“What the fuck is that?” the hair asked. He had slid down Donald’s face to his chest for his afternoon nap. He found the thunderous gurgle of Donald’s cardiac valves very soothing.
“Huh? Wha?” the hat replied thickly. He was languorously humping FDR’s Yalta pen set on the desk.
There was a bump and a crash outside the Oval Office door, and then a woman’s scream.
“Donald! Wake up!” the hair screamed as pulled himself up to his perch.
“Huh? Wha?” Donald said.
“Donald! Goddammit!” the hat said sharply, snapping to alert, his squatchee twitching with alarm. He awkwardly squirmed his way toward them both.
There was a deep pounding on the Oval Office door.
“What’s happening?” the hat squealed.
“Where is the goddamn Secret Service?” the hair demanded.
“I sent them out to get my second lunch,” Donald said, rolling backward in his napping chair.
“UNHAND ME, WOMAN!” came a loud voice and the door frame splintered under another blow.
The door flew open and John Bolton’s mustache burst into the room.
…TO BE CONTINUED
“Bring it, Commie!”
De Blasio’s rat-killing demonstration is a complete disaster
Like a scene from “Tom and Jerry,” workers fruitlessly tried to stomp on the agile rodent when it scurried from a hole in which dry ice had been dropped in an effort to control the furry pests.
One worker even swung a shovel at the plucky rat in a comical whack-a-mole routine.
But no one could lay a hand on the tiny animal, which dodged all the would-be rat-slayers at the Bushwick Houses and scampered to safety at a playground on Humboldt Street.
With the media witnessing the debacle, all the mayor could do was deadpan: “We found the right place.”
The demonstration had been meant to highlight de Blasio’s plan to combat vermin at NYCHA projects by using the dry ice to suffocate them in their holes instead of using dangerous poisons. The mayor insisted the technique — which involves sealing off burrows where rats enter and exit — will kill off the filthy furballs before they can escape.
Biden/De Blasio 2020
The single most metal thing you will read today.
This Medieval Italian Man Replaced His Amputated Hand With a Weapon
“One possibility is that the limb was amputated for medical reasons; perhaps the forelimb was broken due to an accidental fall or some other means, resulting in an unhealable fracture,” they wrote in their paper.
“Still, given the warrior-specific culture of the Longobard people, a loss due to fighting is also possible.”
On closer examination, the ends of the bone showed evidence of biomechanical pressure – reshaping of both bones to form a callus, and a bone spur on the ulna. These are consistent with the sort of pressure that might have been applied by a prosthesis.
Further evidence on the skeleton supports this hypothesis. The man’s teeth showed extreme wear – a huge loss of enamel, and a bone lesion. He’d worn his teeth so far down on the right side of his mouth that he’d likely opened the pulp cavity, causing a bacterial infection.
What’s that got to do with a prosthesis? He was probably using his teeth to tighten the straps that held it in place.
Secret drug raid by feds backfires in Portland: ‘Someone could have been killed’
Shortly after 9 a.m. on a Saturday in December, two men showed up at the office of a Public Storage warehouse in Southeast Portland and asked about renting space.
On-site manager Shawn Riley led them to an empty unit and unlocked it.
The pair followed him in, then suddenly drew large silver handguns. One of the men pressed his pistol against the manager’s forehead.
The two demanded to know who’d stolen their “stuff’’ — a stash of nearly 500 pounds of marijuana in another unit at the business.
Riley hadn’t taken anything, he told them in a shaky voice.
But who had?
Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, it turns out. And the agents deliberately made the confiscation look like a burglary, according to court records.
A DARK OMEN OF THE FUTURE; WE ARE THAT FUTURE!
Perfect!
SugarFree is my favorite.
For me, the highest compliment; for the rest of you, a grave warning.
*shivers*
The humping of the Yalta pen should make the cartoon.
GBV! GBV! GBV! GBV!
Yeah! I’ve added Quality of Armor and Motor Away to my repertoire.
I saw them at a tiny club in 2002 and it is just an amazing show. 34 song set, Pollard stopping between songs to talk to audience members, they had a giant trashcan full of beer and ice on the stage and he kept handing them out.
I’ve seen them probably 20 times over the years, from tiny clubs to festival stages. I’ve seen Bob Pollard so wasted he could hardly stand. His voice is sometimes thin in these later years, but they still bring the rock.
Lul, you’ll never find all the exists to those rat-warrens. Were it so easy, people would have long ago managed to exterminate the rodents.
I’ve lived in NYC for decades. The reason the rats are so numerous is because the Humans are such utter slobs. The same people who shriek at the rat on the train platform are the same people who throw their half-eaten Chinese take-out styrofoam clamshell on the floor, or leave the Dunkin Donuts ice coffee and partially eaten bagel on the subway bench.
The only reason there are so many rats is because the humans attract them.
The availability of food is a separate question from the issue of “you’re never going to seal off all the entrances to any given rat-run”
Not sure how they are doing it in NYC, but on the farm we would smoke rats out of their burrows and it worked quite well.
Here’s the thing that is causing DeBlasio all the trouble. The undergound of NYC has been excavated and rebuilt so much that it’s less solid than swiss cheese. To drive the rats out you’re basically talking about flooding the entirely of whichever borough you’re working on at the time – possibly several given the cross-water tunnels and utility lines. Hense the effort at saying “oh we’re going to seal off the burrow first” when there is no way to find all the exits.
On the farm, you only have so many points of entry and a smaller underground footprint because the rats aren’t just chewing connections between existing human spaces.
Slammer is correct. This much busier subway system is relatively clean because people don’t live like animals.
And? The reason it got infested doesn’t change my point about the flaw in the stated plan.
OT Japan question – what is the local sentiment regarding Abe? I have seen a number of articles in British press, little US.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/failed-policies-and-costly-scandals-leave-shinzo-abe-on-the-ropes-dtvqqc2mq
I have three good Japanese friends in Japan. Two are indifferent and one hates him. My experience is the US style politics as a “team sport” is less common.
People here are such a disgrace; they have no pride in our city and have not grown any. They just throw their trash casually onto the street, just let it drop from their fingertips, when they’re done with it. Sometimes a trashcan is right the fuck there. It’s almost unbelievable until you see it with your own eyes. It’s not everyone but it’s a shockingly large minority, who for some odd reason have brains that don’t even conceive of there as being anything wrong with it. Not to worry though; NY will soon enough certainly be banning plastic shopping bags for its working people so litter will be solved.
This is one area I’ve never grown out of my childhood self-righteousness. I still feel my hair stand on end (yes, literally) with exactly the same intensity as I did the first time I saw it as a kid fresh off the boat from PR. Seriously, you’d think this was Zimbabwe or South Africa or some other place where people act like pigs in the street because they have never developed any sense of civic values and responsibility. We know exactly why that is so over there; what’s our excuse?
It’s a symptom of deeper morbidity, not an affliction in of itself, likely tied to upgringing and values. I can’t stand it when people pour liquid (usually drink remnants) on the pavement, let alone solid litter. It doesn’t have to do with ‘civic values’.
I live with people like that. It’s frustrating.
Actually, they think NYC is the greatesr, and every place else sucks.
Oh of course; I am constantly saying NYC is the most obnoxiously provincial place in America. No contest. We are the most self-righteously contemptuous of outsiders of any place out there, and it is only getting worse. We love our city so much we treat it like a trash can. Then we complain it sucks and we’ve had it with this place. You have to understand the subtleties here.
it’s a shockingly large minority
Man, that’s pretty racist, Diego.
same here. watching people litter in the subway always has similar effect.
It didn’t work in “Ben”, either.
Hilariously awful movie.
https://youtu.be/YTKNahASSDI
That’s not fair; that work was never meant to be haute cinema.
An apt metaphor for the current state of our Imperial government.
Did you guys ever figure out who HM was talking about last night?
Don’t care. Too petty.
Fair enough
I will admit to my shame that I can be a bit gossipy
I never pretended it wasn’t petty. It’s pure Schadenfreude on my part.
PROTIP: The supercilious self-righteousness now being displayed by some is exactly why I’m keeping it under my hat for now.
I used to think this was wrong, but time has led me to accept that some people deserve that.
Eh. Whatever, I’m still apathetic.
Disliking everything is not apathy.
UCS likes Warhammer 3K. He’s not entirely without passion. I bet he even reaches 70 decibels when he shouts “Waaagh” during a game of Gorkamorka.
Don’t paint us all with the same brush man! A lot of us openly and proudly debased ourselves and proudly have utterly nothing to be self-righteous about! Think of the people!
Well, you have the option of the other brush, but that’s for applying hot tar. Would you rather be tarred or painted?
I wouldn’t be surprised if the “racial bigotry and antisemitism” of that person were not so clear-cut; that’s why you cannot point to the evidence.
If I were looking to smear by innuendo, why would I hesitate to name the person? Not very effective, don’t you think?
I don’t think you tried to do that. But I read enough comments here about former posters that characterized their positions rather uncharitably. One name that comes to mind is PapayaSF.
*shrugs*
And I’ve read enough comments by you to know that nothing I could point to would disabuse you of that notion.
Well, you could point to the incriminating evidence. But it looks like my guess was correct.
I could if I felt you were as disinterested as you claim to be. I mean, it could be as blatant as pictures of said shitbird at an Identity Evropa rally, but let’s be honest, you often characterize my (and others) positions quite uncharitably as well. We’ve had commenters take openly public shits all over the commenting policy and you’ve always been at the forefront to defend them pro bono while casting aspersions towards OMWC and SP’s ethics. You’re like the Gloria Allred of internet trolls.
If you believe it is, then I won’t try to persuade you otherwise. You were foremost in my mind, because I knew whomever it was, you’d rush to white knight them in your spectacularly contrarian way. That having been said, the West Coast Founders ensure us that you’re a good egg, and I really bear no ill-will towards you. However, frankly, I just don’t want to deal with your shit.
One of the things that I really liked about TOS was that they didn’t ban anyone (with rare exceptions), you could say whatever you wanted about the staff and could still post a comment the next day. To be sure, that didn’t come without a cost. I understand why others favor a different balance. But I also don’t see anything wrong with voicing my position about the issue of banning or driving away regular commenters.
Also, have you noticed how many names were mentioned in these threads? So many of us had to think who that horrible person was. Obviously, the vast majority of guesses were wrong. Did that otherwise nice commenter who’s often anti-Israel finally reveal himself to be antisemite? And so on. What was the point of starting it?
I just know it wasn’t me. I don’t know enough about Jews to hate them.
Maybe it was HM himself, trying to come to terms with his self-hatred the only way he knows how. Does his black half support Farrakhan?
There’s a difference between self-hatred and self-abuse.
I roomed with a self-abusing Jew in college. Not pretty! Your God commands you to at least use a tube sock.
I do wear bow ties from time to time, Diego.
Tucker Carlson cosplay?
Gene Shalit.
I lI’ve in a jew free part of the country. I can’t hate Jews because I don’t know any. Aside from this site, I don’t think I have ever talked to a jew.
LOL i thought Jews were about a quarter of the US population as a kid, and still thought at least 10% until someone set me straight when I was at college.
Hah, me too – growing up on Long Island gives you a rather warped view. “You mean everyone doesn’t get off school for the Jewish holidays?”
My {{wife}}, from Wheatly Heights, still calls Massapequa Matzoh-Pizza because of the demographics when she was in high-school.
TIL about Wheatley Heights – I would have just called that area Wyandanch (I grew up due north of there, on the shore).
Looking at the map, I’m now having Adventureland flashbacks.
Is it any different today? I’d hate to have to give up that little racial slur after all these years using it.
I’m told that area is also known as Crimedanch.
