I can’t believe I’ve made it to the end of this week. Its been a journey, to say the least. I’m working on another auction, but this one is an old bar/ice house and then someone’s house that the personal property has been taken over to the bar. And let’s just say that the guy’s tastes are…eclectic. I’ve got gas pumps from the 30s, several hundred unopened Matchbox cars from the 60s and 70s, video poker machines, a dozen pedal cars from the 40s-60s, pieces of coal from the Titanic, a Nazi trash can, a baseball card signed by Mantle and DiMaggio, a million old metal beer and gas/oil signs (one a Texaco sign that’s 108″ wide!), about 50 neon beer signs, a perfectly restored Coke machine from the 30s and a Seeburg Trashcan jukebox, and a 1955 chevy truck chassis. What a mix. And I’ve still got a shitload of work to do.
I have to find a way to get rid of one of those lots, because there’s no way in hell I’m gonna auction it off.
Arizona, Gonzaga and Wichita State all won, while Arizona State continued fading fast and Clemson fell to NC State. And in the Big Ten, Ohio State kept kicking ass by thumping Maryland.In hockey, the Sabres, Hurricanes and Flames won. And in the NFL, LeVeon Bell doesn’t understand the CBA he agreed to play under. Well, that or he understands it but is willing to retire rather than make $14M a year under it. Either way, he picked a hell of a week to start bitching.
That’s all for sports (and my personal anecdote about work. Let’s talk about other things for a while in…the links!
Totally not a shithole, you racist jerk!
Trump asks a legitimate question in an inarticulate way. I wonder the reaction if he’d have said “why can’t we be like 99% of the rest of the world, and have a merit-based immigration system?” instead of calling nations with corrupt governments, completely failing education systems, policies and systems largely incompatible with ours, and large percentages of their people requiring extensive handouts “shitholes”?
There’s nothing wrong with having a side business, but I’m not too sure about this one. Though, tbh, unless it violates the contract they signed with the people paying for their primary services, I fail to see why its any of the FBI’s business.
Speaking of government agencies who exceed their authority, the TSA are doing retarded-ass shit again. Not that they ever stopped or even slowed down. I just wanted to point out their retardation…as well as what appears to be a fairly attractive young lady.
Bella Thorne shows her ass (not in the good way for those of you who might find her vacant expression or other assets attractive), and Rob Lowe promptly puts his boot up it. I mean…damn, girl! You might want to sit twitter out for a while.
Jon Gruden is already making waves in California. (No, this doesn’t belong in the sports section.)
The new Raiders coach on his way to work.
Talk about bad timing. But that’s ok. He’ll probably get elected since the district he’s in charge of is doing so well.
And lastly, maybe our resident vampire-hunter can shed a little light on this. Because its new to me.
Here you go. Enjoy it the entire time you’re reading the rest of the links.
Have a great Friday, and get the weekend off to a good start, friends.
instead of calling nations with corrupt governments, completely failing education systems, policies and systems largely incompatible with ours, and large percentages of their people requiring extensive handouts :shitholes”?
And the racist!! drum is already being beaten by the talking heads.
Seem to recall about a thousand instances of Mississippi, Alabama, Lousiana etc as being called much worse than shit holes by the same people now all stretched out on their fainting couches.
Baltimore is a shithole, Detroit is a shithole, Haiti and those various African nations are so bad that calling them shitholes is a compliment.
They do not dig a hole to shit in Haiti, so ‘shit pasture’? ‘Shit River’?
Shit Pile.
Shit island
Costaguano?
I mean, really? All normal people understand shit-talking when they year it. At this point, nothing Trump tweets or says needs any more than a grain of ‘common truth’ for the average Joe to give it a pass.
If it meets that very modest criterion, the average Joe or Joan is going to nod their head and forget it until Woke Nephew brings it up on his Facebook timeline.
I think we call that the NATO Nile.
Don’t worry, this being the internet somebody will do a search and publish a list which will be ignored by proglandia.
Former Maryland Governor William Donald Schaefer once famously referred to the Eastern Shore as a shithole. It’s still a sore spot for shorebillies.
I once heard a “progressive” musing on whether or not it would have been better to just let the South secede instead of “letting them drag us down”. My new policy is that whenever a “progressive” goes on a rant about how terrible the Southern states are, I ask them, “So you’re saying you hate the part of the country with the most black people in it?”
Is it not going to sell? Or are you not willing to stand up there and try to dispose of it in that manner?
I’m not going to stand up there and sell it or put it online to sell. And I can’t find a museum that might want it. So I guess I’ll find a pair of top men to put it in a box and store it somewhere.
See my comment below.
Sound like an episode for “American Pickers”.
Oooh! I like that.
Sloopy, give them a call!
They would go ape shit over the signs and the matchbox cars. And the vending machine. Ok, they would love it all.
It’s ironic I was just looking at ebay at vintage soda vending machines. A restored 40s Coke machine will sell for $6,000 to $12,000. Like Sloopy said, there are collectors for everything.
Signs are always cool. I want the Trashcan.
Durkin, however, said the TSA eventually let her off with just a warning, after she assured them she learned her lesson.
The TSA is full of ignorant, incompetent fuckwits?
*checks pictures*
I’ll bet they did!
The freakout over that shithole comment is truly epic.
CNN was full in. I had to tune in just to see. Of course it was racist.
Letting Trump say what everyone knows to be factual and get away with it, especially when there is an opportunity for the usual anti-Trumpers to make hay of it, is not in the cards. Crisis and all that. Our elites have always hoped that bringing enough people that would basically end up voting for a living would slide all future electoral events in their favor and care not a bit what the effect of that is on the plebes.
Who?
Do you really live in that much of a bubble?
I gather from context it’s the name of some sportsball figure, but the identities of people in the sports bubble are not known to me. I can maybe name five living athletes.
He also was the color commentator on the highest rated show on TV.
I cut the TV cord years ago when I realized I never watched it. I seem to recall some of the commentariat acting as if mentioning such a fact was in of itself smug.
Yeah, I got roasted for mentioning it once. Won’t do that again.
https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-televisi-1819565469
More and more people are becoming TV-free. Don’t assume everyone knows anything about the legacy media figures.
I am, to all intents and purposes, TV-free. We still have one in the house, but we have a very basic terrestrial-channel offering from Comcast. Once #6.2 is off to college, we’ll cut the cord with zero fucks given.
Well once you have all of Matlock on VHS, why would you need cable?
He also was the color commentator on the highest rated show on TV.
The Seinfeld finale?
That simply can’t be true. “Athletes” is such a large field of people that I find it hard to believe you can only name five.
I don’t follow soap operas but I can name you five of them.
I think.
Susan Lucci, uh…um…there’s that one dude…tall…
I can name one.
The patriarchy kept an Emmy out of her hands for so long. Only reason I remember her.
Erica Kane another Emmy’s passed you by…
https://youtu.be/tbpqZJAAuyo
As The World Turns. General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Young and the Restless, The bold and the Beautiful.
I could only come up with “Days of Our Lives” and “Eastenders”
Downton Abbey
Dark Shadows. I only know about it because of that awful Johnny Depp /Tim Burton movie.
The Days of the Week.
I figured you’d just name all of the different Degrassi series that were made.
I NEVER WATCHED DEGRASSI.
Then you should go to the box and feel shame. Playing With Time Productions is awesome and their youth/tween melodrama sets the standard for the genre. Kids Of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, Degrassi High, and Degrassi: The Next Generation are, along with Corner Gas, The Red Green Show, Kids In The Hall, and perhaps Trailer Park Boys or Letterkenny are the greatest contributions Canada has made to the televisual arts.
Of those, I’ve watched… The Red Green Show.
He’s the guy who replaced Tom Brady as the coach for the Pennsylvania Dutch. Dug. Don’t you sports ball?
Duh not dug stupid auto correct
It is an overbearingly polite autocorrect
I don’t.
Florida Bear Man?
Bear Attack Leaves Man With 41 Stitches In His Face
“Chicks dig scars.”
-advice to my 6-year-old workson
Shorter Story: Bear leaves man with face, any face at all.
Best part is he is wearing a Packers shirt in the video.
a Nazi trash can
A tasteful addition to the Oval Office decor.
Only if he had it gold-plated.
Here it is, btw.
That’s pretty cool. Wonder what it was used for back in the day.
Uh, garbage?
Lol i forgot he said it was a trash can. It’s all a part of our tradition of meticulously reading the links.
Oh God, I don’t know. I just hope those ashes were from cigarettes.
lol
Final solution sanitation Co.
It’s not in the best of conditions. Not exactly the easiest sale, I suppose.
Ashes add to the value for some collectors.
There are collectors for everything. That thing would probably bring good money. The bottom has a swastika in the middle and “Anglo-Mexican” stamped into it, although its wearing pretty thin. I’m too busy to research what it might be from or for. But I’m sure I could get a decent price for it.
I think I might ship it to someone I’m angry with/want to fuck with in a clear plastic tub so everyone along the transportation line can see it with a note inside alluding to “the ashes are coming in a separate shipment, and the lampshades are proving harder to locate than expected. Regards, Wolfgang”
*Wagnerian opera applause*
Looks like Anglo-Mexican Petroleum was their full name. Used the left handed swastika a lot.
What’s under the tarp? Looks shapely.
69 Camaro resto-mod with a 502.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Go on…
Oooh…
If you ever come across vintage 1950s-era stereo gear, I’m your man. Vacuum tubes, transformers, and big ‘n’ heavy gear.
I’ve got a 50s era console stereo in there somewhere, but no pics yet. I do remember it was a Motorola though. And it had a handful of records in there that must have been 78s, because they were an odd size.
I’ll let you know when I get pics.
PLus, the Seeburg, man! go for the Seeburg trashcan!!!!! Its completely restored and I’d say its in very good/excellent condition upon a preliminary inspection. I should have the appraisal back on out pretty soon.
Here is a link to a similar one that’s not in quite as nice condition.
If it’s a Nazi trash can, isn’t the Swastika backwards?
Are you sure that’s a Nazi swastika? That looks like a “sauwastika”, not a Hakenkreuz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRV1Zgjmiks
The antisocial/Tourettes side of me would buy that and use it for a burn barrel.
Thank you, I feel better about myself for thinking the same thing.
No. You need to find a Jewish antique restoration guy and force him to restore it to the original condition. You’ll get to be famous and maybe even be part of a supreme court case or something.
