Too often, we say things without really thinking or considering their overall social impact. Of this I was guilty, and SugarFree justifiably suspended me from substitute links duty for two days so I could think it over. The Founders sat me in a chair and went through my shortcomings as a human and as someone who has a duty to set an example of exemplary behavior. After 72 hours of non-stop criticism and struggle, with no let-up for sleep, I finally came to understand the depths of my counter-revolutionary offenses. I shall endeavor to do better henceforth. I also agreed to stop masturbating into the potted plants in our staff office.
And so, on this International Women’s Day, we mark the fall of this former hero of the progressive right-thinkers. Coming next, Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize striped from him for starting five new wars, slaughtering civilians, and destroying sovereign countries who never attacked us… oh yeah, right, like that’s gonna happen.
I think I’m beginning to understand why I find the Trump presidency so off-putting- it really is being run like a reality TV show, and I am (to put it mildly) not a fan of reality TV shows.
Speaking of “entertainment,” how do we make something that’s already stupid even worse. Oh, I know! Or even worse, take something that was really good and needed nothing else and… add something else. (Disclaimer: Even though we loved Breaking Bad, we were quite happy with Better Call Saul. Consistency is not my leading virtue.)
I like this kid, though I wonder if he shot any dogs or groped any girls he pulled over.
This is my kind of political candidate. And this, dear friends, is MY kind of band.
After 72 hours of non-stop criticism and struggle, with no let-up for sleep,
Were there rats in a cage-hat?
Close. Trip to the “Red Room”.
This Red Room?
https://youtu.be/7XT9VpSPprU?t=144
Jesus Q, NSFW warning please.
My bad.
And now I want to see rat-cage hats in the Glibs merchandizing.
And now I want to see rat-cage tophats in the Glibs merchandizing.
FTFY.
“I think I’m beginning to understand why I find the Trump presidency so off-putting- it really is being run like a reality TV show, and I am (to put it mildly) not a fan of reality TV shows.”
What’s wrong with reality?
Reality bites.
I reject your reality and substitute my own.
+1 Mythbusters
“that’s not who we are”
Liar.
Yeah, that’s pretty much exactly who I am.
Coming next, Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize striped from him for starting five new wars, slaughtering civilians, and destroying sovereign countries who never attacked us…
I am sure they just got too busy to do that this year…but next year for sure.
I need a beer.
Related.
Though the headline is really all you need:
“A Wrinkle in Time Isn’t a Great Movie, But That’s Completely Irrelevant”
Marie Claire is woke as hell. Look at this one:
https://www.marieclaire.com/fashion/a19154296/successful-women-power-uniform-international-womens-day/
Nancy Pelosi and Cecile Richards are highlighted as great female role models. Eegads, man.
I’m old enough to remember when Marie Claire was all about fashion and cooking and stuff
How long ago did you cancel your subscription?
I just let it lapse. I got way too into Home and Garden and I stopped reading Marie Claire
When they started printing it on cheaper paper and it would no longer stand up to the “abuse”?
Uffda. Why am I laughing so hard at the pic of Nancy?
Probably because she looks like a witch who is getting ready to smash some kid brains in for her dinner. A LOT of those kids look pretty terrified. Not that I blame them, but it makes it funnier when they are scairt.
Is that mom holding her kid to Nancy’s right SP?
A LOT of those kids look pretty terrified
Well Nancy appears kinda flushed in that pic, so she’d probably already eaten one of them by then.
Seeing her unhinge her jaw can be upsetting.
the kid in the red tie looks like me at that age
I’m glad they didn’t also include pictures of those women inside their closets. Cecile Richards – CEO of Planned Parenthood – probably has a very weird closet. Every one of her outfits would be laying on the floor and it would be totally empty of clothes hangers.
I have to hand it to the dems. They have made naked bigotry acceptable in the mainstream. It’s quite an accomplishment.
They returned to their roots as the party of racists.
I’m not sure how “acceptable” it is. I think most of middle America is really on to them and disgusted by it. I believe they’re going to push more moderates away from the Dems in the long run.
I agree with you. I think the true believers who are going along with it are largely the coastal upper-middle class of the Progressive movement and their dependent children. Democrat or no, I don’t think your average working class union member is buying the concept of toxic masculinity.
So I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Flint Town”, which imbedded a film team with the Flint, Michigan police force for 2 years. I highly recommend this documentary to my fellow Glibs.
Generally, I’m skeptical of the men & women in blue. I think that they’ve become militarized, they tend to abuse their power and get off on the adrenaline rush of violence caused by the drug war. That being said, I tried to take the documentary at face value while I watched it and I have to say that I have a little bit of sympathy for the police there in certain cases.
The unique thing about this documentary is that it shows a lot of the ways local and national politics impact the police in Flint – including having portions of their budget stolen from them, their views on the national backlash against police use of force and race politics. The interviews talk to them about how the 2016 vote broke down along racial lines within the Flint PD and how that affected morale. They discuss how their budget gives them about ~90 officers to police a 100,000 population and how this leads to 50 calls outstanding at one time while only 4 cruisers are available to respond.
They also interview the officers for their opinions on YouTube videos of cops strangling victims in the NYC streets, cops shooting black people in the back, etc.
Then there’s some really infuriating stuff that confirms some of my own bias – a shop owner that the Flint government attempts to shut down due to violent people hanging around its front door (resulting in at least 3 shootings – the cops claim that this is encouraged by the store selling alcohol to minors and loose cigarettes). They start a special task force that essentially goes from neighborhood to neighborhood terrorizing people, violating their 4th amendment rights and really pushing people around in general.
All while I watched this, I tried to keep an open mind, but I also had that nagging thought in the back of my head “they know they’re on camera, so I wonder how real this is.”
Either way, I recommend this documentary. Anyone else see it?
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..fuck
It’s on my “to watch” list.
I’ve heard people learn to ignore cameras fairly quickly. I don’t know if that is true.
Yea that is my problem with this whole thing. For the Flint PD to agree to do something like this, it seems to be that this is as much a PR stunt on their part as a look at the “real” police in america. Not to mention that every doc is edited, and therefore you always have to question what was edited out.
I came away feeling like the documentary was 50/50 – they paint the police department in a sympathetic light half the time, but they also show a lot of criticism.
They have interviews with the general population and some of those people air some very serious grievances.
I will have to check it out.
“having portions of their budget stolen from them”
Elaborate plz.
I knew someone would pick up on that. They went door to door asking the people to renew a tax to fund the police department. Essentially they were claiming that the portion of the tax they wanted renewed would cover approximately ~20 police staff, otherwise they’d have to be let go. The locals approved the tax renewal on the argument that it will be used to pay cop salaries, but the city council subsequently takes the money and appropriates it for a different purpose.
The Flint PD ultimately ends up with less money in its budget than it had before the renewal of the tax.
I recognizes that the tax is still essentially stolen from those individuals that voted “no” on the renewal, but I think that local law enforcement is a valid function of local government and that needs to be funded somehow. I’d rather that be funded by voting and argued for by going door-to-door.
That’s how it works EVERY SINGLE TIME and people have the audacity to be surprised.
I hear you, I gotta say-its pretty fucked.
Flint is one of the most violent towns in America. If I was living there, people are shooting off guns in the street, I cant go to my local store without being harassed and the response time was 6 hours for a 911 call… I’d want more cops around too.
They need to hold their council members responsible – but that’s tough to do when you can’t even find work to pay for the car to go to the council meeting – let alone launch your own challenge to their seat.
Ah. That explains it.
Followup question: Did they go door to door in uniform, with guns?
No uniforms. Only a few PD t-shirts but mostly plain dress.. at least in the footage they showed. Some of them might have had guns on their hips (I wasn’t looking that closely).
That being said, I tried to take the documentary at face value while I watched it and I have to say that I have a little bit of sympathy for the police there in certain cases.
Here’s what I’ll say about it. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of police, perhaps a majority even, went into police work wanting to be the good guys. But, police are human beings. And human beings respond to incentives. The problem, to me, isn’t that cops are bad terrible people. It’s that every incentive is lined up for them to not give two shits about the public they’re supposed to serve and to have only the utmost concern for the interests of their “brothers in blue”. Given those incentives, policing is going to attract worse sorts of people, frustrate and deter the sort of people you want to be police officers and make most of the rest of the police favor the former over the latter.
Exactly this.
Incentives are greater than intentions.
Just like education. I have not doubt most teachers want their kids to learn and succeed. Doesn’t mean they’re doing a good job.
An excellent observation. May I share this the next time my cousin’s husband, a cop in a mid-sized town, complains about my FB posts criticizing some police departments, and the awful trend in policing such as that asshat who trains cops to think of themselves as superheroes?
I find name changing to be silly, but this just might be the exception. It’s 2018 ffs.
“Georgia’s Runaway Negro Creek one step closer to getting new name”
https://politics.myajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/georgia-runaway-negro-creek-one-step-closer-getting-new-name/vAQMHv4P5nP1EXZm4E2w4H/
They should compromise and rename it “The RNC”.
*slow clap*
+1 Bde Maka Ska
Speaking of “entertainment,” how do we make something that’s already stupid even worse. Oh, I know! Or even worse, take something that was really good and needed nothing else and…
Lesson learned. Never try to appease grievance mongers.
This link is brought to you by DJ Assault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2OYcgr4rM
1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 19, 26, 42 (for obvious reasons), 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, 84, 86, 87, 91, 97, 99.
http://archive.is/6CGLf
Whew, that’s a lot.
You need a Women’s Day list
I thought Miss 42 covered that?
#50 is Irene Nell. She is mine.
“Wasn’t this a Seinfeld?”
‘The Bris’ was the name of the episode. George tries to get the hospital to pay for his car after it is damaged when a mental patient commits suicide by jumping off the roof and landing on his car
Yes! It’s the Pigman episode.
“It turns out he was just a short, fat, hairless mental patient”
Damn, even the museum needs a museum? Sounds greedy to me, but that might be antisemitic.
Florida Otter
RABIES!
Otters rape…it is known.
Cousin to SEA SMITH?
MORE LIKE IN ENTOURAGE OF SEA SMITH.
Special consultant for mammal rape?
t was the first time her kayak had ever tipped over, plunging her into the cold water “because you can’t really fight and kayak at the same time.”
Huh. Must not be a native. Aquatic combat is learned at the age of three.
My only incident with an otter while kayaking involved it calling in a sea lion to fight its battles for it…There just isn’t much you can do when a sea lion is behind you snapping its teeth by your ear.
Most animals can be dissuaded by jamming a finger in either their anus or nostril. I usually go with the anus, to no one’s surprise.
I don’t think 9th grade me was quick (witted or physically) to find and jam a finger in the sealion’s anus, but I will definitely take that under advisement for next time.
Crikey!
This seems appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fynWOio9jBo
Even Steve Smith? I’d think that would just encourage him.
My only incident with an otter while kayaking involved it calling in a sea lion to fight its battles for it…There just isn’t much you can do when a sea lion is behind you snapping its teeth by your ear.
Translation according to Urban Dictionary:
My only incident with [small hairy gay man] while [gay sex partner met discreetly via the internet]ing involved it calling in a [lesbian cougar] to fight its battles for it…There just isn’t much you can do when a [lesbian cougar] is behind you snapping its teeth by your ear.
