This morning I can think of no better theme for the Links than the source of wisdom, moral exemplars and inspiration that is Hollywood. Bask in the glory. Take to heart the lessons. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD…uh…scratch that last one. Anyhoo, here is Hollywood for ya:
- Should you find yourself in the unfortunate situation of a divorce….who other than Ashton Kutcher could you look to for an example of how to manage the whole thing?
- I realize that many of you are in business, and in supervisory roles. Learn how to deal with your subordinates from yet another sterling example!
- We should be grateful that Hollywood brings us into contact with down to Earth, real people, you know – ones that can inspire us all to greatness.
- And if there is one more thing we can get from Hollywood, lately, it is originality!
Now, you must excuse me as I go bow, reverently, toward the Hollywood sign.
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672 responses to “Morning Links – Hollywood Edition”
Hollyweird
Now, you must excuse me as I go bow, reverently, toward the Hollywood sign.
Philistine! Hollywood is the heartbeat of America, purveyors of good taste and the beauty of art.
What does America have besides software, Hollywood and pizza delivery ?
600 million firearms, Hiro.
5 out of every 4 women has been through the rape gantlet?
We can bomb the shit out of your country!
– George Carlin
LOL WUT?
It’s like only Tundra got the reference… Does that make me a nerd? I hope not.
Nerd?
ONE OF US!
ONE OF US!
Fuggin tax refund better get here quick so I can buy my new AR.
Ashton Kutcher didn’t eat for a week after Demi Moore divorce
Didn’t eat what?
*thinks it over, begins to applaud*
“With Daniel Craig already on board to return as 007, MGM and Eon are looking to hire a director for the next installment of the James Bond franchise. High on their list is “Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle, though sources tell Variety that no formal offer has yet been made.
Boyle has keen interest in the project and has always wanted to direct a Bond film. He is currently developing a project for Working Title, but with no cast currently attached, there is always the possibility of pushing that movie back to direct the 25th installment in the series.”
Ian Fleming is dead. The Cold War is over. They should stop making Bond films.
Craig did a good job, maybe retiring the line with him would be best.
I share this sentiment.
Do what Toho does with Godzilla and let the series rest to avoid fatigue and creativite desperation.
There’s Sean Connery and no-one else. The franchise should have been retired decades ago.
Hipster. Each brought something new to the game. The problem is when they overstay their welcome.
From Russia With Love – brilliant. Never Say Never Again – awful.
Not this again. Roger Moore.
Roger Moore- hack at best.
Yes, but he had the absolute best villains in his first few Bond films. Christopher Lee, and Yaphet Kotto. Plus, you can’t forget Clifton James as Sheriff Pepper.
Da Plane Da Plane! Monsiuer Scaramanga..
When I think Bond, I think Roger Moore.
I liked Brosnan.
At least Brosnan did not overstay his welcome. He made one bad Bond film and GTFO.
Even with the most generous grading, he made at least 2 bad Bond films. Denise Richards as a top nuclear scientist was arguably even less plausible than the wind surfing through the space-laser tsunami in Die Another Day.
Last month I binge watched all the Bond films.
Moore is crap. Brosnan not much better.
Connery is alright but you can tell he wanted out after a couple movies.
Would have been nice to see what Lazenby could have done with it.
Dalton, and Craig. Those are the Bond films I want to watch again. Tough SOBs focused on the completing the mission and to hell what the politicians think.
I was bullied severely for my stance that Dalton might be the 2nd best Bond. You have been warned.
My problem with Dalton was that although I don’t know how tall he is, and he might have come over as a tough SOB, but he always seemed like a tough, racehorse-jockey SOB. He just had a ‘build’ that made him look like a really small guy with a big tough guy trying to bust out.
Yeah, I’m size-ist. Sue me.
I think Dalton was over 6 feet, but he’s lanky. Craig is only like 5’10” but he got pretty built for the role.
Connery, Brosnan, Lazenby and Dalton are all roughly 6’2 give or take a half inch here and there.
Moore was just a bit shorter.
Craig was the short one.
I think Lazenby was a great Bond and his film is still a good watch. Might have had a a good run had he not cocked it up. That said, I’m not sure he was Ian Flemming’s bond, he lacked the savagery – Dalton and Craig are much closer in that regard.
Obligatory.
Casino Royale was good because it was based that book.
Y’know, the thing about a Craig, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’
It’s like you don’t even want the inevitable woke female Bond.
Shitlord, you are!
Ian Fleming is dead. The Cold War is over. They should stop making Bond films.
They already addressed that topic in Goldeneye.
Which should have never been made. Because it was the first movie after they ran out of Fleming’s work.
Meh, I’ve only read 1 or 2 of the Fleming books, but I think the movies have taken enough liberties with the character from the beginning that the film franchise can happily go on without the original source material.
Casino Royalle and On her Majesty’s Secret Service are probably the only attempts to be truly loyal to the source material.
And OHMSS is sort of underrated. I consider it better than A View to a Kill.
I consider it better than A View to a Kill.
Jesus. That’s a low bar.
Goldeneye was great. Natalia, give me the access codes!
Ian Fleming wrote Octopussy?
Holy shit, he did!
….I’ve never given two flying fucks about the James Bond films.
*ducks*
They cant stop until a black queer woman but who is really agenderd gets to play Bond.
Speaking of which, Black Panther was pretty diverse which makes it great. But it would have been even greater and more diverse if it had more gays in it.
Was it pretty diverse? I though most of the cast was black. Were there Chinese? Native Americans? Inuit? Samoans?
There were, in fact, a few Koreans in the movie. In a scene that made no sense in which the black characters went undercover Bond style in a hidden Korean bar of some kind. I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to point out that they’d kind of stick out like a sore thumb in that place.
But diversity isn’t about actually depicting a multitude of different types of people. It’s about having as many non-white people in there as possible. Like, for every white member of the cast, you basically subtract from its diversity. It’s about showing gays, strong empowered independent females who have no flaws and make all men appear weak and foolish, and black people.
SF’d the link
There.
There is always another rung on the ladder of victimhood.
Wasn’t Craig talking quitting the franchise (hating it, even) back during Skyfall?
Yep, but either he changed his mind, or they dangled a big paycheck.
He was, they talked him into another one by offering him the GDP of a Caribbean tax haven.
He should have. SPECTRE was awful.
Hopefully this actually links to something.
Meh. The culture that was capable of spinning out Ian Flemming’s books is long gone. A broken man slowly putting together the bits and pieces of his psyche in order to find a human connection while simultaneously doing things that he knows will break him again was great.
The culture that was capable of spinning out the good Connery movies is long gone too. Celebrating masculinity is just not something done in polite society.
Everything else is just window dressings. Let it die.
A broken man slowly putting together the bits and pieces of his psyche in order to find a human connection while simultaneously doing things that he knows will break him again was great.
I thought they did a fair job of capturing that in Casino Royale and Skyfall. But there may well be an expiration date on the essential characteristics of Bond in this day and age.
My problem with the CR moving is that all of the psychological issues are, well, just a guy with dead eyes. Eastwood managed to pull it off in Pale Rider, but its a tough row to hoe. Its more literary than cinematic.
That said, I only watched Casino Royale once, and I was predisposed to not liking it on account of it not having Connery. Maybe I’ll give it a more honest watch and see what I think.
How about they bring back Dalton and we get to see an old 007 dealing with different kinds of problems?
If they brought Dalton back, the kind of problems he’d be solving is where he left his keys, how much metamucil to add to that glass of water he left somewhere, and whether to go for the StairClimber or StairClimber Deluxe
He still looked like he could handle it two years ago on Penny Dreadful.
“Ian Fleming is dead. The Cold War is over. They should stop making Bond films.”
What is this 1995?
speaking of Hollywood:
Conservatives Attack Black Panther — But, When It Hits, Declare It Conservative
Congrats – first OT link.
What do I win?
Um…Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt, And any thing that may not misbecome. The mighty sender, doth he prize you at.
If we ever meet in person, I guarantee you can give me narrow gazes to your heart’s content.
As long as it doesn’t misbecome me.
You look taller in your avatar
I loved you in Stripes.
Damn. Those mountains are crazy steep
He’s narrowing his gaze at half of Afghanistan again. *shakes head*
He was told to conduct a census…but there was a Tally Ban
Slammer, yes…steep.
*narrows gaze*
Caption: The Russians are pussies!
“Fuck, did I leave my wall locker back at the armory unlocked?”
Congrats – first OT link.
I’d argue it wasn’t OT, as the theme of this morning’s links was Hollywood, and LH’s link is about the biggest Hollywood film out at the moment. The “First OT” award rightfully belongs to someone else. This is as bad as when they announced the wrong best picture winner at the Oscars.
I was going to make that comment but didn’t want to face Swizzie’s wrath.
What’s amusing is that they think this was conservatives, not the alt right. I’m pretty sure this was the alt right.
1. Never Question the Narrative
2. Do you expect these idiots to possess enough nuance to make that distinction? I am pretty sure everything right of Marx is considered worse than Hitler to them.
“A photo of Jennifer Lawrence in which she appears to be shivering in a plunging Versace dress at a London press call while her male colleagues are wrapped up in coats around her has sparked controversy on social media.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5416107/Jennifer-Lawrence-Red-Sparrow-stars-London-photocall.html
Of course it has.
No gentleman offered her his coat?
Also – she looks better… from a distance… or with minimal lighting.
Oh come now, if one had….PATRIARCHY!!!!!
Maybe it’s something wrong with me, but I don’t see the attraction. She has that almost-addled look on her face most of the time that puts me off.
Did you see the ‘fix democracy’ interview? The woman is dumb as a post. I am surprised she didn’t add “…and world peace.” at the end.
Strippers love dolphins.
Therefore, I must love dolphins too?
Agreed.
I also never saw why people pant over Taylor Swift. Not a bad body but she has the rodent-like facial features of the waitresses commonly seen at the local Waffle House. Take away the millions of dollars from either and they’re both a big ‘meh’.
You shut up, Trigger. Leave Taylor Swift alone
What is going on here? Would to both Taylor and Jennifer.
And then you’d wind up in a song called “My Ex Boy Friend is an Asshat”.
