There was a huge memorial
That was fun to watch.
service for Kobe Bryant yesterday while his wife filed suit against the company whose pilot flew all those people into the side of that hill. Which is what anybody with any sense would have done, in my opinion. Altuve got thrown at in a preseason game, which should surprise nobody. Liverpool won one of the most entertaining games I’ve seen this season. And FSU thumped Louisville on the hardcourt.
As for the NHL, I’m gonna hope one of you with more knowledge can make sense of trade deadline deals. Because there were a ton of them and I’m still trying to get my head around what went down. Also, there was only one game, with Columbus knocking off Ottawa in OT.
WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
If you were born on this day, congratulations! You share it with Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam. He wasn’t that famous but the name was worth mentioning. You also share it with impressionist Pierre Auguste Renoir, namesake of an atrocious airport John Dulles, comedic actor Zeppo Marx, actor Jim Backus, novelist Anthony Burgess, tennis player and showman Bobby Riggs, talk show host Sally Jessy Raphael, baseball HOFer Ron Santo, one of the most positive human beings in the world, beloved by all who know him George Harrison, “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, bespectacled cager Kurt Rambis, (alleged) comedian Carrot Top, and “Parks & Rec” actress Rashida Jones.
Right, on to…the links!
Bad dude.
“Close, personal friend” of Hillary Clinton Hosni Mubarak has died. Oh yeah, he was also a freedom-sapping butcher.
Looks like the whole “the Russians are helping Trump” leak was bullshit. At least that’s what the intel agency who allegedly told some anonymous congresspeople according to people with knowledge of the meeting are now saying on the record.
Close enough for government work. Especially when it results in fleecing the people for more of their hard-earned money. And these are the people who will effectively run your healthcare, energy distribution and half the other things in your life if certain people get their way.
The Chicago Public School system continues to live up to its reputation. If this surprises you, you must have been in a coma for the last several decades. But don’t worry, the union staff will continue to make bank…even after they retire.
Trump asks for $2.5B to fight coronavirus. And it looks like the Dems may try to block it to score political points. That’s a pretty bold strategy. Let’s seesaw it plays out in the court of public opinion.
Coming soon to Silicon Valley?
Popcorn! Get your popcorn here, folks! Hot and buttery. Just delicious.
Just in case you’d forgotten, China jails people who don’t bend a knee to their communist government. Why? Because communism is based on subjugation.
Song #1. Song #2. Song #3. Yes, he deserves it. Dude is legend as a human being and was a fine musician as well.
Now go out and have an inspired day, friends!
Fir- *falls down*
First!
*stands JD back up*
I would have thought a Glib would hold their booze better.
Thanks! Booze? No – I’ve got one waxy ear and it’s throwing me off balance.
So you’re putting booze into your ears? I think I see the issue.
Hmm. I’m willing to give it a try.
Don’t listen to them. Booze goes in the rear, not the ear.
You’re a Florida Man, why not both?
Waxy ear? Let me guess, the waiting list is “Indefinite” before you can see someone.
My ear doctor recommended regular hydrogen peroxide rinses to avoid problems like that. Fair warning tough, peroxide reactions are exothermic, so if you leave it in too long, it will burn.
Oh no I just take care of it myself with peroxide drops and one of those syringes that flows warm water into your ear canal at angles to rinse it out. Ain’t no taxpayers on the hook for the fun I can have with that.
Let Khan take care of it for you
Not clicking. That scene makes me wince every time.
Do you have special ear dewaxing gloves?
Let’s hope he doesn’t confuse those gloves with his strangling gloves.
Things could get out of control.
Waxy ear. I’m going to try that one next time.
Neat, now we have a GIF of JD getting turned inside out.
Hey Don, I saw your post in the last thread. If your kiddo needs any help/contacts/advice for starting out in the profession, Im happy to help, and I’m sure the other legal glibs would be too.
Someone better call Saul !
mornin’ ya’all
It is that. And I lost ~45 minutes already as the work computer had Windows patches pushed down to it…
I can always tell when patches are pending because my computer grinds to a halt. Skype especially.
They should be able to push those out overnight. Our updates guy had that set up perfect. The only problem was the employees who would not log out of there computer when they left work; they just walked away. Of course this was also a security issue, but they never got called on that.
It’s 2000 all over again.
The article specifically said it isnt.
Of course, they always say that.
Generally, bet against anything that SoftBank is funding.
Like I believe a journalist.
I hope 23&me doesn’t fold. I think they are doing some good research.
Swiss to the white courtesy phone…
*squints suspiciously*
What’s your beef with 23&me?
How can they fold, what with them selling everyone’s info to the FBI?
“Selling” I don’t think the FBI pays them.
I can easily sum up the Blackhawks activity at the trade deadline…
At least you didn’t post a picture of a helicopter crashing.
At least you didnt lose a game to your own zamboni driver*.
*yes, I know.
He might be better than Malcolm Subban.
That’s a bit much for coronavirus.
The upside of coronavirus is that it may cause Trump to force the CDC to focus on its core mission instead of its political bullshit.
LOL the core mission will be gutted before anyone touches the political bullshit.
Considering almost no one in the U.S. has contracted the virus, $1.5 billion seems like a crazy high cost per person affected.
And, the entire CDC is doing things that are not an enumerated power of the federal government. It should be abolished unless a constitutional amendment allowing its existence is passed.
I just figured most of that money would be dedicated to the legal team that would be required to fire that ass hat in Japan who decided on his own (and contra to his orders) to send the infected people back to the states.
It’s not as clear cut as that. The State guy did the right call out of no good calls.
And coronavirus will surface in the U.S. It’s undoubtedly here already.
Its absolutely here already.
What is really interesting to me as I try to follow the day-to-day on this is that it is pretty apparent that nobody has a handle on this thing at all. Infection rates, transmission vectors, treatment, fatality rates, you name it. It all changes day to day. They are finding outbreaks now that they don’t have any idea who patient zero is.
I still think first world sanitation and treatment will probably keep this under reasonable control. In the first world.
i was thinking the exact opposite. Of all the shit they spend money on right now, that’s the absolute priority. And maybe it’s time to put responsible adults with triple-digit IQs in charge of the response instead of the usual FedGov clowns.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a daily briefing, “China is a country ruled by law.”
Poe’s Law.
Xi abdicated?
He just change it to Xir.
That’s perfect. “We’re a country ruled by law. And if you dare say anything about our single-party ruling class, we’ll throw you in a fucking cage. Because that’s one of the laws we passed at our sole discretion.”
Yeah, the law. I see he has read Bastiat.
The question really is who is the law in China?
Plunderers?
Judge Dledd?
Oh my, don’t do that to me again! I have heard the term “side-splitting” but I’ve never actually laughed that hard until now 😉
“I am de raw!”
Oh that’s too much!
Poe’sPooh’s Law.Happy packzi day everyone!
/flouts Cleveland privilege.
Cleveland privilege? Chicago has more Poles than any city other than Warsaw.
I am getting my fix from here.
In an earlier thread someone brought up my Cleveland privilege due to accessibility to a large number of eastern European baked goods and meat products. It’s probably a pretty fair bet that anyone in the rust belt cities can find packzi today.
Today was the day they were not available anymore.
The ones in my grocery store were just jelly donuts with a different label.
UCS: Some of the bakeries around here only do them today.
And Not Adahn: They should be much richer then a regular jelly donut. One of the places has a shirt that IIRC is: “4x the eggs, 4x the butter, 2x the flour”; as well as “Packzi =/= donuts!”
Oh no, I understand that they SHOULD be different. I was just whining about the culinary disasters here. Much like I’ve complained about kidney beans in chili, bell peppers in pepper jack, “cabrito flautas” made with veal, etc.
The most WTF moment was when the work cafeteria served corned beef and cabbage. But the cabbage was red cabbage, cooked German style with allspice, caraway and vinegar.
Did they have little Teutonic Order flags on each plate to declare the success of the crusade against the northern Pagans?
One thing that I found here that was an improvement is the making of Old Fashioneds with maple syrup instead of sugar.
Funny, I would not consider Cleveland nor Chicago as particularly polished cities.
“Gui admitted to his crime, agreed with the sentence and will not appeal, the court said.”
Well I guess when your alternatives are grovel before the court and accept your struggle session or get your organs harvested prison doesn’t seem so bad.
Don’t forget the proper protocol for kowtowing before the magistrate.
I have to believe the majority of Chinese like their system. How can a central government keep a billion people in line otherwise?
They don’t have to like their system, they just have to believe that no one else will join them against it.
How can a central government keep a billion people in line otherwise?
Uh, brainwashing and severely punishing any form of minor dissent. Disappearing people indiscriminately helps as well.
I guess that culture is so foreign I can’t really comprehend it. I feel like if somebody disappeared my family, anyone wearing a government uniform is fair game, from the party leaders all the way down to the post man.
That is a very American attitude. Not, historically, a Chinese one.
But some Chinese have balls the size of church bells, when it comes to freedom.
Historically, the Chinese would exterminate a whole family for the actions of one member.
The Chinese have never been free. That does not mean they have meekly accepted their enslavement:
List of Chinese rebellions.
The Taiping rebellion was a WWII size war, with somewhere around 50,000,000 killed.
Freedom and justice do not always, or even usually, win out in the end.
I’m also not convinced those rebellions were for freedom rather than for regime change.
As for the religious zealots in charge of the Taiping revolt… I have to go and reread what their doctrines were. I forgot.
Almost all rebellions are for regime change. Almost all rebels are fighting for freedom. Leaders lie.
Good book on the Taiping Rebellion.
Perhaps you’d feel different if you were the fourth or fifth generation of people living under a near-absolute media blackout of anything not approved by a ruling class and constant saturation of state-worship in your everyday life.
It’s nationwide Stockholm Syndrome. And it’s been generations in the works. It won’t end as long as they control the means of information distribution, which they’re slowly losing their grip on. China will splinter in the next couple of generations now that that information is more difficult to control. And it’ll be messy.
You’re right. I just can’t fathom being that beat down. It’s really sad 1 in 7 humans live that way.
Freedom has never really been a thing with the Chinese. Cultural, racial, religion, whatever – they’ve been generally obedient peasants for millennia.
I don’t think freedom has been a thing in nearly any culture historically. America was an outlier . . and we’re losing that as time passes. Most people like to be controlled.
