“OVER THE LINE!”
Leicester and Villa drew in their League Cup semifinal first leg. So at least that half of the contest is still exciting. Madrid and PSG moved on to the final of their league’s knockout competition with Barcelona-Athletico on tap today. Then we can thankfully get back to league play this weekend. And there were only two three NHL games last night, with the winners being Carolina and the New York Rangers Winnipeg, Philly, and Dallas. The NHL really needs to do something with that scheduling. Playing a dozen games one night and two three the next is no recipe for getting visibility to all of your teams.
Man, the 70’s were a weird time.
League Of Women Voters founder Carrie Chapman Catt was born on this day. She shares it with bluesman Dr Hepcat, former president and bowler Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon, actor Lee Van Cleef, football legend Bart Starr, acting legend Bob Denver, sportscaster Dick Enberg, folk singer Joan Baez, legendary guitarist Jimmy Page, BOC’s Paul King, Orleans’ Lance Hoppen, NASCAR good old boy Mark Martin, shortest-player-in-the-NBA Muggsy Bogues, musician (and average darts player, IMO) Dave Matthews, golf great who persevered Sergio Garcia, and the last young woman in the royal family Kate Middleton.
Eclectic list, to say the least. And nowhere near as star-studded as yesterday’s. Oh well, on to…the links!
“This is the real Gervais”
-Hollywood
Ricky Gervais had already stuck the knife between Hollywood’s ribs. I guess he decided to twist it a bit. I assume there will be breathless condemnations by Salon, Slate and the other lefty mouthpieces.
In the words of a certain MMA fighter, “Who Da Fook Is Dat Guy?” Just kidding. I know who he is, even if he’s a lightweight. Oh well, maybe he knows the difference between an ancient city and a dog food brand.
Looks like Trump has an open checkbook for that wall of his. At least until another court weighs in and we get split circuits. I expect that to happen by noon in whatever time zone the Ninth Circuit is in. (And yes, I know its Pacific).
Damn, dude. This is some shit you’d only read about coming from Germany. Gotta respect his perseverance, I suppose.
Just in case you had forgotten Chicago treats its cops as being above the law, I present you with this bullshit. Unfuckingbelievable.
Nice yacht, Leo. Now get out there and tell us how the rest of us are killing the world!
What a great guy! And I’m sure he was there on his own private mega-yacht to let everybody know what a terrible job they’re doing adapting to climate change and how they’re raping Gaia…before he took his chopper to the airport and boarded his private plane to fly halfway around the world for another climate summit. The dude is a tireless warrior for the cause. A fucking hero!
Hey look, some actual good news! I hope this trend continues.
Facebook does the right thing. At least in my opinion. I don’t see how a global social media outlet could be expected to police the entire site of political ads made by…anybody.
And here’s this for you to enjoy. I know I will.
Now get out there and kick some ass today!
I don’t remember any member of Blue Oyster Cult named Paul King
I used to have a friend in the late nineties that I would introduce to hot chicks as the former bassist of Krokus. He probably got with a dozen chicks because of that. I don’t know for sure how long he would keep up the charade. It was a fun running joke.
Jesus, blackjack! The stories you tell… You’re gonna be just like me in the old folks home starting every sentence with “Usedta”, aren’t you? Nice anecdote!
But the other old folks will have their own stories, if you are the new guy on the block they can tell all the old stories all over again. The others won’t be able to remember if they had heard it before so it won’t matter to them.
black jack’s got a lot of interesting and original ones, they don’t all start “This one time me and…
I would very much like to hear more tales of blackjack as a young man.
Well, there is some precedent for just that kind of yarning. Would be fun to see more.
I found this with a quick search and apparently today is his birthday.
No clue how he was tied to BOC. I just repeated what the website said.
“I just repeated what the website said. ”
What are you, a journalist?
Sure. And this links is as worthy of a Pulitzer as anything the WaPo has excreted onto its pages in the last few years.
Speaking of which, i looked up how to nominate a series of articles for a Pulitzer the other night. Basically it costs $75.
Was thinking about it after reading part 20 of a certain Anthrax series.
For a second, I thought you were considering the Hat and the Hair
Yes, that too.
I really think SF should fine a publisher and get a collection out in time for the general election season. It would be a huge seller.
Thinking about it…I think Subaru Horror Theatre is more prize worthy.
A whole $75, eh?
*scribbles notes*
It looks like in the category yours would fit in, you can only submit 10 parts max.
I guess 19 parts were in 2019, so you would have to submit the best 10 URLs from that. URLs are now the preferred form of submission, which says something about something.
Ah the WaPo… Still sliming along on Dustin Hoffman’s good looks and Robert Redford’s grit and determination.
In the words of a certain MMA fighter, “Who Da Fook Is Dat Guy?” Just kidding. I know who he is, even if he’s a lightweight. Oh well, maybe he knows the difference between an ancient city and a dog food brand. – the libertarians should get a minority to run this time.
Looks like Trump has an one checkbook for that wall of his. At least until another court weighs in and we get split circuits. I expect that to happen by noon in whatever time zone the Ninth Circuit is in. (And yes, I know its Pacific). – at 100 bucks per gator, how many gators per linear mile of moat?
What a great guy! And I’m sure he was there on his own private mega-yacht to let everybody know what a terrible job they’re doing adapting to climate change and how they’re raping Gaia…before he took his chopper to the airport and boarded his private plane to fly halfway around the world for another climate summit. The dude is a tireless warrior for the cause. A fucking hero! – I liked Ricky’s DiCaprio joke at the globes, but he should have put something about the environment in it.
At this point they have to know that they are actually damaging themselves by compulsively flying into histrionics at every utterance of whomever happens to be the opposition du jour, but they literally cannot help themselves. It’s not like you can make any convincing case that Ricky fucking Gervais is some right wing lunatic or Trump orbiter either. Take the fucking L and move on with your life.
Humor is dead among the so called professionals. Rare glimpses notwithstanding.
*crosses arms over man-breasts* “That’s Not Funny!”
That was brilliant. It’s a classic terrain denial move. By owning the moobs he therefore made it impossible for anyone to use those against him. Also, looks like he’s missing some front teeth and doesn’t have his fake ones in. Brilliant move.
Cromwellian!
It’s not dead at all. The people making the good jokes are just not in the same places they used to be. Seriously, Ricky did nothing that you can’t see in comment sections across the net. Kudos to him for doing it to their faces, but the jokes’ premises weren’t original by any stretch.
He stood athwart the Sacred Pulpit of Sanctimony, and rained down righteous scorn upon the Anointed Ones from within the holy confines of their own cathedral.
And for that I’m grateful. Completely. Just amazed that it took this long for it to happen.
Given his recent trend of making anti-PC statements, I can’t help but wonder if they (whoever booked him) suspected he would do something like this. No such thing as bad publicity and all that.
Ricky’s crime was that he made fun of people that suffer from severe narcissism and inferiority complexes resulting in the need to pander to marxiist PC causes to do their penance. I remind all these idiots that it is because of Obama that we are here today. Lefty asshats were so worried to offend or hurt Obama, that they never made fun of someone that needed that to be done to keep him grounded, and all because they felt they needed to protect his legacy in the name of the left’s cause. Now they are all fucked up because they are stuck in that mode of thinking/being. Is it wrong that I feel nothing but joy at their suffering? Well, I don’t give a shit if it is. Fucking idiots the lot of them.
SNL refused to go after him except for light bull shit.
Cowards.
SCTV > SNL. So much so it’s a crime how SNL made it this far and not SCTV.
Is it really an inferiority complex if they are actually inferior???
They have the complex because despite the fact that they are inferior, they believe they are not as inferior as they really are. These people are not special. in fact, to me they appear to be dumber than trailer park meth heads. But they think they are important because they somehow have hit the lottery and are overpaid for piss poor work.
Ricky is unwoke which is all that matter. He retweeted Tits McGrath ffs.
But seriously, the non SJW left is already far right in the eyes of SJWs
I watched the Dave Chappelle special about him winning the Mark Twain award. He re-iterated his points about free speech. He was also funny, as usual.
I couldn’t get past “At this point they have to know”…
They make Sgt Schultz look knowledgeable.
I dont understand why not knowing about an obscure city in a region we shouldnt have any troops in should be a disqualifier for president.
I don’t either, but I don’t make the rules these guys and gals agreed to when they decided to play this game.
As a voter, I make my own rules.
I disqualified myself. I can read and write.
I want thrilled about voting for him again, but the Aleppo thing had nothing to do with it.
The thing that bothers me about it was the missed opportunity to tell the reporter to she was a warmongerer asking a clearly leading question about how we needed to intervene.
The problem was how detached, clueless, and indifferent he came across that whole debate. He looked sedated.
There is still the most libertarian candidate of them all, Tulsi Gabbard.
**rolls eyes**
I am planning to vote for her in the SC primary, but come on.
If big government, high taxes, and gun confiscation is your idea of libertarian.
Not mine, but a certain apologist around here.
Weld did get an LP nomination so….
She’s good on war and the MIC and that’s it.
And she actually sounds believable on the only things she’s good on. That is something at least.
And she was on Tucker Carlson last night. What other Dem Presidential candidate has the guts to go on Fox News? Just her, far as I can tell.
Guts? Obviously she was just following orders from her Russian handlers.
Low bar.
These days that’s all we are left with, though Sloop…
I just wish those same disqualifiers applied to congress.
Would it be a disqualifier if he had run as a Democrat?
This is a facetious question, right?
Considering that the elected Member of Congress who wanted to force the US’s National Park Service to get rid of all the trees from parks in order to be more inclusive and claimed that a McCain/Palin win would mean they would issue licenses to hunt ‘Jews and Blacks’ is expected to win reelection despite a D challenger and 3 candidates running for the R nomination to oppose him in the general, what stupidity can a D say to get disqualified?
The dnc operatives with bylines exist to do damage control for these people. Just look at the NYC lady that survived the uproar her comments about Jews needing killing caused amongst those of us that are not fucking imbecilic, and as a n encore figured she could then just shift to talking trash about Asians. She knows her crowd will not demand or allow the collection of the pound flesh they do for non-team blue members. And then you have the whole thing with the VA governor and his blackface stuff. And there are millions of other examples. When they do bad shit they demand the other side be crucified for, they expect to get a pass.
“they expect to get a pass.” And they do.
So basically anywhere outside the US.
Yes.
Got my vote.
There was much *snort, smirk* from progs this side of the atlantic, already firmly in the “but she’s most qualified” camp.
Same progs who have been horrified about trump starting a war?
A member of my immediate family, who is rather too old to be making such facetious arguments, had claimed that Soleimani being an “elected official” made all the difference (untouchable), and that when Obama and Her did it (drone strikes on children, entire wedding parties, US citizens), he was “more subtle” about it, in ways that “wouldn’t escalate things” like the killing of Soleimani apparently did. ORANGE MAN BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
I mean in one way it’s true, you kill someone high in the hierarchy is going to escalate things more than killing some rando peasant, but the morality of the situation is that at least its elites killing elites, keep us poors out of it.
Thought experiement though. What do you think would be the reaction if somehow the belicosity towards the Iranian Regime led to widespread and devastating civil war, sending millions of persians fleeing and seeking refuge in other countries.
Would the focus be on the Refuge crisis and how we need to help oust the Mullahs, or how this is all Trumps fault?
Cause that is exactly what Obama did to syria.
But Obama & Friends, in their innocence, had only good intentions. It’s not their fault things went to shit over there.
Ps – good point about the elites, but of course, regardless of who gives the order, or receives the hot, fiery injection of INSTANT DEMOCRACY, that shit always manages to spill over onto the little people every time.
“Hey, what am I, chopped liver?!?”
