I delayed having raclette, to bring you links!
So, SEA SMITH went AWOL on link duty…Well, I am back from my mini-vacation to bring some ORDER to the Links. We will have links, with actual links in them. And they will work:
- I take grave personal offense at the choice of store this group of banditti attacked! But the mood was lightened by reading “Detectives from the Flying Squad and police in Westminster continue to investigate.” As a Monty Python fan, all I could think of was Inspector Thompson’s Gazelle of the Programme Planning Police, Light Entertainment Division, Special Flying Squad.
- Attention, Rick and Morty fans. If you are in the LA area in October…check this out.
- Florida Woman… Cop. Well, not a cop now.
- Standing athwart energy exports and progress and shouting “¡No!”
OK, now all is right with the Glibs.
No mention of the coppers mines though.
Also, take a gander at this reprint of a book from 1880 on Amazon, pay close attention to the ‘about the author’ blurb.
time traveler?
Can he take Wil Wheaton with him too?
If only.
It would be cheaper to digitize it.
Scientist? Not to be an accreditation snob but does he deserve that moniker?
Well, he does have six ‘honorary doctorates’ — probably given to him when he gave a commencement speech or something like that.
So he’s got PhDs in sciencyness! Certainly that qualifies him to call himself a scientist, yes?
So Mexico’s going leftist, eh? It’s like they’re giving Trump more ammunition for his big, beautiful southern border wall.
Wow. They fired that cop. I’m actually surprised.
Also, would.
Unrelated to this comment, but from previous one, if you are interested in an AR-15 in 7.62×39, I use only C Products magazines and have had no feed problems with them.
It’s still on my want list. Thanks.
Someone wanted her gone and was looking for a reason.
I know. I thought “reverse drunk driving” would be driving sober.
She probably was looking for reverse vampires.
Definite wood. That’s a sexy fuzz
Was Q taking the mugshot?
I thought the same thing. I assumed the union would jump in the way.
Standing athwart energy exports and progress and shouting “¡No!”
Shouldn’t they be shouting “¡Pará!”?
London needs common sense sword control!!!!11!!!1!11!1
And the residents of the UK completely miss the point and beg for more government:
Oh my God.
Imagine how much worse it would have been if they had a gun!!
Well, just let me ask you this. Could Bruce Lee have killed 500 people with a sword in like 30 seconds? Are you kidding me? He killed that many with his feet and hands more quickly! We need common sense karate control!
Maybe we should all be required to quarter authorities in our homes to make sure we don’t misuse our limbs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NRquaeH8kfQ
moped gang?
need vespa control.
i thought i was being silly.
Right? Unbelievable.
I thought it was the opposite of being silly, it made me feel bad and I moped around the house.
Total gyp that there was no footage of a chase.
Damn Mods.
I prefer Venture Brother over Rick and Morty, but they both take forever between seasons.
yep!
Wouldn’t reverse drunken driving be sober driving?
I think the
poor little hottieworse than Hitler drunk driver was just tying to sober up by going back in time.That was her plan if she is the woman I hope she is. Would.
If she had ridden a horse, would it have been “reverse cowgirl?”
One oft-repeated guideline in writing-classes was, ‘always use fewest words necessary to be accurate’
it seems sometimes that journalists went to some different program, where the opposite is taught: “take simple terms, like “sword”, and stir them around in a bowl of unnecessary adjectives and qualifiers until they are coated with a crispy layer of confusion.”
the journalist: you say it was a sword”
‘motorist’: ay, right proper sword, just like right back there in the road
journalist: ‘what type of sword do you believe it was’
‘motorist’: what type of sword? do i look like sir fucking lancelot to you? a proper sword. like they got in them museums’
journalist: you visit museums often?
‘motorist’: oy, now you’re being a right cheeky cunt
-1 farcical aquatic ceremony
Always add scary intensifiers. If using them would be a lie, use “-style” after the scary intensifier. E.g. “assault-style” weapon.
