I got a 4 day pass! And I’m going to go… to a 4 day board gaming CON with a bunch of other nerds. Hey, at least we have many gallons of primo beer. What can I say, I am a 51 year old married with children, white collar worker, and living in the suburbs. I can barely remember being a 19 year old PFC on pay day.
So instead of tearing the town up…you get links.
Sports – some hockey series supposedly finished (giving false hope to certain East Coast fans). Basketball rolls on, and baseball trudges toward the warmer times.
Birthdays – William I, Prince of Orange (take that, Spaniards! 1533) Vincent de Paul (dude, your basketball program is a shambles! 1581) Robert Bailey Thomas (Farmer’s Almanac anyone? 1766) François Fournier (legendary Swiss post stamp forger. 1824) Philippe Pétain (Vichy!!! 1856) Benjamin Lee Whorf (shout out to HM. 1897) Justin Wilson (You go and add you a little un-yun. 1914) Richard M. Daley (1942) The Streisand Effect (1942) Omar Vizquel (1967) Kelly Clarkson (1982)
Links –
- Hey, I know certain Tex-Mex fans that would have recommended the death penalty instead of what he got. I wonder if he will work in the kitchen in prison?
- Say, speaking of Kelly Clarkson… the tabloids just loves them this “sex cult” story.
- More wonders of socialist medicine. Shouldn’t we all just love and respect a system that has results like Alder Hey say it’s in Alfie’s ‘best interests’ to die and judges have also agreed.
- Immigration crisis…in South America. Irony? Definitely tragedy.
Must. Reach. Front. Gate.
John’s in.
She did…embiggen a bit over the years, eh?
*EDIT FAIRY CORRECT STAFF ERROR*
Was that some sort of Simpsons/Futurama crossover?
I…deserved that.
I mean, she’s still cute, but one worries that she might have passed zaftig and entered into matronly. Plus, the trajectory isn’t great when you’re carrying that much excess weight that young. Trust me, Ms. Clarkson, as you approach 40 the weight does not get easier to lose.
Hey Bill: long spindly pubes bursting from male brief underwears.
HM — The gift that keeps on giving.
Like syphilis.
DAMMIT!
?
Is there anyone who doesn’t love a sex-cult story?
I gotta say, that cult guy has got GAME.
I gotta wonder how that gets started.
Wait, I thought you were a contractor nowadays, Swissy.
I am a retired LTC, actually. I work for the Swiss, not Uncle Sam…
Stop mixing up your accounts, Tulpa
Nice deflection there, Tulpa!
Just because Lopes is dead doesn’t mean she gets promoted to first position.
So are you T-Boz or Chilli?
-1 house for Andre Rison
“It was selfish. It started small and got bigger and out of control,” Escamilla said in his testimony. “It got to the point where I couldn’t control it anymore.”
Was that after he ate the meat?
$1.2 million worth of fajita. Does anyone really needa eata so many fajita?
“Some of these people–whereas the 99% are just scraping by with one or two fajitas a day, the same as they had in 1980, sometimes not even fresh pico de gallo–they now are bringing in $1, $1.2 million worth of fajitas. Does anyone really need so many fajitas?”
That’s what laziness will get you. If he had stolen roasts and cut his own, the value would have been substantially less and he probably would have gotten half that much time. Serves him right.
Tex-Mex sucks. You want real Mexican food? Go here:
http://www.eltaco-riendo.com/index.php/products-menu
*aims San Jacinto artillery in EAP’s direction, rummages through pockets for a match*
*hands burning punk to NA, prepares to reload on command*
I don’t really see the irony with the Columbia business. Latin America has by far the highest rates of anti-Latino sentiment.
It’s just running commentary on how bad Venizuela has gotten that Columbia looks good by comparison.
Russia strikes again!
Castro did not die, he’s went into seclusion to expand his empire.
Also, Venezuela is a country that refuses to invest in green energy, legalize same-sex marriage, allow a women her right to choose, or protect the sentient rights of nonhuman animals in zoos (from being eaten). So there is little wonder people are eager to leave.
Damn state capitalism, I tell you whut…
102) Hot Temperatures Made These Birds Shrink
“Biologist Simon Griffith…aware that climate change is causing many plants and animals to change to adapt to rising temperatures, he wondered whether it also was causing [sparrows] to shrink… He launched several studies [and found] developing during a hot summer, before leaving the nest, turns them into small adults… The research adds to a growing body of evidence indicating that numerous plant and animal species are undergoing physical and behavioral changes in response to global warming”
So, wait a minute, you mean plants and animals might adapt and evolve to changing circumstances? So global warming won’t lead to a lifeless husk of a world? Instead, things will be more or less the same as ever, with some species slightly different than before? That’s just crazy talk!
Nevermind the fact that we’re at a carbon-starved, green-deficient point in the planet’s history either.
It’s up to humanity to make sure nature never changes. We have to intervene to save Mother Earth from herself.
Rising temperatures.
Thermometers disagree.
I wish they’d rise a little faster, we’re in the awkward season in the Chesapeake Bay region: Lows in the 40s, highs in the 70s. Too cold for shorts when you leave, but too warm for a sweater by the time you’re where you’re headed.
More on the fajita bandito.
Heh.
Investigators eventually found packaged fajitas in Escamilla’s refrigerator.
This Mueller investigation is going off it’s stated purpose.
“So, buddy, what are you in for?”
“Stealing fajitas.”
“You’re one bad hombre.”
“I thought it was just a tort.”
A torte?!
Hmm, that gives me an idea for a future post.
It was a high steaks venture.
NONE OF THAT NOW!
*narrows gaze*
You wouldn’t be so saucy in meatspace.
Well done, Diego.
Oh, you wagyu!
Aw come on, quit grilling him over it.
Yeah, he’s really busting my chops.
“How long were you on the lamb?”
Which is completely legal in Alabama. /the more you know
Next time one of you Glibs says you are planning a trip and the trip is to Alabama…..
You’ll slander us even though it was a cheaper hotel on that side of the border than in Florida?
“I’m in for burglary…I’ve picked a ton of lox”
Lox fajitas sound so nasty even the Scandinavians wouldn’t eat it.
Little Swiss and Little RC used to play together making structures in the living room using brief cases, yellow legal pads and lots of paper. They would climb into these little enclosures and depose each other.
They called it “playing torts”.
and depose each other
This is why we need prayer in schools.
Huh? Do you want those young boys on their knees or not? I’m getting mixed signals.
That’s Nacho Fajita!!
” some hockey series supposedly finished (giving false hope to certain East Coast fans)”
Hahaha! No, no hope in Mudville, er, Washington. You see, the Capitals always make it to the second round, where they are always eliminated by the Penguins. Things are going exactly according to the script.
Yeah, I thought maybe I’d follow the playoffs again this season, but what’s the point? They’re gonna lose to the Pens anyway.
But I continually buy back in every year. Why?
I don’t know why, but I love watching the Caps implode every year. I have no rooting interest and their fans deserve better, but it just cracks me up. It’s sort of the way I used to love watching Eagles fans start the season with high hopes (and for good reason) only to see them get bumped in the first round or miss the cut.
“We feel a strong message should be sent,” Gilman said.
Taco Bell faijitas send their own strong message.
*opera applause*
Sometimes it’s a four day pass
“Sometimes it’s a four day pass”…through.
Let me help you there
*Narrows gaze
Making a run for the border?
Just because this fits so well.
Once the Caps got Beagle back they were a renewed team. Facing a battered Pens that needed a corrupt ref to closeout the Flyers in 6? Yeah, I’d say there’s some hope.
Fucking Brits, they may as well come out and declare every citizen to be chattel.
They haven’t?
Subjects kind of says this already.
I love the legal logic…. it would be wrong and pointless to allow this kid’s parents to take him to another country at no cost to the government to a hospital at no cost to the government …. because we think he is going to die anyway… so we are going to spend money on police enforcing our order that he stay at our expense in a hospital where we will not treat him while he dies of dehydration over the next day or two.
What the (bad word) is wrong with these people. It is like they gave Eric Cartman a gavel and robe.
Once you take into consideration that its an economic and political issue, and not a healthcare issue, the whole story makes a load more sense.
More wonders of socialist medicine.
Just fucking sick. I wonder, if the new Royal baby had a similar problem, do you think the NHS would kill him, too?
I don’t think it’s in a public servant’s best interest to float the idea that it’s “in the best interest” if someone dies.
I find it supremely hypocritical that the doctors are, on the one hand, saying it’s in Alfie’s best interest to die, and on the other hand, saying that he shouldn’t be allowed to travel to the Vatican for treatment at the invitation of the Pope, because traveling in his current state could lead to complications.
Naked self-interest on their part and the part of the NHS. If he receives treatment that allows him to live, they’re going to look like the vultures that they are.
Well, this and… if you think a little deeper about it, if the kid gets treatment and survives in a permanently disabled state, the NHS is on the hook for another 60-odd years of very expensive care. Or they could just make sure he dies now and skip all that.
Not that I don’t appreciate the cynicism, but I am not convinced that NHS “care” is all that expensive.
Oh it is.
You have all those NHS administrators to support.
*That’s why they need to save money on patients.
Fair point.
Any organization that claims to serve the public’s health needs probably should have a higher bed count than administrator headcount.
“We have transformed our model into providing outpatient care, even for what is traditionally seen as inpatient procedures”
Yes, next time I’m over there and I’m knifed, come treat me at my hotel. On the up-side, I’m less likely to get an MRSA infection.
While I can’t speak for current NHS effectiveness, I have a couple of anecdotes which would simply reinforce the negative impression of the NHS’ “care”.
I’m interested in those anecdotes
My NHS anecdotes come 2nd-hand from an ex-boss who was born in the UK, still had parents there, but had been living in the US for 20+ years. I wish I could remember the details well enough to tell the stories accurately, because they’re much more horrifying that way.
