Martes por la tarde Enlaces

Los Angelinos exceeded expectations in marijuana licensing. New projections now exceed $3.5 Million in licensing fees. Unfortunately, this being California they are considering more ordinances regarding businesses selling it:

Una ordenanza propuesta, remitida por el comité al consejo completo para su consideración, prohibiría la publicidad de marihuana dentro de 800 pies de lugares sensibles como escuelas, limitaría un negocio de cannabis a un letrero en el lugar que tenga un tamaño máximo de 75 pies cuadrados, y prohibir carteles portátiles o señales de sándwich ubicadas en el derecho de paso público.

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A proposed ordinance, forwarded by the committee to the full council for consideration, would prohibit marijuana advertising within 800 feet of sensitive places such as schools, limit a cannabis business to a sign in the place that has a maximum size of 75 square feet , and prohibit portable posters or sandwich signs located in the public right of way.

So no dancing sign guy.

Apparently, Salma Hayek (no relation) is a bit upset about Mattel’s new Frida Kahlo Barbie Doll. Good luck on that guys.

No puedo creer que hayan hecho una barbie de nuestra Friducha que nunca trató de parecerse a nadie y siempre celebró su originalidad”, escribió Salma Hayek en su cuenta de Instagram.

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I can not believe they made a barbie from our Friducha who never tried to look like anyone and always celebrated their originality,” Salma Hayek wrote on her Instagram account.

I like how CNN doesn’t even try to appear impartial on their Spanish page.

El domingo por la noche, Trump reveló su propuesta sobre armas de fuego tras el tiroteo en Parkland, Florida, que dejo 17 muertos. ¿Adivinas lo que quedó fuera de estar propuesta? Sí, nada sobre elevar la edad mínima para comprar algunos tipos de armas.

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On Sunday night, Trump revealed his proposal about firearms after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 dead. Guess what was left out of being proposed? Yes, nothing about raising the minimum age to buy some types of weapons.

Todavía no soy yo

Five people died in a helicopter crash in New York’s east River. Only the pilot managed to survive.

Translation service provided by Alpha Beta Corporation who remind you that its totally different when they do it.

Comments

385 responses to “Martes por la tarde Enlaces”

  1. Mad Scientist

    Q, please put your titty links below.

      1. Don’t stare, they’ll get self-conscious and cover up.

        1. Chafed

          Just when I thought you didn’t have a sense of humor you go and make me laugh.

  2. Mad Scientist

    Only the pilot managed to survive.

    The others died from lactose intolerance.

    1. I thought it was contact with the East River.

      1. SugarFree

        The East River is the Spanish Inquisition of white people.

        1. LJW

          No one suspects the East River!

    2. I pity the fool who can’t drink milk!

      1. Brett L

        “why does he keep drinking the milk?”

        1. Hey, he is lactose tolerant, not bright…

    3. Brett L

      It says right on the MSDS that dihydrogen monoxide is a breathing hazard.

  3. Translation service provided by Alpha Beta Corporation who remind you that its totally different when they do it

    And about as cunning as Alpharius, who I will always remember as putting a bolt round into his own foot at the end of Legion.

    1. mexican sharpshooter

      ¿Qué?

      1. For whatever reason, my mind went from “Alpha Beta” to the “Alpha Legion”. At the end of the book there’s a scene where one character is talking to another character, but there’s nothing that says where the weapon the one character holds is pointed, so my mental image had it pointed towards the floor. the scene ends with “Alpharius pulled the trigger” and what went through my head was “Alpharius just shot himself in the foot” but that would be on par with his demonstrated level of competence (as opposed to the ‘informed’ level everyone says he posesses)

        1. mexican sharpshooter

          Así se dice.

          1. commodious spittoon

            Como se dice?

          2. mexican sharpshooter

            That sounds like fighting words!

    1. Just Say’n

      I saw people push back on this story.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        The chance of it having happened as she claims is basically nil. But hey, if lefties can cash in when they lie about how they were fired, she can find a few suckers on the right for the same reason.

    2. Semi-Spartan Dad

      Good post T. He said, she said but Roanoke is the socialist shithole of SW/Western VA so I’m already inclined to believe her. If the claim that 3 police officers escorted her out of the building is true, that would strongly support her assertion that she was fired for “safety risk” and not performance issues as HR said.

      VCDL has also come out on record as not having anything to do with this case. Gun-grabbing reporters just can’t help themselves.

    3. Tonio

      Yeah, I posted this without having completely read the article. Sorry.

      1. Tonio

        I guess that makes me the you-know-who of commenters.

        1. SugarFree

          Tulpa?

        2. Bobarian LMD

          the you-know-who

          Hitler?

    4. Raston Bot

      Storm Durham said she is working with attorneys supplied by the Virginia Citizens Defense League, a Second Amendment advocacy group.

      VCDL provided her with the names of 2A lawyers. She claims the termination letter listed her as a safety threat *because* she had a CCH. That sounds problematic. Sounds like HR documented everything they could to terminate her ass but took it one step too far.

      1. Spartacus

        And that, folks, is why disciplinary letters need to be as short as possible and contain nothing beyond the absolute minimum necessary.

    5. Maybe she’s a (((CCW holder)))

  4. When will we get links from Bumblebee Man?

    1. SugarFree

      When you’ve earned it.

  5. Pan Zagloba

    So no dancing sign guy.

    Wouldn’t a sitting-down, Doritos munching guy be better advertisement anyway?

    1. Brett L

      Can the Girl Scouts co-advertise?

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Why is it always the munchies with you guys? Playing into stereotypes?

      1. Michael

        +1 hackey sack

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          +1 sitting here replying to all of you’ns

        2. Bobarian LMD

          The hac is for Heating and Air Conditioning.

      2. Pan Zagloba

        Since I don’t partake, stereotypes are all I have! Don’t take them from me!

        Also, Doritos can be tasty.

  6. Juvenile Bluster

    Sanciones e insinuaciones de golpe en EEUU erosionan el control de Maduro sobre los militares

    Sanctions and worries of an insurrection erode Maduro’s control of the military (title taken from Spanish version of Miami Herald)

    When military counter-intelligence officers went to Fort Tiuna in Caracas on May 2, they found the Ayala Battalion’s Russian-made armored vehicles loaded with ammunition, in violation of regulations.

    The battalion’s commander was arrested and now faces charges of treason, as do five lieutenant colonels.

    That same day, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez went to Fort Tiuna and ordered all Military Academy cadets to leave immediately. His extraordinary visit was sparked by fears of an insurrection, military sources told el Nuevo Herald.

    Two days earlier, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro had ordered 24 officers expelled from the armed forces, including collaborators of the late President Hugo Chávez. He also considered seizing the passports of National Bolivarian Police members to try to stem the massive defections within the institution. Both steps increased the already deep discontent within Venezuela’s security forces.

    Those are just the most recent indications that Maduro is losing the loyalty of its military officers amid an economic collapse that has brought hunger to the armed forces, and the possibility of economic sanctions and even trials of officers for human rights violations.

    Recent signals from Washington that it would accept a military coup against an authoritarian regime with links to drug trafficking also have been fueling the uncertainty among security forces.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      I smell a junta coming around…

      1. If their reign coincides with an improvement in supply of food and toilet paper – they’ll be in office for a long time.

    2. Pan Zagloba

      Sadly, I can’t find the ‘bad ending’ video from Tropico 1. But it was El Presidente and his advisor on the rowboat and advisor saying something along the lines of “well, we tried, and we got out alive. But you look tired, El Presidente. Let me take those heavy bags of money for you…”

      Sadly, El Presidente has his private army so it may not end that nicely.

  7. Drake

    CNN is trying to appear impartial on their English page? They aren’t doing a very good job.

  8. Bobarian LMD

    CNN doesn’t even try to appear impartial on their Spanish page.

    Are they trying somewhere else?

    I bet it’s the Russian page, right?

    1. Gustave Lytton

      How about a Russian Pidgin page?

    2. LJW

      They only have a USSR page… Which is just regular old cnn.com

  9. Yusef drives a Kia

    ” Only the pilot managed to survive.” See, He knew to jump out right before it hit the ground, kind of like a Falling elevator
    /Physics!!!

