Today is memo day! Today is memo day! Today is memo day!
Looks like a bunch of Russian athletes will have their doping bans lifted. But who cares since there will be no NHL players in the Olympics. Speaking of which, the Maple Leafs, Crapitals and Red Wings were winners last night. And on the hardwood, Cincy, Purdue, UVA, Arizona and Michigan State all won while West Virginia fell.
Across the pond, Bournemouth drilled Chelsea, Man Shitty won again while their crosstown rivals fell to Spurs. Everton won (after Liverpool won Tuesday, by the way) and there were a couple of ties.
That’s all for that. Now…the links!
Oh no! Here’s the smoking gun that will take the admin down for sure. I’ll lay it all out: A former spokesman for Trump’s legal team allegedly said he is prepared to tell Mueller that Hope Hicks may have considered obstructing justice in one comment she made to him about Trump Jr’s meeting with a couple of Russians. You got that? And apparently he said he keeps notes of meetings. So that, you know, should corroborate his story of her making a comment that no evidence suggests she even followed up on. By the way, what Trump Jr said in public about the reason for the meeting doesn’t matter as long as he told the truth to the FBI and the congressional committees that interviewed him. And we all know what he told them was leaked about 15 minutes after he said it, which is what caused the talking heads at CNN and MSNBC to explode…until it came out that the people he met were somehow allowed to be here because someone in the Obama White House had personally signed off on their presence but have since refused to discuss it.
The whole thing is laughable. And if they’re thinking this latest round of unsubstantiated claims of thoughtcrime that can’t in any way be corrobborated is going to move the needle on impeachment at all, they’re as dumb as they look.
Speaking of the memo that is set to be released today, the FBI has grave concerns about its accuracy since it omits so many facts. In other words, it only discusses what the principals may have done wrong and doesn’t touch on the good parts of the investigation. Because every time they hold a press conference about a suspect, I know they go out of their way to tell the public that the perp was an otherwise kind person and even took care of a stray dog once. Hell, there are enough violations of ethics rules by McCabe alone to sink any investigation that ensued from information he gathered or was involved in finding. Like, for instance, if he essentially tricked Michael Flynn into lying to him in what he would have considered to be a normal FBI briefing as opposed to an interview about Russian collusion.
In related news, Mueller and Flynn have both requested a delay in the sentencing hearing of Flynn. This on the heels of the same request being made for Papadapolous’s sentencing. Conjecture away as to the reason, but I have no idea why a defendant would submit to a delay in sentencing for something he’s pleaded guilty to (that carries a minimal sentence with little to no jail time) unless there is a compelling reason to do so…like rescinding the plea because the evidence gathered was tainted. But we’re gonna have to wait to find out about that too, although I suspect Nunes will shed a little light on that as well.
Nashville mayor admits to having an affair with her head of security. Hey, what they do on their own time is their own business…oh wait, apparently it wasn’t on their own time. Not unless they were banging after he had clocked out. Which doesn’t seem to have been very often since he racked up $50,000 in overtime last year. And there’s not a whiff of impropriety in the fact that he, and he alone, accompanied the mayor on “fact-finding” trips to Paris and Athens and other exotic locales. Because if I know anything about the relationship between Nashville and Paris, Athens and Madrid, its that they need constant maintenance from the mayor and her head of security alone.
California: prepare to get fucked at the pump.
And coming to you live from the “No Fucking Shit” Department.
Meanwhile shit that happened overnight less than a block from my babysitter’s house. Which means I did the links with three little monkeys hanging all over me this morning because I can’t take them over until 8 because she had to drive her kids to school.
That’s it. Except for this tie-in to the last link.
Go have a wonderful day, friends.
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Third!
Shortest. Shultz. Comment. Ever.
and the best 😉
You love my work.
It makes you horny.
You misspelled “drowsy.”
Today is memo day!
“Note to self: No one will see it the same way as you.”
Reich?
Didn’t you get the memo?
Dammit! The TPS Reports memo
Ah, I thought you were doing the Batman Begins “didn’t you get the memo” bit.
If the mayor chooses to travel outside of their municipality, it should be on their own dime and without official security. Nothing in their job duties requires ever leaving their jurisdiction on official business. Especially not with this marvellous invention* known as “the internet”
*string of inventions
Athens and Nashville both have a Parthenon, so maybe they just needed to compare the two.
Nashville mayor Megan Barry
Looks better in that pic than in the link.
Yep. Waist up pic in the links. Dirty, dirty pool, Sloop.
Yeah, in the pic I’d volunteer to be her head of security. In the video, meh, I’ve seen worse looking 54 year olds, but I’ve seen better, too.
Of course, this is why I’m going to look like Baron Vladimir Harkonnen when I’m 50.
If they weren’t threatening Flynn’s kids with prosecution, I bet Flynn would be fighting the charges and winning easily.
In order to actually prosecute him, Mueller would have to go through discovery, which would be a field-day for Flynn’s lawyers.
Flynn was bait in the trap. This is all a set-up by Trump. They just don’t know it yet. Or maybe they’re starting to sense it.
I wonder what would happen if Trump called Mueller on the dirty trick of threatening Flynn’s son and pro-actively pardoned him? Freeing up Flynn to fight the charges tooth and nail.
I am so sorry to my husband Bruce, who has stood by me in my darkest moments and remains committed to our marriage
He should’ve left her in Knocksville.
Heh.
Calling my beloved Capitals “the Crapitals” might be forgivable, but not in the same sentence with the Maple Leaves (sic) spelled properly.
The Caps came back from being two goals down in the first 8 minutes!
I think this might be the Capitals’ year!
You poor, poor deluded fellow.
I think this might be the Capitals’ year!
LOL
Someday, I’m gonna be right,
And then it’ll be “I told you so”.
And then who will be laughing?
And then who will be laughing?
Probably you. But we’ll all be so old we’ll have Alzheimers and won’t remember why you’re laughing anyway.
I thought most of you were already at that point.
Who the fuck are you and where the hell am I?
40 year old Cubs fans thought that in 1958.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmC1lNvVwlI
My wife watches that video before every Capitals game
Not the way Nashville is set up and playing. And you have to get by Tampa who are stacked to the roof with talent. Both those teams can win it all. I’m noticing Washington’s nemesis and slayer Pittsburgh is heating up too. I wouldn’t overlook Boston either.
Those teams are nuts and the favourites at this time. And then there’s Vegas. Lord me, Gallant and McPhee built one heckuva story.
Tampa played their rookie goalie way too much in the 1st half of the season. Going to cost them in the playoffs.
If it meant watching the Pens leave in humilition, I would be all for it.
Hard to be humiliated after two cups in a row
*pretends to want to drop gloves, hopes for ref intervention*
*Linesmen wait for fight, smirk*
I hate when that happens
It’s rare to see hope, real, actual hope, in a DC sports fan. Usually we mutter something about a rebuilding season and glower into our beers.
Their season can’t end soon enough for me.
Not because I have a problem with the team but my wife is a damned Caps fan and watches all the games
I’m going to the Crapitals game on Sunday. Can’t wait to watch my Knights roll right over D.C.
The Weird Reason Figure Skater Costumes Always Include Flesh-Colored Panels
They talking about Robby?
He’s not really ‘flesh’ colored.
Too pasty.
Huh? And here I thought it was about infrastructure and keeping the damned thing on.
The ISU rules, however, apply to both male and female skaters, and it’s while you’ll see the panels on all genders on the ice.
Isn’t this the old take on the civil rights legitimacy of anti-gay marriage laws? “It applies equally to gay and straight men: neither is allowed to marry another man.”
Look, the original Olympic athletes competed in the nude. Just sayin’
The Greeks were an odd, deviant sort of folk.
were?
Do lesbians have the male gaze? Or is that female gaze? And if it’s female gaze is it ok?
Also, when a gay man looks at another man, is that a bad male gaze? Or is that ok because he’s gay?
Furthermore, male gaze, hurr hurr hurr!
I think this conversation is relevant and might clear up some confusion.
Coupling: Can women be latent lesbians? NSFW unless you are wearing headphones.
If you can’t glaze you can’t gaze.
Straight women look at other women more than men do. Seriously, and they can tell you every detail ‘Do you think her butt is too big? I liked her earrings, but those boots just didn’t look right with that outfit’.
school dress codes punish women’s bodies simply for being unfortunate subjects to the male gaze
I think she misspelled “sharia”.
Growing up in AZ, the rumor was they blasted the AC so high the girls wouldn’t wear spaghetti straps in the classroom.
Unfortunately for the administration, while the spaghetti straps went away, the headlights were on extra bright.
Unfortunately?
Speaking of the memo that is set to be released today, the FBI has grave concerns about its accuracy since it omits so many facts.
The same FBI that just spent $25K paying for a mobster dinner party.
I could give a rat’s ass what’s in the report as long as it punctures the public’s idiotic perception that the FBI is made up of angels.
the FBI has grave concerns about its accuracy since it omits so many facts
The FBI claiming that a memo about how they covered up wrongdoing “omits facts” is like someone who killed their parents asking for leniency because they are an orphan.
Absent other facts, that seems like it could be legit. I bet the Mueller investigation spends that much in a day, just on the shadow government’s lawyers.
Pretty funny – a black guy took his white friends to the gun range and learned some things.
“I don’t know dey dream bullets and they appear under day pillow.” Nice.
My wife has called me “crazy” several times when bulk deliveries of ammo arrived at the house.
Guilty on 4/5
This guy is a hoot
5/5. It’s all true.
Would the mayor of Nashville
Someone didn’t click through.
Forget the Mayor, WOOD Hope Hicks
If it’s between Hope Hick and Megan Barry, I’m going Hope 10 times out of 10.
But I won’t lie, I can envision scenarios in which I’d take Mrs. Barry for a roll in the hay. Variety is the spice of life, lads.
I can envision scenarios in which I’d take Mrs. Barry for a roll in the hay.
A free trip to Paris? While getting paid?
“But who cares since there will be no NHL players in the Olympics. ”
As proper and appropriate.
Same with the NBA.
So you don’t want to see the best players in a sport play for their nation on the biggest international stage?
Call me an old farted naif but pros shouldn’t be in the Olympics.
It’s just that some of the finest moments in sports come from Olympic hockey, and in the absence of the cold war, a la the miracle on ice, putting the best Americans, the best Swedes, the best Canadians, and the best Russians all up against each other has proved to be some of the best hockey we’ve seen in decades.
The U.S. vs. Canada game when Crosby sank that monster in Vancouver was some of the most exciting hockey I’ve ever seen.
We’ll never know what we missed out on.
That is true. No doubt about it. I’m just an old sucker for amateur sports.
But that’s why the Canada/World Cup was invented. A tournament to pit the best teams. The early Canada Cups -particularly in the 1980s were probably the most intense hockey ever because of the CCCP and Canada being at the pinnacle like two heavyweights.
I’m glad USA hockey is now a consistent power now. It makes for a deeper competitive balance.
I enjoy it because it gives you a rooting interest in other countries.
When Jagr and the Czech republic won it all, that was cool to see.
How was Michael Phelps not a professional swimmer?
It was his only job and he got rich doing it
He is a professional seller of sandwiches… and pot, apparently.
No. Destroy your own hotel rooms.
If the Olympics dried up and went away, I would not shed a nano-tear. I might even celebrate a bit because that corrupt trash-sport showcase wouldn’t be around to annoy me.
Agreed. The World Junior hockey tournament is the best hockey on the planet. Olympics is just an all-star game.
I prefer Premier League to World Cup too.
That’s just because England always fail at the World Cup.
If you want pros, put Hockey in the Summer Olympics.
And baseball in the winter.
