A hell of a match
This morning has been bananas. So these may be abbreviated by my normal standards.And I’ll probably leave whatever typos I make, of which there are usually many. Federer snuck into the Aussie semifinals after a hell of a comeback. Djoker rolled his way in. On the women’s side, Barty and Kenin made it through in straight sets. Hockey returned, with Washington, New Jersey, Toronto, Dallas, Vancouver, and San Jose winning. News outlets gave it a whole day before shit-talking Kobe’s past…and they’re drawing a lot of backlash from fans of the basketball star. And that’s pretty much it for sports.
Tha…that’s not good.
The big birthdays today are St Thomas Aquinas, bearded Canadian Alexander Mackenzie, French novelist Colette, person who used paint Jackson Pollock, actor-activist Alan Alda, Mexican gazillionaire Carlos Slim, coach-activist Gregg Popovich, fan of older women Nicolas Sarkozy, golf legend Nick Price, and hobbit actor Elijah Wood. It’s also the day the space shuttle Challenger blew up on takeoff. It’s hard to believe it has been 34 years. RIP to those astronauts.
OK, now…the links!
A journalist.
Accused sexual assaulter and CNN host Don Lemon creates the next big Trump campaign ad. Jeez, you’d almost think these people are in the tank for Bad Orange Man. But no, they’re just elitists who like shit-talking regular people who just so happen to not walk in lockstep with their political views.
Let me see if I can guess what’s in it: a bunch of new taxes and a a bunch of spending on pet projects? Oh, and policies that drive business elsewhere. But that’s a given.
Coming soon to a city near you
Well this doesn’t bode well for the rest of the world. The death toll is rising, the number of cases globally is rising. And nobody really has a clue what the death rate is.
SF cops and pols at war with each other. Good. Maybe the pols will pull their taxpayer-funded pensions in retaliation. And maybe the cops will stop being their revenue-collection arm. And maybe the people there will get some relief on both fronts. LOL, just kidding. None of those things will happen.
The Supreme Court weighed in on immigration standards. I’ll leave it to you to give your opinion in the comments. Personally, I don’t have a problem with means-testing immigrants. But I want the entire welfare state brought to an end, which would render this meaningless.
It took me a while to process the death. Now that I have, I’m gonna play a song where the drum work is less appreciated than it should be. Enjoy.
Have a great day, dear friends.
Let me see if I can guess what’s in it: a bunch of new taxes and a a bunch of spending on pet projects? Oh, and policies that drive business elsewhere. But that’s a given. – hei it really is a freakishly warm winter okay someone shoudl do something, and that someone is US local government
This seems to be a standard North East blue state thing this year. It is just a coincidence that these are all states dominated by the tax & spend “free shit for you paid by others” crowd that get super rich and powerful creating a whole new layer of ineffective and expensive money waste in every endeavor engaged by anyone and everyone. But hey, it is to save Gaia. Not to rip people off that otherwise would have told these credentialed parasites to go fuck off.
Think of the Romanian ski season we need to tax Americans more.
Well…I think the Swiss ski season should get first dibs. Alps, FTW!
I think we should send most of these skiers to Nepal and have the ski K2 or Everest.
Well this doesn’t bode well for the rest of the world. The death toll is rising, the number of cases globally is rising. And nobody really has a clue what the death rate is. – I do have a bunch of vacation days to burn, I can head for the mountains if the shit hits the fan.
I figured you would be immune to human diseases.
I already had someone tell me they are looking forward to the reduction in carbon footprints this will cause if it becomes a pandemic. They of course also told me they hoped it would only kill the right people. Preferably followers of orange man.
The people packed together in the most plague-favorable conditions tend to be in deep blue districts.
Though it may do something about the homelessness problem in Commiefornia.
You know who else hoped a lot of people died from gas?
Be sure to take Lawyers, Guns and Money.
People want to get away from plagues…not bring them with them. Or are Lawyers considered a scourge?
“Don Lemon, the dumbest man on television (with terrible ratings!).”
I think there is some stiff competition. He might not even be the dumbest man on CNN.
He’s not. He’s just the biggest asshole.
Again, we’re talking about CNN. It’s like trying to be the worst gambler in Vegas.
Stelter vs. Lemon in a tard-off!
Here are the brackets:
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1221603046314168321
Awww, Mr. ENB got beat!
I had no idea who he was. I mean, I knew ENB was married, so like the shitlord I am, I was scanning the bracket for a Brown. (I like ENB’s pieces, generally speaking, and have nothing against her, although I don’t follow her closely).
Lizzy is far too woke to change her name just because of some man. He’s Asawin Suebsaeng.
Chane WassanasongAsawin Suebsaeng is your boyfriend.I call shennanigans on that. How the hell is Krugman only a 5 seed and Maddow a 13 seed (she did upset the #4 seed though)?
I’ve seen a meme from lefty friends on Facebook on how Maddow has a PhD from Oxford while Hannity, Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are college dropouts, therefore you are a moron for listening to them instead of her. I was tempted to point out the “appeal to authority” logical fallacy in response, but why paint a target on myself? Not worth it.
I pointed out that it proves credentials do not equal education, nor intelligence. I expected a fight but got no takers.
“Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if it a U and a Crane on it.”
Don Lemon finds rebus puzzles amusing.
He’s not wrong though.
I think I can dig out some of my old Highlights magazines if you like them so much.
Not a match; board goes back.
Melania is from Yugoslavia, I wouldn’t bet on it.
The question here is…..
Which is it?
Did Trump have dealings with Ukrainian oligarchs going back many years which he used to steal the 2016 election?
Or does he not have a clue where Ukraine is?
Did Trump have a bizarre obsession with creating lies about Biden in Ukraine?
Or does he not have any idea that Ukraine is a foreign country with oil interests?
Your narrative is kinda at odds with itself here, Don.
Yes
/CNN
ORANGE MAN BAD!
So there!
/CNN
I don’t drink Lone Star beer for the taste. It’s for the puzzle caps.
Buckhorn when I could, Texas Pride when I couldn’t. ‘Cause I had no pride and damn little money back in the days.
I think there is some stiff competition.
And competition that makes Don stiff.
Don Lemon is a hateful POS. I’m pretty sure if he put his mind to it he might be able to deliver articulate, fair, and reasoned criticism of Trump, but instead he knows he can get away with just being a lying, smarmy hack appealing to the most base prejudices of his target audiences. Now, of course were I to say that in mixed company, the predictable response, (for example, from my sister) is to jump to “OH YOU MEAN LIKE FOX NEWS?”, (a smug grin already creeping across her face, convinced she’s just won the argument I didn’t know we were having). However, that brings me neatly onto my next point, which is the compare and contrast with, say, Tucker Carlson. Now, Tucker is also someone with whom I will routinely disagree, but however much I do, he actually takes the time to make substantive arguments to back up his oft-flawed conclusions and point of view. CNN, and broadly the left wing media in general, personofied by people like Lemon, appears to think itself absolutely beyond reproach, and in it’s arrogance has revealed it’s shallowness. It is a classic case of the insult revealing more about the insulter than the insultee. In general, the “right wing” media, (along with more libertarian and classically liberal “centrist” perspectives) has stepped in and generally upped it’s game in the era of TDS. All this falls on deaf or callously prejudiced ears, easily dismissed when it defies the orthodoxy, or abruptly snubbed by uttering magic words such as “right wing” or “Koch funded”, etc. There are a few journos on the left that have refused to fall in line, like Glen Greenwald, but now look where he is. Of course I’m preaching to the choir here, but were I to bring this up in any other company I’m immediately assumed to be a fanatical “Trumptard” or “brainwashed by Fox and Breitbart”, neither of which I follow closely (Breitbart not at all). It all proves my point, which does no good whatsoever. However, there is always a spark of instinct among principled, intellectually honest people that will compel them to reason, and real, objective truth (biases firmly accepted and accounted for). Unfortunately, Lemon does not have this spark. He is a useful idiot.
It’s amazing how apoplectic Fox, Breitbart and talk radio make leftists. God forbid there’s alternative viewpoints out there, they must be mocked, or, better yet, banned altogether.
Huh?
But if they’re self-sufficient and pay taxes, they may not vote Democrat!
This is the real issue. Circuit Court judges are out of control.
Well who the hell decided that a a circuit court judge has nationwide jurisdiction?
Duh… the circuit court judge. He’s got a robe and a gavel!
They should go back to riding the circuit – on horseback.
They should be removed from the bench for issuing a ruling and saying it applies beyond their circuit.
Jurisdiction matters. They need to know the limits of their power. Running a few off the bench should let the rest know what happens when they deliberately exceed their clearly defined powers.
Jurisdiction matters. They need to know the limits of their power.
Everyone know that the other two branches can run roughshod over the executive, at least as long as Bad Orange Man is president.
It’s not clear to me how any of this is supposed to work. Injunction or not, you can’t have a situation where a federal policy that’s meant to apply across the country only applies in 14 states but not the other 36, or vice versa, at least not without legislation to that effect.
Federal policy being adjudicated in courts without nationwide jurisdiction ultimately does not make sense.
the lower courts’ rulings should only apply to the part of the country they directly serve. Otherwise, you could get a single judge in a remote circuit to effectively neuter laws, albeit temporarily, on a whim.
But the President is not President of 14 or 36 states, he’s President of all 50. Ditto the Congress and ultimately the judiciary. The jurisdiction of federal courts is a question of where the cases and litigants come from not the geographic reach of its decisions. Most federal policy does not make sense to be applied like swiss cheese (to the extent it makes sense at all). While the state governments are (theoretically) sovereign entities, there are certain powers reserved to the federal government. Either those powers can be exercised, in which case they apply to the entire nation, or they cannot.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/neil-gorsuch-issues-savage-rebuke-to-activist-judges-and-nationwide-injunctions/
The more important part about the SCOTUS immigration kerfuffle was not the decision itself, but the implication of it. It struck down another absurd national injunction made by a local judge and finally provoked Gorsuch into severely reprimanding the practice. I’m not under the impression that it will stop it or make activist judges less corrupt, but it might make them think twice about being so cavalier about it knowing that SCOTUS will likely smack them down anyway.
Nope.
If it’s not going to get the judge impeached, they’re going to overreach.
^^^THIS^^^
There needs to be consequences.
We now have a system that is being abused by people that realized the protections put in place to keep politics from influencing the bench so they could stay true to the law/constitution also allowed them to double down on the injection of their own politics into the system, and without some serious blowback we will never be able to stop this cancer.
UCS going full Johnny Cochrane:
If they won’t impeach, you must overreach!
ROFLMAO.
That was sarcasm, right?
Wait until Democrats start impeaching judges for not towing the party lion.
The US legal system is all so very confusing.
You’re not wrong.
It’s not supposed to be. Neither are the clear limits placed on the other two branches. But that hasn’t stopped any of them from trampling our rights by collectively ignoring their limitations.
