Hey everybody, greetings. I hope we all had lunches in line with our GlibFit goals. My oldest is home from school “sick” (not his fault — rules at his school say if they run a fever over 100.5 they have to stay out of school at least one day) and my mother brought us Chik-Fil-A for lunch. I only had a couple of waffle fries. Yummy, ideal surface area to volume ratio for dipping, waffle fries. But enough about me. Here’s some links:
I wrote an article for an online ‘zine probably a decade or more ago arguing that euthanasia was an inevitable result of healthcare systems that are run by governments. Here’s a cheery little story about grandma being held down by her family when she saw the needle.
950 miners trapped below ground due to power outage. Welcome to my nightmare
Add this to my list of things that MOND probably explains without magical dark matter.
Virgin wants you to dramatically overpay to join the mile high club. Must bring own partner.
I think this song will find a willing audience here. I just saw a video of these guys at a reunion in 2016. The intervening 30 years were not merciful.
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Netherlands. Huh. I would’ve guessed the UK, though they’re more about killing people against the family’s wishes.
No death panels though.
The UK specializes in killing babies through ignoring the wishes of their parents who want to seek a second opinion. There is a difference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gard_case
For those unfamiliar with what I am referencing
Not sure how any informed libertarian could have missed that shit show.
Well, TOS seemed to ignore the whole issue….
Too local.
DOH! Damn your nimble fingers!
He said libertarian.
They can’t really cover local issues.
There’s a more recent one too.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-42787097
I can’t read anymore of those stories. I have a heart of stone, but god damn it, having a kid has made me into a pansy when it comes to sick kids. I can’t
“The judge has ruled that medics involved in Isaiah’s case cannot be identified.”
“Barrister Fiona Paterson, representing King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, told the judge that overwhelming medical evidence showed that stopping treatment was in Isaiah’s best interests.”
Bioethical hooha is not medical evidence. Christ what assholes.
overwhelming medical evidence showed that stopping treatment was in
Isaiah’sthe bastards at the NHS’ best interests.“burdensome”
While I don’t want the govt killing anyone for purely financial reasons, I also don’t want the govt making it difficult for people who are sick from ending their life on their own terms.
My father had Guillain–Barré syndrome about 15 years ago. In about 72 hours he went from healthy to paralyzed and on a respirator. No one knew what it was for about 2 or so weeks. During that period of time my father made me promise that if his condition was permanent that I would do what it took to end his life.
It sucks that we had to have that conversation (and it was spelled out letter by letter because he couldn’t speak. He could only nod when I got to the right letter) because the doctors couldn’t legally help him with his choice.
Personally after that experience I live in far more fear of being kept alive as a drooling vegetable than I do of being killed off too early.
It’s all about who makes the decision. I want the fucking state nowhere near me or mine.
Agree that the State should be out of the equation.
I also hate stories like this. The problem with them is that it can only get so deep into the details of the story.
I think it is far more likely that the family of the geezer had a much better idea of what the patient wanted than all of us armchair QB’s do. The living will may be ambiguous to lawyers and outsiders, but if the family helped hold her down I think that that is a sign that when the patient was lucid they would have chosen the needle over a life in a home.
I could be completely wrong. Maybe the family is a huuuuuuge collection of scumbags and this was straight up murder. If that was the case, it still doesn’t warrant making assisted suicide illegal.
Thing in this case it wasn’t “the state” making the decision. It was the Doctor supported at least somewhat by the family. The only involvement from the state was to review the case after the fact
Not surprised it’s the Netherlands. And public health is political beyond belief sometimes.
NH Senate kills bump stock ban legislation until the legislature attempts to ban them again
That Washington Post story is disturbing.
Well, it is murder.
I believe in personal autonomy, but euthanasia always seems to morph into eugenics
Best solution: Charge helpers with murder and let them plead their case to a jury. In a free and open society, it might work.
For all euthanasia? I think if I want to off myself, that’s my business.
Off yourself is fine. No one is helping you there
If you live? Yes.
I wouldn’t say it’s surprising though. The same way that people who love wielding authority over others gravitate toward being cops, people who love having the power of life and death gravitate towards being doctors. I’d like to hear RC Dean’s take on this.
I do object to using the term “botched”.
Unless someone accidentally survived, everything went exactly according to plan.
“poorly executed” then?
I hate myself for laughing at that.
*judge raises a paper with a perfect 10.0 overhead*
I would like to see her request for euthanasia if she became demented. The article claims it was ambiguous, but not in what way.
Hopefully the next person they try that with, pulls out an AR-15 and shoots them all to pieces.
That’s why you secretly sedate them first by spiking their drink, duuuuhh!
That’s where you pull out the dagger hidden under the pillow and stab the one nearest in the thigh, and then throw it and plant right between the eyes of the one further away. Then when the others are rushing in to make sure grandpa goes quietly, you pull the AR-15 out and prove what you said about outliving them all.
John Wick III screenplay?
RE: youth in asia
They’ve already started on about how unhealthy and disabled people are a drain on the system (unless they die first) in Europe. What was that about marxism and open pits?
Enlightened Europeans.
Coming to an America near you if the ACLU has its way
http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/29/the-aclu-now-opposes-religious-freedom-b
Back before Robby got ‘woke’
I hope the church engages in civil disobedience to the point of criminal punishment. It helps to underline the difference between justice and social justice. Under justice, you go to prison for committing murder. Under social justice, you go to prison for not committing murder.
The church in Europe has gotten spineless. I have no doubt that when this comes to America, though, there will be civil disobedience.
Cardinal George once famously said before he died: I will die in my bed, my successor will die in jail, his successor will be executed in the public square, and his successor will try to put back together the shattered pieces of a broken society like the church has done so many times throughout its history
All bow before the State!
“Where is your Messiah now?”
Fucking slavers.
“Where is your Messiah now?”
Isn’t that usually a caption for a photo of the pantomime Burger King?
What damages?
“I hope we all had lunches in line with our GlibFit goals.”
Nope. Went to Sugarfish.
Diet starts tomorrow. Probably.
Count me in with Shirley.
Ramadan-style fasting without the Islam here. It works.
I just had 8 courses of sushi. That means I’m going to be really hungry for dinner too. Fasting is probably out.
Yeah I’d probably set aside any fasting for an 8 course sushi meal.
I’m more of a Raman faster.
One of the benefits of, well, having a shitty job where I have to lift heavy things and be on my feet all day, I don’t need a diet, at least not for looks. I can still see my abs, but my younger brother sits at a desk all day and is starting to get a belly.
I had flank steak with chimichuri and broccoli.
That’s a solid candidate for dinner. I think I have the stuff for spicy churri in the fridge.
I had a Cajun rice bowl from a food truck. It was more expensive than it needed to be, and the retards working at the Fender factory don’t understand how a line works. It’s like a concert with festival seating, they all just stand there and push their way to the front.
Was it playing Shaggy?
Sadly, no.
Does Ritz crackers and ghost pepper summer sausage count?
My asshole just screamed in sympathy for your morning tomorrow.
“What is the sound of one
hand clappingasshole screaming?There’s only one way to find out. We need to recreate this scene with Eric Schneiderman playing the role of the deadbeat passenger.