Jews are cliche for that – find a Gay Gypsy.
… so much hate for my people.
The swastika is backwards.
It may be a Buddhist trash can.
Sloopy, if this is the lot that you don’t want to auction, I’d approach the production company for “The Man in the High Castle” to see if they are interested. Try to get to the prop buyer directly.
Not a bad idea, but its too worn for their needs. I’ll find someone that wants it for a museum or something. But I’m too busy getting ready for the sale now, so it’ll have to wait until sometime after February 24th.
Alternatively, market it as a Buddhist “Good Luck” trashcan. From the picture, the swastika is not oriented in the fashion of the Nazi flag, so it could pass as one of those decorations Buddhists put on their temples. Unless there’s some German writing on it, which would give the ruse away.
Who is Bella Thorne? And whose concert did she miss.
Some stupid cunt.
Some stupid prick.
Huh. Rob Lowe isn’t a libertarian but he doesn’t seem to have his head completely up his ass politically unlike the rest of the vast majority of politics.
HTML fail……that was supposed to link to this:
https://hollowverse.com/rob-lowe/
*walks away with slumped shoulders
Also fail on “politics”….that was supposed to say Hollywood. I am now self-exiling myself.
*shakes head, gives disappointed look* Hand in your top hat and your monocle.
But my orphans won’t fear me anymore without them!
She was a crappy child actress that was quite fetching and looked to be about 5 years older than her actual age when she was underage – so sites like Daily Mail used to flood their pages with risque pics of her. Now she’s just a crappy young adult actress lost in a sea of actresses that are quite fetching and of legal age.
Man, the mudslide pics are amazing. It’s a question that comes up a lot, but why is the DM so dialed in on stuff here?
Spoken like a true insular American.
Because bruh. It makes shitholes feel better about themselves to watch America in pain.
As a side note, I was attacked on Reason by some handle ‘USA’ for wondering why I *cared* sooooo much about American history/politics.
Dungeon Master?
It’s a question that comes up a lot, but why is the DM so dialed in on stuff here?
An estimated 231 million out of 360 million native English speakers worldwide live in the US, so my guess is the Daily Mail online is making a play for a larger audience.
Ms Escher said Ms Koch, who embalmed and dismembered bodies, pulled teeth from some of the corpses to extract the gold in crowns or fillings.
Ms. Escher seems to be lacking wisdom.
boo!
Scared me. I’ll have to brace myself.
I’m gonna have to brush up on my puns.
*shakes fist*
Sure it was…
In a fast-warming world, scientists say recent cold wave was exceptionally weird
So would that not imply that, along with flat temperatures for the past two decades, the world is not “fast-warming”?
HERETIC!
But catastrophists are forever lecturing us about how weather is different than climate. If that is so, then it would seem this response is unnecessary.
These people are mouth-breathing imbecilles that can call themselves Dr because colleges are handing out PhD’s like candy thanks to state subsidies.
Or, in a different context:
“In a world still struggling to escape the Quaternary Ice Age, the recent cold wave was exceptionally disheartening.”
I, for one, embrace global warming and eagerly await temperatures finally returning to normal.
What 2.7 Kelvin? I’ll take the heatwave thanks.
If you’re worried about the result of a trend and want to stop it or reverse it, you have to have an ‘ideal’ endpoint in mind.
Dear climate nutcases. Please tell us what your target CO2 concentration is. While you’re at it, please quantify your water vapor, methane and other significant greenhouse gas targets. Please also indicate the O2 concentration which must also be carefully constrained. An idea of what the planetary albedo should be will also prove beneficial since this is a primary determinant of global insolation to help us ensure that your objectives are met.
Bonus points for telling us what ‘normal’ temperatures you’re aiming for in key locations such as Davos, Nantucket, Aruba, Jackson Hole and Sacramento.
The answer to all this is one giant world socialist government doing heavy wealth redistribution (and not the way the stupid plebes that buy into this cult think it will go) that will magically make nobody care about CO2 after our rights and freedoms have been properly curtailed.
Speaking of Mudageddon- I was watching some news show, and the doll head reading the news was talking about how people had spontaneously banded together to search for victims/survivors in various places instead of sitting on their hands waiting for the “authorities” to get around to it, as if that were some sort of bizarre anti-government protest.
Neo-Nazi search parties roaming the California coast. LOCK YOUR DOORS!
Wait, so they’re doing what we did after Harvey when many of them mocked us for not having government systems in place to do the search and rescue work?
Chances are the people doing the volunteer work are not the same as the people who mocked others. Despite California being lost to insanity, there are still a few decent folk living there.
I have a friend who moved from California about 10 years ago and he related a story to me of breaking down here on the local highway and being freaked out when someone pulled over to make sure they were okay and see if they needed a ride somewhere.
What sort of freak would do such a thing? Approach a random disable vehicle and you’re going to get shot by the occupants in self-defense.
About 7 years ago I was headed home from a track day when I passed a car on the shoulder of the highway. Half a mile later I see a guy walking along carrying a gas can, so I pulled over. The next station was 12 miles away, but I had fuel in my trailer for the motorcycle, so we turned around and dumped it into his car. He was a delightful Serbian guy who just loved America and wanted to come see what it was all about. He was driving around in some crummy Chrysler New Yorker he bought for a grand that was just the best car in the world as far as he was concerned. Turns out he ran out of gas because he saw a sign saying the next town was X miles away, he checked the fuel gauge, and thought, “I can surely make it X kilometers.” Boom, ran out.
Long story short, he was super thankful that I helped him out, came to visit me at my house a couple of times, and now I’m his immigration sponsor.
Great story. You’re a good egg
Indeed. That’s a fantastic story. Made my day.
Good job!
Did she later refer to “first responders# who weren’t these volunteers?
Government *hates* private rescue efforts*. The boilerplate for that is that private rescuers are untrained and put themselves in danger perhaps requiring additional government rescue resources to rescue the non-government rescuers. There is some validity to that, but those concerns are overblown and are a transparent attempt to monopolize rescuing.
There are valid concerns about looters, but there is no guarantee that those government workers aren’t pocketing stuff, too.
(*) Unless those orgs are government-sanctioned. It’s ok for the government to call in a private K9 Search and Rescue org to search for a lost kid, but totally not okay for some random hiker who totally knows the area to stroll around looking in areas where a person could shelter and of which the authorities are unaware.
private rescuers are untrained and put themselves in danger perhaps requiring additional government rescue resources to rescue the non-government rescuers
I seem to recall the rednecks pulling some government types out of the shit after the hurricanes.
You should fill that trash can with ice and bottled water for the customers, and set it in a corner. See if anybody notices.
Fill it with Dr browns soda and fanta. You could sell it to an art museum.
Or to be subversive, fill it with Passover Coke.
Doesn’t the swastika have to be rotated 45 degrees to be one of the bad ones? That looks like a good luck trash can to me.
It’s if the tips on the end are left or right. It’s a bad one.
“[P]ieces of coal from the Titanic…” Robert Childan approves – “historicity.”
Srsly, how do you verify that a given hunk of coal came from the Titanic wreck?
All of the coal used on the titanic was hand-carved to include the ship’s name on each lump.
/sarc
No idea, but it has a PSA COA with it. So does the piece of fabric and metal from the Hindenburg that I found.
Again, historicity. And I’m not criticizing. If people believe the lump of coal is authentic then that’s fine with me. Seems like the COA thing is like a cartel or guild to keep the market from flooding like the hull of an iceberged steamship.
Usually it would come with a certificate of authenticity from either the local government or the historical association that owns the property – it’s what I have for my pieces of the Berlin Wall even though they’re just bits of concrete. Probably gets way more messy for the Titanic since under maritime law it can’t be ‘owned’.
Got my piece of barbed wire from the DMZ (course….I probably coulda clipped my own and saved myself $10).
Isn’t the Nazi swastika facing the other way? Maybe the trashcan is from a Hindu temple or something/
Yeah… it is. As Gwar says in Slaughterama:
Good call, Tundra.
I think there were also some southwest Indian tribes (Navajo?) who also used a lot of swastikas in their artwork, IIRC correctly
You know who else also used a lot of swastikas in their artwork… oh never mind.
The Japanese?
This blockchain sexual consent app is a VERY bad idea
So this is really a thing…
*begins tying noose*
So not content to run over our links, you have turned on your fellow commenters too?!!!
https://glibertarians.com/2018/01/thursday-morning-links-42/#comment-421962
What are you getting at? It’s someone else’s feminist response to that idea – article dated from today.
Soon he’ll repost his own links 😉
What is this magic you have that allows you to direct-link to individual comments here? [Makes gesture of obesience to great wizard]
Unfortunately it is part of an edit function.
Monocle has that capability.
Monocle has that functionality
In case you didn’t hear me the first time. (I got a 503 error the first time)
I hear monocle can do that.
I’ve been using this thing called Monocle for a while. It performs said magic.
BTW, Eyepiece lets you do it from mobile.
Since orgasm is an autonomic process that can’t be stopped once it’s begun, what happens if you withdraw consent right in the middle of it? Wouldn’t your own body then be raping you?
“It’s hard enough to report sexual crimes already without having your attacker wield a digital document around.”
It’s in these cases that we have to wonder who the predator is? Because complaining that people have a record of consent sounds like you want people to be able to retroactively remove their consent.
69 Camaro resto-mod with a 502.
BAH! If I were going to own a Camaro, it would be a ’69, but I hate it when people put those fucking dump truck motors in them. 302 or GTFO. And a five speed.
It gets worse. He put 5-spoke wheels on it!
I did it right. I put my 502 in a dump truck I’m building.
Meet the first openly gay man to compete for the U.S. in the Winter Olympics.
Discrimination in men’s figure skating. Hmmm.
Uh, so Johnny Weir didn’t exist?
He came out after his career was over. Everybody was shocked.
“Rippon’s sexuality shouldn’t matter at all. It shouldn’t even be a headline”
Then why are you contributing to this? In some sense, you acting like this is exceptional, is the only mainstream bigotry this guy faces.
Yeah, sure, ok….
significant discrimination against LGBTQ folks still exists
Really? I mean, sure, in a lot of the shithole type countries, but in the US?
He’s also apparently afraid to go to the White House if invited:
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-42653790/adam-rippon-gay-us-skater-says-he-would-not-feel-welcome-at-white-house
He should be afraid, the gay mafia will lynch him if does.
Trump with Thiel, Trump with the rainbow flag walking it around the stage, Trump living and working in NYC his entire life, Trump working in entertainment ?????????
