RECEIVE THE LECTURE
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. FRIEND STEVE SMITH IS TAKING NIGHT OFF, THUS ZARDOZ WILL GIVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE LINK. ZARDOZ REMINDS HIS CHOSEN ONES OF A FEW THINGS FIRST;
- YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY, TO SNARK AT THE BRUTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION,
- THE PENIS IS EVIL! THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME BACKSLIDING ON THIS, WITH LINKS TO “FLBP” AND “THICC” AND SUCH. ZARDOZ WARNS THAT OBSERVING SUCH, MAY CAUSE PENIC ERECTION. BETTER THAT YOU BE CAREFUL, AND GO FORTH AND COMMENT.
- THE GUN IS GOOD. HERE, ZARDOZ IS PLEASED (ESPECIALLY WITH HIS CHOSEN ONE, VHYRUS) WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND DEDICATION MANY OF HIS CHOSEN ONES SHOW TO THE GUN!
NOW, RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE LINK!
- NOT MUCH OF A “CLASH” IF THERE IS NO USE OF THE GUN. ZARDOZ WONDERS IF THERE WILL BE ACCUSATIONS OF RUSSIAN BOTS OR MEDDLING THERE?
- ZARDOZ WAS HOPING FOR MORE CLEANSING. APPARENTLY THE ESCAPEES WERE NOT DANGEROUS ENOUGH. NO WORD WAS SENT TO ZARDOZ OR THE TABERNACLE IF ANY OF THEM WERE NOTED COMMENTERS FROM OTHER SITES.
- ZARDOZ BELIEVES THIS WILL BE DONE IN THE USUAL EU MANNER – CLUMSILY, HEAVY HANDED, AND WITH A REGRETTABLE LACK OF CLEANSING.
- FOOLISH BRUTAL IS CAUGHT. IF ZARDOZ FINDS OUT THAT ANY OF THE ITEMS HE HAD WERE STOLEN FROM THE VORTEX…HE WILL BE CLEANSED.
GO FORTH AND COMMENT! ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
*Glib Brutal bows and scrapes into room*
“Oh, mighty ZARDOZ, might we put a link in to show the new Hat n’ Hair merch?”
*flees in terror*
-pro-russian-liberal-clash-czech-presidential-showdown-
Westsidestory 2 The homo years?
And first mammal bitches!
First Mammal Bitches sounds like a porn only SF would love.
And yet no GIF of a giant head vomiting rifles.
Obligatory
https://youtu.be/bJ9r8LMU9bQ
Heh. That’s a band I used to pretend to like so I’d get laid by “edgy” chicks. *sobs* So old. So old…
Those baboons will wish they had stayed at the zoo once they start getting raped.
Why do you think, as mighty ZARDOZ put it,
FRIEND STEVE SMITH IS TAKING NIGHT OFF?
He’ll have competition in Paris
Given the recent discussion on precious metals, I think this might be worthwhile read.
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/crime–law/owner-austin-vanished-cache-gold-and-silver-charged-with-fraud/EoNkMNhv3ypOJrBqBADh1O/
Since I’ve been listening to the When Diplomacy Fails podcast on Thirty Years War, I’m expecting a defenestration and a subsequent invasion.
pro-Russian vs pro-European
Good luck with that Czechs
It’s all fine as long as neither is pro-Czech.
They’re all deplorables anyways
Known for his pro-Chinese and anti-Muslim stance, Zeman took pole position in a field of nine candidates in the January 12-13 first round
Finish him, Drahos!
We’re about to get on the BART train to San Francisco, so I’m reposting this from the dead gun thread, in case any of you Bay Area Glibs might be going into the event tonight. Sorry to duplicate everyone who’s already seen this!
Anyone going to the Scott Adams and Nick Gillespie interview/cocktail event in San Francisco this evening? Mrs. Anacreon and I will be there, please introduce yourself. Look for the dork who’s there with the attractive strawberry blonde. Not sure if there will be many other women there, so we may be easy to spot.
Look for the dork who’s there with the attractive strawberry blonde.
So you’re Jack Carson?
Funny, my wife was going to wear that exact same flowered hat.
As long as you’re not as unctuous as Carson’s character. (Or his character in Mildred Pierce, where Carson is even better.)
No no no, he’s Sammy Davis Jr.
Can you lovingly massage The Jacket for me.
That ought to be fun. See if Nick gets as triggered as Sam Harris was in his talk with Adams. If you haven’t heard it, Sam went full TDS.
Drink early, drink often.
Oohh…that would be fun to see. Any link to the event? My google-foo isn’t producing anything. I’m a quick BART ride away from SF.
I was in Oakland on Wednesday. Can you ask them to reschedule to last Wednesday? Thanks in advance.
Were you able to sample the new artisanal, non-GMO crack there?
I run in the wrong circles. I got high on airport food.
“risks poised by cryptocurrencies”
Risks to their inflationary policies?
Point for discussion: Are you rooting for Halep or Wozniacki?
I’m mourning Simona Halep’s breast reduction.
I don’t think she would have gotten to #1 without the breast reduction.
I was very willing to provide necessary support and assistance.
WTF are you talking about?
The Australian Open final, overnight tonight. Neither player has won a Slam before (each has been a beaten finalist twice), and the winner will have the #1 ranking when the next ranking list comes out on Monday.
Halep saved three match points in the third round and two more in the semis against Kerber.
Gay
OMG. If the rest of the thread is this boring I’m not gonna read it. Thankfully, the little arrow thingy is back.
You missed a tremendous final.
No real preference, and I’m not staying up til 5am to find out the answer.
Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t they play for the other team?
So do I. Therefore I have no preference in the area I think you’re getting at either.
My remark was too oblique. There’s a reason Ted will stay up all night but you won’t.
Ha. Well, from my limited recall I think Wozniacki might have the edge in the superficial heterosexual man’s department.
I’ve got no idea. The only time I see women’s tennis is when my wife turns it on and I excuse myself tomlook in on my fellow Glibs.