The poor-memory version is that his aging mother went into the hospital for several days with excruciating stomach pain, and a stomach swollen to the size of a bowling ball. They kept her in bed and on pain meds for a few days, and then called the family and told them that it was time to come pick her up, because she had “become a bit of a bed-blocker”. I’ll never forget that phrase because he was so livid about it. So he flew band to England to engage them and ask them what their diagnosis was and what treatment they’d given her. Answer: they couldn’t find anything wrong and didn’t have any treatment. In other words, please just go home and die. A few days after sending her home, while he was still in England I think, they then called her at home and told her that, she might maybe have stomach cancer, they weren’t really sure. No contacting the family, no asking her to come back in for an appointment, just called her at home to say “oh, maybe you have cancer”.
I don’t know how it turned out after that and I don’t know what the actual cause was or whether she’s still with us.
Whenever we’d go out to dinner he would rant and rave about whatever they were putting his mother through at the time. And then he’d laugh and say that whenever he would tell his friends back in England that he’d moved to the US, they would always gasp and express pity for him because they all knew that the health care system in the US was so awful compared to what they get in the UK.
Yesterday, sleep deprived and feeling not so great, I managed to run a 7:04 minute mile, which beats my record by 22 seconds. Not bad for someone my age. who is normally a lifter of heavy things. and has only been running for the past few months. Jogging/Running has been my “brain eraser” – once I’m done I kinda forget what I was worried about during the work day.
Notwithstanding your accomplishment–I love lifting and hate running myself–but you probably shouldn’t worry about sleep deprivation; moderate amounts probably shouldn’t affect you over anything nearly as short as a mile.
Back in the day, I used to have some of my best runs when grossly hung-over and sleep deprived.
Sweating out the alcohol was a good damper on the hang-over as well.
I don’t think I’ve ever raced when I *wasn’t* sleep deprived. Fucking 7am starts, man.
This this this. I’m not sure how I’d deal with all my stress if not for running and lifting.
PS: Any barefoot/minimalist runners here? I’ve been running for a few years now in Xero sandals. I’m not sure what I enjoy more: the massive increase in calf size, or all the passers-by staring at my feet with an absolutely dumbfounded look.
I run in five fingers, but 5k max. I use real shoes for anything longer than that.
I switched to minimalist years ago. I don’t distance run anymore, but I wear minimalist shoes for pretty much everything. I was actually just looking at the Xero hiking shoes.
Didn’t fix my scrawny calfs, though!
I appreciate your “at my age” qualifier. In my youth we had to run the mile at school and I walked a bit of it to flirt with a girl and still managed to get just over 6 minutes. Why do I mention this? Because my brain still thinks this way when I’m not paying attention. So I keep getting shocked by how old and out of shape I am when confronted with real world tasks.
The collision of your “30 years younger than you are ” self-image and reality can be really painful.
Tard Tuesday: Hannity is a Russian Agent Edition
1950s: Joe McCarthy looks for reds under the beds. Is derided by the left as a fool.
2010s: ex-Reds under the beds!
Or, you could…. you know… recognize that Clinton and her operatives actively worked to get Trump the nomination, interfering with the Republican primary…. using, wait for it, Russian opposition research. Hmmmmm…. what else might they have been up to?
Is it possible that Clinton’s team was set up as a bunch of Russian stooges, only to be betrayed in the general election?
Didn’t the FBI already determine that the Russians were “interfering” and planting fake news in order to sow discord in the American polity? Isn’t the democrat’s obsession with impeachment and investigation (since long before Trump took office…. heck, since before Clinton publicly conceded the election) exactly the result the Russians were looking for?
Hmm…. who exactly is colluding with Russia here? The ones who were paying for opposition research from Russian sources and are doing exactly what the Russians want, or the ones who are in theory trying to govern and have not been shown to have any common interests with the Russians… well, except for being “not Clinton”.
Something, something… I need to get my mail order bride quickly, I guess.
Better make that Fed-Ex, BP.
“You’ve had some pretty bad experiences ordering out of catalogs.”
(Sorry, couldn’t link the time. Go to 4:20)
I thought DLS was the go-to for international shipping?
Or don’t they put air-holes in the box?
I bought FarCry 5 recently. I’ve been irritated at the game, but have been trying to narrow it down. There are no technical flaws of note, and I’ve not run into any bugs (a surprise from Ubisoft) but the game still annoyed me. I narrowed it down to those aspects that it inherited from the rest of the series. Make the mistake of travelling on the road, you get into one long protracted running gun battle with the traffic jam of enemy convoys. Make the mistake of travelling overland and you get mauled by the hyperagressive, predator-rich wildlife. Make the mistake of standing still and both of the above stumble upon you. And then half the time you’re on a bad acid trip. But the absolute worst part were the extra-long unskippable cutscenes of “I don’t give a damn about this”. I almost rage quit at one point. I was trying to work out how to solve a physics puzzle involing chaining grapple points to maintain momentum when, without any warning I saw, the game slipped into a hallucination cutscene that had to be a good five minutes long. I know because once I realized I could not skip the damn thing, I watched videos on my other monitor until the game gave me back control – and then I found it had teleported my character halfway across the map.
I still haven’t solved that puzzle.
On the other hand, when the game isn’t getting in the way of enjoying the game, it can be awesome. My favorite moment thusfar was a firefight that kicked off when I ran over a flamethrower trooper and got my truck stuck in the woods. It started out as a run of a mill running firefight, until the helicopter showed up. Just as it was lining up to shoot me, I managed to take it down with a pistol shot to the pilot’s head (It was a raging at the sky moment that went *bam* *Helo crashes*) and followed up by holding off three waves of additional cultists stumbling into the battle that included trying to take out my position with rocket-propelled grnades.
It was a fun firefight, completely unscripted, not a setpiece the developers added in.
Are you describing a video game?
…. maybe
I think in terms of the game’s NPCs fighting themselves, Far Cry 5 is the best in the series, maybe the best I’ve personally encountered. Right up there with Saint’s Row 2. I’ve taken compounds or freed civilians just by being in the area when a rebel shot a cultist or a mountain lion or grizzly went on a tear. For that matter, I’ve noticed that strategically choosing which compounds to take over actually makes a difference in cultist presence as the compound will hold the immediate area and send patrols to engage enemies on the road and in the air.
I have found, however, that the enemy doesn’t have a good answer for an attack helicopter. I’ve cheesed a few compounds using that, the sniper, and the plane follower as air support. Haven’t gotten up north, though, and that’s supposed to be the “hard” part, so maybe that will change the equation.
Is there any way to get civillians to move along? I’ve had too many instances where they stand right next to a shrine after I kill their captors and won’t leave to let me blow the damn thing up without killing them.
Not reliably, no. Since I’ve gone all Blue Thunder with the attack chopper I’ve found that a burst or two of gunfire in the general vicinity will get the captive to start running, but sometimes they just panic-run in a circle around the damn thing. Oh well. Eggs, omelettes, etc.
they (the enemy) didn’t have a good answer in 4 either for buzzard+m79 combo, at least in 5 they’ll send a P51 to try and shoot you down.
I think I like 4 better, but I’m only about a third through 5. I never finished 3 (I bought it after 4) because it just didn’t compare
How is the co-op?
The co-op in 3 was much better than 4. Taking a team of up to 4 into scalable objectives is almost Borderlands level of co-op.
I don’t know, I play video games to get away from people.
The random kidnappings drove me nuts. I just want to run around and shoot stuff damn it! The ending(s) will also piss you off.
I get what they’re doing. This is supposed to be the sandboxiest Far Cry but it still needs a plot, so they just grab you and tell you a story every time you make a certain amount of progress as measured by the point system rather than force you to complete specific story missions. I agree, though, that it’s annoying to have some goofy thot blow angel dust in my face when I’m busy fishin’ or heading off to the next objective.
And I’ve heard the endings are rage-inducing. I’m really, really worried about that because I’m enjoying the game so much. Part of me wants to spoil it so I can prepare myself, and part of me wants to preserve the pre-ending enjoyment for as long as possible.
Ignore the story and just enjoy exploring. Might be best to just grind out the story as quickly as possible so that you can enjoy the rest of the game at your own pace. I hate the “story” missions, but the rest is a lot of fun. I do enjoy having my companions scream at the enemy cultists, “Take that shitlord!”
Companions just get in the way. I don’t want to have top babysit NPCs, so if they won’t go away, I’m tempted to just shoot them myself.
The animals are pretty low maintenance. They don’t give your position away, the dog marks enemies for you, and the cougar is a pretty reliable stealth kill. Haven’t gotten the bear yet, but I assume he’s a bullet-sponge and distraction.
Also, bringing Nick as close air support. I might throw whatsherface in to the mix with the chopper so I can pull some Apocalypse Now air cav hijinks.
So they’re kill-stealing bastards?
I broke and read about the endings, and sure enough I’m annoyed as hell. I mean, FFS. So I might take your advice and just knock the story out real quick so I can go back to just taking over the county.
extra-long unskippable cutscenes
Deal-breaker.
Have any of you played FC Primal? I haven’t played any of the FC series but am looking between Primal and 5 for my next game pick up.
I have not. Of the series I’ve played 2 and 5. They share a lot of the same problems, but so far I’ve not had enemies respawning inside a base while I was still whittling away their numbers in 5 (that was what caused me to abandon 2, after having to destroy the same checkpoint six or seven times because it was on the road between quest-giver and quest zone but respawned every time I went down the road)
That would cause me to quit a game too.
Despite the badthink above 3 is the best Far Cry. Anyone disagreeing with this is simply wrong.
I started to write a lengthy explanation of this position, but I will leave it at this:
Citra
“Best Far Cry” isn’t exactly a spectacular title.
What game series do you like? I enjoyed both FC 3 and 4 a great deal. They were solid on mechanics, allowed a lot of freedom to wander, with fun, if silly storylines, and had amusing side quests. I have not yet bought 5, and agree with you that 2 with the respawning of outposts was tortuous. But I am curious to know if there is any series you enjoy.