Something like “EEEEEYAAAHHHHHHPLOPPLOPSPLOOOOSHPLOPPLOPEEEAAARRRRGHH!”
Is that like a form of chemical Steve Smith defense?
I hadn’t thought of that, although now am tempted to market is as such.
Summer sausage is highly underrated.
And yet highly overrated at the same time.
Odd.
Obviously not bland enough for UCS.
I had turkey bites and some honey mustard pretzel pieces. Wasn’t that hungry.
I decided to swing by the monocle factory and eat the thin gruel that I feed the orphans. It seems to help keep the extra weight off of their skinny little frames. I must say, I found it to be a bit tasteless and not very filling.
I have never heard them, Good stuff!
If the galaxy we live in throws off the standard model… it’s not a very good model.
No kidding. The milky way is the most run of the mill, ordinary galaxy imaginable. I am not sure what they mean by synchronized orbits means. Haven’t these guys ever watched floaties circle a drain? That is all a galaxy is, stuff circling a drain.
Aren’t elliptical galaxies full of really old dim stars actually far more common that spiral galaxies like our own? I think that’s actually by a large margin too.
Here’s the Hubble deep field image if you want to count.
As much as I love this image, I don’t think this is the way to answer the question.
Spiral galaxies make up roughly 77 percent of the galaxies that scientists have observed.
Na that’s only in our local cluster. Most galaxies in the observable universe are elipical and filled with dim old stars.
Ha, you’re right. The very next sentence explains it.
From the same site:
https://www.space.com/22395-elliptical-galaxies.html
Or a very good galaxy to be honest.
It’s got nice beaches, if you know where to look.
“Mostly Harmless”
+1 Thargoid or Galaxy guide
I imagine the game designers of Elite were referencing Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
http://lpmisescaucus.com/2018/02/01/lp-convention-chair-just-rejected-ron-paul-judge-napolitano-national-convention/
‘Libertarian’ Party won’t allow Ron Paul or Judge Napolitano to speak at its convention.
Prediction: LP 2020 Presidential Candidate will be Mitt Romney and some other failed Republican legislator. Cosmotarian moment!
The Nick Gillespie of political parties.
The LP is exactly what you would expect from establishment anti-establishment types.
I could totally see it being Romney.
We’re starting the Glibertarian Party, and nominating STEVE SMITH and Zed (unfortunately, I do not believe that giant stone heads are constitutionally permitted to run for office, so ZARDOZ cannot be on the ticket.)
Zardoz can be Press Secretary for all the talk shows
“THE PENIS IS EVIL! NO MORE QUESTIONS!”
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN!
Well, that would get the Feminist vote
https://twitter.com/nsarwark/status/959158481604435968
Nick Sarwark reacts
TW: Liberty Hangout is garbage
Also: Purge the Cosmos!
….Thanos?
I think Sarwark’s Twitter background is stupid. Made me think he was running for something in Arizona at first. Then it made me think he ran the LP into the ground and destroyed it, so now it has to rise from the ashes.
Christ, what an asshole!
Will they be serving fruit sushi to?
Don’t worry. Contra Matt Welch’s snotty rejoinder, the Libertarian Party is utterly inconsequential and should receive approximately the same attention as the National Society of Paper Clip Collectors.
Hey now?! The NSPCC has some pretty wild national conventions, let me tell you!
LP 2020 ticket: Egg McMuffin/rotting corpse of John McCain
It would be pretty ironic if all the establishment Republicans left the GOP and joined the LP party and libertarians started winning elections in the GOP.
It’s what they get for chasing ballot access and letting everything else fall apart.
Jesus fucking Christ, the LP is a goddamn waste of effort and a sad joke. This really is pathetic-enjoy your irrelevance fellas.
And the really sad part is that they are tripping over their own dick when people are fed up with Team Red and Team Blue. I get tripping over your dick when it’s 1999 and people are pretty happy with the way the country works. But approval ratings for everything are at all time lows and they are failing spectacularly at bringing in the disenfranchised.
Deaths panels for everyone!
YOU get a death panel! And YOU get a death panel! /President Oprah
I’ve spent the day (and will spend tomorrow) in a securities law conference. Exciting.
I know I’m good at this, but I should’ve literally chosen any other area of law.
Bird law
Funny thing is (I had to check at the time), Charlie was half right. You can’t legally own a hummingbird as a pet. But you can’t own a gull either.
By “literally chosen any other area of law”, I probably mean “Why the fuck did I go to law school?”
I know at least one lawyer who hasn’t asked that question. Wait, no I dont.
Also, why would anyone keep a hummingbird as a pet? They are migratory.
Now you do.
It has been quite useful having my J.D. I owe my non-military career to having it.
At least it ain’t divorce or custody battles.
What do you do in securities law? I ask because I work in plaintiff side derivative litigation.
*prepares airstrike*
Wow. If you’re going to send almost 1000 people a half mile underground, it’s insane to not have a backup generator for the elevator. Or a backup elevator, for that matter.
One doesnt spend that kind of money on slave labor. A metallurgist that worked for for decades said to me “Nowhere else in the world would this be considered ore. If they didn’t have slave labor the mines would close tomorrow.”
Worked for whom?
Decades.
Worked for Decades for decades?
for how long?.
Ten years
Flynn’s Sentencing hearing is delayed. Either because Mueller is getting more info out of him on the non-existent collusion, or the Judge smells a rat with all the stuff going on with the FBI.
It’s obvious that they sand-bagged the guy and that the only reason Flynn’s playing along is to avoid them prosecuting his son.
It occurs to me that, even though he wasn’t technically DOJ at the time, Mueller trying to find the Russian collusion feels an awful lot like OJ trying to find the real murderer.
“If I Did It”, retitled “If I Did It: Confessions of the Investigator” in later issues, is a book by ghostwriter Hillary Soweto and, purportedly, by O. J. Mueller?
Yeah, I’m buying that burrito either. Extraordinary claims (like something we’ve never seen making up 95% of matter) require extraordinary proof. So far there is none.
I’ve noticed that I’m doing laundry more often than I used to.
I blame exercise. On days when I work out I go through three outfits – the work clothes, the “gym” clothes and the after-“gym” clothes. Compared to other days where I only need the one.
Just hang your office pants back up. They don’t need to be laundered.
Yes they do.
I believe you.
Why?
They’ve been worn.
Your just a sucker for big detergent.
Well, then it might be more accurate to say your insistence on washing clean clothes makes you do more laundry, not (just) working out.
Underwear can be worn 4 times… front to back then repeated inside-out.
“Doesn’t pass the smell test” is a saying for a reason, people.
What if they out rank you?
Can’t the wife/gf run backup for your orphans when they’re too busy in the mines? I don’t get it.
I’m afraid I have none of the above.
Any of them can be purchased from a shithole country, you know.
*sends 2 gift orphans over to Uncivil’s lair*. You have to feed them at least twice a week, but cheap cat food is totally fine.
What are the old people going to eat if you give the orphans the cat food?
Do you even libertarian, brah?
I am absolutely amazed by Trump’s ability to cram his fat ass into all of the tiny media minds out there.
