Aaaaaand, we’re back.
Screw you too, WordPress!
I woke up yesterday with the stress level at about an 11 on the 1-10 scale*. I needed something to take it down a few notches, which I’m usually able to do with putting the links together. Instead, I had to deal with a 503 and 504 error (whatever that means to those who understand computing), and couldn’t do my normal duties. Thanks to SP, we got back up and I’m here this morning.
*That stress was work-related. I had an auction yesterday. A really, really big one where people had incredibly high, nay…unrealistic, expectations. Having an equipment sale in January can be challenging. Nobody really knows what to expect before the giant round of Florida auctions that come next month. And the uncertainty of an election year makes it even more unpredictable and typically risky for sellers. But the big seller really had no choice and had to create some cashflow quickly, so we ran with it. And I needed to make sure his equipment didn’t tank. Anyway, to make a long story short, we were all sitting around at the end of the day yesterday with our jaws on the floor as the last lots went across the (virtual) ramp after having seen much of it go for 100-125% of what like items were selling for last fall. It was freaking amazing. And yes, I did a good job of putting the sale together and marketing it. But no way in hell could I or anybody else have foreseen the numbers we brought. I can honesty say that it was the greatest moment of my professional life. And I’m still trying to figure out how it happened. Anyway, I’m not trying to brag. I’m just sharing something. Sometimes things just all fall into place, I guess. But…damn, it was awesome. Just freaking awesome.
The total number of points they’ve dropped all year.
Anyway, your hockey winners yesterday were Boston, Calgary, Florida, New York Rangers (over their crosstown rivals), Montreal (back to .500, baby!), Washington, Columbus, Vegas, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, the MINNESOOOOOOOODA WIIIIIILD!!!!!!, Buffalo, Colorado, and Vancouver. There’s some big soccer matches across the pond this weekend, headlined by ManUre heading to Anfield to see if they can take more points off Liverpool this season. And since they’ve been the only team to do so this season, expect the Reds to be ready. We’ve also got the NFL conference championship games…and I’m picking San Francisco and Kansas City to be facing off in the Super Bowl.
$100 Dollar Bill, Y’all
Inventor, founder, and proponent of anonymous speech Ben Franklin was born on this day. He shares it with such luminaries as gambler Arnold Rothstein, noted alcohol distributor Al Capone, boxing manager Cus D’Amato, the hilarious Betty White, hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, hockey goaltending pioneer Jacques “The Snake” Plante, acting heavyweight James Earl Jones, hilarious baseball manager Don Zimmer, the greatest heavyweight of all time Cassius Clay, country legend Steve Earle, adorable singer Susanna Hoffs, outfielder Chili Davis, Canadian person Jim Carrey, former First Lady Michelle Obama, hockey legend (especially on EA Sports’s NHL 94) Jeremy Roenick, rock superstar Kid Rock, and that lovely airhead Zooey Deschanel.
That, my friends, is quite a list. Now on to…the links!
Phoenix police do what police officers everywhere do. Yeah, what a shock.
A Virginia judge has decided that the law doesn’t matter and that the governor can dictate whatever he wants. I don’t see how this will be upheld. You know, since the actual laws still on the books (for now, anyway) permit this behavior.
Liberal hack, Manu Raju
She’s not wrong. The reactions to this exchange are hilarious. They’re also retarded. He is a hack. And she’s not obligated to talk to him anymore than the people a conservative journalist ambushes.
A corrupt Chicagoland politician? I’m sure you’re as surprised as I am.
Are you getting tired of the “Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme? Be prepared for more of it. A whole lot more.
But if you ban google, how will we google this?
Gay rights group bans Google and YouTube from events in the Bay Area. Huh, I had no idea you could ban people from public events. I guess their tolerance only goes so far. Of course it’s based on politics.
OK, now do Saudi Arabia. Seriously, what’s the difference? Oh yeah, one is our “ally”. And a damn good customer to the MIC.
Well that’s it for the links. I’m playing three songs by the same artist today. Here’s the first. And the second. The finale. Not sure why I picked any of that. Probably because I think they’re a great and under appreciated band. Hope you enjoy.
Now get out there and make it a good friday and an even better weekend.
What do you expect a judge to do, follow the law? Please.
I believe this is what Clint Bolick described as judicial lawlessness.
Insert Stallone mumble yelling “I am the lah!”
It’s Arkansas so is anyone looking for the Clinton connection?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/arkansas-woman-state-senators-death-new-charges
Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, R-Pocahontas
Anyone know where Warren was that night?
On Friday, Humphrey said he was walking home from dropping his sisters off at school when he heard what sounded like a gunshot from a white vehicle, so he took off running.
If he was innocent he wouldn’t have run.
The teen didn’t know at the time, that the unmarked vehicle was Phoenix Police firing a stun grenade
Completely necessary. There was clearly no need to simply identify yourself as police and politely question the kid.
Incidentally and on a more serious note, this is why I am against unmarked police vehicles. If you are a government agent patrolling around, I should be able to discern that.
Anyone who runs is a
VCcriminal. Anyone who stands still is a well-disciplinedVCcriminal. Haha. Ain’twarpolicing hell?Did not know this before, but the guy playing that part was the original DS, whose job was stolen by R. Lee Ermy.
Even if you’re just some government functionary running an errand I want to know that it’s my vehicle, burning my gas, being operated by one of my employees.
High Five on the good job, Sloop. Damn you, though, for making me say peak Tyson beats Peat Ali. Both great, but Tyson was unbeatable at one point in time.
No.
He’d have never beaten peak Ali. Ali could take a punch and not be shit-scared like all of Tyson’s early opponents were. Buster Douglas proved that.
Buster wasn’t peak Tyson. Try about 3 or 4 years earlier.
Early Tyson was hard to hit. He moved his head all the time. It would have been interesting between peak Ali and peak Tyson.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. and caught in the corner by an angry dog that bit off my ear!
Shortly after Cus died, Tyson became a different fighter. Still dangerous but much more vulnerable. Tony Atlas said that Tyson was good but not great, because he never rose to the occasion in a great fight.
Teddy Atlas… not the pro wrasler.
Tyson would’ve beaten him senseless in under 3 rounds.
Peak Nicklaus vs. Peak Woods, using the same equipment. Now there’s a match for the ages.
I’ll take Jack before somebody comes in and says Bobby Jones would have taken both their money.
I don’t need to, you already did.
Plus, he was a better lawyer than the other two put together.
Peak John Holmes vs. peak Debbie doing Dallas!
I LOVED Tyson at his best – he was an absolute beast. He hit in a way that very few fighters ever have. HOWEVER, Joe Frazier would not have been afraid of Tyson – AND after Manila, I have to say that Ali was the best ever. Might Tyson have knocked him out? Maybe, but the fact that Frazier couldn’t tells me a lot. I think Tyson would have been a very different fighter had he been forced to fight in the same heavyweight division that Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Norton, et al did. But it’s fun to talk about for sure.
You did tell the seller that it was all due to your work, right?
I think he already knows that. It effectively saved his company.
I worked at an auction house (antiques) for a while. In spite of all the preparations and advertising, a heavy rain day could destroy the sales. Outside auctions in the winter are all the more precarious. Good job, Sloopy.
gambler Arnold Rothstein
It ain’t a gamble when it is fixed.
A Virginia judge has decided that the law doesn’t matter and that the governor can dictate whatever he wants.
Like the Constitution, the actual text of laws has not mattered for quite some time.
Yep, I’m not sure if I’m going to go to Lobby day.
I was planning on it, as an Pistol Open Carrier who refuses to get a permit.
