Gotta roll with the punches on this one. A lot is going on in mexican sharpshooters life at the moment, but I can still pinch hit for Brett when he needs a break.
Onto the links from the south:
Mike Pompeo says a staffer was lost in a tragic boating accident.
The weather in the deserts are nice this time of year, you know what that means! Migrants. Those racists in Mexico brought out the riot gear. Meanwhile on the other side of Mexico, CBP is working themselves out of a job.
Police killings simultaneously rise while homicides overall drop in Brazil. Call me crazy but I can’t help but assume the two are related.
Thats all for today, here’s some tunes.
I finally caught the cold that’s going around, courtesy of my son.
It’s like he genetically modifies the virus so that I have no resistance. Every Damn Time
Tell me. My kid is 7 and he sprays various cold/flu bugs all over everything. He only has em for a day or two, but they stay with me for a couple of weeks.
It’s not supposed to work that way, they said. “After a year of daycare, you’ll have the immune system of a god,” they said. Not in my case. My daughter acts as a virus magnet at school and then brings all of them home to me, so I wind up with a cold or something like every other week, it seems.
You never saw THIS coming, did you?
I’m surprised Ron Wood can play pedal steel.
Mike Pompeo says a staffer was lost in a tragic boating accident.
My “staffer” was lost in a tragic boating accident, too.
I lost mine on the big lake, when the gales of November came early
Don’t fool with Gitchi Gumee! Keep the hatches battened.
God bless that brunette.
Also, “Mike Pompeo says a staffer was lost in a tragic boating accident.”
Is this the same staffer who said he had information that could lead to Hillary Clinton’s arrest?
I can neither confirm or deny that.
Latin music
Latin music
Latin! music
Batin’ music
Latin music.
https://youtu.be/YSVQ9J0FPSs
Latina music
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-believes-it-lacked-legal-basis-for-continued-surveillance-of-trump-adviser-11579810061
Justice Department Believes It Should Have Ended Surveillance of Trump Adviser Page Earlier
FTA:
“The Justice Department said in a December letter to the secret court that oversees surveillance of suspected foreign spies that it lacked probable cause to continue surveillance of Mr. Page in two of the four surveillance applications it sought against him.
The government began surveillance of Mr. Page in late 2016, after he left the Trump campaign. It ultimately obtained a warrant and three subsequent renewals.
The Justice Department now appears to have concluded that there was “”insufficient predication to establish probable cause” in the last two renewals in 2017. Probable cause is the legal standard to obtain a secret warrant against suspected agents of a foreign power. The letter is classified, but is referenced in a new order declassified by a judge on Thursday. The Justice Department said it would sequester all the material it collected against Mr. Page pending further internal review of the matter.”
Whoopsie…and then nothing happened.
Looks like the FISA court is getting testy about being played by DOJ. Who woulda thunk it?
It is clear the Dems have taken over the mantle of the stupid party. Does than mean the GOP has turned evil?
/Thinks back to the Patriot Act.
They weren’t already?
That was bipartisan evil.
The Stupid/Evil thing was always a trick; both of them are both.
Dumb and dumber
This
counterstamped quarter I have appears to be worth more than a quarter.
Cool story, JD 😉
Thot Thursday now has 50% less sodium.
http://archive.li/l0bFc
Number 23 ALOL
24 goram it
Either 25 is photoshopped, or she wears too many corsets.
#9 looks like somebody I know from high school. The answer, of course, is #31, tied with #38.
Also, are chicks still wearing mom jeans? Because the one chick would’ve looked much more attractive if she set that stupid boater on fire and wasn’t wearing jeans that come up to her sternum.
For the past 3 or 4 summers, the popular item for hipster ladies at NYC beaches has been high-waisted mom jeans cut off into wee short-shorts (the kind so short the pockets stick out below the hem). It looks rather silly.
Many years ago I lived in Brazil for a while and taught English. On my fourth day there, in Rio, I was waking up and having coffee with my buddy when a number of shots rang out from across the street. We went down and sure enough there was a guy with multiple gunshot wounds. He was flat on his back on the sidewalk. We watched the life go out of his eyes as a small crowd started to gather. My Portuguese sucked at that time but my Spanish was good and the shopkeeper whose shop he died in front of said it was the polícia. A year later I saw the police there fire multiple times at two guys about twenty yards away from me. I can’t believe they didn’t hit them. The guys ended up running away and I believe escaping. The police there are no joke.
So, just like Chicago?
Mais ou menos.
Public Enemy Number One, poisoning our waterways one mud puddle at a time
The Environmental Protection Agency is dramatically reducing federal pollution protections for rivers, streams and wetlands – a move welcomed by many farmers, builders and mining companies but opposed even by the agency’s own science advisers.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler, who announced the repeal of an earlier Obama-era rule in September, chose to make the long-anticipated announcement Thursday in Las Vegas, at the National Association of Home Builders International Builders’ Show.
The biggest change is a controversial move to roll back government limits on pollution in wetlands and smaller waterways that were introduced less than five years ago by President Barack Obama.
The Obama executive action, which broadened the definition of “waters of the United States,” applied to about 60% of U.S. waterways. It aimed to bring clarity to decades of political and legal debate over which waters should qualify.
