It’s here!!!!
Well we’re getting closer to pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training. And the XFL starts this weekend! Until then, we’ve got hockey and soccer across an ocean to report on. And the hockey winners last night were Florida, Dallas and Philadelphia (who beat the absolute dumpster fire known as the Detroit Red Wings, who are now 6 games back…of the team with the second-worst record in the league). That state can’t do anything right.
Legend!
“Lucky Lindy” Charles Lindbergh was born on this day. He shares it with golf legend Byron Nelson, civil rights hero Rosa Parks, actress Ida Lupino, horror legend George Romero, golf addict Alice Cooper, spelling champ Dan Quayle, HOFer Lawrence Taylor, Canadian hockey great Denis Savard, boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya, and the lovely Gabrielle Anwar.
Alrighty then, on to…the links!
Talk-radio pioneer and pain-killer aficionado Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh, talk radio pioneer and icon, announces on-air that he has advanced lung cancer. And then a shitload of people (like Reza Aslan)rush to twitter to wish him well gloat about his diagnosis. And those from the left that wished him well (Like Tulsi Gabbard) were beaten over the head in the replies. Ah, the new tolerance.
This should surprise exactly zero people. I mean, everybody knows those people are better at destroying record-keeping technology than they are at creating it. Oh well, I guess th DNC will tell us who “won” when they feel like deciding who won.
Check out these brave first responders. In their defense, they did have families to go home to that night. Unfortunately they weren’t there to shame them for their behavior.
Bloomberg and pal Ghislaine Maxwell
Trump campaign removes Bloomberg News reporter from Iowa press conference. Meh, they’re coordinating with a campaign on the other side and I don’t really have a problem with this. The campaign is not a part of the government and they’re free to let in or keep out whoever they want.
Hey, they’re just teaching these kids the way politics in that city work. In fact, I think they should get bonus pay for exposing these kids to the college machine at such a young age.
I’m pretty sure this asshole is going to prison. I wonder if CNN will still consider him presidential material then.
LOL, way to know your audience, Disney. I mean…seriously? Could you get any more absurd? Yes, yes they can.
Well, seeing as the “international norm” has been Palestinian terrorists lobbing bombs into Israel while using innocent people as human shields, maybe it’s time to abandon those international norms once and for all.
I’m in the mood to listen to this. Hope you enjoy it.
Go have a great day, friends.
Team blue doesn’t want the results out cause they know they are toast…
Rush Limbaugh, talk radio pioneer and icon, announces on-air that he has advanced lung cancer. And then a shitload of people (like Reza Aslan)rush to twitter to wish him well gloat about his diagnosis. – he is bad as such he deserves anything that happens.
When I used to deliver pizzas in the mid-late 90s, I would listen to a lot of talk radio. Always avoided Rush as he came across like a blowhard, even if I agreed with him. I preferred G. Gordon Liddy, who was loony but came across as measured. Plus, the range of that man’s knowledge was unbelievable. You could ask him literally any question and he would have a pretty good thought or advice. I think the best example of this was one day when somebody called in about their dog having been sprayed by a skunk and wondering how the could get the smell out. “Well, first,” G. Gordon said, “You need a gallon of vinegar. Take that and mix it with…”
Anyway, back to Rush. Not a fan myself, but gloating over something like lung cancer is sick. He’s never hurt anybody, he’s a radio announcer, for God’s sake! I’m trying to think of who the equivalent on the left would be. Al Franken, maybe. Not a guy I like. But if something like that happened to him, I can’t imagine gloating over it.
Lots of real hardcore haters are loving that he is sick. You know, the type of people that accuse anyone that doesn’t believe the evil marxist shit they believe or peddle of being motivated by hatred…
I wouldn’t mourn as much if a mass murderer like Kim Jong Un got ass cancer, but weirdly part of me might still feel bad for him.
I don’t want anybody to die of cancer. I’d rather Kim Jong Un get drawn and quartered by the people he’s oppressed his whole life and have cancer be eradicated.
Well, maybe if they came down with some kind of useful cancer lie that that lady that gave us Humulin. I’m not sure exactly what practical application ass cancer would have except maybe generating bootys for sexbots.
Used to listen to him pretty regularly in the ‘90s, when I think he was at his peak. Entertaining and a much needed counterpoint to a lockstep MSM that was a little better than now at hiding that they were DemOps. It was really Obama that made the MSM the buttboy for the Dems.
Yeah, I’m pretty much the same. Listened a lot in the ’90s when I had the time.
What really opened my eyes was in listening to his show and then seeing the reactions on the MSM to what Rush allegedly said.
I don’t think anyone can fairly say that Rush is a bigot, but you’d read in the paper about all the totes racist stuff he said on his show and think “Huh? I just listened to that yesterday on Rush’s show and that isn’t at all what he meant”.
For example, his coining the term Feminazi was fairly clever tongue in cheek poke at the harridans in the feminist movement. But the MSM made him out to be a misogynist of the first order for calling him that.
I spent some time listening to him in the 90s as well, and that was what I took away from that experience: the people in the media lied, without impunity, about him and what he said. After that it became very easy for me to see that their was not only a clear but real hard to understand bias in the MSM towards protecting and peddling shit for team blue and the leftist agenda, but that they desperately wanted to not just silence any opposing views, but keep their monopoly. Limbaugh’s greatest contribution I believe is helping so many people realize that simple truth.
Or when they screamed racist for saying “Obama wants to fundamentally change our country, I hope he fails”.
I actually got attacked by a bunch of team blue people when I pointed out after the orange man managed to win an election that the Obama administration had gone to great lengths to rig for one of the most corrupt and crooked people ever that team blue would now resort to scorched earth politics – out of purse spite – and pretend it was because of some legitimate reason. Needless to say, none of those team blue people want to talk to me these days because they really know that even though I wouldn’t say “I told you so”, I pegged them exactly right. Calvin ball all the way.
He’s never hurt anybody
He called that Fluke girl (or Lena Dunham?) a slut. Clearly he is a monster.
Well… She was a slut who wanted everyone else to pay for her slut supplies.
I liked listening to David Brudnoy, whose fight for the Amiraults is one of the things that turned me libertarian.
Can’t believe he’s been dead 15 years already.
I used to watch his TV show in the early 90’s. A guy loudly and somewhat logically rebutting the ascendant Clintons and leftists was just great. I never got into his radio show much, a half-hour of him hamming it up on TV was perfect for me.
I LOVED the G. Gordon Liddy show. He absolutely is crazy, and holds a lot of disturbing beliefs, but he was entertaining as hell. He simply never cared one bit what anyone thought of him, which to me was refreshing despite his general insanity. And you’re right, despite the craziness he’s a really smart, extensively read guy who knows a lot about a lot of things.
My go-to listening at that time was G. Gordon Liddy if I was working the lunch shift, and Art Bell if I was delivering at night. Not altogether different, in some ways. For one thing, both G. Gordon and Art were unfailingly courteous with their callers and guests, no matter how much nonsense they were spewing.
That was also true.
I remember he’d have Al Franken on sometimes, which was weird. They were apparently friends, oddly enough.
One of the things that has hurt Rush is that he is an insider now. He has a ton of power and influence. Since he has done a lot to drive the GOP agenda, he gets stuck having to defend the GOP a lot.
When he was starting he was a complete outsider. Some crank on AM radio who could throw bombs at whoever he thought needed to be mocked. He was a lot funnier back then.
I certainly stopped listening to him once I realized he was shilling too hard for team red.
So. Is there anything that isn’t going to be a brazen fiasco this campaign season?
Nope.
The fraud will be blatant and ugly. Buckle up, it’s gonna be a bumpy ride.
But hey, these are the people I am told we MUST have running the country, cause orange man is bad.
The LP national convention?
Think we found our candidate.
*Grotesque Warning*
Was that necessary gaijin?
The link or the warning?
Both. But I know better than to click your links when I am at work….
Sigh.
We already have the Iowa results here in Romania, but we are making you Americans sweat before releasing them.
It’s 97% Trump.
It’s a bunch of Midwest farmers trying to decide between… a gay mayor of a crappy second-rate city, a commie, a crazy lady from Harvard who thought she was Indian, a senile old creep, and some other people who also hate them.
I believe this.
Lol.
#YangGang hacked the elections!!!!!!!!!
It would have been so much more entertaining if /pol/ had.
“And with 66.6% of the votes, the winner is ‘Hitler Did Nothing Wrong!'”
What kind of optics are allowed at steel shot?
Any.
There are different divisions for optic and iron sights.
Okay.
I’m still thinking about it. But these questions pop up.
Oh, something I forgot to mention that isn’t required by the rules but you will absolutely want is muck boots. No ammo restrictions other than pistol calibers, <2000 fps.
rules heir.
And if your setup is non-compliant, what they’ve been doing is allowing people to shoot, but listing you as NFC (not for competition).
I think there are like seventy-five different pistol divisions (i keed, but not really) but only two for PCC or .22LR — PCCO/PCCI and RFRO/RFRI (rimfire rifle optic/irons)
Shock of all shocks, the website is blocked from work. I’ll have to read it at home.
Also, creating an account here will let you see the schedule. Though the website is one of the shittiest I’ve ever used:
https://www.practiscore.com/
Warren got 88%?
He’s right! Which is why we should all get behind McAfee! Sure, he’ll be fucking whale blowholes. But the trade-off for having a tech-savvy guy in the WH is worth it.
Wait, there is something wrong with fucking whale blowholes? Some people – not me – are into fat chicks. Nothing wrong with that….
/looks around
Of course, you’ve had it in the nose before.
Say wut?
One does not get behind McAfee. McAfee gets behind you.
GET BEHIND ME, MCAFEE!
Because the Republican president has something to do with the Iowa state Democrat party functions.
Impeachment round 2?
Orange man sells secrets to Turkey…
“The Colonel’s recipe is floor sweepings”
That’s Joy Behar level stupid
The firm behind the app reportedly is Shadow, an affiliate of ACRONYM, a Democratic nonprofit founded in 2017 “to educate, inspire, register, and mobilize voters,” according to its website. Shadow started out as Groundbase, a tech developer co-founded by Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis, who worked for the tech team on Clinton’s campaign for the 2016 Democratic nomination.
Unless the voters make the “wrong” decision.
Anyway, Democrat caucus shenanigans? *shocked face*
“Three different sources say a firm called “Shadow” developed the Iowa Dem caucus app. They haven’t responded to comment, neither has Iowa Dem Party. The firm was paid by both Nevada & Iowa Democratic Party, disclosures show. Also by Mayor Pete’s campaign.”
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1224561674679488513
To quote USSR’s Communist leader Joseph Stalin: “It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.”
And yeah, I know a shit ton of marxist asshats have been saying Stalin didn’t say this, really, but that’s bullshit propagandists again trying to hide the evils of marxism from people that are gullible and more inclined to go with their feelings of envy towards those that have more when deciding politics.
If it wasn’t for fuckin’ Khrushchev, Stalinism would have definitely led to Utopia.
You joke, but this seems to be the sort of shit they teach the dimwitted kids these days. Only they replace Khrushchev with the US or capitalism, cause that makes it easier to pass as factual.
“ACRONYM also clarifies that it does not wholly own Shadow, saying that Shadow has “other private investors.”
But ACRONYM has previously said that it is “launching” Shadow — so the ties between these two organizations are obviously close.”
https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1224586486374256640
Who the heck names their election app firm “Shadow”? That seems like a really stupid choice, or a Freudian slip.
Well, isn’t it supposed to find out what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
I guess that’s one purpose of an election.
“VoteNow, brought to you by Shadow LLC, an ACRONYM enterprise, a division of Weyland-Yutani Inc, a Satan/Iblis partnership, in co-operation with the Clinton Foundation, Hitler’s Millenials, and the support of viewers like you.”
