We forgot to run MLW’s latest masterpiece on V-Day because we are idiots who don’t deserve her talent.
Just to remind everyone:
THIS IS PARODY NOT THE REAL THING
We forgot to run MLW’s latest masterpiece on V-Day because we are idiots who don’t deserve her talent.
Just to remind everyone:
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537 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Not-Links”
Good thing I already ate lunch
Looks like NBC’s figure skating commentary team.
None of them are half as pretty as Johnny Weir. Or dress as strangely.
A decade ago Johnny Weir was a flamboyant Russophile and a don’t-ask-don’t-tell gay man. Today his queerness is over the top but his love for Russia doesn’t dare speak its name.
As freaky has Johnny Weir is, I have to respect him for having the confidence to do what he does.
That and he’s really fucking good at his job. I enjoyed his and Tara’s commentary a lot.
Agreed.
What??? I found it to be the most unbearable part of the whole Olympics. I’d rather hear Bode Miller backtracking his comments on repeat for 14 days straight that listen to another second of the Tara and Johnny show.
It wore out real quick for both myself and Mrs. I.
OMFG don’t get me started on Bode Miller. Alpine downhill is one of my favorite sports, and he nearly put me to sleep. Fuckin-a. They need to put the Nordic guys on the Alpine beat.
But what would Brian Boitano do if he were there right now?
DAMMIT YOU GOT IT IN MY HEAD.
*laughs maniacally
I bet he’d kick an ass or two.
I disagree on the Russia thing – he gushed over Evgenia Medvedeva so much, I thought he’d gone straight for a minute.
And yet, he was curiously silent when the hot Russian ice dancing chick was wearing only a thong, showing an almost completely bare pert little ass.
For those who didn’t watch.
If a gun was put to my head, ‘would’ in this order:
Girl who identifies as a man off to the right
Guy that identifies as an emasculated man off to the left
Guy that identifies as a bearded Roseanne Barr in the center
Just pull the fucking trigger.
Yeah, this
Just wait til you realize Hell is just Teen Vogue covers made manifest.
*winces, applauds*
What, no orgy?
I’d pick Dr. Zira before any of them.
If you put a gun to my head, I’d find some way to pull the same thing Captain Kirk did….(I.e. cheat)
Three bullets! I want THREE!!!
Since there are three people, we should play Fuck, Marry, Kill…
No, no we shouldn’t.
Come on. Where’s your sense of adventure?
Fuck the only one with a vagina
Kill the guy with the beard dressed like a girl because fuck you. Trans is transitioning. Pick a gender and try to be that (and don’t give me that more than two crap).
Marry the one left because I have to.
There
I agree the guy on the left is the one most likely to be a good marriage partner. He also has soft features. I wonder if he can make a good sandwich?
Fuck the one on the left because I like to be in charge, marry the big girl, because she probably can cook, shoot the asshole with the stupid glasses. Was that so hard, R. C.?
The one on the left looks good in a dress, though. Probably would look better at formal events than the woman (?)
Yeah, the chick on the right may come in handy in a fight. Plus she might have a hot girlfriend that would be into a 3 way. Have sex with Dr. Zira. Kill the dudes.
Can I kill myself and do that before we get to the fuck and marry parts?
The judges will allow it.
JFP, always looking for the loop holes.
I think he may be trying to avoid any holes, myself.
*opera applause*
Glad this is a family friendly site.
Is this real?
/oblivious
God damn that is good. So good, it is hard to believe this is not an actual issue. Well done, mythical libertarian woman!
Indeed. Thanks, MLW.
Iowahawk is your national treasure, and MLW is our Glibertarian treasure.
We have MANY treasures, but MLW is one of the *most* treasured.
?
Hearts are connected to the internal pudendal artery which feeds the penis with blood.
I’m not down with that gay shit.
You’re not fooling me, MLW really does work for Teen Vogue. She’s testing these covers to see if they piss off the normies badly enough. (for a given level of ‘normie’ of course).
You say parody…
Scariest thing on that cover?
Feminist Valentine Cards.
Also, the secret to keeping everyone here on topic is to make the topic alcohol.
You just literally went off topic
Because the topic wasn’t alcohol. Theory CONFIRMED.
Damn- that’s an excellent point
Or boobies.
All three of those beings technically have boobies.
Also, the secret to keeping everyone here on topic is to make the topic alcohol.
Did you mean to say “keeping everyone on tonic”?
Who are you? Jesse?
*vomits, then bursts into applause*
Well done, MLW!
Another home run MLW!
Teen Vogue is the Nick Gillespie of teen magazines. Didn’t he actually write for Teen Vogue?
I though he ghost wrote for tiger beat.
My mistake
Wow that’s frighteningly possible. Good job!
Is that george Clinton?
Sure looks like it. Fun Fact: I once went to a friend’s after-party following one of his shows, and he made an appearance!….he then smoked some crack.*
*my hand to a god I don’t necessarily believe in
If OMWC had a son….
If OMWC had a son….
his son would be old enough to be George Clinton?
Is that HM with George Clinton?
Doesn’t look very mulatto to me. False advertising
It’s just HM’s shirt.
As much as I’d like to hang with the Starchild himself….give me some credit, man!
So who is the guy on the left?
Some dude in a t-shirt.
You can tune a piano…
Hmm, that guy looks familiar (not George Clinton, the other one). I just might know him from somewhere.
However, that certainly looks like a t-shirt you would wear (or design).
Since there are no links to remark on, I’ll go to my off topic topic.
I discovered three things about my accursed programmable thermostat.
1: It is a Honeywell RTH2300B-1038
2: It requires two AAA barrties which recently died.
3: It was hooked up with only two wires to the furnace – White and Red.
Don’t feel bad. I owned one for 3 seasons (Florida, so summer, winter, summer) before I figured out a jumper was missing the 3rd or 4th time I went to swap the wire from one slot to another. I am not an electrician. Just lazy enough to see what would happen if BOTH slots were filled. Wait.. that sounds wrong.
I dunno. Sounds right to me.
There was a protracted discussion with Yousef and #6 about this thermostat a while back, so when I had to buy new batteries (I’d run out of AAA in the house) I thought of them Especially when I found a paucity of wires.
Thar would be a Jumper from Rc to Rh Correct?
Yes, which totally makes sense since the wire was red, but I got a gentleman’s D in Circuits.
Which Gentleman’s D?
The professor’s.
The is the correct answer.
*faints*
As long as it’s Heating only you good to go
From time to time I’d wondered about the feasibility of adding central air (the furnace itself had the hook ups to be attached to a condensor) but now I’m thinking I’ll stick with a window unit until I move out.
Yusef will say more, but the main problem with adding AC to a current ducting system that was heating only is that all of the vents are floor level… and for AC you want them to be higher (in general) heat rises, etc..
If the ducting is in a reasonable (Drink?) place then central AC is the way to go.
My ducts are run through the ceiling. The “cold air” return is in the ceiling. If they were set up for central air they’d make sense, but someone put a natural gas furnace in there.
That’s normal, A horizontal Furnace in the Attic, adding A/C is doable, and your Ductwork should be fine for the job
Many systems are floor vent with A/C, think modern Mobile Homes, and Basement Built split Systems you might see in the Colorado Springs area.
My house is A/C (installed two summers ago) with floor vents. Works fine. ‘Specially since we keep the furnace fan running 24/7.
So what you’re saying is the VAC doesn’t actually stand for anything?
/sarcasm
No, VAC means Vacuuming a System to Dry it before charging it with Refrigerant
/or Not
I KNEW it!
Fantastic – thanks, MLW!
Contest for best Feminist valentine card?
Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
The patriarch is a fascistic oppressive overbearing cultural complex
And only your love will get me through
I’m trying very hard not to see what the guy on the right is doing with his hands.
I’m trying very hard not to see what the guy on the
rightleft is doing with his hands.Sorry, I have a twitch in my left eyeball from this cover.
Very well done, MLW.
More bikini-clad babes for your viewing pleasure!
https://archive.is/QMGp5
2, 6, 13, 15, 22, 25, 43, 55.
Thank Q.
What you did there, I see it.
1 wins.
Several of those ladies need a couple of sandwiches.
(of course, given the proper incentive, I’d certainly be willing to make the sandwiches for them)
This seems appropriate:
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/polyamorous-valentines-day
Way too complicated for me.
How long before these start showing up on Google Image Search results?
