As I read through this morning’s news, I kept thinking, “This all has to be some elaborate prank. Right now, the editorial boards of all the major media outlets are all together at a bar laughing their asses off at us.” As I hear the ice storm raging outside, I’m visualizing the “science” editors busily composing stories on how this is a sign or global warming. Well, I’m inside, I’m warm, and I have grappa in my coffee, so… here’s some of the stories that caught my attention.
I shouldn’t be amazed at the lionization of the notoriously violent and corrupt Winnie Mandela by the Left, but somehow, I can’t help but be. This story was perfect.
Members of the governing party’s women’s league, wearing green and black, who attended Madikizela-Mandela’s memorial service this past week ululating in the stands of the stadium, added: “She didn’t die, she multiplied” to their tuneful chants.
This refrain has caught fire.
C’mon, are you going to tell me that the NPR folks aren’t in hysterics and high-fiving? In any case, if she is indeed multiplying, I strongly advise buying stock in Goodyear, Michelin, Hangkook, and Cooper.
Speaking of fire, here’s another one that got the editors in giggling fits. I could make the obvious lawyer jokes (“A good start!”) but good taste prevents me from doing so. Regarding a protest against fossil fuels that adds a load of CO2 to the atmosphere, I could say, “The irony, it burns!” but that would be needlessly cruel.
I have always assumed that after his shows, Art Bell would go off with his buddies who had just changed out of their space aliens costumes and have celebratory drinks. Well, Art has made the last call. You were always entertaining, and you inspired one of my favorite characters of all time, Happy Harry Cox (“They call me Happy because I am happy!”). Thanks for all the fun, Art!
The Pope can reliably generate null-content but nonetheless sanctimonious verbal mush. And I also assume he giggles like a little girl once he’s off-camera. “They didn’t ask me how many divisions I have! HAHAHAHAHA!”
OK, Old Guy Music time yet again. I’m not a big fan of soul/funk, but I always had a soft spot for Tower of Power. And when they step out of their genre and do the blues, well… Here’s a terrific cover of an Albert King classic, with some delightfully tasty guitar work.
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Is that a portrait of zombie Abraham Lincoln on the wall in that picture?
It looks like a hobo.
Anyway, I saw the movie. It’s the Confederates who were zombies.
Hello everyone! I don’t have the opportunity to comment often but this week I’m on vacation. I’m visiting a relative and drinking his crappy instant coffee spiked with his crappy whiskey. (He’s still asleep.) I just wanted to express how much I appreciate this site, its founders, and and Glibertariat.
Now this here is a mammal dedicated to his drinking.
If you want to drink all day long you have to start early.
Even if you wake up at 11?
Starting implies having stopped at some earlier point.
The Sir Isaac Newton of alcoholics.
Instant coffee is like IPA. A shitty product made for war, that soldiers got addicted too and brought back home to infect the civilized world.
*reaches shaky claws to last can of Cigar City Jai Alai*
BITE YOUR TONGUE MAMMAL!
Dems the facts, Lizard. War is hell!
“FDA bans some pure caffeine powders and liquids that pack a potentially lethal punch
Two healthy young men, an 18-year-old and a 24-year-old, died from caffeine overdoses in 2014. Their families met with the FDA, which then started warning consumers about concentrated caffeine products.
“Despite multiple actions against these products in the past, we’ve seen a continued trend of products containing highly concentrated or pure caffeine being marketed directly to consumers as dietary supplements and sold in bulk quantities, with up to thousands of recommended servings per container,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement. “We know these products are sometimes being used in potentially dangerous ways.”
Advocates and lawmakers have called on the FDA to ban concentrated caffeine products altogether. The guidance issued Friday doesn’t go quite that far, instead focusing on pure and highly concentrated caffeine sold in large amounts and can’t be easily measured.
For example, pills or tables and premeasured packets would be acceptable. So would bulk amounts, as long as they were diluted enough that a measurement error wouldn’t make them toxic.
The changes go into effect immediately, meaning the FDA can take steps right away to start taking illegal products off the market.
“We’re making clear for industry that these highly concentrated forms of caffeine that are being sold in bulk packages are generally illegal under current law,” Gottlieb said. “We’ll act to remove these dangerous bulk products from the market.”
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/13/fda-bans-some-pure-caffeine-powders-and-liquids.html
I always hate these laws and regulations that are based on one or two people.
You know what else can be used in potentially dangerous ways?
Links posted by HM?
Literally anything?
My scaly dick?
A dick is involved in laying eggs? What other surprises about your species should we know about?
The Reptilian penis is purely for probing. It’s a tool to obtain higher knowledge – not for our un-evolved mammalian sex. Do you even listen to Coast to Coast?
Not any more, no.
Clearly not a vagina.
Water?
Hitler?
Coffee is nothing but a medium used to get caffeine into one’s body. It doesn’t matter what it tastes like, only if it effectively stimulates.
I’ve always been a bit of a coffee snob but wifey turned me on to bog-standard Eight O’ Clock whole bean made in the French press; HOLY MACKEREL, it’s delicious. If feeling fancy, I’ll mix it with a little Cafe Bustelo or dump in an espresso made with Medaglia d’Oro (Italian) or Venizelos (Greek).
I was at a supermarket other than my usual one the other day and I picked up Eight o’Clock instead of some fancier shit I normally would have chosen. Always liked it. I got the ground though because I am too lazy to grind it myself any more.
Have one of the orphans grind the coffee while they are on break.
Orphans… on break?!?
What heresy is this?
TLAH is obviously one of these new-fangled Reform Libertarians people have talked about.
I buy Folgers in the gallon capacity plastic can from Sam’s club. It does what I need it to do.
To each their own.
#ain’tcapatilismgreat
My usual coffee is a mix of cafe bustelo and maxwell house breakfast blend. I mix them together in my old gallon folger’s can.
I like Chock Full O’Nuts
But enough about Glibertarians……
Have you ever made coffee in a Moka pot? It produces a very, very concentrated brew like espresso (but I read that the lower pressure in the brewing process means that it’s not technically espresso). You’ll definitely want to drink just a small quantity; maybe 1/3 of a standard coffee cup. It’s strong.
Anyway, Moka pots only cost about $20, so you can enjoy an espresso-like brew at home without having to spend a fortune on an actual espresso machine.
I keep my coffee in padlocked cans like Mel Gibson in Conspiracy Theory.
My 16-year-old son doesn’t like the taste of coffee but likes to get some caffeine in the morning, so chews some ‘caffeinated’ gum that has 100 mg caffeine, which is around the same as a single cup of coffee. I wonder if they’ll try to ban those, too, in case someone somewhere would chew 20 pieces at a time.
So true.
That lawyer buckeled under the pressure of CAGW. May his example burn as a shining beacon to others. His actions could ignite a whole movement.
The best response. It’s an oldie but goodie.
That was my thought as well. Environmental nutballs lighting up across the country. We can only hope others carry on with his torch for the movement.
I just thought it curious that his idea of fighting to stop CAGW is to increase CAGW. Maybe he is following the lead of Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio by flying on private jets to exotic locals to make plans on how to fight CAGW?
So very glad I escaped IL and it’s weather
By 11 a.m., the authorities had removed Mr. Buckel’s body, leaving a blackened patch and a circular indentation around which parks officials placed two orange cones.
And that’s all that was left of the cake.
Someone left his cake out in the rain?
How do you think the fire was extinguished?
Weld pissed on it.
Wow- Art Bell died. Didn’t he go off the air a while ago, because of some family issues?
I don’t know why but yes he did. George Noory is the current host.
The Pope can’t be a communist. He’s not one of (((them))). Catholics call it “distributism”
You get more cash in the collection plate with a gun in your hand.
Also, strippers might increase collections
I got your eternal soul in one hand…
Has anyone tried that? Because someone should try that.
Gun? Strippers? Or both?
Yes.
Better version of that link.
Strippers. And definitely not both.
You would think all the progress in gay rights over the last couple of decades, would have led him to be a little more positive. I get the impression that maybe he had other issues and blaming his death on despair about the environment was just a big virtue signal on the way out.
Maybe he gave Hogg some ideas. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Boo! I don’t give a shit. I hate that fucking kid.
