Last night, SP and I continued our Frank Capra kick by re-screening the great 1936 classic Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. It was a perfect Capra film, with The Little Guy against the forces of corruption, adoring crowds, hats thrown in the air, and Jean Arthur, who likely got some exposure to a Hollywood legend, the profound penis of Gary Cooper. Comedy, romance, betrayal, it had it all. Fun fact: this movie was responsible for a now-common neologism, “to doodle.”
Uh, that’s a word we made up back home for people who make foolish designs on paper when they’re thinking: it’s called doodling. Almost everybody’s a doodler; did you ever see a scratchpad in a telephone booth? People draw the most idiotic pictures when they’re thinking. Uh, Dr. von Hallor here could probably think up a long name for it, because he doodles all the time.
And delightfully, the progressive millionaire gives away his own money instead of going after everyone else’s.
From what I can see, no matter what system of government we have, there will always be leaders and always be followers. It’s like the road out in front of my house. It’s on a steep hill. Every day I watch the cars climbing up. Some go lickety-split up that hill on high, some have to shift into second, and some sputter and shake and slip back to the bottom again. Same cars, same gasoline, yet some make it and some don’t. And I say the fellas who can make the hill on high should stop once in a while and help those who can’t. That’s all I’m trying to do with this money. Help the fellas who can’t make the hill on high.
This really is one of my favorite movies ever. It’s perfect. Much better than Jaws.
OK, I’ll leave movie criticism to the pros like our good Lt Fish, but I did want to plug something great. Oh, and pizza and wine because it was Saturday night.
Now that it’s Sunday morning, I’d best sober up and crank out some links, since no-one else is gonna do it.
I’m always amused, in a sick way, at the amount of power that the Left hands to the insanely tiny minority of losers in life who cling to actual racism to justify their own lack of achievement. One more example. In the meantime, they keep electing actual bigots and even give them high positions in the Team Blue power structure…
Another story where I hate everybody– the Trump administration, the Iranians, the idiots who go visit there and are shocked when they’re predictably imprisoned by a ruthless and dictatorial regime to be used as pawns.
As much disdain as I have for the Donald, the TDS crowd is even more contempt-worthy. But at least it all provides laughs and entertainment.
There’s no southern White House. This is a dog whistle. The whole south will rise BS. They lost. They have no WH. Before he called it the Winter WH. Now Southern? It’s all about making the racist south supporters believe that he’s with them. He knows it’s going down soon.
And in the Department of Nutpunch, brave men in blue, officer safety, procedures were followed, everyone got to go home safely. Except the poor kid who died, of course, but that’s just a civilian.
Ahhh, Starbucks, you never disappoint!
We always joke about common sense knife control. But I see a trend here…
EDIT: Breaking news, too good to miss!
Old Guy Music! For whatever reason, I fell into a drummer rabbit hole yesterday and started watching videos with all my favorites: Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Charlie Persip, Ed Thigpen… but the one that really captivated me was Gene Krupa. He had almost a melodic approach to drumming, and a barely controlled wild intensity that reminded me of the greatest rock drummer ever, Keith Moon. Feast your ears- and, by the way, Lionel Hampton shows again why no-one should ever bother trying to play vibes again since perfection has been reached.
I like how any time southerners are mentioned, they are automatically assumed to be a bunch of racists.
I used to know a black guy who moved away from Natchitoches, La to Chicago in the late ’60s and then back to Natchitoches in the early ’90s. He said he moved north to get work and then back to the south because the people in Chicago are “a bunch of goddamned racists”.
From what I can tell, people up North are more uptight about race. There is more political correctness, forced integration, and denial. Down South people are more open about race. So the subject is less aggravating.
They conveniently ignore the people of Boston’s reaction during bussing.
suthen, Can you understand the Louisiana creole blacks? I work with a guy named Thomas. He’s a black guy from south Louisiana who has lived up here for 30 something years. He’s a hell of a good mechanic, but damned if I can understand a word he’s saying. Especially when communicating over the radio, as we frequently do here.
Mostly. Louisiana has a huge number of different accents/dialects. The ones I cant understand are the whites from the wilderness between Vidalia north to Lake Providence. For me they might as well be speaking Chinese.
Stereotyping literally any other group, a terrible thing to do.
Stereotyping tens of millions of southern people as racists, A-OK.
I like the “We don’t get to complain about being stereotyped” complaint about being serotyped. It’s very meta.
No suspects have been identified. Police say whoever is responsible faces a charge of eavesdropping, which is a felony.
I may have unwittingly collect that data. Sorry.
Of course, when the NSA does it, it’s virtuous.
“We’ve learned that the device had about an hour’s worth of recorded video on it and detectives found 8 to 10 men and women videotaped while in that restroom,”
Starbucks has unisex bathrooms?
Not moral, but I can at least understand a lingerie shop changing room. But, a coffee shop? That’s one sick peeping tom.
Rule 34 implies that somebody considers it their fetish.
(I am not that somebody.)
Chuck Berry works for Starbucks? Man, what a step down.
In all seriousness I’ve never seen (though remember I barely go) any one with more than a single-use ‘capper head. Often only room for one in NYC, but when they come in pairs they’re usually labeled by sex. For years a lonely few (sometimes joined by equally marginal few who called it a women’s issue) had pointed out that it this is kinda stupid. Went nowhere. Now that unisex has given way to “gender-neutral,” the days of this peculiar practice are surely numbered. #TransJustice
Back when the whole transgender bathroom shit was just getting started, Reason had an article about how it’s often due to laws that if you have two one-toilet bathrooms, one of them MUST be the men’s room and the other the ladies’.
It’s amazing how quickly the left changed the culture on the issue.
Well, I give the transes credit. Since the ’70s the progs (and center-progs) have not known whether feminist and gay rights (not to mention racial) orthodoxy required them to support Nature or Nurture (at its most extreme, naturally–what, are you not on board all the way with justice and equality?) this year. Into the confusion stepped the newest darling group and their fairy tale, with a bold new solution–a concept of “gender” that is sui generis–reducible neither to nature nor nurture.
Is there really anybody who honestly thinks they ever stopped their nuclear weapons program?
Who in their right mind would give up nukes? It’s the only thing that keeps the biggest assholes at bay.
It is the nation level equivalent of putting up a “GUN FREE ZONE” sign on your front door.
Well, here it is. The day I’ve been dreading for months. Earth Day 2018. The day when the claims and demands of a particular group are parroted by the sympathetic and just plain lazy journalist class as empirically uncontroversial and politically neutral–the sorts of things we all would heed if we just cared enough.
This year’s Earth Day theme, the one that is eating a hole in my stomach, is plastics pollution. This means that there will be Surfrider rallies all over the city and yet another NYT editorial calling for my beloved plastic bags to finally be banned. De Blasio will retweet it and call for a ban, as he did after the last one, gubernatorial “candidate” Cynthia Nixon may take it up, and Cuomo will take the opportunity to prog virtue signal by delivering the “statewide solution” he has been promising for over a year. If it’s anything more than the most “conservative” of seven solutions suggested by his panel (ie actually make a serious effort to promote reuse) it will not pass the Republican (for now) Senate, but it will signal Cuomo will not kill a repeat NYC ban like he did last year. So DeBlasio’s city council successor, Park Slope boss Brad Lander, a Jew who is best friends and staunch allies of Linda Sarsour (possibly aided by the delusionally ambitious council Speaker Corey Johnson, who all but openly believes he will be the next mayor–other pet causes include animal rights extremism and stronger taxes and bans to “help me quit smoking”) will finally have his pet cause after a decade. I’m just waiting for the dominoes to fall.
I’m really stressing the fuck out about it, if it’s hard to tell.
At least they can use the bag to choke out suspects that sell loosies. Reusable FTW.
*lights a sacrificial stack of tires on fire and says a prayer for Diego’s stress level
There is a large stump in my back yard from a catalap tree I cut down two years ago. I drilled a bunch of holes in it. Every time I change the oil in one of my vehicles, I pour the used oil in these holes and let it soak into the stump. I have been doing this for about a year or so. Maybe this evening I’ll get around to setting it on fire, to celebrate earth day.
Why would anyone cut a Catalpa? I thought you fished?
It was a very large and old tree that was starting to die. Unfortunanly, it was right next to my house and a strong storm was eventually going to blow it down. The way the tree was structured, it would have fallen right on my roof.
And yes, catalpa worms are fantastic fish bait. I have another catalap tree on my place that provides worms, and thank god for that.
Happy Earth Day mother fuckers:
http://m.wmbfnews.com/story/38007161/firefighters-still-watching-hot-spots-at-holly-hill-scrap-metal-facility-fire
To stop the buildup of plastics in the oceans, let’s ban plastic bags, which almost never end up in the ocean, and ignore places like India and Nigeria, where they dump their trash directly into rivers.
