Hey, guys, I’m sure this will get us labeled as a white supremacist group, but I didn’t want the URL to be wednesday-afternoon-links-44 and I’m out of good ideas. Which is pretty much why I do links instead of original content. Sloopy at least has Teh Sprotzball to fall back on in the morning. Although now that football is over, I can start focusing on spring training. And talking trash to Rangers and Dodgers fans. Suck it! One baseball related link — it seems that players and owners have a different idea of what free agents are worth. The way that baseball players are valued now, ageing “almost HOFers” just aren’t going to get the money they want unless a team really needs their particular skill to make a deep run. Look for a lot more players to find their salaries plummet as the new valuations make it all the way through the market. And now… the links!
I guess landing two boosters on twin pads is easy, but making the correct burn to get to Mars is hard. My thinking based on the tweet and map is that they just burned all the fuel in the tank to see how far they could push the mass they had. Pillory me as a fanboi if you must
Black Lives Matter leader* fatally shot in New Orleans. *As I understand it there is no leadership or structure per se, but this guy was prominent in several actions.
You’ll be shocked to find out that the “bipartisan deal” to a 2 year budget agreement “adds billions to spending”. Fuck. Pull me up a chair and draw me a Glenn Beck chart. Who coulda seen that coming?
Joe Biden — Joe Trans-Am Biden! — would even advise Trump not to answer questions to the special counsel. Unless she was young and it gave him a chance to put his hands on her.
This guy needs to start wintering in FL. h/t Pope Jimbo
Speaking of Rocket Man…
SugarFree brings you breaking news:
“You had one motherfucking job!” the hat screamed.
“I know, I know,” the hair moaned.
“One job! Hold the fuck on! That’s all you had to do!”
“Look, I feel bad enough as is, so just lay the fuck off me.”
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These boobs are brought to you by the number 1979.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qaBTqhlv8o
Wise advice from wise men.
http://archive.is/XOVrY
3, 4, 9-R, 23, 31, 33, 41 and if 30 isn’t a girl I went to college with, she’s an absolute dead ringer for her.
Someone needs to send #32 this article:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/cutting-asparagus-could-prevent-spread-of-breast-cancer-study-shows
17,23
Oh my, the #23 troika.
Something is wrong with #40. Excluded from the orgy.
Another victim of Doctor Fix-a-Flat?
Oh, fucking hell. I just realized that #32 contains the three most important food groups – meat, vegetables and dairy.
Yes. And?
https://pjmedia.com/trending/feminist-philosophy-class-indoctrination-says-columbia-student/
What’s “black philosophy”?
Anything written in the dark?
Something Agile Cyborg is into probably
+1 wasps lactating venom
god damn that’s a real AC thought-ejaculation? ::beatnik snap applause::
SHUT UP WHITEY
Obviously not compatible with feminist philosophy
Not nearly intersectional enough?
Instead, Hughes and his classmates were assigned to read theorists like Foucault. Here, the mood was “strikingly different,” he says. “Rarely does a single person even ask a question, to say nothing of making a critique,” he adds.
Thaddeus Russell has a sad.
So all of the students sit there and bear it quietly thinking the whole thing is a load of horseshit counting the minutes until the class is over. The prof just parrots her useful idiocy for a couple of hours feeling smug and satisfied.
Sounds like a blast.
Worth every penny, I’m sure.
Yeah, it’s really hard to understand why more people are questioning the value of a college education.
Not all. There’s probably a few who eat it up and will go on to be the next generation of propagandists.
Just let Darwinism work itself out already.
https://www.livescience.com/61666-self-injected-diy-herpes-vaccine-bad-idea.html
Put me in the antivaxxer camp on this one.
This is how we get super-herpes.
“…then they came out with Herpes. You keep that shit forever. Like luggage.”
-Eddie Murphy
If Sloopy did the links, I’m sure he would’ve mentioned that today was National Signing Day for college football. He’d have specifically pointed out that Georgia got the commitment of a top prospect that had previously been committed to Michigan, and that the prospect would’ve been the jewel of Michigan’s class but is like the 12th best prospect in Georgia’s class.
It still ends with no better than 2nd in the SEC.
I dunno. Kirby just could be just the Sith Apprentice to kill Sith Master Saban.
Next year in Jerusalem!
It’s also International Clash Day.
https://twitter.com/hashtag/InternationalClashDay
Fucking commies, but damn they were good!
Pfft, elitist 1%’ers.
I look forward to the day when Boise State is excited about more than “Hey, we picked up a guy with a (3rd string) offer from Alabama!!!”
Chicks dig bad boys.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5362823/Ex-wife-WH-aide-dating-Hope-Hicks-says-choked-her.html
Probably a douchenozzle.
“She told how Porter, 40, once dragged her wet and naked out of the shower and was verbally abusive, calling her a f***ing b***h’ on their honeymoon.”
Dude…..ya gotta wait at least a couple years, c’mon.
And that’s some eye. The last time I broke my nose, I didnt even have a shiner like that.
Myabe Hope just doesn’t talk during the game.
He can probably settle the long running debate: agent provocateur or le perle
Also, let’s flood the thread with hot pictures of Hope Hicks
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I90_cfXKXNE/WZWnSdXY12I/AAAAAAAA4Qw/2Z2NUdKhuoohdk3uS3F093ZpXxAphOGKgCEwYBhgL/s1600/img-Hope-Hicks-modelling-photos.jpg
I’ll start us off
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eSOfe7BuGQw/maxresdefault.jpg
https://biographytree.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/hilary-rhoda-and-2009-sport.jpg
https://rosamondpress.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/hop55.jpg?w=640&h=865
You do fine work, Q
I know my niche.
It’s not a niche, it’s cleavage.
Let’s keep it going
Make Hope Hicks Half-Naked Again!
Don’t these women have brothers or fathers? If some little prick did that to my daughter he would be a very busted up yuppie.
From some of the commentary here, my guess is that if he so much as touched Hope Hicks in the wrong way, a lot of Glibertarians would have him on their knuckle sandwich calendar.
Chicks on FetLife.com (https://fetlife.com/groups/4027) crave this shit.
https://78.media.tumblr.com/69a7191e6b27a5627f018ace21a71162/tumblr_p3pljjXyJ41rxf7n9o1_500.jpg
LOL
I. fucking. love. it.
::opera applause::
Brilliant.
Oh. My. God.
Absolute genius.
Please tell me it’s true
*sustained standing ovation*
I don’t want to throw the word “hero” around lightly, but…..yeah, that’s a hero.
I checked, it’s still up.
I mean, I got a chubby from that awesome prank, but . . . .
Buzz Aldrin (sorry, Sloop) has some interesting ideas about how to get to Mars.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
He just wants to plant a mailbox where some rando can’t take a baseball bat to it.
It was Armstrong’s mailbox, right?
Dammit, yes.
Aldrin did once (and only a few years ago) punch a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face, which is still hilarious to watch.
In today’s news about the Dictator in Turkey, the New York Knicks’ Enes Kanter has been charged with insulting former NBAer and current CEO of the Turkish Basketball Association, Hedo Turkoglu.
Kanter’s already been charged with insulting Erdogan and for being a member of an armed terrorist group (for insulting Erdogan) and already told Erdogan to go fuck himself over the first charges, so something tells me this one won’t faze him.
But still, fuck Erdogan.
http://www.eurohoops.net/en/nba-news/611880/enes-kanter-charged-for-insulting-hedo-turkoglu/
About the only thing that FIFA gets right is the categorical imperative against political interference in the governance of the member countries’ federations.
A nice international ban for Turkey sounds appropriate here.
So MLB free agents are outraged they aren’t all getting $20M+ per year deals? Maybe the Trump tax cuts are enough that they could get by on $15M a year?
