Ok class, now we’re gonna do finger-painting!
I guess Matt Rhule can afford a bunch of new bibs now. Or are those things smocks? Well, whatever they are, Baylor football’s loss is the Panthers gain. Dude is a solid coach. Elsewhere, the Giants made a splash by hiring…somebody with zero head coaching experience. Huh. Well, I hope this puts to bed all the “where in the NFL could Urban Meyer land” ridiculousness. If only for a year, anyway.
Man City added to the misery of ManUre fans again yesterday as they took a 3-1 first leg lead in the League Cup semifinal. Leicester and Villa do their first leg today. Malaga’s coach finds out that sextapes are a bad idea. Chelski are hemorrhaging money at an alarming pace. And Liverpool inked a huge deal with Nike that will only become more valuable for the fact that New Balance did a terrible job of producing jerseys for retail sale.
Blind squirrel finds an acorn. Film at 11.
Here in North America, there was a huge slate of NHL games. The winners were Tampa (who almost went double-digits on the Canucks), Phoenix, NYI, Washington, Carolina, NYR, Detroit, St. Lo…wait, Detroit won a game? Huh. Anyway, St. Louis, Boston, Calgary, Pittsburgh and Columbus.
Stephen Hawking
Great Texan George Childress was born on this day. And he shares it with physicist Frank Dyson, Soviet douchebag Georgy Malenkov, first Dr Who William Hartnell, burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee, actor Jose Ferrer, comedian Soupy Sales, the “King of Rock & Roll” Elvis Presley, legendary TV game show host Bob Eubanks, Monty Python legend Graham Chapman, half-man half-robot Stephen Hawking, music appropriator on a grand scale David Bowie, wrestling legend Rey Misterio Sr, possible rapist and serial pisser R. Kelly, Supreme Leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-Un, and NFL legend Billy Joe Hobert.
Wow, that’s a hell of a list. I mean a hell of a list right there. I hope there’s enough going on in the world to top it with…the links!
John Kerry’s on the job.
Iran fires mortars, rockets, bombs, missiles, or something else at bases in Iraq housing American troops. Death tolls range from 0 to some undetermined number reporters keep giving. I suppose we could wait for official word, but we can’t have that, can we?
I guess this headline is factually accurate. Nevermind the omission that it was an Iranian rocket that took it down, as many videos that have surfaced clearly shows. But don’t worry. The Iranians are keeping the black box and will be sure to release their findings as soon as they manufacture them to fit a narrative that the Jews and America were somehow at fault.
I’m chhhlosly moni-monitoring whhhas goings on in…zzzzz.
The House sets House rules. And the Senate does the same for the Senate. Look for Nancy to come out and bitch about an abuse of power for Cocaine Mitch doing the same thing she did. She might have to sleep off last night first, having spent it sipping cocktails in a DC bar while “closely monitoring” the situation in the Middle East.
Holy shit, I guess private property rights are alive in Chicago for a bit longer. But don’t worry. They’re working on a way to make sure it doesn’t last very long.
“And his smile grew ten times that day.”
CNN opens their checkbook. I guess they weren’t too jacked up to go through discovery. I just hope it was enough money for Sandman to not settle with WaPo and NBC, both of which are probably clamoring for a settlement before the other one. Because there’s no way he settles with all of these cretins now. Somebody is going to have to go to the mat on this one…I hope.
Gwyneth Paltrow apparently hates fat normal-sized women. But don’t worry. You can still find those elusive jade eggs if you’re having bladder issues or need your humors restored.
They’re not alone. The rest of us are shitting our pants as well. Although his chances in the general election are long to say the least. At least I hope so.
This was the inevitable choice today. Aw hell, here’s another one. Because I love y’all so much.
Now go have a great day, friends.
This just in: Gwyneth Paltrow is an idiot. Film at eleven.
Old news. We’ve known that for a while.
Still would.
There is a certain level of stupid/willfully ignorant that is a turnoff for me.
Agreed. Paltrow crossed that threshold faster than the speed of light years ago.
But her vaj is strong enough to crush rocks!
She also has a reputation as an obnoxious bitch when interacting with the plebes.
A mildly attractive idiot. If her parents were were non-descript folk from Erie, PA she’d be a soccer mom.
You are assuming some dude would put up with her shit?
Chris Martin was all torn up when she left him.
Is he a dude?
Questionable
There was a dude at my wedding to Banjos (date of her friend I had never met) who was in a Coldplay cover band. That was his actual profession. I told him he must have been incredible and that it’s probably harder to believably act like Coldplay than to actually just be Coldplay. I then rambled on incoherently about how great it must be to walk in Chris Martin’s shoes. I think Banjos reeled me in after that. I was incredibly drunk.
Sounds like you were just trying to make friends.
I’m sure you still hear from him, right?
They covered her new Goop video service on The Today Show yesterday. As usual, Today covered it with complete credulity, having their MD medical expert talk about all the health advice you could get there. They did mention that Goop has a “no health advice is given here” disclaimer, but that was it.
This is just as evil and incompetent as the political propaganda they spew.
If you don’t want to cover the fact that Goop pedals pseudoscientific scams, then just don’t cover goop. But just because she’s a celebrity is no reason you have to cover it. They were selling stickers that had healing powers, for crying out loud. Anyone with a 5th grade education should be able to tell that they are a giant scam. (although on a positive note, one of their idiotic scams is jade vagina eggs. You put the sculpted stone eggs in your vagina and it magically heals or something. Still waiting for the demonstration video from Gweneth)
Giving them millions of dollars worth of free advertising on your morning news program is unconscionable.
Or is funny how the media elites will give paltrow a pass but anyone who questions climate change claims must be vilified.
That’s a good point. One can argue about how settled climate science might be… but there really cannot be any argument that rainbow stickers cure migraines and whatever else they were claiming. (no medicine in the sticker, for those who don’t remember. They were literally just stickers)
So having Goop receive fawning coverage and any debate over climate change be treated as a religious blasphemy is quite revealing.
Does the jade egg cure herpes? Asking for a friend of a friend of a friend.
No. It’s a rock. At most, it repels tigers.
You can use it to tell the weather.
Not without a string.
Does she sell these rocks as used?
Because there might be a market for that…
STEVE SMITH HAVE OTHER IDEAS OF WHAT TO INSERT. SURE TO CURE HERPES!
I think she’s trolling with GOOP.
To the tune of hundreds of millions.
People be stupid, yo!
Huh, These are getting earlier.
I couldn’t sleep, so rather than mindlessly scroll through twitter, I decided to mindlessly do the links early.
Not complaining, just observing. I’m still in the half-sleep zombie state of having dragged myself into work.
I shouldn’t complain but work has me running. It’s hard to keep up on just the regular schedule. A man has to sleep sometime, Sloopster!
Works for me.
“an Iranian rocket that took it down, as many videos that have surfaced clearly shows”
Ok, it’s early, so . . . Seriously? Link? Or are you just Alex Jonesing me here.
It was a Boeing. No rocket/missile necessary.
Yeah, I’d like to see that video.
The Iranians found out that the airplane was gay and executed it.
*golf clap*
Ketsu no ANA?
https://youtu.be/DpHftAzAOkk
There were a few I saw on twitter earlier that showed something going into it, but I can’t find one now. And the Ukranians are now saying the cause is yet to be determined.
I can’t tell a damn thing from that video. When, where , what. It looks like somebody did something, I guess. I’d be willing to believe it just flew in front of one of their ballistic missiles. Why would they shoot down a Ukrainian airliner full of Iranians as it leaves Teheran?
There was a a Jew in it?
Because they’re incompetent and their rocket guidance is for shit?
Not attributing malice to something where incompetence is more likely. But the fact that they’re refusing to share the black box and that the cause has been been now called “undetermined” raise me my eyebrows.
You’d have to be a fool to think this is in any way a ‘coincidence’ to the missiles and Iranian retaliation.
Aren’t ballistic missiles unguided? Or at least not for airborne targets?
I think they can steer until their fuel runs out, but that’s only used to get them on the right trajectory, and they don’t have any tracking capability, being built to hit ground targets.
What they are calling “ballistic missiles” are probably the same 240mm crap they flung at us outside Basra. unguided, big, old Russian free flight artillery rockets.
^^This.
There was a claim I saw yesterday that we shot down a ‘missile’ with C-RAM.
That system is quite impressive, but it can’t shoot down a TBM.
It can knock the crap out of rockets, artillery and mortars, though.
I don’t know if the military uses different definitions, but as an engineer, ballistic projectiles are exactly those projectiles that have a single launching event (not necessarily instant, but short compared to overall flight time) and then are unguided.
Kick a soccer ball, and it will follow a ballistic path. etc.
Yep, that is what the word ballistic means. If you are guiding/flying it, it isn’t ballistic anymore.
Because they just turned on (or changed status on) some of their air-defense gear that they haven’t been using for awhile, and forgot exactly which parts were in “full-auto” mode.
Why would the Iranians announce ‘malfunction” like 30 minutes after it happened?
“There was a malfunction that brought down the plane”
*doesn’t mention that the malfunction was in the rocket system*
‘Cause most of their citizenry already knows they accidentally shot it down, but they gotta say something.
