This mindset coming back sooner than the games will.
MLB players want full pay for a partial season. Great thinking, guys. Maybe you should call some dudes who played after the 1994-1995 strike and ask them how the fans reacted. The NHL is gonna have some crazy convoluted 24-team playoff on Fantasy Island or something. Not sure what the NBA is up to. And football is going to happen.
If only…
Cowboy legend Wild Bill Hickok was born on this day. He shares it with horror legend Vincent Price, failed presidential nominee Hubert Humphrey, golf great Sam Snead, novelist Herman Wouk, actor Christopher Lee, scumbag (and Nobel laureate, of course) Henry Kissinger, wrestling promoter Eric Bischoff, musician Siouxsie Sioux, headcase and soccer player Paul Gascoigne, and baseball players Frank Thomas and Jeff Bagwell.
Nice list there. Now on to…the links!
That’s not how you should apologize, goon.
Riots in Minneapolis. Smoke bombs, tear gas. The works. I just hope the protesters get some masks…the kind that repel tear gas…and keep on keeping on. And by “keeping on”, I mean I hope they burn the police precinct to the ground. Because, you know, the cops literally murdered a guy.
Sure, lady. Go with that. See how far it gets you. Next you’ll tell us he went up there, when you refused to let others do the same, to just rake leaves. Oh wait…you did.
I hope this happens. But I don’t have confidence it’s little more than a campaign stunt. Because Trump promised this when he ran four years ago and it still hasn’t happened.
I guess this is important. I’m curious if she’s a Canadian citizen, by the way. Because if she is, donating to those campaigns is a crime.
Here’s the most underreported story of the day. Sad, because it’s one of the most important developments. I hope this bill finally fails and the entire program dies a horrid, ugly death. But I know it won’t.
Never apologize. That’s going full retard.
Oh, for the love of God, DON’T FREAKING APOLOGIZE!!!!! Just don’t do it. Because you can never satisfy the mob.
I’ve got just one bit of advice: don’t shit where you eat. In this case, it bears repeating. Since, you know, it’s legal to do both in the same place.
Get a load of this jackoff. That’s it. That’s the story.
“May 26, 2020” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite as well. But that’s ok. Few lyrics do. Great song.
That’s it, folks. Go have a great day.
The screencap on the Whitmer story is classic.
Is that the sign for “failed attempt at humor”? Because it ought to be.
How many deaf journalists actually show up to these press conferences? Sign language is pointless on radio, and even people who can hear use closed captioning.
My guess is that the sign language interpreter is required by law.
Mandatory virtue signaling, then.
Wonder what is spent on pointless sign languaging at these events?
Reportedly those legally-mandated signers get $750/hour.
Slosed Captioning of Politicians Speeches:
“Empty platitudes. Lies. Incoherent mouth noises.”
The signers are getting out of hand.
I think I see what you’re gesturing about
I make a motion to have the signers in Spanish as well
I’d give you guys a hand discussing this. But I wouldn’t know what to say.
I have to keep silent.
Wut? No glove love?
I’m giving you guys a sign right now, can you guess what it is?
*narrows gaze*
Is that like covering your ears for the deaf?
Oh, get a grip.
Hands rebel a shakeweight.
If she’s not careful she might lose reelection in a one party state.
Looked kinda reddish in my 2016 Prezidenture map.
I was thinking she was in Minnesota rather than Michigan. Although Minnesota is a bit more diverse than i thought as well.
Two-Scoops barely lost in Minne last time. Like a lot of blue state shitholes, once you get out of the Metro, it’s a much different story.
I was thinking more state/local politics anyway. I had the impression that the local politics were still neo-commie from the leftover DFL influence, but the roster of governors and the composition of the state legislature was less one sided than I thought once I looked it up.
Except for not having the stereotypical haircut, she is pretty much what you would get if you grew a Karen in a lab.
San Fran is still trying for that typhus outbreak….the current Sinovirus is soooo boring.
Mayor Breed approves program to allow restaurants, small businesses to operate on sidewalks
I think it should be “Don’t eat where you shit” in this case.
It will get popcorn-worthy when homeless advocates start protesting this decision.
McConnell will make certain it passes. Royal piece of shit that he is.
This is why we need STEVE SMITH registered as a lobbyist.
“Senator? There is a MR. STEVE SMITH to see you….about the FISA re-authorization.”
The virtue signaling crowd would love the STEVE SMITH experience. Can you imagine the victim creds they could then claim?
Uhhhh…all Trump has to do is not sign it. Right? If they override his veto at least it is on them.
All bets are off at this juncture. They dropped the gloves before the last Presidential election and the establishment is fine with that. How the electorate reacts remains to be seen. Mitch McConnell is a gaping pussy.
the cops literally murdered a guy.
But they were fired so it’s cool.
…pending union action, of course.
*back pay and reinstatement incoming in three years*
Right. The heat should be off by then.
/FOP
Three of them might eventually get that. The guy applying the knee to the neck will be “sacrificed” to placate
the mobdecent human beings.If not for the bystander video, this would be all “procedures were followed”. Because as far as I know, they did exactly what they were trained to do.
But as it is, I think three will come out ahead, and only the one will stay fired. Coin toss on whether he does any time.
“Coin toss on whether he does any time.”
You’re very optimistic. I’d say coin toss on whether he stays fired and demons with ice skates he gets charged and/or jailed.
Already on 14 day home quarantine, get off with time served
“Already on 14 day home quarantine, get off with time served”
With half credit towards the next time he murders a “civilian”
He means cop coin flip.
They flip the coin of qualified immunity! Two headed coin, bitches!
They murdered that guy in cold blood. I can’t believe these fucking assholes didn’t realize cutting someone’s blood to the brain AND ability to breathe, for 7 minutes from what I am seeing, will not result in a corpse at worse, and a brain damaged individual at best. The officer with the knee on this man’s neck needs to be facing fucking murder charges. I don’t carer what the excuse he will give is: it will be an exuse.
Here I’m going to be the optomist in a terribly fallen world. In the last few years, we have seen a tendency of juries and prosecutors (assuredly for political reasons) being more willing to let cops get scott free. I think this is a combination of the fact that 20 years ago, this would be a minor story with some crazy witness alleging what happened and straight denials from the cops. Then smart phones and everyone having a recording device in their pocket came about, and everyone could see that it was bullshit. Cops/Prosecutors wanted to carry on like normal and act like it wasn’t wrong. I think after several incidents and seeing how nothing happened has fanned outrage even more. And that in turn is why we are finally seeing a shift towards convictions of cops that murder like this.
It still isn’t good, because the cops will get all the benefits of the large union aparatus they have built up, but sentiment is going against them.
I think this will be a very interesting case, because it is not a fast moving situation. That cop had multiple minutes where the victim was prone on his front, with his hands cuffed. It wasn’t a “I thought he had a gun, it was dark.” where you can make the reasonable person test.
I don’t think any reasonable person thinks kneeling on a man’s neck for 5+ minutes is a fast moving and developing situation where split second decisions might turn out poor in the cold light of day.
So, no news, no TV, I kinda missed this story. How long did it take for the copsuckers to start up with the, “If you can talk you can breathe,” bullshit?
So, no news, no TV, I kinda missed this story. How long did it take for the copsuckers to start up with the, “If you can talk you can breathe,” bullshit?
You have to forgive them. They are so used to being able to breath with cop dick down their throat, that they don’t realized it’s a specialized skillset.
I mean, it’s not all that hard to breathe around something that small…
evil-
You gotta go back and check the original story. It is brilliant in a “the weapon was discharged” kind of way.
The police spokesman says that they were arresting him when “they noticed he had a medical issue”.
Yeah… strangling someone with your body weight on their neck tends to do that. I suppose the way they “noticed” it was from the people nearby yelling that they were killing him, including a paramedic who kept saying he wasn’t breathing and to check his pulse.
BTW, body cams were active, so boss man probably knew the truth when that statement went out.
Damn. I just referenced Kissinger in the previous post… It’s good to see you back, Sloop!
Automatic Riffles?
OK, kidding aside, the misspelling isn’t her fault. But seriously, why aren’t pols taunted more mercilessly for their woeful ignorance when it comes to firearms?
Because people are idiots and don’t know how mechanical devices work?
The judge sure knows how they work.
We are talking about the stupidity of claiming that people have outlawed automatic weapons. The judge had a pump action which is totes legal.
^^^THIS^^^
Most of the anti gun idiot’s only experience with fire arms is what they have seen on fucking TeeVee or at the movies. A-Team clips (never emptying) and assholes that only can be stopped by militarized SWAT jackasses is about the height of their comprehension of the subject.
Funny how those against you have enacted violence will threaten you with violence. This is what happens in politics, particularly to shitweasels; always has, always will. Nobody is threatening your family; this is the reality of being a political family, a reality that you yourself forced upon them.
Hanging in effigy is an old, old political tradition.
I like that statement, Tonio. Why are there so few of us left? After all of this Kabuki, who will even bother to pick up the pieces? We’re a doomed culture.
She, like all tyrants, is justifying putting her boot on people by saying “It’s for your own good.” Next she will say “This hurts me more than it hurts you.”
