SP and Webdominatrix are on a road trip to visit my mother in Del Boca Vista. This leaves me all alone here, and, rascal that I am, hijinx are ensuing. While they spent last night drinking with SugarFree as he spun yarns of horror, I was taking more direct action.
Anyway, enough about us, let’s look at what’s going on in the world.
Does this sound familiar? Brave officers of the law wait outside, while inside a killer does his thing. But all of our heroes in blue got home safely, so that’s the important thing. This, of course, could not have actually happened in California, because they have gun laws which should be a model for the rest of us. And “Wong” does not sound like the name of a young white male, and we all know they’re the only ones who do this shit.
I suspect that not many here need convincing that any politician named Kennedy is presumably a boneheaded drunk who is a danger to any women nearby. But Joe Kennedy III may have won the prize, showing that Team Blue icons don’t even bother pretending any more. They are statist thugs, through and through, who are happy to put people in cages for offending their own set of preferences.
Recalling his days working as a state prosecutor when Massachusetts voted in 2008 to decriminalize marijuana, Kennedy said the decision affected the ability of police officers to search and seize other illegal items, such as guns, from vehicles. “If you smelled [marijuana] in a car, you could search a car,” Kennedy said. “When it became decriminalized, you couldn’t do that.”
My suggestion to young Joe is to take a convertible ride through Dealy Plaza. Nice and slowly.
WTF are the Browns doing? Trying to win a game next year???
I remember that this was a big story when I was a teenager, but it was a guy on LSD, which was the Panic Drug at the time. Turned out to be an urban legend. So I’m kinda skeptical that this one is real.
Katy Tompkins, mother to Kaylee and six other kids, said she supposes Kaylee first began utilized meth inadvertently a year ago, when somebody gave her cannabis bound with the medication.
So we get a Drug Panic Two-Fer.
I read the Kurt Vonnegut book. This did not end well. Busy, busy, busy!
Old Guy Music! This is not only funny, it is some fucking terrific guitar playing.
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Fuck Slobberin’ Joe “Carmex” Kennedy III. Law and Order Neo-Puritan scum.
“Kennedy said the decision affected the ability of police officers to search and seize other illegal items, such as guns, from vehicles. “If you smelled [marijuana] in a car, you could search a car,” Kennedy said. “When it became decriminalized, you couldn’t do that.””
Christ, what an asshole.
Kennedy loves police states. Pshaw, whoever said left wing authoritarian tendencies are a rarity hasn’t met Slobberin’ Joe or Moobs Schumer.
Why not love the police state if you are him? It isn’t like any of the Kennedy’s are going to get rung up on small shit.
He could have clouds of reefer smoke pouring out his car and every cop will let him go on his merry way. But shit laws like that help them hassle the shit out of the normies.
One of the members of House Kennedy crashed his car into the reflecting pool drunk and high. Nothing was done to him.
It’s rare that you see a politician so succinctly explain how the drug war has led to an erosion of civil liberties in all aspects of life.
Speaking of L&O, holy shit it has become extra-crispy insufferable with the deliberate insertions of prog-speak in the script. They’ve dropped the mask.
Even on Chicago PD (I don’t watch these shows. My wife does and I sometimes catch the dialogue in the background while I masturbate). The other day they were listening to a criminal ranting something along the lines of ‘for too long journalists have gotten away with lies…’ Sounds like they’re implicating people who question the press are crazy. I may be reading too much into this…..but my hunch tells me no.
What are you, some kind of anarchist?
Apparently to Hollywood I am.
I’m impressed Rufus. I can’t believe you can pick up on TV dialogue when you are flogging it. I would have thought that the sobbing would have blocked it out.
I gave up on L&O about the time Michael Moriarty quit, and since then have generally avoided police procedurals as propaganda. We did watch some Blue Bloods for a while, but that’s just because of Selleck.
Principals, not principles?
Meth laced pot? Wtf?
Never heard of that before.
Neither has anyone else.
I never laced my pot with meth. Snort a binger, then light a joint. Me circa 1994.
Hey e, how do I listen to your spotify channel? Do I have to be a paying subscriber or is that available to us freebie users? I couldn’t find you there.
Im not sure about freebie users. Heres a link to my playlist Jangle Noise https://open.spotify.com/user/egould310/playlist/20QahoaMym4xptW1UNzNpk?si=X5TFmblqSGac9HtVBIsKsA
My profile/user name is gould310
Have a listen!
Fuck. User name m/profile is egould310, same as this site and all my social media v
Ok, I had to go through the website and follow you. For some reason when I searched you in the app you did not appear. I will give it a listen thanks. I appreciate others music knowledge as I have no taste.
I grew up in Juggalo territory, I can assure you it is a thing.
“Juggalo Territory” ….is that Like “Indian Country”?
Probably more like Bat Country.
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Does this sound familiar? Brave officers of the law wait outside, while inside a killer does his thing.
The killer was another hero veteran.
Heroes killing heroes while heroes do naught?
The Browns also traded Kizer away for the Packers’ malcontent CB.
Fuck you, Brett Hundley, and fuck you MM for thinking your QB room was OK and not even trying to find out what you had in Callahan until two minutes to go in the final game.
I’m not convinced about the Eagles acquiring Bennett. He sounds like a head case. Whatever happened to that story about him allegedly being roughed up by cop for no reason? I seem to recall the chief of police saying it was bull shit?
But this management deserves the benefit of the doubt and he’s definitely a good player.
The buzz is that he’s a locker room cancer, as well.
That shit he pulled when he arrested is not normal behaviour in my view.
He’s good when healthy.
And that has been the rub.
He’s also 33 years old. That was dumb trade, because at best you’re getting a 33 year old rotational pass rusher who’s a LR cancer, and you gave up pick and a prospect to do it.
Like Bennett would play the same role Chris Long plays, except Chris Long is a great dude and not injured.
I get the fuck you to McCarthy. But Hundley? Sure, he didn’t get the job done, but that’s harsh.
Now, if he failed at his job and was an asshole while failing, a la Ryan Leaf, I get it.
And “Wong” does not sound like the name of a young white male
You are technically correct. It is well known that it takes two Wong’s to make a white.
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*drops gloves and applauds*
I love it. 2 comments deep and no narrow gays.
Oh yeah?!
*narrows gaze*
Aren’t narrow gays called “otters”?
*looks at scale, runs away in tears*
The Glibfits thread is *that* way, dude.
Harsh.
…
I approve.
Start wearing more vertical stripes, dude.
One of my all-time favorite movies, The Mysterious Mr. Wong, improbably starring Bela Lugosi in the title role as the fiendish Chinese criminal mastermind. The dialogue is great, if you go for “snappy banter” movies. It’s a product of it’s era (1935), and the casual racism is breathtaking. Even the Irish beat cop, of all people, is cracking on the Chinese.
[ Hardbitten Editor ] “Have you ever heard of a Chinaman named Wong?”
[ Fiesty But Brilliant Young Reporter ] “Have I ever heard of a Chinaman not named Wong.”
SP and I have been binging stuff from that era, and that movie was one of them. Hilariously bad. We’ve also enjoyed the Keye Luke Wongs. I like how the white characters refer to Wong or Chan (in those films) as “Chop Suey.” Reminds me of my nickname, “Kreplach.”
With regard to the term “Chinaman” specifically, being ignorant of its history, it doesn’t sound racist at all.
/shitlord
I know this is a content-free reply, but I have to ask:
Fuck that entire inbred multi-generation trust fund living horde.