However, various business interests painted the regulation as a massive federal overreach. Within weeks after the change was announced in May 2015, 27 states sued to block it. At the time, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a leading critic, called the new rule “so broad and open to interpretation that everything from ditches and dry creek beds to gullies to isolated ponds formed after a big rain could be considered a ‘water of the United States.’ ”
We’ll expand the definition of “waterway” until any action on every square foot of land is subject to scrutiny by the EPA. That’ll get things booming.
And, of course, any executive order issued by Obama is treated as sacrosanct and irreversible. It’s as if he was God’s personal errand boy.
I saw the USDA release on this earlier today.
On January 23, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) fulfilled yet another promise of President Trump by finalizing the Navigable Waters Protection Rule to define “waters of the United States” (WOTUS). For the first time, the agencies are streamlining the definition so that it includes four simple categories of jurisdictional waters, provides clear exclusions for many water features that traditionally have not been regulated, and defines terms in the regulatory text that have never been defined before. Congress, in the Clean Water Act, explicitly directed the Agencies to protect “navigable waters.” The Navigable Waters Protection Rule regulates these waters and the core tributary systems that provide perennial or intermittent flow into them. The final rule fulfills Executive Order 13788 and reflects legal precedent set by key Supreme Court cases as well as robust public outreach and engagement, including pre-proposal input and comments received on the proposed rule.
And of course it’s over the objections of the lifers, who for some unfathomable reason seem to prefer a state of ever-expanding regulations.
As if there was an authoritarian act they wouldn’t support in the name of expanding the EPA’s jurisdiction.
They don’t want to science themselves out of a job.
What ever floats their boats
Enemy of the Public Administration?
To be sure, if every square foot of land is subject to EPA scrutiny, it would “bring clarity”.
Vague recollection: The EPA only has jurisdiction over “navigable waterways”, a pretty small subset of all the waterways in the US. In classic BigGov fashion, this was expanded to include basically any water that could make its way to a navigable waterway.
The new rule is still too damn broad, as I understand it.
Take this job and shove it?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/22/donald-trump-supporter-boss-stabbed-death-florida-man-deputies/4539723002/
Jesus. That’s why I never talk politics with people.
Old school
“It was just President Trump and this damn war.”
I hope Murdoch is OK. Every time Don Brett has…an episode, poor Murdoch seems to be the one who suffers for it.
Estoy seguro que Señor Murdock esta bíen.
Esta bíen.
I can’t believe that diplomat is missing. To add insult to injury, I had just lent him several of my guns. Sigh.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/23/health/transgender-puberty-blockers-suicide-study/index.html“> Full court press
Transgender youth have a much greater risk of suicide, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, if they have access to a puberty blocker, their chances of suicide and mental health problems in the immediate term and down the road decline significantly, a new study finds.
The study, the first of its kind to examine access to pubertal suppression and suicidality, was published Thursday in the medical journal Pediatrics. The research comes as a handful of states are considering placing restrictions on transgender health care.
One state, South Dakota is considering a law that would make it a felony for health care providers to prescribe medication to stop puberty, among other gender affirming health care treatments. South Carolina and Missouri are also considering similar restrictions.
Republikkkinz want to murder your child!
Seriously, how many people are affected by this? Dozens?hundreds? Is there some sort of epidemic of gender dysphoria in the world, of which I am blissfully unaware?
The article says puberty blockers are safe, effective and reversible, which is good, but what about the social and psychological ramifications of delaying puberty by a potential multi-year period?
I have a feeling it will be increasing over the years as people continue to look for ways to be “victims”.
That’s a huge fucking stretch.
Puberty isn’t just about pubes and has a lot to do with bone density, height, weight, etc…
i have a hard time believing that blocking puberty is safe and without consequence.
You are going to have to go a long freaking way to persuade me that delaying a genetically programmed and essential stage of physiological development is safe and reversible.
Look at Doubting Thomas over here.
Looks like we are all in agreement here. Puberty blockers rule.
*raises the OMWC flag*
But SCIENCE says so! Therefore it is Gospel!
Lots of links, none to the study the article is purportedly about. But don’t worry, they incorporated lots of weasel words and the opinion of somebody who had nothing to do with the study. And hey, look at that, more scaremongering about how this is the only way to stop your kid from offing him/her/them/itself.
Never mind, the first link title was misleading. The first link is to the study, or at least its abstract, on the CDC website.
Changing your story, eh? I see how it is.
Or not, back to what I first said. Fuck CNN and their idiotic way of reporting shit.
This appears to be the actual study although you can’t get to the full article without paying.
One study ain’t science
I’m sorry but with that kind of loaded language, I can’t take this seriously. Did they control for other solutions, such as therapy? Or is the consensus now that the the only cure is creating more “transgender youth”?
“The article says puberty blockers are safe, effective and reversible”
They aren’t.
Leave the kids alone.
1998: “She’s a bit of a tomboy. She likes to climb trees and throw dirt and stuff. We’ll see where it goes.”
2020: “We need to start shopping for surgeons, stat.”
What’s crazy about the whole “trans kids” thing in particular is when I was coming up in the 90s and 2000s, the big thing was tearing down gender stereotypes. Girls could play sports, guys could like to cook, and it didn’t mean you were a lesbian or gay or anything like that.
