I HAD ONE JOB! Get the Morning links out… I BLEW IT. So, you get something quite different than yesterday. Non-precise, not on time links. I hope the Swiss don’t come for me in the night…
- Looks like this particular scandal is going to get more coverage than the first couple of its ilk, perhaps?
- Tongan Crips? This one kamikazi’d with a…pen. Good Shoot. Totality of Circs…for once. (Note, just being released now – is 2014 clip)
- I think the answer will be “Ha ha ha, up yours.”
No music this fine morn, I am too late – post yer own!
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Pithy. I like.
So I guess nerve agents are the new polonium?
Usually faster, harder to detect than radiation.
Making demands of Putin takes some nerve, I tell ya
*narrows gaze*
Putin laughs, “Or what?”
Good thing the UK went full TDS. Good luck punching about your weight when you’re 105 lbs soaking wet.
I am curious ..what they would do if they were all snugly with Donny from Queens?
“Vlad, Vlad. These are my mates. Take your killing to some other shit hole country.”
And he still says “or wut, m8?”
You may be right. We’ll never know, but I can’t see how all this vilification of Putin and Russia would be helping the situation, to say the least.
Well, to be fair – I do think our sanctions and banking measures, etc are pinching them. Along with our fracking keeping prices lower/stable. I suppose us saying, prepare for another ratchet turn might deter any more blatant killings.
And he still says “or wut, m8?”
Yeah, since there’s already sanctions and nobody wants a war, there’s not much that can be done. I guess they could give more weapons to Ukraine, but that’s about all I can think of.
Guy was a spy. Spies die.
Where do I pick up my Nobel Poet Laureate?
Funny you put it that way. I’d seen a bunch of media coverage about this incident and they seemed to treat it like it was a new thing. The Russians have been doing this for years.
Team Blue truism: act like it’s never happened before and you get to pull out all the asinine, hyperbolic rhetorical flourishes you like! (cf. Obama funding Netanyahu’s political enem— erm, I mean Putin election hack 2017).
Or how we helped Yeltsin win an election in 1996. Check out the cover of Time magazine from 7/15/96. http://time.com/vault/year/1996/
Let’s not act like Obama didn’t have someone working on a way to kill Edward Snowden.
Yeah. But, that’s different. Snowden embarrassed Obama, who we all know is super-awesome. This guy was a problem for Putin, who we all know is icky. And, unlike Putin, Obama would have just felt terrible about having had to kill Snowden.
It turns out, he’d of been very good at it, though.
My dream is to call Obama a fink to his face.
Busty beauties showing assets worth more than gold.
http://archive.is/6nLlk
1, 3, 6, 9, 17, 19, 23, 24, 28, 34, 40.
No time for an orgy. Shit show at work again. I’ll just take #1, and fuck it, #33 too. Her legs are interesting.
If you were into coprophilia, you could have a shit-show *and* an orgy.
Toxic Femininity. Of course, they probably were only getting divorced because of his toxic masculinity, so the kid’s being murdered really is his fault when you think about it.
I read yesterday that mother’s are better parents, as they are less likely to abandon their kids.
Mothers are also more likely to kill their own kids.
Stepfathers are more likely to kill kids from a woman’s previous marriage.
All of these are rare occurances, but noticable trends
@Webdominatrix, take heed.
SP would have you as mulch in the garden first…
I wonder if what you were reading counts divorces that result in no shared custody and no visitation rights for the father as “abandoning?”
Right?! Like my then-wife telling me we need a bigger house and insisting on sending the kids to private school, only to complain that I chose a career over family. And then during the divorce, lying to the kids about me, telling them all manner of horrible lies, then saying it’s my own fault my relationship with the kids is strained.
‘September 21 was the day of the family court hearing that she so dreaded.
Just wait until you arrive in Hell.
I don’t know why I click these stories. I can handle a lot of shit, but hearing about little kids is the worst. I keep wondering what this poor kid was thinking as his own mother was trying to strangle him. Ugh.
“Wonder if people would care if I were Chelsea.”
But you’re right. It’s the worst way a kid could die, I’d imagine.
Speaking of Hillary and Janet Reno’s kid, did anyone see this?
If Chelsea was 7 years old and killed by her mother, yes. Seventeen yo Chelsea, no.
Of course either would be terrible. I wouldn’t wish death on any kid.
Not even kids on airplanes?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e92d1459439672e14959fcdaa034063bffcfe77460700283d0740cc8ad8a4115.jpg
Crotch rot.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/03/09/beaver-county-std-uptick/
Me: “You said ‘Beaver’, lol”
David Hammerman, an intellectual: “Have you considered the Opioid epidemic?”
Probably the same people that probably keep passing it around.
Britain demands answer from Putin by midnight over nerve attack on former spy
Russian Facebook bots are know to cause a case of the vapors.
Or what? Will they start a land war in Asia?
They have always been at war with Eastasia.
Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward,
All in the Valley of Death, Rode the six hundred,
Yeah.
Excellent.
This could’ve turned out much better.
I’m not doubting the possiblity of it happening, but Hillary Clinton had more fire and brimstone about her than that.
Drunk or dead?
Just old. Have never had to help an elderly Grandma down the stairs?
Abuela, please.
Sure. But, I’ve pretty much ever had to be the only one who had to help her. And she didn’t fall down the stairs then.
Dead drunk.
/Standing ovation.
Dead?
Weekend at Hilary’s!
And here I thought that she was visiting Liz Warren.
How do we even know that’s HRC?
Are you doubting Zerohedge? On a long even time line, even potatos die.
Cloning is immortality.
Metal
Judas Priest is back, and this time it’s good.
What do you mean “this time”? I can’t even…
Yeah. Pistols at dawn.
It does sound good. I didn’t know Halford was back… yeah it’s been a while.
Just finished listening to it.
Nice.
All hail the Metal God.
Telford has the third highest number of child sexual offences recorded in the UK, just behind Blackpool and Rotherham, according to the Home Office.
If they want to lose that top spot, they should be copying whatever it is Rotherham did.
There will be many more. This is only a number being revealed as the result of an exposed cover-up. Who knows what kind of scale this is occuring on throughout the UK. And I wonder about other parts of Europe as well.
Part of me wonders how the European leadership thinks this ends. I mean, just from a self-preservation standpoint, this sort of thing is how you eventually wind up with BNP being a major national party.
“Part of me wonders how the European leadership thinks this ends.”
I am pretty sure they don’t care. The European aristocracy is well protected, ensconced, and totally under the belief that their disarmed lot of sheeple not only can’t but won’t fight back no matter how much they fuck them over.
The Eurocrats may think that way because in many cases they are right. But they are overconfident, as the eastern Europeans have shown some spine and it looks like the Italians may be joining them after their last election (where Eurosceptic and immigration restrictionist parties won ~70% of the vote). Western Europe seems to be generally fine with the current situation though, and that’s where most of the money and power are on the continent, so I don’t think we’ll see radical changes any time soon.
Do they even keep track of what groups are carrying out crimes like this or is it like Sweden where they made it illegal?
Not even a mention of who did the grooming. The linked article and this one don’t contain the words “Muslim” or “immigrant”. How unhealthy and dishonest is the UK? Are they really gone?
But – they bravely saved the UK from Lauren Southern having a conversation with Tommy Robinson.
They’re thoroughly fucked at this point. I don’t believe they can move past the cognitive dissonance they’ve acquired without actual civil violence against the state.
Gives new meaning to the whole idea of putting your head in the sand..
I’m sorry, but what were her parents doing that she made it to “pregnant with her second child”?
Bravely accepting her “diverse” circle of friends? Applauding her inclusiveness? Scolding her for making Islamophobic remarks? And generally being good obedient Brits.
“1980s Girls in Telford are targeted by groups of mainly Asian men”
Fucking Japanese tourists are rape machines.
It’s the UK, the term they’d use would be “Asian” and it’s all over the article.
I’m sure they will get around to kiddie pr0n ring scandals as soon as they solve this scandal first.
What?
You never spread the cream before you jam. That comes after.
There is a name for people that spread cream before they jam, isn’t there?
Names are for second dates.
The critics are correct. It’s always cream LAST. Tradition is also that you spread the jam and cream yourself – because different people have different preferences.
It’s like going to McD’s and them putting the ketchup on the fries before they serve them.
I don’t get you people. You don’t top scones at all.
We could get some diet jam, and low-fat Clotted Cream for you if that would be more to your taste.
Military-industrial complex update.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-grants-200-million-military-sale-qatar-despite-secret-spy-op-american-citizens/
Update two: Trump crony and intelligence community apparatchik is our new Secretary of State. Russia/China hawks are masturbating with glee.
But I thought Trump was a Russian stooge?
Wheels within wheels, Winston. Wheels within wheels.
69D chess, right?
Um Twitterati say you are wrong. He was fired for being a hawk. They would never say anything purely for political expedience.
4K ultra HD chess
“President Trump fires Rex Tillerson”
Wow. I didn’t see that coming.
Apparently his personal aide was also fired for an “unspecified security issue”.
The other report I saw said the aide went back to the campaign office.
Hrmm…
Probably this guy
It really doesn’t need much in his past to scupper him. Given that he’s going to be in and around the Oval Office, he would necessarily going to be in the presence of, and in some situations, in the sole presence of at the very least – confidential information.
Positive vetting is likely to uncovers something like a weed bust and he’s done. As a hold-over from the early campaign days, he wouldn;t have had any scrutiny at all. The real problem here is that he wasn’t edged out when the transition team was formed.
Old people hate poles
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/12/denver-5g-cell-phone-service/
NIMBY fucktards.
Some asshole did that to my town 20 years ago. This hippy cunt went around collecting signatures from unaware idiots to block the setup of a cell tower on a farmland despite the fact the farmer had agreed to this because he needed the cash for the rent. Farmer lost his farm, we never got a cell tower, and cell reception sucks and even though we have begged to get one for almost 2 decades, the company that got fucked over.