“My family has had men with automatic riffles standing in view of our front window outside of our home.“
Cops, guarding her from the deplorables?
automatic riffles
This one is black and has that thing that goes up
“This one is black and has that thing that goes up”
I have definitely seen that one on PornHub.
How many times?
They are automatic in that they automatically cycle in the process of firing. But she is ignorant and probably means machine guns.
Automatic Ruffles?
careful! they’ve got ridges!
Austin Powers approves.
Imagine getting this guy as your judge.
*Cue Tommy Chong in the courtroom* “That’s straight gin, Man!”
His dedication to the job is touching.
It brought his career to a climactic moment.
He was a quite practical judge. He was always able to get the rub of the case.
What are you talking about the guy didn’t know Jack.
He was a hard man on the bench.
He only got there by a stroke of good luck.
*narrows gaze*
::ejaculation of surprise::
Did you mean PeeWee Herman? He has more in common with this Judge Dredd-off than the marvelous Mr. Powers, right?
If I had to choose, I’d keep this guy and jail Judge Emmet Sullivan.
I wonder if we’ll ever get the full story about this.
I mean, there’s being a “tough judge”.
And there’s having a thing against folks in power who abuse their position.
And maybe there’s even having a hard-on for one particular dude – maybe you ran in to the guy 10 years a go at a party and he was a douche.
But this? I dunno. I’m starting to think Brennan and Comey have something on the guy. As in, he was the hand-picked judge to try the case, chosen by the elect in the Mueller team and in Comey’s inner circle, or maybe even the White House political team.
I have no idea why anyone would push this hard. Even just the sentencing statement is bizarre – given what we know now. For some reason he seems to truly believe that Flynn is a foreign spy, working to subvert the US government… something that isn’t even alleged. It seems to have to do with working for Turkey – who he dropped in order to join the Trump team.
I dunno. It is all weird, and it really angles toward the whole “deep state conspiracy” argument.
Bizarrely, he ruled multiple times against allowing amicus briefs in this exact case. Correctly, IMO.
Then he asks for one, to brief him on whether he should string Flynn up for criminal contempt for perjury. WTF does a judge need a brief for on that? It stinks of post hoc justification for what he intends to do. Technically, Flynn swore twice that his guilty plea was legit, but even the DOJ now says, in effect, that plea is invalid due to prosecutorial misconduct.
Sullivan has a history of being, well, less than judicious with Flynn, tearing into him on more than one occasion. Judges do that to the accused on occasion, but c’mon. Flynn isn’t a soldado for a cartel with blood on his hands. He was a high ranking member of the Obama administration who did what revolving door apparatchiks do.
My concern is with the DC Circuit. I don’t know how many of its members are swamp creatures, so I don’t know what they are going to do.
Are these two lawyers pro bono? Are they getting paid? Let’s find out. I suspect they’re pro bono, but even so I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that somebody is funding this indirectly.
What Sullivan is doing is so for outside the usual course, it sure seems like something must be going on under the surface. Of course, the cui bono points directly at the previous administration, DOJ, FBI, and the intelligence “community”.
This thread rubs me wrong.
You need one of them better quality pocket pussies then, Mr. Magic.
I’m a hands on type with plenty o’ grease.
I had to look at the date on the story, sounded familiar and how many masterbating judges can one state have?
Is there a Facebook group for that?
What’s the problem? Justice is supposed to be blind.
Mpls, summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI
Frank Thomas and Jeff Bagwell
often cited as the GOAT for CHW and HOU
If you go by WAR, it would be Luke Appling for the CHW (Thomas is second). Bagwell is first for the ‘stros.
FTFY but what fun is that
I’ve seen videos of protesters in Hong Kong attacking police officers who were trying to brutalize their fellow protesters. We could use some of that here, IMO.
Worked out great for them.
Go passively, go fighting. I know which I will do.
When it gets to the point of mass graves and people being disappeared, you might as well save the bullet for yourself and at least deprive them of the satisfaction.
avatar checks out
this
Peaceful protest is expected in MSP: there’s a big difference between an autocratic dictum and unapproved police conduct.
But, re Hong Kong: these things get nasty; revolutions and civil wars aren’t fought in lines in uniform with no shooting the officers, thank you. Property and family of partisans come to risk, and every notion of decency and humanity go out the window at least some of the time.
I’ve thought about this in Syria: for a fraction of the subjects that al Assad has murdered, the regime could have been undermined with suicidal attacks on the various toadies. Where are the bomb-vests, the stabbers in the crowd, the Sirhan Sirhans? Hundreds of thousands are dead, and Syrians have forgotten how to assassinate? Hell, “assassin” is one of my favorite Arabic words. When your kids are on the line, you don’t lay around and wait to be disposed of.
Syria is still a tribal enough society that one can protect oneself from assassination by merely surrounding oneself with members of one’s own tribe. Which is what the Assad regime has done.
President Trump has repeatedly voiced a desire to leave Afghanistan sooner than the timeline laid out in the Feb. 29 peace agreement. He may want to campaign on bringing home every soldier.
“Mr Trump, again, betrays our allies and mission in the middle east.” – CNN
“When you jump to assume she’s a MAGA campaigner or a Trump supporter due to her actions, you erase the very real problem of white liberal racism”
*blink, blink*
Wow, a sentence that makes sense from the Independent. May wonders never cease.
Oh, it doesn’t last long. They dive right back into the “Amerikkka is a racist hellhole” narrative, bolstered by the new evidence that it’s not just slope-browed MAGA deplorables, it’s every single white person.
Is it just me or should we just hire an army of those “signing guys” from South Africa from here on in? What the fuck is this shit? People can’t read?
It’s ridiculous.
They can reed and right, they went to sckool, ya no
It’s deaf politics. ASL is an actual language congruent with, but different from English. ASL is the native language of many deaf-from-birth people; much easier to learn than an alphabet and then the arbitrary groupings of those letters into words.
How do maybe .005% of the population get half the screen time? Nothing against the “hearing impaired” but it just seems like yet another virtue signal that nobody needs right now. It’s dumb (Yeah I went there).
Section 503: increasing the cost of websites by orders of magnitude more than the % of people served by the accessibility.
“People can’t read?“
Well, there are journalists in the audience.
Journalists with fancy face-masks on. Edgy.
In fairness nothing the politicians are saying make sense in english. They are speaking retard so excessive physical beligerent hand waving and motioning is par for the course and helps get thier points across.
Wilford Brimley: They might go into berzerker mode; come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
SJWednesday: PETATERFs
Oh My God. You have made me tired and I need to go to bed now.
Has to be a parody, right?
Please…please say it is…
Insanity always seems that way until you realize they are earnest.
*This Is What They Actually Believe
“there’s no need to resort to inaccurate and harmful tropes about biology and reproductive organs to make a point”
Yes, I’m sure the breeding stock at factory farms are totes concerned about being misgendered.
What a wonderfully prosperous and free society we have that people have the time and money to think such nonsense.
Popcorn apple jack raisin farts.
I’m willing to bet that your elder brother said that to you at some point whilst holding you down.
Could be – there was definitely a lot of holding me down going on.
PURPLE MONKEY, popcorn applejack raisin farts, Moran.
Well, our brief holiday from the lunatics must be over.
I think I preferred the plague.
That is Female. Females are the sexual designation for the sex that has ovaries.
Knew right away it was Everyday Feminism
TFW the patriarchy has so much power that they convince the Femenist movement to include men with penises as women.
TERFs believe that, and I believe they’re right–sorta.
One of my clients is a radical fem totally het up about the acceptance of trans into the radfem movement, and she and I have talked about this. She and her cohorts don’t understand why they’ve done that, but non-radical feminists have always been willing to accept male “allies”.
They think the MRMs are doing this on purpose to destroy feminism from the inside; I told her I didn’t think so. They’re not that much in solidarity, aren’t that focused, and are usually bitter about ex-wives taking everything (including their kids) from them in the divorce.
*I* think a good portion of the MTF is a fetish (“autogynephilia”) (driven by futanari porn) and they crave validation that they are something they can never be. The problem is they’re getting it.
I also have read that a good portion of MTF is that they are self-loathing gays and they and their parents would rather they be girls than gay. This is sick and twisted. Being gay is a statistical norm; no one can convince me that being trans is.
I do know there’s a huge detransitioning movement going on amongst FTM, women who transitioned to men as teens and are transitioning back into women because they were actually just tomboys who were told by others they were boys. They are taking a lot of heat for being transphobic. “No, I was never trans. I was a tomboy. A girl who likes being a girl who also likes dude stuff.” OR “No, I was sexually assaulted/molested/harassed and I’m hiding my tits.” They just can’t accept that someone can like the opposite gender’s stuff yet like who they are.
(None of this stuff did my radfem client consider, but she does appreciate our conversation and my view fuels hers.)
Which is all just to say: I’m super-interested in how the trans are going to weather the economic storm coming or whether they just have that much discretionary income to be a bunch of Karens. I’d like to know how many of them have mommy and daddy paying for their shit. I’d like to know how many of them are forced to abandon their activism in the effort to survive.
I think there is an awful lot of truth to what you’ve said, which is why there are far more MTFs than FTMs.
why there are far more MTFs than FTMs
I just chalked it up to the differences btw additive and subtractive processes.
Yaaaay, Minnesoda is now Big Time with a cool racial shitstorm?