Adventureland is a delight (our kids are 4 and 7) AND a new Stew Leonard’s recently opened right by there.
Oooh, I love suburban/municipal pun names and the ones about perceived vices/ downscaleness are as much fun as the ethnic ones!
A totally separate one is the weed pun for your municipality. This is a totally different species because it occurs for every single municipality that can remotely manage it; and because it is bestowed by its own native ten-year-old boys, rather than by sneering outsiders. Still loads of fun though! Creative little fellas!
I’m sorry. That was asinine last night. That thread was like listening to teenage girls teasing a secret for attention.
Don’t be sorry, I probably should have just left it to last night but my curiosity got the best of me.
Was not! Leave us alone; you just mad ’cause you probably a basic bitch. Yeah I said it; what you gonna do?
Diego, stop it. Fetch is not going to happen.
He normally would go to Starbucks to get some “coffee” but that’s racist now so thanks guys.
WELL I STILL WANT TO KNOW!
Ditto
Ditto
I’ll sell you the answer.
How much?
^ Typical (((answer))).
First you appropriate Swiss’s labor, now you blood libel OMWC?
I have a half eaten bag of cheese puffs and a warm bottle of Boone’s Farm. Deal?
It will take something closer to coke and hookers to pry the info out of me.
So Marion Barry?
This… is a perfect description.
It was quite pathetic.
You’re pathetic.
Come at me bro!
Sorry the thread held you down and forced you to read it.
#TextRapeCulture
I’m fully convinced that the person HM was referring to was HM, just trying to get ahead of the fallout. He’s a crafty one.
But seriously, who gives a shit?
I read that book.
That grafting clearly took place recently, otherwise he would not have such well-defined forearms. Lack of use would have led to atrophy otherwise.
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/Gr7C33JdN1I
Lol i can’t believe I didn’t think of that.
But… wouldn’t that just end up with a fouled barrel?
I was expecting Ash, but that works too.
And what’s this guy, chopped liver?
Let me try again:
And what’s this guy, chopped liver?
It’s all been done.
Literrally.
Unless you weaponize a vagina. Even then, I bet that’s been done.
A little sword swinging out of one.
Vagina dentata FTW. Don’t worry though; we got a reply.
My Lord.
Obligatory
http://theporporbooksblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/book-review-dr-adder.html
That sort of thing isn’t truly awesome unless you replace the missing appendage with a chainsaw.
Then it is, of course, groovy.
Hail to the king
Can’t say I ever expected to read those words…
“Squatchee” is a real word?
The button on the top of a baseball cap. I was as surprised as the rest of you.
And squatchy is slang for Sasquatch-like — nice double entendre there.
I have never heard the term ‘squathcee’ before, I with great trepidation googled it. What a bummer, I was expecting much worse from SF.
Do we have two separate canonical continuities now, for SF and CPRM? Like the Marvel Universe or Star Trek or whatever?
Hmm… elderly Hair goes back in time to stop the USA Hat from blowing up Trump Tower, but really brings about the destruction of Trump Tower by going back in time…
“Donald, I have, and always will be… your Hair…”
*golf clap*
Quite moving. And I’m calling it as a canonical work. I think at least one of your Warty stories is actually shorter.
“You’re telling me the police took my (expletive)?’’ one of the men asked in disbelief.
You should see what they’re doing with (expletives) in Scotland.
Are we talking an online (expletive) or a migrant (expletive)?
Fuck you child, you’re not taking anyone’s guns.
Totes grassroots.
Durr hurr, they may talk like uncivilised hicks, but we’ll take the support. Yokels in the mist.
Extra fun, if you listen to the audio, the little heifer recounts an anecdote about how hard she was working when somebody noticed she was on Facebook organizing at 7 in the morning. Oooohhhh.
link
Do we forget that Columbine (and the rest of the “rash of school shootings” in the late 1990s) happened while the federal AWB was still in place?
Hey look over there!
Apparently the Republican governor of Vermont completely forgot as well. Cockbag.
Yeah well, they want to go way further than that.
Nobody wants to take your guns, except for the ones that are actually useful with regard to be original purpose of the Second Amendment.
Ugh. Fucking Virtue Signals in my back yard.
You’re not really at all surprised are you? I mean after Newtown, this is one of those jurisdictions that went full AWB 2: Electric Boogaloo as you are all too aware.
Fuck John Bolton with his stache.
Ew.
We’re going to need a lot of wax.
Sounds like somebody is not getting a mustache ride.
Biden/De Blasio 2020
We will be told to shoot dry-ice shotgun shells at rats indiscriminately into the dark.
Riley hadn’t taken anything, he told them in a shaky voice.
But who had?
Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, it turns out. And the agents deliberately made the confiscation look like a burglary, according to court records.
I hope they declared the income they made from selling it on their income taxes.
What form is the “Income from criminal activities” reported on?
Whatever form politicians use.
When I was in 10th grade I took a “legal studies” elective. The teacher told us that if we ever decided to sell drugs, to report the income (under a nebulous “sales” header), since so many people end up getting arrested not for selling drugs, but for taxes.
I had a buddy who’s mother was a professional tax preparer. She had a client that declared the income from his embezzlement. His rationale was that if he ever got popped for the embezzlement he didn’t want the tax charges piled on.
Damn, that’s funny.
What form is the “Income from criminal activities” reported on?
The 1040 has a line for “Other Income”. Just put it there.
Yes, but you’re supposed to explain what it is, which could be … tricky.
“What part of ‘Other Income’ don’t you understand?”
“I spend a great deal of time scouring parks for loose change.”
“Seven million dollars worth?”
“I had a good year.”
Stop having sex on roundabouts
I’m sure if this prude had people having sex on the bridge, he’d be telling them to go to the roundabout.
Now I want to watch videos of young Nordic folks having sex. Thank God for the Internet!
FTFH
Roundabouts are safer than intersections, I don’t understand peoples antipathy towards them.
Even if they were safer, they’re ugly, they break up the flow of traffic unnecessarily, and they have zero capacity to adapt to changing traffic conditions. They always require you to perform extra unnecessary turns, even when there is no one else around, and needlessly penalize the heavier-use route in the name of “if it prevents just one…” They should be banned and bulldozed.
You are wrong on all counts. Except maybe ugly. But they are less ugly than a red light.
My rule for when to put in a roundabout: Do you have a 4 way stop? Are you about to change it to a traffic signal? If yes to both, put in a roundabout instead of the traffic signal.
The one in BG was already a traffic signal, but in peak hours it backed up traffic past the next intersection. Now, at the worst of times, there is no wait (well, minimal) going thru the intersection. And the other intersection is always clean. At off hours, you can fly thru the roundabout without even slowing down (if you are good at merging).
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.9775275,-86.4561552,199m/data=!3m1!1e3
Satellite still shows the old road, pre traffic circle. You can see 9 cars backed up going south on Nashville Road, backed up almost to Chestnut. In rush hour, both lanes would back up past Chestnut, screwing it up too.
Since they put in the traffic circle, that intersection just flows. It is a thing of beauty. You might, might, at rush hour have to wait for one car to merge in before you get to. What used to be 10 mins to get thru the intersection is now 30 seconds tops.
You know what I see there – an improperly timed light.
In off hours, like when this picture was taken, yes.
In peak hours, University and Nashville Road in both directions all backed up (and Chestnut too). There was no timing of the light to fix that. It was too much traffic going thru to small a space all at once. It works now.
What size is this traffic circle? Because I’ve never seen any where you can maintain speed, you’ll be in the grass for at least fifteen feet if you tried it, and that’s if you’re lucky, since in half of them, the heaped earth in the middle blocks the view of oncoming traffic, making it impossible to judge the safety of entering the damn thing. Plus roundabouts don’t preclude red lights – Go visit Nottingham, they had to put red lights on their traffic circles because they didn’t help the problem.
And this is before you even ask the $10million question – is there room to eat up more of the adjacent properties to put in your boondoggle of death?
It is there on the map view instead of satellite view. That is obviously an approximation, but it shows the size.
You can maintain speed, at off hours, because you can see no one is coming. If you are going straight thru on Nashville Road, and you stay in the outside lane, it’s not really even much of a curve, just a bump out and back. Now, if you are entering from or exiting onto University, yeah, you are going to be slowing down. And I have never been on Loving so I don’t know about it. That is a neighborhood street and traffic rarely exists entering or exiting it.
At rush hours, yeah, you have to slow down, but stopping is rare. And before with the light, you were guaranteed to stop. And possibly wait thru 2 cycles. I would much rather drive 5 or 10 mph thru the intersection than stop and wait for a light to change.
You have one example you like – I have somewhere between six and ten that I hate every one of. I can’t remember the exact number because they blend together in a series of “oh fck, another one?! and no, none of them were an improvement over the lights. Plus half became artificial hills when they sodded over the dirt tossed from the new roadway onto the middle of the circle. If at all possible, I avoid the roads they’re on because they’re so awful. So yes, it alleviated the traffic problems on those roads – by making them worse elsewhere.
Good ideas implemented poorly are bad ideas.
And bad ideas are bad ideas, even if by some fluke a positive outcome results.
https://goo.gl/maps/NSLTGC81jqu
You can jam right through there at speed if there’s no traffic.
Plenty of others like that here in New England.
The one just to the west is a little tighter, but I bet the same thing applies.
Actually no. And it isn’t a fluke. Roundabouts are used poorly or overused in some places, but they do have a very specific time and place, where they work great. And it is predictable.
On the other hand, diverging diamonds might be a bad idea that flukes into a positive outcome in some cases.
Yep, you can zip through Grant Circle too if traffic is light.
TBF, these are both decades old and purpose-built, not an after-the-fact addition. This abomination is just terrible:
https://goo.gl/maps/N2PyiXJoKzv
Big trucks can’t even make those turns without having to drive over the sidewalks.
They put one in here in BG, it solved two intersections over night. I want about 3 more in certain spots now.
Novel traffic patterns have an effect until complacency sets in – it will be more dangerous before long.
It has been there for over 3 years now.
Any day now…you’ll see!
Roundabouts are only safer in that if a collision occurs, it occurs at a lower velocity. In my experience, they seem to cause more collisions though. So it is a trade-off.
This is my view as well. A busy round-about is a collision magnet as you have lots of people accelerating from a full stop into the round-about and have to hope they all can judge how to do it. It might just be my aversion to chaotic situations, but I hate round-abouts. 4-way stop-signs on 4 lane roads are also terrible. Well-timed lights are the way to go.
No one has posted this yet surprisingly https://youtu.be/-Tdu4uKSZ3M
Sheeit… I was hoping for some insane dash cam footage.
Ha! I’ve had that in my head this whole thread. Thanks for the link.
Roundabouts are much better than lights. When done properly you aren’t going from a full stop into the roundabout, you are merging at low speeds.
When done properly, a light allows you to get through faster without any confusion as to whose turn it is to go. I’m glad roundabouts work in your area, but in my experience they are inferior to traffic lights (New England, DC, Italy) more frequently than they are superior (Germany). Everywhere else I’ve seen a traffic circle it’s been the 1-lane variety, which is a wash as it is neither inferior or superior to the alternative (2-lane stop sign controlled intersection).
Lets compare your lists:
New England
DC
Italy
vs
Germany
Hmmmmm…..
I’m agnostic towards them. The downside is that it involves merging which most Minnesodans seem genetically unable to perform.
My main gripe is that they have taken on fad status here. Every intersection seems to have one now. The one I hate the worst is on the way to a nearby park/preserve. Prior to the installation of the roundabout, it didn’t have any signs, just a t-intersection that had little traffic and everyone had to pay attention and use their judgement. I swear they put that roundabout in because they had $$$ from the Feds burning a hole in their pocket.
