Greetings, Glibs. Today I have ensured proper links. On time. Early, in fact.
Sports – the NCAA Basketball Tournament got underway. Are you in the Glibs Bracket Challenge? [Group ID: 52048, Group Password: Podesta] If no, why not? All the cool kids are doing it.
Music – I will just link a song so you have one. This is an odd, yet compelling piece.
Links:
- Famous physicist, sometime jerk, Stephen Hawking has left the building. For good.
- Need an illustration of closing the barn door, after the horse has gone? Here you go. I don’t know if the bribe…er, aid will work. Too late to calm down the electorates of various EU states as well.
- Insert zombie apocalypse joke here. Or, being the UK, is it a 28 Days Later joke here?
- Wasn’t United’s old motto “Fly the Friendly Skies”?
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616 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
Your zeal is noted. Have a cookie.
*looks at box* *looks at screen*
I’m not sure how to get any of the cookies to you. Sorry about that.
Just don’t send them after your body has erm,,, processed them..
*narrows gaze, considers cow-butting*
He’s just referencing the letter writer from yesterday’s midday article, right? At least I hope so…
*backs away from Alex.*
I think he may be the author of that email…
I can’t confirm or deny that…
*drops cow butt and cat butt photos, backs away*
Those butt pics probably remind him he’s hungry.
They decided their parody version “Fly the Unfriendly Skies” was more suited to their demeanor.
Their new motto is “We will kill that pesky pet of yours for ya!”, I bet..
Dear United,
You don’t actually have to do anything horrible if you want to just declare bankruptcy.
For the…3rd, 4th time?
“and your little dog too!”
They could replace the planes with brooms.
I hear ‘Don’t Be Evil’ is available. Maybe they should try that as a new motto.
The last company that used that motto found it an impossible standard to live up to.
That’s because they were run by people who did not understand the essence of “Greed is Good”.
As an example, lets look at a slice of their business. A youtube that was focused on profit maximization could easily find sponsors that want to advertize on videos that they currently target for demonitization, potentially even paying a premium because said videos reach their target customer demographic. Such an approach would be a win for the bottom line, a win for the content creators, a win for the advertisers and a win for the viewers who are more likely to tolerate or even watch an ad related to their interests rather than a jarringly disconnected one. The only losers would be censorious ideologues and neopuritans.
” ‘e ain’t dead, ‘e’s sleepin’ “
+1 Pining for the Fjords
-1 Parrot
Sports – the NCAA Basketball Tournament got underway. Are you in the Glibs Bracket Challenge? – In it to win it
If you triumph, we will send a bottle of wine to the nearest Romanian Consulate.
You won the Viking-Eagle bet. Go two for two.
::hangs head in shame::
Well, considering he was supposed to be dead by 30, Hawking making it to 2018 is seriously impressive. Well done that man.
Indeed. It is one of the problems with the instant easy communication world that we live in is that people who in the past would seem simply heroic are able to let you know what utter assholes they are.
If he had kicked off just after his appearances on TNG, his legacy would have been vastly improved.
I got to see him speak a couple of times, onec at Cynthia woods Mitchell Pavilion. It was like a rock concert.
He was in The Naked Gun?
No, that was OJ in the wheelchair.
Yes. Remember the ballpark assassination scene? He played third base.
Also where is the news than Manure was eliminated from the champion’s league? Sloopy woul;d have included that.
I mean I had hopes when I saw the word United but it was a different United
Soccer? I am concerned with sports.
So no appreciation for the theater of the absurd that wows all the Vuvuzela blowers?
I actually played for 10 years, 8-18. High School and club. Refereed middle school games too. Then I discovered rugby and that was that.
I actually played soccer as well when living in several of countries where it was all the rage, Swiss, so I am quite familiar with it. I didn’t mind playing, but I just lack the fortitude to watch it. Then again, I have the same problem with tennis, equestrian events, practically everything labeled as a winter sport, and so on. I would rather watch paint dry. These days my patience for baseball, and even football, have been tested. And since I never was a big fan of pro basketball, I guess the only thing I like doing/watching these days is sport fucking.
sport fucking
Amateur or professional?
What’s your stance on paying college players?
And I go for both.. Some of the amateur stuff will make you want to bleach your eyes out due to the erm, shape and looks of the participants, but sometimes it can be energetic and entertaining.
And everyone has to be paid, Bobarian! Someone is always paying to get that stuff to happen anyway.
⚽ = ?
Whatcha talking about Willis?
Then I discovered rugby and that was that.
Well, Rugby Football is supposedly closest to the original version of “football” that also spawned American Football and Association Football, so I think that makes you a football hipster.
So long Robotic Voice Man.
Speak and Spell manufacturer seeks new voiceover actor.
More than half of millennials going through ‘quarter-life crisis’, research finds
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/millennials-quarter-live-crisis-half-25-35-finance-career-property-first-direct-a8253036.html
That basically is saying millennial whine.
If I had a six-figure college debt and worked slinging coffee because I majored in Woke Studies, I’d probably be reevaluating my life sooner, too.
But you would conclude other people were at fault, and certainly not you with the stupid choices you made, right?
Of course, but I would reach that conclusion sooner than prior generations. That’s how you know we’re making progress.
I blame the parents man. I have seen so many parents of my generation baby their kids – all because their parents told them life was hard and they needed to learn to fend for themselves, then cut them loose, and they now resent they couldn’t avoid responsibility for longer – and handicap them horribly to function in the real world.
It is one thing to help out your progeny, and another completely to deny them the valuable lessons about life being a brutal dog-eat-dog affair for the unprepared. I understand the attraction of avoiding real life, but nobody gets to do that. Sooner or later it does you, and if you are unprepared, it is going to hurt bad.
You know, I don’t even think that it’s the case that life is brutal or dog-eat-dog as such. I think it’s just a very complex system with a lot of moving pieces in which each participant is no more or less important than the system itself. What I mean is that if you think of life as a market in the sense that it’s the result of everyone making choices according to preferences, information, and external influences, which then generate those same variables for everyone else, repeatedly, such that you wind up with this incredibly complex network of influences and responses, the whole thing doesn’t just stop and change because one person has a bad run of luck, or can’t hack it, or woke up late.
It’s not that life isn’t fair, it’s that life isn’t the kind of thing that can be fair. Height or open space doesn’t cause you to fall and hurt yourself. Water doesn’t drown you because it thinks you ought to be drowned. Being cruel and arbitrary as a parent just teaches your kids that you’re an asshole because life isn’t cruel and arbitrary, it’s just indifferent. As a parent, you ought to be preparing your kids to become part of a vast, mindless system of interactions that can’t be reasoned with or persuaded any more than you would expect a rain storm to stop because you’d forgotten an umbrella. To return to the analogy, you should be teaching your kids how to swim because the water can’t care if they drown, not keeping them dry because you believe the water is spiteful and unpleasant.
Well said, Bill.
Much better articulation than I did with my oversimplified use of the dog-eat-dog example, and totally agree.
So how do we make people that demand life be “fair” and give them what they want, regardless of what they do or don’t do, irrelevant? Because I am tired of paying for stupid people doing stupid shit, when nobody pays for me doing stupid shit but me.
“As a parent, you ought to be preparing your kids to become part of a vast, mindless system of interactions that can’t be reasoned with ”
The problem is the goddamned self-esteem movement in the public school system preaches the exact opposite.
Fortunately for us, the confusion brought about by a public education system that prepares children for a world that doesn’t exist can be covered up with anti-depressants.
It’s funny, I was listening to an interview Jordan Peterson gave awhile ago to an Australian interviewer. She asked him something like, “What would you say to people who work hard and take responsibility but aren’t as privileged as other people and suffer bad luck? Isn’t it true that sometimes things just don’t work out through no fault of your own?” And he responded to the effect that, yes, absolutely, life is tough and unfair and even people who work hard and take responsibility for themselves and their situations will suffer setbacks. That happens to everyone. But life is a hell of a lot harder if you don’t take responsibility for your own life.
People with a dependent mindset believe they are owed something by virtue of their existence, or maybe because they’ve played by the rules they think were set by some authority somewhere and therefore have earned something. They think like victims, because they believe that everything is given or not given to them by some external source, so they’re not really in control of their own lives. Things are done to them, not by them. They also have a hard time with cause-and-effect, because in their minds there is always some final authority to which they can appeal for justice. So if health care or college is expensive, for instance, it doesn’t matter that there are understandable and predictable inputs creating that situation because the final arbiter is a government or society or what-have-you that steps in to take care of them by waving a wand and paying for their hospital bill or forgiving their loans. They never learned to associate consequences with their actions because they were always insulated from that cause-and-effect process.
You can’t raise other people’s children, especially if they’re grown, but you can work to change the expectation that a person is owed a standard of living or that a person deserves to be insulated from the effects of their decisions. It’s got to happen as a cultural shift first, though, because whatever minor progress you make at the policy level will be wiped out by a generation of needy, spoiled, man/woman-children who’ve been coddled their whole lives and taught to expect authority to care for them.
What happened to the phrase “its not in the cards?” When you’re taught from a young age that you can literally be and do anything, you have a hard time adjusting to a real world where you have limited control over your own destiny, let alone anything else.
How many of these people would have been better served spending a year learning the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition than going to college?
I was going to snark on Andy for advertising for Repubs by pointing out to their upstate constituents that they had a much better record on gun rights than he did, but that slice of derp from the article had me shaking my head too much. It gets torn apart by the first comment, so I didn’t bother with it myself.
The people that want felons to vote want law abiding citizens to be denied their second amendment. Go figure..
They’re agents of chaos. If you destroy everything else, people have nothing else to cling to but the almighty State.
It’s just like a real job, the best way to get more money and power is to make yourself indispensable.
“proposal that would allow people with criminal records ”
I am gonna call bullshit on that. Gun grabbers lie. Everything they say is calculated to deceive.
That was an unquoted part of the article, so it was editorializing by the “Journalist”, who is very much in th bag for leftist positions, and almost produly ignorant of firearms.
It is a deliberate deception. She wants us to think Republicans want violent criminals to be armed.
Don’t forget they also want kids killed…
They can absolutely see what the Right is thinking from their vantage point atop that pile of bodies.
It’s bullshit, but not a lie. As far as I know, people with misdemeanors besides “domestic violence” can still get permits in shall issue states.
These people would love to basically remove your 2A right if they felt you shouldn’t have a firearm, and they would be quite content to see your right removed even if all you got a jaywalking ticket. Because that way, they could totally control who got to own a fire arm, and that is the agenda here: disarm the plebes and only allow those friendly to the totalitarian state the right to defense.
You are splitting hairs. Any attempt to deceive is lying and that is what she is doing there. Bullshitting. Lying by Omission or insinuation, intellectual dishonesty…it doesnt matter. They are trying to get you to believe something that isnt true. It’s a lie.
Agreed. Maybe it’s literally correct, but literal meaning is only a fraction of communication. The intent of the statement is clearly to imply something that isn’t true. People who don’t want violent criminals to have concealed carry permits are generally not thinking of people who fudged some deductions on their state tax returns.