Illinois lottery official resigns after tweeting Trump-like slur about East St. Louis
East St. Louis was certainly a shithole when we last drove through it 25 years ago.
I guess you guys didn’t have that racist app that tells you to not drive through there.
Its actually more “past” than “through”.
Probably the most factual representation of an area in National Lampoon’s Vacation.
It hasn’t got any better. I grew up about 45 miles from there and its always been terrible.
A couple years ago I was driving on I64 heading towards St Louis.
Right as we get past the last exit for Caseyville where there is a nice truckstop and mcdonalds, my 3 year old says ‘I gotta potty’
So we had to find a place to stop in East Saint Louis, or hope she can hold it for 30 minutes.
We eventually found a McDonalds and apparently they lock the bathroom doors there because if they don’t they’ll end up filth covered.
20-some years ago Mrs. Whiz and I accidentally missed an exit in St. Louis and ended up crossing the river into East St. Louis. We got off the highway, meaning to turn around, but there were no signs indicating how to get back on. We stopped briefly in a parking lot and some degenerate-looking character started lurching toward us. We decided it was best to keep moving, and finally found the (unmarked) entrance to the highway. Fun times!
AP gonna AP
Pantywaisted, mealy mouthed shit heads.
Odd how just a few weeks ago the term “SHITHOLE” was strewn across their front page indiscriminately.
The AP is a shithole.
Bacon could probably enlighten us about how terrible East St. Louis is.
Fun fact: Chicago Public Schools now receives more money from the State of Illinois than East St. Louis, despite having a full valuation tremendously larger than East St. Louis. Progressives really care about the poor….er…I mean public employee unions
Fun Fact: Much of Escape From New York was shot in East St. Louis. John Carpenter saved quite a bit of money on making it look like a lawless warzone since it already looked like a lawless warzone.
“…since it already was a lawless warzone.”
FIFY.
When my Guard unit got called up for flood duty in 1992, we staged out of the E. St. Louis Armory. We saw three buildings in town that were not burnt in some fashion, had windows broken or graffiti on them. The Federal Courthouse, the AT&T building (it had tiny slit windows, way up high – looked like a fortress) and the Guard Armory (surrounded by a fence topped with razor wire). We rolled in the gate and heard some hooting and calling – three hookers had come up to the fence and were shouting through it at us. Our unit was from central Illinois – one college town and farms. Some of the younger soldiers looked like I am sure I did, entering Baghdad….
It’s a paradise compared to Gary.
Or Whiting, which is really just Gary-Adjacent. I’ve spent a lot of time at BP in Whiting.
I think this song will find a willing audience here.
You think right. Although my office mates are probably less enthusiastic than I am…
Taco Bell Nacho Fries. Meh.
6 or 7 outta 10.
Or should I have put this in the Glibfit thread?
either.
6 max.
They need moar of the shake flavoring and lots of the flourescent cheese
6 the ones I had were to dry without the cheese and the seasoning on the fries was weak.
What specifically about New York bound flights does Virgin Atlantic think will make passengers interested in fucking?
The fact that they’re leaving London?
Remember, the most beautiful girls *are* the girls you first see after leaving England! It is known.
But London is minority English these days!
New York = Sodom, LA = Gomorrah.
No matter which way you turn, you’re gonna be a pillar of salt.
Can you stand on my sidewalk then?
The sense of impdening doom.
It’s got to be all the garbage all over the streets and the fact that the pizza there is so sub par.
Squishy in the right spots.
https://archive.is/oQu8P
1, 5, 10, 12, 25, 39, 41, 44, 47.
10, 40, 44
I was just about to click back to your excellent previous contribution until 41 stopped me dead in my tracks.
Whoa.
Also 78! Didn’t see her the first time around (how I couldn’t have I don’t know).
7 and TEN! God Bless you Q
“Hey everybody, greetings. I hope we all had lunches in line with our GlibFit goals.”
This morning, 2 hard boiled eggs.
For lunch, salad with 4 different types of organic greens, 3 different types of sprouts, cherry tomatoes, bell peppers, topped with pumpkin, sunflower seeds, and pine nuts. Some blue cheese crumbles, seal salt, and olive oil with a little vinegar.
For dinner? BEER! See, this is where I’m falling short.
Seal salt, lol. That was good. I wish I could get some seal salt, sounds yummy.
Used for keeping pinnipeds closed.
Mined with a club
I remember one time that I emailed some greeny women in customer service I worked with about this new alternative fuel source someone had posted on the interwebs. It consisted of mining baby seal blubber, with a club, for it’s energy density. One of them freaked the fuck out and sent me this scathing reply about how she thought I was such a nice person, but I’m not really a nice person. I was laughing my ass off.
Or mined by Heidi Klum, amirite?
You’re never going to get it unless you get a little crazy.
Brutal.
Interesting link to the old article about the youth in Asia.
We’re teaching a lesson this very day on population challenges in developed countries, and having the class brainstorm solutions. The inputs given them are: 1) old people get gov’t checks for various things, 2) those checks are paid using money generated by working people, 3) there is a finite supply of working people on earth, and in developed countries, there are fewer and fewer.
Surprisingly only one group recommended elder genocide as the obvious and only solution. I’d have thought more of the little angels would have hit upon that.
Also, fried chicken.
*checks crystal in palm*
Meh. Let’em come. If they do there will be fewer working age people in this developed country.
Yes, that is how governments solve problems. Kill the expensive unproductive ones. Babies who will always be on the government dole, old people who will never be productive.
Governments solve problems by killing people in general. Expensive, cheap, productive, unproductive, doesn’t matter. The main question is one of convenience. If you are inconvenient, your life is forfeit.
“No man, no problem.”
-Stalin
The government does a much more effective job of killing the inexpensive productive ones.
Old people vote.
And they only manage problems, if they solved problems, they’d put themselves out of a job.
What were the other solutions? There aren’t that many irradiated areas you can send them to for disaster work.
That’s the joke – there actually aren’t any solutions. Not any realistic ones, at any rate.
The textbook gives some wishwash about bribing the people who are already here/there (Europe & Japan) to have more babies, and allowing massive unchecked immigration.
But 1) the gov’t can only pay so much to so many people, and 2) voters will “clap back”, as idiots on the internet say these days, against the level of immigration needed to float the old white people.
The only real solution is one not presented: stop giving so much goddamned money to the old people.
I was more curious what the children hit upon as the final solution to old people question.
Just different versions of the crap the book already gave them, nothing of note.
I did use the opportunity to slide in a, “The only permanent fix is to stop spending the fucking money” line to wrap up the exercise.
Youthanasia?
Solution: Filial piety. First and foremost, descendants should care for their ancestors. If you decide not to have kids and don’t belong to a cultural group (e.g. church) which can help share those burdens, you retain the option to throw yourself on the tender mercy of the state, which will euthanize you like a mildly liked pet which has gotten too
expensive to provide medical care forold and in pain to truly enjoy life.Hello, sailor.
3 eggs fried in butter and a couple pieces of leftover bacon.
I use coconut oil a lot, but butter is vastly superior for eggs.
4 eggs and sausage was breakfast. I had a Just Sayin special for lunch.
“I had a Just Sayin special for lunch”
Order the cheapest thing on the menu and then complain about the service?