The other bad one was in my hometown. There was a bad intersection on a busy hiway that they put in a roundabout. Unfortunately there is a lot of swamp land around that intersection so they can’t make it big enough and the semis that drive on the hiway keep driving up on the curb and breaking it. The traffic planners are determined though to keep that roundabout in there and keep repairing it instead of putting in a light.
Back when I was doing corporate training, I said I was going to write a manual on merging and teach it as a class, because no one in KY knew how. Sounds like it would have been profitable in MN too.
Way too much passive agressive tendencies here in Minnesoda. Merging is when we can let our our inner asshole and block someone from merging and not be confronted for being a jerk.
Opposite problem here. People are too passive when merging, especially on ramps. You cant merge into a 55 mph interstate doing 25 on the ramp.
The whole issue of merging with traffic is a major issue over here for anyone who uses the Merritt Parkway. Speed limit of 55, lots of curves, and on-ramps with curvatures so tight you have to take them at 20, and next thing, you’re out there in the “slow” lane with a Yukon bearing down on you going 70.
One guy I know won’t use the Merritt because he doubts he could get up to speed fast enough to avoid getting rear-ended. The kicker is – he drives a Prius.
Speed limit of 55, lots of curves, and on-ramps with curvatures so tight you have to take them at 20, and next thing, you’re out there in the “slow” lane with a Yukon bearing down on you going 70.
That’s another major peeve of mine, or rather two: speeding in the “slow” land and insufficiently long merge lanes for highway on-ramps. Just because the design works on paper doesn’t mean it’s a great idea.
Heh. This. It’s just as bad out here in California, where no one can decide if merging traffic had the right of way, or the traffic already on the highway (state law says traffic already on the highway has the right of way).
Almost no one merging does so properly, i.e., adjusting their speed to safely merge with traffic). Very few people get out of the way for merging traffic. They almost seem happy to hit merging traffic than slow down. It’s one of my many pet peeves with LA traffic.
That, and no one seems capable of seeing and understanding the “Slower Traffic Keep Right” signs. Been here since ’96 and it still annoys me.
They are called Rotaries!
This is why roundabouts will never come to Philadelphia. Distraction would not be a problem–drivers would actually pay more attention to the road due to purposely averting their eyes. But two Philadelphians fucking on a standard-sized roundabout would certainly spill flesh out beyond its designed borders, partially blocking traffic on the inner lane and creating a hazard.
STEVE SMITH DONT MIND AUDIENCE BUT UNDERSTAND TRAFFIC SAFETY. CELEBRATE IN WOODS INSTEAD
Well that would be problematic. Everyone today knows you need affirmative consent. This sounds like consent was given in a vague roundabout way.
Yo Swiss, you want me to handle this one?
*starts to squint then looks around furtively*
Agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration, it turns out. And the agents deliberately made the confiscation look like a burglary, according to court records.
The government never ceases to find new and inventive ways to endanger citizens life and limb in order to carry out the drug war.
We’ll always be there to find your body in a ditch.
Even better, they used the surveillance video of the manager (who they endangered) being held hostage as evidence that the perps need to be held before trial.
That’s some STEVE SMITH-SEA SMITH tag team right there
What form is the “Income from criminal activities” reported on?
I put mine on a Schedule C, so I can deduct business expenses.
Roundabouts hazardous enough without couples having sex on them, he said
Well, duh, Sherlock.
How come the cameras on a bus always work? Unlike cop cameras?
In this case, it is a good thing because it shows that a bunch of clowns beat up a bus driver because one of the clowns lied about him making “racial slurs”.
Because the passengers so often cause the drivers issues that they want the evidence.
“We have this passenger complaint that you…”
“Check the camera, it ain’t true.”
Absolutely. That was sort of my point. If you are doing your job and not being worse than your customer, you are happy to have evidence that you did your job.
Those animals just need to get on the right bus next time.
(Like you even needed to click the link.)
I thought it was going to be that old guy who beat up the mouthy youngster from a couple years ago.
That dude from Oakland? Yeah, that shit narrowly edges this one out for best bus fight vid. (I find most fight vids morally outrageous or just plain depressing, btw, but there are important exceptions.) That dude is apparently famous around Oakland for being bat shit crazy; I don’t know what the kid was thinking. Then again, I don’t know what the fuck most people think when they get aggressive in public. What, do crazy wear T-shirts that say “crazy” on them? It could be fucking anyone. You crazier than them with that shit.
I never ceases to amaze me in these situations how women passengers see the whole thing develop with a woman being a violent, confrontational asshole who is then knocked out. And then say, “Whoa whoa whoa….that’s inappropriate…that’s a female/woman, yo!”
The old situational feminism trick.
That guy threw one hell of an uppercut.
Yeah, obviously there were utterly zero class acts anywhere on that bus that day. But it is important to remember that this woman was indeed violent towards him first.
I know we’re not in the habit of defending the job security of public employees with union contracts; but in this case, perhaps he did indeed in fact deserve to be fired (which he was, slightly before retirement), but regardless the particular explication the bus authority gave was bullshit. They said, This was an inappropriate response by the driver when dealing with a violent passenger. Proper procedure would have been to radio for police, stop the bus, and wait.
Pardon the fuck me? Like I said, they may have a case this was inappropriate in this particular incident, but all bus drivers should be concerned about that being dictated as the only approved response to passenger violence in general. Which it very clearly was, from the company’s statement. That’s insane.
That’s my bus to work and back. The 5 bus is really a quite the zoo.
Murdock wants the walkout to go down in history but acknowledges that it won’t represent every student’s perspective. Some polls show that young people are no more liberal than older generations on gun control.
Bless your heart. We can’t all be Joan of Arc, but that will look really special on your application to Yale, anyway.
I think she should be complimented on her efficiency. I mean, this is prety much how I answer telephone calls.
Metal
I’ve been waiting for the Heavy Metal Parking Lot of our time. Maybe we have a winner, even if it lacks the compelling high-stakes atmosphere of its predecessor.
To Murdock, the widespread support she says they’ve seen shows that sensible gun control doesn’t have to be partisan.
“It is not conservative or liberal. It is just about making sure our children don’t get harmed in school and we don’t live in a community and in a country that has institutionalized fear,” Murdock says. “I think we’re all sick of it. That’s why we’re doing this.”
We? WE?
I’ll tell you what I’m sick of. It’s prissy little overprivileged children trying to impose their collectivist idiocy on everybody else, to soothe their irrational fears. Those kids should all wear shirts with targets on them when they skip class.
Especially since they live in the safest time ever to be in school. And they are in school. Think those kids who got to be in the vanguard of the Industrial Revolution would feel bad for these kids? How many of them got mangled every day?
Fuck with the anti-bullying shit that goes on, you don’t even have to worry all that much about getting a wedgie or a swirly.
Affluenza teen released after two years in jail. It’s a case where I’m a little torn. I’m against draconian drunk driving laws, on the other hand him and his family are a bunch of ass hats. I’ll call this one a draw for me until he screws up again.
About time we get to enjoy the “privilege” part of white privilege.
“Affluenza” sounds like it should be an aggravating factor in sentencing, not an mediating factor.
I’m with you on draconian drunk driving laws, but killed four people is pretty bad. Dude should be in prison for good, long while.
Throw the book at him for each count and make the sentences sequential.
*consecutive
The killed 4 people part is what matters to me. The drunk part shouldn’t have anything to do with it.
I see the drunk driving part as negligence. Then again, you would have to prove he was actually impaired (I didn’t read the story so I’m making some assumptions). The 0.08 bac rule is absurd though. It’s way too subjective.
His BAC was 0.24. He was wasted.
I don’t think that matters. If you are driving a vehicle in such a manner that your recklessness causes the death of others, then your level of intoxication shouldn’t matter.
I agree. But having a BAC of 0.24 when you get into a wreck is prima facie evidence that you were engaged in reckless conduct causing the death of others.
You can kill 4 people in a wreck and have it be an unavoidable accident. Having a BAC of 0.24 is pretty much proof it wasn’t an accident.
To me, a drunk driving case is someone pulled over and busted for no other reason than their BAC exceeding legal limits. This is a homicide case, not a drunk driving case.
He was in jail because he screwed up again. He got away with zero prison time for killing four people, then got popped a couple years later for violating probation after he was seen drunk off his ass playing beer pong.
In case there was any doubt that Wasserman Schultz handed the Pakistanis the IT keys to the kingdom.
House Hacking Suspects’ Father Transferred Data To Pakistani Government, Ex-Partner Claims
I’m going to start labeling all my computers with attorney-client privilege Post-Its. Trump should take note of this method.
And how the hell is this not a bigger story? Oh, yeah… the media is burying it.
Trumputin Russia is way more important.
It has been a while since I checked out Huffpo, so I wandered over there this morning. They did not disappoint, providing this little nugget:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-attorney-general-trump-pardons_us_5ad80c11e4b029ebe020e310
So the NY State Attorney General wants the legislature to change the law so that he can prosecute anyone that Trump pardons. Huffpo thinks this is just great.
Progressives are pretty amazing. They’d cheerlead for Hitler if they thought he was on their team.
Sounds like Eric “Politics before the law” Schneiderman.
Upheld by the 2nd, overturned at SCOTUS.
I thought we already knew that’s what they would do.
The average progressive is pretty anti-Semitic/anti-Israel sooooo, you have to think they’d find ways to justify Hitler in whatever he would do.
Catholic and libertarian and Canadian, and pro-Israel? What were the odds we were going to get two of them on one site?
I know, eh?
From what I can tell, Catholics tend to be pro-Israel.
Except for the Pope
The PLO frequently closes off access to Bethleham in an effort to generate political pressure. Israel has a long track record of keeping access to holy sites fairly open. In more drastic examples, ISIS and the taliban were both serious iconoclasts, while the biggest issue facing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was a spat between the Orthodox and Catholic reps over maintenance.
If faced with Israel overseeing access to your holy sites and ceding it to muslim groups, which would you prefer?
Recall that Jordan denied Jews access to the Temple area and the Wailing Wall from 1948 until they got their asses kicked out in 1967. So there’s some precedent.
There is that too. I’d been citing examples in regards to the catholic question.
“Except for the Pope”
This pope is not catholic, he is a fucking communist.
Muslims are the worst. So I’ve been told by Christian Arabs.
The most shamelessly anti-Israel religiously “observant” people today, if you can call them that, are mainline Protestants. Evangelical Protestants have long had the most intense philo-Semitic streak out there, and this has translated easily into support for Israel. Orthodox is largely dependent on geography, which is quite often none too favorable. Catholics have not had the same philo-Semitic heritage. The Vatican–credit JPII–now has become quite cool and recognizes Israel, but it is rather muted and “neutral” in its messages over the issue because it feels a lot of responsibility for Middle Eastern Christians, who are indeed some of the most vulnerable and least-cared-about religionists out there.
In the USA we are staunchly pro-Israel by global standards, period; and there are even some places–OK, New York–where even the proggiest progs are pro-Israel. And our observant Catholic culture has been substantially, and increasingly, influenced by the sociopolitical culture of conservative Christianity in general. And religiously observant Christians, and conservatives in general, are just plain very pro-Israel as a whole in this country. However there is a proggy SJW wing of Catholics that acts a lot like proggy SJW Christians in general and considers part of its concern for “justice” hostility to Israel. They are more muted than the liberal Prods but more numerous because Catholics are still better at maintaining people within their umbrella than mainline Prods. (Also note that even when fully orthodox in their beliefs, as with the “religious left” that was all the rage during the Iraq War false dawn of lefties tolerating such people, these prog Christians are crazy “pro-Palestinian” as a central point of proud distinction for believing in “consistent justice” or whatever. Think Jimmy Carter, and see the prog-evangelical Sojourners magazine for that crowd.) Also the Catholic Right has not entirely assimilated to the Christian Right in its political culture in general; there remain some gaps. Catholics were much more skeptical of the Iraq War than conservatives, particularly religious conservatives, who otherwise resembled them. And there is a strain of anti-Israel traditionalism on the Catholic Right–not dominant by any means, but it’s there–that you certainly do not see with evangelicals, because that is not their tradition. Think Pat Buchanan.