They’ve completely reversed themselves on this. Now if your 12 year old son is having a little too much fun in the spring musical, the guidance counselor is pushing him into presenting as a girl.
Yes, because in order to plausibly convince the world you’re the opposite sex you are practically required to become a stereotype. It’s ridiculously insulting.
if they have access to a puberty blocker
What the hell does that mean? Shouldn’t they be doing longitudinal studies of people who actually use them?
puberty blockers are safe, effective and reversible
Bullshit. Changes you make to a person’s body while they are growing are not reversible.
They are reversible with lots of pharmaceuticals and decades of medical attention and procedures.
Mentally ill people more likely to commit suicide.
Film at eleven.
There are quite a few kids in my kids’ middle and high schools who “identify as trans.” From what I can see from here, the schools are treading very carefully. I don’t know the motivation behind the schools’ indulgence of this, but I suspect it’s to stave off litigation.
It’s a fucking social contagion.
“The article says puberty blockers are safe, effective and reversible”
I have a very hard time believing this.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but hasn’t this puberty blocker thing been a very recent phenomenon? Exactly how far “down the road” could they possibly have daya for?
Be sure and report back when the kids put on puberty blockers graduate from college.
Use of puberty blockers for this is new. But the drugs have been around for a while. There’s a fairly rare condition called precocious puberty, where a child starts showing signs of puberty at eight or younger. The treatment is to apply a puberty blocker until the child reaches a more normal age to enter puberty.
But the use of it for this? Sounds like malpractice to me.
Most depressing links MS but the music link is ?
Checking weather for tomorrow and came across a non depressing link.
Glad I didn’t go with the first one I picked….
Awesome.
Just awesome.
A completely unanticipated development
Banks are meant to hold cash. But in Switzerland, some rich savers are looking for alternatives.
Swiss private bankers say that clients have asked to withdraw large amounts of cash so they can store it themselves, despite the country’s reputation as a secure and reliable place for wealthy investors. Some of that money may now be sitting in private safes and storage.
The unusual moves follow five years of negative interest rates. The policy, intended to keep the Swiss franc from appreciating too much, requires banks to pay to park money with the Swiss National Bank. In some cases, banks have passed a portion of the extra costs on to their most affluent customers.
Such policies are unpopular with clients who are used to earning interest on their deposits, not paying fees. Now, some are weighing more radical ways to protect their money.
I’m flabbergasted.
Leave it to the government to completely invert the primary function of a bank.
Storing cash under a mattress. This is the Swiss way!
I mean, why wouldn’t you just buy gold or rare watches or hookers. Anything but giving your money away and getting nothing back.
Security and ease of use. Many wealthy people aren’t especially liquid.
Renting hookers is a lot cheaper than buying them.
And nobody wants them when the lease has run out.
The minute you drive them off the lot…
“Mike Pompeo says a staffer was lost in a tragic boating accident.”
“To my entire State Department team, Susan and I are with you in your grief,” Pompeo said. “You have my word the Department will do everything in our power to comfort and support those who have suffered from this devastating loss.”
I find this response much better than the standard, “Our thoughts and prayers…”
This is why we need reasonable boat control laws.
This is why we need reasonable trowel control laws.
Whoops, wrong story.
Is having staffers illegal or something?
I knew a President who was impeached for having a staffer, so maybe?
Banks in Switzerland generally see charging customers to hold their cash as a measure of last resort.
“The bank will discuss with the client, if you do these other things with us that allow us to make some money, we won’t charge you,” Villamin said. “I do think the banks are going out of their way to try and find a way not to charge the large cash holders.”
Just tell them some of it was eaten by mice.
In the story I read this morning about the Trump-related stabbing, they made sure to emphasize the “anti-government” philosophy of the stabber.
You wouldn’t want your readers to jump to some crazy unfounded conclusion about radicalized Bernie Bros.
Was he an anarcho-communist type?
Nah, couldn’t be, he was working.
The worst are the politically moderate radicals.
“As the attacker plunged the knife into his victim, he was heard shouting: ‘Our current health care system has both pluses and minuses”.
coranavirus maybe in my current home state or Texas.
Might be worse than Modelovirus.
We made this series or hooray yesterday, and I believe my favorite was that Coronavirus is really only tolerable with Lyme disease.
* of jokes.
not sure how it got changed to or hooray by my spell checker
I figured it was a reference to Redstripevirus, which is of course the Hooray Virus.
/Head desk,
The Art strain of that is even worse.
Over-hyped disease just like the others.
I dunno. They are saying this one is ten times as deadly as SARS.
So SARS killed 0 Americans.
Let’s do the math here. what’s 10 times 0?
Socialist Steps On Another Rake Insisting That 79 Previous Attempts Weren’t REAL Stepping On A Rake
AOC Declares Stalin Was Actually Center-Right
Hitler was, they made a pact, why not Stalin?
Also declares Pol Pot was too humane.
The morons at DU think they’re winning.
http://democraticunderground.com
How did you figure out the password to get into that cutting edge underground news site?
Hunter prepares to testify.
“Hunter is taking no chances, he knows that he could get called as a witness any day so he wants to be fully prepared, he’s going over every fine detail,” a source told the Daily Mail on Wednesday.
“He’s taking the trial very seriously and wants to make sure he’s ready for whatever the Republicans throw at him,” the source added.