My wife and her sister are really invested in the Parkland thing. I told her it’s funny watching these kids want to infringe my rights, but cry when they have to wear a clear backpack. She said you have to remember they’re traumatized and still kids. I said maybe they shouldn’t be the leaders of a national policy then. I got the silent treatment.
If kids are such great spokespeople, get her to ask a Syrian kid what he thinks of what is happening.
^^^^^WINNER
Congratulations on getting your wife to shut up!
Exactly. This is a guy who needs a cause. Even better if it’s a cause to die for.
My father used to say, “It’s easy to laugh at yourself. The true secret to happiness in life is the ability to laugh at others.”
And I like to say, “I’m not laughing *with* you. I’m laughing *at* you.”
I’m laughing *near* you.
Every time I think of the Tower of Power, I think of the use of “So Very Hard to Go” in City of God.
In his note, which was received by The Times at 5:55 a.m., Mr. Buckel discussed the difficulty of improving the world even for those who make vigorous efforts to do so.
Privilege, he said, was derived from the suffering of others.
“Many who drive their own lives to help others often realize that they do not change what causes the need for their help,” Mr. Buckel wrote, adding that donating to organizations was not enough.
And all I can think of is this
What an egalitarian, zero-sum asshole
“Many who drive their own lives to help others often realize that they do not change what causes the need for their help,”
State interference fucks up a lot of people’s lives, and no matter what I do, I can’t change that.
That’s the mantra of a person who wants to drive your life for you. I can’t say I’ll miss him.
Not being shitty to people, helping when you can and raising good children does more for the world than I assume Mr. Charcoal has ever done.
C’mon, are you going to tell me that the NPR folks aren’t in hysterics and high-fiving? In any case, if she is indeed multiplying, I strongly advise buying stock in Goodyear, Michelin, Hangkook, and Cooper.
And now I have to wipe coffee off of the screen. Thanks!
This refrain has caught fire.
Hopefully it will be easier to extinguish than a tire.
Sick burn
Which is the appropriate fire extinguisher for use with both burning rubber and someone’s face in the area which is aflame?
AFFF?
Nice old guy music choice.
Well, at least someone gets it.
Judge Calls NYPD’s Handling Of Precarious Civil Forfeiture Database ‘Insane’
I’m shocked by this revelation.
I’m certain someone will be held responsible.
And people wonder why some might want to shoot at cops.
That was the lede I buried. Not a shakedown at all.
Yeah, one way deposits. Money never comes out of the pension fund, right?
Justin Trudeau, who earlier said this week that Canada would not join any attacks against Syria, makes empty platitudes to our ‘allies’ in support of air strikes.
FFS, Trudeau, why can’t you just man up and tell Trump and the rest of the crew, Fuck You, this isn’t the concern of the Canadian Taxpayer? What a douchecanoe.
The minister did not specify what evidence the government has to reach that conclusion, however, saying only that Canada is working with non-government organizations and others to collect evidence of war crimes in Syria.
Shoot first, question later.
Missile strikes are the modern nation-state version of virtue-signaling.
No bodybags, no protests. As long as Tomahawks and Hellfires delivered by drone are the weapons of choice, congress and the taxpayer will continue sleepwalking while our ‘betters’ pile up dead bodies around the world at will.
I thought his allies were the communists.
The Far Left hates Trudeau as well. He has no allies outside of the moneyed establishment.
I would have said “the Laurentian Elite,” but there’s strong overlap between those two sets anyways…
Idiots in California didn’t know they only had one choice per category. Now, they’re in danger of doing the same thing this year. I guess having multiple columns for the same thing is very confusing to some people.
Perhaps if you don’t actually know who you are voting for, you shouldn’t be voting at all. I know that’s blasphemy and all when we pretend that voters are virtuous patriots and all, but it’s a thought.
Ooh. Neat idea. The ballots should be blank and you can write in anyone.
“You can’t remember who you wanted for dog catcher? Sorry hun, we’re not allowed to help you fill out the ballet.”
One rumoured way to cheat at vote counting in romania is the counter had a stamp on their wrist and would apply to cancel votes for the oposition. Dunno if true
Normally I refrain from commenting on anything in the articles lest people start suspecting I am actually at least skimming through, but I’ll make an exception here.
So…she’s one of Bebe’s kids?
When he went to retrieve his $4,800, he was told it was too late: the money had been deposited into the NYPD’s pension fund.
Holy
fucking
shit.
This is why I can’t completely deny the utility of capital punishment. Some people really should be hanged from lampposts, in uniform.
Why, exactly, couldn’t the money be withdrawn? Other than FYTW?
Well, you see their database system can’t keep track of your financial deposit into their seizure system well enough for them to return it to you before they transfer it into their pension system, which bears dividends of safety and security for all. But they know they transferred it, so at least you know what happened to your money, and that it will have a safe and happy home now.
OMG, why do you want our retired heroes in blue to suffer in their old age?
Theft, pure plain and simple.
Aww, no Bill Nye “The Lying Guy” at this year’s March for MOAR GOVERNMENT, err “science”?
“A few people chanted “Science is real. It’s not how you feel,””
But Ben Shapiro is literally Hitler.
I fucking love science.
I hate that “progressives” are trying to redefine science as a group of human beings. That’s not science; that’s religion.
A person is not “anti-science” for asking:
– How they’re so sure that there’s a catastrophic, unprecedented temperature change when the instrumental record only goes back to ~1890
– Why we’re supposed to believe them this time when they’ve made so many incorrect predictions that they’re about on par with the “rapture is coming this time” crowd
– How they know that a 1-2 degree temperature change is going to literally destroy the world
– How they know that economy-killing policies are actually going to reverse the situation
Thought you might appreciate a post from an actual climate scientist on another board I read now and then, where he’s answering a climate change skeptic:
The Earth doesn’t get warmer or cooler for no reason, outside of short-term (decade-scale) cycles in the atmosphere-ocean system. The climate only changes for reasons.
The main driver of long-term climate changes (on the order of tens to hundreds of thousands of years and longer) is a collection of cyclical orbital patterns (Milankovich cycles). Those are the main reasons behind big, long-term warming and cooling cycles (glaciers and ice ages). You get some complicated feedbacks in the system, but those cycles are the main thing.
Beyond that, when you get into really long time scales, things get more complicated because continents moving around change surface albedo, the development and evolution of life on earth has drastically altered the planet’s atmosphere and its greenhouse effects over time, and so on.
> How much impact humanity (perhaps 10,000 years) or the industrial age (less than 500 years)
> has had on that long term trend is still uncertain in my book.
But not in the book of the experts who actually study this stuff.
We basically know the things that affect the climate, and we can (and do) measure them. We know what the sun has been up to, we know what volcanoes have been up to (and you can see the short-term cooling effects in the temperature records, because science). And so on. We also know how much CO2 and other greenhouse gases we’ve been pumping into the air, and their sources. And we can see the various fingerprints of warming driven by greenhouse gas increases (compared to other possible causes).
To reasonably small degrees of uncertainty, we know that human activities (mostly greenhouse gas emissions but also land use change) are responsible for a little bit more than 100% of the warming observed over the last 100 years or so. It’s more than 100% because we also put a lot of pollution into the atmosphere that blocks some sunlight, resulting in a cooling effect that offsets some of that warming.
I’d love to discuss it more but I’m about my 13th hour today editing chapters of the forthcoming US national climate assessment.
More than 100%? What?
It’s EVEN WORSE THAN WE FEARED!!!!!!!!!!! NEEDS MOAR FUNDING!!!!!
What the whole AGW scam comes down to is that the government funded scientists have to keep the fearmongering going because that’s how they get paid.
It’s always hilarious how many people think that the scientists who are paid by government to find new excuses for taxation, spending, and control of more facets of life are some kind of noble selfless beings who tell it like it is.
It’s like the media. The media needs big daddy government, because big daddy government fills up the 24 hour news cycle with the endless soap opera, with wars, with new “crises” that they can report on in breathless hushed tones.
I’m extremely annoyed that “progressives” will summarily dismiss any study as biased if so much as one penny of funding came from a for-profit company, yet a study carried out entirely by government employees is just hunky dory.
Speaking of NPR, this story was at the top of my twit feed this morning.