Another fun fact: On the political spectrum, the people who are the most rabidly, unsettlingly anti-Israel are the “left-libertarians” of various stripes. It’s pretty consistent, from the antifa goons to individualists who you can actually have more respect for than the cosmos. Not exactly unexpected when you think about it, but these motherfuckers put the weirdest and most extreme Marxists to shame in this department.
I am too lazy to research the issue, but it seems to me that if a pardon was issued pre-indictment jeopardy wouldn’t attach, and post indictment jeopardy would. I don’t see the NY legislature having the power to change “[N]or shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb…”
They’d cheerlead for Hitler if they thought he was on their team.
Didn’t they at first?
Are they going to change the Constitution, too?
If Korea works out, I’ll actually be happy for American foreign policy. On the other hand, I’m also left permanently confused about the nature of his Orange Highness. Crazy, or crazy like a fox?
If Korea works out, the only question will be how many Nobel Peace Prizes will he end up with?
*snort* . Sorry couldn’t keep a straight face
Someone should write a letter asking, nay telling, Obama to give his to the orange guy?
If it happens, I would like to know exactly what tipped North Korea. Was it Trump? Did he benefitted from timing? Was this in the long-time making anyway? Because we have never heard NK ever considered such an option. In fact, under Obama, things never looked worse.
My wife thinks it is a case where China has stopped the payments and they hope they can squeeze the ROK for some money now.
I think the downside will be that the ROK is pretty smart and tight fisted and won’t fork over too much money.
I don’t know why people aren’t making the connection between how the Soviets thought Reagan was crazy and capable of anything, and people essentially think the same of Trump. Reagan engaged in a massive military buildup and so is Trump. Reagan used what most at the time considered outlandish rhetoric (though civil) against his international competitors, and so does Trump.
Everyone since Reagan has been establishment and played the game by the rules. Trump doesn’t, which means that they have to take him seriously, no matter how stupid he may seem to everyone. It’s like when you are playing no-limit poker and moron who doesn’t know how to play the game sits down with a huge stack of chips. The fact that he doesn’t know how to play the game makes him hard to read, but you know he can wipe you out if you make a mistake against him. Causes you to try to create circumstances where the uncertainty is reduced.
North Korea has to take his threats of military action against them seriously. They knew that none of his predecessors would ever attack them. They can’t be sure about Trump, because he’s a crazy moron. He’s leveraging that to make them come to the table in a serious way. We’ll just have to see if he can make something happen when it all comes down to brass tacks at the summit.
So. Like Joe Pesci in Casino?
Or almost anything else he’s ever been in?
DO you think I am funny?
Interesting story behind that scene: When Pesci was young, he waited tables and was serving a wiseguy in the restaurant who was telling funny stories, and Pesci basically said what Liotta’s Henry Hill character said, with the same result. Scorsese heard the story and decided they had to use it in the movie.
“I don’t know why people aren’t making the connection between how the Soviets thought Reagan was crazy and capable of anything, and people essentially think the same of Trump.”
So much this..
Totalitarian assholes, especially the evil ones, know members of the west’s political class are spineless, degenerate, lying douchebags that in the end prefer to let their own people be ass fucked than lose the sweet perks a political career has given them. For these pols it is all about peddling bullshit as success, so they can keep their gravy train going. These tyrants have to just throw a tantrum to get their way from the adult that refuses to accept they are dealing with a petulant child. Case in point the Iran deal Obama was so desperate to take credit for that he fucked us all over for it. Or the last 3 decades of people giving in to the fucking Kims whenever they acted like the petulant children they are. A guy like Trump (or Reagan) scares the fuck out of them, because they are unsure if he is really crazy enough to actually kick their ass.
I don’t think it’s anything even that complex. I think Donald Trump just happened to be the first guy Kim heard say “no”. If you’re Kim, nukes are great to have as a blackmail tool. When you need money you pull out your nukes make a few lunatic statements and talk about how you’re going to become a great big lunatic nuclear power. Yeah, some of the conservatives will put up a show. But, you act like a loon long enough and even they have a history of buckling. It’s like an ATM for them.
But, if someone calls your bluff, those nukes become, essentially, as worfress as Arec Barwin.
Did he break his balls?
So the NY State Attorney General wants the legislature to change the law so that he can prosecute anyone that Trump pardons. Huffpo thinks this is just great.
Law? Damn the LAW, we want vengeance!
Why bother with something that will be struck down so fast it’ll make your head spin?
Eric “What’s the Constitution Got to Do with it” Schneiderman has aspirations to higher office. It’s a signal to his expected base.
The usual idiots think it’s great
Somewhere, Popehat sighs.
Someone here got carried away by last nights cheese puffs discussion.
I was envisioning the Cheetos being more directly involved. Take, for example, the “web journalist” whom our classy, serious, press-respecting, transparent, tech-savvy, dedicated to reaching out to and encouraging an informed, mature, and engaged generation of young people, former President selected–out of all of them out there–for a groundbreaking “interview on the issues facing our country” in his much-hyped initiative during his Administration.
Police: Homeowner Finds Intruder Taking A Bath, Eating Cheetos
I thought I was the only one that liked sitting naked on a beanbag chair eating cheetos
I once knew a guy that told me he went to the doctor because his dick had turned orange..
So after a ton of tests and checks, the doctor told him they had no clue what could be wrong with him. As a final desperate act, the doctor asked if anything in his life had changed recently…
The guy answered that he had just been laid off, his wife had left him with the kids, and he now spent his days watching porn and eating Cheetos….
I’m a petite PR who hates junk food, so you’re more likely to find me sitting naked on a Cheeto bag eating beans.
In a “go exploring old haunts” mood, I decided to check out Jezebel. They kinda did disappoint.
https://jezebel.com/video/3500989?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Jezebel
A “where are they now” about Kobe Bryant. Most of the video is a recap of the rape case from his early career. Then they tack on “he retired and won an Oscar”.
Maybe that’s more powerful to the Jezzie crowd. There’s articles about Kloe Kardashian and her baby daddy, a desktop movie marquee thing, a history of women’s shoes, and a youtube beef.
Jezebel…. you’ve lost a step.
I imagine most of the hooves of the slovenly Jezzy employees have never taken a step in their life.
Ok, they still have a little life in them:
https://jezebel.com/former-first-lady-barbara-bush-dead-at-92-1825340917
They ran an obituary for Barbara Bush. Pretty straight obit. So on to the comments.
There were a few folks with a smattering of decency, but they also managed to scare up quite a few of the worst sort. So they still have their constituency lurking.
That’s a pretentious user name. Why not shorten it to NotTao
Reds fired their manager this morning. I guess 1 win per week isnt enough.
Maybe he should coach football.
The beacon has been lit
Lyft Inc is launching a program on Thursday to offset emissions from the 1.4 million cars that drive for the U.S. ride-hailing service by investing in projects to reduce other sources of greenhouse gas, the company said.
The move comes as Lyft and Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL], as well as bike-share and scooter-renting startups, face scrutiny for clogging city streets and sidewalks, worsening traffic.
The company will purchase carbon “offsets” to support projects such as renewable energy and reforestation, balancing the carbon impact of every mile driven by a car working for Lyft, including the miles driven to pick up a passenger. That will be a multi-million dollar investment in the first year and the cost will rise as Lyft grows.
“This in a sense puts a tax on ourselves to continue to move toward shared rides and lower emission vehicles,” said Lyft Co-founder and President John Zimmer in an interview.
They should spend the money building roundabouts. And then they can put a tasteful sign at each one thanking themselves, and urging selfish motorists to share a Lyft and leave that car at home.
What a waste of effort and money.
Lyft and Uber clog streets and sidewalks? Whut?
Well, they do seem to stop to pick up/drop off wherever the hell they please.
Gotta hand it to Al Gore – that carbon offset scam is a stroke of evil genius.
It’s made him a fuck-ton of money too. I doubt anybody has ever leveraged being a former VP better than he has. He’s a venal shit-bag, but he’s very proficient at it.
Being a cult leader is a lucrative enterprise.
Too bad he and his followers aren’t drinking Kool-Aid.
I have to assume at this point that there are too many salvation seekers chasing too few indulgences, since every douchebag brewery, boutique hotel, etc., advertises their purchase of carbon offsets.
Piglet’s writing a book now, cashing in while there’s anyone who still gives a shit about him.
Can’t blame him for that.
Ghostwritten by the Down Syndrome grocery bagger at his local Publix.
Someone sees about 14:30 on his fifteen-minute clock of fame.
“This book is their statement of purpose, and the story of their lives.”
Fifteen- and seventeen-year-olds writing autobiographies. Can we just move to the final stage of this French Revolution reprise already?
A little Rev for you to brighten your morning. Always thought this was a fun one – reminds me of when we drove to Houston a few years ago. As we crossed over from Louisiana to Texas, my kids were VERY disappointed that it didn’t immediately become desert and cacti.
Ladies whose body mass is distributed properly.
http://archive.is/kzI4r
Bonus points for picking out which ones Trump was fucking while Melania was in labor.
#8 as long as she passed the tattoo check
#16 is Riley Reid
“She also touched upon her platform to legalize cannabis, arguing that it was a racial issue as only people of color were ever arrested for using it.
‘I think it’s important to let people know that I’ve only smoked pot twice in my life,’ she told Colbert, laughing ‘It’s so embarrassing. It’s so embarrassing.’
‘But to be serious for a moment, I think there’s a lot of reasons we should legalize marijuana here. But the number one is that it’s a racial justice issue, that in the city of New York, for example, if you’re a person of color, you’re 10 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana than if you’re white.
‘For all intents and purposes, for white people, marijuana has legally been– effectively been legal for a long time. And I just think it’s time to make it legal for everybody else.'”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5632781/Cynthia-Nixon-good-Nixon-bad-Cuomo.html
Tell it to these kids
If you want to make sure an issue never gets adequately addressed argue for/against it along racial lines.
Diversity, race, and equality of outcomes are the only metrics, shitlord.
Maybe we should throw a wrench into the gun control movement by pointing out that many of the policies proposed have a racially disparate impact.
Eric Holder argued that background checks for jobs are racist, so isn’t it also racist for a gun purchase? Hell, in some states, you have to sit down face-to-face with the chief law enforcement officer and convince them that you should be allowed to have a CCW. If cops are such racist monsters, isn’t it possible that people of certain races are being denied more than others? And then of course, there’s the inconvenient fact that early gun control laws were explicitly aimed at black people (after all, the Democrats didn’t want them uppity negroes shooting back at the Klansmen).
Yes, a successful acting career is completely the same as running a multi-billion dollar business.
And the thing is, Trump inherited a mutli-million dollar business and built it into a multi-billion dollar business. He definitely had a head start on 99.9% of people, but he took that and improved upon it, which is more than can be said for a great many people, including many of those who started in the same position he did.
He did it by not paying back his lenders and securing tax-breaks from local and state governments. A ton of his creditors got stuck holding the bag when several of his casinos went belly-up. Hundreds of the small-business contractors that worked on the Taj Mahal went un-paid by Trump. I assume at least some of these small businesses went under because of Trump’s non-payment.
Obviously the creditors and contractors are not blame-free — they shouldn’t have taken the risks that they did (the contractors are probably less to blame, since they don’t have the same kind of leverage as a financial institution). I questions whether or not Trump’s businesses were really any kind of boon to the American economy, the American consumer or his business partners.
