“How much can you really know about yourself if you’ve never been punched in the face?”
Why Aren’t There More Fight Clubs for Women?
On May 26, police were called about a noise complaint on a residential street in Berea, Ohio, where they discovered what appeared to be an abandoned boxing ring constructed of milk crates, plastic wrap, and driveway markers in a backyard belonging to a man who hadn’t realized it was there at all. Also on the scene were stray beer cans, fighting gloves, and a styrofoam box of nachos. Fifteen people had already fled by the time police showed up that night, apart from one man who informed them he was there to see a match inspired by Streetbeefs, a backyard mixed martial arts fight club and YouTube channel. In the end, five men who attended the event were charged with trespassing.
Many of the fight clubs you can find across the country seem as sad and distinctly male as a styrofoam box of nachos. At the height of the pandemic, “Rumble in the Bronx,” a fight club in New York City, got busted for convening more than 200 people in a warehouse for a boxing match. Its 10 organizers—again, all men—were charged with unlawful assembly, health and alcohol violations, and participating in a prohibited combative sport. A year later, a group of Fort Collins, Colorado, teenagers began operating a fight club whose existence was communicated about on Snapchat. Some kids were caught and questioned by police, but no arrests for fighting were made because no member ever fessed up.
“Men enjoy this, we must take it from them.”
But I can answer this question.
a) Not that many women want to get punched in the face.
b) Transwomen would be “welcome” to be “inclusive” and “kind” and they would beat you all to death.
c) The lesbians, so used to perpetuating and receiving domestic abuse, would get all honry and stink up the place.
MANSPLAINED! BOO-YAH!
The Most Beautiful Goat In Lithuania
The Most Beautiful Goat in Saudi Arabia
Scandals in the Camel beauty pageant world.
Camels enhanced with Botox barred from Saudi beauty contest
Saudi authorities have carried out their biggest crackdown on camel beauty contestants, disqualifying more than 40 “enhanced” camels from the annual pageant, according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
The camels disqualified in the competition, at the King Abdulaziz camel festival, were judged to have received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups.
The popular festival, which started this month, invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for about $66m in prize money.
Botox injections, facelifts and other cosmetic alterations to make the camels more attractive are strictly prohibited. Jurors decide the winner based on the shape of the animals’ heads, necks, humps, dress, and postures.
Judges at the month-long festival, held in the desert north-east of the Saudi capital, Riyadh, are escalating their clampdown on artificially enhanced camels, the official news agency reported, using “specialised and advanced” technology to detect tampering.
This year, the authorities discovered dozens of breeders had stretched out the lips and noses of camels, used hormones to boost the animals’ muscles, injected heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger, inflated body parts with rubber bands, and used fillers to relax their faces.
Mmm… Stalker songs…
A sort of sad beta one.
Matthew Sweet knows you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
That real 80s energy of masterbation, regret, and probably more masterbation later on.
This one is just a “Yikes.”
If you go a million miles away, I’ll track you down, girl
The Most Beautiful Goat in Saudi Arabia??
I thought it was FetterLump.
Now you know why they wear veils.
I feel like there’s joke about the Welsh and Australians
Umm, I have a question…
I thought it was Scots? That, or something something the popularity of Wellingtons in Wyoming.
The Scots bult a bridge. So they get a pass on the sheep fucking jokes.
I had a Scottish grad student teaching a breakout/homework class in engineering.
He explained to us in detail how to corner a sheep into facing a fence or rocky outcrop so that it had no choice but to back up onto, uh, you know.
Camel beauty pageant, eh?
Any contestants besides Chuck Schumer and Jerold Nadler?
That’s no joke.
After the nightmare fuel goat pics, I think I won’t click on the stretched out body part camels link.
I thought this was snark – I should have known better.
Hornry FTW.
That area is a couple of suburbs over from me. I can see a fight club there from the locals, not the college kids.
I think “Fight Club” would be improved as a romantic comedy. Like Come on the narrator should be totally dating Marla. Two weirdos, they were meant to be together.
It wasn’t?
And check out Choke.
