whispers bubble up from nothingness
“Straight pride parade? Like, what?!?” Sandy screeched. Illy looked up from her phone and Sheedy woke from her nap and they both grimaced at the braying Bronxite bartender.
“Only LGBTIQCAPGNGFNBA people are allowed to feel any pride!” Sandy continued.
Sheedy grunted and raised an eyebrow to Illy. She leaned over to Sheedy and whispered in Arabic, “The pervert alphabet.”
Sheedy wrinkled her face in disgust and replied, “The yahud know no decency,” her hand slipping into a ward against evil.
“Ours is the glorious struggle!” Sandy read off the card she kept in her pocket. “History is ours!”
“You said you would tweet about the abuses of the yahud today,” Sheedy reminded Sandy.
“But what about the Green New Deal?” Sandy asked.
“The yahud are behind global warming,” Illy said, not looking up from her phone. Sheedy and Illy had taught the buxom dimwit that “yahud” was Arabic for “Isreali.”
Sandy nodded, and began putting on another layer of matte lipstick and used her phone to check her hair and take a number of selfies.
scattered and sparse like the dust between the stars
“We should order lunch,” Sheedy said. “Where is the intern?”
Illy’s phone pinged repeatedly, like a cheerful Geiger counter. She looked at it for a moment and giggled.
“What?” Sheedy demanded. “What has happened?”
“He has sent me another,” she said and smiled.
“How many pictures of his kafir penis do you need?” Sheedy asked.
“Dick pics?” Sandy asked excitedly. “I love dick pics! Lemme see, lemme see.”
Illy handed her the phone and Sandy studied the pale penis of Illy’s affair, the half-hard member looking startled under the camera’s flash. She put her hand over her mouth and giggled as well, and then made a soft gagging sound. She turned the phone around to Sheedy.
“It looks fairly clean,” Sheedy said dismissively. She took the phone from Sandy and gave it back to Illy.
“How should I respond this time?” Illy asked, scratching under her turban.
“Send him your bawwabat alshaytan, if he isn’t already bored of it,” Sheedy grumbled.
the nucleus of chaos opened an eye
and then another
and then another
“I love getting dick pics!’ Sandy said.
“Have you written the tweet yet?” Sheedy asked.
“What tweet?”
“About the yahud, the filthy yahud!”
“OMG, I’ve got to pee so bad!” Sandy replied and darted from the room.
After a moment, Sheedy asked, “Why do you do it?”
“Do what?” Illy asked coldly.
“Show me pictures of his penis. You only do it to hurt me.”
“You know what is between us is not all that I have.”
Sheedy reached out and cupped Illy’s left breast.
“Not here,” she told Sheedy, brushing her hand away. “Never here.”
“She will be half-an-hour on her make-up at least, the vain whore.”
“Lock the door,” Illy told her. Sheedy farted when she lifted herself off the couch and went to the office door. Sheedy let herself fall back on the office couch and rolled over onto Illy with a scowl.
“I want you to be mine, I want to solely possess your dark peach,” Sheedy whispered.
“You can have me now,” Illy replied in a flat tone.
“Forever. I want you forever.” Sheedy’s middle finger found Illy’s labial cleft under her suit skirt and rubbed along it trying to look into Illy’s eyes. She found nothing.
“No, don’t,” Illy said as Sheedy tore her pantyhose.
“I did. I will. I must,” Sheedy panted. She pushed aside Illy’s underwear and plunged a finger into her and then another.
“Do you like that?” Sheedy asked, her lips close enough to Illy’s to feel her lover’s breath tickle the hairs of her mustache.
Illy grunted and turned her head and closed her eyes as Sheedy rammed her fingers into her over and over again, her body moving bonelessly with each thrust.
a thousand eyes filled with madness closed
“I don’t feel anything,” Illy whispered.
I’m dying.
…the half-hard member looking startled under the camera’s flash.
And then, because you’re you:
…her lips close enough to Illy’s to feel her lover’s breath tickle the hairs of her mustache.
I’m gagging.
Nice work.
She can wax all she’d like, but its ghost will always be with her…
Shoulda sprung for the laser.
*shudders*
You think that mere conditioned light can kill the broom of feminine justice?
There’s been a lot of erotica around here lately.
NTTAWWT
Fall is when Glibs go into rut.
*neck swells*
*scuffs at bare spot in cubicle carpet*
*pisses on bare spot*
Yup. Can confirm. Hang on, I think I smell one of the project managers in estrus!
*Rushes at PM totally ignoring the HR drone in a stand over the copier*
Isn’t a requirement of erotica that it must be…erotic, and not vomit-inducing?
OK, how about chapter 17 of Mojeaux’s new book?
Glibs’ patron saint of filth.
Wow… that’s a spicy meatball. I just picked up a story from her Mormons And Monsters collection. So far, it’s quite fun; a Lovecraftian romp.
“He did not find Ardith’s cunte particularly satisfying, so he had impaled her where he would get the most satisfaction.”
Damn.
Ouch
Thanks for that. I’d always wanted to know where to find her writing.
With a mouth like that, I think she could take any dick in porn.
STEVE SMITH NO DO PRON!
Way too many teeth. I bet she has at least 40.
Also — ‘Holy shit, I haven’t been able to log in here at work in 6 months! Woot!”