The thing that irks me the most is that I had fought to get the tower pointing out the woman trying to block it was not even affected by the lack of good cell service. And not even a year after the bitch got it blocked, she moved away and left us all screwed because this event was recorded and no company now ever wantsto deal with this nonsense again.
We have that here. A local church has agreed to allow a company to put up cell transceivers in their tower. A bunch of people are outraged and trying to block it because the signals pose a health hazard.
Imbeciles.
You know who else didn’t like poles?
Joseph Stalin?
Undefeated small football programs?
*rah, rah, football cheer*
13th century Ottomans in Wallachia?
lesbians?
Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha?
-1 silk cord
Also inspired StarCraft
Kristen Stewart?
George Costanza?
EU officials?
Heh. I lived about 3 blocks from where that picture was taken. It’s not too far from Cheeseman park which was famous for it’s…uh…homosexual activity late at night. I doubt they haven’t seen giant shafts blocking the street view before.
For a moment I thought you meant the featured image…and I was about to demand why you had not acknowledged the old hometown before…but the odds of you being from Rockford, IL and being on this site are infinitesimal.
No kidding, and I think I’ve told you before, but my old man was born and raised in Rockford. Married a gal, my mom, from Dekalb. My aunt and uncle owned the company.
Dekalb seedcorn.
I remembered DeKalb…that is why I gave a start at first. I thought “So, ashamed of the Rock, eh? …Well, OK then.”
You familar with Rockford and Cheap Trick’s connection?
Obviously a stupid question. Of course you do. My cousin married one of them.
The guy I gave a kidney was next door neighbors with one of them. on his 18th birthday, the guy comes in the back door with a case of Heineken and say “Happy Birthday man”… Of course, this was the last year 18 was the age you could drink.
Then you had to go up to Wisconsin, right? Until the state buckled to their highway funds being held hostage and upped the age to 21. I missed it by just a couple years.
Indeed – Beloit bars took in many an Illinois 19-20 year old’s dollars for BEER!!!
Heck, one of their best albums of late is called “Rockford.”
Ad-block restricted so can’t tell if Verizon is paying the landowners rent for pole placement or is just using the FYTW clause of utility easements.
I wouldn’t be happy either if Verizon planted a 30 foot pole right next to my driveway without compensation, but I’d be glad to lease them a spot. My neighbor makes good money doing that for one of the telecom companies to place a small substation. Same with cell towers around here.
The article doesn’t make it clear, as it only mentions this being done without consultation with the residents, but it would not be surprising if this was done inside the ROW (since it is right next to the street) or in a public utility easement (which are common along major streets), thereby only requiring permission from the city.
Why don’t they make them look like trees?
http://www.celltreesinc.com
They tried to do that up here just outside the boundary waters (federally protected wilderness). People lost their shit.
I’m in my phone so no linky.
I’m be damned. Auto link!
Well, that actually doesn’t look too bad. I was going to object, as the only instances of that I’d seen IRL looked laughably terrible, but then I actually clicked on the link and saw that their fake tree tech has come a long way.
More interesting news from the World War III front.
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/03/turkey-iraq-ankara-considers-opening-new-front-in-kurdistan.html
We need to GTFO the Middle East yesterday.
Trump’s Commerce Clause: National Security.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qualcomm-m-a-broadcom-merger/president-trump-halts-broadcom-takeover-of-qualcomm-idUSKCN1GO1Q4
Looks like the Comm block Clause.
Shirt idea:
Glibertarians.com logoized name on line 1
“A website without reason” on line 2
To be fair…
We are pretty unReasonable.
Drink, both of you.
Sloopy and Banjo’s daughter would be sad.
It’s been a year. I no longer regard this as a replacement, but a mainstay. I don’t see a need to rehash old scores. Just make a clean break.
I still check in. Tucille and Sullum have good stuff and Stossel is there, so there’s that.
But harping on the old note of “We split from reason” isn’t really worth anything now that Glibs has an identity of its own.
Never forget where you came from so you can always remember where you are going?
Shirt idea: a cat butt
Sorry. Banjos and I are pro-life.
I like.
Well that is good. The one guy who caused the multimillion dollar IT project for Minnesoda’s vehicle licensing to fail spectacularly has been identified and fired.
Of course the wrecker isn’t going quietly.
Oh I can assure you, the faults start at the governer’s office and run quiet a few layers down when something like that collapses. Everyone who put in their two cents has some degree of culpability, especially when they sit in the decision chain.
On the radio this morning they were saying that there was a committee of 20 people who signed off on the user acceptance testing and voted to roll it out. You’d think that all of them would be in trouble too.
If I was this guy, I’d also bring up the fact that the head of the state IT department has absolutely no background in IT. Her former jobs were working as advisor/staffer for the Governor and the mayor of St. Paul.
All twenty of them should be axed. They made the decision to roll out a broken product.
My guess is that all 20 of them had a) written several CYA memos that would be used in the event they were fire and b) probably had influential sponsors who put them on that committee and getting fired would embarrass a lot of VIP’s.
Good, embarass them. Then fire the VIPs too.
That would be justice, so it won’t happen…
He is right, it isn’t the fault of one person. But that is the risk of being in management, you are responsible for all the persons.
He should’ve just said, “I read about it in the papers, just like you.” People seem to accept that.
So, we fire the governer?
Does the CEO of a company get fired when an IT project fails, or the CIO?
The governor can get fired at the end of his term.
When a baseball team is failing, the GM fires the Manager even when it is the GM’s fault. But the owner may still fire the GM.
If they meddled in ways that led to the failure, they should be.
The CIO and Governer’s office has a nasty habit of meddling in New York IT in ways detrimental to actually achieving their stated goals, so I would not be surprised if it occured elsewhere, especially where egos are invovled.
There’s always “quiet resignation with a tidy severance package”.
More specifically, I have been working on a major IT project for the last year. It is a success, so far, but if it had failed, there was a VP who was going to be held primarily responsible, not the CIO or CEO who approved it. He is also getting the credit for its success. That is life. While the CEO is ultimately responsible, it is the primary responsibility of someone in middle management.
A couple of mutual friends were working on a huge IT project at another company. Friend A was on a team that was developing a new framework and tools for all IT projects. Friend B was running a huge project that was very customer facing.
At a meeting Friend A was mad that Friend B wasn’t using the new platform. Friend B would have been the first “customer” of the platform. Friend B said that if the platform didn’t perform all the customers would be very angry and it would be a huge black eye. As the manager he didn’t want to risk using an unproven platform for his project.
He told Friend A that he would use the platform and if it worked, Friend A would get a giant bonus. If it failed though, he would be fired. At that point, Friend A completely backed off and said he wasn’t willing to risk it.
He told Friend A that he would use the platform and if it worked, Friend A would get a giant bonus. If it failed though, he would be fired. At that point, Friend A completely backed off and said he wasn’t willing to risk it.
Whoa, whoa, whoa? You’re gonna put my neck in with yours?
Had a dynamics prof (who was really good) who I corrected in class one day while he was working an example. He told me I was wrong, and I had an obviously confused look on my face. He offered me A or F based on it. I thought for a second, and wussed out.
He then continued working the problem got to the next to last step, stopped, stepped back, stared at board and said, “You should have taken the bet.” Then erased everything and started over doing it my way.
Secretary of State Tillerson out amid clashes with Trump, to be replaced by CIA Director Pompeo: WaPo
Who would want to work for Trump?
That douchebag Pompeo, obviously.
Is he cosy on the rocket?
I don’t think I want to know what that means.
https://youtu.be/7uO7A79lTMQ
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey%27s_Anatomy
Horrifying enough?
A desperate man
I thought the Tillotson pick was interesting when he first made it, seemed pretty out of the box as far as things go (private bureaucrat but not gov. bureaucrat). Now nothing but Generals and career gov bureaucrats surround him.
You have to flood the swamp to drain it.
That’s deep man.
Now nothing but Generals and career gov bureaucrats surround him.
That’s actually not correct. It seems like it, since all of the premier positions are occupied by such people, but the cabinet taken as a whole is still one of the most non-careeraucrat cabinets in US history. Also, the prevalence of generals means that there are fewer lawyers than the average cabinet, which could be seen as a good thing, depending on your point of view.
Remember, Hillary Clinton insisted that only “backward” states voted against her, like Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, and South Carolina. Those states are apparently “backwards” even though they’re experiencing above average population and job growth. In contrast, according to Hillary, states that voted for her were “dynamic” like Illinois and New Jersey. Both states lead the nation in population and job declines (yes, they even beat West Virginia).
Clinton knows little about this country, beyond stereotypes, and has a general antipathy toward people who aren’t rich and liberal. She is so bitter and divisive, she makes Trump look like a uniter.
And New Jersey will be going even further down the path of losing population and jobs as Governor Murphy and the Democrat legislature prepare to go full progtard with nothing to stand in their way. I can’t wait to retire and move to Florida.
*Starts readying warm bath for WTF* Would you prefer chicken stock, or beef?
If by “Florida” you mean, I dunno, “Maine” or somewhere like that, I hear you.
I would prefer year-round beach weather, so, not Maine.
I prefer places without suffocating humidity or giant insects myself.
I read that as Tongan Crisps.
Hmmm. We might have a good snack idea there, Rhy.
Unfortunately I am not a fan of coconut.
I hate coconut. Someone tried to force me onto coconut water as a way to contain migraines.
I’ll take the migraine.
That’s how much I hate coconut.
I even hate the word.
Coco-nut.
/Lionel Hutz shudder.
My wife badgered me into trying coconut water once. I thought I was going to vomit. I actually like coconut, but coconut water is vile.
Coconut oil makes a spectacular sexual lubricant.
