12th Man. Very nice.
I don’t know about you but I had a rather busy weekend, busy enough that I am cursing the NFL for admitting Seattle fumbled the ball but for some reason that doesn’t mean they lost the ball. Can’t piss off the 1990’s fairweather Cowboys fans, I suppose. No matter, it seemed to have the effect of firing up the Packer’s defense.
So I’m doing this from yesterday as I fast forward through the “Bloomberg para el culo en jefe” commercials.
Up first! Brazil’s supreme court overturns the ban in gay Jesus.
Mexico City bans plastic bags, which might actually work out given they literally sell baskets in every shop.
Man who’s only gift to the world was a dumbass show, dies.
An assassination attempt on former FARC rebel group foiled by the Columbian government….next time let it happen guys.
Boy they sure know how to party in Rio!
Retired Pope writes a book disagreeing with the current Peronist Pope.
On one hand, of course Venezuelans stand in solidarity with the Iranian regime. On the other hand its Breitbart.
Literal banana republic tosses around the idea of making life suck even more.
Tunes…I think this one from an under appreciated Seattle band captures the 12th man’s persons mood this morning. If not then perhaps this one. Hopefully they don’t snort enough coke to kill themselves prompting this one.
FIRST!
i’ve been up a while
Complete with PowerPoint slides. Truly a hell on earth.
Don’t blame me, I voted for highwater.
“It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant…
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning…
And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave…
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark — that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Compare and contrast with Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
Fear & Loathing and Slouching are my go-to’s for showing people the 60s. You need both.
I’ve not read Didion. Thanks for the recommendation 🙂
Most of the articles in the collection are worth reading. Slouching is top-notch, but her interview with the SF Communist Party guy is great. “I Just Can’t Get That Monster Out of My Mind” is a prescient takedown of Hollywood and ‘movie people.’
Just ordered it 🙂
I can also heartily recommend TC Boyle’s novel “Drop City.”
Awesome, thanks!
I had something pithy to say, but my brain is clogged.
Just make a big entrance and nobody will care
So funny. I miss that guy.
“I had something pithy to say, but my brain is clogged.”
I have read many of your comments, UnCivil, and it is my opinion that even when your “brain is clogged” pithiness seeps out upon occasion.
On an unrelated note: Have you ever been in a complementary mindset?
This is an honest question and it also relates to my current mindset.
I think so, but it’s usually nowhere near work. Which causes an issue here, since I’m usually at work when I’m commenting here. Something about being in a noisy, dust-riddled, solar oven sours the mood like curdling milk.
“I think so, but it’s usually nowhere near work. Which causes an issue here, since I’m usually at work when I’m commenting here….”
Even so, you have posted both pithy and complimentary comments, sometimes simultaneously, methinks.
“… like curdling milk” Even this comment of yours can yield a positive response.
cursing the NFL for admitting Seattle fumbled the ball but for some reason that doesn’t mean they lost the ball.
+1 “clear recovery”
That was some horseshit.
I wonder with that ‘whole body across the line’ruling on an illegal forward pass what happens if a tooth gets knocked out behind the line of scrimmage? You can throw the ball from anywhere on the field?
Yeah, what happened to “break the plane”? That applies for first downs, end zone, but not for forward pass? Why the inconsistency?
NFL rules are often inconsistent. Why doesn’t “Break the plane” apply on punts into the endzone? It does in college, but the NFL wants the excitement of leaping and throwing the ball back into the field.
That was my first question to myself as well.
Court Slightly Oversteps Its Bounds
The appropriate next day headline would be “Netherlands’ supreme court found hanging from lampposts, CCTV mysteriously malfunctioned during incident.”
The court ruled that the government had explicit duties to protect its citizens’ human rights in the face of climate change
I’ll take you seriously when you institute the draft and start marching on Beijing.
“The court ruled that the government had explicit duties to protect its citizens’ human rights in the face of climate change”
We’ll be ok here cause our supreame court has ruled that the government has no specific duties to protect anyone from anything.
As though our SCOTUS is consistent in applying principles. Like incorporation doctrine, except for the 2A.
2a is Incorporated, it’s the level of review that isn’t established. Liberal courts say it’s basically rational basis, which is the same level of review for economic right infringements (in other words you have no right, the government can do what it wants).
“Level of review” is just made-up bullshit pulled out of thin air with no constitutional basis anyway. The Bill of Rights has no language saying “except for when the government claims a need”.
For sure, but that’s where we are at.
Fuck the liar John Marshall.
confirming that human rights are jeopardised by the climate emergency
They misspelled “asserting without evidence”.
^^^THIS^^^
Fucking grandstanding is all this is…
If they cut their emissions to zero tomorrow it would make fuckall’s amount of difference in the scheme of things.
I see you are a Climate Science DENIER.
If only the Dutch were able to deal with a slight increase in sea level.
climate justice
Increase our co2 output to attempt to return the atmosphere to its historically higher co2 content making the world better for plant life that is required for all other life?
I am going to make a tire-fire in celebration of the ruling.
I’ve yet to have a Catholic give me a satisfactory answer as to how a vow of celibacy isn’t a direct violation of God’s will.
Because it would break the vow to satisfy you.
I am not catholic, but I can still answer it. Here is what Paul had to say:
Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. — 1 Corinthians 7:8-9
From later in the same chapter, Paul gets to piss off both sides of a debate:
Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing.
That was in 2 Incelonians.
*embeds sharp metal bits into Luther’s Small Catechism and throws at straff*
Am I allowed to narrow my gaze?
Are you asking permission?
Do you lack bodily autonomy?
I am worried about trademark infringement.
He’s waiting for a revelation.
My son has been reading Luther’s Small Catechism for his confirmation class and, I have to say, it’s rather large for something “small”.
How does it look comared to any other Catechisms by Luther?
The cliffs notes are just 90 or so thesis.
Medium?
kinda dumpy
If only they had Twitter back then. It would be much more concise.
I’m not too keen to wade into this, but Mathhew 19 Says:
5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
I don’t think that is a requirement that one must marry, but how the process occurs.
The rest of Corinthians 7 is pretty strongly in agreement with that, as my reading is that Paul thinks the ability to remain celibate is fairly rare. As the Catholic Church has unfortunately proved.
Only marry if you’re too horny to control your burnin’ loins.
“I don’t think that is a requirement that one must marry,”
Paul’s is clearly not a commandment to be celibate, it’s at best a suggestion. If we want to talk commandments let’s look at the first commandment given to man.
Exactly, it isn’t a commandment. But it is where the Catholic vow of celibacy comes from, the priests are supposed to be from that group that don’t burn and thus it is better for them to devote themselves to God alone.
Leave the damn apple tree alone?
^THIS^
“Be fruitful and multiply” came before the “Don’t touch the tree”
All of which comes just before “tread on the snake”
“Step on snek”
Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks.
Dre 19:92
These are examples of all human reasoning that still directly violate one of God’s first orders to humankind.
And yeah, I’m fully aware that the New Testament is supposed to be divinely inspired, but it still completely contradicts the Old Testament on several occasions. Which version of the Judeo-Christian God’s will in this instance am I supposed to believe here?
I always figured he mellowed out by the time the New Testament came around and was sick of smiting so much.
Jesus brought a new covenant with God. It’s like how rules for kids change as they get older.
I was raised in a very, very, evangelical home and have read more of my father’s books rationalizing the change in God’s nature as a young adult than I can remember. When it’s all said and done, the inescapable fact is that the Judeo-Christian God’s nature and law is, well, changeable. How one can confidently follow the rules to escape damnation in that scenario is unfathomable to me. If you can’t trust your God to give you the full scoop, how can that god be safely worshipped? And if the revelations of Mormonism are to be followed, that just compounds the situation.
Sorry…I didn’t mean to dive into this right now. I need to leave for work soon.
rules to escape damnation
The NT rules to escape damnation has nothing* to do with following rules. So it has that going for it.
*little?
“Worship Me or burn forever” is quite the rule.
When it’s all said and done, the inescapable fact is that the Judeo-Christian God’s nature and law is, well, changeable.
That’s just, like, your opinion, man.
Seriously though, this basically presumes the conclusion, because a shit ton of Christian philosophy is based on the foundation of an unchangeable, supremely Good God. If you assume that to be false, the entire house of cards comes crashing down.
That would then presume that God does not have free will to change his mind.
Assuming he had free will… If god changed his mind, he clearly wanted to or needed to. Any need he had would indicate that he lacked something, and he’s acting to fill that void. That would contradict the definition that he’s perfect. So, if god is perfect, he cannot act.
It’s not so much that God can’t act, but God can’t change his mind to be even better. Basically, a God that exists outside of time has structured the entirety of existence to follow his supremely Good will. Any change to the unfolding of history, past, present, and future, would be less Good and would make God no longer the Supreme Good.
IOW, God is compelled to act and not act in a way that brings about the Supreme Good. Anything short of that is fallibility, which doesn’t make for a perfect God.
tl;dr: this is the best timeline.
Sounds vaguely Calvinist to me.