Meh, I’ve read a phone book’s worth of Palaniuk.
I was surprised when he came out as gay. Not because I didn’t suspect him,I just assumed everybody knew he was gay so seeing him come out was odd.
Why Aren’t There More Fight Clubs for Women?
I thought it was mud wrestling.
“Many of the fight clubs you can find across the country seem as sad and distinctly male as a styrofoam box of nachos”
What is wrong with this person! A styrofoam box of nachos is AWESOME.
Jezzies hate fun. It’s one of the first requirements on the job application form.
Followed by a lack of critical thinking.
Mud? Not Jello?
Welcome to the goat beauty contest in Remygala, Lithuania, a village of about 1,700 people.
This year’s winner is a 16-year-old ruminant named Demyte, which means “little spot.”
Damn shame. Sixteen is a little old for OMWC. From what I hear, he’s really into kids.
Booo-Hissssss! Wild Applause!!! Booooo – Hisssssss! Wild appluase!!!!
I’m so confused right now.
I suddenly desire a Shish Kebab.
I had a job working med food. Worst job ever. 8 hours putting chicken on sticks. Thank Yawheh they hired some Mexican chick to do my job.
Are you making some sort of OMWC and spit roasting joke?
Ruminants are cool because they can use cud as lubricant.
Durka durka Mohammad jihad.
The most important thing: He asked all Muslims around the world to carry Jihad by their souls; to fight and be martyrs for Al-Aqsa.
He wants Muslims to fight against the Jews, starting with Muslims who live in the countries surrounding Israel: Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt (but also other countries), to go to the borders and try to enter, each by his own means. He said: This is the time for Jihad to be applied on the ground rather than just in theory. He asked the Mujahedeen to go in long caravans to spell their blood on the land of Palestine.
These are his final words:
Funds are important but today we are asking for your blood and souls [to be sacrificed for Palestine]
If jihadis start something in the US, do you think the far left would join in? If so, would the Dems finally have to arrest them?
If jihadis start something in the US the Brandon regime and the left will blame “white-supremacy.”
I heard on the radio the other day, some Biden official actually said we need to be vigilant for Islamists and white supremacists who would take advantage of the current chaos.
You are probably right. It’s like when Pelosi et al blamed “hate crimes” against Asians on white supremacy despite lots of video evidence to the contrary.
And why not, it’s been working with anti-semitism, even though that’s mostly being fomented in the US by The Squad and their ilk.
We will find out Friday. I believe the support for Palestine will grow in the Democrat party even after attacks on American soil, and Democrats will crash and burn harder than American Nazis in WWII.
Last week there were polls showing the public trusted Republicans much more than Dems on a bunch of issues such as immigration, crime, and the economy. Republicans have always been seen as better on national security. The Dems have made their bed and it’s getting late.
This.
Seeing a real split. Some Dems are clearly supporting the terrorists, others are desperately wishing the base would knock it off with the commie-fueled protests in every city across America.
People tend to have a hierarchy of loyalties, and it turns out Jewish folks put their religion and loyalty to Israel above their loyalty to wokeness. The non-Jews are still putting wokeness first. This is another “eating their own” moment.
Bernie Sanders begs to disagree.
The democratic party is now and has always been totally in the tank for Israel. Nothing will change that. Their lunatic fringe influences them on some things, but this aint one of them.
I dunno, dude. Plenty of American Jews make a big point of distancing themselves from Israel.
And they know it.
The second day of the attacks Squeaky was on FOX in a state of sheer panic.
*Squeaky – the only attractive liberal commentator, Jessica Tarlov
Based on the BLM/DSA/Antifa gatherings last weekend? Yes. They’re tout it as “decolonization”.
They’d, not they’re. Apparently I shouldn’t think and type. (dumbass me)
So, it’s a day ending in “y”?
I’ve been hearing about this stuff all my life.
bingo.
Speaking of Botoxed camels… there is some sort of Demi Moore story which pops up on the fringe of CNN(?) stories I have read. She looks like a bizarre ventriloquist’s dummy.
