Today
Monday…not a big fan here. But the daily workout is over, the coffee is now at hand…no sluggish start to the workweek is going to stop the links from going out to our readers, dammit!!! Sports – the Olympics are over, and THANK GOD. I can NOT be subjected to hours of figure skating on the living room big screen. Well, at least for a few years now. Get yerselves ready for March Madness – I am unsure if we are going to have a Glibs Bracket Challenge…I will speak to the fellow cabal…er, site admins.
Right. Now, links:
- A boom in England. Not the good kind. Information has been slow to get out – but in a situation like that, my first thought is “gas leak”. Rergardless, I hope nobody else is trapped in there.
- I had to check the date on this story. It seems to be a recurring theme for the UN. At this point, I am wondering why anyone would take the blue helmets in – I guess sheer desperation. They stood aside and watched Rwanada, Bosnia, etc. They actively screwed up Haiti and have been too rapey all over the place.
- Hey, look what a real authoritarian state looks like. If that happened here, we wouldn’t have jail cells enough for everyone who insulted the orange tinted Hat n’ Hair carrier. Wait…I didn’t mean that..HEY WATCH IT! Those cuffs hurt! Where are you taking me?!?!?!
OK, since I am subbing in for sloopy, a real music link – no Rickroll.
If you can’t pay the local women for sex, you’re going to get a serious case of Blue Helmet. Not pleasant.
*applause*
Whoa…applause instead of a narrowed gaze?!?!?!
Well, at least they paid them.
That particular libertarian moment is why their roadz suck
Rape —-> Paying for sex.
That seems like progress to me. No?
Hey, look what a real authoritarian state looks like. – just because they take hate speech seriously does not make them authoritarian
*uptwinkles*
Does Tanzania count as a shithole country?
For doing that…yeah, I’d say so. I’d like to see a prog dispute that..”OK, so next time you insult Cheeto Mussolini, half a year in jail for you!”
“According to Tanzania’s penal code, “any person who uses obscene, abusive or insulting language to any other person in such a manner as is likely to cause a breach of the peace” faces a maximum sentence of six months in jail.”
I’m no lawyer, but that sounds like they have to do it in person, and not speaking elsewhere.
…and who interprets “likely to cause a breach of the peace”?
Top. Men.
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The constitution provides for freedom of speech, but numerous laws encourage self-censorship and limit the ability of the media to function effectively. The most notorious and widely enforced of these laws is the 1976 Newspaper Registration Act, which empowers authorities to ban publications “in the interest of peace and good order.”
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Legal conditions for the press in the semiautonomous Zanzibar archipelago remain more restrictive than on the mainland. There, the private media generally avoid criticizing the leadership, as implicating Zanzibar lawmakers in criminal activities can result in a minimum fine of approximately $200 or three years’ imprisonment, according to the semiautonomous region’s defamation laws. The laws are rarely used to imprison journalists, but authorities have revoked journalists’ permits as a means of silencing criticism.
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There are numerous media outlets in Tanzania, including dozens of daily and weekly newspapers. According to the TCRA, there are more than 100 licensed radio stations and 26 licensed television stations; only a small percentage of the population has access to television due to high costs. Internet penetration in Tanzania continues to increase but remains low, at just above 5 percent in 2015. Social-media outlets and online forums have grown in popularity in recent years. Foreign media content is freely available in Tanzania.
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tl;dr partly free
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2016/tanzania
It’s difficult to have cable when people steal the wire and sell it for the copper.
Wait, what did she just say? That isn’t the story getting reported at all.
Interesting.
That does sound weird. It could be a fake video.
So could this one:
https://twitter.com/colinsdad888/status/967670911762681857
It could be from a different place (I’m not familiar what the school looks like), or from a different day.
That’s weird. Looks like the same building. What are two of the men wearing masks? That almost looks like a body bag.
Who Mad ether video?
Fucking tablet. I’m sure you can decipher.
Sure – someone at Mad Magazine made a video of people using ether!
*nods sagely*
I don’t know who made them.
“26. Again, over time, the most corrupt police officers within the system became the police inside the schools. These officers were those who are best skilled at identifying the political objectives and instructions.
27. Those “School Cops” also have special privileges. It’s a great gig. They get free “on campus” housing close to the schools they are assigned to etc. They’re crooked as hell and the criminal kids how just how to play them. It’s a game. Also an open secret.”
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/966854507744374784.html
Lord me that better just be a flib.
It’s almost inconceivable police would take part in a false flag where they take part in a massacre presumably all for gun control? And if so, you’d have to build quite the case to see who are behind this.
It makes no sense. It also doesn’t account for similar shootings around the world.
If this was indeed a conspiracy why if not for gun control?
That twitter feed is a cesspool. Whatever they say, assume they’re lying.
Rergardless, I hope nobody else is trapped in there.
The third son of Odin.
So winter came at last in Bucharest with -15 expected. This morning it was -10 with wind chill -23. Goddamn Canadian assholes putting high pressure blocking over Greenland
Canuckblocked.
How is that our fault? Sweden is more north!
Cockblock the Swedes!
Speaking of cock….and Swiss may not like this…we used to joke calling the Blackhawks (who back then were the Black Hawks I believe), the Chicago Blacocks.
Get it? Because when you say Blackhawks fast….aw forget it.
We called them (particularly the old owner) a lot worse, back then…
I bet you did.
Still, they seemed decently competitive. I seem to recall them losing 8-4 to the Oilers a lot.
yeah, it’s freezing here in L.A., too. Highs of only 60 and lows all the way down to high 30s,,,burrr,, actually wearing a jacket during daytime!
High thirties? That’s not freezing. That’s, at worst, brisk.
Sunny and a high of 34F today. And I am not wearing a jacket during the daytime. Just a hoodie
los angeles turns you into a weather sissy, I cannot deny!
Sports – the Olympics are over, and THANK GOD.
I didn’t watch a single second. Yay me
My 70-something parents watched a whole bunch… but they’re retired and have a lot of time on their hands. The bit I watched was pretty insufferable – spoon fed feel good stories about blah blah blah overcoming adversity.
That has been the formula for the network coverage for some time now. One would think that the minute you have dreams of going to the Olympics, people start dropping dead, houses burn, weird illness show up, pets run away, etc.
It’s almost like everyone has had problems in their life.
I’d just as soon not have mine broadcast to the world. That’s why I didn’t compete in the Olympics.
It seems the sports are secondary.
The key is to watch the alternative channels, not NBC itself. More sport, less story.
Plus curling.
I watched quite a it on the 2nd NBC channel way up the dial. I refuse to watch anything determined solely by judges. But I do enjoy pretty much all forms of racing- skating, skiing, bobsled, luge, etc…
Germany v Canada was on in the hotel lobby Friday. I haven’t seen a team fail to score like that since the SNL club skit
I read somewhere that NBC hired Adam Rippon. I’m out for sports this year other than March Madness and World Cup.
Did SP get back to you? She was pissed yesterday that Google, in its infinite wisdom, stuck your email in “social media.”
Yes. We’ll try again on our next visit.
Well since he likes to spend more time screeching into the Twitter in an imaginary feud with Mike Pence than mastering the landing on his quad jumps, he may as well retire and do fashion commentary at the Kentucky Derby. Look out Johnny Weir.
I actually got into some of the downhill and the bobsled can be fun but most teams are too good and never wreck.
To be honest (you might need to take my Glibs card from me) the most exciting event turned out to be the 2-woman cross-country race that came down to the wire.
After watching porn clips featuring the same actress over a period of several days, exposure to porn featuring a new actress was linked to men ejaculating faster and releasing more active sperm.
https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2017/4/28/why-we-crave-sexual-novelty
Research.
“Research”.
Gale force winds and ground blizzard conditions, all fucking day, yesterday. Monday or not, I’ll take it.
Thanks for sending them our way… *shakes fist at skies*
They stood aside and watched Rwanada, Bosnia, etc. They actively screwed up Haiti and have been too rapey all over the place.
Classic
That’s disgusting. An SA80.
‘Henry’ the 6ft sex robot has a tireless robotic erection and ‘can recite love poetry’
STEVE SMITH HAVE TIRELESS PENIS. NO ONE LIKES HIS NORTHWESTERN ACCENT.
NOT THAT NOT LIKING IT MATERS, IYKWSSMAITYD.
“I am mostly made out of old trucks! Bezerker!”
That pic of the headless naked sex dolls hanging from chains is suitable for an 80’s horror flick.
Nice song!
Despite your assurances, I still expected head games.
how about:
https://www.google.com/search?q=rev+on+the+red+line&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS779US779&oq=rev+on+th+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j69i60j0l4.8101j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Oh there hasn’t been any March Madness since consolidation. We don’t have leftover budget to spend to justify next year – the enterprise blows through the budget in the first months of the fical year and tells the business areas to suck it up and scrape by.
Real Estate Bubbles: These 8 Global Cities Are At Risk
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-25/real-estate-bubbles-these-8-global-cities-are-risk
Buy property in Chicago is the message here.
TW. zero hedge
Chicago is past the point of no return along the Detroit road. Sell any property you have in the area and get as far as you can from it.
Add Auckland, New Zealand to that list.
Denver’s not on the list. That’s good for my property value, I guess.
Buy property in Chicago is the message here.
Nay.
Blue monday?
I was expecting this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMjH1nR0ds
Dig the Jolly Boys’ take on it.
I like this cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc
That was spectacular. Thanks for the link!
Yup — first thing I thought of. Now we just need links about the Kennedy administration.