In that construction, it is also entirely plausible that God intended from the beginning to issue new rulesets and permit the arising of false prophets, most probably as an incentive for humans to exercise their free will and reasoning to suss out which is which. To call back to the adult and child analogy, it would be like presenting a problem and going “I’m not going to just tell you the answer, I want you to figure it out for yourself.”
https://www.simplycatholic.com/why-celibacy/
In the Middle Ages, when the vow became a requirement for priests, it made sense to prevent church positions from becoming inherited titles. Now it makes no sense. Married Episcopalian priests who convert to Catholicism are allowed to become priests, and African Catholic priests are allowed to marry.
Given the turmoil the Church has gone through with homosexual predator priests, encouraging priests to marry would seem the logical path.
“I don’t know why all these Muslims become suicide bombers to get their 72 virgins. Become a Catholic priest and have them now!”
/Carr
“We were peacefully enjoying the carnival when police came throwing bombs,” said Isaque Batista, a 22-year-old barber. “There was no previous tumult. The police arrived throwing (tear gas) bombs when there was no need for it.”
What’s the point of having those toys if you don’t use them?
The barber seems in shock and disbelief. Maybe even a-gassed.
*narrows gaze*
“What’s the point of having those toys if you don’t use them?”
I am reminded of a video by Porta dos Fundos:
rubber bullets and tear gas versus contain the violence and calm people down
The video requires reading subtitles.
Despite the bloody and famished legacy of Marxism, it is still proposed as an alternative
It IS an alternative…to peace and prosperity.
There is something fundamentally broken in the human mind to keep having this debate.
People want what they can’t have, a trait which seems fundamental to and ineradicable from human nature, so this debate will never end as people continue to pursue the unobtainable.
Alice in Chains is the best of the 90s grunge bands, that’s just an objective fact with no room for argument or discussion. I don’t know if they qualify for the under appreciated label though.
As I said, under appreciated.
Checks out.
Not under appreciated at the time. But I would’ve gone unplugged and Nutshell. Good lyrics to boot.
My man.
I think it helped that they started off as a run of the mill 80’s metal band before tuning down the guitars and going grunge/sludge rock. As cheese dick as a lot of those bands where, there was still an emphasis on being technically sound musicians. Most second wave grunge bands lacked the skill set to make truly interesting music like AIC.
Most of the first wave were strongly influenced by King’s X, who wasn’t grunge themselves, but is clearly superior to all the grunge bands.
Kings X? Try the U-Men, The Sonics, the Melvins…
As much as I purge out about tech-death metal sometimes, I don’t mind simplistic grunge. That said, AiC is/was the best grunge band. It is known.
The hardest thing to discuss with a Marxist is that they live in three worlds. The first is the world of ideas. Their lack of definition of the theory of capital is completely removed from reality. Secondly, they have a profoundly negative view of the world in which we live and are unable to see all the positive things that have been achieved. And thirdly, both for the debater and Marxists in general, it is impossible for them to specify what Marxism is, what communism is. Because they do not hold themselves responsible for all the crimes in the history of Marxism, which amount to hundreds of millions.
“If you think things were bad under Stalin, just imagine how much worse they would have been with Herbert Hoover running the show.
The reporter for the Copacabana story couldn’t even find on Lola to get a comment from?!
Booooooo!
So what you are saying is that they are so terrible, that they didn’t even manage to clear the Lola bar of journalism?
Speaking of “Venezuela”, I watched that Jack Ryan nonsense on Amazon.
I’m all in favor of a little suspension of disbelief, but what a dopey tale.
Where the dictator is “right wing” and it starts the screwball from The Office and the Dilly Dilly guy?
All dictators are right wing, this is known.
In fact, “bad” equals “right wing” in general.
Well good and evil are opposites so clearly you can’t have both sides be evil.
Woody Allen’s Bananas was on last week. Pretty funny.
Yeah, that was hugely disappointing after a pretty good first season.
I had a bad feeling with episode one, with retconned Senator Best Friend Ever. The may have well just put him in a red shirt before sending him on the Away Team to Venezuela.
I punched out around episode three.
I too was fed up by episode three, but I forced myself to stick with it until the end just to see where it went.
I wish I hadn’t.
The fact that they had to make the Venezuelan problem be a right wing dictator and the “good guy” was some lame social justice fighting female (and a wife of some dude that was in government, and not much else) tells you how desperate these fucks are to rewrite the true history of collectivism. Clancy is rolling in his grave. The guy hated communism./ To see marxist apologist use his character to peddle their evil shit would piss him off.
Know who else despised socialism?
Neil Peart.
May he rest in peace, yo!
Well, the writers can’t have Islamic bad guys too often – even had to make one of the “good guys” a troubled Muslim. And they can’t go near the Red Chinese as the bad guys so…
When Tom Clancy was alive, he paid no attention to either of these rules.
Well, it’s not like you could have made the bad guys a bunch of unaccountable bureaucrats trying to undermine the duly elected leader of a major country. No one would have believed it.
Matt Bracken makes a living writing that way.
Cannot take “Jim” seriously in this role at all.
The Netherlands’ supreme court has upheld a ruling ordering the country’s government to do much more to cut carbon emissions, after a six-year fight for climate justice.
Nothing but straightforward, dispassionate reportage. No thumb on that scale. Nosirree.
Gli Papi: That’s probably why the Catholic church never had retired popes before. Socon darling Pope Benedict may end up leading the biggest schism since Martin Luther, which may have been the endgame all along (rustles tinfoil).
And there is a practical reason why they don’t let priests marry — the (mandatory) sacrament of confession. Catholics are supposed to go to confession regularly and confess all there sins to the priest.
(Hi Eddie, if you’re lurking here.)
Confession… priests unload to their wives, wives who are not bound by priestly strictures gossip, people stop going to confession, church loses control mechanism.
“priests unload to their wives”
What’s the difference between your wife and a washing machine?
When a drop a load in the washing machine, it doesn’t constantly call me for a week afterward.
That joke only works with girlfriend; wives always call, regardless.
ZING!
*looks at call history, nods in agreement *
Why is my favorite cardigan all sticky?
One of the reasons for Catholic clergy not being allowed to marry had to do with primogeniture, and the church not wanting lands and estates held by bishops and cardinals to be passed down to sons and out of church hands.
Bingo!
The rest was finding a theological basis to support this.
One of the rites or denominations only requires celibacy for the higher levels (bishops and cardinals) but allows the basic priests to marry, which seems like a good compromise that would solve this issue.
Benedict and Commie Pope both suck. Install the mummified John Paul II.
I think that practical reason is overblown: while other denominations do not require confession, priests/pastors still do a lot of counseling with those of their parishioners who seek advice/support, and most of those who are married are able to keep their mouths shut about it.
I wonder if Lou reads (heh) NotAdehn’s column.
Mammary Monday provides a soft, squishy counterpoint to all this Latino spice.
http://archive.li/Ep1gb
*checks clock*
9 minutes early…
2 minutes for premature posting. Go to the penalty box now. And feel shame.
http://archive.li/OORT1
That would make hockey game penalties much more fun!
Now who’s using puns?
Atilla?
#5 is Angela White and someone else.
#6 and #17 have great taste.
#24’s husband probably has a lot of fun.
Tundra will show excellent taste by homing in on #58.
#62 looks rather intriguing.
Like a heat-seeker, iykwim!
She’s spectacular.
Yep.
Scroll fast enough so that they all blur into one and it’s a solid yes to the mean.
Serious question:
What’s the deal with Latin America’s love affair with socialism? Is it the Catholicism? The leftover caste structure from Spanish colonialism? Why?
Obviously a mix of all those things. But the sort of feudal organization is started with probably holds most responsibility
Lack of education on the real results of marxism have left people still living in what amounts to a near feudal system thinking it is a solution to their problems. It is only through experience that these people realize how fucking worse marxism is than the shitty system they have now.
It’s AMERIKKKA’s fault for keeping them down, or something. It wasn’t real socialism because Uncle Sam was pulling the strings!
That’s the trouble with a marxist revolution. Even if you win, you lose.
What’s with Europes and everyone’s love affair with socialism?
You have two very different philosophical foundations during the enlightenment. The contenental form of “individualism” leads to “rational” Central planning and socialism.
Well at leas tin Europe we have a spell checker
Droll, Pie.
You got a recipe for Droll Pie?
I thin’ its the remnant of the Spanish social pyramid. It ver much created classes fo have and have nots.
Yep – Some of those countries are run by a few Spanish families. Once in a while the dumb masses vote in a Marxist to take over and screw things up even worse. That makes the casually corrupt old families seem like a great alternative after a couple of years.
The Vikings did visit Spain, probably stole all those socialistic ideas and took them home.
The vikings also visited Greece, Italy, Germany, France, England, Scotland, and Ireland to redistribute wealth and put people into slavery. I think they might have planted the seeds rather than taken them
“It is not to be assumed that a humorous satire has the magic power to undermine the values of the Christian faith, whose existence goes back more than two thousand years,” Supreme Court President José Antonio Dias Toffoli wrote in his decision.
If it isn’t an actionable threat or slander/libel, then say or write what you want. So what if it did have the power to undermine the values of the Christian faith? I don’t see how that has anything to do with the fundamental right to free speech.