I just saw Rob Lowe in some diet food commercial and thought, “This guy needs to sue his plastic surgeon.” He looks like a raccoon.
I dunno, I think he looks good. If he would just stop wearing his wife’s beaded jewelry, though…
I dunno. He’s got some serious uncanny valley going on.
When he was young… O. M. G.
“Some kids were caught and questioned by police, but no arrests for fighting were made because no member ever fessed up.”
This warms my heart. There is hope for America after all.
What would they be arrested for, anyway? Two dudes voluntarily decide to punch each other, what law has been broken?
Apparently “unlawful assembly”. See deranged rant below.
Two dudes voluntarily decide to punch each other, what law has been broken?
Check your state laws.
Did the local boxing commission get to wet their beak from the gate receipts? No competition allowed.
In high school me and another kid decided to essentially stage a fight during lunch to see how quick it would get broken up. It gathered a crowd so quickly that teachers couldn’t break it up. When hauled to the principal’s office, they weren’t buying that we were just goofing and we both ended up suspended for 2 days.
Listening to Centerfold, it occurs to me that I have heard that song a billion times on speakers that are not so good. It’s very different coming out of some actual good speakers.
That being said, I did not know there was a member of the band with the nickname ‘Magic Dick’.
The things I learn.
Magic Dick’s english cousin is Spotted Dick.
Scurvy is a nasty disease.
Fight clubs for women are called roller derby.
True. I liked flat track roller derby at a nearby sports center. Tall cans!
like this?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088128/mediaviewer/rm474059008
This year, the authorities discovered dozens of breeders had stretched out the lips and noses of camels, used hormones to boost the animals’ muscles, injected heads and lips with Botox to make them bigger, inflated body parts with rubber bands, and used fillers to relax their faces.
Nothing about shrinking the toes, I see.
Was talking with a friend of mine a little bit ago.
Israelis should let the Palestinians go and give them licenses to operate casinos. Then this whole mess would be solved.
This will be Trump’s plan in 10… 9… 8…
And tax-free cigarettes. I like it.
Camels!
In high school I drove with a friend from California to Utah to go skiing. The only two tapes we had were J. Geils Band and Rick Springfield. I’ve heard enough of those to last a lifetime.
Did you catch the Night Ranger links the other day?
You can still rock in America!
I still like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OgZqOafUrc
But make sure you keep paying your taxes because the gov’t is here to help.
John Kirby says he has no information on an airlift of U.S. citizens from Israel.
Kirby continues to advise Americans who want to leave Israel to take a commercial flight, even as all U.S. airlines have suspended flights from Israel’s main airport.
I suppose it is a slight improvement than asking them to go to Hamas to process their visas like the folks had to with the Taliban.
It’s just incredible the Biden administration can’t get this done. It’s especially embarrassing given other countries (hello Mexico) are getting it done.
I can only assume they simply:
Do.
Not.
Care.
Quite likely because most of the Admin staffers appear to be DSA or left of it (based on their actions). Why piss off your base?
Trump would have gone ballistic, had it happened at all.
There are advantages to appearing crazy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMqddRGVBY ?
I think the Biden admin would love nothing more than dead Americans at the hands of Hamas.
“Superman” was the go-to for choir dudes in high school to learn minor sixths.
Minor six? Horning in on OMWC territory?
This is the Superman song that I’m familiar with.
Laurie Anderson – O Superman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3dRhlHT908&ab_channel=HuskerDu-Topic
Have to add the Donovan version too…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsX2FhBf9nY
As always The Kinks have the best song.
The creepiest stalker song ever. A sweet song about stalking a stripper.
https://youtu.be/jYn41PerLok?feature=shared
That’s not The Ballad of Chasey Lain.
I fondly remember when porn stars were hot.
Don’t look at her after pictures.
Don’t do meth, kids.
Both are good advice.
My wife is absolutely adamant that this wouldn’t be anywhere near as well received if it were gender swapped.
Hang All Over You.
“I never knew you city girls could fight”
Hochul has been on the media saying how there will be beefed up security at synagogues and yeshivas to ward off the threat from… the far right and neo nazis.