– Mummar Quaddafi (Actual Chopped Liver)
“claimed that Soleimani being an “elected official”…
OK, whatever.
The fact that he was a member (high ranking doesn’t even enter into it) of the Iranian military, out of uniform, on foreign soil uninvited and without the knowledge of that sovereign state makes him a spy under the Geneva convention – and his life is forfeit on that basis alone.
(In case I wasn’t clear that “OK, whatever” was pointed at any prog who would make such an argument – not at JD)
I know thanks – you make an excellent point. I shall bring that up later with said prog.
He’d only be executed as a spy in time of war, but he could have still been prosecuted or renditioned without Iran being able to say boo.
we shouldnt have any troops in – should is not what counts
Proper answer…”I don’t know where that is, but unless it is in Missoura, we won’t have any troops there by the end of 2017.”
::waves cash furiously::
Where do I send money for your campaign?
I’d say it was embarrassing and should have been within his repertoire if for no other reason than America’s policy in the region was a hotly contested issue at the time. If you actually want to deescalate your government’s military policy in a region where 3,000 bombs have already been dropped you should be able to competently address the hows and wherefores. “We shouldn’t have done that” is well and good, but “We already did, so now what?” is still something you have to address when you’re vying for the office of the person in charge “so now what”. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been disqualifying, but it looked extremely amateurish and ignorant in light of the situation at the time. Bearing in mind that one the whole, it was actually probably one of the less embarrassing things about the Johnson/Weld campaign.
I tend to agree. Half a president’s job nowadays (for any libertarian-ish candidate) would be to unravel all the foreign entanglements the preceding officeholders got us into. Knowing what/where those entanglements are is a necessity.
Untangle? All one would have to do is stop funding. If Congress overrides the veto to keep the funding going, it’s on them and should be blamed for the shit shows; stop letting them off the hook.
They can fund a war but a president can decline to send troops there/withdraw ones a previous president sent. As CInC, that’s his/her right. Sure, Congress bears some responsibility. But the ultimate authority to withdraw lies with the President.
Congress sets the budget, and the President gets to execute it.
Bottom line: He doesn’t have to spend it all, but he breaks the law when he over-spends.
He doesn’t have to spend it all
The Anti-Impoundment Act kind of says he has to, I think.
Nah. The president takes an oath to defend the Constitution, and to faithfully execute laws passed by Congress that don’t violate said Constitution. He or she can refuse to spend money on things that violate the Constitution, and he or she can get a given job done cheaper than what Congress envisioned and let Congress decide what to do with the surplus.
Unraveling is easy. Bring the troops home. Hopefully we don’t have to fight rear-guard actions while doing it, but if so, the generals can arrange that.
I have some vague memory about some photos of children suffering there a few weeks before that so I’m sure it was supposed to be significant to the woke crowd.
+1 baby on the beach
*rubs eyes, shakes cobwebs out of head*
The Rangers didn’t play yesterday.
Not losing is winning.
The stupid-ass ESPN top line was a day behind and only showed two games…from Wednesday’s full slate.
I guess they’re pissed at the NHL for moving to NBC. I won’t use them for hockey scores anymore, the bastards.
ESPN sucks ass.
It’s never been the same up here since TSN took over and we lost the theme song https://youtu.be/dwpqiaWKPkQ
I never saw an athlete more protected and coddled by media and fan base than Carey Price. I don’t get it.
They talk as if it’s 2013. Dude has been a declining athlete for years now and they talk as if he’s a top goalie in the league which he clearly isn’t. If Were to type this on some board or to the local radio station they’d lose their minds telling me how much I know nothing about hockey and stupid shit like that.
Well he does sport that giant “C” for cunte on his jersey.
^^^THIS^^^
If he played for the Bruins or something, he’d be crucified in the media.
If I were still a Habs fan I’d ask you for a duel. But I don’t care anymore.
How the mighty have fallen – like really hard. They keep putting politics over success.
How they thought giving him $10.5 million a year for 10 years (for a goalie!) was smart is beyond me. They over rated the guy so much they gave him more money than Crosby! it’s nuts.
These stupid contracts are gonna torpedo the league. When you are stuck paying guys into their late 30s and 40s, eventually every team becomes just average.
Price is (was?) technically brilliant in net. The Canadiens defense blows. They 100 more defensive zone giveaways that the f-ing Red Wings for dog’s sake.
I tell my little goalies to watch videos of Price when we work on stance and positioning. I always tell them when they see a goalie make a stretch or diving save that it just means he was out of position.
He is still technically brilliant. Lord knows a couple of my goalie buddies have explained this to me and it’s obvious to see. No better goalie that way. His workload and GSAA certainly proves he can handle the load.
And yes, the defense has been mediocre but not that bad. The Habs always had defense first coaching. But know what? They pay him the big bucks and he ain’t living up to that standard.
Well, Hasek was the most unconventional goalie diving and stretching all over the place and he’s the greatest of all time.
People argue if Price is in the mix of the all-time greats but technical soundness isn’t enough.
No argument there. I don’t like the style these days. It’s basically get on the ice and let the puck hit you which is why it’s not the little white guy sport anymore (quoting Youngblood).
If you’re not 6’4″, you can probably not worry about playing as a NHL goalie anymore/
Is it me or is Russia now the new pink of producing great goalies?
It used to be Quebec, then Finland and now I think it’s Russia (who aside from Tretziak didn’t have much until recently in the last 10 years or so).
That kid during the World Junior tournament seemed solid.
Henrik Lundqvist would like a word.
And Roberto Luongo. To me, those two are the best of the generation. Luongo especially. Dude maintained a .920 SV% playing for horseshit teams.
Lundqvist’s backup is outperforming him this year but because he is untouchable the Rangers’ third keeper got his first start the other day. Georgiev must see the writing on the wall.
They couldn’t move his contract. I know they wanted to trade him for years.
The Habs will have the same problem with Price.
But at least Lundqvist did maintain a decent level of play until recently, no?
Yes. But he and his contract have been the subject of consternation for years.
I never saw an athlete more protected and coddled by media and fan base than Carey Price.
Were you in a coma when Sidney Crosby played?
Crosby at least was dominant for years and won cups and medals, and has the stats to back him up.
And every time somebody checked him, they ended up in the penalty box.
I know that’s the claim and maybe it’s true but in his defense a) they were targeting him; like they did Mario in the 90s. Recall, as you know, they hated 66 for speaking out when he right. The NHL in the early 90s was a garbage clutch and grab league. There’s footage of players actually dragging him down from behind. It was retarded and b) does defend himself.
As a Wings fan, I have no love for Crosby on the ice, but he sounds like a genuinely great guy.
I hate CBS. Here is a better version of the story.
The guy is flat out one of the best players I’ve ever watched. And there are a ton of stories like that one you linked. He is a great ambassador for the sport. It will be a sad day when he and Ovi hang them up
Oh my God, he’s always been a good kid well brought up. We’ve been seeing that since his junior days in Rimouski where he even learned some French.
The fact is, look at the NHL greats. They’re generally all outstanding people outside the rink. Gretzky, Howe, Lemieux, Orr, Yzerman, Crosby etc. All of them. Great guys. Hockey humble.
I used to bump into the old Habs back in the day. You could walk right up to Lafleur and he’d talk to you. I used to also run into Maurice Richard at an exclusive club my father was a member at. He’d play racquetball and me squash and he’d always say hello and chat with people.
Beliveau was an even greater gentleman.
Sakic is another according to a friend.
Damn. When i was a kid, I went the HoF and the first thing I did was run and get my picture taken next to Rocket Richard’s plaque. /sniff.
Mr. Orr – he will always be “Mr. Orr” to me – was as gracious as any human being I have ever seen. The line out the donut shop he was there to promote (no kidding, late 90’s in Portland, ME) stretched around the entire building and trailed into the supermarket parking lot. People had seats from the Old Garden for him to sign, one woman had a 6′ plywood likeness of him that she and some friends stole from the North End of Boston in the early ’70s. He signed it all with a smile and a joke.
And listened for about a minute each to everyone – everyone got one minute where he listened to people practically cry talking to him. And he was so incredibly kind the whole time. It was (obviously) unforgettable.
The Spittin’ Chiclets “Best of 2019” podcast starts with an interview of Crosby. Lots of interesting and entertaining stuff, including a reference to that story.
A 57-year-old man, identified only as Klaus O. for privacy reasons, was sentenced to life in prison last March…
I hope their history books refer to the artist formerly known as “Adolph H.”
“The Story of O” had a very different telling in my hazy 1970’s memory.
My first cable naughty movie.
Back then we had cable boxes that “unscrambled” the analog picture. But you could watch it even scrambled. It would waver around and every now and then it would stabilize for a second or two. Boobies!
Then someone figured out that if you remove the chip and insert it kinda crooked it would unscramble everything…. so we all had free everything. Even cable porn… which wasn’t real porn. And the Story of O was one of the kings. Queens. Whatever.
What sort of weird world are they creating over there where a criminal defendant who has been convicted of murder cannot be identified for privacy reasons? I’ve never heard of that in my life.
You have now.
“Looks like Trump has an one checkbook for that wall of his.”
Citation needed for numbers of Article, Section, Subsection or Paragraph, and Clause of the Constitution of the United States of America that permits taxes and/or borrowing on the full faith and credit of the United States government to pay for this.
There would be more than one checkbook open to pay for ‘The Wall’ if government was paid for by voluntary donations instead of coerced money.
It would also balance the … wait, the no-longer-federal government doesn’t do budgets anymore. (Isn’t there something in the Constitution of the United States of America requiring them?)
I don’t think so. Without looking, while I think there has to be some sort of
congressional action to “appropriate” money to spend, I don’t think
there has to be a budget per se.
Art I, Section 9:
“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law;
and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be
published from time to time.”
So they have to pass a law and they have to publish what they spend. I don’t think the word
“budget” actually occurs in the constitution.
You could be Right.
Yeah, Obama and Pelosi invented this neat trick where nobody is responsible for anything and the spending just keeps rising. They locked in the “one time” bump of “fiscal stimulus” as the new baseline for annual increases, so they are playing with house money. Even the mandatory 1% cuts are irrelevant when you are baselining from a 30% increase.
At the risk of offending the FUCS crowd, the spending problem would be solved if government was paid for by voluntary donations instead of coerced money. If you like your ___ you can keep your ___ if it is paid for by voluntary money and the government is not making nongovernmental competition illegal.
Someone’s been reading Atlas Shrugged again haven’t they?
Ahem… you forgot Mehmet Ali, Crystal Gayle, JK Simmons, Joey Adams, Howie Long, Tommy the Clown, Rigoberta Menchu and your’s truly.
That’s awesome! Congratulations, Rigoberta!
Thank you. For that I will include you in my next fabricated story.
Make me one of Epstein’s victims. I wanna give an acceptance speech.
I will pay for this pleasure…
About 1/365ths of the world’s population will be celebrating with you. That’s a lot, man, out of billions.
Somebody is a Debbie Downer this morning.
And I’m the one who turned half a century old.
Hah! I have you by 5 months. Wait…being older isn’t a good thing. Crap.
I remember being 50… well, kinda.
Ditto.
I doubt this math checks out. More people are born in the late summer and fall than the winter because more people spend time indoors during the winters (9 months earlier, if you know what I mean).
And since more people live in the northern hemisphere than Southern Hemisphere, odds aren’t that you’re gonna have a lot more August-October births than January-March or especially March-May births.
“ (9 months earlier, if you know what I mean).”
Erm, no I don’t. Can you elaborate?
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Valentines day massacre of white supremacists followed by sweating for 9 months leads to babies?
It does if you’re in Cape Town or Durban.
August seemed to be a busy month in our family if you know what I mean. (Vacations?)
