Lots of happenings over the weekend. But I get the feeling I’d be lynched, and not Loretta-style with a sweet meeting in a private jet but the kind involving a rope and a tree, if I didn’t at least bring up sports. So I will:
The Buckeyes struggled early put pulled away in a game of runs to beat Illinois. Meanwhile Villanova rolls along. And I know it was Saturday, but its worth noting that Kentucky got rocked my Missouri and the mighty Duke fell to lowly St. Johns in an odd out-of-conference game in February. I hope it drove Dickie V to tears, the one-eyed fuck. And on the ice, Montreal beat Ottawa, Carolina topped San Jose, and Army beat Washington.
More. MORE! Your tears are so delicious and sweet.
And then…there was the reason Philly will probably be burning as you read this. But as far as this man is concerned, its a small price to pay so the rest of the civilized world can get a tase of those salty, ham lobster tears. I haven’t tasted anything this sweet since walking out of the Superdome a few years ago after Ohio State beat Alabama on their way to a National Championship. But don’t worry, Bradyiots, ESPN made sure the second story in the headlines was you guys being favored to win it all next year. Also, T-Mobile pandered too much, Jack In The Box (feat. Martha Stewart) nailed it, and Gordon Ramsey is still funny as fuck.
Whew! What a game. Now let’s see if I can find anything else worthwhile to talk about in…the links!
Um, this is worse than reality!
Well that’s just, like, your opinion little man. When asked for comment, Lester Holt said he agreed and then got back in the ski lift line at the direction of the 8-year old kid that was manning it.
Man vs hate birds, the birds that hate: or Man vs government bastards, the bastards that govern.Either way, I like this fellow for his position on taxes but I’m not a big fan for his desire to get the government to solve what could easily be remedied by dumping bags of poison on the lawn or hiring a few gents with shotguns. (And I always thought his wife was hot way back in the day before that crazy German fucker stabbed her in the back.)
Well, I guess the taxes aren’t high enough in Chicago, otherwise this wouldn’t be happening. And even though they’re required to go by law, I doubt there will be any legal consequences for these lazy fucks. Also, note which cases they didn’t go to and take a wild guess as to why.
In the infamous words of Jack Napier: Never rub another man’s rhubarb.
This is what happens when the father-daughter dance takes a dark turn.
Keeping it in the family. This story is weird as shit, but the criminal charges are a bunch of bullshit. Adultery? Seriously? And correct me if I’m wrong, but someone ceases to be a minor when they turn 18. Get a math textbook, North Carolina.
Christ, what a couple of assholes. That is all.
Here’s one for the techies out there. Ands for the IP- and anti IP-warriors out there to fight over. Hell, it’s actually a pretty interesting case that I wish got more attention.
The California “bullet” train continues to be an absolute shitshow. And if you’re surprised by that, then you haven’t been paying attention.
This is for the people in the last link (and OMWC).
Have a great day, friends.
Sure the bullet train is a shitshow – one even the LA Times can’t ignore.
I had the “pleasure” of selling all of the equipment for an orchard owner who had had his property confiscated for the bullet train project. He said he was thankful that automatic weapons were illegal in California because if they weren’t he’d have probably set up a machine gun nest on his property and taken out “every goddamn bureaucrat from Sacramento that came down here and took away his family’s land”.
And yes, they compensated him…for the land that had been in his family for at least 80 years. But you can’t compensate for some of the things he had taken from him.
Yeah, “compensation” for eminent domain is like getting a reach-around during prison rape.
I think you linked the wrong Tull song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LySTISqaH9o
Be civilized. Like France. Get fast choochoo. Speaking of which is foie gras still banned in California?
It seems like the ban reversal was reversed, again. But it appears that chefs are continuing to serve it until the state actually starts enforcing it…again.
Like it would ever be enforced. You know who eats foie gras? The Right Sort of People ™, and the State is reluctant to mess around the Right Sort of People ™.
Good job on the links, sloopy. I was expecting them to be extra late due to the Irish flu. 😉
I had been half expecting someone else to cover them rather than a delay.
I take my linking duties as seriously as you guys all take your off-topic commenting duties. So barring something coming up for work or a family emergency, you can count on me.
What was the other half of you thinking?
something bland/something blue/something vanilla/for you
The other half of me was filling out my timecard and ‘billing’ my time to the appropriate business units/projects. It is, of course, all internal accounting, and a massive waste of time.
So basically what LH said.
I’m not nearly as poetic, but more precise this time.
The Donald hair isn’t the worst look a Kim has had. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/kim-il-sung-tumor-1984/
Uh, I hate to burst your bubble, but that’s Frank Beamer being promoted to head coach at Va Tech back in the 70s.
Beamer got the VT job in 1987.
Looks like Chronos giving birth to Zeus.
“Quaid… start the reactor…”
I wasn’t sure what was sadder, that Kuato was willing to murder everyone on Mars by scalding them with superheated steam, or that Quaid went along with the plan, and it was happenstance that it didn’t work.
If I was Kuato, I’d want all the people involved in my sad mutant existence wiped out by super-heated steam too.
Neither. It was sad that Quaid was willing to trade 1990 Sharon Stone for Rachel Ticotin.
I think he was going with that old adage about crazy. And I suppose that would go for murdery too.
Ram truck ad using MLK speech draws backlash
That was one ad I did catch and it left a bad taste in my mouth. Serving isn’t about drawing attention to yourself. It’s about helping, maybe accepting a few thank-yous and walking away.
It would be an ad agency miracle to make a commercial that looked good while pimping your “serving”.
If a liberal does his community service hours in the woods, have those hours really been done at all?
Depends, how many selfies were posted?
No cell service… The horror… The horror…
Total coincidence after Charlottesville? *Raises eyebrow*
*chokes on coffee, splutters, tries to begin wild applause*
Dodge rose to the Challenger.
It was a valiant effort.
I’m gonna dart in and out of the subthread to see how tht puns are coming along.
Sloopy, ever the Diplomat.
That’s the spirit!
Kinda just rammed that one in. You need to make more of a Journey to getting there.
I’ve been called intrepid in the past, but I’m just the tail end of a long and senior dynasty.
The kingsway or the highway, huh?
Not sure if I can get into this, you guys are gonna be posting too fast four me.
I wouldn’t worry about it. Not a person of your caliber.
Our puns roll in like the shadow of a stratus cloud as it rampages across the horizon
I’ll give that A 100.
200 for me. Fuck it, let’s make a 300.
I hope you are all bitten by a viper for unleashing this silliness.
How many puns now? Six? Eight?
Time to claim victory.
*hands 6 a coronet*
I’m flattered.
Makes me feel almost Royal. Or at least a Viscount.
You people are just Demons when it comes to puns.
This thread needs a big neon sign saying “bad puns this way”
If there is one thing about Glibs that is reliant, it’s the pun threads.
How long can we go on? This thing has gotten magnum sized.
Puns are an omni present threat around here.
Time for the nitro, I’m thinking.
Chrysler, what a bunch of assholes.
I’d like to change the Polara ity of this thread as it demonizing a loved brand.
Right, because businesspeople who become successful are, by definition, making everyone else worse off. The employees who get jobs and the consumers who use the products are just getting fucked over with no lube every single day.
My family is fairly well off (had a custom house built, own several new cars, take regular vacations, etc.) but they’re of the belief that rich people in the United States make “too much” money. I generally don’t bring up the topic of politics at family gatherings, but next time I hear the complaining about “income inequality”, I’m going to ask, “If it’s not fair for CEOs to spend their own paychecks on luxuries rather than giving it away to charity, how is it fair for you to spend your paychecks on similar luxuries when there are people in Africa and India who are starving to death? After all, just by being a non-poor person living in the United States, you’re easily in the top one percent of the world, so shouldn’t you be living at a bare subsistence level and mailing all your money over there?”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
That is why the TIAA Cref commercials make me sick.
Tasteless, yes. Wouldn’t his estate have to OK that usage?
Yes. They were well paid, and understandably are defending their decision to license the speech. If they can’t monetize it, what’s the point of controlling it?
A North Korean official said the country’s nuclear capabilities would ‘deter Trump and his lackeys from showing off on the Korean peninsula.’
Oooh, look at you guys eating your food. Show offs.
My guess is that we’re gonna show off plenty over the next couple of weeks. At least in the women’s alpine events.
Yeah but North Korea will bring hotter chicks and get more medals then stinky US
Say what you want, but their parasites keep their women thin.
You like fucking Skeletor?
Well, I guess the taxes aren’t high enough in Chicago, otherwise this wouldn’t be happening. – the blame lays squarely at the feet of stingy Illinois glibs who refuse to pay their fair share.
one police officer said a fan was arrested for climbing a street pole without clothes.
Which on of the Philly glibs was this?
climbing a street pole without clothes. – is there a law against that?
Concealed Carry legal in Philly?
A permit is required for concealed or open carry inside the Philly city limits. A permit is required for concealed carry in PA outside of Philly but open carry does not require a permit outside of Philly city limits. Just be prepared for harassment in some parts of Pennsylvania if you open carry.
Philly is far from Libertopia.
When libertopia kicks in there will be a naked man on every pole! That when we know we achieved it
Wait, I thought it would be naked women on every pole in libertopia
Libertopia does not discriminate.
“Pot in every pipe and a pole in every hole”
Is youtube clogged with gang rape videos from the streets of Philly, this morning? Or is that reserved for Flyers championships?
Let’s see…some fires, cars being overturned, idiots climbing on canopies and collapsing them, some vandalism. So far no STEVE SMITHING that I can tell.
As far as I know, all schools in the City and the five counties have at least a two hour and some are already closed for the whole.
People doing “trust falls” off of city buses, climbing construction scaffolding. It is euphoria!
Donald Trump and Paul Ryan: Who is the Other’s Stooge?
Is there one all-consuming uber organism conspiring to dismantle the very institutions responsible for maintaining and perpetuating the republic?
I wish, comrade.
Before you know it, Trump will be pushing grannies into the sea at Mar A Lago
He’s been feeding them to the Croctopuses all along!
/progtard..
Why do they expect Ryan to “stand up” to trump? Has the thought not yet occurred to them that he’s as disgusted by the deep state abuses of authority and conspiracy to undermine a rightly-elected president as Trump is? Or that he can’t read the political trend line and see that that blue wave everyone feared before is about as likely at a victory parade in Boston this week is?
Why are libertarians and social conservatives being lumped in together? Also, just because Paul Ryan read a Rand book that doesn’t make him a libertarian.
Yea, those damn RethugliKKKans are forgetting the very important Jefferson quote: “The government is best which forces people to buy health insurance, bans guns deemed to be too dangerous, spies on nearly all electronic communications, and engages in constant foreign interventions in shithole countries.”