How dare a businessman profit from a federal prohibition.
That motherfucker is the one who crashed his car into the Reflecting Pool while drunk and high.
Well duh – doesn’t that prove he knows how bad drugs are? M’kay
The fuck is a “first cousin once removed?” Are they saying second cousin?
No. “Removed” is about generations, “First, second, third…” is about blood distance. Your mother’s 1st cousin is your 1st cousin once removed. They’re still your 1st cousins because you still the same grandparents. Your 2nd cousins have the same great-grandparents but not the same grandparents.
Oh wow. I’ve been using 2nd, 3rd, etc. cousins wrong all these years. For instance, I considered myself and my dad’s 1st cousin to be 2nd cousins, but we are actually 1st, once removed. Interesting. Thanks HM!
But all of our heroes in blue got home safely, so that’s the important thing. – I though you Americans had special pensions and benefits for cops explicitly because they risk their lives. this sound kinda of against that.
Are police pensions a thing in Romanja?
yep. Many end up retiring early with huge pensions and take another job. Early like 45 and shit. Special pension in Romania are absurd. Cops military prosecutors judges get pensions that can be 10 times the pension of someone who worked 40 years in a factory
I mean there were people who were tortures during communism who still got a pension after communism fell, but mostly because the new regime was the old one re branded and they took cadre of their own
Disgusting. Pensions for public sector workers should be abolished.
Fortunately the Army is moving that way….401(k) style.
It is a little disappointing that you can’t roll over if you had 13 years or more. Now I gotta make 6 more years or it’s a bit of a kick in the nuts.
Something I learned from the book “Shadowbosses: How Government Sector Unions Rob Taxpayers Blind” –
Some cities have an arrangement where an employee who quits to go work at the union can continue to have their pension re-calculated every time they get a raise from the union. So, a city employee who retires will get 70% (or whatever the rate is) if their salary based on their salary at the time of departure. But if that person takes a job at the AFSCME or SEIU and ends up making four times as much as they did with the city, the city now pays the pension based on the salary that the union is paying them.
Shit like this is why so many states are going to be bankrupted by pension costs.
I recall a scandal in Chicago a few years ago where city employees would “work” one (1) day for a union at a hugely inflated salary, and get paid their pension based on that one day of “work”.
“Specialists trust that the meth she smoked not long ago was likewise bound, with a synthetic that made her daydream.
She thought the world was ‘topsy turvy’ and heard voices that advised her to ‘forfeit her eyes’ with a specific end goal to make it to paradise.”
A “synthetic” that causes schizophrenia days later?
I am now having a glass of Saperavi from Moldova. Anyone else started drinking?
This implies we stopped drinking.
*applause*
My favorite line from Joe Walsh: I was only drunk once, for 17 years.
I can attest that he was drunk at blossom music center circa 86-87 as he played half the (very short) show lying on his back.
Timbrus from Purcari their biggest producer. Kinda of jammy on the nose for me but ok tasted decent tannin and better with food. I gave it 3.5 stars on vivino though maybe I was generous
I had a screwdriver and a shot of decaf espresso mixed with Banfi grappa. Almost out of this grappa and it is delicious.
Pie – I found some Romanian wines last night at a store not too terribly far from home. I will end up getting the best they have, once I remember to bring my list with me.
You should get a ribbon or a medal from the Romanian Chamber of Vitners.
“…Trapped in the rigid structure of diamonds formed deep in the Earth’s crust, scientists have discovered a form of water ice that was not previously known to occur naturally on our planet.”
Wo, wo, wo. WO CAMEL!
I have it on good authority that science can be ‘settled’?
Observation: That article – surprisingly – is a combination of lousy journalism and lousy science, although there are too many degrees of freedom in my model to determine the proportion of each.
As soon as you read
you know something’s amiss, because the oxygen atoms do no such thing, the structure of ice is based on the relationship of molecules to each other. While excitation of the molecules via energy will cause the 105 degree angle in the H-O-H bond to flex, nobody but nobody is going to see any kind of ice made from water where that angle affects the resulting ice.
Now, on to specifics. Pure Ice-Seven is about half as dense again than Ice-One (‘fridge ice), but it can be formed at near ambient temperatures by pressures of about 5 GPa, which means that you could form Ice-Seven in natural cavitation, or in unusual near-surface circumstances events. Ice-Seven is reported to be metastable at ambient pressure, so once formed, it’s plausible that it would hang around a while. Naturally-occurring Ice-Seven is likely to be contaminated with any or all common ionic elements such as sodium, calcium, magnesium, chlorine, phosphate etc and there seems to be some evidence that these can increase the stability and density of Ice-Seven too.
And here you just highlighted how easy it is to mislead the general population ignorant of science all the way down until they set up ‘I fuckin love science’ sites.
Newspapers really should stick with talking about people.
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Glib-Anniversary.mp4
… waist patiently for Swissy’s condemnation – a sole period in a Swissy post means “GIF Incoming!”
Oh. That was unexpected. Atypical to be sure.
I are not smart enuf to figur how embed videoz.
Let me see if this works. Without SP around, this is stone knives and bear skins.
edit: nope. I’m a tard.
Probably not a good idea anyway. It punishes people on metered connections.
Look at the giant noggin on Number 6 here. Oh ya smart guy? What is the angle of the molecular bonds in Natty Ice?
I only know about natural materials, and if anything could be called unnatural, it’s Natty Ice.
The angles are clockwise. Don’t you even science, bro?
“Ice-nine is a fictional material that appears in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle. Ice-nine is described as a polymorph of water which instead of melting at 0 °C (32 °F), melts at 45.8 °C (114.4 °F). When ice-nine comes into contact with liquid water below 45.8 °C (thus effectively becoming supercooled), it acts as a seed crystal and causes the solidification of the entire body of water, which quickly crystallizes as more ice-nine. As people are mostly water, ice-nine kills nearly instantly when ingested or brought into contact with soft tissues exposed to the bloodstream, such as the eyes or tongue.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
I’ll take your Ice-nine and give you the real one. Much more boring.
I read the Kurt Vonnegut book.
Which one was that ‘Cats Cradle”? I read All his books in high school, tried to re-read ‘Breakfast of Champions’ recently and couldn’t get past his bleeding heart crap.
“Love, Simon Is a Groundbreaking Gay Movie. But Do Today’s Teens Actually Need It?
The movie faces a double bind. Young queer people in bad situations, for whom it could represent a meaningful piece of affirmation, might well find its stabs at relatability fairly ludicrous. As we watch Simon’s nurturing parents giving him a new car, parked outside their picturesque suburban home, he intones in voice-over narration, “I’m just like you.” Sure thing, Simon! But those kids who were met with support when they came out are probably too sophisticated for Love, Simon–so much so that its vision of how good it feels for a masculine, traditionally attractive bro to receive encouragement might not resonate at all.
A milestone that feels overdue–the first mainstream teen comedy foregrounding a gay character–may have been outpaced by real life. Can a love story centered around a gay teen who is very carefully built to seem as straight as possible appeal to a generation that’s boldly reinventing gender and sexuality on its own terms?”
time.com/5190982/love-simon-groundbreaking-gay-movie
Groundbreaking Gay Movie
So.
Tedious.
Next up, “Love, Growlus. A groundbreaking furry movie“, because nothing is more important than honoring the bravery of brave historically oppressed minority groups.
