Seems like it’s just me here. Where is everybody?!
Sloopy, BrettL, OMWC, Swiss, and SugarFree (my favorite)…gone. All gone. I hope the Glibertariat is not also…gone. Or I got up early to do links for humans who are gone.
Hey, speaking of humans, on this day in history —
2003: Human Genome Project completion announced.
Which was really all put in motion on this day in
1953: when A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid was published.
1917: Ella Fitzgerald arrived to grace us all. Greatest female vocalist ever. Don’t argue; you know I’m right.
In more recent events
Thank goodness Chicago is a gun-free sanctuary, but the shooters using the guns-that-don’t-exist here need way more range time. Side note: must really suck to work in the ER at Mt Sinai Hospital.
Is anyone really surprised by this result in Arizona?
Bad news for some among the Glibertariat.
Who the heck is attacking Rand Paul now?
HM might need to dig out his checkbook for this. (Probably SFW)
H/T to PudPaisley for bringing a singer/songwriter to my attention. Just in time for an album release show at one of our favorite venues in Milwaukee next week. I really like Wisconsinite Pat Ferguson’s style. We might hit the show if OMWC can stay awake past his typical OM bedtime.
Have a super great day, kids! Try extra hard to be nice to all the stupid people you meet. They probably can’t help it.
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472 responses to “Wednesday Morning Where Did Everybody Go Links”
I’m here.
I’m terribly sorry you’re stuck here with me.
#MeToo
Same here. I am on and off. Also, I haven’t forgotten about your photos SP. If you are patient you will receive.
You are sending the Dark Priest of the Abyss images? Do you know what he can do to your soul with those?
Exquisite links.
Oh, fuck off.
No straying off the medical reservation now!
Gotta protect the Guild!
How’s the convention?
Set up is today. Sneak a couple of cocktails in and a game or two later.
Have fun! Game on!
What will you be playing?
(also, another reason I’m pissed of at the ex: he introduced me to Settlers just 2 months ago. Was looking forward to playing it lots more with him. None of my other friends is a board gamer)
To me, the magic rage words are “Food and Drug Administration” and “licensed.” I have no particular idea whether weed is good for sleep apnea, though some of you might. I’ve heard plenty of silly claims made for medical weed; on the other hand, I’ve heard baldfaced lies from the establishment using just these kinds of nothingburger weasel words–in particular regarding secondhand smoke and reduced harm strategies surrounding tobacco.
After leaving behind drugs for about twenty years or so, I started back with pot. I now drink a great deal less, my back doesn’t hurt as much after a long day of hauling bags of corn, and by god I sleep better. Apparently I snore less, and I don’t wake up gasping for breath. So it’s merely anecdotal, but I avoided getting a CPAP because of the side benefit of being a pot head.
On the flip side, I write less.
As far as I’m concerned, weed is, bar none, the safest recreational drug in existence. That is may have some medical benefits is just a bonus.
Huh, the way you hustled me out the door yesterday for this trip made it seem almost as if you were anxious to get rid of m… wait a minute!
Anxious, or just eager?
Worried he will find strange candy wrappers on the floor when he gets back
HM has a spare $150M for some thicc painting?! I knew I should have tried harder to make him a life long pal when he was visiting!!
Back to the 4 day pass for me! *hic*
Are you having fun with your boredgames? Punching out and organizing thousands of tiny little cardboard chits into fishing lure boxes? 😉
Dammit, you’ve reminded me that my Squad Leader stuff got burnt up in a fire.
I have the ASL Rulebook and the Starter Kit #1. I keep meaning to start, but just can’t find the time. It’s kind of intimidating. I think this is the kind of game an online Tutorial would be best (which i know of), or a real person who could mentor. But I don’t like real life people for stuff like that.
We are mostly Euro games, fewer pieces, cards and smaller boards,…I never fell into the giant Map o’ Europe Down to the Squad Level games. And half the convention is beer!
I haven’t played a strategy board game in probably 30 years but I have fond memories of Tobruk, individual tank pieces.
I am thinking of putting on my old DCUs and helmet and taking on all comers in the Battle for Baghdad…
Don’t argue; you know I’m right.
The contrarian in me will argue with anyone about anything.
Thing is, SP can reduce you to a pile of internet ash in the blink of an eye…. *shivers*
SP is the internet version of ZARDOZ
She gives the gift of the Glib and detests the scourge of the troll.
Oh yeah?
That’s bullshit.
No, I think he’s telling the truth.
Oh, I really doubt that.
Happy 101st Ella! Technically the sixth greatest female vocalist of all time, but that’s pretty damn impressive nonetheless.
Gah, I guessed right.
I was hoping I was wrong and it was some K-pop group.
Any list without Poppy at the top is schlock.
Video Game mini-review.
The other game I bought recently was released yesterday. It’s BattleTech (no official subtitle until the credits screen). While this too involves shooting things and blowing stuff up, it is a turn-based tactics game. I never played the tabletop game, having been introduced to the setting via the MechWarrior and MechCommander games. The ruleset feels like it has high fidelity to the source material. The plot framework is the sort of setup common to the games in the setting. It involves both the operation of a mercenary company and a deposed monarch trying to return to their throne. In this case you are the mercenary and the erstwile monarch has bought up your company’s debts.
Gameplay is easy to learn an addictive, with battles both being able to go fast and turn into crushing slogs. I’m still in the early chapters, but there have already been high points where I’ve crushed the enemy and seen them driven before me (thusfar no lamentations from their women, however) and times when my lance came limping home, one pilot dead, one bedridden for four months and the Mechs out of action for nearly as long. (I had one undamaged chassis after that battle – because it hadn’t deployed). The one feature I wish it had was the ability to name Mechs. I want to name the Jenner I use for scouting as ‘Bruce’ since it spends its time running ahead of the pack looking for controversy.
The game plays up how crushing the debts are supposed to be, but I ran the numbers. Monthly interest payments are 70,000 c-bills. That puts a ceiling on the principal at around 84mil. But, the game makes a point of the fact that these loans were gotten from lenders of last resort – “Shady Banks, Loan Sharks and leg-breakers” to be exact. So the interest is going to be higher than 1% PA. When you get up near 10% APR, the number for the principal falls to the range of what one high-end battlemech will run you. I’m going “Why can I only pay interest on this? I’m running a profit, lets pay down the principal.”
I very nearly ended up playing into the wee hours of the morning, but managed to pry myself away shortly after midnight so I could get some sleep before work. Anyone who likes the BattleTech setting, the games in the setting, or just tactical games should give it a try. While some people might take offense, but I have to rate it higher than FarCry 5, because I have not had a rage-inducing incident like the out of nowhere teleporting acid trip cutscene. Even watching a pirate punching the cockpit out of my commander’s BlackJack elicited an “Oh crap, I’m in trouble” reaction rather than anything resembling a risk of ragequit.
Oh, fair warning – the Starter BlackJack your character begins with is a deathtrap. In two out of two battles my guy was incapacitated for four months (only because your character is unable to be slain as a result of combat damage, unlike your crew). After the second go-round, there was a shortage of mechs, so I put another pilot with more experience in there. She was very nearly killed. I figured out that it is absurdly easy for the computer to get cockpit hits on that chassis. That translates to serious hurt for whoever’s inside. Store it or sell it as soon as you can.
Sure… I read this *after* I alt-F4’d when my character died from a single punch from a “Why won’t you die already!” flunky of the Pirate Queen last night….
Thanks man… as someone who hasn’t played in that universe since Mechwarrior on an IBM PS/2 in 1990 or so, I have to agree with your assessment. Not overly complex, yet feels true and oddly sucks you in. Only quibble I had was I kept thinking “Why the heck are all these societies devolved into effective or explicit monarchies, anyway? Stupid source material… I want to go found the MechWarrior Society of Leave Us Alone!”
There are societies of “leave us alone”, but they keep getting crushed between the others. I sat there an read the background lore, so there were severla mentioned just in the possible origins for the character. However in a reflection upon human nature, the rise of a strongman rule that transitions to monarchy is something we see recurring time and time again. Indeed, even today there are a massive number of monarchical states, even if they don’t use the classic titles.
That was the same guy who punched the cockpit out of my commander’s BlackJack!
Also, to be fair to you, the detail that your character can’t die is hidden in a tooltip in the mechwarrior barracks when I was checking on his recovery status. So it’s really easy to miss.
Only quibble I had was I kept thinking “Why the heck are all these societies devolved into effective or explicit monarchies, anyway?”
That’s fairly realistic, actually. Much more so than the concept of battle mechs, at least.
I’ve had my eye on that game since I first heard about it. I’ve got a bunch of games currently in rotation (AC: Origins, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, and Far Cry 5: No Colon Edition) but I have poor impulse control when it comes to games and I’m getting Far Cry 5’d out. Knowing about the endings is putting a huge damper on my ability to enjoy the game.
So I’ve read that there’s a bit in the beginning where the game asks you to pick a pronoun–he, she, or they–and that’s what it calls you for the rest of the game. It’s been something of a dog whistle on the Steam boards, not that you can really expect anything better from them. It did make me wonder, though, if there’s an SJW angle in the game. Is there? I just assumed it was innocuous and a non-issue, or at worst the kind of thing Ubisoft does in the beginning of each game where they have a brief disclaimer to say they’re diverse and woke so don’t pan their game and that’s the last you hear of it. It wouldn’t stop me from playing the game if the game itself is good, but I’m curious.
It’s a non-issue. After the character creation I’ve not seen any sign of an infestation of Wokeness. Mind you, I haven’t finished the game, but so far that was the only real sign.
Interesting. I remember seeing a demo of this game at last year’s E3. Is this a PC-only game?
I appreciate your thoughts on it, btw.