You can’t have a top men ruled system unless the top men can punish the people that don’t do what the top men want.
And hate to say it, thoroughly corrupted.
it’s no better here under Trudeau where there’s something really weird going on.
He seems to have the full backing of the RCMP, courts and media.
The Supreme Court weighed in on immigration standards. I’ll leave it to you to give your opinion in the comments. Personally, I don’t have a problem with means-testing immigrants. But I want the entire welfare state brought to an end, which would render this meaningless. – I am unsure what the exact constitutional arguments for either side were. So for me the issue here is not the trump policy, like it or not, but is there something that makes it unconstitutional. I always find the split decisions more about politics than the actual constitution.
“The public charge rule is the latest attack in the Trump administration’s war on immigrants,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration expert at Cornell University’s law school. “It makes it harder for working class people to immigrate to or stay in the United States. This rule is another brick in the invisible wall this administration is building to curb legal immigration.” – but is it constitutional?
The constitution gave the right to regulate immigration to congress. Congress passed a law handing that authority to the president.
Until congress recinds that delegation, the president has broad powers to control immigration.
Well why did 4 people vote otherwise?
Because there’s a strong tendency among certain judges to vote along ideological rather than legal lines.
Yes, they will happily ignore the law and the constitution in order to vote based on their personal political desires. This is why it has become so contentious regarding who selects the justices, because the actual law and constitution no longer matter, only personal preferences.
Feelz
To give a more serious answer, they’ve probably cooked up some sort of due process argument.
I would think this is an administrative matter. How would due process influence it?
In American constitutional law, strict scrutiny is the highest and most stringent standard of judicial review, and results in a judge striking down a law unless the government can demonstrate in court that a law or regulation:
is necessary to a “compelling state interest”;
that the law is “narrowly tailored” to achieving this compelling purpose;
and that the law uses the “least restrictive means” to achieve the purpose.
U.S. courts apply the strict scrutiny standard in two contexts: when a fundamental constitutional right is infringed,[1] particularly those found in the Bill of Rights and those the court has deemed a fundamental right protected by the Due Process Clause or “liberty clause” of the 14th Amendment, or when a government action applies to a “suspect classification”, such as race or national origin.
Linky
Basically if they can make a straight faced “racist!!!!” argument, they can invalidate the law.
You people sure have a lot of laws that are nowhere near that I would say.
Of course, nothing in the Bill of Rights says “unless the government claims a compelling state interest”. It’s just something made up out of thin air to allow infringements instead of actually having to pass an amendment.
I think your first 2 sentences are contradictory. If the constitution gives the power (not right) to regulate immigration to congress, they CANNOT constitutionally pass it on to the executive branch.
Congress has passed laws doing many things that it lacks the authority to do so – see NFA, FISA, FBI, etc.
Unless the court wakes up and goes ‘hey, cut that out’, they’re not going to pay attention. Until then, the law handing their authority to the president is still in effect. Because our legal system is ass backward and the legislature doesn’t have to prove it has the authority to do something before doing it.
I agree 100%, I am just talking about what the courts should say, not what they do say.
Yeah, the problem here is with you for thinking the large segment of the court that is more interested in peddling their political agenda.
Correct
It’s not constitutional
It’s just the law
That issue was up last court session. They punted it and ended the case on a technicality. Frankly, I think they should enforce the nondelegation doctrine again.
The administrative state says hi.
And I would like to say Bye.
“It makes it harder for working class people to immigrate to or stay in the United States.
No, it doesn’t, it makes non-working people on the dole less able to stay and be a burden to taxpayers.
Well, only the foreign-born ones. There’s gonna still be plenty of free-riders on the government tit.
That’s why the simple solution to all of this is to cut taxes, end the entire welfare state, and allow anybody entry that wants to come and make a go of it here competing freely on their own dime with people here competing on their own dime as well.
Sure, that would be the ideal. But since the welfare state is not going away, I will settle for now for not having to also support everyone who makes it across the border.
You think the people that get their power & wealth from making promises that they will fuck over the successful to get votes from the envious will ever let you kill this golden goose of theirs?
Yeah, but there’s a lot of corporate welfare too that needs to go away. And I’m sure as hell not talking about tax breaks. I’m all for them. I’m talking about “too big to fail” bullshit.
The too big to fail bullshit really, really pisses me off. When tax payer money needs to be doled out to corporate entities because government regulation forces them to do real stupid shit that defies the laws of economics (think housing crisis caused by people demanding loans be given to real bad prospects and then setting up a cartel to make those loans look like good investments that Dodd & Frank created and then demanded to “fix”.) your system is beyond broke. Government demanding & enforcing regulation that promotes bad behavior and then making us tax payers liable for the inevitable cost when that house of cards implodes, should stop being SOP.
But if government wants to do “social justicing” they have to promise these entities they will save them when the whole thing indubitably implodes. Which is why I get absolutely furious at people claiming this is capitalism: it is fascism at it’s best when government decides it will be the arbiter of whom wins and whom loses.
“The young people of Massachusetts have told us in no uncertain terms that they are looking to state leaders to take bold action on climate change,” Democratic Senate President Karen Spilka said in a statement.
And then they’ll bitch about being poor when they grow up.
well still richer than flyover states so haha
Not after taxes and cost of living are added in.
right wing nonsense
Heh – I grew up there – and left. Everywhere I went since there were always people from MA my age who just left rather than deal with the taxes and cost of living.
Most young people in the North East are doing this. And so are the really wealthy. The whole blue state tax & spend model is coming apart at the seams, as the only people staying are the ones with now way out.
Fixed that for you…
Even if MA went to zero emissions tomorrow, it would have no effect. These people are scientifically illiterate as well as insane.
It does not matter. You need to do somethings, this is something QED. Also it send the right message.
Greta approves!
The young people of Massachusetts are the big dumb.
To be fair, they’ve been indoctrinated by proggies their entire lives. It’s not really their fault that they don’t know any better.
They’re going to be cold next winter when they can’t use petroleum or wood for heat.
And that will be the fault of Trump and the Republicans.
A rather depressing take that people around here have been floating for some time.
https://victorygirlsblog.com/i-was-wrong-they-want-war/
Yes, they do. It just won’t go the way they assume it will.
You really think idiots that think they can force law abiding citizens to give up their rights so they could protect themselves from the angry populous once they really start doing the evil shit they want to do, care? One of them already told us they have access to nuclear weapons and if we the people get too uppity they can use them. Them is the evil geniuses you are up against.
Ah yes. Tony. You know, I didn’t mind him at all until he started posting stuff like that. Couldn’t believe it really.
Corona may have reached New Hampshire.
Fantastic.
This one does seem more serious than the last few panics.
SARS was also a corona virus, and more deadly than the current one. The impact on the US was minimal, especially when compared to the yearly flu season fatalities. It’s just more over-hyped scare-mongering.
I’m not worried yet. It’s basically the next SARS.
We’ll see how infectious it is in the states soon.
Back during SARSageddon, a group of us had a trip up to Toronto planned. Where there were reports of SARS spreading throughout the city, spreading plague in its wake. We went anyway… 5 or 6 of us, in our 20’s-30’s… shockingly, none of us got sick.
I was in China. Other than everything being soaked in bleach every night, it was a non-issue.
*go long on Clorox*
“being soaked in bleach every night”
Hey! That’s my fetish too!
SARS/Toronto illustrated: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/masking-fear/3/
Yeah, we saw the masks. Of course, I see them every year in Vegas as well. It makes as much sense to me as Korean Fan Death.
But SARS was before the Obama immigration policies.
There is no way to know.
It’s not. It will not a big deal in the U.S.
Nobody really has a clue
I probably write this four times a year, but Camus’s La Peste is a fascinating treatment of plague and medicine and law. It’s a great read even if you’re philosophically dead inside.
As for me, I’m going to lick every handrail at ORD tomorrow and just get it over with one way or another.
Read that many years ago and the rats stick in my head. Also, the casual way in which people dealt with others getting the plague was even worse than if they had been flipping out.
I need to buy a leather duster and a bird mask.
Working an Eyes Wide Shut party?
get something like this
http://filmgarb.com/wp-content/uploads/tv-its_always_sunny_in_philadelphia-2005_-mac-rob_mcelhenney-jackets-s03e06-duster-595×335.jpg
Also bird mask is too medieval. Get an Anime girl mask
It’s a plague doctor outfit for when the virus arrives and people start dropping like flies.
sheesh.
Don’t worry. Your gloves should do the trick.
Not for an airborne respiratory ailment.
Where did you go to medicaltician school?
?♀️
That’s not the turd emoji?
Has anyone read “The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle?”
I listened to the audiobook. It was okay. Confusing.
Never even heard of it.
He’s only heard of it himself.
Well… bye
You’re not even calling dibs on my guns? What kind of friend doesn’t even ask where the canoe wreck was!
The kind that already dove the site and made off with the loot.
Good morning, Sloop!
We are supposed to go to a trade show next week and people are beginning to cancel out of coronavirus fears. It’s hard to know if this is a real thing or just this year’s bird flu.
Minne is trying to keep up with the other proggie shitholes by establishing a shiny, special subcabinet. WHat could go wrong?
Idiots.
Nice music choice. The footage in the video is a nice time capsule of normal life in the 80s.
Have a fantastic day!
Maybe this climate change thing will encourage my hot peppers to grow, come spring time. Watermelons for the win!
I’ll shovel the snow off the patio while I’m waiting…
“A hybrid of a hot pepper and a watermelon. Hmmmm.”
-Mexican candy magnate
“coronavirus fears”
My company has forbidden travel to mainland China.
If you are already there, they require you to wear a mask and gloves.
If you are returning, they want you to quarantine yourself in a hotel for 7-14 days before returning to work.
We are owned by a Chinese company
Hmmmm. Depending on the hotel, those 7-14 days could be a nice little vacation!
So, is it a freak-out, or just normal precautions? Did the company have this same policy during the SARS thing?
Honestly, I wouldn’t even really care which hotel as long as I could get food delivered that didn’t suck.
Can bedbugs transmit corinavirus?
“The assertion by Mr. Montoya that we have given people the ‘green light’ to attack officers is plainly false. Our decision should only be understood as an effort to deconflict investigative time limits, statutory discovery obligations and to maintain the integrity of investigate leads. It’s absolutely imperative we have internal clarity on charges we file against any individual,” he said.
Boudin added that the two officers, identified as officers Sterling Hayes and Christopher Flores, are currently under investigation for their use of force and would also have had to testify as witnesses in the criminal case.
“The health of any criminal case depends on internal clarity around the charges being filed, which becomes more complicated when you are dealing with an instance where there is potentially competing criminal liability,” he said.
Huh. Sounds like the cops (as usual) just don’t know when to STFU.
That’s the way I read it too.