Biden, whose business activities in Ukraine are at the center of the impeachment trial, has been floated as a possible witness in exchange for former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton, according to The Washington Post. However, Democrat leaders poured cold water on the idea yesterday, arguing that the younger Biden is not a material witness.
“I think that’s off the table. First of all the Republicans have the right to bring in any witness they want. They haven’t wanted to and that trade is not on the table,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told reporters when asked about a Biden-Bolton swap.
So he has 2 underage hookers and a briefcase full of blow in his room at the Hay Adams? “Hearing Prep”
That was just incidental.
Those are always in his hotel room.
The delay was so Biden could learn passable Ukrainian on Duo Lingo?
They put up a map and asked him to show where Ukraine was located.
He’s almost got it wired.
Now if they could only get him to understand what a map is.
C’mon, as soon as they put the map up, he began singing “I’m the Map” from Dora the Explorer.
“He’s taking the trial very seriously and wants to make sure he’s ready for whatever the Republicans throw at him,”
Translation: We’ve got a team of people whose job it is to keep him sober and out of trouble.
Dems think TX is in play.
“Last year 17 TX State House Republicans won their election by less than 10 points. We can flip these seats by reaching un-registered Democrats. Your donation will be used to send them pre-filled voter registration forms w/ stamped return envelope,” O’Rourke wrote in a tweet late last year. “We win nine seats in the TX legislature, Dems will have a majority. That means an end to racist gerrymandering, a chance to address gun violence, reproductive rights, Medicaid expansion, & climate change in Texas. Will be positive for Congressional & Presidential races as well.”
If they turn TX blue, spread your cheeks, because the federal reaming will be deep and painful.
When the Democrats gerrymander, even though race is an inherent part of their voting calculus, it’s not racist because reasons.
TX will probably turn blue at some point, a victim of it’s own success attracting a bunch of people who want to change things, but I don’t think it will be this year, and I also don’t think it will be permanent.
Has a state ever gone blue and not stayed that way…?
The “Solid South” of yore has pretty much switched sides, I think.
Only because the racists switched from the Democrats to the Republican party. There were so many racists as to change the states from Blue to Red.
This narrative always gets a little messed up by the existence of Jimmy Carter.
Which is weird, because the Repubs were more supportive of the Civil Rights Acts than the Dems.
I see you’ve never argued with a Dem partisan who claimed that Northern Dems were more supportive of the CRA than Northern Repubs. Naturally, later on Southern Dems turned into Republicans. In other words, Republicans are the racists.
This narrative gets a little messed up by the existence of Barry Goldwater.
(My comment was in response to R C Dean)
The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)
The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) (only Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%) (John Tower of Texas)
Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%) (only Robert Byrd of West Virginia voted against)
Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
I’ve always considered Roe v Wade to have the greater impact on switching the South than anything.
The Civil Rights Act supports civil rights in the same way that the Affordable Care Act made care affordable. You cannot end injustice by reversing the polarity.
I think the courts of the 1960s did a lot worse things than the legislature. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had overreach, and Goldwater ran against it for that overreach, but I think the legislation was a sideshow to the federal courts running roughshod over state constitutions and sovereignty.
West Virginia, although that might just be a delayed version of what happened in the South.
A lot of the midwestern states have, and I think TX is much more like them than it is the west coast or northeast.
It should also be noted that part of my thinking is this, that since TX has made it almost impossible to levy an income tax, it will be much harder to turn it into a big spending state. A lot of the potential D voters are not as leftist as the D politicos, so without the ability to basically bribe the electorate it will be a lot harder to keep them in their corner.
If the analogy between TX and the Midwest holds, then the shift from blue back to red will be preceded by a whole lot of economic depression.
That is exactly what I’m expecting. TX doesn’t exactly have the foundation to withstand a Californication, which is what the D leaders want. Without its pro-business and pro-natural resource stance, it’s economy isn’t going to be much.
So if it’s Biden/Trump, lets have the Sons Debate!
Don Jr. against Hunter, what could go wrong?
DOOM
The famed Doomsday Clock has been set at 100 seconds to midnight this year, the closest it’s ever been to the metaphorical point of the Earth’s destruction…
Last year, the Bulletin [of Atomic Scientists] set the clock at two minutes to midnight, choosing to leave the clock at the same time as the previous year.
This year, the Bulletin’s panel of scientists and other experts decided to move the clock 20 seconds forward and for the first time express the time in seconds rather than minutes because the “moment demands attention,” said Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin.
“bulletin” of “atomic” “scientists”
Which moment? Do I get to pick?
or is it
ATOMIC WARMING now?
I can just see Trump make his own nuclear deal with Iran. Praise the Iranian leaders and get called out by the same people who said he was going to get us into a war for being too nice to dictators. Kind of like with North Korea.
I read Lil Kim is building Missiles faster than ever, with what money and purpose,
Whats he really going to do with all that excess shit?
Who needs 23 kinds of Nuke!
Oops…
https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a30349105/i-mowed-down-a-lady/
“Jessica Yaniv has officially been ARRESTED and is sitting in a jail cell as you read this. Cheers, bitches!”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1220179266463129600
https://www.thepostmillennial.com/breaking-jessica-yaniv-arrested-charged-with-assault/
I Live With Six Brothers. I Have Sex With Two of Them. It’s Fine, They Know.