Y’all really do need Jesus, tho.
My lawn looks fine.
Okay, that exchange wins the internet for me today.
The funny thing I’ve noticed about Omar’s boy-toy is that, in every picture of the two of them together, he looks somewhere between mildly revulsed and flat-out disgusted.
You say that like it would be a barrier to him sticking it in crazy
Not necessarily. Only to imply that he’s undoubtedly well-paid.
Who the fuck is sheedy, you demented pervert?
Rashida Tlaib.
I take it she is one of those newly minted super retard representatives.
Member of the “Squad”; in a race with Omar to see who’s the most anti-Semitic. She’s definitely the ugliest.
Who the fuck is Illy? I Mean I get that Gulag Barbie is Sandy, for some reason I’m not privy to.
Ilhan Omar.
Illy, Sheedy, and Sandy. The Twat Squad.
“Alexandra”
“Sandy” is what everyone called her in college.
Accurate description of her introitus.
braying Bronxite bartender
Perfect.
With a mouth like that, I think she could take any dick in porn.
She could peel a watermelon, no hands.
Meh. I’d put her more as a big mouthed cenobite.
“It looks fairly clean,”
I’m guessing “uncircumcised”.
I’m sure glad we have a pro-2A president.
https://www.infowars.com/trump-administration-considering-social-credit-score-system-to-determine-who-can-buy-a-gun/
TW: Infowars so take with a boulder of salt.
Trump for some sick reason just likes to get DiFi all excited. That’s about the extent of it.
But let’s play along.
Can anyone explain how exactly such a thing could be put in place? A social credit score system is a leftist wet dream. It would effectively end the USA as we know it. It would be a complete circumvention of the Constitution and the rule of law. We would have a technocratic authoritarian system since it would not only be used to decide who could buy a gun, but who could buy anything or do anything. A dystopian nightmare.
AKA “China”.
China in the midst of a complete breakdown of society, massive unrest, and an ongoing civil war.
Seems legit.
#fakenews
I sure as hell hope so.
Well, on the flip side of this, it would overwhelmingly flag SJWs and Democrats. Those fuckers be cray cray.
…except for the fact that the Silicon Valley SJWs would be the ones writing the algorithms.
Oh, then it wouldn’t work, because that requires sexist logic and racist math.
I’m sure glad we have a pro-2A president.
Somebody check the White House visitor logs, and see if Tom Friedman has been coming around.
Or taxi receipts.
“
a thousand eyes filled with madness closed
“I don’t feel anything,” Illy whispered.”
Sheer brilliance.
It really is remarkably good.
OT but awesome:
Bugatti Chiron Passes 300-MPH Barrier with 304-MPH Run, Sets World Record
Some righteous engineering and a driver with titanium balls.
The video I saw yesterday almost brought a tear to my eye – engineering and all that.
Related: Tracy Morgan pays bartender to watch $2M Bugatti during dinner
Make sure you take care of your investments.
Ownership didn’t start off well…
https://www.motor1.com/news/353030/tracy-morgan-bugatti-hit-honda/
Neither did Kevin Hart and his ‘Cuda.
Yikes!
The 70 Cuda appears to have a hellcat motor, so 700+ HP in a 60’s car. I imagine the suspension and brakes are upgreydded as well.
I like cars but that seems like way too much stress.
He was severely injured and in a coma for two weeks after a WalMart truck hit his vehicle, so I understand the splurge.
That was Tracy Morgan, but hey…
So much for me paying attention…
If you’re worried about scratching your $2M car, you can’t afford a $2M car.
Car guy in me loves it, but not so much all the caveats.
I’d be OK with non-standard safety equipment, but this has the engine management tweaked and non-standard gearing. Article says you can get the gearing, but no idea on the software. My bet is it won’t meet many markets’ emissions or longevity standards.
It’s also wearing special shoes. I understand that that as well, but again it is another asterisk.
Nobody can actually buy this car. That said the car you can buy is marvelous and amazing. Just not 300 mph amazing.
Yeah, I know.
I just really love that people are still willing to do this for the fuck-of-it.
Well if there is one thing VW knows how do to it is how to tweak engine management software to get around things…
Thank you.
A social credit score system is a leftist wet dream. It would effectively end the USA as we know it. It would be a complete circumvention of the Constitution and the rule of law. We would have a technocratic authoritarian system since it would not only be used to decide who could buy a gun, but who could buy anything or do anything. A dystopian nightmare.
It would make an excellent sorting mechanism for deciding who gets what sort of an education, and where.
Feature, not bug.
And who gets what type of housing, employment, where to shop, access to social circles, marriage prospects…
Pretty much North Korea but done right.
And it would trigger a civil war. China can pull it off because a “social credit score system” is a step up from the universal repression they’ve had to tolerate. And even there, it doesn’t seem to be working so well in Hong Kong. In a country with literally hundreds of millions of guns, trying to implement the kind of repression that such a system would entail would be pretty much a suicide attempt.
I can hardly wait to hear the wailing of those promoting this when it bites them in the ass. “But I didn’t mean me!”
“We have shown several times that we built the fastest cars in the world. In future we will focus on other areas,” said Bugatti president Stephan Winkelmann in the official release on the record. “Bugatti was the first to exceed 300 mph. Its name will go down in the history books, and it will stay that way forever.”