Vanilla Blue https://youtu.be/Ebhk63N6f70
Jennifer Lawrence revealed she dropped out of school at 14, said she ‘never felt very smart’
This is a person whose opinions on politics we are supposed to take very seriously.
Jenny, just because Hollywood screenwriters are dumber than a box of rocks, that doesn’t mean you’re smart.
Hey, I resemble that comment!
it is impressive how movies make a high school dropout good at fixing democracy…
Go with your feelings, sweetie.
To be fair I’ve met a few high school dropouts who were rather intelligent. However she’s dumber than a box of rocks.
She’s hot. At the age of 14 she was able to figure out that Hot and young is a superpower which, when properly deployed, can make you rich.
I’d say that makes her pretty smart.
Exactly. She stepped out of the shower one morning, looked in the mirror, and said to herself – these puppies are nicer than half the women I see on TV. Screw this school thing.
“…said she ‘never felt very smart’.”
Well, nobody else thinks she’s very smart, either.
There’s a hot/crazy matrix; is there a hot/dumb matrix?
Can an overlapping parallel line be a matrix?
No, because while crazy can disqualify a hottie, dumb can’t.
“she ‘never felt very smart’ until she began reading film scripts”
You never felt smart until you started reading asinine, nonsensical, plot-hole filled film scripts? Maybe try reading something else? Perhaps a history book, or philosophy. You know, something that will actual expand your knowledge.
Winter’s Bone is excellent.
Movie scripts, no less. You know, the kind where you need to learn 5 or 6 lines, then take a couple hour break while they change sets and you learn the next 5 or 6 lines.
So you guys.. *don’t*.. appreciate autodidacticism? And/or are skeptical of credentialism (esp that of public schools?).
Bailing out of high school doesn’t automatically make someone an autodidact. Sometimes, underducation is simply undereducation.
I agree, but it’s not an immediate and obvious blemish either.
Criticize JLaw for her explicit views, not her educational history.
Make that a question mark at the end.
I come here for the relative intellectual consistency. Can we keep it that way, in spite of the increasing cognitive dissonance of the broader culture?
Don’t mean to sound like a concern troll like Bo or Tulpa. I genuinely admire a lot of you, and your views are refreshing, enlightening, informed. That’s why A LOT of people lurked TOS and lurk here.
It really matters to me. A bulwark against broader insanity.
You make a fair point, snek. No need to resort to cheap credentialism when JLaw presents us with such a target-rich environment.
Fortunately I know next to nothing about her 🙂
Something Tulpa would say, of course.
I’m skeptical of credentialism. To the point where I don’t think a high school diploma really even counts as a “credential”. But when a person tells me they ended their formal education in middle school at the age of 14 and then entered a profession with no further training required, they had better be ready to tell me why I should should take them seriously when they put themselves forward in the public arena to comment on things like politics and public policy (which she has).
Almost Blue recorded by Chet Baker just a few months before his death.
Beautiful.
Just like the original.
Michelle Obama to release memoir in November
“How I Fucked The Right Guy, And You Can Too!”
“As a small Wookie, my family sold out Kashyyk to the Imperial government and made a mint.”
“Goddamn this noise inside my head”
my journey
Riding your husbands coattails to fame and fortune? I’m sure your insights are valuable. Anyway, it sounds like someone wants to run for president.
I think it is one more grab at fawning coverage and a check.
“I talk about my roots and how a little girl from the South Side of Chicago co-piloted the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.”
Come on, man, that’s not a fair comparison. Chewbacca has useful skills.
The title certainly doesn’t describe her.
Avocados are expensive. Sell them books, bish.
(Where is Ken, btw?)
Tanzania is freer now than during the socialist period:
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In 1967, President Nyerere published his development blueprint, which was titled the Arusha Declaration, in which Nyerere pointed out the need for an African model of development and that formed the basis of African socialism. The Swahili word ujamaa means ‘extended family’, ‘brotherhood’ or ‘socialism’; as a political concept it asserts that a person becomes a person through the people or community.
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Julius Nyerere’s leadership of Tanzania commanded international attention and attracted worldwide respect for his consistent emphasis upon ethical principles as the basis of practical policies. Tanzania under Nyerere made great strides in vital areas of social development: infant mortality was reduced from 138 per 1000 live births in 1965 to 110 in 1985; life expectancy at birth rose from 37 in 1960 to 52 in 1984; primary school enrollment was raised from 25% of age group (only 16% of females) in 1960 to 72% (85% of females) in 1985 (despite the rapidly increasing population); the adult literacy rate rose from 17% in 1960 to 63% by 1975 (much higher than in other African countries) and continued to rise.[2] However, Ujamaa (like many other collectivization projects) decreased production, casting serious doubt on the project’s ability to offer economic growth.[3]
Nyerere used a colonial law, the Preventive Detention Act, to crush opposition.[2]
In 1967, nationalizations transformed the government into the largest employer in the country. Purchasing power declined,[4] and, according to World Bank researchers, high taxes and bureaucracy created an environment where businessmen resorted to evasion, bribery and corruption.[4] In 1973, a policy of forced villagisation was pursued under Operation Vijiji in order to promote collective farming.[5]
Decline and end
Eventually a number of factors contributed to the downfall of the development model based on the Ujamaa concept. Among those factors were the oil crisis of the 1970s, the collapse of export commodity prices (particularly coffee and sisal), a lack of foreign direct investment, two successive droughts, and the onset of the war with Uganda in 1978, which bled the young Tanzanian nation of valuable resources. By 1985 it was clear that Ujamaa had failed to lift Tanzania out of its poor economic state; Nyerere announced that he would retire voluntarily after presidential elections that same year.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ujamaa
Notably, an African Nationalist disaster who *wasn’t* educated at the London School of Economics.
Blue Monday
Boomtown Rats seems apropos for the times.
stormy version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gDhR1R3S0s
Russia hacked the Olympics and tried to pin it on North Korea
“said two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity”
They have more than one?
Why I Think Millennials Actually Have More Sex Than Anyone Else on the Planet
I blame Monica Lewinsky.
Did we ever learn what the meaning of ‘is’ is?
So nothing is sex, but everything is rape.
Got it.
“hooking up” = “snogging out back by the dumpster and then claiming you were assaulted”
what base is sexual assault? We do not have baseball metaphors in Romania
Sexual assault can happen before you even get your hat and glove on, Pie.
But “hooking up” seems to have morphed from intercourse (homerun) to kissing only (first base) in the young’uns.
Lately, it seems to be “a change up”
“split finger fastball”
STEVE SMITH GO TO BAT FOR BASEBALL METAPHORS. AND BY GO TO BAT, MEAN USE HIS BAT FOR RAPE.
AND BY BAT MEAN PENIS.
Part of the problem here is the overwhelming majority of millenials are past their early 20’s. The very youngest millenials are already 18 end even some current 18 – 20 year olds do not identify with the millenial generation but rather the post millenials. In the past, most of us were married or well along the way to it by 23 – 24 years old, for millenials who range in age from about 18 – 38 most of them *should* have been married, or hell even on to their second marriage by now and for all the jokes about frequency of sex in a marriage married people still end up having more sex than singles because you don’t go though multiple months long gaps where you aren’t seeing anyone
my first thought is “gas leak”
I usually think “religion of peace”. I might be a bad person.
Or you might just be aware of certain statistical trends regarding certain types of events.
Navy sailor dies after getting struck by helicopter blade
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Naval Safety Center data shows that there has been a 60 percent increase in ground and aviation accidents during on-duty training exercises since 2014, the Orange Country Register reported.
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What changed in 2014?
I suspect that one reason is excessive time being spent watching PowerPoint shows.
An old boss was a Cobra pilot back in the day. His safety briefings were mainly videos of pilots getting whacked by their helicopters’s rotors when they landed behind a hill and walked up the hill and into the rotors.
But he was in the army in the Stripes era.
DACA recipient, 21, threatened to ‘shoot all of ya b—-es’ at NY high school, police say
What’s even more fun is the Mother’s defense – It boils down to “She’s too stupid to be able to carry it out, so let her roam the streets.”
These are the people we need to keep here and provide a path to citizenship. Just think of all the benefits of her unique experience we would be missing out on if she weren’t allowed to stay.
Good lord, that broad’s 21?
Just wait when she’s 42. By then she’ll be in full bloom.
Dude. Just think. Someone, somewhere, is going to get her pregnant. Think about that for a while. Horrifying, isn’t it?
You are evil for putting that image in my head dude..
Crap, I am reaching for a “Wake Me Up, Before You Go, Go” joke and failing.
Well, if you need someone to come up with one, I’m Your Man.
Am I going to be the only one to do this? You know you all have the Freedom to chime in.
Doing what?
Everyone else is too embarrassed to admit they know more than 1 Wham song.
I’d rather choose life.
WHAM!
ftfy
I thought they were keeping it low-key, having gone traditional media.
Branding is everything. Without the “!” it might as well just be a TV station in America somewhere.
“All pork. All the time.”
If you ain’t eatin WHAM, you ain’t eatin HAM!
It’s 70 years old, but still funny because it’s true.
Her Careless Whispers doomed her?
Pretty sure they do want her freedom now
She would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for the careless whisper of a good friend.
I’m not a scientist, but she sounds upset.
And for no reason a link from the famous daily mail sidebar.
Sizzling Demi Rose flaunts her enviable curves and ample cleavage in skimpy crochet bikini as she soaks up the sun in Mykonos
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5435255/Demi-Rose-flaunts-enviable-curves-Mykonos.html#ixzz58DKK4ekN
I find it amazing how all these people become tabloid famous. Then again by clicking I guess I am part of the problem. Anyhoo kinda thicc for my taste tbh
No idea who that person is.
