I heard a lot of complaining this morning that Winter won’t leave. I feel it, too. Why, we were out on the beach yesterday and it was really too cold for anyone except the little kids, the Canadians, and people with at least 4 inches of blubber around their body to stay in the water. And now both my kids say their ears hurt. This damn winter, man. It has gone on too long.
I haven’t been following the budgets of Oklahoma or Kentucky very closely, but the truism of state budgets are that there are only 3 cost centers: schools, hospitals, and prisons. In many states, that middle one has been sucking all the air out of the room for about a decade. But those inbred, redneck (oilneck) hillbilly fucks might also just hate larnin’ in general.
Those cookies were so fucking addicting they must have been laced…. Or not!
Costa Rica elects former PM to presidency in… surprise upset? So the guy ran on desperately needed fiscal reforms in a country that has received 4 credit downgrades and his gay marriage position made a difference? Skeptical Brett L (who worked in CR for about a year once) is skeptical.
The propellantless EM drive (now re-monikered as MEGA) gets a big phase II funding thumbs up. I really hope this isn’t bunk science, but the effects measured are too small for me to feel excited about this technology — even though much work was put into verifying the result, put me in the camp that says they really need a strong showing in this 2nd phase.
But if the thruster works, we’ll be ready for Ballrooms of Mars.
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*glowers balefully*
What? I walked by the beach at Fort Sheridan yesterday. Was in my winter coat and still nearly got frost bit but still I was there.
Not everyone enjoys the beach.
Apparently, what we need is some common sense cookie control…
You apparently have never tried bringing a baked good into a school.
+1 That one fucking kid with a peanut allergy.
“The propellantless EM drive (now re-monikered as MEGA)…”
I’ll be in my bunk.
Unbelievably, on topic.
Busty, beautiful bikini babes at the beach.
http://archive.is/umznn
3, 6, 7, 9, 14, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 42, 44, 55,
Number 6 is not in a bikini.
Not *yet*, honeybunch. But if you ask nicely ….
There are less sensationalist ways to keep the sheep on our side of the marches, but I’ll be damned if a bikini clad rhif chwech isn’t effective.
Rule #34, man.
Kevin Williamson is ruining the Atlantic
But as the memory of the USSR came to be replaced by the reality of NAFTA, WTO, ASEAN, etc., the fruits of globalism—everyday low prices at Walmart—turned out to be uninspiring to great masses of voters to whom those benefits are invisible for the same reason that water is invisible to fish. Ancient prejudices, including the prejudices against social relations with foreigners, began to reassert themselves, as did the expectation that government should take a paternal interest in the people rather than a merely administrative one. Libertarianism, with its emphasis on free trade, its deference to the market, and its hostility toward social-welfare programs, went quickly out of fashion. How quickly? Last week, my former National Review colleague Victor Davis Hanson published an essay calling for a stronger regulatory hand over high-tech companies, fondly recalling the “cultural revolution of muckraking and trust-busting” of the 19th century, and ending with a plea for “some sort of bipartisan national commission that might dispassionately and in disinterested fashion offer guidelines to legislators” about more tightly regulating these companies, perhaps on the public-utility model.
That from a magazine whose founders once dreamed of overturning the New Deal.
Those crazy libertarians, pretending to be relevant.
Lots of good Trump-bashing in there, so he’ll probably survive to write another day.
He just needs to suggest that those who advocate deficit spending should be hanged.
everyday low prices at Walmart
That must be it. Williamson favored Hillary Clinton over Trump because of low prices at Walmart.
if People Of Walmart aren’t Clinton target voter base, then who is?
OK, help a Canadian here – is Marco Rubio truly Libertarian-leaning? Cause I never ever, here or at H&R, see anything but derision for him.
He is nowhere close to libertarian-leaning.
I mean, Williamson did qualify as “more libertarian-leaning than Trump” but that would have included most of the field, no?
Not mentioned in the entire article: Gary Johnson, who would,I assume, be pulling actual libertarian-leaning voters from Republicans and thus made the remainder less representative, but, maybe it’s for the best not to remind people of The Johnson.
Rand Paul hadnt dropped out by South Carolina, so including his numbers would have been useful.
Since KW couldn’t be arsed to include a link to the source, or, heaven forbid, cite any other data, I can’t be arsed to look for it, either.
I meant KW. Yeah, I am not looking either.
What is a Leppo, Alex?
I mean, Williamson did qualify as “more libertarian-leaning than Trump” but that would have included most of the field, no?
This is true, but I think he included Rubio (and not Rand or others) in that little line was for the 0% support – his point was that of all the candidates more libertarian than Trump (most of them), their support among self-identified libertarians ranged from none (Rubio) to paltry (Cruz).
Right, but I’d expect that self-identified libertarians would give Rubio 0% whether Trump was in the mix or not.
Or maybe it’s just that, as I said, every time I saw him mentioned by libertarians, it was in derogatory manner, so his inclusion puzzled me in a way that, say, Carson’s wouldn’t.
Not in any way that I’ve ever been able to discern.
He pretended to be libertarian-leaning at some point in campaigning before the “Great Water Drinking Incident”. Running against Mitt Romney in 2012, I think?
He’s in the Paul Ryan wing of the GOP. Voted in during the tea party wave, but has never been a consistent defender of conservatism, let alone libertarianism.
But he is very conservative by Florida standards, which is why he stands out. Florida is the largest swing state, so of course the most conservative person to represent the entire state is going to stand out in the Republican party.
Also, he beat Charlie Crist and kept that flake out of the Senate, so for that he gets to wear a little medal on his chest – like Trump does for keeping HRC out of the White House.