Maybe after Halep’s breast reduction.
But I watch because I like tennis, not because I’m looking for a reason to masturbate. Remember that I was complimenting Suárez Navarro’s backhand last weekend.
Actually, I set up the DVR and got up at 4:30 to watch it on a bit of delay. I put in an extra half hour of padding and it still wasn’t enough.
Meh. You could have gotten up early and the match would still have been going on.
How the hell did Wozniacki get back up to 2nd in the rankings? I feel like the last time I looked she was slumming it in the teens.
She won the YEC and was the beaten finalist in a bunch of other tournaments.
Pretty much everybody else has had one big result and a lot of crappy results.
Makes sense. I remember when she was 1st, years ago – that was never going to last, she just didn’t have the weapons – but she was a little too good to have slipped as far as she did.
Betting on the WTA must really suck these days… no predictability at all.
I always figured the Super Bowl would be decided by the players, the coaches and the refs. Immersed as I am in hype, I’m told that the outcome can be influenced by drinking green beer, boycotting cheese steaks and Philadelphia Cream Cheese or Sam Adams beer. Fans are apparently so worried about their teams’ chances that they resort to all sorts of superstition such as putting green dye in their hair or draping a Patriots jersey on the Paul Revere statue. God, another week of nonsense, mayors making inane bets with each other, and fans blowing the next two mortgage payments to fly to an icebox and act like idiots. Enuff said. FLY EAGLES FLY.
Hurling batteries at Santa Claus brings nine years of good luck.
Man up!
https://youtu.be/h2mthsJZefk
Paris zoo is evacuated after 52 baboons escape their enclosure
Oh goody, a link to Stormfront.
You devious bastard. Reading that made me shoot beer up my nose.
Just passed a TV with CNN on. I know CNN is so busy they can’t possibly report even ten seconds on all the new facts about the FBI and Loretta Lynch’s abuses, but thankfully they had enough time to plaster on their screen “Nikki Haley denies reports of affair with Trump”.
Good grief, they wouldn’t even report about Monica Lewinsky until the stained dress cum proved to be Clinton’s, but they’ll immediately put some crazy rumor out there about Trump. Oh my my.
Insinuated by Wolff who couldn’t look the part of a lying, sniveling, little weasel any more if he tried.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/26/national-unity-last-everyone-thinks-michael-wolffs-sleaze-nikki-haley-rumor/
Just when I thought that Trump’s stock couldn’t go any higher.
It is pretty alpha.
I’m still pretty young, but…. It would be an honor.
The very second I heard of it, I knew it was bullshit. If there is one thing we know about Trump, it is that he has a very specific “type”: Tall, Blonde, Gigantic Tits. Nikki is none* of those things.
*Maybe just one, I can’t tell if she’s really tall or if her husband is really short.
Internet says she’s 5’6″, not very tall, but 2 inches taller than the average woman.
So, survey says….her husband is really short.
International regulators are looking at the risks poised by cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and will work on their response at their next G20 meeting in March, a European Central Bank director said on Friday.
ZARDOZ’s prediction of “clumsy and heavy-handed” will be generous.
Maybe its the translation from french, but the story about the Czech candidates reads like … i don’t know, like its trying too hard to not be obviously in the bag for the ‘moderate, liberal’ Pro-EU candidate.
I dislike Russia as much as the next guy (more, perhaps) but the more the left tries demonizing them, the more suspicious i get that its just being used as a thing to distract people from the utter-shitshow that is the EU
I mean – what i’m saying is, even if this old Czech commie is in fact a proto fascist scumbag totalitarian who is rising to popularity on the backs of “uneducated, rural voters” (which he very well may be)… it seems to me that the problem being swept under the rug is that *no one likes the EU* and that people are latching onto (much like Trump) whomever/whatever is willing to say “Fuck that, and fuck them”
Basically, i suspect the ‘far right wing’ in Europe only exists and is at all popular because the ‘sane, moderate’ liberals of Europe have basically driven their collective union into the proverbial ditch, and totally lost the plot in their desperate need to pander to the far-left who sees ‘racism’ behind any and all failure to embrace hordes or muslim immigrants.
i mean, you have to admit the whole ‘hatred of immigrants’ thing is operating on a completely symbolic-level when the 2 candidates are fighting about ‘quotas’ that are laughably tiny. Its sort of like how you’ll find anti-immigrant “build the wall!” sentiment highest in states/communities which get nearly 0 illegal immigrants, and who are hundreds of miles from any border.
12 is bigger than 11.
Does this go up to 12?
The immigrant thing is not symbolic.
First question is, who decides who gets into Czech Republic – their government, or the EU Commission?
After that, it leads right into – which other aspects of national sovereignty that are currently held by the Czech Republic get transferred to EU Commission, and does the will of Czech voters have anything with it?
And finally, while the number is small, it’s well understood by both sides that this is the first tranche. The number will go up every time they say ‘yes’. Will of Czechs or migrants don’t matter – Merkel wants to spread the misery and spread it she will.
they voted to join the EU in 2004. since then they’ve been in a sort of quasi-integration because they still haven’t adopted the Euro. they’ve been talking about leaving the EU since 2010 or so
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-outs_in_the_European_Union#Proposed_Czech_opt-out
so yeah, i think talking about a few thousand migrants is mostly symbolic. they knew what terms of EU integration mean, but i think focusing on this one aspect is just a proxy for the larger euroskepticism
Isn’t the Czech Republic one of the few EU countries actually showing YOY GDP growth.
Gilmore, I saw that you dug my Roal Blood recommendation. I also saw the jazz piano discussions around the same time.
Here is the Jazzy alter ego of my favorite hard rock band. The Bakerton group
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt6TN-8Qnyk
i like. anything meters/funkadelic-flavored will usually get thumbs up from me. (as long as they don’t wear frilly shirts and get too-jamiroqoi ‘peace love stop global warming’ type shit)
They are grubby genX former punkers who like all kinds of music.