As long as you are not using the oil to shove a coconut up in there…
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allegedly leaked information to CNN early last year regarding the classified briefings given to then President-Elect Donald Trump and President Barrack Obama…
Oh how I would like to see him frog-marched into Leavenworth in shackles.
https://saraacarter.com/former-dni-james-clapper-allegedly-leaked-to-cnn-investigation-revealed/
Not going to happen. He’s firmly embedded in DC’s ass.
Sadly, yes. Fucker should be in prison already.
What do you think the whole resistance against the election results by these people is all about, huh?
The worst school massacre in U.S. history… was in 1927.
Dude….he’s about to get a show on Netflix.
He ain’t going anywhere.
Being frog marched to jail is too much of a dream.
But couldn’t he at least be shunned by the media? “Well Jimmy, we’d love to have you as a guest, but people would think we are absolute assholes if we trot out a guy who lied to Congress under oath and also leaked classified info.”
I think being shunned by the media would actually be a harsher punishment to Clapper than prison.
Seriously.
Harvey Weinstein was doing monstrous things and they claim to not have known so they continued doing business with the guy until it was exposed.
I see the same mindset on display here with Obama. Except, I don’t know if there ever will be a moment where they have to turn their back on him. We’ll have to wait and see. So far, you would think what we’ve learned about this douche would be enough but it doesn’t look like it.
If HRC has won the election, and Trump went on to have a show on Fox where he would essentially rag on the administration every night, I’m sure there would be cries of Treason! and “How dare you undermine the results of a fair election?!!!”.
Funny how shitstain refuses to ride off into the sunset and gets zero flack.
He’s an egomaniac. He’s addicted to the rush of being adored. He needs the emotional masturbation of believing that he’s the most wise, noble, and benificent human being who ever lived.
We’ll never hear the end of him. Even when he finally dies, there will be a flood of boulevards, highway overpasses, libraries, and probably a fucking giant monument somewhere in DC all named after him.
The upshot is that it will be funny when every “Barack H. Obama Boulevard” is a ghetto shithole.
Tillerson out. Pompeo to Secretary of Stae.
New CIA Director is a woman. Woke.
Or just good Bond-ian tradition.
So…Judi Dench?
Wait, does that mean she’s going to get killed by Julain Assange?
As long as she’s more Judi Dench than Stella Rimington.
She was also involved in torturing suspects (and covering up torture) in the early ’00s. So … progress?
Maybe she’ll torture the career agents. A guy can hope right?
Wonder if we’ll ever see a shake up in our overlords here?
*begins to enter Japanese coordinates on orbital mind control lasers*
Excuse me?
Sorry Switzy, but those lasers were implemented by Minnesota IT. You’ll be lucky if they merely explode.
Hey, this guy seems to know something about IT. Fire him for the cameras.
Peter Principle applies to libertarians, too.
That’s why we need more aggressive downsizing.
That’s harsh. Just shuffle one off to a corner office with a giant window, no work and let them watch the world go by. It’s the Japanese way.
Inefficient. No wonder they lost their ascendancy.
If wanting that job makes me ambitious, am I already too competent to qualify for it?
*begins to enter Japanese coordinates on orbital mind control lasers*
Hmmm….is Swiss in league with the lizards?
fuck Pompeo.
Why?
Shitcan the only SoS in recent memory that proactively was downsizing the size of State. MAGA. Trump was never a fiscal conservative anyway.
Sad. I liked Tillerson.
He was a mixed bag, IMO. Didn’t follow super-close, but he seemed to fall right in line with some of the usual State Department horseshit. Thumbs up on downsizing, thumbs down I think on some of his positions.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2018/03/12/in-china-xi-forever-may-not-be-forever-after-all/amp/
Like that’s ever stopped anyone.*
*Washington and Cincinnatus excluded, of course.
I find your psychopathic, fawning adoration of politicians disturbing.
Jones has a new show on CNN (where else?) and on Sunday he had talk show icon and potential 2020 presidential candidate Oprah Winfrey on.
“We miss you so much! Do you miss us?” Jones gushed. In a weird rant, he grouped Oprah with the Obamas, whining now that Donald Trump is in the White House, America has no “hope.”
“We had you. We had the Obamas in the White House. Even on a bad day, you had a North Star. You had some hope. And then it was like the universe looked just said, psych! And threw us in the toilet and closed the lid and now we’re just stuck in this crazy situation, swirling,” he said.
Van Jones is a commie loon who figured out that he had to hide his commie leanings in order to maintain a national media presence.
What a loser.
If you’re basing that much of your mental and emotional well-being on which narcissist currently occupies the White House, you have a hollow and pointless existence.
Rex Tillerson wasn’t well liked
His push to slash “inefficiencies” in the State Department and seeming disinterest in working closely with longtime staff were even more damaging. Under Tillerson’s watch, 60 percent of State’s top-ranking career diplomats resigned and new applications to join the foreign service fell by half, according to a November count by the American Foreign Service Association.
This hollowing out of the foreign service, combined with Tillerson’s inability to appoint people to vital positions like ambassador to South Korea, delayed American responses to major crises and weakened the State Department for a “generation,” according to George Washington University’s Elizabeth Saunders.
This can’t all be blamed on Tillerson: Even a skilled and experienced diplomat would have had trouble maintaining influence in the chaotic Trump White House, a place where foreign policy is often made by tweet. As if to underscore the point, Trump announced Tillerson’s departure in a tweet — before the secretary himself could make a statement.
Yet scholars and foreign policy practitioners across the political spectrum agree that he deserves much of the blame.
“I think he really will go down as one of the worst secretaries of State we’ve had,” Eliot Cohen, counselor to the State Department under President George W. Bush, told Axios’s Jonathan Swan. “He will go down as the worst Secretary of State in history,” tweeted Ilan Goldenberg, an Obama-era State Department official.
He didn’t even get us into any wars. What the fuck kind of diplomacy is that?
Rex Tillerson was “one of the worst secretaries of state” in modern history, according to experts from across the political spectrum.
Didn’t he just get canned like a couple hours ago? Something tells me Vox had this story in the can.
“I think he really will go down as one of the worst secretaries of State we’ve had,”
Not the one that allowed 40,000 emails to leak to Russia and who knows else? Not the one that had her lover put on the payroll and given huge living allowances? Not the one that let her lover’s disgraced sexual predator husband access to top-secret communications? Not the one that sold her State Department influence to set up a flim-flam foundation to enrich her family and assorted cronies?
Cool story, bro.
Not the one that orchestrated the destabilization of Libya that helped lead to a migration crisis impacting Europe to the point immigration is the main driver of elections threatening the EU?
Sounds like he made all the right enemies.
So after running that through the bizarro-to-English translator – best SoS ever?
Long experience has taught me that it is usually the stupidest and most venal bureaucrats that get promoted to the highest positions. Promoting failure is a very real thing in the federal government. The fact that a lot of these long-time careerists got “hollowed out” is a great sign. You could improve the State Department considerably by just posting something on Linked-In and taking the first 50 people who show interest as replacements.
At this rate, all the good parts of Trump’s presidency are waning and all the bad parts are gaining prominence. I can’t speak to what the average voter thinks but my own disappointment grows daily.
Worst secretaries of state:
Madeline Albright, on dead Iraqi children: “I think that is a very hard choice, but the price, we think, the price is worth it”
Henry Kissinger, for everything.
She the one that has us intervene in the Yugoslavian war for some reason?
The jokes are just too easy…
Serena Williams Is Launching Her Own Beauty Line
I’ll ask. What’s a beauty line?
Make-up, shampoo, and shit.
In that case, I’m calling fault.
We’ve moved beyond anal bleaching; we are now using blush, concealer that “rimstick” to make that starfish a little less stink and a little more pink.
Does that require us to then switch to doing 2 in the stink?
Only if she’s bacterial vaginosis.
She shoulda launched it with Michelle.
I’ll let your collective imaginations dream up a name for that company.
Hydrogen Hillary really can’t help herself.
There’s all that red in the middle, where Trump won. Now, I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign, Make America Great Again, was looking backwards. “You don’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women getting jobs, you don’t want to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are, whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.”
Good. Let the hate flow through you. Keep alienating the voters. With each insulting comment you make yourself and your comrades more un-electable.
Agreed. The campaign ads write themselves. How retardedly out of touch do you have to be to continue saying shit like this after the “deplorables” debacle (that likely cost her the election).
They don’t care..
I bet their strategy will be to double down on the criminal activities and corruption to better guarantee the results that lead to herself winning…
And they are counting on the fact so many people will not just turn a blind eye, but cheer them on, if not help outright, to steal an election…
She may be the worst politician in history. I’m sure there are plenty of them who are this smug, entitled, vapid, and narcissistic. But the rest are smart enough (or well-enough coached more likely) to not say this shit in public.
But she was in India, where she probably assumed her wisdom wouldn’t make it back here.
They should be using her as an object lesson on what not to do in India. She’s obviously speaking to the Brahmins, not the downtrodden, poverty-stricken Dalits. They know that if they make her mistake for too long there, they will hang from lamp posts.
Compared to Justin Trudea’s visit, she did look classy and smart.
We’re watching in the flesh a sad, weak, soulless and unfulfilled human consumed by rage and hubris fumble around yelling at clouds as people look on unsure of how to rationalize this depressing display of nothingness.
Well, she can always down a few more bottles of Chardonnay to forget about her spectacular failure.
That, or her contempt for “the deplorables” is nothing compared to her loathing for her own party and disaffected Democrat voters.
Now, I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product.
-From a comment I made this morning on yesterday afternoon’s post (mashed up with minor edits)-
No, you imbecile. You lost because you decided “Fuck Middle America”. You thought you had a wide lead and decided you could run up the totals to get some coattails. You figured places like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were in the bag for you. So, you ran a campaign to gin up the Democratic base in areas where you figured you were going to be able to pull in some Democratic Congressional candidates. And you decided that you could ignore the wishes of voters in the previous places. So, you ran advocating gun control, pushing socialized medicine as a “fix” for Obamacare’s problems and signing off on the identity politics circus. That alienated enough voters in those states that they decided Donald Trump was the lesser poison.