Totes Not Evil.
Those Clinton alums have been hard at work fucking up another election for the Dems, God bless em!
The simplest explanation is Iowa Democrats went with an inferior product because it was made by progressive people. Almost surely a matter of sheer incompetence. Still funny though.
I’d put the odds at a little higher that is was something funny. They did do some whacked things last time, too.
As I already pointed out though: these are the people that think they should be running the country because orange man is bad…
I would find it really hard to believe they couldn’t find progressive and yet competent people in SF or SJC, having worked there.
About 10 years ago my company replaced its perfectly adequate time-charging software with a piece of shit that barely worked. Getting your timecard every week without the program crashing became a hassle. The rumor was the brother-in-law of the COO was a founder of the company that produced the new time-charging software. Sounded plausible to me, although the official reason was that it would allow managers to better track their employees’ hours. I asked my manager once what he thought of the features on the new software and got a profanity-laced tirade in response.
I figure this voting software is the same deal.
“an affiliate of ACRONYM”
I gotta say, I like the parent company’s name.
I wonder what it stands for?
It’s actually an anagram of “acrimony”. Yes, they’re no good at anagrams either.
It’s MYNORCA backward!
I always liked that song because it basically steals a Link Wray riff.
“LOL, way to know your audience, Disney. I mean…seriously? Could you get any more absurd? Yes, yes they can.”
Petty, but still should be legal.
Agreed. But public perception is a hell of a lot more valuable than that $250.
But, failure to defend intellectual property rights can result in the court declaring that the owner forfeitted those rights. That is worth a hellofa lot more than $250.
That only applies to trademark, IIRC.
I believe Disney, despite repeatedly getting copyright extensions passed, also trademarks its materials as an added layer of llitigiousness. Mostly because Mickey is supposed to have long ago been public domain.
Yes, but showing the movie isnt a trademark violation. The $250 was for copyright, not trademark. Unless they scrubbed the Disney marks off the movie, then it would be a lot more than $250.
So send a letter that says, look, we gotta charge you, but we’ll make a $250 donation, so it’s all good.
I agree, that would have been the better move.
But I can’t accuse Disney of being tactically bright.
I said this for a lot of the beer trademark issues. License it for $1 to the brewpub for a limited time or whatever. It protects the trademark legally and prevents the bad press that comes from the C&D letters.
Then again, we would lose things like The Dinosaur Surrender Letter.
Then send a letter to the school explaining why you’re demanding $250…and enclose a $250 donation to the fund-raiser they showed the movie at. Or a $500 donation.
Great minds may think alike, but some are a tad slower. ?
Fact check: true.
*Fact check: pending.
Nah, I;m sure that in Berkeley, The Lion King is considered colonialist oppression mixed with orientalizm, PoC fetishization, and absolutely overt heteronormativity and patriarchy.
Was it the “live-action” remake of the Lion King? Because that movie sucked hard and Disney should pretend that it never happened.
Accentuate the positive
Despite the chaos, certain aspects of the Iowa caucus were inspiring. For the first time, a caucus was held in a mosque, and hundreds of Muslims and non-Muslims came together to vote for Bernie. In the first caucus of the day, immigrant pork plant workers, whose evening shifts prevented them from joining the main event, came out early to line up for Bernie. Internationally based Iowans caucused around the world, including in Scotland and Tblisi, Georgia. The Iowa caucus might seem like a good illustration of the dysfunction in American democracy, but some of its participatory elements are beautiful. It would be a shame if the lively, communal caucus system disappeared entirely in favor of secret ballots in voting booths, as some were already recommending as the vote-counting mess unfolded.
We may not know how they voted, but look how inclusive and diverse they are! That’s what really matters. Not like those Whitey mcWhitebread Rethuglitards. We can go back and extrapolate the totals later.
Way to shit on basic American principles, Guardian. A caucus should never take place in a religious building. I hope everyone at the Guardian gets lung cancer.
In my experience it is not uncommon in America for polling places to be held in religious buildings, because they are often a large place that is conveniently located that the government can use for free. Around my area libraries, schools, and churches are where the polling places are held.
General elections are public, primaries (or at an absolute minimum, the Iowa caucuses) are private and partisan. This is a distinction that makes a big difference under tax-exempt status law.
One that has been, and will continue to be, universally ignored.
Just a couple of devil’s advocate:
Do primary caucuses not pay for their use of private facilities, normally?
Does this concern apply if the facility managers have a policy of “Any political party is welcome to caucus here under a set of universal, party-neutral, rules”?
I have a hard and fast rule for my hospitals: no electioneering activity whatsoever. Period. Full Stop. No Exceptions. Don’t Make Me Tell You Twice.
In 2016, I forced a House candidate to not run an ad that he shot in our main hospital, even though it didn’t show our name anywhere. It was still a use of our facilities for electioneering, and I don’t know that just saying any candidate was welcome to use our hospital to shoot campaign ads would have been worth betting our tax-exempt status on.
That’s when the pipe hitting lawyers come out.
That’s when the pipe hitting lawyers come out.
*furiously scrabbling for plumbing terms that’d abbreviate to RC*
*got nuthin*
So, you’re saying there was a Georgia Satellite caucus?
Yes, it’s on Peachtree Avenue, Tiblisi.
Weren’t peaches domesticated in that part of the world?
If only politicians would stop giving us lines and keep their hands to themselves.
“…there was a Georgia Satellite caucus”
I got a little change in my pocket going jingle-ingle-lingle.
tied down with battleship chains.
And I am out, I have exhausted my Ga Satellites knowledge.
Don’t hand me no lines.
Pork plant workers in a mosque, now that’s real diversity.
Reminds me of a fucking idiot coworker who constantly implores all of us that he can solve our twin problems of terrorists in the Middle East and feral hogs by somehow capturing the latter, freezing them solid, and dropping them from bombers all over the former, inducing their immediate surrender, after realizing their bodies have been impregnated with the most delicious shrapnel.
“ a caucus was held in a mosque”
Pay no attention to the blatant violation of tax exempt status requirements.
I have voted in a church as often as a school.
I see no problem here.
Yeah, churches and schools are the vast majority of polling places everywhere I have lived. I don’t think there is any tax exempt status issue with this.
Voting at the senior center in the middle of the senior community annoyed me. Why didnt I get to vote in my HOA clubhouse?
An election is a nonpartisan state-run thing.
This is an inherently partisan party-run thing. Tax exempt status prohibits providing support to individual candidates or groups of candidates, which would include a political party.
I’m starting to think The Guardian is a humor site.
Reposting from previous thread:
https://xkcd.com/2030/
This was posted in the previous thread
And the Dems still havent learned it.
So it only needs redundancy if it’s a hardware joke?
Software may need redundancy, but unfortunately we haven’t been able to get two parallel systems to spit out the same result yet so …
I think this understates the case. By a lot.
Reza Aslan
@rezaaslan
Ask yourself this simple question: is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?
It would be a better place if you would keep your ignorant, bigoted mouth shut. But freedom of speech means freedom to be an ass.
So you’re saying you won’t eat his brains?
No linky? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6vnM9I7HIo
“Ask yourself this simple question: is the world a better place or a worse place with Rush Limbaugh in it?”
For anyone other than his family, it’s about the same.
Honestly other than (hopefully) for my immediate family, I wouldn’t dare to say it is. I would hope that I didn’t make the world worse — but beyond my tiny and immediate interactions, I seriously doubt my ripples have changed much in the ocean of the world.
And I’m fine with that. Honestly, it bugs me to no end when certain companies I happen to work for after mergers have things like a corporate goal of “We want to make the world a better place by 2025!”. You’re a gorram computer company, folks… we might provide the *tools* to make the world a better place, we should have some discretion in who we work with (aka IBM and Germany in the 1930s, though to be fair to them — I think that project was basically a census in its origins), but we’re not here to be a transformative force. We’re here to provide technology and tools to people to do what they need to do.
And to vent on websites when you can’t say these things in a corporate culture, apparently… 😉
Fun fact, one of the companies that formed the original IBM started out making tabulating machines for the US census to speed up the count in the late 1800s.
Reminder- this shitheel was one of the nastier attackers of the Covington kids, so he can shove his “better or worse” shtick right up his ass.
World would definitely be better without leftist media assholes.
I think he also had a misogynistic PUA blog when he was younger.
Now do Kobe
What’s a little butt-rape when you can dunk a basketball?
“Pete Buttigieg declares VICTORY in Iowa amid Democratic vote fiasco saying ‘you shocked the nation’ despite there being NO official results – and Bernie Sanders publishes his results claiming HE is the winner”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7964051/Pete-Buttigieg-declares-VICTORY-Iowa-amid-Democratic-vote-fiasco-despite-NO-official-results.html
That’s fun. I’m starting to believe that headline I saw about Trump being the winner of the Iowa caucus.
The. Best. Timeline.
123) On my way into work today I passed by the display in the lobby of my office building for Black History Month, and I noticed a poster about How to Be a Good Ally. A cursory glance leads me to believe it’s a brief guide for non-minorities on how to be friends with black folks or other minorities. But notice that phrasing—not how to be a good friend, or even a good co-worker. How to be a Good Ally.
You know who has allies? People going to war, or who are threatened by enemies and potentially could go to war. And who would minorities be going to war with here? Mainstream society, what else could it be? Now is US mainstream society so naturally racist/anti-minority that any interaction is naturally a hostile activity that requires allies? Maybe, but I don’t think so. More likely, this is part of an intentional undermining of US mainstream society as it currently exists.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this. It’s just a poster in a pro forma corporate exhibit that hardly anybody will read. Most likely its creators, insofar as they were intentional in anything they were doing, were mainly checking off the correct trendy corporate buzzwords. And yet, and yet, even if that’s the case…how has this sort of war on society language crept in corporate buzzspeak in the first place?
People going to war, or who are threatened by enemies and potentially could go to war. And who would minorities be going to war with here? Mainstream society, – well yes. There is a culture was going on, haventyounoticed
The front of the culture war was not previously in the lobby of my office building, though.
Well it is everywhere
As to your question, I don’t know, but see Metafilter if you want to observe more of that SJW jargon. I recommend against it.
Maybe I’m reading too much into this.
I hope you are. I’ve been hearing the term “ally” used for years to describe straight people who go out of their way to be gay-friendly. It’s kind of obnoxious virtue signaling, but I don’t think we’re going to war. I haven’t gotten a memo to fill my purse with pennies and file my nails sharp.
You owe my employer for a new monitor man.. I spewed iced tea all over it laughing at this post.
When I was a kid they had public service commercials that said something like “How should you treat black people? Like you treat anyone else.” I guess that’s not enough any more.
thicc?
https://twitter.com/TheRangeRider1/status/1224086746184458243
Thicc?
that is a thinn link
Thicc-er?
Your link was more feminine.
I’ve heard that taking unnaturally high levels of testosterone does irreversible unwanted things to a woman’s body, and greatly enlarges her clitoris and sex drive.
Transmen who take testosterone to go thorough male puberty report that they never knew how strong a sex drive could be and don’t understand how biomales could stand it.
I also read once that a F2M said that it was amazing how suddenly the prattling on and on of women was really annoying.
One weekend at work, I had NPR on, the that Terri Gross broad was interviewing the trans author of this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/126814.Trans_Sister_Radio
Im paraphasing, but the FTM tranny confirmed what NA said about sex drive, and also something along the lines of “I know this will set the woman’s movement back 20 years, but with testosterone shots, math and science made a lot more sense.”
There is one way to fund out really.
* find goddamnit
I’ve also heard that some of the female bodybuilders prostitute themselves to men who have a muscle fetish, or they sideline as professional dominatrices, or both, so “fund out” might not be inappropriate.