I am A bit of an assassin’s creed junkie (though Syndicate was crap. I could not finish it after there was a mission to protect Marx instead of ending the rat bastard).
Total War is also one I spent way too much time in.
Then there’s fallout and Elder Scrolls.
I bought FarCry 5 too see if they’d fixed those elements that most drove me away earlier in the series.
Other than Total war, which I have never played and a quibble on AC (they lost me at Unity and I never played Syndicate as a result) this is a list of some of my favorites, you should try FC 3 and/or 4, areas you clear stay cleared unlike 2, and you only need to advance the storyline in spurts (to unlock abilities and some areas).
All time list of RPG/action adventure whatever you want to call them, games where you play through a story fighting stuff (by enjoyment at the time, I am not arguing mechanical merits of old games over new):
1. Morrowind
2. American McGee’s Alice
3. Witcher 3
4. Dragon Age Origins
5. Warcraft (BC expansion)
6. GTA Vice City
7. AC 2
8. Saints Row 3
9. Far Cry 3
10. Fallout New Vegas
Other than Alice which just does not play well in any emulator I ahve found I replay all of these from time to time.
1. Morrowind – played, but the look bugged me
2. American McGee’s Alice never looked appealing
3. Witcher 3 1 and 2 bored me out of each, so I didn’t bother
4. Dragon Age Origins finished several times, along with the sequels
5. Warcraft (BC expansion) I realized I wasn’t having fun
6. GTA Vice City was fine until that one mission where you had to out drive your potential driver for the heist and it was too impossible to be worth it. My response was “If I’m the better driver, why would I pay someone else to do it?”
7. AC 2
8. Saints Row 3 Was fun for one playthrough, also played 4, but the replayability is low
9. Far Cry 3 We’ll see in May
10. Fallout New Vegas CAZADORS, RUN!
Oddly, the game with the greatest number of replays from me is Dawn of War 2 Retribution. (greatest time in Game is Skyrim)
AC Origins is a return to form. It beats the previous two entries, but is middle of the road as the series goes.
but I will leave it at this:
Citra
Fair enough
The whole Talugmai family were fucking insane.
All the Talugmai family are fucking insane. Citra included.
something something crazy.
True, but Liza was annoying enough that I sometimes play through the ‘bad ending’.
I wouldn’t have even saved her. I wanted to keep going back to the cave to make her feel more miserable. Imagine spending your life having to “be thankful” she got you that first job in Hollywood.
And the whole breathy sighing about how awful it was that you were turning into such a violent deplorable type. “Umm sweetie, you remember the pirates that kidnapped and raped you? Yeah, totally ok with shooting them.”
I’d say, adjusted for timing and computer capability at the time, I thought 1 was actually the best. First open world FPS.
Yep, Far Cry 1 was amazing in its day. Under-appreciated milestone in gaming.
I’ve played FC1 through 4 but not Primal. 3 and 4 are both good (if mindless) games with extremely similar mechanics and playstyle, and both have graphics that still look pretty decent. Both have over-the-top supervillians who are very entertaining. Get 3 and if you like it, then get 4. I would think you would be able to get either one at a steep discount if you look around a little – sometimes the best prices on older PC games are to be had buying the disc version on amazon.
I’m replaying 4 right now because I’m not buying 5 until it’s discounted at least 50%.
I made it through the first few levels of Candy Crush. And I’m trying Candy Crush Soda now….
/prog
I’m home with a stomach bug and just read the Alfie Evans story. Now I don’t know if I’m nauseated because of the bug or the story. I just want to cry.
Thanks for the interest in the Jap lesson. Bug is going around and I got it, too. For some odd reason these Tweets made me feel a bit better.
Jap lesson? I don’t remember you teaching us how to best ask Dad for a convertible.
Golf clap.
At Carnegie-Mellon, it was the Asian/Lexus hybrid (early to mid 90s.)
Matrix, not Hybrid. All the Asians drove Lexuseseseses.
And here I thought they’d taken their love of robots to the next level so that a generation was born fused with their cars.
Kanye West is the agile cyborg people of black people.
That’s the perfect description!
I never thought I’d say this, but is Kanye woke af? Is he, dare I say it, redpilled?
He’s never been your typical hip-hop guy. Hell, listen to College Dropout.
Feel better!
Tard Tuesday: Lenin’s Birthday Edition
All I can say is read it for yourself…..
Communism can make you live forever? Millions of dead people beg to differ
It’s the ideas, man, the ideas that will live forever.
I like this reddit tag:
Applied communism seems to take out the middleman.
Also, live forever: whiiiiine edition
LateStageCapitalism. They starve their intellect and they can’t wait to starve their stomachs too.
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Fascinating.
The extreme Left is always tolerant and inclusive of people they like. Everyone else can go to the gulags.
All citizens are equal in the socialist state. Anyone who is not equal will be excised. Therefore all citizens are equal in the socialist state. Dear leader is not an ordinary citizen. He is the dear leader. Therefore he is more than equal. All Citizens are equal in the socialist state.
EU Court of Human Rights is the most Kafkaesque institution in the EU state apparatus. For the second time it has ruled against parental rights and has concluded that a sick child should die. Gee, I wonder why people don’t like the EU?
Liberate the people of the EU. Carpet bomb London
Carpet bomb
LondonBrussels.Let’s throw Paris and Berlin into the mix too. Just bomb it all. That backward ass continent
12-year-old steals credit card, flies to Bali after fight with mom
This kid takes running away to a whole new level.
That kid has Stage 5 affluenza. Although at 12 his precociousness has restored my faith in his (increasingly lameass) country’s future. I remember when Aussie kids knew how to party. (Throwback A Current Affair Tuesday.)
NASA Doesn’t Know What Poked These Holes in the Arctic’s Sea Ice
Obviously Sea Smith.
SEA SMITH AND FRIEND NINGEN?!
STEVE SMITH NEED TO WORK SOME THINGS OUT ON HIS OWN.
Aliens
I’m not saying it was climate change, but it was climate change.
NEW ice?? Wait a minute, I thought all the ice was going to melt and leave the polar regions completely ice-free by the year
199620052010201520182020?NASA probably doesn’t understand that despite the Chukchi Sea being above the North American Plate and quite some distance from the plate margin, that upwelling hot currents from geothermal vents are a well-recognized phenomenon.
This is because NASA seems to be jam packed of fucking rent-seeking ideologues and drooling idiots nowadays, especially in the parts of the organization that has least to do with its original core mission
Shit-stirring? Backpedalling? Willful stoking of outrage and confusion? Did Yeti “dump” their ties to the NRA?
Fortune writes: Yeti Coolers, a favorite brand among outdoor enthusiasts, has cut ties with the National Rifle Association, potentially putting it at odds with a sizable percentage of its customer base.
From Yeti’s statement:
A few weeks ago, Yeti notified the NRA Foundation, as well as a number of other organizations, that we were eliminating a group of outdated discounting programs. When we notified the NRA Foundation and the other organizations of this change, Yeti explained that we were offering them an alternative customization program broadly available to consumers and organizations, including the NRA Foundation. These facts directly contradict the inaccurate statement the NRA-ILA distributed on April 20.
Further, the NRA-ILA stated in that same public communication that ‘[Yeti has] declined to continue helping America’s young people enjoy outdoor recreational activities.’ Nothing is further from the truth. Yeti was founded more than 10 years ago with a passion for the outdoors, and over the course of our history we have actively and enthusiastically supported hunters, anglers and the broader outdoor community. We have been devoted to and will continue to directly support causes tied to our passion for the outdoors, including by working with many organizations that promote conservation and management of wildlife resources and habitat restoration. From our website to our film footage and from our social media posts to our ambassadors, Yeti has always prominently featured hunters pursuing their passions. Moreover, Yeti is unwavering in our belief in and commitment to the Constitution of the United States and its Second Amendment.
The politicization of everything continues.
If the NRA really did overreact that was pretty foolish. The YETI statement is encouraging. I would expect nothing less from a company run by STEVE and SEA’s Oriental cousin.
I have a Yeti watch cap – yes I bought it for STEVE SMITH protection.
STEVE GOT A CAP FOR YOU, A MUSHROOM CAP.
its possible hannity and limbaugh have been getting russian money for many years,
especially since rove lost the white house and central control of them. rove would have insisted they NOT be getting freelance money.
Wheels within wheels.
It’s up to humanity to make sure nature never changes. We have to intervene to save Mother Earth from herself.
Precisely.
The Three Faces of Hitchcock
film and feminist scholar
Oh… you mean a professional moron
I have heard Hitchcock was a dick before though, especially to his leading ladies and above all to Tippi Hendren. He didn’t really respect his talent. Kept throwing birds at her and so forth.
He was an asshole. This is well known. He viewed actors as merely setpieces to be moved around and did not want to hear their opinions on anything.
To be fair, I don’t want to hear the opinions of Actors on anything either.
Who does?
Natalie Portman/Israel.
Yeah some directors really view themselves as the only real artists (in their defense, actors are the least “artisty” kind of artist in their mentality) and actors as little more than their medium, giving them scarcely more human thought than they would a prop. The most dickish even physically move actors from place to place like objects! (Interestingly enough, by reputation Woody Allen is pretty much the opposite extreme.)
Yet, Woody Allen’s scripts are verbatim what tou see onthe screen. No ad libs, no “make the dialogue your own”. Allen’s words from his mind to typewriter to script to actor to screen.
In my experience, actors rarely understand the context of scenes and don’t really understand how what the camera sees differs from the reality on set. But also, I’ve not really worked with ‘professional’ actors, though through documentaries and interviews this still seems to be the case with many of them.
…I think this Hitchcock guy was on to something.
“metaphorized rape”
That phrase is an asspounding.
She probably likes Henry Fonda getting sent to prison on “The Wrong Man”.