Is there such a right in acknowledged Brazil? The country not the movie.
Dunno from the article. I seem to recall that only Japan and the US have free speech enshrined in their constitutions.
In Romania is something weaselly like as long as it does not offend public mores, undefined in the constitution
Inoffensive speech needs less protection. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean shit if it doesn’t include the right to be offensive, or to go against the public grain.
“We can’t define pornography, but we know it when we see it.”
Back in 2010, I was in Sint Maarten a few weeks after their independence. The local paper published their new constitution. All the protected freedoms sounded good then had a bunch of weaselly words making it not worth anything.
I support the free market but…
I thought Canada did as well, but there are all kinds of of carve outs.
Maybe one of our Canadian Glibs can chime in here.
Canada jails people for jokes and bans others from the internet for making a feminist angry. I’m actually surprised that Johnathan’s suit got thrown out.
Muslims > Trans (for now)
Probably not, most countries do not have that.
There is a right to free speech everywhere . . .whether or not a government recognizes that right is a separate matter.
The right to free speech is there but the exercise thereof is banned.
In news from north of the border, did you know that gringo politician Hillary Clinton is the most exonerated politician ever?
Of course she’s never actually been exonerated because she has never stood trial for any of her malfeasance.
Saddam Hussein and the Ayatollahs came in a close second and third to her because of their exoneration powers as well?
She has been exonerated twice after extensive federal investigations, the latest entirely unjustified
Nope.
Typo. Should read, “exorcised”.
That… doesn’t meant to the larger public what the author thinks it means to her echo chamber…
Who?
The NRA used a Sunday night tweet to explain that Magpul Industries — a renowned magazine and firearm accessory maker — sent 1,000 magazines to the gun rights organization in order to have them given out to pro-Second Amendment Virginians on Monday.
Monday is January 13, the day on which the NRA has asked its members to flood into Virginia Senate meetings and ensure that pro-Second Amendment voices drown out those calling for gun control.
Democrats in the Virginia legislature have already put forward a number of bills, one of which is Delegate Mark Levine’s (D) HB 961.
Levine’s bill bans “assault weapons,” “high-capacity” magazines, certain triggers, and suppressors, among other things. The bill puts forward a means by which “assault weapon” owners can apply for a license to retain their gun, but the trade-off is that their names are entered into a database.
How nice of them to show up. Too bad I have to work today, not that I need or possess any
highstandard capacity magazines for any particular firearm. Not since the accident at least. The sea is a cruel mistress.Magpul is great at sending free magazines, but they really need to open their pocketbook for lobbyists. That would be far more effective.
Kind of a problem these days with the NRA so suspect.
“ensure that pro-Second Amendment voices drown out those calling for gun control”
“Journalism”
They actually admitted that gun control violates the constitution?
Not since the accident at least. The sea is a cruel mistress.
There’s a proposed VA bill for that too. Not reporting lost firearms within 24 hours (I think) will be a crime.
Which is another bs proposal. What happens when someone is robbed when they are on vaca or something?
What, are you paranoid? That law would never be abused…
Imagine some poor E-3 on a deployment, comes home after being away for 9 months to find a couple handguns missing from his apartment. I guess he’s just Effed.
I wonder if these politicos understand that under federal law you can ship a long gun to an FFL in another state to complete a sale of that firearm. So if they come to your house asking about the location of some particular AR-15 you could just say you sold it to a guy in Wyoming. “When did that happen?” “Heck, I dunno. Maybe 3 or 4 years ago? Sorry, I don’t remember the address of the FFL.”
An under appreciated Seattle band. Surely you mean this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5f561Y1x4
No I think he means this band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97HOQJBEtpU
Sure, but did they make a song I can mock Seattle football fans with?
Roger Scruton: Conservative thinker dies at 75
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51084248
Not a libertarian by any means but he did write some good stuff
Ah yes, I remember that bit of shameless “canceling”. All the right people are probably dancing on his grave today – it’s England, after all.
There are piles of dishonest screeds in the Guardian about him, and other lefty places. It’s been fairly miserable, but a good indicator that once THE NARRATIVE
Bloomy and Steyr spend an order of magnitude more on ads than any other candidate.
https://twitter.com/DavidWright_CNN/status/1215295977818656768
Billionaires gonna billionaire.
I have seem Bloomberg-asshat’s commerials. The guy lives in a world of his own. What a fucking idiot. He must have gotten lucky or inherited that wealth. Social justice will be him pissing away all of his money trying to get elected, and never getting more than 0% of the vote.
I don’t really understand him, because Bloomers did make his own fortune that he’s pissing away. You don’t become the 14th richest person in the world by luck. So I am confused.
He’s old. He’s got enough money he can keep pissing it all away until he dies and there will still be a lot left.
I’m not confused about the reckless spending. I’m confused about the wokeness.
I’m not. He’s a power hungry junkie and even the slightest odds of getting the ultimate high is worth a couple hundred million.
*Sorry. And the fake wokeness*
If Drumpf can do it, so can I!!!!eleventy!!1!!
Virtue isn’t required to find and exploit a market gap.
What confuses me is that the girls that his campaign is going to attract will all probably be prissy control freaks. Where’s the fun in that?
Say what you will, but the environmental disaster campaign does attract a lot of naive gals that would be fun to party with on the campaign jet to Bumfuck, Iowa.
Like this?
Bloomberg Babes
I’m confused about the wokeness.
His wokeness seems to have an authoritarian bent, with him as the leader, so it’s not really confusing to me.
His wokeness seems to have an authoritarian bent
Doesn’t it all?
Usually, but even with that I think his is comparatively more-so.
Just because you are a genius in a particular area, does not make you competent in other realms outside your area of expertise.
Krugnuts nods.
He walks around with armed guards telling people they shouldn’t have the right to arm themselves. All I need to know.
^
If I was Bloomberg, I would spend all my money on ads that highlight the policies of my opponents.
Have an ad that talks about Warren’t plan to outlaw private insurance, then add some reactions from the others like Bernie and Biden. Do ads like that for everyone.
The goal would be to have a voting populace that says “All these idiots suck. Hey, who’s this Bloomberg guy? I haven’t heard shit about him, he’s my man. Got to be better than any of those other losers”
We swear this isn’t political.
Steve Scalise✔
@SteveScalise
Pelosi said today:
– Trump won’t be president next year “one way or another”
– Dems may “have him removed sooner” than the election
– Trump “will be impeached forever”
It’s clear: Impeachment was a Democrat hit job to stain Trump’s legacy and hurt him at the polls. Nothing more.
“Trump won’t be president next year “one way or another””
Is that a threat?
“Dems may “have him removed sooner” than the election”
Um… ok Nancy. You can count to 67 right? Great! Now how many Democrats are in the Senate? Is it less than 67?
“Trump “will be impeached forever””
I thought we agreed you wouldn’t start drinking until at least noon.
The 3rd statement is true. Assuming the House ever gets around to filing the paperwork.
So when he retires he and Bill can start an exclusive club of Impeached Presidents.
Also Johnson.
She sounds mad.
The ONE guy who was ACTUALLY targeted and shot by a left-wing Bernie supporter.
At least the first.
Steve Scalise, nearly killed by Democrat hate speech.
https://soranews24.com/2020/01/12/adult-cream-pie-coming-to-mcdonalds-japan/
Sounds appetizing.
I don’t know about eating the cream pie, but I always enjoy serving one.
Hey, that’s my Pi.
Is the chocolate one bigger?
Yeah, but it’s going to be tricky marketing it with that pixelated image
Probably the Japanese have a Pavolvian response to pixels now.
Magpul is great at sending free magazines, but they really need to open their pocketbook for lobbyists. That would be far more effective.
They spent all their money moving out of Colorado9.
They moved out under pressure from their client base.
Colorados 1-8 were bad, but ColoradoX might be the version we need to really get this concept off the ground.
God, how many times do I have to explain this to you weebs.
ColorodoX is not Colorodo 10. X and Mega Man are two totally different robots. A robot called Rock becomes Mega Man on May 25, 200x. X was created by Dr Light during the Maverick Wars, but is not discovered by Dr. Cain until 21XX!
Prufrid? whu neds ir?
Moscow Mitch?
Pelosi, 79, then pivoted to McConnell, saying he has “resisted sources” that suggest Russian meddling in American elections.
“Sometimes I wonder about Mitch McConnell too,” remarked Pelosi. “What’s he — why is he an accomplice to all of that? He has resisted sources going in a manner commensurate with the threat for state agencies, whichever they are in a state, could be the secretary of state or whatever, to protect our infrastructure, our critical infrastructure of elections.” …
“Sometimes I wonder about Mitch McConnell, too…why is he an accomplice to all of that?”
Seattle seems to get calls their way. Last week Clowney should have been flagged for the hit on Wentz.
I think that one was a clean hit, he’s diving which means he’s unprotected. If he were sliding it would have been a penalty.
Dude, they ALWAYS call helmet to helmet ESPECIALLY on a QB.
“We are not coming for your guns. Stop fear-mongering, you deplorable bitter-clinger.”
