Related: In TDS news, Trump has members of the Olympic and Paralympic teams at the White House last week. They had Mr. T make a speech and hand out awards. I have some friends that were there. I thought it was great, and so did they. However, if you search news for that event, the main focus is on how Trump said the Paralympics were “hard to watch”. When I heard that on the live stream, I took it as his schedule is busy and the coverage wasn’t extensive so he wasn’t able to watch much of it. Of course, the *real* meaning was that Trump hates handicapped people.
ron73440
If Trump said it, he obviously meant it in the worst possible interpretation.
RAHeinlein
Nicely done, CPRM – I appreciate the extra touches.
For a website that is supposed to be full of Trumpalos, its odd that Glibs has Hat and Hair, one of the . . . things . . . on the internet most disrespectful to Trump.
“LIBURTARYUNS R JUST REEPUBLIKUNS WHO LIKE POT AND HOORS”
R C Dean
And Mexicans. Don’t forget the Mexicans.
R C Dean
Our septic system was struggling. Turns out the drain field had gotten overgrown with nasty desert plants, all woody and thorny and shit, and full of roots. The landscaping company sent one (1) Mexican, who got it cleared off and hauled a couple of pickup loads of debris out by hand (on account of where the drain field is). Several thousand dollars was saved. So count me as one libertarian who likes Mexicans just fine.
CPRM
I have box elder trees that keep growing back on mine. Cut em down every year, they’re back by the end of summer.
Suthenboy
Flush copper sulphate down your toilet. You wont have to cut them down anymore.
CPRM
But that’s also where my raspberry bushes are.
R C Dean
We’re dosing with copper sulfate. For septics, I don’t think you want to flush down the toilet as it could eff up your microbial ecosystem. We dose in the discharge tank – two pounds a quarter, will probably cut back to two pounds every six months after awhile. It kills roots, but unless you massively overdose, it shouldn’t kill the plants.
Bobarian LMD
For a septic, once a year with copper sulfate seems to work fine, and then renewing your microbes with ridex/yeast/ roebic a week later seems to work just fine.
Overgrown with desert plants, huh? Sounds more like you need to stop flushing so many used condoms down the crapper. I would think you would have orphans on call to deal with these issues.
Bobarian LMD
Why would he use condoms?
You never want to cut down on the number of orphans.
commodious spittoon
You can’t make orphans that way. It defeats the whole purpose!
Pope Jimbo
the drain field had gotten overgrown with nasty desert plants, all woody and thorny and shit, and full of roots
But could your seed find purchase?
R C Dean
This is truly a rocky place. The soil structure is basically sand and gravel thinly spread over granite bedrock. Which is great for putting a house on – we have a stucco exterior and plaster interior walls, and after ten years they have a handful of truly hairline cracks. The only thing bigger than that is that one of the logs holding up the porch, and one of the vigas (logs holding up the ceiling) have twisted a little and taken small chunks of plaster out. Pine can twist if its not seasoned extremely well, especially in a dry climate like ours. I count only two logs with this issue as a win.
How anything grows here is a mystery to me, but you just about can’t walk cross-country for the woody, thorny, spiky plants that cover everything. Seriously, I don’t know how the Indians got around in this country.
Is buttsecks covered by hoors or nah. Cause we gotta include that too
R C Dean
Libertarians are just Republicans who like two things: pot, and hookers.
Alright, three things: pot, hookers, and Mexicans.
Make that four things: pot, hookers, Mexicans, and buttsex.
Look, why don’t I just come in again and start over . . . .
Rick C-137
Twss…?
Hyperion
And glibertarians are just a variety that also are closet Trumpets. So it’s Pot, hookers, Mexican ass sex, and the orange one.
Brett L
I had to use that at a meeting last week where I started on three and realized I had left a few things out. The older nerds laughed, the younger ones gave me a head-tilt.
Hyperion
“LIBURTARYUNS R JUST REEPUBLIKUNS WHO LIKE POT AND HOORS”
Yeah, Q, but it’s common knowledge that everyone who ran off from TOS and wound up here are just Trumpets and not real libertarians. At least it’s common knowledge on TOS.
Bobarian LMD
It anthropomorphizes the multiple aspects of the Holy Trinity that is Trump.
Trump, the Hat, is pure piss-whoring, porn-star fucking, Twitter-crazed, McDonald’s eating id.
Trump, the Hair, is the somewhat responsible, business conscious, politically adroit, populist-savvy super-ego.
Trump, the Man, is an idiot-savant, drawn back and forth between the warring extremes.
CPRM
So, we call glibs a religion and get that tax free designation!
Bobarian LMD
We already have a Pope.
