I had a pretty rough weekend. Hope yours was better.
Well we’re down to Championship Week in college basketball, prepared to run through two of the greatest weeks in a single sport. Unfortunately it got off to a horrible start as Michigan won the Big Ten tournament after running through Michigan State and Purdue in back-to-back days. Congratulations…we still own you in football. (As evidenced by the skunk weasels latest recruiting strategy.) Pathetic.
Michigan’s new recruiting strategy: list Ohio State rookie NFL starters.
Elsewhere, Cincy took care of Wichita State. Duke put a beat down on UNC. Auburn won the SEC season crown. And Xavier and Villanova are headed toward a Big East collision. Enjoy the week and next one as well. Perhaps we will be resurrecting the March Madness Pick-em for the Glibs. And by “perhaps”, I mean we absolutely will. Anonymity guaranteed, except for me knowing emails when you register for it. I’ll have the link up in the next couple of days to get registered. A good time will be had bye all, and you could win a little sweet Glibs swag.
On the ice, the winners were the Panthers, Predators, Army/Vegas, the Mighty Ducks (sorry Blackhawks, its over), Winnepeg, Columbus and the MINNESOOOOOOOOOOODA WIIIIIIIILD! And if you’re wondering why I do that, I have no idea. Perhaps because the Minnesodan contingent here is so passionate about hockey, I want to give them a little extra love. Who knows.
In the EPL, Burnley beat Everton (lol), Leicester drew Bournemouth, Stoke did the same with Southampton, Swansea rolled over West Ham, Spurs won, Watford won, Liverpool wore out Newcastle and beat Rafa for the first time since he left. And then on Sunday, Brighton beat Arsenal (and the world laughed and laughed and laughed), and Man City pretty much embarrassed Chelski. Manure play today and will hopefully lose and Liverpool will sit in second, even though they should be there anyway after the refs stole two points from them vs Spurs.
No Bundesliga or Spanish results. But a special nod to Florence, where the captain of Fiorentina, Davide Astori, died suddenly from cardiac arrest over the weekend ahead of their match. Totally shocking and extremely sad. The city have declared a day of mourning.
I’m sure there’s other stuff to talk about, with the combine and all that. But we only have so much space and I only have so much time to get it all in before the natives (you) start getting restless. So I’m moving on into…the links!
Patel and the 16-year old Maroney
Even for Democrat politician wannabes, what you write on the internet lasts forever. You’ve got to reach the top before you can effectively memory-hole (or ignore) what was written int he past. Also, they should say he wrote them to a female “friend” rather than friend. Because a real friend wouldn’t sell him out for a little political expediency.
Well, he’s persistent. There are so many government benefit scammers out there on both sides of the immigration debate. Perhaps we need to revamp the whole system to weed out the fraud* so this kind of shit doesn’t happen.
*I know it should be abolished completely, but I’m being realistic here.
Eric Holder, who was held in contempt of congress for obstructing justice by refusing to hand over evidence in their oversight investigation of the gun running into Mexico plan he helmed, predicts that Trump will be charged with obstruction of justice by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The obstruction? Firing a couple of appointee-level positions which he’s free to fire someone from for any or no reason at all according to precedent.
One off the last fiscally sane Democrats speaks some sense in Chicago. Obviously it didn’t go over well. I mean, how can a fiscal conservative and foe of abortion have a place in today’s Democrat party? Well, he is about to be drummed out anyway, if there Team Blue brass has anything to say about it.
Something-something…put your daughter to the test.
See if you can guess which state this happened in before clicking: Man and daughter arrested for incest after being spotted having sex in the back yard.
No good deed goes unpunished. I’m going to go way out on a limb here and say that I bet alcohol was involved.
And last but not least, the reactions to this tweet might be the greatest thing the internet has ever brought us in response to Brooklynites thinking they make everything better than everyone else. Stick to penny-farthing races and rooftop beekeeping festivals and leave this to the experts, kthxbai.
Go get the week off on the right foot. That’s what I’m gonna try to do.
‘She’s only 16!,’ his friend responded.
OMWC hit hardest.
Sam Cooke on her being only 16
Pikers
-Jerry Lee Lewis
Legit LOL.
What’s the issue?
Thomas Edison
That was around the age women generally got married not long ago. Still is in the parts of the “undeveloped” world.
“New York Democrat congressional candidate posted numerous messages about his affection for gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney in 2012, while she was only 16”
While posting it was foolish, you can’t blame him for the affection. I remember when politicians would just “lust in the heart”. Now they send dick pics. So I guess we are lucky no one got to see Carter’s junk slathered in peanut oil.
Welp, there should be a rich set of nightmares tonight. Or a Sugarfree story. Maybe both.
roasted nuts?
Carter pr0n is really weird. But what do you expect from a guy who can’t do a Playboy bunny right?
Bitch set me up.
http://sneakhype.com/chicas/2016/07/so-remember-mckayla-maroney-19-pics.html
Would.
Would go to fucking war.
Christ on a cracker.
I hung out with my dream girl Sat-Sun night. Didn’t take it down but I successfully was chosen to be the Man of the Night. Everyone is crushing on this girl. She hung out with me all night, as my friends slowly realized that the competition was going to me. Pulled her aside and went for it.
I would call the night 12 hours of very, very enthusiastic first base. I’m a gentleman. I didn’t try to take it too much further. Tiny British white girl with dreads. Effortlessly cute. Good kisser. Not a bad pool player. I am out of my league with this one and I’m not sure that I can hang on, especially since she just got to Asia and I’m sure she wants to play around. But. At least for that one night, over all comers I was the one she spent her time and tongue with.
Gotta hang my hat on something, and for now, that’s it.
Gotta hang my hat on something
Your unrelieved erection.
I was perfectly capable of handling the situation on my own.
You are a cruel man.
…
I like that.
Have you given up on the bunny boiler?
We are…in contact.
Get them to fight each other…
She get fake lips?
::Kip Winger looks at the calendar, counting days::
Man and daughter arrested for incest after being spotted having sex in the back yard.
It’s only having sex with yourself (if your doppelganger wore a wig).
Bonus link for you desperate drunks and/or Brooklynites who want to be ironic:
I might try it for the lulu or to try a little creative fruit winemaking.
You know things aren’t good when even Cleveland beats you in BBQ.
Son, Brooklyn can’t even beat Maryland barbecue. Sheeeyit, I’d even stack pit beef against that Brooklyn stuff, and pit beef is just a roast beef sandwich.
Arby’s beats that Brooklyn shit.
“They stopped him and explained he was going the wrong way.
The man got out of his car and argued with them. Some women started recording him on their phones, so he jumped back into his vehicle and drove right at them, authorities said.”
Christ, What an asshole.
If Mueller actually brings charges for obstruction, there’s going to be full out political warfare. If they think party relations are bad now, just wait.
“Maher replied that Sessions is “doing a service to the country” by remaining in office. “If he left, then Trump could appoint someone who would fire Mueller,” he said.”
Couldn’t Trump or Rosenstein fire Mueller as it is?
Regardless, even if Trump appointed someone new, it would take a long time to get through the Senate
I think Trump is keeping Mueller on to give the Democrats something to obsess over. It keeps them occupied.
Rosenstein is one of the guys Trump needs to fire.
Without Florida, where would we get 80% of our news of the weird?
Australia?
Ohio…
/points out that it’s mostly central and south Ohio
Friend of mine just got relocated to Cincinnati. He is living, of course, in northern Ky. To quote him “Kentucky is closer to Cincinnati than Ohio is.”
Everything south of Columbus is Kentucky.
Wrong. Everything north of Dayton is Michigan.
But his point is that in the type of neighborhoods he is willing to live in, the ones in Northern KY are closer to downtown Cincy than the ones in the Ohio suburbs.
Yes but that puts him too far away from Jungle JIms.
Why would you live in Cincinnati and not be close to Jungle Jims?
Had to google Jungle Jim’s. That place looks awesome. Next time I’m in Cincinnati, I’ll stop in there.
But he is close to Hofbrauhaus.
Jungle Jims has an Eastgate store, right up 275 from KY….
Brooklyn BBQ looks unappealing.
Brooklyn “BBQ” is an affront to civilization. Texas, Memphis, Kansas City, eastern and Western North Carolina and even those tri-tip lovers in California are weeping for those poor, wretched souls living in that borough.
So is this sentence:
“There are also hanging Edison bulbs and the beer, brewed in conjunction with a cult brewer in Liverpool, is served by the jar or by growler.”
The beer is the only thing elevating that plate above a McRib combo meal.
Seriously. Even though I have my favorites, any regional barbecue can at least make an argument (and a meal, for that matter).
That tray was the equivalent of showing up at a deep dish vs NY style pizza discussion with a saltine with ketchup and a slice of american cheese on top.
https://twitter.com/sloopyinca/status/970433982675464194?s=21
Now I have to explain the thread to the rest of the people in my office.
If you get up to TSUN for The Game, you have to try Smokehouse 52 out in Chelsea, MI. It is simply fantastic. I brought home some of their sauce, and have been miserly doling out on chicken over the past few months. I might tell my brother to ship me some more soon.
Brooklyn Pho! That is amazing!
*standing O*
Well done, sloop!
There are many regional variations to BBQ. I’m partial to the NC style I grew up eating (BBQ in VA is the same style, regardless of how many people in NC say that it’s not the same), but I love deep south-style, Texas brisket, KC burnt ends – they’re ALL awesome. That….thing in the Brooklyn pic? Not BBQ. There’s no smoke ring!!
It occurred to me that since hipsters are all about old stuff and Pabst Blue Ribbon, perhaps the boiled meat and store-bought rolls in that pic were the point.
agreed
hic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pey3-st242U
Ugh, Brooklyn. How the hell are you gonna call something brisket and it doesn’t even have a smoke ring? I’ll bet they fucked around and like par-roasted the brisket or something.
Brooklyn. Goddamned hipsters can’t take a shit without it being artisanal and better than anyone else’s.
I had Gates yesterday, although without sauce cuz that’s where the carbs sneak in on you. Still top notch. Juicy, flavorful, all around nom nom nom. I’d go to Bryant’s more often because their sauce is almost straight vinegar, but can’t get the husband on board.
I’ve been disappointed with Gates lately. Jack Stack, and Joe’s are always my go to. Q39 is pretty good too if I want to empty my bank account to eat.
Gates’s Paseo takeout line was 35 minutes yesterday because they have no help. I recognized two front-counter girls and they lost the order thread three times because the cooks were so slow. Help-wanted signs said GOOD workers. I’m guessing they need some speedier (better instruction taking) cooks who give a good hot damn.
I go to UMKC library on Sundays to work. Bryants is out of my way, or I’d go there.
Mmm, Jack Stack.
My fun BBQ story: I’d been away from KC for a while and didn’t realize that Oklahoma Joe’s had become such a big name. I had this vague recollection of eating at a small, kind of shabby BBQ near where I lived in Olathe that I thought had the same name. I figured I must be mis-remembering or something. But the wife & I went to the OJ’s in Olathe on 119th (?) and I realized that, in the early 2000s, I had, indeed, eaten at the original before it became a big name.
The two newer Joe’s locations are finally catching up to the quality of the gas station Joe’s. I used to only go to the gas station even if the drive was further.
The gas station one is gone now, right?
Nope still there.
I used to live a few blocks east of the gas station Joe’s and still make a trip there several times a year for their burnt ends. You should also try LC’s and Woodyard if you haven’t already done so. IMHO, both are excellent.
If you’re on 119th in Olathe, there’s Chuy’s now. So… that’s where I go.
Yeah, I may have got that wrong: it might be 132nd/I35
Wife and I took a trip to KC and the only thing I wanted to do was eat at Oklahoma Joe’s. She took her sweet time getting ready and by the time we got there the line was wrapped around the building.