Sorry if any of our Glibertariat are actually in one (or more) of these brave, historically oppressed minority groups and feel offended by my speech, but this kind of stuff really chaps my hairy, pallid, flabby ass.
This was a groundbreaking gay movie.
Like I’m going to click on that. Nice try, HM.
BTW, I thought your front page post for your most recent My Fetish was brilliant.
Thank you.
This writer sounds genuinely surprised that not all gay men are genderfuck activists or something. Because those are the only relatable ones.
I get the feeling that the literary class is so self – centered that the only way they even notice the individual attributes of other people is if it’s incredibly over the top.
Back in my day we only had to deal with this – https://youtu.be/nO5PC-rBsK8
For the love of properly roasted espresso beans….
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?
I see someone has got into the Illy Dark Roast this morning
Illy tastes good but it lacks punch and panache in my opinion.
Get the dark roast variety, it is much harder to find but it is delicious. Not the red coloured swill.
Yeh, the red one is just too weak.
Trump’s desolate America
Of the 313,000 jobs that were added last month, 92,000 were in the construction and manufacturing sectors. Another 50,000 were from retailers that were hiring.
“Blue-collar sectors drove these gains, led by mining and construction. Manufacturing is now outpacing the economy overall, and even retail had a strong February,” said Jed Kolko, chief economist with job search site Indeed, in a note titled “Almost Nobody Left Behind in February’s Jobs Report.”
The “professional and business services” sector also added 50,000 jobs. This group includes many office jobs — lawyers, accountants and advertising and marketing people, for example.
The financial services sector added 28,000 jobs, led by the insurance industry as well as Wall Street jobs in the commodities contracts, securities and investment businesses.
“The breadth of these job gains is really remarkable and it really shows that the rising tide is lifting all boats,” said Katie Nixon, chief investment officer for Northern Trust Wealth Management.
When will our long national nightmare end?
2024
“Kennedy said the decision affected the ability of police officers to search and seize other illegal items, such as guns, from vehicles. “If you smelled [marijuana] in a car, you could search a car,” Kennedy said.
Cop turns to partner. “Smell that, Buddy?”
Partner says, “You bet I do. I could smell Hoppe’s Number 9 from a mile away. Out of that car, and keep your hands where I can see ’em, scumbag.”
“This week, Congressional Democrats released a detailed tax hike plan that they promised to implement if given majority control of the House and Senate after the 2018 midterm elections. So much for the crocodile tears about the deficit–Democrats want to raise taxes not to reduce the debt, but rather to spend that tax hike money on boondoggle projects.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanellis/2018/03/09/democrats-release-tax-hike-plan/
Oh. How surprising.
It’s almost as if they are completely tone deaf.
2020 is Trump’s to lose if the economy keeps chugging along. I was out visiting a vendor the other day – injection mold company. He had his best year ever in 2017, added some expensive new equipment and another shift. There are an awful lot of these stories out there.
My Swiss masters get a crafty gleam in their eyes when they talk about the US…We have crossed the 50% of the profit in the entire world comes from here line and show no signs of slowing down.
One of the C-Suite is a very grumpy Trump hater….and she had to reassess her assumptions for inflation and growth almost immediately. Let her heart get in the way of her head. At least the revisions are toward the good…
We have crossed the 50% of the profit in the entire world comes from here
In all seriousness, is that correct?
If so, how do you count the profit and assign it to the US?
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
It won’t.
Ordinarily, I’d say we’re overdue for a recession/contraction. But the usual business cycle was so effed up by the Big Dump of ’08 and monetary and government policy since then, I’m not sure. I think we have a lot of pent-up growth, but the monetary situation concerns me greatly. As ever, the greatest mystery is the timing of the next significant downturn.
I see black swans all over the place.
On a meth bender?
Kidding. I think the black swans are on the monetary side, which was thoroughly buttfucked, long term, by Helicopter Ben and his mini-me Yellen. I don’t see how we avoid some serious inflation and an associated contraction as borrowing gets more expensive and money is sucked out of the equity markets into the higher-interest bond market, by as ever, the question is when? I thought it would have started years ago.
How much pressure can the bond market take before it breaks? If the US doesn’t have any respect for it’s own currency, why and how long should other countries? I can’t predict how the unraveling will happen, but I can’t see a pleasant way that it will unwind.
Inflation is what worries me as well.
I could handle inflation. It’s stagnation that is coming, IMHO.
Nothing shows how far up their own asses they are after Obama than openly advertising and trumpeting a tax hike before the midterms.
Do they want me to vote for the lesser of two evils? Because this is how you get me to vote for the lesser of two evils.
I might hold m’ nose and vote. These idiots can actually stir me to get off the couch here in TEAM BLUE country,
Didn’t Mondale try that? Or was it Dukakis? That worked out well for them.
Special pension in Romania are absurd. Cops military prosecutors judges get pensions that can be 10 times the pension of someone who worked 40 years in a factory
Disappearing the enemies of the state is a hard job.
Pie should run for office in Romania and use Glib jargon.
I’d donate to his campaign. “Dark Foreign Munny!”
pleacă salivă!
Did I get that right?
I vote Sugarfree for speechwriter.
“Our Opinion: Warren must resolve debate on heritage
There are now so many commercial DNA heritage-tracking labs in business that they advertise on television. The going rate for one of the most popular tests is $99. All the senator needs to do is spit into a tube, wait a few weeks and get her answer. No matter if the test came up negative or positive, it would constitute a plus for Warren and her political hopes.
Were she to test positive for Native American DNA, it would permanently resolve the issue — while possibly shutting down President Trump.
Should the test come up negative, it would be an opportunity for the senator to perform an act rarely seen among politicians: an admission of her error and a full-throated apology to Native American tribes and anyone else offended by her spurious claim. By facing the truth and taking responsibility for it, she would disarm her enemies and show potential voters that she was human and capable of mistakes, just like them. Handled properly, it could become a testimonial to her integrity and truthfulness at a time when that quality is in short supply among the nation’s leadership.
So we call upon our senior senator to screw up her courage and take the spit test. If she already has but is keeping the results under wraps, we urge her to be forthcoming with them. She has nothing to lose but her Achilles’ heel.”
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/our-opinion-warren-must-resolvedebate-on-heritage,533929
“By facing the truth and taking responsibility for it, she would
disarm her enemies and show potential voters that she was human and capable of mistakes, just like themgin the outrage machine up to 11 and be consumed in flames at the hands of the same ultra-left she has long relied upon as her base of support. See Franken, Al.”It would be very entertaining, though.
I’m willing to bet I have more sub-saharan DNA (which I actually do have) than she has Native American.
It’s unfortunate, but DNA ancestry testing has become the new polygraph test: completely unscientific, but seen as incontrovertible in folk understanding.
Of course, this is a trap. It doesn’t really matter what her DNA shows (I bet she can get a test that shows some Amerind DNA). What matters is whether a tribe recognized her or considered her eligible (none of them did, and none of them do) and whether she had any participation in tribal society (she doesn’t). Hell, even when she was officially an Amerind, she refused to meet with academic and student Amerind groups.
She basically conspired with Harvard Law for a PR stunt. Not sure its even really fraud, but its profound dishonesty and hypocrisy.
I thought misrepresenting is in of itself fraud?
Nah. Someone has to reasonably rely on your misrepresentation to their detriment.
Regardless of how reasonable it was to rely on her claim, Harvard was happy to go along so they could get their PR stunt. She and Harvard both benefitted, so nobody who relied on her misrepresentation was actually harmed. The only potentially injured parties were the other applicants for the position, who wouldn’t have a claim against Harvard, much less her, for not getting the job.