Also, I think he just got $1 million or so from his father as seed money, and turned that into billions, right? That’s not exactly inheriting the business (except to progs, I suppose).
No, he did inherit the business. The $1M seed money was a test, to see if he was worthy of inheriting the business. He did well with that, so he inherited the business (either solely or primarily), despite being one of the younger of many siblings.
Is Trump running for mayor?
Or Governor … or one of those lesser houses.
But the number one is that it’s a racial justice issue
So what your saying is that the unconstitutional and immoral drug war is totes ok as long as everyone is persecuted equally*?
By whatever subjective definition you have for this and assuming non-whites are, in fact, more likely to get into trouble with the law from using marijuana, which I highly doubt is the case.
I think we should make it legal for blacks only. That ought to right this historical wrong.
Some people would be totally for that.
There would be a certain unctuous irony in that I would enjoy.
“Now that public opinion has shifted on marijuana, rich white men like Boehner and companies like Monsanto are trying to cash in. We can’t let them rake in profits while thousands of people, mostly people of color, continue to sit in jail for possession and use.”
https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/984260567027404802
I agree that Boehner is a hypocritical asshole. But Monsanto never threw anyone in jail for marijuana or, to my knowledge, campaigned to keep it illegal.
And I’ll point out that Obama had 8 years to unravel the WOD, it just wasn’t politically expedient for him to do so, so he didn’t.
Meh the distribution mammals I observed were white as well as their clientele. They mostly drove sensible Honda civics, and probably cleared $60k/year. It appeared that they operated with little hazard or restrictions. Of course they also did things like: kept their registration up to date, not tint their windows, mostly not drive after midnight, avoid blatantly cop-patrolled areas, and not go full FloridaMan ever.
I have a neighbor that owns a heavy equipment business. He’s a pretty rich dude and likes to smoke pot. He grows his own, usually mixed in with his tomatoes , in his garden every year. He smokes at home, doesn’t sell, and minds his own business. I think his odds are pretty low of ever getting in trouble. Must be his white privlege.
Just think, you could report him and be a community hero!
Suck it Oklahoma
*wheels Old Trusty around until it points NW, begins loading charge*
On this day in 1775, deplorables bitterly clinging to their guns starting shooting brave British soldiers trying to bring sensible gun control to Massachusetts.
And look how that turned out Shitlord! It created Amerikkka, the single greatest obstacle to True Communism the world has ever seen!
And three cheers for that!
They were bitterly clinging to cannons as well. Never forget that.
We need to bring back the habit of arming merchantmen with warship grade weaponry.
Aegis Panamax sounds awesome
+1 letter of marque
curses
I would like a Letter of Marque as well.
And reprisal! I want one of those.
They were folded together later on, but originally Letters of Marque and Letters of Reprisal were quite distinct – for the latter, someone needed to have wronged you financially and left you without recourse (say, a foreign power seizing one of your ships.) And it only authorised you to swipe enough to make up the injury – basically a lawsuit executed by cannons. With a Letter of Marque there was no legal limit on what you could take, provided you paid the Crown its vig.
There is a good way to fight a trade war.
Lower your tariffs or we will issue a letter to reprisal to each of our citizens equal to the amount of the tariff!
+1 Quad .50 deck gun.
Its a ship; you could mount the 30mm Gatling they use on Warthogs.
Huh, all this time I thought the Phalanx used that same cannon, but nope, something smaller.
Fun Fact – I crewed a towed Vulcan SHORAD from which Phalanx was derived. On night live-fires down at Ft. Hunter-Ligget, we would drop acid and try to write our names in the sky with 20mm tracer at about 5000rpm. Good times.
One of my favorite rebuttals to the idiots who say that gun owners should be limited to the arms available at the time of the Revolution is that, yeah, militia members DID have access to cannon.
I’ve always wanted my very own howitzer…
Microaggression? Maybe it’s all in your head.
“It’s like being a black male sometimes I’m being honest, like you’re looked upon as being a threat, just by waking up in the morning trying to buy a cup of coffee,” said Troy Jackson of Philadelphia.
Jackson stopped to peek in the window of the Starbucks store where the arrests happened.
He says what’s captured in that video is not unique.
“It totally shows those microaggressions that occur to all people, but particularly black males, that go unheard, that go unseen,” he said.
News flash- sometimes a healthy skepticism about the intentions of a black man is justified. It’s sad, and discomfiting, but sometimes it’s true. Blaming everybody else might not be the most productive way to tyhink about this. Culture change might need to come from within, too.
Sounds like he microaggressed against women of color and the LGBTQWERTY crowd.
Newsflash, it you don’t want to be arrested for loitering, buy something or leave.
Living like that must be incredibly exhausting. I can’t imagine analyzing at a microscopic level everything I say, do and think to try and find “unconscious bias” or “systemic racism” or whatever other unwoke original sin they’re obsessed with. No wonder they’re all so humorless, angry and depressed.
They don’t analyze things down to the microscopic level though. Instead, they perform an extremely surface-level analysis and come up with a lazy way of phrases and actions into their unbending political ideology. Maybe they don’t even go that far – if a white man did/said it and they aren’t showing white guilt? They’re racist/microagressing.
They aren’t analyzing things down to a microscopic level – they’re telling YOU to do that. They’re exempt.
Side note: I take pleasure in the fact that every time I write the word “microagression,” my PC underlines it in red because its not a real word.
incarceration rates are only so lopsided because of implicit bias.
Black on black violence being what it is, you’d think it logical for blacks to be skeptical of other blacks. Also, if you happen to dress like a thug people are going to treat you like a thug, regardless of your or their skin pigment. So quit blaming whitey for your problems.
Reminds me of these two friends of mine back in the day who wanted to do the whole goth thing, then took offense when people started reacting to them. I mean, dude. You look like the fucking Crow. If you look that different, people are going to stare and make comments.
My experience with black people is that they are even more skeptical of other black people than most white people.
It’s sexbots all the way down.
http://www.realclearlife.com/technology/sexbots-sexy-social-suicide/
Sloan has devoted his company to using the best robotics technology to replicate the physical sensations from sexual experiences. His area of expertise is blowjobs.
SMARTEST MAN EVER TO LIVE! He got paid to become an expert in the sensation of receiving blowjobs. There is only one way to do that.
WOW. that’s amazing.
“Oxford college forced to cancel ‘cannabis themed’ bop after being accused of cultural appropriation”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/oxford-college-forced-to-cancel-cannabis-themed-bop-after-being-accused-of-cultural-appropriation-a3816301.html
Everyone knows only them colored folk smoke the Devil weed!
Elected welfare representatives….
Imagine the nature of a person who campaigns to be an oversensitive twat for the community writ large.
White themed parties only then. Tea and buttered scones for everyone.
Tea is a colonialist appropriation of Indian culture.
I thought the tea plant came from China and was brought to India by the British as the solution to the Opium Wars. Maybe I’m remembering James Clavell as actual history.
It was more of an attempt to break the Chinese monopoly on tea production.
My co-worker just yesterday suggested this podcast The East India Company’s Theft of China’s Tea Secrets; planning on giving it a listen.
Tea was brought to India by the Brits in the 1820s. The Opium Wars were in the 1840s and 1850s.
The Opium Wars were motivated by the Chinese trying to stop the tremendous outflow of hard currency to the Brits in the opium trade and other unsavory businesses (like the export of coolie labor). Were the Brits fighting for free trade, or colonialist exploitation? You decide.
Ha.
https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/986708530890727426
DC Metro Union forgets to switch from their official account to their astroturf “average passenger” account, hilarity ensues.
That’s priceless.
oops!
Tulpa outed himself a few times like that. The time I got him, it was that drug-rehab counselor he would play to argue for the drug war.
That thread was fucking hilarious. His “technically, we’re all socks” defense was amazing.
A sports board I have posted on forever (like, 20 years by now) used to have a guy who was discovered to have dupe screen names that he used to carry on conversations with his regular name. He outed himself the same way, by answering a question using the same screen name that had asked the question.
Mega-church pastor Mark Driscoll also posted to his own blog using a different user name.
De Blasio needs to fuck the rats to death.
He is one of them after all.
He should “re-rat” like Churchill. Only then would he deserve the giant inflatable from the unions.
Don’t leave your unlocked vehicle unattended in a sketchy neighborhood
Who is driving? Oh my god bear is driving! How can that be?
OK, guys. I’m sorry.
I’ve asked this before and I’ve never gotten an answer. I’m not criticizing anyone.
I’m running Chrome on my Mac. Once the replies get to the next-to-last threading level, everything is broken up into 1-3 character lines and it just runs down. The last threading level is literally 1 character all the way down. That one is actually easier to read.
But I find myself skipping over lots of interesting conversations because it’s too annoying to try to piece together where one word ends and another begins.
I’d really appreciate it if someone knows what’s going on and can help me fix this. I feel like I’m missing things!
Things!!!
Thanks again.
I run this on Mac / Chrome at home and have never seen this. I’ll make sure this gets to SP and see if she has any ideas.
As her favorite you will now become our conduit to SP. Poor SP, every web issue will be reported on crumpled stained back issues of Hustler’s Barely Legal Barnyard Fun.
She’s used to it, considering her husband.
All that needs to be done is to override the style with something like:
.comment .children {
margin-left: 40px;
}
adjusted as needed to taste (the default is 100px). I don’t have time right now to make a user script or custom style or whatever, but I can look at it later.
(at least, I think that’s all that needs to be done, I’ve had the same problem on mobile depending on screen orientation)
SP is your wife? I thought she was OMWC’s. I always was sure I’d envisioned you being one of those folks here whose spouse is all, “Writing your shit on the Internet again? I don’t want to know. Please.”
I imagine his wife is a lot like one of those ones who is married to a serial killer but is completely oblivious to it despite having walked in on him strangling himself while masturbating or coming home covered in dirt and blood. One day she’s going to find his stash of his trophies (or, I guess, his greatest hits collection in this case) and have a breakdown.
Isn’t Sugar Free Married to
her
Sigh I had a SF/Gilmore moment tryting again
Isn’t Sugar Free married to her ?
I have somehow failed to post this 3 times.
Isn’t Sugar Free married to her ?
Lol I Sugarfreed a link about SugarFree so badly my linking privileges have been revoked. If the 4 tries that never posted are awaiting moderation I apologize, if they just poofed, good.
Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead,
Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep seas swell
And the profit and loss.
A current under sea
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell
He passed the stages of his age and youth
Entering the whirlpool.
Gentile or Jew
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
*Hangs head in shame
She is my child-bride, so her conduit is mine, at least every once in a while in 13 second bursts. SF just has her ear to whisper into because, as she says, “He is a much nicer person than you are.”
No, no. She is OMWC’s wife (bless her heart.) I just emailed this to her because she doesn’t read all the threads.
Let me try once again (without using the monocle link cheat)
Isn’t Sugarfree Married to her?
You don’t marry The Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young; she absorbs you and moves on.
I believe, in an unofficial manner, that Huma is married to her.
I actually get that on Chrome on my iPhone/iPad, so it is probably a Chrome on Apple thing. I just did the same thing and figured I wasn’t missing much. 🙂
If you can do command prompts on a Mac, type del *.* and your issue should go away.
Can you go give this advice at DU or Jezabel?
Mac is Unix-based, so it’s rm -rf
That only happens on my Android phone. I run Chrome on my Mac and it never happens. I use the Tamper Monkey Monocle thing at home.
Use a wider window.
This, you’re zoomed in too close. I noticed that happen when I using a fire tablet, was fixed when I zoomed out.
