round good sport.
I missed Colmes’ death, so thanks for the tip, Chip. What a sad spiteful little shit. Jesus, who knew I would ever agree with Sean Hannity on anything?
Here’s the story.
I dug up the “obit” and read it. What a fucking horrible person. Here‘s the article if anyone want to read it.
OK. That link isn’t doing what it’s supposed to…
But when cops do it
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/03/texas-man-charged-for-firing-indiscriminately-at-2-men-attacking-his-fiance.html
“Totality of the circumstances”. A group of men in ski masks grab your wife and put her in a headlock as she and her kids are walking into the house? Even if he was going Yosemite Sam down the street while chasing the guys, you can’t say he was in his right mind.
They are leaning on him:
This is what happens when the state replaces actual victims with itself in criminal cases.
Uncooperative = “I want a lawyer”, doesnt it?
Even in TX, a couple of perps bleeding out with holes in their *back* is gonna result in some questioning from the cops.
Yeah, you can’t shoot ’em if they’re running away, no matter how much you would like to.
Everyone including him should be grateful that not only is he a bad shot, that he was lucky enough not to have hit anyone else.
Important news fro the week-end!
And awaaay we go-o-o-o-o-o!
Did anyone see the early release of the new Rick & Morty this weekend?
Shit, I didn’t realize it was out.
Great. Now I want some chicken Mcnuggets with szechuan sauce and can’t have it. I didn’t even know that was a thing an hour ago.
OT question – what is the (polite) gesture to make for saluting when armed with a lance and shield on horseback?
Strange hobbies you have.
I write fiction.
Like this, but with horses?
Make it up then.
Depends who you are saluting, and whether you’re LARPing or just RPGing.
Opponant in a joust – real contest.
I’d think that inclining the lance slightly to indicate that you accept the challenge would be enough. The equivalent of boxers punching the opposition’s gloves.
Trick question – mounted men armed with lances don’t have to be polite!
Well, if other authors are to be believed, visor up or down, incline the head down as though you’re bowing and giving deference. Holding on to reins, and a lance, with a shield on your arm is hard work. Making some ostentatious gestures too is just asking for trouble
IIRC it involved keeping the lance vertical and lifting it up in the air.
Imagine something like a Nazi salute but with a lance in your hand
I believe the proper salute is like with a saber, bringing the handle up to the chin and turning the hand in.
An alternative salute for a blade is to drop the point and show the flat of the blade to the person being saluted.
Anyone ever notice that Tom Perez always has a look on his face as if he just smelled a fart?
Did anyone hear that? I hope nobody heard that.
Looks like Susan Rice was one of the Obama hacks getting “unmasked” intercepts of incoming Trump officials. Jail time would be in order.
It wasn’t her. It was a YouTube video
I wonder if that will ever come out with with a known source. I don’t put much stock in anonymous leaks.
Am I’m the only one who thinks during the Obama administration the federal government may have been more weaponized politically than in any time in recent history?
No, you are not the only one.
He didn’t do it, and even if he did, it was because he had to due to evil RethugliKKKanz obstructionisms!
I never did anything wrong, and I won’t do it again.
No, you are not the only one who thinks Obama is banana republic material.
Well it looks like it is a good thing we try not to spy on mosques.
Clearly these are all outposts of foreign intelliegence services and must be shuttered immediately with the staff returned to their countries of origin.
No worries, it’s not as if the Turks spent 6 centuries or so trying to establish a caliphate in Western Europe.
Hmm, it’s almost as though we might be better served if the intelligence agencies monitored these sorts of places rather than opposing political campaigns.
“Read a crucial set of essays from the progenitor of āmansplainingā
The Avclub for better or worse has just been a habit for me in the last decade or so. It’s the place I go to for news on pop culture and when things are coming out and interviews (the one today with Hank Azaria was great). I probably should find a better source. Suggestions? Not too fussed.
But Jesus FUCKING Christ. They are the best example of TDS that I can think of. They are so preening and marinated in social justice that it’s my favorite example of an outlet that has been totally and fully poisoned and infected, and they literally can’t help but flash their morse code beacons at every single opportunity.
I now that I for one totally doubt anything that these people promote. Oh, Oscarssowhite…had a year of Oscars with more black representation. I now reflexively assume that their performances weren’t actually as good as they were because it just seems so convenient. I know, old argument against Affirmative Action. But now I actually actively *feel* it. This book, I presume is bullshit simply because of the way that the author talks about it.
“The longest and newest essay…dealing with the myriad and insidious ways both women and men are silenced under the patriarchy.” Facts not at ALL in evidence, darling. OOooooh….how meta. I’m mansplaining to counter her argument of mansplaining. Oh, wait, I’m just using logic.