A semi-automatic center-fire rifle that expels single or multiple projectiles by action of an explosion of a combustible material that has the ability to accept a detachable magazine and has one of the following characteristics
The funny thing is that I have already figured one way around this (entirely unconstitutional) law. Gun-grabbers have zero imagination.
Combustion isn’t an explosion.
Yeah, when a firearm’s propellent charge detonates – which is extremely rare – the results are catastrophic. If that happens generally the barrel splits from the chamber end.
But I doubt the truth would save you if you tried to claim, in a court of law that your AR-15 is exempt based on this fact.
While the distinction between rapid combustion and outright detonation is a very specific technical one, this is the sort of hair-splitting that doesn’t play well with judges. Anyone making that argument would get slapped with a “Muh legislative intent” dismissal.
The people writing the rules don’t have to know the first thing about the object of their rules. The people following the rules, on the other hand, need to suss out their every intention.
I thought fat-shaming was out.
a shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and that permits the shooter to hold the pistol with the non-trigger hand without being burned
Fuck your fingers, gun nutters!!
That’s a feature known to make weapons more lethal.
Anything that makes a gun less unpleasant to shoot make the gun more appealing to mass shooters, duh! It’s only common sense that all new firearms must be equipped with a device that generates an electric shock to the person pulling the trigger.
You gotta think bigger. Make it mandatory that 1 in 1000 Assault Rifles blow up in the hands of the shooter. Then no one will want to use it for mass shooting.
Listen, all semi-autos work by transferring energy from the cartridge to use in ejecting the spent round and chambering the next. Therefore it is trivial to divert additional power to generate electricity to shock the user AND generate and transmit a record of the firing (including GPS location and telemetry) to the local law enforcement. This will enable mass shooter and other criminals to be easily apprehended and prosecuted. Furthermore, by diverting this energy, it makes the bullet less likely to kill someone, which should be the point of all common sense gun control.
Just don’t tell them about “Mass Shooting Gloves”
Now, Leon, those are merely high durability insulated faraday cage gloves with optional storage for additional magazines on the forearm.
Dafuq is a French Arcane?
Not really sure. Sounds a little obscure.
Researching on the internet, it seems to be a workout routine consisting of four steps:
-Throw out your hands
-Stick out your tush
-Hands on your hips
-Give them a push
Piss on you! I’m working for Mel Brooks!
Lately, I find myself wishing that the ground opened up underneath the Capitol and swallowed those fuckers in General Assembly whole, never to be seen again.
Elizabeth Warren is denying that her supporters are highly educated.
https://twitter.com/ThaddeusRussell/status/1216619574923153409
“Only dumb rubes would buy the crap I’m selling!”
That would be an accurate statement.
Well, I have to apologise. I didn’t clarify that it is entirely possible to be both a dumb rube and highly educated. I wrote the wrote from the perspective of a simulacrum of the campaign.
I was replying to what I assumed was you quoting our fake squaw and her stupidity. And you are absolutely correct to point out that some of the most stupid people and ideas ever to stain humanity came from highly educated idiots with near zero common sense.
Remember, my brain is congested today, so I’m not thinking the most clearly.
To quote Al Pachino’s character in Scareface:
Das OK. Give her another Quaalude and she will love me again in the mornin’.
Trump called stupid people smart. I know! I’ll call fake smart people stupid!
The credentialed elite class hates nothing more than people showing how they are neither smart nor effective, based on their horrible track record, because it removes their agency and most importantly, threatens their real nice power & money making scam.
These idiots glomm onto big government and collectivist ideas, especially shit like global warming, because it provides them with a lot of opportunities to make massive piles of money not just adding zero value, but actually causing massive damage. How the fuck have we accepted that we now have to pay close to a billion dollars per mile of road, and wait over a decade for approval, because we have to wait for all the environmental and other idiotic analysis and reporting, at between 75% to 90% of the actual cost of any project, before the work can be done?
These people are a credentialed grifter class that has done really well financially (and when it comes to keeping their paws on the levers of power), despite the fact they are massively stupid fucks that not only fail constantly, but fail miserably. Their revolt against the 2016 election is because they see that the rubes have realized they are not just being played, but by electing orange man over the quintessential example of that credentialed elite class (crooked Hillary), but had the temerity to make a stand and stop the process where they are butt fucked and not even getting a reach-around for that shameful experience by this credentialed idiot class.
The other day I heard a city park around here couldn’t remove a tree until they got an environmental impact statement.
This is SOP in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut”. They sent out an environmental impact inspection team a few years back after a early snowstorm devastated the power infrastructure when countless trees lost branches or came down because of the heavy wet snow before anything could be cleaned up or removed. That part of the process made many people have to wait days during a cold snap to get power back and then get hammered because the state pissed away a ton of money for useless impact reports.
And most of the time it’s just a stalling tactic by watermelons or NIMBY “activists”. Two years from now they’ll invent some other excuse for why that tree has to stay.
“That colony of invasive tree-boring beetles is locally endangered! You can’t kill their habitat!”
Bernie Sanders called you highly educated!!! Can you believe there nerve of that guy?
He wasn’t talking to me.
“Let me be clear. My supporters are absolute morons.”
I do not disagree.
Anti-intellectualism isn’t just for Republicans anymore.
Both of them are fighting for the same crowd of over-educated “elites”.
Break this down a bit more. We all saw instantly what was wrong with her statement. To her, she said something that completely coherent and reasonable, yet failed to recognize how easily it could be interpreted. It’s exactly why she would get devoured by Trump. Hell, Hillary was actually kind of good in her own evil way of parrying Trumps slights. Warren has none of those street smarts.
To be fair, she has no intention of doing any of this. She sees her chance at Sauron’s Ring slipping away and is basically just throwing chum into the progressive waters.
[CIA black site guy explaining his job] I interrogate brown bodies in liminal spaces
https://twitter.com/flossfurman/status/1216258541624926208
Don’t believe your lying eyes! The economy is terrible!
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-michael-bloomberg-arne-duncan-trump-20200109-xpbqcs7hsff5tnyp2zburbbo6q-story.html
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That being said, I am not sold on the economy being that healthy, foundation wise
Agreed. I think there are some systemic flaws that will be exposed sooner or later. The average person on the street is way over-leveraged and the downstream effects of Obama Era programs on healthcare, education, and automotive markets (to name a few) make everyday living less affordable than it should be.
On Wednesday, judge Benedicto Abicair ruled against the film following a petition by a Brazilian Catholic organization that argued the “honor of millions of Catholics” was hurt by the airing of “The First Temptation of Christ.”
Huh. American Catholics got over that a long time ago.
People in Mexico’s massive capital city may have to return to those old ways, when a new law that took effect Wednesday bans the plastic bags that became ubiquitous over the last 30 years.
What was the joke about how Socialists lit their homes before candles?
I should go get ready to get into the office. I’m going to be late.
I forced myself to stick with it until the end just to see where it went.
#METOO
“Sure, why not? That totally makes sense. Those guys will probably all get medals, when they get back to the States.”
It would have been more believable if they had found a magic crystal skull in the jungle and used it to open a portal to the Great Beyond.
She sounds mad.
As a hatter.
Dogs are awesome! Even if they do cause rooms to get real dusty sometimes.
Woof! Are we there yet? Woof!
You’d think that not having to stare at the asshole of the dog in front of you all day would be an advantage.
So, still no change of scenery for Indy?
Awww. What a good boy!
In other dog news….
The dog may be the only non-dumbass in this story.
City hipster gets cited for not having paid for a permit to run his dog in an off leash park. Turns out it isn’t just a civil citation, it is a misdemeanor and he has to go to court. Story is full of lots of outrage from everyone. The hipster thinks that it is insane that he should have to pay a use fee for the park.
If you don’t like hipster outrage, the story is also chock full of bureaucrats justifying why ordinances like that are vital to civilization.
Of course it’s explainable – it’s going into the pockets of middle-aged retired teachers and cops.
Good morning, Senor Sharpshooter and all of my amigos and amigas!
I have no idea who the dead guy is, but hanging out with Salma and Vanessa makes him a goddamn hero in my book. RIP.
AIC is pretty much the only band from that movement that I can still listen to. Still, though, when 50% of your band ODs, maybe a little self-reflection is in order, huh Jerry?
Make it a stone groove today, people!
“Good morning, Senor Sharpshooter and all of my amigos and amigas!”
Same to you Esse.
So you want to exacerbate the problem.
“I think we need to talk about affordability — just like health care affordability and college — the fact that there are real conversations going on of how can we increase Pell Grants, options,” she said.
“Universities that are public universities that I know of that rely heavily on state and federal funding, sometimes, for different projects, different research projects and things like that, that we can leverage that funding in saying, ‘that’s great but you also need to be affordable and many of your folks need to be able to leave your schools debt-free,’ especially when you are getting a lot of subsidies, in so many ways, subsidies at all levels of government — I’ve seen universities get ton of it — that we leverage that, we leverage that power here,” she added.
Leftists really do not understand incentive.
Incentives do not really work, there was a sociology study on it
Nor do they understand that you can’t give everyone free everything.
