I have taken some flak recently about putting too much spice into the links, and requested to tone down the flavor. And eliminate the wine, which is a horrible beverage having distractingly large amounts of flavor. So today, I’m keeping it soft and bland, just to not offend anyone. If the prose is disturbing, then look at the nice, bland images to relax and calm the sensory overload. And I will not mention the delightful Dolcetto d’Alba that SP, Webdominatrix, and I drank last night with their welcome home dinner. That said, on to the news of the day, with the usual snark, though toned down out of consideration for sensitive Glibs.
As astroturfed high schoolers get wall-to-wall media coverage in their desire to have kind and gracious government calmly and reasonably disarm it citizens in complete defiance of the constitution, they unsurprisingly claim that their voices are being stifled. Yeah, the cops came in and quashed the demonstrations immediately and TV news crews stayed resolutely away. Suuuure.
“I don’t like fearing that I’m going to die walking into school every day and I don’t like telling my mom that I’m afraid I’m going to die walking into school – I feel like change should happen,” 14-year-old freshman Alex Barbro said.
I agree, Alex. And the first change I’d suggest is mandatory courses in probability theory and a good dose of training in Pareto analysis. Some reading of Hayek might be nice, but that might be a bridge too far.
There’s a stereotype that (((we))) tend to be smarter than average. If you want a counter-argument, look no further than this. A sample gem:
In the US, while gun advocates say weapons are needed for self-defense, it is hard to avoid the impression that guns have become something of a hobby or a sport. Shooting is an activity many brag about. Just witness the many videos posted on social media showing Americans at gun ranges shooting all types of firearms, and in their backyards, demonstrating the merits or drawbacks of a recently acquired handgun.
The horrors! Of course, there’s all the usual stupidity- the assumption that school shootings are epidemic, the conflation of random nutjob stuff with targeted killings over girls and drugs, the culture of inner cites versus rural… but the shock and surprise that there are people who find guns to be fun is absolutely precious.
Here’s a tale of a happy family with multigenerational togetherness. Surprisingly, it’s not Florida.
Do NOT fuck around when people in a state with legal weed get the munchies.
Those wacky scientists, always getting baffled by the stupidest shit.
Old Guy Music! I’ve recently discovered Courtney Hartman, who does fantastic country, bluegrass, and folk, while having an image that is not exactly mainstream Nashville. That’s a compliment. Anyway, here’s a delightful solo cover of a Tom Petty favorite, and for my usual embedded video, a duet with the great Robert Ellis. I really love how smoothly and effortlessly they trade off the shredding. Sorry, this one isn’t bland.
BROOKLYN, NYC, USA, 2023
(BROOKLYN WOMAN, bending down to pick up a sock, sees light flickering under her son’s door, and hears muffled sounds. Mildly irritated, she turns the knob to enter.)
BROOKLYN WOMAN: You know the rules kid; it’s a school ni–
(BROOKLYN BOY, 8 years old, small for his age, is lying on the bed in his underpants. His laptop is open. At BROOKLYN WOMAN’s interruption, the boy’s eyes widen into a panic; he grabs the laptop immediately, clicking and typing furiously.)
(BROOKLYN WOMAN’s eyes widen too. The laundry drops from her hands, but she instantly recovers her nerves and rushes over to grab the laptop before BROOKLYN BOY can close it.)
BROOKLYN WOMAN: (examines computer screen, opens browser window) What is this? (reading) “Three HUNG Black Muscle Thugs, Three Sexy Big Dick Blatina Trannies, and Furry with HUGE Strap On DESTROY Tight Pink Hole of Cute Little Twink RAW NO CONDOM”?
(A beat.)
BROOKLYN WOMAN: (smirks) I wasn’t born yesterday, kid. (grabs mouse; clicks “Browser History”)
(The smirk falls from BROOKLYN WOMAN’s face at once. She collapses back, almost falling before finding her way into a chair.)
BROOKLYN BOY: (searching for words) Ma, I–
BROOKLYN WOMAN: (shaking) “A Message From–Dana Loesch?”
(BROOKLYN WOMAN collapses into tears. BROOKLYN BOY turns away and sobs.)
That’s good. Really, really good.
Oh thank God someone said something. I’ve been sweating my balls off this whole time that this had been too tasteless for Glibs; as you might imagine, this is not a pleasant possibility to entertain about yourself.
I larfed also.
Captures nicely the twisted values of urban proglodytism. Well done!
“too tasteless for Glibs”
LOL
Uffda. Seconded
You are new around these parts aren’t you Diego?
Did we not jump you in with the usual round of “Fuck off Tulpa” and mandatory SF Hat & Hair reading?
I’ve been sweating my balls off this whole time that this had been too tasteless for Glibs
Bahahahahahahahahaha.
Really?
Fuck off, Tulpa.
Good morning again impudent mammals. My gun show trip got screwed up by Hasidic FloridaMan. But fear not, we are venturing over there today.
Why did you expect Hasidic FloridaMan to travel with you on Shabbat?
Actually he got stuck helping fix a car. Of course I am now waiting on him again…
*taps claw impatiently*
Right out of the gate and someone starts blaming (((((them)))))).
Who are (((((they))))))? Zoroastrians? I know ((((they)))) are Druze, but after that I start to lose track.
Well sometimes ((((they)))) exhibit poor time management skills
Walter Sobchak: Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don’t work, I don’t drive a car, I don’t fucking ride in a car, I don’t handle money, I don’t turn on the oven, and I sure as shit *don’t fucking roll*!
Spicy.
“I already banned comments because of too many douche bags making hateful and PC comments on this nice video. Guess what, any more bullshit and the video goes bye-bye. And the ones who enjoy this video will be upset and kill the fuckers who pissed me off.”
Wow.
That’s a spicy warning! Mamma mia!
Now that’s spicy.
But what is “more bullshit,” after you’ve already disabled the comments?
I like it. Were commercials regularly 60 seconds back then, old timers?
I liked the take where he fucks up the accent. A remake might have him having instead of a New York accent, an English one like Bob Hoskins had in real life.
The funny thing is, we used to laugh and play along with these commercials. No one took offence.
Now. Today? Everyone’s lost their fucken minds – especially the narcissists who over rate themselves.
Do paesans get offended? I feel like for most white ethnics, there’s typically an anti-defamation org of sorts, but most people don’t care. Same thing FOB immigrants from pretty much anywhere. Asian-Americans as a whole and of various types, you get a vocal few who are annoying as fuck, but most also don’t care. Jews, my favorite group if I have such a thing, are more halfway between white ethnics and minorities in many ways; and I was disappointed to find that this includes participation in group grievance culture (which therefore, unusually, includes a substantial number of those who do not identify at all with the Left and with “intersection” with the standard “oppressed” grievance groups); it is less than minorities but more than white ethnic groups.
Whites of all sorts, of course, are susceptible to “counter-“grievance identitarianism qua being white
I think there was an organization claiming to speak for Italian-Americans that complained about The Sopranos.
Yeah, like I said the difference is most white ethnics pretty much ignore their “anti-media-stereotype” org, but there is one that exists for pretty much every ethnic group.
The Italian-American one is run by the Mafia.
The specific one you’re thinking of was the Italian-American Civil Rights League which was founded by Joe Colombo. He was shot at one of their rallies and that pretty much ended that organization.
For the record, on the Italian side of my family, the only thing like that is my grandfather hating The Godfather because “it’s not a movie about Italians, it’s about Sicilian criminals!” He still carries the Old World dislike of Sicilians common among northern Italians. As one of his favorite movies is My Cousin Vinny, clearly broad ethnic stereotypes don’t themselves offend him.
Well, first of all, My Cousin Vinny is–no joke–simply one of the greatest movies ever made. Its ambitions aren’t the same as those of more conventional contenders for the title, but it’s going to make any “long list” of classics with a wide purview.
Also, Italian-Americans might think of it as quintessentially Italian American but I got news for them: I been to houses of damn near every ethnic group in New York, and they all adore the film and relate to it almost as their own. My Big Fat Greek Wedding was supposedly like that too, but I didn’t see it.
Also your granddad is a wise man. Who the fuck cares about “broad ethnic stereotypes” when you’re talking about comedy! If they’re not inherently insulting then it shouldn’t even be in the running for being offended.