My dad’s b-day is 4/2, mine is 4/3, my brother’s is 4/5, and my grandfather’s was 4/12. My son’s was originally supposed to be 4/2, but he was premature and born on 3/2.
Way to ignore all those invisible people born on Feb. 29th!
Happy Birthday!
Likewise!
Happy Birthday, Scruffy!
^^THIS^^
Happy birthday.
Welcome to the Club, Scruff!!
(I’m 3 months in, myself, but so far I’m not seeing all of those perks I kept hearing about.)
What perks are those?
Telling all of us in our 40’s what it’s going to be like in 10 years?
The drowning man used Leo’s head as a flotation device.
Nice.
HANGIN’ WITH LEO!
“Leonardo Retardo”. I like it.
twelfth. blargrhehwegwjhg
Stop listening to me!
Here in Tea Mexico there is honored tradition of reverence and awe for Man with Cat on Shoulder. He tell many stories of life in the promised land, and JD listen.
blargrhehwegwjhg, blessed be.
I keep telling them that it’s all about the Gourd but will they listen? Fuck that! It’s Sandal this and Sandal that. I need a drink.
*clamors to be the first to offer a beverage to the great Festus*
Only a Glib would cotton to that joke. Huzzah!
It still has not sunk in that in the early 19th c. the USA was not like a developing country of the 20th. Agrarian USA had high wages (maybe the highest in the world), skilled labour, and high manufacturing productivity. It was the industrial UK which was the low wage country!
https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/1213504954683547648
Good morning, Sloopy!
And a good morning to the rest of you deviants, especially birthday boy Scruffy!
Ricky G is awesome, Chicago is a shithole, Leo is a dipshit and cancer should get cancer and die.
BOC is one of those bands I never listen to anymore, but every time someone links one of their songs, I wonder why. Superb band with wonderful album art.
Have a fantastic day!
BOC was kind of a second-tier band. They couldn’t find their niche, as it were. You’re correct about the album art.
I’ve seen them live. Essentially a great “bar band”. I’d argue more than a “few good songs”, but they didn’t break any new ground.
“Astronomy” is underrated, for example.
Don’t tell me what to do! (Especially since I don’t have a time machine)
They had two, maybe three good songs.
and cow bell.
They have plenty. I saw them live about a year ago and they’ve still got it.
You, sir, are a philistine.
Ideal band to get sloppy drunk and sing karaoke in a West Virginia dive bar. Second only to Eddie Money.
+2 tickets
“sing karaoke in a West Virginia dive bar”
No John Denver? I haz disappoint.
Cardi B says she’s filing for ‘Nigerian citizenship’ because Trump is putting lives ‘in danger’
Cardi B is blasting President Trump for last week’s airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, telling her Twitter followers that she is applying for Nigerian citizenship amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S.
The rapper, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential bid, tweeted that Trump is “putting Americans live[s] in danger” calling the strike the “dumbest move Trump did” so far.
“I’m filing for my Nigerian citizenship,” she said.
That’s the safest place I can think of too.
Why not Somalia?
Because no Somali prince set up a fat bank account there for her.
Once she moves to Nigeria she will be able to live large on that big giant bank account that the nice prince set up for her (for a trifling processing fee).
I can’t wait to get her emails.
Amusing. But did I read right in the thread? Jay-Z and Beyonce are in Ghana?
They can live like god-emperors out there. Monarcho-Mabutist King & Queen of some sort of real world Wakanda, or something.
MAH PEEEPUULLZZZZZ
I thought Africans hated American blacks?
Ssshh, don’t tell Cardi B.
From what I’ve heard from dark-green Marines who’ve been there hate would be a mild word for it.
“Mud People” is what I’ve heard Africans refer to North American blacks as because they’re not racially pure. For the militant black community here, being accused of not being black enough has got to be a real kick in the dick.
Would be cheaper and quicker to just take out a full page ad in I’m A Dumbfuck Magazine.
Isn’t she the one that admitted to rolling horny marks? Fuck off and die in a fire you talentless hack.
She was misdiagnosed. Munchhausen B.
The US has troops in Nigeria fighting against Boko Harem (thank you white liberal messiah!). So I’m not sure how Nigeria is safer, but OK
“The rapper, a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) presidential bid,…”
Didn’t she complain about taxes a while back?
Yep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLROeAtNPjk
Bend over Cardi, Uncle Bernie needs MOAR MONEY!
Remy showed her where the money went
She lives two blocks over from me. It’s a huge house worth prolly 10 or 15 million. As far from Nigeria as possible.
So the Chicago PD isn’t punishing the cop for shooting somebody, just not registering his gun? Fuck Chicago for making me side with the cop. I have no idea whether or not the shooting was justified, but they can shove their registration up their asses.
The point is that the cop didn’t get prosecuted for a “crime” any peasant would have been prosecuted for.
They’re above the law. And that’s fucked up.
Look, Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the ….. oh, wait. That’s not helping.
Oh garbage. @rickygervais demonstrated that good comedians go after everyone. No one should be safe, but the prevailing thought these past 10+ years is that one group IS exempt. They can lecture from the stage but he can’t mock their inconsistencies? You prove his point.
But whycome he can’t only go after those stupid Republicans and conservatards.
Republicans are so stupid… I hate Republicans
maybe he knows the difference between an ancient city and a dog food brand
But him running in for the LP still really chafees my balls.
Sorta rubs you the wrong way?
Aw nuts. Wish I’d thought of that first.
Sack up, it’s going to be a long eight years of the Chafee Regime.
“I’ve got blisters on my fingers!”
A 57-year-old man, identified only as Klaus O.
Sounds like a Bond villain.
Sounds like a dog that a farmer had. Can’t remember his name though.
Sounder?
More like a cheap mix of sausage and sauerkraut in a can.
Oh, oh! Klaus-O’s!
“New York Times columnist Paul Krugman claims hacker ‘compromised’ his IP address to download child porn – and says it could have been an attempt to ‘QAnon’ him
Krugman is an economist and Nobel Prize winner who regularly writes opinion pieces for the NYT.
He is often critical of Trump.
QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that claims President Donald Trump is secretly working to dismantle an underground ring of pedophiles.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7867263/New-York-Times-columnist-claims-hacker-used-IP-address-download-child-porn.html
Sounds like Krugman is trying to get out in front of some bad press that’s coming
His ISP notified him that they knew he had been looking for kiddie diddling material, and this is what he is doing to provide himself with legal cover.
“Muh computer was hacked by right wing people!”
Fucking asshat should just admit he is a perv. Everyone would go “I knew he was that sort of fucked up”…
He could always fall back on the “Cat-on-the-keyboard” defense if all else fails. Either that or blame his Grandson…
Or try this – Man defends child porn collection, identifies as an 8-year-old girl
Should have claimed it was for research like Pete Townshend
Nah. They won’t be fooled again. *Be grateful. My first response was, “Who?”*
Who are we (to judge)?
His browser history is a preTeenage Wasteland?
+ 1 BleachBit
“Like with a cloth!”, said in Flo voice https://youtu.be/ftbm8EZZDqI. She’ll never escape her past and that warms the cuntles of my cold, dead heart.
HAHAHAHAHAHA I CALLED IT!!
Lurker that scanned too many Q links.
Haaaahaa
Really though I have no idea how all this goes and I’m not going to presume Krugabe to be a (vicarious) diddler of kids because I happen to despise the man’s output.
Someone replied, “OK, Groomer.”
That’s pretty good.
The replies are absolute gold.
Times thinks it may have been a scam.
(a) How would the know? Did the Times do forensics on his internet access?
(b) Scam? Was somebody supposed to be setting him up for blackmail?
will have more security in future
Changing his password from “password” to “podesta” would be my guess.
I interpreted that as he fell for one of those calls from “internet security” claiming to have detected suspicious activity from his IP
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/01/08/us/glaciers-national-park-2020-trnd/index.html
“Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020” (lol)
Also Manhattan is suppose to be underwater
If wishes were horses…
Be kind. Some of us have to work here.
I was in Japanese class last night and we were learning a grammar point about things we wished happened done by others or simply happen (i.e. good weather). When practicing the grammar one of my classmates wished for impeachment and naturally all my other classmates nodded their heads in agreement.
They honestly have no idea that someone who works in Manhattan and that they interact with may hold a worldview different than their own.
Surprise them (in Japanese).
BanzaaiiiiI!!!
Most of them have their worldview created by CNN propaganda. You should feel sorry for them.
CNN is a bit déclassé for the NYC intellectual. Right thinking New Yorkers are informed by the NYT.
I wanted to laugh, but all this did was make me feel sad for people this stupid. Sometimes I wonder if modern society is doing humanity a disservice by not allowing Darwin’s revelation that nature cleans out the
cessgene pool of the stupid from actually happening with enough frequency.So, what’s the latest doom prediction?
That Democrats will retake the Senate?
But the glacier warning isn’t being removed entirely, she told CNN. Instead, the new signs will say: “When they will completely disappear depends on how and when we act. One thing is consistent: the glaciers in the park are shrinking.
How many Our Gores and Hail Gretas must we say?
A month or so back I read a similar article in which they stated that the glaciers there were actually getting bigger. But I guess that since the visitors wouldn’t be able to see that they felt free to claim the opposite.
And Britain. Remember that one? I think Algore said it.
I am posting from Sub-Marine Domestic Habitat #11248. I can’t see any fish out of the portholes because they are clogged up with nurdles again. God Save the Queen.
Hello Down There
I bet you’re one of those jerks from pod 6.
The only reason the park and Manhattan are still there is the eight years of Obama holding up his hands and forcing the oceans to recede.
Well, sure that is part of science. Sometimes you are wrong. I’m sure the doom is still going to arrive, just some other time.
Instead of wasting my time with this juvenile gloating, why can’t you run some funny story about some dumb evangelical who is disappointed that the world didn’t end on Jan 1, 2020 like his bible prophecies had predicted? Those always crack me up. Stupid rubes.
Somebody’s gotta be the cynical cunt so it might as well be me. Most of the improvement is in short term survival rates. Longer gaps between remission and recurrence, that’s all. I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it, but a part of me thinks it would be (in some cases vastly) preferable to just die in 12 or 18 months rather than drag oneself through treatments that are as bad as the disease for an extra couple years. Quality > quantity.
Virginia Dems keep rolling. Bill to ban backyard ranges.
No one needs a backyard range to hunt.
Even the Fudds need to zero their rifles.
Why? That pesky rabbit is just going to bend your barrel into a curve. That wreaks havoc with your sights.
Nope, now you have to pay a State Approved Sniper Rifle Handler to sight in your rifle for you. Please register on the Known Terror Threat List and hand over your passport, and it will be bore-sighted for you in 6 to 12 weeks.
Front yard ranges are still OK? Whew, had me worried for a minute. The scary part is that similar thinking people will get to have fun, shooting, trading hunting stories et al and may even get some youngsters interested and trained in using guns. At least drive bys are still OK, that’s the good news.
They also want to prohibit indoor ranges not owned/leased by the state*. Dems are going full authoritarian.
*There is one other contingency that has slipped my mind, but it is all horseshit anyway.
At least the mask has come off but I actually wish they’d put it back on.
“You can’t say things that hurt other peoples feelings. That’s hate speech. These speech regulation proposals have been fully vetted and pass constitutional muster.” -> Coming soon after they take your guns.
Nothing within… yada yada yada.
LOOK OVER THERE A FASCIST!
this bill is in addition to another bill that makes it illegal to have a range in a building with more than 50 employees. that one has one primary purpose: to shut down the NRA range in Fairfax
that other bill also requires every range to register the names and addresses of every shooter.
the delegate who proposed that other bill is Dan Helmer. he is a New Jersey native and West Point grad.
requires every range to register the names and addresses of every shooter
Control. Power is the end, not the means.