See Joanie Lauer in “Backdoor to Chyna” !
That dude has some really big pecs.
It occurs to me her form is not good.
“Since they have declared their bias openly, the Trump campaign will no longer credential representatives of Bloomberg News for rallies or other campaign events,” campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement at the time. “We will determine whether to engage with individual reporters or answer inquiries from Bloomberg News on a case-by-case basis. This will remain the policy of the Trump campaign until Bloomberg News publicly rescinds its decision.”
Perfectly reasonable.
they’re free to let in or keep out whoever they want.
Same for the government. It would just be a transparency issue if they refused to speak to reporters. But Trump does impromptu press conferences all the time.
99 smartphones are transported in a handcart to generate virtual traffic jam in Google Maps
http://www.simonweckert.com/googlemapshacks.html
Thursday, Emerson Elementary received a letter from Disney’s licensing agent, Movie Licensing USA, ordering the school to pay $250 for screening the film without a license.
Do I need a license to screen a Disney film in my living room?
Well, that depends, what format do you have, who else is there, and how much are you charging?
“public performance”
Close the blinds, and you should be fine.
Do I need a license to screen a Disney film in my living room?
The problem was not that they screened it, but that they used it as a fund raiser. In other words, they charged admission, making them essentially a movie theater. A movie theater profiting off of a film without securing the rights to do so. I think Disney is in the right here.
The initiative has infuriated the Palestinians, who see their aspirations for a viable independent state in danger of being bitterly extinguished.
Is there a time that they were not infuriated?
Is there a time that they were not infuriated?
Yeah, the time between the Anschluss and VE-Day.
Palestinians didn’t exist then.
The British would disagree.
But didn’t the Brits use “Palestinians” to refer to the Jewish settlers? I might be mistaken.
It was an area populated by Arab Muslims and Jews. And they fought pretty much the whole time.
Not referring to the territory so much as who was called Palestinian. Late 19th/early 20th century, the Brits called the Jews Palestinian and the Arabs, well, Arabs. I think, anwyay.
Yes, well, the British always have had a bit of judenhass.
“I KEEL YOU!”
State Rep. Rebekah Warren charged for being “super drunk” while driving
https://www.michiganradio.org/post/state-rep-rebekah-warren-charged-being-super-drunk-while-driving
Wait, I thought that was one of the perks of being a state politician? Or is that only Romania.
She does look like she’s had a drink or four in her time
…prolly would
No, that was Virginia
I thought the Romanian politicians didn’t drink…. wine.
Wait, I thought that was one of the perks of being a state politician? Or is that only Romania.
State rep is pretty low on the totem pole of politicians. I’m sure those with more status do get that perk, and we never hear about it.
Today’s spin is gonna be “Iowa isn’t that important anyway.”
This after months of the candidates and the media spending tons of money there
I hope people realize that these inept corrupt fucks DEMAND to be the ones in charge, but should not be allowed to be in charge of even a fucking clown car.
Exhibit A
9 months is long enough for a woman to bring a new idea to term.
Uffda. I for one am stunned to find out that Special K was right all along and she really can get the same results in Iowa as anyone else.
“Undetermined”
Exactly. Just like Bernie, Biden and Warren.
I’m actually feeling a bit sorry for her. My guess is she was all ready to throw in the towel and bow out gracefully while supporting some other front runner in the hopes of being the VP. Now she has to drag her ass to NH.
“America, something went wrong here tonight and it wasn’t just an app. If an app goes down, there are such things as telephones. Then a moderate candidate came out and made this weird victory speech, while MSM started talking about what a good night this was for Mike Bloomberg. ?”
https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1224585636839141383
Hah, hah, hah!
Someone failed to send the old article down the memory hole.
Bah, you beat me to it.
Judging by the progression in those two photos, this time next year her column will have just a closeup of her nose.
The thing that kills me is how these dnc operatives with bylines never worry that whatever shit they posted before could be used to show they are mendacious and transparent cuntes peddling a narrative rather than actually doing any reporting.
She is the very best at making a fool of herself with absolutely no outside assistance.
Court To Cop: We Don’t Need On-Point Precedent To Deny You Immunity For Killing A Dog That Couldn’t Hurt You
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200125/20371343799/court-to-cop-we-dont-need-on-point-precedent-to-deny-you-immunity-killing-dog-that-couldnt-hurt-you.shtml
What a DICK
That’s the thing about precedent: if there isn’t something controlling from a prior court, the court hearing the case has discretion to decide what it wants.
Now, the cop has lost immunity, so I eagerly await the filing of criminal charges just like you or I would get if we went onto a neighbors property and gunned down their dog.
A man of the people.
The most recent filing from Sanders reveals $1,199,579 in spending during the final three months of 2019 to Apollo Jets, LLC, a “luxury private jet charter service.” The campaign spent an additional $23,941 for transportation to Virginia-based Advanced Aviation Team.
The candidate who comes closest to matching Sanders in private jet spending was former vice president Joe Biden, whose campaign spent $1,040,698 to Advanced Aviation Team last quarter…
Sanders has long leaned on private air travel on the campaign trail, despite his belief that limiting carbon emissions from the transportation sector is crucial to combating climate change.
But I though he bough indulgence
bough indulgence
The Tree of Socialism has to be watered periodically with AvGas
The nomenclaktura deserve those luxuries, tovarisch – they’re working hard for YOU, after all!
“Despite attempts by liberal hacks in the media to interfere in voting and suppress voters, I can announce the winner of the First Annual Smug Industries Liberal Hack championship
CONGRATULATIONS @brianstelter !!!”
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1224515748414074881
Because internet trolls are more efficient than the DNC.
Ha. Brian Williams out in the first round.
Not according to him.
How the heck did Krugman not get to the Sweet Sixteen?!?
Yeah, that mystified me as well.
Those who live on twitter have a different outlook on things than other people.
It’s a crowded field. I’m not sure how they whittled it down to 64. The derp bubble is huge.
And only a 5th seed.
wtf goes on in furry twitter
https://twitter.com/bimboairi/status/1223877159778783236
In other news, I watched one episode of Interspecies Reviewers and anime has gotten weird in the 12 years since I stooped watching.
Anime was always weird. To me, anyway.
Shojou Kakumei Utena was completely straightforward. The student council at a school is fighting a series of duels to win the hand of an Indian chick (who is also a thousand year old witch and also a convertible).
Let me guess, they’re also ignoring the perfectly accessable potential romantic interest who pines for them from the sidelines?
Actually no. The pining love interests all have incompatible sexual orientations, (though sometimes the interests will fake reciprocity in order to manipulate them). At least one of the pining love interests is a Jeep.
Also the Indian chick/convertible is completely pan.
Is this about the love lives of automobiles or something? You’re sounding crazier by the post.
Well, see, the girl that’s in (unrequited) love with her brother makes a curry that turns her into a cow. Which is a metaphor for status-seeking and greed.
I’m roughly 50% on this classic, but loved the soundtrack!
v
Lead voice actress died young – ovarian cancer at 41.
The “v” was supposed to link to the OP!
I watched them in the order they were released in the US, which means I watched the movie before seasons 2 and 3. Talk about insanity. Surfing elephants? Cows in uniforms? Car washes the size of a city block?
Anime was always weird. There’s just more of it now so there’s more weird anime out there.
Spelling champ Dan Quayle
Always overlooked is that the teachers misspelled it on the card they have Quayle.
Or that many leftist cuntes are far more stupid but get protected by the douchebag & asshat dnc operatives with bylines.
If you need a card to spell ‘Potato’, that doesn’t speak any better of you than spelling it ‘Potatoe’
He was spelling it in Austrian.
So the caucus app that is powered entirely by solar and wind power and was developed by a team of non-binary POC who all got degrees in grievance studies didn’t work?
Well I’m sure it is just a problem of scale. Once they get control of the entire nation, I’m sure these bugs in the system will go away.
You joke, but I am not going to be surprised if we find out sometime later that the app was really developed by a bunch of idiots chosen more for political reliability to the cause, proving my point that the people that hate meritocracies do so because they are inept and stupid.
Nail, meet hammer.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/app-used-in-iowa-democratic-caucus-fiasco-linked-to-former-clinton-campaign
Q.E.D. then…
Bloomer doesn’t limit his lies and distortions to guns.
The campaign ad, which highlighted what it believed to be mishaps of the Trump campaign, was released on Super Bowl Sunday and featured moments from the white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s hearings, school shootings, and immigration.
“America demanded change and change is what we got,” the ad stated, before showing footage of caged migrants and border patrol agents.
Using the same pic from 2014 that the media suddenly discovered after Trump took office. Stay classy.
He uses Charlottesville and Blasey Ford in that ad. Little Mike wants to do some dirty boxing.
That guy is a true piece of shit.
Never trust someone who publicly says he’s going straight into heaven.
A politician with a God-complex is a toxic brew.
A politician with a God-complex is a toxic brew.
Exactly, that’s why I think Bloomberg is the most dangerous one out of all of the Dem candidates. The others are good party soldiers, except for Bernie. Who knows what they actually believe, but their positions are always focused towards strengthening the power of the Dem party. Even Hilary, though she wants to be at the top of the party. It reminds me of O’Brien’s speech in 1984 about individuals do not matter, the party is all, and these candidates identify their power through the party.
Bloomberg is different, a true no-shit Tyrant wannabe. He has power on his own and doesn’t care about the party. He spends insane amounts of his own wealth and time to push through the most draconian policies crushing individual freedoms. The soda ban is a good example. Does not help the Dem party in the slightest, but Bloomberg is going to shove it down the peasants throats come hell or high water.
I feel that way about Warren given as I remember it, she’s one of the primary people behind the Consumer Finance Protection Board — which is an unaccountable affront to the Constitution if we’ve ever had one. So she has a proven track record of wanting to be a petty tyrant given the chance, and all her blather about free this/free that with “People who criticize the government should be locked up”, etc. makes me think she’s very serious about all that.
Definitely not someone I want anywhere near any real power.
But don’t you want all Cabinet secretaries to be approved by a young transperson? Preferably of color?
Why not a midget, donkey porn making, martian, yo?
Regarding “People who criticize the government should be locked up”
TRIGGER WARNING: Serious derp.
https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/fighting-digital-disinformation
He’s pandering pretty hard to try to get minorities on his side. I look forward to watching him scourge himself to atone for stop and frisk.
Little Mike probably thinks in his arrogant mind ‘If a twit like Trump can get elected, then so can I! In fact, I can be King!’
And proceeds from that point forward not realizing precisely what got Trump elected.
He’ll probably just repeat the same tired mistakes Hilary did.
I knew he was short, but until those pictures of him standing next to Trump came out recently, I didn’t realize just how short. Christ, I’m tall next to him! He can’t be more than 5’4″ or so.
Using aluminium as the baseline material and applying what I have in my Particle Beam post (http://toughsf.blogspot.com/2018/12/particle-beams-in-space.html), I find that silica glass would have to be 18 cm thick to shield sufficiently against galactic cosmic rays. That’s 4000kg/m^2.
https://twitter.com/ToughSf/status/1224364492710203392
And on this note, no more “work” today
A Mars habitat for long term human settlement would eventually need a large sunny greenhouse area (not jammed with tomato plants, but park-like or semi-natural) to keep everyone from getting cabin fever, so 18 cm it is.
Added a decimal place there, chief.
Also, the surface of Mars is only 0.3g
Also, need that be real sky to allow for people to avoid the feeling of cabin fever? Have we done tests with digital skies and the color profile of the available light?
I believe the sky on Mars is a naturally brownish-gray color, if I remember my Andy Weir correctly. People may not find the real Martian sky relaxing.
It’d call it Sepia
But sometimes It’s blue.
