Happy Wednesday! I have many fewer boxes in my house and in a much better mood. Also, the pool refinishers aren’t going to rape me with STEVE SMITH’s dick, so its a good day!
- It looks like Susan Rice will be playing Wile E. Coyote, Supergenius to Trump’s Roadrunner in the 2nd go-around of Republican presidents are dangerous morons who keep not losing to the Democrats.
- But then again, Steve Bannon just got the boot from the NSC, and took a dig at the aforementioned Ms. Rice on his way out. And Rick Perry is in? Will he bring his famously sharp memory to bear on issues of National Security? Who knows, but at least we’ll know who the leaker isn’t.
- Gorsuch edited an article that might have plagiarized some information once. HuffPo asked, “Why do Republicans keep nominating people accused of plagiarism?” Although the plagiarism accusations are (a) always leveled after and (b) not as serious as Joe Biden’s.
- Huh. Barry Manilow is gay?
- Suicide bomber or Terminator? What we do know is that this dog was a good dog.
The seventies were so confusing.
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Hello From Sunny Upland Cali
this funny
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/04/05/whites-banned-from-black-lives-matter-event-in-philadelphia/
I’m first cause you all are working huh?
You’re in Upland? I’m so sorry.
The Philly Coalition for REAL Justice (sort of an umbrella group that encompasses BLM here as best I can tell) posted a note on FB earlier today that said they weren’t “banning white people from their meeting”, but rather “creating necessary black only spaces”.
Shit you not.
I wonder which end of the bus you go to for ” necessary black only spaces”?
They need to move on.
You think they need to MOVE on?
Man caught taking out trash naked charged with indecent exposure
Florida. Of course.
As if the kids have never seen a penis before.
This is why I like some space between me and the neighbors.
And why neighbors like it too.
From the enlightened lands of Facebook marketing, a story of corporate “what the fuck did you thing was going to happen?”
Nivea removes ‘white is purity’ deodorant advert branded ‘racist’
Its like an SNL skit.
White? Targeting the ME?
/Facepalm
Not sure about the ME, but IIRC it’s a fairly common (and successful) way to advertise in India.
Light skin is preferred, yeah.
But look, only Americans can be racist, so this conversation must not be happening.
When someone gives me the “black people can’t be racist” line, I ask them what it’s called when black people mistreat mixed race people.
Far as I know, Arabs consider themselves ‘white’ and certainly fall within Caucasian group. But 19th century racist classifications of peoples are probably too simplistic for our modern era of racist classifying…
It’s just a no pants candy party for kids!
I’d like to think this was someone at Nivea’s Costanza moment.
So, a company runs an add based on the culture of a foreign market, what you might call a multi-cultural ad showing an understanding of what other cultures value, and the SJW left demands that they not run it? Who’s the racist, again?
In their cosmology, aren’t they being “culturally imperialist” by dictating their values to
the morlockspeople of colorinhabitants of the Global South?Reminds me of a skyway billboard for a men’s store in Minneapolis. It was a picture of a well-dressed, good looking young black man. And the store’s name superimposed across his chest? BONOBO.
I saw a photo of a Billboard in Poland several years ago. It said
Wodka brand vodka.
Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing.
One of my favorites comes from Germany. Gustl Mollath was wrongfully detained in a psychiatric institution for several years, basically because the elites didn’t want the truth that he was speaking to become known. He was finally exonerated and released in 2013, and car rental company Sixt released a print ad with a giant photo of Mollath, and the caption, “The only crazy thing here is Sixt’s prices.”
Here is a story (in German) with a picture of the ad. I would have included it in the previous post, but, you know, the link limit and all….
We have created and run ads for a local Irish pub with a photo of young Irish lads fighting in the streets.
The headline read “You don’t want an authentic Irish experience. You want fun.”
One of the others was a woodcut depicting the Potato Famine and the headline was “We promise not to run out of french fries.” They were for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations at the pub.
The seventies were so confusing.
I thought you’d post something actually horrifying. The 70s were definitely the worst decade.
It was like the golden era of serial killers.
I was born in 1971. What I remember most about it was the horrible fashion, home decorating, music, and entertainment. Even at a young age I knew there was something horribly wrong with that decade.
I’ve mentioned it before: I was born in 1972, and when I would color in my coloring books, I would try to color the people as wearing plaid pants.
’66 Here.
I recall cars going to pretty cool to incredibly shitty in just a few years.
The music I thought was good. Look up all the great albums from 76 and 77.
Fashion and decorating was just awful.
Come to think of it, I probably went through a lot of rust orange and pea green crayons.