Leading Women’s rights charity, The Fawcett Society, said the new images of the actress showed equality between the sexes was still ‘a long way off’.
Yes because poor wimminz have no agency or choice in what they wear. It is all society innit
Chivalry is an evil patriarchal construct…not being chivalrous is a sign of callous, toxic masculinity.
Do try to keep up.
She wanted to show off the dress, is what I am thinking.
She wanted to show off what was in the dress, is what I am thinking.
On the Sunset strip, no matter how cold it gets, most of the women out at night wear mini skirts. It sometimes gets into the thirties. I’ve been there in winter with thick coats and gloves hanging out with chicks wearing daisy dukes and wife beaters.
When will society stop making millionaires stand out in the cold?
Somebody forced her to wear that dress and refused to let her have a coat?
They also refused to let her leave. They’re not taking a group photo, those patriarchs are holding her there.
Feminists: The patriarchy patronizes womyn with its antiquate oppression in the form of chivalry!
Also feminists: No man would come to the rescue of this poor white blonde damsel in distress, where muh chivalry gone?!
Feminists: We want the benefits of chivalry, without any of the obligations.
That’s feminism in a nutshell. That and it is cover for marxism.
sparked controversy on social media
*immediately tunes out*
She looks high as a kite with those vacant eyes.
Bingo. If those aren’t the look of someone with a hand bag full of momma’s little helpers, I’ll eat my hat.
If someone had offered his coat, he’d been accused of rape. Coatrape.
Hmmm…The Hat, The Hair, and The Coat?
And if there is one more thing we can get from Hollywood, lately, it is originality! – heroin, shaken not stirred
Smoked, not injected?
isn’t smoking heroin a bit of a waste though?
Hey, if you are high class, you can afford plenty more, right?
Class has nothing to do with money. I learned that in the Kingsmen.
manners maketh man is what you are saying?
*finishes Guinness*
*loud belch*
YERP!
It works pretty good.
And because no sports links I shalt provide one
Meetoo comes to the Dallas Mavericks
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2760616-report-dallas-mavericks-hostile-workplace-an-open-secret
Hopefully this makes it to Trump’s Twitter.
God I hope Cuban gets hoist on this particular petard.
was Cuban a vocal meetoo supporter?
I’m not sure, but he climbs onto every politically toxic bandwagon so he has it coming to him regardless.
yes but then the petard saying don’t work so well.
I dislike him enough to hope he gets hoist on any petard, doesn’t have to be his own.
“a corporate culture rife with misogyny and predatory sexual behavior.”
And the men weren’t any better.
“The woman who took in Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz, 19, and his minor brother Zachary after their mother’s death has filed for control over their mother’s estate.
Rocxanne Deschamps filed documents seeking to be named the administrator of Lynda Cruz’s reportedly $800,000 estate on Thursday, just one day after the shooter massacred 17 victims and injured 15 others at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in the city of Parkland. Zachary, age 17, still lives with 42-year-old Deschamps at her home in Lake Worth, Florida, which was her grounds for seeking the court appointment, as he is a beneficiary who is also a minor in her custody, at least for the next week.
The shooter’s younger brother has been undergoing psychiatric evaluation at a mental hospital in Palm Beach since Friday. Zachary was committed involuntarily because of Deschamps, a source told the New York Post. But he turns 18 this week and is expected to be released before his birthday. Chad Bennett, 37, who is a close friend of Deschamps, told DailyMail.com the only reason Zachary is being investigated is due to spurious allegations about him to police that the 17-year-old would ‘finish what his older brother started.’ Bennett did not say who it was that raised those concerns.
Bennett says Deschamp’s petition in Broward County to gain formal control of what remains of Lynda Cruz’s estate is not for her personal gain.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5415655/Woman-cared-Florida-shooter-court-papers-inheritance.html
He also practiced tai chi, although he has no training in the martial art form. “I was just doing what came to me,” he said.a
That is the most Hollywood sentence ever.
lol.
I wonder if the article was meant to make people feel all ‘wow. he’s so cool and lucky!’ All I saw was the opposite.
Satire is dead.
Hollywooooooood Babylon!
So how was that NYE show?
Worth every penny. Fantastic experience and they played most of their catalog, sounded great
Awesome.
I like this much better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcVS4Kpdn0E
Unsolicited advice: How to ask for consent without “being weird”
My love for you is like a truck, Berserker
Would you like some making fuck, Berserker
NICELY DONE.
Pie – #1 comment of the month.
Best Kevin Smith movie
Seconded.
Did he say “making fuck?”
My love for you is ticking clock, Berserker
Would you like to suck my cock, Berserker
Olaf, metal face!
Olaf, Berzerker, girl think sexy!
Best scene from any Kevin Smith movie. My friends and I were just yelling Berserker at each other after seeing that for no reason at all.
Yes, nothing conveys sexual confidence more than timidly seeking permission for your every movement.
So does a woman require consent to spit or swallow? Just asking
If those are her only viable options, you’ve already won.
I was told I was being creepy. “This is what I wanna do first…”
It helps if they’re not chained to a gynecological chair, straff.
Whoa, how’d you get your hands on my latest submission?
I like being asked, it’s like another invite to a fine evening. Just because someone is asking doesn’t mean that it’s timid.
Women never ask me. They just take and take and take.
You lucky bastard.
Mad Magazine did a PC James Bond section ten or fifteen years ago. One bit had him ticking off items on a do’s and don’t’s list before bedding down with a Bond Girl. What is it about history being farce, then tragedy? Well, here’s your tragedy, we’re a post-sex nation. Thanks, progressives.
I don’t think I’ve ever asked for sex. You make a move, then gauge the reaction to see if it’s going further. It’s like these people have never met humans.
No affirmative consent? That means you raped them!
Especially if they say the sex was sub par after the fact..
If you’re genuinely aspie enough, it’s possible to misinterpret reactions. I’ve had it happen a couple of times, but seriously, a lot of the people writing these rules are – if not literally – then functionally virgins.
I believe it starts “Mother, may I … “
Eww
Romania may get one more legal holiday, the Friday before Easter. I am sort of starting to feel bad bout all these free days. Now I still have 8 holiday days from last year I need to take by April.
Take them all, go travel wine country and give us a few posts about your journey!
In Romania, they do not drink…wine.
We should be grateful that Hollywood brings us into contact with down to Earth, real people, you know – ones that can inspire us all to greatness. – I have to learn the acronyms. I had barely learned TOWIE form the daily fail, no this.
Just Sayin’: how do you like the new avatar? It was chosen because it’s the best example of a swoop clearly made with old lady styling curlers each.
Personally I would have gone for the crisp 2007 $50 Zimbabwean bank note for winnings; my circulated Zimbabwean Dollar collection was delivered to me yesterday.
s/each/evah
Whoops, there isn’t a $50 note, only a 20 and a 100 adjacent in my collection. But I digress.
It’s the Nick Gillespie of Tulpa’s
Hey, man, cool Milo avatar.
???
You are a man of your word, Pomp. Excellent picture pick
Fuck Hollywood
What I was thinking when I heard about the latest reboot from those unoriginal fucks.
That’s just wrong.
No.
No.
No.
Fuck that noise.
Jesus Christ. Everything I said above about Bond being a product of the times and to let it die? Put it here like a billion times over.
How fucking lazy are these people? SMDH
And re: Magnum. I’ve been re-watching the series on COZI and damn. That show holds up so well, I bet the originals would get decent Neilson ratings if they aired for the first time today.
Tom Selleck is just all around great.
Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade.
This is how you do it!
Ian Fleming is dead. The Cold War is over. They should stop making Bond films.
Oh, come on. I’m sure there’s somebody in Hollywood who can scrape a thinly disguised version of the 2016 election, featuring a strong supporting role by the KochBros, off the bottom of that barrel. Throw in a bunch of pointless completely impossible cgi stunts, and it’ll be box office dynamite.
Do you even Russian Collusion, bro?
Think of the possibilities.
I have no idea who she is or why she’s famous. No more of an idea than what is in the links. And I refuse to read to find out.
It’s the Daily Mail. Where Emma Roberts grabbed an ice coffee is a story.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5415635/Emma-Roberts-wears-fanny-pack-grab-iced-coffee.html
As far as I can tell something to to with the Kardashian curse
OK, last week I had Kim K’s fame explained to me (female-splained if you must know), and it totally makes sense to me now. What I got out of the explanation: Kim K is famous because Ryan Seacrest and Paris Hilton. Also OJ. After that, Kim K’s aggressive self-marketing personality took over, and here we are.
I don’t blame her one bit for trying to leverage as much as she can off the masses.
Any explanation of Kim K that doesn’t include RayJ is wrong. She was one of thousands of LA hangers on, partying with celebs because she had money from daddy. Then she fucked a rapper on camera and people decided it was time for her fifteen minutes of fame. She parlayed that fifteen minutes into a massive media presence.
Nipples is my guess.
We banned machine guns in the 1930s. Why can’t we ban semi-automatic assault rifles now?
4 teh childrunz!!!!!
There was a gun thread a few days ago on Reason. Hihn went wild on that one.
Heh, I haven’t checked in on Reason in probably close to a year. Let me guess, 379% of libertarians who reject the label because of Paulista Christian Taliban cultists are in favor of common sense gun-free abortion clinics?
He was all America needs drastic gun control cause it worked in Australia.
Thank god he stands on the front lines for us as the last true libertarian.
That thread was a tornado of hooker diarrhea. And it wasn’t just Hihn. They’ve picked up a fresh crop of trolls from Volokh, as well as some old familiar voices under new handles. Hit&Run is just a carnival of sadists and the masochists who stick around to take it.
Hit@Cum
*&
*sigh*
I’ll just show myself out
Hihn blew my mind when he asserted that “unalienable” meant the opposite of its dictionary definition. He genuinely believes it means rights have to be “balanced” with others like pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. Well, that’s only true of positive rights, but the right to bear arms is a negative one.
He genuinely believes
that the Democratic Party, ca. 1995, as represented by Clinton and indirectly moderated by Gingrich and Congress, forever and always represents the will of the American People, even though Clinton never won a majority of the popular vote (43% in 1992!), and that moreover this is the true form of libertarianism (“socially liberal, fiscally conservative”), which is completely indistinguishable from the will of the people, but has been nefariously twisted and misrepresented by the so-called “libertarians” and their “anti-government” stance.