I’m also amused about his anti-Sicilian bigotry. I never met a Northern Italian who didn’t take a comical amount of care to make sure everyone knows he is a Northern Italian. I think the pressure builds up inside you people or something, and you have to let it out repeatedly before you explode into a fine mist of pesto.
For the most part, Italians don’t care. But that doesn’t mean some organizations haven’t popped up as Ted mentions given the current climate. Again, in my circle of friends and family anyway, we ignore it and find it stupid.
We take pride in not giving a shit.
So much so that after the curfews on Italians were lifted in WWII and the few hundred released from internment camps, almost every single one of them refused to talk about it choosing instead to just go on with their lives. That’s why there’s so little literature on what happened with them. I had the honour of interviewing the last surviving camp prisoner (Mr. Capobianco) about 14 years ago – he was in his late 80s back then and this is what he basically said. Life’s too short to dwell on shitheads. There was some interesting nuance thinking in the sense they understood why the government was doing it (it was war! Historian Jack Granatstein takes this position) but the fact remains they were citizens and didn’t deserve it. They just didn’t see the point in complaining about it in 1946.
What I do find intriguing is in comedy almost all ethnics are off limits but it’s still safe to bash the Irish, Poles, Jews and Italians.
About The Sopranos. I really don’t see the point. If we’re honest about it, we all know they exist. I hung out with exactly the same type of characters in the past. It’s part of the whole experiment. It doesn’t mean we’re all budding mobsters. I know I’d be horrible at it.
My sister had a hit man in her delivery room FFS. Long story.
experience.
Organized crime is just like any normal business. They need accountants, lawyers, delivery guys, salesmen, etc. Not all of them have bulging suits, bad haircuts and a gat in their pocket. Nowadays, many of them don’t even (obviously) undertake obviously criminal actions in a workday.
An NAP obeying mobster. You’d have to include a leg breaking and head shooting contingency clause for all your business transactions.
For the record, the Mulroney government apologized to the Italian community.
Again, big shrug from me.
I’m not sure it was necessary.
Ugh. When I say ‘shrug’ I don’t mean it in an aloof way. I *get* why people would want *at the very least* an apology but I also get people who think let sleeping dogs lies. Acknowledge it in the history books and move on.
I remember all the ethnic joke books that came out in the late ’70s. I think every kid in my hometown between 5th and 9th grade had them.
I remember my parents telling me that they were crude stereotypes and then laughing at some of the jokes. But no one freaked out about them. Imagine trying to publish that book today.
And because Norwegians couldn’t make it into the mainstream ethnic jokes, we had to write our own. And there were tons of them. The best were the ones that not only knew enough about the Norwegians to be funny, but also about the rural life they lived.
Example:
Q. Did you hear about the Norwegian who lost his chewing gum in the chicken coop?
A. He thought he found it four times
Q: How can you tell a level-headed Norwegian?
A: He has snuss dripping out of both corners of his mouth.
I have a ’70’s Norwegian joke book somewhere. I need to find that…
English like this?
HEY! YOU CAN’T DO THAT!
::Shakes Fist::
No.
Wait you’re a baby boomer? I was not expecting that.
Nope. Gen X. But I barely remember that commercial. I see it came out in the year of my birth :O
Ahh, you have 3 years on me, old man! :p
That photo isn’t bland enough for UCS.
“I don’t like fearing that I’m going to die walking into school every day and I don’t like telling my mom that I’m afraid I’m going to die walking into school – I feel like change should happen,” 14-year-old freshman Alex Barbro said.
I’m sure you’ll be in the top of your class at the Kennedy School of Government, LookAtMe Barbie.
How much do you think, at this point, this is still all drama that the kids are performing for the adults (and, to some extent, for themselves)–and how much do you think the adult gun grabbers’ morally reprehensible encouragement of this irrational fear has made some of it real to them?
Such as endless fawning media coverage? Fuck, I couldn’t even make it 1/3 of the way through that article.
Forget kids, most people just pick up cues from the people in authority they see from day to day. A 14 year old believing there are AR-15s hiding in his locker waiting to get him because that’s what his parents and teachers accept on faith? Totally believable. Stupid, but believable. I bought all kinds of dumb shit when I was a teenager. Of course, nobody was trying to use that as leverage to enact legislation, but maybe we’ve gotten both stupider and more evil as a society.
At this point the NRA should sponsor the girls that were captured/released by Boko Haram for US citizenship and just have them show up at all these rallies. They could hold up signs about “tell me again how dangerous your schools are”.
I doubt the kids themselves are self-aware enough to realize what whiny bitches they seem like, but I think the slick handlers who are running this campaign would get it. Which would be double-plus good watching them throw the kids under the bus.
What America needs is smart machete, axe and gasoline laws!
Last night I had drinks with an old friend who is pretty lefty. He became enraged when I said the marches yesterday were Astroturf, that I’m a conspiracy theorist and only believe Faux News. No, those were just passionate kids in each city who set everything up themselves, he insisted.
Ask him how many bus rental companies will do business with 14 year olds/
This has probably already been posted but the city of Baltimore paid for and organized the fleet buses from their city ($100k).
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0308-gun-protests-20180307-story.html
This is very easily searchable information, and available on far left media sources. Instead your leftist friend just resorted to ad hominem attacks.
Instead your leftist friend just resorted to ad hominem attacks.
What? All of our leftist friends are nothing but virtuous if perhaps just a little overly passionate people of nothing but good will. It’s almost like you think they were masks or something.
Absolutely outrageous, and probably repeated in cities across the country.
the conflation of random nutjob stuff with targeted killings over girls and drugs
Yeah, the school crossing guard took that kid in Maryland, and I have no problem with that, but my impression is that he was after his girlfriend because she jilted him (and maybe her new beau?), so not sure if he was going to segue into spree killer. More likely he would have eaten one if he’d been given a little more time. Oh, well.
I think the latest analysis is that he was putting the gun to his head when the SRO shot him. Like if she was a few seconds later he’d have popped his lid off.
Hah! My ridiculous homer bracket picking UT to win it all is currently tied for first. I won’t win the thing, but this will be my best bracket finish ever. March Madness prognostication really is retarded.
I know sloopy doesn’t, but wonder if anyone has Michigan-Duke as the championship game?
Doesn’t look like it. If someone did they’d be a way out front runner I think.
Please god let that happen.
I am rooting for an all Catholic final at this point.
Oh, a fan of intra-secular competition? You know that’s how you get schisms! You want schisms?
yes
The losing team are renamed ‘Heretics’ and burned at the stake.
I wish I had Michigan/Villanova, but I had UM losing to Cincy.
how much do you think the adult gun grabbers’ morally reprehensible encouragement of this irrational fear has made some of it real to them?
I think it might as well be “recovered memory” or “past lives therapy”, at this point. The power of suggestion; mass hysteria amongst the gullible. And who is more gullible than a teenager?
The adults calling these teens “brave and intelligent?”
Truth. As OMWC recommends they all need a lesson in statistics. The fact that gun violence, and violent crime in general outside of a few inner city areas is at a historical low seems to be lost on these people. It is pure emotion at this point and no public figure can get away with not praising the little shits.
The sheer intensity of this gun control media onslaught is something to behold. These astroturfers and their billions don’t mess around; and the corrupt “media” is only too happy to play along. I still think this has great potential to backfire; who the hell likes being lectured to by 16 year-olds about *anything* let alone the dismantling of constitutional rights? All the “I’m so thrilled at our young people leading the way” bullshit is coming from people who already supported gun control. I doubt they’re winning any converts with this absurd, over-the-top nonsense about gun owners being bloodthirsty terrorists who are happy to see children slaughtered.
Gun control piglet and lesbian skinhead are about the least appealing spokesmen you could possibly ask for; smug, condescending, angry and utterly ignorant. It doesn’t help that they are *obviously* parroting pre-written talking points given to them by their handlers and are plastering themselves 24/7 on TV as obvious media-whores. It’s clear they don’t give a shit about the issue or their dead classmates, they just love the attention.
“the corrupt “media” is only too happy to play along”
That’s the biggest part of the problem.
I actually made a huge inroad into a friend’s view on this issue last week with the question:
“If you were the dictator of the USA, which law do you think would be more effective? A law that bans guns just like drugs OR a law that forbids any media outlet to report on a school shooting?”
