Her Buttholiness Shall Save Us All
“Hunger Games” star Lawrence revealed her plans while promoting her latest movie “Red Sparrow,” sharing with Entertainment Tonight her ambitions to “fix” democracy in America while she takes a Hollywood hiatus.
“I’m going to take the next year off,” Lawrence outlined. “I’m going to be working with this organization as a part of (anti-corruption organization) Represent.US… trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with partisan (politics). It’s just anti-corruption and stuff trying to pass state by state laws that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy.”
“I couldn’t give a shit if the whole street collapsed”
Police have arrested a woman after an abusive note was left on an ambulance demanding it park somewhere else during a 999 call.
Paramedics were left disgusted by the note, which stated ‘I couldn’t give a s**t if the whole street collapsed’, following an incident in Tunstall.
The crew was also verbally abused while attempting to deal with the incident, which occurred at around midday yesterday.
Now a 26-year-old Tunstall woman has been arrested for public order offences.
An organization that provided–on average–37 condoms to each competing athlete, must do something about all these already adjudicated sexual harassment claims!
Why the IOC should see Shaun White as a warning sign
Putting sexual abusers or harassers on pedestals, however, contributes to a more terrible world. Turning such people into idols suggests that sexual misconduct isn’t such a big deal and that it’s possible to get away with it. That’s an unconscionable message to send to people around the world.
Ultimately, as the organization in charge of the Olympic Games, the IOC should take responsibility for deciding who is in violation of sexual misconduct policies, rather than directing countries and sports leagues to solve the problem. If the IOC sets standards of conduct, then find reasonable evidence that they’ve been violated, they should be the ones to take action to remove that athlete’s privilege of competing.
The IOC should therefore develop a policy disallowing the participation of athletes who are found to have ever committed sexual harassment or abuse.
Any athlete participating in the Olympics should have to sign a disclosure form indicating whether they have ever formally been charged with or accused of abuse, including in a lawsuit or through criminal charges. If the answer is yes, the IOC should investigate immediately to determine the validity of the charges.
If an investigation reveals the accusations are valid, the athlete should be automatically disqualified. Questions such as those about the allegations against White shouldn’t be considered or addressed only after an athlete has won a medal.
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! BOTH OF THEM!
And a song. I didn’t forget the song.
Oh goody. More democracy.
Clearly we need the direct election of Supreme Court Justices, the 17th ammedment didn’t go far enough.
We need another Constitutional amendment. We can call it the Corruption Bad and No More Gorsuches Feels Amendment.
“A woman’s place is in the revolution.”
Pitchers have a revolution not catchers.
This is gonna blow your mind, but the New England Revolution soccer team is composed exclusively of catchers.
Was kind of hoping for a “and Morris Day, too.”
Good actress, but she’s not too bright. She was complaining one time about the age disparity between actors and actresses.
Completely ignoring that she’s been in about 300 films with Bradley Fucking Cooper, who’s quite a bit her senior. I guess she should have foregone those part.s
Can we have someone like Jodie Foster walk behind her, and whisper “you’re just an actor” in her ear?
As always, Rush has the answers:
Geddy Lee: I think the last thing we expected was to find were fans at the airport ~ it’s not like we’re Justin Timberlake or anything like that.
(laughs)
Listen we’re musicians, it’s not really that noble a pursuit.
Does it count as “taking a break” when the guy who got you parts has been blackballed?
Thanks for the annual revisit to the Washington song. Fuck those British children.
Was wondering if that’s how long it takes to find a new sugar daddy or if she has just hit her expiration date.
That song and video are funny.
I have been awake for many, many hours in a row. My sleep clock is all fucked up.
I am sitting here, one minute left at work and I can go home. I require alcohol. This is the longest 60 seconds of the day.
End transmission.
I’ve been up since 4:30 am. That happens most mornings and I’m not a morning person, but sort of getting used to it now.
I was too but managed to go back to sleep for a bit.
I”m in the same boat. It took my quite a while to get used to it.
On second thought, I’m not sure if I am used to it yet since I have zero problems sleeping until 9am on weekends.
So immediately after playing a Russian spy she decides to take a year off to help democracy…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PmUL6wMpMWw
God. The fake Russian accents are not good at all. Two thumbs down.
“fix” democracy in America
Meaning “Elect Democrats to office”.
trying to pass state by state laws that can help prevent corruption
More laws may facilitate corruption.
Yeah, but it is the sort of corruption democrats like (it favors them), so it is totes cool..
I think there really is a belief out there that no matter what kind of corrupt, blatantly anti-Constitutional shit the Democrats do, it’s fine because every Republican is literally Hitler.
I guess that’s what you get when you use utilitarianism as a stand-alone moral philosophy.
I submit the Obama years as exhibit A. Can you imagine a republican doing what Obama not only did, but had defended and got away with, and not being impeached?
Links already, nice.
Love the format.
I don’t know this Tom Woods guy but he should go first…with STEVE SMITH and the Doomcock taking turns.
Tom Woods is one of the members of the Lew Rockwell, paleoconservative, anarcho-Austrian wing of the libertarian movement.
His statement is kind of surprising, considering he is a devout Catholic.
Ummmm….isn’t the guy in the article named Tom Ford?
lOoK wHo rEaDs the LinKs
I believe Jay Z must agree…. https://genius.com/Jay-z-tom-ford-lyrics
You people are such killjoys
It would be surprising if he said that. Fortunately he didn’t. The article is about a guy named Tom Ford claiming that.
I feel like a bullet in the gun of Tom Ford.
Vice: should every man be penetrated once in his life?
Vice is advocating for prostate exams. How thoughtful.
According to Tom Woods you’re not a real woman until you’ve been rammed up the butt.
Where’s the wife, wait until I tell her…
Once again….article clear says “Tom Ford”…..I highly doubt Tom woods advocated manditory anything
I heard you the first time. I made a mistake, so crucify me.
Libel someone whom I consider one of the best libertarians out there, twice, get corrected, twice.
You must be a fun person to hang out with.
Judge Wapner at 8.
Excellent. I’ll bust out my Hawaiian shirt.
I like woods quite a bit. He’s a good one.
He’s by far my favorite podcast on the net. Can you imagine him on CNN?
He wouldn’t be able to get a word in.
Boberson is filling in for UCS.
It’s funny how you could predict the answers by their pictures.
STEVE SMITH APPROVE
I had this done to me a few months ago. By a woman doctor. Who is good looking.
#metoo
Did it move?
His prostate fought back. Anal nature, red in tooth and claw.
Red in hemor and rhoid?
It was the mango.
I had it done to me about a year ago. By a portly middle aged male doctor. 0/10. Would not recommend.
By a woman doctor. Who is good looking.
Sure, that’s how they get you started.
Ask Stiffler..
+1 gateway finger
Mine was 2 years ago, and I am told I am due again…
Has the cute young intern due it at my doctor’s practice after she told me the option was her with her dainty hands or my dock with the huge fingers. I told her usually this sort of stuff involved dinner and some talking first in my experience, and going straight to it felt like I was kind of cheated of that opportunity, which she didn’t appreciate much, but hey. I had a good laugh…
You’ll usually find a late-20’s Chive-worthy Nurse Practitioner is usually a bit more likely to find banter like that funny. I can say this from experience.
Your English intrigues me. (Due, Dock)
Multitasking (have to do work sometimes) and not proof reading can lead to crappy structure and misspelled crap. While I apologize, I admit that I have an excuse however. My education was in electrical and aerospace engineering, these days I spend my time writing software for a living, and I have never claimed to be an English major. I will try to put more effort into making sure I do better for those that put that much stock in writing/reading.
We joke, but it’s no joke. If you’re of a certain age, man the fuck up and get it over with. I know a couple of men who’s lives were saved because they caught that shit early. A little bit of discomfort and embarrassment vs. continuing to walk the earth for many more.
“I’m going to take the next year off,” Lawrence outlined. “I’m going to be working with this organization as a part of (anti-corruption organization) Represent.US… trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level.”
Good luck with that, cupcake.
Doing her advocacy anonymously and quietly is obviously out of the question.
The funny parts of it are, first, ending corruption. So this shit has been going on for … ever, and she’s going to end it in one year all by herself and some silly millennials, in a year? Yeah, that’s totally going to happen. The other part is about it being non-partisan. Nothing in politics is non-partisan, it’s going to be one big lefty SJW emo love fest. And I love these meaningless terms like ‘fix our Democracy’. She should definitely go into politics. That can be her slogan.
Who are we kidding?
She’s doing it because Trump is literally Hitler.
Not to mention that anti-corruption efforts work at cross-purposes with big-government efforts. It is difficult nearing impossible to increase the size/scope of government while decreasing corruption in government. All organizations and governments face the threat of corruption, but the greater wealth and power an organization has the greater the probability of it being corrupted. Government, being naturally the most powerful and often the most wealthy organization in an area, will attract/spawn the most corruption.
I was thinking just the other day how we need more children in politics that have minimal to no experience getting reamed by IRS withholdings and running a household.
When you have people taking care of those things for you it frees you up to think deep thoughts.
Who knows maybe she wants to fix democracy like that Italian girl who went around the country giving men who voted No on the referendum a blowjob
Mario Cuomo?
Where my sportsball gone?
You and you foozball and all you fancy foozball friens.
+1 Roy Orbison Tattoo
+2 Vicky Valencourt boobies.
-1 Vicky Valencourt face.
Would both.
The NFL is over, there are no big tennis events right now and the Wildcats suck (but not as much as Duke always does.)
Hehehe. My team is going to beat the shit out of the wildcats tomorrow night.
Probably. No on-court communication, no clutch play, only one player per game doing well. It’s a shitshow. UK fans are now at the Cleveland Browns point of hoping we do bad enough to not lose that many players to the draft and we can field a team of “veterans” next fall.
What? Not ready to run Calipari out of the state on a rail?
After Gillespie The Drunk and our evident delight at UofL’s off-court scandals, we are less prone to quick calls for banishment.
I was honestly surprised he survived the “I care more about getting them draft ready than winning in the tourney” comment.
Plus, ummm, he is paid to do the latter.
Until something is put in place to disincentivize one-and-done, that attitude brings in more top players. He seems to be admitting what everyone without stars in their eyes already knows: the NCAA is just a feeder league for the NBA and nothing more to the top players. The “education,” the misty-eyed paeans to the selflessness of amateur athletics, the risible collegiate experience… none of that matters if you blow your knee out in your junior year and you never get that NBA money.