Never mind that the LP is older than that, that it has always had a strong “anti-government” (not anarchist) stance, that Clinton did a number of things which don’t fit under the “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” banner, that the Democratic Party today is not like it was in the 1990s, that the only reason the Democrats were fiscally conservative in the 1990s was because the Republican Party in the 1990s controlled Congress and was fiscally conservative (at least, compared to the Republican Party from 2001 onward), and that a political movement which strives for popular appeal above all else debases itself of any consistent principles (see: Republicans and Democrats).
Sanity in the comments:
I wouldn’t dismiss the full auto regulation too quickly. With the no new auto ban in 1986, it has made full auto rare and expensive. I don’t know anyone who owns full auto. If they got a detachable magazine, semi-auto rifle new manufacturing ban and required NFA paperwork for transfer of existing semi-auto detachable mag rifles, in 50 years you could see an extreme curtailment of black rifles. That’s my fear.
I think they should be legal but there’s a lot of practical reasons why automatic rifles will be a novelty outside of the military even if legal. The cost of ploughing through ammo is one reason.
But semi-automatic bans aren’t really the same. The size of the magazine is limited by how big a manufacturer makes a magazine, not by whether it’s semi-automatic. The difference in firing speed is minimal as well compared to something like a revolver. Lethality has little to do wth firing speed anyway.
I’d bet all the mass shootings could be done with bolt action rifles. Unless we go back to loading black powder cartridge rifles will always be fast enough to kill many people, especially in an unarmed Place.
My understanding is that they’re a novelty in the military as well.
I’m not saying it would be effective. It would be like the WOD. If would drive the culture underground and make a third of Americans criminals.
What is “any-other-weapon”?
A category of NFA weapons. Basically, it means weird stuff, usually stuff like knife-guns.
26 U.S.C. § 5845(E)
For the purposes of the National Firearms Act, the term “Any Other Weapon” means:
– Any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive;
– A pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell;
– Weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading; and
– Any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire.
– Such term shall not include a pistol or a revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made, or intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition.
More
There are a number of different and useful firearms which come under that designation – usually because they’res no specific prohibition in the old ban.
A good example is a short barrelled firearm that looks like a sawn-off shotgun, but never had a stock fitted. If it never had a stock, it was never a shotgun. So, if you buy a Mossberg Compact Cruiser, it’s an AOW. Not a shotgun.
Don’t take the grip off and put a stock on it, because that would stop it being an AOW. There are a number of other devices that do the same kind of thing, but in essence, it could legitimately be the ‘loophole’ that the grabbers ought to be talking about.
Is the Knifeketeer SOL?
Didn’t those L.A. bank robbers have fully automatic weapons?
And Paddock with a device that turned his semi-auto into a machine-gun. And blah blah blah. One argument this minute, another the next. They are like spoiled children who just keep nagging and switching tactics until they get what they want. Everything they say is calculated to deceive. Fuckers can go sit on a sharp stick.
No, they’re illegal.
The always relevant Cake and Compromise
Excellent
Dangerous offer lures teenagers into sex trafficking
It’s a way an abuser can find young people who are vulnerable.
It’s also a way to find teens who will work for cash under the table. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
“Whenever she sees a poster that resembles sex trafficking, she rips them down. And she knows a group full advocates who do the same.”
Maybe they are also putting them up?
Flyers. Do they have a phone number on them? Some enterprising genius cop could probably check on them.
I recruit at the Girl Scout Cookie tables set up outside of stores around here.
You would, though. Also, aren’t some girl scouts too old for you?
Hey, give me some Thin Mints and it’s all good.
Damn I love me some thin mints.
Explain this to your wife.
OMWC’s favorite charity?
She better stay out of Vegas. Assuming Vegas still has all those “strippers” straight to your room flyers and cards littering the strip. I think they disappeared during the “Vegas is a family destination” period in the 90s.
“disappeared for a while then came back big time”
I hate those guys with the cards. The constant shuffling sound (or whatever you call it) is so annoying.
Another actress who made her career on her back pointing the #MeToo finger. Any man who doesnt adopt the Pence rule is a fool and deserves what they get. Anyone else notice that all of the accused appear to have money or power? Anyone else notice they also seem to be of a certain political bent and not of others?
*sits down with bowl of popcorn*
I wonder who gets eaten tomorrow.
“Any man who doesnt adopt the Pence rule is a fool and deserves what they get.”
I wouldn’t go that far.
Lay in the road, get run over.
Uh, no. It is foolish, but saying you deserve to have your entire life ruined because you didn’t have a chaperone is pretty absurd.
I don’t think talking to someone is the equivalent of laying in a road.
In the current environment, if it’s a woman with no witnesses, it kind of is.
This seems kind of similar to saying “look at what she was wearing, she deserved it.”
No. No, they don’t deserve it. There are things that are foolish, but that doesn’t mean people deserve what happens to them when they thought they could trust the person they’re around and it bites them in the ass.
Depends on what you mean by “deserve it”
Yes, in a perfect world, you could leave a fat roll of hundred dollar bills out on a cafe table while you go to the restroom. But you’re a fool if you do.
This is one of those Chesterton’s Gate type things that evolved for a good reason, and then the crusading Year Zero morons tore it down because they thought it had no purpose.
I’m engaged to be married. I don’t eat meals alone with other women. I don’t spend time behind close doors with other women. I don’t text any women more than I text my fiancee. That goes absolutely triple for any proggie acquaintances. I am not going to be their bullshit tale of oppression and sorrow.
Hey, I have a right to wander drunk around the ‘hood at 1:00 AM with cash sticking out of my pockets singing “We’re in the Money”, but that doesn’t mean I’m not an idiot if I do it. There is such a thing as being responsible enough to manage and mitigate known risks.
Sorry for not getting back sooner. The weather turned super shitty here.
I would have agreed with y’all only a year ago but as WTF says, these days it is like laying in the road. Every man of means has a target painted on them and it seems like there is an endless supply of women anxious to get their name and face in the spotlight and be lavished with pity while the mob stones some poor slob who cant even remember her name or face.
It is like laying in the road.
In the past I would have agreed, but now, I’m thinking you’re a fool if you allow any opportunity for a potential false accusation.
There needs to be violent reprisals for false accusations. If the state fails to provide justice, is it really vigilantism?
Uh…yeah, it is. I wouldn’t advocate violence but civil action isnt out of the question.
Which is why they have been trying so hard to undermine the rule of law. Vigilantism is their MO, not ours.
But the Pence Rule is soooo problematic.
and then, when the film turned out to be a success, proceeded to explain how it was really all about Donald Trump and the conservative values he embodies, or some other tedious political shit.
Imagine me as a character in a Tex Avery short film.
*jaw drops onto desk, making a hammer-striking-anvil sound*
US show of force sends Russia a message in Black Sea
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/19/politics/us-russia-black-sea-show-of-force/index.html
See this is the good kind of military presence
Exclusive footage.
Funny how often you find Russians flying Northrop F-5s.
Honestly. I seriously, seriously, SERIOUSLY hated that movie.
This is a good kind of military presence. The ones that the Chinese do in the Pacific are the bad kind of military presence or something
A Global Force for Good. Did you not see the commercial?!?
Not just a job; an adventure.
Well as long as the shores of Romania are protected …
Until Russia decides the Romania shore belongs to them too.
well preventing that is your job Americans
So then it’s Americans who do the job that no one else will do: defend Eastern Europe
well if you nuked Russia in 1945 like you should have this would not bean issue
Damn us and our nuclear restraint
Damn us and our nuclear restraint
We probably only had so many working prototypes at the time.
We will do just as good a job as we did for Ukraine.
Was it a “Message in a Battle?”
Russian ice skater Evgenia Medvedeva broke her own world record in the women’s short program Wednesday, only to have her compatriot overtake her minutes later.
Alina Zagitova, a 15-year-old skating prodigy, set a huge score of 82.92 at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, 1.31 points clear of Medvedeva’s short-lived world record.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/21/sport/olympics-ice-skating-zagitova-medvedeva-intl/index.html
Seems age of consent in Russia is 16 … although I doubt that stops any self respecting local oligarch
DA!
A world record in a “sport” where the “score” is determined solely by judges?
She put on the greatest performance ever last year at an event in Tokyo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riHSCgHYUUc
I expected a wardrobe malfunction. Instead I was subjected to actual figure skating.
This is not about Medvedeva but Zagitova. Are you saying all Russian skaters are the same you russophobe?
My last check from Putin hasn’t come in yet. I’m pissed off.
You just like the outfit.
And Medvedeva is officially legal and a clear would
*types “Medvedeva” into Google Images*
Dear God..
On the Winter Olympics, apparently the US won gold in the women’s team sprint x-country skiing. From the BBC: “That is the race the USA have been waiting for for two or three decades,” BBC commentator Ollie Williams said. “They will be talking about this all over America.”
I’m not so sure about that.
Was this discussed yesterday?
Mueller Patched Together Much of His Indictment from 2015 Radio Free Europe Article
I had forgotten about it until I ran across an article that brought it up, but Mueller is also the dildo who spent half a decade railroading 2 innocent guys for the 2001 anthrax attacks until one of them committed suicide. Looks like he’s still as sharp as ever.
The piece in question, in case anyone wants a recap.
Yeah, Mueller is basically incompetence personified. Possibly why he got the job. Need a guy to take forever, make accusations well beyond evidence and then declare victory.
Mueller is your guy.
Mueller also hired this classy guy.
This is the guy who bankrupted Arthur Andersen during the Enron blowup. Then had all his convictions overturned for withholding exculpatory evidence. His punishment? Getting promoted and famous.
So you railroad a company and put 20K people out of work and you get to be a rock star. Fuck prosecutors in the neck.
The whole thing is a dog and pony show to distract from Clinton’s and especially Obama’s corruption. I am starting to wonder if it will work. They seem to be past their knees in quicksand and sinking a little more every day.
You would think either it will work or fail and will be the subject in history books and journalism classes in the future.