I’ve tried to ignore politics, but these ass hats are forcing me to care.
we were all sitting around at the end of the day yesterday with our jaws on the floor as the last lots went across the (virtual) ramp after having seen much of it go for 100-125% of what like items were selling for last fall. It was freaking amazing.
Trump is wrecking the economy! We’re dooooomed.
I’m telling you, it was nuts. I had a 2012 Vermeer T655 trencher in the sale. It was in good shape. I told the guy he should sell it it it got anywhere close to $150k but he said he had to get to $175k.
The only comp I could find was a machine sold last April that was 2 years newer, had better features and 25% fewer hours on it. It went for $203k. By all rights, it shouldn’t have sold. It went to some dude in Israel for $185k.
Shit, I had an older Deere 750K with garbage for an undercarriage and close to 10,000 hours that went for $56k.
It. Was. Insane.
Sloopy, I am really excited about your auction results. I’m glad all that back-breaking work is paying off. Congratulations, fine sir. HUZZAH for the auctioneer!
Single day at point and all that, but people bidding up capital equipment sounds like a healthy economy to me. Hopefully not overbidding in a bubble.
Glad you did well, sloop.
I’m assuming it was all non-Tier 4F equipment.
But that’s good news in general.
Imagine how much better this auction could have been if we still had net neutrality!
On a serious note – congrads. I’ve had one or two days like that where I’ve done fine work and providence turns it into a spectacular windfall. Its a unique feeling.
Thanks for this. About the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen.
You didn’t like the local news recurring segment “Eye on Epstein”?
The reactions to this exchange are hilarious. They’re also retarded.
Case in point.
Blitzer said, “Manu, I want to ask you something that happened today with you up on Capitol Hill when you attempted to air a very fair, serious, important question to Republican Senator Martha McSally of Arizona. A question about the upcoming trial in the Senate.” …
Raju said, “Well, it’s a key question at this moment because House Democrats are planning to present evidence in this trial, including evidence that has not been submitted yet through the course of the impeachment inquiry. Things that have come out. Lev Parnas providing a number of documents, lots of documents to the House Intelligence Committee. That’s the former Giuliani associate. And it’s possible there’s going to be even more evidence that will come out while the trial is ongoing, and at that point, senators like Martha McSally will have the choice to make about whether to vote to allow new evidence to be considered. So a key question that I have, and a lot of reporters up here have, is about whether or not senators will agree and vote to actually allow that new evidence to come forward. And Martha McSally, as you could see Wolf, did not want to talk about it. Also, she’s in the middle of a very difficult reelection race, and she’s using that exchange to fundraise for her campaign.”
Blitzer said, “Yeah, it’s awful. I take it, she or her staff, no one has reached out to apologize to you, have they?”
Raju said, “I have not heard from them at all.”
Blitzer said, “If they did the right thing, she would personally call you and say, ‘I’m sorry.’ It was an awful, awful thing that she did.”
Guess we haeve to update the list. LQBTQCNN.
Endless impeachment. The House Dems dont want a trial, they want a continued investigation using the Senate trial as a platform for such.
They had their investigation with no time limit. They had their chance to make their case. Hold a trial and let them present their case. Calling new witnesses, entering new evidence etc. violates the principle of discovery, does it not? They want to spring a bunch of new (equally irrelevant) allegations in the midst of a trial. Fuck that. They had a chance to make their case, now they can present it.
As far as I am aware they have not alleged that Trump broke any laws or committed any crimes and their ‘witnesses’ during the impeachment hearings said as much to a man.
The whole thing is a sham. Trump will not be removed from office nor will he lose the election. The Democrats have seen to that.
They keep talking “obstruction” but won’t answer why they didn’t go to the courts to compel testimony from people who claimed to have executive privilege.
The despise checks and balances, the rights of people on the other side of the issue, and the right for someone to defend himself or refuse to defend himself by not being compelled to testify.
Fuck em. I’m generally in favor of there being a party split in the House and Senate so nothing gets done, but I hope they lose the House too now.
Well, you see Suthen, it is actually about allegations, not evidence.
Team blue could’ve just let the news cycle wash their impeachment debacle away after the holidays. But nope. Kind of surprised they didn’t. “What impeachment? I don’t remember any impeachment”
It shows she’s losing control to the lunatic wing of her party. Oh well, sorry not sorry.
It’s all lunatic wing at this point.
You know, since the actual laws still on the books (for now, anyway) permit this behavior.
Just because you can do something, that doesn’t mean society is obligated to permit you to do it. The exigent circumstances clause will save us.
How do you think she got to be teacher of the year?
https://www.foxnews.com/us/minnesota-teacher-kneels-anthem-college-football-championship
Spending a lot of time on her kneees! Hahaa!
What do I win?
STEVE SMITH SAY YOU WIN TIME ON KNEES
*grabs emergency bag and heads for secret bunker*
How about if a kid did that in her classroom, when asked a question?
Teacher of the year: “Why are you on your knees, Johnny?”
Johnny: “Your question is unfair. Until everyone gets a fair question, no one has a fair question”
She’s not protesting Trump, she’s protesting her country. Which is fine but I wish people would call it what it is.
So it seems like no one noticed it at all. All the stories I have read about this seem to be started by a tweet she sent herself about how brave she was for kneeling.
And someone really needs to ask all these brave, brave people why Trump is anti-gay. Especially given the fact that Trump was pro-gay marriage way before any of their heroes were.
Hey, remember when Trump demonstrated that he thought that all those minorities and oppressed people weren’t real Americans and weren’t represented by the flag?
What? What was that? Oh, wait, I have that backward. Sorry, it was this Very Brave And Not At All Self Aggrandizing Teacher that was demonstrating that by her actions. Because if she thought those minority and oppressed people were represented by the flag, this would lead to the conclusion that disrespecting the flag would be denigrating those minority and oppressed people represented by the flag…
Probably not her fault. They probably don’t teach logic in her public school. Or history.
She teaches at an alternative school.
It appears that you win Teacher of the Year here in the Brainpower State more by politicking than by actual results.
I read the name as “Holstein” and thought she was from WI.
We kicked her over the border and forced a name change to disgrace her.
San Francisco Pride’s rocky relationship with Google and its affiliates may be coming to an end.
Members of the LGBTQ+ organization say they passed an amendment to ban Google, YouTube and Alphabet, as well as the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, from future celebrations after a vote at their monthly membership meeting Wednesday night.
Wait, what?
Maybe they have their own armed enforcers, like the Panthers, or something? What presence would Alphabet have? Employees? Android phones? People recording and uploading videos to Youtube on their phones at these events? What about all the video of the events that ends up on Youtube? Oh but they must have figured all this out.
We’re gonna need a (lot) of muscle over here…
Muscle Mary Militia has a nice ring to it.
Yes, because “Pride” was hijacked by the far left decades ago.
It was founded by leftists. No highjacking required.
Probably. I can’t be arsed to look it up.
Just the beginning?
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2020/01/16/wv-invites-virginia-2a-counties-switch-states/
I still think we should make it West Virginia, Central Virginia, and the S.pecial W.ashington A.gacent P.refecture.
And I’m going to keep making this joke until someone acknowledges it.
Is there an “M” missing there?
Well fuck. I forget what I used last time, but it was very droll.
Metropolitan?
If it were really that droll, you would have remembered it.
That would be cool. I don’t think it would push us to stay here, but you never know.
And yes, I did a good job of putting the sale together and marketing it. But no way in hell could I or anybody else have foreseen the numbers we brought. I can honesty say that it was the greatest moment of my professional life. And I’m still trying to figure out how it happened. Anyway, I’m not trying to brag. I’m just sharing something. Sometimes things just all fall into place, I guess. But…damn, it was awesome. Just freaking awesome.
