Not this year.
Unlike my wife, I know when Monday actually is. And unlike TTUN, Ohio State knows when big games are being played. LOL, the crying last night was so wonderful. Also, Wisconsin topped Minnesoda, and a slew of ranked teams went down over the weekend. This is truly a chaotic NCAA basketball season. Across the pond, Man City did a bunch of mid-table teams a solid and won the League Cup, which puts an extra team in Europe. Liverpool got throttled by a bottom-feeder for their first loss of the season. (Expect a few more, fellow Pool fans. They haven’t played well since the winter break.) Everton got bitten by the VAR bug and it cost them 2 points. Wolves beat Spurs as the Mourinho era keeps limping along. And the bottom of the table had an all-around good week which makes things a little more interesting coming down the stretch. It’s now a 6-team relegation battle.
Legends
The late, great Sam Houston was born on this day. He shares it with long-lasting Pope Pius XII, children’s writer (and wartime propagandist) Theodor Geisel, baseball legend Mel Ott, hot-blooded-Cuban stereotype Desi Arnaz, actress Jennifer Jones, Canadian hockey legend Bill Quackenbush, wall-tearer-downer Mikhail Gorbachev, Heisman winner Howard “Hopalong” Cassady, cartoon character Porky Pig, ageless musician Lou Reed, AC/DC’s Mark Evans, New Jerseyan Jon Bon Jovi, actor Daniel Craig, football’s Ben Rapelesberger, and another Heisman winner Reggie Bush.
Not bad. But we have to get on with…the links!
The second US coronavirus death happened in Washington state. And fears mount over the pandemic.
Pete looking at his latest polling.
Buttigieg out. He never really had a chance, but I wanted him to stay in to sow chaos.
I know this will matter to someone. But it won’t to me, because east coast wasn’t shit compared to west coast anyway. Not during that era. (And Def Jam sucked as a label after the Beastie Boys went to Capitol Records.)
Some nutjob has taken dozens of hostages in the Philippines. Maybe they need to loosen their gun laws so one of those being held could shoot the asshole.
I assume all of y’all have seen this shooting. Looks like the FBI are gonna take a look as well. Hopefully they do something, but I won’t hold my breath.
Not everybody can be bought, Mini Mike.
Bloomberg makes his first visit to Selma, AL. I’m gonna guess this wasn’t the reception he was planning on.
Chris Matthews is getting some additional scrutiny. Funny how these accusations started right after he slammed Bernie. I wonder if he felt that way when the same shit happened to Bret Kavanaugh or Clarence Thomas.
Looks like China is aboard with the US-Taliban deal. Probably so they can fill the vacuum we leave behind. But that’s fine with me. Let them deal with that shithole. Just bring our soldiers back home as soon as possible.
****LATE ADDITION**** This absolute retardation from Hollywood couldn’t be ignored.
This is what the world needs now. Enjoy.
Get out there and get the week off to a great start, friends!
It seems clear he’s pretty disconnected from the public at large.
I wonder if that was an intentional choice that’s now biting him.
Brutal my dude.
Couch, sleeping there, tonight.
Nah. I’ve got hand.
“and now that is all you have!”
Obligatory
Thought it would be this (NSFW!).
COCAINE IS A POWERFUL DRUG…
/Rick James
I expected This.
The second US coronavirus death happened in Washington state. And fears mount over the pandemic. -> Romania has 0 deaths so it is confirm that our healthcare is beteerer than yours
Naw, it just means you failed to properly identify your cases.
Everything is assumed to be fatal anemia from rampant vampirism.
Vampires are immune to the cornona virus.
You’re just setting yourself up for a “vampires are immune to disease” joke.
Or that its filtered out by the vampiric oral placenta.
“The cease-and-desist letter, sent to Sanders Friday by Flavor Flav’s lawyer Matthew Friedman, accused the campaign of using the hypeman’s “unauthorized likeness, image and trademarked clock” to promote the rally, even though Flavor Flav “has not endorsed any political candidate.”
“While Chuck is certainly free to express his political view as he sees fit — his voice alone does not speak for Public Enemy,” the letter states. “The planned performance will only be Chuck D of Public Enemy, it will not be a performance by Public Enemy. Those who truly know what Public Enemy stands for know what time it is. There is no Public Enemy without Flavor Flav.”
They should have made the letter rhyme.
Chuck D is an arrogant ass. Talented, but too full of himself to recognize talent in others.
Chuck often seems to identify a lot of the “problems” correctly but then just charges headlong down the wrong solution paths.
You mean like Ayan Rand?
Yeaaahhhhhhh boyyyy.
Buttigieg out. He never really had a chance, but I wanted him to stay in to sow chaos. – I don’t get it, if he was in it for so long why not wait for Large Tuesday thingy that is round the corner? Unless he got enough publicity or whateve3r he wanted?
Because he made a deal with one of them (Biden, most likely) for a cabinet post if he drops out before Super Tuesday.
Federal Secretary of All things Mayor related?
Yes.
I would not be surprised it isn’t just a deal, but desperate democrats running the crime gang known as the dnc telling him he better drop so they can hurt Sanders or else. Come on brokered convention to steal it from Bernie again!
I thought he had the best chance of hurting Sanders though based on the contests so far.
He has zero appeal with minorities.
Buttigieg? Are gays still considered a minority, or are they all white now? Or are you talking about Bernie?
Gays are just whites now.
Buttigeig got 2% of the SC black vote.
That is a death knell. Even if he somehow won the nomination, that gets him slaughtered in the general.
Next your going to tell me that a married gay man isn’t going to get a large portion of the devout Muslim vote.
Depends if he is married to his brother or not.
/tips hat to robc
Buttigeig got 2% of the SC black vote. That is a death knell. Even if he somehow won the nomination, that gets him slaughtered in the general.
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I remember back in 2008 when California banned gay marriage by ballot question, and the media/leftist lie was it was all Dark Mormon Money What Bamboozled the Goodthinkers of the Golden State.
No you fuckheads, you had historic black turnout because of Obama, and when you have historic black turnout, with a “Ban Gay Marriage Yes or No” you’re gonna get a bunch of “Yes, ban gay marriage” votes from the same people putting Obama into office.
Nah. Warren cannibalizes Sanders base. The DNC wants her to stay in, and it’s probably why allofasudden she has a phat SuperPAC keeping her campaign afloat.
I don’t know, the Bernie Bros, or a significant chunk of them, do not like her.
She is not marxist enough?
Well she did make up a story of him being “sexist”. probably wasn’t true knowing her track record and in any case wasn’t actually sexist.
Only half the Bernie bros are Marxists. The other half are pissed off populist types very similar to the people who elected Trump, just confused and somehow buying in to an us v them narrative where them is the establishment not the government.
that’s the danger of Bernie. He’s the only one who steals some of Trump’s base, according to polls.
It’s only a smart strategy if he made a deal with Trump.
I didn’t say it was a smart strategy. I just said it was his strategy.
That’s my assumption.
The only answer is Biden has offered something. His group isn’t going to Bernie.
How pathetic is Pete? I think Pete has a better shot against Trump than Biden because the media won’t be able to completely bury the Trump V Biden debate with Biden’s dementia on full display.
Trump V Biden debate
*stocks up on popcorn*
I honestly thought he had the best chance out of a brokered convention.
He doesn’t have much history, so there’s lots of blank canvas to get your hope and change on from all coalitions.
He looks like someone that could be president. Not that that really plays much, but put him next to crazy hair day Bernie…
South Carolina announced that he couldn’t carry key demographics, and is thus a loser on the presidential stage.
He is 38, he has 40 more years to run as long as he plays nice with the DNC.
Not that that really plays much, but put him next to crazy hair day Bernie…
::laughs in British Prime Minister accent::
Biden is now the youngest man in the DNC primaries.
Wow.
That’s reflective of the overall disaster that is the party. Pelosi and Schumer have no intention of releasing control or developing successors, which is why the young wokesters are going to win.
The Clintons killed the D’s bench, and its showing now.
Literally
Obama did some big killing of the bench as well.
I tend to think it was more Obama than the Clintons. It was under Obama that Dems in the House, Senate, and especially the state legislatures and governorships, were decimated (actually, it was worse than a mere decimation).
That was their bench, and it evaporated under Obama. The fact that a demonstrably terrible candidate like Hillary cruised to the nom last time was a foreshadowing of the embarrassing lineup they have now.
Until Biden won SC there was no clear “Not Bernie” in the crowd so Pete could still hope for that position, since unlike what many people claim the entire Democratic party is not hoping that Bernie wins and burns the country to the ground. With Biden ‘surging’ Pete wisely is stepping down so that Joe can be the “Not Bernie” candidate and stop the crazy old communists. IOW Pete has integrity and stopping the socialist is more important to him than personal embiggenment.
I find it strange they do not have what I personally would consider a vaguely decent candidate. Bernie and Joe are not it.
“Decency” is a liability in the Democrat primary now. Jim Webb was the last decent person to run for their nomination and he got laughed out of the room (and probably the party).
I think there’s a non-zero chance Tulsi is decent person, but yeah. If they ran Joe Webb against Trump, he’d have likely won. But he couldn’t get out of the primary.
since unlike what many people claim the entire Democratic party is not hoping that Bernie wins and burns the country to the ground.
This. Up until now Bernie has done well because he could get together 30% of the voters as a block, and none of the other candidates could do that. We’ll see what happens as people begin to drop. Bernie has yet to win a contest with a majority of the vote.
Most popular second choice for Buttigieg voters? Sanders.
I will miss him. His cabinet would have been epic in its diversity. There would have been a cop, an Indian, a cowboy, a construction worker…
It takes a village.
Re: Afghanistan – China will simply deal with whomever is in charge – there are transportation lines to establish! Not much in resources to exploit, but they will…
Pretty much. In other words, an intelligent foreign policy relative to ours.
More like an amoral one. Stack the bodies up, chop women’s hands off if they wear nail polish… “Meh…how is that last shipment of semi-precious stones coming along?”
Yeah, you’re right. I was just thinking of the wasted American lives and not really looking at the whole picture. I retract that statement.
It is hard to have a big picture view. Lots of places are violating human rights. What are we to do? Invade every country that falls short? Open our borders to every refugee in the world? I use to think opening trade and increasing wealth for all, but Iran was once a strong US ally and fairly secular and China’s wealth has only allowed them to invest into tech to control their people more. Bit of a ramble but tl:dr I have no idea other than stop wasting my money trying to fix it.
““[America] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.” -John Quincy Adams.
The Chinese are brutal and not too concerned that the country is a shithole. To them it is a means to an end. As long as they locals only murder each other and don’t cost the Chinese money, the Chinese will turn a blind eye to it all. Those that fuck up and piss the Chinese up will be targeted and killed. That’s how you really empire, BTW, but we get told that all our leftists wish we could be more like China and that’s because they see it as a good thing..
Not much in resources to exploit
Actually, Afghanistan has a decent amount of resources, especially mineral resources (some estimates say up to $3T all told) and a lot of the extraction is already leased out to various Chinese companies. So yeah, transportation, oil, metals, and rare earth elements are all reasons for China to take on Afghanistan as a client state.
If there’s one thing religious black folks from the south love it’s multibillionaire yankee Jews.
This was pure pandering. He’s not used to pandering. He’s used to stroking checks. This was a big miscalculation on his part. And I’m guessing the media will be all over him since his votes are going to continue to split the moderates. And his money will continue to pour in if Biden wins the nomination.
I don’t see Bloomberg as having a chance. Watching him on the debate stage it was very clear that he has spent decades surrounded only by people he could fire, or who were asking him for something. He looked enraged and confused when Warren took her shots at him. His instincts were saying “off with her head” and he had no idea how to respond when that wasn’t an option. That is a huge weakness in a politician and I don’t see him fixing it in the next few weeks.
“Former Vice President Joe Biden also attended the service.
Afterward, the Democratic hopefuls, joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, marched across the bridge.”
They couldn’t find a black Democrat in Alabama?
I’ll have to wait for SugarFree’s Democrat Deathwatch to see if any are left…
If George Wallace was around, he could have helped.
And the irony of Democrat candidates symbolically protesting Democrat policies is lost on everyone.
Especially with two white wimmin marching?