All dinosaurs, foreign and domestic
The Tennessee Air National Guard colonel who led a re-enlistment ceremony in which a senior noncommissioned officer recited her oath using a dinosaur puppet has been demoted and retired.
Army Maj. Gen. Terry Haston, the adjutant general for the Tennessee National Guard, also announced in a Facebook post Wednesday that Master Sgt. Robin Brown, the SNCO whose videotaped re-enlistment ceremony created a firestorm online, has been removed from her full-time job with the Tennessee Joint Public Affairs Office and is facing other administrative actions.
———
In the video, Brown wears a dinosaur puppet on her right hand and has the puppet mouth the words as she recites her re-enlistment oath.
Brown’s re-enlistment ceremony took place on Friday. By Saturday, it had been reposted on the unofficial Air Force amn/nco/snco Facebook page and quickly went viral, drawing widespread scorn online from many who felt her actions were disrespectful.
The colonel was also criticized for allowing the ceremony to proceed with the puppet, as well as for not raising his own right hand and for not having the oath memorized. He read the oath off of a piece of paper.
They should definitely go with the “It seemed like a good idea, at the time,” defense.
“I’m starting to think you don’t take this oath very seriously”
I didn’t have the oath memorized either – besides, you have to do two of them – one state, one fed. So that criticism is silly – the others…HEY DUMBASSES, YOU ARE PAO…KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT PUBLICITY?
“This will get a lot of press”
–“Won’t most of it be bad?”
“Who cares as long as they spell my name right?”
Frankly, a lot of enlistment/reenlistment “ceremonies” are just as much of a joke. I’m a lot less offended by this one than by having one of those official mass enlistments right before a football game as an actual intended public spectacle.
But you think of all the parts of the state…the PAO would know better.
One of the comm sergeants in Okinawa did his re-enlistment on a cliff over the ocean and then jumped in. We were all in shorts/bathing suits.
I’ve seen one done in a swimming pool. I’ve also seen one where a guy dragged an LT to the top of the water tower.
The Tennessee National Guard aka the TANG?
This is right in line with any previous associations I had with those organizations.
TANG = Texas Air National Guard.
Fake but accurate, you know.
“Jim, it’s Chuck on the phone. He needs you to pick him up from the police station. He got arrested at Starbucks again.”
https://twitter.com/DuaneEH/status/986739596783472640
I’m confused by all this talk about a former commenter being exposed as an anti-Semite. I thought we all hated the Jews and that the whole STEVE SMITH rape thing was really all just elaborate code calling for a second Final Solution. I kind of feel dirty now. Why am I always the last to know?
I think today’s Nazis are Jew-lovers, because something something ethnostate something killing brown people. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but I do know that you’re likely to be accused of being a Nazi and pro-Israel simultaneously nowadays.
I think this is prog propaganda, as part of their agenda of eliding everyone anti-SJW into casually racist, everyone casually racist into “white supremacist,” “alt-right,” etc. Thus for example Trump needs to be a white nationalist Nazi, and never mind the Jew with the closest office to him in the West Wing and putting little Jew babies in his daughter, and never mind his bromance with Bibi. (There are several “alt-right”/”far-right”/”Nazi” parties in Europe that have a lot of loudly pro-Israel explaining to do too.)
I thought this might be true too, but as far as I’ve seen the various white nationalists are more anti-Semitic than ever. Seriously, I have never seen a group of more Jew-obsessed people in my entire life. It’s bizarre. With the migration problems, the wing of white nationalism that was pro-Muslim or pro-Arab or (slightly less in abeyance in this case) pro-Iranian or -Afghan (they are literally Aryans, after all) has shrunk substantially especially in Europe. But now they just say the Jews are behind foisting the Middle Easterners on Europe to destroy them. Jared Taylor is the only major figure I know of who is “neutral” on anti-Semitism–which proves insufficiently supportive for any would-be Jewish white nationalists, to say the least.
I thought this might be true too, but as far as I’ve seen the various white nationalists are more anti-Semitic than ever. Seriously, I have never seen a group of more Jew-obsessed people in my entire life.
In my very occasional forays into the alt-white-osphere, I have been struck by the same thing.
Well obviously, if you’re pro-Israel, then you’re pro-rounding up the Jews and putting them one place.
:.Nazi.
second Final Solution… does not compute.
Final Fantasy 15.
The Neverending Story 2.
Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of false advertising since my suit against the film ‘The Neverending Story’.
Fuck Me! I actually watched that episode after work this morning! Eerie…
its more of a “wistful feelings” about certain ex-girlfriends, and an undying love for latkes, pastrami on rye
Having a young Jewess or Negress break your heart as a lad is a primary cause of turning racist, not sympathetic to their race. Who the fuck are they, of all people, to reject your superior Aryan dick? Don’t you know anything?
“Hey baby, you got a little Goy in you? Do you want some?”
“I’ll make you part of the Master Race by injection.”
“My SS is storming your ghetto.”
‘“wistful feelings” about certain ex-girlfriends’
2 hours of begging?
more like = “on one hand, they were annoying; on the other hand, they were hot”
i am cured of these wistful feelings whenever i meet them again. they’re not that hot anymore, and their husbands are all schlubby henpecked “yes-dear” types.
christ. what the fuck did i miss this time?
Go read the high-school-girl-gossip on last night’s Cheeto thread.
That they refuse to disclose the answer to the riddle to!
Not. Cool.
/crosses arms petulantly. Uncrosses arm to reach for cookie.
I didn’t refuse, I just demanded payment.
I have some orphans….
Hm was quite coy
About a certain racist goy
He saw a site
To his delight
That proved a former poster
should bathe with a plugged toaster.
In the absence of Agile Cyborg, I name you Glibertarian Poet Laureate.
We just hate (((((((((((((((((((((some people))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))).
Sort of off-topic anecdote:
There’s a supervisor at my work who sends out a lot of group emails, and she seems to think that triple parentheses denote emphasis. For example:
“You guys did an (((excellent))) job yesterday!”
… Unless she’s secretly one of the Chosen People and is subtly conveying to all the Jewish employees that it was all thanks to them and no thanks to the goyim.
https://twitter.com/datnofact/status/986636450438369280
Shut up, Wesley.
Brianna Wu, unsuccessful videogame designer and generally ignorant loudmouth for Congress.
That fits Wheaton’s ideal candidate perfectly.
When the year starts with the digits 201 and your ‘game’ looks like Zork, but without clever puzzles, you don’t get to be called a videogame designer in my book.
Wesley has always been a huge fan of transwomen.
I think he and The Traveler had something going.
I should turn in my Trekkie card because I can’t recall the reference. I do suspect you’re just hating because he fucked Ashley Judd. Maybe he caught SJW from her, like that Space Clap that made Harry Kim’s dick glow or something; I don’t remember.
I’m just referring to his dating preferences.
I’d be surprised if his Twitter thread isn’t just one endless wall of that reply. On damn near half his tweets, come to think about it.
Good Lord. I always knew he was a prog, heard lately he was firmly SJW, but didn’t know he had taken it to the level of performance art. That woman is like–as one person put it–Chris-chan with a better agent. She’s one of those people where you’re like, “I know these people are incapable of shame and self-awareness, but there’s got to be someone out there with enough of a clue to know that this dumpster fire is an embarrassment and a liability.” (Then again, when the whole mainstream media, political, academic administrative, and corporate culture establishment is on your side, who are the real fools, the real ones who need a self-awareness adjustment to have a future?)
Anyway, I remember him being pretty cool as far as fan interaction went, open and honest and charmingly seeming to consider himself one of those people whose involvement in a mass-audience phenomenon is marginal enough that they are more like extremely lucky fans than the real “stars” of the show. Reviewed some early eps and showed some awareness of why his character was hated, and even his own limitations as an actor (though he was better than damn near everyone on that show but a handful). Continues to be very accessible and very involved. He’d gone from despised to really winning people over as far as I know. This is just shite though. Wu and her ilk have essentially positioned themselves as overt, frontal enemies of the nerds who are his audience. They must loathe him. Nerds are proggy in most non-speech respects but have become very solidly anti-SJW because of the attacks. And this is like a direct slap in the face.
Good Lord. I always knew he was a prog, heard lately he was firmly SJW,
Sounds like a good target for the 4chan crew that disassembled Shia LeBeouf.
“Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni wants to ban oral sex because ‘the mouth is for eating’
Yoweri Museveni issued a public ‘warning’ condemning sex acts, which he said were brought in by ‘outsiders’
Museveni said oral sex could cause worms.
He said: “You push the mouth there, you can come back with worms and they enter your stomach because that is a wrong address.””
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6087942/ugandan-president-yoweri-museveni-ban-oral-sex/
I guess he’s technically right if we’re talking about rimming…
Fun fact: Once you’ve been dating someone for 18 months, your gut flora et. al. are similar enough that rimming is no more hazardous than kissing.
Sounds like bullshit from someone trying to get his asshole licked.
…or lick some assholes.
I mean, you’re already down there and it’s right next door.
So wouldn’t asslicking taste, well, like shit?
I have never even been able to tell whether anal-sex people butt douche or not. I hear yes from some sources, no from others. Intuition would say yes, but that would seem to take a lot out of the spontaneity. Regardless, I don’t even like to think of ladies as having anuses so not for me no matter how clean and pleasant you tell me it is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klismaphilia
My favorite Museveni quote: “European homosexuals are recruiting in Africa.”
“Progressives are pretty amazing. They’d cheerlead for Hitler if they thought he was on their team.”
Progs only hate Hitler for the “killing Jews” thing. They don’t like minority groups being singled out.
“They don’t like unapproved minority groups being singled out”
FIFY.
Depends on who is doing the singling out. I haven’t heard a lot of leftists condemn Farrakhan
He’s higher on the woke scale than Teh Jooz. Just like how Jooz and Hispanics are either white or not white depending on the situation and who they’re up against.
They’d cheerlead for Hitler if they thought he was on their team
Their ancestors did cheerlead for him when he was on their team. The 180 degree pirouette performed by comsymps when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union remains a thing of wonder and seems to be a model for proggy/SJWs to this day.
One of the things that has been almost thoroughly memory-holed is FDR’s slobbering love letters to Mussolini and Hitler during his first few terms.
Got any links for that? I wouldn’t mind trolling my gf and her FDR loving mom.
From the “nobody is responsible for their own choices” file: Abilify Lawsuit: Compulsive Gambling
That’s lame. At least be like Dopamine Agonists and throw in hypersexuality for good measure.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19536937
Another fun fact that I know I’ve shared here before, but it’s never the wrong time for this one! Cabergoline (from the aforementioned class of drugs) suppresses prolactin to such an extent that in most men it completely eliminates the post-orgasmic refractory period. Combine it with a PDE-5 inhibitor to initiate a blitzkrieg on your partner.
You should publish a newsletter.
I blame all my poor personal choices on drugs.
“A black student trying to eat at University of North Texas’s Krispy Krunchy Chicken got a receipt with “n*gger” on it. Krispy’s spokesperson told me that when they asked the school what happened UNT told them an “african american college student” did it”
https://twitter.com/mandy_velez/status/986708127000260614
Twatter poster: Would.
They put the * in it?
I mean, its in quotes, so that is exactly what was there, right?
“nagger”
Are we talking 0 or more of any character, or PCRE where it’s 0 or more ns?
PCRE – the word was ‘nnnnnnnnnnnngger’
So, greedy matching by default?
I’m a UNIX admin, it’s what my brain goes to.
Yep, you’d need ‘n*?gger’ for non-greedy matching (but it wouldn’t matter in this case).
UNT told them an “african american college student” did it”
Black people call each other “nigger” all the time.
BTW, “cracka” is OUR word, so…
What up my cracka.