They already have that. It’s called Field Hockey.
Eh. There’s something to that. But if I’m paying a man $28M to pitch for me, hell fucking no do I want him risking my investment by pitching in a vigorous environment perhaps weeks (in terms of the WBC) before the regular season starts.
I’m all for the best against the best. But in my sport, the MLB already provides that. Maybe the KHL vs. NHL would be fantastic. Or soccer….but that’s already got the World Cup.
Like Calvin, I see both sides on this issue.
Ditto on the first point. I’m not a hockey guy, but even I cringe a little bit when Ovie decides he’s gonna go suit up for Russia. All I can think is that a bunch of players are gonna go play for a different team under different rules for teams that, frankly, do not have a comparable investment and interest in the well-being of their players. They’re either gonna get hurt with season-ending injuries, or they’re going to go all out and then be worn down when they return to the NHL, which will either lead to injuries or, best-case scenario, worse performance.
But then I don’t really care about the Olympics. Actually, let me rephrase: I couldn’t care less about the Olympics.
Donald Trump brags about that time Melania starred in a weird insurance advert
“My wife got paid a bunch of money to act silly”
I’d brag too.
Ron Wyden is threatening to release more classified information if the Nunes memo is released. Nice to see the guy that TOS creams over trying to derail transparency (kind of like how his opposition to drone bombings and the Patriot Act was muted when there was a Democrat as president).
Either way I hope Wyden does release the classified information after the Nunes memo is released. More transparency the better. The American people deserve to see how our government is full of nothing but scum bags.
Why is any of this shit classified? Does it involve foreign surveillance or weapons technology? Or just embarrassing shit about the hacks who run our federal government?
It threatens sources and methods, ie, malicious actors and their deeds and MO.
Do it. I want it all to come out.
phrasing!
I want it all declassified and released. If my taxes are paying for it and it doesn’t have anything to do with real national security (like military deployment levels, weapons systems, and the like), then it should be public record.
We should follow the Swedes on this-they get a lot wrong but they got this right.
https://www.government.se/how-sweden-is-governed/the-principle-of-public-access-to-official-documents/
ProbablyNSFW
Plumber’s crack panties.
“Apparently, the ‘super low rise’ undies are the latest fashion trend gripping Japan – but they look pretty pants if you ask us”
+1 Sigourney Weaver’s panties in Alien
Not a fan; despite what you might assume about me.
Gotta agree with Q. Those aren’t a turn on. It’s just a bad look.
According to text messages leaked to the WSJ:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-officials-delayed-telling-congress-of-clinton-emails-discovered-before-2016-election-1517450265
—-No subscription? Stop whining and use the archive!
Who knew what and when is always an important topic, more so in an obstruction investigation–and that’s the kind of thing that I think is being alleged here. For 30 days, Americans were going back and forth about Hillary’s email issues, whether she had done something illegal, purposely destroyed those emails, etc., and the whole time the FBI was sitting on the missing emails, perhaps even answering questions about them as if they didn’t exist?
If a private citizen did that to the FBI in an investigation, the FBI might charge them with obstruction.
When the FBI does it, that doesn’t really matter since Comey decided the missing email were immaterial (even before they’d been analyzed) anyway?
The same people that are bitching about the “October surprise” being Hillary’s downfall probably won’t acknowledge that the only reason it got released in the first place is because FBI agents were gonna leak the fact that McCabe was trying to sit on it until after the election…in gross violation of investigatory rules compounded with his violation of the ethics rules.
Right – it was actual field Agents who were rebelling against their political bosses in DC. As this thing busts open, I bet we’ll hear more of these kinds of stories.
Yes, you and all the other weirdos on the internet will here more of these kinds of stories.
Everyone else will hear how a bunch of nutty conspiracy-theory minded republicans are evil. Because that’s how the rest of the media rolls.
What Therapists Want Us To Know About Aziz Ansari, ‘Bad Sex’ And #MeToo
“For women, I hope the takeaway here is that pleasure is our birthright.”
Birthrights don’t come easy, yanno.
Bah, you can buy some for a bowl of porridge.
It’s rape if the sex wasn’t good.
When I was a sophomore in boarding school, there were seniors who were sure I was an idiot for thinking that women could have orgasms. I mean, they would laugh at me and make fun of me for believing such a ridiculous thing.
I remember asking them why it was that women had sex then. Is it all just pressure and rape? Do they say yes because they have no other choice in your minds?
What must they have thought of their own fathers and the way their fathers treated their own mothers?
I think it’s sort of like talking to people who actually lived through and experienced segregation and Jim Crow. That world is an anachronism to us–like a sick nightmare. It’s hard to take the danger of slipping back into segregation seriously. But to people who grew up in that world (baby boomers), it isn’t like that. The threat is always present and real for them, like grandpa waking up screaming about the Japs he fought in World War II. That world is over now, grandpa.
Yeah, there was a time when men didn’t know or care whether women enjoyed sex or why, and women themselves often went through married life without ever achieving orgasm. Nowadays women post selfies of themselves in the mirror with their vibrators laying on the sink next to the curling iron, not always because they didn’t notice before they posted the pic, maybe, so much as because they don’t think that’s anything to be ashamed of.
There was a time when a lot of men thought that they were raping their own wives by today’s definitions, but we don’t live in that world anymore, grand ma.
I tell my wife to fake it till she makes it. She hates when I say that.
Per Bernie Mac: “I’m-a get mine. You better get yours!”
or:
“If you don’t bust a nut when I bust a nut… then you fresh outta fuckin’ luck!”
Preach on brotha!
Mr. President, we must not allow… a
mine shaftorgasm gap!How do I get in on this….”research”?
“male-centric sex that’s become the norm in 2018”
Citation needed. Every single guy I know, without exception, wants to make sure their lady has as much fun as possible not only because they’re not pigs (despite the media’s unending misandry), but because they know a woman who is satisfied is more likely to come back for more later in addition to making himself feel more masculine.
TL;DR – Horseshit information from a horseshit writer at a horseshit publication.
Oh, and fuck your “shared cultural script” you Marxist bitch.
Shikha wrote this?
Yeah, whoever wrote that probably hasn’t been with a multi-orgasmic woman. I’ve only ever been with a single one who wasn’t. All of the rest could stack orgasms like cord wood.
If my partner never has an orgasm the rest of my life, I’ll still never catch up to the amount the women I’ve been with over my life have totaled.
Making a woman orgasm in a bid to acquire future sex and/or to protect your fragile masculinity is pretty much rape, shitlord.
“A man’s orgasm is the end game of most sexual encounters. Women, meanwhile, with their oftentimes elusive orgasms, come second, or not at all. Research shows that the orgasm gap is depressingly real: Straight women statistically get off less than any other demographic”
Well, I hate to break it to you, but that’s because biology is a thing. The woman’s orgasm is unnecessary for reproduction. The man’s is. Maybe you should take a biology class and learn about sexual reproduction. It might help you out.
And that statistic, buttercup, is becoming more and more true, because nobody’s prepared to take the risk of fucking them.
Another good point. If every interaction has a good chance of ending up being “rape” no matter how much consent there was, more and more men will just avoid such interactions.
From my purely anecdotal experience, I’d say it’s because for whatever reason a lot of women don’t take a…shall we say active role in the proceedings. If your contribution is to kind of lay back and make encouraging noises, don’t expect fireworks. If you want to enjoy sex, it can’t be one person just passively laying back and waiting for an orgasm to happen, like sitting in a barber’s chair waiting for your hair to be cut. But if the Aziz Ansari chick is any guide, these passive-aggressive hookers who are afraid of (or too lazy for) sexual encounters just present themselves to some dude and wait for the magic to happen, then when it doesn’t, two days later they decide they’ve been assaulted. Again, passivity is not your friend in life.
in more important news than silly memos
Bordeaux wine harvest plummets 40% after French region’s frost-bitten 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/01/bordeaux-wine-harvest-falls-france
Curse you, Global Warming!
Prices for 2018 to go thru the roof?
collect the runoff from a compost heap – it should get you the same flavor.
Bordeaux ceased to be interesting many years ago. I was at a tasting of all the top 2000s afew years ago, and my impression was that they were trying to be Napa wines- which is not a compliment because Napa is not a great wine region (it’s more like Las Vegas- people who know wine look to other areas for great Cabernet).
Burnt?
*runs from room*
Not far off. There’s a fetish for massive amounts of high toast oak.
Monopoly to encourage dishonesty in new ‘Cheaters’ edition
This is basically legitimizing what my older brother and cousins did growing up. Son of a bitch! I can’t win!
“skipping rent payments”
Huh, at my family, those were just house rules, if the owner didn’t notice, you didn’t have to pay.
The Rent Is Too Damn High!
I never played it myself, but my oldest brother used to be all about the Illuminati board game. The way he described it, cheating is permitted as long as you aren’t caught.
It is very much permitted and encouraged.
I once saw someone get away with stealing a third of another players power structure wait till the next player took his turn and then suddenly announce “I win”
Illuminati is one of my favorite games, unfortunately I can almost never find anyone to play
If I remember correctly, in the most recent version of the game the cheating option is a variant listed in the rules. You can agree to strictly play by the rules. And the greatest cheat in any game is the Flying Dutchman rule in Diplomacy. If you manage to get an extra army or navy on the board, and valid orders are submitted for it, processed, and no one points out the extra piece, the extra piece works and can continue to be used until someone points out that there are too many units on the board. Diplomacy is a game that is much heavier with backstabbing, treachery, and exact wording agreements.
Two guys walk into a bar.
http://archive.is/vMkU7
5, 7, 17, 30, 34, 38
Two guys walk into a bar.
And are promptly murdered by a horde of bunny-boilers. Jesus christ that group is chock full of crazy-eyed hotties!
Happily, though, there is 23.
You left out Liverpool losing to WBA in the FA Cup over the weekend, while Everton wasn’t losing.
Really, WBA? Everton at least drew with them in their last match.
Klopp doesn’t give a shit about the FA Cup (though LFC definitely should NOT have lost).
Not exactly happy that we didn’t replace Coutinho in the transfer window, but I’m trusting that Jurgen knows what he’s doing. Worked when he held off buying a second choice CB last summer to get VVD in January, after all.
FA Cup > Premier League > Champions League.
I get running out a 2nd team for the League Cup, but not the FA Cup.
I’m a huge fan and I’ll make a stone-cold lock of a prediction: Liverpool will finish fourth this year, will get knocked out soon in the CL and will struggle to score goals.
Coutinho was the most important and dynamic player they had. And they never should have let him go.
I thought their problem was needing to score a touchdown to win most games.
(Kentucky Governor) Bevin using anti-government playbook
And remember libertarians are supposed to be the cray-cray people.
“Democracy in Chains,” which is carefully documented ”
Umm… Not according to every single historian familiar with the subject.
I stopped reading at that point. If you haven’t kept up with just how horribly documented DiC is, you should just shut up.
Government is a necessary evil and should be treated as such. There’s a distinction that the progs always gloss over.
*waits for incoming ancap missiles*
Ancaps don’t have missles, they keep getting overrun by barbarians.
I bought and tried playing Tropico in the most free-market way possible. I keep losing to my imperial taskmaster.
… must have forgotten to water that tree with the blood of tyrants and patriots.
*Begins missile launch sequence*
Subordinates: Sir doesn’t this violate the NAP?
…
*Puts missiles back in silos*
*opera applause*
You know, I would really like to get paid OT to lay my boss. Need to figure out a way to set up a company with my wife as President.
