Golden State won. And managed to milk another home game and about $10M by sandbagging in game 4. Tempers flared, but apparently no nuts were grabbed. I had to get all that second-hand because I was not watching the game. Instead, I was watching and explaining My Fair Lady to my 34 year old wife and college graduate with a degree in Theater who had somehow never seen the movie in her life. Seriously, how does that happen? Also, an interesting contrast between the two metro areas that the finals were contested in.
US Open week is under way in earnest. Can’t wait to see how many players put a sickle in their bag in place of a long iron. From what I’ve seen of the rough, it might not be a bad idea.
I don’t want to talk baseball. I am starting to think I am jinxing the Astros, who have had a rough week since reeling off 11 in a row. So I’m just gonna keep my mouth shut on that front.
Anyway, that’s it. The pickings will get slimmer on sports for the next 76 days until college football starts. Unless some stupid shit happens. I guess we’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime, here are…the links!
Here’s some money in politics that might create a conflict of interest. I can’t wait for Team Blue to recommend they recuse themselves.
Bill Cosby
Anybody ever see an attorney pretty much give up on defending their client in the middle of a trial? Apparently, that’s what just happened yesterday afternoon. Maybe the dude had diarrhea and needed to GTFO, but a six minute defense and a closing statement that all but said “fuck it” is otherwise inexplicable. (There might be an autoplay video there. If so, sorry.)
This is in the LA Times today. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw that well-written and sober analysis there. Shouldn’t be long before that writer is disowned and their subscribers are dropping like flies.
Hey Florida Man, hold my beer. (Well, not a beer at this age, but give us a few years…and a lot of prayers we live through them.)
The Salton Sea
The evul rethuglicans are killing the environment in California. Well, that and global warming. Oh wait, never mind. Its something else entirely. Also, minorities hardest hit.
I hate to do this, but I’ve got to finish with a big, swift kick in the nuts.
Some sage advice for our single Glibs.
Have a great day, friends!
Huh. I’d have thought Flordia Teen could get a hold of beer like any other adolescent.
Oh wait, that’s not Floirida Teen. Nevermind.
::sigh::
Did you at least eat some Cincinnati chili while on the road?
Yes. Though it’s not chili, and they desperately tried to hide their product between cheese and spaghetti.
What do you mean “hide”?
What did you order, a two way?
I don’t recall seeing that on the menu.
The sauce pretending to be a chili was rendered watery, either through being water or insufficient draining of the pasta before serving. Its flavor was nothing remarkable and my main thought was that what came out of my kitchen was better.
I should find my crock pot and make some chili.
Yeah, that’s odd. Where did you go?
Also the menu consists of two-way, three-way, four-way and five-way. If you missed how it was to be served in the menu, maybe they just said “fuck this guy” and served you something else as a prank.
I ordered a three-way with no commentary or special requests. I could have simply overlooked the first option because it came in the wake of the previous commenting thread where the skyline menu was discussed. And it was at a Skyline location.
Crock pots are for roast, stew pots are for Chili
What are dutch ovens for? Bread pudding?
The exact pot used to make the chili is less important than the contents and the heat used.
The best thing about Skyline Chili is the inappropriate signs…
Get him what he really wants this Fathers Day: A Threeway
The proper way to eat Cincy chili is on a coney.
Bun, hotdog, chili, cheese.
RE the main page pic: Man, Gene Simmons is a mess
Oh, I thought it was a Daily Mail snap of Bruce Jenner out on Rodeo Drive.
The Bunk is closed.
“My Fair Lady to my 34 year old wife and college graduate with a degree in Theater”
Interviewer: English major huh.
Rufus: Yup
Interviewer: What’s your opinion on Shakespeare.
Rufus: Who?
Does an English major at a Canadian university have to take half his core classes on French literature?
I would literally kill myself if I had to read a whole semester of French literature. It is literally just bondage and existential shit.
(*) de Sade — bondage
(*) 3 Musketeers/Man in the Iron Mas — prison and failure
(*) Papillon
(*)The Prisoner
(*)Sartre
Gods fucking damn that would be a long and brutal semester. Even in translation.
Don’t forget Camus. Read “The Plague” and found it a bit depressing. Go figure.
At least it was good. That said, yeah, depressing.
I just remember the rats. And the death. But mostly the rats.
Presented without comment.
Fucking Minnesota snowdick…
Thread fail. I blame everyone but myself.
Camus sucked. Except for inspiring this.
His granson is on TV here all the time. Smart guy.
No one who has ever read Camus would ever say that.
Yeah, they’d just say he sucked.
The Stranger is the second worst thing I have ever read and depending on your definition of “read” might be the first because I couldn’t get more than a 3rd of the way into Thomas Covenant: White Gold Weilder
I disagree. The Stranger is one of the best written books of the 20th Century. Far be it for me to defend a Frenchman (though he was a pied noir, so not really French), but Camus is worthy of the praise he receives
I hated it. Possibly I had too many people tell me how fucking good it was. I haven’t read it in 30 years or so, but even as a young yeti I found it pure drudgery to get through.
But don’t mind me. I hate Faulkner too.
I had an entire semester of Sartre and Camus in undergrad (and it was a history course!). I still have no clue why I took that class.
Angst?
Ennui?
Hot chicks?
The first two.
J’irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes
This was a great movie when I was 16 and watching it drunk with friends.
I loved Hunchback of Notre-Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo.
By Alexander dumbass? File under education.
/Andy Duphrain
I always call that author Ram Dass “Rammed Ass”, Working in a bookstore we have a bunch
The Count of Monte Cristo is fantastic.
That is all.
A friend who worked in a video store said that someone came in and asked for “The Chief of Monte Carlo”.
I took an AP French Lit class in HS and we didn’t have to read any of that nonsense.
we read Voltaire instead.
Don’t give the PQ ideas.
Why? It’s not like they’d actually do something useful with them. At worst they’d just start blowing up mailboxes again.
That was the FLQ – but whatev. Anything that ends with a ‘Q’ is an ass.
The FLQ were a depraved bunch of loser, murdering commies. One of them, of course, got a job in a university.
Why should you guys be any different than down here where Bill Ayers and Bernadenne Dohrn got tenured jobs?
Just tell her it’s a musical version of Pygmalion. Should clear it right up.
I’ll have to address it in more detail tonight. But in her defense, she worked costuming and set design as opposed to front of the house stuff.
There is zero excuse for anyone raised in Western Civilization to not know who Shakespeare is. If for no other reason than that incredibly shitty Romeo and Juliet that DiCaprio shit into our minds.
Since no one else is apparently going to say it, good line(s).
They try not to encourage me.
*Pulls chrome 1911 with ‘Sword’ etched on the slide*
That was probably the cleverest and most awesome part of that movie.
Few films evidence such outright contempt of the viewer’s intellect, but there it is.
You had to mansplain a movie that is literally patriarchy?
And tell Rufus it’s kind of like a English version of The Red Green Show.
It’s such a shame that GBS was such an utter shitheel.
He wrote some quite entertaining material for thespians,
Had she at least read Pygmalion?
I just asked her. Nope.
Then ask her if she’s heard of Roddy Piper. Then hit her with a folding chair.
Culture is important.
Too much to hope she was into “Yes”, you could have just told her it was the liner notes to “Turn of the Century”.
How about Trading Places?
You could tell her it was like that but British and with more singing
Sage advice? I was expecting this.
Well….
At least they’re just shuffling papers. In a world of kicks to the nuts, this one is delivered with a slipper instead of a steel-toed jackboot.
You say that now. Wait till they’re all awarded two years of back pay and damages by the arbitrator their union hand picks.
Probably, but that would be a separate, but not unexpected, kick.
Look, who are they supposed to believe: The word of these heroic officers, or an obviously biased video?
I’m positive that there’s no double standard, and that ANY OTHER PERSON who shot a man who was walking away would be “investigated” for a year without any resolution.
So much for twin telepathy huh? Unless the one was suicidal and the other was helping.
Or maybe they’re like a more retarded version of the Corsican Brothers and the shooter was a masochist.
The possibilities here are endless.
Glibs our goal is to make you look over your shoulder every time you access our site.
Damn you autocorrect our goal*. Where is the edit fairy when you need him?
::oh the faerie is always here::
I was gonna say, that’s no girl. That’s a lady!
In this day and age, the dominant faction in mass culture would say you’re an evil bigot if you deny that person is a woman.
They’re not the dominant faction, just the loudest.
Fair enough. There’s more of them than I would like.
Thanks fairy! What sort of penance do I owe the great fairy of editing?
::none. Everybody gets the first one free
-good edit faerie::
Fairies do the editing? What about diversity?
Picture of fairy
This is not Academia.
We run by whatever’s cheapest and/or most effective.
“…college graduate with a degree in Theater who had somehow never seen the movie in her life. Seriously, how does that happen?”
Wait, what? Pls tell us she’d at least seen a theater production of Pygmalion.
Ninja’d
Tundra did the same to me, so don’t feel bad.
Well actually, go ahead and feel bad, because you deserve it. But I don’t.
Travelling to Denver soon – Any recommendations for things to do?
Pete’s Diner, El Chapultepec, Wear a Make America Great Again hat in Five Points.
Seriously, though, The Pec is (or at least was) a great place for live Jazz.
Looks tempting, I really enjoy live music but do not often seek out Jazz, although would probably enjoy that too. I did a quick search for music but did not see any bands I recognize. A good live band at a popular bar would be good for the evening hours.
The Marsalis brothers have both performed there as has Slick Willy Clinton. Lots of big names have gone there despite it’s seedy appearance. Or because of it’s seedy appearance.
I would recommend going to Red Rocks Amphitheater to watch a show. Also, if you have a car, drive to the top of Mt. Evens. I think it’s better than Pike’s Peak and it’s closer.
Do they need to be family friendly?
Nope. In fact, I would prefer some debauchery. Food, coffeeshop, scenic recommendations for the daytime. Boozing, bars, clubs, etc. for the nighttime.
Bierstadt Lagerhaus
Is it bad that any German word involving beer or a place to drink beer makes me thirsty (for beer) even at this hour or is it just the curse of knowledge?
Shit on the sidewalk?
https://downtrend.com/71superb/denver-decriminalizes-public-defecation-to-protect-illegal-aliens
Without roadz where would illegals shit?
Government is just the public spaces we shit on together.
Libertarianz just want defecation-free cities!
I see a business opportunity. Pooper scooper a Inc.
Night Soil, Inc.
Honest Haybob’s shit removal, LLC
Well since protecting illegal immigrants has become the most important thing for AG’s why don’t we decriminalize everything so that no illegal alien has to live in fear
I mean it’s getting ridiculous when someone like me, who is pretty sympathetic to not deporting illegals, is disgusted with what the left has been doing to protect them.
Question: what can be done about the homeless shitting in the street?
Answer: Depends.
*fiercely narrows gaze*
You can have defecation on the streets, or public accommodation laws forcing businesses to let non-customers use their restrooms, or have cities build and operate public toilets, or criminalize homelessness. Pick one.
Of those, I find the taxpayer funding of public toiles the least onerous.
But that’s just because I’d rather not have excrement in the streets. I still remember how the bums would use the parking garage elevator as a toilet. they probably still do, but I no longer park there.
So there are no pigeons in your area? Because I’d be willing to be there’s more pigeon shit by orders of magnitude relative to the human shit that you’d find in the streets regardless of this law.
(I saw that pointed out by Francisco d’Anconia and it made me realize this whole thing is silly and more about aesthetics than sanitation.)
Pigeon shit has a different size, color and aroma, and it more often dried before I run afoul of it.
It’s a lot easier to smell human shit, especially since they tend to pick secluded spaces with less ventillation where the stench can ripen. For example, the aforementioned elevator.
Plus. the local hawk population helps deal with the flying rats.
He got schwifty.
Depends.
Will you be dead?
You stole my lame joke 🙁
Weed
Well yeah, of course. First stop after throwing my bags in the hotel room will be Native Roots. But knowing my friends, there will be a ample jar and smoking accessories handed to me as soon in the car as I am picked up from the airport.
Shatter was fun. It was like being fired in a rocket to Planet High As Fuck, but not being stranded there like having too many edibles.
Just don’t smoke in your room. Hotels throw up larger fines than they do for cigarette smoking in non-smoking rooms.
Ouch. Being a nonsmoker, I usually ended up in nonsmoking rooms of late, and all of them had those fines posted – usually rates higher than what my whole stay cost.
Good call. The hotel has windows that open a bit but still not worth the risk.
The buckhorn exchange.
