You may have been able to tell that the Glibs staff all got pretty shitfaced yesterday and were a bit neglectful. But today is a different day and I’m proudly wearing my “12 Hours Sober” badge. That may or may not last. OK, it won’t, but let me pretend for at least a few hours.
This is how libertarians are created.
In accordance with the Safe Schools Initiative, the Zero Tolerance For Guns Act, P.L. 1995 and its companion C.128 and the Lacey Township School Board’s Zero Tolerance Policy, any student who is reported to be in possession of a weapon of any type for any reason or purpose whether on or off school grounds during the academic year shall be disciplined as follows…
I guess I don’t see the problem here. But I wouldn’t, would I. Here’s a related story, so to speak.
‘I like my Starbucks like I like my women: short, thick and white,” Sammy recalled.
Danny Davis is still trying to thread the needle. His dancing is a wonder to behold. Bonus: pic of that nutbag Florida congresschimp who wears designer cowboy hats.
It still absolutely cracks me up to see so-called liberals rushing to defend the honor and integrity of our corrupt National Police Force and its various jackboots. I swear, if Trump condemned child torture, the TDS crowd would reflexively defend it. I am sincerely puzzled- there’s so much real shit about the Trump administration to criticize, and yet they grab onto this.
This is a bit strange. OK, more than a bit. I will never understand Afghan psychology, no matter how many bombs we drop.
Keep it classy, Progressives! (In this case, of the South African variety, taking some time off from land confiscation)
Old Guy Music! SP and I saw John Hiatt a year or two ago in a two-man show with Lyle Lovett. It was delightful, but he didn’t play my favorite song of his. I am here to rectify this oversight.
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Alternate alt-text: Too old for OMWC.
I was wondering how much they paid those women to be there. No female libertarians and all that.
But today is a different day and I’m proudly wearing my “12 Hours Sober” badge.
You actually sobered up?
Did he say that?
Most of the black people that I know are OK with him, they don’t agree that white people are devils, but they don’t have any real fight with Minister Farrakhan
Oh, we all have that one friend.
I love you too straff.
Well, this is awkward…
I don’t think that actually means anything. Would one of the resident legal eagles/cunning linguists please elaborate?
Stand up for what you believe in, as long as you believe in the same things as the administrators.
I think it means “FYTW”.
Meh.
It means the superintendent is inarticulate. He probably can’t comment at all because this is a disciplinary proceeding that under state law is not a public proceeding. The other possibility is he got caught doing something obviously unconstitutional and can’t think of a way to dig himself out.
Your penis came between John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett?
Whatever floats your boat….
I first saw Hiatt about 1986 with Robert Cray . I’ve seen Lovett three times.
And I saw them together a few months ago: that chummy respect thing onstage and the too-cute stories is just great for the ladies. I just want intriguing lyrics and fingerstyle acoustic: shut up and play. Anyway: Those two are masters; don’t miss them if the come anywhere near you.
Lovett is my favorite Aggie, and his cover of David Rodriguez’s “Ballad of the Snow Leopard and the Tanqueray Cowboy” is the most tastefully executed tune of all time
https://youtu.be/6tdIkj_DJLQ
“Your penis came between”
That is just poor muzzle control. Two targets and you missed them both?
I’ll assume Sloopy is on suicide watch after TOSU lost and Michigan won at the buzzer?
His sober 12 hours won’t start until sometime tomorrow.
Has Sloopy ever been sober for 12 hours. Serious question. I mean, look at this website he frequents.
I doubt it, he answers my silly rhetorical questions in a serious way that doesn’t add humor value.
Yeah. It’s one of my major flaws: always being too serious.
I really do need to work on lightening up around here.
You certainly seem to take me too seriously.
If you honestly believe that, you don’t know me very well.
12 hours in a row? Probably not, but there was that time when he was in grade school and had the chicken pox. I bet he was sober off and on for 12 hours then.
That was brutal. And Penn State won the NCAA wrestling title about two minutes before OSU lost their basketball game.
But Kyle Snyder won…again.
The rug under little Donald Trump really ties the room together.
The progs defending the jack boots is funny but to be expected when you look at their end game.
This will be the downfall of the Trump administration. Westernsloper prediction: It will be found that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but he will be impeached for attempted obstruction of the investigation. A second special counsel will be opened to look into the Clinton campaign/DNC and Russian ties to the Steele dossier used to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. Some “bad actors” will be named but nobody will be prosecuted. The Obama administration will get away with gross abuses of the intelligence community for political reasons and the US will take one more step closer to full on tyranny instead of simmering in the warmth of the soft tyranny we live in now.
Have a nice day.
My brand new Sig516 arrived at the family’s house today for safe keeping. Won’t be able to shoot it until the holidays but I can finally say it for real:
Fuck.
Off.
Slavers.
Please tell me it has the black thing that goes up.
It has two. One in front AND one in back! Plus two that flip DOWN on the bottom for extra deathiness.
It’s a shoulder thing that goes up. Don’t you gun at all?
It has that too.
Sorry, I was confusing guns with porn.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=the+eiffel+tower&=true
Which school? *JK to all the Feds spying on us*
Stock up on mags while they’re cheap.
Nice. Let us know what you think after you shoot it. Do you have any experience with Sig pistols? I’m looking at the P229 and P226. One for home and one for my car if the People’s Republic of California lets me get a CCW permit.
While the 229 and the 226 are basically the same pistol and the difference is simply barrel length, try and shoot both, because the feel is rather different.