How was your salad?
Delicious, thanks!
I’ll take that over the UCS special,* any day.
Bowl of tepid gritz. No salt, no butter. With a glass of tap water.
Distilled water.
No milk?
Milk is for baking.
If you had my tap water, you’d want to avoid drinking it too.
If I remember correctly you’re in upstate NY. Sulfur in the water?
Not sure what it is, but distinctly worse than it should be for the rate I pay for it.
My stepdad has family outside Albany. The well on their farm sits over a deposit of sulfur, so the water comes out smelling like rotten eggs.
Mine is municipal water, definate particulate matter and dissolved compounds, not sulphur.
How in the world can you have leftover bacon? Around Casa de Animal, if bacon is cooked, it’s eaten. There is no such thing as leftover bacon.
Excellent musical selection, Brett. My introduction to The Dicks was made via Mudhoney:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp7P_S3AipI
Don’t make me send Warty to your house
Stop making promises you can’t keep, Brett.
Apparently Still Canon.
PS, I love the other clocks too…
So…anyone know what’s in the GODDAMN MEMO!?
Details about Winston’s mom.
I thought those were on the bathroom stall at the truck stop.
Honestly, they are all over the place.
She’s been known to get around.
Tulpa’s real identity
That sounds like something Tulpa would say…
I will pursue as my primary goal in life the Tulpa or Tulpae who slaughtered reason.com and Hit ‘n Run. They are out there somewhere. Whatever it takes to identify them and bring them in, I will provide somehow.
I’d start by checking the basements of every mother with a live in adult child and an internet connection.
Not that you needed any more convincing, but the media have completely lost their delusional fucking minds:
Mueller’s closing in on Trump! The “independence of law enforcement” (try to hold back your guffaws) is being dismantled! The memo was altered! Noble truth-teller Adam Schiff is fighting the good fight! Classified information prevents a rebuttal of this dastardly memo!
I wonder how many of these people truly believe the hyperventilating articles they write. I’m sure Sargent does.
The WaPo makes the NYT look positively sane by comparison these days.
WaPo = Weekly World News of the MSM.
I see you didn’t read Bruni’s latest pathetic scrawling. How the hell did someone with the writing skill of a mentally challenged 4 year old get a job at the NYT? The enlightenment is over, bros.
“Mueller’s closing in on Trump!”
I can send you 100,000 posts at DU with that in the post, going back since the beginning. Dummies, no self awareness at all. They’ll fall for anything.
It seems that the proof that the memo was altered is Adam Schiff saying he compared it to the original and the one released has been changed. But Schiff has yet to produce the original, right? And Schiff’s tweet about (a tweet for pete’s sake) is one piece of what the Post* calls “he plain facts of the reporting .”
Note: it’s one of their bloggers so I don’t know whether they supposedly represent editorial opinion or not.
From what I heard was it was alterated made at Schiff’s request.
So it’s time to resume ignoring the clown.
*alterations made at
Just got off the phone with the local Commissioner of the Revenue. It feels good to win an argument when it counts for something.
Scruffy for Sanitation Commissioner!
Your Trash Is My Business
That euthanasia article actually makes me physically ill. *That* is where we are headed if we continue to give the government power over our lives and, specifically, our healthcare. How that situation can be described as anything other than murder is beyond me.
I just sent it to my proggies. Let’s see what horrific interpretation they will come up with.
They were able to justify the British government basically murdering a baby, so I’m sure they’ll come up with something.
If there is anything I have learned about progs it is that nothing they do is beyond their ability to rationalize with some double-extra cognitive dissonance or just plain making shit up.
If only that were exclusive to progressives, the world would be a much better place.
2 students shot at LA middle school; girl in custody
If only they banned guns in Los Angeles, or schools.
Wait, I thought they had common sense gun control in Cali?
She got the gun in Indiana.
That’s where all those Chicago gang bangers get them too. Coincidence? I think not.
I blame toxic femininity.
toxic shock
“Toxic shock syndrome gets more chicks than me.”
-Jimmy Pop
Women are like dog-doo, hear me through, don’t interrupt
It’s just the older than they get the easier they are to pick up
You know what I really want in a girl? Me.
I blame the open bleeder movement.
Clearly, Hygene is partriarchical.
You’re all wrong. Every single firearm on planet Earth needs to be melted down into a giant blob and then launched into the Sun. Then, as phase two, every person who has any knowledge of how a firearm functions and might be able to construct one, must be executed. Then utopia will begin.
After that, utopia will necessitate purging people who know how manufacture explosives, people who know how to sharpen metal, people who know to put nails in a board, people who know how to sharpen sticks, and people who know how to throw rocks. Then utopia will be really close!
Utopia will be really nice once all the people are gone.
Executed by firing squad?
Well, obviously our noble, guiltless, pure as freshly fallen snow public servants get to keep their guns. They’re the only ones that can be trusted!
More brain toilet:
Chatting about workouts on the other thread, I did a bit more digging and it turns out my spondylolysis could also be connected to my excess HGH. Crazy. I’m beginning to think this isn’t so great after all… 🙂
The HGH totally explains the hairy palms too.
No, that would be the compulsive masturbation.
Or lycanthropy
I salute the 1 million North Americans who ditched Facebook last quarter
I left Facebook a couple of years ago and found that getting rid of it made me a lot happier. I’m not one of those people that thinks that everyone, everywhere should get off of Facebook, but I thought this was interesting. I find that more and more of my young friends have left the platform for reasons similar to my own, or because they’re trying to get away from their older family members.
Getting off of facebook was a great thing for me. It took getting off it to realize how much like a drug it was; I craved it in an unhealthy way for about a week and after that I felt like a weight had been lifted off me. Never missed it even for a second since then.
It means that they need to prog harder. I wonder how much they would pay for my services?
Stephen King, doosh extraordinaire!
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/02/01/stay-classy-stephen-king-slammed-for-disgusting-tweet-about-deadly-crash-of-train-carrying-gopers/
I have no respect at all left for the guy and apparently he has none left for himself. He let Hollywood take some of his best efforts and basically destroy it with SJW trash. What a shamless POS. No artistic integrity at all.
This makes me happy I don’t own any of his books. Even the ones I read secondhand I didn’t think were any good. Hatred poisons your soul, he is living proof.
If anyone knows what it feels like to be run over…
Lol
My wife who was a huge Joss Whedon fan was pretty disgusted when he tweeted out some horrible shit criticizing Nicole Kidman about accepting the election results. I think that left a bad taste in her mouth because here is a man who claims he’s all for feminist values tweeting an incredibly misogynist message.
In my early days socializing on the Internet, I hung out at a now defunct website that had spun off of userfriendly.org (I preferred it because they didn’t have threading). There was a WA state government employee who was really psychologically damaged that also hung out there. She was your Mark 1 Mod 0 SJW with really bad rage issues and who saw anti-semitism everywhere and referred to her coworkers as cow-orkers.
She had grown up in Maine in the town Stephen King lives in and gone to school with one of his kids. She hated him. I mean really hated him. She hinted that he psychologically abused his kids. She wouldn’t state outright what he had done, which was pretty abnormal for her because she loved to accuse people of things on the scantest of evidence. I got the sense that either it was some thing or things so picayune that she didn’t want to admit it, or it was so traumatizing for her that she couldn’t bear to talk about it.
