“They better give me a Nobel Peace Prize,” Donald grumbled.
“I’ll kill anyone I have to to get you a Nobel Peace Prize!” John Bolton’s mustache growled.
“They gave Krugman a Nobel Prize,” the hat said with a sneer.
“Actually, Paul Krugman didn’t get a Nobel Prize, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,” the hair said.
“Shut up, you autistic faggot!” the hat snapped.
“I’ll kill you! I’ll bathe in your children’s blood! MURDER!” John Bolton’s mustache screamed.
The hair clambered up to Donald’s shoulder and glared at the raving mustache.
“OK, OK, make the damn call,” the hat said.
Donald picked up the blue diplomatic phone and said, “OK. I’m ready.” He sat the handset down and turned on the speakerphone. It rang twice before clicking.
“Her-ro?” a voice asked.
“OK, who is this?” the hat asked. “Who am I talking to?”
“Who are roo?”
“I’m Donald Trump’s goddamn hat! Who is this?”
“This is the hatteu of Dear Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army!” the voice snapped in barely accented English.
“Whoa,” the hair whispered.
“Who is this?” Kim’s hat demanded.
“This is the Make America Great Again hat of His Most Super-Healthy Excellent Awesome Rad Dude Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, uh, Defender of the Capitalism, Landlord of Trump Tower and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Free World!” MAGA hat extemporized.
“I was under in the impression President Donald’s hair would be speaking to me today,” Kim hat said.
“Listen here, you little felt spunk cup…” John Bolton’s mustache began.
“Nope, just me,” the hat said. “President Trump’s hair is 100% real hair. You could tug on it if you wanted to. If you were here, I mean.”
“Get to the Peace Prize part,” Donald grumbled.
“Of course,” Kim’s hat said archly. “Why have you called today?”
“Goddamn commie scum!” John Bolton’s mustache screamed. “You know why we called!” His component follicles where perpendicular with rage.
“The peace negotiations?” MAGA hat said leadingly.
“Denukabalization,” Donald muttered.
“Denuclearization?” MAGA hat said.
“Ah, yes. I remember now. I have been so busy, as you might imagine,” Kim’s hat said glibly.
John Bolton’s body dropped to his knees and the mustache began to gnaw on the Reliant desk angrily.
“Listen,” Donald said, leaning toward the phone, “I want a Nobel Peace Prize. How can we make this happen?”
“My Dear Head Host wants one as well,” Kim’s hat said. “He thinks it will make the ladies wild with lustful thoughts.”
“See?” Donald said to the hat and the hair. “I told you could we could make a deal with this guy.”
Is It Morally Acceptable to Make Peace With a Leader Like Kim Jong-un? …and other articles that would never have been written if Barack Omaba was still President from Slate Magazine!
The country has 1 million men under arms and some incredibly deadly rockets at its disposal—many of them aimed directly at its neighbor, South Korea. There is little doubt that any serious attempt to overthrow Kim Jong-un’s brutal regime would lead to one of the bloodiest wars in human history. For that reason, I am as glad as anyone that we are making some progress—uncertain as it is, and illusory though it may prove—toward a peace settlement.
And yet, I have also been disturbed by the ease with which virtually every participant in this debate ignores the immense suffering that a deal with Kim would likely perpetuate. North Korea’s 25 million residents live in a brutal totalitarian regime that impoverishes, intimidates, and humiliates its residents. The 100,000 inmates of the regime’s concentration camps have it incomprehensibly worse: The grotesque cruelty they suffer rivals just about any state-sponsored regiment of sadistic torture dreamed up in the long history of humanity.
All of which is to say something that should be both obvious and uncontroversial: By just about any moral standard, Kim is one of the world’s most reprehensible dictators. People who claim to disdain strongmen and care about human rights should at the very least feel queasy about the way in which the recent smiling photographs of him with other world leaders may help to legitimate his rule. Most importantly, they should feel disturbed that any rapprochement would condemn 25 million human beings to live under horrific circumstances for the foreseeable future.
And yet, this is a point barely anybody has bothered to make. Instead, the very same people who regularly denounce the U.S. government for maintaining friendly relations with the dictatorial rulers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, of China and Myanmar, are full-throatedly cheering the pictures of Moon Jae-in, the president of South Korea, shaking hands with Kim. In fact, the very same people who rightly keep a violin at the ready to lament the fate of any mistreated Tibetan or Palestinian seem strangely unmoved by the daily doses of death doled out in North Korean camps.
I pretty much abhor TDS talk, just like ODS talk before it and BDS before that. Given the scum that are in American politics, no criticism should ever be out of bounds, no blow should ever be too low. But this is just nuts. Slate is trying to out-Salon Salon here.
New Zealand adds prostitution to list of employment skills for would-be immigrants
Migrants hoping to start a new life in New Zealand can now add a new skill to their visa applications. Under a new plan, would-be immigrants can claim points as skilled sex workers and escorts.
The skill is regarded as providing social companionship in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) list.In order to meet the criteria of a highly qualified sex worker, would-be migrants will be expected to have ANZSCO skill level 5. The requirements issued by ANZSCO also include compulsory secondary education.However, applicants of ANZSCO level 5 cannot be classified as skilled unless their pay is more than NZ$36.44 (US$25.87) per hour, which is NZ$75,795 (US$53,818) per year based on a 40-hour week.
The applicants should also have relevant recognized qualifications or have at least three years of work experience in the relevant industry.
Despite the fact that escort and sex work are on the skilled employment list, there is no evident lack of them, as they are not included on the skill-shortage list.
N.J. school superintendent arrested, allegedly pooped at school track ‘on a daily basis’
Holmdel (N.J.) police have charged Kenilworth Public Schools Superintendent Thomas Tramaglini with relieving himself in public early Monday morning after school officials reported finding “daily” deposits of excrement by an athletic field.
Tramaglini, 42, a Matawan resident, was issued citations on Monday for public urination or defecation, discarding and dumping of litter, and lewdness, according to the state’s municipal court case database. Lewdness is a disorderly persons offense.
Holmdel High School staff and athletic coaches alerted a school resource officer “that they were finding human feces” at or near the track and football field “on a daily basis,” according to a Facebook post by township police.
“The SRO, along with school staff, monitored the area and was able to identify a subject responsible for the acts,” according to the post.
The alleged discharge of bodily waste occurred at 5:45 a.m. Monday.
Efforts to reach Tramaglini by phone and email were not successful.
The Night Pooper What Poops At Midnight will ever stop. Different names, different places, different sexes, different faces… but the pooper–and the poop–remains!
Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones
Federal investigators have wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for President Donald Trump who is under investigation for a payment he made to an adult film star who alleged she had an affair with Trump, according to two people with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.
It is not clear how long the wiretap has been authorized, but NBC News has learned it was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohen’s offices, hotel room, and home in early April, according to one person with direct knowledge.
At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, the person said.
I mean, let’s be honest… the odds are pretty high it was a crank call, right?
*****UPDATE*****
NBC has now retracted/updated the story. The FBI only had a pen register of calls, not recordings of calls.
Amazing pics of [REDACTED] with huge [REDACTED] that will definitely [REDACTED] your [REDACTED].
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1, 9*, 11, 13, 15, 16, 21, 22, 28**, 38, 49.
*Prize for most talented tits
**Cuz why not?
13 makes me think “Friday morning, Burbank to Vegas” (a.k.a., “the stripper flight”)
Have you seen the new sitcom LA To Vegas? It takes place on that flight.
I saw ads – is that still on? Decent sitcom premise – that flight is supposed to be ridiculous.
Cancel Bear says ‘LA to Vegas’ will probably be grounded
Sigh… I continue with my lifelong ability to be completely out of step with the tastes of the masses.
I’m there with ya–I really like the show, despite its pedigree.
It’s, IMO, a pretty strong ensemble piece: stripper (daughter of the Mayor of Calabasas), Eastern European professional gambler/bookmaker, British professor, catty cabin crew (blonde party girl and fussy, stern black gay), hypermasculine pilot, and sensitive co-pilot – hilarity ensues.
Also, 31 – freckles FTW
Hear ye!
Amazing pics off airplanes with huge engines that will definitely burst my eardrums??? *clicks furiously* (if you know what I mean)
Wow. Too many to make a coherent response on that lineup.
Originally read as: “Feds fapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s phones”
Are you saying they didn’t do that while tapping the phones?
No one physically tapped any wires.
/CNN
Actual phone tap pictured
GoPro arrived.
Of course the battery only has 7% charge (I’m surprised it wasn’t fully discharged to be honest) so I’m letting it charge up before testing it out.
The thing is even tinier than I expected.
That’s what she said?
Hooray! Regular model or Session model? It’s incredible how much those can do, either model.
The Hero (2018). I wanted to be able to review footage without hauling out the computer.