After they fake the colors…The colors are adjusted so that rocks look approximately as they would if they were on Earth, to help geologists interpret the rocks. This “white balancing” to adjust for the lighting on Mars overly compensates for the absence of blue on Mars, making the sky appear light blue and sometimes giving dark, black rocks a blue cast.
Damn you NASA.
Blockquote fail.
It’s no place to raise a family
In fact, its cold as hell
I can certainly find a stark beauty in that scene. Those who are born and raised on Mars will probably prefer it.
It’s not the color blue specifically I need, it’s a real view of an open space. I know because being inside at work all day grates. But then again, I’m not going to Mars.
I’d like to visit Mars, but the logistics make it difficult.
I’d love to see a breakdown of why costs have risen. Minnesoda Pollution Control dept wants to raise water permit fees.
25 years ago, the web was just starting. Why wouldn’t the productivity gains from the web/internet not reduce the costs of water permitting? Taking a wild guess, I bet you would find that staff at the MPC has increased significantly in those 25 years.
And one could ask how many pension increases there have been in 25 years.
A role model for women.
“I was happy to stand up there with Shakira,” she said, calling her and Shakira, “two working moms who did one of the best Super Bowl shows of all time.”
Perhaps sensing that calling her own show the best in NFL history was a bit arrogant, the Shades of Blue star noted that she had been told that her show was “the best.” Party guests are also heard saying, “we said it, everyone said it,” in reply.
“That’s how it felt,” Lopez added about that high assessment of her halftime show.
But then she got even more serious by claiming that the show was about single and working mothers.
“I know how special it is to you that I hold up an American flag, I hold up a Puerto Rican flag, and have my daughter sing with me,” she said into the mic. “And to represent women, and single moms, and working moms,” she said, adding that women can do “anything they want to do.
“And that’s what I want to teach my daughter, that’s what I want them to see, strong independent women who speak up for themselves,” she said.
“Get loud,” she continued, “stand up for yourself, and have the strength — sometimes women lack the strength to really do the best for themselves, and that’s what I want to put out there.”
I didn’t really get the Puerto Rican flag thing.
Yes, watching all those women up there tweaking, my first thought was that the Patriarchy is finally defeated. #feminism.
If attractive ladybutts means the end of patriarchy, I’m ok with that.
Crotch grabs, stripper poles, butt shots, etc. etc – way to fight the patriarchy!
NFL is sooooo woke.
I’m not Imprinced by J-Lo’s halftime show assessment.
Well, good to see that we’ve solved the mass transit problem in Minnesoda. The problem with our light rail was that fines for not paying the fare were too high . DFL legislators have a plan to fix that (and create a bunch of new “transit ambassador” jobs).
How will lowering fines encourage payment?
That’s just a smoke-screen. I guarantee you this is about “social justice”, i.e. too many of the wrong sorts of people are getting busted.
Here in NYC they are more honest about it.
There was a big dustup a few years ago when one of the cops checking fares had the temerity to inquire as to the immigration status of a guy who didn’t have a ticket.
BTW, if you were serious about fares, maybe you wouldn’t have build stations that had some sort of gate that you needed to pay a fare to get through. Instead our stations are open platforms. There are machines to buy a ticket on the platform, but there is no system to ensure that someone actually buys a ticket before they get on the train.
The only way fares are enforced is that every so often a transit cop will walk through the train asking for tickets. That has happened to me one time. And all I did was show my monthly transit card and he just waved me on. Didn’t bother scanning it at all.
* and the story said only 3% of the citations given out for fare avoidance are paid.
This is a typical station, you can see how you can walk up and just wait for the next train.
The boondoggle “express” bus they spent millions of dollars to fuck up traffic flow on the busiest street in Richmond in order to create it uses the same honor system sort of fare enforcement. There’s a ticket machine on the platform, but the driver doesn’t take them. They will occasionally have someone walk through checking. It rarely happens. A joke.
They also let VCU students ride for free in order to juice their ridership numbers so it doesn’t seem like as much of a flop.
That system is typical in “high-trust” cultures, e.g. Germany.
The US is not a “high-trust” culture.
It’s typical in low trust cultures in Eastern Europe too, but they enforce it pretty strictly. I’m guessing the prevalent Scandinavian culture in Minnesota is high trust too, but there are pockets of low trust cultures mixed in.
Oh, I see – you can get a good look at a t-bone steak by sticking your head up the BUTCHER’S ass, but…..wait, no, it has to be your cow.
That’s pretty much how I read the “logic” displayed in that article. Makes absolutely no sense at all.
This all makes sense if your replace “light rail” with “rolling homeless shelter that also happens to allow commuters to get to and from work, if there is excess capacity”. That’s the goal here.
One of the reasons I liked taking the Orange line from Midway into downtown Chicago instead of the Blue line from O’Hare is because of the homeless shelter aspect.
The Orange line closed each night and they kicked off the bums. Not the Blue line. So you’d get to the train early in the morning and the car would be full of stinky bums. Good times.
My one and only visit to Chicago was for New Year’s Eve 1998. I was a college senior and my best friend from college graduated the year before and moved there. He could only get a couple of days off for my visit, so I had a few days to just wander around on my own (in the fucking freezing cold – I still can remember that the high temperature for my entire trip was 18 degrees).
So one day I’m riding around on one of the El trains, no idea which one, and there’s a particularly fragrant hobo passed out in the seat in front of mine. At some point I looked down at the floor, and noticed a river of piss moving rapidly back towards me. Even on the NYC subways I never had that happen.
Secret Bernie Bros on Wall Street
Almost everything about the social Democrat’s platform — like his proposals to tax transactions, capital gains and “extreme wealth” — is anathema to the creed of the well-heeled financial set. And yet it turns out that some of the capitalists he rails against quietly like him.
About $1.70 of every $100 he raised through last year came from the finance, insurance and real estate industries. What’s more, talk to these donors and they usually say the same thing: There are scores of other liberals in their ranks who secretly share a devotion to his cause. More now, they note, than in 2016, when the Vermont senator took his first run at the Democratic nomination.
They insist this is a sign that his once-fringe views are gaining acceptance in the broader populace, something they see in his surge in polls in states including Iowa, where the battle for delegates starts today.
Whether the ranks of Bernie acolytes are actually growing on Wall Street is, of course, very hard to determine. Most bankers and brokers who support him are hesitant to talk at all, and those who do usually ask not to be named.
A “social Democrat” you say? The Politics of Envy and Avarice will always be with us.
There are lots and lots of secret Berniebots on Wall Street, but the have to keep their heads down because they will be summarily fired if anybody finds out. That’s how it works in Trump’s America.
“There are lots and lots of secret Berniebots on Wall Street, but the have to keep their heads down because they will be summarily fired if anybody finds out. That’s how it works in Trump’s America.”
They’re afraid they’ll be laughed out of the office.
They would deserve it IMO. Here they are milking the system for all it is worth, while pretending it is an evil thing. Kind of like Bernie himself, whom has become a millionaire doing nothing of value, but goes all crazy about those other rich people…
Self-loathing financiers, apparently.
FinDommes are a thing.
Yeah I know a wealth adviser at Merrill Lynch who is a Bernie Bro. I would not recommend him.
“We could reduce your taxes by using these investments, but that would be bad, so fuck you. PAY MOAR TAXES.”
Now I’m convinced about the bad Orange Man.
Schiff warns that Trump could sell Alaska to Russia if unchecked
Its not like it’s a fifth of our uranium production or anything.
Huh…..I would have thought they’d jump at the chance to be rid of the Palins.
If he sells California to Russia I’ll vote to repeal the XXIInd amendment
Fake news. If anything, it would be the other way around and Trump would offer to buy Kamchatka.
Hmm… I think he’d be better served buying Indochina so we can consolidate and build up in Australia before moving on Asia….
Wait… Risk doesn’t count as strategic research?
I prefer for getting a good stronghold in South America before moving over to Africa.
Democratic lawmakers in the Minnesota House say reducing the penalties for skipping transit fares and changing how fares are enforced will result in more riders paying to ride the state’s buses and trains.
Fucking incentives- how do they work?
They tried to pass off that same rigamarole here in NYC when they decriminalized turnstile jumping. It was obvious bullshit and the outcome (more lost revenue) was never in doubt but who’s going to listen?
Same on the other side of the country, with the lack of entry controls as MN. And then we have this
https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2018/09/trimets_arrest_of_latina_schoo.html
Checking fares is unconstitutional under the state constitution.
And the school board member caught both without a ticket and lying about her name? She of course immediately resigned because of poor personal judgement and a poor role model for the kids in her school district, just ahead of the rest of the board voting to kick her off…. hahaha, no that didn’t happen. She’s unrepentant about being a criminal.
Hilarious.
And the activist classes think riding should be “free” anyway. But I guess bogus accusations of “racism” will have to do until the revolution is won.
‘QUALITY CONTROL’ OF VOTES
https://apnews.com/69dd698aed24770b925add5fb69b501f
The operative word here being “control”.
All hail Drumpf, the once and future king.
“So the American people, with the oldest constitutional republic in the world, will have to decide: Do we want to have at the head of our country a president, or do we want to have a king? Do we want to have an emperor? Do we want to have somebody who sits above the law?”
Schmidt insisted that America’s institutions, “from the beginning of the country, have said that no institution, no person in the country, is above the law. That’s what we fought a revolution for.”
“The aftermath of this, when he is acquitted, there will never, ever have been an American president with the power that Donald Trump possesses right now in this moment. Not FDR in the Second World War. Not Lincoln in the Civil War,” the Never Trumper blathered. “No president is as powerful as Donald John Trump in this hour.”
Cut me a fucking break.
Has he tried to pack the courts, has he outlawed the ownership of gold, has he suspended habeas corpus?
All he’s done is dared to walk back the patently illegal executive actions of the previous president.
IOW, Emperor Drumpf, destroyer of legacies.
Nor wage & price controls, nor extrajudicial murder of anyone anywhere.
“Do we want to have somebody who sits above the law?”
Ask him that when a D is in office.
CNN is spinning HARD!
The Iowa mess is not the democrat’s fault…. and anyone complaining about it is just playing in to Trump’s hands. Trump is just desperate, you see, and he’ll do anything to divide the country. No, really.
Suggesting that the party that literally rigged their last presidential primary might be up to shenanigans this time around is beneath contempt, so goes the spin. It is simply a reporting issue. One that just so happens to hurt Boot-edge-edge and Sanders and helps Biden and Bloomberg. But, you know, definitely not kosher to suggest that the party might be up to shenanigans.
Gee – who was in charge of that crashed app? Robby Mook, Hillary’s 2016 campaign manager.
Same app to be used in Nevada as well.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/04/politics/iowa-caucus-app-issues/index.html
Mook is denying it.
Interestingly, MSNBC does not seem to have the same narrative so deeply ingrained in their spin.
CNN has at least a half-dozen articles up that hammer the “Trump is exploiting this” narrative in the middle of simple news reporting about the caucuses.
MSNBC seems to be covering it as a normal horse-race news story, keeping the “Trump tweeted about this -OMG the world might end!” stuff over in an editorial or two.
CNN pushing Biden and Warren. Maybe Bloomberg too.
Who is MSNBC pushing? Haven’t watched, so I don’t know.
I know the NYT endorsed Liz and Amy. No surprise.
i was stunned that they endorsed Klobuchar. She’s as exciting and engaging as a geoduck.
But Vagina!
Yeah, I’m thinking Vagina, I’m thinking of a different DNC candidate.
Despite appearance, Romney is actually a Republican, you know.
Do you often think of Geoduck’s and vaginas together?
“CNN has at least a half-dozen articles up that hammer the “Trump is exploiting this” narrative ”
Ah, the old “Republicans pounce” stand-by.