They have to know by now it’s all bull shit. It’s hard to believe if they’re really journalists – even semi-competent – they wouldn’t have learned info. and evidence pointing to BS. They have to be doing it to push a narrative. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
But there won’t be a fallout I reckon. It will dissipate and nothing will happen and they will repeat this behaviour down the road.
Tell stupid lies often enough, and people will believe them. Especially if you can use those lies to provide cover for the criminal enterprises of team blue. I hope history shows how horrible the Obama administration was and how low their opinion of the people and their rights and freedoms was someday, because that administration was nothing but a crime syndicate pretending to be something else.
It was actually reported in 2013 by Russians. Here’s a Washington Post interview with the guy who did that piece in which the Post tries to come to grips with the fact that they all yawned and dismissed these stories when initially posted, but now they have to pretend they are super serious signs of the nefarious Russian threat.
Gist is – Post interviewer knows people are responding to this with a yawn and saying, “That’s it?” So he has to try and steer the story to how sophisticated the Russians were and how we just plain don’t know what impact it had.
Also funny:
It’s a good possibility the place is for marketing . They got involved in politics on both sides, not because “they” care about politics, but because people care about politics. That expands the networks of the fake profiles so they can “like” and share products that people pay them to promote.
That also explains why they had cute puppies and kitty pages. Not to push the puppy agenda but to get followed, liked, shared, etc.
What impact did it have, then? Prior to the election, that is. It’s had incredible impact since the election, as Democrats rushed to beclown themselves at Putin’s behest in making the entire election fracas hinge on an entirely meaningless (and entirely predictable) ad campaign by the Russians.
I can’t fully express how delighted I am in the fact that the American media is using the term “troll farm” in covering this and expecting anyone to ever take them seriously ever again.
They’re trying to get younger people to get the news habit. Without realizing they’re turning off all the people with actual incomes that had the news habit and are slowly breaking away from it.
It’s about quality over quantity
I keep trying to point out to people that the FBI “Investigation” of russian hacking is woefully less-informed than the internet-security-company white papers from 2015 which provide detailed analysis of russian hackery from 2008 forward
https://www.f-secure.com/documents/996508/1030745/dukes_whitepaper.pdf
listening to the FBI try to explain shit to people is like hearing your grandmother try to explain how the internet works. “its like the telephone but with pictures”. its not just clumsy and wrong, it pretends that this shit emerged out of thin air last year rather than being a constant feature of the past decade+
Anything that happened before the ‘reset button’ is null and void, shitlord.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWj6k5sUMAANiXW.jpg:large
“How dare you call us out for what we are so clearly and transparently doing. Appalling.”
When all of your mistakes go in one direction, as some of his colleagues have noted, it kind of gives the game away.
His twitter is a gold mine of retarded.
How many retractions and corrections have they made?
It would seem to me, if you’re competent and objective journalists you wouldn’t be throwing around unsubstantiated BS around like you have.
We need reasonable first amendment regulation. If you make a mistake, you have to print the corrections in the same format as you printed the error. Your error was Front page news and ran for two weeks? Your front page is going to be corrections for two weeks.
No more assault newspapers, am I right? And the paper’s ideological enemies get to define assault.
Reasonable, common sense Press control.
You have to run off your prints on the sort of hand-cranked presses they used at the time of the founding.
Nobody needs an industrial-grade high-speed digital printing press.
I stayed up to watch Team USA play the Czech Republic in the quarters. It was a very good game. The USA deserved a better fate. They took it to the CZE in OT.
Tell you what, CZE can win this because of their defensive “trap” style. They remind me of the ’98 team. Very annoying to play against and they seem content to sit and play for the shoot out.
Yeah, I stayed up for it, too. I’m not a fan of Olympic JV hockey. It’s like watching a college game.
But I agree with your assessment. CZE plays kind of a boring style, but they can sure slow down a fast team.
I still think a Canada/Russia final is most likely.
Yeh but the hockey is exciting. Just watched Canada beat Finland and now Sweden just overcame a 0-3 deficit to tie it against Germany heading into OT. Good stuff.
If the CZE shoot-out their way into a Gold medal I will be very annoyed.
Clarence Thomas: The Case To Impeach Supreme Court Justice Over His Alleged Sexual Misconduct
Good god we dodged a bullet by her not being elected. Witch hunts after political opponents, greater restrictions on speech, guns and video games.
^this.
i thank my lucky stars every morning for that cunt losing to Trump.
I firmly believe there is some higher being watching over this country sometimes. While GWB was a dumbass douche, I have ample evidence that a Gore presidency would have been on par with the shitty one from Obama minus all the chocolate love. Now we have Orangeman instead of Crooked Shillary, and the more we see of her the more it looks like we dodged a deadly bullet. Even the Obama presidency, as corrupt and vile as it was, might prove beneficial: as people find out how bad that crime syndicate fucked us all over, it might finally make some people aware that government bureaucrats are never your friend.
What a clownshow.
My wife watches those stupid Real Housewives shows. I truly loathe those people. Losers with money. How they have a money is a mystery.
They’re the most annoying, miserable, idiotic bunch of banshees on TV.
I really hope Bravo! tells those low-level drama queens to go eat a puck.
They’re married to rich husbands?
Yeh – mystery.
And I think one or two of them have businesses?
That they started with hubby’s cash.
Power of feminism!
John Kerry hardest hit?
Could be worse. Could be watching The View.
True story, my ex was one of the original “Real Housewives of Orange County.” She was only on the first season, and quit when she realized the show wasn’t go to be anything but tawdry and exploitative. This being the first series, the one that started it all, I can believe she had no idea what the show would become.
An electric zap on the ankle can boost women’s sex drive
*shuffles feet on carpet*
OH HONEY, COME HERE!
Works every time, 60% of the time or at least when it’s dry in the house
Better odds than before.
If a little shock is good, a big shock should work better.
*preps golf cart battery*
A taser gets her to move her hips… win/win?
This sort of entrepreneurship is why I read these comments…
An electric zap on the ankle can boost women’s sex drive
No wonder the Victorian era moralists found revealing the ankles to be scandalous. They were ahead of their times.
This is relevant to my interests as one of my favorite toys is a Violet Wand. Never tried specifically zapping the ankle before. I will report back on the efficacy of this method.
Meh. They should have some kind of test before they let people submit shit to Wikipedia. The component in the wand is a collet. Not a collert.
Some fan needs to stop zapping his THOTs and learn to engineer.
See, I didn’t even read the article. But good call.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/966134015337140229
Brave firefighters dox some random woman who inadvertently pushed a supposed Russian-backed event during the election.
How dare you criticize and insult the media! You hate the First Amendment! The Fourth Estate is so valuable. Without them, how would we know what random person’s life to ruin for the latest made-up faux pa.
Didn’t the media publicize a whole shit load of #Resistance protests right after the election that turned up thousands of people and also ended up being coordinated by the dreaded Twitter KGB?
Yeah, but that’s different. Come on, let’s go ruin some random woman’s life rather than asking Michael Moore why he attended an anti-Trump protest supposedly organized by Russian agents
Yes, CNN and MSNBC did glowing reports on resistance anti-Trump rallies that turned out to be organized by the Russians.
We need News-Control.
Look, everyone has an inalienable right to the free press. But when someone shows that they can’t be responsible with it, I think it only makes sense for them to have their inalienable rights taken away for the rest of their life. What’s so crazy about that.
(PS – being sad or old is a sign of using a press in an irresponsible way)
You know if we could spike all the news about school shootings it would probably be the most effective deterrent available.
My pet theory is that after Columbine a lot of these losers saw shooting up a school as a way to become famous and have the world finally acknowledge how awesome they are. If we stopped reporting on any shooting, the celebrity goes away and so will other shootings.
*probably not true, but I’m cranky today after staying up too late rehydrating after basketball last night.
Drinking alcohol more important than exercise for living past 90, study says
God bless science
“I have no explanation for it, but I do firmly believe that modest drinking improves longevity,” Kawas stated
That’s not sounding very science. Sounds more like alcohol consumption isn’t casually tied at all.
*causally
I don’t doubt that drinking, modestly or otherwise improves quality of life. I don’t give a shit about my longevity if my increased lifespan is characterized by my being miserable.
Oh, dearie me.
Met a girl on Tinder. Found out she has a 5 year old kid and a husband. She despises him. She’s Vietnamese and I’m fairly certain she’s a mail-order-esque bride. She is super hot and is also a pole dancer and has sent me vids of her dancing and also of her in a bubble bath.
I already know that she is batshit. I know this. Eminently aware.
*Looks down at penis.*
“I am very close to sticking you in some bugfuck crazy. Don’t worry she lives in another town.”
I’m gonna need some watah ovah here!
Stay away. You can’t possibly be that desperate.
Seriously, run.
Yes, I am!
The call of the hawt vag is strong with this one…
Don’t do it. Just don’t.
Pic?
I tried but the (Korean) messaging app won’t let me download it even though they say it’s an option.
She sent me a vid today and she’s like A+ Kpop singer hot.
I need to get a casting couch….
Screenshot your own phone.
I’m on it.
How do you post photos?
An admin has to do it. Mail it to me. sugarfreejay @ gmail.com
And expect the footage to be on all major media outlets within the day.
Can put it on imgur and just link it. Will also give you the ability to delete.
Will also give you the ability to delete.
Quiet, you.
The anticipation is killing me
wood.
Dafuk are you waiting for???
You’re so fucked it’s not funny.
Why are you not fucking her right this second? You moron.
[insert Viet Nam war joke here]
Oh Mai Dong!
Sorry, I’m buying that is a woman who had a kid five years ago.
I mean “not buying”
THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM. DON’T ACT LIKE ANY OF YOU WOULDN’T BE CONFLICTED.
I have HAD DRINKS with this woman. I charmed her with humor and she thinks drummers are sexy. Which she is absolutely correct about. She is pushing hard. I see all the warning signs. I see every single one of them. I sense scam immediately. But my brain is not able to turn off the intense amount of lust that is pulsating through me.
Getting mugged or beaten would be worth it to throw a devastating (and transcendently blissful) fuck into this girl.
Once more unto the breach!
You’re thinking with your cock. You’ll be paying for it with something else. SWOT analysis, bud.
You will regret not fucking this batshit hosehound far more than you’ll regret the predictable and hilarious consequence of banging her. Do it, pussy.