I kind of get it. You got where you are because of who you’re married to. For someone whose whole self-image is based on your conception of yourself as a tough, independent, woman, that’s got to play on your ego. This election was your chance to trump (pun intended) him. If you’d won a flat-out victory as a progressive, with significant coattails, you’d have beaten anything Bill had ever accomplished. But, there was a reason your husband had never tried to accomplish that. But, you couldn’t let reality interfere with your ego gratification.
Also, she wasted her time campaigning in places like Arizona, where the chance for a win was slim-to-none and took the rust belt for granted. Her tone-deafness to the plight of working class Midwestern whites was her undoing; and her actions post-election have demonstrated that she learned nothing.
I sure hope she runs again.
And incredibly, the Dems seem to think the take-away here is “prog harder.” Unbelievable.
That is their takeaway across the board, isn’t it? Stimulus of over $1 trillion was not enough? Double it! Idiotic gun laws have not stopped insane and evil fucks from going to gun free zones to kill people? Double down on the banning! Stupid collectivist welfare state leads to more and more welfare recipients (and a large portion of them illegals and people faking to collect)? Grow the welfare state even bigger!
And so on..
The left is the embodiment of the definition of insanity with their doubling down on shit that fails miserably will finally make it work..
…you don’t want to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are…
This will be a fun quote to hold onto for when Hillary inevitably criticizes Nikki Haley when she runs for president.
Hey baby, those are some nice melons you got there.
http://archive.is/J0FQ6
Sneaky Q.
has recently redesigned its stores into an animated “village concept” of shops around the perimeter with giant birthday-candle lights, moving signs and employees who perform a chicken dance
Village idiot concept. Why would you want to shop there?
That has the opposite effect on me. If I can get into the store, get what I want and get out with the least possible time on premeses, you will get more business from me than if every visit is a damn chore of trying to find the useful stuff in your now-restricted stock space and you have these ‘hangout’ spaces wasting valuable inventory areas.
As if “men” are the target audience for any of this shit.
GENDERNORMATIVE SHITLORD!
I’m the same. There’s a shopping center/condos that opened up in town about four, five years ago–I’m sorry, a “Towne Centre” that’s nowhere near the center of town–based around that concept, and it’s pretty much a lock that I’d rather chew off my own foot than buy anything there. For real, I want to be able to park in front of a store, go into that store, buy a thing, and leave. I don’t want an “experience”, and I don’t want to park in some fucking compound and then wander through an amusement park to buy goddamn toilet paper.
Shoot, I have pretty much switched super markets because of the growth around my old one. Because the suburb that Tundra and I live in has grown so much, they have installed a shit ton of traffic lights along the route I used to take. So I drive a bit further to the new one. New route: 2 traffic lights. Old route: 8.
If traffic lights are enough to make me switch, how much do you think I am going to like your playgroundization of your store?
“The social scene can be annoying for customers who just want to run in and get what they need. Jenny Perin says navigating the evening wine-tasting crowds that cluster in the aisles of her favorite grocery store, Walt Churchill’s Market in Maumee, Ohio, has made her rethink when she does her shopping. “I get irritated,” says the Waterville, Ohio, nonprofit consultant.”
I think I’ve found the perfect mate for UCS.
*leaps up to begin thunderous and prolonged ovation*
Yep. I’m like some kind of special forces/ninja shopper. I drop in get the items on my list and get out before the store greeter even realizes I’m on the premises. If I could get my wife to troll the parking lot while I shoulder roll out of the vehicle, I would.
The Hottest Social Scene in Town Isn’t the Singles’ Bar. It’s the Supermarket.
Who’s writing this, Stefon?
It was Milf Day the other day at the local Kroger. Whoo boy.
I know slagging on Whole Foods is good fun, but a Whole Foods next to a yoga studio can be pretty scenic. Especially when you sync with the yoga studio’s class schedule and do your grocery run when the classes are turning over.
The Kroger in my town seems to be doing that. They have a wine/beer tasting bar with several tables; on weekend nights there are always people there getting boozed up and occasionally some guy playing a guitar.
Mine’s bigger. My cucumber. It’s bigger. I think vegetables can be very sensuous, don’t you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ZjOCSLYlc
One of the few goods things about Trump is how the old paradigms are being trashed. The old fiscon/solib idea of libertarianism is being for the nonsense it was or the belief that Bill Clinton is the end of History.
More ASMR; and one that get the official Q seal of approval.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQOVd467tU
But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product.
“Why do we let those stupid poor people vote?”
GDP counts government expendature, and does some odd funkiness with international trade that is going to make ports skew their proportion of ‘production’.
Why do people insist on using that shit metric?
It’s like saying Cali has the 6th largest economy in the world; they’re not counting the massive amounts of unfunded liabilities and the amount it sponges off the FedGov to stay afloat. If they actually did get independence, they’d be Zimbabwe within 20 years.
20? I give them 5.
They will resort to cannibalism by then.
^^^^THIS^^^^
Cali, like a whole lot of these other failed blue states, are counting on the feds eventually (under a donkey prez) bailing them out when the shit hits the fan.
I think most econometrics only exist so that people can pick and choose which ones to focus on. Case in point: Paul Krugman’s entire career. He’s suffering from terminal TDS these days, but back in the Obama years, he basically alternated weekly between two positions:
– “The economy is wonderful; just look at measures A, B, and C! This prosperity is all thanks to Obama’s wise economic leadership.”
– “The economy is terrible; just look at measures X, Y, and Z! These Republicans in Congress are going to destroy the whole economy!”
The Bob Murphy-Tom Woods podcast ContraKrugman has a lot of fun with Krugnuts on that score. It’s especially fun when Murphy finds a slightly older column where the “Pulitzer Prize winner” contradicts himself, which happens often. Good fun.
https://contrakrugman.com/
The problem is with the misapplication. It was designed as a metric to measure, roughly, the economic activity in a country. Problem was, commie-countries only had government spending and import/exports, so their economies would show up as zero even though there was some activity going on.
But somehow it went from “crude thumbnail measurement of activity level” to “all-powerful indicator of economic health and wealth”.
This is not really right. Communist countries had activity – they produced food, steel etc. That is what economists actually care about, it is just converted to dollars or rubles for convenience. Much easier to talk about dollars produced rather than 10,000 cars and 400 planes etc. but cars and planes and loaves of bread are what it is really about. That’s why we do not count strictly financial transactions such as trading stocks or bonds in gdp.
I don’t think it is all that overused. It is highly correlated with health (not just economic health) and happiness and so socialist countries really want to undermine its use because it does make the West look good. Thus, they make up their own measures to push the Western countries down the list.
If only there were places, camps for example, were we could concentrate them so we’d have a handle on what they’re doing all the time. We can’t have them doing things that aren’t preapproved now can we?
We joke about this shit Q, but every once in a while you get some proggie fuck that lets the mask slip, and they honestly wish they could do this stuff to people that refuse to get woke…
When that happens, and lately, probably because of the absolute batshit insanity Trump induces in these fucks, they seem to slip up a lot. Even people you would never believe would entertain that sort of thought…
When “prog harder” is the immediate response to any failure of “progressive” policy, concentration camps are just a matter of time.
It’s particularly dangerous because “progressives” make enemies out of things that will always exist like “income inequality” or racism.
The map also doesn’t show that many of those productive people commute to those places, they often don’t live there.
“two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product”
That cannot be true. Trump won Texas (2nd largest GDP) and Florida (4th largest GDP). There is no way that it breaks out to 2/3 of the US GDP. She literally knows nothing about this country.
Most qualified evah!
Frankly I wouldn’t mind some of the Trump bashing if they didn’t slobber over Hillary. I mean really?
It’s plausible, although the actual number might be a little shy of exactly two-thirds. Just having California and New York in her column vs. Texas and Florida gives a 9 point advantage.
It’s a stupid metric to flaunt though.
Maybe. There is no way she comes close to 2/3, though.
Big State Count:
Trump: Texas (2), Florida (4), PA (6)
Clinton: CA (1), NY (3) and IL (5)
Considering that Florida’s GDP is just under NY’s (they are expected to surpass them by the next census) there is no way that she comes close to 2/3. She probably gets somewhere around the high 50%’s, but no way she cracks 60%
Also, Trump won more states, including Michigan and Wisconsin who also have large GDPs. There is no way in hell that Clinton comes close to 2/3. She’s an idiot
Why do you keep insisting in using facts and fucking logic to harsh the narrative huh?
It was kind of slapdash and I did it on my phone so take it with a grain of salt, but looking at the state numbers, they actually come out to a dead heat. States Trump won have a combined GDP of $9.26 trillion while states Clinton won have a combined GDP of $9.25 trillion. I wonder if we’ll see Clinton’s claim get “fact checked”.
I came up with her states representing 48% of GDP. And we all know she will never get fact checked. The media is already purposely avoiding her statements.
You only fact check the enemies of the new socialist revolution!
She talking about the county by county map or the state map?
She may have an argument if she is going county by county, but again that is still a hard statement to make. A really hard statement to make.
County by county raises the issue of whether you attribute the GDP of service industries to where the offices are (blue downtown) or where the productive workers live and vote (not so blue suburbs).
There are also the issues of national corporations where their activity is often attributed to the single point where their headquarters are, even if they have a large presence in other states.
I suspect this is the only reason the blue areas are at parity at this point.
County by county raises the issue of whether you attribute the GDP of service industries to where the offices are (blue downtown) or where the productive workers live and vote (not so blue suburbs).
Exactly. Anecdotally: Dallas County is blue, all the surrounding counties are red. The evening rush hour traffic is very heavy going away from Dallas and very light towards it.