Some rich guy can buy one, and hire Mario Andretti to
chauffeurbang his wife in it.I laughed while reading some sports car article long ago. They had Andretti drive them all for a few laps then asked him which was the fastest. He answered “for me or for you?” For him is was some raw high-powered monster with no computer crap interfering with his driving. For you it was a tech-Porche with a computer constantly making sure you don’t do something stupid.
There are thousands of YT video of dudes in high-powered cars doing stupid shit and crashing. Every swinging dick thinks he can drive, but when you actually go on the track with a real driver, you realize quickly that you aren’t shit.
Every crappy driver I know thinks they’re slow only because they don’t have enough horsepower.
This crappy driver is slow because I don’t trust myself.
Which makes you a better driver than most.
It’s true. I’ve said this before, but a body-shop owning friend of mine says that pre-tech Porsche 911s put his kids through college and funded his lake place.
Even the pro in the article said it:
Drove my uncle’s mid-80s 911SC several times. It always made my heart-rate double. It was blindingly fast, and had no mercy or remorse if you couldn’t deal with it.
My room-mate in college bought a early ’70s 911.
Throttle lag over-steer is pants-shittingly scary the first time it happens. Once you know it’s going to happen, you can learn to use it/drive thru it.
I had a Pontiac Phoenix that did the same thing, counter to all instincts, the maneuver was to bury the throttle as soon as the slide got established, and it would pull out of it.
Worked out at 70 mph on a tank trail.
https://877stockcar.com/experiences/ride-along/
We did this last summer. OMG.
I thought we were going to die going into corner #1.
Fun!
I got a ride in a Cayman up at BIR. I played it cool, but I was glad my bladder was empty.
Wow. Just for giggles I looked up the lap record at Willow Springs for a Spec RX-7, and we set a time nearly 4 seconds faster at our last race there. That feels pretty good.
Back 20 years ago or so, I saw an interview with a nascar engineer. When asked if he could drive the car, he said yes, but it wouldnt go over 180 for him.
Even with its measly 305 (actually a little bit more) hp, the ol’ Mustang gets to be a real handful if you turn the AdvanceTrac off. We’re talking if you turn the wheel a bit, and drop the clutch, the rear will want to swing where the front is. The first time I did that I got a sick feeling in my stomach; thinking I could have easily curb hopped the car into a tree. I mostly keep the traction control on to tamp down on my own stupidity.
And this from a guy who has mostly driven RWD cars his entire life – usually heavier or less power; though I somehow survived a 370hp ’86 Monte Carlo SS with a stock suspension and brakes. That was a scary car in the rain.
My 97 350 6 speed firebird was terrible in the rain. Too much clutch/gas while turning and instant doughnut in the road. It was a whole lottta fun however.
I’ve done a number of Mercedes AMG track days and ride alongs with some pro racers, and the key item you will notice is that they are smooth. The transition from full braking, to maximum cornering is all one motion. If you aren’t accelerating, or at maximum cornering force, you should be braking… there is no idle time.
I’m fine with road tracks and elevations, but I don’t have a good feel for superbanking. I don’t get the lateral feel for where the traction limit is near at 130+ and a couple of feet from the wall…
It is also critical not do do anything abruptly… even letting off the throttle too quickly can unsettle the car and bring it out of ground effect.
All fast cars are awesome, but I’ll contend if you can drive a 1400lb wingless sprint car on dirt sideways through a turn you can drive anything. Throttle control is unbeatable.
Justice, swift and terrible
YouTube has removed more than 17,000 channels and 100,000 videos, along with at least 500 million comments, since the company announced a broad crackdown on hate speech in June.
The Google-owned video platform said it removed five times as many videos and channels as the previous quarter in a Tuesday blog post.
YouTube spent months developing the policy — which had some snafus, including some history teachers sharing archival footage of Adolf Hitler who were swept up in it. The updated rules were part of an aggressive attempt to rid the platform of white supremacist and conspiracy theory content.
“As our teams review and remove more content in line with the new policy, our machine detection will improve in tandem. …The profound impact of our hate speech policy update is already evident in the data released in this quarter’s Community Guidelines Enforcement Report.”
——-
Although the spread of white supremacist content has garnered a lot of attention for YouTube, the company also points out that such violative videos only represent a tiny fraction of the vast amount of content that gets uploaded every hour.
“The nearly 30,000 videos we removed for hate speech over the last month generated just 3 percent of the views that knitting videos did over the same time period,” according to YouTube.
Knitters. Why did it have to be knitters?
It wasn’t really knitters, it was people looking for a band.
“we’re cutting the language down to the bone[…]Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year[…]In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it.”
Whatchall bitches want from a knitter?
So they’re going to take down all of CNN’s videos about the now-debunked Russian collusion hoax, right?
Let me know when they deplatform Farrakhan.
YouTube has removed more than 17,000 channels and 100,000 videos, along with at least 500 million comments, since the company announced a broad crackdown on hate speech in June.
I wonder what sort of cost savings they might be getting from clearing out that data.
It’s also wearing special shoes. I understand that that as well, but again it is another asterisk.
Nobody can actually buy this car. That said the car you can buy is marvelous and amazing. Just not 300 mph amazing.
I’d be mildly interested to know what it would do at Bonneville. Nowhere near 300, I’d guess. I don’t they they have enough room to get up to terminal velocity.