You’d think that at least one brother would put a half ass move on. Special K (Warren with her flat bony ass is right out).
marched across the bridge
At the Rubicon?
Romania has 0 deaths so it is confirm that our healthcare is beteerer than yours
The undead are not a large demographic. It’s tough to build a useful data base around them.
Chris Matthews is getting some additional scrutiny. Funny how these accusations started right after he slammed Bernie. I wonder if he felt that way when the same shit happened to Bret Kavanaugh or Clarence Thomas. – I don’t get it since when the fuck are “random comments that are declared insensitive” an issue to be reported? Especially since I doubt there is any evidence.
‘Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?’ When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. ‘Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her.’” – lol
Especially since I doubt there is any evidence.-
#beliveallwomen
#metoo
#gurlpwr
#smshdapatriarchy
#fuckdueprocess
Pete looking at his latest polling.
I thought he liked a good polling.
*narrows gaze*
Was something unfactual said?
Swiss didn’t care for the spelling.
Poling.
But he was promised a lucrative job in the EPA if a Democrat won. He’d be in charge of the department that oversees wind power. I think 4 years of a blow job beats a few good polls during primary season.
If that’s true, he’ll want to make sure to get a really good Director of International Climate Kinetics, after all.
Or for Mojo – I suppose a Climate Operations Director.
You’ve got this one pegged Jimbo.
He never really had a chance
But he had a platitude for everything.
ObamaPhraseBot 2000
By VAR Bug, you mean a system set up to make sure the big 6 stay that way?
That said, get your ass in gear Siggy, no reason to be in that position anyway.
Also, good on Ancelotti for the red card. Does he get a 1 game suspension for that?
2 game touch line ban, IIRC.
That overturned goal was a travesty. The keeper had already committed the other way, so line of sight ruling there is bullshit.
Sigurdson was not in line of site on Calvert-Lewin’s shot, but once the ball was deflected by defender, he was. BUT, at that point, it doesnt matter, as you aren’t offside from a ball played by the defender.
The only point that mattered was as of the original shot, and it was complete bullshit. The ref on the field got the call right. If there had been sideline monitors for VAR like every other league is using, he would have still got it right. But going back to the home office allows for this kind of BS.
Put Duncan Ferguson in charge for the two games. If it starts immediately, that is @Chelsea and home vs Liverpool. I could see DF willing the team to victory in that latter one.
I was watching an MLS game last night and one of commentators made a point of noting that MLS won’t be conducting the sort of electron-scanning-microscope VAR decisions that England does. He might have just come out and said what they’re doing over there is BS.
I know this will matter to someone.
TheBern! has been a politician for decades, but, you know, “fight the power”.
Bernie: “I will tax the evil millionaires and billionaires to pay for the free shit you deserve! These people are evil kulaks and wreckers.”
Someone not so stupid: “But Bernie, you are a millionaire. What gives?”
Bernie: “I will tax the evil billionaires to pay for the free shit you deserve! These people are evil kulaks and wreckers.”
Alternate: “That’s personal property, not evil private property!”
Does this surprise anyone really?
https://lidblog.com/michael-bloomberg-control/
Nope. The finest in prog-jection.
No, he’s an authoritarian asshole.
No more than any television preachers getting backrubs from wayward young men.
“…he (Bloomberg) is known to grab food off the plates of aides and, occasionally, even strangers. (“Delicious,” he declared recently, after swiping a piece of fried calamari from an unsuspecting diner in Staten Island.)”
I don’t know how true this is because NYT, but regardless, if someone did that to me, i think i’d kill them.
Even if it was the Mayor of Shuckton Ontario?
I turn into a rage-filled rottweiler when family members take food off of my plate. I don’t know why it feels like such an intrusion. I can’t imagine what I’d do if some rando in public did it.
You touch my plate without permission and I’m going to bite off the offending arm at the wrist.
So… do BootyJudge supporters start feelin’ the Bern or do they go with one of the “moderates”?
I got the impression his votes came from people who weren’t paying much attention.
No clue where they break after this.
He’s gay? Can I have my vote back?
I don’t think many will go to Bernie.
Well, Mayor Pete was pretending to be a moderate, so likely they go to Biden.
According to bernie bots, bernie is the second choice of the supporters of every other candidate.
Kind of doubt that is true, especially with Buttchug- I would think they’d be more Biden leaning since they’re both relatively moderate?
They already did a survey that showed a slight plurality will go to Sanders.
Today, the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) formally announced that it voted to adopt a new formula for determining the timing of traffic lights. The vote vindicates the theory of Mats Järlström, who was fined $500 by the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying for publicly criticizing traffic light timing without first obtaining a professional engineering license.
https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-makes-history-with-new-traffic-light-timing-formula/
This is why Glibs gives money to the IJ.
Well.. Amazon does when I buy their stuff.
So, when is the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering going to serve their prison times for violation of constitutional rights?
Stop laughing.
… wut?
If you realize the entire traffic violation setup is about giving the state the ability to fine people large sums money for simply going about their lives, and not at all concerned with anything to do with traffic safety, because just passing another fucking onerous tax makes it too obvious you really don’t fucking care, this racket quickly becomes easy to understand.
It’s about giving the state the ability to fine people large sums money for questioning the state’s authority.
^^^GIVE THIS MAN A CIGAR^^^
/not a Clinton euphemism, but prize for winning
I have made it a practice to never just pay whatever fine they try to give me. I will go to court and make the state waste money on me to collect their $40 to $330 fine. They stopped giving me tickets cause I just plead not guilty and tell them I will see them in court. If everyone started doing this the racket would no longer be so lucrative, and they would have to get more heavy handed about robbing people.
“shut up prole, top men at work”
IIRC, he made the mistake of referring to himself as an engineer, because he is one, but the PE people want that to be a reserved word.
We got an email that even if you have a doctorate, you are not to refer to yourself as a doctor in the hospital unless you are a physician. Now this was a corporate email so companies can set what ever policy, but other states are making it a law, which seems like a clear 1A violation.
I think referring to yourself as a Doctor in those situations is okay, as long as you add the PhD* on the end.
Hi, I am Dr Florida Man is confusing.
Hi, I am Dr Florida Man, PhD is okay.
*or whichever D it is.
You overestimate the average hospital visitor. All they will hear is “Yes, I’m a Doctor”
I don’t really care myself, but I know lots of people whose identity is wrapped up in their credentials.
Many germans I work with are very careful to add doctor to whoever has a phd.
*chuckle*
Had an interaction with an old lady recently who got pissed when I didn’t use the “Doctor” designation when referring to her husband.
He’s a professor of business administration.
Pie – IME that has more to do with German demand for precision than with having a stuffed shirt.
In GB, the Middle East, and South East Asia, titles are demanded because people with stuffed shirts want you to know they are better than you.
In the US, people ask you not to use their title so that you know they are better than all those stuffed shirt foriners.
also, “Heer Doktor Pofessor” is an awesome title and I can’t blame anyone for using it.
In the US, people ask you not to use their title so that you know they are better than all those stuffed shirt foriners.
And aren’t we?
But to be fair, unless I’m in your class at a University, I’m disinclined to call you doctor if you don’t work in the medical field.
Zat’s “Herr Doktor Professor”
Obviously yes. I mean… two world wars.
“other states are making it a law”
WTF?
I remember this now. I love what IJ does. Not that their legal work has any effect on me, but I love their podcasts, especially Bound by Oath.
It has always been obvious that traffic lights, and their timings suck.
That is it? Not exactly a huge leap forward. *sigh*
You wouldn’t want to get it completely right. If it was all set and good what would we need the ITE for?
I thought Pete might actually stand a chance if it went brokered. If Biden gets loopier, and the higher-ups decide he’s ruined his chances, they’d have to have someone…
Oh. It’s her turn?
It all comes down to tomorrow. Bernie is leading in ever Sooper Toosday state except for NC, in which he’s trailing Senile Joe by only a couple of points. If those polls are accurate, Bernie is gonna clean up. Biden will, of course, stay in no matter what because he’s the DNC’s golden boy. Warren is likely toast but will withhold her endorsement until the outcome becomes inevitable; she really, really wants that VP slot. The X-factor is Bloomy. He’s been ejaculating money for months now leading up to tomorrow, all on the gamble that he can get enough delegates to stay viable in spite of skipping all the early ones.
My guess is that he gets a smattering of delegates here and there, but I think he’ll stay in to the bitter end because of his narcissism and control obsessions.
I stand by my earlier conclusions that Bernie will fall just short of winning outright (probably because superdelegates will torpedo him) and they’ll give the nod to some establishment hack in a brokered convention.
At this point, anything other than a brokered convention is unlikely. Bernie isn’t going to do good enough tomorrow to win on the first ballot.
Just because you drop out now, doesn’t mean you can’t come back for a brokered con.
^This right here^
It could even be a nice little negotiating tactic. Looks, I’ll drop out now, and suspend my campaign, but if the convention winds up brokered, we can work together then.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Muahahahaahaha
Biden is getting the nomination, eve if he’s reduced to a slobbering drool big wearing imbecile who can’t remember his own name by that time. And Warren will be his running mate.
Bernie will win the most delegates in the primaries, but it doesn’t matter. The dem establishment are not going to allow him to be the candidate.
Bloomberg is extremely unlikable and cannot relate to normal people, even much less than what Hillary could. And that’s an understatement. It’s Biden and Warren and it was decided months ago.
Apparently Buttigeig scheduled an event in the one of the predominantly African-American parts of the SC, had printouts on each seat for how his policies would benefit the A-A community and etc. It was packed…with white people.
I think that is the moment his campaign knew they were done.
Buttgeig was done the moment he didn’t change his name.
Changing train cars without a notarized permit filled out in triplicate is a capital offense.
It is known.
In my years of riding the Orange Line, I never realized it was illegal to change cars, I saw it so often.
Good morning, Sloopy!
Not sure what the fuck was going on with that Chicago cop story, except fatty took that shot with her partner awfully close. Panic?
This was in the sidebar. Nice place.
Bye, Pete! No one will miss you, though I’m sure your constituents will be really sad to have you back.
Amy’s next.
That’s a fun tune for a less than fun day. Make it a groovy one!
“This was in the sidebar. Nice place”
Need more time at the range. 4 for 18 is not good shooting. Cops do better’n that
Chicago hospitals are the best in the world at saving gunshot victims. Practice, practice, practice.
IIRC, Detroit Receiving Hospital claims it is the best in the US at treating gunshot
Train in Detroit, work in Chicago, Balmer, etc. Job security.
^ This guy gets it.
From what I heard someone was yelling to ‘shoot him’. So yeah… but why did they even need a gun out when it was what? 2-3 officers vs. one unarmed man doing a nonviolent crime (was he even committing a crime)?
Uffda. Embarrassing Special K like that in CD5 might end up being the straw that broke the camel’s back when it comes to Omar.
Klobuchar might be willing to deal with Trump’s ICE now to allow them to bring fraud charges against Omar the ingrate.
It is also funny that Klobuchar can’t hold a campaign event in Minnesoda without being inundated with snowflakes.
Internet Explorer: How are you doing this Chrome? How have you done any of this? We have to go back.
Chrome: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it IE: I never saved any RAM for the swim back.
https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1205657677805883392
Ha I got the reference!
SAF Petitions Supreme Court For Review Of Rodriguez Case
So, according to the 9th circuit “community caretaking” trumps the constitution?
They don’t even bother pretending anymore.
They are just making shit up.
Roberts swings the Supremes to uphold this embarrassment in the spirit of “even-handedness” in 3, 2, 1…
Also, let’s extend this ruling:
Your spouse doesn’t have a driver’s license, I guess that means we can seize your car.
Your spouse doesn’t contribute to the mortgage, I guess that means we can seize your house.
Your spouse doesn’t change diapers, I guess that means we can take your kids.
Wow, this is fun!
Wowzers. A summary judgement even? Pikes. City walls.
even though the courts recognize that Lori Rodriguez could legally purchase new firearms.
How nice of them. It’s not like guns are expensive or anything.
“community caretaking.”
Something something individual rights.
