Man, what a week. I just passed the 20 hour mark around noon. Friday afternoon might be, er, “flex time”. Or I might still be working my arse off.
It looks like our slide (back) into political mobs street fighting is continuing. Is it racist of me to notice that the vast majority of these people are white?
Bob Dylan delivers his Nobel Lecture to get his Nobel money. As best I can tell, he said, “I stole it all from Buddy Holly and black folk singers”
Paris cops shoot hammer-wielding man in Notre Dame. Apparently it was not Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogaloogalooga.
Man chokes bride over wedding gifts. Not Florida Man (he used his hands), or Grand Moff Serious Man.
I have today’s newest health scare. (For you non-followers, “Aluminum Should be Considered a Primary Factor for Alzheimers”, type: editorial) My take: I assume this is for people who grind/manipulate aluminum and not oxidized aluminum in food preservation, but its hard to tell. I’ll take my chances with aluminum food preservation rather than foodborne illnesses
Interesting outlier poll from WaPo predicting British Conservatives pick up about 20 seats. We’ll see. Just because the old polls were not predictive doesn’t mean the new ones are.
Comments
394 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
first?
also re: the portland protests – what are these people protesting? losing an election?
that’ll work!
No comment on the links. Can I get a ruling?
I think this makes my comment technically first
Lotta fucking rules around here…
It’s why I’m planning to launch my own spin off site with blackjack, hookers, drugs, and no rules.
In fact, forget the blackjack!
Yeah, I don’t think I’ll have the energy or cognitive function to play, anyway.
Just where will this site be located? I hope it’s brick and mortar, so I can arrange for a business trip nearby. Except if it’s in some hellhole like Minnesota, of course.
Well, I already have it the core features set-up in my basement, if you want to stop by.
In
82 degrees and sunshine in the hellhole today, doc!
Hey!
Paris cops shoot hammer-wielding man in Notre Dame.
Not named Charles Martel either?
Make no mistake. They probably would if given the chance.
I was hoping his name is Maxwell and the hammer was made of silver.
Charles knew how to take care of the Moorish threat.
“Is it racist of me to notice that the vast majority of these people are white?”
No, it’s important point that should be repeated.
Who cares about Alzheimers? Pretty much everyone here is going to die either from cirrhosis or in a shootout with police long before Alzheimers becomes an issue.
I’m aiming for a fiery car crash.
As long as you crash into a cop car it counts.
Me too. I race a Lotus.
Exige?
Seven or GTFO.
*applauds* I love the Seven!
I always wanted to have my skull cracked open by a medieval mace by the hand of a transgendered space alien with one eye.
Just like the Gypsy woman said!
But she’s homeless.
Named Levels?
I probably die in an early battle in the upcoming civil war.
Exaaaactly. I’m fairly certain the Police will feature prominently in the assembled cohort of your enemies.
I didn’t know Drake hated Sting that badly.
I figure once the upcoming civil war is complete, and the reign of terror begins, it will be the guillotine for me.
I have confidence the libertarians win any civil war.
I probably die in an early battle in the upcoming civil war.
Same here. I’ll fight, but I’m too old and fat for a maneuver unit, so I’ll get stuck in a static defense position. You know, the kind that get overrun.
If you’re any good with a long gun, we can put you in a place where they’ll have to pay a heavy price to silence you.
Adequate shot with long guns, given a steady rest.
Weirdly proficient with handguns – I think its because shooting a handgun is a lot more like martial arts than shooting a rifle.
How do u figure? Not saying you are wrong, just never considered it anything like martial arts
To me, its very similar (also for wingshooting).
Shooting a handgun or shotgun is about being relaxed and focussed, which was what my sensei was always trying to get us to do/be. My mindset is much the same in any of the three. My mindset when shooting a rifle at any distance is very different. Yeah, yeah, you want to be relaxed and focussed with a rifle, but long range shooting is about picking a slice of a moment when the crosshair is where it needs to be, not the flow that I want to be in with handguns and shotguns.
I’m the opposite. I’m pretty good with a rifle at medium to long ranges, and just awful with pistols.
I’m just okay with guns… better at suicidal runs… but somehow scraping by.
Like the time I outran a cop car, went down a dead end, over a hill, and ended up on the highway. Broke a tie rod but still managed to drive the car a mile away.
I figure I can just wait until some militia overruns the elevated position Vhyrus takes and steal all his guns.
My plan= First sign of Alzheimer’s I’m booking a hunting trip to Africa. Either I get the lion or he gets me.
I sat down with a patient in one of out inpatient units, recently. He had come up to the nurse’s station and looked really confused. I introduced myself, and he said I was just who he wanted to talk to.
He was early-stage dementia. He knew he wasn’t right (which isn’t a problem starting around mid-stage) – he couldn’t find words, he couldn’t remember things (like why he came to the hospital), he knew at some level what he was asking me about was nuts. But he knew there was something wrong with his mind. It was heartbreaking. Fortunately, my family goes with massive strokes, so I doubt I’ll have to worry about it, but goddam it was like seeing my worst nightmare come to life.
To make things worse, you could wind up with multi-infarct dementia.
I hear ya. Watched my great grandmother and great aunt go through that. The constant look of confusion was terrifying to watch. I want no part of that.
Spontaneous Combustion on a Rooftop for me
/ A/C guy
+ 1 natural causes
You cant dust for vomit.
Seems like the gays are leaving the reservation. Women and minorities hardest hit. (TW: Slate)
Everything is literally fascism
literally everything?
Actually, literally
To be fair, Jack Donovan is a literal fascist.
Sure, but considering the article deliberately qualifies ‘alt-right’ positions as ‘being worried about Islam and/or importing anti-gay foreigners’, it’s fair to say they’re classifying everyone with those beliefs as fascists.
Gay Fascists?
Can you imagine the uniforms?
Yes…. yes I can….
Nicely done.
You know, we don’t really need to speculate on this. It’s already been done.
Even better than Hugo Boss?!?
I’m sure it really is that they’re falling for “fake news” from the alt-right, and it has nothing to do with fear of a religion that continues to execute people for being gay.
*Literally starts with a picture comparing gay pride flags to Nazi paraphernalia*
Classy Slate.