Dude, even the Session will stream to your phone over WiFi or Bluetooth. You can even do simple editing, like extract a clip, on a decent smartphone.
My phone makes and recieves phone calls. That’s it.
Oh, yeah, the second thing I liked was the removable batteries so that if I was spending a lot of time filing in any given spot I could swap out a spare instead of having to go plug the camera in. I’ve ended up having to do it with my Nikon and still photos, so I figured it was a distinct possibilty with video.
Yes, it literally took my four hours to remember that was a factor in my decision.
Tinnier or tiny-er? Or both?
It’s small. I’ve not recorded anything, so I can’t say how tinny it is.
I just offloaded my first video. I got the angle wrong, so most of the footage was of my hand instead of the object I was painting.
The biggest thing I noticed – 5min10sec was 1.1 GB off the camera.
I looked at GoPros today at Walmart, some were as low as about $115. Is that because they are older models? I have been sort of interested but not $3-400 interested. I have a fishing friend that has one, gets some great video clips that we incorporate into a fishing trip video.
I think it is, they have released new iterations a couple times. Mine was $200 for the explicitly 2018 model.
Thanks
It took me a couple of tries to finally get a video that mostly shows painting the object. (camera angles kept being off)
Now lets see if I can get the size down from 750mb to something sane.
*twiddles thumbs thile premiere elements extracts from archive*
Yes, I own software I almost never use. Doesn’t everyone?
Ugh, I forgot Premiere Elements was designed for people who don’t have a clue about audio/video encoding. I may not be an expert, but the editing software shouldn’t be fighting to hide the actual editing capabilities from me as the user.
*le sigh* At least it’s rendering now.
Okay People, here it is – the first video from my GoPro that actually showed what I was trying to film
Nice
Thank you. I know it’s not exactly the most scintillating content, but it was a process proof of concept, and a way to trick myself into making progress on the kitbash. That’s the second lion from the kitbash for the article I’m still putting together for the Glibs.
Technically, I believe that’s the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
Ahem.
I shouldn’t have tried to outpedant SF.
It was just a running joke from the Olden Days on TOS.
Re: the Slate article…
Slate, April 2, 2015 celebrating the Iranian nuclear deal: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2015/04/iranian_nuclear_deal_is_a_breakthrough_why_the_agreement_is_the_best_option.html
Headline” “The Deal of a Lifetime”
And, yes, I know two different authors neither of whom are Slate employees, but…
“Is It Morally Acceptable to Make Peace With a Leader Like Kim Jong-un”
Slate has finally found a communist regime that it won’t write an apologia for (unless, of course, Kim insults Trump again).
What gloriously stupid times we live in
The move to turn prostitution into a legal occupation was intended to safeguard sex workers’ human rights, and to protect them from exploitation. Today, New Zealand is known for offering the best working conditions for prostitutes.-
Good. There is enough suffering in the world
Although an evaluation of the act’s operation in 2008 demonstrated that the number of sex workers didn’t grow as a result of the legislation, the social stigma surrounding involvement in the sex industry persists.-
You mean to tell me if you legalize something, everyone isn’t required to engage in that activity?
But to tolerate something means you have to celebrate it.
/prog
Think of all the sheep this will save from rape and abuse.
Assumes facts not in evidence
Are you trying to say that New Zealanders are NOT sheep-fuckers? I think the burden of proof is on you.
Damn you! I should have checked to see what sick cretin had already made a Kiwi/Sheep joke before making my own tasteful Kiwi/Sheep joke.
Years ago there was an article about a guy who was doing sex work in Denmark and had to call the tax office hotline to figure out if his trip to Israel to visit a John was a deductible work expense* and the whole thing was a delightful window into a world without retarded rules about sex work.
*only part of it was
Just the tip?
*golf clap*
I think it was the hotel room, but not the flight. It’s been a few years though.
Ah wait, here’s the article.
/quote Henrik only paid 6,300 kroner ($1,090) in taxes, or 24.2 percent, because he was able to deduct 11,000 kroner ($1,900) for expenses, including his Macbook. He had sex with a client in Croatia when he was there on vacation, and when he returned, he called the tax authorities to ask if he could deduct the cost of the holiday. Flights yes, came the answer, hotel no.
Claim everything as tax-deductible, then hope you won’t be audited. That’s how I would do it.
And pay any proposed fines in kind?
Does the IRS accept prostitution as a form of payment?
They keep telling me to “Give me my money, bitch.” So sure.
I’m glad you answered my question before I could ask it.
Nice Misfits song. I once saw them in concert. But no Dio in the line-up at that time. SAD
Dio? Glenn haz a sad.
Dang it. Danzig, I mean, of course
Now I have Mother running through my head…
It’s sad that Dio wasn’t in the line up for a whole slew of bands he was never in, The beach boys para exemplar.
But without his solo career, they’d be no “Rainbow in the Dark” or “Holy Diver.”
No love for “Last in Line”?
All the love. Just the first two that popped into my head.
Saw Dio on the “Last in Line” tour in ’84. Twisted Sister opened. My ears have just about stopped ringing.
That sounds like a lot of fun.
I would love to see a series of “Dio joins “, with Ronnie adding his flavor to a different band each week.
I’m imagining him joining Boston and doing an evil version of “More than a Feeling”.
They’ve got an opening…
I think the Dio era of Black Sabbath was bad, but only in comparison to the Ozzy years. Nonetheless, I’ve never been enamored with Dio. I never understood the love for Dio
I don’t love Dio, musically, I just find him entertaining in a bombastic, insane way. Sorta like Danzig, really.
Yeah, but Danzig is pure evil.
Still sorry to see Dio go when he passed away
The urns by his tomb are awesome.
That voice had real power. Dio powering across Tony Iommi cords was pretty fucking amazing.
I knew almost nothing about him when I saw him in ’84. He did “Don’t Talk to Strangers” early in the set and I was amazed at The Voice. Towards the end he did Heaven and Hell – and I realized he was that guy. In the encore he did “Man on the Silver Mountain” and I nearly came in my pants.
I don’t think Technical Ecstasy was awful, but Heaven And Hell beats the living shit out of it.
Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Vol 4, and Master of Reality all beat Heaven And Hell
Yes, it could have been like Darryl’s House, but Dio’s house.
I saw Bobby Steele and The Undead play at the FSU student Union in the late 1990s and he still carries a bitter grudge. Sad.
Seeing them with Danzig in December was the single greatest night of my life. I’m only slightly exaggerating. Glenn is too damned funny, albeit not intentionally.
*applauds reference to The Tick*
^^^ Seconded.
Well done, Sug. I like the mustache.
“Paul washed his balls in the bathroom sink and squatted on the toilet. He was so full of shit is was almost half an hour until he realized there was no toilet paper, not even the cardboard and fish scale kind Europeans preferred. He slipped the Nobel Prize from around his neck and scraped his anus clean. He dropped it in the sink; the whore could lick it clean later.”
lol.
neither here nor there
-The Chinese are using military-grade lasers to blind US pilots in Djibouti. This isn’t going to end well.
-Russia cut military spending by 20%. That’s the biggest drop since 1991.
-The US intervened directly or indirectly in about 20 civil wars in the last 100 years. Pretty much the only happy ending was the Greek Civil war. And Greece isn’t doing so great these days. The Mexican civil war was an interesting case because the US started by supporting the govt and ended by supporting the rebels.
-I wonder if communism would have burned out faster if the US had just let them run wild. There’s no way the communists could have afforded to prop up dozens of satellite states.
“The Mexican civil war was an interesting case because the US started by supporting the govt and ended by supporting the rebels.”
If I’m right in my Mexican history, I believe it went: the US supported Madero against Diaz. Madero was killed and the US opposed Huerta who replaced Madero. Then the US supported the rebels against Huerta which eventually led to Caranza seizing power. Then the US turned against the rebels who wanted to oust Caranza and basically said “enough”.
The US record in the Mexican Revolution is actually not that bad.
What with all the weed and butt sex.
No good would have come of it if we had lost the whole Korean Peninsula. Arguable whether or not South Vietnam would have survived if we had backed them a few more year, but it did buy Thailand time to develop.
Hard to tell if the South American commies were as serious as their Asian brothers. The Shining Path were real fucks and I was glad to see them killed off.
Maybe would have burnt itself out sooner but cover a larger area. Not sure what that would have done to the body count.
Here is the breakdown as I see it:
Win: Greece,
Partial win: Korea, Bosnia, Mexico
Clusterfuck: Haiti, Somalia, Lebanon, Syria, Ethiopia, Angola, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, DR Congo, Iraq, Sudan, El Salvador
Loss: Russia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Cuba, China, Nicaragua
This is just for civil wars. The list for all foreign interventions is longer.
What about Columbia? Can we call it a win?
Eh, OK, but it took a long time.