Native Americans hardest hit, but fuck them, right, Harvard?
I notice there are people who say that can’t be proven they conspired and she in fact benefitted.
I’ve only argued with people who use the “She lied to get her job” right wing radio talking point. It’s not as if being injun was a prerequistie for the job or they really wanted to hire an injun. As RC says they got some PR out of it. My guess is they were going to hire her anyway and milked the diversity angle after the fact.
“admission of her error and a full-throated apology to Native American tribes and anyone else offended by her spurious claim.”
I’m very offended by her claim. Do I get an apology?
LOL David Boaz is all offended by Steven Crowder’s “Socialism is for f*gs” shirt. He’s been whining about it on facebook. Clutching every last one of his pearls.
What a fag.
Socialism is for floggings, although the T-shirt should have read “Socialism is for f.*gs”
Nice callback.
“A bill requiring 18-20 year olds to hand over or transfer ownership of heretofore legally possessed “assault weapons” is gaining sponsors in the Illinois Senate after passing the House last month.
The NRA-ILA described the weapons covered by HB 1465 as “commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms.” The bill also requires 18-20-year-olds to forfeit ownership of any magazines that hold more than ten rounds of ammunition.
The guns and magazines remain legal for persons 21 and up, but persons under 21 would have 90 days to give up ownership, should HB 1465 become law.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/08/illinois-house-passes-bill-requiring-18-20-year-olds-hand-assault-weapons/
TW: Breitbart
Speaking of that topic, Governor Skeletor (FL) signed that “do something!!@” gun bill. Must be gamboling on not having NRA support for his precious Senate campaign.
Just say ‘no’, kids.
That is great. Nothing helps stabilize things like the outlawing and confiscation of things that were legally bought.
I bet it will be just like when the cops busted you for underage drinking. If it is a good rifle, it will go into the trunk of the cop car for “confiscation” only to suspiciously end up in some cop’s own personal collection. If it is a shitty rusted out junky weapon, they will make you cut it up in front of them.
Confiscation of legally owned owned private property without recourse or compensation sounds like a bad idea to me.
This is where the prefatory militia clause may actually come in handy. 18 – 20 year olds are very much military age by any definition. Disarming them is disarming a group that is unquestionably part of the militia, both de facto and de jure.
Bizarrely, it may even bring in a Supremacy Clause argument, that disarming 18 – 20 year olds conflicts with the Militia Act, which by law defines the militia as all males between 17 and 45 years of age.
The language you are referring to is:
10 U.S. Code § 246 – Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
So the idiots in Illinois want to unconstitutionally (IMHO) disarm members of the militia as defined by the USC.
A milestone that feels overdue–the first mainstream teen comedy foregrounding a gay character–may have been outpaced by real life. Can a love story centered around a gay teen who is very carefully built to seem as straight as possible appeal to a generation that’s boldly reinventing gender and sexuality on its own terms?”
Wut?
What is that Week Facts site? Is OMWC rick rolling us again?
insert ‘how do you do, fellow kids’ Gif
I call 100% BS on the whole story, it doesn’t even sound like an American wrote it,Everyone Knows you Mix Cocaine and Weed,
Cocoa Puffs anyone?
Great fun on the golf course! Everyone’s long game improved but putting was problematic.
Some employers are finding that the applicants for job openings don’t have the necessary experience or education needed for the positions they want to fill. That’s especially the case for homebuilders.
“Job openings in the construction industry remain at historic highs. It is now a matter of providing necessary skills to go into the industry,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors , in a report.
Studying deconstructionist lesbian free verse drama doesn’t teach you which end of the hammer to hit the nail with?
Framing nailers are a tool of the patriarchy!
Anecdote –
I’m working for a custom homebuilder at present, and have many associates here involved in renovations or the trades in general.
Reality is that it’s mostly older dudes, 40+ for the most part. Finding younger people who have the desire to put in the hard yards is somewhat difficult.
I have a good friend who is a general contractor. He has tried to hire some kids who grew up in his neighborhood, but had to give it up because after taxes, licensing and other bureaucratic hurdles he would have to charge so his clients so much to cover the cost of the kids that it doesn’t make sense.
So the kids don’t get to work and get experience and he has to do all his own heavy lifting and toting.
That’s a really good point, Jimbo.
Progs and various others complain about no work for the youth …. and do everything possible to prevent anyone from hiring them.
Derp.
Even big corps won’t even look at younger kids because of regulations.
My youngest son was dying to get a summer job because he wanted to get cool stuff like his older brother. But even fast food joints wouldn’t hire him until he was 16 because of all the restrictions on 15 year-old workers.
He did a lot of lawn mowing and other small odd jobs, but it wasn’t as steady as he wanted it to be. On the plus side, it created a proto-libertarian because he experienced first hand how the govt fucked with unskilled workers like him.
You can’t indoctrinate kids if their butts aren’t in a state run school.
Cash is King, Your Friend is a Patsy if He uses kids any other way, Under the Table
So he Gets a Bad Back and kids don’t make money or learn things…
Using kids under the table and paying for it in untraceable cash…have you been hanging out with OMWC again?
Sounds like carpentry is gonna become a more lucrative profession.
Finding a guy with below average skill (like the one who did your bathtub) is easy. Finding a really good finish carpenter is hard.
From what I see these days I am a well above average finish carpenter and I am not hard………..at the moment.
Bet you the guy that made that bathtub frame abortion wasn’t a carpenter at all. Probably a “handyman.”
That’s gonna get resolved soon. Going to get a master plumber to replace out the brass drain piping (yeah) and pour proper concrete.
Millwork and construction is already lucrative around here. One of my neighbors gladly paid $50/hr for a guy to re-sheetrock a room and re-do the trim, and he’s not alone.
OT: I listened to the podcast that you were a guest of earlier this morning. Despite my general apathy towards the subject, you made it feel like thirty-eight minutes well wasted. Have you decided to do a follow up on Monday?
p.s. I’m bemused by your accent.
That podcast was recorded 6 weeks ago. They haven’t called me back.
Listening to my voice you’d think I was a pack a day smoker or meth addict but I’ve never touched either.
Well that’s disappointing.
About the podcast, not the vices….though it would have been interesting to hear a good yarn about being spun out while navigating a truck through the mountains of New Zealand. 😉
Only a shit lord would believe in a binary world of hammers and nails.
How do you know that a nail who identifies as a hammer couldn’t do just as good a job building a house?
Univ. of Cincinnati forces prof to retire for noting that Muslim women are safer in US than in Muslim countries
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/univ-of-cincinnati-forces-prof-to-retire-for-noting-that-muslim-women-are-safer-in-us-than-in-muslim-countries
Why are proggies so invested in protecting shitholes and the shitheads who run them?
My theory: they believe all the evil in the world is the result of capitalism, Christianity, and white men.
If you believe that, anything that is not one of those things must be automatically good.
observe
White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it
For 500 years, they’ve exploited their fellow man and plundered the planet. It’s time they rein themselves in
https://www.salon.com/2015/12/22/white_men_must_be_stopped_the_very_future_of_the_planet_depends_on_it_partner/
Meh, dollar to donuts there is more to this, the article is long on outrage and short on facts, reminds me of that book way back that claimed all these folks were being fired for being Christians and turned out none of the examples were actually fired, or were fired but so was everyone else in their area, etc.