She has a article almost every day there.
Yeah, I’m with you. She’d look good if she lost the fake eyelashes and had hips that weren’t wider than her shoulders.
I like the giant hips. But thanks for discussing kettlebell in previous threads. I bought one, I’m in my second week on beginner exercises, and I like it quite a lot so far. Well, the squats are difficult, but I weigh 300ish; I assume they’re going to get easier over time.
They do – it won’t take long, the big obstacle at the start is that the muscle groups are unused to actually doing as much as you’re asking them to.
It’s not a factor of your weight as much as the state of the muscles. I’m still ~300, but have gotten to weighted squats.
Sweet! Squats are tough to get right but they’re fantastic for you. They’re one of those basic exercises that make you better at everything else. They definitely get easier the more you do them, and believe it or not if you have bad knees they help a lot. I’ve had knee issues due to a bunch of stuff–dislocation, skateboarding for twenty years, weight–and doing ass-to-grass weighted squats has made them a lot looser. The old received wisdom was that you shouldn’t do squats past a “seated” position because it puts wear on your knees, but it turns out that’s not true if you’re doing them with good posture.
So, free advice for you to take or leave. Make sure you’re really nailing your form on each rep and stop as soon as you start feeling yourself lose control of the weight, because it’s easy to tweak something before you even realize you’re doing it. If you’re following the traditional progression of weights, i.e. 8kg jumps, don’t be in a rush to get to the next weight until you’ve really mastered the current one. And weirdest but possibly most important, get yourself a pumice stone and some hand lotion. Jokes aside, you’ll develop callouses at the joints between your fingers and palm, and as they get bigger they sometimes have a tendency to tear. Hit ’em with the pumice stone in the shower and moisturize the shit out of them.
Do you still?
I had to stop when I turned 54, knees don’t play anymore, and pools are tough on the old Body
I’ve been pretty fortunate so far. I’m in my early forties, and my knees are still holding up well after doing it for thirty-two years.
No, I haven’t for dang near ten years now. I kind of tapered off in my late twenties. Nowadays I consider it a personal victory when I jump.
Lately I’ve been meeting more and more dudes that are getting back into it after a very long hiatus. I might see more gray hair at the skatepark on any given day than I see teenagers and twenty-somethings.
Skateboarding caused more damage to my body than football.
Those aren’t bad. At least we seem to be moving away from the trend of calling a woman “curvy” when she has an ass like the afterdeck of the Andrea Doria.
I’m all about proportionality, but I also like a woman who looks like she’s smuggling cantaloupes, so that puts me in the Christina Hendricks category.
As a ‘complexion’ guy, I find that Christina’s older and more florid look makes her far less attractive.
But I came to a realization the other day of another attraction point which – unfortunately – isn’t being delivered on by most women today.
The ‘look’ that Christina had in ‘Firefly’ – the wan, gamine look, is another trigger, which of course was the fashion at the time, and much more appealing than wearing an onion on your belt.
Constant social media whoring totally undermines the #metoo movement.
Kevin Smith suffers massive heart attack, tweets ‘For now, I’m still above ground!’
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck
Mother mother fuck. Mother mother fuck fuck. Mother fuck mother fuck
Noise noise noise
1 2 1 2 3 4
Hows his weight these days? He was absurdly fat than normal a while.
Are you upset he had a heart attack, or are you upset he didn’t die?
Just quoting one of his movies. I wouldn’t wish death on anyone… Well most people.
He has that weird fat body, thin face thing going on.
Paramount’s ‘Waco’ Finally Gives The Branch Davidians Their Due
Some of you may recognize the author…
DON’T TALK ABOUT __________!
The War?
“Well you started it!”
Fight Club?
Not reading the links before spamming comments?
That was not bad compared to some of her Reason articles.
Don’t you fucking talk shit about my Lucy.
If the ringer didn’t like it then I’ll give it a watch.
Forecast: DOOOOOOOM
If the court overrules Abood, as the petitioners in this case are asking, it will disrupt the careful balance it has struck concerning public employees’ constitutional rights in the workplace and turn every workplace dispute into a constitutional case.
If the justices strike down Abood and rule that public employees have a First Amendment right not to pay fair-share fees, then all of these trivial matters of private concern risk becoming constitutional cases.
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If the Supreme Court recognizes a constitutional right to withhold payment for matters one disagrees with, or diminishes the government’s interest in efficiently managing its work force, it will turn every minor payment and every workplace matter into a federal case.
By ruling against AFSCME, Trump’s Supreme Court will demolish the entire house of cards edifice of civilization.
Bitch, my first amendment rights are not a ‘trivial matter of private concern’. I do not want to fund you to campaign against my interests.
It’s not that complicated. Asking the question of each employee “do you want to have union dues deducted from your paycheck?” does not require a tribunal convened under a full moon on the second trimester of a virgin pregnancy.
Also, the unions would be wise not to point to the “government’s interest in efficiently managing its work force” too much, because the unions are entirely superfluous, and probably counterproductive, to that end. “OK, new government ‘efficiency’ mandate: If you’re in a union, you’re fired.”
Four philosophers who realized they were completely wrong about things
admits that the realization of personal freedom may require mandated group effort
“I’ve found you can find happiness in slavery”
He had won the victory over himself.
“Mandated group effort?” He can kiss 3/5 of my ass.
IOW, robbery.
mandated donation to specific charities
Usually people come up with better euphemisms for these things. “Here’s what we’re gonna do, you’re gonna give us half your money ‘for charity’, or we’re gonna break your legs. How bout that charity?”
Unfortunately, we all need external approval and love. You can’t really fully think for yourself—else you get reamed.
And not in the good way
“Drugs suspect on toilet strike for 38 days ‘would rather die than take a poo’
A suspected drug dealer on a record-breaking toilet strike would rather die than take a poo, his lawyer has said. Lamarr Chambers, 24, has now spent 38 days in police custody after Essex Police arrested and detained him on January 17.
Appearing in court yesterday, his lawyer, Andrew Horsall QC, said he finds himself in ‘unchartered territory’ with Chambers. He said his client’s ‘life is at risk’ as he ‘doesn’t want to be resuscitated’ if he collapses, Essex Live reports. Officers believe he swallowed some of the drugs before his arrest in Harlow, Essex, and they have been patiently waiting for him to finally go ever since.”
http://metro.co.uk/2018/02/24/drugs-suspect-toilet-strike-38-days-rather-die-take-poo-7338400/
A suspected drug dealer on a record-breaking toilet strike would rather die than take a poo
Who gives a shit?
Don’t worry, he’s just being anal retentive.
How the hell is that even possible?
Imagine what he could achieve with that amount of willpower…
The G. Gordon Liddy of drug dealers.
Squats and Kegels.
CONstipation
he’s exercising his constipational rights
H e r o
Jennifer Lawrence recently revealed that she dropped out of middle school at 14 to pursue her acting career.
The Oscar winner said in an interview with “60 Minutes” that she “never felt very smart” until she began reading film scripts.
“Somebody actually got paid to write this? You’re shitting me.”
dropped out of middle school at 14
That explains so much.
I have had a long term plan for how to save most films:
1. Cut out 1 car chase
2. Use $100k of the money saving in 1 to hire someone who actually knows how to write – preferably who doesn’t currently work in Hollywood.
3. Bank the rest of the savings from 1.
You just got yourself a better movie for less money.
Use fewer cameras
4. Resurrect John Ford.
Music festivals pledge 50/50 gender equality
How judgemental.
I prefer meritocracy. Make good music and I’ll listen. Otherwise, fuck off.
Shirley, you don’t even have a 50/50 gender balance in your own band.
…that’s a good point, actually.
Lilith Fair didn’t end enough lives with their wrist-slitting cat yowling.
Needz moar Sarah McLachlan.
I’m sure this will have no unintended consequences whatsoever.
Elizabeth Warren’s stealth campaign to shed ‘Pocahontas’
The potential 2020 candidate has made a series of moves this year to neutralize a nagging political vulnerability.
The Rachel Dolezal approach.
Like Trump will ever let that one go.
Or he’ll just change it to Fauxahontas.
So. She’s doubling down.
This should get interesting.
Just another disingenuous progressive.
I didnt click, but did the series of moves include swabbing her mouth and sending it to 23 and me?
Ewww. Why would you want to be involved?
Why all these convoluted machinations? A simple DNA test would prove she is indian and she could rub it in all of our faces. Why wouldn’t you just do that?
Because it’s more effective to buy off activists with taxpayer dollars.
Because that settles the matter one way or the other, and she doesn’t want it settled. The controversy is more useful than the truth.
My guess is that it isn’t “one way or the other”. She knows it is just the one way and it isn’t the way that let’s her give out a war whoop of victory.
She could be playing the ole’ rope-a-dope a la Obama’s birth certificate. Keep the controversy going awhile, and then dump the DNA test showing she’s 1/16 or 1/32 or some other minor fraction Indian. She’s already said she’s not on the tribal rolls and doesn’t meet any blood quantum so at this point it’s basically moot. However, her supporters would find it vindicating if she had at least some Indian ancestry.
She has enough money to pay someone to fake a test.
Had to laugh yesterday when CBS Sunday Morning’s calendar noted that March is Women’s History Month and illustrated it with a picture of Warren’s face.