Calipari is breaking the game down to its capitalist core and I like it.
That is fine, but UK should be capitalist and tell him they want wins and don’t care if their players make the NBA or not. It is not their, and shouldn’t be his, concern. Of course, as an education institution, they are forced in to playing along as he is developing them for their post-U careers.
That’s the thing though: He is getting the wins. He he the most wins, most final fours, and as many championships as anyone except K since he got to UK, and was a missed defensive assignment away from another final four and possible championship last year. 1 year of having the kids (hopefully) buy in late doesn’t change that. It does hurt him that he had no upperclassmen to get the new guys in line, but most of this class wasn’t expected to go one and done, anyway. I hope this doesn’t sound ranty, but it annoys me to no end that there are UK fans — not saying you– who would want to run off the best coach we could get, so it’s kind of a touchy subject for me. It’s sad and hilarious that there are fans that don’t think we should ever have any kind of rebuilding year, especially if they were fans through the Tubby and Gillespie years.
Sloopy couldn’t do the links because he’s on suicide watch and can’t be allowed access to the internet.
I noted that game last night, not that I could possibly care less about who won.
Meh. It’s basketball, the lesser B1G sport.
Thicc: Ashley Graham embraces cellulite in a string bikini for SI’s swimsuit issue
Johnpron.
THICC
One o them things where it is not objectification if she be fat?
The whaling boat was cropped out of the pic
That be some serious axx..
Totally would.
We’re gonna need a bigger magazine.
Winner.
It’s funny because thin people can have cellulite.
There’s been a sort of dearth of good derp lately. Not much going on. Trump tweets mean stuff about Oprah. I wonder if he called her fat?
‘I’d beat fat Oprah just like I beat crooked Hillary’.
He said they’re laughing their asses off in Moscow on Facebook.
The Russians are laughing because Oprah is fat?
Apparently I can’t communicate tonight. No, you mentioned the dearth of good derp. Trump said the Russians are laughing their asses off at US investigations.
During a debate with Oprah I picture Trump wheeling out a pig on a spit to distract her.
A cart full of desserts.. Bitch would go bonkers and charge it..
Lol. If at the start of the debate he did an Oprah impression with a free give-away of ice cream that would be epic level troll. “You get two scoops! And you get two scoops! Everybody gets two scoops!”
I’m too lazy to go back on derpbook and track these down, but paraphrasing:
and
Couple ‘died in car while having sex after turning engine on to keep warm’
Maybe suicide
Naked suicide
If you’re going to go…
Suicide is painless
The Ramones?
Did you know your vagina can rock and roll in a wig?
obviously not a reply – or is it?
I thought it was called a merkin.
God bless ‘Merikinnn
I had a friend who named his cat that, because it’d get up on your lap and snuggle d …. well, you get the idea.
That’s hilarious. Is he single? Because I already love his sense of humor.
Single guy with cat?
RED FLAG.
I haven’t heard from him in years. He was in his 60’s about 20 years ago, and had a girlfriend that looked like Audrey Hepburn from the “Italian Holiday” period.
I visited him once with a girlfriend of mine at the time who he had diagnosed as being a bit of a prude, so (as I found out later) he deliberately had a porn video running on the TV at the other end of the lounge, so while we were talking, she was being constantly distracted by a guy with a really mammoth appendage servicing multiple women.
A proto-shitlord if ever there was one.
Whoops. Roman Holiday
Thinking it’s a good idea to turn on a car in a closed garage…I’m surprised those two lived as long as they did.
If it were a Tesla this would’ve never happened. DAMN YOU FOSSIL FUELZ!
There’s a whole lot of derp behind this plan, but not the least of which is the fact that there are very different notions as to what constitutes sexual assault and harassment among the various nations and athletes that participate in the Olympics.
IT’S NEVER OK
her latest movie “Red Sparrow,”
Which looks like another remake of la Femme Nikita, from the ads.
I liked the French and American versions. Not the USA show with the dead-eyed blonde.
It’s basically Black Widow. I’m surprised the Mouse didn’t sue the crap out of them.
SF with the perfect links. Brief yet informative without any 80’s popstars.
SF never gonna let you down.
Yeah, but the never gonna hurt you part might be a lie.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with partisan (politics). It’s just anti-corruption and stuff trying to pass state by state laws that can help prevent corruption, fix our democracy.”
Why don’t these ‘anti-corruption” campaigners go to places like Zimbabwe, or Venezuela, or Palestine? Could it be that they realize they really will get dumped in a shallow grave by a government death squad if they start preening their feathers in a place with real corruption?
Trickle down justice. It all begins with a Top Man.
Oh, we have real corruption, it just doesn’t involve death squads, unless you mean the cops. Anyway, this little girl and the little twerps she hangs out with are sure not going to do anything about it, they just want to play grownups and signal to each other.
“I’m going to be working with this organization as a part of (anti-corruption organization) Represent.”
She’s going after the Clinton foundation! Finally someone brave enough to stand up to the corruption.
If only…
I’m tired. Tired of playing the game. Ain’t it a crying shame.
I’m so tired. God dammit I’m exhausted.
Tired, tired of playing the game. Ain’t it a crying shame
I’m so tired
Huh….Poland just closed.
Any athlete participating in the Olympics should have to sign a disclosure form indicating whether they have ever formally been charged with or accused of abuse, including in a lawsuit or through criminal charges. If the answer is yes, the IOC should investigate immediately to determine the validity of the charges.
“Are you now, or have you ever been….?”
TW: The Guardian
Does my boyfriend’s masturbation style prevent him orgasming during sex?
lol
Check under the sheet, honey. There’s a dakimakura
Since 8? I think your boyfriend may be some other kind of mammal.
EVEN STEVE SMITH START SOMEWHERE
Why are these 2 sex offenders not in jail?
Well, at least him. Bad sex is a crime now, right?
According to the date I basically wished a good evening and then left by herself after she pointed this crazy concept out, you are correct…
How should I broach the subject of him abstaining from masturbation and maybe changing his technique?
Introduce him to the death grip (not the Death Grips though).
They put Manson to music? We are all going to hell.
“it’s such a vulnerable position to be in, and it’s such a passive position to be in.
Power bottoms hardest hit.
Power bottoms hit hardest.
Did you just flip my joke over on it’s stomach?
Just once.
Hit power bottoms hardest
How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives Online
The media just won’t give up. Russian’s everywhere!
The Russians are probably right here on this very website… thankfully you can tell who they are by the shifty eyes.
::looks suspiciously left and right::
О нет, меня поймали! Инициировать план красный! ФБР, если вы читаете это, это шутка.
Slav scum is everywhere, you can never be to careful
Well most of you already believe that reptiles walk amongst you…
Look don’t go confusing reality with insane conspiracy theories.
Believe? It’s a known fact that lizard people walk amongst us.
Not lizard people! Lizards with human suits!
Also yes
Clearly since Americans really are so pliable as to be completely flipped by a Russian online hypnotist-trolls, suffrage should be walked back a bit, right?
and only $2M spent. It’s obvious the Russians should be hired as political consultants if they can flip an election with such minimal funds.
Now that should be the public financing option.
Especially one where herself is rumored to have spent close to a billion dollars…
I used to think that people couldn’t be tricked by Russians. But then a good chunk of people were tricked into thinking Russia hacked the election. So now my esteem of humanity is that much lower.
This^ Lately, I am far more driven to want to leave this country because of the vast sea of assholes than the island of stupidity that is Trump.
Shorter-
Anyone who forms their political opinions from what they read on Facebook is an idiot.
Just an opinion not a fact. From my experience people post and share things on FB, just to confirm their own view point.
Posted a response to a friend’s mom on why I think gun control is wrong, and why I like the ability to have guns. I said that the right to own guns is a natural right we receive from our inherent humanity. Apparently this is the same argument slave owners used, therefore I am racist? In response, I pointed out that it has never been right to own people, and that an inanimate object is not the same as a person.
You could point out that your statement was actually that of the abolitionists. Her argument, that their is no natural right to own guns, was used by white supremacists and former slave owners to guns out of the hands of blacks as the foundation of gun control. An aim and effect that is still being successfully carried out to this day.
Desire for gun control is one of those few areas where accusations of racism are indeed correctly applied.
“Why do you have the same attitude about guns as 19th century slave owners and architects of Jim Crow laws? They didn’t like black people to have guns because that would make them easier to control.”
I’m not that mean, although at this point I should be.
Why is historical truth ‘mean’?
And to virtue signal.
Look how woke I am, y’all
Kara Alaimo, an assistant professor of public relations at Hofstra University, is the author of “Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication.” She was spokeswoman for international affairs in the Treasury Department during the Obama administration.
Yeah, okay. Where’s my sammich?
DENNIS KUCINICH VOWS TO END ALL OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN OHIO IF ELECTED GOVERNOR, AND THEN TAKE THE INDUSTRY TO COURT. *All caps, sigh*
THE MAN WHO saved Cleveland — and paid the ultimate political price for it — now wants to do the same for Ohio.
Saved it from what? Economic prosperity?
The Caracas of the Midwest.
Clevelanders have been hanging their toilet paper out to dry for years.
Duh. Why do you think their football team is called the Browns.
Speaking of Caracas, sucks to be Caracas’ neighbor…
Make Ohio Poor Again
Just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
“He would, for instance, utilize eminent domain to seize control of oil and gas wells throughout the state”
Well, it’s worked out well for Venezuela, may as well give it a try.
This would be worse than Venezuela. After stealing the oil companies, the Venezuelan government at least tried to keep the oil flowing. This genius wants to steal the Wells and then shut them down.
And, some people will vote for this.
We should instead seize public schools and shut them down. There, I just ended mass school shootings and the retardation epidemic in one swoop.
I bet he has a bunch of very well connected buddies that will make the idiots that still need electricity pay more than premium dollar for crappy and half assed alt tech, and get stinking rich in the process.
Don’t you have to prove some public need with eminent domain? This plan couldn’t even show increased tax collection. It will do nothing to slow oil production, cause other places will just increase production or raise prices to meet demand.
I’m not afraid of this nationalization actually happening, I’m afraid because there are late swaths of people who think it is moral.