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/us-intervention-helped-turn-the-tide-in-colombia-1.429875
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With U.S. backing, the Colombian government launched a scorched-earth counteroffensive against the FARC’s rural strongholds after President Álvaro Uribe was elected in 2002. Government troops were often followed by right-wing militias that targeted suspected rebel sympathizers and massacred civilians. More Colombians were driven from their homes during the first stages of Plan Colombia than at any other time in the half-century conflict.
In the aftermath of the Cold War, when Plan Colombia was hatched, revelations of atrocities committed by Guatemala’s genocidal military and the U.S.-backed government of El Salvador had stigmatized the idea of U.S. military intervention in Latin America. So the plan’s promoters advertised it primarily as a counternarcotics program.
A decade and a half later, its anti-drug record is mixed. After years of falling output, Colombian farmers are growing as much illegal coca today as when the American aid package was conceived in 1998.
***
Second your list, but I’d call El Salvador a qualified win and Libya an outright loss.
Grenada in the win column too?
Maybe he was just protesting how shitty the Athletic teams were?
I think we finally found out what happened to Sandi.
*prolonged ovation*
Wow. The spinning by Slate is pretty amazing. This TDS is crossing the Rubicon. Into what I’m not sure.
Mindless totalitarianism and war for lolz?
Oh wait, I think we’re already down that road, Trump or no Trump
True story:
I was enlisted in the nat’l guard while I went through college. I had a BC I really couldn’t stand, super gung-ho, crew cut, stereotypical jock type, I mean the whole nine yards. Just a caricature of a high school football retard from an 80’s movie who happens to make it to light colonel.
So turns out while I was working in the 1 shop one day I filed some paperwork that had his local address on it, and it turns out it was only like 2 miles from my apartment. So I altered my jogging route to go by his place. I was out running late one night, needed to poop, and so ran up onto his porch, dropped my PTs, and dropped a deuce right there on his welcome mat.
At formation the next time I had drill, it was everything I could do to bite my bottom lip and not just burst out laughing as he he strutted self-importantly up and down in front of us yelling his stupid cliched slogans.
OMG. You’re a scene out of a movie onto yourself!
I wish I had the balls to shit at someone’s front door….as they watch unsure what to do.
Oh I wouldn’t have dared if the dude was watching, I don’t claim to be that brave. This was like at 1 am, and I figured him for the type to always be in bed early in order to get up at 4:30 when he doesn’t need to because he read somewhere that’s what successful people are supposed to do.
But imagine being that brave!
I’m Chester to your Spike.
Our barracks in Okinawa was pretty nice for enlisted. We were a pretty small squadron and we all got our own room. There was a sergeant on the second floor who worked had transferred from the infantry to some admin job and then been posted to our squadron. He was a complete tool who thought that he was the only “real” Marine in the squadron.
One day he left his door open and one of my running buddies took a shit on a paper plate and then unscrewed the cover to the air conditioning duct and shoved the turd way back in there. Then replaced the cover. It was fantastic watching this jerk try to figure out where the stench in his room was coming from.
His main problem was that there were so many suspects he couldn’t even figure out who to squeeze for an answer to why his room stunk to high heaven.
BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA….I can think of a few guys in Oki I would have loved to see that happen to.
Were you at Futenma?
Exactly. Spent 87 to 88 there.
DAMMIT, I’LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I WORKED REALLY HARD TO…
Oh, wait, not me…
Dave Marinaccio 4 hours ago
If Obama was this successful negotiating with North Korea, SLATE would be so excited you would be wetting yourselves. Instead you have twisted yourselves into a pretzel trying to turn a major victory by President Trump into a moral failure. Just be honest and give the president his due.
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@Dave Marinaccio You’ve turned the truth on its head by claiming a non-existent agreement is evidence of a “major victory by President Trump”.
I think this is what the left are gonna go with.
What peace? Who? Trump? No.
To be fair, 90% of the comments are calling out the author and saying of course making peace is the right thing to do.
Reading the comments at Slate and Salon often make me feel better, because their readers, who one would expect to be fairly liberal people, frequently call out the hyperbole & bullshit from the authors. We tend to read the headlines and think, “OMG this is what all leftists actually believe!”, but it isn’t. It’s what hardcore Slate and Salon writers actually believe…will generate more clicks & a paycheck. The commenters are much more middle-left, and I believe they represent a better cross-section of that demo than just judging by the authors.
Remember that, “ZOMG, Texas just de-regulated eyebrow threading and now everyone is going to DDDIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!!” article from some years back? Literally every one of the comments was roasting it, usually with some variation of, “I’m a left-democrat, but holy shit this is ridiculous.”
I’ve noticed that dichotomy for a while now. Prog writers print hyper shit and the comments are like, wtf?’ I noticed that on Yahoo! too. I mention that because there are a lot of ‘mainstream’ people who comment there. I see that at The Atlantic and other publications as well. Only the NYT comments faithful drink Krugman’s and Friedman’s cum. And how Dowd and Brooks are remotely seen as intelligent punditry is beyond me. ‘Bravo Maureen! Why don’t these peons get it?’
You’re right, I have noticed the NYT comments seem to be the only ones to always back the author to the hilt. I think it’s because they couch their bullshit is much more reasonable-sounding language and don’t spew nearly as much hyperbole in their choice of word usage, even if the ideas are equally as stupid.
But I think it would behoove all of us to remember from time to time that just because some hack publishes something on a website, it is not necessarily, or even usually, representative of what that entire demo thinks on the subject, and angling for more clicks via hate-sharing is a real business strategy for a lot of these types.
Wait. So you mean that some stupid opinion published at, for example Reason, doeant represent the opinion of the commentariat? Why, one would expect the comments section to be filled with derision and snark!
I actually find this to be disturbing. The hardcore types in journalism are pushing the Overton window ever leftward. Meanwhile on the ‘right’ and libertarian sites the journalists are all trying to appear as moderate as possible and to pull their readers toward the center. Witness TOS of the past 2 years.
Well they don’t want anyone shitting at the door step at 1am.
How about at high noon?
WaPo comments as well. Totally unhinged.
I pretty much abhor TDS talk, just like ODS talk before it and BDS before that. Given the scum that are in American politics, no criticism should ever be out of bounds, no blow should ever be too low.
I don’t agree. And it’s much more in the name of what I have to hear, rather than on behalf of the poor dears who are the target of hatred. I think what the entire “derangement syndrome” thing gets at is that the haters wind up losing their own minds in the process of hatred. They wind up believing shit (“Bush was behind 9/11”, “Obama is from Kenya”) that they wouldn’t buy into for a minute if it wasn’t about the target of their hatred. Similarly, they wind up throwing out principles that they claimed for years, just to stick it to “those guys”. As a result, the public conversation winds up starting to sound, well, retarded.
But it is also just a short-hand to thinking about arguments. I’m generally against anything that makes it easier to be dumber.
Fair enough. Sad that it’s a trade off between stupid and crazy.
I’m kind of middle of the road on this. I agree that politicians can and should be criticized in the strongest terms. However, I think some people do get deranged in that they will bend reality to meet their preconceived opinion. The media does this with Trump pretty much all the time (and many conservative outlets did it with Obama); their starting premise is that Trump is literally worse than Hitler, his motives and actions are always evil and he hates everyone that isn’t a straight, white, hetero male. They will then twist facts and report in such a way that confirms this bias. That, to me, is deranged.
And Obama was literally worst than JJ.
worse
Abrams? I mean…he can be kind of a poon, but, he’s been involved in some entertaining projects.
O, on the other hand….
Highly skilled New Zealand whores are $25/hour?
Flight to New Zealand is $2300, figuring hotel room and meals, I’d have to receive… sixteen hours of services to come out ahead of using local talent.
I really can’t afford NOT to.
What constitutes being “highly skilled”? More importantly, who gets to make that assessment?
“All right miss, we have reviewed your application for ANZSCO skill level 5 certification. While you are a good candidate, we do note a few areas that need to be shored up. Fortunately, I am available for tutoring to bring your skills up to the standard…”
Being an immigration bureaucrat just got more interesting.
Indeed – “you _say_ you have level 5 skills, but we require a practical exam…”
“New Zealand adds prostitution to list of employment skills for would-be immigrants”
Uffda. I’m assuming this means that they aim to make sheep full citizens. Will we never be free of this animal rights silliness?
I like yours better.
KEEP YOUR FILTHY PAWS OFF MY SHEEP YOU DAMN DIRTY APE!
Wait. Oh my sheep joke? Oh in that case *blushes* thanks!
@SF:
I’ve got a mockup of your card if you can see it in the review queue.
I’ll go take a look. 🙂
Squamous and rugose. I approve.