About 10 minutes before the DMCA comes in and we cave like Patton Oswalt.
I must have missed something. What did Oswalt cave in too?
He got bullied by ENB
He had a go-round with ENB.
She out-woked him. The mark of a true ‘libertarian’.
That was truly impressive.
She must be so much fun at parties!
Thanks. Wow, he really has taken a hard turn to the left.
I love the first few comments to her tweet :
Replying to @ENBrown
Oh wow you have no understanding of dark humor and context do you hun
Markus T. Sharkus
Markus T. Sharkus
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PC culture is ruining comedy for sure.
??sippin camomile ??
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@RedCakez
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Considering I’m someone who literally has PTSD- I can say that people online get more ‘triggered’ then I do now a days. It’s crazy.
Ten or so years ago I was an occasional reader of Jim Goad’s message board on which Oswalt would post. If you would have told me then that this is where we’d be in 2018, I’d have said you were cuckoo bonkers bananas wacky in the head.
Like Patton? Ouch.
I buy all these stock photos, at least, so I don’t think anyone is actually able to squawk. I see nothing in my license about not being able to use these photos if you’re a shitlord.
Are the linkmasters on strike because they’ve finally had enough of our OT shenanigans?
No, we just didn’t want to waste this fine bit of content and wanted to give MLW her own space since she (a) put in a great amount of work and (b) got it to us before Valentines Day and we dropped the ball by not running it.
Thank you, Brett!
I don’t understand why Swiss gets all grumpy about that, but then again, they’ve never let me do the links either.
Links provided by you would result in many suicides among the commentariat.
Many of us losing our jobs, too
And eye bleachings.
It’s Postrel all over again. We are terrible people.
You really have no idea how often Swiss, Sloopy, and I have identified with Postrel, Gillespie, and Welch. The difference is, we won’t hire a bunch of people who hate our stated mission to fuck with you guys. This year.
$50 says Soave starts writing here in the next year. You guys have gone hollywood
Send us the $50, we’ll see what we can do.
Soave works for hair products only
We’ll buy a net and a tray of fruit sushi
And a mechanic to fix routine maintenance on his Prius, like putting air in his tires and adding wiper fluid.
Did he mix those up again?
He reacts to a flat tire like a first time tourist does to a lion on the African Savannah.
He started crying after someone told him to ask the dealership to check the blinker fluid.
Robby: The dashboard says ‘check engine’. Does this mean I need a new engine?
Mechanic: Yes
The position is open. Job requirements: FABULOUS hair.
Fruit Sushi and Da Liz would never survive a staff meeting with me.
To be fair, neither could most of us.
Speak for yourself.
Shenanigans.
Are the linkmasters on strike because they’ve finally had enough of our OT shenanigans?
Sorry, Mr. Q Continuum, but I don’t go in for these backdoor OT shenanigans. Sure, I’m flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!
Bravo!
This is gold!
Excellent, MLW.
Still the sharpest cultural critic out there.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-movies-metoo-modern-sexuality-endless-bitter-rancor-lies-1088450
She is a treasure.
She is an independent thinker, who takes time to consider things instead of just spouting off talking points. That is becoming a lost art.
I do enjoy reading her writings and interview transcripts. What I am genuinely curious about is her statements that she believes Kamala Harris is the real deal. Is there any background on this or does Camille expand on this in any links that people have come across?
It’s a mystery to me. Or rather, perhaps it’s a tribute to the hold that religious thinking can have on a mind.
Kamala Harris the real deal? i’m going to dig. b/c that’s some weapons-grade delusion from Camille.
It looks like it’s one quote which is the source and has been printed over and over:
“Since last Fall, I’ve had my eye on Kamala Harris, the new senator from California, and I hope to vote for her in the next presidential primary.”
Perhaps that’s not the ringing endorsement that the phrase ‘real deal’ is but still, it’s a quote from Camille that’s out there.
She’s just saying what millionsvof other people say but since she’s an academic and an alphabet person people like getting her approval for their opinions.
I got nothing against her but the standard for being a treasure should be higher than just not being a raving lunatic and saying some things that are obvious to normal people.
For all the negativity about the libertarian moment, it’s good to see that libertarian impulses are still alive among ostensible conservatives, even if they’re fading among the Cato/Reason set.
Great article.
Even greater is the author’s name: Joy Pullmann.
Great article. Sadly, this Federalist Society article is indeed more libertarian than what the Reason/Cato cocktail party circuit will allow.
The TDS has caused the Reason/Cato set to abandon the genuine libertarian take on all but the weed, Mexicans, and buttsex. Okay, I suppose they’re pretty good on occupational licensing as well.
Someone email that to David Hogg.
MLW, that cover is just disturbing. Well done.
EEK!
South Africa to Zimbabwe: Hold my beer.
I was informed that only alt-right personalities would give a damn about this. Congratulations, you are a Jewish Nazi now. You have good company, though, including Ben Shapiro and Alan Dershowitz
Remember all, the Very Smart Brothas (TM) over at Root think that the landowners are just a bunch of crybabies getting their just desserts.
I bet they do.
And then they can’t farm.
Let’s see what they do with the land. If they’re productive that is.
If this goes anything like it did in Zimbabwe, nobody will be getting any desserts.
/golf clap/
Instead they’ll be getting just deserts.
I would laugh if it weren’t for the fact that real people are going to suffer from this.
Yeah, I can’t laugh about this. People are going to suffer and die, like has happened in Zimbabwe. It sucks.
Outside of the real reason they’re pulling this stupid shit, the purported justification used by apoologists doesn’t even apply.
The native black population of South Africa are the San. They are the only people whose ancesters were there prior to Afrikaaner settlement. The Bantu tribes arrived after the Europeans, coming down East Africa.
The ANC is a Bantu-controlled party, and they treat the San like shit.
This is correct, and it makes a strong argument for controlling immigration to anyone who is the slightest bit concerned about their children’s children’s future.
While there might have been San in what is now South Africa as far back as 70,000 years ago. There were Bantu there long before the Portuguese showed up in 1487, or the Dutch set up shop in Cape Town 200 years after that. The Xhosa and Zulu were both Bantu.
“The expansion reached South Africa, probably as early as 300 AD.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion
Dammit. More depressing research for my pile.
So the Boers try for succession, leave or just roll over and die?
Assuming it happens there will be another wave of emigrants.
We’ve seen example after example of what happens in these cases, one of them right next fucking door to South Africa. At this point, the only conclusion I can reach is that the ANC is deliberately trying to kill off their population.
‘perfectly predictable consequences are NOT unintended’.
It’s so lifelike
Stop making sense!
I have also watched a false narrative about this crisis blossom into conventional wisdom: The myth that the epidemic is driven by patients becoming addicted to doctor-prescribed opioids, or painkillers like hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin) and oxycodone (e.g., Percocet). One oft-quoted physician refers to opioid medication as “heroin pills.” This myth is now a media staple and a plank in nationwide litigation against drugmakers. It has also prompted legislation, introduced last spring by Senators John McCain and Kirsten Gillibrand—the Opioid Addiction Prevention Act, which would impose prescriber limits because, as a news release stated, “Opioid addiction and abuse is commonly happening to those being treated for acute pain, such as a broken bone or wisdom tooth extraction.”
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For starters, among people who are prescribed opioids by doctors, the rate of addiction is low. According to a 2016 national survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 87.1 million U.S. adults used a prescription opioid—whether prescribed directly by a physician or obtained illegally—sometime during the previous year. Only 1.6 million of them, or about 2 percent, developed a “pain reliever use disorder,” which includes behaviors ranging from overuse to overt addiction. Among patients with intractable, noncancer pain—for example, neurological disorders or musculoskeletal or inflammatory conditions—a review of international medical research by the Cochrane Library, a highly regarded database of systemic clinical reviews, found that treatment with long-term, high-dose opioids produced addiction rates of less than 1 percent. Another team found that abuse and addiction rates within 18 months after the start of treatment ranged from 0.12 percent to 6.1 percent in a database of half a million patients. A 2016 report in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that in multiple published studies, rates of “carefully diagnosed” addiction to opioid medication averaged less than 8 percent. In a study several years ago, a research team purposely excluded chronic-pain patients with prior drug abuse and addiction from their data, and found that only 0.19 percent of the patients developed abuse and addiction to opioids.
Look, do you want a massive expansion of the drug war or not?