“I’m going to take the next year off,” Lawrence outlined. “I’m going to be working with this organization as a part of (anti-corruption organization) Represent.US… trying to get young people engaged politically on a local level.”
In case you’re curious here is the organizations donors. Lot of Hollywood production companies.
https://represent.us/donor-list/
So ending tax-subsidized film production will be #1 on the agenda then, right?
To which they respond. Umm no we’re just a giant virtue signalling charity that does no real work.
“The Apatow-Mann Family Foundation, Inc.”
If it’s who I think it is…
lol.
It is. lol.
The Sixteen Thirty fund is a $100K+ donor. According to GuideStar, here is their mission statement:
Yep. Totes non-partisan.
Libertarians: We’re Not All Freaks, But No, It’s OK, I Totally Understand How You Got That Impression
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/965406097505845250
I would have thought the popehat twitter account better or at least funnier then that
Wayne Allyn Root. If it’s good enough for Waziristan, it’s good enough for us.
I’ve always felt that this should be the case, with regard to easy access to select-fire AK-47s.
Re Popehat’s account: It depends on who’s posting for the account, between Ken White and Patrick Non-White.
A new generation wrestles with the gender structure
Speaking of duties. My wife’s friend expects her sons to marry women who know how to cook. When my wife suggested that there’s a chance they won’t she replied, ‘yeh but would you want your daughter to marry someone who doesn’t cut the lawn?’
Your thoughts.
Make it good.
I’d rather he make enough money to have a lawn service.
I’d rather make enough to afford it myself.
Well, the original question starts on the basis that the woman should cook and the man mow the lawn. The woman making the money herself isn’t part of the questioner’s thought process.
If the mom-of-sons really wants to kick her boys in the rear, she should tell him his job isn’t to mow the lawn, but make so much money mowing the lawn becomes irrelevant.
I see no reason to concede the questioner’s premise.
I believe Rufus was looking for a snappy/snarky comeback.
I have it on good authority that millennials all live in lofts in Brooklyn so lawn care is a moot point.
everyone should be able to cook, they don’t have to do anything complex but it really isn’t hard at all. People don’t have to follow the gender roles but they should do something which many people these days don’t
My dad taught me how to cook and how to change the oil in the car. Basic life skills.
My wife could cook about 2 things* when we got married. Once we had kids and started being kid-poor and she started staying home, a natural division of labor arose. Wherein, she not only cooked a whole lot more, but also cut the lawn when she wanted the kids to be able to play in the back yard and I still had work to do. Since the beginning of the year, she’s been going up to help her mom every other weekend because her stepdad has cancer. I’ve done a shitload more cleaning and laundry than I usually do. Adults who love each other find a way to take care of the chores. Even if it means working more to hire a lawn guy or a cleaning person. (See how I only assumed 1 gender there?)
*However, she dated a culinary school guy for several years and has far superior knife skills
Can he not come over and cook?
Not anymore. He catered a mutual friend’s wedding. I would recommend him to anyone for catering. His, uh, other services were not what she was looking for.
I don’t get it.
American joke
HE’S GAY.
Removing making actual income, I do the DIY and yard work, and, when my son’s out tending his own lawn business, I mow the lawn. Husband did the laundry and kitchen till he trained the kids to do their own laundry and clean the kitchen. My (older) neighbors disapprove, but I like power tools and yard work, and despise cleaning with a passion and he despises DIY and yard work with a passion. Why should we be miserable?
Grass.
What’s the point? If it were up to me it would be all marble and racist gnome statues.
My husband wants to cement over the yard.
I like him already..
Asphalt and pea gravel FTW.
I’ve been thinking about this lately. There is no reason for young successful men to get married anymore. The women that are likely to marry will insist on them doing half the traditional female roles because fairness, while expecting him to continue to do all the traditional male role chores. With tinder and the milk on tap, why bother with marriage?
Men Going Their Own Way Likely high-population incels, but the sentiment is pervasive.
Yes, men really stand to gain nothing from marriage. In both a legal and cultural sense, it has been turned into an arrangement by which men serve women. The average person would probably assert that husbands have all kinds of financial, domestic, emotional, and sexual obligations in a marriage, but wives can basically do or not do whatever they want.
I’m not going to sit here and tell people what marriage is; that should be decided between the spouses and whatever authority (if any) they believe is in charge of marriage. But a committed relationship with a woman is one of the things that motivates men to become successful and be a contributing member of society. If marriage becomes a rotten deal for men, they are much more likely to “drop out” of society to some degree.
Loretta: Oh, Doo, I don’t need no book
to tell me what’s wrong.
You just need to be
a little more patient
and gentle with me,
honey, that’s all.
I just need a little more time.
Doolittle: Give you a little more time.
Well, let me add up
all these damn things
I’m supposed to give
you some more time on.
You need a little more time
to learn how to cook.
You need a little more time to
learn how to clean the damn house.
Plus you need
a little more time to learn
how to love your man
the way you’re supposed to.
Goddamn, is there anything that
you know how to do right now?
I agree to an extent. I don’t give a flying fuck whether the man or woman handles kitchen duty. Each half of any long term relationship should possess a level of skill that when applied to household duties they end up being divided somewhat equally. The shameful result feminist conditioning over that past half century is that the allegedly sexist knowledge of cooking and homemaking hasn’t been supplanted by any other skill or capability. There are scores of women out there that are almost completely helpless.
In the spirit of fairness, there also exist quite a few contemporary males with no noteworthy skill whatsoever.
Interesting. I think of it like this: it doesn’t matter who does was what in a relationship (cook, mow, etc.), But that both parties know that each takes responsibility. I wouldn’t say “don’t marry someone who doesn’t cook,” but rather, “don’t marry someone who doesn’t want to share in household responsibilities”.
I don’t get why your wife would expect her son-in-law to manscape. Or what that has to do with cooking.
Uffda. You Canadians perplex me.
Wife’s friend.
Most of my readings and anecdotal experience points to the opposite, Millennial women are increasingly going back to being homemakers, and both sexes desire a single income household. Having a two income household is much more difficult and they are wising up to the load of shit sold to them by feminists.
The Sneads’ son had asked whether his friend could move into their home last Thanksgiving. Cruz’s mother, who had adopted him, died of pneumonia Nov. 1, leaving him without parents. He stayed briefly with a family friend in the Lantana area but wanted to move on.
Cruz had some odd eating habits. He quietly put a chocolate chip cookie in his steak and cheese sandwich. He went to bed around 8 p.m., which wasn’t unusual.
In another sign Mueller’s investigation is going well for the Democrats, a Dem senator warns Mueller against issuing Russia report near 2018 election.
~~~edit fairy~~~
Your link has been Muellerified.
The old
OctoberDecember surprise. These Democrats are getting sneaky.Got to keep the narrative that Trump is under investigation up until the election.
Skirmish in Beijing over the nuclear football
Nice! I guess this is one upside to having an all-general cabinet.
This shit is worrisome.. If you wanted to start a nuclear war and prevent the other side from being able to respond, nothing would work better than preventing the nuclear football from being where Trump could get at it. Note that even a few minutes delay can spell the difference between being able to respond and thus deter, vs. letting some madman think they can get away with it. I am not saying that was Beijing’s plan, but the Chinese like to push and see how people respond, so they know what will happen when they do decide to act. I bet they did this to see if Trump’s admin was serious or not, and the results show them they are looking at someone that will fight back instead of bowing and kissing their ass like Black Jesus did.
Agreed. I can’t believe this Chinese security guard wasn’t following pre-scripted orders.
This is what worries me the most. If it was planned, then what we are seeing is China becoming far more aggressive in its pursuit of power, and that is going to spell problems for the world.
Well, if China’s leaders want to become masters of the world they are going to have to act fast. China is wealthier and more powerful than they’ve ever been, but due to poor planning by previous central planners they have a huge population problem looming (way too many old people to be supported by too few young people), so their window of opportunity to make a play is limited. Now, perhaps they might be content with being a minor regional power, but given how power hungry they are over their own people I don’t think it is safe to rule out the possibility that they would want to extend their power further.
No joke Gadfly. I think Xi has realized China over extended and if he doesn’t act sooner than later, that opportunity will disappear sometime in the future as all the mistakes come back to haunt them…
I think the Chicomm leadership has realized that their days will be numbered because sooner than later the house of cards will collapse, but if they make a few key moves now when the game is still hugely in their favor, they might not just forestall the implosion, but buy enough face and advantage that the pending collapse will not mean their demise.
Despots trying to hang on will do anything, no matter how crazy and destructive, to keep that power, and history – just in the last 50 years – has countless examples of this playing out badly. We ignore the coming problems as China’s house of cards starts to unravel at our own peril.
Good job Mattis wasn’t there at the time …
He’d have ordered a nuclear strike on his position, just to prove a point
In Europe, do they carry the Nuclear Soccer Ball?
No, they have a freezer bag with a white surrender flag in it, plus a rape whistle.
“It doesn’t have anything to do with partisan (politics). It’s just anti-corruption and stuff..”
As long as it’s all Democrat and the Iraq and such.
The timing of her decision is quite, erm, interesting.
I bet this chick has never read Paine, De Tocqueville, Mills (never mind Ancient Greek texts) and other thinkers on the subject. I’m sure she’s extremely sharp so as to not need to.
It’s all good.
I’m sure.
I think.
Not being burdened with excessive knowledge, experience or insight seems to be the qualifications for making the world a better place these days. I’ll follow the youth wherever they take me.
I always cringe when I see the least informed people virtue signal about their intent to change things that affect those of us that actually know what is going on…
I bet this chick has never read Paine, De Tocqueville, Mills (never mind Ancient Greek texts) and other thinkers on the subject.
I bet she’s never read the wikipedia executive summaries of Paine, De Tocqueville or Mills.
The Russians are probably right here on this very website… thankfully you can tell who they are by the shifty eyes.
Emergency, emergency. Everyone please to get off the street.
Isn’t it “everyone to get from street”?
Why all Disney Princesses should be treated like feminist icons
Kate Middleton stands out at BAFTA Awards 2018 in green dress as stars wear black to mark Time’s Up
https://www.standard.co.uk/fashion/news/kate-middleton-duchess-of-cambridge-bafta-2018-times-up-a3769616.html
Well if this does not call for beheading the Royal Family for unwokeness I dunno what does
I have often said Kate Middleton can do no sartorial wrong but bright emeralds with olive green is questionable at best. She doesn’t deserve beheading for it, though. Maybe a couple of days in the stocks.