CPRM
Each of our houses is a place of worship and tax exempt…I love it when a plan comes together!
SugarFree
This is very astute and accurate. Kudos.
Bobarian LMD
And you are the Martin Luther of our religion…
trshmnstr
If he’s Luther, can I be Zwingli? I wanna drown some heretics.
I know this is OT and I know I already posted it in Morning Lynx, but I find that NYT editorial about how Marx was right to be so offensive and stupid that I’m posting it again.
What’s shocking to me is that the collapse of the Soviet Union is so recent as to be well within everyone’s memory. That was the “big experiment” in which a whole society was built around a philosophy that held as closely as possible to Marx’s philosophical and political prescriptions. It failed. Big time. And killed many millions of people in the process. That’s not even taking into consideration all the other Marxist failure stories; the USSR was just the first and most authentic example of Marxism in action. As Bill said, what do you say to someone who still believes? Said individual doesn’t think; he emotes. Marxism works because it *feels* like it should. I would be so great if it worked, therefore, it does work. This is the kind of “logic” you expect from a six year old. I guess that’s what American universities are inculcating now; reducing people’s critical thinking ability to that of an early grade schooler.
Rick C-137
I saw that. It’s just…amazing that people still shill for Marx.
AlexinCT
Envy and jealousy are still the two most powerful emotions IMO.
“People keep jumping off buildings and trying to fly, but it’s just not working! I *feel* like people should be able to fly! I want it to be true so badly! People must not be jumping correctly. We just need to keep trying and it’ll work because it *feels* like it should!”
commodious spittoon
People keep plummeting to their deaths because their faith is lacking. If they truly believed, they’d take flight like angels from on high and soar above the milling mutant masses of unbelievers.
TDS seems to be doing wonders for the sounevir vendors on “the fun side of the wall” as one tshirt puts it. Lots of other Trump hate tshirts.
CPRM
The migrant caravan coverage than just ran on my local ABC says ‘It’s mostly women and children’ while showing video with virtually no women or children. they aren’t even trying to be convincing anymore, just get the true believers outraged.
Pope Jimbo
I haven’t been following this one too closely. But what happens if they are denied asylum? Do we just toss them out the door back into Mexico? Or do we have to house them in some Federal facility while we try to arrange transportation back to whatever central american country they are from?
CPRM
If you listen to the whining you’d think we would feed them to lions.
R C Dean
Or do we have to house them in some Federal facility while we try to arrange transportation back to whatever central american country they are from?
That, or we’ll cut them loose in-country if they pinky-swear to show up to be deported once we get the paperwork sorted out.
“cut them loose in-country if they pinky-swear to show up to be deported once we get the paperwork sorted out. In the meantime, give them free housing, healthcare and welfare and once they’ve been here for 20+ years give them citizenship because to do otherwise would be totes teh raycizm.”
FIFY.
Pope Jimbo
This is the crap that gets all the rubes upset. The fact that everyone knows exactly what will happen but the ruling class insists on pretending it won’t be like that.
For example, locally we are double freaking out because Trump is rescinding all the temporary visas that allowed people from El Salvador (2001) or West Africa (2014) to live here because of disasters in their homelands.
Like Q says below, sending them home now is problematic because they have put down roots here. We are told it would be inhuman to send them back to the shitholes glorious countries that they came from.
I’m a pretty liberal border/immigration guy, but the duplicity involved in these types of deals is enough to make me demand a wall too. For fuck’s sake, admit that if you are going to let refugees in, that they will never ever go back. Don’t try to pretend that they will go back at some certain time.
Or like these yahoos, don’t let them loose and pretend that they will show up again to be deported. Either instantly reject them, or lock them up until you make a decision.
Brochettaward
Why should women and children be given priority? It’s 2018.
Suthenboy
Ron Bailey did the report?
Bobarian LMD
Iowahawk tweet –
discussing Willie Nelson’s B-Day
(this is my wife’s joke so don’t blame me)
What’s the worst thing Willie Nelson can tell you after you give him a blow job?
“I’m not Willie Nelson.”
MikeS
ALOL!
Chipwooder
This is absolutely hilarious. A leftist law professor is gnashing his teeth over dastardly Koch-backed attempts to “bait and discredit” universities. How are they doing that? Why, by documenting the things campus leftists actually do – NO FAIR!!!!