This and the general registration they want is only to confiscate later. That is literally the only useful purpose of registration.
I give Leo and most other actors crap for being hypocritical douche bags, but if he wasn’t out there on his private yacht, that man would have likely drowned.
Story sounds fishy. Pun intended, but point stands.
It’s certainly a whale of a tale.
Sloopy, going in for the krill.
I commend him. He could’ve been knee-deep in Octopussy.
Officer was suspended 90 days for unregistered gun used in fatal shooting in Mount Greenwood
But the officer got home safely. What more do you plebs want?
“Why the Queen must FIRE Their Royal Hustlers: Deluded Meghan and Harry should be stripped of their titles before this pair of grasping, selfish, scheming Kardashian-wannabes bring down the Monarchy, says PIERS MORGAN”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-7868371/PIERS-MORGAN-Queen-FIRE-Royal-Hustlers.html
“‘So long peasants!’ Merciless and messily democratic social media explodes after Meghan and Harry say they are stepping down from royal roles”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7868221/Twitter-explodes-hilarious-memes-Meghan-Harry-step-royal-roles.html
So they can leave the royal family, but the UK can’t leave the EU?
IIRC, the first Brexit vote by the genera public was in Northern Hemisphere summer of 2016. UK still in EU.
H&M announce “We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family”. There is no guarantee that they will be out by Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023.
Northern Hemisphere summer
:Squints suspiciously:
Looks like we got an Ozzy here, throw him on the barbie!
https://barbie.mattel.com/shop/en-us/ba/all-barbie-dolls/2020-barbie-calendar-gtk98
In other words, they’re going to continue living the exact same lifestyle as before, just they had to have an attention-grabbing temper tantrum first? What actual “duties” ever came with their titles in the first place? Leave it to Britons to not be pissed off about the ridiculousness of an antiquated and worthless monarchy, but the fact that the, what, 6th or 7th in line to the throne will no longer be making a pretense of public service.
https://spectator.us/harry-meghan-doomed/
I think this makes some fair points and they may not be happy with the result. They will still have the scrutiny without the “royal shield”. Hopefully they won’t wind up dead in an automobile accident while fleeing the paparazzi.
The British Royal Family does ~2 K public appearances per year. Plus, ‘Members of the Royal Family support The Queen in her many State and national duties, as well as carrying out important work in the areas of public and charitable service, and helping to strengthen national unity and stability.’ https://www.royal.uk/role-royal-family
And they have to deal with the UK media.
The claim is that they will become financially independent, which implies that they will quit being parasites on the public dole.
If the rest of the Royal Family is so beloved, then maybe their fans should voluntarily pay for their upkeep instead of it coming from taxes or debt.
“We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the Royal Family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen. It is with your encouragement, particularly over the last few years, that we feel prepared to make this adjustment. We now plan to balance our time between the United Kingdom and North America, continuing to honour our duty to The Queen, the Commonwealth, and our patronages. This geographic balance will enable us to raise our son with an appreciation for the royal tradition into which he was born, while also providing our family with the space to focus on the next chapter, including the launch of our new charitable entity.
We look forward to sharing the full details of this exciting next step in due course, as we continue to collaborate with Her Majesty The Queen, The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge and all relevant parties. Until then, please accept our deepest thanks for your continued support.”
— “PRINCE Harry and Meghan Markle” as quoted @ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10700782/prince-harry-meghan-markle-moving-canada/
The whole family are lousy, usurping Krauts. They should have been given the Cromwell treatment ages ago.
I haven’t looked into the details, but I don’t think their upkeeps
comes from taxes or debt.
The Duke of Edinburgh £359,000 2019
The once-honorable Harry has been Kaepernicked by this Yank bitch.
Piers “Broken Clock” Morgan
Aside: I’m kinda glad ol Charlie got to be with his One Twu Wuv. Really, I am.
Fuck. Off. You totalitarian. Asshole.
So we are back, with eight common-sense measures to keep dangerous persons away from firearms. If you have demonstrated extreme risk of violence, or there’s a protective order against you, you shouldn’t have a firearm. This means universal background checks. If there’s nothing in your record, you have nothing to worry about.
Let’s be clear. This is all fully consistent with the Second Amendment. Every one of these proposals has passed constitutional muster. Other states have passed them into law. They were drafted by your own attorneys at Legislative Services, and teams of lawyers have reviewed them.
It’s clear that a majority of Virginians support these measures, and so do a majority of you. Many of you ran on common-sense gun safety, on both sides of the aisle.
I know that “thoughts and prayers” are important and well-intended, after an act of violence. But Virginians spoke in November, and they expect votes and laws to make Virginia safer.
As this discussion begins, let’s have an honest conversation based on fact, not fear. We will engage in civil dialogue. I ask all Virginians to refrain from promoting fear and intimidation.
No, they aren’t and have not.
If I was a reporter in VA, I’d title this article “Coonman Has Thoughts”
If there’s nothing in your record, you have nothing to worry about.
when i was a kid and democrats railed against Bush for his abrogation of privacy rights, i was still dumb enough to think they meant it.
i consider myself a stubborn ass on 2A. but there are likely thousands of rabid Virginians that make me look like a pussy. his proposed restrictions are not going to go over smoothly. this will sound hyperbolic but dare i say there will be rapid escalation by all parties.
As Virginia has long been a mostly gun friendly state I don’t think this is going to go over easy in much of the rural part of the state. And it won’t have to be even close to a majority of residents in any particular rural area. I’m sure there are veterans, some young and recently scarred from combat, some of them older and set in their ways, who will have strong opinions about what they are supposed to do with their property.
Rural VA is not going to comply. There’s already signs planted all around the bumfuck back roads near stating “#2A WE WILL NOT COMPLY” or something like that. Local LEOs will not enforce and I’m positive armed rebellion would erupt if out of town LEOs tried confiscation.
That doesn’t surprise me. What has surprised me is all the cities that have signed onto to be #2nd A sanctuaries. Pretty much everywhere outside of NOVA has passed such resolutions (and even some in NOVA!). I think it stands at 126 or 128 counties, towns, and cities. VA Beach of all places passed the a #2nd A resolution and the shooting there was the lip-service reason given by Gov Blackface for the new proposed restrictions.
Some good stuff about the bushfires that aligns with my preconceptions.
I wish them luck in getting past the “climate change” bullshit and doing the right thing going forward but I don’t know if they have the will to tune out the stupid “activists”.
Why are so many people setting fires in Australia? Or are these just attempts at controlled memes that got out of control?
*controlled burns*
HOT MEME COMING THROUGH!
The only practical way to prevent unmanageable fires is to reduce the one variable we control: ground fuel.
THIS. Even if we grant the whole rhetoric that 1. There is climate Change. 2. Humans are responsible 3. Humanity can stop climate change. and 4. It is worth stopping it, the People of Australia cannot do anything about it. Their input to the “Problem” is so small that it doesn’t matter.
which really puts to the point that Climate Change rhetoric is about getting certain political outcomes against private property, because even if we grant those 4 assumptions there is nothing most countries can do about it. Not even the US can do anything that would matter.
WE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE! TESLA AND STRAWS!
It’s also about getting political control over other sovereign nations.
We can’t dial down the Earth’s temperature any more than we can lock up every teenage arsonist.
But you can lock up every teenage arsonist. Because it’s a violent crime with potentially deadly results.
Yes indeed! Those videos posted by Ozzyman are heart-wrenching; all those animal corpses piled against the fence line where they were trapped just did me in. I think hanged by the neck is justified punishment for this level of arson.
Yeah, I quibbled at that too. It’s definitely something they should be doing in addition.
They should build more prisons if they have to and lock away anyone who commits arson…for a long fucking time. It will serve as a deterrent for anyone who thinks it’s cute to set a fire.
The same should have been done to those assholes who set fires in California so they could get overtime or just to watch something burn. Five years isn’t a long enough sentence.
https://www.firerescue1.com/arson-investigation/articles/firefighter-gets-5-years-in-prison-for-setting-30-fires-iXwkfpUrm6VI81PE/
I’m certain that in many minds this just hammers home the point that the climate crisis is caused by humans.
We are all aware that “the Left can’t meme”, but did you know that “left libertarians” also can’t meme?
https://twitter.com/rechelon/status/1215103082322911232
Is that one of those Socialist Libertarians that are trying to stop Woods, Smith and Horton from trying to take over the LP?
I don’t know specifically, but anyone who has heard the entirety of the Deist speech knows that this is next level bad faith.
Wait, your saying a man giving a speach about how in a truly libertarian society that there might be communities that might be fairly right wing (just like there might be socialist communes), and then emphasizes this by saying that for some people “Blood and Soil” may be more important than leftist liberal sensibilities, wasn’t him advocating for a Authoritarian Ethno-Regime?
“If we have localism then who will force the baker to make the cake?”
That’s so bad it’s not even a meme. Although I have seen good ones from “left libertarians”.
“Or are these just attempts at controlled memes that got out of control?”
“We are all aware that ‘the Left can’t meme'”
The fire is a cover for preventing the spread of Right memes? And they get to blame the fire on Australia’s PM being a climate change denier!
You can be absolutely certain the greens will use this in their next campaign, after just barely losing the last one.
No bet.
Nutbar.
Ugh.
https://mobile.twitter.com/rechelon/status/1215233552192655362
The date on the exchange was from 2013, at least four years before Cantwell went full-on Nazi. In 2013 he was just harassing that one knuckle head that Julie Borowski use to debate on Stossel
“Lapsed physicist.”
Sure Jan.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/07/new-york-may-give-automatic-voter-registration-to-illegal-aliens-with-drivers-licenses/
While talking about getting rid of the electoral college…
‘You know it’s really a marvelous surprise. We haven’t had a friendly chat for some time.’
‘We haven’t had a friendly chat at any time.’
The Dems’ original bill to give licenses to illegals contained specific language to do this until someone actually read it and they got caught in the act. “Oops, our bad!” So it was fixed.
I don’t see them being successful at trying to sneak it through a second time.
The truth is out there.
There’s been an interesting, if not terribly informative development in the story of those UFOs encountered by the Nimitz aircraft carrier battle group back in 2004. As you may recall, there were three videos released over the past couple of years by the Navy through the efforts of To The Stars Academy (TTSA) showing encounters with bizarre flying objects exhibiting performance characteristics that defy much of our understanding of physics. One was from the Nimitz incident and the others were from a much later encounter involving the carrier Roosevelt. The videos were somewhat grainy and short in length. Many journalists have attempted to find out if more such videos exist, or at least if longer, clearer versions of the ones we’ve seen are available. All such requests were answered in the negative.
That is… until now. One researcher named Christian Lambright submitted a FOIA request to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) back in October looking for some very specific information along these lines. He finally received a response recently. The military didn’t supply him with any new videos or documents, but they did concede that they located other documents and another video that would be applicable to his request. They could not release them, however, because the documents were classified TOP SECRET and the video footage was SECRET. Their release, the Navy claims, could cause “grave damage” to national security. This information was published recently by Paul Dean.
Experimental stealth aircraft.
Lambright was awesome in Highlander I.
Did we note that Buck Henry died?
bummer.
that name is so hyper-masculine, he must have a gay pron double.
I know I sleep more comfortably at night knowing that our judiciary is completely impartial and rules only on the case before them and the law. Never letting their political opinions get in the way.
Fuck, how many times do we have to read stories where the judges rule pretty much along party lines?
Let’s be clear. This is all fully consistent with the Second Amendment. Every one of these proposals has passed constitutional muster.
Begging the question?
What if we like, filtered the air man?
Installing air filters in classrooms has surprisingly large educational benefits
A very flimsy study has Yglesias convinced.
Who knows? Indoor air is generally shitty anyway, but I’m not sure filtering it would work as well as opening a fucking window once in awhile.
