Illinois righted the ship. the Dayton Flyers are on a roll. Baylor keeps pounding people. And Kentucky is starting to play like they should. This college basketball season has been a roller coaster.
Ugh.
Of course, I may be leading with that to avoid talking about the UCL matches yesterday right out of the gate. Liverpool looked quite pedestrian. But they’re only down 1-0, so they can get it back together at home. Meanwhile, that Haaland dude has a freaking cannon for a leg. Jeez, he’s already turning into one of the best strikers in the world. So look for him to be sold to a “bigger” club very soon.
This was a Big match.
Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born on this day. Others rotating around his greatness by sharing it are jockey Eddie Arcaro, acting badass Lee Marvin, R&B legend Smokey Robinson, Loverboy’s Paul Dean, Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, wrestler Big John Studd, novelist Amy Tan, actor Jeff Daniels, man currently ruining GE Jeff Immelt, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, global traveler Prince Andrew, guy who sand a Batman song Seal, and underrated actor Benicio Del Toro.
That list is entirely average. Oh well, on to…the links!
Good news for Trump. Well, better news for any republican running for the House or Senate. Because endorsing this guy will be the kiss of death for a lot of down ballot races.
CNN reporter takes time off from his drinking and sexually harassing of people in order to freak out.
Trump goes on a pardon/clemency spree. And heads all over TV news explode. I gotta admit, some of these are head-scratchers. here’s a madness in his method sometimes. Of course CNN is absolutely losing their shit over it. But I’d expect no less from them. You’d almost think its natural for them to overdramatize everything he does now.
“People close to him” say Barr is considering resigning. Of course they bury the part where his own spokeswoman says he is not considering resigning. But WaPo gonna WaPo.
What an asshole.
Man, this dude was thirsty. I don’t get how he made it that far with our someone stopping him though. It takes a good 5 minutes to drive a half mile anywhere in Austin. Somebody could have stopped him.
I like this idea. In fact, we need a complete reset in how our state lines are drawn. In fact, the rural/urban divide is so strong, we really need to reset our national lines and bust up into a dozen or more countries.
This looks pretty cool. As long as no tax money is involved, I wish them the best.
Go ahead and rock out today. Enjoy.
That’s it. Go out there and get over the hump, friends.
If Barr resigns, he’ll go from scoundrel to hero in 5 seconds flat.
Only if he turns against orange man.
5 seconds? You’re overestimating their attention span.
““People close to him” say Barr is considering resigning. Of course they bury the part where his own spokeswoman says he is not considering resigning. But WaPo gonna WaPo.”
I think that the WaPo is trying to beat the Bee at being America’s satire paper…
Things like this go a long way to help.
Whoever that is has me blocked.
John Cusak… Mr. Better off dead…
What did you do Sloop? Demand your two dollars?
Damn him!
John Cusack linking a pick of a wapo headline “It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president.” right below their “Democracy dies in darkness” subtitle for the site.
You mean, like a group that gets together to pick the President? An electoral group of some kind?
A college of some sort, maybe.
Maybe that is how Bloomberg will become president. He’ll offer to pay off all the electors college loans if they vote for him?
If he arrested a single member of the Deep State for lying, faking warrants, hiding evidence… I would give a shit if he stayed or quit.
Good news for Trump. Well, better news for any republican running for the House or Senate. Because endorsing this guy will be the kiss of death for a lot of down ballot races. – or you are old and put of touch and socialism is trendy enough to win. Could go either way.
*out of touch goddamnit.
I wish there was a 15 second edit function for comments. I caught this as I was pressing post.
I’ve got a good bottle of wine vs one of your good bottles of wine on that outcome!
I am generally not a betting man and I don’t have many good bottles willing to gamble, even if shipping was possible.
That’s okay, you’ll just have to hand-deliver it.
So he can die of hyperglycemia as soon as he steps off the plane?
If it’s Trump vs Sanders, Trump might win 45 states.
I say Texas goes for Bernie.
Make that 2 bottles of wine…
I’ll bet you a case of Johnny Walker Blue Label vs your bottle of average to subpar wine.
Johnny Walker Blue Label is overpriced by a lot
Then you’d be able to sell it and make a tidy profit.
It’s a sucker bet Pie. If you win the bet they will be in camps and unable to pay up.
Why not a fiddle of gold against your soul?
/because he thinks he’s better than you
Do you really think the DNC will allow Sanders to get the nomination?
“Do you really think the DNC will allow Sanders to get the nomination?”
I do not.
You may find this interesting (approximately five minutes of clips taken from pundits in the “mainstream” media).
Then again, pundits said Trump had no chance either.
The Republicans are less capable of rigging their primary.
Considering the Dems are incapable of coalescing around any candidate in the general, this is looking like a sure thing for Trump.
No way is Trump getting 45 states, but he might pick up NH, MI, and NV if the Dems go full retard. I don’t see anyone else flipping.
I could see MN flip. Anyone with an D next to their name will win the metros, but the Iron Range aint havin it, and the D’s need that to keep MN blue.
Misleading headline. Bernie did not open up anything, Biden did.
Biden’s collapse granted Bernie a double digit lead. Support for Sanders has been deadlocked at between 25 and 30% and has not moved one bit the entire time. I suspect when Warren finally drops out it will rise to 40% but he won’t get any higher
I suspect when Warren finally drops out it will rise to 40% but he won’t get any higher
And that’s why, even though she should drop out, she will be propped up by the DNC – to split the hard left vote. As bad as it will be, the DNC will prefer an inconclusive primary and a brokered convention to a clear Sanders victory.
All the better for me.
*begins penning additional episodes for Zombie Presidential candidate*
SJWednesday: Imma Let You Finish, But Trannies Are The Most Victimized Of All Time
What about people who believe you’re full of shit?
Those people are evil according to this moron.
You’ve written something for Everyday Feminism, which pretty much makes you categorically wrong. Peppering your shit with terms like “cisgender privilege” confirm this.
The humorous (sad?) part is that the author is from South Africa, a country which is facing much more serious problems than “cisgender” privilege, although it probably causes AIDs.
“My aim here, however, is to educate others – mainly other cisgender people”
Oh, just fuck right off, you condescending ass.
Lol, that sounds like my sister.
And the poll has President Donald Trump’s approval rating tied for his all-time high in the NBC News/WSJ survey, while also finding that the most unpopular candidate qualities in a general election are being a socialist, being older than 75 years of age and having a heart attack in the past year.
But other than that, Sanders is great.
If he gets the nomination that will guarantee a big voter turnout in the general election, which normally helps dems. OTOH, a lot of those turning out will do so specifically to vote against Sanders.
Trump goes on a pardon/clemency spree. And heads all over TV news explode. I gotta admit, some of these are head-scratchers. here’s a madness in his method sometimes. Of course CNN is absolutely losing their shit over it. But I’d expect no less from them. You’d almost think its natural for them to overdramatize everything he does now.
The talking point, even picked up by TOS, is that this is just another example of being rich, white, and well-connected in America.
I think he’s trolling them. I was listening to CNN yesterday while they were freaking out over it and they actually called Sidney Powell a “conspiracy theorist”. They’ve lost their shit.
My theory isn’t quite trolling as much as a “see i can be lenient on political enemies, not just my friends”. Now the media isn’t talking about him asking for leniencey for his friends since he just pardoned a corrupt Illinois Democrat.
But that corrupt Democrat was on his TV show. They might actually be friends.
That ship sailed sometime in November 2016 Sloop. They are just degenerating into full blown “throw your own shit at the walls and hope that changes reality” mode now.
Holy crap, that CNN article is utterly unhinged.
I was listening to NBC this morning and I knew the machine was in overdrive. They also had been playing the identical connect-the-dots game, so I’m sure that came down in a directive over whatever journolist II is.
And sticking Blagoyovich in there is obviously a troll of the first order – forcing them to squeal about how corrupt that democrat who appointed Obama’s replacement is.
Amazing that the secondary spin is that this is ‘an insult to the hard working prosecutors, judges and jurors who did their duty to the country in order to put these people in jail’.
People really are insane. Like, deep-down, untethered from any reality, insane.
I was considering posing a theory that he pardoned Blago because he was a contestant on The Apprentice and it is somehow going to financially benefit Trump because the show might get more airtime in syndication now. And call for impeachment under the Emoluments Clause. It might get me a spot on a panel.
It might make your take the most cogent theory on the panel.
Ok, 2 of those who had their sentences commuted were in for drugs, not bad.
Too bad Ross Ulbricht wasn’t on the Apprentice like Blagojevich was.
PARDON MARTHA STEWART!
Silk Road not Silk Robe.
Party pooper…
Too bad Julian Assange wasn’t.
This. Political prisoners not only in China.
President Donald Trump just appointed himself America’s judge and jury, casting even deeper doubts on whether the nation’s impartial justice system can withstand his expanding political assault.
Aaaannd I’m out. The president has the constitutional authority to pardon. You don’t have to like it. It is going to be hilarious when he pardons Roger Stone.
I get that he has the authority, I just get confused by his choices.
He should pardon Joe Biden or Bill Clinton. That would make the fucking asshats in team blue just lose their fucking minds.
It’s not worth it.
I think it would if he then told everyone that they were going out balls to the wall after Joe’s kid Hunter and after Hillary for their criminal shit. Come to think of it, he should pardon the Wookie too, then go after her supposed man.
Wewease Woger!
Isn’t that Rich.
What you did there, I see it.
It was seen. And gazes were narrowed.
I like this idea. In fact, we need a complete reset in how our state lines are drawn. In fact, the rural/urban divide is so strong, we really need to reset our national lines and bust up into a dozen or more countries.
Give the Nazis in Idaho a sea port? That sounds like a bad idea.
But seriously, i would prefer they just split off and became their own state.
I’m trying to imagine how the split up in Ohio would work. Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland breaking off from the rest of the state with the 71 corridor connecting them? I doubt they would split up into East, Central, and Western Ohio.
No reason why the Great State of Urban Ohio would need to be contiguous.
sovereignty shouldnt be geographically based at all.
We could form the greater Glibertopia co-prosperity sphere, in a perfect world.
…will there be *ahem* comfort women?
Ask the mythical female libertarians.
That’s why we hire-in the hot BernieBrosinas.
According to Japan comfort women were mythical as well.
I thought everyone in Ohio already claimed Cincy was in KY. Not that we want them. It and southern Ohio can join WV along with western VA.
The saying is everything south of Columbus is Kentucky. But if we’re splitting urban areas off from rural, That leaves the three C’s as the big urban areas in Ohio. We could give Toledo back to Michigan to end the rivalry started from a war between the states. If all of SE Ohio joined WV, that would make WV larger then VA.
Michigan won the war, that is why you got Toledo.
Why not have Michigan Annex Ohio. Then heads would explode.
They already have 2 big state U’s, they can eliminate the one in Columbus.
Or you could just make it an annex of one. It could become UofM-Columbus
Ok, I know y’all are trying to set me off.
“To the victor go the spoils”, so the state of Columbus gets the Upper Peninsula and the rest of that godforsaken place gets spun off to Ottawa.
Cincinnati inside the city proper is blue, but the metro area including Hamilton County is red. Don’t lump us in with the Cuyahoga and Franklin commies!
Good morning all. The 1-800-JUNK men left with a couple thousand books, a couple thousand VHS and cassette tapes, and assorted junk; also $650. Who knew trash hauling was so lucrative. Made most of it back with a visit from the scrap metal man who hauled away old playground stuff, old BBQ, bikes in various states of decay, etc.. Life goes on.
Did they arrive in a junk?
I wish.
Read about your troubles, Iobit but we don’t seem to keep the same schedule. Really sorry to hear about that, Man.
As am I.
I must have missed something.
The particulars escape my memory but, if I have it right, some connection between downsizing and domestic discord.
That’s an elegant turn of phrase, Toxteth. I like you.