The 10 rivers that dump most of the plastic into the oceans.
I have witnessed this first hand. I was on an offshore job on the border of Cameroon and Nigeria and much of our work area ran right across the mouths of several rivers. The amount of crap we had to untangle from our gear was mind boggling. Literally everything discarded goes in the water in West Africa. Some plastic bags, but not much. They reuse those there because they are indestructible. My kingdom for a walmart bag that wont rip open from a bottle of dish soap and spill my canned goods all across the car. We have shit plastic bags here
“Body camera footage from two Cincinnati officers showed they never left their patrol car to investigate the 911 calls about a teen being stuck in a minivan last week”
Why is there a stereotype of cops being fat,lazy, and useless?
I hope that’s an actual color production still and not a colorized monstrosity.
That still is colorized. Thank Yahweh, the movie wasn’t.
If you want the Capra movie that wasn’t, see The Whole Town’s Talking. Supposedly Capra was supposed to direct but had a dispute with Columbia; in any case the result was that it was handed to John Ford of all people.
For a terrible movie featuring a rubber fish it sure seems to come up a lot. If you are going to get it out of your head you are going to have to….uh….get a bigger boat.
I don’t recall the rubber fish in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, although it’s been a few years since I’ve seen it. 😉
The one thing consistently missing in these golf comparisons is score cards. Who is the better golfer? Lets get to the important details people. Journalism is dead.
Each president plays more golf than the last. How far can this go?
They all know how to…
*Dons sunglasses*
play a bad lie. (I really shouldn’t click “post”)
“As President, I promise to spend all my waking hours on the golf course and not intervene in any foreign conflicts, and will instruct the heads of all Federal agencies to do the same so no new regulations will be put forward. I will also lay off half of all federal employees so they can spend more time golfing too. Golf will rebuild this nation and the world. MAGA Make America Golf Again”
westernsloper for President 2020
I like it. Presidential press pool reduced to a golf gallery.
And all those journalists headed to the golf courses to cover Obama and Trump. So they spent just as much time at the golf course as the President.
More baldfaced lies from the Earth Day Initiative. Plastic shopping bags are made with (a miniscule amount) of domestic natural gas–not one drop of oil. Here they are shilling for some private company’s product; who knows what corrupt bullshit is behind it?
They also ignore the water/energy/detergent it takes to wash the re-usable bags.
They also ignore the fact that less than 1% of the world’s ocean plastics pollution (which has been declared by Greenpeace to have nothing to do with plastic bags anyway) comes from the USA, and ditto for the rest of the industrialized world.
Where does it come from? All from China, and third world countries in Asia and Africa. Why? Well, the former (the overhwelming majority of the world’s plastics pollution) is mostly because manufacturers there dump pre-consumer waste directly into waterways like it was nothing. The latter is for a very simple reason: Their governments do not take out the trash. Like, at all. The poor live like pigs surrounded by their own garbage. As with damn near all pollution, really, the story is all poverty and shitty government.
Do you have a citation for that 1% stat? I’m too lazy to search myself but would probably use that several times a month.
I’ll include it later today!
I did an NSF grant-funded analysis some years ago comparing the impact of the processing needed for natural fibers and materials (e.g., paper, cloth, cork, glass, aluminum…) compared to plastic. Plastic was overwhelmingly more eco-friendly. But that doesn’t fit the narrative of “synthetic bad, natural good.”
So the NSF memory holed your study?
It actually led to a bigger grant, but with something of a different focus. While being philosophically opposed to government funding of science, I cheerfully scooped up all the NSF and NIH money I could, and they were very, very good to me.
Agreed the Gov should not fund research, but there is nothing wrong with scooping up money being handed out if they are going to do it. It is when you are the one lobbying for regulatory changes to scoop up more of the money when a person reaches shitstain status.
The in your face appearances of plastic shopping bags are the biggest issue for the banners. Bag blowing around on the street, bag stuck on a tree, or stuck in a turtle nose.
The features that make them useful also make them hard to dispose of and recycle.
I have a product idea to help with this, but I fear it would be a hard sell. It would make the bag easier to recycle in the current waste stream.
The turtle thing is severely overblown, but yeah seeing them is probably one answer (though NY voters are still pro-bag, with only activists and politicians against). They are only a miniscule portion of the waste produced, which there is plenty of room for anyway.
But can you share your idea or give me a link to it or something? I am very interested.
http://www.businessinsider.com/can-you-recycle-plastic-bags-2016-2
I don’t have anything formal written down. The primary reason the bags can not be recycled in consumers recycling stream as HDPE is the can not be easily sorted by machine.
My idea is simply fuse the bags into a mass the size of a hockey puck.
That’s not a bad idea. On Navy ships (and presumably cruise ships) we have a compactor that makes frisbees of plastic (and maybe some glass?) trash – often broken, but still very useful – but for real recycling purposes, you’d probably still have to have everything sorted by plastic category first – which we didn’t do.
Can’t recall the dumping rules. I think we normally had to hold onto them until we came back into port and then hand carried them off in large stacks – but it *might* have been legal to dump them if you were at least 200 miles offshore and they were bundled together and heavy enough to sink. We had a little handy dandy tool on the bridge that told us what we could dump at what depth and distance from shore (US or international).
The only way that plastic recycling really works economically is if the recycler gets someone else – ideally the end user – to sort it for him. You make a puck out of commingled polymers?
I have a place for it.
In an efficient hybrid furnace. Where you can get useful heat out of it, All the soccer- and tiger- moms in this town warbling away about how important it is to recycle? I know where it goes. Bridgeport’s high-efficiency waste burner, where it provides community heating to thousands.
Do you not make much at your job? Well, good news! You must be attractive! Well, this makes me feel a little better about not making much money. Guess I must be pretty good looking.
Wait, I thought the whole thing was about how attractive people make more and get more promotions. When did that change?
??? I thought Kanazawa was racist, yet here’s yahoo propagating his hate.
Oh? What story did I miss about this Kanazawa person?
He’s not into Thicc.
My experience is that most men would put black women as the least attractive to them. So, answering the question of why that fairly universal view is, is of course racist to the idiots at the Guardian. Me personally, I like that fact. Means less competition for the black women.
I wouldn’t personally. Call me an asshole but Aboriginal Australian would top my list.
You’re an asshole.
She didn’t age well, but in her younger days, Evonne Goolagong was pretty cute.
At least I wouldn’t put whites at the top of the most beautiful. Also, Evonne was half aboriginal.
Here is one.
Frankie Adams
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm4213877/
The group that is the weirdest for me are Indians (from the subcontinent). Both men and women tend to be either one extreme or the other.
The gals are either so homely that I don’t even think dirty thoughts about them during boring meetings or they are hotter than sick owl shit.
Agreed on the Indians. I think blacks have the lowest standard deviation in hotness, followed by whites. Latinos are no slouches, but South Asians put us to shame.
There’s little doubt that the overwhelming majority of men would put black women as least attractive and white women the most. The overwhelming majority of men are African or Asian.
This is not too bad. Some music for a lazy Sunday night.
lol, you saw that too? “JordanPetersonWave” was also in my Youtube feed this AM
It was linked on an interview with the DJ I was watching. Small world. This cut worked really well.
An interview with the creator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxpSLWXgvs
If the interview were 10 mins, i think it would be a hilarious piss-take. the fact its 50mins long makes it disturbing and I repeatedly wonder if he’s not really kidding at all.
Yep, that’s the interview. With an side burns like that, not sure how serious to take him.
Does that guy look like a complete douchebag ironically?
India approves death penalty for rape of girls under 12. While I can’t say I’m against the idea of executing someone who rapes a prepubescent child, I do wonder why is it only for the rape of girls? So if a little boy gets raped, that’s somehow not as deserving of punishment as the rape of a little girl?
Probably wouldn’t get enforced well anyway if it did, if it’s any solace.
Wikipedia on the case that banned the child-rape death penalty in this country, because abolition is one of the two causes (along with gay rights) that Justice Kennedy (he’s authored every SCOTUS opinion on both topics) all but openly uses his position for political activism to advance, according to his own personal sensibilities.
This is just outstanding from Scott Greenfield
I continue to be outraged by this administration’s treatment of Latinos, Native Americans, Muslims, L.G.B.T. folks, women and so many others. But I’m struggling to summon a response. Do you have words of wisdom to help me understand and perhaps overcome my feelings of apathy?
Quit listening to the media and all your ails will go away lady. The world hasn’t changed in the past few years. Quit listening to people telling you that it has.