I’m not even sure they’re gonna get $15M. It seems like there isn’t much interest in some of these guys who would usually go through a journeyman free agency $20M/year for 2-5 years are having a hard time making the value proposition work now that the Yankees aren’t bidding up the market.
They’ll get their per-year money. Red Sox have offered JD Martinez 5 years/125 million. They just won’t get the contract length they’d been getting before, because teams aren’t giving the length of contracts they used to, because they’re not paying past the performance cliff for past performance anymore.
Do they have an injury out? Oh wait, that was JD Drew.
Did someone say JD Drew?
*readies batteries*
He’s 30 now. He hit 45 hrs last year and 22 the year before, 38 in 2015, 23 in 2014, and 7 in 2013. The Red Sox would get 20 out of JBK – their current inconsistent hitting but great fielding Center Fielder. I doubt the Sox will budge – why should they?
Doesn’t matter what the Sawx do – the Yankees are going to devour men’s souls this year.
So you’re saying there’s a chance the Diamondbacks resign JD Martinez?
As long as they promise to pay him way past his prime.
or do whey they did with that World Series team, which was pay them well after they retire. I believe last year they finished paying Bernard Gilkey…
Better than the Mets continuing to pay Bobby Bonilla until 2035.
Good news for me(don’t know how rest of you will feel) I may soon be free of firewall.
Bad news is I may soon be put of a job due to a 2nd generation boss/playboy/fuckup.
Yay….wait….boo?
That sucks. Sorry Bacon.
Well… now you’re free to pursue your dream of porn stardom? Maybe?
Boobs or bust
Sorry, you’re probably going to have to go gay for pay before you can break into straight porn. Or so I’ve heard.
$20 is $20
*drops gloves to applaud*
Somebody thinks mighty highly of themselves.
Or plans to be really busy.
Shouldn’t be that hard, unless he’s going into kosher or halal pron. Aside from that who doesn’t eat bacon?
Boobs or bust
*motions for Swiss to come over*
I think you mean “and”
That sucks for you. Good luck.
Have a glass of milk and you’ll feel better.
And ?
Sorry, Bacon. Good luck.
Mind you I’ve been at this work for 17 years so I do have experience. Not the end of the world…just the start of a new one. *gathers hobo handkerchief up with supplies*
I’m on the new job/career train too, bro. We’ll be fine.
Best of luck with your bindle.
Hope you land on your delicious feet, bacon-magic.
Also known as a matilda, at least in Australia.
God speed, hobo bacon
There is no Hobo Bacon, only that which has not found a Home yet,
Profound
You worked for Christie Hefner ? I has much confuse.
Ugh. Good riddance to that situation, anyway. Only a matter of time until the stupid fuck tanks it.
Yeah not closed yet but the “tankening” is happening. Interesting to watch at least.
I’ve been there. It’s entertaining, but ultimately energy-sapping. Move on, young porkbelly!
Besides, you are one of the funniest dudes we’ve ever had here. You need to come around more.
bacon-magic & Mr Lizard have stayed amazingly in character. Like ZARDOZ or STEVE SMITH level, but it’s to be expected with those two.
Whatever you say Tulpa.
No, I’m tulpa! Wait…
Yikes!
Bacon always lands on its feet.
Good luck.
Out of any crisis and all that. Been there, Bacon. Shit gets better!
Best of luck to you, our delicious, savory brother.
Does this mean you’re out of the firewall and into the frying pan? What’s the correct idiom I should be fixin’ to mangle here?
Bad news is I may soon be put of a job due to a 2nd generation boss/playboy/fuckup.
Sorry.
No Firewall good.
Shitty Boss bad.
Good luck, brah. Good news is that the economy is generally favorable to The Hunt at the moment.
Mom always said, “Whenever one door closes another one opens.” She was only wrong in that there will be one new door.
Best of luck.
… Hobbit
“only one door”
Distinction with a difference.
BH
So, out of the frying pan and into the fire?
“The revolutionary government owes to the good citizen all the protection of the nation; it owes nothing to the Enemies of the People but death.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-07/facebook-s-sandberg-says-metoo-movement-hasn-t-gone-far-enough
We are literally witnessing the Chinese Cultural Revolution in real time. I don’t want to work in a rice paddy, damn it
We’ll be lucky to get salt mine duty under that scenario.
At least giant space ants offer nice, cozy underground sugar caves.
Mr Lizard might have to have a word with them before hand.
I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted Glibertarian personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves!
Experience managing a . . . reluctant labor force is always a plus.
No way am I working in any salt mine. I’ll rat everyone out for thought crimes before that
“Holiday in Cambodia” come true
“You star-bellied sneetch, you suck like a leech,
You want everyone to act like you,
Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich,
But your boss gets richer off you,
Well you’ll work hard with a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day,
Slave to soldiers till you starve
And your head is skewered on a stake
Now you can go where the people are one
Now you can go where they get things done”
One of the greatest rock songs ever. Rock, not just punk.
Sandberg learned her lesson after her rough treatment by the feminists about her book. Always ride the wave to the end, even if it friends a few people along the way.
Come on already, I want proper show trials with Big Names on them. Spacey? Fuck that. Some indie directors? Aziz Ansari – and that was a miserable failture! Brett fucking Ratner?
I have some hopes over “Tarantino defended Polanski and tried to murder Thurman, go get him” but until I see big-name producers (Harvey was a good catch) and directors nailed for casting couch, I want #metoo to keep rolling.
Actually, I want it to roll until the first wave of #metooers gets nailed as well, just like Yezhov, then Yagoda got theirs.
Oh, BTW, anyone remember Roy Moore? And how he was the worst kind of pedorapist? How’s that coming along?
Uh, he lost the election, wasn’t that the point? What, you want these feminists to pursue justice or something? Goddamn #manspectations.
She may be my favorite Trump appointee.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/devos-apprenticeships-vocational-education-top-trump-priority/
Devos is again sticking hot pokers in the eyes of the liberal elite. You mean we’re going to encourage people to aim for honest work in the trades? We’re not going to create more dependent wards of the state, enslaved to debt servitude for worthless degrees in identity studies? BURN HER!
I think you have the symptoms correct, but not the cause. Ed. reform is a bizarre place. Like how standards and outcomes were a conservative war banner until it was picked up by Clinton-era centrists and eventually morphed into Common Core, and then conservatives started screeching about educational perennialism and diversified curricula. Think tanks like the Center for American Progress have been arguing for German-style apprenticeship/vocational training for a while now. If progressives are now against it, it’s because the wrong people are now for it.
If progressives are now against it, it’s because the wrong people are now for it.
I hate tribalists.
Repeat as needed.
Or, it’s because they realize that people in the trades aren’t part of their voting base. Either way.
Unions are a big Dem constituency. This move is brilliant because it will do more for the trades than previous administrations.
Again, not sure I agree. Your average union Joe was solid Democrat due to historic ideological inertia from the anti-free trade planks in party platform until Trump had the genius idea of finally disabusing the nation of the notion that the GOP was the “Party of Free Trade”, thus millions of reverse carpetbaggers flooded into the nu-GOP – the socially conservative and economically populist party of their dreams.
Now, the progressives are probably pleased at this development as they now have full freedom to continue the transformation of the Democratic Party into the full-fledged Euro-style social democratic party they’ve always wanted as well. I’m not sure there will always be enough Joe Hardhats around to play kingmaker for Trump’s strategy to work post-Trump.
Standard Individualist Disclaimer – I hate making generalizations about groups, but sometimes you need a heuristic.
I’ve been around ‘average Joes’ for most of my life, and they are a mixed bag that tends to lean populist conservative when not being apolitical.