By the way, I have already seen one comment where someone was claiming that the cop who put his knee on the neck of the victim was one of the cops on stage with Trump during his last rally here. So we are really squeezing this one for as much mileage as we can get out of this.
The good news is that the 4 murderers have been fired. Will not be holding my breath to see if they are charged.
Can hardly wait for the teary presser where the Boy Mayor Frey has to announce that the police union got these goons their jobs back.
I’m going with “hired in a neighboring city” over “union gets them their jobs back” here.
SOP
Unarmed guy breaking into trailer to steal electronics gets shot in the back, and killed, by owner. Justified? https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/deadly-shooting-trailer-port-richmond/2408955/
Fuck thieves. I’d vote not guilty.
“The 33-year-old trailer owner then went outside and confronted the 39-year-old man and 38-year-old woman.
At least three shots were fired, Small said.”
Not enough info. We have no idea what happened.
“They made threatening moves towards me. I was in fear for my life”
Those words should come out of your mouth if you ever get questioned by a cop for shooting somebody. (after you hire a lawyer, of course)
Insufficient information as of yet. For one thing, not having a gun does not make you unarmed. The thieves had *something* they broke the trailer lock with.
But, going outside to confront suspected thieves is never going to make your situation better. Bring your shit inside.
The world has changed. When I was a kid, that was a no-question good shoot. By the time I was in Jr. High, that was probably gonna get you manslaughter. (When my parents were kids, that was a no-brainer. Trespassing could get you shot. )
I mean, I don’t like thieves either. I have a fair amount of sympathy in this particular case – I used to have a DJ/sound reinforcement business, and if someone had stolen the twenty-odd-thousand dollars worth of gear in my trailer, that would have been my livelihood flushed down the drain.
That said though, I don’t think I’d much care for a world where you can just gun down trespassers without so much as a, “Surprise, cockfag!”
Cowboy legend Wild Bill Hickok
New QB?
Yup. Looks really good too. With the addition of him and that new left tackle Jack McAll (to protect his blind side), the Cowboys should be considered Super Bowl contenders.
the Cowboys should be considered Super Bowl contenders.
Your comment was funny until you took it this far and made it completely absurd.
*sheepishly hides large purple foam #1 finger behind back*
Um, yeah, sorry. I realize I shouldn’t trivialize the Super Bowl by making crazy claims about certain teams chances
*Mouths “Purple Pride” as soon as Sloopy turns his back*
“America’s Team”?
Sort of like her governorship.
Nah, her governorship has been been funny, for the late nighters. Not haha funny, just funny
Do you mean funny like a clown?
I’m a little miffed that Charlemagne went negative on Special K and not Whitmer. I thought the brothers would dig Special K and her thicc ass. Why doesn’t he think that Whitmer would also result in voter depression?
Naked Florida Man decides to spend his day vandalizing a High School, causing $100k in damages
Ass Wednesday goes right up the middle.
http://archive.li/r0prS
Minneapolis citizens and their police department deserve each other.
The explanation, investigators say, is even stranger than some imagined: The judge had a habit of masturbating with a penis pump under his robe during trials.
“That’s not bag, baby. Really, it’s not mine.”
“The judge had a habit”
Wait just a damned minute. Are you saying the judge’s robes constitute some sort of religious connotation.? I’m having nun of that.
Yeah, judges give orders. They don’t take orders.
“Obviously with the motorized boating prohibition in our early days of COVID-19, he thought it might get a laugh. It didn’t. To be honest I wasn’t laughing either when it was relayed to me because I knew how it would be perceived.”
You thought an obvious, farcical lie would be perceived better??
“My family has had men with automatic rifles standing in view of our front window outside of our home. We have read the vile things people have said and written in response to my stay at home, stay safe order. My daughters have seen the likeness of their mother hung from a noose in effigy,” said Whitmer.
There’s hope yet.
How it would be perceived? You mean accurately?
CWAA
I mean, it’s an obvious joke, right? He called the dock even though he had no intention of going there and using the boat, just to set up the always hilarious veiled “Don’t you know who I am” threat.
And then we all laughed and laughed. What a card.
If she runs her household the way she runs her state, the girls might have found it amusing or cathartic.
Honestly she’s an evil bitch. I don’t even know what else there is to say about her at this point.
Riots, racism by liberals, and masturbation. That’s why I come to this place. Great song choice. Going to drink a 40 for Freedom.
Because you can never satisfy the mob.
That. And what he did was not “blackface”. Blackface is derogatory.
Especially since you are trying to impersonate one particular guy. You aren’t wearing black face to mock an entire race.
Blackface
Not blackface
Someone needs to tell our governor to “ixnay on the yingspay” One of the requirements for restaurants to reopen is that they require reservations. No walk-ins. Some crazy people have suggested that the state might use those reservations to assist in their contact tracing efforts. The state poo-bahs swear that will never happen, but then the Gov says this during a presser.
If I were running a restaurant there I’d have a phone book at the front and give the customers the option of choosing any name at random or use their real names. Reservation records would be in Excel so changes could be made on the fly.
“Hi, this is Richard Kasinya. I’d like a reservation for Friday, please.”
“Breed party of four, your table is ready. Breed party of two, it’s gonna be a few more minutes. You too, Breed party of four. Sorry, we’re slammed tonight!”
Dufresne, party of 2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf3ym0rdf_g
“if these restaurants are going to stay open for the next year”
Naturally, there were no follow up questions inquiring whether he meant to threaten a lockdown through the end of the year, intended instead to just threaten to close any business at bend the knee, or just misspoke.
We’ve had even more places announce permanent closures here in Cleveland. Some places still haven’t re-opened yet.
Twitter’s first fact-check of Trump was a gutless one
More proof that Victor Davis Hanson is onto something with his doctrine of media untruth
He provides a lot of other examples in the story (Nunes vis-a-vis Schiff, Cuomo vis-a-vis DeSantis).
Clip of a media scold getting upset that people aren’t wearing masks – then somebody points out that the cameraman isn’t masked.
That was fantastic.
He needs to dump Twitter and go to Gab.
Since the courts have already said that Trump can’t block followers to his Twitter account, I bet Twitter would get an injunction against him leaving for another platform. How much of Twitter traffic is Trump related? WIthout him, they are nothing.
Just stop using Twitter, and start using Gab. Nothing anybody could do about it.
It is like you don’t even respect the Hawaiian Court System.
You think the brave judges on the island wouldn’t issue an order forcing him to stay on Twitter?
Sure.
He doesn’t close his account. Just never uses it. What are they going to do about it?
Tweet, “Learn to code!”?
Well free speech is no longer in vouge, so i think they could compel some from him.
have a hissy fit?
As though the judiciary has the power to order the president to use a particular service.
WIki doesn’t seem to like Gab very much…
*Reads first sentence*
I am outta here.
“Those links lead to a page that outlines how there’s no evidence for such claims along with sources from outlets like CNN and the Washington Post.”
So, there is widespread evidence that it happens all of the time.
WaPo and CNN are two sources i turn to when i want the unvarnished truth /sarc
I was ahead of VDH years ago.
Good morning, Sloop!
Yeah, not a good look for MPD. I will say that things were quite calm out here in the despised suburbs. Things down there are gonna get worse before they get better. The cops and leadership are at war, and the problem precincts are getting worse. Blue cities suck balls.
I think Trump really does want to exit Afghanistan. Probably the biggest reason the DS have been after him for 3 1/2 years. I would love to see him succeed.
Thanks for the tune. I may have to drag that one out and give it a listen today. Fun band.
Make it a great day, peeps. I’ve got a concrete crew out front re-doing an apron they poured last fall. Foreman is not the happiest camper.
President Trump on Tuesday urged House Republicans to oppose legislation extending Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provisions, citing abuses of the law against his 2016 campaign.
FISA was never constitutional in the first place so we shouldn’t even have to have this discussion.
SHUT THE FUCK UP LIBTARD
This is why I respect British tabloid journalism so much.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/playboy-playmate-teases-followers-shaking-22093223
They cover the important, controversial and hard-hitting stories when no one else has the stones to do so. I smell a Pulitzer!
Pull-itzer?
Deal with the Devil.
That woman looks so ridiculous it’s off-putting.
She’s for the crowd that likes plastic sex dolls.
There is a crowd?
I’ll be the judge of that.
YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
Oh man, how embarrassing! Imagine our surprise at discovering this bug!
Google is all about social justice and protecting the oppressed and marginalized. And who is more oppressed I ask than Winnie the Poo [sic]
Funny how the errors always run the same way, innit?
Yeah, errors. Sure. Just like the “errors” always occur to make temps higher when they adjust temp data to claim we are going to be living in water world soon…
I have some hearsay insight into this. While it very well could be a legitimate bug, it is more likely that this was done by Chinese trolls manipulating YT’s machine learning system. The system takes “flag as spam” actions from users as a signal to try and predict whether or not a comment is spam or abusive.
However, imagine if the CCP sends hordes of its troll/bots that tool around on Twitter, and instead have them comb through the comments and flag objectionable (to China) comments as spam? All of a sudden the machine learning system is being trained to recognize and flag that abusive content. This gets even more scary- imagine if a bunch of these trolls start posting their own videos and commenting themselves, and flagging them as spam. What if they spent 3 weeks training the ML to intercept and suppress phrases like, “taiwan invasion”?
