Imagine my surprise when I went to click on ESPN this morning to check a few scores and it actually worked! I guess they have a few people over there still on the job.
::checks headlines there::
Hey, only two of the top six stories are either politically or socially motivated. I’m sure that’ll move the needle, guys.
Anyway, we’ve got more important things to talk about than the NBA playoffs (The Celtics finally look like they’ve got their act together) or those of the NHL (sorry, Gojira. But its only game 1). We’ve got to do…the links!
Remember the good old days? When a thief wore a mask to hide his identity? Those days are gone. Now they wear suits and write editorials for The Atlantic after serving as economic adviser to two presidents.
Unsurprisingly, The AG has vowed to fight the recent ruling by a California judge that President Trump’s sanctuary city defunding policy is unconstitutional. By the way, it was the same judge that ruled against the First Amendment when he forbade the Center for Medical Progress from releasing videotapes of recordings taken inside of abortion clinics and of those taken in public of officials from Planned Parenthood. Plus his dad was a Democrat Party bundler and he’s been a Democrat Party activist his entire life.
California takes one step closer to bankruptcy. I guess they were using San Bernardino as a template after all. Or Venezuela, maybe.
Police close in, but SPECTRE agent kills self before they can arrest him. Seriously, WTF?
I hope you’ve all ordered tickets in advance for the White Privilege Conference starting today in Kansas City. Ugh, If I have to go to KC to exercise my white privilege, I may just give it up. I’ve still got my cis-hetero male privilege to fall back on, after all.
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They never seem to have any good tips for making use of the privilege. So I don’t go.
That title could lead to a very wide range of ideologies showing up.
My white privilege seems to have gotten lost in the mail.
I am so underprivileged I can’t even travel to Kansas City.
You don’t go to KC for tips, you go for ends.
Burnt ends.
*salivates*
What culture/color of people gets to claim barbecue as their own?
Neanderthals.
My sister is at a yarn vendor show there, which is probably the same thing.
$150/day to be told that I didn’t build that? $400 something for a multiday pass to be told that I’m only responsible for people who don’t look like me not getting a pony? Fuck off, SJWs.
If I’m so privileged, why do I need tickets?
I’ve had The Look stuck in my head for days now
I assume you’re talking about that garbage from Roxette.
Does this help?
I saw roxette live once. There was a live music venue and I was visiting a friend whos apartment had a balcony overlooking it. Best view, saw the stage perfectly, for free. Sound was not great. It was fun drinking and looking at the concert goers.
Good Morning, Early day for me, y’all have fun now,
B
Is there a process for removing judges who are nothing more that hyperpartisan hacks?
Yes. I think Tom Clancy covered it in Debt Of Honor. His model helped clear out the deadwood in the other branches as well, IIRC.
Though I haven’t read the book I believe I see what you did there.
Kiefer Sutherland is in the TV show of that, I think.
Damn good one sloopy
Yes, you wait for them to die of natural causes. I certainly believe appointed judges are far better then the ones that get elected (Constantly).
Fifteen federal judges have been impeached. Of those fifteen: eight were convicted by the Senate, four were acquitted by the Senate, and three resigned before an outcome at trial.
From ballotpedia.
I still think the way Clancy described it would work well.
Seconded…
They had a report that there may be a dog on the property.
Just be glad the guy is gone. I shudder to think what Ernst Stavro Blofeld would have had done to him were he caught.
Yes, it certainly is a.
Godammit!.
Yeah, isn’t that fun when they abuse their editing powers and make you look like an idiot?
To be fair, they don’t always need their editing powers for that.
Ha! Good point
It was gonna be a bonus link I found through the Cincy Enquirer story. Then it felt tasteless as I wrote it.
Then I remembered the audience.
I doubt he ended up like Wil E Coyote.
I guess he didn’t realize you don’t try to catch them.
Situational awareness has to be hammered into you sometimes.
From The Atlantic article linked:
“dwight eisenhower • 2 days ago
One of the reasons that the renaissance thinking men who founded America chose to flee England was to escape the power that the members of the royal families held over the rest of the population. By getting rid of the inheritance tax America is creating its own royal families. This, in itself,is a great reason not to lower it further and yes, even to raise it.”
Mother Mary.
Because “being allowed to leave your own money to your family” = “having the power of government force over the population”. Jesus Christ these people are morons.
After the estate tax, the next legislative priority is establishing the obligation for Trump heirs to deflower young maidens on their wedding night.
Lucky
Like Billionaire Heirs have a hard time getting laid in the NY socialite scene.
If only Ivanka had held off…
You can’t leave your money, farm, house, or business to the kids – not unless you pull a Kennedy and hide it all in Fiji.
Yes, it was the royal family that clearly drove them to break away from England. It wasn’t like they had a grievance with parliament over taxes and actually appealed to the king as a last resort. Why, that would just be historically accurate. It is best to make-up lies that make you feel fuzzy.
To be fair, the DoI was directed at the King, not at parliament.
He has refused…
He has forbidden…
He has erected…
etc
The part about “he has combined with others” to oppress American referred to acts of Parliament.
“See-rected not ee-rected…”
I expect a lot more attacks on the Founders by the SJW crowd. They really hate being reminded that our revolution began as a tax protest and sparked into open warfare over an attempted gun-grab – which is why I remind of that constantly.
Patrick Henry couldn’t get elected to anything today. Which is part of why he is so awesome.
To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death — these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. — CS Lewis
This is also my campaign platform if I ever run for office. Bolding is mine for this situation.
Any man that quotes CS Lewis in a campaign has my vote.
Unless he’s quoting The Chronicles of Narnia, of course
What the shit? You don’t remember the movie where Aslan confronted the white witch and said “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughters of Eve go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”
That scene was badass.
I loved the scene at the end (spoiler) where the Arab prince starts to say “We can negotiate” and Neeson shoots him in the face before he can finish the sentence.
“Anybody else want to negotiate?”
