What this country needs is a good swift kick in the @#$
I have noticed that word caused considerable grammar Nazis and Aspies to change it to “normality”. I have looked for “normality” in my dictionary and I do not find it there. “Normalcy”, however, I did find, and it is a good word.
We are returning to normal here at Glibs. Well, at least for this morning. No cryptids running about, all the tech is working, and I will be off morning link duty starting tomorrow…as I submerge myself in the work my beloved Swiss overseers have allowed me to do. *wipes chin*
So…in the words of the great American Philosopher, Tone Lōc, Let’s Do It.
Birthdays – J.P. Morgan (1837 – tip your top hats, please) William Holden (1918) Olivia Hussey (1951) Maynard Keenan (1964) Liz Phair (1967) Jennifer Garner (1972) Victoria Beckham-Spice (1974)
Sports – All my teams are out of the playoffs or have started their season and suck, hard….so there is nothing to say other than the NBA and NHL (allegedly) are playing off. Euro soccer angers some, delights others. MLB is lying under a curtain of snow and ice.
Links –
- Whatever Cuba was doing to US diplomats, they appear to be doing to Canada now. PM Zoolander hardest hit? I cannot imagine what the Cubans are thinking, especially since Canada has been fairly stalwart in forging a path that is a bit more friendly than that of the US. Go figure.
- Lay your bets as to allegations of poison gas use! Where? Here. Time to go long on missile futures.
- Is there a doctor in the house? Well, one woman thinks at least one particular one is a good fellah. Here, she could run for Congress in certain districts.
- You no steal phone! POW! Somebody buy that man a cigar.
- So much for information being available. Sigh.
Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!
I have never even heard the word ‘normality’, while ‘normalcy’ in context of the phrase ‘return to normalcy’ is just a normal part of the language.
“We are returning to normal here at Glibs. Well, at least for this morning. No cryptids running about, all the tech is working”
This sounds like the opposite of normal.
Yeah, but it’s a statement from Switzy, who glares at our normal punning.
Man, I just heard something in a podcast about this in the last few days or so. But, normality, is the British-English version. Normalcy was, apparently, introduced to American-English by Warren Harding…
hahaha: so I just realized Harding first used the term in a campaign speech from which Swiss, umm, borrowed for this post.
*waggles eyebrows*
I’ve heard both, and I generally use “normality”, but I like the sound of “normalcy”.
As our OMWC can tell you, normality is “the gram equivalent weight of a solute per liter of solution”.
It’s Hedly
Piss on you, I’m working for Mel Brooks!
NOT IN THE FACE!!!!
Slim https://youtu.be/40mhFhaGV_E
101) Global warming OMG!!!!!!
Global Warming Has Made Gulf Stream Slowest in 1,600 Years
“According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, the Gulf Stream is circulating at its slowest rate in at least 1,600 years… [and] climate change is to blame.
A shutdown of the Gulf Stream’s circulation is possible in the long-term, and that would have disastrous consequences, bringing rapid sea level rise to the East Coast, more extreme winters.”
So we should probably go ahead and start looking into moon colonies, right? Except, in the last couple paragraphs of the article:
“MIT professor Carl Wunsch said the study’s ‘assertions of weakening are conceivable, but unsupported by any data’”, and “a separate study, also released Wednesday in the journal Nature, claims the 150-year slowdown of the AMOC is a result of natural changes.”
So, um, this is speculation rather than something anybody actually knows, and even if true, it’s likely part of a natural cycle. (In fact, it would almost certainly be part of a natural cycle—I mean, what were humans doing 1,600 years ago to make the Gulf Stream circulation slow down? Also, why does every single one of the global alarmists act like they’ve never opened a history book—there’ve been numerous history-shifting climate changes just since recorded history started.)
So much for Hedly’s admonishment…
I though it was beautiful alt-text.
What you need is some rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists to take care of the OT’ers.
Could you repeat that, sir?
Impressive. I can’t even remember my wife’s middle name.
Mongo?
Geez, I waited all the way ’til 8:02.
It sez right there 7:02
I was wrong. I guessed 5.
I have also seen this thing about the AMOC running amok. I am sure they misrepresented in the graphic, but it looked like they were taking measurements in one corner, where a movement of a hundred or so miles by the current would put it outside the measurement area entirely.
The global warming chicken littles are getting as good at clap-trap as the feminists.
Findings are conceivable but unsupported by any data. In other words “I just made this shit up.”
I see that the governor of florida is being sued over global warming. I love this quote – ““It is the responsibility of the state to uphold the constitution, and these young people have a fundamental right to a stable climate system,” said Guy Burns, lead counsel for the eight plaintiffs, most of whom are teens.”
Pure gibberish.
In a sane world Gary Burns would get Rule 11 sanctions so fast he wouldn’t have time to say law license. (or the FL equivalent but I am far too lazy to look up the FL rules of Civil Procedure, and frankly too scared to know what Florida Man considers Civil Procedure). In our current world he’ll probably end up a judge.
oops Guy Burns, I othered him.
Guy Burns
Is that a euphemism for chafing in the nethers?
“A new study has found the Gulf Stream is circulating at its slowest rate in at least 1,600 years”
Ooooooookay.
Let me put this out there so maybe someone smarter than I (low bar!) can explain:
1. How the fuck do you accurately measure the gulf stream’s speed? Best I can think of to get legit-ish accurate data would be something like that rubber ducky thing, where after the shit wrecked all the rubber duckies traveled the oceans. But even then, how do you actually track that shit? Do they tag individual (with n hopefully being crazy big) ducks with RFIDs? I guess I’d be cool with that as a baseline (#notanoceanographer).
2. How in the ever loving fuck do they claim to be able to claim “in at least 1600 years?” How would they be able to measure that even 40 years ago?
Obvious, blatant bullshit.
The Gulf Stream’s speed is measured in a number of different ways. Since it’s fastest at the surface, that’s the easiest, but only provides an approximation of the sub-surface. Other methods can provide the sub-surface speed. I don’t know what they used or how it was implemented for this study.
Estimates of historical Gulf Stream speed are generated using core samples from the ocean bottom. They use the size distribution of sand particles to estimate the speed, given that faster currents carry heavier particles. I don’t know much about the method or its accuracy, just that it was the technique used for this study.
(I took a lot of physical oceanography in college/grad school)
LIES! You measure it by sitting in lotus and communing with Mother Gaia. Your patrionormative measurement based sciencing ignores the true wisdom of the feelz.
He is clearly not taking into account female and black ways of knowing
NORM!
“Yes?”
“It’s a dog eat dog world, Sammy, and I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear.”
My guess is Cliffy is more the type to hang out here.
…Correct!
It’s a little known fact
Always apropos.
Couldn’t find the actual clip.
“Can I draw you a beer, Norm ?”
“No, I know what they look like. Just pour me one.”
‘Women you can’t live with them…..pass the beer nuts’.
Maybe Cuba is just a toxic environment.
“Stop the War activists defended Bashar Assad as a ‘good man’ on Parliament Square last night with one woman insisting he would not kill civilians because he is a doctor.”
So were Kermit Gosnell and Joseph Mengele.
And HH Holmes.
He had a pretty big dick, but I don’t think he actually killed anyone with it.
Pretty sure he killed Seka.
… who is apparently still alive.. so derp
Maybe, but the extent of his participation in the Wonderland murders is open to speculation.
Looking at those pics, and the pics from the Pussy March, Global Warmistas, and the Gun Grabbers…I’m absolutely convinced Big Posterboard is behind it all.
They have overthrown Big Papier-mâché, eh?
Hostile Takeover, or Silent Coup? Historians are divided.
The Mimes helped with a Silent Coup.
yeah but they were really just pawns of the Boy Scouts of America who are a front group for the Bavarian Illuminati
The war has killed more than 500,000 people and has drawn in regional and global powers.
It wasn’t my fault. I was drawn in.
The tug of war?
Well? You were drawn in what? Charcoal, oils, watercolors, crayons? C’mon we need to know.
And I’m assuming it was a tasteful nude. The medium is the only open question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ga-qLx1nm8
I’m not a war monger I’m just drawn in that way
Lindsay Graham is a demented asshole.
“”We’re becoming the chemical weapons police,” Graham said.”
Well, that part seems true.
Lindsay: “I wish you could have seen the look on that A-rabs face when she blew up! Phew were we freedomed her so hard know what hit her”
McCain: *blinks*
“It’s ok John, we can Draw a picture for you”
*Drool drops from McCain’s mouth*
Oh, John I didn’t mean to excite you so much, let me clean that up
McCain does look like a komodo dragon.
Liz Phair.
Wood.
Little something for everyone in this video.
Damn it, Tundra!
That’s a great song, though.
Fuck. Yeah.
Love Liz Phair.
Definite double wrap, though.
Oh, yeah, she’s probably fucked more people than the population of a small Central American nation.