First: they get involved in a shooting by escalating a situation rather than deescalating it. Second: they try to poison the well of impartial jurors by trying the case in public. Third: they get their back up publicly when the DA calls them out on it.
I’m just hoping this escalates the tension between the cops and city government and the cops stop carrying out the revenue collection stops in protest.
A management body has warned firms to cut down on the amount of football chat as it ‘excludes women’ and leads to ‘laddish behaviour’.
https://twitter.com/sportbible/status/1221759055712129024
BS. They should cut down on it because it’s boring.
They just need to subscribe to the service to help people understand soccer.
Dammit. I should have looked before responding.
You fell for the tricknology link?
hire SEC chicks: problem solved and an office that is yummier in every way
Win win
^^^Can confirm.
Works with PAC-12 too.
No. Hiring PAC-12 chicks means you end up with ASU grads in your office. At first this seems fun and exciting as they do their ASU thing. But as time goes on, and the men in the office begin to waste away from sexual exhaustion and various diseases, productivity drops to below zero. Yes, below zero, because while the men are wasting away the ASU contingent starts actually doing things, and they are not smart.
Seems worth the risk.
I’m ok with all of this.
Also, as a U of A grad, can confirm about ASU girls.
My wife as a degree from ASU.
Depends on the school. You really want to bring in SJW madness and pasty chubby chicks? Then go ahead and hire some UW or UO grads.
The retired song girls can stay.
SEC chicks know about soccer?
They know all they need to know.
+1 “Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
I don’t follow sports. I find it boring and the details tedious. But lots of people at work do follow sports and enjoy talking about it. It is an inoffensive topic (mostly; rival teams notwitstanding) and so to forbid it because some people don’t share the interest is to remove an avenue many have for bonding and morale. You want dull offices where everyone’s suspicious and/or resentful of each other? That’s how you get it.
Not to mention, if you can forbid talk about sports you could easily ban most other conversation topics:
Cooking/baking – insensitive to those who have food allergy/dietary restrictions
Exercise – Fat/body shaming
Craft beer/wine/cocktails – insensitive to certain religions/teetotalers
etc…
I was stuck at a boring ass party over the weekend for 4 hours. The most exciting topic of conversation was soccer. The rest of it was normie and becky shit like whatever prince moved to Canada and an hour long discussion of the best kind of pumpkin spice latte (and god I wish that was a joke).
You obviously didn’t bring enough Tequila.
Lutheran church party. Not Catholic. Catholics have better music an booze and food. Lutherans have less offensive theology and aren’t the worlds largest kiddie-diddling machine. Whatcha gonna do.
There’s plenty of ex-Catholics around who still keep up the music, booze, and food.
/currently trying to decide what beer and how much to bring to such a gathering for the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Even my 13 year old daughter thinks the Harry and Meghan thing is stupid.
Let’s make a deal: No football talk from us lads, if no shoe or shopping talk from you lasses.
I’m gonna guess no dice.
As long as women are forced to cut down on celebrity gossip and “reality” TV bullshit.
For those of us who were around, what is the worst Challenger joke you remember?
Did you know Crista McAuliffe had dandruff? They found her head and shoulders on the beach.
I will check myself out now.
What’s worse than egg shells in your omelet?
Astronauts in your tuna.
Q) What was the last thing Christa McAuliffe told her husband?
A) “You take care of the dog and cat, I’ll feed the fish.”
Q: Do you knew the color McAuliffe’s of eyes?
A: Blew. One blew that way, and the other this way…
More
https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q3/16840.12.html
Where did Christa McAuliffe go on vacation?
All over Florida
What does NASA stand for?
Need Another Seven Astronauts
I remember that Head and Shoulders one, too.
Why did the Challenger have Pepsi on board?
They couldn’t get Seven Up
a bunch of new taxes and a a bunch of spending on pet projects?
We are getting that in VA as well. For instance, King Klansman wants to make gas more expensive.
It’s always the end of the world
In other news, I got my first real smile the other day from littledoom.
It was very nice.
Awww.
Its been almost 60 years since that day, I remember it well. Cherish that smile, DOOMco, you will remember that forever.
I also remember the teen age years…
As my dear departed mother used to say, “Always remember how cute they are as babies, because it’s the only thing that stops you from killing them when they’re teenagers.”
I’m sure it’ll be fine…
Definitely one of life’s best moments.
I’m right on the cusp with a nine-year old and an eleven-year-old. Still cute as ever but starting to grow an attitude.
My daughter will be 18 in a couple weeks. She’s been a challenge for sure, but there are some days when she appears to be growing up. Yesterday I went to her last HS ski race. She crossed the finish line and skied over to me and gave me a big hug. It was her best time ever and she was happy, strong and confident.
You muscle through the bullshit for those cool moments.
When are you opening the bidding?
The maintenance costs would break you.
So you will be accepting the highest negative bid?
I’m hoping my time spent as a squad leader/section leader for groups of teenaged Marines will help me when that time comes.
Female Marines? Otherwise you have no chance 😉
Hah! I was a grunt. In my 4 years of active duty I probably had about 6 interactions with WM’s. Most of those were “Good afternoon”.
Luckily it seems I am only able to produce sperm with Y-chromosomes. No daughters to deal with.
Then one day you’ll hear the your kid’s friend, “Your Dad is the coolest, I wish my dad was like yours” or a teacher will say, “I wish all the kids were as well behaved as your Susie” and you’ll be so proud until you remember your kid is named Bob.
My son is only 11, soon to be 12 in 2 months, but he’s plowing into the teenage attitude with gusto. Everything I hear from him now is groaning and theatrical sighs.
If you are like me, you can now strike “Crippling Autism” off your list of things to worry about! Hurrah!
So at this point, DOOM should have verified a reasonable number of limbs and digits, viability outside the womb, and now basic emotional states.
The Supreme Court weighed in on immigration standards.
Anything less than the US giving welfare to the entire planet is an affront to humanity.
Hmm, would you be interested in being the Democrat presidential nominee?
Wow, didnt expect Rush, thought you were linking to the Beatles or something. Hard to think of Peart as ever being underappreciated.
“Rush’s just don’t do stuff like that. They got these lyrics about how trees are talking to each other.”
In general, he’s not. But his drum work in that song is brilliant but tends to be overshadowed by the keyboards. Listen to it again and focus on the drums. His playing the rhythm slightly off-beat during parts of the song is subtle genius and adds a lot to the depth of it. But you really don’t notice it unless you go out of your way to hear it.
That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.
A new class of material has been proven to exist: diamon-like cubes of boron and carbon that can hold other ‘guest’ atoms within them. The first example is hard, stable at 1 bar, metallic and potentially superconducting, with more to come.
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1221781401067978753
The science of materials… Wait until the woke crowd invades this discipline and demands less patriarchy and more equal pay by gender (with some 200 genders identified).
John Bolton knows how to promote the shit out of a book.
Move over, JK Rowling.
The guys is an asshat, but I do have to admit I was not surprised that team blue was left stomping another bag of flaming shit by him in the end. Bad orange man gets away again!
“Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus causes respiratory infections which are typically mild but, in rare cases, can be lethal.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus
Sounds like the flu. In fact, ~2400 people died from the flu in the US in the last three months of 2019.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
Yet the GenPop/Media continue to shit themselves over the coming zombie apocalypse from China.
Follow the money
I wonder when the world is gonna stop playing footsie with the Chinese and require they shut down their bio weapons development? Their lack of control over the product is really getting out of hand.
Mark my words. This is a just a bad flu that China can’t handle because China sucks.
Team Blue has made McCain, Bolton, Romney and Lemon the heroes they will rally around. This is all just getting too weird for me. *Munches on Unagi chips*
But they’ll make sure not to call real witnesses because McCain was neck-deep in the Ukraine grift and probably got Graham in on it.
Titty Tuesday wants you to know you’re DOOOOOOOOOMED!
http://archive.li/H0d9I
34 and 35 are true Q-bait.
#9 says “I make poor decisions.”
35 was the best, IMO.
“The young people of Massachusetts have told us in no uncertain terms that they are looking to state leaders to take bold action on climate change,” Democratic Senate President Karen Spilka said in a statement.
And then Bullwinkle pulled a rhinoceros out of his hat.
LOL @ Canuckistanis
https://pagesix.com/2020/01/25/canada-isnt-as-great-as-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-think-heres-why/
I think that’s pretty accurate. B.C. may be beautiful but it has it’s own fair share of weirdos.
Canada’s racist past is the dark secret no one dares speak of. Better to point and laugh like a retarded Don Lemon at America. Same with the fact health is an unfunded liability. Discussing public health here is like touching Jimmy.
“While some Canadians (mostly those with an income of over $1 billion) seem happy to have Harry and Megs as their neighbors, others are cheesed off after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the country would foot their security bills.”
On Thursday, the couple announced they will “reimburse taxpayers for the cost of security for their private business engagements that are not connected to royal events,” sources told the Telegraph.”
Trudeau is a fuck head. Now with the standard disclosure out of the way, how about you two nitwits pay all of it? Not a single damn penny should be paid to them. After all, they chose to not be Royalty. You can’t have it both ways.
The idea of ME paying for Markle – an American idiot – outrages me. Harry is one thing, he can at least run back to the House of Weirdos, but Markle? Fuck. You.
its
Canada’s racist past is the dark secret no one dares speak of.
On the other hand, I’d bet Canada is the only country in the world whose leader has been known to do blackface.
Maybe they should build a wall.
As a matter of national safety, Mongolia has decided to close the border it shares with China according to state-run news agency Montsame. They have also shut down schools, universities, and playgrounds until at least March 2.
Montsame further reported that, in the interest of preparation, “the cabinet gave an order to acquire all necessary medical equipment and materials,” and use the “government’s reserve fund” to “finance the expenses of the emergency procurement and salaries of doctors and medical employees who are working on alert.”
The tables have turned.
I’m imagining South Park making a Mongolian wok and having the exact same wall episode, but in reverse.
I agree. And the only solution is to SHUT THAT SHIT DOWN.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/27/stephen-king-says-oscars-are-rigged-in-favor-of-white-people/
Trying to make amends for suggesting the awards should be based on merit?
Pffftttt… King just totally capitulated after he got butt-reamed for saying he only considers the artistic merit of a film when voting.
What a spineless asshole.
“Just kidding. I’m racist after all, everyone!”
A new class of material has been proven to exist: diamon-like cubes of boron and carbon that can hold other ‘guest’ atoms within them. The first example is hard, stable at 1 bar, metallic and potentially superconducting, with more to come.
It’s the next graphene!
This might explain things.
Subdivisions. Awesome song. Neil Peart is fantastic, of course. Geddy Lee’s voice isn’t so high pitched. Under control like this, his singing is quite enjoyable.
Be cool, or be cast out.