This seems like the actual problem. Anybody who understands how an AI is trained can actively game it.
I work in another large company in the bay area, and what generally happens is that you have a real smart set of AI experts building a bunch of ML libraries, and then the leaders force them down every product team’s throat. They have contests and mandates to apply ML because it has been branded as a competitive differentiator. (And to tell the truth, if ML could appropriately moderate comments, that would be pretty awesome.) The net result is that you usually have a bunch of developers who don’t understand the technology just implementing it on their systems. If you consider that many of these AI libraries are opensourced by Google, it is likely that the Chinese know more about the AI than many of the people implementing their use.
I also have heard that YouTube likes to do things their way. So they implement their own commenting system, rather than rely on some central team. And thus they have to moderate it themselves, and track metrics, yada yada. This can be good for agility, but it also has these risks where developers implement a feature half assed and then move on.
Gee, who could have ever foreseen that loophole?
Defying Health Orders, Trump To Move Republican Convention To Golden Corral
If you can survive The Coral, you are destined to lead. Some say a god among men.
“Get a load of this jackoff. That’s it. That’s the story.”
This guy at least isn’t as fucking crazy as the judge demanding the government resume the case against general Flynn – a case the government has admitted was basically one massive setup job and so criminal that they now will have to do something about the people involved or risk irreparable damage to the whole veneer of legitimacy granted the FBI – IMO.
Just FYI, last week the DC Appeals court sent an order for him to respond in 10 days explaining himself. If he doesn’t or doesn’t recind his order, then the hammer should drop next week.
Judge lawyering up. Seems a bit odd, no?
He”s now hired two lawyers – the amicus to prosecute Flynn, and one to file with the Court of Appeals.
My question: who is paying those lawyers?
The amicus guy is a goon of the court (my latin may be rusty), so I’m assuming the court. The second one seems crazy given he should be able to explain his actions himself.
No, amicus are not paid by the courts. They represent non-parties.
Who is this amicus representing? The judge? If so, is he working for free? Is somebody paying him? Who?
Interesting. I assumed it was just another procedure that the court would pay for.
Especially since the Judge issued and order impressing the guy into service to do this.
If so, is he working for free?
There must be thousands of top-shelf, Trump-deranged lawyers who’d love to stick a knife in Flynn.
I think it makes sense to go hire a lawyer to explain your actions in the proper legal terms. I mean, the dude is just a judge. How can you expect him to know the ins and outs of the law.
What do you call a lawyer who graduated at the bottom of his class?
Your Honor.
what do you call a Doctor who graduated at the bottom of his class?
Captain.
He is basically making sure that he doesn’t do anything that could then be used against him when this umpteenth amount to keep Flynn silent and unable to talk about the Obama administrations criminality and corruption goes boom!. His legal counsel is there so he can then later claim it was not him doing the shitting on the constitution or breaking the law, because he KNOWS that’s how this eventually plays out.
I hope it is just a collegiate formality that the Appeals court is handing him to save face, and they aren’t genuinely interested in hearing a justification for his actions.
Seems appropriate to me. It should happen more often
So many types of condoms in this 1914 catalogue – French ones, American ones, English ones, Spanish ones, transparent ones, seamless ones, ‘very stout’ ones, ‘stronger’ ones, teat-end ones, grey ones, silk finished ones, washable ones, ‘heavy brown malthus’ ones
https://twitter.com/RCPEHeritage/status/1265549599131000832
If you use a condom properly, it will last for years
washable ones,
I think i’d rather have the kid….
Another perv! Lambskin is OK, kidskin is just creepy.
I’m sure there some goatfuckers you just offended.
Plasti-dip yo
Another cheat-by-mail arrest.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/trump-proven-right-mail-carrier-charged-west-virginia-voter-fraud-case-connection-manipulation-absentee-ballot-requests/
LIEZ!
There is no voter fraud that ever happens. It’s just the helping hand from the party that really cares about helping everyone making a difference and preventing evil from winning our democracy!
/progtard
Our democracy is under attack by people who raise these concerns about elections being delegitimized by weak systems.
Attempting to maintain the integrity of elections is racist.
Whitmore is clearly a smug sociopath.
She’ll get re-elected.
That’s the problem.
I like the scrunched look of the sign language woman. I think even she’s not buying that story.
The stench of bullshit is pretty rank when you stand right next to it.
The correct spelling is wHitler.
Good night, my Princes of Snark, my Kings of Non-Sequitur…
Sleep well, and dream of large women.
Is that a wish or a curse? I like ’em lithe!
Bad habit of mine, thinking and speaking in movie quotes.
I thought you had mistakenly taken Festus for John.
Did occur to me.
Trump Wants Troops in Afghanistan Home by Election Day. The Pentagon Is Drawing Up Plans.
President Trump has repeatedly voiced a desire to leave Afghanistan sooner than the timeline laid out in the Feb. 29 peace agreement. He may want to campaign on bringing home every soldier.,
I seem to remember him being something commander, something chief. Seems like if he really wanted to do it he would have fired all the generals standing in his way for the last 4 years.
The Pentagon is packed with people whose job is always having a contingency plan ready. Yet somehow withdrawing from Afghanistan was too remote a possibility to plan for.
Exactly. Also when you are looking at the crop of Generals, you are looking at the carreer oriented officers who are at the pinacle of their career. As President if that top crop is pushing back at you, you could fire the lot, and you would for sure see a change in heart in all the next guys who are looking to do what they have to to get that next star.
Re that utterly pathetic exchange between the two Karens. She clearly was a progressive. Just by the shrieking and tone. How anyone could conclude she was a Trumpista shows they don’t know how to read things.
Second, the guy was a dick. I saw his Facebook posting and he antagonized her and then showed the parts of the video he wanted shown.
They can both go fuck themselves. What a stupid world we live in.
You and I would get along like gang-busters if we ever met IRL, Rufus. Shame aboot the 3 000 miles.
Well if you love birds ever do decide to get a room, you should clearly travel to him. It is 3000 miles for you, but it is like 4800 kilometers for him to visit you.
Are you coming on to me?
His ring tone was the Baha Men.
It’s so NYC it’s practically a Seinfeld episode.
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Yup a simple fuck off and walk away would have ended it there. Instead she had to double the Karen.
Highlander when two Karens meet. They know the rules.
VDH : As a general rule, when the New York Times, the Washington Post, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and CNN begin to parrot a narrative, the truth often is found in simply believing just the opposite.
It’s over 20 years I do the opposite of these idiots.
I am not sure whose rule it is, but another one I follow is “Wait 48 hours and you will find out practically negative every story about evil orange man’s doings is made up or deceptively reported to make something look bad”.
All these idiots had to do is not go full fucking batshit crazy and constantly obfuscate, exaggerate, or outright lie about orange man & his doings, and they would have won, because he would have torpedoed himself with his antics. They just could not resist the need to protect the criminal and corrupt Obama administration’s legacy however, that and retaliating for the guy winning an election they had thought they had rigged in favor of that other criminal Clinton, and have basically shown their true colors.
All these idiots had to do is not go full fucking batshit crazy and constantly obfuscate, exaggerate, or outright lie about orange man & his doings, and they would have won,
A lot of this. For example the whole CV thing. There is a lot of hay from the left about how this is Trumps fault. I really don’t know, there could be a totally valid reason why all these deaths are his fault, but in large part because i know they are going to blame him for everything wrong, i just don’t buy it. CV would have been this bad no matter who was president. The shutdowns on the other hand, i wonder if you would have seen such harsh and long lasting shutdowns under a Dem president. Or would the Dem President have usurped state power and declared a national shutdown?
Good question, would deep blue states still be locked down hard if Barry was still President?
Yes. It would be FDR II, and they’d be appropriating funds to build a colossus on the mall of the man.
No, because the DemOp complex would not have whipped up a panic to damage his Presidency.
The early take on this, even from Fauci, was correct – that no extraordinary measures were needed. And then, magically, when impeachment failed, it became an extinction-level threat that required massive intervention. Look at the timeline – within a week of impeachment failing, the Official Narrative had turned on a dime.
You know that had there been a person with a (D) in front of their name in the WH, that we would have been told he was our savior and we all owed said person our lives (so pony up more tax money and disarm you fucking unwashed serfs): see NY governor. Cuomo.
I told my girlfriend, when she freaked out when the ridiculous the usual suspects were peddling predicting 2 million deaths from the Hong Kong Fluey (blamed on of course evil orange man because he in a twist of faith was now being accused of not being xenophobic enough, after having been hammered for weeks during an impeachment attempt based on lies of all things), that these morons had open themselves up to him claiming he had saved whatever the difference in the actual body count was. Sure, their headlines now are that more people have died than in the Vietnam or Korean wars combined (funny how these people that likely were cheering on the communists in Vietnam or believe the wrong side won the Cold War care about these casualties now, huh?),but that still allows bad orange man to claim he saved 1.9 million people, to their chagrin. And man does this infuriate them.
This whole pandemic was driven by ONE thing: The fear of whelming the system. The government *thought* they could manage it but they failed to take into account they were messing around with people’s fears. Then everything and everyone went into panic mode.
Not a stick of rational thought backed by empirical evidence backed any of this madness.