He uses Charlottesville and Blasey Ford in that ad. Little Mike wants to do some dirty boxing.
He’s too short to land any blows above the belt.
Did you see his “devastating revenge” on Trump? He made an ad calling Drumpf fat!!!!!
https://youtu.be/7OOfDF8_TE8
Keep on bringing up Blasey-Ford. That’s a complete winner for Trump. Crazy chick making made-up accusations about what by every account is a completely upstanding pillar of the community who volunteers his time coaching the kids…. Accusations that even her best friends have disavowed…. Yeah, keep on pushing that.
I’m still pissed off about that whole thing – because that could have been me. Or my son. And I’ll be voting accordingly.
Straight libertarian ticket since the late 80’s. And I have no love for Trump – I called him an idiot the first time I saw the Apprentice. He’ll have my enthusiastic support this time around. Precisely because of stuff like this and the Covington kids. Screw you guys and the horse you rode in on. Screw your attacks on the first amendment. Screw your attacks on the second amendment. Screw your attacks on private property ownership. Screw your attacks on freedom of association. Screw your brownshirts trying to enforce conformity throughout society. Screw literally everything you ass-hats have come to stand for.
So go ahead and play that tune. Because I’m betting that there are lots more people like me than there are totalitarian sociopaths like you.
Fuck em all, yup. I’ve long been in agreement with the people who say that Trump is merely a symptom, not the cause. These fuckers want to destroy people like me. They want absolute power over us and they will do virtually anything to get it. The enemy of my enemy may not be my friend, but in this case he’s useful as hell in thwarting and hurting my enemy.
It’s obvious Trump is a symptom, not a cause, because Democratic primary voters have gone for an establishment-hated candidate twice now as well.
The rejection of the candidates proffered by the Washington establishment is the biggest trend in national politics for a few cycles now, as much as the corporate media doesn’t want to talk about it.
You threw a few buzzwords in there… and it is appropriate. As much as the media has been a propaganda machine without shame for the last 15+ years… It is clear that the money spigot is the real driver.
Obama ran against Wall Street and Corporate money…… With a team entirely composed of Goldman Sachs veterans. They funneled 2 trillion dollars into their friends pockets in the first year.. Literally 2 trillion dollars.
The TARP bailout and the stimulus.
Actually, more. Because there was the 2 rounds of quantitative easing – that’s all cash that drops directly on to wall street too.
The concentration of wealth in the hands of government-adjacent folks is at unprecedented levels. And until Trump, it had been a bipartisan effort. He hasn’t done much to slow the spending… but he has seriously shaken up the well-oiled machine that was handing the cash out to connected friends.
Even if people have not thought it through…. they sense that they are being robbed blind. AOC is just as much a symptom. She had her “you steal a billion dollars” speech, but she was pointing it in the wrong direction. Amazon can’t steal anything. But government sure can. And they can make sure it ends up in a billionaire’s hands – as long as a few million slop back into the politician’s hands.
Net Neutrality!!! Netflix is soooo happy! They have the protection of the Feds! (here ya go, Barak. 60 million bucks to do with as you please. )
The concentration of wealth in the hands of government-adjacent folks is at unprecedented levels.
Are you telling me that the five wealthiest counties (and six of the top ten) all being in the DC area is a bad thing? Learn something every day, I guess.
A city that was something of a backwater for most of its existence, which has no natural resources and no major industries other than government, is by far the richest metropolitan area in the nation.
I’ve started calling DC the Imperial Capitol at work. Nobody, even in my Dem-infested workplace, bats an eye.
It’s Panem from the hunger games, except president Snow lost the election they had rigged for her.
I’ve started calling DC the Imperial Capitol at work.
I used to call it “Mordor on the Potomac”, but “Imperial Capitol” works too.
Dang…. Hillary as Snow really works.
In what world is 1600 simultaneous users a high load for an app?
To be fair, I know plenty of applications that would crash under than kind of load, but I was also designing applications to handle 10k+ simultaneous connections 15 years ago…it aint hard.
In the modern world, 1600 isnt that big a load.
The lead developer probably has a PhD with a thesis of “Dissecting White Patriarchy in Underwater Basket Weaving Studies”
It is far more important to have a diverse team than to have people that actually know what the fuck they are doing you evil shitlord!
Beyond that….
it is an effing list.
It isn’t doing any fancy calculations. And I don’t think they list each individual vote, just tallies for each caucus, would be my guess.
So, you literally could handle 1600 users on Apache and MySQL with Ruby on Rails running on a decent PC. How many rows could there possibly be? Even 10 rows per user would be a tiny list that could live entirely in memory. Heck, 1,000 rows per user would still fit in cache.
User authentication would be 10x the load of the stupid app.
Its a tiny db. a simple front end web entry form writing to a small db.
The world where you built it in Microsoft Office and are running it on your “good PC”.
I just had to check… I do not see Access in my work Office install anymore.
Even Access could handle this.
I literally dont see how this failed.
UCD has been providing a very, very good clue…
That’s OK, you can use Excel as a database for this purpose. Let the secretary build it. And deploy straight to prod… no need to stand it up in QA.
Next presidential election cycle, the Democratic Primaries, sponsored by Survey Monkey!
Next? I think that will be implemented before New Hampshire!
Come to think of it, they could have thrown up a quick survey in Survey Monkey for the precincts to use to report in results and it would have worked.
1600?
As in 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMP!!!!!!!
I just thinking about the address and thinking how stupid it would be to hard code some upper bound as the same number as the White House house number because it sounds cool and presidential.
Adam Schiff, the hero we need.
ABC News✔
@ABC
Sen. Chuck Schumer on Rep. Adam Schiff’s closing: “I’ve been here a long time. That was just about the best speech I have ever heard.” https://abcn.ws/31jSDZs
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@JRubinBlogger
Schiff finishes beautifully. Heart- wrenching: 1 party isn’t decent, does not care about truth and is indifferent to right and wrong. That includes Ernst and Alexander who cannot even formulate a coherent explanation for their action. It includes Rubio, McConnell and all the rest
Rachel Maddow MSNBC
@maddow
Schiff’s closing argument in the Trump impeachment trial was one for the ages.
Would not surprise me if it’s taught someday as the seminal opposition speech from this era in presidential (and Republican party) history.
I didn’t see his speech. Maybe it was amazing. But I was walking past a TV with CNN on and the Republican closing….. and they completely eviscerated the house team. There is no amount of rhetorical flourish about protecting democracy and name calling that can overcome the detailed and devastating case put forth by Trump’s team. The hammered them into oblivion. Saying “but you hate the constitution” is just words…. it has no connection to reality. That’s why Schiff’s words will never resonate. You idiots are just hearing what you want to hear.
1 party isn’t decent, does not care about truth and is indifferent to right and wrong.
Well, she got that part right, just not the way she thinks.
Tell a lie that is closer to the truth (like projecting your failings on the other guy) and you can really convince the usual sheeple that suck that cock to do more of that with glee. Team blue has very successfully used the projection tactic for so long that they are slow catching on that people now see through them…
I saw a clip where Schiffty said that Trump was going to sell Alaska to Putin and put Jared Kushner on the throne while Trump retired to his resorts. Was that part of this epic closing argument?
Yeah, I think that’s what these clowns think is epic: making up stupid hyperbolic shit like this…
So go ahead and play that tune. Because I’m betting that there are lots more people like me than there are totalitarian sociopaths like you.
So what you’re saying is you’ll be voting against your own best interest?
Right…
And that liberal bias that reality has.
Rachel Maddow MSNBC
@maddow
Schiff’s closing argument in the Trump impeachment trial was one for the ages.
Would not surprise me if it’s taught someday as the seminal opposition speech from this era in presidential (and Republican party) history.
It was our last chance to stop SKYNET!!!!!11!
Oh, the humanity.
In what world is 1600 simultaneous users a high load for an app?
Maybe they were hosting it on an old G3 iMac in somebody’s basement.
Bathroom from whom designed and produced the app is more apt…
Yeah I know a wealth adviser at Merrill Lynch who is a Bernie Bro. I would not recommend him.
“Spend it all now. It’ll be worthless in eighteen months.”
This might ruffle some feathers: Electric or Not, Big SUVs Are Inherently Selfish
The electrification of the Hummer is not a signal of climate progress. It is a declaration that it’s still OK to be an asshole.
In 2002, Keith Bradsher, the former New York Times Detroit editor, published his book High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUVs. Inside, Bradsher called the increasing popularity of SUVs “a triumph of image and marketing over practicality.” It was deeply irrational for most anyone to buy an SUV, he argued. Yet millions of people kept doing so.
Bradsher’s book is a thorough examination of how the auto industry convinced millions of Americans to buy vehicles that were more dangerous (for themselves and other people on the road), got worse gas mileage, were worse for the environment, and got them to pay a premium for the privilege of doing so.
Car companies managed this remarkable feat because they ran—and continue to run—quite possibly the most sophisticated marketing operations on the planet. They knew what people really wanted: to project an image of selfish superiority. And then they sold it to them at a markup.
This the same idiotic mentality that has led the progressive left to lead the charge on banning vaping.
Or maybe the overzealous climate nannies overregulated the market such that things like station wagons or small crossovers were impossible without using truck chassis (and sneaking into truck-mode regulations) and people, especially those with families still needed something that could take their stuff+kids or something.
Nah… we’re all hipsters in a Manhattan condo with no real need for cars or anything…. so *that* can’t be it.
Bring back the El Camino!
It’s not so much overregulated* as malregulated. The incentives are all fucked up. We got so many SUVs because of CAFE and the unions. It’s more profitable for the “domestic” (and, increasingly, “foreign”) automakers. Something has to pay for the continued operation of the UAW’s slush fund and the absurdity that is “combined average fleet efficiency”.
The environmental-labor alliance never made a damn bit of sense, except in the sense that everybody else could be milked to pay for their unshared delusions. It’s a damn good thing the tech revolution happened, or we would all have been impoverished by their greed and moral myopia.
* = The EPA under Obama was doing everything it could to be both. They not only didn’t reform the perverse incentives in CAFE, they doubled down on them.
I think you hit the nail on the head. The whole anti-SUV crusade has always been led by the same people delighted to sneer at minivans. They either can’t understand that suburban families need something to transport their kids and substantial amounts of stuff or they do understand and would prefer them to suffer for their unapproved lifestyle choices.
Its always the same: “Stupid people. Why do they insist on doing what they want, instead of what they’re told?”
Cars, voting, you name it. Always the same.
And the possibility that there might be some reason for their different choices other than brainwashing or mental illness (how many times have we heard the SUV-as-penis-extension trope?) completely escapes them. No. Their circumstances are the right ones. And anyone else who makes a different decision can’t possibly have different circumstances. They can only be acting out of malice.
Eh, most SUV/Crossover buyers (IMO) are irrational. Having a kid doesn’t mean you need to buy a Ford Explorer.
by the auto industry’s own research, somewhere between one and 13 percent of SUV owners actually drove their vehicles off-road, and most of those who said they did considered flat dirt roads “off-roading.”
That’s hilarious.
No one needs more than two pairs of pants either, but the ability to load 4 kids and a cubic yard of camping or sports supplies at a moments notice is worth it to a lot of families (mine included). So what the fuck do you care? I didn’t buy mine with any intention of driving it on anything worse than the dirt paths to get to a few camp grounds, and its not a vehicle designed to do more than that.
Well, there are virtually no more station wagons – maybe a few of the Euro makes like BMW and Audi still make them, but then most people can’t afford though.
So it’s minivan or SUV/crossover, and most people don’t want to be the dork buying the minivan. Me, I don’t really care. We’ve had a couple of minivans, but the current family vehicle is a Mazda CX-9. Got a better deal on that than we could find on a minivan we wanted, since I was only looking for a Sienna or Odyssey. It’ll be a cold day in hell when I buy another Dodge after our Caravan’s transmission imploded.