Sadly, Charlie Crist still represents me in Congress
No. Marco is pretty much a standard-issue moderate Republican. He’ll say nice things about taxes and spending, but when push comes to shove, his war-boner is as hard as the rest of them, and he’ll get as squishy as the rest of them when it comes to pulling the trigger on actual, meaningful cuts.
The funny part is that he is also, at times, derided as being near-Hitler, when he’s actually the sort of moderate the Left bemoans don’t exist anymore.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, Brooks. It doesn’t appear that Williamson has said anything untrue, and he seems to be pointing out the reality of the situation within the GOP.
Although he could be considered the Nick Gillespie of the Atlantic now for this –
Libertarian attitudes enjoy some political support: Nick Gillespie, a true-believing libertarian, insists even in the teeth of the current authoritarian ascendancy that we still are experiencing a national—yes!—“libertarian moment,” based on Gallup polling data finding more support for broadly libertarian political sensibilities (27 percent) than for any other single group: conservative, liberal, or populist.
Sarc, I think. Many leftists were horrified that Williamson was being allowed to bring his “alt-right” ideas to the Atlantic. LPB is pointing out the stupidity of said leftists.
Copy that!
*sarc meter recalibrated*
Also, I love Williamson for one of the same reasons I love Jordan Peterson and a few other people – the leftists *and* the Trumpistas hate them.
Why do the “Trumpistas” hate Jordan Peterson? I’ve never heard about that.
There are a certain segment of Trump supporting white nationalists who don’t appreciate Peterson calling them on their identity politics; many of whom believe Peterson to be beholden to (((them))).
I used to be a fairly active member of one of the bigger Peterson discussion groups on Facebook, and the place was full of them. Any criticism of Trump was met with accusations of being a ‘cuck’, even if it came for Peterson himself. Peterson has been a major critic of the Saudis, and said something critical of his visit to Riyadh and they went nuts on him.
Thanks. I didn’t know.
You should go see the comments section at Peterson’s website on his article from last week addressing ‘The Jewish Question.’ It’s a cesspool of many of the same people I bumped into before.
the fruits of globalism—everyday low prices at Walmart—turned out to be uninspiring to great masses of voters to whom those benefits are invisible for the same reason that water is invisible to fish.
While there’s something to that, there’s also the flip side of the coin – the costs of globalism turn out to be invisible to policy makers because they aren’t the ones bearing the brunt of those costs. Costs and benefits are never equally distributed across time or across populations. For better or worse, there is at least a perception that (a) globalism isn’t cost-free (economically or culturally) and (b) those costs are borne disproportionately by the working class, regardless of the offsetting benefit of being able to get cheap crap at Walmart.
The coastal elites are blind to this perception and its underlying realities. That’s how they got Trump, and as they show no inclination to recognize these concerns, its how they might just get more Trump. Mexico is sending Trump a gift right now – convoys of illegals being shepherded to the US border. Its why Trump ashcanned DACA and threatened NAFTA over the weekend. We’ll see how it plays, but it could be just the thing to get Trump’s base back in the game after being kicked in the teeth these past couple of months.
For better or worse, there is at least a perception that (a) globalism isn’t cost-free (economically or culturally) and (b) those costs are borne disproportionately by the working class, regardless of the offsetting benefit of being able to get cheap crap at Walmart.
I’d say it’s more than a perception: it’s reality. I think both these propositions can be true: that globalization yields the greatest collective prosperity of any trade policy and also that it harms certain individuals and groups. There are very few things in life that don’t have a negative trade-off: even the most beneficial policies have a down side, which, if significant, is ignored at your own risk.
“prejudices against social relations with foreigners”
WTF does this even mean?
Yokels are racist.
Not letting your daughter have a Quinceañera?
Claiming that buying a car in cash is a sign of mental illness.
…putting Cash for Clunkers in a new light?
I blame the Jews.
That’s…that’s even more confusing than your usual links.
Masturbating to that would just feel wrong?
People not interested in sharing weed or having Butt relations with Mexicans?
Ummmmm…. struggling to understand how this is legal…
https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi/grindr-hiv-status-privacy
People often put their HIV status on their profile. Being positive isn’t that big a deal any more what with effective antiretrovirals for both prophylaxis and treatment.
My guess is without reading the article is that the data has been volunteered by its subscribers, and is thus exempt from HIPAA.
Of course, how many of the subscribers read and understood the TOS is a different issue.
Patients aren’t subject to HIPAA. They can disclose their medical info to anyone they like. Grindr isn’t subject to HIPAA either, as it is neither a health care provider nor a third-party payor.
*sigh* Thanks for the reminder that I still have to complete my 2018 HIPAA training.
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and Sexual Harassment ( anti, not ‘how to’), Sunshine Act, OSHA Chemical Safety (despite working from home on a computer), and Active Shooter (again despite working from home).
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Do you not have an MSDS for water over your “work” sink? For shame!
MSDSs are obsolete. They are now SDSs, saving 25% in typing time, and contributing $14.7 billlyun to the economy annually.
Yes. The information is user-submitted (and not verified by Grindr in any way). Selling the data seems like poor form, but I can’t think of anything technically wrong with it. If they aren’t making enough money on the absurd amount of advertising in-app I don’t know who *is* making money on advertising at this point.
OK, personal question and you can tell me to fuck off if you like.
To what degree does/did/would a grindr user’s HIV status impact your selection of partners (assuming you’re a grindr user)?
To the extent that I pay much attention to the discussion, it seems there’s a very broad spectrum of tolerance for HIV+ in partners, where some people don’t factor it into their risk calculation at all, and some are still very HIV averse.