The Ukrainian’s first report clearly blamed it on mechanical failure. That was changed later. I suspect they found out something that might have changed their view on cause. And what really should be the tell is Iran refusing to provide the black box to them…
Just watching this story, and I think it is a dead giveaway that Iran refusing to hand over the blackbox is the dead giveaway that this was no accident. The airline, after declaring the incident a mechanical failure after the crash (only to change to drop that later), has ceased all flights to Tehran. I am gonna hazard a guess that some eager beaver pulled a Vincennes and shot the plane down.
Death tolls range from 0 to some undetermined number reporters keep giving.
I heard MSDNC was claiming 30 or so. It’s like they want dead soldiers to stand on because orange man bad.
I was pontificating yesterday that Iran was probably aiming near our bases , but didn’t want to actually do more than token damage or kill more than a couple of Americans. This was for domestic consumption, was my theory, and the last thing Iran wanted to do was enough damage to really piss off Trump.
The “don’t retaliate and we’ll stop” message seemed to confirm that.
I’ve sprayed that same sentiment anywhere I can. It is quite obvious that they are claiming victory and taking their ball and leaving.
They have been crowing all over their state-owned media about how they have dealt a devastating blow to the US military. They obviously know that they didn’t really cause any major damage…. they want it to be over.
The US media, on the other hand…. they really, really, really seem to want that war!
I hope Trump is smart enough to take this olive branch, give them their fig leaf and start negotiating. Bonus from that strategy will be Chuck Schumer rushing out to the TV cameras to tell everyone that Trump is weak on defense because he didn’t attack Iran. Rush and Hannity can put together wonderful before/after videos of Pelosi and pundits like Maddow talking about how weak Trump was to allow attacks on our people by Iran, then talking about how he was getting us into WWIII and then going back to criticizing Trump for not attacking Iran.
When has Iran ever negotiated anything in good faith? Ask any OPEC nation for example.
Since 1979 Iran has been unreliable in every sense of the word… I wonder why?
“The US media, on the other hand…. they really, really, really seem to want that war!”
What they want is anything that makes them reverse the result of the 2016 election. Even if to get there they must usher in the destruction of the very country they want to run into the ground slowly. They would rather rule hell than wait their turn to take back control of heaven. What a bunch of fucked up people.
“I heard MSDNC was claiming 30 or so. ”
Thank goodness the Iranians had the decency to attack random nobody soldiers, unlike Trump’s targeting of high level leadership.
Yeah, those 30 plebes are totes legitimate targets. Only some rube that doesn’t understand the rules to international diplomacy would be so gauche as to target a somebody.
I think it was Bush #1 that sent some tomahawk missles at an Iranian radar base late at night so most of the important people were not on duty. Fuck those poor bastard janitors.
“We’re worried about low-cost housing, but would never dare allow the expansion of the housing supply to actually allow for an increase at all price levels.”
But the leader of the Socialist Caucus has concerns. Concerns!
For the second time in two-and-a-half years, a plan to stop a 50% surge in home prices along the wildly-popular 606 trail has apparently been stopped dead in its tracks.
The city thinks that it can price control property it does not own?
CPD will be along to explain how this works.
Funny that a broke-ass city that enacts new taxes every week thinks it makes sense to stop a 50% increase in property tax revenue
^THIS^
“devise a long-term solution to the gentrification…” = remain poor and debt-ridden.
“devise a long-term solution ”
They’re not thinking big enough. Should shoot for something complete and ultimate.
Finally!
*narrows gaze*
CNN opens their checkbook.
No idea how far though.
Probably expected costs of defending the case. Maybe plus a little. Certainly enough to pursue the suit against another defendant.
They have a team of lawyers. This was probably less about cost and more about avoiding their internal communications being released during discovery.
That was the motivation, RS was asking about the amount. The lawyers would go “It’s going to cost at least this much anyway.” when talking to the management.
They certainly were more concerned with the discovery process than pissing away their stock holders money. This seems to be a recurring pattern with these leftists. Anyone remember how the dnc acted when they disclosed their servers were hacked? They were more concerned with keeping the authorities away from the evidence than actually catching the perp….
At least their SIR – the insurance company(s) would be in charge after that.
I can see this insurance claim getting denied the same way Oberlin’s was – because these policies tend not to cover when the client acted, well, like malicious dipshits leading directly to the liability.
You don’t know what policies they have…you wouldn’t believe what you can cover….especially through the Caribbean marketplace.
I also know that insurance companies are always looking for an excuse not to pay out.
Yup. That is exactly what all of them do, by Jimminy!
I will bow to your superior knowledge and experience in the insurance industry.
I will chose to ignore any indicators that is anything but a sincere concession.
I’ll take it. Didn’t expect him to get anything.
“The Smirk Heard ‘Round The World” Kid probably would have either become a pharmacist or dead in a ditch if everything played out. Now he gets to snort coke off hookers asses and shit in a golden toilet. Winning!
Do you know how much it costs to go to pharmacist school? If that was his plan, this would be the only way to pay for it!
So, any thoughts on what the retaliation to the missiles will be?
Ask Canada. None of them appear to have hit any of our people.
Hopefully a note saying “best of luck” to the Iraqis and a bunch of empty installations in that shithole.
But probably something else.
Why do you hate the Kurds or the Yezidis or the whatever hell group we’re supposedly protecting over there now?
I don’t hate them. I just think none of this shit is our responsibility or worth further American lives and money.
We might think that. The ever friendly military-industrial complex begs to differ. Oh, who am I kidding? They never beg.
The contortions among the neocons are incredible. Max Boot tweeted this last night:
Under any other circumstances, Boot would be calling for a full scale invasion of Iran, but Orange Man bad, so….
Remember when Two-Scoops wouldn’t retaliate for the shoot-down of the drone? I don’t recall anyone praising his restraint.
These people are all deranged.
Kristol lucked out and is using the recent death of his mother to studiously avoid commentary on the situation.
Sorry about his loss, but he is still an asshole.
Honestly, Trump should make an overtly sarcastic speech about being deterred by the ferocious Iranian response and inviting them back to the negotiating table.
The mullahs could use the literal translation for domestic political purposes, his supporters would see it as dunking on Iran, and the people that hate him would lose their shit making nonsensical claims about him leading us closer to war. Win-win-win.
Wouldn’t work. Lots and lots of Iranians speak better English than you or me.
France will surrender
In fairness, this time they have to. Total and Airbus are their only two revenue generating businesses outside of wine (not a big Iranian market), and both do business with Iran, even though they aren’t “supposed” to.
The response should be a hearty fuck you to everyone in the middle east followed by an immediate and permanent withdrawl of all american military presence in the middle east.
We can leave a note that says, “you fuckers need to solve your own problems”
” According to preliminary data released by the airline, there were 167 passengers and 9 crew members on board. Of those, 82 were Iranian and 63 were Canadian, according to information released from Ukraine’s foreign minister Vadym Prystaiko.
However an official with Tehran’s governor’s office said that the number of Iranians killed in the crash was around 140, suggesting that many of the victims held dual passports.
Also on board, according to the Ukrainian foreign minister, were nine Ukrainian crew members and two Ukrainian passengers, 10 passengers from Sweden, four from Afghanistan, three from Germany and three from Britain. No Americans were on board, according to the minister.”
That’s not good.
“63 were Canadian”
WTH?
Ask Trudy.
Probably trying to GTFO of there. So expect people to blame Trump for the deaths since he “started” this.
I don’t see how Trump had clean hands in the situation.
He was firing Iranian AA?
That’s right the entire situation is the sole responsibility of SGT ADA Operator.
This never would have happened if Og hadn’t beaten Thad with a rock over the last piece of mammoth.
You’re mistaken, Thad got clobbered because he was a mooching hipster who hated tools before they were cool.
Can’t tell if you guys are making THAAD puns….
Eve started it all playing with snakes and food, but generally people remotely interested in fairness attribute blame for a crime to the criminal, not some person earlier in the vast web of causality. Because, oddly the criminal actually did commit the crime.
The Iranian military leadership that said “light them up” is at fault. Just like the US apologized and paid solatia when the Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner – they didn’t courtmartial the E-4 who pushed a button.
And likewise the Situation was created in part because Trump escalated tensions. Yes the Iranian military bears responsibility but so does the US for constantly ratcheting tensions up.
I’m not absolving the Iranians. I’m just not giving Trump a free pass either.
Note to self: Never fly with foreign dignitaries transporting the original drives from hacked DNC server that has incriminating evidence on Hillary.
We are all on FBI watchlists.
The Old Elvis, the one we wanted to emulate. The hair, the sideburns, the girls, the money. If only we’d had some talent, some good looks and some promotion.
I coulda been a contendah but alas I was destined to grow old. Ah, life…
Better than dying young and leaving a good looking…er, portly corpse.
The man died doing what he loved. Nothing wrong with that.
Carlos Ghosn doing a press conference right now on Fox Business. He’s not too fond of the Japs.
Jap is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
*narrows gaze*
Wait, wait, I didn’t even make my joke about (((American Princesses))).
Nip that in the bud.
*squints at invisible finger*
Way to zero in on the substance of his comment.