There were demands for him to be fired/censured for comments on Islam and Muslims he made last year that have apparently come to fruition:
http://www.newsrecord.org/opinion/opinion-islamophobic-ccm-professor-needs-to-be-fired-immediately/article_b11abbd8-beac-11e7-aa4e-4bea1f47f390.html
“This song restores my faith in America by depicting what America is really about and why we celebrate July 4th. It includes a diverse range of people from white, black, young, old, straight and gay all coming together to celebrate the birth of a country that is built off the idea of freedom,” read the post from the unidentified student.”
Except ‘diversity’ isn’t the essence of America – liberty is. Everything flows from that.
Same with Canada. We’re not ‘originally a nation of immigrants’. It’s a nation of pioneers and adventurers and people fleeing persecution. It’s not immigration in the way we’ve come to see it.
“The U.S. President’s first sworn duty is to protect America from enemies, and the greatest threat to our freedom is not the President, it is radical Islam. Review this list of Islamic terrorist attacks and then tell me about your hurt feelings.”
This argument is exhausting and I’m tired of it. What about Las Vegas? We have yet to call the evil human being who destroyed hundreds of lives a terrorist, and we continue to give violent white Americans a pass yet again.”
Radical Islam is problematic. Sorry.
i just came back from 2 hours of cross-country skiing. I’m too tired to think the rest out.
“The Psychology of Progressive Hostility
Recently, I arrived at a moment of introspection about a curious aspect of my own behavior. When I disagree with a conservative friend or colleague on some political issue, I have no fear of speaking my mind. I talk, they listen, they respond, I talk some more, and at the end of it we get along just as we always have. But I’ve discovered that when a progressive friend says something with which I disagree or that I know to be incorrect, I’m hesitant to point it out. This hesitancy is a consequence of the different treatment one tends to receive from those on the Right and Left when expressing a difference of opinion. I am not, as it turns out, the only one who has noticed this.
“That’s a stupid fucking question,” answered a Socialist Alliance activist when I asked sincerely where they were getting what sounded like inflated poverty statistics. “If you don’t believe in gay marriage or gun control, unfriend me,” demand multiple Facebook statuses from those I know. “That’s gross and racist!” spluttered a red-faced Ben Affleck when the atheist and neuroscientist Sam Harris criticized Islamic doctrines on Bill Maher’s Real Time. Nobody blinks an eye when Harris criticizes Christianity, least of all Affleck, who starred in Kevin Smith’s irreverent religious satire Dogma. But Christians are not held to be a sacrosanct and protected minority on the political Left.”
http://quillette.com/2018/03/10/psychology-progressive-hostility/
A sheriff’s deputy had his ex-wife arrested because he didn’t like what she wrote about him on Facebook
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/09/us/facebook-post-ex-husband-police-jail-trnd/index.html
***
The whole thing began in January 2015, when Anne King posted a short Facebook status expressing frustration that her ex, Corey King, refused to drop off some medication for their children on his way to work.
“That moment when everyone in your house has the flu and you ask your kid’s dad to get them (not me) more Motrin and Tylenol and he refuses,” she wrote, adding an “overwhelmed” face to the post.
…
According to a lawsuit filed on behalf of Anne King, her ex-husband told her to take the post down. When she initially refused, he posted a screenshot on his own Facebook account.
The ex-husband then filed an incident report and, according to his own admission, requested an arrest warrant because of her “derogatory statements.”
The arrest warrant, as noted in the complaint, said: The “subject did, without a privilege to do so and with intent to defame another, communicate false matter which tends to expose one who is alive to hatred, contempt, or ridicule, and which tends to provoke a breach of peace.”
***
Bitch tryin’ to enact his labor for her.
Ya know, by republishing it himself on his own Facebook account, he kinda shoots his defamation claim in the dick.
And a judge signed off on the warrant application?
“Student, Lake Ingle, at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) has been suspended from his class, meaning that he will no longer be able to graduate, for stating that there were only two genders in class while a trans student was speaking.”
http://newmediacentral.net/student-suspended-from-class-for-saying-there-are-two-genders/
“Another day, another travesty going on at one of our nation’s institutions of higher learning. This one is particularly galling, however. Lake Ingle, a student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been barred from class and could be prevented from graduating all because he told a nutty leftist professor Alison Downie that, according to biologists, there are only two genders. Oh, and he disputed the wage gap myth with, get this, facts and figures!”
https://theralphretort.com/alison-downie-leftist-professor-trying-to-destroy-kid-309018/
according to biologists, there are only two genders
Typical college student, he got this wrong, too. There are only two biological sexes (leaving aside malfunctional mutations and genetic oddities). Gender isn’t a biological thing at all, but a mental state.
The conflation of biological sex with mental gender was originally done to illegitimately expand sex discrimination laws to include gender identity. Even when he is trying to challenge the hive mind, he can’t quite shake off its shackles.
Exclusive: Trump getting a parade but tanks won’t roll down Pennsylvania avenue
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/09/politics/pentagon-memo-trump-military-parade/index.html
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President Donald Trump will get his military parade, but it is unlikely to mirror the Paris Bastille Day event which inspired him as it will not involve any heavy military vehicles like tanks to avoid doing damage to the streets of Washington, according to a Pentagon planning memo shown to CNN.
The Pentagon memo sent to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was issued on Thursday and outlined the initial guidance on how Trump’s sought after parade, scheduled for November 11 — Veterans Day — will look.
The memo says the parade will integrate with the annual DC Veterans Day parade and focus on the contributions of US veterans from the Revolutionary War to today “with an emphasis on the price of freedom.”
The parade will “include wheeled vehicles only, no tanks,” the memo said, adding that “consideration must be given to minimize damage to local infrastructure.”
…
It will, however, involve “a heavy air component” with military aircraft flying overhead at the end of parade, including older aircraft “as available,” the memo said.
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I might actually go to this. It’s not often that you get to see some of the old WWII planes up in the air.
I’m not an airplane mechanic, but there probably is a good reason for that.
Not many of them still functional, seeing as they are more than 70 frickin’ years old. I think the biggest collection is the Commemorative (formerly Confederate) Air Force, based here in AZ because the high desert is the ideal climate for keeping old metal working.
You want to see a cool military parade, attend the Rembrance Day parade in Gettysburg every November on the closest Saturday to the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Meade, Lee, all the other generals, and about 5,000 re-enactors openly carrying state of the art (for 1863) military assault weapons.
Screen shots of the aforementioned David Boaz whining about Steven Crowder’s “Socialism is for f*gs” shirt:
https://imgur.com/a/32S5U
not sure they’re in order… but you get the point.
Crowder has done more for “the movement” than Boaz ever has. And I say that as someone who read “Libertarianism: A Primer” in college.
Well, let’s be fair. CATO isn’t exactly known for its edgelords and meme-ing ability.
And really, while I don’t watch Crowder often, I don’t see much Trumpfellatio in the shows.
Crowder has been very critical of Trump when he deserves to be criticized. He hasn’t been a full-on Trump-fellator like Hannity, nor was he a staunch Never Trumper like Shapiro was (though he was certainly closer to Never Trump than Trump Fellator). He’s been pretty fair, like most Glibs.
This should get your blood going.
Best comment:
Here’s another Scottish video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nv1dZCHtm8
Lol.