Funnily enough, in book 5 A Horse And His Boy, the
Arab princeCalormene Prince attempts to leap down from a parapet screaming “The Bolt of Tash falls from above!” but gets stuck on a hook and is mocked by the Narnians and Archenlanders; then Aslan turns him into a donkey.*narrows gaze*
It was sad when she cut him down with her lightsaber, though. Everybody cried.
I thought the character was Asslow… And Kumar got what was coming to him for messing with the little dude.
If I am gonna quote christian allegorical talking-animal fantasy works, it will be The Book of the Dun Cow.
Such as:
It is entirely possible to win against the enemy, it is possible, even, to kill the enemy… and still be defeated by the battle.
I presume Reich votes against any member of a would-be political dynasty when they run for President?
At least Mao’s struggle sessions were free.
What the hell makes them think I can afford that kind of coin?! Oh, right, White Privilege…
I plan to spend all my White Privilege on steak and beer.
No hookers and coke?
Do they have a page on talking points I can use to get my employer to pay for it?
Doesn’t your employer even Human Resource?
Too much to be honest.
It’s where we store our frumpy spinsters.
Grievances mongers the lot of them
Are BDSM costumes required?
<a href="http://www.craveonline.com/mandatory/1253025-woman-used-boyfriends-balls-apply-make-up"NSFW. Woman uses ____________ to apply makeup. Guess before clicking if you want.
Hahahaha. EDIT FAIRY!
I’m gonna say her boyfriends balls. Guess how I figured it out.
Using this one weird trick?
Yeah, I, uh, meant to do that.
Oh. Well then you did a damn good job, sir. Huzzah!
It’s hard to type with your balls?
I already posted this 2 days ago ::kicks pebble::
PM, AM or Afternoon? I’m only here for the AM. It would be creepy if I posted that in the PM.
PM methinks – no probs
You could always, you know, look at and comment on our links…
It was posted in the AM, but I forgot who posted it.
‘Cause it’s not like you’ve ever linked to a story that the actual links already had, right?
The edit faerie whispered in my ear that that whole comment is too fucked up to even know how to begin editing it.
Sorry.
Just, well, fuggit. It gave me a chuckle.
Not to mention all the comments below it would make no sense if you did
That cop story is sketchy as hell. Also does the privilege conference realize how white KC is? this has the potential to be amusing.
How ya gonna get publicity for your conference studying white privilege, white supremacy and oppression by white people if you don’t gin up some white supremacist, or at least conservative, protesters?
File under: I should have known better
I’ve recently started listening to this musician named Kevin Morby – sort of a 1970s FM Radio sound. A bit different than your normal new alternative junk.
Yesterday I searched on his name and found this interview, where I got to read some of his political views:
Hey Morby, you’re a musician; shut up and sing, dipshit.
like, we’re talking about politics in this interview and I talk about politics more than I ever have in my life and hear people talking about politics more than ever.
Did he just perfectly define social signaling?
There have been a ton of similar articles and interviews in recent weeks, lauding the fighting spirit of all good thinking peoples who were moved to action by the election of Trump.
But the focus is usually on the crushing disappointment when Lady Hillary lost. The turn from “we rule forever!!” to “oh, crap. We lost.” was only an hour or so, giving them severe whiplash and creating anger and rage.
Most of them had been marching with pussy hats for some time before they even started figuring out why Trump was so evil. Heck, some of them are still running off on the “Trump is an anti-Semite” tangent.
It’s so embarrassing because European politics have never taken a bad turn.
What really irks me about this is Clinton herself. Just to be so blinded by teams that you don’t see that “your” candidate is an evil person boggles my mind.
I really wanted Trump to win against Hillary. Not because I’m a super fan, but because I wanted anyone but that evil thing to become president. I would have supported a random person from the telephone book (shades of WFB) than her.
Yeah but she is MY kind of evil!
/prog off
*Points to random person in the telephine book. Sees it’s Lizzie Warren.*
I need some Silver and Black Skittles
?????????
White privilege conference.
Not racist at all.
Nope.
You can’t be racist against white people because intersectionality, or something.
Heard that parroted in college more times than I can count. ‘Unless/ until minorities control the gov’t and oppress and enslave white people for 400 years, rape their homeland,” etc. etc. ad nauseum. they can’t be racist, only prejudiced. which is like racism but without power. It’s actually pretty insulting of an idea but all my prog associates eat it up.
Power has jack shit to do with racism. Period. End of line.
That’s the truth, but the progs, they speak something different
Don’t cede ground on language. Hammer their misuse of English home every time they try to claim words mean something they don’t.
Arab slave trade history. Hey, I could edit a history textbook.Also Irish slavery wasn’t a thing, at least not like African slavery, but better conditions for the Irish
Indentured servants.
Technically.
-800 year old dungeons in Ireland.
My ancestors were likely put in the gladiatorial arena in Rome, so I want free shit!
I am Romanian Turks and Tatars oppressed my land for many a century. Took money, slaves, burned shit (the little shit that was left after the locals burned it, Romanians had a thing about burning everything, poisoning the wells and retreating to the mountains. seems kinda counterproductive to capital accumulation, but what do I know) Hell add Russians, Poles, Austrians, Hungarians. Why I demand reparations !!!!
Yeh but….you know, Romanians.
I know what your saying… At least I’m not french.
Booya!
The proper term is cheese eating surrender monkeys…
Eastern Europe doesn’t seem to be boarding the multi-cultural bandwagon. Your EU betters are very disappointed.
Well, being mostly a gateway to Western Europe and having been on the first-end of invasions, I kinda get their reluctance.
That seems to be part of it. Greece was the last to be liberated from Ottoman rule but they seem perfectly willing to lay down for the EU in exchange for an allowance.
Surviving the communists seems to have put a little steel into their spines of their eastern neighbors.
Most of the Eastern European countries seem much more gun-friendly then their Western Euro counterparts as well.
Maybe a couple of generations of hearing Orwellian bullshit from the commies makes them wary of the Orwellian bullshit from the EU?