Wire-transfer scheme, ransomware attack — tiny Yarrow Point finds itself in criminals’ crosshairs
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/eastside/wire-transfer-scheme-ransomware-attack-tiny-yarrow-point-finds-itself-in-criminals-crosshairs/
And some more hot take from our favourite idiot philosopher comics writer. With the caveat, as usual, that he may be really trolling
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/966849013365465088
I hope he’s trolling. I really hope so.
Only because Janice Rogers Brown doesn’t tweet.
So, are you saying white men have a better grasp of history and/or economics?
and with his own response, troll confirmed. oh that is classic.
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What are unregulated markets other than the rich coercing the poor?
Kroxigors are not grown for their intellect.
They were construction slaves before they were soldiers.
Unlike regulated markets, where the rich government coerces the poor people. That’s enlightened right there.
Having utterly debased every other avenue of argumentation for Marxism, let us now use minorities as pawns to advance the cause. Nothing says woke like waging a proxy war with minorities as your holy grail.
WHAT’S A MINORITE?
It’s a mineral found only on Crete.
A mendicant order of the Franciscans.
2nd= minorite
1st= minorite
student loan forgiveness= majorrite
“my first thought is “gas leak”
Not my first thought.
Stop giving the goddamned UN money. Just stop it.
I have it on good authority that Trump is worse than a latin american dictator.
I saw this morning where sheriff douchebag in Florida claims to have exhibited ‘amazing leadership’ and has no plans to resign. I suggest tarring and feathering.
Come on now, just because the deputies he hired were too chickenshit to go in and just because his sheriff’s office personnel went to this kid’s house dozens of times with no arrests doesn’t mean he deserves any blame.
That POS sheriff had the balls to go on TV and blame law-abiding members of the NRA for failing to protect the kids while knowing his deputies stayed outside the school and did nothing while the shooting was happening.
What were they supposed to be arresting people for when they went to his house? Was there actual evidence of a crime, or just complaints about an unruly neighbor that was scary? Because “I know he’s a psycho” might be an accurate assessment, but it probably isn’t actionable by the police.
Allegedly, Cruz made threats while armed. That’s usually at the very least a misdemeanor, and a quick search yields this:
The maximum punishment for a first degree misdemeanor is 1 year in prison.
That having been said, I do want to make it clear that I don’t really place blame for failure to act prior to the shooting. Hindsight is 20/20 and all that. It’s the failure to respond effectively to the shooting while it was known to be happening, and more importantly the implication that such acts can’t be stopped by armed individuals but can and must be prevented entirely by gun control, that bothers me. I don’t believe there is some grand conspiracy here, but the facts do not support disarmament of the civilian non-cop population by any stretch.
I do want to make it clear that I don’t really place blame for failure to act prior to the shooting.
There were credible reports of crimes committed by the shooter before the shooting.
Yeah, hence why I quoted the Florida statute. But a) that’s an issue for the people of Broward County to deal with and not related to the RKBA and b) prosecuting those alleged crimes wouldn’t necessarily have stopped this shooting from happening.
kbo, I think the issue is that the RKBA is being attacked in part as a way to deflect from the colossal incompetence and failure of government in this case. The very government whose competence must be assumed in order to attack the RKBA.
Would arresting him have prevented this? No one knows, of course. But I suspect it might have helped. And pointing out that he actually committed crimes that might have led to an effective intervention also detracts from the new gun control demand that you be mentally screened before being allowed to buy or own guns.
To me, this is one more example of “enforce the fucking laws we already have before demanding new ones”. Its not irrelevant because we don’t know if it would have worked. Its relevant because it shows the mendacity of the anti-RKBA movement.
I put maybe 5% of the blame for the shooting on the Broward County Sheriff’s Office not looking into multiple tips given to it regarding the shooter, and maybe 1% on the FBI for not passing its information onto the same office.
Although this is from The Blaze this is truly damning.
Classic. The cops, as they have done before, actually prohibit people willing to go in and help from doing so.
That puts the lie, yet again, to the fairy tale endlessly repeated by law enforcement that, ever since Columbine, they’s a gonna go in guns-ablazin’. That is exactly what happened at Columbine, at the Pulse nightclub, and now at this school. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is intentional.
Small shop, in a row of such, on a side street in a nowhere town in England on a Sunday night.
So, if the cops and school board of Broward County were swindling the feds out of money by keeping dangerous sociopaths in schools to juke the crime stats, does that make them eligible for the felony murder rule? Just out of curiosity.
LOL, those laws only apply to the peasants, not the King’s Men!
If it wouldn’t be such a hassle, I’d love to start a co-working space just for men. I’d send out press releases to all the local media with a write up about how men need their own space to work without having to worry about being falsely accused of sexual harassment.
I doubt I’d get as much glowing press coverage as The Coven – a women’s only co-working space did. In fact, I think that I would probably be sued for not allowing women in.
It’s easy. Just don’t hire any women. Bam! Co-working space just for men!
Women-only co-working spaces on the rise: ‘It’s not about excluding men, it’s about elevating women’
Until they need to use the room that is about excluding men.
Mike Pence approves
Uffda. I hadn’t even thought about that angle. You just know that if you asked any of those gals about Pence they would all erupt in a rage about what a troglodyte he was.
“The common threads are women craving spaces to connect with other women, free of sexism.”
1960s: segregating based on race is racist
2018: segregating based on sex makes us free from sexism
Have you missed the latest trends in dormitory housing?
2018: segregation now, segregation forever!
Not really that recent.
When I was at UNC in the 80’s we had an African-American Studies professor who wrote in the Daily Tar Heel that black students living on North Campus (the main part of campus) were living under apartheid, and all black students should live on South Campus (where the athletics dorms were, and therefore where a lot of black student activities were held).
We had a grand old time giving my roommate crap about “living under apartheid” in his mixed race room, instead of living in an all-black room on south campus.
To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, “Apartheid… you keep using that word… I do not think it means what you think it means.”
People want to segregate themselves into subgroups. Water is wet. News at 11.
I wonder which exception to the general prohibition on exclusionary renting practices based on sex this falls under.
The ongoing crusade by allegedly feminist women to prove every stereotype about women in the workplace continues apace, I see.
The Coven? Seriously? You name it THAT?
When there’s a ‘ka-boom’ I think along the lines of “I hope it wasn’t fucken terrorists”.
The UN. Listen. It’s the IDEA of the UN is what matters. Okay? So they lick Arab kleptocracy cock and then have some hookers suck theirs. It’s all part of the grand scheme of achieving peace by other means.
/flicks Swiss’s ear.
If you READ THE LINK, you would see it was a space in the middle of a row of shops, in a nowhere town. On a Sunday night.
This wasn’t London, this wasn’t a car exploding or ramming a crowd.
SNAP OUT OF IT PEOPLE!
I read it.
BECAUSE I’M NOT WORKING.
I was just being the local shnott head.
DON’T ANY OF…hey, wait a minute?!
Central Leicester has been ‘ethnically diverse’ for many years, but the individual cultures within that ethnic enclave has constantly been changing.
First thought is gas leak.
Second thought is Ahmed is not a great bomb maker.
You would think would have had an extra sticky grip and not lost control of his knife.
Serial Public Masturbator Stabbed With Own Knife After Attempt On Latest Victim
The Daily Fail comes through with the pics of the perp.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5428951/Woman-fight-man-caught-masturbating-train.html
That face says:
“Yeah, you know it baby.”
Don’t be a fool
Wrap your tool
She disarmed him and stabbed him twice AFTER he pepper sprayed her in the face. I’m not a registered feminist®, but that seems pretty empowered & badass to me.
“Sheriff responds: “If ifs and butts were candy and nuts OJ Simpson would still be in the record books.”
https://twitter.com/ellisonbarber/status/967772145072865280
Christ, what an asshole.
Good. The more he acts like an asshole, the harder it will be to ignore the department’s malfeasance.
We’re known for having assholes as Sheriffs here in Broward County.
And he ain’t resigning either, so … goddammit.
It’s the same electorate that sent DWS to Congress.
He compared himself to Don Shula, MLK, and Lincoln!
He honestly thinks he is as important and significant as Don Shula? What an idiot
unfortunately, the one person who would’ve understood him is dead. Johnny Cochrane, master lyricist and muse of our time, RIP.
His idiocy is taking the heat off gun control and putting in on police response policies.
Man used hunting knife in brutal slaying at Massachusetts library, authorities say
Why isn’t this making the headlines?
It doesn’t fit the gun narrative.
Thanks edit fairy!
Innovative trolley problem
https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/967854801022259200
Okay, copy paste from wikipedia of math functions didn’t work, but if you are going to say the bottom path is -1/12, then the top path is -1/2, which is more lives saved on the top path.
Speaking of trolleys….. SUCK IT PORTLAND MINNEAPOLIS FUCKING RULES!!!!!
Minneapolis will spend $50K on Earth Day to demo a driverless electric shuttle on a bike path.
I fucking dare any of you to out prog that shit.
During the test the bus will only go 12mph max. But it could do 25mph if the pussies let the robot put the pedal to the metal.
That is super prog. The only way to one-up that is if the riders on that inaugural shuttle ride were a vegan feminist club having a fair-trade kombucha tea party.
I fucking dare any of you to out prog that shit.
Host a needle exchange out of the shuttle.
“Better it be an autonomous shuttle to the Light Rail or Rapid Bus than driving their cars, right?”
Autonomous? Then there’s no one to blame when it wrecks or breaks down. Brilliant!