Gay men have been influenced by two white nationalist ideas: the “threat” posed by Islam and the “danger” posed by immigrants.
Remember kids, if you’re a gay man who is slightly worried about the fact that every country with the death penalty for homosexuality is majority Muslim except for Uganda you’re literally Ernst Rohm.
Hermann Gerbils?
sigh…
*narrows gaze*
Martin Boreman.
Adolf Hitlosexual
Erwin Reamhole
“The dessert fox”
I’ve read that Uganda’s penalty is actually life in prison, which would make gay=death a type of law that only exists in Muslim countries (and to be fair, there are many Muslim countries with more tolerant laws than Uganda, but Uganda is sort of an outlier for non-Muslim states).
From Ernst Röhm to Pim Fortuyn to Milo Yiannopoulos.
Twitter Users Blocked by Trump Seek a Reprieve, Citing First Amendment
They can create other accounts to circumvent the block, of course. But then they lose their blue check privileges that put them near the top of replies.
So sad.
Every Trump tweet becomes a soapbox for morons, it’s pretty great.
PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEE!!!!!
You’ve probably seen this already, but here’s a parody of that Tragic Moment
Getting Blocked By Donald Trump
short video at the link.
It actually does raise some questions when official government accounts block people, though they are bitching about Trump’s personal Twitters account so not really…
I wonder how many people shrieking that Trump shouldn’t be able to block them on Twitter are also users of that anti-Gamergate block bot. Probably more than a few.
Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if all the people complaining about Trump blocking them on Twitter also opposed the Citizens United decision, thereby being proponents of actual government censorship.
Justin once again puts his foot in his SJW mouth again.
https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2017/06/05/prime-minister-justin-trudeau-appears-on-live-with-kelly-and-ryan-in-niagara-falls-today.html
For the love of God, Will someone muzzle this guy before someone loses an eye?
See Zoolander occupies a very special part of the intelligence spectrum where you’re not entirely sure if he’s just an idiot who doesn’t know about Kim Campbell, or that he is incapable of retaining or processing any kind of information in his mind and is merely a collection of SJW catchphrases that fail the Turing test.
Didn’t he do some complex math or some shit and everyone ooed and awed?
This staged bit about quantum computing?
He literally asked the reporters to ask him about quantum computing. He clearly memorized it beforehand but idiots still gobble that shit up and further provide they’re idiots.
‘I’m really hoping people ask me how quantum computing works’
“Look mommy, look what I learned today!”
*Isn’t actually that accurate*
The point of that exercise was to cynically posit the idea that Trudeau *could* understand quantum physics if he really wanted to so everyone should just trust him with matters on the economy, foreign trade, diversity and cuckery.
The fact that people ate that shit up rather than recognize it as a blatantly obvious staged event in response to the (outside of his fetishists) near universal belief that he’s an idiot continues to make me agree with Kent Brockman.
Was hoping for ants.
Yeh. That. Ask him to do it again.
God damn those comments are gold.
“The uterus quivers does it not?”
“So does the prostate.”
Other morons on there bleatling about how its okay that its scripted memorization because “memorization something something equals knowledge”.
Cult of Personality for idiots.
He takes after his daddy.
I disagree, Trudeau Sr. had almost sociopathic animalistic cunning that allowed him to dominate politics for decades. His son, thankfully, entirely lacks that ability.
I meant his real daddy.
I need a drum badum tiss here stat!
I’m all for the Castro-Trudeau paternity test, but as people have pointed out, he does have Pierre’s hair, so *shrugs*.
The Rolling Stones?
Since such things cannot be parodied, here we have the Facebook words Of the Cheshire Police Constabulary, United Kingdom
a reply:
Dear Cheshire Police,
Even the whipped dogs we call the British these days can be pushed too far. Word to the wise: you have to go home eventually, and your awful British gun laws mean you’ll have a difficult time fending off the lynch mob of terror victims’ relatives. Maybe stop poking the bear.
Burn Canada to the ground and then salt the ground
You come to the border and you say that to my face. We’ll settle this like Waynes.
Are you offended that I did not write my remark in French too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC1f2e6Kk7c
Yet another thing Michael Moore didn’t get right about Canada, once you’re west of Cornwall French don’t mean nothin’ outside a government office.
Probably won’t see this, but I was near Banff getting some sort of pass to see the park and the lady behind the desk kept talking to me in Quebecian. Very off putting.
/Merican
You touch ONE Tim Horton’s…and it is WAR, Mr. Say’n!
They just opened one near me and his Holiness. Is it really all that?
If it’s from Canada it probably sucks. Come at me, you cannucks!
Come on man. They make good syrup. Granted everything else from Canada sucks, but everyone loves maple syrup
Yeah, but Minnesota and Vermont make damn good maple syrup, too.
Montreal smoked meat?
Redneck comedy shows?
Our side of Niagara Falls is better?
The C7?
Red Green in pretty funny. And Made in Canada was good, too.
OK, so their syrup is passable, and two of their TV shows are funny.
And the Tragically Hip is awesome…and Mike Plume is awesome, too.
OK, maybe Canada isn’t so bad.
And Made in Canada was good, too.
If anything shows the complete incompetence of state run media, it’s that the CBC released every season of Little Mosque on the Prairie on DVD while Made in Canada has never had anything released but the first season.
Don’t forget Rush, Queen, Celine Dion and Three Days Grace. Please forget Bieber, Nickleback and Shania Twain.
NORM FUCKEN MACDONALD.
Salute Mike. Made in Canada was very good.
Rufus; What’s Rick Mercer up to these days? I liked him.
Which reminds me, This Hour Has 22 Minutes was good too. At least the original cast. I haven’t seen it in many years.
Mercer has his moments.
Rick Mercer currently runs the Rick Mercer Report, which is basically Canada’s Daily Show, but is actually better.
Rick’s obviously a bit of an obnoxious lefty (and an even more annoying environmentalist) so a lot of the show isn’t great, but he also tends to mock the shit out of the entire political process rather than be as openly partisan as Stewart or Colbert. He also has segments that are basically apolitical tours of Canadian towns or famous places where he just hangs out with people.