The larger the population, the average person has more people he hates and wants to see fucked over by the government.
It’s much easier when they are disarmed.
Bloomy identifying as Chinese? Bold move.
Looks like Sweden is getting a lesson in Chinese tact and diplomacy.
The deplorables have coronavirus coming to them or something.
Why do we need to spend 2.5 billion in Corona virus?
To put a big beautiful wall around the ports and airports.
The viruses aren’t sending their best.
I mean there’s no treatment, so I don’t know what the funding would be going towards. It’s just an odd PR move from the party of universal healthcare and free puppies.
Shorter Democrats: “All your crisis are belong to us.”
Heard that today. The corona virus will show how important it is for state run insurance. It’s the fire department argument all over again.
1. OrangeManBad
2. Surge spending doesn’t create permanent jobs
That’s a good question. I’m now wondering how much it costs to make a vaccine from scratch. The pharma companies don’t just charge an arm and a leg because they can, but also because they have massive expenses to cover, yet $2.5B still seems too high.
They’re bitching that he cut funding from the CDC and now say he’s only asking for the money because of the cuts he made, which left us unprepared (for a disease that wasn’t even on our radar until it started halfway around the world).
Oh, and Schumer was whining last night that Trump’s trying to divert money from the Ebola czar’s office at the CDC for this. As if we need a fucking Ebola czar right now.
The CDC would have probably survived those cuts if they, you know, spent their time working on cures for diseases instead of politicizing gun control and other shot that’s outside their mission profile.
It’s mostly a bullshit claim. Trump eliminated the “Epidemic Czar” that Obama created and appointed a political staffer to.
And the CDC cuts were to the discretionary budget.
The money that was cut would have already been spent by now. The government doesn’t plan how to spend money, it spends money now even if it shouldn’t so that it will have the same amount of money to spend next year, whereupon it must be spent again to get the same amount the year after, and so on.
Much of the government is quite literally a machine for spending money, where things like promotion of the common welfare, providing for the national defense, or preventing the spread of disease are occasional side effects of the spending.
I’ve mentioned before that the waste, fraud, and abuse I witnessed in the Army really thrust me onto the anarcho-libertarian path. One of the biggest culprits was our annual end of the fiscal year range time. We spent a week or so down at Ft. Hunter-Liggett shooting off the millions of rounds of 20mm, .50, 5.56, 9mm, and 40mm grenades we had in our ammo supply building. This, I was told, was strictly a consequence of baseline budgeting and was done to insure an even greater amount of ammunition was purchased for the following fiscal year.
I have said before, but I cannot fathom what things were like before baseline budgeting. I’m almost tempted to say we can’t possibly come up with a more wasteful system than this, but then again this is the government and they’ll always find a more wasteful path.
I’ll never forget the connex boxes full of MREs we had in Iraq…..when we had two chow halls, Pizza Hut, Burger King, a PX loaded with snacks to buy, etc. Guys used to root through the MREs for stuff they wanted, like the Combos and pound cake and cheese spread, and throw the rest into a big pile of crap. We ended up with a rat problem for a while because of the pile of half-eaten MREs.
Back in garrison, our maintenance chief used to tell us to order whatever random shit we wanted when it was getting to be the end of the fiscal year to make sure we spent all of our budgeted funds and didn’t risk a lower budget the next year.
As if we need a fucking Ebola czar right now.
or ever… Ebola is not a threat to us at all. It is a jungle disease and has no real path to spread here.
I’m new here and I don’t know what kind of culture you’ve got going on, but I’ve gotta say that so many of you doing the “first!” thing in the comments really reflects poorly on the website. It was retarded back in 2006 or whenever it was popular and it’s even worse now.
Hey, I like the new guy. Now talk about race and IQ.
so?
Oh no! What will they say at the next Reddit meetup?
A whatsits meetup? I thought we stopped doing that pidgin thing.
/puts on fake glasses
/pushes them up
/takes off fake glasses
Back in the before time, there was a poster who had found the pre-publish URL of articles and would get the first post so regularly, it was believed he was a member of the staff (their posting schedule wasn’t as structured as the one here).
Yes, really you should say “Fist!”
Also a true first must a) reference the links in some fashion and b) contain formatting.
That is the proper etiquette
“That is the proper etiquette”
It has been seen, the thing that you did.
Bah, rules are for losers.
1. Fuck off, Tulpa
2. The proper response is to link to the Bee article: https://babylonbee.com/news/confirmed-people-who-comment-first-shall-be-last-in-kingdom-of-heaven
Also, also: 2006? It was old well before that. What are you, twelve?
Also, welcome aboard.
I’m afraid Tulpa here will think saying Fuck Off, Tupla also reflects poorly on the website.
It is why I believe in the lurk before you post theory. If you don’t know the culture, you should probably hold off posting for a bit. Or jump right it and take your lumps like a good Tulpa*. Whatever.
*I realize there is no such thing as a good Tulpa.
Well i mean we’re all Tulpa, so really that is just a judgment on you.
Fuck off,
Tulpaslaver!Clearly we have a culture of retardation.
Did somebody say something about cake?
No, no they did not.
:Locks eyes with UCS:
:Begins swinging arms like a whirling dervish:
is it time 4 8008135 yet?!11 LOL!
I have been accused of having “ape-like” strength.
But we don’t rule the night. We don’t, nobody does.
culture of retardation
This is why I have to stay up late studying, just so I can keep up intellectually with the rest of you retards
T&A can make men retarded.
I miss the first gifs, especially the Steve Smith one.
Wow, way to make that first impression, Tulpa.
^This.
Apparently you haven’t wandered into a Subaru Horror Theater article then. Cause saying “first” is pretty boring compared to that.
Maybe he’ll still be around tomorrow.
This will help you understand the kind of culture we’ve got going on. And it is a culture. We have a creation myth and everything.
it’s Tulpas all the way down.
He probably thinks Q’s links are sophomoric.
Wait until the next Hat and Hair episode drops.
Freshmoric?
The childish “First” thing is how we managed to get our Family Friendly certification.
How we keep it is one of Life’s Great Mysteries.
Nobody bothers to double-check.
My theory is that their reviewers are so scarred by The Hat and the Hair that they are unable to yank our site from their approved list.
Fuck off Tulpa?
I’ve gotta say that so many of you doing the “first!” thing in the comments really reflects poorly on the website.
Just wait until you read something by SugarFree or STEVE SMITH.
Oh, STEVE’s writing isn’t that bad.
reflects poorly on the website
*Unzips*
Fuck Off Tulpa! (Welcome!)
Seriously though, out of all of the things that reflect poorly on the website, THAT’s what you picked out?
FUCK OFF, TULPA!
Yeah, but did drugs fall out of the Tulpa’s ass?
Students and staff interviewed as part of the investigation by the CPS inspector general reported “a variety of improper testing procedures. … This included everything from attempts to game the system to coaching to outright cheating.”
Chicago teachers clearly need to strike for a pay-raise seeing as they are excellent at their jobs.
After he was dethroned, the aging man survived several charges leveled against him, including killing more than 800 protesters, even though his security forces used lethal force in attempts to end any challenges to his rule.
However, he was still convicted in a corruption-related case, for which he served three years in prison.
“However”.
Blame Canada.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/canada-a-dead-country-walking/
As the great Rex Murphy wrote in the National Post: “We don’t have a government in Ottawa; we have an Instagram page with executive authority. And it is a disaster, not because it is Liberal, but because it is led by a dilettante playacting the part of prime minister. The events of recent days show him palpably fading in authority, presence and capacity.”
A Fucken Men.
An injection was issued to remove the fake paid protestors from the rail blockades and somehow it took the cops weeks to fulfill it. As usual, something stinks and if you follow the smell it leads back, I bet, to Justin’s asshole.
He thinks he’s fooling people.
“An injection was issued to remove the fake paid protestors from the rail blockades”
Heroin?
god dang it fricken bloody auto-fix.
INJUNCTION.
Adidose to the protesters. amirite?
STEVE SMITH GIVE OUT FREE INJECTIONS TO ALL PROTESTOR
An injection was issued to remove the fake paid protestors from the rail blockades and somehow it took the cops weeks to fulfill it.
They sure stuck it to them.
They did get right to the point.
They seem to have hit a nerve.
The New York lawmaker added, “We have a crisis of coronavirus and President Trump has no plan, no urgency, no understanding of the facts or how to coordinate a response.”
Aren’t there existing government agencies that are responsible for such things?
And Trump also hasn’t figured out cold fusion.
Right? The president’s entire “coordination” should consist of delegating responsibility to a professional and then letting them do their job.
Multiple sources familiar with the briefing told CBS News that Pierson had not stated that Russia was actively aiding Mr. Trump’s reelection. Rather, those sources said, the assessment she delivered, which drew from intelligence collected over a period of months from several agencies, indicated that the Russian government had established a preference for Mr. Trump.
The subtle but important distinction, sources pointed out, was in Moscow demonstrating a desire for a given outcome – while not yet taking concerted steps to bring it about.
Even that sounds fishy. A preference for the cartoon villain? as compared to whom? for what reason?
Trump is making the Intel Community reneg! because he hates the Truth!
My favourite Harrison songs are ‘Here comes the sun’ and ‘All things must pass’.
That first Traveling Wilbury’s album is fantastic. I remember when I bought it Orbison had just died and the girl at the desk said in French as she looked at the CD, ‘there’s one who’s dead in there right?’
Some people didn’t deserve their record jobs. What irritated me about this little episode is I applied for a job at Disqus and they never called me. Tell you what, I wouldn’t be making stupid cracks like that to customers.
Ditto on the Wilbury’s. Held up well over time and I know that because I never hear it on any elevators.
Heard Tweeter and the Monkey Man on the radio recently. That was nice. I think that is an objectively awful song, but I love it.
Bad songs are under rated. Yes, I was listening to Cutting Crew on my Iphone the other day as I walked into a coffee shop. I took out my ear buds (because I’m not an asshole like kids these days) to place my order and the same song was playing at the shop. I just died.
in your arms?
tonight?
I should have walked away.
I associate that song with one specific girl from High School.
And regret.
because I’m not an asshole like kids these days
I give up trying to not be an asshole….