Paul Ryan and of all the other so-called “libertarians”
What
FAA Violation. FPV drone Pilot on Collision course with Airline. Near Miss.
I knew the iggles would win. Rooted for thm all along.
Who among us hasn’t faked brain cancer at least one?
In the infamous words of Jack Napier: Never rub another man’s rhubarb. – what a bunch of cucks
Never have a threesome with someone you actually want to maintain a serious relationship with. I know more than a few people who’ve tried that shit, including two married couples, and in every case they split up within a year. In some cases it was because the marriage was already on the rocks and they wanted to spice things up, in others it was because one of them got infatuated with the new person, but none of those relationships survived.
Meh I know lots of people who have had threesomes with friends and it not affected their relationship with their long term partner.
Sure, anytime you open things up to new people there is a possibility of things going south, thing is the exact same possibility exists if you don’t because having an open relationship removes a lot of the temptation to cheat.
I’m sure it can work in the right circumstances, but in all the threesomes or polygamous relationships or any of that stuff I’ve known of at least one person was coming into it from a monogamous relationship and expecting a monogamous relationship on the other end. People get jealous. People have expectations that aren’t met by reality. It seems like you’d need to be with someone in a “good friends with kids” type scenario for a third wheel to not disrupt stuff, but I wouldn’t know personally.
Married friend of mine has had one or two girlfriends in the past decade. As far as I know he’s still seeing someone on the side but with his wife’s knowledge. At the same time she has a boyfriend. It works for them – somehow.
This is us. But neither my wife nor I was monogamous going into the relationship. It’s always been a non-monogamous one, the entire 13+ years. There were rough patches, but generally speaking, those had less to do with outside partners than with stuff that we’d have had going on even if we were monogamous. But yeah, trying it to save the marriage or when one person is only doing it because they feel they have to rarely is a positive outcome.
That may be true, and there are always outliers, but witnessing friends and acquaintances’ situations, my experience mirrors Bill’s. I think it’s safe to say that based on your previous posts that you run in a rather unconventional crowd so I think your sample may be biased. No judgement in any direction but I think in the vast majority of cases for (forgive the term) “regular” couples, it’s better for that fantasy to remain a fantasy.
/me looks around expecting the Montana chapter of Glibs to turn up.
I fail to see how an aversion to threading relates to the topic at hand.
/misses point completely
Yes that is true and you are right. for the average couple who think using a blindfold is getting adventurous experimenting with swinging or open relationships is very dangerous because there is a very high probability that the two of them will not come out of the experience in the same place.
Speaking for myself, this type of arrangement would have a lot less to do with jealousy than with my being cursed with a mind that is simultaneously misanthropic, optimistic, cynical, hopeful, despairing and philosophically minded. I need someone with whom I feel I can bunker down against a meaningless and hostile universe. Allowing other people on the other side of that moat would open it to the gaping maw of despair, chaos and decay that constitutes a threat the potentially naïve island of truth, innocence and purity that’s been built. There’s a reason that if I navel gaze for too long, I’ll find myself weeping.
/two bad drunken nights from a padded cell
And before you ask, it often is Hell inside my head.
I’m not a big fan for his desire to get the government to solve what could easily be remedied by dumping bags of poison on the lawn or hiring a few gents with shotguns.
Or a dog. A company I used to work at had a problem with “The Birds That Hate” hanging out in the parking lot. They got a dog and would let the dog run through the parking lot every now and then. It solved the problem.
This guy has a big estate. I doubt a single dog would do it. Besides, that merely chases the hate birds: the birds that hate off. The real goal is to kill as many of them as possible.
The fucking things are still federally protected, I believe. New Zealand said to hell with it and declared open season. Good decision.
Yep, open season is the right thing to do.
After a little research, it looks like most states have hunting seasons for Canada geese. But they can be retardedly restrictive. California let’s you kill them from November to March, but only in specific areas up north, and with a 10 a day bag limit.
They are right good eating, though.
Are they? The internet seems to be split on that.
I can only speak from my own experience, but I’ve eaten a good damn few of them. Some folks judge by what domestic goose tastes like, which is quite different; others have eaten birds that weren’t properly cared for after they were killed. That makes a big difference with all sorts of waterfowl. And some folks just don’t like them, which is fine – more for me.
American geese are tasty, but the excessive poutine intake gives an odd aftertaste to their Canadian cousins.
As I’ve said in prior threads, Maryland has a large non-migratory population, and they’re considered invasive. You can kill 15 a day or so in season. My soon to be BIL owns a fairly large farm where he lives and does most of his hunting (which is pretty damned convenient) and he’ll invite his friends over to come have a couple bloody Marys and shoot birds all day. The bag limit is 15/day/person, but because they’re invasive and you’re typically not going too many game wardens snooping around private land out in the country, that’s kind of a “soft” limit.
IOW, down here home boy could have his goose problem solved by a bunch of good ol’ boys in maybe two mornings. Might cost him some ammo and a couple of brunches, but that’d be about it.
Not a Good Look: The SCA Swastika Incident
https://www.publicmedievalist.com/sca-swastika/
Do the SCA count as nerds, or is that sort of thing becoming cool now, what with the popularity of GoT and all?
They have been nerds for a long time…
So you are telling me there are nazi nerds out there?
Anything Nazi would be new…they usually were in feudal arrangements.
Whatever. Nerds being harassed by overly sensitive twats.
And WTF
Content notice: as you might suspect considering the title, this article contains images of historical and historical reproduction garments with swastikas in the pattern.
Bowstring warning?
Know that no offense was intended, no hidden message to interpret, and no hate to be displayed.
Then don’t apologize.
Exactly. The correct response would have been:
we didn’t mean anything disrespectful. Go pick up a history book and learn something, you stupid fuckface busybody assclown. Now get out of my kingdom or I’ll brain thee!
Or just say “dilly dilly” and have them escorted to a private tour of the pit of misery by Sir Brad.
Did you just make me google a Bud Light commercial?
::saunters off with feeling of smug satisfaction::
Be careful which ones you call nerds.
More than a handful of them spend an inordinate amount of time studying medieval martial arts and will thoroughly kick your ass in or out of armor
the interrelation of combat and rulership makes the system de facto patriarchal and hetero-normative.
Oh my God
It’s Time For A Holocaust #MeToo Reckoning
Give a good part of of the #metoo stories were not particularly horrible, lets leave the Holocaust unattached to this
They want to elevate their harrowing experience of being flirted with by someone they didn’t find attractive to the suffering of concentration camp inmates. What they actually do is trivialize and belittle what said inmate went through by the comparison.
Trying to allocate the moral standing of the Holocaust survivors for themselves by association.
No thanks
Wait till they get to STEVE SMITH. #MeTo…(sound of broken window)again.
Yeah, that’s a great idea. You draw an analogy between sitting next to a bum spanking it on a public bus with women being starved, tortured, raped, and murdered en masse because they were “untermadchen”. I’ll just stand here with some popcorn. No, I’m not laughing, that was a just a cough.
Ram truck ad using MLK speech draws backlash
Did anybody not see that coming?
Also- weird observation:
Ram trucks had a couple of socially conscious ads like that. Then, Jeep comes on toward the end and basically seems to be making fun of them; they called them “manifesto” ads, while the Jeep drives across the river and climbs the rocks on the other side in a demonstration of serious utility. Of course, Jeep and Ram are both under the Fiat Chrysler umbrella, which makes me think it’s some sort of sibling rivalry.
I couldn’t help noticing.
“Did anybody not see that coming?”
I had the same thought. Advertising executives are so fucking retarded, I don’t even fucking know how they got their fucking jobs.
Don’t pander. Don’t virtue signal. Even using figures that are revered by both left and right. The SJW left will find something wrong with it. They will never be satisfied.
They also don’t buy Ram trucks.
Good point.
A more effective ad would have been one that mocks and ridicules SJWs.
The NFL would have vetoed that shit.
A crying Ram truck with a bed full of carefully multi-ethnic babies kneeling during the National Anthem being sung by a transman.
Oh, wait… that last part actually happened.
I’m sure there are a small handful out there who do. After all, there are gun control supporters who have CCWs and own an AR-15. It’s the “freedom for me, not for thee” mindset.
UC Santa Barbara conference to celebrate ‘self-identifying women of color’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/41590/
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The conference begins with “badass” speaker Zahira Kelly-Cabrera, an “award-winning sociocultural critic” who will speak about the “white-supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy and what it means to minority women. ”
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My personal favorite is the Session B workshop “La Nalgona Poderosa y Su Arte [The Powerful Fat-Ass and Her/Their Art]: A Body-Positive Workshop for Self-Exploration and Storytelling of Latinx Identity and Body-Image Through Art.” This seminar will, “in a safe and confidential space, […] engage in a resistant crafting of the self in a way to heal and decolonize the self through art.”
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From navel gazing to navel surveying.
“La Nalgona Poderosa y Su Arte [The Powerful Fat-Ass and Her/Their Art]: A Body-Positive Workshop for Self-Exploration and Storytelling of Latinx Identity and Body-Image Through Art.” – they need a bunch of frat bros at that event to wolf-whistle and slap some asses you know to give them some body positivity
Derp overload approaching
white-supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy
That evoked a picture of a dude wearing a sheet while jerking off to a sears catalog.
I don’t think many of the broads in the day two event have seen their navel in some time. At least not without a map and/or a mirror.
possibly a drone would be required.
I’m sorry, I’ll never be able to take that term seriously. It sounds like a fucking Pokemon.
A wild La Tinx appeared?
The Pokémon no one wants to catch?
Michael Wolff Was Thrown Off MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ for Nikki Haley Affair Rumors
http://observer.com/2018/02/michael-wolff-was-thrown-off-msnbcs-morning-joe-for-nikki-haley-affair-rumors/
[Nelson laugh]
I saw that via The Jmmy Dore Show.
Priceless.
Of course, they only did it because it was a woman. Trump being slandered, not so much.
Are you alarmed?
How Twitter Bots and Trump Fans Made #ReleaseTheMemo Go Viral
Russian bots and their American allies gamed social media to put a flawed intelligence document atop the political agenda. That should alarm us.
So you are all Russian-bots? Or is Tulpa a Russian program that created all of you? ::looks around suspiciously::
My wife is Russian. Our oldest (almost three) is bilingual. We had a serious discussion about sending her to a Russian speaking daycare at least once a week so that she could continue to expand her Russian vocabulary.
Ultimately, i decided against it. The main reason was that it’s a long drive. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say the current Russophobia being pushed by the left and the media also hasn’t crossed my mind and makes me reticent to push my kids towards any environment where they can so easily be identified as “Russians”. It’s only a matter of time before some mentally unstable leftist targets some Russians. We’ve already seen them targeting congressman. We’ve already seen Rand Paul get his ass kicked. Antifa is threatening anyone and everyone to the right of FDR. Sure, the chances that my kids would be targeted are slim. But the fact that it even crossed my mind was something inconceivable 18 months ago.