This sounds like a real problem and just not just a way to brag.
Is “brothers” some kind of euphemism here?
black men
The problem is that I don’t know what to call this arrangement, even to myself.
Slutfest.
Brothers with Benefits.
“Should I follow Yarin’s lead and just say we’re friends?”
Or you could say my family of 7 brothers all still live together.
That’s what I thought first myself. Only later I realized that the letter writer hasn’t implied he’s a brother of the other six guys.
Whew. So we don’t have to worry about kids with birth defects?
“Dear Penthouse Forum…”
Regarding Guaido and Venezuela, I guess we have the small consolation that our intelligence agencies aren’t that brazen (yet?).
https://twitter.com/donwinslow/status/1219415734381531136
Don’t be like Don Winslow.
Some people never really leave high school.
Love the ratio.
Who the fook is Don Winslow?
Crime thriller writer.
Best-selling, I should add.
So…nobody I need to give a shit about? Forgive me if I side with the guy with a rifle that shoots $10 bills.
See also Brad Thor, a once favorite author of the right for his action adventure novels featuring ‘Murica fuck yeah! killing commies and terrorists, but he doesn’t like Trump so fuck him and his shitty books.
What a total puss this Winslow guy is.
“Oh, no one needs guns. Because the government wouldn’t let anything bad happen to me.”
Idiot.
Wasn’t Don Winslow a comic strip a few years? A navy Lt maybe? A navy lt commander, yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Don_Winslow_of_the_Navy_(comic_strip)
I was once standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona.
I’m sure it was fine sight to see.
What’s wrong with Brandon?
From Bob’s link:
Early on, Shirley told me that she hadn’t heard the car running. We may not always be conscious of it, but humans use subtle sensory clues as a sort of early-warning system. A running engine would likely have alerted Shirley that my car had the potential to move. Who knew that the old motorcycle adage “loud pipes save lives” also applied to idling electric cars?
No shit, Sherlock.
Yeah, they are likely to roll out requirements at the state level to make sounds under a certain speed and off highway.
Elon Musk hates it, so he’s working on goofy options like choosing the sound of two halves of coconuts banging together as one of the “alert” option noises/
Awesome. Like the Instapundit, I think the Jetson’s bleebling noise is the superior option.
Agreed, perfect….
I was hoping I could load my own “ringtone “ as it were.
Elon Musk hates it, so he’s working on goofy options like choosing the sound of two halves of coconuts banging together as one of the “alert” option noises/
That is awesome.
Or just use the horn like they do in any number of third world countries.
I remember Reader’s Digest (IIRC) had an article forecasting this as a downside to electric back in the 60s. Noisemakers were suggested as a solution.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Subtle sensory clues… like looking around for moving objects.
I walked out in front of on once, he stopped and I had this look of, Where fuck did you come from?
It doesn’t help when you’re riding a bike, and one rolls up behind you silently. It’s a good thing that I keep checking behind me at red lights, as they were making a right hand turn.
I drive really slowly around my immediate neighborhood because it’s winding roads and hilly, and lots of dog walkers out there.
Why come no rear view mirror on your handlebars?
My road bike has one, but I was paying attention to the light. My hybrid bike has no mirrors, but that’s usually only used on the trails.
Maybe it’s just me, but when I’m riding my bike I can hear electric cars coming up behind me. The tires still make noise and the cars themselves have a high pitched whine.
That works at speed, but not when almost stationary.
high pitched whine.
That’s the drivers.
Legit LOL!
Situational awareness still requires human participation.
I love my backup cam for hooking up a trailer, but I don’t trust it for shit where people are involved.
Exactly. I’ve blown my horn at people who are so absorbed in their cell phone they don’t hear it. Hearing is not as passive a sense as you want to believe.
Very true.
Hearing is not as
passiveactive a sense as you want to believe.FTFY.
My sex life is absolutely not the business of random strangers.
And that’s why I want everybody to know bout it.
Fuck off, drama queenie.
How did we get from “stay out of my bedroom!” To “Live stream my bedroom and celebrate my sexual choices!!” in about 10 years?!
Hashtag woke!
There’s money to be made in sex cam work.
Because the internet is for porn?
Hand-held miracles that allow us every advantage but come with a down-side.
Kind of like higher intelligence
Hand-held miracles
Indeed they are.
allow us every advantage
Male privilege FTW!
come with a down-side
You may be doin’ it wrong.
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1220063553798975490
LOL
That was almost as manly and badass as Dukakis the Tanker.
I like that he has a blue baseball cap as a symbol. I wonder what personality the Yang Hat has?
Yang has the moves but unfortunately no gang.
Is it not getting a little late into the cycle to expect some sort of awakening of the demos and suddenly realize Yang/Tulsi/Klobuchar are the real winners and dump the “also rans”.
Single digit numbers are not their friend. Barring a Hillary swoop this is Biden’s to win or lose.
“Stop! Please stop! He’s already dead!”
The brunette on the right presses ALL the buttons in my hind-brain. That is all…
I’ve been saying that for a long time
Then we are in agreement! Let’s divide the spoils!
Quit looking at her tits, (I know, but try) her chin is all kinds off fucked up and her eyes are kinda wonky, put them both in burlap bags and you’d take Chelsea Clinton first.
