My solace is found in the poetry of Don Marquis- and my thanks to Warty for reminding me.
LEADER no more, be judged of us!
Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore—
Youth, and the faith of youth, cry out:
Leader and Chief no more!We dreamed a Prophet, flushed with faith,
Content to toil in pain
If that his sacrifice might be,
Somehow, his people’s gain.We saw a vision, and our blood
Beat red and hot and strong:
“Lead us (we cried) to war against
Some foul, embattled wrong!”We dreamed a Warrior whose sword
Was edged for sham and shame;
We dreamed a Statesman far above
The vulgar lust for fame.We were not cynics, and we dreamed
A Man who made no truce
With lies nor ancient privilege
Nor old, entrenched abuse.We dreamed … we dreamed … Youth dreamed
a dream!
And even you forgot
Yourself, one moment, and dreamed, too—
Struck, while your mood was hot!Struck three or four good blows … and then
Turned back to easier things:
The cheap applause, the blatant mob,
The praise of underlings!Praise … praise … was ever man so filled,
So avid still, of praise?
So hungry for the crowd’s acclaim,
The sycophantic phrase?O you whom Greatness beckoned to …
O swollen Littleness
Who turned from Immortality
To fawn upon Success!O blind with love of self, who led
Youth’s vision to defeat,
Bawling and brawling for rewards,
Loud, in the common street!O you who were so quick to judge—
Leader, and loved, of yore—
Hear now the judgment of our youth:
Leader and Chief no more!
And some more news to depress follows.
Fire in a New York skyscraper, and yes, the rabid mobs have found a way to politicize even that, and of course in the stupidest ways. Read the comments and despair of humanity.
Is Syria a shithole or a real shithole? They report, you decide. We need to be as far away as we can be.
Syria has called the allegations of a chemical attack a “fabrication” – as has its main ally, Russia.
I fucking hate people.
It’s guys like this who give my character a bad name. But I have to admit being a tiny bit amused by the denoument.
KOKH reported that he approached a woman while she swept the floor of the establishment and handed her $10. When she told him that employees were not allowed to take tips, he grabbed her crotch and her backside before telling her he’d like to see her in some red lingerie that was hanging from a stand in the store. He was 82 at the time of the alleged offenses and turned 83 in February, when charges were filed against him in connection with the incident.
What should the US role be in an Iran-Israel war? Answer: absolutely nothing, other than to sell weapons. For cash. But that wouldn’t have filled the article. Ah, well.
This is… astonishing. Just astonishing. I’ve really never seen such unawareness and derp packed into one piece.
The solution for the people of California was to reconfigure the political landscape and shift a supermajority of citizens — and by extension their elected officials — under the Democratic Party’s big tent. The natural continuum of more progressive to more moderate solutions then got worked out within the context of the only remaining functioning party. The California Democrats actually cared about average citizens, embraced the inevitable diversity of 21st-century society, weren’t afraid of real innovation, and were ready to start solving the many challenges of our time, including climate change.
My only other solace today is Old Guy Music, in this case a performer I love but sadly never got to see. Insane trumpet, John the Baptist to Clifford Brown’s Jesus.
The natural continuum of more progressive to more moderate solutions then got worked out within the context of the only remaining functioning party. The California Democrats actually cared about average citizens, embraced the inevitable diversity of 21st-century society, weren’t afraid of real innovation, and were ready to start solving the many challenges of our time, including climate change.
I see words randomly arranged on a page.
How can a state affect climate change?
I also recently learned that actual watermelons are originally from Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon#History
Because Wikipedia is racist.
I see projection.
This is a mine of depleted uranium in the form of self-unawareness.
^derpleted
I though Obama already stopped the sea level from rising. He did what king Canute could not.
You can buy a lot of candy for $10.
30 ROM candy bars
In 2003, a 9-year-old victim revealed he had abused her for years in his capacity as a schoolteacher, according to the Oklahoman
Let’s give the state more power over our children’s lives. The teachers make less than NFL quarterbacks for gawd sake.
And these are the people we need to pay more money.
And of course, they need a union to gum up the works of any disciplinary process when they are incompetent, abusive, or unnecessarily harsh to the kids.
“Nigro said “the apartment was virtually, entirely on fire” when firefighters arrived. Neighbors said Brassner had an extensive guitar collection in the apartment.”
Because guitars cause fires? It’m thinking this Nigro isn’t telling us the whole story.
Nigro, please.
*prolonged ovation*
That accident from yesterday is still scary to think about. I live right off Rte 29 N of Cville – and the first 10 seconds of a red light are about the equivalent of a yellow light for the N/S traffic – especially during rush hour. The weather can be great and you’ll still see someone with the green light get T-boned right in the middle of the intersection.
It might have something to do with the speed limit being 55 and downhill in both directions to the light – so most people are at 65-70 when they hit it. Accidents at least once a week on that stretch.
My wife gets annoyed with me occasionally.
“Why are you going this way? It’s quicker to go the other way.”
“Yes, but that intersection is a fucking death trap. I will go this way.”
Does she ever put 2 and 2 together and wonder why you don’t forbid her from going through the death trap intersection?
“I’ve really never seen such unawareness and derp packed into one piece.”
The CEO of Twitter called it a “great read”.
https://twitter.com/jack/status/982096889930657792
How surprising!
He also recently retweeted this:
“Sugar tax and other lifestyle levies will protect poorest from “catastrophic” cost”
https://twitter.com/Independent/status/981776109602828288
No more twitter. I’ll look at screen caps, but I can’t give even a penny to someone so evil.
I’m fucking sick of this idea that it’s the government’s job to protect people from their own shitty decisions.
Sugar consumption isn’t like some virus that spreads through the air and infects helpless people. It’s a lifestyle decision. To be perfectly blunt, obesity and type II diabetes resulting from sugar consumption are entirely the fault of that person. This is why I think it’s usually hopeless to make common cause with “progressives”. There’s just a difference in ethics here: they think your freedom is subordinate to their personal idea of “the common good”.
There is a reason I never got Twitter.
Hmmm being good at internet companies does not make you self aware
So he’s what we all suspected: A lousy, left-wing commie piece of shit.
They want a fight. The projection is beyond belief with these evil fucks.
We’d rather have fair inequality than unfair equality, research shows
I am curious what ‘level the playing field’ means to them.
I say it means when I bang as many models as DiCaprio
Careful for what you wish for Pie. When you start making wishes, you have to be very specific.
+1 Bedazzled
Give me your wallet and I’ll show you.
I finally tried to force myself to read that whole “civil war” thing.
Two different political cultures already at odds through different political ideologies, philosophies, and worldviews can get trapped in a polarizing process that increasingly undermines compromise. They see the world through different lenses, consume different media, and literally live in different places. They start to misunderstand the other side, then start to misrepresent them, and eventually make them the enemy. The opportunity for compromise is then lost. This is where America is today.
The intransigence of our enemies is so well known as to be a given. We know this because they will not abjectly surrender to our superior moral stance and our greater understanding not merely of what is good for us, but what is best for them. They will not compromise, so they must be crushed. We must eradicate them from the public sphere, burn their sacred texts, root out their ways of thinking, and scatter their adherents to the four corners of the Earth.
I was thinking about Doomsday Cultists when I woke up this morning, for some reason. These people have gone so far up their own asses it is astonishing to me. They have apparently attained a level of un-selfawareness which is practically godlike. I can’t wait ’til they disappear completely.
‘Sphincter necklace’
The anti-rapture?
Germany still clueless about motive for fatal van attack Unless I missed it, the only description of the guy was “a 48-year old German man.” Anyone want to take bets that he was a recent “migrant?” Also, couldn’t help but notice this little gem.
An AK-47 is not a machine gun, you idiots.
It’s arguably a machine gun if it’s full auto. Putting aside that words are defined by usage, as far as I know, a submachine gun is a full auto carbine that fires pistol rounds, and a machine gun is mounted (no one could hold and fire one unless they were the Terminator). According to the ATF a “machine gun” is any weapon that fires more than one round per trigger pull. Which would make assault rifles (select fire carbines, such as the AK) a machine gun.
ATF aside, in military circles the AK as described is actually an assault rifle – a personal weapon, specifically a carbine length, select-fire arm firing an intermediate-power cartridge. A machine gun is a crew-served area suppression weapon generally fired from a bipod, tripod or pintle mount.
The U,S, military doesn’t really have an actual battle rifle now – the last one we had was the M-14, which is still in use by some special units as I understand it. Mind you I’ve been out of that world for twenty years or so now.
What Animal said. If you can fire it all by yourself, no mounts, it’s not a machine gun.
Like this guy?
Mostly. I actually fired an M60 on an assault sling once. Great fun but you couldn’t hit shit.
Anyone want to take bets that he was a recent “migrant?”
Sure I’ll say he’s either a full-blown German or he’s been there at least 25 years, what’re we wagering?
Loser has to engage in Scheißeporn?