Women’s fashion was way better in the 70s than the 80s, though. In the 80’s, women caked on the make-up, put shoulder pads in their outfits for some reason, leg warmers were a thing, and hairstyles were often atrocious.
Not to mention all the day-glo colors. The 80s were horrible, and anyone who likes the 80s is horrible.
Hey, at least their ideas about their future were cool.
Mad Scientist: Disproven
leg warmers were a thing
Flash Dance was a shitty movie, and that wasn’t even Jennifer Beals actually dancing.
70s maybe, but EIGHTIES?
Here’s a test: Pick ANY movie from the 80s, and pick out a woman you think looks genuinely good. Go on, I’ll wait.
Ah, nvm I had some serious reading comprehension fail right there. Nothing to see here, move along. Please don’t read what I wrote.
Beetlejuice. Winona Ryder. 1988.
Not if you compare that literally any other picture of her taken at any other time in her life, before or after.
Patty Smyth (music videos count right?). That Russian chick in Rocky 4.
Uh…
No music videos, too easy. And I hope to god you don’t mean the one with the geniune fe-mullet.
I haven’t seen it since I was like fourteen so maybe?
That chick who gets owned in the Road Warrior?
You know that was Virginia Hey aka Zhaan from Farscape – right? Ages well for a gal who shaves her head. (I’m talking about Warrior Woman from the Road Warrior).
Bridgette Nielsen, Red Sonja
Kim Basinger, anything.
Okay you might have me there, although some of Kim’s earlier 80s work is definitely on the margins.
Vanessa Angel, Spies Like Us
It was TV and not movies, but Heather Locklear in The Fall Guy
Geena Davis was hot for 15 minutes.
Kelley LeBrock?
Phoebe Cates.
Yes! Fast Times era Phoebe Cates
I’ll get on the Phoebe Cates* in Fast Times train.
Like, literally…
*PG13 version
God yes, Weird Science….
Carrie Fisher Return of the Jedi!
At the risk of getting uninvited to, well… everything, I never found her super attractive. I never thought she was ugly but I also never wanted a poster of her on my wall either.
Concur
She was hotter in the Blues Brothers.
Chick in starship troopers.
Michelle Pfeiffer in Ladyhawke.
The only people who think the 70s sucked are white people.
Also, “Disco Duck” was my first record.
So I don’t know if any of you saw it, but The Simpsons this week was pretty great.
Mr. Burns wants to endow a Department of Nuclear Plant Management at his alma mater, Yale. The Yale administrators tell him that can’t happen, because “our students are highly entitled wusses”, and that “You’d be creating a space for violence to happen” (with the words ‘Actual Quote from Yale Student’ on the screen).
The first administrator then suggests he fund a chair in “The Non-Narrative Cinema of Self-Identified Pansexuals”, and follows that up with “We also need to hire more deans to decide what Halloween costumes are apprpriate”.
Then the students get involved and demand a Chair of Non-Nuclear Studies and a Nuclear-Neutral pathway. After Mr. Burns calls one of the students a “fellow”, the student responds complaining about his “Cisgender-Normative” language and says that Mr. Burns is worse than Hitler.
Then at the end of the show Yale is mostly populated with androids with the mind of a college student (capable of defrauding Sallie Mae with student loan applications). Homer destroys all of the androids by dressing up as a robot, which causes them to explode due to the cultural appropriation.
I had a couple friends text me about it. I haven’t watched since season 13. I might track this episode down.
If you go to FOX.com it should be there.
I have the FXNow app on the Apple TV. I assume it will be there. Otherwise, I have other ways.
I don’t care how much The Simpsons wants to confirm my bias and philosophy, it needs to die.
1. I agree.
2. The Simpsons went topical and slanted to the left ages ago. It’s writers are a bunch of filthy lefties who have just gotten older and feel out of touch with the current generation of snowflakes. Fuck’em.
Did Bart get out of the 4th grade yet?
Hmmm… I still remember the Simpsons did it! episode of South Park. So…
South park did it?
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/04/05/nikki_haley_to_united_nations_if_you_wont_act_in_syria_we_will.html
Nikki Haley is pimping war at the UN. “If you don’t act (with regards to Assad) then we will”. Just two days ago, though, Tillerson said ousting Assad was not a priority for the administration.
Full disclosure: Nikki Haley is cute when she pouts
You know, before he was elected, I figured “Yeah, Trump is awful, but he’s sure to be better than Hillary when it comes to interventionism, especially in the Middle East”
The sarin attack yesterday got the sabers rattling. Nothing gives a partial casus belli and increases public approval for intervention like a chemical warfare attack, which is why it’s so bizarre for it to happen now, because why the hell would the Syrian government do it if they’re winning?
