Who is the nicest Glib you know? Is it…Sloopy? Or maybe Brett L? We can automatically rule out HM, Swiss, SugarFree, and OMWC. Maybe jesse.in.mb or Riven.
But, no, the answer is obvious. It’s me! Everybody else seems to be doing things that are “more important” than providing links and free-for-all commenting to you, our loyal Glibertariat. I, however, place your finite pleasures above all else.
Blocked by passwords, FBI can’t unlock over half of devices seized as evidence. “A senior FBI official said the share of devices that couldn’t be opened is the highest yet. ‘It’s a problem that keeps getting worse,’ the official said.” I don’t know about you, but that seems like a feature, not a bug to me.
Feinstein releases transcript of interview with Fusion GPS co-founder. “In his testimony, Simpson rejected suggestions — pushed by Trump allies and Republicans in Congress — that Fusion paid journalists to publish anti-Trump material.” I believe him. They don’t need to actually pay the journalists to do this when they already do it as part of their normal workday.
The NHS Crisis: Austerity, Not Single Payer, Kills. “The NHS has been consistently under-funded by the Conservative government. It’s not just cuts, though May cut spending on public health—things like sexual health services—in 2017. It’s that its increases in funding cannot compete with rises in demand, particularly with an aging population and a lack of social care.” Instead of increased funding, they could just try Death Panels. Oh, wait, they already do that.
‘We don’t got this’: Airmen can’t be pushed to the point of failure, secretary says “It is not fair for this nation to ask our commanders to keep saying ‘We got this’ right up to the point of failure, because we don’t got this.” You’ll love her solution.
Anitere Flores and Oscar Braynon apologize or Florida Man and Florida Woman with political power have affair and get caught. OK, you got me. Not sure how that is actually news.
What? You were expecting sports? Sports ended this autumn for me when Aaron Rodgers got broken. Hardest hit? No! Not Rodgers! SP, that’s who!
Reminded of this by Q’s excellent post. Have a great rest of your day wherever you are, Glibs!
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427 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
There are only two sides to the debate: those who support big tits and those who like to stomp on kittens with Doc Martins. Which side are you on?
https://archive.is/Gls1i
Long list so many more could have made the cut but here goes, 5, 21, 26, 34, 75, 94 and 87 for the DEEEEEP DIIIIIISH!!!!
Kitten stomping is the new hip thing, Q.
“Kitten stomping”, new hip thing or very weird euphemism?
Smashing pussy is not a new hip thing.
Unless you want a lifetime of lower back pain, you really should smash pussy from your hips.
Correct form is so important.
Actual thing. Some people actually derive pleasure from watching women in high heels crush small animals to death.
Gross.
Now that you say this, I think this was a plot thread on a show like “Boston Legal” or something.
Crush fetish
I was recently (on accident! I swear!) exposed to something called “Leather. Cigar. Bear.”
Perhaps Jesse has some insight.
Bonsai kitten
62 wins.
34 rocks.
94 rolls.
I can see why SP likes your articles.
Actually, this particular topic of Q’s doesn’t do much for me. I can see a set whenever I want to. *shrug*
What happened to the strawberry daiquiri?
Oh, and pics?
It made me colder looking at it.
Sure, I have many pics… of cocktails.
I don’t really think any of these chivettes glasses are necessary.
They’re just playing it safe. No need poking an eye out.
LSD just got some traditional blood-red Doc Martens, but I doubt they’re intended for use on kittens.
Orgy.
Mildly connects to my article yesterday, but connects much more strongly to The True Believer.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/01/why_liberals_emneedem_to_look_down_on_conservatives.html
I think the author makes some good points, but over generalizes on the relative merits of religion and atheism. He also seems to have a blind spot on the self worth issues of the hyper religious.
Government makes stupid (minimum wage) law in New York. Upstate NY pizza chain has smart response to stupid law. Government will probably make law dumber in response.
They want you to disable your ad-blocker.
I’m not getting that, but will c+p:
How are places like McDonalds gonna stay open paying 15 an hour?
It’s already about $4 for in egg mcmuffin in the city, so I go to delis if I need an egg sandwich
The recently renovated McD’s near me just installed kiosks so you can place your order yourself. I first saw one of those in Spain last summer and told my son that this is what a high minimum wage law looks like.
Would in a year?
http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/11/missing_syracuse_teen_found_in_oswego_county.html
Wouldn’ that depend on where you met up with her? 17 is legal in quite a few states
Tatiana Martinez?
Im becoming more and more about open-borders.
Would ten years ago.
Wait, you mean when you were 10 years younger? Or, when she was 7!?
I get confused about the “would” codes sometimes.
Hint: Old Man With Candy is his handle…
The comments. Ewww:
“SandersTrump2016 1 hour ago
The law is the law. Although it won’t get you in any legal trouble, violating the spirit of the law is the same as violating the letter of the law in some eyes. Shirt changing in this case is just as bush league now as it was when all of those corporate thieves did it under pataki’s empire zone program. Hopefully the public respect lost by this corporate citizen “trickles down” and costs them significant business.”
I don’t think this person understands fully what he’s saying.
“….must pay workers at least $15 an hour by the end of the year in New York City and by 2021 in the rest of the state.”
And in 2021 $15/hr will be determined to be not enough!
HAHA!
Something a former British PM said about running out of other people’s money comes to mind here.
There is no austerity, anyhow.
Is their “austerity” the same as ours? As in, “We asked for a 20% increase in funding but only got 15%. AUSTERITY!”
“Government accounting” is an oxymoron.
You know, there’s a system for optimum allocation of non-infinite resources which have competing uses… its called a free market.
About the only worthwhile part of that article is when she points out that the NHS is not a classical Single Payer system, though naturally she doesn’t have the guts to emphasis that that’s because it’s far more retarded than such a system could ever be.
I like the bit where she pretends that the evul Tories fucked up by ‘only’ giving the NHS £8bn rather than the £30bn it demanded. No discussion of where the £22bn would have come from. Since we’re not running surpluses and the left shrieks every time any other spending is cut, the answer is obviously “higher taxes or borrowing”. Both of which would result in even less money when the Stalinist NHS gets the begging bowl out again.
Labour may have fucked up creating the NHS as they did but it’s given them an incredibly potent political weapon over the years.
“The NHS Crisis: Austerity, Not Single Payer, Kills”
NEED MOAR MONEY!
After SP…STEVE SMITH? Because he SHARES LOVE so much?
ZARDOZ. He cleanses us because he loves us.
The free guns are great, too!
Swissy, I try not to play favorites, but you have always been a model of fairness and decorum here.
Of course; neutrality is the mark of a true Swiss gentleman, after all. That and fondue stains.
*frantically wipes shirt*
Swiss and SP are tied
I’m sure some of them are good people.
I’m sure some of them are good people.
I got mentioned in the lynx! Holy shit!
That was a great little essay, sir.
Thanx.
You have arrived!
What? You were expecting sports? Sports ended this autumn for me when Aaron Rodgers got broken. Hardest hit? No! Not Rodgers! SP, that’s who!
So you didn’t like where Mike McCarthy’s QB room was at?
McCarthy waiting until two minutes to go in the final game to put in Callahan was the ultimate middle finger to the fans.
*sigh* And yet, I will still probably root for them next year.
New GM! Maybe he’ll remind McCarthy you shouldn’t call 90% pass plays every game.
“We do what we do.”
Ted Thompson hardest hit…
The whole FBI password thing is actually a pretty interesting legal question (at least to me, a non-lawyer). 4A ostensibly prevents unlawful search and seizure; however let’s say a device is lawfully seized with a warrant. Do the investigators have any claim to the data on said device, or does it only encompass the physical object? Lawyer Glibs I welcome comment…
FYTW.
Remember that the process is the punishment. They know they aren’t going to be able to unlock those phones, but be damned if they are going to return them.
The FBI can pound sand as far as I’m concerned. Those assholes have been circumventing the 4th Amendment and the NSA’s prohibition on spying on Americans for years in the form of parallel reconstruction. Until they cop to that, and maybe even after, there will be no consideration for any of their whines.
If they have a warrant then it’s the information on the device.
A note on that, they can force you to use your fingerprint but not give up your password. Most fingerprint phones require a password after reboot so always reboot or shut down your phone if there’s any doubt about your situation.
IDK if this is a thing, but I’d love to set up one fingerprint to get into the phone and another one to knock the phone back to password-only mode.
Meh.