So, for the gaming enthusiasts here, I’m not sure we have many. Right now, I’m trying to buy a 1080 ti from a guy I met online… Anyway, he bought it a month ago and it’s still in the box, and he has all the receipts. It’s a Gigabyte card. I’ve been using MSI, but I did have Gigabyte way back when I had my 660s. Anyway, he apparently bought it and now needs money, we’ve been going back and forth and have settled on $860. I think that’s probably at least $50 above the original price before bit coin miner dumbshits trashed the Nvidia GPU market. Why didn’t they also trash the AMD GPU market? Because AMD GPUs suck ballz, just like their CPUs. The card is $999 on Amazon right now. Remaining in the PC master race is getting expensive. And I need to upgrade my board and CPU and I just bought a tempered all glass case that was not cheap, but it’s purty. I’m not sure I’m going to mess with liquid cooling right now, I just don’t have that sort of time on my hands.
What’s a CPU? Crowning Poop Unicorn like when your ass sees the toilet and makes its own mind up when you really have to go?
Damn you, luddites.
Today is my Friday so forgive all the stupid shit I type. Tonights beer. Four went really quickly while I prepped up some gumbo.
Porter… nummy, I have to try it
I only play games after they’ve been out a few years, lets me take longer on upgrades. But I am in sore need of one, though have not the cash monnies.
Well, it’s been about 3 years since I have upgraded. Which makes my PC equivalent to a car produced in 1988. I would like to try an i9 CPU, but holy shit are they expensive. I’m not that rich, yet…
I was gonna say I had a TI computer a few decades ago. Supposedly there were even “games” for it.
EVGA or GTFO.
Man, nVidia has been sitting fat and happy for a while now. This cryptocurrency insancy basically guarantees that their cards are going to be stupid expensive (they’ve just been crazy expensive before) for the next couple years.
I consider EVGA inferior to MSI or Gigabyte, or even ASUS GPUs. Apparently, Nvidia are well aware of the issue and are going to try correcting the market,l by some means… I’m not holding my breath. I think for the near future, if you want to buy a high end Nvidia GPU, you are going to have to pay too much for it.
I’m on my 5th EVGA card and pleased with it. I used to have ATI cards, back before they got bought by AMD.
AMD… yeah, just no. It’s like I’m not going to buy a AMD processor, Intel or GTFO, I’m only talking about the maker of the Nvidia card. I think that MSI makes the best GPUs, but I like Gigabyte also. I had one EVGA and didn’t have such a good experience with it. Sort of like Acer monitors, learned my lesson with saving a few bucks on that one.
I’m in a similar fix because of the bitcoin miner tards. It’s got me coming and going, actually, because I have bitcoin I want to use to buy a graphics card and some other stuff (it’s pretty much found money) but the market’s in a slump. So not only is the bitcoin not worth enough, but the damned cards are ridiculously expensive because of bitcoin miners. And for whatever reason the supply isn’t keeping up.
The gold rush has come and gone. The time for mining bitcoin has passed. Maybe some other cryto currencies, but not bitcoin. It’s now more expensive to mine than it’s worth.
Ermh, I guess you haven’t taken a gander at the prices of the RX Vega 56 or 64 lately?
I wonder how many jobs the oil industry in Mexico generated after the end of Pemex’s monopoly? No joy on stats for that with a quick search, but having foreign companies invest in your country is terrible. The jobs created servicing that project are Mexican jobs. Oh the horror that an oil company might make some money.
I wonder what cut of the auction proceeds will revert to American firms whose investments were nationalized to create Pemex in the first place.
I’m totally okay with trade and normalization with Cuba as soon as Bacardi is made whole…with interest.
That is the thing with lefties screaming nationalization of a sector. Who is going to invest there now that there might be a chance that knuckle head starts calling the shots. I don’t know the history of Pemex but nothing would surprise me when it comes to nationalizing an industry. And how did that work out? As to cuts of auctions going to American firms, meeeh whatever, unless they broke contracts to do that. Play in the third world get fucked over in the third world. It is not the third world for nothing.
Related:
Ozzy man makes raclette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0lUlOne3s&t=4s
Alright, I’m assembling my team, So far it’s My son and myself, maybe Hayek, who else is with me? the Great SlabCity Adventure is on! Danger! Fun! Beer!