Chemical Warfare is awesome!
Gods on the throne must be watching from hell,
Awaiting the mass genocide,
Soldiers defeated by death from a smell,
Bodies lie dormant no life,
Rising new souls on the lands where they fell,
Demons not ready to die,
Nothing to see where the sleeping souls lie,
CHEMICAL WARFARE!!!!
+ SLAAAAYAAAARRR!!!
If you hear Tillerson you may think: “ah, see, he doesn’t want to start another foreign conflict”. And then you hear Haley and you may say: “why is the actress from Slumdog Millionaire trying to make World War III happen?”
Who speaks for the administration? No one knows
Oh you sweet innocent flower.
I’ma gonna reserve judgment until we actually escalate. Everything this administration has done so far is to try and establish a “muscular foreign policy” image, and that’s all I see now.
FWIW, that footage from the ‘sarin attack’ seems kosher, but I’m still on the fence regarding the perps. Stockpiles of Sarin in Syria could have been captured by just about any of the military groups in-country. It doesn’t require sophisticated handling protocols if you’re not that worried about your own personnel getting minor exposure, and it’s relatively easy to deploy, assuming the same level of concern for your personnel doing the deployment.
Indeed, the very fact that we’ve got footage lends credence to the possibility that the perps want the footage shown by media outlets, so you have to ask cui bono. And given that the footage is inducing fear and even terror in international viewers, maybe it’s one of the terrorist militias.
If I were a leader of an ISIS-affiliated group, and I believed that a decisive, armageddon-like battle in Dafiq was the way to win in Syria, it needs an “infidel army” to defeat. How do you get an infidel army on the ground, in Northern Syria? You give them a humanitarian crisis that requires something more than a bombing campaign.
I’ll take the tinfoil hat off now.
Reagan was rhetorically bombastic and it led to WW3.
yeah. Twice.
She’s not ass-eating hot in that video. Not even close.
“Nikki Haley to United Nations: If You Won’t Act In Syria, We Will”
What do you mean “we”?
ALTERNATE JOKE:
I met a girl named Nikki, I guess you could call her a war monger
Met her at the United Nations saying she’d wage war ’cause she was stronger
3 OUT OF 10
Nikki
+would
Suicide bomber or Terminator? What we do know is that this dog was a good dog.
They’re good dogs,
BrentBrett.Dirtbag Left goes to war
The Dirtbag Left’s Man in Syria: What PissPigGranddad — Twitter hero to radicals everywhere — saw in the war he’s about to come home from.
Nobody here will like this guy, but his story is pretty fucking fascinating.
How did that guy not get killed in Syria? Honest question. He has thick framed glasses and is holding a puppy while smoking a cigarette. Are you really telling me that no ‘friendly fire’ accidentally blew his brains out? This has got to be faked
There’s a note in there that he had a Star of David tattoo filled in before he went. I’m assuming they’re serious about their foreign fighters doing PR work for them.
It just doesn’t seem fair that he survived. I don’t know, it’s just not right
He’s not actually on the front lines.
He seems to have had a few brushes, but it does talk about how restless he was going over there and not really getting close to the fighting.
It looks like this, Belden.
Looks like Venezuela.
Looks like Myles McInnes.
At least she had the good sense to get out before he grew up
I will give him the credit of having the balls to actually pick up a gun and at least shoot in the general direction of living humans, but this really pokes holes in my ‘coastal hipster douchebags won’t fight in the next civil war’ theory. At least we will be able to see their artistically painted guns from a distance.
I’d put Kittyflauge up against UCP.
Next civil war will be these guys vs these guys.
I’m in Phoenix so I hope so. I definitely want a footnote in history.
The New Times crew looks to have more fatties and are wearing red. The Breitbart crew is 55 and older.
Either way both sides lose when they blow up the CAP canal.
iow, “after i got the first job of my life, i was like FUCK THIS GIVE ME FREE SHIT”…
… and it being San Francisco, no one could explain why this wasn’t the sharpest POV.
Better is that his boss remembers life under communism and us all what the fuck is wrong with this guy?
I respected him until the communist came out.
John FritzeVerified account @jfritze
“He puts ketchup on his crab cakes,” @Call_Me_Dutch says of Trump in meeting w/ Chesapeake Bay advocates. “We’ve got a lot of work to do.”
Oh fuck… that’s a hanging in MD.
So they might do something crazy like vote 60% against him next go around? Oh, wait…
Ketchup on crab cakes is indeed a hanging offense. It’s on saltines, maybe, and as is. But that’s if it’s backfin and no filler. If it’s the crab meatballs the rest of the country calls crab cakes, then all bets are off.