I don’t know if it’s available for other platforms – I didn’t bother to check. (And Gaming sites are blocked from work)
They’re blocked at my work too, which is why I was asking you haha
Ive never heard of BattleTechs, but the way you describe it makes it sound similar to the Xcom games? If so, I might pick it up.
From what I hear the XCOM games are harder. I was defeated by XCOM2’s pretutorial boss – the menu crash to desktop. I can’t really speak to how well they compare, but I suspect there may be similarities (and marked differences).
I feel like I had an issue like that. Setting steam to offline mode seemed to fix it. If you can get it to work, it’s a great game, easily my favorite of the modern xcom iterations (the DLCs are great too, especially war of the chosen). I’m not a great player, so I decided to play on the easiest difficulty but not savescum (as opposed to playing a harder difficulty, but save scumming when a mission went poorly).
It’s almost impossible to actually lose because you can indefinitely push the doomsday clock back, but I did reach a point where I almost didn’t want to continue because I experienced a major setback when my A team squad wiped and I lost a number of powerful and irreplaceable weapons.
I am a Kickstarter backer of Battletech and love the setting. I read many of the Battletech novels back in the 90’s and also had all the game and RPG stuff – it’s still in boxes in the basement. I really enjoy the game. If you care to learn more about the setting, check out “Death from Above” on YouTube. It’s the recording of a streamed RPG run by the developers of the game (Harebrained Schemes) with a Twitch RPG channel (HyperRPG). The first season is very good, the second season is mostly pretty decent.
If you want to be more successful in the game, here is some advice.
1. Never try to go toe to toe with anything with your light mechs. Use them only for identifying enemy units and then get them out of dodge. The best way to do this is to Reserve their initiative so that they actually go last in the round, then you have them run out to identify the enemy, then they go first the next round and you run them back behind your tougher mechs before the enemy can do anything about it.
2. Don’t expose the backs of your mechs, and make sure that you orient them so that one area of the mech can’t be repeatedly pummeled. If you take some hits to the right side of the mech, show the enemy the left side the next round. Conversely, you should focus fire from multiple mechs in one orientation until you take down an enemy, or render it combat ineffective. That will increase the odds that all your mechs will hit in the same area and go internal on the enemy.
3. Manage your heat wisely. Don’t fire everything all the time and pick your spots for an alpha strike. Most of the starter mechs have a mix of long and medium range weapons. Make sure you maintain your range at where they are most effective, and don’t waste shots/heat when you don’t need to or have low odds of hitting.
4. Use cover.
5. Focus the skills of your mechwarriors on gunnery first. If you can’t hit, you ain’t shit.
I contest your assertation that the lights should stay out of combat. I’ve had great success employing them as hunter-killers, especially against other lights. Bruce, in particular, is a scout-demolishing beast. Whether or not you should peek and run depends entirely on what you see.
One of my favorite moments in the game was when my Locust evicerated another with a point-blank alpha strike to the face. (Mine was the machine gun model while the target was a missile model, I think mine got multiple criticals on the ammo storage for the LRMs).
There is never a reason to mount anything other than medium lasers on a Locust.
The lack of hardpoints for energy weapons on some models of that chassis is a perfectly good reason – I don’t get to pick and choose what I scrape off the battlefield, and I have bills to pay, so I have to take contracts when not all of my best mechs are fully patched up.
Ah, game designer fiat.
Also, what kind of moron stores LRM ammo in the single available head slot?
*shrugs*
I shot it. It blew up. “Pilot Incapacitated”. I guess he was hoist by his own petard.
better than the default Marauder MAD-3R with a lone AC5 ammo in the left torso, if you get a through armor crit on the left side table it’s an insta-boom
The Jenner is one of the best mechs in the (tabletop) game if well played. In the hands of a good pilot who knows how to use speed, range, and cover effectively it is very deadly but it needs to keep moving fast and should NEVER get into melee range, melee is for big heavies with punching fists.
Not sure how well the computer game compares to the tabletop game but if you eventually get a chance to mod the mechs pretty much everyone strips out the SRM’s from the Jenner in favor of some extra armor and heat sinks
I think I upped the SRM count because the SRM2 got blown up. With an SRM6 and the medium lasers it’s shredding other lights. I didn’t have the kit for a one for one replacement. Since the change, Bruce hasn’t even needed to go in for repairs.
the canonical JR7-F variant does that, rips out the SRM4 and adds armor; probably my favorite mech. With level 3 rules allowing for flip arms, they’re fantastic flankers
another comparable light is the FS9-M variant of the Firestarter
Also, if the game is anything like the tabletop game then speed is armor.
Run fast enough and you make yourself difficult enough to hit that it is just as good or in some cases better than having thick armor
Move every round, because the evasiveness mechanic is a part of the game.
I have been waiting for this game for decades.
We used to play Battletech in the frat house, and I always thought that if there was a computer version of the tabletop game (as opposed to the ‘mech simulators that existed) then I could finally get a chance to play through the big war scenarios like Tukayyid. Humans really can’t play anything larger than a company over the course of a weekend.
I don’t know if the skirmish mode scales that large.
There actually has been one for years
https://www.megamek.org/
I’ve never personally used it but I am in a lot of Battletech communities and a lot of people swear by it
megamek is the game engine, mekwars is a giant online campaign that reruns the fourth succession war every few months. I haven’t logged on in YEARS but it used to be a fairly active community
I want to name the Jenner I use for scouting as ‘Bruce’ since it spends its time running ahead of the pack looking for controversy.
If you’re looking for controversy, shouldn’t it be Caitlyn?
Along with a crew of attack Kardashians?
Caitlyn doesn’t do much running.
I loved the tabletop game. But it is best enjoyed by not thinking at all about the weakass backstory/setting, and definitely don’t think at all about the absurd physics of the weapons.
“Long Range Missles” that do 1 point of damage and have a range of just over a mile.
One LRM Ammo pack weighs one ton. It holds 120 missiles. One LRM is about 16 pounds. Don’t expect it to have modern range and massive damage.
or that the bigger the autocannon the shorter the range?
They probably can’t help it.
Some people are willfully ignorant. So maybe they could if they wanted to.
I wonder if the real benefit of medical marijuana would be the help it gives in falling asleep and staying asleep while wearing the mask.
In my personal experience, indica marijuana is certainly the best insomnia treatment I’ve ever found.
Is there any suggestion that it interferes with sleep quality while making it seem like it helps you sleep–as with (certainly past a point) alcohol?
It has none of the downsides as drinking yourself to sleep in my experience. Sleep quality is improved, as I see it. And:
-Effective at (relative) lower doses
-Zero hangover effects
-Easier on your body, in the short- and long-term
-Acts as more of an aid to sleep rather than a pre-requisite
-Even more effective as an edible for non-smokers
And there are none of the side-effects reported by Ambian (sleep-walking, blackouts and other memory effects.)
I’ve been a very bad insomniac since I was a small child. Nothing has been effective for me.
have you tried a hop pillow?
The secondary use of hops is as a sleep aide, I dont think there is a third. Supposedly, if you put some hops in a small bag and put in under your pillow or next to you or whatever, where you can smell it, it helps with sleep.
I’ve never tried a hop pillow.
Although, I did make a typo above:
Nothing has been as effective for me (as marijuana.)
Sidenote: Ambien sort of works, but has a layer of danger for diabetics whose blood sugar might bottom out in the night. Reports are that it can keep you asleep through the early stage where you could still treat it yourself with glucose pills or a glucagon injection.
I’m a lifelong insomniac. Every so often I think I might want to do something about it, but every time I hear anyone talk about Ambien, my reaction is “That drug sounds worse than my insomnia”.
If you live in a medical or recreational state, or are fine with the black market, I’d give marijuana a try; edibles first, at a low dose taken about 1 1/2 hours before desired bedtime.
For a low dose of a commercial Indica edible–usually made to contain 30mg of THC–I’d start with half of a gummy or hard candy.
While MJ would probably work better, I would consider giving the hop pillow a try. An ounce of hops will run you about $5, so its a much cheaper option.
And the plants are somewhat related, so its possible the sleep effect is similar.
I saw this marijuana. Now I have insomnia.
Injectables?
Yikes
I have struggled with insomnia for decades. I took a script for awhile and hated the side effects.
I manage it pretty decently through behavior modification (go to bed at the same time; get up at the same time; etc) and with over the counter aids. I use melatonin, kava kava, valerian, and passion flower with good results. I typically drop off to sleep in under 15 minutes.
I sort of swing between not-going and not-staying in years-long patterns. Routine and ritual do help when I have a hard time going to sleep, but not when I can’t stay asleep. I just get a lot of reading done during those periods.
My first year with the CPAP machine has been a difficult adjustment, but I really am more rested assuming I don’t tear it off without waking.
I’ve been using a CPAP for 23 or 24 years. It was horrible when I started. I can’t sleep without it at all these days.
Jim Acosta is still trying to ensure a two-term Trump presidency
In a recent interview with Variety, CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta promoted a conspiracy theory without providing any evidence to substantiate his claims while he claimed that mentally “unstable” Trump supporters might attack journalists because of the Trump administration…
Acosta claimed that the Trump administration’s attacks on the media were all “an act” that the president’s supporters were too stupid to understand.
“The problem is that people around the country don’t know it’s an act. … They take what he says very seriously,” Acosta declared. “They take attacks from Sean Spicer and Sarah Sanders and what they do to us on a daily basis very seriously. They don’t have all their faculties in some cases. Their elevator may not hit all floors.”
The problem is that the Jim Acosta does not understand that it is bluster and a trap that journalists keep falling in to.
“My concern is that a journalist is going to be hurt one of these days. Somebody’s going to get hurt,” Acosta continued. “And at that point, the White House, the President of the United States, they’re going to have to take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves whether or not they played a role in this, whether they created this toxic environment that resulted in a journalist getting hurt.”
My concern is that journalists might lie us into a war or foment racial tension and riots one of these days.