“Sharpton, Parkland Survivor Announce Anti-Gun Violence Rally
The June 2 rally — at the beginning of New York state’s Gun Violence Awareness Month — is to start at Trump International Tower on Columbus Circle and proceed toward Fifth Avenue and Trump Tower, where Trump has an apartment that has been his longtime home.”
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Sharpton-School-Survivor-Announce-Anti-Gun-Violence-Rally-479056323.html
Because Trump was the shooter? The FBI should get on that.
Why does Sharpton hosting a violence rally not surprise me?
I don’t get why they’re portraying Trump as some kind of radical pro-gun extremist. He supported gun control for much of his pre-presidential career, and he seems rather wishy-washy on it right now. As far as I can tell, his pro-gun sentiment was only expressed during the campaign.
The Republican Party is all about rule by and for billionaires at the expense of working people.
What in the fuck is that even supposed to mean?
It’s supposed to mean that the author drank the Kool-Aid
“We cross-checked the Open Secrets list of the top 100 individuals donating to outside spending groups in the current election against the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and found that, as of June 19, there were 22 individuals on the Open Secrets list who were billionaires. Of those 22 billionaires, 13 — or more than half — gave predominantly to liberal groups or groups affiliated with the Democratic Party. The other nine gave predominantly to conservative groups. (A list of billionaires and how much they donated can be found here.)
Among the liberal-leaning donors are former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and business magnate George Soros. On the conservative side are S. Daniel Abraham, who founded SlimFast, and Vincent McMahon, who owns World Wrestling Entertainment.
These lists aren’t complete due to the disclosure rules protecting donors’ identities. Both sides are spending more of this “dark money” than ever before, said Robert Maguire, a political nonprofit investigator at the Center for Responsive Politics.
Still, from what we know about this cycle, the Democrats do have significant billionaire backing. The top donor from either party so far this cycle is pro-Democratic — California billionaire Tom Steyer, who has given more than $11 million and has pledged to spend at last $50 million. His group, NextGen Climate, plans to attack Republican candidates in several competitive races on climate change. Some have called Steyer’s initiative a liberal answer to the Koch brothers.”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/jun/23/do-many-billionaires-support-democratic-party/
Truly dark would be not allowing people to spend their own money and only having government financing of elections.
So blatant that even partisan politifact can’t ignore it.
So it was half-true?
Official Ruling: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
‘“We’ll never know,” O’Connor said.’
Christ, what an asshole!
Is that just a stick, or is it a stump lodged up your ass O’Connor?
“We can’t make a final call on whether or not Reid was right in saying the Democratic Party “doesn’t have many billionaires.” We know that both parties have billionaire backers”
Do they realize those sentences contradict each other?
Cognitive dissonance is a real bitch
That is not completely true. It is also about hating women and minorities
Happy Masters Sunday.
10 have everyone over to watch
20 snacks and Jack for several hours
30 loathable douche in the lead to hate watch
35 bonus: He was expelled from New Wife’s alma mater
40 shrimp and grits for dunch
50 douche stumbles, a gentleman overtakes through Amen Corner, and all is right with the world
This happy showcase and day of rest brought to you by slow-talking, judgmental capitalists .
TW: NPR. Armed At Church: Why This Congregation Is ‘Not A Gun-Free Zone’ Those bitter clingers, thinking being armed will protect them. I bet none of them are professors of political science, they don’t know what they’re talking about like this guy does.
But Robert Spitzer, a professor of political science at SUNY Cortland, says that there’s little evidence that so-called “good guys with a gun” can provide meaningful help in a mass shooting.
Fuckers even mention Sutherland Springs in passing earlier in the article!
Well considering mass shooters rarely choose places where there will be opposition and a good-guy-with-a-gun would at least try to stop mass shootings before they become mass shootings it is rather logical that good-guy-with-a-gun don’t stop mass shootings.
It is dumb logic but it is logic. The same kind of logic says you don’t need brakes because cars with brakes still get into accidents.
Good guys with guns merely relocate mass shootings?
To be fair, our wonderful new Somali-American was stabbing people with a knife so it doesn’t count as a mass shooting.
But it does have a good guy with a gun* stopping an attacker.
*Surprisingly a cop.
Translation: “I don’t remember any armed citizens stopping a shooting off the top of my head, so it probably didn’t happen. PS: I’m a Scientist™.”
There have been many incidents where someone with a CC permit kills a person who is apparently trying to murder as many people as possible, but it’s not in the news because there’s no double digit body count. The news is all about ratings and ad revenue, not the truth.
The Defensive Gun Use subreddit posts stuff all the time. As does the NRA in their magazine.
I’d like to be snarky and say that if the professor knew about those sources, he might not be at SUNY Cortland (lawl), but the same ignorance will go on at any school.
I find those study results implausible, since violent crime is concentrated in deep blue urban centers.
Say it with me now: gun grabbers lie.
HT: Suthen.
Hell, you can add that to the Iron Laws.
Large cities also have a lot of people; the comment was about rates.
(I still don’t believe the Stanford research result and wonder about their methodology.)
^this is how they do it. The studies I have actually read go per 100,000 people so the numbers show red low population areas with lax gun laws with the occasional idiot losing his or her shit have more violent crime than dense urban centers with multiple shootings daily. The question is the original data which is usually the CDC and we know there are no gun grabbers in the CDC ranks. I am not convinced that it is not BS numbers to start with because I do not trust the known liars that reside in the gun grabber community. I know in CO if suicides are removed from the stats, gun related deaths are higher in the urban areas. People with guns are good at offing themselves if’n they so choose so it skews the numbers.
Ah, so suicides being included is what skews it. Since when are suicides ‘violent crime’? I suppose technically speaking they are, but…
One of those famous gun-grabber studies counted suicides by people as old as 24 as a “child dying from gun violence”.
I don’t know about the study cited, but it is a favored tactic.
“there’s little evidence”
Freedom isn’t about satisfying statistics.
Not to bag on my Glib cousins, but rising to this bait is wrong-headed: it pays into twitterverse/snowflake logic that rights are about who won the last election, who has the most compelling arguments, who can write the most artful zingers, whose congresscritter lives the most compelling example or was caught in the most compromising situation. All those things are a ton of fun but are, to the extent that we want to sell the idea that freedom is the answer, very dangerous distractions.
The sad truth is that the recognition and protection of rights in America was born amongst landed, well-read radicals; it has endured under the protection, oft assaulted, of a leaky, dented umbrella of artificial protections; it might be that the anonymity of the American city and the expanse of the American frontier had lent enough of what Boone called “elbow room” for each American to be as free as he might want. In short, we’ve been lucky: no one has had enough redcoats to manage all us mangy Americans properly. But there is no where to hide now, and the reckoning of the majority is upon us; we are France: our neighbors are dangerous, and they are idiots.
They don’t believe in rights; they believe in security as delivered by comprehensive bureaucracy. Libertarians, who have survived and hidden in the American expanse and mess for centuries, have no where to run; having escaped the massacre of liberty in Europe by ducking out a back door, we have at long last found ourselves cornered, crouched behind a dumpster in the intellectual alley of America, down to our last mag whilst statists tweet and vote: they pour over us like NorKs at the Chosin.
I’d be madder, but I think we lose sooner or later: the only question is whether my grandchildren or my great grandchildren will be slaves.
I’m horrified that you are probably right.
That is why a California prog-tard talking about civil war is such a perfect example of someone not really understanding what they are asking for.
Thanks for the pick me up, Don.
“says that there’s little evidence that so-called “good guys with a gun” can provide meaningful help in a mass shooting. ”
Average number of casualties when waiting for cops, 12. Average number when someone local responds with a gun: 2. A mass shooting is 4+ casualties, so yeah a good guy with a gun doesn’t help, it prevents mass shootings
http://www.publiusonline.com/larry-correia-on-gun-regulation-and-arming-teachers/
Letters to the Local Rag: We Don’t Want To Take Your Guns, Now Give Us Your Guns
Response: Fuck you, you can’t have my guns.
Oh come on! Just one for a poor Romanian who cannot afford his own
Those of us who marched for our rights
The “right” to boss other people around?
I also like how the letter writer defines “inane” rather than expecting readers to be intelligent enough to know what it means.
“Those of us who marched for our rights”
Correction- Those of us who marched against our rights.
Gun grabbers are anti-civil rights protestors.
At least your local paper ran a guns rights letter. Mine apparently refuses to run any letters except from the local gun grabbers. I know because several have been submitted and never published.
Free speech doesn’t apply to Nazis.
But having to show id to vote is a bridge too far.
Fuck these people. All of them.
I actually made it to the end of that steaming pile of idiotic raving. I have to read stuff like that in small chunks, so I don’t fall out of my chair and whack my head.
If you told me the Secret Service had found that manifesto in the dingy unkempt basement apartment of somebody who had made an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate President Trump, I would not be surprised. That motherfucker is unhinged.
*and I don’t mean Trump
I posted that retarded California civil war article last night. Stupid people write stupid shit all the time, however the attention and support that pile of crap is getting is what unnerves me. How unbelievably moronic, not to mention historically illiterate, do you have to be to actually *pine* for a one-party state?