But somebody’s son who was addicted to heroin OD’d, and according to his father, it all started with Vicodin.
Why do you want children to die?
The frustrating thing is doctors will agree that prescribing opioids doesn’t cause addiction, but won’t prescribe them anyway.
MLW, well done, Gross as , Well,…
Good Work!
Son of Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders Is Seeking Seat in New Hampshire
FREESHIT!
I wonder if he choose not to run for a seat in the NH legislature, because it is an unpaid position
The douchbag doesn’t even live in the district he wants to ‘represent’.
Exactly. The 1st District is my district and he currently lives almost exactly on the other side of the state from me.
To be fair, it’s New Hampshire. If he lived across the street he’d be on the other side of the state.
True dat. Texas has 254 counties and most are comparable to the size of New Hampshire (e.g., Brewster County is 6200 sq miles compared to New Hampshire’s 9300 sq miles.)
Of course not
That’s not exactly true. You get 100 bucks per year.
Bucks?
Dammit.
Bucks?
If only. Venison is the best meat.
I had venison bologna and cheese for breakfast this AM. YUM!
You’ll have all the venison you can eat… and then some.
Nice racks.
Yep, just like this,
I’m guessing that he’s never worked (outside of government) a day in his life.
I’d like two candidates to take him on: Levi Strauss and Colonel Sanders.
The electorate would be so confused no one would win.
lol.
Does he realize he is in NH and not Vermont?
I guess that Free State project doesn’t mean what I thought it meant.
Southern NH has become northern Massholeistan.
SO MUCH THIS!
If just voting for stuff makes it appear why vote for college tuition. Skip that and vote for high paying jobs for everyone. Or better yet just vote for free goods for everyone so they don’t need jobs.
What’s sad is take that childish shit that I just wrote and maje it really long winded and you have the intellectual output of Marx’s life work.
Sessions prepares his ban boner
Until the Vegas shooting, I had never heard of bump stocks, and I doubt most People had either, so banning them accomplishes what Again?
It makes people FEEL safe.
Hopefully enough cover to not do anything else. I’d never heard of them until the Vegas thing either.
It’ll work until the next one when Sessions uses his incredible douchebag powers to unilaterally ban what-the-fuck-ever he wants again. Fuck this shit and fuck Trump for pushing it and setting an absolutely terrible precedent.
This compromise will work u til they need another compromise which won’t be for about 5 minutes.
By compromise they mean you give something and they give nothing.
Until recently, I’d guess most people have thought of “bump stock” as their cocaine supply.
That all depends on the language that is used to ban them. The issue really isn’t bump stocks, it’s “devices or mechanisms which enhance the rate of fire of semiautomatic firearms” – that, and legislative creep.
IANAL, but if “bump stocks and physical devices which activate the triggers of semiautomatic firearms may not be added to them” were regulated, that would probably not be awful, although one has to ask if a piece of string, an elastic band or your belt loop are therefore verboten, because you can get the same effect as that, as you can with good training.
If, however, there’s some kind of prohibition on “enhancing the rate of fire of a semiatutomatic fiream by altering or augmenting the trigger action“, that’s a VERY different kettle of fish. That basically kills all gunsmithing and 3rd party upgrades that go anywhere near a stock trigger. Does a lighter trigger action and a shorter reset (both quite ordinary alterations to a stock pistol) change its rate of fire? In experienced hands, absolutely.
Well, they probably could, if they defined it relative to the biomechanics of the finger rather than the mechanics of the gun. I.e., if it lets the gun fire faster than a human manually pulling the trigger as quickly as possible, it is conversion to automatic, even if the physical trigger is still only pulled once per bullet.
But of course, any gun does that with the right technique, so it would effectively be a standing invitation to ban semi-automatic weapons through regulatory fiat.
Who is going to be the first to propose a sear/hammer that takes 10+sec to reset? Any fire that is quicker than that is an NFA weapon.
“We have our best legal minds working on torturing the logic and context of the English language right now.”
They really don’t want this guy to get a security clearance.
What was the reason why? It’s because he is not a part-time novelist?
Irrespective of who was granted access by the Obama fiasco, Kushner is an idiot who should not be trusted with classified information.
Good point. Kushner might use classified information effectively.
You have far too high an opinion of the man. He has not demonstrated competence.
As is most of the supposed intelligence community. But they’ve set themselves up as gatekeepers and if you won’t play their kowtowing game, you’ll find your executive washroom key doesn’t work.
Love these covers.
I just want to chime in about the Olympics. Is it me or does it seem the amount of staff they use seems superfluous? I don’t know a whole lot about the logistics of these things but I’m not sure if there was a need for four people to talk about hockey around a table as if it’s the NHL. Back in the day they had two and sometimes just the one guy and it was plenty.
Semi-related: the gold medal game was was impressive.
Why do you hate jobs for the good old boys, Rufus?
Don Cherry could do the work of four men, and be way more entertaining.
I watched the coverage on the NBC Sports app this year and they used the international Olympic broadcast instead of the NBC one. For figure skating it was one Australian former skater and a Canadian Everyman and I loved them. They kept their mouths shut during the routines so I could actually watch everyone falling on their butts. (*gives side-eye to whoever thought it was a good idea to make the required elements so hard that the only people who didn’t fall were the medalists, thus ruining my enjoyment of the show*)
I don’t know if I should thank MLW or tell her to go fuck herself for making me see that.
Anyway, blast from the past. This is what I thought of when I saw it.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjq99z/why-cant-my-famous-gender-nonconforming-friends-get-laid
“Jacob Tobia and Alok Vaid-Menon are femme nonbinary icons. But that won’t get them dates, and the reasons why speak volumes about our discomfort with those who exist between genders.”
If Meredith is so worried about it, *she* should fuck them.
No one want to fuck her either.
Ahem. Him. BAM.
carry out land expropriation without compensation
Alrighty, then.
It’s the Economic Freedom Fighters to the rescue! Someone should make a comic.
I was thinking about doing TEK Brothers, Twin Brother SuperHeroes…..I’ll keep the rest to me self just yet
“We’ve had to deal with previous ATF legal opinions, but our top people in the Department of Justice have believed for some time that we can, through regulatory process, not allow the bump stock to convert a weapon from semiautomatic to fully automatic,” Sessions told a gathering of state attorney generals.
Haha, just kidding. It doesn’t, so let’s get back to raiding medical marijuana growers.
http://quillette.com/2018/02/25/damore-diversity-disruption-psu/
Remember that Google memo guy? Well apparently this mild-mannered nerd is a white supremacist for pointing out obvious differences between the sexes (which I still don’t understand why this makes him a white supremacist). Some college kids tried to shut-down a speech that he gave.
I still don’t understand how any adult human could be stupid enough to think that his employer wanted his feedback on the bullshit diversity seminar that it made him go to.
It was a trap and he wasn’t socially functional enough not to fall for it. Google got what it wanted: The Purge.
Oh shit. I said almost the exact same comment. Get out of my head
mwa-ha-ha!
Would you like to provide some feedback about the mods’ performance?
The mods make me feel very unsafe, letting a time-rapist waltz around the place.
I think one day every year all the Google employees should be given farm implements and be allowed to kill each other. Not that it would be a good policy. I would just find it amusing.
Agreed. The guy walked into a trap. I think he was too dumb to realize it.
He took it literally.
He could have done what we did when we had to go to one for the bank in the 90s.
Mercilessly mock the whole exercise. And just to be clear among those laughing at the course were women, Asians and of course yours truly and other ball busting wops.
That poor lady. Even she didn’t believe in it by the time the day ended.
My mind went here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1cM1x_LVXo
And part two.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLpRCeos6qk
And that would be more or less accurate.
It was a proud moment in my life.
He hasn’t mastered the art of conformity like you and me. Long time ago some people thought that being a nonconformist wasn’t all bad.
And?
And then they all fucked.
The bonobo solution to tribal conflict.
That person there has a degree. /cousin Eddie voice.
And, judging from her major and actions, $100k in student debt and a job at Starbucks.
She must be a blast at concerts.
“You have microphones. We don’t,”
That’s because no one came to hear you, lady. (or whatever the fuck you are)
So, I’ve finally made plans for the 2018 vacation. I’m going to sail the Ionian coast in the last week of August. Honestly, I really wish I could be doing that right now.
That’s . . . kinda cool, actually.
That’s WAY COOL, Be Safe on that trip,
/Jelly af
In a trireme? Are you getting your orphans locally?