A lot of classrooms see no daylight, anytime. It is truly a prison, solitaire but with 25 other confinees at a time.
That could literally be his epitaph.
Wifey has been a teacher in NYC for 13 years. The ONLY classrooms in NYC public schools that are air-conditioned are the computer labs. Every other room in the schools gets windows that may or may not open, and teachers all purchase fans.
They would be better off opening a window to drop the CO2 concentration levels to lower than 1200ppm.
He is right about one thing. It would be relatively cheap to do a larger scale randomized trial to see if the benefit is real.
I know that “thoughts and prayers” are important and well-intended, after an act of violence. But Virginians spoke in November, and they expect votes and laws to make Virginia safer.
Some magic spells are more magical than others.
Washington Post Launches Another Attack on 2A Sanctuaries
Overblown alarm over reasonable gun-control laws proposed in statehouses across the country has led to a movement by various local governments declaring themselves Second Amendment “sanctuaries” — vowing to establish local jurisdictions where state gun laws that they view as unconstitutional will not be enforced. These resolutions, to the extent they conflict with state law, lack legal effect: In Tazewell County, Va., for example, the “Sanctuary Resolution” approved by the board of supervisors purports to prohibit any county employee from enforcing, and any county funds from being used for the enforcement of, new state gun laws the county deems unconstitutional. But Virginia state law prohibits local governments from enacting ordinances or resolutions that are inconsistent with state laws and, more directly, specifically prohibits local governments from regulating firearms.
The resolution, and others like it, demonstrate how their proponents operate on a fundamental misunderstanding of the rights afforded Americans by the Second Amendment and, importantly, the limitations on those rights. And how they’ve spurred extremists who want to stand up local militias to engage in armed rebellion against the state — action that isn’t just dangerous but that also runs counter to the Constitution.
Interestingly, banning the private ownership and use of modern technology firearms runs counter to the constitution and banning the ownership and use of the most popular rifle in the country runs counter to scotus precedent, you cunte.
see, if you call a semi-auto rifle with pistol grip and collapsible stock an “assault weapon” enough times, then people reflexively associate it with felonious assault and murder. and the 2A doesn’t protect murder rifles!
Now do illegal alien sanctuaries.
What if we like, filtered the air man?
Are they filtering out the CO2?
https://twitter.com/uwu_uwu_mo/status/1215121075492679681
Interesting, but the left-right thing is still stupid.
I love the leftists crying about how that can’t be true, and that the CCP has “kidnapped” the term leftisim because it isn’t true leftism.
Left means everything ends happy.
You know who else liked happy endings?
Women who watch movies on Lifetime?
Robert Kraft?
The only labels that matter are free and slave.
More Gov Blackface
As this discussion begins, let’s have an honest conversation based on fact, not fear. We will engage in civil dialogue. I ask all Virginians to refrain from promoting fear and intimidation.
I want to reiterate: This common-sense legislation does not violate the Second Amendment. No one is calling out the National Guard. No one is cutting off your electricity, or turning off the Internet. No one is going door-to-door to confiscate guns. These laws are intended to keep Virginians safe. Period. It’s time to act.
I really despise this bastard. Just because you say something doesn’t make it true. And this cunte is either entirely ignorant of or ignoring the actual ramifications of his proposals. Constitutional question notwithstanding, this is totalitarian horseshit that can’t be enforced and any serious attempt to do so will result, ironically, in more gun violence. He want to make hundreds of thousands of otherwise peaceful people into felons overnight, and he handwaves it away as “simple commonsense gun safety”.
I really despise this bastard. Just because you say something doesn’t make it true
I’m pretty sure that is a debunked anti-science trope.
Gun violence takes the lives of more than one thousand Virginians every year.
The population is 8.158 million. That’s a fraction of a percent. And I will assume it is mostly suicides. Christ this guy is pissing me off today.
Now do death attributed to alcohol, including liver disease, car accidents, other accidents, suicide, diabetes and bar fights.
NYC with the same population gets around 300 homicides a year. Either Virigina’s homicide rate is 3x the rate of NYC or they’re including suicides.
And cop kills.
Let’s have a “conversation” that starts with me getting everything I want and you having to beg and plead for scraps after the fact. A nice, civil conversation where I get the police to do my bidding and you have to shut the fuck up and take it. After all, elections have consequences*, the state government gets to do whatever it wants**, and you’re all just a bunch of dumb idiots who don’t matter anymore***.
* = Except the ones whose outcomes we don’t like
** = Except when it does things we don’t like
*** = But please go fight and die in wars for us, okay
“Gun violence takes the lives of more than one thousand Virginians every year.”
So he IS promoting fear and intimidation. Cocksucker can’t even stop lying for 20 seconds.
Alright, sleep calls and the bed awaits. Have fun and be excellent to each other!
Good night
https://twitter.com/brianhioe/status/1215136950404800513
The President of Taiwan is a weaboo?
Asuka > Rei.
But I sure as fuck don’t want either of them running anything.
Nods, but in reluctant agreement.
However, Misato OTH….
Well obviously.
Asuka is like the unstable defensive lineman on your favorite football team. Violent. Crazy. Unpleasant to be around.
Abusive to their family. Probably dead by 45. But you need people like that on your team to compete.
Rei is just fucking annoying.
Is there any major character that isn’t broken in this series?
No, which made me love it at 19 and roll my eyes at 39.
Actually the penguin is pretty dope, now that I think about it.
I’m all for flawed protagonists, but Evangelion takes this to another level.
Yeah. Eva wallows in the brokenness, which is what I can no longer stand. I would much prefer, say, Planetes or Cowboy Bebop, where everyone is broken but its more than just characters rolling around in their own shit.
I hate to say it, but at this point I tend watch either more esoteric series or slice of life stuff.
I have a soft spot for the Mongatari series which now has an amazing number of episodes. I think it may be because I started studying Japanese at the same time the anime came out. As I learned more about the language I realized just how important the language is in the whole series.
I went the other way. I really prefer heroic literature (aka genre gutter trash) and my anime preferences run the same way.
I’ll take Hellboy, Mazinger Z, and My Hero Academica.
https://twitter.com/Slickzaman1/status/1215024313386049539
LOLOLOL
Hilarious.
You want to tell them all to sit and pipe down.
Can somebody please get a version of that with “You’ll Never Walk Alone”?
Ah fuck it. It couldn’t top this:
https://youtu.be/9eWERM6QSys
The 25th and 26th seconds make it perfect.
Leader McConnell✔
@senatemajldr
There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure. We will not cede our authority to try this impeachment. The House Democrats’ turn is over. The Senate has made its decision. This is for the Senate, and the Senate only, to decide.
Democracy is being subverted!!!
NOTZEEZ!
Only 50 workdays left before retirement!
Uffda. Sorry about that.
I’ve been professionally employed and I doubt that I’ve done more than 2 actual days of work. I can’t imagine having to rack up 3 more.
Lol. I am finding it hard to be inspired to work hard, knowing that the end of work is approaching.
Senioritis ^50
Time for a little PR work around the shop/company. On the road with a company credit card, making all the other employees feel important, hand shaking, etc. You would do a better job than the horsepower on their annual shopping tours.
Sort of a legal question- I’m handing my father’s estate in Houston, and we need to transport more than one firearm to Nashville. Mrs. McGinty thinks we are committing multiple felonies if we load them in the car and drive them home. I told her no, the states in between only get mad if you don’t stop to do a little shootin’. Seeing as how she is the smarter one, is there a resource we can check to ease her mind?
TX -> A(r)K (edit:is AK alaska?) -> TN is safe. Lock them unloaded, if possible in another bag or container, in your trunk. If you get pulled over, and they want to look through it, tell them the truth. You have your late dad’s unloaded guns in your trunk. It would help if you have a death certificate. But in no way are you committing felonies by transporting unloaded guns you own in your locked trunk.
A bit old but a good starting point:
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150101/guide-to-the-interstate-transportation
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150101/guide-to-the-interstate-transportation
Lol whoops probably should have hit refresh before posting.
Unloaded and locked in a case – FOPA federal law says it’s okay as long as the weapons are legal in your destination state. Wouldn’t trust states like New York or Maryland and wouldn’t stop in big cities, but your route should be fine.
Thanks all!
Sounds like a Cannonball Run type of deal. Probably need a Trans Am.
I don’t know who to believe anymore.
Kerry said, “It is an outright lie, an outright lie by the president of the United States that they were given $150 billion. They were not. And the money that they did receive was their money because they sued the United States of America and won in court and were being paid interest. So American citizens were paying interest every single day that was accruing. More and more billions of dollars that were going to go to Iran. We cut that short. We negotiated a deal that greatly reduced the amount of money they were, in fact, supposed to receive under court order, and they would have received it eventually. And we transferred that to them, most of which they owed to other countries and other people in a massive debt that Iran had accrued. So the fact is that he has lied about that.”
He continued, “We are not safer because this president has been willing to personally invoke his anti-Obamaism to such a degree that he’s run the risk of war. That response by Iran could have been significantly different. and it is not right for the president of the united states to put the united states in a position where we are dependent on a regime that we don’t like to somehow behave in a way that saves this president from himself.”
He added, “I will be amazed if this Iranian regime will negotiate with Donald Trump. They found out he’s not trustworthy. They’ve seen his lies as we have seen his lies, and that is not the basis on which to invite people to a table. Nor is it possible to squeeze and force them to that table. If we learned anything in our negotiation with Iran, it’s they pride themselves in a more than 5,000-year history as a nation-state, as a culture, as a presence. And I think this president just doesn’t stop to understand those kinds of things, let alone an awful lot of other things that are important to the presidency of the United States.”
That Zyklon B was legally purchased, but the German government. We had no choice but to give it them.
So exactly how much cash did we give them, John? $149.5 Billion?
What exactly did they do with the cash? Job training (for non-terrorists)?
Jeebus. Suck harder, dude.
If that were so true, they’d throw out the mullahs and embrace their preconquest culture more.
There is apparently, a sizable minority who want to do just that. That Queso Salami fellow has been murdering them for years. Sargon has an interesting video on the subject. https://youtu.be/ZpDNgTexmz8
Funny how the current leadership has been hard at work destroying any signs of a civilization previous to the takeover by Islam of said culture/nation-state.
Every Iranian ex-pat I’ve met refers to his or herself as Persian.
And the money that they did receive was their money because they sued the United States of America and won in court and were being paid interest.
It’s not their fucking money because they’re a terrorist state that has no claim to it. A court can rule whatever it wants, at the end of the day it was a question of foreign policy and thus it was the President’s decision to give it to them. Unless and until the mullahs are gone, the U.S. owes nothing to the Iranian government except contempt.
What a traitorous weasel.
Why are the Dems all-in on Iran? When Obama was president I assumed it was due to ValJar’s influence.
But why stick with them now? We all know they find terrorists in Israel as well as other states.
Of all brown people, why have the drms adopted the Iranians as pets?
It has nothing to do with the Iranians themselves, it has everything to do with OrangeManBad, OrangeManWarmonger (ironic in the extreme).
Also, Dems are the US’s Labour Party, complete with anti-Semitism. So killing Jooz is a-ok.
Apparently they’re ok with publicly executing gays as well. Not that Iran or their terrorist puppet regime ISIS had the market cornered on that.
Not that Iran or their terrorist puppet regime ISIS had the market cornered on that.
Say what? The same ISIS that Iran has been funding the kicking around? or are you saying ISIS is the terrorist puppet regime of the Democratic party (something actually plausible).
Shit, my bad. I confused the two theocratic wings of Islam for a minute there. Iran’s terrorist puppets are lobbing missiles at Israeli grammar schools. The Saudi puppets are the ones chucking gays off grain silos under the ISIS brand.