Had to settle for some inferior place.
I have a funny “KC” BBQ story that has very little to do with Kansas city and very little to do with good BBQ. During undergrad, I flew out to Seattle to interview with Amazon for a software position. The flight back home was the next morning, so I had an evening and a food stipend to kill. I hopped into a cab and told the cabbie to take me to a quintessential Seattle restaurant. Once at the restaurant (I forget the name), I told the waitress to bring me the dish they’re best known for.
20 minutes later, out comes a plate of the toughest and least appetizing “Kansas City” ribs I’ve ever had. I was expecting some fish or other seafood, but they served me poorly cooked and seasoned ribs instead.
I don’t eat BBQ, but was dragged to Q39 because of a business dinner (that’s where our customer wanted to go). I can only report that the customer’s eyes rolled back in his head and he sighed, “I’m having a moment,” when he had their BBQ pork.
A Meg Ryan moment, I presume?
Quieter, but yeah.
That looks like satire to me.
See if you can guess which state this happened in before clicking
Kentucky
I guessed Alabama.
I clicked and based on the city name, I am not even sure what country it happened in.
That plate of BBQ is wholly inadequate. That’s not even suitable for a cook out in a trailer park.
I assumed it was the scraps they were leaving their cross-breed of a Yorkie and a dachshund to eat before they went to attend a league game of freeze tag.
I’m a goddamn limey and my BBQ is better than that!
yeah but they’re New Yorkers. Their idea of barbecue is hot dogs.
To them, it probably looks good
To us, it’s a joke.
The punch line would be the $40 bill for that Tray of Sadness.
Seattle students cut back on driving and mangoes to fight climate change
They can have my mangoes when they pry them from my sticky, sweet fingers.
So, basically forgoing all the things about living in a modern, post-industrial, developed nation that makes us bigger, stronger, longer-lived, and generally better off than anyone else in human history? Sounds like a great plan, guys, keep it up. There’s a restaurateur in Brooklyn who has a recipe for brisket you ought to speak with.
Fine by me; that just leaves more for the rest of us.
Perfectly ok with this. If you’re concerned about climate change – feel free to change your own behavior, just don’t force me to do shit I don’t want to do. Very libertarian if you ask me.
They’re just getting some practice in before the government actually does force all of that and more on the rest of us. Obama fucking promised it: “[E]lectricity rates would necessarily skyrocket….” The end goal of Democrats is to lower your quality of life.
When that happens, I’ll be mad. But I really don’t see it happening. The Democrats talk a good game about impoverishing people through stupid energy policies, but when it comes down to it – they benefit from cheap energy just like the rest of us. Their voters want it too and they know it.
Two Haden mango trees in my yard. I get 400-500 fruits in a good year from them. This year only one tree fruited so according to my last census I’ll have around 250 great mangoes. Maybe I should send the seeds to the Seattle area.
Lipinski is a social conservative who opposes abortion, and he’s facing a serious primary challenge from the left via political newcomer Marie Newman.
“Right now there is a battle for what the Democratic Party is going to be, going forward,” Lipinski, who has represented the Southwest Side and suburban 3rd Congressional District for seven terms, said Sunday on WGN-720 AM.
Sorry to say this Mr. Lipinski, but you ain’t gonna win this battle. Your party has gone full retard amd you can’t bring them back.
The Lipinski family runs that district. At least this time around the primary “challenger” is running on a different website than Lipinski’s.
If Lipinski loses a primary, the Machine is going to be very, very, very upset.
*spit-take*
“Several women were in the Chula’s Sports Bar parking lot when they saw the man driving his car the wrong direction. They stopped him and explained he was going the wrong way.
The man got out of his car and argued with them. Some women started recording him on their phones, so he jumped back into his vehicle and drove right at them, authorities said.”
That takes “men won’t stop for directions” to a whole new level.
This is all because of oppression from the matriarchy.
BBQ thread is funny. I notice all of the regional claims to best BBQ but I have to disagree with all of them. The best BBQ is at my house. Or my brother’s house.
Can’t you coonasses just stake your claim to crawfish and leave the bbq to your neighbors to the west?
Hey, I can wear more than one crown. (Actually most of the BBQ places in Louisiana do Texas style)
I still dont know why no one else seems to understand how to cook crawfish.
We do in Houston. And oh, what a glorious few weeks we’re enjoying right now.
Crawdads are for kids to play with in the creek, not for eating.
Then you’ve never had them cooked correctly. A girl I knew at tOSU (from Houston) made them for us because we loaned her all of our freshman class notes.
Memphis is west of Louisiana?
/And throws Owensboro into the ring, just because I don’t think anywhere else does mutton.
Too sweet for me. Sugar is for dessert, not dinner.
I prefer dry rub, which is less sweet.
The key difference to me though is pork instead of beef.
Pork is the king of bbq meats. I am agnostic to style of bbq, as long as its pork.
Memphis is good, Carolina is good, Georgia is good, even if it isnt really its own thing.
I’ll be in Memphis for work in a couple of weeks. I have been promised excellent barbeque. The only barbeque I don’t understand is Alabama white barbeque sauce.
Avoid the places you have heard of. They are fine, but there is better bbq in Memphis, based on my trip a few years ago.
Wait, eastern or western Carolina?
Jk. I’m a huge fan of pulled pork. But we do plenty of that here as well as the brisket. And frankly, all of it is made dramatically better by the inclusion of the smoked sausage.
But if I had to order it, I’d go:
Texas, eastern Carolina, western Carolina, California tri-tip, Memphis, KC
Sorry to those in the camp of the last two, but at some point it just gets too sweet for me to really enjoy on the same plane of existence as the others.
Eastern Carolina is better than Western. There was a place we went 10 years ago, outside of Bat Cave, NC, little hole in the wall, that did both Eastern and Western style Carolina BBQ, and we did a huge family plate of each to share among 14 people.
There are vinegary ones here, which are the ones I gravitate to. Bryants is pretty much straight vinegar with lots of spice. Gates is next. More sugar, but also more black pepper. I’m not familiar with any others in KC who have that.
My husband likes KC Masterpiece, but he’s from SoCal so he gets a pass. I call it molasses with ketchup.
I generally judge a BBQ restaurant by the quality of their smoked sausage. Most places can manage a decent pulled pork or brisket. Making quality sausage is a different trick that many places get wrong.
@Lachowsky, I forgot about that, but I agree. Most of it here is polish sausage.
There is a little broken-down deli on the east side of Kansas City that makes its own homemade kielbasa and it is utter heaven. Or, for OMWC’s sake, it makes me have “a moment.”
Not a BBQ place
The best sausages I’ve ever eaten. It’s a Swiss restaurant that in in the cellar of a winery in the town I grew up in. It’s very nice. They make a sausage plate that comes with 4 different kinds of swiss/German sausage. Bratwurst, knackwurst, and two others I can’t think of right now. it’s fantastic.
I need to convince the wife that our next day trip needs to include a wine tour and a stop for lunch there.
Pity the wine isn’t that great.
Pork isn’t really to my taste. I’ll eat it, but I prefer beef.
I miss the burnt ends in KC. I used to get an entire plate of them. I lived in Belton and my local place was
“Odin’s”.
Carolina vinegar based BBQ is fantastic. My favorite place was a little outside Raleigh next to the RR tracks. Unfortunately it burned down in 2011 and I haven’t been back to to see if it was rebuilt.
Pork is the king of bbq meats. I am agnostic to style of bbq, as long as its pork.
*smiles at robc while eating an extra portion of brisket*
Fine by me, more slabs of pork ribs coming my way.
I have fond memories of eating at the Moonlite.
It’s fairly embarrassing of the foods that my town and namesake are famous for. West Side Nut Club (apparently the second biggest street festival in the US after Mardis Gras! Yuh-huh!!! *Looks for applause* Give it to me!!! ) has a bunch of weird shit like chocolate covered ants/crickets. But brain sandwiches are what we “specialize” in. As in one place, The Hilltop Inn, serves them and it’s what Alton Brown ate when he came through.
Such a lovely place to live, and such a shitty place to visit. I can say that about where I live right now as well. I suppose I’m ok with that tradeoff.
I spent a weekend in Evansville working overnight at a Target during race weekend. So, ummm, we didnt go out, because it was too damn crowded. Not sure how they found us a hotel.
That was back in the late 80s when unlimited hydroplanes were still cool.
Man, that race weekend is one of the best things ever. Lots of BBQ trucks come and it’s just a fantastic time.
I obviously do not have the balls to race a fucking boat on a *river* at 150mph. Absolutely insane.
I think the last time that I went…there was a hilarious calamity. There is always one piston boat that qualifies, but it’s a local boat and just absolutely cannot compete. It’s tragic. But every other boat had a bad start, were penalized, and that fucking boat actually managed to win the championship. It was such a great victory for the underdog, regardless of how.
Also: Bosse Field is the 3rd oldest park in the country after Fenway and Wrigley. Field of Dreams was filmed there. So much fun watching Frontier League Baseball. My dad wrote a book about a season he spent with the team, the Otters. Their mascot’s name is Evan the Otter.
Sigh.
Moonlite is my favorite buffet place, but I haven’t been there in years. I just can’t now down that much grub anymore. We usually get a quart of mutton and a gallon of burgoo to go from Old Hickory when we are in Owensboro.
I like my BBQ the best because I cook it the way I like it. Same with steaks.
I think once a person reaches a certain level of culinary ability, restaurant food just can’t compete.
Restaurant food is meant to be cranked out at industrial capacity. It may fill you up, but there’s no comparison between that and something you cook at home with individual attention.
I hope that pic is a joke. I had Brooklyn BBQ once. It was not good, but not as awful as that pic.
It looks like my grandmas roast in color, no smoke ring or moisture to bee seen. Needs gravy to make it edible.
My girlfriend masturbates after we have sex. Why?
I have been in a relationship for nine months. I thought the sex was good for us both, but when we finish she tells me to shower. I wondered why, and now I know – she masturbates. She has done it multiple times; I think she is insatiable. What should I do?
Do nothing. Have your shower and let her get on with it. Such behaviour is very common and you need not worry that she secretly dislikes making love with you.
Many women crave a second orgasm, especially if she has been super-aroused during intercourse. Perhaps she doesn’t want to bother you for that extra pleasuring, or maybe she is afraid you might think her too demanding. Many people – male and female – find the type of orgasm they have during masturbation (for women, often clitorally focussed) to be qualitatively different from what is experienced during lovemaking. They find masturbation produces a deeply satisfying orgasm without the anxiety that can accompany partner sex.
Just rub one out while you’re in the shower if you’re so damn concerned.
Listen, pal, there’s gonna come a time when she’s all up on you at 2:30 AM when you’ve spent all day working and all you want to do is go the fuck to sleep so you can wake up in four hours and do it all over again, and then you’ll wish to Christ she’d just rub one out and leave you alone.
You know who else used the phrase “the Jewish question”?
Who is Alex Trebek?
The youngest child at a seder?
The rest of the Jewish Justice League?
My first fiancee?
Not sure who this guy is, but I would vote for him. Epic rant right in the face of Democrats.
That was excellent. The Democrats in the room had their fingers in their ears, of course.
Saw that on TV this morning. Some of the dems walked out. One of them is now complaining that he was offended by it.
If Democrats walk on that then they truly are retarded snowflakes.
“Nicholas J. Freitas (born August 29, 1979) is a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and a candidate for the US Senate in 2018. He was first elected in 2015, and represents the 30th district comprising Madison County, Orange County, and the Southern half of Culpeper County. Freitas is a United States Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Freitas
His campaign might get some of my money.
His comparison between spending between the NRA and Planned Parenthood (which is also funded, in part, by taxpayers) is a salient one that is always ignored by the media and your friendly gun grabber.