Funny
Is it #metoo or #timesup?
Get your branding shit together, women!
I bet this chick has never read Paine, De Tocqueville, Mills (never mind Ancient Greek texts) and other thinkers on the subject. I’m sure she’s extremely sharp so as to not need to.
Why should she poison her mind with all that Nazi propaganda?
Poor Friedman is never going to recover from his severe case of TDS.
OH MUH GAWDS, HE’S HIDING RUSSIANS!
nice link, bro.
Well, that’s one way to say it.
Does it work now?
That is the mother load of false dichotomies.
“It’s as if George W. Bush had said after 9/11: “No big deal. I am going golfing over the weekend in Florida and blogging about how it’s all the Democrats’ fault — no need to hold a National Security Council meeting.”
If Bush had done that, we would be in a better place today than we currently are.
To be fair, didn’t the 9/11 Commission report say that Clinton had multiple opportunities to take out Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leadership and failed to do so?
Not only failed to do so, but told the teams ready to do the deed to stand the fuck down because he was too busy dealing with the fucking idiots pissed that he used a chubby intern as a humidor and then lied about it…
As if Friedman cares at all about democracy. That mental midget clamors for China one party style efficiency on a regular basis.
“Dr. Phillips Traverse City 11 minutes ago
Thank you Mr. Friedman for clearly stating the personal pain and anguish I have suffered on a daily basis for the last year.
Let me explain….
I am a retired Naval Officer. I started my military career in the early 1970’s as a Hospital Corpsman, But was selected for Officer Candidate School in 1978 and commissioned in early 1979. I spent almost 10 years on sea duty, primarily in cruisers and destroyers, before I changed my path and became a Cryptologic Officer. In my last years on active duty, I works in and with the major intelligence agencies in the DC area, including NSA, CIA, and DIA.
For ALL of my military career, especially my last year’s on active duty, I was guided by the oath I took several times myself and administered to others MANY times that committed me to “Support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic…”
For those with no military experience, please carefully note that this oath does NOT include a demand for personal allegiance to a specific person, but a directive to defend THE CONSTITUTION as a guiding ideal, and includes the implied expectation that death in defense of this document might be required.
This is a serious commitment.
I watched Trump take this same oath last year, and have been totally disgusted by his failure to live up to it.
Trump is a pawn of our enemies, a traitor to our nation, and MUST be removed before he further damages our nation.”
If I didn’t have too little faith in the intelligence services before…
Relevant:
http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php
Yeah, that one was above and beyond the norm.
cool link bro
“Yes, the F.B.I. made a mistake in Florida. But it acted heroically on Russia. What is more basic than protecting American democracy?”
Outing online trolls is more important than dead kids. Also, for the 100th time, We don’t have a democracy. It’s a representative republic. Shut the fuck up about democracy.
They don’t even want a democracy. They just want one party rule.
But every People’s Democratic Republic has single-party rule!
It’s even in the name! See? Democracy!
And everyone gets to vote – so Democracy!
But you’ll be able to vote for which member of that party you prefer, and the party leaders will acknowledge the fact that you voted when they rig the election behind the scenes so their preferred candidate wins, so what’s the problem?
I do find it hilarious how democracy suddenly becomes an issue every time a Republican is in power.
Aside from Lawrence, NBA stars and coaches and talk show hosts in particular can’t seem to shut up about it. The lack of self-awareness and willingness to showcase their ignorance on such a platform is astonishing. It’s okay to sprout an opinion, it’s just hilarious they’re silent when they’re guy is in power doing stupid shit that also can be “anti-democratic.”
I like to think the majority of people see through this kind of double-standard and faux-righteous crap.
Someone should write a book.
Because people do not really care about democracy. it just sounds good to them, but they make little effort to understand them. Democracy is good because power to the people and because they will soon have permanent majority. If the latter does not happen, it must be broken. Not real democracy like not real socialism.
You know what all the “democracy” talk really is – YOU DIDN’T VOTE DEMOCRAT AND WE INTEND TO FIX THAT.
“I do find it hilarious how democracy suddenly becomes an issue every time a Republican is in power.”
Well DUH! If a democrat doesn’t win, the it was not a democratic election… It’s right there in the very language!
But, on the other hand, the Constitution guarantees a “republican form of government”. So it’s unconstitutional for a “Democrat” to be elected…which is why we must ignore the constitution. It’s like, 100 years old or something, and was written by white dudes and is totally not woke.
The Navy’s Urinal-Free Brand New Supercarrier Is A Big Fat Mess
I know military procurement has always been a clustefuck, but at least we actually got functional shit at the end of it before.
The procurement process, as with all things government, is a disaster because it is now replete with nonsense, even more so than the process in the public sector. Yes, this new carrier has a ton of brand spanking new tech, and some issues would be expected, but what we are seeing now is a direct result of a system that is more about funneling government dollars to congressional constituencies than paying the people most qualified to do the job to do it.
a direct result of a system that is more about funneling government dollars to congressional constituencies than paying the people most qualified to do the job to do it.
X a one and a bunch of zeros.
Lack of shock testing is actually not concerning at all. Contrary to what you would think, first of class ships have rarely been shock tested in the past. The Nimitz class carriers did not undergo the testing until the fourth member if the class was commissioned.
It were the gunz what dunnit
In both instances, Democrats called for a major push for gun control, and even some Republicans said modest changes to the nation’s gun laws might be in order.
Yet, no legislation was passed.
That cycle is slightly different this time. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where the shooting took place, have joined the political debate.
“Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats funded by the NRA telling us nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call B.S,” student Emma Gonzalez said at a rally Saturday. “They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call B.S.”
Thank goodness we have National Propaganda Radio to hold the President accountable by using a pyramid of children, live ones stacked on dead ones, to underscore the seriousness of our situation. They need to get some nice shots of Obama’s overwrought, tear-streaked mug to emphasize the seriousness of our gun violence epidemic.
Well I’m sold.
+1, fake-crying Jimmy Kimmel
There’s most definitely something that can be done about it. Shut down public schools and let the private schools be responsible for their own security.
Clearly you hate poor kids and don’t want them to get edumacated.
Couldn’t I just take all the money we waste on pubic schools and give all the poh chillins a subsidy to allow them to attend the private school of their choice? Also, more home schoolin, anything but public schools, total waste of money and gets people shot.
You could, but then when all the poor children are enrolled in private schools and you still have money in the education fund it will raise uncomfortable questions about why the public schools were spending so much, and we can’t have that.
It is precisely because I want them edumacated that I believe the public school system needs to undergo a massive change, if not be done away with. These poh childruns are not being edumacated at all right now… The public school system these kids are in is nothing more than a poorly performing, overpriced baby sitting entity. They learn squat of value.
+1 “Any of those kids could have been my kids if I had knocked their mothers up”
Well, every sensible Republican supports gun control in the wake of this tragedy, so the only ones left are the NRA terrorist Nazi KKK teathuglicans.
” student Emma Gonzalez said at a rally Saturday. “They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call B.S.”
If only our nation’s laws could all be crafted by emotional high school girls.
The Heathers would know what to do
The Jennifer faction is strongly united against anything supported by The Heathers because OMG can you believe what Katie wore to the dance and isn’t she the worst?
Still sounds better than what we currently have.
You can call BS whenever you want on whatever. But once you’re going to get into public debate, you’d better be ready to explain it. Yeah, I know, you just take the latest Democrat talking point and run with it, never mind facts. If gun control worked, there would be no gun violence in Brazil. That’s hardly the case.
If gun control worked, there would be no gun violence in Brazil.
Or Mexico for that matter. It’s funny, we have clear illustrations of the failures of gun control (Mexico, Brazil) and the failures of socialism (Venezuela) in contemporary, nearby locations, but this is routinely ignored by the “reality-based community”.
If I really wanted to kill a ton of people, guns would be the last weapon I resorted to. Common household cleaning agents can be used to create some of the most deadly and toxic shit possible, and a determined evil agent can find easy ways of dispersing them in a manner to cause the most casualties possible. Stealing a gas tanker or other vehicle loaded with toxic or flammable agents and blowing it up where soft targets gather, would produce a far larger body count. The list of other actions that will produce larger and far more horrendous body counts, not to mention force drastic changes to society, is long and I will just leave it at that. What guns can do however is give law abiding citizens a means to kill a fucking asshole using whatever it may be to try and kill them, including agents of a state that has decided the plebes need to be beaten into submission.
If I really wanted to kill a ton of people, guns would be the last weapon I resorted to.
Absolutely. Case in point: the deadliest school massacre in US history is still the Bath School massacre of 1927, which was perpetrated with a bomb.
The Democratic Party?
Warren, Pelosi, and Feinstein are trying but the patriarchy keeps them down.
Gotta love the media. Pick up a couple of comments from students at the school. Then use them as anecdotal evidence that everyone wants gun control.
Par for the course..
funded by the NRA
The NRA, which teaches proper firearms use and self-defense against aggression, wants the chilluns to die…
nothing could have been done to prevent this, we call B.S
Indeed something may have been done. One, there was a clear and credible threat made that warranted an investigation. Two, schools should not be designated as defenseless victim zones. Those administrators and teachers who are willing and capable should be able to be armed in school (along with any other peaceable citizen…)
“They say tougher guns laws do not decrease gun violence. We call B.S.”
There are 20-some-odd thousand gun laws on the books across the country. Most of which are, on their face, patently unconstitutional as it is. Tell me a law that is 1) consistent with the constitution and 2) achieves your end goal.
I can’t imagine at least one of the three teachers/ administrators who died were the type that would not have carried concealed if it were allowed, considering they all put themselves between the shooter and the kids.
I watched an interview with some of the kids from that school’s football program that pointed out that had their coach been allowed to carry that he would have ended this asshole Cruz and saved lives…
Finland is giving each citizen a universal basic income and it’s changing lives
https://www.indy100.com/article/finland-universal-basic-income-trial-period-lives-8210771
Very complete article, lots of info, made me a supporter really. I like the large letter and extra spacing.
I actually like the UBI concept as a stand-in replacement for all other social safety net programs (on strictly utilitarian grounds, you understand). But that’s never how it’s actually implemented, so…
I oppose it on both deontological and utilitarian grounds.