In all this chaos and terribleness, it has been amusing to see the left tying themselves in knots over this.
Let me guess — all those pre-Vatican II favoring Catholics the FBI has been tracking, right? (eyeroll)
Is this a cynical ploy or is she really that dumb?
Embrace the power of “and”.
It should also be pointed out that she and Andy Cuomo both hated the Haredi who make up a significant portion of New York’s Jewish population and who disproportionately rebelled against the evils of lockdown.
To be fair – Islamic Jihadists tend to lean pretty hard to the religious right.
And “neo nazi” is pretty spot-on.
Re: The Fight Clubs for Women story — I expect it is the default reaction around here… but “arrested for unlawful assembly” pisses me right off. People should have the right to peaceably assemble as they see fit, assholes. Permits should only be for public land and to establish a schedule / pay for resources consumed. If 2000 people decide to get together in someone’s yard and don’t trigger a noise complaint, fuck you. Leave them alone. If 2000 people all stand on a sidewalk and leave room for others to walk by. Fuck you, leave them alone. If 40000 people decide to get together and protest your stupid policies… FUCK YOU, LEAVE THEM ALONE!
Not as infuriating as “resisting arrest” when there’s no actual arrest (with “Stop resisting!” yellled a lot I expect), but right up there.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Would be nice if some one read that old thing every now and then
Naw, lost in Alexandria.
Really though, does the ACLU still publish that? They’re credited on my little paperback copy of unknown vintage.
Philip Morris is credited on the several copies I have.
The peaceably to assembly for redress of grievances part was recently de facto excised, with no discernable opposition from SCOTUS.
Worse than the Cosa Nostra
“I did the calculation, bought what would have sold in a month and sent it in,” Mrdeza says. “And it sold out in like a day.”
He was hooked. He started selling more hair and beauty products on Amazon. Soon that part-time hustle became his full-time business, Top Shelf Brands. Within a couple of years, Mrdeza had more than 40 employees, ran four warehouses and was bringing in $10 million in revenue, he says.
“It was thriving, for sure,” Mrdeza says. “We were all in.”
None of it lasted. Today, Top Shelf Brands is bankrupt, its employees laid off and its warehouses shuttered. It’s one of an untold number of third-party Amazon merchants that cashed in and then lost it all. And it serves as an illustration of their precarious position on Amazon, where everything can change from one day to the next.
Mrdeza’s story is at the heart of a lawsuit that the Federal Trade Commission brought against Amazon in September. The suit, which was joined by 17 state attorneys general, alleges the company illegally used its monopoly power to stamp out rivals, which ultimately hurts consumers. The FTC says Amazon punishes third-party sellers that offer lower prices on other sites, strong-arms them into using its shipping service and hikes up fees indiscriminately.
William Kovacic, a law professor at George Washington University and a former chair of the FTC, says the commission’s case is similar to those brought against railroad monopolies a century ago.
“There were long-standing concerns about how a company that owns a crucial asset can impose terms, conditions or restraints on third parties who also use that asset,” Kovacic says. “So it’s an older idea that’s new again.”
Robber barons walk among us.
I’m not sure how anybody can pretend to be surprised by this. “Excess” profits have always been subject to competitive poaching.
STEVE SMITH sighting.
It’s story time y’all! On Sunday, October 8, 2023, Stetson Tyler and I took the Narrow Gauge train ride from Durango to Silverton. After leaving Silverton and heading back to Durango, I asked Stetson to help me look for elk in the mountains . As we are passing by the mountains, Stetson sees something moving and then says I think it’s Bigfoot. Brandon, the guy sitting next to Stetson on the train grabs his phone and starts recording. Meanwhile I am trying to get a photo on my camera. Below is the video Brandon @bt92.travels got and the photos I took. Y’all, out of the hundreds of people on the train, three or four of us actually saw, as Stetson says in the video , the ever elusive creature Bigfoot! I don’t know about y’all but We Believe!!
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS HAVE LOCOMOTION READY FOR TUNNELS!
Ooooh. Good songs.