Gun grabber: Let’s raise the gun purchasing age to 21
Sane person: Well, let’s raise the age you can attain an abortion without parental consent to eighteen
Gun grabber: That’s problematic
I just wish he would have brought up the colossal amounts of money that government sector unions kick up to Democrats, who then push policies that keep as many government employees as possible on the payroll.
Still, it was a great smackdown. I might send a few bucks to his campaign, and I don’t even live in his district.
In the “real” meaning of the text, Emma Watson rejects the patriarchal construct of [European] grammar.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5462693/Oscars-Emma-Watson-debuts-HUGE-new-Times-tattoo.html
That’s just a warning to any potential mates to stay clear.
A temporary tattoo. So stunning and brave of her.
Lol, the world just laughs harder and harder at these out-of-touch celebs and what they consider “taking a stand”.
She should’ve said Time’s Up to whoever cut her bangs.
I’ve always been a Ginny Weasley man myself, but I’d make time for Luna Lovegood, too. Hell, she’s got a name like a Bond girl.
2 R branded idiots spew nonsense
Lindsey Graham may be an effeminate chicken hawk, but he’s right here
“He suggested, if the president is looking to directly impact China, he should “get back in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, be present in Asia, hit them on intellectual property theft, hit them on currency manipulation, hit them about steel dumping.”
The TPP is a giant crony package that is not anything resembling a free trade deal.
If the Chinese government wants to subsidize American steel consumers, then more power to them.
Good luck on the IP stuff. You can’t enforce U.S. laws in another country
I’m not knowledgeable enough about currency manipulation to comment on that.
His points on tariffs are spot on.
1/5 ain’t bad?
“BUT OUR STEEL WORKERS NEED JERBZ!”
~Brain-dead Trumpetteer
Never mind that the U.S. still produces around 70 million metric tons of steel per year.
IP treaties exist.
https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/970516808045228032
Christina Hoff Sommers is also a fascist, apparently.
“…..to be sure, she says icky things and shouldn’t be allowed to speak, but if we silence her than all the woke voices may be next.”
ALERTA? They’re going with Esperato?
missing from the sports run down
“Portland’s Hottest New Pizzeria Is Devoted to Smothering All Its Pizza with Ranch”
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbpjpa/ranch-pdx-portlands-hottest-new-pizzeria-ranch-dressing
Now I’m undecided whether Italy should have nuclear weapons.
It all started with Pineapple…
I blame the Baptists.
When I worked at a pizza hut, the Sunday after church Baptist crowds were the largest consumers of ranch dressing. They would empty the bucket of ranch dressing on the salad bar multiple times in a single afternoon. No one else ever did that.
In the Baptist Church, immersion is the only way to properly baptize.
clap clap clap.
That was almost as good as my Kennedy comment yesterday.
STEVE SMITH HAVE STRONG RELIGIOUS DUTY.
I hate Ranch and was SB* for most of my life, so I can’t help you.
*My current church is non-denominational, but if forced, I would identify as Southern Baptist.
It eat ranch pizza over this sad mess any day
(this one is making the Tweeter rounds this morning)
This thread on the “Brooklyn BBQ question” is delightful
@GIlmore: Your long post about race/racism and American culture was very interesting and well-thought out. I hadn’t looked at it from that perspective and enjoyed actively reading and thinking about a different take on the matter. Much appreciated. No sarcasm, an illuminating read to mull.
It’s hard for me to comment about this because of my age (born ’87, 31…christ….in 6 weeks) and I grew up in the nice part of Evansville. I had absolutely no hood exposure outside of the media. I always remember in movies like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles how bleak and scary The Big City was. Steam coming from every manhole cover and rapists and murderers around every corner. I know now that that was the perception/reality people had, however, as a kid that was always an abstraction for me, a bundle of fantasies that I’m not sure I could detach from. They taught me like Aesop’s Fables, a collection of lessons draped as stories. Older people living in the truly terrifying 70s and 80s…I’m not sure how their real-world experiences affected their interpretation of the setting of Terminator, for instance.
This isn’t the most popular comment in the world, but because of my upbringing I have to actively work to not be racist. My parents are/were active movers and shakers in the Civil Rights era and still write books and plays about the movement. There was and is absolutely no racism in my family growing up (now my dad’s parents….that’s a different matter) but I got imprinted from culture I absorbed growing up that cities/urban/black meant scary and dangerous.
Not to sound all SJWy, but I’ve had to put effort into undoing this reflex, and I know for a truth that it came from movies and hood culture in the early 90s. But I think and reason my way out of these issues, rather than be dominated by them or support laws that inherently involve force. But I absolutely can’t deny the imprinting that was done, even if (especially?) it came from a distance.
Sorry for the wall of text, Gil. Yours was a solid post. I’ve been thinking about it for over a day now. Would read again. +1 Robocop shootin’ a dude in the dick.
For my own part, I attempt to treat everyone as an individual. However, I do not believe that means I have to discount all outward appearance. Your style of dress and manner of speaking are choices and I think it is reasonable, maybe even prudent, to use those indicators when forming an initial opinion of someone.
Absolutely. My reflex reactions are 100% based on dress. Dress like a gangster and I’m gonna infer that you are one. Dress like a banker and the same.
If you wear a Cubs jersey don’t get shocked when I assume you’re a Cubs fan. If it has the name “Rizzo” on it don’t get shocked when I think that’s your favorite player and proceed as such.
If you have a faded blue teardrop tattoo don’t be shocked when I think you’re sketchy.
I suppose most of my issues when it comes to immediate reactions is all based on culture and sartorial signaling much more than anything else. I can’t see why a person would purposefully dress in a manner that they know worsens their social standing in larger society.
Probable answer: Socio-economic/cultural/racial/geographic pressure and feeling a part of The Community. Everything that goes into perpetuating that mindset (welfare, WoD, single-parent homes, etc) is evil.
Define racism.
Something those pieces of shit white people do.
The reason stereotypes exist is because they’re meaningful and useful.
Furthermore, humans are Ineradicably tribal. The ability to overcome this is arguably one of the hallmarks of being a civilized person.
Link to post?
https://glibertarians.com/2018/03/zardoz-saturday-evening-links-8/
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Thanks
Evan, I have a similar background to yours, and even though my parents weren’t part of the Civil Rights movement (I think they are younger than your parents), a lot of the older folks in the church I grew up in were on the Freedom Rides, volunteering in the South during the late 50s and the entire 60s. I strive to treat everyone as an individual, but tend to discriminate on the basis of the thoughts of “Why the fuck are you acting according to a shitty stereotype?” if someone’s behavior annoys me.
thanks, i’m flattered you felt it worth mentioning.
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lol, yeah, i think 1970s/1980s movie imaginings of “post apocolyptic futures” was often echoing things like “pictures of the south bronx seen on the news”
i’d modify the idea of the “truly terrifying” part. It wasn’t terrifying, really. but it was depressing and certainly fostered a certain cynicism about whether the future was going to be ‘better’ or ‘worse’. The reason Star Wars was such a breath of fresh air in 1979 was because it signaled a departure from the idea that all futures were going to be worse than the present. it was more hopeful and idealistic.
apropos – apparently they’re re-booting the movie “Death Wish”. which i find odd (i’m curious where they decide to set it; given that if its a modern-reinterpretation – where in America do brazen, on-the-street muggings happen that often anymore?). I was a toddler around the upper west side in the 70s (where the OG movie was set), and my memory wasn’t of “terror” or “fear”, but rather things like “Grant’s Tomb being covered in graffiti and smelling like pee“, and no one ever emptying out the garbage cans in the parks. And it remained that way all through the time i was in high-school.
Ugh, Star Wars wasn’t in the future.
you know what i mean. up until star wars, most ‘fantastic’ film (e.g. ‘alternate reality’ – fantasy/sci-fi) was dystopian and cynical. it was a throwback to a more-innocent and idealistic sort of vision. its not like i’m the first one to point this out; lucas himself said so on multiple occasions that he was trying to get away from the dominant pessimism in film (even tho he’d done it before w/ THX)
I watched Death Wish this weekend. Chicago with the main incident happening in a nice neighborhood in a burglary gone wrong. The rest happens in the city but couldn’t tell you which parts.
Weirdly accurate from a gun culture perspective for a Hollywood movie. Glock bite shows up as a minor plot point. Points out all the paperwork, classes and waiting periods for legal ownership in Chicago and how basically anyone can pass if they’re willing to put up with the bullshit. (Although NFA paperwork for a machinegun is skipped over.) It doesn’t butcher gun catch phrases like “when seconds count the cops are only minutes away,” “the police are there to clean up the mess, not prevent it” and the like.
i’ve seen it mentioned on twitter as a movie that “pro gun” people would be enthused by.
i havent seen the original death wish in ages (tho i have the herbie hancock soundtrack and love it). need to re-see that, and maybe catch the new one in a matinee or something.
It also seems to be doing exceptionally poorly with critics for similar reasons. Just look at the snippets of the critical reviews showing their disgust and compare the (at the time of comment) 15% critic, 85% audience rating.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_wish_2018/
Some of it is just griping that there’s nothing new about the remake compared to the original.
I usually read threads well after they’re ‘dead,’ so don’t see it a point in responding, but I wanted to commend that post as well. Definitely one worth saving and sharing.
Sex education in schools should teach children how to get pregnant
“And modern families – people who choose to parent without a partner, same-sex parents, transgender parents, people who actively choose not to have children”
Is that the new definition of a modern family? I must be doing it wrong.
Also, if kids want to know about fertility, the information is out there. Read a book kiddos. All the information in the world is easily accessible. If you really want to know, go find out. It’s not hard.
It’s not hard
You’re doing it wrong.
You want thought crime? Well, you have thought crime now.
Some kids got into an “incident” at middle school and cops were called.
I still don’t know what the actual charge was against the parents of this family and why their guns were confiscated. Nice job, journalo!
Not much of a cache, not an AR-15 among them.
Look at all those wooden stock hunting and historical rifles, mostly bolt action. And according to the story the parents were arrested as well.
Why did the B1G playing the tourney during small conference weekend instead of real conference weekend?
Nevermind, answered my own question.
Scheduling conflicts with playing the tourney outside the boundaries of the conference.
I am taking an elementary school team to the national robotics competition in Omaha Nebraska. Actually, Council Bluffs Iowa.
I’m going to have 8 elementary school kids for 4 days. We have most of the day Sunday and Monday free – so I was thinking of taking them to the Zoo. Anyone familiar with the area? Any suggestions on things to do in the evening? I’d like to find something both educational and highly regional. This might be the only time in their lives that they go to Omaha Nebraska.
Take them to egg Warren Buffett’s house.
Not from there but I travel there often. The zoo is great, I highly recommend it. The Durham museum was pretty interesting.
Side Note: Watch out for Nebraska football fans they’re an obnoxious breed who think they’re still relevant.
So I should tell the kids to leave their University of Miami paraphernalia at home?
I have been to Omaha once for the CWS. I second the zoo recommendation. It’s a good one.
The zoo is excellent. Evening Activities: Old Market (Omaha), Kerry Pedestrian Bridge (CB/Omaha), Spaghetti Works (Old Market).
Joslyn Art Museum is quite good.
Loess Hills in Iowa or Desoto National Wildlife Refuge are within driving distance. Highly regional/educational and nearly all Western Iowa school children visit.
Thanks for the suggestions. I really appreciate the help!
???
Council Bluffs is like a pimple on Omaha’s butt. They are across the river from each other.
These are facts that I learned when we booked the flights and hotel. Prior to that the entirety of my knowledge about the area was that they sponsored Marlin Perkins.
The locals call it Couniltucky
I could not place either on a map of either state. Now I know both are along the border, presumably in the eastern part of the states ( I think Omaha is in the east).
Be careful transporting that many young kids across a state line.
OMWC may have some advice.