Congratulations!
The plaintiffs argued the firearms ban violates the First and Second Amendments and that Northam didn’t have the authority to impose it. According to The Associated Press, Judge Joi Taylor said in her ruling the governor has the authority under state law to take action related to the “safety and welfare” of the state. Taylor also cited rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court that the right to bear arms can be subject to limits.
Fuck you very much Scalia.
Note that she didn’t cite exactly what those limitations are? And those limitations are supposed to be made through the legislative process and subject to judicial review.
She just said “the governor’s action supersedes VA law. Fuck you and your rights. And fuck the law for good measure.” to every single person in the commonwealth.
Yeah, every amendment in the Bill of Rights says at the end “subject to whatever limits the government decides to deem “reasonable”.
Which pretty much renders the entire constitution null and void, so I’m sure that’s what the framers had in mind.
Taylor also cited rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court that the right to bear arms can be subject to limits.
Related to “arms in common use”, not whether or not one can carry a firearm on public property. And as I stated, the actual relevant legislation applies to structures, not grounds. This judge is a hack.
Doesn’t matter. He’s just buying time so the governor can get what he wants for this weekend. If it gets overturned later who cares.
Relevant.
Malicious compliance, then. Better optics anyway if everyone carries a broomstick or, better, pool noodle, with “this is not a gun” written on it.
A corrupt Chicagoland politician?
Everyone has 60K cash in their home, right? Kids’ allowances, ice cream truck, pizza run. Who knows what little daily emergencies may pop up? Aldermen aren’t exactly cheap, you know. A K here, a K there, pretty soon its real money.
I have an idea. Let’s indoctrinate, scare and use children to advance our tyrannical political agenda!
“We are here today because gun safety is an issue we care about. And so do our friends, families and our communities. Utah has a gun violence problem,” Skyline High School senior Ainsley Moench, 17, said. “Many of our legislators have stood by and refused to take action, and while they’ve done that, people have continued to die.”
Moench said the students “are fighting back” by grading each member of the Utah Legislature on how they dealt with firearms-related bills during the 2019 session, including failed attempts to pass universal background checks for gun buyers and a “red flag” law to allow guns to be temporarily taken away from someone deemed a danger.
“We are tired of seeing our friends die. We are tired of being scared. We are tired of being ignored,” she said, citing gun violence as one of the leading causes of death for young people. “Our age group has power, and we are not afraid to use it. We want to be safe. We want our communities to be safe. We want to live.”
“We are tired of seeing our friends die”
Wait ’til the draft comes back.
“…gun safety is an issue we care about.”
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
“Utah has a gun violence problem”
Horse. Fucking. Shit.
https://www.thetrace.org/features/gun-violence-interactive-shootings-map/?place=Utah
Virtually all of the shootings in the state are in SLC. Why is that? The shootings are in the center of town, the north and south parts of town have almost none and I am betting the very few there are suicides.
https://www.thetrace.org/features/gun-violence-interactive-shootings-map/?place=Salt-Lake-City-Utah
Relative to other, much bluer states, Utah essentially does not have a gun violence problem. Given that it is a Mormon state I am surprised this is happening there.
We have a suicide and shooty mcshooty cop problem. I’m pretty sure SLCPD killed more people than criminals last year.
Assuming Bernie Sanders Said It, Just What Did He Do Wrong?
First, this isn’t that outlandish a belief, particularly in Democratic circles. Hillary Clinton herself said in 2017: “I started the campaign knowing that I would have to work extra hard to make women and men feel comfortable with the idea of a woman president. It doesn’t fit into the — the stereotypes we all carry around in our head. And a lot of the sexism and the misogyny was in service of these attitudes. Like, you know, ‘We really don’t want a woman commander in chief.’” Right after the election, her running mate Tim Kaine declared America “has made it so uniquely difficult for a woman to make it into a federal office.”
In CNN’s account, the comment from Warren that preceded Sanders’ statement was Warren expressing the belief that she could “earn broad support from female voters.” But Clinton won the women’s vote, 54 percent to 41 percent, and still lost. “Broad support from female voters,” by itself, is probably not sufficient to beat Trump, unless it considerably expands upon Clinton’s margin in those key swing states. There’s no indication that a sufficient number of voters are hungering for a woman president. A 2018 Pew poll found that 38 percent of men and 51 percent of women hope to see a woman president in their lifetime.
He probably didn’t even say it. It smells like a coordinated hit by the Warren campaign and CNN to cut Bernie off at the knees right before the caucuses.
There is a hot mic vid that CNN released that seemed suggests coordinated hit.
Yeah, that looked too much like Warren knew there was audio and was trying to make the most of it.
She was really upset by it, which is why she pulled it out when it was most politically convenient.
Warren/Sanders 2020. My Little Cherokee Maiden at the desk in the Oval Office, and Bernie chained to it with a ball gag in his moyl.
Eeewwwwwww.
It’s spelled “mohel.”
SugarFree said something about it growing back.
“broad support”
Heh
It always feels great when you give your best effort and it pays off! Congratulations.
She just said “the governor’s action supersedes VA law. Fuck you and your rights. And fuck the law for good measure.” to every single person in the commonwealth.
“Remember when we used to say the basis of a successful government and civil society was the rule of law, administered consistently and without excceptions? Yeah, we didn’t really mean it.”
That was fur the top men. Not for you unwashed fucks that think you matter…
Good morning and congrats, Sloopy!
Fun to have wins like that once in awhile.
I’m sure he’ll get right on that.
“GAO says Trump violated the law,” Omar began, citing the Government Accountability Office report released Thursday, which the Office Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of Defense spokesman Jon Hoffman have disputed.
“A Trump associate said Trump ‘knew exactly what was going on.’ Ukraine is investigating whether he surveilled his own Ambassador. Any other president would have resigned by now,” Omar continued.
“Donald Trump and all who have been implicated must step down,”
Omar also declared that Trump committed additional impeachable offenses, resurrecting her party’s longheld Russia-collusion narrative.
“These are not the President’s only impeachable offenses. He obstructed justice when he fired the FBI Director responsible for overseeing the investigation into his relationship with Russia,” she said in a statement following the House impeaching the president in December.
“He has repeatedly violated the Emoluments Clause by retaining ownership and promoting his businesses while in office. He has abused his pardon power. He has pressured the Department of Justice to investigate political opponents,” she continued.
“But just as Al Capone was sentenced to prison for only one of his violations, we can and must impeach the President on this violation alone,” she added.
The GAO said Obama violated the law when he released the 5 high level Al-Qaeda associates to get Bowe Berghdal back. Why wasn’t he impeached?
There were so many abuses of the law and criminal activities going on during Obama’s tenure that they just had to impeach the bad orange man that somehow managed to win the election they thought they had rigged for crooked Hillary to keep the fucking plebes from being told how corrupt black Jesus and his gang of weaponized bureaucratic credentialed cuntes really were!
Wait, what? Did that scamp Marc Rich get out of jail again?
He has repeatedly violated the Emoluments Clause
Wait, he’s Sir Donald Trump now?
Or did he receive gifts Congress didn’t approve of?
by retaining ownership and promoting his businesses while in office.
Oh nevermind. She just doesn’t understand what’s actually in the constitution.
She doesn’t care what’s in the constitution or what the facts really are, it’s just ORANGEMANBAD!!!
LMAO
I think this is actually one of the things that really pissed them off. He not only refuses to roll over and play dead, but he keeps fighting back and forcing them to be even more obvious in their unlawfulness and criminality.