That’s easy, getting it to the point where it can pay you overtime, not so easy.
unless you are working in government, right?
from the seattle coke tax article:
“Five years ago, when Washington state privatized liquor sales and the price here soared, Idaho’s liquor sales boomed. ”
Nice work lefty retard. All that evil capitalism is why Washington booze it too expensive. It certainly has nothing to do with Washington having the highest liquor taxes in the nation.
Are you sure?
Lots of times when I see the state by state lists of liquor taxes, they leave off the distributor tax, which only exists in KY and TN. TN’s is really high, IIRC.
IDK, but judging from this map:
https://taxfoundation.org/map-spirits-excise-tax-rates-state-2014/
those distributor taxes would have to be insane to catch up with Washington’s tax burden.
KY’s is 10.25%, formerly 11%.
TN is much higher, I think 17% or something like that.
That is spirits too, I am use to seeing beer, which is where I think with the distributor tax, TN shoots to top or near top of the list.
There is no way on spirits, even for the pricey stuff, that the distributor tax will make up that large a difference though. So, congrats to WA, you win!
https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/Beer-Excise-Tax-Rates-2015.png
This includes distributor tax, TN is #1 in taxing beer.
Related: Idaho, liquor paradise.
They should drop this and encourage Vodka production. They’re well-situated for it.
Whenever you think the Las Vegas shooting investigation can’t get weirder…
Judge orders Paddock’s autopsy report to be released, corner’s office refuses to comply.
I figure we’re gonna find out he was shot about 87 times by the brave professionals who finally took him down. Unfortunately, he was already dead from a self-inflicted GSW.
“His brains were coming right at us!”
They already cremated his body, so you aren’t going to find out anything.
Pretty sure the autopsy report wasn’t cremated.
That remains to be seen.
The only copy was on the coroner’s laptop and the hard drive crashed. Whoops! Darn the luck.
It was wiped with a cloth by the same FBI guys that couldn’t find the 50K texts..
Funny thing, the report is missing, and we shredded the original on accident. And the body is gone too…/FBI
Here’s a tantalizing tranche of texts between the two lead agents on the scene… that cuts off the day before the shooting and resumes a month after. We lost those.
I posted here the other day about an Amazon Prime doc called “What Happened in Vegas.” All tinfoil-hat stuff aside it makes a pretty compelling case that the investigation has been one big obfuscation, LVMPD and the Sherriff are running interference as damage control for MGM to minimize their liability. The Casino’s own everyone in government in that town.
That’s a conspiracy theory that makes sense.
Yeah basically when the Casino’s call the cops on a high-roller they have a ‘special number’ that they call that isn’t recorded by 911 dispatch. Where Paddock was allegedly exchanging gunfire with the security guard they called it in on the special number and the information about which hotel room the gunshots were coming from was greatly delayed because of the multiple channels. So the Casino and the cops have a vested interest in covering up.
So kinda like the NCAA then.
Would it be surprising at all to learn that this guy was dead for quite a while before the shooting started?
I would be surprised if that information was made public. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were true.
Over the years, we’ve heard a steady drumbeat telling us that government is “bad.” A drumbeat made loud by the secret establishment of Koch networks — think tanks, ALEC and advertising firms. When libertarians merged with the Kochs, then the Republican Party, it spelled the end of life as we knew it.
Yes, yes, of course. I like how these people tacitly admit their philosophy of total paternalistic government control doesn’t stand a chance if the KochBros evil think tanks are allowed to disseminate their vile message.
The siren song of freedom is irresistible. That’s why it must be silenced at all costs. The Kochs have offered five million bucks to MSU for an economic institute, and the freakout is epic.
If you look at it logically, I don’t know how you can come to any other conclusion than “Government is bad”.
Apparently, most people haven’t looked at it logically.
Michael Totten: No, the Syrian Kurds are not Terrorists
The PKK are a fucking terrorist group. They started out as Marxist Lenininists, and were ruthlessly willing to kill both Kurds and Turks as part of their campaign to build an armed rebellion against Turkish rule. This included slaughtering Kurds who declined to give aid to the PKK (eg allow the PKK to use their homes as a hiding place). It’s a pretty standard tactic used my Marxist guerillas as they try to create the political conditions which make civil life impossible (and thus a revolution inevitable).
This isn’t to excuse the atrocities committed by the Turkish govt. Far from it… But the notion that the PKK isn’t an irredeemably evil organization is utterly laughable.
So we should be rooting for both sides to lose…
From the article:
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Oh yeah, I misread the blurb and thought they were soft-pedalling the PKK as being warmer and fuzzier.
As to the YPG, if they are adopting PKK political ideas, they will become a terrorist group. It’s inevitable. It’s baked into the ideology. It may be months or years from now, but mark my words(!), it will happen.
All Marxism leads to open pits and Maxims. The only question is who ends up in the pit.
#pinochetdidnuthinwrong
Although, based on what Totten is saying, I’d expect YPG guys to end in pits even if they win, as PKK dudes cross over, then take over in a violent coup. It’s the preferred Communist move.
from the seattle coke tax article:
“Five years ago, when Washington state privatized liquor sales and the price here soared, Idaho’s liquor sales boomed. ”
Nice work lefty retard. All that evil capitalism is why Washington booze it too expensive. It certainly has nothing to do with Washington having the highest liquor taxes in the nation.
Exactly. And we all know why California’s gas is so expensive. Exxon Mobil is to blame.
Isn’t exxons profit on a gallon of gas like 5 cents?
That sounds high to me.
Yeah last I heard was more like 2 but I wanted to aim super high.
I think it is the individual gas station that makes ~ 5 cents a gallon profit
So 5 cents to the station, 2 cents to Exxon, maybe another 5 cents or so to the distributor
Total profit on a gallon of gas around 12 cents a gallon maybe?
One of the complications of revenue models (certainly in the UK) is that the gas companies’ profits are SOMETIMES far greater, and sometimes they’re losses.
In a ‘gas alley’ – where all the major gas companies have a station – the gas companies can and will offer price support – sometimes via a complicated algorithm – to remain competitive. Usually, the retailer’s net profit per gallon isn’t affected provided the meet volume targets, etc,
Sometimes the price protection is retroactive, sometimes negotiated as a group (many retailers run multiple gas stations in different locations, etc) and sometimes a retailer will have to commit to different and new retailing signage and equipment which is an opportunity for the gas company to make some of their losses back.
If you think car retailing, with their retroactive price breaks etc are complicated, they’re nothing compared to pricing models for automotive gas.
Net profit margin of 3.59% in 2016.
That would be totally unacceptable at my company, but its a different industry.
We’d kill for an operating margin like that. And we have our own morgue, so if we thought we could that kind of dough for killing someone, we’re actually set up for it.
I think my employer is still running at a loss.
Our company just had a meeting to go over their new annual bonus plan.
Our targets for the upcoming year are 56 mil in revenue and 1.9 mil in pre tax profit, if we meet those goals and the bonuses are paid out it drops to a 900,000 loss
When our CIO asked me what I thought after the meeting I told him I really didn’t care about the bonus plan either way, was pretty standard stuff but those numbers really worried me because I know we are critically understaffed so not only us there no money to hire the personnel we desperately need but frankly we aren’t even profitable with the staff we have.
4% gross profit isn’t particularly good either.
I’ve heard the profit for gas stations average about 2 cents/gallon. Don’t know about the distributor.
Years and years ago (early 80s) I had a drinking buddy who managed a 7-11. He once told me that his store actually lost money on gas most of the time; the gas pumps were a loss leader to get people in the store.
I have no idea whether that’s true or not in most such businesses, but I see no reason why he’d claim that if it wasn’t in his case.
There’s a good YouTube video where David Angelo explains how the government makes more off of gas than the oil companies.
Well, if it’s true that the gas stations or distributors profit is 2 to 5 cents, then yes, I would say most state governments are making more than that.
They pump the oil out of the ground around La Brea and refine it in Long Beach. They should have the cheapest gas in the country.
Russian cold wave music is pretty much what I expected: Mujuice
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/959055287553490945
Glenn Greenwald takes Ron Wyden to task for the partisan game that he is playing with transparency.
Old men in leather jackets hardest hit
“Glenn,your tweets are like hiding a diamond ring in a slop tub. Maybe it is just me but is this an attack on Woden? If so why? Why now? It appears you have a political agenda. Is this true?”
If you can’t explain why you decided to go for a politician at a specific moment in time, you must have ulterior motives.
“is this an attack on Woden?”
Glenn just has all-father issues.
*narrows gaze*
Greenwald’s back on his meds again. Thank goodness.
Can you transcend metaphysical reality through psychedelics?
Sure why not? Or maybe you’re just high.
Depends. Have you ever seen C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate?
I would have just settled for banging Daryl Hannah
That all depends on your interpretation of metaphysical reality. If you believe, as some philosophers do, that reality is a “plenum” incorporating all possible qualities simultaneously and your brain simply acts as a filter for your perception of it, then altering that filter in some way would in fact cause transcendence. If you think that the brain is just a bag of chemicals and the world is what it is regardless of how you perceive it, then you’re just fucking around with the chemicals for fun. Though I do think psychedelics, used properly, have the potential to help people gain insight into themselves, not the universe as a whole. My .02.
One CIA officer, don’t remember his name, back in the day had an apartment in NY with two way mirrors. He’d pay hookers to pick up drunk dudes at a local bar, slip them acid and then bring them back to the apartment where he’d watch them flip. They invariably had bad trips. Same with the experiments they did on prisoners they slipped LSD. If it’s so environmentally effected, seems like your second theory is the correct one.
You’re all figments of my (admittedly strange) imagination.
Jacob’s Ladder was your life story.
Some scientists have speculated that consciousness actually creates reality.
On what grounds? All the evidence suggests reality happens whether or not we’re around to observe it.
As far as you know…
Now you’ve wandered into philosophy. Go and navel gaze in the corner.
+1 Tree falling in the forest
Schrodinger’s cat…
It has something to do with variant versions of the double slit experiment. You an easily find it on the web.
And by “scientists” you mean grad students trying to get laid right?
We need Agile Cyborg over here.
I took a course on that in college. It was amazing. Our professor, who was a well dressed older gentleman that wore an ascot and a blazer to every class, would spend most of the time having us read High Times and discussing his experiences with mescalin.
There is a book called “The Holotropic Mind” which I think discusses this. We had to read it in class, but I never read it and I was always intoxicated when I showed up for class.
What a brownnoser
Okay, that’s funny.
I did a report in one of my philosophy courses on DMT. It pretty much sums up what I said above. My conclusion: altering brain chemicals can change your perspective just enough to gain some internal insight, but I remain skeptical of any “universal” knowledge gained. I think the universe doesn’t change when our perception changes, but your perceptions of yourself might.
For a long time psychedelics in the West were confined to psychology departments where they supposedly had some success in treating alcoholism and other addictions with the psychedelics. Then Timothy Leary brought psychedelics to the masses, the government overreacted (as they are wont to do) and thus ended any experimenting with psychedelics.
I also learned in that class that marijuana is considered a low grade psychedelic and not a stimulant nor depressant. Good class
Learned this week that Timothy Leary had to take the same psychological evaluation in prison that he had helped design while at Harvard.
Irony
That should have been fun for him.
Did he pass?
More than some success. The first Leary group of alcoholics treated with LSD and talk therapy only had one relapse in 24 over the five years they were tracked post-treatment.
And the therapeutic value of MDMA in PTSD treatment is huge.
The real problem we have is all the people addicted to making sure other people suffer needlessly.
I took mescalin one time with a friend. We were sitting on his sofa and I’m not sure why, but I was staring at this wall clock in his living room for what seemed like hours. Then we were looking at each other and he says to me ‘Is that clock moving?’ And I said ‘No, it hasn’t moved for hours, man, what’s going on?’. And we just looked at each other and were like ‘Whoa, dude, this mescalin has stopped time!’. Turns out the batteries had died in the clock, but that was still really weird.