You don’t just send your orphans to your summer home via freight mail light the rest of us?
Not a trireme. Never sailed one of those. I’m signed up for a cat, but I was told I might get stuck with a monohull (not that I’d actually cry about that). One of the stops is Vathi (in Ithica). I’m wondering if there’s a way to get lost for ten years (begins plotting…).
Just find Poseidon’s kid and blind him. You should be good from there.
Odi-See what you did there!
Have a great sail. It is a great area for a cruise. My summer vacation will be helping to race a sailboat from San Francisco to Oahu.
The best vacation I ever took was a sailing trip in the Cyclades. But remember, the boat gets a foot shorter each day you are on it, so hopefully you get along with your shipmates.
A number of Q’s cuties are pictured on sailing vessels. Maybe you can recruit crew?
Just to remind everyone:
THIS IS PARODY NOT THE REAL THING
Aww, knock that shit off, it’s funnier when people think its real.
Haha yeah, I like tricking people!
Schools across US are banning backpacks after Parkland shooting
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/27/schools-across-us-are-banning-backpacks-after-parkland-shooting.html
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Some schools across the U.S. have banned students from carrying backpacks inside their buildings due to safety concerns following the recent shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead.
Schools in Florida, Illinois and Ohio have already taken steps to prevent students from bringing book bags into school, the Miami Herald reported.
Plushies of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics mascot Soohorang and Paralympics mascot Bandabi hang on a backpack as spectators watch the Olympic torch relay in Seoul, South Korea, January 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji – RC16C30FD7E0
Students in schools across the U.S. are barred from wearing backpacks inside school buildings. (Reuters)
In Niles, Ohio, students are allowed to “carry small purses or lunch boxes” as a way to “make every student feel safe,” WKBN reported. A student was removed from Niles McKinley High School after allegedly discussing school shootings. The school also banned backpacks last year following a bomb threat.
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Why not get rid of schools? That’s the only sure fire way to end school shootings.
Great, more mass hysteria.
Not counting silly pistol conversions, I’m pretty sure even an SBR AR-15 doesn’t fit inside of a backpack.
“Why not get rid of schools? That’s the only sure fire way to end school shootings.”
If it saves the life of even one child, we have to try.
“I was gonna take a gun to school and kill everyone but it’s not allowed in my backpack!”
“In other words, exactly like the US”
*i suppose that’s not fair. Russia has material interests in Syria that the US doesn’t. They have longstanding alliance w/ Assad and warm water naval base there. It makes perfect sense that they would have provided support to the regime if it were threatened.
the US, on the other hand… well, we’ve been allied to Israel fer-ev-ah, but that doesn’t mean we have casus belli to go fomenting revolution among their next-door-neighbors when we think it might prove fruitful. Or, if that plan goes to shit… why we suddenly have an excuse to declare ourselves the Official Civil-War-Police in the region.
Normally that is something the UN asserts when the parties under conflict *aren’t* explicitly allied w/ superpowers. in those cases, the Blue Hats simply go, “Now everyone calm down”, and sends in troops to rape some of the locals.
When its a real-hot-shooting war, and the US and Russians are playing proxy war? The UN sort of twiddles their thumbs and goes, “uh… well, let us know when you want us to condemn something”.
It irritates me to no end that journalists could have spent years moaning endlessly about the “illegal” nature of the Iraq war, despite the fact that Bush in fact filled out all the forms and checked every box possible to justify unilateral intervention against a country we’d been at “half-war” with since the end of Gulf I….. yet when they find the US involved in yet another middle east conflict not far away, they literally just pretend “no one really knows how/why we stuck our dick into this one, but we’ll just pretend it all makes sense”… just because the person who initiated this new one was on Team Blue.
“It irritates me to no end that journalists could have spent years moaning endlessly about the “illegal” nature of the Iraq war”
It’s also irritating that the same press who mocked anyone who claimed Russia was a threat prior to 2016 is suddenly super duper concerned about Russia and insists that this administration has done nothing (Russia is no more a threat to the US than Syria is). I continue to believe that the whole Russia fever dreams are about the War in Syria. Certain people were not happy that Trump was suggesting that the US just defeat ISIS and leave Syria.
Doubleplusungoodthink, Just Say’n. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.
Israeli Jew converts to Islam, plots to join the Islamic State
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/israeli-jew-converts-to-islam-plots-to-join-the-islamic-state
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In 2000, while performing compulsory service in the IDF, Mazlevski converted to Islam, after meeting the Arab Israeli Muslim woman who would become his wife and mother of his five children.
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I thought I was being generous by pretending like my romantic interest’s music.
That must be some bomb pussy.
[Krusty groan]
Go. To. Your. Room.
5 children = hot dog down a hallway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xLUEMj6cwA
Blessed are the cheesemakers.
I picked up some Mimolette extra vielle cheese over the weekend. Yummy.
It’s a metaphor. He means anyone who works in dairy.
amusing
https://www.vox.com/2018/2/27/17029680/gun-owner-nra-mass-shooting-political-identity-political-science
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If only gun owners had voted in the 2016 election, then Donald Trump would have won every single state save Vermont. If only people who don’t own guns had voted, then Hillary Clinton would have won every state, save West Virginia and maybe Wyoming.
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Clearly, pushing gun control is the best way for Team Blue to win.
There are people in Wyoming that don’t have guns?
There is a brief interval between when the gun is pried from their cold, dead hands and when they are legally dead. During this interval, they are technically people without guns.
During this interval, they are technically people without guns.
And much more likely to vote democrat.
And after dying as well, of course.
They just moved there. Give ’em a chance to unpack, willya?
Here’s my suggested gun control law: Amend posse comitatus to add a definition of “paramilitary forces”, which face the same restrictions as the military does under the law. Define any government official, employee, contractor, or subcontractor as “paramilitary” if they use or possess any armaments that are restricted such that fewer than 80% of adult citizens are permitted to own them.
IOW, if our weapons are restricted on account of being “weapons of war” or “military-grade”, then civilian government agents should not be permitted to use them for policing.
Here’s mine. I get ALL the guns.
Mine is “Molon Labe”.
No, that would invariably result in tyranny. Especially if you grew 300 million hands.
That would be AWESOME!
nice to see the push back here
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/02/erdogan-wishes-martyrdom-on-young-girl-allah-willing
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come under criticism for telling a small girl dressed in a military uniform that she would be honoured if she were “martyred” for Turkey.
Erdogan spotted the weeping-and-saluting 6-year-old Amine Tiras while delivering a speech at his ruling party’s congress in the city of Kahramanmaras on Saturday, and had her brought on stage.
After trying to comfort the girl by kissing her on both cheeks, Erdogan told the crowd: “She has the Turkish flag in her pocket. If she becomes a martyr, God willing, this flag will be draped on her.”
Some people were appalled and took to Twitter to criticize the president.
One user said it was the state’s duty to protect children, not to “kill” them. Another said: “you don’t wish death for a child, you never say: ‘God willing.”‘…
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Assuming these people live in Turkey, over/under is a week until they’re arrested for “associating with terrorist groups”.
Remember when Erdogan was seen by the Western press as a good guy?
Yeah…
This is a welcome change. I still have the book praising some 7 year old who blew up a greek munitions depot by strapping explosives to himself and slipping into the depot. It was given to me when I was 6 or 7 back when the secularists were in charge. At least they’re starting to push back on the fascism.
Antifa!
Well if they actually believe that she will automatically go to heaven if she’s martyred then what’s the problem? Sounds like those infidels need a date with the kilij.
Some schools across the U.S. have banned students from carrying backpacks inside their buildings due to safety concerns following the recent shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 people dead.
Somebody needs to make a youtube instructional video about how to hollow out a math book to hold a pistol and a couple of spare mags.
Presto!
No
more
books.
Maths!
Some of you fucking retards are still using least squares, aren’t you? Dipshits. Fuck off, morons, Eat my shit.
I use TLAR:
That Looks About Right
Least squares is a fucking cave scratching.
There are people in Wyoming that don’t have guns?
Unfortunately, there are a lot of gun owners in Montana who happily voted for Obama twice, and Hillary once. I’m not sure that breakdown is as effective as some people might think.
Fuckin’ Fudds.
Just blew a brake line. That’s the problem with 22 year old Chevy’s.
The vehicle, not the washed up, unfunny ‘comedian’, I guess.