You’re correct that this group may not have the numbers to be Trump King Makers, as you put it, but I guess my biases got the better of me here, as I’ve been the object of snobbery for my career choice on more than a few occasions, and perhaps that other article Q posted earlier re:liberal elitisim is still rolling around in my head.
Libertarian moment?
Classical liberalism is extinct; it’s fire has gone out of the universe. You and I, my friend, are all that’s left of our religion.
I find your lack of faith disturbing…
Enough of this, Q release him.
You’re right – there’s been a weird dance over the years as the ends of the political spectrum have alternated stances on various bits of education reform.
Standards based and diversified curricula are not opposites.
The progressive “apprenticeship” program is of the Obama type where the government invests (pays political donors) to train people some job that they’re sure is necessary like green energy.
The Devos plan is to “provide more affordable pathways to secure, high-paying jobs by promoting apprenticeships and effective workforce development programs, while easing the regulatory burden on such programs and reducing or eliminating taxpayer support for ineffective workforce development programs.”
Those are completely opposite ideas.
I’m not the biggest fan of institutionalised apprentiships, but it’s an improvement over the public message of “you’re a loser unless you get a toilet paper degree”
I waited a year before going to pick up my degree at the university. They called a half dozen times or so and then threatened to burn it or some shit. So I showed up, took the stupid thing and put it in a box somewhere.
I’m really bad. I’m cynical to the point of if an institution is willing to give me a degree (with an A- whatever that works out to) then it must be suspect. Despite the fact professors seemed to have liked some of my stuff. Others…not so much.
My alma mater just mailed my degrees once they became available the better part of a year later.
National Urban League is on board.
I wonder how many Black voters will quietly vote for Trump in 2020, and not tell anyone. Extra bonus of discrediting pollsters.
“Apprenticeships, Vocational Education are Top Trump Priority”
Oh noes, a whole bunch more shitlords who were not forced to take gender studies classes and don’t give a fuck about #metoo? Say it ain’t so.
You put it much better than I, good sir.
*doffs hat*
Nope, you said it quite well and I wouldn’t have repeated it had I seen your post first.
Brevity is a skill which I lack at times.
*shakes head*
‘Brevity eludes me.’
She’ll tease you
She’ll unease you
Just to please you
She’s got Betsy Devos eyes
She’ll expose you
When she snows you
She knows you, she’s got Betsy Devos Eyes
This may or may not already been discussed, but here it is anyway: FBI agent’s text suggests Obama wanted to ‘know everything’ the bureau was doing
We’ll never see Hillary’s text back to him saying “No, you really don’t”
It included a dark close-up of Vince Foster looking terrified.
I was thinking more along the lines of the smartphone, nightvision sex tape with Dianne Feinstein.
Best leave that to Sug.
#Ewww
I bet she can do things with that double-jointed thumb….and ….. knows….stuff.
*projectile vomits*
Step 1. Open this link in another browser tab.
Step 2. Tab back to this page.
Step 3. Look at the picture in SF’s comment.
Is that a chupacabra?
lol
A Frankenfiend
Is that thumb even opposable?
It looks like a spur the lizard people use for mating purposes.
A bite to the back of the neck, spurs in the haunches, then out pops the cloaca!
All kidding aside, she’s probably had some hand surgery performed. My stepmother, aged at around 67 y/o has a thumb that looks fucked up like that because her joints are in rough shape and she had hand surgery.
They say serial killers usually have a stash of mementos taken from their victims. Wonder where Hillary keeps hers?
Nature’s pocket.
*pours bleach in ears*
*bypasses the bleach and goes straight to giving .357 a blowjob*
Whelp, I was going to assemble a lovely shrimp Fettucine, like this:
https://www.jocooks.com/main-courses/seafood/crispy-cajun-shrimp-fettuccine/
But my appetite just walked out.
Why, they smashed the phone?
I’m not sure this one has much relevance. I do believe that the things in the memo are going to turn out very damaging for the Democrats. But 2 love birds texting that Obama wants to know everything they’re doing seems to be not much more than then inflating their own egos about how important they are. Even if Obama did say that and he was still president, I don’t see it as a big deal.
Every serious scandal requires sex and adultery. This scandal has that covered.
Worlds oldest sin, right?
Followed immediately by murder upon being discovered.
We call that ‘Saturday’ around these parts.
Hold muh Grainbelt!
Well that’s why it didn’t work! He did it on Friday. He should have done it on Saturday.
Well, whats the point of owning a Lamborghini if you cant do stupid shit like this?
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-driver-arrested-20180206-story.html
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/07/mostly-unredacted-grassleygraham-referral-damning-doj-nunes-memo/
Grassley memo far more damning than Nunes memo
I think the fact that Carter Page was an undercover employee (UCE) of the FBI in 2013-16 is worse. The Steele dossier was a parallel construction that tried to establish the Page-Russia connection without revealing to FISA that Page was an FBI own agent whose “Russian connection” included “provid[ing] Sporyshev with binders containing purported industry analysis written by UCE-1 and supporting documentation relating to UCE-1’s reports, as well as covertly placed recording devices.” Carter Page is UCE-1.
Until now I only saw the heavily redacted Grassley memo. That was hard to follow. The mostly un-redacted memo is indeed much more detailed than the Nunes one.
But Democrats have ensured us that if it were un-redacted, it would show that Trump is guilty and that the FBI have been totally on the straight and narrow. Is that appearing to not be true?
Much of the electorate has goldfish-level attention spans. A cynical person would not expect that to matter all that much.
I think your link was redacted.
This is the redacted memo. My link above was to a relatively un-redacted one.
Maybe my computer or firewall doesn’t like the link.
Try this link.
It’s a good thing he can afford a lamborghini, so that he can afford drunk driving.
::sad trombone::
over 10 grand in California, and Classes BS restrictions on driving, unless you can Lawyer up however..
That’s pretty much what I was saying.
But what about the gay frogs?
http://www.9news.com/article/news/weird/dia-jokingly-reveals-location-of-illuminati-meetings/73-515318263
Something something FEMA death camps
You haven’t lived until you’ve talked a destitute nutcase into returning to the US and chancing not getting picked up and hauled off to the FEMA camps. The good news is that they never get hauled off to the camps. Ever.
My thinking based on the tweet and map is that they just burned all the fuel in the tank to see how far they could push the mass they had.
That’s my read, too. They passed their Air Force cruise test and lit up the engine pointed toward the outer solar system until they ran out of gas. IOW, the rocket is more fuel efficient than they thought.
It’s OK. Matt Damon can come in and science the shit out of that rocket to get it back on course.
Re: Rocket Man song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi8MI7jjpSY
Im not sure if STEVE SMITH has any female siblings, but….
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/women-hairy-nipples-could-signal-11979847
https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/best-sex-positions-increase-chances-11615416
I think Barbie’s chance of getting pregnant would increase with someone who is not totally gay.
Genitals would also be a big help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_insemination
heh-heh…..his “aedeagus”
I just got a new name for lil Tres.
So Barbie went of vacation and got a fever?
She’s with someone other than Ken in those pictures.
“Hey, guys, I’m sure this will get us labeled as a white supremacist group”
I think you’re probably late to the party.
I’m pretty sure we’re being watched.
There’s probably more than a few staff at TOS who lurk here to see if we say anything worth reporting to the authorities.
You think they despise us that much? to FBI us?
Hell hath no fury like a comments section scorned.
Blow off your Loyal Readers and you get Blown off as well, but they have Cocktails and Fruit Sushi, so Whatever makes em Happy
And their beloved millennials who hate their guts, so there’s that.
For what? We’ll just tell them that Preet hangs out with us, that should fix it.