One of my crushes in HS ended up stripping, so I can relate.
That whole Matthew Sweet album is excellent.
Paint stripping is an honorable skill. What are you trying to say?
Give him a chance — he’ll come back with the unvarnished truth (or a primer on high school longing…)
Don’t think you can just brush off my angst.
especially with all that glitter on it.
He’ll try and white wash the issue.
Pics?
Way back in time, I worked in printing (offset lithography). Lithographic plates were made by exposing them to intense light through lithographic negatives. The plates were then developed so they would carry ink. Go google if you want the details.
Part of the process was taking lots of little bits of lithographic negatives; taping them to the back of opaque sheets of paper; then cutting out the parts that needed to be exposed on the plate. This process was called “masking” or “stripping”. So, I did introduce myself as a stripper from time to time.
Haha!
Yeah, my buddy started in that job, too. And did the same thing at the bar when chicks asked him what he did for a living!
Stacy Mitchell researches corporate power as the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. She has spent years studying Amazon’s business model and has worked with dozens of sellers. Mitchell supports not only the FTC’s lawsuit but also a larger breakup of Amazon. She says more competition would make the company strive to be better.
“The idea of a breakup isn’t to break Amazon as a convenient way to shop, but rather to save Amazon from itself,” Mitchell says. “Otherwise, we’re just going to see a diminishing of our experience online. … When you have this kind of monopoly power, you don’t have to work for it.”
Right. Those warehouses just run themselves.
This is so stupid. They aren’t even the biggest retailer, Walmart still does almost twice their volume. There is no monopoly.
They define monopoly by picking a narrow definition that only targets a single company they hate. “The biggest online only retailer, except for warehouses and headquarters and other stuff” seems to be the definition used to try to gut Amazon.
Except Amazon has brick and mortar stores too.
where they discovered what appeared to be an abandoned boxing ring constructed of milk crates, plastic wrap, and driveway markers in a backyard belonging to a man who hadn’t realized it was there at all.
I wonder what size his backyard is and/or if it is heavily wooded.
That area has the chance to be wooded, there is a large Metropark that’s in the neighborhood. Most of the back yards would be small, though there are some that butt up against the parks that are large.
I’m back!
I’ve previously mentioned how great Practical Shooting is for one’s mind. At the match I realized that In addition to enhanced reflexes and general death-bringing ability, I’ve obtained a new super power:
I can see bullets.
When I first started the refereeing gig, I was told that if there’s only one bullet hole in the target, it’s never a perfect double unless you saw the second bullet go through the hole. I thought that was a joke. It isn’t.
I can’t see everyshot, the angle needs to be in a fairly narrow range, and even then I only see about 20% of them, but it’s freaky as fuck.
Like .45s or 5.56?
.45, .40, 9mm, 10mm and .38 super.
The trick is the bullet has to be going downrange without a whole lot of transverse motion. The target that it was easiest to do on was ~15 yards away and I stood about a foot and a half to the side of the bore axis of the gun.
Welcome back
Best Nats finish Ever! Above 400th place!
Congrats!
*Applauds
Congratulations! Any celebrity DQ stories?
None that I witnessed. But two of the Prod supersquad DQ’d, so I beat Sal Luna in a match!
Actually, we were their last stage so they weren’t all that impressive (their p[laces had pretty much been set, no need to reach). KC Eusebio otoh was amazing.
Look at Neo over here.
Argh… Just a hair too slow
Wild. The only ones I’ve ever seen were .44 Special. More like mortar rounds.
Whoa.
I was thinking about using that for this weeks column.
Shooting at a dark background with the sun at your back you can see all bullets. Faster rifle bullets need more flight time for you to see them, but it is possible.
If you watch rifle bullets at long ranges you can see the coriolis effect on the bullet, both from the rotation of the earth and the rotation of the bullet from the rifling. Now that is bizarre to see.
I have a few photos of me shooting that also caught the bullet in flight. It’s pretty cool.
Some good news for a change:
Ad firm tied to Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney fiasco fires top execs in shakeup
A California marketing firm linked to Bud Light’s disastrous tie-up with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has fired several top executives as part of a major restructuring, The Post has learned.