Yes, just last night I was woke by a strange noise which made me angry and scared me so I emptied two magazines of 9mm into the dark because I did not know what it was.
The average man only produces two children in their lifetime, but they walk around every day with their rape tool. It’s just sitting there, waiting to go off.
“Stand back — I’m going to try Science”
Further more, as most men are capable of producing viable sperm in early adolescence, there’s really no reason not to castrate every male on his 16th birthday.
Knowing that people have the right to own guns and may in fact have guns in their possession would give criminals pause to use deadly force. Just going by how often people actually shoot someone or simply brandish it seems very misleading.
We don’t even know how often they’re actually used for self-defense. But even the low counts put it at tens of thousands of times a year, and those are undeniably not even close to conclusive. More people use their weapons in self-defense than they do to harm others.
Yeah the fucking Brady Bunch who are gun grabbers to the core, admitted it was at least 100,000 DGUs a year. The NRA says its in the millions.
So according to people who literally don’t think anyone should have guns at all, there’s over 5 times as many DGUs as there are homicides.
It is very misleading from the start. This is what NPR does. They pose a statement offered by gun rights advocates, ‘good guy with a gun…..’ and that is not even the point but they frame it as this is the main reason people have guns. It is a constitutional right same as free speech. I may never voice opposition to the creeping tyranny of the ever growing gov in any useful way that actually slows down the spread of it, but I still posses that right. For now.
After you posted your reading list of late, I got 1984 to listen to while I do brain dead tasks at work. The similarities of recent events of all the commi Senators (Warren, Bernie….) calling for investigations into Sinclair broadcasting is kind of hilarious, not to mention his holiness Chocolate Jesus (All praise be unto him) saying it was better when we all worked from the same set of facts.
Don’t know if you saw it, but I wrote a little thing concerning 1984. To hot for Glibs to handle (I keed. Your reason for not running it is understood).
Seems your document has been removed. You were memory holed.
This document has been removed from Scribd
Fuckers. Let me try again.
Too hot for Glibs to handle?
Maybe here. I keep getting booted from these places.
Nope
Message: Invalid PDF structure
I no longer care. Japanese OS is driving me nuts.
I find that only slightly disturbing but I have issues. Nice work.
There it is. Yeah, I can see why they didn’t want to post that, you big meanie.
I’m gonna burn. I’m laughing at torture porn.
Says invalid or corrupt PDF file. Maybe they have heard of you?
March was my dystopian novel month. Of the six I read, Fahrenheit 451 was my favorite. Not as heavy as 1984 and not as insane as We.
Great book. Love the movie too.
Did he actually say that? *searches it* Oh my fucking god, he actually did… Christ, what an asshole.
I guess he does prefer that everyone accepts his versions of facts, like:
– No other country has mass shootings
– 1 in 4 women will be raped on campus
– There is no domestic spying program
– If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it
After watching a youtube channel called demolition ranch I support guns just cause their fun. Self defense is a bonus
I like that guy. He has two other channels, vet ranch and off the ranch. He is a positive person and leaves politics out of his content. He talks a little about how YouTube is threatening his gun channel in one of his post.
You would make an excellent cop.
So you are Oscar Pistorius?
“The average person … has basically no chance in their lifetime ever to use a gun in self-defense,”
The average person has basically no chance to influence government policy by wearing a pink pussy hat. Ban pink pussy hats.
The average person has no chance in their lifetime to ever speak with a Senator or Congressional Representative, and both houses have proven themselves reliably dangerous to the average person, and the entire world.
Ban Congress!
I read an interesting article yesterday about how the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was in America recently and his staff had to set up petitioner stations at every place he went. Hundreds or thousands of Saudi nationals living in America drove for hours to petition him and a sizable proportion were granted meetings.
The prince or one his retainers pointed out the meetings were a critical part of their government system since it formed an outlet for citizens’ problems since there was no vote.
I found it humorous that it’s actually easier to meet with the nobility in a monarchical form of government than the “nobility” in our own supposedly representative system.
Can you get us a link?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/welcome-to-the-saudi-royal-court-please-enjoy-a-pumpernickel-bagel-1522854297
Thanks!
Monarchy had it’s benefits. The reset button was just one headsman away.
The only meetings he actually granted were from hot, 18 year old co-eds. Certified pure.
In some mysterious way, my cell number and super secret private email address ended up in the database of our local Congress Critter. I received calls and emails from him to join him at a local prog fest and also to participate in a “telephone town hall” for which they were going to call me at the appointed time and automatically connect me!
I unsubbed from the email list after marking it spam and blocked the phone number. Fuck off, slaver!
That once happened to me and I sent the congress critter and very formal and cold email explaining that I did not appreciate their office contacting me through those private numbers. I explained that I had not given them to their office and that the only way I knew of that they could have gotten that number was from another government office. I also linked to the website with a privacy notice that claimed they wouldn’t share/sell it. I demanded to know what they were going to do about that government office. They never contacted me again.
Exactly what is on my to-do list for the week.
It makes me want to change my cell number and give it to no-one, and go full-time to my protonmail account under three or four layers of VPN and masked email addresses.
/adjusts tinfoil Chanel knock-off suit with matching tinfoil pillbox hat
“Now with Extra Cynicism!”
Is that possible?
Queer ehm… weird weather this year in Romania. January very hot march cold and snowy now very hot again. The trees were ready to bloom in february got set back by the cold and now flowered and lost flowers very fast. My magnolia is just about done and the lillacs are starting. Sadly the apricot treese were fycked by the weather no flower so bo appricots for Pie this year
Why, exactly, couldn’t the money be withdrawn? Other than FYTW?
They must have been out of checks.
Why THE FUCK is there ice on the ground?
Deus vult?
*runs outside*
*runs back in*
You tricked me. I thought hell had frozen over or something.
so bo appricots for Pie this year
No apricots? No slivovitz!
OMFG CLIMATASTROPHOUS!
Neah you are thinking plums. Apricots are for eating. Great fruit the humble apricot. Just i cant eat them fron the market they are good streight from the tree. Also i like sour tasted more then sweet and i dont like then fully ripe just about half ripe. Cant find those in the market
Damn your nimble fingers!
Are you having a stroke?
I thought slivovitz was plum brandy.
Why THE FUCK is there ice on the ground?
I blame gravity.
Magnets!
How do they work?
/Juggalo
I am drinking a wine called edmond de rithschild chateau de malengin. Does this make me conplicit in financing (((world domination)))
Also what is the point of having a wine bar bistro if the smell of food from the kitchen makes it so that yoi cant smell the wine?
I went to coffee shop yesterday that had coffee flights served from taps like beer. The coffee wasn’t good, but I liked the concept.
Why? Sounds stupid really…
Because I like to try new things and I like sitting at bars.
There’s a trend for cold extract coffee to be served on nitrogen.
The nitrogen changes the coffee taste and lessens the need for calorie adding things such as cream or sugar. But it is way way over priced in my experience.
I would say the cold extract has more influence on the flavor then nitrogen, but I don’t have a nitrogen tap in my basement to test with. I know cold extract will generally have less bitterness, and accentuate different notes from the coffee then a drip or french press brewing method.
There is no need to add any calories to good coffe as it is.
Even with a good cold brewed coffee I need a spot of cream to offset the bitter. I don’t like hoppy beers either.
Interesting. I cold brew occasionally and do find the coffee is less bitter. Don’t ever go to coffee shops so was unaware of the nitro thing. I have of course had the nitro beers. I’d give it a shot.
You may be able to find it in the grocery stores as well. I know Hoof Hearted released cans of their nitro cold brew.
Cool. Thanks, Ill look for it.
Hell, that’s 10 minutes from me, Ill just go there.
You can’t one of those food-service urns and serve coffee from a tap/spigot that way?
Did the coffee shop have a bar?
Also i am typing on my phone at a bar so if anyone comments on my spelling i will have an old gypsie woman curse you
Shit.
Be sure to let us know when the warts break out.
Your English spelling is far better than my Romanian.
Wow. I read that NPR piece. At least The Economist, for all its failings, in its obituary for Winnie Mandela talked about the evil she spread.
That’s Quist-Arcton, she spent decades covering African news for the BBC, in the Congo and elsewhere. Necklacing is probably the least of the atrocities she’s covered.