Someone who identifies themselves as HIV- and hasn’t been tested recently is going to sketch me out waaaaaay more than someone who is upfront about being HIV+ and undetectable. The CDC recently (in the last year) acknowledged that transmission potential if someone is on their proper treatment regimen is basically nil.
I guess there’s a fair amount of Game Theory goes on within the community.
Is regular, precautionary testing pretty much de rigeur nowadays if an individual has an active social life? It’s starting to look as though that’s a sensible measure in ‘socially active’ straight community too.
I don’t know the stats on that. Within the last few years I know the guidelines changed in favor of making HIV testing part of more routine visits for more people. I’ve always been surprised by conversations with straight man-hos who had never gotten a full battery of STI tests before. I don’t really know if that’s still common, but I always thought it was inconsiderate.
I have friends who are probably in the ‘man-ho’ tribe. About half of them have regular-ish testing – every 6 months – just so they have credentials if asked.
One of them must have a deal with a local lab, because he’s a popular guy, but he has tests every 60 days for whatever the diseases du jours are, including HPV. It always struck me as being the sane thing to do, but he surprised me by saying that a lot of women don’t even think about this kind of stuff at all.
I can only presume that the guys who don’t have regular testing make out OK with the (majority of) women who don’t ask for medical background.
I go quarterly. I was in the waiting room once and this guy comes in asking them if he needed to be tested more often than quarterly be cause he’s REALLLLLLLY slutty and the staff told him that quarterly was just fine.
I didn’t realize there were reliable tests for men for HPV.
I don’t go into the tawdry details of his testing – I figured that maybe he was getting oral scrapes done for precancerous growths or something, but he’s certainly testing for a shitload of stuff regularly.
It’s possible he’s a hypochondriac, but I’d have thought that would have dissuaded him from being quite so indiscriminate with his partners, but hey, I’m a much-married man; wtf would I know.
Re: Pot cookies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7rDSQHhDU
is Marco Rubio truly Libertarian-leaning?
That depends. Compared to Lindsey Graham? Sure, why not?
That fucker is itching for a full blown war with Russia and one in Syria (I might have failed to list a couple dozen countries he has a problem with)
GETCHA LEARN ON.
https://twitter.com/AlexiaCampbell/status/980798770244923392
Why do they even use textbooks?
Because cheap e-books with dynamically updating content aren’t a very effective cudgel in contract negotiations?
“Cheap” e-books would probably cost you more in the end. It seems whenever a school implements some new high tech idea, they end up just flushing money down the drain. Kids are hard on stuff, especially stuff they don’t own, so you’d have to have a near indestructible e-reader to make it worthwhile. The cost in books, remember, comes mostly from the content, not the printed pages. Dover Thrift sells common domain novels/texts for ~$3 a book, paperback. Books are cheap – text is not.
So in the examples she posts….
How exactly does a litterature book become outdated? Are Shakespeare, Emerson, and Frost updating their works on a regular basis?
Probably not the literature itself, but publishers will often shift formatting around enough that from one version to another you can’t use the same answer keys or page numbers. As books get destroyed you can’t replace them as you go. I had two classes over the years where they where half the class had one edition and half the class had a newer one. Even when all the questions would be the same they’d be in a different order.
“If you have the red book turn to page 257, and if you have the green book turn to 262.” for every set of instructions.
Kristen to the courtesy telephone:
Closing dates for Colorado Ski Resorts.
•Arapahoe Basin: June 3, 2018
•Aspen Highlands April 8, 2018
•Aspen Mountain April 15, 2018
•Buttermilk April 8, 2018
•Cooper April 8, 2018
•Copper Mountain April 15, 2018
•Crested Butte April 8, 2018
•Echo Mountain April 15, 2018
•Eldora April 15, 2018
•Loveland May 6, 2018
•Monarch April 8, 2018
•Powderhorn March 25, 2018
•Purgatory April 15, 2018
•Silverton April 8, 2018
•Snowmass April 15, 2018
•Steamboat April 15, 2018
•Telluride April 8, 2018
•Winter Park April 22, 2018
Sadz
Go A-Basin!!
That seems early for Telluride. Don’t they usually stay open later than that? Also, how dare you include Loveland as a ski resort.
Telluride got fuck all for snow this year. I was talking to a kitchen manager who works up there last week. All the xmas cancellations rescheduled for spring break. They had 6500 people a day up there with not much of the mountain open. He said everybody just got drunk.
Interesting. I remember looking at the snow base in the newspaper back in the day and Telluride always had double what Copper or Vail (not including the back bowls) had. Global warming *SMDH.
My friend in Santa Fe said the mountains around her were bare.
Ya, it is not uncommon for the southern mtns to miss out on the snow. It was a monster year last year. It is all cyclical I think. I remember a winter in the late 70’s/early 80’s they had to spread straw on the bottom hill coming down to the warming house at CB. You had to get up a good bit of speed to make it over the mud and straw so you didn’t have to walk down. You spent all winter on your rock skis that year. Someone printed up t-shirts: “I survived the winter of 197?” with a drawing of a dude hiking across the desert wearing his skis.
In other Colorado news, 2018 big-game applications are due tomorrow. Ante up, folks.
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say, Brooks.
There was a bit of a discussion about Williamson, the other day, with links to other writers outraged at the audacity of a rock ribbed liberal publication like the Atlantic providing him a platform from which to spew his hateful lies.
Williamson implied that Democrats should be looking to court libertarian-leaning voters on a set of issues. Since It Is Known that libertarians are merely low-tax Nazis, he is clearly the history’s second greatest monster (after Milton Friedman).