The first time any Russian immigrant is assaulted by a leftist in this country – and it is bound to happen to someone somewhere sooner or later – the Democrats and the media will have blood on their hands.
My wife is Russian
I think we’ve found the Russian mole in our midst. Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?
If the Russians I work with are like the rest of the immigrants from that land, they’ll best the everloving fuck out of any leftist who tries them.
Your child could work for a giant, unaccountable government spy agency someday, don’t take that opportunity away prematurely.
“beat”, you didn’t notice all the autocorrects I fixed.
So it’s true? There are Russian bots in our midst. They did hack the election!
Operation Tulpa it’s the operation that Jason Bourne started out in.
Only a Putinite bot would be interested in intelligence service and law enforcement abuses in US elections. Oh, you don’t agree? You must be a traitor (and you know what we do with them).
Make them FBI agents?
Grant them clemency and pay for their cosmetic surgery?
Hmm… Poutine Bot…
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit???
According to Twitter’s algorithms, there’s a 40% chance @iowahawk is a Russian bot.
IGNORANT DULLARDS
At least he’s promoting free speech. Shrug.
Not really. I get his point and he’s not saying we shouldn’t but able to criticize, but you can support free speech and still criticize how someone uses said freedom.
Marketplace of ideas: positions and critiques….slam away at ideas.
I’m tired of partisanship, though: Trump this, Dems that, Fox news, NYT. It is thoroughly boring to have the water toters of one side point out the spin and nonsense of the other when that’s all either do. I’ll say it again: they all suck.
Repeal FISA and Patriot or GTFO.
I’m starting a new job today, and I did not want to be late. I made a very similar commute 7 years ago and then it took about an hour with a really good chance of taking an extra thirty minutes, so I left at 6:45. The interstate has been expanded since, the commute took 35 minutes, and I am sitting in the parking lot of a Bass Pro Shop with an hour to kill. No, it is not open.
Guess I’ll go get a chicken biscuit from Chick-fil-a before I actually have to work.
News Flash: Local Weirdo Caught ‘bating in Car. High Speed Pursuit Ensues.
Better early than late. Good luck on the new job.
Did Bass Pro get bought by the Dicks Sporting Goods group? I’ve noticed a couple stores that are Bass Pro-Dicks-Golf Galaxy pass throughs lately.
I thought Bass Pro bought Cabela’s.
Wait, that’s not right. It’s someone else. The BPS is across the street.
I looked. It’s a “Field and Stream” store.
Nevermind. I’m an idiot for confusing those two.
Bass Pro bought Cabelas, that’s all I know.
Best of luck with the new job.
Fly Eagles Fly!
Man, that was awesome.
Hello, Rufus.
Yo, yo ma!
I watched the first half of the game at the bar, and the second half at home. This worked out splendidly because a) I got away from the room full of noisy people and b) meant I did not have to suffer through a single second of the halftwit show.
Winning!
Democratic Party Leader in Pennsylvania Ousted Over #MeToo Response
So the Dems are heading toward being the “woman party” – and by woman I mean nasty shrew.
I just saw a “re-sister” bumper sticker, so yeah. Of course Trump did really well with white women voters so it may not be a winning strategy.
Needs a couple more Es. REEEEEEEEE
The funny thing is that if the economy continues to improve, a lot of women will become Trump voters, because the majority of women do want the men in their lives and communities to be successful and have opportunities.
A business idea:
Hate Bird Fil A: serving deep fried bits of Canada Goose.
I’ve never eaten goose, but if you batter it and deep fry it, it can’t be too bad.
…it can’t be too bad
It’s worse. Among the most disgusting flavors I’ve ever tasted. And, no, cream of mushroom soup in a slow cooker doesn’t help. Nor does smoking or deep frying.
Awful.
What’s so bad about it? Gamey?
Imagine if gamey got left out in the sun too long.
I’ve had it. I love it. A friend of my dad’s went goose hunting oh-so-long ago. Mom roasted it like a turkey. Nobody liked it but I, so I had a very-long-time’s worth of goose sandwiches for lunch.
As with all wild game, it depends on how it’s cared for after it’s killed. If a goose is tossed in the back of an open truck, left there during the drive home in warm weather, and not picked or drawn until who knows when, it’s gonna taste like crap. Birds should be drawn and cooled when they are killed, then they’ll be good eating.
Also it depends on what the hate birds have been eating. Golf course hate birds (or deer) are vile tasting the amount of lawn chemicals they consume. I imagine any hate birds eating from public parks would taste as bad. Geese that have been eating from their wild sources (and properly treated post kill as Animal states) can be very good to eat.
I’ve never eaten Canada Goose. I have to imagine that it’s disgusting. They’re like Inland Seagulls in their dietary habits.
I do eat farmed goose – Emdens are smaller and bred for the table. They’re smaller and cook well. I used to do goose for Xmas when I was back in the Old Country – but my new American (finicky eating) family aren’t receptive.
https://www.alternet.org/food/tom-bradys-insane-diet-potentially-dangerous-average-person-its-helped-him-become-elite-athlete
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He drinks 12-25 glasses of water a day, most of them mixed with his own, self-branded TB12 electrolyte concentrate.
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Brady’s diet, which is also caffeine-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, fungus-free, sugar-free and GMO-free, sounds not just extremely limiting, but potentially dangerous to the average human.
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Aside from bananas, grapes and blueberries, Brady doesn’t eat much fruit, and when he does, he doesn’t mix it with other foods. “Eat fruits alone,” he writes in his book. “They digest quickly. Other foods don’t.”
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One limitation of Brady’s plant-based lifestyle is that he doesn’t consume nightshades, which include tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, bell peppers and chili peppers, all thought, though not proven, to cause inflammation.
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According to Brady’s chef Allen Campbell (no relation to the famous soup brand, which is forbidden in the Brady household), the athlete’s diet is completely free of white flour, white sugar, MSG and iodized salt.
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80 percent of Brady’’s diet is vegetables. Every piece of produce Campbell uses to feed Brady must be organic, or else he’s not cooking with them. Whole grains also fall into this category. The other 20 percent consists of “lean meats: grass-fed organic steak, duck every now and then, and chicken,” Campbell told Boston.com. “As for fish, I mostly cook wild salmon.”
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All that bullshit helps him play better? Babe Ruth laughs from the grave.
Good thing he’s a millionaire with a crazy expensive diet like that.
Seriously. He probably has someone sort all that crap out. It would be exhausting to the average individual.
I got off bread a few years back and used spelt (or one of the other seven wondrous, mysterious super ancient grains) bread instead and I found it tedious.
I humoured someone and tried it. Meh. Taste and results.
Meh – I eat a lot of grass feed beef and organic chicken. Along with veggies. Straight from Aldi.
“…crazy expensive diet…”
You misspelled “bullshit.”
I’m sure his results have everything to do with a joyless diet and not eating grapes at the wrong time, and not the fact that he is a multi-millionaire whose job is to be in excellent shape.
God that shit annoys the fuck out of me. It’s like when the Gwynneth Paltrows of the world tout some whackadoo diet and claim that that’s why they’re in such good shape. Motherfucker, your job is to look pretty. Seriously. If I was being paid millions of dollars to look good, I would have the body of a Greek god. Thing is, most people either have useful muscles (not pretty muscles) because they do actual labor, or they don’t have time to spend four hours a day in a gym or a spa because they have day jobs. It would be like my saying the reason I know more about JavaScript than Tom Brady is because I drink a lot of coffee and sit for long periods of time.
I like extra gluten.
I think I’ll instruct my chef to start preparing my meals this way.
his own, self-branded TB12 electrolyte concentrate
Sounds remarkably like a pee euphemism.
Drink my piss! That’ll be 12 bucks.
Thank you come again.
/Apu.
This lady is waaaay ahead of you:
https://youtu.be/yZv1P1W187k?t=79
Bonus: Skip to 2:43.
Ah.
Never change youtube.
And, despite all that pseudoscientific nonsense, he wasn’t able to catch a pass from the wildcat. Unlike Nick Foles, a Jesus-lovin’ Texan who probably eats charro beans and brisket. Probably chili with Fritos in it, too.
Brady is one of the least athletic sports superstars ever.
He is GREAT at being a quarterback, reading defenses, throwing the ball accurately to the right guy, etc. but is in most other ways as athletically gifted as your average accountant.
That’s an excellent point. He’s not very mobile, and the team is pretty much built around supporting him and his style of quarterbacking. Not that that hasn’t been a working strategy over the years, but yeah, it’s not like he’s out there puttin’ a hell of a lot of hard miles on his body.
Oh boy Illinois politicians
The pension fund a wreck, but hey I got this great idea, our credit rating is just a tick above junk, and the market is nearly at a peak…sounds like a good time to borrow money to cover the shortfall.
Idiots
Scientists say the Earth’s magnetic field could be about to flip upside down. And some fear the results will be devastating
We are all gonna die! Well in a thousand years… Maybe.
Oh dear me. I already suffer from vertigo! I get very dizzy when upside down.
Damn you God!
I have been hearing about this for decades. Is this “about to” in the same since that we are “about to” enter an ice age? Like sometime in the next 10k years?
The geological record gives us a really good history of magnetic pole reversal. In geological terms, it’s very common, but there’s no pattern has been identified (or wasn’t when I was doing this stuff). So you’re utterly right about the “sometime in the next 10k years”
It’s unlike the Ice Age issue, because that’s a cyclical event, and the challenge is figuring where you are on the trend. The magnetic reversal is more like predicting the radioactive decay of a single uranium atom.
He drinks 12-25 glasses of water a day, most of them mixed with his own, self-branded TB12 electrolyte concentrate.
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Brady’s diet, which is also caffeine-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, fungus-free, sugar-free and GMO-free, sounds not just extremely limiting, but potentially dangerous to the average human.
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You don’t live longer, it just seems like it.
What was it Denis Leary used to say? “If you quit smoking you can add ten years on to your life. But those are the ten years at the end, when you’re old. I don’t want those years.”
Bet this poor guy thought he had a great parking spot
Sports fanatics are really stupid people. “ZOMG, THE TEAM I LOVE BUT DOESN’T KNOW OR CARE ABOUT ME WON! LET’S GO RIOTING IN THE STREETS!”
Nick Foles would never do that.
Holy moly, great group today.
http://archive.is/MfpaW
3, 6, 7, 9, 12, 25, 28, 31, 32, 34, 37, 40, 42, 43 and you may never hear from me again because I’m going to devote my life to trying to find 4.
There is an instagram tag on #4 which lead me to hier.
#16 looks like porn star Kendra Sunderland, and #24 might be her too but I don’t have time to run the picture through Google Image search to be certain.