How did that line go?
“Trump’s enemies take him literally but not seriously, Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally”
The most anti-press-freedom thing that Trump ever did (aside from the things started by Obama or earlier) was muse about a return to the Fairness Doctrine (“take away their licenses”). Other than that, nothing I can really think of.
Trump, so far, has had unpleasant words and no actions to follow. Barry often had pleasant words, but actions that betrayed those words. From observation of that dynamic and others, I can conclude that leftists care about style and words over actions and substance.
My wife and I get into it over Trump because I won’t say he’s the absolute worst imaginable president. I see him as par for the course, generally, and she believes he’s the absolute worst ever. But when I ask her what he’s done that she has a problem with it boils down to “his cabinet sucks”, “he’s gross”, and “he tweets too much”. The thing that gets her worked up is the image he portrays. If he said Progressive things and acted like an elder statesman he could dissolve the EPA and she’d have less of a problem with him than she does now.
That’s what pisses me off about this fanatical Obama worshipping. The fucking guy was identical to George W. Bush on matters of foreign policy, but Lefties don’t give a fuck about innocent families getting blown to bits by drones; they’re too busy fapping to memories of his Nobel Peace Prize and “amazing speeches”. God, I just want to print off the most explicit pictures of kids killed by Obama’s murderdrones, shove them in their face, and say, “YOUR president made this happen, so shut the fuck up about his pretty speeches!!!”
If the Nobel Committee had any integrity whatsoever, they would have revoked his peace prize ages ago (or never given it in the first place).
“That’s what pisses me off about this fanatical Obama worshipping. The fucking guy was identical to George W. Bush on matters of foreign policy, but Lefties don’t give a fuck about innocent families getting blown to bits by drones”
He was THEIR guy, so what he did was totes different. Shit, these people still claim he was a peacemaker and use the meaningless Nobel peace prize they gave him just to spite Boosh as evidence of that. The only logic you need to understand is that team blue’s cunts (and team red has the same problem) are fine with any action, no matter how vile, as long as their guy does it and then covers it with some veneer of legitimacy to give them grounds to defend the indefensible.
Anyone remember this eye opening event?
Acosta is like a crazy girlfriend
Only if you have no idea how the hot/crazy matrix is supposed to work.
Did he go on to say how stupid the whole Russia thing is and that people could be killed because of their insane sabre rattling?
All projection all of the time. Where is Suderman these days? He claimed Trump supporters would form vigilante gangs and murder people.
…one of these days.
Is this 1775? Am I in a time warp?
SJWednesday: But Mama Lets Me Dress Like A Floozy Edition
reprimands.
My anecdotal experience with inner city schools thru my mother-in-law suggests a few things. One, that $15 is nothing when it comes to girls fashion. Two, the girls revel in being a distraction. And three, there is no shame.
each shirt costs $15 online. That’s too much.
I can imagine her phone and the monthly bill is way more than $15
$15 online. She can afford an Internet connection and shops online but can’t drop $15 on a shirt…
I’d love it if my shirts only ran $15. Mind you I wear button-down collars in size fat bastard, so…
whose educations takes precedence over ours.
College graduate statistics, among other things, disagree with you.
I think these SJW “journalists” start with this phrase and build nonsense articles around it.
We have a dress code at my work (duh), and a new employee came in wearing shorts and a sweater one day. Because my place of work is weird, the management decided to email the entire company (200+ people) about the dress code instead of just pulling that one person aside and talking to them about their professional appearance. That’s annoying and just stokes gossip around the office. Its annoying.
But she is Hispanic, so maybe it was because they didn’t want to be racist.
“the management decided to email the entire company (200+ people) about the dress code instead of just pulling that one person aside”
I think this sort of behavior is not as uncommon as you may be thinking. I’ve seen this pretty much everywhere.
Its dumb and it encourages everyone to look for/ask around about who broke the dress code. Then you have everyone either speculating and hurting an innocent person’s reputation, or you have the guilty party actually getting even more embarrassed than they would have been otherwise.
What a crock of shit. The point of uniforms, particularly in schools with low-income populations, is that they eliminate the fashion competition and make it less obvious when one kid’s parents can’t afford new clothes. Uniforms are cheap.
Also…how can I put this. In the kind of DC schools where people think $15 for a shirt is too expensive you’ll be able to count the number of white kids on one hand. So, you know, that’s a crock of shit. There is no race angle to this. Just because you’re black when you’re called out for violating the school’s dress code doesn’t mean being black had anything to do with it.
Sorry the racial angle is bullshit bit as a father of a 15 year old girl who has no interest in dressing like a floozy, or really it is absolutely true. High School dress codes are left intentionally vague and then arbitrarily and randomly enforced and the logic behind them is fucking bullshit.
Teachers use them as weapons against kids they don’t like or styles they don’t like and nothing more. Hell they tried to “dress code” my 15 year old son for wearing a trench coat. Not a black one like you might see goth kids wear but a tan one like your average businessman would wear and my son likes it because it looks like Castiel from Supernatural
Just preparing them for the workplace.
except every single workplace that I have ever been in that bothered to enforce dress codes had very meticulously detailed ones because they WANTED employees to know what was and what was not ok. Not vaguely worded ones open to interpretation so that the cops err I mean teachers could wield arbitrary power
Our school had vaguely worded codes. It worked fine. They certainly wouldn’t have permitted girls to go to school without pants like they do now. Not that 16 year old me would have minded, but c’mon, that is pretty damn distracting.
1975. No dress codes. Halter tops were in vogue. Lots and lots of distracting skin.
I went to school in the 80’s when ultra short basketball shorts were the style for teenage boys in the summer. My school tried to apply the dress code against the guys using the same bullshit logic (it was a distraction), they had to back down when the entire football team wore miniskirts to school for a week.
Either way, but fuck you school bureaucrats if it is legal on the street then there is no fucking reason you should be banning it in school
SJWednesday: That Bitch Siri Edition
Robo-Feminism isn’t possible – Feminists can’t logic and chips can’t emote.
Robo-feminism? Thing go great, but one weekend a month your robot tries to kill you.
You could easily design a chip that sporadically opened and closed circuits randomly. Your robot would flail aimlessly, but if spastic ineffectiveness is desired it could be achieved.
I want a prize for finding the stupidest catchphrase of the day
So the author wants her phone to be a whiny scold? Seems like a poor marketing decision, but I am apparently out of touch with the modern wokeness.
More evidence that there are no real dangers in our world, when people can occupy themselves with such nonsense and tell themselves that these are Very Big Problems!
Higher intelligence combined with social animal traits is a curse and a blessing.
For a given value of higher intelligence. In the instant case higher than an amoeba.
Right, because when I’m driving around in hectic D.C. traffic and I tell Siri to “give me directions home” I want her to respond with “I won’t enact your labor for you, shitlord. Instead, lets discuss the wage gap.”
TK : “Siri, give me directions home”
Siri *gives directions to Cupertino, California*
Siri isn’t a person. Siri is an interface to a phone. When I dial numbers on a phone I want it to make the call, not get its feelings hurt. FFS, this is why serious people don’t take feminism seriously.
Alexa is a an annoying bitch, though. My GF is always screaming at her because she either doesn’t listen, or responds in ways that disappoint her. I rarely have these problems, but I also know not to expect perfection.
Women are like that.
I first read the site name as femifisting.
Which your sub-three decades of experience have convinced you are worthless.
Well, they monitor everything we say and can quite possibly use against us at a later date, so I think woman voices are most apropos.
Why are theses fuckers always looking for an authoritarian father figure – be it from government or the private sector?
Grow the fuck up.
Why the win for Republicans in Arizona 8 is still good for Democrats.
If CNN was a band they’d be the Spin Doctors.
Sure as fuck wouldn’t be the Presidents of the United States of America.
+1 Kitty
Drop the mic, and walk away, DiegoF. You ain’t topping that one.
In my opinion, they are not entirely wrong. Dems usually don’t even bother to run anybody in that district, and to get some nobody to pull 47% is not insignificant. It’s the same as if a Republican ran against the douche Gerry Connolly in Northern Va (they haven’t bothered to in quite a while) and pulled 47%. I don’t know what it says for the mid-terms – maybe nothing.
Even if the Dems lose house seats this fall, they’ll declare victory. It’s what they do.
How do you explain the various episodes of global warming and cooling that existed prior to humans even being on the planet? Why, a prehuman industrial civilization of course, brought to you by Scientific American no less.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-an-industrial-prehuman-civilization-have-existed-on-earth-before-ours/
Ten years ago even the National Enquirer would have refused to print this shit.
Article. Of. Faith. Warmism is a religion.
For some reason Climate Alarmists shut up when I ask them to explain the Carboniferous period.
I’m not that well versed on the ins and outs of climate change to be honest but I know bullshit when I see it, and that article is bullshit.
The Carboniferous period infuriates people arguing over atmospheric carbon dioxide because it was A: a time before humans B: had massively more CO2 in the air than today C: so verdant that it left thick layers of plant matter from which we are still mining coal and D: had no shortage of animal life either.
Yeah, but what was the sea level in Malibu and the Hamptons?
Yes, the idea that warmer temperatures = doom is soundly defeated by the fossil record. As well as can be determined, the majority of earth’s past has been hotter than it is today.
Weekly. World. News.
I think the Weekly World News had more truthful content than these CAGW sermons. Plus, it was hilarious.
I still have an old issue on my coffee table as a conversation piece. The cover has the titles “Aliens Going Home: Why They’re Leaving“, “Kid Hercules: How Did This 6-Year Old Get So Ripped?” and “Asia Miner: Family Digs All The Way To China“.
I remember one of their front pages had a picture of some animal (crab?) nests which they tried to pass off as “ALIEN POOP!” Some time later, on a Scouting hike in Mississippi, I happened to see the “alien poop” in the wild. Got a few chuckles from my Scout buddies.