Very much this. thank you all for being here. Honestly, the recent losses suffered by so many of our mutual friends at this wonderful haven put my woes into perspective. Life truly goes on.
Wish you the best of luck, Ol’ Friend. Remember, advice is worth what you pay for it.
of course they bury the part where his own spokeswoman says he is not considering resigning.
I was skeptical when this popped up on my phone as a news alert.
I thought I was reading the onion or something. Nope NBC news.
That’s how diversity really works when the diversity peddlers get down to the business of telling you who the top men will be.
I like all the “Bernie will Fail” predictions, like we never had a 2016 General Election.
Bernie will fail because the American people don’t actually want socialism, despite the best efforts of the academy, the media, and the public schools.
The winning play for every Democrat is to run as a moderate, then once they have the power govern as leftist as possible. FDR, for example, ran against Hoovers deficit spending and expansion of government. FDR promised a balanced budget. FDR lied. Obama never said anything about Obamacare on the campaign trail. He promised to get the economy turned around, and get out of Iraq. He didn’t release the ACA on the Obama website in August 2008. The American people were so opposed to Obamacare that they handed control of Congress to the Republicans.
Bernie isn’t going to win an election promising to take everyone off their health plans and put them on Medicare. You have to promise “if you like your plan you can keep your plan” and then after you get elected you make the private plans go up in cost by hundreds or thousands of dollars.
Bernie isn’t going to win an election promising to take everyone off their health plans and put them on Medicare.
This. When you have unions warning against Bernie’s healthcare plan, that’s not a winner. The youth may be enamored with Bernie, but as long as the economy remains strong (and it’s not only strong, it’s one of the strongest most voters have seen in their life) I don’t think we are going to see a sea change in American politics.
Yeah the whole long game for healthcare was working: cripple the private medical care industry bit by bit, with taxation, regulation, barriers to competition, and then when it collapses you push SEE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LET COMPLETELY UNREGULATED PRIVATE INDUSTRY HANDLE A VITAL SERVICE LIKE HEALTHCARE.
You have to kill the functional system with poison and subterfuge. If you just ban it outright, people won’t fall for it.
I’ve always thought the Medicare for All people are implying this is for the uninsured, with the banning of private plans to come later.
When they say “for all”, they mean it.
Well, except for Congresscritters. They’ll have their own sweet little plan, just for themselves.
It is too damn warm. I almost believe in CAGW
Still too cold and dark to plan long bike rides. I’m just hoping for another year where it’s warm enough to not wear a coat on St. Patrick’s Day.
Homophobic, sexist and racist patients could be barred from non-emergency care at NHS trusts, under new rules from April
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1229789669421875201
Did drugs fall out of someone’s ass too?
You know I never understood that joke, I think I missed the origins. Then again there are other in jokes I do not understand.
It was from a news story about a guy who got shot in the testicles, and then drugs fell out of his ass. It was shared multiple times on every post here for about a week.
Well, there was this one news article where a got shot himself and had baggies of drugs fall from his rectum. It got linked from here an inordinate amount of times. Thus it is a reference to stories that are getting linked too often.
There was a post to an article that had a person trying to smuggle drugs in their “prison wallet” – they fell out and they were caught. It must have been linked to 11 or 12 times over the next three days – so mentioning that is a stand in for “this has been posted many times”.
Gah! No it’s drugs falling out of a turtle’s ass all the way down.
And by all the way down you mean where the Browns lower your casket after being asked to be pallbearers?
But on his deathbed, they told him that Trump had lost.
Drugs-in-ass-eption
Wait, Mitch McConnell did what?!?!
So there was this time that this article got submitted to the comments section a multitude of times over the span of a few days. This has caused the Gliby response to an oft posted article to be “did the drugs fall out of his ass?”.
Lol. I found this series of posts very entertaining. Well done all!
I was the first to post a link to that story. Everybody else posted it after me.
And then drugs fell out of your ass?
I have neither the tools nor the skills to (efficiently) scour all the previous posts, but I was think I linked it 1st.
So there.
We discussed this yesterday. To most of us this is one of the most heinous things that will come out of government control of healthcare. To the people that want said control this is one of the most sought after features of government controlling healthcare. The new fascists don’t want to be bothered with camps and the labels that come with murdering and torturing people. They would much prefer to assign you a social score and then destroy your ability to make a living and be part of society, because that leaves them the ability to pretend their hands are clean. After all, you are the evil fuck that doesn’t accept the right ideas to believe and continues to believe you have the right to any kind of self determination.
This does not really square with the healthcare is a right thing. Unless human rights are not universal but based on oppinions, which is a damn slippery slope
Healthcare is a right that can be taken away.
Making healthcare a right, makes everyone working in that industry at best serfs, and more likely than not, slaves. If I don’t have a right to water, food, and hawt bitchez (not necessarily in that order) which are far more important to life, how the fuck does one make the leap to healthcare being a right.
As I said: those peddling it as a right and demanding government take it over don’t really want to make sure everyone gets healthcare, they just want the ability wield it as a bludgeon to beat down the wrong thinkers. After all, every fucking one of the places where I get told healthcare is a right and delivered for “free” has at best sub par healthcare, with long waiting periods and often deadly consequences you can’t find any redress for, or simply provide healthcare in name only (see any fucking communist country or Venezuela for more recent example).
This is why I like living near the southern border. Below it, dinero is the cheapest way to pay.
In Minneapolis, there are some claiming that free public transportation is a human right.
“Henseforth, anyone who claims free public transportation is a human right must provide their services pulling public rickshaws without compensation.”
Well, you see Pie, healthcare is a human right. But government employees also have rights, including the right to not have to treat deplorables.
I like this idea.
///MeToo but leftists mean to rule you so they will never allow it to happen…peacefully.
Man, this dude was thirsty. I don’t get how he made it that far with our someone stopping him though. It takes a good 5 minutes to drive a half mile anywhere in Austin. Somebody could have stopped him.
Pretty sure the onion already did this one: Political Talk Show Host Suddenly Very Interested In Manslaughter Law Loopholes
SJWednesday: I Need My Pain
Pain is just a signal. Eliminating that signal has detrimental effects too the long run viability of the lifeform.
“Whycome my limb no longer works and is dripping red stuff?”
Merely a flesh wound!
Lepers agree with you.
There’s no pleasing some people
Or it makes you into a superhero.
It turns you from Liam Neeson into Arnold Vosloo?
Here I thought it was the laws which give him the ability to pardon people for federal crimes.
Such a troll.
Here I thought it was the laws which give him the ability to pardon people for federal crimes.
It’s not the laws. Its THE LAW. i.e the constitution that gives him the power. It is half amusing, that these people are so blinded by their hatred that they will talk about the sanctity of the constitution and then act like trump is doing something the constitution doesn’t expressly give him the power to do.
Unconstitutional = that which hurts our team’s election chances.
Yeah, I was 90% sure it was the constitution, but I couldn’t remember for sure, also I’m sick, so I’m using that as an excuse.
But they were totes okay with President Pen and Phone ruling by fiat.
He was one of the GOOD guys… He only wielded his power to punish those that deserved it!
Question on college:
Daughter #1 receives nice letter from Yale saying to apply. Includes cost calculator. Cost for her is $306,000.
If she invests 306k and surfs for 30 years she ends up with 2.5 million (age 48) 5 mill at 56 and easy 10mil at 65.
Why would she pick Yale?
https://twitter.com/wkeithcampbell/status/1229943734239928320
haha college is Free* in Europe.
*not exactly free as such
A: It’s not free
B: It’s also not open to every schlub and their cousin.
C: $10mil at 65 is chump change compared to the grifting opportunities Yale alums have when burrowed into unaccountable positions of authority with limited to no oversight where they bleed the productive classes dry.
You used to be able to be an eternal student, sucking at the government’s teat and never producing anything of value, in most northern European countries. Those days are dead. If you don’t pick a degree they feel will make you employable, and then, don’t graduate in 6 years, you not only are kicked off the program, but you now will be held financially liable. Shifts like this have happened with all the preferred shit the left peddles as what makes societies great., from education to healthcare. The one thing that didn’t change is the ridiculously high taxes people paid in expectation of this free shit. So the taxes stayed, and what you used to get for that ripoff is dwindling over time because there is not enough of other people’s money to pay for the largess, but the people are told things are just AK as a giant chunk of that money goes to support the lavish lifestyles of unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.
If she were to put her money in emerging markets right now, she would be broke in short fashion.
Eh, so the assumption is she has $300k cash today? Still better off picking a good major and going to college. Just not Yale.
MIT? Cal Tech? There was this hipster tech college in California but the name escapes me
I think I was thinking about Harvey Mudd College
Cal Poly SLO?
If I inherited that much money out of the blue, I’d start a Chick-fil-A next to a currently open Chick-fil-A. Then, when lunchtime hits and the line starts to wrap around the building, everyone will have to go to mine.
I think the company will tell you to not site that close to an existing one.
Not sure if CFA is a chain or a franchise, but in either case they generally control the proximity of their locations. Interestingly there is a CFA on West Broad Street which is across the street from a strip shopping center which also features a CFA.
It’s like the Waffle House on Rt 60 by the airport and the other Waffle House on Rt 60 that’s 100 yards further from the airport!
Also, the Waffle House that’s 100 yards further is the better Waffle House.
Waffle choices!
Not sure if CFA is a chain or a franchise
It’s a bit of a hybrid. Franchisees only need to put up like $10K of their own money, and the company is very selective on who gets it, where it’s built, and how it’s run, but does give the franchisee a bit of leeway to personalize things about their story (one of them I know of over-decorates his place for every holiday and is constantly running events/giveaways). My brother and his wife applied to be a franchisee just for fun and got through a few rounds of the vetting process (they probably didn’t get it because who’s going to give that to a couple of 20-somethings, no matter how responsible and upstanding they might be, when there are people with more experience applying).
I’m thinking of the one in front of Target on Apalachee Parkway in Tallahassee. It was madness when I lived there. I thought “no chicken is that good”, and while I wasn’t wrong, it was much closer than I thought.
Guthrie’s FTW!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8018625/Baywatch-star-Yasmine-Bleeth-51-takes-dog-walk-LA-two-decades-quitting-Hollywood.html
Unrecognizable.
Oh no
Physical attractiveness, especially amongst females, is a commodity that is highly perishable, which is why those that bank on it to get ahead, seem to so furiously hate others after their time is gone.
Still would.
You need some glasses brah. or did you mean you would do the dog?
rofl.
Any port in a storm, am I right?
“Herbie’s only got one eye and he don’t see so good out of it anyways…”
That’s not Yasmine, that’s the thing that ate Yasmine.
That’s a similarly disappointing transformation as the “Afghan girl with mesmerizing eyes” from the Nat Geo cover when they finally tracked her back down.
https://twitter.com/Behind2020/status/1228415211364810755
Do you know who else believed in astrology?
Not Adahn?
No, he does.
[golf clap]
reminded me of this.
https://images.app.goo.gl/aP93KENUg9UG1B2W7
When Bloomberg News’s Reporting on China Was Challenged, Bloomberg Tried to Ruin Me for Speaking Out
Peasants need to know when to shut up.
China owns the news media, sports, movies, your tax dollars, your data, the federal govt, Tibet, all the world’s deadliest pathogens… hmm.
Thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8018681/BRITs-2020-Mabel-displays-jawdropping-figure-cleavage-baring-red-minidress.html
Yes.
Weird boob geometry but I suppose it’s some kind of adhesive technology employed within the garment.
Fake boobs. The inter-mammary separation is your clue.
Look like second rate implants to me.
Weird Boob Geometry was really their best album.
Hooker thicc make up.
Complete with bad tattoos and fake nails.
I’d take Yasmine over this gal.
Well after a crappy long weekend that includes having my father in law in the hospital, I’m back.