Oh, stop.
-1 Drowning Mona
Two or three more will blow after you fix this one. The first I really just a fuse.
^^This.
One goes, all go, unless there was some specific damage to that line.
Just blew a brake line. That’s the problem with 22 year old Chevy’s.
These euphemisms…
Fuckin’ Fudds.
Not just Fudds. Lesbians, cross-dressers, self-described socialists, public school teachers, hipsters, military veterans, artists…
It’s crazy. They let just about anybody walk into a store and buy a gun up here.
You have stores? I thought there was nothing up there.
Well technically the store is the back of a ox drawn wagon.
The ox owns a gun though.
Who is MLW?
That which is not, in fact is……
Mythical Libertarian Woman.
Martin Luther Wing.
Is probably the most Sino-Trinidadian name I have ever seen.
You don’t say.
I guess this’ll teach me to come on here more often
has anyone linked to this yet? CNN’s latest on the full semi automatic ar-15
“On full semi-automatic?” WTF?
Bullshit.
Never go full semi-automatic. It’s like overunderestimating yourself.
I was under the impression, that full Auto also had a 3 round burst mode, and a semi mode, or Did I watch too many War movies growing up?
No, that’s select fire. Only an option on a full-automatic weapon.
The distinction lies in the relationship “one trigger pull = One round fired” = semi automatic.
That’s what I thought, I didn’t express it well
That’s fine. But as you saw, even with a semi-auto, you can see it’s possible to burn thru’ a mag of ammo pretty quickly.
An extreme example I’ve cited before …. Old Jerry and the AR-15
The M16A1 (adopted 1969) has 3 settings: safe, semi, and auto
The M16A2 (adopted 1983) also has 3 setting: safe, semi, and burst.
Drill Sgt: Soldiers! What is an M16?
Us: A 5.56 mm, magazine fed, gas-operated, air-cooled, semiautomatic or three-round burst, hand-held, shoulder-fired weapon.
The A2 was also set up with 4 settings — Safe, Semi, Burst and Auto, where burst was at the 2:30 position between semi and auto. I don’t know why they came both ways (according to wiki) but in every unit I was in (Cav) we always had 4 position.
Sorry, 1:30 position.
DI: Cycle of operation!
Recruit Chipwooder: Sir, the cycle operation of the M16A2 service rifle is, firing, unlocking, extracting, ejecting, cocking, feeding, chambering, locking, sir!
Still got that shit nailed after 17 years!
It’s either Safe-1-Full Auto or Safe-1-Burst. For a long while the US went heavy into burst fire since full auto is hard to control and wastes bullets. They’ve started to swing back to having it on more rifles for suppressing fire situations.
“Fire this on full, semi-automatic” the full is misleading but he does just pull the trigger very fast. The general is hard team blue if you check his history. It’s kind of funny watching the CNN guy try to suppress how much fun he’s having shooting.
He also didn’t seem to think it was worthwhile pulling the stock into his shoulder.
Do you have a link to his history? I never knew that FOBBITs had their own chain of command.
You can usually find info about field grade officer postings (and which includes previous posts) in mil news papers. Generals make it easy and usually have their own wikipedia pages. Somehow an armor guy ended up as an overpaid political PE/Health teacher.
Ima gonna go read between the lines.
There’s a hole in his later resume. He’s commanding General in Wiesbaden until Dec 2008, Leaves that command and disappears (Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, United States Army, Washington, DC, according to TRADOC), getting his promotion to Lt. Gen 9 months later, coincident with a couple of articles in Military Review.Then he goes back to Germany to run the whole theater, and then retires out.
Gets pulled into Obama’s “Egg and Spoon Race Advisory Council” in 2011 while he’s being called by CNN’s booking staff on a regular basis.
Lovely. TedX speaker. “Obesity is a National Security Issue”.
Aside from the close association with CNN, I dunno what to say.
I’ll just leave this here:
The ‘U.S. military’s marathon, 30-year, single-elimination, suck-up tournament’ or ‘How America selects its generals’
https://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-blog-about-military-matters/60879683-the-u-s-military-s-marathon-30-year-single-elimination-suck-up-tournament-or-how-america-selects-its-generals
I ran into Hertling a number of times in my career. He was going into BN command when I went thru AOAC and we had to brief an Operations Order to him for both of our educations.
He was the Armor Officer Branch Chief who had the come to Jesus with me about my career. “You’re a middle of the road Armor Officer, so you’ll never see BN Command, think about doing something else”
It was probably the best, most honest advice I ever received as a junior officer from a senior officer.
He was an up-n-comer thru BDE command. Like 6 says above though, he has a hole where he became a political animal. To be a General, you have to be a politickin MF or the very best officer everywhere you go and still willing to politick.
Hertling jumped on the Obama Train, much like Wes Clark jumped on the Clinton Train.
Derp, the guy in your link is generally right, but some of that stuff changes generationally, so getting advice from old officers is generally old and sometimes out of date.
OK, so you were “up or outed” with a gentle tap of a sand boot.
I guess it meant you could concentrate on the rest of your life …
No I just stopped being Armor and became a 49 (ORSA).
I retired as LTC, but did go AGR (full time reserve) at about 13 year mark.
I have seen breathless “news” anchors repeat semi-automatic over and over in their story. They think it’s scarier than automatic because it has more syllables.
Nobody needs that many syllables.
Fuck those bitches. The General is a pussy. The CNN dude shoots like a pussy. Is bullshit.
Serious chick lean going on.
Oh, where to begin?
“A defining characteristic of the AR-15 is the speed and the power of the bullet.”
You mean it’s smaller and less powerful than cartridge it replaced? Why yes. Yes it is.
it has about the same energy as a 357 or 10mm.
Yes but that is half as much as a .30-06 or a .308/7.62.
and the 7mm rem puts 223 to shame.
This isn’t true, you have to go to .50 AE before you exceed the energy of a 5.56 in a pistol.
Speed is definitely a defining characteristic of 5.56. Power? not so much.
But a rifle will always outshoot a pistol — on the battlefield.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/opinion/get-out-of-facebook-and-into-the-nras-face.html
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Get Out of Facebook and Into the N.R.A.’s Face
Thomas L. Friedman
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This fight can’t be won on Twitter or Instagram. They do get people into the streets. But social media have created a world of faux activism — “Hey, I tweeted about it” — that the bad guys take advantage of. The N.R.A. is not just in the chat rooms. It’s in the cloakrooms of Congress and state legislatures. And it’s there with bags of money and votes it uses to reward lawmakers who do its bidding and hurt those who don’t.
I loved seeing the 100 students from your high school taking buses Tuesday to Florida’s capital to directly press lawmakers. That’s a great start. I hope every high school follows.
But, ultimately, nothing will change unless young and old who oppose the N.R.A. run for office, vote, help someone vote, register someone to vote or help fund someone’s campaign — so we can threaten the same electoral pain as the National Rifle Association, which, according to PolitiFact, spent $203.2 million between 1998 and 2017 funding its candidates, defeating gun control advocates and lobbying. This is not about persuading people with better ideas. We tried that. It’s about generating raw electoral power and pain.
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NRA spends $10 million a year on lobbying, eh? Team Blue spent $13 million to get Doug Jones elected.
For the record, here’s the top 20 spenders on lobbying funds in 2017. The NRA isn’t listed (they spent $10.2 million): https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s&showYear=2017
And sitting at #11 is The Open Society Policy Center, aka Soros.
This is not about persuading people with better ideas. We tried that.
Um… when, exactly?
It’s about generating raw electoral power and pain.
Totally not Maoists. Nope. No sirree.
That being said, even though I disagree with him, Friedman is actually right for once (broken clock and all). If you really want to make a difference, get the fuck off of Facebook and Twitter and do something.
No. No, they need to stay on Facebook and Twitter, where sensible people can safely ignore them. The last thing we need is these lunatics going out into the real world and trying to get political power.
They won’t amend the Constitution, they’ll just pass more unconstitutional laws and fill the courts with judges that will rubber-stamp them. If that’s what “doing something” means, then staying on Facebook would be better for the republic.
This is not about persuading people with better ideas. We tried that
Fuck you, you totalitarian boot licking cock sucker. Your ideas are not better. Shove them on the dustbin of history along with all the dead bodies of those tyrannical regimes you laud.
Thank you for posting and thank you all for the comments! I was chuckling very maniacally the whole time I was making this. That stock photo just about killed me.