He said that was a good point and he agreed that school shootings are a panic caused mostly by media coverage. The crazies see it as a way to become “famous”.
We agreed that the goal now should be to plug suicides in the media as much as we can. Give giant props to any crazy who kills themself. That way, they focus more on how to make their final act as spectacular as they can without hurting anyone else.
Of course, the goal of any dictator is to consolidate his power, so we know which is more effective to that end.
I always say to myself, ‘Hold…..Hold……HOLD! HOLD THE LINE!’ Whenever I see these obviously transparently astroturfed events.
Like Wallace in Braveheart…..HOLD!
Love isn’t always on time?
Make no mistake, this strategy of papering over the leftist gun-grabber agenda with fresh faced kids is working. This stuff is pure mom-porn.
Since most of you were wise enough to avoid MSNBC and CNN yesterday, I took one for the team. Ok, to be fair, my wife has fallen for this stuff hook, line and sinker and she had MSNBC and CNN on everywhere she went yesterday. TV, tablet, smartphone…. she couldn’t turn it off. She cried when the pre-teen kids told about brothers who got shot, or friends who got shot, or people who they never met who got shot.
But the constant presence let me see how they were covering the marches. CNN and MSNBC didn’t let the mask slip. They dropped it entirely. They interviewed participants, donors and organizers with words like “isn’t it amazing what we have accomplished.” Always “we”. They were openly on the team for the day. No pretending to be journalists. They lauded the “historic” accomplishments of the people putting on the march.
They also dutifully hit the DNC talking points. At some point they decided that the best political strategy was a call for unity. So they repeatedly claimed non-partisanship and called for Republicans and Democrats to “come together for common sense gun control”. Definitely a poll tested phrase.
They hammered away at the “amazing story” of the kids who organized all of this. All by themselves. The big donors just donated the money. It was all driven by the kids. Seriously. Everyone said so. They told me over and over how all of the 501 orgs and celebrities and George Clooney decided to make sure that the kids were the ones who spoke, not celebrities or politicians. You see, these gun control advocacy groups decided that it should be only kids doing the speaking, but they were not the ones in charge. The kids were. That’s why they had to decide for them about the strategy of having kids do the talking…. whatever. I promise that it makes sense and it isn’t just that the gun control groups used them as a “think of the children mask”.
Jeezus, Cyto. You’re a hero for putting up with that.
I am not sure hero is the word I would use. My guess is his Mrs is really hot.
Let’s see some underboob!
Her days of 34D-22-36 are well into the rear mirror with 3 kiddos. But adding a couple of inches and an extra D means that underboob is plentiful.
In short….yeah. pretty hot. Not 19 year old hot. But hot nonetheless.
I dunno but I have think that anyone watching that Hogg tyrant going off last night with his screeching and fist-pumping and not being immediately repulsed by it has got a screw loose in my book – I don’t care what your opinion on guns is.
I couldn’t get myself to actually listen to the speech yet. I just liked the sassy pose. Equal parts Hitler, Tommie Smith, and John Travolta, to assemble previous observations.
I see it on TV for a split second and want to vomit.
I have no idea why they were marching in Canada. It’s retarded.
I do. They’re useful idiot props for the entire slate of leftist causes. Same as the #metoo movement.
I feel your pain. The Right Honorable Lady Naptown puts MSNBC on just to aggravate me, I think. It’s wall-to-wall school shooting crises funded by the NRA, which is essentially ISIS for white nationalist rednecks.
To OMWC’s bit above about the JPOST article (see, I DO read the links!) and the astonishment at people enjoying shooting, my wife does that bit on me pretty often. I can’t tell if she’s trolling me or not. I get some variation on the following:
“Anyone who thinks a gun is a toy is sick and irresponsible.” — This is the opening drive, typically.
“I agree a gun isn’t a toy, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun to shoot guns, or that they’re not interesting from an aesthetic or mechanical perspective.”
“But they KILL people! Why would you think that’s fun!?”
“Dude, ask your dad, the lifetime member of the NRA.”
“He doesn’t think guns are fun, they’re just tools.”
“Right, which is why last time we went down to visit he paused Supernatural to show me the new optics he put on his AR. While chuckling to himself. Grinning from ear-to-ear.”
This isn’t an exaggeration. When Cliven Bundy et al. took over the wildlife refuge, my leftist friends were shrieking about how this is no-shit actual terrorism, as bad as any Islamist terrorism the right screeches about. Fuck their legitimate gripes, fuck their protest, fuck the fact that the building was empty. These people are monsters and deserve to die. “Just shoot them.”
Frankly, it’s getting more and more difficult to remain friends with them.
I’m sorry for you, my wife knows my intolerance for bullshit and is quicker with the remote than I am.
When this fails to get their desired results they’ll have an army of infants crawling down Pennsylvania Blvd with signs taped to their backs that the media will dutifully report as having been written by the infants themselves.
They already had one where an institution for kids with severe disabilities (including mental, I gather)wheeled them out in their chairs and hung signs around their necks. It was fucking repulsive.
Underboob.
http://archive.is/z0Tqc
Enjoi.
Though 39 and 42 are definitely more sideboob.
39 is lat spread boob. Not a choice you see every day.
True underboob, to me, is boob peeking out from beneath a top. All else is faux underboob.
I would say this is a strong selection overall.
34 is the bunny boiler. Never trust a Raiders fan.
Do I need to see this on Palm Sunday? We should only get to glimpse titties on days that end with a “y.”
I’m gonna go with my top threw as 25, 37, and 45.
Good Lord, what is an image that is mainstream Nashville this century? Wearing what New Yorkers were wearing ten years previously; singing two verses and a chorus with a suspiciously similar sound and rhythm as everyone else’s, with the exact same mixture of pop, rock, and rap influences; mashing together reference after reference to summer fun with boots, jeans, trucks, speakers, girls, guns, tractors, beer, and possibly weed?
(I actually don’t mind it, for all that, btw!)
That’s pretty much it- formula pop but with a twang.
Sounds like an excellent way to control people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/pleasure-shock-deep-brain-stimulation-happiness/556043/
How long until it’s mandatory?
Seems like it was somewhat forseen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Man
“Police say a 37-year-old man was far from lovin’ it when workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Oregon refused to make him 30 double cheeseburgers and tried to destroy the golden arches.”
Why did they refuse to make him 30 double cheeseburgers?
That struck me too. Isn’t that their jobs?
I remember coming home from a martial arts tournament in another state once. 12 gross and sweaty dudes in a 15 passenger van pulled up to an Arby’s and each guy ordered a 5 for $5 and some fries. They didn’t give a shit when we ordered 60 sandwiches at Arby’s.
Goddamn did that van smell like death an hour or two into that return trip though. I bet the rental company had to torch that thing.
You couldn’t stop someplace other than Arby’s?
Could have, but…. So much food. So much cheap.
Yeah, if I had to eat something that is not immediately discernible as any known type of food and was going to add almost synthetic-smelling farts to the armpit and ballsweat hotbox I was stuck in for hours, I’d want something that actually tastes good in its own perverse way. Like Taco Bell or White Castle. Good Lord, Arby’s. I’d only eat there if the other place was a Subway.
It’s better to stop at Arby’s before the tournament, that way the resulting vomiting and diarrhea will knock you into a lower weight class.
Dude… Rolling box o’ farts.
No shit. I’d be angry too.
They didn’t make his cheeseburgers ecause he is a ginger. Pure straight up discrimination.
I haven’t heard anything about it, but I hope the weather in Bozeman was like it was at my house. How many people are dumb enough to plod around in the snow for this sort of nonsensical display? It’s not like those girls were going to be decked out in their flimsy spring finery.
A Democrat president complains about wasteful spending. Had to go back a few years, mind you.
Jack Kennedy would be considered ‘alt-right’ in today’s social-jihadist-warrior climate.
I mean he was a war hero fighting against the commies!
Can’t wait for the progs to whitewash the Kennedy’s crimes in the new Chappaquiddick film.
I don’t know. The preview I saw didn’t seem like a white wash.
RE the crazed Oregon cheeseburger man.
Opportunity Glib lawyers. Opportunity.
I’m so fucking incensed at this anti-gun activism that I read that as
.. and I’m all fuck yeah, they make great M14 rebuilds!
Politically correct conversion therapy
We don’t fuck with that shit in America.
Gilmore posted the NYT article yesterday.