My favorite Scottish video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf4TIWECZ30
The Edinburgh Military Tattoo was an annual treat for me back in the 80’s. I used to take a train to Edinburgh a few days before and get utterly rat-assed with a lot of old buddies. The city was pretty much taken over by visiting drunks, displacing the indiginous drunks for 4 days.
I loved it. The Festival overall was meh, but the Tattoo was amazing. Both Spawn are percussionists, so they were down with it, as well.
lol.
Grotefend’s a cuck.
The Tattoo makes people have an urge to drink many pints, and beat up everyone.
Great, now the thread is going to be a Black Watch vs Tattoo argument.
Thanks!
Coinkidentally, the part of me that is Scots is a Campbell, so when I do wear a kilt, I’m a ‘legitimate’ wearer of the Black Watch tartan.
Funny how that works. During Olympics, whenever I heard the German national anthem, I wanted to drink a couple pints and invade Poland.
Bagpipes are a violation of the NAP.
False
Bagpipes are best heard in the open air with at least ten yards between you and the piper.
But I would only argue they’re a violation of the NAP when played badly by a drunk busker, just like any other instrument played by a drunk busker is a violation of the NAP.
Honeymoon this summer is going to be in Scotland, but not overlapping with the Tattoo. It’s one of my fondest ambitions to make it to the Tattoo at some point, but sadly it won’t be this year.
Some tunes for Rick C-137.
In case you missed it in last night’s thread, some podcasters think I’m bizarre.
They’ve obviously not heard of SugarFree.
Holy moly, you are famous. I will listen later, thanks. What did you say that set them off? Did you drop a STEVE SMITH joke?
I’m an anomaly in the trucking world; not famous per se.
I dunno. Maybe it was referencing phenethylamines or saying that American girls were easy.
Dude- how can you not link to the direct first person account?
Just over a month ago, I could see. Or maybe I should put it this way: I had both my eyes, but they didn’t help me notice how dangerous my life had become.
Then, on February 6, my world went black.
It’s Cosmo. What could be more reliable than that.
Spoiler alert- the girl may be somewhat mentally unbalanced.
“the girl may be somewhat mentally unbalanced”
So she also works there?
Would.
NYT posted something positive about capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/06/25/has-capitalism-become-incompatible-with-christianity/capitalism-is-the-most-moral-of-a-bad-lot-of-economic-systems
well knock me over with a feather
Even in that article, there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of capitalism. Capitalism isn’t a government imposed system like socialism or communism or feudalism (well, I guess it is to the extent that the government enforces property rights, but still). All you need is a respect of property rights and a respect of a freedom to contract. Capitalism is 90% government forebearance and 10% government enforcement of one of the most basic rights.
I guess it is to the extent that the government enforces property rights, but still
Still doesn’t make capitalism a government-imposed system. Government is used for settling disputes about who the property belongs to. Property and contract predates government; government merely overlays a system for determining who something belongs to, and for making people live up to their contracts.
I thought you were going to tell me the Browns were doing something smart – like trade their first round pick for a whole bunch of middle roundrers. Instead, they are pissing them away.
I thought they were keeping their top pick for a QB?
So a rookie QB with a giant contract and no offensive line to block for him and nobody to throw to. That’ll work.
The Browns actually have a good offensive (especially if Joe Thomas comes back 100%) line. They just didn’t have a quarterback, wide receivers, tight ends, or a running back who was a consistent threat.
Now they have a bridge quarterback (because that is all Tyrod Taylor is) who won’t lose them too many games and somebody who can catch the ball.
Originally I thought the Browns might draft a QB first and then have a good shot at getting Barkley with the fourth pick. Now with rumors Barkley not lasting that long, they can draft Barkley with the first pick and get a QB with high potential with the fourth pick. And they won’t have to throw the draft QB to the wolves by starting him immediately.
Trading for Landry is fucking retarded. He’s entirely a product of volume, first guy in league history to have a 100 catches and under a thousand yards. I can’t believe how dumb they are for giving up actual assets for him.
While they are overpaying him (he is making lots of money) him, he is better than anybody else they got.
Gordon is a stud and seems to have his head screwed on straight finally. Coleman has had bad injury luck, but he was an incredible prospect coming out. Njoku is an absolute freak. Duke Johnson is an excellent pass catching back.
The problem with the Browns offense last year was that Kizer was the absolute worst QB in the NFL.
With the money they are paying Landry, they could have signed an actual good WR in FA. Shit, they could have brought in Allen Robinson. They can still bring in Sammy Watkins. Paying franchise tag money for a slot WR is terminally stupid.
Gordon was a stud and we will see if he still has it and can keep his head on straight (I’m wishing him the best of luck on that). Coleman is a bust so far. Njoku is an incredible physical specimen who has problems dropping the ball. His hands are a question mark. Duke Johnson isn’t a three down back.
I like the Browns potential. They got a lot of the pieces they need for the foundation of a good team. If they draft well, sign a few more free agents and players they have play better they can jump from 0-16 to 7 or 8 wins very easily. I could easily see them ending up the second best team in the AFC North.
Best time of year for a Browns fan. Hope and Change are in the air and optimism abounds until the cruel reality of September sets in.
The whole meth thing is confusing to me. Back in the 80’s, I did my share of coke. Sometimes we would do some crystal meth instead which I think was a little cheaper. All via the nose. The crystal meth buzz I thought was similar to the coke buzz but the need to keep doing more to keep from crashing I thought was less pronounced with the meth. In other words there was nothing all that different about meth than most other recreational drugs. Just cause some people can’t handle reality does not make their choice of escape a super demon.
It might be the staying up for days on end while on a meth bender rather than the primary effect of the drug itself that pushes heavy users over the edge. Try staying up for four or five days with absolutely no sleep while completely sober-if you can manage it you’ll lose your mind.
^
This. As I noted on a links thread a week or two ago, when I used to do that shit during the late 90’s/early 00’s for days on end I would be become extremely paranoid, see ‘shadow monsters’ on my peripheral vision and was pretty much a sociopath. I think there were many times were I could have easily snapped out and done something drastic to myself or others.
All coke ever did was make me want do more coke and fuck.
I hung out with guys like that. Just being high on MJ was enough for me. Never understood why they’d take it so far.
Ah yes, the wealthy Russians. The problem is that you don’t really see it as a problem until you’ve already tumbled down the rabbit hole or done something tragic.
Impressed you remember that. People do shit I do understand all the time. Unless they violate the NAP, I wouldn’t criminalize it.
*I don’t understand.
Years ago I was up for a solid six days due to pain from a nerve injury and I was hallucinating peripheral shadows and voices, although I was completely aware that they weren’t real. Sleep deprivation is nothing to laugh at.
There are those that are curious, looking for a new angle and those that just want the pain to end. You weren’t the latter. Thank god.
Yeah, Qualuudes were my “problem’ drug. That was pre-coke days. I was 16-17.
I entered my experimental phase after luudes were already extinct. I curse that I never got to try them.
You were juts upset that you couldn’t act out like this.
That article reads like it was run back and forth through Google Translate a couple times first.
Alcohol ruins more lives that anything.
Where’s your Lee Harveys and your Sirhans when you need them?
Ice-VII: Trump is even making our compounds better.
Round mounds that arouse.
http://archive.is/wSLBh
For a change, I’d just like to film 19 and 28 with each other.
I’ll admit that I used to think that it’s absurd to put up pic of tits when everyone here could look up whatever pervy shit they want on the net. But, goddamnit Q, reminding us of the beauty that is soft core tiddys is a public service. May god bless you
Annnnd I missed my transfer.