They already have weed, Mexicans and Ass-Sex. Shouldn’t that be enough?
Literally P/M/AS is what KW wants libertarian-Democrat alliance on (because fuck knows “civil liberties” don’t include free speech, free association or gun rights).
No alliance on War? Oh yeah Russiagate precludes that…
And what sort of deal on criminal justice can we get with the Dems? White Men should be automatically convicted?
Criminal Justice = Pot
Trade = Mexicans
Civil Liberties = Ass Sex
Do you even Gillespie, bro?
My bad. Anyway is KW’s presence at the Atlantic proof on the libertarian moment?
Of course it is.
Literally anything is a proof of The Libertarian Moment if you get Gillespie drunk enough.
Gotcha.
Fuck public schools. Starve the beast and kill the unions.
Fuck these teachers too. Get a job at a private school or STFU.
Caravan Of 1,200 Migrants Will Soon Arrive At The U.S. Border
We know they’re coming, so meet them at the border and turn them away, right?
This is unacceptable. People are talking about repealing NAFTA, but I think a better solution is taxing remittances at 75%. Remittances make up such a huge part of Mexico’s economy that would hurt them more than any NAFTA finagling. And if these people are so pitiful and needy, why can’t they get asylum in Mexico?
I think this is a Hogg-style move; they’re overplaying their hand. When you pull shit like this, you undermine your “poor, pathetic immigrant that just wants to come and work” narrative. They hurt their cause more than help it by riling up Trump’s base.
Eh, tax remittances and they’ll switch to Somali way of “call this guy and give him cash, and he’ll call his guy back home and give the cash, and they’ll actually move the money at a later date”.
Riling up the bases may be the key, though. They need fresh supply of easily mined racism for the election.
I think you’re right. Remittances can at least be traced, and besides which, I don’t like the idea of using taxation to punish people for using their property in ways we don’t like.
The important thing is to punish the Der Ewige Mexikaner.
though they have made it clear their intention is not to help these migrants obtain legal status to enter and reside in the U.S. legally
Thanks, assholes.
Fire ants, african bees, and now this.
We should just plant a big row of kudzu along the border and it will cover the entire Rio Grande valley by the time they get here.
As much as anything, I dropped that Williamson quote because I am gratified that he appears to agree with my assessment that Victor Davis Hanson’s piece about “trust-busting the tech sector” was a load of idiotic crapola.
The link is, sadly, the most fun part of the article (rock’n’roller battles gospel singer). The second most fun is that it was an Alvarado vs Alvarado election, which is like something out of Futurama.
Godspeed, my friend. There comes a time when such policies are implemented because they are the only policies left, and the article makes it sound like Costa Rica is getting there.
They are apparently very distant cousins of some sort.
From a linked article:
Now I’m curious how the female ancestor passed her name on down. Unacknowledged bastardry? A cross-class match? Just a fucking impressive matriarch?
Something to do with Spanish naming customs, mebbe? Not sure.
I believe they use that convention in Costa Rica (my co-workers have several “family” names, which keeps confusing HR).
Every US President is a descendant of William the Conqueror I believe. Certainly all but Van Buren was descended from King John.
Every US president is descended from Alfred the Great as well
ALL US PRESIDENT DESCENDENT OF STEVE SMITH.
ALL GLIBS DESCENDENT OF STEVE SMITH.
STEVE EVERLASTING.
LOTS OF INCEST, BUT WHAT STEVE GONNA DO?
LOTS OF INCEST, BUT WHAT STEVE GONNA DO?
Rape his way out of the problem, of course.
That is true thru 2012 … how about for Trump? Does he get John also?
I figure William is a safe bet.
Trump is apparently descended from King John too. Though I did read someone on quora claiming that Trump’s royal ancestry is fake (note: trump himself did not claim this ancestry) and that of Hillary too.
One does have to wonder why the fuck it even matters whether one has the blood of kings in their veins.
Well it does to this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_royal_candidate_theory
I’d be more proud if my ancestors had the blood of kings on their hands.
Well, that’s enough to turn me full anti-monarchist.
Anti-monarchism worked out so well in the US, China, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Greece, Italy, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc.
Also Jeremy Corbyn is a Republican…
“I’d be more proud if my ancestors had the blood of kings on their hands”
Et tu, Brute?
I’d be more proud if my ancestors had the blood of kings on their hands.
So I’m at a museum with my boyfriend and some of his friends from out of town and we come on a statue of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. His friends are in another room and I go “Ah yeah, the gay couple that murderated the tyrant of Athens and set the stage for democratic reforms.”
I was accused of making up bullshit, was mostly validated by Wikipedia, and then the BF went to find his friends and have me repeat the story. The important thing is that I only remember any of this because they are known to history as THE TYRANNICIDES. I cannot think of a radder title to have.
but how can we take advantage of the quickening after taking their heads if they do not have the blood of kings
God dammit Jesse, I was trying to avoid learning anything today. Come for the snark, stay for the Greek history lessons.
Have the guy from Scrubs build a shield over the Earth?
God dammit Jesse
I hear that string of words with surprising frequency.
But if the thruster works, we’ll be ready for Ballrooms of Mars.
Nice, nice choice.
The house band?
Actually, this is better.
Great music choice Bret. I really like T-Rex and in particular this song.
I decided I needed a mental break yesterday and spent all day watching the Star Wars marathon on TNT. My awesome wife knew I needed a mental break and didn’t bother me. That was nice.
+1 Meesa never going back there
+1 Meesa never going back there
Someone posted some prequel SW fan edits on this site a while back (as a guest article), and the first two were a remarkable improvement over their unedited counterparts.