The left is having a really hard time dealing with the fact that nobody gives a shit about this anymore.
Sorry, but 2 man luge has been a thing since the 60’s.
Re Gruden, the Raiders and the Rooney Rule.
A) I’m glad the Raiders are at least maintaining their rebellious nature. Not sure about Davis’s salad bowl hair cut though. Wtf?
B) Any chance teams just start (if they already are) to ignore it like people ignore bad laws?
C) Defenders of it say Tomlin would never have gotten the job if it weren’t for the RR – which is ironic given it was Pittsburgh. You’d figure they were already practicing it since they came up with the concept. Practice what you preach and sell it to others and all that.
He looks like he had a lobotomy: Me hire Grooden. I now go play with pipi.
MOST DAYS START the same — behind the wheel of a white 1997 Dodge Caravan SE outfitted with a bubble-top Mark III conversion kit, a VHS player mounted to the roof inside and a r8hers personalized plate. Mark Davis pilots this machine from his East Bay home to the nearest P.F. Chang’s, where he sits at the left end of the bar, same spot every time, puts his white fanny pack on the counter, orders an iced tea and unfolds the day’s newspapers. Beside him on the bar, next to the papers, is his 2003 Nokia push-button phone with full texting capability.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/13735322/are-mark-davis-raiders-leaving-oakland
It’s a stupid rule. If you know a team wants to hire a white guy as a coach because they’ve asked him a million times before, but before they can they have to interview a token minority and pretend to consider him. Who’d want to sit down for that knowing they’re not going to be hired?
Andrew Meunier was letting his dogs outside when a large bear attacked him. His 7-year-old daughter was asleep inside the apartment.
Meunier says he let his dog out around 11 p.m. when he walked outside and saw a 4-foot bear standing next to him.
Which is it? Is it a “large” bear, or a some sort of pygmy bear species which only grows to be four feet tall?
I was wondering if it was four feet at the shoulder while on all fours.
My newfie is almost that tall (in total, not the shoulder).
Was it a hairy bear? Was it a scary bear?
https://youtu.be/NkuuZEey_bs?t=111
+1 beat a hasty retreat out of there.
Libertarians lose in 2018 without the GOP
“If you actually want a lasting libertarianism, then you need to acknowledge … the value of the social fabric,” Shapiro said at a Young America’s Foundation summit in February 2017. “Once that happens, then I think there can be a conservative-Libertarian merger.”
Sorry, Ben. The social fabric isn’t the problem. What does he think? “I guess we’ll just have to accept that they keep bombing the shit out of places, but at least they aren’t Democrats. Amirite?”
“Social fabric”
WTF does that even mean? That’s as bad as social contract. How ’bout you just let free association sort this shit out; it worked fine for centuries until social engineers came along and started fucking everything up.
He’s for most legalization of drugs. Heroin leaves stains on the fabric, so he’s against that.
Good question, Q. But it is important to draw a distinction between government and society, because we cannot call for the reduction or abolition of government without an alternative. Society is that alternative.
Unlike the chimeral social contract, the concept of society does not require an individual to take specific action but simply acknowledges the reality that people as a whole will address certain problems.
That’s true, and I don’t disagree with it. But, I think Q’s criticism of the phrase is fair. Maybe it’s a knee jerk reaction to decades of PC BS, getting worse within the past few years. But, when I see the word social combined with certain words (justice, contract, fabric, makeup, mores, etc.), it gets my skeptical radar up and I check to make sure my wallet’s still in my front pocket.
Pie will be best to weigh about the Hungarian-Romanian story, but based on my year living in slovakia and some central European history class
The Hungarians when they held power over the peoples of central Europe as part of the Austrian Hungarian empire were pretty cruel. With such compassionate policies as attempts to limit the Czech and Slovak language and culture during that time period.
So the short version is this is a minor tiff that has been going on between Hungary and other central european countries that stems from the A-H history
IIRC – the Szeklers were not quite Magyar, but had thrown in with them waaaay back in the day, so the Hungarians feel they are part of the club. Now that the places that used to get squashed by the Hungarians – as you pointed out – are not exactly worried about Magyar or Szekler opinion… Hungary gets miffed.
I worked with a microscopist who escaped Ceaucescu. She was adamant that she was “Hungarian, not Romanian.”
She also made more money from her Hungarian bakery than at her job as a microscopist,
Isn’t the Nazi swastika facing the other way?
I noticed that, too. Maybe the image got flipped.
Only a real Nazi would notice that. That’s why I didn’t say anything.
Burn the witch!
A real Buddhist would notice it as well. That’s why I noted it above.
No, that’s the way it was built.
Maybe its not genuine from the 30s or 40s, I have no idea. I just pointed out that I found a Nazi trash can.
Unless the Hindus are trying to take it back.
Everybody does, in fact, need a bosom for a pillow.
http://archive.is/LRzGB
15, 17, 18, 19, 34, 36 and 33 if she hadn’t gotten those ridiculous lip injections (seriously, does any woman look good with those?)
2!
She’s the one that keeps the dream alive!
I think I have discovered a flaw in the sea level readings. They must spike every time #4 dunks those puppies.
He put 5-spoke wheels on it!
That’s better than the 20 – 22″ monstrosities a lot of people go to.
Yeah, the low-profile tires just look wrong on many older cars, IMO. Especially muscle cars.
Now, I got no problem with putting a crate engine under the hood unless you’ve got a true numbers-matching survivor-type car.
As we were pulling up to Brother Dean’s house for Christmas, Mrs. Dean noticed the neighbor’s garage was open and he had some kind of vintage car in there. We got lucky, as the owner was puttering around, so he let us give it a look-see. It was one of these, only the sedan version (two door) perfectly restored with a gorgeous deep dark blue paint. Complete numbers-matching survivor, engine rebuilt, everything correct down to the cloth-wrapped wires. He said it was one of thirteen of that particular configuration. You will never see a more beautiful Art Deco chrome.
ooo… now that’s a good looking car.
/has a soft sport for art deco buildings and autos
Now that’s a sweet ride
He treats it right, too. Fires it up once a week and takes it for a spin.
I told him if he ever wanted to get rid of it, give me a call. He said it was already spoken for by his daughter, and anyway he was looking for the matching four-door so he could have the set.
Would.
Speaking of shitty work circumstances… so my company finally ships me the piece of equipment that I require to y’know, DO MY JOB and it arrives with the wrong connectors. I send the charger out to another business and they install the wrong one. I hang my head, hitch my my britches and try again. They order the new part and two weeks later (after telling them “No, that’s okay, I’ll install it meself) I finally have a working, fully-charged piece of machinery. Great! Last night I try to load it with water and huge puddle forms beneath. Check underneath and there is a plastic filter assembly that has obviously exploded because it iced up during shipping. Now I have to wait for replacement parts or maybe get lucky at a plumbing supply store. Oh, and two of the supervisors where I work died suddenly last week, one of them I was proud to call my friend. The other guy was pretty alright too but he mostly worked days so we weren’t as close.
You need to take a vacation, dude.
Or get a promotion.
Too soon.
Apologies, Festus. Sorry about your friend.
It’s a place I work at. I’m not really affiliated but they call me “One of Them” as a courtesy. I’ve been cleaning up after them for five years and know about half of their names.
Basically you do what Swiss does here?
Yeah my heart-rate was up there. I actually swore in front of the clients so that may redound badly… The one guy had some kind of fast moving brain tumor and my pal had a massive stroke. We weren’t super-close but he always treated me with dignity and we’d chat for about twenty minutes every night. I appreciated that because some folk aren’t too kind to the help. Godspeed, Ron, wherever you are.
People like that really piss me off. Be a decent human being, it isn’t that hard.
What do you do that classifies you as ‘the help’?
I am the Janitor! I sweep and I wipe! https://youtu.be/D9srgtTTVwk?list=PLxBorAjZ9b9SgBeJjGMpwWBdeQJMSU_VK
Oh, thank you. I appreciate the work janitors do, as I know full well I need them and I’d be miserable doing the job.
I hated,hated,hated it at first but it has grown on me. The pay isn’t great but I get to work alone and most of the anonymous drones leave me alone. Smile and nod, keep mopping. What worries me is that I’ve actually got to know some of these people and they seem to care about my well-being. Does not compute.
Some of us people find that anyone willing to do productive work deserves our respect and to have their dignity in making an honest living acknowledged. Some people unfortunately seem to think choosing to work hard at a job they look down upon makes you less than them. I have often found that members of that second group usually are the ones screaming the loudest about social injustice ad that sort of nonsense…
That sucks. I would not walk under any ladders for a while.
I’d gladly walk under ladders if it meant that I never had to climb one again. Vertigo. I’ll gladly clean up all manner of filth rather than replace bulbs. Mopping stairs can be an adventure.
Sorry to hear that.
So TSA wastes time harassing this college chick for a dopey hand signal while this happens.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tsa-missed-95-percent-of-weapons-explosives-in-security-tests/article/2565360
I think the pervy agent just wanted an excuse to grope the hottie. BTW would.
Oh, they did it again?
Swiss government rules lobsters must be ‘stunned’ before being boiled
How are they going to enforce this?
Tiny hammers tucked into the elastic bands.
How the fuck will you stun a lobster?
The fucking thing’s system is so primitive, that you probably would end up frying it before it registered whatever shock you applied to stun it.
How do you stun a lobster?
Letting the water into the shell screws up the cooking, so crushing the brain is out. And who has a lobster-shocker?
Maybe Sloopy has one in that garage of oddities.
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/001/606/694/StoneColdSteveAustinStunnerToSteph-1_original_crop_north.jpg?1331514859&w=630&h=420
+2 in the pink one in the stink
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XD7JCgM2uCg/V4aYL381irI/AAAAAAAANVM/1DgVxTjQbu4Qce1jkGt__TsnlTU3PsyoQCLcB/s1600/the-shocker-social-wide-black.png
put it a pot of boiling water
You didn’t guess that there were answers to that:
Of course freezing them for 20 minutes before tossing them into a pot of boiling water makes it more humane.
And sounds like it would break the shell through thermal shock.
Also sounds like doing the exact same thing to the lobster but by freezing them. How is that more humane?
It’s not. The real goal is to harass people out of eating.
Show them your dick
STEVE SMITH DO THAT ONCE…LOBSTER DIED OF FRIGHT.
