What’s up, hosers? I just found out its supposed to snow next week while I’m in Dearborn. That’s a whole fucking pile of fail. But it will make my kids happy if we can FaceTime some snowflakes. (No jokes about going down to the local college!) My wife started Spring Break last night after taking a test this morning. She’s got a happy hour with her PT assistant class friends. She Ubered up, so I expect her to come home pretty well lit. I have to pick the kids up, so I can’t start really catching up until after that.
This guy is the epitome of Boston for me.
Look at people shaming the Texas bus driver for trying to stay alert.
You know what I want to give a company with a reputation for poor corporate citizenship? Time and location of all my medical appointments. But not to worry, its B2B so it will really be your insurance company giving that information away.
Ladies and gentleman, these are the people who think they are qualified to run the economy. Look at the chart. These guys are getting 7.5% annually over the last decade. About what the S&P has returned. Smarter than the market my ass.
Did Dark Matter affect the early universe? I remain a skeptic of anything that can only be inferred and not measured.
Some days you just need a stylophone solo.
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308 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links!”
Fuckin’ Southie – not UnCivil
I wonder that one is all about?
Powder boy is bark at the moon nuts.
Sabato was asking for it.
Have you seen the guy act or drive?
I’m sure he did it for the children.
Did the Feds log the names of all the children he has “worked” with…just for future reference?
Daniel Frisiello, 24, was arrested after what prosecutors called “a textbook federal investigation” that traced the unsigned letters to him after he also ordered a “glitter bomb” for one of the recipients, using his own name.
SMART
More like SMAHT
https://youtu.be/vYabrQrXt4A
Lovely ladies with luscious, lubricious lumps will make you feel licentious.
http://archive.is/oCRqC
1, 3, 5, 10 (repeat, but spectacular), 15, 19, 35, 40.
Bonus for you lecherous lunatics.
https://imgur.com/a/VFHcV
or lascivious.
What’s the likelihood you could dig up a collection of more ‘normal’ looking girl-next-door types? The fake boobs and rear ends and makeup overkill dilute your efforts.
See comment 30.
That’s racist.
Things got weird ever since they used the blink drive and went into an alternate universe, so the possibility that they traveled back in time to the early universe isn’t really out of the question.
I liked that show and was disappointed when SyFy abruptly cancelled it.
Wow, this is the first I heard about the cancellation. I has a sad now.
Same here. That’s an abrupt ending– I’ve seen it all, and don’t remember any series wrap-up.
I hate it when they have a planned story arc and don’t get to finish it. Joss Whedon is a champ for being the victim of this sort of thing. Almost as bad is when they get to finish it, but they have to cram it all in to the last 3 episodes.
But not nearly as much as I hate it when they pretend that they have a story arc and are just making it up as they go along and then to pretend like it had an arc all along. “Lost”, I’m looking at you.
Worst was SY-FY (and evil Bonnie Hammer) and Farscape. Somehow SF weaseled out of the contractually obligated 5th season (not sure how) and the entire series had to get wrapped up in a 4 hr miniseries – extremely disappointing.
Incorrect. This guy is.
I think that’s the same guy.
Well, you all look alike, yes.
That’s an ocean sunfish, Mola mola.
So I have a long term employee who’s been on a payment plan using garnishments with the IRS for back-taxes for the past eight years.
The IRS decided in December to end his payment plan without telling him or us (while we were still making his garnishment payments) and just came after him for the remainder of the amount, plus penalties of course because FYTW.
After a couple hours on the phone, we got the plan reinstated without penalties. Fucking opportunistic douchebags.
Wow. Scumbags.
Fuck you, pay me.
Fuck the IRS
I believe they came after him because he managed to pull enough money together to buy a house. I bet they figured they could seize that asset.
The only reason my parents didn’t get totally screwed by my grandma not having paid taxes from 1983 to her death in 1994 was because my best friend’s mom worked for the IRS (and just coincidentally retired just after Lois Lerner and her cronies took over the Cincinnati office), and was able to ask her co-workers who the best law firm in both San Diego and Cincinnati was to advocate for them.
I am the horse.
Uber might fall a foul of HIPPA; that sounds suspiciously close to a clearinghouse structure for medical information. I smell court cases.
I am so fucking ready for winter to be over. Just another month or two…
So, you’re a skeptic of factor analysis?
On the one hand, I know that its a mathematically sound idea. On the other hand, medical journals are stuffed to the gills with risk factor analysis that always seems to get causation backward.
Did you know that spanking totally causes anti-social behavior. Totally a real thing, discovered with risk factor analysis and preached by doctors for decades.
Latin for “speak of the devil” is “lupus in fabula“.
Lupus in Fabula, for real.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=isRaGpTF0n4
The math being solid doesn’t mean the people using it are.
That’s my point. A tool that lots of people misuse is exactly what you should be skeptical of. I’m not terribly skeptical of, say, addition. Or a refrigerator. Those don’t get used in stupid ways nearly as often.
Lots of people put red wine in the refrigerator and leave it there.
Heresy!
I wouldn’t be sceptical of the tool, but it’s application. Giving someone a hammer won’t make them able to build a house. I if they tell me they did, I check the “house”. If they failed miserably at their construction attempt, I don’t start distrusting hammers, I continue distrusting peoplethat claim they built a house without prior experience.
I don’t distrust analytical tools that people use to trick themselves into thinking they did a proper study, I continue distrusting people that put out studies. Which should be standard; it’s the entire point behind peer review.
Unfortunately, very few peer reviewers or editors have a deep enough understanding of statistics to call out improper use of tools. I sometimes get requests that I just have to stare at for a minute before explaining why it can’t be done.
I also see the other side where an interested party yells “bad statistics” at a paper that puts them in a bad light using flawless methodology. I can’t decide if it’s intentional deceit or just pure ignorance.
Several years ago, our local school board got hold of a study that concluded that taking AP courses in high school was associated with a greater college success rate. The resulting proposal, which was only barely defeated, was…wait for it…to require ALL high school students to take AP courses.
Salty today. Glad you’re back. I was being imprecise — one might say “glib” — with my language.
I wonder how much of these gravitational questions are due to an unknown particle, and how much is due to our not understanding gravity as well as we think we do. Maybe a warp in space-time takes time to relax even after the massive object is no longer there. Maybe gravity just doesn’t operate at large scales the way we think it does.
There are at least two theories of gravity that do not require WIMPs to work. The one I am
Most familiar with has no explanation for why the inverse square law should become an inverse law for galactic distances, but t it works pretty well.
Why not both?
Centaurs.
Tycho of Penny Arcade got you covered.