Depends on the condition of the salt. There have been 11 mile courses at Bonneville in the past.
don’t *think* they
Too busy to check the morning links to see if this Powerline article was linked yet. It is by the guy who first broke the Omar story and it lists some items he got from his local Somali sources.
She seems nice.
“Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who
killedmarried who.”She’s as dumb as a post.
That’s the thing that’s making me not panic-purchase 80% lowers whenever The Squad makes the headlines: they’re all dumb as bags of hammers. The reason their stars are in the ascendant right now is because they’re handy as bait for the useful idiots and they take some of the attention away from the dumpster fire that is the Democratic party’s utter lack of leadership. As soon as the Dems right their ship, I expect these dummies will be out with the garbage.
“As soon as the Dems right their ship”
If by right the ship, you mean taking another hard left turn, then OK. Because there’s no way back from where they are now.
I don’t know, I think there might be something like a strategy here to just let the nuts have their day while the adults figure out amongst themselves who’s supposed to be doing what, trusting that they’ll get themselves into trouble and fall away after buying enough time to get the party’s shit together. Probably not, but it’s an idea.
Are we talking bout the same people who are falling over each other to see who can get the most crazy far left wacko? The people seriously talking about reparations, sky high taxes, economy killing green wacko ideas, confiscating guns, and other assorted far left bullshit? Or are there some democrats I am completely unaware of?
I’m thinking more like the Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer types who didn’t actually expect anyone to buy any of this shit, much less run with it and on it.
“I’m thinking more like the Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer types who didn’t actually expect anyone to buy any of this shit, much less run with it and on it.”
Well, that’s the old school just in it for corruption and graft democrats. They’ll be gone soon and that will only leave the far left wackos running the place.
I’d rather neither, but I’ve gotta say if I have to choose I’d prefer the grifters to the Red Guard.
1974 spoiled me. The press managed to take out a sitting president.
In the 45 years since, the press hasn’t done jack shit.
The last ten years have been depressing as the press has actively participated in hiding wrongful actions on the part of government.
I wasn’t around in 1974 but it seems to me that in the last 2.5 years the press was doing its best to unseat the incumbent president. Sure, it didn’t succeed but not for the lack of trying. The press is the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party. It makes no sense to expect it to inconvenience the president from their party.
The Watergate was a successful coup d’état perpetrated by the press and the deep state (#2 in the FBI angry that he wasn’t appointed FBI director). Nothing to feel good about.
Uffda. If I was Omar, I’d be terrified that I would be primaried by this woman.
Her victim cred score is off the charts! Black, female, muslim, post-partum, schizophrenia. About the only thing she is missing is the rainbow checkbox. Sure there is the minor issue that she threw her two babies off a bridge killing one of them but she can spin that as a DIY abortion.
Oh my God.
If that didn’t get her red flagged, then we may as well not even try it.
Whoa whoa whoa. Hold up. I’m not saying that there hasn’t been discrimination against Muslims, but are we really supposed to believe that she was murderously delusional in every other regard EXCEPT for wypipo racist? Seriously?
Also, she murdered her baby and tried to murder her other baby. They should’ve let her drown, but now that that’s off the table she should be in prison for the rest of her life. She’s either faking it and she’s a child murderer, or she’s so crazy she’ll murder her own children. Neither person should be free to walk the streets.
Performance art is bullshit.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/art-gallery-visitors-must-squeeze-19435116
STEVE SMITH SQUEEZE REPEATEDLY
She Guevara conjures an enormous straw man which promptly falls over and crushes her.
On the flip side, and just to remind everyone, Crenshaw is in favor of red flag laws and the war of drugs, including the evil marijuanas, so he isn’t some liberty-loving hero.
I was thinking that as I read his bit. Crenshaw’s apparently taking McCain’s spot on Team Red, which is not a positive thing.
Crenshaw is a straight-up social conservative Republican. I can live with that.
To me he is less bad which is still pretty bad, but I see where you are coming from.
I mostly like him because he will at least fight back and argue in public and on social media. I don’t necessarily always agree, but I’m most tired of rolling over to leftists.
Has the right still been rolling over to the left?
I think the new conservative trend is brought to to by Romney/McCain and company.
We will see if new gun bans are passed.
She thinks she won that argument. Seriously, she really is that dumb.
I’m sure it’s racist and sexist of me to say this, but holy smokes she’s an idiot. And she’s an enthusiastic idiot, which is one of the worst kinds.
She’s really a fan of the passive-aggressive thing, isn’t she?
It’s an affectation. For some reason it’s popular among British snarkists, and so some people think it makes them sophisticated when they say it. I’ll bet she says “cheers” all the time instead of “thanks”, too.
Talking like a retarded inbred who doesn’t know the point of the letter “R”, makes you look smaht
She operates at the level of a high schooler, so not really surprising.
For the first time in my life, I feel compelled to join the NRA.
they’re certainly making it more difficult to constructively reform the NRA.
Why?
See MikeS below.
I understand why you would want to join the NRA in theory, but the reason I questioned it is because it seems like this is most corrupt and inept they have ever been.
The NRA is pretty worthless, in my opinion. They’ll probably go along with any attempt at red flag laws.
The NRA suffers from the delusion that if they just give a little here and there, their ideological opponents will leave them alone.