Also, its J O seasoning, not Old Bay. Old Bay is for everything else.
For JT and HM, rest of you can keep walking:
EU4 patch 1.20 notes, and what they actually mean
So scorched earth is kind of back, but less badass because they’ve capped attrition at 5%. Old scorched earth was amazing, you could get like 10-12% attrition due to stacked effects and watch armies melt.
China has a new “We Should Have Built The Wall Higher” disaster that can fire any time they have an independent horde neighbor with high enough development.
*Shakes head, Picard facepalm*
BTW, I did it, JT – took Serbia and got Lazarus achivement on my first playthrough with all the DLC installed (I did 3 attempts with Cossacks and Mare Nostrum alone, which lasted 20 minutes, 30 minutes and 2 hours until I fucked up peace deal and let alliance with Poland break because I make poor decisions at 1AM).
Good job, but a true Serbia game does not end until kebab is gone.
I’m wondering how broke the game is going to be until the next patch, especially given Japan’s habit of being either insanely underpowered or overpowered.
I guess I could keep pushing till turk is no more, but fuck me, it’s either gonna be a grind or utterly trivial timesink – if I can keep my France/Russia/Poland plus some perky minors alliance web going, Turks are fucked to the max. Late game seems unsatisfying AF, and end date should have been pre-Revolution, as their engine is incapable of doing Napoleonic wars…
I don’t think they care enough about the Napoleonic Wars to worry about that, the date is basically there so it syncs up with the Victoria series better and you can get at least a couple decades in as the United States.
Who wants a €1.20 note?
Nice.
That damn synchronicity again, up comes “The seventies” just after I mention Strawberry Studios (North) in the prior thread. I haven’t thought about that place in so long.
But it’s OK, I’m not in love. Really. I mean it.
I like that they’re all trying to downplay it as her “just doing her job” and all kinds of other hijinks. If they thought so, why did several MSM outlets receive the story and then sit on it for days rather than report it if they really weren’t worried about it?
That’s not the story the dnc operatives with bylines want to be telling, and it would railroad their masters?
And, of course, why did she outright lie at first and deny that she did any such thing?
The lawyer strategy for fighting a dog-bite case:
1)What dog?
2)I don’t own a dog
3)My dog doesn’t bite
Apply as necessary.
Admit nothing. Deny everything. Make counter-accusations.
If it’s just her job where are the unmasked calls of Hillary, Bernie, Bush, Rubio, Cruz… I’m sure their staff had contact with foreign officials too.
That .gif is disturbing.
Gorsuch edited an article that might have plagiarized some information once.
Already refuted. File under Fake News.
I heard that he was disrespectful to a doorman once!
Ideally, you try and find a way to rephrase even the most simple-minded material from your sources, but by rephrasing a description of Down’s syndrome (in a way the author of the allegedly plagiarized article said was OK) is hardly Joe Biden level of plagiarism.
It’s funny that just today at lunch, I had a discussion about plagiarism with a colleague. We agreed that a.) in most cases plagiarism is more of a “mistake” that should have an educative solution as opposed to punitive and b.) treating plagiarism as a crime just one step above pedophilia is a unique quirk of Anglosphere culture.
Pál Schmitt disagrees.
I looked him up.
Holy shit!
‘Facts? We don’t need no stinkin’ facts!’
And we don’t need no stinkin facts, because FEELZ!
St. Paul officer fired for kicking man, K-9 bite should be rehired, arbitrator rules
The St. Paul City Council will vote this afternoon on a record $2 million settlement with the man who was attacked, Frank Baker.
http://www.startribune.com/st-paul-officer-fired-for-kicking-man-k-9-bite-should-be-rehired-arbitrator-rules/418415153/
Cops are fired because the people doing the firing know they’re going to be reinstated by the arbitrator. The police department gets to say “Gee whiz folks, it wasn’t our fault, it was that darn arbitrator!” and look good to the public and the city/county/state, while making their real bosses (the police union) happy too.
The guy bit a police dog?
It was quite a story.
Dindu nuffin. He a good boy.
Q: What’s an even lamer, more pathetically contrived marketing campaign than Pepsi co-opting The Resistance?
A: The Resistance
-IowaHawk
I almost wanted to sign up for twitter so i could make a similar point.
I have a Twitter account simply so I can verbally assault athletes who lose me money.
The new national pastime.
I have a Twitter account for that very reason. I follow no one else and never post a thing. Worked out well.
Is pepsi really going in on the resistance? what?