Damn his nimble fingers! 🙂
Today, in self-serving obfuscation…
Young people — and, as the Parkland survivors Emma González and David Hogg so eloquently remind us, young people of color — are hit especially hard. A recent study shows that firearms are now the third-leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 17 and, according to C.D.C. data, the leading cause of death for 15- to 24-year-olds. Numerous scientific studies indicate that keeping guns in a home endangers its residents. Studies have also shown that guns in the home are far more likely to be used in criminal assaults, homicides, suicides and accidental shootings than in self-defense.
Yet the law enables the gun industry to advertise its products as safety devices that consumers need to protect themselves and their families without fear of legal liability.
Brad S. Karp is the chairman and H. Christopher Boehning is a partner at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.
If some idiot runs his Mustang through a crowd, I don’t think you don’t get to sue Ford, unless you can prove the car was defective.
“Studies have also shown that guns in the home are far more likely to be used in criminal assaults, homicides, suicides and accidental shootings than in self-defense.”
Yes, the homes of criminals.
Pass a law banning criminals from having guns.
Why is it somehow only politically correct to remind “young people of color” that we commit lots of crimes when you are also telling us to hand over our guns because only the police should have any?
According the the linked CDC stats, more people die from poisoning. What shall we do about that? Or is there just nobody who could be sued in those cases so who cares? Never mind, they want to sue pharmaceutical companies too. Fuck it, I say sue everybody everywhere for the actions of an individual. Society has caused these problems so all you assholes are liable.
It’s extremely misleading. Yeah, homicides are the third leading cause of death, and 88% of those are firearms-related, but they’re 16% of the total. Suicide is second by a percentage point and some change, and then unintentional injury is the lead, as it is for most age groups. And within the firearm stat you’re looking at gang-related shootings, police shootings, stuff like that. It’s a bait-and-switch when people take that stat as-is and present it alongside school shootings to imply that there’s some kind of epidemic.
‘homicides’
Technically any time someone is killed , justified or not, isn’t that a homicide?
This is the BMI of anti-gun statistics.
That’s unfair to BMI, which is at least occasionally useful. The quoted sentence is pure bullshit.
First, there’s only one study and it’s a survey not a scientific experiment. Although I’m sure the CDC will soon be reprinting it with new authors and new words so that it looks like multiple studies, thanks to them being able to “research” the infectious disease of “gun violence” again. Expect lots of new bullshit all built on the same stale data set.
Second, the difference was statistically significant but not “far more likely”.
Last, but not least, the conclusion has been completely tortured. The actual conclusion is, people living in homes with guns in them are more likely to be the victims of violent crime. That’s correlation, not causation. You can just as well word it as, people who are the victims of violent crime are more likely to have guns in their home. Notice how the guns themselves are not involved. Notice also how no accounting was made for other factors, like crime rate, number of guns owned, socioeconomic status, etc.
They’ll do a meta study of it.
“I believe the elephant may have been trying to ingest wood charcoal,” said Dr Varun Goswami.
Or he thought the camera man was a pig.
Jack Kennedy would be considered ‘alt-right’ in today’s social-jihadist-warrior climate.
No kidding.
Well, his old man certainly had the credentials.
Schlitterbahn, former executive indicted after child’s death on waterslide
If the prosecutions case is true this is some pretty damning information. Apparently there is a video of the incident.
Schlitterbahn is German for “Action Park” I guess.
clap clap clap
no loop though.
If only we had government run water parks and there was no greedy profit motive involved…
Here in south Florida they are plentiful. Broward county and Palm Beach county each run several waterparks in their county park system.
Wir sterben sterben sterben auf der Schlitterbahn.
Mispronouncing Spanish is the national sport of Texas, but their German is even worse. I always wondered why New Braunfels isn’t one or the other: Neubraunfels or New Brown Rocks. “New Braunfels” rings plastic like any bad hybrid….like millirod or micromile would.
“What Black people must understand, is that the NRA is NOT a “gun rights” organization. They are a WHITE SUPREMACIST organization operating under the guise of gun rights. This is very very important to understand”
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/977721956249231360
Tariq Nasheed is some low hanging derp. He’s like the black male Everyday Feminism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsGHdGXg0vE
“Historian-Mack Identity Extremist – http://www.1804movie.com – Anti-Racism Strategist- Constitution Advocate- MLK Conservative- info@tariqelite.com”
Anti-racist, MLK conservative but has an all-black (with fists and all) fresco on his Twitter page.
Please.
He’s all about race. He’s consumed by it. And not in a good way.
It’s alike a guy who claims to be a ‘communist-libertarian’. Pick one dude. Or someone who claims to be ‘Democratic’ but has a pic of Che or the hammer and sickle on their page.
That’s how I interpret this crap.
Roderick Long actually has recently published a quite decent overview of “left-libertarianism.” I learned a lot about them; I’d been very puzzled and asked for some clues about the landscape from John Titor, who had piqued my interest further about these peculiar fellows.
Where is that Communist Eskimo redneck bastard anyway, come to think about it? I like him.
Bah. At least I didn’t fuck up the link. That’s what counts in the world.
I still think he’s a performance artist.
Me, too
But cops are racist,too.
The original gun control laws were to keep guns out of the hands of those scary darkies.
With the recent arrest of a Patriots safety trying to smuggle marijuana into Costa Rica, I’m really left wondering why even the dumbest athletes take the risk. Is he worried he won’t be able to find weed in a third world hell hole? Is he worried it won’t be up to par?
I feel bad for that L.A. Kings player who tried sneaking coke and molly into a Vegas pool party with the other boys. He’s probably lucky he got off as easy as he did, but it still doesn’t seem like an exceptionally ridiculous move like this Einstein.
Costa Rica is not a 3rd world hellhole.
In other words, he coulda got some decent dope locally?
Newspaper man complains that they aren’t making money, but this isn’t about money:
Change in policy for political letters TW: too local
$35 for eight inches? I know a few ladies that would consider that a good deal.
Because you’ve been overcharging?
My reply needs to be somewhat gnomic, because there’s a reputation at stake here.
This should be good. Meet the Press was just showing clips of teenagers threatening Congress to “vote them out”.
Sounds legit.
We’ll vote you out in 4-8 years!
Wow. UCS didn’t even have to sign on to start taking fire. You are a tough overlord OMWC.
SP attributes it to me being a total asshole.
It’s like a super power.
“A Finnish dog which gave Nazi salutes so annoyed Germany’s World War II government that it launched a campaign against its owner.
Tor Borg’s wife had reportedly given Jackie the nickname Hitler – saying the dog’s strange way of raising its paw and barking reminded her of the Fuhrer.
Mr Borg was called into the German embassy for questioning, where he admitted that his wife Josephine – a known anti-Nazi German – had called the dog Hitler, but denied being involved in anything “that could be seen as an insult against the German Reich”.
The embassy, however, thought otherwise, telling officials in Berlin: “Borg, even though he claims otherwise, is not telling the truth.””
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-12139150
https://twitter.com/rickygervais/status/977575798482849792
“Well hello there new cellmate. You got a pretty mouth.”
I think Gervais is utterly unfunny, but he gets props for this.
I like his show, but Merchant and Pilkington pull a lot of the weight.
You know who else blamed his wife for all the trouble?…
Adam?
This guy?
Andy Capp?
Every husband everywhere?
O.J. Simpson?
The dude who married the ex Mrs westernsloper?
“Some of my fellow comedians are being slow in speaking out against his conviction. I get it, this pug guy is no Lenny Bruce and perhaps they fear making a martyr or even a hero out of someone they find repellent – a numpty who thinks it’s funny to bring the Holocaust into a “joke” and who is being backed by odious far-right characters like Tommy Robinson.
But it’s not just Count Dankula we are defending, the picture is far bigger than that. We are fighting not for this individual, but for the principle of free speech which right now is being fought for more robustly by the far right than it is by the left. This is a nonpartisan issue.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/count-dankula-freedom-of-speech-comedy-joke-iran-offended-a8270631.html
It’s good to see them getting on board with defending free speech but those people aren’t worthy of holding either Dankula’s or Robinson’s jock strap.
I just loathe the to be sure he’s a bad person signaling that is seemingly required before defending anyone to the right of Mao Tse-tung.