In an age when we’ve become so desensitized, it’s nice to leave something to the imagination.
Hustler didn’t make you stretch your imagination.
“stretch your imagination”
Phrasing?
Oh ya it did. “I wish that Girl Next Door lived next to me!”
Read this story about a community choir and weigh in with your favorite/rage-inducing cliche.
I guess “imperiled” means “might not get forced contributions via govt force”.
I can’t believe you jackholes are making me enact your labor
Whenever I think the U.S. elected an ass clown….
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5480029/Is-Canadian-PM-Justin-Trudeau-PC-politician.html
I hear the vaginas of a million women drying up as they read that article.
Zoolander.
If I were think up a parody of a douche-bag progressive politician, I can’t imagine how it would be any different from Trudeau himself.
He’s that guy that’s super cool at 16 that somehow didn’t end up dead in a ditch somewhere. God I loathe him.
Under the Browns story their was one that they are trying to change the catch rule. I still don’t understand why people find the rule so hard to understand. Meh, whatever they can make the rules whatever they want I guess just as long as everybody has to play by them.
Well because i don’t read USA today very often maybe i’ll take a look at the comments just to see how the rest of america thinks about these types of …..
note to self: never, ever, do that again
We need more thoughts, prayers and less opioids. I don’t want to read that guy’s newsletter.
USA Today is the McDonald’s of newspapers.
What do you have against McDonalds?
Well, it is no Taco Bell, but it does have its place.
After their Women’s Day stunt, don’t you mean WackDonalds?
They took a wrong turn when they got rid of the beef tallow in their fries. I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Mac is wack though.
Christ, if I had to choose between all day that or all day Mike M., say hello to Barack Insane Yomomma.
Uber is the new Walmart
In its release about the 12-hour driving cap, Uber suggested that the new rule won’t affect the “nearly 60 percent of U.S. drivers [who] use Uber less than 10 hours a week.” But the statement fails to acknowledge that the change will hit Uber’s most invested drivers the hardest. While it’s true that most drivers work part time, a minority of them do work full time or longer—and do so without overtime pay. They’re the individuals most likely to rely on the ride-hailing apps as their primary income, and the most likely to make investments, like buying a new car, to do this work. They’re also the most affected by compensation cuts, hence pushing themselves to work dangerously long hours to make up for the losses. Some part-timers who devote long hours to intense weekend shifts after working at their primary jobs during the week will be hit too. Plus, migratory workers who commute from their homes into a city with more work—some of whom sleep over in supermarket and airport parking lots to make ends meet—will certainly feel the impact when they can’t log in to work but can’t easily go home either.
Predation, exploitation, frustration in our nation.
OMFG no overtime! I suspect many of the people who drive full time for Uber or Lyft have sussed out the prime revenue-generating times and neighborhoods and schedule accordingly.
I missed the part where the evil Uber overlords put a gun to their employees’ heads to make them not quit working there.
So all these Uber slaves would be better off just staying at home? Getting welfare?
I wish Uber would have been around when I was young and poor. It would have been a fantastic way to make some extra cash. When I had school breaks, I would always go to a local temp agency and pick up extra shifts of work. Make hay while the sun was shining. Driving people around would have been waaaaaay better than some of those second shift temp jobs I did.
I think Uber is a case-example in how lefty bullshit begins to take on its own life after a while
you’d think that the arguments that “uber is bad for X reason” would eventually fade away when each of them individually turn out to be ‘mostly wrong’.
instead it has more of a “bullshitting-snowball-effect”, where the cumulative effect of the perpetual demonizing simply requires newer and more-grandiose attacks. now, you can’t just say, “its unfair competition with cabs” and “they should be licensed” and “they increase traffic” or whatever… those things have no effect anymore! so now its got to be something more like, “they threaten national security” or “they promote rape” and “they are bringing about an age of indentured servitude and child labor”
they need a bigger-fix. those chickenshit criticisms won’t give the same high anymore.
this is why Mueller’s russia investigation is doomed to failure. because when his job was just to investigate questions like “who leaked the DNC emails” and “whether trump’s campaign had improper contacts w/ outside agents”… those are 2016’s problems! by mid-2017 the bullshit narrative had far surpassed the reality of what ‘election hacking’ entailed, and was now shit like “Russians hacked our energy grid” and “they cause fake news” and “our entire democracy has been threatened”. By the time Mueller testifies, the shit he’ll be talking about will be unrecognizable to the public, compared to the hysterical dystopia they’ve invented since he got started. It simply can’t live up to the narrative-demands that have been placed on it.
“Uber is helping to decimate city budgets due to loss of revenue from DUI fines.”
Minnesoda’s Stupid Party is making me agree with Gov. Mumbles?
The local GOP currently controls both houses of the legislature. So what do they do? They decide to push the principle of pre-emption. The idea that they can pass state laws to prevent progressive cities from fucking up. For example, they are trying to pass state laws to prevent cities from banning styrofoam containers.
Our idiot governor is opposing this and I hate to say it, I agree with him. We both are for more local control, but for different reasons. I am sure that if the Evil Party was in charge of the legislature, he’d be for them passing laws that prevented conservative small town cities from passing ordinances. Likewise, the GOP would be screaming for more local control if the DFLers owned the legislature. Team uber alles.
I’m all for more local control. Let Minneapolis and St. Paul fuck themselves in the ass by passing all their dream progressive bans and mandates. Their voters can punish them if they want. My only take would be that I’d let locals pass ordinances that may have lower standards than the state laws. If you have a small town based entirely on tourism, why not let them lower the minimum wage so that teen agers can get summer jobs that make sense?
“Trump administration studies seeking the death penalty for drug dealers”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/trump-administration-studying-possibility-of-seeking-death-penalty-for-drug-dealers/2018/03/09/4d9cc994-23c3-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html
“according to people with knowledge of the discussions”
Oh, never mind.
“Trump is Duterte, man!”
The press really needs to stop with the unnamed sources bullshit.
But the unnamed, imaginary sources that they saw in a dream come up with so much great dirt on Trump!
Intersectional feminists continue to fail at defending (((them))) and are losing their intersectionality cred.
Pop will eat itself?
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2018/03/09/the-leaders-of-the-american-womens-march-have-spoken-jews-are-unwelcome-on-the-feminist-left.html
Doesn’t matter, (((they))) will have no problem with this; (((their))) allegiance is to the Left, not Judaism or Israel.
Pop will eat itself?
Huh? Is this some play on the fact that the (((author))) is a lesbian too?
More Uber evil:
I certainly agree with Uber’s stated goal of making the roads safer for drivers, passengers, and others. But, short of implementing troublingly invasive monitoring of off-app drivers (which, considering Uber’s shady history of secretly tracking drivers working for competitors, may not be a far-fetched scenario) or giving drivers fairer compensation, Uber and Lyft won’t be doing enough to significantly address the safety issues that come with overworked drivers. Instead, the new policies respond to public pressure about the problem by shifting a shared liability for these dangers onto its drivers. The companies now bear less of the responsibility if a driver goes beyond the shift restrictions—the app timed out! The blame falls entirely on the worker, who managed their time poorly, who irresponsibly circumvented the safety feature.
It’s just like slavery.
I wonder if in the future being the descendant of a wage slave will make you eligible for reparations or at least some sort of affirmative action?
“You don’t understand what it is like to grow up with legacy of wage slavery! My people have struggled for generations with bigotry against my Uber-driving ancestors!”