“The teen survivors of the Florida shooting are leading a campaign to boycott the NRA — and it’s working”
http://www.businessinsider.com/florida-shooting-student-survivors-boycott-nra-2018-2
Something is suspicious when teen-aged verified user David Hogg tweets something about a company being affiliated with the NRA, and that company drops their affiliation less than a day later. The whole student protest thing seems too organized and coordinated.
Because it is. I guarantee that the DNC is pushing the narrative from behind the scenes.
More likely Democratic-aligned PACs; the DNC itself being broke, incompetent, and corrupt (by Democratic standards, even).
The whole student protest thing seems too organized and coordinated.
It’s not like there’s a huge group of interconnected anti-gun activists who all share funding and strategies who jump onto every pile of dead bodies to use them for propaganda or anything.
This kind of crap is exactly why I signed up for a three year NRA membership yesterday.
I’m torn. On the one hand, the NRA seems to spend a lot of money on tote bags and then caves on shit like bump stocks. On the other hand, nothing sends a message to the anti-gun people quite as loudly as NRA memberships on the rise.
Put the dues toward another AR-15 and hang it in your front window.
This
“Nobody needs an assault weapon or semi-auto rifle…which is why I’ve made this AR pistol chambered in .300 AAC. Those rounds are ‘subsonic’, which means they move slower so they’re much safer.”
it’s working
Uh huh. So far they’ve gotten a number of companies to virtue signal by terminating minor business relationships. I don’t think the NRA’s membership numbers or legislative relationships have been substantially impacted.
“working” in the sense that i now realize there are not enough rental car companies.
And there’s been reciprocal effects from NRA members and people sympathetic to gun rights withdrawing support from the virtue-signallers.
Yep. Let’s wait until Enterprise releases its next earnings report before we judge the boycotts a success, shall we?
The NRA can get fucked over its anemic response to the Castile shooting. Doubly so for Dana “dude had it coming” Loesch. The reflexive copsucking tendency turns me off.
I will say it’s a useful lightning pole to redirect all that impotent fury away from other pro-2A organizations. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy seeing them take it on the chin.
Badeshi: Only three people speak this ‘extinct’ language
This may just be the top secret language that our very own Derpetolegist is studying.
All three known speakers are CIA assets spying on each other.
Congress should close the loophole allowing warrantless digital car searches
Yeah, well, they shouldn’t be allowed to search your car, either, just because they walk a dog around it.
I think that loophole already closed by the 4A “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”
*looks at Nazguls’ interpretation of the plain language*
Nevermind.
Ok this amused me
https://twitter.com/r_neoliberal/status/967113943889141762
Evidence of massive migration to Ireland thousands of years ago has emerged from the sequencing of the first genomes from ancient Irish humans, carried out by geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast.
Sequencing the genome of an early woman farmer, who lived near Belfast 5,200 years ago, showed her majority ancestry originated in the Middle East, where agriculture was invented.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/ancient-irish-had-middle-eastern-ancestry-study-reveals-1.2478780
So basically the Irish are secret Jews?
Looking at Wikipedia
According to LGE, the first people to arrive in Ireland are led by Cessair, daughter of Bith, son of Noah.
So this checks out
My Y chromosome comes from the Indus Valley. My cousin had his genome sequenced a couple of years ago. Since the male descendant line goes back directly to Scottish dirt farmers, this makes some sense.
“How did the cop know the shooter was using an AR15 since he never went into the school?”
https://twitter.com/StarChamberMaid/status/968117297452896256
“Because of the sound”
And from hearing quite a few AR-15s in my time
But outside an echoey building filled with screaming kids?
Well AK-47s make a distinctive sound…
Crumbs for bums
Republicans might further argue that none of this matters because the tax law is becoming more popular as people learn more about it. Indeed, a recent poll for The Times found that the law now has more supporters than opponents. But this swing in public sentiment might be less important than it appears. Consider the results of a recent Politico/Morning Consult poll that shows that just 25 percent of registered voters said they had noticed an increase in their paycheck because of lower tax withholding while 51 percent had not. The poll also found that high-income people were more likely to notice that their take-home pay had gone up. That’s because Republicans designed the law to principally benefit wealthy families while offering crumbs to low-income and middle class families.
Those crumbs, by the way, disappear after a few years. Further, many taxpayers in states like California, New Jersey and New York will be hit with higher tax bills when they file their 2018 tax returns and realize that they can now only deduct up to $10,000 in state and local taxes.
I guess all that stuff about “stimulus” and “multipliers” went down the memory hole.
Of course, the definition of a “crumb” is pretty flexible, especially when you live in the cloud cuckoo land of the NYT editorial board.
If you’re not paying anything already because you’re near the poverty line and you’ve got multiple exemptions, how can your take home go up from a tax cut?
Many HIGH EARNING taxpayers.
It is hard to get to 10k in state and local taxes while making what the median household makes.
Those crumbs, by the way, disappear after a few years.
That, by the way, is Team Blue’s fault.
It really needs to be read with the previous sentence for full enjoyment…
“That’s because Republicans designed the law to principally benefit wealthy families while offering crumbs to low-income and middle class families.
Those crumbs, by the way, disappear after a few years.”
Boy, the food in this place is terrible, and the portions are so small.
Politico/Morning Consult poll that shows that just 25 percent of registered voters said they had noticed an increase in their paycheck because of lower tax withholding while 51 percent had not.
Bullshit.
I suspect some of this may be timing. Someone I work with was bitching about their take home going down on their January pay. A few weeks later I was on the payroll website looking for something else & saw an annoucement from payroll that, for monthly employees the tax changes would not go into effect for monthly salaries until Feb pay (Feb 28) and for two-week pays, the middle of February. So it’s possible that a lot of people haven’t seen the changes yet.
or, it’s possible that their medical insurance costs went up by more than their taxes went down.
So?
Rose McGowan throwin` down the truth.
I separate the art from the artist.
“The Leicestershire Police Department said in a statement that an investigation into the cause of the blast is ongoing and that they do not believe it is terror-related at this time.”
We’ll know after an MRI.
Are they waiting for someone to take a dump too?!
“Melrose Place star Jamie Luner, 46, accused of sexual misconduct with a 16-year-old boy
Jamie Luner has been accused of performing a sex act on a teenage boy according to TMZ. The alleged victim, who claims he was 16 at the time of the offense, filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department over the weekend claiming that the Melrose Place star performed oral sex on him back in 1998. Luner, who would have been 26 at the time of the alleged incident, is now being investigated and could be facing a charge of oral copulation with a minor child. The actress, 46, has yet to respond to these allegations. Luner was at the height of her Melrose Place fame when the alleged incident occurred between herself and teenager. It is not known how the two knew one another and the male has not been identified because he may be the victim of a sex crime.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5435449/Actress-Jamie-Luner-accused-historic-sexual-misconduct.html
Dis gon b gud
Now in his 30s, the man is said to have filed a report with Los Angeles Police Department
“And then she was like, ‘Hey, let me suck your dick.’ And I was like ‘cool'”.
I had a big, big crush on her back when she was on Just The Ten of Us.
I just can’t for the life of me see how this guy is a “victim”.
#metoo
Shit, I’d like to be the victim of a sex crime with her now.
Melrose ‘Place’.
Starring Dudley.
Man: I’d like to file a police report
Cop: What about
Man: An actress performed oral sex on me when I was 16 and she was 26
Cop: *extends hand* High five
Cop: “Son, you don’t have to tell me that.”
Man: “Tell you? I’m telling everybody!”
That’s what I’m thinking. Maybe he just filed this so he can let everyone know that this did, in fact, happen.
It is hard to get to 10k in state and local taxes while making what the median household makes.
It’s also hard to claim a property tax deduction as a renter.
Speaking of UN peacekeepers. A client of mine served as part of the Canadian UN peace mission back in Kosovo. He basically said it was a worthless, teethless exercise.
I believe peacekeepers couldn’t shoot back, if I remember his story correctly. So that meant them being sitting ducks and in that region, no one gave a rat’s ass about the UN. Things would only get done when the Canadians would call the Americans for help and they’d show a hand of force by flying some bombers over wherever they are.
He wasn’t a fan of peacekeeping and preferred his time in Afghanistan because he could be a true soldier in his eyes.
And of course, the UN disaster in Rwanda pretty much messed up Romeo Dallaire’s head up good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roméo_Dallaire
For most of the time, and under almost all circumstances, that was the RoE for all UN Peacekeepers. It was rare to see media reports of the blue helmets retreating to pre-prepared cordons when under threat, even though it was quite common.
There was definitely a different vibe in dealing with each of the nationalities’ personnel. I think the worst really were from a certain European nation whose name begins with ‘B’, but I’m persuaded that a lot of the blame can be placed on the character of the senior officers who were selected to head up the deployments. Some countries seem to have deliberately posted conciliatory leadership for their contribution to UNPROFOR.
RoE.
Return on Equity?
Rules of engagement.
Sounds like the SJW playbook on consent.
The alleged victim, who claims he was 16 at the time of the offense, filed a report with the Los Angeles Police Department over the weekend claiming that the Melrose Place star performed oral sex on him back in 1998.
What the fucking fuck? How does this rate anything more than a hearty laugh?
“It must not have bothered you too much, at the time.”
If the sexes were reversed it’d be the most serious thing EVER. In this case, it’ll get dismissed and not go anywhere. Also, I’d ask this guy the same thing I’d ask any gal that makes a “I was raped 2 decades ago” claim. Why didn’t you say something then? The fact that you waited so long makes me think you’re full of shit.
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/967781871689125888
“This religion aligns with my progressive politics, ergo I like this religion! Also, I have no idea what the definition or purpose of religion is!”