#40 is Angela White. She is mine!
Well I guess you will be hearing from me again.
39
Yeah. Insane waist-to-hips ratio.
Bring them all to the Eagles’ parade!
‘Game Changer’: Maya Cities Unearthed In Guatemala Forest Using Lasers
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/02/582664327/game-changer-maya-cities-unearthed-in-guatemala-forest-using-lasers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
If they didn’t burn away the forest using lasers, I’m not impressed.
Nuke it from orbit…
One of my guests and I decided to do a shot of tequila every time the Eagles scored. Needless to say I was pretty shitfaced at the end. When I get drunk I tend to wander around and went over to our neighborhood clubhouse where there was a party. I open the door and there are about a dozen Indians (from India) in there and I’m thinking I just crashed some cultural ceremony or something. This dude comes up to me and I say “hey are you having a Superbowl Party? I didn’t mean to barge in.” He says “yeah you want a beer?” So I made some new friends in my neighborhood.
I don’t know what’s better, crashing another party or bailing on your guests.
I do the walkabout thing too. A couple times when I was at the social club or a neighbor’s house I’ve had a bit much and simply left, told no one, and walked the 25-30 minutes home. Probably could have been rolled, it’s a little seedy where I used to live.
All my guests had left at that point. It was after the game had ended. I think I was taking out the trash. I managed to get the cans to the curb even for today’s pickup.
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Turns out there is no extreme poverty in the US. Great. Then we can cut some spending now, maybe?
https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/2/1/16959634/millions-americans-destitute-2-day-worlds-poorest-deaton-aid
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America’s wealth also means that it can help the poor within its own borders without cutting foreign development aid — an idea Deaton seems to put on the table — which only amounts to about 1 percent of the federal budget in any case. It can do so by reorienting some of the remaining 99 percent of the federal budget to better help the poor, by reorienting portions of state and local resources, and by raising revenue in ways that lean relatively more on the rich.
In sum, America indeed has very serious problems with poverty and inequality. But it is wildly inaccurate to claim that millions of Americans “are as destitute as the world’s poorest people.”
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When your poorest citizens (discounting mentally ill homeless people) have flat screen TVs and an obesity epidemic, poverty should not be your chief concern.
Exactly right, it should be inequality, a “problem” that can easily be fixed by passing a few left-wing policies.
I hate it when people say shit like this. Is the idea that if the budget were spent stupidly on 100 different things, none of them would matter because they were each only 1%?
Simply because a # is small compared to other #s doesn’t mean anything. the measure they never look for is whether the spending is *effective* to its intended goals.
From the property tax story:
I think I’ve found his problem: a wolf decoy is not going to cut it with the hate-birds; the man needs to spring for an actual wolf.
Or a suppressed .22.
Flamethrowers, set up like a sprinkler system. The birds land, triggering the flame system and Woosh! no more birds.
Or a concentrated solar power array. That makes killing birds green.
I like the way you think.
Well, when you hate lots of people, they have a tendency to hate you back.
https://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2018/02/04/theres-a-newfound-hatred-of-silicon-valley/
Well the funny thing is the article sez liberals hate Silicon valley.
Look who turned up in that story:
This “Neo-” prefix does a hell of a lot of damage to the label that follows it, methinks.
Yeah, Bill, assuming “neo-” means “not at all”, having government come in and introduce new regulations limiting the size of tech companies would be a fantastic idea.
I wish papa Kristol had left plastic bags in the toy bins when Bill was a child.
They’ve just now noticed that the rubbage of the information superhighway hates the billionaires of silicon valley? That’s some fine reportin’ there, Lou.
Newfound? Sometimes you mammals say the darndest things
Curcumin improves memory and mood
Twice-daily supplements boosted cognitive power over 18 months
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180123101908.htm
Eat your curry I guess
If this is the case, why can’t the tech support guy in India ever help me?
It’s not a miracle smart pill. If you didn’t have the knowledge or cognition to begin with, it won’t help you retain it.
You don’t eat enough cumin to understand him?
If you ate enough turmeric you would no it is not about cumin
no?
I take capsules every day for aches and pains. It’s a damn miracle pill as far as I’m concerned.
Time to ship these nullifying thought-criminals to the Gulag.
http://tucson.com/news/local/steller-column-tucson-grand-jurors-rebel-against-drug-prosecutions/article_76c3af81-5832-52c2-b0ca-3cff04dfef05.html
America, fuck yeah.
Ya I would bet all 16 of those mammals get a 0400 Brutal dance party. They really should move, it’s arizona after all.
The article buried the lede –
Are they REALLY trying to trick people into plea deals and overpriced, crony-infested ‘diversion programs’ before they even know if there was probable cause to charge in the 1st place? What in the ever-lovin’ fuck, Maricopa County?
Christ, what a shithole.
The article on grand jury nullification was fascinating. Grand juries have some serious people on them in Tucson, not just the usual nothing-better-to-do crowd. I was called for one and was going to be seated before I did a little special pleading to get off (the DA had her baby at my hospital, so she gave me a break). I wouldn’t mind sitting on a grand jury, but its twp-three days a week for months, and would my professional, and thus personal, life a living hell.
As a grand juror, he said, “You want to not just be a rubber stamp. You want to do what’s right.”
You know who did want to be a rubber stamp?
Well they have been indoctrinated by decades of public education/university relentless telling them that Marxist socialism is kind, gentle, loving and humanitarian whereas capitalism is exploitative, evil and results in the death of millions. So this is really utterly unsurprising.
https://cei.org/blog/young-americans-disdain-capitalism-misplaced
I’ve said it once and I’ve said it a millions times in both Canadian and American dialects.
Teach business, finance and economics in high SCHOOL. Instead of learning to bake an upside pineapple cake (which by the way is delicious) have students set up mock businesses to learn what it entails. If you want them to understand capitalism the best way is to have them participate in it and SEE the process from within.
Only then would realize at every step how much of a retard Marx is/was and absurd political/economic socialism is.
Only then would realize at every step how much of a retard Marx is/was and absurd political/economic socialism is.
Which is exactly opposite their true goal of Marxist indoctrination.
Yup, the goal is to fool these kids to go along with the master plan until it is to late.
interesting story.
my problem with any story that tries to go, “look at these data! aren’t these guys a bunch of shits!?” is that they’re not comparing it to any other urban locale. i know, “reporting is hard”… but its hard to demonstrate something is actually fucked up unless you can point to some other violent, urban locale and say, “look at these other guys – they do 2x the % of on-site evaluations”
tho i found the backgrounds of the people involved interesting. former “sanitation workers, counselor at a child care center, had been managing a women’s clothing store “…. TOP PEOPLE. Forensic science, yo.
Lastly: i mean no disrespect to the fine city of Chicago. But for some reason, when i read about stories of Chicago public servants, they invariably have “fat heads and thick necks”. Like they’re all descended from the “Da Bears” SNL guys. Like they walk around gnawing sausages all day with a liter sized glass of beer in the other.
“Like they walk around gnawing sausages all day with a liter sized glass of beer in the other.”
And what do you eat? Salads, I suppose
If you actually compared the locales within cook county, you’d find that it looks like the ME’s show up when it’s convenient for them.
“Possible suicide 3 miles from my house? I’ll be there in 20 minutes. And I’ll spend the rest of my shift examining so I will get home earlier than usual”
“Possible suicide 45 minutes from my house? Fuck it. My shift is over in an hour and I have Hawks tickets.”
Sort of helps make the case that the county is too big and should be split into two or three.
Yes.
that would be actual analysis of the data. there are reasons why some areas and some kinds of deaths see higher-proportions of on-site visits.
the thing about journalists is how utterly incapable they are of doing anything even approaching analysis. they don’t even realize that these ‘%’ figures mean nothing without knowing how other ‘high volume urban medical-examiner’s offices’ (eg. St louis, new orleans, baltimore, detroit) compare. its entirely possible these guys are *better* than average despite only ever seeing a fraction of their legal mandate.
I’m still trying to figure out what it is that journalists are trained to do. They don’t seem to be capable of the most basic fact-checking (the UVA “Jackie” story). They rarely do any “devil’s advocate” questions when people are spouting off their idiotic political views on air; they just smile and nod most of the time. Hell, many of them don’t even have a grasp of rudimentary grammar, spelling, and composition skills.
You’re talking about an occupation where the practitioners think going to a press conference is “doing my job” when in fact the entire point of a press conference is to prevent them from doing their job.
If they were capable of analysis, they’d choose a field where that skill pays better.
Side note: around here coroners are elected. What the hell is with that? I can’t tell which person is qualified for that position. It’s not something I’ve ever been compelled to look into. And the coroner that wrote my dad’s death certificate put the wrong cause of death on it, a disease he didn’t even have.
Truth about Cars is asking their members what their favorite car movies are. My list:
Comedy: “Used Cars” with Kurt Russell
Car Chase: “To Live and Die in L.A.” or “The Road Warrior”
Racing: “Grand Prix” – which really captures the speed of F1 racing.
Others: “Two Lane Blacktop” or “Charley Varrick” (plane versus car)
The Last Chase: The Six Million Dollar Man in a desperate race across the US in the last gas-powered car, being chased by Burgess Meredith in a F-86 Sabre jet.
– Vanishing Point (original)
– Christine (why not)
– Cannonball run
– Le Mans (would probably have picked Grand Prix, but you already did)
Dishonorable mention
– Days of Thunder (Nascar still sux)
Vanishing Point
+1 Naked Woman on Motorcycle
“Dere ain’t nothin’ STOCK ’bout a STOCK ch-arr!”
They remade Vanishing Point?
Deathrace 2000 (1975)
With Viggo Mortenson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing_Point_(1997_film)
never seen it, don’t want to ruin original
this alone turns me off:
“‘”The 1997 TV remake replaces the lead character’s ambivalent image with a simpler and more palatable, wholesome lead character and motivations, and in particular eliminates all references to drug use, rebellion or sexuality, all of which were hallmarks of the 1971 film”””
The remake is super, super anti-government.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
shake and bake!
Mike Honcho?
Senna
Tucker
Bullit
Most of the Bond films
Vanishing Point
Cars
I liked Tucker, even if it didn’t have a happy ending. It really would be nice to see more movies with businessmen as heroes.
Cannonball Run. Hands down.
No French Connection?
Charlie Varrick is one of my favorite films; I could watch it every week.
I would add Smokey And The Bandit and also take it off-kilter with a mention of On Any Sunday; because often, 2 wheels are better than 4 (also, Steve McQueen).
The Transporter– That fullsize BMV sedan is bizarre to look at as a escape vehicle but there it is, polished interior and all. Also, slow drive along the seaside curves & a car wash in the Mediterranean sunset. Extra bonus points for Shu Qi making madeleines and prancing around in her underwear.
That was an Audi. But yeah. Good chase scene.