That’s some pretty serious delusion right there.
Hell, the NRA’s new motto may as well be “Anything the gun control advocates want, just a little slower.”
They were very successful up to a point, but they have been losing recently, and have had some really shady internal business going on.
They need new leadership, and some new spokespeople.
Even before the corruption issues, the NRA seems to have always been more pro-cop than pro-gun owner. They rolled over on bump stocks, for instance. And remember Philando Castile. The NRA, including Dana Loesch, should have that hung around their neck forever.
But really, fuck Dana Loesch.
Yes, I would fuck Dana Loesch.
We’re the same age, so we could talk about being the same age, and how good an idea it would be to be naked while we did that. Hell, I’m married to a woman who’s politics I entirely detest, I’m sure I could do the mattress mambo with a woman who’s wrong on one issue.
I have no interest in joining the NRA for all the reasons you state.
Then the fuckwads that are destroying SF call the NRA a domestic terrorist organism, and I feel an urge to throw a few bucks to the NRA as a fuck-you to SF.
It leaves me feeling icky all over.
You’ve pretty much described how I feel about Trump.
I can relate. I joined it after the Parkland school shooting–didn’t renew.
At least I can virtue signal now that I’ve quit the NRA like everybody else.
I’m supporting the gun industry – buying guns & accessories. I should probably show some love to the ammo vendors too…
I didn’t know the left is mean and lies!
Oh, puleeeasseee, give us a fucking break. You knew it and they’re also wacko crazy, which is why you’re one of them.
Hooo-kaaayyy
San Francisco board passes resolution labeling NRA ‘domestic terrorist organization’
I mean, how the hell can you have the balls to step over the broken needles and human feces in the middle of the street on your way to go resolve–as an elected official–to make some ridiculous political statement? Seriously, these fuckers are sitting there in a room huffing their own farts on the citizens’ dimes while the city’s going to literal shit.
Hey look, someone had to do something. They did something.
Thoughts and prayers don’t stop gun violence. Political posturing does!
Next, they’re going to declare on oil company as a terrorist organization.
How many of the mass shooters were NRA members?
The left love the NRA. It’s their favorite strawman.
There have been 11 mile courses at Bonneville in the past.
I’m not up on Bonneville. I know you get clocked from a flying start, in both directions. I thought they had a standard acceleration distance, for consistency.
They set up a timed mile way down the course, and that’s the only place your speed is measured. The longer the course, the more time you have to get up to speed. If you’re shooting for a sub 200 MPH record, the 3-mile course is plenty of room. If you’re Craig Breedlove, you need a bit more space.
I recall someone writing about going for a record in a specially prepped RX-7 and still having the wheels breaking loose and spinning at something like 240 mph.
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1166677996792512513
^clips from Dave Chappelle’s special:
1. the abortion clip, and
2. the “impressions” clip which is particularly golden considering some dumbfucks in the audience shout “Tump” when he does the last impression.
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/1169011494241128450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1169017871835566084&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fbrettt-3136%2F2019%2F09%2F03%2Fcheck-out-the-divide-between-critic-scores-and-audience-reviews-of-dave-chappelles-comedy-special%2F
has “sensitive material” become anything questioning that narrative?
Not accurate though. He’s at 80% positive reviews from critics.
Possibly a very early screen capture.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dave_chappelle_sticks_and_stones
back down to 33%. but only 9 “critics” have reviewed it.
I watched it last night, 6/10, not that funny, more soliloquy, would watch again
Watched part of it. Not really that funny, but OK. He says niggah a lot, I do remember that.
Nobody needs sixteen cylinders
BRM did!
Listen to that thing howl. Just terrifying.
I agree. 12 is perfect.
Why not?
How many of the mass shooters were NRA members?
All of them. The NRA awards an honorary Life Membership to anybody who kills three or more people in one go.
Try to keep up.
Listen to that thing howl. Just terrifying.
1.5 liters. Supercharged. Skinny, rock hard tires. Zero aero downforce. That’s what racing is supposed to be.
Yes, they were a very effective driver reduction program.
The dream of watermelons everywhere.
+1 Death On The Boards
https://amgreatness.com/2019/09/04/boston-judge-denies-all-requests-to-drop-charges-against-straight-pride-parade-protesters/
This is kind of interesting. Apparently the DA wanted to drop the charges because the protesters were exercising their 1A rights, and the judge overruled her and reinstated the charges because they assaulted police. The DA says she’ll work to get the charges dismissed.
Man, I’m so torn on this one. On the one hand, fuck Antifa. On the other hand, fuck police using excessive force. On the third hand, throwing bottles of urine and God knows what else at someone is assault, and the mark of a real cunt.
All I know is that if I went out and started throwing shit at a cop, no matter what the cop is doing, I’d be fucked. These people thought their goodthink was a shield.
Also, the field reporter from the video has some titties.
Oh lawd! Kristina!
You are not lying.
thicccc
https://www.instagram.com/KristinaRexTV/
Would.
It almost was. I mean, shit, they’ve got the DA on their side. If it wasn’t for Judge Cranky Oldman they’d be free and clear instead of getting surprise handcuffs.
“As American Greatness reported on Tuesday, a bail fund was set up for the left-wing activists who tangled with law enforcement to help with their “legal fees, as well as supplies for jail support.” After the FundRazr page was endorsed by Squad members Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley on Twitter, the fund was able to raise $24,652, far surpassing its $15,000 goal.”