If you have questions, some answers are on ‘next comic’ link.
I didn’t notice the horse at first.
“Ladies and gentleman, these are the people who think they are qualified to run the economy.”
Ivy League endowments are the largest mutual funds in the country and they’re tax free because they’re totes non-profit
That is hilarious. Agricultural investments in deepest, darkest Brazil because there totally isnt a long history of that being a black hole for money.
Why don’t Americans trust experts anymore?
+1 Fordlandia
“Harvard, which manages $37.1 billion”
We have federal student loans why?
“I remain a skeptic of anything that can only be inferred and not measured.”
These guys are almost as bad as paleontologists.
“This is Uggh. He liked blondes, rare steak, weekends at the beach and had four wives.”
“You only have a single tooth fragment. How do you know all of that?”
“See this small chip on the side, no not that one, this one here…”
Please don’t lump paleontologists in with anthropologists.
“This is Chompy, he’s a 200 million year old ancestor of the velociraptor. He was serially bigamous, preferred eating green skinned prey, and enjoyed the occasional gay romp. We have estimated that he was 8 meters tall and had a beer belly.”
“why are you estimating his height, can’t you just measure this skeleton that’s right in front of us??”
“well, umm, the only real bone parts we found areone bone from the left ankle and a curved fragment that is probably from the skull. The rest is plaster based on what we think he’d look like.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/stop-blaming-russian-bots-for-everything?utm_term=.rwBpBKwjj#.ecwlMZ1KK
Guess what, Russia bot mania is made-up. This should surprise no one with half a brain
Even NPR is slowly coming to that conclusion. They had a couple of New Yorker magazine writers on this week who had written a takedown of the narrative. The writers made sure to mention how sorry they were to have given aid and comfort to the pro-Trump people.
These links suck.
I’d just do it my damn self, but…
…well, you know.
You suck?
It starts innocently enough, just grabbing a link here and there, but before long you’re rampaging through Japanese cities?
Of course it can be measured…how many ounces do you want?
Actually, it can be measured. We know of it from its gravitational effects. Multiple such measurements agree. The coolest one is galactic collisions like this one:
https://astrobites.org/2016/11/04/the-bullet-cluster-a-smoking-gun-for-dark-matter/
By measuring gravitational lensing of background galaxies you can map the mass in the colliding galaxies. Most of the mass (dark matter being about 85% of the mass) is no longer located where the galaxies are, since the matter interacts and slows down but the dark matter doesn’t interact nearly as much and speeds on through.
Or were we just making jokes?
I was just reading a nice little article about lumber prices.
Spoiler Alert: they’re not going down.
Men who want to be the horse, or men who want to watch the horse
Sometimes you ride the horse, and sometimes the horse rides you?
Oh, you have friends who went to Texas A&M too?
Let the ring-spinning commence!
Ha. I worked for an Aggie state rep in Austin during college. He explained the ring to me. His favorite joke: “Hey, Brett, what does a Longhorn call an Aggie after graduation? Boss.”
Lol, and they all have the same exact circle beard.
I see you’ve met my Russian Friend Catherine
Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/03/01/weapons-grade-stupid-debbie-wasserman-schultz-beclowned-herself-on-guns-and-cnn-didnt-blink/
best response:
@WeMeantWell
And there’s the solution! Let the Dems write up a ban using all their silly words. The law will ban nothing that actually exists in real life,but everyone will shut up. I say, ban all hyper automatic high capacity soft shell jacketed gunthings!!!!!!!!!
Wasn’t there an alderman in Chicago that put forward a bill banning high-capacity ammunition? We should ban that. Sounds scary.
You laugh, but wait until there’s a mass murder with one of those bullets that turns into 30 bullets after it leaves the chamber.
…snake shot? I’d actually be impressed if someone managed to kill anyone with that.
+1 Ali al-Saachez
—-You laugh, but wait until there’s a mass murder with one of those bullets that turns into 30 bullets after it leaves the chamber.—-
You laugh, but wait until John Roberts decides that hyper automatic high capacity soft shell jacketed gunthings!!! actually meant every firearm in existence.
Huh, was listening to a political commentator on YouTube complaining about the recent censorship and…Bam…the video was taken down 30 seconds in. It looks like they’re really intent on making YouTube all cat videos and milquetoast political blather now. Hello Gab and Bitchite I guess.
It’s time for some expert analysis from our favorite retards.
I don’t even want to snark at this. These people really need help. They’re not in a good place
I’m in the Nelson point and laugh camp.
I’m in the “this whole world has gone mad” camp. My laughing has turned into disbelief
Ordinarily Trump would have gotten away with his conspiracy with Russia
You gotta give credit when someone just up and assumes the conclusion right at the get-go.
Saves you from the rest of the TL:DR – you already know they are a combination of mendacious and stupid.
Good lord, is that cringy. Keep wishing, dudes.
I don’t see any facts, like you know, the Obamas and Clintons being crime syndicate bosses…
One hundred and forty years hence they will still be talking about these times we are living through today.
Very possibly. But I suspect not for the reason he “thinks”.
The comments are even better.
The problem with this argument, and why it falls apart almost immediately, is that you have to believe tens to hundreds of thousands of people were turned away from polling places in multiple states and yet the media can’t find a one of them to report on.
It’s almost like the names purged from the voter rolls were not the names of live, eligible voters.
You have to believe that the election of Trump was planned from 2013 onwards.
You mean Hillary voters.
My mother (a diehard Republican) sometimes remarks that my now deceased grandparents generally voted Democrat.
I remind her that they still do even now.
Golf clap.
Well the USSC was talking about a guy who got turned away from voting. But he was a racist deplorable teabagger wearing a Tshirt of RightWing Extremism, so turning him away from the polls is totes ok.
SCOTUS, please. USSC is the federal sentencing commission.
Hmm, reading on this bit a more, it seems that nobody gets turned away from the polling place. If there are no questions about your eligibility, you get a (real) ballot, but if there are questions, you get a provisional ballot. Then, after the polls close, the provisional ballots are evaluated and only those determined to be eligible are counted. The claim is that, in at least some instances, names were removed from the voter rolls for reasons, such as mail being returned as undeliverable, which do not inherently prove that the name does not belong to an eligible voter.
However, there are still a few problems here.
1. You will know if you are given a provisional ballot. It can’t be done sneakily.
2. If you are given a provisional ballot, you have to also be given a way to find out if it was counted.
3. A voter cannot be purged from the rolls for failure to receive notice, unless they also failed to vote in the 2 Federal elections following the notice being returned.