I think they have a famous pedestrian bridge that crosses the river (and state line). So maybe I’ll drop them on one side and let them transport themselves. Don’t wanna end up with the FBI on my tail.
“One off the last fiscally sane Democrats speaks some sense in Chicago.”
Also, Chris Kennedy (the son of Bobby Kennedy), who is running for Governor is also sane when it comes to Illinois’ financial problems. You know it’s bad when a Kennedy is the voice of reason
I thought ENB and Robby were the Voice of Reason
You know it’s bad when a Kennedy is the voice of reason
Maybe he’s taking after his uncle John, who occasionally was the voice of reason in his party:
#MeToo Has Revived the Equal Rights Amendment
States rejected the ERA at the height of the feminist movement. This year, it might finally have a shot.
I for one, think it will be hilarious when draft cards arrive for young girls in the mail when they turn 18. Feminism!
It will be even better when they start getting affirmative actioned out of college spots.
Women have equal protection under the law and all the rights that men have already. What else do they want?
Pie? Maybe it is pie
Cake, I believe.
First off, women don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it. Nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. And while they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with ’em, don’t do it. Puts ’em on edge. They might go into berserker mode, come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows.
Space litter
A wealth of Earthly bacteria may have hitched a ride on Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, which was shot into space on the inaugural launch of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket February 6.
This bacteria, scientists from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, say, could threaten native alien organisms and even act as a “backup” of life on Earth.
NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection ensures bacteria are wiped from any spacecraft intended to land on another planet. Sterilization is essential because bacteria can survive even in the vacuum of space.
I was afraid I woulldn’t have anything meaningful to worry about, today.
could threaten native alien organisms – ehm what? I mean what?
Natives of the planet the roadster crashes on. He’s apparently got a notion that a craft on a mars-earth orbit around the sun will somehow land on an inhabited planet in some far-flung solar system.
Back to reality, they’ve already calculated the orbit reliably out to over a million years. It ain’t hitting anything before then. Even without cosmic rays and the solar wind, DNA has a half-life of only 521 years, so it will break down beyond any usefulness in a million years.
How am I supposed to worry about something that isn’t worrisome, and signal accordingly? Think, man!
That’s impressive. How did that drivel ever make it into a leading publication like Newsweek?
It was all over the proggie sites last week. Newsweek is just copying the far left media trends a few days later.
You answered your own question.
So last night I ended up having to sit through the proggie/sjw hatefest and propaganda special known as The Oscars. My gf wanted to watch it for some reason and I wanted to watch literally anything else, so we ‘compromised’ and watched it. Leftists really seem to a hard-on for the NRA, among other things. They really don’t realize that they are currently driving gun-sales and, very likely, NRA membership the more they talk about guns and the NRA. I don’t even like the NRA because I don’t think they are as hardcore on private arms ownership as some other groups. But I’m tempted to join the NRA and/or by another gun just to spite these people.
I’d rather compromise by letting her watch it while I go into the garage and drive nails through my skull.
Antidote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlXZkGMakzc
The NRA gets on my last damned nerve, but I re-upped my membership specifically to piss off my wife, who’s a raging Prog in word if not deed.
They really hit a nerve with this one. My wife had moved almost fully into the libertarian camp over the last several years…. but this one has her in full prog-mode. She’s even talking about taking a family vacation so we can all go march in the gun control march in DC.
It is like the Remey “people will die” video moved into her head and is now controlling her thoughts.
My thought
who’s a raging Prog
The gf is a card-carrying Democrat from a family of card-carrying Democrats. I have manage to sway her on some things, including guns. But she is susceptible to falling back into the TEAM mindset. I do find it fun to, on occasion, point out that she is dating a gun-toting libertarian that voted for Trump (protest vote). I also try to provide an alternate viewpoint to current news/events. I know where she gets her news, and it’s from every lefty site/station you can think of. Her parents are CNN fans. -_______-
Anyway, she’s a nice albeit misled girl.
Not that I’ve seen all the other nominees, but how did The Shape of Water win best picture?
Because they didn’t give Del Toro an Oscar for the Lovely Bones and they realize now that will be his most mainstream work, might as well give it to him now. Most Oscars are about making up for past mistakes by the Academy.
Maybe it was just me, but I though “Lovely Bones” suuuuuuucked. Of course, I have the same opinion of “Avatar”, and look at all the money that made.
Every time the Lefty nonsense makes me want to join the NRA, the NRA almost immediately comes out with some crazy statement that makes me not want to join the NRA. I’ve been in a tug of war with myself for going on a year about joining.
There are a bunch of other organizations dedicated to defending the 2A
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/top-5-gun-rights-organizations-nra/
The NRA is really the only effective one, at least on a national level. They frequently piss me off as well, and I don’t donate to them over and above maintaining a membership. But if you want your money to have some effect on the national stage, it’s NRA-ILA or nothing.
My gf wanted to watch it for some reason and I wanted to watch literally anything else, so we ‘compromised’ and watched it.
That’s terrible. A proper compromise would be that you get to silently watch/read/play something else while sitting next to her as she watches the Oscars. You can even provide the same level of interaction as if you were watching – just agree to every comment the gf makes.
proper compromise…
I browsed the web on my phone. I also had the condition that I 1) get to drink and 2) get to mock and insult at my leisure.
I also had the condition that I 1) get to drink and 2) get to mock and insult at my leisure.
Even better. That’s probably the best compromise anyone could get out of a situation like that.
So glad the squeeze and I would both rather watch Russian dash cam videos than just about anything
This might be the only time in their lives that they go to Omaha Nebraska.
If they’re lucky.
How many Polaks does it take to screw a narrative?
“In May 1940, the Holocaust Museum in Washington explains, the German occupation authorities launched AB-Aktion, an operation to eliminate the Polish intelligentsia: “The Germans shot thousands of teachers, priests, and other intellectuals in mass killings in and around Warsaw, especially in the city’s Pawiak prison. The Nazis sent thousands more to the newly built Auschwitz concentration camp, to Stutthof, and to other concentration camps in Germany where non-Jewish Poles constituted the majority of inmates until March 1942.”
Five years later, at least 1.9 million non-Jewish Polish civilians were dead, and another 1.5 million Poles had been deported to German territory for forced labor.
It is those facts, not the murder of three million Polish Jews during the same time period, that Polish nationalists, who now control Poland’s government, want to put at the center of wartime histories.
But an effort to refocus attention on to Polish suffering, and away from the Holocaust, through a change to Poland’s anti-defamation law — which now makes it a crime for anyone, in any part of the world, to accuse “the Polish Nation” of complicity in Nazi war crimes — has backfired spectacularly.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/03/even-poland-never-enforces-new-holocaust-law-lot-damage-already-done/
Women have equal protection under the law and all the rights that men have already. What else do they want?
What a silly question. One only a mansplaining shitlord would ask.
Sigh. I thought beer was safe. I thought the new generation wouldn’t try to ruin it.
I was wrong.
I can deal with IPA’s that are thick and full of particulate, I can deal with Radlers over 5%, but I don’t think I can deal with gods damned glitter beer.
That is almost as bad as a cloudy Koelsch.
Almost.
I’ve wondered if we will ever hit “peak beer”. Will people ever go back to drinking Budweiser or Coors? I doubt it. But there are a lot of breweries out there; I wonder how many of them will be around in another 5-10 years.
The power law that existed prior to 1970 (and should naturally exist) still hasnt filled in.
Their will be consolidation (its already happening) and more washing out (other than just me) but their is a lot of growth needed to fill in that middle section between say 200k bbls and 2MM bbls per year.
Article is from 2017:
Beer sales are down…especially among the 35-44 set
That has been going on for a while. And yet craft is still growing.
People are, in general, drinking less but higher quality.
So shift from BMC->Craft Beer and from Craft Beer->Wine/Spirits, but that is a net win for Craft, for now.
Honestly, I really do know the difference between their and there.
Probably settle into the British model (at least when I was there log ago). A few national brands. Any local pub you walk it will sell the nationals in bottles, maybe on tap. Also on tap are either the house brew or a couple selections from nearby breweries. Most people drink the local stuff.
I see that in a lot of bars near me. You’ll typically have a Bud/Coors/Miller Lite, maybe something like Heineken, and then you’ll have a large craft brewer or two, with the rest being local craft brewers or the bar’s own beer. In MD, of course, you can’t have a straight line between brewer to customer, so the bars that have their own recipes have to get a brewer to make it and then buy it back from a distributor, which is retarded. Or they’ll buy one of the “generic” beers from a local brewer and brand it themselves, which is more common.
I have the feeling that we’re going to see a contraction in the next 5 years or so. There’s a lot of breweries opening up, and there’s only so much shelf space. You’ve already got consolidation happening with AB-InBev High End division, Duvel, Heineken, and regional brewers (Southern Tier/Victory, Oskar Blues, etc). And you’ve got some bigger names in craft having issues, Smuttynose is up for auction, New Belgium just laid off workers, as did Stone. I’d say the places going for the taproom only level (assuming they started with enough production capacity) will probably stick around, as will the mid-range regional breweries (Bell’s, Great Lakes, Cigar City, etc.), but I would guess we’re going to see one of the national craft breweries close or get sold in that next 5 years (Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, Stone, Oskar Blues, etc.). I’d also say that the next battleground for craft is shelf space.
Shelf space has always been the battle. At first, it was getting any at all, then fighting for space on that one dinky shelf, now fighting in the craft section.
The industry is going to shake itself out. The beer wars of ~75-95 created a vast vacuum in the market (see my power law comment above). I calculated once that the number should settle out to about 10k breweries – most very local. That was back when the industry was approaching 2k and that seemed ridiculous. At over 6k, not so much.
Goodbye California.
A conservative gives up and heads back to Arizona.
I will give this guy some points for originality. But he still gets an F overall.
The story is about how gun nuts are crazy because there are several other countries that have gun regulation and they are more free (according to the Human Freedom Index) than the US. So there is no good reason for claiming that guns help keep us free. Might as well grab the guns.
Gun rights and free speech are basically the lynchpins of freedom, as they are the “defensive” rights that can be used to fight for all other rights. I’d even go so far as to say that any country that guaranteed these two rights but no others would be more free than a country that guaranteed all others but not these. If you are disarmed and censored, then any other rights you may enjoy you do not enjoy of your own accord but rather enjoy them at the whim of your masters, who could revoke them at any time without fear of retribution.
Which is exactly how the Progs want it. “Freedom” is just what the government permits, nothing more.
Happy Pulaski Day, which is a government holiday in Cook County. Because of this holiday, there was little traffic on the expressway, which suggests that most people work in government, I guess
Also a Big Black song
Sweden must have imported all the Muslims in order to teach Swedish women manners. It seems to be working.
And there is shock that anti immigrant or strong “law and order” movements grow. Must be racism driving all this far right.
And all those Swedes just sat there and did nothing? Talk about a culture of cucks.
if (Europe)
FAGGOTS
else if (Real America)
FIRM HANDSHAKE
else
FAGGOTS
Finally got my power back yesterday afternoon. What a shit weekend.
X-ray vision? Invisibility?
C’mon man, which power! Don’t leave us in suspense!
*opera applause*
Commission Recommendation on measures to effectively tackle illegal content online
The Commission will continue to monitor the implementation of the Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate speech by the participating IT companies with the help of civil society organisations. The goal is to extend the initiative to further online platforms. The Recommendation builds on the progress made under the Code and complements it by addressing issues such as transparency and user feedback.
illegal online hate speech is bad mkay
I guess we will be blocked in Europe
Couple capture a “ghost” in this photo outside a 16th century tea room
Ah the notorious giant baby head ghost. That’s either a shit job at Photoshop or a cloud reflecting off the window.
I think it’s a poster of Einstein.