Please sit down before reading the next sentence, below – It’s too shocking!
CA gun news: Today, April 4, the Assembly Public Safety Committee failed to pass Assembly Bill 757, also known as the “shall-issue” bill, by a party-line vote.
Who even thought to bother with such a thing in California? Is it like Dems introduce this stuff secretly just so they can do symbolic votes against it?
It’s more along the lines of the Rs and their obamacare repeal bills during the last presidency. They know it won’t pass, but Rs gotta virtue signal sometimes too.
I just had a Brennan and Carr roast beef sandwich. (Brooklyn)
So the world can go ahead and burn.
At 4.30 local time? YOU MONSTER. IT’S NT EVEN MEALTIME!
I got 2 to go for later
Linner! Or dinner if you’re a traditionalist. That meal before supper.
Don’t forget Second Breakfast!
And brunch.
Fuckin’ Hobbits ….
When I was a kid, and we visited Grandma & Grandpa on the farm, lunch was “a little snack” to hold you over before dinner (the noon meal).
It was not uncommon for that lunch to consist of mashed potatoes and roast.
My Grandpa once made a late night snack for him and my 8 year old brother. It was an entire pack of hot dogs.
Grandpa and Grandma used to burn a significant amount of calories on the farm.
Grandpa and Grandma used to burn a significant amount of calories on the farm.
Pics?
Here.
I was expecting this.
Better.
Foreign Affairs Magazine (tw: OMG CFR neoliberal elites) publishes a surprisingly-titled “The Case Against Immigration” = Why the United States Should Look Out for Itself
*i have not read it yet. i have a bad cold.
**I also think there is a potential good case that being pro-immigration can also be part of the US ‘looking out for itself’; it just depends how much you think immigrants contribute to economic dynamism vs. a place growing demands on the welfare-state. My problem in the past w/ Shikha/Reason-style open-bordersism is the absence of any examination of those sorts of practical economic impacts, instead preferring moral-platitudes.
*also, unlike previous FA articles linked in the past, this is entirely free and available to anyone sans paywall nag
If you don’t mind spoilers, the argument is that we should shift from “family-weighted” immigration policies to “national interest” immigration policies. And enforce the laws as written. With a major sub-thread being that pro-open borders people always discount the down-side of immigration costs and up-play the benefits. (Which, while true, is what the other side does the mirror image of.)
I think this is actually one of those issues where the truth is in-between the extremes.
Usually people making such claims are unprincipled difference-splitters, but with immigration there’s a role for some sensible centrism.
Logically, the only two principled immigration policies are
A. Open borders.
B. Some sort of “feudal Japan up to 11” with absolutely no noncitizen allowed into the country for any reason whatsoever.
Anything between A and B, someone is picking and choosing who can come in and for what reasons. Which is why I find the endless moralizing by the Left on the subject so fucking tedious. Particularly so since the actual goal of their preferred immigration policies is to make a more favorable demographic matrix for them to win elections easier. They envision, through importing specific kinds of immigrants, the US as California on a large scale, where there are enough Republican legislators to scapegoat for the failures of progressivism, but not enough to actually win an election.
In the greatest tragedy for American Indians since Wounded Knee, Lizzie Warren got the political equivalent of a Tornado DDT.
Jake the Snake got her?
No, but Damien did.
Ha ha!
To be fair, Liz didn’t know they were women.
Across America, hardworking women and their families deserve action on equal pay for equal work
They always seem to ignore the last part of that sentence.
They always seem to ignore the last part of that sentence.
My cousin and his wife had the same position at geico. My cousin applied for supervisor and got the job with pay increase. His wife didn’t want the hassle of being supervisor so stayed where she was, so didn’t get a pay bump. Clearly sexism accounts for the difference in pay and not their preference of pay to bullshit ratio.
Which one is the gecko? And does the gecko sleep with Progressive Flo?
Don’t forget who mainly occupies the most lethal jobs. I think we need equality in that, too, and I hereby volunteer all of the above female Senators to take jobs in the fishing and logging industries.
equal pay for equal work
Like the equal pay act of 1963?
How? Squaw got squawked on.
Wow, that’s even worse than what happened in 1998 when Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell in a Cell, and he plummeted 16 feet down through the announcer’s table.
This reminds me of unions paying people minimum wage to stand on picket lines.
They be mendacious fucks, but they’re not stupid!
It’s been a while since I’ve seen a photo of Chelsea Clinton. She is not a looker – and didn’t she get some work done? If so, she should ask for her money back. Now, you might ask why I am making fun of her looks. It’s not fair, you may say. Well I think she should STFU and go away, so I’ll make fun of her all I want!