I’m dead serious. Make sure you’re untraceable, unblackmailable and un-stalkable, take a deep breath, make sure she’s sure too, and hit it like a fucking pinata.
Then you’ll find out what the scam is.
Need videos now to offer best advice
Put all your papers in a safety deposit box. Shred all your credit cards. Get a medical emergency bracelet. Go to town.
Here we are, all offering free “Personal Advice”. What kind of libertarians are we?
And, shouldn’t ZardoZ be offering his advice?
You’re fucked.
*I* wouldn’t be conflicted. Seriously, the fact you are asking us for advice is all the warning you need. IT’S A BAD IDEA THAT ISN’T GOING TO END WELL.
The people telling you to go for it are hoping to be entertained. And this is the sympathy you are going to get when you tell us your jaw is wired shut and you’ve got electro-gonorrhea.
To be fair (and not at all rude), Tarran, I’m not actually asking for advice.
It’s just a situation that has popped up in my life. Most likely nothing will come out of it. I’m socially an idiot, but I’ve had enough on-the-edge experiences to know when things are shady and when they ain’t. I’ll negotiate the terrain as I test it out.
To quote a genius twice:
“Like a midget at a urinal….I’m gonna have to stand on my toes.”
“Like a blind man at an orgy….I was gonna have to feel my way through.”
Tarran, I’m not actually asking for advice</em.
I'm just here to brag.
You’ve already decided you’re going to, so I’d just take all the precautions I can think of… and be certain that I’ve forgotten something (hopefully not something vital).
PS: Post the video for us (chuckle)
Sex is sex. You don’t need to be in it for the relationship. Crazy is only a problem if you react like you give a shit, hit it hard and no regrets.
@Warty: You just like her cuz she squats.
You…uh…are correct to have such thoughts.
Request and upload an ass pic, plz.
A woman who doesn’t squat will soon have gravity winning the battle of the butt.
A woman that won’t squat will NEVER be able to smuggle in solid gold buttplugs past customs at an airport.
Don’t do it, but tell all your friends you did and then show them the videos
Also, post videos here
^^this^^
Don’t listen to these guys. Ask her if she has a friend for a threesome
I knew I liked you for a reason.
Just, for the love of god, do not allow her to know where you live.
Even I am not that stupid. She lives 30 miles away. That does help the decision making process.
Meet in some DMZ and do the deed, then run for the hills. Don’t let her know where you live, or you will regret what comes after more.
Go for it! You only live *once!
*please don’t take my advice.
And his life may be much closer to the end if he does this.
I stopped reading at 5 year old.
And started looking for her on Tinder?
Speaking as a guy with a type-T personality, even I counsel caution.
If you do go, take no more than $40, some pepper spray and wear a stab-proof vest.
Ask JW about this.
Go for it!
Don’t.
Stick it.
In crazy.
This is pretty much how I feel.
They say you shouldn’t stick it in crazy! But that is misleading! You should go real deep INTO crazy!
C’mon – I have fond memories of a crazy GF…. her pointing a (fake) gun at other cars as I drove. Her chasing crows at park, running from tree to tree, squawking. The insta-clothes drop as soon as she walked through the front door. The Diamanda Galas albums *shudder*
A crazy ex-wife is how I learned that lesson. There’s that “have you ever HAD crazy sex?” bit, but man, the rest just ain’t worth it.
Listen to the man Evan… Listen to the man. He knows of what he speaks!
Pix?
Let me know how and I will. It’s right here on my computer now.
You are a god among men. Email them to me and I’ll help out- except the nudes, which I’ll keep in my personal collection.
omwc at this domain.
The Diamanda Galas albums *shudder*
I was listening to an interview with Amy Rigby last week, and she cited Diamanda Galas as a musical influence. I shuddered.
Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric https://youtu.be/mWuXHyp5BJM
Okay, is crazy-hot ex-girlfriend syndrome just misdiagnosed borderline schizophrenia?
That and bipolar disorder.
My crazy-ass ex was up and down, up and down.
When she was up it was fan-fucking-tastic: blow-jobs at the movies, taking all her clothes off while we were stuck in traffic, running and laughing and beaming at me like I was the best person in the whole goddamn world. When she was down it was screaming and crying because she found one of her friend’s earring in my car and that meant I was cheating on her, sending her brother who was in the Marines after me by lying to him that I hit her and the time she slipped me a quadruple dose of her Prozac in a soda because I “seemed a little sad.”
Having stuck it in a few crazy ones, I have always, without exception, come to regret it later. Now if I only could learn the lesson and not let Junior make the decisions of where he wants to go spelunk….
The fact there’s a kid and a husband would be enough for me to pull out.
What you did there was seen.
This could be a very bad decision.
Pull a Nixon and Carpet bomb that.
Do it, pussy.
Do it butt, too. I mean, why not?
Go for the trifecta!
Everyone but Pie is wrong. I had one crazy girlfriend, and I don’t regret it. I regret giving her my name and home address. So play it smart. Your name is Swiss Servitor or Tundra, and meet her for drinks near a cheap motel. Then when you get home, change your phone number. Burn your clothing. Change jobs. Move. And get plastic surgery so you look like someone else.
I confess: i originally read this as
“Met a girl on Tinder. Found out she is a 5 year old kid”
And?
Stay away from Tinder, the best thing you’ll get from there is a STD.
Finally, the battle royale all Glibs have been waiting for; tits vs. ass.
http://archive.is/ueJYt
Let the shitposting begin!
for some reason 49 looks cute
“Utah…get me two”
Lol
17, 59, 96
These hundred-hottie fields are tough.
31 crushes it.
It’s February in New England and I have my windows open. I’ll celebrate with an orgy then spend some quality time with #76 afterwards to convince her to switch to either a recurve or a longbow.
73 & 88. Nice field.
Objectivity and realms of explanation in academic journal articles concerning sex/gender: a comparison of Gender studies and the other social sciences
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5502066/
We need another Sokal affair.
Who could tell? Gender studies has been mired deep in Poe territory since Haraway argued with a straight face that women should become cyborgs to escape patriarchy way back in 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cyborg_Manifesto
I’m all for it.
https://www.statesidestills.com/prodimages/glau_summer_terminator_the_sarah_connor_chronicles_46090l.jpg
“women should become cyborgs to escape patriarchy ”
As long as they can still make a sammich and the remote has a mute button, I fail to see a problem.
Well the good news is that compared to equally shitty social science departments, gender studies are only marginally worse.
YouTube star who said veganism and praying had cured her of cancer dies of cancer
My brother (and family) are all vegans. I’ve never seen so much constant eating (more like grazing) in my life, and it’s usually “healthy” food like processed sugary fruit snacks. His wife is faaaaaat – surprise, surprise. And my brother suffers from bad teeth. I tell him to cut down on the carbs and I get this blank look.
The notion that veganism/vegetarianism is inherently healthy is ridiculous. Just as a meat inclusive diet can be healthy or unhealthy, so it is with a plant-based diet.
…
What?
Oh, you didn’t know journalism was regulated?
Neither did I.
UK, Broheimervitznewskisen.
Que?
IT’S IN FUCKING ENGLAND YOU FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCK GODDAMMIT YOU FUCK
Well, you’re quite the vulgarian, aren’t you?
Jeff Bezos is building a giant mechanical clock that will run for 10,000 years
Nearly as stupid a vanity project as putting a Tesla into orbit, but at least its not taxpayer subsidized.
Billionaires be crazy.
At this point they may as well start building pyramids and ponying up for mummification after death. Maybe have their corpse displayed in a glass case like Lenin.
Wonder if it can take a licking but keep on ticking..
Meh I don’t find the Tesla that much of a vanity project. It is just a good publicity stunt. They had to send something. And sadly a bunch of Congressmen was not an option
I guess he read Anathem
“Theoretically, once the clock is finished, curious visitors will be able to check out the landmark, though you’ll have to really want to see it. As the website notes: “The nearest airport is several hours away by car,” and you’ll then have to traverse a foot trail around 2,000 feet above the valley floor. But seeing as you have at least 10,000 years to see this clock in action, there’s really no rush.”
Pictured: Bezos
Misread “cLock” and for a moment was extraordinarily confused.
This has to be a disguise for some Bond-villain doomsday device.
He just needs a nehru jacket and pretentious-looking cat.
Girl games the system by using her grandparents’ country and choosing an event with fewer than the minimum number of possible competitors to get into the Olympics. Funny and sad all in one.
https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/status/965746567192997889
I wonder how much it cost her.
My daughter is a shoe-in to represent Moldova in the 2036 Olympics.
What’s sad about it? Homegirl got herself a free vacation, got a story she can tell for the rest of her life, and helped us all by taking us one step closer to a world with no Olympics. She’s a hero.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those with the security mindset, and those without.
Sort-of. As he notes, it’s somewhat teachable.
I have a brother in law who used to be an FDNY forensic specialist who *literally* checks out egress routes and their accessibility every time he goes into a building. It’s the only part of the security mindset he ‘owns’ and it’s totally learned, although it’s reflexive now.
Oh yeah, you can totally teach it. I didn’t have it before I starting building robots and learned the #1 rule of robots (They are unpredictable and will try to destroy you and everything within their work envelope).
I found quite early on that I had an aptitude for breaking production-grade software, and with time, I got even better (=worse?) at it. A fair chunk of my 40’s was spent breaking applications written by my firm after the QA team had passed the software.
You can tell that someone with a security mindset is happy and likes a thing if they will spend hours discussing all of that things flaws.
This kind of shit is Obama’s Chicago-style community agitation legacy.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/02/15/wisconsin_school_choice_program_accused_of_discrimination.html
That’s disturbing. I remember the Wall Street Journal reporting about that a couple of years ago
Also, another good example of how the ACLU is nothing more than a left-wing pressure group at this point and has nothing to do with civil liberties
Even worse than that. I have something about them going up at noon CST today.
Most transparent administration ever!
Transparently corrupt is transparent.
Samsung unveils world’s largest SSD with whopping 30TB of storage
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/20/17031256/worlds-largest-ssd-drive-samsung-30-terabyte-pm1643
Should I snag one for my living room NAS that I pieced together for under 100 bucks during the Newegg Black Friday sales or nah?