I can’t avoid it any more. I’m definitely old. The soundtrack of my youth is dying quickly. Queen was a while ago, but there’s Rush, Eddie Van Halen seems to be almost done… When your music heroes are all dying of something other than drug overdoses….. you just might be an old guy. AC/DC, Aerosmith is nearly done….. add in all the ones that we lost at the time….
Yeah….. gettin’ old.
See, this is why I’m a big Ariana Grande fan. Keeps me young.
I became a fan because of that selfie with the toy in the background.
I hear you. In my teens Molly Hatchet was one of my favorite bands. I even got on the radio once when I called in to request a song off of ‘The Deed is Done’ album. Those guys all got sick and died way too early.
Chris Squire was a big one for me.
The thing I love about this article is the casual axiom that no matter what “they” have superior morals and “the other side” must be morally corrupt/evil.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/1/27/21081876/joe-rogan-bernie-sanders-henry-kissinger
Secular SoCons.
But that is not what they believe. If they did, they would insist on treating people as individuals, which they most absolutely do not. Instead, they believe in a mob-selected (democratic) hierarchy of various immutable and self-selected traits, almost always insignificant and trivial.
membership in a protected class give it away really. So not opposed to discrimination in itself but based on their grievance hierarchy.
Astute observation Pie.
other racially oppressed communities – so not east asians…
Divide and conquer…
It’s funny to see all the handwringing over this. Intersectionalism continues to tear them to pieces.
I’m reminded of when Stormfront gave some money to Ron Paul and Paul responded with “I’ll take their money and use it for what I deem as good.”
“Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, the virus causes respiratory infections which are typically mild but, in rare cases, can be lethal.”
I was reading up on hantavirus, one day. As far as I could tell, it boils down to, “You might die, or or you’ll get better.”
Most prone to dying, of course, are the very young and the very old.
The reporting on this outbreak is following the classic model – including the hantavirus, SARS, even Swine Flu. They always report some outrageous death rate in the early days – like 80% fatalities. Then it quickly drops to a less crazy but still alarming number as more cases are identified. Then as it spreads it finally turns out to be less contagious and less deadly than thought… then it peters out.
This is how it always plays out… and how it always will play out.
Until it doesn’t, of course.
SHUT
DOWN
EVERYTHING
Start with the national parks and the statue of liberty.
Put up the barricades around the war memorials!
Gah, that pissed me off. I live next to a national park and use one of the roads thru it almost daily. Fuckers shut it down, even though it was completely unnecessary.
“Make it hurt.”
Basically, the more aggressive, lethal strains of the virus kill their hosts too quickly and thus aren’t around long enough to spread as far as the less lethal strains spread.
Like all scams you have to get in early and get out early, before the money disappears. I’m selling anti corona virus rocks, guaranteed to protect you from the fatal disease or your money back.
Bah! I’m selling corona virus insurance with a lifetime guarantee.
I was selling plague insurance.
No one bother to read that it only covers bubonic plague.
I was selling plague insurance.
Rats! I was going to do that too.
The propaganda machine is well organized. That Houston Chronicle article had a video reel stuffed in the middle. It features a clip of Mitt Romney speculating about voting for witnesses in the wake of the NYT Bolton story.
Every news channel I have looked at in the last 2 days has featured that clip, always associated with the message that “Pressure is growing for GOP lawmakers to vote for witnesses”. “Several GOP lawmakers have expressed…”. etc.
One dude, who was always anti-Trump. One.
They already lost their two left-most Republicans by insulting them last week. Yet they kept putting their pictures up.
The media machine has tipped its hand again… they know the “trial” is a joke with a predetermined outcome… yet they push for extensions of the “evidence” gathering because they know it is all just a big negative ad targeting Trump.
On the Radio they have almost exclusively used soundbites from Schumer. They mention “Trump’s defense team made their case, with Ken Starr talking about..” and then they cut to Schumer crying about “what are they afraid of??”
Some historians and sociologists are going to have nice, juicy PhD papers to write about the contrast between the Obama years and the Trump years.
Good luck getting them past the review committee.
The goal tending to protect Obama can only go on for so long. Sooner than later, if these people want to actually engage people (and I might be granting them too much credit here since they care not a bit about anything but holding power) again, they will have to admit Obama was not just a terrible president, but that the things they helped him get away with – many of them criminal and unconstitutional – did irreparable damage to the country. The longer they wait to do this, the more it destroys their machine. So for my part I hope we get another decade or so of this stupidity.
The propaganda machine is in full swing. But I can’t help but think that Team Red might be gearing up snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
These dnc operatives with bylines are not interested in telling people the truth, but are hell bent on telling them the story that favors team blue, even when it is blatantly transparent they are doing so and a reputation killer…
I am telling you that of the many great things to come out of Trump’s election, these shills unmasking themselves this way is one of the biggest boons to people not beholden to their team’s ideology despite the facts.
+1 “the debunked conspiracy theory…”
First world sanitation will save us.
Except for certain parts of California. Those guys are fucked.
Probably the tradition remedy to a “homeless crisis”.
I was in SFO changing flights a number of years ago, having a bite in the airport. Something about the level of sanitation, low quality of the upholstery, and general upkeep of the place reminded me of my first trip to Mexico in the late 1960’s.
Comparing 15 meta-analyses to multi-lab replication attempts of the same effects, on average, meta-analytic effect sizes are almost three times as large as replication effect sizes
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338128078_Comparing_meta-analyses_and_preregistered_multiple-laboratory_replication_projects
Well, yeah. That’s why you run the metas, to make the numbers look better.
I have come to be a big believer in the idea that all Masters Theses should be replication studies.
that’s not to terribly unlike my idea for reorganizing higher education…
This is what I have been saying.
Bondi noted that the House Democrat impeachment managers had referred to “the Bidens and Burisma 400 times” in their presentation in an effort to pre-empt the argument that there was any legitimate basis, other than the president’s own political interest, for asking the Ukraine to investigate them.
“All we’re saying is that there was a basis to talk about this, to raise this issue, and that is enough,” Bondi explained.
Would.
Would with extreme prejudice.
Connecticut is considering a literal PC Police department.
violent right-wing extremism.
One would think that all violence would be an issue. Never mind that these supposed “right-wing” bad actors are just collectivists of a different stripe.
Violent left-wing extremism is totes okay.
The Third Red Scare
This place will have a social score in place by the end of this decade. I plan to be gone in the next year or two to avoid the abysmal state of affairs.
Can we just have a national day of mourning for Kobe and be done with it?
I feel worse for the kid. Only 13, horrible.
And there were 3 of em.
Federal Holiday?
I am with you on that one. The third day in a row of multiple tribute videos during every new show.
I am distinctly in the minority though. I expressed the thought that having tributes at the Grammys was kind of silly, and I was roundly rebuked.
This is the second time these award shows have done a tribute because some famous guy died in the last 24 hours. Dude was not a musician. Full stop.
Also, there has been a lot of revision and whitewashing . while this is appropriate in Remembering our dead, it is odd that he is being so over-the-top lionized.
The dude was famously prickly throughout his career. That was part of what made him great. He only cared about winning and nothing else.
Late in his career and post playing career he had undergone quite a transformation. But the way he is being treated right now is as if he was some sort of saint. Seems like he was a pretty upstanding citizen once he retired and he brought a lot of joy to people. Why can’t we leave it at that.
As long as I’m stepping way over the line, I suppose another factor in all of this being annoying is the smugness of all these far-left people lionizing a dude for their own moment in the Sun. All of these far left entertainers and journalists who would March against the wealthy and global climate change are building a statue of a guy who died commuting in a helicopter as he did regularly because riding in a car that far was uncomfortable for him.
He is the very definition of everything they like to denigrate. Born of relative wealth, World traveler who speaks multiple languages, on his way to being a billionaire and flies helicopters over distances that would be easy to Simply Drive. And the class Warriors stand up with crocodile tears in their eyes chanting his name.
Something about it all feels very disingenuous.
You mean hypocrisy abound? I’m shocked!
I also don’t see why he should be shielded from articles critical of him. I understand the ‘too soon’ etiquette but….
Public figures are going to be, well, open for public scrutiny.
Horseshit.
Kobe only cared about Kobe’s stats. Dude was an all time great to be sure but he was also massively overrated, a ball hog, and his idea of “elevating the play” of his teammates was to scream at them for not getting him the ball
The media machine has tipped its hand again… they know the “trial” is a joke with a predetermined outcome… yet they push for extensions of the “evidence” gathering because they know it is all just a big negative ad targeting Trump.
They’re waiting for that Perry Mason moment when the Surprise Witness pops up like a goddam jack-in-the-box and blows the whole thing wide open with that one scrap of evidence tying Trump to the murder weapon. And then he breaks down on the witness stand and confesses to the sordid atrocity.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7937479/Demi-Rose-reveals-shes-healing-tribute-late-parents-Instagram.html
THICC
Nobody’s parents ever died before.
She will grieve by getting more injections in her hips.
“‘Her face is 99% fillers and 1% skin’: Gwen Stefani, 50, is accused of getting plastic surgery as fans insist her face looks ‘unrecognizable’ and ‘frozen’ at the Grammys”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7935367/Gwen-Stefani-fans-insist-looks-unrecognizable-Grammys-accuse-plastic-surgery.html
A pop star with a plastic surgery addiction? Never heard of such a thing.
Still would
Cause you will wrap her head in the flag (and do it for the country) or put on a paper bag (and do her to show your displeasure with people banning these bags) before you plow her?
“The young people of Massachusetts have told us in no uncertain terms that they are looking to state leaders to take bold action on climate change. The Massachusetts state Senate has listened.”
These stupid, gutless, cowardly ‘adults’.
This is what passes as leadership?
So if a kid tantrums to get a toy, you give it?
I don’t know anymore man. They’re going to make a mess of things.
“… looking to state leaders to take bold action…”
In the current political environment bold action would be to tell them to fcuk off and come back when they’ve bought a clue.
Or have, you know, grown up?
What is this? Lord of the Flies?
Anyone have some spare cash?
https://hypebeast.com/2020/1/todd-snyder-fj-company-red-wing-heritage-toyota-land-cruiser-fj43-custom
That looks terrible for the climate and you try parking that in downtown Bucharest. Pass.
Take a vehicle designed for running around on improvised roads in the third world. Add leather and bling. I don’t get it, I will never get it, and I think fans of it are nuts.
Yeah, I’m actually a fan of taking it the other way – going spartan-military on the interior, as minimalist as the law will allow.
Terrible take.
Terrible.
Isn’t this Icon’s territory? I guess living in Texas I don’t get the fascination with the FJs. I mean, I know they’re good, great even. They were just never a thing here. Now, Jeep XJs OTOH…
Wow. Shit head Lemon and those other two shit heads. Wow. Three shit heads acting like total shit heads.
The shit headed arrogance is frightening.