It will go down as one of the great over-reaction of our times.
Just look at the discovery the virus doesn’t spread so easily from surfaces as first thought. You think people will be rational and stop wearing gloves? Of course not, fear and the ‘just in case’ position has taken over. Good luck getting that back into place.
We’re run by complete and utter degenerate low IQ assholes.
REAL leaders would not have spread panic and fear like they did.
And these continued lockdowns? If it were up to me? Cuomo, Murphy, Whitmore….all of them….would have to face some kind of justice. Not at the point they chose to lockdown but at the point where evidence was showing it was doing more harm than good. The SECOND they knew it was counter-productive, they should have BACKED OFF.
THIS is the problem.
But it doesn’t help that doctors have piled into this hysteria. A doctor I know is suggesting I don’t take in kids without antibody certificates at my daycare.
Despite the fact it doesn’t look like kids spread the disease or are in any real danger.
Mind you, he thinks people need vaccination papers to go anywhere from now on.
Control freaks are not missing out on the opportunity to show their true colors. man…
I get up in the morning and turn on the NJ news to get the weather report – and every morning get annoyed about the moronic news readers droning on about social distancing and similar bullshit. Then sometimes they put on a clip of Murphy talking about being cautious and basically never reopening my gym – and my blood starts to boil. He is a complete moron with a real taste for bullying people into submission while claiming to hold some kind of moral high ground.
And those incessant hero worshipping commercials on Pix 11 about health care workers are now just plain creepy and cynical.
While watching them, it hit me to go and actually look at how many actually died. Turns out not very many and in fact, one report from the BBC in the UK shows SOCIAL workers were more in danger and in the cross hairs than nurses.
This whole thing is just over the damn top.
And I even looked into Oxiris Barbot. Oh, what a surprise to learn she’s another lefty dummy.
Ah, you have Cablevison too. They don’t discuss all the healthcare workers who have been furloughed for almost 3 months because hip replacements and mammograms and “elective”.
It’s weird. It’s almost as if gyms are being made into scapegoats of some kind.
Think of it. What’s the one thing places that got hit hard have in common? Principally here in North America, Quebec and NY/NJ/Mass and to a certain degree Ontario (the numbers are kind low for a place with 14 million people). They sent patients into nursing homes. This EXPLODED the numbers. Had they not done that, would this whole scare even be a thing?
Murphy and the like are leveraging the lockdown to distract from the fact they led people to their deaths and in fact made the problem worse. They poured gas on the fire.
I would guess a majority of the patrons of my local gym in Warren County are conservative leaning. Many were truly outraged when the shutdown was starting. Maybe taking care of yourself and staying fit is a right vs. left thing? Everything else is political now, so why not fitness?
Of course it is.
Yeah, she’s a parody of a SJW. Everything is about race. No wonder Deblasio hired her.
just plain creepy and cynical.
All the sinovirus commercials I see strike as propagandistic, even the ones in which private companies are simply marketing.
Nah, that was the intention from the beginning. Government is the exception to Hanlon’s razor. It is fully capable of being pure, unadulterated evil and also utterly incompetent. We’re actually lucky for the latter given the former.
Whenever the topic of prolific serial killers takes place, I’ll be sure to tell people Stalin and Hitler; Mao and Pol Pot.
People have to learn killing is killing whether it be from government or an individual.
When you read what Hitler and Stalin did, it was actually worse than anything Bundy could do.
Bundy participated in the murder of each of his victims, most probably having some emotional value in each death. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot organized divisions of “Bundys” without any real connection to those deaths – emotional or otherwise. Both are monsters but the later are worse by far for the scale and programed disconnection from the violence they unleashed.
I’m not sure the government is really incompetent. Looking at a whole, it is systemically incapable of being “compotent”. You end up with things like subsides for Tobbaco farms and Anti-Tobacco groups, not out of incompetence, but out of design. The system is made to be a giant plundering scheme whereby groups come to the trough of the public treasury and steal from their fellow man.
I don’t know I think some of these gov can be chalked up to evil at this point. See Dallas Texas raising the property taxes 8% and soon to be repeated everywhere. They created this mess largely and we are on the hook for their utter fuckup and they know it. Also see the gov who are still undertaking a lockdown it’s just malice at this point given where we are in GA, TX, Fl, and Colorado. There is no other explanation for this.
And yet the only riots in the streets are race riots. This country is well beyond saving
Lets hope that Now I’ve gotten that leak plugged.
Mole in the office? Have you consulted with the Clinton Foundation?
The hose draining the condensation from the portable AC into a bucket.
Most gets in the bucket but some drips on the floor and causes a puddle which leads to floor damage, which is universally bad.
And of course the high is supposed to be 89 today, so I need at least one room air conditioned.
do you need a Swedish plumber?
Why Swedish?
It was sort of an It’s Always Sunny reference
I don’t get references, I have not watched or read anything.
Your lack of erudition did not escape me. Taleb would be disappoint
You have that backwards, there is a dearth of content worth the time.
And I have no idea who you’re talking about, must not be anyone important.
Another check says no. So I’ve tried yet again. I’m about ready to saturate the joint in epoxy and let it cure overnight.
(I’ve been using more sensible sealants so far)
the joint between the spud and your hose leaks?
Both joints off the collar leak (collar to AC spout, collar to hose)
Sharkbite.
What kind of material? Pvc? Copper?
The spout is plastic, the collar is brass, the hose is a regular garden hose.
I think my silicone tape wrap has finally covered enough of the joint to keep the water in.
Oh. Regular garden hose. I don’t think a Sharkbite would work on that. I suggest replacing the garden hose part with Pex (blue) and using a Sharkbite.
Oh for fuck’s sake.
It seems the puddling on the floor is actually because the AC unit is “working as designed”
If the drain is plugged, the unit will instead spray the condensation on one of the radiator units inside the machine in an attempt to improve cooling, but because this area is so humid, there is far far too much water for that to be a sane response, and it dribbles out of the sides.
The AC thought the drain was plugged because the hose was below the level of the water in the bucket, so being “smart” the AC began spraying the radiator, thus dousing my floor.
I didn’t realise until I watched water run out the side of the machine.
I need a basin big enough to set the whole box into.
That sucks. My portable works fine with the drain plugged. I only have to drain it manually on the very worst days, maybe once every couple years.
Also, WTF is up with the temps up north? Upper 80s in Montreal?! 60s here.
I don’t know it’s supposed to threaten 90 here.
But changing the bucket appears to have helped with the water problems for now.
I might just shorten the hose so I can use more of the bucket per cycle.
We should make this guy president or something.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265612405784162304
Have you tried to get into the Electoral College. The admissions office is awful.
“But despite Floyd’s pleas for his life, the officer didn’t let up for more than seven minutes, and Floyd died hours later. ”
If Trump had any balls or interest in justice, he would do something about these on-going atrocities. Call a conference of the fifty state attorney generals, the mayors of the hundred largest cities, the district attorneys of same, the police chiefs of same, and the police union chiefs of same, and lay down the law: the federal government guarantees every citizen the protection of his rights. This shit will have to stop. Weed out the bad apples among your cops. Reform the rules of engagement. Stop sentencing outrages for non-violent and victimless crimes. If you don’t we are going to cut off your federal funding and will come down on you with all the power the constitution gives us. Some of you will be in jail. Some of you will be fired. All of you are going to ensure justice or else.
Weed out the bad apples among your cops.
Hahahaha. Yeah. right. That isn’t happening until 1) Qualified Immunity is abolished, 2). Cops start getting the chair for their crimes. The system is controlled, designed, and protected by bad apples. The good apples get choked out and cast out. The whole orchard needs to be set to flame so that they can stop poisoning the good branches.
3. And good bye to the union
Trump should pardon all four cops immediately to own the libs.
I can’t wait for the look on Mika’s face.
If he called a conference that big they would say he’s trying to give them the ‘rona. I have been surprised at his criminal justice reform and think he has more planned.
Biatec Monument
Bratislava, Slovakia
A massive sculpture of an obscure Celtic coin that has become a symbol in Slovakia.
And you are going to make me google it myself?
Pretty sure celebrating cultural heritage like this is white supremacy.
I was sure I included the link
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/biatec-monument
The Embalming of Maria Van Butchell by William Hunter and William Cruickshank, 1775.
https://pathologicalbodiesproject.home.blog/2020/05/27/the-embalming-of-maria-van-butchell-by-william-hunter-and-william-cruickshank-1775/
Van Butchell (born in c.1735) trained under the famous surgeon John Hunter and became interested in dentistry. He charged highly for his dentistry services (he was a very capable dentist), and he became known for his eccentricities as well as his surgical skill (sometimes he was referred to as a ‘kook’). He specialised in anal fistulas and haemorrhoids as well as dentistry and was considered to have had a strange way of dressing himself at the time.
That is a double ended specialization…
Finally.
Scott Johnson at Powerline is suing our fuckhead ‘leaders’.
This was interesting:
I would love to know which cowards wouldn’t take it.
No one could have possibly predicted this:
The COVID-19 shutdown will cost Americans millions of years of life
We lost a lot of old folks because of our idiot leaders. In terms of lost years of life, the shutdowns have the virus beat by miles.