I haven’t seen a picture of her in quite a while, so I hit up the web search and….damn, she looks pretty much exactly as she always has. Aging quite well.
Like a fine wine. Or cheese. Or a bourbon barrel aged stout. Or….
Titties!
I don’t think she was wearing a bra. It was too distracting. The director of that video should have sent her home.
He would have, except, well, he got distracted.
Birthdays – Liz Phair (1967)
Liz Phair is 51? I am old, so old. Not as old as her, but still. That Fuck and Run song would go on forever now.
Spotify tells me she will be here in June. I may have to go ogle – er – listen.
I saw her live about 15 years ago. Thought she put on a good show.
Going to see Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever tonight at the Echo in LA. Stoked!
https://youtu.be/uqh4DoCyMCs
I’m jealous!
Here’s another gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJIByCZbmY
Yeah. I was hoping the new album would be released today. But alas…
Also, I’m not a music festival kind of guy, but I am seriously considering hitting Desert Daze this year. https://desertdaze.org
Great bands, a fistful of mushrooms, warm California sun. Alright ok.
I’ve only heard of one of those acts. I must no be with it anymore.
The only one you need to know is Death Grips
Or as i like to think of them, “The Original Guantamo Bay Interrogation-Band”
Not bad. I thought about going to that festival last year, but already had reservations for Riot Fest in Chicago.
I saw Ty Segall a couple of weeks ago and now I’m deaf. And yes, Death Grips brings it.
LIGHT THE OMWC SIGNAL
http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2018/4/16/teen_responds_to_dre.html
“Teen” – too old.
Ya figured, but it was the only joke I had. Speaking of which can we get the cop-hating PedoBot back?
NOOOO!!!!!!!
*hisses, pouts, crawls back back on hot rock*
FINE
Huh, I never thought of it like that.
“It’s a unisex shirt, if you will,” Knop said. “Guys wear it every day and we would never be staring at their nipples to see if they were hard and x them out because we didn’t like their nipples showing through.
Unisex Tits. I like where this is going.
I do NOT!
No moobs for me either brah.
“”The dean, after having [Lizzy] put on the undershirt, asked her to stand up and move around,” Knop explained. “They handed her four band-aids and told her to ‘X’ out her nipples.””
WTF???
This is now a measure of nipple size. A six band-aid is major nippage, eight band-aid is Tracy Lords.
/Marilu Henner enters the contest…
Let’s not forget Kim Bassinger.
“Manatee High School”
More like the John Signal
*symphony applause*
I am so fucking happy I work for a company focused only on US customers and no longer have to worry about GDPR.
That entire regulation is a giant heaping pile of shit. When I was trying to build global apps, I’d ask lawyers for guidance and they’d all say “It is fuzzy on what exactly the regulations mean and since they aren’t being enforced yet, there is no additional guidance from court cases.” That was helpful.
It was also crazy that the damages that people can collect are based on the revenue that a company collects that year. Way to make the behemoth companies in Europe curl up in the fetal position at the mere idea of doing anything on the internet.
I don’t know if the preceding paragraphs made it clear, but the GDPR really urinated me off.
I hadn’t heard about it, but it seems kind Europe wants to kill the internet. I’m sure all those Nations will be glad that they ceded sovereignty to a faceless government.
The internet is a threat to their potemkin village efforts. It must therefore be shut down.
Europeans are absolute morons when it comes to the internet and “privacy”.
I worked for a big German company and they were absolutely terrified of the law. They should be too. The fines can be up to 4% of total global turnover. So if you are Amazon and you fuck up in collecting data in the EU, they can collect %4 of your global revenue (I think there is a max of 20M Euro). So large companies are very worried.
We put on a trade show in Chicago a couple years ago. As part of the show, we created a mobile app to help attendees figure out when talks were going on and where. Also a map of the site. Pretty simple. But our German colleagues (as in worked for the same company) freaked out because the mobile app used an AWS service in North America! That meant some of their personal info was not routed to Germany (because they were Germans) and the T&S of the app wasn’t clear enough that data was stored in NA. They lodged complaints with our global execs and we had to shut the app down until we could roll an emergency patch out.
Damn Germans….always at your feet or at your throat.
The rules requiring data and servers to be located within physical boundaries are obnoxious.
The data should be in your own data center where you can lay your hands on the very disks it resides on should the need arise.
Kill the cloud.
The data should be in your own
data centerbathroom where you canlay your hands onwipe the very disks it resides on like, with a cloth, should the need arise.Well played…
Helps when you are also above the law…
Welcome to my world. It’s the first thing I have to ask any new vendor. Where are your servers located? Where is your data stored?
God help you, if you are working with Canadians.
It’s possible several tech companies pull out of Europe altogether.
I can’t figure out how WhoIs relates to online privacy. It is right there in the domain registry agreement that your information will be online tied to your domain. Exactly how in the world do they figure this information is too sensitive to make public? Do they shield the owners of local businesses from public records? Europeans are just….. odd.
Good morning! This is Richard still on vacation. I’m in Rochester, NY. It rained all day yesterday and today’s forecast is for light snow. I moved away from Rochester as soon as I could. It’s just how I remember it.
Yesterday I enjoyed a pint of Young’s Double Chocolate Stout:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/664/73/
I recommend it.
Are we talking Rochester Rochester or one of the ringing towns like Chai-li, Henrietta, Webster or Greece? I haven’t been in any of them for years and I know I forgot one, and I can even picture where it is geographically…
I’m currently in Rochester proper. I’m visiting my family who lives in and around the city. I grew up in Webster, “Where Life Is Worth Living”.
I only went to school at the South Henrietta Institute of Technology, so I have friends in the area, but no family.
What was the town I’m forgetting?
Penfield? Brighton? Irondequoit?
It was Penfield. Thank you.
For those who don’t get the joke, from this web site:
https://everything2.com/title/South+Henrietta+Institute+of+Technology
“According to RIT folklore the university was almost called South Henrietta Institute of Technology (SHIT) instead of Rochester Institute of Technology. This story is often told in circles of freshmen and sophomores.”
Next you’ll be telling them about the cross-campus tunnel!
I like how they say “Raaahchester.”
/insert Jack Benny joke here
“What’s that, Boss?”
What does Cuba gain by doing this shit?
Eh. Occam’s razor–It’s been 60 years of an antagonistic relationship between Cuba and the US (though less with Canada….I think) that it’s just habitual, learned behavior.
Brothers or spouses poking each other just because they can.
*Shrug*
My best guess. Second one–They’re shit’s retarded and they pine for the ghost of Desi Arnaz, as is only natural.
Less? Try never.
I’ve never heard of an issue with Cuba.
Maybe the Cubans are afraid Zoolander will come and claim the throne, as an heir of Castro…
I haven’t heard anything either. I just assume(d) that those from The North could/would be lumped together with the US for our especially close cultural, political and geographic relationship.
Shrug. YMMV.
There is has been some conjecture that this is accidental. Some variations of listening and spying devices that are interacting and unitentionally proving harmful. Given that this is now impacting a generally supportive Canada and not the Evil US lends more strength to this conjecture.
There is also a lot of speculation that this is all a mass hysteria and there is nothing actually there. It wouldn’t be the first time that a set of diffuse and ill-defined symptoms created the notion of a disease that wasn’t actually there.
These ladies have clearly not been kicked out of bed for eating crackers.
http://archive.is/EcDLD
Provisions are low; send 20 with dispatch.
It might be a while. Looks like she’s going to be in bed all day.
10 Canadians, including some minors, experienced symptoms including headaches, dizziness, nausea and difficulty concentrating.
Found Justin’s missing porn debut video.
“Bend over I’ll show you a male feminist.”
It was also crazy that the damages that people can collect are based on the revenue that a company collects that year.
“From each, according to his ability to pay….”
I dead-threaded this one. I just watched Kellyanne Conway and Chris Cuomo talk epic derp for 28:32. God have mercy on my soul! Anyways, reminded me hauntingly of this – https://youtu.be/kW_wLhYErR8
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5624993/Riley-Keough-flaunts-enviable-svelte-figure-sizzling-striped-bikini-saucy-selfie.html
Would.
Plus, the King’ s blood courses through her veins, so it’s the next best thing to having sex with Elvis
So she’ll make me a bacon banana PB sandwich?
That would go without saying, I’d think.
“The Mooch’s restaurant is helping ‘Sugar Daddies’ find ‘stunning women’
The Mooch is helping “Sugar Daddies” hook up with pliant young women seeking “arrangements.”
Anthony Scaramucci’s Midtown restaurant, Hunt & Fish Club, is the venue for Thursday’s “Sugar Social,” where 25 “invited gentlemen” will meet for cocktails and dinner with 35 “stunning women.””
https://pagesix.com/2018/04/16/the-moochs-restaurant-is-helping-sugar-daddies-find-stunning-women/
Male to female ratio not low enough.