Requisite.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=huKwlgKmj5A
Coors Field is nice for a game but the food sucks inside. Hot dog street vendors outside have proper ballpark dogs.
Casa Bonita.
Akihabara Arcade up north is a barcade filled with candy cabs and has some decent imported beer.
Crave Real Burgers has a LoDo location and is one of those X000 calories gimmick places but the food is actually good.
“Maybe the dude had diarrhea and needed to GTFO”
Could be. Could also be that he knows a total fucking lost cause. Cosby wasn’t President, so he doesn’t get away with that shit.
The Cosby alt-text was great. However, the Salton Sea pic left me wanting more.
Man, I tried. But it always turned into a rant rather than a quip. And nobody needs a twelve line alt-text they have to hover over four times to get through.
California’s work on the Salton Sea reminds me of the Soviet’s work on the Aral Sea. Just coincidence, I’m sure.
You’re not wrong, WTF, but the Aral Sea (or Aral lake, now) isn’t right next to a fucking ocean that could be desalinated to provide the water for the coastal cities draining it. \
Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
If they spend money on desalination plants, how will they pay for their high-speed trains to nowhere?
Tell governor moonbeam that there was an engineering change in the final design, and put a model train set in his office.
Reverse Osmosis?
Good point. Also, don’t forget the scholarships for college grievance studies majors! Huzzah!
The idea isn’t to solve the problem, but to create another special issue that can be milked for big money and used to funnel cash to cronies that can then fill campaign coffers. I am tired of seeing all these huge problems with simple technical solutions be turned into fiascos that clearly are about adding more special interest items for SJW to champion. There is a reason these people have made sure that nobody can really do anything that would help drastically reduce poverty and constantly harp on the inequity of the distribution of wealth.
Once you understand that the goal of most in government is to enrich themselves and their friends, the whole system starts to make a lot more sense.
And there’s a massive nuclear plant right there to power the desalination – never mind, they shut it down because.
“…a big, swift kick in the nuts.”
“Forget it, Sloop. It’s Chicagotown”.
Comrades, reports of boats ‘stranded’ on the Aral plains are mere malicious rumors. These are training facilities for our maritime reserves, buit in the desert where capitalist pig-dog spies would not be able to see our superior soviet training techniques.
/Official statement.
That was supposed to be a reply to WTF, but I failed.
You’re having trouble tonight. Fall off the wagon?
Second day back at the day job after vacation.
I still haven’t recovered from the vacation (three thousand miles of driving plus a bad reaction to something I ran into in the south)
a bad reaction to something I ran into in the south
Florida Man?
Emitt Till.Too soon.
STEVE SMITH?
Just got back from a weekend in Chicago with the wife and some friends.
We were all struck by how friendly Chicagoans are.
Conclusion: Kenyans are insufferable assholes.
Most Midwesterners are really friendly. Obama is not a Midwesterner.
I think they are taxed extra if they are angry in Illinois.
They’re over compensating for liking deep dish.
/self-narrow gaze
Here comes the casserole vs pizza debate.
Had some deep dish. It was effin’ tasty. But it ain’t pizza.
*shakes fist*
IT IS SO!
Wrong.
It also ain’t “Chicago style”. Deep dish was concocted to scam tourists out of their money and nothing else. Nobody here actually eats it.
As long as you leave hot dish out of it, I’m fine
Clinked on the Young MC and let it play out on YouTube. Three songs later I’m listening to Vanilla Ice. Now I’m really getting down.
Lol! Ton Loc here.
And this deee-liteful song.
Now I know you’re white.
Was there ever a doubt?
There was some doubt that you were real.
But I don’t think we got into a chromatic debate.
This must have been the first time I ever saw the video. I never knew Flea was playing bass until today.
That was supposed to be a reply to WTF, but I failed.
“That’s okay, Bub. Just don’t let it happen again.”
You know, if this goes through I’ll almost regret not voting for Trump.
Undoing Net Neutrality would be a big plus, that’s for sure. The Internet has been a glorious place. Don’t let government fuck it up.
It’s amazing the amount of disinformation out there about it and how little people know while being so passionate in debate. No wait, not amazing, what’s that word, typical.
“But Amazon and Netflix support it and I use those things so it must be good.”
Gee, I wonder why.
I’ve stopped using the Google and Firefox homepages in recent days because they were pushing pro-net neutrality propaganda under the search bars. The last one I saw on Firefox proclaimed “Net Neutrality is like the First Amendment for the internet” and I nearly lost my shit. I yelled at my monitor something along the lines of The First Amendment is the First Amendment for the internet! This is the exact opposite of that, you lying leftist scumbags!, and then I changed my homepage.
So the “I was drunk, so it was rape” shit has now jumped from colleges to reality TV.
‘Bachelor in Paradise’ contestant was too drunk to consent
Didn’t the same thing happen on The Apprentice once?
According to the article it seems she has a boyfriend, so this seems to be the excuse for getting caught screwing around.
She has a boyfriend and she agrees to be a contestant on a Bachelor show. Something is a little fucky here.
Nailed it Scruff..
She was too drunk to consent to the contract she signed for the show.
Hey, some guys don’t mind pimping their woman out as long as they are getting a cut of the money
Is there a precise BAC at which consent cannot be given? Do we need a matrix?
Also, yeah, this stinks of horseshit:
So her proof of no consent is that she has a boyfriend? As a contestant on a game show whose object is to go on dates with a stranger and possibly have sex?
Also, why is sex the only situation in which intoxication is considered a condition in which you aren’t responsible for your actions? Can I get loaded and rob a convenience store, then explain it away with “Hey, look, I was drunk!”?
It certainly doesn’t work for driving.
Intoxication is considered a condition in which you aren’t responsible, but only if you’re a woman.
Scenario for feminists: Woman and man both drunk. Woman drives home. They get pulled over. Who gets arrested for drunk driving?
*pulls out critical theory analysis kit and post-modern hat*
While the woman was driving and she was drunk, that doesn’t make her a drunk driver necessarily.
Also it was clearly at the behest of the man, who was planning to rape her that night. Since the man (being of the patriarchy) has such a pernicious goal it would only be right that the man be arrested for his (if not already fulfilled) attempted rape.
The man of course, DUH!
Nobody if she knows how to give a proper blow job
The standard feminist cant is “Too drunk to drive, too drunk to consent.”
So, a little tipsy is rape.
Except if the guy is drunk, he is totally responsible and can never be raped by a woman.
“Buzzed driving is drunk driving!”
So, “buzzed sex is rape!”
Q. E. D.
They keep lowering the BAC. At this point, if you think about ripe fruit, you’re legally drunk.
COP: “Not drunk, eh? We’ll see about that. Here’s a sobriety test, look at these pictures and evaluate the women’s hotness on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high).”
SUSPECT: “10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 9, 10.”
COP: “Sir, you realize that you gave a 9 to Roseanne Barr?”
SUSPECT: “Whoever, she’s a fox.”
COP: “OK, sir, it seems you’re not drunk, merely insane.”
Here’s how they do it in Scotland:
https://youtu.be/RY8YeLErbEg
“Too drunk to drive, too drunk to consent.”
Nevertheless, she persisted.
While I’m not particularly fond of that standard, it is one I can accept. If it’s a universal standard.
In most cases where the woman is tipsy, so is the guy. Why isn’t she also guilty of raping him?
Stop asking questions, peasant! Only those Blessed Few trained in the Mysteries of Critical Theory can answer such questions!
Robert Mueller Stocks Staff with Democrat Donors
Special counsel’s team includes former Clinton Foundation lawyer, contributors to Obama, Hillary, more
No potential conflicts of interest there, not at all. Let’s also ignore Mueller’s relationship with Comey.
I think this is an even bigger problem. Mueller has a serious conflict of interest if he has to point out that the FBI was politically compromised, and it was done by his buddy and mentee, Comey.
That’s strangely reminiscent…
…Of my first (non-sports) link.
Hmm. Technically correct. Second link. Sorry, Gene Simmons shook me up.
I knew there was something fishy about Müller
He sure showed us whose country this is.
Standing by this president makes you an embarrassment to all that is good in this country. It makes you a stain on the fabric of our nation. It makes you the antithesis of everything that your party purports to stand for. Simply put, it makes you un-American.
This guy can totally out-argue the voices in his head.
TW- HuffPo
~~~magic edit fairy~~~
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism again now, apparently?
Yes, it stopped being racist on January 20, 2017.
He’s a moderate who finally got pushed too far:
“My need to bridge the divide is a product of having spent my entire life trying to see both sides of the argument. Trying to not fall into the trap of absolutes. Refusing to accept that the world we live in exists only in black and white. Doing my best to show my country that we could be more than the very things that separate us. At some point, enough is enough though. At some point, I can’t be a consensus builder. At some point, even I run out of excuses and explanations for people who can’t even be honest with themselves.”
Moderate my ass………….
STEVE SMITH HAPPY TO MODERATE ASS FOR YOU
While flawed, that seemed less derpy than I thought it would be going in, then it just completely went off the rails about three paragraphs from the end.
That’s the formula. Rope’em in with reasonableness and bam hit’em with your actual position so it might seem just as reasonable.
Due to the transplanted Nazi Scientists, where were a lot of German food places in Huntsville. I stopped my the Schnitzel Ranch due to its odd name, and it was indeed very German. The owners fled the EU about a decade ago, and instead of trying to mooch off the taxpayers, opened a restaurant. The food is good, and the apple strudel that was delivered to the table actually looked better than the picture in the menu (which wasn’t bad either).
If you ever end up in Huntsville, give it a visit. Sadly the ‘Ranch’ part of the name is not accurate, they share a building with two other businesses and don’t have a lot in the way of parking.
Calling it a “Ranch” makes it a safe space for Texans.
If the courts keep obstructing the president like this, I’m worried there will be a response not dissimilar to flipping them off. Initially quite satisfying to watch, but with grave consequences to the checks and balances that progressives suddenly care about now that the Lightbringer is out of office.
“He’s made his decision, now let him enforce it!”
A. Jackson, Worcester v. Georgia
The Worcester decision of the U. S. Supreme Court said Georgia had wrongfully convicted a missionary for exercising his treaty right to live in the Cherokee Nation. Georgia refused at first to release Worcester.
As Charles Warren discusses in his history of the Supreme Court, there wasn’t anything at the time the President could have done. The Supremes had remanded the case and the lower court ignored it. For the President to get involved, Worcester would have first had to go to the Supreme Court and get a final order of release, which the Pres would then have been in a position to enforce – but the case never went that far, and the governor of Georgia ultimately issued a pardon.
Jackson’s actual words were, “The decision of the supreme court has fell still born, and they find that it cannot coerce Georgia to yield to its mandate.”
Oh man, I hope they turn that first one into a campaign slogan. Tell the average American that the courts want to let 180 million foreigners into the country and let’s just see what happens to Congress. Of course, nowhere near 180 million people are affected, so it’s a bullshit number any way you look at it, but the courts gonna grandstand.
Also, while national security is indeed not a “talismanic incantation”, it seems pretty clear that Congress granted the President such powers as he has exercised* and that the courts saying “any and all exercise of executive power” is a red herring; the fact that national security doesn’t grant every power has no bearing on the whether or not it grants this power.
* = After being revised, anyway. The question of green card holders is legally ambiguous but at least an actual case can be made for them having due process rights, vis-a-vis simple visa holders.
I think it’s worth noting that, as 120 days have elapsed since the order was issued without major incident in the U.S., the actual stay on travel to the U.S. was indeed not necessary. However, there have been in that time numerous terrorist attacks in Europe. Were this any other President*, it seems highly unlikely that the courts would be so obtuse.
All six countries under the travel ban have a combined population of 210 Million.
Iran 79m
Syria 18m
Lybia 6.2m
Sudan 40m
Somalia 40m
Yemen 26.8m
I’m assuming you’re pointing out the justification for the number and not just correcting the 180 million. I get that. But the vast majority of those 210 million are never going to come to the U.S. Hence why the number is bullshit. They’re not affected any more than I would be affected by France banning American tourists; I’ve got no plans to go to France.
Mostly I was just surprised there were that many. Esp. in Sudan.
And Somalia. ROADZ jokes aside, the place has been a shithole for three decades now (and was only slightly less of a shithole under communism before that). Not exactly the sort of country you’d think could support that many people.
Wikipedia sez
that seems more plausible, also it makes the 180 million number correct
OK, I must have typed something wrong. Google only says 10m now, btw.
Honestly, I thought 40m sounded crazy high. I must have put Sudan in twice.