You Scare me Magical Lizard Warlock, Nice Work again!
He also didn’t seem to think it was worthwhile pulling the stock into his shoulder.
But mega-lethal high power assault thingies! That kind of massively calibered rifle will knock you on your ass.
He didn’t even use that shoulder thing that goes up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospNRk2uM3U
one of the best.
I suspect she was referring to a collapsible stock. Not that it matters. She was eclipsed by Ghost Gun Guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmFEv6BHM0
That would still be in instead of up.
unless it was a very specific folding stock.
This is not about persuading people with better ideas. We tried that. It’s about generating raw electoral power and pain.
There’s your trouble. Your ideas are neither persuasive nor better. Just loud.
Am I a bad man for being angrier at the dingbat who did this:
Peru bus crash: 44 dead after coach plunges 100 metres into ravine
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/peru-bus-crash-dead-panamericana-sur-highway-arequipa-a8222416.html
than the shit heel who shot up that school?
THIS IS THE FUTURE LIBERTARIANS WANT.
Hell, no
Libertarian Solution: If you don’t have any roadz, you can’t drive off them!
Murder on the Horrible Express
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The killing of Tim McLean occurred on the evening of July 30, 2008. McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized while riding a Greyhound Canada bus about 30 km west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, travelling the Trans-Canada Highway.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean
Yo momma so poor, she don’t fly off the handle, she go Greyhound off the handle!
“was found not to be criminally responsible for murder and was remanded to a high-security mental health facility in Selkirk, Manitoba, where he was detained until his release on May 8, 2015.”
So the dude beheads and mutilates a complete stranger and eats him in front of multiple witnesses and then spends 7 years in a mental institution and then is released without any criminal record……Canada is fucking weird. Once you brutally murder and eat someone what fucking logic is there to letting them back into society? I know capital punishment isn’t a very popular concept in libertarian circles but stories like this are why I can’t completely reject it. At some point who gives a shit why you did it….you murdered a human being for no reason whatsoever and have forfeited your right to live in civilized society.
Am I seeing that wrong? Is there a good argument for natural rights for ghouls like this? Honestly asking….
Also an armed populace doesn’t have to meekly observe an atrocity like this, standing a safe distance away waiting for the authorities to arrive. That’s a situation where I really couldn’t make myself care if the cops had shown up and just shot him. I know that isn’t really too consistent with the rule of law but….
“This means that he (the killer) accepted that the offence occurred but he claimed that he was unable to form the necessary mental element (mens rea)”
I may be weird, but the fact that a person could kill and eat someone that calmly and not realize it was a bad thing makes it even more important that he/she NEVER be allowed out in society again.
An actual murderer can show remorse; this guy thought he had done a good thing. He’s much more dangerous than a simple murderer.
Top 10 Stupidest Things Said By a Gun Grabber in 2016
“Sign in to confirm your age”
And why is that, o YouTube?
channel name: IL gun rights
Ah, say no more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npr_RE1ja84
A few years ago, I watched an autopsy video on YouTube. For some reason, YouTube saw no need to censor that.
Can someone explain the intricacies of Utah outlawing polygamy? My wife watches this show Sister Wives show and I find it immoral that they turned these people into criminals.
Transgender rights are all the rage now but they go and crush these people’s rights?
Yeah. My wife watches that too. That dude is insane. Yeah, its all about the Patriarchy oppressing poor little women. Remember that feminist believe that women are children and therefore have no agency.
Then there are the handful of instances in history where these arrangements turned out to be pedo cults. So of course since some people act like assholes, everyone has to be punished.
Seriously. He exhausts me just watching him. I get all tired just thinking my daughter asking me to take her skiing.
I can’t figure out the economic aspect of this arrangement. How the heck does he does it on one salary?
The women bring in money. Yeah, too much estrogen for me. I love women but damn.
I’m pretty sure there’s a Ponzi element to the church in that it’s very supportive of members in financial hardship, while it’s taking 10% tithes from everyone.
So, as you build a larger family, at some point, you’re going to be subsidized (while you have loads of kids) by the young families that consist of just a ‘normal’ couple with a few kids.
One of the highest concentrations of welfare use in America is in those super-Hasidic towns in the Catskills that are loaded with kids; maybe the government is pitching in here too.
To them their stance on polygamy isn’t a contradiction. Gay marriage is good because- fuck rednecks. Polygamy is bad because- fuck Mormons for being rednecks.
If the polygamists start having parades marching in the streets in thongs then progs will support them because then they will piss off the right people that progs hate.
Please let this not happen.
Thongs have been the magic underwear all along?
Not a Utahan, but I am a Mormon. I don’t think there are any easy answers. I think the current Utah regime boils down to the mainstream LDS church wanting to distance itself from its polygamist past and those that have left its fold to fundamentalism. And the various splinter groups are quite varied. In a longer form, the book “Secrets & Wives,” by Sanjiv Bhattacharya breaks down how things are different each a lot of the major groups. As the marriages aren’t recognized, a lot of plural wives go sign up for welfare to contribute to the family. In a much, much, longer form, the Year of Polygamy Podcast covers a lot of interesting facets (probably more interesting if you’re a Mormon and have ancestors who practiced polygamy, like me). Idaho’s constitution had, until 1982, language that barred those who believed in “celestial” (plural) marriage, from serving on a jury, voting, or holding office, though it was rarely enforced.
You’re my third least favorite child.
-L.Bluth
I had no idea on Idaho.
I can live with that.
Several mormons, several gays, several blacks, at least one mexican, a few women…This place is way more diverse than I am comfortable with! (re-calibrate your sarc-o-meter 5000 if you think this post was serious)
Great work, MLW. That suicidal smiling thing they got going on is hawt.
Kim Davis writes of ‘furious, fist-pounding, homosexual men’ in upcoming book
There’s no way she wasn’t fapping as she wrote that.
Love it MLW!!!
Anyone have any experience naming products? My dad and I have a ski-related contraption, and I have a couple names in mind. I know to do a trademark search and register my own trademark.
Anything else beyond that?
I obviously can’t buy a web domain til I know the name (I mean, I could buy domains for all the names I have in mind, but that’s kind of expensive)
Remember, if it isn’t a genuine Orgasmatron 9000™, you don’t want it!
*searches PTO database*
One word:
Acme.
*scribbles notes*
Also, I am having a bit of an ethical dilemma. One of the names I came up with is being used by someone with a related (though not too similar) product. But they haven’t registered a trademark for their product. They do own the .com domain.
Do I register the trademark out from under them?
Name it the skithing.
Uh…hello. You snooze, you looze.
Capitalism is cut throat.
Do what you gotta do.
You should have Q help you with advertising.
https://cdn.acidcow.com/pics/20121204/ski_girls_10.jpg
http://www.utahoutside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/V1.jpg
See I’m ready to buy and I don’t even know what the product is.
Hello Titty?
Watching a fairly nutty police chase from yesterday.
That was nuts. Poor doggie.
http://www.ocregister.com/2018/02/27/badly-injured-santa-ana-k9-emerges-from-surgery-after-losing-nearly-all-of-its-teeth-while-chasing-down-carjacker/
today I learned
The word vermin comes from the Latin word for worm.
Funny. Verbum means word in Latin.
Word do not change much when they move from one language to another.
Well….I’m not gonna get a properly edited, formatted, etc movie review out in the next few weeks, but I’m gonna try and knock out some impromptu, off-the-cuff comics reviews – starting with the one for “Technotise”.
https://youtu.be/zw1pEHVcS-U
Artist said he might have an English translation lying around, but I actually got some pretty accurate results with google translate so not too worried – just a little time-consuming. Google translate also auto converts the roman letters to cyrillic as you type in the words. Kinda cool.
sorry…that was originally in a new box. Not sure how it showed up as a reply.
This one isn’t for green horns. Proceed with caution.
The Socialist Case for Gun Control
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/gun-control-parkland-students-race-police
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The ensuing media discussions on gun control rarely take into account the epidemic of everyday gun violence that largely victimizes black people. Progressives casting gun control as a “white liberal” issue similarly often fail to address the fact that nationally, blacks are more than twice as likely to be killed by guns as whites, and in some states like Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, blacks are killed at a rate four times greater than that of whites in everyday gun violence.
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Meet Jacobin’s latest broken clock, ladies and gentlemen.