It’s still a very small possibility, but every time shit like this happens I can’t help but feel that these people may be right on one count, there is no solution; one side must win. However, if it comes to that (please G-d let it not) it won’t be peaceful and bloodless with the Deplorables just rolling over.
Letters to the Local Rag: Animists Rule The Day Edition
Response: Fuck off slaver.
I’m thinking sarcasm. I read that as a fairly good trolling of the anti-gun crowd on their animism. But the opiods, or rather their manufacturers and distributors, are already under attack.
I would agree, however Williamsburg has an inordinate number of retirees from New York, New Jersey, etc… They’re particularly obtuse.
And obnoxious and entitled. I feel for you, Scruffy.
In Florida at least, the rise in OD is *entirely* due to heroin and fentanyl (and their analogues). According to the latest Medical Examiner’s report, through the end of 2016 OD deaths from prescriptions have been flat or declining since 2010, except for Oxycodone, which has gone up a bit but is still well below 2010 levels. So they are cracking down on heroin and fentanyl, right? Of course not. There’s no profit in that.
“The iron law of prohibition is a term coined by Richard Cowan in 1986 which posits that as law enforcement becomes more intense, the potency of prohibited substances increases. Cowan put it this way: “the harder the enforcement, the harder the drugs”
That’s why people are dying from fentanyl and heroin.
Why don’t we attack the opioids and not the guns?
Next week on Bloomberg: We can send SWAT after everyone with an opiod addiction and take their guns while we’re at it!
Here’s something to help you through your depressing day.
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Just send 15 and I can die happy.
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Very nice…
#20
If you sent 15, I would die of bleeding out after SP was through with me.
Isn’t 15 a bit old for you?
Hey Q, send me your email, got a present for ya
My handle at Protonmail
Getting ready for bus excursion, with donut and beer pairings, to Revolution Brewery for a tour.
That sounds like fun. Super jealous.
Alright, now I am officially worn out on the veganish cleanse diet Mrs. Dean (PBUH) has us on.
well I get to make breakfast and sip mimosas so take that
Sound like a good time. During Cleveland Beer Week, there’s a bar that does a beer and donut pairing every year. The past couple of years they’ve done the pairings with Platform Beer. We’ve even had an (unrelated) craft beer based donut shop open up. I’m still irritated at myslef that the couple of times I’ve been to Chicago, I didn’t make it over to Revolution.
“I’ve really never seen such unawareness and derp packed into one piece.”
I bet he doesnt even know anyone that voted for Nixon.
To be fair neither do I
[Masters’ golf claps]
I don’t know anyone who voted for Ford.
Damn straight, Dodge or GTFO.
“‘Concerned’ Evangelicals Plan To Meet With Trump As Sex Scandals Swirl
As allegations continue to swirl about the president and a payout to a porn star to cover up a sexual encounter, evangelical leaders are organizing a sit-down with President Trump in June, four sources with knowledge of the planned meeting tell NPR.
“We’re very concerned” about the allegations, said a leader of a faith-based ministry. The leader is involved in hosting the gathering, which organizers are aiming to take place June 19 at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. The source said the combination of the Stormy Daniels sex-scandal allegations and Trump’s continued reputation for divisive rhetoric could suppress evangelical turnout in the November midterm elections.
Sources say organizers are working to firm up planning for the daylong event with the White House before sending invitations to hundreds of conservative Christian pastors and political leaders in the coming days.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on Thursday.
Trump has been invited to take questions from the evangelical leaders for roughly 90 minutes during the meeting. It’s not clear whether the allegations from Daniels — or another woman who alleges she had an affair with Trump, former Playboy model Karen McDougal — are likely to come up while the president is on stage in a more open session.
But a source said the president is likely to be asked about the women during private discussions in at least a “sidebar conversation.””
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/06/599972396/concerned-evangelicals-plan-to-meet-with-trump-as-sex-scandals-swirl
XOMG SOME SOURCE SAID SOME PERSON MIGHT ASK TRUMP SOME QUESTION!!!!1111!!!!ELEVEN!!!!
I’m still trying to figure out if philandering is acceptable (as it was for JFK and Clinton) or if it makes you a literal Hitler who is totally unfit to be president.
The elites do not understand Evangelicals.
They accepted a long time ago that Trump is not perfect. He is human. He sins. They made peace with it before they voted for him. And the one thing they do like about Trump is that he is genuine. He is not a hypocrite. He doesn’t beat the Bible and pander to them and preach “family values” (in fact, he lambasted Ted Cruz for trying to say “New York values” were bad) only to go out and knock up some bimbo.
Evangelicals have not abandoned Trump. Trust me on this. I talk to hundreds of them in and around the AA circles. As long as he continues to appoint conservative jurists, and stands up for free speech, religious liberty, the second amendment, and private/home school, they will accept his flaws as they did even before they voted for him. They say things like “Bless his heart”, and “I pray for him every night” and “He’s got his flaws. We all do. But I believe he’s a good man at heart” (which is probably true to a certain extent).
Also… something Evangelicals see that the media doesn’t… but it’s really important to Evangelicals… By all accounts, Trump has raised an outstanding family… and to a lot of Evangelicals, that is the true measure of a man.
RAAAAACISTS!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/8/south-carolina-secession-bill-introduced-over-gun-/
Closet lesbians.
https://www.indy100.com/article/married-women-prefer-best-friends-husbands-study-research-champneys-health-spa-relationships-8293491
“However, that part about spending time with your spouse isn’t exactly contractual and you are more than obliged to spend just as much time with your friends.”
You know it just doesn’t seem that way, or else I would be going to a lot more gun shows
Well then more women should bring their best friends into the bedroom with their husband. Sounds like a win-win-win.
If you saw SP’s best friend, you wouldn’t say that. She is a fantastic woman, brilliant and funny, but… ummm…. no.
You have light switch right?
CNN has got Bernie’s number
Since his emergence as a national figure, Sanders has taken strides to broaden both his appeal and the parameters of his political analysis. But the question lingers. As BuzzFeed put it in an in-depth examination of the backlash to his remarks in Jackson, has Sanders, now three years out from the beginning of his presidential bid, learned how to speak to black voters?
Poor Bernie, there just aren’t enough pinko college kids to get him into the White House.
America needs more black libertarian rap per to swing the black vote to the libertarian party
How old is he now?
33. Communism ages you
76. Two years younger than Pelosi who needs to just go away.
Holy shit. Are they still beating the Stormy Daniels drum? What exactly is he supposed to have done? Billionaire fucks porn star, if true quickly fetch my fainting couch.
Anyway Hillary would have done the same, given the chance
I did not need to picture that.
Now that is some SugarFree bait if I’ve ever seen it. Not that I want to see the end product.
“if true”
Also highly questionable considering she signed not one, but two affidavits stating that she and Trump never had sex. Not like it matters either way.
You know she’s on tour, right?
http://canoe.com/news/world/is-stormy-daniels-make-america-horny-again-tour-underwhelming/wcm/10fae9cb-fe87-41d7-9945-a25c1b7b66d5
Don’t call us honey, we’ll call you.
“Are they still beating the Stormy Daniels drum? “
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS KEEP GOOD TEMPO
I thought it was just one of those PHRASING things you guys are always yammering about.
Which part of her is the “drum”? I can’t keep up with modern terminology.
So Easter day 4 30 PM I am a bottle of Feteasca Neagra into the celebration. How is the morning beer treating you lot?
Vodka and cranberry juice. I have been up since midnight so this is like afternoon for me.
Which one? I need to day-drink today.
this one
https://winerepublic.ro/vinuri-rosii/3104-balla-geza-stonewine-feteasca-neagra.html
except is 2013 not 2012
No beer yet, but I am making another batch of my American Stout. Waiting for the strike water to get up to temperature now.
Oh yeah, my Moldovan wife reminded me this morning that it’s Orthodox Easter.
Happy Easter Pie!
Londonistan.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5587773/amp/Scotland-Yard-run-detectives-investigate-murders-gang-crimes-capital.html
It simply can’t be explained.
Import savages, get savagery. This aint rocket science.
racist!!!!!!!!!!!!! all cultures are equal. check your privilege shitlord
The advertisements showed pictures of helpless women and children but when the package arrived…
Everyone knows that the culture being imported is from peaceful villages of happy people (obviously that is why they left those shitholes to begin with).
“There are plenty of us who can go about our business pretty certain that we are not going to be affected by this knife crime”
Gee, that’s comforting.
Cressida Dick is an idiot.
But meanwhile, crime in America – which is highly concentrated within a few blocks of certain urban areas – is treated like a national crisis for which everyone must surrender their 2A rights.
Save us, Teddy Roosevelt!
Amazon is much too big. Its exponential growth has been greatly aided by its avoidance of taxes. And its business model has done enormous damage to retail outlets across the country. It’s also harmed, and in some cases decimated, numerous industries by ruthlessly dropping prices below levels of profitability and using other advantages of its enormous size and power to squeeze competitors.