But she was really damaged. The sort of damaged that you get through long term sexual abuse. I just stayed away from the topic.
That’s something that I would really want to believe, even though I couldn’t.
Wow…userfriendly.org. That’s a site I haven’t been to in forever.
Userfriendly and Sluggy Freelance used to be the first things I read every single day
Bun-bun fan, huh?
::Nods knowingly::
I actually used to have the Sluggy evil kittens t-shirt
The apology:
“A rather thoughtless tweet from me concerning the train-truck crash, for which I apologize (if one is necessary). It should be pointed out, too, that those Republican politicians, who can be heartless when they vote, immediately got out to help.”
Isn’t it great being progressive??? You don’t have to DO anything. Voting the “right way” is enough to have a heart.
The non-apology apology.
Pure class.
Being a prog means never having to say “I’m sorry”.
I’d respect him more if he had just told them to kiss his ass. That response is just weaselly.
What a piece of shit. I read his books and watched many of his book adaptations on the screen and it’s fucking disappointing to see that he’s a giant turd.
According to Q downthread, the correct term would be ‘Fecalith’
I’m going to strive to include ‘fecalith’ in as many sentences as possible.
Sorry not sorry.
Go sit on a sharp stick Steve.
The apology seems a bit hasty. I mean, what if we find out the dead garbageman voted for Drumpf? King will have to issue another retraction.
I recall an interview (in Playboy?) with him many years ago in which he expressed an affinity for reading headlines about babies being found nailed to walls. This doesn’t surprise me in the least.
What a douchebag.
“Stephen King
✔
@StephenKing
A rather thoughtless tweet from me concerning the train-truck crash, for which I apologize (if one is necessary). It should be pointed out, too, that those Republican politicians, who can be heartless when they vote, immediately got out to help.”
The cognitive dissonance (and projection) of the progressive left is staggering. So let me see. He claims Republicans are ‘heartless’ (whatever that means except for the usual progressive drivel – as if Obama gave a shit one iota about people) yet tweets out a grotesque, anti-humanist 140 character screed?
And he should ask his friend about how karma can work with his bull shit.
JOURNALISM!
https://twitter.com/exjon/status/959087026464202753
Favorite response: This is what I meant about them spinning the fuck out of anything and everything
Adam Khun
Replying to @exjon @allahpundit
“The Post,” but where Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep try to prevent the publishing of a memo about the Pentagon Papers because they were heavily edited by a partisan hack who was compromised by a hostile foreign agent /ftfy”
The edit was done at the request of Shiff, the FBI and the DOJ and the edits were minor. I guess he got the partisan hack part correct.
It’s pretty obvious that the edits aren’t material — if they made Nunes look bad, Schiff would have already leaked them.
The death rate from Imodium (1 in 1.1B per year) is about 1/4th of the death rate from getting hit on the head by a coconut (1 in 250M per year).
Imodium is an anti-diahrreal medication… I now have the horrific mental image of lethal constipation.
Apparently Immodium is a opioid that can be abused. So we need to regulate like sudafed.
Can be abused by taking about 250x the normal human dose.
It’s going to end up getting regulated like pseudoephedrine.
You’ll get a buzz, but you won’t shit for a year.
Sign me up.
Wasn’t this all in the 4 PM links yesterday?
FEEL OUR PAIN, TED!
Obstipation (constipation taken to a logical extreme) involves feces being compressed into a fecalith (literally shit stone). It’s functionally equivalent to a bowel obstruction and could cause a bowel rupture. Not good. Not good at all.
lethal constipation.
New movie starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover?
No they already made that one. I think Joe Pesci was in it too
The More You Know
Death by coconut to the head got an audible chuckle out of me.
How many of those are the result of hazards of attempting to harvest them?
Every coconut tree on the planet has a large wasp nest in it. Palms too. I always thought those guys that climb them to get dates or coconuts are nuts.
Wha? Now look here my good man, I’ve watched every season of Survivor, and I never saw a single wasp!
Huh. Didn’t see a single wasp while I was in Iraq, around plenty of date palms too.
On average, 2 Americans die every year from vending machines falling on them.
On average, they were trying to get merchandise out of the machine without paying.
That would be 1 in 150M.
So a little bit more common than the coconut.
To be fair to the Coconuts, Vending machines have a wider geographic distribution, and live closer to higher concentrations of people.
and then the Vending machines became aware………
Mingus Dew!
The thinking man’s soda.
Neither of which can kill Keith Richards.
How do you kill that which does not Live?
So I tried out Signal as a messaging app and it’s not going to work. For one, it uses my mobile data for encryption. I don’t have enough data to support that. Two, it can’t replace Facebook Messenger as the go-to app for messaging my friends and family back in the States or elsewhere around the world.
Any suggestions or am I doing something wrong with it?
Sorry but I’m a little confused…
1. If data allowance is an issue, why is Facebook Messenger OK but not Signal? The former uses your mobile data as well.
2. Why can’t you use it to message your friends and family abroad?
I don’t use Messenger to text my local friends and family, only the ones in different countries, so it doesn’t take data to do that.
It won’t send messages to different country codes. For example, I have a Japanese sim card and when I tried to message a friend in the States with Signal it didn’t work.
I use Signal and while it has used mobile data it uses very, very little. Even taking into account data usage when my phone is connected to WiFi it still isn’t using enough for the phone to even accurately report it–it just shows up as < 0.01gb.
That’s good to know, thanks!
So right now in this securities law conference they’re talking about “voluntary” disclosures on climate change risk.
The SEC put up a proposed rule in 2016 to mandate it,, but the mean Republicans aren’t going to mandate it.
There are 5 different competing disclosure standards. Michael Bloomberg came out with something called the “Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure” last summer. France has already mandated it, the UK will mandate it probably, and ISS (who basically tell all the large investors in the US how to vote) wants it, so it’ll probably end up being made mandatory anyways.
This woman is VERY passionate about this.
Ask her if the SEC would be willing to investigate officials in the city of NY for failing to disclose climate change risks to investors purchasing their muni-bonds.
Fuck voluntary disclosures of any kind.
The local revenue commissioner wanted me to disclose the value of my rental inventory by item even though it’s taxed on the receipts from leasing it out. I told her that I would not provide the information as it was not material to my designation as a short-term rental company. After some hemming and hawing, she backed down. They were just looking for an avenue to squeeze me for more money.
Some issuers already disclose that and the attention paid to such disclosure from the financial community is somewhere between ‘zero’ and ‘when Al Gore stops buying houses on the shore I might take this seriously’.
What exactly would a voluntary disclosure on climate change risk look like?
climate change = unfalsifiable
risk = maybe, maybe not
Are you supposed to just make a number up? Ok, how about zero?
Well, there is the constant risk of governments passing some stupid law or implementing some stupid regulation in response to climate change that totally fucks up your business.
North Korean leader calls for world-class trolley bus factory
Let the strong wind of mushroom farming blow across the land!