That was CPRM and agreed, they are better than the originals. He chopped a lot of the meesa bs.
I have nothing to hide. I’m thinking about sex all of the time.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/02/oh-no-mind-reading-device-translates-thoughts-text/
Jay: Yo man, tell me something about me.
Rufus: You masturbate more than anyone on the planet.
Jay: Aw fuck, everyone knows that. Tell me something nobody knows.
Rufus: When you do it, you’re thinking about guys.
[a shocked Silent Bob stares at Jay]
Jay: Dude, not all the time.
Tranny are ok though right?
Who isn’t?
This blows one of my futurist predictions.
I claimed in the past that mind reading technology would never be invented because a) guy scientists would never publish their finding because they would recognize how destructive it would be (way more than the h-bomb) and b) chick scientists would never believe their results.
Chick Scientist: Hey the mind reading machine says you are thinking of fucking me in the ass right now! While getting rimmed by my grandmother?
Dude Test Subject: What! No way!!!
Chick Scientist: Yeah, that couldn’t possibly be right. Well back to the drawing board
You ask for Big Brother, you get Big Brother.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/02/parkland-students-unhappy-new-reality-demanded/
Bunch of privileged little fucks don’t know that’s been the reality for decades for kids in a lot of inner city schools.
That is a really good point. How does the intersectionality calculus work out in this situation?
They’re in Parkland/Coral Springs, so they’re a bunch of rich white kids (and here, Cuban counts as white). But they’re popular with the left, so that messes up the calculus.
You wanted a police state, you got a police state.
Apparently they are also whining that they “aren’t being listened to,” those poor dears.
Not being listened to = people don’t immediately do what we want
Show me a teenager who thinks they’re being listened to.
Some people just don’t care about children. How many more children must die before these common sense reforms are implemented.
It also looks like I picked the wrong time to stop being a practicing ceramic scientist. The thruster somehow uses ceramic piezo actuators to steal momentum from the entire universe…???
What has the universe ever done for us? I say steal away.
What. a. surprise.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/warner-reverses-course-assault-style-weapons-ban/
“Assault-style”
because Assault Weapons wasn’t meaningless enough
some historical revisionism here
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/04/mohammed-bin-salman-iran-israel/557036/
***
Goldberg: It’s good to hear about some of the things you are promising to do in Saudi Arabia, but it’s very early in the process. Yours is a big, complicated country, and it’s very hard to shift culture. Could you start by talking about Islam, the role you think Islam should play in the world?
Mohammed bin Salman: Islam is a religion of peace. This is the translation of Islam. God, in Islam, gives us two responsibilities: The first is to believe, to do good things, and not bad things. If we do bad things, God will judge us on Judgment Day.
Our second duty as Muslims is to spread the word of God. For 1,400 years, Muslims have been trying to spread the word of God. In the Middle East, in North Africa, in Europe, they weren’t allowed to spread the word. That’s why they fought to spread the word. But you also see that, in a lot of countries in Asia—Indonesia, Malaysia, India—Muslims were free to spread the word. They were told, “Go ahead, say whatever you want to say, the people have free will to believe whatever they want to believe in.” Islam, in this context, was not about conquering, it was about peacefully spreading the word.
…
MbS: Yes, I will explain in a moment. In this triangle, they are trying to promote the idea that our duty as Muslims is to reestablish the caliphate, to reestablish the mindset of the caliphate—that the glory of Islam is in building an empire by force. But God didn’t ask us to do this, and the Prophet Muhammad did not ask us to do this. God only asked us to spread the word. And this mission is accomplished. Today, every human has the right to choose their belief. In every country, it is possible to buy religious books. The message is being delivered. We have no duty anymore to fight to spread Islam. But in the triangle of evil, they want to manipulate Muslims, to tell them their duty as Muslims—their dignity as Muslims —requires the establishment of a Muslim empire.
***
Saying Muslims were just spreading the word is like saying the Mongols were just riding their horses.
I should add that I’m glad this influential leader is saying Muslims no longer have a duty to fight to spread Islam. Hopefully others will adopt a similar view.
Of course, it’s kind of bullshit. But I’m fine with Muslims embracing a watered down bullshit form of their religion if that matters.
The Prophet Muhammed most certainly did call for an Empire. He’s the one who started building it.
….or it gets the hose again.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/athens-county-man-agrees-to-not-spray-wife-with-hose-following-domestic-dispute
News is too local for Glibertarians.com.
When deputies arrived, they said the husband then agreed to work on their relationship and not spray his wife with a hose.
Back to hitting her with a bag of oranges?
Isn’t this just a scaled up version of spraying a cat with a squirt gun for discipline?
I sprayed a girl the other day and she said it was like oatmeal. I’m still not sure what to make of that.
You need to turn that into a selling point. It’s all about marketing.
It’s got fiber!
Alt-right Nazi Nearly Kills a Man for Bumping into His Car
He seems like an OK guy to me, though. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ok, I loled
Well played.
Excellent
“ok, now make your crazy-face”
Lady is like, “nah, all you’re getting is my resting-bitch-face”
That Harold Ortman fellow has all the things going on in his photo.
face charges of third-degree Manufacturing Methamphetamine, fifth-degree Conspiracy and seventh-degree Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance
That is a whole lot of useless degrees? Like Evergreen State College degrees…
http://theconversation.com/land-reform-is-a-zimbabwe-success-story-it-will-be-the-basis-for-economic-recovery-under-mnangagwa-88205
See Mugabe was right!
“Highest in two decades”, and what was it before the seizures by chance?