Thanks for the advice 6. Have your shot either one?
I own a P229. I’ve fired P226’s ( and ‘original’ 228’s for that matter). Mostly 9mm, a few in 40S&W.
The recoil on a 229 and a 226 is comparable. They’re heavy guns and easy to control compared with polymer guns. The triggers, even the ‘short reset’ triggers aren’t to everyone’s taste.
By the sound of it, this is your first firearm; make sure the ergonomics work for you. SIG have this huge ‘coolness’ factor which may or may not be at play here, and they are nice, but as I noted above, they’re heavy too. If you run out of ammo, you have a very credible framing hammer to fall back on, but that (just to reiterate) makes them a sea-anchor to carry around on your hip.
You’ll also be limited in your selection by the CA roster of course.
It’s been a good half hour, so I assume we can go off topic:
Little Caesar’s makes good on its promise to give everybody free pizza-like substance if a #16 seed upsets a #1
The only upside I see is that when people ask me where I did my undergrad, I no longer have to say, “Oh, a little college in Maryland you’ve never heard of.”
Why do people still ask that?
It’s more polite than “how big is your penis?”
I mean if he’s old enough to be an old man, the college where he got his undergraduate degree doesn’t exist anymore. Sure there might be a skinsuit of an institution wearing the old name, but it’s not the same place.
It very much isn’t the same. When I went there, they had a very liberal admissions policy (only way I could get in) but very rigorous academics. Consequently, the attrition rate was ridiculously high. This of course changed when someone panicked about how many “under-represented” students were washing out, so they put in more rigorous admission requirements. That dropped the attrition rate for sure, but under their current system, I could not have been admitted. When they come to me for money, I point this out when I turn them down.
That said, when I got to grad school and was surrounded by people who did their undergrad at places like Harvard or Princeton or Stanford, I found that my education was just as good as theirs, but I had only spent about 5% of what they did. I mourn the loss of the old UMBC.
They’re all going away. Legislators and policymakers are all about retention and graduation rates these days, and the surest and cheapest way to boost those is to be more selective in admissions. Marginal students will have fewer opportunities because they just won’t get admitted.
My standard speech to the upper administration: Access, Retention, Rigor. Choose any two.
No, you can’t just lamely insist that we’re going to have all three.
More often than not, it’s to start a casual conversation to get to know someone. I’m 47 and get asked that all the time by people it would never matter to. It generally leads the conversation away from the strictly-professional and allows each of us to get to know more personal details about each other. And believe it or not, that’s often quite important to people doing business with each other.
“Where did you THE go to THE college?”
Football hooliganism
What is it with Twitter videos and my computer? Always a pain in the ass.
Two French guys pushed each other for a few seconds and talked shit while an opposing player broke them up. I was hoping to see an actual fight but I should have known better because they’re, you know, French.
It got broken up before getting to the fight that would have happened.
croissants at dawn!
And their soccer players…hell neither of them flopped so I don’t even think it counts as a foul
Soccer players are some of the worst trash… and I say that as a fan. What’s that quip? Something like rubgy is a hooligan sport played by gentlemen and soccer is a gentleman’s sport played by hooligans…
Speaking of rugby… IRELAND! IRELAND!! IRELAND!!!
The flanneled fool at the wicked
The muddied oaf at the goal
That one?
Try this.
Twitter videos don’t work on my computer either, but I’m on Linux.
At work again. Finished process A, waiting for other group so I can go on to process E. It will be a long day. At least it’s finally quiet in the office.
I have a hangover. I blame beer, I mean bourbon. Ok, it’s my fault. It’s very, very rare that I get up and drink a beer, Also, extremely rare I have a hangover, but I’ve now had 2 beers. I feel a little better, need to sleep…
Foolish mortal! Go for a Jameson and black coffee with a splash of Bailey’s. That would be a Reptilian Overlord Power Move
Two bottles of Gatorade or one bottle of pedialyte and a bottle of water.
Although I’m not the least bit hungover.
Well I mean if you insist on trying to live forever
If you call that living.
I used to be a pretty serious drinker until that little Hep C episode back in 2005. My body just doesn’t process alcohol the same way anymore. I rarely have more than 2 or 3 drinks at a time these days, which is sad for me but probably good for everyone around me.
For you MMA fans, the Werdum Volkov fight was good. Not sure how long the link with be up.
Goddamnit i hate freezing rain. With rain snow hell even sleet you know where you stand
Just so long as you can still open your doors and it hasn’t fully entombed you, you should be good.
My car is covered in ice. And i think the sidewalk tomorrow will rather dificult to walk on
Turn into a bat and fly to your destination.
News of the suspension soon circulated on social media groups for Lacey and quickly drew hundreds of responses harshly criticizing the district’s action and its policy on weapons, which many called overly broad.
Those students are the chattel property of the school board. Everybody knows that.
More so than even this story lets on. I took a look at their student manual, and it’s a quintessential slaver manifesto. Those poor kids.
“I wish you’d quit being so good to me boss.”
Which one of you is this guy?
That guy’s too prosocial to be one of us.
Not me, animal control usually gets called when I show up to meetings…
That was funny. The point was also a good one. If a guy has a knife, the rest of you are limited to taking cell phone videos and hyperventilating about how “it must be illegal to have a weapon in a classroom.”
Not a switchblade, dipshit.
That is pathetic. Everyone freaking out over the guy who clearly isn’t going to attack them.