What a fall from grace.
I eagerly await their next articles on phlebotomy and phrenology and how they’re ripe areas for new research.
“Special Phlogiston Issue!”
Maybe they’ll feature an article about the rediscovery of ether!
Or maybe hollow Earth theories, speculation on what the moon is made of, and revisiting the earth/wind/fire/water theory of matter.
“Balancing the Humours: Why too much copper and lead in your diet might be bad for you!”
Isn’t the whole theory they are espousing that burning fossil fuels is releasing all the carbon that was sequestered during the Carboniferous? Why on earth would you need, or even believe possible, an earlier civilization? The whole concept is that the baseline carbon level for Earth is much higher than today, but much of it was sequestered in coal/oil deposits.
I sometimes want to make the argument that burning fossil fuels is climate restoration. We are just undoing the damage those giant ferns did to Gaia!
Dude, everybody knows that Satan put the fossil fuels in the ground to trick us.
And now the White Devil is using the BLACK coal to ruin Gaia. It’s proof of his Trickenology!
Weird that they would be able to find occasional bones and skeletons from hundreds of millions of years ago in the fossil record, but somehow there was elusive and far less biodegradable pieces of evidence from a pre human industrialized society remain elusive. Seems legit.
#science!
Holy fuck is that post ever a horrible smattering of diarrhea in a canvas.
Scientific American is no longer the search to pursue science, but to promote scientism.
And yet no artifact from that “era” has ever come to light. Amazing that.
I used to listen to Coast to Coast, you are a dupe! Those artifacts are stored with the aliens at Area 51. Remote viewers have confirmed it.
I like that show ancient astronauts on the History channel. Aliens crossed interstellar space and piled up some stones into crude structures. Sure, that make total sense.
Sounds like Frank might be aiming for a jig at Everyday Feminism with that kind of flim-flam.
Also, I’m not saying it was aliens but…. it was aliens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Zx77LbEwk
Totes legit.
Go to a library with a big collection of magazine back issues and compare a copy of Scientific American from 1964 with a current one and weep for what we’ve lost.
Look, you ain’t woke, bro. Science is not so much about math and chemistry these days, it’s about more important stuff, like intersectionality, sure our rockets may no longer fly and our bridges may fall down, but we be woke!
You could do the same with Popular Mechanics.
Paging Cenk Ugyr
The Armenian Genocide was not primarily a genocide. Indeed it was a genocide — Ottoman Turks targeted and massacred over a million Armenians — but genocide was not its defining feature. “Genocide” comes from the Greek word “genos,” from which we derive “genetic.” It entails race and ethnicity. Genocide is the killing of a race. The Ottoman Turks did not target Armenians primarily for their ethnicity but rather for their Christian faith. In the early fourth century Armenia became the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as its state religion. At the time of the Armenian genocide, the Muslim Ottomans also slaughtered some 750,000 Greek Christians; 300,000 Assyrian Christians; and 250,000 Maronite Christians. Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians do not share a common ethnicity. The Ottomans slaughtered them because they worshipped the same God…
Cowards in the West conflate race and religion because all men are created equal but all ideas are not. Those who suspect certain ideas are better than others fear being smeared as “Islamophobic” — that is, harboring an “irrational fear” of Islam. The Ottoman Turks did not irrationally slaughter two-and-a-half million Christians; contemporary Turks, among others, do not irrationally persecute Christians in 2018. They did and continue to do it for a reason, which still we obscure. On Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, even a century later, denial abounds.
Idk. It could have been because the Armenians and other Christians did not provide an adequate, tropical snack bar.
Not the newest but a particularly good Freedom Toons.
Not really relevant I guess but the Cenk Uyghur business reminded me.
Swiss is on leave; relevance is not required.
He’s lurking between nerd meetings and drinks with nerds at his nerd convention.
*narrows gaze, wanders off*
Freedom Tunes does Cenk and other “journalists” on guns
“And how do you know they’re Nazis?”
“Because I call them Nazis!”
“Well you call men women, so…”
Pictures of the non-genocide by the friendly neighborhood Turks. Greeks there went through a similar experience a century earlier as they fought for independence.
There are some photos in that batch I haven’t seen before, thanks. Gruesome.
Is now a good time to start talking about reasonable gun control?
You know what? I think I’m gonna save that link for the next time one of my idiot proggies starts mewling about the dangers of guns.
The crucified women… That’s how I imagine the Appian Way looking when Crassus finished off the slave revolt, but you don’t expect to see photos of in from the 20th Century.
The crucifixion photos aren’t the most gruesome of the batch, but they certainly are the most stirring. Mission accomplished by the original creators, I suppose.
Evil. Pure evil.
Cenk Ugyr was murdered by this tweet the other day.
https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/988810022510583808
Burn!
Damn.
So Hitler killing the Jews wasn’t genocide either?
After all, there were plenty of Jews in concentration camps that hadn’t had a relative living in the Middle East in 1,000 years.
SJWednesday: Asian Navel-Gazing Maneuvers Edition
Asian-Americans being smart is the biggest myth out there. If they were really smart they’d be in full-bore rebellion against proggery because they are its biggest victims. Instead they’ve only gotten more and more on board as time has gone on.
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Amirite?
At least these are Americanized Asians, If the actual Asians fall into this nonsense all hope is lost.
Somebody’s got to enact our labor for us.
This. I don’t know what you people are doing to the yellow man in the states, but they aren’t Asian in my book.
This is in part due to the fact that when people assimilate, the majority assimilate to whatever is the prevailing culture of the area they live in. For example: Californian Hispanics are far more liberal, on average, than Texan Hispanics. Therefor it follows that Asian Americans will be fairly liberal, on average, as the largest Asian American communities are in such deep blue bastions as California and Hawaii.
“I feel like, for me, that would be a good starting point to talk about what we [Asian Americans] want as a community — what our needs are — and then build it from there.”
I have a sneaky suspicion this will not involve creating and building your own shit, but making a bunch of demands on everyone else and their money through force.
Man, that’s a lot of buzzwordsalad. You’re a tough competitor for Derptetologist, that’s for sure.
I’m humbled by this great praise.
I give it a 7 out of 10 on the Leftist buzzword scale. It could have had a 9 out of 10 if they had worked in the phrase “yellow bodies” somewhere. Amateur mistake.
tl;dr. Does it explain their slanty vaginas?
Asians are one of the most successful ethnic groups in America. They got there through extreme cultural pressure to work hard and get a good job. As Thomas Sowell pointed out, Asians and Jews became very prosperous because they don’t have “community leaders” on the national stage telling them that their problems are the fault of someone else and it’s someone else’s job to fix it for them. I guess that author wants to reverse that strategy.
Also, it may just be semantic nitpicking, but I find it hard to take someone very seriously whey they begin ostensibly factual statements with “I feel”.
SJWednesday: How Can the Dating Woman Find Peace With Rape Culture
In stick figure cartoon format, as is appropriate..
In a shocking revelation, I’m going to guardedly defend that EF cartoon.
It’s idiotic, but hardly an impractical way of organizing that first date *IF* you’ve been fed endless tripe about just what the odds are of being raped on a first date by a stranger. If there’s an accusation of idiocy to be addressed it’s that they needed to use a cartoon and 532 column-inches of cells to articulate the message.
However, this is not a dating woman. It’s a woman who will suffer a greater level of solitude because of her lack of flexibility and adventurousness.
It’s more an indictment of the whole approach to interpersonal relations among that set. Perhaps they should get out, meet people, and get to know them before dating. Just a thought. Hooking up with strangers over the internet wouldn’t be my first method for relationship success.
But I would date any of you guys, because based on my experience here, you’re all perfectly harmless.
HM and SF get the basement ready, we have a live one here.
As long as I get to bring my own basket of lotion. That cheap stuff gives me a rash.
But the gimp’s sleepin’. Should we wake him?
Hooking up with strangers over the internet wouldn’t be my first method for relationship success.
Don’t knock it till you try it.
if you go on a first date at a guy’s apartment to drink martinis, then he is signalling that he wants to fuck and you are signalling back that you do too.
if he gets defensive about your refusal, then he just saved you wasted time and effort by telling you he’s unstable up front before the first date.
The real problem with that cartoon is the entire premise falls under the category of things that virtually never happen because 99% of guys make the same damn calculation…
This chick could be a bunny boiler, stalker, or accuse me of of raping her if I meet her for the first time in either of our apartments so I’m going to suggest someplace public where I can get a better sense of who she is before I invite her home for martinis.
As a guy I would assume that a chick who was pressuring me for the first date to be at her place for martinis was either using martinis as a euphamism for hot sweaty one night stand random hookup sex or someone seriously unhinged. I would expect every woman on the planet to make the same assumption if the roles were reversed.
I won’t say that random internet guy pressuring a woman to meet at his place for drinks on their first date has never happened but I will say it has never happened to 95% of women.
Wait, I thought a woman having to calculate and minimize risk was victim-blaming?
James Comey – utter moron or master of sarcasm?
That depends on what your definitions of those terms are.
Swamp culture. If she were president, there’d be little risk of him being indicted. “disappeared” maybe, but not indicted.
Our traditions and norms of cronyism and criminality. He’s actually dead on here.
COMEY: Certainly given her commitment to undermining our traditions and breaking our norms and debasing our values and flouting the rule of law, yes.
Fixed
This illustrates why conversations about politics with partisans are a waste of time. How on earth would you have a meaningful conversation with Comey – or someone who admires Comey.
Careful there. These people don’t admire Comey at all. They in fact hated him and were demanding he be put in a vat of boiling pitch just a while back until Trump showed him the door and he wrote the fictional manual of his that seems to favor the left. I ask everyone that misses this stuff to show me where Cindy Sheehan, a once darling of the left, is these days theta the dnc operatives with bylines no longer need her to peddle their side’s cause celebre.