You tell them that the woman they thought was their mother is actually their sister.
Knowing the Swiss – most will obey/mechanically comply (pith the sea bug before boiling, electricity is expensive!) and some backwoods cantons will just ignore this…if they ever see a live lobster.
There is a neutrality joke somewhere in this story.
Swiss electricity is so expensive because they only use the neutral wire.
LOL
New law. They have to say “Haiti is shithole” to them before boiling.
Ah, so the lobster faints then!
Fuck Ovation, full Roman Triumph!
Fuck Ovation! Full Roman Triumph!
I have been getting 503 guru meditation errors this morning on some posts. The posts have been appearing, so I don’t know what step of the process is erroring out.
Take a breath. It’s all for a reason.
Maybe some comments are worth reading twice! Ever think of that, Smart guy?
[squints at straffin’]
Reason? Drink!
Standing ovation.
Jury finds mother guilty of killing ‘possessed’ daughter with crucifix
People from shithole countries…
Waitaminnit! A GAY FIGURE SKATER?
I know! *fans self*
What would Brian Boitano do? To you?
+1 What Would Brian Boitano Do?
*Nelson Laugh*
dude.
Lord Humungus on January 12, 2018 at 8:07 am
Festus on January 12, 2018 at 8:09 am
Hmmmm.
My reply landed under the original comment but his was faster. Photo finish? Sister kisster?
Mine had a tail-sting. I WIN.
Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made – a big setback for DACA!
9:28 PM – Jan 12, 2018
So it wasn’t shit hole. Crap basket? Turd trench?
“I said shit-mole“
Why walk it back?
He should go full in and say, “Yup, I said shit hole. Absolutely.” It would make the talking heads insane, but 80% of the country would all nod and agree with him.
Because it’s a chance to claim that the media is just making up more lies. 80% of the country still nods, agrees, and also notes that the media continues to spread lies.
Tweenagers, what are you gonna do?
The answer to that question depends heavily on several factors. Let’s have a flowchart:
Female?->yes->Over age of consent?->yes->FLBP?->Would.
That was P. Brooked. It was supposed to be a response to the exorcism/murder thread. Still Family Friendly, still works.
Asking the right question in an inarticulate way and getting the wrong answer is so much better than asking the wrong question.
“How does unskilled immigration from “shit-hole” countries benefit the U.S.?” is the right question. It’s even the constitutional question that voters are supposed to answer by way of voting for representatives to congress along with questions about taxes, whether to go to war, and whether to ratify treaties. That’s why the framers in their great wisdom included it with the powers enumerated to congress–because asking the American people about whether immigration is in the bests interests of the American people is one of the appropriate questions for democracy.
The treaties we’ve signed obligating us to accept refugees are also an answer to this same question. We have decided through such treaties that whatever benefits of accepting refugees who make it to our shores, our moral obligation to help such people is more important to us–and that is a perfectly appropriate answer for the American people to embrace through their elected leaders if that is what they wish. I.e. the response, “We care more about our moral obligations than we do about the benefits of immigration in this situation” is a perfectly appropriate response to the question of whether accepting such people is in the best interests of the U.S.
When I talk about open borders, this is what I’m talking about: I want congress to ratify a treaty with Mexico that allows their citizens to freely come across our border without a visa. I want congress to do this because I firmly believe doing so is in the best interests of the U.S. In order to accomplish this treaty, I want to persuade mt fellow Americans that doing this is in the best interests of the United States, but I cannot persuade my fellow Americans to support an open borders treaty with Mexico if I can’t get them to start thinking about immigration in terms of what’s in America’s best interests.
All this is to say that asking the question, “Why should we want people to come here from shit-hole countries” is a necessary condition for open, legal immigration through constitutional means. We will never get there through a president who inflicts immigration policy on the American people against their will as a form of forced sacrifice with the justification that open immigration is in the best interests of economic migrants waiting in other countries. Those who are arguing for open borders without centering their argument on the best interests of the American people are doing great harm to the cause of open borders. They are the reason why so many people scoff at the term “open borders”.
Well and succinctly put, Ken.
Right on, Ken.
Too many people think the purpose of immigration policy is to benefit foreigners and non-citizens. They are wrong. Its purpose is to benefit the US, and specifically the US citizenry. If the “general welfare” of the US and its citizens is improved by closed borders, that is the correct policy. If it is improved by open borders, then that is the correct policy. The impact of immigration policy on non-citizens is at best a minor ancillary concern, but the public discourse by Our Betters generally looks at only that issue. Take the Dreamers – non-citizens one and all, but practically the entire conversation is about how policy impacts them, not how policy impacts the US and its citizens.
I may have to steal this. Very well put Ken.
“Ask not for what we can do for immigrants, ask rather what the immigrants can do for us.”
This from a 25-year Green Card holder, no less.
Let me provide the thoughtful progressive response:
RACIST!!11!!!! XENOPHOBE!11!!!!
Why this male radical feminist would like to see an end to pornography (and masculinity)
Umm. Black dude/white chick is pretty popular these days. And I don’t know many guys running out to buy 50 Shades books. Damn sexists and racists.
They sell the tie at Fascinations. I, um…found out for a friend.
“In the 30 years I have been studying pornography”
C’mon buddy, you didn’t need to come up with some fancy academic study to watch porn. We won’t judge you.
““In the 30 years I have been studying pornography….I’ve mad my fair share of messes. Upholstering isn’t cheap….”
When I was a young man, porn was more like a training manual. It certainly helped in my early experiences so I didn’t come across as a complete idiot. (just a partial idiot)
I learned from the Sears catalog underwear section.
Real men learn from the Discovery Channel.
A sad pile of National Geographics would have a word…
Brown Boobs Matter!
Would a cheeta poster?
#metoo
“male feminist”? Oh, yeah, a rapist.
I thought PornHub released a bunch of data and the “mostly male” notion isn’t true? Or maybe there are a lot more chicks watching porno than one would assume, but still mostly male by definition.
Local murderer convicted of manslaughter had deadly case of TDS which ‘caused him’ to run a man over last year –
During his arraignment at county court eight days later, he said, “I shot and killed Donald Trump purposely, intentionally and very proudly.”
https://ithacavoice.com/2018/01/justin-barkley-deadly-wal-mart-shooter-accepts-manslaughter-plea-deal-hours-jury-selected-scheduled-trial/
That site is making me go through a TSA checkpoint.
You know who else ran people over?
Caitlin Jenner?
Bruce Jenner?
*Mind blown*
Earl Campbell?
Better explain this one to UnCivil
Scottish noble?
People’s Liberation Army?
Well, one guy didn’t get run over.
Even tank treads can’t smash a set of balls that big.
Tony Stewart?
I larfed.
Sloopy, how about a Glib online auction?
Who would pay for us?
*prolonged ovation*
I’ll do it. What are we gonna sell?
We have an overabundance of snark. How much can you get for that?
Bout tree fiddy
http://i.imgur.com/8NOVI8d.jpg
55lb drum of lube?
800 lbs of STEVE SMITH. C.O.D.
AND BY C, MEAN RAPE.
Monocle polish, Beer tap cane toppers, and top hat wax.
Monocles, top hats.
It’s still cool to Drone Strike US Citizens in shitholes, though…right?
It’s always cool to drone strike US citizens.
Suppose that’s one way to make a shithole.
I’ll post the link on Monday to some of the inventory I have catalogued, if any of you are interested. I could do it now, but I only put 20 or so pieces up as I was tinkering with it in advance of doing my inventory and sale management software training today. I should have a couple hundred items loaded in through the weekend…which will be less than 20% of the whole sale but at least it’ll be something.
This will be my first completely solo auction project, and I have a couple more in the pipeline that I’m just waiting on the court to green light. Its been fun so far and I’m sure it’ll end up being fairly profitable. But its challenging because I’m going to a new auction software suite than what I’m used to since this one is more cloud-based, which I will need seeing as I will do a lot of off-site sales. Once I have that in place, I should be able to get the inventorying done in a couple weeks. Well once I get that and a scissor lift to get everything down that’s hanging from the rafters.
I’ll give you $100 million reichmarks for the trash can
Cool. I’d be really interested!
I’m interested. Hard to get huge signs across 3 states but maybe some of the smaller petroliana.
Sweet. Love to see the signs and other junk.
That rain from yesterday turned into ice today – couldn’t open the doors on my wife’s car again. And when I went to get gas for my car, the fuel door wouldn’t open. There is some kind of pin on the gas door that slides shut when in the car is in motion; won’t release. So this afternoon I’ll have to put the heat gun on… the place where I pump gas. What could go wrong?
One week we’re dressing for -35 degree weather, the next I was walking out in a sweater. It’s nuts. One moment it’s a blizzard, then it shoots up to +4 and rain and now we’re waiting for another snow storm and back down to freezing temps.
It’s worse than ‘It’s a small world’ ride. Fuck I wanted to smash everyone in that stupid thing. Stupid little freaks from shitholes waving at me is creepy.
Al Gore warned you.
Al Gore can go fuck himself that lying piece of shit because it was EXACTLY like this when I was growing up in the 1980s.
Suppose the climate models all use an…….ALGOREithm to predict change?
I suppose the ALGOREhyhtms used are not musical in any way, since Bill Clinton was the one with rhythm.
*throws rotten vegetables at Tres*
Mann, I hate climate change jokes.
Should we hit him with a hockey stick?
I sea rising anger from Swissy if he catches us.
He can polar barely stand to read these
I guess it’s too late to expect an icy response …
Hairdryer on low heat. Takes longer but less chance of paint damage or other… complications.
make sure the car is unlocked, I thought the same thing happened to my G35, but it turns out the gas cap was locked with the whole car.
well, before I broke the little plastic pin, that is
It’s unlocked – I had the same thing happen with another car so I knew enough not to strong arm it this time. I’ll just have to be sure to clear it before I run out of gas!
Be careful about forcing it. I sheered that pin off on a Jeep Cherokee year ago and afterward the fuel door hung open like the slack mouth of a downhome retard.
Couldn’t you pop the fuel door open at home, drive to the gas station, fill up, then close it?
The Walking Dead speaketh!
http://freebeacon.com/issues/pelosi-tax-reform-wage-increases-bonuses-are-crumbs-pathetic/
Listen to me, don’t believe your lying bank accounts!
It’s funny how Dems make up the strawman “trickle down economics” but then attack company’s who dare share some wealth back from the government.
You know what she’s right, people would prefer the government to have that money.