The utilitarian calculation only works if you presume that there must be a welfare state, but that’s a very safe assumption. Handing people cash and treating them like adults instead of children could conceivably be much cheaper and much less liberty-infringing than the current alternatives that spend 30 or 40% of their total cost on administration, infantilize the recipients, and provide strong incentives against incrementally improving one’s station.
“Handing people cash and treating them like adults”
Yeah, that last part there…
In theory, it could bridge the gap between what we have now and weaning our population off the government teat. It would never be done right though. Politicians have to have special interest groups to pander to and a UBI would destroy their ability to pander.
Politicians have to have special interest groups to pander – this is kind of it. Basically all laws and government activities could be made much simpler while achieving the same thing, but that would take out special interests. Government waste is part incompetence part embezzlement .
Big part embezzlement. Whenever I hear some moron that agrees with the very political class that created a problem that political class is now demanding they be allowed to fix, a problem the political class create so they could get money in the first place, I cringe. These people have seizures when you point the parallel between pharma companies never going to want cures over treatment because the money is in treatment and not cures, and poverty pimps – in government or otherwise – having no desire to solve poverty because they would be out of jobs.
UBI is good but what happens when someone spends there income frivolously? We all know what comes next.
WE WANT MORE! IT’S NOT ENOUGH! IT’S NOT RIGTH. FAIR WELFARE!
Etc., etc.
That too. Political pressure from interest groups is always going to make any income redistribution scheme corruptible. It would only really work as advertised with a beneficent libertarian dictator in charge.
It isn’t so much that, but the fact that there would never even be an attempt to get rid of the current welfare state to begin with. I would support it in a minute if I thought we would get rid of the welfare state.
I’ll support it if it’s a constitutional amendment and the only increase possible is a small yearly adjustment to inflation, and a complete repeal of all welfare payments, including food stamps. If someone wants more, they can work for it. If they don’t want that, they can stay in their house and smoke weed and play video games, I don’t care, as long as they stay out of trouble and leave other people alone. And everyone gets it, unless they opt out. That being said, I don’t support it because I know none of that will happen.
Sounds like the same harebrained scheme that a bankrupt town in Cali wants to try. The problem here is that in order to test UBI, you can’t just give a small sampling of people a few hundred dollars and then come to some conclusion that it worked. Of course if you give me a few hundred dollars a month extra, it’s going to help me. Like the tax cut is helping me right now. BUT, and this is a huge but, not thicc, but huge. In order to see what really happens you have to give everyone the money. And it has to be more than a few hundred a month. In order to replace welfare, that’s what we’re doing here, right? Right?, because if it isn’t we’re already screwed because all this money has to come from somewhere. Ok, back to track, you have to give everyone the money. A good starting point would be 10k per head of household. Run that program for 5 years and then tell me what happened. I’m actually for it because we’re going to save a ton on that huge welfare bureaucracy, right? Hah, I keed!
In order to replace welfare, that’s what we’re doing here, right? Right?
None of the pilot programs in the US, including the Stockton program, are intended to replace other forms of welfare, which is where they utterly fail. Adding a UBI as an extra entitlement is just layering more shit on the pile. Although doing something like converting Social Security into a UBI at, say, 40% of current benefits could conceivably save money while giving granny enough to buy her daily ration of cat food.
I would rather we have UBI than welfare, but we all know it’s not going to happen. Probably the main 2 reasons is that it would put a lot of bureaucrats out of their cushy do nothing jobs, and the Democrats would never vote to pass it because it would doom their buying votes scheme and that’s their main platform. They’re just using this to pander as well, which is why they’re trying these limited trial runs. The big test is never going to happen, but if they can convince their voter base it will, then it’s a win for them.
Welfare exists for the benefit of the people running and manning the government that doles it out, not for the recipients. UBI doesn’t benefit the creatures involved in the government one bit, so it has no real chance here. Imagine all the jobs that would be lost in administering welfare!
Somehow I don’t think Stockton Syndrome will have the same meaning.
Jimmy Kimmel cried again. And there’s some bits about Barry’s mendacity.
Kimmel talks like a fag and his shit’s all retarded.
He talks like a fag and sounds like a prog. Nothing is worse than that.
Hidey-HO!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Hankey,_the_Christmas_Poo
I’d cry too if I was as retarded as he is. I mean not even all the money would make it better.
The Emasculated Show
Long twitter thread about whether or not there was an enlightenment. Can be interesting as a perspective but kinda long
https://twitter.com/pseudoerasmus/status/964897007126110209
“Long twitter thread about whether or not there was an enlightenment.”
Well, it is sort of hard to tell right now.
But as it turns out, the Pentagon’s latest technical assessment of the next-generation (and urinal-less) supercarrier reveals a warship currently incapable of performing basic functions during routine operations
Look- it identifies as an aircraft carrier. We have nothing to worry about.
Trump supporters have their own dating websites now – and they’re already sparking controverst
My username is TheHatAndTheHair2020, hmu.
Do all the women look like Melania? Sign me up!
A 2016 Tinder study found 71% of online daters consider political differences to be a dealbreaker.
Most of these are likely ‘tolerant’ leftists. I know from experience. Even just in profiles, girls had stuff like “if you’re a Republican, swipe left”. These people also identify themselves as “policy wonks”. Which means the opposite is likely true. Hell, even my gf of a few years nearly didn’t go out with me again after a few dates because I “sounded like a Republican” when talking about stuff. She comes from a family of dyed-in-the-wool, card-carrying Democrats, though. I just told her I wasn’t dating her for her politics and that politics don’t really have relevance to our personal relationship. She agreed. That said, we do still talk about stuff from time to time and have found common ground on some issues (i.e. similar nuanced view of abortion). And I’ve even swayed her a a few things (i.e. guns/gun rights). And then she goes to her parents/friends (who treat CNN as gospel…) and gets sucked back in to nonsense that I have to deconstruct later. But anyway, we mostly agree to disagree.
sparked controversy
I see no reason for controversy. There are all sorts of themed dating sites. Get over it.
Good Luck in the long run, Marriage is forever, at least it Should be…….
Should’ve called it Deplorable Dating.
They missed an opportunity there.
Looks like ISIS has switched to using the Taliban’s tactics.
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Militants disguised as Iraqi soldiers ambushed paramilitary troops Monday north of Baghdad, leaving at least 27 dead, officials said. It is unclear who was behind the attack.
The attack comes days after NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg announced that the alliance will expand its military training mission in Iraq and help the conflict-ravaged country develop new academies and schools for its armed forces.
NATO already has a small team of military and civilian personnel in Iraq and uses mobile teams to train national forces in de-mining, countering home-made bombs and dealing with explosives. The allies have also trained Iraqi troops in neighboring Jordan.
***
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/19/militants-in-army-uniforms-ambush-iraqi-troops-near-baghdad-27-dead.html
That was a foregone conclusion. It appears none of our military and political leaders have read van Creveld.
Switzerland bans cooking lobsters without killing them first.
The same law also gives domestic pets further protections, such as dogs can no longer be punished for barking.
If my neighbors are any indication, there shouldn’t be a huge problem with compliance on that one.
I go off on my Shit Neighbors if they let their Dog bark for No Good Reason! And I won’t allow mine to just Bark all day
Control your Animal!
God that’s stupid, lobsters respond to stimuli in a way that may resemble pain but they don’t have the brain structure that pain originates from. I thought the Swiss were smart.
They are just rich and can afford to hire really smart people (this concludes the ass kissing segment of the thread)
*narrows gaze*
Somebody snuck one in…. when it comes to true stupidity:
You confound credentialed elitism with smarts, and that is why you find this baffling. Some of the most idiotic and dangerous ideas I have ever heard have come from people that others believed to be geniuses because of their long resume, but when you looked deeper you saw that all you had was a credentialed moron that practically always confounded being smart with peddling marxism.
Almost everyone falls victim to the misconception that a degree makes you smart.
Smart people get degrees to help them put their smarts to the best possible use, but if you’re a dumbass, getting a degree won’t fix that. In fact, it seems to make it worse by inflating their ego. At least most of the slack-jawed yokels out there don’t fancy themselves to be supergeniuses who are qualified to manage the entire world.
It is frighting to me how often I get told by the people peddling the credentialed elite top men are our greatest hope that someone is intelligent because they peddle failed marxist bullshit they were indoctrinated with in college.
Western Europe: soon to be the world’s largest retirement community
How are they going to enforce that? A camera in my kitchen?
On every lobster you buy.. And you have to then pay for that expensive camera and then recycle it too or you are looking at some jail time.
Are they going to have forensic pathologists perform autopsies on cooked lobsters to determine the cause of death of the lobster?
Someone better check if young Swiss are not being encouraged to study pathology as it is considered a growing industry…
They also have a law against owning just one guinea pig.
That actually makes sense. You need at least two to make a decent meal.
Police called in after ‘offensive’ note discovered at campus LGBTQ center
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/42117/
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Queer People of Color President Carmella Hall indicated part of the note said “your queerness is in conflict with your blackness.” She believes a single individual is the culprit.
Neither the Philly.com story nor the Temple News article state that the note contained a message of an actual threatening nature. Nevertheless, police were contacted.
***
I’m sure the police were amused. Philly police don’t even like to show up to actual crimes, unless they’re committing them.
I am sure they prefer showing up for bullshit crimes.
Especially if there is overtime.
Philly police show up when another officer or a local election official may be in danger.
My bet is that we find out she wrote the note herself..
3 Philly cops had to be transported to the hospital after rolling their eyes too hard.
High school student says ‘I can buy an AR-15,’ gets arrested, charged
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/42104/
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Local police and the FBI had received multiple warnings about Parkland, Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz’s comments and behavior with little-to-no follow up. However, police arrest and charge a kid for making, as Reason’s Robby Soave points out, a rather ambiguous and innocuous comment: “It’s not clear what the tone of the remark was—perhaps the young man was complaining that it’s too easy to buy a gun.”
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You know who else had people arrested on flimsy evidence…
Every single DA in the United States?
+ 1 Joyce Gilchrist
If you don’t have the evidence, make it up.
+1 Martha Coakley.
“The principal said the student wasn’t threatening to do harm, but rather was talking about buying guns. The principal said the student does not have access to guns at home.”