He drove a BMW 7-series in the first one (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQxMzQwMTE0NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzkwNTAzMQ@@._V1_.jpg).
The Audi was in the sequels.
I’ll be damned. You are correct, sir. I swear I remembered the Audi in the first one.
File under: Things have been obvious for years to anyone paying attention.
https://www.ocregister.com/2018/02/03/the-three-faces-of-the-democratic-party-are-coming-to-a-head/
Nice breakdown but not sure in what universe they think the democrats will implement anything that does this:
“They should focus on how to build sustained economic growth that would provide better opportunities for upward mobility for middle and working class voters, and in particular millennials.’
Their idea of sustained growth is growing government indefinitely until the whole economy tips over from the weight and comes crashing down bringing society with it.
yes, i feel like this guy is a bit late to the party.
i define the factions differently, but roughly similar lines of distinction
– the Leadership – the Pelosi, schumer, feinstein’s. the federal face of the democrat party
– the “money” – which is not just the the ‘industries’/oligarchs which supports the DNC. The media is a notable industry in the bag for the democrat party, but his breakout gives you the impression that corporate CEOs are the primary constituents in these groups. they’re not. Its actually institutions like “Act Blue, AARP, SEIU, AFSCME, NEA, etc”, I think he totally overweights Tech as being some bulwark of the left. they’re not. they’ve got huge whopping sums of money, but they’re not significant political actors aside from trying to simply defend their own interests, which everyone does. Law Firms, on the other hand, are hugely political and far more significant to the left.
– the ‘activists’ – he calls them ‘causists’. i don’t think much of them and neither do the politicians imo, because for all their rabble rousing, they’re not actually a significant source of $$. however they are pandered to because they hold the attention of the legions of college students and they tend to create the rhetoric that dominates social media.
– the Footsoldiers – he has some category of ‘populists’. i think he drinks too much of the media’s koolaid. i think instead the people who are significant here are the local municipal organizations and the mayors and congressmen and their various networks of patronage that underlie the legacy of the democrat party, which really relies on urban organiz ing. the city councilmen, and their thugs. these are the people who mobilize the black vote and the union vote. its not populist: they demand compensation for their services. but they are powerful in any urban area in the country.
the real conflict is between the influence of the ‘causists’ and the footsoldiers. Basically, between the ‘overeducated’ progressive left demanding socialist policies and prioritizing ‘climate change and gender stuff and free college’… and the footsoldier democrats who mostly serve the ‘undereducated’ constituencies, who see that shit mostly taking away from their own meat and potatoes concerns: pensions, jobs, make-work projects, etc..
the game the leadership plays is mostly to pander to the causists, while trying to deliver the goods for the footsoldiers. i think the thing many ‘causists/activists’ don’t realize is how few people – vagina-hats be damned – really give a shit about their social-justice issues. Its mostly symbolic, and used as a way of saying, “we’re good people – republicans are bad people”. But the reality is that even when the activists get elected, the thing they’re expected to do is deliver the goods for the Money people, not radical feminists or greens or college-socialists.
the game the leadership plays is mostly to pander to the causists, while
trying to delivergiving the appearance of delivering the goods for the footsoldiers.I don’t know if they care as much about delivering the goods as having PR that makes it look like they are.
the “goods” is $
federal min wage hikes are a wet dream of unions because it means pay rises across their entire base.
infrastructure spending is how a lot of them get paid off.
anything that defends legacy spending and keeps their gravy-train operational is delivering the goods. its not about ‘new stuff’ necessarily, as it is defending their feifdom
But the reality is that even when the activists get elected, the thing they’re expected to do is deliver the goods for the Money people, not radical feminists or greens or college-socialists.
Which is really quite smart of them, because “radical feminists or greens or college-socialists” et.al can’t really be pleased. You can’t make them happy when the only thing they seem to enjoy is being angry.
You’re right about the union’s being in the money category. In would say the union members would be in the footsoldiers category. There is also crossover into the populist category especially for the private sector union’s and the causest category more for the public sector unions who don’t have any concerns about competition.
Teach business, finance and economics in high SCHOOL. Instead of learning to bake an upside pineapple cake (which by the way is delicious) have students set up mock businesses to learn what it entails. If you want them to understand capitalism the best way is to have them participate in it and SEE the process from within.
This reminds me: is Junior Achievement still around? It is/was an after school club to do exactly that.
Yeah. I got a scholarship because our JA mentors blew us off and the government teacher who was the teacher sponsor made them give me a $1000 scholarship. Or — how I learned about leverage.
Our school has DECA.
Kids seem to dig it.
Home Ec (and particularly cooking skills) isn’t a bad thing to teach, but maybe in middle school instead. Certainly beats the global awareness drivel that is pumped. Really, finance (which I assume means personal finance) is a part of Home Ec. How to budget for a household is a good secondary skill after the 3R’s.
3Rs, personal finance, computer literacy and etiquette, and Home Ec should be the basis of a primary education. Once you’ve mastered those things, your education path should be your own.
Truth in advertising
http://nbc4i.com/2018/02/05/kentucky-state-police-issues-apology-for-insensitive-tweet/
Hopefully this comes out of their endowment.
https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/960276068006494208
Hopefully, the individuals get sued as well. They aren’t cops or prosecutors, so why should they get qualified immunity?
they just raised tuition $1000 per year too. maybe predicted this award for fees and award for damages however much that will be.
http://wavy.com/2017/11/11/james-madison-university-officials-approve-tuition-hike/
Well, this was inevitable: Male backlash against metoo.
In scouting adults learn no one on one contact with minors. I got that lesson 20 years ago and won’t so much as go in the copier room one on one….with anyone….regardless of their equipment.
Yeah, my daughter’s were not allowed to have friends over unless my wife was home. I was vary cognisent of the fact that kids can be manipulated unto false accusations by overly paranoid parents.
I was vary cognisent of the fact that kids can be manipulated unto false accusations by overly paranoid parents.
Or by parents just looking for an easy payout or vindictive revenge.
I have the same rule. We are very well off compared to most in our area, and protecting ourselves from liability is a top concern. This is really what I don’t get about the trans bathroom thing. What grown man in their right mind actually desires to be alone in the bathroom with little girls? Just from a self-protection standpoint it seems like that’s a batshit crazy thing to attempt, let alone demand.
Prior to transsexualality becoming a cool fad for attention whores, transexuals were using women’s public bathrooms and no one was the wiser. It wasnt until the recent lunacy where identity fascist started going around demanding things like bathroom access that it became an issue. I think those demands were driven by their encouragement of children to change gender and then of course the school bathroom/gym locker room issue had to be sorted out. That then bled over to public restrooms where there was no issue before.
I agree true trans individuals flying under the radar are a non-issue, but I still think doing so is ill-advised just for the liability reasons if you are inadvertently discovered while dressed up. My point is more focused on the current attention whores as you said.
Because “trans” is an absolute defense against any accusations of creepiness. Basically, if you suspect something’s up you’ll be painted with the scarlet letter of bigotry, and if something really is going on you’ll get #notalltranspeople or it’ll be handwaved as a misunderstanding. The burden of proof is going to be much higher because the well has already been poisoned such that any accusations will be considered discrimination.
There’s already been news reports of men dressed as men without any pretense at being trans hanging out in the women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. They are protected by law in some areas from being removed as long they state they are trans. The SJWs want to make it about trans, but I think the trans label is now starting to be worn as camouflage by perverts exactly because of the protections you are saying.
I can’t imagine that is going to end well for the true trans individuals who slip in and out of women’s bathroom all the time prior this becoming a fad. Do they really want their identity being merged with these guys who are just straight up creepy perverts using the trans label for protection?
Also, burden of proof or not, you’re going to start hearing cases of some little girl yelling help because she’s confused, the father rushing into the bathroom and seeing a man in there, and the bathroom creeper being carted out to an ambulance. I don’t think many fathers would react differently in such a situation.
My wife and her father got into it about this topic a few times. He was a cop and has a certain outlook on the general body of humanity, and she’s very much a Progressive in some ways, although I am making some progress deprogramming her. Her stance was that banning trans people from certain bathrooms was unnecessary, discriminatory, and insulting. His was that pervs gonna perv, and if you can’t tell someone’s in the wrong bathroom then they’re in the right bathroom, trans or no. I took the view that you probably don’t need a law to deal with this and if you just had mixed-gender bathrooms it wouldn’t be an issue.
Whole thing sounds like a plumber’s union scam to get additional bathrooms required by law.
And Pence got (still gets) mocked for his policy.
This is the stuff that should make people wake up. I remember when they were laughing and pointing fingers at Pence for this I told my girlfriend at the time that someone would sooner than later wish they did the same thing. Only the people that made fun of Pence will ignore the apology they owe.
This actually reminds me of a few decades ago when there was a spate of discrimination suits. Some mall business owners were wary about hiring minorities or even sometime’s women (mainly in traditionally male occupations), not because they didn’t want to give them an opportunity, but because they were concerned that of the person didn’t work out and they had to get rid of them, that they could end up in extensive litigation. No such worry with a white worker. You could fire at will and didn’t even need a reason. It was like having an easy button.
Yep, hiring minorities that are lawsuit happy is a bad deal. You have to keep an unproductive person on payroll until the suit is resolved.
Hard to fire, hard to hire.
From a pure risk management perspective, white males have an edge in the hiring process precisely because of the way anti-discrimination laws have been applied.
I recall a story from Scotland about a workman who was going home, saw a child in the water who appeared to be in some kind of distress, but didn’t do anything because he was afraid of being accused of harassing the child.
This same thing is probably going to happen with women. I already decided years ago that I won’t give a woman a ride home unless I know her very well and trust her. I think this is going to become more widespread as the fear of a false harassment claim overrides a man’s natural desire to assist a woman in distress.
EDIT: The child in the story ended up drowning.
Akira, these days, I’d just call the woman an Uber, and leave the scene.
I already won’t take a one-on-one meeting with a woman in a private conference room. I insist she come to my cubicle where there are witnesses.
Smart man…
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Those are the children that need CPS to come in and intervene.
Posted Miles Davis’s soundtrack to Elevator to the Gallows, a French film, the other day, although I had never seen the movie.
I did yesterday. I may be getting into noir film*, as the only other one I ever saw was Sunset Boulevard for a film class. I liked Elevator to the Gallows (not as much as I liked Sunset Boulevard), although I did think the inciting incident was almost stupid enough to strain my suspension of disbelief. It took turns I didn’t expect, so good on you, film.
I may try Hitchcock now.
*I mentioned I’m reading 1920s books for my current work in progress. I haven’t managed to finish Agatha Christie, and I struggled through the first quarter of Hammett before I gave up. So I’m thinking noir fiction (or at least, that era of it) just isn’t for me.