It does matter because it is much easier to refute a lie. Gun control proponents do it all the time with statistics, and they have been doing it for decades.
“Famous physicist, sometime jerk, Stephen Hawking has left the building. For good.”
He had his brief history of time here on Earth, but I guess that’s relative.
This comment deserves some love. So here is some love. /unzips pants
Tits, also back in an orderly fashion.
http://archive.is/EuRDR
4, 5, 11, 16, 18, 24, 27, 28.
Tried to confirm my suspicions on #15, but didn’t find anything.
I mean, lots, but #3 deserves special mention and #5 is marriage material.
Meh
Try this set.
DNA tests can predict intelligence, scientists show for first time
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/03/12/weekly-climate-and-energy-news-roundup-307/
Lets have a friendly Glib competition to see who is moar smarter
Shit wrong link. Goddamnit
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/03/12/dna-tests-can-predict-intelligence-scientists-show-first-time/
*slow clap*
And the loser is….
Wait whut? People have different intelligence levels? What’s next? You gonna tell me that your gender also accounts for biological differences?
That stupid thing written by a bunch of honkey slave owners over 100 years ago says everyone should have equality of outcome. And Marx backs that up so it must be true..
Intelligence could be measured with a swab of saliva
I bet you can tell a standard deviation or two.
If she’s smart, she swallows.
Cause of the 12 vitamins and minerals, and the fact it would give her that minimum daily requirement?
I think a “D’oh” is appropriate.
LOL
She is described as a white woman, 5ft 5ins tall with shoulder lengthy mousy hair.
From the bed head and the slut walk of shame home?
That seems like, oh, a somewhat vague description.
Especially in England.
Astroturfing tragedy.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/13/the-right-needs-to-learn-from-the-astroturfing-of-the-parkland-victims/
They just sit around praying for lots of children to die, then gleefully spring into action when their prayers are answered.
These people are sick.
She mentions that the NRA has been damaged, but I wonder how many memberships they’ve sold in the last month or so.
I don’t like the NRA because they are too squishy, but this latest media and political offensive is damn close to getting me to join out of spite. This is how you make new NRA members.
I renewed mine for the first time in 5 years because of this shit..
I quit the NRA in the nineties because they were supporting the then reasonable-gun-laws-GOP instead of preaching liberty.
ye shall know them by their fruits
Never let a crisis go to waste, and no crisis is more noteworthy than one where you can dance on the grave of kids…
That’s what the outrage over arming teachers is about. Every one of those mass shooters actively sought out gun free zones. Arming teachers would put a stop to school shootings and they know it.
“No! Don’t arm teachers! We need martyrs for the cause!”
They are evil, but then that is apparent by their desire to make the citizenry defenseless.
I’m willing to bet there are a good number of useful idiots involved. I’m even willing to stipulate that there are people knowingly doing bad things for “good reasons”. But you’re 100% right, there’s no way that you don’t connect the dots between gun free zones and mass shootings unless on some level you’re actively suppressing the facts or shoving them so far into the background that all people hear is “AR-15 fully semi-automatic assault rifle weapons!!11!”
I think there’s also probably some confirmation bias. If you feel in your heart that private ownership of firearms spontaneously generates murder, you look for murders, find the guns, then blame the 2A, or the NRA, or rednecks, or wypipo, or whoever you’ve decided to blame beforehand. Facts be damned, you’ve just proven your feelings correct by finding murders committed with guns.
It’s sickening, when you think about it; they were basically waiting for children to die so that they could swoop in and blame everyone they dislike, instead of the actual shooter.
How about we stopped getting shocked every time they do this immoral shit. They stand on graves. It’s not hard to figure out.
It’s not being shocked, it is calling it out. We need to keep doing that, because there are plenty of idiots out there that can’t or refuse to see this reality.
I remember I was reading the comment section on a gun blog right when Newtown happened. Suddenly, all these anti-guns trolls showed up. It was the first I had heard of the shooting. So there were people who had previously registered accounts just waiting for children to die. Worse, these people didn’t seem the least bit sad. They were excited — positively giddy that a bunch of children were murdered. None of the details were known yet, but that didn’t stop them from immediately blaming assault weapons, gun show loopholes, etc. (None of which had anything to do with the shooting. He didn’t use an “assault weapon” or buy the guns he used.)
It reminded me how feminists are upset after rape accusations turn out false. If they were honestly against rape, shouldn’t they be happy a rape didn’t happen?
“About two weeks after what was reported as a movement by the students”
Why did it take you two weeks?
“Dallas, Nov. 29–President John Fitzgerald Kennedy may have been shot last week.”
I came of age during “Bush’s wars” when it was a somewhat popular belief that we might end up drafted. Dumb, sure, especially in retrospect, but we were teenagers. Of course we were dumb. I went to a couple political events with mom and was, of course, a raging lefty loon, but there wasn’t a single student event protesting war or Bush or whatever. As dumb and precocious as we were, I think we resisted political inclinations on the whole. Hell, I had a biology teacher who stumped against Hussein in class. I still have no idea why it came up, but he wasn’t shy about it. I can’t imagine that happening now, in favor of war or deposing foreign tyrants or supporting a Republican president or anything of the sort. He’d be forcibly retired and even the union would wash its hands. So have students changed so much in 10-15 years, or do parents and teachers feel less compunction about weaponizing kids in service to the cause? The inbred narcissism that calls itself “woke” had to have come from somewhere.
“…or do parents and teachers feel less compunction about weaponizing kids in service to the cause?”
I think that’s part of it. Along with the narcissism built into the idea that they’re being brave, and can’t just remain silent during this crucial moment in history. I’d also mix in a little bit of the idea that many of these people can’t imagine someone holding a contrary opinion in good faith. What? This march against violence? It’s not even controversial. Every right-thinking person believes this.
That’s basically the tone of the response sent out after a bunch of parents squared off against the head of my kid’s school when he announced they’d be doing the walk out today.
You call it narcissism, the education racket calls it “self-esteem”.
The EU has since been tightening its external borders and asylum laws, as well as offering money and other help to third countries in exchange for preventing people from trekking north.
We are strong enough. Have some diversity and some hard, cold cash.
Opening borders to muslim invaders is the stupidest policy decision in the history of the world, hands down.
The Euro political elite thinks they can still keep power, and even, better control the masses, if their country goes all Sharia….
After all, the most problematic thing to them is that delusion of freedom and individual rights that made Western culture appealing ans successful. They would like to go back to the days of feudal rule.
“It’s good to be the King.”
Plus it doesn’t require being good at the job, or any of that pesky ‘effort’ to keep the post. (until they get assassinated…)
That is it in a nutshell.
Insert Calvin Coolidge quote here
“A WOMAN with a “contagious condition” who vanished from hospital has been found.
Police urged the public not to approach Kayleigh McConnon, 29, after she went missing last night.
Police urged the public not to approach Kayleigh McConnon, 29, after she went missing from Cheltenham General Hospital last night.”
So who, where, when, but you are missing how. And what is the contagious condition? Crabs? Tuberculosis? Ebola? That’s an awfully big what. I’m no epidemiologist, but I’d think there would be big difference between some bint with the flu and bubonic super AIDS.
Crotch rot.
“Denguezika Aids”
Was that some sort of Russian collusion hyper virus?
It all leads back to Trump-Putin!
Some disease that turns her into the chick from “Species”.
Get in line pal, I’m touching her first.
Natasha Henstridge is now part of #Metoo
Brett Ratner victim
Did the Left’s foot soldiers finally got the memo that demonizing Middle America is a losing electoral strategy?
http://freebeacon.com/culture/view-slams-clintons-comments-trumps-backwards-campaign/
Don’t think for a second that what’s in their heart has changed; they’re just trying to put the mask back on after prematurely ripping it off.
I think a lot of them are wising up to the devastation TDS has caused them, especially the loss of credibility and how that impacts their ability to keep pushing the propaganda from the left as factual and good, and they are now hurriedly trying to get the mask back on. After all, they figure the deplorable morons are going to quickly forget anyway, just like the usual morons that remain tied to the left and its political class despite the repeated ass rapes without even the benefit of the reach around…
A Dem winning a congressional seat that went for Trump by 20 points suggests they may be right.
However, if they do win back the House and try to begin impeachment proceedings, they’ll get slaughtered in 2020.
I think it just shows how godawful a candidate Hillary was.
I also don’t know which race you’re referring to, but did the Dem candidate pivot towards center, or double down on progging?
He proclaimed gun rights, yada, yada. He hopes he’ll be lined up against the wall last. Never understood that strategy.
It’s a fine strategy. Most people don’t pay that much attention to what their rep actually does once they send him to the swamp. He lies to get elected, then votes along the Pelosi party line and gets reelected for the rest of history because of incumbency bias.
Has he won yet? They still have the absentee ballots to count.
Jesus, Joy Behar still clinging to the “Hillary won the popular vote” line. Sorry, Joy, but if anyone but Trump had gotten the GOP nod, Evan McMullin doesn’t run at all, and GayJay doesn’t go from 1.5 million votes in 2012 to 4.5 million in 2016. So there’s another 3.75 million votes for the GOP, and Hillary gets crushed like Mondale.
The one woman said, “her message really resonated with me.”
I’m still trying to figure out what Hillary’s message was.
Elect me you stupid, redneck, knuckledraggers because it’s my turn and vagina.
Are we sure about the vagina?
As SF has previously pointed out, it is still actually a vagina
“At this point, what difference does it make”.
Which, out of all her other slogans, may have been the best reason.
You get a lot of resonating when your skull is empty.
Too bad for Joy Behar we’re not a pure majority-rule democracy. She was really getting defensive.
Is McCain on there normally? She was very aggressive and pushing Behar’s buttons. I’m going to assume she’s a short-timer. Also, she is either wearing the whitest makeup ever or she’s anemic or she’s a vampire.
The “dogwhistle” and “when my people were slaves” lady is not an improvement in personnel.
NHS Nightmare
He should just be thankful the nurse didn’t note his weight as 3 stones heavier. Also, you get what you pay for.
“you get what you pay for”
HEALTHCARE IS A RIGHT!
I need food and water more, but they have not made those rights yet…
It’s pretty bad when Cosby is better at anesthizing you.
Wait, didn’t he have one oif his women wake up in the middle of the act as well?
Did people know about Cosby back in 2009
NSFW?
https://youtu.be/kmvAh7eyb4Y?t=1m21s
(TW: offensive language)
Never change, Bridgeport.
Never change.
Terrifying
Inhalation agents are age adjusted not weight adjusted. They are trying to throw the nurse under the bus because she is an expendable minority. The anesthetist is to blame for not noticing the ETT disconnect.
“…before “making a conscious decision” to wee on the table.” “….because of a “language barrier”… ”
They apparently don’t speak pee at the NHS.
It is nearly impossible for a man to pee laying on his back. And I find it hard to believe that he can’t blink or wiggle his fingers, but he can control his bladder.
Mark Steyn writes about the death of free speech in the UK.