But some politicians got to look good to their base and were praised by the press and that is what truly matters
SJWednesday: Equity and Racial Justice Program Manager – Parks and Nature
As my first order of business I’d institute a rule that all pickup basketball games at the park must include one white boy.
If there are any fights, do you make sure the kids get sent to live in Bel Aire?
THAT’S NOT FUNNY!!1!
OK, but do they have to pass him the ball?
The starting salary range is 77k to 103k.
good work if you can get it.
Passed a brand new Tesla with a Biden sticker and a public university parking sticker. No doubt that parasite thinks of themself as a friend of the working man.
Note that this job will be implemented as the cities are raising property taxes to cover shortfalls.
That’s the galling thing. “This is a hard time, we’re all in this together, so we will have to all tighten our belts, except us. we will just take more of the less money that you have”.
Been saying it throughout. It’s fucking infuriating when I hear parasites and government workers bleating that bullshit.
There’s people watching their entire life’s work wither and die by government fiat. There’s gonna be people reopening a “non essential business” and have it confiscated by the State because they can’t pay the taxes operating at 50% capacity. Some fucking tax collector who’s spent the last 2 months collecting his full paycheck is gonna walk into a local restaurant and shut it down. The fucking teachers haven’t missed a check, and now they’re talking about not opening schools in the fall. But of course, we will still need the entire fucking school system on the payroll.
I don’t think they fully comprehend what they’ve done. This is going to radicalize essentially the entire tax paying base. You should hear some of the people I’m a vendor or work for who are huge stakeholders in this system talking about this that I’ve never heard talk about politics openly mocking the municipalities who think they are going to collect full frieght.
The fucking parasites have absolutley no idea how bad things are right now. It’s fucking scary. I guess it’s not going to surprise them till they find out their favorite restaurant or bar is closing. Talking to one of the more popular local chains in my area they have been operating at 30% since this started and are burning cash reserves they are well set financially but he was predicting something like a 45% contraction in the industry.
I think a lot of people are gonna go to the taxman with the very reasonable take of “Hey yall shut me down for 3 months, I can’t pay all these back taxes at once.” and they’re gonna think the Very Reasonable Friendly Public Servants will work with them In These Trying Times.
What happens next will be the interesting part.
Your’re not talking about mom and pops though that are going to fight this bullshit, your’re talking big money and people who are politically connected like holding companies and commercial real estate and reits with teams of lawyers on retainer or just even on their payroll are going to just send a prorated check not merely delay these muni’s have barred them from collecting earning an income through fiat. They have a case for restitution. You can’t just take someone’s property or set guidelines down preventing someone from accessing thier property this is going to be incredibly interesting to see where it lands.
Don’t forget that several places are talking about “necessary” tax increases to fund the government agencies during “these unprecedented times”.
This is different from 2008 though, I don’t think I’ve ever heard people more pissed off who actually matter in the system.
Idle Hands: The tone deafness of the government employees is insane. Taking a 10% paycut in “solidarity”, not furloughing school district workers for up to a month after the schools were closed, talking about hiring more workers while businesses are being shuttered, being told to “learn to essential”.
I’m surprised it’s only at armed protests at this point.
– Ability to use Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel proficiently
DAMNIT! Why did i bet on WordPerfect for my skillset?!?! Another Job out of my grasp.
There was a period of time when I was working on both Macs with their GUI interface and PCs with DOS and never gave the differences any thought whatsoever.
WordPerfect/Word, whatever.
Lotus/Excel, whatever.
Temp place: “Can you work on Mac or PC?”
Me: *confused* “Don’t know what you mean.”
Temp place: *pointing to one and then the other*
Me: Um…both?
Temp place: *exasperated* Let’s see, then. [… testing …] Um…Oh. OH! WOW THAT’S FABULOUS!
Epic 7,500-mile cuckoo migration wows scientists
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52815286
Meh. African swallows fly further.
but slower
With or without coconuts?
Linear friction welding is a process involving two parts being pushed together, one oscillating at a high frequency
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1265538420727783425
There’s also spin welding, same basic method. It’s very cool stuff.
Has happened a couple of time during intercourse…
Always a shitty look: Hertz paid top executives $16 million in bonuses ahead of its bankruptcy filing
Retention bonuses are typical for bankrupt companies that want to prevent their management from abandoning ship. But they’re always awkward: the company can’t pay its employees or its debts to lenders, but it prioritizes payments to its already handsomely paid bosses.
Hertz (HTZ) paid a total of $16.2 million to 340 executives on May 19 as part of a plan to keep them in place while the company attempts to reorganize, the company announced in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The executives will be required to return the money should they leave Hertz on their own before March 31, 2021.
Executives from a bankrupt corporation in a market with 20+% unemployment are always in high demand.
Secured creditors ought to be filing suit to claw that money back.
That is what I thought. That is exactly why clawbacks exist.
Some of this is cultural too. It seems to me to be fundamentally unmanly to negotiate a contract where you’ll get rewarded for failing.
Like, you know when you interview someone, and ask if they have questions, and the first thing they ask about is vacation time and how strict the boss is about attendance. That’s always a red flag.
“What is your policy on workplace trysts?”
340 executives? I think I might see where part of the problem lies…
It’s in Dagonese, but this article is very cool.
https://daily.veronanetwork.it/news/a-negrar-scoperta-la-pavimentazione-di-una-villa-romana/
Ma che catzo?
Looks like some hipsters sleeve tattoo.
Caption time.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY-eplMXgAEAsEY?format=jpg&name=large
“You’re still too close, Joe.”
Joe and Jill recreate their wedding night.
“Joe, I doubt your fingers will stretch all the way over here.”
Literally low hanging fruit.
“Listen, fat. I know the sniffing thing made you uncomfortable but I think this is an overreac – what? Who stopped? Why am I stopping?”
Joe strictly follows the Pence rule, and distances himself from women other than his wife… and he doesn’t recognize that woman.
So my Dad made good use of his time in lockdown and built a huge laughing Kookaburra.
https://twitter.com/RafaanDaliri/status/1265199564274888706
Also in Australia there is a city called Townsville which is silly.
What? You wanted Townsvillebergshire?
Apparently Romania will receive 33 billion Euro as part of the EU plan to restart the lockdown economy. Sadly I won’t get a penny most likely, just some corrupt politicians will spend it on some bullshit crony crap. Oh well.
COVID-19 deaths have declined in Democratic congressional districts since mid-April, but remained relatively steady in districts controlled by Republicans. https://pewrsr.ch/3gsPnCl
Click through to see the graph. It’s like something out of Babylon Bee.
we live in a time beyond parody.
I think that is pretty much the equivalent of using world record times to show that women will be destroying the men in the marathon in another 20 years.
The old “The Secret to losing a lot of weight is to get really, really fat first” trick is it?
“My husband made a failed attempt at humor last week when checking in with the small business that helps with our boat and dock up north. Knowing it wouldn’t make a difference, he jokingly asked if being married to me might move him up in the que,” said Whitmer. “Obviously with the motorized boating prohibition in our early days of COVID-19, he thought it might get a laugh. It didn’t. To be honest I wasn’t laughing either when it was relayed to me because I knew how it would be perceived.”
Uh-huh.
“I hope all Republican House Members vote NO on FISA until such time as our Country is able to determine how and why the greatest political, criminal, and subversive scandal in USA history took place!” Trump wrote on Twitter.
No…no… they should always vote on this bullshit. Not “until such time”.
“In 2000, while on SNL, I made a terrible decision to do an impersonation of Chris Rock while in blackface,”
I think the terrible decision is that Saturday Night Live lasted as long as it did.
The program will also offer a no-cost permit to businesses interested in participating. They will need to self-manage some requirements around personal safely and accessibility that include paths that are ADA compliant.
Bums shitting are included?
The explanation, investigators say, is even stranger than some imagined: The judge had a habit of masturbating with a penis pump under his robe during trials.
The lurid allegations have led to criminal charges against Thompson, brought an embarrassing end to a solid career and shocked many of his colleagues. The case could also lead to a wave of appeals from defendants claiming that the judge was not paying attention while presiding over their cases.
It’s good to be the King until you get beheaded.
https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1264035614153797634
Saw this, and i’ve seen similar thinking from the right, And there was something particularly that i wanted to talk my way through. So bear with me. I completely understand the “lesser of two evils” argument for voting. In the end either Trump or Biden will be president. Given that, constraint you have a choice to support the one you see as least evil. What i reject is that this is a Moral Argument for supporting one or the other. It is simply a strategic argument. If, as Cenk suggests, it is moral, then that would mean the morality of my decision to vote for would be dependent on the actions of other people. If in 2016 all the Dems voters decided to vote for Jill Steyn and Not Herself, then voting for herself would have been the wrong thing, morally, to do. And i wholly reject a system of morality that makes the morality of my decisions dependent on the decisions of everyone else in society.
That is a very profound observation.
Can’t tell if sarcasm.
I agree; it’s kind of brilliant, really.
Definitely Sarcasm.
The funny thing with “the right” is going through old Tweets from the NeverTrumpers and Fredocons who voted for Gay Jay or McMuffin (supposedly, most of them probably voted for Herself) in 2016 with the logic of “It’s not binary, voting third party is totally fine” and now in 2020 they’re all talking about voting for Biden because “Trump must go”.