Real fanatics have a 10-attempts-then-wipe protocol in place.
If I had hardware that would also self-destruct after 10 attempts – ideally in some spectacular steampunk-y way, I’d use that instead.
I’m still crying over Carson Wentz getting knocked out. Eagles had it this year. Eagles were finally gonna win..
*goes back to the same sobbing he’s been doing the past month*
2.5 point underdog, at home, as the #1 seed. Of all the Eagley things, this is the Eagliest.
Tell me about it.
I actually think we beat Atlanta on Saturday, but we’ll get rolled by either Minny or (especially) New Orleans. Wentz could’ve outscored those teams. Foles can’t.
I agree with you here. I think Foles can get them past the Falcons, but then its the end of the road.
He could have BUT I don’t think Philly has the clutch receivers. I just don’t trust Jeffrey and Agholor. Celek and Ertz are more sure handed but they ain’t deep threats. As for Atlanta, they have a really good secondary and you have to hope Jeffrey and Agholor can handle them – or else….
Keep to the short game – screen passes and the run I say.
Yeah, I think that’s what made the Ajayi pickup so important, he can somewhat keep safeties honest allowing Jeffrey and Aghlohar a bit more space. It’ll be fun this week. I met Ertz, briefly, at a concert back in September. Nice guy. Big Man. Didn’t appreciate how big until standing next to him.
Justin Beiber?
The guy they traded for and never used?
I think Ajayi has 70 carries for around 400-ish yards in his 8 games as an Iggle. Not a heavy load obviously, but he ain’t nailed to the bench either.
There will no excuse for not giving him (and Blount and Clement) more touches especially if they can’t establish a functional and effective passing game.
Heh. The War on Drugs. Ertz and Chris Long were hanging out. Chris Long was awesome, totally down to earth.
Now that’s comedy.
This year was a huge blow but I’m looking forward to next year. It can happen with Wentz at the helm as QB. We just have to hope Pederson can coach in a big spot and not be like Andy Reid.
I’m still crying over Both since they were my 2 QB’s on my Family Fantasy Football League
It is for the best. An Eagles/Vikes matchup would have torn NW Minnesoda into two. Wentz has made the Eagles a popular team with all the Bison bobos. But it is the Vikes.
Of course, I’m sweating the Saints matchup. For no other reason than I am a VIkes fan and I just wonder what form their doom will take.
“A senior FBI official said the share of devices that couldn’t be opened is the highest yet. ‘It’s a problem that keeps getting worse,’ the official said.”
Nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah nyeah, Fuck Off, Slavers.
GOOD.
Sounds like we need a law requiring developers to engineer back doors into their encryption applications. We can’t have the patriots at the FBI thwarted you know.
I read that with Dr. Evil playing in the background of my head: “Oh boo-freakin’-hoo”
Sports ended this autumn for me when Aaron Rodgers got broken.
At least you get to watch all those insurance commercials.
“DISCOUNT DOUBLE CHECK!”
You can only say it if you do the swishy hands swing and pelvic thrust at the same time, just like Aaron et al.
Two members of the FL Senate reach across party lines and work at bringing a Donkephant into the world. Do they receive support for their bipartisan efforts? No. See? The nation is not ready for true bipartisanship.
Nobody (except maybe SugarFree) wants to hear about your deviant sexual breeding program.
Unless you add some details.
James Carville and Mary Matalin
AKA Breeding the AntiChrist.
So one of my coworkers will not stop raving about the Squatty Potty; he even brings it to work (yuck). Any Glibs own one and is it all it’s cracked up to be?
Someone bought me one and I refused to use it. I’m just that kind of guy
My wife had one. She did not experience any positive effect. It may be collecting dust in our garage or else she threw it out.
My wife bought one too, I was very unhappy about it.
It has served itself well as a stool (no, not that kind) the kids can use to get up and down from the toilet. It can then be tucked back when not in use.
Warty is a fan, IIRC.
He probably goes through a couple a week I would think. Unless they developed a stainless steel version.
Those last 20, 21 days … tops.
He is still waiting for the carbon fiber/composite ones in R&D.
All those squats and he still can’t take a dump without a plastic stool?
The plastic step they sell for 20 bucks that better aligns your intestines with your anus? Why not just try it with an old shoebox if you’re curious?
Warty was rather fond of it, so it’s DOOMcock approved.
My parents own one. Never used it.
The best thing about this product is the Amazon reviews.
Example:Well, let me clarify. It wasn’t so much that I was dropping a deuce. Oh, it was being dropped; that much was undeniable. But I couldn’t really claim agency on said descent. Gravity was doing the work. I was merely the meaty husk from which it made its hasty escape. Used to more of a segmented approach to waste disposal, I was quite surprised that the creature making its egress from my nethers had more the appearance of a python. Smooth, and consistent in width, it coiled luxuriously in a pool of toilet water that is (or at least was) cleaner than the water that most of the people on this planet drink. As it continued to coil, my emotional state flowed from one of surprise, to horror, to amazement, and then again to horror as the snake coiled higher and higher, like soft serve ice cream at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet. It was now surfacing above the water line. But still, the snake showed no signs that it was anywhere near finished with its journey. In a panic, I pawed at the flusher. The poor toilet strained, but eventually sent things on their way. But I wasn’t done yet. As the toilet flushed the waste away, more came to replace it. As the flush subsided, the coil started anew. And then I was done. I tried to catch my breath as the toilet flushed a second time. I felt my liver shift and expand, unsure what to do with all the extra space now afforded to it. I cleaned up and stood, almost dizzy after the affair. “Wow. A+++”, I thought to myself. “Would poop again.”
Ever seen the commercial?
Can we get this guy to comment here? I have tears in my eyes from laughing.
Except for the ending, that sounds like Tycho from Penny Arcade.
He Comments here, He has to, OmfgLOL!
I went to the site.
“Blowout Sale” was something I hoped I’d never read in association with such a device.
It saved my marriage.
I don’t have one. But, a friend does and swears by it.
That said, about two years ago I had to have surgery for, *ahem*, hemorrhoids. I’d heard the recovery was extremely painful, especially when you had to go to the bathroom. I did some research on ways to minimize any pain, and found a site with many posts from those who’d had the surgery. They ALL recommended squatting.
Without intending to gross anyone out, I just lifted the toilet seat and squatted with my feet on the bowl. Worked just fine. I was also very lucky, as I had almost no pain to speak of during recovery.
So, my fellow Glibs, be sure to get fiber for regularity to avoid such surgery!
Some one on the local NextDoor hometown social media site was selling one recently. Their ad:
“I got this Squatty Potty as a gift. I just can’t even…. What were they thinking? Who gives a present to help you poop?
Unopened and yours, name your price. You have to pick it up, I’ll leave it at the end of our driveway. No questions asked.”
Astronaut grows 3 1/2 inches while in space.
Need to work this into a male enhancement product and get rich…
Satisfy your wife like never before with this one weird trick!
Sending their husbands off to space probably would bring many a wife happiness.
https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/950773758712786944
This is the nefarious pipeline to the ‘alt-right’. A man is being threatened with jail time for teaching his dog a silly trick.
yeah, that’s one of the most popular M.O.’s. when someone they dislike might engender sympathy, they screech that “only racists care about that person”. Its this guilt-by-association schtick which seems to only be getting more-popular
speaking of Soave and ENB: I’ve followed pretty much the “top 50” prolific libertarian accounts on twitter for about a year now. Not one have them have ever re-tweeted Soave or ENB. Welch gets circulated (as do some Reason articles) but never the musings of Reason’s most twitter-literate millenials.
that should tell you something.
Who are the “top 50”?
Also, ENB and Soave are the Nick Gillespie of the free speech movement (obligatory)
There are that many?
well, its more like i follow “the 50 libertarians i could find”
twitter recommends people to follow based on who you respond to/like etc. they’ve pretty much run out of suggestions for me.
i don’t know who’d qualify as the most-prolific of libertarianish tweeters, but i suspect the unwoke-Hats (clark and Patrick) are some of the most-followed. there’s a half-dozen “libertarian”-branded accounts, like “Libertarian Nation@LibertarianWing” “Libertarian Republic@TheLibRepublic” ” Libertarianism.org @libertarianism” etc., half of which are frankly pretty lame. There’s also a half dozen individuals who are basically “liberty-something” who can be interesting in greater or lesser degrees.
my point was simply that in twitter communities, everything gets circulated extremely quickly. one clever quip by someone makes the rounds instantly among like-minded people. I’ve never seen a single thing from Soave or ENB in over a year.