At one point, Chelsea had certain, Charms……
you’d take Chelsea Clinton first.
*shudders*
“you’d take Chelsea Clinton first.”
Dude…. no… just no…
You’d hit it.
I have a theory that Hillary didn’t off Epstein. He actually committed suicide after reminiscing about banging Chelsea.
With a stick
I’d need some beer… a lot of beer.
I never thought that I’d see the limit of gain-say but you, Sir, have gone beyond the pale! HOW DARE YOU? Mud-Wrasslin’ at dawn! Our seconds shall inspect the course. Good day.
“In backing Liz Warren and Amy Klobuchar, the New York Times rejected toxic masculinity — as we all should
The problem with masculinity is when it occurs as its shadow part. Toxic masculinity looks like this ongoing death rattle of the white supremacist patriarchy clinging to power. And, of course, we see the most grotesque manifestation of this sickness in the form of that demonic sweet potato who keeps us on the verge of World War Three because he cannot handle his own insecurity — which would be embarrassing, if our lives weren’t at stake. ”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/elizabeth-warren-amy-klobuchar-new-york-times-presidential-candidates-toxic-masculinity-a9295531.html
Do these people ever step back, take a few deep breaths and wonder how it all went so horribly wrong?
That’s Lauren Duca. She’s as dumb as a rock.
So.. no
I don’t mean to harp on the subject but do they ever find fault with themselves? I’m a seriously flawed human being and I own the mistakes that I’ve made and continue to make. At 55, I’m still learning but some folk just put the Skinner blinders on and say “No! It’s the children that are wrong!”
Duca managed to get scathing reviews from NYU journalism students taking a summer class in feminist journalism from her. That’s how much of an idiot she is.
This was her response to the criticism:
“But to be clear, I’m not a great teacher, for real. I’ve learned that. I guess at the end of the day, everyone should just be relieved that I didn’t put my dick in anyone’s hands.”
“for real” That’s Academic-speak for, like not getting the syllabus? Or something?
I’m guessing no, they don’t. Or they blame it on men, or white people, or white men.
You know that you need to die, Nappy. It’s inevitable.
That’s some impressive gibberish.
Vintage even. I can smell the moth balls from here.
“Gender is, of course, a social construct…”
How could you not see it? Only rubes could think otherwise.
My very first memories are populated with the difference between boys and girls. I didn’t understand what my under-developed brain was telling me but I was darn sure I was gonna get me some love. Social construct. Keep telling yourself that lie, Femcel.
Gender is a social construct. Sex is not. All that means is that wearing makeup and a dress doesn’t make you a woman, it just makes you effeminate.
Jeebus. Derp overload. I need some Derpcan, STAT!
“protects you”
I don’t want a god damned protector. I want an executive that will follow the damned law and stay the fuck out of my life.
I want an executive that will follow the damned
lawConstitution and stay the fuck out of my life.But, yes.
“Elbows Akimbo” Warren should be careful with those things lest she put someone’s eye out.
Nothing says “I live for others” like raging narcissism.
People pay her for this stuff?
Alright, I’m done.
“investing in love for ourselves and, therefore, the collective.”
That’s weapons grade hippie bullshit right there.
I lived communally for about six months in the mid-80’s. It worked until Autumn and the heating bill came due. There was that pesky bit about humans pairing up and teaming together. Yes, it fell to shit even though we were the closest of friends and the most gentle of people. June was la-di-dah-di-dah. November was a different story altogether. It was the girls that ruined it.
The hippies do the same thing in Highland County Virginia every few years. Show up in summer, live in glorified tents, winner arrives and it all falls apart. Gone by December.
Rush Hemisphere’s IRL, huh…
Circumstances , Brother. https://youtu.be/i9dHL7GA1nk
It was the girls that ruined it.
In any less-than-totally-civilized-situation (like camping), there are three rules if women are present:
Keep ’em warm;
Keep ’em dry; and
Keep ’em well-fed.
Otherwise, you’re doomed.
Indeed. You can NEVER pack enough blankets. This is known.
In my 2008 Zero-Hedge-induced panicked prepping I bought a lot of useless bullshit because I was confused.
Once I calmed down and realized that ZH is that insane guy on the corner in a sandwich board braying about the end of the world, I thought: What can I trade that I can stockpile?
Then I was at the thrift store one day (I don’t actually shop at thrift stores because I must; I do it because there are treasures waiting to be found), and there was a plethora of blankets. Heavy blankets. Clean, intact, and sometimes pretty blankets.
CHEAP heavy, clean, intact, and sometimes pretty blankets.
I started buying those by the droves and got those vacuum bags to pack them in. I have at least 2 dozen of those fuckers in the house and the kids probably have every single one of them.
Wifey is a “blanket babe” Her obsession has little to do with the end of the world but more about being warm. I have enough socks to fill two dresser drawers and yet she still keeps buying me socks from Bezos.
I am also all about bundling up and being warm and I regularly wear 2 pairs of socks and mukluks.
Long-johns as soon as the grass dies. I’m a cold puss.
Ongoing death rattle is a toy I gave my kid.
Sound’s legit, Gaijan.
Life is one long death rattle.