The science is settled!
Huge pizza debate finally settled by panic shoppers clearing supermarket shelves in awful weather conditions
DOOMCO hardest hit.
Confession – I like Hawaiian pizza although I prefer bacon and pineapple.
Me too. There’s also something to be said for both ham and bacon…
She may be the worst politician in history. I’m sure there are plenty of them who are this smug, entitled, vapid, and narcissistic. But the rest are smart enough (or well-enough coached more likely) to not say this shit in public.
But she was a better SecState than Rex Tillerson!
According to the MAGA crowd this morning. Which is interesting, because I thought she was literally the worst just yesterday.
What a god damn shame. To think, he could have just quietly retired with his nine figure net worth.
It’s also fun to see that the same people who once called Tillerson a Russian stooge are now hailing him as a hero.
https://twitter.com/toddgillman/status/807700455719661568
https://twitter.com/JesseFFerguson/status/973552027715416065
Damn, what a clever point.
“Trump thought he was a Russian stooge, but it turned out he wasn’t, so he had to fire him. Collusion! ”
Heads, I win, tails, you lose
Kind of sounds like they’re making it up on the fly, doesn’t it.
Fucktards everywhere.
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/817484527396339712
Never trust these assholes
Well, they have your number.
Yup, that perfectly describes your average libertarian. Every Objectivist I’ve ever met has never read Rand- just her Wikipedia page, of course. This lady is bright
Is “taxation is theft” a Randian thing.
Yes.
Hola from Mexico.
The Super Floridaman is back. Not the same as the Dog Floridaman, right? Hola.
I’m sure there’s a story here…
I could tell you, but then I would either need to borrow an umbrella from Vlad, or eat a boritto.
Three possible choices:
1) Procuring meth
2) Sex tourism
3) Fleeing the country for pending charges of indecent exposure
4) Donkey Show
“so I caught the clap from this tranny hooker in Tijuana after doing blow off his/her dong. I’m fucking exhausted and have no appetite due to Montezuma’s Revenge due to sketchy street food vendor that kept reaching into his pants. #YOLO #PissingOutMyAss”
“If you do coke off her dong, she won’t be able to get it hard.”
*cue rainbow*
Insightful
Isn’t this literally the plot from the “Floridaman” stories that were serialized on this website?
Anyone see Bladerunner 2049? Funny that it took 35 years to get a sequel. Almost as long as the gap between the original and its setting.
So LA must change a lot in the next year.
I saw that movie. It was decent – ran a little long though. They could’ve shortened it up by about 20-25 minutes and it would have been just as decent.
I blame Rufus for shit like this. Soon stupidity like that will trickle over the border to our great country.
If only you knew what’s going on in daycare. Just when I thought it couldn’t get anymore stupid and chaotic.
As for the MQRP – never heard of them. That’s how many ‘Q’ agencies we have. Quebec has more unions and civil servants proportionally than California.
Think of that.
We imported American socialism and made it retarded.
Québec: Venezuela::Hydro Québec:State Petroleum Company???
Quebec better be careful. Our mentality doesn’t stray too far off from romantic communist fetishes.
Sort of like a Reese’s peanut butter cup from hell?
You got imported American socialism on my imported French immigrants!
Not so Woke as to do it for free out of Goodness of the Heart and the betterment of Peoplekind, though
Apparently, there’s some sort of election in Pennsylvania
Lamb held no public events Monday, but he spent Sunday at a rally packed with union members in Greene County.
Lamb and other Democrats are focused on winning back voters the party lost in 2016. Former President Obama nearly won Greene County in 2008, losing it by less than a percentage point, but Hillary Clinton lost it by 40 percentage points in 2016.
Now Lamb is looking to thread the needle in the conservative district by running a campaign that sets him apart from national Democrats.
He’s promised to vote against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in her next leadership bid. Lamb has bucked calls for additional gun control, and said he’s personally against abortion while supporting a right to choose as policy.
If this Lamb guy wins, it will be a giant win for the Democratic Party, even though he is running against pretty much everything the howler monkeys at the national level are pushing?
Sounds legit.
I’m sure Clinton’s statements last night are helping Lamb’s chances
Anytime a Dem wins, it’s a sign of the blue wave and repudiation of Trump. Anytime a Pub wins, it’s just an isolated election that doesn’t matter much in the big picture.
This is CNN.
Ah the blue dogs. We can trust them this time…
*wink wink, nudge, nudge*.
“My friends here will ‘help’ any undecideds with their vote.”
Well, the union knows who goes to the rally.
It doesn’t know who actually votes for the Dem.
And just because immin cubicle he’ll this week, that’s no excuse for any of you to not jump in and participate in our March Madness Glibs Pick-Em Challenge. Info here:
Group ID: 52048
Group Password: Podesta
https://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/group/52048/invitation?key=a3f597a7bf214afc&soc_src=app-sh
Hey, Sloop. Your Dallas gig – did you need cataloging/admin staff at any point ?
Yes.
For example, here is part of the small room.
The other room is literally 10x the size of that one. Plus there are about 100 private spaces, all of the break, kitchen and first aid areas and a bunch of storage spaces too.
Do you want me to get Libertarian Student Daughter to get in contact with you? I’m reasonably sure she won’t suck down a couple of 40’s and fall asleep on the job.
won’t suck down a couple of 40’s and fall asleep on the job
OH, I’M SORRY, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SITE FOR LIBERTARIANS
Yes please. Email me at ken@siteauctionservices.com
Those auction postings are starting to get unintelligible once you start getting to item 150. You need some help with postings?
Wait, am I fucking them up? Because I’ll go back and clean the typos and describe the configuration of each lot once I’m done.
There are some miss-spellings on 151, 153, 166,167,168.
Don’t want to be a noodje, and if your plan is to clean ’em up later, ignore me.
Yeah, the process is to do it as quickly as possible with my phone or iPad, and then go back and clean up the descriptions in the evening.
Those are hot looking. Tempting. What’s the minimum buy again? 10? I’m afraid freight out east would erase a lot of the buy value.
Pomp, I’ll have a lot of different configurations and quantities for sale.
This should be viewable by the public: BAD LINK
The WiFi is cut off, so I’ll only upload pics occasionally but the data should upload as I enter it.
CORRECT LINK: https://www.wavebid.com/auction/1837ced3-fad1-48a6-8cb9-e89c74de2d62
There really is some nice stuff here. Apparently Herman Miller are higher end systems. Plurnthey all have the tower conduits which are expensive.
I’ll also have a lot of cool Industrial kitchen stuff at the end.
Well, a bog-standard Herman Miller Aeron retails at about $600. They’re not found discounted very often and the ones with options run up to about $1000.
Herman Miller is quality design and build. ???
So the kitchen stuff isn’t catalogued yet? Was it a company cafeteria run in-house type of deal?
Yeah. It’s one of the TD Ameritrade call center campuses. They moved to their new digs a few weeks ago. I guess they employed about 5000 people here.
Is that the 4600 Alliance site?
Yeah, that’s the one.
I can picture Sloopy staring at the green strip all day.
ooooo…… hexagons… so hot right now.
That just looks like torture. It’s bad enough having one person in my face with our current cubicle farm. I mean why bother with those “partitions” at all. Just put everyone on cafeteria benches.
20 years ago I worked next door to a bad debt collection agency that was set up similarly. All day, they would be harassing people for money that wasn’t going to get paid while working in that kind of cube farm. They were the most malcontent employees I’ve ever encountered. I estimate that there was a fight in the parking lot about every third day.
When I first started out at my company almost 20 years (and 2 offices) ago, the cube walls were about six feet tall and almost completely enclosed. Each new redesign they get shorter and the top foot or so is now glass and some of the walls just go away.
This is the exact opposite of what productivity experts call for.
My usual desk is thirty year old system furniture with an officemate that’s there even less than I am, behind two doors, with the outer one locked and limited keyholders. And three exterior windows.
I’ve discovered that chronic flatulence is can be your ticket to your own office with a door that closes.
My only question is, is it normal for office doors to lock only from the outside?
Is that on MoPac Expressway in Austin by any chance?
Nope. North Ft Worth. The old TD Ameritrade campus.
Just shows that cube farms pretty much all look alike, I guess.
So they’re the opposite of the white people of office furniture?
/soft racism
Does this article count as doxxing Pie?
It has a ton of pictures showing the prestigious drinking gallery that Pie calls home while he is sampling all those wines he keeps talking about. It doesn’t have an exact address, but it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out after viewing.
We need to know if the anus is male or female to determine gayness.
“Courtney Stodden details sexual assault
“When the first incident happened, I, you know, didn’t tell [Doug]. It was actually during the first time we separated. Um, you know, it actually happened to me two times when we were separated,” Stodden shared. “I was only 19, you know, when my first experience happened. And, um, I didn’t really think it was wrong, which is the crazy part.
“I felt like, OK, well, ‘That’s what, that’s how sex is.’ You know, I only had sex with one man before that … Doug,” she continued. “So gentle, not to get explicit. But, you know, I was like, ok, maybe that’s just rough was of, you know, going on a date … I really didn’t realize it was sexual abuse until I started hearing these women talking.”
Stodden said the #MeToo movement helped her realize what happened to her wasn’t acceptable.”
https://pagesix.com/2018/03/13/courtney-stodden-details-sexual-assault/
To be fair, “Attention Whore Spouts Vague Bullshit” isn’t a working headline.
https://pagesix.com/2018/03/13/courtney-stodden-details-sexual-assault/
Woops! Didn’t mean to post the link twice.
Who?
In the words of SugarFree: balloon-tit slut receptacle.
Exactly. I have no idea either. Fucking around as soon as she separated from her husband. Or more likely before.
Once again, I’m having a difficult time finding anything in there that qualifies as sexual assault or rape. Sounds like another retroactive withdrawal of consent.
I feel less and less sorry for this kid the more he runs his ill-informed mouth.