All of this was more or less laid out in one of last year’s most important books, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech by liberal journalist Franklin Foer. The book made a cogent case for breaking up Amazon on the grounds that it (like Google and other tech giants) functions as a 21st-century digital analogue of the industrial monopolies that Theodore Roosevelt and other Progressive reformers took on at the turn of the 20th century.
Jeff Bezos- history’s greatest monster.
Offering consumers great convenience, saving drive miles, lowering prices, increasing choice. Just like Hitler.
My wife scoffed at my love for Amazon until she discovered that she couldn’t find new bags for our old vacuum cleaner. Amazon had them in our house then next day. Since then she is a believer.
But it is insidious how Amazon keeps growing their monopoly by providing more stuff more conveniently for less money.
What are all those middlemen supposed to do now? Who will bring the faxes to the engineers?
Someone with people skills.
Sir, I tell you this is WORSE than Hitler. Hitler didn’t make death near so convenient as Bezos does the delivery of things we want.
Well, he is a creepy bald guy who eats lizards.
They’re actually gummi lizards, he doesn’t realize the difference
Yes, because if you get rid of Amazon, no other online retailers would take its place and brick and mortar stores would make a huge comeback.
How does one ‘break up’ a catalog? Are they going to restrict the items cataloged to certain classes? Shipping to certain areas? Will this apply to businesses other than Amazon like buggy whip manufacturers? WTF are they talking about?
Interesting they haven’t been boycotted for selling gun accessories. Perhaps they’re too convenient of an option to be worth the effort of boycotting.
Oh please make sure to break up the Amazon Web Services too!
Kids today don’t know how much fun it was to run a startup before Amazon. You had to scrape up thousands just to get a few servers to begin building your products. Then you had to pay a lot of money to some colo to put a production server into a data center.
Fucking Amazon just lets you run all your stuff in the cloud for nearly free (especially when you are just developing and don’t have any real traffic yet). And then you only have to pay for what you use. Uffda, a guy could start a company for the price of his own laptop. That would totally suck.
Yes, we know. It is much too low a cost. We are looking at ways to remedy that.
/Top Men
Tax avoidance is a perfectly legal method of paying only what you’re legally required.
Oh, I see: offering better prices = damaging someone else’s property. The only businesspeople who are complaining about Amazon are the executives of big-box stores like Best Buy, which have failed to stay competitive. Plus, tons of small businesses are using Amazon to reach more customers than ever (probably 75% of things I buy from there are from “Jenny’s Books” or “Tom’s Apparel” somewhere in America).
In many cases, Amazon is not setting the prices – the third party vendor does that. And since Amazon will start charging them fees if their goods sit in the Amazon warehouse for three years without being sold, it’s more profitable for the vendor to basically give the goods away for almost nothing (that’s how I get name-brand dress shirts and pants for $10). This is not some sort of “predatory pricing” (which is a bullshit concept anyway) but it’s more like stores putting things on clearance.
Oh, the “industrial monopolies” like oil and steel that actually drove the price of these commodities way down, which paved the way for railroads, automobiles, and countless other industrial applications that allowed average people to live a middle-class life instead of the subsistence lifestyle that they had lived for most of history?
“And on Saturday night, Miley Cyrus stepped out to attend the My Friend’s Place 30th Anniversary gala at the Hollywood Palladium in support of bettering the homeless youth across the country. The 25-year-old singer showed peeks of her toned tummy as she rocked a pirate-inspired ensemble”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5590667/Miley-Cyrus-shows-toned-tummy-pirate-inspired-ensemble-Friends-Place-gala-Los-Angeles.html
I doubt real pirates ever dressed anything like that.
I imagined that much better.
She looks like a young Hilary to me in those.
That’s just wrong.
Well I suppose if I ever wanted to experience a hate f’k…
I’ve never found Miley to be especially good looking. She has that “hotness” of youth that many 20-somethings have, but I think she’ll be lucky to be average-looking by the time she’s in her mid-30’s.
At least were were saved from being told she had an ‘Ample Cleavage’ in another of the Fail’s laughable literary confabulations.
In their defense, “ample” is subjective. To me, 34B is ample.
It struck home as laughable when applied to Paris Jackson, in some shots that didn’t crowd the girls – in fact, it tended to lay ’em flat. The Fail’s algorithmic system for ‘tarting up’ text fails again:
This, sir, is in no way an ample cleavage, no matter how you scrunch up your eyes.
Pierce Brosnan is showing off more ample cleavage to her right.
ALOL! Yeah, I didn’t notice that. That’s funny
You’ll be in your bunk?
I do have standards, you know.
Yeah, I’d agree with you there. A large flat area between the girls is not cleavage.
Another one to your point:
Olivia Culpo slips into sexy white robe for cleavage baring Instagram shot
I’m seeing something I like, but it’s not cleavage. More like…inside-side-boob…?
One day, I’ll build a filter that turns news items into Daily Mail News Items and maybe we can apply it like the Rinkworks Dialectizer.
This is my favorite translator: Gizoogle
Example:
I think Glibertarians.com is a great website
Translation-
I be thinkin Glibertarians.com up in a pimped out joint.
They should have said she was wearing a Seinfeld inspired puffy shirt.
Among women, “having a light-eyed father increased the preference for light-eyed men”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23784-7
Trust factor?
There’s no secret that some of the things that a women looks for a partner are characteristics of their father.
… looks for *in* a partner …
OK, which one of you did this?
https://twitter.com/ReasonPitchbot
Mary?
Yeah, it had that feel to it. But this was funny.
https://twitter.com/ReasonPitchbot/status/918496661315473409
Egads.
If there is any word you cant use in the same sentence as Mary it’s ‘funny’.
Czechs discover hidden film record of Stalin’s antisemitic show trial
Footage shows how Rudolf Slánský and other top communists were made victims of a brutal purge
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/08/rudolf-slansky-czechoslovakia-show-trial
this proves that Stalin was actually a Nazi and soviet communism was not real communism and we need to try the real one. By we I mean you americans, not us, we had enough.
The plague which is capitalism poisons everything.
As municipal governments race to come to terms with the fresh horrors Silicon Valley hath wrought, Bird is cementing plans to go nationwide, raising $100 million last month alone. LimeBike recently closed a $70 million fund-raising round, bringing its total up to $132 million, while Jump raised $10 million in January. At this point, such outsize valuations are par for the course in tech, as is the land-grab mentality that has led venture capitalists to throw money at competing companies offering similar services, saturating the market overnight. “You know capitalism is broken when you’ve got 20 VC-subsidized, unused scooters lying around South Park, next to a homeless person dying in the street,” tweeted Alexia Bonatsos, the former co-editor of TechCrunch. Sierra, the tech employee who was almost personally victimized by a Bird scooter, agrees. “This is great for people to get around,” she told me. “But when will tech become technology and stop ‘solving’ for ‘problems,’ and start solving for problems?”
Where would Vanity Fair be without rich self-loathing liberals?
in the trash bin, where it probably is now?
who was almost personally victimized by a Bird scooter
W T actual F?
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/982623535125483520
Hofstadter hot rod?
College student uses CPR to save drowning squirrel
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“It was a super cool feeling to know that I saved an innocent life,” Belisto told WNBC-TV. “I watched a lot of Animal Planet as a kid, but for the CPR part was literally all from that episode in ‘The Office.'”
Belisto said the CPR technique she used came from a fifth season episode where the staffers learned to use the beat of the 1977 Bee Gees song “Stayin’ Alive” to time chest compressions.
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larf!
rodents are already to many why save one?
Fuck squirrels. They’re on my permanent shit list after they ate almost every single Roma tomato off my plants for two years. Two summers of caring for those plants like my own babies, and I got about five small tomatoes total.
If I saw a squirrel in need of CPR, I’d probably step on its neck.
Me too! Squirrels are nothing but rats with good PR. They eat my tulips, lillies, and alliums.
Fucking assholes. Flowers aren’t even food.
By the way, when I say they “ate” my tomatoes, what I mean is “waited until they just started to turn red, ripped them off the plant, sunk their teeth into them, then threw it on the ground”.
They don’t seem to recognize my collard greens as food though. The only issue with those is caterpillars, which is easily solved with some netting and manual removal and squishing of the offenders.
One year I had planted fancy double, ruffled white tulips; only a few because they were expensive. Well, none came up in my yard, but in the very center of my neighbor across the street’s yard, was a beautiful, double, ruffled white tulip. Fucking squirrels!
There are some eagles nesting near my neighborhood. At a neighborhood garden club meeting, a woman shared a video from her ‘bird cam’. A juvenile eagle was perched on a wire that runs through her back yard. A squirrel came along on the wire and chittered at it. The eagle slowly turned its head, then took off. It apparently just got enough height then nailed the squirrel. We cheered.
Squirrel is good eating. Hard to beat a big squirrel stew.
Parsing difficulty – a stew with a large squirrel or a large stew with many squirrels?