People as relentlessly unimpressive as Don Lemon and Rick Wilson have few avenues to ignore their own mediocrity other than acting superior to others.
Understanding Conservative Anti-Capitalism
But the marriage between conservatives and libertarians—known as fusionism—is not as inevitable as it might seem. For example, while libertarians think liberty is about permitting completely free trade in goods and services, traditional Christians think of freedom as power over our own desires—something that can only be achieved through personal discipline. Libertarian capitalism, in which value is defined as simply a function of supply and demand, is directly hostile to principles like self-mastery, one of conservatism’s chief moral values.
Libertarian capitalism, in which value is defined as simply a function of supply and demand, is directly hostile to principles like self-mastery, one of conservatism’s chief moral values. – horse fucking shit. There are plenty of things that do not have monetary value. And self-mastery is a key to personal responsibility.
power over our own desires – how does come into any conflict with free market thinking? power over my desires and self mastery is that I keep them in control, they are not banned by government. It is no great feat to be virtuous when there is no possibility of sin, the point is to be virtuous surrounded by temptation.
so called left-conservatives are entitled assholes just like so-called left-liberals. The Tucker Carlson crowd…
Well said.
Let me guess, that’s an article about Tucker Carlson.
The tell:
There are no unregulated free markets in the United States. Even the tech giants, which have considerable leeway under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, still have to fill out all kinds of paperwork and tailor their corporate policies to comply with various federal, state, and local regulations and are currently butting up against antitrust law.
There are malregulated semi-free markets. Perhaps all of this “anti-capitalism” sentiment ought to be directed at the self-appointed managers of capitalism, known as governments?
Well, this is right but likely not for the reasons the author intends. The era of small government is over, however brief it was, and has been for some time. The Republicans and Democrats both agree to expand the power and cost of government, they just quibble over details.
What in the hell? Is this the right-wing equivalent of Russia fever dreams? It wasn’t Putin, but instead Zuckerberg who meddled in our elections?
The government is anathema to careful consideration. It is a reactive force, seeking to sate the mob while appeasing various interests and pocketing the rents.
Well, this is perhaps the ultimate summation of this quasi-Marxist argument (which is not really an exaggeration, as the author favorably quotes Marxist arguments repeatedly). That is a reductionist argument, and moreover it is a misrepresentation too. How do you define influence? How much influence is too much? Are you so heavily influenced that you have abrogated your own free will? The government can coerce you, the market can only convince you.
Only government should have the power to pick the winners & losers. Then we will have a good system unable to do harm or wrong..
Maybe they can call the body getting together to create their 5 year plans the Soviet or something.
Liberty is a noble principle: but what if the consequences of defending harms the very people it was designed to protect?
Liberty is only good when I give you just the right amount.
Yeah, what did Ben Franklin say about this subject already?
The problem with these people is that they are compelled to believe they MUST pick winners and losers, so they can protect people that will make the wrong choices, they tell us. But what it comes down to is that they want to do away with people having to deal with the consequences of their choices.
Tackling the real issues: Celebrity crushes
In no particular order, here are the White House hopefuls’ responses to the Times question:
Michael Bloomberg: “You know, a couple of actresses that I like, a couple of actors that I think are really good. My favorite actress and actor, Laura Dern and William Macy who starred in a movie that I produced called Focus based on an Arthur Miller book.”
Pete Buttigieg: “Um, not for the New York Times to know about.”
Amy Klobuchar: “Yes. Prince. I know he’s not with us anymore, which is one of the most biggest tragedies of opioids. But Prince is an icon. Not only is his music incredible, and anyone that hasn’t watched him in his Superbowl halftime show in the rain, go check it out right now instead of watching me.”
Elizabeth Warren: “Oh, I do. The Rock”
Questioned on “what he has going for him” by a Times employee, Warren responded, “Oh, what’s he got going for him? That’s only a question a man would ask.”
“The Rock. Come on,” Warren added with a grin. “Just look at that man. He’s eye candy.”
Andrew Yang: “I’m a happily married man. I think my wife’s a star and I’ve got a big crush on her. Crushing on you, Evelyn.”
Tom Steyer: “The Grammy’s are this week, right? Alicia Keys is going to be hosting the Grammy’s again and she is somebody who I really think is a fantastic artist and a really good person. There’s some people out there, she just springs to mind because of the week. There’s some incredibly talented people out here who are also committed to social justice and being good citizens.”
Good lord, man.
What a cuck amiright
Lol. Warren. Anything this idiot says comes off as a spoof.
‘I’d fuck him and suck him dry!’
I’m almost convinced she was the one doing all the flirting when she was drunk at a frat party.
Bonus points for the reaction that would have been if Trump had said something like that about Jennifer Aniston.
Heck, if a republican had called Jennifer Aniston and actress instead of an actor, there would have been hell to pay.
This is a joke, right? They didn’t actually ask this?
Interesting that he mentioned Alicia Keys. I think that her being out in front at the Grammys was part of my reaction to the over-the-top lionization of Kobe Bryant.
She is the poster girl for smug. I think it is part of her marketing gimmick, but I still find it extremely off-putting
Yang is much wiser than I thought.
https://twitter.com/PoorePlaysBass/status/1221854506478075904
Obviously, the only correct answer is 23A .
44D
I’m a 33F kinda guy; coffee is really just a vector for my heavy cream habit.
Conversation I spotted on Twitter (Daily Caller):
“Alex Wild
It is chilling how the right- in spite of losing in 2018 by nearly 10 million votes- tries to claim that they are the only true Americans. They aren’t.
Julie K. Stahlhut
Apparently the only “true Americans” are the ones who think it’s okay for a POTUS to shake down a friendly foreign country to slander his domestic rival.
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Alex Wild
It permeates their rhetoric, and to me is the most terrifying sign of the party’s genocidal inclinations.”
I guess these two think Lemon is a hoot.
Genocidal?
I don’t know. Should people who employ hyperbole be ignored or challenged?
I think it calls for a simple, ‘How exactly are they ‘genocidal?’
in spite of losing in 2018 by nearly 10 million votes
?????
Oh, the other “national popular vote” that is not really a thing in US government.
So if a kid tantrums to get a toy, you give it?
Don’t forget to grovel.
That Chesa commie is purposely laying the seeds for class warfare.
Look at the last several SF DAs. He’s unfortunately not an anomaly.
Libertarian capitalism, in which value is defined as simply a function of supply and demand, is directly hostile to principles like self-mastery, one of conservatism’s chief moral values.
Indubitably.
And Socialism is best thought of as allencompassing compassion.
Compassion through starvation.
“Coronavirus may have originated in lab linked to China’s biowarfare program
The deadly animal-borne coronavirus spreading globally may have originated in a laboratory in the city of Wuhan linked to China’s covert biological weapons program, said an Israeli biological warfare analyst.
Radio Free Asia last week rebroadcast a Wuhan television report from 2015 showing China’s most advanced virus research laboratory, known the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The laboratory is the only declared site in China capable of working with deadly viruses.
Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who has studied Chinese biological warfare, said the institute is linked to Beijing’s covert bio-weapons program.”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/26/coronavirus-link-china-biowarfare-program-possible/
So, The Stand?
*starts pricing out flights to Boulder, Colorado*
Why not Vegas?
It wasn’t long ago that Canada expelled a researcher from the NML for mailing some samples to China.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/mystery-surrounds-ouster-chinese-researchers-canadian-laboratory
I decided I would test out the “Baking Soda as meat tenderizer” technique over the weekend.
So, I bought a package containing two pieces of a cheap cut of beef, and coated one with baking soda. The other was left as-is, and bagged both individually. From there on out, I treated both identically, even down to rinsing off the untreated cut so that the only factor of difference was the baking soda. I seasoned both with salt and pepper and placed them into a buttered skillet, giving identicial cooking time on each side.
The results:
There was a noticable difference in texture and flavor. The treated cut browned substantially more, yet was softer to the tooth. There was no appreciable difference to the knife, as neither was tough. Lacking definitive proof, I can’t say for certain yet that it works, I need a grant for further testing. Perhaps some tools for measuring pressure resistance and tensile strength.
You could probably use this to get started in your methodology development.
Not enough grant monies for a link?
https://smile.amazon.com/ISO-7705-Guidelines-prescriptions-specifications/dp/B000Y2TZN2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=charpy+v+notch&qid=1580221533&sr=8-1
Only $105 in paperback.
Actually, you might what to use EN374, that will give you the euro sophistication that’s all the rage with grant committees.
GAH!!! EN 388, not 374.
The Charpy Impact Test is still used?
You should switch to using ghee instead of butter.
You see, this is why grant monies are needed – to develop expanded test methodologies.
+1 ghee. Higher smoke point, still get butter flavor. It’s what I use for browning up my pierogies.
What’s the difference between cooking in a microwave and anal sex?
Microwave ovens don’t leave you pregnant with a lawyer.
Nope…
What are you a vegetarian? Use tallow for god’s sake, its for beef!
What fraud?
A watchdog group has requested records from the Illinois State Board of Elections after 574 noncitizens were added to its voter rolls, allowing some of them to vote illegally in the 2018 midterm elections.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation [PILF], an election integrity law firm, made the request on Thursday after the board admitted the error. The individuals in question were improperly invited onto the rolls through a glitch in the state’s automatic voter registration system while applying for a driver’s license or state identification.
The watchdog says Democratic politicians are pushing automatic voter registration at the expense of election integrity.
I wouldn’t be openly admitting an attraction for preteens, even if I were interested in PILFs.
Other way around. The P stands for Priests. It is an altar boy association.
Another isolated incident
A man who had been handcuffed with his arms behind his back by police in Maryland was shot and killed inside an officer’s cruiser.
Prince George’s County police officers responded Monday night to reports that a driver had struck multiple vehicles near the Temple Hills community, spokeswoman Christina Cotterman told news outlets during a news conference.
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The man was shot multiple times by the officer’s service weapon, the police spokeswoman said. Officers performed lifesaving measures and took the man to a hospital. He died a short time later.
Plainly, the officer’s service weapon needs more training.
Amazing how often officers’ guns go off completely by themselves with no interaction from the officer. Maybe the anti-gun groups that say “guns kill people” really are correct.
Of course, he just happened to not have a body camera. How convenient. Sure it’s just a coincidence.
Imagine for a moment if you will, juvenile Bluster handcuffs someone, tosses them in the backseat of his car, and shoots them several times, killing them.
Good shoot?
Terrible shoot, now he’s got blood and possibly bullet holes in the backseat of his car.
Gotta call The Wolf.
Pretty sure I’d be on the 8th floor of the Broward County Jail, just down the hall from the Parkland shooter, had I done that.
I’ve seen this before.
That article is just a goldmine of classic police BS.
Never doubt the power of a cop’s nose. Practically bloodhounds, they are.
And PCP is known to turn even kindly old grandmothers into ruthless killing machines.