You’ll see that anytime it comes up greeks vs turks (airspace, islands, etc) – the Greeks will get their hackles up. They are Euros after all, not Ottomans.
The Poles and Hungarians can collectively raise about $5 for reparations. Will that suffice?
Blissfully ignorant that plenty of white people had been enslaved throughout history for a period of more than 400 years. And been oppressed, and had their homeland “raped”, etc. etc. But somehow only black slavery in the US counts, forever and ever, victimhood without end.
I don’t even bring up Irish slavery anymore ’cause its different. Apparently having your home occupied, being starved out and then forced to go to the americas is note the same thing
The Brits went easy on the Irish – the Viking built the port of Dublin to export slaves. Irish girls sold well in the Byzantine and Arab slave markets.
Since I have Irish ancestry, I am therefore entitled to reparations.
go on…
No wonder there are so many O’Mohammeds in the Middle East.
I have Polish ancestry, therefore, I am entitled to reparations from the Russians, Germans, and Austrians, right?
No, you still owe them for your ancestors squatting on their land.
Dammit. Well, am I at least entitled to an apology from the Templars?
That third partition of Poland was just brutal.
In case anyone thought this was a new thing.
Was it held at Liberty Hall? You know, for ironic purposes.
They’ve actually had 170 of them, but nobody showed up for the first few.
::golf clap::
Speaking of its clientele, I just saw on the way back from walking my daughter to school a millennial in a pony tail, a long beard, a tattoo of Chinese characters under his ear area driving a Kia at 20 miles per hour in a 30 zone.
These are our men now.
Ahem.
PS: This is a generalization admittedly. I recently met another millennials except this one still had a beard but drove a Chevy pick up, worked in steel, had his head screwed on right, pumped iron and loved guns.
I just felt like writing it…because.
I was reacquainted with a college “friend” who was bragging about how her daughter was going to the March For Science wearing a pussy hat.
I tried really hard not to scowl.
Don’t refrain. Scowl openly. Express your disapproval of their poor cognitive processes.
I would have had to try really hard not to say “Well, you’ve really failed as a parent”.
There wouldn’t have been any winning this argument. There’s no position to argue against because it’s all based on feelings. Yay critical theory.
Oh, I know, believe me. My sister-in-law and mother-in-law are proggies. Thankfully my wife never caught the disease.
Yeh, there’s not a whole lot you can say to that except hope they can read your telepathic energy.
I just remember the soldiers I had the absolute honor to lead – there are some amazing folks out there in their 20s. They ain’t all lumbersexuals and pussyhat wearers.
BONUS: I saw some awesome Canadians too. Princess Patricia Light Rifles…Infantry (?)
Sounds like a gay unit.
/wink. Taps bum turns around and walks away.
Princess Patricia Light Rifles…Infantry (?)
Ah, the Pats. Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. 1st, 2nd or 3rd PPCLI, do you remember?
I wish I could grow a beard. I just end up patchy.
The fact people pay for this thing is the biggest red flag, the ticket prices set it well outside the scope of anyone that would ‘need’ it, the poorest and in the prog mind most unwoke people haven’t the means to spend three days or whatever lamenting their privilege, which should say something about their theories
I bet they make great money and sell plenty of these over priced waste of time conference seats from employers in desperate need to virtue signal their SJW creds, most likely out of fear that not doing that will get them raked over the coals in the media…..
The reading list
Wise, T. (2005). White like me: Reflections on race from a privileged son. New York: Soft Skull Press.
*Squeezes fontanelles into cone*
Because the white son of an unemployed coal miner in Appalachia is more privileged than the black daughter of optometrists in Manhattan’s upper east side.
Just like that brat at Mizzou who supposedly went on a hunger strike made was the son of a railroad executive who reportedly made $8M a year.
Thandeka. (2006). Learning to be white: Money, race, and God in America. New York: Continuum.
You mean there’s courses in being rich and white? Why wasn’t I informed?
I’ve got the “white” part down, bu the “rich” part seems to elude me.
Have you tried walking into a bank and saying, “I’m white, give me money”?
(Technically, I simply asked if you’d tried it)
Cousin goes to school on the East Coast, and he still can’t get the privilege part down. Everytime he’s told to Check his Privilege, he tells women and minorities to bow before him.
Still hasn’t worked.
The bank gives me money all the time – but if it’s more than what’s in my account they expect me to pay it back.
Why? Are you out of checks? I thought you were good until you ran out of checks to write..
I’m sure reading all that would be same as looking through that cursed microscope on Rick and Morty.
Here is a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOBoKxEcVAA
“Literally retarded, Morty”
STEVE SMITH NEEDS TO PACK A BOWL
Bizarre footage shows Dutch youngsters freaking out while ‘filming a bigfoot’ peering out from behind a tree
Pretty sure that was Poppy after her roots grew out.
STEVE SMITH PACKING, BUT IT NOT BOWL.
*standing ovation*
STEVE SMITH MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO BOWL THEM OVER WITH PACKAGE.
I thought you hockey fans may enjoy hearing that the GM of the Habs doesn’t think having top centers is necessary going as far as to claiming teams have won the Cup without them and that they’re hard to find anyway. Amazing stuff. In fact, it’s the opposite of the philosophy of management in Montreal who seem to think you need a #1 goalie. No you don’t. You can win with above average to strong goaltending; you don’t need a lights out goalie to steal you a Cup.
The Red Wings won a cup with Chris Osgood, someone who I wouldn’t consider top tier material. He certainly wasn’t a Dominik Hasek, or even a *hate spittle* Patrick Roy; both who could snatch a game.
And Mike Vernon.
And Niemi.
Eh, that was a general goalie who sucked and won a cup comment.
The Canadiens and some of their fans have too much of an unhealthy boner for Carey Price. Personally, while he’s very good, his statistics don’t justify the accolades; less so in the playoffs. If he were any other goalie no one would give him a pass on such pedestrian stats. But apparently he’s the best despite not getting it done in the playoffs – so far.