I’m going to guess the latter. Squirrels are mostly fur.
Yes.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lost-and-found/
CBS acknowledges that just taking care of business yourself is the best way.
TW: no bureaucracy was used in the solving of this problem.
“What should the US role be in an Iran-Israel war? Answer: absolutely nothing, other than to sell weapons. For cash. But that wouldn’t have filled the article. Ah, well.”
I’ve been hearing people talk about this shit lately. Where the fuck is this war supposed to happen? Iran and Israel are really really far apart.
It seems to me that one side needs to conquer Iraq or Syria first, before there’s any chance of this happening.
Whatever goes down Romania can contribute one second hand f16 to the international coalition, or if you really insist you can have both of them
‘A daft waste of time’: Labour pours scorn on new centrist party
John McDonnell and other senior figures dismiss plans for movement said to have secured £50m
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/08/a-daft-waste-of-time-labour-pours-scorn-on-new-centrist-party
But the plans for a new centrist party were dismissed by Labour shadow cabinet members, with the shadow chancellor tweeting: “That’s a novel idea. A party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich. A party for the few not the many.”
The shadow health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said: “For goodness sake, what a daft waste of time. Anyone putting money into this nonsense would be better off investing in our campaign to restore and rebuild our NHS.”
Jon Trickett tweeted: “A new political party with £50m in the kitty, no members, no rule book, no ideology. Perhaps with support from sections of the British Establishment. A plaything for the rich? Let’s focus on the task in hand: building a social movement which will change our country for good.”
That’s the smell of fear.
A social movement to change their country for good. They really cannot turn their country into a 3rd world shithole fast enough can they?
“restore and rebuild our NHS.”
Lets pour all of our resources into a failed system. Are there high levels of lead in the water over there?
Our own version of the Labo[u]r Party says the same thing about public schools.
Yeah, that doesn’t sound right. The homes I have seen in Europe tend to be smaller than in the U.S. I have noticed in the U.S. that bedrooms are getting bigger and living rooms are getting smaller. I looked at some new condos with huge bedrooms and tiny living rooms. Weird to me.
Ugh, threading fail
Just out of curiosity, what are the net worths of those Labo[u]r Party people that were quoted? They are all working-class, educated in public schools and polytechnics, right?
also they did not make lots of money solely out of politics
UK living rooms have shrunk by a third, survey finds
Average lounge in new-build homes are now 32% smaller than equivalent homes built in the 1970s
The living rooms of newly built homes in Britain are nearly a third smaller than equivalent homes built in the 1970s, according to research that charts how living space has shrunk to levels last seen 80 years ago.
The research, by LABC Warranty, which provides warranties for new-build homes, found the average living room in a house built since 2010 was 17.1 square metres (184 sq ft), compared with 24.9 sq m (268 sq ft) in the 1970s, a 32% contraction.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/08/uk-living-rooms-have-shrunk-by-a-third-survey-finds
must be some weird space time continuum thing causing the shrinkage. Or the cold rain. Anyway they are still 40% larger than American ones
10×18.5 is 40% larger than average American living rooms? Not where I am. Mine is an open floor 25 x 30. 3 bed 2 bath with an enclosed garage. It isnt out of the ordinary. I suppose in larger cities the houses are smaller but in rural America houses are more spacious. And private.
those was jokes. I was pulling numbers out of my well you know what
They seem to think that homes grow on trees or something and that is why Britain is “worse” than Denmark. It never occurs to them that maybe people want to be able to afford their homes. *checks URL* Oh, it’s the Guardian.
There’s a good reason why accommodation is shrinking – zoning and costs associated with building residential property.
I don’t watch real estate pricing back in the UK, because I don’t ever intend to return. Now, you can’t compare directly, because the cost of living in the UK is very different from the US. The distribution of costs is different – food costs as a percentage of income is much lower in the US – but when it comes to property, I saw an article a few days ago about a guy who had purchased a new 3BR house in the UK in a not-expensive area, that had a mortgage of 385,000 UKP (about $550,000). That represents maybe 10 years’ gross salary.
So, buying a smaller place is a reflection of buying what you can afford.
OK, 7 to 8 years gross. But that’s still ridiculous, and will be unmanageable for many when interest rates rise, and majority of mortgages in the UK are variable-rate.
Is there some recommended ratio for buying? I’ve only rented so I don’t know.
Conventional wisdom used to be about 3.5 years gross. That was always the calculation the banks in th UK did back in the early 90’s before the London property boom. Part of that was predicated on the expectation that you were paying an around 7% interest over the term of the mortgage.
Ah. Well, I guess that’s why I rent 🙂
Here you go. I know this property well, it was about a 30 second walk from the home I grew up in.
Looks like the ground floor apartment on the left side. Note the width of corridors, and needs a fair amount of fixing up. Last time I checked, that bathroom is out of code (one door between shittin’ and cooking’ areas, and elsewhere.
Up sides:
On-street parking
Nice but a bit dilapidated park 3 minutes away
So-so convenience shops 5 minutes walk away
Down sides:
public transit in that area is a 10 minute walk away, 45 minute rail trip to Central London
hour and a half to drive into Central London
good shopping is restricted to a Tescos and Iceland 15 minute walk away
get a good knife-resistant kevlar vest when shopping
All for about $500k
Lot of similarities to my Brooklyn neighborhood. Except there’s probably less parking (no biggie since I don’t have a car), I can’t walk to Crystal Palace matches, and I don’t need a knife-proof vest.
Color me skeptical.
Russian ‘hack’ of 2016 voter rolls leaves Galesburg, Illinois, reeling
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/08/galesburg-ill-reels-from-2016-russian-hack-voter-rolls.html
“The FBI considered this a very grave threat,” Bill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, told the Senate Intelligence Committee last year about the cyberattack.
Let me guess: they need a way bigger budget and more agents and more
special powerstools to protect us from this grave threat.How’d I do?
never forget
American leftists were Pol Pot’s cheerleaders
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“In the name of a radical utopia,” The New York Times recalled in its long obituary, “the Khmer Rouge regime had turned most of the people into slaves. . . . Dictatorial village leaders and soldiers told the people whom to marry and how to live, and those who disobeyed were killed. [Those] who did not bend to the political mania were buried alive, or tossed into the air and speared on bayonets. Some were fed to crocodiles.” Nearby was a photograph of human skulls — emblem of the dreadful “killing fields” in which the communists butchered a quarter of Cambodia’s people.
But nowhere in the Times story was there a reminder that the Khmer Rouge was able to seize power only after the US Congress in 1975 cut off all aid to the embattled pro-American government of Lon Nol — and that it did so despite frantic warnings of the bloodbath that would ensue. President Ford warned of “horror and tragedy” if Cambodia was abandoned to the Khmer Rouge and pleaded with Congress to supply Lon Nol’s army with the tools it needed to defend itself.
To no avail. US troops had come home two years earlier, but American antiwar activists were still intent on effecting the “liberation” of Southeast Asia. Radicals like Jane Fonda, David Dellinger, and Tom Hayden stormed the country, denouncing anyone who opposed communist victory in Cambodia and Vietnam. On the campuses, in the media, and in Congress, it was taken on faith that a Khmer Rouge victory would bring peace and enlightened leadership to Cambodia.
“The growing hysteria of the administration’s posture on Cambodia,” declared Senator George McGovern, “seems to me to reflect a determined refusal to consider what the fall of the existing government in Phnom Penh would actually mean. . . . We should be able to see that the kind of government which would succeed Lon Nol’s forces would most likely be a government . . . run by some of the best-educated, most able intellectuals in Cambodia.”
…
In the news columns of The New York Times, the celebrated Sydney Schanberg wrote of Cambodians that “it is difficult to imagine how their lives could be anything but better with the Americans gone.” He dismissed predictions of mass executions in the wake of a Khmer Rouge victory: “It would be tendentious to forecast such abnormal behavior as national policy under a Communist government once the war is over.” On April 13, 1975, Schanberg’s dispatch from Phnom Penh was headlined, “Indochina without Americans: for most, a better life.”
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[head desk]
They have cheered every commie shitweasel ever with the same results every time. The pinkos are on the rise in Bolivia. Watch them do it again.
“This time you will see…”
Yes we will.
Chomsky looms large
a government . . . run by some of the best-educated, most able intellectuals in Cambodia.”
And now that we know what that looks like, we should replicate it here. According to Leading Democrat Thinkers.
Nevermind that the government of intellectuals thought that the best solution was to emulate mountain tribal government.
Well, their graves certainly ended up with the best educated and most able intellectuals.
Someone in DC ought to go take a shit on that fucker’s grave.
Them fighting the 2A is a natural outflow of their past.
They’re treasonous. That’s where I’m at with this.
I’ve never seen them defend American principles and values. Instead, they push a progressive version of American principles.
Yes and he also said “All of us felt like betrayers, like people who were protected and didn’t do enough to save our friends. We felt shame. We still do.”
Contrast that with the other ‘advocates’ who weren’t there and witnessed it, who (Chomsky you sick fuck) to this day deny it.