The media may not admire Comey but plenty of people do. You do make a fair point. I would modify my original statement to include people who admire – or who are willing to use – Comey. You still can’t have a meaningful conversation.
given her commitment to our traditions and our norms and our values and the rule of law, yes.
An interesting statement considering the detail in which he once described her crimes.
The “traditions and norms” of politics is that the establishment elites do whatever they want and enjoy supra-legal privilege. People are fucking sick of these “traditions and norms”, and that’s a big part of why Trump won.
What the fuck doesn’t he get about this?
Ella Fitzgerald always bored me to tears. Now Billie Holiday, though not as technically proficient, tugs at my heart strings like no other.
For folk music, Sandy Denny.
For alt/whatever music, the queen of them all is Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGmvXGBBfjs
Each bring something brilliant and unique to the table. Ella elegance, Billie passion. I do like Billie’s interesting catalog from big band to her somber works later on.
The the third lady often grouped with them Sarah Vaughan I never quite caught on to.
I tried to like Sarah, but yeah – didn’t do anything for me.
I recently delved into more obscure female jazz vocalists and there are many out there that have become a bit more forgotten or just plain ignored as time has marched on: Ernestine Anderson, Peggy Lee, Toni Harper, Marilyn Moore, Etta Jones, Linda Lawson, and Lucy Reed -to name a few.
Lee Wiley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL4WyAZVJFs
Peggy Lee and Anita O’Day I really enjoy.
There are a few others but their names escape me at the moment.
Blossom Dearie is another.
A shout out (not the best) for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk6kvVGPURA
Canada has the Canadian Tuxedo
Michigan/Midwest has it’s own form, which is worn by 90% of the male population. Blue jeans, usually one size too large, and lately with “fancy” pockets. A belt to keep ’em up, unless you are a plumber. Add in a t-shirt, or, if the weather is cold enough, a sweatshirt with favorite sports team. (Alternative: place you work or hunting gear). Baseball cap with said sports team and/or place of employment.
Is that tuxedo supposed to be worn with a Colombian neck tie?
Via TOS: Your daily nutpunch. This one’s especially infuriating.
tl;dr: Chicago’s in massive debt, which they’re trying to solve by stealing cars from people who commit minor offenses that might tangentially involve their cars and for which they’re almost never charged criminally.
I blame Chicago’s years of far right wing governance.
Chicago doesn’t even have to follow state law or orders from state court judges.
Also:
.1 grams? There’s a good chance you have that at the bottom of your shoes after walking around the city.
*rubs hands together greedily* perfect.
/Chicago Politician
Nick DiPaolo fired from Sirius XM for Tweet about that idiot Fresno professor.
When will the over reaction stop?
Venezuela fires two Chevron execs for refusing, get this, to take part in corruption:
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4165059-venezuela-just-sealed-fate-oil-production-set-plummet?ifp=0
I thought they were also arrested for crimes against the state…
Hi SP! Your cookies are still the best.
*EDIT FAIRY SAVES BACON*
Hi bacon! How’s things?
The Blues missed the playoffs. What do you think? /slap!
I wouldn’t say they missed them, Bob. /slap!
Good but busy! Learning new things is fun and challenging.
I’m against the death penalty, but I’m willing to suspend that belief for this.
Get’s em every time
Whee! That’s my favorite edit fairy!
Climate change is ‘not as bad as we thought’ say scientists
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/950748/climate-change-scientists-impact-not-as-bad-on-planet
Ya, we pushed two of our terraforming units past their recommended overhauls despite numerous emails from the onsite engineers. The idiot managers were trying to make cycle goals. Regardless said managers were invited up for a ‘critical leadership meeting’ on the flagship, annnnnd promptly shoved out an airlock.
ENOUGH OF THIS MADNESS! ARREST THE DENIERS!
Time for a dunking!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunking
How the fuck is this even related to the first half of the story? It doesn’t refute it or alter it or even address it in any meaningful way.
It would be like my saying “My wife painted the walls in my bedroom green* yesterday however today is raining and overcast” it is a complete and total non sequitur. They don’t even make the claim that the changes in wave height are driven by climate change in the article but even if the researchers did make that claim in their paper it would be irrelevant because the initial study discussed does not make any claim about there not having been any past warming so the wave study would still be perfectly in line with it’s findings.
SPORTZ BRAZ.
http://archive.is/fPlgg
“Here’s the statement of security consultant Jonathan Nichols regarding the claims of blog-hacking by MSNBC’s Joy Reid.”
https://twitter.com/ErikWemple/status/988963435412107264
tl;dr: Doctor Who is working for the Russians.
Why the hell do I always take a snorkel into the river of sewage?
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/988886928920637441
LOL
Nice rant: http://www.kimdutoit.com/2018/04/23/fucking-leftist-bullshit/
He’s still around, huh
Recently resurfaced. His wife passed away recently.
I heard that, I thought he Quit because Sad, I wouldn’t blame him, He is still a mean old man, Thank God
No he quit years ago just because he was done with it, was off line for a long time, and then his wife died like in the last couple years.
I think he needs the Patreon income.
I haven’t seen this guy in a really long time, like since he was shilling for Iraq War 2. I liked the rant though.
Meh. Degenerates into a NeverTrumper rant. How dare they think for themselves! Get on the MAGA train!
Manichean nonsense.
eh I stopped reading when he called Obama a serious Marxist. Either he has no clue what a Marxist is or he is flat out lying.
Obama was neither a political or economic Marxist and he wasn’t even close to being in the same ballpark as one.
It is really hard to pin down what Obama actually was because no on has bothered to coin any terms that apply to him.
In a lot of way Obama was essentially a Fascist. Not a Nazi but he had far more in common with Mussolini’s Fascism than anything Marx ever said however there were a few key differences. Fascism rejects foreign cultural influences and elevates the nation over others. Obama however denigrated his culture as being lower than foreign ones and elevated internationalism over national interests.
So what do you call a Fascist who rejects his nation and culture in favor of a globalist approach and foreign cultures? THAT is what Obama was we just don’t have a word for it.
Cuckist?
Obamist?
Tranzi.
I don’t think it’s entirely inaccurate to call Obama a Marxist. He thinks “income inequality” is “the defining challenge of our time”, and never really explained why incomes should be equal when there are vast differences in competence and the type of work being done. He just works from this unsupported premise that one person making more money than another person is an evil that must be stamped out by the government.
That would merely be something he agreed with Marxists on, there are things we (libertarians) would agree with Marxists on that does not make us Marxists. At no point has Obama ever advocated for or expressed support for the idea that the means of production should be collectively owned so he is not a Marxist
I’ll settle for a puerile chameleon in it for himself.
He was no Marxist. I agree.
OT: On the way in to work I heard that another judge has ruled against Trumps DACA rescission on the grounds that the admin. did not provide adequate legal justification. I am at a loss here because I am pretty sure that any executive order previously enacted can be altered or removed by any future administration. This has gotten into very dangerous territory.
Yep – the justification for DACA in the first place was “I got elected and have a pen” so let’s import more Democrats.
Look. This fucking ratchet only turns in one direction.
It’s part & parcel of that promise to fundamentally change America..
Packing the courts with activist judges has been part of the prog plan for a century. I think lifetime appointments of judges was one of the few mistakes made in the Constitution.
I didn’t see this as a mistake. The problem we need to solve is the fact that the lies and destructive shit peddled by the people that have abused the system seems to be so attractive to so many people. No system in the universe that I can think of can kill off the problems caused by people driven by envy and jealousy of others. Especially when they have a cadre of lying cunts telling them those others didn’t earn anything but stole it.
It is dangerous precisely because the backlash against the judge is going to be treated as purely partisan instead of as a principled stand for the rule of law. This will just make it more of an incentive for judges to pick sides for protection against criticism.
Okay. I tried to read that “Scientific” “American” article about the Lost Industrial Civilization which explains the otherwise anomalous non-anthropogenic temperature variations. Instead of looking for obscure clues about temperature fluctuations in sedimentary layers, why not look for the sort of tangible inorganic things which would be created and left behind by an “industrial” society? Like… you know… buildings, or self-propelled conveyances (terrestrial or otherwise), or tools.
I didn’t get all the way to the end. Maybe it was an extraterrestrial race who were devoutly adherents of the “Pack it in, pack it out!” ethos of wilderness exploration. Yeeesh.
As long as you came away knowing that the Original Sin of humanity soils GAIA and can never be fully cleansed except by paying higher taxes and electing Democrats then the article was a success.
Pack it up, pack it in
Get in, get off, get out?
far more of that than you think would be eroded away to nothing by a few 10’s of millions of years.
evidence for cars wouldn’t last 1000 years, evidence that there was a building somewhere might not last 10,000 for most buildings. There was a show discovery channel did at one point called After Humans in which they postulated all humans dissappear overnight with no other changes and then work through what would happen. By 100,000 years in the future from that event essentially there would be no evidence that humans had ever existed on the surface of the earth. Under it sure there would be some but now throw in another 29990000 years how much of that evidence would be destroyed by tectonic activity? If such a thing ever existed for all we know the land it used to be located on is currently located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean or under Antartica and so we never found any evidence for it because we’ve never looked in the right place?
Or heck maybe we have found evidence for it and didn’t know what it was we were looking at…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-nuclear-reactor/
That said, while the theory is plausible I think we can pretty effectively dismiss it because any technologically advanced civilization would be a global one and even after a billion years some of it’s artifacts would remain to be found and we would have found them by now. Heck the easiest thing we would have seen is evidence of ancient mines in existing mineral deposits and most especially since the source of most of our Coal was from a time far before any intelligent life could have emerged on earth, far enough that it’s remains would have already been coal at the time of the dinosaurs. Given that I find it impossible to believe that a global technological civilization would not have mined the majority of the worlds coal that originated in the carboniferous era.