Ozzy had a great defense in front of him, but his stats are pretty strong, borderline HOF stuff.
To buy a goalie to lead you to the cup is pretty much impossible. Best thing you can do is get a good goalie and if he gets hot, ride that as long as you can. If he doesn’t, you still have a solid goalie.
They only won their last cup because that twitchy fucker Roy played out of his mind between the pipes. Maybe they’re thinking of that?
I fear that’s what they think. He did that in 1986 too. I never saw anything like it in both ’86 and ’93. 10 straight OT wins, was it in 1993?
1989 they were a powerhouse and better than any of those team but they lost to a really good Flames team.
You need a goalie who can stand up and gets hot at the right time. I remember countless Wings games when they’d pepper someone with 40 shots and get a goal out of it.
+1 Ron Tugnutt 73 shots stopped against Boston.
I think Bourque took 20 shots in that game.
Shut down D with a strong goalie. No shots, no goals.
Pope Francis gives a surprise TED Talk, calls for a ‘revolution of tenderness’ *Maybe linked, but well, just in case…
I am not so much of a fat bastard that people orbit me.
I mean, sure, he’ll eat the odd baby. But he’s not such a fat bastard that he actually has satellites in orbit.
We are this close to crating the New Man.
“How wonderful would it be if the growth of scientific and technological innovation would come along with more equality and social inclusion,”
Ok, let’s see… Just to take one example of relatively recent technology: the Internet. A connection costs about the same as a cable bill in most places, so it’s affordable to even the very poor. On the Internet, you can access:
– Educational resources, most of them for free (Khan Academy, etc.)
– A vast amount of the world’s literature and art, again, much of it for free
– Platforms for making your opinions heard and linking up with like-minded people – once again, usually for free
People in 1950 couldn’t dream of having all those things right in their own home no matter how rich they were. Now, almost everybody has access to this resource. So why exactly is he whining that the benefits of technological progress are somehow exclusive and unequal?
Cat videos and porn is all most people end up doing…
Kansas City home of the 2017 White
GuiltPrivelege Conference, culturally appropriated BBQ and a baseball team that’s looking like it’s old 90’s self.HTML fail posting from my phone
Did an admin correct my HTML? Thank you oh great deity of code!
It was the good edit faerie, I swear. He just forgot to leave any footprints.
I really thought Bulls and Bucks would pull an upset but now, not so much any more. You would think that the deer would be more fearsome
Don’t kid yourself: The Koch Brothers are running the US Government
The Kochs should really form a PAC with Soros just for the fun of it. They can get Chelsea Clinton to run it
*head explodes*
If only!
TW: Slate
Trump, Bound
On Inauguration Day, the president seemed poised to destroy American democracy. Here are the people and institutions that have kept him in check—for now.
I’ll take “Obama Who?” for $800, Alex.
Wait removing coal regulations is part of destroying democracy?
I don’t get this, Bailey had a similar thing on the old site a while ago. If the markets avoid coal, why have pointless regulations against it?
Democracy is the progressive agenda. the progressive agenda is democracy.
Exactly. This is what the left actually believes.
By the way, America is not supposed to be a democracy, it’s supposed to be a constitutional republic.
DEMOCRACY IS OUR GOD. KNEEL BEFORE DEMOCRACY.
We took a vote and decided to shoot the 49% who agree with you.
Seems legit.
“which can make more money with cleaner energy sources”
Because the evil greedy corporations would choose to make less money?
If it means destroying the planet and poisoning their customers? Of course! That’s how private companies work you know. Profits before people. But polluting before profits!
So that’s why they are willing to pay men more money to do the same job.
By definition, if you live in America, you’re in the top ten percent. Of course, that’s not what she means.
That is what really ticked me off about the 99% protest garbage. Just by having your two feet planted on this particular piece of earth you are in the upper crust of the world by default.
Total lack of understanding of what is going on in the rest of the world.
And a total lack of willingness to contribute in a meaningful manner. All they want to do is bitch and get recognized for it.
If you live in America, you are in the top 1% of the world’s population in wealth. But without envy, the left has nothing.
Could Fiat Chrysler spin off Jeep, Ram? ‘Yes’
Jeep, we’re too shitty for Fiat.
I have enjoyed my Cherokee. Im only at 18k miles, will let you know at 80k if it is still running good.
My 4Runner has 134K, runs great. My previous car was a Ford Explorer, still ran great at 130K, but traded it in because the wife wanted something new. I never had a Jeep.
My Grand Cherokee has run pretty well, and it will hit 100K miles this year. Of course I say that with the caveat that I bought it CPO and I made sure the dealer had made the fixed to all 6 (!) recalls on the 2012 model.
Oregon Red Light Ticket Objector, Clearly a Glutton for Punishment, Continues Fight
The guild says who can and cannot call themselves by the guild titles!
Several years ago one of the state boards threatened action against a geology professor for publishing an op-ed against a proposed gravel mine because he wasn’t a register geologist and therefore couldn’t make public statements about rocks in the ground.
Wait a goddamn minute.
So you’re telling me the state of Oregon will let someone with a dick identify as a woman, but someone with a degree in engineering can’t identify as an engineer?
We live in crazy times, my friends. Crazy times.
It’s worse than crazy…
Never underestimate the pettiness of state board members.
I forgot to add this bit (for length):
Also looks like That Other Site touched on this.
Yep, the petty bureaucrats got him on a technicality. For most engineering work you don’t need to be licensed to call yourself an engineer (such as electrical engineering, which is this guy’s specialty), but for civil engineering work, which technically includes traffic calculations, you do. This guy wrote a letter to the people who license engineers calling himself an engineer while discussing something that’s technically in an engineering field in which you have to be licensed. It’s pretty much a lightning strike of circumstances that lets the board fine him, as if he had written the exact same letter but never bothered to call himself an engineer in it they could do nothing. Maybe this guy could argue mens rea to get out of it, as this regulation is not commonly known among non-civil engineers.