***
Kim apparently smiled widely as he praised the cleaness and freshness of the factory grounds and also showed satisfaction at the modern facilities which he claimed are now “92 percent domestically produced.”
He stepped onto a new type of trolley bus, calling it “a glorious creation full of the revolutionary spirit of the working class’s prowess.”
***
Excellent! They’ve mastered 19th century technology!
If we were playing Civilization, Kim would be hopelessly behind.
I thought it was the strong winds of catfish farming? I cant keep up with all of that hot air blowing around.
http://m.newson6.com/story.aspx?story=37377085&catId=112042
Six Bartlesville police officers drove to a house on South Maple Street to serve a warrant. They were looking for Mike Livingston.
But, almost as soon as they broke through the door to get in, one officer was shot in the leg and another in the face with a BB gun.
Officers say 72-year-old Geraldine Townsend fired at them at least twice.
She was killed with a single shot from an officer who was hit in the upper lip with a BB.
Bartlesville Police said the video is clear enough to show just how quickly officers have to make life or death decisions, and, in this case, make them in a dark hallway.
“Once they get into the house and order the suspect down, the other two officers go into the hallway and they’re confronted with a gun. It all happens in a matter of seconds,” Hastings said.
From what I read they went to house to search for pot.
And you people have been trying to convince marijuana isn’t dangerous. shame.
And they never heard the sound of a BB gun before? they aren’t silent ffS
The pellet rifle I got for shooting mice in traps is loud enough that I put on ear protection before using it.
No one’s going to be surprised that the guy who thinks water is too strongly flavored also thinks BB guns are too loud.
1: That is libel based upon a deliberate misrepresentation of what I said.
2: Come by and give it a listen.
3: This thing was louder than I expected, and the test fire convinced me to exercise precautions.
I’ll step in here. #6.2 has a Gamo break-barrel air rifle that will fire premium waisted pellets at about 1200fps. Thing is almost as loud as my 10/22.
We’ve had the cops here a couple of times “just to check”.
N.B. They’re lousy with an air rifle too.
The cop who shot her had been hit in the mouth with a bb. I think I know that what I was shot with wasn’t dangerous after taking a round in the mouth and it not incapacitating me.
Also, when you kick in people’s doors at 9:30 at night, there is a good chance you are going to startle an elderly sleeping homeowner. Fuck them for being there in the first place.
Fuck, 9:30 is early, a few years back, the local swat wanna-be’s and some feds ‘raided’ a house at 2 am. Why? there was a woman living there with an outstanding warrant. A warrant for…bum bum bahhh…shoplifting. Killed her father or uncle or brother, I forget which. He had the bad luck to be up and saw a masked figure sneaking around the house with a gun and decided to defend the household.
She was in fear of her life.
Correctly so.
Rep. Maxine Waters calls for a parental advisory when Trump appears on TV
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/01/rep-maxine-waters-calls-for-parental-advisory-when-trump-appears-on-tv.html
***
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who appeared on BET Wednesday to lambast President Trump’s State of the Union Address, called for a parental advisory each time the president appears on television.
“Whenever he appears on TV there should be a disclaimer that says ‘This may be may not be acceptable for children,’” she said.
Waters recorded a pre-taped response to Trump’s address, which was broadcast on attorney and political commentator Angela Rye’s BET special.
“One speech cannot and does not make Donald Trump presidential. He’s not presidential and he never will be presidential. He claims that’s bringing people together but make no mistake, he is a dangerous, unprincipled, divisive, and shameful racist,” Waters said.
***
“Herp derp! Tum teh teedily tum teh turr!” she added.
Do these people hear themselves?
No, don’t answer that.
L.A. homeless problems,
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-homeless-how-we-got-here-20180201-story.html
Again, the Comments are not kind to the left,
Yeah. That’s the problem.
L.A. knows exactly what thy are doing, and they also take them out to My County and dump em off, Makes the place look bad
From the comments: “Sixth largest economy in the world eh? And you cant even take care of your people. How is it that far poorer states have much lower rates? Now you know how these people got rich. Sad it what this is.”
I have to keep wondering when people make that “Sixth largest economy in the world” claim, are they using GDP? The same metric which mistakes government waste as economic activity?
That’s the number behind the Secession thing, If it’s a real number, they can “buy” their way out, otherwise, it’s crash and burn time
You would think voters in California would start tossing anybody with a D after their name to the curb after all that’s happened there.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
(sniffle) Oh man, you guys kill me…
When communism doesn’t work it means your not communisming hard enough.
Skid row by the sea. Never change west coast commies.
Go inland 35 miles and it’s a whole other place, L.A. Sucks HARD! I’ll take living in the sticks any day, and I don’t even live in the Sticks, that’s what the LA crowd calls it
So, Nolan Bushnell, creator of Pong, founder of Atari, the man who built modern video games industry was gonna be honored by Game Developer’s Conference.
He founded Atari in the 70s.
Guess where this is going:
Fuck them all
Link to Milo’s clickbaity site, because fuck if I’m linking Polygon, Kotaku or any of the other scum in games journalism, but yeah, that’s about it.
His response made me cringe. It’s two steps from people reading their confessions in 30s show trials.
Disappointing
“If my personal actions or the actions of anyone that worked with me offended or caused pain to anyone at our companies, then I apologize without reservation,” he stated just before peeling a $100 bill from an obscenely large bank roll and lighting a Cuban cigar with it.
“She also claimed, without basis, that female employees at Atari were forced to walk around topless.”
Bullshit.
That was a misinterpretation of the “No Hats Indoors” rule.
I would never want to be in Bushnell’s position of being railroaded out of an award because of some faint bullshit accusation of sexual harassment, but if I was him, I would tell everyone to pound sand and that I regret nothing.
Apologizing to these assholes only empowers them to do more of this stuff and won’t do a damn thing to absolve you of your “crime”. The thing that is upsetting about Wu and others like her is that she doesn’t care that these blatantly false accusations of sexual assault and harassment are making it harder for women who where actual victims to receive any sort of justice. In their arrogance and horribleness, they are hurting the very people who they claim they are helping to feed their egos. Fuck them with a rusty nail.
That’s the part I don’t get – he’s old and rich. Why self-criticize? What can they do to him?
Just go and say “fuck off, the lot of you parasites”. And then issue a statement where you tell each and every shrieking moron “fuck off” by name.
I don’t get it either but my theory is that the SJW’s somehow convinced everyone that if they don’t bow down to their demands and apologize they will be cast out. Cast out of what, I don’t exactly know but they are so effective at waging a war against you via social media that you honestly start to believe that it’s better to lay down than fight.
Notch the minecraft guy did that. He’s got his nice house, lots of cash and just fucks with people on twitter. They hate him. Although he probably never cared much about socializing before he got rich either.
I guess, it’s just…Bushnell of all people.
That’d be like a gun manufacturer convention telling Samuel Colt to pound ground for stuff that happened 40 years prior, and was perfectly in style at the time, and not really that big a deal…fuck!
Someone over at Reason described Glibs as having ‘picked up their ball and gone home’ and another ‘to go back home with their parents’.
Ouch.
ARE YOU GONNA TAKE THAT?!
Eh, cross-site drama is more fun when there’s worthwhile people to drama with.