TW: ENB twitter account
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
Verified account @ENBrown
22h
I grew up in the Catholic Church so whenever I encounter Episcopalians it’s like, ‘guys, this is how we could be! Sheesh.’
Must have missed that catechism where the very fucking term “social justice” originated in Catholicism.
ENB is the very poster child of a ‘bad Catholic’. She is clearly as knowledgeable of Catholicism as she is libertarianism, because she does not seem to grasp why ‘transgender rights’ cannot be a cause championed by the Church. She also seems ignorant about the Catholic Church’s position on migration.
Seriously, like in the 14th century if not earlier.
She gave up being a libertarian for lent?
That’s like me giving up my lesbian lifestyle.
Never give-up on your lesbian dreams. Don’t let your sex get in the way of what you feel. Come to think of it, a heterosexual man is actually a really good lesbian, minus the sex organs. But, gender is fluid and therefore you are just as much a lesbian as any biological woman who is a lesbian.
My head hurts
Gash Wednesday.
Nice
It follows rosy Palm Sunday?
The day after Taco Tuesday.
That shit is why there’s a big ol’ schism in the Epsicopal church, with the more socially conservative (or less Proggy, depending on your outlook) joining the Anglican Church in North America. The Episcopal Church is bleeding membership because it has become, as one of the Tweeters says, Unitarianism with nicer buildings.
Wait, the Anglican Church is the one that was created because some King wanted a divorce right?
That guy was the King….
/dons sunglasses
of all organized religion trolls!
I’m eagerly awaiting her “Confessions of an Ex-Libertarian” piece, and I expect it sometime between January 20, 2021 and December 2022.
2019.
SCOTUS denied review on whichever appeals courts are blocking Trump’s DACA repeal. Which means that it’s not going to get to them until the appeals courts actually decide the case, which probably means this gets decided June 2019 at the earliest.
I’m actually in favor of DACA, if it’s done the way it should’ve been done in the first place, i.e. through Congress. This is the problem with this damn executive power. Obama shouldn’t have had the power to do this in the first place, but if he did, Trump should have the power to stop it.
#Resist has infected the courts. For all this talk about violating norms, the politicization of our courts (which use to separate us from most Western nations) is probably the worst violation of norms in this country’s history
If a person robs a bank to fill up a college fund for their kids, we don’t let the kids keep the money. Illegal entry is the same thing. while the child was brought here by their parent, they should not be permitted to benefit from their parent’s illegal actions. Sympathetic or no, the parents committed a crime, and the effect of that is the fault of their screw up. If we don’t send them back, we’re just asking for more.
That’s a really, really good analogy. I’m going to borrow that.
Ignoring they were children at the time, and that many of their parents entered legally but overstayed their visas, etc. That’s like saying passengers in a car should get speeding tickets because they would have got there faster too.
That’s like saying passengers in a car should get speeding tickets because they would have got there faster too.
Its more like saying that, because there are children in the car, the cops should let them speed all the way to their destination.
Or it’s like saying that because their parents were caught speeding, we shouldn’t let the kids drive.
We can duel narratives all we want. I know I lean a whole lot more towards the “open borders” side of LP (and libertarian) philosophy than most people here, but to the extent that these kids are now contributing to this country, I see no moral or philosophical reason to kick them out. Legal maybe, but that part’s dumb.
I’m mostly messing with you.
to the extent that these kids are now contributing to this country, I see no moral or philosophical reason to kick them out.
There are a couple of moral/philosophical reasons to oppose DACA:
(1) Fairness. They are getting a better deal than people who tried to follow the rules.
(2) Rule of Law. They are being exempted from laws that are being applied to other people.
(3) Perhaps more of a policy reason, but we have seen this movie before: widespread amnesty followed by widespread illegal immigration. Incentives matter, at least at the margins.
Trump should have the power to stop it.
It’s even worse than that. Obama’s unconstitutional order to not enforce immigration law against a certain category of illegals must be periodically renewed. Trump was simply not going to renew the program, and the courts have ruled that the constitution somehow requires Trump to renew and continue an unconstitutional executive order.
I’m really curious as to exactly what the details are. If I have time, I’ll track down and read the opinion.
Can a federal judge order a President to do something? Interesting question, but probably yes.
What if the President refuses? Can the judge do the thing he has ordered the President to do? Would it have legal effect? I really don’t know, but if the answer is “yes”, then I think we are looking here at a judge ordering law enforcement not to enforce the law against known offenders.
Let that sink in a minute. No one is arguing that the law requiring deportation of illegals is itself unconstitutional. What they are arguing is that equal enforcement of the law is unconstitutional.
Since the three branches are coequal under the constitution, I don’t see how a judge ordering the executive to do something carries legal weight or is enforceable.
Well, Trump telling the judge to fuck off would at least escalate the Constitutional implications enough that the Supreme Court should review.
Thank your nonexistent gods for the caliber of our enemies. Insecure white men are going to kill us all, bros.
There should have been an editor’s note: White Male Privilege is a made-up concept that is used to undermine sound and logical arguments that make us look like jackasses
After my first year here, I noticed there was something different. I felt odd, as if something were missing. It took a road-rage incident to realize it was the absence of fear. No matter how mad someone got at me, no one was going to shoot me.
Contrasted with all of those times he was shot during road rage incidents in the motherland…
In 39 years surrounded by white men I have never been shot.
Paging SugarFree…
In reality insecure white men are killing themselves faster than they are killing anyone else.
While it is in retreat, it can hardly said to be dead. It’s just not purchased with the blood of children.
Well, it’s how I bought my last Slurpee.
I shouldn’t have, but I did. I clicked on that ENB twatter link.
Could she be any more vapid?
The stylized comic book heroine portrait tells you everything you need to know.
Delaware Proposal Would Let Kindergarteners ‘Choose’ Their Sex And Race
There will be no unintended consequences for this, at all. No siree
I am a chaotic evil red dragon with delusions of sasquatchery!
Why do I feel like the reason that parents won’t be able to find out is because the school district is going to set the race shit themselves. Soon their district will have the best minority gpa’s in the state.
My kids are half white/half Korean. One year we got some form from the school district and my daughter was listed as white while my two boys were asian. Neither my wife or I ever remember filling out that in anything we got from the school district. Our best guess is that my daughter was already a minority (female) and didn’t need to have her race changed. The two boys were far more valuable as minorities to the district than they would have been as shitlords.
I’d love to see some reporter ask famous Delawarean Joe Biden what his position is on this legislation.
Schools should not recognize race.
What about their age?
We should start a campaign to get all 5 year olds to identify as 80 year old straight white male republican capitalist polygamist.
If there is not a sudden influx of ethnic Kekistanis, I will be deeply disappointed.
Don’t give #6.2 ideas. I really don’t need to have him expelled.
all this is necessary because of “children living in fear who do not feel comfortable coming out to their parents as gay or transgender.”
So, they are going to keep secret from the parents what gender their children are claiming to be? I can hardly wait for the parents of Delaware to discover that the schools are now going to refuse to discuss their own children with them.
“As a non-op transwoman lesbian, I demand to be able to shower with the girls and not have them be offended at any signs of arousal”.
Whyfor you steal my schtick?
I wouldn’t touch your schtick, I don’t bend that way.
::looks down::
IT’S NOT BENT!
Where can I get an NRA sticker for my car window without actually contributing to them?
Print one out at home.
I probably have a few.
if i can find ’em, i’ll let you know.
JOIN OR DIE
No cut up snek!
Can I make a contingent donation, “you can use this money only if you stick to your actual mission and don’t get involved in other issues”?
Just have it tatoo’d on your forehead.
funny.. i was just googling last night for NRA t-shirts on Amazon. i just want a plain shirt with big bold “NRA” front and center. and if it had the ISIS flag mock-up made of dildos on the back, then that would be okay too.
Actually, you don’t have to be a member to order from the NRA Store.
While the profits will end up going in the general fund, the people who actually make the items will get some (most) of the money you spend, which sounds quite laissez-faire enough for me.
Two more weeks until the Paralympics start! I will admit I’m biased, but my wife and I never understood why they don’t televise much of the Paralympics. People seem to like like those “overcoming adversity” stories from the Olympics. If that gets ratings, why not cover an event that’s nothing BUT people overcoming adversity? Also, there are fewer BS sports and it only lasts a week.
Or the Special Olympics. That shit is heart warming.
I’m giggling now about the possible spectacle of a televised broad jump competition that is just a bunch of wannabee Evel Knevals in souped up wheel chairs jumping buses.
I somehow managed to miss the able-bodied men’s downhill during the able-bodied Olympics, so I might just try to catch the gimpy version.
It’s impressive to watch those downhill races, then you realize that in a few weeks someone is going to go down that same hill ON ONE LEG.
Yeah, I don’t really care about the Olympics, para or otherwise, but I kinda feel like it should count more if you’re running a relay with prosthetic feet.
I’ve watched a few of the US Paralympics Men’s Soccer Team matches. They’re pretty inspiring, because, on the surface, they don’t look much different than their non-impaired (for lack of a better term) counterparts. However, the qualifications are that players must have had a 1)stroke, 2) have cerebral palsy, or 3) a Traumatic Brain Injury / Acquired Brain Injury.
A lot of inspiring stories.
What you see when you stay up late watching an obscure cable channel.
Still better than Wayne Allen Root’s show on Newsmax
Is it better than this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMbUHcU_Ju8
If it’s a blue Monday, tits will always improve the day.
http://archive.is/cLU3b
#3 FTW.