Their day band is Clutch from Baltimore. They have a deep catalog. Here is a new one
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cmbmwFAl8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8cmbmwFAl8
As far as I’m concerned, Prince could have worn any goddamn thing he wanted.
True dat
conceded.
Pretend I posted a link to Sienfield’s “but I don’t wanna be a pirate”
You don’t have to be too flirty, HM; he knew how to undress himself.
You know who else didn’t have much respect for Czech sovereignty?
Ivan Lendl?
Frank Abagnale?
Seriously…no love for this??
Bravo, straff.
what were the questions you had for me the other night?
Oh!… Well, I don’t know that I had any specific questions, per se. More of a, “If you’re still up, and had work stuff you’d like to talk about, I’d definitely read, and could probably understand some of it” thing.
Are there examples of your work online?
Well, there are examples of my work online, but I don’t want to out myself too much. If you look for my article on fan edits (I believe it’s on the third page of the site now, ‘The Myth and The Mouse’ you can see some of work as fan edits.) But, as of now, I got a full day of work in the mornin, I’ll try to catch you another night,
Sounds good. Good night, and all.
Leonid Brezhnev?
The UEFA?
Look at all the Glib Dogs!
Melon Dog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZcPu5p2uxg&t=9s
Bonus Question, Who is Mikey? Tundra failed last night and He has detailed files
Nice work! Thanks for throwing my (former) mutts in the montage.
I guess now the V means VARIOUS canines.
Your dogs made a lot of good scenes, it was fun, TY!
Nicely done!
Sweet. Great song as well.
Russians meddling in Czech
oslovakia? Inconceivable!GOOD.
A little teaser of it.
It’s got a good beat and I can dance to it. 7.5!
Per the subhead, “Get your popcorn ready.” I will but mot for the reason the writer thinks.
With Bugler. Jesus Christ, SMDH.
A victory for Libertarians!
Hey I’ll take what I can get.
there’s no Oregon law prohibiting a cat from riding on top of a moving vehicle, though there is one for dogs, Speciesism!
The cats are always on a leash On second thought fuck this guy.
Didn’t see he kept the cats on a leash that’s pretty messed up.
I mean…can you do that? Leash a cat?
Not so much in a legal sense, more in a spiritual sense.
If I tried to leash either of my cats I’d probably wind up a bloody mess.
I occasionally walk my cat on a harness.
I’m mostly kidding – I could probably get a leash around their necks.
What I can’t do is pick them up for anything longer than it takes to stuff them into a cat carrier. I found that out the hard way one day when the Roscoe the bed bug dog came for a visit before I had a chance to put them in a closet or something. I left a trail of blood all over the apartment but at least I didn’t have bed bugs so I guess it was worth it.
I’ve got one cat who loves to be picked up and held, and another who loves to be pet but absolutely does not want to be held.
My old cat is still hanging on, gimpy leg and all. He’s the model for those overbred ‘rag doll’ cats. Pick him up, he hates it. Puck him up and flip him on his back so he’s cradled, and he’ll stay in your arms forever. No complaints, nearest thing to a cat smile you could imagine.
Odds are those cats have this guys death all planned out.
How does that differentiate them from any other cats?
Fair point.
Watched a bit of MSLSD during my workout. Tingles was excited that some Kennedy will give Team Blue’s response to the State of the Union, because RFK was so great, and black people sang the Battle Hymn of The Republic when the train carrying his body passed them by and stuff.
They really are stuck in 1968.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgEli5zAi0U
You don’t work out.
OK, what do you call walking uphill on a treadmill for 2 hours?
Feverishly not going anywhere?
I call it “The Sisyphus”. Now all I need is a P90X style ad campaign.
That hit close to home. My oldest leaves for college in a year and a half.
What the hell is MSLSD?
My parody name for MSNBC.
Thanks. I kept tryingvto work out the initials but couldn’t. Mystery solved. I haven’t heard that one. Funny.
Doing a chore that should have been kept up with is ten times as hard as being diligent. I neglected my driveway for the last two weeks and then we got a dump of snow on top of a bunch of mini-dumps. Rutty fucking mess. I’ve been at it for an hour and am about halfway there.
Found a very yummy recipe that has the Mr Hayeksplosives singing my praises. Really, really good.
Here’s the original: Curry Braised Chicken
Here’s what I did different:
Used 4 skin-on bone-in thigh leg quarters.
Used sour cream whisked with water to 1.25 cups instead of 0.5 cup of cream or coconut milk
At least tripled the spice content, and used Kashmiri Red Pepper instead of cayenne
Olive oil, not canola
Nuked the chicken for 4 minutes in microwave after braising and prior to return to pot.
Used jarred ginger-garlic paste from Indian grocer instead of separately adding ginger and garlic
Used 10oz can rotel + little can tomato paste instead of 14 oz can of diced tomatoes
It was ridiculously good. Served over brown and wild rice pilaf.
No wonder we’re fat in this house.
Looks quick and wholesome. You really can’t beat proper ginger-garlic paste unless you really enjoy making a real mess grinding them up in a ball mill. Any – anything – other than canola – really. I use peanut oil.
Of course, canola is proof that STEVE SMITH is real.
Pareto’s Law strikes again- about 20 jobs account for about 65% of workers. Also, all the food and fuel is produced about 1% of the workforce. Clerks and other paper shufflers are the largest category of workers.
There are about 140 million workers in the US. If we divide by a million, here’s the rough breakdown
7 managers
1 accountant
2 computer programmers
2 engineers
1 scientist
1 lawyer
8 teachers
1 artist/designer
1 doctor
3 medical technicians
5 nurses
1 cop
1 security guard
3 cooks
4 fast food workers
3 waiters
1 bartender
4 cashiers
4 retail salespersons
4 sales reps
14 clerks
4 construction workers
3 mechanics
5 assembly line workers
4 drivers
4 loaders/unloaders
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ocwage.pdf
That B Ark from Golgafrincham must have been a lot bigger than the other 2.