But it is our right to free shit paid by other people!
/Idiots
‘We need to talk’. Four little words a politician should never utter.
And her proposal is idiotic. Idiot will say idiotic things. ‘Leverage’ should be a banned word among spendthrift politicians.
“While Democratic candidates for president call for student loan debt forgiveness, some members of Congress are not sure how to address students who recently paid off their college loans.
“I’m not sure. I can tell you this. I think there should be some data, and there probably is, about how that may have set them back and their quality of life, being able to live their life, like what can we do to help support them that way?” said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, who has signed onto a bill to forgive existing $1.6 trillion student loan debt.”
Never mind the responsible people. We know we’re going to fuck them over.
The idea that the government will ‘support’ poor life decisions is frightening to me.
If you ‘forgive’ people’s debt, you’re not only screwing people owed money over you’re ENABLING the debtor. A lesson will not have been learned and I reckon those people will get back into debt one way or another. What’s next? Credit cards?
Tlaib is stupid socialist shithead and her ‘idea’ is an example on how not raise an adult.
Another grotesque part of her ‘I don’t know’ is notice how the side that screams ‘fairness’ and ‘equality’ have no qualms ignoring it by sacrificing one group of people to pimp a political agenda.
I despise these people.
Please do not wipe out my student loan debt. I want to buy a new house in the next year and I’d like banks to continue offering mortgages at reasonable interest.
“What’s next? Credit cards?”
Surely. If we want to do away with the stigma of bankruptcy for one of its intended purposes – one can’t pay for sudden catastrophic medical bills – then surely we should keep out of bankruptcy those who abused their credit cards to dine out, buy designer purses, and take a Caribbean cruise.
‘We need to talk’
In my experience with the lefty kind this usually translates to mean “You need to listen”
^^^THIS^^^
Lefties don’t want to talk: they want to lecture. And then they want to label anyone that doesn’t agree with their world view as being opposed because they believe in evil/bad things. There is no room for anyone pointing out that the dogma the left peddles is bullshit. That shit is a religion.
‘We need to talk’
Joan Rivers/Lou Reed enjoy an evening out
She’s not that bright, is she?
This should be appreciated by at least three different types of Glibs:
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2020/01/04
+1 Robert Stack
Perfect.
I get it. He already gave her the pearl necklace.
*narrows gaze*
I wonder what the partisan composition of the school board is..
An Indiana school district is under fire for writing a policy that parents and the ACLU say is a violation of their First Amendment rights and an attempt to shield the board from legitimate criticism. The North West Hendricks School Corporation’s “Parent Code of Conduct ” says parents shall not “use Facebook or any other Social Network to make rude/offensive comments towards individual staff members or the school in general.” It goes on to outlaw the use of “Facebook or any other Social Network to campaign against or fuel outrage against individual staff members, the school, or policies implemented by the school or district.” If a parent is in violation of these rules they can be banned from school property and events, according to the policy.
Why is there even a school board in the first place?
I’d like to be more outraged by the school’s policy, but having suffered through too many school functions (usually sports) I can’t say that a lot of parents shouldn’t be banned from social media for being colossal assholes.
Hockey parents are by far the worst for bitching about their snowflake not being the “star” of the team.
It’s my understanding that girls soccer and volleyball both have left hockey far behind.
It is like you forgot that we now have girls hockey.
I know a guy who ended up coaching a team for the first year they had girls hockey and he gave it up. He said the parents weren’t bad, but he couldn’t deal with the girls and how they dealt with criticism/praise.
One girl broke down in tears because during a drill he told her “great job”. The problem? He told her teammate during the same drill “Fantastic!” According to her, this proved he had it out for her.
I recoil in fear at the mere thought of that. Middle school/high school girls are awful. The constant social jockeying is unbearable.
I’m nearly out of that nightmare. Girls are vicious.
While dealing with asshole parents is a big problem for schools everywhere this is a pretty naked violation of the 1A.
Man cleared of assaulting girl, 5, after CCTV footage exposed policeman’s lie
PC Hitesh Lakhani, 42, has been jailed for three years after he made the ‘spiteful’ claim after an argument about his garden hedge trimmings spilling on to the street in Uxbridge, west London
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-cleared-assaulting-girl-5-21253745.amp
what is wrong with some people?
A lot.
I love a story with a happy ending.
3 years seems light.
The penalty for a false allegation should be the same as the accused would have faced if convicted.
He may well end up getting what he accused the guy of doing.
“Thou shall not bear false witness” is one of the least appreciated commandments.
The 9th amendment of commandments?
The Blasey-Ford of commandments.
Heh.
At least it’s not “thou shalt not covet”. Thats broadly encouraged and admired.
Ecstasy and absolution
As a teenager, he went to prison for selling ecstasy, but now his MDMA research is debunking the bad science that got him there
https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/9/21035472/mdma-ecstasy-drug-misconceptions-science-bad-research-effects-columbia-prison
Good article. Thanks, Pie.
The Girls Biffed Each Other
http://national.night-stick.com/home/index/70767-the-girls-biffed-each-other
Two lovely daughters of two prominent Pleasantville, N.J., families have created a sensation in that town. Mabel Herbett and Mamie Brown nearly scratched each other’s eyes out one day recently. It is true that they didn’t bark and bite, but they came as near as they could without actually doing the dawgie act. From what we can learn, Mamie and Mabel were enamored of George Woodward and determined to settle their difficulties according to pugilistic rules.
Reprinted from The National Police Gazette – September 27, 1890
More proof that emacs are for pussies.
[orson welles]
:==D
Nice to know Pleasantville hasn’t changed from its history.
For everyone else – it’s on the mainland across the bay from Atlantic City, NJ.
Biff Tannen approves
Why don’t you make like a tree, and get outta here?
That is some damn good writing, too.
“I question the law itself, but I denounce the legal process attached to it,” he wrote. “I used to think the thousands of dollars I pay in property an income tax were being put to at least an explainable use, but unfortunately the city has done everything they could to show me that was a foolish thought.”
And then
the scales fell from his eyes, and he planted a giant Gadsden Flag in his yardhe rushed off to his Bernie ’20 meeting to complain about how the wrong people were spending his taxes improperly.Coming soon to a state near you.
In the wake of the recent Westerly shootings, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha suggests a tightening of state gun laws to — at the very least — give hometown police chiefs notice that someone who lives in their community is seeking to buy a firearm elsewhere.
Asked about Neronha’s 2020 legislative agenda, spokeswoman Kristy dosReis said this week that one “simple change” would clarify that gun stores should submit the application to purchase a firearm to the police department where the buyer lives, instead of, or in addition to, where the gun store is located.
“A police department in the city or town where the purchaser resides is more likely to have additional information about the purchaser than a police department in another town (where the gun store is, for example),” dosReis said in an email. “That additional information, even if it does not constitute a legal prohibitor, could potentially allow that police department to take additional steps if there are reasons to be concerned about the safety of the purchaser or any other person.
“Such actions could range from having a simple conversation with the purchaser to potentially seeking a red flag order to stop the sale, if there is a legal basis to pursue one,” she said.
So when does “Real” America build a wall and quarantine off the pussy ass Eastern states with their insanely unconstitutional laws?
“…seeking a red flag order to stop the sale, if there is a legal basis to pursue one,” she said.”
There is no legal basis whatsoever for red-flag laws to exist in the first place. The constitution specifically forbids them. As such, there is no legal basis for seeking said red-flags for anyone.
Bernie picks up the hot millionaire skank endorsement.
Is it just me or does it seem like the establishment is saying, “Darnit all. We’re gonna have to give the old Jew a shot. All our first choices have flamed out. Not that Jew. The tall one.”
I hate to go all “sharp knees” here, but I think she’s average at best. And at the risk of going to shitlord prison…would it kill her to smile now and again? Or can she do that anymore after all the infections?
She’s not going to age well.
On the flip side, this girl is good for at least another 30 years until she turns into a 4 ft 6 in curly headed Asian mom.
Isn’t weird how much more popular socialists are with the “1%” than they are with the working class? Almost as if their policies are known the benefit the rich and disadvantage workers or something
“Respect female existence”
Don’t tell me what to do.
Put her on the list of “comfort girls” who are going to use their cuntes to service all those awkward incels who deserve equal fucking with all their better looking, extroverted fellows. No sense stopping with “money” as the only thing that should be equalized under President Bernie.
Remember when due process was a thing?
Oh ffs. Phone commenting is bullshit. This was for @Rebel Scum up thread.
Yeah, that was what Obama was giving people before he droned them IIRC.
I’m picturing the last scene in Lethal Weapon 2:
“Due process!”
*BOOM*
“It’s just been revoked”
*idiot press corps cheers*
Is that what Carlos Ghosn was getting good and hard?
Some stuff happening in Iran.
Other videos from protests in Iran showed protesters refusing to walk on flags of the United States and Israel that were painted on the ground.
BBC reporter Ali Hamedani tweeted a video that showed student protesters refusing to walk on a giant American and Israeli flag that was painted on the ground, writing, “At the height of the Iranian establishment anti Americanism, Tehran Beheshti university’s students refused walking over the US and Israel flag while participating in #IranProtests. They all grew up to hate the two countries but seems like the revolutionary ideology is failed.”