Hmm, looks who’s supporting antifa violence. Shocking I tell you.
The judge should dismiss the DA from these cases and require that another prosecutor be assigned.
On the one hand, fuck Antifa.
Agreed.
On the other hand, fuck police using excessive force.
When they do, certainly. Did they in this case? Antifa, naturally, whined that they did, but man, who do you believe? Fascist goons wearing masks, or fascist goons wearing uniforms?
On the third hand, throwing bottles of urine and God knows what else at someone is assault, and the mark of a real cunt.
Agreed again.
Rollins, in fact, but out a statement on Tuesday accusing Judge Sinnott of “overstepping his role.”
Yeah, that’s not going to come back to bite him.
The 10 Best Stephen King Movie Adaptations
Silly list debate and so forth, but at least there is fairly sound reasoning, and 1 and 2 are correct.
That’s a scary link. Scarier than any SK novel.
Yeah, I know, looked just like Kinnath.
I am the best at linking. Simultaneously, I am the worst of linking.
It was the best of links, it was the worst of links…
The Stand, by far, nothing else is even close.
More like a mini-series.
Yeah, that’s hard to argue with. I’d forgotten how much I liked “The Mist”. They’re right, that ending was a doozy.
Yeah, “The Mist” is surprisingly good.
The end music to go with it (Dead Can Dance’s The Host of Seraphim) was amazing and captured the mood perfectly..
I almost fell out of my chair when that happened. (Big fan of them.)
Ditto.
Shawshank is #1 in my opinion. It is probably my favorite story of his and the movie adapted it well.
Honorable Mention is way too low.
I have never read The Shining, but a friend of mine who loves the book cant stand the movie.
Shawshank is great. I am not sure about #1, but clearly one of the best.
The Shining was my first introduction to King. Kubrick’s movie was a complete bastardization of the novel. I recognize the technical expertise displayed in the movie, but I hate it.
I’m running out of superlatives, SugarFree has stretched himself as an artist further than chokes off a SFian simile because the uninitated should not meddle in Affairs Of Distant Yet So Near Realms.
I also want to believe the Fourth One was in the room all this time, but no one noticed her, because she’s so forgettable (I don’t even remember her name, the not-bangable one).
they were a very effective driver reduction program.
As a co-worker used to say, “Don’t worry, they’re making more of them, every day.”
https://twitter.com/JMaloneyLiberty/status/1169247061860147205
That’s just delightful.
Here’s a wild idea: why not get the government out of people’s personal/romantic lives altogether!
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/09/03/how-50-years-of-no-fault-divorce-gave-us-a-throwaway-culture/
Because you would have to entirely eliminate the government run system of Tort courts to do so.
At the end of the day there needs to be a place for people to go and resolve disputes that arise out of the ending of long term relationships. Theoretically that place could be a system of private courts and dispute resolution agencies but ancap solutions aside in the real world government run courts are the arbiters of last resort and those courts will inevitably have some input and control over what our relationships look like and how they are founded/ended
I really like that article. Don’t necessarily agree with everything, but I think there’s quite a few nuggets of truth, especially around the throwaway culture part.
I agree with you on the getting the government out part, but my one quibble is that a marriage is a contract, just like any other, so complete divestment is impossible.
In response to both you and Rasilio:
I don’t disagree with either one of you, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to just treat it like any other contract. I’d be in favor of people being a lot more explicit about the nature of the marriage/plans of disposition of goods/etc. etc. before the marriage happens. The contract could be modified with consent throughout the relationship. Then, in the event of dissolution, mediators or courts look at the contract going in, the current state of the contract, the current situation between partners and write up a resolution.
As it stands now, marriage to me seems like this half-assed Frankenstein’s monster of religious tradition, government interference and legal protection racket. If people want to get married in a church, so be it. If they want a government contract describing what happens with property, children, etc. so be it as well. I fail to understand why the two need to be related in any way.
Spousal privilege — why the marriage contract is a different beast.
Because if we leave it as a normal contract then icky marriages would happen, like plural marriage and marriage between close relatives (I mean, if you say marriage has nothing to do with bearing children than the argument against marriage between close relations pretty much falls apart).
I agree with you, though, a marriage license should just be a contract, as far as the state is concerned. The only regulation should be the typical requirements for an enforceable contract- that both parties are of sound mind and of legal age.
Even just treating it as just a contract fails however. What actions does one need to take to be considered “married”. Have a cermony and agree to a specific marriage contract? How do you handle couples who cohabitate for 20 years with 3 kids splitting up? You think there is any possibility that courts would not rule that there are implied contracts in such a situation? Even of they don’t you still have a dispute to resolve.
Children make the situation even more complex as they present a 3rd party interest with claims on both parties to the contract and since they are minors with both parties to the contract having equal rights to claim to be representing the legal interests of the child basically would require the appointment of a guardian ad litem to oversee their rights in the divorce.
It would be easier to eliminate taxes than it would be to have a world where the government is kept completely outside of peoples love lives.
Children are pretty much the only X-factor IMO. I guess in Libertopia some private mediator would create some kind of binding arbitration.
