So I’ve got two choices today. I can either put up five or six different links to that insane Bill Nye video that’s such a hit. Or I can be a civilized human being and provide other links for (a few of) you to look at and comment on. Either way, what we all want is the comments section to get open as quickly as possible. Well, I’m opting for the latter. Because the Bill Nye thing is already played out. And because I’ve already picked out a few things I want to link to.
So here are the links!
The clock is ticking ominously toward a government shutdown. Whatever will we do? As for me, I’m celebrating every minute of it. And I actually want to see a shutdown of “non-vital” services and how a GOP admin picks and chooses who to shutter. Because I have a feeling they’re gonna handle it a little different than Obama did.
Well more and more details of the Obama Iran deal are coming out. And it looks like it was even worse than the doomsayers (including President Trump) said it was. Unless, you know, releasing convicted terrorists even his own DOJ said not to release in addition to those billions in secret cash and taking away almost all international oversight of their nuclear program is considered a good thing.
Somebody doesn’t really understand the First Amendment as it applies to college campuses. No surprise there. Fortunately, somebody else out there in the media does.
How to deal with schmucks in the workplace. (A few eye-rollers, but still a little slice of fun. OK…actually its retarded as shit.)
Whatever you do, Bernie, don’t go after the largest and heaviest participating demographic! That would be crazy. (TW: Salon retardation.)
Its never too late in the year for a little Snow.
Go out there and have a good one!
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449 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”
Good morning. I’m looking for Poppy. Has anyone seen her?
I’m Poppy.
I’m Poppy.
What is with Poppy? I missed out…*has sad
Also…what did Bill Nye do? Sorry I’ve been busy.
Lemme take you back a week to Weird Wednesday where SugarFree finally snapped the commenters’ tenuous grasp on reality which he’d been whittling away at for years.
Me love you long time.
Bill Nye is Poppy.
Here is the reference
Me love you long time too.
In 60 seconds…I am Poppy! How old is she before I say would to stuff her mouth closed with an appendage?
I think there’s competing information on this ranging from 16 to 21, so depending on your jurisdiction it might not be a great idea.
The more you know. :rainbow:
Take her to Japan, problem solved.
Has this fucking run its course yet?
I’m pretty sure this is joining STEVE SMITH.
STEVE SMITH IS POPPY.
STEVE SMITH JOIN POPPY CULT, ESPECIALLY IF GET TO HAVE FUN TIME WITH TITANIC SINCLAIR.
Apparently not
Are you asking if Poppy has popped or if she’s pooped?
21) John Waters offering summer camp for adults
Might not be for some people, but I think it sounds Divine.
Waters is responsible for my wife (SP)’s favorite quote. “If you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
Haha. I just had that conversation with someone. I can’t remember the context but I remember being deeply pleased at having a reason to use that quote.
A+ alt text today, sloop
Aw, gee whiz.
::blushes::
Not so! We take the gravest offense at the comparison made!
Sincerely,
Hemmorhoids
The Bernie alt text in particular. Who wasn’t thinking about Doc Brown when they saw that pic?
Nobody needs 1.21 jigowatts with their flux capacitor.
“Where we are going, we’re going to need all the government-supplied roadzzzz!”
Bernie? Are you sure that picture’s not Doc Brown after he’s been electrocuted?
Umm, guess I should have read the Alt text
He’s going for the skullet to try to attract the white trash. Salon objects.
Salon keeps using the word ‘rights’, I don’t think they understand what those actually are, besides something the gov’t gives out for ‘free’
Also hilarious that the left has come so far in the Ourobouros cycle that they are now eating the man who was their champion not six months ago.
I think its pretty insane. I mean, wow, how do you make a 180 that fast?
It’s super easy if you don’t have any principles.
It’s identity politics. They’re so steeped in it that now Bernie Sanders is a racist. This ID politics thing is a disease.
I took an Uber to work today and the driver had NPR on. During the course of the trip I heard approximately four stories. All of them detailed a particular problem that needed addressing, and all of them concluded that the issue was caused by racism or sexism.
I’m just fucking sick of it.
Anna March’s writing appears frequently here in Salon as well as in The New York Times’ Modern Love column, New York Magazine and The Rumpus. She is the Publisher of the magazine Roar. Her essay collection, “Feminist Killjoy,” and novel are forthcoming. Follow her on Twitter @annamarch or learn more about her at annamarch.com.
At least they’re hiring seasoned political writers to give these scorching hot takes.
Not going to look up the Roar magazine but I can imagine it, full of bullshit articles and menstrual blood art pieces and the like
I was thinking it was the Katy Perry fan club newsletter.
So depending in the day, not that different.
cisgendered, heterosexual men are quick to explain why “identity politics” cost Clinton the election. So frequent is this occurrence, I have started using the term “Solnit’s Law” — in honor of Rebecca Solnit, author of the book “Men Explain Things to Me” — to shut down conversations that include men’s mansplaining to me how Clinton blew it and other “facts” about the 2016 election.
Solnit’s Law — a version of Godwin’s law — is that the longer a debate thread goes on, the more likely it is that someone will mansplain. Once the effect of Solnit’s Law has been declared, the conversation ends and the mansplainer has “lost.” Try it and see how often the conversation will end once Solnit’s Law is called.
This had me losing some urine from laughing so hard.
So how do I lose exactly?
“Oh noes, I’m mansplaining!”, head explodes from sudden wokeness I guess
Dude, she DESTROYED you with that comeback. You’re now a quivering mess of a man, whimpering from her awesome logical skills.
oh wait, now I’m mansplaining!
It’s mansplaining all the way down.
Someone needs to mansplain womentitlement.
In other words, “I can’t refute your factual information and use of logic, so I will simply state a nonsense term and walk away, declaring victory. Like a pigeon playing chess, I shall knock over all the pieces and shit on the board, while strutting about as if I’ve won.”
When they start shrieking “mansplaining”, just say you identify as a woman.
Sonofabitch, I need to try that now.
Awesome. Will use at the first opportunity.
“Mansplaining” = using facts and logic. Therefore, you lose!
Becuz feels, I guess.
It’s weird, I thought mansplaining was just men explaining the particulars of lady experience to ladies. Like “you’re really not in *that* much pain during child birth it just feels that way because your urogenital region is being shredded by the head of a newborn” sorts of stuff. I always placed it as a specific subset of the category of “jackasses explaining concepts you have experience in/mastery of as if you were a kindergartner” but it seems to have metastasized into men talking to women in any way.
oh yes, it started that way, but spread almost instantly to “men explaining anything to women” and now has skipped merrily down the path to “anyone telling certain women they’re wrong about anything”. It’s annoying to me how useful terms get bloated into uselessness.