I thought it was some interesting jurisprudence to cite Donald Trump’s tweet:
“That’s right, we need a TRAVEL BAN for certain DANGEROUS countries, not some politically correct term that won’t help us protect our people!”
And from that tweet the Judge basically said that this is proof that Donald Trump sees that those countries are dangerous, not the people that live there. So therefore it would make no sense to ban immigration from those places. AS IF THERE WERE A DIFFERENCE. The country in question is dangerous precisely because of who lives there, not because of magic dirt within those borders that changes people’s behavior, either here or there. But that is apparently the prevailing legal wisdom for the moment.
The court is essentially saying that they are replacing the president’s judgement and executive power with their own because they disagree with him on policy that he, the duly elected president, has formulated. This must be killed with fire.
I have my doubts. I think a solid portion of the judiciary see this as an opportunity to expand their own power over immigration. The electorate must not be allowed to exercise sovereignty over borders, because they won’t support being colonized by the third world. Basically every western country is having it’s immigration policy set by unaccountable officials against the will of the electorate.
Of course what this also amounts to, in practical terms, is the courts effectively underwriting the consequences of immigration policy. If an immigrant from one of the six countries commits an act of terrorism in the U.S., the Trump administration will pin it on the courts. Whether that will be justified or not is beside the point. The courts have waded into making policy here. At that point, look for a dramatic curtailment of judicial power, numerous judicial impeachments, and possibly a break-up of the 9th Circuit.
And, honestly, they’ll probably be in the right to do so. The only reason judges are appointed, rather than elected, is that the judiciary is supposed to the non-political branch of government. But, making policy means political. And if they want to be political, then they’re free to bear the slings and arrows of the political arena.
Well then this little coup of theirs is for the best if the end result is a judicial system that has no power to innovate law. And a break-up of the ninth circuit is long overdue. They should reduce their territorial jurisdiction to the confines of their courthouses and then appoint a new slate of judges that don’t revere the memory of comrade Trotsky.
What in the fucking fuck?! Since when do the courts get to decide if a legal act is sufficiently “justified” if they don’t agree with the determination? I guess they think they can cancel a declaration of war if in their opinion they think congress didn’t have sufficient justification. This authority was not given to the courts. It really is time for a Jacksonian “fuck off” to the courts on this bullshit.
Not quite. They are saying that Congress granted the President powers he can conditionally exercise, and that he failed to meet those conditions. That seems to me to be a legitimate line of legal criticism, except for the rather important fact that they are basically redefining those conditions as they see fit. How many attacks have there been in Europe lately? Trump’s order may not stop a terrorist attack here, but to say he has insufficient justification is absurd.
The statute says if the President determines; what the courts think about that determination is irrelevant. The fact is that they are blocking a legal order simply because they don’t like it, with no basis in the actual law or the constitution.
Immigration and Naturalization Act Section 212(f), states: “Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
No mention of the President having to provide justification that the conditions of his determination were “sufficient” according to whatever criteria the courts or anyone else want to come up with.
Yeah that’s pretty damn broad. Aside from restrictions from the First Amendment that are an innovation, it certainly appears that the President’s discretion is practically unlimited.
Didn’t Obama ban immigration from Venezuela once upon time? I wonder what brought that on, a call from Comrade Chavez asking him to slow the brain drain perhaps?
I’m not disagreeing. They’ve rewritten the law and revised the facts to suit their desired end.
^^This^^
Separation of powers doesn’t mean the court can ignore a plainly written law and it’s implementation just because they think it’s icky.
This is a travesty of justice. And if the SC doesn’t slap it down, then we may as well kiss every fucking law goodbye because words are meaningless.
Not every law. Just the ones the courts don’t like. Rule of law, except when it’s not. Because FYTW.
“Compelling Interest”
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
If only it worked that way. The Kulaks and wreckers will not get a break from the law.
Selective prosecution, fluid interpretation and varied application of the law is worse than if there were no enforceable laws or rules at all. At least in a vacuum of law, you could create the needed laws or borrow them from existing bodies of law elsewhere. Instead some on the left would have a monopoly legal system that shirks it’s responsibilities and prevents others from picking up the slack, so that the judiciary gains some political power.
This is in the LA Times today. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I saw that well-written and sober analysis there. Shouldn’t be long before that writer is disowned and their subscribers are dropping like flies.
To the comments!
does the Hoover Institute pay the LA Times to place their far right wing op eds? I can’t think of any other reason you would give such prominent space to such a discredited, extreme point of view except that the authors are involved in two well-funded elite right wing “think tanks” that put a lot of money into widely circulating their hopes and dreams of further dismantling democracy to give more to the elite, like those at the Hoover Institute at Stanford.
So what do we do about these shortcomings? Just forget about these kids? No mention in the article as to how we remedy these problems with disadvantaged kids. Are the authors’ take -just forget about them?
It’s worse than “just forget about them.” The idea is to use these funds to force them to attend religious schools or private schools that have other ideological agendas that discriminate against and indoctrinate children rather than have equal educational opportunities in and through secular neighborhood public schools. Don’t forget Betsy DeVos’ master plan for privatizing public education.
tl;dr: Surely, if we shovel even MORE money into public schools, they’ll be able to use it to
hire more administratorshelp our students! I mean, we definitely have NOT tried increasing public school budgets in the past few decades!Just forget about these kids?
Why not? Their parents most likely have done so.
No, no, no, you don’t understand. Foisting difficult children on public schools which have no choice but to accept them is caring. Being forced to take a more active and responsible role in the upbringing of your own children is heartless and cruel. It all makes sense if you just don’t think too hard.
Also, religious schools are evil and indoctrinate our children, while noble public schools impart only the most virtuous thoughts.
the elite, like those at the Hoover Institute at Stanford.
Yep, Victor Davis Hanson sure is an elitist. Sowell, too.
Meanwhile, George Soros and Warren Buffet are just humble advocates for the poor.
Don’t forget Betsy DeVos’ master plan for privatizing public education.
I knew that bitch was at the bottom of this! I’m glad this enlightened individual (surely, he is a shining example of the public education system) showed us the connection.
Our public schools were just wonderful until that evil DeVos woman came along and screwed them up. See also, the economic decline of Detroit which was entirely caused by that bastard Reagan.
Well I have it on good authority that “putting a lot of money into something” guarantees success, so the Hoover institution must have already dismantled democracy as much as it can be dismantled by now.
So this commenter is opposed to children being indoctrinated by educational system that have an ideological agenda. I’m sure he consistently applies this misgiving of his.
There is zero excuse for anyone raised in Western Civilization to not know who Shakespeare is. If for no other reason than that incredibly shitty Romeo and Juliet that DiCaprio shit into our minds.
You bastard. You and your “Bad Shakespeare on stilts”. Not only do I now have that in my head, I also have Julia What’s-er-name as Ophelia to contend with.
I might have to go watch Titus just to clear my head.
I’d rather re-watch Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood than see any (other) film version of Macbeth that I’m aware of, but part of that is probably the fact that Kurosawa didn’t really give a shit about being true to the original text. Kind of the point, I’d say. They’re 600 years old, being true to the text shouldn’t be the point in this era.
His version of King Lear was spectacular. Named Ran which is funny because he must’ve hired a couple thousand of extras to run around.
Ran is excellent. One of my favorite films, if only for the images of multi-colored lords sitting in a circle and yelling at each other in typical Japanese fashion.
It’s really too bad he waited so long to use color film. Yojimbo and Sanjuro would be a lot more fun to watch if they weren’t B&W.
Oh yeah, and you’re both right, Ran is a great film.
Not so popular among women, I’ve found.
If you’re gonna show a Kurosawa flick to female(s), and she’s willing to watch B&W, go with Ikiru. Brilliant film, very emotional (not in a cheap way).
Ran has that amazing camera technique where he just plants the camera on a shot and doesn’t move it for minutes. You can pause Ran on almost any shot and it looks like a painting.
Yep.
That’s how he made it. He painted the scenes first, then made the film.
Those are pretty cool, BP.
Yeah, Slammer’s comment eventually reminded me of something I’d heard in the commentary or bonus features from the DVD about Kurosawa first painting the scenes, then filming them.
Yes, I’m such a nerd, I listen to the commentary tracks and watch the bonus features. The only real bad thing is that once he got really old, Kurosawa had horrific ear hair that he ignored or refused to trim. It’s hard watching interviews with him after he got to be about 60 or so.
Pshaw. Just now turning 400.
Watch Strange Brew instead. Best adaptation of Shakespeare ever put on a screen.
“Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) introduced the Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically for Engagement (COVFEFE) Act on Monday, which aims to amend the Presidential Records Act to make sure that social media posts, including deleted tweets, are archived and classified as “documentary material,” according to the bill.”
Warning: Autoplay video
“A source involved at the national level with the fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi, tells TheDC that Rolling Stone will pay $1.65 million to settle the defamation suit.
In the piece, “A Rape on Campus,” Erdely relayed the story of Jackie Coakley, a Virginia woman who claimed she was brutally raped by a group of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members during a party in Sept. 2012.”
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/12/rolling-stone-settles-with-university-of-virginia-fraternity-over-rape-hoax-article/
Anyone else having issues with DC links opening as white pages filled entirely with random strings of symbols? I have to refresh it several times to get the real page. More odd than annoying.
It’s a sign you shouldn’t visit the site.
I don’t let Chrome push me around.
Why would you be using chrome?
I don’t even let that malware live on my computer.
Woops! Forgot link.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/illinois-rep-introduces-covfefe-bill-archive-trump-tweets/story
You Gilmore’d your Gilmore. Congratulations.
*drinks more covfefe*
That stuff’ll give you the runs. The edit fairy is going to need a hazmat suit.
At least they will have it handy if they ever decide to go to Denver.
In regards to the covefe act. An I the only one who thinks this is a batshit crazy idea. Seriously the Dems have no self control when it comes to their hatred of Trump.
Actually, I think it’s a good idea. It should be maintained. Sure the guy is grandstanding, but they’re records and should be maintained the same as any other correspondence would be.
Once you press “send” or “publish”, it becomes public info.
I’d like to see somebody amend the bill so it applies to every communication sent from any government employee and erasure is punishable by a year in prison and a loss of federal employment and a loss of any pension or other benefits effective immediately. Maybe then people like Hillary Clinton and Lois Lerner would think twice before flaunting existing record retention laws.
Having said that, it’s pretty comical that the party whose president was admonished for his shoddy record keeping, refused to turn over records as requested to the point that a cabinet official was held in contempt of congress, and routinely obstructed oversight by refusing to turn over records and running out the clock with judicial demands they do so would grandstand over this shit.
Maybe then people like Hillary Clinton and Lois Lerner would think twice before flaunting existing record retention laws.
Why would they? I mean, they’ve already flaunted some very serious laws without consequence.
OMG, it actually has an acronym?
From the home office in Panama City Beach, Florida, it’s today’s Top Ten List!
TOP TEN INAPPROPRIATE LONG DISTANCE DEDICATIONS
10. “I Fought The Law” to Eric Garner
9. “Octopus’s Garden” to Susan Smith
8. “Love in an Elevator” to Ray Rice
7. “It’s a Small World” to Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus
6. “Love Potion #9” to Bill Cosby
5. “Ring of Fire” to David Koresh
4. “Goin’ Out of My Head” to John F. Kennedy
3. “Tainted Love” to Charlie Sheen
2. “Kind of a Drag” to James Byrd, Jr.
1. “Free Fallin” to Eric Clapton
How dare you make that number 1. You needed to tuck that little gem in around 6 or 7.
My brother and I used to have the Top Ten books back in the day, and I noticed that the best item on a given list was invariably #2. “Kind of a Drag” inspired this entire list, and I didn’t think of “Free Fallin” until I was mostly finished with it. I was too lazy to go back and rejigger the list at that point.
But my #7 is pretty deece as it is, IMO.
What about “Kind of a Drag” to Chelsea Manning?
“I Touch Myself” to David Carradine, Michael Hutchence, and Chris Cornell
Is that really what got Cornell?
Not Faith Hill’s “Breathe”?
I think the NBA is unwatchable these days. I will be watching the 30/30 Celtics/Lakers: Best of Enemies tonight and tomorrow.
Apparently they are starting in the Russell / Chamberlain era then moving up to the Bird / Magic battles.
Maybe we’ll finally get an explanation on why the retarded Lakers coach sat out Chamberlain the last 5 minutes in ’69 game 7 when Russell had 5 fouls. Funny to watch this game and see traveling called.