I think it’s more a measure of “You want us to walk on those flags? Well, fuck you, Mullahs, I’m sick of you* telling me what to do.” than anything else.
*which is not to say they wouldn’t embrace a different dictator.
Asked about Neronha’s 2020 legislative agenda, spokeswoman Kristy dosReis said this week that one “simple change” would clarify that gun stores should submit the application to purchase a firearm to the police department where the buyer lives, instead of, or in addition to, where the gun store is located.
” application to purchase a firearm ”
Go fuck yourself.
application to purchase a firearm
*takes out pocket constitution*
*turns to Bill of Rights*
*Points to Second Amendment*
“You got the millions to argue this to the supreme court? ‘cuz I don’t.”
It is always ‘common sense’. ‘One simple change’…it’s nothing don’t worry.
How about I make some common sense, one simple changes? They are simple and common sense so don’t worry.
Uffda. My coworker is back from her 1.5 month working vacation. So instead of blissful silence, I am listening to sniffles, coughing and (this is a new one) her eating something crunchy for breakfast that comes in a crinkly bag.
WTF?
*snort, sniffle*
*cough-cough-COUGH-cough*
*sniffle*
*bag rustling*
*open mouth eating crunch crunch crunch*
Can’t wait for the afternoon session of gum chewing with mouth open.
I once had an adjacent cubicle to a guy who would whip out a hot plate and fix up some shrimp paste for lunch.
That ought to be a violation of the Constitution.
Ish.
People flossing is particularly enjoyable.
At least you had a Cubicle. I worked in an open office floor plan, where the guy sitting right behind me would chew his food soooooooooo loud. And then throughout the day he would talk to himself, but not just talk but Hem and Haw very very loudly.
My cube is pretty sweet too. At the end of a row, so no one comes back there to bug me. The guy with the cube directly behind me is super cool and works from home at least half the time.
If it wasn’t for my loud princess on the other side of the wall, life would be awesome.
How long do you suppose that it will take before office planners admit that open offices are the debbil and get rid of them?
Never. They’re cheap.
They’re not cheap, they’re penny-wise, pound foolish, as you lose more by hamstringing your employees than you save in rent and facilities.
The seen and the unseen.
Rent and facilities are budget lines and can be accurately (enough) tracked.
Employee QoL, job satisfaction, productivity, and the smooth (-er) functioning of the team are neither.
I had a desk in an open office where my back was to the hallway entering the main Engineering section of the building. It was awful. Everyone walking past could see my screen, as well as every asshole felt like it was totally appropriate to tap me on the shoulder as they walked past.
How long do you suppose that it will take before office planners admit that open offices are the debbil and get rid of them?
3 – 4 years, would be my guess. I strongly suspect that this is all driven by the office industry – designers, furniture companies, etc. So in a few years they will have milked the open office thing for the revenue they are likely to get from the switchover, and they’ll be back to selling cubicles and cubicle furniture.
Pretty much like the way the fashion industry works, really.
It is driven by the power the fucking assholes that add zero value feel they get by making sure you know they are awesome cause they have an office, and you are just some bitch-ass chicken that should lay fucking eggs and not complain about the cage they have stuck you in, man.
Cubicle farms are a direct consequence of tax law.
My job may have a decidedly modest salary, but I do love it so for the simple fact that I have my own office and can shut the door whenever I want.
Sigh. I had an office from 1999-2017. Then my new gig put me in a cube. I forgot how bad it can be.
I have my door open in my home office, with the two year old pretending to take her baby doll shopping at Aldi, and it’s still an order of magnitude less distracting than going into the office.
Misogynists
Something’s happening with Bernie Sanders that looked unlikely to many a few months ago: Progressive leaders and organizations are lining up behind him, not Elizabeth Warren, in the lead-up to voting.
Two groups run by young people — the Sunrise Movement, which seeks to combat climate change, and Dream Defenders, which advocates for people of color — endorsed him last week. He’s also won the backing of People’s Action and the Center for Popular Democracy, which together claim more than 1.5 million members, as well as three lawmakers in the so-called “Squad” and liberal-minded labor unions.
The consolidation of left-wing support is a remarkable turnaround for Sanders. In September, the Working Families Party became the first major national progressive group to endorse a candidate when it picked Warren — despite siding with Sanders in 2016. Warren was surging at the time, and looked poised to overtake Sanders as the leader of the progressive movement and a frontrunner for the nomination.
But now it’s Sanders with the wind at his back. The endorsements, on display here Sunday when Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the Sunrise Movement joined him for a rally attended by more than 900 people, are giving him a jolt of momentum weeks ahead of the Iowa caucuses and supplying him with fresh volunteers in key areas.
“I’m not surprised that Bernie is increasingly consolidating support,” said Waleed Shahid, an aide for the left-wing group Justice Democrats, which has not yet endorsed a candidate. “Many of his staff have backgrounds in community organizing, his 2016 campaign helped grow the progressive movement, and he received [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s] endorsement, who is shaping the future of the progressive left in significant ways.”
They’re young and dumb and full of shit.
Working Families Party
Do you know who else had a workers party?
The last office I worked in….at Christmas?
The village people?
Dream Defenders, which advocates for people of color
Seems like they need to be A national association for their advancement.
I thought “colored people” was now non-pc.
Who can keep up with Newspeak? I was recently told that gay no longer means. homosexual. In fact we have burned through several terms since I half-ass kept up with that stuff.
I keep thinking that there’s no way an elderly Marxist gets elected president…..and then I remember who is currently in the White House.
Sanders is a loathsome, envious little man.
That we’re even close to entertaining the idea of electing a guy who supported the Sandinistas and honeymooned in the Soviet Union says nothing good about America.
100% agree. How does a man who has an extensively documented track record of lavishly praising the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Sandinista-era Nicaragua not get laughed out of public life?
Why don’t you put your money where your mouth is?
Steyer’s offer of housing is combined with promises to provide illegals with free healthcare, plus workplace training and cultural celebrations:
“A Steyer administration … [will] provide a safe platform for immigrants to share their culture and celebrate their heritage, foster opportunities for public service that support new Americans, and coordinate with Federal agencies and the private sector in order to build workforce training and fellowship opportunities for immigrants with professional qualifications from their home nation to help them leverage their specialized skills in the American marketplace.”
https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/lingua-franca-and-the-rise-of-the-resistance-socialite.html
“The Ladies Who Launch Lingua Franca and the rise of the resistance socialite.”
FTA:
“The well-heeled and -connected designer certainly has her foremothers: Lilly Pulitzer, Carolyne Roehm, Carolina Herrera, Gloria Vanderbilt. And the Upper East Side has long been lined with boutiques for the wives and daughters of financiers (Fiona Druckenmiller’s FD, Lisa Perry). Maybe in a different era, when everyone wasn’t so in love with being a founder — one of the #ladieswholaunch — these women might be society matrons, going to luncheons and sitting on boards and getting their hair done and making a big donation at the annual Robin Hood foundation benefit. But now, having a business is a way for a woman of a certain class to avoid being simply ornamental and, in these times, to show that she has a conscience. Consider it the latest evolution of the socialite side gig. “In the ’80s, if you were an affluent woman, it was interior design; you would go into PR in the ’90s; in the early aughts, you were a DJ; and the main business in the teens is influencing one way or another,” says Erik Maza, the style features director at Town & Country.
Now, too, there is e-commerce and the visibility of social media, which means it’s not just the people in the founders’ immediate universe who know about these companies. “I think these new socialite types want to sell their status and connections to a more aspirational audience that is ripe to be cultivated because they can shop with the click of a button,” says Maza. That bigger platform can also make such types more open to criticism. But in an era when everyone is checking their privilege, if a wealthy founder has set up the business as a cause, it can bulletproof her against some of that potential blowback.”
The fact that the average anti-Trump person is an affluent white person has got to be awfully inconvenient to the narrative. And yet somehow, it’s not.
Had this conversation recently with an acquaintance who leans left. Went along these lines:
“So I went to school with a lot of rich white liberals…”
“Do rich white liberals even exist?”
Said acquaintance is from heavy union old school Democrat area. Still blew my mind.
Does this acquaintance still live in a heavy union old school Democratic area?
I live in a very Democratic city and the class divide between those who vote Trump or are at least not obsessed with him is glaring and impossible to ignore.
Your average Trump supporter in the City of Chicago (yes, there are precincts that voted for Trump) is a cop, a fireman, or a unionized worker in the trades.
Your average rabidly anti-Trump person is high income and lives near the lake or is a government employee (other than cop or fireman).
The divide is like a parody at this point.
I’ve mentioned this before, but my in-laws are blue collar types from Erie. FIL is a retired welder and was very active in the union. They’ve been Dems all of their lives, and they are the most rabid Trump fans you’ll ever meet.
The Dems seem to think they can make up for the loss of the blue-collar vote by adding more… um… blacks? Yuppie college graduates? Er… some other group that isn’t already in the tank for them… yeah, I’ll think of one soon.