Don’t leave Chomsky’s partner out, Edward Herman, even though he’s dead.
“I’d love to see “No Libertarians Allowed” signs on business storefronts nationwide. Since you all think discrimination is acceptable, we should try it out on you.”
https://twitter.com/The_Opinionaire/status/982872958942269440
Christ, what an asshole.
Yeah, the left moralizing about ideological discrimination is pretty rich.
yes because all businesses would totally discriminate against blacks without big government. I would say Christ what a moron
Clicking on that was very valuable. It completely validated my decision to not have a Twitter account and to stay far away from it. Every once in a while I need a reminder of why…
SO what? Washington D.C. pretty much has this sign up already.
So about those tariffs..
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43649830/why-china-is-targeting-us-hogs-and-harleys
Q was on CNN?
https://twitter.com/ashtonbirdie/status/982765628531523586
Would
Dystopian nightmare, ch 7,931
From Donald Trump’s implausible victory in the 2016 presidential race, to Bernie Sanders’ surprisingly vibrant primary challenge to the anointing of the neoliberal establishment’s favored choice as the Democratic nominee that same year, to the subsequent shift of both parties in a more populist direction, there are ample signs that growing numbers of Americans are coming to understand that something has gone terribly wrong with their lives and their country.
For many the American dream has become an American nightmare. On an aggregate level, the economy is booming. But on a personal level, we are not thriving. On the contrary, from the underbelly of the economy to its loftiest heights, many of us are profoundly miserable, desperately seeking solace in powerful forms of self-medication and other less deadly remedies.
The first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge it as a problem. Then the really hard part begins.
Who the fuck is this miserable crybaby Damon Linker, and why hasn’t he snuffed himself with a big bag of fentanyl, yet?
Hmm, whenever the typical econometric measures showed an improvement during the Obama years, I remember hearing from Intellectual™ like Paul Krugman that it was proof-positive that Obama is a super-genius who singlehandedly rescued the economy… But now, those same measures don’t count for shit, apparently.
The rise of social media echo-chambers has lead to a large increase in economic hypochondria.
Judging by my FB page, “self-medication” seems to consist of posting every single brain-fart that you-know-who makes throughout each day.
One of these things is not like the other.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-43649833/burning-man-hedonistic-festival-s-unlikely-relocation
Quite honestly, when it comes to be thoroughly suffused with un-reality, DC has Burning Man by a country mile. I have the pleasure of dealing with people who deny the reality of physics both in my work life and when I volunteer at BM; in the latter case the people actually learn that physics wins, and we cart them off for medical treatment. With the former, daily, are the blooming morons who think that a radio should be able to transmit beyond the line-of-sight horizon and for some reason us engineers just won’t imagine it into being. And why are the batteries so heavy and don’t last long enough? Argh.
I wish DC were special.
The never-ending parade of tiresome idiots “deny the reality” of
* physics
* self-interest as the strongest human emotion (economics in general)
* differences between men and women
* differences between people of the same area/race/younameit
The majority of voters don’t understand the majority of dynamics that drive/explain life; we’re fucked.
I wasn’t aware that physics denial was so prevelant.
Offering consumers great convenience, saving drive miles, lowering prices, increasing choice. Just like Hitler.
The manager at the Target store in Bozeman apparently thinks having cashiers is a big waste of money, since there are at least two dozen checkout stands but only one or two of them are ever open. I’m about ready to write Target a letter and tell them if they can’t be bothered to have somebody at a cash register, ready and waiting to take my money, I’ll just order even more of the things I used to buy at TGT from Amazon.
I’m speechless.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/18/pol-pot-revisited/
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Cambodia is not crowded, and Cambodians are not greedy, but rather peaceful and relaxed. They fish for shrimp, calamari and sea brim. They grow rice, unspoiled by herbicides, manually planted, cultivated and gathered. They produce enough for themselves and for export, too — definitely no paradise, but the country soldiers on.
…
Pol Pot and his friends inherited a devastated country. The villages had been depopulated; millions of refugees gathered in the capital to escape American bombs and American mines. Destitute and hungry, they had to be fed. But because of the bombing campaign, nobody planted rice in 1974. Pol Pot commanded everybody away from the city and to the rice paddies, to plant rice. This was a harsh, but a necessary step, and in a year Cambodia had plenty of rice, enough to feed all and even to sell some surplus to buy necessary commodities.
New Cambodia (or Kampuchea, as it was called) under Pol Pot and his comrades was a nightmare for the privileged, for the wealthy and for their retainers; but poor people had enough food and were taught to read and write. As for the mass killings, these are just horror stories, averred my Cambodian interlocutors. Surely the victorious peasants shot marauders and spies, but many more died of American-planted mines and during the subsequent Vietnamese takeover, they said.
…
To me, this recalled other CIA-sponsored stories of Red atrocities, be it Stalin’s Terror or the Ukrainian Holodomor. The people now in charge of the US, Europe and Russia want to present every alternative to their rule as inept or bloody or both. They especially hate incorruptible leaders, be it Robespierre or Lenin, Stalin or Mao – and Pol Pot.
…
Introduction of capitalism in Russia killed more people than introduction of socialism, but who knows that?
Now we may cautiously reassess the brave attempts to reach for socialism in various countries. They were done under harsh, adverse conditions, under threat of intervention, facing hostile propaganda. But let us remember: if socialism failed, so did capitalism. If communism was accompanied by loss of life, so was and is capitalism. But with capitalism, we have no future worth living, while socialism still offers hope to us and our children.
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That guy drank the whole punchbowl of Kool-Aid.
Shamir is an interesting character, as far as lunatics go.
Pot … kettle.
The CIA didn’t exist when the Holodomor occurred. More fake facts from the Left.
Bring on the nanny state if it stops our children’s teeth from falling out
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/08/bring-on-nanny-state-if-it-stops-childrens-teeth-falling-out
What is it with some people and their touching delusion that they are in danger of being “mollycoddled” by a nanny state? When, frankly, in most cases, they’d be lucky.
You would have thought they would agree that the new “sugar tax” was a positive step. But in some quarters there have been complaints that adults can be trusted to monitor their own sugar intake without unwanted, unnecessary government interference.
As it happens, the tax is far from perfect – reducing sugar in food products (cakes and biscuits, but also ready meals) bizarrely remains optional, while some brands have avoided the tax by using artificial sweeteners that are highly controversial in themselves.
it is, after all, for teh childrunz, so who would complain? SO bizarre sugar is not banned.
artificial sweeteners that are highly controversial in themselves. – most of them are not that controversial really.
But honestly, you cant reason with the lefties. You should be lucky for a government to tell you how to live every aspect of your life. But they are not the authoritarians, no siree. the right is authoritarian
the comments are fab as usual
There is no such thing as a nanny state. We all have to pay in one way or another, so have a stake in how the government of the day looks after the health of the nation. We pay either via our national insurance deductions, or lower productivity when citizens fall ill (i.e., either through obesity, smoking or drug related deceases).
Help me with my math: how do national insurance deductions undo the lower productivity when citizens fall ill? A guy is missing at the factory either way: whether I pay for his clinic visit or not.
Because children have their own money?
Are there any nicotine vapers here? I’m looking for advice on hardware, and a good place online to buy it.
Order from Alibaba for the best prices and maximum industrial chemicals.
either smoke cigars or quit.
pound. head. on. desk.
Bennett: War on drugs was not a failure, could be done again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwdXM_BU6rU
Hey, it’s the cigarette smoker who gets his panties in a wad over other people’s addictions. Eat a dick William.
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Bennett said that his habit had not put himself or his family in any financial jeopardy. After Bennett’s gambling problem became public, he said he did not believe his habit set a good example, that he had “done too much gambling” over the years, and his “gambling days are over”. “We are financially solvent,” his wife Elayne told USA Today. “All our bills are paid.” She added that his gambling days are over. “He’s never going again,” she said.[18]
Several months later, Bennett qualified his position, saying “So, in this case, the excessive gambling is over.” He explained “Since there will be people doing the micrometer on me, I just want to be clear: I do want to be able to bet the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl.”[19]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bennett#Gambling
You know things are going to shit when people don’t even bother to hide their hypocrisy anymore.
I shudder to think what passes for “failure” in the world of this dumbshit.
My 4th little one was born this morning at 10 o’clock. A day earlier than the planned C-section, but baby and Mrs. Larry Joe are both doing well.
Congratulations to mom, and – of course to you (Tulpa?).
congrats… doing your bit for global warming
Congrats!
The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth. ~ Mongolian Proverb
The Great Khan would be pleased with you.
Excellent news, LJ! Congratulations!
Boy or girl?
Oh, we’re gonna raise them as a theyby. Don’t dare confuse her anatomy or genetics as determinant of xer gender, shitlord!
But you know, since that’s all bullshit, it’s a girl!
Fourth? You are a more tolerant fellow than I am.
And the obligatory “mazeltov!” I hope they do less shit-smearing than Sloopy and Banjos’s menagerie.