Arguably, the greatest thing to come form Canada is the slow destruction of the DeBeers cartel.
Kids in the Hall
I’ve stopped at one in Detroit before and it was OK.
Where is the one near us? I hadn’t heard anything about it.
Right across the street from Mills. Noticed it the other day.
Dear Cheshire Police,
Kiss my ass and DO YOUR FUCKEN JOBS and protect the people from terrorists.
It’s almost as if the British government were actively trying to foment a violent uprising on the part of non-Muslim Brits. They’re almost daring people to riot in the streets or storm police stations. Or lynch Muslims, which is probably coming soon.
I told my wife that by the stupid, insipid actions of police and politicians we would ironically see violence against Muslim terrorists if this shit keeps up.
Can I please write Fuck Off Slaver on their FB page. Please?
Happy World Environment Day!
I heard that Trump ended Happiness, the World, and the Environment already. He’s allegedly working on ending daytime next
Permanent night? Sweet. All in favor of that.
I heard he was going to block the sun. For shame. Someone has to stop him. Maybe it should be…..Obama.
/underwhelmed tone.
If that happens, Maggie Simpson will probably shoot him.
“No jury in the world is going to convict a baby”
I heard he was going to block the sun.
And people say he doesn’t care about global warming.
When he does, I hope announces it like this:
this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal
More nuts trying to fight in the streets – or the Evergreen State College quad. These people are out of their minds. The picture is priceless – I swear the guy on the left is Lamar from Renege of the Nerds.
Christ, they’re hideous.
Hahahaha
For our Spanish patrons: Jajajaja
For the Russians that hacked the election: Xaxaxa
For another 1.7billion, most of which are also hackers: 哈哈哈
Shouldn’t that be Kekekeke?
The professor that started it on Rogan
He seems like a pretty smart and level-headed guy.
He does. And that’s who is being chased off campus.
Jesus. The girlscouts who sell cookies in front of the grocery store are more intimidating. Also thin mints are likely a better tool for getting your way than baseball bats are. Especially if your entire bat wielding game was picked last in gym for special ed kids.
It’s hard to argue with a Thin Mint. Especially when it’s been in the freezer for a couple hours.
Jesus Hopscotch Christ, there must be some very, very proud parents drinking themselves to death somewhere.
once can only hope.
I’m actually a little surprised boulder isn’t having it as bad as portland or evergreen. CU has a good contingent. Naropa might not be big enough.
Yeah, I’m not sure why Boulder hasn’t joined in. Maybe the legal pot has the kids too mellow? Or the fact that Boulder is surrounded by not-Boulder?
“This is what retardation looks like”
This is your brain on Social Justice.
Any questions?
Is this one of the gangs from “The Warriors” that got left on the editing room floor?
Yeah, their turf was Roosevelt Island.
Their gang colors were tartan codpieces (for the girls).
“The ‘tards”
Even “the Orphans” would’ve kicked their arse
Come out and Play -ay !
Nah, its a prepublicity still for the remake:
“The Warriors 2: Social Justice Boogaloo”
I’m thinking it’s more like a gang from the new musical “West Coast Story.”
I’m starting to reconsider eugenics.
Are we sure that’s not just like a costume party or a parody or something please tell me that isn’t real my brain can’t take it.
Yeah, you sort of expect it is part of some Onion photo shoot to go with a completely over the top piece of satire.
If you come at me with a bat, you better knock me right out because I’m going to assume you’re trying to kill me and will respond appropriately.
I actually think that if you shot and killed one of them (as long as it wasn’t them personally) you would make them so happy. FINALLY! Some real goddamn oppression. No more having to make up transgressions and exaggerate minor slights into huge fucking dramas.
I seriously think that these loons are disappointed that there are no real Bull Connor type racists left anymore. They want to fight against evil, but their parents and grandparents did a great job of making things better and now things are way better. How are you supposed to feel good about yourself if all you can fight against is some stretched to the limit uncomfortableness of trans people? Fuck no one is even really beating up the trans people. All you can do is rail about how unfair it is to pass a law about what bathroom they are supposed to use?
How do you organize a movement around that that you can be proud of when you are old and wrinkled? “Kid I was part of the Freedom Flushers back in the day! We braved beatings and lynchings to go to North Carolina to piss in whatever bathroom we felt like”
You martyr one of them and fucking FB would melt down as every single one of them would claim to be best friends with the victim and then proceed to tell us all what their BFF would want to say if they were still with us.
Bottom left: “Lucille is thirsty. She is a vampire bat!”
Like a 90s xmen b squad
I got nothing. Those people make fun of themselves. God help us if that is our future.
For being such individualists even they have to admit that they are wearing uniforms in that hideous photo.
Students should educate themselves on feminism
Do guys have to pay for condoms in restrooms?
For the good ones with the fancy French ticklers on them you do. Of course you can save some money and use regular ones that you staple some confetti onto. Same effect but half the price.
Would someone kindly take this person out back and beat them to death with a copy of Principles of Logic? Or maybe just a copy of Websters?
Shoeonhead covered a bunch of these idiotic feminist sermons and how they basically don’t even disguise the fact that they operate like a cult.
Would.
Her teeth remind me of home.
*falls over*
Speaking of which….
Diamond Reynolds cleans up pretty well. (Philando Castille’s girlfriend)
Of course, no matter how hot she was, I’d hope my girlfriend would maybe try to put some compression on my bleeding wounds and not just livestream it on FB.
“how are you supposed to get off if somebody isn’t being degraded?”
I find her tolerable most of the time until she insists on doing videos with her boyfriend who I find to be unbearable to listen to. Her videos are already pretty dumbed down and he manages to take it down another notch or two.
Different audiences, different schticks. He has no humor center, which is fine if you want to be preached at, but he’s not even useful as “straight man” for comedy.
She’s hardly my go-to-chick for thoughtful social commentary either.
Yeah, shoeonhead is popcorn social commentary, she’s more my go-to for what the internet youngsters are into nowadays than anything else.
The expression “Educate Yourself” actually just means = “i’m completely inarticulate and have no idea what the fuck i’m trying to say”
Exactly. If anyone ever says that to me, my response is going to be “Since you’re so fucking smart, why don’t you educate me?”