Being interested in science, but not being any damn good at it, makes you more likely to believe in climate change. This is their argument for climate change?
All good scientists know exactly what to think, not how.
Police use anti-KKK law to arrest people protesting neo-Nazis
Tangled webs…
The law wasn’t supposed to be used that way!
if Hilary stole all those fajitas, would she be in jail?
Nope she’d bleach the fajitas and claim ignorance. Then one of her staffers would probably end up dead in a botched robbery.
She would be hailed as a feminist hero, taking advantage of a flawed system.
“Did you swipe those fajitas?”
“Was that wrong? I gotta tell ya, I gotta please ignorance on this. Had I known it was illegal to steal fajitas, I would have stolen tacos instead! What difference does it make at this point anyway””
Hillary is into Huma’s taco, from what I hear.
I’m too busy wiping the vomit off my monitor to respond to this intelligently.
That is a good way to ruin a perfectly good taco.
It’d be like wrestling a sack of hammers.
The daily U.K. outrage-man gets 8 months for flipping off traffic camera (also had jammer which wasn’t in use at the time).
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29796/watch-man-gets-8-months-prison-after-flipping-ryan-saavedra
Today he’s beginning 8 months in jail for perverting the course of justice.
The bobbies really like their patronizing tweets.
Britain…where they police everything but crime
Be Muslim and operate sex scandal and you’re safe.
sex ring
Top tip: If you want to stay out of trouble, don’t do what this driver did and swear at our mobile safety cameras while driving past in a car fitted with a laser jammer.
Jeeeezus.
They’re like schoolmarms with batons and funny hats.
“Don’t flip us off if you’re going to break the law.” Am I supposed to interpret that any other way?
“Don’t flip us off or you’re going to break the law.”
“And be violated to the fullest extent.”
With respect to his status as national treasure, I think Burge left out the true top priority:
1. Keeping sick children from escaping the NHS
Studies of how people perceive climate science paint a depressing picture—one in which ideology overwhelms evidence.
Climate Change Barbie says, “Science is hard!”
“I’m a fellow actress like yourself & involved in an amazing women’s movement I think you’d dig,” Mack wrote to Watson in January of 2016. “I’d love to chat if you’re open.”
She wrote Watson again the next month.
“I participate in a unique human development & women’s movement I’d love to tell you about,” she tweeted.”
Mack (shows Rufus scrip): Whaddya think? It’s a first draft.
Rufus: Lol.
Nobody ever invites me to join a sex cult full of nubile young actresses.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5650717/For-time-Facebook-spells-forbids.html
FAKE NEWZ!!!!!
That’s a rock hard ass – obviously doing Warty-levels of squatting.
Facebook will require people to connect on Facebook using the name that they go by in everyday life.
Damnabit. Now I have to go by “Mr. Lickalottapus” at work.
How are you ever supposed to find the correct person then? The number of names is substantially less than the number of people, you get a lot of repeats.
Narcs is my guess.
Hmmm. I wonder if Heywood Jablome will fit on a drivers license…
I’ve seen longer names.
What’s the deal with the future tense? That’s been the policy from square one. (Albeit exceptionally poorly enforced in its very early days.) Matter of fact, the present policy is a significant loosening from the original “legal name” policy, which was an early PR mishandling by Zuckerburg.
Basically Zuck had long been proud of how building a “real name only” community promoted civility and honesty that was one of the keys to Facebook’s success. But he rather imprudently overstated things, so that not only was this a decision made for his community, but the suggestion was that there was never a good-faith reason to want to be anonymous on the Internet. This really did come across as not only obnoxious but #Privileged–for instance failing to empathize with political dissidents and (a bit more questionably) domestic violence victims and transgendered people.
One of the things that came to a head was when Salman Rushdie ridiculed Facebook’s forcing him to go by “Ahmed.” He was annoyed and considered it stupid but didn’t get self-righteous about it. The same can’t be said for “Miz Cracker” (a personal acquaintance btw), who attempted to hitch on to the trans grievance with a spectacularly obnoxious and self-important editorial that seems to actually undermine the trans narrative with its own self-servingness. Naturally, I seem to be just about the only one interested in pushing back on it.
At least Myspace, for all its derpiness, was anonymous. And a lot more fun, in a silly flash graphics sort of way. Also a lot more slutty pics of the scene gals. I’m probably being nostalgic.
+1 Panic At The Disco on autoplay
I can think of a lot of other people I’d like to see locked for half a century for “theft by a public servant.”
Remember Finland trumpeting their bold new Universal Basic Income scheme? Seems that it’s already failing.
*shocked face*
”Right now, the government is making changes that are taking the system further away from a basic income,” Kela researcher Miska Simanainen told the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.
The article didn’t say what the changes made by the government were, which could have been the most important part of the article. Government has no reason to favor universal basic income since it removes their control and bloated bureaucracy overseeing all the myriad welfare programs.
I’m not a fan of UBI and would rather the government stay out of welfare, period. I do find it intriguing though if UBI could replace the shitstorm we have now, including social security and medicaid, and return more control to citizens and less money into the government’s pockets as it filters through. Though of course any attempt would just give us UBI while keeping everything else.
You are correct. From the BI article:
Thanks for the new article. I think combining the different bureaucracies into one will probably be a good thing.
UBI is just another market distortion. There will always be room for supplemental welfare programs with UBI. UBI strikes me as a good solution until price signals normalise again.
On a long enough timeline, the universal basic income is zero. It’s also the default position of humanity.
Party apparatchiks, of course, enjoy special consideration. It’s only fair, they’re doing the People’s work.
It is a market distortion, but I do not think it has as big of an impact as the individual ones. Grocery stores factor in food stamps into their operating model and actively compete for these recipients. Other corporations, like Amazon, are giving discounts to anyone receiving government welfare.
UBI is an evil, but I think it’s theoretically less evil than the other welfare programs taken in toto. This is just theory though since I agree we would never get UBI or all the other welfare programs, it would be UBI AND all the other welfare programs.
I definitely would prefer UBI to the mess we currently have. No more endless array of programs with their attendant bureaucracies – just send out a check and be done with it.
Agreed.
And just for the sake of argument, let’s bypass the problem with wealth redistribution and grant that it is the government’s job to help poor people: It’s far more effective to just give them cash rather than all these specialized benefits like health insurance and food stamps. If a poor person needs a set of new tires to get to work, they need cash to buy those tires. They can’t trade Medicaid benefits or EBT points for new tires (not legally, anyway). There are all kinds of expenses for which a benefit program doesn’t exist, and it’s not conceivable to cover all of them. If someone has a major expense that might be hard to cover, they have to direct all of their resources into that expense, and that might mean cancelling health insurance for a month or so, cutting back on the grocery bill, and other such economizing measures. Having a complicated set of benefits doesn’t help anyone in that situation.
I agree with the above. What bugs me is that leftist/progs will say that people are poor due to circumstances beyond their control, but won’t trust people to decide how to spend money. They would rather insist that they spend x on rent and y on food.
I would too, if you could trust any government that has ever existed to provide UBI as an actual alternative to the welfare state, not as an addition to it. But you can’t.
Sort like a consumption tax vs an income tax at the national level. I’d be for it, but only if it were implemented with an amendment that repealed the 16th at the same time.
“Universal Basic Income is a policy that’s been lauded by tech leaders from Mark Zuckerberg to Elon Musk as a proposed solution to job loss due to automation. Last Sunday, it officially became part of California’s Democratic Party platform, signaling that the idea is beginning to enter the political mainstream at the same time Silicon Valley leaders are putting their weight behind it.
Please let Kalifornia do this so that they can hoover up all the poor people from the other states. Imagine the wagon train of hobos that you will see heading west when they hear they can get free money just by showing up.
http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/24/new-alfie-evans-hearing-high-court-next-hours-7493358/?ito=mweb.article.share.top.twitter
That kid from the UK that Swiss linked to an article about has survived the night. And now he and his family may be given another chance to flee that miserable little island. Italy has offered him and his family citizenship and the Vatican has offered to provide medical care in its facilities.
Sounds like another grooming scam. *Too soon and apologizes to Catholics*
Terminally ill child fetish?
Thank God. The UK government should be shamed on the world stage over this, but not at the cost of a child’s life. If he can get medical treatment elsewhere AND the NHS can be shown to be the ideological descendants of Josef Mengele that’s the best of all outcomes.
This is what they would have done to Jimmy Kimmel’s kid.
Top tip: If you want to stay out of trouble, don’t do what this driver did and swear at our mobile safety cameras while driving past in a car fitted with a laser jammer.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
The House IT scandal would make a devastating 60 Minutes story. Maybe even a movie.
DWS is working overtime trying to keep the investigation from proceeding. The Awans must have something really good on her.
access to all her scandalous photos..
The Crappening
If I didn’t know better, I’d think that the media is covering up for something. I’m sure it’s also just a coincidence that every time I get that feeling, the people in question usually have a D next to their names.
Of interest: I watched an American Experience – aka PBS – documentary on Henry Ford.
Some take aways: To a certain degree his success was based on hard work and being at the right place at the right time with the right product. But was stubborn enough that he didn’t think the Model T needed by replaced, even as sales flagged.
Also anti-Semitic, and, at least in the early days, very much into social engineering.
His education, exposed during a libel trial, was uh, lacking. Asked to name the American revolution, he mumbled out “1812” and refused to read book passages given to him. So probably more mechanically and engineering minded, not necessarily an “intellectual”. The intelligentsia of the era, and much of the media, derided him as a buffoon while average farmers/rural folks looked up to him as one of their own who found success through hard work.
He was a fruit loop. Did they cover his failed attempt at Utopia?
Character flaws aside, the complex that was ultimately built up and scaled at the River Rouge site is nothing if not incredible. Raw materials in, cars out.
Also worth watching “The Men Who Built America” from the History Channel. Covers the lives of Vanderbilt, Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford. Also, one of the few History Channel documentaries that isn’t about World War II
aka robber barons
Oh, no, they gave people jobs and made things people wanted to buy, the horror!