I know. He says he was Lisa Simpson-esque. Lisa was the butt of a few jokes for being a stick in the mud.
“I hope this clears up any misconceptions about my political alignment.”
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/977027002845757440
I wish he lived near me so we could drink beer and talk shit all day.
The guy has balls, I’ll give him that. If I was awaiting sentencing from some douchebag leftist cunt judge for hate speech I think I’d be laying low.
He’s been found guilty. Nothing he does between now and sentencing is going to have a direct effect on the term he serves, with the exception of public opinion, so he still has plenty to play for,
Seinfeld made a joke about making out during Schindler’s List a quarter century ago. I get it, we all hate edgelords, but ffs let’s not pretend this is some unique or especially dark chapter in comedy.
How the F would another country call you into their embassy in *your country*?
Surprise! The oil companies are getting ready to cave on those bullshit climate-change lawsuits that were recently in the news. I hope everyone has a comfortable savings ready to empty out in the near future.
Damages cannot even be quantified. This is retarded.
“then can you kindly demonstrate that credible empirical data prove that the null hypothesis must be rejected?”
There you go with that fag talk again.
I don’t think they are caving. It was one company, the rest are moving to have the jurisdiction moved.
I just don’t see only one caving and the rest not following suit eventually. It’s the tobacco thing all over again.
RUSSIA! RUSSIARUSSIARUSSIA!
https://twitter.com/TheFrogNation/status/977778529386418178
Science.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZIX38xX0AA0UiW.jpg
Stay classy.
Good God.
Oh, now they think the President’s kid should go to public schools.
Against school choice and self-defense.
Stay classy.
Impressive.
It’s got to the point where I see the NRA-ILA (the legal and legislative branch of the NRA) to be a significant part of the problem. They’re always on hand to whisper in the ears of legislators about what will be, and what will be unacceptable to pro-2A folks.
1934 NRA supported the NFA, considering the scheduled items as ‘Gangster Weapons’, and immediately conceding on the point that the public should be armed with comparable weapons to the military.
1938 NRA Supported the Federal Firearms Act, ensuring that interstate sales of firearms was subject to licensing
1968 NRA Supported some parts of the Gun Control Act, (as did the larger firearm manufacturers) – but at least opposed outright registration.
1986 NRA was heavily involved in the drafting of the Firearm Owners Protection Act, which like so much other legislation, had a title that completely misrepresented the contents of the legislation, which yes, removed some unconstitutional laws introduced in 1968, but sealed the fate of meaningful private ownership of automatic weapons.
1994 NRA (along with some notable large manufacturers) rolled over on the AWB. The AWB capitulation is important because its objectives were obviously no longer related to elimination of ‘weapons of war’, but of sporting firearms.
2004 NRA opposed the renewal of the 1994 AWB, which was due to expire. To what extent their opposition influenced the sunsetting of the 1994 legislation is debatable.
2005 NRA endorsed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, protecting manufacturers from prosecution when their products functioned as intended.
In case my intent isn’t clear here, the NRA is not, and has never really been a stalwart supporter of the rights of pro-2A Americans. Their legislative model is based upon a process of managed decline rather than to opposing the erosion of a constitutional right. Their involvement in the crafting of legislation seems to be primarily in providing an amicus briefing of just how much shit the gun community can be forced to eat before there will be severe opposition.
The NRA sucks and have screwed gun owners before and will do so again. They’re better than nothing but it’s a shame they’re the only meaningful game in town when it comes to this stuff.
I don’t like any firearms laws. My understanding is the FOPA really should have been considered a significant net gain; I can’t stand the Hughes Amendment but if someone wants to say it was worth it I’m not that outraged.
I don’t think carry reciprocity was worth Fix NiCS, and doing it clean was utterly unacceptable. So are GVROs, bump stock bans, and above all the No Fly No Buy that I now think we will be extraordinary lucky not to get (if so, solely due to Democrats preferring demagoguery to results) in some form by the time Trump leaves office.
As I’ve been saying, in fact the NRA is not at its heart a 2A organization at all; it’s simply the national sports federation for shooting sports, learned to lobby a bit better than USA Curling.
What’s the best thing I can say about them? Hey, at least we don’t have to rely on the National Shooting Sports Foundation for jack shit.
All the more reason for the NRA to hear from it’s members as to what is and isn’t acceptable.
You left out NRA advocacy for Project Exile.
<<<<—– proud NRA quitter, 1994
I grew up liking American Rifleman, reading about the successes of armed citizens, &c; but when NRA endorsed candidates without regard to their 2A voting records, I hit the bricks. Just because Democrats suck isn't a reason to suck Republicans: a pox on both their houses.
The “level of emotion” in those anti-gun rallies was what was most inspiring? Abandoning all pretense of rationality or honest analysis is what impresses you?
This is where we live, now.
You see, this is why I want to ex-patriate. Trump is bad enough, but his opposition has doubled-down on stupidity as a solution.
That beige is too assertive. Needs more taupe.
There is no such thing as “undocumented” weed. What part of Schedule I do you not understand?
Well played. Illegal immigration v illegal pot is a very nice setup for testing one’s commitment to federalism/devolution.
As I said to Yusuf earlier this week, when he bit the bullet in admitting that Colorado, etc. should seek to change federal law, I admire his consistency, but I’m not ready to give up on state’s rights just yet.
The whole edifice of federal drug law is a corrupt construction. You don’t “change” that – you burn it to the ground. I personally am getting to the point where shooting people for advocacy of commerce-clause-cum-general-police-power is getting more reasonable as a way to make that point.
The counter argument is that immigration should be federal, and drug laws (like all the other arbitrary crap) should be left up to the states.
Let’s say you’re a young mother, taking her toddler for a walk in a public park, and a dog runs by and knocks your kid down. He’s terrified. He has a booboo. Do you go on the teevee and demand that all dogs should be taken away from their owners and slaughtered, in the name of common sense dog safety?
You never heard of anti-pitbull laws?
“Dear DogsBite.org,
I just stumbled upon your site Dogsbite.org. I am so glad to see an organization like this! I had a situation where my little 3-year old daughter and I were leaving a city park where I had taken her to play on the jungle gym. We were over 100 yards from my truck, and about the same distance from the jungle gym, when I noticed a pit bull off his leash staring at us. It was about 20 yards away, and then suddenly charged. It was clear this animal was targeting my little girl. There was nowhere to run, even the trees were new and thin like broom sticks, no place for me to put my daughter to get her out of harm’s way. It was like time slowed down, I can’t describe the terror I felt, not for myself, but only for my child. I swept her behind me and told her that whatever happens, keep me between her and the dog … I will support any legislation to ban or regulate dangerous dogs! Keep up the great work! – Stephen, Texas”
This is real and not parody, by the way.
So is dogsbite.org, hard as that is to believe. That lady is a loon. She’s got associates, too, like a dog “expert” (it’s not hard to pass yourself off as anything you want to the media, of course, because they are lazy, stupid, and self-serving) with no qualifications.
Maybe PeTA, too. They want to end the dog species as a whole, of course, but they have a special fixation on pitbulls.
I don’t believe in using violence to solve political disagreements. Unless you’re some vicious cunt lurking in Austin lobbying for laws in Maryland that result in a situation where my dogs will now be euthanized if they are attacked by another dog and the owner reports it to animal control, in which case if I ever see her or her associates I will cut her or their head(s) off and hang them from the crape myrtles in my front yard. Metaphorically, of course.
If that pit was aggressive, there would have been blood. There was no blood. Ergo . . .
Yeah, my dogs charge strangers as well…right before they try to lick your face off.
My favorite is that Montreal outlawed Pits after a Boxer killed someone.
How long ago did you unplug from cable news, TLPB? The answer is YAAAS!
Yes they do
Dogs are not an appropriate species to explain this issue with, you simpleton.
:sigh:
The analogy makes lots of sense. There are guns out there that are intrinsically bad.
The try to switch at the end: “let’s talk about how to make laws to keep guns out of bad people’s hands”
Ok but that wasn’t the argument you made the whole time. You were arguing the whole time that there’s a certain class of guns that are bad.
Also shouldn’t this video be banned because it’s about guns?
Matt Christiansen does a brilliant takedown of this abomination here.
Short version, it’s a shit analogy that demonstrates a complete and probably willful misunderstanding of both guns and cats.