In this case, I think it translates more like, “Shut the fuck up and get down on your knees, bitch.”
“Paging Laci Green. Laci Green to the white oboe please!”
Although you may believe your message is acceptable, other people may take offence
“I’m sorry you’re such a thin-skinned whiny bitch.” Feel better?”
Joke them if they can’t take a fuck…
Also since such things cannot be parodied, here we have the beginning of Evergreen State College’s official response to the list of student demands.
Every single story about Evergreen makes me think of a tiny joke in Futurama. “You have a degree in baloney.” *turns firehouse on person*
This has to be some kind of asylum for retarded kids and the staff has lost control.
Are you talking about Evergreen or that other website?
Yes
They’re not retards, They’re delusional. And they do belong in an asylum, so I applaud Evergreen’s efforts to keep them contained and away from the rest of us.
This is performance art, isn’t it?
I’m deeply interested in giving Native Americans their due after decades of government “stewardship” which has infantilized a large segment of that population. Something along the lines of dissolving the BIA and selling swaths of government owned land and giving them one time cash disbursements or dividing the land into tracts and deeding them to individual members. Something to repay them, not for “taking” their land, but for the federal government taking the steps to effectively render these populations isolated and impoverished in the name of helping them.
That said, the whole “stole” business is white-guilt bullshit.
I hate the connotation of this word, but it’s so hilariously appropriate when applied to George Bridges: CUCK!
If they feel the land was unfairly stolen from the Injuns and they now own it they should give it back maybe?
Give it to the last tribe to own it before the whites stole it? Or the tribe that tribe massacred to take that land? Or the tribe THAT tribe massacred? Or…
Aluminumimum fear is always a popular one.
The dude who choked his wife doesn’t look like he regretted it.
Interesting outlier poll from WaPo predicting British Conservatives pick up about 20 seats. We’ll see. Just because the old polls were not predictive doesn’t mean the new ones are.
Bullshit, Jeremy Corbyn is the voice of a generation. Labour ascendant.
Well, according to a generational poll I saw the other day, he’s the preference of a generation…the UK millennials prefer Labour but the other 3 generations prefer the Tories.
On a tangential note, I am unreasonably pleased by the fact that this site’s (or maybe my browser’s) internal spellcheck tells me that “Labour” is misspelled and should be “Labor”. Down with superfluous vowels, long live American English!
MASGA make American spelling great again.
What is the likelihood the accreditation organizations would decertify Evergreen, for a complete failure to provide anything like an education? I think that’s a lever which might be productively used against the schools fomenting this idiocy.
That would be amusing. Especially if lenders refused to offer student loans to a non-accredited scgool.
I just got a tingle up my leg. I should go see a doctor about this.
It’s also the least selective college I’ve ever seen, barring community colleges. Per the College Board:
Regular Applicants
Total applicants
1,901
Admitted
1,853
Enrolled
572
That’s a 97.5% acceptance rate.
Which explains the types of students (and professors) they have there.
I wonder what you have to do (besides be white and male and cisgender) to be *rejected* from there.
College Scorecard has them at 98.9%. I see a documentary here. Someone needs to follow the kids who got rejected from Evergreen and see what becomes of them. I’ve always thought of Evergreen as Reed or Oberlin for dumb kids but I didn’t realize how apt that description really is
And despite letting in everyone, their attendance has been declining. Can’t find the piece right now, but I think it was since 2011.
Also, the local state rep has declared an intent to defund it. I’m sure it will fail but at least someone with some authority over the place is declaring it a cesspit
Never happen. Accreditation organizations are just as SJW as the schools they review. They would rather decertify ITT because EVIL PROFIT MOTIVE.
Yeah no idea who the weapons belonged to. Just like how we have no clue why the Muslim man blew himself up while screaming something about Admiral Ackbar.
Nice tags.
The Good Edit Fairy laughs at you.
Well, I got cat-butted today for asking for a hat-tip.
(*)~~~
Hat-tip, cat-tip. Close enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tgS1n7DQbY
Whoever the edit fairy is, thank them for me. I fully accept his or her scorn.
The moral of the story, don’t try to write and properly format a post while trying to convince your wife on the phone that you’re listening to her. I didn’t achieve either objective.
the bricks in one of those reusable Whole Foods grocery bags is classic.
obviously a construction working trump voter.
fixed
Yeah no idea who the weapons belonged to. Just like how we have no clue why the Muslim man blew himself up while screaming something about Admiral Ackbar.
Not quite – but I repaired you above.
Now I see that is you to thank! I doff my cap to you, sir.
Grand Moff Serious Man’s new wife is choking for other reasons?
+9 inches?
No, he’s just a very recent member of the Brotherhood of the Ring
Uncovered: HM fighting the forces of evil!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeYN_hyR9YI
thought it’d be this link.
I’ll share my training regimen with you.
“my teachers were relentless, but for you I’m holding back!”
I prefer to not take foreign policy advice from people who copulate for a living, but this seems more sound than that of most media and policy analysis elites.
http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/06/06/mad-dog-jenna-jenna-jameson-has-a-simple-yet-brutal-strategy-for-defeating-terrorism/
I mean, it has a simplicity going for it and a directness that the previous solution lacked.
The upside is that people in that profession DO give a fuck.
*opera applause*
OJT can be a real pain in the ass.
On the flip side, most of the vip’s in that profession are pussies
And the rest are dicks…
I freaking hate that media types still connect the ‘Mad Dog’ nickname to Mattis. That isn’t his nickname, it’s one the media made up, his real one is Warrior Monk, which is way cooler.
I thought he really liked “Chaos”? I’ve never met, nor worked for the man, so I dunno.
You’re not going to be able to kill every terrorist who dislikes the US, FWIW. Not even every Islamic terrorist.
His response recently to the cliched “what keeps you up at night” question was classic.
“Nothing. I keep other people awake at night.”
I actually reused a variation on that in a recent seminar on legal ethics. It was a segue into how I mainly think about legal ethics as a club to beat opposing attorneys with.
That Evegreen bat brigade photo features not a single pair of lace pantaloons.
I am disappoint.
nice.
They’re dressed for battle!