I’d love to send her a sympathy card from Nietzche: Don’t Get Well Soon. It’s Good for You.
Just like 2018 USA is a country where the poor people are fat, it’s also a country where the “oppressed” are so fucking oppressed that they apparently don’t know what to do with themselves. The LGBTs know damn well that Trump is supposed to be persecuting Latinos (even though our voters don’t seem to have particular thought so) and their group is notable for being one Trump has always supported, but they feel left out. So–after duly declaring solidarity with our brown bodies–they commence hyperventilating about the victory of the only presidential candidate to walk around a stage beaming from ear to ear carrying a giant rainbow flag.
Regarding the HuffPo link, it amazes me how the South gets labeled as “racist” when their cuties (Charlotte, Atlanta, and Houston, in particular) are more racially diverse (in comparison to northern cities such as Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston, for example) and African Americans have a lower unemployment rate and higher purchasing power than in northern cities. All this according to the last census and community survey. This is another example where we are to accept feelz over realz
*cities
And I thought Charlotte, Atlanta, and Houston were three strippers.
Atlanta and Charlotte would be good stripper names. Also, Starla
Houston was a porn star who was often a guest on Howard Stern.
I don’t care for that stripper name
She sounds humid and smelly.
Not to mention the floods. Actually, I might have that movie.
Also, lots of traffic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_(actress)#Career
OMG, my neighbor’s girls are named Savannah and Charlotte and they are expecting another girl.
Since they have GA and NC covered maybe they can name it Jacksonville?
(immediately begins ‘diversity survey’ of all the Tri-Delta sorority houses between Georgia and Arkansas)
So I guess tri-delta was the hot sorority on every college campus
“most bubbleheaded blond rich girls” more like.
Ridiculous generalizations follow; data and citations do not:
I went to Tennessee where, like everywhere, the chicks are young and yummy, but that’s not remarkable.
Oxford and Athens ARE remarkable (new wife is UGA sorority product); you’re barking up the right tree.
Skip Fayetteville (in every regard) and head straight to Norman (not SEC but a super hot town); OK is more southern than FL and TX is we’re grading on a hotness scale.
I gave props here to Bess Myerson the other day, but I’m a homer: look at your Miss Americas and you’ll see the states with the clear winners per capita are Southern, particularly MS and AL.
University of Houston is probably the most diverse campus I’ve ever been on; it’s a point of pride for them. I love Houston: it has the best parts of the South, of Texas, and some of the best pistol galleries in the country.
Back on topic: Southern blacks enjoy easier cost of living because all Southerners do. We don’t spend much on schools, snow removal, or rust repair. If someone walks into your shop and sez nice place you got here, be a shame if anything happened to it, you just shoot him…we’re not interested.
Friends in MN have been complaining here and elsewhere about the delayed spring, which is weird: our roads go to STL; their roads go to STL; I bet they could get off their roads in STL and get on our roads in STL and in four or six hours, problem solved.
My heresy: sugar in coffee, tea, or whiskey is criminal.
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An Old Fashioned made with maple syrup is awesome.
Houston has fantastic Chinese and Vietnamese food, and world-class strip clubs.
I always use brown sugar for my Old Fashions, but I would try maple syrup if we had any in the house.
I loved living in Memphis. I had to leave when I graduated though because a) there weren’t a lot of good jobs and b) I already had one kid and I couldn’t let her get a southern education. You weren’t kidding when you said they don’t pay a lot for schools.
I was stunned when I started living in the South by how poor the schools were. The kids who went to the best private schools in Memphis had not read some basics (Tom Sawyer) and had gotten to Geometry in math. This isn’t to say that there weren’t smart folks there, but they didn’t value schooling as much as we did back on the prairie in Minnesoda. Just like Asians are even more maniacal about education than we ever were.
You want crap public education? Hawaii has got it for you in spades. Even the military warns families coming here to be prepared to shell out for a private school because the public schools are so bad.
Most of the problem is not infrastructure, it is family attitudes concerning education. The local equivalent saying for an “oreo” black is a “coconut” Hawaiian.
It’s sad that that “crab bucket” mentality exists, but even sadder that many people choose to ignore it and blame “systemic racism” or “lack of funding”.
What’s saddest of all is that everyone still has to pay for all that crap.
Many cities in the South have mostly only black and white. Whereas cities up North often have all different kinds of asians and hispanics.
Not true. There is a large and growing south Asian community in the Carolinas. And, again, southern cities are less racially segregated
Houston, for example, as not as geographically segregated as Chicago, despite have similar population sizes and roughly the same breakdown of black, white, and Hispanic
Obvious failure due to lack of zoning laws.
I said “many” not all.
Houston isn’t a good example because it’s a major metropolis, and it’s in Texas.
I was referring to major southern metro areas like Charlotte, Atlanta, Houston, etc. verses its similarly large northern peers like Chicago, Boston, or Philadelphia.
Is this one of those times when Texas isn’t southern?
Texas has a large latino population.
FWIW, the neighborhood where we lived in Austin was nearly 100% Vietnamese. And Southwest Houston is a delightful mix of Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, and god-knows-what-else. Chicago lacks most of that- I have to drive to Milwaukee to get to a decent Chinese grocery.
That said, the semi-rural IL town where we live now is predominantly Mexican.
Miami begs to differ.
Potato did say most, though I’m not sure even that tendency is very strong. New Orleans obviously would not qualify either. But it’s about as historically typical a Southern city as Miami.
The Miami metro area has around 5 million people.
Also, Florida becomes more northern the farther south you go.
How are you defining “northern”? Geography is a state of mind?
So, Miami is not a southern city because it’s a huge racially diverse city? I guess if you take all the cities in the south that have a lot of racial diversity out of the mix, then the south isn’t racially diverse.
Unlike the vast majority of cities, it’s a major metropolis.
Anecdotal evidence, but Memphis was exactly like that. My wife would get aggravated because everyone called her Chinese. They meant Asian, but there were so few Asians in Memphis that all of them were called Chinese.
I also think that I grew up amongst way more Mexicans (lots of migrant workers to help on fields and in the turkey processing plants) than there were in Memphis.
I’m guessing there are many more AAs living in the countryside in the South than in the North, East or West as a percentage. How would that factor into higher purchasing power?
Many AA from the north have been moving to Southern metro areas. It’s like a reverse Great Migration. Also, southern cities have seen increases in their AA populations, which is the opposite of what the north is experiencing. I’m typing this on my phone and I can’t link to the data, therefore every response to my assertion should rightfully include “citation needed”.
FWIW you can’t easily compare city stats across regions. Northern cities typically don’t “expand” their boundaries way most southern and western cities did during the 20th century. For example, the size and shape of Buffalo was frozen in 1853. Southern cities contain more “suburban” type neighborhoods.
Chicago stopped expanding in the 1950s. Every city had an expansion period at one time or another. Suburban neighborhoods exist in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. But those areas are now so expensive that you’ve seen a disconnect in income and race that is less pronounced in southern cities
Saw this commercial today.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf77pf4eS50
If you edit out a couple seconds of product advertising, it is a straight up STEVE SMITH raping a hiker scene.
Which one of you Glibs did this?
I see CPRM’s fingerprints all over that.
Not yet, but let me fire up a youtube downloader and I’ll get back to you a in a couple days. AND BY GET BACK MEAN…
STEVE SMITH HAVE NO COMMENT.
Pretty blatant. But does STEVE SMITH’s taste in jerky exclude dark meat? Seems wildly out of character. I find this commercial more puzzling than anything else.
Lots of pictures of that rally in Georgia.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5643407/The-new-face-hate-Neo-Nazis-hold-shocking-swastika-burning-ritual-Georgia.html
Seems like there were few neo-nazis, more antifa, and even more cops.
Also, police should not dress in green. They aren’t army.
No kidding. Cops should be visible, not camoflaged.
I agree. Even worse, it doesn’t even function as concealment unless they’re out in the woods somewhere.
If they want to blend into their urban surroundings they should dress like a Dollar General or 7-Eleven.
LOL they look ridiculous. Don’t make playing armymen that obvious. Couldn’t pay me enough to debase myself like that.
Then again, maybe they shouldn’t dress in black either. They aren’t alt-right or antifa!
Very interesting weekend. Friends had a courthouse wedding and we had a celebratory BBQ at a park on a beautiful day. Followed by a trip to a bar with 5 bands playing. Two from out of town and very impressive. I love that here the scene still provides opportunities for amateur talent. In Singapore the waiting list for open-mic night was over two months. That’s…..not open mic night. I’m gonna play one song solo next Saturday on my legit birthday. I’ve never played a drum song on my own before. Should be interesting.