Their predecessors in the title were actual barons who robbed river traffic.
Ford was such a thieving and exploiting monster that he gave his employees a revolutionary and unprecedented high wage as incentive for hard work.
Ford opposed foreign intervention in both world wars, ergo he was worse than Hitler
It’s easy to see why he would have preferred to not intervene in WWII.
::smiles smugly, cups fart, and wafts directly to nose; inhales::
And Hitler.
Who was Hitler?
What was Hitler?
How was Hitler?
Why was Hitler?
Where was Hitler?
Is Hitler alive?
Strange Origins: Hitler’s moustache.
Hitler Cooks German.
Ever hear of Hitler? The story behind Hitler. ‘Even Hitler didn’t know Hitler!’ Stalin, New York Times op-ed.
Hitler and the Jews: Did he have a point?
Was Hitler an Alien?
Finding Bigfoot Hitler
Hitler in Space?
BIGFOOT HITLER JUST A MYTH.
What’s a Hitler?
A Tulpa sock. Just like you
Evergreen
Where Hitler Went Wrong
Some More of Hitler’s Greatest Mistakes
Who is this Hitler Person, Anyway?
Well, That About Wraps It Up For Hitler
I watched an American Experience – aka PBS – documentary on Henry Ford.
I saw that one, a while back. It pissed me off in a massive way. You get “Modern Day Historians” pooh-poohing a man who built what was probably the single largest and most successful industrial enterprise of its time as some sort of pathetic ignorant bumpkin who stumbled into success completely by accident. He may have been unlettered, but he was no dummy.
Fuck those pompous sneering wokesters. How much value have they created?
“pompous sneering wokesters”
Excellent, Brooksie, I’m stealing that. Particularly “wokester.”
One thing I remember hearing about Henry Ford–I don’t think it was there–was how much he believed in the American melting pot. He set up training for his workers not just for their job skills, but long courses that not only taught them English but American history, civic values, and customs to help them assimilate in a comprehensive way.
The graduation ceremony, for the families to attend, featured the workers dressed in the costumes of their native countries, climbing together into a giant literal “melting pot.” Some guys would then stir it with a giant prop spoon for a minute or two, and then the men would climb out of the pot, now all looking the same as one another in American style business suits!
Isn’t that so beautiful? As someone who had to adjust to life in this country myself (albeit much younger), I get a bit choked up when I think about it.
Also worth watching “The Men Who Built America” from the History Channel.
That one pissed me off, too, for similar reasons. They might as well have called it, “The Devil’s Minions, and How They Ruined Paradise.”
Maybe I’m getting a little hypersensitized to the Capitalism is Bad story lines.
You don’t want to live out in the middle of nowhere, threshing wheat by horse powered machinery? What kind of monster are you?
When I was a kid, we used to watch films that celebrated the industrial revolution and the people who made modern life possible.
I’d suggest you watch the documentary again. I think they portrayed those men in a neutral to partially positive light. I didn’t think it was negative toward them (except for Carnegie’s second in command who hired Pinkertons to break-up a strike at US Steel)
I find this somewhat disconcerting.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/d359qy/penis-transplant-recipient-may-be-able-to-have-sex-again
That makes me rethink the times I’ve said, “I wouldn’t do her with your dick.”
on the + got a dick
weird holding someone else’s when pissing, showering and urrr other things
Hitting people playfully with it at the supermarket and then running away?
If only that was the least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDiILrNbM4
This is still some primitive shit. People who left their dicks in Iraq and shit have been (like all of us) promised stem cell technology is right around the corner for 20 years now.
Plus not getting the balls is some bullshit. There are ways to do irreversible vasectomies now; I don’t know why they don’t. Plus the donor is dead. (That, or extraordinarily selfless.) And in nearly all cases, both ethically and legally, dead people are considered to have severely curtailed consideration as interested parties. The idea that giving someone a dead guy’s balls, after duly cauterizing his tubes, should be considered blanket “unethical” even though it would mean a far better quality of life for the living patient, is ridiculous.
I think you’re too worried about this. They can get a silicone cockring with a dangling ornamental scrote. Problem solved.
and they are already made
They already make prosthetic implants, designed for use inside humans.
With the way divorced people fight over frozen embryos, it’s probably better to eliminate the chances (slim though they may be).
dead people are considered to have severely curtailed consideration as interested parties
They certainly do.
Appeals Court Says Trump Cannot Delay CAFE Penalties
So a “law” that isn’t a “law” can be decided by a court. Right…
Just like net neutrality. Obama’s admins had the right to make the regs, but Drumpfs admins have no right to rescind regs. One way ratchet.
Are you suggesting that the judiciary has become hopelessly politicized? You probably question our brave men at the FBI too. Why do you hate America?
The goal of having all new production automobiles covered by the standard of bieng fuel efficient to above 50 mpg just smacks of directives put into place by people that have no conception of, or interest in, how many physical limitations are in play, conversion efficiency, or concern for cost tradeoff. These are the same stupid fucks that think that all “renewable” sources of electricity come completely with benefits and no drawbacks.
You can’t cheat physics, have a product that meets such insanely high standards without sacrificing aspects such as weight, while at the same time conforming to safety standards (i.e. a car that won’t crumple like one of those ridiculous Smart Cars or a Tata). The arrogance of this mentality is staggering and quite infuriating.
Being a politician means never admitting that the world is nothing but trade-offs. Your policy is nothing but positives and their strategy is nothing but negatives. Nuance and cost-benefit analysis cannot exist in the political world.
It’s the same mentality as minimum wage. Why stop at 50? How about 60? Or 100? Fools.
And besides, look what sells – trucks and SUVs. People want what they want.
Not considering the leisure aspect, I can’t imagine being a small tradesman or handyman having to haul equipment in a Smart Car or taking their tools and materials to a client job site via public transit.
Same answer applies to your mockery Mr. Smartypants.
“Well now you are just being silly.”
At least that is what I always get when you try to show them how silly wishful thinking is as a policy.
The government made the rules. The government is full of smart people. They know what they’re doing. They’ve got our best interests at heart. As soon as we get rid of the usurper Trump all of this will be true again. So of course you’re being silly. You’re denying the inherent goodness of the government!
Jack Lew was qualified to be U.S. Treasury Secretary by Senate confirmation. Think about that one.
Failure is just another rung on a government employee’s promotion record.
He could barely write his own name.
Center for Biological Diversity? That some kind of Steve Sailer outfit?
Ah, those guys. They helped stop a housing development near me by claiming it would endanger fairy shrimp even though the development was to be on small hills where there is never so much as a puddle. I doubt they even visited the property.
Meh:
It sounds to me like all the EPA has to do is strike the provisions from the CFR. This actually does seem like the right decision. If you have made a rule, then you have to follow the rule. That having been said, we all know this is entirely one-sided and political; the very existence of DACA, which the courts also have determined must be upheld, is a direct inversion of this ruling.
Yeah, but to do so (and not have the courts immediately strike it down), the EPA has to go through the whole rulemaking process along with public comments and so on.
There is one body that can solve this problem overnight, but they won’t: Congress.
Agreed.
If you have made a rule, then you have to follow the rule.
Not sure why this doesn’t fall under “prosecutorial discretion”. I mean, if we can give a blanket suspension of enforcement to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, why can’t we give one to a handful of auto companies?
For those of you who think airlines seats can’t get any shittier. This looks like a it was designed to induce hemorrhoids.
That is Skyrider 2.0, implying there was a 1.0. I wonder what the 1.0 was like. SugarFree could probably come up with something.
That reminded me of years ago, when I did metal shop, the TA at the school was an old guy who (as I found out in later years) had actually worked for Barnes Wallis during WW2.
He wouldn’t let us sit on the anvils in the workshop while we were being shown metalwork techniques because “You’ll get piles, you little fucking idiot!”
That’s remarkable. It’s like some executive woke up one day and thought “what if we combined the pain and discomfort of Fenway Park seating with the form factor of an airliner jump seat, and the dread of a visit to a proctologist”
https://twitter.com/JessicaValenti/status/987403603953487872
Eight year olds, Dude.
*Catholic school administrator smiles approvingly*
It’s better here and that’s not saying much. They just pretend none of them exist at all.
And as we all know, learning a complex topic is completely and automatically accomplished by a second grade teacher writing in large print on triple-lined card stock.
Catholic school is looking better each day.
No, I don’t find it confusing – I find it stupid, anti-scientific, and loaded with ulterior political motives.
The first among them, demoralization. Take what you know, break it over your knee, and here’s a stack of things that don’t sound right, memorize it.
Some second graders also believe in Santa Claus.
Bullshit that second-graders waded through all that written polysyllabic jargon. And got it right.
Don’t you know, there’s an infestation of Woke eight year olds going around talking like PhDs in grievence studies.
I’ve heard kids ramble on and through and around topics just as well as the people who write that polysyllabic jargon your talking about.
Both are equally confusing.
threshing wheat by horse powered machinery
The McCormick Reaper was the work of the Devil. Good old fashioned handed-wielded scythes are what God intended for us to have.
There use to be a massive International Harvester plant near where I grew-up. They employed almost 20,000 people at that plant. Then the workers went on strike when the company was struggling and the company went under. Now there is a Navistar plant occupying not even a quarter of the land that the International Harvester plant once occupied. And now Navistar is moving down south to take advantage of right-to-work laws.
There ain’t no mechanical threshers in the Bible!
He [Ford] set up training for his workers not just for their job skills, but long courses that not only taught them English but American history, civic values, and customs to help them assimilate in a comprehensive way.
He also sent people out to check up on the employees, to see if they were living “moral lives”. No drunks, no wife-beaters. What a monster.
I wonder what he’d of thought of Bruce and Steve living together in wedded bliss.
Uffda. These judges really suck.
Global Warming made me do it!