    1. Unreconstructed

      *pictures pilot jumping up into descending rotors*

      Not exactly like an elevator…

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Same Result

        1. Unreconstructed

          I dunno, I think the chopper might lead to more splatter.

  10. Turkish TV channel forced to apologize after using a photo of South Korean president showing him as a Kuwaiti murder suspect

    Also from the article:

    It also described Moon and U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter Ivanka as a “millionaire businessman and his wife,” showing a photo taken during her visit to Korea for the PyeongChang Winter Olympics last month.

    1. Brett L

      That’s kind of random.

    2. I know Kuwait and Korea are both k-countries in Asia, but Kuwautis don’t look a thing like Koreans.

    3. Gustave Lytton

      Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ works for a Turkish TV station now?

    4. Rhywun

      What’s Turkish for “Daily Mail”?

  11. Gilmore

    There are no pleasant ways to die*

    (*ok, fine: heart-failure while getting blowjob and snorting heroin, etc. i’m sure there are others)

    But: ‘drowning in a tourist helicopter in the east river’ is certainly one of the less pleasant ways I mean, even the hudson would be a major improvement. and maybe a business-chopper.

    its sad that someone’s final thoughts would be: “I told him the circle-line was a much better deal. plus they had a bar”

    1. Brett L

      At least my wife’s final words would get to be “I told you so”

    2. Winston

      heart-failure while getting blowjob

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Faure

      It has been widely reported that Felix Faure had his fatal seizure while Steinheil was fellating him, but the exact nature of their sexual intercourse is unknown and such reports may have stemmed from various jeux de mots (puns) made up afterward by his political opponents.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      My first order of business when I first flew in an Astar 350B was to learn how to undo the harness with one hand.

  12. KibbledKristen

    Yes, Salma, it’s a terrible travesty that young girls will learn who Frieda Kahlo is other than from your boring-ass movie.

    I like the Frieda Barbie, but they didn’t do her eyebrows properly. I did order an Amelia Earhart one.

    1. It’ll get shipped airmail and never arrive.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        They will find it 80 years later in Guam, as long as it hasn’t tipped over by then…

        1. OK, folks, this is how it is done.

          … Hobbit

    2. Just Say’n

      “Frieda Kahlo is other than from your boring-ass movie”

      That’s right. She was also a filthy communist

      1. Brett L

        Leon Trotsky’s mistress

    3. mexican sharpshooter

      Yeah, I couldn’t watch it. That and Frida’s art to begin with is a bit narcissistic, and flat out disturbing.

    4. Bobarian LMD

      Imma guess that topless Salma was an even less life-like portrayal of Frieda than Barbie Frieda.

      /only good part of that movie.

      1. Brochettaward

        I didn’t think anything could ruin her tits for me, but the unibrow image did it.

  13. Ayn Random Variation

    Some world class derp from a Giants blog I read, in response to Florida having no state income tax:
    For a country that loves to theoretically support the troops by denouncing kneeling during the anthem, they really hate to actually support the troops by paying taxes.”

    Remember, these people vote.

    1. Brett L

      Just remind him that New Yorkers, Michiganders, and Ontarians pay our state taxes for us.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        Don’t forget Quebecois. I swear the entire province lives down here over the winter.

        1. Broswater

          Funny thing : Caisses Desjardins (the biggest Québecois credit union) had 3 establishment down there even before they opened one up in Ontario. It tells you something.

    2. State income taxes don’t go to the DoD budget.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Can I get a DUH?

      2. KibbledKristen
    3. Just Say’n

      What…the…(pauses to compose himself)- what the hell does state income taxes have to do with ‘supporting the troops’? And how does the government threatening you by the barrel of a gun to give them money make you a supporter of the troops and not just a hostage?

      1. invisible finger

        Stockport Syndrome

      2. Spartacus

        You’re overthinking it. Just let the derp flow through you and spraypaint your keyboard. It’s the feelings that count, after all.

  14. Derpetologist

    I almost feel sorry for her.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/13/hillary-clinton-blames-pressure-from-men-for-why-white-women-voted-for-trump.html

    ***
    Interviewed on stage by India Today editor-in-chief Aroon Purie, Clinton accused Trump of running a “backwards” campaign that appealed to racists and misogynists.

    “I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product,” Clinton said. “So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward. And his whole campaign, ‘Make America Great Again,’ was looking backwards.”

    She claimed Trump’s message to voters was: “You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women, you know, getting jobs. You don’t want, you know, to see that Indian American succeeding more than you are.”

    Meanwhile, The American Mirror published video online showing Clinton slipping twice as she fell down the stairs during her tour.

    Clinton’s health was a topic of conversation throughout the 2016 presidential election, after having public coughing spells and staggering during a health “episode” at a Sept. 11 memorial service in New York City.

    In October, Clinton fell down the stairs in London while on book tour and broke a toe.
    ***

    1. The Other Kevin

      Somehow she keeps finding new and exciting ways to call people “deplorables”.

      1. Michael

        One of the most (and likely only) remarkable things about Clinton is that she doesn’t wait for opponents to set up traps for her – she just goes right out and sets them herself.

        1. Derpetologist

          self-licking ice cream cone

    2. So, yet again, anyone who didn’t vote for Clinton is a racist, misogynist, dumb-ass hick. Can’t imagine why she’s not more popular.

      Also, I like how she drops that bit about Trump being jealous of an “Indian-American” being more successful than he. I’m sure that was a totally authentic expression of her honest opinion and not some cynical attempt to play into her perceptions of her interviewer’s and audience’s beliefs.

      1. Winston

        Next Shikha Dalmia article?

    3. Pan Zagloba

      Finally, white women can speak openly about the one true enemy who has been sabotaging their progress for centuries: white women!

    4. The Last American Hero

      So did she lock her legs on the stairs too? Because that was the excuse last time.

    5. Raston Bot

      staggering during a health “episode” at a Sept. 11 memorial service in New York City

      was that the one where she was out on her feet resting against a concrete cylinder with one handler holding her up while another helped drag her over to a van like a lifeless mannequin?

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f20GWfx6FY

    6. SimonD

      I almost feel sorry for her.—

      Not just no, but fuck no. I’ve had those slimy Clintons shoved in my face as role models for my entire adult life (my ENTIRE adult life….then governor Bill was the commencement speaker at my high school graduation). Until they get the hell off of my TV screen and quit trying to tell me (behind the barrel of a gun) how to life my life, they can fuck right off. In fact, they can fuck off even if they do quit.

    7. DEG

      A female relative of mine voted for Hillary Clinton. Her husband voted for Donald Trump. Her husband told me that when Hillary Clinton lost, my relative got rip roaring drunk, went into a rage, and blamed her husband for Hillary Clinton losing.

  15. Gilmore

    trivia:

    the east river is not a river.

    its a tidal estuary. salt water. it links the harbor w/ the long island sound. it changes direction twice(? i think) a day. the currents are notoriously volatile, it is very dangerous to swim in.

    1. So it failed to even live up to it’s name. Sad!

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      So that’s Why the mob uses it so much?

    3. Bobarian LMD

      Another note:

      The Hudson will actually run backwards as far north as Poughkeepsie based on the tides.

      No idea how far up any salt water gets.

      1. Mad Scientist

        So that’s why people pick their feet there.

    4. wdalasio

      Yup. The spot where that helicopter went down (about 85th Street) is especially treacherous. It’s the beginning of what is known as Hell Gate. It’s where the currents from the Long Island Sound, the Harlem River strait and the Upper Bay of New York Harbor all converge. You can see it from Carl Schurz Park. The water is very rough.

    5. Playa Manhattan

      It floods at 3 knots and ebbs at -4 knots.

  16. Rufus the Monocled

    Queens University protestors make asses of themselves. I have no idea what they’re spraying. Also, Peterson is going full bad ass and isn’t shaving anymore. He’s Arnold Horseshack in that he’s not going to take it anymore. Seriously, good video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gC7YS5iB0w

    1. thepasswordispassword

      Fart Spray apparently. Can’t find the source on that claim.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        I realized right there and then there’s mental illness at play. Peterson says it’s narcissism; I’m not so sure as it pertains to some of these people.