Hello lawsuit…
Mickey Kaus
@kausmickey
They are going to try to get this guy fired. Suspect they will succeed/
Jay Rosen
Verified account @jayrosen_nyu
There is an organized campaign to discredit the mainstream press in this country, led by the president. And this Facebook VP is either unaware of how it works, or cavalier about participating in it.
The tweet in question where the VP of Facebook pours cold water on the Russian conspiracy theory.
https://twitter.com/robjective/status/964680123885613056
When is this guy’s struggle session scheduled?
I thought that was a fake Twitter account when I first saw it. That dude’s days are numbered.
Facebook needs to realize that they are competitors to the mainstream media, not colleagues. They ought to give that guy a raise.
“There is an organized campaign to discredit the mainstream press in this country, led by the president. And this Facebook VP is either unaware of how it works, or cavalier about participating in it.”
The main campaign to discredit the mainstream media is being led by the mainstream media. Must say, they’re doing one hell of a job.
There is an organized campaign to discredit the mainstream press in this country, led by the president.
More like led by the mainstream press…
The More Gender Equality, the Fewer Women in STEM
A new study explores a strange paradox: In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/
[Nelson laugh]
Hmm, who could have imagined. You tell people they need to do something and then they don’t want to do it. Never seen anything like it.
Or maybe it’s that the empowerment has come in the form of an explosion in bullshit grievance studies programs. Programs that pull what may be otherwise qualified individuals away from worthwhile studies.
I doubt there are many qualified people being pulled away, and probably the number of qualified people going into these joke studies is closer to zero, by these flim-flam studies programs. If anything, they exist to allow sub par and downright stupid people to gather enough credentials to claim they can add value and now blackmail entities into paying them money they are not worth. In practice however, these people are nothing but a drain on society.
That’s a good point, more people are going to college now than ever before and not everyone can hack being an engineer or whatever. A lot of the people who shouldn’t be going self-funnel into the more nebulous liberal arts majors like gender studies and the like.
That is exactly mu point Stinky. I am not badmouthing liberal arts educations, but the glut of people that follow that road means job opportunities with that degree are highly contested, and thus, less likely to pay well. I have always baffled by people that pay the same amount to an institution for a degree that will never return on that investment as someone that goes into a STEM field. It is criminal that they can charge kids the same amount for what often amounts to – if you will allow an automotive comparison – a Hugo as they do for the kids that go for the Bentley or Ferrari.
Worse yet is the fact that they have added the veneer of legitimacy to what is nothing but charlatanism and snake oilery – those studies programs – as a means to allow a whole lot of people that would never been able to get a degree of any kind in a legitimate field of study and then created a whole niche industry of people that man a shakedown operation of the real world. These programs create a slew of angry people desperate to prove they are not the morons they are, who then give us the insanity we have today.
Go check out any HR department, and I guarantee you you will find a slew of people, all angry at the world, spouting word salad shit about the injustices that are holding them and people like them down in a world that dares to define success by actual accomplishments instead of minimal participation.
Many of these people used to just go out and get a job after high school or went to a tech/trade school for a couple of years before entering the workforce, now the four year schools pull these people in to get bullshit degrees so they can get their dollars. It really is a scam.
My wife’s sisters all have college degrees – one is a homemaker, part time worker at a local retail chain. The other does medical billing, while the youngest (who went to a private $$ school) cleans machines at a food processing plant. Why did they go to college? I don’t have a clue.
@LordHumungus:
I worked in a factory for 8.5 years, and I lost count of all the assembly line workers who had 4-year degrees.
“Why did they go to college? I don’t have a clue.”
I do. I coached kids back when my kid did all those activities, and many of his young friends before they graduated school actually asked me for advice. You wouldn’t believe how many of them were told to go to college, even if they had neither the aptitude nor the basic tools to do college yet, by pedantic counselors that told them to just chase their dreams and go have fun. I talked to a few of them and pointed out that they had to consider the investment vs. the return – how much would you pay for college, and then, how much would you earn with that degree – before making choices. Dreams are great, but owing some tools tens of thousands of dollars to get a job that barely pays enough to live in momma’s basement, was not a great start to a successful life.
All the baristas at the high end coffee shops have college degrees. All in useless fields that are flooded with other people and little opportunities. To a last one they tell me they feel cheated that they were told to chase their dreams and now have a degree that cost an arm and a leg (they all omit the partying they did in school though) and no means to make a decent living.
I am all for encouraging people to shoot for the stars, but these people also need common sense to make sure that what they are after actually has a decent chance of being attained.
I think a lot of it is parent driven – at least for pre-boomer and boomer parents. To them the “smart kids” went to college, and were successful. Therefore going to college “makes you successful.” So their kids had better go to school too.
My dad, who is probably an outlier, dropped out of college and ended up being quite successful. The same with my uncle, who only has a GED but started his own tool ‘n’ die shop that he ended up selling for a few million $$. But times are different, at least with a lot of HR departments demanding college degrees for jobs that could be done with some training or the right individual.
“But times are different, at least with a lot of HR departments demanding college degrees for jobs that could be done with some training or the right individual.”
How much of that is the same people that got screwed by the whole “college makes you smarter or able to earn a better living” perpetuating the failed system? It used to be college thought people how to think critically. These days with all the safe space shit, nothing can be further from the truth, and we need a major realignment in the real world. Unfortunately, the HR departments that set these idiot policies are the ones least likely to want to make that correction…
At my job, everyone takes a turn doing recruiting trips. The desk clerks are almost always recent graduates. I always say I am in town for recruiting and they perk up, then I say we are looking for people with quantitative skills or programming and they slump.
That is because of microagression and implicit bias. It just proves that women are now more oppressed than even in so called equal countries.
Well we know for certain there cannot be any biological explanation accounting for differences between the sexes, so obviously countries that empower women have a higher incidence of false consciousness.
No mystery here. Women in shit hole countries study whatever pays the most so they don’t have to put up with being married to Borat.
You mean if a person can be empowered despite being stupid and lazy, she won’t decide to go into fields that require hard work and concentration? Color me surprised.
The utilitarian calculation only works if you presume that there must be a welfare state, but that’s a very safe assumption. Handing people cash and treating them like adults instead of children could conceivably be much cheaper and much less liberty-infringing than the current alternatives that spend 30 or 40% of their total cost on administration, infantilize the recipients, and provide strong incentives against incrementally improving one’s station.
I agree. If one had sat down with a clean sheet of paper and the explicit intention of keeping the underclass from bettering themselves, I don’t think a better system could have been devised than the paternalism of the Great Society welfare system.
the most amusing GI Joe backstory
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Dr. Bender was at one time a peace-loving orthodontist. He built a machine to relieve dental pain, using electric brainwave stimulation. Unfortunately he tested it on himself, and when it went haywire, he became hateful, deceitful, and vain. Though experiencing brain damage, he retained his sense of scientific skill and intellect, unfortunately choosing to use it for the purposes of evil. Dr. Mindbender abandoned his practice and joined forces with Cobra, devoting all his time to perfecting his digital brain-scrambling. He is a master of mind control and interrogation, but his expertise also includes genetics, cloning, dentistry, and some cybernetics.
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https://youtu.be/hHsDKqKE_kc
God Bless Larry Hama.
Hey, at what time do you guys have to kneel before Trump?
I put my kneepads on at 10 am Eastern in honor of his holiness’s morning routine.
90 minutes from now…
I’m not doing anything until I get my paycheck from Vladimir. He’s nowhere near as consistent as Soros and the Koch Brothers are in paying me.
I’m paid in Kazakh Orphans, the exchange rate is better than the Ruble
I find that Monsanto is the most prompt about paying me for the pro-GMO comments I make online. Do you have direct deposit set up with them?
Just listen for the muezzin, dude.
Dammit
Dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset and nightfall – the muezzin announces it.
There’s a bell that sounds 5 times a day…
I just never get up…it’s such an honor!
Celebrating Trumpadan from Friday’s closing bell to Monday’s opening.
Tuesday’s – damn.
and then Trump goes to lunch and has a Taco Bowl
I must say I enjoyed the Washington song but I am hungover as a gutter dwelling homeless person. It did kick the Rick Astley endless loop out of my head though so two thumbs up.
-5 Never gonna give You Up…
SugarFree doing the links this morning? This is a sure sign that the apocalypse is nigh! Good thing I wore my brown pants today.
Run Joe, run!
I can’t wait for this man…
I foresee campaign ads featuring montages of creepy Uncle Joe being creepy.
#MeToo!
Today’s derp winner:
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The box-office success of “Black Panther” gives me hope that one day my minority group, Arab Americans and Muslims, will see a superhero from our community on the big screen.
Maybe there will be a future superhero named “Muslim Man” or “Super Samira”? Or, just to scare the bigots, wouldn’t it be fun to see “Sharia Man,” whose power is flying around America taking pork bacon from people’s plates and replacing it with turkey bacon?
…
As the late scholar Jack Shaheen documented in his seminal book, “Reel Bad Arabs,” between the mid-1970s and 2001 there were more than 300 films that portrayed Arabs in a negative light.
In other words, we have been treated to film after film in which Arabs and Muslims are depicted as terrorists, evil villains, sinister billionaires and, of course, silenced women. Think about how such images would impact your sense of self-worth.
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https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/18/opinions/black-panther-minorities-opinion-obeidallah/index.html
Pay no attention to the fact that movie villains are almost always white males, usually rich, and usually from the US.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/30-years-action-movie-villains-11-infographics.html
“Sharia Man,” whose power is flying around America taking pork bacon from people’s plates and replacing it with turkey bacon
Oh, Halal no.
Do you want a Muslim ban? Because this is how you get a Muslim ban.
I think huwhite europeans are more frequent villains.
+ 1 Hans Gruber
“Sharia Man,” whose power is flying around America taking pork bacon from people’s plates and replacing it with turkey bacon?
Sounds more like a villain, and something written by ‘The Onion’.
And this isn’t the first black superhero: Blade, Hancock, Storm…
Betting that it counted “bad arabs” as portrayed in Raid on Entebbe.
You mean superheroes like Isis? The name is a bit… unfortunate though.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion still had the best villains for my (((money))).
As the late scholar Jack Shaheen documented in his seminal book, “Reel Bad Arabs,” between the mid-1970s and 2001 there were more than 300 films that portrayed Arabs in a negative light.