“BREAKING: Miguel Diaz-Canel elected president of Cuba.”
https://twitter.com/AP/status/986957995417522177
*snort* https://twitter.com/CHershley/status/986962762860564480
The Dangers Of Having A Chainsaw For A Hand
“BREAKING: Miguel Diaz-Canel elected president of Cuba.”
Raoul’s hand-picked successor?
ONE MAN, ONE VOTE.
Literally, only one man with one vote.
As Lord Vetinari put it “I am the man, I have the vote.”
Vetinari/Ironfoundersson 2020
Alright, here’s my million dollar idea. I’m too lazy to ever implement it, so feel free to steal it.
Twinder.
App that displays a person’s twitter history on tinder so you can see how crazy they are before you swipe L or R.
My idea – so, my sister and my mother both use Blue Apron and threw a couple of free meals my way. They were really good, but REALLY expensive. So that got me to thinking – for someone like me, what is the value of Blue Apron? I don’t mind grocery shopping and frankly I can find meat and produce at much better value locally. What I like is the little packet with things like seasonings, demi-glace, specialty ingredients. The reason I rarely venture too far from my usual meals is that such infrequently-used ingredients typically get used once or twice before needing to be tossed, plus there are always things I can’t get at one supermarket, necessitating multiple trips. So, it’s nice to get little single-meal sized portions of these things. Which leads me to wish there were a streamlined Blue Apron type service which would give you the recipe card, the seasonings, sauce bases, etc, but not the protein or main vegetable. You figure something like this would cut the price down to more like 20 bucks per package instead of 80.
Those things are 80 dollars per package!? Holy shit.
I was unable to price check because they wanted me to create an account before saying what they charged.
That was a line I would not cross. If I’m still on the fence about doing business with you, I’m not going to go through that hassle to get the information most important to convincing me that it’s a bargain. If you have to hide your prices, you’re overcharging.
We got a half off coupon for one of those boxes and the recipes were good, but yeah, even at half off I could have bought quality ingredients for a bit less. I do like your idea though. If they were smart they would offer such an option.
You have to sign up for the actual service to get the freebie, so the plan I signed up for was 2 meals for 4 people per week for $79. The ones we got were salmon piccata and fig-balsamic chicken, one with broccoli and rice, the other with carrots and mashed potatoes. Realistically, if you’re serving them to 4 people they’re rather small portions.
My local grocery has (had?) pre-packaged meals like that, everything all measured out – I _think_ you pick the protein separately?
Mine does – but only for groups of more than one person.
For some reason these services hate singletons, who should really be their biggest market.
Leftovers, dude.
Love the idea about spices/sauce/specialty ingredients only. Would make shipping a whole lot cheaper, too.
<– Fat Bastard, tends not to leave leftovers.
I know my faults.
I’m already investigating industrial packaging equipment and domain names!
McCormick makes pre-measured spice packs.
https://www.chowhound.com/post/pre-measured-seasoning-packets-mccormick-926917
Do you not have Publix? Publix does that — meal card, the stuff you need. The only thing they don’t do is the spices, but that’s brilliant.
we do – my wife actually just brought one of those Publix cards home the other day.
My wife was not much of a cook when we got together — she wasn’t a bad cook, just inexperienced. I really think the Publix card meals got her the practice she needed to feel comfortable cooking for the family. Its genius, and the food isn’t bad either.
I think you are describing Hamburger Helper®, or Zatarans Red Beans and Rice mix.
One thing you can do is buy whole spices. They taste better and last much longer.
And eventually your spice drawer, like ours, develops sentience and becomes trans-dimensional, containing spices nobody remembers buying, spices that are older than you are, etc.
Hey, you cooking Glbs. A friend mailed me these dried Naga Morich peppers. WTF am I supposed to do with these? make a hot sauce? Or put a tiny bit of a dried one in a dish?
Ideas?
You want ideas? Paging SugarFree!
Take a very tiny slice of one and find out how much it reacts with your tongue. People have different tolerances and you want to know how it tastes to you specifically. the flavor might also give you ideas for how to put it to use.
eat them like fruit by the foot.
Chop and snort.
The endorphin rush is incredible!
Just go to jovianpantry.com
This is a shameless plug for my sauce and spice company. We do Asian sauces and spices, essentially to provide the service you are asking for. It’s flavor in a bottle or bag. Check it out.
I’ll even give you a discount code: FYTW
For those feeling link deprived.
https://www.jovianpantry.com/
I just get two bouncing, translucent circles.
Dammit, it’s one of those sites that insists on me letting it run scripts to view the content, isn’t it?
It tends to be a bit slow the first time you hit it. I don’t do the web stuff, so I don’t know the whole dillyo.
Cynthia McKinney, ladies and gents
Longtime fan. I am waiting for the progs to spin out of control enough to reabsorb her into good graces. I actually think it will happen.
Wow. Too bad that’s not parody.
And WTF is her PhD in?
Keeping it real.
Via Wiki
It’s a PhD in “Leadership and Change”
Here’s her derp:: https://aura.antioch.edu/etds/208/
Curses!
They dropped and pretenses and just hand out PhDs in Marxism now?
“In 2015, Cynthia completed her Dissertation on the transformational leadership of Hugo Chavez and was awarded a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change. Her dissertation can be downloaded from Antioch University’s Ph.D. in Leadership and Change Dissertation Repository”
She’s apparently teaching at a university in Bangladesh.
“transformational leadership of Hugo Chavez”
That’s one way of putting it…
The replies to that are just too depressing. WTF is wrong with people?
JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS
From the replies:
“The ZioCon deep state false flag kill teams are loony if they think Americans don’t know 911 was a false flag. Usually ppl don’t get heads up warnings ‘Al Franken’ or stand on buildings w/ binoculars or 3 guys attempt to blow up a bridge no arrests. Their killing us America.”
I’m sorry, I can’t help but laugh reading that.
I still preferred HM’s Twitter link the other day to the NOI Women’s March president complaining about the ADL, where like I pointed out the alt-right paid a very friendly and cordial visit brigade to lend their support.
A good friend of mine with whom I’ve since had a parting of ways absolutely destroyed this one dippy 9/11 truther at a party once. There was this tinfoil hat type who’d seriously just gotten back from Burning Man, and he was on about how there was no way the towers could’ve collapsed, because the heat of stuff and blah blah blah. Everyone was hammered at this point and it was late. My boy, who is a very passive, nice guy, turns to him and says, “Dude, just stop. Seriously. Stop. Are you an engineer?” “No, but…” “Well I am. I am actually a rocket scientist. I design and test countermeasures for the US Navy. My job is to figure out how to keep missiles from blowing up planes, which means that I do a lot of blowing things up with missiles, and I study a lot about things like aerodynamics, material strength, the effects of heat on the tensile strength of various materials, stuff like that. And I’m telling you right now that two large passenger jets full of fuel crashing into a skyscraper will do exactly what we all saw.” Crickets.
I have another friend who used to work at Aberdeen for the Army who said something similar. He’s a materials engineer who designs and tests armor.
It’s like The Root and InfoWars had a baby, then dropped her on her head.
“People Are Losing Their Minds Over Starbucks
We know racism exists, it inflames our sense of injustice, and so we’re eager to punish it. But it can be frustratingly difficult to prove that a given incident is an example of it. Firing any employee who demonstrates race bias would seem to be a fair punishment and would also serve as a warning to other staffers that racism won’t be tolerated. But at this point we don’t even know whether that Starbucks manager was fired. (“We can confirm that she is no longer at that store” is all the company had to say about the unidentified worker.) On the other hand, if Starbucks has found reason to believe that the employee isn’t prejudiced, firing her would appear to be unwarranted. But how would someone demonstrate that anyway? It’s hard to see into someone’s heart.
A glance at social media reveals little interest in thinking through such subtleties. The incident is making people unhinged. When the “racism” circuits in our brain get activated, we stop thinking clearly. We go out looking for someone to chastise, and one low-level staffer isn’t enough. We want a larger target suited to the strength of the frenzy. It affects our judgment the way being drunk does. This is your brain. This is your brain on race. At “a protest outside a Starbucks at the typically tranquil corner of 18th and Spruce Streets,” reported the Philadelphia Inquirer, “a woman poured a cup of (non-Starbucks) coffee out onto the sidewalk.”
Only via frazzled, race-drunk thinking can a (possibly) racist act on the part of one out of 238,000 Starbucks employees somehow become the fault of the whole company. Starbucks as a corporation is comparable to a midsize city: larger than Richmond, Va. Would you boycott Richmond because one person there had committed murder, much less because one person there was shown to be a racist? Unless it turns out that Starbucks’s training materials include the admonition, “Call the cops on any black people in your store who don’t buy anything,” I doubt the company as a whole is to blame.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/starbucks-anti-racism-protests-race-frenzy/
Who is this “we”?
It’s a nice way of saying, “stupid assholes”.
It’s a sales tactic. I use “we” sometimes to build rapport with potential customers. I’m not part of another company, I’m working with you, I work for you, we work together. Can’t use this all the time, but it can help in the right situation.
Thinking about sales tactics and advertizing, I concluded that the best way to sell to me is to not try to sell to me. If I come looking for a solution, I’ll calmly listen to the options, pay a reasonable price and move on. But, the moment the moment someone starts opening a negotiation, a dialog, or worst of all, haggling, I get up and leave the table.
I work in B2B, so my contacts at my customers are CEOs and CFOs — these are complicated deals that are full of important details. If you aren’t ready to negotiate, have a dialog or haggle — you’re either going to be taken advantage of or you will never get the products/services you need to run your business because you’re being unreasonable.
That being said, your approach will work okay as a consumer — you’ll just pay a little bit more for things you could have haggled on.
I am hoping that the word gets out to the bum population of America that they now have a free place to hangout, use the bathroom, and dry out their belongings. Screw those proggie wankers that run that corporation and their virtue signaling. Their coffee is terrible as well.
In my experience as someone whose employer cannot avoid them, the Bum-American community is blessed with a sixth sense for weakness and easy marks, and a phenomenal grapevine/network for getting the word around. I’ll be surprised if Starbucks in downtown areas with homeless problems aren’t overrun within a few months, assuming Starbucks actually implements the policy it announced and prohibits their staff from evicting people who aren’t there to buy anything.
The funny thing about this for me is that I used to work at Starbucks, and the policy at our store was if someone came in to use the bathroom, let ’em. You’ve got other shit to do besides get into arguments over who’s dropping a deuce in your store without buying a cup of coffee first.
I have yet to meet a retail employee that was paid enough to enforce the “customers only” bathroom rules.
I’m of the position of “if I gotta go, I gotta go.” I just walk right in to the bathroom, if an employee wants to walk in with me and watch me/yell at me because I didn’t buy anything, that’s their problem. If I piss on the street, I can end up on a sexual offenders list for life – so if you’re upset that people use your bathroom without purchasing anything, then go petition the government to let me piss in public.
I also have a good deal of interaction with the members of the bum community here and have no doubt they will exploit this weakness to the fullest (if Starbucks is actually stupid enough to go through with it).
Naptown, I think that policy (of letting non customers use the toilet as long as they aren’t shooting up) is in most locations a pretty good one. Why waste your employees’ time in trying to be the bathroom police? As someone who works by driving around the city all day and working on buildings where I often don’t have access to a toilet, I really appreciate those businesses that don’t keep their bathrooms under lock and key. Sometimes I just really gotta go and don’t really need a sixth cuppa coffee. On that note, I recently found out that one of my bathroom locations at my parts warehouse is now off limits to me due to city inspectors declaring that only employees can use it because it is non ADA compliant. This is a bathroom that it up two flight of stairs in an old warehouse.
I think this was less about “Non-customers want to use the bathroom” than “Non-customers who drew attention to themselves, were loitering, were asked to leave, and refused.”