I’m not sure that “snapping its teeth by your ear” isn’t some kind of euphemism as well, but I’m not hip to all that new age lingo.
Depends on what color bandana the lesbian cougar had in her pocket.
*Lights the Ken signal*
Speaking of, where is Ken?
in notepad, writing a 400 line response.
Something, something. 28 Days Later…
Erie Otters
Hmph. A real kayaker would have simply rolled her boat to dislodge the beast. But I bet she was in a recreational kayak – you can’t roll those.
Or just shoot the little bastard and be done with it.
I think I’m beginning to understand why I find the Trump presidency so off-putting- it really is being run like a reality TV show, and I am (to put it mildly) not a fan of reality TV shows.
Bread and circus freaks. What would you prefer? Camelot redux?
Job interview update. It went well I believe. A little less stress is a welcome thing.
Hope it works out for you.
?
Good luck. Don’t let them eat you
I can be eaten but not defeated
what kind of work?
Similar to what I do…lifting products.
bacon-magic at work
I don’t see any bacony goodness.
Professional thief?
w00t!!!!
^^^
Here’s hoping!
Best of luck dude, I hope they don’t eat you on day one. I would
Good luck, Bacon.
That’s great, bacon!
I hope it works out!
I hope you specifically asked about their Glibertarians firewalling policy.
Best of luck. I hope congratulations are soon in order.
Good luck bacon. I’m officially unemployed until Monday.
Continued good luck!
Excellent. I hope it works out well.
I also agreed to stop masturbating into the potted plants in our staff office.
OH, I’M SORRY, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SITE FOR LIBERTARIANS
Does the NAP apply to plants or the Glibertarians staff’s eyes and ears?
What’s wrong with masturbating into the plants?
He’d just giving them some fertilizer
*boo!*
I heard he had a special fondness for the saplings
I thought about linking that otter story this morning, but I thought, “Let Jesse do it.”
Much appreciated.
?Too often, we say things without really thinking or considering their overall social impact.
Dammit! What’d I miss?
Myanmar? It will always be Burma to me.
Another Seinfeld reference
…Shave.
That’s when I reach for my revolver.
Someone’s on a mission…
Good. We’re tired of disposing of these.
RE: Jon Favreau.
I just love me some lefty cannibalism. The guy was a fucking speechwriter for King Zero and he’s not pure enough for them? LOL. We can only hope they stay on this path of self-destruction.
That was actually a different Jon Favreau. This one was on Friends, and was responsible for giving us “Elf”.
There’s another one? THEY’RE MULTIPLYING.
Well I’ll be. I figured they were one in the same.
He’s so money.
And the first two IRON MANs, CHEF, the JUNGLE BOOK remake, starred in and co-wrote SWINGERS. He’s good. Pretty sure he has libertarian leanings, FWIW.
What? I thought it was the guy from Swingers?
He’s so money and they don’t even know it.
Boom…
Not that Jon Favreau. This Jon Favreau
tax reform’s impact on the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)
https://www.pillsburylaw.com/en/news-and-insights/the-impact-of-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-on-lihtc-investments.html
this reads a lot like the LIHTC takes a hit because tax reform was favorable to the market, in general, and that makes the LIHTC less lucrative by comparison.
If you poke the lawyers in the stomach, do they giggle?
Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your “Millennials to Snake People” extension when copying and pasting.)
I had a box of nerds for lunch, and I’m getting hangry.
How’d you fit them in the box?
re: The pig transplant info graphic
They must have cropped out the “Scientists celebrate with dinner featuring roast suckling pig” step.
“Trump mad at Sarah Sanders over Stormy Daniels, CNN says”
“From @Acosta: A source close to White House says Trump is upset with @PressSec Sarah Sanders over her handling of Stormy Daniels questions yesterday. “POTUS is very unhappy,” the source said. “Sarah gave the Stormy Daniels storyline steroids yesterday,” the source added.”
So, in other words, total horseshit. I dont know how that could have less credibility.
“A source close to White House” = a homeless guy on the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue
Maybe he’s a connoisseur of Stormy Daniels’ work?
This.
It’s from “Look at me! Look at Me! I’m Jim Acosta!” (stolen from Andrew Klavan). So, you can ignore it.
Why would Disney prioritize the guy who created* the centerpiece for the most lucrative film franchise in history over inexperienced people? Must be sexism and racism.
*As writer/director of Iron Man he set the style and tone for the entire cinematic universe, I know he didn’t create the character.
Well, the let Print Marvel rot in SJW hell for a long time before making a token effort at damage control.
please let Disney listen to them.
please let Disney listen to them.
please let Disney listen to them.
/runs out, shorts Disney
Man, these activists are all about handouts. No suggestions offered of who would be an accomplished director who could be argued to have earned the responsibility of helming such a large and valuable franchise, just a vague demand to give the job to someone based on their sex/race.
On a related note, do we have any cinephiles who could name a director who is a “woman of color” and also has proven themselves such that they could be trusted with a franchise like this? I don’t follow cinema as closely as some, and so I can only think of “men of color” or white women who have successfully directed big block-buster films; no one who ticks both boxes comes to mind.
Whassherface that is doing A Wrinkle in Time definitely does not fit the bill:
What idiot hired someone who doesn’t care what the financial impact of their movie is?
Why would Disney prioritize the guy who created* the centerpiece for the most lucrative film franchise in history over inexperienced people?
The pathetic part is I’d put the odds of Disney listening to them at 4:5. That’s the part of all this I don’t get. I get the activists pushing their bullshit. I don’t get the companies going along with it. It clearly isn’t greed. These schemes just about always result in the companies losing out on millions. But they keep going along with it. I get the mechanisms by which it happens. The shareholders have little power and the execs have a lot of power. So, there’s nothing to stop the execs from pandering to the SJW crowd, money be damned. But, at a certain point, you’d think their egos, at least, would take over. Do these guys really not mind if their products bomb?
The assumption would be that the brand is strong enough to keep existing audience while you attract a whole new one.
The reality is that if you shit on existing audience they at some point move away, and the audience you want to attract probably wasn’t interested in the brand itself. But theory is much more appealing. And who knows, you might hit gold. I mean, I loathed The Last Jedi, but it still made a lot of money (even if it could have made more). Toss some nostalgia crap at the audience in Ep 9 and it might be enough to correct.
I mean, I loathed The Last Jedi, but it still made a lot of money (even if it could have made more).
Well, it’s Star Wars. They could have shown a film of two flies fornicating for an hour and a half and it still would have been a box office smash. But, even there, there’s signs that Disney should be worried. Lots of the core audience trashed the movie. The run was not very long. You’d think someone would have a sitdown and realize they’re at risk of the franchise falling apart.
As I said, there’s a reason they’re screaming about SW and not…I dunno…Transformers (yet). SW is strong enough brand that you can do a stupid thing and still claim victory.
SW fans, God love them, are also easy to placate. Throw some blue milk and couple off-hand jokes at TLJ’s expense, and 80% of them will calm down and hail Ep 9 as “best since Empire!”
Now, the “one-to-two movies a year, in perpetuity” model that Disney is aiming at will do damage to the brand, no matter the quality. SW universe just isn’t deep enough for it. And more you expand it, the more you lose the core of that first movie, which just doesn’t stand to autistic “but, why don’t they just drop rocks from space” nitpicking.
It was before the Mouse de-canonized 40 years of the Expanded Universe.
God help me, I read dozens of those books.
I read the fucking Darksaber, the Shaggy Dog Story.
I know of Kevin J Anderson before he was given Dune to ravage and ravish.
Even Zahn’s books are iffy in parts, and I loved those.
Having said that, Thrawn pls – I know he’s in Rebels so fucking have him murder everyone in First Order and everyone in The Resistance except main characters in first five minutes of Ep9. Then we can have us a movie.
Instead, what has happened is that Disney recanonized the fucking stupidest part of the EU, the Yuuzhan Vong.
There was plenty I’m the EU for some great movies. Pretty much all of the Thrawn stuff would have been fantastic on film. I would pay through the nose to see a movie about Revan and Malek in the Mandalorian War.
But nooooo, the mouse wanted total control over the brand.
Wait, really?
The only good thing about destroying EU was that they could keep tight grip on the writers and not release oodles of shit every year.
And….Yuuzhan Vong? Of all the things?!
Ok, I give up. They spent 4 billion in order to troll SW fans. That, or it’s some weird Satanist ritual.
I would pay through the nose to see a movie about Revan and Malek in the Mandalorian War.
KOTOR-verse is still canonical-ish, right? What with the MMO still running. So if they want full SW saturation, it may happen as a CGI TV show.
Or EA might allow Dice to take the Battlefront engine and make a game out of it (yes, BF One is a functional game, and engine is Frostbite – you know what I mean).
SW fans, God love them, are also easy to placate. Throw some blue milk and couple off-hand jokes at TLJ’s expense, and 80% of them will calm down and hail Ep 9 as “best since Empire!”
Is that a sign of their ease of placation, or the terrible run of SW films since Empire?
Both.
Placation. The good half of Jedi (Luke-Vader-Emperor) pulls the weak half sufficiently to top all subsequent movies.
I remind all you nerds talking Star Wars, if you haven’t already read, here is my article on fan editing the Star Wars movies.
At this point am Ewok could take over producing Star Wars and it would be better.
Also, I am now the prouud new owner of a Sig516 in flat dark earth. It resides with family stateside. So excited.
Flat earth dark?
Dark flat Earth?
Congrats. I have the exact gun.
*fistbump*
Nice! That’s the piston version, right?
(still pissed about all the scrubbing on that fucking M16)
https://twitter.com/AlexNowrasteh/status/971796085990744066
Richie Cunningham: Fonz, I’m really not understanding this Cato guy. So what if you are more likely to be killed by a bear than a terrorist? That’s like saying that you are forty times more likely to be killed in a car accident than being killed by a cop, so we shouldn’t worry about police accountability.
Fonzie: Richie, you’re not thinking about this through the lenses of modernity, ok. I mean, sure we can say that we can take proactive steps to reduce foreign terrorist attacks by increasing immigration vetting, but those are tired old Baby Boomer ideas.
Richie Cunningham: But, we already take proactive steps to prevent animal attacks, why should it be different when it comes to screening refugees?
Fonzie: Whether it’s tracking bear habitats or screening new refugees, both ideas suffer from the fallacy of rationality. The basis for these actions are too rational and therefore are too tied to the politics of 20th Century thinking. Quit living in the past, Richie.
Richie Cunningham: I don’t know, Fonz. All this talk of ‘modernity’ sounds like verbal diarrhea meant to deflect from the fact that your position is complete nonsense.
Fonzie: *thumbs up* Ayeeeeeeee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VijD3WjREgw
Okay, but what are my chances of being killed by one of the Chicago Bears?
If you’re an opposing quarterback. Zero.
*begins to raise hand and rise from seat….sits back down, puts head down on desk*
Ouch. That hits close to home (lifelong Bear fan).
85 Bears or current Bears team?
20th Century thinking
Well played
85 Bears, of course. I was 15 when they won the Super Bowl.
Being a Chicago sports fan, one gets used to decades long droughts between post season wins.
(I was on a break from jury duty when I first commented. Apologies for the delayed reply).
Golf clap.