The fact of the matter is, as the article points out, no-fault divorce has largely castrated marriage of meaning anyway so we’ll probably be facing the scenario you describe more and more frequently anyway. We may end up with a situation in which marriage is de facto abolished as people simply opt out.
We already have “common law” marriages. You are legally married in most states if you cohabitate for twenty plus years, per your example.
I really don’t think anything would change other than some people would get upset that they wouldn’t be able to force people to recognize their marriage, nor would anyone be able to control what marital arrangements anyone else partakes in.
Just over a hundred years ago the government wasn’t involved in marriage and when it did start involving itself in marriage it just defaulted to what marriages where recognized by churches. I don’t think this is hard stuff.
Children should be the only reason for the government to have any kind of involvement in the outcome of marriage/cohabitation divestiture.
Couldn’t disagree more. I can see the need for government to protect children from a physically and dangerous parent (in specific and precise scenarios), but I don’t get why they need to be involved in marriage in the name of children?
I thought the purpose of marriage had nothing at all to do with having children- not even a little bit. That was the mantra just five years ago.
Plural marriage and incestuous marriage already happens, just without the blessing of the state. I look at it like drug legalization; things like incest and heroin addiction may be socially pathological, but attempts to criminalize them just create misery.
Incest is a little different because the Westermarck Effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westermarck_effect
already predisposes siblings and close relatives to have a biological aversion to sexual activity with one another. That seems to imply that siblings who grew up in the same home and have sex with one another are damaged/mentally ill in some way. However, being mentally ill and committing victimless “crimes” in an of itself shouldn’t be punishable with the force of the state.
0.02.
*sigh*
“Penn Jillette: Changing His Mind on Climate Change”
https://youtu.be/
Short version: Sometimes you just have to listen to what the experts say.
Bullshit!
I liked the fat Penn.
Which experts? The experts caught repeatedly falsifying the data, hiding their methodology and outright lying? Or the experts which say that the primary driver is not anthropogenic?
Yeah, those are the guys we have to trust. His interviewer also uses the follow the money/who benefits argument for the skeptics while not applying it to the people who are fishing for research grants and Penn doesn’t really push back.
It’s totally in the interest of someone who majored in the new field of climate science to prove that there really is no need for thousands of expensive climate experts.
I fucking hate that shit.
Truth is not determined by who benefits from it.
I can see having an extra degree of skepticism based on that argument but dismissing findings and data out of hand is silly.
The experts handing out cocktail party invites. Duh.
He might stop getting invited to cocktail parties!
He was shouting “bake the cake” before even Gay Jay was saying that. And then, without irony, he was screaming “freedom of association” for whatever was cool with elites at that time.
Penn is a better libertarian than most of us. Considering that “libertarian” primarily means “useful idiot” he should would be a shoe-in for the LP presidential nomination.
It would help his chances of winning if he also pushed an intelligence community conspiracy about Russia too
The truth is I don’t really care if someone believes in climate science. I think there is a potential 2 degree warmup coming, myself, though I don’t profess to be an expert.
What I simply need is a cost benefit analysis. Prove to me that the literally trillions upon trillions you plan to immediately spend (taken by force) and mostly at the expense of the poor, is going to less than a bit of warming over 50-100 years.
LOL. You think that will stop them from calling you a denier, denier?
As a rule of thumb, I don’t take people seriously who say they know when the world is going to end. But, sure, let’s keep pretending like the guy saying the rapture is coming is crazy, while the guy in the suit arguing that the rapture of Gaia is coming is using “science”.
^^Agreed.
There are plenty of actual arguments to be made using the scientific method and rational thought.
HOWEVER, by even opening the door to the possibility that spending zillions of dollars to save Gaia may be ineffective and useless is enough to brand you a heretic. Keep in mind, this is a religious cult. Just questioning what day of the week the Apocalypse will arrive shows a lack of faith and makes you worthy of excommunication.
The thing I don’t actually think they do believe it. Because if they do, then their lifestyle makes no sense.
Well they’re the priestly caste and entitled to certain privileges. It’s all the peasants that have to abide by the rules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquet_of_Chestnuts
Haha.
No expert here, but there has yet to be a year of life where global poverty and violence hasn’t decreased and human wealth hasn’t increased.
What I usually ask is: “When can I finally expect that to things to stop improving for everyone on a constant basis? What’s the date?’ And if the date’s at all within my lifetime, I immediately propose a wager of course.
“No expert here, but there has yet to be a year of life where global poverty and violence hasn’t decreased and human wealth hasn’t increased.”
Absolutely, without a doubt, true, since the Enlightenment. Free markets is the greatest idea pioneered by the Enlightenment. Hands down.
Climate science is a genuine field of science, all we have to do is find someone actually practicing it. There is a warming trend but it is part of a natural cycle that humans have lived through at least three times already. Where we are today is exactly where we should be in the cycles. There is not one whit of evidence that mans existence has had any effect on it. Same ol’ monkey brain we have seen before…oooooooh nooooooes! We have sinned! The gods are angry! If we don’t make sacrifices to them they will bring doom down on our heads!
It has an uncanny resemblance to the epics of Ziusudra, Atrahasis, Gilgamesh and Noah. I suspect that story is much older than what we know because it was probably being told around campfires since the ending of the ice age before the one we are coming out of now. Yeah, we are coming out of an ice age. It is warming up. In a thousand years at most there will be no more icecaps, glaciers etc. Guess what happens after that. We will slide back into another ice age.