Yeah, I’m an entirely different kind of asshole than kids these days.
Rank amateurs.
Please NO PUNS. I’m embroiled in a series of puns involving the names of Finnish hockey players and it has, as you’d expect from immature men, gotten a tad out of control.
No puns? Where do you think you are?
Vatanen are you talking about?
DON’T START.
I was Tikkanen around in my garage and found a great recipe for Kurri. Then I had to draw the Laine at that or else the Haula of puns would be too much.
If we don’t start how can we ever Finnish?
Just calm down, take a deep breath, go outside and run a few Lapps around the block and you’ll be fine.
I had something similar happen with this song recently, although it was at a gas station I walked into after getting out of my car and turning off that radio. And had a similar feeling about a girl from high school.
Also, the 67 GTO he drove was quite possibly the most beautiful muscle car ever constructed. One day I’ll own one. It’s a priority in my life to own one.
I’m partial to the 1971 Plymouth GTX, myself.
I had this happen:
Me: Do you have the B-52s?
Kid: Can you spell it?
No joke.
I had a friend in the ’70s who had the convertible exactly like this one.
https://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=94496&country=us
It really is a gorgeous car.
Now I’m wondering if those wipers are too small for the windshield.
It was mocking Springsteen songs, listen to all the Jersey and Americana references.
Jeff Lynne also helped into creating Petty’s Full Moon Fever – another outstanding record.
^Cette.
Wilburys are getting thin on the ground these days. Still 2 left, I guess.
Bob Dylan and the other guy are left!
Jeff Lynne.
Yes. I know.
THAT’S THE JOKE.
He was the least know one in the group.
Who would’ve guessed Dylan would outlast Petty and Harrison. He’s look like an amphetamine addict since he first became an amphetamine addict.
She was giving you shit for the apostrophe-S.
Ted transitioned?
Got the apostrophe turned into a period.
Stupid and juvenile. Well done! (lol)
Really enjoyed the “Concert for George” that, IIRC, Clapton organized. Highlights: Billy Preston covering “My Sweet Lord” and Dhani on stage with his “elders.” Sir Paul quoted Olivia saying, “It’s as if we all got old and George stayed young.”
McG, I missed last night’s post about your Dad; I’m so sorry to hear about that. My Dad has been gone for almost two years and I still feel his loss very keenly.
Funny how different people are. You mention your Dad’s hoarding tendencies; mine was just the opposite. As he passed ninety he seemed determined to lead an increasingly Spartan existence, and kept almost nothing from his younger years except a horrible old brown quilted vest he had bought sometime in the 1950s; the last photo I have of him before his final illness, he is wearing that vest. Every one of my siblings and I had bought him newer vests, but he would claim he didn’t like them and give them away.
Forget the frustrating stuff and remember the good stuff. That’s what I’m trying to do.
I just saw that and plan to read it later. Thanks, McG.
It was the most tasteful handling of porn I’ve read. Good stuff.
Thanks Animal, and all the others that commented late.
Titty Tuesday did not have sex with John Oates.
http://archive.li/3EoMN
22 is easily the best, using the Prole ranking algorithm.
Good morning, Sloopy!
And a good morning to all of you groovy Glibs.
I’m gonna hope one of you with more knowledge can make sense of trade deadline deals.
Like always, we won’t know until after the season. The hard cap, long contracts and no-trade clauses make big deals really hard. And an NBA-style bust-up virtually impossible. I was surprised to see the Rangers trade Skjei, but good for the ‘Canes. He’s a stud. Wild did nothing after the Zucker trade last week, although there was some steam about trading Parise to the Islanders. Hawks traded Robin Lehner to the Golden Knights, which was smart for both (although if I were Chicago I would have considered extending him). The trade deadline is interesting, but teams are often reluctant to do anything crazy unless there is a real chance to make a deep run. There will be a lot more action at the draft.
Blues, Caps, Bruins and Pens all look scary good. I’m looking forward to the playoffs.
The startup article made me wonder if there are any journalists older than 30. Those of us who witnessed the late ’90s implosion have a difficult time seeing this one as anything but a solid meh.
A profit, you say? Why, that’s so crazy it just might work!
Fabulous songs. GH songs are a great way to start the day.
” I was surprised to see the Rangers trade Skje”
metoo.
But here’s one explanation: https://elitesportsny.com/2020/02/24/new-york-rangers-news-team-trades-brady-skjei-to-carolina-hurricanes/
Short version: extending Kreider’s contract meant they needed to free up cap space.
Not disappointed about losing Skjei. I am glad we got to lead the league in car accident announcements though. Igor is soft I’m putting it on record now.
Skjei is a stud? Ummmm, I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Skjei has all the physical tools to be a standout defenseman – size, strength, speed – but he has the hockey IQ of a stump.
IF he ever figured out how to actually play defense, he could be a stud. That much I’ll agree with and, given the track record of Rangers defensemen once they leave, he probably will. Even Dan freaking Girardi looked functional in Tampa, Shattenkirk has returned to form, and Neal Pionk has played great for Winnipeg.
From the article I linked to:
“After his rookie season, it just never seemed to work for Skjei. Despite that, the Rangers rewarded the mediocre defenseman with a large contract extension. He was never the top-pair stud the Rangers needed him to be, and his 2019-20 campaign on Broadway has inconsistent.”
Yep. I don’t know what happened to him after his rookie year, but he’s been pretty bad since then.
Trouba’s been a huge disappointment too. Adam Fox has been a revelation, though. That kid could win a Norris someday. Lindgren has been pretty good, too, and Nils Lundqvist should be on this side of the pond next year.
Yeah, he hasn’t lived up to the hype from a couple years ago.
Sometimes it just doesn’t work on a particular team or with a particular partner. I like the kid and hope Carolina works out for hem.
Yeah, he was very likeable. Sorry to see him go.
Right but why should you give up significant assets for a player that a) “doesn’t work” on the team that is trading him away and b) is paid an amount commensurate with hype that he hasn’t lived up to?
The shift to profit making isn’t quite as nuts as it sounds. In the tech world, you aren’t expected to provide a return on investment to the angel investors. You are supposed to gobble up market share and gain presence with a half baked product with promise, then you spend 20 years not turning a profit as the share price soars and revenue grows but the profits all get plowed back into R&D.
The notion of an actual ROI doesn’t exist.
See Amazon.com.
The key part of that.
Thing is, with Amazon, they are at a point where they could sit there continuing to provide services and making money. Most of these places didn’t reach the point where there was anything resembling a sufficient income stream to do anything but continue to burn venture funds on operating expenses.
I have a soft spot in my heart for Lime because they trolled the Minneapolis city council.
They were the company that just dumped their scooters all over Minneapolis without asking permission from their betters in city government.
The upside of coronavirus is that it may cause Trump to force the CDC to focus on its core mission instead of its political bullshit.
Haha, good one.
They’ll lobby for more money so they’ll have more money to lobby with. Then they can settle down to the important stuff, like the gun epidemic. And the Big Gulp epidemic.
“China is a country ruled by law.”
And the law is what we say it is.
Droit d’ Seigneur
Prima nocta?
Y’all are a bunch of prudes. It’s One Night, just pay your share of the tax like everyone else.
As mentioned yesterday, the easy recipe for a quick knock off lemon curd:
Lemon Jam (Makes about 1 cup)
2 large lemons, (4-5 ounces each)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil (feel free to swap out for any oil).
(additional flavorings herbs, extracts, etc)
Slice and seed the fruit (discard the tough ends of the lemons) cut each lemon into eighths, and then slice in half. Remove seeds as you go.
Using a food processor, processes the fruit with the sugar and salt until it reaches a coarse puree. At this point, with the motor running, drizzle in the olive oil. If you have any flavorings, add them at this point, and puree until you have a thick “jam”.
Recipe lifted from the Improvisational Cook.
One warning given in the book is that if you use Meyer lemons, it won’t quite thicken up as much, and the thinner skinned lemons you can find the better.
Lemon curry?
Tard Tuesday: Hi-Fidelity
The tons of people locked in cages were somebody’s children.
I’m a sheeple people.
Fellating murderous dictators is a sure path to electoral success. Keep it up kidz!
“I will scream at you and you will like it.”
I mean, it worked in Starship Troopers.
Great movie, aside from the pancake titties.
That’s all I have to add here.
Fidel didn’t lock any body’s children in cages
I see you couldn’t correctly read the history book cause you had communist boot leather all down your throat.
Caging children is a luxury, Fidel had to put them to work in the cane fields because he needed the money.
Technically, the 16,000 or so people executed by Castro’s regime were released from their cages.
Saying no one was or is locked in Cuban cages is either an obvious lie or massive ignorance.
Paging John Derbyshire…
Pretty sure everyone at Glibs is familiar with Derb’s quote, but just in case they’re not…
Are they advocating that Trump being summarily executing immigrants here?
Cuba is light years ahead of anything done by neo-liberals
They’re so far ahead, they appear to be moving backwards?
Stuck in the 50s.
Bless your heart.
Startups that once touted fast growth are changing their tune. Brad Bao, chief executive of Lime, wrote in a blog post last month that his scooter company was withdrawing from 12 cities and had shifted its “primary focus” to making a profit.
It’s crazy. A couple of spectacular scams like WeWork and Theranos, and all of a sudden people start wondering what’s behind the curtain.
The profs who teach corporate social responsibility in business school can’t die fast enough.
They are welcomed to found all the Woke Companies they want. Just don’t look to me for investment in it…
I was going to make a comment on how Enron precipitated the previous crash, but the Enron scandal didnt break until 2001. Huh, I would have bet anything on 1999.
IIRC, Nortel was the first to fall.
I was in the cellular industry at the time and it was volatile to say the least.
I thought the final straw was the IPO of VA Linux. A friend of mine was a paper millionaire for a few minutes.
https://www.channelfutures.com/open-source/open-source-history-the-spectacular-rise-and-fall-of-va-linux
Yeah, there were a bunch of those companies. I briefly made a 5000% gain on an investment and was too stupid to sell it immediately.
But Nortel was the first major company to admit that its books were a disaster. As soon as they went public with it, the rest of them decided to finally admit it as well and the entire tech sector came crashing down.
Yup, I did the same thing with Sun. Maybe not 5000%, but pushing 10x.