I for one enjoy the Epstein didn’t kill himself memes. I would like to think it would help chip away at people’s towing the government lion on everything.
Nothing makes me smile more than the love between Korea and Japan!
The American Mustache Ruffling Feathers in South Korea
The facial hair of Ambassador Harry B. Harris Jr., who is Japanese-American, reminds many South Koreans of Japan’s colonial rule.
Trigger Warning: NYT
I am not sure appointing a person of Japanese ancestry Ambassador to Korea was a brilliant move, but the mustache stuff is silly.
I’m kind of on the other side on that.
If we truly want to be “post racial” in the US it shouldn’t matter.
He is an ambassador. Virtue signalling about how freaking post racial we are by sending an ambassador whose ethnicity will be perceived as an insult by, or will make the ambassador less effective with, the country in question is just stupid, unless you are deliberately offending them.
I’m not suggesting to be openly provocative.
I’m working on the assumption he’s qualified in other matters.
I’d argue if its that problematic for SK than deny him credentials and put it back on SK.
We have embassies in order to promote our national interests by maintaining civil relations with the host. It is not our business to change Korean racial attitudes, and sending an ambassador who offends them is stupid. The qualifications for an ambassador include way up on the list, doesn’t offend the host country unnecessarily. By all means make this guy an ambassador if he is qualified, just not to Korea. Would you send an Orthodox Jew to Riyadh? A Muslim to Jerusalem? A Serb to Croatia? This is a place where ethnicity is relevant.
For South Korea to refuse credentials would be a massive offense to us. In what possible world is signalling virtue worth offending an ally or forcing that ally to offend us? If we want to make this man an ambassador there are many other nations we could send him to.
If they were willing to go – yes.
I do understand your points and I’m not dismissing them. They are valid. They have the real potential to hurt US interests. But if I’m not going to give into the PC brigade at home I’m not going to do it abroad either. Especially when it comes to ethnicity.
“Would you send an Orthodox Jew to Riyadh?”
Actually, I might.
“A Muslim to Jerusalem”
Why not? There are Muslim Israelis. Of course, I wouldn’t let CAIR pick her.
“A Serb to Croatia?“
Nah. That’s still in living memory.
This is what they get for sending us K-pop crap.
Does Korea want to be post racial?
That would be a huge NO
+1
I thought everybody would enjoy a hearty laugh this morning:
This is in reference to last year’s law that will make it dramatically more expensive to live or do business in NYC than it already is. You know, in response to Deblasio’s “Tale of Two Cities” horseshit.
Wonderful.
More air tight, high CO2 workspaces with crappy bathrooms.
As contrasted to old overheated residential buildings with with their windows wide open in the middle of winter.
Yep. Our old Crown Heights apartment was on the ground floor of a 20 unit, pre-war, building. We were right above the basement boiler; Holy Mackerel, it was hot in there. I never want to live in a building with steam radiators ever again.
I live in an old house with one pipe steam heat.
The system CAN be balanced and work just fine. The problem work and additions by plumbers and HVAC people with no idea how steam heat works because it isn’t used in new construction anymore.
Air tight buildings cause their own environmental problems. Prepare for more people to get sick.
David Harsanyi weighs in
“You’re not going to comment about this?” a dazed Raju asked. “You’re a liberal hack, buddy,” McSally replied as she walked away. Predictably, conservatives cheered, while mainstream media decried McSally’s move as unbecoming.
Whatever your take, the interaction reflects three years of mounting frustration with an overtly partisan media, exemplified by CNN, which has dropped any pretense of fairness and become an organ of the Democratic Party.
The problem isn’t that Raju asked the question — that’s his job, after all. It’s that virtually all questions posed by political reporters these days are framed to support the narratives and assumptions of one political party, the Democrats.
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By referring to Parnas’ handwritten notes as “evidence,” Raju is merely perpetuating a talking point. Which would be fine, of course, if reporters were also stalking the hallways of the Senate demanding to know if Democrats were prepared to investigate new “evidence” of alleged wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.
On the whole, mainstream outlets have exhibited deep skepticism about verified and unverified accusations about the vice-presidential son’s Burisma shenanigans. They should do the same in the Parnas case, as well (Tapper, to his credit, has raised some questions).
You’d think that journalists who had recently subjected the nation to a hysterical three-year carousel of botched Russia “collusion” stories, fed to them by partisans, would show a lot more caution, rather than blindly embracing the theories of House Democrats.
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You only need to juxtapose the McSally brouhaha with Nancy Pelosi’s news conference this week to see how liberal journalistic malpractice works. Without any evidence, the House speaker accused Team Trump of sedition and criminality and claimed — again — that the 2016 presidential election had been stolen by Russians, knowing full well no one would really challenge her.
What’s most infuriating about CNN isn’t that hosts like Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo or reporters like Raju, Jim Acosta and Jim Sciutto have an agenda — it’s that they pretend they don’t.
They pretend they don’t while engaging in a nonstop smear about FOX’s (or anybody else who doesn’t tow the progressive lion) bias.
David Harsanyi is a smart dude. You, on the other hand just made me think about doing something unspeakable to a large feline.
The sun shines a little brighter, birdsong is crisper and more melodious, and there’s a new, more optimistic, jolly spring in your step. Yes, everything seems just a little bit better after dropping a big deuce.
Tell me about it. I was blocked up for three days until about 20 minutes ago.
Did you need to use a poop knife to get it to go down? We might need a discussion about the pros & cons of a poop knife. I would like to see that debate being done by our resident pope and the potato dude.
Nah, it was just a couple littl’uns. At least for now.
the greatest heavyweight of all time Cassius Clay
Saul : A man has the right to change his name to vatever he vants to change it to. And if a man vants to be called Muhammad Ali, godammit this is a free country, you should respect his vishes, and call the man Muhammad Ali!
Morris : His mamma call him Clay, imma call him Clay.
Saul : Then you’re a putz. All of you are putzes. They should change the sign outside from My-T-Sharp to ‘ze Three Putzes.
Thank you, Swiss. I LOVE that movie.
An underrated classic.
https://youtu.be/ThF4_4wnBPw
A guy I went to HS with lived on the same street as Mama Clay.
I would drop him off sometimes…if the RV was parked on the street, Ali was in town. He lived in the RV while visiting.
Pretty sure that’s free on Prime or Netflix right now too.
The 24 albums we can’t wait to hear in 2020
I’ve heard only 3 of these “artists” before.
I thought musicians put out albums, not artists.
Beach Bunny has a lead singer who is the epitome of one of the only three girls who ever play D&D.
OMG, you ain’t lyin’! Right down to the red nose from constantly wiping and blowing it.
No
The local hipster radio has been playing the shit out of Caribou.
Meh.
Hipsters love white boy funk.
White boy funk
Lay down that boogie, you piece of shit.
(I know, I know… don’t cross the threads.)
Of course their “throw a bone to heavy metal nod” is Kvelertak. Of course it is.
*queues up 2016 “throw a bone to heavy metal nod” Vektor and drifts away in an apocalyptic space opera thrash haze*
“ Former FBI special agent in charge Katherine Schweit said “the threat in this kind of situation is with 1,500 rounds in semi-automatic weapons, hundreds of people could go down in seconds.””
-Former FBI agent and current bullshit artist. What are they worried about, someone opening up with an MG42?
Please. Truck bed mount GAU-17.
MK-19
Like when the cops massacred those bikers in Texas?
Since an hour is 3600 seconds, she’s not technically incorrect.
This is what twitter is really for:
https://twitter.com/kimmymonte/status/1217632533032112128?s=21
So of course half the people who replied got a timeout from the twitter police.