Hunt & Fish Club
Oh, bravo.
Girls who wish to participate to will go braless. Boys will put bandaids on top of their shirts over their chests. This is all to send a message and destigmatize natural bodies.
The boys should put baby bottle nipples under their shirts.
So it’s the Human form be longer beautiful?
Oh the fun we would have had…
I refuse to believe that Olivia Hussey is older than my bugged-out eyes when we watched that film in Grade nine. No Sir, you are a liar, Sir! A damnable Liar, Sir and I will have satisfaction!
McCain is going to live forever, isn’t he? We’re cursed to have him in Senate to the end of days, nothing will ever kill him or make him retire.
He’s like that dude with the empty cranium that was memeing everywhere a few years ago. “Hold on! Hooooold on! Everyone around you has their little schemes so hoooooold ooooon – To Your Dreeeeeaaams!”
Something will get him sooner or later and he’ll go to his just reward, God willing.
He’ll be Senator Christopher Pike – sitting in his little scooter beeping “yes” for war and “no” for spending cuts.
McCain Treated for Intestinal Infection
The writer got that backwards.
We just need to find his phylactery. Then we have to decide whether it is better to operate him like a puppet like Mr. Lizard is doing, or just put him out of his misery.
Actually we skin-suited him for the 2000 election but kept the original in stasis. The goal was to drop a few tac nukes in Afghanistan(yuge ratings), spread some cloned Bin Laden remains, then kidnap the real Bin Laden from Pakistan.
From that point forward we would run fresh Bin Laden footage after every trivial negative event in the news cycle. (kinda like how the Undertaker used to show up at random WWF interviews = more yuge ratings)
However that plan didn’t work out so we returned the original McCain but he was such a dick that we didn’t even bother to cure his cancer. The premise was that American mammals deserved to be burdened with such an asshat.
Anyways you’re stuck with him cuz you took away our fun so suck it
By the way, we are quickly becoming the shining city on the Progressive hill here in Minnesoda.
Not only are we super duper bike friendly, but now we are becoming just like Europe with knife crimes in our schools.
Only knuckle breathers are still using guns in schools.
More gun control and Somalis and you’ll achieve Paradise.
He should have tried running with scissors instead.
Republicans regain advantage on dealing with the economy
Not sure if this poll shows us that Americans are dumb, or that NBC/WSJ polls are not accurate. Or both. Purely anecdotal, but everyone I’ve talked to, including some Democrats have liked the tax cuts. Our tax preparer gave us an estimate on next year’s return and we are due back an additional $2000, that estimate doesn’t include the additional deduction due in September.
The Democratic propaganda machine is strong in its efforts to convince people that low taxes are bad. The government knows best how to spend that money, after all.
“What good does it do me to get money back if rich people are getting even more money back than I am?!”
Is that envy or jealousy? Both?
Look, just pay your fair share!
NASA: Previously Unknown Asteroid had a Near Miss with Earth today
DAMMIT. C’mon SMOD, I expected better from you!
Never meet your heroes.
Piglet, meet the Streisand Effect.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/ingrahams-viewership-increases-20-percent-since-david-hoggs-boycott/
Ever notice how the ones calling for boycotts are usually not the ones who buy the products in the first place?
Doesn’t matter. Companies publicly run in fear of the mob. Inside the companies, I think there are a number of sympathetic people who are happy to help bend the companies to the mobs’ demands.
There do seem to be a lot of corporate executives sympathetic to progressive causes. It’s too bad they can’t be thrown to the proggy wolves without dragging down the rest of the country.
Took me a while, but I figured that one out. This is a generalization, and will not apply to all cases, but it covers a good many of them.
The same personality traits that contribute to collectiveism also crave stasis and status quo. They are drawn to large organizations where change is slow or nonexistant, and the collective exists. Having a natural aprtitude for manipulating existing power structures, they end up climing to the top of these large organizations that they would never be able to build, nor take the risks required to found.
That is an interesting explanation, but I don’t think it quite takes into account the progressive desire for “change”. I mean, I guess it could be just affected conformity to fit with your theory, but I’m not entirely convinced. Although I could definitely see your theory being true in some cases.
It is not a desre for ‘change’ so much as a drive to do what they mistake for ‘good’ by means of the selfsame institutions they gravitate to. Most of the people involved are not actually malicious, they just believe in a unversal, collective optimum that can only be attained through the group and through collective conformity, with deviation only in areas of no import. Thus the things they seek to change are those they see preventing their progress towards this ‘universal collective good’ without thinking through the potential unintended consequences of getting their way.
Emergent patterns and behaviours are anathema to the way they view the world, so everything must be pre-organized to exist. It’s a surprise so few of them are creationists.
I don’t think Hogg’s learned the lesson yet:
https://www.firearmspolicy.org/the_wrap_parkland_student_activist_david_hogg_teases_another_boycott_stay_tuned
“Parkland, Florida shooting survivor ”
Well that makes two of us.
Could be titled…
Parkland shooting survivor Hogg desperately tries to keep his 15 minutes of fame going
Add it to the long list of inefectual boycotts by the left. I really think that boycotts main force is in the fear it generates. I think they rarely work along their base principle.
I was just about to post a comment along the lines of: “remember last news cycle when a few punk teen activists were going to lead the way to the gun control promised land?”
There are upsides to the country’s ridiculously short attention span.
There are upsides to the country’s ridiculously short attention span.
The short attention span only seems to apply to things people don’t care that much about, which is a good sign in this case. Gun control is still not a winner.
Sports: The Reds won last night, 3-13!!! Watch out Milwaukee, we are only 4.5 games out of 4th!
“Human clones are being grown inside brainless cows as organ packages, meant to replace failing, natural human organs with a hybrid, genetically-modified tissues”
https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones/status/986084586596786177
Are those antibiotic free brainless cows?
More importantly, are they friggin’ gay?
Please. these are Cows, not Bulls. They’d be Lesbian.
He’s got a pretty good shtick.
I honestly don’t think it’s shtick for him. I think he believes the crazy nonsense he spouts.
No, it’s an act. He’s an entertainer selling products, part of the reason he actively encourages meme-generation and jokes at his expense – it drives traffic to his work and thus revenue.
He’s Art Bell 2.0. He just replaced Aliens and Ghosts with Internationalist conspiracies.
I could use a new liver.
So…..
They could just say democrats
So Google thinks I should be interested in something that happened between Cohen and Hannity. It’s all wapo so I can’t read it
Anyone know what’s going on?
Cohen apparently gave Hannity legal advice. And for some reason that’s a big deal?
Damn. I thought maybe it was some lurid affair.
AFAICT it’s TDS by proxy. DRUMPF is Satan so anyone remotely associated with him is also pure evil.
Cohen wasn’t a lawyer lawyer and therefore every one of his clients has no privilege.
The OIG report and Comey’s book are both putting the focus back on the Weiner / Abedin laptop. The FBI went to extraordinary lengths to pry it away from the NYPD. I wonder where it is now?
So is this, as predicted, the beginning of leaks, or was this information found by other means.
Leak-o-rama.
Hard to believe, considering Who is overseeing the case.
So very scummy.
I misread that wand was expecting to see something about onion relatives.
This was said in open court, because Cohen is trying to get an injunction to not allow the FBI to look at his files (because of Client-Attorney Privilege), and he said he had two other clients, then his attorney was forced to say Hannity was one of them out loud, in a packed courtroom. Of course, the judge involved is a Clinton appointee, so no hint of bias there.
This is not going to end well.
I keep saying, these people are Roperites. They’re cutting down every law & custom & protection to get at their devil. I’m not sure they’re going to like it when it’s over. I know I sure won’t.
I will rest easy tonight knowing that no matter how bad the economy might ever get there will always be opportunity in selling rakes for Western Europeans to step on.
Good luck
Speaking alongside the flag-draped coffin of a police officer killed in a terrorist attack in southern France, President Emmanuel Macron last month lay blame on “underground Islamism” and those who “indoctrinate on our soil and corrupt daily.”
The attack added further urgency to a project already in the works: Macron has embarked on a controversial quest to change Islam in France — with the goal of integration but also preventing radicalization.
He has said that in the coming months he will announce “a blueprint for the whole organization” of Islam. And those trying to anticipate what that will look like are turning their attention to Hakim El Karoui, a leading voice on how Islamic traditions fit within French culture.
Must be Islamophobia.
Lol. ‘Blueprint’ my ass. He’s gonna build a wall.
Trust Macron, I’m sure he has a fine understanding of what makes the ululating jihadis tick.
Macron is going to become an Mullah?
Supreme Court heard arguments on internet sales tax today
Sounds like an extremely reasonable and well-balanced person. Totally not a
Control freak and certainly not ravenously trying to steal as much money as possible from the proles for her dumb projects. I mean, it’s just a complete mystery how the several states that do not have a sales tax keep their government functioning at all. Fuck you, mafiosa.