McCabe had first earned Trump’s enmity for supervising, for a time, the F.B.I.’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s e-mail practices, which ended without charges being filed against her. In these roles, McCabe behaved with the dignity and the ethics consistent with decades of distinguished service in law enforcement. He played by the rules. He honored his badge as a special agent. But his service threatened the President—both because of the past exoneration of Clinton and the incrimination of Trump, and for that, in our current environment, he had to be punished.
Like Christ on the cross.
That’s as far as I made it. I’m surprised Toobin didn’t swallow his tongue in the middle of that seizure.
In these roles, McCabe behaved with the dignity and the ethics consistent with decades of distinguished service in law enforcement.
Technically correct, since law enforcement has no dignity or ethics.
And we all know technically correct is the best kind of correct.
That was as far as I got. This “established norms” bullshit has to stop. Trump won because the established norms were fucking all of us over. We wanted them gone. Established norms are why Lerner could claim that her laptop drive was broken and there were no backups. Established norms are why Hillary got away with shit that would have sent normies to prison.
This isn’t an article, it’s an op-ed. Toobin seems unwilling to so much as consider McCabe’s judgment was flawed. When other people get punished for having or disclosing classified information without any intention to do so it is still criminal conduct. Oddly enough that same law applies to Her Majesty and we little people are more than a little pissed to see her get a pass. That maybe McCabe didn’t just excuse it but helped to whitewash it and that doing so was an abrogation of his duties. As Pope Jimbo noted above, there is a reason Trump won this election and a lot if had to do with people rejecting the Establishment and tne way they conduct business.
When I went there, they had a very liberal admissions policy (only way I could get in) but very rigorous academics. Consequently, the attrition rate was ridiculously high.
My dad says this is how it was at Ohio State when he was a student there in the early ’50s. Any Ohio resident with a high school diploma could get admitted, but that didn’t mean they could stay. A lot of people never made it past the first semester of their freshman year.
Indeed. I was in a four semester chemistry sequence that all chem and bio majors (UMBC was heavy with pre-med in those days) had to complete. First semester, there were two sections of nearly 1000 students each. End of fourth semester, 45 students.
Wagons were circled
Public blame-shifting among those involved in the project started within hours of the collapse on Thursday. FDOT — led by an appointee of Gov. Rick Scott — issued a “fact sheet” insisting that the agency’s role “was limited to” traffic-control permits, administering funding and authorizing FIU “to utilize the aerial space above the state road.”
“It was not a FDOT project. It was an FIU project,” Scott told reporters the night of the accident. “There will clearly be an investigation to find out exactly what happened, and why this happened. We will hold anybody accountable if anybody has done anything wrong.”
Then, on Friday night, FDOT followed up with two more bombshells. That it had no idea any “stress tests” were being conducted over the busy thoroughfare next to the West Miami-Dade campus, which might have required permits for a road closure.
I believe that. Universities quite often have their own building inspectors. I’ve run into them on a few occasions, they’re usually ignorant and bull-headed.
The legacy media sites have been salivating over the point that Mr. McCabe had made memos of meetings with the President and shared those with Mueller. You can almost feel the musk of ‘We’ve got that scumbag now!’ oozing from their writing.
I may be a dumb hick retired tractor salesman, but if McCabe was fired for lying, doesn’t that make him an unreliable narrator?
Not only that, but his ability to take personal and biased notes doesn’t mean shit without corroboration.
Their accuracy and impartiality could easily be called into question unless Mueller can prove they were written and given to him immediately after the meetings occurred. I’d say McCabe could do that himself except for the fact that his lack of candor under oath might come up when he sits on the stand and states when he wrote them and handed them over.
Got a belly full of meat knish right now, and I’m feeling happy. Dinner was excellent last night: corned beef and cabbage, a large salmon filet with lemon juice, black pepper, smoked salt, and a lot of fresh dill sprigs, and a large hake filet with fresh garlic paste, black pepper, smoked salt, and lemon juice. The fish was cooked at 475 Fahrenheit until perfect. The best part about the salmon is how the deal almost develops a crunch and slightly blackens due to the high heat. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a better quality Stout than Guinness because I was lazy.
In terms of Irish whiskey, tried some gimmicky Jameson product that wasnt half bad. Happy Sunday everyone.
We have a bottle of the Jameson’s IPA caskmates. I think it’s pretty decent, and my girlfriend really likes it.
I tried the IPA as well, but I am very interested to try the Stout version
Frederica Wilson looks ridiculous.
And Jeffrey Toobin is just plain a ridiculous individual with no principles. Every time I used to hear him on CNN it became clear he was more interested in partisanship than actually seeking the truth. In other words, it’s not hard to see he’s a lame ass hack.
if McCabe was fired for lying, doesn’t that make him an unreliable narrator?
How droll.
Somebody on twitter brought up a “they make up the Mt Rushmore of University X sports”. It got me thinking: who is the Mt Rushmore of athletics at any given university and which university has the best one? Need to use multiple sports and bonus points given for groundbreaking achievers being on it.
Aaaand GO!
Joe Paterno and Penn St.
A one-man Mt Rushmore?
And one with a pretty severe black mark on his personal record? That’s a bold pick.
Add Jerry Sandusky with a towel over his shoulder? Or towel whipping?
Is it too soon?
Sandusky’s face is carved on a small foothill out back of the main monument.
Todd Helton
Reggie White
Chamique Holdsclaw
Bernard King
If I only get four and don’t repeat sports.