Setting legal precedent for an assassination?
Is there anything climate change can’t do?
Have its acolytes STFU?
Ok, a necessity defense requires immediacy of the need. You can run over the toddler to avoid running the bus full of nuns holding babies off the cliff, or shoot the guy running the Olympic torch into the gas soaked kindergarten because taking the time to pursue legal means of stopping the threat would take too long. How the #$%^&* doers this remotely apply to sabotaging a pipeline?
Global warming is a very very long way from qualifying for the necessity defense. If it qualifies, then I can claim the defense for robbing a bank because Social Security is underfunded.
Oh?
*begins casing credit union*
They really want to up the stakes, don’t they. At this rate, I don’t see how anything short of secession stops this short of mass violence.
Speaking of evil pipelines….
Enbridge is trying to replace an old pipeline called “Line 3”. The new route specifically goes around existing indian reservations in order to avoid as many protests as possible.
The tribes though have said that an old treaty gives them hunting, fishing and rice harvesting rights across most of northern Minnesoda whether it is on the res or not. So they still get to stop any pipeline even if it doesn’t go over their reservations.
Lots of court battles about the new line. Mostly about whether the tribes do have standing or not (and the nutty environmentalists who want it stopped all together).
An administrative judge just muddied the waters a lot by saying that the pipeline should be approved, but only if it goes over the original route. The original route includes two reservations.
So the tribes may have fucked themselves. By tampering with the new routes, they might end up with the pipeline going over their reservations.
My guess is that the end result will be some financial shakedown of Enbridge by the tribes. The environmentalists will protest no matter what, but my gut feeling is that this has all been the tribes negotiating the size of their kickback.
Tribes going back to old treaties confuses me. Sure those treaties gave them certain rights, but they also had clauses saying things like they couldn’t drink or own guns, or X number together off a reservation is a warband.
The treaty in Minnesoda is spectacularly bad and has been interpreted by courts in as broad a manner as you can believe.
Basically, the Ojibwe have the right to fish and hunt and harvest wild rice in all of northern Minnesoda. The courts have held that means that anything that might impact those rights gives the tribes standing to block it. So pipelines and other stuff can be held hostage by the tribes.
Basically we fucked up and wrote a bad treaty just as the clock ran out on the days when we’d just ignore those treaties and screw the tribes out of more stuff in a different treaty.
Basically, the Ojibwe have the right to fish and hunt and harvest wild rice in all of northern Minnesoda.
So they have unlimited rights to trespass on private land? Can they force farmers to leave their fields fallow to improve the hunting?
I suppose the best reading is that those conditions (by the 14A, 2A, 1A respectively) cannot be imposed on American citizens, and that the USA did not need to make them American citizens but chose to do so and must abide by the consequences of that. For instance, suppose that the USA decides to make the citizens of Micronesia, with which we have a Free Association treaty, American citizens or nationals. Then they’d gain the right to freely move into and about the USA, without subjection to any of those restrictions. But still the Micronesians would remain citizens of Micronesia (even Puerto Ricans are still citizens of Puerto Rico, which has certain consequences, though we did not know this until a recent court case), and the Micronesian government would still point to the Free Association treaty to determine its sovereign rights.
Just apply the 14A and civil rights law to those racist psuedo governments. The mistake is perpetuating this notion that tribal psuedo governments are sovereign. Let them be private associations with restrictive memberships if they want to restrict participation to bloodlines. Oh wait, that’s gone too…
Note that abortion extremists that shoot up clinics have used this defense every time and have been denied (rightly so). But, a mythical assertion of an unlikely Armageddon due to oil is a legitimate defense. Unbelievably stupid
Well, if you look at their cooked books, then it does seem like the Earth is going to turn into a literal fireball in the next few hundred years.
So, basically they’re taking Hitler’s idea and substituting oil for Jew.
Their cooked books also say there’s nothing we can do to stop it, so that’s no reason to change behaviour.
If we just look at it as, Pol Pot didn’t go far enough…
What kind of an idiot looks at hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities and thinks, “It’s not the debt, it’s the humidity and heat that’ll kill us”?
Anyone who wanders through the south in summer?
So let’s just stick with fossil fuels, the cascade is irreversible and already underway. No point in trying to reverse it.
I’m OK with this decision. Means we get more case law on what necessity is. Defendants should be able to make all arguments in their defense and necessity is an affirmative defense. Good luck to them convincing a jury of the immediacy element.
“Me and Milo’s gay lunch in Manhattan was disrupted when a hoard of chanting, screaming leftists wouldn’t let us go back to our table to eat. They blocked us then pushed Milo and it was getting violent. We had no back up on hand and so peacefully left. The staff seemed embarrassed”
In other news, Amanda Marcotte is retarded:
https://twitter.com/Chadwick_Moore/status/988455165748502529
And there is this thread:
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/988237703664713728
“Nazi scum” my ass. We know the real source of that crowd’s outrage.
Appeals Court Says Trump Cannot Delay CAFE Penalties
I wonder what effect this will have on GM and Ford, as far as their recently announced phase-out of small car lines is concerned. Most of that production just serves as a CAFE numbers game to offset the cars and trucks which actually make them money.
You’ll get your small car and like it! /Judge Smails
The appellate court said the four from out-of-state can use the threat of climate change as a defense for their actions.
Swell.
4 day pass! W00t! Imma post these links and get outta here. That ol’ Platoon Sargent won’t be telling me what to do!!!
Whoa! Whoa! Hold on! Have you had your safety brief yet?
Yes. AND I have my reflective belt on!
Glowworms today, glowworms tomorrow, glowworms forever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=try3zkyvCXs
Speaking of non-Hitler, non-World War II History Channel documentaries. Hooked: Illegal Drugs and How They Got that Way is also an amazing documentary
Broward County deputies are on the case!
This past weekend, Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv visited a gun range with his father, who wanted to teach him how to shoot.
A perfectly normal and peaceful, in no way threatening activity.
There he was ordered to the principal’s office, where he was met by an armed “school resource officer” (read: school cop) who escorted him to his office and, with the aid of another cop, one sitting behind Kashuv, the other in front (can’t be too careful about these 2nd Amendment types, y’know), subjected him to an interrogation regarding why he’d gone shooting, who he’d gone with, what gun they’d used, and so on. Eventually yet a third officer appeared, to engage in the customary police practice of asking the exact same questions all over again, interspersed with jeers about Kashuv’s support for gun rights. Apparently, no thought was given to the policy that no student should be questioned without a parent present.
As if these a-holes could not get more reprehensible.
Sue the fuckers.
And find a new school.
Active shooter? BCSO hides in stairwells.
Law abiding kid goes to the range with his dad? BCSO springs into action!
What a pathetic organization.
By the way, here’s the worst take on that one.
So a flagrant track record of instability and abuse… quietly swept under the rug because, hey, policing is hard, and the guy has an ethnic last name
vs.
a guy whose only crime is being avowed in asserting his Second Amendment right.
Yeah, these two are totally, contextually identical incidents that need to be treated in precisely the same manner (despite the fact that the first was glad-handed for years before he committed the atrocity).
Christ, what an asshole.
I wish they would treat them the same. If so, the “resource officers” would run and hide whenever Kyle walks past, and any sheriff’s deputies called to “interview” him would hide behind their cars in the parking lot instead.
Glenn Reynolds had that take, something like “you know they weren’t actually treating him like a criminal because they weren’t hiding behind their cars”
MOAR
The Tale of the Slave
I was going to claim that someone had ripped me off, but my Parable of the Fractional Slave was written about 10 or 12 years ago, so Nozick beat me to it by about 30 years.
There are differences, and as I have never read AS&U, my work was completely independent.
But the underlying premise is similar.
9 years ago, I found my first draft in a google chat archive. I know I “published” it on TOS some time shortly after.
7:23 PM
me: Are you familiar with the idea that was “proposed” pre civil-war to end slaves by freeing them for 1 day per week and allowing them to earn money to buy other days of freedom?
end slavery
[redacted]: lol
that’s crazy
7:24 PM
me: I dont disagree, but it was a way to end slavery while respecting the [bogus] “property” rights.
I think the price per day would have been fixed and anyone could have bought the freedom for a slave.
[redacted]: interesting
me: it ends slavery within a generation just not all at once.
7:25 PM
I think new borns were free.
7:26 PM
Anyway, for some reason I was thinking about it the other day, and I thought of the situation where a guy was free 4 days a week. So, he picked cotton as a slave M-W and then worked as a blacksmith or something Th-Sa (Su was a day of rest).
7:28 PM
Anyway, his owner gives him a proposal “You could make much more if you lived in the city, instead of commuting into our small town, how about we make a deal, I own 43% of you, you move to Atlanta and work for yourself 7 days per week, but send me 43% of your annual income, for as long as I continue to own 3 days of you. deal!” And the slave agrees because he will make more with 57% of his blacksmith work than he did as a part time blacksmith.
7:29 PM
Moral of the parable – microslavery is still wrong.
[redacted]: indeed
and therefore we are slaves to anyone to whom we pay a tax?
7:30 PM
me: anyone who claims a demand on our life. But that is just your conclusion from the parable.
It has many layers. 🙂
7:34 PM
Jesus was better at the parable thing than I am…he didnt need to the long lead-ins explaining silly proposals that never were seriously considered.
[redacted]: lol
good point
First name of a leftist friend of mine redacted. Typos are mine.
“Of course, taxation isn’t slavery, it’s the price you pay for all of the benefits you get from living in society,” says every statist of any political leaning whatsoever.
I always want to ask these people if I can (attempt to) sing opera songs in my backyard with an amplifier, then go around to every house within earshot and forcibly take $20 for them since I gave them a benefit. Never mind if they didn’t actually enjoy it or if I disrupted their peace and quiet; they’re free riders, and they must be forced to pay for these benefits that the entire block got to enjoy.