Especially since South Dakota is one of them.
Or are they a no income tax state? I forget. And as you can tell, I am far to busy working to look it up. Rufus would be proud, if he wasn’t so busy working.
Sales tax map.
The four states without sales tax are Oregon, Montana, Delaware, and New Hampshire.
KY has no local sales tax. The 6% is entirely state and the state doesn’t allow the locals to add on.
There are some TIFF districts where part of the money does end up with the locals, but that is created by state law and it flows thru the state.
‘I need a bill. Somebody get me a bill.’
This doesn’t even make sense. Why would you think that makes you look good?
I really think that’s quite the point. She’s all the way up her own ass.
There are two types of people in this world: those that prefer to pass the hat around, and those that prefer highway robbery.
Something something somebody get me some muscle over here…
There was a Republican on Fox Business this morning talking about taxes and fiscal policy. I wasn’t paying much attention until he cited the economic and tax revenue growth from the Harding / Coolidge tax cuts. I had a happy for a moment.
Ignore the fact that this has been going on for at least two decades.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/04/15/california-s-crazy-one-party-liberal-politics-is-why-had-to-finally-leave-state-and-m-not-alone.html
By itself this is all well and good; the problem is that these refugees are spectacularly un-self aware and bring with them the insane politics from which they’re fleeing.
I did not. Does that make me special?
You’re special for a whole lot of reasons…
Short
buspanel van special…..Bbbbbbut California is the way we should pattern our democracy after the second civil war. There can be no dissenters.
Embrace and love the refugee that seeks the salvation of more limited government. Chide, deride, persuade and never miss an opportunity to mock anything else.
They’re fleeing because the Rethuglicans ruined California… obviously.
Same as how assholes from MD, PA, NY, NJ, and New England move down here and start voting for the same shit that made them want to leave those states.
Dim bulbs don’t draw the connection between the two. They think their old states failed due to bad luck, like in that quote people like to post here from time to time.
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that’s bad luck.
-Chad Kroeger
Even within New England, you have unwashed Masses moving into NH and voting for the same policies that made them leave MA.
Man, the Boston Marathon looked like a shitshow yesterday. 38 and raining hard? Fuck. That.
Did a dude win the women’s race?
ARREST THAT MAN FOR MISGENDERING!
Now you did it. We’re all doomed.
*Arrests Q for attempted kidnapping*
Freezing rain seems to be the only way to prevent a Kenyan or Ethiopian from winning.
They turn into an ice sculpture mid-stride?
They take one look outside and say “Fuck that noize, I’d rather run from rhinos.”
Looking for lawyers! RC Dean, et al:
Speaking of sportsball, I read something interesting involving a sorta futures contract that players are signing.
Young baseball players are getting paid advance bonuses by private firms, the most famous worth $4.5 million. In return, a contract is signed and the player has to pay the firm 10% of their future earnings throughout their careers. A Dominican player is suing the company over the contract being (legally) unconscionable. He was only advanced $360K and is expected to make around ~$100M over his career.
Reading this, I couldn’t really see what was wrong. Now, the player brings up some interesting points that if true, I understand the nefariousness behind it.
1: The company itself assigned the player the lawyer; it’s argued they did this just to say that he had representation.
2: Player says he didn’t have translator. But contract is in Spanish and company said negotiations were done in Spanish.
If those things aren’t true, it just seems like a futures contract. I the business model made sense if above board–poor kids get money now to help their families and simply have to pay it back later. Just….a loan. Any legal folk have interest and opinion on matter? Thanks!
How young? If they were less than 18, I think there are grounds to have them voided. And there have been lots of shenanigans with underage Caribbean* players.
*that word is hard to spell.
Somewhat related, BBC Sports writing produces column of drivel celebrating Patrick Reed’s Masters win: http://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/43786005
tl; dr: Reed had a selection of brand name clubs and was sponsored by anyone, “It is a refreshing approach, a break from the commercial normality of the professional game. For fans, it is surely more authentic to know a player is using a certain club or ball because they like it rather than for vast financial gain.”
I am assuming Reed is too much of an ass to get sponsored.
Except Nike, of course.
Commercial normality? I thought we settled on normalcy.
I watched that HBO Elvis documentary over the weekend. It was very well done and focused on the music. This is child’s play compared to whatever the hell contracts Elvis signed with Colonel Parker. That guy owned his balls for Elvis’ entire career.
The EU is so fucking annoying with their rules and regulations. What’s their problem exactly with Whois’?
To me it sounds like they didn’t take Whois into consideration when drafting the regulations. It got tangled up in them after the fact because the EU is helmed by retards.
No personal identifying information of EU citizens is allowed to be stored outside of the EU borders and those EU citizens have the right to ask for you to delete all of their information
How do they enforce that against someone with no presence in their borders?
those EU citizens have the right to ask for you to delete all of their information
I was dealing with a paranoiac (very nice fellow) who wanted us to delete all of his information from our system. Turns out we actually could delete his electronic medical records (it was outside the mandatory retention period), so, even though it is phenomenally stupid for him to want it deleted, I cleared that.
He also wanted us to delete him from our billing records. I told him no. On account of if we did that, our books would no longer balance and we would be exposed to spoliation of evidence charges if we were ever audited on a dataset that includes him. Plus, he is in some “public health” type databases, which can stand a little random deleting before they become analytically useless, but not much.
No personal identifying information of EU citizens is allowed to be stored outside of the EU borders and those EU citizens have the right to ask for you to delete all of their information
Possibly the stupidest fucking law I have heard of, well, so far today. The bar is very high, after all. I’ll assume this applies only to electronic information, because I’m not quite willing to assume that even the EU has made it illegal to have written information about an EU citizen outside the borders of the EU.
So, with that in mind, if an EU citizen sends me a pdf of a letter that has their name, address, phone number, and email on it, I’m not allowed to store that letter? What if they email me? Can I keep the email, or do I have to purge my cache and all my backups? If I am an international company, I have to segregate all my EU information into a server that is in the EU, and no other server outside the EU is allowed to access it (or, can access it only in a read-only mode?) ?
yes, it is online information only
the problem is that these refugees are spectacularly un-self aware and bring with them the insane politics from which they’re fleeing.
“Where are the amenities?” they ask. “Why aren’t there more bike trails, and dog parks?”
Young baseball players are getting paid advance bonuses by private firms, the most famous worth $4.5 million. In return, a contract is signed and the player has to pay the firm 10% of their future earnings throughout their careers.
I think this was common practice in boxing, in the old days. Maybe it still is. The syndicate (or whatever) paid the fighter’s expenses during training, with the expectation of payback from the purse(s).
Kimba Wood: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Some info on the judge presiding over the Cohen case.
“Wood Presided Over the Wedding of George Soros & Was Once Called a ‘Life-Long Democrat’
Fueling some of the conservative anger at Wood: She performed the non-denominational wedding ceremony of liberal financier George Soros to Tamiko Bolton in 2013. Nancy Pelosi was among the guests, Page Six reported.
Wood herself was also married to a lawyer named Jesse Lovejoy, making Richardson her third marriage.
In a profile story on Wood, The New York Daily News, in 1995, said that Wood’s ascendancy to the federal bench raised some eyebrows because “Wood had no criminal experience at the time D’Amato nominated her for the judgeship and, as a life-long Democrat, she could hardly be said to share D’Amato’s views.”
Kimba Wood… that name sounds familiar.. that’s right, she was going to be Clinton’s AG until she ran into problems. No way would she be holding any sort of grudge against Republican media figures like Hannity. Also, today she’d be hailed as a DACA hero.
Kimba Wood married Jesse Lovejoy?
What genre of porn is this?
Worst season of Lovejoy EVER!
Musk Tweet from the 13th:
“Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.”
Meh it is not that humans are over or underrated but that there is a something that is worth automating and something that is not.
For example, we could automate Elon Musk out of existance and never notice. Just put a bad idea tweetbot in his place.
Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake.
You misspelled “hubris” dumbass.
Minneapolis-based glibs — you have a lovely city. Despite all the snow this weekend, I enjoyed the 48+ hours I spent there. I spent most of the weekend hunkered down in Lilydale, but was able to get out and drive around a bit on Sunday. Easy to see it as a future ‘settle down’ spot for me, although that’s likely a bit down the road.
You should have let us know you were in town. We would have lured you out into the blizzard for sure.
But when I come to town you blame the blizzard on me and say you have “plans” and don’t have time for me.
*sniff*
Oh they have plans for you…
Just give them time to prepare the dungeon…
SHUT UP, Q!
Nothing to worry about, Mike. Here, have another beer…
I wish it had been actual spring for you, tyrant. The lakes are beautiful!
Where do you live now?