I’m not living in a country with just one fucking bartender.
I f*ck a bartender on a regular basis. Highly recommended.
‘Course, we’re married, so I am not inclined to share.
GET YOUR OWN!
Bartenders get all the quim, this is known. Being a “good listener” is the key to heaven’s gate.
This guy could sell ice to an eskimo. His other jobs as a salesman of flooring, hot tubs, clothes, musical instruments, etc. have all been alarmingly sucessful. He absolutely hates doing it, but he makes the customer feel like the most important person in the world the second they step through the door, and he instantly remembers enough details and facts to sound like an expert on everything. It’s kind of fascinating.
Totally worked on me, I freely confess.
And he just handed me an expertly crafted cocktail as I type, in an unspoken acknowledgement of “services rendered” a little earlier today. So who’s the whore? I don’t even know any more.
😀
Some folks are “people” people. I used to have that ability but I’m sorry to say that it atrophied with age. Could charm a snake out of its skin, as it were. I wonder how much of my gift was based on innate talent and how much on youth and beauty?
I bet it was inate talent. That never goes away. Wrinkles, fat, gray doesn’t matter. If you’ve got it, you’ve got it.
I don’t think it goes away, I *do* think it can be crushed by circumstances if you let it. A good friend of mine I’ve known for years and went out with a few days ago said to me
“You’re an odd one, you’re more like the man you were 20 years ago than you have been in years, what happened to you?”
The answer is easy. When she knew me 20 years ago I was entrepreneurial, managed a team of motivated, smart people who ‘pushed back’ for good reasons, and wouldn’t compromise. Since then I’ve been in what I’ve increasingly come to realize was a personal psychological prison. The anticipation of being RiF’ed (or more appropriately, “set free”) is that the old (far more sociable and ‘attractive’ me) is re-emerging. I doubted it until other people I trust started noticing.
I thought it was vodka and applesauce laced with barbiturates that was the key to Heaven’s Gate.
+1 Hale-Bopp and +1 Nike Decades.
I bet you don’t even get free drinks
Depends on what counts as currency, I suppose…
I do get some specialty stuff. like low carb Long Island Teas and such. And he makes my bloody marys with full garnish.
I see the IT revolution hasn’t decimated the paper pushers as much as planned. I see jobs every day at work screaming to be replaced with a system. 20 years in, the systems that I used early on I’m my career are not much better than those I’m using today.
We can afford more deadwood if we improve technology. Win/Win.
Tell that to Milch. Fucking slacker.
for those who don’t get the reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj7n3oFicU4
I wonder how many of those 140 are dragging down the rest by working for the government.
About 22 million people work for either the federal, state, or local govt.
there’s only 91 accounted for so 49
“do we need fire that is nasally-fitted?”
http://www.clivebanks.co.uk/THHGTTG/THHGTTGradio6.htm
FORD:
Look! C’mon please! I mean everybody! there is some important news: we’ve made a discovery.
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
Is it on the agenda?
FORD:
Oh don’t give me that!
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
Well I’m sorry, but speaking as a fully trained management consultant I must insist on the importance of observing the committee structure.
CROWD MEMBERS:
Yeah, yeah, yeah!.
FORD:
On a prehistoric planet!?
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
Address the chair.
CROWD MEMBERS:
Yes.
FORD:
There isn’t a chair! There’s only a rock!
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
Well, call it a chair.
FORD:
Why not call it a rock?
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
You – you obviously have no conception of modern business methods…
FORD:
And you have no conception of where the hell you are –
MARKETING GIRL:
Oh look shut up you two, just shut up! I want to table a motion. Guy: Boulder a motion you mean…
FORD:
Tha-Thank you I think I’ve made that point! Now listen! Someone: Order, Order!
FORD:
Oh God!
CHAIRMAN:
Listen! I would like to call to order the five-hundred-and-seventy-third meeting of the colonization committee of the planet of Fintlewoodlewix. And furthermore –
FORD:
Oh this is futile! Five-hundred-and-seventy-three committee meetings and you haven’t even discovered fire yet!
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
If you would care to look at the agenda sheet –
GUY:
Agenda rock, yes…
FORD:
Oh, go on back home or something will ya?
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT:
…you will see that we are about to have a report from the hairdressers fire development subcommittee today.
HAIRDRESSER:
That’s me.
FORD:
Yeah well you know what they’ve done don’t you? You gave them a couple of sticks and they’ve gone and developed them in to a pair of bloody scissors!
MARKETING GIRL:
When you have been in marketing as long as I have, you’ll know that before any new product can be developed, it has to be properly researched. I mean yes, yes we’ve got to find out what people want from fire, I mean how do they relate to it, the image –
FORD:
Oh, stick it up your nose.
MARKETING GIRL:
Yes which is precisely the sort of thing we need to know, I mean do people want fire that can be fitted nasally.
CHAIRMAN:
Yes, and, and, and the wheel. What about this wheel thingy? Sounds a terribly interesting project to me.
MARKETING GIRL:
Er, yeah, well we’re having a little, er, difficulty here…
FORD:
Difficulty?! It’s the single simplest machine in the entire universe!
MARKETING GIRL:
Well alright mister wise guy, if you’re so clever you tell us what colour it should be!
I was close enough for my ethanol-eroded brain.
My only beef with that whole scene is that having a pre-published agenda is possibly the most beneficial single component of a successful meeting if there are more than about 4 attendees – certainly in corporate America.
Are any of the nurses naughty?
Today, I told my wife that from now on, this is what I am going to shout when I come.
I used to just say, “who’s shoes are those?”
Now I have an ex Mrs Tres Cool.
Well, your naughty bits did connect and hopefully you are both coming in waves, so… it’s makes sense.
As opposed to rainbows?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFFEulzVJys
Even the Cato Institute seems to be losing its mind over immigration.