As far as the editorial decisions are concerned, NPR is staffed by millenial female SJWs who think white privilege is the 4th Reich.
The one who can be many places at once?
I don’t normally step into the fever swamps of NPR. The Economist going downhill is bad enough.
Neah you are thinking plums.
Okay, then. Cancel that panic.
“Magazine editors turn blind eye to Melania
Magazines are showing no love for Melania Trump. The internet was in a tizzy last week when actor James Woods pointed out via Twitter that the first lady hasn’t been a muse for the magazine industry since her husband, President Trump, took office. Woods tweeted: “If the Trumps were Democrats, Melania would be on every cover of every chic women’s magazine in the world every month.” The tweet, which was accompanied by an old photo of the first lady sitting in a gilded chair in a pale blue strapless dress, struck a chord, garnering 62,000 likes, 20,000 retweets and 4,900 comments.
During her tenure as first lady, Melania has only graced one magazine cover — Vanity Fair Mexico — in February 2017.
At the time, the cover caused a commotion due to the president’s insistence that Mexico pay for a border wall, something that has yet to come to fruition.
Regardless, not one American magazine has put the former model on its cover, although rumors did swirl in December 2016 when Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, paid a visit to Trump Tower. The fashion industry buzzed that Wintour was prepping to feature the Trumps on the fashion bible’s cover. That rumor turned out to be a lot of hot air.
But Wintour, an Obama fundraiser, did pull out all the stops for Michelle Obama when she served as first lady from 2009 to 2017. During Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency, Michelle appeared on at least 30 US magazine covers, three of which were Vogue. She also appeared twice on the covers of Essence magazine, Time magazine, More magazine and Glamour magazine. Other covers included Redbook, InStyle, and Radar.”
https://nypost.com/2018/04/14/magazine-editors-turn-blind-eye-to-melania/
not one American magazine has put the former model on its cover
Googling it now is pointless because the results are all about this kerfuffle, I don’t follow models or magazine covers, but….
as a former model, one presumes she’s been in if not on a magazine before. And for being attractive, not because she’s the president’s ugly wife.
Personally, of I were president, if want people to ignore my wife and leave her alone.
They have no balls.
Michelle Obama’s stylist was a blind kangaroo. Her color choices were the worst possible for her complexion, her arms did not fare well sleeveless, and the cut of her clothes did nothing but exaggerate all the worst qualities of her figure.
/fashionista
She didn’t want to put Reggie Love in the shade.
Your father was very wise.
Yes, he was. In many ways. Died way too young, but he left a legacy of cynicism and snark behind.
We’re all richer for it:)
Good news, non-cynical post for the Day – donations for the families of the kids in that Saskatchewan bus crash have exceeded $11 million, and now the question is what to do with the funds.
Disclaimer – I went to high school with, and my sister is friends of, Kevin Rempel, ParaLympian hockey player quoted in the article.
Laviolette is too cool to not wear the ribbon.
What to do with the funds? I’m sure the provincial and Federal governments have some ideas. “Thanks for the grief-geld, subjects.”
During Barack Obama’s eight-year presidency, Michelle appeared on at least 30 US magazine covers, three of which were Vogue. She also appeared twice on the covers of Essence magazine, Time magazine, More magazine and Glamour magazine. Other covers included Redbook, InStyle, and Radar.”
Not National Geographic? Sad.
Not Hustler? SAD
I was thinking Condescending Nannies Quarterly
Not Star Wars Insider? Sad…
Nat Geo avoids cryptozoology.
They forgot Vanity Fair.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2017/05/star-wars-covers#5
Oh no you didn’t!?
Not Tire Review? If anybody is a Winnie wannabe it is Michele Obama.
Not Mad Magazine?
I never fully understood Art Bell, but I was pretty sure he was not serious. I’d hear him from time to time driving late at night and have a laugh.
The thing I really remember was how he’d treat each guest with complete credulity. No matter what came out of their mouths, he’d agree and act as if this was a well known fact. So one guy would come on and tell of different alien visitations and detail Greys and Greens and Whites and Art would act as if every school child knew this as basic science. The next guy would come on and talk about aliens among us and talk of Lizard People and Insectoids and Art would respond as though everyone knew these aliens were here.
The most memorable show I heard was exactly that. Two interviews, back to back, with two guys with completely incompatible alien visitor stories. And without missing a beat, Art Bell treated each one the same way Chris Mathews treats a Democrat Senator, with enthusiastic support, no matter what craziness came out of their mouths.
I don’t know if his brand of entertainment made the world a better place or a worse place, but he did help me stay awake during some all-night cross-country drives.
Back before satellite radio and podcasts, Art kept me company on many a trucking mission. It was certainly easier on the ears than listening to mouthbreathing hate radio mongers, Jesus Freaks, or country music, which seemed to dominate late night AM radio.
CNN forced to admit that despite its own war boner, Americans don’t give a fuck about Syria.
Everything about this situation is creepy. The same people who were praising Obama’s wisdom a few years ago for signing that bullshit deal with Russia and Assad to remove chemical weapons are now today so down the rabbit hole in their Russian hysteria that they trick themselves into praising Trump for doing something they praised Obama for not doing. Syria isn’t about Syria. It’s about Russia to them and some perverse desire to see Russia humiliated even it doesn’t serve America’s interests to do so at all. It doesn’t even matter if its Trump doing it.
Tomorrow, these bipolar fucks will be back to talking about collusion.
No, you fucking idiot, perhaps most people are knowledgeable enough to realize that the political class is never going to listen to us when we repeatedly ask that they mind their own fucking business.
It’s funny that this war matters, when the reasons for going are the same as the reasons for the Iraq war.
CNN is pathetic. You can get better analysis from some black guy on youtube:
“War and Propaganda: An Endless Waltz”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9qNlnXF88A
The various YouTube political analysts put the MSM to shame. More thoughtdul, neutral, and informed as a whole.
MSNBC is trying to sell that Trump attacked Syria because of Comey’s book.
That’s not unbelievable. I can think of another president who bomber other countries when things weren’t going well for him domestically.
That’s true too. Probably not the prime motivator but it certainly had to enter his mind as a side benefit.
Except Comey’s book makes Comey look bad, and Trump right for firing him.
Amazing that he got England and France to go along. The man really is a genius.
War is the health of the state.
The health of the state is something CNN support.
ergo, CNN supports war.
QED
In “news of the weird”, Beyonce touted her headlining appearance at Coachella as the first time an African American woman had headlined the event.
We are really, really, really, really working hard to keep those racial divisions alive if we are going to pretend that black women in the entertainment industry are somehow being oppressed.
You go girl! Keep breaking down those barriers….
I’m going to file that under “whatever“.
My understanding of Coachella is that it’s a gathering of trust-fund douchebags.
isn’t that Beyonce’s typical audience?
I’ve come to realize that constant victimhood is part of the Left’s identity. They always have to portray themselves as the “underdog” fighting against some powerful, pervasive system. This is despite them having the strong support of Hollywood, the news media, academia, government sector unions, many large corporations (Google, Facebook) and a significant portion of the government itself.
the governing party’s women’s league, wearing green and black
Two Words: Fish Speakers
https://imgur.com/3hFMlbb
The best way to reheat bratwurst while you’re at work.
whatever it takes to make leftovers interesting.
Is the brat in the foil or is the really bright flame incinerating it?
It’s in the foil. And that’s Jerry putting it on the entry way to the mill stand. The entry way is a cast piece of iron that is around 400 degrees or so. It actually works pretty well for cooking.
See, the only problem is tomorrow, when it still smells delicious.
Wylie once tried to eat cast iron. Wylie has no teeth now.
Don’t be like Wylie.
a little better view of the overall operation-
https://imgur.com/V3IUX0f
?
None of your co-workers want to watch you “reheat your bratwurst”
STEVE SMITH SHOW PROPER TECHNIQUE FOR REHEATING OF STEVE’S “BRATWURST” IN JB’S ANAL CAVITY.