To provide CPR to a thread from this morning re: screeching of enviro-weenies over tires. Since Ive spent the better part of 2 decades conducting air emission test projects (mostly for state and federal compliance demonstrations), I can confidently say that torching the things in a cement kiln is likely the ideal way to get rid of them, other than “re-purposed” as asphalt filler, playground chunks, etc. The rubber in tires provides heat content approx. 14,000 BTU/lb, compared to ~13K for anthracite coal and the better blends of bituminous. The trick in burning them is being able to prove the 3-T’s (the Holy Trinity of Combustion design): time, temperature, and turbulence. Essentially, you want the gases produced by combustion to have plenty of TIME in the chamber, the appropriate TEMPERATURE (hotter isnt always better) for proper combustion, and TURBULENCE of the gases so when they mix, swill, sqaure-dance, or w/e around your combustion chamber, the combination of all three insures complete combustion. In the case of a portland cement kiln (not too long ago I participated in an emissions test for Nevada Cement in Fernley, NV), the entire process moves from combustion of the tire as a fuel source into incineration of the resulting gases. When proven combustion practices are employed, its a far better alternative than trying to landfill the things. Or making mosquito homes. Or a Mandela Necklace. Id be happy to continue on ad nauseum someday if anyone is ever that bored.
I’ll bite – why isn’t that widespread? I could hazard a guess… I’ve fairly high-confidence the answer will anger me.
There’s only so many portland cement kilns across the country, and any time someone proposes an idea like, “HEY! Instead of landfilling this shit, or the ever-so-brilliant “deep-well-injection” (used for all degree of really nasty things), why dont we BURN it here, capitalize on the free (or low cost) BTUs and nobody has to look at it” the SierraClub-types come out of the woodwork and protest everything about it, yelling that Mother Gaia is weeping over the potential loss of the Western Spotted Snowy Owl Darter Weasel. Also, since the state and local EPA’s are staffed to the rafters with their fellow travelers, they can make the permitting aspect process the punishment.
That’s my quick $0.02. In reality, tires are really stubborn bastards, and dont easily lend themselves to being not-dirty fuel sources. So the capital investment on the part of the burn-er can be significant just in planning, engineering, testing, etc. So that coupled with the headache factor of the crew of Sea Shepherd having a vegan BBQ outside your gate while they sing Peter, Paul, and Mary songs makes many companies say, “Meh….fuck it.”
Also, tire burning isnt a new concept at all. I worked with Ford when they tried introducing shredded tired into their blast furnaces at the (former) Cleveland Casting works, Champion Paper tried a similar project with their PC boilers. And locally, our resident portland cement kiln in Fairborn, OH.
I just did a quick search and found this gem from 1976:
http://www.seas.columbia.edu/earth/wtert/sofos/nawtec/1976-National-Waste-Processing-Conference/1976-National-Waste-Processing-Conference-27.pdf
My Beer Guy Gifted me a sixer of Bud freedom Reserve, it’s a Red Ale, I’ll report back,
Sup Tres!
double-deuce Keystone Lights!
Hey Yufus!
I posted on this morning’s thread re: Denmark’s program and link to co-gen.
https://stateofgreen.com/en/sectors/heating-and-cooling/waste-to-energy
Thanks; the first part conforms to my expectations and the second part is understandable.
Are fluidized bed combustors a thing any more?
Oh yeah. Particularly for municipal power generation. The distinct advantage to a FBC boiler is that you can use limestone as a bed material which allows you to burn high-sulfur (cheap) coal, since the SO2 reduction takes place in the furnace. You end up with Calcium Sulfate, aka synthetic gypsum, aka SynGyp which wallboard manufacturers like Lafarge and Celotex will gladly take off your hands. And now you know where your wallboard mostly comes from.
As an aside- FBC also allows a much finer control over combustion air. Reducing excess air can result in markedly lower NOx emissions, which are always a pain in everyone’s ass.
Dude, start a blog or write some articles. I’d read them.
For some masochistic reason, I enjoy reading about the intersection between science, industry, and regulation.
Yeah. We yammer about theory and news stories all the time, but it’s always great when someone has some knowledgeable, first-hand experience to add
Gotta measure a cat’s tail starting at the butthole- gotta measure pollution right from the source!
https://postimg.cc/image/6g7b3z2y7/
Hmmm… articles you say? If there was only some sort of libertarian website handy, that would gladly post them…
I thought about submitting an essay, but I was afraid Robbie wouldnt understand any of it.
*ducks & covers*
In my youth I had a job picking up used tires from all the Peerless Tires stores along the front range, then transporting them out east to a yard where they would be sorted for different uses. God what a filthy job that was.
Migrants hoping to start a new life in New Zealand can now add a new skill to their visa applications. Under a new plan, would-be immigrants can claim points as skilled sex workers and escorts.
The skill is regarded as providing social companionship in the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) list.
reminds me of
Tell ’em send us hoors ! Tousands and tousands of hoors ! I marry ’em, I betcha!” Was most sensible remark all afternoon. From the Luna Free State Constitutional Convention Minutes
What did I miss?
https://twitter.com/normative/status/992118676924063746
The Feds may have something ‘yuge’ to justify wiretapping the president’s lawyer’s phone line. The one thing that makes me suspicious is that this whole investigation has been exceptionally leaky and yet no purported crime has leaked. I think the libertarians who chased down Russia fever dreams are started to realize that if nothing turns up they’ll have absolutely no credibility with their readership.
Julian Sanchez has gone balls-to-the-wall all in on Russia fever dreams to the point of chastising Rand Paul for suggesting that there should be an investigation of the intelligence community and the FISA process. But, his Tweet here is cute. He honestly thinks that attaining a warrant to wiretap the president’s lawyer will somehow hurt the job prospects of these people.
Book mark this Tweet, because I’m afraid it is not going to “age well” as they say
Yah, second reply nails it “I wish I believed there’d be any accountability.”
If we come away from this nearly two year investigation with nothing more than a campaign violation related to the Stormy Daniels affair when we were promised the wackiest of Russia fever dreams, it is going to be absolutely terrible for the country. But, I fully expect absolutely no consequences for those who propagated a conspiracy theory in the media and those who justified every questionable action by the FBI among the so called “civil libertarians”
If that’s it and they continue to pursue it, it will guarantee a Trump 2020 win.
The deplorables are noticing that Clinton has not been held legally accountable for anything.
I think Trump winning re-election will be the least of anyone’s concern if this investigation turns up nothing.
Nothing’s what we’re going to get because this Russian nonsense is a delusional fantasy.
Even if no one gets fired, thrown in jail or tarred and feathered in the public square, the 18 months since Trump got elected have:
1) Shredded, liquefied, incinerated, buried and launched into the Sun the MSM’s credibility
2) Ditto for the FBI
3) Demonstrated that the permanent bureaucracy is as venal and corrupt as any Banana Republic
4) Exposed the judiciary as partisan hacks that will selectively apply the law based on which party is in power
5) Caused Hollywood and Academia to utterly beclown themselves
6) Gotten more people than ever to finally realize that our cultural and governmental elites have no clothes
For all those reasons, we should thank Trump, buffoon that he is.
I said for a long time during the Obama years that something had to give: it gave.
And the consequences will not be enjoyable
Out of curiosity what do you see the consequences being?
Violent clashes at polling booths and an insistence from conservatives that their side respond in kind. If this whole thing comes up with nothing then it will be pretty obvious that this was a concerted attempt by a permanent bureaucracy and the previous administration to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
You mean the left will initiate violence? I’d think most libs would let it go for the most part because they see Mueller as their boy.
They’d initiate violence if “Nazis” show up in any kind of organized fashion to vote. A few clashes at polling places between Proud Boys and Antifa goons could easily blow up into a bigger problem.
Thinking about it, I don’t see that as too unlikely either. Their philosophy hinges on “deplatforming” people with whom they disagree. If they believe that particular groups shouldn’t have freedom of speech, it’s a certainty that they believe same groups shouldn’t have the franchise either.
“You mean the left will initiate violence?”
I think this is very possible if the investigation turns up nothing. Here’s how I see the thinking of the “average” prog (and I include here highly educated people because I hear this all the time from people I work with):
1. Russia hacked (whatever that means) the election causing Trump to appear to have won.
2. The FBI undermined Hilary’s election via Comey’s re-opening of the e-mail probe (in reality, Comey’s re-investigation was designed to help Hilary).
3. The media worked hard to elect Trump and undermine Hilary (yes, people really believe this).
4. The “establishment” – made up mostly of white men – did everything it could to stop the first woman president.
Furthermore, I’m not sure how the Democrat leadership lets go of this. Some of them think it’s true, but those who don’t must be terrified of what might happen to them if they publicly admit it was all BS. So, I don’t think late Weimar Germany, but I can see prog activists putting together demonstrations near polling booth to intimidate people.
“they’ll have absolutely no credibility with their readership”
They crossed that line when most mainstream “libertarians” became progressives.