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. – Winston Churchill”
That’s what I see going on..
I don’t even see appeasement; I see evil political opportunists using this as an excuse to consolidate power. Tyrants gonna tyrant, given the chance.
Sadly am left having to concur sir..
Our political class – across the globe, but especially in the western world – has done us all a horrible disservice of late, with all projections showing things will only get worse for us plebes, and most people refuse to wise up to that.
One step in that power consolation is the destruction of the traditional British society. They have always been a difficult lot to rule over, so import a bunch of foreigners and use Orwellian tactics to destroy the backbone of what was once a proud people.
“We work hard, go to Mosque, pray to Allah five times a day, how much more British can you get?”
He really needs a competent digital designer. His site is hard to read with all the schlock going on.
“Austria is a member of the European Union, as is (almost two years after the Brexit vote) the United Kingdom. There is supposed to be freedom of movement between EU member states – Austrians, for example, have the right to work in the UK. Yet the same “Border Force” that breezily waves through the family of the Ariana Grande bomber, and the Parsons Green Tube terrorist, and the jihadist loon who killed a Japanese man in Dundalk will not even permit Mr Sellner and Miss Pettibone to set foot on UK soil to give a speech on free speech for fear that such an exercise of free speech might be too provocative to those who revile it.”
Do you who else from Austria gave a speech?
The Governator?
Freud?
And all it will do is allow for more Rotterhams to happen, which will build up resentment towards migrants in general (not just the rape gang members), without an outlet for it, and lead to eventual fascism as a backlash against the leftist totalitarianism.
All you have to do is submit and convert to Islam. They kill people who treat Muslim women that way. (They kill the women too, but whatever)
From United:
So, simple question – what the hell were they thinking? Didn’t it occur to any of the people on the crew that maybe sticking a puppy in an overhead bin was a bad idea? When the puppy was barking in distress, didn’t it occur to any of them that, gee, maybe they might want to let the puppy out of the overhead bin? I can’t imagine this is corporate policy. From the policy they have posted, it appears the passenger was completely in compliance. And the logical place to put the carrier would be below the seat in front of them, per the policy.
At a certain point, I have to conclude that this was just the crew screwing with passengers.
People are still flying with them?
Sometimes they are the only direct flight available. I do try to avoid them though, considering I only have 3 puppies left.
Killing the dogs that the cops won’t.
“At a certain point, I have to conclude that this was just the crew screwing with passengers.”
From knowing some people that work in this industry doing the cabin shit and their anger at having to be nice to people they look down upon, I am saying you called it, Bill. This was some attendant pissed at this person for bringing a pet on board and thus giving them more work, and deciding to punish that passenger for it. Note that some passengers are assholes and deserve to actually be shoved into an overhead bin themselves (think the parents of that kid that ran around torturing everyone for 6 hours on that flight recently), and some pets are so annoying they probably would drive people to cruelty, but in this case, it clearly looks like something petty drove this decision.
It sounded like the flight attendant saw the bag by the woman’s feet and being a typical flight attendant was pushy and insisted it go in the overhead compartment. The dog owner, not having a backbone and assuming the flight attendant knew it was a dog and knew what she was doing didn’t speak up and went along with it. People need to grow fucking backbones, especially women. It’s like the whole #MeToo bullshit. 90% of it is women feeling uncomfortable and going along with it in the moment then bitching about it afterward.
That makes sense. Doesn’t make it any better, but it makes sense.
Years ago, we had to fly with our dog. She was small and had a little gym bag-like carrier. Went under the seat on takeoff and landing, and in the air we just slid the carrier out so it was between my wife’s feet, popped the top open so she could poke her head out, and my wife put a blanket over her legs to be discreet. Four flights this way and we never had a problem.
I used to fly with a dog. Put him in an approved crate and checked him in as special baggage. Worked just fine on multiple coast-to-coast flights.
I’m not a fan of this pets in the cabin trend.
Pet deaths in cargo holds are >0 also. If you want something depressing, start reading DOT’s monthly Air Travel Consumer Reports in the airline animal incidents section.
Yes – we were paranoid about flying when the weather was hot and absolutely would not do it on a flight with connections. I would put small bowls of ice in the crate so the wouldn’t spill at first and he could drink as they melted.
I’ve done opening week of pheasant season in SD a few times, and if you fly into Sioux Falls the day before opening day, you may very well hear several bird dogs barking in the hold the whole way…..
It seems to me that the rise of emotional support pets are just the customers’ way of meeting demand. That demand being to not have their pet end up like this.
I don’t understand why airlines are not better catering to their customers. Have special pet-friendly flights with additional fees or ticket mark-ups. Don’t want to deal with pets in the cabin, don’t fly on one of those flights. Same with weapons allowed flights for those who want to deal with Kabuki theater.
What is preventing airlines from meeting free market demands? Are they essentially regulated to the point that airlines cannot innovate new service opportunities?
*who DON’T want to deal with Kabuki theater
Yep
When I think airlines I don’t think ‘top notch, innovative customer service’.
I think of a bus in the sky but less convenient and friendly.
Also, there probably aren’t enough pet people to make pet-friendly flights profitable for most routes at most times. Most pet-owners leave their pets at home when they travel.
Agreed, but the rise of “emotional support animals” indicates there is a demand that can be met with occasional flights. I’m pretty sure pet owners are just seeking the emotional support label as a way of navigating bureaucratic red tape thrown up by the airlines for regular pets.
Libertarian Party registration surges 92% in 10 years
So, they have almost 200 voters now?
moment?
I dont remember if it was Sarwark or not but the ‘North Korea is freer than the United states’ stupidity should have wised everyone up as to who those people are. Gillespie’s tweeted ‘America is a failed experiment’ is pretty clear too.
All they had to do was become Diet Progressivism.
If we just explained libertarianism better, we’d have fewer libertarians.
“Wait, you mean I don’t get free shit?”
All they had to do was become Diet Progressivism.
Well, it worked for the Republicans, so why not for the Libertarians?
(Both parties are more leftist than they should be)
‘Are you in the Glibs Bracket Challenge? [Group ID: 52048, Group Password: Podesta] If no, why not? All the cool kids are doing it.’
Because I’ve become grossly ill informed on the subject over the last five years or so. Monetary compensation or lack thereof notwithstanding, I don’t make bets on a subject matter I’m not familiar with.
/Debbie Downer. 🙁
I haven’t watched a single second of college basketball in 20+ years. And yet I fill out a bracket every year.
If it’s a office bracket and costs nothing, sure, knock your socks off. Personally, I don’t even try because my favorite college squad hasn’t been tournament worthy in a very long time, until this year….but I haven’t paid them enough attention to give an honest assessment.
Well, the Glibs bracket is sort of like an office bracket, and it costs nothing… Just sayin’ 😉
And I finally realized who your avatar was. That’s funny. What a tool
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ypraEielc
Gaze upon this and despair/laugh.
My goodness. I couldn’t quit watching. I just sat there watching in stunned horror-humor.
Jesus. Who’s the guy who comes in at 27 seconds in the blue shirt, flashing whitey gang symbols?
Yes, Trigger Hippie has a great avatar – I smile amusedly whenever I see it. I get a perverse pleasure out of the fact that both the US and Canada decided to go for ridiculous leaders at the same time. I’m hoping Mexico joins us in their next election so that we can have a North American trifecta of ridiculousness.
Also, a talented comedy writer should write an odd-couple style fiction with Trump & Trudeau. It could be great.
SNL should do this, but they lack the talented comedy writers.
*side note, I made a small profit on the Mayweather/McGregor fight….know your subject matter and Vegas odds before placing a bet…McGregor fans were easy targets. ;p
Boxers do poorly in the Octogon. MMA guys do poorly in the boxing ring. The outcome of that fight was a foregone conclusion. People actually bet on McGregor?
You could make a case that Dan Henderson or Emelienko would do pretty damn well in the boxing ring. McGregor? No.
I dont watch, or haven’t in 20 years. I do remember that boxers regularly had their asses handed to them in the octagon. They were sure that they could ring the guy’s bell and shut him down. The MMA guys would jump on them so that they couldn’t punch and it was over. It is a different skill set, different mindset.
More than a few pros tried their hand in the ring. James Toney learned the hard way against Couture. Heavy hands are heavy hands no matter how slice it, though. Hard to teach and harder to learn. Just like Deon and Bo Jackson. Some athletes are just monsters no matter what sport you put them in. *Almost any sport.
Deion had no doubt who was the better athlete.
^That’s a funny video. I like they way Deon uses vocabulary however he wants.
^ This.
I’m not arguing the inherent superiority of one sport over the other. But I agree that the scenario is key….the younger brother of a close friend of mine neglected to take that into consideration and bet $4k on McGregor at 2:1 odds. If I remember correctly, the Vegas line was 6:1…I could be slightly off. Regardless, it was a stupid fucking bet and after the fight his new wife handed him an ass kicking far exceeding that handed out by Mayweather….an entertaining night all around.
6:1? No way I’d take it less than 30:1. Mayweather isn’t the type of guy to leave his chin out there. Even then, I wouldn’t put up more than $100. Never confuse what you want with with what is likely.
Agreed. The friend in question was from a heavily Irish heritage and let nationalist pride sway his view on the matter. I took advantage and apologize for nothing.
I wanted to see Mayweather lose just because he’s a POS, but I wouldn’t let that sway me into blowing cash on McGregor.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of Mayweather as a person either. But I know my boxing and only a fool would have placed money McGregor.
The McGregor fight went on for a while because Mayweather let it, to entertain McGregor and his fans. May weather could have wrecked him at anytime after the second round.
I don’t completely agree with that, buy you’re close. Mayweather likes to feel his opponents out during the first two or three rounds. After that, he realised McGregor didn’t have the ability to knock him out and basically walked through his flurries until McGregor punched himself out and finished him before round 10 ended…ensuring that he recouped the money on the bet he placed on himself. It was a masterful performance by a boxer five years past his prime. He was in complete control from start to finish.
If you’re not going to deschedule it, at least drop it to 5.
https://www.thecannabist.co/2018/03/09/doug-lamborn-reschedule-marijuana-medical-research/100965/
Not much hope of that under Trump. There is too much money and power in the WOD, that’s why Chocolate Jesus wouldn’t do it. Trump seems to have a personal hard-on for drugs. His brother drank himself to death….probably other drugs too.
During the campaign he said he was “100%” for medical marijuana. That would mean moving it from schedule 1.
He also said he was a 2A supporter.
“Sports – the NCAA Basketball Tournament got underway. Are you in the Glibs Bracket Challenge? [Group ID: 52048, Group Password: Podesta] If no, why not? All the cool kids are doing it.”
It won’t let me join. Tried the password with caps and without.
bad luck here as well….thought it was just the view on my phone
where’s the link?
Weird. I was able to get in this morning.
The CIA’s new nominee director Gina Haspel once ran a torture site and destroyed evidence
In 2002, she oversaw a secret prison in Thailand that tortured two terrorism suspects. That torture took place within the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program, in which suspected terrorists are sent to US allies, and interrogated in “black sites” on their soil.