Don’t get between the state and its money grabbing schemes or else…
WTF is an “amber light”? Dark yellow?
So it’s the legal equivalent of a red light; why bother with an amber light at all? Just go from green to red, because it’s functionally the same.
Oregon state law says: (4) Steady circular yellow signal. A driver facing a steady circular yellow signal light is thereby warned that the related right of way is being terminated and that a red or flashing red light will be shown immediately. A driver facing the light shall stop at a clearly marked stop line, but if none, shall stop before entering the marked crosswalk on the near side of the intersection, or if there is no marked crosswalk, then before entering the intersection. If a driver cannot stop in safety, the driver may drive cautiously through the intersection.
So if there isn’t enough distance to come to a stop prior to entering the intersection you are supposed to continue through.
Not sure where the ‘must stop immediately’ interpretation came from when the language is pretty straightforward in my opinion.
I remember growing up being told constantly, “You have to stop at a yellow light in Oregon, you can’t go through it like you do in California.” Of course, NO ONE does. They all jam on it just like they do in California.
Oregon has a lot of retarded traffic laws. For example, you can’t make a U-turn unless there’s a sign up that says “U-turn permitted.” I’ve seen one of those in the entire state.
On Inauguration Day, the president seemed poised to destroy American democracy.
Oh, no. Your apocalypse porn fantasy didn’t come true? You’re still here, going to work every morning, instead of being blown straight onto Jesus’ lap by the Secret Nazi Newkulur Holocaust?
Sad.
BUT IT COULD HAPPEN ANY DAY!
Had to drive my mom to the airport this morning. She was going on and on about that and how terrible the government shutdown may/will be.
Phrasing…
That’s where I put that! I’ve been looking for it all day!
That’s pretty funny.
But on a serious note, I think it’s a little bit fucked up that a judge would allow himself to be interviewed about what happened in his courtroom about a specific person. Isn’t that a little out of the ordinary?
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen it before. Maybe he thinks he’s helping the war on drugs.
Yokel vs Cosmo feud continues. Cato Institute does seem to be starting all this shit.
That’s unfortunate. Cato has gotten too close to the reins of power.
woah:
Just finished his podcast on this. Excellent.
I try to pick one or two a week for my commute. Woods is the happy warrior, but he will punch back.
Oh and Brinkley gets his ass handed to him on twitter.
Wow. He’s getting hammered.
Suit & Tie Guy @suitandtieguy Apr 21
Replying to @lindsey_brink
thank you for reminding us why Koch-style beltway libertarianism is such a massive failure. More Mises, less Reason!
Nice
Funny, I know that guy from several other forums and never would have guessed he was a libertarian.
lol
Oh goody.
Nobody can run a purity test like a libertarian.
I’ve often heard Brink Lindsey described as a libertarian without any evidence whatsoever that he actually is one. “Liberaltarian” my ass. He. Will Wilkinson, and anyone affiliated with the Niskanen Center (and all their sweet, sweet leftist foundation money) can fuck right off.
I’ll bet Daryl Hannah has.
So my bonus for transitioning from a first year to a second year nurse as well as the student loan forgiveness stipend were issued this paycheck.
And fucking 25% of this paycheck went to taxes. Despite claiming a high number of exemptions on my w4. Hearing we don’t pay enough in taxes my might make me angry, turn green, and suddenly gain muscle mass
That’s the problem with direct deposits of my paycheck – I don’t get to see the leeches at work unless I take the time to look up the information.
Hello nurse. Was the transition painful?
If a 1st year nurse identifies as a 2nd year nurse can they use the 2nd year bathroom?
Har har. I guess in my rage I neglected better word choices like promoted instead of transition. :p
is it a promotion if a year just happened to pass? I mean it would have passed anyway. Years do that. You mostly survived to become a second year
No the bonus isn’t simply given for working a year. I had to take employer classes and be signed off for a host of competencies for the patient population that my unit has.
Isn’t it an ethical violation to get your unit involved with the patients?
What kind of competencies? Bow hunting skills? Nunchuck skills? Computer skills?
I’m looking forward to my reserve signing bonus – knowing full well that I’ll lose 25% straight off the top. Hopefully it shows up sooner than the beginning of the fiscal year.
Commission on the Status of Women: The Council elected by secret ballot 13 members to four-year terms, beginning at the first meeting of the Commission’s sixty-third session in 2018 and expiring at the close of the sixty-sixth session in 2022: Algeria, Comoros, Congo, Ghana and Kenya (African States); Iraq, Japan, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia and Turkmenistan (Asia-Pacific States); and Ecuador, Haiti and Nicaragua (Latin American and Caribbean States).
from https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/ecosoc6824.doc.htm
So I don’t get what kind of countries you want on this commission but seems a bit weird. Also looking at that page, UN has a lot of commissions given the complete worthlessness and lack of results of the organization. Unless you consider child rape by peacekeepers results …
ha Romania got one
Commission for Social Development: The Council elected by acclamation seven members to fill outstanding vacancies, including Congo and Senegal (African States) for a term beginning on the date of election and expiring at the close of the Commission’s fifty-eighth session in 2020.
The Council also elected by acclamation Bulgaria, Romania, and the Republic of Moldova (Eastern European States), filling, respectively, two vacancies for a term beginning on the date of election and expiring in 2021, and one vacancy beginning on the date of election and expiring in 2019. It also elected by acclamation France and Iceland (Western European and Other States) for terms beginning on the date of election and expiring in 2021 and in 2020, respectively.
Finally, it postponed the election of two members from the Asia-Pacific States expiring at the close of the Commission’s fifty-ninth session, and three from the Western European and Other States, including two for a term expiring at the close of the fifty-ninth session in 2021 and one expiring at the close of the fifty-eighth session in 2020.
And apparently the women one was the only commission with secret ballot, the rest seem to be by acclamation. Ok I’m done with this
The easiest way to have your country elected to a UN commission on an issue is to have the worst record on that issue.