/Zen
Middle finger and thumb growing closer together. Resisting resisting…
Women that go on and on about their magical, life-giving vagina should suck a dick once in a while. And vice versa.
You rescued that comment with the half-gainer and suplex at the end. I award you every point.
Raymond Arroyo
BREAKING:
@realDonaldTrump
is set to be the first president to address the “March for Life” on the National Mall. Previous presidents have sent video greetings or invited organizers to White House. Trump will be the first to speak in person at the March.
“wHy dO eVaNgeLiCalS sUPpOrT TrUMp?”
Prediction: He’s going to improve his margins with churchgoing Christians
Stuff like this is why I find the claim “he’s not a politician” a little suspect/imprecise. He’s not a DC veteran politician, but the man can politick like nobody’s business.
He definitely understands how a thrice married degenerate like himself can win churchgoing Christians
If he keeps swatting mosquitoes a la Davos, he’ll be fine.
The difference is whose money are they spending
He understands better than any Republican pol since Reagan that everyone’s votes count the same. The stupid Republicans of years past would refuse to speak to the March, because all the little Beltway liberal Republican aides and staffers swore it would “turn off the middle”. Which is, of course, bullshit.
Broadly speaking, you can divide the abortion issue into three (extremely roughly) equal camps: anti abortion, pro abortion, and the “safe, legal, and rare” camp. The only people who would be pissed off about Trump speaking to the March For Life are in the pro abortion camp, and they all hate his fucking guts anyway.
Agreed. He’s got his core fan base that is not going anywhere, hence the flop-sweat from the Dems trying to reverse the 2016 election by any means necessary. Now they’re starting to lose the plantation vote. What to do, what to do…
Not saying they’re right or wrong, only saying that it’s not surprising why they support him
When their options are a sinner who asks for their vote and a slightly less sinful sinner who treats them with utter contempt, it’s not a particularly difficult choice for them, is it?
the other option is staying home. Something Hilary completely forgot.
I don’t trust you anymore, TGA. Is it live or is it Memorex?
So, he won’t grab ‘em by the pussy?
Toxic masculinity looks like this ongoing death rattle of the white supremacist patriarchy clinging to power.
Preach it, sister.
You can pry the Patriarchy from my cold, dead hands! *death rattle, prying commences*
Elon Musk hates it, so he’s working on goofy options like choosing the sound of two halves of coconuts banging together as one of the “alert” option noises/
Star Trek fight music.
LMAO! It came right to me! I’m still laughing,
Kirk vs Gorn
Tapes of wailing Hillary supporters from 2016
^ best
South Park smug cloud…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyTfaCGy6t8
Captain Kirk will fuck dem green bitches.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FiiPRNHBjQc
https://twitter.com/beccalew/status/1219820746643406850
Housewives are literally Hitler.
“for those in my comments who dont seem to know, so-called “trad wives” are white supremacist women who devote themselves to domestic duties in the service of perpetuating the white race. it is a dog whistle meant to sound less white supremacist than it is”
Her hubby is going to be a lucky guy.
Any dude that would get with someone that derptarded deserves misery.
Dear Ms. Lewis,
I see you’ve indicated your preferred pronouns in your bio, signalling that you’re an idiot and should donate your organs to people who aren’t. How generous.
Sincerely,
Me
Her man is never going to get a samwich.
I doubt she ever fixes him lunch, either.
Not a “crust-cutter”, I’d wager.
Meanwhile, this woman who doesn’t want a man to make all the decisions for her, is certainly advocating for a government that does.
But, you see, TOP anonymous strangers mean well. Unlike the man she chose to marry.
She has no problem attacking other women for making their own decisions, though.
You’ve seen them in the wild, Nappy. You know how terribly they treat one another.
All the cool chicks are here.
So there’s no cool chicks?
Wait, what?
Sorry I wasn’t here.
I was getting laid.
*Intones South Park “Nicccce”*
Moje, you’re the wind beneath my wings.
Thank you, AJB! ::pointedly ignores Spud::
If you pointedly ignore him then he’ll know he’s being shunned. Do I have to teach everything to you people?
D00d, he’s supposed to know he’s being shunned — it’s the most important part of the shaming/punishment.
So you are proving him wrong by being cool to him? There is a logical problem… never mind.
Local news, cruel landlord edition:
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/contact7/lakewood-renter-shocked-complex-using-traps-to-control-squirrel-population
“”There are different ways to go about it. You don’t have to let an animal freeze to death overnight and then put it in a black garbage bag. That’s not dignified for anyone,” she said.”
Freezin’ to death, I tells ya! Just let them go back to their cozy squirrel houses.
Trap the squirrels and release them in her apartment.
Go whole hog. Hire a British butler to release them in her apartment with dignity.
“Anyone” includes people?
Errrr. Animals.
Need cofveve.
Share your favorite frozen squirrel recipes here.
My first husband was a hunter and brought me some frozen, baggied wild rabbit to cook.
I made Rabbit in Wine (onions, shrooms, a little soy sauce, and bunny).
Turned out that one of the baggies was squirrel, not rabbit.
Dinner was terrific! Just had to dig out the shot pellets as I cut it up.
I ate squirrel once. When we were kids we used to fuck off into the bush, build a lean-to shelter and live off the land for the weekend. Local squirrel tastes like pine trees.
Sounds delish!