I like how you refer to Patrick as the ‘un-woke’ hats. That’s a good description.
I figure you follow Justin Raimondo and Scott Horton closely. Just kidding
I’ve seen Soave get re-tweeted by some conservative accounts before (just when it came to due process for college students accused of sexual assault). I don’t have a Twit account. I just get linked to stuff sometimes
Don’t even know who the latter is. i don’t see the former being re-circulated at all either.
Horton is a big anti-war guy. He used to have a radio show on LA’s Pacifica radio, and wrote a lot on antiwar.com. He’s interviewed 100s of people on various aspects of foreign policy, specifically from the left-libertarian perspective.
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/
He knows a lot. But, I find his knee jerk, “blame everything on America and Israel” shtick to be tiresome.
Heh.
Tom Woods and Robert Murphy are good follows. As is Michael Malice.
they’re all in my feed. and dave smith and bryan caplan, etc.
but again, i think the who’s-who of twitter is more a matter who generates the most activity
iow, i’m not sure it matters whether you’re libertarian, as long as you’re “Not prog”. Twitter is clearly segmented between the Woke and Unwoke. Robby and ENB, etc., live on the woke-half, which is mostly ‘liberal journalists’ yapping @ each other.
Iowahawk retweeted Robby the other day.
and he wasn’t mocking him? I’m shocked and disappointed.
Oh, right.
I remember seeing that. My instinct was to be like, “christ, soave, “Take” Marijuana? My grandmother was hipper than you.”
Hey anybody want to do a reefer and have a stoned?
Clark used to be a helluva interesting read but he pretty much went completely nuts.
They’re not appreciating the ‘to be sure’ shtick, eh?
Who knows who they are calling “alt-right”? While there might be a few actual racists among those defending Dankula, it certainly isn’t a significant number. From what I’ve seen on Twitter, there many people on the left pointing out how ridiculous this case is.
I wish I could find a link to that original video, it sounds kinda funny. Is it around?
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYslEzHbpus
Hmm, for all the stink I was hoping it would be at least funny. I had a friend in HS who was half mexican, his cousin half korean; they thought it was hilarious to teach their 4year old white cousin to draw swastikas.
“Good joke about Lauren Southern being a sex doll, Mr Vice Journalist. Very feminist of you. Meanwhile, aren’t Vice going through an investigation due to its “sexual-harassment and misconduct in the workplace culture”? My bad.”
https://twitter.com/AlizeeYeezy/status/950787555779334145
Nice Petty choice. Cool song and video.
They’ve been saying this for a while now. Right before I punched out the turn of phrase was, “doing more with less” and AFT was running articles saying there is a point where they have to do less with less.
“It is not fair for this nation to ask our commanders to keep saying ‘We got this’</em….
…because it makes AF leadership sound like they're uneducated morons who can't speak English…?
/hopeful
because it makes AF leadership sound like they’re uneducated morons who can’t speak English…?
Well, a significant number of AF Officers went to Texas A&M and are constantly saying Gig’em. *shrugs*
As an Army Lieutenant and Captain in the 90’s, we talked about doing more with Les…Aspin.
The fucker who sent troops to Mogadishu without armor support.
“Spectre gunships? Whaddya need those for?” -Les Aspin
NEEDZ MOAR OSHKOSH TRUKS!
/Aspin
It’s hard to watch that movie without getting pissed off.
These links are SO MUCH better than the links we usually get from those other slobs. These links have panache. They have pizzazz!
no pineapple.
I can’t even kiss up anymore after The Incident.
I’m on the list 🙁
We’re all on lists here. Have a beer.
You’re already on the list.
Don’t despair. SP is so very loving and wonderful, that even miscreants like us can be forgiven, embraced, and cherished in our time.
You’re a Founder, so I can’t actually do anything to you. Why are you sucking up? /suspicious
Do not mistake sucking up with sincere affection!
Awwww.
Pizza!
Oh, damn, pizzazz. Nevermind.
(gasp)
you mean as huge numbers of retirees leave the workforce, and place burdens on the social safety net, they leave fewer able-bodied workers behind to continue to fund the now-accelerating debts of the welfare state??
Who could possibly have seen that coming??
There was a press conference on the radio about DACA. And of course the Democrat stance is ‘Give us everything we want, and we pinky swear we’ll do the other stuff later’. In my head I can just see them with their fingers crossed behind their backs.
They’re on radio, no need to put it behind their back.
Hell, I expect them to be doing the ‘jackin’ off’ motion.
I wonder if there’s something about that in The Art of the Deal – probably “be the guy proposing this”?
Behold, the iFart
*Hits knees, prays for SMOD*
I’m no doctor, but it sounds like it might actually be useful.
iFart is an iPhone app.
What the hell? It snowed 5 inches 5 days ago, it’s almost 50 degrees out today and they’re still cancelling school for tomorrow. I’m going to have some words with the school board.
Our schools were closed for four days, including today, because of TWO inches of snow, and most of that was gone by yesterday evening.
That’s pathetic.
Pathetic is watching out While the Idiots try to drive in the Rain, yes that’s right, Fucking Water from the Sky!
Californians panic if the road is damp, Truly a Herp a Derp sandwich
I’ve lived here since 1996 and I still can’t get used to the idiocy of LA drivers when it rains. And, it tends the rain around the same time every year (winter). Do they all forget about rain come spring?
Hah, I had forgotten about that. I remember the first time I drove to work in LA in the rain. People were creeping along the 405 as if it were covered in black ice.
I used to say I could spit on the 60 and cause a traffic jam.
Hah!
In fairness, the last time it happened in Phoenix the entire city shut down.
This just in: Steve Bannon is out at Breitbart.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/steve-bannon-steps-down-from-breitbart-news-1515532897
He didn’t jump.
He was pushed.
I’m sure he’ll get new backers.
It might be interesting ti see if Twitter, Facebook, etc. will give him play.
In one way, he has more credibility with the grass roots , alt-right (whomever they are) than ever before.
In another way, he’s such a pariah, I’m not sure anybody will write the big check to relaunch him.
What’s he gonna do, go to kickstarter?
Would kickstarter even have him?
The problem with being a pariah is that you’re a pariah.
Isn’t he going back to his radio show on Sirius?
Would Sirius have him?
Isn’t any major media company likely to face a withering SJW backlash for hiring him?
I suspect he may have a hard time finding a webhost.
I bet PayPal won’t let them use his service for donations.
He’s a real pariah.
There was one but it was weak. Very weak.
http://mashable.com/2017/12/10/steve-bannon-sirius-xm-boycott/#zWD2S0r5_sqU
Losers.
/in Homer’s voice.
He’s been hosting the morning show on or off now for a few month, he was on this morning.
These guys never get their old footprint back. Look at Glenn Beck. He’s not gone, but he impacts nothing anymore. Not that he ever should have.
I thought he was behind The Blaze? And I know he still has a radio show.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soho-forum-debate-erik-voorhees-vs-peter-schiff-tickets-41394512100
Peter Schiff is anti-bitcoin. I didn’t know. He’s bordering on an obsession with gold. His father is a martyr, though
I still suspect that Bitcoin’s appeal may have gotten a big boost from China’s capital controls.
It’s like the property bubble China caused in Australia, New Zealand, and Vancouver by letting Chinese citizens take their money out of country for real estate.
Now they’ve clamped down on that. Bitcoin may be the best way to get your money out of the county.
It’s not just that when the pitchforks and torches show up, gold is too hard to run with either. If you want to diversify your holdings outside of China, you gotta find a way to get it out first. I understand It’s still a pain in the ass for legitimate businesses to get proceeds out of the country. I bet Bitcoin works great for that.
That’s interesting. You should write something up about that. I’d be interested in reading that
“Now they’ve clamped down on that.”
And the NZ government’s helping:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11939067
Litecoin!
Schiff is long gold since at least 08. In 08 he looked like a genius. Since then not so much. He’s like a one-person ZeroHedge.
All those gold bugs hates teh bitcoinz.
I’m outraged, outraged!
https://www.avclub.com/disney-admits-to-darkening-extras-skin-for-the-live-act-1821895591
I’m surprised there hasn’t been more outrage over actresses who have male stunt doubles. OMG PATRIARCHY!!