Stop blowing shit up for more than 10 consecutive minutes and you might be able to shake that typecasting.
I’m pretty sure the whole “silenced women” thing has a pretty solid grounding in reality. The only outspoken Muslim women are A) those who are taking great personal risk by speaking out in the home country, or B) those who are lucky enough to live in a first-world nation and have the freedom to say whatever they want.
Arabs and Muslims are depicted as … silenced women.
That’s not even right. I can think of at least three movies (can’t recall the names) with an outspoken Muslim woman, typically as a plot device to set off the Islamonutter villains and give Our Heros something to do.
Super Saladin!
There are tons of Muslim superheros. Unfortunately, the only kit they have is a suicide vest, so their movies are really short.
Donald Trump, Glibertarians lurker?
Me from Friday:
“It’s obvious to anyone with half a brain that they were shit-stirring on both sides to delegitimize whoever won and the process itself and they’ve succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Putin has got to be laughing his ass off at us right now.”
Trump from yesterday:
“If it was the GOAL of Russia to create discord, disruption and chaos within the U.S. then, with all of the Co”mmittee Hearings, Investigations and Party hatred, they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They are laughing their asses off in Moscow. Get smart America!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2018
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/965212168449941505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
I’m going to take credit for this.
Stinky is Trump!!
Hey, could I be the ambassador to Turks & Caicos?
No openings there, how about Benghazi?
I want Mars.
Ambassador Boogie.
I’m hoping that’s a reference to The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.
Turks and Caicos are really great until a Cat 4 spins up.
Trump captured the truth of it there. The Russians’ purpose is not to get any particular person elected, but simply to weaken us as a player in the international system by sowing discord at home. If the DNC hack was done by the Russians it was the perfect operation to cause disruption no matter who won the presidential election. The same with creating the illusion of collusion with the Trump team. Then they provide financing for both Antifa and white nationalist organizations to create the perception that Helter Skelter is about the break out. If Americans are more concerned with what’s happening at home, it gives Russia room to maneuver internationally.
“NEW VIDEO: Sexual orientation and preferences are NOT choices. Not being attracted to trans people isn’t transphobic. Not being attracted to black people isn’t racist. Not being attracted to the same sex isn’t homophobic.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/965315043242815488
Equal parts funny and pathetic that this actually needs to be said.
I get confused, because it goes back and forth between choice and destiny.
Exactly. Just like your sexual attraction to potatoes is not a choice.
Covering them potatoes with some hand cranked artisinal mayo?
I try not to judge, brah.
I can only reach orgasm by having sex with inferior races.
Perrier just shot out my nose, and that hurts!
Good to know that when the police cream themselves over fresh dead black corpses, its totally OK – they shouldn’t be mocked for their fetish that they have no control over.
Or, just to scare the bigots, wouldn’t it be fun to see “Sharia Man,” whose power is flying around America taking pork bacon from people’s plates and replacing it with turkey bacon?
So the idea to counter non-Muslim’s concerns about the imposition of Sharia law is to create a Muslim superhero who forcibly imposes Muslim restrictions on non-Muslims?
It’s for your own good, citizen!
threading fail
Inshallah this will never happen, turkey bacon is an affront to God and man.
Turkey Bacon! That’s crossing into pineapple pizza territory.
https://twitter.com/lokivy/status/964542271302651905
Cell phone cameras are a thing.
On fighting corruption:
A college friend of mine went off one summer to Palau to help a nonprofit with anti human trafficking efforts there. It went absolutely no where because every last official is bought.
She now works in Wal-Mart’s anti-corruption department and gets to tell people to stop bribing officials or no one in the US will ever do business with them again. It’s somewhat effective.
Evil capitalists strike against.
In late cuz I slept in cuz I don’t have work.
SUCKERS.
http://archive.is/publv
Mostly asses so this one’s for the ass Glibs.
I have no idea what is going on with #1, and the woman on the left has an odd look to her. I’m not sure I’ll include them in the orgy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if #10 is a mom and her daughter.
This is from a couple of years ago, but I dug it up since it’s always relevant.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/08/rant-second-amendment-repeal/
That’s beautiful.
I’ve been reading Kotkin’s stuff for almost 10 years, it’s great to see some of his ideas starting to gain traction.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-disruption-to-dystopia-silicon-valley-envisions-the-city-of-the-future?ref=home
Measured by total happiness, J Law could have a much more positive impact on the world if she took a year off acting to work on a burgeoning porn career.
I fail to see any appealing features, she’s Hideous, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to cast He….. never mind
No doubt.
What should she specialize in?
Cake farting.
Not gonna experience rule #34
Not gonna experience rule #34
Not gonna experience rule #34
Not gonna experience rule #34
*wonders if this is a real thing.
Never mind, I don’t want to know.
The Devil’s food series is to die for.
I am now sorry I asked….
Seconded.
Florida puppets- Not only did the school (and local police and FBI) fail to protect them from a murderer, it’s also failed, particularly in the case of the senior, to provide a proper education in civics and why there’s a 2A in the Constitution,
J-Law’s push to end corruption- she’s supporting an effort to enact mandatory ID (at a minimum) to vote?
I got groceries last night, and watched the family in front of me pull out their SNAP EBT card. Has a nice picture, makes people feel good about using welfare, just like using their own credit or debit card. BS. Those EBT cards should be plain white with block red “Welfare Leech” in big letters on the front. People should be embarrassed and ashamed to eat government cheese.
Now if only you could get that emblazoned on social security cards and medicare cards.
Didn’t realize that EBT cards had photos on them. So how does the corruption occur? Do stores allow someone not pictured to use the card?
I can see “look, pick me up some steaks on your card and I’ll give you $5” but I’ve heard about people selling access on Craigslist.
That sounds awfully like it’s a card that could be used as a Federal ID. Hmm. Racist much?
Is there any incentive for a store not to allow someone not pictured to use an EBT card?
They aren’t photos of the issued cardholder, they’re artsy pictures/designs like you’d find on a regular credit card. All part of normalizing being a welfare parasite.
Speaking of fraud, a local business was busted for charging phony purchases and giving the card holders 50% of it back in cash. However, despite having a clear record of everyone who used their card there, failed to prosecute a single cardholder for participating in the fraud.
Blind Squirrel finds nut.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-unions-are-in-deep-trouble-and-they-have-themselves-to-blame/2018/02/14/a317d396-11a8-11e8-8ea1-c1d91fcec3fe_story.html?utm_term=.dab29c434e2c
Ah, that pesky persuasion thing rears its ugly head. So much easier to coerce.
Yeah, crazy talk – we don’t need to persuade you, we will tell you what is best for you and you will thank us.
Then there is the Post’s actual opinion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-supreme-court-is-about-to-hear-the-biggest-labor-case-of-the-century/2018/02/11/03e9ddf4-0853-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html?utm_term=.74633621df46
Short version: The Editorial Board supports stare decisis.
Florida students: You are either with us or against us
“Here’s a time to talk about gun control: March 24. My message for the people in office is: You’re either with us or against us. We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around,” said junior Cameron Kasky.
Just days after surviving the 9th deadliest shooting in modern US history, several students have given powerful speeches and compelling TV interviews, voicing their desire to break the continuous loop of massacres. Some have gone on social media, vocal about what they experienced and what action they want to see from those in power.
They plan to converge at the nation’s capital next month and have asked supporters who can’t make it to stage marches in their own communities, according to a mission statement for March For Our Lives.
“You are going to be seeing students in every single major city marching and we have our lives on the line here,” Kasky said.
Ok. I’m against you.
Yep. If that’s the way you wanna play it, congrats! you just made an enemy.
Thirded.
Absolutely correct. These children are being killed due to our government’s ridiculous…oh, sorry. I thought that said “Libya” not “Florida”.
“You are going to be seeing students in every single major city marching and we have our lives on the line here”
And who’s paying for this? Lemme guess, an oligarch whose name is a palindrome…
Hopefully the marching knows how to serpentine in unison.
Too soon, so I deserved messing that up. *Marching band.
Racecar?
Tattarrattat.
A Dodge Challenger?
Soros is seriously a Bond villain.
Bob?
Sponsored by Tide Pods.
Otto (von Bismarck)?
I’m for it. I’ve also heard about a competing walkout planned for April 20. Let these students and their teachers walk out of classes and stay out until “these gun laws are changed.” But unfortunately, we cannot penalize either the the students or their negligent teachers for their absence. But every student who cares enough about this to drop out is a student we should be happy to not be paying to educate.
You know who else considered April 20th to be a noteworthy day?
Cheech Marin?
I’m with you – let’s drop the failed “Gun-Free School Zones Act“.
No reason you should be trapped in an unguarded / dis-armed building.
Talk about giving the bad guys a soft target…
I wonder if any of these students ever noticed that their high school doors were not secured? But Trump should have??
NH government deciding how to spend shake-down money
State officials are developing a plan for how to spend $31 million allocated to New Hampshire as the state’s piece of an unprecedented $14.7 billion settlement with Volkswagen for cheating on its emission control systems.
Build a monorail?
Don’t they have some draw bridges in Portsmouth that don’t work?
SSSSHHH!. New Hampshire and Maine governments are working on a replacement. Pay no attention that it was supposed to open in September 2017 and still isn’t done.
Get rid of the stupid tollbooth on I-95 where traffic backs up for miles in the summer.
“When gender differences are ignored in health studies, it’s women who pay the price
The insistence that gender differences were and are immaterial to the proper functioning of a free society has been a feature of our common conversation since the 1970s. It was the key to “second-wave feminism,” the political and social movement that took women’s liberation beyond issues of suffrage and wages and employment to the question of how a just society orders itself.
By the close of the 20th century, however, the insistence that gender differences be treated as inconsequential had ossified into orthodoxy precisely at the moment when the biological sciences were uncovering differences between the sexes that had hitherto been unknown. An ongoing tug-of-war has resulted between scientists who investigate sex differences and activists who oppose such research. This battle over theory has had horrific real-world consequences. The minimizing of sex differences in areas of health and medicine in particular has led to sweepingly harmful and often fatal results, especially for women.