If you wanna MAGA you gotta electrocute a nutsack every once in a while.
It was in Thailand – those were paying customers.
Does that scramble or over easy those nuts?
Poached.
The evil that men do…
Also, not a movie to watch with you mom. But, she rented it.
Do we have any solid evidence that these “extraordinary interrogation” techniques actually yielded actionable intelligence that helped stop any plots?
Hush, there are ball bags that need zappin’
We have solid evidence that the techniques yielded exactly zero actionable intelligence.
But … but… what if the terrorist has a bomb and your family and the bomb is going to go off in 5 minutes unless the terrorist talks?????
Then your family is dead. It will take more than five minutes to file for an action and get approval to disarm the device from an authorized signatory official.
Yeah, that always struck me as a stupid “what if” scenario. I think McCain, during his anti-torture speeches, made an exception for the “ticking time bomb.” But, if you’re the person being questioned and you know you only have to hold out for a limited amount of time it seems to me more likely that you will hold out, or give false information that would take time to check out.
That’s why we don’t stop the torture even if he gives an answer. Just keep on torturin’ while you check out the various leads he gives you.
“Look, Agent TK, this program was not set up to indulge your sadism. Those three sessions after you rendered the subject unable to speak cannot be expensed against the budget.”
The answer was always simple. Then torture the guy, diffuse the bomb, and charge the agent with torture. No jury in the country would convict Jack Bauer. However, if it turns out there was no exigent circumstances, the agent gets prison time.
That way we as a country don’t endorse torture, but Jack Bauer doesn’t go to jail for saving the world.
I like this answer. In the end, juries should decide what is justified and what isn’t, just like with homicides.
Gee, offcials in the CIA have blood on their hands. What a shock. Just like anyone in the higher reaches of the NSA is complicit of allowing and authorizing spying on Americans.
Drain the swamp, don’t empty your bilge water into it.
It seems more likely that the swamp drains you.
Of course, the secret prison was set up, funded and operated by her as though she were Colonel Kurtz, right?
What do you do as a CIA station commander when your senior officers say “We’re sending you this guy so you can extract actionable intelligence from him, per Memo 271-C-5P“?
You do what you’re directed to do. Or you resign. Her “crime” is in not having any principles.
Just wait, when this shit doesn’t stick, they’ll claim she stuffed a dog into the overhead luggage in an Air America flight. Or she used to have Thai ladyboys piss on her.
To be fair, there’s not much to do in Udon Thani.
Online pornography age checks delayed over kinks in law
Rules requiring pornography websites to verify the ages of British visitors are being delayed as the Government works out kinks.
https://news.sky.com/story/government-delays-new-pornography-regulation-as-it-works-out-kinks-11288064
Better just ban porn altogether to be safe. For the children.
Or they could just ban children.
You know the House of Commons contains some of the most perverted people in the world.
But they’re against hate speech.
Not on the public’s time, I hope.
Probably the #1 reason government employees get fired.
“MindGeek told Sky News it will not use its ability to track the sexual preferences of 25 million people in the UK to snoop on them, although it did plan to collect a trove of information on users, including their names, addresses, date of birth, as well as their online activities on other websites.”
Oh, that’s reassuring.
Witch hunts only end when the wrong sorts of people get fingered. Oh that some patriotic Brit working for the government would inadvertantly leak the porn surfing habits of the Parliament members.
Phrasing.
“So this internet thing doesn’t seem to have a single place where we can reliably enforce our will. I guess we’ll just have to haul in some people and destroy their lives pour encourager les autres.”
Good luck stopping 15 year old boys from looking at online porn. They are going to be satisfied with the silhouette of the chick on the Doan’s Back Pain pill box. Not that I….I never would have…
“Marks and Sparks Catalogue Demand Through Roof — Experts Mystified”
The Sears catalog in the outhouse always had two purposes…
Save the intimate apparel pages for last.
VPN Service subscriptions soar.
” being delayed as the Government works out kinks.”
We need to check it one more time. Honest. One more. Well, maybe two … or three more times. Just to make sure it works.
“It has been determined that we cannot trust alarythmic blocks. So we have instituted a manual review process. The internet will be unavailable until we have checked every site and classified it as porn or not porn.”
SCIENCE!
OMG! So when men migrated across medieval Europe, they took their women with them? Who is the super genius who made this startling discovery? SCIENCE!
You mean the Migration Period was a Period of Migration?
Paging Swiss’s narrowed gaze…
Paging Swiss’s narrowed gaze…
Lol
They were able to document that the migrations stopped to ask for directions?
Not the Viking dudes.. That’s why they ended up in Greenland instead of England..
Someone recently told me that Vikings didn’t really wear horned helmets. I find myself deeply distressed by this idea.
History learned from Bugs Bunny cartoons?
Worse, they hit Newfoundland.
Poor Vikings.
Too bad it was before there were Newfies to go on a genocidal rampage against.
They got lost on their way to the Super Bowl, too
Ha!
That is cold man…
This would normally hurt a lot more, but today I am already curled up in the fetal position cradling my nuts in anticipation of learning how the Vikings will fuck up their QB situation.
Somehow they will let Kurt Cousins (who I’m not even sure is a good QB) slip away. And with all three of our QB’s from last year already gone, that means that we will be absolutely fucked.
“Somehow they will let Kurt Cousins (who I’m not even sure is a good QB) slip away”
As a Redskins fan I can tell you he is not a good quarterback, but there aren’t many of those around these days, so he is better than most other options….
Huh. I was under the impression that once the males got where they were going, they reproduced asexually.
Oh, no, silly, they arrived and raped the everloving fuck out of the native women. That’s why the Welsh are half-sheep, there were no people in Wales…
No, half goats, get it right!
I just conjure up this bizarre scenario where men took out across Europe and then the women just stood around for a bit and then suddenly made some abstract and totally unrelated decision to do the same. At least for Hawking, he got to go away before seeing science go full on Idiocracy.
“Dearest Helga – have conquered part of Frankland, and taken over a quaint castle overlooking the sea. Ready for you to move in. Bring the kids.
-Hrothgar”
That’s bullshit. Some women did. A few. The vast majority were military aged men. I dont need a Scientist to tell me a lie, just look at the film and photography. It’s not like they were hiding.
Or being secretive about their intentions.
Camp followers were an actual thing?!!!
Uffda. You have it all wrong. The dudes migrated across medieval Europe by themselves and were having a blast. Their women followed them in order to put an end to that shit.
This sounds like it right based on my observations that no woman can stand a man having a good time and is genetically predisposed to ruin that…
Yup, they have a fun meter to detect when you are having a good time and will stomp it out. I think they are worried that you might realize someday that sex is not worth the shit you have to put up with.
We’ll form bachelor groups like deer or elk. Have a great time all year. Then for a couple weeks we will fight amongst ourselves and then go fuck as many of the women as possible. Then leave before the kids show up.
Once Gay History Month is enacted, we will finally learn that all exploration is done by homosexuals.
I did plenty of “spelunking” myself, but then again, I claim to be a lesbian trapped in a man’s body..
In case you were wondering, sweetheart, you’re not famous because of your brains.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/03/13/supermodel-karlie-kloss-touts-so-relevant-victoria-secret-fashion-show-in-metoo-era/
So which is it? Are women super empowered “owners of their sexuality” who control the universe? Or are they shrinking violets who need Big Daddy Govt. to get rid of due process in order to protect you? I thought wearing clothes that sexualized you was degrading?
Better yet, shut your exceptionally beautiful mouth and let us ogle you. Then make us a sammich.
What she said was smart. Not that L Brands doesn’t have a team of publicists working for them who coach their models.
Anyway, there is more would in that second photo than the last aisle at Home Depot.
The last aisle in my Home depot has drywall and bags of concrete. It’s the second to last aisle with the plywood sheets and decking materials, and the third to last with the oak/pine boards.
/Pedant
In an interview with the Telegraph, Kloss defended the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show as a statement on feminism.
Next time, just us the Telegraph link, Q. I’m a dick about not clicking on Breitbart links.
Here you go:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/people/karlie-kloss-beauty-secrets-something-powerful-woman-owns-sexuality/
Thanks, Spuddo. I wash my Stormfront links and expect you all to do the same.
This just seems oddly vitriolic.
Show us on the therapist where the website touched you.
Breitbart is not worse than CNN or NBC, but that’s a low bar. I just prefer my derp unfiltered.
This from the guy who fussily insisted that he not have his comments “edited” when given a First gif….
smh
That does not make sense, even from you.
I can’t read anything Swiss writes unless its surrounded by asterisks. What’s he going on about?
I don’t know.
Breitbart is partisan, but I wouldn’t call it Stormfront…
It was a joke. Man, you guys get a grumpy in the morning.
Russia vs. US: Where is life better?
“Paid maternity and paternity leave is another area where the US lags behind the rest of the developed world.”
Opinion is not exactly a good way of determining quality of life. I personally think government should fuck off when it comes to paternity and maternity leave. Companies aren’t in business to pay for people to have children.
“Crime rates in the US are much higher than in Russia — except when it comes to murder. Russia has more than twice the number of intentional homicides than the US, but Americans are over five times more likely to be burgled and over 14 times more likely to be assaulted, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.”
Can’t really trust these numbers either given there is no universal method of reporting crime.
Can’t really trust
these numbers either given there is no universal method of reporting crimethis article because it’s on CNN.comIt could also be that Russians don’t bother the police with little things because Russian cops are brazenly corrupt. I’d wager the ratio of non-murder crimes to murder is the same, but reporting is low.
The fact that you’re much more likely to be murdered for taking someone’s shit might be a factor as well.
Are Americans wanting to migrate to Russia, or are Russians wanting to migrate to the US?
None of that study means a damned thing.
I assume they’re trying to link it to Trump, to show what the US will become if we allow his Russian influences to take over!
It’s got a heavy dose of America hate in it. The left is always bashing the greatest country that ever was and telling us how much better it is living in some totalitarian shithole.
I say own it.
Violent+property crime in the US is simply an indicator of class/culture. People who refuse to be successful in the markets steal from those who have something.
In Russia, there is nothing to be stolen….except from oligarchs who are so politically powerful that they are immune/insulated/protected.
Only in the US is there a class of people with things worth stealing who are no so corrupt that their politburo buddies would protect them to the death. There is little to apologize for in the US system.
America also lags far behind other first-world countries in terms of child mortality, although that’s not surprising when other countries don’t count mortality until a couple weeks after birth.
Counting coup based on cross-country metrics is a joke, and not a funny one.
My close work colleague grew up in Russia. She’s in her mid-30s. She loves America and everything she’s told me about Russia is… depressing. She loves to tell me how good I have it here and how extremely spoiled her kids are since they have never known life outside of our wonderful nation.
Well, we do have an entire generation of home-grown youngsters who have not a clue as to where everything they have came from, some of whom stomp around in the streets with pouty faces yelling about how awful it is here.
Ugh. Time for some prune juice and Lawrence Welk.