I have started using the term “Solnit’s Law” — in honor of Rebecca Solnit, author of the book “Men Explain Things to Me” — to shut down conversations
Yes, people do tend to shut down conversations with people they suddenly realize are batshit crazy.
how is it a man’s fault she can’t keep up with the conversation?
“how is it a man’s fault”
It is the sole objective of modern feminism to fabricate answers to this question as it pertains to every single thing in the universe.
When I saw a “Snow” link I was thinking of something more like this
I almost put up a “It’s not Clapton” disclaimer.
Speaking of, I prefer the original J.J. Cale version
I was thinking this.
You know nothing.
This is important news!
Hundreds Of Bikini-Clad Snowboarders Hit The Slopes
Jesus, there’s more spam at that link than a Monty Python skit.
apologies – I run a script blocker so I don’t see most of the misery of the internet
I would be far more interested in bikini-clad snow bunnies if they were using these instead of snow boards. SFW
You want them to play hockey?
Yes.
Fox Business: Trump Plans To Impose Tariff On Imports of Canadian Softwood Lumber
War with Canada!
Also, wood.
Activate war plan Red
+1 Operation Human Shield
+1 Operation Get Behind the Darkies
I wasn’t going to go there… but I’m glad that you did.
Except now the rally cry will be “FUCKING WINDOWS 10 UI!”
You ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?
I’m sorry I don’t listen to hiphop
Gee, I don’t know Rick, you, you know, you got pretty schwifty when the Cromulons showed up.
That was >burpburp<, zone Morty. Ya feel me, dawg?
Okay, I know this is a long-running dispute, but isn’t this really shooting ourselves in the foot, if the tariffs are imposed? I mean, by making construction cheaper in the US, Canada’s basically giving us a gift.
No, US companies will start building cheaper lumber in the US!
Do you even economics, bro?
Sure, since Trump is going to abolish the EPA and the Department of the Interior which will allow big lumber to rape the land and remove every last tree in the nation.
Stop trying to arouse me!
Softwood lumber is an excellent euphemism.
STEVE SMITH NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT PROBLEM!
Lena Dunham will lead the ad canpaign
Softwood lumber indicates a semi… not an innie!
She could claim to have a splorch (thanks Jesse..), and no-one would be in a hurry to find out.
Maybe this time they will burn down the White House completely!
Bubbles, Julian and Ricky are planning the attack as we speak!
So they are going to burn the hatchet at both ends ?
It’ll look like a tropical earthquake blew through here.
Burn down the White House
“How to deal with schmucks in the workplace.”
“Why do some paranoid colleagues see a dark side to every company initiative?”
At least in my company, that would be based on long experience.
Seconded.
Yeah I see the worst in company policies – health screening? ignore. Health fair? Ignore. Diversity training? Ignore.
I was at the UN University today (Don’t ask) and there was a huge poster hanging on the lobby wall that said, “Diversity is Our Unity”.
Silence is our noise.
Black is our white.
Your money is our prerogative.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
He loved big brother.
Mentally Ill Woman Euthanized in Canada
something maple something killing
This had to be done at a private hospital. I assume that if there was a 58 year old that got permission to have the state help them commit suicide in Canada, they’d die of old age before the appointment was scheduled.
Sloop will be here all week!
Eat your heart out, non-Minnesodans!
Our sciencers rock!
Especially the woman dressed up as some central american native american. People should listen to her, because the Aztecs knew how to handle the deniers in their day and age (those deniers were literally heartless).
They do understand that science as as practice doesn’t give a shit about culture, right?
Right guy?
Surely this isn’t a bunch of virtue signalling by largely science illiterate hippies?
I really, sincerely think they do not. They would probably say something like “we can learn from the ancient wisdom of the Aztecs” or whatever. They only like science when it’s convenient to them.
I hate to bring DeGrasse Tyson into this, but he did have a great quote (he was trying to apply this to “rubes” and climate deniers, but it works just as well with SJW culture warriors): “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
So what your saying is in order to increase our crop yields we need to go to war it’s our client state neighbors, and cut the hearts out of the captives at the country’s main religious building?
With not it’s.
Tlaloc approves this action
“It’s also true even when based on adjusted data and original data that has been destroyed.” –Prog Scientist
I have to wonder how many scientist are secretly hating this whole thing but won’t speak up for fear of retribution
The truth is just what it simply is.
My God. I mean Jesus fricken Keeee-rist. With full apologies to Jesus but Jesus Lord of…I’m speechless.
Somewhere a budding dictator is smiling like Snidely Whiplash.
Holy Mother of baby Jesus that was….weird.
My favorite sign is the one insulting ‘rubes’, like who even uses that as ac actual insult. The rhyme scheme isn’t even all that good
A local sports talk radio guy calls all the die hard fans rubes. So it gets used on the radio a lot locally.
Fair point. I was unaware of that.
I always loved that one…
Nothing beats the local sports guy assuming the role of the intellectual. We have those here; one in particular is absolutely the most arrogant and insufferable asshole. A draft dodger no less.
I wouldn’t play for the Dodgers, even if I was drafted.
Jimbo; At first I was thinking Dan Cole, but it’s one of the other KFAN guys isn’t it?
Yeah, Barrerrio (sp?).
It is actually sort of nice when the sports guy pokes fun at the fans for being such knot heads and caring so much about what their group of millionaires is doing.
Of course when it comes time for a new stadium, they are all in for taxpayers coughing up so that they have something to talk about.
And the comments are worse.
Haven’t looked yet, pray for me, I’m going in.
Not as bad as they could have been, but there aren’t that many either. Given a wider audience they could reach carcinogenic levels
They’re pretty bad in my book.
WE NEED TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT. GREAT SIGNS!
Please.
What is interesting to me is the signs that just have stuff like ‘E=MC^2’. Ok? What am I supposed to take away?
Mass, what else?
I guess it’s like painting a silver and blue star on your dog because you’re a Cowboys fan?
“I’m a fan of SCIENCE!! WOO HOO!!! SCIENCE IS GOING ALL THE WAY THIS YEAR, BABY!!!”
Odds that the person holding the e=mc2 sign knows what it means? Not good, I’d say.
were the dog painted by a Trump supported it would be animal abuse and Peta would be trying to gain custody so they could kill it.
I like the comment talking about how real and catastrophic global warming is because Minnesota winters are starting later and spring is coming sooner. Ummmmm yes please? Keep it up and Minnesota might actually be habitable by humans.
The cold is what keeps the riff raff out. I shudder at the thought of more geezers sticking around through the winter and clogging the roads.
Looking at the people at that march, I don’t think its doing a very good job, then.
I spotted the “scalar energy” sign.
Holy shit.
Hole. EEE. Shit.
I might regret asking, but what is scalar energy?
A complete and total pseudo-science scam.
Sounds about right.