““Trump Is Going for a Clean Reset”: Fuming in the West Wing, Trump Prepares to Defenestrate Cuck Allies and Go Full MAGA
The president will meet with potential chief-of-staff candidates at Mar-a-Lago next weekend. McMaster is likely next to go. Then Jivanka.
Even before he decided to launch a trade war and roll the nuclear dice by agreeing in the course of a West Wing afternoon to a risky sit-down with Kim Jong Un, Donald Trump was telling friends he was tired of being reined in. “I’m doing great, but I’m getting all these bad headlines,” Trump told a friend recently. A Republican in frequent contact with the White House told me Trump is “frustrated by all these people telling him what to do.””
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/03/trump-is-going-for-a-clean-reset
Trump told a friend he’s going to throw people out a window, according to a Republican in frequent contact with the White House? That’s your story? Really?
Well the Hat and the Hair is not an implossable portrayal…
Needz moar banana peels
The dream of nuclear fusion is on the brink of being realised, according to a major new US initiative that says it will put fusion power on the grid within 15 years.
The project, a collaboration between scientists at MIT and a private company, will take a radically different approach to other efforts to transform fusion from an expensive science experiment into a viable commercial energy source. The team intend to use a new class of high-temperature superconductors they predict will allow them to create the world’s first fusion reactor that produces more energy than needs to be put in to get the fusion reaction going.
Bob Mumgaard, CEO of the private company Commonwealth Fusion Systems, which has attracted $50 million in support of this effort from the Italian energy company Eni, said: “The aspiration is to have a working power plant in time to combat climate change. We think we have the science, speed and scale to put carbon-free fusion power on the grid in 15 years.”
All it takes is an infinite sum of money, compressed at infinite pressure and infinite heat, and…
PRESTO!
We need more money.
If it does work, I wonder how much MIT will get from the profits?
If it is anything like the U of Mn, the answer will be $0. Some of the individual researchers from MIT will cash in big time, but the school will get nothing.
The best thing about working fusion reactors would be how the environmentalists would protest its development. Cheap, non-polluting power would be a fucking disaster for the Left.
Helium will become the new CO2
Different schools have different arrangements with faculty on commercializing research. I’m surprised UM gets nothing – my understanding is that most schools get part of the proceeds. Hell, the University of Florida made bank from Gatorade. Not sure how much of a taste the researchers who came up with it got.
That would be the smart way to do things. I remember a while back though that the U of Mn had a couple researchers who patented some sort of drug or procedure that literally put hundreds of millions into their pockets. The U of Mn tried to get some of that because they had been U employees at the time. The U lost the case though because they had done such a bad job of writing the contracts.
We need more Stan Pons.
thanks for the video link to Stafford on the Smothers Brothers. That show could not exist in today’s environment.
I am probably one of a half dozen people that actually bought this album. Classical Gas is one of my all time favorites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mREi_Bb85Sk
Leigh French was my fantasy girl at that time.
It was the pony tails, wasn’t it?
I’ll be in my bunk.
Yeah, I’ve always preferred the double-ponytail, rather than the single ponytail. Lets you use a two-handed grip.
They are called “pig-tails” for a reason.
On a mini bender. As much as a married guy with kids can go on. Binging on happoshu (cheap beer knock offs) and listening Van Morrison as the wife and kid sleep. Sailing into the mystic.
Speaking of Uber- I notice a lot of the complaints about the “criminally low wages” use generalized fixed costs of vehicle ownership to offset revenue. Barring the extremely low probability that somebody would go out and buy a brand new vehicle for the specific purpose of full time Ubering, those costs are pretty much irrelevant. The whole point of the “sharing economy” is to bring underutilized assets into productive use. That car costs just about as much per month sitting in the driveway gathering dust as it does sitting at the airport waiting for the 8:52 from Paris. That’s the whole point. Aside from variable costs directly tied to active participation in Uber (fuel and specific insurance requirements over and above private personal use- we can toss in some additional wear and tear and associated maintenance), that car is “free”. You’re making money you would not otherwise have been likely to make. In theory, you could go hang out at the baggage claim carousel at the airport and try to scare up customers on your own, but that would be a lot harder than getting Uber to act as middleman. That’s why Uber gets a cut.
Crazy, I know.
a lot of the complaints about the “criminally low wages”
Stolen base. Uber drivers aren’t paid wages. They are basically micro-businessmen who hire Uber to handle their marketing, scheduling, and revenue cycle.
It’s the usual stupid prog idea that any job that isn’t a 40 hour a week job paying above median income with a gold plated pension is basically slavery.
Yes, I was attacked by commenters on another site when I said that I pay contract employees $100 an hour, but (on the rare occasion I need the help) it’s usually only an hours worth of work. “That job shouldn’t exist if a person can’t live off of it!”
Protip:
Never refer to independent contractors as “contract employees”. Unless you want the IRS to rape you blind with back employment taxes and penalties.
Huh. David Brooks is still crazy
Yet I have to admit that something bigger is going on. It could be that progressives understood something I didn’t. It could be that you can win more important victories through an aggressive cultural crusade than you can through legislation. Progressives could be on the verge of delegitimizing their foes, on guns but also much else, rendering them untouchable for anybody who wants to stay in polite society. That would produce social changes far vaster than limiting assault rifles.
Two things have fundamentally changed the landscape. First, over the past two years conservatives have self-marginalized. In supporting Donald Trump they have tied themselves to a man whose racial prejudices, sexual behavior and personal morality put him beyond the pale of decent society.
While becoming the movement of Dinesh D’Souza, Sean Hannity and Franklin Graham, they have essentially expelled the leaders and thinkers who have purchase in mainstream culture. Conservatism is now less a political or philosophic movement and more a separatist subculture that participates in its own ostracism.
He’s apparently willing to sell his soul to the lunatic fringe of progressivism in exchange for recognition of his tireless work to delegitimize Trump.
Won’t somebody please give a home to poor David Brooks? He’s housebroken and his opinions are completely within the bounds of acceptable discourse!
over the past two years conservatives have self-marginalized
Tell me again how supporting the winning candidate is marginalizing yourself?
Progressives could be on the verge of delegitimizing their foes
Well, they are certainly on the verge of delegitimizing somebody.
Conservatism is now less a political or philosophic movement and more a separatist subculture that participates in its own ostracism
Its not the conservatives who are talking about seceding, Dave.
My wife made French Toast with berries and cream for breakfast. 12 pieces, and the kids ate it all before I got any.
I’m going to go out of my way to be a dick for the next 24 hours.
I put some sausage patties in stovetop smoker with hickory, apple, and maple then quickly browned in hot fry pan at end.. Had with over easy eggs. Was yum.
You don’t have to go very far for that. :-p
Besides, You can’t save French toast.
The comments on that David Brooks thing are… predictably depressing.
David Brooks, on the steps of the guillotine:
“No, wait. I’m on your side! This is all some sort of misunderstanding. Go back and read my columns. I hate that guy. I’m not a cuck! I’m on your side! I believe all that stuff you guys believe! All of it. You can’t do this to meeeeeeeeee!”
Paging Nelson Muntz…
As the philanthropic powerhouse led by Bill and Melinda Gates explained in their latest annual letter to the public, it ended its effort to overhaul teacher evaluation systems after determining that these efforts were failing to generate intended results.
“We haven’t seen the large impact we had hoped for,” the Microsoft founder and his wife wrote in the note they published in February.
Lots more words, not much useful information or insight.