*snort*
Back in the day, my roommate used to cook up squirrels. I tried them once.
If I were starving, I would eat them, otherwise a plastic bag is a perfect place for them.
My favorite game animal to eat.
Skin, gut, etc.
Cut into 5 pieces (4 legs and the saddle)
roll in flour
brown in butter
Put in a roasting pan with about a 1/2 in of water
Roast at 350 for 1 or 1.5 hours
Put in potatoes, carrots, etc
The meat will be fall off the bone tender, and the dripping turn into fantastic gravy.
Fine.
I’ll try yours sometime.
I killed plenty of them when my blood-lust was at it’s peak. Now they just amuse me. They are cool little critters and I’ll punch any of you that says that’s not so.
I know when it’s time to harvest the plum tree when I start finding half eaten plums all over the lawn.
And last winter the little fuckers got into our cabin and the cabin next door. Looked like they held a rave party. I gave my neighbor my blessing when he asked if I minded if he reduced to population.
“With extreme prejudice “
I find them entertaining. Especially when there 5″ or more cold-weather snow that the have to bound through.
Can we get one of them traps for this site?
Coulda used one last night. Good Lord…
I’m appalled by the traps too. They should allow residents with air rifles to bang away at them. Way more sporting.
Obligatory Squirrelapult link.
https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1220195189073022979
This is great.
Look nuts to us but not to nutty nuts.
Perfect.
Ayup.
Fingers crossed this coronavirus is overblown bullshit, but China just quarantined 11 million people. And the WHO is trying to downplay the severity.
Local sports radio show just interviewed a local dude who got stuck in Wuhan visiting family.
Sounds a bit grim.
Styx is rolling out his usual freak-a-thon but I’m pretty sure he’d like nothing better than half the world to die. Wishes and horses, if you will.
48 hour28 day rule.Zombies!
Going to rehab ?
Yufus got it.
I’d bet more people have the virus than is being reported, which makes the death toll look worse. From everything I’ve heard the dead were mostly ederly with preexisting conditions. Also contraire to what the left claims Chinese healthcare has nothing on the US.
Sorry typing from phone. *The low number of reported infected makes the death toll look worse.*
That’s what I’m hoping. The interesting aspect of this is that it appears to be an animal virus that has transferred to humans.
Well yes this is obviously the case.
How many people in 3rd world countries who get the flu go to the hospital? only people who are seriously fucked up would so that. it’s just a flu and those systems are a nightmare.
i’m quite sure there are many unreported cases where people get better.
And the WHO is trying to downplay the severity
Well, since they got old before they died, they’ve been backtracking ever since.
We like to think that we’d be the ones blowing up Zombie heads like melons but in reality we’d be part of the shambling hoarde. It’s akin to everyone doing past life regression that happens to have been Cleopatra and not some mud-stink river man or a babe that died in child-birth.
Fuck off slaver!!!!
^this. And even if you were to survive, think what life would be, unremitting combat against an implacable opponent while trying to survive, vile and scarce food etc. You aren’t going to be sitting in your comfy bunker mowing down zombies, your going to be terrified, hungry, sick, and given the usual movie/book/game percentages, paralyzed by grief. Zombie time = everyone you love just died horribly and now their corpse is trying to eat you.
So I’m presuming this zombie virus is airborne like the Corona. Is there a select group of people who are naturally immune? Or is everyone fair game? Either way I’m putting a bullet in my head if I’m a “survivor”.
Bite or scratch required. Oddly, the only way more zombies are created is by the complete failure of zombies. if they succeed in eating their targets, no more zombies.
Biting/scratching is a horrible way to spread a virus.
Yes, but it’s excellent for a metaphorical storytelling device.
Very true. I can’t think of a more terrifying way to go out than being chewed up and ripped apart only to come back to life as a zombie.
Dystopia is so much more attractive on the big screen 🙁
So you’re saying there’s no chance of me and Jennifer Lawrence hooking up to win a battle Royale together?
About as much chance as me hooking up with Cillian Murphy and slaying speed-zombies together.
Do it quick.
*deletes comment
They don’t call it la petite mort fer nuthin’, yanno.
The little death…..so apt
I thought that was myth! Have I been wrong lo these many years?
Dude, that’s the G spot.
And it is NOT a myth. *happy sigh*
We know, Mojo. We know… *Flexes fuck-finger and bears down*
Its laughable that shambling creatures with no strategic thinking would be any real threat to people anyway.
I dunno. Ever tread on a ground hornet’s nest?
I guess you haven’t been watching the impeachment, then?
Bobarian from the top rope! Huzzah!
Fuck all that zombie fighting, they’re not that difficult to kill. I’d be busy trying to repopulate the earth with hot model type to provide disease resistant offspring. It’s a tough job.
They’d all look like that redhead from “Zombieland”?
In my own private dystopia they are every color and size.
Your jib. The cut. I like.
yeah. i think this fantasy is part of the reason apocalypse movies are popular. drive around (before all the gas goes stale I guess) blowing off zombie heads and mating with the remaining ladies.
Does diesel separate like that? Serious question.
No
Furiously scribbles in tiny note book, stuffs into go-bag
Hot models are disease resistant? Explains Rupal’s long career.
I was syphilis in a past life. Or maybe that was this life.