This should either make you despair at the stupidity of humans or make you smile at the thought that there’s a way to extract money from morons.
I thought you were going to post to an ad about silver cables 😉
Ugh, I’m not even that science literate and the first page was setting off my BS meter. I tend to air to the side of caveat emptor when it comes to stuff like this though. Anyone who can fall for it kinda deserves to.
I confess to spending Earth Day at Axpona. I was physically escorted out of at least two suites.
Holy shit, that’s some deep bullshit.
That’s awesome.
Now I took grad level EM courses and spent a decade in the industry. I thought I knew something about electromagnetics but a quick Google search of “non-Hertzian” waves shows that I KNOW NOTHING.
of.
Hoooookay
The curse of affluence
One woman like big facts because, and I quote, “they CANNOT lie”.
If that doesn’t sum up how progressives view science, I don’t know what does. Science = facts and facts never change, ergo science never changes.
Science is a LIAR!
Yes exactly what I hoped the link would be.
I noted that she had a couple of big facts.
The Piltdown Man would like a word with her.
I should point out that the weather this weekend was fucking great. If they had held that march in my hometown, I bet Tundra and I would have attended just to be outside enjoying the sunshine.
Oh, I would have absolutely joined you. But our signs would have been a little different, eh?
As it happens, the spawn and I were out of town visiting a college where actual science happens all the time.
Funny, but there were no marches or anything. Just bright kids going about their business.
I hate college visits because about half way through, I realize I’m the creepy old guy on campus. Before that, I am making mental plans on how I will rule this campus with all my coolness.
Last year I almost had the middle child married off to a gal when I asked the guide how a young man would store his rifles and shotguns he needed for hunting (he went to NDSU). The grandpa of the gal and I started talking about how in our day we just kept our guns in our dorm with us and no one cared. He wanted his granddaughter to meet solid young men who liked the outdoors and not some beta male.
The granddaughter was pretty cute. If her grandpa had owned better hunting land, I might have made the deal.
Would I be mainslpaining or a denier if I made this image into a sign?
And then point out to the IFLS crowd that their AGW testable predictions (climate models) failed miserably thereby falsifying their AGW CO2 hypothesis.
You would be both.
I would add at the bottom of sign:
↑
This
Has nothing to do with
←these A-Holes→
That would just be…perfection.
You’d pretty much have to, because no-one there would understand it.
I dont get it. The story is about a science march but all of the photos are stills from the movie Idiocracy.
Go away! ‘Batin!
Science! It’s got what plants crave!
Its soul is right there in its platform and its voters, not in Sanders’ white-male dog-whistle rhetoric.
Going to go full Thelma and Louise on this, eh?
Terry McAuliffe 2020? Name one Democrat who can stop him
BAAARRRRFFFFFF
Here are six reasons why the GOP should not laugh at Terry McAuliffe’s presidential rumblings.
The fourth one shocked me!
I’m picturing him literally sucking the oxygen from other candidates like that cat in Cat’s Eye.
Dude, the cat is a hero. It’s a little troll that sucks the oxygen.
Not in the final scene.
Who?
So in order to compete they need a white male?
Jeezus. The guy is an insider’s insider, and has the public persona of a lifelong connected bureaucrat (i.e. boring as all fuck).
Hillary 2.0?
Given his looooooong association with the Clintons? Definitely.
Terry has one hell of a pile of skeletons in his closet, not the least of which are the Clintons. Meet the new boss.
This ^
Terry McAuliffe will be the one to stop Terry McAuliffe.
He’s taking advance reservations for the Lincoln Bedroom as we speak.
the writer has a point… I can’t name one Dem who can beat him in a party primary.
I think we may not see a Democratic president for awhile if they are seriously floating this guy.
Students who avoid making eye contact could be guilty of racism, Oxford University says
jeezus – I never knew my shyness was racist.
No, you have it backwards; your racism is just shy.
What about social anxiety? Um sweaty that’s neurodivergentphobic
They’re literally appropriating my agoraphobia.
Or they could be shy? Introverted?
Also, the correct use of Problematic for once
“It is really problematic – it means people can’t relate to each other naturally, they have rules in the back of their mind and they can’t be spontaneous as their interactions are all overlaid with the desire to follow all these rules.”
My head hurts
How about too much staring? I’ve been guilty of that, especially if she’s hot.
That’s Male Gaze. Also doubleplusungood.
You’re a rapist, obviously.
Well then obviously it’s because you think people of color are exotic and your gaze is othering them. Bigot.
So all Aspies are racist. Makes sense.
How many were killed in the Great World Wars again?
You don’t recover from that inside 100 years. The result is a bunch of dimwitted nitwits have infiltrated top positions of power.
IT’S NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND PEOPLE.
So autistics are rayssiss now?
My brother is a huge racist, obviously.
Related. A good read, written by Augusten Burroughs’s brother.
Good thing world-renowned autism expert Simon Baron Cohen (yes, they’re related) works at Cambridge.
SF’ed that motherfucker. Fucking quotation marks.
Here
He has research regarding differences between male and female brains. This is obviously not what the March for Science had in mind. He must not be a “real scientist”.
Avoid eye contact with woman of color: racist
Make eye contact with woman of color: oppressive male gaze.
And Students who do make eye contact are probably cis-male shitlord patriarchal oppressors subjecting their victims to the evils of the Male Gaze
Philip Defranco came out against this. Philip Defranco is my favorite millennial and he should be yours too.
The narrowed gaze is a macroaggression
Autism is just like racism. I mean, they even end in the same letters!
The brilliant irony, of course, is that looking everyone straight in the eye is a Western thing. In a whole lot of non-Western cultures – ie, the ones they’re pretending to protect – making direct eye contact is rude/confrontational/etc.
STEVE SMITH GO THROUGH BLOW HOLE
How Dolphins Do It in Water…with Weird, Complex Genitalia
“More recently, Orbach said, scientists have increasingly come to realize that the penis is only half the story”
Scientist wives report massive increase in reaching orgasm.
Orbach and her colleagues wanted to understand how seals, porpoises and whales pull it off.
Bulls$%t – they cannot wank… no hands!
You never got a finjob?
Not on porpoise.
Must be a whale of a story.
Duh, of course you go through that hole. Why do you think it is called a blow job.
I almost spit coffee multiple times while reading that.
Hey howabout some cheery news…
Pew: More Americans now prefer a bigger government with more services to a smaller one with fewer services
They slant their studies a lot
RACIST!
“They slope their studies” is the preferred nomenclature, please.
SPew: More Americans now prefer a bigger
govtendowment with more services to a smaller one with fewer servicesNo shit Sherlock.
In related news, most people are Goddamned idiots, especially when it comes to economics.
Holy Shi-ite!
Someone sane got a “community” column printed in the local alternative web site.