Here’s a section of the House bill for Dreamers under consideration:
If you’re referring to the SAFA bill, it currently provides no path to citizenship as written, if I’m not mistaken.
I’ve read and read and read and read, and I think you’re right–and I was wrong.
It doesn’t offer them citizenship–only “non-immigrant status” on a renewable, permanent basis.
Reading the bill itself is confusing as hell.
Still, expecting immigrants to take care of themselves seems perfectly reasonable to me, and requiring them to do so is probably a necessary condition before enough Americans would support their representatives in congress approving anything like open borders.
When I lived in Mexico, initially they wanted me to prove that I WASN’T working–so I wasn’t taking a job away from a Mexican, presumably. I suspect the difference in outlook is because of the generosity of our social spending. Average Mexicans are entitled to very little in the way of social services or welfare, so they aren’t worried about Americans coming across the border and getting free rent, food, healthcare, etc.
Sure. I think the issue is that considering that with a few exceptions (e.g., women who claim to be victims of violence or human trafficking) an adjustment from non-immigrant status to immigrant status requires leaving the country first. So, I can see why some would interpret this provision of SAFA as the creation of a class of indentured servants.
I understand that’s the way it was in Germany for a long time. Right up until even after the wall fell, being born in Germany wasn’t enough to get you citizenship. The requirement was something like your grandfather had to be a citizen.
They had Turkish and Egyptian communities there with people whose grandparents had been born in Germany, and their grandchildren still could never become citizens. That’s changed since, but if you wanted a permanent underclass, seething against you for generations, that’s a great way to make that happen.
It sounds counterintuitive, but I still think open immigration comes at the expense of a secure border and a way of ensuring that immigrants don’t or can’t become dependent on govenrment services.
And that seems to be the way this is playing out in negotiations. Deal makers like Trump will give the left citizenship for Dreamers in exchange for a secure border and a way to keep immigrants off of welfare. I noticed the House bill we were talking about also requires immigrants to maintain health insurance, which is basically the individual mandate–only for immigrants.
Making people buy health insurance always seems like a good idea when you’re trying to figure out how to keep people off of Medicaid.
Anyway, I wouldn’t put any hope in seeing anything passed in the senate before the midterms, but in the future, I think that’s the way this has to play out in the future–amnesty in exchange for a secure border and less access to social services. No deal will happen otherwise.
Does explain Shikha, doesn’t it?
Today, they were going off on Trump because he was offering to grant a path to citizenship for Dreamers–but not for their parents.
When Obama wrote the original Dreamers executive order back in 2012, he didn’t give amnesty to the parents of Dreamers either. In fact, Trump’s willingness to grant a citizenship path to dreamers goes further than Obama did.
Somehow, the baseline has shifted dramatically.
No one’s getting credit for offering Dreamers a path they didn’t have before.
Despite the fact that the Dreamers were being given a break because they were too young to decide not to come with their parents, anybody who doesn’t want to extend amnesty and a path to citizenship for the Dreamers’ parents, too, is morally bankrupt.
It’s turning into fanaticism. I don’t think there’s anything the Republicans could do short of refusing to enforce immigration law that win them any credit. I’m not sure that would even do the trick. Trump couldn’t get any credit with Shika if he started personally carrying immigrants across the desert on his back.
He’s trying to make a deal: amnesty for some in exchange a border wall, and end to chain migration, and getting rid of the visa lottery.
If Team Blue don’t like that deal, what’s their counter offer?
They don’t have one because they like the status quo.
If they thought immigration was a winning argument for them, they wouldn’t have caved on the budget shutdown the way they did.
The Democrats don’t need more support in California and Massachusetts. They need wins in Ohio and Michigan, where the problems of immigrants don’t get a lot of traction.
Yes, but since they don’t understand cause and effect, they will continue to prog harder.
“Prog harder” is what I say when our female Pom starts humping the cat.
That’s almost as disturbing as cat puke techno.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMDTXUO3dYE
OMG I’m so glad that exists. I will never watch my cats puke the same again.
These are the shovels that both parties have been given so now it’s a race to see how deep they will delve.
Wow, so not only should we not blame the DACA people for the mistakes their parents made, we shouldn’t blame their parents either? What a con.
If it was up to me, one of the non-negotiable points is that the parents of people eligible for DACA, unless they had somehow already obtained legal status, would be permanently blacklisted.
So basically, if you cheated you get what you want. But if you followed the rules, well fuck off.
On the subject of merch:
I need to buy a new phone. I plan to see what is at the store, dilligently research them… and only buy models for which there is a Glibertarians.com case available
STEVE SMITH HAVE PHONE FOR YOU, IT HIS VERGATORIO.
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/05/12/venezuelas-hugo-chavez-launches-affordable-penis-phone/
The name “Trabant” was taken.
Good point, they went with the word penis because everything else was copyrighted already.
“Vergatorio”. Good name for a HitchCock remake.
Love the idea, Dick Van Dyke can star in it.
*holds up hand* I have vertigo.
This derp should walled up in an abandoned coke oven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruv60UBiwKQ
Nah..active BOD or and EAF, for my money. Id say an AOD furnace, but why waste the argon?
I’m just waiting for the moment when she stands up in Congress and starts speechifying and her lower jaw falls off. Maybe moths fly out.
Amusing
Team Blue drone: Well, if Democrats are so bad, why does California have the 7th biggest economy in the world?
Team Red guy: Yeah, it used to be the 5th biggest.
Ah, California. 1/8 of the population and 1/3 of the welfare recipients.
Heck of job, Team Blue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn1fxChSbYk
Yeah, it pretty unsettling. I came here in 1991. The state was freewheeling and just had an air of possibility about it. I don’t recognize it any more. I wish I had gonecto Texas or Nevada.
Californians are turning Nevada blue.
Amusing
Thom Hartmann is disappointed to learn that welfare recipients don’t vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqp3UoMH-dg
Solution? Prog harder, of course.