Peyton Manning
Candice Parker
Willie Gault
Paul Annacone
I’ll give you a fifth if you want to take it. I’ll post mine. From five different sports.
VOLS
Todd Helton
Reggie White
Chamique Holdsclaw
Bernard King
Willie Gault
No Pat Summitt? I know, I know, women’s bball but still, her accomplishments are pretty damn impressive.
What about Peyton Manning? Four-time Citrus Bowl MVP!!!
Jack Nicklaus
Jesse Owens
John Havlicek
Archie Griffin
Kyle Snyder
I can’t imagine any school coming close.
Archie
Jesse
Jack
Jerry Lucas
Frank Howard
I struggled between Lucas and Havlicek. I probably weighed the pro careers more than I should have. But I think Snyder belongs on there now. His list of accomplishments is legendary.
Honestly, I’d never heard of Snyder til this morning…do I get credit for playing softball with Ed Potokar in the 80s?
Only if I get credit for playing pickup
Basketball with Cris Carter during the same decade.
Best wrestler…ever?
He’s staking his claim.
Ok, just watched him whoop up on some wolverine that outweighed him by 60lbs for his third NCAA title. I’m sold. But It’ll have to be six cause I’m not kicking Hondo off my mountain.
Art Schlicter
Andy Katzenmoyer
Maurice Clarret
Richard Lewis
/Bizarro world
Packet fans add B.J. Sander to that list.
Greg Oden
Jeffery Dahmer
Bobby Knight
Me
Question: Does their athletic accomplishments have to be within the confines of the University they attended or can it include success at the professional level?
Pro counts, for sure. But something done that’s never been matched in college will offset a potentially weak or lacking pro career. Say, something like winning the Heisman twice or breaking 5 and tying a 6th world record in a 45 minute time span. And then getting four gold medals in front of YKW.
I could replace Archie with Cris Carter (one of the two best receivers of all time), but two Heismans is two Heismans. And nobody else has ever, or will ever, manage that.
*nods*
Jackie Robinson
Troy Aikman
Lew Alcindor
Jimmy Connors
UCLA.
*Not my school. Badgers suck.
Impressive. Back in the day I didn’t like watching Connors and his style. I was more of a McEnroe type. He was a lefty and uber-talented. And Lendl for some reason.
You could switch out Connors and put in Ashe. Borg was my fav of that era. Connors and McEnroe were brats, but my first racket was a Mack model.
Ashe? So long as they have to put his Mt Rushmore image far enough away from the others that we can pretend it doesn’t count.
-Confederate Memorial Literary Society of Richmond
Borg yeh. I even liked Edberg and Wilander out of the Swedish bunch.
You’re crazy. You meant:
Lonzo Ball
LiAngelo Ball
Lew Alcindor
Jackie Robinson
LaVar Ball (included because he would have been except racism)
-LaVar Ball
Lol. Loved Dad’s interview with Cuomo on CNN.
Norm Stewart
Kellen Winslow
Max Scherzer
Ben Askren
I would have a hard time selecting from four different sports, since TCU didn’t really do much with athletics until this century (in fact, they pretty much stunk in everything). At least one of these is premature, too; but we’ll see how it works.
Davey O’Brien
Ladanian Tomlinson
Jake Arietta
Martina Navratilova
We’re gonna have to tailgate a little bit together on Sept 15.
Jackie Robinson
John Wooden
Florence Griffith-Joyner
Arthur Ashe
Any more silly questions?
Experts say it is not unusual for cracks to appear in a project. Their conjectures have focused on several elements, including the cable-tensioning work, the unusual design of the quick-build bridge, the lack of temporary shoring, and the decision to carry out testing and tightening of structural elements while the road was open to traffic.
Some independent engineers also questioned why a system consisting of a pylon and cable-like support pipes that’s part of the bridge design was left for later. Usually in suspension bridges, the pylon is built first.
But design documents and descriptions on FIU’s website say the pylon was not meant as the principal means of support for the bridge span, which was designed to hold up by itself. Instead, the pylon system was to provide stiffness to the structure, lessen vibration for pedestrians and provide aesthetic bang.
I suspect it will be a long time before we have a legitimate explanation of what happened. I don’t know, but it sounds as if the full span was cast and then moved into place. Picking up a slab of concrete like that and moving it into position sounds like an extremely delicate operation. No twisting or unequal forces permissible.
Transportation and rigging loads weren’t always considered in design fifty years ago, but they have universally been held as primary criteria for decades. Failure to consider them counted as somewhat of a joke when i was in school during Reagan.
They might have botched it, but they knew.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/03/16/video-a-virginia-lawmakers-impassioned-defense-of-gun-rights-blasting-demagogic-counterarguments-n2461609
Seven Powerful Minutes: Virginia Lawmaker Offers Impassioned Defense of Second Amendment
“Until this week, I’d never heard of Nick Freitas, an Iraq war veteran and a Republican member of Virginia’s House of Delegates. But several people have sent me the clip below of his floor speech from earlier this month, in which he strenuously defends the Second Amendment in the wake of the Parkland massacre. He also calls out the anti-gun Left over some of their policy preferences, and especially over their ‘end of discussion’-style debating tactics”.
The sheer intensity of the hoplophobic claptrap on Facebook has been overwhelming this week. How many of these craven, subservient degenerates walk among us, I wonder?
“I disagree with Minister Farrakhan in terms of white people being devils and Jewish people being satanic, and so I disagree with him saying that. But I also protect his right as a free individual to say and do whatever he wants to do, but I disagree with that statement.