The provisional ballot argument has more potential, if only because it’s less easily refuted, but it still requires actual evidence. There were a number of recounts before the final vote tally was recorded, wouldn’t these ballots have been brought up as an issue then?
I’ll take them somewhat seriously when a single one of them admits that Philadelphia and Chicago election commissioners are some of the most corrupt SOBs in existence.
The ideal woman has a vagina and knows how to use it.
https://amgreatness.com/2018/02/28/cant-woman-less-like-man/
TIWTANLW.
I figured it’s because Asperger’s is less prevalent among women.
Nth dimensional chess by Trump and Sessions?
Summary: Trump and Sessions set up their little twatter spat to bait the media into defending the DOJ Inspector General (who Trump slagged in his twatter feed) just before the IG issues his report identifying criminal activity by Dems in the DOJ and asking for prosecution.
Possible, but only if Trump and Sessions already know what the IG’s report says.
If someone keeps accidentally falling ass backwards into money, strange, and power, its probably not an accident. I still have trouble reconciling what I see and read about Trump with the results, but there you go.
He has started doing some PR sessions where he looks less like a complete doofus. His gun control meeting was the latest example. He seemed to actually understand what was being talked about, seemed to be quite in charge of the room and in the bit that I saw didn’t utter any declarative non-sequiturs in a tone of metaphysical certainty.
So maybe he can play it normal too.
This isn’t planned, Trump’s just flighty and he doesn’t have a filter. He’s not stupid but he’s not the super genius his supporters think he is.
Just proves that a random choice generator is better than 99% of our political class
With few exceptions I agree.
Wait, 99 percent, I agree with no exceptions.
TMBG is awesome. Thanks for that. I got to see them in the late 80’s and they were great.
I liked them better on Tiny Toons
I discovered TMBG when Flood was released (1990?). Been one of my favorites since, although as a parent I did have to curse them many times thanks to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse songs.
As soon as I heard the bassoon in that song I knew it was them.
Halloween after flood came out, I and a friend dressed as universe man and triangle man respectively.
One person got it.
But the best response was to my friend: Who are you, the Bavarian Illuminati?
To be sure, we might secretly agree, but not when Trump says it
During a televised roundtable with lawmakers to discuss what should be done to prevent future school shootings like the one in Florida, Vice President Pence began discussing the concept of gun violence restraining orders. He noted that states like California let local law enforcement officers go to court and obtain an order to collect someone’s firearms when red flags suggest they are a potential danger to themselves or others. “Allow due process, so that no one’s rights are trampled,” Pence said.
Trump interrupted. “Or, Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court,” he said. “Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida. … To go to court would have taken a long time.”
Removing any doubt that he might have misspoke, the president circled back later to complain that there are too many “checks and balances” that limit what can be done to prevent mentally unfit people from buying or keeping guns. “So we have to do something very decisive,” he said.
Whatever your view of Second Amendment jurisprudence, Trump’s flippant comments showed a startling indifference for foundational rights that are enumerated in the Fourth, Fifth and 14th amendments. The legal concept of due process is as old as the Magna Carta.
WaPo outraged by Trump’s disdain for the Constitution. I might need a neck brace before this is all over.
Was the WaPo concern trolling nearly this much about No-Fly-No-Buy after Orlando? I going to think not.
I’m sure Trump would have been just fine if the FBI spied on him without due process. Because going through a court would have taken so long. They should have just spied on him early.
Ah. Now I can get here. Forgot that for some reason I can’t connect to Glibs while I’m connected to my VPN.
This place is a government trap set up in order to allow THEM to find me, isn’t it. ISN’T IT.
(((THEM)))?
YES IT IS
Don’t mind the black helicopters brah…
How is THEM different from (((them))), and as a member of (((them))), shouldn’t you know exactly what THEM is up to?
We just let you THINK that (((we))) control the country. It’s actually the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the saucer people, supervised by the reverse vampires.
We’re through the looking glass here, people.
I’m gonna need more tinfoil.
Wouldn’t it be really funny if the maker of tinfoil, like Reynolds, were actually part of the giant RAND/Illuminatti/Tri Lateral Commission conspiracy and all the people wearing the tinfoil hats who think they are blocking the bad guy’s signals, are actually receiving them?
Pretty funny…..
WIFI CURES CHEMTRAIL INJURIES!!!!
It would make perfect sense since tinfoil hats BOOST the mind control rays.
What about THEM!?
Them? They Live.
I dunno, I’ve had mine bounce around a few times and am still able to connect to here.
Mine connects no problem.
That Texas bus driver reminds me of something that happened at my nephew’s school. Right before the holidays, a high school teacher in our area was busted for snorting coke in a class room. Some kid took a picture of her hunched over a table with a straw in her nose, and sent it around. I asked my nephew about it, and he pulled out his phone and showed me the picture. He and every other kid had that picture within minutes. Lesson: don’t do shit like that where there are kids with phones.
Meth consumption tends to have a negative effect on judgement.
The guy is a school bus driver, ergo, he’s exhibited quite a bit of bad judgement before this particular life event.
You could say the same for a coke habit.
College files eviction lawsuit after dropout refuses to leave dorm room
“Palmer is reportedly one of ten people the school is currently trying to evict, including nine nurses”
This story amuses me.
Mueller’s probe is too exhaustive and professional at the highest level of competency.
I might have to go lie down.
I’m sure they’ll be happy to just give her a faculty position.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/28/college-dropout-refuses-to-leave-her-dorm-room/
^3 posts above
DAMMIT
It’s ok I can forgive since i do that on a regular basis.
Reposting that is. I’m not much of a regular forgiver so consider yourself lucky.
I think it was posted in the Mourning Lynx thread too.
-Donald J. Trump, future President of the United States, January 9, 2013
Trump is now threatening to use an Executive Order for gun control. Welcome to his only term.
Good find.
Damn
At request of our very own Gordy, here are some cute girls next door.
http://archive.is/xujfA
He gets special treatment because he’s a celebrity.
There’s a lot of batshit crazy in there.
^this.
That being said, I wouldn’t mind a little debauchery with #28.
31, 65 and 69 are the only one’s that look like real girl next door types, so I’ll go with them.
Absolutely none of these ladies live next door to me. Dammit.
Oh, and number 2’s cute as Hell.
#1 Looks like a younger version of my wife’s sister.