At a New Jersey gun control rally in late February, Hogg said, “Literally any legislation at this point would be a success. Considering the fact that so few legislators in Florida met with us and they want the people to forget, that’s disgusting. The fact that they want people to forget about this and elect them again as the child murderers they are, that’s unacceptable and we’re not going to let that happen.”…Appearing on CNN’s “New Day,” Hogg said that gun ownership should not be a right in the United States and instead should be a privilege. Hogg launched into a tirade in which he smeared the NRA…
“Let us [the NRA] sell you more guns at an even younger age, put more people at risk, scare more people, cause more violence, kill more people, and sell more guns,” Hogg said…Appearing once again on CNN, Hogg called out only Republican politicians, saying, “I have to because our politicians are cowards and they won’t. They won’t gather the strength even to stand up to the, to the NRA like Marco Rubio, Rick Scott or Donald Trump. Where they won’t stand up to the NRA and say you don’t own me anymore and they rip off their shock collar. At this point, our politicians are like really stupid sharks that think that they have power but honestly don’t.”…
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” with host George Stephanopoulos, Hogg attacked Loesch, saying, “And what I want people to know is, look at Dana. Look at what she’s saying. Is she actually saying anything or is that just a tone to distract the American public and distract her NRA members from the fact that she’s not serving them? She’s serving the gun manufacturers.”…
When Trump pointed out how the Democrats did nothing on gun control for two years when they had complete control of the government, Hogg responded, “How dare you,” as he launched into another rage-filled performance, saying that children’s blood was on Trump’s hands.
Um, ok.
Crime has gone down across the board in the last 30 years, and you are much more likely to die while texting and driving than being shot. But the NRA is trying to scare people.
…and you are much more likely to die while texting and driving than being shot.
That seemed like an interesting statistic, so I looked it up and it’s not entirely true. Total US vehicle deaths are ~35k per year compared to total homicides of ~15K per year, but while the vast majority of homicides are committed with guns only 1/4 of traffic deaths are attributable to phone use. However, I bet you probably heard the statistic a little differently, as assault rifles, the ones that are always under threat of ban, are responsible for a minor fraction of homicides – so cell phones + cars are more dangerous than assault rifles, but not guns in general.
I’m surprised they’re still letting him run his mouth. He’s a bit of an embarrassment at this point.
He’s gonna keep trying to borrow time on his 15 minutes and humiliating himself more and more. He’s got a taste of that sweet proggy adoration and smugness and he’s not going to give it up easily.
Where did I read about that recently? Something about once that 15 minutes is up, the person will go further and further off the rails to try and get more attention. It happens often when people get a sudden taste of fame.
I think there is some pandering to their base going on.
Keep that kid running his mouth through the election. If CNN starts to slough him off, Fox should make him a panelist.
Here’s my policy: Until the Left addresses the issue of government sector unions almost singlehandedly funding every Democrat election campaign, I’m gonna go ahead and ignore any complaints about the NRA or some other right-wing organization giving money to Republicans.
I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He didn’t get shot. He’s corpsefucking his schoolmates all the way to the top of the media pyramid.
And showing what an ignorant little shit he is. He hasn’t graduated yet. WTF is doing spending all his time in the media? Shut your piehole and open your books.
This idiotic walkout crap is still spreading. If school administrators had any sort of backbone, they’d discipline any kids not showing up to class (just like they did for Senior Skip Day when I was in school) and firing any teachers advocating this. Yeah right. They believe in this perversion of the forced education system as much as the gun grabbers do.
The entire school system is controlled by Lefties through the teachers’ unions.
You can bet there would be students disciplined and teachers fired if there were walkouts advocating for armed security and concealed carry rights in schools.
Our Senior Skip day got turned into a half day of school (because choir, orchestra, and symphonic band all were in the morning, and had our last concerts the week after), and we got to get out early that day, then the next 2 weeks.
So after months of “Tillerson is gonna be fired” “Tillerson & Trump are enemies” and other relentless smear stories in WaPo and elsewhere, the scalp is finally claimed. At this point Russia dropping a couple warheads on the swamp (sorry KK) would be about the only way to get rid of the parasites.
The elites aren’t going to give up easily.
Also libertarian dislike of populism and nationalism puts them at a disadvantage with regards to the swamp. Unwilling to forthrightly attack them but not too fond of them and very loathed by them.
I didn’t work at State under Tillerson. All I can say is that the Foreign Service didn’t gut itself during the Bush admin, so maybe he was that bad? Who the fuck knows with those whiny FS elitist babies.
I’m ok with a self-draining swamp.
Then Pompeo is what the doctor ordered. MAGA.
MAGA! Fuck yeah!
When in doubt, just MAGA. You use less brain cells that way
The fact that they want people to forget about this and elect them again as the child murderers they are, that’s unacceptable and we’re not going to let that happen.”…Appearing on CNN’s “New Day,” Hogg said that gun ownership should not be a right in the United States and instead should be a privilege. Hogg launched into a tirade in which he smeared the NRA…
Stick it up your ass, you worthless little brownshirt.
Exactly. He should be ridiculed for the fascist he is.
Lucky Gunner should be held up as the model for not only not giving any ground but going on the offense and taking it back.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/08/aurora-lawsuit-brady-campaign/
Even dumber than aging action hero Hollywood stars complaining about firearms: aging action hero Hollywood star threatens to sue “oil companies” for “knowingly killing people all over the world.”
The author goes on to give Ahnold a humiliating beatdown.
Whatever happened to “wisdom comes with age”. He seems to be aging backward.
Senility also comes with age.
You know what comes with Kennedy’s?
Booze, rape and death?
IT’S NOT A TOO-MAH!
Quoted for truth and for funny.
The rest of the article makes some great points. The science is anything but settled on climate change, certainly not to the degree you’d want as a basis for dramatic policy changes. You can’t even really assume the worst-case scenarios because the models are so shit you don’t get anything like reliable numbers. And I can’t help but notice that the people most concerned with fossil fuel usage are typically well-heeled Progressives who won’t be the ones to suffer from punitively high oil prices or stifling environmental regulations.
Meanwhile, giant energy conglomerates are pushing the Paris horseshit that Trump (for now) has got us out of and the left thinks that’s “proof” they’re right instead of proof that these companies want some of those trillions of dollars it’s going to cost in order to nudge the planet’s temperature down a tenth of a degree in the next 80 years.
Questions about global warming that I have never heard scientifically “settled”:
– How can you be so sure that temperatures “never changed this fast” when the instrumental record only goes back to ~1890, and beyond that you’re just relying on unproven proxy methods like tree ring analysis?
– How can you be so sure that a 1 or 2 degree increase is unprecedented when traditional thermometers gave almost that same margin of error based on the angle at which you viewed it?
– How is “global average temperature” a useful metric when you’re talking about a planet with a variety of biomes and cyclical seasons?
– Why should these “models” be taken seriously when they’ve resulted in so many failed predictions in the past? Is there any proven track record of success with the climatology profession?
– Even supposing that some warming is going to occur, do the proposed solutions pass a cost-benefit analysis?
No cost is too high when it’s someone else footing the bill.
Well, Arnold has decided he’d rather be the villain. Pretty simple rule of heroes and villains – If you’re proposing that people be locked in prison for advocating scientific theories you think are wrong, you’re the bad guy.
So what you are saying is that there is no chopper on the roof?
Tillerson Tweet o’ the Day
You just put it there so that people would see that reply from the turd Weigel.
Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog.
You sir, are a mouthful!
We’re not here to talk nonsense to Bob Loblaw.
Even Burge bowed down
And it was a turd reply, no less. How do you fuck up an animated GIF reply?
The temptation to get the first reply to a hot tweet is more important than quality. It’s called Firstpostitis and it’s an epidemic. Just like opioids.
That guy should quit NBC and go to work for Variety.
I did a back of the envelope calculation and the states that Clinton won represent roughly 48% of the national GDP. Her statement is unbelievably false and doesn’t even pass the smell test to begin with, considering that Trump won more states and won several large states. I await the WaPo fact check of her statement. Just kidding, I know WaPo is a joke publication.
Ron Bailey has a sad…programming.
Bailey agreed with her statement? I wouldn’t doubt it, as that’s the same guy who comically suggested that the free market was killing coal and just discounted all government mandates that suggested just the opposite was true. “But, there is a single study that supports my opinion with dubious conclusions”
Oops I was referring to his fondness for the MSM and “fact-checkers”.
Nobody wants that other kid on their shows because he’s not screeching like a two year old.
Nothing says “serious journalism” like a 17 year old calling a Civil Rights organization “terrorists” and “child murderers”.
“Black celebrities come to Bruno Mars’ defense after he is accused of ‘cultural appropriation’ for profiting off of African-American musical styles
Debate is raging over whether Bruno Mars culturally appropriates black music
Mars is half Filipino, one quarter Puerto Rican and quarter Ashkenazi Jewish
Black activist has accused him of ‘playing up his racial ambiguity’ to sell albums
But some black musicians have stepped up to defend Mars
‘Bruno Mars 100 per cent is a cultural appropriator. He is not black at all, and he plays up his racial ambiguity to cross genres,’ Seren Sensei Aishitemasu said on Thursday in a clip for The Grapevine, a web series that explores African-American issues.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5493257/Black-celebs-come-Bruno-Mars-defense-cultural-appropriation.html
Peak Retard — The Musical!
Insufficiently intersectional.
This should be easy enough to clear up, show us the receipt. Surely your signature is on it somewhere.
Um…
I’ve posted this before but seems appropriate– YMO playing up stereotypes while appropriating an Archie Bell song. On Soul Train. 1980 was such an innocent time now. Things have actually slid backwards from a more colorblind society. Sometimes it amazes me.
“Seren Sensei Aishitemasu”
She’s obviously Japanese
These people have to be professional trolls. Who could possibly take them seriously (other than the Root)?