Huh. I think if a politician said that about certain people with different beliefs that politician would be vilified. In other news, water is wet.
What’s hilarious (or sad, depending on your perspective), is that he has 10 times the followers of the most notorious white nationalist. Yet white nationalism receives about 10x the coverage of Farrakhan because it’s a
“bigger thing.”
“bigger thing”
autocorrect?
Given his ethnicity, Farrakhan is incapable of racism.
/Leftist.
Uh huh.
I’m genuinely curious about their work. Does NOI actually do something to help parolees reintegrate into society or do they just use them as recruits to their cause and call that a success?
Punch Nazis, libertarians are Nazi sympathetic because they think Nazis should have free speech.
There’s no more sympathetic figure in the eyes of the American people than a career bureaucrat retiring in his 50s and losing part of his pension for lying to the FBI, an offense that would land most regular Americans in prison or financially crippled.
*looks for Matha Stewart’s reaction*
I think I read somewhere that he is 49, so not even in 50s yet. He still has time to accumulate a whole new pension.
What are the odds that a D hires him into some government job and reinstates his pension?
100%. Several have already offered.
from the NJ gun grabber article
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“By law and by morality, the school shouldn’t have the right to do anything about something that happens off school grounds,” Cardinal said. “The boys were lawfully handling a gun at a shooting range.”
A spokeswoman for the Coalition of New Jersey Firearm Owners pointed out that a 10-year-old can legally hunt in New Jersey.
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That should be the end of the discussion right there. Something something burlap sack. Something something ax handle.
Hoplophobic politicians and their abettors in academia will engage in the most nefarious, deceitful activities possible in pursuit of their goal. It doesn’t matter whether their argument is sound by legal, moral, or practical standards. Their aim is the disarmament of the American citizenry, and there’s no more effective way to foster hostility towards firearms than to punish and chastise children for using them, or even thinking and speaking of them.
School officials would have been dragged from their sinecures and tarred and feathered two hundred years ago for their overreach.
The very idea of compulsory schooling would have been absurd back then.
Make Greenland Green Again!!!
Dammit!
If I lived in that school district, I would start up my old FB account again to post pictures of my kids’ breakfasts. This is what I would use for their eggs. And I’d give them extra points for eating poptarts into gun shapes.
Or if I wanted a super big settlement, I’d make them fried egg sandwiches using the egg mold above and send them to school. There is no way they could lay off a provocation like that. I’d be in the money for sure.
My desert pan.
To keep my drinks cool, my ice cube tray.
It can’t be too far off when states create a loophole to prevent these lawsuits by giving school administrators and systems immunity from suits brought by parents of kids who were punished illegally.
They barely need a loophole; the teacher’s union will save their jobs every time. There’s no creature less accountable than a unionized government official.
This is what I would use for their eggs.
That’s quite a trick
Holy cow. Wife has Meet the Press on. Chuck Todd needs a personalist stylist and a tailor. His suit sleeves are so short they pull back above the cuffs. His haircut looks like basic training recruit. WTF? How does anyone take him seriously?
today I learned
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Todd
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Todd attended George Washington University from 1990 to 1994. He declared a major in political science and a minor in music, but never graduated.[5]
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But but but progs have assured me repeatedly that college dropouts are big dumb-dumb losers!
Like many successful people, he owes his career to nepotism:
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Before entering the world of political reporting and analysis, Todd earned practical political experience on initiative campaigns in Florida and various national campaigns based in Washington, D.C.[6] While in college, Todd worked for the 1992 presidential campaign of Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
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Tim Russert brought Todd to NBC from The Hotline in March 2007.[7] He became NBC News’ political director at that time. In this role, Todd often provided on-air political analysis on political discussion shows, including Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Meet the Press, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, and The Rachel Maddow Show[7] and blogged for MSNBC.com at “First Read.”[8] He also did a weekly Question and Answer (“Q&A”) session with users at Newsvine.
After Tim Russert’s death, Todd was a candidate to replace him as the host of NBC’s Meet the Press,[9] but David Gregory was ultimately selected for the job. On December 18, 2008, NBC announced[10] that Todd would succeed Gregory as NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, partnering with Savannah Guthrie on the news beat.
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On October 17, 2016, the Daily Caller wrote a story, based on John Podesta’s hacked emails, that Todd and his wife hosted a dinner party in 2015 for Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton’s communications director. The Caller said that Todd’s wife was working for one of Clinton’s challengers. “The invite is just the latest glaring example of the cozy relationship between mainstream journalists and the Clinton campaign found in the Podesta emails,” the Caller wrote.
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Wait? The dinner invite is the example of the cozy relationship, not that his wife does political campaign work?
“Sleepy eyed Chuck Todd”
According to my model…
Among the chief manifestations of climate change will be changes in precipitation patterns, leading to more drought and more flooding, and spottier water storage. Generally warmer temperatures, not to mention more frequent and severe heat waves, will reduce yields of wine grapes, strawberries and walnuts; shorter chill seasons will make vast areas no longer suitable for chestnuts, pecans, apricots, kiwis, apples, cherries and pears. Plant diseases and pests will move into regions where they haven’t been a problem before.
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Put it all together, and the prospect is for a dramatic change in the mix of California produce and overall output. The UC paper foresees a decline of more than 40% in avocado yields, and as much as 20% in almonds, table grapes, oranges and walnuts. (Wine grape yields will be generally unaffected, but their quality might be compromised.)