I’d sooner beef with Cenk or Anita.
The whole point of establishing a club is so you can deny people from being in your club. Duh.
If by take that, you mean ignore that, then yes.
If rather take that than deal with Tony or PB
Although I wish Xeones had come on over
Yeah I never conversed with Tony or PB. Still don’t. Waste of my time.
If I want a good laugh, I go lurking at TOS, it’s a madhouse mostly, Glibs actually moderates in real time, which makes all the difference. Ever see spam around here? I THINK NOT!
Crusty pissed me off today.
“Doctor, it hurts when I do this…”
Seriously, I still go there daily, and the only difference is that articles are far better than comments section now. And not because article quality improved. So I just scan comments to see the stupid and move on.
He used to be cool.
Sorry. We used up the last of our fucks several months ago.
I keep a few in my closet, just in case….
Sure! It’s not like I give a flying fuck what they think!
Who is someone?
Don’t make me snitch!
Well it sounds like butthurt to me. I was hoping to get amplify my satisfaction from it. I imagine after the progs they suck up to finally throw them under the bus they will be left with a shreek/Tony echo chamber.
*looks at comment count at Reason blog*
*looks at glibs comment count*
K.
Awww be nice, they can’t help but Suck
Well, what are those counts?
Allow me to retort with a favorite quote from a reality tv show:
“I don’t know what I did to make you so upset but I’ll take another Chardonnay.”
Gone home? Yeah, kinda.
Tones of home!
My father keeps telling me about the swatting that happened a while back, even though I keep telling him ‘Yeah I know’. His version is that it was part of some gamer trend/bet where the loser of the game has to ‘swat’ some random person. From what I read it was the result of an online argument. My father gets all his news from talk radio and ‘The Five’, is this a thing they are pushing or is my father just confused (which is a very real possibility- 75 year old half deaf stoner that he is)
“75 year old half deaf stoner that he is”
Your Dad is Cool,
🙂
At least everyone got home safe, after “disposal” of the “grenade”:
http://www.mysuncoast.com/ap/loaded-grenade-launcher-found-in-manatee-county-thrift-store/article_7799aa3d-ce38-5fce-9cbc-a02b50b082ef.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share
LOLOLOLOLOL! and everyone went home safe…..
Hi Tres!
“Deputies have discovered that the ‘grenade launcher’ they found at the Goodwill is actually an air-soft grenade launcher.”
What a brain trust they have on the payroll.
Hey Bob!
I have some Airsoft R/C tanks that are a blast, you don’t shoot at the other guys tank, you shoot at the other guys Ankles!
Thinking of going to Queenstown for my
fiftiethnext birthday ending in zero (by way of Emirates A380 First Class). Anyone been? Was thinking antipodal fall, 2022.Isnt that the fuck-plane Virgin is rolling out?
Nevermind.
As much as I love Virgin, I’d rather fly in the middle seat in economy than touch one of those fuck beds.
And for the people that cant afford to fly Virgin and have to stay home in the UK:
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/31/pensioner-80-pushed-entire-arm-cows-rectum-masturbated-7276619/?ito=desktop.article.share.top.twitter
Not been there but people says it beautiful. Go early fall: they get a ton of rain and lots of flight delays/cancellations.
My family moved from Brisbane to Tasmania a few years back and I went for the first time a couple of years back. Hobart & area are really nice.
I figured I’d stop in Sydney for a day, see the big touristy stuff.
Yeah, you can see good chunk in a day as a lot is around the harbour.
Australia is on my bucket list – a few games of footy at the G being a mandatory part of it.
Excellent. You might also want to think about taking in a VFL at one of the old “home” grounds. I’ve heard some of them have terrific atmospheres.
Victoria Park, here I come.
I actually thought all those grounds were disappeared after everyone moved to the MCG or Etihad. Guess not!
I visited Tasmania a year ago. Hobart is nice, very picturesque. Port Arthur looks exactly like the end of the world. I was also impressed by a sight of a wild platypus in Latrobe. Pinot noir in Tasmania is terrific.
Tasmania is, however, Australia’s Florida, but on steroids.
Lovely to visit, be careful of the “civilization”.
Best thing about Tasmania are the maps.
“Go for the rain, stay for the flight cancellations!”
Light dusting of snow, but being the anal shitlord I am, I get up early because I know the trains will be running late. Sho’nuff, dey be late, but I done left early so I be on time. Walking up the street to the company and I get a call. “Straffinrun-san, please come in at 11 instead of 9 due to the snow.”
This means you have to entertain me for two hours. Thank you for your cooperation.
OK, we’re up to the challenge. Glibertarians, assemble!
OK.
+3 Stooges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGtMwU8wDmc
Here, go play a game between posting,
https://en.boardgamearena.com/#!gamelobby
Is there a difference between Reverai and Othello?
I spent some time in Korea, compliments of the DoD. But it wasnt long enough for me to get a phone call addressing “TresCool-San”.
I’m jelly.
My real name means “stupid” when pronounced in Japanese. It’s fun when we’re waiting for a table at a restaurant and the hostess calls out in front of everybody, “Uh, eh, Dip…shit family. Table for 3 is ready.”
“you mean you changed it….to….Latrine?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt3gcSyL5vg
What a bunch of homophones.
Now I’m curious… Baker, maybe?
Dunno, I’m a Yahtzee nut
I went to the local “auto show” which is just a chance for dealers to hawk their new cars.
random thoughts: The Kia Stinger was pretty nice, but the interior was about good as the new Honda Accord. The 3.3L V6 would be nice but the 51k Stinger price tag – ouch.
Jaguar F-Type was just great looking – and I got a chance to sit in a Jag XF, which is a car that’s on my next vehicle list. And yes I can fit my 6’2″ frame in there just fine; whew!
Also looked at the Challenger – amazing how that old platform still got a lot of attention. Not so much with another car on my list, the Ford Focus ST, which I would like for handling more than raw power.
The Honda Civic R was really ugly. MINI still looks like MINI though the latest cars are bigger than the 2003 one that my wife keeps with a death grip.
Another thought: the sports cars were getting the majority of attention by the visitors but, as I said to my old man, hardly any one buy them compared to the scads of CUVs.
The Minis aren’t as mini as they used to be. Did they have new Eclipse at the show? My choice for our new car this year, but the wife and daughter want a Vellfire. Sounds cool, but it isn’t. Minivan.
Fugly car.
Not many real autoshow cars – more like stuff you would see at a dealer’s lot. There was a new Ford Ranger and the new Lincoln Navigator (91k price tag).
Isn’t the new Eclipse a CUV? sad.
91K? That’s not gonna happen. Eclipse Cross is an SUV.
That 1.5 L sounds under powered
TRUE DOMINEERING SPECIES DRIVE HEMIS!!!!
Fun fact- the only reason Fiat/Chrysler was able to bring back the hemi head, was due to some heavy-duty computing, and combustion control requiring 2 plugs/cylinder. Engines with those heads tended to behave more like a 2-stoke, in that they made all their appreciable power in the higher RPM’s, but were pollution beasts at the low end or idle, do to poor combustion.
Other fun fact- Mercedes-Benz had the 1st hemispherical head on their engines in the 1920’s and 30s.