Bah. Lots of SJW’s claim to have spent months in Europe. Of course, it was always on someone else’s dime so they never actually had to get a job that covered all their living expenses.
Russia also had 99.5% literacy during the Cold War.
Gotta love that self reporting.
“Can you read this: (Yes or no)? Please circle one, then mail to ministry of literacy.”
I call bullshit on those numbers for burglary. I haven’t lived in Russia, but I did live in the former Eastern Bloc for several years. The rates of petty crime are far higher than here.
“LOS ANGELES, California — About five hundred left-wing protesters braved rainy conditions and traffic to gather along Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills on Tuesday evening as President Donald Trump arrived in Los Angeles for a Republican fundraiser.
The demonstration featured a giant inflatable Trump doll, holding a missile; a Mexican band; street theater performers; and a small group of pro-Trump counter-protesters who braved the hostile crowd.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/13/anti-trump-rally-beverly-hills-costumes-f-bombs-mexican-flag/
TW: Breitbart
So brave.
Oh no, not rain!
And traffic!
In Los Angeles, those two do not mix.
I’ve been swamped with work lately so I’m just popping in with the following violence against words.
SJWednesday: Everything is Rape Except When It’s Not Convenient To Our Argument Edition
Did that site jump on the “words are violence” bandwagon? I honestly can’t remember, these rags all just blend together into one big septic mess.
Hang on. Did we open the paragraph talking about “sexual violence” and then close by linking that concept to Roy Moore allegedly committing statutory rape, but maybe not because Alabama doesn’t make being a creepy guy at the mall hanging out with teenage girls a crime?
Also, if picking a person to represent you in government on the basis of his or her political opinions and abilities means endorsing every single thing that person could be associated with, we’re fucked.
Plenty of people say they are against murder, but look at how many people voted for HRC
How many people did Roy Moore rape again?
Less than Bill Clinton.
fewer
Both true.
Correct
“But many of us have excused violations of consent through our words or actions (jokes, comments, dismissals).”
This article is about prison rape, right?
Drove past a mass of teenage kids marching down the road to the courthouse this morning (Cruz’s formal arraignment is today). Couldn’t see the signs/hear what they were chanting, though I can guess.
Had a police escort in front and back as well.
I’d have thought the officers would be cowering behind the kids.
They have found the one subject that will get me son to voluntarily stay in school.
Last night he was researching a history paper on Malcolm X. He looks up and says “wow, this guy was a douche-bag. A communist Muslim would wanted racial segregation. Why did anyone like him?” The boy makes me proud sometimes. He’ll probably get an F on the paper.
To be fair, he stopped wanting segregation after becoming a “official” Muslim when he hung out with some Bosnians during hajj.
Knowing that would actually require some research, HM
Fuck off with your faggoty bookword faggot words, faggot.
lol ur dad lesbian
Still wanted the communism though. So: douche-bag
While most people will tell you they’re against sexual violence, most people, in practice, condone it.
If you categorize all heterosexual sex as “sexual violence” then sure…
The woman does keep getting stabbed over and over again.
What is one to do if she keeps yelling YES! and HARDER! HARDER!?
I thought they yelled “Don’t” and “Stop”.
I guess experiences may vary…
Brainwashed by the Patriarchy. duh.
Thanks for the nut punch for about the dog.
That BNL is reminiscent of The Beatles.
What blows my mind is the someone is capable of thinking and saying ‘you’ll have to store your pet in the bin because of policy’.
Policy over sense.
It’s truly depraved. Shit, I would tell my boss to suck it if policy made no sense and impacted a person negatively OVER PAPERWORK. This person was able to do it to an animal with deadly consequences. I can’t wrap my head around it.
Famous physicist, sometime jerk, Stephen Hawking has left the building. For good.
The most interesting thing in that obituary was this:
So, one of the most brilliant minds in the UK opted to be cared for by a private practice funded by Americans. Doesn’t speak too highly of the NHS.
Also, divorcing his wife was a dick move, so I agree with your short description.
“So, one of the most brilliant minds in the UK opted to be cared for by a private practice funded by Americans. Doesn’t speak too highly of the NHS.”
They all do. Politicians here for example, if they have a choice, run to the USA for service. Patients can if the service can’t be provided in Canada and then the government picks up the tab.
Medical tourism it’s called.
Everyone bashes it…..until they get sick. Then it’s off to the USA!
Sorry for the reply. I still can’t comment on my own apparently—the comment button is unclickable for some reason. Someone helped me fix this once! I need you again! *dresses like Sailor Moon and strongly intimates sexual favors in return*
I had an easy day at work. By far the easiest of the week. I used it to read, mostly.
To whoever recommended this article about the Trump-Putin “conspiracy”—-Thanks.
It is hella long, but absolutely worth it. I’d been following the collective stories, but everything being in chronological order really helped. It is very, very well-written. It’s very convoluted and the scribe does a great job of guiding you along.
That whole story is just insanely fucked. The entire conspiracy isn’t just completely spurious, but it really shows how nefarious and wretchedly evil the art of politics is. This is a way, way, way bigger scandal than Watergate. Many people should be in prison.
The realities of the political gamesmanship and how established the rules of getting around the law and how to manipulate the perception of events was the second most bothersome thing about this illuminating piece.
The worst thing is how this idea is still believed in and promulgated in society–pretty much just taken as fact. No one will go to jail; nothing will be done; nothing will change.
And no one will care.
“Barack Obama is so slick he makes an eel look like sandpaper” – Thomas Sowell
I think that applies to the left in general.
strongly intimates sexual favors in return
Spoiler: it’s no favor.
This was the essence of a conversation with SWMBO this morning.
SWMBO: It’s unusual for ALS sufferers to last this long.
Me: That’s the amazing thing about American Medical science
SWMBO: But he’s English, but I guess the NHS threw a lot of resources at keeping him alive
Me: Not even. All his treatment was in the US, paid by a Foundation here. The NHS just steals the glory for not killing him thru’ incompetence. But for that foundation, he would have died in a hospice 30 years ago.
Incompetence? The NHS would have just withheld food, water, and medical care and be done with it.
“I mean, how long could he possibly live for anyway?”
/NHS
Oh no, they would have done everything they could, because he’s a National Monument. If you think Hawking had fame and recognition over here, you should have seen the fanboy following he had when he published A Brief History of Time. He’s one of the reasons we have all these insufferable “I fucking love science” types.
EVERYBODY suddenly became woke on astrophysics, especially the ones who couldn’t balance their checking accounts.
Double-entry bookkeeping has always been counterintuitive to me.
Put down those Bill Bryson books and step away from the lectern.
Even after looking up Bill Bryson, I still have no idea who he is.
To be fair, I have never actually tried to learn double-entry bookkeeping, and the brief descriptions I’ve read were written by people who didn’t understand it.
Oh,a nd I’m taking the lecturn with me. I have the perfect spot for it in the back room.
Oh, Bryson’s just another annoying data point.
I have no problem whatsoever with people who realize that as kids, their lack of intellectual curiosity was harming them, and belatedly try and catch up so they can participate in an informed discussion of moderately complex technological, cultural, artistic (or whatever other) subjects.
It’s that sudden religious fervor these people acquire. It’s why I shun ‘cult’ explainer books.
I have a soft spot for B Bryson though I know that he has his problems.
(When James May of all people publicly calls you out, then I know there must be some nastiness involved.)
I really enjoyed his book The English Language, though as it was published in the late ’80s I could see many anachronisms and misunderstandings when I read it, especially considering his comparisons to Japanese.
However, his book The Short History of Nearly Everything is incredibly thorough and well-written. It’s a bit simplistic but that’s the point–it’s supposed to be for laymen.
He does a very good job of humanizing the characters throughout history that makes it more interesting than a normal “science” book, but he very upfront admits that he’s a fan of the history/science rather than trying to actually write a scientific book.
It’s very engaging and one of the few books that I brought over with me. Don’t know what he’s been up to recently, but I give him a pass on that work alone.
Second that on the Short History of Nearly Everything.
It’s awesome, and it also shows repeated that “science by consensus” wasn’t invented by the CAGW crowd.
Here is an actual Hawking quote found on his Wikipedia page:
“I have received excellent medical attention in Britain, and I felt it was important to set the record straight. I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.[“
Definately got brain damaged.
When someone is in that condition, Stockholm Syndrome is the norm.
Again. Curates Egg.
“Yes, most of NHS treatment is shitty, but parts of it are excellent”
… especially if you’re a high-visibility loudmouth with a degenerative disease who would, if he could, have pole-danced in a teddy for Danny Boyle’s opening for the London Olympics.
Here’s the quote you’ll never see.
There are – of course – two reasons you won’t see this.
1. Because people are typically whiners and that kind of review falls in the middle ground
2. Because survivorship bias happens. If I’d died of Legionella, my ability to post that would have been nil.
Go big, NYT editorial board. Go big.
Adults are supposed to take care of children — not only keep them safe, but make them feel safe. Schools are essentially an extension of the home, in that sense, providing sanctuaries of learning, of nurturing and care. But after years of attacks by people with weapons of war, students cannot feel safe and are demanding that adults end years of complaisance and act. They are not asking for their schools to become armed garrisons. Rather, they want those weapons to be brought under control. And unlike too many adults, the young people leading Wednesday’s walkout at schools around the country — inspired by angry, motivated students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., where 17 people were killed by a former student with an assault weapon — have had the courage to take on the industry responsible for blocking every reasonable measure to limit access to guns, including those that make it all too easy to commit mass murder.
Don’t let the truth held your rhetoric in check.
“They are not asking for their schools to become armed garrisons.”
Translation: Don’t stop school shootings, we need martyrs.
Yeah, I am gonna listen to the paper that published a love letter to Kim Jong Un, a series on the glories of 20th century communism and let myself be disarmed and helpless. Fuck that and fuck them.
Schools are essentially an extension of the home
FUCK YOU.
If schools are an extension of the home, then they should be heavily armed and shooting intruders a standard practice.
Extend the Castle Doctrine to schools. Brilliant.
Schools as in loco parentis is a well-established legal doctrine.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Scools as crazy parents? Sounds accurate.
/deliberately mistranslating.
in that sense, providing sanctuaries of learning, of nurturing and care.
I’ll hate them all. They are working directly against all three of those.
Something the left used to rail against. My, how times have changed!
They are working on it from both directions
In other words, we’ve lost the adults, must now depend on the children to carry our commie water for us.
“Socialism – a political system with the intellectual rigor of children.”
No wonder Cali wants to lower the voting age to 16. Not that they’re in any danger of losing their leftist super majority, but you can never prog too hard, indeed never hard enough.
Hell, why not? Just looking at wikipedia, they send a token couple Republicans to the house, and Dems have had a stranglehold on their senate seats for a quarter century. So they can run up their totals in the general while accelerating their slide into fiscal oblivion. Sounds good for the rest of the country.
Without a border wall with California, it would not be.
This. They’re now busy invading places like North Carolina like a flock of commie locusts and will eventually turn yet another state into deep blue shithole.