The Dems seem to think they can make up for the loss of the blue-collar vote by adding more… um
Immigrants, dead people, and voters who have left the district.
And what does that mean?
It means that all this talk about the working class avoids the actual beliefs and voting patterns of the working class.
The working class that Bernie and Warren talk about is an abstraction. They don’t exist. Or rather, they do exist, but they are nowhere near working class.
OK, how come none of our Japanese based Glibs mentioned that it was 成人の日, Seijin no Hi?
Who doesn’t enjoy seeing young women in kimono and young men getting plastered?
Japanese youths come of age at the dawn of a new decade
No one’s fucking in Japan. Maybe they should replace the kimono with a negligee or something
The USA is headed the same way. At least for middle class white people.
Having a child puts you in government’s crosshairs. Not worth it.
A question for the California based Gliberatti with respect to firearms…
I was thinking to sell my Taurus Tracker to a buddy living in California under the belief that revolvers are not restricted by the “handgun roster” law you have there. But then when I looked through the verbiage it seems that only single-action revolvers are exempt – and double-action revolvers are treated the same as semi-autos. Is this true?
I also noted that one can purchase a handgun which is not on the roster via a local (California based) FFL from a relative who lives out of state. Of course the relative has to go to an FFL where he/she lives and have the FFL ship it to the California based FFL. Is this true that a California resident can get a non-roster handgun this way?
nothing a drive to Cali cant fix…
That was my first Idea but I’m not sure that the California government hasn’t put something in the mix to track all transfers. I have no interest in setting my buddy up for failure should LEO’s and the court system get involved. I want to be sure he is 100% clean.
“A Steyer administration … [will] provide a safe platform for immigrants to share their culture and celebrate their heritage, foster opportunities for public service that support new Americans, and coordinate with Federal agencies and the private sector in order to build workforce training and fellowship opportunities for immigrants with professional qualifications from their home nation to help them leverage their specialized skills in the American marketplace.”
Sounds legit.
“I think these new socialite types want to sell their status and connections to a more aspirational audience that is ripe to be cultivated because they can shop with the click of a button,” says Maza. That bigger platform can also make such types more open to criticism. But in an era when everyone is checking their privilege, if a wealthy founder has set up the business as a cause, it can bulletproof her against some of that potential blowback.”
So they’re a bunch of wannabe church ladies?
People don’t change. Just because you throw a “new fangle progressive” veneer on it doesn’t mean that people are going to change.
That we’re even close to entertaining the idea of electing a guy who supported the Sandinistas and honeymooned in the Soviet Union says nothing good about America.
What goes up must come down.
We’re going to split first, I think.
Spinnin’ wheel got to go ’round.
i’m getting an update from Richmond that the “assault weapon” ban bill has been withdrawn.
I’m assuming the Dems in more contestable districts (Creigh Deeds, for example) balked at it.
we’ll see about the bill to ban standard capacity mags. if it makes it out of committee, then i’ll have to do some shopping later.
i fully expect private transfer background checks to pass along with red-flag confiscation.
then i’ll have to do some shopping later
Word.
trying to figure out the optimal mag:ammo ratio with my budget. i guess i could just get more mags now and worry about loading them later.
Magpul handed out a 1000 free mags at the capitol building this morning.
https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1216550061221588992
Sweet!
It will be back.
Just like Ahnold
“Leaders”
“Assault firearm” is the term they were using. But that’s not all they want to ban.
Two Virginia delegates want to increase the cigarette tax by six times its current amount and ban the sales of flavored tobacco products in the commonwealth.
Del. Patrick Hope (D-47th) and Del. Cliff Hayes (D-77th) hosted a Tobacco Control Policy Press Conference in Richmond Thursday outlining three tobacco-related bills: raising the cigarette tax to $1.80 (HB1120), creating a statewide retail licensing system (HB1283), and banning the sales of flavored tobacco products (HB1119).
The Virginia cigarette tax is currently at 30 cents, the second-lowest in the country. The new bill would increase the tax by $1.50, making it $1.80 — an amount closer to the national average of $1.81.
Backers of the bill say the increase would bring in $430 million of additional revenue, and a portion of that revenue would provide funding for youth tobacco and e-cigarette prevention, the state’s tobacco cessation quitline and merchant education.
I’ll put money that those guys were backed by Bloomberg. Anti-gun and anti-cigarette is his schitck.
I’ve often seen those woodchipper machines and wondered what other application they would really be useful for. I mean, there has to be a number of other useless, bothersome items that could be fed through one of those machines which would make life much better. I can almost imagine a few other things to do with one but somehow it just eludes me.
The movie Fargo should be informative.
Wow, that is a pretty naked money grab. Tax cigs and ban competition/means of stopping smoking. Wow.
Motherfucker, I was already pissed about the gun grabbing bullshit, but if you come for my mint dip, I’m going to fucking war.
A white heterosexual man who loves guns and dip is like the Democratic version of the anti-Christ
i’m getting an update from Richmond that the “assault weapon” ban bill has been withdrawn.
VCDL reported that too. Unfortunately, it looks like Universal Background Checks passed 9-5.
Apparently the Capitol Building is at capacity. The cowards banned firearms inside.
Apparently the Capitol Building is at capacity
…nearing capacity… not at
Do you have one of those high capacity Capitol’s? Those should be banned. No one needs more than 9 politicians.
The Nazgul intensifies
UBCs passed 9-5 but only for sales. transfers removed from the language. this is becoming a creep show.
Gotta draw a line in the sand, or they’ll compromise and creep us all the way to NY or CA rules.
The line – Restrictions like the NFA and permit requirements are a violation of the constitution and cannot be permitted.
Get us back to the line in the same, then we can talk about where to go from there.
I will bet anything that this bitch has either a Coexist or a Love Trumps Hate sticker on her car
What is she mad about anyway?
Why wasn’t I aware of this?
https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-51091877
Really? Over the past weekend you couldn’t swing a dead cat without smacking a half-dozen 20 year-old girls with it. My 9 year-old wanted McDonald’s as a reward for something he did – the place was crawling with girls in Kimonos and their male counterparts in suits.
More importantly given the more “international” nature of your work, did you get to take the whole day off?
Backers of the bill say the increase would bring in $430 million of additional revenue
In spite of the voluminous historical record to the contrary.
a portion of that revenue
How much?
funding for youth tobacco and e-cigarette prevention, the state’s tobacco cessation quitline and merchant education.
Fuck you, cut spending.
How are you going to keep your blood pressure elevated to healthy levels if you don’t get your daily dose of commercials from truth.org?
Few things make me want to take up smoking again like those ads.
UK Tory Roger Scruton use to deliver secret anti-communist lectures in Eastern Europe and was deemed an “undesirable” by the commies, so he had to be smuggled into these countries.
The same people who defended the Soviets from back in the day seem to think that they have the moral authority now to pass judgement on Roger Scruton. Who actually won the Cold War?
Who actually won the Cold War?
Not sure, but the fascists won World War II
He’s someone who actually fought for freedom, yet he was/is treated like shit by his own people.
From the Independent comments:
KHAN!
https://abcnews.go.com/International/galapagos-giant-tortoise-sex-retires-saving-species/story?id=68231846
Devils win back-to-back games against the 2 best teams in the east. Hell has frozen over.
And yet they couldn’t beat the Rangers 😛
The Hockey Red Sox are a bunch of vile communists, and one of the wellsprings of evil in the world.
Tell us how you really feel.
All in.
“Number one priority is to get rid of Donald Trump. I’m spending all my money to get rid of Trump. Do you want me to spend more or less? End of story,” the 2020 presidential hopeful told Reuters during an interview on his campaign bus.
Bloomberg said he believes he can win the presidency in 2020 by getting moderate Republicans on board with him because they would not vote for progressive candidates such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
He continued:
“One of the reasons I’m reasonably confident I could beat Trump is I would be acceptable to the moderate Republicans you have to have. Whether you like it or not, you can’t win the election unless you get moderate Republicans to cross the line. The others are much too liberal for them and they would certainly vote for Donald Trump.”
Good luck, I guess.
I’m spending all my money to get rid of Trump.
OK Bloomer. Looking forward to you living on Social Security starting next year.
Really the progressive wing should be pleased. Bloomer here is spending all his money to combat evil. Isn’t that their schtick?
I was gonna make a quip about Gun Control… but unfortunately moderate Republicans are way to ok with that idea.
I don’t know about the presidency but him and Steyer are running neck and neck for the US’ shittiest billionaire.
I’ve already got a mom, Mikey.
The amount of Bloomberg ads I have seen over the past weeks is staggering. He is all over YouTube and had a number of ads on during the NFL games. Hopefully this campaign drags out and he can drop a lot more of his fortune on this shite instead of the gun control push.
The good news is he said he was going to spend all his money this year.
Rofl
Nancy Pelosi: Savior of the republic.
“It’s about a fair trial,” Pelosi told ABC’s “’This Week.” “We’ve done our job. We have defended the Constitution of the United States. We would hope the Senate would do that as well.”
She warned: “Now the ball is in their court to either do that or pay a price.”
Trump tweeted right before and after Pelosi’s appearance, in both instances using derisive nicknames. He said both she and Schiff should appear in the Senate for testimony.