Mnangagwa is also most likely candidate for instigator of the Matabeleland Massacre,
Zimbabwe produced more maize in 2017 than was ever grown by white farmers . . . Maize production in 2017 was 2.2m tonnes, the highest in two decades.
Seeing as the big land seizures were around two decades ago, I am seeing a problem with the claim that Zimbabwe produced more maize this year than ever in its history. They kinda give the game away with that “two decades” thing, which isn’t consistent with the “ever grown by white farmers” thing.
And chocolate rations have been increased to 1/2
Can’t remember if I posted this dog story before. But it is well worth posting again because it is such a beautiful story.
I think you did, but it’s worth another look.
Dogs are awesome.
Yeah they are. I was cleaning out email today and ran across that link.
Thought I’d repost it for all the mutt lovers here. Just watching that dog wag its entire body makes me smile.
Thanks for that.
All I could ever have were cats, who would walk out of your apartment during a fire while you were sleeping if they could work a doorknob.
That reminds me, anyone else ever read The Mysterious Stranger by Twain? There was a great parable of dog loyalty in there. Man beats his dog his whole life, dog saves the man’s life, and the Angel says, ” And they say dogs have no soul. “
That one always makes me cry. That and all the soldier returns home videos.
Feel like maybe they’re taking the promo efforts for the Toxic Avenger reboot a little too far
Jesse Hernandez crawled through a river of shit and came out litigious on the other side.
I want a red hate with “Mach Effect Gravity Assist” in white embroidery.
A hat would be nice too
‘The Hate and Hair’ just became meta
/sigh
Somewhere, Freud just snorted a line of coke and started laughing manically.
I thought he injected it, Knick-style
*tv-show, not basketball.
**also, sherlock
I’m not sure why you’d exclude the basketball?
+1 Michael Ray Richardson. His nickname was not Sugar because he could box.
I’m having a hard time seeing this piece as anything other than paid-promotional-attempt to resuscitate some Hollywood loser’s flagging career
i mean, who else gets this sort of “come on, give them a second chance” type shit? “Could happen to you”? Think of all the times you yourself have….. decided to decapitate someone in effigy? wtf
“Its not *me* that’s stupid; it could have been anyone! We’re all this dumb! Just think about that!”
(thinks about it)
No, it just you, really.
What “happened to” her is that she made a tasteless, graphic joke to promote herself, was called on it, and suffered the consequences. Hasn’t “free speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences” been a long-time taunt by the left whenever a conservative gets bounced from Twitter or fired for saying something untoward?
Doubling down wasn’t particularly wise either.
Neither was apologizing, and then retracting her apology. And that tearful presser with Gloria Allred or whoever wasn’t a good look, either. Jesus, lady, stand by your fucking work or go home and pout, but not both. You come off looking like a yoyo.
It can’t happen to me. I don’t get professional photos taken of me holding up severed heads.
Selfie stick?
Sure, let’s give her a pass. But it is totally cool to try to ruin Laura Ingraham for calling some 15 minutes of famer a “whiner.”
I’m guessing the rodeo clown who was fired for wearing an Obama mask didn’t get any second chances.
The Twinks are a bunch of whiners.
Leading 6-0 in the 9th, Their pitcher had a 1 hitter going and they put on one of the fancy new shifts. But instead of swinging away and hitting into the shift, the Oriole hitter laid down a bunt away from the shift and got a hit.
After the game the Twinkies were miffed that he didn’t go along with their plan. According to them there is some unwritten rule against bunting away from a shift in a blowout game. Or something. I still don’t quite get what they are bitching about.
Pussies. I suppose they aren’t supposed to run out routine ground balls, either? You leave the entire side of the infield wide open and expect a professional to act unprofessionally? Morons.
Baseball is stupid, anyway.
I like baseball, but almost always just listen to it on the radio while I do something else. I watch a few innings on TV at most before wandering off.
Baseball is perfect for radio and the newspaper. When I was a kid, one of the fun things every morning was to check the sportspage to see what happened the day before. Watching the races via the newspaper was pretty fun. Now with ESPN and the internet, it isn’t the same.
Sure, I’ll turn it on the radio in the garage when I’m putzing around, but I can’t remember the last time I watched a game.
Blow out? Like no team ever has scored six runs in an inning? Reel it in if you are ahead, but don’t expect a team on the losing end to give up.
I saw that. What are they complaining about? He didn’t do it to break up a no-no and they won the game right?
Like I said, I have no fucking idea why they are bitching.
I don’t understand why more hitters don’t bunt away from those ridiculous shifts. I have a suspicion that a lot of players today don’t have the basic skills to lay down a bunt like the old time players could (mostly because they are all raised to swing for the fences).
Ted Williams didnt bunt against the shift either.
My thought is: if you shift you don’t get to bitch about someone playing hard in the 9th
I happened to be watching that game. Smart move by sisco. I never understood why more players don’t do that in this analytics age. The odds are way more in your favor than swinging away.
Nothing left to cut.
What is most infuriating is that they list out all the other cities and neighborhoods who already have an artist-in-residence program.
Is the old American Association the ultimate glibertarian league?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_(19th_century)
Did they offer Mexicans and ass-sex, too?
Since Gordilocks is posting today – any word on when you’ll get that follow-up interview with talkcdl?
This is fine
“” U.S.-led forces have increased their presence along the front line opposite the Turkey-led forces”
trump’s “maybe this isn’t a hot idea anymore” makes more sense.
What a shit show. It is impossible for that to end well as there is no conceivable good ending. We need to walk away from that mess.
Red flag, red flag, red flag, red flag…..