Doritos hardest hit
OTOH, we didn’t see Mescalito. Bummer, man.
I was on LSD once, and a friend came over to my house. His twin brother came in behind him. I didn’t know he had a twin brother. I sorta freaked out and ran to the door to see if there were any more of “him” out there. “Whoa, what a tracer!”
Dave Rubin had Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro on last night. They talked about this. The whole thing is worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRPDGEgaATU
Exactly. That’s why I brought it up. I actually took notes on a youtube video for the first time ever. It was great. What’d you think?
I loved it. Ever since youtube really took off, that long-form format is the only way I learn shit. TV used to be like that…now it’s just for entertainment.
My answer to the original question is Jordan’s: I don’t know…there’s certainly indisputable evidence for psychedlics and peoples’ mystical experiences, but we don’t know enough about consciousness to explain it. I don’t know if we ever will. I’m not sure we are supposed to explain The Food of the Gods…that’s not how this work. I think…
That’s pretty close, actually, to what he said. We don’t know what makes consciousness happen in the first place, so it’s hard to say what is possible. Of course, Ben the wet blanket, jumps in with the “but you shouldn’t try it.”
I don’t think I could handle drugs without making a fool of myself, therefore I do not use them. However, that does not mean I am going to begrudge anyone else the right to put what they want in their body, drugs, TidePods, or otherwise.
Ditto.
Carlos Castaneda says yes. Don Juan agrees.
I’ve done a lot..and I mean A LOT…of acid in my life. Not any more, because dropping acid is at least a two-day commitment and I’ve got a job, kids, a wife, pets, so that’s pretty much off the table.
I would say that it kind of took the guard rails off of my conscious thoughts, if that makes any sense. I hallucinated pretty often, and that was fun, but the real payoff was just kind of daydreaming and heading down lines of contemplation that I didn’t ordinarily head down in sober life. I imagine it’s the same experience people that get into transcendental meditation have, only more fun. But did I transcend metaphysical reality? I’m not sure that reality has a metaphysical component, so I’d say I did not.
So I contacted my insurance company about the jaw surgery I mentioned a couple of days ago and yeeeeeah, it ain’t gonna happen. Not covered and about $40k when all is said and done. I am probably going to go to my doctor and get some bloodwork done to make sure my HGH levels still aren’t high. Despite other physical manifestations, the enlarged heart is what I’m worried about. I never really gave any of it much thought until I started thinking about this jaw surgery nonsense. It’s all my dentist’s fault.
Lockjaw? Seriously, I missed the thread you’re talking about.
Reader’s digest: I had a perfect bite up until 18, but my lower jaw continued to grow (the most annoying of several other physical symptoms) so I have a class 3 underbite. It was determined this was an excess of HGH. I’ve never sought treatment because it’s cosmetically ok and doesn’t cause pain. However, my new dentist thinks I should get it corrected because, in his opinion, it’s going to wreck my teeth over time until I need dentures.
Sure that age is a big factor in your decision. My dentist fixes my teeth and says, “Not gonna last forever, but neither are you.”
“I want a different dentist.”
Been through 5 or 6 over the years here. He’s the best.
You know what they say about guys with HGH-induced underbites.
They break Hank Aaron’s homerun record?
And can fix your lawnmowr. MMhumm.
Well I will say that I have a somewhat prominent brow line. And my hands, feet and… other things… continued to grow long after they were supposed to have stopped. I’m not overly tall (5’10”) so it was determined that I have some kind of subclinical acromegaly. Like I said, the thing that worries me the most is the possible enlarged heart. I’ll be heading to my GP next week for some blood tests and then possibly a cardiologist.
You’re killing my attempt at humor.
In any case, I hope it goes well for you. Health issues are never fun.
And ask your doctor if boobs help.
It’s no problem. Barring heart issues, I wouldn’t even call it a “problem” because it hasn’t really affected my life. The jaw thing is annoying, but I never really gave it a second thought until dentist talked with me about it. Now I’m down the rabbit hole.
And boobs *always* help.
Maybe you’re STEVE SMITH
Braces maybe?
They would be included. It’s a two year process: one year of braces, surgery with jaw wired shut, braces for another year. Braces *might* be partially covered by insurance (though not very much), but they’re the cheap part. Surgery definitely not since it’s considered “cosmetic”.
Hope it works out for you, dude
Good luck Q.
Thanx guys. I’ll definitely get another opinion, but I’m leaning toward “no” right now. It just doesn’t cause me enough problems to justify dropping that kind of coin. There are so many other things I could do with that kind of money…
Look into medical tourism?
If something like that is available chances are you could go to India, get it done, and have a months vacation at a 5 star resort hospital while there and spend less than $15k for the whole thing
I had a rather large underbite when I was young. I had a bunch of teeth yanked and endured the braces thing for a few years and it was fixed.
https://twitter.com/V4Analysis/status/958841549500055552
Oh shit. I think we’ve all heard who the person is here
Is it Hitler?
He founded Cato right?
Son-of-a-bitch. Why did you give it away off the bat?
Huh.
Roger was giving the girls the patented Pilon Gaze.
Impossible. There are no female libertarians.
Cato’s got a least a couple of femalien cosmo hotties.
So you’re saying it was homosexual sexual harassment?
Open garters policy.
Good song, Sloop, but I struggle with Sandanista. I’ve listened to it so many times and just can’t seem to enjoy it as much as the earlier ones.
Like this one.
something something hell
You Can Buy A Snowball From A Vending Machine In MN
but… why?
Why?
Because the market always delivers, UCS.
No, why wold anyone buy such a thing?
And because it’s funny. They will sell every one of them.
Someone once got rich selling pet rocks…
Selling snow to eskimos. Next they can branch out and take coal to Newcastle.
If your ship happens to arrive during a miner’s strike…
Not a good idea with thousands of Eagles fans coming to town.
Hide yo kids, wide yo wife…
Nah, they will just use the rocks conveniently placed around the stadium to show thier displeasure at their team’s loss. They don’t need to buy a snowball.
Good links.
Agreed. I’d even go so far as to describe them as ‘meaty’.
Firm and supple?
Certainly juicy.
Meaty links…sausages?
However, my new dentist thinks I should get it corrected because, in his opinion,
it’s going to wreck my teeth over time until I need dentureshis wife needs a new Mercedes.or a yacht. My dentist – who is very good – lives on a huge house on an acre on Lake Michigan.
Ordinarily I’d think that, but he’d actually be pocketing very little. The orthodontist would get quite a bit, but the maxillofacial surgeon would be the big winner.
I bet you he wants the Orthodontist to buy the boat and take him fishing for referring you to him, so he can avoid the maintenance costs of the boat.
You know who else ran a European country with anti-Semitic tendencies?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/exploring-frances-anti-semitic-attack-problem/article/2647684
Titus Flāvius Caesar Vespasiānus?
Jean-Claude Juncker?
Ferdinand and Isabella?
Son of a!
Gosh damn
Oh come on, like the Jews didn’t want to convert? Baloney
https://youtu.be/7WJXHY2OXGE
I’m still convinced that is was because the Caliphate used Jews as their IRS and DOJ.
Ferdinand and Isabella?
Emanuel Macron?
Seriously, the anti-semitism in France is out of hand
They’re afraid to offend the moose slims.
Queen Isabella?
/raises hand shouting like Horseshack.
GERMANIA!
Edward Longshanks?
Who hasn’t?
This is what happens when you pander exclusively to your coastal base and your ultra-prog billionaire benefactors.
https://amgreatness.com/2018/01/31/democrats-revise-hopes-2018/
Related:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/democratic-lead-in-generic-house-ballot-collapses-from-15-percent-to-just-2-percent-poll/article/2647709
It’s just all opinion for the first link. But I did notice the fact about the 2nd link a few days ago when I was on RCP. If the economy stays this good and Dems keep acting like they are right now, and they will, I don’t see any blue wave. The electoral map is not too friendly for Democrats as it is and I think they’re being overly optimistic.
The media will continue to flog the “Dems will roll” narrative to discourage turnout by the GOP.
That didn’t work in 2016.
They are not discouraged by failure.
The Dems will roll narrative encouraged me to vote GOP in my blue state. Normally I would have just said ‘fuck it why waste my time’ but the Dems here need a scare.
Wait, you mean sitting on their hands and scowling in response to good economic news and optimism for America is a bad election strategy?!
Shocking.
Nancy looks like a wrinkled 4 year old who’s just been told he can’t get that new toy.
DON’T YOU MISGENDER NANCY!
Nancy is now so cool and hip, she’s gender fluid. I see a presidential run.
The fact that they trotted out a Kennedy for the rebuttal tells you everything you need to know about the state of the party.
Yup. It’s gonna be fun this year’s election when the Dems don’t make massive gains like they’re claiming they will. I wonder if we’ll get more fun YouTube montages of idiots like the Young Turks crying after the results come in?
I’m hoping that gives me an ‘in’ with Ana.
I’m seeing a lot of active denial that the current administration has anything to do with good economic times. I’m not sure that’s a good sell to the general public. If a good economy continues, get ready for scads of articles about how vulgar and consumerist the American public is.
Vox ‘Fact-Checks’ SOTU – See Their Weird Conclusions
It could be that the Trump administration stopped the CIA program that was arming ISIS. It is the only foreign policy decision that he’s made that he deserves credit for. We were literally keeping ISIS alive in order to oust Assad.
And Hillary would have helped them even more by challenging the Russians and stopping them bombing the shit out of ISIS.
Strange world we live in where we fly air cover for a bunch of fuckers committed to sharia. Well, aside from the other times.
John McCain hardest hit.
If only…..
and preferably in the head.
It’s becoming increasingly hard to remain civil when talking about this man that ought to be putting his house in order and spending as much time as he can with his family before shuffling off this mortal coil.
Dude, there’s grandstanding to be done. An ego to be stroked.
If a crate of guns stamped *USA-for the Syrian Resistance Army* fell out of a helicopter and crushed him, would we have seven years without irony?
At this point, I’m convinced that McCain and Graham’s military strategy opinions on Syria are so important, that we cannot waste any time getting them on the front lines. Put them both on a flight right now and air drop them into whatever ISIS territory is left.
America needs it’s greatest hero now more than ever! I say we stick John McCain in a jet and send him to Syria! Really, it’d be worth the cost of the jet to get rid of the bastard.
I’m sure ISIS has a concrete plant that need bombing, and McCain could check off the achievement badge that eluded him in Vietnam!
They should have shot his ass in Da Nang when they had the chance.
/samkinisonjokerepurposed
Looks like ee might not see the memo today. Fuck.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/752422/trump-really-wants-release-nunes-memo-today-but-there-might-wrinkle
Why not delay it? It’s doing a ton of damage simply with the rumors floating around about what’s in it.
Uffda.
The bang up state IT department of Minnesoda is back. They are demanding $43M more to fix the “troubled” vehicle licensing and registration system. This is the same group that fucked up royally creating a state exchange for Obamacare too, so they are used to this sort of disaster.
Give Bailey props. She may not know how to deliver a project successfully, but she knows how to milk her customers for money and grow her empire.
I’m torn. I know both how badly government can screw up implementation, and how much the political appointees love to underfund IT and demand it work correctly anyway. Not sure which fuckup is more prevalent here.
Government views technology as a cost center, rather than a profit center, just like the private sector. News at 11.
I want to chime in on the “WTF could you possibly spend $35 million on for a single database?” point, but the “Underfund IT and demand it work” point compels me to share this from a buddy who works in QA at a big online company.