“Iranian woman in the era before the Islamic revolution, 1960”
https://twitter.com/oldpicsarchive/status/970501664712118272
“Survey: Majority of Democrats want to ban semi-automatics, half want to ban all guns”
When pro-gun control advocates tell you they don’t want to take your guns, they actually want to take your guns.
At least, that’s the key takeaway from a YouGov survey released this week, which shows a significant number of self-identified Democratic respondents support the idea of total gun confiscation.
The poll, which was conducted between Feb. 25 and 27 and has a margin of error for registered voters of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points, surveyed 1,500 adults.
Of that number, YouGov found that 73 percent of self-identified Democrats “strongly” favor banning semi-automatic firearms. The survey found that an additional nine percent “somewhat” favor a ban of that sort.
Translation: 82 percent of surveyed Democrats say they favor a ban on semi-automatics, which would include not just rifles like the one used in the Feb. 14 Parkland massacre, which claimed the lives of 17 people, but also most handguns.
That’s a hell of a ban.
Fifty-three percent of Republican respondents said they’d oppose such a ban.
To be fair, though, the YouGov survey doesn’t bother to define terms, so it’s possible respondents just assumed the semi-auto question was in reference to AR-15-style rifles only. Still, that doesn’t speak well to the general population’s literacy regarding a fairly common product and an extremely topical subject.
Amazingly enough, this isn’t even the survey’s most shocking find. That distinction goes to how respondents answered the question: “Do you favor or oppose … [banning] the sale of all handguns, except those that are issued to law enforcement officers.”
If you can believe it, Democratic respondents were split on this question. Forty-four percent said they would support such a ban, while a oh-so-slightly larger 46 percent said they would oppose it.
In contrast, 81 percent of Republican respondents said they oppose the proposal.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/survey-majority-of-democrats-want-to-ban-semi-automatics-half-want-to-ban-all-guns/article/2650543
TW: Surveys are crap.
YouGov survey ? yeah….
“Do you favor or oppose … [banning] the sale of all handguns, except those that are issued to law enforcement officers.”
Is this meant to say that only the guns used by cops can be sold or that only cops are allowed guns? If it’s the former then it’s a clever bit to have included only handguns (given how many departments have AR-15s in the trunk) and if it’s the latter well, that says a lot.
I’m looking for vacation ideas for a semi-introvert as myself. ie – I really hate big crowds, but still like to hit the beach, do some light shopping, and have a good selection of restaurants. For example, I really love Charleston. After 6-7PM, the town goes quiet and it’s great to walk around the old parts of the city. But there are great places to eat, spooky cemeteries, a side trip to Isle of Palms for the beach, an aircraft carrier, museums, art galleries, etc.
Want something warm but not swarming with party goers. Snorkeling / nearby Ocean would be a plus. Looking at a cottage rental at Tybee Island in Georgia, but I maybe a little “Southern History-outed” which was the case after spending a week in Charleston last year.
I recommend Manila
The envelope?
I like Cape May, NJ – after Labor Day in September. Still warm enough for the beach most days, but most of the tourists have cleared out.
Price Edward Island is great and not too touristy. The beach is shit though.
Recommending someone go to NJ? That’s just mean.
It’s barely in NJ. Just a ferry ride over from Delaware.
Just load up the car and start driving away from people. You’ll get there eventually.
Kauai, or The Big Island of Hawaii.
Hot takes from my favorite idiot philosophy comic creator, specially for the business owners out there. The guy outdoes himself. master troll is beginning to seem more likely no one can be this stupid.
https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/970423744941383681
When people talk about entrepreneurs being the ones taking on the risk, they always fail to mention what it is they risk: which is merely having to lose their life of privilege and join the rest of humanity in laboring for a living.
So Rufus does not even work, if I understand it right,.
I still think he’s trolling.
I think so too
Warty was a fan. Maybe it is warty doing the comic and trolling the twitters. I like this theory and will stick by it. I mean has anyone seen Warty and the Existential Comics guy in the same place at the same time?
I stopped being able to enjoy them once I found out that the writer is an actual, no-shit communist. I didn’t even realize they had communists anymore.
You sucked me in?!
But the comments seem genuine.
“Slow Riot For New Zero America
@gldstr4robotboy
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Profit is theft, pay your workers more”
D’squarius Green Jr
@SocietalCanary
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You can’t steal from yourself.
The profit belongs to the workers since they did the work.
Owners of businesses often sacrifice more than these shitheads could ever imagine. Just the on-going stress of keeping the business afloat alone is something they couldn’t imagine in their little useless pea-brained minds.
Look, it’s March break and guess what? I can’t really leave. I have to be around for my business and expansion. Another buddy of mine takes ONE vacation a year despite running a successful metal shop. He doesn’t want to come off looking like ‘GQ’ to his employees because he knows in his business there are layoffs because of the economy – particularly tied to the health of the U.S. economy because he’s best clients are American.
And then of course comes the fact the idiot doesn’t realize ‘risk’ comes in many forms. While some people can handle the stress of risk better (my sister literally gets migraines over it as we expand), the fact is we borrow. And when we borrow guess what? Lenders (ie banks) set it up in a way that isn’t exactly beneficial to the borrower. I have to put up collateral and if I fail I’m on the hook. That’s a risk no worker has to deal with (never mind a worker is not responsible for jack shit outside of his labor and what he or she is contacted/expected to perform as their duty).
For our expansion we decided to borrow 100% from the family because the banks were excessive in their demands.
So yeah. Fuck that ignorant fool. He’s whiny, cocksucking bitch.
Which Pro Bowl team was he on?
Oh, c’mon. It’s the Age of D’squarius. He’s just giving you a mystic crystal revelation.
They seem to be debating if ‘entrepreneurship’ is privilege started by ‘rich kids’ who have ‘something to wager’.
Tell that to my father.
These idiots do realize immigrants tend to save and “wager” (risk) in small businesses right? And immigrants don’t generally come from a background of “privilege”.
This sounds like more envious nonsense. ‘Why does the owner get to drive an Audi? If times are slow, why doesn’t he get rid of his Audi and not layoff workers?’
I had one idiot tell that to me about the owner of a garage where he was employed as a mechanic.
Umm. workers use the businesses’ capital to earn more they could on their own. The arrangement benefits both sides, otherwise they wouldn’t do it.
Damn, it must hurt to be that stupid.
So dad, having spent thirty-some years building up his business from nothing, having alienated himself from his (now ex-) wife, and for a time his children and parents, due to his work commitments, is entitled to nothing because he was “privileged” to spend 60+ hours a week at it, “privileged” to nearly lose it all in ’08, “privileged” to abuse his health to labor alongside his employees, “privileged” to have to deal with self-destructive shithead druggies and alcoholics, “privileged” to be audited by our avaricious state every couple years in case he’s squirreled away a couple thousand dollars and they want at it, “privileged” to have all of this hanging over his head as he’s facing 60 and wondering about retirement, to have it all one mistake away from coming down around his ears?
Fuck these people with a splintered baseball bat.
It’s weird how some people seem to think that business owners, CEOs, and upper-level managers “don’t do any real work”.
Most people I encounter in life who think this way have never held a supervisory position before (naturally, there are exceptions, like the upper echelons of Google). One of the eye-opening moments of my life was when I became a lead associate at a factory and became responsible for supervising 30+ people. That’s a million times more stress than just running a machine.
guess which state
Huh. I guessed Alabama. I was wrong. Never bet against Florida.
Understandable. Seemed like a simple man.
FloridaMan is both the downfall and only hope for your species
Florida Man will be the next new superhero movie blockbuster.
That could be interesting. *calls Netflix*
I’ve wondered if we will ever hit “peak beer”.
I think we’re pretty much there. I was reading not long ago about how there are people pushing microbreweries as a means of “economic revitalization” for small Montana towns.
Hey, honey, let’s drive three hundred miles to [insert abandoned shithole] for a beer. I hear they’re working on an unfiltered peach mead that’s out of this world.”
*Obviously has never been to Beaver Creek Brewery
I’m looking for vacation ideas for a semi-introvert as myself.
Tell everybody you’re going out of town, and then stay home and don’t answer the phone. It works for me.
New York Democrat congressional candidate posted numerous messages about his affection for gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney in 2012, while she was only 16
And?
Seriously, I doubt he’s any less a statist shitstain than Maloney. But, now the Democrats see attraction to a young woman as out-of-line? This makes no sense. They have models who are 16. Now, saying they’re attractive makes you a pervert?
We’re supposed to be into fat, single mothers in there 40’s now. What the hell, I’m game.
(immediately googles for picture of hot teen gymnast)
yeah she’s cute.
photos of her seem to be doing the “look at my cute, skeptical-face expression” thing maybe 10,000 times too-often. I vaguely recall her doing that on the medal-podium being a meme or something.
https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/970051629251784705
I mean who would pass up a free pack of rolling papers? It’s a good gimmick
Let’s play count the buzzwords
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/905097745316405248
Self-Storying to (De)Construct Compulsory Heterosexuality: A Feminist Poststructural Autoethnography of a Self-Wedding Ritual
That reads like someone ate the dictionary and puked it onto their keyboard.
Feminist self-marriage is something we should be encouraging.
I’m waiting for the cat adoption ceremonies in lieu of baby showers.
Even for Democrat politician wannabes, what you write on the internet lasts forever.
I was feeling a bit bad for the guy until I read further and found that he is onboard the #metoo bandwagon. I can never have pity for someone who gets hoisted by their own petard. This is becoming like the lefty version of the family values socon who gets caught with a gay lover.
Of that number, YouGov found that 73 percent of self-identified Democrats “strongly” favor banning semi-automatic firearms. The survey found that an additional nine percent “somewhat” favor a ban of that sort.
Translation: 82 percent of surveyed Democrats say they favor a ban on semi-automatics, which would include not just rifles like the one used in the Feb. 14 Parkland massacre, which claimed the lives of 17 people, but also most handguns.
Where the fuck do they conduct theses surveys? On subway platforms in New York? In unisex hair salons in Boston?
I can guarantee you 82% of Democrats in Montana, or Idaho, or even fucking Ohio do not favor banning semi-auto firearms. It’s preposterous, and it just means you cannot take a single word these people say seriously.
That poll must be fake news; I’ve been assured that Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns Away™. It’s just a conspiracy cooked up by the NRA to make more evil profits from gun sales. That’s why we should just take all the guns away. But Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns Away™, and you’re silly and paranoid if you think so.
Does the survey say how many of the respondents were correctly able to define “semi-automatic firearm” ?
Because I am gobsmacked by the number of retards who think semi-automatic means fully-automatic and then, when corrected on it, wave off the distinction as some meaningless detail that only “gun nuts” know about.
Is there any other topic where so many of the people who are so deeply entrenched in their beliefs are so profoundly ignorant of even the most basic facts?
And then Democraps strut around and squawk about how they’re the “party of science”.
They’re perfectly happy to kick facts and science to the gutter when they are impediments to their political goals. Understanding firearms is not something that requires you to read a college textbook or dozens of case studies – it’s just simple facts that you can learn from YouTube videos and Wikipedia articles. Guns are a great deal simpler than everyday things like an internal combustion engine, yet anti-gun people have chosen not to educate themselves. There’s simply no excuse for this level of ignorance.
It’s just like when Todd Akin made his stupid “legitimate rape” comment that revealed a poor understanding of the female reproductive system: people angrily asked why he was qualified to legislate on this matter when he clearly didn’t understand the basic principles at work. It’s the same exact thing with guns, yet the average anti-gun person would dismiss your complaints as nitpicking over unimportant details.
Or a topic where educated people who dedicate their lives to expanding their knowledge don’t care to know any more, because their thoughts might become polluted by the fruit of that poisonous tree?
And Akira, you have made my point more eloquently than I have. Kudos.