So that right there is pretty solid evidence that there has never been a prehuman civilization on Earth that even reached 19th century levels of technology and therefore they certainly would have left no global warming impact
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/988840070504435712
LOL
Oh my goodness, that is absolutely priceless. Layer and layers of quadruple-checking oversight at work.
Gold, Jerry! KEK
‘How to speak millennial’
https://www.ft.com/content/04ddf0f8-4230-11e8-93cf-67ac3a6482fd
In case you’re paywalled.
http://archive.is/oXu15
We don’t use “slap” or “babe” like that… but the rest is fairly accurate.
“Try extra hard to be nice to all the stupid people you meet. ”
Ha! No.
I think I am very nice around here.
This is nice robc?
Yes. You should see what an ass I am face to face.
*mind blown from oxymoron*
So….ass to mouth? ?????
For Animal “Try to maul and eat the stupid people you meet”?
I can work with that.
Sports: The Reds won 2 in a row for the first time since September.
They tried to blow it, they gave the Braves 4 in the 9th, but won in the 12th.
Anyone think that this potential revelation will go anywhere? I mean, anyone that doesn’t have their heads up their asses and knows the laws involved, knows that this happened, but forcing the douchebags that think that the criminal activity by Hillary was much ado about nothing to accept this happened, would be a win for all. If Hillary, and for that matter Obama, gets away with doing what they did, we are going to keep this weaponized government that is more interested in protecting itself and views the rest of us as disposable serfs.
*EDIT FERRY CAN’T FIND LINK*
The blown link aside, I’m sure you’re right.
Try again… link.
Cool link bro
Are you talking about this story?
But the Clinton campaign’s control of the contributions did not end once the funds reached the DNC, as the complaint filed with the FEC detailed. Rather, public statements by former DNC chairwoman Donna Brazile acknowledged that “[a]s Hillary’s campaign gained momentum, she resolved the party’s debt and put it on a starvation diet. It had become dependent on her campaign for survival, for which she expected to wield control of its operations.”
Gary Gensler, the chief financial officer of the Clinton campaign, which operated as Hillary For America “HFA,” out of Brooklyn, New York, likewise stated that the Democratic Party was “fully under the control of the Clinton campaign . . . . The campaign had the DNC on life support, giving it money every month to meet its basic expenses, while the campaign was using the party as a fund-raising clearinghouse.”
By excercising control over the DNC’s funds, including funds transferred from the HVF through the state parties, the contributions qualified as donations to the Clinton campaign for purposes of federal campaign finance law, and when properly accounted for exceeded the legal contribution limits.
Added my link above, but this is a story in the similar vein.
Utopia update.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/venezuela-malaria-cases-jump-69-percent-180424172239443.html
“These are the largest increases reported anywhere in the world,” he added, blaming a lack of resources and ineffective anti-malaria campaigns.”
If only the state had taken more of the people’s money…
It’s OK, because everyone has the same access to getting sick and dying.. Social Justice win!
Proof that socialism is equal to classical liberalism.
Classical liberalism abolished starvation, malaria, small pox, rickets, and slavery.
Socialism restored starvation, malaria, small pox, rickets and slavery.
Classical Liberalism and Socialism
Equal in magnitude opposite in direction
IT’S STATE CAPITALISM YOU DUMMY
/Chomsky
The US is late stage capitalism. Venezuela is late stage socialism. The immigration rates of both nations prove which ideology is superior.
Are you saying Venezuela is better because they’ve managed to avoid this immigration problem by bankrupting their welfare programs faster?
Reading the quotes from Pedro Alonso, the WHO malaria guy, made me want to reach into the computer and slap him. It’s fucking communism that caused it you dumbshit. And it’s infected Venezuelans fleeing that shithole that is spreading malaria across the continent. Not a lack of resources or education.
And reading this made me sad and angry at the same time:
Just visit a prostitute already.
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.4633051/why-some-incels-are-celebrating-toronto-s-van-attack-suspect-1.4633057
Hey, once this dude reaches pound-me-in-the-ass maximum prison, he won’t have his incel problem anymore. He’ll be involuntarily incelibate. Chortle.
+1 couldn’t get laid in a whorehouse
NBC News described incel as an “internet hate group” this morning.
I’m unconvinced it’s not just another 4chan prank.
What happened to the old days when a man who couldn’t get laid took out his frustration by blackening another man’s eye in a bar?
That’s what we considered therapy where I grew-up
The men that did that are in jail for assault, as they should be.
Not if it were mutual combat. I’m not saying assault
By excercising control over the DNC’s funds, including funds transferred from the HVF through the state parties, the contributions qualified as donations to the Clinton campaign for purposes of federal campaign finance law, and when properly accounted for exceeded the legal contribution limits.
There’s nothing wrong with Dark Money as long as it goes to a Democrat.
https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/988955761102540800
After removing his ventilator, the UK child has continued to breathe which has infuriated state authorities. So now they are starving the child.
It can’t happen here*
*Not for at least another five years
“All glory and power are yours, all mighty state”
Forever and ever, rule Britannia
Someone in the comments claims that they let him go home. Have you seen that anywhere?
No. But, apparently, they have relented and decided to feed the child after he survived 28 hours without anything to eat. So, my original link was old
https://twitter.com/LifeNewsHQ/status/989126944661778432
The media is putting “vegetative state” in front of the wrong person.
https://twitter.com/Pontifex/status/988496588283826177
Of note, the pope dubbed a “socialist” has led the call opposing what the UK has done here
He’s been pretty consistent on what you might call “prolife” issues (death penalty, abortion, etc.) hasn’t he?
Yes. He really wouldn’t have a choice in deviating from those principles. The so called “Catholic Left” are not comprised of people that want to water down the church’s pro-life message. They are primarily people who believe that abortion and immigration, for example, should be given equal footing despite what the Catechism states.
Does he not have a plane? Seriously. Fly in, go to the hospital, and carry that kid out. Make the UK government arrest the fucking Pope.
Do it Francis.
This is not the first time they have pulled this shit. This right here, this is socialized medicine. This is what you get for half your income.
This exchange was in the comments:
You got that? The NHS is the most important responsibility.
Europe has not become more secular. It has instead converted to a new church- the Church of the State. This is a trajectory that has continued since Robespierre’s Cult of Reason. Most people (but not all) need some type of belief in a higher power that is righteous. In the absence of a sky wizard, people are naturally drawn to the concept that the nation, itself, is divine.
And that is why maintaining the American concept of religious liberty is so important. Not affording accommodations for the religious is an implicit acceptance that the State is the one true god.
Michael Burleigh has some really good books on this.
Here’s one.
If you give up your guns, they will starve your children to death in the name of compassion.
War is peace, freedom is slavery etc. etc.
“The Prosecution of Count Dankula
The problem with defending free speech is that you never get to defend it on exactly the territory you hoped for. Of course, one keeps one’s fingers crossed that the next defense of free speech will be mounted against an attempt to ban Areopagitica or burn all extant copies of A la recherché du temps perdu. Alas, events tend to turn out otherwise.
Having solved all burglaries, muggings, rapes, and parking offenses in the nation, the Scottish police decided that it was necessary to arrest and charge Count Dankula. The authorities then chose to prosecute him.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/count-dankula-mark-meechan-prosecution-free-speech-battle/
Well, yea. You can only stop the resurgence of fascism by acting like a fascist. //Anti-faThug
Well dammit, just found out my favorite teacher from high school died in 2014. He taught Latin, English, and Western Civilization, and was the toughest grader I ever had. The man had three PhDs and was an amateur archaeologist as well as an artist. I learned more from him that the rest of my teachers combined. The damn school ran him out in the 90’s because some of the parents complained that he was too tough. I never forgave the school for caving on that.
Bye Doc, you’ll be missed. Hope you’ve got plenty to read.
In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro
“Latin, English, and Western Civilization”
He sounds alt-right or something. Latin and Western Civilization are racist and patriarchal or something
Goddammit. Maybe this is an echo chamber.
(echo)
He certainly wouldn’t have claimed all cultures were created equal.
Sounds like a proto shitlord. I’ll drink one for him tonight.
“Juuuust a bit outside”
True story, he would offer 1,000 points of extra credit in Latin if you could answer a single question.” What was the name of Caesar’s polydactyl horse?”
Only one person ever found the answer, which back in the 80’s was buried in a single dusty tome in some university library.
Do you speak Latin fluently?
Oh hell no. I took all the national exams and did well up through 4th year and AP, but once I left high school it went by the wayside.
I still have nightmares of translating Virgil’s Aeneid, with its extra special uses of the ablative that appear nowhere else in all of the Latin texts.
It’s still pretty cool that you got to read some of the classics in their original Latin. Even most Catholic high schools don’t teach Latin anymore
If I were to go back and try to read anything, it would be Caesar and Cicero. I recall enjoying those.
My son is taking Latin in Catholic school now, but it’s primarily focused on the Vulgate and texts written after that point. The church tended to use a simplified grammar compared to the early Romans.
Which Caesar?
Julius. He was consciously aping Alexander the Great and Bucephalus.
Decades from now, Empress Kardashian the 4th will wear a trucker hat in an attempt to evoke the glory of Trump.
My Ghost will wail endlessly through the night.
And this will be when the Four Horsemen begin their ride
Good news, everyone! The dreaded pistol emoji on your phone is going to be replaced with a cute cartoon squirt gun.
I feel safer already.