I thought the socialist case for gun control was:
How are we going to murder the undesirables and control the rest if just anyone is allowed to have a firearm?
also, the term ‘gun crime’ pisses me off. It’s taking a certain sliver of a statistic and using circular logic to extrapolate an entire dataset from it, and anyone who uses it as a basis to promote policy is a disingenuous shithead.
It’s like saying that countries with more BMWs have more fatal traffic accidents involving BMWs. Therefore, we must ban BMWs…’for the children’, except you wouldn’t have rogue BMW drivers using their cars as potential battering rams in order to extract money from innocent bystanders.
Oh, sorry for the rant. I’m in a foul mood because someone spent ten minutes calling me stupid for not realizing that a sentence he wrote meant exactly the opposite of what it said. (it was for something completely unimportant in any way, too; which made it worse).
Nothing is going to stop inner city gang-related violence like making yet another desirable commodity illegal.
Right problem, wrong solution. Let innocents in inner cities obtain and carry weapons for low cost with no regulation and they’ll be able to defend themselves.
Observed:
As I was passing thru my apartment building lobby, I saw someone’s copy of New York magazine. Cover story: “The case for impeaching Clarence Thomas”. I laffed. Man, they really hate him even all these years later. I tried to wade thru the derp but I know it’s going to be all lies anyway so why bother.
A lot of my white lefty friends have this irrational hatred for Thomas which oddly enough shows their true colors when it comes to race and politics. Blacks are cool until they go off the Liberal Plantation and when they do that, they must be destroyed as a warning. If I didn’t witness the terrible effects, I have to give it to the Dems for tricking black folks that they have their best interests in mind when in reality all they view us as reliable voting cattle’s.
don’t kid yourself, they’d happily destroy you too if they had the opportunity.
When I was part of the Republican club during college, some of the ugliest shit said to me was from white liberals.
Yeah, they’re pretty much the lowest of scum, they are after all, the ones who invented all this commie bullshit.
Pictured.
I didn’t follow the Anita Hill stuff – I was in college and had better things to do – and frankly I don’t care. What I find amusing in addition to your points is the idea that that stuff has anything whatsoever to do with why they’re still calling for his head, as opposed to his politics.
From what I understand, the Anita Hill story was a case of he said she said so we will never know what really happened, but even before the revelations, the Left had a vested interest to make sure that he didn’t get appointed to the Supreme Court. You would think that Thomas’ story would be an inspiration, especially to those who see themselves as fighting for social justice on the behalf of minorities, but his story and politics are the reasons why they hate him. This man came from nothing and worked his ass off to achieve what he has today and he did it without the help of the benevolent white liberals.
Not to get all philosophical or whatever, but Thomas’ life and lone achievements threaten to undo their bullshit idea that blacks are helpless without the benevolence of the white liberal and they know that as long as they maintain this facade, their grip on power will remain in the inner cities.
My favorite argument is that he is not really black.
Even in that article they point out her only claims of harassment was what she perceived as rude or inappropriate talk. He never came onto her, never pressured her, never touched her. Jesus, do an eye roll and move on. Fuck these people. Maybe he did maybe he didn’t say what she claims, but even if he did it is so stupid it is beyond ridiculous. Anita Hill was the first #metoo because she was offended by conversation with no advances implied by her own words. Clarence Thomas’ only mistake was ever being in a room alone with someone like Anita Hill. NY Magazine and the whole #metoo movement will do wonders for the underemployed over educated male barista contingent.
OK, fine. Kick him out and let Trump nominate someone just as conservative and much younger. Talk about an own goal.
“The case for impeaching Clarence Thomas”.
I think a huge percentage of what keeps the left motivated is constantly convincing themselves they were right about things that history has already proven them wrong about.
thomas isn’t some arch conservative. the only reason they hate him is because he’s not a lefty. ffs, he should be a hero to the black community, instead he’s reviled because he has ‘incorrect’ (read: unpopular) opinions on lefty pet-issues.
they will endlessly revisit history trying to pretend that they were right all along on every point. because the thing that terrifies them is the idea that they were *ever* wrong.
im not sure republicans are much better, but they’re not nearly so obsessed with whitewashing past errors. the occasional attempt to say, “but mccarthy was right!” are at best, sort of mostly just legalish points, not defenses of the entire red-scare. and its pretty much impossible to find anyone who’ll say, “the iraq war was a wild success” and should have been tripled-down on. and the right, tho i don’t attend CPAC type gatherings, seems to me to have slowly shed a lot of its “Focus on the Family”-ish type SoCon influence over the last 10 years.
Remember that mysteriously missing CDC guy? Apparently he was passed over for a promotion.
Didn’t take it too well, or Ebola?
I’m always reminded of the Great Ebola Freakout of 2014 and how we were going to have billions of cases in the US.
When you’re an entity like the CDC or WHO, you have to do something to ensure your own existence. Constant epidemic scare mongering sounds like the obvious option to me.
I was thinking more of the commenters over at TOS who freaked out.
I was worried. I know how fragile hospitals can be.
After the disappointment, he decided to go play ping pong with Judge Crater.
After seeing he was passed over for a promotion I was going to go with he went on a Carribean coke and hooker bender, but since he left his passport and CC’s, now I am going with he has a fake identity, new passport, and is selling Zika to international terrorists because he is disgruntled. Either that or accidental exposure and he is patient zero.
I’m really late for the links. Long day. Anyway, I will wrap it up with this beer selection for the night.
IBEX Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Anyone tried it?
not yet, but I will. Since it’s brewed in St. Louis, I should be able to find it here in Indy.
Well, it’s all the way out here in Murland, so probably.
Just popped one and my verdict is that it’s too sweet.
The tv show “The Middle” is on its 9th season. WTF?
That show has one of my favorite characters of all time. I’ve rarely seen a more self-assured, happy, centered person than Sue Heck. Love her!
Sue is freaking hilarious. I watched a YouTube piece with her actress, Eden Sher. She was in the makeup chair wearing some kind of “smash patriarchy” t-shirt. After seeing that shirt, well…I still really like the character, anyway.
Found it!
What I love about the characters is it’s not immediately apparent just how self-confident she is. If you look at the surface, she’s this nerdy try-hard. You gotta watch her grow through the seasons to see just how much she has always had absolute confidence in herself.
I get it
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/7/7a/Eden_Sher.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180113171801
Never heard of it.
Me either, but I don’t watch TV.
I watch a LOT of tv, but it’s all sports, cooking competitions, documentaries, and Project Runway. Network tv, um… pretty much never.
I was pretty much with you through the first three. And then…
It’s on ABC. I’d never heard of it, either.
It’s a very sweet show. Not at all sarcastic or cynical.
I can’t imagine anyone here being sarcastic or cynical.
Is that the show with the Janitor from Scrubs?
Yes
9 seasons!!!
*whispers “9 seasons”*
I’ve watched it. I was mildly entertained…but, damn, 9 seasons?
Maybe it’s good, I dunno.
I watched 18 seasons of Seinfeld and Roseanne. But I’m an adult now.
I don’t think a Doctor Who fan should be complaining about how some TV he doesn’t like has a long run.
It’s a pretty good show. More of a chuckling than laughing comedy, but I like it because Mike (the dad, played by Janitor from Scrubs) is pretty much me, only much taller and thinner.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/-z9GvE5Z_ldw/TsZwypLTXjI/AAAAAAAAjy4/txHNL6pNVrc/hotsweaterpuppies29_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qFHimTXLvLc/UQTzasdqvYI/AAAAAAAANf0/Jz1ydsoQRzI/s640/flbp-future-lower-back-problems-30.jpg
http://i0.wp.com/www.boredombase.com/wp-content/uploads/images/girls/2/busty-girls-1240.jpg?w=700
http://images.sex.com/images/pinporn/2014/04/22/620/5708699.jpg?site=sex&user=switchbladengc
https://media.giphy.com/media/3o85xrw04o4rXzNyPm/giphy.gif
I can’t tell if this stairway of links is going up or down. Also, how do you know which link is being replied to? Let’s just say one of these chicks looks like she just killed a man.
No, yes, yes, no, and no.
Mercy
My first long-term girlfriend had short hair; it still gets me – particularly on top of a smokin’ hot body.