Congratulations
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations! I anticipate Zardoz will not be pleased.
The people now in charge of the US, Europe and Russia want to present every alternative to their rule as inept or bloody or both. They especially hate incorruptible leaders, be it Robespierre or Lenin, Stalin or Mao – and Pol Pot.
Yeah, that’s it. I hope that was written by a tenured professor of history at an Ivy League college.
The incorruptible Stalin. The same guy that kept the sexual predator Levrenty Beria around because his proclivities made him easy to control? That Stalin?
I know at least one US college professor who claims Stalin never killed anybody:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPTZF5zSLQ
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Dr. Grover Furr is an English professor at Montclair State University. He is actively engaged in concealing the murder of 150 million citizens by Stalin and other communists. How an accessory to genocide like him is permitted to teach at any American University is evidence of the successful Marxist takeover of academia.
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Stalin dindu nuffin
Are there any nicotine vapers here? I’m looking for advice on hardware, and a good place online to buy it.
Don’t do it, Kid. I hear that stuff’ll kill ya faster than huffing on the tailpipe of a big rig.
I had the following conversation with a co-worker the other day:
Her: That “vaping” is really dangerous – there’s even more nicotine than cigarettes!
Me: You can actually buy vape juices with different concentrations of nicotine, and many people make their own juice at home, so they control how much nicotine is in there. You could actually make a zero-nicotine juice if you wanted, and a lot of people do.
Her: But when my son uses his vape, there’s SO much smoke! It’s really thick!
Me: Well for starters, it’s not smoke at all – it’s vapor. And the opacity is from propylene glycol, which is a chemical they put in there to make it look like smoke. It does absolutely nothing, and you can leave it out if you want.
Her: But they don’t know what’s in that solution! There are even more chemicals than cigarettes!
Me: No, there aren’t. Most vape juices have just three chemicals: nicotine, flavoring, and propylene glycol.
Her: YOU must be a vaper, because you’re getting really mad! Teeheehee!
*head desk*
repeat after me:
Beliefs based on facts are defended with facts; beliefs based on bullshit are defended with bullshit.
That’s a paraphrase of a Spinoza quote.
Why on earth would you converse with anyone at work? That way lies madness.
Her: my narrative is a fact-free zone.
Uh oh…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syria-chemical-attack-trump-threatens-bashar-animal-assad-putin-chemical-weapons-strike-2018-04-08/
Now why, exactly, would Assad who is very clearly winning bother with a chemical attack. I’m going to call bullshit on this one. The last goddamn thing we need is a war with Syria, Iran, and Russia.
“I do not understand “rape culture”
If someone wants to point out some rapists or rape apologists and claim they are rape culture in the same way NASCAR fans are NASCAR culture – well, this is still asking for the term to be abused. But when people try to pull the second meaning – America “is” a rape culture – this is the part that has me throwing up my hands and wondering what the heck they are thinking.
As I understand it, here are the claims involve in “rape culture”.
1. Society treats rape as less horrendous and more excusable than other crimes
2. The criminal justice system is unusually loaded in favor of rape suspects and against victims
3. People are more willing to blame rape victims than victims of other crimes
4. Misogyny in society causes sexual objectification of women, which latently condones/promotes rape
5. The general tolerance of rape is a sign that society is biased against women and doesn’t care about their problems
Every single one of these claims seems to me diametrically wrong.”
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/19/i-do-not-understand-rape-culture/
Like most of his posts, it’s long. So I’ll read the whole thing later.
STEVE SMITH EXPERT ON CULTURE
I will say this. All too often, Judges seem to way way more lenient toward pedophiles than seems fitting. But to your point, rape culture doesn’t exist here and is just more “the patriarchy” bullshit. It does however exist in other countries but you’re somehow a racist for pointing that out but not a racist for saying it exist here.
And regarding my comment about the pedophiles, sex of the victim doesn’t seem to matter.
No it doesn’t. Rape is probably second only to murder, and it is aggressively investigated and prosecuted.
That’s called “standard of evidence”, and it applies to all crimes.
Because there’s a possibility that the “rape” was actually consensual sex which the woman later decided she didn’t really want or felt ashamed about and retroactively claimed that it was rape. There are many high-profile instances of this very thing happening.
American society is not misogynist. Women are one of the most privileged classes in the history of the world. There are countless double standards that work in their favor. Men are one of the only demographics left who can be openly disparaged and discriminated against with no repercussions. On the contrary, female rape is considered a horrible thing while male rape is considered sitcom material.
Rape is like any other assault except in that it is least likely to have witnesses. Potential rape victims need to learn that the trick in this life is to not slip off your armor in the company of folk who might stab you. Just because there are a few good laws about some things doesn’t mean you should let your guard down when there aren’t witnesses.
But the pervasive belief is that life is orderly and bureaucracy will save us, so every misdeed should be prevented at best or settled in court at worst. Problem is that your neighbor shouldn’t vote to convict without better testimony than he-said-she-said.
So we’re all assholes for reminding victims not to get into he-said-she-said situations and for not convicting defendants without suitable evidence. Our culture is broken because we won’t upend common sense and criminal law to obviate the normal, real-life risks that are the individual’s obligation to minimize. By even pointing this out, we are blaming the victim and the culture is thus.
Nothing would please me more than to take a piece of pipe to a rapist I catch in the act, but that’s never going to happen. Why am I an asshole for understanding that?
Why am I an asshole for understanding that?
Eh, because you are talking about the real world and not the make believe world that our “betters” believe they can wish into existence?
Bulldogs win NCAA hockey championship.
And for the first time ever, Tundra correctly picks a winner (sorry Sloopy)!
Proving again that the NCHC is vastly superior to the Bitch10
I hope Motzko can get the Gilded Rodents turned around, but I still deeply detest the Big10 move. That ticket used to be impossible, now the fucking arena is empty.
Sad how the U is now the third or fourth D1 program in Minne.
As much as I hate the Rodents, it is sad to see. Actually, it’s tough to hate them because of it. Well, that and the loss of playing two series against them every year. Agh, the whole situation still bugs me.
And I had a major eye-roll at the UoM arrogance on display when the author said something about there now being two major hockey programs in Minne. I think St. Cloud and Mankato might have something to say about that. Hell, even little Bemidji has had some some nice success.
Yep, though the WCHA wasn’t perfect (AK-Anchorage?) it was a whole lot better. Madison is not enthused either. Although partly due to the end of the Eaves era, attendance has tanked. And this year although new “conference member” Notre Dame was probably the best team I saw, the hottest home tickets were Minnesota & North Dakota.
My daughter is going to grad school in Madison. She went to the UND-UW game and had a blast. I wish I could have made it down there to go with her.
That’s good to hear. From what I can tell the crowd that does show up still is entertained. Because the football team had such a good season, hockey turnout was pretty low before picking up a little after December. They would do better to have more weekends when both teams are home, which I think only happened once this season.
has this made the rounds yet?
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/43703/
Professor reads an anti-racist poem from a black poet; black student complains because poem contains racist language
Is that like noted-racist Mark Twain getting banned now and then?
Here’s a video of the poet in question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JxMXZVafKk
Much whining about being the only black woman at poetry readings and not getting enough adulation.
Meh. Gimme Ewan MacTeagle.
They should also stop teaching history courses. Slavery, The Holocaust, War. All racist subjects. Maybe when I retire, for fun I’ll audit some courses and demand that all important subject matter be dropped for being racist or sexist and demand thise subjects be replaced by kindergarten level arts & crafts.
I’m surprised they waited that long.
Seems to be more problems there than just the coach, though. Who are the local media batting around as a replacement?
The article links to a list but I’m a newbie so none of those names would mean anything to me anyway.
But yeah, the problems were far more than the coach but you know how that goes.
This has probably been posted before, but it bears repeating:
The nice girl who saved the second amendment
I think you’re going to have to repeat it again.
Damn, SFed the link (forgot the close quote on the href).
The nice girl who saved the second amendment
Just say you did it on purpose; second link…second amendment. It’s brilliant!
Great article!
Seconded. What a woman!
I have that book, and I highly recommend it.
“She is also the lady who saved the Second Amendment — a scholar whose work helped make possible the Supreme Court’s landmark Heller decision, which in 2008 recognized an individual right to possess a firearm.”
Heller definantly made things better for some in places where state and local governments were violating the 2A. However, it listed self defense as the primary reason for the 2A, and that is just flat wrong and leaves the door open for all kinds of gun control legislation that should be verboten.
Yeah, Heller’s a mixed bag. Generally positive in the short term, but then you see stuff like Massachusetts, where they’re basing bans on Scalia’s opinion. He left a lot of goodies for the gun grabbers in there, like the notion that the 2A, “like other rights”, isn’t absolute or unlimited. Again, I’m not sure what about “shall not be infringed” is unclear, but I guess you have to go to law school for that kind of fancy book-learnin’.