Terrorism is obviously not that big of a threat and does not justify the Patriot Act or the endless wars overseas, but this commentator was trying to be cheeky by suggesting that it is such an insignificant threat that to suggest any additional screening or immigration restrictions being imposed is ludicrous. And that is just a dumb take, even if I generally agree with the premise
I’m curious. What more do you think should be done? What more do you think can be done?
Yep. As much as I agree with the factual statistics Cato gives, it seems like an empty argument with respect to real victims of terrorism, especially when we later learn a number of government authorities were aware of the terrorists who carried out some attacks.
Mind you, I don’t want the Feds preemptively arresting anyone because they’re on a watch list. But, I don’t think a bit more thorough vetting is tyranny.
I must say, I really enjoy stumbling upon these posts.
One of these days, Old Man, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the dubious alliance Jews have made with the American left.
I wrote a Jewsday about it a few months ago.
Oh. I figured those were only for the (((chosen people))).
I think I found it.
As I said in Morning Lynx, they’re JINOs. They’ve replaced any religious doctrine with leftist ideology; their allegiance and faith is to the Left first and foremost.
Very similar to a lot of Catholics in that regard.
VERY similar. It’s frustrating.
Massive layoffs at the office watched a lot veteran employees walking out. I need a drink.
Age discrimination?
Na they dropped some newbies just in case.
Salary discrimination.
Did you notice if Kleenex boxes were strategically placed in all conference rooms early in the day?
Yes and lotion too. That seemed a little weird.
#themtoo
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?? Plan B
the snow storm missed us more or less.
I’ve only had to bring the plow truck out once so far.
I was just looking at my extended vehicle warranty.
It’s void if I use it as a snow plow. Weird.
What if you just use it as a sleigh?
I’m considering it.
Not so weird. Plowing is rough.
Plowing is rough.
Giggity
“Plowing is rough on the suspension” and “Plowing is rough on the undercarriage” wouldn’t have made a lick of difference.
We got about 16″ down this way and it’s still snowing a bit. I’m really glad I restored my snowthrower priming tube yesterday and everything worked perfectly today. 2.5 hours of clearing and roof raking. I am looking forward to paving our driveway this summer.
“I restored my snowthrower priming tube yesterday”
Hope your lady was happy.
Tee hee. Mine’s Swedish
The one last week missed me, although supposedly everywhere around us got hammered.
We got about six inches yesterday, and lost power for about three hours overall.
These euphemisms.
Joe Scarborough just keeps racking up the retard points
I don’t care what anyone says, Mika is still not that bad looking for her age
If I could ballgag her, would.
I can’t argue that point
She’s 50 you sick fuck.
50!? I’m confused. Just Say’n implied she was old.
^ Look this guy with his slut shaming. On International Women’s Day no less. For shame, Playa
Hey, my wife’s 50, and just the other day a friend said “hey, I would totally tap that” about her. So I guess that’s a positive?
She actually is surprisingly hot, especially for her age, but wow she can be a handful, and OMG that temper. It passed my mind to say back to him, please tap that, and while you’re at it, here’s an extra five grand to make sure she doesn’t come back for awhile — but I’m a rather polite sort, so would never say such things.
Someone’s gotta clear out those cobwebs. Joe sure ain’t doing it.
That’s the truth
So have her take her dentures out first?
If there were any legitimate female Glibs, they might be, well 50…
I’m just causing trouble.
Successfully, judging by the replies.
Playa don’t go fo’ no jail-bait!
He likes him some GGILF.
hrmm… 80% there on proper augmetic limbs.
I never asked for this.
Today’s half-baked commy claptrap is brought to you by Current Affairs:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/socialism-as-a-set-of-principles
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Embracing a new economic system without having a blueprint seems like it could only ever lead to something like Venezuela’s collapse.
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Because 20th century “socialist” states attempted vast social engineering projects, there is a tendency to think of “a socialist economy” in engineering terms.
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But this is a poor way of thinking about what is being advocated by socialists. Books are a better analogy. We have, in our hands, a badly-written manuscript and are trying to edit it into a well-written manuscript.
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But asking at the beginning of the process “Well, what will the finished product look like?” makes no sense. If we could present a blueprint for the finished book, we wouldn’t need a blueprint because we would already have finished the book.
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We can debate the ingredients of a fulfilling life, but for libertarian socialists like myself they include a high degree of personal autonomy and the ability to shape your own destiny.
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authoritarian “socialist” regimes don’t deserve the name. The whole purpose here is to increase people’s control over their circumstances. If you’re simply vesting that control in a government, and people have no say in that government, then there’s nothing socialistic about what is going on, unless the term is meaningless.
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Socialist principles may sound like platitudes, but when taken seriously they have radical implications: they mean a world without war, crime, prisons, and vast wealth inequality. A socialist world would be very different from our current one.
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Nor does it mean that “socialist” today means “social democrat,” i.e. capitalism with a welfare state. It could mean that, if that were the best we could hope for. But genuine socialism is idealistic: the perfect application of its principles would only occur in a utopia, which means the work will never fully be done.
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Let’s see, we got Not True Scotsman, nirvana fallacy, equivocation, wishful thinking- if bullshit was pizza, this would be a deep dish supreme.
I am glad you agree that deep dish pizza is pizza, because it is.
SP is on her way, catbutt in hand…
IT IS SO!
Hope she’s wearing nitrite gloves. ^^;
*nitrile
Agreed. Not the only kind of pizza. But, it IS pizza. Lou Malnati’s. Period.
What the fuck is a “libertarian socialist”? Those terms … do not go together.
I wonder the same thing about people who call themselves “anarcho-communists”.
“Useful idiot” is too straightforward so they have to come up with something fancier sounding.
Useful?
Maybe if you need a minefield cleared.
Heh.
Yeah, those terms are mutually exclusive. There is nothing anarchist about communism, and nothing socialist is even remotely close to liberty.
By my estimation, “libertarian socialist”, “anarcho-communist” and “anarcho-syndicalists” are different terms with very little distinction.
The guy who sexually identified as an ornate building AND a dragon was more coherent.
A new economic system. New. Not 100x tried and failed, but new.
Nathan has scrambled dog shit between his ears.
Everyone’s principles have these radical implications: that I am the most beautiful, intelligent, excellent human being ever to exist.
See, if I say it—particularly if I don’t delineate the actual principles themselves, but just skip around doing so—that makes it so!
make shooting video games unrealistic to reduce deaths in mass shootings, says imbecile
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/opinions/video-games-shooting-opinion-bailenson/index.html
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Repeated movement while in virtual reality causes changes in brain structure, which in turn improves performance in the real world.
In other words, virtual reality is the ultimate training machine.
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But if a possible mass-shooter wants to hone his craft, we shouldn’t hand him an over-the-counter digital boot camp.
And there are steps we can take to strike a balance between fun and safety.
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First, let’s change the physics of bullets. Think about a Frisbee. In order to hit a target straight ahead, one needs to arc it to one side, to account for its return swing. If virtual reality bullets also traveled with a slight curve, then virtual shooters would always be pointing away from a target in order to eventually hit it. This learned side-aiming would likely carry over to the real world, and people would have trouble hitting a target straight ahead.
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Second, guns in games shouldn’t have the mechanics of real ones. You shouldn’t hold a realistically weighted, gun-shaped object and pull a trigger in virtual reality. Instead, to operate a virtual gun, you should flick your wrist or bend your elbow.
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Another change that makes sense — and I am happy that most, though not all, virtual reality games are adopting this strategy — is to have the targets in games be nonhuman. For example, virtual shooters should aim at robots. Robots move and are shaped differently from humans.
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In a perfect world, perhaps we wouldn’t have virtual shooters at all. But for as long as we’ve had media, people have delighted in violent content. Some of my own favorite science fiction films and television series are gory and terrifying.
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#StopRobophobia
#pray4K1bo
But for as long as we’ve existed
had media, people have delighted in violent content.You shouldn’t hold a realistically weighted, gun-shaped object and pull a trigger in virtual reality. Instead, to operate a virtual gun, you should flick your wrist or bend your elbow.
His keyboard and mouse must work a lot differently than mine.
Where do I get one of those?
Only someone who has neither played a video game nor used a firearm could argue something so moronic.
Tariffs are bad, obviously, but I don’t understand why the media is universally opposed to tariffs now, but still pretends like the economic impact of increasing taxes is still uncertain. They are both a tax.
BECUZ DRUMPF.
This is why having a media that isn’t a joke is important. They could be trusted when they are actually reporting something not shitty, like trade wars are bad. As it is, they’re credibility is shot so no one that matters is listening to them.
I think it goes deeper than that. I think it’s because tariffs are supported by working people (particularly in the Midwest), whereas high taxes are supported by wealthy white progressives. I think this is another example of the media’s class bias showing. They are tremendously ignorant when it comes to economics, but they know that working class whites are evil, but wealthy white progressives are refined.
I’ll just get my coils of steel at the Duty-Free store. What’s the problem?
Who wants charts with zero guarantee of accuracy*?
US Steel imports 2017
Imports are around 30% of US steel consumption.
Canada and Mexico are exempt, and they provide 25% of steel imports.
China is not in the top 10 (but just barely at #11).
Mexico and Russia(!!!!) share #4-#5 spots.
There’s a table of countries US had ‘trade remedies’ against in 2017. Canada wasn’t on it, China was #1 at 24, India had 16. Mexico had 6.
Not much point, I just like data. And charts.
*I’m not saying document is inaccurate, I just couldnt’ be arsed to vet it and it’s a .gov domain, so
Canada taking advantage of us, again!
Pls keep no tariffs on other Canadian exports while putting it on other nations. We will send PM Zoolander to amuse you by dressing in traditional American garbs and dancing traditional American dances.
kthx.
I demand Zoolander in a yuffing getup. Preferably a spiny echidna or freshwater dolphin.
I had no idea he was a furry.
Furries just need to become a serious voting block in 3-4 marginal ridings, and the costume is coming on!
Only if you send him down in Southie white trash clothing
And he’ll need to turn that perfectly coifed head into a kick-ass businesses-in-the-front-party-in-the-back mullet.
if it were up to me, he’d spend the rest of his term world-traveling. Well worth the expense!
That’s like when people bitched that Obama was playing so much golf. I was like “I’d triple is pay for him to do nothing but play golf!”
Because “tariffs are a rare area of agreement among economists” – TNTC number of times heard this week.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a lot of libertarian commentators who were ambivalent or antagonistic toward the tax cuts (because of deficits) vehemently denouncing these tariffs. A little consistency would be appreciated or at least nuance.
I’ll share a anecdote with you from the trenches:
I work in a manufacturing shop. We make an attachment for a manufacturer of skid steers. One component of this attachment is a very large tube. It’s approx. 20″ diameter, 6′ long and 3/8″ wall. Due to the tariffs, the price of this tube is going up $200. That’s a very real cost that will be passed right along to the consumer.
I don’t understand why they can’t just lay out U.S. tariffs versus the tariffs other countries collect on American goods?
The automobile one is easy. We hit the Euros at 2.5% and they get American cars for 10% – so fuck them. Have a nice trade war then set the same rate in both directions (hopefully 0%).
Yes! Let us shoot ourselves in the foot to force them to stop shooting themselves in the foot!
If you say so. I think it’s more like pulling a gun on assholes who are trying to rob us.