In the 1970s, the study of the brain was in its infancy. The first department of neuroscience was established at Harvard only in 1966. The fMRI scan, which allows scientists to watch the brain’s responses to stimuli in real time, was not invented until the 1990s. Only in the last 15 to 20 years has overwhelming evidence been amassed to show that sex differences, both large and small, exist at every level of analysis in the human animal. Neurobiologists have discovered that there are sex differences in how our brain hemispheres are wired, with women’s being more highly connected across the left and right hemispheres, and men having more connections from front to back. There are sex differences in the amygdala, hypothalamus, and hippocampus, in both size and activity. For example: Activation of the left side of the hippocampus is found to be more dominant in females, and activation on the right is found to be more dominant in males. There are fundamental sex differences in basic neurochemistry. Men and women have different baseline amounts of neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine. They also differ in their abilities to synthesize these neurotransmitters. When neurons of male and female rats are placed under a microscope, the ways in which these cells die are different—a discovery with profound implications for the treatment of brain injuries, Alzheimer’s, and stroke.
This evidence has been a difficult pill for some to swallow. For the scientific establishment, there has been a slow and begrudging acceptance that its usual practices must change to carefully take into account the influences of sex. It was not until 2014 that the National Institutes of Health announced that female animals must be included in all animal and cell research. But for some academics whose political consciousness was formed in the era of second-wave feminism, this evidence has been angrily rejected on ideological grounds. The common argument put forward has been that this research will be used to justify the unequal treatment of women. In the closing paragraph of her chapter about “neurosexism” in Delusions of Gender (2010), Australian social psychologist Cordelia Fine wrote that neuroscientific findings “reinforce and legitimate the gender stereotypes that interact with our minds, helping to create the very gender inequalities that [they] seek to explain.” As a result of this widespread fear, scientists making discoveries about sex differences have been labeled “neurosexist,” accused of producing “neurotrash” and “populist science.” One result of the controversy may be that it has deterred many others from going into the field altogether.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-xx-factor/
Although what she is calling “gender differences” is sexual dimorphism.
Males and females of a species are different.
Shocking.
LIES
The Party of Science!
“led to sweepingly harmful and often fatal results, especially for women.”
You mean like how breast cancer research and funding has taken a back seat to prostate cancer funding???
“Science dies when any rando can’t rant to his colleagues about what he Wikipedia’d”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/965208312148058112
“Sex differences research has been stymied for decades due to political concerns (ask neuroscientists such as Larry Cahill) if citing such research constitutes “sexual harassment” this will compound its slow progression.”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/965349233510424576
My decision to stay the hell away from Reason’s looking better every day. Man what a dim bulb she is.
It’s just a matter of time before she’s waving a red and black or red and yellow flag openly. Jesus, the intellectually dishonest laziness of these fucking Reason hacks nowadays… just constantly hitting that fucking post tweet button, can’t be arsed to do anything but sneer and screech that everything is alt-right.
“How An Alt-Right Bot Network Took Down Al Franken
White nationalist provocateurs, a pair of fake news sites, and an army of Twitter bots and other cyber tricks helped derail Democratic Senator Al Franken last year, new research shows.
While everyone has been focused on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election to support Donald Trump, the Franken take-down originated in—and was propelled by—a strategic online campaign with digital tentacles reaching to, of all places, Japan. Analysts have now mapped out how the initial accusation against Franken by Hooters pinup girl and lad-mag model Leeann Tweeden was turned into effective propaganda after first being hinted at by right wing black ops master Roger Stone.”
http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-trump-franken-mueller-twitter-810355
TW: Newsweek
Those nefarious Japanese and their Tentacles!
Straffinrun: Time to go underground. They are on to you.
Wish I had tentacles. Wouldn’t be touching Franken with them, though.
#NotYou
White nationalist provocateurs, a pair of fake news sites, and an army of Twitter bots and other cyber tricks helped derail Democratic Senator Al Franken last year, new research shows.
Silly me, I thought it was the widely distributed photograph of him pretending to grab a passed out woman’s tits.
Followed by complaints from other women (who obviously must’ve been catfish fronting alt-right black ops teams).
“Is Marijuana the World’s Most Effective Treatment for Autism?”
http://www.newsweek.com/2018/02/23/really-good-weed-why-cannabis-may-be-worlds-most-effective-remedy-core-806758.html
TW: Newsweek
If libertarians are Republicans who smoke weed, and smoking weed cures autism, then how can libertarians be autistic?
Theu smoke to much and develop a tolerance
Is this after their get tired of having sex with a particular sheep?
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/16/algeria-sheep-fighting-illegal-sport-angry-young-men
Now this is how you do it.
http://www.krdo.com/news/top-stories/more-colorado-school-staff-registering-for-gun-training/702140631
Finally!
“‘Spin the bottle’ and a kegerator: #MeToo movement lawmaker faces new sexual misconduct allegations
Staffers say California legislator presided over ‘toxic’ office.
SAN FRANCISCO — New misconduct allegations have been leveled against California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia — the high-profile #MeToo movement activist under investigation herself for alleged sexual harassment — including a claim that Garcia urged staffers to play “spin the bottle” after a political fundraiser.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/18/california-metoo-allegations-legislator-416916
Spin the bottle? How old are these people?
Have you seen her picture? If she isn’t aggressive about getting others to give her some, she ain’t gonna get none…
+ 1 wide Latina
Well said…
Finally got the answer to voting and a different registry!
*bares arms*
Sorry, Doom, but your pal isn’t worth the effort. HE didn’t flat out call you racist, though, so I’m a little shocked!
Voting doesn’t put people in harms way
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#Resist would disagree.
OK, so clinically-diagnosed paranoid schizophrenics go in the list. I’m not particularly incensed by that, especially if there’s a reasonable mechanism to remove them.
What about the ones that haven’t been diagnosed?
What about other clinically-diagnosed disorders? Get him to list them since he’s now an expert on who and what disorders qualify as being dangerous.
Chances are, within an exchange or two, he’ll say “Nazis can’t have guns”.
I godwinned a bit, and asked about those. Really, I just called him out on hypocrisy and his lack of care about due process.
I had a situation like that where I offered my adversary the opportunity to hang herself by listing the categories of thought criminals. It was far easier than creating a progression that she could say I was straw manning.
When she said “People who cut and mutilate themselves”, I asked if people who got tattoos and piercings fell into that category.
I tried that earlier, and he appealed to authority while saying he felt attacked i would bring up his lack of credentials.
“look, im no expert, but here’s a bunch of words that will make me feel better!”
Unless you vote for someone other than the approved Democrat candidate, in which case PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!
I almost brought up that, because I saw his bullshit like that right after the election.
Uh, voting doesn’t do anything at all. Voting is basically an occasional suggestion from the people that the person in office ought to leave and let someone else run things. The reason they listen to the suggestion is guns. If it’s an exchange of power between members of the ruling class, then only the guns of the ruling class (e.g. the armed bureaucracies) are necessary to keep the players abiding by the rules of the game. However, if it’s an exchange of power between the ruling class and the people (e.g., electing a populist outsider like Trump), then it’s the people’s guns that keep the ruling class honest.
Good point. hadn’t thought of that.
Also known as the wife beater amendment to the constitution.
I did want to ask why he wanted a woman to have to go find a psychiatrist and wait a bunch to prove she doesn’t have one of his mental illnesses to get a gun while she’s living with an abusive boyfriend or husband.
Why come you want women to die?
I really meant this.
But that is a good point as well.
I know, it just made me think of that again. it’s always been one tactic i want to use for those who want long waiting periods or whatever.
However, the right for all citizens to bare arms, regardless of mental health conditions or warning signs they’ve shown towards aggressive and psychotic tendencies, is inherently dangerous.
Bzzt. Your right to own guns can be taken away by a court if you are shown to be a danger to yourself or others. Of course, that requires some of that pesky due process first.
Voting doesn’t put people in harms way, because your right to vote can’t kill people.
Yeah, it actually kinda can. Like when you make it illegal to do sodomy and attach the death penalty to that. Or to selling drugs.
Voting doesn’t put people in harms way, because your right to vote can’t kill people.
Dumb as a box of rocks.
the right for all citizens to bare arms
See?
Ask the people that vote for despots that always win with ridiculous margins if that vote can’t have consequences…
We are losing our lives while the adults are playing around
Arguing from learned helplessness is not likely to convince me.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/965409355368620033
WTF, Fergie?
https://www.dailywire.com/news/27289/legitimately-worst-rendition-national-anthem-ever-hank-berrien
No, seriously, WTF?
Charles Barkley in response to Shaq calling her performance “different” and “sexy”: “Damn right it was different. I needed a cigarette after that”
Jim Rome just had a segment absolutely destroying her
Its like an audio negative of how it should be sung.
These links are crappy.
Bacon! How’s it going, buddy?
Maxine Waters attended Nation Of Islam convention where Farrakhan defended jihad suicide bombers
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/17/maxine-waters-nation-of-islam-louis-farrakhan/
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Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters attended a Nation of Islam convention where the hate group’s leader, Louis Farrakhan, defended Palestinian suicide bombers.
The convention, which took place in California in 2002, is just the latest tie to emerge between Democrats and the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist group known for being viciously anti-Semitic.
“We have Maxine Waters here,” Farrakhan told the convention audience, gesturing to the seats behind him, “our great congresswoman from this area.” The audience cheered Waters’ name.
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Farrakhan is a notorious anti-Semite who has called Jews “Satanic” and said that white people “deserve to die.” The Nation of Islam holds that white people are inherently inferior to black people and its leaders have criticized inter-racial marriage as unholy and wrong.
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No no, that must be Fake News™. The Southern Poverty Law Center has assured me that only right-wing politicians are involved with hate groups.
Doing lots of testing, and trying to stay under the radar while still needing opinions, if yall got any.
I was thinking about the characters after your weekend post re: voices and wondered whether an “Elmer Gantry” con-artist persona might be appropriate?
for which one?
I’m not sure. Each of the characters is effectively a mouthpiece, so the “Gantry” archetype wouldn’t necessarily need to be Trump (although Trump channeling Burt Lancaster’s Gantry would be hilarious). The Hair seems to be voice-of-reason in the the clip above which means The Hat is the other Gantry option.
By the way, these hat and hair voices are original, the clip the other night was temp audio I stole from another cartoon. What do you think of the sound of those voices?
I much preferred the voices from the other night.
So did I, but I can’t really use them. But do these new voices work? What changes could improve them?
Frankly, both The Hair and The Hat voices are so off-putting/distracting that any clear, character-differentiated voices would be an improvement.