Now if only we could do something about assault poptarts
America the Pussification: Part whatever…
*peeks out of closet*
*notices that it is a real squirt gun and not a pop tart eaten into the shape of a squirt gun*
*dives back under pile of blankets in the closet shivering in fear*
“Intellectual Refusniks and Renegades
Human beings are drawn to those who are willing to risk everything to say “no.” Society pushes us to embrace a variety of causes — and particularly today, in the era of mass media and social networks, we are expected to abide by the standards of our peers. If individuals refuse to do so, we immediately ask the question the lawyer asks of Bartleby: Why? Why are individuals willing to risk so much to speak the truth as they see it, to avoid conforming with the crowd? Perhaps they have allegiances to principles that are deeper than those of our postmodern culture, with its emphasis on relative truth and on identity above argument. Perhaps those principles mean something.
And they do. Human beings are drawn to truth. They resonate to data. They want to hear arguments rather than character assaults. That’s why the same incidents that cast Harris and Weinstein and Peterson out of the fold have built them newer, stronger, more interesting audiences.
We live in a society that embraces the totalitarian rule articulated by T. H. White: “Everything which is not forbidden is compulsory.” But those who refuse to abide by that rule must have discovered something worth fighting for. And perhaps we have something to learn from them, if freedom means triumphing over the kindly-hearted totalitarianism of the intersectional Left.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/sam-harris-jordan-peterson-intellectual-renegades-audiences-growing/
“And they do. Human beings are drawn to truth. They resonate to data.”
Oh man, this gave me a hell of a laugh…
I have found that people, especially the ones that think they are the super smart ones, because they believe the marxist woke nonsense the left’s intelligentsia peddles as the bar for being an intellectual, tend to despise the truth. Especially when said truth challenges their beliefs. Not saying this is exclusive to team blue, but the manifestation there takes a new level of insanity.
woke nonsense the left’s intelligentsia peddles
Who are you to disagree with the experts, you cousin-fucking shitlord? ///Tony
Well played man..
For a second there I thought it was really that old douchebag Tony.
That stuck out to me too. I think Ben Shapiro is participating in the left’s favorite pastime – projection. He is drawn to truth. He resonates with data.
Most people are just looking for someone to confirm their bias. That being said, I do think that Peterson and Harris resonate with people that are center-left simply because I think people are getting tired of being called “racist, sexist or whatever-phobe.”
All I know is that it sure is fun watching the left eat their own, their latest casualty being Joy Reid. I wonder who’s next?
The left have a very real problem. In my observations, despite all the ongoing effort by Youtube, Facebook, Google, etc, to silence all opposition to the accepted group think, the left are still getting beaten to a pulp on the internet. If that’s slowed down any at all, I can’t tell it, in fact I think it’s getting worse for them. They’re no doubt going to have to resort to more severe methods to silence their critics. Maybe they can have a serious talk with China’s emperor to learn how this can be done. I was just reading a headline this morning, somewhere, that the first known victim of China’s social credit score system found himself unable to board a flight because he’s on ‘the list’. That place is quickly turning into a real progtopia.
I have noted several times lately that all of the lefty websites/news sites seem to have taken down their comment sections.
There’s good reason for that. Their writers were being savaged in the comments.
The two things people hate the most are truth and responsibility.
The left want the truth, except that they want ‘their’ truth, not the reality kind. They definitely do not want responsibility, which is why they never cease to call on the government to take more of that away from them and let the state deal with it. The issue is that the state is very inefficient in dealing with that. It’s why we’re seeing the breakdown of society. This is why we get school shootings. When I was growing up, if there was a problem with a certain student or students, the teachers and parents took care of it. Now, both the teachers and the parents shirk their responsibility and call the cops and put the student on AD meds or anti-depressants.
NBC News described incel as an “internet hate group” this morning.
*searches “incel”*
Huh. Whatever.
Self hate counts, right?
Incel is supposedly a group of guys that are angry that they are celibate, but not by choice. Meaning they are unable to get laid for whatever reason, and they hate the world for that. In our new proggie everyone is a victim society, they are basically claiming to be victims, which gives me a good laugh..
Maybe it’s just me, but I find it extremely pathetic that anyone would go on the internet and brag about never getting laid. WTF? Is this the new breed of mangina? In fact, I can’t even believe it. Anyone can get laid, maybe they just need to lower their standards a little or get a personality or something?
I’m a short, dorky, chubby, very introverted doofus, and even *I* managed to have sex a least a few times before I turned 20.
Clearly you’re a slut, be more picky.
Back in my 4chan days when I would run into these guys, I would say something like:
“Go out and join a church, or some other social organization. You’re not going to meet women by sitting in your mom’s basement.”
Surely ganging up with fellow not-laid-getters is the correct path to individual betterment
Yeah, that’s a real statement there, sure to peak the ladies interest.
They’re generally the type who cry that “assholes get all the girls!”, so they act like assholes (I mean, they usually act like assholes, but they redouble their efforts), still no women will go anywhere near them, which is all everyone’s fault but their own.
My favorite ones are the white supremacist + incels (you see that combo a lot). They generally think that (1) black people are stealing all the white women, because (2) the Jews control all women everywhere and are doing that on purpose.
My favorite incel of all time is this dude https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/socially-anxiety-dating-government-should-pay-women-date-men_n_3293626.html
That article fails to point out that he’s extremely angry at his mother …
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for not having sex with him.
Here’s him at his most insane.
https://i.redd.it/mrc49sueh5h01.jpg
Well there’s a potential candidate for involuntary commitment.
That is positively surreal.
I have a suspicion that those guys are all a bit off.
Ok, what I really mean is they are completely bug-fuck crazy.
“Staring at boobs is just one of six easy ways men can live longer”
https://nypost.com/2017/03/27/staring-at-boobs-is-just-one-of-six-easy-ways-men-can-live-longer/
In other news, Q is over 9,000 years old.
I gift this knowledge to all of you so that you may live as well.
So are you going to take the form of a giant floating head and start puking out boobs all over the place?
Soooooo…….
When universal health care comes around, we can mandate that all hot 19 year old women must share their boobies with us, right? You know, for health reasons. If you can mandate that doctors and nurses provide services…..
Human beings are drawn to truth. They resonate to data. They want to hear arguments rather than character assaults.
The available evidence does not support this claim.
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
One of the truest lines ever spoken.
Right up there with “I want to look good naked” from American Beauty.
Wise words from Agent K.
https://twitter.com/Madonna/status/786105573364359168
WTF???
Is Madonna advocating a coup?
Nightmare juice. At least she has the excuse of releasing that prior to the election. Oddly, I want to watch again.
I love that Madonna’s avatar looks like a Bratz doll. Act your age, Ciccone.
Today is ANZAC Day.
2015 100th anniversary at Gallipoli.
And this time with the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGjPaQ8a3XY
Despite the government of Australia, I have a very soft spot for the Aussies. 70+ years and they’re still taking care of our regimental chapel.
Video of a *former* NYC Port Authority commissioner arriving at her daughters traffic stop…
(@1:21)
… and immediately begin trying to tell the police what to do, whipping out her (no longer valid) former PA badge, insisting that she now has some legal authority in the matter, threatening to ‘talk to the mayor’, and insisting that these children attend MIT, Yale, (which apparently means they are Supra-Citizens, entitled to deference, or something) …. to which the police politely repeat that she has zero relationship to the incident in question and that she isn’t due any particular information or deference. She then threatens them repeatedly.
More on her bio – not relevant, really, but informative
I assume some people will have stereotypes of a certain kind of NY-area personality confirmed. The reality is that the cop-attitude is far more stereotypical than the woman. Tho her general hubris is something you can find lots of, in various forms, in the north-jersey/LI/Westchester suburbs.
Someone posted this yesterday. My opinion of it is still the same, the cops were actually very polite with her, she’s obviously just a c word with a capital C.
I was very impressed with the officer’s handling of the situation. It would be difficult to maintain that level of professionalism in the face of that level of rude for such an extended run.
She’s a real piece of work. I can’t wait for the next time she gets pulled over.
Probably makes me a bad person, but I was seriously almost wishing she’d start hitting the cops or something and get body slammed and cuffed.
The cops handled it perfectly. They had her on video being a bitch and attempting to throw her weight around. That had to be one of the most enjoyable reviews of dash video in the history of the precinct.
Every “normal” (soldiers, cops, guards, maintenance people, Bill Clinton…) who meets her seems to come away appalled at her demeanor.
Well, there’s the little detail of “Using your (irrelevant credentials) as claim of authority” potentially being a crime or ethics-violation which could justify disbarment.
Showing her badge to cops was bad enough (“that is my ID” – no, its not: its not legal identification, its a show of status); demanding to be called “Commissioner” was simply adding to the clear intent she had in trying to sway officers of the law via some show of her official-status
the civil code in NY is stricter than that of NJ (not surprising since corruption is like a statewide past-time); but flashing your badge at a cop when you’re just a retired civil servant could be a crime.
Oh, and *of course*…
…she’s the Chairperson of the NY/NJ Port Authority Ethics Committee
it wasn’t perfect enough, so reality had to step-it-up
“The Price Of Freedom Is £800”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VDfcrDHvzE
https://www.gofundme.com/fund-the-count-dankula-appeal
“£94,266 of £100,000 goal
Raised by 3,912 people in 23 hours “
Where is that? Canada or Britain? Or Germany? How the hell can making a dog up as a Nazi be any sort of crime?
The UK.
I should have noted the monetary unit. But I just guessed right away it had to be among the top choices. I wonder how their war on knives is going?
This happened on that Miserable Little Island
Scotland
But there were protests in London:
https://twitter.com/OpinionatedEuro/status/988892727835287552
Those Londoners are obviously racist Islamaphobes and Nazis.
The price of worldwide media attention and martyrdom – 800 pounds.
Benny Hill and Monty Python just couldn’t happen today. I’m surprised they let Top Gear go on as long as they did.
Fawlty Towers would have rejected just for the Manuel character.
Que?
¿Què?
Si.
Don’t mind him, he’s from Barcelona.
Hillary Clinton, the Garfield of Chappaqua.