Hung out with friends at a girl’s place late. Slipped through the window to smoke on the 19th floor outcrop. Friends left and stayed up with Lady until 11am today. No success but didn’t try. Slept together but not “slept” together. Tis a very odd situation.
I splurged and got some expensive and rare (for here) shit for my dinner. Gonna wrap up some asparagus with some prosciutto and drape with hollandaise. I’m watching a Columbo episode about the IRA.
Lots of weird chemicals and thoughts, but an overriding sense of calm. Much better than the previous week of relative insanity. Kinda feels like a fireplace and a blanket sort of night.
There’s no real reason for this post. Just felt good to type and share. Thanks.
Where did all of this take place?
All of this in Daejeon, Korea.
Lady is insufferably cute. She needs to eat more. Skin and bones. But god almighty so cute. I like her. But it’s odd because generally when I like someone I have sexual thoughts about them. I haven’t done that yet. She’s just so cute. I wanna squeeze her until she pops.
She tastes good. Sigh.
Yikes. Even Lenny didn’t eat the rabbits.
Slept together but not “slept” together.
I dunno about that.
I’d remember that.
Ahh. Drunk passout? Now that is forgivable.
Did you ever take the risk of experimenting with chemicals in Singapore? I know I wouldn’t.
See, that’s how you do it. I never understood why people turn their lives into a stressful nightmare planning these gigantic, expensive weddings. If I ever got married (haha) mine would be at a small venue, ~15 people each from my side and her side, and they can wear whatever.
Having a fun party to celebrate the marriage with my family and friends is the only part that I remember or care about from my wedding. Everything else was window dressing. I’m not sure the Mrs. sees it that way though.
Yeah, I was thinking the kind of wedding you get is probably entirely down to the woman you’re marrying.
I can’t speak for everybody, but I suspect that you are correct.
Definitely. Purple fucking tux with tails. I didn’t choose that.
She wanted to marry The Penguin?
When my wife and I were planning our wedding we got together with an old friend of mine that she had never met before. After we had all talked for a while and it was clear that they got along well my then-fiance said to her (with me sitting right there with them), “so, do you want to come to my wedding”. I asked if I could come too.
Methinks DinosaurNeil’s bride-to-be was sticking a shiv in a potential competitor.
I met a random dude who was a justice of the peace while my fiancee and I were browsing an Amish furniture store while taking shelter from a rainstorm. He offered to marry us. We took him up on his offer and got married right then.
When I was in Korea, one of the Korean American officers in my unit got married to his local girlfriend. They really do the “wedding hall” thing there – urban, etc. You’ve got 10 weddings taking place in the same building at the same time. Gets a little crazy. – completely separate receptions on every floor/banquet room.
Good times though.
Letters to the Local Rag: Who’s the Boy Scout In This Scenario Edition
We don’t need a tool of the patriarchy to tell us about drainage retention ponds!
#resist
Don’t worry. I’m sure this kid will overcome his shitlord status to become an ultra-prog.
Concerned about something? Make sure to tell other people to go take care of the problem. Maybe someone should form a group to do that kind of community service. What would a boyscout know about that? The worst part is that he’s probably getting pats on the back from the people around him for showing how much he cares.
I thought the boy scout method/motto would be to take the initiative and volunteer to clean up some of that as a project – get experience/etc and then you get a chance to lecture to folks in person.
Letters to the Local Rag: Drone Processing High School Students Edition
He wants Trump to fire cruise misses into Florida I guess?
I’m kinda for it.
Is this getting ready to go mano a mano with STEVE SMITH?
Man bitten by shark, bear, snake in less than 4 years
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/04/22/man-bitten-by-shark-bear-snake-in-less-than-4-years.html
Now all he needs to do is master fencing and build up an immunity to Iocaine powder and he’ll be ready.
They should have William Shatner present him with an award.
That guy rules. This Good News Network ain’t so bad either!
It is kind of refreshing. I find it pleasantly disturbing to read good news.
I’ve seen a documentary about the Concorde a few times. It talks a lot about the accident that killed a bunch of people. One of the vignettes was about an aviation journalist who sitting next to the wing. He heard a bang during takeoff and out of the corner of his saw something fly past his window. He looked and saw a hole in the wing with fuel streaming out. He managed to get the attention of the flight attendant and managed to get her to get somebody from the cockpit, probably the flight engineer. The flight engineer basically thought the guy was a nutcase — until he looked out the window. Then his face went white and he hurried back to the cockpit. Seconds later the aircraft started to go back to the airport.
Guessing AA and the FAA will end up accusing ENB of some sort of obscure violation of airport-security-regulations
I’m gonna guess, that some law way broken. I don’t know which one, but I’m sure there’s a statute somewhere that cover this.
“Law in airports” is unlike any normal law. they get all sorts of special-jurisdiction status, and they have piles of regulations that are enforcible in ways that would be unconstitutional elsewhere.
apropos
https://papersplease.org/gilmore/
They should have asked her to make them a sandwich.
ISIS suicide bombing at Afghanistan voter registration center kills 48
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/04/22/isis-suicide-bombing-at-afghanistan-voter-registration-center-kills-31.html
[somber head desk]
NPR mentioned that story this morning right after a longer story on some Waffle House shooting.
And that’s as far as I got.
Neato!
Militaries Study Animals for Cutting-Edge Camouflage
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0311_030312_secretweapons1_2.html
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Moths have evolved modifications in their wing scales that swallow up light so their wings appear black.
“Instead of multilayers, some types of moth wing have thousands of tiny, nipple-shaped structures arranged in a hexagonal array. If they are really small, half the wavelength of light, then their effect is to reduce reflection from the wing surface,” Vukusic said.
The scientist also speculates about the possibility of being able to design a surface that is black at different wavelengths. So instead of being black visibly, it would be black at infrared, making it invisible to certain types of military night-vision equipment. “If we understand how nature does this, in theory it would be possible to change the dimensions of the structure to make it appropriate for infrared anti-reflection,” said Vukusic.
…
Contained deeper under the skin are white patches which include cells called leucophores. These reflect back the predominant light wavelength in the cuttlefish’s immediate environment.
“So if a cuttlefish swims along under green seaweed, the green wavelength coming from it will hit the cuttlefish and be reflected back,” Parfitt said. “It’s like a sort of mirror system. Without even thinking about it the animal is able to camouflage itself really well.”
Parfitt and his colleagues have now come up with a color-changing gel based on the cuttlefish’s light-reflecting system. It could even replace the traditional green-and-brown camouflage splotches used on military equipment since the First World War.
In warfare, as in nature, you have to evolve to stay ahead of the game. So it’s no wonder the scientists are turning to the natural world for inspiration.
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I want my shoulder laser cannon and I want it now!
with flexible OLED displays, I wonder how far we are out from no-foolin’ “invisbility cloaks” in the visual spectrum
Top Gear tried it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6SQ3pdgo-Wo
And in other Sugarfree-related news…
AKA, 4th amendment free weekend
I’ve never officially declared myself a “libertarian” precisely to give myself this kind of ideological flexibility. I am all for this campaign, with but one tiny adjustment to the details:
I am ideologically opposed to these “enhanced enforcement” periods.
Every couple of months, the cops have “click it or ticket” enhanced seatbelt enforcement periods. It’s nothing but a bullshit opportunity to collect revenue in the name of keeping people safe. If the cops need to raise funds that much, they should have a bake sale like honest people do.
They better have a permit for that bake sale! Also it needs to be inspected by the health department. Taxes on good sold too!
If they are making more from this enforcement surge than they’d make from a 4/20 bake sale, they really are out of control.
Also in all seriousness I hate them too. Not that the idea of a seatbelt law for adults isn’t odious on a more foundational level. I am sorry you live in a primary enforcement state. (I do too, though we were quite late to have one at all.)
Yet another example of the press’s lazy default statism at work: The insurance lobby regularly releases (which is then duly parroted by the press) an interstate comparison and “ratings” of safety laws in each state. “How safe is YOUR state?” And it includes shit like speed limits, drunk driving laws, teen driving laws, headlight laws, etc. Which, obviously there’s much to say about the importance of those factors. But it at least has potential to matter.
But then they also include: seat belt laws, car seat laws, etc.
Ahem. Pardon me, but what the fuck use could this information possibly be to me in terms of evaluating how “safe” my state is? Why the fuck would I care, as a person already concerned with my own safety, about whether the law requires me to do this or that for myself and my children?
Just another way that we are surrounded by endless details subtly promoting a general culture of getting into other people’s business. And one of personal weakness, where we subtly begin to think of it as the responsibility of the world to get us to make good choices. We will always be fighting a battle for crumbs until we fight this at its root. It is winning more and more every day, and not just among progs.