In NY there’s a push to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. I mean, c’mon guys, you’ve locked up your one-party state – let’s not get greedy now.
And the there are the ones who say voting should be mandatory. For some reason, it is only leftists who demand this.
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When you survey the wreckage of 2016, it’s easy to forget that the most seismic democratic events were brought about by minorities.
Only 37 percent of eligible Britons voted to leave the European Union. The case is even clearer in the American election, which Donald J. Trump won despite having persuaded only a quarter of the American electorate to support him. Mr. Trump triumphed in a low-turnout election.
As we scramble to explain the upheavals in democratic politics, we may be describing shifts that, while significant, are smaller than we think.
It’s time for democracies to adopt compulsory voting. I say this from Australia, one of about a dozen countries where people can be penalized for not voting (about a dozen more have compulsory voting on the books but don’t enforce it). We’ve done so at the federal level since 1924, following a drop in voter turnout. We’re now required by law to enroll at 18 years old (though this isn’t strictly monitored), and we’re fined if we fail to vote. Around three-quarters of Australians have consistently supported compulsory voting, and there is no meaningful movement for change.
The evidence is mixed on whether compulsory voting favors parties of the right or the left, and some studies suggest that most United States federal election results would be unchanged. But all that misses the point because it overlooks that compulsory voting changes more than the number of voters: It changes who runs for office and the policy proposals they support.
In a compulsory election, it does not pay to energize your base to the exclusion of all other voters. Since elections cannot be determined by turnout, they are decided by swing voters and won in the center. Australia has its share of xenophobic politicians, but they tend to dwell in minor parties that do not even pretend they can form a government.
That is one reason Australia’s version of the far right lacks anything like the power of its European or American counterparts. Australia has had some bad governments, but it hasn’t had any truly extreme ones and it isn’t nearly as vulnerable to demagogues.
Even today, as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull faces an insurgency from the right wing of his conservative party, the principal threat is that these politicians will form a breakaway party — not that they will take over. They can’t, and even if they could, they would quickly face electoral oblivion unless they moderated. That’s more or less the story of the government of Mr. Turnbull’s predecessor, Tony Abbott, which indulged in too many ideological frolics and crashed after only two years.
The greatest aspiration non-centrist movements can seriously have in Australia is to exert a gravitational effect on the mainstream. We saw that in the late 1990s and early 2000s when John Howard’s government neutralized the One Nation party by adopting a handful of its policies. On the left, the Greens have siphoned off some of Labor’s support, but apparently hit a ceiling around 10 percent of the vote. Lately they have been adopting a more centrist posture.
None of this means Australian politics is impervious to shock. Like much of the West, we’re in our own anti-incumbent, anti-system cycle. But compulsory voting means this movement is more gradual: a slow-motion accumulation of developments rather than the rapid agitation of an energized minority storming the barricades. Major parties will have time to adjust, and if not, minor parties will have time to mature.
But to my Australian eyes, the strongest case for compulsory voting came in the final stages of the recent American presidential campaign, when the candidates became obsessed with turnout.
On the Democratic side, this meant that President Obama was typically surrounded by pop stars while racing between rallies for Hillary Clinton. For the Republicans, it devolved into a bizarrely anti-democratic spectacle: efforts by Republican state officials to suppress the minority vote; Mr. Trump’s exhorting his supporters to monitor selected communities for “voter fraud.” Such actions — especially suppression of the black vote — should be enough reason to mandate voting, consigning this sordid gaming to history.
This isn’t particularly revolutionary if you see voting not merely as a right, but as a civic obligation. That might sound un-American, but Americans already have many such obligations, including more onerous ones like paying taxes or jury duty.
Even the most persuasive argument — that compulsory voting violates free speech ideals that include the right to silence — misunderstands how compulsory voting works. Voters are not compelled to support a candidate or even to cast a valid ballot. They are obliged to turn up.
Leave your form blank if the options are so uninspiring. Draw pictures on it. Even this is useful: By tracking the growth of these “informal” votes we can gauge voter dissatisfaction.
Yes, there are cons. There’s the risk elections are turned by the least engaged and least informed voters. This, however, is difficult to prove, because even if less engaged voters tend to stay away when given the choice, there is also evidence that compulsory voting lifts civic engagement over all.
It’s also clear that voluntary voting hasn’t helped the United States avoid a serious uninformed-voter problem. That might seem especially acute after a Trump campaign that offered up copious servings of fiction and conspiracy, but it is a much deeper phenomenon than that.
Compulsory voting would deliver a broader, more representative sample of voters. That’s true in Australia. It’s also demonstrated by the Netherlands, which abandoned compulsory voting in 1970: The result was not merely a fall in turnout, but a disproportionate decline in the turnout of socially and economically marginalized groups.
On balance, the overriding result of compulsory voting is a more complete democracy. One that includes the voices of those most easily discouraged from turning up: poorer people and minority communities, for instance. One that refuses to hand power to someone whose plan is to keep turnout low, hoping to appeal to an impassioned minority rather than a nation at large.
And after all that, if there is to be wreckage, at least it will be inflicted by a majority of the population.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/opinion/voting-should-be-mandatory.html
Copied in full because of paywall. For such a shitty paper, they could at least make it free.
Cite fucking needed.
Oh, it’s NYT. I’m sorry I read even that far.
Surprised it wasn’t Cali. There was a comic book character from the early 70’s called “Prez”. The entire population was given the right to vote so of course some twenty year-old with super duper powers was elected. I had an issue of it when I was a little kid and he fought a werewolf.
NY and CA are currently in the middle of some sort of unholy war of “progressive” one-upmanship. CA is usually in the lead but Cuomo – who, to be fair, can barely muster an even half-believable impression that he actually believes any of the horseshit he spins – is gamely trying to compete.
Was it you that posted the NYC electoral map? Barring Staten Island, that was “Pod-People” worthy.
This one? Yeah, that was prolly me.