Depriving Americans of automobiles pulls a gun on europeans? How? You just reduced car prices in Europe by increasing their supply pool!
But if those lowered prices were better for profits, cars would already be at them, no?
So, either they lower the price of the product, losing money, or they cut production, in order to stem the loss. Which sucks for employees and the industry. Which (in theory) causes them to start lobbying the governments to start fixing relations with the US.
And reduced the volume and/or profit margin of European car makers – who are being protected by that 10% tariff.
I see, so all Americans should be economically harmed so that we can save Europeans from being ripped off by VW.
I’m glad we have a U.S. president who puts European interests ahead of American ones!
Or, perhaps our President should do what’s necessary to force fair trade in the world for American producers.
And taxing Americans for foreign products does that how?
It gets the Directors and Stockholders of VW, BMW and Mercedes lobbying their government to negotiate a reciprocal trade agreement. (They’re probably the ones that got the tariffs raised that high in the first place)
I, too, will only drink fair trade coffee.
Yeah whenever the local socons try to throw burdensome regulations on abortion clinics, the local prog rag suddenly sounds like Grover Norquist.
That Jon Favreau story made me laugh.
I like Better Call Saul too. He reminds me of my cousin to the tee – may he RIP.
I don’t understand how people like this function. It’s as if they are a different species
Would he do a better job if he liked fucking dudes? If his skin was darker? If he had a vagina? How specifically would any of those traits make him better at his job?
When you believe accomplishments are due to luck rather than skill, it makes perfect sense that some of the luck should be spread around.
Wife on the subject of McDonald’s flipping their logo: “oh great, thanks McDonald’s. Now I don’t feel compelled to pop out a dozen babies this year and thirteen next year because you flipped your sign over.
Oh wait, I didn’t anyways because I live in America.
Why don’t they go protest somewhere that actually needs it? Like Saudi Arabia?”
What are you, an islamophobic bigot, bigot?
Well yes, obviously if he were a queer non-binary woman of color, he would be able to bring that depth and diversity of experience into his stories about… umm… space wizards with laser swords.
Clearly, the path from communist suffragettes to…. communist…. whatever these are… complaining about…. wait, Star Wars??
you’ve come a long way, baby
Is it just me, or did anyone else check the columns in the parking garage?
Unrelated and FWIW: I did a little checking into the fleur-de-lis thing and it looks like a legit point. The branding was written into the Black Code for Louisiana (although I coudn’t find a version of the code yesterday). At the risk of (re)-opening a can of worms, although a lot of people do go looking for insults, there is also community/institutional memory and I think it’s entirely plausible that the African-American community in LA could have retained a oral memory of the symbol and what it meant.
hmm? i always thought the fleur de lis was just a symbol of their formerly-french sovereignty. and you find the same thing elsewhere that the Frog King used to hold sway.
e.g.
Yeah, my assumption until yesterday. The French Louisiana Black Code (i.e slave codes) specifically listed the punishment for some slave misbehavior (particularly runaways) was to brand the slave with the fleur-de-lis. Aaaand, now I find a copy:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/d/335/
“Article XXXVIII. The fugitive slave who has been on the run for one month from the day his master reported him to the police, shall have his ears cut off and shall be branded with a fleur de lys on one shoulder. If he commits the same infraction for another month, again counting from the day he is reported, he shall have his hamstring cut and be branded with a fleur de lys on the other shoulder. The third time, he shall be put to death.”
well, no one seems to give a shit
in the last half-dozen times i went to NOLA i regularly met black dudes with fleur-de-lis tattoos (most of them being ‘saints’ references)
you see it everywhere. ok, yes it might have once been used in some nefarious way. but only some hysterical pomo symbol-monger would declare its forever verbotten because it has some possible misuse.
the french were some nasty ass colonial overlords and no doubt did horrible things wherever they were. still: by and large, many people are still proud to say, “i descend from the french colonists” who showed up in places as dangerous and interesting as LA. the people who gin up controversy seem to have failed on this one.
If the preponderance of Saints gear amongst blacks in and from LA is any sign, then no, there’s no community memory of the fleur-de-lis as a racist symbol.
The Quebec Nordiques were and the Montreal Impact are totes racists.
What’s this now?
Having spent a fair amount of time on the Gulf Coast (from Pensacola to New Orleans, it was all French for a while and retains some of the trappings of such), both black people and fleurs-de-lis are plentiful, and I never have heard that it’s a racist symbol.
⚜️
Look at Pompey throwing around the N word.
Third Street Saints represent!
It’s funny, the symbol here elicits different emotions. If you’re a separatist-natiiomnalst the FDL is a symbol of the identity replacing the ridiculous Maple Leaf – which is gay in my view. If you’re pro-united Canada, the symbol is one of xenophobic tribalism and hickness. The Quebec flag, for many of us, conjures up those images mostly because of the1980 referendum – and 1970 with the October Crisis (and the rat-muderers in the FLQ) and 1976 with the election of the PQ before it. The 1995 referendum didn’t help either.
nationalist.
W.T.F.?
Honest question: if Quebec were to secede (not that they would) what would you personally do? Move to Ontario? Stay? Start a jihad?
Move.
So, it’s time to go to plan B and use the swastika?
Thank you.
And for the rest of you, yes, I get it.
I’m not suggesting that EXISTING symbols/logos are racist in any way.
I’m suggesting that for my company, it was a very stupid choice for a NEW logo, especially when we’re about to make entry into the the US market.
Is it a low probability problem? Yes, but completely avoidable.
I am unaware of any racist connotations with the flour-de-lis. I have a 4’x4′ sheet metal one hanging on my house.
*I bought it in Canton, Tx. I was standing in line to pay for it and an old man in line with me saw it.
“What’n hell you want that for? What’r you, a Saints fan?”
Me- “I’m from Loosyana. My wife wants it.”
*I see he has a sheet metal parrot.*
Me – “What’n hell you want that for?”
“My wife wants it for our tiki hut”
We both started laughing.
In the good old Communist(ish) Yugoslavia, it was a date you give flowers and maybe (maybe) do the dishes.
Man, Progressives are making me nostalgic for common-sense, moderately conservative policies of the Communist Party.
What I want to know is how tortured is the fastener hardware on those knee-high boots.
My eyes! My eyes! Thanks a lot, Gilmore. I’ll never unsee…THAT.
Freedom fighters
The three protesters who were arrested Tuesday for their attempt to block the slaughter of Yellowstone bison will remain in jail at least until a detention hearing next week, a U.S. district judge decided Wednesday morning.
Thomas Brown, Cody Cyson and Hannah Ponder were all charged with entering a closed area of the park after they were found near the park’s Stephens Creek Capture Facility, where bison are caught and readied for slaughter. Cyson and Brown have also been charged with interfering with an agency process.
The three appeared in court in Mammoth Hot Springs on Wednesday morning, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Carman granted the U.S. attorney’s request that all three remain in custody until a detention hearing next Monday. No pleas were entered.
These are presumably the dumb fucks who have released buffalo from the impound lot on at least two previous occasions.
[insert looping Nelson Muntz gif]
Bison is tasty!
Tucker’s kind of a dweeb but this is pretty good.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5747282256001/?playlist_id=5198073478001#sp=show-clips
Except for the opioid and mass shooting stuff.
Aftermath of the avalanche at Mammoth this weekend.
Wait. The Avalanche are a hockey team. Why would they be playing against an indoor lacrosse team?
today I learned
In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union had a computer program that helped it decide when to launch a nuclear war
http://www.businessinsider.com/soviet-nuclear-war-computer-cold-war-2015-10
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But the strangest part of the report has to do with how the Soviets convinced themselves they were so vulnerable. It turns out that Soviet leaders’ assessment of their strategic balance with the US was partly created through a KGB-operated computer program called VRYAN, a Russian acronym for “Surprise Nuclear Missile Attack,” according to the report.
As the report puts it, “During the war scare [the Soviets] were highly dependent on a computer model.” VRYAN used a “database of over 40,000 weighted elements” to identify “inherently unstable political situations in which a deterioration of Soviet power might tempt a US first strike.”
Over 200 KGB employees were responsible just for “inserting fresh data” into the system. This data consisted of military, political, and economic-related information that could indicate if conditions were ripe for a US nuclear attack. Much of the data consisted of classified information that came from all over the Soviet government.
The size and scope of VRYAN indicates its importance within the Soviet Union’s threat-assessment infrastructure during the war scare. Its purpose was to sort through the noise of global and domestic affairs and produce a single number value for the Soviet Union’s power relative to the US. The US’ power would be expressed as 100; VRYAN would assign the Soviet Union a number representing Moscow’s strength as a percentage of US strength.
According to the report, the Soviets believed that if VRYAN produced a value of 60 or higher, the Soviet Union was strong enough to prevent the US from undertaking a nuclear first strike, with 70 representing a “desirable margin.” The “critical threshold” was 40: “Below this level, the Soviet Union would be considered dangerously inferior to the United States,” the report reads.
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paralysis by analysis
In Soviet Russia, computer model run you!
Was it called WOPR?
“Mr. McKittrick, after very careful consideration, sir, I’ve come to the conclusion that your new defense system sucks.”
+1 piss on the spark plugs
The KGB agents were really just playing Tic Tac Toe instead of entering data.
Yes, I’m eleven.
I haven’t seen you but FWIW (in case you didn’t see it), yes, pancetta.
Or guanciale. Technically, you’re supposed to use that.
I saw, good on ya mate, also what kinda jabronies put cream in carbonara?
lol. I know! It’s like, er, wtf dude?!
If you’re really good and want it creamy, you can do it with the way you manipulate the water and egg.
My daughter likes it dry so it makes my life easier.
Oh yeah, I get it creamy with just the egg and cheese mixture, trick is to drain the pasta half-assedly and do the final mixing off heat.
Yes, the cheese. Forgot the cheese. Do you use parsley? I see different views on that.
And onion. Do you use that?
Again, some call for it, some don’t.
I put finely chopped parsley,garlic and red pepper flakes in with my pancetta as it renders, makes the house smell like a metaphor for something that smells really good.
No onions and I skip the wine also, generally I follow Marcella Hazan’s recipes but with carbonara I’m an apostate.
Ah.
Garlic I used depending on the mood. I do use onion because, again, the daughter likes it that way but I may use your combo next time.
No wine for me too.
Damn. My cousin borrowed by Hazan years ago. Then he died. God bless him. His wife has it. I don’t think I’ll be asking for it back.
Which one do you have?
The euphemisms were pretty good until Rufus brought his daughter into it.
Sicko!
This one one of the few cook books that I am constantly going back to, the rest just gather dust once perused.
We can debate the ingredients of a fulfilling life, but for libertarian socialists like myself they include a high degree of personal autonomy and the ability to shape your own destiny.
“The People need salt, Comrade. We are here to transport you to the mine. Get in.”
“No thanks, I’m Libertarian today. I’ll let you know if I’m feeling Socialist tomorrow.”
Socialist principles may sound like platitudes, but when taken seriously they have radical implications: they mean a world without war, crime, prisons, and vast wealth inequality.
Ponies for everyone, though.
We SWEAR it’ll be different this time!
Our old friend Barton Hinkle has a nice column in which he calls out the left on their abandonment of the 1A – Shut up, they explained (again).
I read that. It was decent
i assume Reason took a pass on it?
They might reprint after a few days.