Also, a lot of that thread is hilarious.
I’m thinking a line from The Ten Commandments or The Passion of Christ.
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me, you piece of shit?”
::cringes then begs forgiveness::
Nice.
“Let Herod judge him, you piece of shit”
I’m thinking:
“Shane! Shane! Come back, you piece of shit!”
Really? I’d have expectes “We’re gonna need a bigger boat you piece of shit”
“Hakuna matata you piece of shit”
Has the best cadence. It’s Bruce Willis worthy.
You had me at hello, you piece of shit.
That is fucking awesome.
“Let your conscience be your guide, you piece of shit.”
Leia – “I love you.”
Han – “I know, you piece of shit.“
“Save us Obi Wan Kenobi, you piece of shit.”
I’m Spartacus…
I’m Patch Adams…
“You had me at ‘hello’, you piece of shit”
Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn, you piece of shit.
That actually works in context, though.
Perfectly.
Mrs. Robinson you’re trying to seduce me. Aren’t you, you piece of shit?
“Grandpa George. (Kisses him)
Grandma Georgina. (Kisses her)
Grandma Josephine. (Kisser her)
And grandpa Joe, you piece of shit.”
In a sane world, that would have been the actual quote.
My nipples explode with delight, you piece of shit.
My hovercraft is full of eels, you piece of shit.
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy, you piece of shit.
I’m a lumberjack and that’s okay, you piece of shit.
I have a good fwiend in wome nammed biggus Dickus you piece of shit
Every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings, you piece of shit!
It’s just been revoked…
I can feel your anger…
I’ll see you on the beach…
Live long and prosper…
Fat, stupid and drunk is no way to go through life…
You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor…
Aim small, miss small…
You’ll shoot your eye out, you little piece of shoot!
Lol, typo
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next — you piece of shit.
nice
Okay- I’m just a wrench-twisting, metal-melting simpleton, but:
Are we seriously expected to believe the Senate can hold its “trial” without calling witnesses, or allowing the examination of evidence? Without allowing the accused to present a defense and to confront his accusers? Are we expected to believe the Senate’s role in this impeachment circus is merely to vote to accept or reject the House’s indictment in its entirety?
If so, we are a lot closer to the drain than I thought.
I dunno. If someone calls you a goat-fucker, racist, etc, it’s a stupid move to take it seriously and present a defense. From what I’ve seen, the House doesn’t deserve to have it’s impeachment indictment taken seriously. Might be best to just reject in its entirety and show the Senate’s disdain for such absurdity.
Then again, I haven’t really been following the impeachment because of the partisan shitshow it’s been, so maybe that’s the wrong tactic.
Judges refuse to take cases.
There’s a lot of rhetoric out there from both sides. Im content to let this play out and see what actually happens.
I think it’s that the Senate isn’t going to call “new” evidence in.
Wasn’t the Clinton trial in the Senate such that they just read the Articles and voted immediately to dismiss? That is how it is being presented, that McConnell is doing the same thing. Basically, the defense made a motion to dismiss and the court accepted it. I don’t recall and can’t be arsed to research, but that appears to be the non-partisan reading of the situation.
Yeah, if we’re going to have witnesses, I want to see the Bidens, Carter Page, Strzok, and a bunch of others called.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/16/antifa-group-march-pro-gun-protesters-virginia/
FTA:
“In what Vice called a “bizarre meeting of the minds,” Richmond-based Antifa Seven Hills also strongly opposes the gun measures now likely to become law since Democrats won control of both Virginia houses last year, and they too want Democratic leaders in Richmond to know.
“I think it’s been pretty important for us to focus on the fact that gun control in America has a legacy of racist enforcement,” an Antifa Seven Hills spokesperson called James, a self-identified anarchist who withheld his real name for fear of getting doxxed, told Vice. “Like taking guns away from black people, because black people were perceived as a threat to property and the sanctity of the state.”
What in the actual fuck?
Need guns for revolutionary violence. The Bolsheviks didn’t cow the populace into submission with bike locks and milkshakes, you know.
I figured commies knew that they’d be exempted from any gun control. I guess antifa really thinks they’re fighting “the man”, rather than being convenient shock troops for “the man”.
Need guns for revolutionary violence.
Create commie utopia and THEN disarm the populace.
And that is the reason why in the early 20th century, Britain went from being very liberal with respect to gun rights to being prohibitionist.
They started to outlaw gun ownership because they feared a Bolshie revolution.
The powers that be wanted their socialism to be run by the upper classes instead of sending them to the gulags. And that’s just what they got.
OK, skinsuiting Antifa and turning it into something that actually matches the name would be hilarious.
Stopped clock.
Not every Antifa fuck head is historically ignorant. Just the vast majority.
An actual anti-fascist maybe.
*falls off chair*
CNN will start talking about how violent Antifa is now.
^This
-Former FBI agent and current bullshit artist. What are they worried about, someone opening up with an MG42?
Pfffft- you can buy a .30 cal minigun on Amazon. Not only will you be able to kill thousands of people per second, it will level buildings like kicking down a sand castle.
*I seen it at the pitcher show
Tyranny advances through the Senate.
I get to sue the politicians that enact laws which enable cops to kill people now, right?
How could you hold them responsible for totally foreseeable consequences?
Once you start dismantling certain rights others can’t be too far behind, that’s why all of them have to protected. It looks like the shitbag legislature and the scumbag gov really are prepared to go to war with their populace.
Love the new avatar!
You got it…
Sensei came into some “mad money” he decided to send directly to Elon Musk’s pocket.
I upgraded my AWD Tesla Model 3 with “acceleration boost”. It is literally neck snapping painful. It was quick before, but now noticeably quicker. I can not imagine what the Model S is like with “ludicrous mode”. It also makes me happy I didn’t get the “performance” Model 3 which is only marginally faster.
For those that are interested here is a chart comparing the various models. 0 to 60 time is 3.78 seconds and it’s basically idiot proof unlike a muscle car of old. Put the car in park hold. Wait for the light and push the accelerator to the floor and the drive computer takes care of the rest.
I’ve been in plenty of high performance sports cars, but the instantaneous torque of an electric car is amazing.
You’re welcome for the subsidies and tax breaks.
No NJ sales tax. Ridiculous…
Worse Trenton is trying to pass more electric subsidies right now
With $5,000 rebate and tax exemption, New Jersey poised to become electric vehicle leader.
Kinda puts the lie to all the argle-bargle about “income inequality” when you’re throwing that kind of money at the upper middle class.
Where have I seen this before…?
Yup.
Related – Who answers income questions on surveys?
Me.
But I like outrageously.
Or, you know, ‘lie’.
*grumbles*
@ZacIsNotFunny
“Two and a Half Men is way funnier when you pretend the audience knows that Charlie has AIDS and he’s giving it to new women every episode.”
True
That’s fucking funny…
I mean, you can’t trust the Ukrainians.
CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Lev Parnas, a crony of Rudy Guiliani — who is the president’s personal lawyer — has now spoken out, as you know, and he has said several things. Mostly, [he’s said] that he did carry a very explicit message from the president via Rudy Guiliani that there would need to be a quid pro quo if Ukraine was going to continue to get any kind of assistance. And furthermore, he has now said, that he’s spoken to key officials within President Zelensky’s circle. Since you are one of those — and you were when this happened — did you get that message from Lev Parnas?