I think that the main reason that our latest light rail project is having such a hard time is that it was supposed to go through a couple very tony neighborhoods. And turns out that rich progs hate the idea of trains ruining their views.
“Future investments in new transit projects would be funded by the localities that use and benefit from these localized projects,” according to an April 7, 2017, letter sent to Speaker Kurt Daudt and the Trump administration’s budget blueprint.
Shouldn’t every libertarian publication be running celebratory pieces on this?
Of course not, if you say anything positive about this administration you won’t get any cocktail party invites.
Don’t get ahead of yourself Sloopy. It is too early to tell if Trump is up for trains or not.
It is sort of funny because it seems like Trump put a lot of train goodies in his budget, but the progs can’t bear to admit that he is going to do something they like so they focus on some things he would cut. If he doesn’t give them everything they can safely go back to calling him evil.
Kim better be careful. Can imagine her being tied up and left on the tracks. It’s crazy that what she said would be in any way controversial.
The comments were typically depressing though, or is that to be expected from that paper?
Completely expected. While MinnPost is slightly less progressive than the Star Tribune, it is reliably woke.
This is one of the web sites I helped build at State Dept before it was unceremoniously taken from our team and handed to another (a team whose members would constantly call us to figure out how to use the fuckin site). I’m tickled, to say the least.
And now for the other side of the story… or not.
Aviation officer gives his version of United flight removal
Well, he’s a Chicago officer, so he’s not bothered by things like “actual video evidence that contradicts my claims”.
And the officer would have no incentive to be less than 100% honest and accurate in his report. Like all police incident reports.
For some reason I have to conclude his report is horseshit.
Totality of the circs, officer feared for his safety
FLAILING. People being arrested are always “flailing their arms”. Must be some of those magic words like “perceived a theat”, or “furtive motion”. Flailing
“Future investments in new transit projects would be funded by the localities that use and benefit from these localized projects,” according to an April 7, 2017, letter sent to Speaker Kurt Daudt and the Trump administration’s budget blueprint.
Wait, what? That’s crazy, expecting people to pay for their own damn government “benefits”!
Also- snow here. It’s purty.
Possible snow here this weekend. Which sucks because I was supposed to go fishing.
Our light rail lines were built completely as urban renewal projects. When you get $2 or $3 from the Feds for every dollar you put in yourself, it seems crazy to not take advantage of that to improve roads/sewers/traffic lights etc in the name of transit. Of course, then you have to operate it.
Morning, fellow brutals. I had an interesting experience with the TSA on my way back from a long overdue vacation. One of my bags got pulled aside because I neglected to remove my laptop from it. After standing in wait for about ten minutes, another TSA staffer (presumably their threatening luggage expert) finally appeared and proceeded to give my bag and laptop a good once-over with the magic terrorism detecting wand while reprimanding me for failing to comply exactly in accordance with their nonsensical rules. When she finished and handed my belongings back to me, I said, “thank you for your service, OFFICER.” For some reason this resulted in a very dejected look on her face just before she shuffled away.
A case of acute Crippling self awareness?
She got inserted into the Total Perspective Vortex
Zaphod Beetleborx approves
Hah!
Last week I got pulled aside because my water bottle had a little water left in it. In the pre-check line, mind you. The lady was actually pretty nice – when she asked me if there was anything ‘sharp or dangerous’ in my bag I replied ‘Besides the water? No.’ She and the guy standing there doing nothing both cracked up.
They did swab the inside of my bag, though.
Damn TSA.
Though I’m pretty sure they’ve helped with the rediscovery of America’s beautiful highways.
You should have saluted crisply and goosestepped toward your gate.
The physician who was dragged off a United Airlines flight in Chicago this month was verbally and physically abusive, and flailing his arms before he lost his balance and struck his mouth on an armrest, according to the aviation officer who pulled the man out of his seat.
Uh huh. Attempting to defend yourself from the baboons? That’s a head slam.
Ratio of non-scientists to scientists at these marches – 1000:1? 10000:1?
mM^nth
Yeah, cause Scientists have time to march in pointless demonstrations… oh wait, they’re too busy MAKING MONEY!
I’m sure this was already covered but hey we lived through the troubled times of Oregon Man!
Florida state senator, now resigned, had Playboy and Hooters models on political payroll
–“Artiles’ political consultant David Custin refused to comment on why they listed the expenditures as “consultants.””–
Because Dictation services seemed to obvious?
Now that’s a fuckin euphemism folks.
Hiyooooooo
Stupid MSN no pix.
Also, if you’re going to waste taxpayer dollars, do it wisely, like this guy.
Seriously. $3500 for the hottest threesome of the year? I might put in a FOIA request for the video.
http://heavy.com/news/2017/04/brittney-singletary-heather-thomas-photos-pics-frank-artiles-consultants-florida-brittany-hooters-facebook-pictures/5/
She needs to work on her Blue Steel a little more . It’s close, but not quite right.
I assume she was taking those head shots to send the producers of the new Howard The Duck gender-bent remake.
I listened to a little bit of newschatter this morning. They’re all aflutter about this looming shutdown, but don’t really seem to know how to cover it. I mean, what if it’s the Democrats who pull the plug? How do they concoct a believable way to spin that into “good news”? How do they jujitsu their way into praising a bunch of obstructionist anti-government naysayers?
Last time, it was Armageddon, but the Rethuglitards were to blame. That’s a gimme.
Well, since the Stupid Party can get rid of the filibuster and pass whatever the fuck they want, they actually are to blame.
Three ISIS fighters ‘are killed by rampaging wild BOARS’ near Iraqi farmland
Doing god’s work they are
Nice that they were killed by pork.
I don’t think Allah’s virgins will be interested.
So we know the Koran says you can’t eat pork, what’s it say about being eaten by pork?
my guess: they went into it with pointy sticks and stirred up a sounder with some massive boars
Ratio of non-scientists to scientists at these marches – 1000:1? 10000:1?
“I was gonna be a physics major, but I felt Womens’ Studies was where I could do the most good for Society. You wanna go someplace after the march is over? I’m starved.”
Cont’d “Obviously, you’re buying my contributions to society are not rewarded nearly enough.”
She also firmly believes that we need more womyn in STEM fields.
“I was gonna be a physics major, but I felt Womens’ studies was where I could do the most good for Society? You want to go to Starbucks after the march is over? I need to get back to my job as a barista”
“I totally dropped physics because icky and the only issue that matters is the physic of faux-outrage.”
THE FLINTSTONES DIDN’T SCIENCE.
So how about we get a primer for how to deal with schmucks in the glibertariat?
The primer is two simple words “cat butt”.
I think we all fall under the rule-breaking sociopath column.
If SP is aware of them, they suddenly and mysteriously vanish. She is coldly efficient.