I’m in Milwaukee, Tundra. Part of the appeal of the Minneapolis area for me is that I like living near a city without having to deal with some of the more obnoxious aspects of city living (namely parking, traffic and cost of living). As such, my girlfriend and I were looking at apartments and houses around Summit Hill. Like I said, I wouldn’t expect to make the move soon, but I’d appreciate any recommendations as far as areas to look that are within spitting distance of either Minneapolis or St Paul.
We love Milwaukee. Love it. Really nice waterfront, great arts and music scene, fine food (you’ll usually find us at Transfer). CoL isn’t bad. Despite being Illinois folk, we spend far more time in Kenosha and Milwaukee than Chicago.
That said, one of the two best restaurants we’ve experienced since moving to the midwest was in Minneapolis. So there’s that.
This is so stupid shaggy and James corden is it Corbin? Whatever.
https://youtu.be/qzt7JvsYIuI
Christ…
Not that I needed any more evidence that the ACLU has proceeded to the skin-suit phase of its existence, but that’s still eye-opening.
Once was, my ass. They are just returning to their roots.
Weren’t they founded to protest Wilson’s illegal restriction of Commie speech during WW1?
Yes. Legal counsel for the communists.
Civil Liberties are nonsense anyway. Liberty is liberty.
Nice to see Dershowitz calling them out on their bullshit.
And I agree with Suthen; they’ve never been about defending liberty. They always have been a useful idiot front group for Communists.
Last day of work before vacation. It’s currently snowing heavily here in Cleveland, which I will be leaving behind tomorrow to go to Vegas for a week. In good news, I have finally managed to score a room at the Orleans for Viva Las Vegas next year. For some reason, they decided to open online sales at 1:00 Pacific time, with telephone sales starting at 7:00 Pacific. I have the feeling that there won’t be rooms left by the time the telephone sales start.
Have fun in Vegas. I have a friend who will be there doing some fetish modeling/burlesque stuff. I can get your info to her if you’d like.
Is she competing in the Burlesque Showcase on Friday? The girlfriend and I will basically be hanging around the Orleans for most of the weekend. I’d leave it up to her if she wants to meet up with an online acquaintance. 🙂
The Corruption of Evidence Based Medicine — Killing for Profit
The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so much. Human perception is often flawed, so the premise of EBM is to formally study medical treatments and there have certainly been some successes.
https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-corruption-of-evidence-based-medicine-killing-for-profit-41f2812b8704
While I agree there are major issues I am somehow skeptical of the solution – “Bribery of university doctors is the problem — one that is easily fixed if the political will exists.”
Right political will and regulations … That won’t backfire
GPDR is apparently scaring the shit of our legal department. Thankfully, I don’t work near it or touch it.
GDPR is fucking up our compliance department something fierce. While I’m not part of it, I have to deal with them tangentially and I think some of them are on the verge of suicide.
“My daughter started crying at the dentist office bc the dentist “is a boy” and the dentist said “sorry, there are no girl dentists at this office” & my daughter looked at me & said “why did we come here.””
https://twitter.com/AlissaNutting/status/986011656626098177
What an abusive mother.
Lame
What? Not freaking out because the dentist said “boy dentist” and “girl dentist”, clearly infantilizing adult professionals?
Why is that girl assuming the dentist’s gender?
If the child is young enough, that would not be language out of the norm, especially if it was the child who brought up the topic.
I had the absolute coolest dentist as a kid. He has been the dentist for the Cincinnati Zoo for 30+ years, and has pictures of him working on the teeth of all of the animals at the zoo (the man literally has his DDS, and a Vet Dental Doctorate too). To add to the cool factor, he also had an arcade machine of some type or another there while you waited (first an SNES, then a SEGA Genesis) with a cartridge selector. Good times with dentistry.
Creative writing professor with crazy eyes.
I feel for the kid.
We found the bunny boiler!
She’s not crazy she is just nutting.
Creative writing professor = Professional bullshit artist
Those who can’t, teach.
Did she bullshit last week?
Drop the novocaine and *really* give her something to be afraid of at the dentist.
I am tempted to say this is bullshit.
Of course it is, it’s the woke six year old trope.
The possibilities are: A – it’s fake and the woman is doing this to virtue signal, or B – it’s real, the woman doesn’t realize how bigoted it sounds because she’s the one who incentivized this sort of thinking in her small children. Either way, it’s a sign the twit is a horrible person.
or C – they are devout Muslims who will not deign to be touched by a member of the opposite sex outside of their immediate family.
In general, maybe. In Ms. Nutting’s case, not likely given the remainder of the social media profile.
That was a joke.
Everyone at my dentist is a woman. I like it. The hygienist usually gently nestles my head between her boobs.
Pics?
NOOOOOO! Browsing for pics, I’ve found they have hired a guy! My toothy safe space is ruined!
Here’s my fav. She always smells so nice.
http://beaumontfamilydentistry.tumblr.com/post/55019982729/meet-dr-jill-miller
Hehe, your dentist office uses tumblr. Saves on some costs, I guess.
Nice…
“So i slapped the little hate monger and shrieked, “DONT ASSUME THEIR GENDER””
Never change, NY Post
I defy anyone to tell me how that thing looks half-human.
I am a bit skeptical. Just a bit.
My guess is a bear with mange. Loses all its hair and is in rough and desperate shape. Looks like there are no indigenous bears in Argentina, but don’t count out a zoo escape or something similar.
That’s generally what these things are.
Legs are too long for a bear. Except for the head, it looks the size and shape of a Hreat Dane to me. Look at the door behind it – that is a big animal.
Yeah, there’s a lot of Great Dane to that thing, and one would be eminently capable of killing a pit bull and a German shepherd.
It’s a skinny, mangy Great Dane or something along those lines.
Not a bear. Trust me on this.
It doesn’t. But the best part is the tags they attached to the article:
No “KHAAAAAAAAN!” ?
Appears to be a photoshop of this
Oxford and Cambridge: will elite universities go private and raise fees?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/apr/17/oxford-cambridge-universities-private-raise-fees
The government launched its review of post-18 education in February. With the Tories keen to woo young voters, following Jeremy Corbyn’s commitment to end tuition fees, a reduction of the £9,250 fees cap is widely expected. But vice-chancellors say quality could be threatened if the government does not plug any gap with new funding.
Unlike other universities, Oxford and Cambridge say fees, even at £9,250, do not cover the costs of the tutorial-led teaching for which they are famous. A spokesperson for Cambridge would not comment about going private, but said each student costs an average of £18,500 a year to teach.
Oxford and Cambridge, two dilabidated corpses of institutions that have long ago stopped being of value.
Its lips are scattered?
Sure, we’ll go with that.
“A seasoned sled slides swifter than a green one”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/shes-wonderful-lover-teenager-who-12377129
Trump Derangement Syndrome or Pop Derangement Syndrome? Why pro-Trump Spurs fans are abandoning the team
Well, I’ve been a fan for 36 years. I’m not going anywhere. I will say – while I fully acknowledge all the great things Pop has done for the team – I can’t wait until that self-important pock-marked arrogant SOB leaves his post. I wish beat reporters would ask Pop to list all the ways in which his foreign players have suffered since January 2017, but it would never happen. The sports press is as leftist as the political press. They’re all on his side.
He exposed his faux-intellectual nonsense with his partisan ‘we are Rome now’. Right. Just when Trump got elected. How convenient.
I can’t and won’t watch the NBA because of James, Kerr, Pop…etc. Clearly they’re too woke for me.
And oh…Crosby > James.
It seems most hockey players surpass their counterparts in the other team sports. They definitely seem like the most fan-friendly among the team players. Although there are a lot of ex-bulls here in Chicago that carved out nice media gigs just by being fan-friendly while the team was winning titles.
Well, Pop’s young foreigner from Latvia suffered last night courtesy of American Draymond Green’s elbow…does Pop hope that was just standard NBA violence and not anti-immigrant behavior?
I can still enjoy the NBA as I’m not bothered by athletes on soapboxes, as long as they realize that their views can be questioned and challenged. Many learn once you’re not a superstar anymore you last a lot longer in the league if you’re not outspoken and just seen as a quiet workman-like veteran. Using a few Chicago high school players as an example, Juwan Howard and Nazr Mohammed extended their careers in this fashion. Howard played 19 years and only once in his last 6 did he get 1000 minutes. In Mohammed’s case, how does a guy last 18 seasons in the NBA never averaging double figures in points or rebounds? But a 32 year old Craig Hodges couldn’t overcome his conduct at the white house or his locker room agitation, even on a team coached by the leftist Phil Jackson, and his playing career was done.
I’m the same way with actors. I can watch Sean Penn or Meryl Streep in a movie, enjoy their performance, and not connect them with their viewpointss even once. But I’m still inconsistent–I can’t force myself to watch a Michael Moore movie, so I guess I draw the line at directors.
No, I think it’s the subject matter. The movies you do watch are not overt propaganada, so still retain some entertainment value.