VADYM PRYSTAIKO: It’s all in Ukrainian media as well — today and yesterday — and strangely enough, my name was not mentioned, even though I’m the minister of foreign affairs. Frankly, I have not spoken with this individual, and again, frankly, I don’t trust any word he is now saying. The assistance that he’s referring to was reviewed each and every year, annually at least twice, and half of the year and end of the year. so we knew this was going to be reviewed. Some times it would be cut because of some political understanding of what is to be done in Ukraine.
Who the fuck cares about what actually happened? The problem is that we have a bunch of bureaucrats desperate to hide the criminal activity they did under Obama’s care from us people so they can provide cover for the people running a silent coup and the lies they need to tell to give it the veneer of legitimacy.
Mr. Parnas appears to be trying to negotiate his way out of being indicted on some other things.
He certainly is hoping that he can buy his way out of prison time. Even if it means lying about shit to help the coup runners.
Totally unbiased reporting. Maybe associate was too many syllables for her.
Aside from my being annoyed at today’s report being naught but he said / she said, devoid of fact finding/checking… My first reaction re this Parnas guy is that he’s seriously delusional, like literally insane.
Why RB Leipzig is the most hated soccer team in the Bundesliga
To ensure that soulless corporations or free-spending oligarchs don’t buy up clubs, as they’re allowed — indeed, welcome — to do in most other nations, the Deutscher Fussball-Bund (DFB) bylaws require that individual members own a majority of voting shares, a “50-plus-one” rule unique to Germany. Exceptions, such as Volkswagen’s ownership of Wolfsburg and pharmaceutical giant Bayer’s of Bayer 04 Leverkusen, are allowed only when a company or individual has bankrolled a club for at least two decades. That obviously isn’t the case with Red Bull and RB Leipzig, but in a shrewd move, and an entirely legal one, the company managed to meet the “50-plus-one” requirement by issuing a small number of shares, buying 49% of them itself, then pricing the rest prohibitively and choosing who could invest.
There also is a restriction against clubs adopting commercial logos, but a few tweaks to the taurine combatants on the drink cans proved enough to circumvent it. As for the rule forbidding teams to name themselves after corporations, Red Bull had an answer for that, too. It turns out that the RB in RB Leipzig doesn’t actually stand for Red Bull. Officially, at least, it is the near-nonsense word RasenBallsport, which literally means “sports played with a ball on a lawn.” Almost everyone calls them Red Bull anyway. Such sleight of hand, coupled with the club’s vertiginous rise, has led the rest of German football to treat Leipzig’s success as an existential crisis.
My new favorite Bundesliga team. I hope they lose to Spurs in CL though.
Actually, everyone just calls them “Leipzig”.
And this pretense that Dortmund and Bayern are the “people’s teams” is such tedious bullshit.
I used to live in Leipzig and visit there now and then. If there is a “people’s team”, it’s probably Leipzig.
Also, I’m astounded to have lived long enough to see “Markranstadt” in an ESPN article.
They’re now my second favorite European club.
Screw those stuffy onion-on-the-belt-wearing traditionalists.
I particularly liked this quote from the article:
“You can say, ‘I want to have a video wall on the practice pitch,’ and you don’t have to ask 20 people,” says Julian Nagelsmann, who is in his first year as manager of the club. “And there won’t have to be a board meeting with 20 people having a discussion, ‘Is it good?’ ‘Will it bring us an advantage in the future?'” For its rivals, Nagelsmann notes, the process is far more complicated. “They talk a long time,” he says, shaking his head. “As a result, development may not be so fast. Here you can improve in a very short time. This is great.”
I remember when Leipzig were making their ascent, some of the people howling loudest were the higher-ups at Bayern. It was quite rich hearing them moan about how the evil source of Leipzig’s funding would ruin the Bundesliga. For that reason I have a soft spot for both them and Hoffenheim.
I don’t like Hoffenheim because it’s a village of like 3,000 people and it keeps out cities more “deserving” to be there. Silly, I know, but it is what it is.
I get that. Union Berlin perhaps being one of those teams (prior to this season) – the atmosphere at their home games is nuts, and makes for a much more interesting watch than a Hoffenheim game. I’m just amused at the ‘dirty money’ complaints, particularly from fans or people associated with clubs who have historically been close to the top of the wage table.
Oh yes, me too.
What about common sense idiot control?
TSA announced that its officers seized 4,432 guns at checkpoints last year — the most in the agency’s 18-year history. It also says that 87% of those guns (some 3,855) were loaded.
“The continued increase in the number of firearms that travelers bring to airport checkpoints is deeply troubling,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a statement Wednesday.
He points out that it isn’t illegal to bring firearms to the airport, but that there are well-established rules people need to follow when traveling with guns.
It’s kind of hard to be sympathetic to somebody that dumb.
“Sorry, ma’am, you can’t bring that on the plane. Go put it in your car. Hustle up, the plane’s not going to wait for you.”
People are stupid.
Yeah “I forgot” shouldn’t apply when handling a firearm. Yet I’m wondering how many, if any, of those 4,000 gun toters was – upon further investigation – deemed to be actually planning to hijack the plane or commit other mayhem on board?
Ima say . . .zero. If they were, we’d have heard about it endlessly.
Raises hand – I was one of those 3855 loaded guns/people in 2017, I think. I had been backpacking in the mountains the weekend before and had my .357 snub (loaded, because without bullets a gun is just an awkwardly shaped hammer) ‘cuz of snakes, mountain lions, coyotes, and I was the only male with daughters and friend’s family with girls, also. Anyway, when we packed up to drive back to civilization, I ‘hid’ the gun in my backpack’s hidey compartment because if you get puled over in Commiefornia and the gun is anywhere in sight you get fucking shot or arrested. Later that week I had some emergency travel for work, threw all of my shit in my backpack ‘cuz I had to stay longer than I originally planned, rushed off for a 6 am flight, which meant a 3:45 am Uber, and it never occurred to me. Even when the XRay started acting weird. Then I saw him pick up my bag by the handle and something about the way it swung made it click – I was like, “Oh FUCK! My gun is in there.” A tacticool-armed guy was already standing behind me by the point and laughed: ‘Yeah, it is.’
While I was in cuffs downstairs I asked him how often it happens there and he said they get one a week on average, very consistent. California stole my gun – a beautiful S&W .357 snub M&P340 with the crimson trace builtin. Two years later the TSA sent me threatening letters telling me it would also cost me $1500, then $3000 to “make it go away,” otherwise I could face $10K as a ‘civil fine’ for TSA actually doing what we already pay them to do.
So yeah – I’m one of those morons.
Sorry to hear about the encounter but unsurprisingly money can make magic happen except for getting your equipment back.
#Everybody has a plan before they get punched in the face. –Mike Tyson
Had a 930 appointment with the attorney. Yeah, sleet. Snow day. I am not going anywhere right now.
I got your email but have been fighting a bad sinus headache. I’ll try to get a reply to you today.
Don’t worry about it, but thank you. New day and all that.
I was utterly ambivalent about Tyson until his cartoon with Norm MacDonald. Now, I’m a fan.
Weird and hilarious.
Tyson pokes a lot of fun at himself.
Mike had plans too – until Buster Douglass and Evander Holyfield smacked him.
Sloopy, great job!!! I got excited for you just reading about it.
For: Tundra
From: Me
What: A new Minnesoda council that I bet you end up hating even more than the Met Council.
ex-Gov Mumbles kid, Eric Dayton has also applied. I’m sure that group is going to be a real hoot.
Your guys competing with the morons that run The People’s Republic of Connecticut to see which bureaucracy can be the more destructive?
Everyone wants in on the graft. What a surprise.
i won’t take that bet.
What a joke. The list of applicants is a fucking rogue’s gallery of public-teat-suckers and extortionists.