Swissy has a yen for puns.
It’s really the chink in his armor.
That’s an interesting slant.
/Puts on thicker glasses/
“I must proteeeest!”
It’s going to be a he’ll of a book. Then a movie or HBO mini series.
I hope the Ninja fights the producers insist on adding will not be cut up into half second slices of ‘action’ that prevent you from seeing what’s going on.
Listening to it now. He’s laying into the justice system. 99.4% conviction rate.
It’s just because they’re so good at what they do. Same reason all our Education majors graduate with honors.
VA Dems Introduce New Gun And Ammo Bans As Session Begins
It is a new bill that is still full of unconstitutional horseshit that will do nothing to stop violent criminals while making many peaceful people into felons.
I except a compliance rate very close to zero.
The retailers will comply.
Sure – and the same guys who make moonshine in the woods will start making magazines (probably less complicated than making drinkable liquor). Eventually they’ll start making Stens or Grease Guns to go with their mags.
Shit, they don’t need to go that simple. The backwoods tech has gotten better.
You can buy a pretty impressive lathe for less than a pickup truck these days and I’d bet you can find the program to make pretty much every part of an AR, with specs for the metal, floating the web.
There will always be that who still think obeying the law is the right thing to do. See also the Obamacare mandate and why it is absolutely unconstitutional.
Fuck off and die slavers.
Wow. The retardation is spreading.
Wait, what? What’s the grounds for banning an all-copper round?
Sounds scarier than lead.
Cop-killing bullets
If they pass any of it, they’re going to get run out of office. They have a good foothold in Virginia, but it’s not a guaranteed permanent majority yet.
Are their terms long enough to get to draw the next set of electoral maps?
Yes. They are just starting a two-year session, and the census results should be out next year.
Didn’t they ban lead ammo for bird hunting? So if sheet shot is banned, what’s left? Harsh language?
Yeah, that makes no sense. USFWS banned all lead shot on ‘their’ lands in the late 80s.
They’ve no tolerance for heavy metal.
Expecting this
Oops, there is some NSFW near the end of that.
Which leads to this.
“Then bathe with my daughter in the Fountain of Varnoth!”
LOL!
um, “steel” not “sheet”
Uffda. Glad to hear that. I was thinking you were out in a duck blind wanking off and trying to bring down mallards with your “sheet shot”.
Take up falconry.
They know this shit is unconstitutional. Their goal is to force compliance of the magazine-altering provision. You make people permanently alter the magazine so it can only hold ten rounds and some people who comply will not be able to readily afford new magazines when the court strikeS the law down.
Oddly enough (but not coincidentally), this law disproportionately targets poor people who won’t be able to go buy new gear once it’s stricken. The Dems are waging a culture war on What they consider undesirable (read: poor, black) people.
Sloop,
Hard disagree on the target. It’s aimed at gun owners who are white and not urban. It will, however, mostly fuck over otherwise law abiding poor urban people who happen to be black.
Having spent several years in Virginia, I’m gonna day you’re giving their politicians more credit than they’ve earned. Both parties there have always sought to keep poor blacks “in their place”: The GOP because they’ve always feared them and the Dems so they can keep them on the plantation.
Oh no, I give neither team credit. But if I hated poor urbanites then a mag capacity ban, amongst other things, would be at the bottom of my list. Then again, I’m not a politician.
A new 30 Rd mag for an AR-15 is $10 these days. I can’t imagine pistol mags are too much more expensive.
Frankly, I don’t think this is targeting any group in particular. This is just a pre-ordained piece of legislation crafted to be the least unpalatable to the low information voters who would run them out of office if they passed an outright ban.
And yet those same people will continue to punch the ballot for any shitbag with a D by their name. OK, not all. 93%.
turned over
And surely the owners will be provided compensation for confiscation of their property. No? Of course not. You asshats are going for a record on how many state and federal constitutional provisions you can violate with a single piece of legislation.
All guns are not allowed and will not be legally allowed. The intention of illegal activities is also banned. So there!
When similar laws were passed in New York and compliance rates were very, very low I assume that those who kept their “Assault Weapons” and “High Capacity” magazines put them away and only in some really rare cases use them – and then only as far out into the sticks as possible. I expect the New York police, if they find any of these items during a traffic stop, home search, or any other investigation will be jumping to add these felonies to the list of whatever they are looking for.
I am wondering about how this will really play in Virginia – particularly in sanctuary cities where the LEO’s have stated they will not enforce. I wonder under what conditions they will look the other way – during a routine traffic stop with no other laws broken? – when seeing somebody on a shooting range otherwise peacefully going about their business? I wonder the proportion of “Sanctuary LEO’s” who will do nothing to the point that otherwise non-felon citizens can continue to enjoy their right to bear arms just the same as they do today?
I feel good when I read about the large number of sanctuary LEO’s stating their position but I wonder just where this will go when the rubber meets the road.
I imagine “Enforce or lose your pension” will become a thing.
Job, perhaps. But not pension.
The FOP laughs at you.
After the machette attack in upstate new york, there were a number of photos of young men in boog gear, yarmulke, and non-compliant AR-15’s walking around in the street with their rabbi. This looked to be a pretty suburban area.
Monsey is not upstate.
My understanding is that anything more than a dozen yards from Manhattan basically upstate.
You misunderstand.
Dammit, I hate admitting when Ted is correct. But there’s no good definition that puts Monsey upstate.
I assume nobody here is dumb enough to attend the pro-2A rally scheduled for January 20th. It sure appears to be The Mother of All Buffalo Jumps.
That was an interesting read. Probably best avoided.
So in the end I decided not to comment much during the debate of yesterday to not seem I want to affect the outcome, and now I also will not comment but I wanted you to know I do have a few…
But I do have an Idea for Q, besides the counter-argument phase.
Have each debater write an argument for the opposite side and publish them in a links thread after the poll closes for fun.
Pissed me off, I’ve been really busy lately and couldn’t weigh in. I have strong opinions on this. Some people have shitty parents or are wards of the court. They should be able to free themselves and handle their own business legally. Sick and tired of the infantilizing of people who are (or should be) able to decide for themselves. There’s no magic age where people become smart. Many never do. So a smart 15 year old is crewed and a dumbassed 30 year old can fuck their lives up all day long with impunity?
“They should be able to free themselves and handle their own business legally.”
They can “emancipate” themselves by moving out and handling their own affairs. Varies by state, of course.
By begging for government permission? And all the laws pressing them from entering contracts, getting jobs, he’ll, sometimes just being outside after a certain time is illegal for minors, all of that has no effect? Legalize young ness, dammit.
The general public needs some way to distinguish between minors who cannot contract, etc., and those who can. This also applies to things like informed consent to medical care, etc.
Somebody is going to have to make a legally binding determination that a minor is emancipated, or is not a minor any more. Nobody is going to take a 16 year old’s word for it.
So what do you suggest?
“Avis car rental because they screwed me over with their “no renting to anyone under 21” policy.*”
Sounds like risk management/freedom of association by a private organization, and nothing to do with your legal status as an unemancipated minor.
Yes, I was basically on my own at 17. Makes it hard to rent an apartment, apply for a car loan, etc.
I, still to this day, maintain a boycott on Avis car rental because they screwed me over with their “no renting to anyone under 21” policy.*
*I have broad shoulders on which I carry many chips.
“no renting to anyone under 21” policy.
Have you seen the creditworthiness and accident rates of 16-20 year olds?!
/Risk Management
I found not commenting surprisingly annoying. People would make an argument, or restate my argument in ways that I felt a real compulsion to correct. When do the polls close?
Good morning, Sloopy!
I figured out the best way to sample the lynx: start the music first and read while Bowie soothes the psychic damage from this stupid world. Great song.
Nice to see CNN take one on the chin. I hope you are right about the others taking a pounding as well.
Here’s a terrific cover of Starman.
Have a great day!
Great song.
We’re still talking about Elvis, right?
That dude has a voice made to cover that song. Thanks for sharing.
Gary Louris from the Jayhawks. Glad you dug it!
Too close to the original. I like covers when they derivate mor to the styles of the coverers.
“But, if you’re shopping at Goop with any prior knowledge, you know items under $100 aren’t what Gwyneth Paltrow’s brand is known for. Which is probably why they have a specific section of the store (just a shelf, actually) titled “under $100,” which was mainly a collection of items for the home bar, like jiggers and ice cube molds.”
RACIST!!
She has customers?
So they DO have a value menu!
No, no, I said JIGGA
Yes. Yes you have. You should move west.
The only reusable straw I’ve ever seen was metal. It did not bend. I would not want to use it.
It’s even more sustainable to not use a straw of any kind.
But using the folding straw offsets her plane flights (that she’s buying Airpod adapters for)!
Lol, she calls herself cultured and watches in-flight entertainment?
What a fucking loser.
https://cdn.extra.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/03165740/SEI46030104.jpg
I’m confused.
Being a white nationalist, Spencer doesn’t quite like that. After all, General Soleimani was a fervent enemy of Israel. I guess that made him Spencer’s ally.