Also, don’t smoke your crack or crystal meth (or weed for that matter) using an aluminum can. Supposedly it fires the aluminum and you end up sucking down a godawful amount.
People who smoke the drugs out of an aluminum can are also unlikely to live long enough for Alzheimers to become an issue.
I think the polymer coating is more of an immediate concern
This advice is pretty much wasted unless it being announced on a loudspeaker in the parking lot of a dead/phish concert.
Thanks for nothing. A little late with that info bro. But on that story, Martha Stewart has been on the anti aluminum cookware band wagon for years. Honestly, I don’t think much of it……..what where we talking about. I like dogs. They can lick their nuts.
+1 audible laugh
My pop can days a long past, not since the day I discovered that places exist where you can buy civilized smoking paraphernalia.
Meh, occasionally i losemy pipe and my lighter goes dead. Smoking herb out of a soda can using my butane plumbing torch to light it: classic.
Nothing makes me feel more like a crackhead than using a butane lighter.
“Paris cops shoot hammer-wielding man in Notre Dame.”
A disheveled man with conspicuous back hump and carrying a large mallet was shot today outside Notre Dame Cathedral. When questioned, the man only responded with guttural utterances. Bystanders report hearing the words “Ring the bell”.
So close to sanctuary too.
Hoosier Poppy?
Georgia, not Indiana. Funny story along those lines. There is a company that makes sticky tires for auto racing based in Indiana called Hoosier. My friend got the first set for our cars and proceeded to kick our collective asses. Across his rear bumper he had blazoned ‘Hoosier Daddy?’
Well he was a dead ringer for a terrorist
Nice.
It’s probably racist, but how about a sweet little afternoon Morphine?
sweet sax.
Hey, I had to bail yesterday. Why don’t you throw an update up over at DT? I’d like to see how the project is coming along.
will do!
Ain’t nothing wrong with a little Morphine.
She said I was the one, but the chair is not my son!
Why would the cops take helmets and shields away?
In OK a man tries to drown his twins. The neighbor shoots him. Probably won’t get charged but even if he does good luck finding the jury to convict him.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/05/neighbor-shoot-kills-oklahoma-man-trying-drown-twin-babies-bathtub/369733001/
That word ‘hero’ gets bandied about way too much, but I’m going to use it here.
Good shoot.
‘Hero’ and ‘genius’. They called Jon Stewart a ‘genius’ FFS.
The neighbor has the most libertarian name ever.
It’s pretty good, but Sloopy’s daughters still take the cake.
I don’t know Sloopy’s last name, but Freeman is hard to beat.
The guy who founded Cirque du Soleil has an awesome name:
Guy Laliberte.
Considering he’s a rent-seeking, government-handout-sucking douche, yeah, not bad.
My daughters with Banjos names are (in order)
Reason Sophia Spicer
Liberty Ordeth Cranberry Spicer
Justice Forall Sloopy Juneteenth Spicer.
That dude does have a cool name though.
You guys Mormon? NTTIAWWT
“Bryan Oakley ·
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This likely could have been solved without guns, but this is definintely one of the rare cases where owning a gun probably helped.
Unfortunately, for every incident like this there’s more than one incident where someone is accidentally killed by a gun in the home.
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This is going into my all-time greatest hits.
Of course, being “killed by a gun in the home” includes suicide.
It’s unfortunate that so many people decide to take their own lives, but if it wasn’t for guns, there would be a war on belts and gas ovens.
Typical prog response
That guy’s argument is the very embodiment of “when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”
Holy. Fucken. Shit. Michael Epps is one stupid motherfucker.
Amazing he would question the saving of LIVES.
Only a judgmental complete naif without a clue would second guess such an action.
Could he have just tackled him? lol.
Hello, 911? Yes, I’m calling because a man here is drowning two babies in a bathtub. Yes, right now. He has a knife next to him. We’re in his house, and the address is (whatever.) Please send help quick, the babies are underwater now. It looks like they’re still breathing, but hurry. My name is Cash Freeman. Yes, I’ll stay on the line, but I don’t see any bubbles, so they might not be breathing now. Please hurry…
“Why did he have a fully loaded gun?”
That statement right there should qualify you for forced sterilization.
“In case he needed to shoot someone, silly!”
Farming out necessary violence is SOOOO much better. Why, police are practically supermen who receive the most secretive of training in how to deal with people/firearms/hand-to-hand/the Law/vehicles/pets
Epps is truly a fuckwit of epic proportions. He asks questions, then shits on people for giving answers because he doesn’t like what he reads.
We talked about this on Sunday.
Ken’s link has great pics of the guys.
Caught a bit of local news, which I desperately try to avoid. Caught this fun little story about a female deputy watching as her obese, white trash husband choked a man to death in a Denny’s.
So Denny’s in Texas don’t have toilets?
Video of the incident.
“We don’t want to rush to judgement,” said Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
Not in this case, of course.
When assholes collide. The ME just ruled death was a homicide, anoxic encephalopathy, due to strangulation via chest compression. DA still hasn’t indicted yet. http://abc13.com/news/death-of-dennys-fight-victim-ruled-homicide/2068462/
He’s really going to wish he had his wife’s QI before this is all over.
So they have a homicide on tape, no question who done it, and the DA is mulling . . . .
Christ on a cracker.
do not go into the comments.
a reminder that every single law is backed with the threat of death.
Reddit and Amazon fighting together to bring back net neutrality.
Jesus. Reddit I can see, but Amazon?
Once the system is rigged, the deep pockets and make sure the rigging favors them.
Amazon streaming video. They’re a wannabe Netflix.
Bezos is the stupidest genius I’ve ever seen.
Why would Amazon surprise you? They’ve launched their own streaming site. NN is all about service providers looking for government protection from ISP’s.
Amazon offers great service, but remember that Bezos is a far left progtard who managed to make the Washington Post even worse after purchasing it.
Amazon is a great place to order stuff but their Netflix like streaming service sucks. If it wasn’t free with Prime I wouldn’t bother.
But they have Sharknado!!
*now has evening movie lined up.
I have never seen it, but I figure that is a must see.