I doubt it. I’m sure Welch has perused the site before, but that’s probably it
It’s amazing to think that losing 90% of your commentariat in a week would make someone curious. But, nah, TOS doesn’t care about us. I would say overall they range from total indifference, to mildly disappointed, to hating us. I’m sure that a few of them already disliked us well before we all left. I really pissed off Welch once, but Bailey was still talking to me quite often. Didn’t someone say that the Ice Queen has returned? We all know how she feels about us. Although I’m sure that Shikha has a secret love for us.
I still like most Reason articles. And although donations are a substantial portion of their budget, it’s not like they’re crippled without those donations. They noticed though.
Does Welch still believe in the libertarian moment or is it only Gillespie?
The libertarian moment was ruined by Trump.
I recall Cytotoxic literally saying that exact thing. I guess Ted Cruz was the libertarian moment?
Also if one man can ruin the libertarian moment then it has very infirm foundations.
The Libertarian Moment was real. Only Welch and Gillespie seemed to choose to omit one thing. It was primarily a phenomenon that happened within the conservative movement. The growth of libertarianism wasn’t a broad phenomenon. It was, mostly, something that happened to conservatives. A lot of conservatives started getting interested in libertarian ideas. A lot of conservatives started taking a more libertarian bent on things. Ignoring that little detail had significant implications as to how one responded to said Moment.
*gets on phone*
Preet’s office: Hello, Preet speaking.
“Hey, Preet, you might not remember me, but I used to be on that site, you know the one with the woodchipper people.”
Preet: What?… are you one of them?
“Oh no, Preet, they hate us, and you know, we’re a big fan of yours, huge fans. You’re so handsome and well dressed and smart!”
Preet: Well, yeah, that’s true… what do you want?
“Well, you know those guys are at it again, and THIS time…”
Ok, well, I don’t dislike those guys THAT much. I just don’t like them enough to ever donate to their non-libertarian site ever again. Let the millennials donate, they love the millennials.
Preet wear fired by Trump. He has no power to harass citizens anymore.
*leans forward* Can you repeat that? I didn’t hear you. Say it louder this time.
Please speak into my carnation!
I agree
We probably need looking after.
“I’m pretty sure we’re being watched.”
Don’t get paranoid on me, man
“” I’m sure this will get us labeled as a white supremacist group,””
Wait… we’re not?
what the hell. and i grew this little mustache and everything.
You know else….. oh nevermind
Nihilists?
People with ADD?
Charlie Chaplin.
Herbert Kornfeld?
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–wQ_NDFQQ–/comhoqfhc23pltyj3ngt.jpg
‘sup Dawg.
A true American hero.
*pours out 40oz whiteout on the curb*
::sniff::
Back when The Onion was funny.
Clark Gable?
William Powell?
Re: Mencken as liberal elitist
Here are two excellent examples:
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/306393/
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/376215/
Are they? I hate on Ludendorf more than the writers of Wonder Woman, but both articles seem judgement-neutral to me. Except I don’t think he’s right in that Nietzsche either helped create early 20th century Germany, or that he’d be pleased with their progress in the Great War.
OK, the ending is hilarious in the context of what came after…
Mencken saying something judgement-neutral? Really?
I took it as descriptive of Nietzsche, not prescriptive, so…
I mean, I’m no fan of Mencken’s pose of “everything sucks” but if pushed he could argue he didn’t put any judgement to the truth of the statement or its value as a means of organizing society.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/mencken-the-teuton/article/7813
https://books.google.ca/books?id=EojIZUj3ZC8C&lpg=PT291&ots=vPpNe62Gz2&dq=mencken%20whooping%20it%20up%20for%20the%20kaiser&pg=PT291#v=onepage&q=mencken%20whooping%20it%20up%20for%20the%20kaiser&f=false
See, that shit is much more convincing. Lead off with it next time!
http://sdonline.org/43/the-radicalism-of-randolph-bourne/
You know who else wanted universal involuntary servitude from the young?
General William Westmoreland?
The electorate of Fiddlers’ Green?
A 40-year-old man is recovering this week after being injured after attempting to jump a homemade rocket bike off of his house roof in Willmar, in west-central Minnesota.
Who held his beer?
Cup holder on the rocket bike.
Corect Answer, What does He Win, Johnny!
You see, the problem with grown men now is that they weren’t allowed to learn this shit at a younger age, like my gen was. You’re supposed to break your arm and get various other wounds the first couple of times you play Evel Knievel, at 10, not 40!
I know.
Confession time: I’m in my early 40s. Last year after a festival, I stumbled drunk down the street in front of the projects to a friend of mine’s house. The projects weren’t in Philly, they were outside of Philly, and it was daytime (so the crackheads were still sleeping it off), but still, this is something you do in your 20s not in your 40s.
I’m 49. A few years ago I was playing manhunt, drunk, with the neighborhood kids. I climbed a tree, and a kid came up after me. I tried to take an alternate route down and fell on the sidewalk and broke my wrist. Played for an hour more, went to bed and went to the urgent care the next day. I also did stupid shit as a kid, so it’s not necessarily an inoculation against doing stupid shit in your forties.
Was he trying to launch himself to Florida?
You Know Who Else Claimed that someone is guilty but that info is classified and the file used against that person is only partly false but the rest is true?
You Know Who Else Used Capitalisation In a Strange Way?
Romans?
The Guys Who Left Winston’s Mother Thank You Notes?
nOt ME.
Every Body On This Web Site
Corporate accountants?
Train wreck thread Gaah!
/Sup Tres!
Bobs’s your Uncle!
Hey Yusef
Ted Kennedy?
Can Eddie and John come back for just one day? I want a good fight. FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!
Now, does John like Fat? or Thicc like me and half the crowd here/ I don’t remember
If John’s lurking.
https://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/885/dfac3340-cb39-0132-45bc-0ebc4eccb42f.png
Before:
https://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/885/58e42820-cb48-0132-9a87-0e01949ad350.png
After:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cdgfX-69cdk/TUlt9LCSBsI/AAAAAAAAADU/66TrJKsQcdQ/s400/beach-toned.jpg
She looks like she is sizing up her next Snack…
That will cause the side-rail of your bed to snap right in the middle. Ask me how I know…
I don’t want to.
Rule 34?
But you were saved from certain death by being chained to the headboard?
I dont want to trouble you with the details as you may find them….troubling.
Lets just say I was out of harm’s way.
Ceiling mounted sex sling. Got it.
Merkel will be Chancellor again. Where is Suthenboy?
Why did the Jamaica coalition not happen?
This is also means that 3 of her 4 cabinets will be grand coalitions.
Why did the Jamaica coalition not happen?
Because the liberals saw how Greens were going to act and said “fuck being fig-leaf for this shit, go to your social democratic love”.
Interesting that the Free Democrats are regarded as “liberals” and still have some “liberalism” in them. As opposed to the US, UK and Canada.
Of course German political terminology is different. I find it interesting that “left-liberal progressive” could be applied to late-19th Century German classical liberals
*shrug*
I can’t think of another term to describe their policies. If this isn’t “liberal” may as well never use the term.
This one’s… interesting:
By the way the use of the term “liberal” is a pet peeve of mine. When libertarians use if they seem to be all over the place. 19th Century Democrats? 1920s Democrats? New Dealers? Great Society liberals? Anti-Nam leftists? 1980s-1990s social liberals?
I would say that’s less of a libertarian thing and more of an American thing.
Because they smoked two Joints?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UUPY902Ph0
+40 oz To Freedom
I’m right here
They are gonna keep that shit up until no-shit national socialism is fully resurrected.
It’s incredible to me that they can’t see that
Thousands of women molested; thousands of crime victims everyone represent how much lost support?