So I got some blood-work done and everything went great until the fucking LDL which shot up. At least my gamma-GT went down to 15 and the other liver things are down from last blood-work in 2018 which means I did not yet destroy my liver with alcohol, although I do not think I drink that much compared with serious drinkers out there. Also my triglycerides are under 60 which is good. Stupid LDL harshing my mellow.
Is this your blood or that of the latest snack/victim? We all know you are Vampiri!
Have you tried drinking blood from skinny people?
They’re harder to catch
And you have to catch twice as many. And they don’t come butter-flavored.
You mean Lo-Fat blood? No thanks.
Lipids are a really complex subject and most docs know somewhere between jack and shit.
You may find this helpful.
My LDL sits stubbornly at 130, but I find my current overall risk profile pretty good, and the tradeoffs I’d need to make to get it lower would probably be worse. Heart disease is also probably the most appealing of my genetic risk factors to die from, so.
130 is what I consider low. Mine is 180…
I inherited high lipids from both my parents. In fact all my uncles have ridiculously high lipids. They are all in their late sixties early seventies and no one has had a heart attack. My advice is drink moderately, exercise when you can and try to eat more vegetables.
Well I do drink moderately, I walk 5 kilometers a day on weekdays, and go the the gym 4-5 times a week and eat usually 500-700 g of fruit and vegetables a day. I am surprised my LDL went up so much. Last month I did not eat many simple carbs or that much saturated fats. Off course in December and January there was plenty o pig.
Worth mentioning: most labs do a calculated LDL and not a direct measurement. Usually it’s pretty accurate, but if your triglycerides are either low or high it can throw the accuracy out. If it’s substantially off from what you were expecting, it might be worth having it done again, or if your triglycerides are substantially higher or lower than the reference range, ask for a direct measurement.
triglycerides do not have a low reference range in Romania. Mine were 59, the range is <150. No low range
From what I recall, below 50 and above 200 is when the triglycerides can start throwing off calculated LDL results. Might be worth discussing with your physician.
I do not have a physician who’s opinion I trust or who I can talk about this.
the program he has anchored for many years. She writes: “Matthews looked over at me in the makeup chair next to him and said, ‘Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?’ When I laughed nervously and said nothing, he followed up to the makeup artist. ‘Keep putting makeup on her, I’ll fall in love with her.’”
Creepy, but meh.
“Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?”
That has got to be one of the lamest pickup lines I’ve ever heard.
Should have gone with “Hey, toots. You give me quite the tingle up my leg.”
I interpret it as you ugly need more makeup rather than a pickup line
It’s a lame attempt at a “neg.”
The correct answer is “Because your a Beta, Chris. Because you are a Beta.”
“Panic buying hits New York as anxious shoppers stock up on food and medical supplies after woman in her 30s becomes the city’s first confirmed coronavirus patient”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8064575/Panic-buying-hits-New-York-coronavirus-case-NYC.html
Yikes!
What’s the overall incidence of, say, hepatitis among the rampant NYC homeless population, just for example?
Hurry up and panic!
Hepatitis doesn’t spread as easily.
That depends on whether or not you’re into hobo sex.
And yet there are still probably several orders of magnitude more hepatitis cases in NYC than there are coronavirus cases. But nobody is shitting their pants about a public health crisis. The panic here is carefully cultivated by the media. If they gave a fuck about public health there’s about 30 other illnesses they could have latched onto that cause tens of thousands of deaths every year. Including ordinary influenza.
It seems like every few years, there’s some horrible disease that’s going to decimate civilization… SARS, bird flu, swine flu, ebola, and so on. This is just the latest one.
A lot of people forget that news channels are run by corporations with profit motives. Their business model is in grave danger thanks to the Internet, so they need to keep the views coming. Sensational reporting is what generates profit, not calmly assessing situations and looking at things in perspective.
What happens when we discover opium cures the coronavirus?
Then everyone’s dead, because it’s better you die in pain than risk becoming addicted.
/people actually argue that.
Better discover scotch does
Washing hands with alcohol does reduce the spread.
I recommend not using drinking alcohol though. There’s plenty of other options.
Entertainingly enough, Purell uses ethyl alcohol
Just because it’s the same molecule doesn’t make it drinking alcohol.
Hell, Corona contains Ethyl alcohol, that doesn’t make it drinking alcohol.
Does it kill the Corona virus?
Most alcohol-based sanitizers do. The mini bottle of CVS brand sanitizer I have in my bag is 70% ethyl alcohol.
Yep, I ‘member an internet scare story a couple years back about how the teens were drinking Purell to get drunk.
There was a Jack London story where a sailor on a ship died of the plague, and the survivors constantly drank rum and drenched their bodies in it so that they wouldn’t get infected.
crack would be even funnier. Not powdered cocaine either, it doesnt work, you gotta smoke the rock to be cured.
Opium War 2?
We already had that.
Which is better?
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“Why should I have to pay for someone else’s healthcare??”
– someone who is deeply confused about what their private insurance company does with the premiums they pay
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1234258473816215554
or
My one “million dollar idea” for a business is to hire a bunch of people to do productive work, and then pay them only a fraction of what they earned for me, and pocket the rest.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/1233118990500630528
The only reason my premiums pay for things I neither need nor want is because of government mandates baked in to every policy. And if making millions is that easy, why not go ahead and do it?
Good thing stupidity is not contagious.
Good thing stupidity is not contagious.
*looks around*
Actually, stupidity being contagious would explain a lot.
It is genetics. Stupid people were allowed to weed themselves out of the gene pool. Then some asshat decided we needed to protect these people from their own stupidity. Since then there has been a race between people trying to prevent the stupid and the universe creating more stupid, and the universe is winning hands down.
Since Obamacare, insurance premiums do pay for other people’s healthcare – that’s one reason premiums went up so dramatically 10 years ago.
Since forever (not just O-care) premiums pay for “other people’s healthcare”. Insurance companies pool premiums”. See also: every other type of insurance that exists. If it wasn’t done this way, there would be no such thing as insurance.
yes but it is voluntary and your payment depends on your risk profile
your payment depends on your risk profile
Not so much since multiple government mandates are baked in to every policy by law whether you want them or not.
Health insurance, other than catastrophic care insurance, only exists because of the idiotic tax code. The biggest Government distortion of the health care market wasn’t Medicare or cade, it was when they decided that your employer could provide you with insurance using pretax dollars, but you couldn’t pay your own bills with pre tax dollars. Divorcing the consumption from the payment will always produce higher prices. The people blaming the government for the explosion of health care costs are not wrong, but neither are the people blaming the insurance companies, both make the mistake of thinking the two are adversaries in the system instead of partners.
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Hey fuckface, 95/100 is a fraction.
Mammary Monday looks outside and says that Spring is still a long way off.
http://archive.li/3300t
“Mexican immigrant who was released by Chicago authorities despite ICE telling them not to ‘went on to rape a three-year-old girl in a McDonald’s bathroom as she cried ‘daddy, daddy”
ICE had requested that police continue detaining the previously deported felon – who had convictions for forced-entry burglary and forgery.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8064451/Mexican-immigrant-released-authorities-despite-ICE-warning-went-rape-three-year-old-girl.html
One of those things is not like the others.
He’s gonna last about 5 minutes in prison… 5 minutes too long, IMO.
Trump’s campaign commercials pretty much write themselves at this point.
Three year old girls, that’s one thing. When they start coming for the judges…
That’s interesting. I live in Denver and follow local news quite closely. I had not heard of this case.
My one “million dollar idea” for a business is to hire a bunch of people to do productive work, and then pay them only a fraction of what they earned for me, and pocket the rest.
Okay, then.
He is not wrong, he is just too stupid to understand risk.
People who say that seem to think that absent the other employees and the company facilities, any one of those people, removed from the environment will continue to generate the same value in a vacuum.
There are some trades where that can be true, but most employees produce value as part of a larger system.
Greeks no longer playing with border security.
I’m afraid I can’t understand your second link, and I’m too lazy to have a machine translate it.
I’ll just assume that their new policy is to sink any migrant boats and summarily execute the survivors.
The Greek Coast Guard seems to have gone from giving free lifts to the “Refugee Center” to poking inflatable boats with a harpoon, firing live rounds next to their dingy, and ramming them if they don’t turn around and go away.
Meh, call me when they bust out the dori and the xiphos from storage and hand them out to the border guards.
That coastie was poking the African’s dingy with some kind of spear.
These euphemisms used to be abstract.
You boomers and rubes just don’t understand.
“I have noticed that there’s been an awful lot of misinformation about what is inside this resolution,” Ocasio-Cortez said from the House floor. “A tremendous amount of wild claims— everything from saying we’re seeking to ban airplanes to ending ice cream.
“As a consequence, I realized that many of my colleagues have never even read the resolution that they’re speaking on. They haven’t opened a single word of it,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
The 30-year-old Democrat said she decided to enter the measure into the congressional record because she wanted to send a message to her Republican “colleagues across the aisle.”
Ocasio-Cortez gave a dramatic reading of the Green New Deal, otherwise known as House Resolution 109, which calls for drastically reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions, creating millions of jobs, and strengthening U.S. infrastructure by launching a 10-year phase to transition into clean energy.
This is why she’s so great. Nobody else would think of writing a resolution that created millions of new jobs. Now if she would just write a resolution ending murder, rape, and icky-poo bad stuff, her election to President would be assured.
Banning the use of machinery and insisting that all digging is done with tablespoons would also “create millions of jobs” (at the expense of jobs elsewhere). Jobs are an expense.
“I have noticed that there’s been an awful lot of misinformation about what is inside this resolution,” Ocasio-Cortez said from the House floor. “A tremendous amount of wild claims— everything from saying we’re seeking to ban airplanes to ending ice cream.
Stupid poopyhead Rethuglicans! We are not banning airplanes, we are banning petroleum, it’s totes different! You can fly with solar power! And I don’t even know what they mean about banning ice cream. We are only banning dairy cattle! All the other dairy foods are still legal.
Children as young as eight picked coffee beans on farms supplying Starbucks
Nespresso also named in TV exposé of labour scandal in Guatemala
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/01/children-work-for-pittance-to-pick-coffee-beans-used-by-starbucks-and-nespresso
One question would be what was the alterniteve for those children, a Montessori school or starvation?
That old? Get the six year olds picking coffee beans.
Too short, step ladders cost too much to be worthwhile, because their picking life span doesn’t actually increase if you start them earlier. If you start them at 6 they just die 2 years earlier.
DC-funded universal child care
Preferable to DC Universe funded child care.
Marvel or GTFO.
Can I interest you in Independant Universes instead?
Why yes. Yes you can.
Ps – whoever does your cover art has done a marvellous job.
Better that they starve than be exploited by evil capitalists!!
By Wickard v. Filburn logic I am guilty of the same sin. I have my children help prepare, plant, weed and harvest from our garden. They also, feed the chickens and collect eggs.
When I was a kid I liked feeding the chickens and collecting eggs
I still hate chickens for the gobs of summer vacation time they completely wasted when I was a kid.
Do you take it out on chickens the hard way?
Don’t be a cockblock
Okay Fagin.
By some vague astral alignment, I recently listened to Mike Munger talking about the division of labor, and also read 2-Chili’s recent piece on self-sufficiency, which roughly matched up with some interesting point-counterpoint on the comparison of the two, sort of like watching Wizard of Oz accompanied by Dark Side of the Moon, but with basic economic concepts?
I love how they always go after the US company which is the customer, not the sovereign governments of the nations that allow this to go on within their borders. We’ve seen this before, particularly with Nestle — most recently because some of the boats which supply the companies which supply tuna for a Nestle-brand cat food use very coercive labor practices; they never go after the governments which flag those boats.
We all know that governments are totally beholden to corporations and have no power to resist.
He is not wrong, he is just too stupid to understand risk.
And overhead and administrative costs, and capital investment, and et c and et c…
Yes, I simplified by shoving all of that into “risk”.
We’re way beyond parody at this point.
The Palestinian homosexuals who are alive because the Israelis won’t allow the other Palestinians to give them the Islamic treatment for homosexuals…
“As a consequence, I realized that many of my colleagues have never even read the resolution that they’re speaking on. They haven’t opened a single word of it,” Ocasio-Cortez continued.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
“Stop it. You’re killing me.”