At the risk of being vanished…
How is there anyone here left to comment?
If she is so efficient why are we still here?
The only effective way is to not come here.
This place is a schmuck party.
This is the definition of self-hate.
Terrorist accused of killing a British student will be paid £800 a month by the Palestinian government which receives £25m-a-year UK foreign aid
Will the New York Times allow him to write a column and describe him as an “activist” or something?
And since the mid 1990s, the US government has committed more than $5 billion to the Palestinians, making them among the largest per-capita recipients of foreign aid.
Paying protection money, eh?
From what? More knifings?
Nothing a good carpet bombing cant fix.
We all know Hillary lost because people hate women in power.
Yeah, you keep telling yourself that.
You thought you knew Hillary when the primary campaign began. You knew the sound of her voice and her laughter and you made up your mind that those things bothered you. You thought the way she smiled — or when she chose not to — told you a lot about her, but your sneers told us more about you. You decided that a lifetime devoted to politics had ruined Hillary,
Was I wrong?
“These men all say, “Oh, I’d vote for Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris.”
Uhhhh…no. No I wouldn’t.
Seriously. Might as well toss Maxine Waters on the pile.
Meanwhile, if you want to find out how truly misogynistic, racist and homophobic those nasty conservative, reactionary republicans are, try running Condi Rice. She’d be the darling of the right, and she checks all three boxes. And the left would unquestionably paint her as – no, not the antichrist –
but actually Satan incarnate.
Projection, how’s that work?
Sarah Palin
Look how they treated a woman who dared to break the glass ceiling.
I’d fuck Kamala Harris. Different verb than “vote for”.
You and Willie Brown
Kamala Harris may be the only Dem with a worse 1A record than Felonious Von Pantsuit.
Just wait until Preet decides to run for office!
When in doubt, double down? It’s basically a trope around here now, but seriously, team Blue, or their foot soldiers at least, seemed determined to learn nothing from their loss.
What are the odds they’ll run her again in 2020? I’d say pretty damn good provided she’s still around.
If she’s not there is always Chelsea and you can already see the movement to prop her up for that role. You’ll know for certain that she is taking her mothers spot if she runs for office next year.
They’ll be a Clinton running as long as that infected bloodline keeps spawning.
I think they are kinda done. Bill left no acknowledged sons. Only the one daughter. So no more of the Clinton name.
That assumes legitimate children. Don’t be surprised if they drag a bastard clinton up in a few years. Things will get medieval up in here
A winning strategy indeed.
What the fuck were Hillary’s qualifications again? That made he so damn “qualified”? Because from what I saw she simply rode the coattails of a powerful man, while covering for his malfeasance, and was demonstrably incompetent and corrupt as SOS.
Incompetent, and corrupt are qualifications in the world of politics.
She was a keen observer of winners in DC. She learned their methods for turning political success into financial success and for maintaining control over the political machines. She applied those methods to the utmost of her ability and refined them until no one could match her inside the Democratic apparatus.
They really are incapable of learning, aren’t they?
Ok. Let’s hear her thoughts about Marine Le Pen, who would be France’s first female President.
I’m pretty sure it would read something like “traitor to women everywhere” yadda, yadda. Because, as we all know, women are not allowed to have opinions except for those left of center in politics.
Just like Sarah Palin is “not an authentic woman” and Clarence Thomas is “not an authentic black”.
Ask anyone on the left how they feel about Margaret Thatcher.
a man who knew nothing about anything who spent a lifetime devoted to fraud.
Why bring Barak Obama into this discussion?
This also neatly elides the fact that plenty of women can’t stand Hillary, either.
Obviously it’s Internalized Misogyny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFSbFBo9LOw
Kingsman: The Golden Circle Trailer
Cannot wait for this.
The villain in this movie says “I’m Poppy”
And one of the roles is played by an actress named Poppy.
Our Lady Of Perpetual Creep is gaining influence! Praise her and her works! Glory unto Poppy!
Darn I read that as “Krugman The Golden Shower”,
You have some weird kinks.
Worst Sugar Free story EVER
Definitely. Loved the first one, this one looks to carry on the series well
I enjoyed the first one, although I think it went too camp for the ending. I’ll probably wait for a rental for the second.
I think camp was the point. It was like an old school Bond movie, and it didn’t take itself seriously.
My main complaint was specifically with the ending scenes, the one with the 1812 Overture in particular. Overall, as I said, I enjoyed the rest of the film. That scene just seemed out of place to me.
Please don’t suck, please don’t suck, please don’t suck….
I dunno if Jeff Bridges and Channing Tatum can even compare to Michael Kane and Collin Firth (although, poster says…the fuck?). First Kingsman was so wonderfully English, and so gloriously right-wing in its politics, it’s going to be hard to live up to it.
The US version (Statesman) is in a whiskey distillery and the agents have names like Jack Daniels. How could that not be good.
How does one determine the Minnesota winter has started later and spring earlier?
By charting the earliest and latest deaths by exposure per anum?
A shorter and milder winter in Minnesota? Sounds like a net positive.
What winter? Winter is supposed to be cold and snowy.
Antifa Activist Punches Journalist on Camera, Then Claims Self-Defense
For once the police are right there when you need them. Hilarious.
Wow. They really are up their own asses aren’t they
Be thankful these assholes are against gun ownership because they seem immune to reason and have completely embraced violence. They really want a civil war, gulags, progroms, the who thing.
Until one rumor about ACADEMI starts.
It’s like they never read a history book. Outside of the leader and his very near circle tend to get purged after the revolution seizes power. Assuming they could even
Don’t underestimate their double-think and hypocrisy. Yes, guns are evil voodoo death weapons whose mere existence turns peaceful people into murder machines, but those evil Nazis are already using guns so antifa has to do. They have to use guns to end gun ownership.
Tell me you can’t see them descending to that “logic.”
I also love how all his comrades jumped on the train to try and claim self-defense when the cops had clearly seen the whole thing go down. They may think that reality is malleable but try arguing that in court
They may really believe it was self-defense, because the journalist’s words are violence, so they were justified in attacking him to counter the violence of his words.
#hatespeechisnotfreespeech
Good point, but if they words are weapons wait till they try and pull that crap in the hinterland. Which is why I suspect they haven’t shown up in bumfuck Idaho
Oh hell, they got the crap kicked out of them by Trump supporters in Berkeley, there’s no way they would risk it outside of a lefty enclave.
Is there no weight requirement for campus police?
Well, it’s the campus police at a hoity-toity school like GW. It’s the police equivalent of single-A baseball.
Wow, nice job campus cops. That happened right next to the building I used to work in. Small world.
I guess the administration forgot to tell the cops to stand down this time.
It didn’t take long for someone to make the appropriate cartoon about Bill Nye’s “science” advocacy the other day.