Actually I’m kind of doing an an anthropological thing, checking out other ways of living, but, PARTY?
What and where is SlabCity?
I assume this
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California
If I were out west, you could count me in.
I never got into Rick and Morty. Metalocalypse was a fantastic show, though. It really spoke to me
So disappointed that we never got a final story after the Doomstar Requiem opera. Still worth following up with Brendon Small’s ‘Galaktikon.’ (youtube, etc).
I never saw that. I’ll check it out
Probably easier on Amazon Prime (small fee, permanent digital ownership) than importing the blu-ray from Australia – which I may still do in the future? Why no US release? I have no idea.
That’s for Doomstar Requiem. I dunno if you’ve seen that – There are now two Galaktikon metal concept albums – but only one extended music video so far – and 5 issues out of a 6 issue comic book miniseries for the first album from Eric Powell’s “Exploding Albatross Funny Books” indy publisher.
I’m going to go on the record here. May it be known to all-
I fucking hate doing plumbing work
It’s a Shitty job, but it must be done, been there Bro…
Euphemism?
Not really, What happens is they get good people from the other trades to”help” out, they know we can do the job in our sleep, so they lean on us when the going get’s tight,
“Get’s”? What kind of a monster are you? :-p
Gets!
I much prefer electrical and even carpentry to plumbing (not that I’m any good at any of them). Plumbing is an exercise in frustration.
We had to replace the temperature regulator thing or whatever it’s called for the shower last summer. If you turned the water to cold, you’d get no water; turn it past a particular point and all you’d get is scalding hot water. Ultimately the whole shower head and bath faucet had to be replaced. Taking out the old one with 40 years of iron build-up was fun. And of course, the new kit didn’t turn out to be the same size as the old one….
Three months before that Dad had to redo the sink and had the same problem with the kit not fitting properly.
I did a bit of that this weekend. Luckily the only thing needed was a plunger. What is with people and a half a roll of paper? Do they do that at home or just public places to be a dick?
If they have to use public facilities, they probably are in some sort of gastrointestinal distress. Voila! Lots o’ paper.
It was a gun show so everybody was in gastrointestinal distress and the odors coming from the bathrooms proved it but only one asshole used half a roll of toilet paper that blocked up a toilet.
Probably some sort of sexual fetish then.
A proper fetishist would put the tp in xer bra.
Water and electricity don’t mix.
Pumps, Sir
If you want to wear shoes with heels, feel free.
If that is what came to mind, you have the problem TedS
NTTAWWT
Oh, I was just thinking of a way to make a little joke. I’m sorry my humor is so much more erudite than yours. :-p
Pure water is an insulaor.
Distilled, FTW
The only thing worse than plumbing is plumbing on Sunday.
or talking about it….
My drain from my sink to my septic is stopped up. I have clean out vents in my yard. It’s no big deal to run a water hose into them to break up the blockage, but…
I end up with nasty ass water from the sewer all over me.
This particular plumbing job hasn’t been as bad as others. I tore my back bathroom apart and re done everything in itit a few years ago. The plumbing part was the worst. Mostly because I’m not a plumber. I went to the hardware store and bought every fitting I needed to do the job. Then I found out a few hours later I needed a few fittings I hadn’t thought of. I went and got them only to discover a few hour later that there was another fitting I needed that I didn’t have. That’s my main bitch about plumbing. It always takes me 3 trips to the store to get everything I need, even for a fairly simple job.
That;s why You’re an Electrician, and I’m a an HVAC mechanic,
We can do other stuff, but let’s face it, give it to the pros sometimes
Aw, Yusef. I’m entirely too prideful to ever leave anything to the pros, at least on my dime. I always fix my own shit. Always have, always will. That’s why I’m me.
Pex and Shark Bite products are your friend.
from earlier thread:
I thought our sports Rushmore was for players, not coaches;
Pat Summit played at Martin, not Knoxville.
I prefer women’s basketball to men’s,
so Holdsclaw was on my list and Parker was an honorable mention.
The mount rushmore of sport player would have to include two horrible players.
Lincoln and Roosevelt were piss poor presidents.