Less people = less carbon footprint
TheBern!: I will not be intimidated by the
NRAConstitution.During a March 1, 2020, rally in Los Angeles, Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders pledged, “I will not be intimidated by the NRA.”
He said, “We will pass universal background checks,” and he likewise promised to “end the gun show loophole.”
Sanders added, “And we will do what the American people want and that is: end the sale and distribution of ‘assault weapons’ in this country.”
You keep concentrating on the NRA as the boogieman while GOA/SAF/etc. do the real legal work.
Bernie used to support gun rights, or at least he wouldn’t actively attack them.
Guess that’s the price of things in the DNC.
Had a nice talk with a friendly church dad over the weekend. Friendly church dad is a far-lefty who used to be a radical in his younger days. We both pointed agreed you can tell the tankies form the cosplayers and LARPERs by where they stand on gun control laws.
Why we need to be more emotional to save the world
Man, if only we could get more histrionic whinging into public policy…
You know who else based their governance on emotions?
Dude, the Sudentenland really does point into the heart of Germany like a knife. Just look a map, yo.
Sudetenland.
Most teenagers ?
Because going off half-cocked and emotional got us such wonderful successes as the Patriot Act, DHS, Afghanistan and the Iraq War, red flag confiscation^Wlaws, etc. etc. etc.
Yeesh.
You forgot the whole FISA court sham.
No house has ever been built by people standing around yelling at lumber.
So what were those construction workers yelling at then?
The hottie walking back to the office after spending lunch hour as spin class.
What about the woodchucks?
Nunchucks are funnier.
Sometimes.
That’s a serious fookup.. Getting up all dizzy and swinging the chucks is a good way to earn yourself a concussion and some stitches..
Dude, where I grew up, all the manual labor was done by eyeTalians and da Greeks. I’m pretty sure that is how houses got built.
Yeah, in retrospect, I have fixed PC hardware problems by threatening the computer and smacking it around. Turns out, sometimes, if you treat a computer like a pimp treats a ho it actually works better. There’s a lesson there, somewhere.
Actually what you are missing is that it worked because the love of a pimp is different than that of a square….
Think about some of the knottiest problems facing the world today
I hate you already….
Terrible Twos Toddlers are the model for The New Progressive Man.
We instead opt for cold, technical solutions.
If, only.
“[Emotions] provide us with quintessential information about what’s important and what to do next and how to do it and who to do it with.”
Emotions hinder one’s ability to rationalize and make better choices, particularly in crisis.
Interesting: New study finds a gender earnings gap among MTurk workers, despite anonymity (which rules out discrimination), homogeneity of tasks (which rules out differences in task preferences), and flexibility of work hours.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1234286808659185665
No shit.
If Buttigieg drops out, I can’t believe Special K hasn’t already dropped too. Just to try to prove she can beat him at anything.
It really is strange watching her interact with him. She really doesn’t like him for some reason. It seems way deeper than just that they were competing for the same voters.
She’s not dropping out until she gets offered the veep slot for doing so.
She’d be perfect for Biden. Even he wouldn’t grope Special K.
Too bad we can’t pass a law requiring these weasels to actually resign their seats in order to run for office. I bet Special K wouldn’t be so eager to be VP then.
Sheriff’s office “accidentally” loses 15 months of dashcam footage
They blame a software error, which may be true, but they weren’t keeping backups either.
Could you imagine a publicly traded company losing 15 months worth of accounting data?
Yes.
I can also see them getting in hot water over it.
Enron?
They didn’t lose it, they just made it up.
There would be serious, serious consequences.
But there’s no legal double standard when it comes to the police, no sir.
Like with a cloth?
Meanwhile in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Californistan…
The mandatory training could include lessons about how firearms can make domestic violence even more dangerous and how someone in a mental health crisis or struggling with substance abuse may be more likely to contemplate suicide if a firearm is nearby.
The proposed ordinance also would require gun owners to store their firearms at home inside a locked container or have them disabled with a trigger lock. In addition, the ordinance would require all gun sales to be videotaped.
“These proposals are a great start in ensuring that legally owned firearms are secured from minors, criminals and people in crisis,” Vice Mayor John Knox White said Friday. “The proposals also provide law enforcement with a new tool to ensure gun sales in Alameda meet all legal requirements.”
Violators could face fines or criminal prosecution.
Let’s make guns useless when necessary and stigmatize gun-ownership.
The “training” is worthless and I’ve watched enough Lock Picking Lawyer videos to know that most gun safes are a joke. So … yay for absolutely meaningless legislation?
I assume I’m being recorded on multiple cameras as soon as I walk into a gun store. I bet that law has more to do with who gets to see and use that tape.
If the gun laws don’t also require you to wear a condom when buying a firearm, maybe this is a loophole for the CA pr0n industry?
We aren’t shooting pr0n! We’re just selling guns. Is it our fault that the purchaser is a dumb ass and let himself get fucked over by that hot DDDealer?
What’s wrong with those people? Why don’t they want to be overrun by “refugees”?
After a truck filled with locals stopped outside the center, continually blasting its horn through the usually serene town, workers inside hit the lights and pulled down the blinds. There was a message over loudspeakers calling for villagers to gather at the church. And it provided an opportunity for the staff to evacuate those inside two at a time.
After that day, the Drop Center was closed and staff moved elsewhere on the island. For the organization that ran the school, A Drop in the Ocean, it seemed their welcome had run out. Another NGO had rocks thrown through their windows. Later a group of local vigilantes went door-to-door looking for aid workers or refugees. “I understand that [the villagers] are tense. They live in an extreme situation. But it doesn’t excuse their behavior toward us,” said Ida Sorbye, a worker at the Drop Center.
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Turkey said on Thursday it would no longer restrain hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory from reaching Europe despite a deal to do so reached with the EU in 2016. That means islanders are things to rapidly worsen. Thousands of refugees are now on the border of Northern Greece. The crisis poses the toughest test for Greece since a 2015 financial crisis.
The situation is worsening as crime escalates. There’s been at least two murders at the camp, and reports of daily fights and stabbings between refugees. Doctors Without Borders said that rape is also common inside the camp, as high as one rape reported a week.
Who could object to having their home taken over by a bunch of holier-than-thou NGO parasites?
I blame Trump.
calling for villagers to gather at the church
Trump would obviously do something like this.
Oh, I didn’t know the UN was there.
Sometimes reddit is not a total cesspool of unfunny liberal lunatics
https://i.redd.it/5z35rl45a5k41.jpg
Did Tulsi officially drop out or is she just included to future-proof it?
Her website seems to suggest she is still in.
Huh? What’s a website?
Bad Orange Man going after political opponents.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is now the subject of an investigation in Ukraine for his role in pressuring Ukrainian officials to fire then-Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in 2016, the Washington Post reports. The investigation was launched following a court order.
“They need to investigate this. They have no other alternative,” Oleksandr Teleshetsky, Shokin’s attorney, told the Washington Post. “They are required to do this by the decision of the court. If they don’t, then they violate a whole string of procedural norms.”
Shokin had filed a complaint with Ukraine’s National Bureau of Investigation last month demanding an investigation be launched against Joe Biden for his role in pressuring the Ukrainian government to fire him and protect Burisma Holdings, the company on whose board his son Hunter sat, making $83,000/month, despite having no experience related to their business. Shokin alleged in his filing that Biden orchestrated his ouster as prosecutor general in order to prevent the completion of his investigation of the notoriously corrupt natural gas company, Burisma Holdings. Despite allegations to the contrary, Shokin contends the investigation was “carried out in strict accordance with Criminal Law” and under his “personal control as the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.”
I don’t know if it’s the best of all possible outcomes, but I really, really look forward to a brokered convention resulting in a hotly contested Biden nomination, followed by Bernie Bros. swarming social media as Biden is investigated for corruption relating to Ukraine.
Wish they had been this diligent in stopping Obama from doing this shit. We might not be here today poltically.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ER9dzovWkAARrNZ.jpg:large
LOLWTF?
Wonder if anyone can get James Earl Jones to do a “*This* is CNN?!?” voice over…
Socialism is a disease that never seems to go away.
Is the same Glib who secretly writes for the Bee now doing the CNN chyrons as well?
On a windy night a few weeks after the unrest in Moria, a group of men and women stood huddled around a fire at the entrance to the village, stopping cars to make sure the passengers were local. Mikis Papadakis, 47, comes here every night after working at a butcher shop in Mytilini. “Things are getting worse,” he said. “They [refugees] cut the trees. They take the animals — the sheep, the goats. And we feel insecure.”
Today a march organized by a local antifascist group in support of refugee rights passed his store. Protesters handed out fliers that warned: “In these circumstances, social polarization is rising, and extreme-right ideology has found space among a section of local society.”
“It’s their job,” Papadakis said, smiling. He thinks there is a lot of money involved with aid work on the island. A common complaint from locals is that a thriving NGO industry — no doubt helping refugees that come ashore — comes at the cost of their businesses as more are encouraged to make the journey.
Making the world a better place.
On a windy night a few weeks after the unrest in Moria
Are those fucking Orcs getting uppity again?
Can you blame them? Fucking wizards, halfings, dwarves and elven refugees tramping through with a weak “we’re just taking a short cut” excuse?
I think Gimli son of Gloin may have had a claim on access rights, if not a share in ownership of the mines. I mean, they’d have to get the lawyers to figure it all out, but I think there may be a solid claim there, in which he can grant access rights. Until then, I don’t know whether or not the guilty verdict on Gandalf for felony B&E will go to appeal pending the outcome of the aforementioned litigation.
The dwarves leaving a password intact for entry was dirty pool. The orcs and goblins won it fair and square.
Not to mention, the balrog was there way before the dwarves arbitrarily decided to dig up his home. And he seemed fine with the goblins taking up residence.
From https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/roots-partisan-divide/
The following is adapted from a talk delivered on January 28, 2020, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation lecture series.
American society today is divided by party and by ideology in a way it has perhaps not been since the Civil War. I have just published a book that, among other things, suggests why this is. It is called The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. It runs from the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the election of Donald J. Trump. You can get a good idea of the drift of the narrative from its chapter titles: 1963, Race, Sex, War, Debt, Diversity, Winners, and Losers.
I can end part of the suspense right now—Democrats are the winners. Their party won the 1960s—they gained money, power, and prestige. The GOP is the party of the people who lost those things.
One of the strands of this story involves the Vietnam War. The antiquated way the Army was mustered in the 1960s wound up creating a class system. What I’m referring to here is the so-called student deferment. In the old days, university-level education was rare. At the start of the First World War, only one in 30 American men was in a college or university, so student deferments were not culturally significant. By the time of Vietnam, almost half of American men were in a college or university, and student deferment remained in effect until well into the war. So if you were rich enough to study art history, you went to Woodstock and made love. If you worked in a garage, you went to Da Nang and made war. This produced a class division that many of the college-educated mistook for a moral division, particularly once we lost the war. The rich saw themselves as having avoided service in Vietnam not because they were more privileged or—heaven forbid—less brave, but because they were more decent.
Another strand of the story involves women. Today, there are two cultures of American womanhood—the culture of married women and the culture of single women. If you poll them on political issues, they tend to differ diametrically. It was feminism that produced this rupture. For women during the Kennedy administration, by contrast, there was one culture of femininity, and it united women from cradle to grave: Ninety percent of married women and 87 percent of unmarried women believed there was such a thing as “women’s intuition.” Only 16 percent of married women and only 15 percent of unmarried women thought it was excusable in some circumstances to have an extramarital affair. Ninety-nine percent of women, when asked the ideal age for marriage, said it was sometime before age 27. None answered “never.”
But it is a third strand of the story, running all the way down to our day, that is most important for explaining our partisan polarization. It concerns how the civil rights laws of the 1960s, and particularly the Civil Rights Act of 1964, divided the country. They did so by giving birth to what was, in effect, a second constitution, which would eventually cause Americans to peel off into two different and incompatible constitutional cultures. This became obvious only over time. It happened so slowly that many people did not notice.
Because conventional wisdom today holds that the Civil Rights Act brought the country together, my book’s suggestion that it pulled the country apart has been met with outrage. The outrage has been especially pronounced among those who have not read the book. So for their benefit I should make crystal clear that my book is not a defense of segregation or Jim Crow, and that when I criticize the long-term effects of the civil rights laws of the 1960s, I do not criticize the principle of equality in general, or the movement for black equality in particular.