Maybe a viewing of Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is more your style :/
Out of the Past is a fine noir movie and Double Indemnity is Hammet and Chandlers’ arch-toughguy style without having to read it. (Although you will have to suffer through Barbara Stanwyck’s horrible wig.)
And that honey of an ankle bracelet.
Maybe try some modern noir? Ellroy and Lehane are both good.
Raymond Chandler or GTFO.
I’m sure others can chime in – but there are scads of good noir films. DOA comes to mind as does Chinatown, Touch of Evil, Double Indemnity, Blood Simple, Out of the Past, Night of the Hunter, In a Lonely Place, The Killing, The Postman Always Rings Twice, etc, etc.
This List isn’t bad – I’ve seen many of the noir or neo-noir movies here.
I’ve seen Night of the Hunter show up on lists of classic horror movies, too. It fits both pretty well.
It’s a creepy as fuck movie for sure.
this is incomprehensible to me.
Hammett and Chandler and some of their offspring (cornell woolrich, chester himes, jim thompson, Erle Stanley Gardner,etc) are possibly the most readable prose in american literature
its the whole point. its like fast-food prose. fast, tasty, every few pages, someone gets killed, or there’s some plot twist.
i have shelves of these types of anthologies
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Lizard-Big-Book-Pulps/dp/0307280489/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=S9DWDCN9VFT9C6NBE0MZ
Black lizard, black mask.
i don’t think jim thompson sits perfectly in that crowd (he comes later – the 50s and 60s – and he’s weirder), but maybe give him a shot. or ellroy.
You may want to try out the Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald or the Parker books (adapted into Payback and Parker, both fairly loosely) by Donald Westlake writing under the Richard Stark pseudonym.
I’ll second the Travis McGee books. Also Donald Hamilton’s Matt Helm books, starting with Death of a Citizen
Both good series. Not noir, really, but the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin are among my favorites, too.
While I did struggle with Hammett (Red Harvest, if you’re curious), I zipped right through Elmer Gantry, which I liked. Next up is Wodehouse and (Thomas) Wolfe.
Yes, I know. Sinclair, Wodehouse, and Wolfe are not noir. They’re 1920s, which is the more pressing task at the moment. I dunno. Maybe the fact that I’m reading for *research* instead of fun is the culprit.
Wodehouse is hilarious. It surprised me how well he holds up over time.
look for The Glass Key. (both versions)
I didn’t think they could make a worse half time show than some of the recent ones in the past. But by golly, they did. Was that supposed to be music? Me ears be offended.
Artist Emma Sulkowicz Wore Asterisks—and Little Else—to Protest Chuck Close at the Met (and Picasso at MoMA)
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/emma-sulkowicz-performance-protest-1214429
Well Old Emma is still out and about
Remember when people who wanted to censor art were dubbed as reactionary assholes?
“Artist”
I do not think that means what you think it means.
Wood.
Would get falsely accused of rape afterwards
You got that wrong. He didn’t say “woodn’t”.
She’s a classic example of someone whose attractiveness is going to be determined by her personality. At face value so to speak, she’s average. She’s a 5, like most people. If she were cool, that would bump her into six or even seven territory, depending. As she is, we’re talkin’ like three at best.
Bitterness and anger aren’t a good look on anybody.
She’s not doing a very good job of pulling off that short hair look. It works for some women, but it just makes her look like a 16-year old Asian boy with a severe case of gynecomastia.
No hairstyle will help. She’s got a terminal case of dudeface.
Y’all are talking like having anything to do with woman is a good idea.
*shudder*
No way, Jose. Fly, you fools!
Maybe after a brain transplant.
i’ll say one thing about that “lug a mattress wherever you go” diet, it kept off the flab.
Artists create art; dipshits protest it.
This is the same woman who released a pornography tape and called it art. I don’t think attention on her nude body is quite “uncomfortable” for her.
If she’s gonna move into porn she better hurry up and do it. She’s fighting time and notoriety decay.
https://twitter.com/NolteNC/status/960501448583909377
Well, I mean, that’s actually a good point. For shame, Philly.
TW: This guys name is weird
VDH makes a point that has occurred to me that others overlook in regards to the FBI “corruption/bias” story
(*i haven’t actually finished his piece, but he makes it in the first few paragraphs so presumably he expands on it)
The issue isn’t really that complicated. The behavior of officials at the FBI makes a lot more sense not when you try to claim that they had any particular inherent bias AGAINST trump, or dislike for the GOP candidate (tho you could certainly show that in some of the text-messages, but i don’t think that was what was significant about them)
Their behavior makes a lot more sense when you start with the assumption that everyone assumed Hillary was going to win. No matter what. And that the behavior of the FBI wasn’t in her favor, so much as it was in their own interests of self preservation.
in short: the investigation of clinton and subsequent wrist-slapping was done the way it was done in order to preserve the appearance of the FBI as well as the jobs of everyone involved. It wasn’t that they liked her more, it was that they knew she’d probably be the president, and no one wanted to be the target of payback.
if Hillary had won, literally nothing that happened during the election would be now considered ‘a scandal’. Sure comey would probably be gone – fired even – and no one in the press would complain. His mistake was actually *trying too hard* to preserve the superficial integrity of the FBI by ensuring to tell congress about the Abedin laptop.
it was all CYA behavior, in other words. not a conspiracy.
*he doesn’t address the steele dossier much. which i think maybe pokes holes in either his theory, or in the idea that the investigation of page was really “out to get Trump”. its possible it was being done simply because someone in DOJ (at Obama’s behest – or more likely one of his people like Valerie Jarret) was insisting that the FBI dig up dirt for Hillary to use against Trump’s people after she had won the election. they may have done it simply to appease someone else. Or – maybe they honestly believed there was something genuinely fishy going on. Which is why i think the FISA applications themselves need to be disclosed.
Strzok and his girlfriend Page basically said that they were worried about how Hillary would react. Blame the DOJ or blame the FBI. Another thing to consider is that this fucking star chamber was so used to having no public oversight that it hands out warrants like candy. That they approve 99.99% of applications means either a) they’re corrupt as fuck and know they can do what they want or b) the FBI and DOJ are saints that would only submit an application that was based on diligently vetted and appropriate intelligence.
Except, like you say, the dossier really was used in FISA applications. And we have record of a high ranking FBI official’s wife running as a Democrat. And the traffic between the two love birds. And meetings to discuss the “insurance plan” for a Trump victory.
Here’s what I think. I don’t think the FBI necessarily had any love for Hillary Clinton. I think it’s more a matter that they detested Trump. Trump is an outsider. And a rabble rouser. There’s no telling what it is that he might do if he got elected. Hillary? She might be a crooked bitch. But, she’s a known quantity crooked bitch.
Now, combine that with an expectation of a Clinton win and I think you get a good grip on what these guys were thinking.
That is the mind blowing part of for me. If the info in the dossier were legit, why not get it from another source that wasn’t tainted the way the dossier was? Maybe it will turn out that they did if and when the application gets released, but what we know as of now, well, doesn’t look good to say the least.
The doubt info in the dossier is legitimate. Remember, the media was circling with this dossier that was going to “bring down Trump” more than a year ago. It was only when Buzzfeed was dumb enough to actually publish its contents that the entire story became a joke. It’s the “Trump pays Russian hookers to pee on Obama’s bed” stuff. As soon as it became public, people recognized it as risible.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if the FBI approached Sugarfree to get copies of the explosive Trump revelations revealed in The Hat and The Hair dossier.
If the info in the dossier were legit, why not get it from another source that wasn’t tainted the way the dossier was?
Why bother? Criminals never commit a crime expecting to get caught.
So you reject my option b) from my previous post? Cynic. Secret courts are above reproach.
Sorry, I was just illustrating the mindset of the FBI agents here. They didn’t look for better evidence because they never thought they would be challenged on the weakness of the “evidence” they already had.
Yep. Hilary owes favors and generally won’t cut a budget. Trump is a self-made outsider and doesn’t owe (m)any favors which is the scariest thing to life-long bureaucrats (which is why he got votes).
it was all CYA behavior, in other words. not a conspiracy.
Concerted CYA behavior is a conspiracy. And this was concerted, not just within the FBI, but across organizations (FBI, DOJ, DNC, White House).
That’s my reason for thinking this went far beyond a simple coincidence of self preservation. It was not just well coordinated, but ran across so many different top level people in positions of power, that it is hard for me to believe not a single one of them realized how ugly what they were doing would look like.
Occam’s razor: they rigged this shit because they wanted herself, and then when Trump still won, they went into full blown panic “Red Scare” mode to get time to hide their malfeasance. Fuck these cunts: they deserve jail time.
Well, well, well. An hour and a half ago, there was about 1 1/2″ of fresh fluffy snow outside. Now, it’s more like 6″.
I hope it doesn’t do this all the livelong day.
We’re supposed to get that the next couple days.
You know who else was greatly inconvenienced by harsh winter weather?
Captain Robert Falcon Scott?
The Donner family?
Napolean?
Me when the upstairs bathroom pipes froze and burst at 2AM?
Tommy Bahama?
George Costanza
Thoros of Myr?
Baldness cure hidden in McDonald’s FRIES ‘can regrow hair without transplant’
I’m sure the bald mice are happy they will no longer be othered by their furry brethren.
Something tells me that most of the credit should go to the stem cells.
*rubs forehead with fries*I
Gonna get the ladies for sure now……
So THAT’S why Trump eats so much McD’s.
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/Column-I-detest-Trump-but-a-redneck-fixed-my-Prius-with-zip-ties-_165095870
Summary: “I’m an asshole that judges people based on stereotypes. But, you see, it’s not my fault. It’s Drumpf’s fault, of course”
Sounds suspiciously like a Soave article.
obsess much, do we?
I see nothing to indicate that this is hyperbole or made up. She literally she sees that every morning.
Then feel free to exercise the alternative and spare the rest of us your whinging.
Oh, my word. That article is pure gold.
Maybe a good way to quell it would be to stop constantly beating yourself over the head with it? I dunno, just spitballing here.
Don’t you just FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE?
“The constancy of my outrage has been exhausting, yet I have not yet found a way to quell it”
Take a dozen Lortabs and get some sleep.
I struggled through the first quarter of Hammett before I gave up.
*sadly shakes head*
Bill Belichick and Matt Patricia will spend the rest of their lives being asked why Malcolm Butler never entered the game while their defense was being torched. Was it petty bullshit because he’s a free agent? Even in Nickel and Dime packages, he stayed on the sideline while their back-up safeties were getting burnt for big yards.
What in the fuck were they thinking?
What in the fuck were they thinking?
My guess is something to the effect of “They’re just the Eagles. We’re the FUCKING PATRIOTS! We’ve got TOM FUCKING BRADY! We don’t need to put in that free agent asshole”
I’m tempted to think that, but Belichick understands the business of the NFL better than anyone. It’s not like Blount was riding the bench in last year’s Superbowl, and it wasn’t a surprise he left.