I’ve been a Warriors fan since childhood, but listening to Kerr pop off on the issue du jour has soured me on the team. I still root for them, but I don’t care as much. He’s been a great coach, but I really don’t care to hear his opinion on every political issue. Maybe winning two championships in three years has made it easy to lose interest too.
You know… morons
Few places know the toll of gun violence as well as Chicago. But even the city that saw more than 2,700 shootings last year is finding out that using economic muscle to push Wall Street into enforcing gun control is easier said than done.
On Monday, the Chicago City Council’s finance committee put on hold an ordinance that would have barred the city from working with banks whose clients failed to adhere to certain policies, such as not selling firearms to anyone under 21 or dealing in high-capacity magazines. Mayor Rahm Emanuel introduced the proposal three weeks ago in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, saying “when it comes to fighting for stronger, smarter gun laws Chicago is putting our money where our mouth is.”
The plan stalled in the face of opposition from the entities it seeks to police. The Illinois Bankers Association called the measure “overly broad.”
If enacted, a financial institution couldn’t win or renew city contracts unless it “adopted a safe gun sales policy applicable to its retailer clients, partners or customers.” The result was a proposal that could have hampered Chicago’s ability to deposit or borrow money — especially given that the city already has a junk rating from Moody’s Investors Service, making it more difficult to float bonds.
They’re lucky they can find anybody anywhere dumb/brave enough to lend them money. Trying to impose idiotic social justice preconditions takes a special kind of delusion.
“We know that we can’t technically pass laws mandating what we want, so we’ll try extortion instead.”
– People who complain a lot about legal “loopholes”
to push Wall Street into enforcing gun control
Um…wut?
Behold a steaming pile of pro-political party derpitude:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/power-party-political-reforms-can-bad-democracy-090049295.html
‘Power to the party: Why political reforms can be bad for democracy’
Warning: long article. It had to be, to fit in all the derp.
I figured it was more Jon Rauch bullshit, and I was right, with a healthy dollop of Cass Sunstein-style “nudging”
FUCK. YOU.
Freedom is slavery.
Better band name:
“Stormy Daniels’ Diseased Genitals” or “The Russian Sex Coaches”?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/model-claiming-know-lot-trump-russia-due-thai-033627397.html
She was arrested for prostitution…..in Pattaya?? I’ve been to Pattaya – unless it’s changed significantly in the last 14 years, prostitution is less than frowned-upon there.
Didn’t pay off the right people would be my guess.
Protectionism…damn furriners takin’ jobs from decent hard workin’ Thai ladyboys.
Her stage name in Russopolglish can be roughly interpreted as “nasty fish”.
Ugh, the plastic surgery.
WaPo and NYT nominated for Pulitzer for their work on….Trump and Russia.
Drain the swamp.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/16/2018-pulitzer-prize-winners-526854
Oh. And don’t read the comments.
Just. Don’t.
Another award that holds as much water as the Nobel Peace Prize.
They are truly doing the lord’s work.
In the dark age of Trump, when truth is endangered, it is right to honor the guardians of the truth. The Fourth Estate, flawed but dedicated, continues to fulfill its duty to our republic by confronting those in power with their lies and questioning their actions. The true honor is how much the press is hated for exposing the truth, calling politicians to account, and making people actually think independently. That is the real measure of success.
This HAS to be sarcasm.
So since
DataZuckerdude got asked stupid question by idiots on the Hill, Facebook has locked down certain things. One of those things is live streaming to closed groups.This means, for you #AvGeeks, Big Jet TV has been forced to broadcast everything to its freeview channel for the last week.
Just FYI.
I’m starting to wonder if he’s on the spectrum. If so, it would explain his weird mannerisms.
Totally.
To reignite the burger wars, after having the best burger in the world at Fat Burger, I ran into Ton Loc there and we talked for a bit.
I’ll burger war: I’ve never had a burger in a restaurant better than the ones I make on my grill. I don’t even do anything all that special, it’s just hard to beat a well-made, cooked-to-order backyard burger in my mind.
If you buy quality beef, all it takes is some light seasoning to make a fantastic burger on your own grill.
I’m the opposite, even though I am a good cook, everything tastes better when I didn’t have to put effort into making it.
The Grale Burger is very good. You might be able to do better on your grill, but I doubt it.
I’ll have to try it. I generally don’t order burgers if there are stranger things to eat.
But I’ll put my skirt steak up against anyone’s…
But I’ll put my skirt steak up against anyone’s…
Definitely a euphemism….
The key to flavor is dynamic friction.
Best burger I ever had was in Alanya, Turkey. I was probably drunk as hell when I had it, so maybe it wasn’t as good as I remember. But I think it was made from lamb.
REPORT: North Korea, South Korea Set To Announce Official End To War
Hostilities on the Korean peninsula ended on July 27, 1953, but the war didn’t.
The U.S., North Korea and China signed an armistice agreement designed to “insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved,” according to the agreement.
Sixty-five years later, the war has never been officially declared over.
Now, though, North and South Korea are reportedly in talks to permanently end the war, daily newspaper Munhwa Ilbo reported Tuesday, according to CNBC.
Ahead of a summit next week between North Korean premier Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, lawmakers from the neighboring states were thought to be negotiating the details of a joint statement that could outline an end to the confrontation.
Kim and Moon could also discuss returning the heavily-fortified demilitarized zone separating them to its original state, the newspaper said.
Pyongyang and Seoul have technically been at war since the 1950-1953 Korean conflict ended with a truce — and not a peace treaty. Geopolitical tensions have occasionally flared up since the armistice, although to date both countries have managed to avoid another devastating conflict.
Peace in our time.
President Trump and the North Korean dictator are set to hold talks as early as next month.
North Korea has been softening its rhetoric of late. Reuters reported late last month that the North Korean leader has “pledged his commitment to denuclearization and to meet U.S. officials.
“It is our consistent stand to be committed to denuclearisation on the peninsula, in accordance with the will of late President Kim Il Sung and late General Secretary Kim Jong Il,” Kim Jong Un said, according to Xinhua. Kim is currently in China for a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
If Little Kim gives up his nukes he’s a Class A sucker.
Not necessarily. His situation is a bit different than Qaddafi’s was. Even without his nukes he still has China preventing the US from engaging in any thoughts of enacting regime change.
If I had to guess China is ultimately the one behind this. Till now the Norks being a constant thorn in the US’s side has been to their advantage and so they let the Kim’s continue on with their little extortion racket. Now however China feels like it’s military is at least near parity with the US in their own back yard and they plan on being the sole regional power on that side of the pacific which means they want the US out. Getting the US out of the region means ending the Korean war and getting the troops stationed there sent home
Any bets on between Kim and Trump, who would get the Nobel Peace Prize?
I’ll put a hundred bucks on the short, fat one. The Nobel Committee loves terrorists who pretend to reform.
If Kim gets the prize, that’s real money in North Korea. That’s a lot of piss-hookers and blow that he can selfie to Donald to show off.
Obama.
This
Probably Kim because we live in a world where brutal foreign dictators are praised and the sitting president of the US is reviled for being literally figuratively Der Drumpenfuhrer Hitler II. At any rate, I am still waiting for Barry’s to be revoked.
Those slutty koalas.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/animals-disease-health-koalas-australia/
Now that’s a band name.
Yeah, not “The Slutty Koalas” but “Those Slutty Koalas”
I cannot imagine what the Cubans are thinking
“Why are all of our cars from the 1950s?” ?
Quaintness, and appeal to lefty nostalgia.
“Why are all of our cars from the 1950s when every country that has a car industry except the US will trade with us?”
Christ, you’d think we had the Navy blockading Cuba’s ports instead of just a ban on Americans trading with Cuba.
The 1950s were the last tiem any Cubans but Castro could afford new cars.
Hey now, be fair. Sometimes you can find a GAZ from the 70’s.
I blame capitalism.
Wreckers and saboteurs have ruined everything in Venezuela.
See Mao, this is how you redistribute the population. Make the cities so shitty the people move back to the country. Venezuela is #winning!
Let’s go to the socialist apologist of record for an opinion:
Just some bad planning, that’s all.
Noam is an overcredentialed idiot. Sadly there are people who mistake him for a sage of all things.
Chomsky’s political views may be idiotic, but please explain to me how he is “overcredentialed”.
Or better yet, explain to me why the Chomsky hierarchy is wrong and he shouldn’t have secured tenure.
Not every subject needs a doctorate level degree.
You can freely argue that his opinion should carry weight above that of laymen in his chosen field, but the problem is the ‘sage of all things’ attidue people have towards him. I’m not a linguist, I’m not going to speak to whether or not his work is any good there, but every time I have heard him speak, his words have always elicited the reaction “what a moron”.
So, are you claiming this about theoretical linguistics?