So actively collaborating with a political campaign is ok, but *this* is the line.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/11/wapo-reporter-placed-on-leave-after-shes-exposed-giving-secret-strategy-briefing-at-soros-conference/
She got caught.
I’m shocked, shocked! that a WaPo reporter is a left-wing activist.
This is actually a pretty big fucking deal as she is a national reporter, not an op-ed columnist.
“…Soros and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi both attended the November conference where Ross gave her presentation.”
Seriously. How irresponsibly stupid is Pelosi?
Seeing as she’s a dead body, controlled by her handlers to keep taking in that sweet cash…
I would pay to see Nancy stunned by Trump’s comments. Her face to would have to defy physics to add anymore insanity to it.
I would pay to see Nancy stunned by Trump’s comments
And then tossed in boiling water
Think of the lobsters, you monster.
I know I do…
mmmmm, lobster bisque!
I think it was probably like a Nazi gazing upon the Ark of the Covenant.
She did not notify her employers before speaking at the left-wing summit, where she briefed attendees on “getting the economic narrative right” in future elections.
I’m kind of a soft-drink aficionado. I’d rather have a Pepsi than coffee just about always. A nice female wants to go for coffee, and I’ll order something appropriate, but I’m looking at that Pepsi machine and it makes me feel like I’m cheating.
Anyway, there are a frew gourmand sodas I really like, and I really like trying new flavors. For instance, I tried this one a while back:
https://www.amazon.com/Lesters-Fixins-Bacon-Maple-Bottle/dp/B01ETRNN7Q?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01ETRNN7Q
It’s a soda that tastes bacon and maple syrup! Well, having tried it, I should say, it’s a soda that tastes like shit. I couldn’t even finish the bottle.
Last night I tried a new one from Pepsi. Pepsi’s never let me down. It’s a Pepsi that’s flavored with salted caramel. It tastes like shit.
I recently tried a gourmet black cherry that tasted like cough syrup.
I even had a gourmet cherry cola that tasted like shit.
In fact, almost all the gourmet sodas I try taste like shit. I don’t know why I even bother.
I’ve got a Jelly Belly Sour Cherry soda I’ll probably try tonight. I bet it tastes like shit.
All I Wanted Was a Pepsi
+1 institution
YES!!!
+1 How do you know MY best interests!?
I received the Jones Soda Thanksgiving pack one year. The mashed potato flavored soda almost made me throw up.
What? Why in the name of God would anyone flavor soda like mashed potatoes? More importantly, why would anyone drink it?
I think it was a charity fund raising thing the company did (not 100% sure). It had turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cranberry, and one other flavor. Maybe stuffing? I shared it with my co-workers. They were equally disgusted. The cranberry was good though.
Some of those flavors are truly nauseating. Like some of the Jelly Belly flavors.
UnCiv, you give Ken’s account back to him right now!
That’s not me. I hate Pepsi.
Just drink a Moxie it tastes like all of those flavors all at once.
You’re Getting Old
I like Stewart’s Black Cherry soda.
One thing I do is to add flavor enhancers to a regular soda. These are the kind that you normally add to water, but I add less than the usual amount to spruce up my cola. I’m currently on a cherry-blackberry kick. But you can make a lemon cola, orange cola, vanilla cola, whatever you like. The hardest part is getting the right amount of enhancer, otherwise you either don’t taste it or it’s overpowering.
Needs a really deft touch or you get the dull, disgusting effect of the aspartame/sucralose too.
I will often just get a bottle of water and add a pack of Just Juice. I prefer the lime (or grapefruit) to the orange or lemon [well, duh, OBVIOUSLY], and I can avoid the sweetener issue.
Stewart’s is quite good. If you are near PA, Frank’s Black Cherry Wishniak is, to me, the standard by which all other cherry sodas should be judged; it is amazing stuff. NE grocery chain Stop & Shop has a store brand black cherry that is nice as well. We have a Sodastream and I like to use the Knudsen’s Just Black Cherry juice (unsweetened, not from concentrate) as a adjunct… YUMMY!
You never forget those flavors you had when you grew up, and nothing new really satisfies. I loathe root beer with the fire of a million supernovae, no matter who makes it. Same with Dr. Pepper. Superficially, an observer might say that I don’t like “botanicals” (some truth to that, I dislike gin) – but one drink you can’t find easily over here is Dandelion & Burdock, – I’ve never found an American who likes it.
Another one from the old country is “Irn Bru” (Iron Brew) which is a traditional scottish/north-east English drink that actually includes ferric chloride as a flavoring – you guys who etch circuit boards would love that stuff.
On the up-side, those sodas from the old country tended to use cane- or beet- sugars for sweetening, which is infinitely better than HFCS for flavor.
I had an Irn Bru over the summer. It was among the most disgusting things I’ve ever drank.
I’ve seen the same reaction in Brits trying Moxie.
First you don’t like Oban, now you don’t like Irn Bru. Are you sure you’re not UCS?
When I was in Puerto Rico I bought some local ginger soda – it was just terrible. I thought it was going to be something like Vernor’s. Sad!
Just for Ken:
http://www.latimes.com/food/sns-dailymeal-1857464-drink-pepsi-launches-cake-flavored-christmas-cola-japan-20171110-story.html
+1 Vernors.
Goya’s flavors are all good.
I’m probably way too late for this, but Boylan’s Birch Beer is where its at. Hank’s is also delightful.
If you think the bacon soda is bad, the ranch is far worse.
Alright, who here was slacking last year?
Guilty as charged.
Been keeping up my case a week average all year. Don’t look at me.
Well, my normal consumption rate is zero, but I baked a number of loaves of beer bread, so I was above my average last year.
I neither increased nor decreased my consumption.
Are people – I know I am – just getting sick of craft beers? These days I rarely drink the stuff – mostly because of the carbs – preferring to take my alcohol out of a gin bottle.
The craft brew pubs around here , and there are many, still seem to be doing well though.
Absolutely. No pun intended (ok it was), but lately I’m loving the vodka.
I prefer Skyy to Absolut.
Agreed. Got a bottle of Stoli from the father in law for New Years. I’m enjoying it.
Have not tried that brand.
Stolichnaya? Man, I really am out of touch with the US.
staffinrun: Stoil is still all over the place, with a plethora of flavors as well. My personal choice of vodka is Tito’s. If I’m going the flavored route, I will admit to being a fan of Deep Eddy’s Ruby Red vodka (as long as you remember to shake the bottle before pouring).
It’s a case of “I go through alcohol at too slow a rate”. So I don’t go buy additional bottles of something I have in stock, and the rate of testing new brands is slow.
Figured that was an UnCiv blind spot. I’m sure this will lose me some cred, but I like it over ice with Red Bull. Makes for a wild drunk.
I don’t drink as many beers. I’ll buy a single or two when new stuff I’ve never tried comes in. They I move on to a whiskey or bourbon.
I went from many years of rather heavy drinking (New Orleans bartender) to 12 years of being an almost complete teetotaler. I started drinking again last summer; recently I’ve been going through a fifth of Bourbon every week or so and I barely feel buzzed. Last night, I drank 2 beers, Victory Golden Monkey, and Victory Winter Cheer and I was sloppy drunk and fell asleep by 8pm. Today I have a terrible hangover. WTF? Also, the Golden Monkey was delicious.
If you wanna get hammered quick, start taking antidepressants. I’ve seen what they’ve done to one of my biggest lush friends; he can’t have more than 2 or 3 before he’s a slurring, blubbering mess whereas before he could plow through double digits without batting an eye.
I drink so much beer that I have trouble ridding myself of the empties. 10-12 per day add up pretty quick!
Shit’s been expensive all year. Not a problem for me, what with that large check from the Koch Bros. coming every week, but for the common plebe, it’s an issue.
For reasons I cannot put my finger on, my beer consumption has slightly risen.
From Reason:
“Vicente Fox Quesada
✔
@VicenteFoxQue
.@realDonaldTrump, your mouth is the foulest shithole in the world. With what authority do you proclaim who’s welcome in America and who’s not. America’s greatness is built on diversity, or have you forgotten your immigrant background, Donald?
5:46 PM – Jan 11, 2018”
Oh shut up Vince.
If I were on Twitter I’d troll him: On a scale of 1-10 with one being the least how much of a shithole is Mexico?
Mexico is the biggest shithole of them all, because it borders the most successful economy in the history of mankind, with whom it has a free trade agreement, and the country still remains an abject shithole.
If you believe open borders folks, all their productive people snuck into the US…
Seriously. Talk about wasting a good spot.
We Canadians on the other hand…
Needz moar hockey and maple syrup.
I’d mention inferiority complex but it might hurt Rufus’ feelings, and mine.
Some of my brethren me feel that way but not me man.
503 error, not a squirrel. “You’ll hurt Rufus’ feelings, and mine!”
My response
Mexico is a medium shithole. If we legalized drugs so the violence got cleaned up, it might get upgraded to semi-shithole.
You wanna see a shithole, go to India. But since Indian immigrants are among the most productive and educated, it kind of flies in the face of “people from shitholes are shitty people”. BTW: I don’t think Trump meant that. Those places he mentioned are undeniably shitholes, otherwise people wouldn’t be trying to leave them in droves. Just cause you live in a shithole doesn’t mean you’re a piece of shit.
I think Mexico is too far into the Sicily direction that mere legalization would fix it now. Might tamp down some of it but look at the latest State Dept travel advisory. It’s gone way beyond drug related. The Mexican governments do not have control of their country. I don’t think think legalizing at this point would supplant the criminal organizations and criminality that has become established and ingrained. They’ll just move on to some other way to get their money flowing in.
“With what authority do you proclaim who’s welcome in America and who’s not. ”
Something, something, laws passed by Congress…
“With what authority do you proclaim who’s welcome in America and who’s not[?]”
Um…
I’ve got nothing against diversity, but this is abjectly untrue.
“And since Mexico is not very diverse, you are not great, eh?”
Yeah…on consideration, that statement doesn’t hold water. America’s greatness is built on a culture that favors individualism, self-sufficiency, and suspicion of authority. As we lose those qualities, our country becomes a crappier place.
Like Mexico.
/I keed, Vicente, I keed!
Oh hey, Vicente Fox, massively corrupt asshole who is partially responsible for his country being a shithole. Also it’s not like Mr. Fox and other Mexican politicians use the border as a release value for the angry underclasses to allow their entire scheme to keep going.
Christ what an asshole.