Hinkle is going to be un-personed like the Judge
My eyes kind of glazed over when I saw Jeet Heer’s name.
I made it to the bit about net neutrality, though. I feel it’s worth noting that NN does nothing to stop this sort of censorship. It’s about infrastructure, not content.
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/256899/left-right-russiagate
Look at what (((those people))) are doing now. They’re pointing out how stupid Russia fever dreams have become
It’s a head-shaker that this article even needed to be written in the first place.
Russia fever dreams is the most mainstreamed conspiracy theory in human history and no reporters will ever be held accountable for being so gullible
Oh yeah? Well….Freemasons!
Like that stuff isn’t true. I bet next you’re going to tell me that we actually landed on the moon
“It’s a head-shaker that this article even needed to be written in the first place.”
^This^
Not one single person in the US changed their vote because of alien influence. Not. One. The whole thing is one big steaming pile. The only proper assessment of anyone spouting that shit is ‘liar’ or ‘idiot’.
Look, (((we))) have Putin in our back pocket. Of course (((we’re))) going to deny everything.
Tablet is one of the least lefty (((publications))). Why, I’d say it’s only Center-Left, not Lenin.
I’d say Commentary is the least lefty (((publication)))
True. They actually have some decent stuff on there sometimes.
Sometimes. Sometimes they’re too neocon
That brightened up my afternoon!
i don’t normally lol @ memes. but it was the “Yes, Carl” that got me here
i hope that “yes, carl” becomes its own thing. “Carl” being a sort of stand-in for the ‘average progressive media-person’.
It’s a military meme. Been going around for a while.
I know dank when i see dank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESWi0X3wgzI
Shut up, Carl!
That’s a good one.
This could be big.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Confirms Prior Appointment of “DOJ Prosecutor” to Parallel IG Horowitz, NOT a Special Counsel…
Could this be why he recused himself from the Special Investigation? To avoid a Conflict of Interest?
That’s the theory I read earlier.
Yikes. Pam has not aged well.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/pamela-anderson-speaks-out-on-sons-fight-with-tommy-lee/ar-BBK1Cvd?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
As opposed to Tommy?
He was probably born looking like a junkie.
“The Motley Crue rocker has said he wants to press charges against 21-year-old Brandon, alleging that his own flesh and blood assaulted him and knocked him unconscious earlier in the week. According to reports, Brandon has said it was Tommy who lunged at him, and he was only protecting himself.
“[Tommy] blaming his son or us for anything is delusional. We have all tried to protect him and help him for too long,” Pamela said. “Hoping he’d look after himself better. I do not like to comment about this. But feel like it’s necessary because of Tommy’s ‘Trump style’ no thought out rampage on twitter and IG? This matter is ideally between just a father and a son – And rehab if the stars align.”
Jesus Christ.
They’re all clowns.
That sex tape was criminally overrated.
No, but I expected worse, honestly.
You British Columbians are always covering for each other’s asses.
Like you wouldn’t covet the ass of her Quebec-equivalent.
Ooh, covering…
Meh. I like normal Pam better than Vice coked-out Pam. Thicc.
Looks okay to me, but the picture of Tori Spelling on the sidebar may be throwing off my judgment.
Hi Pan,
Saw your notes on last nights post. Thanks for the tips and details. I should be able to work a lot of that in – some of it was pretty visible – I’ve got a few more ideas on that too. The ambiguous ending is very “Butch Cassidyesque” too. The context definitely helps….and yeah…I guess it would also be more meaningful locally since (I assume) you would have a LOT less access to contemporary western flicks during that period.
Thanks.
No, we were pretty open to US movies by my time. Even the Cold War Action Genre was played and enjoyed (Red Dawn, Rambo, Commando etc) although, of course, arty crowd preferred European movies and the New Wave. Unlike rest of the European real-Socialist states, Yugoslavia issued passports broadly and travel wasn’t restricted for things like education or tourism. Import of foreign cultural product also worked with the image of independent country cutting the Third Way (eat dick, Tony Blair, Tito thought of it forty years before you) between US and USSR. Marathon Family was just so different from other movies, whether produced locally or foreign, and very much of the local mindset (the horror and the humor blending into each other, rather than being disctinct).
I never thought of the ending as ambiguous in the same way as Butch & Sundance, but director would have been aware of the movie. Godfather movies may have been an influence, too, come to think of it (conservative family, youngest member doesn’t want to join the trade, he’s pulled in and proves to be most ruthless and efficiently brutal of the lot).
The ending is pretty much a mirror of the whole gunning it at the authorities and “fading to black”. But yeah…I’ve seen that A/V quality in some Czech flicks, but I’m impressed the local market was as receptive to a homegrown flick looking like that as the western flicks coming in at the same time. I’ll need to do more research before I knock out the review – just assumed Yugoslavia, like most of the rest of the Eastern Bloc was more fully behind the iron curtain. Appreciate the tips.
Yeah, I think the reason for film’s popularity was that it was on TV a lot (so lots of A/V problems are concealed by
480576i and mono sound), and DVD transfer may not have been the best. The selling points were dialogue and acting, not visuals (using actors who cut their teeth in theatre and working off a play probably influenced expectations to be more like a theatrical performance than a high-budget movie).Sadly, big money went to overblown patriotic war movies, although they eventually created an aesthetic of their own, kitschy though it may be.
Worst argument I’ve seen opposing these tariffs: “It’s going to upset our allies”. Do you want workers in the Midwest to really love tariffs?
The American people are not stupid. Germany, South Korea, Canada, and Mexico are not “allies”- they are protectorates. An “ally” would not require unconditional military support from you and provide absolutely nothing in return.
Stick to the economic argument, because this train of thought is a surefire loser
The attacks on these tariffs coming from both the Left and the Right are amusing. I guess we’ve reached a point in which economic arguments are just no longer valid so we have to come up with all sorts of conspiracy/race baiting/globalist/nationalist retardation for an argument.
The economic reasons are quite straightforward.
It’s just that sane economics has been steadily driven out of the Democratic Party for almost 100 years. The Republicans can be relied upon to embrace the mercantilist stupidity of Trump because they have always had a major mercantilist faction. But after decades of demanding that people be restricted from engaging in market transactions for their own good and insisting anyone who thinks otherwise is a fascist, the Democrats are ideologically incapable of mounting any coherent defense.
We now live in a one party state. This party has two wings, a progressive wing that calls itself “Democrat” and a hard-hat labor Democrat wing that calls itself “Republican”.
Classical liberalism is dead, and even worse, some of you chuckleheads are dancing on its corpse.
Mexico isn’t even in NATO, Canada is more likely to help us* than need us, and South Korea has conscription and spends almost as much on defense (as % of GDP) as we do. (I’ll give you Germany, though)
Not the best examples.
ignore the asterisk
If US wasn’t protecting SK, SK’s % of GDP on defense would be way higher.
And ours lower (but probably not a lot). Still, they’re not exactly lollygagging around while we do all the work.
SK isn’t far behind us. They are way ahead of our European “allies”.
Yeah and they had troops in Nam, and they were third after the Brits in terms of troops in Iraq. SK ain’t no French, that’s for damn sure.
The head of the local Legion post was in Korea, and he went over there for a tour on the 50th anniversary of the armistice. Apparently a lot of their big companies were involved hosting the vets, chipping in for hotels and buses and translators and whatnot. Anyway, him and some other guys who run their Legion or VFW posts were shooting the shit one night at dinner, commiserating about the costs and whatnot. This particular guy’s post needed a new roof. So he was talking about
Well apparently one of the corporate type SK overheard him talking about fundraising plans, because a week after the guy returns home to the States, there’s a check from Samsung with enough to put a new roof on and then some, with a note thanking them for their service and sacrifice in defense of their freedom. Said, and I think I have the quote right “Everything we have built here in our nation is built upon the sacrifice of you and your friends and comrades. When we called for help, you answered, and we are pleased to repay, in some small measure, that debt.”
When I was over there, all the older folks were rabidly pro-American. Any guy over 40 or 50 would love to talk to you about what US unit they worked with during their conscription period, etc. It was the college age folks who were a lot more anti-US/war/etc.
Tommy this, and Tommy that.
Trump’s America
While the #NeverAgain movement—a political campaign around gun control that was spearheaded by Stoneman Douglas students—is nonpartisan, some of its most outspoken activists have been honest about their disdain for Trump and for politicians who take contributions from the NRA, many of whom are Republican or conservative. It’s worth asking whether the students’ movement would have been quite as strong had it bloomed under another administration with a deeper commitment to stricter gun-control legislation—or with higher approval ratings among the American public. Trump has proposed several gun-control measures in response to the shooting, including raising the minimum age for certain firearm purchases and enforcing tighter background checks, but it’s not yet clear whether he will follow through on any specific policy change, and sources suggest he has since backed down from some of these proposals. Trump has also struck a less gun-shy tone tone in other policy proposals, particularly his suggestion of arming teachers as another way to protect schools in the event of a shooting. DeVos, for her part, spoke on Wednesday in general terms about the Trump administration’s dedication to developing bipartisan school-safety solutions.
Totally spontaneous and nonpartisan.
I had to check to see if this had been written by one of the student “survivors”.
More nonpartisan analysis:
History suggests that the public was generally less disappointed with responses from education secretaries in Democratic administrations than they seem to be with that of DeVos, likely because many of these officials made explicit calls for increased gun-control legislation in the immediate aftermath of school shootings. Richard Riley, who served as education secretary during the Clinton administration, explicitly mentioned gun control in his response to the Columbine school shooting in 1999: “This tragedy underscores that we are not doing enough to get guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals,” Riley said in a statement. And Arne Duncan, the first secretary of education under Obama, was personally invested in combating gun violence, having grown up in Chicago and witnessing its effects on students. Duncan responded to school shootings with official statements at a higher frequency than any other education secretary in recent history, and he called for tighter gun-control regulations one week after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting.
Democrats are just inherently more humane and thoughtful. They understand the need to get guns out of our hands.
Authoritarians are so fucking predictable. Got a problem? The answer is more authority! Don’t have a problem? Invent one so you can agitate for more authority!
Fuck ’em. Fuck ’em with a rusty spork.
The legislation Molloy rammed thru’ in CT did nothing to protect kids, nor was it intended to. It was intended as a petri dish for the ‘experiment’ that Clinton was going to use to force a reintroduction of a new, even more restrictive AWB immediately after her coronation.
Every spork I have ever seen has been plastic and would be difficult to get rusty. Other than that, I agree.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GLD3Q7O
Titanium spork. Still hard to get rusty.
White Teachers with Guns
http://progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/white-teachers-with-guns-180306/
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Republicans are arguing in favor of arming teachers in the wake of the Parkland school shooting. Lawmakers from Michigan to North Carolina and other states are now entertaining laws to arm teachers. This week, the Florida senate approved a bill that would allow arming some teachers, though the measure was quickly rebuked by the Florida school board, which voted unanimously against doing so. It’s an issue that breaks along sharp partisan lines. According to a Quinnipiac University poll, two-thirds of Republicans believe that America would be safer if more people carried guns. Only 6 percent of Democrats and 35 percent of independents agreed.
But there is also a racial component to this issue, one that policymakers would do well to keep in mind.