Trumps the best President of my lifetime, which is just a sad sad commentary on the American nation. I actually think a 1992 Bill Clinton would absolutely massacre him. Popular charismatic and successful governor from a moderate/conservative state would wipe the fucking floor with Trump. I think if there was a Democrat Trump, a popular, charismatic, succesful businessman/celebrity he’d stand a good chance.
But that’s the thing: The Democrats don’t have one of those. In 2024, if Ron DeSantis is running on his record, and Andrew Cuomo is running on his, who’s winning? Hell, Jared Polis might be the currently active Democrat with the best actual governing record.
In 2024, if Ron DeSantis is running on his record, and Andrew Cuomo is running on his, who’s winning?
It’s going to be strange listening to Tom Nichols, Rick Wilson et al. rationalize why they’re voting for Cuomo over DeSantis.
Cenk is a collectivist so untroubled by such calculations.
“A lot of people are going to die and become poor in the process. And it’s much more likely that the fascists will take over than progressives. This mentality has always enabled fascism. If you want any chance of progress, Biden is literally the only choice. Obviously not ideal.”
Umm what?
The entire American political class is composed of economic fascists. It’s just such an absurd, nonsensical thing to assert that Trump is a fascist but Biden isn’t.
Unfunded mandates for the “greater good” combined with the cult of big business and sweetheart deals for labor and other cronies is fascism. That’s literally what it is. Economic policywise, the American government has been fascist since the New Deal. There’s not a single American living who’s ever collected a paycheck in laissez faire system.
The question that needs to be asked about the actions of those such as Whitmer, Cuomo, Murphy, et al, is what would a fascist have done that would be different? Specifically.
Everyone is making a moral choice when they vote (or not). The question is whether or not they are actually putting consideration and rationale into their decision or just virtue signaling.
“I’ll fight like hell to move him toward progressive positions”
Umm, I don’t think much of a fight there. He’s already latched onto every batshit crazy idea the left have dreamed up, Green New Deal, no fracking, cap and trade schemes, raising taxes, etc, etc. The senile old shithead is racing leftward as hard as fast as he can already.
This is all part of the con. You assert that every single position that Biden holds is “moderate” because hes an old white guy. It’s the old Obama bullshit.
“There are some who say the government should not exist. There are some who say we should tax all income at 60% and add a 10% VAT. I reject both those extremes, and am proposing a modest, moderate, rational, and reasonable increase in the tax rates. Surely we can compromise.”
“Some say we should dump poison into the rivers. Some say we should dismantle all industry. I reject these extremes, and think the Green New Deal is a wonderful compromise.”
“There are some who say we should tax all income at 60% and add a 10% VAT”
Well, that’s what it will take to only get one of their wet dreams, Medicare for all. The other stuff, like the Green new deal will reduce us to serfdom in short order.
Yep, one of Obama’s favorite rhetorical tricks. He’d present a false dilemma, then stake out the supposed middle ground, which was, in fact, quite far to the left.
Haven’t seen much talk regarding the Libertarian President and VP nominations. It’s almost like they wanted to be taken seriously in nominating Jo Jorgensen, then decided naw screw being taken seriously, let’s bring in Spike for the VP.
I like the ticket. Not my first choices, but better than Judge Jim Gray, and leagues Better than Johnson/Weld.
She is going to have no choice but to be a huge difference from either Biden or Trump. So far, she’s off to a much better start than Gayjay.
Woods had a delegate on his show talking about it. I actually feel a little bit better that the boring fucks didn’t get anything they wanted. I still like Hornberg, but he apparently pissed off too many people.
“Sure, lady. Go with that. See how far it gets you.”
Just wait until she’s VP. That was a nice boat business you had there, peasants, too bad something happened to it.
“It looks like Amy Cooper, the white woman in the viral Central Park video, is a liberal.”
I’m just taking a wild guess here, that most Karens are lefties.
I suppose there will always be two minds about this, but I’ll continue to maintain that there is nothing inherently freedom-loving about conservatives. Their brand of outrages are preferable to some, but I never got it; my native libertarianism was reinforced by early reaction to conservative over-reaches. I continue to be offended by them because I never learned a need to apologize for one side or the other; I continue to believe that hating everyone is the sanest option.
Some of the world I’ve seen, but a Southern child in short pants with a piece of crawdad on a #6 rotting forgotten in his pants will always live in me somewhere. And that child grew up ass-deep in conservative Karens. Good conservatives like my dad, a union-card guy in the sixties turned into law-and-order Nixonite and, of course, an eventual Reagan Democrat; I’m not saying he was wrong with the course he took: I’m saying that there was never anyone more conservative than my old man, but he’s a professional Karen: telling everyone what to do and bending offices and institutions to his will are SOP . . . as was/is cop-sucking. He doesn’t believe in freedom: he believes in the American way he enlisted to protect be enforced over all the godless commies, drag-racers, and abortionists. His strikes me as the Karen impulse.
And that child grew up ass-deep in conservative Karens.
Yeah, as a veteran of the Bible Belt, i can confirm that the urge to Karen is primal and not associated with partisan identification.
Really, what Karening is mostly is a style. A particular, grating, passive-aggressive petty authoritarianism that seeks to dominate others from a position of entitlement/moral superiority.
“And that child grew up ass-deep in conservative Karens.”
Same here. The church ladies. The church ladies have been largely replaced by so called ‘liberals’.
Conservatives, as they refer to themselves as, have mostly limited themselves to getting those dangerous potheads. Besides that, most of them I know are fairly freedom loving compared to progs, who are the now the church ladies from my own youth.
You’re probably right. But I’ll just say one anecdote: The conservatives I’ve met seem to have some belief in the Constitution and the rights enumerated therein, but they grant too many exemptions. Of the conservatives I personally know, I would stand a far greater chance of converting them to libertarianism. I think it would just be matter of getting it through to them that rights still apply to things you don’t like.
The “progressives” by contrast have no principles whatsoever except “acquire power”. They’ll quote the Constitution when it helps them bash Trump, but the rest of the time they’ll blow it off as an antiquated document written by evil slave owners. Most of them I’ve talked to literally think the word “freedom” is some silly redneck talking point.
In short: They’re both pretty awful, but if I had to pick one side to team up with, I’d begrudgingly go with the conservatives.
This
I haven’t met any progs that can be convinced. But I’ve known some socons that have been.
MSNBC schmuck.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/05/27/unmasked-msnbcs-double-standard-elitist-mask-shaming-faceplant/
“I hope this bill finally fails and the entire program dies a horrid, ugly death. But I know it won’t.”
Unfortunately, you’re right.
Being the staunch libertarian that he is, I’m sure Amash will vote in favor of it. That’ll show bad orange man.
I think my employer is hoping I’ll quit rather than having to lay me off. Since this WFH stuff began I’ve had steadily less to do… they want me available for the usual business hours, but I can only fudge the numbers enough to keep my hours up. I’ve had to eat into my vacation time to maintain my usual paycheck.
I think I may have gone about this whole thing the wrong way from the start.
but I can’t fudge the numbers enough
No wonder they’re working me so little, I no even can’t inglish good.
Hold on for some generous severance pay.
I can empathize with you. My company just merged with another. While I’m staying busy I can’t help but feel like my work will be completely useless once we are totally settled. Now we just received word that lay offs are coming in the next week(s). The job market is a complete disaster right now.
Been there. First, be “assured there will be no layoffs in this merger.” Four months later, “we need to cut staff 25% but those of you we keep can be assured you will have long term job with us.” One year later, “unfortunately, we need to move headquarters and some of you will be let go, but if you move with us, you’ll have a permanent position.” So you take the move. Six months later: “I’m afraid I have some bad news for you this morning.”
Yeah, on a different scale, I recall when my boss got fired, and they brought in a crony of the CEO to be “Interim General Counsel.” Solemn assurances that he was not a candidate for the permanent position, and, of course, that the current staff had nothing to worry about because the department was understaffed as it was (which was true).
Everybody left that meeting and updated their resumes. Four months later, the we-swear-he’s-just-interim GC was the permanent GC. In four months, he never once met with me. Our first and only meeting was when he fired me. I think of the five attorneys in the office when this all started, only two were left six months later.
Yeah, timecards are always an exercise in creative writing even, or especially, when busy.
I don’t think they want me to quit, and I probably won’t be laid off (my position is funded directly by a client). I’ve at most had ~3 hours of work a day since the lockdown started. Quite a few days I’ve had under 30 minutes.
I’ve worked maybe 40 hours in the past ten weeks: less than $500k quoted.
The only thing I’ve worked on all year that we got any part of was a new building at a barely second-tier state campus.
I did turn down some consulting work on a hand-sanitizer production facility, so, ironically, I could have been very busy all this time.
You know how peeps around here are always predicting that the left will inevitably start eating their own? Well, it’s happening.
I’m sure this has already made the rounds, but…
CENSORED, FAT BOY!
DOES NOT FIT NARRATIVE!
Oh the irony of that douche bag being shocked by the behavior of his own clan.
Michael Moore is a broken clock. He correctly identified why Hillary wouldn’t win, urged the DNC to reconsider its candidate, and was promptly un-personed by the left. I’m surprised he still gets air time at all.