NJR offers up some more impressive stupidity:
EVERYONE’S A LEFTIST ONCE A CORPORATION TRAMPLES ON THEM
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/everyones-a-leftist-once-a-corporation-tramples-on-them
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Two young right-wing men are very upset at what large tech companies have done to them. James Damore is the ex-Google employee who was fired for writing a memo arguing that natural gender differences may be responsible for the disproportionate numbers of men in tech. (Damore controversially claimed that women tend to be more neurotic and that empathy is bad). Damore is now suing Google for unlawful discrimination, arguing that the company targeted him (1) because of his race and gender, in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, and (2) for his political opinions, in violation of the California Labor Code.
…
The Damore case is a little more complicated. California’s Labor Code does prohibit companies from attempting to control employees’ political activities, and there will probably be an argument over whether Damore was disciplined for his “politics” or for sending an obnoxious memo to his colleagues that made female Google employees feel demeaned. Likewise, a court will have to consider whether Damore was harassed and targeted because he was a “white man” or because he was an irritating and arrogant human being who deliberately and proudly refused to empathize with those around him.
…
Of course, this also raises some thorny questions for the left: if we respond to suits like Damore’s and Johnson’s by saying “Well, a private company can do as it pleases, the First Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations, etc.”, it’s unclear what our position on private power is. To what degree do we believe that individuals have rights vis-a-vis corporations? What level of labor protections should there be for employee speech? Who should decide on these things? None of this is easy to resolve, because either way we come to uncomfortable conclusions…
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I once read all the comments on a Krugman op-ed. My pulse did not rise above 70, even though I was also listening to Thom Hartmann.
At least he recognizes the cognitive dissonance.
(Damore controversially claimed that women tend to be more neurotic and that empathy is bad).
No, he didn’t, but to be fair, NJR probably didn’t read the memo anyway.
Really? So everyone is a simpleton?
This Nathan guy is deliberately misrepresenting what Damore said.
But that would entail being honest.
Plus I don’t think he listened to Damore in context. If he did, whoosh!
Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Brendan Boyle is unveiling a bill called the “Stable Genius Act” that would require all presidential candidates to undergo a medical exam and publicly disclose the results before the election.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-congressman-introduces-stable-genius-act/
This is what those fuckers waste their time on?
Fuck that guy.
Yeah, that would go over well. No way it would ever be abused either.
Besides, how many people who are running for president are actually well adjusted people? You know going in that every one of them are going to test off the chart for narcissistic personality disorder. Probably pretty high for sociopathic tendencies too.
Wait, I’m sort of liking this law more and more. And why stop at the President. Surely candidates for Congress should also be tested.
Over-under on SCOTUS finding it wildly unconstitutional?
Odds on whether Rep. Brendan Boyle has ever read the Constitution Article II?
How about an IQ test for voting? I mean, if it’s good for…
https://twitter.com/JustinRaimondo/status/950849891508482051
Justin Raimondo is the Nick Gillespie of Twitter. This is pretty mean spirited. Also, Nick Gillespie’s point is quite stupid.
Also, who here posted this in the responses:
Gorilla TV
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@nickgillespie was great on “Happy Days” though, I’ll give him that
Aaaayyyy, good one.
Seriously, fess up!
I’m halfway siding with Gillespie on this one. In so much as the government creates the problem that causes poverty in rural areas, the government should be responsible for removing those impediments to improvement. Otherwise, the best solution to no jobs is to move where there are jobs. It’s pretty much what I would tell some lesbian punk rock poet from Brooklyn who can’t find work that pays well enough. Move to North Dakota and work a rig.
I didn’t actually read the article. I just assumed the argument was in bad faith. I shouldn’t have done that.
Regardless of what he said, though, Raimondo is an asshole.
No argument there
Move to North Dakota and work a rig.
Nice euphemism. Prostitution is probably pretty profitable there.
I remember the 5 year long amnesia I suffered when I moved to Bangkok. I even forgot what a hamburger was, much less the Pledge of Allegiance or the names of my immediate family.
If one night in Bangkok mades a hard man humble, I hate to think what 1826 nights does.
So you never clicked on one of his links?
Smart man.
None that I would ever admit to.
*shivers*
Raimondo has never been kind to the staff at Reason. He’s excoriated Welch in comments more than once. Raimondo was a semi-regular in comments back in the day.
He accused them (those two) of selling libertarianism short, along the lines of what people around here have suggested–only Raimondo was making those kind of accusations ten years ago.
Seems to me that Justin Raimondo is sort of like Milo Snuffleupagus–only the original, more intellectual, etc. It’s like he’s from the pre-WWII isolationist, far right. And yet everybody thinks he should be on the left for some reason–and seems especially honest for that. Doesn’t Milo trade on that, too–only with a lot less intellectual argument to sell?
I use to read antiwar.com back in the day and I don’t disagree with Raimondo’s positions on most things (it’s pretty standard radical anti-war Mises Insitute stuff), but sometimes he’s just really unfair to the guys at Reason. I remember reading him in the comment section (he also use to write articles for them way back in the day). I get his point, but he goes overboard
KOCHTOPUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell, I got the two Confused 15 years ago, when I first went to Antiwar and Found TOS
Sounds like something Oprah would say in a presidential debate.
Wait, what? Why?
Well, I don’t think “nice boys” post the kind of links you post, do they? /conservative granny
Slander and calumny!
You do not know de wae, brudda.
We call him – Bruce U
GWE GWE GWE GWE
“Laziness in Postqualitative Inquiry
Laziness is commonly perceived as lethargy and carries a negative connotation. In this article, I argue to understand laziness as a political stance and suggest that lazy practices can become useful for postqualitative inquiry that seeks to disrupt normative explanations of the world. As political action, laziness, then provides postqualitative inquiry with an additional tool for contributing to social justice via social research. Laziness combats the neoliberal condition in which academic research is situated and might serve as a virtue of postqualitative inquiry.”
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077800417744579
There is actually a storied philosophical tradition of “the refusal of work” in Commie thought.
But do you think she made the effort to study it?
I remember finding the anarchist version interesting:
http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
The phrase is referenced in the abstract of another piece of shit by the same author.
That takes balls.
Laziness combats the neoliberal condition in which academic research is situated and might serve as a virtue of postqualitative inquiry.
…what?
Alligators poke noses out from under ice to survive cold
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Jan. 9 (UPI) — A North Carolina rescue group posted a video showing the unusual way their their alligators survive in icy conditions.
The Shallotte River Swamp Park in Ocean Isle Beach posted a video to Facebook and YouTube showing one of the park’s rescue alligators with only its nose poking up through the ice on the surface of the water.
George Howard, the park’s general manager, said the alligators at the facility are using a form of hibernation called brumination to lower their body temperatures and metabolisms so they can keep warm enough to survive the cold conditions.
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So reptiles are vulnerable to cold, eh? My race will find this information very useful indeed, Mr Lizard.
Well except we have somehow found a way to survive transit through the cold hard vacuum of space to reach your puny world.
“rescue alligators”?
So if I flip my canoe over in the swamp, this gator will swim out to find me? Will it also have one of those little casks of brandy strapped around its neck like a St. Bernard?
Yes, but the casks are filled with Sazerac.
Yes! Except it’s JD instead of Brandy
“It’s Time to Bomb North Korea
Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest.Nothing can be known about this week’s talks between North and South Korea other than their likely outcome.
As in every previous encounter, South Korea will almost certainly reward North Korea’s outrageous misconduct by handing over substantial sums of money, thus negating long-overdue sanctions recently imposed by the United Nations Security Council. Meanwhile, the North will continue to make progress toward its goal of deploying several nuclear-armed, mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles, having already tested nuclear-explosive devices in October 2006, May 2009, February 2013, January 2016, September 2016, and September 2017
Each test would have been an excellent occasion for the United States to finally decide to do to North Korea what Israel did to Iraq in 1981, and to Syria in 2007 — namely, use well-aimed conventional weapons to deny nuclear weapons to regimes that shouldn’t have firearms, let alone weapons of mass destruction. Fortunately, there is still time for Washington to launch such an attack to destroy North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. It should be earnestly considered rather than rejected out of hand.”
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/08/its-time-to-bomb-north-korea/amp/
Wait, I haven’t read FP in a long-ass time. When did they go full neocon?
No idea, I’m just browsing Lindsey Graham’s porn folder.