I doubt that. And even if it’s true – why? And why would you put a PCP hyped killing machine into the seat next to you, in any case?
All on its own.
Smelled PCP? Da-Fuq?
As in, dude was smoking it in the pipe at the time? Or had a laced joint going?
I never had any PCP doing acquaintances….. you druggies tell me..
How long is that smell gonna linger? And how reliable is “I smelled PCP”?
Sad I missed last night’s thread about Marshall Dillon. Man had his faults, but he was awesome.
Anyhoo, I was thinking this morning about how I’m going to end up having to vote for Trump in November. I’m already disgusted by the thought, but with Warren or Sanders likely coming out as the Team Blue nominee I’m going to have to.
This may sound crazy, and honestly I’m surprised that I’m saying this, but there is a possibility that the LP nominates someone that isn’t trash. Slim, but it’s possible
This may sound crazy, and honestly I’m surprised that I’m saying this, but there is a possibility that the LP nominates someone that isn’t trash. Slim, but it’s possible
I’ll vote for the LP if it’s Vermin Supreme or Amash (yes, despite the impeachment stuff) or Massie.
There are two types of people in this world: those who like Bonanza and those who are wrong.
What about those of us who are not 100 years old?
Re-runs exist, kiddo
LIEZ!
I have a question that I”m hoping some folks here may be able to shed a little light on. Why do so many Austrian School Economists have such a visceral hatred of fractional reserve banking? I know the go-to answer is “because it’s fraud”. But, I don’t see where any actual fraud, of necessity, takes place.
Think of it this way. Say you’re really good at figuring out good credit risks. And I have money lend. So, you borrow money from me and lend it out to other people. You tell me that’s what you’re going to do with the money. And I see value in lending to you rather than seeking out people to lend the money to on my own time. I think we can all agree, no fraud so far.
Now, let’s say, in turn, you give me a chit for the amount I’ve loaned you. Now, mind you, this is the point where money is created. Your creation of that chit says there is a claim on the money that has been lent out. But, there is such a claim. It’s a risky claim because you loaned out that money and might not be able to pay me back. But, risk doesn’t negate the legitimacy of a claim.
Now, say I go to somebody to buy something and tell them, in lieu of cash payment, I’d like to offer them that chit you gave me. Heck, I might even explain to him that, while I can’t be 100% certain that you’ll have the money on hand, I have a lot of confidence in your ability to pay. He might even charge me more for paying that way in a free market. But, I don’t see where any fraud is taking place.
It seems like a blind spot for the Austrians. Like voluntary cooperation and market exchange work everywhere, except this one case where it’s the bane of civilization.
What am I missing?
I’ll spitball an answer.
I don’t think it’s fraud. They’re doing what they said they would do and you’re inherently assuming some of the risk as a depositor.
I think the issue arises from the lack of robustness of the system. As that fraction decreases (and it always does), the resilience of the bank to downturns in their lending or defaults goes down dramatically.
As such, the system could not exist without fiat money to backstop it. But then the risk is transferred to everyone and not just the depositors. The system always becomes more and more unstable over time as the incentive is to find higher paying investments or loans that carry higher risk. It becomes a when, not if, the system will collapse.
It becomes a when, not if, the system will collapse.
It strikes me that this confuses cause and effect. I don’t think there’s a lot of reason to believe the reserve ratio will always fall in a free market. Bank profitability in a free market is dependent on being able to acquire loanable funds at a reasonable price (or at least a significant discount to what they can loan them at). And investors are certainly interested in risk just as much as return. So the banks have an incentive to protect deposit safety just as much as to leverage depositor investments. It’s government intervention that destroys all the market incentives and signals to balance risk and return.
I’m not sure you’re fully getting at how fractional reserve banking works.
You give $100 to the bank. The bank can now lend out $500 at a reserve ratio of 20%. Or in your analogy, instead of getting 1 chit you got 5 chits. Each of those chits is worth the full value of your deposit.
That is incorrect. A 20?% reserve ratio would mean they loan out $80 and keep $20 in reserve.
The “problem” is that if you show up to collect your $100, they won’t have it. But they count on less than the reserve percent showing up. A bank run becomes the issue.
How you interpret this seems to depend on whether you look at the textbook view or how the system works empirically. The central bank will backstop missing reserves, and so the end result is closer to the multiplied money supply than it is the sum of all deposits.
robc is generally right on the individual transaction. But, the effect, iterated, is something akin to what you’ve suggested. To understand, let’s use the hypothetical example of a small, closed, economy with one bank (a stand-in for the banking system as a whole). You put your $100 in the bank. They loan out $90, keeping 10% for reserves. The person who takes the loan out buys something. What does the person they bought it from do with the money? He puts it in the bank. The bank then loans out $81, keeping 10% for reserves. And so on. The sum consequence is that the money supply is increased by
M = D*1/r
where
M = money supply increase
D = original deposit
r = reserve ratio
Yes, but either way 10% of the total deposits are kept in reserve.
Even the initial deposit may be borrowed money. That is how the Federal Reserve works; they create dollars by ‘loaning’ them to the banks.
So I meant what I said rather more literally than this. I was aware of robc’s definition of fractional reserve banking and your definition of the money multiplier (indeed, both are found in any basic economics textbook). But I was literally saying that a bank is lending out more than it has in deposits, with the “reserve requirement” meaning both that it keeps X% of its deposits on hand in cash and that it has X% of its loaned out dollars in deposits. It seems that latter understanding was incorrect. I got down this path of (mis)understanding by getting exposed to full-reserve banking as an idea (specifically, Vollgeld), and wondering how such a bank would make any money; I mentally squared this circle by assuming that full reserve = lends out what it has in deposits, no more and fractional reserve = lends out more than it has in deposits, up to D/R. It seems that is incorrect, and the further discussion below has helped to elucidate some details.
The circle is squared by noting that a full-reserve bank makes money by charging fees, since it cannot loan out money and thus collects no interest; and that, in our current system, the central bank will loan money to the banks that it creates out of thin air, but not quite as much as I thought (otherwise, the system would expand at an increasing rate).
On a tangential note, under a full-reserve banking system so defined, postal banking makes (some) sense (whereas, under a looser banking system it does not, the role being captured just as well by private commercial and/or investment banks). Instead of charging fees, the bank uses the interest from treasury bonds it has purchased with the deposits. However, this system is really just a special pleading version of investment banking. Said bank would still likely need to keep some amount of cash on hand, which then starts to look like a reserve ratio, and its ability to operate in the black at any given time would depend on whether there are enough bonds for sale, those bonds are paying enough interest, the bond market has enough buyers, etc.
For some reason I thought 20% was the number, but apparently the Fed operates at 10% for medium-large banks (3% for small banks and 0%! for very small banks).
I was thinking 5-10%.
From my understanding, the visceral hatred is toward how fractional reserve banking exists currently with the FDIC and the Fed which exist to prop-up the fractional reserve banking system. From what I’ve read, they’re fine with someone opening a fractional reserve bank if they want so long as there is no government holding up the whole business model. And they believe that fractional reserve banking, in a free market system, would not exist very long, as a downturn would inevitably wipe them out.
There was a debate about this at the Soho Forum between a Mises economist and a Cato economist. It was pretty decent. Unfortunately, Dave Smith’s opening stand-up was cut out in most clips of the debate (I suspect because some of the jokes were pretty mean spirited toward the Cato Institute), but he did have a hilarious joke where he said something like “this is like the Super Bowl for libertarians- you get all of us together and what do we want to do but argue a topic that only we care about”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDLCa7maGZA
You can’t have fractional reserve banking with double-entry bookkeeping. At some point, somebody will have to put an entry on one ledger without a corresponding and opposite entry on another ledger. Without a bank legally empowered to do just that like the Federal Reserve, the customers could sue for fraud.
The government could legalize it, I suppose, and thus form a decentralized fractional reserve system (vs. the centralized one we have today). But any customer worth their salt would demand to see the bank’s books, or at least a record of audit from a trusted auditing agency. This could be a viable system, I imagine, and it would potentially isolate the risk better, but there would likely be more frequent albeit localized violations of the rules.
In a free banking system, the banks keep each other in check.
For example, imagine every bank is issuing there own gold-backed dollars. All the banks accept deposits from the other banks. But, do they really trust them? No, they dont. so on occasion, they cash them in for gold. Bank A takes a bundle of Bank X dollars into Bank X and demand gold for it. Bank X gives them the gold and does the same in return to Bank A (in fact, they probably first trade off dollars, so it is a net exchange instead of 2 gross exchanges).
A bank that can’t cover goes under and/or has their insurance company cover for them.
Verification happens after the fact. This is true today and would be true then. There’s always the risk that neither the bank nor the insurance company have the assets to cover all deposits.
Yes, but risk != fraud.
True, and given my above misunderstanding, what I originally said about bookkeeping is wrong. But you’d still have to word that promissory note pretty carefully to avoid fraud. “The lender will pay to the bearer on demand some amount between $0 and face value” is more accurate but not quite as inspiring.
It may sound ludicrous, but I think it’s a massive concession for free market adherents to concede to the existence of fractional reserve banking. Only big government can make such a system possible in the long-run.
Disagree. I think fractional reserve banking can exist in a free banking system.
I do think it would require the existence of a robust backing insurance system. They would keep careful eyes on the assets of the bank.
Reserve might be higher than today. Loans would be tighter, larger down payments for mortgages would probably become the norm.
I think fractional reserve banking *has* existed in free banking systems (aka unregulated banking systems aka criminal enterprises)
I misspoke and overgeneralized. Allow me to revise then, the existence of a fractional reserve system at its current size would not be possible. Full reserve banks would compete for depositors and people of means would be wise enough to keep sizable assets with full reserve banks, while keeping some amount of their wealth in fractional reserve banks (similar to diversifying assets between stocks and bonds, depending on ones risk tolerance).
I think you have it backwards.
Small amounts like checking would be in full reserve.
Savings would be in things like CDs, which would be fractional, as you are committing the money for a set period of time anyway.
^this. There is a reason banks charge fees on checking accounts. Money that is just passing through the bank’s ledger as you deposit a check then pay a bill costs the bank more in terms of accounting and administration and does nothing toward reserves.
That said, for the big banks reserves are not really dependent on deposits. Much of the ‘reserve’ money on their books is actually ‘borrowed’ from the Fed. I have no issue with a purely private fractional reserve bank, but the quasi-private system we have now is an outright scam. Private enterprises borrowing money into existence backed by the credit of the United States then lending that money to customers at a profit is a good deal if you are connected enough to get it.
Full reserve banks would compete for depositors and people of means would be wise enough to keep sizable assets with full reserve banks, while keeping some amount of their wealth in fractional reserve banks (similar to diversifying assets between stocks and bonds, depending on ones risk tolerance).