#neveragain
If Democrats Listened to Their Voters, They’d Be Moving Left
The Democratic base overwhelmingly supports progressive positions. It’s time for the party to pay attention.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/bjppaa/if-democrats-listened-to-their-voters-theyd-be-moving-left?__twitter_impression=true
Our new Data for Progress report, commissioned by the progressive PAC Justice Democrats, uses data to make the case that it the Democratic Party does not need to move toward the mythical center of plutocratic and white-resentment politics. At the heart of our analysis is a novel crossing of public opinion research with an analysis of actual roll call voting. The result is stark: On issues from racial justice to economic equality, Democratic primary voters are increasingly united around progressive policies, and those who represent them (or aspire to), would do well to act and vote accordingly.
Democratic primary voters aren’t really representative of the average voter. I’d love to see them veer left and straight into the ditch.
I hope that’s true
economic equality
What a bullshit term. There is not and never has been any such thing.
Not for lack of trying. The bodies do tend to pile up, though.
Inequality is baked into our DNA, and has been a feature of life on earth since before humans evolved – Paraphrasing Jordan Peterson
This is why they hate him.
Have you read 12 Rules for Life also? I just started it the other day, and I remember reading that part.
I’m only on rule #2, but I’m really enjoying that book so far.
There will be when they take enough of your shit. Now get back to work, there are mouths to feed.
People are already unequal in all kinds of ways: age, size, race, gender, strength, intelligence, etc. Why does it matter if they are also unequal when it comes to money?
Demands for equality come from envy.
This is amusing:
Reducing Inequalities May Increase Envy
No comparison, no envy.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-the-name-love/200911/reducing-inequalities-may-increase-envy
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The main reason that the process of reducing inequalities usually lead to a rise in the intensity of envy is the importance of closeness and the comparative concern in envy.
Many people have observed that envy is directed at those who are similar or equal to us. The Greek poet Hesiod wrote that “the potter is furious with the potter and the craftsman with the craftsman, and the beggar is envious of the beggar and the singer of the singer.” Aristotle argued that we envy those who are near us in time, place, age, or reputation.
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I would say, “this article is stupid, and naive about how everything in politics actually works”… except, saying, “Its vice” would simply be shorter.
Voters don’t set party-agendas or form policy platforms. DONORS do. You can have giant mobs of hyper lefty college kids and minority-voters…
….but they simply don’t matter relative to “highly organized union $$” when it comes to actual policy priority. What are they going to do otherwise? Vote republican? LOL
the insider-politics only care about these screaming lefties on a level of rhetorical-pandering. They’ll go, “We care about the same shit you do”, and they’ll attack their opponents as weak on the shit like “the environment” or “inequality” or whatever it is the college kids want to hear…
….but when it comes time to “what they’re going to advance in DC?” Its 100% the people who fund their campaigns, and the ones who feed them the legislative drafts.
+1 military industrial complex
“What are they going to do otherwise? Vote republican? LOL”
Gilmore is the Senator Bulworth of libertarians.
Money and power always find each other. It is depressing how many people fail to understand this.
its not even about ‘hurr durr lobbyists are evil’ or ‘corporate money spoils politics’…yadda yadda.
its just that – simply being a candidate costs whopping sums of money.
that money comes from somewhere. most often from one’s original backers which formed behind said candidate BEFORE THE CAMPAIGN EVEN STARTED. the candidate goes to meetings w/ dozens of potential donors. *that is when the platform and purpose of their getting elected is formed*. They take checks for millions of $ from X, Y, and Z groups, each of which demand specific results on specific issues.
Nothing they talk about on the campaign trail after that necessarily has anything to do with that. ‘why they actually are going to DC’ can often remain completely un-discussed. What they say on campaign is just “what they need to say to get votes”. “Shit people like to hear”.
You learn more about what a candidate’s purpose is from who/what is funding them, rather than what their actual public platform is.
e.g. Many candidates sing songs about global warming being the biggest deal in the fucking world, blah blah blah.
Do you think they say that because they really intend to focus on environmental policy in DC? No, they talk about it because it appeals to idiot kids.
When they get to DC, all they’ll do is screech and complain about how republicans are decimating the environment. They’re not going to actually spend a single second trying to craft legislation on the topic, or if they do, it will be some symbolic bullshit which their entire team gets behind just so they can all have cover in the next re-election campaign.
Meanwhile, they’re spending 99% of their efforts getting special bennies for their donors inserted into budgets.
+ 1 Tom Steyer green energy rent seeker as well as coal magnate buying in when Obama destroyed some coal companies with his rhetoric.
Ya, they care about the environment. Bullshit, they care about money and government money is the best kind of money. The government decimating a stock price is a good way to pick up something on the cheap too. I am convinced CAGW is a ploy to whip up the mindless horde and make the Top Men really really rich.
*adjusts tinfoil hat
It is absolutely that and they don’t particularly hide it either. They always go on about the “green energy” companies. Guess why?
The best way to reheat bratwurst while you’re at work.
And the dust adds a special tang you just can’t get in a restaurant.
No anemics on his crew, though.
P Brooks, I’m healthy as an ox and I consume dust at a rate that is surely FDA disapproved.
And crap adobe!
I think “shit a brick” is the proper term.
Florida: Muslim cleric who calls for the killing of Jews and gays speaks at Orlando middle school
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/florida-muslim-cleric-who-calls-for-the-killing-of-jews-and-gays-speaks-at-orlando-middle-school
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Along with advocating for the death of gays, Al Nabulsi labeled all Jews as “legitimate targets” for suicide bombers and encouraged Palestinians to commit such attacks because he argued Palestinians have an overwhelming disadvantage in their fight against Israel.
As if that isn’t already enough to disqualify him form entering the U.S. and speaking at a middle school, on his website, Al Nabulsi stated that Muslims have a duty to carry out acts of jihad in their fight against what he views as evil Jews.
“Holy fighting is dictated upon us, as it’s an eternal endless war between right and falsehood. Thus, we should make ready against our enemy all we can of power; other wise we’ll be degraded; our sanctity is violated, our lands are occupied, our generation is humiliated, our money is taken, they impose their culture and pornography, thus, what was omitted of our religion, to make ready against our enemy all we can of power; is the reason of Muslims weakness.”
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My reptile brain says: Let the guy give his speech. Then arrest everyone in the room and send them to exile in Alaska for 10 years.
It’s fine if he spews his idiocy, a middle school shouldn’t be inviting him though.
Yeah, that seems the more perplexing aspect.
OK it seems like maybe the school is still just hosting it after-hours or something. Still strange.
Oops. Omit one ‘still’.
Public property, I get it but I bet they wouldn’t allow Ann Coulter to speak there.
Heaven forbid a Chik-Fil-A franchise opens nearby. Now that would cause protests.
Probably not in Orlando.
Our new Data for Progress report, commissioned by the progressive PAC Justice Democrats, uses data to make the case that it the Democratic Party does not need to move toward the mythical center of plutocratic and white-resentment politics.
Another dispatch from the “We saw exactly what we were looking for” desk.
“Bullyhunters: We’re here to kill players in-game who DARE tell female gamers they aren’t as good as them!
Regular people: Why don’t the female players just kill the “bullies” themselves? Since they’re as good as them?
Bullyhunters: …
Regular people: …
#BullyHunters”
https://twitter.com/RoamingMil/status/985279076834447361
LOL
Nevermind the whole thing pure astroturf, promoted by a titty streamer working for an ad agency.
That whole hashtag is hilarious
“The_Depressed_Old_NEET
@atttah7
17h17 hours ago
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to beat the monster, you have to become the monster
1 reply 0 retweets 1 like”
Bat-Man and Spawn demons.
Oh no you didn’t!?
I dood it.
Next stop, HELL.
“Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White: “The Russian disinformation campaign has already begun. There has been a 2,000% increase in Russian trolls in the last 24 hours.”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/985332425990455296
Que?
I’ve been posting on Glibs since damn near the founding. You see my handle? Sounds Russianish. I have been pushing Russian propaganda since day 1 and yall are too stupid to see through it. HAHAHA!
Good day comrades.
Bah. Anyone with half a brain can tell the W means your name is Polish, not Russian.
Anyone with half a brain…
Oh….
Mr name comes from Johan, who emigrated to the U.S. in 1880. The city he came from was Elblag. At the time he left, the city was a part of the German empire.
During WW1, he had to sign documents that he held no allegiance to the Kaiser.
Neat. One of my ancestors was a nun who ran away from Ireland about the same time.