Slightly less short version, courtesy of two takeaways:
1. “Awful cats” are sentient creatures that choose to attack or not attack people. Guns are inanimate objects, and cannot choose to attack or not attack people.
2. If “awful cats” are dangerous, why is it that most face-scratchings are perpetrated by “cute kitty cats” in cities and states with thorough cat laws?
From the comments, by the uploader:
He’s really interested in all the different ways you can agree with him.
And I’d be interested in what both sides view as possible reforms to insure that guns end up in the right hands. Like, say, mine.
It’s not like “the right to keep and bear shall not be infringed” is in the Constitution, or anything.
fill in the blanks as to what you’d like to keep and bear
“I’m in favor of the 2nd Amendment, but I don’t care if you ban them, because I don’t own one.”
This is real and not parody, by the way.
*stares at shotgun in corner*
This is real and not parody, by the way.
Parody is dead.
Was it a Norwegian Blue parody?
I nominate elephants as the official animal of the VAPE NAYSH.
Those people who spent millions of dollars in the ’80s and ’90s on ads trying to convince kids that drugs are not cool must be feeling like a bunch of fucking suckers right now.
Now we’re on ABC.
“Stop the carnage which has defined their generation.”
Oh, for fuck’s sake. What a fucking clown show.
I know there’s a lot of despair about this, and while I see the coordinating of various actors, and the ignoring of other points of view (wait there are kids who think disarming is a bad idea?), I just don’t think much will come of it. Perhaps we need to sue teachers unions for opposing letting teachers carry if they choose. As it would demonstrably cut down on the # of deaths a student could cause.
Also these pricks (technically not millennials) like to blame all other generations, when the killers come from theirs. The parents have responsibility, so I guess blaming gun owners is easier than blaming poor moral foundations taught by shit parents.
Haven’t Tide Pods done enough damage?
If it defines their generation, it’s because media outlets like ABC give it constant coverage.
Shrieking babies need diaper change.
https://twitter.com/Carpedonktum/status/977630354352889856
LOL
Sad little boy.
Did you see that racist dog Whistler?
Looks like the kid’s a John Travolta circa 1977 fan.
He’s not silencing anything, you idiot. He’s ridiculing it. WTF is wrong with people?!
A lot of people on the other side do want to silence the voices on the other side and they assume the motivations are the same. It’s simple projection.
Yep.
“We have every right for our side to be heard!”
“OK, let’s have a debate, then”
“Nobody’s going to debate your loser side, so STFU because nobody wants to hear what you have to say”
Everything is wrong
I know there will be many in its wake. I salute you, weird theater kid. Long may you meme.
Recycle, recycle, recycle.
That is a big theme at my new job. Think I would fit in better if I hung up this banner encouraging everyone to reuse writing utensils?
I have been using the same utensil to write in the snow forever.
“PornHub greets bloggers after YouTube gun ban introduced”
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43500714
Very apropos.
So now Men can say they go for the Gun Articles.
Also how far the ‘Left’ has fallen. They used to be the group who would speak the unmentionable, now they tow the Puritan orthodoxy.
I’m so glad we have to make the world child proof because watching children is no longer the parents responsibility.
Horrific deprivation
While new to Montana, tiny homes as a solution for homelessness have been popping up throughout the nation, from plywood structures on wheels in Washington, to canvas tents and RV cities in Texas.
Not everyone is on board. Barbara Poppe, who led the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness during most of the Obama Administration, said a lot of these villages resemble World War II-era internment camps.
“It’s a very dangerous path. They’re often sheds that don’t meet basic housing requirements, running water, electricity,” she said. “You can get to shanty town rather quickly.”
“I wouldn’t live in one of those shacks. I’d rather see those people sleeping in a ditch.”
I’d rather see those people sleeping in a ditch.
In another state.
“Tiny homes” are trailer parks for the socially acceptable class.
Trailer homes are much less expensive and generally larger. Also, more accommodating to people with mobility issues since they don’t require climbing into a loft to sleep. But, those are for poor people, so tiny homes get the press.
Tiny homes – the hipster gentrification of a trailer park.
According to harvard-prof (“director of risk communication at Harvard Center for Risk Analysis”) published in washington post =
pretty sure he exposes himself to greater risk of death every time he takes a bath, or gets in a car.
Linky
Interesting. The good professor knows the stats are BS but still wants “reasonable gun control”. The few accidents teachers carrying is statistically irrelevant as well but he has to point that out. I do appreciate his courage to not stick to the narrative that every kid in america is going to be shot in school though.
“Highlight of my day: getting assaulted by a 5″0 girl with a #MarchForOurLives flag. She then said “I’m intolerant of intolerance.” Good news is we got it on video and I can’t stop laughing each time I watch it. Facts don’t care about your feelings”
https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/977710557280325632
Who is this kid? Is he the anti-Hogg?
Yep.
He’s the one they won’t interview. He challenged Piglet to a debate and of course got denied.
I’d like to see Tucker Carlson get Piglet on his show. That would be entertaining.
Yesterday, I cleaned up my flower beds. Squat, pull weeds, stand and move over, repeat. I am so stiff today. I need to do more weeding, but first I am making a chocolate ombre cake. Three layers: white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. I’m putting raspberry filling between the layers and fresh raspberries on the top.
Sounds like you need to do more squats.
I call it weeding because I find squats (any kind calisthenics/weight lifting) boring af. I don’t it during the winter and then pay for it in the spring. Didn’t help that I worked for about 3 hours – waaay too long. I was intent on what I was doing and didn’t notice how hard I was working until I stood and my legs started shaking. I just thought, oh, that was dumb.
That sounds delicous
This is similar to my own workout routine:
– do 50 pushups
– consider doing 100 situps
– instead, go, “oh shit its sunday and there’s a game on” and drink half a case of beer
I’m giving up on gardening. I have killed everything I’ve put in the ground and some were expensive af *ahem hollies ahem*
I plant lots of stuff, then ignore it other than weeding and watering. Then the next year I replace the stuff that died (allium) with stuff that thrived (callas). It’s slowly becoming less work.
Eat shit gun grabbers.
https://imgur.com/a/oOIQi
Would bang.
Poor trigger discipline. And also she should keep her finger out of the guard.
Huh. I didn’t notice that on first viewing.
And the safeties are off. Good news is if she pushes hard enough, it will reverse out of battery and not fire.
Wait, she had guns?
Oh, she definitely had guns.
Inspired by you degenerates, twitter and current events
Needs to be worked into a mashup of SNP/The Hat and the Hair.
She then said “I’m intolerant of intolerance.”
I come to bury parody, not to praise it.
At camp tolerance, we do not tolerate intolerance!
first I am making a chocolate ombre cake. Three layers: white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. I’m putting raspberry filling between the layers and fresh raspberries on the top.
Where is our common sense cake control? I have cake poisoning just from reading that.
Inspired by you degenerates, twitter and current events
Nice. Needs moar tearstreaked face, though.
It is not my picture. Some artsy type did it. I just added the #.
Yesterday, I went to a pagan party. I got to hear the story of Heimdall.
Heimdall got bored one day of living with the gods, so he disguised himself as a man, changed his named to Rig, and spent many years couch surfing. He shagged a bunch of women and each son became the ancestor of different social class. The child of the ugly mud farmer became the first serf. The child of Stacy’s Mom became the first king. And so on.
So when he finished his story, I asked if Rig had a buddy named Morty. Without missing a beat, he does a pretty good Rick and Morty impression.
“Oooooh what’re gonna do Rig?!”
“C’mon, c’mon [belch] c’mon Morty. Get in the longboat. Get in the longboat Morty we’re raiding Lindisfarne! Lindisfarne Morty, it’s got, it’s go all kinds of cool stuff [belch].
There was a ceremony called a bloat where you drink mead out of a horn and then praise something good in your life. It was more fun than the bread and water sacrament I grew up with in the Mormon church.
You are so going to hell for doing that over palm sunday weekend.
I went to a coven meeting a few times. It was remarkably similar to Relief Society. I felt right at home.
How many Mormons/ former Mormons are there on this website?
I’m active, although I write Mormons doing R-rated things. Decided Wicca wasn’t for me when I realized a) I’d have to create my personalized religion myself when b) I like the deities I already have (the way I choose to think of them, that is) and c) I’m way too lazy and uninvested to start over.