“He must be a Witness, and so should she!” Trump tweeted.
The president also rebutted Pelosi’s suggestion that no matter what the Senate does, the House vote last month means Trump will be “impeached forever” and “for life.”
“Why should I have the stigma of Impeachment attached to my name when I did NOTHING wrong?” Trump tweeted, calling the House action a “totally partisan Hoax.’”
fair trial
This use of “Fair Trial” is pretty pernicious. The idea (especially in criminal proceedings) has always been about giving the accused benefits to prevent tyranny of the government to stomp on the little guy. What she’s talking about is asking for more powers for her prosecutors, especially after she sanctioned a whole unfair impeachment process.
Yes. A trial has nothing to do with fair. Fair is a word used by children generally when they want something or didnt get what they wanted…and that is exactly what is going on here. Nancy wants to depose a president and she is throwing a tantrum because she doesn’t have the power to do so.
“fair trial” has long since meant going into the trial without a presumption of guilt toward the accused. In other words, the exact opposite of what Pelosi means.
We’ve done our job.
Except for the part about calling witnesses, building a case that is proof against a motion to dismiss, and issuing articles of impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Warren Says She’s Willing To Ban Construction of New Homes in America
Constitutionally limited federal government?
You have an issue with forced resettlements to place like Detroit?
“What scares me is every time you go back to the scientists, they tell you two things,” the senator said. “It’s worse than we thought, and we have less time.
This was immediately met with hundreds of principled scientists writing and signing a letter talking about how she was wrong and that she is endangering the scientific study by using such language to push political goals…
right?
A logical response would include “ARE YOU FUCKING NUTS?”
But the Overton Window has been shifted so far to the left that this just comes off as light pandering.
“The problem isn’t my private jet rides or my second home. The problem is that that family of four wants a bigger house. Worst than Hitler, they are.”
“That means we’ve got to be willing to do things, for example, like regulation. By 2028, no new buildings, no new houses, without a zero carbon footprint.”
She loves the poor and homeless so much that she want to create more of them.
No new housing construction + open borders = utopia?
I saw somewhere a guy try to analyze Dem policies for their underlying goals. The only thing he could come up with was “chaos”.
Nah man. The underlying goal of their policies is to get elected.
And probably welcome millions more “refugees” and house them for free… somewhere.
The same place they want to house you. At camp…
On the plus side my home will skyrocket in value. On the negative side, if I sell it I’ll apparently have to live under a bridge. Also, an EO or rule making to to that effect seem mildly unconstitutional.
“mildly”
Until Johnnie “I Want To Be Loved” Roberts gets a hold of it. And then we’re all just living in a penal colony. No biggie.
They’re totally not a cult of luddites.
Hah, that will really help that affordable housing crisis I’ve heard so much about.
We’ll finally be free of the scourge of cheap housing! The plebs will have to be stacked like cordwood in city cubicles where they can be treated like the drones that they are!
Well that would help elevate the issue of illegal immigration. I’m assuming that if no more housing can be built, all the illegals will have no choice except to rent basement apartments from people who are “lucky” enough to own a house.
And if enough greedy capitalists won’t rent, then the govt will be forced to step in and correct the market failure.
You’d definitely see a huge uptick in illegal rental units constructed in basements, attics, and industrial buildings. And of course, since it’s off the books there won’t be anything close to tenants’ rights or building safety standards. There won’t even be legal recourse if the landlord screws over the tenant in some way.
Gee, from the looks of it, you might start to get the idea that making things illegal or unaffordable just pushes them into the illegal market, where there are even worse outcomes than if you had just left it be.
I wonder if we could look at history and see anything resembling the America Warren wants.
Not American history. Italian history, and since her compatriots in the party are certainly ramping up he judenfrei angle, maybe German history.
Austria
And Booker is dropping out of the race.
Haha. Poor Spartacus.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/cory-booker-drops-out-presidential-race-n1114426
Now he can settle down into the long and wildly lucrative career as junior-senator-for-life from New Jersey.
Why are the Democrats so hellbent on purging nonAsian minorities?
“Senator Booker suspended his campaign after learning late last week that he had not already dropped out of the running.
“I’m going to be honest. I had forgotten that I was still in the race.” Senator Booker told NBC news. “That’s my bad.”
Voters seem to be as surprised as Senator Booker that his campaign had not already been suspended. At a Democratic Party gathering in Iowa on Friday, Laurie Metcamp from New York, NY who is temporarily residing in Des Moines in support of Elizabeth Warren’s campaign, responded with shock upon hearing about Booker’s planned exit from the race.
“That dude is still running?” She asked. “I think any of the Democratic candidates, except for Tulsi, would be better than the president, but I have admit that I was taken aback to learn that Senator Booker still believed that he could win the nomination. It makes sense now to know that he had forgotten that he was still running.”
Metcamp went on to praise Booker’s senate career, but adding “However, only Senator Warren embodies real Iowa values, like free college, abortion on demand through all nine months of pregnancy, and killing good paying blue collar jobs that are just plain icky. Booker was a little out of his eliminate campaigning here in Iowa, as he clearly wasn’t well versed on the issues that Midwesterners care most about.”
Heh. That’s gotta sting for him.
Also, I really forgot he was still in it.
TGA confirmed as Bee plant.
Look at dem racists running off all their colored candidates.
Semi-confident prediction: Booker or Harris will be the VP, for great intersectionality.
I must say, I thought Warren was going to put up a better showing. Hilariously, this race may come down to Biden v Sanders, who isn’t even a Democrat. Buttigieg (which I still can’t pronounce) seems to have peaked.
Harris is Bloomberg’s life insurance.
I want to see A Trump/Warren debate. Trump/Biden might be ok except it would be kinda sad, with Biden being demented. Trump/Bernie could be entertaining though.
#metoo
Well, Harris checks off 2 boxes, but I’d be surprised if she gets on the ticket.
I am going with Butt-gig until proven otherwise.
Bootyjudge
I can’t wait till Warren drops and the hashtag is #TooMuchDemDick
Who?
Spartacus is out.
Sen. Cory Booker has suspended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
“I will carry this fight forward — I just won’t be doing it as a candidate for president this year,” the New Jersey senator said in a message Monday. “It’s with a full heart that I share this news — I’ve made the decision to suspend my campaign for president.”
#DemocratsSoWhite
I heard Neal Peart also dropped out.
Too soon!!
I’m boycotting the Tom Woods show, because the guy does not pay enough homage to Rush. Dude loves him some prog rock if it’s Jethro Tull, but not those Canadian boys.
Worst than Hitler, he is
What do you expect from a White Nationalist?
Fellow White Nationalist and Putin stooge, Rand Paul, plays Rush songs at his rallies. All I’m asking is for Tom Woods to be a better White Nationalist. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
In the future, everyone will be a Putin stooge for 15 minutes.
As great as Rush is, do they have a song as good on eminent domain as Tull’s Farm on the Freeway?
No, no they do not.
Does Jethro Tull also have a concept album based on Ayn Rand’s novella “Anthem” that somehow makes the whole plot more ludicrous as the main character discovers that guitars existed prior to the collectivized state rather than a light bulb?
I still wished they had played the entirety of 2112 at their HoF gig.
There was this bar that I use to go to that had an old-fashioned jukebox and for the price of one song you could play all of the first side of 2112 as it’s all one song. I played that every time I went to that bar, much to the chagrin of others.
youtube dive: Peart is wearing an Expos hat in the video for Vital Signs.
I was at a bar on karaoke night once and they had The End by the Doors in their book. I threatened to do it, but thought I might not get out alive.
Canadian, so not eligible.
*Sensible chuckle*
Progressive Gothic
Iran’s only female Olympian just defected. LOL
https://apnews.com/58db534658512cd0d0ee73550b212b0f
“Whatever they said, I wore,” Alizadeh wrote in the letter posted Saturday. “Every sentence they ordered, I repeated.”
1979 would like a word.
I’m sure the journalist doesn’t know what unprecedented means.
“Everything it worst under Trump. #JimmyDidNothingWrong”
/TDS sufferer
she had fled to the Netherlands
If she makes a wrong turn in Amsterdam, it’ll feel just like the old country.
As a principle, I quite admire Gulag Barbie for telling the Dems to go fuck themselves. Yes, I know that where she’s putting that money is into primarying Dems not Marxist enough for her, but she’s upsetting the apple cart and doing it in a spectacular fashion.
If only her brain were as big as her rack, though
She won’t sleep with you.
I won’t sleep with commies. They’re bad people
Is she or is she not dangerous to the Constitution?
If she’s toothless, well, okay.
I don’t think she will be in the long run.
Stopped clock, blind squirrel, etc.
If she’s toothless, well, okay.
One thing she’s got, is teeth.
She doesn’t seem to put much credence in the rumors that her district will be the one eliminated.
Or, she’s arrogant enough to believe that she’ll win against one of her incumbent neighbors anyway.
She doesnt have to worry about that until 2022.
2020 will use the same districts.
Prediction: She will win.
“An ounce of perception, a pound of obscure” is pretty much my motto.