More than 80 percent of American teachers are white. Black students, who represent just 16 percent of student enrollment, represent 27 percent of students referred to law enforcement and 31 percent of students subjected to a school-related arrest.
…
Consider the Ohio teacher who told a black student that he would be lynched if he wouldn’t be quiet. What if the teacher had been armed? What if the Florida teacher who hosted a White supremacy podcast was armed? What if the Mississippi substitute who encouraged a white student to let himself be hit by a black student “so they can hang him” was armed? What if the Atlanta teacher who told a black student, “Don’t smile at me, man. That’s how people like you get shot,” was armed? Would these incidents have ended with black students getting shot? It is certainly plausible.
We all ought to ask: What would it mean to a Black student to sit in a classroom knowing that their White teacher was armed with a gun?
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Maybe if dipshits like you didn’t insist in herding children into holding pens for a dozen years, there would be fewer unhappy children and less crime.
Maybe we could avoid the issue by putting all the black kids in a classroom with a black armed teacher. Hmm. Maybe not.
How about a white unarmed teacher? Better, but then there’s still privilege.
OK, put all the black students in the gym, without a teacher. Win!
Perhaps keep them Seperate,
But make sure it’s equal.
Now that may be a solution we can have today, tomorrow, and, dare I say it, forever.
“It is certainly plausible.”
No, it isnt. If it were then you have someone who doesnt need to be teaching school.
I have carried a gun for nearly 40 years. In all of that time I have only ever once laid my hand on it. Thank God I didn’t have to fire it, but c’mon, sane people dont shoot other human beings on a whim.
Has anyone actually argued in favor of (actively) arming teachers, as opposed to just not disarming teachers who have a concealed carry permit?
Remember kids, never wish for a bag of holding from the monkey’s paw
~~~faerie self service~~~
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/It-s-absolutely-perjury-Prosecutor-s-affidavit-12738744.php
please to explain why this prosecutor isn’t in jail for attempted murder.
(rhetorical!)
attempted murder.
depraved indifference.
kidnapping.
false imprisonment.
Started watching Flint Town on TK’s recommendation. Michigan Glibs: bigger shithole; Flint or Saginaw?
Consider the Ohio teacher who told a black student that he would be lynched if he wouldn’t be quiet. What if the teacher had been armed? What if the Florida teacher who hosted a White supremacy podcast was armed? What if the Mississippi substitute who encouraged a white student to let himself be hit by a black student “so they can hang him” was armed? What if the Atlanta teacher who told a black student, “Don’t smile at me, man. That’s how people like you get shot,” was armed? Would these incidents have ended with black students getting shot? It is certainly plausible.
What if? I’ll give you a what if.
What if space aliens beamed you up to be a slave in one of their asteroid mines?
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted glibertarian, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
What is the author is exposed a child predator? What if a vigilante mob flays him in the street? What if his family is burned alive?
With enough ifs, we could put Paris in a bottle.
-French proverb
Unpossible. I’ve heard repeatedly that all school teachers are angels who care so much about the children that they teach 22 hours a day for 40 cents an hour.
What if leftist protestors brought garrottes to a Jordan Peterson appearance while calling for him to be locked in the building and the building burnt down?
Oh wait, that actually happened.
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/protester-who-shattered-window-at-jordan-peterson-lecture-found-to-be-carrying-a-garrotte-police
He gets their goat, and they don’t like it.
He speaks the truth and they can’t handle it. Read his book, he’s amazing.
He is articulate but the things he says are not all that insightful. It is mostly common sense stuff that generations past took for granted. Up is up, down is down. To the modern useful idiot it is heresy.
That’s actually what I find so amazing – that what people as recently as 50 years ago would have thought mundane and self-evident. Now, it takes a self-help book.
And even that’s too much for some people to abide.
I haven’t read or listened to too much but the general thrust I got was “stop bothering other people, fix your own shit and improve your situation.” Which I thought was common sense.
Still boggles the mind of my oldest brothers’ two daughters; my niece on my wife’s side, OTOH, gets this stuff almost intuitively. And of course, it appears to drive the modern extreme Left completely bonkers, though I honestly think that, if you sold the book under an author pseudonym of “Barack Obama,” most Lefties would praise the book for its brilliance and erudition.
In other words, the lazy f*cks haven’t even read a summary of it.
I’ll grant that the ideas are common sense, especially to people like us who think about this stuff; but he delves a lot more deeply into the philosophical part of it in the book. He talks about how to live a good life in historical, religious and existential terms then connects it to individual responsibility. It’s definitely not feel good bromides; one of the main theses of the book is that happiness is not the ultimate pursuit of life. That is something that’s foreign to a lot more people than just the snowflakes. It appeals to me since it’s in my wheelhouse, but I’d recommend it to everyone here.
Very true.
I’d also recommend Peterson’s lectures tied to his books MAPS OF MEANING, as well as his biblical ones (easily found on YouTube). As an atheist, I found them very interesting and illuminating.
A prosecutor who wrongfully helped send a Houston man to death row didn’t just withhold evidence but may have also committed perjury, according to multiple lawyers and legal experts.
He meant well. Just put a letter of reprimand in his file for six months, and tell him not to do it again.
~~~faerie self service~~~
Is that what the kids are calling it, these days?
I contemplated an auto-fellatio play on words, but decided it’d be racially insensitive.
Only latins suck their own dicks.
Nitpicking the Second Amendment, ch 6,382
In Heller, Justice Antonin Scalia divided the amendment into a “prefatory clause” (“militia”) and an “operative clause” (“right to keep and bear”). Then, drawing on statutory interpretation texts, he announced that the “militia” language expressed the amendment’s purpose, but that “a prefatory clause does not limit or expand the scope of the operative clause.”
It’s not clear to me that that’s a rule. Statutory interpretation is a useful constitutional tool, but constitutions aren’t statutes, and a one-sentence amendment isn’t a statute with a separate “preamble.” The “militia” clause is an “absolute phrase”; in grammatical germs, it modifies the entire sentence to which it is attached. I am not sure that I think “modification” can never contain “limitation.” It seems to me—as even Scalia wrote—that the words mean “Because a well-regulated militia is necessary etc., the right of the people etc. shall not be infringed”—and that the second part of the sentence doesn’t float very far away from the first.
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That contextual reading is quite enlightening; it strongly suggests to me that the main—indeed, almost exclusive—purpose of the amendment was, in fact, to protect the rights of states to maintain and arm militias. There’s certainly enough evidence to support an argument for some reference to personal possession—but no convincing proof that personal possession was the main focus, or that personal possession was intended to be unqualified.
Except it says, quite plainly, “the right of the people” and not “the right of the states”.
But don’t let that stop you from fellating the all knowing all powerful federal government and cheerleading their efforts to make the entire document toothless and irrelevant.
They’re persistent I’ll give them that.
It’s too bad we have no historical context to ever find out what the founders intended. If only they had written extensively about their purpose in the media of the day! Well, I guess we’ll just have to take this guy’s word for it.
^This^
If only George Mason had told us what he meant by militia.
“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
-George Mason
“A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves …”
-Richard Henry Lee
“And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; …”
-Samuel Adams
“Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.”
-George Washington
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”
-Richard Henry Lee
“The great object is that every man be armed.” and “Everyone who is able may have a gun.”
-Patrick Henry
This could go on all day. Gun grabbers are liars. Everything they say is a lie.
If the founders had penned the second amendment-
“There shall be no restrictions whatsoever on any and all weapons anyone chooses to own. And by no, I mean none. I don’t mean a reasonable amount of restrictions is ok, I mean absolutely zero restrictions.”
There would be progs debating the sentence structure and the true intent of the law.
“Yes, we even mean tanks and grenade launchers. Anyone who wants one or more can buy and keep them.”
“Well, it’s obvious they meant ‘tanks’ in the sense of ‘containers’. Besides, they couldn’t have anticipated the kind of tanks available today.”
Yeah, even taking into account the various grammatical maneuverings and so forth, it’s still pretty clear to me at least that it is literally as well as by implication talking about individual citizens bearing arms. Militias of the time were comprised of volunteers in some cases, in others just the able-bodied male polity of the area, but in all cases the individual members were responsible for their own supplies. Besides which, the authors and signatories of the Constitution were quite aware of the difference between a government-sanctioned standing force and an armed citizenry. If they meant the former, they would have specified the former, although they probably would have assumed it was obvious that a government would assume the right to maintain it’s own army.
in all cases the individual members were responsible for their own supplies
But what of those people who can’t afford the firearms?
Surely a government armament program is in order? Something along the lines of Food Stamps, so nothing fancy – no laser sight, no shoulder thing, military surplus only…
Just imagine if civilian marksmanship program purchases were tax deductible.
The guns would be priced 34% higher.
That’s the kind of pro-hoarder, poor-hating thinking that leads to gun inequality! Laugh it up, US is reaching a firearm gap not seen since the gilded age!
Free M4 + M9 with selective service card?
Sometimes I read stuff like this and think the anti-federalists were right and the Bill of Rights shouldn’t have existed in the first place, because those rights were obvious and putting them in writing allows government to parse them. Then I realize what would happen if we didn’t have the bill of rights.
Eh, I would argue the Anti Federalists were right, because once you create a centralized authority, with centralized taxation, it’s only a matter of when it gets out of control, not if. It doesn’t matter how many rules and laws you make, because if theres One Big Treasury and that One Big Treasury has The Final Say, liberty is dead sooner or later.
Yeah, it’s definantly a good thing the bill of rights exists. Without it, we’d be truly fucked.
Freedom of association is not listed in the bill of rights and it is routinely shut on by the courts and legislators.
What you did there, I see it.
But you know things would be far worse without the 1st.
Yeah, we definantly need th bill of rights. Without it we’d be truly fucked. unenumerated rights are shit on all the time. At least with the numerated ones the worst tendencies of our legislators are occasionally thwarted.
Without a Bill of Rights, life in America would be very similar to life in the UK.
Reflect awhile on the Tree of Woe.
English had it first.
For 1689 some of it is pretty strong stuff, given the doctrines of Divine Right (old) and Absolutism (coming into fashion).
Yep. They had a Bill of Rights. And look where they are today.
Not all Bills of Rights are equal.
Ultimately it depends on the people, not ink on paper. The peoples general values have to reflect what is on the paper. Sadly there are fewer and fewer people for whom that is true.
This is exactly correct. Every country interprets and defends its constitution correctly….just ask them; every spin and every deviation has some “common sense” rationale. So you can’t cat-call in Belgium, wear a burka in Paris, name your kid Dweezel in Berlin…..because freedom doesn’t mean shit if people don’t insist on a high standard.
Scalia, from Heller:
Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.
Sometimes a rope is just a rope.
Apropos of nothing, everything I’ve tried from Dogfish Head Brewing has been fantastic; even brews that I did not enjoy enough to try again were complex and well crafted. I’m enjoying a Kvasir right now.
https://www.dogfish.com/brewery/beer/kvasir
I haven’t had beer/booze in 2 weeks. Tonight might be the night. Dogfish Head sounds good.
That looks Awesome!
I would definitely like to try that.
“upper-class dancer”
Oh yeah
That looks good.
I’ve devoted years of my life to studying such ideas as the “original understanding” or “original public meaning” of constitutional provisions. No matter what anyone tells you, no one (and I certainly include myself) can really know the single meaning of any part of the Constitution at the time it was adopted.