I don’t understand what something “yuge” could possibly be. How could Trump and Putin collude on the election? Facebook ads?
I guess maybe they’d have their smoking gun if a hot mic caught Trump whispering to Putin that he’d “have more flexibility after the election”.
I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt here. I am holding out hope that there wouldn’t be so many careless people in power to allow such a blatantly extreme action unless there was due cause. I know it’s naive, but we have entered some pretty treacherous waters at this point
Unfortunately, I think we’ve already crossed the Rubicon. Unless a whole lot of very powerful people start getting lengthy prison sentences for this farce, the Republic is on life support. Obama made a habit out of pushing the envelope *just that much* to see how much pushback he got. Every time nothing happened, he pushed a little further. The permanent bureaucracy saw this, realized no one would do anything to stop them, and proceeded to put together a nice little coup.
I’ve been saying for a while that, while still unlikely, the longer this shit goes on and no one is punished, the closer we get to an actual, no shit civil war.
I hope you’re wrong
Me too.
That comment was more evidence of collusion than what we’re seeing now from Mueller.
Bill Ayers is a piece of shit.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/05/03/holy-hell-bill-ayers-puts-straight-up-insane-spin-on-his-terrorist-career/
TW: Twitchy
Ayers is a rich kid idiot, but how can Twitchy not know what was the first picture?
Can anyone tell me what the historical significance of May Day is (as in, why that day was chosen by socialists) and how it relates to Chicago?
It was more the “I served honorably in the struggle against war, for peace and justice” line that stands out.
Yeah, I got that. Ayers wasn’t part of any “anti-war” movement. He was part of a clique of rich kids that wanted to kill people to show how upset they were with the war.
“I don’t care for this senseless killing, so let’s go kill people” is a pretty nonsensical take
He wasn’t anti-war. He was pro-VC and NVA. He was literally fighting the US in the hopes of a communist revolution. He and his pals were good enough to write it out for posterity. It was the Prairie Fire Manifesto.
Putting a good spin on that asshole and his crew is one of the left’s greatest triumphs.
If only other antifa commie scum could have the good graces to accidentally blow themselves up.
Larry Grathwohl, Weathermen informant:
Eddie can tell you.
Son-of-a-bitch. And I even commented on that story. Yet, I don’t remember the article.
Anyways, that was a picture of the “Haymarket Martyrs” that are buried in a suburban cemetery. Emma Goldman had her ashes scattered there as well, I believe.
Lay off the rubber cement huffing.
NEVER
I only remember it because I did the formatting and photo-adding for it and had to track down the dapper Louis Lingg photo that I’d seen years before on My Daguerreotype Boyfriend. I don’t know if My Tintype Girlfriend is related, but I know some of you inexplicably prefer pictures of women, so I’ll include a link.
SFW?
Yep. They’re both collections of proto-photographs of attractive people who have long since been turned back to dust and bone by the merciless march of time.
19th century porn. Niiiiiice…..
Proto? I should beat you with my cane!
Proto? I should beat you with my cane!
God damn it. I knew this was going to happen. I’m not going to apologize for using incorrect terminology instead of burying the central piece of information I was hoping to convey in technical correctness.
Your words have done violence to me.
Your words have done violence to me.
I’m just surprised that it took until Wednesday for us to get here, Sug.
It’s Thursday, you monster!
It’s Thursday, you monster!
*puts head back on desk*
Sorry, Arsenhole.
“regiment”
“legitimate”
Don’t they have editors at Slate?
I couldn’t be around for my recipe I had to [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. But I hope you all enjoyed it. Also, I’ve been given a site promotion and can now mark your comments as spam! Beware!
There are promotions?
You mean I could have been brownnosing my way to omnipotence all this time?
Seriously. I bring in all this adult entertainment and what kind of thanks do I get!
Our salutes.
and what kind of thanks do I get!
Have you been run through with a halberd yet? Fed to pythons?
“Did he have hands? Did he have a face? Yes? Then it wasn’t us. “
I prefer lampreys thank you very much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedius_Pollio
Oh man, this is the perfect place to post a link to the “Promotions!” page on 1d4chan, but my stupid work has blocked that site. Now I hate you for giving me posting blue-balls.
Aren’t you months overdue for a movie review? I loved your reviews and rating system. More than once my wife asked what I was laughing at.
TWITTER USERS: apparently 330m passwords were stored in a plaintext log or something
Y’all might want to change ’em.
Another guy at my company had the same first and last name as me and we’d often get each other’s emails. I’d pass the IT stuff to him and he’d send on the radar stuff to me.
One day i got an “Here’s the data you asked for” email with an attached spreadsheet. I opened the spreadsheet and it was pages of employee names with employee #s and system passwords.
I forwarded the email (without the attachment )” and said “you might want to have a talk with this person.
I recently played the newer “Deus Ex” game. Apparently all anyone does in that universe is send each other their updated passwords in regular emai
We had a thing where one of the higher muckety mucks at work was coordinating a project and we needed to send sensitive information to them. I asked if we had the appropriate contracts to legally allow us to send that kind of information to them. Muckety Muck had no idea (we did, but they’d never been sent to me or any of the other salient people). So I sent the data in a heavily encrypted parcel. He told the third party that I’d “emailed [him] the csv with the information they’d asked for” and they plotzed (I’m sure that your data handling is completely compliant, but…) at the idea that someone send it plain text. I explained how embarrassing it was and his daft response was “she said she was sure it was compliant”!
Later he managed to email a password related to the project alongside the link to the data cache and we had scrub a bunch of shit and start over. I get not understanding data security, but it seems like a failure of common sense at that point.
News media are crowing about this as a “Data breach”
Meh, probably not. I don’t use Twitter, so I don’t really care about the potential of a breach there, but I appreciate them being direct about it.
Unless the “data breach” results in the thing being burned to the ground by angry peasants, I’m not sure it matters.
I mean if Trump reused the same password for Twitter and the nuclear football it just might.
“iVaNkA”
Rogaine4^
To provide CPR to a thread from this morning re: screeching of enviro-weenies over tires. Since Ive spent the better part of 2 decades conducting air emission test projects (mostly for state and federal compliance demonstrations), I can confidently say that torching the things in a cement kiln is likely the ideal way to get rid of them, other than “re-purposed” as asphalt filler, playground chunks, etc.
Tres- Nice. Thanks for that.
I did some research about burning tires as fuel, at some point back when, and what I remembered was mostly what you added, except I thought it was actually, “the hotter the better”. I definitely remember it had to be a prolonged complete burn, because incomplete combustion (like from a burning tire dump) is really really dirty.
“hotter the better” can be a design, but with tires due to the ash content of the rubber and the metals in the belts, you can generate slagging issues in your furnace. Which is why it would be far easier to sit down with a clean piece of graph-paper and design a sole-use tire-burner from scratch than to (generally) try to force existing combustors to cope with them. At least that’s been my experience.
I just tests em- I doesn’t builds em!
I just tests em- I doesn’t builds em!
I yam what I yam!
In fact all those dirty coal plants you mammals seem fond of are quite adept at burning tires, so much so that local trash incinerators sued them under some monopoly related reason
There’s “burning tires” and then there’s burning-fuckin-tires, when looked at as a percentage of tire/fuel blend. Nobody (that I know of) burns tires exclusively; they’re generally shredded and blended into whatever solid-fuel the combustor is designed for. So say you’re Tennessee Valley Authority, and you have a 500MW steam plant. As a rule, you’ll go through about 58tons-coal/hour to make 100MW. So you’re gonna need (5 x 58) = 290 tons/hour for a unit that size. If you have a method to successfully (cleanly!) substitute just 5% of your coal with shredded tires, thats….uhhh…..14.5 tons of tires. Hourly.
Now if you’re Mr. Municipal Waste Incinerator operator, and you have your plant set-up to burn tire-heavy and perhaps run a little heat recovery boiler that maybe generates power for your crappy plant, and Big Power is taking your fuel away….it could get pissy. Kinda how all the grease haulers got their panties in a wad when oil went over $100/bbl and people were stealing restaurant grease to home-brew BioDiesel.
That’s Willy’s retirement grease!
Not so fast, boyo. Well, if it was up to me, I’d let you go…
*bares fists*
…but the lads have a temper, and they’ve been drinking all day!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-the-state-condemns-a-disabled-child-to-death/2018/05/01/58dd659a-4d56-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.42e2724a3ec3
WaPo with a good take on the state forced murder of the boy in the UK
I don’t see where the Force was used, they just did it,
And I don’t mean SW
Yet, the very next issue they’ll argue vociferously in favor of Single Payer healthcare. How can these people’s heads not explode from cognitive dissonance?
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/
Jesus Christ the retards commenting in favor of it.