If you like that, you’ll love the sequels:
Sharknado 2: The Second One
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
Sharknado: The 4th Awakens
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming.
I have 2012 in my regular line up. I love end of the world movies. I long for it. Throw in some sharks, I am there!
I really thought he was the sort to be able to be flexible enough to not need such base tactics.
He is diminished in my eyes now.
Purchasing WaPo was the biggest virtue signal evah. Write one relatively small check, pick a side in the political mud pit, and insulate Amazon from any chance of anti-trust prosecution.
Wikipedia tells me he’s a libertarian!
Mozilla is fighting for it, too.
Is it racist of me to notice that the vast majority of these people are white?
What else would it be in Portland?
What is net neutrality exactly? Do netflix and amazon and google want it cause they want to have their services subsidized?
In theory, it’s the notion that ISP’s shouldn’t be able to slow down access to any service/site on the internet to consumers. That would lead to some dystopian reality where those evil corporations control what people can or can’t see on the internet. So, to prevent this (entirely theoretical threat), idiots and liars like Netflix pushed the FCC to impose rules banning it while enabling the FCC to stick its fingers in just about everything.
It’s really just one set of corporations who don’t want to get charged a dime more to provide content to their customers seeking out government protectionism. Netflix doesn’t want to get charged for all the bandwidth they actually use, after all. So they paint ISP’s as villains (which is pretty easy to do) and pretend they have so lofty, noble goal of protecting the free flow of content on the internet.
Yes.
“I used to love Netflix streaming service but now it seems jumpy and drops connection a lot. I guess I’ll drop them and just watch the Comcast Movie Channel.”
Many people get their broadband internet from the cable company or phone company. Increasingly, those companies also sell content. The cable company would much rather you watch their cable content than use up their bandwidth watching Netflix. Without net neutrality, they could look at the source of the data and charge you a “heavy usage fee” if you are streaming Netflix. Naturally, watching a cable-provided pay-per-view would have no such usage tax. Another concern is that the owner of the pipe (Comcast, AT&T, etc.) will squeeze the pipe to disadvantage their content competitors or charge them a “connection fee” to get a bigger pipe into the cable network.
AT&T and Comcast are capable of egregious anti-competitive practices. That said, it is their pipe and they should be able to sell their crappy service any way they want.
Far more realistic scenario is ISP’s going after the content providers themselves rather than customers. Far simpler and then forces Netflix to jack up prices.
The only argument the NN group has is that there’s a lack of competition in many areas among ISP’s. Which is a problem largely if not entirely created by…shitty local government. So the solution is obviously more government.
Agreed. If we didn’t have near-monopolies in broadband, customers could choose services that promise Net Neutrality, if that floats their dinghy.
Long overdue
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40173472
If it’s in regards to sanctions on Venezuela, nope, that’s dumb. System’s already falling apart, and sanctions will be the left’s excuse forever once the regime falls.
The Human Rights Council has been a joke as long as I can remember.
It’s always been a joke, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights itself is rife with positive rights garbage that shouldn’t be taken seriously.
OK, who here is the guy mentioned in the story?
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/758386/worlds-largest-penis
That’s just stupid.
Wow, his dick sure is small!
in Portland and Berkeley…. homes of the most “open minded people” in America.
Strange that cities like Birmingham and Little Rock and Biloxi somehow avoid these mass-displays of intolerance.
That’s because people there know their station in life, you follow?
Kowtow peasant, Savvy? My favorite line from “Revenge of the Dragon” – “Shut up (kicks peasant)! Get to woahrk you stupid fahmah!”
Not sure if someone has already mentioned it, but deodorant has quite a bit of aluminum in it as well.
http://time.com/3922814/deodorant-cancer/
There’s aluminum in patchouli?!
i am a little weird in that i have always liked the way that stuff smells. important caveat = ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE BATHED. which is basically ‘no one’.
my girlfriend uses some patchouli based thing, but normal deoderants cause a rash. I don’t mind it.
The problem with patchouli isn’t that it smells bad; it does. The problem is that people who think it smells good are the kinda people who think that if a little is good, a lot must be better.
I have actually changed train cars at a stop because the reek of patchouli was so strong and prevalent.
That’s why I’ve used Lavilin for years.
Pro tip for screwing amazon: bitch
I ordered a diamond back road bike (note it was in the box thus amazon didn’t touch it, just shipped). I complained it had tires without tread (was supposed to) and they offered me 30 percent off or free return. I took 30 percent
Also when the price drops on an item even if year out i ask for a refund for difference. They usually do
Recently submitted trade in. They rejected it…i complained. Get to keep item and they gave me a credit for the item trade in amount for a bose speaker
It’s not screwing them if that’s their deescalation/save policy.
1. AmSoc has too much time on his/her/xe hands.
2. Why would you buy a road bike off of Amazon? No bike shops where you live?
3.The price dropping move is just being a dick.
/no offense
Seconded. I ordered an item and it was delivered but the guy put it behind my trash can so I couldn’t find it. I thought they had delivered it to the wrong address, so I called them up and bitched. They gave me a free month of prime. Later I found the box when taking out the trash. Oops.
“It looks like our slide (back) into political mobs street fighting is continuing. Is it racist of me to notice that the vast majority of these people are white?”
I looked through that article for a specific example where they claimed the “right-wingers” initiated some form of violence against cops or other protesters.
All the examples of violence, though, were of acts by the antifas.
Then there were the confiscated weapons which, apparently, nobody knows who they came from, so the right-wingers could have been the source, maybe?
And they found a right-winger saying he hated the antifas and wanted to beat them up because they were so violent.
But I couldn’t find a passage claiming that “right-wingers then proceeded to throw flaming barrels of crap at the leftists.”
The pictures of weapons are all over the place. adjustable wrench, smoke bombs, rusty hatchet.
Is it just me, or is this NSA leaker thing not getting the absolute wall-to-wall coverage that I would have been expecting… despite the fact that it seems to be nothing? I mean, Christ, when Trump gets two scoops of ice cream or eats chicken with a knife and fork it’s international news. I’m wondering if it’s because she’s too obviously a lunatic SJW with the “being white is terrorism” and throwing in her lot with Iran over the US and raving about Trump being a Putin puppet before the election even happened, etc… but blatantly false and idiotic narratives get shoved to the front regardless of such concerns, like with Clock Boy, so I dunno. Maybe with Clock Boy the usual suspects got in their praise of the emperor’s new clothes too early to back out and this was too immediately obvious?