Not to mention the sheer proportion of their economy directly tied to repatriations from citizens living and working in the US. If the US starts to clamp down on immigration from Central America, a lot of those shitholes are going to become even shittier.
If the US starts to clamp down on immigration from Central America, a lot of those shitholes are going to become even shittier.
An excellent example of something that should not affect our immigration policy.
No argument from me on that. It just further explains the squawking from the corrupt bureaucrats running these shitholes.
Are there any firearms in this auction? Asking for a friend.
Any guns I come across are going to a FFL dealer. I don’t want the headache of paying someone to come in and do background checks for the few I’m going to come across. There are a dozen or so really old bb guns though. 3 original Red Ryders as a matter of fact. And an entire case of original daisy ammo containers.
Oh, and a WW2 bomb that didn’t go off.
Have you thought about getting an FFL?
Whole lotta hassle and potential grief in the future. The record retention requirement alone is enough to make me SMDH given that a minor infraction can get you beaucoup attention, and unless you have this knack of discovering hidden caches of Pedersons or a couple of cases of Winchester 1886’s in .50-110 Winchester, still wrapped in whatever they used before Cosmoline was invented, Sloop will probably do far better finding one or two honest FFLs.
If someone held a kukri to my head and said I’d have to get more involved in the business, I’d cultivate a relationship with a couple of gunsmiths with a variety of backgrounds. They’re in the best position to check the guns over too.
No fucking way am I getting fingerprinted and having an FBI file on me just so I can sell the odd firearm and have some dickhead suer me when something goes wrong with a person I sold a gun to. Fuck all that.
My personal jihad against Google continues.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/google-hive-of-hateful-progressivism/
Tell your friends! DESTROY.
These are the same people who compared themselves to the soldiers who landed at Normandy.
Burn it. Burn it to the ground and scatter the ashes.
I’ve stopped using Chrome in favor of Brave. Added benefit of not getting all of those ‘turn off your ad blocker’ while still having an ad blocker. I think I’ll start switch mail services. Everything on my phone I’m not sure what to do with.
I use Brave a lot, but I’m actually starting to use Opera a fair amount too, since it runs Chrome extensions, a few of which are indispensable to me.
Making Opera portable is also a lot more achievable than Chrome (or Chromium) and it’s far less of a memory hog.
I’m using Vivaldi, which is like Opera for nerds. A little buggy at times, but I’m pretty happy with it. The only thing that’s a little inconvenient is the lack of portability. I miss being able to have preferences and bookmarks follow me across computers.
I’m reassured by the fact that these things don’t because that means they’re only local, and not on someone else’s system.
Yeah, there’s that. I suspect it’s by design in Vivaldi’s case. It accepts Chrome-style plugins, so I’m sure if I really wanted to I could find a plugin to do it. For that matter it’s all written in JavaScript, so if I was really motivated I suppose I could just write the behavior into the browser.
For bookmarks, I use papaly.com, which – if you set your lists to private – seems adequate for most of my uses. My bomb-chucking and subversive shortcuts don’t get saved anywhere on the cloud. I use sync.com in a complicated setup that only syncs encrypted versions of all my profiles folder, but it works in Opera, kinda-OK in chromium.
Someone a year or so back was looking at building a chunk of code you could theoretically host yourself that replicated what the Google chrome sync service did, but I think it died off because of the complexity of the mechanism. As I noted, I just squirt all of the profiles folder for Opera up onto sync.com.
I guess you could do something like whip up a super lightweight web server on like Heroku or AWS or something that stores your bookmarks and so forth and spits them back out as JSON or something and make a plugin for whatever browser that interfaces with that. Vivaldi is all JS and HTML/CSS, with a lot of data stored as JSON, so I think it’d be reasonably easy on that platform.
Remarkably similar to what I do.
I run cryptomator as a local webdav instance, so the files on the native filesystem are encrypted. I do that across all machines I use and then I hook them ll up together on sync.com, which only sees encrypted plain files. It’s not as nice as a native bookmark/extensions sync, but it’s all mine, and all the cloud sees is encrypted files.
Why are high-waisted pants coming back for women? They didn’t look good in the 70s/80s and they don’t look good now. Damn mom jeans.
relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVxNH6iN9I
And high waisted panties. Why?!?
GI’m with you
Girl at my local bottle shop was wearing them the other day. I just couldn’t understand the reason to wear those
*High-waisted pants look good on the right female derriere; better than the sloppy low-riders that were popular for a long while. The high gives more definition to the hips and cuts down on the muffin-top effect.
* I was a teenager in the 80s so may viewpoint may be slanted.
Totally agree on both counts. There are certain girls that pull the skyscraper look off in an absolutely spectacular way. Low rise hip huggers only accentuate muffin tops and tramp stamps.
I work Summers on the beach. Last year, the big thing was horrible high-waisted mom jeans cut off into wee booty shorts (the kind where the bottoms of the pockets are protruding from the legs); this was almost universally coupled with high-heeled sandals and one of those ugly Aunt Jemima/Rosie The Riveter kerchiefs tied around their heads. A more unflattering look would be hard to dream up.
That’s why gay men are disproportionately fashion designers….
I have no idea, but it’s terrible. I work with a girl who is pretty damn cute, but she insists on wearing these terrible mom jeans. I don’t have a horse in the race because a.) I’m married, b.) she’s in a long-term relationship, and c.) she’s never shown an iota of interest in me, but I always feel like she’s doing herself an injustice by dressing like an old person.
I’m not going to knock things people think are comfortable. My certifiable current Step grandmother (wife 8 out of 7 women for Grandpa, is 82 now, but looks like she’s no older than 65) likes mom jeans because they are comfortable and she retired in the 80s from her job, so that’s the fashion she knows.
I mean, there are days I don’t put on pants. I get it. I’m just sayin’, while you’ve got it to flaunt, you may as well flaunt it.
When I turned 12 in 1976 I thought that high-waisted jeans looked GREAT on women.
I think it’s a case of vintage styles coming back. You will see those in pin ups from the 40s and 50s, and a lot of women like that style.
To be fair, I’ve gotten some funny looks for wearing this on the subway. 230 A.D. REPRESENT, YA HEARD!
Delays are that bad?
Bullet bras FTW
https://static.abikiniaday.com/uploads/2016/03/TASHANDDEVIN_LR-12.jpeg
https://static.abikiniaday.com/uploads/2014/06/IMG_9422-1024×682.jpg
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The female body is so incredibly beautiful. Why do some women ruin their own by getting tattoos?
They think it makes them look edgy and cool.
This.
They think it’s still the 1950s and that they’re really ruffling some feathers by getting inked up.
Tattooing officially lost what badass status it once had when suburban housewives started getting their kids’ names inked onto their calves.
The only benevolent thing to do is give shithole despots big handouts to continue kicking the shit out of their peoples. That’s compassion.
Well said.
She what you did there? “Shithole despots”. Have you ever insulted a person by calling them just “shithole”?
Maybe not, but I could see calling someone “lord of the shithole,” which is what a shithole despot is.
You can’t call brown people “Lords of the shithole”. Shit is brown and holes are…. I don’t care. Sounds racist.
Easy, dude. The United Nations could sue you for IP infringement.
Related to the song that just came up on my playlist:
What dark secret is the guy from the Toadies showing her behind the boathouse? It’s really big? It’s really small? He doesn’t have one? He has two? I’ve been wondering this since the 90s.
His lobster stunner?
An icebox? Or a hammer?
I think killing her was the secret.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/11/university-president-resigns-under-pressure-for-not-firing-prof-cleared-by-three-investigations/
De-fund all colleges
Good for the professor. But you can’t tell me the president didn’t have a hand in soft-peddling shit like this:
He likely made his bed trying to succor to these overwrought ninnies.
Don’t get in the way of their
righteousangerConsidering that 5 out of 4 women are raped on campus, it’s really the humanitarian thing to do.
“To protesters, Seligman’s resignation was confirmation that they were right nonetheless. Richard Aslin, one of the Jaeger complainants, said “I would have to say that President Seligman’s resignation is some vindication that what we were doing is right.”
No, it’s an indication that what you are doing is evil.
“He quit his million-plus dollar job because he was sick of dealing with incontinent toddlers” isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of your position, Rich.
Last year, the big thing was horrible high-waisted mom jeans cut off into wee booty shorts (the kind where the bottoms of the pockets are protruding from the legs); this was almost universally coupled with high-heeled sandals and one of those ugly Aunt Jemima/Rosie The Riveter kerchiefs tied around their heads. A more unflattering look would be hard to dream up.
They’re trying to deflect your male gaze.
Depends on the girl wearing it, n’est pas?
i love this video so much. it’s a bit dated now but damn it’s powerful strong schadenfreude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnTnpN2H34A
It’s also pathetic.
Had we elected a known criminal corruptocrat to the office, would the conservative media have devolved into toddler tantrums, complete with crying and expletive ridden tirades for MONTHS?
Yep. I watch that one when I’m feelin’ low.
WTF. USA picks a 33 year old as Olympic goalie?
The starter is 31 and I’ve never heard of him. We have no young goalies with Olympic talent?
Not having the NHL players is creating a quandary. I would think that Russia out of it would ,ake the coaches braver about bringing youngsters over. I think the assumption is that the competition is going to be loaded with Euro and Canadian pro league players. Bigger, older, tougher.
The Canadian team is a mish-mash of former NHLers, players from the KHL and a few from the Spengler Cup team that won. Even Wolski made the team. The Polish-born player who broke his neck. Now how’s that for a story!
It’s actually a nice team built on speed and puck possession and will be a favourite.
Especially since Olympic hockey is played on a real rink, instead of the little ice patch the NHL uses. You actually have to skate and pass instead of just bottling up the middle and waiting for somebody to make a mistake.
even the starter Zapolski is 31. why is Gionta on the roster?
http://teamusa.usahockey.com/page/show/3858372-2018-olympic-winter-games-u-s-men-s-roster
roster is weird. it’s like the GM just took one kid from each region and representative group… you have 4 college players: one each from Ivy League, Colorado, Minnesota, and Boston
All big kids, too. Greenway is a beast.
His interview has been in rotation on NPR here for the past few weeks. All I can say is that this couldn’t have happened to a nicer, more totally woke guy.
So this afternoon I’ll have to put the heat gun on… the place where I pump gas. What could go wrong?
Try warm water, first.
Or if you have screen/lock deicer, use that.