So there!
First, be the daughter of a President and Sec of State, then…
There’s only so much you can do with a total munter.
Let’s face it, nature didn’t have a lot of very much to work with.
Butter face to go with butter body and butter soul.
All of which goes perfectly with the potato head.
Shes not that bad. After enough whiskey–I could pass out and drown in vomit.
I think my dream scenario for the Trump administration is to see Trump meet and debate Kim Jung Un. It would be the perfect snapshot of the pissant politics today. A (more?) retarded version of the Cold War.
Man, you could have that be an HBO exclusive and charge $100 per person to watch it!
Have it emceed by Dennis Rodman
I think they should go to an old Trump standby and each pick a pro wrestler to represent them. Hair vs. Gut match!
Can it be a rap battle? It has to be a rap battle.
Can we hold a candlelight vigil for that dog?
Man what did we ever do to deserve dogs.
It’s true – we don’t deserve them.
Spend hundreds of years and multiple generations taming and domesticating giant take-your-fucking-hand-right-off wolves for fun and profit?
Sounds legit.
They chose us.
This^
Why would major corporations who own failing old media companies suddenly start dropping advertisement for the new media that is currently butchering them?
Who cares, let’s just whine about Jews in the comments.
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I find the argument that these are trolls false-flagging on behalf of some anti-left social-media-meme-war-agenda less and less plausible.
from a base of, ‘not very’ to begin with
So it’s a link to Zero Hedge?
TW: Shika
reason.com/archives/2017/04/05/trump-is-a-green-light-for-illiberal-rul
Basically about Modi being a hindu nationalist and not liking muslims. Could have been a good article except she unnecessarily inserts Trump and blames him (even though she says he isn’t responsible) for giving the green light to persecute muslims. Problem is Modi was like this before Trump. This drags it down about trying to tie his own actions to Trump. Hindus and muslims haven’t had an exactly healthy relationship
Was this the one where she blames Trump for Indians behaving badly? We’ve had a few discussions on this one over the past week.
Yes, it’s the one I posted a link to earlier today.
Which american socialist are you?
he’s OUR american socialist!
The not-retarded one, right?
He should just change his name, because this is getting stupid and aspy.
^100 times this
The normal one. I dont want that clown coming over here. I think it really impacted him when i squatted on his name
I dont post at reason anymore and have just buried the name (mainly cause the commenting system sucks)
Plus i have grown attached…
You’ve grown accustomed to your name.
Exactly. I couldn’t come up with my own so i just stole it for equality purposes
Shit. I Gilmore’d the link. Meh.
I like it because I like the history of it. By capturing the name, you defanged the idiot who had it first, and in posting as you do under the name american socialist, you might trick some nominal socialists into giving libertarianism a closer look.
That’s a far fetched theory there, amigo. There probably aren’t many socialists who will show up here and last any longer than shreek did. But if it happens, then good.
I think i want to make reddit account and then start posting free market economics in the r/politics but not say the word free market
Also, serious question: Have the muslims ever had a healthy relationship with anyone, including other muslims?
India.
Second Caliphate.
Off the top of my head.
*Third, I always get the Rashiduns and Umayyads mixed together in my head for some reason.
Regardless, weren’t the Byzantines at constant war with both of them?
I was focusing on domestic policy.
Ah, I see.
That phrasing is way too close to what I’ve seen those ISIS guys do to non-believers.
No.
If “neglect to the point that populace will rise against the local Muslim converts on behalf of your government” qualifies, Ottomans might count.
I don’t know. Who is Indonesia at war with?
They’re still not too fond of the East Timorese.
She wrote, what, four articles about Modi being horrible and murdering Muslims before Trump even announced his candidacy?
And didn’t she write this couple weeks back?
Oh well, it isn’t even fun to complain about her anymore. She should try to get a gig at CBC, her writing would fit right in.
Not after the blinding rage boner she’s had towards Canada for a past month or two, after people started using our immigration system as a positive example.
Fucking hell, PM Zoolander, when you lost Shikha Dalmia…
She’s really obnoxious about it too, constantly preening about how ‘compassionate’ Canada is but how their horrible immigration system disproves all that. I’d take a couple million more Sikhs rather than a scumbag like Dalmia.
If she moved to Canada, she’d be taking a pay cut. I meant more as ‘no, we have an honest American contributor’ play on the side of CBC.
I mean, say what you will, but she’s the last Reason writer who can crack 40 comments (although I see Shackford managed today).
She can crack 40 comments, but all of them are something to the effect of ‘Hogwash, this writer is an idiot’. I wonder if she ever reads the comments?