This is where you get either a great chance to quote Bastiat’s bit about confusing society and the state as they tell you, “Who doesn’t want roads, though? And you’ve got to have police otherwise there’s no one to protect you from crime! And how are you gonna pay for those, smart guy?” or you get the ol’ social contract business: “Everything you have at some point involved the government, even the money you use to buy things, so you owe for it, and if you don’t like it then leave.”
There he was ordered to the principal’s office, where he was met by an armed “school resource officer” (read: school cop) who escorted him to his office and, with the aid of another cop, one sitting behind Kashuv, the other in front (can’t be too careful about these 2nd Amendment types, y’know), subjected him to an interrogation regarding why he’d gone shooting, who he’d gone with, what gun they’d used, and so on.
Yeah, we definitely need more cops in schools.
Take a gander at the magnificent mammaries of these classy ladies.
http://thechive.com/2018/04/23/search-the-globes-and-find-her-34-photos/
1, 7 and 10 would do me just fine.
Had me at #1.
A Day in my life:
Scheduling department doesn’t setup the parts correctly. Shipping department doesn’t use the right (and very custom / and documented) process to create the shipper. Surprise! The ASN fails. Customer complains.
Email from engineer to me: Can you get on this ASAP?
Me: …
Will David Hogg sell more guns in 15 minutes than Obama did in 8 years?
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/04/24/backfire-in-progress-lefts-war-on-the-nra-has-reaped-big-rewards-for-the-nra/
Why am I not in the business of badly re-posting other people’s Twatter feeds to make money? Goddamn that’s a good gig if you can get it.
It is like some sort of Buzzfeed-ish thing for the Right.
They do feature some useful/interesting nuggets, but yes, on the whole it’s ridiculous clickbaiting.
RE: Socialist medicine.
“Alder Hey [Hospital], therefore, won the right to end his life.”
How can anyone on Planet Earth, outside of self-defense, ever claim that under any circumstance there is a “right to kill”? Things are getting very weird on the Septic Isle; it’s almost as if Orwell were a prophet, not an author.
James Bond? 21st Century style.
Good ole Alder Hey.
If the Alder Hey Organs Scandal wasn’t enough to cause the Brits to tear down the NHS, nothing will.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal
Yet, we’re told that socialized medicine removes the profit motive so that doctors can focus 100% on providing the best care…
How can anyone on Planet Earth, outside of self-defense, ever claim that under any circumstance there is a “right to kill”?
You’re twenty weeks along and the baby daddy stepped out for smokes a month ago and never returned?
re: Alder Hey Hospital
Remember that it’s also the hospital that did this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal
beat me to it!
Trump is hosting Macron for a state dinner. I hope it’s KFC and Pepsi.
Meatloaf would be even better
Trump would do anything for love, but he won’t do that.
Not feeling so hot right now.
Please. It’s Trump. He would, too.
For crying out loud
Well-done sirloins, smothered in ketchup, with McDonald’s apple pies for dessert. All guests get one scoop of ice cream only on that, of course.
Trump gets 2 scoops. It’s good to be king.
Well, yeah – I said guests. Donnie Two Scoops isn’t a guest.
It will be frog’s legs.
Shouldn’t we all just love and respect a system that has results like Alder Hey say it’s in Alfie’s ‘best interests’ to die and judges have also agreed.
Hey, at least it was free!!!
Anyone surprised by this finding?
Venezuela Banned Guns. Now Their Murder Rate Is Skyrocketing.
In 2012, the Venezuelan National Assembly, which was dominated by communists, passed the “Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law.” The bill was clear that it aimed to “disarm all citizens.” All gun sales were banned except to government entities. If a citizen was caught selling a gun or carrying one, they could get 20 years in prison.
The year preceding Maduro’s disarmament initiative, Caracas recorded a homicide rate of 122 per 100,000 inhabitants, roughly 20 times the global average of 6.2.
So what happened next? The national homicide rate rose from 73 per 100,000 in 2012 to 90 per 100,000 in 2015. In 2014, the Maduro government invested $47 million to create 60 centers for voluntary firearm trade-ins.
Time Magazine reported:
The government says there were almost 18,000 murders in this South American nation last year, giving it a rate of 58 homicides per 100,000 – compared to 4 in the United States. The independent Venezuelan Violence Observatory claims there were really almost 28,000 murders. An annual comparative survey classified Caracas as the most homicidal city outside a declared warzone in 2015, with 119 homicides per 100,000. … More than 330 police officers were murdered across Venezuela last year, according to counts by human rights groups.
This is an example of why 1) anti-gunners are wrong and 2) why comparing one country to another is apples to oranges. Venezuela started out with a much higher homicide rate that the US but it got even worse when they instituted stricter gun control.
Venezuelan gun control was not about murder, it was about rebellion.
Venezuelangun control is not about murder, it’s about rebellion.Fixed it for you.
^Yep
Given the prevailing “right side of history” mentality on the left, I’d argue they’re even less concerned about rebellion than murder. They’re millennialists, not for Christ, but for government: there can be no rolling back the State, because the State is righteous and the sinners will wither and repent under its pitiless gaze.
I suspect it’s just good ol’ parochial tribalism. Gun laws almost exclusively inconvenience people on the right, so pass a raft of ’em whatever they do and drink up those conservative tears.
I agree. It’s primarily kulturkampf. For a lot of people in the anti-gun crowd it’s about the kind of people who want to own guns, not the guns themselves, which is why the fact that gun bans don’t have much affect on homicide rates isn’t the point for them. People who want to own guns are effectively saying that there’s a scenario in which they could see themselves threatening to shoot someone else, and that’s supposed to be the sole prerogative of the state.
How many of the higher number of murders are perpetrated by Maduro’s government?
New gun-grabber talking point: gun owners are inherently murderous, and when their guns are confiscated, they feel provoked and go on murder sprees. Therefore, we must not allow them to have guns in the first place.
That’s about as articulate and thought out as their stance on what to do about the fact that there are already hundreds of millions of guns in private hands, no credible way to go about confiscating them, and no way, as we’ve seen with drugs, to prevent their importation even if we did hoover them up.
(Of course, that assumes they’re honest brokers in their desire to see them confiscated, when, again, I suspect they’re primarily motivated to punish lawful gun owners.)
WHAT HAPPEN!!!!
Sanders to announce proposal promising jobs to all Americans
As evil as the welfare is, “jobs” for everyone has a certain communist ring to it.
I always wanted to mine salt!
In Soviet America, salt mines you.
The workhouse system was prone to abuses.
Bern just mines the past for bad ideas that got thrown away.
My job will be playing video games 8 hours a day. Thanks, Bernie!
QA is a thankless job.
No one needs more than one kind of video game.
*Hands out Frogger to everyone around*
You are in violation of the video game committee’s decision that the video game be Pong.
I was thinking Pong at first but wanted to get some flavor in there, sorry.
Slacker! *I* will double it to 16 hours a day for the same pay!
Okay, but you have to play our buggy, incomplete game, and fully document how things did not function and what was required to cause the problem, so we can pass the reports on to the devs.
Here’s UCS, swooping in to be the joy vampire, crushing the dreams of the helpless masses.
In this proposal, would the joy-vampire be the player or the antagonist?
Choose your own adventure.
You can have three devs and an intern. Try to make it look like an indy production.
“We’ll dig a new Panama Canal!”
Here’s your teaspoon, Comrade
Better yet, an aircraft canal.
“that due to the canal closing British aeroplanes are forced to fly around the Cape. [pause for laughs] It is my intention to cut a canal across Africa so that they can fly over that.”
It’s not hard to provide jobs for everyone – just have every city hire crews of people to dig a giant ditch and pay another crew to fill it back in. But that’s no different than welfare.
It’s getting people a productive, sustainable job that is the key, and only free market capitalism can provide that.
How’s that for a market distortion?
We’ll pretend to work, they’ll pretend to pay us.
Now THIS is how you advertise a car.
Those are very large headlights.
Cricket match, Australia, 1980s: guy and girl walk in front of “the hill” the most notorious section of the ground. Girl has, umm, large headlights with erect nipples. Drunk guy next to me stands up and yells out, “hey mate, you left your parking lights on!” 2000 people collapse in laughter.
$80K and only one pic. Lame.
Scroll.
If you build it, they will cum. They chick is hot, too.
Yeah, these guys are doing it right.
Dayum…..they do like the thick girls
Chicks dig a six pack.
https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/988740215383740416
Sounds awfully familiar.
Fucking pathetic.
Europeans need to wake the hell up and kick these Lefty morons out of office.
Who says that traditionalism is dead in Germany?
I wonder how much of the tolerance for backwards migrants in Eurostan is because of a shared hatred for the Jews? Nothing unites like a common enemy, after all.
I wouldn’t doubt it.
I always assumed that was an underlying motive.
just have every city hire crews of people to dig a giant ditch and pay another crew to fill it back in.
“Boss say, ‘What’s your dirt doin’ in his ditch, Boy?’.”
“If it’s your ditch, it’s your responsibility to clear it out.”
The Glibertarians comment section as an animated metaphor.
Kobayashi? Eh, looks wayyyy too young to be a lawyer.
1132am:. Greatest threads on DU:.
1). Hilarious Reddit memes.
2). America supports teachers.
3). Trump supporters driven by fear of losing status as white Christians in America….
6) hannity is welfare queen …
Search for term “Alfie”in last week:. 0 hits
Search for “Venezuela”: 10 articles, 4 comments.
New Yorkers are leaving New York in droves. I bet it’s because DeBlasio, PBUH, is just not doing enough to combat climate change or obesity or DER TRUMPUTINFUHRER, and so residents are quitting the city out of despair. If only the good mayor could turn his attention from all those quotidian concerns like crime, public education, roadwork, and sanitation, and focus on what really matters: reducing carbon pollution by some fraction of a fraction of a percent of the city’s contribution.