Awesomme
+3 seals!
I don’t know shit about science or climate change, but the thing that perplexes me the most is how the Left tries to shut down any debate about climate change and the data. If you feel that you are right and that the science is settled on climate change, then why in the fuck do assholes like Bill Nye feels the need to stifle any sort discussion and advocate throwing the so called deniers in prison.
And another thing that bothers me is that the Left makes the bullshit claim that government funding equals more science when you know, we discovered and cured a lot of shit before the government even thought of throwing money at scientific and medical research.
Government funding equals more “science” in the service of government, which to the left is an unqualified good.
Well Ed, why do cockroaches run when you turn on the light?
Because continuing to debate indefinitely delays and hinders DOING SOMETHING about climate change, which is going to end in CATASTROPHE very soon!—which is totally still science at that point.
Woke 8 year old. Lol
Sagan needs to be up there double face palming with roughly the same look as Judas from the last supper.
Dont fool yourself. Sagan was on the global warming train. In some ways he gave birth to this.
I love Tesla’s skeptical look, my fave tbh
Speaking of science, this looks like it could be really good.
Could be, but I’ll hold off until I start seeing viewers thoughts.
It’s set to record on my DVR, though I’ll probably watch it live.
Post your thoughts when it comes out
What the fuck were Hillary’s qualifications again
Name Recognition. That’s how you win elections. Nothing else matters. Just ask any political consultant.
Carpetbagging is a qualification!
Nah, you can’t argue that as candidates for high political office go, she’s unqualified. She’s as qualified as it gets. At least in the post “You must have served in the military” era.
An attorney who acted as political consultant for hubby/candidate as he progressed to Governor and then President, then becomes two-term Senator and then Secretary of State.
No, it is kinda dumb to say “not qualified” – at least in terms of resume and experience.
Rode hubby’s coattails to hand-selected safe Democrat Senate seat, did nothing, then got Sec State as crony consolation prize, fucked up everything she touched at State, while illegally compromising national security to hide her dealings. Her resume and “experience” make her qualified to be President like Typhoid Mary’s resume and experience qualified her to be a caterer. The left’s bullshit about her “awesome qualifications” is just absurd.
She was at least 35 years old, had been a resident of the U.S. for at least 14 years, and is a natural-born citizen.
So yes, she is qualified.
Her lifetime record of having political connections and failing upward has nothing to do with her qualifications, but it should certainly counsel a rational person against supporting her.
She is eligible. “Qualified” is something else.
If you believe in credentialism, rather than performance, she’s reasonably qualified due to the jobs she’s had (lawyer, senator, SecState). If you look at her performance in those jobs, well . . . .
She had more of those political jobs than Obama, and since the Left has the memory span of a drunk gnat, that makes her the Most Qualified EVER.
Gawd sloop. I was hoping your song pick was going to be Informer . Durn.
Pomp, you need to read this. My views on Maxwell’s equations have utterly and irreparably altered.
I love how they think that scattering some technical terms in with some completely fabricated gibberish actually means something.
+1, Marko Godin disciple
*Rodin
I had no idea about this guy. But his video is gold Jerry, GOLD.
And the body hair is incredible.
You picked up on all the important points. +1, multi-hour home lecture
+1 “A licky boom boom down”
DOOOOOOOOOM
But in spite of all of our success, only around 9 percent of the seafood available in American markets comes from American fishermen. In fact, the last traditional fishing communities in the United States are fighting for their very existence. Fair-trade local fishermen remain unable to compete in our domestic marketplace, which is overwhelmed and flooded with cheap, untraceable imported seafood.
More than half the imported seafood here comes from fish farms, mostly in Asian countries, where there is little regulation of food safety. The rest, which is wild, is often from illegal sources. Rates of seafood fraud and deceptive mislabeling in the domestic marketplace are soaring to unprecedented levels.
Won’t somebody think of the fish sticks?
tl;dr: If we allow Trump to cut NOAA’s budget, foreigners will poison us and bankrupt all the hard working square-jawed New England fishermen.
Won’t somebody think of the fish sticks?
Mr. Paul agrees.
Was having a discussion with the squeeze last night about red/king crab invading the waters of Scandinavia and what effect that has had on the Alaska fishing industry and king crab prices. Apparently the Norwegians are fishing the ever-lovin hell out of the invading king crabs, while the quotas in the Alaska fishery have been greatly reduced.
So soon we will be importing king crab from Scandinavia while plummeting prices and government quotas drive the Alaskan king crab industry out of business. Which the government will then need to subsidize to preserve this way of life and American institution.
Sounds about right.
My plan is coming together!
Hand me a lemon wedge, will you?
The irony is the crab fishermen in Alaska are generally very libertarian. I get the feeling they’d rather police themselves than have the government telling them what they can and can’t catch. And most of them wish they were still fishing derby-style. When there was a derby, a lot more people made a lot more money over a much shorter period of time. But we can’t have that!! For safety!!
Isn’t this good for fish stocks in American waters? I thought we were supposed to be for that.
What the fuck is a “fair-trade local fisherman”?
Somebody you over-pay for their product. Because reasons.
derives from fair trade coffee. Instead of going through traditional middle-men, go through a quasi-charitable advocacy group to sell your goods at a substantial markup. New middle man still gets a big cut, but using enviro-words and economic justice means taking more from the consumer, so the local guy gets a bigger piece of pie.
Oh, and the big corporate types get a thumb in the eye… with their big, unsustainable factory fishing boats…..
Indeed, and the UK is looking to elect one.
Gay fish.
We know a certain fjord in Norway where the cod gather in great shoals…..
Cutting NOAA’s budget is a bad idea, both for parents who want their children to realize their full potential and for a president who wants to keep eating his favorite sandwich. And if all that fails to convince, consider this: NOAA tracks storms and wave heights, allowing thousands of fishermen to work safely. Without adequate funding, many could find themselves literally lost at sea.
I know I sound crazy when I say stuff like this, but maybe NOAA could desist from scaremongering about fluctuating global weather patterns and focus their energy (and dollars) on more productive activities.
And stop doing shit like they just did this year continuing to predict blizzard conditions for the NYC area even after they knew the storm track had shifted and only about 8 inches of snow was likely, costing huge amounts in lost productivity and expenses.
STOP STARING AT ME!
Woman who spent her teens dressing as a goth splashes out $35K on transforming into a real life Barbie
Wow! That really sets her apart from every other little girl on the fucking planet!
You weren’t listening with the right ears. What you should have heard is “I’ve always been needy and attention-seeking. As a kid, I felt empty and unloved despite my parents best efforts. I had friends, but I didn’t really like them so I spent a lot of time alone.”
Terrifying
would, and Jesus Christ she reincarnated my childhood cat! MIKEY IS MINE YOU CUNT! GIVE HIM BACK!