I wish Trump really would cut off funding to the UN and kick them the fuck out.
Saudi Arabia, which is about to execute someone for being an atheist, is also head of the Human Rights Commission, because why the fuck not.
If I was UN Ambassador, I would be tempted to vote as ironically as possible. Put North Korea in charge of the Nutrition Commission, China would take care of patent law, the Saudis are the obvious choice for Women’s Rights. The Congo can run Energy Policy. Venezuela can monitor elections.
What else am I missing?
Haitians for disaster preparation.
Argentina should run the World Bank
Replacing Zimbabwe? Ah well. They had a good run there.
Zimbabwe gets the IMF
PLO for The Bank of International Settlements.
Don’t forget that UNHCR is basically an agency created strictly for the Palestinians – don’t handle any other refugee issues.
Bring back the Trusteeship Council and give it to England?
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime should go to Mexico.
It’s all about the bribes.
India can head that commission.
The reason the UN is pointless is because they invited a bunch of insignificant nations to the party and treat them as equals. Having a forum in which nations can discuss international relations is a good idea, but pretending that Monaco is just as important to international affairs as the United States undermines the effectiveness of such an institution by putting idealistic fantasy ahead of practical reality. That’s why the more exclusive clubs such as the G20 which only concern themselves with the major players are where the real heavy lifting of international diplomacy occurs. The UN does nothing more than stroke egos and abet corruption.
Well, that IS the point of it.
The entire pretense of the UN is that it gives non-superpower states the ability to gang up and (sort of/slightly/superficially appear to) wield influence over the superpower states.
Of course they don’t, but the appearance is enough that it makes the populations of these non-superpower states ameliorated enough that they don’t go around starting wars and having revolutions and otherwise making things problematic for the regional powers.
Yes, but you say that as tho “egos and corruption” weren’t the bread and butter of 3rd world regimes.
I’m not saying the UN is a good thing. I’m just pointing out that you don’t seem to grok that these very aspects you complain about as trivial are in fact the most important purposes the UN serves in giving appearance to ameliorating the imbalances of power between large and small states. And i’d say that its existence HAS probably helped prevent wars from breaking out in many places, and kept the wars that do relatively small.
Don’t forget how it also provided plenty of opportunities for UN members to prey on the weak…
Not sure what to think? Let a Limey explain it to you.
Because of the shadow cast by the Russian allegations, these first 100 days have sometimes felt like the final days of an ailing administration. Trump is routinely cast as a modern-day Richard Nixon. Yet while it is difficult sometimes to see how this administration can remain viable in its present form, it is harder to imagine how it would be brought to a premature end.
Barring some catastrophic revelation emerging from the FBI’s investigation into Team Trump’s alleged links with the Kremlin or some massive financial scandal, the Republican leadership is unlikely to move against him. In the unlikely event that it launched impeachment proceedings, here the constitution is his friend.
It is hard to dislodge an incumbent president.
The Founding Fathers, who came up with a governing model that has constrained Trump, also came up with an electoral model, the Electoral College, which has already helped him and may do so again. That will be true if the Rust Belt remains a stronghold.
My overwhelming sense, based on the popular vote in November and opinion polls since, is that more Americans are anti-Trump than pro.
But my sense also is that many blue-collar battlers remain fiercely loyal. So to write him off would be to repeat the same analytical mistake commentators have made since he first announced for the presidency, that of underestimation.
For while Democrats regard their new president as a national embarrassment, many of his supporters continue to view him as a potential national saviour.
One hundred days into a presidency the like of which this country has never seen before, the state of the union is disunion.
Poor baby. He cannot fathom the depravity which has wrought such a grotesque miscarriage of electoral justice upon his world. Also, Trump is most Presidential when dropping bombs in a spasm of retribution.
99% of
historianscunts agree.more projection than your local Omniplex
From the article:
Yeah, except for going in with a fucking SWAT team. Totally not force.
“Teen Wears Prom Dress Honoring Trayvon Martin and The Black Lives Matter Movement”
http://www.essence.com/culture/teen-prom-dress-trayvon-martin-black-lives-matter
Warning: Auto-play video about being “woke”
“Woke for me means being outraged all the time.”
No, really. She actually said that.
Nice unintentional summation of what the left is all about.
She thicc tho
We have to tamp down on intergenerational wealth by transferring some of that money to politically connected firms. And I should be okay with that because it only hits icky wealthy people, not moral poor people like me.
Not very persuasive.
The Yale Grad Student Union has called a “symbolic” hunger strike. They eat when they’re hungry.
No, really.
That’s what it says on the brochure.
Funny I always thought hunger strikes were for issues that were important enough to die for. If they’re not willing to even give up a couple meals for whatever it is they’re protesting, then why should I take it seriously?
Because they’re really, really serious about it this time?
A proper hunger strike is a self-solving problem.
Either they abandon it, or they stop complaining forever.
Or…they get what they want?
Attention and Facebook likes, mostly.
UCS only put two outcomes for a hunger strike: giving up or dying. The other one is the protester gets their demands met and the hunger strike is no longer necessary.
My original point was that hunger strikes were done by people with a conviction so deep it was a matter of life & death to them. These Yale pussies have appropriated (to borrow from our SJW friends) this form of protest and watered it down to meaningless claptrap.
Well, he did say self-correcting. I’m thinking Yale wishes they’d “self-correct” right the fuck back home.
I linked the story yesterday and called it relay fasting. Nonsense on stilts.
My point was that there is no reason to give in to the demands of hunger strikers. They will either give up or go away on their own.
Something, something, riot?
You SF’ed the first link. Which I guess is appropriate.
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/04/26/local-33-members-begin-hunger-strike/
Does anyone at college do any normal things anymore? These kids should be studying and drinking.
and fornicating like rabbits on viagra
Or at least trying.
That will get a guy’s life ruined if she gets mad because you didn’t want her for your girlfriend.