In a country of 80 million? Probably couple percentage points at most. Which she hopes to make up by Growing the Economy.
One of the rhetorical tactics used in 2016 and trotted out multiple times in 2017 was the
– ‘defend against a charge no one is actually making’
This is part of the whole, “Call everything a conspiracy theory”, whenever the democrats get caught doing shady shit.
it was the main method used in the exculpation of Clinton, with comey claiming “he can’t prove intent” when there was more than enough evidence of gross negligence. he was effectively pretending no lesser charges existed.
the democrats do the same thing with the memo, pretending that some ‘conspiracy’ would need to be established to demonstrate misconduct w/ FISA. its not necessary.
simply leaving information out of the FISA application is sufficient to demonstrate an intentional witholding of relevant information.
the media does this all the time, claiming, “while unseemly, it is not enough to justify firing or prosecution…”…. when its more than enough to get many lawyers disbarred
I’ll admit I’m fairly lost on the whole memo thing.
That’s the point.
its pretty simple, and close to “Watergate”
The then-current (obama) administration spied on a competing presidential campaign.
and they used “information” (bullshit) generated by the DNC to justify that surveillance. they failed to inform the FISA courts about the source of the intel, which would have completely discredited it.
its literally like planting drugs on a suspect, then using that fake-evidence to justify searching for real evidence. wiping your ass with the 4th amendment doesn’t even do it justice.
– and you don’t necessarily need FBI to be politically compromised for it to be a crime. the most likely motivation is not that they were ‘anti trump’ – but rather that they assumed Hillary was going to win, and needed to throw their partisan overlords a bone in order to show their “independence”.
“See, we investigated your opponent too! we just didn’t come up with anything. please don’t have us murdered/fired.’
Possibly. It’s also possible that different elements within the FBI are up to different things, with no coordination or unifying motivation behind them.
“”with no coordination or unifying motivation behind them.””
Sorry, but the FBI doesn’t spy on political figures in the midst of a campaign, getting signatures from all the leading top-officials (comey, yates, rosenstein, mccabe), and report regularly to the president on the subject, without it being very coordinated and extremely sensitive.
anything political is extremely dangerous for law enforcement. recall how “The Wire” demonstrated how criminal investigations were shut down instantly the second the money led to a fucking *city councilman*? and the entire thing would have to be handed off to very high-level FBI teams if it were to go in that direction?
that’s a realistic portrayal of how law enforcement suddenly gets cold feet around political figures. they don’t investigate political people unless the boss of the boss of the boss is insisting upon it, and no one does it without guarantees, “if this shit goes wrong, i’m not the only one getting fired”.
Which is why the FISA thing is almost certainly something the FBI did in as a favor to the DNC/Obama in some desperate ass-covering, because they assumed Hillary was going to be their next boss.
VDH wrote a piece basically saying, “this all makes more sense when you realize no one expected Trump to win” They spied on him because they assumed he was a loser and getting dirt on him would never come back to bite them in the ass. I’m not a particular fan of his, but i think his characterization of the likely motivations fits the best with what is known.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455885/expected-clinton-victory-explains-federal-employee-wrongdoing
I suspect the conspirators at the top (for institutional reasons) found eager supporters in the rank and file (for political reasons).
Thanks.
this is pretty much what I needed it boiled down to.
My plow buddy today.We’ve got about half a foot so far, should be a foot by midnight.
+1 Mr. Plow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYXEt7xOh1M
Aussie?
Mookie is mostly Border Collie. Blue Merle or something. His mom looks like a normal collie, just thicc.
My girlfriend things he’s an aussie, too, though.
Looks just like a friend’s Aussie. Fun dog!
He’s hilarious and gets upset when I plow without him. Today he literally jumped up and over my back as I reached to turn the heater on while I was warming the truck up.
Funny, I have a mini-Aussie that has Border Collie like colors and markings, just a little more hair. Her parents and most of the rest of the litter look like typical Aussies.
The truck is an 86 F250 for those that are wondering!
I see you have the same headliner droop as my wife’s ’84 F150.
Yeah, I’m too lazy to fix it. Maybe in the summer?
I just removed hers. The cloth was glued to a foam backing that was disintegrating and blowing all over the cab like the dandruff of 50 dogs. We got an aftermarket headliner to replace it, but the holes for the sun visors don’t quite line up and I’ve been too lazy to modify it. Maybe this summer as well…
The headliner isn’t touching my head when I’m in the truck, so I haven’t been annoyed enough to really do anything.
IIRC, back then many American car companies were using a water-based glue for the headliners, which is really stupid. I think it may have been 3M’s fault, but I don’t remember the details.
Stupid, but presumably met EPA VOC regulations until 3M developed suitable products.
We got around 7″ so far and there’s god damn rain falling and my snow thrower is not turning over. God DAMMIT. Expect to be shoveling saturated snow for a couple hours before bed.
That sucks.
the rain won’t help at all. ours has been pretty light so far.
I wouldn’t care so much if my snow thrower didn’t go tits up on today of all days. It’s my own damn fault, poor maintenance and all.
It turned over to rain/sleet pretty early here. I started my driveway done right around the changeover. I expect all the roads will be ice skating rinks tomorrow.
Yeah it’s gonna suck balls. I’m glad I bought studded snow tires this year.
I use Nokian Hakkapeliittas non-studded tires for the winter. I like them.
Insider look at my life.
Which one are you?
i’m this one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw
Is there a way you can become a hermit and stop interacting with people, yet still continue your work?
Only in Libertopia I’m afraid
I can’t find a good summary, but look up Czeslaw Milosz’s description of “ketmans” in late 1940s Poland….
I’m saving up for a yurt deep in the forest. That should help significantly. I just need Amazon to hurry up with the drone delivery program so I can have my groceries delivered without need to allow a human past my moat.
The Youtube comments gave me cancer.
Youtube comments are generally written by people who’s insides are rotting away.
Preach!
insides are rotting away or subsist on on nightly dinners of Mt. Dew/chicken nuggets/microwaved Totino’s pizza rolls/moon pies. Potato/potatoh
I made it down to about the 10th one, before I developed a sharp pain behind my eye….
Ur all beta cux lolz
That’s impressive, I thought you had a natural immunity thanks to all the radioactive links you manage to safely post.
No one is immortal.
Sorry, I’m a Toaster, I can’t die
So you’re a cute, fake nerd girl? Naughty MLW!
Wait, if you don’t really care about comics enough to read them on a regular basis, but you also have no interest in drastically overhauling the system in your own image, what are you? Are you still a fake nerd girl, or does the lack of desire to slash and burn undo the fake part?
I can’t really answer. I used to read comics like Furry Freak Bros and R. Crumb’s Weirdo (with Peter Bagge) in my late teens / early twenties. Then I gave up and started watching animation, which was easier. Now, I’m old.
I was basically giving you a hard time. We all deserve one now and then.
And yet, dope will get you thru’ times of no money, better than money will get you thru’ times of no dope.
This is true.
I’m still reading all the story arcs I missed in the 90s comics, so I won’t notice how bad the modern stuff is for at least another 20yrs.
MALTHOOSEEUN KATASTROFEE!
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-good-life-sustainability-20180205-story.html
“If present trends continue…..”
Stopped reading. That statement invalidates everything that follows.
We have been hearing a cacophony of that horseshit nonstop for 220 years. Over and over it is discredited and disproven and the tiresome motherfuckers just won’t shut up. Geez
221st time’s the charm!
Trying Redemption High-Rye Bourbon. It was on sale and $2 less than my beloved Buffalo Trace. It was a poor decision.
I *hate* it when I try a new liquor and it falls short. I guess it’s just motivation to drink it that much faster.