They are going through a merger and the new entity will change the branding on all of their online applications, websites and documents. New logos, new fonts, new color schemes, new style sheets…. you get it. This is a big operation, so we are talking about hundreds of sites, apps and loads of generated content.
They are going to do the cutover all on a single day. And the higher ups want it to be a big reveal, so they are making everything super secret.
So they are refusing to release the new logos to the tech team doing the migration. They will get them when the cutover is supposed to begin, at midnight.
They also didn’t give them a style guide, referring them to the current partner sites instead.
He’s saying that the generated content will take hours and hours to propagate…. they have a huge AWS farm. And they can’t test it in advance to see if any of it is going to work, or just look right at all.
When they pushed back hard, they were told that there was no business reason for them to have access to the new logos before the cutover.
We all have stories, but that one is near the top. I can’t wait to hear how it goes. (the problem being, if they do a heroes duty and manage to make it work, nobody will notice. And if they fail, they’ll get taken out back and shot, because it is clearly their fault.
That is going to look hideous when they roll out the new logo and SURPRISE! – it doesn’t match anything on the site.
Holy shit. I think I’d just proactively resign. That’s totally insane.
You see? Anyone who works in any kind of tech field instantly understands why this is crazy. Yet for some reason people outside of tech can’t see it at all. That’s why we all have stories.
For real. If I wanted to create a situation designed specifically to go as wrong as it possibly could, it would look like that deployment plan.
I actually once had a senior management type tell me IT managers didn’t need to understand the technology their development teams were working with or using, because if they just assumed that tech people would react like primadonnas when faced with work, and they then simply beat them into submission, all would be well. That was a VP level position at GE right after Welch left and that government rent seeking cunt Immelt took over. I left GE 3 months after that exchange, and it was one of the best career moves I made considering the horror stories I heard from the other technical people that stayed behind longer.
I can honestly say that I have encountered one variation of this or another with every chain of command where the senior people, if they ever did any actual development or development related work, always assumed IT work was really simple, but the asshole geeks they made fun of in high school were now ripping them off.
My balls shrank when I read that.
The only solution is department-wide simultaneous resignation. If this is what they do for “Hello”, I can’t imagine what they’ll be demanding at the “OK, now underpants come off” stage.
Agreed that the story is horrible.
I’ve always found that writing a weasely memo to the higher ups that says, “I told you not to fuck that nasty whore, but you insisted. I told you that you should at least wrap your weasel up. You insisted on barebacking her. When urination becomes painful, please refer to this email as my ‘I told you so.’”
The key is to create a paper trail that you can pull out when shit happens. Always have a bigger fish than you to throw to the prosecutors.
I second Jimbo’s recommendation.
When management demands you do real stupid shit, get it in writing, and make sure your objections were noted.
It’s precisely that which leaves me in a very up-beat state regarding my impending termination. They’ve got nothing on me performance or behavior-wise – no paper trail. I have a paper trail demonstrating a pattern of behavior quite consistent with attempting to goad me into resignation as constructive dismissal.
I have whole binders of “this is what will happen if you decide to implement this” … “told you so”s.
But this is a close-knit industry. Nobody would willingly initiate mutually embarassing lawfare like that, would they?
Anyone who works in any kind of tech field instantly understands why this is crazy. Yet for some reason people outside of tech can’t see it at all.
You mean, the less you know about something, the easier it looks?
There otta be a law! Oh, wait, there is!
Anytime someone uses the word “just’ in a sentence where they explain why something is either simple or easy deserves to get strangled.
UCS. I think the original link was broken, but underfunding isn’t the problem here.
They have already gotten $93M over 8 years. Even after I took a huge skim from that budget for myself, I could do a lot with $11M/year.
There are so many problems with this entire project. Just the idea of taking 8 years to deliver a web based application is crazy.
Or it might be that Dana Bailey the head of the IT projects last two jobs were as the Chief of Staff to the mayor of St. Paul and the Chief of Staff to Gov. Mumbles. But I’m sure she learned a lot about software development at those two posts.
Even in the bastion of ‘efficiency’ that is New York, we are not able to waste money quite that effectively. I am impressed.
(we get hassled over every dime because the budget is gone before we get it. Sunk into pet projects with regular operations getting shafted)
We the residents of “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” have a similar story…
the fact that some seriously well connected politicians received big campaign funds from the people that won this bid and did the job isn’t ever mentioned in the story.
Vortex.
““The private sector is not constrained by arbitrary deadlines ”
Could only come from the mouth of someone who has never worked in the private sector.
“you fucked up. you trusted us.”
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/30/cardinal-joseph-zen-pope-francis-china/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social
This may cause a legitimate crisis for the Vatican. The Pope is bending to the godless Chinese communists and that may be a step too far for the cardinals and the traditionalist wing of the Church.
Yeah, that’s not going to fly with the college.
They aren’t godless. They worship the State, just like the commie Pope.
Someone needs to excommunicate this guy.
It would be awfully inconvenient to have had two consecutive popes deposed by a Vatican putsch.
Seemed that Ratzinger was “retired” for being politically incorrect – and direct about it.
This commie pope is the epitome of a politically correct chickenshit.
The putsch against the commie pope is probably coming from the “told you so” group that opposed the last putsch.
This communist asshole will make sure the church is good and dead before he moves on…
excomm
unicate.X-Com?
*Squints* I didn’t mess that up. Now I have a headache.
This is why you should have some sort of bureaucrat sitting between God and the people.
Pope Humphrey?
How has the lack of hierarchy worked out for Protestants? Would you say theological apostasy and declining attendance has been good?
I think I just heard a glove get thrown.
I just like trolling
*lights Titor signal*
The actual motto of the Jesuit order.
It’s made Sunday school a lot less traumatic.
And more like nursery rhymes than theology
I know. How are the kids expected to learn if they aren’t diddled?
http://www.newsweek.com/priests-commit-no-more-abuse-other-males-70625
One would hope that spiritual guides, allegedly devoted to the moral and religious welfare of children might actually exhibit a lower (possibly far lower) incidence of child abuse.
If they’re as morally flawed as all other men, why wouldn’t we just send the kids to the guy who works the bacon slicer down at Stop-and-Shop?
6, you sound like you’re applying the logic of a Democrat or a Republican.
The abuse happens by 1%. The other 99% aren’t equal in their actual jobs – the 99% in a parochial school do a better job of educating kids than the 99% in the public schools.
I’m just an athiest sitting on the sidelines throwing rocks.
My primary target here being not the parochial schools as an institution, but the poor quality control within them. I have no expectation that a public school teacher would be a moral exemplar for my children, but if I sent them to a parochial school, I would. Alleged morality and religious conformance are meant to be the unique selling points of these schools, whereas if i want my kids to lean how to shoot up heroin or get knocked up, public school would be my choice.
In both parochial or public school, if staff were diddling students, I’d pursue the perps to the limit of my legal ability.
If you’ve had to go through youth protection programs to teach/coach/lead kids, you’d learn that pedo’s seek out places like churches because 1) people think churchgoers are good, trusting people – which is why they teach Sunday School/coach kids sports and 2) That’s where the kids are.
I’ve read articles recently suggesting that studies are showing that evangelical churches are doing fine; most of the impact is on progressive churches. Which makes sense; if your congregants already treat the state as God, church becomes somewhat superfluous.
If you have more than one, they can hold a synod and yell at each other when one fucks up.
“Not unless they were banging after he had clocked out”
Clocked out, cocks out.
When this broke last night my wife was shocked, but I wasn’t. Am I that jaded?
You are here, right? So, yes, you are that jaded.
Not jaded. Wise.
Is there a difference?
Why exactly was she shocked? That powerful women screw around too?
I have no idea. After all of these years of me saying they are all crooked and immoral (like me) even. Maybe because the mayor comes across as a nice person and it’s a shocker that some women like to get banged too, I guess.
‘PEACH FAWTY FIVE!!!
You know, I think Maxine is missing out on a branding opportunity for her own flavoured malt liquor.
If she was any good at business, she wouldn’t be a government poverty pimp.
MD 20/20 already has that flavor covered.
How do even bums drink that shit? I mean you can get a bottle of Evan Williams bourbon for $10 and it’s 40% ABV, and doesn’t taste like concentrated kool-aid with formaldehyde in it.
Naw, Evan Williams just tastes like the Formaldehyde.
It’s not really bad for the price, IMHO. Certainly not as bad as bum wine. I wouldn’t drink it because I like good liquor, but still if I had to make a choice.
It has been the well brand in almost all of the bars in which I’ve worked. It’s cheap and mixes nicely.
Yeah, I mean, Evan Williams, Old Crow, all that junk is fine if you mix it. I wouldn’t drink it neat with a smile on my face, but I also wouldn’t mix Blanton’s with anything other than a couple pieces of ice.
I’ve been burning through Buffalo Trace since being introduced to it last Summer (about a bottle a week). It is silky smooth when neat yet inexpensive enough that I don’t feel guilty mixing it with fresh black cherry juice and ginger ale (with a splash of amaretto if I’m feeling fancy).
Maxine, Russian gonna git me!
Dana Bailey, executive director of projects and initiatives at Minnesota IT Services, said her agency can repair “high-priority defects” in the system by the end of July if there is adequate funding.
Aren’t all those IT wizards on salary?
Dana doesn’t get any juicy kickbacks if she can’t contract out something.
Unless they are contractors, I assume yes. It also may not be wildly known, but government typically does not get the top shelf talent.
Certainly not for certain sections of government, such as legislators.
I got my hands on an advance copy of The Memo. It reads, in its entirety, “BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE.”
They redacted the bit about “Don’t go out in the rain without an umbrella”?
“You’ve been trolled.
Sincerely,
Mr. Nunes”
Neener, neener, neener, the grass is greener, Adam Schiff is a big poopy head!
https://twitter.com/S_Saeen/status/958832602185699329
Cool. Then let’s cut-off aid to everyone clapping. Better yet, let’s cut-off aid to literally every country. And while we’re at it, let’s close our bases in Europe and make them defend their own miserable continent. Enjoy speaking Russian, you filthy Europeans
I bet Merkel would quickly be getting a new attitude. I would find that quite satisfying.
Wow…. just wow
At this point, I’m of the opinion that Israel should have pushed them into Jordan and Egypt back in ’67 and shut the border.
I would expect that to be the outcome of any future war with Israel, which is why they stopped trying it after ’73.
Again, I ask: Why is Israel the only country in the history of the human race that’s expected to give back territory it won in a defensive war?
I mean, I know (((why))). I’m just curious what their excuses are where they avoid admitting it’s because of anti-Semitism.
A defensive war that was started by Nasser in an effort to eliminate the Jews. Israel would have been in the right to kill him and Hussein, even if it would have been unwise.
Cause then this whole awkward discussion about Auschwitz has to happen and… y’know it’s just a pain. Better to wrap it up in a fancy new package about “rights for Palestinians/Arabs as oppressed minorities” and “it’s legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies and has nothing to do with (((them)))!”. What I find most amusing is how much of it comes from Lefty (((academia))). Self hating Jews indeed.
Remember, Israel is the traitor. Stalin supported their independence, recognized them as a state before any other country (no, US recognized the provisional government as a party in conflict, but not Israel as independent state), voted for them in the UN, and how do they repay him? They institute a decadent bourgeois social democracy and reject glorious Marxist socialism, unlike the revolutionaries of Egypt, Syria and Iraq. Then they had the gall to arm themselves in response to massive Soviet arms package to Egypt, and coordinate with former colonial countries.
Israel violated the sacred decolonization narrative and can never atone for it!
It was a pre-emptive strike. Then you have to argue whether Jordan and Syria getting involved is an act of aggression, or honoring an alliance.