I’ll do better next time.
^this. And they’ll drop them the minute it’s convenient. Libya has a lengthy history and proud culture, too, but Kerry didn’t seem to mind Obama whacking the leader of that country even as they were offering to cooperate with us.
“If we learned anything in our negotiation with Iran, it’s they pride themselves in a more than 5,000-year history as a nation-state, as a culture, as a presence.”
This is more fucked up than not knowing what/where Aleppo is.
It’s like a Five Thousand Year Reich or something.
They were not. And the money that they did receive
Uhh, I think you need to pick one or the other.
Jillian Michaels says Lizzo’s body shouldn’t be ‘celebrated’, is accused of body-shaming
The celebrity trainer, best known for her stint on “The Biggest Loser,” stirred up controversy Wednesday during an appearance on BuzzFeed News’ “AM to DM” by questioning why Lizzo’s body is praised.
When host Alex Berg mentioned Lizzo’s body-positivity movement, Michaels interjected: “Why are we celebrating her body? Why does it matter? Why aren’t we celebrating her music? ‘Cause it isn’t gonna be awesome if she gets diabetes.”
Michaels, 45, continued: “I love her music. My kid loves her music. But there’s never a moment where I’m like, ‘And I’m so glad that she’s overweight.’ ”
em>Michaels’ remarks were immediately met with backlash, with many social media users accusing the fitness personality of perpetuating stereotypes and fat-shaming Lizzo, who recently quit Twitter over internet trolls and bullying.
Of course.
hElThEe aT AnY sIzE!
Who does this guy think he is?
“Who does this guy think he is?”
Obviously an alt-right Nazi.
If you’re fat and you’re ok with it, fine, that’s up to you.
That does not confer a moral obligation on everyone else to think that it is a thing to be celebrated.
In the same vein, I support your right to be a heroin junkie and to not advocate imprisoning you for it, but I am not obligated to thing that it is a wise or moral choice for you..
I’m also not obligated to indulge your gaslighting that being obese isn’t unhealthy. You’re better off smoking a pack a day than being 100 pounds overweight.
Ladies, feel free to powder your pussies.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/07/talc-health-risks-baby-powder-cancer-not-strongly-linked-study-says/2836082001/
Another source from which you should conclude that talc is safe:
“Talcum powder lawsuits are filed by women who used Johnson’s Baby Powder and other talc products and later learned they had ovarian cancer. Evidence shows that Johnson & Johnson knew their talc contained cancer-causing asbestos, leading to repeated talcum powder lawsuit verdicts in favor of plaintiffs.”
https://www.consumersafety.org/product-lawsuits/talcum-powder/
Obviously those scientists were paid off by J&J.
Ok, but what about oral cancer?
Thot Thursday gives you America’s greatest resources: hot 20-somethings with Daddy issues.
http://archive.is/wip/2jxLk
RE: Shooty Chitown Cops.
I’m sure the average “civilian” would get such a severe penalty if they murdered someone with an “unregistered” (blood boiling) gun right?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ENw15d9W4AAXGnp.jpg:large
Who did this?
LOL
No clue but I’m going to hell for laughing at it.
#metoo
Same.
Who was originally in Biden’s spot?
The name of the school is like rain on your wedding day.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/no-zionists-and-no-straights-tweets-from-teacher-rattle-elite-new-york-city-school/
And the academy award for Wokest goes to…
Man, the Big Ten really fucked up when they let those two schools in.
How progressive of them. Like, for real.
*head-desk*
As long as they are equal, when being separated, it is fine.
No Zionists and no straights, but a ton of elitist assholes.
Imagine teaching at an elite private school in New York and pretending like you’re oppressed. Seriously, just imagine the mental gymnastics that you would have to take in order to justify that to yourself.
Hey, if people can (and people did) say that Ricky Gervais was targeting marginalized groups at the Golden Globes, anything’s possible.
I’m always amazed at how Jews have enabled some of their worst enemies on the left.
They’re JINOs. Not to play a “no true Scotsman” game, but as a member of the (((tribe))), I feel comfortable expelling people who compare Israel to Nazi Germany. That’s why I stopped going to Temple; I’m not Orthodox, so my only options are uber-prog, indoctrinated, self-hating, anti-Semitic synagogues.
Most Conservative synagogues are still good, at least in my experience. Though I only go at Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
I wanted to feel sorry for the school but it’s pretty clear they brought this on themselves.
If you need to tell everyone about your moral virtue, you probably don’t have it.
What a cunte.
Dave Weigel✔
@daveweigel
Quote of the day so far, from a Dem member of Congress reacting to Iran’s limited strikes: “You need two crazy leaders to start a war, and fortunately, Iran doesn’t have one.”
Once again, I find myself being forced into supporting Trump because his opposition is loathsome.
I’m pretty sure crazy is the opposite of that mental patient thinks.
Journolist Dave sure is providing a lot of cover to that Democratic politician by offering them anonymity.
Thanks for posting that. That cunte still has me blocked after a rather testy exchange a couple years back.
Not one but 100s, 1000s, etc
So they attacked our embassy out of an abundance of sanity, then?
I forgot about that guy.
Almost Bee-worthy.
https://genesiustimes.com/deceased-iranian-general-soleimani-surges-into-4th-place-in-democratic-primary-race/
Harry has definitely put that pussy on a pedestal.
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/celebrity/your-country-sucks-by-meghan-markle-20200109192395
Come down to Earth man; you’re a good-looking Prince. You have got a nigh-unlimited number of women to choose from.
Weird how he lost his mind for a high-maintenance woman at an age where most men are past that kind of idiocy.
And found the one woman who didn’t want to marry a prince and live in a castle as a princess.
*laughs in Stuart*
The cognitive dissonance of that pair is staggering.
Harry has mommy issues and Meghan fills the bill. “Yes, Mum. Am I a good boy?”
Define “lie” plz
“Ultimately, we don’t think decisions about political ads should be made by private companies, which is why we are arguing for regulation that would apply across the industry,” he wrote.
“In the absence of regulation, Facebook and other companies are left to design their own policies,” he added.
Twitter decided in October to ban ads from politicians and Google in November said it would limit how political ads could be targeted.
Google’s (GOOGL) decision was blasted by Democrats who said limiting how ads could be targeted would hurt their campaigns. Politicians’ pushback on one ad policy change, while calling for policy reform on fact-checking ads, highlights the tightrope Silicon Valley companies are walking.
For some reason I can’t stop myself from thinking the people complaining about this stuff view “anything I don’t want (you) to hear” as pernicious anti-democratic falsehoods.
“In the absence of regulation, Facebook and other companies are left to design their own policies,” he added.
The horror that a corporation should come up with its own policies. Fuck you.
Lies like “Mitt Romney Gave That Woman Cancer” or just non-approved lies?
^^^THIS^^^
I’ll take the left seriously when they demand “fact checking” at the NYT and CNN.
Right. The NYT will check CNN, and CNN will check the NYT.
This coming from the guy who called the Babylon Bee a source of disinformation.
You know, if the media really wanted to get rid of “fake news” there’s something they could do to eliminate it. They could establish themselves as the gold standard against which fake news seems totally unreliable. They could make sure the “facts” they are reporting are actually facts and not just consensus opinion in their own little circles. They could acknowledge when they get a story wrong and provide viewers or readers their plan to make sure it doesn’t happen again. They could acknowledge their own bias in their reporting and seek out alternative interpretations of the facts from their own, or at least invite readers and viewers to do so.
Then they’d have to admit, sometimes, that they got it wrong. Really wrong, on an important matter. The facts (such as they are) may be on their side sometimes, but other times they won’t be. But, honestly, their viewers/readers/followers don’t really care about facts or being right on the important questions vs. feels. Fake news is news that disagrees with your viewpoint or makes you feel bad, not necessarily news that’s based on a false premise, misreported piece of information, or just flat out lie. There’s a handful of honest voices out there, but they mostly get marginalized.
Put simpler, if they took a stand to be the gold standard of factual accuracy, they’d have to take a pay cut.
Back to nature
A 5-year-old boy and 32-year-old man were bitten by coyotes in the heart of Chicago, leaving residents in the nation’s third-largest city on high alert for the wild dogs.
The boy was hospitalized Wednesday after being bitten multiple times by a coyote in the city’s lakefront Lincoln Park, Chicago police said in a statement. He is said to be in stable condition.
The attack happened near the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, which said “our thoughts are with the child who was bitten this afternoon,” in a tweet on Wednesday.
Shortly after the boy was hurt, Chicago police reported another coyote incident. A 32-year-old man was walking on a sidewalk in the Loop, the city’s downtown, when a coyote came from behind and bit him on his backside, police said. The unidentified victim was brought to the hospital and is in good condition.
Local animal control said an increase in coyote sightings is due to animals’ following the Chicago River in search of food, according to NBC Chicago. Experts told the local station the coyotes are coming closer to downtown and becoming more aggressive because they can’t find food.
They should have coyote feeding stations.
Wait, coyotes aren’t dogs, are they?
Seriously, the re-greening of the US, and its associated habitat conflict, are the biggest unreported story of the decade last decade. Because it doesn’t fit the model of Vogtian Apocalypse that our learned betters have so much faith in.
http://www.njskylands.com/ecobears
I understand Tundra has seen a number of cougars in coffee shops and yoga studios in Edina, too.
Coyotes have started becoming an issue in some of the Cleveland suburbs.
Cougars? There are downright Dragons at those yoga studios.
What can I say? I take an active interest in wildlife.
They used to be a separate species (Canis latrans), though since they can interbreed with Canis familiaris, I have no idea why.
They are still considered separate species. All wolves, dogs, coyotes, and jackals have the same number of chromosomes so they can all successfully interbreed and produce offspring that are fertile, but they are also distinct enough to be considered separate species.
We have to watch our smallest dog outside at night (suburb of Columbus, OH) due to coyotes. We have a fenced yard, but you never know.
There are coyotes all over the city. I got a pack that lives not too far from me and every couple of months I hear one of them howling in the middle of the night because the idiot gets stuck behind a fence nearby and he forgets how he got in.
True story, the city purposelessly does not remove them. They tag them and let them wander, as they love to eat rats.
So the truth is the coyotes are finding plenty of food and breeding more because of it.
Most likely. It’s been a mild winter so far which means more rats and mice breeding.
But, for a coyote to attack a 32 year-old in the middle of the Loop makes no sense to me. Unless that 32 year-old was around two feet, I would think that coyote had rabies or something. Coyotes are the pussies of the canine world- they would never approach anything bigger than three feet.
On the other hand, there are a shit ton of rats in the Loop even though there aren’t a lot of restaurants (although there are a lot more now than there was ten years ago).
I remember once standing on LaSalle Street just a block from the Board of Trade in the middle of a heavy rain and seeing four or five rats scurrying from one side of the street to the other (their dens were probably flooded in the rain, I imagine). And LaSalle Street is mainly just banks and other office buildings.
Makes sense to me. There are enough morons in this town than I’d bet the asshole was trying to feed or pet the damned thing.
We have unusually large coyotes where I live, and they are well habituated to people (unlike Texas, where they have learned people = boomsticks). I have had them follow me on walks, and keep walking toward me when I stop. Even a thrown rock sometimes only backs them a little ways, for awhile.
But, I am convinced they have Mexican Gray Wolf in their ancestry, so maybe that accounts for it. They are much bigger and heavy bodied than what I have seen elsewhere. I was shocked the first time I saw them.
“for a coyote to attack a 32 year-old in the middle of the Loop makes no sense to me.”
Maybe the coyote was wearing a MAGA hat.
they love to eat rats
Sure, when they can’t get garbage. I wonder what percentage of their diet is actually rats.