Or… maybe there’s a silver lining. Blue-state immigrants aren’t fleeing their lefty enclaves. They’re missionaries sent forth to preach the gospel of progressivism! It’s not that New York has failed New Yorkers, or California Californians, it’s that the good women and men and all kinds in between leaving those bastions of progress wish to correct the sad predicaments of failed red states by bringing blue state wisdom to the benighted midlands and deserts of this once-great country.
Or maybe repealing SALT deductions put the final nail in their coffins.
Whatever the case, citizens are fleeing blue states in waves.
Fuck you, The Hill, I got an autoplay video ad with the Trivago uncle.
If you’re gonna be molested by someone’s creepy uncle, you could do worse.
Who said anything about molestation? That’s not a dick I would suck.
Hank Johnson worries that Texas will flounder in the gulf with so many heavy moving trucks parking there.
The people of Connecticut have been so throughly tax-farmed that they can’t make it into the top 10 emigrant states
State’s new plan for reduction of people leaving, heavy tax on Uhaul type vehicles or just an outright ban on such heavy fossil fuel burning vehicles.
When a friend left NYC after finishing her graduate’s degree, she flew me out on the condition that I’d help her pack up several suitcases and use my baggage allowance to ferry back her things. She sold or disposed of everything else.
At a point, I’d be thinking that anything that isn’t affordably shippable gets sold. Much easier to pack up a bank card than a credenza.
Of course, that assumes they won’t start expropriating travelers’ cash assets, like Cuba…
As long as they stay the fuck away from Arizona with their retarded shit. But, of course, they won’t and they’ll bring all their goddamn votes with them.
Every time I have stumbled across this picture on the internet, it was presented as being from like Arkansas circa 190-something.
But it’s actually from South Africa and was taken in 1993.
Well, there are parts of SA where the whites were always barely more prosperous than the blacks. The South African city dwellers I have known typically refer to these impoverished rural (usually with rural Dutch-Afrikaaner backgrounds) as “Hairybacks”, and dish out almost the same level of disdain that New Yorkers might show for Appalachian subsistence farmers.
It seems like the ol’ “city people turning up their nose at country folk” is universal and probably existed as long as cities themselves.
They have to do something to make up for living in cramped, pestilential conditions with no means of actually feeding itself without those same rural folks.
The watch is a dead giveaway that this isn’t a 1900s vintage photo. I’m not an expert, but I doubt you’d see a watch like that pre-WWII, and on an apparently poor person before maybe the ’60s.
Fuck you, The Hill, I got an autoplay video ad with the Trivago uncle.
I have (mostly) learned to keep the speakers turned off, because of all the fucking autoplay bullshit out there. I still have to hover over it and stop it6 from playing. I found a thing on “how to stop autoplay video by changing your firefox preferences settings”. Guess what- it had no effect.
The Hill is among the worst.
Blue-state immigrants aren’t fleeing their lefty enclaves. They’re missionaries sent forth to preach the gospel of progressivism! It’s not that New York has failed New Yorkers, or California Californians, it’s that the good women and men and all kinds in between leaving those bastions of progress wish to correct the sad predicaments of failed red states by bringing blue state wisdom to the benighted midlands and deserts of this once-great country.
Yeah, that’s it. Yay! They’re coming to save me from my antediluvian unwoke self.
I have a rather Biblical vision, in keeping with the sentiment of the passage, of starving locusts abandoning one denuded field in search of lusher bits of real estate.
Fucking republics- how do they work?
It’s hard to argue that the system today doesn’t disadvantage residents of large states like California — at both the US Senate and presidential levels. A Californian’s vote simply does not carry the same weight as the vote of someone in a smaller state.
The way it stands, a state with a population of more than 39.5 million people has the same number of senators as Wyoming, a state with less than 600,000, according to the most recent US Census projections.
———–
But there’s a strong argument that the House votes, while extremely important, matter a little bit less than Senate votes. Senate rules include the filibuster, which means either of Wyoming’s two senators have a lot more power to slow things down or stop them than any one of California’s 53 (unless those 53 are Kevin McCarthy, the Californian who is the odds-on favorite to be the next speaker of the House, or Nancy Pelosi, the chamber’s top Democrat).
Where the disparity really comes into play — and you knew this was coming — is in presidential elections, which as we all know are determined by a state’s electors and not by the votes of people in the states. Each state gets a number of electors equal to its total number of representatives on Capitol Hill.
Boo fucking hoo.
Whycome MAjOriTy nO Can’t taAke RiGHtS FromM MinOrity!?
Gosh, maybe if the federal government stayed within Constitutionally authorized limits and let the states handle the rest (if there’s going to be “the rest” at all) then those poor Californians wouldn’t be affected so much by those evil deplorable hicks in “flyover country”. I have zero sympathy for Lefties who want every policy implemented on the federal level and imposed on the whole nation, but get sand in their vaginas when they find that other states do in fact get to weigh in on federal policy.
It’s almost like a bunch of dead white slaveowners hashed out this whole system 100 years ago or something…
Look, here, the system works when it carries out their agenda. Everyone else is supposed to bow to their superior wisdom.
It really is about pure expedience with “progressives”. The one and only principle they have is “victory at all costs”.
I’m sure they’d take up the states’ rights banner if the FedGov were poised to attack gay marriage and legal abortion. And the very next day, they’d go back to saying that states’ rights is a racist concept that leads to stupid laws being passed by those stupid hicks in flyover country.
Is CNN arguing for greater federalism? Or for crushing states that stand athwart the right side of history?
“Whatever reason there may have been for equal votes by states under the Articles of Confederation, it must change with the creation of a national government. Under the Articles, the Congress depended completely upon the states to carry out its laws. With the new government we intend to create, however, it would not be fair for the small states to have as much say as the large ones.” James Madison, Constitutional Convention
“At first glance it may seem fair to give votes to states on the basis of their population; but stop to think about this for a minute. Would it be fair to give Virginia 16 votes and Georgia only one? Would it be fair to give three large states, and you all know who they are, more votes than the rest of the country together? ” David Brearly (NJ), Constitutional Convention
As a little history nerd kid I always got a kick out of the fact that New Jersey was the leader of the “small states” during the Constitutional deliberations. By the time little Diego came on the scene NJ was the ninth-biggest state in the union and much, much bigger than Virginia, earlier the paradigmatic “large state.”
Conceptually, I still have a hard time grasping the fact that there are people from there. Logically I know there are millions, but there’s that “this fact doesn’t seem kosher” dissonnance whenever anyone is stated to have been born there.
That’s odd; to me it seems almost like the paradigmatic state identity to be where you are from–in part precisely because there are so damn many people in the state but not a single city with its own metropolitan area. There’s a certain unity of experience, too, I think, pretty strong state culture.
To me New Mexico is the paradigmatic “hard to imagine it having a strong ‘where you from’ identity”–though I suppose its identity is poverty, drugs, crime, and hopelessness. On the East Coast, maybe Delaware–although it’s mostly just too small to make an impression on outsiders. In the Midwest, Illinois.
What about Ohio?
I never got that impression. I think people think that because of all the cities, but I always felt there was a certain central theme to the state. It’s an old state, an industrial one, and a populous one. And it seems to have a sense of rust-belt rivalry with its neighbors, giving it an identity. Maybe I also feel like no state with that strong a statewide football culture can be “not a place to be from.”
The more boring version of Indiana?
Ohio was forgettable, and I guess my mental image was just of emptiness.
This was greatly changed by getting lost in Amish country there last year…
HEY. At least we’re not Arizona. So you got Barry Goldwater, the Grand Canyon, and most of the year feels like living in a kiln.
I’m sure New Mexico would feel more like a birthplace and less like the place I was born if I were Hispanic or Native.
Benjamin Fucking Franklin, bitches.
So CNN is proud to display their ignorance? I can’t find anything else to take from that.
“And I don’t want to talk to a political scientist
Motherfucker’s prolly lying to me and making me pissed”
http://tvline.com/2018/04/20/ash-vs-evil-dead-cancelled-starz-no-season-4-bruce-campbell/
No season 4 for Ash vs the evil dead. Sad.
Someone linked to a facebook post yesterday where Bruce was saying he was retiring the character. Seems like it was his decision, not the networks.
Was it played out? Was the series declining? Seems odd to come to that conclusion now for no particular reason. It’s by far the most prominent thing he’s ever done. He’s too old to “want to take his career in a new direction” or to “take a break” but too young to need to retire outright. The franchise was already 35 years old when he agreed to this latest much-ballyhooed revival to its adoring fans; last I heard it was high quality and very beloved and popular, and it’s only been on for three years. Just seems unexpected in every possible way.
“It’s by far the most prominent thing he’s ever done.”
Burn Notice haz a sad.
That doesn’t make the previous statement any less true.
Ever see “Jack of All Trades”?
What…is…Burn Notice?”
I thought it was just ending. They announced the series finale and frankly, after this season’s storyline there really isn’t anywhere to go. Seems like they knew it was their last.
Maybe, just maybe, if progressive politicians hadn’t worked so hard to tighten the federal government’s grip on every fucking aspect of life and work, people in California could run their state as they pleased, and the people of Wyoming would be free to ignore them. And the President could play golf, or swan around the Black Hills in his Presidential Packard for weeks at a time undisturbed and unmissed.
“…or swan around the Black Hills in his Presidential Packard for weeks at a time undisturbed and unmissed.”
Sounds like P Brooks’ fantasy.
Definitely mine.
4 day board game con, eh? You know who else might be there? Someone in need of a good old fashioned ass-whooping, is who. So if you see a guy that looks like George The Animal Steele, you know what to do.
For some reason, I read the first part of that post as “4chan board game”… That brought back some memories.
Is that what we call doxxing now?
Yeah, it’s probably become impossible for anyone even remotely (and I am remotely) familiar with Internet culture to ever see anything between “4” and “board” any other way.
Untrue.
…then again, yopu probably don’t want to know what it read as the first glance.
If it lasts more than 4 days , you should seek immediate medical attention?