Seatbelt laws are the worst sort of nanny state bullshit. The botion that it’s the government’s job to protect me from myself is nowhere more clearly articulated than in the criminalizing of the failure to wear a seat belt. I also have a personal beef with seatbelt laws.
The excuse I always get for seatbelt laws is that Medicare and Medicaid end up paying more on average if more people die in car crashes, so the government has the right to regulate behavior that could cause such an increase in costs.
Yet, when I hear someone talking about how great it would be if the government would fund X and I point out that it would lead to a decrease in freedom for things that might conceivably affect the total cost of X, they look at me like I have three heads.
The more the state intrudes into our lives, the more justification the state has for further intrusion. It’s ugly.
Yes. When I was an anti-nanny, sort of old-fashioned blue-collar leftist who wasn’t yet seeing the big picture, I’d always tell people, “You know, we say the left is defined by government in the economy but against it in our personal lives” but, first of all, that’s decreasingly true (but don’t tell the cosmos, who persist in describing libertarians as “economically conservative and socially liberal”). And second of all, don’t you think it will frighten people off and fit into the Right’s “creeping threat to muh freedom” narrative if we keep using this “it costs the public money so it’s public business” line for more and more personal decisions? They utterly refused to go with it.
Now I am older and wiser. So I know they were right, and I was wrong. They knew they’d be able to pull it off no problem, and my worries were foolish.
But it gives them more reasons to pull you over. And as you know, everything looks like a gun to cops, especially a cell phone. They passed the no driving while holding a cell phone here in Maryland and no one obeys it. I do because I was already not driving around on my cell phone. But it did not, as far as I can tell, make any difference at all, everyone still seems to be driving while on their phone. We already had a bunch of laws no one obeys, like speed limits and using turn signals, stopping at stop signs and all. But it’s all about giving cops more reason to pull you over, and you know if you pull enough people over, you’re bound to find some dope sooner or later.
As soon as I finished clicking I was going to reply that I was actually surprised that there were any secondary enforcement states left, since primary enforcement is almost certainly mostly about giving the cops just one more thing to say they might have seen. My hat is off to that latest Kennedy kid on the weed legalization, as it was to Hillary in India. I like it when pols drop the mask and spell things out for everyone. (Not that public outrage has much to show for it after all, in the end.)
Our state was able to squeak a seat belt law through as a secondary offense with pinky swears that it would never be a primary offense. A year later it was upgraded to a primary offense and we also have these enhanced enforcement weekends.
It is worse than “he crossed the fog line” as a bullshit probably cause excuse. My father the ex-PO said that cops love using the “I saw he wasn’t wearing his seatbelt” excuse because even if he manages to plead out of the DUI, having a seatbelt violation on his record will fuck with a guy’s (especially if he is young) insurance. Cops think that is funny.
https://glibertarians.com/2017/06/the-destruction-of-our-fourth-amendments-rights/
I wrote about how arkansas got the law changed to primary enforcement in the only article I have ever written. It boiled down to federal dollars.
Cops think everything is funny. I lurk from time to time on the message boards of communities of moral degenerates of various types: white nationalists; “incels”; the people who enjoy tormenting and doxxing people on the Internet for their own amusement. Each has their own twisted reasoning, their own perverse and damaged moral system. There’s a method.
LEO message boards are exactly like that. (Although their users are among the dumbest.) Every American should read them, to better know what they’re dealing with. It’s not normal; you have to exert some effort to understand it, to get into the proper frame of mind.
All these “enhanced enforcement” weekends are nothing more than free OT pay weekends for the cops. It doesn’t feel fair to use my tax dollars to pay for these cops to try harder to catch me. Feels like they are violating the fair chase ethics that most hunters live by.
And I don’t know why you would think that a good bake sale could ever come close to raising as much money as a few extra DUI or seat belt violations. It isn’t just the fines. There are the add on court costs. The extra money that goes to lawyers. The money that goes to treatment providers. It is a cottage industry, which is one of the reasons it will never end.
I normally don’t read the Daily Beast – but this profile of Seth Abrahamson (dude i’ve never come across but seen his name mentioned off and on) is an interesting example of the sort of people who use social media to capitalize on the mass-hysteria + retardation running rampant because a republican happens to be in the White House.
basically, he’s a charlatan
and what’s interesting really is the methodology, not the person himself.
because the fraudulent methodology overlaps with things ‘otherwise credible’ people in media routinely do… and the m.o. works because PoMo academic rhetoric is such a convenient cloaking-device for bullshit.
His twitter is so solid-gold retarded, it made me wonder if he is actually that stupid, or fighting the stereotype that jews are intelligent.
which leads me to believe that the only reason DBeast would call out his bullshit is not that he’s a fraud, but that he’s such an easily-exposed fraud.
I mean, “Joy Reid” probably engages in equally retarded-distortions of reality on an hourly basis, but they’ll save their ammo to shoot down Trump critics on social-media, because the unwritten subtext of almost everything in the print-media world is “SOCIAL MEDIA, BAD” because its sucking away all the eyeballs they need to stay financially afloat.
Also, Joy Reid is on MSNBC, so she is one of their own (I’m lumping television and print news together because they both “professional” and publish on the web.)
A cursory glance at Abramson’s social media feeds reveals his dogged dedication to pursuing the Russia story, which he regularly covers in threads that run hundreds of tweets long
One Tweet is too much. I think I’d have a stroke if I read all of that.
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Social media is the cornerstone of Abramson’s media presence. His large Twitter following gives him a platform to spread his TRUMP RUSSIA COLLUSION PUTIN INDICTMENT COMING message. It’s so central to his brand that Abramson includes his Twitter verification on his CV, listed under “Fellowships and Honors.”
Abramson often uses his academic and legal credentials to back up his complex theories. However, despite the voluminous credentials, Abramson is less a legal professional than he is simply academically adjacent to the work. Abramson’s academic CV is a full 33 pages—and, until a few months ago, exhaustively documented whenever a single tweet was included in someone’s article, along with statistics on how many Facebook “likes” and “shares” each of the articles he wrote for various publications had received.
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[head desk]
Starbucks is run by retards. The more they try to be wok, the more it keeps them in the public eye with stories that has absolutely nothing to do with their mandate which is to sell fricken coffee.
If I were a shareholder or exec, I’d advise them to learn to keep a low profile because now anything that happens will make the news and that’s not good. Not good.
Now watch all the academics with PhDs write op-eds in the papers about how to deal with ‘implicit bias’. That is, via social engineering. If SB listens to them, they customer service experience will collapse.
Idiots. And they make millions in salaries to be fools.
woke.
Keep your Asian wok jokes to yourself.
An end to the alliance between the wok and the woke would be the Left’s worst nightmare. They’ve come so far since the Rodney King riots!
Damn if they had woks I’d be more likely to patronize them.
How about Aerosmith jokes?
I thought you were trying to say that those dudes are Orientals. So instead of woke, they say wok. Sorry, I was bored.
“Noted racist coffee purveyor Starbucks has been keeping a low profile as of late. What are they hiding?”
/the media, it’s how they roll
“No.”
4 killed at Tennessee Waffle House as police search for seminude suspect
http://flip.it/HCELls
The other headlines all just said “nude”! Fake news!
Although actually Porky Pigging it is even more awesome. There is something about the idea that I have always just loved. It is so delightfully goofy.
Movie recommendation: The Dreamers (Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003). What is it? A French art film of the “hot young people fucking” variety. Not a tremendous amount of action, but one of said young people is the excellent Eva Green, who also does a bit of “casually walking about naked” which is actually my favorite kind of feature-film nudity. Awesome!
There is also a scene where one of the dudes she is living with (they are rich, spoiled to the point of neglect “bohemian” teens living alone in 1968 Paris) gets up in a furor after she burns dinner (they are all useless and helpless) and goes out to the street to scrounge food. As with a few other scenes, there is high tension but also a detail that you wonder if it is deliberately supposed to be hilarious or not. In this case it’s the fact that the young man is only wearing a blazer jacket.
The Dreamers. Recommended. Beautifully shot, beautifully shot titties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBzJGckMYO4
Titties.
Ummm, did you read the links?
No fair. That wasn’t there when I read them at 7.
“A gentleman in a pickup pulled up, naked with a gun. He had a jacket on. He shot a couple people outside, one of whom was my friend,” one witness told WKRN.
I think I have a different definition of a gentleman.
“Bless his heart.”
I have a different definition of “naked”.
I guess he wasn’t fully committed to his craft.
Of course if he wasn’t wearing pants he had a “gun”. Did he also have a weapon?
Belgium first country to fall to Islam?