Obama saw himself as a righteous avenger.
It was the same thing with the Paris Climate Accord. He didn’t support it despite it being against the interests of the United States. He supported it because it was against the interests of the United States.
His intent was to tie the hands of future administrations in an agreement that favored the third world over the selfish interests of average Americans.
It was the same thing with the Iran deal.
We had the right where we wanted them. The sanctions made them burn through all of the foreign exchange reserves and they were desperate for access to international credit markets–or they were facing a Venezuela style economic implosion–with the Arab Spring raging next door in Syria. That’s why they came to the negotiating table. All we needed them to do was forgo the right to enrich their own uranium as a consequence of violating the NPT. Even China and Russia were on board with the sanctions that drove them to the negotiating table.
Obama let them off the hook, and the reason he did so was specifically because it was to the detriment of the United States. He didn’t wanted to tie the hands of future administrations in their ability to use the NPT to pressure Iran. Never mind that this gave encouragement to the North Koreans, never mind that this virtually guarantees that Iran will acquire both nukes and the ICBMs to deliver them in the future–the point was to tie the hands of future administrations.
Obama saw himself as a righteous avenger, but I don’t think everyone understood that the people he saw himself avenging were not Americans but the people he saw as victims of American selfishness, capitalism, and racism. It’s often seemed to me that the birthers and the secret Muslim conspiracy people had a small grain of truth–it was hard for anyone outside the MSM to understand how what Obama did was in the best interests of the United States. He often seemed like a traitor, and people on the fringes invented conspiracies to explain that.
No conspiracies or birther/Muslim explanations were necessary. Remember people condemning Obama for attending Jeremiah Wright’s church while saying things like, “God damn, America!”? I think Obama genuinely hated the American middle class for being racist and selfish, and I think it influenced most every aspect of his public policy. The purpose of Obamacare was to force the middle class to sacrifice their healthcare for an expansion of Medicaid. The purpose of the Paris Climate accord was to force the American middle class to make sacrifices in their standard of living for the benefit of developing nations. The purpose of the Iran nukes deal was to clip American hegemony–seeking American interests is selfish.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Everyday – but that mostly stems from my porn search history.
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Ken is dead right.
“We had the right where we wanted them” “Obama let them off the hook”
+1 Dennis Green
They are who we thought they were!
GM’s 2,700 Venezuelan Employees
FiredLost Their Jobs Following Plant SeizureJalopnik’s take on the Venezuela/GM mess. Note, the original headline did use the word “fired”. As if GM had a choice in the matter after the government took over the property.
Kristen Lee is a cutie, and I don’t know that she has strong political views one way or another, but this sort of exemplifies how a broad swath of the country views industry, reflexively. The comments are typical “Sweden is socialism, not Venezuela” claptrap from people who are always condescending, but never actually informed or intelligent.
“Venezuelan state media (all media in Venezuela is state approved) says it wasn’t seized, so we’ll give them equal time, because they have no reason to lie”
After the government nationalizes a factory, you don’t work for any company anymore.
It seems to me that journalists have to be biased to avoid using words like “nationalized”. I guess they don’t want to use supposedly charged words like “socialist”.
But when a socialist country seizes a factory, that’s called “nationalization”.
When Hugo Chavez did this he called it “nationalization”.
How do you blame GM for people losing their jobs after the Venezuelan government nationalizes a factory? You can’t do that accidentally. You have to be biased in favor of socialism. If the Venezuelan government had a PR rep write that article, they’d have blamed it all on GM, too. Stalin’s useful idiots weren’t unbiased. They wrote glowing reviews of Stalin’s efforts because they were pro-communist and pro-Stalin. If I can’t tell the difference between something this reporter writes and something the Venezuelan government might have written, certainly, I can’t be blamed for assuming she’s a useful idiot.
See? Mansplaining and misogyny all in one post.
So the workers finally seized the means of production! But I bet there won’t be any cars rolling out of that factory any time soon, barring the removal of the socialist government.
That site is part of the old Gawker Media collective.
They’re socialists.
Jezebel is one aspect of that. That site you linked is just another face of the same many faced, socialist god.
It’s a cookbook!
O, I’m aware. I read Jalopnik pretty frequently because they still have quite a bit of politics free car content. I singled out Kristen because I don’t think I’ve seen a political post from her before (not saying she hasn’t, but she pretty well sticks to review type articles). There are definitely some Gawker morons that got shuffled over to jalopnik during the killing time, but it’s pretty easy to avoid them as they are almost always about Uber.
is Jalopnik equally clueless about everything else?
“Kristen Lee is a cutie, and I don’t know that she has strong political views one way or another”
A few years ago, I was riding my motorcycle through the twisty mountain roads in the Sierras on my way up to the Shakespeare festival in Oregon. Even in the summer, those backroads are practically deserted.
I left my bike behind an outcropping and hiked up a stream. Found an amazing camping site next to a small waterfall. I was swimming in the small pool at the bottom, when this girl walks out of the forest and says, “room for one more?” She didn’t wait for me to answer. She just stripped down and . . .
Apparently there was a gathering in the area I’d stumbled into. She was Rainbow Family . . . but she really wore it well. I didn’t talk about politics, but if we had, I’m sure she would have made a ton of sense. Something about women makes everything seem . . .
Wasn’t it Goebbels who said, “A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down–in the most delightful way”?
Dear Glibertarian Forum,
I never believed this would happen to me, but…
They should do a Kids React video with college freshman and Penthouse Forum. Do they even have a clue that used to be a thing? Do they even know there used to a world where porn wasn’t completely free and on demand?
Well, a bunch of other hippies showed up after that.
Hey, ifh, was it you collecting opinions on Trump at the start of this year?
Jalopnik’s take on the Venezuela/GM mess.
Yeah… no.
I clicked on somebody’s Jalopnik link not long ago, and regretted it deeply. Those people are Gawker-trained idjits.
Today in things that are problematic, according to someone on my twitter feed: the MARV films logo from the Kingsman trailer, because something about colorblind people.
(Matthew Vaughn is colorblind. He chose the logo for his film company as a joke)
He clearly is just another self-loathing differently visioned person infested with sightnormative privilege. Get WOKE!
Fuck the color blind!
A colorblind film maker. Guess that’s the joke?
“40 to 60 teens” swarm BART train and rob passengers before disappearing back into Oakland neighborhood.
Trost said police arrived at the station in less than 5 minutes, but that the robberies took place in just seconds.
Something something seconds count something shoot them in the fucking face.
little love for CC in the comments. shocker.
Like this.
NSFW
Was expecting porn… was mildly disappointed.
Like I tell all my boys – ALWAYS PUT ONE IN THE BRAIN!
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away!