This weekend I got a super lefty friend to admit firearm ownership is a natural right. LOL.
We were pretty drunk, so I doubt she remembers.
Wow. Respect. That’s a hard one to get them to admit
First step: getting her to admit the Bill of Rights is an enumeration of rights that a) government can’t take away and b) rights that can’t be voted away by a majority.
Second step: the 2A is part of the Bill of Rights
Again, we were pretty fucking drunk.
She wouldn’t budge on forcing private organizations to cater to people they don’t want to cater to.
Again, we were pretty fucking drunk.
In vino, veritas.
No wonder their volume manager was always a pain.
I was pleasantly surprised to hear a Leftist relative recently say, “I wish dentistry were less regulated; I should be able to go to a dental hygienist and just get my teeth cleaned without having to pay for a visit with the actual dentist“.
We’ve debated healthcare many, many times, and it didn’t seem to go anywhere, but maybe it planted a little seed of doubt that strict government regulation is the answer to everything.
What does your relative think of letting people see an RN at their local Walmart for small-potato issues? Innovative step toward healthcare liberation, or the evil Waltons are trying to horn in between patients and their doctors?
He actually did mention the fact that healthcare could be made cheaper by letting nurses and nurse practitioners take care of less serious issues instead of making people pay to go to a medical doctor. I don’t think he’ll be slapping a “taxation is theft” bumper sticker on his car anytime soon, but it’s a small step.
That’s why I always talk about things with “progressives” even if they don’t seem to be receptive. At the very least, I’m going to deny them the pleasure of living in a comfortable ideological bubble.
I’m surprised they’re still letting him run his mouth. He’s a bit of an embarrassment at this point.
I predict one of Bloomberg’s anti-gun political action subsidiaries tries to back that little shit for public office.
Oh yeah, unless he steps in his own shit first, which I think is a good possibility.
I’ve noticed the media is once again covering for the gun grabbers by calling them gun safety advocates now.
Yea, as soon as they started trotting out this guy I thought “this ignorant fucker is never going to go away and is going to end up in political office.”
That’s my thought, too. The kid is angling for a political career.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5485215/Rare-sports-cars-abandoned-garage-sell-3-5million.html
How does someone forget owning a Ferrari and Shelby Cobra?
He didnt forget. The mechanic died and he didn’t want anyone else working on them. He finally decided to sell them.
Then they weren’t “abandoned” or a “find”.
Correct. You expect a Daily fail headline to be accurate?
I don’t even expect correct grammar or spelling from them.
Pompe- O, Pompe- O
Daylight come and Spook wan’ go home
Pay, me say Pay, me Pay Pay, me say Pay
Me say Pay, me say Pompe- O
Daylight come and Spook wan’ go home
Work all night on a drink of swamp cum
(Daylight come and Spook wan’ go home)
Hack Havana till the mornin’ come
(Daylight come and Spook wan’ go home)
Come, Mister Trumpy Man, Pick a my banana
(Daylight come and Spook wan’ go home)
Come, Mister Trump Man, Make a me top banana
(Daylight come and Spook wan’ go home)
Damnit. Premature posting. Happens fellas.
*wipes off screen*
Caught second half of Beetlejuice over the weekend. I’ve seen it a couple times before. That’s a fun movie. I’m guessing Keaton’s character would not be acceptable today. Too lecherous. Sad.
Yep. And the other stars weren’t full on Democrat party cocksuckers yet.
I tried reading that story from the Telford victim. I couldn’t finish it. Fuck.
I can’t believe they arrested those men. So racist. / actual prog reaction
No kidding. They obviously need help.
There are only two genders:
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/973370484351004672
The joke is that one of those couples is totally fake… right?
I think both of them are fake in that they were models hired for the photos.
https://nevertrump.dating/
I think both of them are fake in that they were models hired for the photos.
https://nevertrump.dating/
https://trump.dating/
Prolly right. I still think the achingly woke couple on the left looks faker.
They’ll all be models. Tineye identifies some of the images to be from on both sites, to be from Media Bakery, and there are some shutterstock assets on there too.
Digging a bit, the owner of trump.dating is also associated with these domains:
americanmatcher.com
bbwdatefinder.com
datingflirt.co.uk
germansinglesonline.com
hikersingles.com
tennismatch.com
usmilitarysingles.com
When I check for nevertrump.dating, no associations noted, although it’s clear the same design has been used for both.
All names look like they’re registered with godaddy with private settings enabled, so it’s going to be hard to send appreciative emails to the owner, who is obviously one of us.
Clearly it was the work of STEVE SMITH
Ahnold takes a swing, but it’s science that puts Big Petroleum in the ground.
Only fifteen years away. I want to believe!
“In just 15 years, the US will be producing unlimited amounts of nearly free, completely green energy”
This sentence gave me cancer.
/snort. I had to check the date of the article just to be sure it wasn’t something you found from 20 years ago. 15 years!
Or 50 years ago.
it would also be a panacea for climate change
obviously “unlimited amounts of nearly free” energy is laughably insane. but hypothetically speaking, how would that eliminate all the methane from animal agriculture? can we eat the energy? does it taste amazing over an open flame?
Clearly what would happen is everyone would become uber vegan, eating only hydroponically grown plants selected for the morally just consumption.
In RE Trump Cabinet turnover.
There have been postulates that the administration has been using project-based staffing principles for posts that are normally long tenure positions. ie “I need this guy to accomplish this one thing he’s good at, then I’ll swap him out for the next objective” sort of deal. whether or not this is true, I can’t say, but it fits the facts as much as the “no one can stand to work with Trump” narrative.
Thoughts?
what would they need Pompeo to do?
I don’t know. I don’t know the man beyond a vaguely funny sounding name.
The “Trump’s a genius and everything that looks bad that he does is just 56D pinochle” takes are starting to get as annoying as TDS.
Just saying.
The “Genius” claim is not a prerequisite for “just using a different style of management and staffing from a career politician.”
They’re making Russia fever dreams look like measured insight
No, no they’re not. Even as silly as the 4D Chess stuff is (and I agree it’s silly), it’s nowhere near as ridiculous as the foaming at the mouth “Russia stole the election”, “it’s the worst attach on the country since Pearl Harbor”, fainting couch nonsense. It just isn’t in the same league.
That’s possible. I don’t mind that he’s burning through these people. The last guy appointed people with huge political agendas who accomplish little other than political intrigue and massive graft. I also like that it’s no longer a ticket punch for a Presidential run.
erNot really.
there’s a reason no one anywhere in any aspect of govt – much less federal agency heads or cabinet positions – does that.
Because the ‘hiring/vetting/congressional approval’ process is so tedious and long, the list of people both qualified and willing to put up with govt bullshit is small, the “projects” are perpetual problems which often require a few years in situ to fully appreciate the mechanics of, and you really need a year or more to learn the dynamics within federal bureaucracy before you can start consciously and effectively exerting some influence over it in any way
i don’t think its ‘no one can stand to work w/ him’; i think trump just likes firing people because he thinks it projects “i’m the boss”-optics.
I think it is more complex than his boss ego driving him to do this: I think he comes from a world where the bureaucratic slog is despised, results are expected, and people mired in that nonsense get their asses kicked to the curb because they come across as excuse making douches (which bureaucrats practically always are in to day’s world). I too would become exasperated and quickly tire of people that allowed the bureaucratic nonsense to impede work that I felt needed to be done.
he’s a financier, not a manager. he doesn’t know anything about bureaucracy. he just hires people to do the actual management-stuff, and has no clue how it works.
and i don’t think ex-Rex lost his gig because Trump has some strategic ambitions which Rex was unenthusiastic about. I think Rex told him to stop saying stupid shit in public and Trump fires people who talk back.
If there was some specific ‘important work’ Trump thought needed doing, share with me what it was? And why “firing your sec state” was the smartest way to advance that issue.
“he’s a financier, not a manager. he doesn’t know anything about bureaucracy. he just hires people to do the actual management-stuff, and has no clue how it works.”
Correct. he only cares that it works, and works fast. And if not, you get replaced…
“”he only cares that it works, and works fast””
no, i think you’re confusing,
“has employees he gets along with”
with
“has employees who are super-effective at carrying out his vision”
He’s not interested in efficacy or results, and if he were, you’d be able to easily identify the issue that motivates Trump to shuffle the deck so often.
But you can’t because his motivation isn’t “policy” or “results”. Its just purely his own personal whim. If he axed Rex over disagreement about Russia or China or Norks or something like that, the subject would be far more about the policy-details themselves than the personality-conflicts
Instead its just the accumulated collection of “Tillerson correcting trump statements in public” and his apparent inability to sit silently when Trump starts jabbering gibberish. Its personality-conflict, not Trump being some super-driven micromanager who demands results.
i mean, ffs…. can it be any more-obviously petulant?
Congress already passed tax reform. Now just keep them busy voting on new cabinet appointees instead of passing shitty legislation.
Thoughts?
I think a Trump cabinet turnover sounds pretty gross.
The cabinet turnover is not as significant as it’s been portrayed. 18/22 cabinet positions are still filled with the people who were first nominated to them, and 2 of the remaining four either had someone withdraw their nomination before confirmation or left the position for a different position within the administration. Chief of staff has really been the only revolving door position.
Are there any other synonyms for ‘flaccid’ than ‘Hail Rataxes’?
Gillespie?
I’m going to have to defend this Fonz on this one
Let me use it in a sentence: “Even though he pined over her for the past few months, he was Hail Rataxesed due to all the beer he had drank at the bar”
“Tariq Nasheed Is The Next RnB SUPERSTAR”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_zMZgRkva8
That’s awesome. Mink Slide. Heh.
Motherfucker lied, but gonna get away with it?
Every time he shows up on CNN I’m shocked. Until the day he dies he should be mercilessly mocked as a liar, not listened to or ever taken seriously.
that was a nice takedown and included the lie about Trump Tower being tapped.