Ah, who needs a guy that saved a Super Bowl with an interception, made the Pro Bowl in 2015, and started all but one game this season?
Not quite the controversy of Wilt Chamberlain sitting on the bench while the Lakers lost Game 7 in ’71, but it will be remembered as a coach doing something stupid and petty that probably cost him a championship.
They’re saying it wasn’t for disciplinary reasons, it was for “football reasons”, whatever the fuck they are. I think he missed practices because he was sick with the flu and Belichick pulled one of his hardass moves, something like, “Ok, too sick to practice? Too sick to start. Those are my rules and we don’t ever bend or break them because I’m a Very Talented Maverick Coach.” Belichick, man. The Captain Bligh routine works like a charm when you win. Once you start losing because you’re a hardass, it just makes you look stubborn and foolish. Now he’s pissed off at least Butler, if not a lot of the locker room, possibly even Brady. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out.
I’ve seen the “you aren’t going to start” routine from Belichek before. Usually the guy is back in by the 2nd quarter and all is forgotten.
Besides the question of where Foles will land next season, I think the Butler thing is going to be the biggest story of the game. And it’s going to be stoked by Belichick and the Pats notoriously close-mouthed media strategy.
Gronk’s talking retirement and both their coordinators are probably gone. Good riddance to Patricia.
If Gronk goes, and I’m not convinced it’s not just him being upset, Brady’s number drop, and that might be the impetus that makes Belichick cash in his chips. And if that happens, Brady’s done, too.
I won’t read the stuff, but after multiple concussions, I wouldn’t blame him if he’s got money in the bank. Take a couple years off and then go into coaching where you’re not likely to get another concussion and die in your early 50’s.
Sounds legit
Under a new bill making its way through New Mexico’s state legislature, students in the state would be required to apply to college or commit to some post-graduation plan in order to graduate from high school.
In addition to applying to college, students may enlist in the military, or enroll in an internship or apprenticeship. The students would have to file their plan with the principal and get approval from school guidance counselors and their parents.
Why the fuck not?
All Inside the State, Nothing Outside the State, Nothing in Opposition to the State.
enroll in an internship or apprenticeship
Because those are just thick on the ground. Notice what’s not on the list? Getting a job.
Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck! how stupid is that? The kids who were going to go to college or other post secondary will do it regardless of your plan. The kids who will join the military will do it regardless of your plan. The kids who weren’t going to graduate and drop out will regardless of your plan. However, the few kids who don’t have a plan but were going to graduate will now not have a diploma thanks to your shit ass plan. When they try to get any sort of job they can’t tick, “high school diploma” on the app and will be more than likely tossed.
That seems to be an open admission that public primary and secondary education completely fails to prepare kids for the broader world.
I notice that it just says “apply” to college. So a kid can just fill out an application for Patriot Bible University and be good to go?
“Under a new bill making its way through New Mexico’s state legislature, students in the state would be required to apply to college or commit to some post-graduation plan in order to graduate from high school.”
But I’m going to FU! Finlandia University!
I had a nephew graduate last year. He was in a very (very very very) small ND school that graduated less than 30 students that year. From what I remember he was almost the only graduate that did not plan on continuing his education. My nephew had a good job lined up which he is still at and loves. I could not help wondering how many of the “college bound” kids would finish their degrees.
I seem to remember a statistic that for the US as a whole, 40% of students graduate within 6 years. That sounds low to me, but I’ll go and try and find the numbers. If true, it’s a damning statistic.
In the infamous words of Jack Napier: Never rub another man’s rhubarb.
What man agrees to a 3-way with his girlfriend and a younger man? Guy was an idiot: a straight man should only ever agree to a 3-way with two women.
This is known.
Also, I have found out through life experience that I have a thing for older men. I don’t have daddy issues or anything weird like that, but all the men I find attractive happen to be older. Think it’s the mileage more than the years, but they do tend to go together. Younger men are just not as interesting to me. Show me some scars and wrinkles, and tell me some stories.
Like this?
Great movie. I think I’ll watch it again this week.
Nah, I was thinking more along these lines. That’s my Mr Hayek. 16 yrs older than me, but somehow younger. He has some scars.
I’m pretty sure that Tom Brady tied John Elway for the most Super Bowl losses by a QB.
So we have that going for us.
*Jim Kelly sheepishly raises hand*
Jim Kelly cameo in the best SportsCenter commercial evah.
disappointed it wasn’t this Jim Kelly.
They let kickers have rings too?
I was thinking there was someone who lost four, but couldn’t dredge it up.
Did Fran lose three or four?
Tarkenton lost three. The first of the Vikings SB losses was QB’d by Joe Kapp.
This is fantastic Grand Jury Nullification
You just nullified Q’s post.
Still worth seeing again.
Sometimes people are just mean to Dave Rubin. I laffed and I’m sorry, Dave.
That was pretty funny, but his Ben Shapiro is pitch-perfect.
There is video of an Eagles fan eating horse shit in the street during last night’s celebration.
I regret rooting for the Eagles.
The cheese steak sandwiches aren’t that bad.
worse than gator fans?
My line is drawn at voluntary animal shit eating.
there was this movie called Big Trouble which I saw as a youth and found very amusing. That’s where I get the gator fan thing.
I like Captain Disillusion. His shtick is fun, and for being a skeptics icon, he’s refreshingly apolitical. I don’t understand a whole lot about cinematography or video manipulation (what the fuck is a “matte”?), but his takedowns are entertaining.
“Christie Brinkley has claimed that Donald Trump once tried to vie for her affections by offering her a ride from New York City to Aspen, Colorado, on his private jet.
She told the newspaper: ‘One day I was at the Plaza Hotel. My phone rings and this guy goes, “Hey, Christie, it’s The Donald.” I say, “Hi, Billie,” because I was dating Billie at the time. But the voice goes, ‘No, no. It’s The Donald!” So I say, ‘What’s up?”
And he says, “I hear you’re leaving for Aspen tomorrow. I am too. I’d like to give you a ride on my private jet.” So I reply, “Thank you, but I have already arranged my flights.” “So cancel them!” was his response, and I say, “No thank you. I’m going with friends.”
‘I knew he was married, and there he was asking me to go on his plane. He was kind of flirty about it. He was out chasing skirts.'”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5353009/Christie-Brinkley-claims-Donald-Trump-tried-woo-her.html
He was kind of flirty about it.
The monster.
This doesn’t fit into the image of Trump, somehow? I thought we all knew he was a skirt chaser.
Just feeding the alpha narrative. I mean, what red-blooded male wouldn’t flirt with Christie Brinkley, given the opportunity?
Interesting that she ISN’T pissed that someone she doesn’t like somehow knows her travel plans. Or was she stupid enough to blab her plans on TV?
Daddy/daughter incest funtime:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_sexual_attraction
AKA, if you separate from your child/sibling at a young age, it’s better to just never see him/her again.
there was this movie ca piggy banks. Although it may have been a different name in the US
”
In what sounds like it could be an April Fool, Doritos has announced plans for crisps specially designed for women.
The “lady-friendly” version of the popular tortilla chips will make less of a crunch noise when you eat them, will be smaller in size and the packet is being specifically designed to fit inside a handbag.
The bosses at PepsiCo, which owns Doritos, believe women don’t want to crunch loudly or lick their fingers when eating crisps around other people, unlike men, apparently.
“When you eat out of a flex bag — one of our single-serve bags — especially as you watch a lot of the young guys eat the chips, they love their Doritos, and they lick their fingers with great glee, and when they reach the bottom of the bag they pour the little broken pieces into their mouth, because they don’t want to lose that taste of the flavour, and the broken chips in the bottom,” Indra Nooyi, global chief executive at PepsiCo said in an interview with Freakonomics Radio.
“Women would love to do the same, but they don’t. They don’t like to crunch too loudly in public. And they don’t lick their fingers generously and they don’t like to pour the little broken pieces and the flavour into their mouth.””
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/doritos-crisps-women-chips-handbag-size-bag-crunch-sound-crumbs-a8194891.html
Ran into a Lay’s vendor at the store, looking for Mulitgrain Tostito’s Scoops (which have been out for the last month). Apparently Pepsi switched the multigrain scoops lines to regular for the Superbowl. And also apparently, this is the #1 question this vendor has been getting bitched out about for a month from Retailers and customers in his route (well off suburbs).
Pepsi is run by a moron.
I was in a focus group with a lot of women before. I got the feeling that most of them weren’t offering their honest opinions, but rather saying what they thought other people wanted to hear.
I love pivot tables yes I do, I love pivot tables how ’bout you?
/Competing for biggest, dorkiest loser on this site
How’bout animated clipart in your Powerpoints?
Like, DUH
More of a Vlookup and SUMIF guy myself.
How about Median-Ifs using array formulas?? // total Excel dork
It’s mighty dark in here
A person’s gender identification encompasses identification with certain physical features as well as gender expressions, gender norms, and gendered language. This means that, regardless of one’s physical characteristics, a Californian who does not identify as a man or a woman may change their legal gender to “nonbinary.” The motivation for this shift is clear: according to California Senator Scott Wiener, the nonbinary option means that “transgender and non-binary people will now be able to identify themselves as they are, not as who society tells them they should be.” (California’s law goes further than other states’ measures, permitting citizens to opt for nonbinary on their birth certificates, as well as other official documents like driving licenses.)
California legislators, and progressive lawmakers in other states, may be acting from the best of motives, but this swath of new legislation rests on a dangerous mistake. I say this as a nonbinary person, one who identifies as genderqueer and uses the gender-neutral pronouns they and them. I’m also a philosophy professor and spend much of my time thinking about the ways in which gender categories are constructed and enforced. For me, adding “nonbinary” to the list of legal gender options does not address the core problem: any legal system that requires a person to record their gender perpetuates government control over our bodies and identities.
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Gender identities are complex and deeply individual. There is no single way to articulate the basis for gender identity, and not all citizens have stable and clearly defined identities. Any legal categorization of gender identity, which necessarily requires external criteria of identity (such as attesting to it “under pain of perjury”), is sure to be reductive and inadequate. I do not want one of my most personal understandings of myself recorded and fixed on my driver’s license any more than I would like my genitalia recorded on it.
Maybe you should just self-identify as “wanker”.
The Late P Brooks, to be fair #RicoSuave, this is probably the most libertarian expression you will ever see from a non binary philosophy professor.
well your face is a nonbinary philosophy professor.. Hmmm strangely that does not work as an insult. Oh well
In Romania all forms ask for sex which is either male or female. none of that gender crap you lot have going. round these parts gender is for nouns
If they want to make people totally gender neutral in the eyes of the government, that’s fine. But they’re going to have to get rid of every law and policy that specifically pertains to gender. I know on the federal level, there are numerous policies just for women (small business loans for females, requirements that a certain percentage of contracts to go female-owned businesses, etc.) and I don’t imagine it’s much different in California.