You mean a bunch of unctuous, fart-huffing tools make for bad company? It takes a special sort of cretin to make Clinton seem sympathetic.
I disagree with Kyle’s premise, though. Clinton’s a misanthrope, sure, but walling herself off from reporters and voters was the best tactic she could have taken.
I wish she’d wall herself off from the public, period. And take Obama with her.
“Cask of Amontillado” style
Once Future First Lad approves of this.
I don’t watch the Simpsons, but did Apu have a nice slurpy machine?
Squishee.
https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Squishee
Look at that list of flavors. Dude was totally woke. Wheat grass, nummy.
On one such fence-mending effort in New Hampshire, Chozick writes, “She exuded a particularly icy aloofness and a how-long-do-I-have-to-talk-to-you-a**holes demeanor that made me feel as if I’d never been born.”
Useful idiots are only tolerated if they are being “useful”.
The Modigliani masterpiece has rekindled my opinion that the art crowd is entirely populated by ego-stroking idiots.
That thing looks like it was done by an utterly pedestrian college sophomore artist. My sister has done better nudes – and that’s no exaggeration. Anyone who pays big bucks for that thing is too busy worrying about what other people think. Because I refuse to accept that more than a smattering of folks find that painting particularly alluring – or even interesting.
The professional art world is about selling the most pretentious descriptions possible for the worst work imaginable while maintaining a straight face.
I don’t have a very high opinion of what passes as art (whether paintings, sculptures, or poetry) these days.
I’m not going to sit here and pretend to have a grand philosophy aesthetics all worked out, but I think something is fishy if a total amateur could do an impression and have it be indistinguishable from the genuine article (see: Ern Malley).
I have two very simple criteria – it has to look good and demonstrate skill that the average person does not possess.
I agree with the skill requirement. Some of what passes as art is just paint smeared on a canvas in a manner that 4-year olds can and do replicate every single day.
One question I’ve struggled with is this: Once you’ve met the skill requirement, is there some standard of “good” for art, or is it all just opinions? If it’s all just opinions, what’s the point of studying it and debating whether or not it’s good?
Is it what the majority of people find appealing, and if so, should the radio Top 40 be recognized as the greatest art of this generation?
The only criteria for good art that makes sense to me is longevity. People like Shakespeare and Homer are still popular today, so perhaps there’s something in their works that addresses timeless human conflicts. But that brings back the question of why you would ever debate and discuss art – if you can’t tell if it’s truly good until several centuries later, what’s the point?
It’s worth discussing art and the merits if you recognize there is no one true objective measure, and the curators are often the crowds insisting the Emperor is not naked. A lot of the worst excesses of the modern scene come from those with too much stake doubling down on insisting they’re 100% right and those that disagree are unsophisticated rubes. If you can have a conversation that goes “I think it’s ugly” “I can see where you’re coming from, but I disagree” (or the equivalent) then discussion becomes possible.
Interesting.
On the same general topic, the opera Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan is a funny send-up of pretentious, pompous, conceited, artsy-fartsy types.
Especially clapping together pieces of junk metal or such. Because of the 1% [wastage] for art requirement in public works projects, the state DOT puts these nonsensical structures on the side of the road. Either you whiz by at 75MPH and see a glance or it’s a giant “fuck you taxpayers” children’s toy on the corner.
Good god, that’s a thing?
I guess it explains why the otherwise pleasant nature preserve in my town is spoiled by hunks of twisted sheet metal on pedestals.
Don’t remember who said it, but I follow the idea that, “Art exists to remind us that beauty exists.”
My sister has done better nudes
She a goer? You take pictures? You know what I mean? Nudge, nudge say no more.
“Senator Rand Paul reversed course and voted for the notoriously hawkish Mike Pompeo to become our next Secretary of State on Monday, after assurances that President Donald Trump intends to end the wars in Syria and Afghanistan as well as reform the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act.”
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/04/exclusive-details-trump-assured-rand-paul-that-he-intends-to-end-wars-in-afghanistan-and-syria-work-with-him-to-reform-fisa/
If Trump does any of that stuff, the left will go totally ape shit. I mean even more ape shit than they are now.
Double secret ape shit?
Triple dog dare you secret ape shit.
That would be something to see. A bonus on top of ending the wars.
As I’ve been saying since the beginning, the best thing that could happen for the country right now is for Trump to listen to Rand more. I’d like to see Trump de-schedule cannabis and announce the end of the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns and start bring home the troops all on the same day. The epic apocalyptic meltdown and implosion of the left and their media would be priceless.
It’d be fascinating watching them explain why the US shouldn’t get out of Iraq.
Like I said, priceless, because you know it won’t be more than a couple of days before WaPo, CNN, and NYT strarted churning out bullshit about why we have to stay in all those places. Trump could snatch up a baby that was dropped on a train track right before the train ran over it and they would spin it in a negative way.
“President in attempted kidnapping scandal! Sources say ‘unnatural’ interest in children may be involved”
/CNN
Blue tsunami
The Arizona race, in particular, was cheering to Democrats because none of the caveats that might have applied to previous special elections were in play: The Republican candidate, new member of the House Debbie Lesko, was perfectly fine; the Democratic candidate wasn’t considered anything special; the district doesn’t appear to be an outlier in any way.
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I’ve been saying for a while that we are on track for a unified government after the 2020 election. Even if Democrats fall short in 2018 in Congress, a presidential win for the party in 2020 almost certainly would get them the rest of the way to majorities in both chambers. If President Donald Trump does win re-election, then Republicans would regain their majorities, even if Democrats do well this year. I have to say, however, that I now see a real possibility that Democrats could do so well in the House this year that their new majority might even survive a presidential loss in two years.
The other thing that seems increasingly plausible? That one or more seemingly safe statewide Republican candidates will suffer an upset no one sees coming, and maybe even one that no one sees coming up until Election Day, in part because there’s often very little polling in what appear to be noncompetitive elections. I’ve seen some analysis of House Republicans who could fall victim to surprise losses. Perhaps there’s a senator or governor out there who is similarly vulnerable. Perhaps there are a few of them.
Again, that won’t happen if Republicans rally and wind up with relatively modest losses. But we’re at the point where speculating about what a real Democratic landslide would look like isn’t just a nightmare or wishful thinking, depending on one’s point of view.
If you say it often enough, and loud enough, it will come true.
“I’ve been saying for a while that we are on track for a unified government after the 2020 election. Even if Democrats fall short in 2018 in Congress, a presidential win for the party in 2020 almost certainly would get them the rest of the way to majorities in both chambers.”
Has a President with a booming economy and 4% unemployment ever lost reelection?
I honestly do not see anyone beating Trump in 2020. Something catastrophic, like a stock market crash or major war would need to happen. The Dems have already went way too far left and their plan is move even further in that direction. The country is not even buying their soft leftism, and they’re only going to lose more support if they go further left, and they are going there, there is zero doubt.
The other thing is, and I think this gets way too little attention, but when the business tax cuts start kicking in, it’s going to a be huge boon to the economy.
Shit there was an article yesterday that 14 states are currently at their lowest unemployment rate EVER RECORDED.
Was it because a huge number of people dropped out of the labor force or because people actually got good, decent-paying jobs?
Good-paying and decent? My, aren’t we entitled.
“perhaps”; “maybe”; “speculating”; “unnamed sources”; “expert opinions”
“Even if Democrats fall short in 2018 in Congress, a presidential win for the party in 2020 almost certainly would get them the rest of the way to majorities in both chambers.”
2010 and 2012 beg to differ with you on that.
I eagerly await their rationalizations when they lose. I also encourage them to double down on their hate for middle America.
“Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers ‘cannot tell the time’
Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.
Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-removing-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/
The dumbing down shall proceed according to plans.
Eeh, I’m not sure this is a big deal. Technology brings changes; most of us couldn’t read a sundial. I’m open to being corrected, however.
It’s not our fault it’s cloudy nine days out of ten.
Curse you, Climate Change!
I get your point and don’t totally disagree. But sundial isn’t a very good analogy. I can’t read a sundial because they aren’t used anymore. They aren’t used anymore because far better technology replaced them. These kids can’t read analog clocks because…? A digital clock is not far better technology than an analog clock. It’s just different.
Analog clocks aren’t going away out in the real world. If the kids can’t read them, then instead of getting rid of the clocks, they should get rid of the teachers who can’t teach a simple skill to their students.
Fair enough.
A digital clock is not far better technology than an analog clock. It’s just different.
Well, that’s like, you opinion, man. I think digital clocks are far superior to analog clocks. Analog clocks can fuck off.
HA! TK can’t read a clock!
Neener- neener!
“Germany’s Jews urged not to wear kippahs after attacks
The leader of Germany’s Jewish community has advised Jews to avoid wearing traditional skullcaps (kippahs) following anti-Semitic attacks.
Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Berlin public radio that Jews should exercise caution in big cities.
His comments come ahead of a “Berlin Wears Kippah” solidarity march in the German capital on Wednesday.
Last week, two young men wearing kippahs were assaulted in the city.
The attacker was filmed shouting anti-Semitic abuse.
Jewish organisations in Germany have expressed alarm over a number of recent anti-Semitic insults and threats in schools.
At the weekend, Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned what she described as “another form of anti-Semitism”.
She told Israel’s Channel 10 TV network that aside from anti-Semitism by right-wing groups, similar threats were coming from some Muslim refugees in the country.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43884075
“Last week, two young men wearing kippahs were assaulted in the city.
The attacker was filmed shouting anti-Semitic abuse.”
Well, I mean at least there was no Islamaphobia, isn’t that what’s most important?
This week in “non-violent Islamist or a tolerant lefty”.
“similar threats were coming from some Muslim refugees in the country.”
And exactly how did they get there, der fuhrer, you want to talk about that some?
They are not refugees.
One of the most notorious serial killers might have been a cop?!?!? NO WAI!