That is where I learned the hard way:
Bulls make money, bears make money, hogs get slaughtered.
I didnt want to pay the tax on my gains. So I held. Still got out with a profit, but it was tiny.
Nortel’s fraud wasn’t revealed until 2003
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel#Accounting_restatements
It was already imploding due to popping revenue.
I’m not referring to the fraud. That was definitely revealed later.
Ag, gotcha. Apologies, when you said books, I though you meant the cooking portion not just the initial slump in revenue.
The telecom crash was in 2001, and so was the dot com crash roughly. As the economy started imploding, the frauds and misstatements were harder to hide, particularly when forensic accounting went through after the previous regimes were booted for failing to make numbers. Equipment manufacturers (Nortel, Lucent) and upstart service providers (Global Crossing, WorldCom, Qwest, etc) among many others.
The scams are only supposed to happen to the idiot influencers who went to FyreFest, not the investors! Although I am loving the string of documentaries about all the scams.
@Jarflax (and whomever it may concern)
Sorry i dropped a joke about Modi executing 100 muslims in front of Trump, and then forgot about it until later that night. Not sure why but the idea of a.) A president just sitting there and watching an execution made me laugh, i guess i’m just a horrible person. b) it’s the kind of extreems you have to go to to parody the types at DU.
But as for your assessment of my attitudes towards Trump. You are probably right.
The Trumpsters are out in full force bragging about the welcome Trump got in India. Of course the Indians love Trump, but it’s only because he’s constantly talking shit about China.
Good enough for me.
China and Iran are like the two bullies at the end of the street you eventually have to confront.
China certainly are fuckheads. The Iran thing is a bit more complicated. Doesn’t seem to me like they sow more discord in the region than, say, Saudi Arabia. I may be biased because of the proximity of China.
Dalmia was hysterically shrieking about how Trump secretly destroyed India by way of Modi or something a while back.
Why would you apologize for that? Write it up as a short story, man!
I’m apologizing for dropping a joke and then forgetting about it. Not for the joke.
I don’t get what you’re apologizing for.
And….NEVER APOLOGIZE.
My take is if people demand one it’s because they want blood.
The conditions for an appology – you honestly made a mistake, and the other party will accept the appology as a move towards reconciliation rather than a confession of weakness.
Tard Tuesday: DOOOOOOOMMMMMMM…..
Somebody forgot to take his Lithium…
Sunday morning is every day for all he cares
So, what do we think this looks like going forward? We look like Russia? Toxic. Unequal. Minorities harrassed. Opposition journalists and political leaders murdered? The middle class pandered to with cheap trinkets and a superficial lifestyle? Government lies and coverup rule the day?
We need more Democracy so that the minorities are protected. And we need to give free shit away so that the corporations can’t pander to the middle class. And end this admin that started the government on the track to lying and coverups.
Even that was too much for DU? Only two thumbs up!
“I’m sick and tired of being scared and sad.”
i think your troubles run deeper than Trump.
I can’t even begin to express how fun it has been watching the American left go from Stalin apologists to histrionic McCarthyites. Is there anything Trump can’t do?
Yep. Talk about whiplash.
“…from Stalin apologists to histrionic McCarthyites.”
I think they’re being both at the same time.
how completely and rapidly and utterly he has put this country into chaos
Facilitated by the likes of NPCNN, MSDNC, etc.
I’m sick and tired of being scared and sad.
So stop letting yourself be propagandized. Be skeptical. And grow the fuck up.
Fuck China.
Seriously. I wish we could all collectively in the West turn around and moon the assholes.
Not popular idea with the Reason crowd, but we should do everything possible to distance ourselves economically and every other way from that place.
Free trade is going to end totalitarianism any day now.
That was the argument used back in the 1990s. It was the prevailing belief at least when I was in university. The theory was ‘they will modernize being part of our advanced economies.’ and trade helps to do that. It worked with Japan but Japan is a different cat from China. Same with Korea.
Except China beats to its own drum. Always did; always will.
We gave it a shot. It didn’t work. Time to pivot.
Yep. I bought into the liberalization-through-trade theory for a long time, but China has obviously proven that theory to have some holes.
I know this has been hashed out a lot on here, but here is my big problem with the opposition to free trade in this respect. It sets up an almost impossible standard and then says that because Free Trade hasn’t delivered an American Style democracy in China, it must have failed.
I’m not saying that no free trader never made such claims, but the idea that because those claims were not met means that free trade failed to liberalize China seems silly. Of course such things as “Freedom” are hard to measure and there are probably aspects of Chineese life that have gotten less free. But thats true for everywhere. I would dare say that in general the average person in china is better off because of free trade than not.
It worked with Japan but Japan is a different cat from China. Same with Korea.
Japan was America’s vassal state and Korea a protectorate. Of course they would develop along different lines than an independent and oppositional China.
That wasn’t real free trade.
It does raise the question about if you are a free trade absolutionist if you should allow trade with all countries, even if they have slavery.
Reason would take the position it’s better to be open and we can nag them into doing the right thing it sounds like these days.
Problem is China has a lot of shit we do need.
It didn’t until we gave them all the factories and technology needed to make it and shut down domestic production.
“we gave them”
The US Government doesn’t own those factories and has no say in where they should be built. If you don’t want factories in china then buy them up yourself and move them back.
Who said anything about the government?
We as a large group of people making stupid decisions together.
They are also really good at ignoring our nagging while forcefully censoring what reaches their people – to the point where Hollywood now caters to their sensibilities.
The lie that will not die.
This guy is more George Wallace than he is George Washington … When in fact all those folks came out of the fields in Charlottesville, Virginia — close your eyes, and remember, friends, what you saw on that television — you saw people coming out of fields with lighted torches at night, spewing hate, antisemitic bile, accompanied by white supremacists and Ki Klux Klan, and in fact when a young woman was killed, resisting the hate, they asked the president what he thought, what did he think? He said there were, quote, “very fine people on both sides.” No president has ever done anything like that.
Idk if he is senile or dishonest.
And GW was a slave-owner. Democrats supposedly hate him now, despite his historical significance. To my knowledge, Wallace was just racist (and Democrat…). I don’t understand this comparison, Joe.
The establishment left need certain narratives to be true. For Joe Biden he abolutely needs the narrative that Trump is a white supremacist to be true. It allows him to LARP being a civil right warrior, and gives him some sense of moral grounding.
“Idk if he is senile or dishonest.”
Well, RS, he could be both.
If I had been a member of this club I’d still be married to both my ex-wives
He’s a polygamist!
Brilliant.
What a bunch of fucking bitches.
Loved. That.
Morning, Glibs! I’m back. Cheers and good tidings to all of you.
Does anyone in the world give more hilarious press conferences than the Iranians?
https://twitter.com/ksadjadpour/status/1232287585235501056
Baghdad Bob was the greatest press man of all time.
*in handcuffs* “I am touring the ruined camps of the defeated American invaders.”
Tulpa reunion?
Howdy Switzy!
I’m sick and tired of being scared and sad.
Whatever, dude. Take your meds.
It’s almost like socialism requires authoritarianism.
Sanders stated, “[W]hen Fidel Castro first came to power…he initiated a major literacy program. There [were] a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate, and he formed a literacy brigade…they went out and they helped people learn to read and write. You know what? I think teaching people to read and write is a good thing. I have been extremely consistent and critical of all authoritarian regimes all over the world, including Cuba, including Nicaragua, including Saudi Arabia, including China, including Russia. I happen to believe in democracy, not authoritarianism. But, you know, you can’t say — China is another example. China is an authoritarian country, becoming more and more authoritarian. But can anyone deny — I mean, the facts are clear, that they have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any country in history.”
holy shit. that guy is a moron.
Some Bernie classics from the 80’s:
So, he didn’t clue in that foreign tourists were given a very curated experience when inside the USSR?
Of course not. No one has ever claimed that Bernie is the sharpest tool in Congress.
Given the competition… that’s just sad.
That government issued tour guide is just there to make sure you have a good time.
The Moscow subway is and was impressive. Definitely to anyone who grew up in NYC.
I’m not sure about 1988 but in 1990 foreign tourists in Moscow were on their own and could do and see whatever they wanted.
I’m 80% sure the protocol hadn’t yet cracked in 1988.
From what I’ve read, the NYC subway hasn’t been improved much since it was taken over by the government in the 1940s(?), following a foundering caused by government instituting price controls on the privately owned system. So if the Moscow system was built any time later, I’m not surprised it is better.
Note that he didn’t say the Soviet Union.
I mean, the facts are clear, that they have taken more people out of extreme poverty than any country in history.”
Don’t want to play the pronoun game, but I’m guessing Bernie means “The CCP” when he says “they”.
He can’t help himself. There’s no way he can hide his admiration for Communist dictatorships.
I hope it sinks the dirty commie.
I can’t believe it won’t. As stupid as the American electorate largely is, I can’t believe we’ve sunk so low as to elect an out and proud Marxist.
It definitely won’t help him win Florida back from Trump.
The only human beings alive that can possibly be dumber are his sycophants nodding along to his drivel.
It’s just such bullshit anyway. China is the semi-industrialized country that makes all or shit because human life is still worth so little there. Lifting out of poverty my ass. Any money they make is from rich first worlders taking advantage of their bottom of the barrel labor costs.
Oh, missing one thing there.
I think teaching people to read and write only what we allow them to is a good thing.
Now, we got it right.
Look I think crime prevention is a good thing, and no one can deny that Dracos regime in Athens worked to prevent crime.
also, does anyone really believe this state-reported “fact” of 100% literacy?
Everyone who took our paper survey was literate….
We had to double-check the results. Just to be sure.
“Everyone who responded to our written survey reported that they could read.”
I love how the lefty-elite swallow that “literacy” point without understanding that we’re talking about literacy in Spanish – pretty much the lowest of low hanging fruit in terms of learning to read it. It really takes no more than a couple weeks – if you spent a couple hours a day doing it – per person. They (obviously) hear this claim thinking about how difficult it is to bring illiterate English speakers up to literacy – without mentally processing that nobody is learning to read English in those countries.
While Spanish is considered easy to learn for speakers of other languages using the Latin alphabet, I don’t think learning Spanish as your first language is any easier than another language.
You’re missing the point.