When you’ve lost Psychology Today…
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/real-men-dont-write-blogs/201802/does-concern-boys-put-you-in-the-alt-right
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
Infamous Pakistani cleric keeps ‘martyr’ Bin Laden library, vows worldwide Sharia
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/28/infamous-pakistani-cleric-keeps-martyr-bin-laden-library-vows-worldwide-sharia.html
***
Under Aziz’s guidance at the Red Mosque in July 2007, scores of his baton-brandishing male and female students took to the streets outside. Video stores considered immoral were shuttered. Chinese women were abducted from a massage parlor they deemed to be a “brothel,” threats were made to throw acid in the face of female university students nearby, and a government ministry building was torched.
Tensions escalated between the militant mosque devotees and Pakistani Army into a bloody 10-day standoff that left over 100 people dead, including Aziz’s brother, mother and son. Aziz attempted to evade arrest by fleeing the chaotic scene disguised in a burka.
”I taught my students to stand against the corrupt system immobilizing the country.
Pakistan has inherited the British system, solely non-believers,” Aziz said of the incident. “I attempted to escape in a long veil with the consent of my martyred brother Abdul during the operation, and secondly, Islam supports this act to conceal oneself in a state of emergency.”
After several months in custody following the siege, Aziz was released, but deposed as cleric and barred from the Red Mosque, which his nephew, Amir Siddique, now leads instead. But the firebrand cleric promptly set about building a new facility, Jamia Hafsa, close by.
***
Aziz Ansari? I thought he was just a pseudo-rapist.
Not even that, just a comedian who’s not funny.
WaPo story that’s incredibly stupid about how black people are now afraid to travel for leisure in America because TRUMP!…
…and actually includes a fucking racist ass-hat who denied a Korean woman an Airb&b due to her race and posted a message stating, “It’s why we have trump…And I will not allow this country to be told what to do by foreigners.”
This is what makes me do the things I do, when I smash cities.
There’s a city on the east coast I’d like you to consider for your next meal.
A city, Comrade Mad Scientist?
I don’t want to sign any contracts until I see more examples of his work.
I just wish Airb&b had been around when I was younger, because apparently it causes Korean women to deliver themselves to your doorstep.
I’ll never understand racists. I was enthralled when we moved from Kentucky to a large city in Texas when I was 15 years old, because suddenly I was able to see that pussy comes in all the colors of the rainbow. It’s glorious.
“You mean there’s more than just vanilla?!”
I grew up in a small town in Ohio, and my experience is that the vanilla is only served with fat and stupid.
“Ray Jones of Aurora, Colo., who identifies as African American, said he exercises caution whenever he rides his motorcycle outside of the metropolitan Denver area. He said “White lives matter” billboards and bumper stickers send a message that he’s not totally welcome.”
Google turns up nothing about White Lives Matter billboards. I’m pretty sure that would make the news.
“All Lives Matter” would be par for the course painted on the sides of barns and on homemade wooden signs. Right next to the John 3:16 and other Jesus saves types signage all on private property. That’d be mostly the plains areas though when you should be taking your bike up to the mountains.
Ten bucks says it never happened.
I find the comments very disturbing. They actually believe that horseshit. I see dark days ahead.
Yeah the article opening up with a long bit about the Green Book and sundown towns and then seamlessly seguing into
“this one crazy moron turned down an Air BNB” and “There are hashtags!!!!!!!” and “this black dude won’t travel to NC, because of course NC has no black people”
The WaPo loves racial tension and violence. They absolutely love it. If it went away, people might actually ask questions about where all their money goes.
What worries me is that I see many elements of the left working themselves into a frenzy, convincing themselves that violence is justified.
Eh, I am more and more on the side of things that says violence is inevitable at this point.
Like, this case at SCOTUS today. This fucking election official turned away from someone wearing a Gadsen flag tshirt. Took away his right to vote. Alito asked him if he would have done the same if the guy had a rainbow flag tshirt.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/16-1435_f2ag.pdf
Starts at page 38.
That is the senior attorney for the county. That is a government official openly, under oath, explaining to the SCOTUS that he would ban people from voting for rightwing tshirts, but not leftwing tshirts. He says, this fucking cocksucker, this fucking government piece of shit, that “Parkland Strong” tshirts are GoodThink, but NRA shirts are BadThink.
They don’t want to have a debate, a discussion, a compromise, or anything like that. They want to rule. They want to control the political power in this country entirely. That’s all they want.
Cling to your guns people.
Actually, the law only permits for his name to be recorded and a fine (maybe $300, my memory is foggy) if he doesn’t comply. He should still be permitted to vote.
its a very stupid law.
Yeah and the chilling effect test only applies to the woke.
If a black woman got turned away from the polling place because she was wearing a Black Lives Matter tshirt, the school children of the nation would recite that womans name like a prayer.
“What worries me is that I see many elements of the left working themselves into a frenzy,
convincing themselves that violence is justified.”
That is the inevitable consequence of the concept of words as violence which seems to be so prevalent in Progressive intellectual circles. If words are violence, violence is justified in response to words.
I read through the whole thing, back to the original story, and victim’s Facebook. The reservation was cancelled b/c she tried to add two people and dogs to the reservation via text minutes away from the room she had rented via Airbnb.
As I said above, a bullshit lie.
The woman disputes the timing of the reservation change. And when informing the owner that she had screenshots to prove that she agreed to the change much earlier, the owner let forth with a torrent of racial abuse. Regardless of who’s in the right, that’s a pretty shitty thing to do if you ask me.
Clearly, based-on her own tweets, she had not paid for a reservation change. I saw no evidence of a confirmation “tweet” (IMHO, not a verification for even a major chain, let alone AirBnB).
I see no evidence of a “torrent of racial abuse” – he used the term Asian.
Pfft. Next week is just a few inches forecast. We have a winter weather warning right now. Should get 6-8″ by tomorrow.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/01/san-francisco-cops-fire-65-shots-in-15-seconds-at-murder-suspect-in-dramatic-video.html
Multiple officers fired 65 rounds without a single hit. I don’t even know where to start.
Let’s go with ‘no one needs more than 10 bullets’ and something about the extensive training police receive to make them the only ones “qualified” to shoot a gun.
I think the FBI and police response to Parkland has once and for all put the lie to that particular idea.
These people have lost their minds.
https://twitter.com/jamestaranto/status/969301798489124869
Max Boot will say and do anything if you just let him bomb Iran
I actually really enjoyed his books.
Oh fun fact during the campaign he said he would vote for Josef Stalin over Donald Trump.
TRUE CONSERVATIVES.
Max Not is the perfect example of why the Council on Foreign Relations is a complete joke.
I enjoy the diversity of opinions: Trump is not only Hitler but Stalin too.
Imagine a Max Boot stomping on your face forever.
This is Max Boot we are talking about. Surely, it would be one of those ineffective punches that starts with his knuckles touching his shoulder and ends with his palm and distal phalanx you in the shoulder. Forever.