Why are graduate students unionized?
They wanted to limit the supply of graduate degrees to increase the market value of one?
Who am I kidding, they’re not that smart.
For example, these assholes have way too much time on their hands:
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/kill-frat-boys-anarchists-terrorize-texas-college-with-calls-to-make-their-lives-hell/
Doubt they’d do anything like at Berkeley. Texas added open-carry to their campuses after all.
Bobby Sands scoffs – “Amateurs”
“A former student who allegedly had a threesome with two high school teachers in Louisiana testified in court on Tuesday about the steamy romp — and admitted secretly recording one of the women sleeping after sex as “proof” to show to his fellow football players.”
nypost.com/2017/04/26/student-testifies-about-threesome-with-his-teachers/
Wait, is this a trend?
“A lusty British teacher who organized an orgy with two male friends and a female teenage student has been banned from teaching for life.”
https://heatst.com/life/married-teacher-mom-45-banned-from-teaching-for-life-after-prom-night-threesome-with-teen-girl/
Obligatory complaint about “Where were these teachers when I was in high school?”
Although I can only think of one teacher at my school I would have ever wanted to nail in the first place. It seemed that part of the job was being an old hag.
Now, the principal’s secretary, she was a dish and a half. Total MILF back before it was a phrase. Blonde, mid-40s, perfect body, hair, nails, dressed to kill. Man did the male students ever collectively lust after her.
I had a cute 20-something French teacher in HS. I would spend most of my time in class watching her bum move back ‘n’ forth as she wrote on the chalkboard.
Plus so few students took French that it was a guaranteed pass class.
I didn’t take Spanish, but we had a Spanish teacher who was very attractive. I believe she was only a few years out of college, couldn’t have been more than 25 or so.
I think we have our official Thicc Thursday entrant.
16 yoa me – would, would.
One lesson we can learn from all of this is never marry a hot high school teacher.
First: wood
Second: It would take a few drinks
The other site posted on this yesterday. What the fuck happened to the ACLU? They really were once a respectable organization.
ACLU sues a California Catholic hospital for not performing a transgender-related surgery
Founded by commies, infested by modern-day proggies, and given an assload of money for no other reason than the left lost an election and were really butthurt about it. Money is power, and they just got a lot of it.
“The Other Site” isn’t that bad.
Zing!
Next, ACLU sues kosher deli for not making a ham sandwich.
They’re pretty much there now.
There’s some fallout from lefty donors (supposedly–it’s twitter) complaining that ACLU denounced the “heckler’s veto” of Coulter’s speech.
Bill Nye’s View Of Humanity Is Repulsive
The guys running the DPRK News twitter account had a great take on that today.
https://twitter.com/DPRK_News/status/857584297166950401
Occasionally a journalist does not get that the account is a parody and quotes it.
Chelsea Clinton fell for a Godfrey Elfwick tweet lately and that was also glorious.
Chelsea falling for a Godfrey Elfwick account is one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen on the internet. My wife came over to see if I was okay I was laughing so hard.
Link? Screen shot?
https://twitter.com/chelseaclinton/status/855904180204179456
LOL…though good for her for not shame deleting that
The Clintons are like trailer trash, but with money.
The Capitol Hillbillies?
The Capitol Hillbillies?
I sense a sitcom…
It doesn’t matter if she had deleted it. I kept a screenshot the second I saw it and sent it off to archive. The Internet never forgets. 😉
Can confirm; saw it live. Her reaction tho.
Is it not run by Ken White anymore?
He never ran it. It’s his Popehat partner Patrick and one other guy.
Aha. My mistake.
You know who else used scientific theories to bolster their ideas of population control…
Margaret Sanger?
Oliver Wendell Holmes?
Malthus?
D-Con?
Wow, that was eye-opening. What a cunt.
Mistakes were made
“This is a turning point for all of us at United and it signals a culture shift toward becoming a better, more customer-focused airline,” chief executive Oscar Munoz said in a statement that accompanied the release of the report on the April 9 incident at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. “Our customers should be at the center of everything we do and these changes are just the beginning of how we will earn back their trust.”
“How was I supposed to know we shouldn’t summon the police to forcibly remove a seated, ticketed passenger? Who do I look like, some fucking hippy?”
It may only be game one of the Pittsburgh/Capitals series, but the winner of this slobber-knocker will probably win the Cup.
Crosby has won the cup. Ovechkin has not. They’ll always be compared to each other, and Ovechkin wants his name on the cup.
He doesn’t like playing in Crosby’s shadow. He doesn’t like playing cupless. Nobody wants to play hockey without a cup.
*squints through my iron mask*
Fuck Sidney Crosby and fuck the fucking Penguins. Tanked one year and Bettman rigged the 2005 lottery and they… goddammit I hate them so much.
This, 1000 times this. Crosby is an amazing player, but a cunt of gigantic proportions.
When I hear the name “Sidney Crosby”, all I can picture is a little kid throwing pickle jars on the floor of a grocery store, while his mom halfheartedly mumbles “No, Sidney. Be good.” while texting with her mommy group about the latest sippy cup innovations.
Actually, the kid waits until no mommies are looking, and then he body-checks another kid into a display stack of Vienna sausage.
Goooooo BLUES♪! (Yes I know they are gonna get their asses kicked)
Guaranteed. The Pens/Caps series from last year was probably the best hockey played in my lifetime.
Portland’s 82nd Avenue parade cancellation causes widespread surprise, distress
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/04/portlands_82nd_ave_parade_canc.html#incart_river_home
“”You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely,” the email says.”
So Portland and Berkeley have the same police force?
Gangbangers wanting to drive over bridge vs protesters
Jake – Hey, what’s going on?
Cop – Those bums won their court case so they’re marching today.
Jake – What bums?
Cop – The fucking
Nazianti-fa party.Elwood – Oregon
nazisanti-fa.Jake – I hate Oregon
nazisanti-fa.It needs a lighter.