Meh. Get back to me when they develop a positronic brain.
I want one. How much is that thing?
Woman who spent HOURS shaving because disorder left her covered in ‘freakish’ hair has embraced natural look after ditching razor
TW: autoplay
WHY YOU LAUGH AT STEVE SMITH’S GIRLFRIEND?
Paramedics cut her clothes off and she underwent surgery and therapy, so people saw the extent of her hair growth up close for the first time.
“I realised no one cared what I looked like, they just saw me as a person. It really helped me to get over it,” she said.
This is true. It’s just a job. Unless you lose something up your ass, then we joke about it after you’re asleep.
No one cared who I was until they cut off my pants.
I enjoyed the theme links. Nice job.
No matter what you do, SJWs will never be satisfied.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/20/black-panther-hailed-diversity-has-no-gay-characte/
How long until people stop trying? (Don’t answer that)
It like the stupid regulators that inspect hospitals. They change the rules yearly so they have excuse for a job. If the outrage brigade says we have reached enlightenment, they’re out of a job.
Are they going to Clarence Thomas the Black Panther movie?
“Black Panther isn’t really black, because he didn’t fully embrace the fluidity of sexual orientation and identity”
– Vox probably
They show up on Steam forums and criticize every game because they can’t create 57 kinds of gender characters. They apparently like abuse.
This retired sanitation worker makes $285K a year from pension
Well hes earned it. People like him is why you don’t all have typhus or something.
Money quote:
“The fact is that I worked almost 60 years for it,” he added.
Working that long means he’s entitled to double what he was making?!
If it was a defined contribution plan and he invested well, I wouldn’t have any problem with it. But it wasnt.
If he he has to clean this maybe he earned it,
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Diseased-Streets-472430013.html
Pomp, you are a man of your word. Please post here so that I may see the glory of your new avatar: Robby’s face and the name “Nick Gillespie”. The Nick Gillespie of avatars
These are hilarious:
https://twitter.com/Namru/status/966246746849357824
That’s funny.
I also find those segments he does rather interesting. It’s a nice change from talking heads shouting back and forth at each other.
Mueller’s Theme
Once in your life you find it
That warrant that turns the FBI around
And the next thing you know your surveillin’ half the town
Wake up and it’s still with you
Even though you left the dossier way across town
Wonderin` to yourself, “Hey, what have I found?”
When you get caught be Assange and FaceBook Shitposting
I know it’s crazy, but it’s true.
If you get caught be Assange and FaceBook Shitposting
The best that you can do, the best that you can do
Is blame Russia.
*applause*
“Where is My Mind”?
Mueller he does as he pleases
All of his life, his Master’s choice
Deep in his throat, he’s just, just a boy
Living his life one farce at a time
He’s showin’ himself a real good time
and laughing about the right to privacy
When you get caught between Assange and FaceBook Shitposting
I know it’s crazy, but it’s true.
If you get caught between Assange and FaceBook Shitposting
The best that you can do, the best that you can do
Is blame Russia
*Sax interlude*
‘How Much Are You Worth, Nancy?’: Pelosi Heckled at Town Hall While Slamming Trump Tax Law
One of the best examples of how things that OMG SOUND SO NICE ISNT GOVERNMENT GREAT!!!! is the national parks.
Pelosi was instrumental in making sure the 1500 acre Presidio, instead of being auctioned off for housing and businesses, became a national park instead. The fact that taking 1500 acres of prime SF real estate off the market instantly jumped the value of her husband’s real estate portfolio is just a coincidence. How dare you question her civic mindedness?
I wonder how much “influence” she used to get the judge to overturn the auctioning of her street.
For those that didn’t follow that story, the HOA failed to pay their taxes and so the street got auctioned to a couple who bought it cheap. They were thinking of renting out parking spaces on it to the residents, among other possibilities.
A judge magically overturned the auction.
I hadn’t heard about the judge overturning the auction. That’s some banana republic bullshit.
Pretty sure there was a link here about it… hopefully the investors appeal.
You are being unpatriotic…
What in the ever loving fuck?
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/midwest/indiana/ct-arrest-bleach-autism-treatment-20180214-story.html
God damn that is a depressing read
How much was the bleach? About a hundred dollars.
I mean, she’s not completely wrong. You drink enough bleach and pretty much any ailment starts to seem unimportant by comparison.
As a parent of an autistic kid, fuck these people.
But the MMS website calls it an “amazingly powerful compound” that has “stood the test of time because it works – & works well!”
Well, autism didn’t exist before the 40s, and everyone enjoyed a healthful glass or two of bleach every day back then, so checkmate, atheists.
It’s Indiana.
“Where Are the Funny Women on Twitter?
My friend circle has always been proportionately 90% female because I identify biologically as a woman and sexually as a gay interior designer. But when your female friends are delivered to you via an online platform, two things can happen that don’t occur as often with meatspace friendship groups: you either fuse into a politically aware clique-force with a feminist agenda. Or you are hazed into a witch’s cult where you are sworn to the Oath of the Coven of the Clit with a feminist agenda. Either way, you become acutely feminist.
Covens in particular talk amongst themselves about their experiences as women online. When a mediocre man, affectionately known as a troll, mansplains a woman’s joke to her or tries his hand at a reply with his brand of comedically leaden sexist commentary, several powerful female witches will come to her aid and descend upon his soul publicly. This female togetherness born of female otherness keeps trolls in check, but it also empowers the woman by validating her personal experience of her own second-class treatment. Her female friends tell her that she’s not crazy, she’s right and that it’s ok to psychologically dismember and humiliate men. Also, it’s fun.
But there’s something more disheartening that Twitter women know in their bones: for every outwardly sexist “mediogre,” there are hundreds of influential funny men who ignore their accounts in favor of other men. Most women don’t gripe about this openly because they doubt their perceptions. After all, Twitter is largely a free market and people choose to retweet the funniest jokes, regardless of gender. Right? This is patently untrue when it comes to race. Most of Funny Twitter doesn’t adequately recognize or promote black comedy writers, and while I was collecting data on retweets and female representation, I could count on my fingers and toes how many times black accounts were retweeted. And I collected numbers on over 130 accounts.
So it’s fair to assume that women (most notably, Women of Color) are also underrepresented in this landscape. I brought this project up to some male friends who were openly dubious. They said that they loved their funny female counterparts and didn’t even notice gender. Many claimed they retweeted men and women equally. I believed none of them because if there’s one thing I know about men, it’s that when it comes to feminism, they’re wrong. Like pretty much always. It’s a consistent kind of wrongness that I have come to rely on, like a favorite cardigan that no longer fits but you keep it anyway because you don’t have the energy to overhaul your entire wardrobe.
I wanted my feelings quantified. My friends and I knew we didn’t receive the same accolades and attention as our equally funny male peers. And as I began counting retweets, it became clear that me and my lady friends were wrong about one thing: how right we were.
There are so many kinds of conclusions to draw about the behavioral patterns of men on social media with regards to how they promote and treat women. But just look at the pie charts. And the bar graphs. That’s easy. Then ask yourself: who am I fooling when I say I don’t see gender? Who am I fooling if I say I represent women on par with men? Because I’m telling you — WE are telling you — we are SHOWING you— that you don’t. STOP second-guessing women when they explain how sexism permeates every aspect of their lives. START assuming you’re part of the problem.”
https://medium.com/@TheWoodenslurpy/where-are-the-funny-women-on-twitter-e05b32722569
Pie charts and graphs, people!
Where Are the Funny Women on Twitter?
They’re mostly unironically writing shit like “Or you are hazed into a witch’s cult where you are sworn to the Oath of the Coven of the Clit with a feminist agenda. Either way, you become acutely feminist.” and waiting for everyone else to validate their edgy yet woke comedic brilliance.
So funny I forgot to laugh /PeeWee Herman
Men also RT more compliments from men about other men who aren’t themselves. I have yet to see a man retweet a compliment about a woman.
Franken did and look where that got him.
“How dare you not accept the fact that I have a vagina as a substitute for actual accomplishment!!”
I identify biologically as a woman and sexually as a gay interior designer.
I’m not sure about that since they ‘literally’ use words however they want to…
Pie charts and graphs, people!
Black comedians have a tough time since Patrice sucked up all the oxygen. Why do you think he called his last set was called Elephant in the Room?
Also, if your stock and trade is humorless scolding and bitter snark, you’re going to find yourself outclassed by men who don’t take you as seriously as you take yourself, especially on self-segregating platforms like Twitter.
“I demand that you find me funny and retweet my totally humorous bullshit.”
Billy Graham is dead. I know I’m not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but can I make an exception in his case?
I don’t know anything about the dude. Feel free.
he was sort of the official, national “pastor of record” for Presidential Inagurations for years.
he wasn’t as nearly as gross as Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell… but he hailed from the same general Family (southern baptist convention). He was a ‘respectable’ version.
I don’t think any of that will make sense to anyone unless you were steeped in the power of evangelical christianity in America during the 1970s and 1980s. perhaps even the 1990s, in the southern GOP
that side of America seems to have died almost entirely following the Bush admin. Gillespie wrote an article about how the religious right in America had passed a watershed moment and was now in terminal decline. He was correct. The population that supported that world is dying off, rapidly.
i think a lot of American politics involves filling the gap left by the decline in power of the SBC
Gap being filled in by a new set of moral scolds known as SJW’s.
File under “be careful what you wish for”.
At least he never got caught with a prostitute and a car full of porno mags like Jimmy Swaggart.
That’s even worse. He was a high profile televangelist and he wasn’t even cool.
The worst part was the prostitute fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on her way down.
she made Jessica Hahn look like an eleven.
I thought Billy Graham had been dead for years.
Other than soft-peddling Christianity to hob-knob with the political and social elite, what else did he do?
That’s about it really. As far as televangelists go he wasn’t too bad and didn’t seem to be a crook or a hypocrite.
Nixon White House tapes showed him to be pretty damn antisemitic.
He also encouraged Nixon to massacre North Vietnamese.
Huh, why the hell was he giving military advice?
Huh, didn’t know that. His military advice (and I gotta wonder along with Stinky Wizzleteats WTF a chaplain was doing offering military advice) might not have been entirely theologically aberrant in the context of Just War Doctrine, however ill-advised.