I think the NBA is unwatchable
these days.I barely watch anymore, but the game Irving had in game 4 truly was a thing of beauty. Reminded me of Iverson back when he’d throw up insane shots that feel in.
The NBA has always been really top heavy, but this is ridiculous. The Bulls, for example, at least seemed like they could lose a series. Most people didn’t expect the Warriors to lose even a game. Zero drama, zero tension, zero interest from me.
The 90s Bulls, after the first title, never looked like they’d lose a series. They had the best player of all time, another of the top 50 players of all time, and a bunch of incredibly good role players that were better than most teams’ best players.
Sure they could have. The Suns were four seconds away from sending the 1993 Finals to a game 7, for example.
I’m so old, I remember when the NBA actually had defense, and called defensive fouls, like travelling!
Seems they’ve started calling a lot of hand checking and pushing fouls to keep the scoring up. It’s boring. The most exciting action of the past decade was the Pacer/Piston fight.
That’s a lot of poop!
What a crock of shit.
That’s not poop! That’s an alien!
Holy shit
That’s the road my daughter’s headed down. We have to give her a laxative daily or else she’ll go days without pooping, which then leads to accidents.
I assume you’ve taken her to an internist because that doesn’t sound good.
No, just the pediatrician at this point. It actually isn’t uncommon in young children, apparently. If she doesn’t grown out of it in the near future, perhaps a re-examination is in order.
sorry to hear that. my kids are hooked on smoothies which i’m assuming keeps them regular. that and a probiotic (likely placebo) daily.
I was just about to spread some Nutella on my bread.
These euphemisms….
Gnarly
How many Courics is that?
Bono is that you?
I don’t know what to think of the Cosby case. The specific charges he’s being prosecuted on sound preposterous so maybe the lawyer pointed it out then sat down.
Best airplane ever
The Air Force’s temporary grounding of a squadron of F-35 fighter jets in Arizona has been extended, as analysts try to figure out why five pilots suffered from oxygen deprivation.
The 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base will “continue their pause in local F-35A flying to coordinate analysis and communication between pilots, maintainers, medical professionals and a team of military and industry experts,” Air Force spokeswoman Maj. Rebecca Heyse said in a statement Monday.
“This coordination will include technical analysis of the physiological incidents to date and discussions on possible risk mitigation options to enable a return to flying operations,” she added.
The 56th on Friday cancelled local flying operations for its F-35A Lightning II fighters for the weekend, after five incidents since May 2 in which pilots experienced symptoms similar to hypoxia, also known as oxygen deprivation.
Even though people tend to forget that most modern equipment that ends up becoming great successes and critical defense assets all started with dubious records and numerous issues, I do believe that the US military has had issues with their oxygen generation systems for too a long time now. A few years ago the NAVY had an issue with these things on F-18s, and I believe that they still have not solved the problem and had issues even with their trainer aircraft.
There are also a great many instances of boondoggle devices that finally got discarded because they were unfit for purpose.
I have yet to see sign that the F-35 is even moving towards being operationally usable, let alone effective or worth the multi-trillion dollar price tag it’s headed for (we passed a trillion a while back)
World war II was a great time to make weapons that never saw the field. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_rat
Or the giant Porche tank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus
I vote for the BF Skinner kamikaze pigeons myself.
UnCivil,
Agree that there are plenty of boondogle projects out there that have been scrapped, and with good cause. But there are today a slew of weapon systems that had real problematic starts before becoming seriously successful. Check out the F-16, F-15, F-22, AH-64, and even the CG-47 procurement and problem stories. All went on to become extremely accomplished weapon systems.
There are plenty of examples out there of successes for the F-35 program, but they don’t make for clicks as bad news does. For example despite its numerous issues, it proved an insurmountable platform during Red Flag evaluations. Now could this have been rigged to make it so? Sure, but I don’t think that would not have been leaked if it was the case. Then there was this. I worked on the engine design for the F-22 a very long time ago. There was a lot of post production “fixing” that went on that most people don’t even remember today. Complex systems, when new, will indubitably have problems (and one of the biggest ones is the bureaucratic process).
The big problem with the F-35 is that there is a complete change on what now is important during any engaement (both air and ground). This platform was not designed to fight the way older planes did, but to open the door to a completely new way of conducting war operations. For example, specialized integration between disparate platforms will drastically change how an enemy is engaged, as this story tells. The next gen of combat aircraft will be UAVs working in coordination to do swarm attacks.
Yes, this thing costs a ton, a big chunk of that because of the bureaucracy around these procured systems, and yes, it will have problems that need to be resolved as people realize the guesses and predictions made were not correct, but over time, this will become a formidable platform. Where people get it wrong is when they push to replace specialized less sexy aircraft with it. For example, the A-10. The F-35 will never excel in that role, and it would be idiotic to use it in that role.
I thought the F-22 was to expensive to actually risk in combat.
It’s seen plenty of combat. A lot of that is classified however, but it has been successful enough that the AF, which had stopped production to save money for other programs, has seriously started looking at building more of them. The Air Force however, worried back when the F-22 had no real track record yet, and in dire need to justify the hefty price tag, did stupid crap like turn it into a ground pounder. A dumb thing since it is a platform specifically designed and build for air superiority. Also, with the new networking tactics being developed, the legality/survivability aspect of this platform, especially since it will not need to illuminate to kill, will be phenomenal. Don’t believe all the negative crap you read about these aircraft. Somethings that stuff is planned misinformation.
With those two lines, I stopped believing your claims that these aircraft are anything but fancy weights to keep the tarmac down.
On a more serious note, however, this is the problem with the platform. The people we are fighting don’t have an air force. Any air superiority platform is going to be a theoretical reserve tool that might simply age out before it is ever used in its actual role.
The question then becomes, what war are we buying these planes to fight? The ones we’re involved in, or the hypothetical war against china?
“With those two lines, I stopped believing your claims that these aircraft are anything but fancy weights to keep the tarmac down.”
You are welcome to your opinion. I will point out that bad news sells a lot more than good news. And bad news, especially if there are fixes to it and the enemy banks on taking advantage of a fault that is no longer there, provides a tactical advantage in combat. To each his own.
“On a more serious note, however, this is the problem with the platform. The people we are fighting don’t have an air force. Any air superiority platform is going to be a theoretical reserve tool that might simply age out before it is ever used in its actual role.”
US military doctrine is based on complete air superiority. That requires a highly capable air superiority fighter, in the numbers required to remove the enemy’s ability to contest air space, and also a seriously effective air to ground capability to both deny the enemy surface to air and ground operations. And yes, today the people we are fighting lack an airforce. But they are not the only potential force we could end having to fight.
I hope we never have to use these things. But I would much rather have them and not use them, then need them and not have them. This BTW is what I tell most people when they ask me why I own fire arms, and I suspect most people that own one will empathize.
There is a difference between having a decent gun for defence and loading down your AR with so many gadgets and accessories that it becomes a hindrance.
Here is the problem.
There is no country on the planet with a credible enough air force to even justify replacing the F-15’s and F-16’s. Yes Russia has a large Air Force and it’s newest generation of Fighters are better than the Falcons and Eagles but it only has a couple hundred of those and the bulk of it’s air combat wings are flying 1980’s era Soviet equipment that F-15’s and F-16’s have a perfect record of success against. In the meantime we have 450 F-15’s, 1000 F-16’s, and in the Navy/Marines another 500 F-18’s.
Next most dangerous is China where they have about 400 relatively modern aircraft but even those are utterly untested in Combat and only about two dozen or so are approaching 4th gen/4.5th gen capabilities then they have another thousand or so Fighters that have no business flying as they are relics of the 1960’s.
Yes, China, Russia, and even India and Iran are working in producing a 5th gen fighter but none of them are really even close to fielding it and it is unlikely that any of them could really afford to field more than a Squadron or two and so realistically even without the F-35 our ability to dominate the skies in any hypothetical war with them would not be challenged by their Air Forces, the biggest threat would be their Ground Based Air Defenses
Simply retaining the F-15 and F-16 capability is a tempting proposition, but those airframes aren’t getting any younger. Now, a remanufacturing program like the Abrams Tank is an option, as is reopening production lines, but it’d be my guess that following that recycling program would be a huge cost too.
I’m not sure I have an answer above admitting that the revealed cost of the F-35 program is far greater than I’d like it to be.
“Simply retaining the F-15 and F-16 capability is a tempting proposition, but those airframes aren’t getting any younger.”
Not to mention that they would have serious trouble surviving in a modern SAM environment, even with the latest gadgets and jamming tech if fighting a near-peer opponent. Bombing backward people without an AF interceptor/fighter capability or without or with an elderly SAM defense, would be fine for these platforms (although costly in operation), but engaging a near-peer with any sort of modern fighters and SAM systems, would result in unacceptable losses.
Sorry while the F-35 may eventually be a success there is no argument to justify it’s production because the factors that will make it a success argue for an entirely different type of aircraft.
Basically the argument in favor of the F-35 is that the combination of Stealth, High Off Boresight missiles, and sensor integration makes for an unbeatable combination in air warfare relative to even 4.5th generation fighters. This argument is actually borne out somewhat by the F-35’s success in mock battles.
Here is the problem, if it is true what it means is that the era of the high maneuverability Jet FIghter is over and the F-35 is still the wrong platform because while it has a decent payload for it’s size it is still limited to just 6 A-A missiles (with another 4 possible on external hardpoints at the cost of some stealth) . What they should have built instead is a slightly larger aircraft that is designed to operate like a bomber with a lot less maneuverability that possessed 2 internal weapons bays capable of carrying 10 amraams each with the ability to add another dozen on external hardpoints.
Given the much lower performance specs of the larger aircraft (wing load would only be rated at ~3 to 4 G’s, not the 6 to 10 that Fighters call for) it would have been signficantly cheaper to produce and by virtue of carrying triple the weapons load been at least twice as effective as a single F-35
The “Airsweeper”. I like the sound of that design. It has a single, well-defined role (clear out the skies) and is built to do it.
Yeah, but the AF is run by former fighter pilots. They want a hot-shit dogfighter, and they don’t care how much of your money they burn to get it.
Honestly, I don’t know if the F-35 is great idea or a huge egotistical boondoggle. But letting fighter pilots run the AF is like letting airborne troops run the army.
Or Roseanne Barr run the Twinkies stand at the PX.
It sure beats when the AF was run by Bomber pilots. No love for missileers though. But letting fighter pilots run things isn’t entirely the worst given that Air Power doctrine requires a secure air space before you bomb them back to stone age. And the fighter focus hasn’t exactly lessened the interest in drones, satellites, mobility or cyberwarfare. Only thing that really seems to have slowed down is missile development.
Looks like the current navy issues are T-35s, not F-18s. Just that they’re the default trainers that folks have to certify on first.
The F-35 is the perfect weapon we don’t need for the opponent we ain’t got.
Nice.
Allegedly, we have to have the F-35 because the Chinese are working on their fortieth generation fighter plane or whatever. But given that ours suffocates the pilots, I can only imagine that the Chinese plane will catch fire and explode shortly after takeoff. Their ability to copy is second-to-none; design, implement, and produce on their own, not so much.
China’s fifth gen fighters, the J-20 or the J-31, having been built from stolen technology – primarily from the US – still have lots of issues, but what is missed is that China, with its effective industrial and military espionage, has jumped decades and saved billions developing these items, which are key components in the Chinese long term plan to become the regional, and eventual super power. In time, they will catch up, and that will be problematic for the world. Maybe that shouldn’t be our problem, but I don’t think we can avoid or ignore that realit.
Also note that China buys a ton of crap from the Russians, not always just because their crap doesn’t work, but because that allows them to reverse engineer those things. If you look at what china has fielded, you can tell every platform was copied from either the Russians or someone else.
I’ll believe their usefulness when tested in combat. Until then, they’re just gussied-up prototypes.
That’s fair. Of course, once they end up being tested in combat, we might wish it wasn’t so…
Yeah their ability to copy is not unlimited.
They have been trying to build an effective engine for fighter jets for 30 years and even having Russian models to go off of they can’t get them right as the Chinese build versions produce about 15% to 20% less power than the Russian build models
At a certain point, Chinese copying starts to look like Cargo Cult manufacturing.
Wait… you mean the Mechanicus is Chinese?!
That… that actually kinda makes sense.
When you write the book, credit me.
That is why the PLAAF/PLAN strategy, just like it was with the USSR, is always numbers. They are not able to produce a quality airframe like we do in the west, but they also don’t plan to engage in a fair fight of any kind. I believe technology will defeat numbers, but then new tech always comes with new problems. There are no perfect solutions when systems get this complex and deal with so much bureaucracy.