FP used to be a fairly neutral publication that hosted a wide variety of viewpoints. almost all of their content was pretty much “submission-driven” and they would publish whomever/whichever foreign policy-wonk wanted to share their views (provided they had some bare minimum of credentials)
now they’re owned by the Washington Post company (as of 2013? or so). they went completely to shit when they got acquired. (especially their website, which for the last few years is an unreadible/un-navigatable mess))
*correction: they were bought in 2008.
i think the change in editorial and the complete magazine-overhaul happened around 2013, and i simply assumed it was due to ownership change.
I’m forever grateful to FP for introducing me to HyR and by extension to you fine lot of Glibs. I’d been a reason subscriber back in the 90’s but let my subscription lapse as I moved around and drifted away. One of the FP’s profiles in the back of the magazine mentioned Hit & Run as an irreverent take on news and commentary. Went for a peak and was hooked as a lurker for years until I finally created an account, then on to here.
Nevermind.
Ah, that explains it then. I stopped reading when they went behind a paywall and even then they we’re starting to slide. Would’ve been right around 2012-13, now that I think about it.
Hey who wants to possibly spray enriched uranium all over northern Korea and probably Manchuria?
Now that’s a euphemism!
Which way does the wind blow? Think AK WA OR, you know, The West Coast!
It’s Time to Bomb North Korea, Yes it is,
I’m listening to NPR right now and they’re lamenting that harassers getting fired is not enough. They’re also conflating actual sexual violence with harassment.
Eh, they conflate news and propaganda on the reg so cut ’em some slack.
And lamenting Al Franken’s resignation at the same time, right?
It snowed in the Sahara again.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/09/576747323/photos-the-sahara-desert-painted-white-with-snow
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For a few fleeting hours Sunday, people perched in the arid heights of northwest Algeria caught sight of something rarely seen: the Sahara Desert, shrouded in white. Residents of Ain Sefra, a small town surrounded by the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa, walked outside to find a dusting of snow underfoot — and more than a foot of it crowding the town’s outer boundaries.
While it’s not unheard of — snow visited this landscape in December 2016, after all — the wintry weather is indeed rare for the region: As NPR’s Maggie Penman pointed out at the time, the last major snowfall in Ain Sefra before that happened in 1979.
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See, we told you that global warming would lead to snow in the Sahara and you wouldn’t listen! It’s almost too late now, again!
At some point, they will use the fact that it no longer snows in the Sahara as “proof” of global warming. “You know, it used to snow here 2 out of 3 years. Now? Nothing.”
Did they cancel school?
LOL!
Won’t someone think of the kidz?
U.S. is the ‘most dangerous’ wealthy country for a child to be born into, study finds
The very next paragraph in that story is:
My emphasis.
So we spend more, have worse results but doG forbid that we cut any spending.
Uh, I think a lot of that disparity may have something to do with how the US tracks things like infant mortality in comparison to other countries.
That and we have a larger number of preterm births. From the CDC:
Also, we measure the stat differently and more aggressively and have a pro life culture that tries to save more high risk babies. When using any control to make our stat like others, our infant mortality is the same or better than any other first world country.
This also takes about a minute of research to find out.
Exactly this.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/physiciansfoundation/2016/04/12/infant-mortality-not-a-true-measure-of-a-successful-health-care-system/#5260ead231f0
Nice.
That article contains a bunch of bullet points that lay out that this is really an apples to oranges stat.
“This also takes about a minute of research to find out.”
Yep, Thakrar et al are just lying by omission here.
All I was laughing at was the idea that his own studies showed that we pay more for poorer results than anyone else in the world, but he warns about the dangers of defunding any programs.
Sane people would look at the results and think, “we should rethink our current approach and see if we can’t do a better job for less money”.
Right on, Your Holiness. As if we should throw more money at a failed system to make it less of a failure. I’m sure in his mind he’s thinking, “Just imagine how much WORSE it’d be if we started cutting funding!”
Same thing for public school funding. For the past several decades, student performance has remained the same – or decreased by some estimates – while funding has gone nowhere but up. Yet, people will freak the fuck out if you talk about cutting a single penny (or even slowing the increase of spending) when it comes to schools.
Someone put up a chart yesterday that showed outcomes Flat from 1970 til 2016, despite a 200% increase in spending, or something like that.
No, it isn’t, you stupid asshole. The care of children is a basic moral responsibility of the individual children’s parents. Using “society” as a totum pro parte for “family” is a fallacy of composition loved by authoritarian shitbags on both the Left and Right.
It takes a village HM.
A village of HMs, you say…?
There’s many ways to raise a child, but dis is not da wey.
Such a place exists.
Looks like a fun place.
HM has it nailed. Unfortunately, there too much money at stake to put the stupidity back in the bottle.
I swear the medical profession loves diagnosing children with depression any chance they can get. And diagnosing them with depression is probably the first step in actually making them depressed.
If you read “signs to look for” regarding depression, everybody will display one or two of them from time to time. Take a typical high school girl dealing with hormonal changes. Then add in something like a surgery (severe broken bone, tonsilectomy, etc.) and the aggressive pain killing meds prescribed nowadays that have side effects that INCLUDE depression and suicidal thoughts(!). You’re practically manufacturing the depression right there – and setting up a nice cash flow on the repeat business.
And the best thing about the depression business is that it is just like government – the more it fails the more successful it is at generating sympathy cash. Nobody seems to care that it winds up screwing over the people who are actually depressed by treating them with the drug-em-and-see-what-happens-and-drug-em-some-more method (nearly as bad as lobotomy) AND screws over the mildly depressed by getting them into a treatment cycle they probably don’t need until treatment increases their risk.
“As Thakrar and his colleagues note in their study, the United States spends more money per child on health care than any other country in the world. Yet its children have poorer health outcomes than those living in most other wealthy countries.”
Well, just another example of how disingenuous these leftist assholes are. For the 50 fucking millionth time, when they count these costs, they are NOT counting the sky high taxes people pay to fund these single payer health systems. The data is completely invalid. There’s no science here, just lies.
Note he’s also just a resident, meaning just a year or two out of medical school, hardly an established researcher. Probably eager to publish an article that all his lefty buddies and professors will applaud, no need for rigor or including all the variables, just find a journal that agrees with your narrative. Fame!
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
<blockquote
Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions. But every voluntary association (including the party) is also free to expel members who use the name of the party to advocate anti-party views. Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too. I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view. The party is a voluntary association, which would inevitably break up, first ideologically and then physically, if it did not cleanse itself of people advocating anti-party views.
Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (13 November 1905), "Party Organisation and Party Literature", Novaya Zhizn (Marxists) (12).
Lenin liked Freedom of Association as long as it allowed him to purge his enemies of course.
Fucking Minnesoda Cake Eaters want to charge $100/game to outlets that want to stream their high school hockey games.
“Warped woman filmed herself having sex with her dog in sordid act involving whipped cream”
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/warped-woman-filmed-herself-having-11818522
Herb Alpert’s comeback hopes dashed.
Any history buffs here? What do you think of the claims that German Austerity led to Hitler?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic#Brüning's_policy_of_deflation_(1930–1932)
Didn’t Germany also experience hyperinflation before Hitler?
Whatever you do, don’t ever claim that Socialism created Hitler!
Seems Hitler supported the Socialist and later Communist regime in Bavaria in 1919. The same regime with lots of Jews and overthrown by Roehm and the Strasser brothers.
No he didn’t. He joined the DAP in 1919, originally as an army spy but quickly became enamored with their platform of anti-Marxism, anti-Semitism, and German nationalism.
That was after the Munich Soviet government was crushed. His army unit supported the regime. He joined the future Nazis a few months later, Unsurprisingly this was something he didn’t like to talk about.
“don’t ever claim that Socialism created Hitler!”
I would instead claim that Hitler created more socialism, which failed and killed millions of people. Same as it ever was.
German hyperinflation took place between 1920 & 1923 and may have been a factor in the Munich putsch attempt but not by 1933. However, the Great Depression triggered new unemployment – about 6 million by 1932 (pop. ~ 65m). This was enough for Germans to fear permanent decline as Spengler has argued about 30 years earlier. Hitler and the Nazis said they could prevent the decline by uniting the state under a single, authoritarian ruler. Hitler also was “brilliant” in using anti-Semitism and the “stab-in-the-back” myth.
As to the original question – can’t help you.