Not sure if anyone saw the “Real Collusion Story“. It is frighting to me that so many team players are willing to give a pass to a gal and guy that actually did what they crucified Nixon for only wanting to do. I have always pointed out Hillary was never going to be held accountable for that crime involving the email server because Obama would have gone down with her, but that they were also willing to use the US intelligence and law apparatus to not just spy on an opponent, but try to rig and election, should make everyone do a double take. And the whole campaign to prevent Trump from governing so they can make sure everyone understands the swamp will not tolerate anyone but one of theirs being in charge, should make every American go out and arm themselves.
The law, and the people enforcing it today, exists to fucking keep the peasants in their place. The political oligarchy is above it. That is the clear message from the left (and the others).
are you referring to that NR piece? just read/skimmed it.
Yeah Raston, this story. I seem to have fubared the link above.
Reading it now. Clinton had her hand up Simpson’s ass, he up Steele’s, Steel’s up Clapper’s, Clapper’s up Brennan’s, Brennan’s up Reid’s, and Reid’s up Comey’s. It’s nothing but asshole handpuppets all the way down.
And the reason we will get no justice is because Hillary had a way to bring Obama down with her, so Obama blocked it. Now that the left no longer holds the presidency and has the ability to basically assume the laws will only be enforced in their favor, team blue’s members of the swamp state are desperately trying to create as much smoke and mirrors as possible to prevent the whole house of cards from coming down. The problem is that if they get away with it we can only expect things to get worse for us plebes.
Would that we had even a checkers player in power rather than a fictional 8D chessmaster and his dozy DOJ head.
The flamethrower to clean out the swamp is just sitting there, loaded with napalm, ready to be used, and neither Trump nor Sessions will pull the trigger.
Mueller’s operation is riddled with disabling conflicts of interest. Its the laboratory example of swamping. They have broken multiple laws, both before and during the investigation. They would be easy pickings for a legitimate independent prosecutor, and I refuse to believe that one can’t be found, somewhere in the ranks of ex-DOJ prosecutors. Purging DOJ and the FBI with the cleansing flame of indictments, getting a judge to overturn the corrupt extensions of immunity to Hillary’s crew during the email “investigation”, and forcing those people to come clean to get their immunity back would do wonders.
DC needs a brutal shock to the Deep State, and its so arrogant that such a shock would be easy to provide with a legit prosecutor running a grand jury under an independent judge, somewhere not DC. Its just sitting there, waiting to be done, so the failure to do it is, IMO, intentional.
Sessions and Trump have decided not to drain the swamp at all. Not sure why not, since the swamp is still in a state of pretty much open rebellion.
More: think of all the crap that DOJ and FBI have refused to give Congress – investigative notes, internal emails, FISA applications, etc. ad infinitum. Trump could order all of that produced with a stroke of the pen. Why doesn’t he?
I don’t think he is waiting for the right moment to do any of this. I think he’s just not going to do the one thing I thought he would do, would almost have to do to keep his ass in the White House and his Presidency from failing.
On the assumption that you’re correct, I can see a good reason why he hasn’t fired up the napalm.
To do so now would make it look like he’s trying to settle some personal scores. If he can find a reason – maybe the next opportunity – after Mueller’s gone, and he isn’t implicated, he can let loose and torch the whole thing.
Of course, this assumes that 4D chess *is* being played, and I’m still not convinced we’re actually dealing with a 4D chess mentality.
If that’s the case I’d expect the fire to come out sometime between May and September 2020.
“On the assumption that you’re correct, I can see a good reason why he hasn’t fired up the napalm.
To do so now would make it look like he’s trying to settle some personal scores. If he can find a reason – maybe the next opportunity – after Mueller’s gone, and he isn’t implicated, he can let loose and torch the whole thing.”
And this is precisely why the left is desperate to keep this whole Russia collusion and any other fake scandal they can manufacture alive and front and center. They need to prevent Trump from basically having the freedom to do some house cleaning. If that happens it would destroy a lot of people (some on team red as well) that were part of this abuse of power and the law, and take down the big names they told us were our salvation. Obama would basically go down as the most inept and corrupt president ever, and his administration would be labeled a criminal enterprise. Hillary would basically prove the democratic party was run as a crime syndicate. In short, the team blue would burn.
It is my belief that the credentialed political oligarchy would collapse, and these people would basically opt to destroy the country rather than just go down in flames though, so this would not be a pretty thing to watch or go through.
Or even 1D chess.
I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Trump seems to value loyalty even above competency in his appointments. He has rewarded loyalty in the past – and will probably do so in the future – for reasons we can’t appreciate on a case-by-case basis.
Scaramucci for example was an embarrassing appointment and unforced error which could have been avoided.
Hope Hicks’ fate might have been avoided with a fatherly talking to about how professionalism is as important as loyalty.
Trump is running the show as though he’s running Trump, Inc., where the rules are whatever the principals decide they are. To the degree that protocol is observed, it’s done once the decisions have been made.
The more resistance – or at least obstructionism – that he experiences from the life-long Team Red personalities, the less compunction he’ll show in shitting on them from 30,000 ft too. It’s for this reason that I’m not biting my nails wondering when the pump on the napalm tank starts running. I want it to happen, but the later the better. I’ll be as disappointed as any of us Glibs if it *never* starts running.
An epidemic of arthritis suddenly befalls Colorado high schools.
http://kdvr.com/2018/03/12/bill-would-allow-school-nurses-to-give-medical-marijuana-to-students/
Hell, I got carpal tunnel from AP History and Govt. class essays. I’ll take some of that…. curative.
Lucky. I had to wait for college to get exposed to hardcore pornography in an ecofeminist lecture.
There have been postulates that the administration has been using project-based staffing principles for posts that are normally long tenure positions. ie “I need this guy to accomplish this one thing he’s good at, then I’ll swap him out for the next objective” sort of deal. whether or not this is true, I can’t say, but it fits the facts as much as the “no one can stand to work with Trump” narrative.
Thoughts?
That makes at least as much sense as the hysterical bullshit on Vox.
Well, boys and girls-
It is a glorious spring day, for a change. I’m off to Bridger Bowl to see if I remember how to ski.
In other news, Fairfield Co. Connecticut gets 4in snow, paralyzes commerce, halts civilization as we know it.
This is a pretty thorough read from National Review on the whole Russia gate thing. It’s not too badly biased either, for NR.
“In the 2,500-year life of the alphabet, this was a first: a list that started with the third letter and contained but a single item. The explanation was laughable, but any sensible answer would have constituted an acknowledgement of malicious intent. Her only out was the “well-intentioned but careless” script that Obama had written for her. In other words, she lied to the FBI — a felony offense.”
I would dispute the assertion that the English alphabet is 2500 years old though.
Sure, we added a few letters, (including lowercase) but it’s largely the Latin alphabet.
Can you blame the woman for being a little confused? She’s nearly that old herself.
If there’s anything particularly grating about Obama, its his repeatedly taking assumed-credit for things he actually never even tried to do
Obama did a lot of stuff, but in that list of ‘stuff’, the main beneficiaries were: SEIU, AFSCME, a bunch of crony industries like solar + ethanol, big-tech, etc…. and progressive lobbies.
“Black people”-stuff was, if anything, near the bottom of his list of ‘issues’. He occasionally paid some lip service to things like criminal justice reform but did nothing at all significant or substantial. He actively opposed many reforms which would have been most likely to benefit poor black americans.
In short, he produced zero “hard won achievements” for minorities in America. And black constituencies recognized this at least midway through his presidency. This isn’t some right-wing rhetorical point either – its something many on the left recognized as ‘awkward’ when it came time to start appealing to the black vote in 2016: they were extremely conscious of the fact that the ‘first black president’ hadn’t actually delivered the goods – any goods, really – to the people who had been most significant to bringing him victory.
There are many myths about Obama which i fear will become ‘history’, but the biggest 2 in my view are
A) that he somehow changed the direction of US foreign policy
(he didn’t; if anything he was Bush III, tripling down on middle east debacles – with the added insult of fucking up relations with major allies a la Israel, mismanaging russia + china, fumbling multiple opportunities)
B) that he did anything for minority interests while president.
(he didn’t; he basically took the black vote as a given, while hardly giving them a thought when it came to spending political capital)
Good schools? Where?
The left thinks schools are good, nay great, if they churn out morons that believe the crap team blue peddles. That’s the actual problem nobody wondering how the left could continue to pretend the massively failed schools system (in terms of actually producing educated instead of indoctrinated or credentialed douchebags) they foisted on us work, seem to miss. They want drones. Lots of dumb but compliant drones. And what we have today produces them in spades.
The sort of schools to which guilty, well-heeled lefties send their children are generally decent, some great, even despite being commie factories. And they’d like to keep it that way, poor brown folk be damned.
Holder instructed public schools to quit going so hard on minority rule-breakers, and that’s just turned out wonderfully for black students.
e.g.
in regards to “B”, you can find a dozen articles like this, mostly written by the otherwise-sympathetic proggy-media
they write these stories which go, “yes, he didn’t do anything for black america BUT….” and proceed to make excuses for why. Because they know its an obvious, glaring shortcoming. so they try to find ways to downplay and soften it.
its literally a parade of apologists from the left struggling to ‘explain’ why absolutely nothing was done, policy-wise, specifically for black americans
the method is one that Obama himself always used; pretend “well this is very complicated you see” and drown the reader in endless rhetorical digression.
So complicated that Orange Cheeto manages to get all kinds of legislation thru’ in a quarter of the time, some of which improves black unemployment, and puts more money in some of their pockets.
Lowest Black Unemployment Rate
But if Obama wasn’t black, Tariq Nasheed wouldn’t have a new music video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsGHdGXg0vE
Yo Sloop, did you orchestrate this?
Yes, with this squirrel