We gotta get out of this place.
Friday Funbags is responsible for 87% of all crop circles.
https://tinyurl.com/smjhb49
Archive is down. SO SOLLY.
https://apple.news/AJmwnvw2hRNu100h4ojEc0A
China posts weakest growth in 29 years.
Also remember that Goldman Sachs gave the economy a recessions proof bill of health….
Government Sachs wrong again. Also, sun rises in the East
China is in deep trouble. The corruption by the people in charge is now being challenged, and the people are angry and not in a mood to cooperate as many of them see the promises of continued economic growth into perpetuity evaporating. Orange man’s trade sanctions managed to accelerate the flight of the most lucrative and tech savvy entities that had gotten tired of China stealing their intellectual property and standing up a cheap knock-off competitor on their watch. These companies left for greener pastures, taking away lucrative jobs. The knock-off companies are now in a quandary too, because with no other companies to steal intellectual content from, they are dead in the water. You can only go so far if you do not do your own R&D. And the Chinese debt is going to kill them. Lying about how big their annual growth was is no longer working, and all that money they pissed away is killing them. The shit’s about to get real there, yo.
And Taiwan just gave them a pretty big middle finger.
Yup. Things are NOT going their way, and Xi must feel he jumped the gun and should have waited another decade or two to go big regional bully.
Einstein’s murder: no kidding, what a sloppy cover up.
They don’t have to be careful because they know they’ll never face any accountability anyway.
Einstein was murdered?
Team Clinton thinks they can get away with everything.
And she’s right. She can. She does. She always has.
Whether or not Einstein was murdered is relative
Damn it. In hindsight that’s not a very clever or funny pun.
I’m done
I thought it was pretty good.
RE: Gheyz against Google.
I just love some blue-on-blue violence. It warms the cold, blank space where my heart should be.
You and Bobby Vinton.
I will give them props if they walk away from that corporate sponsorship money from Google and not screech later about how broke they are.
My guess is that there is some flack at Google who is so happy about this. No long tedious meetings about designing the goodies and signs. No even longer meetings about getting the messaging correct on all the press releases and any signs that will be posted.
Those teams eat that shit up. They’re true believers, and for some of them, it’s their favorite part of their job.
I didn’t say the whole team was happy. I’m just talking about some secret shitlord.
The best part of my current job is that I no longer have to help prepare for trade shows. I yo-yoed between absolute boredom and blinding rage when I had to go to those meetings. The blinding rage was mostly centered around how much we were spending on the shows.
Can you fell TheBern?
The New Hampshire Emerson College poll was conducted January 13-16, 2020, among 657 registered voters. It showed Sanders taking the lead in the Granite State with 23 percent support, a full five points ahead of Pete Buttigieg (D), who followed with 18 percent. The margin of error of +/- 3.8 percentage points puts Sanders’ lead outside of a statistical tie with the former mayor.
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) tied for third with 14 percent support each. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Andrew Yang (D), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), and Tom Steyer (D) followed with ten percent, six percent, five percent, and four percent, respectively. No other candidate earned above one percent support
You fool! Clearly you are underestimating the Klo-mentum that is going on. Special K is at 10%? That is way higher than I’ve seen before. And once those yahoos in NH see her super strong 4th place finish in Iowa I bet it goes even higher.
At some point, that whole embezzlement case against his wife is going to get re-opened.
Nuthin up muh sleeve
Two days after a deadly shooting at Bellaire High School, students are returning to class.
Students lined up around the block Thursday morning due to increased security measures, including bag checks. There is also only one way in and out of the campus.
The Houston Independent School District said extra officers would be patrolling the campus.
Some Bellaire High School parents called on the school district to increase security after a 19-year-old student was shot and killed Tuesday.
The Harris County District Attorney’s office said late Wednesday afternoon that one student brought the loaded gun to school and accidentally shot the other student, identified as Cesar Cortes.
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The interim superintendent thanked local law enforcement agencies, and the principal who all helped others stay safe.
“Our hearts are heavy today as we mourn the loss of one of our students. The past 24 hours have been incredibly difficult for Bellaire High School and the Houston ISD community. A tragedy of this magnitude is difficult to comprehend. As a parent, I am deeply saddened and angered by this horrific act of violence. Details are still unfolding, and we may not know for some time why this happened. Unfortunately, HISD is not immune to the plague of gun violence afflicting school campuses nationwide,” interim superintendent Dr. Grenita Lathan wrote.
Which was it? A stupid, tragic accident, or the horrific premeditated random slaughter of an innocent victim?
Haha, trick question. Just another dead body from which to jockey for political advantage.
My son goes to an open plan elementary school. The kindergartens are mostly in rooms along the outer wall, but the inside has no real walls, although bookshelves and such are used to demarcate rooms. I went there for first through third grade, and can’t say it made any difference in my ability to learn or pay attention versus the more traditional schools I attended later.
Anyhow, my wife heard a rumor that they were going to enclose all of the classrooms due to “active shooter hardening”.
Me: So, instead of kids having all sorts of cover that allows them to move in any direction away from the active shooter to an available exit, they’re going to create choke points and shooting lanes? Sounds like a horrible idea.
I may have to check into this so I can go lobby the school board.
Rand Paul: ‘I Think the Bidens Are as Corrupt as the Day Is Long’
“It goes to the heart of the matter,” Paul said. “If the president is being accused of withholding foreign aid, and his argument is, ‘Well, we were studying corruption, and we wanted to know about corruption in Ukraine,’ and I think the Bidens are as corrupt as the day is long. No young man who is the son of a politician gets $50,000 a month who has no experience, working for a Ukrainian oligarch. You know, for goodness sakes — it smells to high heaven. It smells like corruption. And every day on the mainstream media, they say, ‘Oh, there’s no there there. This has been investigated. There is no corruption.’ I think the American people don’t buy it. Here’s the thing: Fair is fair. If they’re going to put the president through this, they’re going to have to have witnesses on both sides.”
If Biden’s the nominee, Trump will have a field day with him. That video of Biden bragging about getting the Ukrainian Prosecutor fired will be the easiest political attack ad ever made.
Nice link.
I look forward to the inevitable: “Rand is a Trumpist” the exact same month that Paul bucked his own party and the explicit wishes of the president and pledged to vote on a Democratic bill to constrain the president’s ability to wage war against Iran.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/01/16/rand-paul-i-think-the-bidens-are-as-corrupt-as-the-day-is-long/
Hannity’s voice makes me want to drive an ice pick into my ear. And of course he had to waggle his stubby little war boner at Rand.
But good for Rand – he’s calling out the squishes and reminding them that they can’t weasel out of this one. The only reason to reach across the aisle is to really lean into the bitch-slap.
No young man who is the son of a politician gets $50,000 a month who has no experience, working for a Ukrainian oligarch.
Rand is no dummy. Notice how he was very careful not to say anything that could be construed as a dig on Chelsea? He doesn’t want to end up the victim of a botched robbery where nothing was taken.
One would think that after relatively recent events Rand would have learned to carry.
The left has already tried to take him out twice. He’s surprisingly hard to kill.
Starring Rand Paul as Mason Storm, Tulsi Gabbard ad Andy Stewart, Borris Johnson as Senator Vernon Trent, and special appearance by Mitch McConnell as Lt. Kevin O’Malley.
THIS SUMMER!
*Explosion*
RAND PAUL is!
*jump cut of Rand punching a mook in the neck*
SURPRISINGLY. HARD. TO. Kill.
*fade to shot of Rand suplexing his neighbor into a pile of leaves*
Solid. Would totally watch it.