  17. Derpetologist

    UK: Whistleblowers on Muslim rape gangs in Telford were punished, silenced, and fired from their jobs
    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/uk-whistleblowers-on-muslim-rape-gangs-in-telford-were-punished-silenced-and-fired-from-their-jobs

    ***
    A police chaplain and a charity worker were forced out of their jobs and silenced after trying to raise the alarm about the grooming and rape gangs operating in the town of Telford.

    Around 1,000 victims were caught up in the scandal, which could be the worst in UK history, with the gangs operating for 40 years, drugging, beating, trafficking, and raping non-Muslim girls, some as young as 11.

    Three girls were murdered and two others died following incidents linked to the abuse. Others were left addicted to drugs and scarred for life.

    Many of the underage victims were considered as prostitutes by the authorities, and when concerned citizens attempted to blow the whistle, they were targeted in the workplace and one even lost her job.

    A woman working for the sex abuse charity Axis Counselling, based in Shrewsbury, was forced to leave her role after she tried to speak out. The charity was funded by the police, The Mirror reports, and allegedly feared losing money.
    ***

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      That’s not even a swamp. I don’t even know what it is.

      1. Chafed

        It’s a bit like the mafia. As long as they get their cut everything stays as is.

      2. JaimeRoberto

        A shithole?

    2. invisible finger

      I thought there were surveillance cameras all over the place?

    3. Private Chipperbot

      Around 1,000 victims were caught up in the scandal,

      WTF? Really?

      1. Private Chipperbot

        Sorry. scandal, The U.K. is totally fucked.

    4. Tonio

      This is truly disgusting, and utterly infuriating. I think the UK just slipped to shithole status.

      1. “Just”?

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        It’s a four country race to see who bends over backwards for the PC gods and shutting down of free speech between Germany, Sweden, Belgium and the UK at this point. France is very close.

      3. Chafed

        I’m amazed there aren’t some angry fathers literally pulling cops, social workers, etc. into the street and beating them senseless.

        1. Number.6

          One of the complications here is that there’s an assumption that it’s only “white” girls at risk here. The reality is that it’s any girls that aren’t of a particular faith. Often, there’s been a fair amount of distrust across communities, so the parents of Sikh kids that get abused won’t talk to the parents of ‘white’ kids, who also won’t talk to parents of hindu kids.

          That may well change, but the fragmentation of city society keeps all the different groups functionally separated. That may change – it may be changing – but the power is concentrated among the drug dealers and their enforcers, who tend to own the night in these cities.

          1. TK

            I wonder if it would be different if the citizenry were armed.

    5. Pan Zagloba

      Douglas Murray in The Spectator raised a theory, similar to Brendan O’Neil’s, that the “elites” are terrified of domestic population, and that they live in genuine fear of massive race-based bloodshed if The Mob ever gets riled up. So anything that smells like riling them up is immediately suppressed and punished.

      1. Number.6

        I don’t really think there’s much to doubt in that analysis. I think it’s not much different here in the US, frankly.

        The advantage the UK government has is, of course, that if enough people assemble, they can stand up, read the Riot Act of 1714, give the plebs 5 minutes to disburse, and then call in the military. OK, I’m exaggerating, the Act was repealed in 1973, but subsequent legislation that replaced it provides the same kind of power to suppress demonstrations of common grievance.

  18. Just Say’n

    https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/973642878160384002

    This is a banana, but CNN will tell you that it is an apple and if you don’t believe them then they will dox you or go to your house and accuse you of being a Russian troll.

    1. Playa Manhattan

      They really shouldn’t use the word “receptive” when describing the Clintons.

  19. Derpetologist

    Black students protest conservative black speaker who touts stop ‘blaming white people’ message
    https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/42889/

    ***
    His speeches, titled “False Black Power? The Persistence of Racial Disparities Despite Increased Black Political Clout,” were organized by the Federalist Societies at each school.

    Riley argues in his recent book that the increase in black political power through large numbers of black politicians has done nothing to help the black community improve in recent decades.

    “So long as blacks are encouraged to neglect the cultural capital that has so successfully powered upward mobility among other minorities, says Riley, no number of elected African-American officials or special treatment will help blacks catch up,” a CU event description stated.

    “We can’t keep blaming white people for black problems,” Riley reportedly said during his talk at CU Boulder. “They must learn to do things for themselves.”

    The most notable of the two protests occurred at the University of Denver, where a large group of protestors walked out during Riley’s speech, according to video obtained by The College Fix.

    “The Federalist Society is sponsoring an event called ‘False Black Power?’ This is highly problematic and BLSA has decided not to let this go unaddressed,” the Black Law Students’ Association had stated in an email drumming up support for its protest prior to the event.
    ***

    https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/42889/

    1. The message of “It’s not your fault” is more appealing than “You can fix it by working hard” to a lot of people.

      1. invisible finger

        Some people put way more effort and energy into whining than hard work would take.

        HRC for example. Couldn’t spend a few days in certain states, and now spends months whining about her opponent.

    2. Viking1865

      The Freddie Gray thing should have been a wake up call. 3 of the 6 cops were black. Chief’s black, and the department has loads of black sgts, lts, capts, etc. Mayors black. Most of the City Council is black. All of them are Democrats, and quite leftwing ones at that.

      Bull Connor is dead. If you want to blame the six white Republicans who still live in the City of Baltimore for the state of the police force, fine, go ahead. Doesn’t make you right.

    3. Rasilio

      “We do not pity ourselves, we are not bleeding hearts—but we refuse to speak about blackness and/or black power without a thorough acknowledgment of the injustice blacks have suffered in this country,” the email continued.

      So you refuse to have the discussion until the other side has agreed to all of your points

      Um, that is not how a discussion works

      1. kbolino

        So you refuse to have the discussion until the other side has agreed to all of your points

        Or every discussion has to begin with the other side bowing before the altar of collective guilt. Either way, same result.

  20. Just Say’n

    https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/973630518246957056

    Kurt Eichenwald is beyond parody. Russia fever dreams must effect cognitive brain functions

    1. Winston

      But HM told me the hawks are happy Tillerson is gone?

      1. Just Say’n

        They are. The media has a vested interest in continuing Russia fever dreams. Because otherwise they look like utter and complete hacks for running with such a bullshit partisan memo from the get go.

        1. Winston

          That and it hurts Trumps and pushes him into more hawkish positions.

          1. Just Say’n

            Trump has chosen the more hawkish position by getting rid of Tillerson

          2. Winston

            And the left still says this means he is a Russian stooge. What a shock.

        2. Winston

          Also I am amused that with a Republican in the White House the Left is all hawkish, loves the intelligence agencies and wants censorship. So much for allying with them on foreign policy and civil liberties.

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      More insane Kurt: Eichenwald or Schlichter?

      1. Winston

        It’s “Schleicher”

        Him or Von Papen?

        1. Winston

          Oops but appropriate…

      2. Just Say’n

        Eichenwald by a mile. Schlichter writes for Townhall or something, which no one really reads. Eichenwald is suppose to be a legitimate journalist. There isn’t even any comparison.

    3. Bobarian LMD

      Is there any evidence of cognitive brain functions previously existing?

    4. Was Eichenwald the one with tentacle porn on his monitor in one of his Twitter selfies?

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        Yep.

    5. Winston

      My favorite was that tweet saying that cutting funding for PBS and NPR and raising military spending was the “Kremlin’s playbook” because we all know how Putin hates government-owned media outlets and thinks the US military is underfunded.

  21. Derpetologist

    Uber exec: White men need to ‘make noise’ about diversity
    http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/11/technology/uber-bozoma-saint-john-diversity/index.html

    ***
    “I want white men to look around in their office and say, ‘Oh look, there’s a lot of white men here. Let’s change this,’” Saint John said at the SXSW festival on Sunday.

    Saint John said the onus should not be on people of color to improve diversity at work: “Why do I — as the black woman — have to fix that? There’s 50 of you, there’s one of me. Ya’ll fix it. … Everybody else needs to make the noise — I want white men to make the noise.”