What I am talking about are the emergency mechanisms that, in the name of ending segregation, were established under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These gave Washington the authority to override what Americans had traditionally thought of as their ordinary democratic institutions. It was widely assumed that the emergency mechanisms would be temporary and narrowly focused. But they soon escaped democratic control altogether, and they have now become the most powerful part of our governing system.
How Civil Rights Legislation Worked
There were two noteworthy things about the civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965.
The first was its unprecedented concentration of power. It gave Washington tools it had never before had in peacetime. It created new crimes, outlawing discrimination in almost every walk of public and private life. It revoked—or repealed—the prevailing understanding of freedom of association as protected by the First Amendment. It established agencies to hunt down these new crimes—an expanded Civil Rights Commission, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and various offices of civil rights in the different cabinet agencies. It gave government new prerogatives, such as laying out hiring practices for all companies with more than 15 employees, filing lawsuits, conducting investigations, and ordering redress. Above all, it exposed every corner of American social, economic, and political life to direction from bureaucrats and judges.
To put it bluntly, the effect of these civil rights laws was to take a lot of decisions that had been made in the democratic parts of American government and relocate them to the bureaucracy or the judiciary. Only with that kind of arsenal, Lyndon Johnson and the drafters thought, would it be possible to root out insidious racism.
The second noteworthy thing about the civil rights legislation of the 1960s is that it was kind of a fudge. It sat uneasily not only with the First Amendment, but with the Constitution as a whole. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, passed largely to give teeth to the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal rights for all citizens, did so by creating different levels of rights for citizens of southern states like Alabama and citizens of northern states like Michigan when it came to election laws.
The goal of the civil rights laws was to bring the sham democracies of the American South into conformity with the Constitution. But nobody’s democracy is perfect, and it turned out to be much harder than anticipated to distinguish between democracy in the South and democracy elsewhere in the country. If the spirit of the law was to humiliate Southern bigots, the letter of the law put the entire country—all its institutions—under the threat of lawsuits and prosecutions for discrimination.
Still, no one was too worried about that. It is clear in retrospect that Americans outside the South understood segregation as a regional problem. As far as we can tell from polls, 70-90 percent of Americans outside the South thought that blacks in their part of the country were treated just fine, the same as anyone else. In practice, non-Southerners did not expect the new laws to be turned back on themselves.
The Broadening of Civil Rights
The problem is that when the work of the civil rights legislation was done—when de jure segregation was stopped—these new powers were not suspended or scaled back or reassessed. On the contrary, they intensified. The ability to set racial quotas for public schools was not in the original Civil Rights Act, but offices of civil rights started doing it, and there was no one strong enough to resist. Busing of schoolchildren had not been in the original plan, either, but once schools started to fall short of targets established by the bureaucracy, judges ordered it.
Affirmative action was a vague notion in the Civil Rights Act. But by the time of the Supreme Court’s 1978 Bakke decision, it was an outright system of racial preference for non-whites. In that case, the plaintiff, Alan Bakke, who had been a U.S. Marine captain in Vietnam, saw his application for medical school rejected, even though his test scores were in the 96th, 94th, 97th, and 72nd percentiles. Minority applicants, meanwhile, were admitted with, on average, scores in the 34th, 30th, 37th, and 18th percentiles. And although the Court decided that Bakke himself deserved admission, it did not do away with the affirmative action programs that kept him out. In fact, it institutionalized them, mandating “diversity”—a new concept at the time—as the law of the land.
Meanwhile other groups, many of them not even envisioned in the original legislation, got the hang of using civil rights law. Immigrant advocates, for instance: Americans never voted for bilingual education, but when the Supreme Court upheld the idea in 1974, rule writers in the offices of civil rights simply established it, and it exists to this day. Women, too: the EEOC battled Sears, Roebuck & Co. from 1973 to 1986 with every weapon at its disposal, trying to prove it guilty of sexism—ultimately failing to prove even a single instance of it.
Finally, civil rights came to dominate—and even overrule—legislation that had nothing to do with it. The most traumatic example of this was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. This legislation was supposed to be the grand compromise on which our modern immigration policy would be built. On the one hand, about three million illegal immigrants who had mostly come north from Mexico would be given citizenship. On the other hand, draconian laws would ensure that the amnesty would not be an incentive to future migrants, and that illegal immigration would never get out of control again. So there were harsh “employer sanctions” for anyone who hired a non-citizen. But once the law passed, what happened? Illegal immigrants got their amnesty. But the penalties on illegal hiring turned out to be fake—because, to simplify just a bit, asking an employee who “looks Mexican” where he was born or about his citizenship status was held to be a violation of his civil rights. Civil rights law had made it impossible for Americans to get what they’d voted for through their representatives, leading to decades of political strife over immigration policy that continues to this day.
A more recent manifestation of the broadening of civil rights laws is the “Dear Colleague” letter sent by the Obama Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in 2011, which sought to dictate sexual harassment policy to every college and university in the country. Another is the overturning by judges of a temporary ban on entry from certain countries linked to terrorism in the first months of the Trump administration in 2017.
These policies, qua policies, have their defenders and their detractors. The important thing for our purposes is how they were established and enforced. More and more areas of American life have been withdrawn from voters’ democratic control and delivered up to the bureaucratic and judicial emergency mechanisms of civil rights law. Civil rights law has become a second constitution, with powers that can be used to override the Constitution of 1787.
The New Constitution
In explaining the constitutional order that we see today, I’d like to focus on just two of its characteristics.
First, it has a moral element, almost a metaphysical element, that is usually more typical of theocracies than of secular republics. As we’ve discussed, civil rights law gave bureaucrats and judges emergency powers to override the normal constitutional order, bypassing democracy. But the key question is: Under what conditions is the government authorized to activate these emergency powers? It is a question that has been much studied by political thinkers in Europe. Usually when European governments of the past bypassed their constitutions by declaring emergencies, it was on the grounds of a military threat or a threat to public order. But in America, as our way of governing has evolved since 1964, emergencies are declared on a moral basis: people are suffering; their newly discovered rights are being denied. America can’t wait anymore for the ordinary democratic process to take its course.
A moral ground for invoking emergencies sounds more humane than a military one. It is not. That is because, in order to justify its special powers, the government must create a class of officially designated malefactors. With the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the justification of this strong medicine was that there was a collection of Southern politicians who were so wily and devious, and a collection of Southern sheriffs so ruthless and depraved, that one could not, and was not morally obliged to, fight fair with them.
That pattern has perpetuated itself, even as the focus of civil rights has moved to American institutions less obviously objectionable than segregation. Every intervention in the name of rights requires the identification of a malefactor. So very early on in the gay marriage debate, those who believed in traditional marriage were likened to segregationists or to those who had opposed interracial marriage.
Joe Biden recently said: “Let’s be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise when it comes to basic human rights.” Now, most Americans, probably including Joe Biden, know very little about transgenderism. But this is an assertion that Americans are not going to be permitted to advance their knowledge by discussing the issue in public or to work out their differences at the ballot box. As civil rights laws have been extended by analogy into other areas of American life, the imputation of moral non-personhood has been aimed at a growing number of people who have committed no sin more grievous than believing the same things they did two years ago, and therefore standing in the way of the progressive juggernaut.
The second characteristic of the new civil rights constitution is what we can call intersectionality. This is a sociological development. As long as civil rights law was limited to protecting the rights of Southern blacks, it was a stable system. It had the logic of history behind it, which both justified and focused its application. But if other groups could be given the privilege of advancing their causes by bureaucratic fiat and judicial decree, there was the possibility of a gradual building up of vast new coalitions, maybe even electoral majorities. This was made possible because almost anyone who was not a white heterosexual male could benefit from civil rights law in some way.
Seventy years ago, India produced the first modern minority-rights based constitution with a long, enumerated list of so-called “scheduled tribes and castes.” Eventually, inter-group horse trading took up so much of the country’s attention that there emerged a grumbling group of “everyone else,” of “ordinary Indians.” These account for many of the people behind the present prime minister, Narendra Modi. Indians who like Modi say he’s the candidate of average citizens. Those who don’t like him, as most of the international media do not, call him a “Hindu nationalist.”
We have a version of the same thing happening in America. By the mid-1980s, the “intersectional” coalition of civil rights activists started using the term “people of color” to describe itself. Now, logically, if there really is such a thing as “people of color,” and if they are demanding a larger share of society’s rewards, they are ipso facto demanding that “non–people of color” get a smaller share. In the same way that the Indian constitution called forth the idea of a generic “Hindu,” the new civil rights constitution created a group of “non–people of color.” It made white people a political reality in the United States in a way they had never been.
Now we can apply this insight to parties. So overpowering is the hegemony of the civil rights constitution of 1964 over the Constitution of 1787, that the country naturally sorts itself into a party of those who have benefitted by it and a party of those who have been harmed by it.
A Party of Bigots and a Party of Totalitarians
Let’s say you’re a progressive. In fact, let’s say you are a progressive gay man in a gay marriage, with two adopted children. The civil rights version of the country is everything to you. Your whole way of life depends on it. How can you back a party or a politician who even wavers on it? Quite likely, your whole moral idea of yourself depends on it, too. You may have marched in gay pride parades carrying signs reading “Stop the Hate,” and you believe that people who opposed the campaign that made possible your way of life, your marriage, and your children, can only have done so for terrible reasons. You are on the side of the glorious marchers of Birmingham, and they are on the side of Bull Connor. To you, the other party is a party of bigots.
But say you’re a conservative person who goes to church, and your seven-year-old son is being taught about “gender fluidity” in first grade. There is no avenue for you to complain about this. You’ll be called a bigot at the very least. In fact, although you’re not a lawyer, you have a vague sense that you might get fired from your job, or fined, or that something else bad will happen. You also feel that this business has something to do with gay rights. “Sorry,” you ask, “when did I vote for this?” You begin to suspect that taking your voice away from you and taking your vote away from you is the main goal of these rights movements. To you, the other party is a party of totalitarians.
And that’s our current party system: the bigots versus the totalitarians.
If either of these constitutions were totally devoid of merit, we wouldn’t have a problem. We could be confident that the wiser of the two would win out in the end. But each of our two constitutions contains, for its adherents, a great deal worth defending to the bitter end. And unfortunately, each constitution must increasingly defend itself against the other.
When gay marriage was being advanced over the past 20 years, one of the common sayings of activists was: “The sky didn’t fall.” People would say: “Look, we’ve had gay marriage in Massachusetts for three weeks, and I’ve got news for you! The sky didn’t fall!” They were right in the short term. But I think they forgot how delicate a system a democratic constitutional republic is, how difficult it is to get the formula right, and how hard it is to see when a government begins—slowly, very slowly—to veer off course in a way that can take decades to become evident.
Then one day we discover that, although we still deny the sky is falling, we do so with a lot less confidence.
There was more?
Hence the “From” in front of the URL
He captured the key points and brought them over here.
I just figured it was classier than tl;dr.
🙂
I was shopping @ Amazon for Cliff’s Notes version.
I very rarely say this jokingly, and even more rarely still with complete sincerity, but…
tl;dr
Your choice whether to read or not
Assuming that you are not in Cuba’s literacy program… 🙂
Right, but, respectfully, I think the ideal is typically to post a link and say, “Hey, this is about Cuba and literacy, here’s a very brief synopsis or a relevant takeaway. You should click the link and check it out.” Pasting at least a full page of unformatted text is sort of like dumping a box of pamphlets on someone’s windshield. The message is lost, is the thing.
TL/DR
Your choice whether to read or not
Assuming that you are not in Cuba’s literacy program… 🙂
You appear to be stuck in a loop.
break();
Oops, I got a syntax error.
NPCAPI.issueCommand(break);
Trap 48: Unexpected interruption in Page Dump.
Dammit.
*hunts for manual*
Is Trap 48 more or less gay than traps 1-47?
They’re all equally gay.
Thanks. Notice this is a different reply.
Hey, how about just a link in future, rather than the ol’ Wall of Text.