What? Without Lincoln we don’t get Sherman!
/JK
Tanks.
When Bob Hope visited the troops, they gave him some tanks for the memories.
Ah, gotcha. Sloopy didn’t specify if they had to be solely athletes or just involved with the athletics departments in general. That’s why I added Stormin’ Norm Stewart to my list for Mizzou.
I spent yesterday putting in the new dishwasher. Had to go to the store for a union because the water inlet was female not male on the DW. And needed a T20 screwdriver for the kickpanel. And the counter framework had a piece of wood blocking the new DW from sliding in. Chipped it as much as I could since it’s too flush to get a saw on it but still has a visible gap at the top. Gah!
Next plumbing projects are a bathroom sink drain that’s draining slowly. Not sure if the pipe is clogged or it’s just the stopper not going all the way up. And a bathtub (single handle) that doesn’t put out enough hot water because of the antiscald “feature”. Fuck you Congress.
Spoiler
Wow! Another bracket-buster…
Cop Mistakes Ashes of Man’s Dead Daughter for Drugs, Spills Them Out in His Car
took my last reason to get up in the morning.
So they were drugs.
Zing. Heartless, but, Zing.
That’s like something out of a John Candy movie.
Hero
“Mistakes”. That’s cute.
New copy pasta material for HM.
John O. Brennan
Verified account
@JohnBrennan
Follow Follow @JohnBrennan
More John O. Brennan Retweeted Donald J. Trump
When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America…America will triumph over you.
Fuck your “America”
That does have some poetic elements as I read it. I know fuck all about poetry though unless it has a certain metric and the rhyme is Nantucket.
Poor lil’ Andy McCabe. 🙁
Thought I accidentally sent an email to the entire organization. I mean to every person in country. Tried to recall it, not sure if it was successful. Sick to my stomach with embarrassment.
Found out I did not send an email to the entire organization, just the intended audience. Thank God.
Fuck Mondays.
Not all Mondays. Vacation here! Wife at work and daughter at school. What to do, what to do.
Sit and enjoy the quiet? That’s what I usually do when the house is empty.
That’s my situation, too, only I’ve got off until Thursday. Tuesday and Wednesday will be a viewing and a funeral, though, so not quite a vacation.
If you have some time, Painfotainment is what I’m listening to now. Stomach churning stuff that reminds me that every person has what Solzhenitsyn describes: “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being”. Good stuff.
Drink?
I don’t know how many of you Glibs are rap aficionados. Tomorrow AM, I’m gonna be riding dirty.
Long story short, my truck tags expired in February. I use my truck mostly as a farm vehicle, so the tag expiration was something that slipped by me. Tomorrow AM I’m gonna take my truck and an eighteen foot trailor to work so that when I leave I can pick up the metal for my roof. Wish me luck, I have to take my illegal vehicle through Barling tomorrow, and I hate the pigs in that town.
But that’s super illegal! I can’t even
Breakin’ the Law https://g.co/kgs/SPLLk1
Good call on the video.
We are referring to this, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw
I don’t know how many of you Glibs are rap aficionados. Tomorrow AM, I’m gonna be riding dirty.
One “e” added to that sentence and you’ve got it right.
STEVE SMITH AGREES
You need to have a buddy with a Trans Am run interference for you.
Especially if you’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there.
I drove for months on expired tags, and I only found out because I got pulled over. The cop wrote me a ticket for the tags but told me that if I buy new ones and bring the receipt to court, they’ll waive the fine (which they did).
Crack a beer and/or spark a doobie and enjoy these spectacular lingerie laden señoritas.
http://archive.is/ogvCl
Trying to pick any numbers is impossible. Orgy.
Men and women are basically the same is what I get out of that. I don’t see any reason why any of those people couldn’t self identify as male.
Having fantasies about #8. I think I die at the end.
I wuz takin care of our baby, but then I got high.
Half-baked dad Josh Perez, 26
Ah, good old NY Post journalism at work.
I like the story featured next to it, “Tourist Walks into Red Sea and Gives Birth”. Oh, the color imagery! The allegory!
The fact that these newspapers seem to have an endless supply of this stuff always amazes me.