Just wait until they bring in the coyote-eating gorillas.
coyote feeding stations
School bus stops?
We’re surrounded by coyotes, but 4 large GSDs seem to keep them away just fine. Works for keeping away other vermin too. A lot of neighbors keep losing cats and small dogs though. Partly to eagles and owls, but the coyotes take a bunch.
Came across this video somewhere, maybe here, where the neighbor’s dog saved his buddy.
After Small Dog Is Carried off by a Coyote, The Neighbor’s Rottweiler Springs Into Action
https://iheartdogs.com/after-small-dog-is-carried-off-by-a-coyote-the-neighbors-rottweiler-springs-into-action/
Damn. Talk about bringing the heat.
We had just trained our kittens how to use the cat door when we had a coyote sighting. Now, we declaw our cats, not completely, just the front, so they have little protection, but we always liked for our cats to have some freedom. We could trust our old girls to skedaddle on in if they felt threatened and they never wandered far, and the cat I hand-raised could kill a coyote without claws, she was that mean, but our new boy is a fearless adventurer.
Anyway, we locked them in and they whine to go out, so sometimes we let them out on the deck or on leashes.
But that brings to mind the issue of what animals do to animals. Nature is cruel. She doesn’t mean to be. She just is.
I am fucking sick and tired of people crying about the birds cats kill. “Keep your cats indoors!” and “Why do you own such vicious predators?”
Um … they’re useful? I wish my cat had killed that fucking woodpecker we had destroying our siding until he broke his beak on the new Hardie board. Cement and fiberglass #FTW
I have a woods directly bordering my back yard, that separates me from the park behind it. There is also a meadow running between, with a creek. I can see it all from my office window. It’s all very pastorale. I’mma miss that when we’re gone.
In the past, all I hear at night are the owls, which is amazingly comforting. There are bats, too, and I’ve thought about putting up a bat box. I see deer and bunnies in my yard quite often.
But anyway, for the last several weeks, 2-3 times a night, there erupts a spate of high-pitched and very loud barking by quite a few canines. I doubt any of my dog-owning neighbors are all walking their dogs in the woods. I mean, they do, but 11:00p, 2:00a, and 5:00a? Unlikely.
The unprovoked attack on an adult says rabies to me.
The most vicious Golden Globes take I’ve heard yet, “Michelle Williams literally held a golden idol while boasting about sacrificing her child to it.”.
Damn…
Dayum
Yeah. She should be thanking Ricky Gervais for his monologue or she would be the topic of conversation about the Golden Globes.
I don’t know what to do for the next year. I hate everyone involved in politics. Trump is a buffoon and yet the Democrats are going to put up someone actually dangerous against him. I don’t want to vote for that asshole.
You know how in the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan saga, a kamikaze pilot crashes into the Capitol during a joint session of Congress, taking out the entirety of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches? Yeah. Keep hoping against hope that will happen. I’d say this will put me on a list, but I’m on all the lists already.
You can always vote for LP candidate Lincoln Chaffe. I’m just kidding, that sounds horrible.
Jeez, if he’s the nominee, it’ll be the 4th straight time the LP has nominated a washed-up Republican instead of a libertarian.
The LP is where the worst Republicans go to pretend like they’re still relevant (Johnson excluded, only because he isn’t one of the “worst Republicans”, he’s just a “bad libertarian”).
The worst part of it is the slap in the face from the LP people saying this is about respectability. Bob Barr decided it was a great idea to be a lackey for a Haitian dictator and Bill Weld wants to hang Trump and crown Hillary as queen. If that’s “respectable”, then why are dancing naked fat guy and McAfee given such a hard time?
It’s amazing how much “respectability” is tied in with having a hawkish foreign policy or wanting to outlaw guns (in the case of Chafee).
That, and being part of the right elitist clubs. Weld could have just said “I respect my opponents” and been done with it but instead he decided to lick Hillary’s taint. I don’t get it, but apparently that’s the sort of thing that makes one “respectable”.
+1 Michael Badnarik
Badnarik was the last decent one. Barr was the beginning of shit.
Telling people I supported Badnarik in 2004 got a lot of strange looks. Granted, I was 16 so it was not like I could actually vote for the guy. But still. Bush and Kerry were loathsome, although both parties have managed to do worse since then.
He was last a registered Democrat in 2013.
Trump 2020 – Because Fuck You Again.
The man has all the right enemies. More than I now expect out of a politician.
I’m coming to this viewpoint as well. I wonder if it because we both have to suffer living in NJ.
Maybe. He’ll carry Warren and Sussex counties on just the “fuck you” sentiment to the rest of the state.
Fuck voting in a national election where you won’t have any impact. Do something real that will. Pick a community organization you are involved in, and arrange a Stop the Bleed class there. Contact a local private school and ask to guest-teach a couple classes on something related to your profession. Go cut onions and potatoes at a food shelf.
^^^^State Politics is about the most i’ll get involved in, and even then only cause i live in a fairly small state.
“Go cut onions ”
But I don’t want to cry!
Trump is a buffoon
Likely, but that’s far from the worst thing a politician can be.
I will be voting for Bad Orange Man again. Democrats are dangerous authoritarians that should not be allowed to have power. See: VA.
Republicans are also dangerous authoritarians that should not be allowed to have power.
But Warren/Sanders are far more dangerous than Trump is.
And the Deep State fuckers are even worse than those two. I’m voting for him just because this attempted coup cannot be allowed to succeed, and I think costing him the election would be counted as a success.
Aside from merely resulting in bad people like Sanders/Warren gaining power, it would send a message to half the country that democracy is not a good way to get what they want. A lot of Trump supporters might stop voting altogether and allow more Democrats to take power, and a small portion might be driven into the arms of actual white nationalist groups.
I know we libertarians are not lovers of democracy, but that’s the system we have for the foreseeable future, and the CIA and FBI shouldn’t be allowed to overturn the results because they don’t agree with them. Let me put it this way:
Anarcho-libertarianism > Democracy > Democracy where the result is only valid if the CIA/FBI agrees with it
I will take the Constitution over “democracy” any day. But the executive bureaucracy is, despite its best pretensions and machinations otherwise, not part of the constitutional order. They don’t get to decide jack squat. I don’t think you have to vote for Trump to prove them wrong, but it should be a factor in any vote cast. “Will this person kowtow to the unelected bureaucrats, or will they reign them in?”
I’m voting for him just because this attempted coup cannot be allowed to succeed, and I think costing him the election would be counted as a success.
Pretty much where I am. I’m hoping that after he is re-elected he takes a flamethrower to the “interagency”. He seems like the kind of guy who holds a grudge.
No President short of Andy Jackson himself can do it in this day and age. The courts and legislature still carry water for the bureaucracy. It will take a concurrence of at least 2/3 branches to really change.
Same here. He’s a buffoon but he’s getting all the socialists and deep state scumbags to out themselves.
Trump is chemotherapy. You wouldn’t want it unless you have cancer. Deep state socialists are cancer beyond stage 1.
End stage cancer?
After Johnson/Weld, i’m done voting for people i don’t actually want to see in office.
I will not have you bad mouth the “original libertarian” Raytheon Weld and his slightly retarded running mate
I told Mr. Mojeaux I may have to vote for him over this Iranian nonsense because FYTW, but he was never to tell anyone if I did. Either that, or I’m staying home. I’ll be damned if I’m voting libertarian again.
I always vote, but I write in “Fuck you the system is broken” more than I pick an actual candidate.
With the exception of rinky-dink local stuff like dog catcher. Then I always vote for the challenger for purely strategic reasons.
Not voting is always a good option.
Well, whaddayaknow?
Kris Folland grows corn, wheat and soybeans and raises cattle on 2,000 acres near Halma in the northwest corner of Minnesota, so his operation is far from small. But when he last bought a new tractor, he opted for an old one — a 1979 John Deere 4440.
He retrofitted it with automatic steering guided by satellite, and he and his kids can use the tractor to feed cows, plant fields and run a grain auger. The best thing? The tractor cost $18,000, compared to upward of $150,000 for a new tractor. And Folland doesn’t need a computer to repair it.
“This is still a really good tractor,” said Folland, who owns two other tractors built before 1982.
“They cost a fraction of the price, and then the operating costs are much less because they’re so much easier to fix,” he said.
Tractors manufactured in the late 1970s and 1980s are some of the hottest items in farm auctions across the Midwest these days — and it’s not because they’re antiques.
Cost-conscious farmers are looking for bargains, and tractors from that era are well-built and totally functional, and aren’t as complicated or expensive to repair as more recent models that run on sophisticated software.
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“There’s an affinity factor if you grew up around these tractors, but it goes way beyond that,” Peterson said. “These things, they’re basically bulletproof. You can put 15,000 hours on it and if something breaks you can just replace it.”
Foreseeable consequences are foreseeable.
Don’t worry, the EPA will put a stop to that soon.
He retrofitted it with automatic steering guided by satellite
I’d have killed for that when I was plowing section-sized wheat fields in North Texas.
I’m looking for a little subcompact tractor now. Diesel 4wd Mitsubishi from the 80s for a couple grand on craigslist is perfect for what I need. Better built than Fords or JDs and much cheaper. Hard to find though… they’re sold as soon as they go up.
Expand your search to The old Kubota tractors or even the newer Chinese stuff that are basically carbon copies of the Japanese stuff from 30-40 years ago. They’re actually built fairly well if you’re only putting 1000 hours a year or so on it.
I like Kubota too. Those are little more, maybe $6-8k. I could get an older full size Ford for that price though. Which I’ll still probably do in a few years to cut and bale my fields.
That’s great to see. When I was in California, I did a good bit of business with Bolthouse Farms. They were constantly cycling through their newer tractors every few years but their old ones were still in service after 30.
I’m selling an old 4430 next Thursday in an auction. It won’t bring a ton, but somebody will buy it and get another 30 years out of it with cheap maintenance. The same can’t be said for something made in the last decade, sadly.
“if something breaks you can just replace it.”
How did John Deere, Cat, and the rest get away from this?
1. The EPA is a bigger threat to them than their consumers
2. They sell you on the new shiny features, not the new shiny maintenance expenses
Judging by other responses,
3. They’re primarily selling to other large corporations, not individual buyers or small companies
So the cycle is
1) Manufacturer releases new features that help Big Ag collect operational data
2) Big Ag uses new features to verify that they are doing something right (amount of pesticide sprayed)
3) Some EPA asshole audits Big Ag site
4) Big Ag give him spreadsheet showing they did everything right
5) EPA asshole goes back to DC and publishes a requirement that all farmers must provide actual data about when/where pesticide was sprayed
6) Family farmer is fucked. They either need to buy a new tractor or kill themselves trying to come up with that data.
Two more:
7) Congress passes law to support “endangered family farms” with subsidies.
8) Big Ag gets most of the subsidies.
Despite what some may think, this is the real driving mechanism of regulatory capture. Shady backroom deals, bribes, threats, and political “interference” all play their part as well, but bureaucrats demanding everybody do something that only some can even afford to do is the leading edge of the ratchet.
I am part owner/developer of a company that only exists because the Feds published a mandate that every government entity that maintains a road must have an electronic inventory of every road sign on those roads. The list needs to include the GPS location and the reflectivity of the sign. They must also have a plan to periodically retest reflectivity and to replace signs that are not reflective enough.
The only reason this company exists is because small entities like townships can’t afford big software packages to comply with this mandate. We offer them a fairly cheap way to meet the mandate (we store the sign data and provide a simple app for adding gps and reflectivity data to the database).
I feel dirty working on that stuff because it adds no value at all. Only purpose of it is to keep the Feds off your back.
*Rumor is that a mandate to measure the reflectivity of lane markings is coming
Tell me about it. I’ve spent years working on – just to name one example – various systems that satisfy states’ mandatory auto insurance reporting requirements. There are multiple third-parties who exist solely to help with this because it’s so complicated.