Yeah, but it it more than makes up for the disappointment when you find something that exceeds expectations. It’s the yin and the yang of things. The ACs and the DCs.
I am officially on “Vacation.” I will be in the greater Chicago metropolitan area (Elmhurst, to be exact) by noon tomorrow. Unfortunately my evenings are booked, I have to stop my sister’s stupid/ungrateful, pig/children from burning down her husband’s house, but my afternoons will be spent searching out new and exciting places to eat/drink responsibly. Any suggestions from Chicago literate glibs much appreciated.
Vacation.
Damn you. I wanted to link that gem!!
I honestly think their bassist is above-par. Assuming she came up with her own lines.
Kathy Valentine.
I always loved the band, but they were a dysfunctional clusterfuck.
Didn’t age very well, either.
None of this is helping me find new and exciting places to eat lunch!!!!
Also The Bangles > The Gogos
Are you looking for Deep Dish with pineapple?
Shit. I was gonna suggest Miller’s Pub, but the web site tells me they are shut down for renovations.
Plenty of Chicagoans here, they’ll take care of you.
The Bangles were hotter than the Gogos, they weren’t better than them.
Jesus. I’ve been in several bands, and I understand how the admixture gets messed up sometimes,but whenever someone loses their legs, it’s time to leave.
This +1000.
The Map Room? Ive never been, but heard good things
It’s a bit out of the way, but I highly recommend Kimski in Bridgeport for some Polish/Korean food. Stop by Maria’s next door (attached, actually) and sample their phenomenal selection of beers.
http://kimskichicago.com
Bob Chinn’s Crab House in Wheeling
Reposting from dead thread, re the coming Dem response to the Nunez memo:
Its a trap and the Dems and the FBI have fallen into it. Set it for themselves, really.
After the Dems squawked about how dangerous memos examining how the FBI/DOJ goes about their business really are, they don’t have much ground to complain if this memo is redacted to meet the precise concerns that they voiced earlier. If they really did salt it with poison pills about sources and methods, well, they were just telling us that such things shouldn’t be published.
If the FBI/DOJ waves the memo through, then the Dems just flat don’t have anything to complain about. But the cherry on top is, if the FBI/DOJ waves the Dem memo through, then what we already know is confirmed – their “grave concerns” about the Nunez memo had nothing to do with sources and methods, and everything to do with how critical it was of them.
The FBI/DOJ also complained that the Nunez memo had “material omissions”, but they haven’t yet made any reply to the memo (one to Congress would be appropriate) stating what those omissions were and why they are material. They could give Congress such a memo and waive any objection to its release. That has its own dangers, though – whatever they say in their reply memo becomes fair game for verification.
I think they are fucked no matter what they do, because they were engaged in a criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights, and there’s no good way to turn that on their political enemies.
The man’s name is Devin Nunes, with an s.
Dammar. I had it the other way, and thought it looked funny.
“I think they are fucked no matter what they do, because they were engaged in a criminal conspiracy to violate civil rights, and there’s no good way to turn that on their political enemies.”
I’d like to believe this. But regardless of how guilty they are, they’ll have the media running interference for them and they’ll be furiously dissembling and muddying the water to distract the public. Your analysis is spot on, but the average voter doesn’t think about things that deeply. For all those reasons, I still have doubts that this will really have any negative effect on them in the immediate future. Sure, history books may mark it as a turning point of the US moving toward a police state, but I’d be surprised if more comes of it than that.
How are the cocktails and sunset over Gates Pass?
Kind of a plain sunset, for Tucson. Which is a pretty sunset anywhere else.
The G & T (Botanivore and Jack Rudy’sTonic) is excellent.
The only thing the Dems have going for them at this time, is that their voter base really are as dumb as they think they are. So no matter what happens, they don’t lose their voter base. Their concern should be that independents, which is now a majority, might start to get worried about this type of corruption.
They don’t know what to do. They only have one shtick and it isn’t working on trump. It’s like watching the school bully try his act on the new kid….who knows karate.
There is just not enough popcorn in the world
I turned on the tv this morning and there’s trump saying ‘ you know what’s? If you don’t pull your head out of your ass, stop fucking around and fix this immigration mess I am just gonna shut it down. We will just have a government shutdown. This is that important’
I heard ‘I’m not scared of you. Fix it or I’ll kick your ass’
The media has already dubbed this unimportant.
Rand Paul has some things to say about our longest war.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/07/sen-rand-paul-trump-s-military-parade-is-good-idea-if-bring-troops-home-from-afghanistan-first.html
***
Though the martial image of high-stepping soldiers is not one I tend to associate with our nation’s Founders’ distrust of a standing Army, I’m not against a victory celebration. So I propose we declare victory in Afghanistan, bring home our 14,000 troops and hold a victory parade.
We defeated the enemy in Afghanistan. We killed or captured the terrorists who planned, plotted, or aided in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. We killed the ringleader, Osama bin Laden. We disrupted the terrorists’ camps where they plotted and trained. We dislodged the Taliban government that aided and abetted bin Laden.
We just don’t know how to appreciate a good thing. A big part of our foreign policy failures is not knowing when and how to declare victory. So, why not a parade? Bring the troops home and declare the victory that should have been declared years ago.
***
Amen.
In other news, I spent several hours today in the rain and mud shooting an M16. Still beats death by powerpoint and endless paperwork.
Jeez, the comments over there…
What a monster! Instead of just rightly calling Trump out for this fascist idea, he uses it as a way to create a dialogue?! What a shitlord!
Come to think of it, we should just rotate out the enlisted guys in Afghanistan and replace them with the desk-jockey admirals and generals.
Amash said pretty much the same thing.
get your shocked faces ready
More US teens are rejecting ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ gender identities, a study finds
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/06/health/teens-gender-nonconforming-study-trnd/index.html
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More teenagers are identifying themselves with nontraditional gender labels such as transgender or gender-fluid, according to a new study.
The research, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found that almost 3% of Minnesota teens did not identify with traditional gender labels such as “boy” or “girl.” That number is higher than researchers expected. A UCLA study from a year ago estimated that 0.7% of teens identified as transgender.
…
Growing awareness and visibility surrounding transgender issues in recent years may make teenagers more comfortable with steering away from traditional gender labels, experts say.
***
Growing awareness and visibility surrounding transgender issues in recent yearsRealizing they can get sympathy and special treatment may make teenagers more comfortable with steering away from traditional gender labels, experts say.ding ding ding
Exactly. It’s not as if we don’t already know teenagers (or at least some #NotAllTeens) want to be different and special. Being a Goth or Stoner doesn’t cut it anymore, now they get to be “Male on Tuesdays, Female on Even Numbered days of the months, and a Trash Panda the rest of the time” Gender 34. Which wouldn’t even be a big deal except then it starts becoming “my precious baby is being DISCRIMINATED AGAINST in the locker room/choir/bathroom/pronoun usage” bullshit.
larf
Sweden: Dental hygienist proves child “refugees” are actually adults, gets fired
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/sweden-dental-hygienist-proves-child-refugees-are-actually-adults-gets-fired
***
“I would probably estimate that up to 80% of them were obviously adults. This can be seen, for example, on wisdom teeth that were fully grown — something that is only seen in adults,” Bernt says.
***
That is a horrible story.
Europe is so scared of being fascist it’s totally fascist about it.
elsewhere in yerp
Scottish police in 45-minute standoff with toy tiger
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Police in Scotland said officers responding to a report of a tiger in a cow shed engaged in a 45-minute standoff with what turned out to be a stuffed toy.
Officials with the North East Police Division shared a story with Facebook page UK Cop Humor detailing the Saturday night call-out to a farm in the northeast part of Scotland.