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/02/police-legally-seizing-guns-under-red-flag-laws.html
After further review, fuck off slavers.
Citizen’s arrest!, Citizen’s arrest!
I was thinking the ‘Burbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPO1EQmj05I
That makes me want fried chicken.
Can I get some good Glib karma over here?
If nova wins, I, for the first time ever, will win an office pool!
Yeah, I’m thinking that won’t be a problem.
Michigan is freaking annoying. They can’t score but keep on winning by wearing out teams with their defense. And Wagner is a match up nightmare on offense.
Glibertarians WORKS at my new job. Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot. I’ll be busy this week but hellooooooo. I have two monitors now so double bonus.
Once I went to 2 monitors I could never go back.
It’s freakin’ awesome. 2 is 1 and 1 is none. (let’s see who knows that last sentence, gotta know who is prepared)
And I have a fancy desk that moves up and down I guess so I can get under it easier…
St. Louis may have to run the table if they want to make the playoffs, eh?
Yeah…Go Blues!
I have low expectations during this spring blizzard. Now I see why u guys welcome the walkers after all this cold.
Are you taking naps under your desk?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W__qCFWi1KA
I have 8 monitors on my desk connected to 4 computers and a security camera system. It’s like NASA’s launch control all up in this mutha!
More like the real pornhub
Once i went to 3 monitors, i looked down on 2-monitor people as inferior beings.
*3rd was bloomberg terminal. and it was mostly just for show.
When my brother visited me in the office, he saw my 3 monitor setup and i could tell he was like, “whoa. you a boss nigga”
I visited his office 6 months later. And this is what i saw.
its literally just a dick-waving contest at that point.
the second he left me alone in his office, i changed his screensavers to this and locked it
he got very mad
Much less stressful on the LCD array. You were helping him preserve the investment.
screensavers
TW: pedantry
Desktop wallpaper is the decorative image that sits on your desktop. Screensaver is the moving image that pops up when your computer is idle to save older screens from developing burn-in/after image. Screensavers kinda became moot once monitors were less prone to burn in and were better equipped to turn themselves off as soon as the systems went idle.
i know. i think his thing defaulted to ‘sleep mode’. I just knew he was so technologically inept (seriously: his wife is more computer savvy than he is) he’d be confused on how to change it back.
the KISS album cover looked really dope spread across 6 screens tho
Many years ago I took a class with individual computers. Just before the lunch break I changed the screen saver to the floating text saying, “Drive C: formatted. Press any key to continue.”
After the break the instructor grabbed me and said, “You got me. I thought that I’d seen everything but that made me panic.”
… Hobbit
I took a screenshot of my college roommate’s desktop, removed all of the icons, hid the taskbar and set the image as a wallpaper.
He did not have a very productive day.
That’s mean.
That is overkill. Once you hit 3, you should add a virtual desktop tool and then you can swap them out on your displays. It also helps you to hide your window where you are posting to glibertarians.
Lol that’s straight out of a modern day American Pycho
I have a 3-screen (3x22in widescreens) setup here at home. Ain’t no big deal. If I went for larger screens I’d drop it to 2, but having that third screen for event loggers, server KPIs etc is a real boon.
I recently went to two 28″ monitors.
Holy shit, my neck hurts by the end of the day.
That’s just red meat for the squirrels.
Nice!
Speaking of two monitor set-ups, my work has hooked me up with two nice widescreens for my home office. I’m hesitant to ask this question realizing it’s potential absurdity, but is there any way my work could possibly tell if I were to use them for non-work purposes if I hooked them to my personal laptop using HDMI or USB cables?
I am not very tech oriented and have been amazed at the ways data can be stored and retrieved.
Only if you threw something through then after a 14 year old kid kills and teabags your character.
Monitors have no memory
Thanks. Not much into MMORPGs but sound guidance all the same.
Yaaas! Welcome back!
Bacon! My man!
*drops gloves for a high-five*
I have zero monitors. 100% laptop.
Cuz u cool
One for work, and one for Q’s links?
We might be crazy here at Glibs…esp STEVE SMITH and ZARDOZ…but we’ll never be this crazy.
Man, that’s, ummm, disturbing. If you go looking for something to fit your narrative you’ll most likely find it.
Someone mentioned the other day that Thad Russell was…. had ‘bad opinion’ or something …. on the subject of “Post Modernism”
Helen Pluckrose @Areo wrote a long piece about Post-Modernism a while back which i think is worth reading
basically, she does a good job explaining the basic outline of what the term refers to in the broadest and narrowest senses, and why people make conflicting general claims about it, and what aspects of it were actually ‘good’ (or useful) and how offshoots of it (e.g. post-colonialism, queer theory, critical race theory, gender studies) both rely on many of its core ideas, while also rejecting parts of it
basically, when people like Peterson handwave about PoMo, half the people nod in agreement tho they don’t really understand what its about (other than some vague conception of ‘cultural marxism’)…. and the other half tut-tuts as though “he has no idea what he’s talking about” because their own conception is over-informed on one narrow aspect.
basically, everyone talks about this shit, but the fact is almost no one has any shared reference of wtf they’re referring to. her piece does decent job of providing an outline while sparing the reader of having to actually read any obscurantist po-mo gobbledygook sentences themselves.