I can’t find the one for Johan, but I believe this is one of his brothers
Declaration of Intent #3; Frank Joseph Lachowsky
DECLARATION OF INTENT
In the Faulkner County Circuit Court
I, (left blank), aged 45 years, occupation Farmer, do declare on oath that my personal description is: Color-White, complexion-Light, height-6 feet – inches, weight-208 pounds, color of hair-Light, color of eyes-Blue, other visible distinctive marks-none; I was born in Elbing, Germany on the 19th day of Feb, anno Domini 1870; I now reside at Conway, Arkansas. I emigrated to the United States of America from Elbing, Germany on the vessel- Soaphia; my last foreign residence was Elbing, Germany. It is my bona fide intention to renounce forever the allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to the Emporer of Germany, of which I am now a subject; I arrived at the port of New York, in the state of New York on or about the (left blank) day of June anno Domini 1880; I am not an anarchist; I am not a polygamist nor a believer in the practice of polygamy; and it is my intention in good faith to become a citizen of the Un! ited States of America and to permanently reside therein: SO HELP ME GOD.
Signature of Frank Joseph Lachowsky Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of Aug, anno Domini 1915 A.M. Ledbetter, Clerk of the Circuit Court
http://www.argenweb.net/faulkner/Centennial/declarations.html
I can’t find the one for Johan right now, but this is one of his brothers.
Declaration of Intent #3; Frank Joseph Lachowsky
DECLARATION OF INTENT
In the Faulkner County Circuit Court
I, (left blank), aged 45 years, occupation Farmer, do declare on oath that my personal description is: Color-White, complexion-Light, height-6 feet – inches, weight-208 pounds, color of hair-Light, color of eyes-Blue, other visible distinctive marks-none; I was born in Elbing, Germany on the 19th day of Feb, anno Domini 1870; I now reside at Conway, Arkansas. I emigrated to the United States of America from Elbing, Germany on the vessel- Soaphia; my last foreign residence was Elbing, Germany. It is my bona fide intention to renounce forever the allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to the Emporer of Germany, of which I am now a subject; I arrived at the port of New York, in the state of New York on or about the (left blank) day of June anno Domini 1880; I am not an anarchist; I am not a polygamist nor a believer in the practice of polygamy; and it is my intention in good faith to become a citizen of the Un! ited States of America and to permanently reside therein: SO HELP ME GOD.
Signature of Frank Joseph Lachowsky Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of Aug, anno Domini 1915 A.M. Ledbetter, Clerk of the Circuit Court
http://www.argenweb.net/faulkner/Centennial/declarations.html
She must have been a crappy nun, or you know, kids. She would have had nun.
There was an Irish revolutionary who had some famous last words as he lay dying.
A nun came to treat him and he told her “Ah, bless you, sister. May all your sons be bishops.”
Declaration of Intent #3; Frank Joseph Lachowsky
DECLARATION OF INTENT
In the Faulkner County Circuit Court
I, (left blank), aged 45 years, occupation Farmer, do declare on oath that my personal description is: Color-White, complexion-Light, height-6 feet – inches, weight-208 pounds, color of hair-Light, color of eyes-Blue, other visible distinctive marks-none; I was born in Elbing, Germany on the 19th day of Feb, anno Domini 1870; I now reside at Conway, Arkansas. I emigrated to the United States of America from Elbing, Germany on the vessel- Soaphia; my last foreign residence was Elbing, Germany. It is my bona fide intention to renounce forever the allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, and particularly to the Emporer of Germany, of which I am now a subject; I arrived at the port of New York, in the state of New York on or about the (left blank) day of June anno Domini 1880; I am not an anarchist; I am not a polygamist nor a believer in the practice of polygamy; and it is my intention in good faith to become a citizen of the Un! ited States of America and to permanently reside therein: SO HELP ME GOD.
Signature of Frank Joseph Lachowsky Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of Aug, anno Domini 1915 A.M. Ledbetter, Clerk of the Circuit Court
Glibs won’t let me post the link for reason, but there is a whole list of people who had to sign this oath. This oath signing happened under the rulership of the Uber progressive man himself, Woodrow Wilson. May he burn in hell.
It looks (((Polish)))
Basically if you oppose the strike you’re a Russian bot. All over the interweb brainwashed idiots are throwing that around.
Stop the world, I want to get off.
Chuck Todd: “If this is true…”
Yes Chuckie. And now, we must ask, “WAS IT YOU WHO FUCKED THAT SHEEP?” If this is true…
When did you quit beating your wife?
“Who are they to judge? Overcoming anthropometry through fat bodybuilding
While fat activism has disrupted many dominant discourses that causally contribute to negative judgments about fat bodies, it has not yet penetrated the realm of competitive bodybuilding. The author introduces fat bodybuilding as a means of challenging the prevailing assumptions of maximally fat-exclusionary (sports) cultures while raising fundamental ontological questions about what it means to “build a body.” Specifically, he advocates for imagining a new classification within bodybuilding, termed fat bodybuilding, as a fat-inclusive politicized performance and a new culture to be embedded within bodybuilding.”
https://tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21604851.2018.1453622
Huh, it’s paywalled. So here are some excerpts:
https://twitter.com/RealPeerReview/status/985121969019506688
If only Tony Saragusa had been born 25 years later.
old news, but it made me laugh
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/2/editorial-equality-and-envy/
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London’s outspoken mayor stepped into controversy last week by daring to acknowledge that some people are more gifted than others. Labor Party leaders and even a few weak-kneed Conservatives rushed to distance themselves from Boris Johnson over this not-particularly revealing admission.
The controversial statement came in the context of an eloquent, 45-minute tribute to the memory of Margaret Thatcher. Mr. Johnson painted a vivid portrait of the state of decay into which the nation that once “ruled the world” had fallen in the late 1970s and how the conservative prime minister reinvigorated the British spirit of enterprise through the 1980s. By celebrating success and promoting economic opportunity, Mrs. Thatcher’s policies restored the “great” in Great Britain. Meanwhile, the experiment in forced egalitarianism in the Soviet Union collapsed.
Despite its success, capitalism gets a bad rap for accentuating inequality. That’s not necessarily a bad thing because it’s part of our nature as humans. “Whatever you may think of the value of IQ tests,” said the mayor, “it is surely relevant to a conversation about equality that as many as 16 percent of our species have an IQ below 85, while about 2 percent have an IQ above 130.”
Cue the outrage machine. “He spoke about those who are less able as if they were some kind of sub-species,” fumed Len Duvall, the London Assembly’s Labor leader. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, a Liberal Democrat, called the remarks “unpleasant, careless elitism.”
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Ignoring the fact that he didn’t say anything about low iq being a different species, consistently the most elitist of all people I’ve met have been on the left.
There is no such thing as difference in inteligence except those stupid republicams who vote against their best interest
For someone 10,000 km away, you understand America better than most Americans do.
Pie is the best Russian bot ever. He knows his material.
I wasted time today listening to Ezra Klein and Sam Harris. Sam didn’t virtue signal enough for Ezra’s taste while talking to Charles Murray. Sorry, but Murray is better than Ezra.
A line in one of the recent Southern New Hampshire University commercials always pisses me off: A commencement speaker claims that the world “equally distributes talent.” Only time in recent memory I’ve actually argued with someone on TV.
That is good to know. Now that I know this I will sign up for an NBA tryout.
“Police release video of run-in with Nasim Aghdam hours before she opened fire at YouTube”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/13/police-release-video-run-in-with-nasim-aghdam-hours-before-opened-fire-at-youtube.html
So then where is the video?
She (it?) kind of looks like an Iranian David Bowie.
Navid Bhoghoussi
“Ground control to Major Bomb.”
Soul/funk? Whypippo?
Does Damon Root know about this?!
Russia Wants to Build a Whole City for Developing Weapons
http://warisboring.com/russia-wants-to-build-a-whole-city-for-developing-weapons/
Perhaps instead they could research how to build fire exits for shopping malls and ways to discourage people from drinking skin lotion.
A nation of Charlie Kellys.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g8itIUVK3l4
I Did Every Clichéd Manly Activity to See if It Boosted My Testosterone
I ate raw eggs, shot a gun, and got tattooed in my quest to figure out if machismo is bullshit.