“I deeply regret voting for and promoting Donald Trump in 2016,” Spencer wrote on Twitter late Tuesday. Shortly before doing so, he had added an Iranian flag to his Twitter-name in order to show his support for the Mad Mullahs:
Spencer also wrote a tweet directly to Iran. “To the people of Iran,” the tweet began. “There are millions of Americans who do not want war, who do not hate you, and who respect your nation and its history,” Spencer continued. “After our traitorous elite is brought to justice, we hope to achieve peace, reconciliation, and forgiveness.”
Remember when everyone who didn’t want war with Syria were called white nationalists because Spencer held that position too. Kinda puts the left in an awkward position.
Anyone who runs is a white nationalist, anyone who stands still is a well disciplined white nationalist.
^^^THIS^^^
The left in a nutshell…
Iran literally translates to Aryan, so it makes sense.
“Iranian leader mocks Donald Trump by posting his country’s flag to Twitter after missile attack – just like the President did following the killing of Qassam Soleimani”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7863051/Iranian-official-mocks-Donald-Trump-posting-countrys-flag-Twitter-airbase-attack.html
Failed attempt to imitate. Orange man killed their guy. They killed some asphalt.
“Ayatollah says damp squib revenge raid for Soleimani’s assassination is ‘not enough’ after Iran ineffectually fires 22 ballistic missiles at two US bases in Iraq – but fails to kill anyone”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7862453/Multiple-rockets-hit-Taji-military-base-Iraq-American-British-troops-based.html
WTF is a damp squib?
The Plavix prescription I accidentally dropped in the toilet?
Yikes!
In other news, that toilet paper seems to have dried out OK.
Thank God you saved ninety-five cents.
Do you mean a Damp Squid? What’s next, are you putting women up on pedal-stools?
/at work, and hoping this is the correct clip
SF’ed
Bah… it was a scene from the IT Crowd. One of the geeks thought the saying was a damp squid…
Wet firecracker.
WTF is a damp squib?
Not sure about military, but in my field, a squib is an electronic fuse that starts the rocket fuel burning.
“Senator Lindsey Graham says Iran missile strikes on American forces in Iraq is ‘an act of war’ and that Trump has ‘all the authority’ he needs to respond”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7863235/Senator-Lindsey-Graham-says-Iran-missile-strikes-act-war.html
This is my shocked face.
St Greta.
When Sen. Mazie Hirono suggested Americans should “believe in climate change as though it’s a religion,” some enterprising Canadians were listening. A website called Shrine On is among the many selling Greta Thunberg prayer candles, so supplicants can ask the climate gods to stop destroying us or something.
“Pray to Saint Greta Thunberg, Saint of Climate Change,” the Shrine On description reads. The candle, which includes a picture of Greta Thunberg dressed up as Jesus Christ often is in votive candles, sells for $18 plus shipping. The Etsy listing is slightly cheaper at $14.43, and it reveals that the item will be ready to ship from Canada in 3-5 business days.
Candles burn and therefor contribute to climate change.
if they are made from the body lipids of murdered deniers it is a win for the environment
Likely paraffin, which makes it even funnier than if it were beeswax.
Hirono doesn’t get nearly the amount of hate she should.
She’s stupid and immoral. Always an amusing combination.
True, but she’s just following Politician Directive #1: Get Re-Elected At All Costs.
She could at least ineffectually denounce the Jones Act which would likely improve Hawaii.
ready to ship from Canada in 3-5 business days.
How does it get to the buyer? Someone walks or bikes it?
Whoa. I figured that was gonna link to a Bee article.
This robot can make a pizza every 30 seconds
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1214502689826099200
LOL! I’ll see your outrageous minimum wage and raise you a fucking robot!!
Yes, because that stoner who didn’t wash his hands before making your pizza is definitely the epitome of love and passion. You idiot.
Bring on the machines!
ROBOTS ARE PEOPLE TOO!
^Typical robosexual pervert^
The comments demonstrate why there is so much interest in moving from employing people like the commenters to buying expensive robots. The expensive robots are stupid, but they are also dumb. The employees are only one of those things.
:Looks at the price differential:
Love is an overrated ingredient
Does it taste more like the pizzaria pizza, or the frozen crap that already gets made by robots?
Digorno >>>> any chain pizza shop.
Chain? What sort of barbarian are you?
The high desert steppe kind.
All right, Walls and Gatling guns it is.
This is what happens when people who think that a $60 9″ hemp-infused margherita on gluten-free crust from a place with exposed duct work, a faux-brick wall and a genuine Banksy print is representative of the typical pizzeria experience are let loose on the internet.
“Food should be made with love and passion”
Eat me!
Well said!
This seems somewhat appropriate. And a little bit related:
https://youtu.be/X08upzdwejg
No one is as upset about this as this guy.
1) I’d like to see how the dough is handled. If its standard, fresh dough, that’s going to be a very hard problem.
2) Will it use computer vision to identify police badges and and extra $40 added to the order to it knows when to dispense Human Saliva Analog an Extra Special Bag of Oregano? because if not, its not as good as a real pizza guy.
Trudeau’s new look matches more serious, businesslike approach to being PM
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2020/01/06/trudeaus-new-look-matches-more-serious-businesslike-approach-to-being-pm/#.XhXY4vyxVaR
With that beard everyone knows that he is super serious and not to be ignored. Then everyone noticed his ridiculous socks.
But will his beard be coloured appropriately?
Just imagine Barney Fife had grown some stubble for a couple days.
A beard is “serious”. About what? Not shaving?
It’s a serious attempt at disguising his baby face – even though that’s not the primary reason no one takes him seriously.
He’d be taken seriously if he grew a small square mustache.
That would be heilarious.
You better hope Swissy does Nazi what you did there.
I had to concentrate to spot it. I’ve been camping out in threads with too many typos.
Swiss is gonna blitzkrieg you guys!
Bah!
* waves hands furiously, stalks off*
Conversion to Shiite Islam.
Next he’s gonna do an Afro
He’s get sued by the Bob Ross Estate.
I thought this was his beard?
It’s Canada. No one cares.
“Lisa Marie Presley’s kids have been BANNED from attending Elvis Presley’s 85th birthday bash this week
Presley was married to Lockwood, her fourth husband, in 2006, and she gave birth to their twin girls in October 2008.
She has two older children, actress Riley Keough and Benjamin Keough, with her first husband, musician Danny Keough.
Presley filed for divorce in 2016 after 10 years of marriage, and in February 2017, she took her daughters into protective custody and refused Lockwood’s claim for spousal support after claiming to have found images and videos of child pornography on his computer. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7863507/Lisa-Marie-Presleys-kids-BANNED-attending-Elvis-Presleys-85th-birthday-bash.html
Michael Moore Tweets Apology For Death Of Soleimani In Farsi
I thought we’d seen the nadir of knee-jerk anti-Americanism when Rose McGowan freaked out and begged Iran, “Please don’t kill us.” But it appears Michael Moore took that as inspiration to up his game. Today he posted this tweet in Farsi which is directed at Ayatollah Khamenei:
Google translate renders this as “Sir, I deeply regret the violence on our behalf by a man that most Americans have never voted for. Avoid power. A sincere man, Michael Moore, an American citizen.” Maybe the translation is off but Yashar Ali suggests the tweet was poorly written in Persian to begin with
“Sir, I deeply regret the violence on our behalf by a man that most Americans have never voted for”
Would describe any person who has been elected president.
I’m surprised the guy at the shawarma shop he asked to translate it for him didn’t just make it say “I am a colossal asshole”
Muslims don’t deal with pork, so Michael Moore is right out
Another detail out from Iran…..
Apparently Iran gave a warning call to Iraq about the missile attacks. That warning was passed on to the US.
So, I’d count that as the “Iran wants no part of this, but they have to do something” theory confirmed. They are done. Trump won. Take the victory and be done with it, Donald….
They probably shat their pants because of this. So, yes, hopefully he takes the victory and moves on.
If firing off a few Scuds into the desert is the best they can do, they better be done.
I was thinking about Iranian options if they really want to escalate. They can always start shooting up ships in the Persian Gulf, but they would immediately lose their navy and any air bases near the Gulf. The only really dangerous thing they could do is invade Iraq. I doubt Iraq has the ground forces to stop the Iranians, so that would immediately drawn in American and probably Saudi ground troops.
“If firing off a few Scuds into the desert is the best they can do, they better be done.”
They have to posture like this. At home the usual propagandists that serve the evil mullocracy are claiming this was a massive defeat, with thousands of agents of the Great Satan killed, and a great revenge move. A great victory. It is a meaningless act. Just look at oil prices.
Iran: I meant to do that
Yeah, I agree they just want to be done with all of this.
Fears of Sanders win growing
The Democrats tacked too Centrist?
Bernie should just blame the kulaks
Oh sure, leave the wreckers and splitters out of this….
*squints suspiciously*
Bernie is a wrecker…
Why do you call him a wrecker? Because he tows the socialist lion?
You called it your holiness…
Well, wait a second here… Bill Kristol is the most prominent Trotskyite I know of, can we let Bernie be President just long enough to handle Kristol?
Chairman of Samsung is probably dead but we are all pretending he is alive because if he dies, the country will probably go into an economic death-spiral.