I might check out the book – it sounds about right. Although laying the entirety of the administrative bureaucratization of American government at the feet of civil rights legislation is probably overstating the case. Congress abdicating its powers in every way possible to the executive has been an ongoing problem in all possible aspects of government, from labor law, environmental law, health care policy, tax policy, and on and on and on.
I’ve been getting Imprimus for almost 2 decades now. Make for handy reading on the shitter, and it’s free.
http://lp.hillsdale.edu/imprimis-print/?utm_source=imprimis_sidebar
I think the point is more that civil rights legislation is the moral justification for it. If you told Americans “we’re going to regulate the bathrooms in your businesses because we are the government and we know best.” people wouldn’t go for it. But doing it in the name of access for the disabled provides a powerful moral cudgel. Instead of arguing against tyranny, you’re arguing in favor of keeping disabled folks out of your business.
For the leftist administrative state, it is perpetually 1964, because thats the fig leaf of justification for their insane breadth and depth of power they hold over the entire nation.
^ This guy gets it
For the leftist administrative state, it is perpetually 1964, because thats the fig leaf of justification for their insane breadth and depth of power they hold over the entire nation.
This. So much this.
^ Another guy gets it
Sure, Stan. But can you even do a pushup? I’m just joshin’ ya, Carl. That’s what the kids say these days, right? Anyway it was great to be here, Joe.
“I can hardly wait to debate him on stage. I want people to see me standing next to him and him standing next to me. We’ll see who’s sleepy,” Biden said sleepily.
“Mr. Vice President,” Wallace said, “thank you. Thanks for your time. Please come back in less than 13 years sir,” referencing the amount of time since Biden last appeared on the show.
“Alright, Chuck. Thank you very much,” a confused Biden said.
“Uh, it’s Chris but anyway,” Wallace corrected the candidate.
New Minnesoda Gov asks for $276M for “affordable housing” (twice as much as any previous gov). Minnesoda Legislature says “hold my beer” and creates bill for $500M
Don’t be alarmed though. This bill is totally pure and there is no self-dealing with dirty corporations.
Uffda. That was quite the html tour de farce there.
How about: Link to story: https://www.twincities.com/2020/02/19/mn-legislature-housing-affordable-bonding-bill/
Also, check out this totally logical metaphor:
Yup. Professional baseball should be our guiding star when funding public housing?
An Obama Holdover in an Obscure Government Arm Helped Cause the Country’s Coronavirus Crisis
Headline aside, this isn’t really about the coronavirus. It’s about unelected bureaucrats and the vast power they wield.
And how they are impossible to discipline or fire. He should at least be assigned to take temperature readings above the Arctic Circle If Trump can’t outright fire him.
He should at least be assigned to take temperature readings above the Arctic Circle If Trump can’t outright fire him.
Lol, just like Colonel Glass did to Captain Stillman after fucking up the EM-50 project.
“Where the fuck’s my truck?”
Is there a bathroom around here? I gotta pee.
How can they blame Trump for a crisis unless they make sure that there’s a crisis?
This
The headline is grade A bullshit. What happened with the repatriation of the Diamond Princess has very little to do with the spread in this country now. R’s and Team Trump are just as happy to score political points with this situation as the D’s are.
Even if they had somehow managed to offload the passengers by getting Japan to readmit them to Japan (they had already exited Japan legally at that point), the other passengers were already exposed and would have continued to be exposed on the bus (never mind they were more likely infected while on the boat) while it was fought out. Best option was the one that was taken.
Best option was the one that was taken.
Likely so, except for the small bit that the option taken was not authorized by the people nominally in charge, and having mid-rankers usurping authority is likely a bigger problem than any one decision the higher-ups might make that is sub-optimal.
To say that that option wasn’t authorized is incorrect. They might disagree with it but he was the one on the spot, and I think he did it with the guidance and intent he received. You can’t control every decision when you delegate it.
What if they hadn’t received the positive test results (including a false positive) until they were in the air? Should they have turned around and attempted to reland in Japan? There were isolation chambers present on the aircraft for that very purpose.
If the higher ups thought they weren’t bringing covid-19 infected individuals back into the US on that flight, regardless of the test results, they were fools, being fed bad info, or had their head stuck further in the sand than the Japanese government.
They might disagree with it but he was the one on the spot, and I think he did it with the guidance and intent he received.
I suspect you are right, and that the problem is a deeper one:
Apparently, no one checked because no one gives a shit what the President wants. In spite of Trump saying he didn’t want these people evacuated to the US, no one bothered to check with Trump before going right ahead and doing it. Given the facts on the ground, I suspect he would have approved it. I also thought this was telling:
Everybody was asymptomatic when the evacuation was approved, and the fact that the bureaucrats were told before the evacuation happened that some of them had since shown symptoms was disregarded. The box was checked, and that’s that.
Consulting President Trump was not part of the protocol even on a major national security issue.
He had already given the order. No consultation necessary.
In good news for Neph, over the weekend a new brewery just did their grand opening about 7 miles away from my house, and another one just got announced that they’re planning on opening in Fall (which based on past experience, means that it’ll open in late 2021 at the earliest) under 3 miles away from my house.
Sweet. There’s a brewpub opening up a block from my office (which makes it about a mile from my house) soon. There hasn’t been a genuinely local, functioning brewery in town since Ram’s Head merged with Old Dominion and moved all their brewing to Delaware.
Pulleeeeeeeeeeze. 4 miles from my house. Omni Brewing.
Surprisingly people are way less judgemental when you ride your bike to a brew pub than they are when you ride to local liquor store to buy a case of the High Life.
It’s more sophisticated, you know. If it’s a fixed-gear bicycle it’s damn near bohemian.
Not just any fixed-gear bicycle, a proper velocipede.
Bonus points for a Penny-farthing
Hey! Some of us have sponsored jerseys and everything.
Meh. This is less then four miles from my house (one of the few breweries to have won at least one GLBC medal every year they’ve been open), and if I go for a 10 mile ride I can get up to West 25th downtown, which has ~12 breweries on and around it.
Damn it. GABF, not GLBC. GLBC is one of the breweries on West 25th.
You are lucky you corrected that statement so quickly. I was totes ready to jump all over that blatant error, but had to pause a bit while my eyes unrolled.
Can you imagine using GLBC instead of GABF? Sheesh.
Well, GABF gives out medals and is a large beer fest. GLBC was the first brewery to open in Cleveland since prohibition.
“Buy local!”
I don’t trust businesses willing to locate in my area.
LOL
But the breweries could provide you potable water, fortified with malted barley, hops, and yeast.
I’m loving all the brewpubs and craft breweries popping up here lately.
They opened a Moeller Brew Barn within a few blocks of my house (in Troy, Ohio). It’s in an old church building and looks gorgeous inside.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/01/politics/buttigieg-campaign/index.htmlGoverning philosophy? Gay. What more do you need to know?
Buttigieg officially made the announcement during a hastily planned event on Sunday in South Bend, where the former mayor said “today is a moment of truth… the truth is the path has narrowed to a close, for our candidacy, if not for our cause.”
“So we must recognize that at this point in the race the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together,” Buttigieg said. “So tonight, I am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency.”
Buttigieg added: “We have a responsibility to concede the effect of remaining in this race any further. Our goal has always been to help unify Americans to defeat Donald Trump and to win the era for our values.”
Buttigieg’s run was historic. He is the first openly gay man to launch a competitive campaign for president, and he broke barriers by becoming the first gay candidate to earn primary delegates for a major party’s presidential nomination.
After initial success in Iowa and New Hampshire, Buttigieg’s campaign struggled to win over voters of color, a key base to the Democratic Party, which hurt his performance in Nevada and South Carolina, two states where Buttigieg finished significantly behind the race’s frontrunners.
“I’m Pete. I’m gay, and I hate Bad Orange Man. Vote for me.”
Whaddaya mean, that’s not a compelling message?
James Buchanan begs to differ.
Compelling enough that he was able to shellac the more obvious establishment candidate in two state races. Get that. Joe Biden has been runing for president since the 80’s. Pete Buttigieg won a single primary contest before he ever did. And Joe is now the presumed establishment front runner.
I wonder what it means, ultimately. How much of that is Mayor Pete considered in isolation, and how much of that is Mayor Pete as the lesser evil?
Mayor Pete is the next Obama: an empty suit with no actual national political record of consequence that voters can judge him on. That’s the play for Democrats: you find a charismatic guy or gal that excites the base but who doesn’t actually have a governing record or legislative record. Republicans could warn about Obamas real ideology from the slips and hints from his deep background, but he had no real political record of consequence to attack. He could contradict himself on the stump, be all things to all people, and the media could cover it up.
I think you’re right. He’s nicely milquetoast, he’s young so he’ll be around for the next few elections, he’s gay so you’ve got some appeal there but he’s not Rip Taylor so he doesn’t scare anyone off–more L.L.Bean than Versace. An article in the Spectator described him as “Eddie Haskell-esque”, which I think is pretty accurate.
“I mean, you got the first mainstream
African-Americangay who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”and he doesn’t talk with a lisp. ( I assume, I haven’t heard him talk)
“Yeah, he’s gay, but he’s not, you know, gay.”
If my theory is correct, he will take up a position at some company. Probably a tech company, or some other kind of “cool” company. If he’s really the next guy they’re pushing, he’ll be made a VP at a tech company right before they go public, and he will be credited as the driving force behind it. He’ll be “Veteran, Scholar, Successful Businessman.” next time around.
They just need some kind of front man who can sign the bills and send the lists of judges to the Senate. The Democrats don’t actually need to do anything, they have all the legislation they need passed. Just need a guy to be the face while the bureaucrats and judges continue the Long March.
That’s the play for Democrats: you find a charismatic guy or gal that excites the base but who doesn’t actually have a governing record or legislative record.
Buttigieg’s problem isn’t the lack of a record, its the lack of charisma. Bland, programmed white dudes who haven’t actually done anything are a dime a dozen.
The Democrats don’t actually need to do anything, they have all the legislation they need passed. Just need a guy to be the face while the bureaucrats and judges continue the Long March.
There’s a lot to this, but they are still lacking a few laws – higher (targeted) taxes, private ownership of guns outlawed, full nationalization of health care to establish the soft totalitarianism of a plenipotent public health bureaucracy. Oh, and some variation on the Green New Deal to really take micro-control of the economy.
But no question, they can do a lot with what they already have. Its just that, when you are a crypto-religious, sociopathic zealot, its never enough.
I think my own ability to detect charisma is way off, because I probably would’ve put Trump and Sanders at the bottom of the charisma pile.
To be honest, Pete was probably — I thought at least — the most thoughtful and possibly the most intelligent of the Democratic candidates who polled above .1%. I mean his responses indicated some attempt at logic and argument usually.
Not surprised he’s gone now.
I was impressed that he actually came out and said that he’s against student loan forgiveness (on the grounds that college grads earn more on average than non-grads, so it doesn’t jive with “progressive” principles to tax the latter to compensate the former).
“This is what the world needs now. Enjoy.”
In before Ted S’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUaxVQPohlU
Wrong. What the world needs now.
Pistoff has it correct, the DeShannon version is the original. Apparently Dionne Warwick turned it down the first time, although she recorded it later.
You are all wrong.
After all, he wrote the damn thing.
I know he wrote it, but according to Wikipedia (I know): “First recorded and made popular by Jackie DeShannon”
I stand corrected.
The Warwick version is the one that I grew up with.
California Bill Prohibits Stores From Selling Toys That Don’t Actively Confuse Children’s Sexuality
The following are currently on the approved toy list:
Mustache Barbie
Lightning McDragQueen
Bikini Rambo
Mr. & Mr. Potato Head
Furby
Qui-Gon Gender & Non-Binary C-3PO
Princess Charming
Iron Person & Spiderthey
“I’m proud to be a part of this historic change that will undoubtedly improve the mental health of our children,” added Governor Newsom.
At publishing time, it was reported that store owners failing to comply will be sent directly to sexuality reeducation camps.
Spiderthey
?Spiderthey, Spiderthey
Drank the water that turns spiders gay
Wears high heels, shaves their head
Dresses butch, dyes their hair red
Look out! Here comes the Spiderthey! ?