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/mb5avp/i-did-every-cliched-manly-activity-to-see-if-it-boosted-my-testosterone?__twitter_impression=true
I think this is supposed to be commedy but it is weak as fuck.
There is a youtube series called the Try Guys. They are stereotypical girly men. In one episode, they get their testosterone levels checked, and despite being in their 20s, their T levels are less than 100 year old men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTSvLKY7HEk
So changing tires, getting tattoos, eating steak and shooting are “alt-right” activities?
Cargo Cult Masculinity.
“The video Germany doesn’t want you to see. Another massive protest against open borders today”
https://twitter.com/V_of_Europe/status/985233223298027520
At least we know there is no way Germans marching could end badly.
Not much of a video is it now.
I would have liked to see more.
One wonders if the German people will suddenly remember, “hey, you know, we had balls once.”
When wives and girlfriends are getting raped and the government is basically telling men to put up and shut up, they’re playing with some very, very strong primal forces that are going to blow up in a very spectacular fashion sooner or later. It’s like a pressure cooker with no safety valves.
Cottbus is in the far east. That’s like alt-right territory.
The folks in the former East Germany have taken enough shit from foreign invaders and want a rest from them for a while.
Once upon a time, there were a bunch of hot young ladies. They decided to take off most of their clothes and attention whore on the internet.
http://archive.is/r0vK2
Plenty of good options, but I’ll take 58 and 62 as a two-for-one special.
45 gave me a queasy feeling in my stomach. I don’t mind standing on the edge of a cliff, or drop or building, but seeing someone else do it freaks me out. Whats her face number two used to fuck with me by doing that.
Once upon a time, there was also a Gingermageddon, with 100% fewer selfies.
http://www.frombearcreek.com/saturday-gingermageddon-188/
gingers will suck your soul through your cock to replace their missing one. beware
That hasn’t happened to me despite enjoying the company of some ginger ladies.
Gingermageddon has some nice choices.
#62 is almost certainly photoshopped.
After lunch, I have a lot of work to do around the house, so I’ll turn over a new leaf and just take #19.
Too funny. The Seahawks extend a life-line and olive branch to Kaepernick and he muffs it up.
“Conservative Street Artist ‘Sabo’ Banned from Twitter
Conservative street artist Sabo has been permanently suspended from Twitter.
Sabo, who ran the @UnsavoryAgents account, was banned from the platform on Friday.
“Was not told why or for how long. I just saw I no longer have my 32,000 followers and I’m no longer following anybody,” claimed Sabo in an email to Breitbart Tech. “They want nothing less than to completely destroy us on the Right.”
Sabo has frequently criticized the power that large tech companies and social networks, and this month the street artist plastered New York City with posters targeting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He also mocked Zuckerberg’s potential political aspirations last year.
Last year, Sabo also posted anti-Google advertisements outside of the company’s offices in Los Angeles.
The street artist has also previously targeted Hillary Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, the Oscars, the Golden Globes, anti-Trump celebrities, and Kim Jong-Un.”
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/13/conservative-street-artist-sabo-banned-from-twitter/
TW: Breitbart
Why do these people bitch so much instead of just going to Gab? Let the market sort it out!
bitching is in right now.l also they make money of it and gab does not have so many people on it. they should first convince their followers to massively migrate to gab. but then you cant troll lefties if you on gab. it is a conundrum
Dafuq?
I have tried twice to post a response to Mr. Derry up thread twice. Is this thing working?
Mr. Derpy. Damn it.
http://www.argenweb.net/faulkner/Centennial/declarations.html
I visited a German store yesterday. Picked up some Black Forest rye bread, marzipan chocolate, and some ‘Pfeffer-Nusse’ and Lingonberry jam.
Very nice old lady. Talkative. Told of how Austrians and Germans argue over who makes better coffee, better marzipan and so on. I didn’t have the heart to tell her to stick a Jewish soap in it.
I keed, I keed. She was delightful.
marzipan chocolate, – disgusting
I… I… cannot process this.
Pfefferneuse cookies are … interesting, shall I say.
“Huh, how come all these lampshades have serial numbers?”
I like Weißwurst.
Weißwurst is good.
#metoo
a famous Jewish comedian tells a joke to a relative who survived the Holocaust:
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-Why did Hitler commit suicide? You would too if you saw his gas bill. It was this high [Sieg Heil salute]
-But…those are 2 different kinds of gases.
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I read things like this and wonder why anyone bothers to write fiction.
He wasn’t jewish, but that was exactly the kind of humor you would have got out of Spike Milligan. And if he was still alive, you’d still be getting it.
Humor is dead.
There is a new Nap Eyes album, released March 9. The songwriting and musicianship on this album have really increased from their previous two albums. Lyrically, the songs stay in the sad and cynical world of self-loathing, alcohol abuse, and the cruel coldness of a scientific universe. For this album, the folk music roots of Dylan are more pronounced. Similar sounds to fellow countryman Neil Young’s guitar have started to creep into this collection of tunes. Overall, the album shows a growing songwriter, and the two guitars play off each other well. The lead guitar parts are often a conterpoint to the vocal melody, creating very dense segments. Parts of the album could stand as a master class on rhythm guitar technique.
Check out Nap Eyes: I’m Bad Now https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGLGDT-9ZI4L5TkQgPBm5O1Y-XDT3gCMZ
In regards to self defensive use of a gun I have had one experience that was counted by no one but me. About fifteen years ago I was living with my grandmother in her house in the Sunset as she was starting to be affected by Alzheimer’s. Late one night I was awoken by the sounds of someone trying to break into the house through the garage double door as I was staying in the downstairs room. I grabbed my 12 gauge and a couple shells and walked up to the door where I could see someone through the frosted glass pane working on the door. I racked one shell and the echo rang out through the garage. The scumbag left. I went back to bed. There was no way I was calling up the cops to report it.
#MeToo
Racking rounds in a shotgun is similar to hearing a rattlesnake. It is deep withing the reptilian stem of the brain and every culture on earth knows that as the phrase “go away NOW”
Ground down
Day by day, that mortgaged future creeps closer. When it arrives, who is going to sign up for a vague and hopeless mission? How do you motivate men and women to fight and die for a cause many of them don’t believe in, and whose purpose they can’t articulate? What happens to the bonds between men and women in combat, and to the bonds between soldiers and the citizenry for whom they fight, when we fail as a nation to treat our wars as a collective responsibility, rather than the special mission of a self-selected few?
Without a political leadership that articulates and argues for a mission and objective worth dying for, it’s no surprise that soldiers sometimes stop caring about the mission altogether. A sergeant who deployed to the Korengal Valley, in Afghanistan, told me that by the end of his deployment, he had purposely adopted a defensive posture, sacrificing mission for safety at every opportunity he could. This is reminiscent of what one officer said of the later stages of the Vietnam War: “The gung-ho attitude that made our soldiers so effective in 1966, ’67, was replaced by the will to survive.” It’s not that those troops lacked courage, but that the ends shifted. “We fought for each other,” I’ve heard plenty of veterans claim about their time in service, and no wonder. If your country won’t even resource the wars with what its own generals say is necessary for long-term success, what else is there to fight for? But if you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.
It seems overly long and rambling, to me, and contains the obligatory Trump-bashing (much of which is completely justified and correct), but this is a depressing look at where we are, militarily. Written by a former Marine.
my quest to figure out if machismo is bullshit.
Okay, then. Have at it.
They fucking love science!
Roughly 100 people gathered in front of Montana Hall at Montana State University cheering on several speakers before marching their way down to the Gallatin County Courthouse.
Again organized by MSU student group Science Policy Advocacy Network, the march was both a call to combat rising anti-intellectualism and an effort to promote the use of scientific findings in determining political policy.
“Facts are considered a controversial issue today, and they shouldn’t be,” said organizer Claire Lewinski.
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Adding diversity and recognizing the work minority groups have already done on similar issues is important for the strength and success of socio-political movements, Sachatello-Sawyer said.
“This is critical if we’re going to change the face of science 20 years from now,” she said. “There’s so much we can do together and we owe it to the next generation of scientists so they can have the chance to contribute to society.”
Yes, of course. Because those facts are dependent on the skin color and sexual orientation of the people who “discover” them.