Bottled Water Targeted in Washington State
Proposal would ban the tapping of natural water by the industry, part of a growing push by environmentalists
Paywalled
So I don’t know much geology at all, but I’d think that most of the populous parts of Washington don’t suffer for lack of water.
Still can’t allow the corporations to steal it for free…
Anyhoo bottled water is a scam
So, artificial water for everybody?
We’ve got boxes of powdered water if you prefer.
Canned dehydrated water to replace bottled water.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/iowahawk_blog/3097265339/sizes/o/in/photostream/
LOLOLOLOOL
“Website Blocked”
I’m not getting the joke. Maybe If I think on it a bit.
Thats hilarious, especially once you start looking at the details.
“Capisce?”
This Pete guy is really starting to piss me off.
Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg warned the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Tuesday afternoon that we might see “white supremacy totally destroy the American project.”
If you think the US is more racist now that any other point in history you are a) dishonest or b) ignorant.
She asked Buttigieg if he would support raising the age federally and he said, “I would be very open to that. We have to do whatever we can to save lives.”
Fuck. Off. Slaver.
White supremacy is lurking in the bushes. Also fascism.
Considering how poorly Pete is doing with AAs, they probably thought he was bragging.
There’s nothing Pete can do to actually be popular with Black Americans. It ain’t his speech, his mannerisms, or his career track that crater him with that demographic.
I hope someone took the firing pin out of Captain Genius’ service weapon before he hurt someone.
The Chicoms have learned well that anything disparaging of China is naturally racist as well.
Paywalled again – China Expels Three Wall Street Journal Reporters China’s Foreign Ministry says move was punishment for a recent opinion piece published by the Journal
Suck the top men’s cock, or face the consequences. No wonder the left is enamored with the Chicomm system (probably because it is less commie and more fascist).
(probably because it is less commie and more fascist)
It’s totally Communist-In-Name-Only nowadays. At a certain point the commies realized that it wasn’t working, and that being the aristocracy of a poor nation is not as much fun as being the aristocracy of a rich(er) nation, since you can’t squeeze blood from a stone and all that. Nowadays the members of the Politburo get to enjoy being on average ten times wealthier that the members of the US Congress.
Fascism with Chinese characteristics.
The Oxford Student has been notified about a proposal by the Classics faculty to remove the study of Homer’s Iliad and Virgil’s Aeneid from the Mods syllabus, a decision which has surprised many across the faculty.
This proposal forms part of a series of reforms aimed to modernise the first stage of the Classics degree, known as Moderations (Mods), which take place during Hilary term of second year for all students taking Classics courses across the university.
The Mods course, which is assessed by a set of ten exams at the end of Hilary, has been increasingly criticised in recent years, due to the attainment gaps found between male and female candidates, as well as between candidates who have studied Latin and/or Greek to A-Level (Course I) and those who have not (Course II).
The removal of Virgil and Homer papers, which take up two out of the ten Mods papers, have been marketed as a move that will reduce the attainment gaps and thus improve access to the subject. However many have questioned why the solution to this problem involves the removal of Homer and Virgil.
https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2020/02/17/94749/
White man authors, so unwoke.
I hated translating The Aeneid from the original Latin because of the one-off ablative forms, but this is utterly stupid.
Why don’t they remove addition and subtraction from the study of mathematics while they’re at it?
Due to the attainment gaps found between male and female candidates, as well as between candidates who have studied Algebra and Geometry, the course on calculus has been removed from the catalog.
I mean why not?
I hated the ablative form – full stop. It was like the go to form when you couldn’t figure out what else to use.
Obligatory – Life of Brian – Latin Lesson – Romans go home!
Thanks for the laugh.
Anybody who has studied Latin will surely get a laugh out of that scene.
The Mods course, which is assessed by a set of ten exams at the end of Hilary, has been increasingly criticised in recent years, due to the attainment gaps found between male and female candidates, as well as between candidates who have studied Latin and/or Greek to A-Level (Course I) and those who have not (Course II).
Some people haven’t put in the work to understand the classic literature, and so they don’t do as well. So we’ll stop teaching it.
Do they still speak English there?
How have I never heard of Hilary term and its correspondents? Do I need to reread Brideshead? Learn something new every day. Multumesc, Pie!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_year#England
There’s no real way you can make Classics woke – there’s just not enough Sappho left.
I think the plan is to move Virgil and Homer to Greats. Not actually that bad a thing, though other changes might be. At the moment Mods 1A candidates get to read a lot more of it than Mods 1B. Post-Mods, they’re treated equally.
The usual thing is to try and introduce course work to replace exams, on the basis that exams favour men. That really would be bad.
That was probably more than you wanted to know, but you only have yourself to blame.
a series of reforms aimed to modernise the first stage of the Classics degree
You can stop right there.
I don’t remember Blogjevich’s story behind the selling of seats but I do seem to recall some story about how he may have been railroaded or that his crime was common practice in Illinois or something along those lines? And Barry’s name came up too. Which should surprise no one except maybe Toobin that tool.
He deserved to go to prison. The rest of the Illinois government probably deserved to go with him.
“The rest of the Illinois government
probablydeserved to go with him.”Fixed that for ya.
Didn’t they have him on tape explicitly selling Obama’s senate seat?
Yep
Bitch set him up.
That’s it. I think he said it was all an ‘understanding’ or something.
It was business as usual for the Illinois Chicago-machine crowd, but Obama needed him gone to cover up some kind of shit he knew that would hurt Obama, so they fucked him over. Blag kept his mouth shut cause doing jail time was a lot less painful than getting a visit from the Clinton/Obama enforcers.
Painful? Two shots to the back of the head isn’t painful.
Ask Vince Foster how unpainful it was to go down in that plane…
On a park bench? I think you mean Ron Brown…
No, I meant Jeffry Epstein.
He was third(?) in a consecutive steak of governors to go to prison after their term.
Mad Maxine is desperate.
“It is not only the sycophants around him, it’s the average American who gets up every day, who is taking care of their families, who is thinking somebody else will see to it that this president is not re-elected. But, no, it has to be all of us out there working and working very hard. We have a constitutional crisis and we’ve got to deal with it. This is what democracy is all about, when you see a president out of control, when you see those who have been elected to office, who are not acting responsibly and they’re endangering our democracy, you have to speak out against them. You have to work against them. You have got to make sure that they’re not reelected ever again.”
“Drumpf winning the election is destroying democracy!”
We have a constitutional crisis and we’ve got to deal with it.
Someone winning the election that i don’t like was not planned for in the constitution.
Indeed we do. Just not the Constitutional crisis you are imagining.
I could say the same about her, corrupt bitch that she is.
when you see those who have been elected to office, who are not acting responsibly and they’re endangering our democracy, you have to speak out against them. You have to work against them. You have got to make sure that they’re not reelected ever again.
She might want to stop giving people ideas.
When team blue is unable to steal/rig an election democracy is destroyed…
Good morning, Sloopy!
Also good news for Trump.
Didn’t these fuckheads used to at least pretend they weren’t no-shit commies?
I like the idea of the proposed secession out west. I’m not gonna put the house on the market quite yet, though.
Great song. Tony Iommi is an excellent guitarist, despite the stumps.
Be careful out there, people. It’s getting weird.
If Kshama Sawant wants socialism or communism all she has to do is to return to India, shining star of socialist success that it is.
India is still relatively socialist, why do these commie Indians keep moving here instead of staying in paradise?
Huh. I swear I didn’t read your post before making mine. I’ll just say +1, and it isn’t just her.
They want to replicate the same shit system in other places so the people at home have nothing to look at that will allow them to figure out they are being butt fucked without the courtesy of a reach around?
Sawant didn’t become a socialist until well after she moved here. To the extent she believes any of what she says (after discovering the great poverty that allegedly exists here, she moved far away from it), she likely picked it up from Americans. No doubt she thinks India’s biggest problem is the caste system not the socialism.
Yeah, its machine operators and 3rd shift diner waitresses snapping their fingers instead of clapping at the local DSA meeting. That’s a thing that’s 100% real.
It’s always important to sprinkle in some insanity from the right: “Libertarians are coming for your sexual dignity
Apparently, this is because we’ve been resisting the “porn bad, therefore it should be banned” noise from the right.
Fuck off, slaver.
erasing naïve viewpoint neutrality from our laws in favor of robust state protection for monotheism and natural law.
I had a great-great… grandfather who was murdered by such God Fearing Christian Men. You can right fuck off.
“That’s why more and more Americans, including young people, are rediscovering the conclusion that we can tell porn is wrong because we can tell it is porn.”
That’s some logic right there.
w0t?
*Call a doctor if your tautology lasts more than 6 hours.
It’s the Porn Axiom.
You have to be a special kind of stupid to think that Pornhub is the biggest threat to America.
Pornhub proves that people of all sizes, colors, races, and faiths can get along.
faiths? Aren’t they all heathens.
OT: Another Japanese network drops Interspecies Reviewers.
Interspecies Reviewers Anime’s Airing on Kobe’s Sun TV Canceled
Still on AT-X so I imagine they will get the full series out into the wild. I’m still amazed as there are lots of A list voice actresses that have had bit parts in individual episodes. We have essentially a mediocre regular anime or a first rate hentai.
It’s one of those mediocre anime that decides to use fanservice as a way to keep people watching. They went … over the top.
I still say it’s so bad it’s funny.
That’s the way I feel about it.
Plus the language jokes are what a 12 year old boy would find funny. So it fits my level perfectly. OTH, for a native speaking adult I’m thinking it’s again rather cliched.
natural law – which part of that bans porn?
The one that demands you believe that men & women are not just equal but interchangeable, but then also tells you women are such delicate flowers this stuff is abusive and predatory to them?
is erasing naïve viewpoint neutrality from our laws in favor of robust state protection for monotheism and natural law.
To claim religious exemption for homeschooling in VA, you have to express a bona fide religious objection to public school that cannot be based in philosophy. Bona fide objections are, by an old State Supreme Court decision from I think the 1950s, only those from a monotheistic religion.
I find this really interesting on a couple levels. On the legal level, I think the religious restriction is inherently unconstitutional and would be struck down if taken to court. Once Eastern religions could be used, then it would open up philosophic objections since so much of Eastern religion is rooted in philosophy.
I briefly thought about using Taoism for my objections but didn’t want to put my children through being the test case.
Has anyone here ever walked in and out of Home Depot without spending at least $100? It’s like having a tourist trap in your own country.
I have.
It’s easy when you don’t have $100.
They offer their own credit card. What a moran.
The more interesting question is if you’ve walked out with $100 more than you went in with.
Does it count if it’s just the Home Depot parking lot, not the store-proper?
+1 undocumented immigrant
You, sir, are a gentlemen.
That’s what the yellow line in the parking lot is for.
Sure, I’m a cheapskate. I’ve spent less than a dollar there on a single nut.
You found Bernie rambling about the number of fastener choices?
Yes, I was there with a 10% off coupon (up to $200 in purchases) and walked out spending about $40, then drove by Lowe’s and got the rest of the stuff I needed. HD sucks.
Costco, on the other hand, has a $100 cover charge.
Many years ago after a savings fueled spending binge at Sam’s Club the wife and i were looking at what we bought. We spent entirely too much on saving money through buying in bulk. We went back and returned many items.
Weird, I mean I go to Lowes because I have their card and it is easier to get to, but if I was rational I would go to Home Depot.
Lowes has always felt like the K-mart to Home Depot’s Walmart.
That might explain why I dislike Home Depot so much.
K-mart was the shoddier, unkempt example in that comparison.
WalMart has always been a very disturbing place.
I must be too low class to notice.
What are you talking about? I was born poor. The whole building and atmosphere of the place is just… off. Like there’s a weak spot in reality and florida is leaking through.
It was “west virginia leaking through” in my experience because I’ve spent all of an hour or two in FL. 6/halfdoz, w/e.