I don’t agree. In a free banking system, there would be fairly solid means for investors to monitor bank safety and soundness. It wouldn’t just be “well, the government guarantees it”. So, investors would be likely to seek an optimal risk-return trade-off. For small investors, the safety of their liquidity would be so high as to necessitate an emphasis on full reserve institutions. For larger investors, the loss of interest income from a heavy weighting on full reserve would outweigh the marginal gains from reduced expected loss.
I disagree. The amount that you currently keep in a bank will not change and the amount that you dedicate to a CD will not change. The people who buy CDs will continue to buy CDs. Checking would obviously move to full reserve banking, but even savings would likely migrant to full reserve banks.
The fact is that this is all speculative, because there are multiple factors that would come into play, including the going free market interest rate and the fee assessed by full reserved banking establishments.
How would a full reserve institution even pay interest? Whatever quantity of money is deposited is just sitting there, not earning them anything.
“So, investors would be likely to seek an optimal risk-return trade-off. For small investors, the safety of their liquidity would be so high as to necessitate an emphasis on full reserve institutions. For larger investors, the loss of interest income from a heavy weighting on full reserve would outweigh the marginal gains from reduced expected loss.”
I said previously that this is dependent on risk tolerance and your time horizon.
But, people need to stop thinking of this as “investing”. The same methods that people invest their money will not change. The only thing that will change is how people store their money. Investing and banking are not the same thing.
Full reserve banks have to charge significant fees to remain profitable or even solvent. I am not sure how many people would pay $5 per check to have their money in a ‘full reserve’ bank.
This is the kind of axiom that is blissfully devoid of contact with history and reality.
Even the very first Bankers were merchants and investors before they were lenders and deposit agents.
“I am not sure how many people would pay $5 per check to have their money in a ‘full reserve’ bank.”
Again, we’re all playing the speculation game, but full reserve banks did exist in the past. Fees could be assessed in various forms from ATM fees to monthly payments to any method of fee collection.
There is also the fact that full reserve banks would likely be engaged in the treasury market so depending on the interest rate environment that would be an additional source of revenue.
“This is the kind of axiom that is blissfully devoid of contact with history and reality.”
If your form of investing is your savings account, then I’m sorry. That’s not investing. That’s banking.
You can argue about the history of banking all you want, but that’s not today’s reality.
toeMAYtoe, toeMAHtoe
People use them interchangeably because most people CAN’T invest any other way, or else the barrier of entry is too high (save precious metals).
What do you think happens to money that is put into a checking account? What do you think happens to money that is put into a savings account? What do you think happens to money that is put into a managed fund?
i’ll give you a hint, it rhymes with “blame string”.
The only difference is in liquidity, risk, and interest rate, with the one being a function of the other two.
“People use them interchangeably because most people CAN’T invest any other way, or else the barrier of entry is too high (save precious metals).”
I don’t know if it’s MOST people. A lot of you, I assume, have a 401 (k) or some other retirement system. Even those of us lucky enough to have a pension are involved in investing (although you have no control over what you are investing in).
“What do you think happens to money that is put into a checking account? What do you think happens to money that is put into a savings account? What do you think happens to money that is put into a managed fund?
i’ll give you a hint, it rhymes with “blame string”.”
I have no idea how you are adding anything to this conversation. What exactly does this have to do with fractional reserve banking versus full reserve banking?
Fine, the 1.5% APY that you are receiving on your savings account is investing.
How would full reserve banks be engaged in any investment market? Are you defining reserves to include investments? Because that is not what reserves are.
You’re being deliberately obtuse if you think that’s what he’s talking about.
Obtuse or ignorant, I don’t know. But it looks like the second.
In either case, when one puts money in a checking, savings, or managed fund, a financial institution takes that deposit, aggregates it with similar deposits, and then invests that money in the form of making loans to parties that are hopefully able to return the principal + interest. The institution takes some cut of the interest (say, X) and provides the rest of the interest back to the depositors (say, Interest-X).
For some types of deposits, where liquidity is high and risk is low, X approaches I. For some types of deposits, where liquidity is low and risk is high, X approaches 0.
Saying its not “real” investing if X approaches I is (aka your 1.5% APY example), objectively, false.
Except the existence of fractional reserve banking long predates central banks.
Yes and they would collapse when there was a hiccup in the economy.
This
It inevitably ends with a bank run. It’s going to happen in our current iteration as well. It just takes longer because they can leverage the entire monetary system to support it.
And full reserve banking ends up with the Bankers figuring out work arounds that turn them into fractional reserve banks. If you want full reserve banking you need hard currency as well.
Yes
The problem is not necessarily fractional reserve banking. The problem is containing the damage so that it does not jeopardize the entire system. As it is, we spread the risk (sounds good right), but we increase the risk by printing printing printing. We will not be able to contain it when it comes down.
I guess this similar to the discussion between capitalism and socialism. Capitalism assumes there will be failures and that they cannot be avoided, therefore it becomes a question of the best way to handle and limit it. Socialism assumes failure will not happen so it never provides accommodation for it, thus risking the entire system.
Time deposits as an option aren’t opposed by Austrians. Having a country’s entire central banking system run on fractional reserves and effectively forcing people to use it is the objection.
“Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.”
https://twitter.com/SheriffAlert/status/1221881862244749315
I’ll assume his incident reports are just as clear and definitive.
“Black man the color of white man spotted entering post office with suspicious looking regular USPS flat rate box. Over.”
“Large dog the size of a small dog involved in OIS. It was coming right for me as it ran away.”
“look at the sizes of that thing!”
Gun news:
I got my adapter in yesterday, allowing me to run a PCC that takes CZ75 mags. When the magazine is inserted, it runs flawlessly. The problem is that it’s undersprung so about every 5 rounds or so, the recoil engages the magazine release. I’ll stop by a gun store and see if I can get a stiffer spring for it.
Speaking of Czech guns, if you loved the accuracy and shootability of the HK P07, but thought it was just too reasonably priced, check out the Laugo Alien
*blam* *blam* *blam* *blam* *blam* *magdrops* Shit!
It actually only drops a quarter-inch or so before it catches via friction on the magazine body, so it’s more of a tap-rack-bang situation, but that is still the better part of a second I don’t need added onto my time.
This guy’s profile could have been written for me.
https://twitter.com/Jewtastic/status/1221918105938485248
Yours would just say “T & A- all day”. And that’s why we love you
https://invidio.us/watch?v=w91aGUsDcdM
I thought you said you didn’t believe, or am I miss-remembering?
I do. I just don’t go to Temple because it’s less about faith and more about politics.
Dovetailing on Not Adahn’s gun news:
I have discovered that Federal AE 5.7×28 is complete garbage when fired from a PS90. It’s underpowered and causes constant short-stroking. I haz annoyance because the FN ammo (the only other brand available) works perfectly but is more expensive. Oh well. I knew going in that it was an expensive vanity gun and it’s still probably the most fun gun I own to shoot. NO REGURTZ
Bought a Ruger 57 to go with it yet?
Saving my nickels and dimes.
22 rimfire magnum also sucks in a semi-auto
You’re not loading your own yet?
It’s one of those things I keep saying “I’ll get a roundtuit”, then I’m too lazy to foot the up front cost for the equipment/learn how to. I know I need to, there’s just a significant amount of inertia.
..and by then you’ve spent the same amount of money on more ammo.
At least you should have enough used cases to be set for a while. The great thing about reloading is it’s another gun thing you can do – but you can do it at home without driving out to the range.
Weird that somebody like Fiocchi or Selllier & Bellot haven’t started making cheap range ammo in that caliber.
There were only a couple of guns chambered in it until recently.
Fiocchi actually makes 4.6×30 H&K rounds. I didn’t think anyone used that.
speaking of 5.7×28, Diamondback brought this to Shot Show:
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/shot-show-range-day-diamondback-dbx-5-7x28mm-pistol/
i don’t understand the resurgence of the caliber.
Next up, .45GAP!
I lol’d
Really – DAFUQ???!?? I seem to recall a similar bore with a little more powder behind it. Pretty good little round for a carbine. I think it was something like 5.56 X 45mm? Not sure if anybody makes anything in that caliber anymore..
yeah sure, but the reason for the 5.7×28 is to put an AP bullet in a cartridge that can pass through the grip. So obviously everyone is going to want 1) a carbine loaded up with cartridges that 2) don’t pass through the grip and 3) don’t have an AP bullet.
Obviously.
Actually, one of the guys on my pistol team is going to buy a Ruger 57 (with NY mags that only hold 10 rounds!) for 100yd shooting.
I can see his logic, even if I don’t remotely share his priorities.
I dunno. I’d rather go with either a 44 or 41 magnum – at least at that range it would be delivering something of note. And I already have guns in that caliber.
5.7×28 is moving a lot faster than .44 mag, so it will shoot flatter.
Fads come and go among gun buyers as with all other people.
I want the gyrojet back.
“I was born a poor, black man…”
“I have a lot of black support because that’s where I come from. I was raised in the black church, politically, not a joke,” Joe Biden said at the even in Des Moines, Iowa. “When I got into politics, I was the only white guy working on the east side, in the projects, because these were the guys I grew up with. These were the guys I worked with.”
“People ask why do I have such overwhelming support from the African American community, because that’s what I’m part from,” Biden continued. “That’s where my political identity comes from. It’s the single most consistent political constituency I’ve ever had.”
I mean, he’s not necessarily wrong, but it is kind of crass to say it out loud.
He has Corn Pop’s vote.
Give it a month or so and you’ll be hearing about “Leroy Biden”. He’s gonna try to out-“Beto” Beto O’Roarke.
Are we talking “LuhRoy” or “LEEEEEEEROOOY”?
“They gonna put y’all back in chains!”
Cornpop wants a word with this honkey liar…
Mornin’ Glibbies. I have a plan for the day. I’m getting my mind unmuddled. I may actually get things done in an orderly manner for the first time since June past.
I hope you succeed.
It has been a very long several months of drama, psychiatric intervention, financial intervention, teen uberangst, and despair, none of which has gone away in the least bit, but at least for today I have a plan and I’m not sitting here spilling ink (real ink) in my notebook to try to sort out the hoard in my head.
I tend to do it in Excel spreadsheets – more malleable and can do calculations when required.
But you do you. Sounds like it works in your world.
Calculations don’t enter the equation. I’m spilling ink on my emotional state. I do that like I declutter a room: start at the door and start tossing the trash. I do it in ink so I have to be slow enough to properly dispose of the trash and set other things aside. Random tasks to be accomplished might be thrown in. It’s totally stream of conciousness. I will go back later and highlight portions like tasks to do and then make a proper to-do list.
For instance, once I was in such a state when I needed to make a doctor’s appointment. I couldn’t do it without help. So I made a list (and I had to think about it) of the steps I needed to take to do that. 1) find phone number, 2) find calendar, 3) pick up phone, 4) dial the number, 5) talk to person. What I didn’t plan for was voice mail. I was so flustered I hung up and had to try again.