Yeah, they love facts. Unless those facts point to substantial differences between men and women, or the ineffectiveness of gun control, or adverse results of raising the minimum wage, or the problem of militant Islam, or the disastrous effects of the Great Society programs.
If it makes Team Red look bad, it’s a fact. Everything else goes down the memory hole.
Bozeman is the Berkeley of Montana.
I have an erection.
http://archive.is/pJXYZ
There is a company that my company rents mobile cranes from on a regular basis.
The owner of the company is named Eugene Holmes. His company’s name is “Holmes Erection”
no shit
The local TV advertizing must have been a lot of fun back in the days of popular terrestrial broadcasting
I used to live in an apartment complex owned by a guy named Mike Hawk.
Make America Safe Again. MASA? heh.
The indoctrination factories continue. Can’t stick to just the 3R’s (or even do that completely), and allow outside groups to participate in the programming.
Over a foot of snow yesterday, and it’s back at it again today. Fuck winter.
Some great derp an example of when feminism is your only moral compass. https://www.refinery29.com/2018/04/196325/imposters-tv-show-women-con-artists-empowering
More derp from the same sight. I feel embarrassed for Adele. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.refinery29.com/amp/2018/04/196434/adele-beyonce-coachella-reaction-instagram
All women are con artists.
How to Marry a Millionaire: a classic movie
But if someone made a male version of that movie called “Find ‘Em, Fuck ‘Em, Forget ‘Em”, the feminists would stroke out.
Or the “funny” rape scene in Get Him to the Greek where a woman forcibly penetrates a man with a sex toy as he pleads for her to stop. Switch the genders around, and that scene would be positively horrific.
Letter to the paper
The continued mass shootings in our society and in schools in particular have horrified the League of Women Voters of Montana. We watched the outspoken students of Parkland, Florida, plead for long overdue action to limit access to guns in our communities.
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Since 1990 the national League of Women Voters has worked for revision of national gun laws. The League of Women Voters believes that the proliferation of handguns and semi-automatic assault weapons in the United States is a major health and safety threat to its citizens. The league supports strong federal measures to limit the accessibility and regulate the ownership of these weapons by private citizens.
We have a responsibility to our children and all other citizenry to ensure a safe environment in which they can live productive and peaceful lives.
The League of Women Voters can lick my balls.
The League of Women Voters advocates for a position that really does leave women hit hardest. They’re doing their damnedest to discredit the 19th Amendment.
Interesting information on Day 1 of the first day of air strikes on Syria
Interesting that it took so much to do so little.
Of course, planning these sorts of missions is like coaching little-kid’s soccer – you have to give everyone a chance to play.
Taxes… done. Yay.
I did mine weeks ago.
I’m not rich, and I still owed both the feds and the state.
Yeah, that sucked.
I noticed as I was running Turbotax for CT, I can’t claim any credits against town taxes like vehicles etc., which sent me on a more thorough investigation of what changed in the code in 2016. I was … unimpressed.
On the up-side, all the witholdings paid to NY come back as an offset so my bank account only gets hit for the cost of moderately pimped-out Wilson Combat 92G.
I couldn’t run Turbotax. Every time I tried to log in to do the free e-file thing, it didn’t work. The second option on the NY tax website didn’t work for me, either, so I had to use Tax Act.
FWIW I’ve been using some outfit called “Express1040” for about ten years. Nothing fancy but does the trick. Fed is free, state is like $15.
I’m getting back around 1K. Now that I finally have the knack of itemizing my multiple state and local tax payments down, it will all change next year. Should be interesting to see how NJ and NY will combine to fuck me over.
How won’t they fuck you over?
And it’s galling to watch the hoops NY is trying to go through to do anything but lower taxes in response to the federal itemization cap on state/local taxes.
And then there’s ending the tipped wage credit. It helps Cuomo’s union buddies and hurts people not in his class.
And if it raises restaurant prices? It’s like all those other sumptuary taxes that hit poorer people harder.
Oh my god. That is not the direction I was expecting this to go.
OTOH it will be easier never having to calculate a tip ever again.
It really cannot be overstated what a mendacious sack of shit he is. The man literally campaigned on high taxes back in the day and now he’s like the leftiest lefty not named Cynthia Nixon.
Those mid-six-figure pensions aren’t going to pay themselves, citizen.
Interestingly, NY is one of only four states that have 90% or more of what’s needed to pay their pensions. I can’t imagine that holding if they keep taxing the way they do. My guess is NY ultimately gets a population exodus like IL.
As long as Wall Street is still the place to trade, NY should be more or less ok.
Yeah, they and other super-rich types are keeping us afloat. Keep them happy and the game pretty much runs itself. Which basically means keeping down crime.
Hard hitting journalism
Burger is a small book with a big punch. It’s the latest in the Object Lessons series from Bloomsbury Publishing “about the hidden lives of ordinary things.” The series also includes such titles as Remote Control and Jet Lag.
Adams, well-known for The Sexual Politics of Meat, makes Burger into a cultural history of food with a gender twist:
“Given the double entendre of big hamburgers standing in for erections, it is no surprise that some companies advertise their fare via women who can cram a hamburger, a Thick Burger, a Whopper, a Big Boy, etc., into their mouths. Carl’s Jr. makes repeated use of this trope of a woman’s mouth stuffed with burger. … One advertisement for Hardee’s demonstrated the size of their Monster Thickburger by showing a woman stuffing her fist into her mouth. Called ‘Fist Girl,’ it was dubbed ‘BJ Girl’ and ‘Deep Throat’ Burger on the web. These are not just fantasies of sex but of control and humiliation of women.”
Politicize, sexualize, racialize.
He must have had some kind of industrial accident, it’s not supposed to look like a hamburger.
Sex is dirty and sinful. It should never be depicted as “enjoyable” or “fun”.
Bozeman is the Berkeley of Montana.
They’re trying to make Missoula look conservative.
Chomsky- even dumber than I previously thought.
https://glibertarians.com/2018/04/sunday-morning-links-now-with-extra-cynicism/#comment-543349
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[In early 2007] there was a new rash of articles and headlines on the front page about the “Chinese military build-up.” The Pentagon claimed that China had increased its offensive military capacity — with 400 missiles, which could be nuclear armed. Then we had a debate about whether that proves China is trying to conquer the world or the numbers are wrong, or something. Just a little footnote. How many offensive nuclear armed missiles does the United States have? Well, it turns out to be 10,000. China may now have maybe 400, if you believe the hawks. That proves that they are trying to conquer the world.
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The US does not have 10k ICBMs. It never did. It does not have 10k warheads either. The stockpile went from 22k warheads to about 5k after the 1991.
And as for the naming helicopters after genocide victims thing, the US fought *wars* against the Apache, Commache, and Blackhawk tribes.
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The Ho-Chunks and Potawatomis, who took part in the war, were sometimes, motivated by grievances, not directly related to Black Hawk’s objectives.[87] One such incident was the Indian Creek massacre. In the spring of 1832, Potawatomis living along Indian Creek were upset that a settler named William Davis had dammed the creek, preventing fish from reaching their village. Davis ignored the protests, and assaulted a Potawatomi man who tried to dismantle the dam.[88] The Black Hawk War provided the Indian Creek Potawatomis with an opportunity for revenge. On May 21, about fifty Potawatomis and three Sauks from the British Band attacked Davis’s settlement, killing, scalping, and mutilating fifteen men, women, and children.[89] Two teenage girls from the settlement were kidnapped and taken to Black Hawk’s camp.
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Cool link, bro.
Do you even read the posts?
People read the posts?
Sex is dirty and sinful. It should never be depicted as “enjoyable” or “fun”.
That seems to be the assumption underlying everything. The non stop weeping and wailing about “sex trafficking” is based on the Victorian presumption that a “good girl” neither wants nor enjoys sex. The idea that a woman would, on her own initiative, seek out sex purely for enjoyment is completely preposterous.
I lurk and read all the time, but i registered only to say this. So winnie mandela was violent but the people that took over her peoples land were not. Aren’t you the same folks that always say something along the lines of “if someone comes against me or mine, i’ll do everything to end that person/entity”? It’s amusing i guess that what’s good for the goose is not good enough for the gander.