Interestingly, the walmart locations in more urban, more affluent, central MD and NE DC were much heavier on the WV vibe than the one I patronize now that’s 20mins from the WV border…
Maybe when walmart is the Primary Retail Outlet in an area, and EVERYBODY shops there, not just the welfare recipents that patronize walmart in PG or Anne Arundle, the refuse-of-society vibe just isn’t as prominent.
I don’t find opened products all over the floor in walmart though.
I was thought the other way around when I worked for a market research company in the 90s. HD followed the K-mart model, build in every big city. Lowe’s followed the Walmart model, start from your local small town and advance slowly across America, hitting every town of a reasonable size along the way.
Mr. Seriously Informed Opinion over here…
How realistic is the formation of Greater Idaho.
While we’re at it, Alberta is threatening a Wexit, so why not incorporating Alberta into Greater Montana?
A man can dream no?
Don’t be silly.
We’ll make three new states out of Alberta.
How realistic is the formation of Greater Idaho
I’d say starting Ancapistan on planet Rothbard around Spooner-1776 is more likely.
Every province except Ontario and Quebec should become part of the US. The Maritimes only get one state though.
You’d want B.C. and all its lefties, and Winterpeg?
/Lionel Hutz shudder.
No. There’s the Vancouver free state, which will be blocaded from sending people inland.
From sea to shining sea, from Boffin Bay to Tierra del Fuego.
I believe in manifest destiny.
amen.
I still say the Dakotas should be merged,and Minnesota renamed as East Dakota.
This man is from Romania, and has a better understanding of where North, South Dakota and Minnesota are located relative to each other, than most High school graduates.
But does he know what state Kansas City is in?
It is not in a state. It is a boundary marker – between Flatland and Misery.
“State of Kansas jello mold” is still one of my all time favorite Simpson’s jokes.
Trick question. Which Kansas City?
Oregon
Does anyone other than me remember the SNL skit that was a Jeopardy like gameshow called something like “Common Knowledge”? The asked questions but the “correct” answer was the most common answer given by a poll of HS students.
The state capitals category was great.
That sounds wonderful. Get a link.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/common-knowledge/n9612
Thx. SNL, though, never gets allowed here. It’s fucking weird.
Nor here.
Therapist.
Connery: ‘I’ll take The Rapist, Alex’
As a Canadian, it should fill you with pride to know that SNL basically stole the Celebrity Jeopardy bit from an old SCTV game show sketch, Half Wits.
Zero.
I do like how the linked story identifies the proponents first as foremost as “Republicans”. Almost as good as the WaPo describing Oregon as ultra liberal.
You’re a lying, dog-faced pony-soldier.
Biden promised to expand immigration to the U.S. if elected president.
“Folks, look — the idea that there’s some limitation on the capacity of anyone who — on the immigrants in this country is absolutely bizarre! It’s absolutely bizarre.” …
On Tuesday, Biden promised, if elected, to allow family reunification visas.
“We should be able to increase, to three million people, the people who could come for family reunification. Period, period, period, period.”
Family reunification visa – You’re allowed to go back to the country where you left your family, we won’t stop you.
Family reunification visa – You’re allowed to go back to the country where you left your family, we won’t stop you.
…yet
– AOC
That’s how you win back the White working class Joe – tell ’em how they are going to be replaced.
By the way, Powerline had some great “lying dog faced pony soldier” photoshops in their weekly meme dump.
We should be able to increase, to three million people,
Biden wants to limit immigration to three million people.
Why does he hate immigrants?
Didn’t they have him on tape explicitly selling Obama’s senate seat?
He didn’t offer the right people a cut.
It was Obama’s to sell.
Motherfucker tried to cut in on the action.
That is how a bitch gets cut.
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
In Marion, Iowa, @JoeBiden suggests the U.S. should lead an effort to pay countries to not cut down their trees:
“What I would do … we’ll get the rest of the world to say, ‘Here’s what we’re going to do: We will pay Brazil $20 billion — not $2 billion — to not cut down” trees
I will continue not cutting down trees for *raises pinky to mouth* one million dollars.
Meh that would be the kind of policy suggestion you would get from a standard economic treatment. If the other nations care so much then they should be willing to spend the money to purchase the rights to the forest and protect them
Go home Joe… you’re drunk.
Robert Wagner wants a word with ya…
Opinons people. I Want them.
I don’t own a gun, but i went pistol shooting the other day for the first time in about a decade, and noticed that none of the pistols i shot had a manual thumb safety. I understand the point of keeping the finger out of the trigger well, and that the pistols are designed to not “go off” so that they are safe.
My question is for those who carry (or don’t), Do you perfer having a manual safety or not?
I like a manual safety.
I prefer having one. The time lost disengaging a thumb safety on a semi-auto is trivial.
I’ve become comfortable without a safety on my double-action. You really have to want that first round – after that you are in business.
I should have clarified. I prefer a thumb safety on my striker fired semi-auto. Double action hammer pistols don’t need it.
I prefer a thumb safety for a number of reasons. One reason is that, for me, after presenting the firearm in a dynamic situation (in the split second before taking the safety off) if the assailant is not indicating any change in aggression the “safety off” point is a full green light to open fire. It is a psychological line in the progression from drawing and firing a pistol to me. So far they have always departed willingly before I got the safety off.
I prefer having one for IWB carry With a soft holster. If I’m carrying in a hard side holster, it doesn’t matter.
I’ve switched from an M&P shield with a safety to a Walter PPS without one recently. I’ve got to say, that slightly slimmer grip is a million times more comfortable.
I was “raised” by the Marine Corps to believe you ABSOLUTELY HAD to have a manual safety; I no longer feel so inclined.
My Sig (P320) has no safety and neither did my S&W .357, which I carried in my jeans pocket or in a backpack while riding motorcycles. In my opinion, if you are carrying concealed and you have to pull that thing, it will most likely be in extremis and that’s when people get fumbly and the brain turns to mush. I know people will insist it’s “nothing” to thumb off the safety in a gun fight, but I have yet to meet anyone who says that who has actually been shot at by someone else at close range.
I have also seen lots of NDs by people with guns that had a manual safety.
Do what makes you comfortable carrying.
/shrugs
i’ve got both kinds – a Para-Ordnance high-cap 1911, and a Sig for carry. Psychologically, I like having a manual safety, especially for round-in-the-chamber. I prefer condition 1 to condition 0 unless I have a target in view I intend to shoot. That said, a de-cocked Sig is pretty much condition 0.75 in my mind.
If one is carrying in a kydex holster that 100% occludes the trigger area and has a positive snap to hold the gun in place, I don’t see a need for a thumb safety.
I prefer no manual safety on a carry gun.
I’m comfortable with a loaded striker action pistol in a leather holster.
Not a fan of manual safeties, which is why I don’t carry SA.
Patient plays violin during brain tumor removal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az6nuU9Afgs&feature=emb_logo
It’s very common. Usually they have you sing. You understand why right?
You’re the canary in the surgical coal mine. When they fuck up, it’ll be instantly audible.
Plus, it amuses the surgical staff.
My question is for those who carry (or don’t), Do you perfer having a manual safety or not?
I don’t have a strong opinion about manual safeties per se. I’m a “1911 guy” and 1911s have a manual thumb safety. I also like my Sigs with the long DA first pull. I don’t want a Glock-style short light first pull.
You carry a 1911? Isn’t that a bitch if you’re carrying concealed? I tried carrying my 92FS concealed and there was just nowhere comfortable to put it. I’d imagine I would have the same experience with a 1911.
My CCW 1911 is a Para-Carry – 3″ barrel, 6 shot magazine. I bought it as a “last ditch” back up for close distances but found it is amazingly accurate to 15 meters. If 7 rounds isn’t enough the second magazine is for shooting my way to my vehicle and a proper military carbine (FAL or M1A).
My regular carry (before the move to NYC) was the Para 12-45, roughly Colt Commander size and no problem at in my inside the pants/small of the back holster.
Springfield Armory 1911 EMP with a three inch barrel. Very nice carry pistol.
Sig Sauer p938 (1911-style SA Only) is very concealable.
I’ve carried a 92FS concealed and it was a bitch. It’s just blocky and bulky. Haven’t done a full size 1911 but the Kimber officer’s model knockoff was easy to conceal. Much slimmer in every way than a 92FS.
Yeah, the full-size Para .45 (double-stack mag, 14+1) is a brick. Fully loaded, the mag alone weights a pound.
“Heavy is good. Heavy is reliable. If it doesn’t work, you can always hit them with it.”
– I forget what movie.
This, in part, is why I love me some Warsaw Pact small arms.
What the fuck, Canada?
Get out the giant bulldozers. Or just send in a couple JuniorA teams to clear it out.
Why are the pictures not of the barricades?
Environmental activists, claiming to represent First Nations
I’m curious how those claims actually play out. I wonder if the tribal governments could Sioux them if they were fraudulent.
Elizabeth Warren was there??
Sounds to me like a handful of natives let themselves get taken over by the usual gangs of protest-LARPers.
DingDingDing!
Mohawk natives stopped all traffic from Canada to the United States
Now do Mexico.
Trudy doesn’t know what to do. That’s fine. But in the meantime we should send blankets to the protesters.
Why is that even a national issue? Surely the local authorities can just round them up and put them in jail?
Also, there are 2-3 other bridges nearby the Rainbow Bridge, so while certainly an inconvenience, hardly going to make a big impact.
Trudeau has refused to intervene in a blockade that has brought all rail traffic in Canada to a stop.
Wait, all rail traffic? Can any of our resident Canadians confirm (or refute) this? That’s crazy, if true.
There is no way this is true. /notcanadian
Oppinion
Wanna know a secret? There are no irreplaceable geniuses. There’s looooads of genius out there. So if our resident “rockstar” scientist turns out to be an asshole….we could just replace that person with somebody who is both a genius AND a good person. We totally could!
Counter-opinnion
You could put a million good people to work and you wouldn’t be able to replace von Neumann or Grothendieck
https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/1229536180129103878
Debate…
Everyone is replaceable. No one is perfectly interchangeable.
To expand: My point is that everyone can be replaced. But no one is going to be exactly the same, so when you say “hey this guy is an asshole so we don’t need him he can be replaced by someone just as smart and not an ass” then yeah you could try, but chances are you’ll find that he does something that you hate that the other guy didn’t do. You have to be careful when you decide to sever that relationship, because you are going from a set of known quantities to a gamble on an unknown.
The former is mostly true.
The hand full of exceptions are the reason we are so far from being cavemen.
This.
There are certain people that were capable of making significant leaps in thinking that truly changed the world. If you removed them, progress would have at least been slowed.
I’d go with the second opinion. While it is rare for there to be a truly irreplaceable genius, true geniuses are uncommon enough that an institution that has one will probably not in fact be able to replace them. Sure, Leibniz could replace Newton, as far as innovations go, but Cambridge would not have been able to replace Newton with Leibniz. Cambridge would have been at a loss had they booted Newton for being anti-social, and I think many institutions are in this position so would be unwise to purge.
Genius is nice. Perspective and experience across a large and diverse problem domain is far more important, and seemingly more rare. Very few breakthroughs are done by sanitary geniuses closeted in their own field.
“Hey, you got your peanutbutter on my chocolate!”
“Hey, you got your chocolate in my peanutbutter!”
And that’s how the internet was born.
Bomb sniffing locusts.
Scientists who received funding from the US Navy revealed last week that they were able to program the bugs to sense various different smells, including from explosives.
The team’s preprint research paper, published in BioRxiv, states that the insects have been used to detect gases released by substances such as ammonium nitrate – often used by terrorist groups for bomb-making – as well as military explosives TNT and RDX.