“The farmer has gone out to check his cows and discovered a tiger in the cow shed!” the post said. “Photographs of said tiger were sent to the control room and an expert sergeant confirmed it was definitely real.”
Multiple units responded to the farm and engaged the tiger in a stand-off from a safe distance.
“After some time a rather sheepish sounding sergeant comes on the air and declares that it was indeed a stuffed toy!” the Facebook post said.
***
That would never happen in America.
Here they’d have shot the toy tiger, the farmer, a random dog, and the 3 year old girl that lives next door.
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Embraces #MeToo Era
The issue’s staff, led by editor MJ Day and comprised of all women, took the magazine in a different direction last spring, even before the first shoe dropped when Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual misconduct last October, Vanity Fair‘s Erin Vanderhoof wrote in an exclusive feature about the issue on Wednesday.
Just serve me some tits and hold the leftist preaching please.
My Gramps (RIP), was a long term subscriber to SI and would always hide the swimsuit issue for me, because my Grandma thought it was bad (Italian-Catholic).
It’s why I like Q so much – almost like he’s channeling Gramps (one of the greatest men ever).
So thanks, Grandpa, thanks Q, and fuck off joyless assholes who want to stomp the good stuff.
Does anyone still give a fuck about Sports Illustrated, much less their swimsuit edition? Who even subscribes, much less bothers with that sub-softcore horseshit? Honestly, I’ve never understood it, and I was born in the 80s. What is the target audience here?
I want that helmet phone, dammit.
Didn’t they put Bruce Jenner on the last Swimsuit issue?
I crawl out for sushi one time during the afternoon links and you tulpa bitches start talking shit. Also I’m of mixed opinion about jalapeño slices on my rolls, sometimes it seems a little too much. Discuss…
Wut? That sounds nasty.
Jalepeno with a cream cheese roll isn’t half bad. It’s terrible on almost everything else.
You guys need to stop calling that stuff “sushi”. Fusion is fine, but it’s not “sushi”.
So what you’re saying is that it’s cultural appropriation?
More like postmodern rejection of objective truth.
Jalapeño and sushi should never share a plate.
Jalapenos are spicy; wasabi is spicy. One kind of spicy is as good as another I say.
The active ingredient is the same: capsaicin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin#Food
Horseradish and wasabi’s active chemistries derives from thioglucosides. Water-soluble unlike capsaicin – which is why the heat dissipiates quicker.
They tickle the sinus and the cranium in a much different way.
While I can tell the difference between wasabi and “wasabi”, I have to say that the people who make the fake stuff do a pretty good job, considering that all they’re using is natural ingredients.
That would be vegetable sushi, wouldn’t it?
Candied jalepeno for the fruit sushi.
I generally do not like when chefs use jalapeño in Asian cuisines. Just doesn’t tend to taste right, especially not Japanese.
Depends on the rest of the roll. I can see it as part of a Vegas roll.
Hillary hitman > State Department > Some British ex intelligence officer > FBI > FISA court. “I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case. Full stop. Period.” ~Obama.
That is going to turn out to be as true as, “I did not have sex with that woman.”
I’m just glad they’ll never have to build that other wing on the Clinton Presidential Library.
Like herself would have accepted “a wing”. I’m guessing that the minute she had won, she was going to divorce Bill, marry Huma, and start planning the Rodham presidential library.
“If you like your plan, you can keep it”?
Depends on your definition of “it”.
Is that like the definition of V?
Gotta give our overlords credit for this. *Bows deeply*
I got a 5 star review!
“They get the job done right the first time.
I can’t say enough good things about A+ Air Conditioning Corporation. I’ve used them for quite awhile and I find them to be very courteous and dependable. Bob is just excellent, he’s a professional who knows exactly what he’s doing. I continue to use their service because they’re not outrageously expensive, they do the job right the first time and that’s the most important part. They’re great and I plan on reusing A+ Air Conditioning.”
Nice bit of faint praise there. “Not outrageously expensive”.
But still waaaay better than “Sux Balls. Wouldn’t use again”.
Waaaay better than ‘he’s really cheap’.
Don’t want that shit.
Trust is as important as Money/price, we show up when they need us, not when it’s convenient for us.
We don’t advertise, maybe we should, but Word of mouth travels well
So … your real name isn’t “Yusef”?
I haz a sad. I always used you as an example when people say “There are no moderate muslims”.
No, it comes from Yusef Adama, Father of William, the Commander of Galactica
I’m a skinny white guy
But about the more important matter, do you drive a Kia?
Word of mouth in the service world destroys advertising.
Be proud of your price, publicize your happy customers and get it done!
We are actually Cheap for our area, but small enough to pay attention our Customers needs,
Thanks Tundra!
I have been a small business dude my whole career. Nothing makes me happier than seeing guys like you kill it.
I don’t like to shit on other Companies, but most other Companies are Shit, I just don’t name them
A reputation for doing the job correctly is the #1 driver in fields like yours Yusef. Congratulations.
Publilius Syrus
I did get a bad Review from a Sub customer who went on to call me for his Home, which I fixed, and he got a Fair bill, and was happy, but the bad review remains…..
You forgot to strap a pound and a half of haddock around the air handler?
I should of strapped round his Head
.
As our wise elders have pronounced many times over, “You can have it fast, cheap and good – pick two.”
Wretchard,
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/world-wears-wire/
NAZI HITLER! KILL DARKIES! I HATE MUSLIMS!
/ Come get me slavers!
The loophole the NSA is closing, as first reported by the New York Times, falls under the 702 provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Yet they renewed it the day before a handful of this SHTF. Gawd do it hate politics.
Don’t I know the Rangers suck. And here’s Lundqvist pulled – again.
Think he’s talking about my Rangers, the one who throw balls and don’t skate. I’ll make the same plea though, their rotation is special needs, please don’t rub in their awfulness.
And what the hell happened to Lundqvist? Dude stood on his head against my Stars and almost beat them singlehandedly. Is he this inconsistent?
Gotta admit I was drawing a blank on that. I know zip about baseball.
Yes, Lundqvist is extremely inconsistent but keeps getting the royal treatment for some reason I can’t guess at. OTOH the rest of the team is kind of shit too so it’s not all – or even mostly – his fault.
Texas Rangers, the Dallas baseball team. Since he mentions spring training, I think that’s who he’s talking about.
Stupid question… why isn’t it the “Dallas Rangers”?
So they can have the same name as the law enforcement agency “Texas rangers” I think.
Huh. That’s not creepy.
I have the same question about several other teams that eschew their locality’s name for the state. Bothers me for some reason.
The New York Stop and Frisks.
The DC SWATS.
The California ICE.
The Chicago Nickel Riders
The Seattle BOHICAs
Colorado Avalanche, Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Coyotes. There are a bunch of them. On the plus side the California Angels changed their name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for a while, so they agree with you.
At least the Patriots only play in the general vicinity of Boston – they get a pass.
He’s not exactly being helped by his defense.
In fact, do the Rangers have any defensive pairs, or did they just decide to play like every game is 3 on 3 and hope for the best?
Henrik’s one of those players who I’d love to see win a Cup one day, just so long as it isn’t for his current team (see: Bourque, Raymond)
Relevant associated tweet
Ugh 1:6. One to forget.
Because he plays at MSG.
I still believe that if Brodeur had played for an Original Six team we’d never have gotten the trapezoid.
Another entry for the Derponomicon:
Of course, it’s Ithaca and therefore the students are marinated in a deep vortex of prog stupidity even more extreme than the usual but still.
Try actually acting? make the role, whiny brats
I’m curious to know who she expected to play the role of the “Romani gypsy” – there probably aren’t many of those in Ithaca.