I’m not sure about Montana. I think the politicians bring out their hunting gear for election-year photo ops, but based on my Democratic Facebook friends, it’s a mask that hasn’t slipped yet. Tester has voted well, and I doubt if he will be tempted to change during an election year, but if he thought he was safe, I’ll bet he would vote for another “assault weapons” ban in a heartbeat.
‘Ladies of the Evening’ Marker
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ladies-of-the-evening-historical-marker
The plaque honoring the “ladies of the evening” is set just out of sight along a fence lining a hotel parking lot. It’s one of the many obscure, overlooked markers erected throughout the American west by the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus (ECV).
The ECV, a fraternity dedicated to preserving the heritage western frontier, installs such plaques within places typically missed by more traditional historical societies.
“Where the fuck do they conduct theses surveys? On subway platforms in New York? In unisex hair salons in Boston?
I can guarantee you 82% of Democrats in Montana, or Idaho, or even fucking Ohio do not favor banning semi-auto firearms.”
Where do you think most Democratic voters reside? Conducting this survey on a subway platform in New York would give you a pretty good sampling of the opinions held by Democratic voters
I think there’s a difference between active support and indifference, or even willingness to accept. IOW, how many registered Democrats who aren’t especially anti-2A would be willing to vote against a Dem politician who they mostly agree with but who advocates for aggressive gun regulations? I’d bet at least as many pro-choice Republicans who shrug and pull the lever for pro-life candidates.
True. Most of American voting patterns are based upon indifference for issues that only activate the base. And guns, like abortion, activate the base of both parties. So, while someone might generally prefer voting Democrat in elections, they aren’t necessarily a Democratic voter. The base of the Democratic Party is in cities, though.
If I was the voting type, I’d probably pull alot of R levers. That doesn’t mean I agree with half the shit they are peddling.
So what is the official glib view on the Italian Elections?
Saw that coming?
We have ‘official’ opinions now? How freedomy!
damnit!
A hearty belly laugh.
Wait, there are ‘official views’ here?
Swiss posted the official position, but nobody read it.
*slow clap*
“Populist” and “anti-establishment” gains.
The first duty of government is to protect it’s citizens and their interests. Shocking that voters in Italy, the U.S., wherever. actually want this.
600,000 refugees since 2013. What did they think would happen?
I’m for whoever gets the most topless protesters.
Indifference?
I might be writing something up on that…
Spoiler alert: Bayern Munich wins.
https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/970288285871427584
The Ayatollah supports gun control! The Left’s antisemitism and impulse for gun control has come full circle.
I guess Chocolate Jesus called in that favor.
My boss is spending her morning arguing about the new desktop wallpaper that the IT dept deployed (you can’t put your own wallpapers on Fedgov machines).
People are literally taking the time out of their workday to email and complain about a fucking desktop wallpaper.
And bureaucrats wonder why people think they’re stupid and lazy.
Seriously. What kind of employee is so lazy that they email and complain about it? Everyone knows you should post your objections on an internet forum….
I keed… I keed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwxybr3MBOY
I had a friend in IT who received a high importance email that after installing some major updates, for a computer with two monitors the wallpapers were switched. The mail subject was basically “the boat is wrong” and no one in IT knew what it meant at first. And this was not government but a huge corporation. Which is a bureaucracy in itself.
Sounds familiar.
I can even one-up that one. The Chief Legal Counsel for our company ripped me a new one during a board meeting because his fax machine quit working two weeks ago – and it still wasn’t fixed!! (this was the first time he mentioned it).
So I followed him down to his office after the meeting (which was 3 doors down from my office). The reason it wasn’t working? Because he unplugged it and put it in the corner under a pile of papers. You see, he needed to move it because he got a new credenza.
So I helpfully put it on the credenza and plugged it in for him. And issued a full report to the entire board detailing the reason for the “outage” and the resolution.
You, sir, are my hero!
If you have actually seen your wallpaper you clearly aren’t working. I have so much shit open I can’t remember the last time I actually saw my background.
Exactly. My boss reported one woman said “I can’t spend 50+ hours a week staring at that”. My boss told her if she’s looking at her wallpaper 50+ hours a week, she must not be doing any work.
I wouldn’t have even noticed it if I hadn’t walked into the shitstorm this morning.
I’d forgotten what my wallpaper was. I minimized all of my windows to look at it.
It’s still the original blue on blue that looks a bit like light shining through a window.
That’s not just government employees. My company forced a standard homepage out in IE a couple of years back, which caused people to freak out and complain to the helpdesk.
Reminded of the several paragraphs in Snow Crash devoted to email-reading policy in the last vestiges of the federal government.
And bureaucrats wonder why people think they’re stupid and lazy.
Not the ones I know. The ones I know wonder why you’re too stupid and lazy to just comply with all their beautiful rules and processes.
The rough streets of suburban Cleveland:
Hot Pocket bandit punches customer in Circle K
U.S. Saudi Lobby in Overdrive Ahead of Prince MbS ‘Roadshow’
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/u-s-saudi-lobby-washington-in-overdrive-for-crown-prince-salman-mbs-visit-yemen-qatar-trump/
That’s a good article Pie.
The lobbying groups in Washington, the Saudi backed ones and all the others, are one of the most corrupt aspects of our system of government. For example-
“Glover Park Group, founded by President Clinton’s press secretary Joe Lockhart (Democratic alumni include Dee Dee Myers and Harold Wolfson), signed their own $100,000-a-month contract in 2016 to provide legislative, policy, and media relations counsel to the Saudi government.”
That’s a close to out and out bribery as you can get and still be operating within the confines of the law. Why it is legal, when there are laws against damn near everything else, is beyond me. The whole lobbying system is broken, corrupt, and needs to die. Unfortunantly, as long as there so much power to wielded by those who can be influenced I don’t think there is any way to stop it.
That amd fuck the Saudis. They are not our friends.
You left out the New New York Rangers winning 3 in a row. We’re over the Islanders – that is a Win in my book.
As a Rangers fan, that winning streak is pissing me off. Hey, assholes, the time to buckle down and win games was a month ago. All it’s doing now is costing us draft position.
There’s still time, don’t worry.
They don’t care about my sports team either, Ry. 🙁
They don’t care about my sport at all…
Your sport is more of hobby, really…
From the Lipinski article:
Government helps people because people who help people go into government, because government helps people and helping people is what people who help people go into government to do, to help people, because government helps people and helping people helps people and that’s why people who help people go into government, to help people.
As dense and dimwitted as Trump comes off (and likely is), it takes very little polish to make that turd presentable as a Democratic candidate. Throw in some paeans to the great works of FDR and Johnson and you might even seem all cultured and shit.
<a href="https://youtu.be/XIkgYSW6Qwk" title=""I make
american car partslaws for the american working man, because that’s who I care about.”” target=”_blank” >”I makeamerican car partslaws for the american working man, because that’s who I care about.”well, that’s a shitshow.
<a href="https://youtu.be/XIkgYSW6Qwk" title="”I make
american car partslaws for the american working man, because that’s who I care about.”” target=”_blank” >”I makeamerican car partslaws for the american working man, because that’s who I care about.”I give up.
Is the the “get out of meme” card SugarFree has been waiting for?
“Your link is CPRM’d” sounds like a glory hole faux pas.
In late, but these beauties are worth the wait.
http://archive.is/tzqNp
9 (‘MERICA!) and 20 are sufficient for me.
“Outrage as Batman star Adam West and Glenn Campbell are LEFT OUT of the Oscars ‘in memoriam’ section – along with some other well known-names and faces”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5463067/Adam-West-LEFT-Oscars-memoriam-section.html
Holy oversight!
Look, Glenn Campbell only had the one Oscar nomination. Cut them some slack. And they were saving Adam West for the Emmys.
Did they at least have Seth McFarlane up there to crack wise about Hollywood’s super cereal sex scandals?
Better – Kimmel
Is there a word for yawning so hard to gag?
They were white, cis shitlords, so I don’t get the outrage. I thought were unpersoning undesirables? And there’s this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4594692/Batman-icon-Adam-West-led-secret-life-sex-booze.html
Sounds like a rapist.
My boss is spending her morning arguing about the new desktop wallpaper that the IT dept deployed (you can’t put your own wallpapers on Fedgov machines).
No more Obama family Christmas photo?
SAD.
So what is the official glib view on the Italian Elections?
NEEDZ MOAR BUNGA-BUNGA
Outrage as Batman star Adam West and Glenn Campbell are LEFT OUT of the Oscars ‘in memoriam’ section
Wasn’t Adam West a notorious sex fiend?
So I took a new job. Small college no more. Now I’m at a large school in VT. I start next week!
Hope everyone is doing well. Ive been watching the NFL combine.
Should be an interesting draft.
That’s a bit of a relocate, isn’t it?
Congrats!
Congratulations on the new job… seems to be a popular choice around here recently.
Big school in VT? Gotta be UVM.
Congrats! Too bad I’m not vacationing up there for the foreseeable future. We could have creemees at Al’s.
Well let me know! I’ll be there.
That’s not even a euphemism!
Can’t remember: are you teaching?
Locksmith
Cool, thanks.
Congrats, Doom! What are you gonna be doing (beyond ogling the talent, I mean)?
More of the same. Looking forward to spring so I can’t take the fj40 up.
Can, not can’t.
Yep. I’m getting impatient for warmer weather.
Did you work on it at all over the winter?
Most of it. I have to put the rear shackles on, but my original carb is back and running smooth.
First purchase will be the rear jump seats.
Segregation at Comic Con: No Straight, White Males Allowed at Parties
“Greetings fellow trans-hetero dragonkin. Would any of you be interested in some yiffing?”
How much of that is Seattle insanity vs. the industry?
Does it necessarily matter? My guess is that, if the industry said they wouldn’t accept this, this would stop.
Guess not. And the industry won’t do that because the left’s goon squad would throw a hissy fit.
They won’t do it, but the answer is simple – stop buying product.
Let the comic book companies post a year or two of abysmal sales without the straight white males who keep the business afloat. They’ll either insist the Comicons change their tunes or no one will miss what’s left.
At this point, the straight white male demographic is treated like shit by these people because straight white males have made abundantly clear to them that they can treat them like shit with no repercussions. But, it’s the guys they’ve deemed to treat like shit who keep the whole business afloat. Take them away and the companies go belly up. The market for transracial, genderfluid superheroes simply isn’t big enough to support a bottom line.
Yeah, but people have already done that. It doesn’t appear to be working.
These events are generally for networking purposes. Most companies in the nerd zeitgeist are owned by cis het male shitlords. So, yeah. Networking with a hundred other entry-level grunts, and no one in a hiring position isn’t at all a waste of time & money.
Now I’m at a large school in VT.
Yuuuge. Important. DOZENS of students.
There’s a wall and I’m locking the gate!
In other news, Tulpa is real:
https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.com/index.html
You’re Tulpa, Tulpa.
Yusef, if you around and don’t mind talking HVAC I have a question for you.
I have a 20ish year old York Diamond 80 propane furnace. This weekend it would go through the ignition sequence several times and never stay lit. So I took the flame sensor off and cleaned it up. After reinstalling it and turning the power back on, it started up first try. Ok good, I thought, saved me a service call. Well, this morning I woke up to cold air blowing on my face. I took off the panel and cycled the power. All of the usual clicks and whirs, but no glow from the HSI. I was able to manually light it and it then worked fine until there was another call for heat. So the breaker to the furnace is off now and I’m going to hunt for an ignitor as soon as places open up.
Is there anything else it might be? And should I replace any other parts while I am messing around with it?
Did you try kicking it? That worked for the furnace we had when I was growing up.
Dude, you have the TV and the furnace mixed up.
That’s why you always thought that CBS were showing the yule log all year round.
No, no. You slap the TV and kick the furnace; two separate techniques.