Environmentalists Caused Australia’s Fires, Not ‘Climate Change’
But they need them to “prove” climate change.
No shit. The watermelons have blood on their hands and it won’t stop until people wake the fuck up.
No one – not ONE of (((YOU PEOPLE))) could make a lawyer joke or pun about this guy?
Not a single joke about a lawyer named “Crooks.” I haz a disappoint in you all.
Oh, wait a minute, that would require reading the articles. Never mind.
I was working on a Thomas joke, but now it’s ruined.
I doubt that.
It’s Tommy this and Tommy that, an’ Tommy go away!
Fired from the well known and Dewey, Cheatem & Howe?
There are articles?
We’re supposed to read them?
I was too busy counting my (((gold))) to come up with anything.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2020/01/16/binary-ruger-franklin-armory/
Franklin finally got my attention. Binary trigger for the 10/22.
Binary triggers are stupid, unsafe, and probably not very reliable. You’d have to be stupid to get one. When do they go on sale?
My triggers identify as non-binary.
At least they are only wasting cheap ammo.
I don’t understand the love for binary triggers. Yeah yeah, two bullets per pull. But what happens when you shoot one and something makes it undesirable to shoot a second (like a deer getting ont an outdoor range)
^this, I NEVER want to be in a position where I am holding a trigger down to avoid a shot in an unsafe situation.
On Franklin Armory binaries, if you are holding the trigger down and move the selector to safe, releasing the trigger won’t fire the second round.
See, only mostly stupid and unsafe!
(In real life, I don’t want to be within 100 yards of one of these things)
seriously though you people and your gun obsession
??
#pewpewlife
Yeah….. no thanks
Onagadori is a Japanese breed of chicken with an exceptionally long tail
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1218039563655888896
Bullshit those are extensions.
we need experts in Japanese chicks to confirm any around?
I’ll take mine in a dumpling please.
This is the yellow-throated marten. It is an omnivore, whose sources of food range from fruit and nectar to small deer.
https://twitter.com/41Strange/status/1217960120983752704
I want one.
Two studies from last year suggested that 13 Reasons Why elevated teen suicide. A reanalysis now confirms what I suggested last year…controlling for seasonal patterns in suicide makes it evident 13 Reasons Why had no such effect.
https://twitter.com/CJFerguson1111/status/1218047375253655552
Nearly 40% of Europeans Want a Chemical-Free World
Uh no carbohydates, amino acids, RNA…?
you Americans are not educated enough to fight the propaganda machine of Big Chemical Substance
Maybe they think all chemicals are like soap. They dodge the hell out of that.
I think for environmental justice it is more pressing to concentrate on a total ban of dihydrogen monoxide. It has found its way into almost everything that we eat and drink.
I prefer a chemical world.
Not a mechanical world?
No, a mad world.
Not a Barbie World?
Heinous.
Sweet Jesus, it has almost 700 million views.
*prays for SMOD*
There’s better versions.
My favorite version is the one I made up with my quasi stepdaughter about our dog.
She’s a Macy girl
in a Macy world.
Chewing plastic,
She’s fantastic!
A mad mad world.
I prefer this mad world.
Nice.
Lol
Take your cues from Greenpeace and demand a ban on chlorine.
Stocks rally, bonds rally, gold rallies. Makes no sense.
Makes no sense at all.
(Watch to the end for a special surprise!)
It is called number agreement, you seen stocks and bonds are plural because there are many different stocks and bonds, but gold is gold, and is singular.
*Walks off whistling obtusely.
You made me check my 401k. 14k gain YTD. Could be worse.
Choose
Your
Fighter
https://twitter.com/ScribeUndead/status/1217663315738071041
4. Sensible footwear.
|The teen didn’t know at the time, that the unmarked vehicle was Phoenix Police firing a stun grenade.
I have a deep disdain for unmarked police, they have little place in a free society. Many years ago a cute aquaintance that used to come and see our band play a lot had a fake cop pretend he was citing her for a minor infraction. He showed her some fake badge and ID and got her into his car and took her away to rape her. Police should almost always be easily identifiable.
When I had my nightclub there was a cop that frequently came in to check for underage drinkers. He only ever checked attractive girls and he always had an excuse to pat them down for ‘fake ID” and he very obviously got off on making them cry. Vice cops are the lowest rapist scum to walk the Earth.
Agreed.
I’m good friends with an Irish family that owned a popular bar in the suburbs that had constant local cops and ABC (state alcohol board) coming into his place for ID checks and inspections and whatnot. The ABC tried pulling some very shady shit with him which was basically a shakedown and he wouldn’t play along and fought it hard. They made him pay for that, they started sending in undercover people every few days. He almost lost his bar for it just as he and his wife were getting ready to sell and retire. I met him last week and was happy to find that he is still pursuing his retirement hobby of legal actions against the ABC and generally being a thorn in their side.
“Vice cops are the lowest rapist scum to walk the Earth”
Except for that champion of the downtrodden, oppressed victims, Olivia Benson.
I loathe that cunte with fiery passion of 1,000 burning suns.
That show has done more damage to childhood than anything else I can think of. A rapist around every corner. A pedophile in every school and church building. A kidnapper in every car. A serial killer with a taste for long pig lurking in every Hallmark store.
Oh noez! the mothers cry. They’re coming for my children! I must protect them! Don’t go outside. Just…don’t. Walk to school? HA! That’ll be the day.
And this is how we get 26-year-olds on their parents’ health insurance.
Yeah, I like Criminal Intent and some of the older series of the original, but I cannot watch SVU at all.
I love Criminal Intent the way I love Deep Space Nine.
It’s low-key. Quiet. Kind of elegant.
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Lennie Briscoe and Mike Logan, but Criminal Intent was DIFFERENT.
Lenny Briscoe was tolerable because, well, Jerry Orbach. As were a few of his partners. Maybe Van Buren. But the prosecutors were, almost to a person, utterly repulsive and despicable, with the maybe exception of Arthur Branch.
I was shipping Jack and Claire so hard I didn’t notice or care.
I love me some May-December romance. *swoon*
I liked Michael Moriarty for the first four seasons as Ben Stone. I wasn’t a lawyer then, however, and I would like to rewatch it now from my current perspective. Interesting about Moriarty is the Jane Reno tie-in: he claims she was trying to censor the show and that’s why he got canned.
https://lawandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Michael_Moriarty
Well, yeah. Honestly, it stands out to me because I have libertarian inclinations, but I’m surprised people haven’t figured out how many people that those shows are making out to be the heroes are genuinely awful people.
Nice link.
Fake
newslink!This is the yellow-throated marten. It is an omnivore, whose sources of food range from fruit and nectar to small deer.
Eek. I thought that was some sort of photoshop fake. It looks more like a cat than a weasel. Except for the face.
My claim to fame: I’m a speech therapist and was working with a patient who joined the military at age 17 to get away from an abusive scumbag of a step-dad. His birth father had been killed when this guy was quite young (3 or 4 maybe). Come to find out, he had been a pilot for Al Capone and they think that he was offed by the mob because he pissed off the wrong guy. That was a good day at work.
Given your handle I would think you would know how the father died.
It’s… erm… complicated…
‘I’m The Student Loan Fairy And I’m Here To Pay Off Your Debts!’ Cries Elizabeth Warren While Dangling On Wires Above College Kids
ha!
“Todd Freeman, a Canadian Studies major, was eating a deconstructed avocado sandwich when he looked up..”
It’s the little details that the Bee just nails that make their articles so hilarious.
Chili Davis had a B-day? How about Hall-of-Famers Dizzy Dean and Jimmy Collins?