Disruption is already evident with some crops in some regions, the paper notes — in truth, dealing with natural variations in weather always has been the hallmark of California farming — but that’s nothing compared to what lies ahead. “The increased rate and scale of climate change,” the researchers say, “is beyond the realm of experience for the agricultural community.”
Doom, destruction, chaos.
I notice they’re rather short on specifics. It’s almost as if they don’t actually have the ability to peer into the future with any clarity.
For some reason, they wrongly assume man will accept his fate of drought/flooding and won’t develop new water storage systems to mitigate to potential problems the new climate patterns (if they really do occur) will create.
Somebody needs to send these dumbshits a picture of the Hoover Dam. Or even Ft Peck Dam if they think Hoover Dam is too ostentatious.
Uhhhh it’s California. The last major dam was completed in 1968 when the population was 19.4M. Today the population is 39.5M. The lefties will permit no new projects as long as they have a stranglehold on power.
Cali has been using more than their allocation of water under the Colorado River Compact. When the upper basin states and NV use all their permitted water then SoCal has a primary water source throttled. It should be fun to see the legal cases going back to the Supremes over that.
They seem to be able to see floods *and* drought.
Playa hardest hit by the drop in avocado production.
If global warming is going to make certain regions too warm for those crops, wouldn’t it logically follow that it would open up others? As Dale Gribble says, “they’ll grow oranges in Alaska”.
Make Greenland Green Again!!!
The author needn’t worry. California’s abysmal water policies have driven most of the avocado industry to Mexico. Sloopy is probably right about developing new/better/improved means of water storage. It will be developed somewhere else and when finally implemented here will be done by unionized bureaucrats.
How does anyone take him seriously?
Why, he is the very paragon of journalistic integrity. He latches onto his prey like a rabid badger. He Asks Serious Questions. And that’s not gleeful Democratic partisanship, that’s just dispassionate sober analysis. You’d know that, if you weren’t such a Rethuglitard Trump Apologist.
“A data analysis firm employed by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign tapped the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission.
The move allowed Cambridge Analytica to capitalize on the private social media activity of a large portion of the U.S. electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on President Trump’s campaign in 2016, according to two major reports on Saturday.
One of the largest data leaks in Facebook history allowed Cambridge Analytica, which had ties to Trump campaign strategist Steve Bannon, to develop techniques that formed the basis of its work on the Trump campaign, The New York Times and The Guardian reported.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5514269/Trump-campaign-hired-analytics-firm-used-50M-Facebook-no-permission.html
A lot of money when they could have achieved the same thing lurking comment sections from about 30 news sites and redit including this one
Question: was it a real Data Leak, or was it just that they were able to use the API in ways people don’t know can be used, and Facebook is retroactively saying, we don’t like that.
Also-
Awareness of the consequences of inaction may help to explain why California Gov. Jerry Brown has emerged as a leader in the fight against climate change. He understands the economic devastation that will result from continued climatic warning, as well as its impact on food security and health.
Last June, when President Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, Brown let him have it with both rhetorical barrels: “This is a crazy decision,” he said during an appearance on CNN. “It’s against the facts, it’s against science, it’s against reality itself.” If we don’t “decarbonize our future,” Brown said, “people are going to die, habitat will be destroyed, seas will rise, insects will spread in areas they’ve never been before. This is not a game.”
Totally serial. We’re all gonna die, and it’s Trumputin’s fault.
If we don’t “decarbonize our future,” Brown said, “people are going to die
Up is down. Commies are always trying to decarbonize the future, usually ending with mass graves. You first, Moonbeam.
Please don’t tempt him. Our stupid voters already approved the Browndoggle, I mean high speed rail.
Is that before or after the Seventh Seal is opened?
“It’s against the facts, it’s against science, it’s against reality itself”
This is the ranting of a religious fanatic
That may be literally correct. Brown dropped out out of seminary and became a politician.
“Professor notes men are taller than women on average, SJWs storm out angrily
Ten days ago I wrote about a panel discussion that took place at Portland State University on the topic of intersectionality as a religion. That panel was actually a follow-up of sorts to another event at the school featuring ex-Google engineer James Damore. I knew about the earlier event but, until yesterday, I hadn’t seen this amazing moment that took place during that discussion. At the mention of a simple anatomical fact (men are on average taller than women) a group of SJW’s got up and stormed out, apparently damaging the sound system on the way to the lobby.
The speaker you’ll see here is biology professor Heather Heying, wife of professor Bret Weinstein. Both Heying and Weinstein left Evergreen State College as part of a settlement deal last year. Heying was making a point about physiological differences between men and women. “Are men taller than women on average?” Heying asked rhetorically. She added, “Does anyone take offense at that fact?””
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/14/professor-points-men-taller-women-average-sjws-storm-angrily/
Evergreen to PSU? Just a difference in degrees. I would have found a saner school if I left under those circumstances.
I’m glad we’ve gone beyond using isolated examples to disprove trends straight to just sticking fingers in ears and going, “LALALALALI’MNOTLISTENINGLALALA!”
Lemonade, anyone?
“Fred Meyer has made a business decision to exit the firearms category,” the company said in a statement, KATU reported. “We are currently working on plans to responsibly phase out sales of firearms and ammunition. We made the decision early last week after evaluating changing customer preferences and the fact that we’ve been steadily reducing this category in our Fred Meyer stores over the last several years due to softening consumer demand. More recently we have been transitioning away from gun departments as a result of our ongoing work to optimize space in our Fred Meyer stores. The firearms category represents about $7 million annually of Fred Meyer’s revenue – and sales continue to decline.”