A thread.
https://twitter.com/oniontaker/status/1214540491577942017
“Samsung is too big to fail”
This attitude one guarantees failure.
“Chairman of Samsung is probably dead”
Wasn’t he at the company picnic yesterday?
Maybe he ate the potato salad?
If Sanders gets the nomination he is going to be Mondale’d. I think he knows that as well. He lost his chance at the Presidency in 2016 when he didn’t fight to get the super delegates he needed to win the nomination. I think he could have beaten Trump then.
Bullshit. He would have ended up like Epstein.
Wrong, he would have ended up like Seth Rich. But still it was his best chance at winner the Presidency. You don’t become President by being a coward.
To advocate for Trump’s impeachment and removal, protesters are quietly walking around in circles in the Hart Senate building. Organizers say they will be here everyday.
They’re behaving like many schizophrenics in mental wards
Don’t these people have jobs? ///rhetorical
Just more “resistance” larping.
Former first lady Michelle Obama is set to launch an Instagram TV series that will follow four college students, sharing the highs and lows of their first year experiences, in order to inspire other new students
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1214830853261594625
Why? Freshman year wasn’t that interesting when I lived through it. Why would I want to watch other peoples’? I mean, it’s not like they’re going to show the sexcapades, are they?
I am sure you did not go at the write university. If you went to a top party school like Princeton it would have been much better.
I had the same question until I realized reality shows are just the 21st century version of the soap opera only cheaper and lazier.
They’re more poorly scripted, also.
That was called Coed Confidential.
How would their lows inspire someone unless they are inspiring them to suicide?
Good advise on how it’s less painful to just accept the indoctrination rather than bitterly clinging to your morals.
They get over it and you will too?
Are they all women studies majors? Or will one of them be a psychology major (so she can self diagnose)?
The correct answer is “who gives a shit?”
It’s possible the store had larger sizes in the back, but they weren’t on display. This means any customer who wears larger sizes and plans to shop at Goop on Fillmore Street will have to flag down a salesperson to uncomfortably ask if they could fetch them each item.
In Ye Olden Dayse, they called that “service”.
Most common words used in each country’s Wikipedia page:
https://twitter.com/Nissan_Z32/status/1214661902833508352
I don’t find that credible. It’s more likely to be an article like ‘the’ or ‘a’ rather than nouns or verbs like that map claims.
Those are called stop words and are excluded from this sort of analysis.
Bah, that makes the results useless.
And UCS throws down the meaningless contrarian gauntlet. Will Hyperbole pick it up? Or will he live in shame?
That looks like inverse documet frequency, not just frequency
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf-idf
^^
Gaul? Is it a Wiki from ancient Rome?
I want to see that “Psychic Vampire Repellent” tested on Elizabeth Warren. I bet she dissolves into a puddle of goo.
Just use firewater.
/insert the scene from Scanners here
Neah
She may be a vampire, but she’s not psychic.
Continuing something from the morning links yesterday: Looked up libertarianism on UrbanDictionary, and went thru the definitions looking for something that wasn’t obviously factually wrong in any detail, and from someone who doesn’t seem to hate the philosophy.
Definition 24 finally got it (we’ll ignore that they don’t know how to spell tenet):
24
Libertarian
1)In America, this term is used to describe the economic policy known as liberalism in Europe and Latin America.
2)Also an anti-authoritarian ideology, usually associated with Anarchism.
1)Libertarians believe in free-market capitalism and property rights are a central tennet of their philosophy.
2)To avoid being confused with terrorists, anarchists sometimes call themselves libertarians.
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I say we should kick all anarchists from the movement just to be sure
Libertarian as a term is as amorphous and useless as fascist nowadays.
“I wish the world had encouraged my 14-year-old self to be more than just my body.”
https://twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1214880110169481217
“Look, it’s pretty clear you ain’t got much in the way of smarts, so you might want to work on preserving your looks, else you’ll run out of options down the road.”
“I mean, you don’t want to end up writing articles for an irrelevent rag no one reads, do you?”
Pffftttt… she cashed in on that body in a big way.
She now never has to worry about financial problems again if she manages it wisely.
Come on now, lots of people get to walk on the rent of a Manhatten apartment AND get an apology from the landlord.
The world collectively held a gun to your head and told you to whore yourself out for a cozy position among the 1%? Yeah, fuck the world for that. Because you’d definitely be sitting on a $10 million fortune with a megaphone to broadcast your mindless opinions as if they mattered if a couple billion men hadn’t looked at your tits.
Ok. You’re encouraged to be more than just your body. Now, I’ll take you seriously when you stop putting it on display for money on a daily basis and calling the paparazzi to make sure they’re there every time you go to the beach in a bikini.
If someone would pay me 8 figure money to look at my body I’d be nekkid faster than Epstein racing OMWC to the hole in the elementary school fence.
Matt Yglesias disagrees: Bernie Sanders can unify Democrats and beat Trump in 2020
At the end of the day, Sanders’s record is not nearly as scary as many establishment Democrats fear. His “revolution” rhetoric doesn’t make sense to me, but he’s been an effective mayor and legislator for a long time, and he knows how to get things done — and how hard it is to get them done.
Some of his big ideas are not so hot on the merits, but it’s not worth worrying about them because the political revolution is so unrealistic. And on a couple of issues where the next president will probably have a fair amount of latitude, Sanders breaks from the pack in good ways. He’s perhaps not an ideal electability choice, but his track record on winning elections is solid and his early polling is pretty good. There’s no particular reason to think he’d be weaker than the other three top contenders, and at least some reason to think he’d be stronger.
Well, since Matt Y is often wrong, it means Bernie’s boned.
You misspelled “always”.
I was applying the blind chicken theorem, where there is a possibility of him being right, even if for the wrong reasons.
That’s the one where it crosses the road because its guide dog wanted to sniff a tree on the other side?
Always?
Always.
Paywalled
Christ, what a mess.
*grinds teeth*
We keeps subsidizing education and yet its inflation rate is vastly higher than CPI. I’m confused.
/prog logic
That is really astonishing. Even the 10% default rate is astounding. But 26%? Holy crap!
When I used to do high-risk Securities we would have default rates below 1% built into the models. Now, these were not consumer loans or credit cards or anything like that, but still. I cannot fathom trying to model something with a 26% default rate.
And aren’t student loans really cheap? Like below 10%? Those default rates are north of high risk credit cards. And they get a vig on every purchase Plus 20 or 25% interest.
I suppose there is a way to structure it so that all that high-risk crap gets shoved off into some government B traunch that is unsalable and just sits around waiting to be paid off by the government.
Wow! What a mess.
I point to the congressional testimony where the bankers inform Mad Maxine that they got out of the student loan market when the government took it over.
When I worked on Wall St and a rating agency I always had to bite my tongue and remember to say “high yield” or “distressed” and not “junk”.
She says she kept going back to school to boost her income to pay off her accumulated debt.
Making up the losses through volume?
Which for some reason reminds me of the Saturday Night Live sketch about the change Bank.
“We’re not going to give you 500 nickels.”
“Unless that meets your specific change needs.”
Chicken, meet egg.
California’s plan to ease into price controls on rentals by limiting annual rent increases to 5% for some but not all classes of rentals is having the usual “unanticipated” consequences. As in, I wasn’t planning on raising the rent on my rental unit near SF, not particularly wanting to risk losing good tenants, but my realtor said I ought to hit them up with a 5% increase as a precautionary thing. Plus, she thinks the rental market is gonna undergo a big contraction as landlords sell their rental units and become wary about building new ones.
And my rental is currently in the excluded class not subject to the 5% cap on increases.
At some point I may have to sell the house if the CA legislature follows up with something even more spectacularly stupid applying to my house.
You know it isn’t a question of ‘if’.
From my thankfully brief time in SF, I recall that rental laws were based on county and/or city laws. Also, there is also zero chance that I would ever rent out a unit in SF. Not that I could afford it, but still…
NASA Discovers Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World in Star’s ‘Goldilocks’ Zone
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-found-a-tatooine-like-planet-and-an-earth-sized-word-in-the-habitable-zone
This will be libertopia inn 500 years
It’s 100 light years away, so you better start accelerating now.
“Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing politicians for Israel’s Mossad, new book claims”
https://twitter.com/MiddleEastMnt/status/1214814007158300672
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200106-jeffrey-epstein-was-blackmailing-politicians-for-israels-mossad-new-book-claims/
JEWS!!
Vermont apparently has a ban on “high capacity” magazines for handguns (15) and rifles (10). Any VT Glibs that can confirm this?
The no permit carry regs of VT, which I think were the first in the US, doesn’t square with this.
Vermont apparently has a ban on “high capacity” magazines for handguns (15) and rifles (10). Any VT Glibs that can confirm this?
Their governor went full retard after the Florida school shooting.
Unfortunately.
At the bullseye match on Monday there was a bumper sticker saying “Don’t NY my VT gun rights!”
I also saw several competitors using assault weapons. I have no idea if they were legally registered as required.
I am very disappointed that nobody bit on questioning why people were using assault weapons at a .22lr match. Now I can’t post links to pics of Walthers, Benellis, and Pardinis.