“The throwaway line about Jonathan Franzen, too, is pure gold: āI understand that there is a writer named Jonathan Franzen, but I have not read him, except for his recurrent attacks on Jennifer Weiner in interviews.ā
That’s…gold? And PURE gold at that? It ain’t no Ovaltine bit.
Rant off.
TLDR: I’m sick of everything being poisoned by the weakest and most popular “thinking.” It’s the K-Pop of arguments.
http://www.avclub.com/review/read-crucial-set-essays-progenitor-mansplaining-252855
Ouch. Apologies for wall of text.
AV Club is one where I take the good and ignore the nonsense. I enjoy the Random Roles interviews too much to just stop going completely!
Careful dude, once you start objecting to the relentless insipid stupidity you’re only two or three iterations away from becoming the next oppressorgroup-gate.
The Cat Lady Party! Middle-aged women comprise the bulk of the so-called “Resistance”.
I like to refer to them as “spinsters”. It’s old-fashioned, generally accurate, and drives them even crazier.
I’ve pissed a few of them off with “Maiden Aunt” too
The proper terminology is “on the shelf”. Sheesh!
That’s pretty rich from you, KK, you and your near-dessicated ovaries.
Stop othering my shriveled up eggs!
Swedish company Epicenter implants microchips into employees
Wow, what could go wrong?
“But you can wave your hand at a door and it opens like Star Trek! How cool is that?”
Bad news from Russia.
I would be shocked if it got significant attention from the legacy media.
FALSE FLAG!!!1!1!ONEONE!!11ELEVENTY!!
Let’s not jump to any conclusions.
Fucking white Christian terrorists again!
White male anti-abortion extremists.
Popular singer vocalranges. Not a universal list but interesting.
No Simon Le Bon, no care.
Her name is Rio and she dances on the sannnnnnd……
As a longtime punk/metal guy, one of my deepest darkest secrets has always been that I really like Duran Duran.
I’m sure you own the Duran Duran metal tribute album?
I didn’t know there was such a thing. I’m going to have to check out who performed on it.
Track listing:
1. Rio – Goldfinger
2. Hold Back The Rain – Buck-O-Nine
3. Planet Earth – Home Grown
4. The Chauffeur – Deftones
5. Come Undone – Wise Crack
6. Hungry Like The Wolf – Reel Big Fish
7. The Reflex – Less Than Jake
8. Ordinary World – Riverfenix
9. A View To A Kill – GOB
10. Girls On Film – Bjorn Again
11. The Seventh Stranger – The Wrens
12. Save A Prayer – Eve’s Plum
13. New Religion – Jimmy Eat World
14. Is There Something I Should Know – Mr. T Experience
15. Girls On Film – Wesley Willis Fiasco
Wow, by the names on that track list I can identify the time period of that album to about 1996-99. Wesley Willis was dead by around 2001, so it’s definitely ’90s.
Bjorn Again? So an ABBA tribute band played on a tribute album to someone else? That’s META!
Amazon sez 1997
(OK, I do care a little because how could Axl Rose get lower than Barry White?)
I was surprised at some of the ranges. I am not sure it is accurate (Aretha Franklin’s range seems a little small to me), but I thought it was intersting.
And then as they age – men certainly – find their range changes.
No Geddy Lee. No Pat Benatar – who could certainly hit impressive highs 30 years ago.
What about the voice of Geddy Lee,
How did it get so high,
Bet he talks like an ordinary guy,
(I know him, and he does)
No Jon Anderson either.
Well, his high end is nowhere near as high nowadays.
Vocal tone and pitch leave very different impressions.
Someone can sing a low B and still not have a “Bass-heavy” voice. Their “B1” has less ass on it, but its still the note…. it just comes across thin.
e.g. Johnny Cash’s low-end isn’t as low as either of theirs, but he has a bar bassier mid-range than either of them. Cash carries more ‘bass’ into the mid-range notes, and so creates the impression he sings very low-notes.
Scanned list for Rob Halford, left disappointed. Unsubscribe.
That too.
It seems to be based on the lowest/highest note they ever recorded. Any decent singer can hit notes out of their range. A better indicator is what they could sing night after night.
And why isn’t Cher on that list? She had serious pipes.
No Bruce Dickenson? š
i was surprised Iggy Pop was even on the list, and more surprised he spans 4 octaves. my impression was that he was more of a “groan to yell”-guy in a very narrow range.
i enjoyed the fact that katy perry/taylor swift can barely sing across 2.
i think including Eminem undermines the credibility of the exercise somewhat. or at least shows “range” has nothing to do with “singing”
The Bloombergousie just had a *fascinating* discussion about the auto market. Quarterly numbers are coming in, and they’re “unexpectedly” soft; “uniformly disappointing” was the term just used There is a “glut” of used cars coming onto the market, due to lease vehicles going off contract; apparently, the manufacturers have been offering super-favorable terms on leases and rental fleets to keep their numbers pumped. Also, some people are beginning to have some doubts as to the health of the car loan market.