But mostly
a) Jews
b) (sometimes overlapping) post-colonial country that doesn’t hate America and wish it destroyed
c) (overlaps with above) embarrass the US
Barely. That’s like if the Soviets amassed 5000 tanks on the Mexican border and several battalions on the Canadian border while blaring to the world how they were going to kill all the Americans and the USA decided to attack first.
Also closed the Gulf of Mexico to shipping, and started moving those tanks up and down the border with no apparent rhyme or reason.
Except they still kept their airborne and Guards mechanized troops engaged in some sort of shitty proxy war far from US, to boot.
No one knows what the hell Nasser was playing at, and it’s quite possible Amer and him didn’t know what they intended to do. The most rational interpretation I saw was that he was posturing and waging economic warfare on Israel (sure, mobilize your troops – how long can you keep your men away from productive work?)
Still, even if he intended to attack, it’s a literal pre-emptive strike. It has an actual meaning, even if it’s often abused as a cassus belli (e.g. Pearl Harbor – not a preemptive strike. US had no intention of going to war with Japan at that moment)
See the Israelis committed the same sin that the US did with Iraq.
We both took somebody at their word.
Unforgivable.
I have always wondered why they didn’t do something along these lines after Arafat walked away from a complete peace deal.
Just make an announcement to the people: “We have a peace deal on the table. A new and independent Palestinian state with these borders: (show map). You have 14 days to accept this offer. IF after 14 days if we do not have a peace deal, we will be annexing all of the west bank and Gaza. Any non-citizens still in these territories after that deadline passes will risk death. Anything that is in these territories at that point is forfeit and belongs to the state of Israel. There will be no further negotiations, this is a take-it-or-leave-it deal. ”
Either way, problem solved.
Fuck that. It’s over at this point. Steamroll over them right now with no warning. Fuck the UN. Fuck the “Palestinians”. Let Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon take care of ’em. The time for compromise is over. Just annex the land and expel the non-citizens, then build an even bigger wall. Let everyone know that any further attacks will result in more land being annexed.
Jordan already took care of them!
Trump should keep trolling and hire Israelis to start his Big Beautiful Wall.
Or at least consult.
Hussain Mourad
@HussainMourad
@HussainMourad
@shain_hさん、@ngordon1958さん、@S_Saeenさん
US taxpayers dollars per year :
$ 3,800,000,000.00 to the israeli regime for weapons alone
$ 15,000,000,000.00 total taxpayers money given away.
That’s 40 million a day!!!!!
$ 65 mi/YEAR to the palestinians to relief from hunger and thirs brought by the israeli regime. 1.7%
Lol.
Not paying for my food is the same as deliberately starving me.
That, and the Palestinians have more important things to do with that money, like give it to the families of suicide bombers.
Also: Does anyone bring up the fact that the border between Gaza and Egypt is actually harsher than the border between Gaza and Israel?
Harsher? It’s almost always straight up closed.
Stop blowing up cafes and we’ll talk.
I have family in Europe and the last time I was there I made the unfortunate decision of discussing politics with some of them. Everyone from the extreme right (literally fascists that visit Mussolini’s tomb) and the extreme left (literally socialists) criticized the United States and its foreign policy (only the center-right are America friendly). While I agreed with the criticism of American foreign policy- we were obviously viewing it from two different angles. I told them, yeah the US is imperial and that’s why we should close our overseas bases and make the rest of the world take care of itself. Well, they didn’t take kindly to that. You see, for them, the problem wasn’t that the US defended too many parts of the world, it was that the US didn’t have Europe’s approved foreign policy position. Screw that, I said, you guys are living under our protection. Stand-up for yourselves. We should close all our bases in Germany, UK, Italy, Poland, and every other place. And also in Japan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and every other place that wants to live off the American dole. They didn’t like that.
Europeans seem to all think that the United States is the worst place in the world, I mean literally Mad Max world, people running around in giant armored SUVs with machine guns mounted on them. They seem to be on this high horse looking down on us. I just feel sorry for them if they continue down their current path.
It’s the ones here that baffle me. If we suck so badly, WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?!?
They’re just trying to remain true to their European identity. Looking down on the US is a cultural touchstone for them.
Yeah, Euro-chauvinism towards the US is nothing new. There were people expressing the sentiment in the 1800s. They toned it down during the second world war and the early stages of the Cold War, but it came right back in, what, the 70s? They’re like the Al Bundy older brother whose glory days have long since gone but who desperately needs to feel superior to his more successful younger sibling.
Envy, and a dread at being so irrelevant, especially after being told Europe has more than 4 millennia of history and has been the cradle of civilization by their masters, drives this attitude. Especially since it leads them to believe they and what they believe are far better policies than what those pesky Americans believe in. European support for the Palestinians, as was mentioned, has its roots both in the fact that Israel turned its back on Stalin and the new collectivist Utopia the brutal murdering communists were peddling, and on the fact Europe has always needed Arab oil.
Remember that these are the cunts that got Clinton (through bribes) to push Obama to kill Qaddafi, because Qaddafi had had the temerity to tell the Italians and French he was going to sell his oil to China since they were screwing him, and left Libya the mess it is today. There is no principled stance there. It’s a bunch of vampires hiding behind the veil of a noble reason.
Also relevant, why don’t any of the progs here who are always gushing about Europe, ever fucking move there?
Because they can make more money, live freer and enjoy a much nicer lifestyle here. You know, the same reason people have been moving here for more than 200 years.
But no, Europe is so much better because cafes and vacations or something.
It’s a sort of inferiority complex where they have to act superior to offset it. One person from Germany said to me ‘Sure, everything is cheaper in American and you guys make more money, but we have a higher standard of living’. Cognitive dissonance I suppose.
but we have a higher standard of living
No, you don’t.
people running around in giant armored SUVs with machine guns mounted on them
That actually sounds pretty awesome to me.
We should be charging these countries for providing protection. This would be my preferential method of funding the military in a country without taxes.
If we were willing to do that we wouldn’t be dealing with the ingratitude these douchebags constantly display in the first place. An empire harsh enough to demand the payment wouldn’t tolerate the bitching by those that live under its protection.
Fascists arent far-right. They are a far-left flavor of socialism slightly different from communists and social democrats. Just Say’n
Let’s not get into this discussion. You make a valid point
Yankin’ your chain, thats all.
What would count as a right-wing totalitarian society? A monarchy? An oligarchy?
Plutocracy and theocracy, duh. Unless the faith is warmist.
I reject most labels like that anyway. Everyone means something different when they use them. More useful is a scale with collectivists on one end and individualists on the other end. If the left end are the collectivists and the right end are the individualists it is impossible to have a right-individualist totalitarian society.
I am with Suthen..
…and kick the UN off our soil and turn the building into a Trump Hotel.
Even better, keep the UN but turn it into a Trump hotel anyway. It would be a greater insult to force the UN members to come to work every day in a building with Trump’s name on it.
Getting unwelcome suntans off of the 50ft high Infrared-emitting lamps that illuminate the signage “Trump International”
So they’ll all turn orange like Trump?
We can only hope so.
Being able to identify UN staffers in NYC would be a real boon. I’d have recommended they have a patch or something on their clothing, but the ‘tan’ would be far harder for them to hide.
Question for active and retired military members: what’s the appeal of getting one of those special “Veteran” car license plates? Seems kinda vain. Not stirring shit here. Thx.
Everyone has to run up to you as soon as they see you get out of your car and say ‘Thank you for your service’.
Heh, I saw a Corvette with a handicap tag a couple of years ago. The guy coming out to it (in apparently perfect physical condition), noticed me and my confused face and made a point of telling me he was a veteran. Like that somehow absolves him of getting the handicap tag with no physical impediments.
“My support peacock needs that space while I’m getting my Starbucks”
*prolonged applause*
Apparently being fat merits a handicap tag, as well.
As long as they put it on their Rascal scooter, I’m ok with it.
Ah, so you have been to Illinois then?
It’s sort of like how privileged some people get when they get old. The meanest thing I ever did in that regard was one time I had gotten on an elevator, no one in there but me. I hear someone yelling and look out to see this elderly lady coming about 30 yards away and she’s yelling ‘hold that door, hold that door!’. She had this scowl on her face and she’s coming at a snail’s pace. I waited until she was like 20 ft away and closed the door, lol. I could hear her screeching something, but I was laughing all the way up to the floor I was going to.
Thank God you’ll never get old too,( if you drink 37 glasses of water per day like Tom Brady advises.)
I’m already old.
Deep in the darkest recesses of my heart, I wonder what gives old people the stones to become increasingly demanding and impolite in proportion to their decreasing physical capabilities. You see the same thing with the morbidly obese and the dramatically handicapped sometimes. I wonder if it’s some sort of bluff, like if they act like 500 pound gorillas nobody will notice that they’re one quick nudge from a broken hip.
Looming death removes inhibitions.
If someone is yelling to hold the door, you do not want to be in an elevator with them and should have pushed the close door button immediately.
I’ve wondered if getting one would get me out of traffic tickets. But I hate the ‘Thank you for your service’ thing and don’t want to hear it in the grocery store parking lot.
Well, the officer will say ‘thank you for your service’ before handing you the ticket. So there’s that.
I have heard of this happening. A friend of mine with vet plates was pulled over, the cop asked what branch of service he was in, then told him to slow down and have a nice day.
I am inclined to believe the officer that stopped and let the vet go, did so because he/she was also a vet from the same branch of the military. Your friend might not have been so lucky had they been in different branches.
I think that is the entire purpose of the plates.
It won’t, and it will definitely get you in trouble sooner than later with the rabid anarchists..
Avoid getting them plates.
In Nevada, it’s cheaper.
Mrs. Animal gets hers (which read Disabled Veteran – Handicapped) for free, because of being a 100% disabled veteran.
Pomp,
1. Look at me!
2. Possible use – get out of a ticket in some jurisdictions
3. Some states it might be cheaper than regular plates? (way back, IL National Guard plates used to be free. Now, IL is so starved nothing is free except MoH plates, IIRC).
Eh, for some people it’s a part of their identity, like putting a college sticker or pro sports team sticker on your car. Not my bag, but I understand why some do.
Of course, many of them become “professional veteran” types, which is just pathetic. Those are the guys who constantly ask for veteran’s discounts at stores and then holler and whine when there isn’t one.
A) Saxby’s coffee is just awful
B) 48 hours til Rocky Mountain High (in every way possible)
C) The original voice of Siri is following me on Twitter and I don’t know why
D) I have a girl crush on “Senator” Shoshana Weissman, Sloth Committee Chair
Saxby’s is gross in general
You’d think the one thing they specialize in would be…1/2 way decent. Luckily there’s a real coffee place nearby – I just need to convince my colleagues to go there for our morning coffee run instead.
Ok, miss 1 percenter who doesn’t work in an office with a coffee pot like we peasants!
LOL @ the gubmint providing coffee to its workers! El. Oh. El.
There are privately owned coffee pots sequestered around the office – they are in violation of official policy because they’re using the state’s electricity.
Isn’t there a nice $50,000 coffee pot made by defense contractors that the tax payer can pay for? That one should be ok, right? And you can use it in space!
Benefits do not extend to the drones.
We are expected to be extra-vigilant about following the ethics rules to make up for all the violations higher up.
Heh, every few cubicles has either an electric kettle or a coffee maker of some kind, and everybody’s got little fans and space heaters. When the EPA does a security audit (and you can imagine what that’s like) the head of the program–WHO IS IN THE EPA–sends an email around to everybody to stash all that stuff because it’ll get flagged as a safety violation. Such a joke.
Why not, they won’t be paying for it.