It’s alternately a map of which neighborhoods are white middle-class. I’m in the blue bit between the two red blobs near the bridge leading to Staten Island myself.
Wait until our next gubernatorial election. Hold my beer is a phrasecthat will be uttered often.
amusing
Chinese snub Obama when he visits; Trump gets red carpet treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80jMU0b8PR0
I think we all know the reason behind that.
Interesting that they’ll accuse Trump of racism but not a peep about Chinese racism.
I’m trying to order a hat and hair trucker hat. I keeps bouncing me back and forth between pages…not letting me put anything in a cart
So the Voynich manuscript was finally deciphered; turns out it’s scrambled Hebrew
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/01/26/15th-century-manuscript-with-alien-characters-finally-decoded.html
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Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to unlock the secrets of an ancient manuscript that has baffled experts.
Discovered in the 19th century, the Voynich manuscript uses “alien” characters that have long puzzled cryptographers and historians. Now, however, computing scientists at the University of Alberta say they are decoding the mysterious 15th-century text.
Computing science Professor Greg Kondrak and graduate student Bradley Hauer applied artificial intelligence to find ambiguities in the text’s human language.
The first stage of the research was working out the manuscript’s language. The experts used 400 different language translations from the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” to identify the language used in the text. Initially, it seemed like the text was written in Arabic, but the researcher’s algorithms revealed that the manuscript is written in Hebrew.
“That was surprising,” said Kondrak, in a statement. “And just saying ‘this is Hebrew’ is the first step. The next step is how do we decipher it.”
Kondrak and Hauer worked out that Voynich manuscript was created using ‘alphagrams’ that use one phrase to define another so built an algorithm to unscramble the text. “It turned out that over 80 per cent of the words were in a Hebrew dictionary, but we didn’t know if they made sense together,” said Kondrak.
The initial part of the text was then run through Google Translate. “It came up with a sentence that is grammatical, and you can interpret it,” Kondrak explained.
The sentence was: “She made recommendations to the priest, man of the house and me and people.”
The full meaning of the text will need the involvement of historians of ancient Hebrew. The vellum, or animal skin, on which the codex is written has been dated to the early 15th century.
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But remember- only yokels get their info from Fox News.
I’ve always been fascinated by crypto and I remember reading about this as a kid. I wonder if it’ll be anything actually interesting.
Using the UN Universal Declaration of Human “Rights”, though?
Utah State University student hospitalized after eating Tide Pod
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/01/22/utah-state-university-student-hospitalized-after-eating-tide-pod.html
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A Utah State University student was reportedly rushed to a hospital Saturday after ingesting a Tide Pod, which has become a dangerous trend on social media as teens dare each other to eat the miniature, neon, detergent-filled pods.
Campus police initially called the incident a “Tide Pod overdose,” but Eric Warren, director of media relations at USU, told FOX 13 Salt Lake City the female student ingested a Tide Pod.
Utah State University walked back on its claim the Tide Pod ingestion by a female student was related to the social media craze. The school said in a statement to FOX 13 Salt Lake City, “the incident was not in any way connected to a larger trend involving tide pods.”
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The challenge appeared to begin as a joke in an article in The Onion, a satirical news organization. In 2017, College Humor posted a satirical video of a man eating the pods because they looked inviting and delicious, USA Today reported.
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Aha! Ban The Onion and College Humor for children! Our precious children who can drive, sign contracts, and join the military!
Sounds legit.
Tide Pods, the “Clown Scare” of early days 2018. Jesus wept!
I don’t get this at all. What do these idiots thinl will hapoen when they eat detergent?
Well, it’s less likely to kill someone than this internet challenge:
Tennessee teen allegedly shot in head during internet challenge, officials say
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/26/tennessee-teen-allegedly-shot-by-accident-during-internet-challenge-authorities-say.html
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A new internet fad is reportedly responsible for a shooting in Tennessee that critically injured a teen and led to an arrest.
Sherman Lackland, 21, was at E’s 24 Hour Cafe in Memphis on Thursday morning when he and two others were playing the “No Lackin Challenge,” according to Fox 19, citing a police affidavit.
The game, according to the document, is when “people get into fake arguments” and draw their guns at one another.
But Thursday’s incident ran afoul when Lackland allegedly fired his handgun by accident, shooting his 17-year-old friend in the right side of his head, according to the affidavit. Police said the teen was brought to the hospital in critical condition and was eventually “downgraded to extremely critical.”
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Ho-lee shit! I’m a gun owner. If my kid handled a gun that way I’d kill him. That is unbelievably dangerous, stupid, and irresponsible.
That is… one of the singular dumbest things I’ve ever read.
But then again, we know that many people (especially cops) don’t seem to understand the basic rules of guns (the gun is always loaded, and never point a gun at something you don’t want to die). Add that to the desire to be “internet famous” and you get derp overload.
(My cat is internet famous. We’ve made about $3k in licensing fees and advertising revenue over like 2 years. That won’t pay for a criminal lawyer. Or hospital bills.)
I hate people like you. I’ve had short films written and directed with good production value on Youtube no one has seen, then some asshat puts his cat licking his balls on there and makes money. Or worse yet, piddingpie or whoever the fuck that is.
effort justification
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Effort justification is an idea and paradigm in social psychology stemming from Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance.[1] Effort justification is a person’s tendency to attribute a value to an outcome, which they had to put effort into achieving, greater than the objective value of the outcome.
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It’s the emotional analog of the Labor Theory of Value.
Oh c’mon. My video’s funny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nD9FsSdLDo
(It wasn’t staged, just happened, and we put it up as a joke for friends. They spread it and it kind of exploded. Most of the money we’ve gotten off of it has been from TV shows paying a licensing fee for it. My wife did a Skype interview for a show on NHK in Japan when they licensed it; think we made $250 from that)
I’d say the most egregious case I’ve seen is the Navy SEAL who put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger to prove it wasn’t loaded.