    One problem often cited for the lack of diversity is that the pipeline of candidates lacks enough women and minorities.

    “That’s bulls–t,” Saint John said.

    Saint John added it’s common for people to stick to what’s familiar, what makes them comfortable. As a result, they don’t seek people who don’t have similar backgrounds to or look like them, she said.

    “It’s not a pipeline issue,” she said.
    ***

    Ooh, I got an idea: just shut down all the majors that aren’t at least 50% women. Presto! No more imbalance.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      “I want white men to look around in their office and say, ‘Oh look, there’s a lot of white men here. Let’s change this,’”

      BANG THOSE POTS AND PANS!

      Like I’m gonna do that. It’s all women around me!

      Seriously what’s this ‘I want’ shit? Go fuck yourself you idiot.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      Uber is done.

      I’m calling it.

    3. Rufus the Monocled

      The article ends at ‘it’s not a pipeline issue’. It doesn’t go into what this dope thinks is the issue. Awesome.

      Unless, you know, just more loud mouthed drivel from loud mouth’d shnooks.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Problem is wypipo.

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Well at least we pronounce ‘ask’ properly.

          /crosses arms defiantly.

          1. I thought the topic was Trotsky.

          2. Rufus the Monocled

            Troksky!

    4. Rhywun

      My office is mostly Indians and black women. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    5. Rasilio

      Wouldn’t black women have to fix it by acquiring the necessary skills to do the job and then actively seek employment in that career field?

      I mean the white dudes sitting around the office can come up with all the ideas in the world to “solve” the problem but until there is a pool of qualified minority applicants there isn’t anything they can actually accomplish

      1. Mad Scientist

        The thing is these idiots believe qualifications are just some bullshit white men made up. “Necessary skills” is racist patriarchy. Any job can be filled with whomever you find hanging around the bus station, and the only reason we don’t have more diversity and equality of outcomes is because of the sexist racism inherent in the hiring process.

  22. Winston

    like how CNN doesn’t even try to appear impartial on their Spanish page.

    I thought Mexicans are all pseudo-libertarians?

  23. Winston

    Who is in that photo? MacGuver, Stephen Collins or someone from the A-Team?

    1. Brett L

      Murdock from the A-Team

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        That’s H.M. “Howlin Mad” Murdock.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      Oh Winston.

      /nods disappointingly.

      1. Winston

        Do you expect everyone to know every lame 80s pop-culture reference?

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Yes.

          Yes I do.

        2. Yusef drives a Kia

          80s?

        3. mexican sharpshooter

          All in favor of expecting everyone to know every lame 80s pop-culture reference say, “AYE.”

          1. Mad Scientist

            Aye!

          2. thepasswordispassword

            Aye!

          3. Pan Zagloba

            By the power of Greyskull!

          4. Number.6

            Transformers … ASSEMBLE!

          5. Winston

            Is that a reference to Dead Poets Society? If not, boo!

        4. mexican sharpshooter

          We have 3 AYE’s, 1 NAY, 1He-Man, and 1Transformer.

          THE AYES HAVE IT, THE MEASURE PASSES.

          1. thepasswordispassword

            Ay yi yi

          2. Number.6

            Eyyyyyyyyyyyy ! ::thumbs up::

        5. Rasilio

          Well given that he is now a libertarianish radio talk show host you should be able to recognize Dwight Schultz

  24. Derpetologist

    The derp is strong with this one:

    https://www.alternet.org/gender/4-common-myths-about-gender-pay-gap

    ***
    In fact, studies have shown that many women avoid careers in finance and technology that typically pay more because they’ve been socialized to believe that women can’t excel in the sciences or because they lack female role models in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields.

    Sommers’ argument is also white-centric, ignoring the fact that poor women of color often do not have the same information or access to options that white women do.

    While it’s true that 31 percent of women work part-time compared to 18 percent of men, this can be largely attributed to the fact that the U.S. still lacks federally mandated family leave, unlike countries like Canada, Germany and the U.K. Without this job protection or flexibility, many women must choose part-time work over full-time.

    As explained above, existing sexist social pressures will mean that women will continue to choose college majors that lead to lower-paying jobs.

    Just because women today have more autonomy in decision-making when it comes to their careers than previous generations doesn’t mean we’ve finished our work in evening out the playing field. As long as male-dominated careers are seen as more prestigious; as long as girls are not encouraged to pursue higher-paying fields early on in life; and as long as working full-time as a mom continues to be a taboo, women will continue to wind up in jobs that pay less.
    ***

    1. Mad Scientist

      because they lack female role models in STEM

      Way to insult the thousands of women who work in STEM fields.

      1. Rhywun

        I know I’m just a privileged honkey but this “role model” crap I’ve been hearing about all my life is outrageously overplayed if not complete horseshit.

        girls are not encouraged to pursue higher-paying fields early on in life

        My schooling which began in the seventies would beg to differ.

        1. Rasilio

          It is beyond complete horseshit

          1. SimonD

            Exactly.

            I had a female high school classmate…. in 1984, who is a fairly well-known astronomer (by astronomer standards….she has a wikipedia page).

            There have been female role models in STEM fields for quite some time, if young women were willing to look.

      2. kbolino

        Computer Science and Software Engineering have never lacked for female role models. The very first computer programmer was a woman, for Pete’s sake. Yet participation of women in CS and SE is lower than ever.

    2. invisible finger

      Writer should spend time watching junior high aged girls interact. The cruelty directed toward the nerdy girls explains most of the discouragement.

      1. Rhywun

        Same process at work in certain minority communities.

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        Curse you and your nimble fingers!

    1. wdalasio

      That was very good.

    2. mikey

      Thx. Nice to read something rational from a politician for a change.

  25. Pan Zagloba

    Neil (aka The Lesser) MacDonald goes on a libertarian tirade at Canada’s Beloved National Broadcaster.

    Canada’s scorn of Donald Trump’s protectionism stinks of hypocrisy

    At the warehouse, there were thousands of packages waiting for pickup by Canadians. Business is good, the warehouse clerk told me with a big grin.

    Such warehouses now exist in just about every border town; lovely, elegant hatches through Canada’s nasty border brambles, at least for Canadians who live close enough.

    Yes, I declared the frames to Canada customs on the way back. Yes, it was still worth it. Really, really worth it. (I filled up the tank in Ogdensburg, more than paying for the trip.)

    But I did hesitate to write here about the border warehouse solution. If too many Canadians start using it, I could imagine our finance minister rising in the Commons to announce a new, “special tax on holders of American proxy addresses who need to pay their fair share.”

    1. Winston

      We are talking about the same Liberals that demonized Mulroney for NAFTA and they now love it since Trump hates it.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        And it was the Liberals under Laurier who originally wanted free trade way back at the beginning of the 20th century. Remember when Laurier said the ’21st century’ was supposed to belong to Canada?

        What a bummer that turned out to be.

        1. Winston

          Ah the time when Liberals were actually classically liberal. Impressive how the classical liberals in Canada, US and UK quite willingly committed ideological suicide.

    2. Rufus the Monocled

      I always love telling Canadians freaking out about Trump’s threats a couple of things:

      A) We’re a branch plant economy – including the fact it’s American capital that develop our resources- so shut up. We made our bed. Live in it for fuck sakes.
      B) We have a limp douche in power with a Finance Minister with the personality of lint so even if we wanted to project some kind of tough stance it wouldn’t work.
      C) The Canadian and American economies are so intertwined it’s like a doctor who decides he can’t operate trying to remove a tumour because there are too many nerves.

      The look on their faces….

      Whatever. Go drop a puck somewhere.

    3. Gordilocks

      Neil is the exception to the rule at the CBC, as he occasionally engages in narrative deflation and reality checks.

      1. Pan Zagloba

        He taxes and frustrates me. Sometimes it’s prime-time derp, other times I’m like “shit, Reason would tell you to ease up with anarcho-capitalism”

        Rex Murphy seems to have fully embraced ‘grumpy old non-leftist’ persona.

        1. Winston

          Rex Murphy seems to have fully embraced ‘grumpy old non-leftist’ persona.