Anyone who claims that the text of the amendment is “plain” has a heavy burden to carry. The burden is even heavier if an advocate argues that the Second Amendment was understood to upend laws against concealed carry or dangerous weapons—both of which were in force in many parts of the country long after it was adopted.
He seems to be having a little bit of cause and effect problem. Just because un-Constitutional laws were passed at one time, that does not negate the Constitution. Or maybe he thinks the Alien and Sedition acts should not have been overturned.
See my comment above containing quotes.
These people are fucking liars. Every goddamned one of them.
Ugh. I forgot my favorite quote
“Those who hammer their guns into plowshares will plow for those who do not.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Reminds me of something a buddy said semi-jokingly a few years ago.
“Why would I store canned goods for an emergency? I have an arsenal of firearms and a closet full of ammo. If the SHTF I’ll just rob the guys who bought up all the Spam.”
Because mad dogs get put down. It’s beans, bullets, band-aids, and buddies. Fools who think that they will resort to banditry are going to be in for a rude awakening.
I’d like to see the cites to concealed carry laws in the colonies/early states. I doubt they exist.
Without a Bill of Rights, life in America would be very similar to life in the UK.
That Australian gun “buyback” comes to mind. “Here’s ten bucks. The state owns those, now.”
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.”
― Lysander Spooner
And now that I am digging through quotes…
“Our main agenda is to have all guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn’t matter if you have to distort the facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.”
-Sara Brady, Chairman, Handgun Control Inc, to Senator Howard Metzenbaum
The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.
“This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!”
-Adolph Hitler
I recently saw someone pointing out that private/smuggled/illicit arms were part of the ghetto and other resistance efforts by Polish Jews. OP was shredded by I feelz takedown: you CANNOT compare….blah blah…because I hate you and your logic is therefore invalid. There’s your answer: some Jezebel word salad = case closed.
I still assert: we are so fucked. I hope to be next to Miss SJW to see the deed when we’re put up against the wall.
Don, We still have The Guns, why so sSerious?
I think y’all are too pessimistic. It’s always been a struggle between those that want to enslave and those that just want to be left alone. It has never been much different than it is now. We have the edge in America. We need to keep it.
Is that first quote a legitimate quote? I don’t doubt that most gun control activists believe that in private, but I’m surprised that was ever mentioned publicly
As far as I can tell, yes. Remember, Sarah’s husband was shot by a nut job and she was a bit unhinged. There are a zillion quotes out there like that and not just from her.
Hell, if you spend some time perusing the personal blogs of lefty writers, journalists, academics etc you will find that every one of them admit to both having some kind of mental disorder and wanting a commie utopia. Liquidating the deplorables comes up rather frequently as well. They want your guns so they can get their boot on your neck. It is as simple as that.
No one in the history of the world wanted to make you defenseless for your own good. They have a plan for the rest of us and if they disarm us we will find out that we dont like it very much.
Never give up your gun.
I think the Sara Brady quote is fake, but this one is real:
“I don’t care about crime, I just want to get the guns.” Senator Howard Metzenbaum, 1994
In other news, the Violent Youth Predator Act of 1996 is an actual law.
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcbogus.html
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The “Socialist America” quote from “Sarah Brady”
“Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us are totally disarmed.”
—Falsely (hilariously?) attributed to Sarah Brady of Handgun Control, Inc. supposedly in The American Educator, published by the American Federation of Teachers (or alternatively, attributed to a speech to AARP, late 1991) [GunCite: Currently, far more commonly cited as The National Educator, January, 1994, Page 3.]
This bit of dialogue is reminiscent of a bad movie, and even if Sarah Brady really were bent on fighting for international socialism, she’s not quite stupid enough to say so out loud! [GunCite comment: The Bradys used to be registered as Republicans. It is unlikely they would harbor a belief in a socialist America. (Sarah Brady is now registered as an independent.) ] Even Lyndon LaRouche couldn’t believe this conspiracy…
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Sorry, Suth, but they
Dammit…
Well, anyway, it appears that Derpe beat me to the link (good on ya).
Holy shit, guys, it’s happening!
Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump to meet, says South Korea
Two of the greatest minds of our age, in a room at last.
Please bring Biden, please bring Biden….
And somehow this is a Russian directed distraction about Stormy Daniels even though the Norks primarily liaise with PRC.
So…bring her and threesome for peace?
As long as “no cameras” rule is enforced, I don’t see the harm.
Are YOU going to pay for surgery when the Secret Service agents gouge out their eyes?
They signed on to take a bullet for The President.
It never said it had to be a lead bullet.
Last I heard from my proggie friends the orange one’s election was a harbinger of a nuclear war with the Norks. As much as I dislike him, I’m losing track of how many times they have been wrong.
Trump could come back with a denuclearized Korean peninsula and the proggies will be complaining about how he fed the Nork peasants the wrong Koi food.
Sounds right.
This is classic stuff right here!
Rodney Dangerfield’s Non-Stop One-Liners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2gw-asbBIM
The man was a national treasure.
This is awesome as well, Don Rickles destroying Reagan at his 2nd Inaugural
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3kJ7VPJnmI
Female FloridaMammal crashes vehicle in the publix parking lot, goes inside and buys more booze… you’re welcome
https://www.wptv.com/news/state/police-drunk-woman-crashes-car-in-parking-lot-buys-more-wine
That is a rough fifty.
She put a lot of work into looking that used up.
No shit. Fifty what?
Fiddy cent trick
Don’t if the link will work, but is it this guy?
wow. That is weapons grade stupidity.
About that coming Blue Wave…
Please, please keep harping on gun control, Dems. If anything, quit being pikers about it. Really ratchet up that rhetoric. All gun owners are murderers! The blood is on their hands!
Dems say “done and done”.
https://bearingarms.com/tom-k/2018/03/08/connecticut-governor-calls-nra-terrorist-organization/
I have got to think red-state Dems are privately raging at their blue-state chums.
The other side-effect is authoritarian socons tend to run wild in red states. I don’t have to be a Dem to hate them.
^^^This^^^
Yeah, that’s the tragedy. It’s a see-saw with bad choices on either end.
They need to take up the tranny bathroom cause again. Oh, and have Pelosi double down on the evil tax cuts. I dont know how they could lose.
100 years too long.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/daylight-saving-time-is-almost-here-—-and-its-turning-100-years-old/ar-BBJWSix?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
Word. I heard Florida looking to do year round.
I’d be delighted to be done with it.
I think I’m beginning to understand why I find the Trump presidency so off-putting- it really is being run like a reality TV show, and I am (to put it mildly) not a fan of reality TV shows.
Reality TV is why I have always despised Trump. Reality TV is not my thing at all and I think a turning point in history to us becoming Idiocracy. NPR on my drive a few days ago mentioned how his round table sessions are just like the Apprentice. (I will have to take their word for it as I never watched the Apprentice) like when he blurted out, ‘take their guns, courts take too long, take their guns and then get due process.’ They may be on to something there and I sure hope his Trumpness rethinks that position, but sorry, I am still glad we don’t have Herself. Yes, on this Womans Day, I say fuck that cunt and every sleazy corrupt diseased polyp of a person that surrounds her and sings her praise. Trump has not been as bad a President as I feared and frankly the lulz are a +1. Ya, the Tariffs are idiotic but that hasn’t played out yet. Or maybe I am delusional.
*Maybe all that was mentioned above, but I will be fucked if I am reading 450 comments right now.
oops, missed closing a tag there.
I’m wirh you about hating Herself and being better off with him than her. I still have deep reservations about the guy. His gun talk and now the tariffs just feed my uneasiness.
Mississippi Legislature Approves Bill Banning Abortions After 15 Weeks
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/08/591972992/mississippi-legislature-approves-bill-banning-abortions-after-15-weeks
alternative headline: France has stricter abortion laws than Mississippi
The Glib Fit posts show while I am work and I am excited about my little victory so I am sharing now.
I have a pair of knee boots that I wore before Christmas. They were really tight and hard to zip. I’ve worn them twice in the last two weeks. They are not only easy to zip, they are slouching. Every time I stand up, I have to pull the boots back up. YAY!
Good for you! I moved (looking down) clockwise on another belt loop last week. I have not been able to get back into the routine of myfitnesspal logging as I hoped. It was much easier when I sat a computer for the majority of the day. I hope to set up my usuals this weekend to make it easier. I am usually way under calorie count and I find that is a moral booster.
Pics.
Asking for a friend.
You are selfless.
Why do you think they call me “heroic”?
Good work Tulip.
Congratulations! You’re doing better then me these past couple of months.
I don’t track calories or anything else and I don’t weigh or measure myself. I just focus on eating more vegetables and getting more exercise. The oyster way I know it’s working is when I notice something like this. So, happy dance!
I’m interested in a diet of oysters.
just don’t eat any slugs
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2018/03/06/rugby-player-who-swallowed-garden-slug-as-dare-fights-australia-government-over-health-bills.html
Damn.
That sucks.
Sigh. Stupid autocorrect.
Well done!
Amanda Marcotte graces us with her august presence once more.
https://www.salon.com/2018/03/08/alt-right-vs-youtube-hitting-white-supremacists-where-it-hurts/
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More mainstream groups, running interference for white nationalists as they typically do, blamed the “trusted flaggers program.” The Daily Caller, the Heritage Foundation, and Tucker Carlson have all claimed the Southern Poverty Law Center was a trusted flagger and denounced YouTube for supposedly letting the venerable anti-racist organization target white supremacist content for removal.
In reality, YouTube isn’t taking down conspiracy-theory videos and white supremacist rants efficiently enough, but this panicked reaction speaks volumes about why YouTube, far more than Facebook or Twitter, has become the go-to online platform for spreading the far-right message.
…
This matters, said Ryan of Media Matters, because the “alt-right” is focused primarily on recruiting young people and there’s “a readymade audience of young people” who “think of YouTube the way [older generations] think of our cable programs on TV.” If a young person watches a right-wing video out of curiosity, she noted, the autoplay feature on the site will immediately queue up a related video. Before you know it, that viewer has consumed “five or six videos with those same points being repeated over and over again,” making the arguments seem more acceptable, or at least less outlandish, than they otherwise would.
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I included the link, but I advise against clicking it. Their stupid site nearly crashed my browser.
The Heritage Foundation, noted front group for neo-Nazis.
Sure, Amanda. Of course they are.
oh, how I laughed
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Most Steam users assume that people with profiles like Giampa’s are just trolling, Mindcrime said. The hate speech and repeated references to troll symbols ― like Pepe the Frog or Kekistan, a fake country born of an online meme whose flag resembles the Nazi war flag ― arose in darker parts of the internet, like the website 4chan, where many also think of it all as a joke.
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Oh noes! Not that terrible 4chan!
[cue Peter and the Wolf music]
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/steam-video-games-nazis_us_5aa006cae4b0e9381c146438
Triggered.
today I learned
diet comes from a Greek word that means way of living.
and the full form of a famous quote
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I want my lawyer, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God, because it means that I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often. … If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. [Voltaire]
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Does any one know about someone named QAnon? A relatively sane friend said to check it out, but I can’t find the Source..
It’s a conspiracy theory.
Looks kinda silly.