(*tho i found myself wanting to trim her sentences down on occasion:
e.g. “Nevertheless, it would be demonstrably false to claim these ideas about being skeptical of grand narratives and privileging mini-narratives, of intense focus on language because of the belief that discourses construct social reality and knowledge itself, of downplaying the role of individuality and shared humanity and focusing on systems of power, privilege and marginalization which define groups and situate people according to their identity have gone away.”
could pretty much chop out that whole middle bit )
Found this pdf on postmodernism interesting
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/hicks-freespeechpostmodernism.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiR3NzGzZzaAhWm3oMKHYpLC84QFjAKegQIBBAB&usg=AOvVaw0KrkN0x265fygWBgd9sQBJ
Sometimes people with a background in postmodern studies of some kind complain that critics of postmodernism attack a strawman version of it; a simplistic, reductive distillation of just a few of its tenets which are taken to an extreme.
Nobody every does that to libertarianism, thank God.
I’m going to have to take some time to really ready through that. My first and most intense brush with postmodernism was in the early 90’s when I went back to uni for my second degree (literature that time). Deconstruction was the only way to interpret literature for almost all of my professors, save one. The last holdout was my Shakespeare professor. I naturally gravitated towards all his classes and wound up taking six or seven of them over my time there. He looked like a beaten man every time I went to see him during office hours, which was often. When I did get him to open up and start giving his opinions on a specific character or plot theme, passion slowly emerged until he was like a teenager talking about hearing The Who for the first time. Then I’d see him talking to his colleagues in the department and he’d look like an interned prisoner. Realized then and there that I’d never go into academia.
basically, everyone talks about this shit, but the fact is almost no one has any shared reference of wtf they’re referring to. her piece does decent job of providing an outline while sparing the reader of having to actually read any obscurantist po-mo gobbledygook sentences themselves.
I claim no understanding of this stuff. Somebody linked this morning to some godawful “academic” word torture. It’s like somewhere along the line they explicitly embarked on a mission to make words devoid of meaning.
“”they explicitly embarked on a mission to make words devoid of meaning.“”
I am not Saussure
*golf clap*
I’ve been waiting 22 years to make that joke.
Glibertarians WORKS at my new job.
Unlike you.
*hides under desk*
https://www.mironline.ca/what-is-post-modern-conservatism/
https://www.mironline.ca/in-defence-of-post-modernism-a-reply-to-jordan-peterson/
My, but that was a lot of words. I think he was actually making Jordan’s point. I’m not sure though and I’m too lazy/stupid to try and figure it out.
LOL NDP
At least they didn’t have a side of bacon with the challah.
The only knowledge I have of Judaism comes from Jews mocking people for being poorly informed on Judaism.
I get that too, but it’s a lot like being mocked for not knowing the rules by people who play magic the gathering.
You went there. LOL.
Or hero clix
I made tsoureki for Easter and was joking that the Greeks just made it to mess with the Jews (mine not pictured but similar).
What did you expect from a left-wing party that hates Israel and Jews?
LT Fish – now with 10% more dankness. (I finally made a meme…will probably die on the vine).
Maybe too inside baseball, but this cracked me up.
That’s funny. When I went to Germany for a family reunion, my 5 or 6 year old distant cousin Jan would yabber at me and I would tell ‘Ich verstehe nicht’ and he would laugh and laugh, I don’t think he ever got that I didn’t understand him and only learned that one phrase, well that and ‘Ein Bier bitte’
I watched this and I now I wish to die.
If it were more convenient for the both of us, I’d kill you.
Thanks. I think.
HOLY SHIT.
That horrible video had it all. Lies, strawman logic, appeals to emotion all wrapped in the usual irrational progressive smugness.
And like the little cowardly shits they are, they finally admit it was always about coming for the guns.
It’s funny. Aren’t progs always talking about ‘restoring the Constitution’ when talking about removing Trump?
They’re fucken bloody treasonous and dangerous at this point.
Too lazy to look thru all of today’s links/comments. Kevin Williamson’s Atlantic debut.
Ken will be in his bunk no doubt.
Needs MOAR paragraphs.
Fuck you, Fox Sports.
Fox Sports 1 has Juventus/Madrid live tomorrow, and Barcelona/Roma live Wednesday
Liverpool/Man City is on FS2 live Wednesday.
Sevilla/Bayern? Streaming only as far as I can tell. (Well, there’s ESPNDeportes which I can’t get.)
I know I’ve said before that they only care about Madria/Barcelona and the English teams, but going so far as not to air the fourth match? Ridiculous.
Fuck you, Fox Sports. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you?
You Know Who Else didn’t like Juventus? And Sevilla?
Rufus?
As long as they beat Madrid. Enough already of them and Barca already.
Well, Bayern would have beaten Madrid last year if the refs knew what offside is. 😡
Last year was retarded. Ronaldo was off-side on a number of goals.
Even in the final against Juve they got some weird calls and luck.
I am still waiting for Youtube to shut down all the gun channels. their new policy went into effect yesterday, and some channels have upped new vids.
e.g. forgotten weapons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0tiiBY494
he doesn’t strip the gun (as he normally does), !but the item is clearly ‘for sale’ and he, as usual, touts the auction house which is selling it, and specifically puts a link to the sale.
the new rules specifically says, “anything promoting sale or linking to sellers” will be forbidden. curious to see if individual vids start getting yanked, or the channel goes down entirely,….. or, nothing?
Well, now that you ratted him out…..
Doh!
my default assumption – and i don’t think i was being too-cynical when i assumed this – was that they’d be very aggressive in enforcing their own new-rules, and that they’d also do so retroactively, based on any prior ‘violating’ content.
I suppose i should wait a month or so before making any real observations about how they’re going to enforce it.
I would have assumed they would be very aggressive too given what seems to be the asshole nature of gun haters these days. I am not a big youtube watcher other than links from here really, but surely there is opportunity for some other platform to host all the youtube censorship refugees. I don’t really know what else is out there though.