Re: Afghanistan
War is driven by money. It always has been, it always will be. In times past that meant looting. You invade someone’s country and loot everything you can get your hands on. Technology has changed that. How much do war planes cost? How much is a tank? The hardware required to invade another country makes that action prohibitively expensive. Why steal $10B worth of art and gold if you have to spend $100B doing it?
Today we simply invade some useless shithole where we need minimal hardware then hire suppliers and contractors to do all kinds of pointless crap. The tax money flows. In other words those making war are looting their own country. That is why we are stuck in these useless, pointless wars with no end in sight. That is why when Trump tried to shut it down the howls and temper tantrums were so epic. It isn’t the war that is endless, it is the gravy train that is endless.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
See: Three Kings
Oh look! A war movie that wasn’t mentioned that I actually liked!
Just take a little visit to NOVA, AKA Panem on the Potomac, and you’ll see. Maybe not right now, since they’re all locked in their houses. But wait until it reopens and you’ll see restaurants, bars, and malls full of people at 11PM at night on a week day and more Rolls Royce and Lamborghini than Toyota, everywhere you look. Almost all of this ostentatious wealth from the military industrial complex. You have to use those weapons to sell more.
This is one place where a thread connects Obama and Trump. Obama’s inner circle referred to our foreign policy establishment as “the blob”, and Trump has excoriated that same community of people. And both Obama and Trump proved unable to move the country away from that. Trump is playing the shrewd politician here – promising now what he didn’t deliver after his election.
“In other words those making war are looting their own country”
Exactly.
If the DOD and the defense industry was actually interested in arming the military for the wars its in, we’d have bought hundreds of Super Tucanos in the mid 2000s. Instead we got the F35. The fucking Afghan Air Force bought Super Tucanos, because the Afghan Air Force knows the war it is fighting.
Not only that but i think it is hard for many in the Private sector to understand the sheer amount of “Pride for the organization” that goes on. You have General officers who were Pilots, making sure that we don’t get rid of any of our airplane programs, because being a pilot is the best. Then you get into the Turf wars and even more waste. Army wants to have everything. Planes, Troop Landers, Helicopters. So they get everything.
See also FBI and Comey talking about having to “protect the institution”.
Every officer above the rank of Lt Col is politically sponsored; so as one progresses to full Colonel, let alone up the GO ranks, they become less a soldier and more a politician. This is something that Trump is totally clueless about – believing that generals are just yes-men to the higher (civilian) authority.
Trump has Tom Clancy/Vince Flynn/Brad Thor Syndrome. The soliders, the cops, and the spies are all gruff, honest patriots who faithfully discharge their oaths.
I once read this thing or head a rumor that some people have become famously wealthy in the past by financing both sides of a war. So I guess it’s not just recently that the idea of getting rich off warfare was thought up.
Nobody ever started a war in order to come out of it poorer.
Not recently? Every Stone Age raid on neighboring tribes was about looting. That is what is and has always been about.
My point is that technology has shifted the target. We don’t loot others, we loot our own and that is why the wars we engage in now are not fought to be won, they just go on forever.
I had never thought of it that way, but I think this is exactly right.
“My point is that technology has shifted the target. We don’t loot others, we loot our own ”
+1 internetz
Folks, we gotta trust our experts, put them in charge in fact.
You know what happens when you follow that sort of thinking? We’re going through just a glimpse of that scenario right now.
This is what happens when you run with that.
Lysenkoism
Liar – it was the kulaks and hoarders to blame!
The reason I felt the need to post that, after I found it late last night, is the shocking similarity of that to our modern day climate change econazis. Gretel would starve half of us to death and put the rest of we non-bleevers in camps, pretty much what Stalin did.
Sacrifices must be made in order to bring forth the glorious new Gaia man!
Shitty science
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/05/26/study-finds-amazing-predictor-timing-scale-coronavirus-outbreaks-feces/
Strong together in NH
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news/3801/Anna-Rose-Becomes-The-First-Person-With-Down-Syndrome-To-Graduate-From-Rowan-University
Anna Rose Rubright is a member of Rowan University’s Class of 2020. She is the college’s first graduate who has Down syndrome.
Anna Rose graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in radio, television and film and a minor in journalism with a 3.426 GPA.
That’s not parody, BTW.
“Bachelor of Arts in radio, television and film and a minor in journalism…”
I don’t think she is the first one.
Apparently these protesters are immune to coronavirus, based on the lack of lefties on my facebook feed mocking them as a bunch of “covidiots” who are all going to get sick and die.
“covidiots”
Better than a blanche kovidian, Karen.
Consider that stolen. I like it.
You can’t put a value on a human life.
Unless that life is snuffed out by Trumpvirus, in which case the value is more than the pittance you’d earn if you were allowed to work, peasant.
Odd that none of this came up on the campaign trail: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/boise/article243002706.html
I guess my faith that we didn’t want to be Portland or Seattle was in vain.
““The city of Boise is deeply committed to being a place that is equitable, safe and thriving for everyone,”
If she gets her way very soon it will be none of those. Congratulations voters.
That Zoom meeting is almost exactly what I would expect. Fat, single, twenty-something females and a cuck or two.
I’m going to go all misogynist here and proclaim that young, single females are highly motivated freedom destroyers.
There’s hordes of them coming out of liberal arts programs with shit-for-brains and a penchant for communism. They’re going to doom us all.
I think many/most are reporters. The cuck in the center is exactly what I would picture a Boise Weekly reporter as. (Which is too bad, they used to do good reporting that the establishment media wouldn’t cover. Also have a bit of sentimentalism because their offices was right behind my wife’s apartment and next to a decent bagel shop)
Her or Bieter. Not much of a choice.
Took me a while, but I knew I had seen that cop somewhere before.
https://i.imgflip.com/430i6w.jpg
He looks more like Al Bundy.
Could be just me. It’s the crazed look in his eyes. Al had resigned apathy.
Their anger just fell out of the fucking sky, amirite?
https://twitter.com/blacklibertari2/status/1265646779577622530
The lines were drawn a long time ago. They’re not going to be redrawn before it all burns down.
That’s ugly.
It is.
But this conflict has been defined around race, and not power. Anyone who disagrees (like that founder of BLM) gets drummed out of the conversation immediately.
Therefore, we will have race riots and we will continue to make the situation worse by making more symbolic rules and even less accountability.
Yeah and that’s not even a serious conflict. That chunky short female cop is pushing a guy who could easily beat her senseless if he had a mind to, but hes just letting her shove him back. I don’t care how many weapons you have on your belt, if you get surrounded by a mob and they’re grabbing your hands, you’re fucked.
No shit. Lesson #1 from Reginald Denney was don’t let a mob get a hold of you.
Wow. Yikes.
And nothing will be done about it.
You have the GOP who need to be tough on crime and support our ‘heroes’.
Then you have the Dems who will make it all about race.
And nothing will change. Same as it ever was.
Security over freedom. Guns bad, cops bad, covid bad, free speech bad. Pass a law!
An inability or unwillingness to understand the nature of the problem because the real solution doesn’t allow one tribe to gain power over the other.
Those new sidewalk restaurant tables are gonna have to compete for space here.
https://imgur.com/a/hnKOrgf
I took this last week from my van outside one of my jobs. This is early, maybe 9 am before the real action gets going as all the junkies wake up and get their groove on. By the time I finished at 11 am there was a full on dealing scene going on next to my van. You could get crack, fentanyl and various opiates within 15 feet of my van’s side door.
Damn. Can’t say I miss seeing stuff like that. Be careful, KS.
They mostly leave me alone cause I’m an obvious worker and people are busy buying, selling and consuming vast quantities of narcotics. One of the crack dealers was pretty suspicious of me though, possibly thinking I was undercover, so there was no way I was going to record anything after the marketplace opened up for business for the day. The really fucked up thing is that this is in the Tenderloin where this kind of thing has been going on forever (minus the tents). Now this has spread out to a bunch of other places in the city. So far our little pocket of sanity next to the beach has not gotten it too bad, but I do have to occasionally roust one of the zombies and send them shuffling on.
Love the guy on the wheelchair with the mask.
Pulled down under his chin.
What a shithole.
You gotta dig the one dude’s cleaning style also.
Opportunity, dude! Make enough to get out of that shithole pronto.
And miss out on all that good crack?
It gets more tempting by the day Mo. It is hard though as the only fam either me or the wife has is living within half hour of here and my business is built up here over the last 12 years or so. It would be a complete do over in a place where I don’t know anyone. That’s intimidating with three little kids. I’ve been trying to hang on for 13 years till they are all out of high school, but I may not be able to stand it for that long.
I can understand the hesitation.
You’re a locksmith, right?
Yep. It’s the city my (mother’s side) parents emigrated to and my father emigrated to and I was born in, so there is a strong emotional attachment to it. I really am pissed at what the progressives have done to it.
Where is that scene, out of curiosity?
Oh, the ‘Loin. Fond memories.
Turk and Hyde. The crazy thing is this is not even close to the worst block there (as well as this being too early in the day to get a real picture of what it gets like).
I used to love that city. This weekend the wife and I were talking about jetting down there for some cocktails and prime rib when this lockdown is lifted. But then there’s this shit going on.
If you do come down, lemme know E. There are still a few parts left that haven’t become total shitholes.
You could get crack, fentanyl and various opiates within 15 feet of my van’s side door.
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