The southeast US has always been a deep blue shithole. Their recent GOP fetish is a generational anomaly.
“inspired by angry, motivated students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School”
astroturfed by teachers unions and the DNC
The thing that terrifies the left the most is the idea of more parents deciding to pay for private school, this crazy woman Trump appointed, advocating for more school choice, and even, god forbid, more home schooling. The public education system is the very foundation of leftist ideology. Without it they would slowly fade away and next to disappear in a couple of decades.
We can only dream of such an outcome.
“complaisance”
I know it’s an accepted spelling, but … really?
They are not asking for their schools to become armed garrisons.
Then they’re idiots (which, being teens, is not surprising). Whenever you concentrate a valuable resource, it is prudent to protect it. When we concentrate our money, in banks, we lock it behind vaults and often provide armed guards. Yet when we concentrate our children, in schools, the loudest voices decry such protection.
If you actually asked students – instead of just listening to the 3 biggest loudmouths – they’d tell you the place would be so much nicer if the people who didn’t want to be there weren’t forced to be there.
” I will just link a song so you have one. ”
Somebody isn’t a morning person.
Despite the redemptive bit in the lyrics, it really isn’t a happy song.
Here’s a happy song
I still can’t believe I live in a world in which the Eagles won a Super Bowl. Is this the darkest timeline, after all?
Look, we Philly sports fans deserve a little happiness, once in a while.
Deserve? Like poor Santa deserved to have batteries tossed at him?
Santa had snowballs thrown at him. JD Drew had batteries. And both of them deserved it!
Screw him for *not including* them with the toys. Bastard ruined Christmas more than once in my childhood.
And yet, Tom Brady still got paid a gazillion dollars that night, went home to his supermodel wife, and made out with his son.
Don’t ever change, HM.
Best of all possible worlds Brochettaward, best of all possible worlds.
*Old, broken-ass body creaks and groans as I get out of my chair to fetch more coffee*
What’s the worst that could happen?
After dismissal on terror suspicions: Court orders VW to keep Islamist employee
“I’m afraid there has been an… industrial accident.”
“Schisse, how bad?”
“The robot rivetted Samir to the car body. We are out a Golf.”
Somewhat relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q51hVC0Lgwg
Totally not hate speech. I mean all he wants to do is kill some infidels. It’s of vital importance that companies get woke so they know how to recognize real hate speakers, like Lauren Southern, before acting.
“Samir B. (30) strolls into the Hannover State Labor Court in sweat pants and moccasins.”
Man, that dude be woke!
Is he a manager?
(whatever happened to that bit?)
OMM STILL EXISTS!
My wife bought a new container of washer pods with the new fangled childproof lid. After I took it off, I reminded her to not eat them.
Did she then go to the kitchen to make you a Tide-pod-sammich?
Why go to the kitchen? She has dryer sheets right there in the wash room.
To get the lettuce.
No need for lettuce just empty the lint trap.
You must be the kind of person who’d use shredded lettuce on a sandwich.
Monster.
Only on sub sandwiches. Hey at least I don’t put pineapple on my pizza.
LJW gets it
Too much work. I just buy the detergent you can drink straight from the bottle.
My wife bought a new container of washer pods with the new fangled childproof lid. After I took it off, I reminded her to not eat them.
Do we have a new OMWC on our hands?
Tulpa just forgot to change his handle.
Speaking of hysterical screeching
One financial industry veteran I spoke to said there is good reason to worry “we’re all screwed.” Not because Cohn was actually that effective in his role running interference on people like Peter “Free trade causes spousal abuse” Navarro, who has encouraged Trump to rip up whatever trade agreements he can get his hands on. But because things were already so bad to start with. “Look, I thought it was an absolute disgrace that Gary joined the administration in the first place because I think the administration is a disgrace,” this person told me. “I think what Trump is doing is insane and sure, Gary might have been a voice of reason. But I’m only marginally more scared today than I was yesterday because I don’t think he actually ended up having that much influence. What has he done? We got the terrible tax plan, Trump quit T.P.P., who knows what’s going to happen with NAFTA—really, it’s all been going really well,“ he said, the sarcasm dripping thick like a bottle of Jergens self-tanner left out on a hot day.
When everything is the end of the world, nothing is the end of the world.
I am not a fan of tariffs, and I think there will be a net negative effect, but I think a lot of people are intentionally overlooking the diversity, size and robustness of the American economy in comparison with places like Japan, or Germany, or even the EU as a whole.
“We got the terrible tax plan”
LOL
I dont think the chances of tariff’s are all that high. Trump is trying to get some other players to alter their behavior by threatening them.
If he winds up getting places like China to drop their tariffs on American goods. Good. If it turns into everybody retaliating. Not good. I’ll wait and see which happens.
Exactly this. If you can read Trump, and really it’s not that hard, this is what he does. He makes all sorts of bluffs and false appearances to get the other guy to eventually go along or make ill advised moves to their own detriment. Forget about 4D chess and all the bullshit, the guy definitely has a way with things, like him or not.
Just as we shouldn’t be surprised that Austrian guy did what he did – all we had to do is read “Mein Kampf” – all we have to do to understand a lot of Trump’s behavior is to read “The Art of the Deal”.
Yeah, people who are surprised by what Trump does… surprises me. It’s like him firing people all of the time. People really didn’t see that coming? Trump should just air a live Apprentice series from the Oval Office, where he calls in his top peeps and fires them.
“Hmm, who should I fire today? What about that Carson guy, black guy, nice guy. What does he do anyway? I don’t even know what he does, get him over here right now!”
If anyone read his book, they would understand this.
I used to work for a hedge fund where the CEO literally recruited the dumbest, most pneumatic brunette ’10’s I have ever met as personal assistants.
Technically speaking, they’re ‘Financial Industry Veterans’ too.
Sounds like my kind of guy. I’m a sucker for bubbly brunettes.
Well, he was the suckee, every lunchtime.
Good hire then…
I knew a guy who would do that – basically hiring strippers looking to leave the biz as receptionists. He told me that he’d had a string of terrible receptionists coming from placement services, so he might as well just hire some eye candy.
That article should be taken out and shot.
Hysterical screeching is definitely the right label for it. It’s just the same old bullshit.
“But because things were already so bad to start with”
What things and describe how they are bad? What does that even mean?
“I think what Trump is doing is insane”
What is he doing that’s insane? Please delight us by being the first person to ever elaborate on this.
And last, but not least.
“We got the terrible tax plan”
Yeah right Nancy, crumbs, we know.
Terrible tax plan = I can’t deduct the taxes on my $5M salary, and the property tax on my $20M summer home in the Hamptons.
*sigh*
like a bottle of Jergens self-tanner left out on a hot day
Sounds like someone’s getting ready to rub one out.
I dont think the chances of tariff’s are all that high. Trump is trying to get some other players to alter their behavior by threatening them.
It will take from now ’til the end of his administration to hammer out the details. Is that 10% tariff on aluminum going to be imposed on raw ingots, or rolls of thin sheet? On bar stock? Tubing? By weight, or by dollar value? On individual auto body parts and engine blocks? Aircraft parts? Raw castings or finished assemblies?
Shaddup, you denier. It’s going to be a bigly beautiful tariff.
It’s already started to work, China said they don’t want to be in a trade war with the US. Makes sense, we’re mostly who is keeping those ghost cities in China being built.
They’ll instead decide a regular war is just fine and Invade Taiwan.
Well, that could happen now that the emperor has finally made a comeback.
We can always compromise with them and give them North Korea if they really need lebensraum.
TOLD YOU!
Evil libertarians have been linked to the bombing of a mosque in Minnesoda.
I hate it when people pretend to be libertarians and embarrass us. First there was GayJay and now this.
What more does BOB BARR have to do?
Speaking of songs-
Yesterday, riding the chairlift, somebody behind me was playing their music out of speakers for the benefit of all and sundry. Ordinarily, this would just piss me off, but surprisingly it was a version of this.
People that blast their awful music on speaker for all to hear
whilst skiingdeserve genital electrocution.Has anybody read We by Zamyatin? RH recommended it, so I finally got it today. So far, it’s pretty out there.
Yes, it’s a strange novel, but highly prescient. Zamyatin captures the socialist mindset perfectly.
Yeah, but it’s not woke. Need Xe numbers only.
I suppose he has a little experience to draw on.
Yes, it was part of my senior thesis as an undergrad, actually.
Oh, snap
Keeping criminals out versus keeping wrongthink out.
When the country lets violent jihadis in – as in people who’ve been out killing other people – (and sometimes even rewards them) but arrests people for discussing topics, that’s not stricter border controls.
Well, technically it is, but not in the sense she was advocating for, so this was not the case of “instant karma” the twit appears to think it is.
So you’re saying it’s fine just to ban people for their beliefs? Or, you’re not, eh? You’re just signalling that you have no principles.
i’m not saying anything. i think its a mildly funny, if maybe not as simple as the guy makes out, jab at the Alt-lite m.o.
fwiw, as far as “banning people for their beliefs” goes…
the supreme court has affirmed on multiple occasions throughout US history that its A-OK (among other things) to refuse entry to non-christians (muslims in particular), on the basis that their beliefs are hostile to many basic underlying principles of constitutional government
the same was true in regards to allowing “known communists” to emigrate.
iow, its never been a requirement that someone either has to be criminal or violent to be barred entry, at least in the US. You can indeed bar entire groups based on “their beliefs”, insofar as you think they can be reasonably established.
My “You” was referring to the guy that made the tweet.
Now that I look at it again, it’s getting terribly meta.
That, and the fact that he’s not saying that at all.
This time Lauren has been hoisted on her own petard, and it’s risible. If your career is making videos to voice full-throated support for concepts like “national sovereignty”, then whine when a nation exercises its sovereignty in a way you don’t like, you deserve a little ball (ovary) busting. That has nothing to do with one’s views on whether or not it is moral for a government to prohibit or subsidize migration.
As an aside, a lot of people are confused when it comes to visas. No one has a legal right to enter a country just because a visa was issued; a visa merely allows you to enter a port of entry. Being allowed to pass through a border is always up to the discretion of the immigration officer. As we know, immigration officers are human beings, and humans are venal, irrational, and arbitrary.
It’s absurd on many levels. If they are going to punish based on wrongthink, they are wrong. Yes, Southern has thrown out polls showing that Muslims believe X in order to justify reducing immigration, so she has “been hoisted on her own petard”. Yes, the people that scream that you can’t reduce immigration based on religious belief (what I’d call wrongthink) are being hypocritical assholes in Southern’s case. Meta, as I said.
this was exactly my reaction.
The only reason I find it sketchy is that Lauren Southern is a Canadian Citizen, and therefore part of Her Majesty’s Dominions/ The British Commonwealth countries, and a bar to her visiting the UK based on speech should be higher than someone from a non Commonwealth or Dominion country.
this is actually a good point, tho i don’t know the UK laws or history of jurisprudence in this regard.
@spqr2008
Again, I’m not saying her denial wasn’t arbitrary. Nor am I saying that I agree with the decision, however, an observation of ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’ is warranted.