I’m willing to believe this is just a rational business decision, based on falling sales. You can’t really blame them for trying to put some spin on it. At least they don’t appear to be actively lobbying for new restrictions, like that douchebag from Dick’s.
Douchebag from Dick’s. Good Band name
They were quick to jump on the no sales to 18-20 year olds (and are currently getting sued for it). They also were apparently going to stop carrying gun magazines (the glossy paper kind) that features scary modern sporting arms or military weapons according to a local firearms forum. Despite their origins, Fred Meyer is not a local chain. It’s a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroger.
The declining gun sales they bemoan had to be entirely because of their own actions.
Also Fred Meyer was recently adding gun departments to stores when gun sales boomed over the last 10 or so years. Prior to that only a smaller number of more rural locations still had gun departments.
“Fred Meyer is not a local chain. It’s a wholly owned subsidiary of Kroger.”
Kroger just lost ~$8K in grocery and gas sales a year.
“Karl Marx’s Jew-Hating Conspiracy Theory
Marx didn’t supplant old ideas about money and commerce; he intensified them
For Marx, then, the Jew might as well be the real culprit who told Eve to bite the apple. For the triumph of the Jew and the triumph of money led to the alienation of man. And in truth, the term “alienation” is little more than modern-sounding shorthand for exile from Eden. The division of labor encourages individuality, alienates us from the collective, fosters specialization and egoism, and dethrones the sanctity of the tribe. “Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist,” Marx writes. “Money degrades all the gods of man—and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world—both the world of men and nature—of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.”
Marx’s muse was not analytical reason, but resentment. That is what fueled his false consciousness. To understand this fully, we should look at how that most ancient and eternal resentment—Jew-hatred—informed his worldview.”
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/karl-marxs-jew-hating-conspiracy-theory/
“For Marx, capital and the Jew are different faces of the same monster: “The capitalist knows that all commodities—however shabby they may look or bad they may smell—are in faith and in fact money, internally circumcised Jews, and in addition magical means by which to make more money out of money.”
“In practice, Marxist doctrine is more alienating and dehumanizing than capitalism will ever be. But in theory, it conforms to the way our minds wish to see the world. There’s a reason why so many populist movements have been so easily herded into Marxism. It’s not that the mobs in Venezuela or Cuba started reading The Eighteenth Brumaire and suddenly became Marxists. The peasants of North Vietnam did not need to read the Critique of the Gotha Program to become convinced that they were being exploited. The angry populace is always already convinced. The people have usually reached the conclusion long ago. They have the faith; what they need is the dogma. They need experts and authority figures—priests!—with ready-made theories about why the masses’ gut feelings were right all along. They don’t need Marx or anybody else to tell them they feel ripped off, disrespected, exploited. They know that already. The story Marxists tell doesn’t have to be true. It has to be affirming. And it has to have a villain. The villain, then and now, is the Jew.”
Off the reservation?
The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is acknowledging that Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to fire former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe “may be justified.”
But Rep. Adam Schiff of California is also raising the question of whether it may be “tainted” because of McCabe’s potential role in a probe investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
That probably means McCabe was caught lying and Schiff knows it.
“How Obama school discipline guidelines allowed school shooter to buy gun despite troubling past
The lenient discipline policies stem from an effort to reduce overall numbers and racial disparities in the school-to-prison pipelines by using less severe punishments and limiting law enforcement involvement in school incidents, rather than by working to limit the number of crimes committed at schools through zero-tolerance policies.”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/03/02/how-obama-school-discipline-guidelines-allowed-school-shooter-to-buy-gun-despite-troubling-past
There shouldn’t be zero-tolerance policies or policies based on race.
“Oakland mayor consulted with illegal-immigration activists before tipping off ICE raid
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who sparked national outrage when she undermined a federal immigration raid last month, worked with illegal-immigration activists before she warned the public about the raid– a move that ICE said led to hundreds of illegals evading detention.
Schaaf took to Twitter to warn the public about the raid, and has stood by her decision despite a number of hardened criminals being caught — and ICE officials warning that potentially hundreds of other criminals escaped as a consequence of the tipoff.
“It is Oakland’s legal right to be a sanctuary city and we have not broken any laws,” Schaaf said in a statement last month. “We believe our community is safer when families stay together.””
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/16/oakland-mayor-consulted-with-illegal-immigration-activists-before-tipping-off-ice-raid.html
So arrest and prosecute her.
What would happen if an assault weapons ban were passed with no grandfather clause, the ATF started going to the homes of registered owners to seize banned guns, and the local mayor decided to warn owners ahead of time so that they could hide their guns?
“Cam Newton and Russell Westbrook’s Symbolic Resistance to Whiteness in the NFL and NBA
Using critical rhetorical analysis (McKerrow, 1989) as a method of analysis and critique, and informed by critical whiteness studies (Nakayama & Krizek, 1995) and Black feminist thought (Collins, 1992), this project argues that NFL North Carolina Panthers’ quarterback Cam Newton and NBA Oklahoma City Thunder’s point guard Russell Westbrook rhetorically perform an alternative Black masculinity that symbolically contests whiteness’s surveillance of male bodies who occupy Black positionality in the NFL and NBA via their performance of cool pose (Majors & Billson, 1992). Focusing on news and sports media coverage in the 2015–2016 season, this project also interrogates whiteness’s strategies to reconstitute Newton and Westbrook’s expressions of cool pose by inscribing Black masculinity with belittling and dehumanizing controlling images that favor whiteness and White masculinity. This manuscript closes with a discussion of the harmful repercussions of whiteness’s strategies in pro sports as well as the possibilities that athletes like Newton and Westbrook bring forth for social justice initiatives.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10646175.2018.1439421
wut?