Well that explains why I live on the edge of 3k RPMs at all times!!!!!
KIAAAAAAA!!!!!
Shapiro calling Ron Paul an alt-right figure. Ok, not fully alt-right but is surely anti Semetic and engages in identity politics. Ugh.
Shapiro doesn’t like people that don’t kiss Israel’s ass.
That seems to be it. A student pushed back and Ben backpedalled. I’d love to see a Yokel on a show like The Five. The neocons and neoliberals look ridiculous when they are forced to explain their positions when you take away the “but, but the other team does X!”.
You mean as a regular? They’d be lucky to get one show in the can before they got the axe. Dave Smith, who’s an ancap, was on Kennedy a lot though.
As a regular? *Drools*. Watching Dave lay into SE Cupp last week was a breath of fresh air in the stale, fart smelling MSM.
What show? I’ll have to YouTube it.
I saw it on a link to zerohedge. Search for it there.
Here.
Gracias
Hey Google!
Doesn’t Anyone Work?
A tip for you low carb folks. Breyers makes a “carb smart” ice cream. The vanilla is quite good, the chocolate is ok.
that stuff eventually makes my stomach upset – same with the sugar free Klondike bars.
Eddie’s has some sugar free ice cream that’s not bad.
But really most of that “ice cream” is junk. Good for when you are first switching over to low carb – as a treat – but I eventually stopped eating it.
I’m lucky. I haven’t had any of the stomach issues that some people get.
Is ice cream really something that one eats enough to need a “low carb” version…? Me, it’s a rare enough treat I would just eat the sugar-bomb version.
/shrug.
It’s nice to have options. I try very hard to avoid added sugar. It’s been a winning game plan for me.
A home ice-cream maker saved my marriage before I got rid of my gall bladder. Home made ice cream, sweetened only with the sugar in the fruit you add is damn good, and even if you “have” to add sugar, you’re talking about half the quantity you have in commercial ice cream.
Plus, rum and raisin, with real rum.
You raise a pet peeve of mine – I would love to cut my sugar intake with products that just have less sugar. I would happily buy Coke or OJ or any number of products with just half the sugar. But nooooo.
OJ is a particular bugbear of mine, because you’d think there’s a huge market for “grown up orange”. Of course, grapefruit is actually worse.
All the artificial sweeteners fail miserably, and sometimes, yeah, you just want to ignore that ‘diet’ and drop even 8oz of soda. My go-to solution for that is a can of selzer water and about 2 tablespoons of Roses’ Lime Juice or Ribena, but it ain’t fooling nobody.
I remember in Germany a 7-Up like product (basically, carbonated mineral water with lemon) with like half the sugar you would find in any American soda was a staple. WTF, America.
Trader Joe’s has some good flavors of their sparkling water with 0 sugars.
I accidentally bought Halo Top.
I promise you I won’t make that mistake again.
It’s sweetened with sugar alcohols that I had to look up.
“Thanks for ruining my daddy’s business, you fat *beep*!”
Here’s one for the Derponomicon.
what happened to jusy learning? ballooning student services bureaucracy.
“ballooning student services bureaucracy.”
Today I used my lunch hour to run some errands. On my way back to the office I passed a pair of those canvassers that non-profit orgs pay to approach strangers on the street and solicit donations for their causes. One of them came up to me and asked in a screeching tone, “are you interested in helping us fight for gay and trans rights?” He was an anemic looking fellow with long hair dyed pink and was wearing a skirt over jeans. He didn’t even resemble what is generally accepted as trans either, in so much as trans people put some discernible level of effort into actually transitioning to look the part. This dude just looked like he got dressed in the dark. I politely shook my head and kept walking, though the urge to apologize for his dad touching him down there almost got the better of me.
The ‘allies’ are the worst of the lot. There’s a guy transitioning at the office and all he wants to do is have the op, complete the meds and the process, and get on with his-soon-her life. I don’t talk to him much, what with my shitlord fascist vibe, but I get the impression that activism is way, way down on the list of priorities.
By the way, I’m not posting this to be a dick or anything. I just find it odd that so many of these groups put so little effort into seeming even somewhat relatable to the average person.
*squints* are you sure you’re in the right place?
works for me,,
/dick in the first degree
It’s OK, xe didn’t think you were much to write home about either.
*gently sobs while securing rope to banister*
Cut that out. You don’t need a safety line.
I get it. But seriously, there is a slice of that cohort that deny both ‘male’ and ‘female’. I am down with the “trans”es – it’s definitely “a thing”, if a thing I don’t really grok. But the “non-binaries”, “genderqueers” and the like just strike me as misfits looking for attention.
Sounds like “genderfuck”.
I spot those fuckin’ clipboards from a mile away and veer the hell around those folks.
I know a few trans people and they just want to live their lives, a great group to try Glibism on…
Sweat-Lodge Libertarians?
Ewwww no
Now, that is funny
David Attenborough voice: “Although not easily identified in its adolescent moulting phase, it was a rare example of the Retardus SocJus Warriorus, which shares plumage with both juvenile College-Queerkins, and the adult Transfreakus Urbanicus”
Someone may have covered this already…
…but Will Wilkenson manages to take some basic facts, and contrive the dumbest theory possible from them.
Liberals and conservatives both seem to sometimes suffer this very one-dimensional notion about demography and “trends”. I suppose it comes from most people never having done any long term macroeconomic/demographic analysis, but i think in Wills case he has no excuse. he has, or should have, at least.
basically: the fastest growing areas of the country tend to be smaller cities in red states. these create islands of blue in otherwise pretty red places.
Will says: “tax cuts will accelerate this already extent, 30-year trend, and overwhelm red states and flip them blue. IRONIC COUNTEREFFECT OF TRUMP POLICY!”
no, not really, Will. the trend will continue, and it will continue whether or not the tax cuts happened.
people will be better off because the tax cuts happened, and being better off, they’ll be more likely to buy homes and invest in their retirement.
Guess what happens when ‘young, educated, blue voters’ have homes, kids, saving for kids college educations, and retirement savings?…
..(jeopardy music)…
that’s right! they stop being stupid progressives, and join “regular america” which sometimes votes for republicans simply because they’re less shitty! thanks for playing, Will.
*its also worth noting that home ownership is currently among the lowest ever for millennials in their 30s. the past 10 years have been bad for them in terms of savings. (despite the market booming) The next 10 years will be significant shift in their outlook on their own future. this doesn’t mean the idiotic SJW tone of their politics is going to go away, but many of them are going to be like, “WTF, I need to pay my mortgage” instead of “like OMG its the iPhone 20”
I’ve fantasized about so many people leaving NYC and the like that they’ll flip red but… yeah, not gonna happen.
Wall them in.
Can I get out first?
Are you infected with progressivism?
*checks privilege*
Nope!
Ah, Spicier. So glad he’s back! (plus the first reply is LOL)
Ed Driscoll is the Nick Gillespie of Instapundit, what a lame tool
He’s one of the nerdiest old-lady SoCons on the Internet, who then veers into some pop-kultur bullshit that we’re all meant to nod sagely to.
In high school, the jocks would be giving Reynolds a wedgie just for associating with the little dweeb.