          Interesting:

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Murphy#Early_career

          Murphy first came to national attention while attending Memorial University during a nationally covered speech in Lennoxville, Quebec. Murphy characterized Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood’s governing style as dictatorial and proclaimed his legislature’s recent announcement of free tuition as a sham. Smallwood warned the undergraduate student in a news conference not to return. Murphy did and was elected President of Memorial University Student Council. In the end the government caved in. All students received the free tuition promised, plus a $50 living allowance.
          Murphy has run for provincial office in Newfoundland twice: in the 1985 provincial election in the riding of Placentia [2] in 1985 and in a byelection in the riding of St. John’s East in 1986,[3] as a Liberal. He lost both times. He also worked in the 1980s as executive assistant to Clyde Wells.

  26. Winston

    I’ve said this before but has anyone read the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms implemented by Turdeau Sr.?

    The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

    Also the old Bill of Rights included property rights but the Charter doesn’t thanks to the NDP.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Yes. It’s a piece of crap written by a totalitarian egoist.

      1. Winston

        He admired the Soviet Constitution. And he loved Red China just like Junior.

        1. Rufus the Monocled

          Hence the fact he wrote it the way he did.

          He was a fucken weasel. And his son is worse. What’s worse than a weasel?

          1. pistoffnick

            A shit weasel.

  27. Derpetologist

    Leftists learn nothing from history, exhibit 18X

    Seventy years ago, a popular revolution swept the Communist Party to power in Czechoslovakia. It quickly proved itself to be a hidden coup.
    https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/czechoslovakia-1948-communist-party-repression

    ***
    Milan Kundera, in his 1969 novel Life Is Elsewhere, describes the Czechoslovak Communist Party’s 1948 seizure of power as a moment of mass euphoria. The first anniversary of what came to be known as “Victorious February” was celebrated with genuine jubilation. But already repression had begun, and it was only the beautiful ideals of the revolution that enabled some (like the novel’s poet protagonist) to overlook its increasingly ugly reality. Kundera himself, formerly a socialist realist poet, would dedicate the rest of his life to cynical prose.

    Still, many people had prosaic enough reasons to support the new order even when its more lofty appeals grew stale. Wealth redistribution brought clear benefits to many, and rapid industrialization lifted the poorer parts of the country out of dire poverty. But this improving material security did not come with growing popular power. The unions, factory councils, action committees, and militias were brought under Communist Party control, and the party itself was controlled by its leaders — and by its leaders’ leaders in Moscow — rather than its members.

    Almost immediately after Victorious February, opposition from the Right and Left were suppressed by a powerful police apparatus, and by 1950 a show trial would lead to the execution of some of the party’s most prominent critics. By 1952 some of the party’s own leading figures, including General Secretary Rudolf Slánský and Foreign Minister Vladimír Clementis, would fall victim in a Soviet-orchestrated show trial.

    But in early 1948 it was hardly clear that this was the direction a Communist victory might take. Even for those who understood the reality of Stalinism in the Soviet Union, there was good reason to believe that a Czechoslovak revolution might follow a different course. The Communist Party itself had declared its support for a “Czechoslovak path to socialism” that respected and fulfilled the democratic traditions of the interwar Czechoslovak Republic. And unlike its analogues in most of Central and Eastern Europe, the Czechoslovak Communist Party rose to prominence largely on its own.

    Kundera, in Life Is Elsewhere, jumps suddenly from his story of Communist poets in Prague after 1948 to a scene of rebellious students in Paris 1968. The clear implication is that anywhere the song of uncompromising revolution sounds, the groundwork is quietly being laid for the repression of all that questions the beautiful ideals. Kundera, of course, made no effort to understand the Parisian left.
    ***

    [head desk]

    1. Viking1865

      People like that will, decades after the mass killings and the secret police, write well received novels that future Communists will review while decrying that once again the Beautiful Dream failed. That same fucking article will be published in the 2058 edition of Jacobin, talking about some disillusioned Chavistas novel telling of the early days of the revolution, before the wreckers and kulaks killed the dream, along with millions of people, because once again those nasty state capitalists sabotaged it.

      Yeah, I’m gonna hang on to my guns, that way if they ever try to once again enact their Perfect on Paper System, I can do my part in a great artwork I call “Making Bad Commies into Good Commies.”

  28. Just Say’n

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYMPaF9VQAARlxT.jpg:large

    The administration has agreed with the UK on Russia being responsible for the assassination in that country.

    “Just six dimensional chess. He’s totes a lackey of Putin. Vox told me so”

    – a certain airhead that we all know

    1. Winston

      He didn’t say it yesterday so he is a puppet.

  29. Juvenile Bluster

    I’m not sure if Champions League spoilers are verboten, so I won’t say a score, but

    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    1. Rhywun

      I don’t watch Man U so go ahead if it’s them.
      I plan to watch the Roma match later. I don’t like them either, but it’s not at heat-of-a-thousand-suns level or anything.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        It was ManU. I wouldn’t be cackling maniacally otherwise.

        Didn’t even look like they tried until Sevilla went 2-0 up.

        1. Raven Nation

          Both ManU & Spurs did the hard work on the away leg to get the advantage then totally screwed things up at home.

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      Walking out of a government school isn’t a bad thing, is it?

      1. Winston

        Government employees encouraged yutes to come out against constitutional rights is a good thing?

      2. Gordilocks

        It’s much better if they have set the school alight before walking out.

    2. Playa Manhattan

      “With more than 17 young people dying from gun violence every single day, unfortunately no community is safe.”

      WRONG

    3. Winston

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumner_Redstone#Political_views

      A longtime Democratic supporter, with a history of donating to many Democratic campaigns, including regular donations to Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle,[42] Redstone endorsed Republican George W. Bush over Kerry in the 2004 Presidential election, allegedly because he argued that Bush would be better for his company and the economy.[43] Despite this public endorsement, he donated money to Kerry during the primaries and was involved in the Rathergate scandal meant to hurt Bush’s reelection.[44]

  30. Winston

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbours_(1952_film)

    “I was inspired to make Neighbours by a stay of almost a year in the People’s Republic of China. Although I only saw the beginnings of Mao’s revolution, my faith in human nature was reinvigorated by it. Then I came back to Quebec and the Korean War began. (…) I decided to make a really strong film about anti-militarism and against war.”

    So Norman McLaren was a shithead…

    1. Viking1865

      Can we please round up all the Commie sympathizers and trade them to Venezuela for some local talent?

      1. Winston

        Well McLaren was a gay Scotsman who immigrated to Canada…

      2. Pan Zagloba

        Take them over on helicopters? At no cost?

  31. Bobarian LMD

    This came up in my tweeter feed.

    1. Gordilocks

      Those idiots attacking Popehat …. Jesus Christ. We are surrounded by Slavers.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        What a bunch of assholes!

    2. Unreconstructed

      I liked your take on it.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Indeed.

    3. Pan Zagloba

      Dear progs: Please stop making me like Gillespie!

      1. Just Say’n

        Team Gillespie

        1. Pan Zagloba

          Team Gillespie is Nick Gillespie of teams.

    4. Just Say’n

      That jerk called Gillespie Fonzie- that’s our thing. Nick was right here and Popehat made that ACLU guy look like a supreme asshole (as if working for the ACLU at this point doesn’t already make you look like an asshole)

    5. Rhywun

      I saw that review of Preet’s podcast and almost fell off the throne as I was reading it. What a smug prick. I hope KMW prints a retraction next month.

  32. AlmightyJB

    https://fee.org/articles/entitlements-the-most-predictable-economic-crisis-in-history/

    Well W wanted to fix SS and the media destroyed him over it.

  33. Gilmore

    Student walkouts planned across US to protest gun violence

    probably not worth reading.

    maybe just me, but i find the headline about as silly-sounding as, “man goes on drinking binge to help prevent climate change”, or “women plan to spend day sunbathing in solidarity with those starving in Ethiopia”

    meaning: You “protest” things that that you think there can be some legislative solution for. You can’t ‘protest’ away crime or mentally ill spree-killers. Your collective opinion on the subject is worthless. Even if everyone already agreed with your sentiment, it would be equally fatuous. You don’t “reduce crime” or “reduce violence” by staging ostentatious displays of indignant opinion. The very notion of it expresses some essential misconception about the nature of what it is you’re ‘protesting’.