Yeah here is the problem you run into.
When you can only put 6 squadrons into the theatre and each squadron has 24 aircraft but only 18 are flyable on any give day due to the high maintenance needs of the aircraft and each aircraft only carries 6 AA missiles even assuming a 80% kill rate you are only shooting down 520 enemy aircraft. What do you do when they put 750 cheap 3rd gen fighters that only cost $12 million a piece up in the air against you?
Yeah, tech wins out to a certain point but past that it becomes so expensive that you cannot afford it in sufficient quantities and it is easily defeated by zerg rushes
You build arsenal planes and use deployed drone swarms to augment your networked aircraft Rasilio. That 750 aircraft number suddenly jumps to the need for a couple of thousand, and that just not feasible to do in one area of operation, even when you are talking crappy 3rd gen aircraft that have even higher unavailability ratios than their western counterparts.
Oh, come on. When ISIS scrambles its squadron of supersonic fighters to bombard US coastal cities, you’ll be glad we’ve got it!
Have they at least delivered the software path that would allow the plane that can’t fly to be able to fire its weapons?
It has been delivered, and more enhancements and capability are planned and in the works. They have so far also certified it to fire its main gun (in the Marine F-35B and the AF F-35A configurations), the AIM-9X and AIM-132 ASRAAM (European) short range heat seekers, and the AIM-120 (in several configurations US/export and as the Meteor medium range radar AA missiles, and a slew of other ground targeting ordnance. In fact, all three US services have ramped up and sped up their weapon certification process, and many of the expected ordinance items are ahead of the IOC schedule. Israel is also doing their certification on an accelerated pace, but not sharing much about it for obvious reasons.
Alex has been doing an excellent job. I’ll only add the ‘problem’ with F-35 is not an engineering problem. The problem is, fundamentally, programmatic – an issue of procurement process and requirements. Government managment convinced itself they could get three airframes for the price of one, of course, they knew best (what TFX? Never heard of it…). What they got was one airframe for the price of three.
Oh christ…
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article155756624.html
Philip Frost and his wife are single handedly the reason Miami just opened a new science museum. They’ve given and pledged more money to the museum than every other donor combined. When the city wasn’t coming through with funding, they threw in an extra $10 million over and above the incredible amount they’d already pledged, just to make sure the project happened. That’s why it’s called the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science.
But.. *GASP SHOCK AND HORROR*, he said on the radio that climate change science isn’t yet proven!!!
This, mind you, is currently one of the top stories on miamiherald.com. The op-ed asking to have his name taken off the museum (they won’t without a gigantic lawsuit) is probably coming tomorrow.
Gimme your money for the museum and shut up about my ideology’s money making scam?
I loved walking through the Smithsonian and coming across the David Koch Center on Evolution or whatever it was.
Did you see any proggies head’s explode when they saw that, or did they just have dumb looks on their faces?
No the real question is: 1) How much damage would warming do? 2) How much would it cost to fix?
If the answer to #2 is more than #1, then the right thing to do is nothing.
Since climate change is caused by variations in solar activity combined with variations in earth’s spin and orbit, there really isn’t much to be done about it anyway.
Don’t forget #3) Will we be able to afford to pay for it without the economic growth from (Big Oil, Big Agriculture, etc.)
I’d rather re-watch Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood than see any (other) film version of Macbeth that I’m aware of
To be honest, I liked the one with Picard in it.
“Number One, Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence? or why upon this blasted heath you stop our way with such prophetic greeting?”
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir… Also, fuck off, Wesley.”
Ever see O’Toole and Welles talking about Shakespeare. You begin to understand that Welles was probably a giant asshole.
So.. Data is MacDuff, the man of no woman born?
I believe drink gave thee the lie last night.
“Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight with a new Borg! Look on death itself! up, up, and see the great doom’s image!”
So yeah, I guess…
A few years ago, Broward County, Florida held a vote on a bond issue to build a new courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. It failed, and it failed by a lot. So the government said “Fuck you voters, we’re building it anyways”. Their excuses were how leaky the old courthouse was, how it could cause mold, how the
unionsemployees were whining… whatever. So they built it, and it just opened this year.Surprise, surprise.
Hillary gives birth to the Seed of Our Destruction.
SF is on his period.
Totally redeemed.
Just for that, I’m going to make your article look all retarded.
It already does. I reread it and feel some pain.
Where?
Coming soon? Maybe.
It’s in the queue. I’ll email you so you can look for it.
The, um, editing staff has been undergoing some, uh, life transitions and they are way behind.
Seriously, no hurry. Thanks for the heads up.
This is more eloquent than you usually are, SF.
HEY NO FAIR ABUSING YOUR ADMIN POWERS TO EDIT YOUR POST AND MAKE MINE LOOK WEIRD
I needed a placeholder so that I could get the photo to display.
One of these days the proletariat commentators are going to overthrow you bourgeoisie admins.
Comrade, this is post revolutionary Libertopia.
Are you a counterrevolutionary, JB?
You are not of the body.
Roh Roh Shaggy…
This past Saturday evening, I had a get together at my house. Steak, asparagus, mashed potatoes, and beer were on the menu.
My father brought the steaks, and he wanted to cook them in what he described as caveman style. I built a fire out of about 1/4 Rick of oak. I let it burn down to a pile of coals about 4 foot in diameter and 3 or 4 inches deep. We took 14 rib eyes that had been salted and peppered and thew them directly on the coals. After about 4 minutes, we flipped them with a shovel. 2 minutes later, we pulled them off and served them. A little work had to be done to knock off the coals that stuck to the steak.
This were some of the best steaks I’ve ever eaten. The outside was seared perfectly, they had a smokey flavor, and we’re medium rare on the inside. I’ll admit I was skeptical about throwing $100+ dollars of meat directly into a fire, but it turned out great.
I was skeptical about throwing $100+ dollars of meat directly into a fire
Beats holding them there caveman style.
Forget the steaks. I want to hear about how you and your dad bonked your spouses on the head with a club and then dragged them into the house by their hair to fuck them. All other caveman activities are boring and stupid.
Caution- genius at work
There are two primary reasons to break the company up. First, there is little to no synergy between many of the company’s different divisions. For example, what does the Oil and Gas Services Division have to do with the Healthcare Division? Nothing! Yet the new CEO and the Board need to be well informed in both sectors, plus all of the others. It is very difficult to have expertise and keep your fingers on the pulse of so many diverse areas. The company can be managed better by splitting it up.
The second reason is Wall Street is not geared to analyze and promote a business structure as complex as General Electric. Wall Street has sector analysts. Even if an analyst likes the Aviation Division, it is too diluted as part of General Electric for the analyst to place a buy or sell recommendation on General Electric. Many more Wall Street analysts will make recommendations on the parts of the company than on the whole. The company has a current market-cap of $250 billion based on this morning’s trading. The company trades for a little over two times total revenue. For shareholder’s, the goal of breaking up the company would be a higher combined market-cap.
I remain unconvinced.
The first reason is reasonable.
The second is BS. Who cares if Wall St can properly analyze or not? Analyze the divisions independently then put the numbers in a spreadsheet and add them up. It aint hard.
when you split a company into divisions, you have more places to hide underperformance. there is less disclosure at the sub-unit level. typically all they’ll show are topline (revenues) and net op inc. or something like that, it depends on the company.
True, which goes back to the early part: Who cares if Wall St can properly analyze or not?
I mean, I know you do, but that ain’t my (or GE’s) problem
If you own GE and its outperforming relative to its competitors*, and its stock price fails to reflect that, its certainly your (and their) problem.
(*see below = ‘inability to easily identify who those are’ or establish benchmarks)
Aww, a conglomerate isn’t so easily modelled by professional gamblers.
The only people who should be deciding whether or not GE needs to be subdivided are the people who actually decide to own the stock, not the people who see the stock as a gaming chit.
Are pension fund managers really any better at running a business than day-trading gamblers?
I was trying to find the real owners. But fund managers are in the gambler set not the ‘buy to own’ set.
Even Vanguard?
At this point, don’t funds of one sort or another comprise the majority of shareholders in most large publicly traded companies?
I don’t have any numbers on it, but that’s a terrifying throught.
Yes.
http://www.businessinsider.com/stock-market-ownership-2015-1
They do, but that’s no excuse for those funds to hold their hands up in the air and say “we fucked up because analyzing a security is HAAARD”.
If portfolio managers are concerned that a large conglomerate’s true profitability is hard to measure, they should temper their valuations due to the increased level of uncertainty (i.e. risk) which they would not need to do in a more transparent vehicle. In the event of that large conglomerate wishing to issue bonds, one would hope that the bond ratings agencies would also factor this increased level of risk into their calculations.
Now that I’ve stopped laughing, the kernel of this is not really humorous. Holding stock in a company whose financials are hard to understand is inherently more risky, no matter what that company’s name is, than holding stock in a (hypothetical) totally transparent one. In one respect, equities are the ultimate derivitive instrument because the valuation the market places upon a company is a composite based not only on real assets and liabilities, but on a whole host of intangibles including the perceived capability of the CEO and board which are as responsible for uncertainty (i.e. risk) as anything else.
The commercial benefits to GE of running an opaque conglomerate are sufficient to offset the disadvantages which you would expect to arise from that opaqueness. The reality of this is that the valuations of GE on Wall Street are misaligned with what some people think their risk/return is. One would think that the logical answer would be that the share price would fall accordingly.
Mutual funds are a good idea, but then you realize it puts a lot of voting power in the hands of fund managers.
Its like the law of unintended consequences is universal or something.
Indeed, it’s not the instrument that’s the problem, it’s the way policy shapes the use of it.
Keep in mind that bonds and bond funds have been decimated by the Fed over the past decade. That’s killed off anything other than stocks as investment vehicles for most people. It’s also the only reason why they’re doing so well.
Isn’t the first argument, pretty much the argument used by the village in Atlas Shrugged?
Villains*
Meh, it reads just as well without the correction
Who is GE’s main competitor?
Depends on what product you are talking about..
You do realize that was a trick question?
Hence my answer…
GE’s real market capabilities lie in rent seeking and avoiding taxation via an opaque corporate structure, so you could easily pick any of the “Too big to fail” financial firms, or GM.
My point was that they don’t have any clear benchmark
How would you know if they were losing market share?
An investment in GE is more like participating in an event-driven alternatives strategy.
Wait for the economy to blow up, buy a shitload of GE for pennies, and wait for the inevitable bailout, then take your gains and cash out. Unfortunately, everyone else has figured this out too, so timing is key.
these are rhetorical questions, #6.
you’re probably correct on how one should own a company like GE in its hydra-manifestation.
i just think the people suggesting that it can be properly-valued despite an analyst-inhospitable structure are wrong. it often makes it near-impossible to answer even very basic questions about the firm’s competitive positioning.
It’s partially tongue-in-cheek. We have 3 or 4 analysts who keep an eye on different sectors of GE, but we’re primarily a bond trading firm, which I understand makes the exercise a bit easier when it comes to GE. I know they spend a lot of time trying to analyze what GE might be doing regarding their tax liability, such as it is.
I think the key to that strategy is not getting caught on the downturn and having cash available to buy with.
It’s not really a strategy that’s accessible to an individual investor :/
“How would you know if they were losing market share?”
Their stock, which used to go up in value at an insane pace and split regularly every 2 or 3 years, ended up basically stagnant and going nowhere since Immelt took over and turned the company into a rent seeking proggy shithole?
if the stock isn’t transparent, and you can’t actually identify who/where the competitors taking share are, i fail to see how the stock price would accurately reflect those things.
the flattening seems more a consequence of the market throwing its hands up and going “who knows” because its basically a black-box security They could have actually been growing share or improving efficiency in many of their unit areas and not seeing the price-benefit, because no one can easily tease those details out.
fwiw, i think that is actually how they’re often covered. in financials. or by analysts who come from coverage of financial institutions. which means they are basically number-monkeys who don’t really care or know anything about the dynamics of any of the underlying businesses, but are just good at spotting accounting-trickery.
Up until about 1995, I used to work at a hedge fund-of-funds who were very good at finding and investing in firms that were effectively forensic shorters. Real white-knuckle ride, but we had one portfolio that routinely returned north of 15% net per year. Our fees were a sweet 2/20% so it was a very nice deal.
Nowadays? Nah. Getting good primary, stone-lifted analysis is very difficult, and any really great opportunities are arbed out in milliseconds. It’s like being a watermelon picker in Biafra. The whole landscape is so worked-over, there’s nothing juicy for anyone.