Obama being Obama. He is getting a Netflix show, I assume Zoolander is next. http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/08/media/barack-obama-netflix/index.html
Good argument for electing older folks as president. They won’t be bored and seeking attention for as many decades afterwards.
GWB has done a pretty good job of staying in the background though.
Maybe Obama needs a ranch. LOL. Just pictured the Lightbringer driving a backhoe or saddling up a horse.
All the Good Presidents already had ranches, Just Say’n
True. That’s why their driving and riding around their ranches weren’t obviously posed photo ops.
As opposed to Obama and the shotgun. He was clearly so completely uncomfortable.
He looked much more at home on a bike .
Did MLW make that cover?
Like Dukakis in a tank.
Or a TANK!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xH9_9znxWM
REMEMBER ME! REMEMBER ME! REMEMBER ME!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcRG_jm9rv8
Just be grateful it’s not on HBO after dark.
When you’re a general, you can salute however you want.
Gettin’ pretty close to the 3 Stooges eye poke defense there.
wooo WOO woowoo whoopwhoopwhoop!
The City of Lost Children is weirder than I remember it.
That is all.
I loved the weirdness, but not the Frenchness. I only watched it because Ron Pearlman was in it, so I thought it would be in English (cuz no way Ron Pealman speaks French) but then he played a mute.
There’s an English dub where he’s the only one who is actually speaking.
Enjoy?
So into the Roaring 40s they went, Waakzaamheid, a Man O’ War of 100 guns chasing the Surprise of 28 guns, an ill wind and a following Sea, reaching 100 feet in height. On they went, a quarter mile between peaks, Chasers fore and aft, up and fire, down and reload, soon enough the Foremast of the Waakzaamheid folded and on the next rising swell, She Broached, and all hands were lost, 480 good Men, Sailors lost for nothing but vanity………..
J.A. Aubrey
I guess not so vigilant.
The Ship rolled over and just drowned, Horrible Death real fast
Great “Moonlight MIdnight” version OMWC, thanks!
The Jerry Garcia Band used to play great versions of that tune all the time.
Loyal dog won’t leave hospital where owner died 5 months ago
Gay.
So, Happy?
Near my office. Hachiko.
That one is the famous one. I imagined at the time it was a one-off, but seems to be heartbreakingly more often than we know.
That was my first experience of the amazing politeness of random strangers on our first trip. We came out the wrong gate and I was looking between my phone map and the station map when a Japanese lady asked if she could help us find something. I said we were looking for the statue of Hachiko and she said to come with her. Led us through throngs of people around the station to the plaza, here it is, and then disappeared back to her own life.
Australia, dog on the tuckerbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_on_the_Tuckerbox
Dogs are good people.
The poor dog….
IKR??
They couldn’t bring the dog to the morgue to ID the body, but I wish the poor thing had closure. The fact that they were homeless together makes my suspect that their bond was very close, since it was literally a matter of daily survival for the two of them. I hope the poor guy gets a good home soon.
I’m going to do PMs for Cabinets to go Corporate HQ Tomorrow, but first I shall fly this, The Edge,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/a5OF42HixVadlrxg2
Why are you building cabinets? I thought you did HVAC?
Since when is baseball a contact sport?
That guy thought he was playing a real sport! Bah!
I’d be fine with baseball not being a contact sport if they allowed indian tags (where a defensive player can throw the ball at an offensive player and if the ball hits the offensive player he is out) But the way baseball is played is useless, if you can’t hit somebody it’s not a sport.
So stock Car Racing IS a sport
/ IMO
Rubbing is racing.
That’s the way kickball was played when I was in grade school (50+ years ago). Of course the ball was like a foot in diameter and made of rubber. (Do they play kickball any more?)
When I was in school 20years ago that was the way it was played. Now I don’t know, that’s probably deemed too dangerous.
That’s an awful lot of ads for a youtube video.
WTF was that? If the pitcher wasn’t ejected then I hope his coach benched him.
Nestle Waters – Big and Controversial Usually this guy is pretty big, but damn the logical fails here are abundant. “Like When Flint Michigan is desperate for water. And they’re forced to pay high prices for their water, that Nestle just extracted from a few miles away and put into bottles.” Oh, was Nestle the the ones with lead contaminated water? “…there has been accusations of them draining all the water from certain regions and selling back to the locals, so they’re forced into buying there water and instead of just obtaining it for free.” Oh, you can get water for free, but if you sell that water it’s different, some how? “Along those lines, in 2005 the CEO of Nestle said he believed ‘Water is not a human right’. That’s not a friendly statement. If Santa Claus himself said that we would all instantly hate him.” Who is this we? Not me.
* Should be ‘Usually this guy is pretty good’
The original Poland Spring wells were said to have pulled waters from very shallow aquifers, not far away from a very large asphalt car park.
From a water purity point of view, it was fine, which is a testament to the efficacy of natural filtration. It caused them quite a PR problem.
For a number of years, Dasani was bottled at Pepsico Bottling plants throughout the USA. In at least one documented case, the water was taken from mains water, minimally processed to eliminate contaminants such as chlorine.
Bottled water is *often* an utter scam.
I know that, but those aren’t the complaints raised, as they were with Penn and Teller.
I loved that show. When watching the prostitution show they did, I realized that I used to hook up with the prostitute that they interviewed that loved her job. She had a bad wig and sunglasses, but it was her. We had a good thing going in two different countries. The first time I met her she told me about her desire to fuck for money.
As one of the more personally conservative (not politically conservative) members of the comentariat I’ll just say, ew.
Ha! I now see that the beer has had an effect on me . I met her before she became a hooker, she just mentioned it the first few days we met that she had plans to become one. I found it a strange thing to say, but was having fun. In the end what doomed the relationship was that I didn’t want to do live private sex shows or two guy threesomes.
I had an ill-advised fling briefly with a guy who eventually told me that I reminded him of a prostitute that he used to “frequent”, with my red hair and other attributes. That was the end of that relationship.
Not a compliment.
ALso, #ewtoo, CPRM. #ewtoo.
Nestle controversial? Sure. Are the politicians and bureaucrats with massive budgets and resources who are in a position to evaluate the impact of taking millions of gallons of water out of an aquifer at the expense of the people they should be serving worthy of criticism? Sure.
Water resource management is a well-established discipline in academia and industry. If indeed, water is a human right then it behooves the people who steward it for the benefit of society not to simply permit an industry (whether it’s Nestle, or some small commercial operation) to arrogate unto themselves sufficient resources to cause a shortage.
You could argue that all the participants in the bottled water business are acting in exactly the way one might expect:
* Nestle is seeking to maximize profits by exploiting an arguably scarce resource
* Nestle’s customers are buying the product despite lots of information showing them that they can get almost the same product for virtually no cost
* Public servants are stupid, ignorant and negligent
You lost me there, as did the video in dispute.
I don’t believe it is. If you move to the Salton Sea, don’t come crying to me demanding your right to water.
But hypothetically, if someone was to argue convincingly that it is a right, the first call should be on the people who keep telling you that unless you keep re-electing them, society will degrade into some kind of George Millerian dystopia.
N.B. And in the case of Flint, public servants are stupid, ignorant, negligent and deserve to be flogged, tarred and feathered by their constituents who they failed.
And yet they get re-elected.
Basically, the fault of this video lies in what water rights are and how they should be distributed. Where I live the only price for my water is the cost of electricity to run the pump. And the video seems fine with this, whether I waste this water or not. However, if the same is true of an entity that then sells that water OMFG THINK OF THE CHILDRENZ!!1! If water is ‘free’ for a person who lets all their faucets run 24/7 and that is fine with you, but you turn around and a problem with that same person, or the company that person sold their water rights to, selling the water, their is a fault in your logic circuits.
It’s the problem with “Company Man”s schtick in general.
If you watch his more general submission on Nestle as a food brand (and seemingly Mars), he expresses amazement that a large multi-national, diversified food combine should own both human food, and pet food brands, as though the proximity of the two in some way undermines their legitimacy.
He then goes on to expose that Hot Pockets AND Lean Pockets are Nestle brands, which I would have thought to be somewhat obvious.
Those 4 different pizza brands? They’re ALL Nestle brands. Pass my fainting couch.
I may be being oversensitive here, but this is the free-market analogue of ‘Darkies are stealing our jerbz!’. A company becomes successful because it’s profitable, and has greater ability to expand and diversify into new areas. It’s not evidence of any conspiracy greater than a wish to make the company more successful to benefit its shareholders.
Yeah, I’ve had some general complaints on his approach before, I just thought this one was the most obtuse and in need of a good glib ribbing.
You could certainly argue that in a location which has adequate to abundant water, that the inhabitants have a right to expect their public representatives to take reasonable steps to maintain the supply of potable, clean water.
No, still not a right, just another responsibility.
This is one of those things I’m going to encourage.
There are very strong arguments against this sort of nonsense, but not now.
Let them speak.
Midafternoon/late night musing. My brother told me about a chicken farm he delivered a set of truck tires to when he was in college. The guy asked him if he wanted to see how they slaughtered the chickens. Took my brother to a large room with a circular enclosure in the middle and the opened a gate, funneling 100 or so chickens into the enclosure. He then turned off the lights and it became pitch black. “Watch closely. It’s goes fast.” the guy whispered and then flicked on the lights. A large, long blade that extended from the center of the room to the edge of the enclosure whipped around, lopping off the heads of all the chickens that popped their heads up in reaction to the flash of light. A few chickens survived because they kept their heads down.
My brother may have been full of shit with this story, but the moral stands: Keep your heads down, boys, and don’t react to the light.
Yeah, that is full of shit. My grandfather was a butcher, he retired before government regs took him out of business. But he was still butchering chickens when I was a wee lad. I learned early on what a chicken with it’s head cutoff does, reminds me of the current political climate.
My brother is a world class bullshitter and I fucking love it. He doesn’t do it to self aggrandize. Just make a story a little more interesting.
Your grandfather won
*Dons sunglasses *
The Geek of the week award.
He didn’t eat the chicken heads! Also, Freak of The Week.
Oh, and 12 noon CST, your legacy continues, so stick around or check on that.
Looking forward to it.
Most important event of the evening: Queensland roll WA for 93 in the second innings almost guaranteeing a home Sheffield Shield final. Much Irish Whiskey: I’m off to bed.
Ok, leave ya’ll with the only Oleander song you may have heard.
Probably nothing will come of it but someone actually tipped off the ATF and they are “investigating” the illegal creation of a short barreled rifle.
http://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/mycity/virginia-beach/atf-investigating-after-congressional-candidate-cut-apart-ar-15/291-526898428
My questions to her; “Why are you so worried about an inanimate object in your possession? Do you not trust yourself, or, your husband? Are you not able to secure your property? How does your emotionalism remotely make you a viable candidate?”
Fuck the animist.
Feds killed Randy Weaver’s wife (while holding her baby) and his son for doing the same thing.
See y’all in the afternoon links. Boarding for the USA. Goodbye continent where men don’t wash their hands when exiting the restroom.
Wait…that is done on this continent?
Early morning Twittage
Another change of career where he has no experience, but everyone will love him?
I don’t know. He was head producer in an administration that was arguably one of the most corrupt in US history and has people believing not a smidge of corruption so he may have the chops for Hollywood.
Goooooob morning frens!
Links aren’t up this early, are they?
*Sighs, kicks rock*
*rock flies by face*
Hey!
#metoo