    Shorter: people ar dumb

    1. AlmightyJB

      Student walk outs planned because students love skipping school especially when their teachers encourage it.

    2. Gilmore

      *and yes, i know that buried in the story is an actual “legislative solution”, and the headline would be more-accurate if it said, “Students plan protest calling for gun-control”

      my point was that the way it was phrased was idiotic.

      fwiw, so are the legislative demands

      The coordinated walkout was organized by Empower, the youth wing of the Women’s March, which brought thousands to Washington, D.C., last year. The group urged students to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes — one minute for each victim in the Florida shooting.

      Although the group wanted students to shape protests on their own, it also offered them a list of demands for lawmakers, including a ban on assault weapons and mandatory background checks for all gun sales.

      \

      we already ban select-fire weapons, and the vast vast majority of sales have background checks. Their protest must be working!

      1. Derpetologist

        The odds that someone will advocate for a new law are inversely proportional to their knowledge of the existing laws.

      2. Rhywun

        the youth wing of the Women’s March

        So basically, a commie front organization is brainwashing your kids. Yay?

        1. thepasswordispassword
          1. AlmightyJB

            We need a video of where they are now. I could say something mean about that but I wont because I am not a mean person.

          2. Rhywun

            Holy crap. I forgot about that.

          3. Mad Scientist

            “Because of Obama I’m inspired to be the next automotive technician.”

            Obama inspired me to lower my aspirations as well.

    3. Winston

      Also I’m sure this is a reflection of the feeling of teh yutes and not encouraged or even forced by leftists Teachers?

    4. mexican sharpshooter

      My sister is a senior in HS. They did that a few weeks ago.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Is she 18?

        Are there pictures?

        1. mexican sharpshooter

          One yes, one no. I let you decide which is which.

  34. thepasswordispassword

    This might turn into something
    https://apnews.com/349cd100ca8640e68009c6a4bafcf350/3-men-arrested-on-gun-charges-suspected-in-mosque-bombing

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say they have arrested three me from rural central Illinois on gun charges who they believe are suspects in the bombing of a Minnesota mosque and an attempted bombing of an Illinois abortion clinic.

    A Tuesday statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Springfield announced the arrests on charges of possession of a machine gun. The statement adds that the three men are suspects in the Aug. 5 explosion at the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, and the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign on Nov. 7.

    It identifies them as Michael B. Hari, 47; Joe Morris, 22; Michael McWhorter, 29. All are from Clarence, a rural community 35 miles north of Champaign-Urbana.

    1. thepasswordispassword

      Those damned Libertarians!
      http://www.paxtonrecord.net/news/courts-police-and-fire/2017-07-10/michael-hari-arrested-assault-neighbor-clarence.html

      CLARENCE — Michael B. Hari, a former Ford County sheriff’s deputy and Libertarian candidate for sheriff who notoriously served probation 10 years ago for abducting his two daughters, was arrested Friday for the alleged assault of a neighbor in Clarence.

      1. Winston

        Where’s Hihn?

        1. AlmightyJB

          Drowning kittens probably.

  35. Gadfly

    How Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs

    FTA:

    Today, Iceland tops the European table for the cleanest-living teens. The percentage of 15- and 16-year-olds who had been drunk in the previous month plummeted from 42 percent in 1998 to 5 percent in 2016. The percentage who have ever used cannabis is down from 17 percent to 7 percent. Those smoking cigarettes every day fell from 23 percent to just 3 percent.

    And another excerpt, for Just Say’n:

    “People can get addicted to drink, cars, money, sex, calories, cocaine—whatever,” says Milkman. “The idea of behavioral addiction became our trademark.”

    This idea spawned another: “Why not orchestrate a social movement around natural highs: around people getting high on their own brain chemistry—because it seems obvious to me that people want to change their consciousness—without the deleterious effects of drugs?”

    (emphasis added)

    1. Gilmore

      looking solely at “15-16yr olds” isn’t really how you analyze something like that. you’d normally want the oldest ‘teens’ as your benchmark, not just the one barely out of puberty.

      although i concede that any survey suggesting “40%+ of 15yr olds used to get drunk regularly” isn’t necessarily a sign of how clean-living you are now, its a sign of “Wow you dudes used to paaaarty!”

      footnote: *My “24 hours of drinking in iceland” story remains my single favorite episode of reckless debauchery. I hope to go back for Beer Day again – which i think is early march – some time in the future. it would be sad if i found it far tamer than i remember it.

      1. Gadfly

        RE: footnote: I vote you do some investigative reporting for Glibertarians on how/if the change in culture concerning youth & substances has affected the larger soceity’s ability to party.

    2. Bobarian LMD

      Sounds kinda cultish?

      But is it like ‘dancing around in the airport and bumming money’, or ‘drinking favor-ade and riding out on a comet’ cultish?

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Sorry — flavor-ade

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      No one is lazy in LazyTown.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        Big C almost got Robbie Rotten to be permanently lazy.

    4. Rhywun

      As is often pointed out, size and culture matter. There are more people within a 2-mile radius of my house than in the entire country of Iceland. And they’re a bit more varied.

      1. Gadfly

        Very true, and a lot of the methods used according to the article were very heavy-handed as well, and not something I would want to see replicated here. But the program did rest on the idea that family and community involvement was essential to fixing their problem, which is an important and valuable takeaway.

      2. Number.6

        Back in the 80’s and 90’s, the ability of a young man to be able to hold his own in a drinking contest was of huge social value in Iceland.

    5. R C Dean

      People can get addicted to drink, cars, money, sex, calories, cocaine—whatever. . . . Why not orchestrate a social movement around natural highs: around people getting high on their own brain chemistry—because it seems obvious to me that people want to change their consciousness—without the deleterious effects of drugs?

      Connecting the dots, it sounds like he wants teenagers to fuck like rabbits, drive like maniacs, eat like pigs, and spend money like there is no tomorrow, since those are the non-drug “natural” highs.

      What could possibly go wrong?

  36. AlmightyJB

    Do teachers never pay attention to the news? You’re going to get busted dumbass.

    http://nbc4i.com/2018/03/13/former-ohio-teacher-pleads-guilty-to-sexual-battery-involving-students/

  37. AlmightyJB

    Listening to local radio coming home callers were saying the people hanging up these flyers should be prosecuted. I hate people.

    http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/flier-warns-linden-to-be-on-the-lookout-for-reinstated-cop

    1. Bobarian LMD

      should be prosecuted

      How about ‘will be prosecuted’?

      You think you can just get away with harassing the king’s men?

      1. AlmightyJB

        Here is the face stomp that got him fired in the first place. CPD is putting him back in the same neighborhood. Brilliant.

        https://youtu.be/f2ymKXoJ_dY

  38. Gilmore

    If anyone hasn’t yet read the long Nat Review piece about “Russian Collusion”, i highly recommend it.

    even if you’re familiar with all the details, it is unique in how it ties everything together in a coherent way, which i don’t think i’ve ever seen anyone do before. I probably would quibble about a few things, but overall i think its very well done, and as accurate as can be possible w/ such partisan topic.

    1. Just Say’n

      No thanks, ENB filled me in on the key details

    2. grrizzly

      I second it. This piece is currently probably the most comprehensive review of what happened. Most of the key developments are analyzed, multiple pieces are put together. It’s always nice to be reminded of the timeline of the events: you can see how various parts of the machine were working together.

      1. Gilmore

        yes, its main benefit is putting it all back in context, in timeline – projecting “what we know now” back on events that were reported ‘back then’ and clarifying what was really going on.

        the problem was that the news media during the election itself were spinning the fuck out of every story; nothing was reliable. its only through post-facto exercises like this that you can actually piece together what was really going on.