That’s a bold statement there, Cotton.
Just because you go camping at a moments notice Leap doesn’t mean the average buyer does (read, between 1 and 13 percent). They are buying the illusion that they are setting up camp next to you after scaling a mountain.
Jesus, have a drink.
That’s a bold statement there, Cotton.
See also: auto debt.
I honestly cant tell if stupid or trolling here.
Oh fuck you. I’m not saying anyone should be deprived of the choice, or that the choice isn’t distorted in the first place due to government interference. Or yes, some people actually do use a vehicle to its maximum utility. I’m only saying most people are driving more car than they actually need.
SUVs aren’t off road vehicles. My 97 TJ with 35s and a six inch lift is an ORV. I also don’t drive it on the freeway because it won’t go faster than 50mph.
My Suburban is an SUV that I can put wife, two teens, their sports gear, and my 360 lbs of newfies in and I wouldn’t take off road if you paid me.
I can also tow my 8.000lb camper with it.
I don’t know what rationality has to do with your vehicle purchase? It usually doesn’t ever occur to me to judge the rationality of the items in people’s grocery carts, entertainment pursuits, or vacation choices. Are vehicles really that different?
I bought a 4 wheel drive Honda Pilot with a 3 ton tow capacity when it was just my wife and I living in a coastal city. No kids, no boat, no trailer. I’m sure some people smirked at our choice. Fuck em, I was planning ahead.
Now we have 3 kids and a 4th on the way. Even with the 4th, I can still take all the kids, my wife and I, and the grandparents out in a single vehicle. Or my four GSDs. Or I can fill the back with hay bales when the snow was too deep to get the trailer out safely but my cows needed emergency hay. Or chain my SUV to the neighbor’s Ford 350 when he struggled to get 300 bales up my hill to the barn. Or haul our animal trailer. Or our utility trailer. Funny how things changed over the past decade. Glad my vehicle didn’t.
And you know this because….? You cite that omnipresent and utterly meaningless statistic that “between one and 13 percent of SUV owners actually drove their vehicles off-road.” But so what? What does that prove? How does it prove what you claim it does? I don’t even see how you or anyone could claim this is “knowledge.” The Dude quote about opinions seems apt here.
Must SUVs ONLY be driven “off-roads” to be deemed a ‘proper’ purchase? It seems like that’s the claim you’re making. I own a truck but I didn’t get 4WD because I didn’t think I’d do too much driving “offroad” in the deserts of Arizona. (I’m buying a dual-sport motorcycle for that instead). Should I consider myself among the “badthink” people because I have a truck and don’t use it for those purposes?
I think you’ve missed the entire point of the conversation above your original quotes and you seem to have fallen for that stupid Prog statistic as if it proves something. It doesn’t. It’s meaningless. And it’s right out of the Prog playbook: they talk the SAME FUCKING WAY using the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT about guns.
“No one NEEDS 30 rounds in a magazine!”
“99% of gun owners will never have to use an assault rifle for anything!!”
well most people are irrational so I think his point is valid, if not for the reason he believed.
<em.Must SUVs ONLY be driven “off-roads” to be deemed a ‘proper’ purchase?
An SUV, by definition is a marriage between a passenger vehicle and one that goes off-road. Hence, ground clearance and four-wheel drive. Those are the defining characteristics. If it is only ever on road, why would I call it something that is being used for it’s intended purpose? It costs more upfront and more to maintain than a car or minivan. I’ll say it again, that’s not rational.
Lots of people think I drive an SUV but the state of Michigan calls it a station wagon.
Thank you Subaru, for the registration fees you’re saving me.
Goddammit, why won’t you breeders just drive glorified electric golf carts like we tell you to???
That’s the part. They resent that people have kids–and sometimes lots of them.
“Bring back the El Camino!”
Subaru has tried
https://carbuzz.com/features/the-subaru-baja-is-the-turbocharged-mini-truck-in-a-league-of-its-own
Huh.. I hadn’t heard of that one — it looks pretty nice.
Years ago, Subaru made a mini-pickup called the Brat. Car and Driver (I think) ran a test of 4WD pickups by running them up the Beartooth Highway. In winter.
The Brat blew the doors off its competitors.
the former New York Times Detroit editor
Where’s my shocked face that the NYT put someone who doesn’t like cars and doesn’t understand car culture in charge of reporting from the auto capital?
My continuing anxiety attack is on hold this morning because I cannot stop laughing about what’s happened in Iowa.
And anyone who thinks there might be something rotten going on is a conspiracy theory nutcase. Because, you know, after 2016 when they literally rigged the primary and after having just used some arcane rules to keep disfavored candidates off the stage they are now changing those rules specifically so Bloomberg can get on the debate stage…..
But yeah…. you are a nutty conspiracy theorist if you suspect any foul play here….
Not the Bee
“You heard from Joe about the things he did with the NRA,” the former Massachusetts senator said. “That took courage. Delaware is a tough state. I’m a hunter. I’m a gun owner. I’ve been one all my life. There’s not a veteran here who would take an AR-16 with a long clip to go out and shoot a deer or shoot anything. There is no business — Joe led the fight to get those things off the street.”
Is there a new AR pattern with an internal magazine that I haven’t heard about?
Oh, it doesn’t even use a magazine. The rounds are loaded into a clip with a hole for the firing pin to strike the primer, and it just moves along like a typewriter ribbon, with the empties still firmly attached. It just feeds side to side.
Hey… .that’s an interesting design! You should set up a kickstarter….
There is a belt-fed AR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_QRcZnr4n4
It is a clip. A long one. This guy is clearly an expert on such things.
From the guy who owns a “Chinese Assault Rifle. Presumably an SKS or AK.
Christ, even the supposed gun rights guy they quoted in the story claims the SKS is an assault rifle??
Yes, the “AR-16”. Duh.
Most AR’s only go to 15. But this one goes to 16.
– Spinal Double Tap
Technically, there was an AR-16.
It was a stamped receiver gas piston design chambered in 7.62×39. It wasn’t very popular.
/pedant off
Time to upgrade….
Has the AK-48 come out yet?
AK-20 came out this year.
AKB48?
In Concert!
Thanks to Straff.
Aristocrat wants to disarm peasants, news at 11.
Armed peasants can resist you, yo. Unarmed ones are easier to fleece and control. These fucks are hoping to bring back prima nocte is my bet…
i’ve seen an AR9 PCC and Panzer markets an AR12. he had a couple chances at not sounding like a complete idiot but still blew it.
Sigh. Okay. If John Kerry and Joe Biden want to ban AR-16s, maybe we can trade that for Constitutional carry.
“Is there a new AR pattern with an internal magazine that I haven’t heard about?”
https://guns.fandom.com/wiki/ArmaLite_AR-16
Designed, never really took off
And has nothing to do with using .223 for deer hunting.
In some states, I believe .223 isn’t a legal caliber for deer hunting.
Has anyone dared to venture to DU to see what they are saying this morning?
I would rather spend the next day reading SF stories…
I lose less sanity and/or IQ points than going over to DU for anything. That level of stupid should be classified as a WMD.
Notice that I wasnt volunteering.
Not to out myself, but …..
DU?
Democratic Underground
https://www.democraticunderground.com/
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
The electrification of the Hummer is not a signal of climate progress. It is a declaration that it’s still OK to be an asshole.
That’s why I go everywhere in a rickshaw.
Bradsher’s book is a thorough examination of how the auto industry convinced millions of Americans to buy vehicles that were more dangerous (for themselves and other people on the road), got worse gas mileage, were worse for the environment, and got them to pay a premium for the privilege of doing so.
Pay no attention to that utility value behind the curtain. What a bunch of morons, especially since these are basically the same people who cheered as station wagons were regulated out of existence.
The utility is more perceived than real though. More AWD wagons would be awesome.
My wife bought this book for her friend a cat gentleman. She just sends random things like this to her friend.
How to Talk to your Cat about Gun Safety
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/045149492X
Do I need to talk to my cat about gun safety?
The first question many of you will be asking is, “Do I really need to teach my cat about gun safety?” The answer is an unequivocal “Yes!!!” The Constitution of the United States of America guarantees us the right to own and operate firearms, and that is a right we must exercise in order to keep our country healthy, lest our democracy atrophy. It is the duty of all American citizens—as well as their cats—to be able to use and maintain a firearm. Citizens who cannot handle a gun safely are as irresponsible and useless as citizens who do not own a gun at all. Americans and their homes are under attack. It is impurrative that, in order to ensure the future security of our country, every man, woman, child, and cat be able to defend our nation against the enemies of democracy.
Do I really need to teach my cat about gun safety?
Considering they try to get into the gun cabinet any time it is open…
https://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2020/01/10/check-gun-safe-for-cat/
That book is awesome
rule #4: a gun is not a ball of yarn
My continuing anxiety attack is on hold this morning because I cannot stop laughing about what’s happened in Iowa.
Nice.
I don’t see why Comrade Sanders should object too strenuously. They’re merely redistributing his votes. He had so many and Comrade Biden needed them. It’s only fair, after all.
Heh heh..
Socialist believe in redistribution of wealth. Just not theirs.
Babylon Bee did it!
https://babylonbee.com/news/democratic-socialist-candidates-primary-win-revoked-after-all-her-votes-forcibly-redistributed
You’ll really want to stuff Titty Tuesday’s ballot box.
http://archive.li/oH2Yo
#9.
While I agree that what’s going on in Iowa is schadenfreudtastic, I do wonder what countermeasures are being taken against the Dems cheating in general elections. If they wanna fuck up their own primaries, have at it, but the general is a different story.
They were so brazen in 2018 about cheating and then faced no consequences, I can see it’s only emboldened them more. I mean, c’mon; the final poll is spiked due to… I’m not really sure what due to and now the results are blatantly being modified under the guise of “quality control”. It’s as pathetic as it is hilarious.
The even funnier part is that it’s not even because the DNC disapproves of Bernie’s policies. On the contrary, Bernie represents mainstream Democrat opinion now; they just want to keep it secret because they know it’s poison in a general.
They’re really, really bad at this. There are many ways they could’ve made it less obvious that they’re trying to sabotage Bernie’s campaign.
I can’t blame them; Trump would beat him easily, maybe by the biggest margin we’ve seen since Reagan 1984 (though I’m sure Bernie would win more than 1 state). But c’mon.
“I do wonder what countermeasures are being taken against the Dems cheating in general elections.”
There’s a half-hearted effort to clean up voting rolls. Which is a start, but just barely.
Everybody, and I mean everybody, knows what a more secure voting system would look like. The Dems are violently opposed, for some reason, and the Repubs are . . . tepid, at best, even though the current open-invitation-to-fraud system kills them, and they must know it.
“for some reason”
I think we’re all well aware of the reason.
On Jason Stapleton’s most recent podcast, the co-host Matt posited that the Dems would rather throw the election on purpose than let Bernie win, which would redefine the party as socialist and turn off many voters. If I put myself in the shoes of a DNC strategist, it does kind of make more sense to let Trump win again and redirect all the REEEE’ing of the base into Congressional elections.
Disney is never too petty.
I don’t have a problem with Disney enforcing its copyright. I have a problem that Disney had the pull to get copyright extended. I think the 56 years is too little. The copyright the life of the author plus 50 years is too much. The copyright for the life of the author is just right.
I mean, copyright really means nothing if the creator doesn’t know about your usage of it. The only Google alerts I get are on pirate sites. I am resigned to this.
Disney’s copyright lapses in 2023. Let’s see if the government puts the brakes on this.
I’m ok with life of the author (a natural person) or 50 years from publication, whichever is longer. I think there’s been a lot of value from late life memoirs such as Grant’s written to provide for his family after death.