The moment I heard that Scalia was writing the opinion, I knew we were fucked; that guy was the master of coming up with what he wanted to see happen, and then rationalizing his way around to it. In this respect he was very similar to his bestie, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
They all do it. Even Thomas, stalwart defender of rights as he is on some issues, sees barely any limitations at all to police power. Then there’s Sotomayor, one of the few justices who regularly stands up for Amendments 4-6, but then backs every exercise of government power that leads to more violations of people’s rights.
In a sane world, Massachusetts would have had to amend its own constitution by now to get gun control. The state constitution says “The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence” but the MA legislature and courts have read this as “the people have no right to keep or bear arms” which is an impressive feat of linguistic absurdity*. That they are even arguing about what the U.S. Constitution requires is a sign of the degeneracy of law and jurisprudence.
* = Well, it would be, if any of their judges or legislators had a shred of intellectual honesty.
FWIW the MA argument against their own state’s RKBA is that the qualifier “for the common defen[s]e” means that no one in particular has a right to keep and bear arms, because the state provides for the common defense (except when it doesn’t, but then FYTW). Think about how absurd it would be to apply that reasoning to any other right. Well, freedom of speech doesn’t mean you have a right to speak freely, since your state represents you and can speak for you.
“So, buying a smaller place is a reflection of buying what you can afford”
I can’t explain this to my well-meaning son, who gets butthurt over simple economic choices, that “gentrification” isn’t a thing; housing is a market like any other good or service.
Where should those people live? Wherever they wish. What you can afford in the area you choose. Or choose an area you can afford. Whatever you want so long as you pay for it. The only other choice is my being taxed to subsidize the choices of others.
The urge to contrive systems to tax me or control others so as to paper over the unhappy facts of life eludes me; as a child of the rural, underclass, Southern situation, it has been clear to me for half a century to buck up and just take care of myself. Where do folk get this other notion?
somewhat related
There was a Chicago mayor who decided she was going to live in a housing project as a show of solidarity. For extra security, the fire exits were welded shut. Said mayor moved out not long after, but the thugs learned the advantages of welding fire exits shut so as to turn housing projects into fortresses.
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On March 26, 1981, Byrne decided to move into and “cleanup” the crime–ridden Cabrini–Green Homes housing project on the near–north side of the Chicago after 37 shootings resulting in 11 murders occurred during a three–month period from January to March 1981.[16] In her 2004 memoir, Byrne reflected about decision to move into Cabrini-Green: “How could I put Cabrini on a bigger map? … Suddenly I knew — I could move in there.”[4] Prior to her move to Cabrini, Byrne closed down several liquor stores in the area, citing the stores as hangout for gangs and murderers. Byrne also ordered the Chicago Housing Authority to evict tenants who were suspected of harboring gang members in their apartments; which totalled approximately 800 tenants. Byrne moved into a 4th floor apartment in a Cabrini extension building on North Sedgwick Avenue with her husband on March 31 at around 8:30 pm after attending a dinner at the Conrad Hilton hotel.[17][18] Hours after Byrne moved into the housing project, police raided the building and arrested eleven street gang members who they learned through informants that they were planning to have a shootout in the mayor’s building later that evening. Byrne described her first night there “lovely” and “very quiet”. Byrne stayed at the housing project for three weeks to bring attention to the project’s issues such as murders, rapes and robberies. Byrne’s stay at Cabrini ended on April 18, 1981 following an Easter celebrating at the project which drew protests and demonstrations who claimed Byrne’s move to the project was just a publicity stunt.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Byrne
leftists are morons; film at 11
LOL love the picture. It looks like a prison cell.
so brave, much woke
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/02/us/chicago-s-mayor-spends-lovely-night-at-project.html
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Mayor Byrne, who announced her plans to set up housekeeping in the project 11 days ago, slipped into the apartment with little notice last night.
Heavy Police Protection
”We didn’t want a lot of hoopla,” Mrs. Byrne said when asked why the move had been made before informing the press. After the Mayor moved in, two policemen were stationed in the lobby and another outside the door. Two of her bodyguards, who are staying in another two-bedroom apartment adjacent to hers, were reported to be standing outside her door. At least four marked and two unmarked police cars patroled the area around the building.
Mayor Byrne looked rested after her first night in the 78-building complex, which houses more than 13,500 people, but she told reporters that elevators in the buildings ”continually do not work” and that garbage collection and rodent control were unsatisfactory.
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Didn’t Cory Booker do something similar?
yep
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While still in law school at Yale and helping out with that free legal clinic, Booker opted to live in Newark, in a poor neighborhood. Yale, a two-hour drive from Newark on a good day. When Booker graduated, he remained a resident of the same deeply distressed community, in a tent. Then, he moved into a high-rise housing project where, as the New York Times put it, “heat, hot water and elevator service were often in short supply.” Booker lived in the building from 1998 to 2006. Some doubted that. Booker and his neighbors said most nights that’s exactly where he was. And, Booker remained until he and the building’s other residents were evicted by the Housing Authority with a promise to replace the building.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/25/six-noteworthy-things-about-cory-booker/?utm_term=.c24a2191646d
Living in public housing while a city councillor and an attorney in NY. Sure, nothing wrong with that.
Whatever happened to the $100M Zuckerberg dumped into Newark schools?
Very brave of her to go into the projects with an armed guard of policemen after evicting the worst of the undesirables.
Yeah. It was almost as heroic as that time Rahm Emmanuel walked through the worst neighborhood in Chicago while surrounded by police.
Anti-Gun Rahm Emanuel’s Yard Sign Warns Burglars That He Has Armed Secret Service
http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/30/anti-gun-rahm-emanuels-yard-sign-warns-burglars-that-he-has-armed-secret-service/
When I lived in Chicago, the penalty for having an unregistered gun was confiscation and a $1000 fine.
The day I left Chicago, 2 convenience stores on my block got robbed and the Latin Kings tagged a building 30 seconds from my front door.
Christ, what an asshole.
Good thing none of the locals talked her into saying “candyman” three times into a mirror.
Unbelievable: apparently Kimi Raikkonen just ran over one of his own mechanices in the pits.
F1 is my guilty pleasure: it’s a test in contrived stupidity, but I keep watching for some reason. What’s the correct basis for a test of drivers that doesn’t devolve to who-spent-the-most? It need not be billion dollar technology, especially if that tech serves only to insulate the driver from the responsibilities of driving (I like to say that it would still be a race if they didn’t beat the horses).
And what is driving, anyway? Like anyone, I have my own notion of which technologies should be mastered to be a driver, and, sadly, SkyNet has rendered my worldview technologically moot. I’m always going to care a little less if the driver isn’t responsible for these things:
a) steering to manage apex in the corner, preserve tires, and cut the best line through traffic
b) shifting a friction-clutch transmission between gears: be in the right gear at all times, don’t burn it up, and don’t spin the tires
c) accelerating as hard as a traditional induction can keep up, without spinning or hopping tires or otherwise breaking loose from one’s preferred arc
d) braking only at the right time, not wearing out the equipment, not locking up or sliding off one’s line
F1 just manages too much of that for the driver, but I know I’m not getting the 1950s back.
Too bad too.
https://youtu.be/pzLJsxWSLTE
Cool.
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of his death.
“How an extra GPS tracker on a drug dealer’s car unraveled a corrupt Baltimore police force that robbed homeless people and resold confiscated heroin and ecstasy back on the street”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5576217/How-extra-GPS-tracker-took-Baltimores-Gun-Trace-Task-Force.html
The Wire was a documentary.
Just one or two isolated bad apples.
“Assault against pro-choice advocate didn’t happen, police say
Waterloo Regional Police Service has charged a 41-year-old Kitchener woman with public mischief after a month-long investigation into an alleged assault against her. The woman, who is a local pro-choice advocate, said a man threw a bucket of red paint at her face outside the Charles and Borden Tim Hortons, and yelled “murderer” before walking away last month. Police investigated the case as a hate crime. “At the conclusion of the investigation, detectives have determined the assault did not take place,” said police in a media release Wednesday.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/pro-choice-advocate-waterloo-red-paint-assault-1.4604475
Hate Crime?
So, pro-choice is now a protected ideology.
. Maybe when I retire, for fun I’ll audit some courses and demand that all important subject matter be dropped for being racist or sexist and demand thise subjects be replaced by kindergarten level arts & crafts.
Don’t let them have pointy scissors, for heaven’s sake. They’ll poke their eyes out.
Most of them would probably faint at the sight of them.
Should have just created a knife free zone around the marathon then they wouldn’t have had to arrest this poor oppressed man. I was going to say oppressed minority, but I’m not sure if that’s still true.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/943087/Germany-terror-arrest-berlin-marathon
Yes, people suck. A person can be good but in general, people suck.
Based on your photo, I suggest you grow the beard back.
Just another day in Idaho.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=SVWYjVDWKWQ
TW OMWC. Large fish and sea craft.
Why do people add music that has nothing to do with content?
Anyway, Luiza from the side bar, would.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEV8arlOg7Y
The nice girl who saved the second amendment
Excellent. Thanks.