That is correct and the problem I have with “public intellectuals” in general. However, when it comes to whether or not he “earned” his degrees and academic rank, it’s a bit childish to judge someone’s competency in their field based on what you know from their public statements on their political views. Calling the man who single-handedly founded modern linguistics “over-credentialed” just sounds petty.
I don’t think you want my honest opinion, as it’s liable to cause pointless strife.
Apparently I close the tab without posting my previous reply.
In retrospect that was a fortunate turn, as I was getting too agitated for an internet discussion, and it’s simply not worth the argument.
Are you angling for an apology, an attestation of wrongess, or do you just want me to walk away?
So Chomsky is saying they need to move to a planned agrarian economy? Like Pol Pot’s Cambodia? That worked out well.
Pol was the wrong Top Man for the job, KK. Don’t you even Socialist Appologist?
Shithole. Shithole is the word you are searching for, Noam.
Stick to linguistics you hack.
Even there, his word is no longer gospel. Lots of academic challengers.
Those weren’t steps backwards. This isn’t regression. This is the natural progression of command economies. We’ve seen it time and again in the Bolivarian socialist tradition, and we’ve seen it on a larger scale in China and in the Soviet Bloc countries. It has happened so often you have to be delusional to honestly believe that it isn’t a pattern.
I heard it is illegal for Doctors to list cause of death as Starvation there
I met lots of Venezuelans in the early 90’s in college. They were all glamorous, Euro-style, wealthy people.
I wonder what happened to them? Hopefully they managed to get a permanent place in the U.S. before the Chavez shit hit the fan.
But what is their GINI Co-efficient? They are much more equal than they used to be, and that’s the measure that matters!
The easiest way to make everyone equal is to make sure they have nothing.
You know who else didn’t know how to change a flat tire?
New AP U.S. History Textbook Implies Christians Are Bigots, Reagan A Racist
In describing the rise of Black Lives Matter in the aftermath of the Ferguson, Missouri shooting: “The nearly all-white police force was seen as an occupying army in the mostly African-American town.” In a section discussing President Trump’s cabinet, the book says “They were largely white males, more so than any cabinet since Ronald Reagan.” In a discussion of the nation’s politics after 2012, it says “Those who had long thought of the nation as a white and Christian country sometimes found it difficult to adjust” to secularization and an increase in people of other races. Elsewhere, it describes Trump’s “not-very-hidden racism.”
A section discussing the 2016 elections returns to these paranoid, highly politicized interpretations of some Americans’ decisions to vote for Trump:
Trump’s supporters saw the vote as a victory for people who, like themselves, had been forgotten in a fast-changing America–a mostly older, often rural or suburban, and overwhelmingly white group. Clinton’s supporters feared that the election had been determined by people who were afraid of a rapidly developing ethnic diversity of the country, discomfort with their candidate’s gender, and nostalgia for an earlier time in the nation’s history. They also worried about the mental stability of the president elect and the anger that he and his supporters brought to the nation.
There’s a reason public schools are referred to as public indoctrination centers.
Someone failed AP HTML.
They’ve really watered down College and the AP courses if that’s on offer.
Here
This place could use a “preview” button.
Monocle has one
Oh wait. It appears that Top Hat with Monocle does that…
Because skin color and gender determine job effectiveness.
If they were to state that they were the least qualified, it would be an actual criticism.
With a little reflection, it usually turns out that the people flinging accusations of bigotry are often the most guilty of the form they decry.
I was recently reminded of an Australian *bleep* who was defending a move to only recruit women for a given PD for a certain period of time with “why can’t the best person for the job be a woman?”
I kept wanting to reach through the internet and choke her. “Bitch, it’s not the other person saying the best person isn’t a woman, YOU are saying the best person isn’t a woman because you say they won’t get the job unless half the field is eliminated first!”
Sorry for yelling, but it’s been a year and the stupid brick of a *bleep* still aggravates me.
Well, this will make you madder: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43724105
Deeeeeeeeeeeeerp, how about no people on Mars unless a private enterprise decides to do it?
It was not the eye rolling identity politics, it was the disingenuous arguing and constantly repeating the same trite line that was contradicted by the policy she advocated. I hate circular dialog and repeating of trite falsehoods in place of a rational position. That’s what got under my skin.
why can’t the best person for the job be a woman?
“Well, going by your example, it seems unlikely.”
I personally believe that some of Reagan’s actions in his political life were motivated by race- See the California Gun Control laws after the Black Panthers used open carry at the statehouse. But I don’t think that complies with the narrative.
I’m not a fan of Reagan. I think he gave good lip service to small government but other than tax reform, his commitment seemed to be scant. And his ramp up of the WOD was completely immoral.
Is there a doctor in the house?
I’m not a doctor, but I’ll take a look anyway.
Stop the War activists defended Bashar Assad as a ‘good man’ on Parliament Square last night with one woman insisting he would not kill civilians because he is a doctor.
Bill Cosby wouldn’t rape because he is a tv family man.
I haven’t seen this posted, so forgive me if it has.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/nation/2018/04/15/gay-rights-lawyer-burns-himself-death-protest-against-fossil-fuels-immolates-self-nyc-ecology-protes/518678002/
I’ll say this much; given that watermelon environmentalism is an anti-human death cult, at least he’s putting his money where his mouth is.
I’ve seen rumor and speculation that he was terminally ill anyway, so he decided to go out in a blaze of glory.
Least he could have done is composted himself.
It’s not about the environment, it’s about the attention.
Wouldn’t immolating yourself release more carbon into the atmosphere than say shooting yourself and then being buried underground?
No justice, no interns!
Unpaid internships also artificially limit a company’s hiring pool. If internships are unpaid, after all, students who have to make money to support themselves can’t do them. This system therefore gives people from more privileged backgrounds an unfair leg up on valuable career experience. Offering internships for college credit only is even worse, since it forces students to pay what typically amounts to thousands of dollars to their universities in order to work for free.
Those financial realities stand to put internships outside the realm of possibility for those who aren’t affluent. That’s a huge percentage of college students. A recent study of students at more than 60 American universities found that 36 percent don’t have enough food, and a similar proportion lack adequate shelter. These are not kids who can afford to pay to work.
And pay they must. CNBC calculated last year, for example, that it would cost around $9,506 to live for the summer in a city like Los Angeles, and an unpaid intern would forgo about $3,480 in wages (before taxes) — meaning that an internship can cost $12,986. Students who are struggling to eat aren’t going to be able to shoulder such costs. This means companies are losing out on their skills.
Trump’s America. What a shithole.
If only the Ministry of Plenty would outlaw internships, and provide a living wage for all.
Bull. Shit. You see a lot of emaciated college students running around? I sure as hell don’t. They all look perfectly well fed to me – overfed, in many cases.
“Have you ever had to skip a meal? Have you ever slept somewhere other than a proper bed?”
I mean, when I was in college I ate a shitload of Maruchan instant lunch, and Kraft mac’n’cheese with cut-up hotdogs in it because I was always broke, but so what? I didn’t starve. How many of these little fuckers are on meal plans, anyway? I only was for one year because the food sucked and I was borrowing a shitload in student loans to buy it, but a whole lot of my fellow students went to dining halls.
“a similar proportion lack adequate shelter.” They’re the ones living in the dorms
Stupid and shortsighted.
Sale of the property would bring a higher return than paying to tear down the buildings.
And it may have been the major I was in, but I never saw a college student sleeping in the classroom. Those who wanted to sleep simply did not show.
Man, who takes the fun out of the Marx Brothers? UCS, that’s who!
Chico, Harpo, Groucho, Gummo, Zeppo, and Karl?
No love for Richard then?
What’s it called? The “Freshman 15”? Everyone I know who went to college and lived on campus gained weight the first year.
But that’s from grain delivered via beer.
I know a guy who developed gout in his freshman year based on a diet of fast food and Busch. You may be on to something.
You know what kinds of fields have paid internships? The kind where you’ll be able to make a decent wage once you graduate.
Yep, got a paid intern sitting 10 feet to my right and another former paid intern who went full time after graduation about 15 feet in front of me
Buried in your basement?
Indeed – I graduated my 5-year-school (Northeastern) with 2-years worth of paid internships. I was paid well enough I delayed graduation for 6 months to do another internship with Fleet Bank.
I’ve since had some kick-ass interns working for me. I remain surprised that it’s not more common.
This means companies are losing out on their skills.
That’s not how it works, Bloomberg writer. If a company is not compensating an intern, that means they don’t value the skills they bring and aren’t missing out on anything with a smaller pool of applicants. The whole point of unpaid internships is that the intern isn’t providing anything to the company, it is the company that is providing something to the intern. If a company really values the work of an intern, they will pay them before losing them.
In an overwhelming majority of cases, when it comes to an intern, the question becomes: “What skills do you speak of?”
Hey, I’ve seen that movie!
Assessment of skills for potential employees is what the casting couch is for.