I also think it should go back to needing to both be registered and renewed periodically up to the maximum time limit. Failing to renew and it goes into public domain.
Yes, being told to go to some trouble to extend it is reasonable.
The copyright for the life of the author is just right.
I think it does need to be set term from date of publication (or of copyright, if we go back to the system where something must be registered to count), both so a short-lived author can leave something as an inheritance and so that non-person entities (corporations) can copyright things or buy copyrights. 50 years sounds good to me, because that’s basically a full career’s worth of time to profit off of one’s work.
We have a winner in Iowa!
I knew tits would be the key to winning there!
Tits are always the key to winning.
If the DNC ran the super bowl, SF would still have a chance.
MUH WYT KULONIULLIZM
https://dnyuz.com/2020/02/04/hawaii-is-a-paradise-but-whose/
FTA:
“They learned that tourism was one of the industries with some of the most damaging effects on Oahu”
Yeah. SOOOOOPER damaging. So damaging that it pumps zillions into your economy that would otherwise be ag-based and probably the poorest in the US. It also funds your little socialist experiments without the benefit of having to worry where the money is coming from.
Hmm, well they could always move to Nihau or even Molokai if they wanted to live a simple existence free from most of the terrible things that modern life has provided. A life of pounding taro root, fishing, and contemplating the sea is but a short boat ride or plane hop. Ima bet not too many are actually interested in doing that for more than a few days.
If we’re turning back the clock, wouldn’t Molokai be a leper’s colony again?
If we are really turning back the clock there would be no lepers, but also no electricity, modern plumbing, internet, phones, and if they wanted to get there they’d do it in an outrigger canoe. But of course we know that the ejits advocating this crap would be the last ones to actually want to hack such a lifestyle for a few days, let alone a lifetime.
His Holiness’ post above about fare enforcement in Minneapolis made me think of the GRTC Pulse, which I mentioned above, Richmond’s rapid transit bus service that I hate with the heat of a thousand suns since it made the already-bad traffic on Broad St much worse. So that got me to thinking and searching, and lo and behold….”GRTC can’t quantify fare evasion issue on the Pulse or adequately punish offenders, audit finds“:
BRT around here completely fucked up the roads, signal lights, and the assholes want to expand it even more.
Same here. Broad Street is the main thoroughfare through downtown and the West End. It was crowded as hell with six lanes of traffic…..so these geniuses cut it down to four lanes to create a bus-only BRT lane in each direction for a 7.6 mile stretch. Which happens to be the most heavily traffic stretch.
They keep trumpeting the ridership numbers, but again – they don’t enforce fare jumping and they give all VCU students and employees free rides. No shit people are riding it when a lot of them aren’t paying to do so.
Not really surprising since, unlike our elites and privileged champagne socialists, Cuban refugees and their descendants actually know what it’s like to live in a socialist utopia.
https://news.yahoo.com/miami-sees-return-cold-war-050212122.html
The Space Launch System is an irredeemable mistake
I was working at NASA when this shit was going down. Everyone knew it was coming. No one cared. It was all “women in leadership positions” and “biofuel burning” (aka greenhouse contributors).
And “let’s rake this incredibly gifted scientist who landed a craft on a fucking comet over the coals because he wore a shirt with pinup-type girls on it that was made by a female friend of his”
Yeah, I know that wasn’t at NASA, but I’m sure they were very concerned about it, too.
At this point what is the over/under on the number of launches that SLS gets before the program is completely scrapped becasue the SpaceX Starship/Super Heave is already in service doing the same thing for an order of magnitude less cost?
As a protectionist measure for NASA, I’m sure they’ll gladly crank up the insurance and enviornmental impact requirements for private launches until the SLS is compeditive.
Well, seeing as the “international norm” has been Palestinian terrorists lobbing bombs into Israel while using innocent people as human shields, maybe it’s time to abandon those international norms once and for all.
The funny thing about complaining about violations of international law is that despite attempts to formalize it and democratize it international law is in practice essentially whatever the great powers want it to be, without regard to the complaints of the lesser powers. If the US wants something, who is going to stop them? Nobody stopped Russia from seizing Crimea, or from occupying Abkhazia and Ossetia and allowing the Ossetians to ethnically cleanse the region. Nobody stopped China from incarcerating the Uighers or sinicizing Tibet. International law is a paper tiger.
Next you’ll be telling me that the UN is an impotent and corrupt cover for dictators to gain a patina of legitimacy.
Stick around for my articles on “The Wetness of Water” and “The Color of the Sky”.
I thought it was an institution to provide legitimacy, cover, and access for the connected that wanted to fuck third world women & kids? Usually in brutal fashion too.
You forgot access to money from the richest countries in the world, coincidentally not run by dictators.
Christ, I can’t watch a YouTube video without watching a Bloomsburg ad. That’s crazy.
I can’t watch TV without seeing them, either. It’s pocket change for him, but the amount he must be spending on this media blitz has to be insane.
Hell, even I’ve seen them. Not kidding.
If there is a worse candidate than Bloomberg* for the DNC to rig the nomination for, I can’t think of who it is. An awe inspiring combination of repellent to a big chunk of their base, and unelectable in the general.
*Other than Herself, of course.
Speaking of Herself, I can hardly wait to see how she tries to shoehorn her corpulent, chardonnay-soaked self into the primary after this colossal failure.
The fact that she’s even still alive is an accomplishment in and of itself.
Trump would shred him to bits over his nanny-statism. He wouldn’t even need to talk about his gun-grabbing, humiliating him over his Big Gulp-grabbing would be enough.
Makes me wonder: Has Bloomberg released his tax returns for the last 10 years? If not, why aren’t the Dems demanding it, like they are for Trump?
Do I really need to say it? ORANGEMANBAD.
Want less Bloomberg? Try looking for the same video you want to see on YouTube at invidio.us
Talk about a bad look for the party of gun control:
I really hope Biden comes in first. The internet will blow up.
Hopefully the door knockers didn’t knock on Biden’s door. Jill woulda blasted them with the shotgun.
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REMINDER: Mueller report told us Russia interfered in our 2016 election in a “sweeping and systematic fashion.” Why? Simple, the “Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome.” #IowaCaucus #IowaCaucusDisaster
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OK. Who’s interfering with your primaries right now? Is that the Rooskies too?
Yes, that’s exactly what he’s saying:
Seems like a good time to remind people that Trump and Mitch McConnell opposed measures to further secure our elections for 2020. #IowaCaucuses #IowaCaucusDisaster https://t.co/4bnAN7qjKE
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Russia interfered in our 2016 election in a “sweeping and systematic fashion.”
Buying a few ads on FB…
Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency
Actually it was just to sow discord, which Democrats have helped them achieve beyond their wildest dreams. But one would imagine that they might prefer the candidate that was not effectively running on a platform of war with Russia. That said, a case can be made that the might prefer the candidate that could be bought off.
What’s the institutionalized TDS gameplan now that impeachment flopped? A good old-fashioned Borking? I saw stirring in the press about accusers lining up so they have plenty of stunning and brave truthspeakers to parade through Congress, yes? Six or seven months of coordinated and relentless #metoo-ing?
The usual suspects in the House are still running Plan C: Trump’s tax returns. And I’m sure a few others. Because they are stupid and unimaginative, they are trying to round up decades-old rape accusations as well.
The witch hunt has worked so well for them so far, why stop now?
Too bad about Rush, it doesn’t look like he is going to recover from that, but hopefully he can stick around for a while. I was never a big fan of his, but I drive a ton for work and AM radio has always been a staple. He could be very entertaining and the left’s reaction to him was and is very telling. I pretty much have given up on political talk radio as it has gotten predictable. I used to listen to lefties some to counter their arguments, but it just got tiresome. Now it is mostly sports talk and whatever tune I can find on the 80’s station I haven’t gotten totally sick of. The one politics show that I still listen to is Armstrong & Getty. They are out of Sacramento, but are played all over the country I think. They are pretty darn libertarian and funny to boot. If you get them on your radio waves I would recommend.
I was a huge fan of his in the early-mid 90s during my conservative phase. He also used to speak truth to power, to some extent. He then became a mouthpiece for Team Red, which is sad.
For a while in the early 90’s when I was working with an illiterate, mechanical genius Irishman fresh off the boat we would love listening to Michael Savage’s Savage Nation because it was so over the top it was hilarious. I would be driving and my Irish buddy in the passenger seat and he would always pretend he hated it , but when 2 pm rolled around he would always mention what time it was and then sit there like an excited school kid waiting for the first preposterous shit that would come out the radio. Good times, I miss that guy, the Irishman, not Savage.
It is surprising how difficult it is to be an entertaining political talk radio guy. Boortz was my introduction in the Atlanta market back in the early 90’s. A guy at work used to listen to it while we did grunt work.
The big difference between left and right has always been that the right understood that it is entertainment. Boortz was the first to tell me this, but Rush and Hannity (who are all from the same tree) say it too…. It is just entertainment. They are not the keepers of the holy word. Check everything they tell you, don’t believe it just because you heard it on the radio, etc.
Meanwhile, Air America failed miserably despite hugely deep pockets backing them. Primarily because they didn’t understand that principle. Rush has his schtick about “Talent on loan from God” and rattling papers in formerly nicotine stained fingers, etc. Sure, they’d talk politics and slip their philosophy in there…. but at the root they understood that it was about getting listeners so you could get advertising dollars.
Most of the people subbing in on the radio don’t seem to have the talent for it.. But a few on youtube do. That’s probably where this stuff moves to as that older generation dies off.
Britain to ban new petrol and hybrid cars from 2035
The government said that, subject to consultation, it planned to bring forward an end to the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans to 2035, or earlier if a faster transition was possible.
Diesel and petrol models still account for 90% of sales in Britain, and prospective buyers of greener models are worried about the limited availability of charging points, the range of certain models and the cost.
The government said last year it was providing an extra 2.5 million pounds ($3.25 million) to fund the installation of more than 1,000 new charge points for electric vehicles on residential streets. It has also provided investment for the development of electric vehicle technology.
I guess Boris is already tired of being the Prime Minister.
Or it’s payoff for getting Brexit. Britain is so far tilted to the left that the Conservatives are just leftists with somewhat more mainstream economic and social positions.
Meh. Absent support from the public, it’s not gonna happen, any more than all the other green new deal fantasies. I suppose they can do some damage in the meantime, though.
Britain actually is the perfect location for this sort of thing to be tried first. Plymouth to Thurso is pretty much the longest drive possible – and that’s 800 miles. Edinburgh to London is probably the longest trip most folks would ever take, and that’s only 400 miles.
With a top of the line tesla you can make any trip in the UK with only 1 charging stop.
Good luck with that. It will be bumpy ride for sure.
https://www.automotiveworld.com/articles/an-ice-y-road-to-an-electric-future/
Electrification requires enormous investment by the automotive industry. This is in addition to investment in other technology, known as CASE: Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric. AlixPartners research has previously stated the automotive industry is likely to enter a ‘profit desert’ due to the massive investment required.
Between 2019 and 2023, the cost of electrification alone may be US$225bn, equal to the amount automakers already commit on capital expenditure and R&D in total. The need for such considerable investment may last for an extended period of time, potentially placing hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk.
Electric is the future, but the careful and deliberate evolution of the ICE is how automakers will get there. Progressive investment in transferable platform technology that can be shared across both regular ICE models and hybrids will help spread risk and generate faster returns as model life cycles shrink further. Far from being yesterday’s technology, the ICE still has an integral role to play in helping automakers secure the ROI they require to prosper in an ultimately all-electric future.
Trump would shred him to bits over his nanny-statism. He wouldn’t even need to talk about his gun-grabbing, humiliating him over his Big Gulp-grabbing would be enough.