San Mateo-based Captiv8 — which canned 13 staffers in July after top brass returned from a lavish junket to the French Riviera, as The Post reported — axed 30 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce, in the latest round of layoffs, multiple sources told The Post.
The company boasts a database of more than 1 million influencers on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter and counts McDonald’s, Disney, Toyota, Nordstrom, Macy’s and OceanSpray among its clients.
Sounds like they’re…
(puts on sunglasses)
… losing influence.
Funny. After all the outrage and preening I wanted to see who signed. Despite about 5 minutes of searching the organizations’s names have disappeared more quickly than mentions of the dead in Hawaii.
Harvard Student Groups Face Intense Backlash for Statement Calling Israel ‘Entirely Responsible’ for Hamas Attack
Suddenly Fortune 100 CEOs and white shoe law firms want to know who to hire.
I saw the list briefly on teevee and it mostly a parade of “x Department Students for Palestine”.
The Harvard law review editor just lost a six figure job at at a white shoe firm. Die by the woke.
Misremembering or in addition to this one?
https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/nyu-law-school-student-government-president-defends-hamas/
Misremembering. My bad was reading an article about all the woke Harvard students distancing themselves from their pro-Hamas statements.
Hey, but it’s fixed now. Thanks perpetual beta software!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/22-year-old-firefox-tooltip-bug-fixed-in-a-few-lines-offering-hope-to-us-all/
Well they did issue a denial. And this in no way aids the Biden administration’s Iran policy.
U.S. intelligence indicates Iranian officials surprised by Hamas attack on Israel
They stumbled on this information while following a lead on Trump having Iranian hookers piss on a bed.
Hey, Israeli intelligence appears to have been surprised too! Maybe the real question is which intel agency wasn’t?
My favorite REM song, which is adjacent on the album to Superman, IIRC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBpDrDE6RrQ
#2 thru whatever is everything off Chronic Town/Murmur/Reckoning.
If I hadnt been vetoed, my daughter would have been named after the subtitle to Time After Time.
That’s one of my favorites too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yN5ZboIT-o&list=OLAK5uy_nfDWuoaK2AVixLJRM8M0IMHoUG2NpVlps
The most murmury of all murmury REM lyrics. And its a great song.
Aagh! Noisy cats! 💘 😀🎵
Received that on a mixed tape once. Nothing ever came of it but solid musial suggestions.
*musical
**sorry, Stan
Early REM is the best REM. I used to think Green was the last really good album but I just listened to it the other day and now I think it might be the first kind of shitty album.
I really don’t listen to much after Fables.
Not a bad call.
Life’s Rich Pageant was where I started and still my favorite. Although I knew some of the earlier stuff from the radio and eventually completed my collection.
Green was the tour I saw. I like one song off that album. And one off Out of Time and then gave up.
Its the first truly shitty one. Its also the last one I owned.
I gave up on U2 and REM at about the same time.
I saved me from dealing with the horrible 90s decline of both of them.
Green was probably 1 album too many from REM. I stopped with Joshua Tree with U2.
This was about the time my new music obsession switched to King’s X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGzmEmjKL-w&list=OLAK5uy_lkMO8ahTqAZ13CbzuwapNNPuJCtw2oWBs
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XLTX-OenB_M/VaAVfGk99DI/AAAAAAAAMEA/s0b-PJ1N2Wg/s880/billy-and-the-boingers-bootleg-3b.jpg
FKA Death Tongue
One summer, drunk teenaged Tres walked into the house, turned on IRS Cutting Edge on MTV, and heard “Radio Free Europe”
Mind. Blown.
I saw REM on the Green tour. Man, not a good show, it proved that rock can be boring.
Murmur is damn good though. Need to do some listening to that.
Great song. Early REM was excellent.
Driver 8 was played on the recent oldie program the other day. “I piloted a song in a plane like that one”? Gorgeous.
Heh, now I sound like the NR [a]Political Beats podcast.