I can understand a reasoned defense of refusing to continue expensive treatment for a child with no chance of ever regaining consciousness or living without critical life support. I could certainly understand some compassion for a difficult choice a parent would need to make in that circumstance. But in this and the Charlie Gard situation, with alternative care away from the UK made available to the family gratis, there’s just no excuse for the frankly criminal way in which their government behaved. There was no reason other than bureaucratic spite to let it play out that way. It’s disgusting.
I’m not sure that’s fair. I don’t agree with the decision, but there was an ethical argument being made that it was in the child’s best interest to just let him go and end possible suffering.
That was the hook: that it was in the child’s best interest to be allowed to die peacefully.
I understand the arguments on the other side and agree, but to paint the British government as monstrous is unfair.
Granted. And I could see a further plea for humanity in suggesting it’s past time the parents give up on their baby’s consciousness, and take to grieving. That’s an unfortunate but necessary road they’ll need to walk.
It’s monstrous to gainsay the parents when the offer does not encumber the NHS, and the parents wish to take their chances.
Sure, unless the State is right and the child is suffering, which was the argument.
To be clear, I agree with you and think it was the parents’ decision to make, I’m just saying the other side isn’t evil; they were acting according to their ethics.
It wasn’t the State’s decision to make. Period. That is the problem here, not the actual decision reached, but the fact that Leviathan has claimed ownership of the child.
The problem with playing devil’s advocate is that one always ends up advocating for the devil.
If the parents were keeping doctors from administrating a cure for religious reasons, would the state be right to step in? What if the parents were unnecessarily dosing the child with psychotropic drugs? The position of the state seems to be that the child would suffer needlessly if the parents took hin to Italy.
Her-ro
HANS BRIX!
*****UPDATE*****
NBC has now retracted/updated the story. The FBI only had a pen register of calls, not recordings of calls.
“Uh, yeah, just a pen register. Our NSA buddies _definitely_ didn’t give us recordings”
Yeah, I don’t believe a damn thing they say anymore either.
Which is utterly meaningless.
So people in the White House talked to Cohen? He has been Trump’s good friend and lawyer for a long time. This is not news.
At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was logged, the person said.
Truly earthshattering.
That’s a pretty big fuckup on NBC’s part.
And nothing else happened.
Yet we’re supposed to believe them.
You’ll have to be more specific.
DU is erupting with ALLCAPS as we speak.
The FBI only had a pen register of calls, not recordings of calls.
The penis mightier.
Budweiser Freedom Reserve Red Ale
https://photos.app.goo.gl/RziubecWWdooLIfF2
Based on George Washington’s recipe from 1757
Tastes like a malty Bud, some Sweetness but not too much,
Heavier than Bud, but not as heavy as some IPAs out there,
I got this for free from my Beer Guy, it’s 10$/ 6 pack normal
I like it, 3.5/5
“Any beer is better than no beer, and free beer is always the best beer.” -Tres Sr.
FUCK FINE I’LL GO GET A BEER.
You deserve one….
I don’t, but I’m having one or three anyway.
i got’s my 4×25 Cobras, I’m savin um whilst I enjoy these Red gems, they are Free, and Sr. Is a Wise and Honorable Man
“Unless it’s Milwaukee’s Best”
-Me
Even then you have a Dog right? Dogs love Beer except they Fart Nasty
I dunno….if you’re low on funds, the Milwaukee’s Beast Ice at 5.9ABV will get you where you need to be.
Cobra 25 oz/6% abv 1.25$ not bad….
Come on people! I’m 50 and I remember college drinking. Maximum BAC/$ is found in no name vodka or rum in the 1.75 l. size.
*Shuddering at memories of Kamchatka mixed with Tang powder*
You need a Brita for your cheap vodka
I made a beer based off a GW recipe and it was nothing like that.
Like What?
a malty Bud
Free beer that’s my favorite brand.
Dear Don Blankenship:
Stop making me take sides with Mitch McConnell, you felonious piece of shit.
Love and kisses,
JB.
Amen. I’m not curious about the Blankenship story, but he needs to GTFO of this race.
Does he realize WV and KY are separate states?
The GOP sees the WV race as a good chance to take out Manchin and gain a seat. The GOP is (rightfully) scared of Blankenship taking the nomination and Roy Moore-ing the seat away, so McConnell’s PAC has been spending against Blankenship. Blankenship, who’s a felonious moron, has responded … well, not too well. But there is a reason he’s swinging at McConnell.
I assume there’s somebody in the primary against Blankenship?
He ain’t no Basil Marceaux.
Is it bad that the message I took from reading that was “there seems to be a lot of asian woman in W. Va. Who knew?”
Is there a reason he uses the word “China” instead of “Chinese”?
yes
This
You meant this, right?
Tres Cool,
That jointer from the other night found a home in Tennessee (the seller delivered it, WTF), so I won’t need any help. Thanks for the offer, though.
Sadly, you’ll have to work out your own supply of ass, weed and Coors.
“there’s gonna be dancin, drinkin, fightin, and fuckin!”
“Sounds like fun- what should I wear?”
“Doesnt matter, its only going to be me & you”
One of my brother’s creepy lines. “You wanna come party? There’s gonna be fightin’, fartin’, and fuckin’, and you’re the only one invited.”
And in a drunk redneck voice with an affected verbal tick: “Come’re, son. (tick tick tick) Why don’ you sit on m’lap an’ show yer papa how you kiss mama’s mouth.”
Ewwwwwww……
He pops off with shit like that all the time, but he shocked himself with that one. And the voice and tick is so good, makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
And yet, I have also been very disturbed at the with which…
GFY with some tree bark kimchee, Slate.
Also, camping with a group of city people sucks. I’d rather be in a UN camp.
At least you’d get laid more often…
Oof. That’s dirty.
Filed under “Are You Effing Kidding Me?”
http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/02/bill-weld-lays-groundwork-for-2020-liber
“After announcing last November that “I’m going to stay L.P.” and declaring the party “perfectly positioned to fill what’s a growing need in the country,” Weld is now openly laying the groundwork for a 2020 presidential campaign. The only question is whether he’ll be the one running.”
I saw that and purposely ignored it. Just covering my ears and chanting “I can’t hear you”.
Something happened yesterday that fucked up monocle Eyepiece on my phone. Anybody else having the same problem? Can’t tell if it’s ae issue or a site issue.
Nvm, reinstalled and fixed it.
I want to thank BrettL (I pronounce that like it rhymes with Gretl) for noticing and applauding my one-liner in the a.m. I was proud of it, myself.
Wouldn’t hold it against ya if you reposted it. Don’t get coy on us now.
I was a reply to another post, so the context is lost if I just post it on its own.
My Ma would have been proud at my wordplay, even if she had no idea what a hadron is.
First time I saw that, it was a seminar notice (must have been 1980?). “Hardon Excitations and the SLAC Bag” presented by Feyn Dickman.
Oh, that comment.
The hadron joke was excellent, KK.
Rideshare for the skies? I’m intrigued.
There are some services like that already. They’re prohibitively expensive. The push to deregulate would have to be a big one. The FAA has priced the average American out of private aviation.
I always find it interesting, reading Atlas Shrugged, that Rand clearly envisioned airplanes being more like cars, and access to general aviation being very open.
Always? Has anyone read Atlas Shrugged more than once?
In my teens and 20’s, I probably read it 5-6 times. Sometimes I would read bits and pieces, like when Dagny and Hank discovered Galt’s motor, or the airplane chase scene, or the train wreck scene. There’s some decent stuff in there.
Yeah, John Galt’s speech is awesome. I reread it all the time!
Seriously someone should edit Atlas Shrugged and replace the speech with ” I own me, you own you. Fuck off slavers”
I think I enjoyed The Jungle so much because it reminded me of Atlas Shrugged, right down to the long-ass rambling hero monologue.
I think I enjoyed The Jungle so much because it reminded me of Atlas Shrugged, right down to the long-ass rambling hero monologue.
Notice I did not mention that part. That was deliberate. No one has ever read the whole speech from beginning to end in the history of history.
I gave up on the speech after something like 5 pages. A worthwhile book but subtle it ain’t.
Rand has climbed out of her grave and is coming to your house right now to beat you down for comparing her to Upton Sinclair. Zombie Rand is Angry!
What the fracking frack???? Do we have….hamsters?
It was the whole universe lurching sideways at the juxtaposition of the gateway novels for libertarianism and nannystatism in your post.
I read the Whole Speach, But I like to read long winded things,….
“I read the Whole Speach, But I like to read long winded things,….”
Bassoons for Dummies?
You read it 5 or 6 times? Wow. I believe my thoughts on Ayn Rand have been well advertised. Sufice it to say she needed an editor even more than Stephen King. Your pain threshold is admirable.
Not going to happen. The major airlines would fight it tooth and nail. Not because they can’t handle the competition, but because they absolutely hate sharing airports with small operators.