Max Boot is stunning and brave. Holy shit these fuckers have heads inflated to the size of a hot air balloon. I have no idea who Quin Hilyer is but I assume he’s some Weekly Standard type:
Bret Stephens? Bret Stephens was hired by the fucking NYT! In what was has he been ostracized or lost money?
Related to this, I see Conor Friedersdorf is doing his disingenuous little act again:
Perhaps I’m too generous in assigning Friederdorf’s moronic comment to disingenuousness. Maybe he simply IS that fucking stupid.
Conor Friedersdorf should write for TOS. He’s got the perfect attitude- pretend to stand for civil rights, except when civil rights are being violated by a hip Democratic president.
He’d probably be “good” for TOS in that he’s in the Robbie/ENB mold of “libertarian”, but he was on top of civil rights stuff while Obama is office.
Sort of. He would identify civil rights abuses under Obama, but then he would bury you with Soavesque to be sures to avoid ascribing anything but pure motives to the administration
The fuckwits are trying to play the victim card. Too bad they’re all middle aged white guys.
Milo lost a lucrative book deal.
He should thank them, he’s probably making more by self-publishing anyway.
Since when is not living under a repressive Communist regime a reason to criticize people
Since the idiotic comparison was made in the first place. Jesus, context is not that fucking complicated.
I was just subjected to the worst rendition of Gypsy I’ve ever heard.
https://youtu.be/1VXRGurMjIE
Honestly, aren’t they all just variations on bad?
You have a point.
Huh, I always assumed that (post peter green) Fleetwood Mac song were already their own worst renditions.
Jonah Goldberg has on Andrew McCarthy to deconstruct the FISA scandal. Nothing new if you’ve kept up with McCarthy’s essays, but a good recap if you haven’t.
We’ll get to the bottom of this, honest.
Twitter is looking for outside experts to measure the “health” of the company, it said in a statement, and is seeking proposals to determine exactly how the company is fostering “healthy debate, conversations, and critical thinking” versus “abuse, spam, and manipulation.”
CEO Jack Dorsey admitted in a series of tweets that the company has not always met users’ expectations. “We aren’t proud of how people have taken advantage of our service, or our inability to address it fast enough,” he writes, adding that the company has focused on enforcing its terms of service, but now needed a “systemic framework.”
“We’re committing to helping increase the collective health, openness, and civility of public conversation around the world, and to hold ourselves publicly accountable toward progress,” the company said in its blog post today. “By measuring our contribution to the overall health of the public conversation, we believe we can more holistically approach and measure our impact on the world for years to come.”
Buried in that word salad is, I believe, a promise to squelch dissent and muzzle the politically un-woke. Because that’s how you create an open and honest dialog.
I don’t see anything about making money in there.
You’d have to actually sell “something” for that.
“Twitter is looking for outside experts to measure the “health” of the company…”
So they’re looking for a hospice nurse.
I don’t see anything about making money in there.
Do what you love, and the money will follow.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/russia-investigation-fbi-what-mueller-has-and-what-hes-missing/
The American Conservative predicts how the Mueller investigations will end: a weak argument that the President obstructed justice delivered right before the midterms so that the rationale cannot be refuted, but its conclusion widely disseminated.
Boy do I ever love doing fucking taxes. FUCK EVERYTHING.
There is a tax on fucking now? Goddammit.
*goes to mix another vodka*
If anything, fucking is subsidized via the child tax credit.
Not after the Outcome is grown up it isn’t
They would if they could.
uh. I assume you already know this, but annual money manager returns aren’t benchmarked in total against “the market”. They’re benchmarked against equal risk-weighted indexes.
iow, if they owned 30% bonds, 30%equities, 30% alts, 10%real estate (or whatever)… their benchmark would be against the closest risk-weighted indexes in each category.
if they were getting “comparable to equity-market returns” from a portfolio with a far lower risk profile than equity, they were technically “beating the market”
In 2010 or so, there was a big to-do about how poorly the endowment performed even given all this (although the HBR used some fancy New Math to say they did well). Not sure if there has been any update to that since then.
yeah, i know how badly many of these pro-endowments (not just harvard) have done, and my point wasn’t in any way suggesting that they HAVE outperformed.
just that headline “annualized growth %” shouldn’t be compared to the S+P – it should be compared to similar endowments (as they do in their chart).
sure, its fair to say, “they could have done way better if they’d fired their $200m advisors and just bought the SPY”. Of course that’s because its been a bull-market for the past decade.
If it were more like a period “1999-2009”, where the beginning and end of the benchmark period was marked by a huge market-crash, suddenly the “risk-management” parts would be far more significant.
iow, most people don’t really think about the price of risk-management during boom times, and just go, “hurr durr my fund underperformed the S+P, I want my growth!!”
what they don’t remember is that they bought that fund right after a crash, and they bought it because they were terrified of ever getting hurt that badly by the market ever again. Now they bitch about ‘underperformance’ because they see the markets booming.
Thom Hartmann outderps himself.
https://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2018/02/whats-trump-administration-doing-face-rise-armed-hatred-united-states
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In addition to the hard Nazi right celebrating Donald Trump’s election, we’ve got this kid who murdered all these students in Parkland wearing a Make America Great Again hat and putting his swastikas in his books.
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We need to be very clear about what right-wing movements are. Right-wing movements are authoritarian, hierarchical, patriarchal and prone to violence. You look at the the hard right movements in the Islamic world, there is al-Qaeda and Isis. You look at the hard right movements that are growing in Europe, Marine Le Pen and the National Front in France and the new neo-nazi movements in Poland, Hungary and in Greece. They all associate themselves with militarism, with guns, with violence, with white supremacy and with male power. And that’s what’s going on.
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2017 was defined as the most violent year in the existence of the alt-right so far. You’ll recall back in 2009 a report that was prepared at the direction of George W Bush when he was president. He left office on January 20th of 2009 and so George Bush’s report on the alt-right, on the far right, by the FBI and the Department of Justice was published as Obama was coming into office. The hard right went nuts. Right-wing hate radio, Fox so-called News, all the publications funded by billionaires, all the networks controlled by billionaires, all these right-wing ones, they just went ballistic: “oh my god, they’re talking about us, and Obama just stop the insanity.” He said okay, we’re going to pull the report. And so we were never even appropriately warned that hardcore right-wingers, these people who who by and large hate people of color, hate women, hate anybody who doesn’t gender conform, hate babies, just hate and grievance is their currency.
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See. Convincing themselves that violence against the deplorables is justified.
I like how the National Socialists are right wing.