I used to put on Fables late in my trip when I was driving ATL to LOU to try to time it so that Driver 8 would be playing as I drove under the power line floaters near the small airport near my parents’ house.
I wouldn’t have heard about the Go-Tell Crusade or Southern Crescent.
*without it
One of their best.
There’s one or two REM songs I like — but most of the time it just puts me to sleep.
I have fond memories of “Night Swimming”. Probably not one of REMs top 10s but it helped me swim with naked women. So thank Stipes.
We probably disagree on everything but he caused women to want to go skinny dipping, so thank him and that penny I spent on that album.
TOK asked: “ If jihadis start something in the US, do you think the far left would join in? “
I tuned in to local lefty radio here yesterday afternoon on a drive across town and they had on some chick (didn’t stick around long enough to find out what org she represented) who said that any Israeli that was killed on the weekend deserved what they got. I’m not even exaggerating, she went on a long rant about “raver girls who party next to a an open air prison” and that they were treated like they should be. I have zero doubt in my mind if this murder loving lefty had the chance she would cheer on the same thing here to her political enemies.
And I should add that she very much was explicit to couch it in racial terms. It was the “white European settlers and interlopers” against the noble native Arabs. She was as ignorant as she was despicable, but in no way is she that atypical of the far left.
Sure, toots. Cause there’s no record of Jews in that area before 1948.
Except for a few people following some Jewish cult leader back around 30 AD.
No other Jews since.
And he wasn’t married.
Take it up with Lord Balfour?
Not at all atypical. Every college campus in the country is thick with that type. That is where they learn to talk like that. From the looks of it they outnumbered the celebrating Palis at all those “protests” last weekend.
What I want to know is do these types think the jihadis are going to stop at Jews? Your BLM sticker and “anarchy” symbols aren’t going to protect you.
You silly American, with your degenerate ways… Oh, sorry, that is what you are talking about.
Carry on.
Ignorant as hell. How many Israeli Jews among the dead are Mizrahi? Beta Israel?
Another good Stalker Song.
/and its emo enough that men may grow actual ovaries
Stalker Song
I always liked the video version of Girlfriend.
Not surprisingly, I also like Deltron3030.
So… I’m back. Tomb Raider got injured Saturday night by Kaiser The Beast who, in his joy to see her, knocked her down with a leap at her. Hit her head on the bricks and got a concussion. Trip to the ER. While I’m in her room, one of the docs who treated and was close with SP in her final days walked by and did a double-take when he saw me. Waved me out of the room, then observed, “You seem to be hell on women.”
Legit LOL.
Sounds like TR is ok.
Agreed. Hopefully she won’t think all animals are bad lads now.
“You again? With another? I hoped you warned her.”
“Did you get the warranty this time?”
Aww. Hope she feels better soon.
Sounds like a good doc👍
Imagineering the future of warfare
Army scientists and engineers are developing ways to reuse water, power devices without generators, and fight in the littorals all while remembering that nature always has a say in the outcome of any military operation.
Much of that work is being done at the Army’s Engineer Research Development Center, under the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which brought a group of scientists to the annual Association of the U.S. Army Meeting and Exposition here Monday.
As the service adds more systems, technology and especially digital electronic equipment to its portfolio, deployed units face serious challenges to powering all that gear. Generators work, but they’re heavy, bulky and most require another fuel source to create electrical power.
Enter the H2Rescue vehicle. It’s an emergency vehicle that runs on hydrogen-powered fuel cells that can generate 25kw of power, replacing generators. The vehicle can travel 1,500 miles with one tank of fuel.
Not only does that cut the number of generators, said Nicholas Josefik, with the development center’s Construction Engineer Laboratory, it also means a reduced need for technicians to set up and maintain extensive generator-run power systems.
Coming soon to a theater of war near you.
Hydrogen containment is non-trivial… I’m curious how they squared that little circle.
Also assuming that (like the Navy alternate jet fuel processing talked about a couple of years back) the best way to top the thing off will be a nuclear carrier well off the coast. I understand the weight might be better, but I think they’d be well off looking at the microreactors if they can fit on a truck and all.