Another time, I just wrote “anger” over and over and over in my notebook for about 3 pages because that was the only thing I could articulate and then I just started writing as above and “anger” was interspersed randomly until I just ran out of the need to write “anger.”
I hadn’t written since April of last year and sooooo much has gone on. I wrote next on January 6 of this year. Since then I have written 105 pages in a lined notebook, all in longhand. It’s taken that long and that much ink to rearrange my head.
Very good ma’am! Chart a course and take action. Call the Marines if we can be of assistance.
Team Trump puts Hunter Biden, Obama on trial
Brushing past Democrats‘ renewed calls for former White House National Security Adviser John R. Bolton to testify, the president’s attorneys essentially put Hunter Biden in the witness chair to show that Mr. Trump had plenty of reasons to urge Ukraine’s president to open a corruption probe of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and his son.
“Does it merit an inquiry that a corrupt company in a corrupt country is paying our vice president’s son $1 million per year?” Trump attorney Eric Herschmann asked on the Senate floor. “Did he know anything about the natural gas industry at all? Of course not.”
To point out the “absurdity” of Democrats‘ impeachment standards, Mr. Herschmann also brought up Mr. Obama’s private conversation in March 2012 with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, caught on a hot mic, in which he pleaded for “space” from Moscow until after his reelection to negotiate on missile defense systems.
“President Obama knew the importance of missile defense in Europe but decided to use that as a bargaining chip with the Russians to further his own election chances in 2012,” Mr. Herschmann told senators. “President Obama used the powers of the presidency in a manner that compromised the national security of the United States. The case against President Obama would have been far stronger than the allegations against President Trump.”
This is one of the main reasons the left and the weaponized bureaucracies created under Obama are in a panic and under the gun to bring down orange man: they want to protect their benefactor and the evil he created. Obama put politically reliable incompetent credentialed asshats in the top jobs for all the 3 letter agencies so they would allow him to not just ask, but encourage criminal behavior like spying on political enemies of team blue. The people that pushed Obama on the country and then spent all their time protecting him (by keeping the shit they were doing hidden from the public) are still at it. Their reputation and their ability to keep making a living is tied to it. For a lot of the politically appointed top men it goes beyond that to the issue of them needing to do prison time for their criminal activities.
The lack of prison time for all the shenanigans is what is the most troubling. Basically this is the like Catch and Release for bureaucrats instead of illegal immigrants. It sends a pretty strong signal the miscreants that there is no downside to breaking the law.
Yup. Which is why if we don’t find a way to hold as many of them as possible accountable – not just slaps on the wrists, either – we are doomed at an even faster pace.
Our elite credentialed class is so corrupt & inept that people have had enough of them, and they plan to fight the people that want to deny them the ability to do real well while delivering little or no value.
good. time to play by their rules.
STEVE SMITH, is that you?
NSFW!!!
I don’t even want to have knowledge of how that showed up in your consciousness.
I subscribe to r/awfuleverything. Usually it’s about cakes and piercings/tatts and silly stuff. Occasionally you get something like that.
Needz moar finger puppets
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who is running for the Democratic presidential nomination, knocked a presentation by Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Trump’s legal team, calling it “nonsensical.”
“His characterization of the law simply is unsupported. He is a criminal law professor who stood in the well of the Senate and talked about how law never inquires into intent and that we should not be using the president’s intent as part of understanding impeachment,” Warren told reporters.
“Criminal law is all about intent. Mens rea is the heart of criminal law. That’s the very basis of it. So it makes his whole presentation just nonsensical. I truly could not follow it,” Warren, a former Harvard Law School professor, continued.
That’s odd. I was not aware the Senate was in the business of conducting criminal trials. Political clown shows, on the other hand…
Not all laws factor intent. Some, such as government records and classification laws, expressly disregard intent.
Ah this is where people start playing around with the difference between intent and motive, isn’t it?
Planner-in-Chief
Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday outlined the steps she would take to prevent and contain infectious diseases, as authorities across the globe race to address the new coronavirus.
Warren’s plan, released less than a week before the Iowa caucuses, calls for increased public health funding for agencies including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services.
You don’t say.
Let me guess. The CDC will release a study showing how guns are crazy effective vectors for deadly viruses? The only solution is for the govt to put those guns into quarantine for a common sense period of twenty years or so.
Warren has a special device that determines the correct response to any question. Oddly enough, it always gives the same answer.
The plan also calls for the U.S. to contribute to a number of international efforts, including a global vaccine alliance. Warren will also establish a “global health security corps,” she wrote, to handle outbreaks in regions that are experiencing conflict, following the recommendation of a commission established by Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.
“Diseases like coronavirus remind us why we need robust international institutions, strong investments in public health, and a government that is prepared to jump into action at a moment’s notice,” Warren wrote in the plan. “When we prepare and effectively collaborate to address common threats that don’t stop at borders, the international community can stop these diseases in their tracks.”
Blah blah blah I have a phone and a magic wand.
Remember when Obama diverted billions to prevent ebola in the United States even though there was barely a threat? Whatever happened to all that money?
Cashed into multiple currencies and sent to the Iranian regime?
I think the govt used that money to buy a bunch of Ebola Prevention Rocks from FourScore Inc.
And plague Insurance policies for the higher officials.
I pushed ofr universal coverage, but they had other people to pay.
This is why the CDC should absolutely be researching teenage date rape, cigarette smoking, gun control, and bicycle accidents, instead of contagious disease vectors.
To be sure…
School districts in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Buffalo, New York, have decided to update their history curricula to include the material, which posits that the institution of slavery was so embedded in the country’s DNA that the country’s true founding could be said to have occurred in 1619, rather than in 1776.
“One of the things that we are looking at in implementing The 1619 Project is to let everyone know that the issues around the legacy of enslavement that exist today, it’s an American issue, it’s not a Black issue,” Dr. Fatima Morrell, associate superintendent for culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools, told Buffalo’s NPR station.
Buffalo teachers and administrators have already begun studying the 1619 material so they can implement it into their curricula. The NPR story correctly notes that the essays examine “lesser-known consequences of slavery,” like “how plantation economics led to modern corporate, capitalist culture.”
Many historians, though, have questioned The 1619 Project’s accuracy. Five of them penned a letter to The New York Times expressing dismay “at some of the factual errors in the project and the closed process behind it.” These historians said the project’s contention that the American Revolution was launched “in order to ensure slavery would continue” was flat-out wrong.
Some conservative critics have overreached: Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich called The 1619 Project “propaganda” and suggested that the Times was trying to brainwash readers. That line of attack goes too far, but there are valid criticisms of the project’s ideological slant.
Deliberately disseminating information known to be inaccurate in order to serve a narrative? Nail. Head. Hit.
Oh, Robby. Always one step forward and two steps back with that one.
It IS propaganda and their obvious intent is to spread it through the nation’s school systems.
It’s funny how socialism leads inevitably to slavery is not a mark against socialism, but slavery inevitably* leads to capitalism is definitely a mark against capitalism.
* = For the sake of argument
By that chain of reasoning, Socialism leads to capitalism by way of slavery.
Doesn’t that then mean that Capitalism is more advanced than socialism and we should not retrogress?
Socialism leading to slavery is not orthodox Marxism. That is just what happens when socialism is applied. Slavery leading to feudalism leading to capitalism is, however, orthodox Marxism (I just skipped a step in my summation above). My argument was a little tongue-in-cheek.
I know.
For what it’s worth, orthodox Marxism generally adheres to the following progression:
Slavery -> Feudalism -> Capitalism -> Socialism -> Communism
Where socialism is state ownership of the means of production in the name of the proletariat, and communism is anarchy of the proletariat, all the obstacles having been removed and the state having withered away.
The problem with text-based communication…
Unsurprising, they’re wrong about that too.
If one considers the ancient palace economy to be socialism (and I’d say an argument can be made, since there are some strong fundamental similarities), then the line of socialism > slavery > capitalism can be said to exist and socialism can be said to be the most regressive system there is.
Dr. Fatima Morrell, associate superintendent for culturally and linguistically responsive initiatives for Buffalo Public Schools
That sounds like a very serious position, and in no way a bullshit made-up title.
Whatever happened to all that money?
Don’t you worry your pretty little head about it.
It went to a good cause.
OOOH was it dead babies? Or tranny toddlers? Or maybe, oooooh did it go for more socialism?
Close.
Lining connected pockets.
Buffalo teachers and administrators have already begun studying the 1619 material so they can implement it into their curricula. The NPR story correctly notes that the essays examine “lesser-known consequences of slavery,” like “how plantation economics led to modern corporate, capitalist culture.”
*makes motorboat noise, falls down stairs*
Just as correlation is not causation, temporal progression is not causation either.
Thank god my son is no longer attending Buffalo schools. I got in one argument with his social studies teacher over glaring errors in the presentation of WW1. I cant imagine my rage about this crap.
Seems worse than I originally thought.
DON LEMON: [The NPR reporter] has a master’s degree in European studies from Cambridge University. Also, [Pompeo] doesn’t really say that she couldn’t identify Ukraine on a map, he insinuates it’s just a — it’s just a petty attempt to put her down, right? Is that what this is?
RICK WILSON: Of course, of course. [Pompeo’s] just trying to demean her, and obviously, it’s false. And, look, he also knows, deep in his heart, that Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you had the letter “U” and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it. [Pompeo] knows this is an administration defined by ignorance of the world, and so that’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience, you know, the credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump — that wants to think that [does Trump supporter impersonation with southern accent] ‘Donald Trump’s the smart one, and y’all – y’all elitists are dumb!’”
WAJAHAT ALI: [Trump supporter impersonation] You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling!
WILSON: [southern impersonation] Your math and your reading!
ALI: [impersonation] Yeah, your reading, you know, your geography, knowing other countries, sipping your latte!
WILSON: [southern impersonation] All those lines on the map!
ALI: [impersonation] Only them elitists know where Ukraine is! Sorry, I apologize.
LEMON: [wiping tears, laughing] Oh, my God!
ALI: But it was Rick’s fault. I blame Rick. But, in all honesty —
LEMON: Hold on — hold on — hold on. That was good, sorry. Rick, that was a good one — I needed that.
Yeah, as I suggested above, this is not the smartest line of attack. The man gets his wives from Eastern Europe. I think he has some idea of the geography.
Well, Marla Maples was from the United States and Ivana was from Czechoslovakia, which most consider to be in Central Europe, but you get the idea.
It’s also an odd tactic to use when you consider that the entire impeachment is based on the idea that Trump was obsessed with meddling in Ukraine. If he’s so focused on Ukraine, it doesn’t make much sense to then snicker that he has no idea where it is.
Did Rick Wilson ever work on a winning campaign? He’s kind of the GOP version of Bob Shrum, isn’t he?