The robot-bound locusts were exposed to five different explosives and it only took 500 milliseconds of exposure for a distinct pattern of activity to appear in the locusts’ brains. The scientists chose locusts because their tiny antennae are filled with about 50,000 olfactory neurons.
Researchers chose locusts because they are sturdy and can carry heavy payloads, according to the preprint paper. They implanted electrodes into the insects’ brains to analyze their neural activity when they were around different substances.
How do you credibly make the locusts signal on-demand?
A single wire in the central ganglia aught to be sufficient to trigger a signal.
My question wasn’t clear. Having a “just let me arrest this person” button on the locust-console doesn’t qualify as “credible” imo.
You keep a locust treat hidden in one hand?
This proposal forms part of a series of reforms aimed to modernise the first stage of the Classics degree, known as Moderations (Mods), which take place during Hilary term of second year for all students taking Classics courses across the university.
The Mods course, which is assessed by a set of ten exams at the end of Hilary, has been increasingly criticised in recent years, due to the attainment gaps found between male and female candidates, as well as between candidates who have studied Latin and/or Greek to A-Level (Course I) and those who have not (Course II).
History is icky because it shows us how shallow and inferior we are.
Never got the chance to see Rush play live. But this is a tribute concert that I may have to make it a point to see.
3 concerts I had a chance to go to but didnt, that I regret:
REM 1987
PInk Floyd 1993/4
Rush – 2010ish
I finally saw YES live way too late (1998) but glad I did it.
I am not a huge concert goer, but I have hit a few good ones over the years. But missed a lot I should have done.
You didn’t miss anything at the REM concert.
Heh. I saw them in 89, I think. I would have really rather seen them a few years earlier but what can you do.
It was Wednesday night before Thanksgiving in Atlanta, my freshman year. Friends were going, offered me a ticket. I passed, I was getting a ride home that evening from a guy who went to my HS and graduated a year before me.
It turned out, we didnt leave until really late, because he was going to the concert.
Toots & The Maytals c.200-something
I saw him on that tour at a little shithole concert venue near CSU (It used to be Peabody’s Down Under, changed names a bunch of times, not sure if it’s still open).
King Crimson 1984 or so. About a dozen of my friends went but I was too poor and had to work plus I don’t think they liked me very much at the time.
That was the Belew era, and IMO the best version of Crimson. I saw them on that tour two nights in a row and was ecstatic.
I heard they played nearly all of Discipline. *grumbles*
I was just looking at a CNN headline about Barr, and how he “has considered” resignation. For some reason, I suspect that falls under the heading of “There are days when this job is not as much fun as I would like.”
Well when he was told he would get to be the Attorney General, he thought it would involve Tanks and Cruise Missiles crushing litigants before him.
That’s how Janet Reno did it.
Damn… I wrote that and didn’t even think of making a Janet Reno Joke.
[Opera Applause]
Get out the giant bulldozers. Or just send in a couple JuniorA teams to clear it out.
Clear the tracks
There you go. Perfect.
Co worker leans over my desk to point out some data on a document. Almost 5 minutes of full down blouse shot. She seemed really intent on explaining something, but I can’t remember a word of it. Hope she wears that v neck sweater again soon so I can ask her to refresh me.
Ah yes, those quiet, beautiful moments that make life worth living.
Oh, and say hi to HR for us!
HR – in Japan?
Black company (Japanese term)
Mina Mori—26 years old, a worker at the restaurant chain Watami—committed suicide[2] two months after joining the company in 2008. Her family lodged a complaint with the Yokosuka Labor Standards Office
I read that at first as “Yakuza” and thought: Damn the Japanese mob has an office to lodge complaints.
Ugh. Femsplaning is so disgusting.
Allow me to mansplain why…
Pics or GTFO
Check my Twitter.
https://mobile.twitter.com/wehatelamar/status/1229559240400023552
Ted S. on February 17, 2020 at 3:31 pm
If they really want to create demand for “public” (really government) transit, get rid of all parking lots for government buildings and ban government-sector workers from using cars.
Go one step further and skip the transit costs: employee dorms right in the govt buildings.
Rufus the Monocled on February 17, 2020 at 3:44 pm
That actually happens in Montreal. During the ice storm of 1998 we clipped on our cross country skies, hooked them to th bumper of a car and went ‘snow-skiing.’
If the car can drive around, is there enough snow for the skis? Also, ‘snow-skiing’….sigh. ‘frozen-precipitation water-skiing’, dumass.
also, ‘ocean wave snowboarding’.
also, ‘chickenfriedsteak chicken’.
If the car can drive around, is there enough snow for the skis?
Are you joking?
I’ve lived in MD for 28yrs, so:
-there’s rarely enough snow for skis
-whatever minimal amount of snow that does fall is consistently capable of stopping all automotive traffic
My mistake.
Oh, and the whole of my skiing knowledge comes from that Cusack movie.
The K12, dude!
I figured as much. Driving in snow can be a riot.
Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.
What more could you need to know?
You mentioned living in MD…I would love to see SSA remove all the parking lots.
“This article is actually about a guy who got consent on video but apparently the woman says she was kidnapped and forced to say it”
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/1229771503832428544
“Sexual-assault prevention advocates said they are seeing more instances of young people being advised to get “proof” of consent, but warn that formal documentation in writing or video doesn’t capture how consent really works.
“It should be taken as a red flag that a person would have enough doubts about whether or not consent was established to … request this type of agreement before or after an encounter,” said Laura Palumbo, communications director for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. “Because in reality, one of the most important things for people to know about consent is that if you have any doubts, or not sure that you’re on the same page with your partner, then the interaction should not move forward with your partner.”
Emily Gemar, campus advocacy coordinator for OhioHealth’s Sexual Assault Response Network of Central Ohio, said consent can legally be revoked at any time, so written or recorded documentation of consent is in no way representative of an entire sexual encounter.
“If someone consents on a recording one time, it doesn’t simply (mean) blanket consent for everything after that,” she said.”
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200216/should-man-get-womans-consent-on-video-before-sex
That is why you film the whole thing. Duh.
Live-stream just to be safe.
Some times I’m glad I’m no longer young and good looking.
Even years or decades later.
That’s by design….
“It should be taken as a red flag that a person would have enough doubts about whether or not consent was established to”
So essentially don’t do hookups, only have sex with people you have had a long and trusting relationship with? I’m not saying she’s wrong, i’m saying what she is suggesting is not what she thinks. Cause if she thinks men should not be allowed to protect themselves then she’s a horrible person.
“So essentially don’t do hookups, only have sex with people you have had a long and trusting relationship with?”
Even this is no guarantee of freedom from an angry and jaded partner deciding they want revenge.
Just Say No.
“It should be taken as a red flag that a person would have enough doubts about whether or not consent was established to … request this type of agreement before or after an encounter,” said Laura Palumbo, communications director for the
National Sexual Violence Resource CenterJunior Anti-Sex League.FTFY
Junior Anti-
SexMale League.FTFFY
Good news for Trump.
FTA:
So it’s shaping up to be Sanders or Bloomberg? Good news for Trump, indeed.
Amazing, ain’t it? 2 months ago I thought it would be a toss up.
Nah. I live in a working class neighborhood. The last three years the number of new trucks, new boats, new home additions and renovations has been noticeable. Unlike the QE/Fed Printing Press Obama Recovery, this one is flowing into the deplorables pockets.
The one iron law of Presidential politics is that a good economy covers a multitude of sins. The media tried their damnedest to get a recession going in Q4 last year, but they couldn’t do it.
The whole case against Trump in 2016 was THE ECONOMY WILL CRUMBLE AND THE RUSSIANS WILL NUKE US. None of that happened, so I’m not sure what they can throw at him now. Hes getting 50% approval in polls now, and the shy Trump voter is worth another 5 points.
Maybe you saw it coming. But this whole team blue self immolation has been one for the ages. Go ahead, team blue, be a little insane. But, nooo, they go total batshit nuts. I didn’t see this degree of insanity coming.
I think they were so shocked that Hillary lost that they overreacted, and couldn’t walk it back and do the smart thing – grumble about Trump as a bad President, but do deals with him. Instead, once they overexcited the noisy lunatic part of their base, they had to go all in to avoid having the noisy lunatics turn on them.
If they had treated him even as “normally” as they treated Bush, I suspect that not only would they have some “achievements” to crow about, they would be well-positioned to beat him this year.
It’s a perfect storm. They overreacted. Check. They won the house back before the far left took over completely. Check. The economy (I hate to say this because the debt is skyrocketing) humming. Check. All their candidates having massive flaws. Check. Trump amusing the masses with dazzling efficiency. Check. Despite all that, it’s still a two party system and it takes a lot to get a Reagan type landslide. I’m thinking 5 to 1 odds in Trump’s favor right now.
We won’t see a Reagan-type landslide for a long time, IMO. Not until the current political arrangements are destabilized and redone, if then.
I don’t know if I agree.
A very Florida headline for those of you with a particular fetish:
Into watching horseshoe crabs have sex? Florida needs your help.
Horshoe crabs are broadcast spawners. They don’t actually copulate, the male just hangs on to the female’s shell until she lays eggs so that he can broadcast at the same spot.
The wiki article for ‘hermaphrodite’ has some awesome photos of snails fucking.
Well, I see you have… interesting tastes in pron.
“aquarium research”. For a friend, or so I’ve been told.
Hi! I’m Troy McClure! You might remember me from…”
Confirmed Snailfucker.
Not that I’ve ever run into him at a Spiral Party.
Boss, PLEASE; I just a big plate of dingdamagu.
Three more Minnesoda counties have become 2A sanctuaries. The comments are extra horrible. City progs are really bent out of shape by the rubes out in the sticks using their own virtual signaling tools for icky guns.
Everyone knows that sanctuary cities are only for illegal immigrants.
The Minnesoda GOP should be able to leverage the DFL’s desire for gun control and the Gov’s quest for a .20/gal gas tax increase (despite us having huge surplus’) into domination of the legislature, but I’m sure they will fuck it up. If I was running in outstate Minnesoda, I’d simply run ads using the comments from the linked story and ask “Do you really want these people calling the shots?”
DON’T YOU DARE USE THE LAW BREAKING TACTICS WE DO AGAINST US!
It’s really amusing how outraged they are, as if it had never occurred to them that the concept of sanctuary from one set of laws could ever be applied to a different set of laws.
The difference is that the vast majority of existing gun control and everything gun-grabbers propose is not constitutional. Whereas the federal government has the constitutional authority to enforce immigration laws. Of course, it cannot compel localities to enforce immigration laws. It is apple/oranges comparison. But to the limited extent that the logic is similar, leftists/gun-grabbers can’t stand their own tactics being used against them.
Of course, it cannot compel localities to enforce immigration laws.
It can prohibit them from interfering in federal enforcement of laws.
The line between passive non-cooperation and active aiding-and-abetting can be hard to draw, but there is still a line there. Some, maybe most, “sanctuary cities” haven’t crossed it. But some have.
My argument would be, if SF arrests a guy for a bar brawl, and runs him through the computer and finds out that hes wanted by the ATF on charges of manufacturing suppressors without a license, then they really don’t have a legal leg to stand on if they turn that guy over to the feds. They’re drawing a political distinction between different types of federal victimless crimes. There’s not a philosophical distinction between “Being illegally present in the US” and “making your gun ~40 decibels quieter without a tax stamp.”
Manufacturing silencers for assassins vs. keeping innocent brown kids out of cages. And people like you see no distinction.
Is anyone here surprised to find out that the crowd demanding Barr resign (or his head be presented to them on a platter) all are hard core team blue cuntes? I was willing to bet that was the case as soon as I heard this reported, and I would have made a killing had I done that. Damn.
Do you really think you could find a bookie dumb enough to take that bet? Alternatively, would winning $0.01 on your $10bil bet be worth the effort?
TW: knows less about gambling than skiing.
No one in their right mind would have bet against you.