Spanish is pronounced exactly the way it is written. There are only five vowels in Spanish. In written Spanish every letter – or combination of letters – is ALWAYS pronounced exactly the same way. If you area a native speaker of Spanish learning to read it is a trivial task.
Hwaet, just cause we go around bushwhacking other languages for verbiage doesn’t mean you cannae easily learn t’ read ye olde Anglish.
Your thorn key seems to be broken.
Aye. ’tis the limited size of this keyboard.
I don’t agree.
Yes, Spanish has a very strong phoneme-grapheme correspondence (as compared to, say, English, or perhaps even worse, Chinese).
This does not make teaching literacy in the language a trivial task. I would agree that a person teaching writing and reading to an elementary-level Spanish speaker does not need to focus on quite the same areas as a similarly situated teacher of English reading and writing. Phonics isn’t as complicated, for example. But it is still there. The mental association between the sound the mouth makes and the symbol on the page that represents that sound still has to be made. Then the mind still has to learn how to read words instead of just letters. Then it has to learn to read sentences and more complex grammatical constructions. Alongside all of this, there’s being able to read out loud, and being able to read faster than you could read out loud. By the time you’re able to read a great work of Spanish literature, you (and your teachers) have likely invested nearly the same amount of effort at the task as your English or Chinese speaking peers.
Never mind all of the learning disabilities that can impair literacy education. Spanish learners are not immune to dyslexia, dysgraphia, etc.
If you can read it, even with some difficulty, it’s not Old English. You are either reading Early Modern English or perhaps, but with increased difficulty, Middle English.
You’re reading a lot into a joke. I also rolled through a couple of accents and dialects. If you can understand it, it’s not scottish.
When UCS is telling you that you are reading too much into a joke….
I did try reading Beowulf in the original old english.
I can read all of… the first word. And only then because I looked it up.
Hwat! We Gar-dena in geardagum
What’s the connection he is trying to make anyway? When people are hungry, they will learn how to read?
Idk if it is true, but I heard that somewhere around 80% of the population of Cuba was literate when Castro took over. The literacy program was a propaganda program to brainwash the population.
Communists love to talk about achieving universal literacy while the whole rest of the world was achieving universal literacy at the same time. It’s barely above taking credit for the passage of time. In the 20th century, just about every place on Earth saw vast improvements in literacy, whether it was ruled by communists, fascists, socialists, foreign imperialists, liberals, conservatives, monarchists. Ironically, the most notable subversions of this trend occurred in failed communist states.
One time I was walking through a small town in rural Cuba and there was a one room school filled with children actively learning to read out loud in unison…..sitting on a dirt floor…..across the road from a guy plowing a field behind a team of oxen. And that was about 5 years ago. Just let that sink in.
Actually, that’s the US. Thanks for playing though,
The thing is, this statement is carefully formulated so that he is technically correct. The American system has provided more opportunity and has produced more wealth per capita, but since America has fewer people and since America has always been fairly successful (thereby having a much lower level of extreme poverty than most other places) it is true that China has taken more people out of extreme poverty.
I suspect its also true, on the same basis, that China has failed to take more people out of extreme poverty.
I suspect you are right.
China has taken more people out. Many of them were in poverty.
Now do that with Pinochet.
Best headline ever?
Belgian city says anti-Semitic parade ‘just fun’…
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51612541
Now do Muhammad…
Car Bombings are not conducive to “fun”
Hrmm… and Aloha Snack Bar float would be interesting…
They could give out little bags of mixed nuts.
I’m sensing a great idea for next year’s Mardi Gras. Thanks, UCS.
How Does Bernie Pay for His Major Plans?
Green New Deal
The $16.3 trillion climate change proposal that Bernie has introduced will fundamentally transform our energy system away from fossil fuel and towards energy efficiency and renewable energy. It will also create 20 million good-paying union jobs in the process.
It is fully paid for by:
*Raising $3.085 trillion by making the fossil fuel industry pay for their pollution, through litigation, fees, and taxes, and eliminating federal fossil fuel subsidies.
*Generating $6.4 trillion in revenue from the wholesale of energy produced by the regional Power Marketing Administrations. This revenue will be collected from 2023-2035, and after 2035 electricity will be virtually free, aside from operations and maintenance costs.
*Reducing defense spending by $1.215 trillion by scaling back military operations on protecting the global oil supply.
*Collecting $2.3 trillion in new income tax revenue from the 20 million new jobs created by the plan.
*Saving $1.31 trillion by reduced the need for federal and state safety net spending due to the creation of millions of good-paying, unionized jobs.
*Raising $2 trillion in revenue by making large corporations pay their fair share of taxes.
Now that is some government multiplier.
OFFS
That’s Krugabe math.
Spoken like true capitalist running dog scum! It will work! We just need to better calibrate the volume of unicorn farts to prime the perpetual motion machine!
assume an endless supply of everything we need.
Collecting $2.3 trillion in new income tax revenue from the 20 million new jobs created by the plan.
So he’s going to be collecting $100000 in income tax from each of the new jobs?
Yes. The job title is “Gulag Slave”, and he’s overstating the production like any government forecast.
Each job will produce $115,000,000 in taxes? Exactly how the fuck much will these jobs be paying, and how do I get one?
Well, first you take the land from the people who know how to farm, and give it to politically connected cronies. Then Bam, everyone is a hundred trillionaire
/Mugabe Method.
It looks like that is over a 13 year period.
Not even a 10 year plan anymore.
Generating $6.4 trillion in revenue from the wholesale of energy produced by the regional Power Marketing Administrations. This revenue will be collected from 2023-2035, and after 2035 electricity will be virtually free, aside from operations and maintenance costs.
Possibly the very worst idea in a list of worst ideas.
electricity will be virtually free, aside from operations and maintenance costs
“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”
Since electricity is nationalized, it won’t need to raise capital from its users. Its capital requirements will be funded via taxes. Of course, that multi-trillion tax bill isn’t mentioned. Whatever electrical generating capacity we have left will rot and decay, and we will truly have electricity equity with the Third World.
Man, I am so looking forward to this replay of the 1970s we’re so keen on having, but this time with the added benefit of woke puritanism!
And for all of those going through loss over the past several months, just remember:
― Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Vindictive is as vindictive does.
“Saslaw came up and said this to me, ‘Hey Stanley, you want to know why your sheriffs didn’t get a raise? Because they came to our committees and said that they weren’t going to enforce our laws.’ When I asked him which law was he talking about, he said, ‘Gun control.’”
In Virginia, 91 of the state’s 95 counties have passed some sort of measure affirming their support for Second Amendment sanctuaries.
“I was shocked that the Democrats are now punishing our local Sheriff’s Departments (by eliminating a pay raise for them), for their choice to protect and defend our citizens’ Second Amendment rights,” Stanley wrote in a now-viral Facebook post following the incident.
Saslaw told CBS, “All I said was a lot of people are upset that these people come in and say they’re not going to enforce my laws,” he told the network. “That’s all.”
David Campbell, vice chairman of the Effingham County Board in Illinois, told The Epoch Times he sees the incident as a “direct attack on Virginia’s sheriffs.”
“All representatives and senators take the same oath of office as the sheriffs do,” he said via email. “The sheriffs are only doing their job and what they were sworn to do, and that is to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.”
Merits of their argument be damned. Follow the law,
subjectcitizen.Dick, as always, is a dick.
If a giant sinkhole swallowed all of northern VA into the center of the earth, I wouldn’t shed a tear.
I would. That would drain the Chesapeake and kill off a lot of innocent crabs.
and delicious
Arguably, the law being followed is both the second amendment and the clause in the Virginia constitution that says the crap being spewed from Richmond is illegal.
Article 1, section 13, which goes into more detail than 2A. What they are proposing, especially the house and senate gun-ban bills, are inarguably unconstitutional.
hey’re not going to enforce my laws
well hopalong, maybe if your laws were legal…
Sundown Joe:
Zach Parkinson
✔
@AZachParkinson
Joe Biden claimed tonight that he worked with Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping on the Paris Climate Accord.
Except the current Chinese President is Xi Jinping.
Deng Xiapoing left office in 1992 and has been dead for 23 years.
Didn’t he also mistake Theresa May for Margaret Thatcher?
Yep
Dude really needs to just go home. It is sad at this point.
And said his son was the Attorney General?
And said he (Joe) was running for the Senate.
The double standard is really sad.
“Hurr-durr, Trump said hamberders. He’s unfit for office.” -CNN
“Biden said his son was AG and that he is running for the Senate. He’s a quality candidate.”
-also CNN
Blackhawks management continues to disappoint. One analysis I saw, based on the probability of a prospect or pick playing in the NHL, put the trades at 2 NHL players exchanged for a total of .93 NHL players. I’m done giving the GM ad coach the benefit of the doubt. Time to clean house.
As someone who last saw my team hoist the Cup 26 years ago, I can’t say I’m terrible sympathetic to the lamentations of Blackhawk fans. You guys had a helluva run.
All I know is the next draft is considered to be one of the deepest ever. If you’re a bubble team, forget the playoffs. You’re not beating Boston, Washington, Pittsburgh or even St. Louis, Colorado and Tampa in a seven game series – the main teams to get to the cup. Throw in Vegas if you wish.
Stock up on the picks.
Lamouriello may have overpaid for Pageau. I know the Islanders need help on offence and needed a Trotz kind of player but that’s a lot for a 2nd/3rd line, albeit very good, player. But i guess the Islanders being in Brooklyn HAVE to make the playoffs this year.
Main teams to beat that is.
He overpaid a bit in the deal itself and then overpaid in a big way on the contract extension. Lou’s going senile. He also tried to bring in Zach Parise, who has the worst contract in the league. I’m very sorry it didn’t happen.
I was hoping the Parise deal would get done. It still may in the offseason. Gonna be interesting in the locker room today, though.
How do you clean house with all the long contracts and NTCs?
And I agree with Chipwooder, you guys had a hell of a run. Wild have finished in the middle of the pack for 20 years. Boring.
I mean get rid of the GM and coach. They fired Q last year and have managed to get worse.
So…the Blackhawks are down?