Yusef may rebut this, but it sounds like you’re on the right track. The ignition sequence is
1. purge
2. Check for airflow through the flue
3. energize ignitor
4. open gas valves
5. Check for flame via the flame sensor.
If your ignitor comes on and the gas ignites, then it’s most likely your flame sensor.
Once the burners fire, you have 7 seconds to prove ignition, it may be a bad board if their are 2 things going bad at the same time
Check for voltage to the HSI at the wiring plug, if 115v, HSI is bad,if no voltage, circuit board is bad
HUDSON! i gotta go to a Job right now, but in the Archives you will find my article, the Furnace operation I describe is Exactly how You’re Furnace works,
I’ll check back later
Thanks Yusef and others. I’m on my way to get an igniter and a control board. Even if it turns out to just be the igniter I figured it wouldn’t hurt to have a spare.
Got back to the house with parts. Checked voltage at the HSI, 120VAC right on cue. Pulled the old ignitor and yep that’s the problem.
It broke
In my amateur HVAC adventures I have often ended up replacing boards. They seem to have a fairly high failure rate.
The industrial HVAC stuff I deal with at work is all pretty old and doesn’t have boards. It’s all done with timers, relays, These seem to work a lot more reliably. I understand that there is cost savings with using a PCB, but damn, the older units with the non PCB control schemes are more reliable and easier to troubleshoot.
I was discussing this exact subject a while back when my AC went out. A buddy of mine walked me through the parts I needed over the phone, just like this discussion … and he mentioned that all of the top manufacturers are backing away from all of the microprocessor control stuff. It just breaks too easy. The old stuff lasts for decades and is dead simple to fix.
Buying a new board is probably the right thing to do, with the cost of a repair company being so high. I was quoted $800 to replace the fan motor on my heat pump. He tried to tell me that because it was so old, the fan was hard to come buy.
New motor, fan and hard start relay and capacitor all came in at about $125. But it did take way over 15 minutes to replace. (I dropped a screw, so finding that took a couple of minutes).
“Criminal Facebook Corporation Shut Down Gateway Pundit Today Because of Our Conservative Beliefs… Where the Hell Is the GOP?”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/criminal-facebook-corporation-shut-gateway-pundit-today-conservative-beliefs-hell-gop/
So, anyway…
I have been watching season 2 of The Expanse. I mostly like it. I’m not a rabid aficionado of sci-fi, at least not in the sense of obsessing about scientific plausibility. But it occurred to me this morning that the time constraints imposed by the vastness of space have been completely glossed over. “What do you think, you guys want to zoom over to Ganymede (from wherever the fuck we are, now)? Sure. Buckle up, and hold onto your hat. Hey, we’re here.”
Similarly, they have instantaneous non-time-delayed radio(?) conversations across who knows how many light years of separation.
Now that I have made myself aware of this, it’s going to annoy the shit out of me.
Light years? Nah. The whole thing takes place in the solar system. The delays would be seconds or minutes at most. I only watched season 1 so far but I didn’t notice what you’re describing.
The delays would be seconds or minutes at most
More likely hours in the outer solar system. Em waves travel at ~8min/AU, or 7.5 AU/hour
Pluto is roughly 40AU from the sun, and you have to double that for maximum transmission distance required to cover the entire solar system. Absolute worst delay (ships in diametrically opposed 40AU orbits of the sun) is a bit over 10 hours.
The first scene of the series was a guy discovering a much more efficient drive, which makes moving around the solar system at least feasible.
I hadn’t noticed the radio conversations. The books are pretty good about respecting the laws physics until alien technology that resembles magic comes into play.
Travel times and engine power have to be glossed over to tell that story. Otherwise everyone spends a few weeks spiraling out from Earth or Mars orbit on their 3 mm/s^2 accelerations.
This sort of shit right here is the thing that makes American culture suck dick right now. The observation is both obviously stupid and wrong (as the person who cited it pointed out). But even stupider than the complaint is the ‘treating pop-culture celebrity-awards-shows as some platform of political significance’ in the first place. Nothing could be less significant that the drivel that people in Hollywood spew at awards shows, yet idiots like this guy act like its 1954 and its the McCarthy-Welch hearing
what’s depressing isn’t that idiots like this exist, but that the number of people going, “oh, for the love of god please just shut up” are the cultural minority.
Pretty much everything in the news lately makes me want to scream “Shut up and fuck off”.
Shut Up & Fuck Off would be a great name for a news blog with that exact spin. I guarantee it would be a hit.*
* Not a guarantee +
+ And I don’t mean monetarily, even if I’m right ^
^ I’m running out of footnote symbols and don’t want to reuse the same ones
Isn’t that the theme of this site?
Well, SU&FO would presumably have less coverage of Asian fetishes and no advice columns written by sasquatches. In other words, it would be inferior to Glibs.
the number of people going, “oh, for the love of god please just shut up” are the cultural minority.
I really question this. I think that most people aren’t giving a shit. They’re working (unlike you people) and raising families and living their lives. They don’t care what Beyoncé or Lebron say about politics (besides passing “oh look, controversy” interest). They don’t care.
I bet you that if you put Ryan John Butcher in front of people and had him say this shit at an average American house party, 9 out of 10 people would roll their eyes and find him boring.
Am I supposed to even know who that is? Who gives a fuck what some nobody says.
You’re right. My statement was wrong. What i really mean is that its the cultural minority, ‘On the internet‘, where this sort of shit is the norm.
Literally the most “Antifa” guy in history. Pretty funny comment.
Scrolling through the comments on the Churchill tweet – eerily familiar.
One can dream that someday they’ll realize FDR was actually a racist war criminal whose national policies varied little domestically from the fascists.
It’s not like he threw a bunch of Americans into concentration camps because of their race.
I’m not so sure they are the cultural monority. I don’t know anyone who watches that shit. You’re also unlikely to hear about people not watching something.
If things like sales and ratings are any indicator, the “shut up” people are a majority. Most people do not want politics injected into their sports, comic books, movies, fashion, food, etc.
Oh, now I see your previous clarification. Yes, the internet has become a politically-polarized cesspool.
“Racist war criminal Winston Churchill” you say?
As racist war criminals go, he was probably the least offensive of the available options.
Let’s see, number of Jews he murdered… not a lot. Probably none. Number of countries he annexed… hell, not even Germany. Number of murderous Communist tyrants he appeased at Yalta… none. Number of Japanese civilians of the UK he interred… not one?
But he’s icky.
Therefore: Worse than Hitler.
Given how ludicrous the left has become, I’m taking the over on every political prediction: progressives will lionize Nazism within two years. It’s only a question of whether they love Hitler because he murdered Jews or because he fought Americans and the English. Hell, why not both?
He’s not controversy-free, but all this ginned-up outrage is just retarded.
The biggest thing you can blame him for is that he was primarily responsible for the current borders in the Middle East (post Ottoman breakup).
Well, there’s the Coventry Controversy which is destined to never die. He didn’t come out of WW1 looking too competent, although in my opinion, he had few cards to play with in the Eastern Mediterranean and blame for Gallipoli campaign lies elsewhere.
And his obvious disdain for brown people as recorded in The River War and elsewhere. Measured by today’s standards (which is unfair to him) his views are going to be unpopular.
I may have to break out “Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” just in tribute to someone in the entertainment industry actually speaking truth.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/20/billy-corgan-compares-social-justice-warriors-kkk?CMP=share_btn_fb
I’ll join you. Although “Siamese Dream” is better.
Do you not get a pass on a gymnast?
Neoteny = free space
I dated a gymnast in college. It was an opportunity to get very creative.
A gymnast with big boobs?
Pics or it didn’t happen!
(not that I don’t believe you, I just want pics)
This was quite a while ago, not sure I have any pics in digital format. When I get home I’ll try to dig out a few “get off my lawn” pics and scan them. She had 34Bs, so on the lower end of the spectrum of girls I’ve dated.
I don’t think gymnasts are generally known for large breasts. I imagine they would be an impediment to someone trying to compete in gymnastic events.
This is true. I’d actually say she was stacked relative to her teammates.
Yes, but ratings would – uh – surge.
Like Club Dread?
Should have said NSFW
You, Sir, are not The Comedian.
“Tommy Robinson Suspended from Twitter for Stating Statistical Fact About Muslims in Grooming Gangs
The controversial activist Tommy Robinson has been suspended from Twitter for quoting research which found that nearly 90 per cent of convicted grooming gang members in the UK are Muslim.
Mr. Robinson was suspended from the social media platform for 7 days for stating the findings of the Quilliam Foundation think tank, whose founder worked as an adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron on issues around Islam.
“90% of grooming gang convictions are Muslims,” Mr. Robinson wrote in a tweet on February 25th, rounding up the number identified by the Quilliam research, which found that 84 per cent of convicted groomers were Muslim in December last year.
Twitter decided the statement of fact “violated the Twitter rules” and “temporarily limited some of your account features”, which included tweeting publicly on the website – effectively censoring him for a week.
He added: “Type 2 (individuals sexually attracted to children) are 85% white (+majority UK pop. is white). Type 1 (gangs targeting girls) are 84% Muslim compared to just 7% of [the] population.”
The data he quotes reveals the fact that Muslims are dramatically over-represented in grooming and rape gangs – a fact that some people perceive as offensive and even hateful.”
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/03/01/tommy-robinson-banned-twitter-stating-statistical-fact-muslim-grooming-gangs/
TW: Breitbart
Although “statistical fact” might be an oxymoron, Twitter’s definition of “racist” seems to be anything the Left doesn’t like. By censoring posts about #120dB and South Africa, Twitter is defending rape and murder to defend ideologies that have always resulted in rape and murder.
Naive question – would you mind explaining the phrase “grooming gang”?
Basically, a loosely-associated group of guys who go around looking for young, vulnerable girls.
They’ll buy them cheap gifts, hang out with them where other teenagers congregate, giving them dope, booze and cigarettes and playing on the girls’ low self-esteem, giving them bragging rights at school about the ‘older guys’ they’re hanging about with.
Then comes the sexual favors with one guy, and suddenly he’s introducing her to all of his ‘friends’, who are actually paying customers.
looking for young, vulnerable girls
Back in high school, I took a shine to a girl on crutches. My friends accused me of singling out the weak one from the herd.
To be honest, you do tend to gravitate to the one’s that can’t run so good.
Thank you for the detailed explanation.
pedophiles, prepping the targets.
Thanks – Pedophiles Prepping Prey
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/970397513449689091
Wait, what?
Garland is mentally ill. This isn’t something I throw around as a pejorative, because I’m mentally ill and it sucks. But Garland’s pretty bad off.
While you have my sympathies, you seem perfectly sane to me. I’m not a psychiatrist, but there seems to be a big difference between affective disorders and cognitive disorders. Feeling anxious is one thing. Thinking lizard people run the post office is something else entirely. Garland seems to fall in the latter category.
What about anxiety caused by lizard postmen?
FedEx and Xanax
Thinking lizard people run the post office is something else entirely.
I’m going to hold off on judging this insane until Mr. Lizard weighs in on whether his species is interested in such mundane fields as manual mail delivery.
Garland is a first class loon. He’s been making an ass of himself for years now.
Go get the week off on the right foot. That’s what I’m gonna try to do.
Christ. After 10 and I’m just getting to the lynx. Weather sucks, vendors are killing me and I have some kind of foot tendonitis going on.
But, hey, at least I’ve got power.
Perhaps because the Minnesodan contingent here is so passionate about hockey, I want to give them a little extra love. Who knows.
We appreciate it, Sloop. Given that our team is as schizophrenic as they come, anything that helps smooth out the bumps is welcome.
If Wenger sticks around another season (and I think he will) Robbie and the rest of the AFTV gang will probably be rich enough to buy Arsenal.
You know, if they’re not relegated to the Championship next year.