I don’t think he was a cryptopapist though…
Bad remarks during a private conversation is probably not enough ground to mock the dead.
“Estimates from the Nixon administration concluded that such a military aerial bombing campaign against dikes in North Vietnam would have killed approximately one million North Vietnamese.”
How many South Vietnamese died in the invasion and the subsequent tyranny of the Communists?
Sometimes there isn’t a “no one dies in war” option.
Commies murdering people is okay I guess.
Its what they do.
” to bomb dikes”
There can’t be that many lesbians in Viet Nam, can there?
Me too. Would have lost bets on him and Fats Domino.
I saw that and then realized that I didn’t know he was still alive.
Being from North Carolina, my fb feed is full of posts about him. He was sort of everybody’s grandpa who was also their preacher in the state cause he lived there. One of those things where everybody loved him and everybody agreed on.
Any Glibs in Kansas? GOP congressional candidate defends AR-15 giveaway
Fredericks is a conservative? What kind of conservative doesn’t like ARs?
A CNN conservative. The Married Vietnamese stripper I’d recommend to Evan, but Anna Navarro? No.
“You’re not having a legitimate conversation”
The only two words I have to say on the subject of guns are over 2 thousand years old, in some dead white guy language: Molon Labe.
I broke google translate trying to turn “They wuz kangs an’ sheit” into greek.
“Study: Leftists just as likely to be dogmatic authoritarians as those on the right
New research provides evidence that left-wing authoritarian attitudes exist in the United States. The preliminary findings, published in the scientific journal Political Psychology, suggest liberals could be just as likely to be authoritarians as conservatives.”
http://www.psypost.org/2018/01/study-leftists-just-likely-dogmatic-authoritarians-right-50674
Groundbreaking.
New research provides evidence that left-wing authoritarian attitudes exist in the United States.
You don’t say?
I wonder if they’ll publish the story I’ve been working on. It’s titled “Water is Wet.”
Study, not story.
” Leftists just as likely to be dogmatic authoritarians as those on the right”
Nah, I’d say they are a lot more likely to be that since ‘leftist’ actually assure that they will be.
Him many authoritarian regimes in the last 100 hears were left wing? Just about all of them. If you want to murder a few million countrymen you need a big damn government with a lot of power. Left wing and authoritarianism doesn’t just happen to come together, it’s a cause and effect.
RE: the Karla Souza story: And I thought I had shitty bosses in the past.
https://twitter.com/ComicDaveSmith/status/966101311665078273
Hey, that’s an unfair comparison. Boeing only kills the baddies
Ouch. That was a good one.
#VoxUnion
Vox has a thousand employees? WTF?
NYT prints something mostly sensible on mental health
Mr. Cruz had suffered from depression and was getting counseling at one point. He was also evaluated by emergency mental health workers in 2016, but they decided not to hospitalize him. Why, some critics are demanding, didn’t he receive proper treatment? And can’t we just stop angry, unstable young men like him from buying firearms?
It’s much harder than it sounds.
The mental health system doesn’t identify most of these people because they don’t come in to get care. And even if they do, laws designed to preserve the civil liberties of people with mental illness place limits on what treatments can be imposed against a person’s will.
—————
The reason the mental health system fails to prevent mass shootings is that mental illness is rarely the cause of such violence. Even if all potential mass shooters did get psychiatric care, there is no reliable cure for angry young men who harbor violent fantasies. And the laws intended to stop the mentally ill from buying guns are too narrow and easily sidestepped; people like Nikolas Cruz and my patient are unlikely to qualify.
Instead of hoping that imposing mental health treatment on everyone who shows “red flags” will put an end to mass shootings, we should focus on ways to put some distance between these young men and their guns.
If you think predicting who will go nuts is hard, wait ’til you start trying to make all those bad old gunz disappear. But keep on beating that tin drum.
The reason the mental health system fails to prevent mass shootings is that mental illness is rarely the cause of such violence.
So let’s replace that assumption with the assumption that all young men are potential spree killers and make sure they can’t buy guns.
Yes.
“we should focus on ways to put some distance between THESE young men and their guns.”
I think they mean ALL.
laws designed to preserve the civil liberties of people with mental illness place limits on what treatments can be imposed against a person’s will.
No shit.
Do you want gulags? Because this is how you get gulags.
^ This
If gulags are the only way to fight toxic masculinity, then gulags it is.
“Do you want gulags?”
Based on compulsory education laws, I’d say the majority of Americans want gulags. Hope they get them good and hard.
The mental health drum beat is, in my view, really fucking dangerous. It all sounds like a great way to alienate people further from getting help when they need it. We have people already resistant to seeking help? Well, we’ll just pass some laws that promise to get them put on various government lists. That’ll help.
Yep. How many young men who are not the precisely embodiment of evil most people imagine, but nonetheless have a propensity for violent ideation, will be dissuaded from seeking to spotlight their pathologies because we’re undertaking a crusade to rid these malefactors of their civil rights? It would be something like… well, like seeking voluntary registration of firearms, I imagine.
And that is why I continually go back to the fact that it is the compulsory alienation factories that create so much of the mental illness.
The idea that every adolescent belongs in school 6+ hours a day clearly doesn’t work. It is an affront to human freedom and it should surprise no one that such slavery of adolescents creates angst.
Isn’t the desire to have a gun at all indicative of mental illness?
/prog
http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/courts/article_2a16588c-168a-11e8-b84c-1f79733f748d.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
In a “free society” a man was imprisoned for 13 years for possessing a plant
HOW DARE HE ASSERT HIS RIGHT TO A TRIAL!
“NEW YORK — Milo Yiannopoulos is dropping his lawsuit against his former publisher.
In papers filed Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court, Yiannopoulos and Simon & Schuster asked that the case be dismissed “without costs or fees to either party.” The far-right author and agitator sued for $10 million last summer after the publisher canceled the release of his memoir “Dangerous.” Simon & Schuster acted after video clips of Yiannopoulos surfaced in which he appeared to defend sexual relationships between men and underage boys. Yiannopoulos alleged breach of contract and said the publisher gave in to “false and misleading reports.” Simon & Schuster had called the suit a publicity stunt.
Last fall, a judge allowed the case to proceed after Simon & Schuster had asked that it be dismissed. But in January, Yiannopoulous’ legal counsel withdrew and the author announced that he would represent himself.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/yiannopoulos-dropping-lawsuit-against-former-publisher/2018/02/20/f772219c-164b-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a_story.html
For the Washington Post, this is an almost fair description of what he said. They throw in the word “appeared” and didn’t even call him a pedophile.
And now he’s selling supplements on infowars.
https://twitter.com/RossMcCaff/status/966317833675264001
How the New Deal saved America, or something
If our economic rules empower corporations and financial interests excessively, then the correct response is to rewrite those rules — at home as well as abroad. If trade agreements serve mainly to reshuffle income to capital and corporations, the answer is to rebalance them to make them friendlier to labor and society at large. If governments feel themselves powerless to institute the tax policies and regulations needed to address the dislocations caused by economic and technological shocks, the solution is not just to seek more national autonomy but also to deploy it toward such reforms.
A populism of this kind can seem like a frontal attack on the economic sacred cows of the day — just as earlier waves of American populism were. But it is an honest populism that stands a chance of achieving its stated objectives, without harming fundamental democratic norms of tolerance and equal citizenship.
What we need is the sort of populism which will make the government even bigger and more powerful than it already is, and fine tune its ability to pick economic winners and losers.
If trade agreements serve mainly to reshuffle income to capital
Income comes from capital!
the answer is to rebalance them to make them friendlier to labor and society at large
Ah, there it is. The labor “theory” of value.
The labor theory is pervasive. Was talking to a sociologist friend of mine about teaching on Marx. We both agreed that not everything Marx wrote was accurate. My friend, however, said that the labor theory was one thing that everyone agreed on. I suggested he at least look up Austrian theory. I mean I get a sociologist accepting Marx but to not even be AWARE of other theories?
My friend, however, said that the labor theory was one thing that everyone agreed on.
I mean, maybe, for a certain definition of “everyone”. But agreement is not accuracy. It “feels” right but that doesn’t make it so. Labor is a necessary but not sufficient element of value, and history has shown repeatedly that it is much easier to find a new source of labor than a new source of capital.
I mean I get a sociologist accepting Marx but to not even be AWARE of other theories?
There is only the people’s truth. All else is reactionary lies.
Who outside freshmen socialists pretends that LTV is worth considering? Even if you think it’s an aspirational doctrine rather than the prevailing one, you have to admit it’s not a worthwhile metric for analyzing modern economies…
Well, tenured sociologists for one…
Vox has a thousand employees? WTF?
NEEDZ MOAR MONKEYS AND TYPEWRITERS.
Who would produce a masterpiece first – 1,000 monkeys typing randomly 24 hours a day, or 1,000 Vox writers?
New research provides evidence that left-wing authoritarian attitudes exist in the United States.
Wow. I bet they really had to dig to unearth evidence to support that theory.
This is a pineapple:
https://twitter.com/Chet_Cannon/status/966176686931959813
lol
Kiwi or GTFO
Speaking of Hollywood – crazy police chase overnight from nearby East LA.
Just wanted to say I appreciate how the various hosts of the links bring their own personal style to it. Keeps things fresh.
“Yep, people are using avocados to propose on Instagram”
https://www.today.com/food/people-are-using-avocados-propose-instagram-t123483
RAW avocado? Peasants and rapists do that.
Real romantics do avocado toast.
Only heathens (and millennials) apply any kind of heat to avocados!
(same goes for oysters – take your fried oyster po boys and oyster stews and shove it)
This pops in my head when I think about oysters, makes them unappealing.
::Nelson Muntz laugh::
Avocados are disgusting shit no matter how they’re prepared.
No guacamole? DOUBLE HEATHEN!
No, no matter what you do to it, it’s toxic sludge.
They’re the slimy food of the gods, preferably drizzled with olive oil and cracked pepper.
*adds 6 to the “not allowed in the kitchen after the Muppet revolution” list*
Agreed, but i drizzle thick balsamic vinegar, not olive oil.