This was the first one I saw (rejected)
https://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/TAYLOR_031_xml417181254585458.pdf
That amendment is clearer but opens up the old “call Bill, he will fly you anywhere”.. sure, you “share” the expense.. $1 from Bill the rest from you.. it doesn’t include the current “pro rata” requirement. Those sort of operations are what started part 135.
Why is the porportion paid by each party anybody else’s business?
“Listen here, you little felt spunk cup…”
That’s literary gold, right there.
I’ve never seen the fat kid wear a hat though…
He seems to have three. one to make him look like a Russian, one to make him look like a leader from Tropico, one to make him look like an incel.
That second one is hilarious. My guess is that whoever told him to wear that hat had his whole family fed to the pigs.
I see a future Walmart fashion line. Add one with a holder for two beers and a straw. Blood instead of beer.
All three of those hats are magnificent, and I would proudly wear any of them, if I were a hat person.
Number three is indeed the hat.
I was given hat number 3 as a gift from a friend for my last birthday. It’s a nice hat. The fact that the shit-bag dictator wears the same one does not make me him. Even though it makes me look like a Caucasian version of him. Caulk-Asian, more like.
@Spudalicious: I hear Orlando calling us. Are you in?
[Bangs on pipe twice]
What?!? No Bishops?!?
I ended my work day by getting into a bit of a yelling match with my boss. I was already stressed out, and that didn’t help. I had dinner and some wine, and now feeling a little bit better. Bring on the bourbon. That will fix it.
No fisticuffs in the parking lot? That’s a good sign.
One of the previous supervisors, they apparently had to call the police to remove him from the building when they fired him.
It happened on second shift, and we only heard rumors the next day. People just disappear around here. 🙁
Hmmm… Ted, do you work on a small island?
No actual fights. He owns the company and I’ve been there 19+ years. We might argue at times, but we’re almost family after that much time.
Was it something like this?
That will fix it.
Great quote.
Fuck him for enacting your labor.
My last thing before a week’s vacation was a wall-of-text e-mail from a member of the department decrying the fact that his wife (who has not finished grad school) has not been offered a full-time job by the department. It contained multiple incorrect assumptions and plan wrongness.
Burn those bridges pal! Six months from now he’ll be wondering why the only interest was from a community college offering a part time adjunct position with no benefits and no tenure path.
Yeah, there’s a certain disconnect from reality. He has tenure so isn’t going anywhere. He’s generally not a bad guy AND I need to keep him onside as an ally against a couple of other people who are a much bigger problem. Not going to give what he wants, but he will get a lengthy, polite response AFTER vacation.
There’s a big difference between MILF with one kid and MILF with two or more. The latter definitely puts out more.
There’s a downside to milfs with multiple kids. Unless they were cesarean births, that is.
^^ARTICLE
There definitely needs to be a way to upvote comments. I think a snorted half a shot of whiskey out my nose. It burned.
I finished my day by getting enraged at a vendor who screwed up and now wants to charge $500 to fix it (for the tech types: transferring a .de domain with DNSSEC enabled, was assured it’d stay enabled during the transfer, DS record is now gone from the registry – suddenly “we don’t support DNSSEC for .de domains, but we’ll make an exception and add the DS record to DENIC for $500”).
I’m not one to get angry over work, but I was moments away from a full-on screaming fit on the phone. I need a drink.
My alma mater, y’all. They’ve been on a recent alumni contact push. Fuck them.
If you have to think about it, it isn’t very clear, is it?
it reminds me of the hit song from “Heathers”: TEENAGE SUICIDE: DON’T DO IT,
Next extortion email you get, forward to the head of the alumni relations department with that article attached and an explanation that every penny you would’ve donated will now go to FIRE or another campus speech advocacy organization.
I already Tweeted essentially that to them. I said when they get a green FIRE rating, I will consider verifying my contact info, and may even make a donation.
I was _just_ looking at my alma mater’s FIRE rating – red. TBH, I wasn’t likely to donate anyway (already wrote them big checks for 5 years) but now it’s hell to the no.
I find donating to a college a strange concept. It’s not like I cut the local Walmart a check for their continued service over the years.
You mean that’s not normal?
*cancels automatic electronic draft to Walmart*
I see this stuff and laugh when I hear people talk about the sexual repression and opressive morality of the 1950s.
Well, oppressive.
I’d have sex with a woman, revoke consent and immediately go to the rape tribunal. And when I didn’t get justice, immediately sue under Title IX.
It’s not higher education anymore. It’s just a con.
Suspect from the crazy RV chase the other day apprehended.
Paroled Sex Offender
Strange, you wouldn’t think it to look at him.
I also wouldn’t think he’s my age, either.
Fuuuuuuck.
I would accuse you of being old; but on this site that makes you virtually a spring chicken. Does not bode well for our future.
I bode well for no one!
His defense should be that he couldn’t pull over because he was in his residence and if he pulled over he might have been within the forbidden distance of a school
I hope the cops check the crawl space of that RV.
An RV is not the best vehicle for a high speed chase.
Bill Weld is a perfect encapsulation of the problem with the LP. Not pure but not very pragmatic either. How on earth was “vouching for Hillary” in the last few days of the campaign a good idea? I love that he is claiming that he has seen the light from 2016. Very trustworthy. He seems to want to turn the LP into Mealy-mouthed bipartisan reformist centrists.
I’m not sure it’s just Bill Weld who wants to do that and I’m not convinced that hasn’t already happened
It happened quicker than I thought. I thought the LP would win Congress seats before that happened.
No one in the LP has a patch on WAC Bennett though…
I take comfort in the fact that nothing matters
Do you still live in Chicago Just Say’n?
Yes. I’ll turn the light off after everyone leaves
Does the LP run candidates for City Council?
I’m interested in this sort of thing since if we are in a “libertarian moment” then local government should be too. And you don’t have to worry about the baggage of the Republicans since they are so weak. Should be plenty of gay transgender Mexican atheist potheads Yutes who have had abortions so no need to appeal to Socons or WASPs. Local government would allow for learning about retail politics and get support bases.
The LP has run candidates for NY City Council and they perform terribly. And in Washington they occasionally get 11% or so in city Council races, providing that they are straight fights and during a bad year for the Dems.
The aldermanic races are technically non-partisan, but they all pretty much get the endorsement of the Democratic or Republican parties (the Republicans only compete in two or three wards out of fifty). Libertarians do more state stuff and some downstate. I don’t think they even contest the suburbs
The only thing the LP is good for is pushing the GOP into more libertarian directions (with varying success, obviously).
I’m convinced the future of libertarianism lies in the judiciary, and getting Constitutionally principled judges on the bench at all levels.
Pushing the GOP was pretty much what Nolan created the LP for. Trouble is, the libertarian movement never built a large enough constituency to support a political party that could consistently hold the balance of power.
Who will appoint those judges and what law schools will they come from?
James Comey gives his two cents on the NRA and gun control:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/james-comey-nra-sells-fear-to-gun-owners/
Does anyone with a triple digit IQ real!y care what this holier-than-thou overly sanctimonious twat thinks?
This is like the literal argument for gun rights…
“It’s not a slippery slope, it’s a concrete set of stairs built by America’s founders,” he said. “Let’s have these conversations standing there, holding the rails.”
Complete with lousy metaphors
That was bad wasn’t it?
“Let’s have these conversations standing there, holding the rails.”
The 3rd ones? Sure Bill, you first.
He’s prepping for a run for office.
That’s what it looks like.
“that he would make a “crappy candidate” because he hates “the idea of asking people for money.”
Govt worker being honest for a change.
It’s not the getting money from others he minds. It’s having to ask.
Was my response cryptic? What kind of echo chamber is this?
Sorry I miss read you
Just fucking around drinking my campfire coffee. https://pasteboard.co/Hjyfi3e.jpg
Wish I was drinking coffee at a campfire.
Water heated by wood fire tastes better than water heated by gas fire. I dunno why.
It’s the tasty California Declared Carcinogens.
Same reason camping food tastes better than the same recipe at home- fresh air, different scenery, sure, but mostly because it takes more work.
Interesting campfire. Not the usual fire ring in the dirt.
Is made from an old propane (?) tank. We’ll use the pit tonight. It’s easier to cook on this small one.
Fantastic Documentary on Ginger Baker, well worth an hour and a Half,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7h8CqYXEx0
Unbelievable drummer. Lousy person.
More intelligent than the real thing
https://youtu.be/_zCDvOsdL9Q
Lol
For anyone doubting whether I’m me on Discord, yes, I’m Dins.
When you gotta go..
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43998174
On the track? And we thought it was the hammer thrower making those grunts.
Dude should move to SF. They won’t mind.
Broken window policy my ass. Zero tolerance for public deuce dumping.