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12203/belgium-islamic-state
Um… call me skeptical but 2% doesn’t exactly sound terrifying.
YOU GUYS ARE NO FUN.
Rufus is from Canada. 9,421 people boggles his mind.
Well only about 20,000 live in all of Canada right?
That is a metric measurement. If you convert that to what normal people use it is 5,288.
Fewer people live in Canada than live in Tokyo.
ARE WE DONE?
Bunch of wannabe Meyers.
Not a fan of The Gatestone Institute, but kudos for keeping this picture alive on the interwebz.
She gives the impression she wants him in her pants.
“The French acronym of Belgium’s ISLAM Party stands for “Integrity, Solidarity, Liberty, Authenticity, Morality”. The leaders of the ISLAM Party apparently want to turn Belgium into an Islamic State. They call it “Islamist democracy” and have set a target date: 2030.”
No wonder the progs love these guys so much, they’re so much alike.
“We’re not
commiesIslamists, we’reprogressives!Islamic democracy!”Fuck Commie Earth Day.
https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2018/04/21/climate-adaptation-reparation-and-restoration-n2473056
“even then, long before carbon dioxide levels hit the cataclysmic 400 ppm mark?”
Cataclysmic huh? Someone needs a dictionary.
1200ppm, when dinosaurs roamed, and the trees were HUGE, what a catastrophe………………
Well, the dinosaurs would sort of be a disaster, but huge trees, yeah, more bigger stuff to chop down and make stuff out of.
Word.
Here, they want to expand a one-lane highway to two (four both directions) because they were too stupid to plan ahead years ago. Quebec is not used to urban sprawl and acts accordingly with its urban planning. Anyway….traffic is pretty bad (it’s in the suburbs north of Montreal) because of the growing cities north of Montreal. But environmentalists are against it because it will ‘encourage people to use their cars to work’. That’s their new fetish. To get us out of our cars and into the shitty public system where I have to put up with surly unionized drivers who aren’t above demanding you speak to them in French. Fuck them. And the environmentalists. Not everyone lives a granola existence on Le Plateau (a hipster neighbourhood of Montreal called the ‘hippest’ in North America by some San Fran mag.).
Re Le Plateau. It’s infested with university students, commies, socialists and separatists. Etc. How much so? The PQ don’t even get elected there anymore; it’s Quebec Solidaire which is pretty much as hard European socialist you will get in North America. It’s run by real dangerous left-wingers.
The other day there was a report how the city was cracking down on cars that park in the alley ways. Residents had taken to, logically, turning part of it into spots. But the city said it’s not safe or (I think) environmental. The residents were not happy and are fighting the city.
I sat and watched in disbelief. After all, they asked for this sort of governance. I don’t expect them to connect any dots here and judging by the council members interviewed they’re screwed. You had to see one of these people, pure ‘fuck you that’s why’.
Most of these girls are B^4.
http://archive.is/ziwFw
Blonde hair, blue eyes, big boobs.
1,2 and 4 is plenty,
I’m going to make a firepit fire and do a bunch of Laundry, drive around, and turn all my lights on!
Earf Day Motherfuckers!
Light up for Gaia!
40 is a dead ringer for my physical therapist when I was recovering from broken ribs. (slightly darker hair) She was beyond cute. I had a serious old pervert crush on her. I was always a gentleman though for you who might think otherwise.
A gentleman-gentleman? or a gentleman like in the wafflehouse story?
He refused to play accordion for her.
WTF is with the Groucho Marx eyebrows?
RE: Heroes in blue.
Even comments at Fox News of all places are mostly trashing not just the individual cops, but cops in general. Could it signify changing attitudes in state abuse power?
This guy gets it:
“Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac has called for an internal investigation
Internal Cover-up more like. They don’t punish their own.”
I certainly hope so. Trump has given the right the notion that the FBI is a bunch of lying partisan hacks. Hopefully that newfound skepticism trickles down to more local enforcement agents.
All of the cop fellating around my area makes me want to hurl. Getting a government job does not automatically make you a hero.
One of the reasons to be jealous of OMWC: I never got to see the Andrews Sisters live in concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-t3FXjHfsU
Everyone’s been linking the Jack Links ads, but this is the MOST STEVE SMITH ONE ME EVER SEE!
“We’re counter suing you for fun — and also because you’re lame. “Voters! WikiLeaks took away our right to lie about rigging the primary!” That’s some serious one dimensional chess right there.”
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/987517082374897664
I was listening to Mark Levin on my drive home Fri and he made a great point. The DNC suit is a civil suit and the defendants in the suit could have a field day during discovery. Does the DNC really want to open themselves up to unloading all their info/emails to the defense? They rigged a primary for christs sake. Do they really want that back in the news?
Discovery was my first thought when I heard about this. If I’m a lawyer for the defendants, the first thing I’m going to do is file to see what evidence of Russian hacking is on that server that they conveniently never let anyone look at. If they intend to prove that Russian actors hacked them, then there will actually need to be proof, not just unsubstantiated claims from the IC.
They’re also now going to have to provide an awful lot of information to wikileaks. They are probably over the moon about this right now.
This seems like an enormous tactical error.
I have a FB friend – proggy, attorney – and he was whooping about this and I mentioned discovery and forensic analysis of the server. He comes back – why do you cite the one pro-Trump aspect to this.
Hit the un-follow; I just don’t need the derp.
What is the anti-Trump aspect of this? A civil suit isn’t going to overturn the election. I’m not even sure what the damages are or what recompense they are seeking. Hell the Media has pushed the Russian narrative with little evidence and now that evidence will actually get examined. Add on the discovery and the only thing I can think of is that it’s a PR stunt for cash and will be dismissed. INAL but RC Dean mentioned that if there is a counterclaim, they lose that ability to dismiss it and discovery will go ahead. I’m 50/50 if the DNC is totally delusional and believe their own propaganda, or if its just for cash.
I just had a thought. If this is about the election, I’m thinking the plaintiff’s want to depose Donald Trump. So that means the defense should be able to depose Hillary Clinton.
A man can dream can’t he?
I’m hesitant to jump to conclusions about the motivations here. It could very well just be that things aren’t meant to progress that far, but that the suit will be used as a device for fundraising.
“So funny, the Democrats have sued the Republicans for Winning. Now he R’s counter and force them to turn over a treasure trove of material, including Servers and Emails!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/987766033862873091
CNN’s chief political reporter said it was a stunt to increase fund raising. CNN, not Fox. They can’t let it go to discovery because they won’t be able to deal with the consequences. If they don’t drop it before it gets court, where if the defendants wanted, it would be quickly thrown out. If it gets to discovery then expect hilarity to follow. If Mueller doesn’t come through, they won’t be able to prove any of their accusations. And all their dirty laundry that was revealed in 2016 gets aired again, plus anything gets comes out during discovery. Worst case scenario they could screw their party for years. Can you imagine the DNC chair being asked if they have selected the next presidential candidate yet. Under oath.
Straffin, when I said that Japanese guys were being “pussified” I should have clarified that.
Firstly, your response made me realize that I haven’t hung out with any Japanese guys since the very early 2000’s. Since then it has just been my sister-in-law, my nieces and their female friends. The brother in law is the only guy I have hung with since then and he is an old school guy who is in his 80’s now.
Secondly, I was referring to the way that schools have pretty much taught pacifism to the guys my age. And the fact that there really is no military for those with a martial streak to join.
So I didn’t mean to call them Pajama Boys. Just that by having their national defense provided by the US, their population has a strange gap when it comes to the military.
I think I white knighted a bit on that. Thanks for clarifying. Something I’ve seen over the years here many times: Total passivity from a dude and then under a different situation *boom* on a dime he turns into a machine. Sounds bad, but I don’t have any doubt that under the correct circumstances they could become violent and militaristic basically overnight. Kind of unsettling at times for me when I think about it.
You’re right that there really isn’t much push by the SDF to take a bigger role. High school baseball teams are still pretty pre 1940 mentality.
Americans are the same, we want Sports, titties, BBQ and Beer, when we get mad, Back the Fuck Up!
Modern day Rome!
No worries. I felt bad when I read your reply because I didn’t mean to denigrate the Japanese guys.
The weirdest experience was working in Tokyo on Pearl Harbor day and you look around and realize that 50 years earlier, all these super nice guys I worked with and I would have been battling to the death on some shitty tropical island.
I think that was a major step on my transition from a fairly common “we should be the world’s police” view to my current one of “I don’t want my government killing people in my name” stance.
If more people knew more Syrians, would they be so nonchalant about randomly bombing them? (The answer from Germans might not be what I am going for here.)