The same reason we’re not allowed to attend a conference if lunch is being provided.
We don’t know how much sodium is in the lunch? We’re going to follow the Venezuela way to slim down all these fatties round here?
The gubmint may waste taxpayer $ in many, many, many, many, many, many ways, but providing free coffee & bottled water is not one of them. So you can rest easy on that score.
Hyperion – the real reason is more absurd – It might unduely influence us into recommending the products of the vendor.
Nevermind the fact that we have even less say in the technologies we’re require to implement than the taxpayer…
Civil service sounds like it sucks. Free food and booze at lobbyist events were the main perks of working for elected officials at the state house.
D)
Senator Shoshana would be happy to address your crush if you drop by her office with a ten thousand dollar check.
I believe her going rate is $20k
The greatest thing in the world is the people who think she’s a real US Senator and react when she names her price.
Those are the best. Like, there’s only 100 Senators – it’s not that hard to tell who is, and who is not, a “real” one on Tweeters, even without the whole “Sloth Committee Chair” thing.
fun fact: Shoshana means Rose in Hebrew.
I used to go to a college bar sometimes tended by a girl named Hosanna. She was always surprised that I remembered her name, and I always wondered whether she knew it’s a word.
“please help”
Must Have Moar Munny
Montana’s tax policy is outdated and does not reflect recent changes to the state’s economy, which has seen a marked shift away from non-service jobs such as manufacturing and farming to service-based industries such as health care and hospitality.
That’s according to a report prepared by Bozeman think tank Headwaters Economics for the state Legislature’s Joint Subcommittee on The Changing Economy and Impacts to the Long-Term Viability of Montana’s Tax Structure.
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“An over-reliance on resource taxes may be generating a gap between where the economy is generating value and where the state generates revenue,” the Headwaters report reads.
This dependence leads to tax revenues that are generally unpredictable and fail to accurately reflect the state economy, said Mark Haggerty, an economist at Headwaters.
“The tax revenue we’ve received the last couple years has not kept pace with the growth in the economy,” Haggerty said.
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While many economic mechanisms are out of its control, ultimately the state bears some responsibility for the effectiveness of its tax policy, Haggerty said, pointing to items such as vehicle registration fees, which have not been set up to scale with inflation.
“There are clear policy choices that the state has made over time that have led to declining revenue,” he said. “We’re such a small state that marginal changes have a larger effect on our budget.”
Oh, no! We’re not getting our beaks wet enough.
There are definitely some oddly irrational policies in this state.
We should be charging these countries for providing protection. This would be my preferential method of funding the military in a country without taxes.
Exactly. And our navy, which provides security services to the world’s merchant fleet, should be funded by port fees.
Not port fees. Plunder.
Not port fees. Plunder.
Oh, I get it. You’re one of those “Taxation I Theft” wackos.
No, I mean let the Navy attack other ships and take whatever booty they can. Self-funding, FTW!
I like that idea…
Special discounts for authentic booty.
[insert “s” as needed]
Randy Balko is smearing the whole concept of releasing the Nunes memo. And this, boys and girls, defines a Cosmo. No principle, just an undying commitment to the popular narrative.
Radley succumbed to TDS worse than any other reporter I used to respect.
He’s gotta swim in the pond he’s in. It happens.
Politics makes idiots of everyone.
I blame that darn woman. He didn’t do this before.
It’s a God damn shame. He was right when he noted that it would be nice if Republicans cared about police abuse when it doesn’t involve the FBI and Trump. But, I don’t think he thought that out, because someone noted that the reverse would apply to him
Transparency for the fuzz, but not for their supreme overlords. I see.
I worry it’s being overplayed. If there’s anything resembling a smoking gun, it would have leaked by now. I figure we’ll get a lot of innuendo, like the Strzok/Page texts, suggestive of but far from confirming institutional corruption.
I’m sure it’s overplayed. But, my default position is always more transparency, not less. Should be everyone’s position when it comes to police
This guy makes a good case for why the release is essential, if only to put the IC back in its place so it quits acting like a super-executive body unanswerable to the president or Congress
THEY’RE SPREADING
https://nypost.com/2018/01/30/paris-gets-its-first-incredibly-creepy-sex-doll-brothel/
Ewwww.
Yeah, no thanks.
That’s real gross.
Also, I lol’d at the Page Six TV ad banner. The sister has a rack that would knock over a Suburban and clearly knows it, and the poor white chick to her left is trying every trick in the book to not look like she’s in the “bra-optional” club.
Thanks for that. I was going to pass on the link until I you mentioned the big black tits.
You know some wacko is going to come in and ask for 72 unused sex dolls, And then bitch that there’s a 3-doll limit set by the politburo. And the politburo will acquiesce and require the brothels to always have 72 unused dolls handy for specifically-defined clientele and face 50 years incarceration if they come up two dolls short.
Just don’t call it a circle-jerk
Monday night, Bozeman’s cohort of elected leaders continued the effort to complete the city’s first strategic plan. The plan aims to set a path for Bozeman to follow over the next two to five years.
City Manager Andrea Surratt said city staff hope to finish the draft sometime over the next two months.
“This has been going on a number of years now,” Surratt said. “The commission is going to be making some decisions related to the budget, if their strategic plan is in place, it can inform their budget decisions for the coming year.”
Bozeman’s plan will look at long-term goals like becoming a “well-planned city” with “an engaged community.” While the categories are broad, each have a to-do list attached. For example, a “well-planned” city includes adopting a new growth policy, according to the draft.
Yes, of course. Without those wise kindhearted leaders shepherding their flock, the whole place would descend into anarchy and ruin.
What is an “engaged community”? I’m trying to think through the buzzwords but just keep coming back to something like the LA riots.
Five year plan? Why not a thousand year plan?
SOTU red carpet
Disappointingly, the Dem Senator from Ohio had the best answer. Reps need to step up their game, big time.
Listening to two colleagues squeal over the February pic in their Obama calendar, in the same way I used to squeal over Duran Duran pics.
*endless vomiting*
So they like preening condescension?
They’re just two of a majority of humanity that can’t spot a sociopath when they see one.
That’s great, but it’s the vacuuousness that really gets ’em moist.
Get a MAGA hat and put on your desk. I would say also a Trump coffee mug, butt… That’ll shut em up.
One of the politicals around here (like all politicals, we can’t figure out what he actually does), stole the calendar out of my colleague’s cube. So, no. I don’t want to be identified with a motherfucking dudebro thief.
Send him to Glibs, we’ll give him some more ideas.
Do not want. He’s a little Bannon wannabe.
He just wanted to prompt conversation by removing the calendar.
Take comfort in the fact that these idiots purchased the calendars on credit and are being charged 22% interest.
Submitted without comment.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/31/my-designer-vagina-saved-my-life/
Reading the article, what she had was not designer surgery, it was to fix a medical condition. Misleading clickbait title.
I once met a vagina reconstruction surgeon and I never want to meet him again
Everyone hates the vaginal reconstruction surgeon, until you need one.
Uh, that’s not a designer vagina, but a surgical repair of damage during birth.
Or, what Scruffy said.
I believe the technical term for that operation is an apussatightemy..
“‘I’ve been flat-out raped’: Amy Schumer discusses horrific personal experience as she reveals she was sexually assaulted in a podcast with Katie Couric”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5339421/Amy-Schumer-says-flat-raped.html
She was sexually assaulted in a podcast?
With Katie Couric? ewww……
“Are you sure this is a colonoscopy?”
Absolutely nobody is that desperate.
Shockingly, the ethnicity of the assailant is left to the imagination of the reader.
https://nypost.com/2018/01/31/teen-hit-with-bottle-after-rejecting-gropers-advances/
A five-foot something black-haired assailant? Sounds like a native Swede to me.
If it were a white Swede, we would know about it.
Musta been a Finn. They’ll get in anywhere if you’re not careful.
To be fair, if she would cover her hair and walk with male relatives this wouldn’t have been an issue.
Sweden just needs to change the law so that people from certain cultures are allowed to assault people for refusing their advances. That will fix it.
I love my drug buddy.
That was pretty out there! https://youtu.be/P9Vf2f2Wkw0
That video was very triggering for me. Now I gotta listen to Lemonheads/Blake Babies/Antenna/Juliana Hatfield all day. May be a new Spotify playlist as well….
Remember children, the USA is the most hateful, anti-gay, anti-woman place on Earth.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gays-unmarried-couples-face-jail-for-sex-as-islamists-push-legal-changes-1517485322
This must be because of the alt-right/Russian takeover of the American government, and their puppet, Trump! This never would’ve happened under Hillary!
OK, as I said, I’m now fully down the rabbit hole of this HGH stuff. When I initially got diagnosed I was never informed about any of this stuff. Along with the other physical symptoms, the tendonitis in my knees I always had problems with back in my soccer playing days is likely related, as is my thick skin. Sorry for dumping this here, this place is just my brain toilet.
I should do an AMA.
“brain toilet” is a pretty apt descriptor for the content we provide the site.
Are you saying you took HGH and are now seeing side effects or am I misunderstanding this?
No, he said it’s a natural condition, in a past thread.
” Gallery removes naked nymphs painting to ‘prompt conversation’
It is a painting that shows pubescent, naked nymphs tempting a handsome young man to his doom, but is it an erotic Victorian fantasy too far, and one which, in the current climate, is unsuitable and offensive to modern audiences?
Manchester Art Gallery has asked the question after removing John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs, one of the most recognisable of the pre-Raphaelite paintings, from its walls. Postcards of the painting will be removed from sale in the shop.”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/31/manchester-art-gallery-removes-waterhouse-naked-nymphs-painting-prompt-conversation
Neo-puritans at it again.
I imagine the conversations being something like:
“So…um…where’d that one painting go? You know, the…uh…one with…”
“Yeah, the nymphs, it’s gone, and I swear to God if one more person asks me about the nymph painting I’m walking out the door and never coming back.”
Haha
The nasty little secret being that it’s about 2 miles up the road from Rusholme, which was a somewhat-shahid-filled shithole when I was in Manchester in the late 70’s. Bog alone knows what it’s like now. I could imagine it’s been renamed Kabul-on-Irwell.
From the VCDL:
Market distortions are bad, though I think this a more constructive direction for the Dems to focus than on gun grabbing. Imagine if instead of those ridiculous “food deserts”, Dems focused on “Firearm Deserts” where progressive government policies have restricted the ability of women and the poor to protect themselves. I know, snowball in hell and all that.
OT: I really, really like the “next article” arrow. That’s slick.
SP’s got mad skillz.
It falls into the category of “User elements that make me wary of a mis-click”
*user interface elements.
Progressive eugenicists:
fap, fap, fap, fap…
http://freebeacon.com/issues/doctors-condemn-massachusetts-suicide-bill/
Nice how they manage to take a real issue, the right to die, and turn it into forced violations of personal ethics.
Let the smearing begin.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/media-liberals-attack-gop-senate-candidate-criticizing-sexual-revolution/
His comments didn’t seem outrageous to me, but what the hell do I know, I’m just a white cis-het shitlord.
Yeah, it’s a smear, but I’d rather Austen Peterson won the primary and defeated McCaskill. Although, I have reservations about Peterson he’s preferable to your standard Republican candidate, although I respect Hawley for his work to defend religious liberty for all religious adherents regardless of denomination.
As long as old lady McCaskill is sent to an old folks home, I’ll be happy
“This Realistic Vagina Manicure Is Exactly What I Needed Today”
http://www.seventeen.com/beauty/nails/a12025090/this-realistic-vagina-manicure-is-exactly-what-i-needed-today/
At Seventeen magazine? Are they trying to dethrone Teen Vogue for the inappropriate sexualization of adolescent girls crown?