Good Samaritans: undoing Darwin every day.
My weakness as a libertarian is for children: eliminating government social programs hits the innocent. I’m not sure what I’m willing to spend, what the right answers are, or whether we can trust private humanitarian agencies to fill the gap.
I have the governemnt close to 40k of my money last year. I would be more than happy to spend half that actually helping children, instead of actively harming them as our government does.
Sometimes I hate the NY Post’s ridiculous tabloidiness – not to mention their recent wobbliness over guns – but every once in a while they get it exactly right.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Holy shit, the dude is his own Onion article.
Exercising state power is the goal. Who cares if they created the problem. Also, The NY Post has that tabloid feel, but at least they don’t pretend to be something they aren’t. WaPo and the NYT employ strict selection bias, yet they put on the air of objectivity. Much worse IMO.
Raclette is my favorite cheese.
That woman cop just drank and pissed away a 20 year career. Wonderful.
Mexico the next Venezuela?
It does point the way towards a possible solution to the coming state and local bankruptcy apocalypse. If the only way to get a budget-busting pubsec employee out of your wallet is to liquor them up, well… duty calls.
I took this pic this weekend. I did a search on how many states have this law and I came across this. Interesting CO is the one green state in the middle. How did that happen?
Columbine, and the movie theater shooting.
And all the colonizers from CA and similar origins.
Ya, those set the “we have to do something” people off a bit. I preferred it back in olden times when we blamed the murderers.
Californian Invasion? I feel that Washington is lost to the coastal madness. We have slipped to full Democrat state control. Looks like it is time to pick up my business and I and move the 30 miles to Idaho.
Aaaah, you are an east of Spokaner.
Colorado is still very good for carrying
and on a side note, I did imgur so Playa wouldn’t show up and ask to see my wedding dress pics on my pintrest account. Do you have any idea how hard it is to type the same password twice to open an imgur account after six vanilla porters?
“Loophole” is anything that allows a legal means to acquire a firearm.
Oh hey 60 Minutes has the Florida gun-grabber kids on.
Anyone else watch/watching this? TBH I’m too drunk and this is too stupid to properly rip on.
Your 60 Minutes are up.
Who watches worm journalism?
Oh too bad I missed it. Damn.
Derpiest moment (paraphrased and keeping in mind that I watched this on a closed-captioned TV at a bar):
60 Minutes interviewer: “You’ve raised $3 million dollars, mostly from Hollywood people and established gun-control groups like Bloomberg. How do you make sure you’re not just doing what they tell you to do?”
Florida kid: “Well they can’t control us because we won’t let them.”
It’s a symbiotic relationship. To say that the kids are being controlled by ‘handlers’ is almost to excuse them for naiveté. They’re as knowingly opportunistic as the groups that have backed them, and benefiting as much or more.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the “kids” are opportunists here as well.
My brain slug tells me I’m an independent thinker.
A neighbor emailed this story this afternoon. Probably been around for awhile, but still good for a laugh, especially with recent events:
_________-
A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas, and talked with
an old rancher. He told the rancher, “I need to inspect your
ranch for illegally grown drugs.”
The rancher said, “Okay, but don’t go in that field over
there…..”, as he pointed out a distant location.
The DEA officer verbally exploded, saying, ” Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me!”
Reaching into his rear pants pocket, he removed his badge and proudly displayed it to the rancher.
“See this badge?! This badge means I am allowed to go
wherever I fucking wish…. on ANY land!! No questions asked or answers given!! Have I made myself
clear…… do you understand???”
The rancher nodded politely, apologized, and went about his chores.
A short time later, the old rancher heard loud screams, looked up and saw the DEA officer running for his life,
being chased by the rancher’s enormous Santa Gertrudis bull……
With every step the bull was gaining ground on the officer, and it seemed likely that the officer would be
gruesomely gored before he reached safety. The man was clearly terrified.
The rancher threw down his tools, ran to the fence and yelled at the top of his lungs…..
“Your badge…….. show him your Fucking BADGE!!”
+1 Ass forfeiture.
That’s great.