Now the “nanny state” is a good thing. Because we’re all “small children” apparently, and need to “protected” and “nurtured”
Pardon me while I Godwin the hell out of this:
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
–You Know Who
I’m thinking I need to tweet this to the culprit. Hopefully the FSP is all over this nonsense.
If you try to google that quote, you get warned about unsafe sites.
People deride leftist by saying stuff like “yeah sure America needs to be more like Venezuela” but maybe that is true, for fitness purposes at least
A survey of 6,500 households by three prestigious universities showed that 74 percent of the population had lost on average nineteen pounds in 2016.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/03/08/venezuela-hell-fiesta/
helluva diet plan if nothing else
They’re just trying to compete with Ashton Kutcher.
Cosmopolitan did an unironic article on this.
Note the h/t to ENB, who appears to have changed her Twitter avatar so she no longer looks like an anorexic crack addict.
Remy did it.
Instead of the paleo diet, maybe the hobo diet: spend several hours a day ambulatory and looking for food. Dig everything you eat out of dumpsters.
You mean Freeganism?
Not to be confused with Friedmanism, which is mainly bath salts.
Also, ew. When people say get a hobby, they don’t mean that.
Not to be confused with Friedmanism,
C’mon. Friedmanism is existing solely on the ejaculate of Chinese Leadership.
https://twitter.com/OwenBenjamin/status/965760293803507713
LOL
Newsweek retracts their story about “How an Alt-Right Botnet took down Al Franken
Poorly sourced? No way!
A week from now, “Unhack The Vote” will be revealed as a Russian troll farm front.
There’s something…ironic?…about a student “march to the White House” being overshadowed in the news by a cop getting killed nearby.
The whole underage kids just going off and doing what they what to is either a complete lack of appropriate parental control or instigated and supported by their parents.
You have one job at that age, go to school and graduate. Nonsense like these protests only fucks yourself down the road.
This^^
What the fuck is “underage”? Sounds like a fallacious government concept to me.
Underage is shorthand for idiots who haven’t yet learned that nobody gives a shit about their opinions.
Sounds like enslaved people asking for less freedom.
This is fine.
Being a goon of the state means never having to say you’re sorry.
This may be an overly optimistic take.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/msm-russian-trolls-destroying-democratic-party/
You have one job at that age, go to school and graduate. Nonsense like these protests only fucks yourself down the road.
Oh, come on. “Organized and participated in massive anti-gun rally on Capitol steps” will totally wow the admissions officers at Berkley.
Just saw a story on my phone from Business Insider about how Russian TrollBots are swarming that whiny kid whose face is all over CNN, sobbing about teh gunz.
They’re trying to smear that poor boy, and claim he’s some sort of highly coached left wing troll. Like that could ever be a real thing.
his dad’s FBI. that is confirmed since he said it himself during an interview. there’s also the unedited news clip going around of him in a creepy coached/staged interview.
“comedy”
https://twitter.com/OwenBenjamin/status/915398198872690693
Trump is apparently greenlighting the NRA plan to allow the ATF to legislate around Congress.
I just told the NRA that I’m switching to GOA and never coming back.
Allowing the executive to arbitrarily direct a ban on firearms accessories without any legislation sets a very dangerous precedent. Just when I start thinking Trump was actually overall positive, he goes and pulls stupid shit like this. To what purpose? It will just piss of any conservative supporters he has while the left will still hate him anyway.
The NRA leadership are a bunch of goddamned retards, how they can’t see how this could be problematic in the future is beyond me.
I personally think they’re banking on it. Their business thrive on fear mongering, this is more fear for the future.
They are really no longer a civil rights group. They refuse to work with other groups and are getting into the game of stuff like concealed carry insurance. A field that will benefit heavily from cronyism, as it really only exists because laws are so impenetrably confusing that people need insurance and lawyers just to do what’s right.
I’ve always wondered about that CC insurance stuff. It seems like a good prosecutor could spin that into a “This guy’s a trigger happy lunatic who was itching to shoot someone” narrative.
CC insurance is a really good idea honestly, and I don’t think it will go in that direction. By that standard simply carrying a gun and possibly having a permit for it could be twisted in the same way.
Good CC insurance allows you to get immediate legal help to ensure you never get in front of a judge in the first place.
This is why President Trump really is hot garbage. He has no core principles and he flip flops constantly. This is a profoundly worse precedent, with regards to guns, than anything President Obama did
No more red dot sights, no more bayonets, no more high cap magazines. You’re correct, this bad and the possibilities are endless. Maybe not from Trump but maybe from the next guy.
Exactly. Whether or not President Trump just institutes minor regulations the next guy could expand on this precedent
“Minor regulations”….we always talk about the slippery slope of these types of things. Any regulation is bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad.
It’s a profoundly terrible precedent for anything for the President to run an end-around to avoid the legislative body.
Pavlov had nothing on the modern American left. The GOP’s biggest weakness is their desire to appear reasonable and in return get some kind words. Erich Pratt from GOA recently said he had the President’s ear. Let’s hope they can at least help mitigate some of the damage, or make this a toothless gesture.
The most disheartening thing is that plenty of people on the right and in libertarian circles think this is perfectly fine, and that bump-stocks are stupid. Which they are, but it’s beside the point.
“You’re not free unless you’re free to be wrong”
Yep. His chances of being reelected just drop, in my estimation, from 60-70% to 10-20%.
If he pushes this he won’t get my vote and there are a lot of gun owners out there that voted for him the last time that are thinking the same thing.
How can the ATF legislate around Congress without Congress first passing legislation to allow it?
::Director of CFPB laughs uproariously::
I’m not happy with what Trump is currently saying, but I’m waiting to see what actually comes out of this.
If Trump attempting to take the heat off Republicans in the mid-terms?
He’s going to cost the Stupid Party a bunch of seats if he keeps up this RINO horseshit.
GOA statement. This is why I’m a member.
I read this morning – made me smile. We are a mixed family (GOA and NRA memberships), but GOA gets our Amazon Smile dollars!
For a long time I’ve been an advocate of being a member of both, let the NRA be the lightning rod, while GOA works in the background and get all my donation $$$. I also do the same with Amazon Smile.
But honestly the NRA has taken it too far and is emboldened by their membership numbers. I’m done with them.
You’re in NoVa, right? Why not the VCDL?
False dichotomy
NAGR hasn’t said jack shit about it. So, fuck those guys, too.
Sophisticated analysis, for sophisticated people
It’s great that Mr. Bezos wants to help 1,000 Dreamers – immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally as children – to attend college. But just imagine how many people he could help if Amazon paid taxes, wasn’t focused obsessively on replacing workers with automation, didn’t employ hundreds of thousands of temps who are paid low wages and receive no benefits, and declined to engage in reality TV-style “contests” to find out which state and local governments will succumb to desperation and give his very, very profitable company billions of dollars that might otherwise be spent on things like…education, for one.
Charity is good. A system in which handouts from the wealthy weren’t necessary in order for people to access basics like education and healthcare would be vastly better.
If we just forcibly confiscate those rich assholes’ money, and let the government redistribute it equitably, the world would be a better place.
And we’d all live happily ever after.
::Cue Rush’s Red Sector A::
Charity is good. A system in which handouts from the wealthy weren’t necessary in order for people to access basics like education and healthcare would be vastly better.
False. The?ends?don’t?justify ?the?means! ?
Beyond that, poverty is a lifestyle problem, not a math problem. Poor people who win the lottery become poor people again very quickly.
A system in which handouts from the wealthy weren’t necessary in order for people to access basics like education and healthcare would be vastly better.
They aren’t necessary. You’ve just banned all the alternatives.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/02/20/positive-saw-bigfoot-shes-suing-california.html
STEVE SMITH POSITIVE HE SAW THIS WOMAN TOO. AND BY SAW MEAN RAPE.
Twitchy unnecessarily CAPITALIZES verb to EMPHASIZE headline. But Cooke does comport himself well, as ever.
Wouldn’t it be liberating to the lefty “journalists” to finally just admit they’re partisan? It’s gotta be like living as a closeted gay. Just come out and say it! People will respect you more.
Cuomo doesn’t strike me as smart enough to realize he’s in the closet.
Neither Andrew nor Chris were hit with the smart stick, but I think the sperm had denatured significantly in Chri’s case.
Is Andy still hittin’ Drunk Aunt Sandra Lee?
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900010878/mitt-romney-jumps-out-to-big-lead-in-us-senate-race-poll-shows.html
Mormons love them some Mitt Romney. A poll says a hypothetical race between him and the likely Democratic nominee breaks down to 60% for Romney and 14% for the Democrat.
The guy isn’t even from Utah
Politics truly is the Devil’s playground.
Great. Another unprincipled RINO squish in the Senate. Just what we need.
Morons love them some Mitt Romney.
FTFY
Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/965773283554668544
Mormons need to remember that Harry Reid was also Mormon.
Social Justice Math Class:
Billy has a box of cookies he bought with money he earned mowing lawns and pulling weeds. Sally, Jimmy, Lisa and Jim have no cookies, but they are hungry for a snack because they have been playing very hard. How many cookies should Billy be allowed to keep when he gives his box of cookies to the other children?
None, because it’s not fair that Billy can afford cookies and everybody else can’t. Billy is obviously benefitting from white supremacy and the patriarchy, and should be white genocide.
genocided *
White? Everyone knows that mowing lawns and pulling weeds are jobs white people won’t do!
Billy is a white Hispanic, obviously.
Clearly, women aren’t funny on Glibs either.
I think I’m the one who isn’t funny, because I was riffing off you.
FALSE: billy is perpetuating the cis-hetero-patriarchy and cookies are perpetuating capitalist inequality
In my will I explicitly ask that whatever parts of me couldn’t be used by the donor program to be cremated and my ashes scattered into the ocean, but more importantly, that there be zero kind of public spectacles – religious, military, or otherwise – involved, but after reading this, I might reconsider about those funerary services….
Despite being only very slightly celt, and not Irish at all, I’m a huge fan of having a proper honest-to-goodness traditional Irish-style wake. Yes, possibly with strippers. Why not? If being remembered is the only way you live on, then why not go out with a bang.
And y’know, if someone accuses me of appropriating someone else’s culture, they can sue me.
Oh, we’re not going to sue you, ya limey bastard. We’ve got more suitable retribution in mind.
/Irish