Hot! (no homo) Although, my inner NCO really wants you to get rid of those eyeglasses and put on your horrible, rubber, mask insert frames that everyone else has to wear in the field. 😉
“I believe in unions, but…”
His talk ― at times emotional, the staffers said, with Uygur throwing his papers to the ground at one point, and chastising an employee ― seemed to contradict the progressive, worker-first ethos that TYT broadcasts to its millions of lefty followers. Jack Gerard, who is acting as the company’s chief operating officer as Uygur runs for Congress in California, told the staff they were not discouraging unionization.
But the message from Uygur was clear ― and, to at least some staffers, discouraging.
“We generally feel disappointed, but unshaken,” said one staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. “We feel it’s the right thing to do because of what TYT values.”
In an interview with HuffPost, Uygur said he is a strong supporter of unions, especially at large corporations that aren’t sharing profits with their workers. But he said he worries a unionized workforce would bring new legal and bureaucratic costs that TYT can’t sustain. The network has a growing subscription base and has raised venture capital money, but faces many of the same headwinds as other online media dealing with the collapse of ad revenue.
Hey, Cenk – If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage…
/go play by your own rules.
It worked great for the Big Three. Just don’t make me follow the same rules.
I don’t think it is true irony, but it’s hilarious!
It has a nicely karmic undertone that just gives it that perfect touch.
It definitely seems like poetic justice to me.
Crazy talk
President Trump criticized remarks by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg as “inappropriate” and said the Supreme Court justices should recuse themselves from cases involving the president.
“I just don’t know how they cannot recuse themselves for anything Trump or Trump related,” Trump said Tuesday in a wide-ranging news conference in New Delhi.
“What Justice Sotomayor said yesterday was highly inappropriate,” Trump added. “She’s trying to shame people with perhaps a different view into voting her way.”
Doesn’t he know it is definitionally impossible for judges to be biased?
That’s a pretty bold strategy. Let’s seesaw it plays out in the court of public opinion.
Auto-correct knows you’re a dad.
I mentioned it last night, don’t know if it will help, but Tulsi signs are covering my part of SC. I have literally not seen one for any other candidate.
The last time I saw anything like this was before Rand Paul was elected to the Senate the first time, driving from Owensboro to Bowling Green, it was all Paul signs.
You moved from a land of libertarians to a land of socialists.
South Carolina is socialist?
A Miami man who flew to China worried he might have coronavirus. He may owe thousands.
“In 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration rolled back Affordable Care Act regulations and allowed so-called “junk plans” in the market. Consumers mistakenly assume that the plans with lower monthly costs will be better than no insurance at all in case of a medical catastrophe, but often the plans aren’t very different from going without insurance altogether.”
It’s all orange man’s fault!
You’re too stupid to buy your own insurance. We’ll have this group of experts tell you what is the right amount.
The final bill of $1400 will be less than what he saves in one year by going with the “junk” plan, which amounts to $2640.
This whole article is just one giant whine about trade-offs. Pay less for insurance = pay more out of pocket.
Poor, poor Special K. She’s about 5 minutes from slapping the shit out of Buttigieg because there is no way that he would be so popular if he was a woman.
Which is rich coming from a woman who won her office mainly because most Minnesodans liked her dad (a popular newspaper columnist).
Tune in to CBS tonight – it could happen!
I mean he’s totally the asshole here. He’s a Man, and we know that a woman could never be an over reactive jerk, and then seek sympathy points for it. The kicker is she’ll claim he was gas-lighting her when she’s trying to gaslight everyone into thinking she was totally justified in assuming the absolute worst about the man.
Have we debated reclining vs. not reclining on an airplane before?
I don’t need to recline the seat back unless the person in front of me has reclined theirs.
I also prefer the exit row so my femurs fit in the available space.
I’m 6’3″ and close to 300lbs with a bony ass. I’m damn well reclining my seat. I’m too tall for it in the first place and I need weight distributed some onto my back due to the bony ass. I refuse not to recline.
By debating you mean screeching and flinging poo at each other? I don’t think that has happened, yet.
Who’s the asshole here?
It might be the one trying to conjure an internet lynch mob.
If he didn’t want to catch Twitter hell he would have been born with shorter legs.
Not everyone can be the size of Nanny Bloomers.
Look the seat there is allowed to lean back so i don’t really care. But don’t act like a deranged lunatic if you lean your seat back and it gets kicked.
The seat can recline, but does that mean you should? The airlines might be the biggest assholes here, by cramming more seats on a plane and not removing the ability to recline.
^^^^ This
Since when did it become ok to act like this n
Uffda. Did she just call out a POC? And if you are gonna make a racist statement, why use the “n word” and not use the real epithet?
If she didn’t want the guy behind her bumping her seat when she reclined it she should’ve purchased a first-class seat. See how that works, Carli?
Dude didn’t start bumping the seat until she reclined, which implies that she entered his space by reclining the seat. Maybe he did it on purpose, but it’s just as likely he really couldn’t move without bumping her. She seems to expect complete strangers to somehow know that she’s a Very Important Person who didn’t get enough sleep and needs her rest, but, of course, doesn’t give a shit about what the guy might happen to be dealing with. Yes, the airlines keep squeezing people into shitty spaces and will do so until it stops increasing their profits. So, you know, don’t fly. Or if you’ve decided that’s not a feasible option, then fly and I guess complain in the hopes that Delta will spontaneously decide to retrofit their planes in order to make less money per flight.
And so, obviously, the answer is: the man is the asshole because of the patriarchy.
I’m not quite 5’7″ and I can’t help occasionally bumping the seat in front of me when it’s fully reclined. If my munchkin ass has trouble, anyone of normal height certainly will inadvertently bump it.
I don’t understand how anyone can even sleep on a plane. You’re crammed in a little tube with strangers coughing and sneezing all over one another. I’m keeping my eyes open.
It’s more the “I’m five or six miles up with no safe way down if there’s a problem” that keeps me awake.
That doesn’t both me, because there is no safe way down, so no need to worry. If the planes came with emergency parachutes, then I would worry. And pay attention during the instructions.
The problems that can be addressed through action don’t worry me.
The ones that can’t be addressed are the ones that cause concern.
I’m incapable of taking the “Oh well, nothing I can do about it” dismissive attitude toards something.
Yes, it is miserable.
I don’t stress about plane crashes at cruising height because that level of trauma is just a few moments of terror as you approach the ground then lights out. I do stress a bit on take off and landing because some poor bastards ‘survive’ those type of crashes. I’d rather go out quick if it is my time.
Fear does not listen to reason.
Fear does not listen to reason.
If you haven’t already, that’s an excellent line to use in your fiction.
I’m incapable of taking the “Oh well, nothing I can do about it” dismissive attitude toards something.
Try not to think about all the asteroids hurtling through space then.
“Fear is the mindkiller.”
-Gandhi
“Claiming one emergency after another, the government has recently sought stays in an unprecedented number of cases, demanding immediate attention and consuming limited court resources in each,” Sotomayor wrote. “And with each successive application, of course, its cries of urgency ring increasingly hollow.” She added that the Supreme Court was “partly to blame” because it “has been all too quick to grant the government’s” requests.
I wonder how Sotomayor feels about the unprecedented number of politically motivated nuisance suits filed by state attorneys general.
“Just doing their jobs”
So, the “cries of urgency” to block every Trump action in the lower courts don’t ring hollow?
Popcorn! Get your popcorn here, folks! Hot and buttery. Just delicious.
FTA:
Oh, great. Next thing you know we’re going to have to start dealing with robot unions and robot socialists.
Robophobe!
Ain’t no such thing as a startup with 250+ employees.
ABA: What is the Constitution?
The first resolution takes on the most recent anti-gun bogeyman; “ghost guns.” …
Apparently, the ABA has abandoned the plastic firearms aspect, as its release does not mention them, and appears focused on “any unfinished firearm frame or receiver.”
Under 18 U.S.C. 921(a)(3) the definition of a firearm includes “(A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive; [or] (B) the frame or receiver of any such weapon…”
As is made clear by federal law, the frame or receiver of a firearm is the only part that is legally considered a “firearm.” …
The other egregious positions the ABA has taken are requiring law-abiding citizens to seek permission from the government before they can acquire a firearm, and then require those law-abiding gun owners who have received permission to obtain a firearm to store them in a government-approved fashion.
Seriously, does the ABA need a refresher course on our right to keep and bear arms?
With regard to permission to acquire a firearm, this anti-gun association “urges authorities to require people to apply for a permit from a designated law enforcement or public safety agency before they are given a permit to purchase a firearm.” The ABA’s resolution is unclear as to whether one would be required to apply for such a permit every time one wants to purchase a firearm, or if the initial application approval would result in something akin to a license being issued. …
As for the ABA’s storage requirement, this creates the potential for even more constitutional violations. The resolution calls for all levels of government to “define the requirements of safe storage of a firearm” and “require firearm owners to meet those requirements.”
What this proposal overlooks is the fact that gun safety and storage is a matter of personal responsibility, and every person’s situation is different. It is unreasonable for the government to impose a one-size-fits-all solution. More importantly, mandatory storage laws invade people’s homes and force them to render their firearms useless in a self-defense situation by locking them up.
Good lord, stick to policing your own profession and fuck off with this shit.
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Particularly as more people die every year from medical malpractice than from firearms accidents.
That would be the AMA, the ABA just forgets to file your malpractice suit in time and costs you the payout.
I dropped my ABA membership 5 years ago and haven’t gone back. Their membership is down pretty significantly over the past decade or so.
Where’s hayeksplosives at? See, rail-guns (or compressed gas) FTW!
David Burge
@iowahawkblog
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect.
#lefties
The ABA was never a respected institution.
There was a time when it was. When I joined fresh out of law school in the late ’80s, it was expected that lawyers would be members, and the descent into leftist political front organization had just begun. A few years later, I dropped out and it wasn’t all that unusual.
So, its been a long time coming. But at this point most lawyers who aren’t leftists aren’t fooled, I don’t think, and don’t belong. They are still cruising in some circles on the fumes of their prior reputation, but that’s probably about it.
Respected by lawyers is about the same as “nurturing as sharks” and “maternal as crocodiles”.
I’m just shitposting. Don’t mind me.
Remember when Andrew Zimmern just ate weird crap? His new show “What’s Eating America” is constantly advertised on CNBC – last week was immigration (“we FEED you”), and it looks like this week is the opiod crisis with an Amy Klobuchar segment.