Gibberish is how one gets published in academia today. They used to use facts until facts were determined to be racist and homophobic.
Translation: They dress like fags and their shit is all retarded? Black power!
The whole point is to be inscrutable.
Elsewhere, but releated, here’s somebody bitching that too many walk-on athletes are white.
“Towards a truer multicultural science education: how whiteness impacts science education
The hope for multicultural, culturally competent, and diverse perspectives in science education falls short if theoretical considerations of whiteness are not entertained. Since whiteness is characterized as a hegemonic racial dominance that has become so natural it is almost invisible, this paper identifies how whiteness operates in science education such that it falls short of its goal for cultural diversity. Because literature in science education has yet to fully entertain whiteness ideology, this paper offers one of the first theoretical postulations. Drawing from the fields of education, legal studies, and sociology, this paper employs critical whiteness studies as both a theoretical lens and an analytic tool to re-interpret how whiteness might impact science education. Doing so allows the field to reconsider benign, routine, or normative practices and protocol that may influence how future scientists of Color experience the field. In sum, we seek to have the field consider the theoretical frames of whiteness and how it might influence how we engage in science education such that our hope for diversity never fully materializes.”
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/975007283636834304
“Since whiteness is characterized as a hegemonic racial dominance that has become so natural it is almost invisible”
How convenient!
“Romanian court tells man he is not alive
Constantin Reliu, 63, fails to overturn 2003 death certificate because he appealed too late
In a case reminiscent of a Kafka novel, a Romanian court has ruled that a 63-year-old man is dead despite what would appear to be convincing evidence to the contrary: the man himself appearing alive and well in court.
Constantin Reliu asked the court in the town of Barlad to overturn a death certificate obtained by his wife after he had spent more than a decade in Turkey, during which time he was out of contact with his family. The court told him he was too late, and would have to remain officially deceased.
“I am officially dead, although I’m alive,” a bemused Reliu told local media outlets. “I have no income and because I am listed dead, I can’t do anything.””
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/16/romanian-court-tells-man-he-is-not-alive
Is he still married then?
Sounds like a setup for a Gilbert & Sullivan opera…
Just like OMWC, commies like to start them young.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/18/kindergarten-gun-control-walkout-cmon-man/
“As it turns out, the teachers who organized this event didn’t inform the parents aside from a post on Facebook and even the school administrators were left in the dark. To defend their actions and make this seem a bit less preposterous, they described it as a “safety drill.” Now, if that’s all that was going on it wouldn’t be a problem. There are already fire drills and similar emergency preparedness routines in schools and having the kids practice in case they need to evacuate because of an active shooter situation or any other threat is a sensible idea.
But that’s obviously not what was going on here. Check out this brief video from the local CBS outlet. You’ll see the toddlers not only chanting “we love school,” but standing by the side of the street and cheering as cars go by. Also, as reported by the school crossing guard, the teachers were holding up signs that read “Enough” and encouraging motorists to honk their horns.”
Ridiculous.
“it is almost invisible,”
In other words, unless I were here to point it out to you, you probably wouldn’t notice.
PANIC
“Parenting Doesn’t Matter
We’re all terrified we’re going to mess up our kids. The science says we probably won’t have much impact at all.”
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/03/parenting-doesnt-matter-that-muchas-long-as-you-dont-do-anything-super-weird.html
https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/974677444883083264
Would.
::rocks hand in ‘undecided’ motion::
Sometimes yes, but I’d lie about my name, address and anything else that might make me traceable.
Holy lips, Batman! Would would would.
Oh hell yes.
“soypremacists”
boner lost
“To Stop Climate Change, Educate Girls and Give them Birth Control
The link between the education of girls and a smaller carbon footprint isn’t as intuitively obvious as, say, phasing out fossil fuels. But dig a little deeper, and the evidence is overwhelming. It’s clear that getting more girls into school, and giving them a quality education, has a series of profound, cascading effects: reduced incidence of disease, higher life expectancies, more economic prosperity, fewer forced marriages, and fewer children. Better educational access and attainment not only equips women with the skills to deal with the antagonizing effects of climate change, but it gives them influence over how their communities militate against it.”
https://www.wired.com/story/to-stop-climate-change-educate-girls-and-give-them-birth-control/
‘Batman’ who ate Chipotle for 500 days straight says he’s ready for something new
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/03/17/batman-who-ate-chipotle-for-500-days-straight-says-hes-ready-for-something-new.html
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‘Batman’ must have gotten tired of paying extra for guacamole.
Bruce Wayne, an Ohio man who documented his journey of eating at Chipotle every day for 500 days straight, said he has had enough of the burrito giant and is ready to eat something new.
Wayne ended his streak in style, by donning the “Cape Crusader’s” suit and ordering three mini chicken quesadillas at the Chipotle in Tiffin, Ohio, the Findlay Courier reported. He said he would “finish the challenge as I started it, and that’s in the bat-suit.”
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So how many stomach bugs did he get?
500
” an Ohio man who documented his journey of eating at Chipotle every day for 500 days straight”
somehow i am guessing this will not end up being made into a movie
i declare this an offense to analogies (throws foul flag)