Watch, 10 years after that mandate is put into effect, we’ll be hearing horror stories about the days before lane marker reflectivity testing, when people were constantly crashing into each other and swerving off the road because of insufficient reflectivity.
Ugh. I hate the new road signs. They’re cheap and have that horrible stripped shimmer at night. And the wrong tint of yellow. Having worked and driven graves for close to twenty years, I’m so glad I’m not doing it anymore.
I can also remember when highway beautification was tearing down those evil nasty signs that ruined the views. Now the official DOT signs grow like weeds to the point of being excessive. And then there’s the ones for private businesses, particularly wineries. Burns my wife’s britches that certain favored business get government signs to their establishment. She’s not a fan of picking winners and losers.
Regulations?
My step-dad used to kick ass at the antique tractor pulls. Why? Because just the day before the tractor pull, that same tractor tilled the front 40 or baled hay in the back 40. The garage queens with their fresh paint couldn’t touch him.
I’m beginning to come around to this philosophy for cars and trucks as well. My 2011 F150 has been one of the shittiest vehicles I have ever owned.
Smaller farmers are also getting screwed in the market because the big manufacturers are targeting products for the huge AgriBusiness conglomerates.
Big Ag wants as much automation/tracking stuff on those tractors as they can. They want to be able to have anyone be able to operate the tractor and get things done. They also want as much data about performance as they can get. When you own lots and lots of tractors that makes a lot of sense (as opposed to the family farmer).
Likewise, the things that are added to the tractors are pretty cool. The fancy stuff can include the tractor communicating with sensors as it drives by and modifying the amount of pesticide being released. Again, when you are managing lots and lots of land, that adds up. On a family farm? Maybe not as much.
There is definitely an economy of scale at play.
I see it in the construction equipment market as well.
It helps to have a team of accountants optimizing every tax incentive, something that small companies can’t do as easily.
From Big Ag’s point of view, it makes tons of sense.
If you have a high value asset being used by employees, you love features that alert you if those employees are abusing it. Are they running it at high RPM’s for too long? We’ll send you an alert. Are they not performing preventative maintenance at the proper times? We’ll send you an alert. Is the tractor parked for hours and hours back down by the river when it should be plowing? We’ll send you an alert. Is it plowing a field that doesn’t belong to Big Ag? We’ll send you an alert.
And the Big Ag can afford to have their own maintenance crews that are fully licensed to work on the tractor on staff.
Somewhat related- one of the things that stood out for me taking Ag classes is how much of an incentive farmers have to minimize the use of chemicals and additives, in a way that the treehuggers just don’t get. Those products are costs and there’s no value to over applying and washing them right out of your fields. Least amount of necessary product spread correctly (which the sensors and automation allow to an amazing degree of accuracy).
Similar with no-till (or reduced till). Not because you’re raping Mother Gaia but tilling excessively and unnecessarily destroys your soil structure and productivity.
My new inkjet printer was purchased at a Goodwill for $5.
“BOC’s Paul King”
The fuck is BOC?
Right! It should be BÖC.
Blame the keyboard. I suppose I could have fixed it, but I was too busy trying to shit out the day’s subpar links.
A sale of one of those tractors in good condition with low hours of use — the tractors typically last for 12,000 to 15,000 hours — will start a bidding war today. A 1980 John Deere 4440 with 2,147 hours on it sold for $43,500 at a farm estate auction in Lake City in April. A 1979 John Deere 4640 with only 826 hours on it sold for $61,000 at an auction in Bingham Lake in August.
“Those older tractors that had good care and good maintenance, that’s good property,” said Mark Stock, co-founder of BigIron.
The tractors have enough horsepower to do anything most farmers need, and even at a record price like the $61,000 the tractor in Bingham Lake fetched, they’re a bargain compared to what a farmer would pay for a newer tractor with similar horsepower.
The other big draw of the older tractors is their lack of complex technology. Farmers prefer to fix what they can on the spot, or take it to their mechanic and not have to spend tens of thousands of dollars.
No hackers required.
Seems like a real market opportunity here for a new tractor maker.
It’s not.
The reason the old tractors have significant value is because they don’t have EPA mandated emissions controls that require computers to function. The manufacturers don’t have the option of building them without that anymore.
Same applies in the market for semis.
As a more extreme/absurd example, just look at the gas cans. The goal is to be seen doing something, not necessarily for the end result to make any sense, be holistically good, or even to necessarily improve the very thing it was supposed to be about.
The new cans are far more dangerous and spill more than the old “unsafe” ones.
I DuckDuckGo’d “gasoline can regulations” and came across a list of bullet points of the new rules. One of them was,
“Childproof features as outlined by the Children’s Gasoline Burn Prevention Act”
Of course. It’s for the children. Why do you hate children? Don’t you remember the horrible days before 2009, when infants were constantly being incinerated in gasoline explosions caused by faulty gasoline containers??
Makes sense, Scruffy.
On a related note, I have to replace my showerhead. Looking forward to getting rid of the flow restrictors. Like low-flow toilets, I doubt they actually save any water because you have to take a longer shower with a low-flow showerhead.
Even people who stand in the shower till the hot water runs out, are still using as much water with a low-flow as a regular showerhead.
I can’t describe how much I loath low-flow toilets and shower heads. I don’t mind the toilets with a separate pee-pee and poopy button, but treating all shit the same is the epitome of top-down, brain dead thinking. Especially in parts of the country that don’t have the kind of water restrictions you do out west.
I replaced my shower head with an antique on. Five fucking gallons a minute. It’s wonderful. And as mentioned here before, I dropped a grand to have my 95-year-old toilet replaced. Eight gallons per flush! Sure, my water bill, as a single guy, is about $150 per month, but it’s damn well worth it.
rebuilt, not replaced
Watching C&Rsinal, their crotchety gunsmith likes to say “an armature trades time for money, a professional trades money for time” A farmer taking a break from other duties to fix stuff sounds pretty boutique.
The overall number of people looking to get these tractors is pretty small. There are fewer family farms this year than there were last year, and there will be fewer next year.
Big industrial farms don’t mind the greater complexity – the bigger the operation, the more each worker specializes. With greater specialization, greater complexity.
If there are foreign markets where these kinds of things are already being produced, it could make sense to bring them over. But I don’t see it being viable to spin up a new manufacture of these just for the US market.
The farmers I’ve known often spent a decent chunk of the winter fixing / maintaining their gear. What they do not want is their stuff breaking down during planting or harvest – no matter who will be fixing it.
My experience as well.
Ugh!
This was a big thing a few years back when I was still doing IoT. The manufacturers love adding that shit because they can lock in maintenance to their dealer network. If you own one you can’t go to some elm tree mechanic to get it fixed, because the replacement parts won’t play nice with the firmware. They saw a huge opportunity to lock up that maintenance money. Where they fucked up on is that their dealer network wasn’t beefed up enough to support the demand.
As others have pointed out, if a tractor breaks during planting or harvesting time, you need it fixed now. Unfortunately the dealer network didn’t have the capacity to fix all the tractors that broke during those periods. So the farmers started reaching out to east European hackers to unlock their tractors.
Having already pissed off their customers by not being able to service their tractors in a timely manner, the manufacturers decided to double down and aggressively go after their customers who tried to circumvent software on a product they paid a ton of money to own. Hilarity ensued.
This all ties back to EPA mandated emissions controls. If those were not required by law, there would be newer alternatives to the majors that didn’t require dealer service or software, etc…
As it is, the simpler tractors are being regulated out of existence.
Exactly
The tractor manufactures are the single most loathed vendors at CES. Half the crowd wonders what the hell they are doing there, and the other half wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.
I’ve seen CIA recruiters treated better at hacker conventions.
Folland said his corn crop was better than the Minnesota average in 2019, despite the fact that he farms on the Canadian border and uses 40-year-old equipment.
“The main reason we do this is to make money,” Folland said. “Older equipment is a way to reduce your cost per bushel to become more profitable.”
Wut?
Called it.
https://twitter.com/amichaistein1/status/1215305274141085697?s=21
The “everything bad is Trump’s fault” crowd really can’t be parodied.
If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it – is it still Trump’s fault?
Or CLIMUT CHNGE!
How can those nations demand anything when, apparently, they have no agency of their own?
Trump made them attack the US Embassy.
Trump made them take hostages in 1979 too.
Was Trump already a Russian sleeper agent in 79?
Apparently the world has forgotten what war actually is
Why is it that civilians have to pay the price for any tension or war situation between two countries.
War. War never changes.
I seem to have misplaced my shocked face.
(._.)
Yup, as I predicted a trigger happy moron fired at it and that is why Iran wants to keep the black box away from people that will disclose this. I bet they hope to make a deal with Ukraine that saves face and allows them to hide these details. And these are the people that hate orange man have chosen to side with. I want to say this is surprising, but it is not. The orangeman bad crowd is insane.
I know this is a cunte thing to say, but I apparently missed an in-joke while I was gone.
You were gon?
He was tied up
Well, whatever floats his boat.
LOL
You’re gonna have to be waaaaaaaaaaay more specific with this group.
ok Tulpa
cunte
I will be saving that to read for later. Now I have to go to a 6 hour demo.
It is not up to your level of kink, but it’s a helluva lot more than Trey and Marina, cuz Marina’s not exactly a closet bad girl.
You’ve got porn
Do you know who else?
No sex in the champagne room.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-biological-and-legal-father
Obviously the judge is a Russian agent who should immediately be arrested for trying to interfere in the election.
Apparently there IS sex in the champagne room
Unconscious for a week means significant brain damage and/or never regaining consciousness.
https://nypost.com/video/brutal-road-rage-punch-leaves-man-unconscious-for-a-week/
This is why you don’t get out of your car to confront someone.
A sucker punch at that. What a little piece of shit.
That’s the only way they punch in my neighborhood.
Nah. If you live in the liberal echo chamber, one’s outrage seems justified, because no counterfactuals. Case in point: my wife recently stating that “that idiot has started a war with Iran.”
Me: “We’re not at war with Iran currently.”
Silence.
I was tempted to point out yesterday that what was going on was pretty much the scenario from the West Wing episode about proportional response – they attack our embassy, we do a precision strike taking out the main guy behind the attack, they save face by launching precision missiles at two of our bases while taking extreme care to not kill anyone, then everyone just stands down. Then I realized that she has inexplicably never watched the West Wing, and would think this was totally different cause Orange Man Bad. And that I enjoy getting laid, preferably soon.
she has inexplicably never watched the West Wing
I think you autocorrected “understandably”.
The politics of the show was odious, but I watched it for the snappy dialogue.
*raises hand*
Me neither.
And a lack of outrage, too. I tried so many times to make “progressives” acknowledge the horrible things happening under Obama, mostly about war and the NSA scandal. But it just doesn’t click for them. And I didn’t say it like “he’s a terrible president and you’re stupid for liking him“. I tried to be nice and subtle about it, like “Yea, it’s really disappointing that this NSA shit was happening, especially under a president who campaigned on putting an end to that.” I never got any acknowledgement that this was a bad thing for the Obama admin to do; the response was usually changing the subject or saying that he didn’t know about it.
Anyone here surprised about this revelation team blue is so desperate to get back into power that they are cool with fucking over the American people they are supposed to be serving to gain said power?
Clearly they want to take sugar away from those damned plebes who don’t know what’s good for them.
But are they powerful enough to post a working link?
here…
I bet this suggestion was made by team blue to help their new besties…
TW: NYT
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The Mystery of Teen Vogue’s Disappearing Facebook Article
The online magazine deleted a glowing story about Facebook after questions were raised about whether it was an ad.
My feelings about Twitter in one tweet.