But, The Nazis also Co- opted fears Of Communism, which helped gain the support of Industrial titans Like Krupp, to get with the program
One of the frightening things about the German election of 1930 was that the communists and Nazis combined to win 40% of the vote (and a total of 184 seats out of about 500) despite both parties explicitly running on a platform to end representative government. Anyone who suggests that any American populist (Sanders or Trump) is like 1930s Germany is, um, uninformed.
those of us who actually read the boring introduction, you know from about 1919 until say, 1937? We can see the potential, and it’s not Good
The DNVP was also openly anti-Democratic and won several seats. And the Nazis and Communists combined to have a majority of seats in the two 1932 elections.
That, and a Whole lot of ” things” Got Hitler to power, if you only read one Book on the Nazis, it should be this ,the footnotes can run several pages long,
William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/1451651686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515542652&sr=8-1&keywords=the+rise+and+fall+of+the+third+reich
Still brilliant even – what – 60 years later?
I would also recommend Richard Evans trilogy: “The Coming of the Third Reich,” “The Third Reich in Power,” and “The Third Reich at War.”
One of the things Evans deals with is how deep mysticism ran in the Nazi belief system. He writes: “[other political parties] lacked soul, spiritual ties. Adolf Hitler emerged as bearer of a new political religion.”
This ‘religion’ abandoned all restraints, Christian & secular, which had emerged from western thought; Nazis created a kind of political religion with religious-style commemoration of key party events; those who joined SS took oath: “We believe in God, we believe in Germany which he created…and in the Fuhrer…whom he has sent us.”
I share this with my students to blow up the idea that Nazism/fascism was/is connected to Christianity.
Shirer was a Correspondent in Berlin, during the 30’s as well, so he was well placed for the work He ended up doing,
and I have read Evan’s Trilogy as well, great stuff
The Evans books are great, as is Robert Gellatelly’s Backing Hitler
More police endearing themselves with the public, this time in Louisiana (things start to go off the rails around 6min 30sec).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sg8lY-leE8&feature=youtu.be
At least nobody got killed this time.
Derptologist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fourier
seas would lose their salinity and turn to lemonade
A Fourier transform?
First Thought!
Yeah, I covered him a while back:
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Charles Fourier, mentioned above
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture21a.html
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As a visionary, Fourier’s ideas seem quite fantastical and without ground in reality. Indeed, there is much in Fourier’s writing that is pure nonsense. Yes, like some of the representatives of the early French communist movement, Fourier exhibits that almost characteristic pretension of the visionary: contradictory, confused, repetitive, chaotic and, of course, long-winded. Reading Fourier after having read Marx and Engels, Fourier comes off as a confused thinker. For instance, Fourier’s passion for numbers led him to predict that the ideal world he was helping to create would last 80,000 years, 8,000 of them in an era of Perfect Harmony in which:
androgynous plants would copulate
six moons would orbit the earth
the North Pole would be milder than the Mediterranean
the seas would lose their salt and become oceans of lemonade
the world would contain 37 million poets equal to Homer, 37 million mathematicians equal to Newton and 37 million dramatists equal to Molière, although “these are approximate estimates”
every woman would have four lovers or husbands simultaneously
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I bet he fucking loved science.
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https://glibertarians.com/2017/05/reviews-youll-never-use-the-battle-wizard/#comment-109174
Nice Glibertarians. I larfed! That’s a hoot, SP!
Journalism: asking the important questions
I had a psychology class in college. One day, the professor showed a video of a baby crying after someone frowned at it. The professor thought this was akin to the discovery of fire.
These idiots won’t be happy until all bad guys have redneck accents and wear MAGA hats.
On a related note, there is a comic series devoted to female politicians
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All comic book heroes need a sequel – even U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Elizabeth Warren will be the focus of another comic book. (TidalWave cover)
Elizabeth Warren will be the focus of another comic book. (TidalWave cover)
The Massachusetts Democrat was the focus last year of a 22-page comic titled “Female Force: Elizabeth Warren,” which told the story of Warren’s rise from Oklahoma schoolgirl to U.S. senator and champion of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
Now publisher TidalWave Comics is bringing out a sequel, “Female Force: Elizabeth Warren #2,” chronicling the early days of Warren’s 2012 U.S. Senate campaign and her rise to power.
Instead of Batman battling the Joker, readers can follow along as Warren battles Congress to ease the burden of crushing student loan debt.
Past subjects of the “Female Force” series include Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Condoleezza Rice, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen DeGeneres and Nancy Pelosi.
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http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/12/13/elizabeth-warren-comic-books
The Female Force? Good Lord have mercy.
My favorite headline from the Atlantic:
“Do Cats Control My Mind?”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/do-cats-control-my-mind/282045/
Their series on campus rape was very good though.
Why has there not been a movie about this yet. It would be hilarious
I could have sworn Cronenberg did?
+1 Matt Dillon
“Gov. Abbott unfit to serve as North Texas MLK parade marshal, Arlington NAACP and civic leaders say
The Toyota North Texas Martin Luther King Jr. Parade in Arlington was hatched as an opportunity for seven counties to collectively honor the civil rights icon — “a chance to march and come together,” as the organizers put it.
But with one week to go, it’s stirring anger and discord.
Civic leaders, including the Arlington branch of the NAACP and the pastor of a Dallas megachurch, are condemning the appointment of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as honorary grand marshal of the new parade, set in Arlington this year.
“As we review his career and public service, it is fair to say that Greg Abbott has done more to damage and undermine African-American and Latino civil and voter rights, educational opportunities and economic empowerment than any other modern-day Texas governor,” the Arlington NAACP said in a prepared statement.
In a tweet, the group asked the governor to decline the invitation to participate in the parade. While group leaders haven’t publicly called for a boycott, they said in an email that they support people’s right to do so.”
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/arlington/2018/01/08/civic-leaders-call-boycott-mlk-parade-arlington-after-gov-greg-abbott-named-honorary-marshal
“As we review his career and public service, it is fair to say that Greg Abbott has done more to damage and undermine African-American and Latino civil and voter rights, educational opportunities and economic empowerment than any other modern-day Texas governor,”
Here’s my stab at a translation: the Republicans have learned how to gerrymander as well as Democrats, they don’t hold the bizarre view that voter ID is racist, they don’t think the solution to bad schools is to throw more money at them, and they don’t think higher welfare spending is a sound economic plan.
“As we review his career and public service, it is fair to say that Greg Abbott has done more to damage and undermine African-American and Latino civil and voter rights, educational opportunities and economic empowerment than any other modern-day Texas governor,”
Of course that ableist prick would target Texas’ first cripple governor for such hate.
He’s a Republican so all hate is warranted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Health_Service_(England)
Mind you the NHS was created in 1946.
Thought: is Socialized medicine the death knell of libertarianism? I don’t see how an “anti-government” ideology can have any leeway in a society with “free” healthcare. Really undermines the basic premise of big government being bad for you
Really undermines the basic premise of big government being bad for you
Not really, no. The old adage about the government breaking your legs and handing you crutches was meant to be metaphorically, but government-run healthcare makes it literal. Just because it exists and you don’t get charged at the time of service doesn’t mean it isn’t bad for you.
I and you disagree but most people do in fact. See Canada and the UK for example.
Well, most people in the U.S. aren’t libertarian either, the fact that we only kind-of sort-of don’t have government-run healthcare notwithstanding. Tipping the balance over to more government-run than not doesn’t really change the underlying politics.
Might make it even more doomed.
I mean the US is one of the few places where the Right even pretends to oppose big government and that ending would be not good.
One must remember that, despite how most people truncate the quote, what Reagan actually said was:
I don’t see the political right abandoning small government rhetoric any time soon, but they have long been the party of “compromise”.
If consignment to the fringes is the fate to which we’re doomed, then we’re already there. The only thing that can lead to something like nonexistence is a French/Russian revolution, and that is due to the “kill people until they stop openly disagreeing” strategy.
You seem to taking my “deathknell” statement I bit too literally.
Maybe. But even if taken nonliterally, the statement is overblown. Calvin Coolidge was the last President to espouse something like modern libertarianism. You might as well say the New Deal killed it off. In this age of quasi-Keynesian neoliberalism, or whatever the hell you want to call it, classical liberalism and its bastard offshoot libertarianism have always been on the margins.
You guys really need to get an avatar.
I’ll tell you one thing: it’s going to be very, very hard to ever repeal socialized medicine once it’s implemented, especially if they allow a generation or two to pass by before doing it. Just look at the average British person’s ghastly reaction to the thought of having to pay for healthcare. If people have gone their whole lives being told that something is “free” and deluged with horror stories of some other country where people actually have to pay for it, they’re not gonna be too keen on getting the government out of the way.