This looks pretty cool. As long as no tax money is involved, I wish them the best.
Supposedly it is primarily privately funded. Personally I think it is going to be a financial failure, as I don’t see ridership being able to support it, but it will at least get built unlike the California boondoggle. They have been smart and selected a route that relies heavily on pre-existing ROW (power ROW and some road ROW I believe) so they won’t have to worry much about property acquisition, and of course Texas has much more development-friendly rules than California.
I doubt I’d ever use it. An hour to the Houston station then the ride then the need to find transportation at the other end makes no sense for me when I can just do the drive in 3 hours. But for those poor souls in Clear Lake, this might make sense.
I was thinking that what they should add to increase the appeal is some car carriers, like the Chunnel has, so people could take their cars with them. I know there’s always taxis and uber, and Dallas at least has a somewhat serviceable light rail, but this is Texas and most people like their cars (I sure do). I’m sure there would be quite a few people who like the appeal of getting their truck between the two cities in 90 minutes.
According to pictures in the story, you can take it all the way to Mt. Fuji!
This is what just coalesced in my fevered little brain:
Trump is not the cause of America’s political disaffection, he’s a symbol. Trump is the giant flaming bag of dog shit America dropped off on the Deep State’s front porch, and then rang the doorbell and ran away, giggling. Watching those idiots hopping around on one foot cursing impotently at the moon is worth the stink.
There’s much in what you say.
Has there ever been a more important VP pick than Bernie’s? Given his health and given that he’s fighting harder to hide his health records than Trump did his taxes, it’s a safe bet to say that if that fucker is elected (he won’t be, but humor me), he wouldn’t survive the 4 years.
If he is smart he picks Biden like Obama did. Nobody wants Biden as the president…
I do if the other options are Warren or Sanders.
Grumpy Old Men X?
His VP pick won’t matter because he’s wholly unelectable.
I hope if he gets the nomination he picks somebody as far out on the commie limb as he is though. It would make his loss even more epic than it would be if he chose a moderate. And that would demolish the socialist movement in this country for a generation.
It’ll just be one of “the squad” members. Because he’s cool with the kids you know.
Except AOC I guess.
Are any of them old enough?
All of them are except AOC. Pressley is 46, clearly trying to hold onto something she lost a long time ago.
I’m guessing Greta.
Bloomers picked Hillary, apparently he is sick of being alive.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArg!
Fuck you! Cut spending
I like to fish, but fuck these resort owners. You think that they would be willing to give the state back extra money if they had a super good winter? Every one of them knows that the resort business is fickle. Some years you do good and some years you don’t.
Next they will be giving resort owners money if the weather sucks on the 4th of July.
They really ought to be subsidized for the lack of good weather during the summer.
Take it from SanFran and SanDan…SanDi…ugh, San Diego.
Nobody needs more than 23 days of good weather.
Sandy Ego
Is winter over already? Seems like the water is still frozen over here in WI.
First day I could let in some fresh-air yesterday. Found an onion growing in the compost pile, tried to plant in one of last year’s tomato pots…still permafrost.
I will completely agree with the resort owners that the ice this year has sucked. Hard to drive on it because of the bad way it froze. I’ve burned a shit ton of calories this winter dragging my portable house out on the ice.
Doesn’t mean that they should be able to raid the govt coffers for their woes.
Whelp back from first night return to work. What a fucking shit-show. My relief really fucked the dog this time. Blew up the near new floor-scrubber, didn’t do even the basics. Lunchroom, washrooms and offices were filthy. There’s so much dust in the one building that the employees were leaving early. Surgeon told me “Take it easy the first couple of weeks, don’t over-extend yourself!” Yeah. Right. Sure. I’ll be weeks catching up and that’s if I can save the contracts. *insert Danny Glover gif*
🙁 Good help is hard to find.
The staff were all really glad to see me back. One dude told me “There’s a peanut sitting on the floor in the break-room that’s been there for a week”! Go upstairs, sure enough.
“Thanks for leaving it for me! *cough*dick*cough*”
I don’t blame him for leaving it there because the room hadn’t be swept for a week. In the winter. Guess whose going on the dole soon?
I couldn’t pass by a peanut on the floor more than once without picking it up.
Maybe you should start bringing lunch then.
At least I don’t need a special glove to pick my lunch up off the floor.
Pick it up? With your hands? Or with your crank (elephant-style)?
The Pope starts the Great Debate, once again. “Let it be resolved that only men with uncircumcised penes be able to pick a peanut from the floor…”
Festus goes to the doctor and says “Doc I’m having trouble getting my penis erect, can you help me?”
After a complete examination the doctor tells Festus, “Well the problem with you is that the muscles around the base of your penis are damaged. There’s really nothing I can do for you except if you’re willing to try an experimental treatment.” Festus asks sadly, “What is this treatment?” “Well,” the doctor explains, “what we would do is take the muscles from the trunk of a baby elephant and implant them in your penis.” Festus thinks about it silently then says, “Well the thought of going through life without ever having sex again is too much, lets go for it.”
A few weeks after the operation Festus was given the green light to use his improved equipment. He planned a romantic evening for his girl friend and took her to one of the nicest restaurants in the city. In the middle of dinner he felt a stirring between his legs that continued to the point of being uncomfortable. To release the pressure Festus unzipped his fly. His penis immediately sprung from his pants, went to the top of the table, grabbed a dinner roll and then returned to his pants. His girl friend was stunned at first but then said with a sly smile, “That was incredible! Can you do that again?” Festus replied, “Well, I guess so, but I’m not sure I can fit another dinner roll up my ass!”
Those dinner rolls aren’t very fresh if you can’t cram at least 4-5 up your butt.
Much laughing! So hilarity!
Listen to the Doc. It’s good to have a glimpse at what value you’re adding, but it ain’t worth your health to over do it.
You do realize that you’re giving sound advice to a Glib, right?
We can’t be mean and sarcastic all of the time.
Noooooo, certainly not. *eyeroll*
So much ^^this.
Going to have to third this.
You remind me of my dad a lot (you kinda look alike too…). Take care of yourself.
Awww… *Digs toe into dirt*
@ Sloopy-
I don’t carry regularly. I don’t feel any need to do so, but if I did, I would probably get/build an aluminum frame 1911 with a ~4″ barrel.
I guess I need to go to the range and shoot one to see how it handles and find out if I’m just wrong. I’ve always admired the 1911 for its aesthetics but never wanted to have one for carry, as the only ones I’ve shot were too damn long to consider for the purpose.
Also, I’m thinking about getting an AK-style shotgun. But I don’t want to spend $1500 on it. I’ll take any suggestions you people are willing to give.
Para-Ordnance has a lot of options in short barreled 1911’s. Some high-cap. Some not. Mine is more accurate than I had expected.
One issue with AK-shotguns – most magazines are plastic which depend on a little nub (also plastic) to keep the magazine in place. With the leverage that a long magazine has those little nubs can sheer off rather easily. I’ve seen this with my Saigas – so the types with a magazine well have a real world advantage.
That being said I don’t know what current pricing is on the options out there.
I have a Mossberg 590M Shockwave – with the AK style mag that holds 10. It didn’t cost me a fortune – I can’t recall and I did buy it used, but I don’t think I paid more than $6-700. I’m in AZ, but I don’t know how much that matters. I like it; I’ve shot it at the range several times. Like most of the mil-style 12 gauge, it kicks pretty well, but I use it for home defense and if I have to grab that, all bets are off; It’s killin’ time.
BREAKING: FBI claims it “lost” informant documents signed by dossier fabulist Christopher Steele in January 2016
What kind of filing cabinets does the government use? With the ammount of critical evidence that goes “missing” you would think they have access to some kind of black hole technology.
They’ve got an integrated shredder and removable containment vessel.
They do. It’s called a crosscut shredder.
The FBI certainly is brazen, isn’t it.
It really is. And it is really sad that there are 1) enough people who don’t see through this that they are able to get away with it and/or 2) the FBI is powerful enough that it knows it can pull this bullshit and nothing will happen.
You want 9yrs too? Shut your fucking peasant mouth.
What’s shocking is that I don’t find this shocking at all. They’ve given up any pretense of integrity. They’re completely untouchable and the law is no longer a problem for the deep state.
Just more of that “bureaucratic incompetence”, which in no way should be attributed to “malicious conspiracy”.
Or even lead to any consequences.
“Eh, we lost evidence critical to the biggest political scandal in American history. It happens. Natural causes. Waddayagonnado?”
I mean if you can’t trust the people who altered an email and deliberately misrepresented what an informant said to generate the opposite conclusion by a court, then who can you trust really?
Why not just destroy evidence and lie about it? What are you gonna do, call the FBI?
The Deep State spit in our face when we got the sentencing recommendation for Stone, and McCabe got to walk for doing the same and worse.
This is just the Deep State pointing at us and laughing because we have spit running down our face.
The rot is too deep. Maybe Barr will surprise the jockeys off me and actual People Who Matter will be for-real prosecuted and convicted. But I will be very surprised at this point.
^^^ Yup.
Destroy evidence? Refuse to give a password? Thats gonna be an ass-rape caging. But if your FBI/CIA, well that is just fine, you did what you had to do to keep the integrity of the system.
It isn’t even that McCabe did the same… Stone is just some dude. He was caught up in a politically motivated investigation that was entirely designed to get someone to say something bad about Trump. Remember, they even raided Trump’s personal attorney and put the screws to him to get him to say mean things about Trump. This was a massive effort that went to lengths that are rarely used, even in the most serious criminal cases.
And they got him on spinning tall tales that were irrelevant to their investigation.
McCabe was using (and misusing) his official power, and was lying to investigators in order to cover for his abuse of power.
These two things are not even on the same spectrum. Of course they are going to protect McCabe. The machine protects their own. They see themselves in his shoes.
Stone is a sleazebag and almost certainly did break the law. He shouldn’t have gotten 7 to 9 for it, but I don’t see a problem with him being convicted. However, it’s a fucking joke that the talking heads get the vapors about the DOJ stepping in regarding his sentence while being silent at best or enthusiastically approving at worst the fact that someone like McCabe, who lied repeatedly in his statements to the FBI, lied on FISA applications to spy on a man to attempt to dig up dirt on Trump, and who was fired for these things, walks away scot-free.
There is a pattern, and a reason behind it:
Yes, I can remember Christian Adams (I think that’s his name?), a former DOJ official, writing many pieces warning that this was happening for Instapundit (or just linked at Instapundit) during the Obama administration.
fun fact for the day: RC Dean wears Jockeys.
Metaphors be metaphorical, yo.
*image of RC using HeMan strength to erupt from a pile-on of horse jockeys ruined*
Can we start a tally?
✔️HRC lost emails
✔️IRS lost emails
✔️FBI lost emails
Who else?
Andy Cuomo.
Email is such a complicated* and immature technology, and it’s not like we have records retention laws.
(* = the behind-the-scenes of email actually is really complicated, but that is irrelevant to the end user for whom most of that complexity is abstracted away, and it has no bearing on the ability to retain delivered messages)
Not that complicated. And every single publicly traded company in America has had email archiving systems in place for a decade and a half. There are commercial systems available that just drop-in with just about any email system you can imagine. They are designed for exactly this purpose. They even include tools to search for and flag emails that are targets of investigations.
Usually the big fight within the corporation is about destroying stuff. People want to keep years of emails, but the lawyers would love it if that stuff was memory holed the moment you read it. So they set policies – “we destroy all email after 3 months”, etc. That way nobody can subpoena 3 year old emails.
People want to keep years of emails, but the lawyers would love it if that stuff was memory holed the moment you read it. So they set policies – “we destroy all email after 3 months”, etc.