And as someone who has a Trinidad & Tobago passport, and thus a Commonwealth citizen as well, I find a bit of poetic justice in the fact that when free movement between Commonwealth nations was discussed after Brexit, there was a lot of hand-wringing from certain corners about the “brown” part of the CoN.
That started yesterday, but it’s a stupid meme. Never mind the facts. Keeping pretty blonde woman out of a historically white country just doesn’t “lol u mad nazi?”
What does that have to do with anything? If people have a right to enter countries based on historical demographics, then the whole Mexican thing is moot.
All Mexicans are mestizo of exactly the same blood ratio of Castilian-Indian. It is known.
What I meant is that it is clear the Mayan people were human-alien hybrids.
It occurs to me that the strongest case for figuring out how to do time travel: being able to see “first contact.”
It’s not that she has a right to enter based on historical demographics. Or that the U.K. generally doesn’t allow Canadians to visit regardless of color. Neither of those things are true.
It’s that Lauren wasn’t allowed in because she’s supposedly “racist” against Muslims. And white racists wouldn’t exclude white racists from their white racist country. So she wasn’t hoisted by her alleged petard. Therefore, the meme doesn’t work.
If she said people shouldn’t be allowed to criticize other cultures. That would be different. But she has consistently said the opposite.
I’m not getting that from the meme at all.
That’s my point. The left’s position is that she is an alt-right fascist KKKanadian — part of a massive white supremacist conspiracy dominating the Earth with their nazi mind-control satellites, poised on exterminating anyone darker than Ben Kingsley. It has nothing to do with border control policy, national sovereignty, or anything more nuanced than “everyone I don’t like is literally Hitler”
So while her opponents are screaming “racist”, it was literally the reason given:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYFSlRuXcAEzS7D.jpg:large
Now if England welcomed her with open arms, as the National Front laid out a hakenkreuz of roses, then her opponents would have a point. Except the opposite happened.
“Competent French Authorities”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I think part of the problem with excluding Lauren for distributing racist materials is that there are a fuckton of other people also distributing racist or otherwise bigoted materials, and they aren’t being bothered by the authorities at all.
As (seemingly) ever, its the inconsistent and selective enforcement that is the problem. England doesn’t give a shit about racism, it just doesn’t want her because of her wrongthink.
Apparently, there is a massive nationwide anti-gun school walkout puppet show scheduled for this morning.
Sop brave, so special.
My kids are doing this at their school. The administration sent us an email saying it’s free speech, and the kids can participate for the 17 minutes, but staff is not allowed to do so.
And they’ll fire all the teachers that are found to have helped organize it.
My wife calls our part of Indiana the “guns and bible belt”. I don’t think any teachers organized it at our school. I think it was more “other kids are getting out of class for half an hour and so should we”.
Granted it’s just a podcast, but this teacher claims teachers are deeply involved.
Just keep them at home for the day. “You want 17 minutes off or 6 hours off?”
“You can have forever off, you’re fired for leaving work.”
/dreaming
What’s their stance on wearing a NRA shirt? Or a MAGA hat?
That’s hate speech! Free speech doesn’t mean hate speech!
My son’s school is not recognizing it but said it would not penalize any student who wanted to do that alone. Of course, it’s 28 degrees here with snow on the ground so who knows how many will actually walk out.
pstupid keyboard
Tamika Mallory grappling with accusations of anti-semitism is starting to remind me of South Park’s “n—er-guy” episode.
The rest of her fellow travelers would indicate that she is.
“does”
Farrakhan is an oppressed minority. Jews is da debil!
Well, that does raise a much bigger question. The left have most definitely decided to align themselves with radical Islam. So when they are joined at the hip and the more emboldened Islamists start up with their Jew hate rhetoric, how does the left avoid being labeled as anti-Semite? I have personally never seen a leftist who will not at any given opportunity rail against Israel with a fervently pro-Palestinian stance. Palestinians are oppressed minorities as are somehow Muslims, even though there are billions of them. So naturally, these oppressed minorities are on the side of leftists, just by their very existence.
The leftist / islamic alliance is obviously a temporary thing aimed at conservative whiteys. Once traditional whitey is properly broken, they’ll got at each other with hammers.
But in the meanwhile, the leftist will have to overlook a whole lot of unpleasantness when it comes to Jews, women, atheists, gays…
The left would stand no chance against Islamists, they will all be killed or subjugated and the women all put in burquas. And the reason is obvious I suppose, but the Islamists are not afraid to use violence while most of the left are feminized cowards.
The left assumes whitey normals will still fight for them after they’ve been broken.
“If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.
– Calvin Coolidge
There is the key to understanding why the left loves them some Islam. Ancient ideas. They are also fooling themselves into thinking that if they destroy western enlightened society by Islamicizing it that they will be able to hold onto power and not be put on a spit by the very people they aligned with.
So close to self-realization, yet so far away.
So close to self-realization, yet so far away.
Lol, so true. Swap “anti-Semite” for “racist” or “misogynist” and swap “black leaders” for “people” and the sentiment could be coming out of the mouths of her opponents.
“Hey baby, i know what you need“
“All my Facebook friends now hate me and are posting mean stuff about me. But the sign at Walmart said baby needs beer and wine, so I started filling up the baby’s bottles with beer and wine, is that wrong?”
Yes – it’s wrong to have Facebook “friends”.
I agreed more than 10 years ago when I deleted my account forever.
It’s pretty handy when I’m depressed and don’t want to feel any better.
That’s what the beers and wines are for
https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/973581275792490496
Why is Jeff Bezos eating a lizard?
“Tree chicken”
When my wife first came here, she asked me if we really eat a Turkey for Thanksgiving. I told her that’s an old tradition and now tree chicken is the official meat of the Thanksgiving holiday. She had to find out what that was and when she found out, she was upset and told me she’s not eating that lizard, lol. Oh, the good old days when I could just get away with things like that. Now she’s got all smart and stuff. We have to go back to the days when women were not allowed to get all edumencated and stuff. Barefoot and chained to the cooking stove, the only way to go.
It’s such a bummer when they get smart.
To all bail bondsmen – you aren’t a cop no matter how much you want to be. You can’t just shoot people without consequences.
LOL
Well, I’d have said shooting someone in the back after they’d moved away from you, and needing you to go to a closed drawer, open it to get out a gun, step back to get a good aim, looks awfully close to a deliberate, non-defensive and possibly premeditated action.
We cant see what he was doing out of frame. He may have seen her going for the gun and turned around to charge her. She was obviously trying to cuff him/arrest him because he…I am speculating…jumped bail. He looked like he wasn’t going to have any part of that and figured he could walk out but saw her going for the gun and changed his mind. I couldn’t find where he was shot back or front. Anyway, the jury acquitted her.
…which is the same thing said every time a cop murders somebody.
Try this … there might be more extensive coverage elsewhere, but it looks like this was the source that other outlets picked up on.
Assuming it’s reliable, he was attempting to exit thru’ a window.
A third floor window if I recall from other sources.
I think he was fleeing for his life and wen for whatever exit was available.
Didn’t I just see a story yesterday where she was tried and acquitted?
It’s not like anyone reads the articles, but…
Oh, I get it. The DA is standing by her decision to charge.
This is a news item criticizing the prosecutor for attempting a conviction for Murder 1.
FWIW, I think she was justified in that attempt.
https://twitter.com/Shanti__Ananda/status/972873625207476224
LOL
Pack up the internet, we’re done for today.
Nice
That Warren/Sanders sign is perfect.
Also, it’s hate speech and must be removed by the tweeter gawds immediately, before there time is up for recognizing hate speech.
Obviously, the Russians made that.
You must be a Putin dupe, and shall be PURGED!
Irresistible force
More than 3,000 walkouts were planned across the U.S. and around the world, organizers said. Students were urged to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes — one minute for each victim in the Feb. 14 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Thousands of students gathered on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House, holding colorful signs and cheering in support of gun control. The students chanted, “Hey, hey, ho, ho. The NRA has got to go!” and “What do we want? Gun control! When do we want it? Now!”
They got this time, boys. Throw down yore guns and come out with yore hands high.
Yeah, because it’s time for little kids with half (at most) developed brains and no emotional maturity to tell the adults what to do. Upside down world, leftists approve.
They basically admit they don’t have the mental faculty to even touch a gun, but we should respect their opinions on national gun policy?
Pass.
Every single protest is just ’60s cosplay. Same fucking chants and everything.
Can’t expect the left to change their tactics, it worked great for better than a century. Now that they’ve started to fail in the marketplace of ideas, all that’s left is to make the children their brownshirts and start banning other ideas. That’s exactly what we are seeing now.
this is not a good look..
https://twitter.com/MattsIdeaShop/status/973731700868923393
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Awesome watching Dems defend this shit and in the same day vote against the “Right to Try” act in the House of Reps.”
This
Can’t tell if profound autism or genuine sociopathy. I’m almost inclined to the former since sociopaths are typically much better at manipulation. Either case, this person should have nothing sharper than a plastic spork.
she’s the poster child for Scalpel-Control legislation.
Converting the undecided to pro-life, one voter at a time.
wtf
Someone needs to explain to these little dingbats what happened to the kids in the original Children’s Crusade.
(spoiler: it wasn’t pretty)
My thought transcription skills seem to be even more pathetic than usual, today.
Reason crows about the LP candidate playing spoiler in PA. With 1300 votes.
I’m just curious – but if the GOP ran an actual libertarian, a real diehard, would the LP have declined to put up a candidate or given its endorsement? Christ, I wish the LP had put someone a little more libertarian up for the presidency when it had a real platform.
“His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it’s not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of spacetime that defies measure. Stephen Hawking, RIP 1942-2018.”
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/973772335537893377
What?
I didn’t even need to read the link to know who had spewed that gormless pablum.
I just want to know who’s going to warn us about scary space aliens now. It’s all just global warming all the time. Needz moar space aliens. Ok, there’s Musk and AI, but it’s just not the same. I demand scary space aliens!
Don’t worry, David Icke is standing by to fill the vacuum.
His last words were “Someone call 911111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
Wasn’t his main success just a book on science for laypeople?
His popularity with the general public yes, but he did contribute quite a bit to science. Some of the things he worked out were things that I never dreamed we would have answers to.
You mean A Brief History of Time? Of course, it’s on my coffee table, like all smart people. It’s how you can tell how smart I am.
Who, Tyson or Hawking?
Hawking, Tyson’s main success was smug rejoinders for laypeople.
Tyson’s main success was smug rejoinders for laypeople
Which, let’s be honest, pays pretty well.
Indeed. There is such a thing as Hawking radiation. I’ve only heard of Tyson chicken.
I don’t think he’s related to the chicken people.
But I bet he loves eating it.
What?! It’s delicious!
Yeah, but it’s so cool and woke to just say his name. Never seen a more woke name.
“How do you make that alcoholic chicken?”
“It ferments just like anything else”
Those stupid Christians with their unscientific notions of souls surviving the body.
It only works if you don’t get deleted from the hard drive.