Lena Dunham’s ex with a *massive* upgrade.
https://10ztalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/jack-antonoff-with-model-carlotta-kohl-at-basketball-game.jpg
what’s the big deal: Lena’s right there in the row behind; all’s good
Well he dated Scarlett Johansson, so…
Who?
*googles, wishes he hadn’t*
Moral relativism.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/11/how-amorality-thrives-on-college-campuses/
Feature, not bug.
I give the new batch of thieves and thugs a little credit at least for trying to close the obvious contradictions in their philosophy. The 60’s, 70’s and 80’s redistributionists would claim to “judge a person based on the content of his character”, but would then advocate things like affirmative action and massive government programs that funneled money to groups based on anything but character.
I’m not sure where you get redistribution from that.
IF that anecdote is true, and it is written by an Okie so take that for what it is worth, it is because some people claim these days that beating your 13 year old wife, or forcefully chucking it up the 12 year old boy who cleans your quarters is hunky dory if it is in your culture. Some cultures need to be told they are fucked up and to fuck off from civil society.
Also, how do you that story and not identify with the person whose kid is getting killed? Even if you don’t put yourself in the victim’s shoes, how the can you not imagine your child being in the victim’s shoes? Pure evil ideology.
That is chilling.
Broke out some Collective Soul today after a month of Irish music.
I did a double takecthe first time I heard the line, “…and I want somebody to shove, I want somebody to shove me….” That was brilliant.
I checked that out. One of those times I go “They did that?” i also just learned Goo Goo Dolls did Slide and Iris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsSzsOvojko&t=10s Thought some of you would like to know this is still there. Robby missed the links. Hope it works
Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy like.
The last line always gets me something in my eye.
WTF is going on? Don’t any of you lazy fucks work?
Get up, you lazy fucks, it’s big day lite! Ok, it’s actually really dark still here in real time, but somewhere on the planet it’s lite out. You lazy fucks!
I blame the patriarchy. If not for the privilege, you lazy fucks would be up and productive by now.
You’re an hour early.
extra early links
DC council member apologizes after blaming snowfall on Jewish bankers controlling climate
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/18/dc-council-member-apologizes-after-blaming-snowfall-on-jewish-bankers-controlling-climate.html
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A Washington D.C. council member apologized Sunday evening after he blamed a snow squall on a well-known Jewish banking dynasty.
In an Instagram post, Democrat Trayon White apologized to “the Jewish Community and anyone I have offended.”
White made the comments on a Facebook video which was shot Friday morning through the windshield of a car driving through downtown Washington during snowfall.
“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man,” White said, according to The Washington Post. “Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation.”
“And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man,” he added. “Be careful.”
The Rothschilds are a European family that once possessed the largest private fortune in the world. Their banking businesses provided the financing for government projects such as the Suez Canal. Their wealth and influence has made them the subject of several conspiracy theories, most of which are anti-Semitic.
“I did not intend to be Anti-Semitic [sic], and I see I should not have said that after learning from my colleagues,” White said. He added that he was working to “understand the history of comment [sic] made against Jews.”
White was elected to the D.C. city council in 2016. He represents Ward 8 in the city, the seat once held by controversial former Mayor Marion Barry.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/18/hillary-clinton-tries-to-explain-her-comments-on-trump-voters-after-backlash.html
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Clinton’s original comments drew backlash from Democrats, among them Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, who told “Fox News Sunday” that the former secretary of state’s remarks were “not helpful.”
“Thirty percent of the people who voted for Donald Trump had voted for President Obama,” Durbin pointed out. “Why? The same people who looked for change with President Obama thought there wasn’t enough as far as their personal lives were concerned and they supported Donald Trump.
“That is a reality that Democrats acknowledge.”
***
I always wondered what that number was. 30%. Team Blue is in big trouble.
Who could have seen this coming?
“A man with a violent criminal record is suing a battered women’s shelter for refusing to take him in…after getting drunk and becoming belligerent. So he went to a battered women’s shelter and demanded entry, claiming he identified as a woman. The battered women’s shelter is a faith based organization and it denied him entry. The man, you should know, does not appear to have taken steps to legally change his name nor to have surgery to conform to his supposed gender identity.”