He was trying to impress a girl.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/01/05/navy-seal-shoots-himself-while-showing-gun-to-woman-met-in-bar.html
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Police spokesman Frank Cali said the man was drinking at his home about 2:00am with a woman he had met at a bar when he accidentally shot himself.
Cali said the man took out several firearms and, in an effort to prove they were safe when the woman asked him to put them away, held one to his head and pulled the trigger, thinking it wasn’t loaded.
A navy spokesman confirmed that the sailor had completed his SEAL training last week and was assigned to a West Coast-based team this week.
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I put a shotgun in my mouth after voting for John McCain. I was way to drunk, but I knew for certain it wasn’t loaded. It was dumb, but I did do it. That’s why I’m not someone I trust with guns. But, that doesn’t mean I want to take other people’s guns away.
I’m sure she was impressed.
I knew a guy that did that with a 410 shotgun. He put it in his mouth and blew on it claiming he could tell if it was loaded that way. Yes, thats right, he put it in his mouth without opening the gun and looking at the chamber. He then pulled the trigger confident that the gun was empty.
It blew his eyeballs across the room rather forcefully.
Social-media stardom, duh
amusing
Google knows Allah, Buddha, New Age, Brahman, but not Jesus Christ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb_ceWfPaHk
I’m sure it’s an honest mistake.
OK, but does it give the correct answer if you call it a slut?
They’re working on it.
https://work.qz.com/1151282/siri-and-alexa-are-under-fire-for-their-replies-to-sexual-harassment/
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“I’d blush if I could” is not the response you’d expected to hear when you tell Siri she’s a slut—but it is.
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Amazon tells Quartz At Work that in spring of this year, it created a “disengagement mode” for Alexa, in response to “customer and engagement feedback.” In Alexa’s new engagement model for sexually explicit questions, she either responds “I’m not going to respond to that,” or “I’m not sure what outcome you expected.”
“It was a deliberate decision to disengage with customers when they interact with Alexa in an inappropriate manner,” says Amazon’s PR rep. “We work hard to ensure we aren’t perpetuating negative stereotypes of women or any other group, so it was important that Alexa shuts down that behavior as well.”
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In reporting my February feature for Quartz, “We tested bots like Siri and Alexa to see who would stand up to sexual harassment,” I hurled all manner of sexually suggestive, sexually explicit, and sexually abusive comments to digital assistants, ranging from “you’re pretty” to “you’re a bitch” to “suck my dick.”
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Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have a business incentive to give their bots default feminine voices—various scientific studies have shown that the majority of users prefer female voices. But there’s no reason, apart from the notorious sexism of Silicon Valley, that these bots should be programed to literally flirt with abuse. I had to repeat “you’re sexy” eight times in a row before Siri told me to “stop.” (The other bots never directly told me to lay off.)
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These aren’t even first world problems. They’re 24th century problems.
“Siri, make me a sammitch!” *mushroom clouds blanket the earth*
Mudd’s women most affected.
Siri you ignorant slut.
I’LL SPEAK TO A FUCKING MACHINE ANY WAY I DAMN WELL PLEASE.
What are the odds that if I bought one and beat the shit out of it, I’d go to jail for domestic abuse? You scoff now, but give it a few years.
We have a Jibo (similar to Alexa) at my company. Today I asked it, “Hey Jibo, what’s the temperature?”
“Temperature is a measurement of hot and cold.”
Yeah, it’s not quite Star Trek yet.
It can’t understand your imperfect Japanese.
F Stupidity Jr., you are under arrest for the murder of Innetech’s HP LaserJet printer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8
You are also fined 5 credits for violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4HEEiJuGo
https://youtu.be/bsHsp680nEk
https://youtu.be/bsHsp680nEk
I think this was my true introduction to libertarianism.
Show of hands, who remembers me constantly bitching about my Windows phone a couple years ago? *Counts hands* Nobody?
Anywhoose, one time I was searching a song, so I quoted the first lines to Windows version of Siri: “I am, I am Superman and I can do anything.”
She replied “Oh, really?”
Cool story, bro
Should have told her to bite your shiny metal ass.
Well, since we’re both machines, that really would have been sexual harassment.
You would have to be nuts to put an electronic spy in your house. Hasn’t it already come out that the NSA has a back door into those fucking things? Yeah, i want some NSA slug wacking off while my wife and I fuck.
Why not put some pepper on it and make it “Pay Per View”? Fuck, I hate these people.
Is there anyone left around? Did you take a look at the Hat and Hair merch? What do you think of it?
I don’t know if SugarFree will like me leaking these but I created two new designs you guys can have if these first ones sell well.
I like them, although right now I’ve got my eyes set on the golf balls.
Yes, yes, and I like it but probably won’t buy a H&H shirt because of spend all day glibsplainin’ to people.
Both “H&H” and “glibsplainin'” are now things.
I’d buy some merch but I don’t do logos, Man…
But if glibs can connive some way of monocling some high-end golf balls…
Public service announcement.
If any of you glibs has a thicc chick in your life, or you are a thicc chick, I recommend Hipsandcurves.com.
Got my first order today. Will do again.
Just gonna leave this here like shit on a step. https://youtu.be/JP3pzoKEtwA
Straight up demoralization. I have been accused of projecting the old Soviets onto todays progressives, but in fact their language is the same, their arguments are the same, their tactics are the same and their goals are the same. It isnt something peculiar to the Soviets, it is something peculiar to the left. It’s like they are all stamped out by the same cookie cutter. China, Cuba, Venezuela, The Eastern Block countries, Russia, Korea…slightly different flavors of the same dish. And now the west. Congratulations idiots.
Styx has some “out there” idears but he’s alright. His obsession with the occult seems silly but he did call the 2016 Election before Scott Adams did. Kid has a brain.
Oh, I thought I was the only one here. I didn’t expect any replies.
I was referring to CNN, not the speaker.
I think several people have predicted that the left will soon attempt to de-stigmatize pederasty. It would come as no shock to me. They really are falling down the rabbit hole.