Note that not all deicers are the same. If you can get a can that contains ether, that’ll work down to about -20. And you can huff it once your work is done.
Failing that, isopropyl alcohol. You can use rubbing alcohol, but anyhdrous works better. WD50 isn’t great, but it’s better than hot water.
I have to wonder what Botswanans think of Zimbabwe. Is it something nuanced and empathetic, like “Their people suffer and their leadership has sometimes blundered, but ultimately we Africans are brothers and sisters and we welcome them here with open arms.” Or is it, “Christ, what a shithole.”
No. They just take a file to their collective teeth and sharpen away.
I live in Michigan and could look south – Detroit, what a shithole; west – Flint, what a shithole; and north – Saginaw, what a shithole. People are flipping out because he says what they’re thinking but afraid to say.
Yeah, we have to occasionally drive through Detroit to visit my wife’s cousin in Canada. It really is the worst shithole I’ve personally seen. We were detoured on to 8 Mile once and I had to stop an take a dump. I’d never seen bulletproof glass at a McDonald’s before that.
I live in a centrally located city that draws the riff-raff like flies to shit. I have been to the surrounding burgs and yes, yes they are shit-holes because the people that live there have no pride. They built a huge jail and associated industries right in the center of our town and then they moan about the “criminal element”, the “homeless”, the “bereft”. I know what happens when I forget to fill the bird feeders, they find another soft touch up the street.
A few years ago my boss at the time and I were driving to an AIAG conference at Cobo Hall in Detroit. He’s pretty familiar with the area so he was at the wheel. He ended up taking the wrong exit and found ourselves in the uh, not so nice part of town. There was a mob of people just hanging out in this field next to a dilapidated building, watching us as we drove by. We were two white guys in a white rental Durango; standing out from the crowd, eh?
The last time I went to Detroit – to see IAMX play – my wife and I stayed downtown near the Greektown Casino. My comment was: “And let’s not come back here again.”
On second thought, let’s not go to Detroit. ‘Tis a shithole.
I’ve considered getting together with some friends and buying one of those Detroit houses for $1 and then going and demolishing it by hand to extract valuable stuff from the debris. Might be able to get some high-flow toilets out of the deal.
IIRC the city is still trying to ensure that back-taxes on the property are paid. So, maybe $1.12.
Would it be at all feasible for a libertarian collective to purchase the whole city (or sizable portion) and turn it into some sort of Special Autonomous Zone or would the current corruptocrat power structure (the one that spent the better part of a century turning the marvel of the free world into what it is today) insist upon keeping its beak wet?
The second one.
Ask any Costa Rican what they think of Nicaragua.
“Nicos” sounds and awful lot like a certain other derogatory word for a group of people the way many of the Ticos I knew said it.
The sheriff is a Nico?
I thought this was Nico
“Would” if I ever went back in time and somehow befriended Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground
(I already kinda know from what I’ve heard about Botswana and its relatively liberal economy: there’s *gasp* a border fence there for reason, and it’s not because so many Botswanans want at that sweet, sweet Mugabe lovin’.)
I feel like Romania’s prime minister needs a Twitter account.
Bella Throne sounds like most other 20 year old girls. Very self-absorbed. I could see where it you’re actually affected you might shake your head at her tweet, but didn’t seem worth the moral condemnation. But then that never seems to stop anyone. Also would.
It’s a shame. Disney kept a pretty tight rein on her until she was 18 and once she had the ability to do so, she just turned herself into that mess. I would at 18+1 day. By 18+30 days, not so sure. It’s not specifically the ink and piercings, but they’re a contributing factor.
I don’t know whether Disney are heavy-handed about their control over their kid stars, and there’s probably some selection bias (you don’t hear of the ones who turn out OK) but it certainly seems as though the default behavior when they finally get released from the contract is to go nuts and get on the narcissist train. Maybe that’s just an inescapable result of being so feted at a young age.
She’s alright, but she doesn’t really do anything for me. It seems like the young starlets these days all just kinda look like 20-something sorostitutes.
You say that like it’s some kinda disqualifier.
I mean, of course I would. For me, “would” starts at like 6.5/10. I’m just sayin’ I wouldn’t go out of my way.
Well, isn’t #metoo about how many of them actually are prostitutes?
Of course they need to get something out of it. To just give it away would be immoral.
Stable people don’t get into show business.
Well, that’s an issue of course. Who puts their kids in show business?
Unstable people. Who have probably produced an unstable offspring. Whose issues will be further compounded by the industry.
From research, that’s basically Thorne’s problem.
All I can determine from Wikipedia pictures and google image search is that she was way hotter when she was 15 than 20.
Bad week turned good when they told me they’re officially taking the training wheels off at work.
“The bigoted world view that Bannon pushed remains at the WH. White supremacists still have the ear of Trump and are shaping national policy through their hate-filled lenses. Yes, that means Stephen Miller who must be removed.”
https://twitter.com/TeamPelosi/status/950055955370315776
Pelosi will soon find that she can no longer keep the reins on the woke crusade she helped create. She’s already gotten a taste of that, and they’ve already gotten a taste of her.
Brain-damaged. Reminds me of my aged Mom when she had a couple in her and tried on “The Gravitas”. Lipstick on, hair just right, dressed to the nines and then null.
It’s going to be extremely satisfying when she’s leaves behind a legacy of loathsome moderation to her political inheritors, who will hate her more than even conservatives, for whom she’ll always be a source of wry contempt. I just hope she makes it to her deathbed with enough of her faculties to understand what a skidmark her career amounted to.
I suppose that might be a silver lining for sanity: the Democrat establishment is aging out and progressives are striving hard to purge the ranks. That makes for a class of political ingenues drawn from the least credible or congenial bunch of social activists, the up-and-coming campus Marxist who are, above all, cannibals.
So, quite the opposite of this kind of cannibal.
Oh, goddammit.
Ucky, Yicky Donald! I wish he would just die?
Speaking of government agencies who exceed their authority, the TSA are doing retarded-ass shit again.
Don’t tell them about the TT pose craze!
They could be “Faith Hilling”. https://youtu.be/a8oM0xiXzU0
“Higher Education Is Drowning in BS
And it’s mortally corrosive to society”
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Higher-Education-Is-Drowning/242195
Wow, I can’t believe the CHE actually published that. I would think saying things like that would get you metaphorically stoned by the academic cartel.
Do web developers really think their content-occluding popup ads advertising their content makes any difference other than delaying seeing their content by half a second?
Wait, do people actually subscribe to those ads?
“Fragmentversities,” eugh. Doesn’t really roll off the tongue. What about “disuniversities”?
How bout “Worthless black holes of taxpayer money that serve no purpose in contemporary society and must either evolve or go extinct”. Then again, that doesn’t really roll off the tongue either.
Howsabout “adult daycare”?
This is an eggplant:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/25772/watch-cnn-writes-trump-shole-live-tv-ryan-saavedra
The media is going to scream and bitch and moan and sputter about the “shithole” thing til they turn blue in the face and not one second of their hysterics is going to change anything. Two days from now he’ll tweet something stupid and they’ll bite off on that like a magpie chasing a piece of gold foil and everyone will forget about the shithole thing and DACA still probably won’t get the force of law behind it.
This has happened a dozen-plus times before, and they fall for it every time.
I notice none of them are scrambling to the airports to escape our fascist country in favor of one of those third-world paradises.
It’s like Lucy pulling the football away, but Charlie Brown (Trump) kicking her in the face every time.
Deep and profound. I bow before your wit with an extravagant hand-twirling motion. Hell I’d curtsy if I were a split-tail! That was epic!
No, this was a tactic by Durbin to try to force the president’s hand to accept DACA without any limitations. I think it’s more offensive that a Senator would leak what the president said in private negotiations. He should refuse to accept Durbin as a negotiator.
No, this was a tactic by Durbin to try to force the president’s hand to accept DACA without any limitations.
Ah, good point. We’ll see how that works out for him.
Yeah, if I was Trump I would make Durbin a persona non grata in meetings with White House staff.
I predict that this will cost him exactly zero votes in 2020.
They keep thinking that THIS TIME he’s gone TOO FAR and every single person in the country will turn on him. Plus it’s so outrageous it’s probably illegal! So impeachment time!
Yes. It’s as someone pointed out (maybe Federalist Radio Hour?) that the media are like cats and Trump’s Twitter feed is a laser pointer. They just can’t help themselves.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTWKV3FUQAUWgSf.jpg:large
We kill people from ‘shit hole’ countries on a daily basis, but if you actually call these countries ‘shit holes’ (even after we have bombed them into the stone age) you are literally worse than ‘Hitler’. I don’t know, I thought Hitler was bad because he started wars and killed people and not because he used foul language. Maybe, the criticism on the President should be focused on his actions overseas, rather than his bad words.
Maybe, the criticism on the President should be focused on his actions overseas, rather than his bad words.
The observation that Trump’s enemies take him literally, but not seriously, while his supporters take him seriously, but not literally continues to be spot-on.
truly the most apt thing ever said about him, as it hits the nail on the head so squarely
Are you crazy? Can you imagine judging Obama for the results of his actions rather than his words?
You wouldn’t expect a long-term coma patient to gambol like a newborn gazelle after waling up. Journalists spent eight years ignoring foreign policy and wanking over the president’s every word. Their legs are atrophied. It will take some major PT before they’re ready to engage substantively again.
SPOILER: There is much to criticize about the president’s foreign policy, because it is the same damn foreign policy as the past four presidents (with some nominal changes)
But, no, we need to focus on ‘words’ instead
Let it not be forgotten either that Obama was the King of the Drone Strike.
“Katie Roiphe, Moira Donegan, and What We Can Learn From Twitter Mob Mentality
For one, writers attacking writers is not a good look.
The “Shitty Media Men” list that came into a short-lived existence during the Harvey Weinstein awakening enjoyed a second life of sorts Tuesday and Wednesday, in the form of a viral controversy about its creator and a pending magazine story about the #MeToo movement. The result is that we now know the creator of the list—journalist Moira Donegan wrote a piece for The Cut Wednesday night identifying herself—but the whole controversy creates as many questions as it answers.
On Tuesday, N+1 editor Dayna Tortorici tweeted that a magazine writer was about to reveal who’d begun the list—a shared Google Doc of reputedly predatory, or at least creepy, male writers and editors, most of whom are based in New York, and several of whom have been fired since their names appeared on the unpublished and unvetted and unsigned, but very powerful, list. The rumor was rabidly retweeted, and, in the wake of speculation (and later confirmation) that the writer in question was contrarian feminist Katie Roiphe and the publication Harper’s, a campaign began to pay journalists to pull their stories from the prestigious print publication.