Took the morning off to take care of the sick kid. 39 degree fever (100 and something for you F people). At 9 years old, I don’t remember either of my parents taking the day off to take care of me when I was sick. It was usually, “There’s some Hi C in the fridge and I got you some of those raspberry pop tarts you like so much.” Remember watching the Challenger explode live on TV one of those sick days. Freaky.
My Brother and Father and i watched that Live, Very sad day for Space nuts back then
I was skiing in Austria when it happened. I was never a space nut but I do remember every launch back then was probably shown live on network tv.
Yep. We didn’t have cable, so it was either The Joker’s Wild game show, Soaps or the launch. The guys on TV were confused for a long time before their voices changed from surprise to tragic.
I was off school that day, too. I went outside to look at it (50 or so miles east of here) and remember thinking “that doesn’t look right.”
Cable was expensive if you could even get it, but We had Channels
2,4,5,7,9,11,13,18,24,28,34, 52 and 56, Living close to Hollywood get’s a lot of Broadcast T.V. still does I think….
Dayum. We had 4 channels until 1979 we got a 5th. I was 10 years old and it was like Christmas, New Years, and Easter rolled into one.
Same here. Now that I have a gazillion channels, I never watch.
“”I was skiing in Austria when it happened””
you are fancier than i am.
I saw it in 7th grade junior high library. they rolled in a tv so 4 or so classrooms of kids could watch shuttle launch live.
it was awkward as fuck.
*a better one which i remember fondly was in 9th grade when the berlin wall was falling and they took people into auditorium to watch live video of east germans smashing the berlin wall to bits.
Watched live from 7th grade homeroom. Probably contributed a small drop to my libertarianism, in that NASA allowed its PR department to overrule engineers. Fuckin government.
He was going to go somewhere. Would you be happier with Foltz?
They made a case study of it in my Ethics for Engineers class (that class is sadly a rarity in engineering programs today, as I understand). The one quote that really stood out to me was when one upper managment guy said to an engineering manager who really wanted to postpone again because of the cold, “I need you to take off your engineering hat, and put on your management hat.” So the engineering manager caved, and we know the rest.
I have thought of that many times when managers have tried to push for something that needed more time/analysis/prep. And I haven’t caved.
Watched it live in my geometry class in high school. We were going to do an assignment about arcs or something. We never got to the assignment.
I was paying for a pair of Dan Post in Knoxville (still got ’em), and they had a tube up on the wall behind the counter (fairly odd in a place of business in those days). Shaking my head, I got in my Chevy truck (still got one) and drove back to Tulsa Time. Little did I know my future would be, like tons of other engineering careers, chock full of ITYS.
Hearing the Vikings are clearing the decks for…Kirk Cousins?!?!?!?!
What. The. Fuck.
He was going to go somewhere. Would you be happier with Foltz?
I’d be happy with one of the three they have (had?)
Bridgewater and Bradford are too injury prone (Bradford’s glass body goes back to college), and Keenum isn’t the long term. Getting Cousins wouldn’t suck as insurance while they develop a draft pick.
I think they should get Mason Rudolph.
THEY CANNOT HAVE BIG DICK NICK
FOLTZFOLES DO YOU HEAR MEWord on sports talk radio is Iggles are going to let Foles pursue a starting qb job somewhere else and bleeding heart Lurie is going to bring in Colin Caperneck as the backup to Wentz!
sure, get your locker room at each others’ throats.
That should go wonderfully.
How could someone so rich be so stupid?
..that ain’t happening. Don’t think that Foles is getting traded until (if at all) the preseason after someone gets injured and their team gets desperate (and we know Wentz is ready for the new season) and we can get a ridiculous return for them like we did with Bradford.
(plus, the Eagles are the one team that could sign Kaep and not have it mess up the locker room. It’s not happening though.)
THis is Rivers and Brees.
San Diego had almost identical situation and let Brees go to NO.
They chose wrong.
Iggles are doing the same thing.
That was a titanic mistake. I hate the Spanos clan.
MLW you are truly gifted and twisted. What is it with this place and gifted twisted people? You people are freaks.
I’m feeling better about the bruins getting Nash now.
But the real steal was Wingels
Got word today on my company’s reaction to tax reform. 401k match upped by 1%, and I may be eligible for $10k from a new tuition reimbursement program.
#crumbs
Nice!!
Ooops…that’s terrible! How dare the hey????
Oh…the other day: I meant “don’t fool around with revolver single-action nonsense at the range.”
I think I managed to write exactly the opposite;
Do you think Pelosi regrets saying the crumb word, or does she and the people around her have their heads so far up her ass they are oblivious? That was borderline the stupidest thing a politician could say. And she has bent the meter on stupid in the past.
I think the best thing Trump could do for his reelection chances would be pass another corporate tax rate cut effective Jan 1, 2020. Even I’d vote for him if he did that.
If Pelosi wants to tank the dems chances, she’d continue hammering the tax cut. In 20 years, people will still be talking about the Trump tax cuts fondly.
JFK’s tax cuts don’t get mentioned much. Dubya’s are still considered Armageddon.
In deplorable country, Bush is still thought of positively for his tax cuts.
As far as JFK, once your brain ends up all over the trunk of your car, people stop talking about your Legislative victories.
kinda
I think they love him mostly because he restored the military, abolished abortion, and returned prayer to school. Speaking from deplorable country: these people don’t pay taxes.
I’m not taking sides; I’m just making fun of my people.
Sam Harris just had Preer Bhararra on his podcast. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I somehow doubt that Preet will not sound like an asshole, The Woodchipper Incident will probably not be discussed, and it will be TDS all the way down.
If anyone else has the mental bleach to spare, by all means, try it out –
https://samharris.org/podcasts/118-view-trumpistan/
Sam Harris just had Preer Bhararra on his podcast. I haven’t listened to it yet, but I somehow doubt that Preet will not sound like an asshole, The Woodchipper Incident will probably not be discussed, and it will be TDS all the way down.
If anyone else has the mental bleach to spare, by all means, try it out –
https://samharris.org/podcasts/118-view-trumpistan/
Squirrelz!
That link is so derpy it broke the site. Good job, Gordi, but I think Depitologist needs to take it from here.
Sam is usually a calm, somewhat rational voice. His pathetic display in his debate with Scott Adams lowered my opinion of him a lot. Made think his Mr. HyperRationalMan image is just a facade.
I feel like there’s an analogue to the Dunning-Kruger effect for people calling themselves “rational.”
Lady next to me just spilled her full ice coffee on my phone and bag. She’s berry, berry, berry sorry.
I can’t think of a witty reply. But that’s funny, you racist.
Bag? I want to hear more about this part. What kind of bag is it?
Another masterpiece, MLW. May I request that the March/St. Patrick’s Day issue be about how terrible non-white cultural appropriation is? Maybe with articles on where to find the right Irish attire for a St. Patty’s party?
I think you can get a PhD arguing when exactly the Irish became white people.
After the Neolithic
And Italians.
And Jews (although sometimes we’re not white if someone has a narrative to fill. Plus there are tons of black Jews from Ethiopia who emigrate to that horribly racist country Israel)
I’m at Bud Walton tonight. Figured I’d share this with yall .
Woo Pig Sooie
Posts like this make me feel like I’m American only by passport. *Shrugs*. Have fun? I’m sorry?
No sorrows necessary. My pigs are beating on Auburn. It’s good times. I’m guessing the Japanese don’t have quite the sports tradition that fuels American sports?
Ours may be even more ridiculous than yours…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WPKy7xP7iQ
…but the Frogs cemented a spot in the tourney tonight, so what the heck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims
Lets talk about this. The Supremes gave themselves the right to draw state legislatures, then to Congressional and then to City boundaries.
Goddammit, Farrakhan found us out.
https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/968621986338541569
Weed and Ass-sex or Muslims?
Alex Jones thought the chemicals in the water were turning the frogs gay. Nope. It’s marijuana smoke.
Wait til he finds out about the heroin that we use to mess with peoples’ gender identity.
I made the same mistake, but it’s not “us”; he meant (((us)))
Yeah, I was scared he was outing glibs, but not so bad if he’s just outing (((glibs))) I guess.
Speaking of which, whar my Jewsday Tuesday!?!?!?
In lock-up for exposing himself at a playground?
Wow….somehow missed this. Nice. https://youtu.be/p5cTjZvAoUE
Well, this seems suspicious
What did they find?
1024 grams. A lot of pot! But, of course, they didn’t find that much actual pot.
So he’s now charged with drug trafficking.
Hm.