And nationalized healthcare IS very bad for liberty since it puts your health in the public domain. And we all know how lefties love to argue that any personal choice that somehow affects a government expenditure can and should be regulated and/or banned by the state. You don’t even have to go as far as completely nationalized medicine; we already hear Medicare and Medicaid being used as justifications for the government to regulate personal choices like smoking cigarettes or wearing a helmet on a motorcycle.
There is to my mind a great difference between observing the undue permanence of government programs and saying that their existence somehow terminates the existence of an ideology that opposes such things. Libertarianism isn’t dead in this country even though we’ve had Social Security since the 1930s, and Medicare since the 1960s. People getting free shit and liking it is not a refutation of Bastiat’s fundamental point any more than cops getting away with killing people is a refutation of the idea that people should be free to live their lives in peace.
Citation needed.
You might as well go back to the death of classical liberalism, then. If libertarianism is dead by your measure, then it was stillborn.
I’m converting many people in the PRC, all i have to do is start explaining the Regulations I have to deal with, and it sets them off on a tirade about their own regulatory problems, then I Pounce. Explain the Tax Deal honestly, and again, you Can change minds, even here
Absolutely. But the point I was trying to make is that increasing the size of the government has a snowball effect. Just look at the debate about Obamacare; a standard argument from supporters was “we already have socialized police, fire departments, schools, roads, libraries, and mail, so what’s wrong with socialized healthcare?” When the “progressives” roll out their plan for the next big nationalization of major industry (probably banking, if I had to guess) they’ll just add healthcare to the list of things that the government allegedly handles with no problem.
A popular “bread and circuses” policy may not kill an ideology, but it can sure make it hard to convince people to vote in accordance with that ideology. And if this policy becomes popular, politicians will be scared shitless of laying a finger on it.
Yup.
That’s why I said from the onset about Obamacare: You’re screwed.
Look at the reaction from people just a few years after whenever talk of repealing happens.
People get attached to free shit VERY FAST. Worse, they attach it to being good for the ‘general welfare’. Meanwhile, they don’t realize they just made a deal with the devil.
In any event, if you want to have a public option have it. Just don’t force everyone into it. Leave us SOME CHOICE for God’s sake.
But if leave some choice, the rich will be the only ones who have that choice. All the good medical care will be reserved for the rich thus screwing everyone else. So, no, we can’t have choices.
END OF DISCUSSION.
From the group who claim to be soooo nuanced.
I would have missed the “real” scandal in this story if left to myself.
Everyone is super mad that Wisconsin stayed at a Donald Trump hotel for its recent Orange Bowl appearance. It is a super-super-horrible example of the Emoluments clause violation according to the serious people. Not sure how Trump figured out how to start getting presidential bribes in 2014 (when this particular contract was signed), but I’m sure he is guilty as sin.
No, the part I would have guessed was the scandal was the roster of people who went to the bowl game.
There is also this tidbit to show that Wisconsin academics love them some free shit at bowl games:
This is why big time athletics are a part of college. Because it is an easy way for the staff at college to get a free week of partying on the tax payers dime.
It is a super-super-horrible example of the Emoluments clause violation according to the serious people.
I mean, Wisconsin seems kind of far away to me, but it’s not exactly a foreign country, and its university football team is not actually royalty.
Um, there was a comment this morning about an article on DoD acquisition.
No one hates the DoD acquisition process more than me, but that article is misleading at best. Engineering Change Proposals are a way of starting a contractual action and can be a Major Defense Acquisition Program with all that entails. Trust me, the oversight isn’t any less. If an ECP ends up sole source that is cleared to a level appropriate to its ACAT level. The program still has to go through all the DoD acquisition process. Part of the problem is people are managing to the process and getting graded by their adherence to the process.
This is pretty much true. The big reason DoD program offices try to avoid full competitive procurements if they can is because it takes too effing long.especially now with the inevitable protests. Someone at the beginning of major competitive development might retire before the first design review, nevermind fielding.
The Defense Acquisition regulations are so complex it is kind of hard not to break one. Especially when you can twist the meaning to get what you want.
i used to keep this image around as a reminder of “why i hate government” and also, “how toilet seats end up costing $10,000” and things like that
If memory serves, that toilet seat deal was actually not outrageous- the cost included NRE, and if you amortize the cost of a large mold over a small number of objects produced, you unavoidably get a huge number.
Some things I remembered from working at the prison:
A large-screen TV with a webcam that can be used for teleconferences: $30,000
A metal door with a plexiglass window used for suicide watch cells: $12,000
An IT person who is known institution-wide for sitting at her desk with a pizza and a six-pack of Pepsi (when she shows up to work at all) and whose standard response to any issue, no matter how urgent, is “I’ll get to it when I get to it” – $76,000 per year
A large-screen TV with a webcam that can be used for teleconferences: $30,000
Depending on the model, that may not be too far from the right price. High quality teleconference software is really pricey. I fried a little desktop model during my first month designing software for the stuff, it was a $6k piece of equipment.
“right price” of course meaning that it’s about what they charge private buyers for it.
The kicker was that it wasn’t even necessary. Someone just wheeled it into our department one day and asked where it goes. I was pretty baffled because I did all the ordering for that department, and I hadn’t ordered anything like that. I’m still not sure why that was delivered to us.
It was supposedly so that inmates who were soon to be released could have teleconferences with halfway houses and other organizations that they were going to link up with when they got out. The thing is, they already had a way to have those discussions: the prison social worker brings the inmate into their office, calls the halfway house, and puts it on speakerphone.
Possibly the most “yeah right” one of these I’ve seen, and the official Twitter Moment is still entirely comprised of tweets automatically assuming it’s true and pushing the whole “believe the ‘victim’ without question or you’re promoting rape culture” narrative. They clearly haven’t caught on that everyone is completely sick of this already.
The man’s 95 fucking years old. It’s very possible there’s an organic neurological explanation to his lack of inhibitions.
“Comic book legend Stan Lee has been hit with several allegations of sexual assault and harassment by nurses caring for him at his Hollywood Hills home, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The Marvel creator, 95, is alleged to have repeatedly groped and harassed a string of young female nurses employed to care for him.
He is said to have asked for oral sex in the shower, walked around naked and wanted to be ‘pleasured’ in the bedroom.
The nursing company which employs the women and caters for celebrities and high end clients is now in a legal dispute with icon Lee, DailyMail.com has learned.
But as yet no police complaint has been made and no lawsuits filed.
A lawyer representing Lee told DailyMail.com that Lee ‘categorically denies’ the ‘false and despicable’ allegations and fully intends to clear his ‘stellar good name’ and suggested the allegations could be part of a shakedown.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5250513/Marvel-creator-Stan-Lee-95-accused-groping-nurses.html
The incredible thing is that he is 95-years-old.
Senior man, probably in the throes of age-related neurological degeneration, acts inappropriately. News at
elevennever.So? He’s Stan Fucking Lee! He was doing you a favor.
Stan Lee demanded oral sex in his hospital shower from a nurse?
Fuck, I wonder where he got that health insurance plan? Even with my huge increase in my deductable, the best I could hope for was a few Kleenex and a one oz bottle of body lotion.
Possibly the most “yeah right” one of these I’ve seen
I think he always had a reputation for being a ladies’ man, and I don’t want to search for it in case it turns out wrong.
Excelsior, Stan! What the fuck are they gonna do – sue you? You’ll be dead long before the verdict comes out.
England adopts Rooney rule: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42623021
Ed Rooney?
“BAME” is gayer than LGBTQ
PoC was already bad. for fuck’s sake, if you’re going to be so fanatically obsessive about race and gender and sexual-orientation, at least do people the fucking decency of not lumping them into some stupid fucking acronym
It’s LGGGTTTTAAAAAQQQQQ now or something.
You get to stomp on coaching candidates’ crotches?
Does the PQ know of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_French
Transphobia!
Also UK parliament still uses French terms for things like royal Assent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language
This means in the Robin Hood stories they should be speaking French.
Fuck the PQ.
Hi Rufus. I was wrong about that Drapeau quote. What he actually said was “Let Toronto become Milan. Montreal will always be Rome “
Meh. At this point, if we don’t watch it, we’ll end up more like Naples.
How such an important cultural and beautiful city good be so apathetic is beyond me.