My impressions of Japanese manliness is likely scewed by my sample set. Hanging out with salarymen and engineers has given me the impression that they are a bit pussified.
Watching a group of laborers, restaurant cooks, and other blue collar workers drinking gave me a different impression.
Probably the same impression is made by similar groups of Americans.
Everything is a massive headache for them. They’ll make the easiest job in the world the biggest pain in the ass just because it was too easy. Their energy, especially the men’s, is funneled in a direction that leaves them fundamentally unhappy. Despite that, they get up and go to work everyday. The pampered salaryman of the late 90’s and the salaryman of today are different. The one today is getting screwed by society and I feel sorry for him.
It is sad to see and frustrating to deal with. The older salaryman has memories of the good old days in the 80’s. The younger guys are still going through the same motions without the huge expense accounts or perks.
Bingo. Their pay sucks, they’re the butts of all the jokes and they never get to see their kids. It really is heart breaking and I’m friends with many of them and see how hard they are trying just to keep it together. When I first got here in 95, they were still little princes. Now they are the shitlords that we are in the US.
Anecdotally… in the early 00’s I worked the front desk at a Manhattan hotel. Every single young Japanese guy tourist that came in fit a certain look and style that could possibly be characterized as “pussified”. It was eerie. None of them over 30 or so fit that mold at all.
I think that about American yutes now. It’s one thing to look nice. It’s another to spend more time and effort than a woman on your “look”. That’s not just the hipsters either, that’s the freaks too.
And it’s not just America either. The gallons of hair gel and the tatts and the full-body shaving are a global phenomenon now.
So sad
When I think pussified Asian men, I think of K-pop music.
Yep, in hindsight “boy band” was exactly what I had in mind.
Not sure if things have changed in the last coupla years, but Parliament had to revise the constitutionally mandated military manning several times in the 90s-00s – downwards – because they couldn’t meet minimum manning even with essentially guaranteed employment, etc.
On the other hand, they have Aegis destroyers with BMD, they’ve built a helicopter carrier (a “helicopter destroyer”), and they just stood up their first official Marine Amphibious Force.
They also finally got off their ass and reconsolidated all the GSDF armies into regional ones with a single central HQ so that should make command and control a little smoother and erase at least a couple layers of bureaucracy.
“Ahhh, Starbucks, you never disappoint!”
They were secretly trying to determine if their newest employee is a xe or a xe.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/987770640848404480
Vampires was a documentary.
I haz confuze.
Me too. WTF is spirit cooking and who are those people? I am having another Hodor moment.
I consider NOT drinking a moral shortcoming. Why do you think Trump is such an ass.
Yeah, a few dranks would get him woke.
I’d like to see his tweets after a half bottle of whisky.
I’ll drink it with him and give him some suggestions. That will really amp up the fun.
Reference some Hat and Hair episodes while you’re at it.
Right after the part where we call Zoolander pajama boy and threaten to invade Canada.
Perfect
“Starbucks is run by retards”
which reminds me: Howard Schultz, starbucks CEO, had been speculated as a potential “left-version of Trump”-candidate for 2020.
it was just speculation, but i think the DNC has been scouting for potential ‘non-political CEO types’ who have less partisan-baggage than, say, Tom Steyer, more credibility than Mark Cuban, …. a Tim Cook type: mostly unknown on a personal level, associated w/ a respected brand(*) on the left, and who can project seriousness, gravitas, professionalism, etc.
(*)this ‘starbucks is racist’ shit pretty much nixes that
I wouldn’t be surprised if they just toss this little episode down the memory hole if they truly want to put that guy up for president. Nobody does RetCon like the fucking “progressives”.
– Obama and Hillary were on record numerous times saying that marriage is between a man and a woman, but within the space of one year, you were accused of being homophobic if you didn’t vote for them.
– Obama summarily dismissed the idea of election rigging when Trump was just a candidate, but did the quickest 180° in history after he won and it became expedient to undermine Trump’s legitimacy as president.
Despite their cries of racism now, I could totally see them in two years blowing this off as old news, a misunderstanding, water under the bridge, or flat-out denying that it ever happened.
I don’t see how putting up a successful businessman would square with the veering full-on batshit leftist they seem to be wanting to do.
On the other hand, ideological consistency has never been their strong suit.
“Naked gunman kills four at Waffle House, still on the loose”
I’ll have an order of what he’s having!
Hot lead with a side order of the electric chair? I’ll just have eggs and coffee.
It’s waffle house. You’re supposed to have waffles.
Hash browns. you are REQUIRED to have hash browns.
Preferably burned hash browns, with tobacco sauce all over them.
That’s the best way to have hash browns.
MMM Tobacco Sauce…………
/Tabasco?
“scattered, well and peppered”
Tobacco sauce doesn’t sound very appetizing.
It’s refreshingly addictive!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHSqtXDNQxM
Tobacco sauce is when the raspy voiced old lady in the next booth hacks a lung biscuit and you ask her to hock it on your hash browns. You have to go the the best Waffle Houses to get that treatment though.
You guys know what I meant, damn it.
They’re nothing more than an overpriced clothing store so maybe they think they’re pandering to their demographic. Still makes me cry. Like everytime I see mJ getting destroyed or a beer get spilled.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/04/21/dicks-solves-gun-problem-unusual-fashion/
They have good sales on Ammo occasionally that I take advantage of. Never looked to buy any guns there.
I won’t buy anything from them anymore.
Gay?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbRerPIWkAAL2Nt.jpg
If you’re talking about the haircuts then yes.
Let us hope so. Sadiq throwing himself off a building would be a sound policy indeed.
“oh , Shit, he’s off his meds again”
is what I see…
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/987916672999739392
Christ, what assholes.
Dude, when you’re that ugly, you have to find some way to get attention. I mean calling for terrorism is one way.
If she ever has to suffer the oppression of receiving proper medical care, there’s always slam poetry.
“Broadcast live from an assisted living group home for ‘special needs’ adults!”
Can’t handle the fatspreading.
the profound penis of Gary Cooper
Super-duper.
It’s 11am and I want a beer. Am I a bad person?
Hey, you almost made to the PM!
I made it. It’s noon and I still haven’t had a beer.
I made it until now at 15 after. Man, this beer tastes awesome!
Just cracked a brewski myself. Fremont Lush IPA. If my wife would get off her butt and make breakfast as she promised, I would be thrilled. We have an appointment for mani/pedicures at noon. Then I’m gonna smoke a joint, restring the acoustic and play guitar for the rest of the day.
Of course you’re bad, what does that have to do with Drinking?
Carry on, Sir!
I was just thinking about hitting the Meditarranian place down the street for some Shakshuka and Bloody Marys they serve for Sunday brunch.
And on a Sunday. Double bad.
You’re not an alcoholic if you can make it to noon.
That’s what I say too!
I’m trying to plant some maters and peppers. But a beer is sounding too good. It’s noon now, what the hell.
That rule does not apply to weekends. I opened my first beer before the coffee was done.
I’m so drunk I’m defending salarymen. Sorry. Time for bed I’m thinking.
Yes, but that’s not why.
OT and exuberant.
I FUCKING LOVE PEX.
Thank you. This was a public service announcement
Yes!!!!!! Several years ago I replaced all the supply lines in my house with PEX and holy crap, I will never sweat copper for water again!
I can’t get get that excited over plumbing.
I can’t get excited over PEX, I like to fit and burn Copper though……….
I have an outside standpipe that for years, I ran in copper (and other solutions) and tried all kinds of tricks to stop from freezing. Eventually, took a deep breath and am consigned to just doing a run of pex after every (or almost every) winter. $5 in materials, 10 minutes’ work, and I’m done.
Indoors, I’m still heavily copper, but given my druthers, I’d replace the whole goddamn lot.
We had problems with corroded copper pipes leaking in our house. Replumbed with PEX. I think the only copper left is the blowoff pipe from the hot water heater.
Our well water is low pH, so despite some water softening mitigation we have, it’s still running a bit acidic, so over time, the copper here will start to pinhole. From conversations with neighbors with older houses and less commitment to fixing their pH, we’re due in about 5 years. The upside is that we don’t expect to be here in 5 years, but wherever I’ve had access to a run, I’ve dropped Pex in, sometimes back to an accessible manifold so when Deucalion’s Flood happens, they can just extend the pipes back to the water system and put in a proper manifold there.
Yep, slightly acidic well water here. It’s enough that the taste of the water is not really pleasant, but not enough to muck with changing the ph of the water.
well, maybe not someone else’s’ plumbing…
I don’t like it. I’ve done it, but do not like it. That or wiring, which I’ve also done plenty of. I used to work for a jackass who liked to turn the power on when we took a break from wiring and then laugh like a hyena when someone got shocked. I really wanted to punch that fat SOB right in the fucking mouth, except that I needed the job.