Yup. 90 days is not unheard of, although in my biz a year is probably more common (some don’t have a mandatory deletion policy at all, and most allow people to keep copies on their local machine). Its a “security measure” – confidential info in emails can’t be leaked or stolen if the email doesn’t exist any more. Oh, gosh, we can’t comply with your discovery request? An unfortunate side effect of this critical IT security measure.
fuck 90 days. I often have to reference communications from years back. Mostly because people deny what was done last time and only by waving their own communication in their face will they admit to it.
And you just put your finger directly on the crux of the conflict.
Legal wants it all gone. People who have to work with other people want to keep it.
IT doesn’t want to have to back it up.
On that front, I found out the value of documentation a while back.
I hate doing the documentation thing… sending memos about meetings, all that crap. I prefer to have collegial working relationships where everyone is pulling for the same thing. All these CYA memos undermine that.
But I had to deal with one of “Those Guys”. You know the type… always changing what he wants, always blaming everyone else for things not getting done, always taking credit for everyone else’s work…..
Well, That Guy kept throwing me and my team under the bus. I tried working it out behind the scenes…. but when you are That Guy, you just can’t help yourself.
And this time, That Guy was a top executive. Dang.
So That Guy had been complaining to the board that he wasn’t getting enough support from IT. So I had him draw up his Top 3 Priorities. Not 10. 3. Give me the three critical things, and we’ll get those tackled at the top of the list. So they take weeks to come up with their list. (super critical, these projects. weeks of meetings. Sheesh.) Any way… they hand off their list. Great! We’ll get right on that.
The VERY NEXT DAY, they call an emergency meeting. A new project. I hold up their list. #1, #2, #3. Where does this go on your list? “It is the top priority!!”
Ok, so that makes this #0?
Yes.
Project Zero was born. We really enjoyed calling it that.
So, we set up weekly progress meetings. We’d tell them where we were, and they’d sign off on what they wanted us to do for the next week.
THE VERY FIRST MEETING, they had another project. Put all that on hold. Get this done. We had them sign off on that and got it done for them.
This continued. Every week. Week after week. A new top priority. Put everything else on hold and do this first. Signatures all around. Every week we asked… What about Project Zero. Every week… put it on hold.
So, fast forward to the next year’s big annual board meeting. That Guy has to explain to the board why he isn’t getting the things done that he was assigned. Time to blame IT.
I had a feeling.
I showed up to the board meeting with a computer bag. I never carry a computer bag around the office. He should have suspected.
He didn’t.
That Guy proceeds to complain to the board that I am not doing my job and he gave me his top 3 priorities and none of them have been done and it is a year later!!!
I let him go on without interruption.
They turn to me. Why haven’t you gotten any of these things completed??? What are you doing??
Thanks, That Guy…..
So I calmly open my bag and pull out a stack of work orders 6 inches thick and ceremoniously place them in front of the chairman.
“Here are 50 change orders – one from each weekly meeting for the last year. In each of these you will see where That Guy personally signed off on putting Project Zero on hold for that week in order to complete other work. You will also see where he put the top 3 priorities from last year’s meeting on hold in order to address Project Zero. This decision was revisited every week for the entire year. Every week That Guy personally made the decision as to which priorities he was setting. Each of those weekly priorities was completed per his request, and signed off on. This process has consumed over 40% of IT resources over the last year.
I hope that addresses any questions you had.”
It was beautiful.
The next day That Guy and The CEO called me in to address why I hadn’t made more progress on his priority list.
sigh.
Oh, I forgot….. The money quote from That Guy when faced with 50 signed change orders was “I’m tired of your excuses! I expect results!!”
No, really.
I did exactly what you ordered me to do every single week for a year… .and I’m making excuses.
On a positive note… I didn’t throw anything.
When an organization is that screwed up facts and logic won’t work.
I’ve been there as well. You either ride it out, quit or get fired. I’ve had the privilege of all three.
Yeah, sounds like you wasted your effort trying to use logic.
“Here are 50 change orders – one from each weekly meeting for the last year….
“SEE!!! He spent all year cataloging change orders instead of accomplishing our Top Priorities!!11”
Way back when, Hillary also lost the Rose Law Firm’s billing records
And most laughably… they magically appeared on a credenza in the hallway of her residence the day after the statute of limitations passed.
That was just rubbing salt in the wound.
Bloomberg campaign says it’s a two-man race for the nomination per Bloomberg the news organization owned and controlled by Bloomberg
Why bother with saying two, just claim victory for Bloomberg!
Breaking News 02/19/20: Trumps refuses to vacate WH for President Bloomberg, more at 11…
I thought Bloomberg News was not going to cover the Democrat race because he was running?
We discussed the redraw state lines thing a couple of days ago. Of course it makes perfect sense for free people to secede and realign their political boundaries; it even makes sense for the progs because they can then run their socialist experiments without opposition.
And that’s exactly why it will never happen. Prog state legislatures will never allow it because, like rapists, they can only get satisfaction by forcing unwilling victims into their fantasies.
“Last time I checked tourism was a $14 billion industry in Minnesota,” he said. “We have to protect it.”
How did tourism get to be so big, anyway? It must have been invented by the government.
I hear this bullshit out here all the time. Tourism this, tourism that. Mostly, it’s just a smokescreen for the let-them-eat-cake crowd who are opposed to anybody being able to do anything with their property. Jobs? We don’t need no stinkin jobs. Houses? We don’t need no stinkin houses.
“Don’t cut the trees! They purty!” Unless it blocks their view…
I grew up in a complete tourist trap. Most of the locals made their living off the people who came to spend their summers at the lake cabin. Like farmers, there are some resort owners that are smart enough to understand that there will be good and bad years and to plan for that. Then there are the others who end the summer with a ton of money and spend it on snowmobiles, atvs, etc, etc. Right about now, they have burned through all that money because there are almost no tourists in winter and are looking to sell that toy at any price just to get rid of the note.
The resort owners in that story are all the second type.
Fucking human nature, when things are good, I should get to keep all the money I made (and don’t you dare ask me to throw anything into a rainy day fund). When shit happens, the rest of you should bail me out.
the parable about the ant and the cricket only covered one year, so I blame that.
Now, bail me out mfkers!!!
In 2018, Florida voters passed Amendment 2, which was a constitutional amendment to allow former felons, out of prison and having completed their sentences, to vote.
The state took that, said “lol no”, and added a requirement that all of the fees and fines and anything the state felt fine with tacking on to the sentence have to be paid as well, which is pretty much impossible.
The 11th Circuit, in a correct ruling (IMO), just said the state can’t do that.
Which got me to thinking: When did this country (or society) decide that once you’ve been convicted of a crime you lose all of your rights forever? I should research that once my current work project is over.
The best I can figure is it’s two competing interests. On the one hand, we’ve done away with corporal and to some extent capital punishment, and yet at the same time we’ve turned prison into hell and a prison sentence into a life-brand. It’s just the right combination of let the good people feel good, but fuck the bad people that really sells here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony_disenfranchisement_in_the_United_States#Background
10% of Floridians are felons, seems a little low.
Convicted felons.
Combined with their self-limiting life-expectancy and the math checks out.
At least the right to vote is the least important right out there. There’s that.
I’m (SHOCKING) a bit of an outlier in that I think reformative incarceration should be abolished in its entirety. It is a system foisted upon society by religious zealots in the 18th/19th centuries and has a very long track record of not working at all. Personally, I would rather a system of restitution to the victim via labor, and/or physical punishment. Also, drastically reduce the number of statute crimes.
Heh.
I agree, you don’t reform someone by force, you probably can’t succeed in that. Also, that isn’t the point of a government or the ‘justice’ system.
How do you mean?
Wanton Wednesday brings bountiful, beautiful breasts for your disgusting and shameful male (or female) gaze.
http://archive.is/qtowQ
Time for a new strategy.
TOS had this article from JD Tuccille.
It isn’t exactly awful taken in isolation. But of course, it isn’t in isolation. they are just a stream of TDS over there. Every article is filtered through “why does Orange Man Bad apply to this?” So they’ve decided that getting rid of people who tried to sabotage your office is bad, talking about people who lied about you is bad, trying to find out about corrupt officials is bad. Basically any effort to even address the problems caused by politically motivated attacks from within the government is bad.
So I decided to press them on their second guessing:
I doubt I’ll raise a response, but I think it is a useful exercise. For all of the people who enjoy sniping from the outside, spend a moment of actual reflection and let’s hear what you would do.
I started this angle with Sandman, when everyone and their brother had some reason why beating a drum in some teenager’s face was a peace-loving thing to do, and standing there smiling in response was an act of violence. I tried pushing people for an honest response – what would you do if you were standing there with your friends and some guy came up and got inches from your face with a drum and started staring you down while banging the drum in your face?
I don’t think I ever got an honest response. Most people refuse to even address it. They’ll tell you what they wouldn’t do – but never what they would do.
Step 2 is to take the imagined response and run it through the TDS filter, where everything you do is by definition evil. See how well you come out.
I think that whether Trump is corrupt is immaterial at this point. There’s nobody in DC who isn’t corrupt to one extent or another. When are we going to start holding them all accountable? The process is supposed to be fair and impartial, but everybody can see that it isn’t. Solve that problem and then we can start dealing with Trump’s corruption.
I started this angle with Sandman, when everyone and their brother had some reason why beating a drum in some teenager’s face was a peace-loving thing to do, and standing there smiling in response was an act of violence.
Especially Egregious as even when the true story came out, many tried to double down and explain why he was just so awful, when in reality the kid showed far more restraint than a majority of the population would have when some asshole comes out and starts harassing you.
I was particularly annoyed during the aftermath of that brouhaha how many people would couch their walkbacks by talking about how weird or off-putting Sandman’s nervous grin. Well, how else was he supposed to act to the bizarre spectacle happening directly in front of him? He was confused and not sure how to react, so he just smiled awkwardly. Oh, the horror!
Some people don’t like Trump. Fine. Pox on both their houses. Fine. For a libertarian not to be able to see entrenched govt actors acting with impunity is not fine.
That’s the part I’m trying to get them to address. Is there any action Trump could take to combat this ‘resistance’? Detailed answers, please… no handwaving.
Not holding my breath.
Actually, I don’t think it is answerable. I don’t there is a good way to handle it when half the country decides they are not going to abide by our democratic system. But I really want people to start undertaking the exercise. Seeing things from other people’s point of view is important. And it takes work to do…. most people build a caricature version of others in their head and then ascribe cartoonish motives to them. It certainly makes for easily-beaten straw men when you battle them in your head. But actually understanding other people’s point of view is harder than that – and it is critically important.
And nobody wants to do it. Maybe they aren’t even capable of doing it.
The only response that would satisfy them is for Trump to resign, accept being prosecuted and go to jail. In their collective mind, he is an illegitimate usurper and anything he does should be treated as a criminal action.
They hate this guy because when he managed to somehow win the election they had rigged for Clinton, this crowd of false libertarians lost their access to the D.C. cocktail parties.
For a libertarian not to be able to see entrenched govt actors acting with impunity is not fine.
The part that bothers me is how much many ostensible libertarians have been willing to dispense with longstanding libertarian principles to get there.
From what I’ve always heard, libertarians have a big problem with the government lying on warrants.
From what I’ve always heard, libertarians have a big problem with the government spying on the American people.
From what I’ve always heard, libertarians have a big problem with the government making up ill-defined crimes after the fact to “get” someone they thought was a bad guy.
From what I’ve always heard, libertarians have a big problem with the government destroying people’s lives to get cooperation.
But these are all things a significant swaths of libertarians have made peace with because it means getting Bad Orange Man. The truth is, I don’t give a shit about Bad Orange Man. Eventually, in eleven months or four years and eleven months, he’ll be out of office. But I know from here on out, that when the going gets tough, these libertarians ultimately don’t give a shit about the things they’ve been claiming as their principles.
^^^This x a zillion.
If there’s one thing all libertarians stand for, it’s the inviolability of the entrenched bureaucracy.