“2017 was defined as the most violent year in the existence of the alt-right so far.”
OK. Then it’s not bad at all is what you’re saying.
we’ve got this kid who murdered all these students in Parkland wearing a Make America Great Again hat and putting his swastikas in his books
1. Is any of this actually true?
2. If it isn’t true, does that make murdering 17 people less bad?
Depends on the political affiliations of the murdered.
Marine Le Pen is patriarchal?
And that’s a level of projection that can only be measured using light years.
National Interest advocates something sensible? Well knock me over with a feather.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/time-america-declare-victory-syria-come-home-24691
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The 2011 Arab Spring spawned public protests in Syria, which were brutally suppressed by President Bashar al-Assad. Armed resistance followed, leading to a multisided civil war. The Obama administration simultaneously sought to defeat ISIS, oust Assad, encourage moderate insurgents, pacify Ankara, use Kurdish forces, avoid Russian complications, and enlist the Saudis.
The Islamic State lost and the Kurds were used, but otherwise Washington failed to achieve its objectives. Assad survives and is retaking territory, there never were many genuine moderates to promote, Turkey invaded and attacked Washington’s Kurdish friends, combat forces backed by the United States and Russia have clashed, and Riyadh dropped the anti-ISIS campaign to launch its brutal campaign against Yemen, dragging in Washington.
The demise of ISIS the Caliphate provided President Trump with an opportunity to declare victory and bring home America’s military personnel. Which would have been an occasion worth celebrating with a parade.
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Prissy outrage
So what changed? The mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., made pressuring the NRA a mainstream opinion, and there is nothing better for a company’s bottom line than supporting a mainstream view. An eloquent, quick-witted group of young survivors created a different kind of political and moral electricity. Apathy was no longer an option. In only two weeks, regulation of assault weapons — thwarted and danced around by lawmakers for years — became an urgent and mainstream opinion.
It’s smart but not especially brave to see on which side your bread is buttered. It’s the easiest thing in the world to find your moral center when a pivot to ethical behavior results in widespread approval. That is why what has happened this week was not a vast moral stand by the nation’s corporate sector. It was a simple calculus of profit and loss.
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FedEx will have to face public disapproval and reputational risk to keep that profit: Celebrities such as actress Alyssa Milano, social media influencers and activists are calling for a one-day boycott on March 1 at the remaining large companies that still have business dealings with the NRA — FedEx, Amazon and Apple, in this case. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.) Of course, there are plenty of people who don’t particularly care what Milano does and strongly oppose gun control — but opponents are a minority. Support for gun control has surged to its highest point in 25 years, and the NRA is viewed increasingly unfavorably.
All of this pressure was, of course, the purpose of the threats of boycotts: to turn the free market into the regulatory body it was promised to be. To force the companies to recognize a higher financial power than the NRA — consumers — and to bring them to heel before the power of consumer dollars. In return, the companies that obliged and broke off their NRA ties would not only get to keep most of their business but perhaps gain more. This arrangement is entirely sensible, but it is not a transformative moral reckoning worthy of emotional outpourings of support for corporate bravery. The companies understand it is a transaction — and consumers should understand that, too.
What’s her point? Who knows? It’s never enough.
“Either you’re with us or you’re a monster,” I guess.
lol profit and loss.
Bet you Dicks has an inferior 2018 to 2017.
Maybe, but as of last year they were losing money on the guns and ammo part of their stores. This just became a convenient excuse to get rid of a money losing part of their business and social signal on top of it.
Everywhere I’ve seen Dick’s it’s been in either big city or suburb, so I’m kind of skeptical that they’ll lose too many customers over it.
“but as of last year they were losing money on the guns and ammo part of their stores”
Uh, how in the world does that even happen?
Eh. Four groups.
1.People who shop at Dicks now and will still shop at Dicks.
2. People who shop at Dicks now and will now not shop at Dicks.
3. People who don’t shop at Dicks now and will now go shop at Dicks
4. People who don’t shop at Dicks now and will still not shop at Dicks
You better hope 3 is bigger than 2.
I would occasionally buy ammo at Dick’s. I won’t anymore. Count me in 2.
I’ve dialed down my shopping at Dick’s after the last time they started sucking gun grabbers’ asses. That and they’re generally shitty selection of merchandise helps to make that a slamdunk.
Uh, how in the world does that even happen?
The inventory is probably more expensive to keep than, say, basketballs, gym shorts, and dumbbells, because it has to be secured. They probably background check the employees who are allowed to sell guns. There’s probably extra training involved, too. They may not move enough volume at the prices they offer to offset these costs, at least in some of their stores.
Dicks sporting goods sells guns, but they stopped selling AR-15s in something like 2013. their recent policy shift only affects 35 “Field and Stream” branded stores.
their 600 other outlets literally are changing nothing that they weren’t already doing for the past 5 years.
I think Prissy is outraged because she don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ no babies.
“: to turn the free market into the regulatory body it was promised to be”
I don’t know where to start
opponents are a minority
until now
So Trump is apparently on the violent video game bandwagon now.
He’d be my favorite President ever if he never talked or tweeted.
Well, he wouldn’t be, but he’d be higher up the list.
Eh, from a realistic POV, the disappointing things about Presidents need to be in the context of their ideologies. Like I knew Obama was gonna raise taxes and do socialist bullshit, but I was hoping we might get legal weed and get out of Afghanistan. That’s still so fucking disappointing, that after the Bin Laden raid he didn’t say “Alright, that’s it, we’re done here.”
Old fucking dude Donald Trump who doesn’t drink was always gonna be a Drug Warrior. It doesn’t shock me at all that he disproves of violent video games, although maybe Barron can get him into COD WWII. So like yeah, it sucks, but it’s to be expected.
The gun shit is far more worrisome. There’s enough spineless fucking Beltway “Republicans” who would happily pass a gun grab in a Grand BiPartisan Compromise, and he would sign it as a Big Deal, the Biggest, The Best.
a nugget of interesting etymology buried in derp
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In a society free from the burdens of profit, leisure could become more central to human experience. Today, we often conflate leisure with idleness and idleness with immorality, but it need not be so. Indeed, a Latin word for “business,” negotium, reveals how seriously some societies used to take non-laboring time. Negotium literally means the absence (indicated by the prefix neg-) of leisure (otium). Romans, in other words, described business in negative terms, as the mundane stuff one does when not attending to the enjoyable aspects of living. While we would not wish to return to ancient Rome’s patriarchal, slave-owning society, we could do with taking leisure more seriously.
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/workweek-free-time-precarity-daylight-savings-time
Today, we often conflate leisure with idleness and idleness with immorality, but it need not be so.