Hard to tell if this is the normal Rose Festival Parade or not. Both times I went with my ship, it was something like 2 weeks after Memorial Day (2011/2012) – good times. My sailors regularly got loaded for free (mostly the more conservative folks heading into town for Fleet week, etc). Plus, everyone likes cracker jacks.
Back in ye olden days this would be a perfect opening for a (twisted) John joke:
‘Overly obese’ body starts funeral home fire
Note to self: gain a shitton of weight on death bed to cause postmortem awesomeness
He’s a firestarter, lifeless firestarter.
Text to squeeze: “I haz another mouse in the trap!” No response.
Text to squeeze: “Lookit this chick using her boyfriend’s balls as a makeup sponge”. Immediate response.
I think I lub him.
Apply your make-up with mouse balls?
Oops!
Asylum seekers fleeing U.S. finding cold comfort in Canadian courts
What, are they sending them all to Saskatchewan or something?
How the fuck is this sports?
http://www.espn.com/espnw/voices/article/19201723/five-poets-new-feminism
What they didn’t allow comments on that?
As I said on another thread it’s like ESPN is deliberately driving away viewers.
Ace has a post up hypothesizing that this move is ESPN cashing in on hardcore social justice types because soft, apolitical types are fickle and unreliable media consumers. I don’t know that I buy it, but it makes as much sense as ESPN accidentally on purpose tanking their brand, then doubling down.
I mean, unless there’s some Springtime for Hitler angle here. Running your franchise aground just seems, I don’t know, like bad business. But what do I know?
That might make sense if ESPN was a political network. But I don’t see much intersection between SJW and sports fans.
Except the one they’re attempting to forge. So either it’s an attempt to bring enlightenment to the benighted masses of sports-watching yokel hicks who love God, guns, Bud Light, and beating their wives, or they’re trying to rebrand and appeal to those crazy younguns with their social justice crusade and daddy’s money.
It’s insane how badly they misread the market, in any event.
Nah. It’s just a classic case of an overconfident company taking its customer base for granted.
Remember the good old days? When a thief wore a mask to hide his identity? Those days are gone.
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
/Woody Guthrie
Turns out, Iceland has even stricter immigration laws then Canada. They won’t even let animals come to visit.
They won’t even let animals come to visit.
And super racist!
Everyone in Iceland is related. If you’re not one of the family, you’re not welcome.
The actually have a dating app/family tree app so you can double check if that prospective SO is actually your cousin.
I love the photo caption:
“This is a cat, but not the one in question”
Oh, this is absolutely priceless. From WaPo, here’s your headline:
So what if protesters are paid? Critics of today’s mass movements want you to think compensated organizers aren’t sincere. But it’s not true.
Excuse me while I wipe away several tears of helpless laughter.
Shit, I’d protest if the pay was good enough. If I only had to show up for 1-2 hours and stand around looking bored.
Maybe I should start a protestors union.
Yeah, go fuck yourself.
My favorite was when “protesters” for a $15 minimum wage were paid $7.
The people directly employed by my union are represented by a different union. So labor disputes between the union and the union get somewhat surreal.
Similar situation for one of the larger public employees unions here. And the union-“management” relationship is just as poisoned and hateful, and filled with the same complaints as any other unionized workplace.
Business: paying more would hurt our bottom line and cause us to lay off a bunch of people
Union: your bottom line and ability to employ is not important!
Union: paying protesters a living wage would hurt our bottom line and cause us to lay off a bunch of people!
The story of “Scabby” the inflatable rat.
These rats are seen all around town with paid-to-“protest” non-union people manning them. I heckle them when I see them, lol.
If I was CEO of my company, I would immediately fire anyone that ‘replied all’ on promotion or anniversary emails.
On May 1 (“May Day”), when people take to the streets to protest for workers’ rights, we can expect corporate and anti-immigrant interests to try to discredit the protests by claiming that some of the protesters are being paid by labor unions. But don’t buy it. Although critics would have us believe that payment and principles are incompatible, they aren’t — and the belief that they are is toxic.
But don’t you dare try to claim people who have worked for corporations can honestly and properly fulfill the duties of an appointed government post. They’re going to loot the Treasury!
However, the allegations that even one participant
is paidwill benefit from a policy change immediately calls into question the legitimacy of a cause.“Trump’s taxes might go down! We cannot allow tax reform; we’ll fight to the death!”
On a related note,
We can’t lower the corporate income tax rate!
Why not?
Because the corporations won’t be paying enough!
But we already have the highest corporate income tax in the free world.
But the deficit will skyrocket!
(Wow, deficits matter again?) Corporate income taxes are a small part of Federal revenue. And if corporations reverse their offshoring decisions due to lower tax rates, then it will alleviate the difference. Also, the government should spend less to solve the deficit, not try to take as much as possible.
But Trump
Right, I forgot, Secret Nazi President is the Most Corruptest Ever so we can’t do anything that makes sense because it might benefit him personally even though it will also benefit millions of other Americans.
a review of Kolbe v. Hogan by Charles C.W. Cooke where the 4th Circuit competes with the 9th Circuit for least principled.
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2017/4/26/the-conspiracy-to-dismember-heller/
Disgracefully, the 4th Circuit ignored all these prescriptions—which it was duty-bound to follow—electing instead to devise its own rule: that if a weapon is “most useful in military service,” it enjoys no constitutional protection.
In the course of his opinion, Judge Robert King claimed that the AR-15 was “virtually indistinguishable” from the M-16 because it a) looks similar; b) can play host to some of the same aesthetic modifications; and c) can fire between 300 and 500 rounds per minute—or 30 rounds every 5 seconds. The first two claims are so shallow as to be worth ignoring entirely; the lattermost point, which formed the basis of the court’s argument, is flatly incorrect.
I wonder how Ron Swanson-y I’m allowed to be with my co workers’ kids? Is there a “never go full Ron Swanson” rule?
Can I be this Ron Swanson-y?
be sure to give them lots of chocolate. parents love that.