  39. Derpetologist

    Politician favors policies that benefit constituents; film at 11
    https://www.npr.org/2018/03/07/591441272/targeted-tariffs-are-an-appropriate-remedy-rep-tim-ryan-says

    ***
    INSKEEP: Thanks for coming by. Why would these tariffs be a good idea?

    RYAN: Well, if it’s targeted to the particular countries that have been cheating. The Chinese, for example, have been dumping steel into our markets for years. I’ve been in Congress 16 years, have been working on this issue the entire time. Their final product when it arrives on the shores of the United States is the same cost as the raw material cost for an American company trying to do the same thing. So they have a huge advantage – selling it cheap.

    INSKEEP: Well, let me ask if these tariffs can work at all because I understand you’re from Ohio. You’re from a traditional steel-making state. You want to protect steel jobs. Stephen Moore, conservative economist who has advised President Trump, doesn’t think these tariffs are a good idea and tells us what’s going to happen is all the products made in America with steel and aluminum are just going to get more expensive, and it’s going to be harder for American cars or other products to compete around the world. Couldn’t this actually cost American jobs?

    RYAN: I don’t think so. Part of what we have to look at – yes, this is economic. There is also a military and defense application for what we’re doing here. We have to be able to supply our own military. And just in the last decade or so, we’ve lost – I don’t know – five, six, seven, eight aluminum companies. We can’t rely on Vladimir Putin’s steel – or even South Korea, for that matter – to supply our own military. So yes, there may be some economic arguments. Yes, maybe this is going to have an effect on the market – lots of things do. But as the United States, we’ve got to have the capabilities of supplying our own military.
    ***

    [head desk]

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Harry S Truman nods approvingly.

      1. Derpetologist

        Reagan is the devil for busting up an ATC strike. Truman broke up a steel strike, but he didn’t want to do it and felt bad about it, so it doesn’t matter.

        1. KibbledKristen

          The bigger devil is gonna be the poor bastard that finally privatizes ATC.

          1. Raven Nation

            Speaking of which, Bob Poole had a good piece on the state of play on that in the November TOS mag.

          2. KibbledKristen

            I think I might have a hard copy of that one.

      2. Derpetologist

        ***
        The president quadrupled the defense budget to $50 billion, and the NSRB placed controls on prices, wages and raw materials. Inflation soared and shortages in food, consumer goods and housing appeared.[3]
        ***

        Adjusting for inflation ($550b), that’s about what defense spending is now. The amount of money we needed to fight the most populous nation on earth is now just enough to fight a few thousand militants.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_steel_strike

        In 1950, total govt spending was about $314b (in 1950 dollars).

  40. Don

    Aloha! Just wanted to say hello and thanks for this place. You all taught me much.
    Thanks to SP for help getting signed in.

    1. KibbledKristen

      Welcome to our little hellhole.

      1. Plinker762

        Where does that fit on the scale in relation to shithole?

        1. Gadfly

          Directly above it.

    2. AlmightyJB

      Welcome Don Ho.

    3. mexican sharpshooter

      Hey Tulpa. It’s been a while.

      1. AlmightyJB

        Oh man.

      2. Don

        Just couldn’t stay away. Can’t help myself.

      3. Don Escaped Texas

        We are not all Gulps.

        But we’re all Don now ?

        1. Don Escaped Texas

          Yikes

          We are not all Tulpas.

          So close to funny….so close.

          1. Juvenile Bluster

            That’s something Tulpa would say.

          2. AlmightyJB

            How would you know that?

          3. Don Escaped Texas

            Tough room

    4. Hyperion

      Alright, Tulpa, now you’ve went too far, we know it’s you, don’t drag SP into your lies!

  41. KibbledKristen

    So when does this NCAA tournament thingie start?

    1. AlmightyJB

      There are a few prelimany games to determine who the last teams that make it in are. The real tourney starts Thursday probably noonish.

      1. AlmightyJB

        My Buckeyes play Thursday at 4. Im taking half day off work.

        1. KibbledKristen

          That reminds me of the first time (out of two times) my alma mater made the tourney. They played the Vols in the middle of the day on a weekday. My afternoon after returning to the office was….drunken.

          This year Bucknell is repping the Conference.

    1. Gilmore

      I see your crazy eyes, i raise you

  42. Gilmore

    Remember that rapper who had 1 good song? Yeah, he’s dead.

    His true legacy isn’t even his ‘one good song’. It’s the remix.

    1. AlmightyJB

      “Remember that rapper who had 1 good song?”

      Nope. I’m not aware of any good rap songs.

        1. AlmightyJB

          Truth

  43. mexican sharpshooter

    Trump ordered Tillerson to eat a salad. No, seriously.

    This is clearly an abuse of power.

    1. Rhywun

      What a monster. #resist

    2. Trump would have made certain he got two salads.

    3. Pan Zagloba

      Christ, what an asshole.

    4. AlmightyJB

      This is the first time that I will not scoff at a Hitler comparison. A salad? Dear God.

      1. He also orders his steaks well done and does not like dogs, oh also he is a buffoon who thinks asset forfiture and extra judicaial executions and are totes cool, but OMFG steak, dogs and whores!!!

    5. Derpetologist

      You don’t win friends with salad.

  44. CPRM

    Hah, this popped up on my youtube, figured Swissy might be interested. No mention of any staring though.

    1. Ay yup.

      *sharpens pike*

    2. thepasswordispassword

      Remember when the Swiss were loyal Catholics? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

  45. KibbledKristen

    GAH!!!!

    #ShoveYourSKOLUpYourAss

    1. straffinrun

      One of my buddies came to visit many years back. We ran into my landlord, Ando-san, who was this 80 year old little guy that didn’t speak any English. My buddy was loading a dip of Copenhagen and Ando-san asked what it was and if he could try some. My buddy offers up the tin and, before we could stop him, Ando-san starts shoveling the stuff into his mouth and swallowing it. Of course he soon was puking his guts out in the bushes soon after. To Ando-san’s credit, he never blamed me for it.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        I’ve never chewed but I love the smell of fresh Cope. And pipe tobacco.

  46. Gaze upon the only thing to bring to meaning into your otherwise pointless existence.

    http://archive.is/8Bzal

    No need really to specify numbers, but #12 could kick me in the balls and I’d thank her profusely.

    1. Just Say’n

      My life has meaning again

    2. DEG

      I’m not sure if that’s a stupid piercing or a cold sore, but either way #13 is excluded from the orgy.

  47. Juvenile Bluster

    It’s not over yet, but it looks like a pretty good chance the Ds are going to flip PA-18 in the special election.

    Starting to become more convinced that Team Blue is going to flip the House, if for no other reason than a ton of people are motivated to vote on one side and not on the other side (same as 2016, except opposite). Probably not the Senate, though I’d like them to, because Trump with a D Congress means that absolutely zero would get done in Washington.

    1. Just Say’n

      Yeah, they’re taking the House. But, I’d prefer they keep the Senate for the judges. And I definitely think they’re keeping the Senate.

      The thing about this race is that he’s a opt-gun moderate Democrat. His win also reflects that the leftward tilt of the party is what’s killing them

      1. Just Say’n

        *pro-gun*

        1. Hyperion

          LOL. No, just no, he’s not. There is no such thing as a pro-gun dem, period.

          1. Just Say’n

            I don’t know. There was Jim Webb

          2. Hyperion

            I think the commies already ran that guy out of town on a rail.

          3. KibbledKristen

            Yep. He “retired”. Aka the Dems shoved him out the door for that doormat tow the lion Kaine.

    2. straffinrun

      How much of a harbinger of November is it really? Also, if either winds up flipping, that may hurt Team Blue in 2020.

      1. Hyperion

        Really hard to tell at this point. People do not pay as much attention to mid-term elections, and they pay even less attention to these special elections. Most people don’t even know they’re happening, because you know, they have jobs and other things to pay attention to. Right now, TDS is making Democrat’s normally jobless voters pay more attention because they don’t have anything else to do and they’re probably getting paid to vote. But how long can the resistance go on? I think it’s already starting to suffer from severe fatigue.

        1. straffinrun

          About what I would’ve guessed. I think “throw the bums out!” is always good for democracy. Too bad it rarely happens.

    3. kbolino

      Probably not the Senate, though I’d like them to, because Trump with a D Congress means that absolutely zero would get done in Washington.