As long as I don’t have to subsidize your idleness I wouldn’t care less what you do. Dickbag.
Free from the burdens of profit.
Yeah, I think we tried that once or twice. Didn’t work out too well.
This may be too dumb for the enlightened ones at Jacobin to fathom, but where are the new leisured class going to get the stuff they will want to consume in their free time without someone working to create it? And, who’s going to take the effort to create those things if they don’t gain more from it than their effort (AKA: Profit)?
*sigh* These morons think they have a gaia-given right to control the world, too.
There is no leisure without profit. Somebody somewhere has to be producing more than he himself needs in order for you (or he) to enjoy some leisure time. An economy that strives to eliminate profit is one that produces suffering, because without profit there is only loss.
In a society free from the burdens of profit, leisure could become more central to human experience.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
U. TOPIA.
Nahh, U. TOPIA first
I fucking hate the meaningless term “assault weapon”. That’s all.
“Child killing machines” or GTFO.
Fine we’ll go old school. Sturmgewehr.
You monster.
I’m the creator not the monster. No one ever gets that right.
Have you seen the way they hand out honorary PhDs these days? Cosby has one, I believe.
It’s fucking redundant, is what it is.
“designed to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time!”
“Weapon of war”
“assault-style”
Massie is unloading on Trump on NPR right now over the gun restrictions.
I fucking hate the meaningless term “assault weapon”. That’s all.
Just wait ’til I club you with ol’ Brown Bess. I’ll teach you the meaning of “assault”.
STEVE SMITH KNOW ALL ABOUT ASSAULT!
Me three!
MEC Ceases Sale of Vista Outdoors Brands
The Canadian cooperative claims over 5 million members. In an open letter from CEO David Labistour, MEC said “it has recently come to light” that some of its brands were owned by a company that manufactured assault weapons.
According to Labistour, the response from MEC’s members was significant.
“Thousands of MEC members have contacted us to express their concerns and to ask that we stop selling products made by these brands. We’ve also heard from members who believe that purchasing decisions like these should be left to individual consumers and that MEC should not get involved.”
As a result, MEC said it will not make further orders of its Vista brands, including Bollé, Bushnell, CamelBak, Camp Chef, and Jimmy Styks. The letter did say MEC would sell through its existing inventory of those brands.
“Shocked, I tell you. How was I to know?”
The tweets from United & Delta dropping their discount to the NRA’s convention & AA’ response that they never offered one read like statements at a show trial. Or a struggle session.
The gun grabbers are openly working to foment a breakdown of civil society. These people are Roperites. They’d cut down every tree and law and civility in the land to get at their supposed devil. Fuckers are going to get everything they want, and they’re going to get it good and hard.
Did you see the CNN “townhall”? If that wasn’t a show trial I don’t know what is.
I just wanted to set them on my lap, stroke their hair and say, “That’s right. That’s right. Let it out.”
Yeah, I’ve been a card-carrying member of MEC for decades, but when a FB message-thread about this decision started and I weighed in to say I was turning in my membership card this weekend, well, you would’ve thought I’d just announced a personal mission to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Most of the older MECcies, though they lean left, seemed to think this move was bone-headed. There’s a lot of Millenial MECcies (and, from my unscientific survey, a huge number of female ones) who are totes supportive of this decision.
Nice knowing ya, MEC. Glad to see that virtue-signaling has become your raison d’être.
RE: Trump’s absurdities on gunz.
People have good reason to be wary of Trump when it comes to guns; he’s basically a 1990’s Democrat, the same clowns that pushed through the original AWB. Even if the guy is playing Rope-A-Dope with the Dems on the issue, it’s the first truly, unambiguously stupid political move he’s made (he’s done plenty of other dumb things, but they’ve all somehow played well politically). 2A advocates are about as rock-ribbed as you’re going to get when it comes to any kind of restrictions on their rights, and even short term posturing for long term gain (if, in fact, that’s what Trump is doing) won’t play well with them (or me personally). There are plenty of ways he could’ve sabotaged his own reelection, but this is about the quickest and surest way.
I was thinking today what a genuine compromise would look like.
Grabbers Get:
All semiautos and full auto weapons moved to 21 and up purchasing up with the handguns.
Closing of the gunshow loophole via public access to the NICS system.
10 dollar tax on every gun sold at an FFL.
Gunnies get
Silencers, SBRs, and SBS removed from the NFA.
Hughes Amendment repealed.
Removal of the sporting purpose test.
I think I would support that bill.
Fuck that. Compromise on anything and the grabbers will come back for another round and and another “loophole”.
Here’s what a reasonable compromise would look like
Grabbers get
squat & shit
Gunnies get
restoration of the plain reading of the 2nd Amendment. Oh want historical, fine. For most of this country’s history, no background checks were required. So those are gone. Still bitching grabbees? Ok, all auto bans are gone. More bitching? Fine, federal laws regulating firearms purchases are gone.
That’s how grabbers work. Fuck them in the ass with their own process.
Yup, totally agree. They don’t see comprimise as splitting the difference. They see it as an invitation to take moar.
Plus, Thomas Massie has a solid point about a 20 yr old mother being able to defend herself and her child with a gun. Why must she be 21 to have that right?
That’s my take too. The ratchet only turns one way, so I’m not willing to give them one little inch.
But every other compromise has not been a true compromise. That bill right there is an actual compromise: you give up some things and get other things.
Personally, I think that politics is downstream from culture. The reason gun control is less popular year after year is because people buy more guns. The reason they can’t ban AR15s is its no longer a “scary terrorist rifle”, it’s the best selling gun in America.
If you repeal Hughes, move silencers, SBRs, and SBS off the NFA, and remove the sporting purpose test, then that’s it for the grabbers. That means full auto SBRs fitted with silencers become commonplace guns inside of 20 years, and that means the grabber talking points get even more laughable. That means a flood of cheap ammo and new and exciting weapons from overseas that are currently banned from import.
Yeah it sucks for the 18-21 year old gun owners, but that’s the bait on the hook IMO.
Any legislation is subject to repeal or amendment, I don’t really see that as an argument. If we can gut federal gun control (and that’s what those three things do, they gut federal gun control in terms of the limited supply) by giving up three years of eligibility and a tiny tax, I’ll take that.
Japanese men ‘softening’ but still assert dominance: UK research
“Readers of such material are urged to avoid becoming “oyaji”, an older salaryman who is often considered scruffy, preachy and inattentive, while having an aged smell, called “kareishu” in Japanese.”
Needz moar man buns and skinny jeans.
Needs moar tentaclez.