[Note: AFTV is ArsenalFanTV, a YouTube channel. They’ve been around 5 years, but the worse Arsenal does the better it is for their bottom line, because they get so many more viewers. Post-match interviews with drunken Arsenal fans can be hilarious. Here’s an example (NSFW language)]
Apropos all the BBQ talk earlier. My boss is going to get us all a plate from the Ft. Smith boys and girls cub for lunch today. They are doing a fundraiser of some sort. 10 bucks a plate. I’ll see if whoever they have cooking is worth a damn.
These kind of things can be a crapshoot. I have had very good and very poor food from events like these.
Good BBQ can be tricky to find, especially if you’re talking about some kind of event where they’re feeding a ton of people.
Pork + bottled BBQ sauce =/= BBQ
Agreed. I can make some damn good BBQ at home, but I’m not cooking in huge quantities. I’m also not skimping on ingredients or cuts because I’m not trying to make a profit.
I’m under no delusion that I could make 150lbs of pulled pork at a price that is profitable that would be considered good.
One Boy Scout Summer Camp we went to threw a big BBQ and Chili competition one year, and then a Luau the next. Whole Pig, rotisserie style for the BBQ, Pit and Palm leaves and all for the Luau (one of our Assistant Scoutmasters helped a lot, he was a Navy cook and stationed at Pearl Harbor for two years).
I just got back from Austin, TX and damn they had some really good BBQ. I couldn’t make it to Franklin’s unfortunately because you have to show up super early and get in line to even have a chance of getting in when they open… I considered cancelling all of my customer meetings but I think I would be in trouble if I did that so I could get some world-famous BBQ.
“Fish are friends, not friends with benefits”
https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/970528411184652288
From responses:
“When I swim I admire the fish,
Sometimes I eat them as part of my dish,
Other days I watch as they swim in a bowl,
And sometimes I just want to cum in their hole.”
-Evil Dr. Seuss
That has to be one of us.
Busy as hell at work lately. Don’t get anything out of it (have I ranted enough about how I’m making what I did 10 years ago?), but busy as hell. I need this place as a respite.
I found a medical marijuana doctor for my mother (she has MS). This state’s rules are fucking insane. Have to pull all kinds of medical records to “prove” he has MS, since the law the state finally decided to pass only has a small, enumerated list of diseases that qualify (MS being one of them). So I’ve got that going for me.
So you’re gonna grab a little for yourself by “accident” right?
I could use it.
Serious question: Looking for recommendations on vape hardware (smoked marijuana is actually still illegal under our dumbass rules) for a 62 year old.
http://www.newvape.com Expensive, but totally worth it… so my friend says.
At least she can get it! Sorry about the hoops
These stories are contradictory and I know which one I’m going to trust.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/colorado-governor-can-count-one-hand-teachers-whove-wanted-armed/
https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/500-teachers-pack-conceal-carry-class-at-centennial-airport
Second link is rather old, but still belies Gov. Lickapooper’s statement.
He has really big hands.
Anecdotal, but the only school teacher that I know has made it clear to me that she would carry in class if allowed.
We’ve had a couple of teachers from the local highschool and two or three from each of the middle schools contact us on the down-low to take their CCL.
We were considering offering it free to any member of school staff who wanted to do it, but decided that we’d get a lot of opposition in the town. We figure word will get out if we just cut them a good discount after they reach out to us.
Not all teachers fit our stereotype.
#neverenough
During Sunday night’s Oscars ceremony, Twitter aired an ad spot intended to bring women “front and center”. Using the hashtag #HereWeAre, the ad featured writer and performer Denice Frohman reciting a spoken-word poem while black-and-white images of people like Ava DuVernay, Issa Rae, and Jennifer Brea flashed on screen. “Say ‘hero,’ and cast yourself in the lead role . . . When a woman tells her own story, she lives forever,” Frohman says. Twitter likewise posted the ad to its platform, where the first response was, “I loved the poem. Ban Nazis.”
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To some extent, Twitter deserves credit for progressive social movements like #MeToo, which have flourished on—and largely thanks to—its platform. Though many of the stories that have shocked and horrified the entertainment and media worlds originated at storied publications like The New Yorker and The New York Times, Twitter was where the discussion gained steam, where women’s outrage coalesced into something stronger. To many, however, the company’s attempt to claim a piece of that credit read as shallow and hypocritical, given the torrent of abuse that plagues women and people of color on the site. “The actual fucking nerve though,” Bitch Media co-founder Andi Zeisler tweeted on Sunday night. Feminist writer Jessica Valenti, whose own experiences with online abuse and harassment are well-documented, replied, “#HereWeAre, still watching as Twitter does little to nothing about the rampant misogyny & racism that infects this space.”
Go ahead, Dorsey. Stick your dick in the sausage grinder.
I don’t think that’s what Grindr is for.
I hope Gilmore doesn’t see this.
https://cdnph.upi.com/svc/sv/upi/2181409875568/2014/2/4d7208ae01552912616fc37e3606b1c7/McKayla-Maroney-says-fans-supportive-despite-nude-photo-leak.jpg
(facepalm)
Hickenlooper told PJM he visited more than 160 public schools as mayor of Denver shortly after the Columbine mass shooting and hardly any teachers indicated that they wanted the ability to carry firearms.
And, again, selection bias rears its mighty head. The sort of people whose panties get all wet and steamy at the thought of attending a chummy chat with the mayor are not the same people who are willing to bring one of their guns to work with them, if given the okay to do so.
Not to mention that the public reaction nowadays is quite different and more polarized than when Columbine was perpetrated. A relatively new phenomenon with far greater media emphasis and perception management.
“hardly any teachers indicated that they wanted the ability to carry firearms.”
Let’s assume that is 1% of teachers. So ,there are 3.2 million teachers in America. 32,000 additional armed security persons in our nation’s
schools is o.k. with me. A far larger question is why shooting up schools became a phenomenon after Columbine? Guns were plentiful long before 1999. Why did kids suddenly think it “cool” to blast their classmates?
“Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs
Internal NYPD files show that hundreds of officers who committed the most serious offenses — from lying to grand juries to physically attacking innocent people — got to keep their jobs, their pensions, and their tremendous power over New Yorkers’ lives.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/secret-nypd-files-hundreds-of-officers-committed-serious
TW: Buzzfeed
” Economic risks keeping Americans up at night include the hastily rewritten tax code and the possibility of a global trade war set off by U.S. tariffs. Consider another cause for insomnia: President Donald Trump’s opposition to a new rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
The current link is shot, corroded by age and chemical-tainted flood water. That’s unnerving enough for the 820,000 passengers a day traveling to New York City jobs or some other U.S. Northeast destination. For those farther afield, there’s the chilling fact that a tunnel predating World War I is key to 20 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-hudson-river-amtrak-tunnel-american-economy/
I thought Trump was the ultimate cronyist.
What I find most risible about this, coming from an ostensible business magazine, is the static view of economic activity it assumes. Let’s take the absolute worst case scenario – actual failure of the tunnels. For simplicity, let’s assume there’s no deaths as a result. They’re talking about the tunnel itself as responsible for 20% of US GDP, not the people who ride it. I think that figure itself is a little inflated. But, let’s use it just for argument sake. Does the author think that, all of a sudden, all of that economic activity will cease? Most of those commuters are capable of telecommuting. Ferry service between NJ and Manhattan already exists and is easily expanded. Hell, even trains could be rerouted in relatively short order. None of this seems to occur to the folks at Bloomberg.
the fact they’re making this argument makes me suspect that there’s some other epic bullshit going on.
Why would Trump be “opposed”? Why does his opinion matter? Does “opposed” mean, “will not contribute federal funding to a giganic NY infrastructure boondoggle?
If said tunnel is REALLY so crucial for “20% of US GDP” then it should certainly afford to pay for itself.
Consider another cause for insomnia: President Donald Trump’s opposition to a new rail tunnel linking New York and New Jersey beneath the Hudson River.
Pffft. A few billion here, a few billion there…”
The incest story leads me to believe that you are misunderstanding what the Family Friendly Certification means.
What could be friendlier than a little slap-and-tickle between wombmates?
They’re talking about the tunnel itself as responsible for 20% of US GDP, not the people who ride it. I think that figure itself is a little inflated. But, let’s use it just for argument sake. Does the author think that, all of a sudden, all of that economic activity will cease? Most of those commuters are capable of telecommuting.
There is probably a huge efficiency loss incurred by making those people shuttle back and forth through that tunnel instead of telecommuting.
I hardly ever used the tunnels, but aren’t they “passenger car only”? So economic activity like trucks loaded with manufactured goods are not a factor at all.
There is probably a huge efficiency loss incurred by making those people shuttle back and forth through that tunnel instead of telecommuting.
Telecommuting has its own drawbacks. But, as I said, it’s not like it would be hugely difficult to get passenger ferries up and running from Jersey City and Hoboken to Manhattan. They already exist.
And, actually, I think the tunnel in question is a rail tunnel.
no, the tunnel in question is a rail-only tunnel
speaking of which, if you want to see a great documentary (w/ DJ Shadow soundtrack), see “Dark Days“, about homeless people who lived in the Amtrak tunnel
its not some soppy movie which tries to paint the people as victims. its just good documentary where the filmmaker slowly infiltrates their crazy little world and just captures what their lives are really like.
“Brooklyn man wins nearly $1M lawsuit after NYPD cop tried to frame him on DWI charge
The latest city resident to cash in on police misconduct would raise a glass to toast his victory, except he doesn’t drink.
The NYPD found that out the hard way when cops tried to charge Oliver Wiggins with driving while intoxicated to cover up for a police officer who ran a marked SUV through a Brooklyn stop sign and plowed into Wiggins’ car.
Wiggins, 33, received close to $1 million from the city for his troubles, but not before he was arrested and charged with impaired driving, had his driver’s license suspended and was hit with a repair bill for his 2004 Nissan Maxima that his insurance company would not cover because of the DWI bust.
Never mind that a Breathalyzer test he took at the East Flatbush scene on April 19, 2015, showed no alcohol in his blood.
While at the hospital, after the crash at Glenwood Road and E. 43rd St., Wiggins volunteered to have his blood tested for alcohol or drugs at the hospital. That test came back negative. Reports from the EMT and DWI technician each said Wiggins had no signs of intoxication.
That didn’t stop the arresting officer, Justin Joseph, from officially reporting Wiggins had slurred speech, watery eyes, an odor of alcohol on his breath and was observed swaying. Three months later, prosecutors dismissed the charges.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/nyc-man-wins-1m-lawsuit-nypd-dwi-charge-article-1.3850131
Is it wrong of me to wish that in situations like this, the cop gets to bear the burden of everything he got the innocent citizen charged with, along with the charges he should be facing for official misconduct? Oh, you blew through a stop sign while fucking with your laptop and blamed it on the other driver being drunk. OK officer friendly, now you have a DWI on your record along with your obstruction of justice charge and your kidnapping, false imprisonment, and battery charges from the BS arrest.
On the one hand, it’s good that this guy got some kind of justice (however imperfect) but it irks me that these payouts always come from the taxpayers.
That money should come out of the police pension fund. Or make the unions pay it. If they want to protect every murderous thug with a badge, let them pay the costs when a civilian gets brutalized or murdered.
And, actually, I think the tunnel in question is a rail tunnel.
Ah. The PATH(?) train.
They (the notorious amorphous “they”) have been squawking about this since Christie, in one of his few lucid episodes, backed out.
no, again – different tunnel.
Path is a commuter-rail loop between hoboken/NJC and manhattan
http://www.upout.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/phpkLaaAEPM.jpg
(the light blue line on the left)
they mostly connect local residential-new-jersey w/ lower manhattan
The amtrak tunnels connect the national passenger + freight rail infrastructure to NY at midtown (~34th, penn-station)
http://www.railwaygazette.com/uploads/pics/tn_us-transhudson-tunnel-project-map.jpg