There’s already a whole spider-family. There’s Spider-woman, Spider-girl, Spider-gwen, Miles Morales (Spider-Man), Scarlet Spider, Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Spider-Ock, Silk, and then the Venom family of symbiotes (and I’m sure I’m missing at least a couple).
You’re missing the best one – Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider Ham from Earth-8311. Although, for upscale funny animal titles, Wonder Warthog > Cerebus the Aardvark > Bucky O’Hare > Usagi Yojimbo > Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew > Peter Porker and the Star imprint universe.
I was trying to stick to the main continuity, without too much multi-verse madness. And in animal titles, the true dark side of Hulu (basically) falling under the Disney umbrella is the cancellation of the Howard the Duck TV show.
When will Howard get his break! And can we bring back Duckman at the same time?
I had no idea about Howard, that sucks. Duckman is fantastic; Cornfed is a great straight man. If you haven’t read Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew: The Oz – Wonderland Wars, you should; it’s one of DC’s best miniseries.
Not enough
But Cox says there’s more to be done. “Yes, there’s an elevator for wheelchair users but it doesn’t help if it’s broken, or if paths are blocked, or if I’m sitting in the wheelchair seating in the back during a speech which I can’t hear because of my hearing impairment.”
This year marks 30 years since the Americans’ with Disability Act was enacted and while significant strides have been made to accommodate students with disabilities at colleges and universities across the country, some students and disability advocates say the law doesn’t go far enough to meet the needs of the disabled.
Spoiler alert: It’s never enough.
The ADA doesn’t work – repeal it.
*bends down to knee level to fill my water bottle*
I’m on board with that.
It helps to ensure that lots of new construction is done on ground level with only one floor to avoid elevators, thus increasing land usage and upping acreage prices. win!
Then how are we going to sue businesses for having sinks that are an inch too high?
We need to make being able bodied a human right.
Accessibility comes up a lot at work through ADA compliance for websites and through just the general mood of web design and UX these days. In our case it’s a little different because some of the content we’re responsible for is part of the partnership meeting accountability requirements established in the legislation that created it, so there’s a legal compliance issue. Generally speaking, though, while I don’t want to alienate people and while I do want to reach the greatest audience I can I also don’t want to diminish the experience of users who don’t need special accommodations or waste time designing and developing for an audience that isn’t terribly important to me. In other words, if I need to reach people who are disabled in some fashion that restricts their ability to access content I want them to see, I will react accordingly, but I’m not going to go out of my way to develop for a small audience who isn’t really interested in what I’m providing or who I don’t need solely because their handicap somehow entitles them to access.
Also, sorry, but elevators break. It happens. I’ve got all my limbs and no issues whatsoever and sometimes things happen beyond my control that make my life inconvenient or uncomfortable. That happens to everyone, handicapped or not.
You know, laws like this, they really take the sympathy out of me for their beneficiaries. I’m the type of guy who’d feel sorry for a deaf dude in a wheelchair under normal circumstances, but when you decide to cloak yourself in it to impose rules on every fucking business establishment and building in America then my mindset changes to “fuck your deaf crippled ass, stay at home and get a good amp for the teleconference”.
There seems to be a faction of people who are handicapped–and it seems more common with people born with a disability–who believes that they’re entitled to a higher standard of living than the able-bodied. So, for instance, you’ve got this guy who reasons thus: “I can’t get around without a wheelchair and a dog, and so elevators must never fail, I must never be allowed to get caught outside in bad weather, and I must always be close enough to a speaker to hear what he or she is saying clearly, without any amplification.” So, I get that he can’t walk, and that’s not a problem other people necessarily have. Fine. But, sorry chief, not being able to get close enough to someone talking to hear them clearly because a room is crowded or because you didn’t get there early enough to sit closer is a problem everyone deals with. The key is that they deal with it, or are expected to.
If only Paul Ryan had pushed one of them off a cliff instead of grandma…
Years ago, I had an encounter with the deaf activists which left me completely convinced that, if they had their way, they’d punch everyone’s eardrums out with needles. “Equality” uber alles, and there’s no true equality if someone has an ability you don’t have.
My wife occasionally came across these as a pediatric provider. The two most disturbing were a deaf couple with a deaf child who did not want their child to gain hearing through cochlear implants. Another were two progressive parents with typical hearing. They did not want their child to receive cochlear implants because their child would miss out on being a part of deaf culture.
It’s disturbing and a little frightening people would intentionally impose severe handicaps on their children.
Harrison Bergeron an instruction manual.
It’s a moral perversion that I have no patience for.
If the parents were saying that they want to child to learn how to cope with deafness in addition to having hearing (since cochlear implants can fail), I would somewhat understand their position. But that’s not what they’re saying at all. Deafness is an identity to them.
It’s disturbing and a little frightening people would intentionally impose severe handicaps on their children.
Best that they stick to doing it to themselves.
were you on Gallaudet’s campus? the Deaf Militant are not to be taken lightly.
I’ve been there. They can be royal assholes.
The deaf activist community is real, real weird, man. Some of those cats would form a deaf “ethno”-state if they could.
when a horse goes lame, we put it down in the name of being “humane”. well, i say, how humane are we for letting these poor people suffer through their miserable lives?
Raston Bot 2020
Euthanize the Crippled
disability advocates
They want more disabled people?
Well of course, then they can call for even more funding for their advocacy.
They want more disabled people?
And they are getting them. The bar for being “disabled” and needing “accommodation” has been getting lower and lower.
Boycotting a film festival isn’t enough. Those brave LGBT film makers need to fly to the Gaza Strip and proudly march in support of the Palestinians. Let them see your out and proud support.
I’m glad these brave people are finally taking a stand against the greatest, most imminent threat against LBGTQDQATEUFE rights in the Middle East: a Jewish state.
Every institution of higher education provides disability services and accommodations in its own way, with its own interpretation of laws, said Wendy Harbour, associate executive director for programs and development at the Association on Higher Education And Disability.
“A student might be disabled at one college but not another, based on how they use documentation of students’ disabilities,” Harbour said. “Or one campus may offer tutoring or special programs for students with some disabilities, and others don’t.
“There is no national training, certification or licensure for professionals providing disability services and accommodations,” she continued.
OMG!!!1
Of course there are no clear rules on what it takes to be in compliance. Where would the fun be in that?
It is way better to be able to “interpret” the rules any way you want during random audits. That way you can cut people who treat you nicely a bit of slack, while retaining the right to really punish any shit lords who don’t bow and scrape properly.
Sanders Tests Out New Mustache Styles In Preparation For Becoming Next Totalitarian Icon
Lolol
A Bit of Fry and Laurie – A word, Timothy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U7GKdbiA2c
Are we back to global warming instead of climate change or climate emergency?
latimes.com%2Fenvironment%2Fstory%2F2020-03-01%2Fmore-vineyard-climate-change-warm-winter-nixes-production-of-german-ice-wine
TRIGGER WARNING: Los Angeles Times
LA Times so bad, not even the links will show up right.
It works. If not working for you, try https://www. in front
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-03-01/more-vineyard-climate-change-warm-winter-nixes-production-of-german-ice-wine
You really don’t know how commenting on the internet works, do you?
Or, possibly, and if so deeply ironically, incentives.
look who’s linking, all you need to know leap….
?
A reference that I don’t get. Anyone?
https://mobile.twitter.com/giantgio/status/1234221102521561088
The Cultural Department presents an iconic piece depicting New Soviet Woman for the 21st Century, entitled ‘Bitches be Shoppin’‘.
New Soviet Woman
Sp they are dtf? I have it on good authority that commies have more and better sex.
They’re calling it Soviet Realism but it actually looks more like the Chinese variety. Here’s an example of what I mean.
You know, I went to a restaurant in the recent past, and the men’s room is adorned with several reproduction propaganda posters from the Cultural Revolution, featuring some smiling and jovial-looking Mao and Lin Bao together. Long story short it turns out that a family member of the people who run said restaurant is all about that Maoism, and is best friends with one of my cousins. Nice restaurant, though.
I have a friend who lives in Chicago and is an actual Socialist. He’s only ever lived in the US, and has always been middle to upper-middle class. He’s absolutely enamored of the sort of Soviet Chic thing. He’s a smart guy, but probably fifteen years ago he started forgetting that he’s kind of LARP’ing as a Wobbly and is now buying the bit. He has an IT job that wouldn’t exist in the Socialism he thinks he wants, but that’s not stopping him from loudly demanding it.
I had a friend who was at least socialist sympathetic (“Why does socialisim get a bad wrap?”), who didn’t know what the gulags were.
So, I can completely understand people who are pro-socialism and totally ignorant of history. I think they’re wrong on an ideological level, but I acknowledge that they’re operating according to a different set of moral priorities and, through ignorance, haven’t seen these principles tested in action. I can’t excuse people who really do know the history of socialism in the modern era and still advocate for it. You’re either ignoring the actual horrors committed in the name of socialism by socialist governments, or you’re working according to some horrible moral calculus whereby the suffering and death of millions of people is justifiable according to some cynical definition of “justice”.
Covert narcissist = non-woke liberal who, to make an analogy, is the child rather than the parent/Santa Claus wielding power over the children in the adults-and-children relationship
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/toxic-relationships/201901/all-you-should-know-about-covert-narcissist
The subset of non-woke liberals who want to be stepped upon rather than getting or running for jobs where they are the ones doing the jackbooting
“So, I can completely understand people who are pro-socialism and totally ignorant of history.”
But those same people know that the Nazis were evil, because they learned about it in school, or at the very least saw some movies. Not everyone is a history buff, but the whole point of publicly funded education is to produce a population that knows the important bits of history, broadly speaking.
Viking 1865: “Education is a system of indoctrination of the young.” — Noam Chomsky
So, I can completely understand people who are pro-socialism and totally ignorant of history.
I have a hard time excusing ignorance when the ignoramus is dictating how my life is going to be run.
This is actually not what worries me because these true socialists are not that common.
What *IS* very common?
THIS: “Bernie Sanders is not a radical at all. He’s simplifying advocating policies that are used regularly throughout the first world”.
This is the actual dangerous and widespread one to me.
It’s simply false too.
The only rich European country that even has a medicare-for-all style system is England (the worst system in the first world).
Contrary to beliefs exactly zero have a “free higher education” system like Bernie describes. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Sanders. His policies are Venezuela and Bolivia style. THEY ARE*NOT* Scandinavia style.
Speaking of that… (TW: Cracked, and blatant attempts at shifting the Overton window).
Have you read In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson?
Many of those who democratically put him in power ignored what the Nazis really stood for.
Yup. That’s exactly the kind of crap about modern progressives that’s nonsense I can’t stand.
Let’s think about these two systems:
1) Anyone can go to any school that they like, no matter the expense. Only stipulation is that they have to pay back the cost of it later in life at a very reasonable rate.
2) Elites who test the highest can go anywhere that like. That cost is born by all other people.
..
Which system seems more fair-minded and progressive?
System 2 is Charles Murray, right?
I’d let them know why I was leaving and never come back.
Looks like a Sex and the City promo.
No backsies
There may be plenty of second chances in life, but there are very few when it comes to voting — a bitter pill to swallow for those Californians who voted for any of the presidential candidates that dropped out before Tuesday’s statewide election.
The sudden exit from the race Sunday by Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Ind., sparked some brief interest on social media about the rules governing a possible revote. No doubt similar questions were raised by those who cast early absentee ballots for Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate change activist who left the race Saturday.
The answer, in a word: no. There’s no provision in California election law for a second chance once a ballot has been mailed or cast in person at a polling place or regional vote center.
“Once you vote, you vote,” said Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. “There’s no do-over.”
Tell me again why early voting is even allowed.
Because it allows for more ballot harvesting and shenannigans than election day rush.
There may be plenty of second chances in life, but there are very few when it comes to voting — a bitter pill to swallow for those Californians who voted for any of the presidential candidates that dropped out before Tuesday’s statewide election.
I learned my lesson on this after the last presidential election. I voted early for Gary and Dipshit. A few days after sending my vote in, dipshit goes out and endorses HRC. I will never vote early again.
California has gradually become an absentee-voting state over the last few election cycles. In the 2018 statewide primary election, 67% of all votes were cast somewhere other than an in-person polling location. Several counties are now encouraging absentee voting by sending all registered voters a ballot in the mail.