I’m active as well, most surprising to see so many here.
Would you two say that Mormonism encourages a libertarian mindset? Or is Mormonism full of progs like any other Christian religion?
Libertarian AF: I’m lapsed Primitive Baptist (don’t worry, no one else has ever heard of us, either), the great Confederate Protestant un-tribe; we’ll wash your feet but won’t touch your snake. We have no structure or bureaucracy, no statement of faith, few preachers, and parents are completely responsible for the instruction and raising of their children morally. We barely rate a wiki page. Congregations are rare, circuit preachers come around every month or so if you are in the right part of Appalachia, and you’re left to answer all your questions with your own bible your own way. If you want to be buried in our cemetery, knock yourself out: pick a spot you like, a contribution to the fund is in order, but nobodies going to say boo if you don’t.
Need help with your crop or barn, we’ll be over. Want to vote Whig, that’s your business. Want to xyz….I’d check my bible if I were you.
That’s it.
It’s interesting, obviously, I personally think so. Looking at it objectively,I see many parallels between the teachings and libertarianisim. In practice, there are splits, like in all Church’s (I’d think) for the most part it is fairly traditional and conservative. Hence why people like Mitt and Hatch do well in Utah, despite their horrible policy stances.
At church right now; will answer later. I could write a treatise, but for now will say we were beaten into submission by the book THE MIRACLE OF FORGIVENESS.
In general, I think members are normal conservatives. I think more are libertarians in thought if not label, much less desire to take on the mantel.
It was painful to Mormons to vote for Trump but couldn’t vote for Hillary.
We worship at the altar of propriety.
And yet it’s the religion that produced shits like Evan McMuffin, isn’t it?
Every religion produces shits.
Not a Mormon, but I’ve known a couple in my time. It seems to me that many Mormons tend towards what you used to call small government conservatism, probably out of a cultural memory of tensions with the federal government. I don’t think that’s particular to Mormonism so much as what you’d expect to find from any community that was at odds with the state but too large or too distant to be crushed or assimilated.
And the second half of my point that I forgot to add before hitting submit is that “movement” conservatism, or small government conservatism, or whatever, is very much a cousin of libertarianism. TOS writers like to think of libertarianism as a sort of third way, kind of a point above the continuum between conservatism/liberalism and left-liberalism/socialism that’s in some way equidistant and unrelated, but I think it’s more accurate to think of libertarianism as movement conservatism that is even more suspicious of government.
@Naptime Bill
That what you said.
@NapTOWN Bill. My bad. I was having fantasies of an afternoon nap.
I think I heard Loki giggling.
Eat shit gun grabbers.
!!!!!!!
Look, Honey. I know those are some lousy implants, but I think you should let a doctor take them out.
Suck it Elon, your not the only have in town.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/self-taught-rocket-scientist-finally-blasts-california-sky-n859801
“Colion Noir Responds to David Hogg’s White Privilege”
https://twitter.com/NRATV/status/977559006670565376
God damn I love that guy!
Nice. The guy goes up in his rocket, and the statist douchebags weigh in:
“I hope he doesn’t blow something up,” retired NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger said as Hughes’ plans captured widespread attention. Linenger orbited the globe more than 2,000 times during four months in 1997. “Rocketry, as our private space companies found out, isn’t as easy as it looks.”
Fuck off, Jerry.
I watched that Colion Noir thing last night on NRATV. I’ll definitely watch more of his stuff.
Hopefully the gun grabbers can get Big Fun to reunite for a remake of their big hit “Teenage Suicide. Don’t Do It”. School Shootings. Don’t Do ’em!
in my inbox, i see this:
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I’ve been hearing this same line from self-back-patting baby-boomers since at least the 1980s. “wow, ‘we’ were all so crazy then”
My working thesis: the image of the 1960s being some drug-fueled orgy of dissolution and decadence is, for the most part, complete horseshit.
And not just the experiences of the ‘average young person’ growing up in that decade.
I’d go farther and argue, *even rock stars of the 1960s were gigantic pussies compared to the people that came after them (the 1970s and 1980s and 1990s); not only were most of them ‘not high all the time’; their drugs were hard to get, weak, and rarely-consumed outside of special-occasions.
Aside from a few, visible personas like Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix, etc, frequent drug use was not common. It was more a contrived, archetypical image of the counter-culture – not an accurate representation of *even the counter culture itself*. It was everyone imagined they were, and aspired to look like, but which few actually ‘lived out’ in any real sense.
Probably can’t get more hard-core than Mötley Crüe, the Drug Scouts of America.
I’ve always loved this Crue/Ozzy story.
Man I’ve had trouble with links lately
I have a serious crush on Nikki Sixx.
True Glib Confessions:
I used to stay at my one aunt and uncle’s house a lot when I was a kid because they played AD&D and liked computer games and were big ol’ nerds. I played Champions of Krynn on my uncle’s computer and named everyone in my party after someone in Motley Crue.
And somehow I went on to become a pretty athletic high school student who won fights and had girlfriends and stuff.
probably.
i think it would be far, far harder to argue whether the 1970s were more ‘drugged out’ than the 1980s or 1990s., or the latter were worse (or ‘better’, depending on your POV)-
but i think its actually pretty easy to argue (and prove, at least anecdotally, and by proxy-sanity-check) that the 1960s were fairly mild in terms of stuff like:
“actual prevalence of drug use, availability and diversity of drugs, average potency of drugs, and cultural acceptance of social-drug-use”
A good starting point, imo, on this subject would be the book, “Mr Nice”
Yes, i know its full of lies, and part of the appeal of the book is that the author (a large-scale weed-smuggler in the 1970s) wildly exaggerates some details and misrepresents others…
….but the general shape of his story is very very informative from the POV of “how popular was demand for weed among average people?” In his telling, until the very late 1960s, most people got weed through informal networks, and it tended to be low-quality, low-volume, and otherwise unimpressive. more a novelty than anything. It was the 1970s when it became a booming mass-market commodity.
The Boomer version from Texas: if you remember Austin in the seventies, you weren’t really there.
OT: Muh mom’s more general reminder: the news is what the 1% worst folks and 1% most powerful/rich folk are doing. During the Cal sit-ins while the cool kids were burning bras and draft cards, most folks were changing diapers, making widgets, driving trucks and combines, mowing the yard every week….in short: not the news. Like the FL school shoot-up, the images we see are statistically irrelevant.
It takes a lot more effort to be a hard core drunk like Bukowski or even Hemingway.
I find that it takes no effort at all.
Wait till you have to get up in the morning. Kills me.
Yes. It was certainly more common. The “hellraisers” of the 1960s: actors like Richard Burton, Richard Harris, O’Toole, Peter Finch…. musicians like Keith Moon, etc. They were genuinely hardcore party animals. as bad as anyone since, just that their choice of chemical was alcohol.
that type of person was celebrated by the media in the 1960s. by contrast, if you lit up a joint in any high-society function, you’d have been considered a pariah. people smoked weed in dorm rooms and yoga-retreats, and acted like it was some hugely mind-altering event.
basically, the 1960s were going from “zero to something” with drug-use, which makes it seem hugely counter-cultural. in reality it was fairly mild, rare, and hardly widespread.
The weed we got in the late 80’s was shit. It’s hard not to imagine how bad the stuff was 20 years earlier.
I did all my major smoking in the early nineties. Smoked maybe twice in the last five years and I can barely tolerate the stuff that’s around today it’s so strong.
It’s kind of sad. The new generation will never know the thrill of scraping a bong stem or bowl for resin.
Well you can’t Bogart it like back in the day, but just a taste gets you by. Yes the weed now days is way different. It smells good and everything unlike the ditch weed of the late 80’s. I don’t smoke much at all and am still working on 3g I bought back around Christmas. It is all sciency now.
An average teen probably spent more hours of their lives in the 1980s picking stems and seeds out of a bag of ammonia-stinking mexican brick weed than the average rock-star of the 1960s spent ‘actually being high’. but it was readily, widely available. all the time.
I’d guess there were more drugs in the parking lot of a single Dead show in the 1980s than there were at the entire 3 days of woodstock.