When the latest anti-Trump “bombshell” isn’t astroturfed enough to take over the first 3 pages of Reddit’s frontpage, I wonder.
No, its not just you. She will be conveniently forgotten by next week, when all they will have to talk about it Trump leaving Merkel’s toilet seat up.
Journalism is about publishing stories that help the Democrats.
I’m not sure what the water cooler gossip in “newsrooms” is on this, but multiple angles I could see:
1. Obama specifically said the notion of America’s voting infrastructure being hacked was conspiratorial. The Messiah has spoken.
2. The report itself is pretty damn easy to rip apart.
3. The leaker is known and too obviously political.
4. It doesn’t tie back to Trump. The media has already moved on from the notion of if Russia fucked with the election to what Trump knew and when he knew it. Collusion is what they are looking for at this stage. The story came months late and missed its time to shine.
#4 is most likely to me. The credibility of the story or angle of it didn’t stop CNN from printing the pissgate memo, so I doubt they wouldn’t oversell this story.
Really? I glanced at the Daily Beast story about her, and mostly missed this.
*it could be because i was mostly checking out pictures of her doing yoga, and trying to decide if she was too-muscley to freak with.
but i agree with you that its weird that “cute white SJW going to jail” isn’t being treated as Chelsea Manning 2.0 and being made a christ figure for the Left. I think its possible that everyone who has looked at this “secret report” stuff has realized that it has all the significance of the “Trump likes to get peed on” dossier.
basically, i think they don’t want to over-pump the story because its conclusions simply downplay their own hyperbole. e.g. “Yes, there was some hackery… BUT: No, it didn’t affect the election, and no, there’s actually little proof of any connection to any plot to unermine america, and no, it wasn’t connected to Trump.”
Totally OT, and unlikely somebody would know offhand: I was advised to purchase mittens from a company called Rival. They don’t look any better than the generic ones I’ve been using, but I’ve never handled them. They worth the price?
https://rivalboxing.us/collections/boxing-gloves/products/rival-rb3-mexican-bag-gloves
One of our commenters (trigger hippy?) is a boxing trainer. he should know.
Could this be true? Sessions in Trouble? (TW: NYT Article)
When news stories are based on either
– anonymous sources
or
– tweets
I pretty much don’t pay any attention.
I’m sure Trump is unhappy with him. That part is true, but he’s not going anywhere. You can’t just fire and hire new people in cabinet positions. It requires political capital that Trump lacks. It was tough enough to get Sessions through. Anyone he picks again in the current climate is going to be a bitch to get affirmed. Sessions is also popular among Republicans in the Senate.
He’s not going anywhere for a while, as the NYT’s admits.
I do laugh at the claim that anyone would have recused themselves from the case in this situation. As if we didn’t just witness a far more compromised AG defend herself and refuse to recuse herself.
So, I have to apply for a top secret clearance to keep my job. From a scale of 1 to Glibertarian contributor, how fucked am I?
Glibertarian Contributor.
You, sir, are a Reality Winner.
Winner really shows just how poorly run and inefficient the entire bloated intelligence apparatus really is. She’s someone who had no need to have access to the content she accessed, she was given access despite obviously not being very bright, and demonstrated absolute incompetence in passing it off to the reporter in the manner she did. The report itself, while being relayed through an even dumber and tech illiterate reporter, doesn’t seem to have much basis at all for the claims it supposedly makes.
That’s the funnest part of stories like this for me. It reveals what a farce their prestige is.
First thing the spousal unit said, “Why would a newbie like that have access to a classified NSA report?”
1) everything is classified
2) the report literally said nothing important, new, or controversial
It’s as if they gave her that nonsense first to see if they could trust her – and she failed spectacularly.
Just remember that a polygraph is total bullshit and you should do fine. Do not let the polygraph guy intimidate you. Stick with your answers no matter what. He is not detecting lies. He is trying to make you squirm. You don’t beat polygraph machines because they don’t really detect lies, so there’s really nothing to beat. You beat polygraph operators by never backing down even when they say they detected that you’re lying. They are bluffing. Just stick with your answer.
This, in spades.
Racist
And when they ask you that question about the turtle, don’t look confused and disoriented. Just think about your mother.
I had a supervisor with a TS. You might think he was pretty squared away but he had a tendency to get stabby in Korea. Conversely I worked with another guy who was denied a TS…he has molon labe tatooed to his forearm.
You’ll be fine.
Oh.. haha… yeah, great….
*covers up 3% tattoo nonchalantly*
They gave me one. Granted that was 30 years ago and I didn’t have conversations with you people. Who knows what they look at these days.
I’d ask you what your job is, but that probably violates the security clearance.
Depends. I don’t remember if a TS/SCI automatically means getting swirled – if so, hopefully you don’t indulge in any recreational pharmaceuticals. If you have a bad credit history, or a bunch of shady foreign contacts, that also might (MIGHT) be an issue. Other than that, it’s mostly a bunch of paperwork and waiting.
I was arrested once a looooong freaking time ago (not a felony) but other than that there’s nothing on my record I am particularly worried about.
Basically be honest. What they are looking for is stuff you can be blackmailed with or can be used as leverage against you. If you tell them it is not as bad as if you don’t tell them. As long as you didn’t do (or are continuing to do) too much crazy shit you should be okay.
I had an arrest. It just gave the E-6 I worked for something to just make fun of me over. A guy who got chucked out of a basketball scholarship for smoking dope who held a top secret clearance as well.
I’ve had one since I enlisted in 04. Don’t lie about anything – they will check references, employers, people who know you (you have to list them), etc – not sure about international contacts or addresses though. Probably won’t include a poly (I’ve never had one) unless it specifies in the paperwork. The basic one you’ll run is probably SSBI (single source background investigation).
Certain things are allowed if you admit to them up front – lots of yes/no -> explain questions.