I am never working for family again. At least, not for anyone other than dad. He runs a business. But agreeing to help renovate in exchange for rent may have been the worst decision I’ve made in years. It’s like being an animal trapped in a snare, a month after moving out I’m still pitching in on the theory that they didn’t have enough for me to do while I was living there. Which is horseshit: the way I do the math, I’ve put in way over my time if I’d been working straight hours. But of course, neither of us kept track of hours. So now it’s an endless sequence of, “Just this next little project,” which invariably touches on other little projects which need doing.
Fuck it, at least I’m done grouting. I hate working on my knees more than anything other than insulating… which is what I’m doing for dad. But at least that’s hourly.
I had my cousin renovate my first business project. What a sad mess.
Grout work- it’ll turn the glibs gay!
i spent a Year doing that, When the inevitable Happened I wrote up a bill, itemized @10$ an hour, which a Fucking Joke for me,
and it Blew Her Fucking Mind! I won that Battle
Move a time zone away.
The Mr Splosives has had a “man cold” for a few days and has been stealing my nebulizer solution and steroids to survive. I got online and made an appointment for him to see his doc this afternoon while I was at work. Sure enough, fever was 102.6, lungs wrecked, eustachian tubes wrecked. Influenza A they said. He’s on tamiflu but I think smothering him with a pillow might be the way to go tonight.
I got the flu shot this year, so I am OK for now (fingers crossed).
Dare you live out the dream of wives everywhere?
It really did cross my mind last night as I was being woken up frequently by his barking-dog-like cough that he manage to aim at the back of the head. I was so tired I thought about the pillow and could have sworn I heard Miss Danvers whisper in my ear, “Why don’t you? It would be so easy…”
No jury would convict you.
I will sleep in the guest room tonight.
For now I am cooking a chicken (in the Instant Pot, natch) to make into chicken and dumplings. That Instant Pot is freeing me up to make cocktails and browse teh Glibs.
YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE!!
Hey, he’s had a good run.
But that is kind of you to help me not commit homicide.
Is there a death penalty in Minnesoda? (Well, apparently there might be for a bad enough bout of the flu.)
It’s alright, Tundra. She’s not married to Britney.
No, he’s much cooler than Britney.
Awww.
Today as “the team” at work gathered for a meeting, somebody made a reference to the B-day outing we’d had for a coworker who turned 60 the day before Mr ‘Splosives did (the outing that ended with 2 of them sleeping at our house and me making us breakfast and all of us calling in “sick” for work), and he remarked “[Mr Splosives] is anything but old.” and went on to describe how ready the Mr’s wit is and how he could make anything pretty damned hilarious.
Even the millenials and hipsters on the team agreed (the Mr usually goes with me to after work happy hours since all my coworkers are male–sort of our Pence policy, though less strict).
I was rather proud of him.
I felt sooooo bad for my ex when she “moved in” over winter break (the dorms were closed, I think) and I came down with bronchitis.
Ouch. Hopefully he gets well soon.
What the well-dressed Glib About Town needs.
There are many other lots as well.
What happened to Preston Brooks’ cane?
“Jimmy Carter”?
If the purpose is to beat Antifa with it, i approve
Looks like they’d break after a dozen or so orphan beatings.
Every site or group has a set of ideas that are verboten either implicitly or explicitly. I wonder what ideas this little site is hostile to. Cat butts and exile are weapons used against hostile language, but ideas alone don’t seem to get you either of those. Having been booted twice from TOS (supposedly both times were “accidental”), I’m curious.
Ideas? None. Behavior? Plenty.
Oh, and I say that as someone who, under an earlier name, was deliberately banned from Reason’s comment section, which led to the creation of the OMWC handle. It was for Wrongthink by the standards of Tim Cavanaugh, who was very unhappy with the idea that Israel had a right to defend itself against attacks from Hezbollah and that collateral damage was regrettable but unavoidable.
so, were you Young Man With Candy?
A man With Candy?
Candy?
(((Renegade))), wasn’t it?
ohh, OK I member now, thanks!
(((Renegade))) was much later, right at the end of my tenure in Comments before we created this place. It never got the traction that OMWC had. Anyway, my banning would have been during the Lebanon War, so 2006-ish. I won’t mention my previous handle because it was too close to my real name and would currently be professional suicide.
Fuck Tim Cavanaugh. What a cretinous moron! Man, he would say the stupidest, most ignorant shit and I remember raking him across the coals so often that the term “Cavanaugh’s Folly” was coined.
HM, don’t hold back, what do you really think?
I also think his Bad News Bears rip-off was pure hackery.
A donation that asks about actual ROI, sad
I have been asked on several occasions to tone it down, and I listen, whether or not it’s the Overlords or commoners such as I,
/I like it here, I say what I want
I’d guess that they’d even let a dyed in the wool prog hang out here, as long as he was civil. Probably on a very short leash, though.
Kinky!
Anyone who wants to have discussions in good faith is welcome.
That’s where the implicitly understood idea comes to mind. I’d love to see some dossoi logoi employed here if we can’t get a few somewhat proggy types here because it would be pretty hard to find a loyal prog to post here and not get dog piled on.
Sometimes I wish a person with “progressive” views would show up here and actually argue in good faith. It would make discussions more interesting. Unfortunately, those types of people seem to be rare.
I would never comment here were I a Prog, it would make me Glib!
My wish too. But if we make it too comfortable for them, muh demographics!
Q posts too many boob threads.
I had Know idea your Gay,
NTTIAWWT
Probably something about whether or not you should put circumcised foreskins from aborted fetuses on your meal of bread, cheese, and tomato sauce which is baked in a deep pan)
No, it’s Instant Pot now!
Enjoying deep-dish.
BANNED!!!!!
Most in-house attorneys are pretty chill compared to their law firm counterparts. They tend to focus on the important things, value everybody’s time, and generally be decent people to work with. However, there are exceptions. There’s the occasional know it all, the SJW who assumes everybody else is woke, the people who are still gunning for the top. I hate it when I have to work with those types. They bring the law firm feel into the in-house job.
/rant
I had to get legal approval from our in-house attorney a few years on a project. I think it was a Powerpoint presentation with a fast approaching deadline. She rejected it until I made her revisions. The earth shattering legal problem she held up this urgent project to fix…
She insisted my bullet points in one section be changed into arrow heads. That is it. I still think about it and shake my head.
I’m currently dealing with one of those. We’ll have a meeting to change the wording of a document, and then at the next meeting we undo what we just did. If anybody else adds their input, it’ll by taken out by the next meeting after a bunch of hemming and hawing. Always with some excuse as to why these changes are soooo important.
It comes down to ego. This person has an ego that fills the room and can’t stand to make a decision without posturing to everybody within earshot.
I’m lucky- our in house attorney at my day job is smart, logical, and doesn’t get bogged down in stupid shit. Our in house attorney here at Glibs has actually killed people.
MS?
That’s Mister Swiss to you, Mister. Get down and give me ten.
Mexican Sharpshooter?
So you made two copies, and made certain the copy that actually got used was the one with the bullet points.
Yusef could have written this
As the article Suggests, there are many types of “maintenance” that can be done, and not all systems require the same care, or depth of service as others.
My Suggestion, Call your friends and ask around, see who they use. I do very little Advertising, mostly word of mouth, and I get tons of referrals.
Once you find a good, honest Guy, pay him and keep him around, it will save you in the long run.
This is great advice. I have a guy who I have used for years. Six houses, or so. I’ve never bought a service contract – I just call him. Always takes care of me and I never need to worry about the work.
Price becomes a big meh.
Thank You Tundra, it’s simple really, I take care of your stuff, I don’t need to sell you a bunch a Bells and whistles you don’t need, when stuff breaks, I know you will call me. I treat my Customers very well, I’ll give a bit of time away, or not even charge in some cases, Because i know it’s worth it.
/and Ethics
For Suthen – and anyone culturally appropriating the south: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBi8XfKzk0
Spike’s Tactical Post.
Newsweek shits pants.
And since there’s no corresponding rhetoric from Antifa, it’s just not fair!
Razorfist’s DS9 reviews are great!
I, too, enjoy a deep sixty-9.
Macron attempts to deliver his pet slogan in Chinese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZp05zBENag
Meanwhile in France
Police struggle with silent monks as search for France’s most wanted leads to monastery
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/09/police-struggle-silent-monks-search-frances-wanted-leads-monastery/
Don’t worry- Inspector Clouseau is on the case.
Jewy post is up.