I’ve heard that the potency is much higher today and even in the 80’s than it was in the 60’s. If you smoked weed in the late 60’s (not the Jazz musician types), you probably felt like you were really breakin’ the law. The paranoia factor probably added a few degrees to their perceived high.
yes. this is basically my point
the drugs of the 1960s were (mostly, and with narrow exceptions) weak, hard to get, in limited quantity, and considered socially-taboo such that mass-consumption among diverse segments of society was unheard of.
it was more something engaged in by a very-narrow-segment, whose image was popularized and which became part of a generational-self-image
and the few upper-class boomers who managed to get high a few times in their college dorm rooms imagined, “Wow, the world is changing man” and spent the next 40 years telling anyone who would listen how crazy shit was back in them 1960s. “Revolution was in the air!”
Meanwhile, many teenagers in the 1980s were smoking more weed in a single summer than the boomers had seen in their entire lives. And not thinking anything particularly special about it.
I’d absolutely agree with that. Willie Nelson would also agree, I’m sure. He’d be the guy to ask since he’s spanned it all.
So the Drug War has worked! Better drugs, easier to get. Thanks, Nixon!
Uh….I submitted what I thought is a pretty good article on gun control. Now might be a good time to put it up.
+1 cap full of crab boil? KIDDING I would love to read it.
I owe Riven an apology. I submitted an article proposal and didn’t hear back for a few days and then forgot about it and I never check that email so missed her reply because I am an idiot. It wasn’t any good anyways.
You need to go on a more drunken rant like Mike S (I think).
That was The Hyperbole.
I’ve been falsely accused! That was the Hyperbole
And you’re disappointed that it wasn’t you, aren’t you?
It was a rather enviable rant.
OT: Remind me again what Glibs are in Kansas City metro area, please?
Howdy, neighbor! This brand spankin’ new Glib is in the KC area… Why do you ask?
Thinking about a get-together.
And welcome to Glibs! Remember: We are all Tulpa.
Look at me. I’m the face of the movement. Feed me your attention and I will lead you into the face of opposition. Do you see me? Do you? Someone is shoving me in front of the camera and I’ll smile as I call the oppressors “disgusting”. They disgust me. I want their guns. I want them to shut the hell up. Call me Boss Hogg. Being a child means nothing because I will cause you to bend your knee to me.
Being a child means nothing because I will cause you to bend your knee to me.
Can we just call him Joffrey and make fun of his parentage?
When will we have a march for common sense outrage control?
There is so much to be concerned (and write) about, to comment on, to rail against. I can’t prioritize. We are fiddling while Rome burns. Many of the things Trump is doing and wants to do can’t be reversed, even if Congress goes Democratic in November, even if the Mueller investigation charges him with collusion and obstruction of justice, even if Trump is impeached this year, He has already done his damage – and there is more to come in the moths ahead. Can it be stopped?
I’m done. I used up my 300-word limit and accomplished nothing. Sorry. I’ll try to get freed up to prioritize a more important subject by the end of April.
So much outrage, so little time.
Ha-ha. What? Does he think he has a big fan club in Bozeman waiting on pins and needles for his monthly letter to the editor? What a pompous douche.
Ask your doctor.
Oh FFS. You don’t give a flying fuck about endangered borderlands wildlife – admit it.
And people that dont have a cabbage between their ears are laughing at morons like John Shellenberger.
But he cares – about everything! What a saint.
He has already done his damage – and there is more to come in the moths ahead.
Moths are damaging, aren’t they?
Did you see what mothra did?
I hate these people.
Jesus Christ… just check into a camp already and leave the rest of us alone.
“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
She obviously understands that freedom is actually more important than safety, because she put “freedom” in quotes.
Of course, to her, the difference between “freedom” and freedom lies in that which we value and she doesn’t.
Nothing says security like not being able to defend yourself.
False choice dilemma. See: terrorism hysteria
There was a demonstration in Annapolis. Somebody brought a Jill Stein campaign poster. I mean, it actually said “Stein 2016”. That’s what we’re working with here.
Fuck it, the smart people are the ones with the guns. That’s got to be worth something, strategically speaking.
Well, let’s do away with that whole Bill of Rights then, yeah? Who needs protection from unreasonable searches and seizures when safety is at stake? Freedom of speech? Nope, safety. Freedom of religion? Definitely not. Safety. Protection against double jeopardy endangers safety, so that’s right out, too. If you’ve got nothing to hide, then you have no reason to stay silent. Safety demands you be compelled to testify against yourself. The National Guard needs your house in an emergency, so GTFO because safety.
On and on and on…
well thats just about as comprehensive a summation of the modern lefts platform as I’ve seen so…..
And people that dont have a cabbage between their ears are laughing at morons like John Shellenberger.
I’m too lazy to look it up, but I believe this shrieking nutjob Shelllenberger is a former mayor of Bozeman, Montana, or city council.
And to think there are some who ridicule democracy and the will of the people.
“Is freedom more important than safety?”
Yes. Yes, it is.
When I begin to despair, I try to tell myself that for every David Hogg there are hundreds of kids out there on dirt bikes trying to emulate Travis Pastrana, or on skis trying to be the next Bode Miller or Lindsey Vonn.
They’re out there, running and jumping and falling out of trees and shooting guns and racing go karts and smoking dope behind the barn. They understand freedom.
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I like Ike
Mike and Ike
Especially when he smacks Tina around.
If you’re not free, you’ll be unsafe when the wrong Top Man comes around.
Trailer homes are much less expensive and generally larger. Also, more accommodating to people with mobility issues since they don’t require climbing into a loft to sleep. But, those are for poor people, so tiny homes get the press.
That’s one of the most infuriating things about the recurring “think pieces” about the “homeless epidemic” and the lack of “affordable housing” in this part of the world. In the ten-plus years I have been here, I suspect there have been at least five thousand trailers eliminated in one way or another from the Greater Bozeman Co-Prosperity Sphere, but nobody ever talks about that. They want to know why cookie cutter developments full of five bedroom, six bathroom crackerbox houses keep popping up everywhere. And suddenly- “Boo hoo hoo, where will the people live? We need more of those ‘affordable’ quarter-million-dollar houses. Why doesn’t anybody build them?”
Huh- I was just looking out the window and noticed a trail of little bunny rabbit tracks in the fresh snow. Not much bigger than baby-sized.
Hope you get to see an owl kill the baby bunny!
Last winter I had a lone Harris’ Sparrow hanging around outside my home office window. So I put a feeder out for him. One day a few weeks later, I was sitting at my computer and something caught my eye. I looked up just in time to see a Shrike attack and carry off “my” sparrow. I had a sad for a while, but it I have to admit it was kind of cool.
My “help” with the feeder only drew him into the open, in the same place every single day. Made the shrike’s job easy.
Christ, I’m an asshole.
You’re a Glib. Of course you’re an asshole!
Good point. Thanks for the pep-talk.
Fuck these kids. Fuck the shaved head lesbian. Fuck Lou diamond Phillips. Fuck Cameron. Fuck Delaney.
Don’t forget Paul McCartney. He was at the NYC march.
I get tired of the ever-changing semantics. So now “gun violence” is the term? Well, we better disarm cops then because they perpetrate “gun violence” all the time.
And fuck you anyway, Paul. If Chapman hadn’t been able to get a gun he would have killed Lennon with a knife, or poison, or a car, or whatever he could think of.
And it’s too bad Chapman didn’t kill Yoko Ono, either.
I put on the TV (my first mistake) and see this blonde teenager named Delaney saying the nra talked trump out of passing gun control. This is dumb on so many levels I can’t even.
Oh wow. That’s world class stupid.
Also, I just assumed you meant Dana Delaney. Ha-ha.
(still would)
“I should’ve killed one of the other Beatles.”
Don’t forget Paul McCartney. He was at the NYC march.
Hey! He’s a gun violence survivor, too. Some guy he used to work with got shot, you big meanie.
“One of my best friends was killed in gun violence right around here, so it’s important to me,” McCartney said.
“I was… like… four thousand miles away at the time, but I was still traumatized.”
Nobody fucking talks like that. Granted, McCartney is about as far away from the average person as you can get, but who the fuck says “killed in gun violence”?
Hope you get to see an owl kill the baby bunny!
*starts popcorn, pulls chair up to window*
Man, a couple of years ago, the hubs and I were awakened by the terrible non-human screams of what we could only conclude was a rabbit being shredded by an owl outside our bedroom window. We are all for the circle of life and stuff, but man, I don’t need to hear that again ever.