This is badly argued. But, the underlying argument is sound. It isn’t that Wall Street analysts aren’t smart enough to figure out GE. It’s, as the author almost stumbles upon, any gains from any of GE’s underlying businesses too easily get diversified away from a host of other businesses.
In general, this is why conglomerates are not the best idea. The underlying theory is that you can diversify a portfolio within a single company. Competent investors are usually pretty good at diversifying their portfolios on their own. And you have to balance any diversification benefit against a lack of management focus (the author’s first point). You can sometimes get a conglomerate where the management is good at some thing outside the specifics of the individual businesses (in GE’s case, Jack Welch was pretty good at adding a layer of management skill to improve individual business performance). In that case, you might be able to justify the conglomerate structure. But, unless the conglomerate ownership is adding some particular value outside the individual businesses, it’s usually not the best way to run a company.
not a beer at this age
Plenty of people drink beer at 14.
In fact, that is the joke in my household. When my 17 month old reaches for my beer, I say “Not until you are 14.”
I tell mine, “not until you weigh 130lbs”.
Good morning, fellow Glibs! Hope you are all doing swell and enjoying some wonderful weather today. Personally, I’m at my wit’s end. I hate my job passionately and am looking for a new, hopefully more lucrative and satisfying job. My biggest obstacle is that my résumé writing skills are pitiful as I’ve never been too fond of writing about myself and completely blank out when trying to do so. I might need to enlist a friend to revise it for me. Any sage advice you could offer would be humbly appreciated.
Also, a long overdue content submission should be coming through from me sometime soon.
In a resume, I find verifiable honesty gets me the furthest.
I’m in a suit of the same situation. I’d say that it’s worth while to spend some time looking at the jobs you would want and see what common skills are being asked for. That gets you going on knowing what language to use.
Personally I keep one “Base Resume” whereI keep all my info, and then when applying for a specific job, I cut and rewrite to make it fit the posting.
Put Laborabo ut cibum obtineam on the heading. They’ll love it.
Osores amet odio
Should I pretend I didn’t google that? Seriously though, I’d hire a dude that put “Will work for food” or “Haters gonna hate” in latin on the top of their CV.
Not sure what sort of jobs you are looking for. I read lots of resumes for developers. I like resumes that don’t post the shit ton of languages/tools/platforms that you are proficient in (everyone has those skills) and spends more time summarizing what they did at their last gigs. If you have a marketable skill mention how you used that in your jobs.
The only problem with that is that a lot of HR recruiters have no idea how to evaluate a IT resume and they only look at that long list of skills/languages to see if a candidate would be a fit (“Oooh, he has Cold Fusion in his list, he’d be perfect!”). So if you are sending your resume to HR depts on your own, you should probably leave that in.
The alternative is to find a local recruiter that you can work with. They will get a list of your skills and then match you with opportunities. A good one will also help you write your resume to best match any opportunity that they send you out on.
Thanks. I’m in IT (lowly sysadmin), though I have no working knowledge of any programming languages. I’ve been trying to teach myself Python, but time has been scarce.
If you like your sysdamin job, you can keep your sysadmin job.
Drop Python. Powershell and Bash. Especially now MS has “Ubuntu for Windows”.
If you’re already totally embedded in the Unix/Linux world, look seriously at scripting/admin languages rather than Python *unless* you want to make that leap across to programming.
FWIW, I think the more stable career path is sys admin rather than programming. Both can be outsourced and offshored, but from my experience, when an outsourcing firm fucks up, control gets brought back to the business far faster than outsourced coding, so if you want a salaried job in the US, become a good sysadmin with some specialized skills, before becoming a programmer who will constantly be trying to demonstrate that he’s better value than a guy costing $3/hr in Aceh province.
Sysdamins are often ‘closer’ to the business too.
Yeah, I’ve been working more with Powershell and various *nix stuff in what little free time I have much more than programming languages. My biggest problem is that I haven’t been able to make the time to get certs. I’m currently working in architectural design, and quite frankly the people in this field are pretentious fucking assholes that need someone to answer to their every beck and call. I think I’d like to stay in the sysadmin world, but I desperately need a change of environment.
You’re more likely to be able to move jobs as a sysadmin without certs than moving into programming without (if not certs), hard experience.
While I’m receptive to the view that Microsoft languages are cancer, infected with anthrax, the upside of Powershell of course is that you’re basically scripting in .NET. I had a code-monkey reporting to me who used to build ETL routines in powershell for me and he parlayed that into a coding role here at the firm, but frankly, he’s eminently marketable outside the firm.
In general, you can demonstrate sysadmin competency during an interview with another sysdamin, at least to the point where the interviewer can be confident you know what you’re talking about.
From my experience, it’s far harder to do that with a prospective programmer. For a programming role, I’d want to see certs (even though I think they’re a poor measure of attainment) simply because I can’t “test” an applicant by getting him to write a REST API for some hypothetical trading system.
I don’t know if it’s just because the state does everything ass backwards, but the state sysadmins are further from the business than the developers, who have to deal with the business units directly on a daily basis.
We sysadmins are either scapegoats or miracle workers depending upon what point in the break/fix process we are. The rest of the time we’re “clearly just trying to waste money on more toys for ourselves” and can’t get hardware refreshes until we have mid-workday failures of vital systems due to a CPU crapping out (actually happened).
Our sysadmins have to report daily on outages, and their effectiveness is a direct input into our quarterly risk management report, with retrospective, and prospective reporting. They gain further visibility in our firm because they’re the gatekeepers for software rollouts (they manage the change control process, for some (historically) good reasons).
So, it’s probable that they have greater influence than in an average business, but they’re the guys who get the “do you realize who I am?” calls if and when something fucks up in trade reconciliation or clearing.
That’s the scapegoat phase.
And when we do software rollouts, the business is pissed because things have changed. Most of the people we have to deal with want stasis. Get the same sort of inputs, perform the same processes, produce the same outputs. It’s like an assembly line for paperwork.
Well, there’s certainly a difference there.
Our sysadmins are strongly encouraged to advance the CMMI model wherever possible, and while we don’t have a formal process, there are frequently informal meetings about how to refine processes, simplify workflows, eliminate unreliable process steps etc.
Now I consider this, it’s another reason they are ‘closer’ to the business than the programmers, because they deal directly with the real-world consequences of inefficient processing. They’re the guys who want to squeeze 10% better performance out of an overnight ETL process.
I will concede that this is as much a result of the direct managers of the sysadmins as it is of the business. They’re a very dedicated group.
Like 6 said, unless you want to become a programmer, I wouldn’t worry about adding any particular language to your portfolio.
The other big trend I see is in learning how to support cloud apps. Learn how to spin up VM’s and other services in Amazon’s cloud (or Google, or Azure).
I think a lot of companies will be moving more things to the cloud and knowing how to monitor and maintain those assets is a skill that is in short supply.
… and Microsoft’s Azure now has hooks that pretty much let you not only manage instances, but build workflows, via “Microsoft Functions”.
Unix or windows? I know as little as possible about windows, but for unix, definitely learn shell
scripting. Bonus if you understand there’s a difference between bash and posix shell.
These days companies fool themselves into thinking they don’t need sys-admins because
of “devops” and “cloud”, but they seem to like “configuration management”, so familiarity
with chef and puppet can help.
Though most companies can’t tell an admin from a trained monkey, so just get the buzzwords
in and a recruiter will get a search match. As for formatting, I just put my gigs in reverse
chronological order and sprinkle in the buzzwords that were involved with each in a paragraph
or so. Another thing to remember is that the resume isn’t there to get you the job, it’s there
to get you the interview, so it should be written so the reader’s question “do I want to spend an hour
of my life interviewing this person” is “yes”.
If it makes you feel better, I’m in the same boat as well. My issue is that my position has dumped me into a niche that I want to get out of.
Advice that has been offered to me:
1) Use your current job description as a template.
2) Focus on simple sentence structures and visual cues (i.e. bold, italics, headings, bullets) so the recruiter can get a sense of you quickly.
3) Mirror the language used in the job description you’re applying for.
4) Done is better than perfect . . .
5) . . . But sloppy mistakes like misspellings will instantly ruin a first impression, so proofread/spellcheck/have a friend review it.
There are also services out there that will interview you and help you craft a really attractive resume.
What field are you working in, and what field would you like to be in?
A few thoughts:
(1) Keep the resume short – total should be no more than two pages. Reverse chronological order (most recent job first). Short, punchy bullet point summaries of duties/accomplishments. I do a little minor customizing of the the resume for each application I submit, but I’m applying for a narrow range of positions; if you are applying for a broader range, may need more customizing or multiple versions.
(2) Send a short cover letter – two, three paragraphs that specifically addresses the company and position you are applying for. That’s where I mimic (don’t mirror/cut and paste) the job posting. Show that you’ve done a little research on the company – three minutes on their website should give you plenty.
Thanks to everyone that replied. A lot of your advice covered things I hadn’t considered much and is greatly appreciated.
I wonder if that guy from Seeking Alpha is running around calling for Berkshire Hathaway to be broken up.
Any sage advice you could offer would be humbly appreciated.
Include a target with a nice tight grouping on it with your resume.
I was gonna suggest a dick-pic, but that works too.
Could combine the two…
Amateurs. Candid/surveillance pix of the company president’s family getting into the minivan for soccer practice get results every time.
Try and use a Minox and get some scans of bank statements too. It makes you seem like you’re a pro, and you’ll be a shoo-in for Compliance or HR department.
FFW a year and what if the only thing that comes out of the whole Muh Russians! is that Lynch gets prosecuted? Not saying that is going to happen, but I’d fight pancreatic cancer to last long enough to see it.
That would require an administration willing to play it quiet rather than routinely giving the media something to obsess over; Republicans willing to take their opponents’ crimes seriously; an agency that doesn’t hand out immunities to Dems carte blanche; reporters who don’t simply reprint Dem press releases as news.
Mainly, that would require a special prosecutor who wasn’t a partisan tool, though.
Mueller is already discredited. He should resign. If Trump fires him, I would support that. Stocking your special investigation into whether an election was tampered with, with people who donated to the losing side is madness if you want any credibility at all.
The sad thing is, I think Mueller is so compromised, such a creature of the swamp, that I doubt he even realizes what he has done.
He should never have been appointed. Given the FBI’s role in the various shenanigans around this election, and in particular that the former director leaked confidential FBI memos to get him appointed, an ex-FBI insider is completely the wrong choice.
I hate to confess to my ignorance, but how is a special prosecutor selected?
Totally agree that appointing Mueller is proof that the pols want their sandbox back and are willing to do anything to do it. It would have been so much better if they had chosen some real prosecutor and let them go after all the corruption surrounding the Ruskies.
It would have been a perfect opportunity (assuming you really didn’t collude with Putin) to drain the swamp and take a lot of scalps.
I say give the investigation to special guest Piers Morgan. He’s already universally hated, he lurches between trolling the left and right, and he can always be trusted, when all the chips are down, to do whatever is going to piss off the greatest number of people.
“The pickings will get slimmer on sports for the next 76 days until college football starts. Unless some stupid shit happens. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.”
I can’t wait for the annual mid-August Buckeye player gets arrested for a drunken brawl/DUI/prostitution sting incident. Every fucking year.
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Let this be the year the cycle is broken.
Also, it would be pretty cool if Bob Stoops suffered his last head coaching loss to the Buckeyes and his replacement suffered his first loss to them as well.
I work right on the oklahoma/arkansas state line. The OU fans I work with are devastated by stoops calling it quits. It’s been very nice for me.
Let’s get through Indiana first. I do not like this scenario at all. Es no bueno.
Its the coach. He had the same problems at UF. And probably Utah.
How would you get in a drunken brawl in Utah? The beer has no alcohol there, and the Mormon’s won’t throw a punch.
Drive to Nevada? That is what the curling teams did during the Olympics.
” A controversial integration law that will fine women for wearing face-concealing Islamic dress from October, and deprive of benefits migrants who fail to take language lessons has officially been enacted, after being rubberstamped by the President.
“Those who are not prepared to accept Enlightenment values will have to leave our country and society,” reads the text of the law that drew thousands of protesters to the streets earlier this year, before it was passed by a centrist coalition last month.
Women who will wear Islamic veils – either the burqa or the niqab – in public places, will face a fine of €150 ($168).