Of course, I didn’t swing at 61N’s “Bush County” softball, so I guess it’s karma.
“Assault Weapon” is a meaningless phrase, so gets filtered out.
Why people were using assault weapons at a .22lr match?
.22 longer rifle ie. .556
Ok, I am not on my period game. At least I put it in the rights spot for the 2.2
I was going to go with:
Full auto?
Then decided, meh.
Ah, didn’t realize that. Thanks.
We could be facing a temperature rise of a whole Degree!
I just had an article pop up in my news feed talking about what the low ice coverage on Lake Erie means to Cleveland’s lake effect snow. Surprisingly, they did not mention global warming as the cause.
/for those not touched by lake effect snow, while the lake is unfrozen, certain areas get more snow, and it’s warmer. Once the lake freezes, there’s less snow, but the temperature is much lower, and wind speeds higher.
He’s perhaps not an ideal electability choice, but his track record on winning elections is solid and his early polling is pretty good. There’s no particular reason to think he’d be weaker than the other three top contenders, and at least some reason to think he’d be stronger.
That’s a lot of words to say you support him 1000%, Matty.
Ricky Gervais on Twitter responding to critics:
“1. Simply pointing out whether someone is left or right wing isn’t winning the argument. 2. If a joke is good enough, it can be enjoyed by anyone. 3. It’s not all about you. 4. Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right,”
What happened? Why is he making sense all of a sudden?
https://twitter.com/Solmemes1/status/1214782186521595904
LOLOLOLOL
Now that’s funny
What the fuck, Australia?
Global warming is making their population turn into arsonists. It’s simple science.
I mean they turned an entire continent into an open air prison, what else would you expect?
WTF? Are these Australians or some of their recent immigrants spreading their cultural enrichment? Either way, that is fucked up.
The lack of names is . . . suspicious.
“Why is no one asking why 200 arsonists rallied together to burn down Australia and then how they were all arrested almost at once, I mean just a shot in the dark here but I don’t think it was because of the weather.”
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1214708844200386560
“Royal Commissions” It is 2019, right?
So 176 people on that plane? That’s it?
USA, USA, USA!
We’ve still got the record!
Ramirez-Rosa, dean of the City Council’s six-member Socialist Caucus, was surprised and disappointed by the decision made by a mayor who lives in Logan Square, which is ground zero for the city’s affordable housing crisis.
Rope, streetlamp, some assembly something.
“Holy shit, I guess private property rights are alive in Chicago for a bit longer. But don’t worry. They’re working on a way to make sure it doesn’t last very long.”
The socialist is obviously wrong, but the housing along the 606 trail is ‘private’, but construction costs were originally subsidized by the City (or rather, subsidized by the people who lived there at the time by their property taxes). Additionally, the 606 trail was entirely funded by federal funds meant to promote “walking” (it was just a grant meant to funnel money exclusively to big cities).
They also let people purchase their housing units in the old projects. This is just higher income projects. Live by the state, die by the state.
So the TIF district succeeded in doing exactly what it was supposed to do and that is considered a problem? There’s no bigger failure of government than success.
I want someone to use tax money to defer the costs of my home construction.
Additionally, the 606 trail was entirely funded by federal funds meant to promote “walking” (it was just a grant meant to funnel money exclusively to big cities).
That is what I had assumed.
“Here’s a slush fund to make your city more ‘liveable.'”
“Wow, that worked great. People want to live there, now. How do we stop them?”
It wasn’t even that people didn’t live where the trail existed (it was an abandoned train line at that point and not even an eyesore as it was elevated). The population in that neighborhood has actually declined since they built the trail (which is a common effect of gentrification).
Socialists are idiots and I am not agreeing with his nonsense proposal. And that socialist alderman, as one would expect based upon current voting patterns, represents a highly gentrified and expensive community, so I doubt he really cares all that much for the poors that no longer live in his ward. Welfare for the rich just upsets me a lot more than welfare for the poor. None of it is good, but the former is just disgustingly offensive to me.
And, of course, the socialist’s proposal would only increase the price of homes in that area, as he is essentially calling for a moratorium on new housing construction. So, it makes sense why socialists only win in upper income communities.
When I point this out to my bleeding heart liberal asshole sister, she blathers on about “developers”. Then I always remind her that her hero Jane Jacobs hated moratoriums(?) on new construction and then she shuts the fuck up because she knows she’s beaten by economic logic. But she never learns a goddamned thing and I have to keep reminding her. And when I get pissed I remind her she’s the one who owns three condos, thus limiting supply and causing prices to increase.
In most major cities “developers” is just another layer of government. I can only speak from personal experience, but the vast majority of new construction in Chicago is heavily subsidized by public money and developers are the largest donors to nearly every alderman and every mayor.
And you can always tell when the City has decided to spend public funds to gentrify an area, because all of a sudden they start creating “artist lofts” (to meet federal affordable housing requirements). Ignoring the fact that any “artist” who lives off of state subsidies is better understood as a “propagandist”, there is also the fact that “artist lofts” benefit literally no one other than that kid who really really sucks at art, but he has an MFA, so there’s that.
You keep saying “subsidized by public money” as if there is some moral component to taxation. Unless the developer is renting the units, it’s complete nonsense anyway as the subsequent purchaser is paying the assessed property taxes. The only thing the TIF does is divert portions of the property tax increase to special slush funds instead of general revenue, which is a subsidy to the alderman not the developer. The developer is buying the alderman in exchange for the right to shut out a competing developer – but that is hardly a subsidy of public money.
When your property taxes are used to help pay to defer the costs of building my house, isn’t that a subsidy?
The TIF was created and then that money was diverted not to repair streets, or lamp posts, or other public services, but was instead used to defer the costs of building new housing units on a parcel of land that was appropriated by the city. That sounds like the projects to me.
You’re trying to claim the diverted tax money was given to developers. To “defer costs”.
First of all, defer means, “pay later”, not “someone else pays”. If you meant “defray”, you’re going to have to explain to me how the highest bidder is spending less money than the losing bidders. The developer is getting to build something he otherwise would not be “allowed” to build, but that is not a subsidy unless you are of the mind that not taking is giving.
There are three things that happened with the construction of those condos. (1) The federal government invented a made-up grant to hand-out money to Chicago and other major cities (one of the rules, if I recall, was that the population of the recipients had to be over 500,000 or something like that); (2) the city changed its zoning ordinance to allow for housing constructions within mass transportation (in order to win the grant money for the 606 trail the City had to designate it as mass transportation) and (3) TIF revenues that had been collected was given to developers to defray (excuse me for using “defer” inaccurately) the cost of constructing the condo units.
This is a pretty common practice. Here’s a more recent example.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160113/CRED03/301139997/uptown-chicago-luxury-apartments-get-tif-subsidy
I mean, developers aren’t clamoring to build modern and expensive condos in Uptown and Pilsen and Logan Square, etc. The TIF subsidy incentivizes them to build in these communities for the demographic group that the City wants to move into the area.
If (2) is unclear, what I meant to say is that the city changed its housing ordinance to allow for multi-family units without a parking lot or street parking requirement which had been part of zoning ordinances prior.
Welfare for rich liberals is the most disgusting since they want the “rich to pay their fair share.” But they really only mean conservatives should have their taxes increased. Witness the blue state reactions with the SALT cap.
We just retaliated against Iran – with an earthquake. 4.9 Earthquake Strikes Near Bushehr Nuclear Plant in Iran Hours After Missile Attacks on US Bases. I bet they are impressed now.
Shhh…. don’t tell people about our earthquake machine.
Everyone knows about HAARP
Project Destini.
I’ve seen that movie.
This was Allah’s doing. He is telling the Iranian regime they better stop this shit they are doing in his name!
That was in retaliation for Iran causing an earthquake in Puerto Rico.
NYT headline:
Why is America so Depressed?
That’s a puzzle.
The author of Prozac Nation just died.
Maybe that has something to do with it.
And thus ends one of the more inexplicable writing careers of our time.
I remember when Prozac Nation came out and was all the rage, I went to Borders and read some of it, and all I could think was “Who the hell thought anyone wanted to read about this whiny girl? “
I’m not.
*shrug*
You don’t read the NYT then.
Because some still think the NYT is a legitimate publication. That depresses me
Daily tits.
http://archive.is/ugVO5
How was Anchorage?
The tits were mostly covered up.
Bush Co is full nude from what I kinda remember from my one visit.
Twas good. I wanted to stay.
Moving here and returning after leaving are the few good choices I’ve made life.
Don’t you worry, I’ll get there eventually. I have extenuating circumstances at the moment that prevent me, but it will happen.
I have staked my lot in Anchorage, but if you can support yourself living outside of town, then go for it. The Copper River basin is my idea of heaven.
I like Fairbanks, but then again, I’m crazy.
If you can deal with the cold and dark, then Fairbanks is great. The mix of various kinds of weirdos seems to work out well for it.
I would not be able to stand the cold and dark that long.
Mrs. A and I have been looking at properties between Willow and Palmer, but then we’ll be semi-retired by the time we can make that happen.
The cold and dark is a feature, not a bug to me. I spent the months of December and January there for work a few years ago and it was the best two months of my life.