Guffaw
2-chili is a real disappointment to me with the TDS. He was one of my favs from TOS but, like so many others, TDS has turned him into an idiot.
There are so many legitimate criticisms of Trump; why do you side with a permanent bureaucracy that is absolutely anathema to any libertarian sensibility?
I’m using it as an exercise in understanding how easily manipulated people are. I think the key step is getting them to *want* to be manipulated.
I always wondered how in the world things like Nazi Germany and Jim Crow era juries work. How can people be OK with stuff like that.
But I always assumed that they were doing it with a wink and a nod. “We know that white dude murdered that black guy, but we are gonna let him off because he’s white like us and we want those black folk put in their place!!”
That’s the way it always looks in the movies. A bunch of amoral lunatics fueled by hate for their fellow man.
But I’ve come to realize that those jurors didn’t say “I know he’s guilt and I’m letting him off anyway!”. They *actually believed* that he was innocent. Because the *wanted* to believe.
So Trump is crude and offensive. He says “grab ’em by their pussy”. He’s gross. It is cool to hate him. (I had zero regard for him long before it was cool…. way back on the Apprentice, I was able to spot the moron and the buffoon when everyone else though he was amazing) So motivated reasoning kicks in. Everything Trump says is gross and offensive. Even when he says things you agree with – it is gross and offensive.. So you have to figure out how to twist everything in your mind to fit that narrative.
I’m really surprised at how few people think in logical fashion – even really smart and logical sounding people. It seems that almost everyone has a conclusion and backs their way into that conclusion.
Which kinda makes sense… but it is a bit surprising that people who write analysis for a living let that sort of thinking predominate.
It seems that almost everyone has a conclusion and backs their way into that conclusion.
It’s called the Scientific Method, boomer.
/recentSTEMgrad
I *literally* LOL’d.
Which is getting me some funny looks.
The whole case against Trump in 2016 was THE ECONOMY WILL CRUMBLE AND THE RUSSIANS WILL NUKE US. None of that happened, so I’m not sure what they can throw at him now. Hes getting 50% approval in polls now, and the shy Trump voter is worth another 5 points.
Really. CNNPC can bleat about “Trump makes establishmentarians of both TEAMs haz the sadz” until Hell freezes over. The people who do not spend their days obsessing about inside-the-Beltway turf wars and who-got-invited-to-the-prom-by-whom social jostling (in other words, actual humans) will continue to gaze at them with indifferent bemusement.
And then they’ll look at the ol’ balance sheet and vote for four more years of President Cartoon Villain’s cartoon villiainy.
And then they’ll look at the ol’ balance sheet and vote for four more years of President Cartoon Villain’s cartoon villiainy.
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They money I made THIS PAST YEAR just parking my savings in a high yield mutual fund is going to pay off the last of my debt. I didn’t have to do anything but put it in the market, and smart and ambitious and hard working people made money for me. Its like a magic spell.
Bonus numbers came in. I’m down. And so is my report. Now I’ve got to explain it to him. Ugh!
World War II Fact: Americans And Nazis Joined Forces For A Single Bloody Battle
Misleading title, but still a good read.
That’s about as French as it gets.
nah, lacking any mention of his mistress/wine/going on strike.
He did surrender to rescuers though. *checkmark*
I had guessed the reason before reading it. But yes a good read.
Yeah yeah, we’ve all seen Kelly’s Heroes already
And yet you’re still sending the negative waves.
Trump won’t win 45 states if Sanders is the nominee, but he very well might win 38. I know a lot here are saying that there is no way the DNC allows Sanders to win, but they might not have a choice if he keeps winning. This ain’t 2016, the hard left has effectively taken control of the party.
I like the idea of a Greater Idaho, I like the idea of The State of Jefferson even more. I doubt either would happen, but we really really need to split up California. I absolutely love NorCal and would like another option to move once the kids are grown up and I ditch this fucking state that I was born and raised in.
You’re living in your own Greater Idaho! ? (Sorry, had to.)
I would have voted for that 5-state proposition (I forget its number) had it not been taken off the ballot by my elite betters.
Heh, I asked for it. I didn’t like the five state thingy, but separating the north of Cal into its own state is a fine idea. I think the only possible way for it to ever happen is if we added another state somewhere else (like PR for instance) to offset both the Team Red gain and to keep the number of stars even. Sounds silly, but that second part I think is even more important. 51 stars ain’t happening.
17×3
8stars
9stars
8stars
etc.
But if we get to 52, we can have a deck of playing cards of the states.
We would never have 51 stars, it simply is not happening (at least for more than a few months). It would be like the last time we added a state, two came in almost at the same time. It sounds silly, but the incongruity of 51 stars would be a serious impediment. No matter what it is a long shot, but if PR ever got in (not saying that is good btw, or even likely) then Jefferson would have a chance of becoming reality.
Btw, I didn’t know you were a fellow resident of Caliunicornia. You in the Bay or down South if you don’t mind my asking?
Something like greater Idaho is the only thing that could be possibly approved. Congress isnt going to approve new states being created. Shiftlng counties from one to another doesnt change anything dramatically (well, EC votes, but not the House or Senate).
Don’t get me wrong, as much as I want a Jefferson, it is a huge long shot. I’d happily settle for a Greater Idaho. I think that is almost as much a long shot as California doesn’t want to give up anything, part of progressivism is indeed making those who don’t want it submit to it. And even if it wasn’t such a proggie failing state, most states would not want to give up part of their territory. It hasn’t happened in a very long time. In all likelihood California continues to trend more Team Blue as it exports conservatives and libertarians to other states.
I like the idea of the state of Fairwilliamton (comprised of Fairfax, Prince William, and Lorton counties) best of all. If they can’t be forced to join their comrades in Maryland, then give them their own fucking state and keep them the hell outta my business.
That’s probably a lot closer to doable than the oregon thing. Proggies have wanted a DC state for decades. They want those sweet, sweet senate seats.
The hard left must not be in control of the party apparatus yet… All of the inviolable rules that they used to keep folks like Tulsi off the stage were magically rescinded when Bloomberg decided he didn’t need to spend time and money gathering small donors.
And holy crap, Bloomberg is burning through the cash! He’s on every commercial break here in Florida. Now he’s stealing Bernie’s latest catch phrase: “Republicans are scared!” Bloomberg says they are scared because they know he’ll beat Trump. Same thing Bernie has been saying.
Makes me wonder…. have any republicans been doing “I’m scared that Bloomberg is gonna beat Trump” stuff?
I haven’t gotten a check from Bloomers, so I’m not going to say that.
A+
Also stunning….
The left who has been so adamant that “big money” is destroying the country and should not be allowed in politics are suddenly all fine with someone simply buying their way in to the race. Bloomberg seems to be outspending the entire field combined – Trump included. And he’s getting praise from all the same people who think Citizen’s United is the apocalypse.
It’s always team blue that spends big on elections, the ones most complaining about money in politics. Bloomers might break Hillary’s Billion dollar record spend on a presidential run.
He might break it in the primary. I think he’s getting close to half way there, and he hasn’t even started yet.
Here we are being absolutely inundated with Mini Mike and Steyer ads. I can’t remember ever hearing so many national political ads in my lifetime. Right now there is a particularly horrid radio ad being played constantly with an ultra folksy sounding black woman saying that Tom “he gonna give us healthcare and housing and everting we need.” It’s so patronizing it’s amazing.
Obama Phones 2.0
3.0 comes with ID-less voting capability.
Steyer is really something else. As much as I dislike Bloomberg, I think Steyer is well beyond him in terms of being a reprehensible scumbag. He has zero chance so in some ways I enjoy watching him spend his money on this bullshit run instead of his other climate hysteria crap, but then I know this is just another way to spend money on climate hysteria. He is making most of his campaign about how to appease the angry weather gods.
Agreed. When Steyer says he’s going to claim a national emergency right away, that’s some authoritarian, scary stuff.
radio ad being played constantly with an ultra folksy sounding black woman
“We had to make her extra folksy else how could you tell she’s black over the radio, huh, smartguy?”
Honey-chile, lemme axe you a question before y’alls vote this November… *insert folksy-wise-sounding anecdote involving biscuits*
That is pretty much what it is. I find it racist personally and I don’t usually throw that term around easily because of how much it has been debased by overuse.
I started composing before I finished reading your comment, and was like “oh shit, the ad is actually like that…” but trudged on and posted anyway.
Also, it’s spelled “urvry-“
I heard all the same with Trump and the Democrats 4 years ago. I’m not so sure.
I’m surprised the infection rate wasn’t 100% on the Diamond Princess after hearing this whistleblower’s story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=vtHYZkLuKcI&fbclid=IwAR0OsLcJTgs7AuQYirkldv2mQP4muzZTNJvD33hYuM-VY_DDNErA5hDsljE&app=desktop
Orgies?
“and underrated actor Benicio Del Toro.”
You got that right.
If he slipped into porn he’d have his new name all figgered out. Win-win!
So moderate.
@PeteButtigieg’s response to the fact that 180 million Americans could lose their preferred health insurance plans because of Medicare for All: “To be honest. I don’t care.”
You know who does care? All those public/private union members…
WTF is an “orgasm coach”?
https://www.thecollegefix.com/ohio-state-students-crowdsource-to-fund-events-with-dominatrix-orgasm-coach/
A cuck urging the bull on?
I think that’s the new progressive term for prostitutes that have not been trafficked.
I’m surprised that normally “harmonious” Japan is getting this much public push back.
As Cases Mount, Japan Is Rapidly Becoming a Coronavirus Hotbed
I’m surprised that Japan, of all countries, doesn’t have an elegently simplistic quarantine plan (involving a bunch of new pictogram signs) that everyone follows. Why even *have* these national stereotypes if you aren’t going to use them?
Uffda. I have family in Kobe. I hope that shit doesn’t end up biting them in the ass.
Kansai – Osaka for shopping and Kyoto for culture and cheap flights to Kansai airport from China attracts lots of Chinese tourists.
If the infection is going to blow up (excluding the cruise ship in Tokyo) I’d put my bet on the Kansai area which includes Kobe.
I’ll bet if a plurality of the voters in western Canada had our way we’d be living in Saskabertalumbia. Keep the lower mainland like Malaysia and Singapore. The rural/urban divide is huge here.
I don’t see any numbers in that name – First Nation Hater!
So, you’ve volunteered for the Vancouver Free State.*
*As free as the People’s Democratic Republic of North Korea.
Virgin angel vs chad angel
https://twitter.com/skelidoge/status/1229596562600472576
That ‘Chad’ angel is physically incapable of fathering any Nephilim. It’s more a permavirgin than the mopey winged dude.
In defense of Michael Bloomberg’s recently discovered comments, at least an equal opportunity condescending moron, hating white midwesterners as much as he does people of color.
Advice column
First, do not make this election solely about Donald Trump. The idea that the challenger wants a campaign to be a referendum on the incumbent rather than a choice between two candidates is a staple of political conventional wisdom. It is also a mistake. From the very beginning, Romney’s primary goal was to make the race all about Obama. His campaign ran virtually no ads that introduced Romney to voters. He rolled out very few policies. All of his messaging firepower was focused on Obama. This was a fundamental misunderstanding of the contours of a modern presidential campaign and a fatal strategic error. Romney left a vacuum of information that the Obama campaign, and other Democratic groups, were more than happy to fill with information about Romney’s far-right positions, his pro-corporate policies and his long career of carrion capitalism. Remember the Obama campaign ad with Romney singing “America the Beautiful” that featured his record of shipping jobs overseas and using off-shore tax havens?
That part is true, but for some reason I think he’s trying to pretend Bernie should not “let” the Republicans call him a socialist. Guess what, dummy, Bernie is more of a socialist than Romney ever was a libertarian or a dog-eat-dog kkkapitalist.
BLACK SABBATH!
Yes I’m a bit late.