More generally, newcomers who expect to stay in Austria, will need to enroll in a 12-month “integration course,” which includes German language lessons, if they are to receive their welfare benefits.”
https://www.rt.com/news/391753-austria-burqa-ban-integration/
Literally Hitler (is from there)
It’s remarkable to me how much democracy has stopped being a virtue lately. It’s all fine and dandy when the majority holds the right opinions, but when they don’t? Not so fast, mister, we have to keep democracy in check.
And try to get people to see the dangers involved when their team is out of power. You can literally, and I mean literally, feel the cognitive dissonance.
I have always had my reservations about democracy.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
As have I. But, the arguments of convenience bother me. A principle should have a greater lifespan than the time between two elections.
I wonder even now how many Venezuelans pin their miseries on Maduro alone and either still believe in Chavismo or socialism generally. Those last couple paragraphs don’t fill me with a lot of hope.
“Oxford University has completely redesigned one of its core history exams with the explicit aim of giving more top grades to women.
Academics at the university – often ranked top in the world for history – will now allow students to do one exam at home, rather than in an exam hall.
The move – immediately attacked as a “soft” alternative – was made because authorities felt female students were getting too few first-class degrees.
According to the Sunday Times, the change was made in response to a “gender grade gap” which sees 32% of female historians bag a First class degree, compared to 37% of men.”
https://heatst.com/world/oxford-rewrites-history-exam-to-make-it-easier-for-women-to-get-top-grades/
One third of your students receive top marks? Maybe the problem isn’t gender disparity, mate. Maybe it’s your soft academics.
Ugh. I don’t know the Brits do it, but I hated take-home tests. Half the time that I had to do one, the teacher gave a vote to the class, and of course they always picked the take-home option. Fucking idiots. Instead of spending 2.5 hours in a lecture hall, you got to enjoy spending 12+ hours at home. The tests were invariably much harder (since you had access to textbooks, the Internet, and each other). The only consolation I got was that I generally scored better than the people who wanted the test to be take-home in the first place.
Caveat: This was in math, not history
Agreed.
Same for open book tests. They were always harder, plus you wasted time looking stuff up. I figured out that, when possible*, the best way to handle open book tests was to never touch the book.
*things like thermo charts are an obvious exception.
Yep. The most insane tests I ever had were open book, open notes. It basically gave the professors a license to make the exams as ball shatteringly difficult as possible.
I wonder if Cosby is going to sue his lawyer?
That depends on how the jury decides.
He should sue himself for drugging such an ugly woman to have sex with.
Cosby’s next lawyer
Who the hell is that?
Quay Lewd
aka Fee Waybill of The Tubes
I was listening to that shit last night on the commute. When those guys toured Europe, the Brits couldn’t even.
I saw the Tubes in concert back in the 90’s at a hotel bar of all places. They were one of the tightest bands I’ve ever heard and were genuinely nice to the attendees, all 3 dozen of us.
I saw ’em in 1978. I may actually be one of the screams you hear in the audience on “What do you want from Live”. Those guys were (and the ones that are still around) are phenomenal musicians. One of the funniest things is that based on approximately nothing more than the title of a song, they were categorized as “punk rock”.
It would have made far more sense to have said they were like “Be Bop Deluxe or Bowie on PCP” – it would have been just as apt. I saw them at another venue, a few years later, and they had fuckin’ chainsaw jugglers up on stage with them. There was a rumor that Fee Waybill *had* been doing that, but had nearly sliced his leg off one evening. Given their penchant for self-advertizing, I don’t believe it, but it makes a good dinner party story.
I actually had drinks with Bill Spooner in the late 80’s, and I have no idea how that guy was the primary mover for the band. He seemed like small-town tax accountant.
That’s awesome. They’re one of those bands you have to hear and experience live.
I saw them on that tour. It was the first real concert I’d ever been to see (I lived in northern Arkansas). A group of about twenty of us drove to Fayetteville to see the concert. It was…. an experience.
I could totally recognize that back then, The Tubes were capable of building a fan following that would have been an analog of Insane Clown Posse’s Juggalos.
The Tubes had more than one single thankyouverymuch!
In Europe, Only WPOD, Don’t Touch Me there and She’s a Beauty gained any traction. Possibly Mondo Bondage.
That was the confusing thing, none of those songs sound remotely similar. Confuzzeled the hell out of the plebs.
That’s hilarious. I wore out a copy of The Completion Backward Principle back in high school. Very underrated band.
I’m wondering if they aren’t trying to set up an appeal based on ineffective assistance of counsel. Its a very long shot, but if the trial went really bad for Cosby, it may be his best play at this point.
If so, I hope the lawyer is getting a very substantial bonus, because he just destroyed his own career.
Oxford University has completely redesigned one of its core history exams with the explicit aim of giving more top grades to women.
Just get it over with, and award grades and degrees randomly.
A uniform random distribution is racist, classist, sexist, and ageist, you shitlord. We can only achieve justice when awards are given non-randomly on the basis of victimhood points.
“What kind of dress was Anne Boleyn wearing when she was beheaded?”
“Describe a Regency ball in detail – clothes, dances, etc.”
“How would you have done to made Ethelred more Ready? Be specific.”
We need to bring back colorful regnal epithets.
Æþelræd Unræd is a pun but not the way it’s usually translated. His name means noble counsel, and the epithet means no counsel or bad counsel. So it’s basically a knock on his advisers and not on him. Also no once called him that in his own time and the first attestation of the epithet is at least a century after his death.
Yep. I have EXTREMELY useful degrees.
I love Saxon history. Got into it when I read this romance novel.
agreed!
We did check, and his heart didn’t look *anything* like a lion’s.
William was actually a bastard, though.
Robert Mueller Stocks Staff with Democrat Donors
I’m sure he’ll argue he was just picking top people and there’s such a shallow pool to choose from.
My company in the last couple of years hire a couple of outside execs. Each one has brought their posse from previous companies. It’s almost laughable when one of the new execs announces their latest direct report because they’re almost always from one of those same small companies. I know there’s comfort in the familiar and the cronyism with these traveling bands, but on the same time, their circle of contacts and peers is that small? These aren’t marque names in the corporate world either like hiring from Hahvadd or such. It’s pitiful and I’m sure they’re laughing all the way to the bank.
Yes I have observed that they tend to bring one big wig over from some no-longer-existing organization to an active entity. And no-one ever questions why the former enterprise no longer exists.
“The pickings will get slimmer on sports for the next 76 days”
For those of you willing to seek excitement elsewhere there are: Champions Trophy semi-finals; America’s Cup; Australian Football League; National Rugby League; Super League; County Championship.
Don’t forget the various contests at the county fairs.
*shakes head at barbarians; reaches for cucumber sandwich & cup of Darjeeling*
You savage.
RN, you, me and Swissy really should collab on a weekly combined AFL/Rugby/Super League post. Ted S. could write about world football if he’d promise to not be a dick for a while, or at least be funny while being a dick. Also, anyone else. I know Rhywun is a Collingwood fan, although that would probably mitigate his desire to write about AFL this year. (Sorry, Rhywun, the Demons were a tad too strong for the Crows yesterday – for once this year, they actually WON a match by under a goal) And while I joked about your (RN) Blues maybe gaining some ground against a weak sister like GWS, the fuckers actually pulled it off. Remind me to NEVER, NEVER gamble on ozzie rules.
Or, we could just talk OT shit in other posts; it’s all good.
I’ll do the World Football column if you don’t mind “FUCK MANCHESTER UNITED” inserted into every column.
I’m not bovvered. Up Oxford City!
Yeah, woke up to the Carlton score and at first thought I was hungover. Yeah some kind of post might be fun.
I saw that and thought “are you fucking kidding me?” And, as I previously stated, was quite glad I hadn’t any money on the match. Because it was not how I would’ve forecast.
At any rate, you (and JB) can either email me at my avatar name @ gmail, or wait until Swissy shows up, since he’s a power broker here. We can work out together the best days/times for contributions, blah blah blah. Also, if anyone else wants in, more the merrier, I’m thinking, but that can also be addressed.
Also, Canada might legalize dueling.
https://heatst.com/life/canada-might-legalize-dueling-which-means-canada-is-officially-good-now/
Maybe there is some hope for Canada after all.
I finally have a job interview. It came from a really unexpected direction, someone found my resume on Indeed.
Pay would be solid, much better than I could have expected at this point in my career at my old job. Plus it is not in a warehouse turned cube farm.
Going from a company with 20,000 local employees to a dozen local employees would be interesting.
I’ve never worked for a big company, so I can’t speak to that, but one of the things I’ve enjoyed being in small companies is the variety. You generally are involved in multiple areas and can actually see your work transform the business. It’s fun.
Good luck – I hope it works out!
I can’t remember who recommended the Tuttle Twins (http://tuttletwins.com/) books to me, but thanks. Got them today, flipped through a couple of them, and looks like they present classical liberal ideals in a way that the kid might actually understand.
Now for the project that hopefully results in my daughter eventually becoming the mythical creature known as a libertarian woman.
In other “sources familiar with the cousin of the guy washing the windows at the office where the investigation took place” news…
https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/russia-probed-election-systems-and-data-of-39-us-states/
Given what we know, does the fact that the records show that the “intrusions” came from Russian IP addresses make it more or less likely that Russians were actually involved?
Means nothing. Its hall of mirrors stuff. Were the IP addresses used by not-Russians to lay a false trail? Were they used by Russians to make you think they are a false trail? Its basically a null data point, IMO.
It’s obvious the NSA laid the trail meant to make us think that Russia deliberately used those IP addresses to make us think the NSA had contrived that evidence to make the Russians look guilty of planting false-flags intended to dupe Americans into thinking the NSA had…
This guy gets it.
It makes it far less likely that the Russian government was involved, at least directly.
Remember, the prevailing theory among our intelligent services is that the Russians have certain hacking organizations do their dirty work. Though I have found, after looking deeper into it, there seems to be a lot of bluster and very little actual proof of that. Maybe they have some proof not available to the public, but I seriously doubt it. The pressure to release or leak that information would be too great to resist in the current environment. If they had real proof, it would probably be out by now, one way or another.
As far as I’d go without direct, obvious evidence is that private Russian hackers might be doing naughty things that the Russian government ignores.
Now that that’s out of the way let’s get down to the business of storytelling. Once upon a time there was a mean ole Russian named Putin who denied the Queen her rightful throne…
Stealing this
You know who was trying to penetrate various state election systems? On election day?
Obama’s DHS. This isn’t anonymously sourced or anything. Its an admitted fact. I’ve never seen a decent explanation why. Even if you are going to run penetration tests on a system to test their security, etc. for good reasons, you don’t fucking do it to fucking election systems on fucking election day.
STEVE SMITH PENETRATE VOTERS
You do, if like Stalin, you believe what ultimately counts is who counts the votes and not who voted for whom…
Hateful DC summer has begun, apparently. Just 3 more months of suffering, then another month or mild irritation, before mid-October relief.
I don’t know how you southron folk deal with that. In cold weather I can always add enough clothing to be comfortable. In warm weather I can only take off so many articles of clothing before I get arrested.
Booze. Booze and loose clothing. And more booze.
Seriously though, I like heat but I’m built for cold, and I’ve found that once you just accept that you’re going to sweat it’s really just like being in a sauna until mid to late autumn. And the usual stuff like staying hydrated, hang out in the shade, don’t do interval training outside at 1:00 PM, etc.
I came over to the US permanently in ’94, and it took me about 10 years to ‘get used’ to NY Tristate area weather, ranging from low single digits to around 95 with moderate to high humidity. For the last 10 years, like Naptown Bill, I’m reconciled to sweating (having found a means to manage the smell of perspiration without hiding, or suppressing it) and avoiding prickly heat to the point where most of the time, I’m in better shape than most of the people around me.
I am concerned that in a couple years, we’ll be heading south though, The thought of 3 months per year of uncomfortable travel outside of air conditioned facilities is depressing.
I’m so completely miserable with Ohio summers, I couldn’t fathom the thought of living at an even lower latitude than I do now. Give me ice, snow and cold biting winds every day of the year and I’ll never complain. I doff my cap to you.
This is exactly how I feel. When I’m stark nekkid, trying to sleep with no blankets – that’s when I get cranky.
Go on … I like a challenge.
Me, in summer. Don’t poke the
bearHeat MiserMy company has some equipment on Svalbard. I once asked one of the executives how I could get assigned to work there.
It’s my understanding that an assignment in Svalbard requires that (a) you have a huge tolerance for cold and (b) are sufficiently hermetic to be in a settlement with only a dozen people at a time, for prolonged periods.
I’ve spent time in a settlement in the Antarctic Circle consisting of 5 people for just under 3 months, and the biggest problem wasn’t the cold, it was the company I had to keep.