Watch Ghosn turn into a Randian hero. I talked to five or six people today about his case. Successful businessmen who should’ve known more than me about what was happening. The accusation that they latched onto was that he used Nissan’s funds to purchase private homes in Rio and Beirut. I thought that was the case myself because it was the main bit of info the news here would put out every time they talked about his case. Turns out, it wasn’t even part of the charges against him and that Nissan still owned the houses. Just amazing to see what the govt will do when it wants to destroy someone and how the media is used like thugs to reinforce the narrative. My only wish is that the Silk road Dred Pirate had been able to give a similar presser.
https://youtu.be/5WvRDV67mDU?t=4202
I’d be interested after the dust settles what the Japanese language news says. Keep us posted if you feel inclined.
Of my Japanese friends only one follows this kind of stuff and she’s a committed socialist. However, during our friendship she has come more and more around to the fact of just how abusive the state can be even with the best of intentions.
This issue hasn’t been much on her radar, but from our conversations her opinion is that Ghosn doesn’t have many friends. Japanese CEOs aren’t as wealthy or more specifically ostentatious. Couple that with Ghosn trying to increase gaijin ownership of a national treasure isn’t going to endear him to the Japanese person on the street.
For me, I’m totally torn here. This would have been a civil matter in the US with possibly a legitimate case. OTH, this showcases how you don’t want to wind up in the criminal justice system in Japan. Seeing it get a black eye here has been fun.
I doubt the Japanese authorities will even respond in any meaningful way. They can only get further black eyes in the international press the more it goes on. Why would you want the international focus when your system clearly is violating rights the West has embraced? Sad, but they are proud of their 99.4% conviction rate. That it is due to some truly heavy handed prosecution techniques doesn’t seem to matter to the people.
It’s a conformist society. I don’t think the international community is exactly shocked.
Everywhere is conformist. They just take it to another level. Island thinking. That being said, there is still a strong sense of shame when they feel the West is looking down on them. Attack or embrace is the motto when that happens. They have people in HR in most of the companies I work at that are in charge of “diversity”. It’s ludicrous, but you gotta put up appearances for the wypipo.
“We even employ someone from the Kansai, what more do you want?”
That may count. I’m just happy that I’m in the only place in the world that I can think of where I’m counted in the same demographic as black people.
“Person of Gai”
Why?
That’s a rhetorical question. I mean, I don’t know the answer to that. Yesterday I referenced Hotep Twitter, and they ask the same question of the black community: Why do you need the approval of white people?
I’m white, but I don’t want to be responsible for giving another adult my approval. I don’t care that much.
White people … don’t care.
It’s where the money is. They look at the world and think, “The West (meaning US) is strong militarily and economically. Oh yeah, and they nuked us twice already. Let’s follow them.” It’s a legit way of looking at the world for them. America is “white” to them. Is it still? Demographics say yes, but I don’t know and don’t really care.
The justice system in the US isn’t a whole lot better either. Both systems are stacked so that the state has power to fuck with you and coerce a conviction, Japan just more so and more overt than the US.
TBH, I have no idea if the financial claims of misconduct that Ghosn is being accused of are legit or not. But, as you say, the ride is the punishment even in the US.
They took a predictive algorithm most often used to write loopy poetry, fed it a bunch of chess matches, and now it plays chess:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/06/a-very-unlikely-chess-game/
Why would they shoot down a Ukrainian plane in response? Or were they just keeping to their laundry list of shit to blow up and people to kill?
It sounds like a fuck-up.
A trigger happy AAW asshat probably mistook the plane for a US aircraft and shot it down.
Do we have any Ohio doctors to weigh in on this:
State Medical Board of Ohio to consider if being a Browns or Bengals fan qualifies for medical marijuana use
It should qualify for legal assisted suicide.
Perhaps they should be trying to get they GMs and coaches clean?
So as a Vikings fan, I can get a prescription for opioids?
You whiny ass Vikings fans just got a playoff win, what the hell makes you think you can compete with Ohioans in the NFL misery sweepstakes?
Marijuana? Fuck that, we deserve legal heroin.
/for those not touched by lake effect snow, while the lake is unfrozen, certain areas get more snow, and it’s warmer. Once the lake freezes, there’s less snow, but the temperature is much lower, and wind speeds higher.
Way back in the ’70s(?), when such things were still possible, Colorado created Dillon Reservoir, to provide water for Denver.
I remember reading a very interesting article about the effects on the local weather.
There’s a very big difference in snowfall between the East side and the West side of Cleveland. Here’s a quick run down, with a big pretty image to show where the primary and secondary snow belts are.
The secondary areas should have one big, depressing gray cloud instead of the light pink coloring.
That would take the one bit of joy out of most of those areas (the small area in Lake County [Mentor] isn’t bad).
There’s no joy anywhere there in winter. Gray ass skies, nasty dirty snow and road salt galore.
Kinda like how the city of Buffalo is often spared while the Southtowns get hammered.
Ha! Called it last night.
And they won’t be handing the black box over to the great Satan.
This is why I am certain that they fucked up and shot the plane down. I am guessing it was an SAM, but I wouldn’t be surprised some air jockey panicked and thought this was a plane coming to nuke the Ayatollah, and shot it down either.
Taking off from an Tehran airport for a bombing run would fit an tack profile.
(Not disagreeing, but just how far from reality the trigger puller would be)
Yes you did. I was skeptical because I thought there’s no way they’d be that stupid. I still think Vincennes type fuck up or shitty equipment failure than intentional, but who knows. Either way the Iranians just shit all over themselves.
To be fair, I did think it was on purpose (for reasons I could not yet fathom except they’re idiots), but being an accident makes so much more sense. Because they’re idiots with a Napoleon complex.
So it looks like Bernie is surging (that somehow sounds obscene). I wonder if the Dems will let him win the nomination? I’ve actually kind of been hoping that he is the nominee. Too many idiots after the last election made silly claims that he would have beaten T-Dog. He would have lost decisively, and he will lose decisively if they nominate him. The proggies need to learn a bit of a lesson and I think a Mondale type loss will be just the thing for them. Not that the true believers will learn anything ( Russian interference!! Voter suppression!!), but the more sane among them will hopefully take the spanking and deduce why it happened.
Depending on how Bernie runs if he wins the nomination.
The problem for Democrats is that they have devolved into a regional party and in order to become a national party again they need to win back working class voters. The bulk of their base is composed of higher income white urbanites who have a religious fervor toward destroying working class jobs. If Bernie prioritizes the climate cult to appease the Democratic base he’ll probably fail to recapture those working class voters.
I really cannot see Bernie winning the national. Blacks aren’t going to vote for him in large numbers. No matter how he runs in the general, I think he loses some more of the working class vote that are turned off by the full bore I imagine if he somehow gets the Dem nod that we will be seeing a whole lot more shirtless Bernie singing Soviet songs on our teevees.
A 78 year old communist? I’m not seeing him winning the national either.
Their increasing rabid anti-gun platform prevents them from competing in a lot of red areas.
“Who needs to compete when we count the votes?”
A Bernie presidency would be a hoot! Is Orville Redenbacher stock available on the NYSE?
Don’t think that even in Trump’s wildest dreams he’s gonna get a Reagan v Mondale type win. At best, he wins a few more states than last time. Minnesoda, NH etc. The split has been made already and the independents/wishy washy dem voter group just isn’t that big.
I still think it’s funny that for all the Leftists’ chatter about how democracy is in danger, they still support the party that fucked Bernie out of his nomination behind the scenes in favor of an extremely establishment candidate like Hillary.
If a couple hundred grand in Facebook ads and some online trolling were enough to cause the total flipping out of the Dems last time can you imagine what we are in store for this time? Every hostile power is gonna look at the mayhem caused by that trifling bullshit and think “if the Russians got that much play off that little investment, imagine what we could do!” I already have seen a WaPo piece a few weeks back that looks like it came straight from the People’s Republic Information Office.
And yes, straff, I’m exaggerating the loss Bernie will take. He would likely win ten or so states.
Bernie is going to have the delegates to win the nomination, but then just before the convention he has another heart attack and Hillary steps in to run in his stead.
A few conspiracy nuts will try to claim that Bernie didn’t have a heart attack, but was instead struck by force rays shooting out from Hillary’s hands, but they are just nuts.
They are nuts. Everyone knows the force rays come from her eyes.
That would be mighty entertaining, but I think Hilldog is a long shot to enter. I don’t think she has the stamina left, no matter what they pump her full of. It’ll be Biden or Bern, with a female VP.
Whoever it is, unless something dramatic happens in the next nine-ten months, they’ll be a sacrificial lamb. Neither Groper Joe nor the daffy old Bolshevik stands a chance.
Just because we say we want more women, that doesn’t mean we want women like HER
The annual CES gathering has long taken criticism over diversity issues. In recent years the CTA has invited more women to speak and sought to curb some of the show’s more sexist aspects, such as scantily clad “booth babes” hired to draw the attention of the mostly male attendees. In 2017, there were zero female keynote speakers scheduled for the second year in a row.