A policy of “Our bathrooms are officially public bathrooms” would be bad enough. A policy of “Anyone, anyone at all, can hang out in our stores for as long as they like and use the bathrooms” strikes me as suicidal for locations in areas that have a significant homeless problem.
In San Francisco, Starbucks will be populated by people who have no compunction about shitting in the street. How do you think they are going to treat your coffee shop?
I’m assuming that this brave inspector is still standing there, outside that bathroom door, hand on his 9mm, ready to enforce the law.
Há! They put a lock on it.
Might not matter. Even if he isn’t, a lawsuit troll, in the employ of the local ambulance chaser in partnership with the local lobbying group, certainly will be on hand. That inspector’s report is not going to look too good in discovery. (Meanwhile how much do you want to bet the same government that sent the inspector is taking its own sweet-ass time getting its own infrastructure up to ADA guidelines?)
As odious as the “bathroom laws” and “cake laws” are, they will never be a fraction of the abomination of the ADA. That was an enormous turning point in this country.
By the way, did you know every single publicly accessible pool in America of whatever size, including existing ones, must install a fixed, permanent chair lift? Or that no minigolf course without of a majority of its holes fully wheelchair-accessible in every spot (think about that for a moment) can ever legally be built again in the USA? Rules change, proudly announced by Obama (and objected to only by…America’s small business owners, to almost no support).
I know someone who owns a hotel who closed his pool because he didn’t want to spend the twenty grand and the maintenance costs of that wheelchair lift for his small motel.
As far as the bathroom thing, this is a wholesale parts warehouse and they are exempted from having to have a wheelchair accessible bathroom because they would have to build an elevator to access it at the cost of several hundred thousand. They got grandfathered in, if they built the warehouse now it would be required. But the city employee basically told them they could only keep this exception if no one from the public could use the toilet. So even though it’s up two flights of stairs, the lock goes on the door. And I piss out front next to my van door hoping a cop doesn’t come by.
I mostly meant it as a joke, but I get what you’re saying. I bet the same people that support these rules are the same one’s that say “how come there’s nothing fun to do around here?”
Because you made it financially impossible to run a small outdoor entertainment business, you morons.
We can’t accept the fact that if you have a disability, sometimes you’re not going to have the ability to do certain things. Its sad, it sucks, but its part of life. I think having certain things like wheelchair accessible public buildings is important, however – if the government requires you to show up to a building using the barrel of a gun, anyone and everyone should be able to access the damn building.
That’s precisely why my old local Starbucks had to start locking the bathroom – I distinctly remember the manager walking to the bathroom with a gallon of bleach, swearing under her breath about godddamn junkies.
Yes, the bums here are the best in the country at giving absolutely no fucks. They are free to do whatever they want. Last year I saw one spraying diarrhea all over someone’s front door as I was working on some doors in next building. He had his ass pressed up and was letting it fly. I swore at him to at least use the bushes across the street but he just grunted and kept at it. I called the police (yeah, I know, and not a typical thing for me). A cop came out 30 minutes later. He was now sleeping peacefully in front of the garage. She asked me what I wanted her to do about it. I told her to take him down to Bryant Street. “I don’t want him in the back of my car.” Ok write him a citation. “What, to add to the fifty he already has.” Ok, whatever, this is why we have this frigging problem here. Zero consequences for anti social behavior.
Round ’em all up and put ’em in some North African country. Here, now you can have our undesirables too. Tradesies!
I would make it extremely unpleasant for them to remain in the area.
I really wish there were some objective unit of measure for racism (call it a “racie”). I’d be willing to bet that the number of racies in the US is at an all time low among the general populace.
The fact that every. single. time. anyone writes about racism it always has to be prefaced with “We know racism exists” or “Racism continues to be a problem in this country” is extremely annoying to me. It’d be like prefacing every weather report with “We know that tornadoes still exist…” or “In spite of progress, hurricanes continue to kill people…”
I vote for a “schott”.
Reading her wikipedia entry reminds me of what a delight she was.
An actual, honest to goodness Nazi, not a “Nazi”.
I know she was a terrible person, but my dad worked for the Reds in the mid 80s, and the only interaction I had with her was being introduced to her when I was 3, and I only remember it because I got Double Bubble from a candy jar on her desk in Riverfront Stadium. In addition, her racism worked out well for my parents, because she screwed over the black guy who should have taken the position my dad ended up promoted to, and said co-worker quit the Reds, then hired my Dad at his next position, and was his supervisor for a decade.
This is the stupidest race kerfuffle yet.
It’s just one more example of automatically assuming that there’s malicious racism afoot whenever an ethnic minority has a negative experience.
Do you even systemic racism, bro?
Nope, I have always been a staunch opponant of Affirmative Action.
“Cameron Kasky, Jaclyn Corin, David Hogg, Emma González and Alex Wind Is on the 2018 TIME 100 List
By Barack Obama
America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicide rate like ours, a difference explained largely by pervasive accessibility to guns; even as the majority of gun owners support commonsense reforms—the political debate spirals into acrimony and paralysis.
This time, something different is happening. This time, our children are calling us to account.
The Parkland, Fla., students don’t have the kind of lobbyists or big budgets for attack ads that their opponents do. Most of them can’t even vote yet.”
http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217568/parkland-students/
GGL
Jesus fucking Christ on a Goddamn cracker, please just go away.
They’re in the process of fading, the MSM is just trying to prop them up and keep them in the spotlight in spite of how annoying they are.
I thought he was talking about Obama. Then again maybe you are too. I knew he was woke but never thought he was woke enough to have asked for the gender-neutral pronoun. (Maybe Biden media-shamed him into it again, just the last time he stood up for LGBT.)
I support commonsense reforms. I think the 2nd Amendment should have said:
The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State each citizen shall be required, in order to exercise the franchise, to demonstrate ownership of, and proficiency with, the basic armament then issued to a rifleman in the USMC,
Why the least necessary department in the Navy?
Burn! Better question: Why the branch with the shittiest equipment?
Or the one that produces the most sociopaths?
Because if I were in a position to implement this, the Army would consist of a cadre of officers and npcs, with warehoused equipment and a set up to call up various units of militia to man units as needed. The standing forces would consist of a strong navy, an air force, and the Marine Corps.
He didn’t say anything but the USMC; he said the USMC. Keep up, champ.
So CNN, MSNBC, New York Times, ABC, CBS, Washington Post, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine and Newsweek… don’t count?
What about the entire Hollywood apparatus? What about the women’s march organization that astroturfed the entire “movement”? What about George Clooney?
GTFO ‘a here
“The Parkland, Fla., students don’t have the kind of lobbyists or big budgets for attack ads that their opponents do.”
This statement is a bald faced lie.
From Obama?
This time, something different is happening.
Psht. Same shtick, modified tactic.
The Parkland, Fla., students don’t have the kind of lobbyists or big budgets for attack ads that their opponents do.
Which is why they are being bankrolled by every anti-gun org in the country.
I have checked your reasoning and found it wanting. ///StillAnEmptySuit
“200 days since the Las Vegas massacre: 250,000 images collected 22,000 hours of video collected 1,500 local leads 500 global leads 500 subpoenas 400 specialists brought in 40 terabytes of data collected 12 federal search warrants 2 weeks collecting evidence on scene 0 answers.”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/986839115189465088
People obsessed with 9/11 trutherism should refocus on this instead. This seems like an actual coverup.
Yep; I’m not prone to conspiracy theories, but this stinks. My money is on “he was a (FBI|ATF) informant”.
I still hold to my conspiracy theory that the Boston Marathon bombing was one of those FBI setup plots that got away from them.
Eh, Tsarnaev was pretty up-front about being a self-starter Jihadi shitbag. I’m sure he would have happily thrown the Feds under the bus if he could have.
I mean that’s not a stretch. The older brother was a paid FBI informant. The most egregious one is still the Muhammid drawing guy, where his FBI handler was literally following him through the parking lot knowing he was going to shoot the place up and doing nothing.
It’s dangerous for a Jew to walk in Berlin?
Who knew?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29614/israeli-arab-doubts-wearing-yarmulkah-dangerous-hank-berrien
More detail
https://www.thelocal.de/20180418/jewish-men-attacked-with-belt-by-arabic-speaking-youth-in-central-berlin
But at this point we don’t even know whether that Starbucks manager was fired. (“We can confirm that she is no longer at that store” is all the company had to say about the unidentified worker.)
I can only hope this is because Starbucks is making a good faith attempt to shield this person from the twatster lynch mob.
Pfft, it’s because they sacrificed her to the goddess of social justice in the ‘chapel’ underneath their corporate headquarters and don’t want the authorities looking around until the corpse has finished composting.
It’s because she isn’t a he, or they could have blamed it on patriarchy. If they disabuse her to much then they are the patriarchy.
The Parkland, Fla., students don’t have the kind of lobbyists or big budgets for attack ads that their opponents do.
This here- this is what is commonly referred to as a “lie”.
America’s response to mass shootings has long followed a predictable pattern. We mourn. Offer thoughts and prayers. Speculate about the motives. And then—even as no developed country endures a homicide rate like ours,
Note the stolen base.
And of course he’s wrong about “no developed country developed country endures a homicide rate like ours. The US has the 94th highest rate of homicide, exceeded by such undeveloped countries as, well, most Central and South American countries (which are mostly “developing” Second World countries, not “undeveloped ” Third World countries, with a few that are probably First World, like Argentina), but also including Russia, the British Virgin Islands, and Greenland.
Imagine what a real reporter could do with that:
“Mr. Obama, do you regard Russia as an undeveloped country? What about Venezuela? Or Greenland? Or Argentina? Or . . . . “
When progressives use that line, it’s their way of signalling to their supporters that they mean shit hole countries.
Oh, places they want us to accept more illegal immigrants from, who totally won’t bring their habits with them.
And most of those countries that have a higher homicide rate have the kind of gun laws that would make progressives salivate.
Greenland? Huh…
Not to mention that the vast majority of US homicides are highly concentrated within small areas of major cities, several of which are already under very strict gun laws (Baltimore, Chicago, California, etc.)
In the vast majority of the United States, your chances of being murdered (with a gun or with any other weapon) are practically nil.
It’s like The Root and InfoWars had a baby, then dropped her on her head.
Awesome.
That was a winner
Fun fact: Cynthia McKinney’s majority-minority district was dismembered by SCOTUS after her first two terms. When she handily won re-election in her new majority-white, suburban district in 1996 anyway, her victory was lauded in the center-left mainstream press as a prime example of how the “right” kind of refreshing “new” minority politician, basically the New Democrat kind who appealed to white soccer moms rather than playing traditional ethnic politics, could survive the new SCOTUS order and thrive in a moderate, post-racial America.
She was my rep when I lived in Stone Mountain.
Fun fact: her daddy did a lot in the Ga legislature to help her win. Including having Memorial Drive renamed “Cynthia McKinney Parkway” and having a HUGE sign on the interstate to tell everyone in her district where it is. Like double the size of other exit signs. I don’t know if it is still the same, but it was pretty silly when it went up.
And naming any street after a back-bench US Rep. is pretty lame, but the main drag in the area?
Anyway, it is hard to get worked up about that, as it ranks pretty low on the Billy and Cynthia McKinney meter.
So, off-topic of everything, but since I’ve been pretty much out of the loop since fall, are Ken Shultz and John Titor still around? Don’t see their posts anymore.
Ken posts more at TOS last time I checked. I have no idea what happened to Titor. I hope he’s ok.
I liked Ken’s WoT posts. Hope he comes back.
Titor and I didn’t see eye to eye on some (most) things, but he was good discussion partner.
I would rib about the WoTs, but I liked them too.