But- but- Trump’s an authoritarian who is destroying democracy!!!111!!!
For those in Western PA, Stoudt’s brewing is closing down. The head brewer is retiring, and there are no plans to keep the beer flowing.
Sorry, Eastern PA.
I’ve drunk some Stoudt’s products. They were OK.
They’re one of the long runners, over 30 years. They also (for a while) focused on German styles. I was more surprised that it was the same head brewer that whole time. I would have figured she’d have passed that on to someone and stepped aside.
Not anything that stands out, but I liked a few of their beers. It will be Interesting to see how attrition and consolidation affect craft beer companies over the next 5-10 years.
Trump To Deliver State Of The Union In Scuba Gear To Avoid Drowning In Liberal Tears
Halftime Show Reduces Risk Of Wardrobe Malfunction By Eliminating Most Of Wardrobe
Nice. I can’t wait for their take on the Iowa caucuses.
I like this one:)
https://babylonbee.com/news/hillary-sanders-would-be-more-likable-if-hed-just-have-the-people-who-dont-like-him-assassinated
This Iowa thing is fucking insanity. I don’t even know what to think about it. It’s so damaging on so many levels. I honestly hope Trump scrapped his entire speech to focus on either this monumental level of ineptitude of this or impeachment. This is completely bananas. How are there no fucking results yet? WTF. This is incredible. I’m already having more fun than anyone should at this it’s a smoldering crater of incompetence and corruption. I can’t get over the fact the name of the fucking software company “responsible” is Shadow and is run by former Clinton staffers. This is so far in bizarro world it’s insane. It’s fucking amazing. Trump has this incredible gift of making people who you assume have to be smarter and less corrupt/venal than him look either just as bad or somehow even far worse. It’s some gift. It’s so savant like and incredible I’m some times have a thought his speechs, public appearances going back decades, mannerisms and twitter feed have to be some kind of Primal Fear/SNL Reagan skit/Keyser Soize level front that took a lifetime of discipline and development
“Trump has this incredible gift of making people who you assume have to be smarter and less corrupt/venal than him look either just as bad or somehow even far worse”
Trump got them playing angry. Even against a superior opponent, if you can get in their heads and make them mad, they’ll start making a lot of unforced errors. Dems have always been masters of process, and Trump has gotten them so pissed off that they’re making one strategic error after another. It’s something to behold.
Eh, most SUV/Crossover buyers (IMO) are irrational. Having a kid doesn’t mean you need to buy a Ford Explorer.
True. but-
A long time go, I began to notice there were lots and lots of cute “sorority chicks” bombing around in jacked up Toyota four wheel drive pickup trucks. This was when I was living in Idaho, but the same thing was happening in Colorado. At first I assumed it was the boyfriend’s truck, but it turned out not so. I asked a female friend about it, and she said, “Well, they’re pretty cool, and I love being up high where I can see.”
I suspect that’s still a big part of it.
That is a huge component of why I love driving my truck. I’m in a car. People roll up in a huge truck to my left when I want to turn right, don’t hang back so I can see, and I have to wait until THEIR traffic clears so I can go.
My wife says the same thing. It’s part of why she was lukewarm about the minivans we had – she liked all the cargo space and the ease of entry to get kids in car seats, but they weren’t as high up as her SUVs. She loved driving my Tacoma when I had it.
“I love being up high where I can see”
I think that’s why the compact SUV/crossover vehicles have become so popular with women. You still get the higher ride, but at a lower cost and with better gas mileage.
Coronavirus update
The coronavirus is “almost certainly going to be a pandemic,” Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the HHS’ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said of the disease that has sickened 20,701 and resulted in 427 deaths, The New York Times reports.
Here’s what you need to know:
Caveat: most of the info is coming from ChiComs, so keep your grain of salt handy. I don’t see any way they aren’t underreporting, still, but maybe the current data is accurate and they decided to take the hit now with the huge (@400%) increase in infections in one week. If that increase is actually legit, though, this thing is a problem, at least in relatively undeveloped countries.
“most of the info is coming from ChiComs”
That’s the only thing that scares me about this. I chalk most of it up to media hysterics, but the fact that the ChiComs are almost certainly lying about the true impact makes me nervous.
Seems that Bootyjudge is taking some flak from Grandpa Gulag’s Young Pioneers, as his campaign helped pay for the Iowa caucus app:
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Three different sources say a firm called “Shadow” developed the Iowa Dem caucus app. They haven’t responded to comment, neither has Iowa Dem Party. The firm was paid by both Nevada & Iowa Democratic Party, disclosures show. Also by Mayor Pete’s campaign.
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See also: #MayorCheat trending on Twitter.
HAHAHAHAHA….oh, scroll on down at the link, it gets better and better.
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While I can’t yet prove it, I feel safe in saying that both #BernieWon and #MayorCheat are trending because Russian propaganda accounts are amplifying them.
Putin’s goal is to divide us. Instead, let’s stand together, elect Democrats, and sanction his ass out of office.
“Bravo! The wolves devour each other!”
OMG LOLOLOL
I wonder if Putin gets a chuckle out of being the boogeyman in their heads all the time or if he shakes is head, rolls his eyes and thinks “Don’t these idiots realize I have enough to do keeping this country running?”
It isn’t like Russia doesn’t have plenty of its own issues, after all…
The Mayor Cheat link, that is
Hilarious when they haven’t been given their new talking points yet. They just default to old ones. Russian propaganda. Guffaw!
It is par for the course though…
It is like a Terminator selection list of responses:
*Racist!
*Russian Propaganda!
*Fake News!
*Debunked!
*Conspiracy Theory!
*Misogynist!
*Homophobic!
*Nazi!
*White Supremacist!
If that increase is actually legit, though, this thing is a problem, at least in relatively undeveloped countries.
First world sanitation, FTW!
Also, nutrition and health care.
Don’t you worry comrade. When Grandpa Gulag assumes office, we won’t have to worry about those things anymore!
Trump excludes CNN from the SOTU luncheon.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/03/media/donald-trump-state-of-the-union-lunch-cnn/index.html
CNN butt-hurt.
LOL
The president has directed his ire at CNN dozens of times over the past three years. He has declined all of CNN’s requests to sit down with him for an interview and has denigrated both the network as a whole and some of its individual journalists.
Might have something to do with their DNC collusion and being the worst purveyors of fake news in the msm.
This is what I can’t fathom: CNN literally got caught rigging an election. A fucking moderator gave Herself multiple debate questions ahead of primetime debates. How are these clowns still in business?? How does anyone take them seriously??
That doesn’t even begin to cover the Podesta and Wikileaks troves – which both show clear, unequivocal coordination between most of the major media outlets and the Democrats, including planting of favorable stories, even allowing members of the campaign to EDIT CONTENT.
How all of this doesn’t violate the law against propagandizing the populace is anyone’s guess, but whatevs.
In light of all of this recent history, however, what’s always stunning to me is the complete lack of self-awareness by these people. It’s like an abusive husband who CAN’T BELIEVE she finally left him. And being self-righteous and belligerent about it, to boot.
I’d love to see him do the speech with only the Senate invited and send a postcard summary to the House to meet Constitutional requirements.
The front of the postcard (addressed to Pelosi) should of course be San Francisco, with “Wish You Were *Here*” circled.
The Democrats have devolved into the party of feral children, incapable of managing mundane administrative tasks or much of anything more intellectually demanding than shrieking like two year olds with dirty diapers.
Is that any way to run a
railroadcountry?It could be a way to railroad the country.
“This should surprise exactly zero people. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-02-04/clinton-campaign-vets-behind-2020-iowa-caucus-app-snafu I mean, everybody knows those people are better at destroying record-keeping technology than they are at creating it. Oh well, I guess th DNC will tell us who “won” when they feel like deciding who won.”
What about the idea that instead of incompetence that this the official story about the app is an excuse to rig the outcome? As in, “deciding who won” is based on the preferences of the PTBs and not based on the data?
If that’s the case I look forward to the election between Trump and Boaty McBoatface in November.
Between 2019 and 2023, the cost of electrification alone may be US$225bn, equal to the amount automakers already commit on capital expenditure and R&D in total. The need for such considerable investment may last for an extended period of time, potentially placing hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk.
I’m most certainly not qualified to do it, but I cannot help wondering if there is any sort of ballpark estimate, in megawatts, of the energy required to run the internal combustion fleet on any given day.
I think it might be a pretty big number.
No idea but I’m pretty confident that windmills and unicorn farts are never going to be enough to cover it.
Who needs an app..
When everything went to hell, they coulda just emailed everyone and told them to email the results in. Print them all out in a pile and you’d be done in no time, even if you can’t find anyone who knows how to do computer. Any secretary could handle that.
We do a charity auction at church every year. I never bothered to automate it much, because there are only a couple of thousand items. I have 3 teams of 2 volunteers key the answers in. Takes about 15-20 minutes.
Used to be 1 team of 2 using excel.
I came along and split the excel sheet among multiple people the first year I was involved. Took about an hour to make sure that I had everything right – it was important that results come out quicker and they didn’t ask until the day of the auction.
The next year I built a simple interface to the database for keying in results. Much faster and impossible to miss-key an item. No need to go further. Simply spiffed up some reports and it works fine.
It is more complicated than their database. The only thing complicated about their database is security.
Back to the Caucuses……
Iowa is small. If they really have 1600 precincts, I could have gotten this done by now.
Heck, you could simply find a telemarketing company and get the damn thing done in an hour.
There had to be 100 people standing around at party headquarters. Give each one of them 16 precincts on a sheet of paper and let them make the calls on their cell phones. That method couldn’t take an hour.
Or, if you can’t come up with 100 people, get 16 and make 100 calls. That might take a few hours, but they still woulda been done by now.
I call stupidity. And shenanigans. Both.
It couldn’t be more obvious that they’re cooking the results. It’s an absolute joke.
Off of Iowa, two stories of crying cops:
1. Texas cop, convicted of rape, gets 10 years probation. He cried on the stand, and his main argument against incarceration was “do you know what happens to cops in prison?” The prosecution had asked for 15 years.
2. This one’s old, but I just saw it recently. NYPD narcotics cop plants drugs on 8 innocent people to make quotas. Quoteth the judge:
This one got 5 years probation and community service.
Yea, they usually go in special protective units, or they serve their time in a single cell at the county jail. Besides, I’ve never heard a complaint about what pedophiles go through in prison. It’s always written off as something they deserve for their crime.
(Just for the record, I have no sympathy for pedos, but I think it’s an 8th Amendment violation to put someone in a place where they’re almost certainly going to be beaten and raped every day. Prison is a zero-freedom environment; there’s no excuse for allowing that to happen.)
And you know this because….? You cite that omnipresent and utterly meaningless statistic that “between one and 13 percent of SUV owners actually drove their vehicles off-road.” But so what? What does that prove? How does it prove what you claim it does? I don’t even see how you or anyone could claim this is “knowledge.” The Dude quote about opinions seems apt here.
Not to pile on, but…
Define “off road”. Nearly everybody up here where I live (this specific bumpy-dirt-road neighborhood) drives a 4wd pickup or SUV. I am one of a very few exceptions. I drive my Honda, unless I can’t. Then it’s the SUV (Ford Explorer) or the 4wd Chevy pickup, depending on how bad the snow drifts are.
Not everybody is willing or able to license, insure and maintain a fleet of condition-dependent vehicles, so they buy based on the extreme need tail of the graph.
This is what I can’t fathom: CNN literally got caught rigging an election. A fucking moderator gave Herself multiple debate questions ahead of primetime debates. How are these clowns still in business?? How does anyone take them seriously??
CNN will tell you what (they think) you need to know. That’s what journalism means.