Leave “The Epic of Gilgamesh” out of this
I’d like to know where is the proof that mankind caused anything? There isn’t any. They’re just pointing at some data – much of it fudged – and some dates and proclaiming, without evidence, “Man caused this. Man must be punished for it.”
It’s bullshit.
How much longer before pop-libertarian Penn “evolves” on gun control? I’d give it two years max.
No matter how much you want to pretend, every pop-libertarian morphs from Bill Maher circa 1999 to Bill Maher circa 2019. Never fails. Always holds true
Bill Maher was never a libertarian. Drug legalization is the only thing he was ever consistent on.
He use to be a supporter of the culture of free speech. Remember, back in the early 2000’s when being a libertarian meant not being a scold, before it became cool to be a scold? Remember, Bill Maher was canceled from ABC for saying that the 9/11 hijackers were heroes to some? Remember when libertarians were outraged that radio stations had voluntarily chosen not to air Rage Against the Machine music and other artists in response to 9/11?
Granted this was back when libertarian was not a byword for “useful idiot”
You noticed, huh? I had been referring to them as fake libertarians but I am beginning to think just plain Libertarian is sufficient as so many of them change their convictions like I change socks. I wear the Glibertarian badge proudly. I didn’t change after I showed up at TOS 12 or 13 years ago and I haven’t changed since. I just found a group of mostly like minded people. Except for the deep dish bunch….I don’t truck with them. Aside from them, like minded.
“Except for the deep dish bunch….I don’t truck with them”
Hey, fuck you
Nice link, loser. You suck at linking! HA! LINKING LOSER! LOSER! HA! HA! YOU SUCK!
Whoops, my bad.
https://youtu.be/rVJhPuH5azI
Thanks. I was amused by the comments passing judgement based solely on your summary.
Sounds about right
Marshall Plumlee, former Duke standout and NBA player, is now a U.S. Army Ranger
As someone who has spent many years acting as though if his 6’2 inch height was a detriment during his many years as a Ranger (stolen valor is a good way to get a parking lot hanski), I know that someone who is 7 feet tall must be having a hell of a time in the field.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-31/u-s-unleashes-military-to-fight-fake-news-disinformation
“U.S. Unleashes Military to Fight Fake News, Disinformation”
FTA:
“A decade ago, today’s state-of-the-art would have registered as sci-fi — that’s how fast the improvements have come,” said Andrew Grotto at the Center for International Security at Stanford University. “There is no reason to think the pace of innovation will slow any time soon.”
U.S. officials have been working on plans to prevent outside hackers from flooding social channels with false information ahead of the 2020 election. The drive has been hindered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to consider election-security legislation. Critics have labeled him #MoscowMitch, saying he left the U.S. vulnerable to meddling by Russia, prompting his retort of “modern-day McCarthyism.”
Risk Factor
President Donald Trump has repeatedly rejected allegations that dubious content on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google aided his election win. Hillary Clinton supporters claimed a flood of fake items may have helped sway the results in 2016.
Oh man, who would have predicted this other than someone with a functioning brain?
Headline: US Still Bogged Down in Afghanistan
Pentagon: Fake news!
Computers aren’t magic, the identification algorithm is only as good as the people who wrote it.
And you just highlighted what was the entire purpose of this Russia Fever Dream exercise.
I’m just going to fall back on the “if they say it’s fake it must be true” line of thinking if they ever run with this and I’m confident I’ll be right more than half of the time.
Disturbingly accurate
“President Donald Trump has repeatedly rejected allegations that dubious content on platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Google aided his election win. Hillary Clinton supporters claimed a flood of fake items may have helped sway the results in 2016.”
How many facebook pages did the Ruskies make? A handful? How many ads did they buy? Neither one of the people that actually saw them changed their vote. The election was carved into stone in July 2016. The differences between the two candidates was too stark, the line between them too broad and clear for anyone to have changed their vote. ‘The Ruskies done it!’ is just sour grapes from sore losers. Going into denial is not the way to adjust your tack and win next time around…thank God. I encourage them to keep hammering on communism and denigrating voters. It is like they are campaigning for Trump’s second win.
The Russians were just sowing discord by (ineffectually) going after both sides and holy hell did they succeed.
Every time the establishment loses an election, it’s the “muh…Russians”. A country with a GDP smaller than most countries in Europe is somehow able to dupe so many people into voting for the latest baddie du jour.
See: Italy, Hungary, Poland, Brexit, Bolsonaro, and Trump
Damn those Russians are awfully busy and clever. But, clearly the people asserting that the Russians have their hand in all failures by Western elites are not the crazy ones. They are totally sane and definitely not just feeding you propaganda.
TL;DR – Decentralization of technology and information presents the single greatest threat to government power, therefore the government must move to try and destroy it.
Preach
Decentralization of technology and information presents the single greatest threat to government power, therefore the government must move to try and destroy it.
Good thing we have the Tech Monopolies, then. Our data, at least, is highly centralized.
Isn’t The Squad made up of four twats? According to my math three are mentioned so where’s the one from Massachusetts?
Please.
Please don’t tell me Part 2 has Sandy banging Yawna in the other room.
In the other room?
Is that a euphemism?
ew
I like this installment.