CES faced intense criticism in 2019 for revoking an innovation award given to a sex toy company led by a female founder, who criticized the decision as sexist. The conference ultimately reinstated the award and apologized. It also instated new rules in 2020 to improve the environment at CES, including enforcing a dress code banning booth personnel from wearing clothing that is “sexually revealing or that could be interpreted as undergarments”, regardless of gender.
But for critics and activists who have long pushed for broader recognition of the less-heralded women, the inclusion of Donald Trump’s daughter, who is also a White House adviser, sends exactly the wrong message.
“Ivanka is not a woman in tech,” tweeted Brianna Wu, a video game developer who is running for Congress in Massachusetts. “She’s not a CEO. She has no background. It’s a lazy attempt to emulate diversity but like all emulation it’s not quite the real thing.”
The Women Who Tech group on Facebook also expressed displeasure. The investor Elisabeth Fullerton wrote: “This is an insult to women in technology. We did hard times in university, engineering, math, and applied sciences. This is what extreme privilege and entitlement get you. It’s not what you know it’s who you know I guess”.
Boo hoo hoo. Bring on the tranny socialist “game” developers.
Bring on the tranny socialist “game” developers
If you don’t like my game it just means you hate women!
Had Brianna Wu ever put out a game in his life? I only know him as an attention seeker prone to trying to butt in where not relevant.
He put out a game that would have been panned back in 1994 for shitty graphics.
Brianna Wu? Oh for crissakes…..of course it’s the Grauniad.
I had almost forgotten about that nutjob.
Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkesian are “premier game developers”!!!!!!11!11 The patriarchy just refuses to buy their brilliant games!
Coming from a tranny who makes Tim Curry look like a supermodel. You just can’t make this shit up.
And isn’t video gaming about emulation and simulation?
Fixed that for ya
OTH, this showcases how you don’t want to wind up in the criminal justice system in Japan. Seeing it get a black eye here has been fun.
They didn’t just summarily behead him. Baby steps.
Damnit, Brooks. That’s actually a really fucking good way to look at it.
Good point. They hang people now.
In a statement issued by the White House on Tuesday, Trump said she was pleased to see CES discussing the critical issue of workforce development.
“Our current and future workforce rely on the efforts of industry, academia and government to fill our workforce needs and I’m excited to discuss how the Trump administration is championing these shared goals.”
During the discussion, Trump said a White House council that she co-leads will launch a nationwide advertising campaign to encourage all pathways to jobs, including apprenticeships, and not just a college degree. “We need to raise awareness about many options that exist,” she told the audience.
Equal opportunity vacuous platitudes.
Trump should do his press conference this AM in a South American generals uniform to fuck with the press
An exact replica of soleimani’s uniform… Preferably with fake blood stains.
Mexican Vampire Jew
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1214914163325251584
When you’re short and thicc.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1214730887444811784
MALE FANTASY.mp4
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo
My nieces rabbit did that to a shirt of mine. It was funny right up until it got skin, rabbits can BITE.
Graphics on GTA6 look pretty awesome.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1214591072212594691
Ok I think I am done
Trump should do his press conference this AM in a South American generals uniform to fuck with the press
He should get Putin to loan him one of those Russian general hats that’s about three feet in diameter.
Or just come out and eat McDonalds for 30 minutes without saying a word.
LOL. On the Norks, those covers look like sombreros!
My son had to write a 1 paragraph essay about how to help Australia. (Setting aside my eternal gripe about teaching kids to write by assigning essays about shit they don’t know anything about.) He was sent off to school today with an argument that Australia should outlaw no-burn policies.
One paragraph?
I seem to recall a five paragraph minimum from school. What grade is he in?
5th. This is age-appropriate.
Ah, well, that makes more sense.
Um … I learned how to do it that early and my kids were doing 5-paragraph essays in 5th grade. Granted, I had to explain how to do it to my XX because her teacher wasn’t exactly clear.
I’m not sure how many of my classmates were literate by the 5th grade.
/shitty NY Public school
So sad that NY 17 year-olds were unable to meet basic literacy requirements.
I laughed, but the school also didn’t bother holding students back, so they were shuffled along to the next grade, regardless of whether they’d learned the materials.
you mean underfunded not shitty
You misspelled overfunded and shitty.
every one of your teachers was a hero
Also without school would you be a renowned auteur ?
Unfair question. I started writing because my literature curriculum was so bad there was nothing I wanted to read.
I think we had 5 paragraph essays starting around 5th grade. It did a great job preparing me for writing longer essays in high school, then longer essays college, and all of those super long essays I’ve written since I left school…
The school’s curriculum has a focus on taxing either correctness or stamina, but not both at the same time. For example, their math work sheets have either 7 very tricky problems, or 40 simple ones. Over time, those 7 tricky problems turn into the simple ones as their skill improves.
That’s the plan, anyway. I’m sure his paragraph will get ripped to shreds, and once he masters a good 1 paragraph essay they will get longer.
how long is the Standard American Paragraph? I only know metric paragraphs
It depends. Usually five or more sentences, but it could be one run-on sentence.
A baker’s dozen hogshead. This is why we got to the moon and you Euro weenies didn’t. No simple measuring units.
I’ve seen the argument that a base 12 system makes more mathematical sense than base 10.
After you’ve developed an entire branch of mathematics on a sexagesimal system anything looks sensible.
I want a base ∞ system! Make mathematicians name each number individually!
genetically engineer the snakes and spiders and such to be fireproof
Notice they always stand downwind?
/Prepare for lift off!
Or maybe do something about arsonists.
“He was sent off to school today with an argument that Australia should outlaw no-burn policies.”
Not quite as good as “Keep busy-bodies out of other country’s affairs” but not bad.
He was sent off to school today with an argument that Australia should outlaw no-burn policies.
Bring back asbestos!
Its not just for high-performance automotive brakes and respirator filters any more.
Stop coddling firebugs.
Gay.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/news-opinion/20-biggest-mens-lifestyle-trends-2020
If this isn’t about the lifestyle trends of guys like Paul Bunyon, the Super Friend’s Apache Chief, and Manute Bol, I’m going to be disappointing.
“Manute Bol”
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.
Manute’s best picture
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baconsports.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F11%2Fmanute-bol-muggsy-bogues.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
His son is going to be a NBAer soon, if I’m not mistaken.
Muggsy’s son has got to come up too, so they can do a repeat of this picture
Urkel approves
Can’t wait for that trend to hit the NBA.
Who are these “men” that they speak of, because I feel pretty confident in saying that not a lot of people that I know will do any of that
Urban hipsters from the look of it.
That’s not “men”
By a strict biological definition, it is.
I can’t rightly continue to call Brianna ‘He’ and prevaricate on urban hipsters who have subjected themselves to alternative estrogen sources.
One can always make a distinction between “males” and “men”, if one wants to square that circle.
6. Non-alcoholic beers will get the craft treatment
Macaroni, paste and popsicle sticks. Stop making my demons cool and earn the pain yourselves.
*sigh*
So many things to say, so little willingness to go to the trouble.
Affluenza is a thing.
In defense of real people – nothing wandering down the aisle on a fashion show is ever* worn on the street.
*there are always exceptions, but you can’t condemn the rest of us for the crazies.
I was about to make the same comment. Those are two completely different folk. Plenty of men still wear a good suit.
This is true.
But here is a very ginormous exception.
I never got people who could stand that.
I own a very good belt and I use it.
As someone who has been hobbled by ill-fitting pantyhose, it’s inexplicable to me, too.
Pass.
Salads?
Or possibly Vitamin B deficiency.
*skims symptoms*
Maybe I should start taking niacin supplements.
Unless you eat nothing but fungi your diet is plant based.
Yeast and ‘shrooms, and salt.
17. Train travel will see a resurgence
Sure Jan.
“Ve vill use ze cattle cars to take ze deplorables to ze camps.”
Threat of moar sanctions notwithstanding, Trump extends the hand of peace to Iran. I suppose the pro/against war people will switch sides again.
No joke, I overheard someone saying the other day “He’s starting a war with Iran because that’s what the Russians want”.
They really are provincial in their understanding of the world
I will say that furriners must be pretty upset that the world hegemony sets it’s foreign policy stances based of internal political scrapes.
ORANGEMANBAD
So as a Vikings fan, I can get a prescription for opioids?
And you get a discount at the suicide booth.
Take the green pill.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/06/ann-coulter-trump-different-iran-war/
Credit where it’s due, Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson have really taken Trump to task over the Iran dust-up. Similar to Glenn Greenwald attacking Obama during his administration for the interventions in Libya, Yemen, and Syria.
Has he given his speech yet? What was the gist?
“I’ll blow up your fucking libraries, too.”
Well, I was going to give a thoughtful response, but yours works better.
“Peace in our time…but we can and will destroy you if provoked.”
Their “Death to America” business is tedious and eyeroll-worthy.
I bet we could sell them on “Head Cold to Europe” though…
So sort of we’re all square but don’t do anything else stupid? That’s actually good news, they get to save face domestically while fully aware that they didn’t actually do shit. Kabuki theater for the win.
You will see a ton of high-waisted trousers
Only if it’s as part of the full zoot suit ensemble.
Someone found the chink in Trumps armor
https://twitter.com/JustinWhang/status/1223336771947319298