That doesn’t sound familiar. Not at all.
President Clinton and her pet Uber-Keynesian, Doktor Krugabe, would by now undoubtedly be putting the finishing touches on Cash for Clunkers 2.0, given the opportunity. I wonder which Republicans are whispering in Trump’s ear.
Cash for Clunkers. Brilliant idea. Could’ve saved the subprime housing market with a Shillings for Shitholes program. Make me an economic adviser.
Sweet. I’ll be looking for a vehicle soon.
My Subie’s been limping along for a couple years now, and I’m faced with dropping a thousand bucks on a new water pump and radiator hoses to buy some time while the head gasket is ticking down. In the shape it’s in no way it’s worth more than fifteen hundred. Maybe it’s time to think about trading in.
Cash for Clunkers still makes me boiling mad. It was such an obviously stupid plan and it disproportionally hurt the poor, since they were the people who buy the low-end used cars that were being senselessly destroyed. But hey, some wealthy Audi-driving SWPL asshole in Falls Church didn’t suffer because of it, so the media never bothered looking into the problems it created.
It still makes me mad, too. Not only is it impossible to find a decent AB car for under $5K. But it did nothing to help the environment.
Exactly. The used car market became so distorted and, eight years later, it still is.
An amusing summary of Russiagate.
The only crime we know about for sure ā the only one ā is that some senior member of Obamaās intelligence community committed a felony by leaking classified information regarding Mike Flynn’s intercepted communications. That’s it.
Demonstrably true, yet not often mentioned when the MUH RUSSIANS stories are repeated ad nauseum.
Amusing read, thanks. This Schlicter fellow seems a bit acerbic, I like the cut of his jib.
Well technically whoever it was that actually hacked those emails did in fact commit a crime.
releasing them however, that was a pure public service
“Well, I was exploring the shocking real reason CHiPS went off the air, which was going to stun me, when I saw a story on OMGLinks that Hillary Clinton had an alien baby. Why, then I knew I had to vote for Donald Trump because I hate aliens. We got to build us a wall around space and make them Space Mexicans pay for it!ā
Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe it was Russian-inspired clickbait stories on Facebook that magically converted hundreds of thousands of dedicated āIām with herā Hillary fans in the Rust Belt into #MAGA hat-wearing Trumpmaniacs.
The stories don’t have to result in a voter voting for Trump instead of Hillary. I think the argument is that the “clickbait” stories resulted in Hillary voters not voting at all.
Felonia von Pantsuit
Excellent.
I should probably start making an effort to read that Schlicter guy. Somebody linked to another piece by him which was goos.
He’s great except for the warboner.
His actual opinions often range into silly things, but he’s entertainingly hostile.
sdNail bomb kills at least ten and injures 50 on St Petersburg metro after ‘terrorist’ throws backpack onto train moments before shrapnel rips through carriages on the day Putin visits the city
ISIS take responsibility, but then, they would say that, wouldn’t they?
Guess your right.
We know they are from here because it would have read, “We will bur
yn You.”They are going to fly their flag on the whitehouse, the vatican, and the kremlin. Interesting.
There is no “enemy of my enemy is my friend” with ISIS, is there? They equally hate everybody.
Why is “terrorist” in scare quotes? Oh, Daily Fail, never mind.
I’m prepared to wait a little to find out more. Throwing a couple of nail bombs into a subway train as the doors close so you can get away displays a degree of self-preservation which has been notably lacking in ISIS- and ISIS-Inspired- operations to date.
Plus yes, Daily Fail, via some other news agency, so at the very least you have 2 levels of Gell-Mann to take into consideration.
“We finally started getting our pool ready to open but the rains yesterday, as well as the howling winds, tornadoes in the area and general unpleasantness mean that we probably wonāt get it done until this next weekend.”
You must live in Texas, too, with that weather description.
From Jane Meyer’s Slate interview:
Heās got really weird views. Thatās the thing that was scary to me. Itās great that the country is filled with all kinds of points of view and personalities and eccentrics and everything else, but whatās scary is when somebody with views that are so eccentric has so much influence over the rest of us simply because he has so much money and so that a minority view gets imposed on everybody else.
It’s a good thing Tom Steyer and George Soros are mainstream thinkers.
eccentric = not like me
“They’re not quite our sort, old boy.”
They’re tryna primary Amash again
Also appears to be a violation of the Hatch Act?
considering his town halls are the few not involving pitchforks and shrieking banshees, i like Justin’s chances.