#29
Don’t want to smother, so #13 is enough for me.
My new gun should be shipping today. Oh man, I can’t wait to histrionically cut it into pieces on Youtube to demonstrate my worthiness to the tribe.
SIGNAL!
Make sure you record your conversion of a legal gun to an illegal gun and post it to YouTube.
Protip: after doing so, draw the shades on all your windows to give the ATF sniper more of a challenge.
It only works if you do it to a scary black one that shoots 1000 rounds a second.
Mine shoots nuclear warheads and is also a pez dispenser.
*Sends comment to development team for the Saints Row franchise*
I beleive they already made that.
http://www.rantlifestyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Merica-Gun.png
Needz moar Pez.
Wonderful until you accidentally hit the wrong button expecting to get some peace.
Pez damn you autocorrect!
“Pez Is Our Profession”
I thought entering the tribe only required cutting the tip…
Go find a rabbi brave enough to try and snip the Doomcock.
Ain’t gonna happen.
UN losers now paying for sex. That’s progress.
Oh man, I can’t wait to histrionically cut it into pieces on Youtube to demonstrate my worthiness to the tribe.
Paint it flat black and put one of them things what goes up on it, first.
By the way did you guys see Chipper Jones chimed in with his views on guns? ‘No one needs an assault weapon’ was his take.
He’s a fan of Bernie Sanders?
Also. When you lose an all-American with the perfect all-American name….
I would reply to him “No one needs more than one World Series championship”.
No one needs a Hall of Fame
No one needs $13 million/year.
Boooya!
https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/968126278162374661
Worst. Covergirl. Ever.
Don’t even click on that.
I clicked. And some the comments were funny:
ISA
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@JasonIsaman
19m19 minutes ago
Replying to @jimgeraghty @benshapiro @jpodhoretz
Yuk… This thing looks like what would happen if Bill Clinton ever had sex with that monster that lost to Trump in 2016… gross.
Bullshit!
Chelsey’s dad was Janet Reno.
Alex
1) How does it feel to have a standing presidential endorsement from the entire legacy media?
2) Do you think Donald Trump is really racist or really, really racist?
3) Your eventual candidacy seems to have the momentum of a runaway freight train. Why are you so popular?
4) Some people have called you vapid, shallow, unsubstantial, unserious, and ugly.
5) Would you mind contributing to “What Are We Reading?” at Glibertarians.com sometime?
“Firearms killed more 15 to 19 year olds than cancer, heart disease, and diabetes combined in 2016.”
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/967696945350414336
That’s retarded even for Vox. Which is saying something.
Might as well have thrown in dementia and hip fractures for good measure.
is this an argument for forcible body armor? how old are the fuckers pulling those triggers and murdering those 15-19 year olds?
How many of the firearms used in those killings were legally obtained?
I know when I was 15, I spent an inordinate amount of time worrying about imminent osteoporosis.
“How about we ABOLISH private gun ownership EXCEPT for muskets—which we’d then REQUIRE for Americans over 18? That’d be a PRO-GUN reading of what the Second Amendment meant in 1791. Then 98.7% of us could break our muskets in half, and the 1.3% in the NRA would have A MUSKET.”
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/967823615201828866
Be careful, it’s retarded out there.
Oh good. Then we can allow freedom of the press just for newspapers published in the original 13 colonies. And we could re-instate the slave trade.
Don’t forget on hand cranked presses and 1787-grade paper.
Which means Trump could Constitutionally shut down all the TV, internet, and radio outlets critical of him, since they aren’t “press” as they don’t use vintage methods of publishing. These people who make these arguments are really shallow thinkers, and short sighted.
I think we should gather some reenactors, and host a musket line party outside of his office, complete with an organ gun, all pointed at the door.
You don’t have a 4th Amendment right against searches of your computer or phone, because the amendment says you’re secure in your papers, and those aren’t paper.
“Schiff calls Steele intel “a trusted source””
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/02/25/sotu-schiff-trusted.cnn
TW: CNN
this one doesn’t vex me at all. should be open/shut. Beggs is taking T to help with the transition. should’ve been DQ’d under PED rules.
Beggs had asked to wrestle in the boys’ division, but the rules for Texas public high schools require athletes to compete under the gender on their birth certificate.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/26/transgender-boy-wins-girls-state-wrestling-title-for-second-time.html
could Beggs have bridged and rolled through that whizzer without the PEDs?
https://twitter.com/LEN2914/status/967901216255684608
WTF??
I’ve heard some talk of a third party ticket in 2020 consisting of Kasich and Hickenlooper. Wouldn’t Hickenlooper have a better chance in the Democratic primaries, with all the potential far left types (Warren, Harris, Booker) splitting up the wingnut vote? Could a “moderate” like Hickenlooper beat Trump more easily than any other Dem candidate?
Hickenlooper became a ‘moderate’ when Democrats lost control of the Colorado legislature after pushing far-left crazy concepts like gun restrictions and fracking restrictions. Same with Kasich. He was no moderate until his public employee reforms were shot down. They are both opportunistic asses (full disclosure, I voted in the Republican primary for Kasich, primarily because I don’t like Trump and Cruz was dropping out at that point).
Sounds…uninspiring.
Yes! That means I won’t finish last!
/Jill Stein
If we learned anything all from 2016 it’s that the Democratic primary is a dog and pony show put on for the benefit of the rubes with the outcome utterly predetermined. So splitting up the wingnut vote is not a concern.
No.
Yes.
The hard left turn the core Democrats have taken means their primaries have gotten very tough for moderates, but moderate-left/right is the most appealing position to the swing voter and the most likely to win a general election. In 2016 if the Dems had nominated Jim Webb instead of Hillary Clinton, they would have won the White House.
Yep, and this is embodied by this article from yesterday, where Feinstein failed to receive an endorsement from the California Democrats, as she’s considered too moderate…
“ACT For America Website Hacked by ‘Anonymous’ for Being Critical of Islam
When contacted by the Anarchist website Unicorn Riot, the hacker admit that the organization was targeted for their critical stances on Islam — and threatened to target more organizations that do not share their political beliefs.
“We decided to target them for their anti-Muslim views which their organization is widely know for. #OpDomesticTerrorism is actively targeting any/all organizations who actively promote hate speech and white supremacist terrorism, which we believe is crucial at a time where @realDonaldTrump is in office,” the terrorist hacker ironically stated.”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/act-america-website-hacked-anonymous-critical-islam/
I don’t think they know what the word “anarchist” means. Anyway, ignoring that it seems Anonymous has taken a hard left turn, weren’t they the same folks that attacked Scientology?
Anonymous: Religious bigotry is bad
Thinking Person: So, are you going to hack Dick Durbin and Diane Feinstein’s websites for attacking judicial nominees because of their religions?
Anonymous: LOL- those nominees were Catholic and therefore it was right to question their qualifications because of their faith
Thinking Person: What?
It’s amazing to me how far people are willing to delude themselves to defend Islam. No other religion receives receives this fealty from nonbelievers.
Does anyone remember after Gay Jay voiced his opposition to religious liberty he thought that he could win over religious people by endorsing a burqa ban (https://www.thedailybeast.com/libertarian-candidate-gary-johnson-actually-i-wouldnt-ban-the-burka)? He dropped his support for a burqa ban right away when he got push back from cosmos.
That’s pretty much what we are seeing here and shows how cosmos are more related to progressives than anything approaching libertarianism. They are playing the same stupid game: “religious liberty is just bigotry- unless you are attacking Islam than that is bigotry or something”.
No burqa ban- no bake the cake
No other religion receives receives this
fealtyfear from nonbelievers.No, indeed they do not. But they could.
organizations who actively promote hate speech and white supremacist terrorism
Yes, nothing screams white supremacist more than the Lebanese founder of ACT. The one who had to flee her home as a child after the village inhabitants were slaughtered in the name of Islam.
“shoot jizz not bullets”
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DW6cZ1_WkAEErSA.jpg:large
I am reasonably certain she has no difficulties finding people to shoot jizz at, on, or into her
I’d consider leaving the range early to go and help her out with that request.
This looks shopped. I can tell from the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.
… slayer of priapic dreams, you …
Why not both?
“Embrace the healing power of ‘and’.”
“Millennials Are No More Liberal On Gun Control Than Elders, Polls Show
High school students across the United States have been leading the call for more gun control since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla.
Some have called them the “voice of a generation on gun control” that may be able to turn the tide of a long-simmering debate.
But past polling suggests that people younger than 30 in the U.S. are no more liberal on gun control than their parents or grandparents — despite diverging from their elders on the legalization of marijuana, same-sex marriage and other social issues.
“Sometimes people surprise us, and this is one of those instances that we don’t know why,” says Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup.
Over the past three years, his polling organization asked the under-30 crowd whether gun laws in the U.S. should be made more strict, less strict or kept as they are now. On average, people between the ages of 18 and 29 were 1 percentage point more likely to say gun laws should be more strict than the overall national average of 57 percent.
“Young people statistically aren’t that much different than anybody else,” Newport says.”
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/24/588069946/millennials-are-no-more-liberal-on-gun-control-than-elders-polls-show
Surveys are crap.
NPR. where “liberal” means control.
Sitting outside a student center on the University of Delaware’s campus, Cahlil Evans of Smyrna, Del., 20, says while he doesn’t need a gun, he can understand why people would want hunting rifles and handguns. He draws the line, though, for assault-style rifles.