She did that one time HM called her out on some of her bullshit and she thought it was a good idea to argue with him over it.
Climate wars update.
Science vs Pseudo-science.
*makes note of BigT and his anti-science stance. Puts him on The List*
Avatar makes this post lol.
Also Judith Curry is a great source for this type of stuff.
I mean it’s a possibility that climate science started out as real science, but then it was hijacked and turned into a political movement and then a quasi religion by rent seekers like Al Gore. Soon everyone was on the train for big piece of the pie, which was supposed to be trillions in tax dollars from wealthy nations.
The first things that should be considered when making these wild claims is some big factors in a planets climate:
1. The mass of the planet.
2. The distance of the planet from it’s star.
3. Elliptical orbit around star.
4. Axis tilt.
5. Solar activity.
6. Tectonic activity.
All of these things will always be more of a factor in climate than Co2. I wonder what caused Snowball Earth? How did it get so warm in previous eras with no humans, like the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, when there was not even any ice on the poles?
These people are making wild speculations about human output of Co2 being able to drastically change the climate. They should be ashamed, but there’s money involved.
I’ve tried asking these questions. I’ve also tried asking how they’re so certain that a one degree increase over a century is “unprecedented” when the instruments of a century ago were not even accurate within two degrees. I’ve tried asking how they can achieve 110% certainty in a branch of science that has no possible method of controlled experiments.
I’ve never gotten an answer; they just shout “consensus”, “anti-science”, and “paid off by fossil fuel corporations”. That last one is pretty rich. Yea, little old me, living in my 2-bedroom house with a broken water heater.. I’m just living high on that fossil fuel cash. Yes sir.
“I’ve also tried asking how they’re so certain that a one degree increase over a century is “unprecedented”
They aren’t. Not at all. I’ve asked these questions too and what I’ve found out is that they just don’t have the data to support this claim.
Also, I should have stated that 2-6 have variations over time. Which no doubt explains the bigger variations in climate over the last few billion years.
Na na, na na na, CO2 is life
Has this been mentioned here?
Student is admitted to Stanford with admissions essay that simply repeated “Black Lives Matter” 100 times
(the student isn’t black)
Only about 5 times since yesterday.
100 times more than necessary.
No it hasn’t, those dudes ^ are high.
Gorsuch edited an article that might have plagiarized some information once. HuffPo asked, “Why do Republicans keep nominating people accused of plagiarism?” Although the plagiarism accusations are (a) always leveled after and (b) not as serious as Joe Biden’s.
From the WSJ:
Judge Gorsuch used the same words in his explanation of the medical condition, a technical description of a specific ailment outside his area of expertise. Ms. Kuzma has issued a statement that she had “reviewed both passages and [does] not see an issue.” Because the passages “are factual, not analytical in nature,” she writes, and “both describe the basic facts of the case, it would have been awkward and difficult for Judge Gorsuch to have used different language.”
Politico also criticizes Judge Gorsuch for citing primary sources when attributing portions of his writing, rather than citing secondary sources. But primary sources are an approved method of citation in academic publications. Judge Gorsuch describes Derek Humphry, a founder of the Hemlock Society and advocate for voluntary euthanasia, in similar terms as a book on the euthanasia movement written by Ian Dowbiggin, but he credits books by Rita Marker and Sue Woodman as the primary sources.
Oxford University Emeritus Professor John Finnis, who supervised Judge Gorsuch’s doctoral thesis, reviewed the allegations and says that “in all four cases, Neil Gorsuch’s writing and citing was easily and well within the proper and accepted standards of scholarly research and writing in the field of study in which he was working.” Georgetown professor John Keown was an outside examiner on Judge Gorsuch’s dissertation and called the allegations “entirely without foundation.”
Gorsuch is a freaking boy scout by anyone’s metric and they are literally going insane trying to find dirt on him.
I really like him. Are there any major decisions that stand out to you guys?
Gorsuch vs. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE has been a disconcerting case, but not due to any conduct of his.
That time he agreed with his sister-in-law about the kids being safe in the fenced compound and his wife still holds a grudge?
I don’t think that I like him. Something he said about drugs. But I’ll sure as hell take him over Garland, Obama’s ticket to all but abolishing the 2nd amendment.
As soon as they announced Garland, the chorus of the media kept repeating “moderate pragmatic moderate who is moderate and pragmatic” as loudly as they could. Which is essentially concrete proof that he would have been a gun grabbing, free speech hating, progtard of the 1st order.