What we need is a shooting war between feminist and gender benders
Guns are icky!
/both sides
Not sure what AJB means by “gender benders” but there are plenty of MTF who like guns.
“A person’s gender identification encompasses identification with certain physical features ”
Nazi!
improperly uses the
gender-neutralplural pronouns they and themEdited for accuracy.
Next up is Wodehouse
Anybody who doesn’t like Wodehouse is woodchipper material.
Just sayin’.
+1 Honoria Glossop
Add Saki to the list.
+2 for Laurie and Fry.
With Patwick Swayze?
+1 flying roundhouse kick
From “Right Ho, Jeeves”. Wodehouse is the only author I’ve ever read who consistently makes me laugh out loud.
this is probably the most libertarian expression you will ever see from a non binary philosophy professor.
True. But I still can only look forward to the day all these people disappear up their own assholes.
https://twitter.com/elizabethforma/status/960290364132397056
*cringe*
I mean in a way we should be grateful for twitter.
And here I thought she’d be rooting for the Redskins.
Not until they get a properly named Quarterback…
Ran into a Lay’s vendor at the store, looking for Mulitgrain Tostito’s Scoops (which have been out for the last month). Apparently Pepsi switched the multigrain scoops lines to regular for the Superbowl. And also apparently, this is the #1 question this vendor has been getting bitched out about for a month from Retailers and customers in his route (well off suburbs).
So- somebody must like them.
This reminds me of a thing my management info systems professor said, long ago: “If you really want to know if your reports are worth a shit, stop sending them out, and see if anybody comes and asks for one.”
I have a report that I use before an upgrade – showing how many times a custom report has been run and the last time it was run. Useful to find out if the code should be updated for the latest version.
To no surprise – a lot of the “must have this right now!” reports I have written for management only get run a few times and then are never used again.
I used to do reporting and that was typical. Depending on their audience, management wants reports that highlight the positive and downplay or ignore the negatives. Of course those items are often in flux which is why they always need new reports. Add in the varying positive/negative results at a regional level and that just adds to the fun.
That seems about right. The reports I write for myself are oriented towards finding problems. Find the problem early, fix it.
Not a good metric. There are lots of pencil pushers who care very much that the report is issued. The don’t read it, they wouldn’t even know how to read it if they tried but they will howl like the end of the world is approaching if that report is late.
Much better to put explicit requests for feedback into the report and when none is forthcoming then stop so that when the howler monkey screams you have data to point to showing why the report is of no value
Not a good metric. There are lots of pencil pushers who care very much that the report is issued. The don’t read it, they wouldn’t even know how to read it if they tried but they will howl like the end of the world is approaching if that report is late.
I think it depends on the industry. The truth is, in a lot of regulated industries, reports are generated to satisfy the regulators that they’re being generated. Looking at the report may be of limited, or even negligible value. But, the regulators insist on the report’s existence as a control.
So much this…
Subway had these Everything Bagel Lays Potato Chips for a while. Disappointed that I’ve never seem them in the grocery stores.
Posted the the other day, but worth repeating.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/120dB
“#120db: What The #MeToo Movement Ignores”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QJ3wYi_Fug
ok that chick is definitely on the creepy side of the alt right
Brittany Pettibone?
Arianna is f’n adorable.
Lay back and think of multicultural Europe, ladies.
https://twitter.com/Carpedonktum/status/960520498621960192
LOL
That Superbowl commercial sucked ass.. How fucking stupid are people to believe the assurance of equality of outcome from these shysters?
No wonder we have all the fucking snowflakes we have today believing in socialism and the evulz of capitalism and individualism.
“We are excited to serve everyone biscuits tomorrow morning at our Philadelphia location but in order to do that it needs to be not burned down please”
https://twitter.com/Hardees/status/960365156516712449
Andrew McCarthy dismantles Nadler’s counter-memo.
I’ve been hearing and reading a lot of hand-waving, especially from libertarians and conservatives, about the consequentiality of the Nunes memo. The overriding motif is: this doesn’t really tell us anything, Trump may still be in hot water for obstruction, even if no underlying collusion is ever proven, attacking the DoJ and FBI as partisan is seriously damaging the credibility of those institutions, Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller are honorable men, Chris Steele has a proven track record, whatever his personal conflicts, and Nunes is operating in tandem with the White House to discredit their work.
Well, all or none of that may be true. But, as McCarthy handily lays it out, none of those objections to the memo speak to the worrisome possibility that the FBI flagrantly violated its evidentiary obligations in its zeal to go after Trump subordinates, and they did so in a manner favorable to, if not at the behest of, Clinton. As others here note, it’s likelier the bureau was operating in its own self-interest rather than collusion with Clinton’s campaign, but that’s another question. What the Nunes memo indicates, and what the FBI has yet to dispel, is the apparent partisan cloud hanging over its operations for at least the last couple years.
So all of the commentators who are rightly leery about overcommitting to the memo seem not to recognize that the legitimacy of the investigation is a question quite apart from the partisan showing of the investigators under Comey et al. It goes beyond the FISA warrants: compare their handling of Clinton’s email imbroglio to the investigation of Trump. Comey gave out immunity deals like candy. Could you imagine the hysterical response if Mueller is found to have written out Trump’s exoneration months before interviewing him? And offering Clinton the benefit of the doubt with the outrageous finding that, “Sure, she broke the law, but she didn’t mean to despite absolutely meaning to.” The FISA warrant is a soupçon of corruption in an agency teeming with it.
Imagine Trump using his billions to hire private investigators to dig up dirt on the Democratic nominee in 2020. Then the Donald passes that dirt onto the FBI, so that the FBI can get a FISA warrant to spy on the staff of the Democratic nominee.
No problem right?
Imagine Trump using his billions to hire private investigators to
digmake up dirt on the Democratic nominee in 2020.FIFY
Imagine Trump having the chutzpah to then, after taking a bunch of second- and third-hand rumors from Russian officials at face value and strewing them about, suggest that his opponent is the one colluding with Russians.
So much this…
Imagine Trump using his billions to hire private investigators to
digmake up dirt onthe Democratic nomineeeveryone in 2020.FTFIFY
McCarthy has a point – in court, you have fact witnesses and expert witnesses. Experts are there to give opinions on the interpretation and meaning of facts, which are established by someone other than the expert.
In a typical malpractice case, you have fact witnesses (including the ones who authenticate the medical records) who establish what happened. Then you have expert witnesses who give their opinion on whether what happened met the standard of care. You can get experts to testify on hypothetical scenarios, but they have to be very clear that it is a hypothetical, and is not based on the established facts.
As others here note, it’s likelier the bureau was operating in its own self-interest rather than collusion with Clinton’s campaign,
These are not exclusive; I think the FBI saw its self-interest as best served by colluding with Clinton’s campaign.
Here’s the deal; the FBI went after and got a memo by lying to a judge (omission of material facts counts as lying; there’s a reason the oath refers to “the whole truth”). That is a violation of civil rights for the people who were surveilled under the warrant. I don’t think there’s any question at all that more than FBI employee was in on the scam, which makes it a conspiracy to violate civil rights. That’s what we need a new independent prosecutor (if you can find one) to pursue.
Given that some of the exact people are probably going to implicated in the IG report on the email case, there’s also a pattern of misconduct.
All good points, and while I’m not sold that the FBI colluded with Clinton, they obviously have vastly differing approaches depending on the politics of their targets. And that’s what frustrates me about the chorus of conservatives (and Moynihan and Welch, for that matter) calling the memo a “nothingburger”: look, even if you’re not surprised by the contents or unswayed by the narrative of deceit and corruption, and you believe that these agents acted with honest integrity, you can still be appalled by the flagrant partisanship the bureau practices. Especially since, if it works now with Trump, of course the left is going to weaponize the bureau again for the next, perhaps more mainstream, Republican. Democrats have never found a political gambit too sleazy even for them.
The number of people who like this nonsensical tweet are ridiculous.
https://twitter.com/DanielJCamacho/status/960349280711135235
Contributing opinion writer to the Guardian
I’m shocked.
apropos of nothing: i don’t understand why anyone, anywhere, finds jimmy fallon funny or entertaining.
he seems like he’s constantly, nervously projecting this , “please laugh” vulnerability, as tho, ‘well i’m not sure if this is actually that funny, so, i’m going to like set it up so you know when to laugh even if it isn’t’. Its like a pre-teen’s tentative attempt at public speaking. “He makes that cute face like he can’t believe what he just said!”
There are these constant, nervous body-language signals like, “oh man, please laugh at this or else i’ll totally be like so embarrassed”. I think he even stutters on purpose, as part of this ‘faux vulnerable’ thing.
it provokes ‘pity-laughter’, or ‘sympathy laughter’, not actual “oh shit that was actually funny” laughter.
my suspicion is that his schtick is super-effective w/ female audiences. which is, from the point of view of advertisers, a huge plus.
Does Fallon ever denigrate himself in his bits? And not the “Oh jeez I’m so awkward look at me cringe” variety, but really taking the piss out of himself?
i don’t know, i only ever see his bits in the context of some youtube clips. i haven’t watched his show beginning to end in years.
I think you’ve accurately described exactly what it is that creeps me out about him. Maybe he’s a decent interviewer, I haven’t got far enough into a show to know.
He has to have writers. Which makes you think he isn’t writing anything himself and isn’t a good judge of what was written was funny or not.
I’m not sure it’s “faux” though. Seems more like he knows the rhythm and timing of jokes but didn’t actually rehearse anything (or even read anything beforehand) to know if the joke will work or if it needs a particular delivery to work.
He has to have writers.
Well, sure. One of them is Chuck Schumer. That alone should tell you why he’s unfunny.
I can say I’ve never laughed at a single joke from Jimmy Fallon. Same with Louis C.K.
That nervous projecting is a nice alternative to the “I’m a smug fucking asshole” persona projected by Kimmel, Colbert, and Maher.
Yeah, i think that’s part of it. The thing that Jay Leno and Letterman did was basically biting from Johnny Carson. But i think it got progressively smug-er and smug-er as time passed to where you get these utterly full-of-themselves personalities.
i think that’s fallon’s selling-point. he’s a nice boy and he doesn’t sneer. and i think i’m right in saying he gets the largest female-share out of all of them. he’s also the highest-paid (as of 2017)
i wasn’t really suggesting any of others were particularly good, just that fallon was particularly repellent to me. i can tolerate conan’s show because i just sort of grew up with it.
The only thing he ever did that I liked was that song Idiot Boyfriend he did a long time ago. Even when he was on SNL he always messed up the skits he was in.