Some voters openly speculated Sunday on social media whether they could simply go to a local election site and cast a second ballot, even though they had already voted by mail. In many cases, that second ballot would cancel the first one out when elections officials entered the information into their systems. But in all cases, a voter choosing to do so could be accused of violating California election law.
“The second ballot puts a voter at risk of being accused of trying to vote twice,” Alexander said.
So unreasonable!
Questions: Are absentee ballots tracked as to individual voter? If so, isn’t it then easy to “lose” or otherwise discard incoming ballots from voters registered in the party that is out of favor in a particular state? If I know ballot #398217 was requested by Joe Smith, a registered Republican, it is probable that throwing it in the trash can removes one vote for Republican candidates. If they aren’t tracked, then who is to know if you mail it in and then show up in person to vote on election day?
This is what happens when archaeologists build a snow…woman.
https://twitter.com/bruce_jeh/status/1233896508342206465
See, there’s nothing original in the arts, she cribbed off the prehistoricals.
Hey! Where’s the “NSFW”?
There, in the snow.
Another legacy under assault
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case over whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the regulatory agency established in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, is constitutionally structured.
The case, key to the future of the CFPB, could also have broad implications on other independent federal agencies, according to experts. A decision is expected by the end of June.
The dispute turns on whether the CFPB’s director is given too much independence. Under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, which established the regulator, the agency is headed by a single director who may be removed by the president from his or her five-year term only for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.”
The CFPB also sidesteps the traditional congressional appropriations process, instead getting most of its funding from the Federal Reserve system. The funding mechanism is similar to that of other financial regulators like the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
The bureau, which was envisioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren when she was a professor at Harvard Law School, is designed to rein in abusive practices in consumer credit markets such as home mortgages and credit cards. It returned $12 billion to consumers between 2011 and 2017, but largely stopped pursuing enforcement actions under President Donald Trump.
Making government agencies accountable to elected politicians? That’s crazy.
Also- “It returned $12 billion to consumers between 2011 and 201”? It’s not as if that deserves any sort of detailed explanation. I’m perfectly willing to accept an assertion of that nature at face value. It’s easy to see why President Cartoon Villain would put the whammy on that. He hates consumers.
The bureau, which was envisioned by Sen. Elizabeth Warren when she was a professor at Harvard Law School, is designed to rein in abusive practices in consumer credit markets such as home mortgages and credit cards.
Err, it was designed, and pretty obviously so, to be an government agency under the complete control of the Deep State that would exert tremendous power over the financial industry, and by extension, over the rest of the economy.
The pretext was that it would rein in “abusive practices”. In reality, it was designed to engage in abusive practices.
Try not to confuse the two.
i visited my local gun shop last Friday to complete my NFA paperwork using the SilencerShop kiosk (which is super convenient BTW). two other guys lined up behind me. i didn’t inquire but i assume that Virginia’s gun control push is selling suppressors like hotcakes. pulling demand forward and getting 1st-time wafflers off the fence. i’d like to be in AG Herring’s office when he receives the first big batch of CLEO notifications. “notifications”, not sign-offs.
Nice. What did you get?
I have a YHM Resonator K sitting in silencer jail right now. Seems like those kiosks in my busy LGS keep pretty busy.
CGS Mod9. it checked every requirement: user serviceable, performance, rated for 300BLK subsonic. price and included booster were icing on the cake.
pulling demand forward and getting 1st-time wafflers off the fence.
Not suppressor related, but I bought (and subsequently lost in a boating accident) my AR specifically because of this. Wasn’t planning on getting one for a while, made it a priority to get when they started talking seriously about banning it.
I didn’t even consider non-NFA ARs! I bet those are flying off shelves (and into rivers) all across the state.
I think I’m one of those wafflers. Fortunately, AZ isn’t planning anything stupid, but we’re never more than one election away. I should probably look into the paperwork and get that going. Unfortunately, a silencer would push back my acquisition of a combat shotgun (which is next in the queue).
Decisions, decisions.
YMMV, but I wholeheartedly endorse the full size Mossberg 500. Mine was .12 gauge, with extended 8 round magazine and (IIRC) a 20” barrel; to which I added a more comfortable stock/grip. A broken shoulder in 2000 rendered the .12 too painful to play with. I’m intrigued by those double magazine bullpup thingamajigs but the simplicity of the 500 series is hard to beat.
I’m a semi-auto guy, not a pump guy, when it comes to shotguns.
Will check out SilencerShop kiosks.
the advent of NFA trusts and, in response, ATF’s rule 41F simplified the process. SilencerShop has 5 or 6 kiosks around Phoenix, 2 in Tucson, a couple others sprinkled randomly around your state. their kiosk is for fingerprinting.
the big change occurred in 2016. that change being that CLEOs no longer have to sign-off.
eliminating the requirement for certification signed by the CLEO.
https://www.atf.gov/rules-and-regulations/final-rule-41f-background-checks-responsible-persons-effective-july-13
I’m not much for weekend activities and Friday ended on a cliffhanger, how is Hayekexplosives doing?
She was discharged with an idea of what the issue was.
Thanks, being discharged, good. only ideas of the issue, not so good.
Based on comments it provided her enough information she thinks she can work around the problem going forward.
Dealing with the French: Frost versus Barnier, Bacon versus Descartes
https://briefingsforbritain.co.uk/dealing-with-the-french-frost-versus-barnier-bacon-versus-descartes/
Over the centuries, the British and French have found each other particularly difficult to negotiate with, whether as enemies or friends—or something in between. There are deep intellectual and cultural differences that go back centuries and show little sign of changing.
“This is what the world needs now. Enjoy.”
Nice song selection, Sloop,
Here is another one by the same band, wherein they claim
“Some Swiss junkie in Turin, ripped me off for my cash.”
Is nothing sacred?
/Expecting two narrowed gazes.
*narrows gaze*
Did one. Who wants to go second?
And now another fine opportunity for Steve Smith’s advice column.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/03/boyfriend-adult-videos-sex-advice.html
Dear How to Do It,
My boyfriend just asked me if he could send me snippets of porn he watches to show me what he wants me to do to him in bed. I feel slighted by this, because I already try to do things that I would otherwise not do already to keep him happy. What should I do? Say yes and see what he sends me, or set a boundary now to make him know my limits sexually? He’s already pushing anal sex, which I would do to make him happy, but it’s the least attractive thing to do in bed to me thanks to surgery I had. I can only imagine what’s in these other clips.
I could never understand the appeal of anal to straight guys. Is it zero risk of pregnancy?
Me neither.
pressure? lure of the forbidden? exploring new territory?
Bukkake FTW!
When the street art goes live! Digital artist Zach King’s incredible tour de force!
https://twitter.com/AgBioWorld/status/1234106701227360257
OK, that was cool.
Fuck you, plebs!
The New York law banning so-called single-use plastic bags took effect Sunday, with some customers balking at the new rules.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office celebrated the law with a graphic reading “buh bye.”
“Sending a big farewell to single-use plastic bags,” the mayor’s office wrote. “We’ve moved on to eco-friendly reusable bags and we’re not looking back.”
“We’ll decide what’s in your best interest. Now shut the fuck up,” they explained.
Doug Stanhope was right. The fact that there weren’t 50,000 people outside the Gov’s mansion, booing and throwing batteries shames us all.
Why batteries?
l0b0t just outed xerself as an Iggles fan.
Because darts and road flares are for football hooligans?
We are all slaves by our own choosing.
They lie about big things, and they lie about small things.
“single-use plastic bags”
Every single person I know has a bunch of those plastic bags wadded up in a drawer or under the kitchen sink to be used when you need a small bag for any number of tasks.
My wife saves them all. We reuse them for everything including trash bags.
Same here. We have piles of them. Periodically, I throw a pile away or our house would start getting a definite hoarder vibe.
My guess is we re-use around one a day, on average. Generally for picking up dog shit. Also for small trash can liners or just bagging something for transport.
Gotta check for small holes, though, especially for poo.
Menards bags are superior to all other bags.
the Urban Society of Dog Walkers is going to have him whacked.
They banned them instead of just taxing them?
Plastic is banned. Municipalities may choose to offer paper bags for a 5-cent tax that goes into the maw of the state treasury.
“ageless musician Lou Reed”
I managed to score tickets for his upcoming show at the Xcel Energy Center next month!
reanimated corpse tour?
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last year that going without plastic bags will be a “minor inconvenience” compared to the devastating impact of plastic pollution. State figures estimate that New Yorkers now use 23 billion single-use plastic bags each year.
A minor inconvenience to a guy who probably never sets foot in a grocery store because he has a New York State Trooper do his shopping.
Again, Arizona FTW! I still have a stack of the 10 cent reusables from Cali, don’t need them here….
and Gas is cheap
NYC is the only place I lived where I actually where I needed bags. Because I have to carry that shit down the street to where I live. I remember having to carefully shop for groceries based on what I could carry.
Living in the burbs, I just put stuff directly in the car from my shopping cart. I don’t really need them.
Let’s play a game:
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Dammit
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Okay, I proofread the damned thing last time.
The game is “Pornhub or professional journalism?”
(picture is SFW unless dead animals would get you in trouble)
Professional Journalism. For sure.
Ozzy touring with the USO?! fuck yeah!
More stimulus. The answer is always more stimulus.
But questions remain about how much policymakers can really do to mitigate the coronavirus shock to the economy and markets — raising the possibility that any stabilization in risky assets will be short-lived. S&P 500 futures are now trading in the red.
“While we expect the policy cavalry to arrive soon, central bank easing may have a more limited ability to address this type of real economic shock,” Zach Pandl and Kamakshya Trivedi of Goldman Sachs told clients on Sunday.
Put another way by Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTM, a currency broker: Even if the Fed cut interest rates to zero, the European Central Bank pushed interest rates further into negative territory and the Bank of Japan stepped up monetary stimulus, it would do little to restore public confidence. The problem isn’t access to cheap money, but the growing health crisis.
“Will these measures encourage you to buy a new [apartment], a new car or even a new iPhone? … Are you likely to consider expanding your business given the cheap liquidity? Most likely, the answer is no,” he said Monday.
Central banks also have far less ammunition to deploy than they did a decade ago. Interest rates remain at or near record lows, and the balance sheets of many central banks remain swollen from years of bond purchases. The ECB and BOJ might have to get creative — an experiment that would unfold in real time.
I can hardly wait.
Seems like the markets are stabilizing a bit today.
Don’t worry, the press will take care of that. They had at least 12 segments on corona virus on Today while we were getting the kiddies out. I’ve never seen them do more than 2 or three on any given subject.
They are absolutely over the moon to have something that they can point to and blame Trump.
(There was even an article on Friday blaming Trump for “imagining” how the democrats might try to use the corona virus against him. Now, you have to have some special powers of delusion to watch the Democrats spend a week and a half blaming Trump for the coronavirus response – on that has not even happened yet- and then go out and write an article calling Trump paranoid because he “imagines” that the democrats might use the virus against him. )
That can only go on so long though. Either coronavirus is a “bust” — which it may well be given their apocalyptic standards — or it’s just a regular thing we deal with and move on. When we do, the stock market will correct a bit.
Don’t worry, the press will take care of that. They had at least 12 segments on corona virus on Today while we were getting the kiddies out
This is why i don’t take the criticism of Trump calling it a conspiracy theory seriously. Trump was rightly pointing out what many of these people have said in private, that the widespread panic being inflamed by the media is a last ditch effort to try to hurt Trump.
Trump was praising negative interest rates the other day. WTH? Surely he learned about moral hazard at Wharton.
I’m not sure i see the morla hazard link between negative interest rates. Negative Interest rates is just another form of taxation/ social engineering to push spending.
Someone with a severely 90s haircut just walked through the office. Looked like Joey from Full House.
Business in the front, party in the back?
Trump was praising negative interest rates the other day. WTH? Surely he learned about moral hazard at Wharton.
The interest rate thing is probably my biggest objection to him. He has always been on the borrowers’ side, so he apparently thinks low rates are everywhere and always good for everyone. He has made statements bout refinancing the national debt while rates are low.
I’m not sure that would work as well as he seems to think.