I remember when I was about 13 years old and my parents told me that I was too young to go to “Rock-Fest ’78” (a three day extravaganza of drunken, stoned debauchery). Mine was more of a slow burn but the results remained. I hated them for stopping me from being stupid and they were able to sleep at night.
Yeah. And now they can’t vote for Garland because he’s ‘out of the mainstream’. These people have been moving the goalpost leftward for a century. They don’t give a fuck about mainstream, they want a leftist ideologue in the mold of Obama.
This is the best they can do? That he played a little fast and loose with some citations for a paper he wrote?
What do progs think of this:
Warren didn’t even bother to send out a tweet recognizing Equal Pay Day—setting her apart from the other 15 Democratic women in the Senate.
48 dems in the senate and 66% are men
It’s ok when we do it.
/progs
Been busy today.
Any reason why Bannon is out?
Out?
Trump threw the Left a bone and kicked Bannon off the National Security Council. I had no less than three progs smugly inform me today.
One of them is absolutely convinced that wholesale indictments are coming.
“One of them is absolutely convinced that wholesale indictments are coming.”
Well, that is crackpot non-sense. And Bannon isn’t exactly out, maybe sort of demoted. But who really knows because the only source I can find is CNN, not exactly a believable source on most of the stuff they report. They’re still reporting as a fact that Trump is in cahoots with Russians, lol. They’ve lost nearly all credibility.
It’s genuinely hilarious.
Did you see the CNN Trump/Putin hit list video? They’ve gone full crackpot on the Russian thing, no holding back now.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/03/31/eight-prominent-russians-dead-since-us-elections-labott-dnt-erin.cnn
According to what I hear, he is not “out”. He was taken off the NSC because he was not needed there. Who knows what the truth is. The prog’s claim it as him being hucked, the Trumpsters claim it was a temp posting to make sure the NSC was depoliticized. He remains the top dog in Trumps ear.
He should never have been on the NSC in the first place. That was Trump doing the “spit-test” to his little brother while Dad was away at camp.
Bannon’s more qualified to be on the NSC then half the people sitting on it now.
Should Susan Rice have been on the NSC? Under either Clinton or Obama? If we are getting our panties in a wad about idiots on the National Security Council, there are far bigger idiots than Bannon. The guy has fucked up political views, but I don’t think he is even in the same world as far as dishonesty goes compared to Susan Rice.
^this^
Maybe Trump told him to stop looking like a bum all of the time.
Yeah what’s he dying of?
Alcohol poisoning? JK, I don’t know. He could have rosacea which will make your face red and blotchy like that. He’s clearly out of shape and looks unhealthy. He always looks very disheveled, messy hair, a few days worth of beard. Who knows, could be any combination of things.
He’s more secure in his sexuality?
Good point. A meme needs to be made Bannon and Barry Manilo out on the same day.
Did anyone on the planet not already know that Manilow is gay?
I haven’t been this shocked to find out somebody was gay since Ricky Martin outed himself.
Seriously, I just assumed Barry had come out years ago.
I had a friend with whom I created a band, we were both guitarists. We mostly practiced in his basement so I was over there a lot. His dad was killed in a terrible car accident and his mom just lost it. I never saw her even one time that she was not sloshed, no matter how early in the morning. Valium and wine, and Manilow. She played the same Manilow album all the time, the one with ‘I can’t smile without you’ on it. I felt really bad for her. My friend told me that she’s been playing that album continuously since dad died.
One day I was over there and was playing the piano that was in their living room. She walks up to me and says ‘Oh my god, I didn’t know you play piano! She had only seen me doing it a hundred times or more, lol.
She Thicc?
He’s as straight as Liberace and Tab Hunter put together!
Remember the discussion we had the other day about dreaming about dead people? I ended up dreaming about my grandma – never had a dream about her before (she died many years ago). I am a subliminal marketer’s dream!
Not clicking. I don’t like death dreams.
It’s an SNL skit – Mr Subliminal, aka: Kevin Nealon
And it’s about Donald Trump! I liked the skit where he was trying to fuck Victoria Jackson more, but this one was more timely.
I dreamt I was deep dish pizza and people were laughing at me.
I dreamt that I had to pee, and when I woke up my pillow was missing.
I used to dream about my Grandmother. She had a stroke and gradually degraded until she lost all motor skills and speech before she died. I’d dream that she was walking around and talking like normal. We were pretty close, that’s probably why.
I dreamed last night that I dug up a big pile of money. Today stocks took a shit and I lost a big pile of money.
No kidding. I mean, he sent Mandy away, even though she gave and she gave without taking.
Personally, I’m not into spitters, but this track is so hype I’ll look the other way.