Exactly. That’s the point of interns. They don’t have valuable skills – they are interning to acquire them.
Companies are prohibited by law from assigning value-added work to unpaid interns. Interns are there to learn, not work for the company.
SCOTUS upholds its own precedent, deciding Sessions v. Dimaya, which says that it’s unconstitutionally vague to say that an immigrant can be deported for a “crime of violence” without, you know, defining what a “crime of violence” is.
5-4 decision…. and Gorsuch joined the liberal justices in the decision, because shockingly, he’s not Scalia (and he isn’t the other 8 justices) and actually decides shit based on the law and not on ideology.
I’m starting to like Gorsuch more and more
https://twitter.com/Kruckenberg_Esq/status/986265790734393344
He’s intelligent and principled; a very, very rare combination among the Federal Judiciary.
So is WHOIS and ICANN government supported? I’m not real clear on it, but remember GoDaddy.com threatening to have me prosecuted if I gave them false information for the registry on my first website. I’ve long since switched servers and pay for privacy. Which is also bullshit.
Amusing anecdote: Accidentally typed in BigDaddy instead of GoDaddy the first time. Don’t recommend it.
What did Gene Lipscomb ever do to you?
Cass Sunstein, of all people, celebrates Patriots’ Day.
The events of April 19, 1775, were the culmination of decades of new thinking about equality, freedom and self-government. With amazement, John Adams wrote that “Idolatry to Monarchs, and servility to Aristocratical Pride, was never so totally eradicated from so many Minds in so short a Time.”
David Ramsay, one of the nation’s first historians (himself captured by the British during the Revolution), marveled that Americans were transformed “from subjects to citizens,” and that was an “immense” difference, because citizens “possess sovereignty. Subjects look up to a master, but citizens are so far equal, that none have hereditary rights superior to others.”
If you want to understand American exceptionalism, that’s a good place to start. And if you want to understand the nation’s character, you would do well to focus on Concord’s embattled farmers — united, keenly aware of the risks, and without a single one afraid to go.
Happy Patriots’ Day to all.
No mention of the value of a free citizenry’s right to keep and bear arms, or to tell people like him to fuck off.
“And all through the use of pussy hats and posterboard signs!”
The Founding Nudgers are Sunstein’s heroes.
Now, of course, patriotic good-thinking Americans should freely give up their munitions to Papa Gubmint.
“Citizens possess sovereignty… so long as they do what the cabal of elites know is correct and allow themselves to be coerced into such action.”
Book Recommendation, “The Minutemen & Their World,” Robert Gross. Social history of Concord before and through the revolution. Includes one of my favorite descriptions in all the stuff I’ve read:
“As they marched, David Brown…passed right by his own house…The house was now deserted. In that remarkably warm spring, the grain already stood green in his fields. And the apple trees were beginning to bloom. All that Brown defended lay about him: the British were trespassing on his home. Every one of the Minutemen could have said the same.”
RE: Liz Phair
My first exposure to Liz Phair was her self-titled album of 2004. Great album, lot of good tunes, one of which was featured for this great video. I decided then to explore her back catalog – what little I heard was quite unlike the 04 album. Well, it turns out the 04 album was a mainstream attempt, a kind of sell-out attempt on her part.
I guess I’m a…normie? FUUUUUUUUUCK
Yes, her ’90s output was very different (and much better IMO).
Degeneracy
High school students marched to protest for gun control after the Parkland shooting in Florida and soon they might be marching straight to the voting booth in the nation’s capital.
Washington is on track to become the first place in the country to allow people as young as 16 to vote in federal elections, including for president, as the nation glimpses the emerging political power of the generation that follows millennials.
It’s part of a burgeoning movement in the U.S. and abroad as a growing number of cities and states consider ways to expand voting rights to younger people.
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It’s a dramatic turnaround from just three years ago, when Allen introduced a similar bill that went nowhere.
He credits the change in part to the eloquence and passion that teenage activists demonstrated in the post-Parkland “March for Our Lives” and nationwide school walkouts to protest gun violence.
Throwing tantrums on a large skill demonstrates political maturity? We’re fucked. I remember listening to people talk about what a grievous error lowering the voting age to 18 would be. I have to say, they were probably right. Dropping it to 16 is pure self-destructive insanity.
“It’s part of a burgeoning movement *orchestrated by Progressive activists to manipulate gullible young people* in the U.S. and abroad as a growing number of cities and states consider ways to expand voting rights to younger people.”
FIFT.
But remember, actual legal adults 18-20 are too immature to own a firearm (particularly a pistol), use tobacco, drink, or get a credit card.
Any idea when age of majority dropped from 21 to 18? I recently read about a 19 year old could not join Union Army in 1862 without his parents’ consent.
Early 70s, just before I turned 18.
The glory days when an 18-year-old could legally buy booze.
Eloquence – yes, that’s what I think of with Sinbad O’Connor and Piglet.
They really aren’t thinking this through, they think they’ll get tons of boss hoggs voting, but it’s gonna be 4channers voting form more kek.
expand voting rights to younger people.
If you are legally a minor, you do not get to vote. The end.
Hooray, even more dumbasses who are absolutely certain that we can achieve utopia if only the rich will pay their fair share.
Not much data exists on the political views of the post-millennial generation, which is made up of those born after 1996 and is sometimes called Generation Z or iGen. But if they vote like their slightly older peers, who lean overwhelmingly liberal, the change could be a boon for Democrats.
Recognizing that potential, a coalition of progressive groups recently launched a major push to register high school students to vote in 10 key battleground states in this year’s midterms.
“America’s children took to the streets and led marches with a unified message that rang out across the country: We need a Congress that will protect us,” said former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, whose gun safety group is involved in the effort. “We are making sure that they have the opportunity to cast their ballots for the first time and truly make a difference.”
Okay, then.
If 16 year olds vote, the entire country could actually end up looking like California. Swell.
Lower the vote to 16? I’m ok with that if they also lower the age for
the draft“Selective Service” to 16 as well.& include women.
I’d be on board with it, so long as the legal age for tobacco and alcohol purchases also goes down to 16. It’s a fair trade.
I’m the one who has to throw age of consent in as well? OMWC not around today?
It’s always about naked lust for power with these people. Thought experiment; if people under 25 voted overwhelmingly for Republicans, we’d see the media apoplectic over repealing the 26th Amendment and raising the age to 30.
Just like if Latin American immigrants voted for Republicans instead of Democrats, the political class/media/DemOp complex would be advocating turning the Southern Border into the DMZ.
overwhelmingly liberal
In my experience, self-described “liberals” are anything but.
We need a Congress that will protect us,” said former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords
Actually we need a Congress that abides by the document that created it. The government is not supposed to coddle you from cradle to grave.
With 2 15 year olds and an 18 year old in the house and several of their friends frequently around I will say this.
They are with the millennial when it comes to social issues but they are far more open to capitalism and conservatism and distrustful of government and other authority than the millennials are. Now that may change when they start going to college and are more indoctrinated but as of now they are not anywhere near as liberal as the generation prior
They are with the millennial when it comes to social issues but they are far more open to capitalism and conservatism and distrustful of government and other authority than the millennials are.
Too bad those positions are diametrically opposed.
Well, diametrically opposed mainly if your definition of “social issues” involves making other people pay for stuff.
yeah sorry but I am not seeing where saying “it is totes ok to be gay or pretend to be a different gender” is in any way opposed to capitalism or conservatism
Because the millenial/SJW approach to social issues isn’t tolerance, but mandatory celebration and subsidy. You aren’t woke unless you support quotas, ostracism of wrongthinkers, and government handouts to the legally privileged, I mean oppressed.
Well, the Dean Beast, King of the Lizardkillers*, added to his body count yesterday with a four- five foot black racer snake. I am somewhat baffled as to how the snake go into their yard, which is surrounded by a four foot brick wall recently supplemented with strips of flashing on the outside to keep anything from climbing in (Google “Can Gila Monsters climb” for some nightmare fuel).
These snakes are wicked good at climbing plants (flashes back to epic struggle with a six foot bull snake in their yard), so the best I can come up with is that it climbed a bush near the wall to the backyard, made it onto a climbing rose overhanging that wall, and then down and across the backyard and into their yard (either via a honeysuckle vine or under the gate). So now I’m tightening up the perimeter – no bushes within five feet of the wall, no overhanging limbs, flashing all the way around, and somehow blocking off the gaps under the gates.
*On account of he bagged a Gila Monster week before last.
And I thought it was entertaining to watch people construct elaborate deterrents against squirrels. This seems like it has way more potential.
I’d be on board with it, so long as the legal age for tobacco and alcohol purchases also goes down to 16. It’s a fair trade.
And handguns.
Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. Sounds promising.
don’t forget contract rights and body autonomy (which means they can choose to have sex without their partner going to jail and can even film it without going to jail themselves)