Obligatory
Hawking was kind of a cunt. And not even really smart if you got him talking about anything outside his niche field of study (in which his fame far exceeds his actual contributions).
What exactly did he do that made him so famous? I mean you can point to lots of guys in the past, like Newton, Edison, Einstein, and specifically give examples of their discoveries. But what did Hawking do specifically? I mean besides saying he understands relativity and talking about black holes?
He was famous because he was so severely crippled. If not for that, I don’t think he’d have ended up so well known.
Not just crippled, he had that bitchin’ ride.
^^^This. It wasn’t that he was an idiot or a shitty physicist, but he wasn’t the towering genius he was made out to be. He got a disproportionate amount of attention because he was crippled. If he hadn’t gotten ALS, he would have been a semi-notable faculty member at a middling university.
Kip Thorne and John Wheeler both made much larger contributions to cosmology and they are not household names.
And not even really smart if you got him talking about anything outside his niche field of study
In fairness, this applies to a lot of people, and seems to be even more common among the more intelligent. Wisdom ≠ intelligence, but intelligence does seem to breed egos that disregard this.
No shit. If he’d had higher Wisdom, he might have made his saving throw.
I really have to wonder if Hawking’s medical condition eventually damaged his brain. Or maybe it’s just me, but his constant going on about the risks aliens impose seemed to me a little pointless or even silly.
So say we detect some alien civilization and attempt to make contact with them. If they were only 4 light years away, about as close as we could get if there was an actual civilization advanced enough in the Centauri star system to be capable of communications with us. It would take 4 years for a signal to even get there and another 4 to get back. Ok, let’s say we made contact. Then what? We would have to assume them capable of traveling to Earth. That’s another 5 years if they set out immediately and are traveling 99% the speed of light. If they are indeed capable of that, I would almost have to assume, they are already aware of us. So let’s just continue and say somewhere out there, there’s a civilization that could travel the vast distances to get to Earth. If they did travel here, their technology would likely be thousands or even millions of years more advanced than outs. At that point, why would it matter? There would be nothing we could do if they wanted to turn us all into slaves, or pets, or just wipe us out. I see no reason whatsoever to worry about that, either way.
That’s just what Mr. Lizard would say.
Move close to a lake. They can’t get wet.
I had an idea that fixes that premise.
The aliens in that movie were clearly strict eugenicists, but did not want to actually kill their retarded spawn personally. So they dump them on the nearest Death World and let nature take it’s course. Being vulnerable to water, they pick one that’s 70% covered in it and set the retards loose without gear or protective covering.
The primitive locals are not even a factor, nor is there a long term plan.
What a twist!
I’m ready to strike a deal with them and trade all our lefties for them to use as soylent green, or whatever, not my business you know, for some sweet space age technology. And who knows, maybe they have some space hoes to gift us with exotic hawtness. 3 boobs or something, would give Q some new material.
Maybe we could finally get flying cars!
If the lizard people look like Laura Vandervoot, I’m selling you guys out at the first opportunity.
My urologist’s office has starting sending out a newsletter.
This week’s starts with “YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS THIS”
I’m eagerly awaiting the new seminar, Advanced Pelvic Floor Tips & Tricks
Is it “press the Life Alert button and say, ‘I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!’”?
Sort of off topic, but relevant… to something.
I will personally vow to work for the Trump campaign and recruit 1000 people to vote Trump and personally escort them to the polls if Trump does the following.
Immediately expel all diplomats from the UK, suspend trade, and send a naval fleet to blockade them, for detaining and expelling Lauren Southern. This is an act of war! And also, that limey fuck Piers whatthefuck his name is going to Gitmo. You can let everyone else out and only keep it open for that limey fuck.
I mad.
I’m not sure it’s a good idea to pursue expulsion of UK diplomats when the victim was a Canadian national.
Sending Piers Morgan to Gitmo is totes good, IMNSHO.
I should have included give Lauren American citizenship and appoint her to something… maybe ambassador to England as soon as they’re done groveling.
that limey fuck Piers whatthefuck his name is going to Gitmo
Just send him back to the UK, from what I hear that’d be punishment enough for them and him.
Now *that* would be an act of war.
You couldn’t beat me or pay me to go to the UK these days. Airstrip One is starting to look pale in comparison to what they have become.
Canada has been banning me for years, and no one cares. I’m sorry I wasn’t born a moderately attractive blond female. Perhaps if I was, someone would care.
I think no one cares because it’s Canada.
Some border cunt tried to keep me out last time, but I got in anyway. It’s ok, though, I really have no desire to go there again.
I distinctly recall getting grilled for an hour by the Canadian immigration authorities back in 2002 when attempting to enter Toronto on business. It was easier to get into China.
They seem to have a greatly exaggerated opinion of themselves. So border cunt says to me ‘This is an international border! Where’s your passport!?’. Meh, it’s just Canada lady, relax, you’re not that important. So she sends me inside where the guy there asked me like 3 questions and quickly waved me on. When I was a kid, I went to Canada several times with my parents. I don’t remember any border guards or anything like that. Them Canadians be getting all uppy and stuff.
If I am not mistaken, the good ol’ US of A set the precedent here with the “mandatory” passport bullshit because “muh terrorists.”
You’re not wrong at all. I used to go to Mexico all of the time with no passport, also.
Muh pot and ass-sex!
More than moderately attractive, I’d say, but let’s not split hairs here.
Would.
Yes, more, would. But I also like her a lot for her brain, you know. She’s actually pretty good at triggering lefties, and that’s important stuff.
England banned this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DYFPYL1XUAAjhef.jpg
Historically, that’s enough to launch two thousand ships.
More into the brunette, but I like what Lauren’s doing and respect the cojones to buck the popular trend.
So I guess the Left’s new tactic is not to just use “what about the children?” appeals in argument, but to actually involve the children themselves. Of course, since the teachers’ unions are wholly owned subsidiaries of the DNC, and a pretty good percentage of the teachers themselves are wokified, I’m guessing we’re gonna start seeing these walkouts happening for various prog hobby horses a couple times a month. This is, of course, counterproductive to actual learning (y’know ostensibly what school is supposed to accomplish), a massive conflict of interest and possibly illegal. Turning children against their parents is a time-honored revolutionary tactic, they just have the audacity to bring it out into the open now because they know no one will push back.
Learning? There are still public schools about actually learning useful things to transition to successful adults, and not just leftist indoctrination? Surely, you jest.
Let’s hope it blows up in their faces and results in a lot more school choice.
AND THEN CATS AND DOGS WILL LIVE TOGETHER! MASS HYSTERIA!
I say bring it on. That kind of bullshit will put serious wind into the sails of the school choice movement. They’ve got a plum job position at this point, and if there are any significant disruptions in publicly funded child and teen daycare, the working stiff taxpayers are going to be pissed.
the Red Guards ride again – wonder what their little red book will be this time around?
If this doesn’t work, the next step will be reanimating the corpses and having them march on DC.
God damn, sometimes I wish we could just fast-forward to the part where it becomes a shooting war.
Hyperbole aside, it won’t take too many walk-outs before people start bitching in the PTAs and it becomes a more visible local politics issue. “The schools are all biased towards the left” is fine when it’s sort of just received wisdom, like “government employees are all lazy”, but when it becomes acute, when it’s your kid who spent the day sitting in the parking lot chanting slogans instead of solving quadratic equations especially if it happened while you were busy busting your ass to pay the mortgage, and especially if you happen to be either ambivalent towards or, God forbid, pro gun ownership, it’s a hell of a motivator to start showing up at meetings and throwing your weight around.
Joisey!
No one ever saw this coming.
and everything above $10,000 SALT no longer deductible from Federal taxes.
I like commenter “Down With Yoga Pants,” whose avatar is a very shapely ass in yoga pants. Yes, down… all the way down.
I made kielbasa and cabbage soup using a recipe I found online. The only problem is the website, Yummly, is hugely proprietary about their recipes… idiotically so. You can’t look at the recipe for very long–after ten seconds, it redirects you to a search page and tells you, insouciantly, imo, that it’s sorry it can’t find your recipe. That’s a bit of an ass when I’m wandering through the grocery store filling my basket. This happened even after requesting the desktop site, so I can’t help but think it’s intended to force you to use their app. I relented and downloaded the thing, which just acts as a portal to view its web content. But it’s a remarkably poor one: it routinely timed out while I was preparing the food. It has one job! You have to switch between ingredients and instructions, and leaving the app open on either page eventually, after half a minute or so, crashes it to a blank screen. Really, really fickle and stupid design choices.
But the soup was pretty good.
There are other recipe sites, ones that are not shit.
I have been to yummly twice. I wont go back. FFS its not like you cant find any recipe you want in a thousand different places in thirty seconds.
in general, all these ‘ly’ websites are shite.
Sometimes spite outweighs my contempt.
And it’s a very good soup, in spite of their godawful app. I wish I’d used more cabbage, but substituting squash for potatoes worked out just fine.
Yeah, Yummly sucks, and it sucks that Duck Duck Go foregrounds Yummly results for recipes. I find myself automatically skipping down to the middle of the results just to avoid it. And really most of what I want is in one or more books on shelves in my house. I’ve got five go-to books that cover pretty much anything I’d conceivably want to make, ever.
it sucks that Duck Duck Go foregrounds Yummly results
Bingo.
Bing-o?
Switch to startpage.com then.
I use the dinner spinner app sometimes. It’s fairly decent.
I just made some fresh salsa. Now with MOAR SOAPWEED!
Did you use culantro?
Never heard of it, I use real soapweed!
A big joke of the week is Trump suggesting a ‘space force’ branch of the military. Progressives are cackling contemptuously. Me, I’m of the ‘keep the government out of everything possible’ bent. No doubt that eventually someone more endearing to the left will suggest a similar notion—spend toward the moon for the final frontier—and be praised for it. Trump expressed it in a derpy way, but let’s not pretend that progressives aren’t for this shit, as long as the Right Douchebag does it.
I think that’s the USAF right now. Considering that used to be tucked into the Army I think there’s certainly precedent, and given the pace of technological advancement I’d expect to see a separate branch within my lifetime.
Remember when people had *really* big balls?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH0iidjG2hE
“You know, this might not have been a good idea. Oh look, I can see Canada.”
Yes, I know this guy beat that in 2012, but that didn’t really follow the AIr Force lead in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvbN-cWe0A0
“I wonder if this will work. Well, one way to find out…”
USAF space command is a major command and full of fucking nerds.
Proof enough that it needs to be dissolved and none of them transferred to the new Space Force.
Absolutely correct. Had Obama proposed it, you’d have heard orgasmic cries of “I Fucking Love Science!” across the country and seen a petition for N.d.T to be its Grand Admiral.
The image in my mind of Neil reimagined as a spacefaring Nelson saying, “Engage warp drive on my signal!” And now I need to go shove a nerd and have a stiff drink.
I listened to excerpts from these gun grabbing kids today and it is extremely disheartening. They’re literally just parroting talking points from MoveOn.org. Pathetic.