And then they canceled the play, right? It’s that one? fuck all of them for being spineless cowards just cuz this chick thinks she’s a gypsy I guess?
Yup.
It really is a case of dividing the world into wypipo (boo!) and everyone else (yay!). It’s so bizarre and tiresome.
You get used to it. I don’t even see the code. It’s blonde, brunette, institutional racism.
Romanians are African American?
Oh, now you’ve done it.
I’ve heard that people suffering from PTSD have a feeling that what is happening to them can’t be real, like you’re living in a world created by your own imagination. Trump’s election feels unreal to me and I’m not suffering from TDS, so I can’t imagine how deeply it has effected the people who had all this emotional connection to seeing him lose. Watching the two sides waging war on each other is like watching Rashomon where half the characters are on bad LSD trips.
You have been in Japan almost 20 years, why give a shit? you should enjoy not being here
I’m rubbernecking a slow mo train wreck from a distance and I am enjoying it.
🙂 the best thing you can do..
OT – The snow is relentless. I’ve just spent two hours clearing my drive way and I’m 2/3 done. I have to once more unto the breach and then go to work. I’m tired enough to start getting giddy, or dropsy. Wait, which is the good one?
Drunk.
http://5newsonline.com/2018/02/07/handgun-found-in-alma-students-vehicle/
Damn it, thus shouldn’t be news. I went to a school of equal size and about 30 minutes away from alma. It was only 12 years ago I was a senior in high school and this was common place and not even a violation of the rules.
The student involved was removed from campus and will be dealt with in accordance with school policy and state law, officials also said.
Up against the wall, Kiddo. You know the punishment for posing danger to people.
“No threats were made and no students were in danger at any time.”
You’re still fucked kiddo. The .22 could have killed somebody and you had it locked in the trunk of your car. Imagine if it would have escaped.
It was boy, right? He brought his cock to school, I’ll assume. Imagine all the rapes that could’ve happened.
In all seriousness, it’s fucking stupid that this is a crime. In the early 2000’s when I was in high school guns in vehicles were common as dirt and not a rule or law violation. Thus kid is probably going to end up expelled for doing something that was the norm just 12 years ago. It’s stupid.
Absolutely. I grew up in Northern Wisconsin in the 70’s. We’d go small game hunting straight after school. Probably 10~20% of boys would have their rifles in their cars while they were in class. Not one fucking shooting at our high school in all the years I lived in that town. Wonder what it’s like in Chicago, DC or Detroit. The gun grabbers are exactly wrong on what causes these shootings.
Guns Kill People! people don’t kill People!
I watched ‘The Cloverfield Paradox‘ because 1) I was bored 2) I’m already paying for Netflix 3) Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd) was in it. I’ve never seen the other Cloverfield movies, though I am aware of their content.
First thought: Although we are not sure which dimension (the paradox is about multiple dimensions colliding) this takes place in, the geopolitics is all wrong. Unless it is a world with vastly different resource reserves than our own, the geopolitics as presented don’t make sense.
Second thought: The device they are activating on this space station is referred to as a particle accelerator, not a fusion generator, but is for all purposes treated as a fusion device but the scientific points brought into concern are those related to the LHC.
Third thought: Not dealing with the science of the power generation itself, the transmission problem is never addressed.
Fourth thought: Why would they ever bother with atmospherics and eliminating the vacuum conditions to get a collider to work? Not to mention the gravity generation even in parts of the station that are as damaged as some of the circumstances present.
Fifth thought: The crew of this space station is made up members from (as far as I can tell) India, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and China. Everyone speaks english, except the crewman from China. I’m sure this was done to pander to the asian market and show how inclusive the cast is. But in this scenario, it comes across more that the Chinese crew member was too dumb to learn english. Everyone else speaks english to eachother, and speaks chinese to her. So the other crewmembers speak 2 languages (and also I’m assuming their own native tongue for the members from non-english speaking nations) but the chinese one can only speak english? Racist much?
Now that the nerd parts are out of the way. The cinematography was good. The production values were good. The performances were good. The story kept me mostly engaged. If you’re already paying for Netflix, you might as well watch it, just try to shut off yer brain. I can’t, but maybe you can.
Fifth thought: The crew of this space station is made up members from (as far as I can tell) India, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland and China and the US. Everyone speaks english, except the crewman from China. I’m sure this was done to pander to the asian market and show how inclusive the cast is. But in this scenario, it comes across more that the Chinese crew member was too dumb to learn english. Everyone else speaks english to eachother, and speaks chinese to her. So the other crewmembers speak 2 languages (and also I’m assuming their own native tongue for the members from non-english speaking nations) but the chinese one can only speak
englishchinese? Racist much?The voice of Siri can be set to US, British, or Australian accents. Why is an Australian accent acceptable but not say a more northerly Asian accent?
Because Aussie accents are endearing and Northerly Asian accents are nasal and harsh?
Cool trailer. Sounds like that paper cutter sound bite they used in the opening to Inside Edition back in the day.
Welp, if they’re planning on a big chunk of their market being Mainland China viewers, the story doesn’t need to make any sense, can be completely idiotic and still produce fat receipts.
I binged China Uncensored a while back and ever since have trouble suspending disbelief any time something obviously meant to appeal to the ChiComs is worked in. Starting to ruin movies.
THE Ohio State University just took out Purdue, and is currently #1 in the Big Ten.
And THE University of Dayton won, too.
Tres goes to bed quite happy.
Reposting because it’s buried upthread in the subthread about Betsy Devos:
She’ll tease you
She’ll unease you
Just to please you
She’s got Betsy Devos eyes
She’ll expose you
When she snows you
She knows you, she’s got Betsy Devos Eyes
I remember that song. My sister and I listened to Billboard’s top songs of the year near New Year’s Eve when that one came out, and we were very disappointed that Betty Davis Eyes won the top spot.
We were just kids. But we were right about the song sucking.
Tonight’s the first time I’ve listened to it, that I remember, for years. It wasn’t great. But, it was good enough that decades later, when I first heard Betsy Devos’ name, that line instantly popped into my mind.
The other day, the hubs and I stumbled on a playlist of 80s songs on Youtube and let it go on and on. There was some pretty awful stuff in there, but we laughed at the memories, and man, some of that shit is still stuck in our heads today.
Earworms.
I came of age in the 90s. Nowhere around here plays 90s rock. If you want that you have to listen to lots of 90s pop. I’m trying to figure out how to make this into a business proposal to my bosses at the radio station. I mean, we could all use some more Collective Soul on the radio.
90’s Alternative is getting airplay on what used to be the classic rock station around here.
I remember watching that video on MTV in 1994. *sigh*
Oh well, here my favorite Collective Soul song – https://youtu.be/E3fiX2L79gs
Here’s my fave Collective Soul song.
My hubs did Shine one time at church when he guest led the worship service, with some minor lyrical alterations.
One time, the pastor was doing a sermon series based on requests from the congregation. We got to a Sunday set aside for Satan, Tempation, and Hell sermon & questions, and my hubs drew the short straw and had to do the music that Sunday.
Among other tunes, he performed the Rolling Stones “Sympathy for the Devil”
People loved it.
Down underneath that is Collective Soul performing The World I Know this past December. Grey/white hair. Now I feel even older.
The first 10 seconds of this Collective Soul song has been the ringer on my cell phone for 10+ years.
Hey ‘Splosives; you ever heard this ‘Soul tune?
*That moment when you realize you are posting in a dead thread*
SMDH
Olympic
embarrassmentsuccess: Japan falls way short in banning public smoking ahead of 2020 GamesProhibition works so well, though!!
“Hasegawa of the lung cancer patient group deplored such a move.”
Having freedom killed me.