I didn’t even think about the fact that this is a publication geared toward adolescents. This is some sick shit.
Next month in Teen Vogue: realistic butthole manicures.
‘Would’ her fingernail? What….is….is…this…..is this….real life?
Stop the world I want to get off.
Not that teen fashion magazines were ever a source of intellectual material, but this puts them on a literary par with Hustler.
Imagine that…progs sewing the seeds for the death of propriety.
“.@rosemcgowan on former co-star Alyssa Milano’s #MeToo work: ‘She’s a lie.’ But Milano tells @ABC News’ Nightline, “I am and always have been completely supportive of Rose.” Tonight on Nightline with @JujuChangABC”
https://twitter.com/Nightline/status/958852413330305025
“Actress Rose McGowan SLAMS Resistance Leader Alyssa Milano, ‘She’s a Lie’
Rose McGowan slammed Alyssa Milano as “a lie” and noted that she is married to an agent from the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), which she claims is “part of the pimp problem” in Hollywood, during an interview about the #MeToo Movement on Wednesday.
The comments about her former “Charmed” co-star came during a sit-down interview with “Nightline” about her new book “Brave” and the allegations that Harvey Weinstein raped her.
When asked by anchor Juju Chang how she feels about the Resistance darlings efforts with #TimesUp and #MeToo, McGowan deadpanned and replied, “I don’t like her.”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/actress-rose-mcgowan-slams-resistance-leader-alyssa-milano-shes-lie/
And so, they commence to consume each other.
As long as I get to watch
Precious little chance of any sapphic action between those two at the moment.
I’ll settle for some Jello and a wading pool.
I fell in love with McGowan when I watched Jawbreakers in the 90’s.
And now she’s gone as crazy as all of your other exes.
“Hillary Clinton literally saved my life…. A few years ago I was in a terrible car accident and went into a coma for 6 months. Doctors said I’d never walk again. Then one day she came on the news, I woke up, walked over to the TV and turned it off. It was truly a miracle.”
https://twitter.com/Education4Libs/status/958733581550931969
LOL
TechnoViking makes an appearance in the replies.
Isn’t a miracle like that one of the requirements for sainthood?
.. asks a guy who claims to be a Pope….
Three, last I knew.
Since 1983, it’s been two. First miracle gets beatification, second gets a lot of scrutiny by the Vatican and canonization if their investigations dictate the even to be miraculous.
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/958891141642047488
That’s a good question and probably explains why she no longer works for a major news outlet
Can’t Trump just declassify whatever he wants?
Can he? It appears that the attempt of Congress to de-classify the memo is getting a lot of push back. Congress has said they want to de-classify the underlying intelligence, but that the FBI will not provide them with a copy.
I’m not giving Trump or Congress a pass. I’m sure the memo is over hyped. But, my default position is to always side with more transparency than less, especially when it comes to police and most particularly the FBI.
“It appears to be true that the President has the legal authority to declassify classified materials however he chooses. This conclusion is supported by dicta in Department of Navy v. Egan, 484 US 518 (1988), and it is consistent with the historical fact that classification and declassification decisions have been made by the President. (On the relevance of historical facts, see Justice Frankfurter’s separate opinion in The Steel Seizure Case.) To be sure, Congress might have the power to limit the President’s power to classify and declassify (though the President is likely to resist any such limitation on constitutional grounds) — but no such limitation appears to be in place.”
http://www.uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2006/04/presidential_de.html
My question: “can he?” is more of a political question. If Congress, which has oversight authority over the FBI, is getting push back and stonewalling from the intelligence community, “open government groups”, and the news media, how tenable is it for the president to de-classify this information?
If there’s something dynamite in there that proves one of his points, why not?
Accidental Libertarian President wins again!
Who wrote that?
Me. Or Sean Spicier. It’s hard to tell nowadays.
Accidental Libertarian President
I like that one. Can I steal it?
Can you steal it? Sure. Not sure I was the first to coin it. It’d be nice if it also became true.
I would add that the Special Counsel is trying to build a case of obstruction of justice around his firing of James Comey (which is within his right), so don’t you think de-classifying this information will just be used as more fodder to prove obstruction of justice?
I wish that politicians and “open government groups” who pretend like they care about government transparency would actually be consistent in that belief. But, very few people are consistent anymore. I’ve lost a lot of respect for a lot of people during this whole episode. But, also gained more respect for Glenn Greenwald, whom I already had great respect for
It’s probably worth noting that there are two types of classification.
Most classified information is classified according to executive orders and is thus classified by the authority of the President. This includes even very sensitive information like foreign intelligence sources and methods. It is given teeth by statute, particularly the Espionage Act, but there is no mandate that such information be classified; only that, if it is classified, it must be protected. The President can legally declassify any of this information without anyone’s approval, although there might be some Espionage Act violations raised in certain cases (e.g. releasing foreign intelligence that contains information about U.S. citizens or legal residents without redacting those parts).
However, there is a second type of clearance, covering information related to nuclear weapons (and nuclear energy, when that information can be used to make weapons), which is classified according to the Atomic Energy Act and is thus classified by the authority of Congress. The President cannot legally declassify this information without Congress passing a law allowing him to.
s/second type of clearance/second type of classification/
Although, a lot of people call that second type of classification “Q” based upon the clearance you need to see it, but there is also “L” clearance for less sensitive nuclear info.
That teaser picture is certainly something. Robot girls are weird
https://twitter.com/radleybalko/status/959079342927204352
Super libertarian-y!
Balko turned into a bald douche.
At a certain point I have to ask, how along until we see a situation of Balko justifying law enforcement excess if it hurts Trump or his supporters? I think he’s slowly drinking just that Kool-Aid.
I think he’s already begun doing that. I think what we are witnessing is the twilight of the cosmo. I think a purge is coming and rightly so
“Social justice warriors stormed a London cafe to protest Winston Churchill. They failed.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/social-justice-warriors-stormed-a-london-cafe-to-protest-winston-churchill-they-failed/article/2647723
If you’re having to read your trivial complaints off a paper and all they amount to is “Churchill was a racist,” perhaps they and you are not worth paying any attention. It seems pretty unserious.
From the Seattle pop-tax link:
That’s good, as the city’s grasp of the situation seems a little suspect. It suggests, on its website, that customers somehow shouldn’t even have to pay it.
“The tax is not collected by the retailer,” the site says, “nor is the tax burden intended to fall onto the consumer.”
Taxes are always to be paid by the seller, never by the customer.
“Today’s episode of Law and Order SVU is titled “Info Wars” and is about a female conservative journalist/pundit who is raped”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/958912593573359616
I can’t say this surprises me. Yeah, a significant portion of the leftist outrage machine would be morally ambivalent about the rape of a conservative woman. In their minds, her politics are justifying and excusing rape culture. So, the actual rape would just be the woman getting a taste of her own medicine. Yes, they really do think she’s asking for it. Maybe this sounds awful, but I really wouldn’t put it past the left, if things ever got ugly, to have rape squads.
That’s fucked up.
Huh, I was expecting that the development would either be “racist bitch lied” or “and it was her side what raped her” but, according to that thread, it’s legit “bitch got raped and deserved it, let’s make sure guys who did it don’t get punished.”
I mean, I expect some measure of thought in obvious propaganda. This makes Comrade Detective look subtle.
Prison rape is so normalized that a popular song about how horrible date rape is ends with the line “Well, I can’t take pity for men of his kind, Though he now takes it up the behind.” It’s not that hard to see the same sort of moral sliding scale applied to sub human conservative women.
“Pensioner, 80, ‘pushed entire arm into cow’s rectum and masturbated’
A pensioner has been banned from every farm in Britain after he allegedly pushed his fist into a cow’s rectum and performed a sex act.
John Curno, 80, was found guilty of two counts of outraging public decency after he molested several cows on at least two occasions.
The court heard that last summer he was spotted talking to a herd of 150 cows and masturbating in fields belonging to Park Lodge Farm in Uxbridge, west London, several times.
Farmer’s wife Susan Howie said in Uxbridge Magistrates Court that she caught Curno twice with his pants and trousers round his ankles and courting her cattle, which she describes as part of her family.
Curno, who uses a walking stick, was also spotted by two sisters – from their home nearby – who reported seeing him insert his left arm up to his shoulder into the back end of a cow.”
http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/31/pensioner-80-pushed-entire-arm-cows-rectum-masturbated-7276619/
Time to dig out that ‘confused shrug of the shoulders’ emoji.
“courting”
so much for courtly love
I guess i’ve been doing the dating-thing wrong.
Fuck, they should give this old cooter a medal for still having the stamina to first a cow and fap.
‘fist’
First of Etiquette has a sad.
And he had it first, amirite?
He made a point of coming first whenever possible. Selfish shitlord!
It is not impeachment they seek, but the perpetual drumming for it. the entire point is to keep the wheels of outrage spinning.
Twisting humdrum conversations and meaningless associations into claims of “intent to obstruct!” …
(something which doesn’t even exist or make sense from the POV of any law: the intent isn’t a crime, its intent combined with some action. without the latter, the former isn’t… anything. Intent w/o behavior substantiating it is basically speculating on someone’s mindstate and pretending that’s criminal)
…. will probably suffice to serve the purpose.
Hell, if the entire nation can be convinced that “The Russians!” (actually, it was a cabal of eastern european hackers who work for the …. but whatever… details, detauils)… “Hacked” (in many cases it never amounted to any ‘hacking’ – it was wide-net phishing expeditions which included many non-govt targets and was part of outstanding behavior which significantly predated the election)…. our election…. and that somehow that was significant of anything in terms of its outcome (compared to say, i dunno, criminal investigation against clinton, the sabotage the DNC did of bernie, the exposure of media figures @ cnn colluding w/ the campaign…etc)…..
…if people swallow that shit? then sure, they can twist anything into a claim of impeachable offense.
what bothers me is that the news media is far more interested in pumping these same bullshit partisan fantasies than actually taking the 10 mins to explain to people that “This isn’t how any of this shit actually works”
People like the goobers over at DU, and they are all Democrat voters, will literally believe any fucking thing the Democrats and leftist media spew out. Seriously, the media could start saying that the Russians had help from bigfoot and space aliens and they would 100% believe it, every.fucking.one.of.them. When you have constituents that dumb, why not just make up stupid shit? It works.
Seriously, the media could start saying that the Russians had help from bigfoot and space aliens and they would 100% believe it, every.fucking.one.of.them.
STEVE SMITH NO NEED HELP FROM RUSSIANS. TO RAPE!
Pelosi is calling on Ryan to remove Nunes from the house intel committee chair. Nothing to see here!
Ryan if he had any guts would tell Pelosi to pound sand. The Left needs to learn that using dirty tactics that they’ve been using for the past year to de-legitimize an election begets shit like this.
what bothers me is that the news media is far more interested in pumping these same bullshit partisan fantasies than actually taking the 10 mins to explain to people that “This isn’t how any of this shit actually works”
1. They don’t actually know how it works (see also: Gell-Mann amnesia effect)
2. They aren’t interested in finding out how it works, because it doesn’t bolster the narrative
Look at any time a politician they want to defend gets accused of something, and watch how the narrative evolves. Their story changes basically at the rate they learn (or make up) what the fuck is going on. It’s like watching a kindergartner try to explain away the mess he’s standing right next to. They’re pig ignorant and it’s become blatantly obvious. What’s really galling is that they then go on to talk about the value of expertise, but they wouldn’t know expertise if it smacked them in the head.
btw, the broken link
https://www.f-secure.com/documents/996508/1030745/dukes_whitepaper.pdf
worth reading if you care about the ‘russian hacking’ thing