Yeah, on a scale of 1-10 for introversion – I’m an 11. My profile pic sez all you need to know about how I feel about cold weather.
THough our equipment on Svalbard is close to Longyearbyen, which has a whopping ~2500 residents!
See, I thought DC was 12 months of suffering. Or maybe that’s just out here in the provinces that DC is 12 months of suffering.
October and November are decent. The people are insufferable all year round.
It really sucks up here near Baltimore. hit 93 yesterday with like 90% humidity
LOL try 60%. You yankees just think it’s humid.
Not sure what you’re trying to say here lol. The norm is probably 60% for this time of year, but it has hit 90% humidity around where I live.
Not that any of this really matters haha. I’m pretty sure it isn’t a competition, but if it is, i’ll concede to you.
It’s not all that bad. Typical southern summer but with less humidity. Yes, LESS (60-70% instead of 80-90%).
I have no meetings scheduled til Thursday at 3pm. Woot!
My Fair Lady. I saw it in the theater when it came out in ’64.
I’d hire a dude that put “Will work for food” or “Haters gonna hate” in latin on the top of their CV.
ARBEIT MACHT FREI
*somebody had to do it.
https://heatst.com/entertainment/the-taylor-swift-katy-perry-feud-explained/?mod=sm_fb_post
SF needs to get on this, right now.
I’d get on Taylor Swift anytime, any place.
Ms. Perry is more my taste, but this is kind of a Ginger/Mary Anne thing. Can’t go wrong.
Not disgusting enough.
Not yet.
Yeah, it’s just all hair-pulling and wine coolers.
*retches*
Wine coolers?
*runs to bathroom*
And John Meyer anecdotes
But in your able hands, it could be art.
More, new “evidence of Russian election hacking” that’s not real evidence
Wait, so the vote was hacked, but it wasn’t hacked?
And, their evidence? Reality Winner’s ‘leak’, some unnamed contractor in Illinois who is saying someone was downloading a copy of the voter registration database, and an Obama White House staffer who said “the election was totally hacked”. *facepalm*
Any lie to keep that narrative about Russian hacking going. Can’t have the plebes start thinking about how badly they were screwed by the democrats and how bad Obama’s tenure was.
Of course in all the hysterics over “X# of computers around the country got pinged!” they bury this fact = Nothing that any of these ‘hackers’ did had any possible effect on the 2016 election.
And who snoops? Why, everyone, all the time. But explaining that to the general public would take all the sex appeal out of their ‘revelations’.
In the FBI report on the ‘russian hacking’ released back at the end of 2016, it was mentioned that the phishing email that netted Podesta was sent to something like a few thousand other people. Only a few dozen of whom were even associated with politics at all, much less ongoing campaigns.
Everything i’ve seen about these so-called ‘hacking’ investigation tends to show the opposite of what the headlines claim = they don’t reveal any particular super-targeted efforts to undermine american democracy – they just show widespread, constant low-level hackery. Which is not exactly news: doesn’t every computer in America have a firewall and anti-virus for a *reason*?
There’s also the fact that the stories gloss over how much of our “Election Infrastructure” has very little connection to Computer Networks in the first place. the amount of shit that’s still done on paper is enormous. and the ‘voter rolls’ stuff is always in a constant state of being updated, so just because hacker X got ahold of some in 2016 basically means nothing, because they will be entirely rebuilt for 2018 and 2020 and so on.
its all a fucking joke.
it was mentioned that the phishing email that netted Podesta was sent to something like a few thousand other people.
Which leaves it at least one order of magnitude short of being the claimed “massive spear phishing” campaign.
Well, they considered it “massive” for the type of relatively-more-sophisticated effort that it was.
See, even my point is double edged = the thing is, their efforts *were* targeted. They weren’t simply ‘massive’ indiscriminate phishing efforts which just tried blanket-spamming everyone on earth and automatically try and fuck with them
they were actually targeted lists. and they were designed to try and extract specific kinds of information, not just run on auto-pilot and troll.
but the point was that these ‘specific’ efforts weren’t even specific to the 2016 election. Many of the targets were private corporations and unrelated govt entities. Yes, it was probably russians, and yes, they were probably trying to steal stuff for some political reasons… but the fact is that they’re probably doing the exact same thing right now, and were doing it in 2012, 2013, 2014 as well, and they (and others) will *always* be doing this sort of stuff well into the future. Because why? because they can. because that’s what intelligence agencies do, and its what the US does.
basically, the entire narrative around the Russians+ the election is a huge effort of trying to ‘decontexualize’ behavior and pretend that this was special, unique, different, unusual, etc. and therefore especially scary
(*even tho in all these 1000s of words spilt they’ve never actually identified a single instance where any sort of criticial info/systems were compromised which would have any tangible real-world effects)
More to the point, why are we surprised that the Kremlin is attempting to interfere with elections here or abroad? How is that out of keeping for a former-KGB thug and his increasingly authoritarian, insular, nationalist country? A country with a long-simmering grudge against the West, no less. Anyone who’s shocked–shocked!–at the news probably shouldn’t be reporting on national affairs. Ditto anyone who thinks this problem is unique to Trump, because that’s partisan hackery at its core.
And the great irony that nobody dares mention is the fact that journalists on the left are playing right into Putin’s hands by playing up these allegations and sowing doubt among voters. The Kremlin wanted a discredited and widely reviled president. That was supposed to be Hillary. Instead the left is giving Putin a discredited and widely reviled president in Trump. Trump does himself few favors, but even Trump can’t fat-finger his way into as much ignominy as lefty journalists have heaped on him by pushing unsourced rumors and lies. Trump may be an idiot but it’s the hack media that’s Putin’s useful idiots.
Also, since the Obama Administration did a shitload of meddling in Israel’s elections, how does any Donk bray about Russia with a straight face?
Because if it’s anything done by the Lightbringer, it’s automatically good and right. Or any other democrat, really. But Obama really brings the partisan hackery to the forefront.
Remember, principals, not principles.
The Kremlin has always interfered. Case in point when Ted Kennedy went there to ask them to help him defeat Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election…
The people shitting all over the place and flinging pooh at every surface they can see today are Ted “U-Boat Commander” Kennedy’s people.
because Illinois was in play?
Luckily for the left, this narrative is made to look so complex and the left is so stupid and dishonest, that any lack of evidence is entirely superseded by the drip drip drip of further misinformation arriving on a near daily basis that just keeps fires of outrage burning.
Huh… some good news out of Pennsylvania. The PA Supreme court overturned a civil forfeiture of a house for $40 in marijuana sales. The bad news… people thought taking someone’s fucking house was a worthwhile punishment for selling $40 of pot.
Were the IP addresses used by not-Russians to lay a false trail? Were they used by Russians to make you think they are a false trail? Its basically a null data point, IMO.
Something something land war in Asia
The Warriors unanimously decided to boycott any White House visit. Which is perfectly fine by me, but I will laugh my ass off when the same people who excoriated Tim Thomas for refusing to meet with Obama in 2011 write love letters to the Warriors for sticking it to the Cheeto Menace.
And scumbag sports journos making Brady defend his friendship with Trump
Good, it’s a stupid tradition and the NBA’s a second-rate league at this point.
Actually, they didn’t. It was one guy citing non-existent “sources” that led to others sourcing the first guy which led to the media picking it up because media has long since dispensed with things about “checking facts”.
(They probably will end up skipping the visit, but there’s not fucking way they made that decision last night)
Whoops, forgot the link.
At the top pf the page in that link, there’s a “trending” section, and one of the names is…..Jose Offerman? That’s a bit peculiar.
Aha. I only heard it on the radio a little while ago.
One of the mysteries about the 2016 presidential election is why Russian intelligence, after gaining access to state and local systems, didn’t try to disrupt the vote. One possibility is that the American warning was effective.
And- when elephants paint their toenails red, they can hide in cherry trees. Totally camouflaged.
+1 Tiger-proof rock
Also, since the Obama Administration did a shitload of meddling in Israel’s elections, how does any Donk bray about Russia with a straight face?
see, also: Brexit
“Back of the queue.”
“According to its website, VR Systems has contracts in eight states: California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.”
and how many of those were in play during the election?
to paraphrase Bruce Schneier, hacking an election is hard. not only do you have to access vote tallying systems but you have to guess the correct states that will make the difference.
FL, NC, and VA were arguably in play. VA went blue, FL/NC went red. Switch FL and NC and Hillary’s at 271 electoral votes. Therefore, the election WAS stolen!!!11!!111!11!
Car-bubble? What car-bubble?”
Don’t agree with all of the predictions about future markets but this looks like it’s going to at least sting when it comes due. (Women and minorities hardest hit, Trump to blame.)
my 2007 Camry is showing signs of failure so i hope Mish is right about these two points:
New car incentives are rising
Used car glut with prices plunging
There is definitely a glut in cars. I paid less for a car last year than I did in 1997 and it’s a much nicer car too.
2007 toyota with problems? What the hell did you do to it?
My 2007 Sti has blown head gaskets and still runs like a champ.
Sweet. Price drop.
Yes, please drop. Specifically for the 2015-2016 Tahoe.
House Natural Resources sub-committee tomorrow to review the Sportsmen Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act (SHARE Act) which contains key elements of the Hearing Protection Act removing suppressors from NFA.
There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. I can’t wait!
The science, e.g. practical decibel reduction, is clearly on the side of liberalizing suppressor regulations. The bloody shirt argument is also on the side of deregulation as a suppressor typically doubles the length of a handgun making the #1 murder weapon harder to conceal.
More economic warfare upon the poor.
In the future, the rich, legal owners of firearms will all have suppressed weapons, while the socially and financially disadvantaged inhabitants of “diversity enclaves” will be deprived of same, a consumer good specifically permitted to citizens by federal law.
Unfair!
Most likely going to be my topic du jour on friday.
Perhaps you can do a point-counterpoint between the Glock and 1911. You know, stir the pot…
Lets see: One is an ugly combat hammer used by mall ninjas, and the other is an overpriced relic with low capacity and a fat ass.
See? I didn’t need a whole article.
Keep stirring, nobody’s butthurt yet.
Since everyone else seems to be posting about their job prospects here are mine. I had a second interview with a small clinic. A family run joint but they needed somebody familiar with health care operations since the son is moving on. The advertised pay range is pretty wide but it’ll be a step up for me if it stays towards the high end. I should know how I did in a few days.
The other one is a bit of a wild card since it is with a company that specializes in health and fitness, that are looking to sell their services to upper tier hospital systems (Mayo Clinic) and since they have no experience with basic medical terminology or generally speaking, how a hospital is run they hired out. I interviewed last Friday and they should tell me next steps in couple days. This would also be a step up in pay, but we’ll see.
Almost forgot to mention…I applied at a local medical marijuana dispensary.
Almost forgot to mention
Applied at, or shopped at?
is the dispensary strictly medical?
Yes, medical MMJ only–wise ass. They are building a compliance program, I doubt I’ll get it but I’ve been surprised by who has called me back.
a company that specializes in health and fitness, that are looking to sell their services to upper tier hospital systems (Mayo Clinic) and since they have no experience with basic medical terminology or generally speaking, how a hospital is run they hired out.
Yikes. Hospitals are strange beasts. If they are trying to get into that market without a solid background in the biz I’d want to be very comfortable with their business prospects before I took a job there. Protip: hospitals move at glacial speeds; be prepared for a very long sales cycle.
I presently work at a VA hospital, glacial speeds are an improvement over the geologic time scale I currently operate at.
Besides, the position is to identify places to utilize the services for existing clients. Either way I’ll save money on a gym membership since they have a few punching bags on site.
Good luck!!
Thanks!
Speaking of hot-button transgender issues, Seattle Library has “Family-only” bathroom, causing Gender dustup and prompts 1000 word article describing the injustice.
Alley, who wrote in his Facebook post that he is disabled, told library staff he didn’t feel safe using bathrooms with any gender label. He didn’t say why.
That’s right. The Transgender individual didn’t feel safe using the gender neutral bathrooms.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transgender-man-to-file-complaint-against-library-over-private-restroom/
This is somehow news in 2017. The more they throw temper tantrums, the more I am prone to give no shits about their pathetic problems.
Judas Titty-fucking Priest, this guy can’t handle a family room? The family room is probably the easiest solution to this contrived bathroom controversy.
If I should find myself in the unfortunate situation where I have to urinate in Seattle, I am specifically going to find this individual’s dwelling, and pee in his coffee pot. There is no reasonable alternative action for idiots like this.