There’s also the issue of how to store it without the enemy blowing up Hydrogen fuel tanks.
Look at it wrong and it will explode.
“The vehicle can travel 1,500 miles with one tank of fuel.”
Requiring exactly the same number of calories as a non-hydrogen powered vehicle. The only advantage would be if the Hydrogen tank can store more calories than a diesel or gasoline tank. That may be the case…I dont know.
I tire of the perpetual motion machine mentality so prevalent today.
Look, I gotta pee and get fresh coffee before 1,500 miles. I think my limit is 400. Might need some fresh beef jerky and nut mix too.
Heather Speight, a physical scientist at the research center’s Geospatial Center, works on planning tools that help commanders evaluate operational risks that come from climate change.
She pointed to Europe, where moving troops and equipment around the theater requires assessing airports, seaports and large city infrastructure. All these face challenges if there is major flooding from weather events or sea level rise. Even climate migration, where severe droughts, earthquakes or other emergencies can cause a mass migration of people to city centers could clog up any operation that requires troops or supplies to travel through the same systems.
The software they’re developing in Speight’s center also helps planners visualize water security and quality in their immediate area.
Our Moscow invasion force will be competing for seats on the subway.
Yeah, that inch of sea level rise is really going to make those harbors inaccessible.
Just the tip?
The creme de la creme of American academia
Harvard professor and legal scholar Laurence Tribe told CNN Wednesday he initially agreed with Ackman but on reflection decided not to join the push to publicize their names.
“Any number of the students who got caught up in this misguided campaign probably didn’t even know there was a statement. Others no doubt didn’t focus on, much less understand, what they were signing,” Tribe said in an email. “Naive and stupid as they may have been, I now think it would be an overreaction to penalize them permanently by publishing their names and implying that they actually endorsed what the terrorists did to innocent Israelis.”
That’s quite an endorsement of your student body and your institution.
The issue here is not whether they broke a few rules of decency, or took a few liberties with morality – they did.
But you can’t hold a whole club responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals.
Senator Blutarsky nods in agreement
Whs it over when the Nazis bombed Pearl Harbor?!
Harvard Man, a real thinker. Just signing any old petition that comes around.
That is bullshit. Those kids should be run out of the legal world. This issue is as start a contrast of good and evil as can be imagined. If they put no more thought into it than that they need to find a different line of work.
It kind of depends.
If I join the lacrosse club as a member and the executive board just decides to endorse Hamas I’d be pissed if I got blacklisted. Sure I can resign, but I’m out there as an alleged Hamas supporter and on the defensive. OTH, I have little issue throwing the executive board under the bus.
You should be blacklisted simply for playing lacrosse, Preppy.
Dude, it’s Harvard. Crew was my next choice.
Agreed. We can’t even be sure if the kids in the photo signed the petition.
Unsure about shopping for the holidays?
Gift a goat!
I haven’t seen this posted here before:
Q: How was your day?
A: Up and down.
Dentist with a doge
https://ibb.co/GQJbLhF
so very much WOULD
(specially if we can share a tank of nitrous)
I get that it’s a cute dog and all, but I’m not sure she swings that way.
Oh no, momma…..Im seeing Red.
Is there, like, an inside joke with the spelling of “masturbate”?
Procrastinate?
Distillate?
Does it have you in a state of perturbation?
As a grammar nazi? Yes, I’m perturbating over it right now
Go on…
There are those who masturbate, and there are those that are master of the bate.
While the master waits, the masturbates.
Por qué no las dos?
Stalker song:
Slow Drag, by Fastball
https://youtu.be/kY6pQnQfSSg?si=2GpTj0GYDkVT7X0T
We are still doing the cruise, right? I went ahead and paid for it, for me and the wife. We are going to be there. You could see my big, green gourd, and my googly eyes in person. I was trying to find a listing in the forum, but I am terribly drunk.
Yay!!! There is a forum post in there somewhere
I’m going to guess that no one asked the question of just how many fights the Jezebel writer who led with the tagline of ” violence is like a switch women need to learn how to flip” has actually been in.