“There’s no need for these high-caliber rifles that pierce through walls,” Evans says. “People can say they use them for hunting or whatever, but why do you need a weapon with such high caliber that it would pierce through the animal and like eight trees behind it?”
you are not allowed to hunt deer in Virginia with .223… ostensibly because it’s so high-caliber. LOL
https://www.dgif.virginia.gov/hunting/regulations/general/#legal-use
Pistols and revolvers are lawful for deer and bear hunting only in those counties where hunting deer and bear with rifles is lawful. Cartridges used must be .23 caliber or larger and have a manufacturer’s rating of 350 foot-pounds muzzle energy or more.
Yeah, ‘cos a 308 from a Remington Model 700 just bounces off sheetrock.
But a .308 from a Saige goes through the next six houses, because the rifle’s black.
Given that 100 yards, even ball 308 can go thru about 3/8″ mild steel, you’re probably talking more than six houses.
I live in an area with older buildings. some of the outer walls are load-bearing brick. Plus there’s whatever contents are in the house, the number of joists the bullet finds, etc.
I ran across this “food fact” today”
Link fail, but it doesn’t really matter. Apparently it makes the Facebook rounds every so often. Oh, and they are talking about bell peppers. Also; in case you aren’t aware, it is complete and utter bullshit.
Since the peppers themselves are the fruiting bodies that form after pollination, they’re either female or hemaphroditic, though if female, some of the seeds may be male.
I can’t be arsed to look up if chili plants are hermaphodites or not.
From the gardening newsletter that I learned of this from:
Thank you.
Yes, but there’s a movement afoot to keep the male seeds out of the peppers, because patriarchy.
From the Atlantic: wounds from an AR15 are uniquely devastating. Ban them.
As a doctor, I feel I have a duty to inform the public of what I have learned as I have observed these wounds and cared for these patients. It’s clear to me that AR-15 and other high-velocity weapons, especially when outfitted with a high-capacity magazine, have no place in a civilian’s gun cabinet. I have friends who own AR-15 rifles; they enjoy shooting them at target practice for sport and fervently defend their right to own them. But I cannot accept that their right to enjoy their hobby supersedes my right to send my own children to school, a movie theater, or a concert and to know that they are safe. Can the answer really be to subject our school children to active-shooter drills—to learn to hide under desks, turn off the lights, lock the door, and be silent—instead of addressing the root cause of the problem and passing legislation to take AR-15-style weapons out of the hands of civilians?
I’m surprised she didn’t go with the “these bullets are designed to tumble when they strike the victim” theory.
Your right to be a cowering paranoiac shouldn’t supercede my Constitutional right to own an inanimate lump of steel, either.
::Clings bitterly to Mini-14::
I own rifles that are orders of magnitude more powerful than a 5.56mm NATO round.
Some time back, in a conversation when some nitwit brought up the “penetrating body armor” argument, I pointed out that my .338 Win Mag would probably penetrate ten standard police vests lined up. The topic shifted at that point, but I was anticipating the “why do you need something that powerful” retort, to which my reply is usually “because fuck you, that’s why,” or, if I feel like being polite, “have you ever seen a bull elk?”
The correct answer to this is, and always will be, “To return fire.”
“for enemies foreign and domestic”
One thing that would reduce the popularity of AR-15s as a ‘weapon of choice’ would be to make the guns less portable. It’s hard to imagine some pimply, weak-assed game-playing loser hauling a Barratt 82A1 into a school (added to which the weight of the ammo and mags). Henceforth,
.. leaked extract from new, secret proposal currently in the House of Representatives, tentatively dubbed the “Bergeron, Moon-Glampers (BMG) Bill“
Ban plastic direct impingement toys, stamped steel long stroke pistons for everyone!
This euphemism isn’t even trying to be abstract.
You know how that’s fake legislation?
Real legislation wouldn’t have the concessions.
to hide under desks, turn off the lights, lock the door, and be silent
since cops have shown themselves unwilling to intervene, i say we move away from the “hide til they run out of ammo” tactics.
I’m no expert, but isn’t 5.56 basically a varmint round that works a lot better for wounding than killing in larger targets (like people)?
There’s a lot more to lethality than “bullet go zoom zoom, me very scared”.
There really aren’t any calibers that won’t kill you, with the right placement and sufficient time for the victim to bleed out, until you get up to larger-than-human animals. The advantage of the 556 is that it’s a lot lighter than a 308. The disadvantage is that a single 308 is more likely to put a target down on its ass and out of the game, and do it faster.
The issue of survivability is a lot more complex, but there’s nothing about a 556 that makes it intrinsically “less lethal” than any other centerfire round.
That is a heaping pile of logical incoherence. This person is actually licensed as a doctor. Amazing.
I love the way she leaps from the clinical presentation of bullet wounds to high-capacity magazines. But the best is the way she assumes that if we had the same number of people killed in schools with handguns rather than AR-15s, we wouldn’t be having active shooter drills.
Naturally, as an animist, she assumes a particular model of gun is the root cause of the problem. IMO, an animist has no place in the medical profession.
But, “root cause” is actually a term of art in medicine. When something goes wrong, we do an analysis to try to get to the actual “root cause” so that we can design and implement countermeasures for that root cause. Imagine, if you will, that a surgeon cuts off the wrong leg. According to her, the root cause would be the model of scalpel the surgeon used, and if we banned that scalpel, nobody would cut off the wrong leg ever again. Imagine, if you will, the stunned silence followed by derisive laughter if she stood up and made that argument in an actual peer review meeting.
Just as you can have left-handed and right-handed scissors, you can have left-handed and right-handed bone saws, so I think I can see where the accidental amputation came from.
As a doctor
I have no relevant expertise so you should take this opinion as having no particular authority.
… she should have said.
Yeah, the up-front appeal to bogus authority.
“as I have observed these wounds and cared for these patients”
Bullshit. Unless she’s a battlefield surgeon, there’s no way in hell she’s treated multiple AR15 GSWs.
Let’s be generous. TWO thousand gunshot wounds. In 13 years? 200 a year? That’s damn close to one per workday. And she memorizes all ‘patterns of injury’? That’s pretty good going.
Where does she work, Chicago?
Broward.
Oh, and typical wounds from a handgun round are quite different from typical wounds from a long gun.
Shocked. Shocked I tell you.
Maybe she’s surprised because she just hasn’t seen that many long gun wounds. Which also – is not surprising since they are so rare.
Doing a little more digging, she is a radiologist in Ft Lauderdale, and on staff at the trauma center. She says she looks at handgun would almost daily, which is plausible.
What she doesn’t do, though, is actually treat patients (contrary to her statement), or see anything that the radiology imaging doesn’t show.
She claims, bizarrely, that handgun wounds are really not that big a deal:
Naturally, she doesn’t bother to consult the voluminous literature on ballistics and lethality. Note, also, her glossing over of the fact that medical personnel were banned from immediate response to the victims. IOW, she has little background on what she is claiming to be an expert on, and leaves a gaping hole in her own argument. One wonders what the learning has been from the actual surgeons who work have worked on both .223 rifle wounds, AK rifle wounds, and handgun wounds would have to offer. You certainly won’t find it in this article, and definitely not from her, since she has cultivated her ignorance of what she professes to be an expert on.
And not exactly an uninterested observer. She worked on a task force
No prizes for guessing just what the party affiliations are of Maurice Ferre, 6-term Mayor of Miami.
The Rent is Too Damn High Party?
Modest contributor to Clinton for 2016, slightly more to Karen Harrington (R).
“She says she looks at handgun would almost daily, which is plausible.”
Handguns, absolutely.
AR15 wounds? Bullshit. Even a doctor working in a warzone hospital in a bad bad part of town isn’t seeing AR15 wounds on a daily basis.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2014/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014/tables/expanded-homicide-data/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2010-2014.xls
Even if we assume that the “firearms type not stated” includes a proportional amount of rifles, that leaves us with 327 total rifle kills in the country. Now, this is deaths, but I think it’s a fair assumption that a higher percentage of rifle wounds result in death vs handgun wounds. 4%, on the high end, of gun homicides are rifle homicides. I doubt that higher than 4% of gun woundings are rifle woundings, because I think that rifles have a higher lethality rate.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700838/
So there’s roughly 48,000 “I got shot by someone else and didn’t die” incidents each year. 40% of those are treat and release. So going with our 4% figure, that means there are at most 2,000 “I got wounded with a rifle” cases a year in the entire country.
There’s no way in hell one radiologist, even in a busy hospital, has seen more than say, 20 AR15 wounds in one year.
If politicians want to back comprehensive mental-health reform, I am all for it. As a medical doctor, I’ve witnessed firsthand the toll that mental-health issues take on families and on individuals themselves who have no access to satisfactory long-term mental-health care. But the president and Congress should not use this issue as an excuse to deliberately overlook the fact that the use of AR-15 rifles is the common denominator in many mass shootings.
A medical professor taught me about the dangers of drawing incorrect conclusions from data, using the example of gum chewing, smokers, and lung cancer. He said smokers may be more likely to chew gum to cover bad breath, but one cannot look at the data and decide that gum chewing causes lung cancer. It is the same type of erroneous logic that focuses on mental health after mass shootings, when banning the sale of semiautomatic rifles would be a far more effective means of preventing them.
If we removed the bones from every child at birth, no child would ever suffer the trauma of a broken leg! Shouldn’t we at least give it a try?
“Sometimes people surprise us, and this is one of those instances that we don’t know why,” says Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup.
We front-load the fuck out of our questions, and sometimes people still won’t give us the answers we’re looking for. It’s a conundrum, is what it is.
“shoot jizz not bullets”
Would.