Locks, Tags, and a multi meter prevents that kind of ass hattery.
There’s always ways of playing fuckoff games.
A buddy has stories of doing installation where his partner would drop something on the floor or slap something to make a nice loud bang while he was working around power.
I wonder how many lives have been saved by the concept of LOTO
I have an outdoor wood burning furnace that heats a tank of water. The heater water is pumped through a radiator in my duct work that sits just past the A coil for the A/C unit. It also feeds hot water into my hot water heater. When I piped all this stuff in I used pex. It was very convenient.
Let’s talk about PEX baby
Let’s talk about you and me
Let’s talk about all the good things
And the bad things
That may be
Let’s talk about PEX.
“NARRATIVE FAIL: Newly Discovered CDC Surveys Demolish Anti-Gun Talking Points
Newly discovered statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that were never released to the public strengthen the argument for guns and blow a hole in the gun control narrative. The statistics show that guns are used in a defensive manner against crimes far more than they are used by criminals to commit crimes.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29724/narrative-fail-uncovered-surveys-cdc-failed-make-ryan-saavedra
I am at a Caribou Coffee (the only real coffee shop in Minnesoda) and am laughing my ass off at the folks at the next table.
It is one high school guy and three hot high school girls. The poor kid has no idea what to do. Every time it looks like he might zero in on one girl one of the others will talk/touch/pay attention to him and he loses focus.
It is the dog with two bones fable illustrated. Except there is one bone and three foxes in this one.
I want to pull him aside and tell him that he needs to pick one and just simply ask her. If he really wants all three, he should ask the ugliest one now. That will irritate the other two so much that he can get them on the rebound.
Sigh. Youth truly is wasted on the young.
Or channeling DEG- orgy!
I have no game either. Wiser than ever (never was bad) at understanding it intellectually, but never been any good at execution. I am able to get a lot of hot girls coming up to me initially, but then I fuck up almost all of them in a way that’s comically obvious–like a virgin nerd in a summer titty comedy or a character in a sitcom. I have zero social anxiety in any other situation, but in this narrow case my blood leaves my brain and I become a bumbling fool. Latin lover my ass.
“Trans objects: materializing queer time in US transmasculine homes
Emerging from a participatory research project, this article draws on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, and home tours with trans masculine individuals and couples in the US Northeast to examine how homes come to function as spaces of both grounding and disidentification for transmasculine participants. In this article we argue that photographs and items of décor–particular, meaningful objects in trans homes–function to materialize the queerness of transition, and thus constitute a material expression of queer time. They provide a means for trans folks to acknowledge the queerness of the multiple life course temporalities co-present in the intimacy of private space, and we suggest that through these objects trans bodies engage in a process of becoming through moments of ‘co-substancing’ with the objects that are cherished, displayed, or hidden, in trans homespaces. In this article we suggest that objects on display in the home allow not just for a stretching of normative temporalities of the self, but also for the performance of home space as trans. We argue that more scholarly attention needs to be paid to the everyday, mundane geographies of transgender lives.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0966369X.2018.1457014
I recognize all of those words as being in the English language, and yet…
Wow. That is a master of the art-form.
materializing queer time in US transmasculine homes
You can’t fool me, this is code for pegging, right?
Unexpectedly complex and difficult
Musk is discovering that large-scale car manufacturing is really hard, and it’s not easy to improve on the methods of conventional automakers. And while automation obviously plays an important role in car manufacturing, it’s not the magic bullet Musk imagined a couple of years ago. Far from leapfrogging the techniques of conventional automakers, Tesla is now struggling just to match the efficiency of its more established rivals.
And most of the auto industry experts we talked to thought Musk still had a lot to learn.
“A lot of the mistakes we’re hearing about are mistakes that were made in the rest of the industry in the 1980s and the 1990s,” says Sam Abuelsamid, an industry analyst at Navigant Research. He points to the experience of General Motors, which wasted billions of dollars in a largely fruitless effort to automate car production in the 1980s.
Pushing the envelope is good. Being a goddam idiot about it isn’t.
It is unpossible that stupid flyover blue-collar factory workers would know something that a SV VC genius wouldn’t.
It’s almost funny how a lot of industries or farming are seen as some sort of primitive dinosaurs when in reality technology & knowledge pervades them. Farmer Joe isn’t walking down rows of crops with a hand watering can.
We recently hired someone who was laid off from one of GE’s research facilities after some decades of working here. She was scornful of “factory work,” but a few months of first-hand experience in what it takes to actually make a microchip has S her TFU about it.
exactly. Modern farming is done like this
You can’t automate everything. Some things just have to be done by a person.
Let’s see a Robot Replace a Mag starter, or a Compressor, the list is endless,
Good luck getting a robot to troubleshoot itself.
One of my wafer desorbers has on-board diagnostics. The troubleshooting message was “find damaged part and fix it.”
It is fairly common for many people, especially young people, to look at a problem (technical, political, social, pretty much all problems) and believe they can solve the problem. They won’t make the mistakes their elders did. And it helps they are smarter and know more than the people that came before them.
In rare occasions they are right, most of the time they are wrong, often spectacularly.
I think a lot of people in this latest generation think that automation and technology will solve every problem…
I had someone tell me that socialism might work better with new technology – no explanation of why such a deadly ideology should be saved to begin with.
They don’t understand that not every problem arises from a lack of computational power.
If Tesla had focused on making their super swoopy niche toy, they could have had a decent business, until everybody who *wanted* a Tesla had one, anyway. Trying to pretend they could build a car which could compete with cars like the Honda Civic was just stupid. And the people who have funded this boondoggle are suckers.
Musk is a smart guy but smarts don’t trump reality.
Anyone here faggot enough to have driven an MX-5? You know damn well I am, but I’ve never tried it! I hear vastly different things about whether it is fun or lame, or otherwise worthwhile or not to have. What are your thoughts?
I test drove one of the older (1991) used ones. It was fun but it was impractical and cramped and I’m not a big guy.
Oh, yes, forgot to add. I am fucking tiny. Not a dwarf, don’t need special pedals or anything, but I’ve seldom felt cramped anywhere in my life. if it’s anything roomier than this, I can deal. Anything else you can say against it? Also, when was this you drove it?
I drove it about three years ago. It was also loud and unrefined but it’s a convertible sports car and that’s to be expected, the newer ones are probably a lot better in that department though. I’m around 5’8” and 150 lbs and it was tight but plenty of big guys drive those things. For the money they’re a great buy used, especially for a weekend fun car.
get the connoisseur’s choice, the AP1 Honda S2000.
act fast, because they’re going up in value
Musk mistakenly thinks he built a car company, and not an energy company.
Tobacco sauce doesn’t sound very appetizing.
I just hope that doesn’t mean the cook is spitting his Red Man on the grill as he cooks your hash browns.
Frank’s RedMan?
I prefer Levi Garrett spit on mine, actually.
Isn’t that called “brown-eye gravy?”
Chewing tobacco? If it makes you feel better imagining that’s what’s in it, chief, whatever floats your boat. Just be sure to wash up afterwards either way, right pal?
Cleaning up a madrone I had felled last summer and taking a bit to cut through. Figured it was just the hard wood. Nope, chain needed to be sharper. A little easier now.
“Government Accidentally Releases Documents on “Psycho-Electric” Weapons
They were mistakenly sent to a journalist.
The government has all kinds of secrets, but only a true conspiracy theorist might suspect that “psycho-electric weapons” are one of them. So it’s odd that MuckRock, a news organization that specializes in filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with state and federal government bodies, received mysterious documents about mind control, seemingly by accident.”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a19855256/muckrock-foia-psycho-electric-weapons/
Anyone here faggot enough to have driven an MX-5?
You mean a Miata? No.
But- for what it is, which is a modern version of an MGB, I hear they’re fine. Cheap thrills. Thousands of them will be showing up on race tracks across America in the next few months, so they can’t be all bad.
I thought they were called MX-5s now and I didn’t want to be a herb. But good to know.
I thought they were called MX-5s now
I think they dropped the Miata name, but I still call them that. I don’t know what you want, but the older ones are much simpler, and probably offer a “purer” driving experience.
I had a ’92 and it was an absolute delight to drive. It killed me to get rid of it.
get the connoisseur’s choice, the AP1 Honda S2000.
An excellent choice. Hard to find, though. Miatas are everywhere.
How has nobody posted Iowahawk’s “Earthday Drive-In” yet – https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/988047927233908736 best pics of the week.
“Much better than Jaws.”
Give it a rest. This, from a big Capra fan.