That’s never the wrong answer.
All you can eat takoyaki?
No one likes a herbivore.
The debate also rages in the United States, with some consumers calling for retailer REI to stop selling Vista Outdoor products. As of today, nearly 13,000 people have signed a petition calling for REI to stop carrying Vista products. REI has not responded to our request for comment about the issue.
Fucking hipsters.
No more Bell helmets or CamelBaks? Have fun with that.
REI is a shithole ripoff anyway. Fuck them.
Visit Cleveland!
Here’s a statue of Moses Cleveland
He’s the guy who in-ven-ted Cleveland
At least we’re not Detroit!
Chinese military recruitment videos vs. British
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcoDJB2kP7w
the cartoon one for women was some good bathos
Chinese Commie Deth Metal!
Was reading this article, and it got me to thinking — is the anti-immigrant right misjudging how strongly the left wants immigrants to get legal status and/or citizenship? I mean, they’re probably amenable to it, sure, but which is better for the urban gentry that runs the Democrat Party? Having a group of people whose existence enhances the electoral power of the liberal urban gentry without that people having rights or power itself? Or giving those people a voice and a vote, and risking them start to vote for the people that don’t see their meager paychecks as crumbs, and who support their dream of doing more than laboring in the fields and homes of wealthy Democrats?
Maybe team stupid can compromise with team evil, and dial back on immigration enforcement, in exchange for only counting illegals as 3/5ths of a person for apportionment.
The Democrats want them voting.
Like, I get that the pro immigration right and the open borders libertarians want to pretend that amnesty will have a net neutral affect on the political make up of the country, but that’s simply not true. Latin America is a statist basket case not in spite of its people, but because of its people.
The Dems want amnesty because Hillary Clinton has one kid and Sarah Palin has five, and they need the bodies to come to the polls and pull the levers.
I read that those who immigrate to the US tend to be way more capitalist, however.
Especially if they’re moving to,find work.
The problem with that is Marxist dogma has been shoved into their brain from the time they were babies through the Catholic Church and Liberation Theology. Not only have they been taught Marxism, they’ve ‘literally’ (I hate that word, but it fits here) been taught that God DEMANDS Marxism.
That’s what freedom-loving folks would be facing.
Need a release from the latest news of Brutus Iscariot, here’s something for today’s SJW culture:
https://youtu.be/wijrWMd9wvQ
Everything from the vocals to the name of the band would be apoplexy inducing today.
Those are real Japanese people? OMG LOL!
And the original source.
Oh, shit.
YMO performing it live on Soul Train. There’s about twenty degrees of cultural appropriation and stereotyping. This is fantastic.
In the last “what are we reading” post there was talk about audio books. Here are public domain audio books for free : https://librivox.org
Thanks! some good stuff in there
I’d been wanting to read for Librivox till I lost interest. I don’t really have a good setup for it. Or a mic. But I think I have a decent voice.
I really like Peter Yearsley; he’s an English guy with a great voice who reads lot of Gothic horror short stories.
Don’t believe anything you read on Librivox. Pure leftist propaganda.
Re Harvard investment mess: “When Mendillo returned to Harvard after managing Wellesley College’s endowment”. I wonder how she did there.
She and others were paid waaayyy too much for mediocrity. Waaaaayyyyy.
The gun thing is bad enough, but now The Donald wants to slap a 10% excise tax on aluminum? Does he know what that’s going to do to beer prices?
Should’ve voted for Hillary.
Let’s not go crazy here.
What’s going to be awful is when aluminum and steel protectionism drags the economy up to 7% growth, because Trump, and economics no longer makes sense.
The stock market hasn’t made sense for years, so it figures that economics would stop making sense.
The stock market made perfect sense.
1.you give away free money (QE I, II, III, etc).
2. You give that money to entities whose management makes huge bonuses when stock prices go up.
3. You use government regulation to strangle to death any other possible way to earn a reasonable return.
4. Stock prices rise regardless of economic health.
oh, did I mention that it was TRILLIONS! of dollars worth of free money?
Then the same Progressives who did the above will screech about Republicans only favoring the rich and wanting middle class families living in boxes on the street.
I am prepared for the coming windstorm. Hoping the Feds close.
Shocking revelation
Lawmakers convene next week under pressure to consider limits on the purchase of assault rifles. But as congressional aides on both sides of the debate scramble to draw up background reports and statistics on the issue for their bosses, they’ll run into a basic informational roadblock: No one has any idea how many assault rifles are in circulation.
That’s intentional. By law, the government isn’t allowed to gather that metric and put it in a modern, searchable electronic database.
“Those numbers don’t exist because there’s no national registry,” said Jan Kemp, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. “Because by law, we are not allowed to have a national registry.”
The gun industry’s argument against a registry that tracks the sale of guns goes like this, according to former ATF agent Mark Jones: If the government kept a database on firearms sold, it would have a de facto registry of gun owners, and if that existed, then the government would be just a step away from being able to confiscate people’s guns.
No national gun registry? Outrageous. More crackpot paranoia from the anti government libertarian fringe.
larf!
Democrats, please stop screwing up basic gun terms
“Massacre machine gun magazines?” “Multi-automatic rounds?” Come on, people.
https://thinkprogress.org/democrats-firearms-rhetoric-003b555a52d2/
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On Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) called for banning “massacre machine gun magazines.”
“We really need to act in a number of ways,” Maloney said. “We need to pass an assault weapons ban. We need to ban the massacre machine gun magazines, and we need comprehensive background checks.”
What Maloney seems to be unaware of is that machine guns — fully automatic weapons — have been banned in the United States since 1986 (though the transfer of those made before 1986 is still legal). Either that, or Maloney doesn’t know what qualifies as a “machine gun.”
She’s not the only one.
In a 2008 Democratic primary debate, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), called for sensible regulations to keep “machine guns” out of the hands of people who “shouldn’t have them.”
“I think a total ban, with no exceptions under any circumstances, might be found by the court not to be [constitutional]. But I don’t know the facts,” Clinton said. “But I don’t think that should blow open a hole that says that D.C. or Philadelphia or anybody else cannot come up with sensible regulations to protect their people and keep, you know, machine guns and assault weapons out of the hands of folks who shouldn’t have them.”
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IMO, this is a deliberate tactic. The Progressives want the electorate to see Al Capone with a tommy gun, rather than Joe Sixpack going out hunting deer (because there are a lot more hunters than gangsters).
What do you Boston/New Englanders think of this renaming Yawkey Way thing?
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/red_sox/2018/03/silverman_getting_rid_of_yawkey_way_name_was_the_right_move#join-conversation