      I highly doubt that. The Dems aren’t going to change a strategy that’s worked for them for 70+ years just because Donald Trump Is Literally Hitler.

    4. Gustave Lytton

      Trump with a D Congress means that absolutely zero would get done in Washington

      Unless Trump pulls a reverse Clinton and embraces the D agenda. Which isn’t off the table.

      Good news is the R’s can deliver those concession speeches and navel gaze whine about if only they were given a majority, they coulda bean a contendah.

  48. Hyperion

    Interesting, NYT have now taken down their live prediction meter of the PA special election as the race is tightening and Westmoreland County, which is heavily R is not reporting. Effectively, NYT has reversed their prediction that the D has 54% of winning. Interesting, never seen that before.

    1. straffinrun

      Margin right now is almost exactly what the Libertarian candidate has total. Politico.

      1. Hyperion

        Politico, lol. They should call themselves Politijokeico. There’s never existed a rag who has been wrong so many times as they have, CNN cannot even touch them for being wrong.

        1. straffinrun

          Now the difference is under 900 votes. Time to mysteriously find some ballots in your trunk.

          1. Hyperion

            The thing is, is that Westmoreland county is still completely unreported and it’s heavily GOP. That’s why NYT took down their real tracker. I mean it could still go either way, but I’m guessing the GOP pulls this out.

          2. straffinrun

            Now, under 600. Going the wrong way for Lamb. You’re probably right.

          3. Hyperion

            Just in case no one has the link:

            Live Estimates of the Final Vote
            Precinct results are not currently available in Westmoreland County, a heavily Republican part of the district. We’re monitoring the county-level results closely, but for now we can’t responsibly make a forecast without more detailed information about where in Westmoreland County the votes are coming from.

            Westmoreland county still zero percent reported. 585 vote difference now. I love watching these things.

          4. straffinrun

            100 vote difference. Why am I watching this? It’s worse than the NIT.

          5. thepasswordispassword

            Apparently there’s even more to it. That this isn’t the actual vote count which happens friday and that absentee/overseas military and provisional ballots haven’t even been counted yet.

            https://twitter.com/adambonin/status/973737779996844032

          6. straffinrun

            RealClear has 100% reported and a 95 vote difference. Wonder how many absentee ballots are out there.

          7. thepasswordispassword

            From further down in that thread, absentee is only for people who will not be able to vote so very small number. Adding in overseas military ballots would probably bump to over 95 votes easy.

          8. CPRM

            What if each state had an electoral college weighted by county, I wonder if it would change anything in state wide elections? I’m not interested enough to do any research or math, I’m just asking questions, man.

          9. Just Say’n

            I don’t think you can do that in statewide elections. I believe there was a Supreme Court case about Alabama doing that for it’s gubernatorial races to disenfranchise blacks. Or, I may be just making this shut up, which is also very likely

          10. CPRM

            Fair Vote trying to say why it would be bad is the first thing that came up googling ‘electoral college for state elections’ no mention of SCOTUS cases about it, and I didn’t care to keep reading. Like I said, ‘I’m just asking questions’ IJAQ

          11. Gustave Lytton

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynolds_v._Sims

            Back to CPRM’s question, depends on the state I think. The further east and south you go, the smaller the county and possibly the less it would change statewide elections.

          12. CPRM

            Fucking Warren Court, might as well have been Night Court.

          13. Gustave Lytton

            There’s a lot of idiocy and poor rulings, but it also did a bit to advance (for a limited time) individual rights against the power of the state.

            Today, the Justices would have sent Tinker to detention and then to Vietnam. Well, if the school officials didn’t goad, guide, and orchestrate the protests themselves as they’re doing with this gun control kabuki theatre.

    1. Creosote Achilles

      My god. Those are some tig ole bitties.

    2. CPRM

      I bet her back hurts. I feel her brea…pain.

  49. CPRM

    Today’s episode of Best of The Worst from Red Letter Media gave me a great idea for a SugarFree story. Trump asks to have a Big Mac Button installed next to his Diet Coke Button, but instead they install a Whopper Button. Hilarity ensues.

    1. Gustave Lytton

      Genesis will sue you for infringement.

      1. CPRM

        I suffer from puppaphobia, now I’m triggered! I’ll see you in court!

  50. KibbledKristen

    Addictive game, especially for geography nerds. My top score is 24922

    1. CPRM

      I quit, it got the wrong spot for my first guess. (not me getting the spot wrong, the place on the map where I clicked wasn’t where they showed when they contrasted the correct answer)

      1. KibbledKristen

        Huh – haven’t encountered that

  51. KibbledKristen

    Three possibilities:

    1) Dumbass teen
    2) African American person
    3) Both

    1. Heroic Mulatto

      4) Someone from Boston

      1. KibbledKristen

        Probably Matt Damon

    2. CPRM

      Seth McFarlane?

    3. Gilmore

      I once knew a man from Nantucket.

  52. KibbledKristen

    LOL.

  53. KibbledKristen

    7% difference seems significant. If the results are verified, there’s probably some medical research possibilities.

    1. CPRM

      The actual DNA isn’t different. ie not the sequencing, it’s the physical length of certain markers; IE if you go really fast in a zero Gs your cells don’t present in the same way.

      1. CPRM

        It could be ‘stretching a 12″ ruler out to 13″ difference’ or it could be proof of the relativity of time on the human body, but with just one test it doesn’t really add up.

    2. thepasswordispassword

      NASA participating in a viral ad campaign for the venom movie

  54. thepasswordispassword

    And Stephen Hawking just died.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008

    1. KibbledKristen

      DOH

      1. Playa Manhattan

        Yay

    1. CPRM

      Meh. Personally he was an ass, professionally he only got noticed because he was a disabled ass. I think some of his ‘breakthroughs” won’t been seen in such high regard in the future; but he was an interesting story.

      1. KibbledKristen

        I don’t think I’ve ever heard off anyone surviving that long with ALS. He was diagnosed quite young. Even people with the same financial resources he had for medical care don’t survive that long. Hope they study him to see if they can figure out why.

        1. CPRM

          Sick people don’t often make the news unless something miraculous happens. I’m more surprised that after the AIDS scare Magic Johnson is still around more than 20 years after becoming HIV positive, not only that he is kinda fat. Not what one thinks about with AIDS, maybe South Park was right.

    2. CPRM

      Gary Cooper died of ALS after making Pride of the Yankees, that’s why it’s sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease. FACT.

    3. Playa Manhattan

      Fuck that anti-semite cripple. At least he was in hell before he died.

  55. Don Escaped Texas

    where’d the bracket link go ?

  56. KibbledKristen

    “We have to be a party of Bernie Sanders, Connor Lamb, and Joe Manchin”. -some douchebag analyst on CNN

    So, basically the Dems have to be a party off no particular direction or opinion.

    Yep, that oughta work out fine.

  57. Heroic Mulatto

    lol all of ur moms are gay!

    1. CPRM

      So what?

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        1. CPRM

          Does this man have a penis or a vagina (a question one now needs to ask)

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            An ovipositor.

          2. CPRM

            Well, since I do not want eggs injected into me; this situation shouldn’t be handled through sexual relations. See, we are making progress.

        2. CPRM

          The shadowing doesn’t appear that the cats are actual 3-D animals, instead they seem to be a sort of tattoo., yet the cat on the left extends past the bounds of the abdomen. So I can only assume this person has had a cat’s tail and leg surgically implanted on his side to extend the scene.

    2. CPRM

      My mom could eat out your mom/millennial safe zone play area guarded by police word match moderated by the most woke teacher.

  58. Lachowsky

    My pigs beat on Texas this evening. 14-4. It’s always good to beat texas, because nobody likes texas.

    1. CPRM

      In which sport?

      1. CPRM

        I bet it’s curling, right? I bet my aunts wheelchair on it being curling, it better be curling!

      2. Lachowsky

        NCAABB.

        Oddly enough, curling is not a very popular sport in the south.

        1. CPRM

          Damnit! You just made me lose my aunt’s wheelchair to crackhead! I hope you’re happy. She can’t walk! She ain’t got no legs!