Roiphe is known for her inconveniently clear-eyed takedown of campus sex panic, almost a quarter century ago. As someone attuned to the flaws in its logic, she’s the digital-age feminist revival’s perfect enemy. And for Nicole Cliffe, founder and editor of the erstwhile humor blog The Toast, Roiphe’s rumored outing of the list-maker meant an opportunity for flashy, viral, high-ticket internet activism”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/article/2011104/#!
They’re going to go after Roiphe with all guns blazing now.
https://youtu.be/yI2oS2hoL0k
In an article filled with massive amounts of cognitive dissonance, this line stuck out more than the others:
Protecting oneself by lobbing anonymous accusations of criminal behavior at various men with no supporting facts required. What a load of shit.
The aim of Socialism was to enable Top Men to rise to the forefront and the aim of Gender Studies was to enable Top Women to usurp the role of Top Men. Have you ever watched a flock of chickens?
“Roiphe denied that she was planning on outing the list’s author to The New York Times. But last night, Moira Donegan outed herself as the list’s real author. In a piece for New York Magazine’s The Cut, Donegan said that she’d been contacted by a fact-checker from Harper’s who said she’d been identified in the article as the likely original author of the list, and did she have a comment?”
That’s hearsay twice over.
The shithole freakout doesn’t work because the majority of people look at somewhere like Haiti and go ‘well, he ain’t wrong’. Media should have just stuck with the ‘Trump is mentally ill’ narrative which actually has some traction (admittedly reduced now that the APA is getting its shit together).
the majority of people look at somewhere like Haiti and go ‘well, he ain’t wrong’
This is true of many of the supposedly outrageous and offensive things that Trump says.
Exactly right, again. There’s a good post today on this blog about the whole debacle:
That’s it exactly. The cast of Morning Joe might be mightily offended, but most Americans (and shit, I’ll bet most people in the developed world) will agree with the sentiment even if they take issue with the phrasing.
I went to Antigua once with my wife. As we took a taxi through a sketchy part of town she asked if the whole place was a shithole. I laughed at the sheltered life she’s lead and explain this was pretty damn nice for the third world.
You wouldn’t expect a long-term coma patient to gambol like a newborn gazelle after waking up.
I fucking hate service inside this building.
They might not gambol. but they still BULLY!
The shithole freakout doesn’t work because the majority of people look at somewhere like Haiti and go ‘well, he ain’t wrong’.
Exactly. You can refer to your outhouse as a “detached auxiliary sanitation module” but it still smells like shit when you open the door.
Also- I find it especially entertaining that Trump apparently picked on Haiti by name, because the Clinton Foundation apologists have blabbered so ecstatically about the great good work done there by Billary’s well
meaningpaid minionsThat would be a nice pivot.
“Look, I know these places need a lot of help, and Americans can help them by giving to charities that do good work there. Why, even the Clintons recognize that charitable help for places like Haiti what they need. They spent $X million dollars there, and built, well, its hard to say. But they sure spent a lot to help Haiti!” Now, how do his enemies respond to that without either (a) denigrating American charity, (b) criticizing the Clintons, or (c) admitting that Haiti is, in fact, such a shithole that sending money there is like pissing on sand.
They say they spent bigly. The results are sad.
Seems to be a pattern with the Clintons – spend bigly and get no results.
Spending bigly does buy you a lot of sycophants though.
Oh, they got exactly the results they wanted – cronies were enriched.
I don’t know about that, Chelsea’s wedding was pretty nice.
I’m waiting for the French to weigh in on the Haiti shithole comment, given that the main historical reason it is a shithole is because of them.
What, other than cuisine, have the french touched that wasn’t turned to shit?
I had not realized that Trump (via Twitter, natch) has denied saying the Bad Word “shithole”.
I don’t seem to be picking that up in the toing and froing over his comments.
The amazing thing is Trump, as flawed as he is, makes more of an attempt at transparency than his predecessor who had the exact same tools at his disposal.
Any of y’all charge your phone wirelessly? The charging port on my S7 is getting extremely testy–I have to position the micro-USB at a certain slight angle, push it in until the phone recognizes it, then hope it doesn’t spring back out as I’m letting go. And God forbid I touch the arrangement afterward, even jostling it enough to unlock the phone or scroll through webpages is enough to break the connection.
Yes, wifey’s Note 5 lost function to the USB port so we picked up a couple of inexpensive wireless thingies from Amazon. Very happy with them; they enable ‘fast charging’ and they work through our thin aftermarket cases.
That’s good to know re: fast charging. I suppose I’d be more responsible keeping it topped off if it weren’t such a PITA to hook up, but it would be difficult to live without fast charging.
Your comment reads as if your orphans aren’t the ones charging your phone. That can’t be right.
This is what we have, works a treat.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0143GESZO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Awesome. *ordered* Thanks!
My normally staid CBC actually used “Shithole” in its radio broadcasts and kneaded some bread about five Trump associates up on charges for colluding with the Russians. This is where we are. You’re not dreaming. This is 2018.
So did NPR after profuse trigger warnings, it was great.
OMG worst ever
But, in addition to the reports from multiple news outlets about the language used by the president, Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin confirmed the president’s remarks.
“The president erupted several times with questions, and in the course of his comments, said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist,” the senator told reporters. “I use those words advisably. I understand how powerful they are. But I cannot believe that in the history of the White House and in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday.
History is a black hole. Every single Presidential utterance is the absolute worst imaginable thing ever.
This goes along with reports that every Republican candidate for the past few decades has been literally Hitler.
Amateurs. You should have lived through the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth when Reagan was Prez. Back then we walked to school up hill both ways and waited for the siren song.
What a crock.
That’s from Rolling Stone by the way. Hardly a hotbed of social conservatism.
But I cannot believe that in the history of the White House and in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday.
Oh, c’mon. LBJ actually held meetings while he was taking a shit. The Nixon tapes were packed with redacted profanity. Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb on a live mike after OCare passed. And those are just what comes to mind as actually verified.
A quick Google turned up this article, as well:
A Brief History of Presidential Profanity
He can’t believe that someone once uttered “I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years.” in the Oval Office?
‘cos I’d call that pretty hate-filled, vile and racist.
I think LBJ probably wins for coarsest presidential language.
He’s also top 5 biggest presidential pieces of shit.
Shame that we have no Jackson Tapes. “Deadwoodian” I’d venture.
+ 1 haughty motherfucking cunt
+1 cocksucka
Not to mention that Woodrow Wilson screened “Birth of a Nation” in the White House and was quite happy with the content.
Streisand Effect anyone?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/facebook-bans-bestselling-author-ad-scandalous-presidency-barack-obama/
I remember a time when “statistics are racist” was considered satire. We were so innocent.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10365
Nothing surprises me anymore, I’m just jaded to shit like this.
Shit hole countries ranked:
10. Russia
9. China
8. France
7. Turkey
6. Cuba
5. Iran
4. Saudi Arabia
3. Venezuela
2. North Korea
1. Canada
Zimbabwe got kicked off the top ten shitholes?
This list is definitive. I guess Zimbabwe was eleven or something. This is all based on science
And here I was thinking it was the Rest of World Division and Africa got a league all its own.
No Iraq? I’ve driven through a literal shitole there.
No Luxembourg? I haz sadz.
Where’s Britain on that list?
I’m outraged!
You’re just jealous cause our dicks are bigger.
Hey man, I’m just reporting what science says
At least you got number one right.
Russia number 10? I thought we were all pro-Putin shills here.
Only according to people that are totally libertarian and everything, but definitely want to start a war with Russia because they’re not ‘woke’ or something made-up that you totally need to be in order to be a libertarian this week or something
Well, at least Canada is finally #1 at something.
I’m a little surprised that France isn’t ranked higher. But you can’t argue with science
Calling Haiti a shithole (which it clearly is) apparently makes you a “terrorist sympathizer”.
https://news.grabien.com/story-media-meltdown-over-trumps-s-word-nazi-evil-kkk-terrorist-sy
A Haitian family friend of ours even refers to Haiti as a shit hole. When her mother and brother passed away, she vowed that she would never go back there even though she had the means to live (relatively) well over there because of her family’s (relative) wealth.
It used to be said that the standard of living in your average American public housing complex would be considered about middle class in most of Ireland. People on welfare in the US have a quality of life so high that people from places like El Salvador will risk their lives over and over again to get a piece of it. Put another way, the US is a magnet for people from shitholes, such that I’d imagine there’s a lot of overlap between the list of the world’s shittiest countries and the countries of origin of most immigrants to the US.
When I visited my cousins in Kerry in the early 1980’s they still had an outhouse for their toilet and took baths by heating water on the peat stove and pouring in over them in a large metal wash bin. It was fun as a kid (1 bath a month!) but imagine taking a shit in the freezing sleet in December.
I can’t be said enough; just because a place is a shithole doesn’t mean that everyone who lives there is shitty. Some countries are objectively shitholes.
Like Canada.
Ugh. Gotta drive from here to Rochester this afternoon. Only 350 miles in mixed sleet/snow .
Safe travels. White knucklin’ is no fun.
Screw it. Just quit your job and go drinking.
That is really irresponsible advice. The best thing is to drink first so the drive is warm and calm.
It’s not work. It’s taking 3 kids up to a regional Volleyball Tournament. For 2 of them it’s somewhat important because they might have D1 scholarships riding on this.
It’ll be fine. Just slow going.
Oh. Fine. Dump the family and go drinking.
Not a bad idea. Can you line up some FLBP company?
Best I could do on short notice.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/girls-with-flbp-49.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=500
I’d settle for one of those. Well, both really.
Signing up for classes rather late, but most are half to three-quarters empty. I don’t know what to make of that. On the one hand I’ve spoken to someone in the industry who assured me it’s a hireable associate’s program. OTOH, well, it doesn’t seem especially inspiring.
Sounds like you found the eclectic pile of crap I’d love to paw through and buy.
What may be the most perfect thing about the main page pic for this post is that the “what a shithole” sign appears to be placed on Djibouti.
about 50 neon beer signs
10kv @ 20ma, connected in parallel, that’s a whole amp of HV. Just need to find a power pole nobody will notice you hooking up to, then it’s tesla time!