There’s a fellow named Alex Epstein who runs a think tank called Center for Industrial Progress. He is also the author of a great book called “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”. He is an objectivist, but of the mature and very thoughtful variety.
Needless to say, his book his hated by the green blob, and they got a Harvard professor named Jody Freeman to review it – and she trashed it as science denying drivel in a review that she characterized as based on an a very careful reading of the book.
Sadly for her, Epstein doesn’t back down from a fight, and he got the journal that published the review to post his rebuttal. And he basically quoted parts of his book that showed that Freeman was basically making shit up.
I present to you… A Strawman Attack on the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
Objectivism, what happens when autistic S&M enthusiasts found a philosophy.
I have to say, that Alex Epstein is one of the few modern-day objectivists who isn’t a complete fucking head-case. I wish I was as clear a thinker as he is.
Of course, after he told Maura Healey, the fascist and moronic cunt, to fuck off, I was ready to carry his babies.
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
I’m pretty much with RC Dean in that I’m old, slow and fat but I’m good with handguns. Especially revolvers.
I would add virtually no combat power and would have to be listed under Misc in the appendices to the Order of Battle. For all that though I still require calories so don’t forget to feed me!
We’ll solve that one. Someone has to get the veggie omelet MRE’s when the revolution comes.
Very clever…turn me into a gas bomb!
Oh and beer would help a lot!
Well yeah. You can’t go hunting without beer.
I’m a good spot, but way too valuable to be used as cannon fodder. I’ll build bridges and explosives and defensive redoubts, etc. Also, food and beer for me, thanks logistics.
Good shot, damnit.
Also, due to my typos, i should probably be a general. Ok, thanks.
Nice boots-on-the-ground report from YAL
I like YAL a lot.
Just a guy farting in public in weird ways.
What the fuck did that guy eat and how does he have such fine motor control over his asshole?
I think he’s one of those people that can suck in air via various body positions. Probably developed fine sphincter control through practice, practice, practice!
Lengthy incarceration?
So I emailed my Pa the YAL video and the farting video. Guess which one he watched first? Nobody can say I’m not a chip off the block.
Regarding Reality: I live in Georgia and recently visited Augusta for a little golf soiree held there annually. My host pointed out the Defense Cyber Security Center at Fort Bragg and told me they are hiring tens of thousands of high-tech workers to fight cyber crime. I had the following reactions:
– horrified at the cubic dollars sucked up by the defense industrial complex
– amazed that I had missed this in the news
– experienced flashbacks of my favorite cyberpunk novels
Later, as I drove through some seriously blighted areas in Augusta, I had this thought, “How the hell are they going to recruit top notch tech professionals to an backwater like Augusta?”
This morning, Reality Winner gave me the answer. Like any bureaucracy, they are filling seats with asses. Quality is not an issue.
I thought Bragg was in NC? Probably Fort Benning – I have often mixed up the two.
I thought Ft. Benning was on the other side of the state, just across from Phenix City, AL. (The fact is mentioned in the really fun movie The Phenix City Story.)
Yeah. Benning is just south of Columbus. Next to Alabamistan.
Reality Winner. I just can’t get over that.
Very much this. I’d like to see what she actually did on a daily basis. Is it something a high school student could have done? I bet it’s something a high school student could have done.
She had some kind of language skills, right? So she was probably sitting in a cubicle listening and translating intercepts. I doubt she should have access to what she leaked, it was just not-compartmentalized out of her reach. What I’m most interested in, is whether she was just poking around and found that and thought it looked important, or someone pointed her to that file.
Now that is interesting. It seems that the deep state is usually portrayed as high-level bureaucrats and relatively intelligent people (not necessarily mutually exclusive :-p)… Maybe? Or maybe the true nature of the deep state is more akin to what you’d find at the local DMV.
Whenever an American gets hired for speaking multiple languages and people are impressed, I can’t help but think that there are cab drivers in Nigeria who speak three languages and aren’t making six figures as a contractor. Being able to speak multiple languages is very interesting and admirable in a sense, but it’s also not terribly difficult. I’m a native English speaker, but I can get by in French, and maybe seven years ago could’ve done passably well with Mandarin and Japanese, with a touch of German and Spanish as well.
Don’t stick it in crazy? (Especially if you’re suicidal)
http://nypost.com/2017/06/06/woman-told-suicidal-boyfriend-to-kill-himself-for-attention-lawyer/
RE the Portland cops weapons stash. From what I read, I assume most of those articles where taken from the Antifa mooks. Where the hell did they get an alien bow? Some of those things are quite creative.
Via Instapundit =
Member of Journalist Class Shares Her Contempt For Little People While Being Arrested
now no longer member of journalist class. I don’t think it was “drunk” either, unless you include ‘drunk on entitlement’
Not done watching the video, but the presenter of this video makes me not like him very much. He says the officer in the video should be awarded Philadelphia’s highest honor for not immediately ‘hooking her up’ (which I assume means violently arresting her) for cussing at him. So apparently cussing at a cop = instant beatdown in Douchebag McGee’s world.
I will admit in this particular case if he had dropped her face first into a curb I would have cheered, but only because she deserves it.
Yeah I’m watching another of that guys vids. He’s a total copsucker.
Ya I got that from the fist video, but holy shit, that chic was capital C Cunt. That poor cop having to listen to her shit when she should have just walked away? Fuck me. Sometimes those guys have to deal with just plain idiocy.
Oh I agree in that particular case I would have high fived that cop and bought him a beer. He was an absolute paragon of professionalism in that video.
the host wasn’t really the point. i just posted the first link that had the entire video of the chick.
Rubin talks to some PolySci prof I’ve never heard of (Brandon Turner). Pretty interesting. Discussion of classical liberal vs. libertarian ~55 minutes.
I find the distinction pretty dubious, and if not, just more muddling and confusing. If Bill Weld and socialists and can be libertarians, “libertarian” would seem to be for you guys, if not a misnomer, at least too vague and broad to be meaningful.
“Decrease the state,” sure, but that’s simply a consequence of most of your premises.
Continuing to be unbelievable here. Rainfall amounts for the Water Management District’s various South Florida real-time rain gauges, since 7 AM this morning. It’s pouring right now (close to 1″/hr rain)