I thought he was dead.
That’s Bourdain, the interesting (and now dead) one. Zimmern is the bald vaguely effeminate one who somehow managed to capitalize on the foodie craze despite his lack of charisma.
I’ll likely mix them up again later.
His slap fights with local antisemitic progressive Arab chefs (we have a surprising number of them) are kind of funny. Not as funny his “high-end” Chinese restaurant, but kind of funny.
Love the El Guapo avatar!
So this is what he would do for a Klondikebar?
I bet a Klobubar is so icy your tongue would get frozen to the clit.
“Are you saying I’m numb?”
No. He was always an advocate for the homeless and drug addiction, having once been a homeless heroin junkie.
Log from a body camera wherein a school resource officer arrested a 6 year old girl and bragged about it.
Anyone whose met a six year old has been punched by one at least once. Whoever called the police should be the one in the cage.
Fuck them in the ass.
ENB is starting to let her mask slip on Sanders.
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1232254519439974400
Context, for both the “Journalist who said Bernie supporters were being mean” (it was a lot more than that) and the free speech lawyer calling Bernie out (Ari Cohn @ FIRE)
https://twitter.com/AriCohn/status/1232142557771001858
But if those Bernie bros had asked the lawyers to make them a sandwich the lawyers would totally be in the right.
ENB is a juvenile (sorry) hack who should get an internship at Subway. And I don’t think I need to tell you why.
She strikes me as more of a Quizno’s girl.
Mmmm… Quizno’s. They disappeared around here.
It was always obvious that she’s Weigel in drag.
Mrs Suderman says something sensible here…
Megan McArdle
@asymmetricinfo
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Most likely Sanders is a committed socialist who wants the end of capitalism, but runs on the farthest left platform he thinks he could get away with. He would go farther if possible. This is what his life history suggests, and I’m bemused watching smart people suggest otherwise.
Yet she has stated that she will voted for Grandpa Gulag because Orange Man Bad. I really, really don’t get how anyone can reconcile that.
What’s more important? Principles or cocktail parties?
At this point, I can’t even imagine the cocktail parties are all that good. I doubt they’re drinking top shelf on a journalist’s budget. And none of the people seem all that interesting to talk to.
And as always, you don’t need 23 choices of cocktails.
I would think the cocktail parties are thrown by bureaucrats/lobbyists and the journalists are merely freeloading. Which explains their rampant socialism.
Me neither. I would vote for whichever whackadoodle the LP puts up this year before the commie.
I suppose if you really believe Trump was the devil, it would make sense. But choosing Sanders just to get rid of Trump definitely requires a view that the Presidency is not that powerful, which in turn kind of undermines the case for the problem that you are allegedly solving by opposing Trump.
“I suppose if you really believe Trump was the devil”
I was somewhat sympathetic to the whole “the guy is crazy, hes a nutcase, he will blow up the world” POV back in 2016. Like, I get it. It’s POTUS, not the President of Lesotho or some shit. POTUS is one of really two people on the planet who can plausibly cause the deaths of billions in a fit pique. But it’s four years on, and the world is still here, and it’s not even been that close to a genuine crisis at any point. He hasn’t started new wars, he hasn’t done anything close to ZOMG HE WILL GET US ALL KILLED. In terms of actual objective measurements of the economy, his term has been nothing but a success, and usually American Presidents get graded on the peace and prosperity metric.
I think it keeps coming back to this thing that irks me about leftists and media types, is they are always obfuscating and denying any kind of ideological cant to their beliefs. It’s always supposedly an analytical and dispassionate approach that leads them to climate change hysteria and socialized medicine. They’re all just straight shooting pragmatist policy wonks who “trust the experts”. No ideology here at all, no sir. Just “reality has a leftwing bias” type bullshit.
Well look at you guys. You scared off Tulpa. That reflects poorly on all of you.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
On Mr. Howell’s (Jim Backus) birthday, let’s remember Mr. Howell uttered one of the more libertarian lines of television history. When asked by the villain-of-the-week if he’d like to rule the world, his response was “I’d rather buy it and hire somebody to run it for me.”
Terrible news
The shale oil and gas revolution keeps rolling on — but no one is talking about it. This boom in production has affected the economy of every state, from Ohio and Pennsylvania to Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado and the Dakotas. By the way, oil prices have also fallen considerably, bringing gas prices at the pump to nearly $2 a gallon in some states. Prices are so low now that the drillers aren’t making any money and are starting to shut down wells. They are victims of their own success.
Today’s bargain-basement prices are partly due to moderate temperatures on the East Coast this winter, but this has been a long-term trend of cheaper and cheaper energy. America is now the Saudi Arabia of natural gas, and we are exporting more throughout the world than at any previous time in our history. It’s hard to believe that a decade ago, we were importing natural gas. Thanks to fracking and horizontal drilling technologies that keep getting more and more efficient, we now have hundreds of years of supply of this fuel.
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It would be hard to find anything NOT to like about this great American success story. We’ve achieved energy independence; reliable and inexhaustible supply; low prices; reduced power of the Middle East, Russia and other OPEC nations; and cleaner air than at any other time in at least a century.
Yet liberal environmentalists are grousing about this good news. A recent Bloomberg news story exclaims in its headline: “Cheap Gas Imperils Climate Fight by Undercutting Wind and Solar.”
“Gas is such a bargain that it’s being viewed less as a bridge fossil fuel, driving the world away from dirtier coal toward a clean-energy future,” the story tells us, “and more as a hurdle that could slow the trip down. Some forecasters are predicting prices will stay low for years, making it tough for states, cities and utilities to achieve their goals of being zero-carbon in power production by 2050 or earlier.” Ravina Advani, head of renewable energy at BNP Paribas, complained: “The fact that there’s an abundance of it makes the move to complete decarbonization much harder … (Gas is) reliable, and it’s cheap.”
And that is bad news, why, exactly? It’s like saying a cure for the coronavirus is bad for hospitals and doctors.
But what about my apocalypse porn? How can I fap to the thought of millions of Floridians being swept out to sea, if those assholes keep finding new ways to stave off the Great Collapse?
Remember when that stupid fucking redneck cunte was all drill baby drill and suave smooth intelligent god king Obama told us all we couldn’t drill our way out of this.
God what a better time that was, when stupid fucking rednecks who went to state schools weren’t allowed to be near the levers of power.
They are victims of their own success.
Just another example of the contradictions inherent in capitalism.
It’s sickening how badly the left wants to impoverish everyone.
Yet liberal environmentalists are grousing about this good news. A recent Bloomberg news story exclaims in its headline: “Cheap Gas Imperils Climate Fight by Undercutting Wind and Solar.”
Solar and wind are terrible sources of power. If you want to go green, it’s nuke and hydro all the way.
You scared off Tulpa. That reflects poorly on all of you.
Toughen up, Tulpa. This ain’t no little old ladies’ bridge club.
To be fair, I only pay attention to the firsts if the butt-slapping by lady in a lab coat gif is involved.
I don’t necessarily disagree with Tulpa (myself? Wait, I’m the only one who isn’t tulpa!) about the annoying stupidity of it. I’m just polite enough to shut up and let other people enjoy their stupidity.
With the degree of contrarianism here, efforts to suppres ‘first’ comments will simply proliferate them.
You don’t want to create a “first” black market. Think of the children!
Scott Alexander is so close to awareness, but between his TOP MEN fetish and his loathing of icky people he’ll never make it all the way there
The first half of his review is just perfect
“Figure 1 demonstrates that the most popular type of book in the US is “mystery, thriller, or true crime”. Second and third place are held by history and biographies, which may perhaps be edifying to some people. But after that we get romance, cookbooks, science fiction, and fantasy. Literary classics and books on important current affairs are far down the list, only a fraction of total books read. What can we conclude from these data? The lesson is obvious: if we believe the purpose of reading and writing to be predominantly educational, an important mechanism to provide for our enlightenment and edification, the actually existing distribution of reading in the United States does not meet the test. Not by a long shot.”
I like to think I check my premises more than most, and I think that is one of the markers of actual intelligence. If books about “Important Current Affairs” are far down the list, maybe that’s a signal the affairs might be current, but aren’t actually important.
As for literary classics, isn’t a classic something that, usually, has been in print for a long time. I’m not sure why you would expect something like The Great Gatsby to top the bestseller lists, when there are so many copies floating around.
Or even if the affairs are both current and important that people know what the book in question is going to say because of the known biases of the author, thus curbing its appeal to a smaller subset of the market.
To pile on the classics point.
Almost everyone in the US past high school has read Romeo and Juliet. Pretty sure very few people own a copy. Classics are the most likely to be studied in schools, and so less likely to be purchased by the regular consumer.
It’s also important to read the classics so you can understand a common cultural “mythology.”
A person can refer to Hamlet and we are all supposed to “get” it. Same with Greek myths, great poems, historical pivots like Agincourt.
Sort of Darmak and Jalad at Tanagra.
I have yet to read Romeo and Juliet, yet I know the plot and can catch most of the references. When it has absorbed into the culture, you don’t necessarily need to read the original.
When I was in high school, I dated a girl who was raised by militant atheists. There were so many biblical allusions she needed explaining. She knew Adam and Eve, and vaguely understood Noah, but I had to tell her the story of Cain and Abel.
I see you’ve met my friend, E.D. Hirsh.
And while your point is true, our children are being indoctrinated by a class of education professionals who take it as their mission in life to eradicate the common culture. So yes, filling up a child’s education with this in the year of our lord 2020 is vitally important.
Added to Amazon cart. Thank you.
Its a very good book. My kids new charter school uses it as the guiding vision for their curriculum, and I’ve had lots of good things to say about what I’ve seen.
Interestingly enough, we read a bunch of Shakespeare in school but NOT R&J. Julius Caesar, MacBeth, Hamlet, King Lear.
In the year we would have otherwise been forced to read romeo and juliet, our class voted for the Taming of the Shrew instead.
R&J makes a hell of a lot more sense when you are a bit more world wise at 30 than when the reader is a hot blooded youth. The story isn’t about how great these feelings of love make you feel, but how stupid they make you.
That’s not a message calibrated to be understood by 14 year old kids.
But for some reason, America’s English Teachers can’t figure this out. “Oh, its got kids your age in it. You’ll be able to relate!”