Let’s see how fast we can be like Detroit.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/03/seattle-council-member-accuses-amazon-blackmail-class-warfare-tax-proposal/
Fuck ’em. Amazon delenda est. Corporations: you cannot afford to do business with the Marxists. So quit appeasing the fuckers.
I think I mixed up terms. There’s Carthage Must Be Destroyed, and then there’s the term for executing someone as a message to the rest.
pour encourager les autres
Thank you.
Poor encourager, giving the encouragement to… les autres.
Unfortunately they’ll be some sort of agreement that will probably enrich both at the expense of the taxpayers. Of course they’ll keep voting in the same people.
That’s the natural order of things.
Tax cattle we are.
If Amazon were to leave Seattle the city would end up worse off than Detroit. Everything — tax revenue, spending in the city, and housing — would collapse almost instantaneously.
Nah, they have a navy base and Boeing, miraculously defense spending would go up.
Roseanne Barr is tweeting about crime in Chicago and applauding Trump for talking about the topic.
What is going on here? How are we not living in some demented computer simulation?
Roseanne/Kanye 2024
“MAGA Harder”
She’s the type to go more red pill the more she gets piled on. Can’t see her tapping out just for the lulz she’ll get. She’s been a shitposter since 1990.
I’m embarrassed how internetty that comment was. Pretty soon I’ll be the 50 year old hanging out with runaways at the greyhound station.
needs moar memes
Her politics pretty much have always been populist working class.
It’s just that if I told me twenty years ago that in the year 2018 Roseanne Barr and Donald Trump would not only still be relevant but also a part of the national political discourse, I think it would blow me from the past’s mind.
This is probably why time travelling to the past is not wise
Yep, and working class people will often go where the joke is. Forcing a joke to support a political view is anti humor.
https://gasdigitalnetwork.com/gdn-show-channels/part-of-the-problem/
And Dave Smith has the same take on Michelle Wolfe as I did. The right wing outrage was silly, but she was being a cunt surrounded by cunts who agreed with her.
I listened to that podcast. He has the right take. I never learn anything from Dave Smith, but his comedy is funny and Part of the Problem is pretty enjoyable
Exactly my feeling on him. I don’t learn anything new, just how to say it more succinctly and with an edge.
His opening routine at the Soho Forums are sometimes the best part. I was in New York the day after the Bob Murphy debate at the Soho Forum. Pisses me off that I missed it by one day.
Dave Smith, Tom Woods, Bob Murphy and some other Mises people were there.
Bless those guys, but I’d be jumping overboard after half a day on the Contra cruise.
Oh yeah, I’d pass on that. Pretty sure my wife would leave me if I took her to something like that too
DAVE SMITH is the least affable of STEVE SMITH’s cousins.
Cunts to the left of me, pussies to the right,
Here I am, being a libertarian.
Because this is accurate.
Well jeez. I was hoping tonight would be a busy one here so I could abuse my new powers and make a new post, but no…
If you post it, you may find some takers.
I didn’t care for Field of Dreams.
Roarke built stuff knowing it’d be unpopular.
AND PEOPLE DIED! Clearly you didn’t understand that book.
6 families on the camping trip. 3 nights. The kids all off to sleep and the adults sitting around the campfire drinking whiskey. One by one the wives get trashed and the veneer of social graces fall off and each of us husbands get a glimpse at the real personalities of each other’s wives. Oh, yours is OCD, yours is nuts, yours probably throws shit in anger etc.. We husbands just stare at the stick we’re probing the fire with, imagining the burnt marshmallows at the tip of the stick are our youthful dreams.
Are you ‘caravaning’ as the brits say, or tents? Also, are you in that suicide forest?
Not sure, but I think that’s one over. This is the genocide forest. It’s them or me. What to do with my half American daughter?
Sell her to OMWC?
I’d have to really hate a child diddler to unless my daughter on him. She’s managed to take me down with just a well placed LEGO on the shower floor.
Japanese porn is fucking weird.
Sounds like you’ve already put her in a camp.
Greatest president ever.
So… camping should be done without wives?
Jesse, Tonio and Rhy agree women shouldn’t be involved.
No to Field of Dreams, but yes to Deliverance?
Guessing how well the popularity of each film has gone since release, it’s hard to believe there was a need for #metoo.
That took a dark turn
It gets dark in the woods at night
While I was at work today, about a mile down the road from me
A chicken house is where one goes to eat chicken. A chicken coop is where one raises chickens.
Au contraire.
A chicken house is where young chickens are raised for slaughter.
*A laying house is where chickens are bred.
A hatchery is where eggs are hatched to send chickens to the chicken house.
*I dare you to ask me what the job of “Tom milker” entails.
A Tom Milker is a guy that pulls off Turkeys, and that’s racist. He should also give handies to people of other races.
I have a friend named patrick. Since middle school, his nickname has been Oge. He only shed that nickname when he got a job a as a “tom milker”. Now we call him, “turkey jerker.”
I knew a guy named Patrick in HS who got caught beating it at a sleepover. We called him Whacky Pat after that.
I love local news. Woo chick flewy. Am I doing it right?
My local news station is pretty decent. And woo chick flewy works, in spirit if not in letter of the official hog call.
God bless you staffin, for knowing the solidarity cry of a rural southern state all the way from japan.
Just trying to imagine how the New York Post would’ve written the headline.
Venezuela arrests 11 executives of one of the country’s largest private banks, accusing them of conspiracy in … um… driving down the currency. Which the government played no part in.
$50 says there’s an article in The Guardian or Salon talking about how brave it is that Venezuela arrests its bankers when the US/UK won’t.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/fe7ffa9f28603e71413556eeb3f9c3af.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/2c/ab/272cabab1287d0cdc174e0289075f0ea.jpg
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Why didn’t any girls at Hebrew school look like this?
https://images.i.thechive.com/__885200a90e9044371822aba1eb911ff7_width-600.jpeg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2f/22/d0/2f22d081d839ceb67237b76a2d01f1d0.jpg
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/flbp-it-means-no-worries-for-the-rest-of-your-mondays-47-photos-21.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
I’ll give her the brown star of straffin.
I bet she needs a shabbos goy.
*Scans campsite, everyone else still at onsen*
Banzai!
If Hentai is anything to go on, there’s more interesting stuff going on at the onsen.
(what?)
Two words- Aging population. You don’t have enough yen to get me in the women’s onsen.
Do you accept payment via IC card?
were are the Japanese Babes? Did they all Die of old age?
On #1… I think that necklace is stuck, but I’d be glad to help her get it out.
I’ve got a probe.
don’t you people Work? i just destroyed my Back, and I have two service calls before I’m done,
Posers!
Hat and Hair ep 4 in the can. Now to find a few select individuals to give me feedback.
Well I’m here…..
yeah, 15 minutes later. You old people are slow.
But my internet connection is slower. Still uploading.
and you call me old? i’ll be up and done with work before You get up Junior,
That’s between you and your swollen prostate grandpa.
Now I’m thinking of a geriatric version of the Brooke Shields Calvin Klein ad.
you wish, my Pstate is fine, you’re Brain, not so much
/Psych!
Still waiting…….
I guess I’ll Crash, the Young ones can’t keep up,
KIDS these Days
https://youtu.be/y5nSVSQYhF4
Change NOTHING! that is a sweet Video
Plus 10000!
This link will be dead in 10 minutes. Anyone online who wants to voice an opinion, do so now.
CPRM, don’t be Jelly. We all have Kids, and they all suck,
I don’t have kids.
https://youtu.be/M9BNoNFKCBI
Are you Fucking kidding?
Good for you, and Bummer for you, Kids are the Best thing a person can do, you learn…
and then Hate Kids….
Late night porn
https://youtu.be/bMomeQXLTWg
More
https://youtu.be/0iUa1rDvI8g
This must be the contrapositive of what it’s like to be a west coaster.
Trashy liveglibs his day stuck at DCA #2:
I’m pretty sure update #1 got eaten by the network. Likely because I called the TSA agent a blimp. Southwest canceled my flight right after I pulled through the pay gate for parking at DCA. A little over an hour later, and I’m booked standby on a noon flight with a fallback of 4pm if I don’t make the first flight.
As I was saying in update #1, I’m dressed in my best “don’t rape me” garb. Beltless jeans, loafers, and a polo shirt. I’m also wearing my nicest underwear so that I could look pretty for the blimp of a TSA agent in case he took an interest in my anus. Fortunately, the TSA agents were distracted aggressively fondling an 8 year old girl, so my popper came out of the experience in tact.
Trashy’s DCA liveglib #3:
Saw a lady melt down and start hurling insults at the ticket counter lady. I’m always intrigued and embarrassed by those people. What do you think you’re gonna get out of that? The poor ticket counter person can’t make your plane magically reappear. The airport is prime people watching!
Loudly mock her, it’s the only way she’ll learn.