While in general that’s true with 40 – 60 of them in an enclosed space shooting probably would not have been in your best interests, you wouldn’t have been able to drop more than 3 – 4 before they overwhelmed you and took your gun then took revenge for killing their friend.
Now maybe a dozen concealed carry riders acting on concert would have made a difference, which is why as someone said this doesn’t happen in DFW, but in California and especially the Bay area pretty good odds you would be the only person carrying on that train.
“you wouldn’t have been able to drop more than 3 – 4”
agree because it’s likely most conscientious carriers use HP to prevent over-penetration… and today’s single-stacks have shit for capacity while those robust, elegant, fat-bottomed (palms starting to sweat) compacts are just not made for concealment.
I disagree. If there’s anything I’ve learned from the movies and the news, it’s that criminals who run in packs are cowards. Do you think they’d do anything other than flee as fast as possible once shots started dropping their co-assailants? They’re also likely not counting bullets and would freeze shit-scared rather than approach someone pointing a weapon at them, loaded or not.
“There’s 40 of you and I got 2 clips of 10 rounds. Do you want to be part of the half that go to jail or the half that go to the morgue?”
Exactly. They will scatter like roaches after the first shot. The ones that don’t move fast enough get acute lead poisoning.
I’m not so sure. These are inner city juveniles acclimated to some base level of gun violence. It only takes one to start the stampede. They may see one of us and ten of them including their bro/sis/homie on the ground assuming ambient temperature and choose fight over flight.
tobesure judged 12/carried 6
My standard loadout is 15 rounds of 9mm in the gun and another 15 on my hip in a mag. Come at me bro.
i concede. these aren’t zombies.
Vhyrus, you actually thing in that tactical situation you’re getting 15 shots off?
Remember, you will have multiple assailants within arms reach of you before you even draw, Unless you are Christian Bale circa Equilibrium you’d be lucky to get off 6 shots before you were wrestled to the ground and the gun taken from you
I believe, that in this situation, I’d rather be sporting big ” inner city juvenile” stomping boots and a matching set of brass knuckles.
Too much risk of collateral damage on a crowded train. I’d rather give up my shit than shoot the wrong person, but I’d knock the fuck out anyone who laid hands on me or mine.
Yeah they will run or freeze when you point a gun at THEM.
They key was 40 – 60 assailants in an enclosed space so this is You -> U, these are the bad guys -> 1212121212121212121212 the train car looks like this…
111111111 U 22222222222
You point the gun at the 1’s and start blasting away, then they all cower in fear or scatter however the 2’s behind you just grab your arms from behind and start pummeling you. This is especially true given that your gun is probably the single most valuable item on that train from their POV
Yeah, they ain’t Zombies but you ain’t Rambo either
If you can show me a single instance of this happening anywhere on the internet I will concede the possibility of you being right, but I have yet to see a criminal mob encounter gunfire and react in any way other than tearing ass in the opposite direction.
That is because criminal mobs like that simply do not form in areas with liberal gun laws specifically because they know that on a train with 15 passengers 3 to 5 of them will be carrying. In California, especially in the big cities you might get once CCW every 2000 passengers.
I don’t think California, and especially the Bay area has any form of legal CC (for the little people).
So between facing legal action for illegally carrying in a rabidly anti-gun state/area, or just handing over your wallet, the latter is probably vastly preferable.
the Supes may choose to take on the split in Peruta v. California this term which covers CC and “may issue”.
Which is why they do shit like that in the Bay Area rather than the DFW metro system.
L. O. L.
The headline would have been “Several Criminals Shot Dead By Train Passengers In Attempted Robbery Spree.”
Area Man Describes Scene of Public Self-Defense as “Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel” Aboard Narrow Metro Train Crowded with Assailants
In extremely hard to believe news, Disney says they will not release theatrical cut of the Original Trilogy
Yeah, really. Float the news, find out what they already know, which is that there’s a market for the OT, then watch people rejoice at the news after Disney has a “change of heart”.
Step 3: PROFIT!
Star Wars has gone full SJW at this point. I fully expect a recut of the original that has Leia telling Han to stop mansplaining.
The changes to the original cuts are permanent. Any restoration would really just be an attempt at perfectly imitating the original, but it will never be the same thing.
I am sad to say that I don’t think I have ever actually seen the original cuts. I may have Empire on VHS from the first printing but I don’t know how close that was to the original
The VHS release was the last release of the original cuts (I believe, there was also a laserdisc release of the original trilogy). I still have my VHS copies sitting on the shelf.
Sometimes I regret selling my IV-VI VHS copies on ebay.
ATF backpedals on the whole AR pistol/stabilizing brace/shoulder/SBR kerfuffle from 2015.
http://14544-presscdn-0-64.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ATF-letter.pdf
now it’s only an untaxed SBR if you first change the brace (i.e. remove the velcro strap) before shouldering it.. which just tells me that the NFA is complete bullshit.
Well, we already knew that.
The letter also mentions ‘that the “making” of an NFA firearm pursuant to 26 U.S.C. §5821 includes the altering of of an existing firearm’.
I’m not a legal expert, and It obviously depends on their history of opinions and the specific letter law, but I could see someone using that to argue that building a firearm from already manufactured and previously un-assembled parts does not constitute a “making” of an NFA firearm either.
The NFA is completely obsolete, and should be repealed.
What do calls for FB live censorship stem from?
Is it a moral panic? Legacy media looking to weaken competitors?
My suspicion is just that there are too many right-wing views on Facebook for the MSM’s tastes and omnipresent calls for more intrusive censorship tools have become par for the course, because once they’re in place they never go away. And, of course, there will be those who seek to use tragedies like this to further empower the police state. Nobody will be able to get there any faster and stop a crime in progress, no matter how well-intentioned the reasons. Humans are fragile creatures and it simply doesn’t take much to kill one of us.
Despite the material itself being objectionable, who would want to stop a murderer from providing the best possible evidence for conviction? It defies reason. As per usual, the real reason this kind of thing can’t be taken down quickly once the contents have been observed by the unlucky few is that too many others are using the content reporting features for no other purpose but censorship of opposing views and the number of people FB employs to look into that kind of thing simply can never be enough to stem the tide of reports.
Probably a little of both.
Poll: Trump sucks, still better than Hillary
I’m speculating that means that 96% of Trump’s voters are probably pretty fucking pissed at the Republicans in Congress right now for having failed to do a single goddam thing. Here’s hoping for a primary massacre of Repubs next year.
There’s your swamp.
This guy translated a bunch of tweets from Arabic to English to show what Muslims on Twitter really think about apostasy.
Note at the bottom of the list there are “25 more replies.” This goes on for quite a while just to demonstrate that the thinking isn’t that unusual.
eesh
So why is netflix paying for bill nye’s new show?