Bill from Stratford wrote popular schlock. Teenagers couldn’t afford the admission.
“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”
Bill had a way with words.
Could you deliver in public school Henry V speech before the battle in which he speaks of men who aren’t in the battle but are safe at home as “holding their manhoods cheap” when they have to admit that they aren’t with their brothers.
Too much toxic masculinity?
Bill had a way with words.
Indeed, and that’s the beginning and end of why he’s famous and should be read. Almost all the plots are just borrowed from elsewhere, there’s nothing special about the stories themselves but the dialogue is often great.
We read Macbeth. The same year there was performance of the play here: https://www.austockphoto.com.au/image/world-war-ii-gun-emplacement-in-darwin-zPPCG.
The witches were down in the pit. The main play took place on scaffolding erected over the pit. The audience sat on temporary stands on the concrete apron in the front of the pic. Open air, clear, starlite night. Awesome experience.
Wowsers. I’d have been all over that.
By the pricking of my thumbs…
That does sound quite impressive.
https://youtu.be/6DU3b7HjO4k
Or maybe history is just one damned thing after another and current affairs are just more of the same. It is entirely possible to get bored to tears by the important events of the day.
Three kinds of people: people who like talking about other people (vast majority), people who like talking about themselves (annoying as hell), and people who like talking about ideas (in short supply). Of course mysteries/thrillers are most popular.
When I started part I, I immediately started seeing huge logical fallacies. It prompted me to write a rebuttal as I read. It was nice and long.
Then I got to part II. And deleted my rebuttal of part I.
Well played Mr. Alexander…. well played.
Holy shit!
The commie midget actually showed up in the comments!
And missed the point completely.
It went over his head.
“In extending these tax incentives, federal and state treasuries forego tax revenue. Or to put it differently, tax incentives for writing books constitute a a kind of spending program.”
“Not taking” is “giving”.
Giving by philanthropists is an exercise of raw power. Spending by government officials is democracy.
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1231901104717193216
PSA to all millenials and younger. When boomers say that video games are ruining your childhood, they aren’t talking about playing outside.
What do most of those have to do with childhood?
Only 20% of 9th graders are fucking? This is a national tragedy.
I am more shocked that it was 40% when I was in 9th grade. I thought most of those guys were just full of shit. I guess I really was a big dork.
Look, it’s self reported data. Those same guys who were full of shit would say the same thing to the survey takers.
“Like anyone can even know that, Napoleon.”
Maybe it was 20% of the guys and 60% of the gals.
“I’d rather buy it and hire somebody to run it for me.”
Excellent.
In honor of Jim Backus
Yet she has stated that she will voted for Grandpa Gulag because Orange Man Bad. I really, really don’t get how anyone can reconcile that.
As a member of the Inner Party, she’ll have plenty to eat, and a lakeside dacha in the country.
I really, really don’t get how anyone can reconcile that.
Easy. She, too, is a committed socialist who wants the end of capitalism.
*shakes head*
For the longest time, I kept asking myself why this one kingdom would stay north of the mountains where it was on my mental map, given that it was getting into subarctic lattitudes.
Today I realized that with the position of the various mountain ranges relative to the prevailing winds, the land south of that range would be a desert. They would cross the mountains, look on the desolation and go “fuck this noise”.
Time for journalists to stop being objective and really stick it to Trump!
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/25/after-nevada-wake-up-calls-for-the-somnolent-shambling-media-establishment/
No longer can they afford to sit on the sidelines and adhere to archaic rules as they have been!
It’s time they took a lesson from the Scottish police in directly endorsing a more straightforward message (NSFW; curse word).
Narcissism is a disease of dogs, to paraphrase Stalin.
I made it two paragraphs in before I hated everyone involved.
I made it through the first sentence and bailed:
I’m quick to blame men for their toxic behavior, but in this case, I, the woman, was part of the problem
So, its clear she is despicable. And I would have no use for any “man” in a relationship with her.
All I had to do was hover over the link and my BP spiked.
The guardian has that effect.
Are you saying dudes in wedding dresses get your blood pumping?
Raging.
I saw the photo and the headline. That is as far as I got.
Meanwhile, she continues her search for a tattooed ex-con with whom to cheat.
Now, let’s be fair. They’re both searching for that.
But I found myself unexpectedly uneasy with his new fondness for feminine frocks – a reaction that challenged the progressive ideals I’d prided myself on for decades.
You are hardwired to seek out certain traits in men that do not align with proggie misconceptions about the world. IOW nature > nurture.
Razorfist on the rise of Bernie Sanders:
https://youtu.be/izzAYRZqia8
It’s a good rant.
Smells like wishful thinking
Stock markets tumbled around the world. The number of coronavirus cases mushroomed in advanced nations like Italy, Japan and South Korea. And travel bans expanded as leaders confronted the nightmarish prospect of a spreading virus swallowing their nations.
President Donald Trump’s top aides faced an increasingly urgent threat Monday with potentially monumental implications: a global outbreak knocking down the U.S. economy and walloping markets in an election year, all against accusations about whether the Trump administration had mismanaged and underfunded a critical response with American lives on the line.
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With the possibility of a U.S. outbreak growing by the day, Trump allies and advisers have grown increasingly worried that a botched coronavirus response will hit the U.S. economy. Even Donald Trump Jr. has mused to associates he hopes the White House does not screw up the response and put the president’s best reelection message at risk, said two individuals with knowledge of his comments.
To be sure, a massive outbreak would not be in the best interests of those actually infected, but if it frees us from President Cartoon Villain, it will be worth it in the long run.
Congress was simultaneously complaining that Trump requested money for vaccines and requested too late.
These jackals in the Dem party and in the media (but I repeat myself) would honestly rather watch America go down in a flaming heap than see her thrive for another 4 years with Trump at the helm.
Pure twisted, insane, evil
As if hoping for the economy to tank wasn’t already poor optics, now they’re giddy about a viral outbreak. Stay classy, Dems.
They are at Bette Davis in Whatever-Happened-to-Baby-Jane-level deranged by this time.
Funding the response had been a major sticking point between the White House and Azar, who lobbied to request additional funds from Congress before he makes four separate hearings on the Hill this week. Officials had spent days jockeying over the final figure for the emergency package, veering anywhere between $1 billion to $5 billion. The package also is expected to face resistance from Democrats, who have warned the Trump administration against shifting money away from existing commitments.
Whaddaya mean, you want to put vaping on the back burner?
Oh joy. It’s time for the semi-regular fight with my company’s IT department. I’m supposed to be getting a replacement laptop, and they just sent me a document asking me to fill it out with all of my username’s and passwords so they could set it up.
Which of course is counter to the security policy we have to agree to.
They don’t need those to set it up.
Why argue when you can engage with malicious compliance.
Return it with the username written and type in eight asterisk for the password and wait for them to come ask for the proper one with a big shit eating grin on your face.
Or treat every request for your password as though it was a practical joke.
“Ok guys very funny. You got me. I almost wrote in my password, but you know I’m not permitted to do that. How does this really work? Do I come over and type it in?”
I just copied my supervisor into my last response.
Really guys? We’re an IT company, why would you expect us to type our passwords into a Word Doc and e-mail it back? And why aren’t you disciplining the people who do provide them.
So… there’s something New York does right?
“ITS will never ask you for your password. We don’t need it.”
Yep.
Or send the Email they requested it in back to them, and report it as a phishing attempt.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FVXSOMlOGYQGHe%2Fgiphy.gif&f=1&nofb=1
Say what?! Tell them to piss off.
“We’ll also need your bank account, routing number, and PIN, your ssn and mother’s maiden name.”
How sad is it that I have to be the one to point out that we have multiple remote access options (Teams, WebEx, and Zoom) and request a meeting for me to remotely log into the accounts they need created on the local machine.
While pointing out that sharing passwords is a fireable offense per our security policy (like everywhere else).
How many Nigerian princes work for the company?
I make glorifed blogs for a semi-governmental…partnership?…begrudgingly funded in part by the EPA, an organization where nobody needs to buy sunglasses as their heads are always right where the sun doesn’t shine, and while I wouldn’t be fired I wouldn’t be allowed back on the property and my University-owned laptop would almost certainly be confiscated if I filled that form out. And this is in a place where the scumbag contractors wanted to make it so we’d need a support ticket and a remote access session to run ‘npm install’.
ugh that sounds awful.
Most of the places i’ve worked we’ve been fairly free to install libraries and software we need.
“Your request for local admin has been denied. All installations of software and software libraries must be submitted to the helpdesk, approved by management, and performed by desktop support.”
they just sent me a document asking me to fill it out with all of my username’s and passwords so they could set it up.
Are you saying the janitor doesn’t need the keys to your desk and briefcase?
Oops, my bad.
Quarantine all the journalists at the press conference.
You had it in 4 words…
“we don’t need it”?
Apparently, he’s also been briefing Iranian officials. So it’s entirely possible he’s spread Wuhan throughout the Iranian Regime.
Is it irony if a disease potentially created by one evil authoritarian regime destroys another through sheer incompetence?
Not sure that qualifies as “irony”, as the spread of the virus in China and the spread in Iran are both due to the same, inherent trait of totalitarian regimes – incompetence at anything other than seizing and maintaining their hold on power.
Inshallah.
“ITS will never ask you for your password. We don’t need it.”
“We’ve got the key to the back door.”
Basically… yeah. That’s what Administrator rights are.
Administrators and “Back Door” in the same sentence is a pain in the ass.
You know who else has the key to your back door?
Whooooo! Happy Birthday to Ric Flair. As a native N. Carolinian and a proud Hilllbilly American, growing up watching NWA (No, not that NWA. Though we had some black gentlemen with quite the attitude ‘rasslin there), I hated Ric Flair at first. But then I’d listen to him spit his lines and I began to see his brilliance. Ric Flair the rasslin character is a personal hero. He was the best on the stick ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oESVMyJ20Ik
WOO!
Agreed. Maybe. He’s definitely top 5 all time.
PS – woo!
Nature Boy doesn’t know ’bout no hard times.
Caps picked up another Russian. paying him half the league minimum too thanks to Montreal. $350K for Kovy..
https://twitter.com/SamanthaJPell/status/1232322877942358017
can’t say i’m super siked by the deal. but it’s interesting.