The speaker, UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh, encouraged attendees to push the envelope in expressing controversial conservative and libertarian views on campus, draw the ire of their university administrations and progressive students, and document the incidents for him so that he could publicize them through his blog, the Volokh Conspiracy, which was then distributed by the Washington Post. Volokh has publicly advocated video surveillance of hecklers (“never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake … but always videotape him”)
THE HORROR! THE HORROR! Hey shitbird, if the speeches being given are so anodyne, perhaps you might want to ponder why such anodyne speeches are getting such hysterical responses rather than inventing dark conspiracies where this is supposedly all part of some nefarious Kochtapus machinations.
cyto
Wait… Volokh is the new Milo? What???
Gustave Lytton
Volokh was born in the USSR! KGB sleeper agent!
R C Dean
The dishonesty starts quickly:
After a violent attack on civil rights protestors that left three dead and more than a dozen injured at the University of Virginia,
Two lies, one implied and one overt, in less than a sentence:
There was a violent attack on civil rights protestors, but I suspect he’s not talking about antifa attacking the alt-righters.
The two cops whose helicopter crashed some distance from the brawl did not die as a result of the violent attack on civil rights protestors.
commodious spittoon
Look, asshole, facts must sometimes be bent to conform to the progressive truth, and if you don’t like that, you’re a denier.
Pope Jimbo
In the same vein as them complaining that the DNC email hack cost them the election.
Maybe if you didn’t try to rig the primaries for Hilary, and/or didn’t send lots of emails about how much you hate the rubes, you wouldn’t have to worry about the emails being released.
The never even attempt to say that the emails were forgeries. It was just unfair to learn how the DNC was really acting.
Raven Nation
“didn’t try to rig the primaries for Hilary,”
This encapsulates another reason why HRC would have been a disaster: a complete inability to learn. There were a number of reports in 2008 that on reason she lost out to Obama was because she had no solid ground organization after the first half a dozen or so primary states. She assumed winning the nomination would be a formality and didn’t bother. In 2016, she made a parallel mistake: assumed she would easily win “blue” states.
Trump is un-curios and really doesn’t understand how much of the world works. HRC is un-curious and arrogantly believes her education has given her everything shee needs to understand the world.
Pretty much. Every time I hear a leftist nowadays, I think “how does reflect their ideas”? Funny how it works every fucking time.
Just Say’n
Two questions. (1) Since when is the John Birch Society “white supremacist”? I thought they were just goofy Russia paranoids (which, I guess would make them mainstream considering our recent bouts of Russia fever dreams). (2) What the hell happened to the University of Chicago? How did this communist come to work for the University that was known for expelling radicals during the 60’s and 70’s?
Raven Nation
I find this obsession with the Kochs to be both bizarre and telling. One of the things that has come out of a lot of recent history scholarship is how dominant groups tend to identify a single mastermind as being responsible for a series of events. So, Pontiac’s Rebellion implies that one individual, Pontiac, was able to get all the western Indians to rise up against the British in 1763. Historians* have clearly demonstrated in recent years that this was far from the case and that it is even accurate to suggest this was single rebellion. And yet academics quite easily latch on to “the Kochs” as being the nefarious masterminds leading America astray.
*I know the guy in the story is a Law prof, but I think my general points stands.
Just Say’n
I was once drinking with a Lefty friend of mine who gauged the topic about the Kochs to see what my response would be. I nodded and said “Agreed- the Kochs are sellouts. They’re too milquetoast”. This blew his goddamn mind. “How are they not radical?” He asked. “The groups they fund are good, but most of them concede too many points. Rather than working on “restructuring” Medicare and Medicaid these groups should be pushing for the complete dissolution of these programs. No middle ground.”
He was thoroughly disturbed when I sent him articles from FEE and Mises.
Just Say’n
Lefty: Woah- James Buchanan and Milton Freidman were really radical
Me: Actually, they were too moderate
Lefty: *shits himself with rage*
Pope Jimbo
I’ve had that reaction to gun control.
Lefty: I know you are a nut, but can we at least agree that assault weapons are not needed for hunting?
Me: Fuck that noise. Hunting has nothing to do with it. We need guns to shoot at the govt. In fact, it is complete bullshit that automatic weapons are banned. We should be able to buy anything we can afford up to submarines with nuclear warheads.
Lefty: Whaaaaaaaat?
Just Say’n
Education is another one.
Lefty: We don’t need charter schools
Me: I agree. A lot of charter schools are just rent-seekers
Lefty: (unsure of what “rent-seeker” is, but glad that you agree with them) Right
Me: That’s why we should just have vouchers. We don’t need more schools. We need more choice
Pope Jimbo
I once won a case of beer from a Lefty who didn’t believe that the Dept of Education was created by Jimmy Carter.
He was sure that it had been a cabinet post from the very beginning of the country because how else could we have education with no big federal bureaucracy to administer it.
* I never collected that case of beer, but I did win it. Shocking a lefty didn’t pay up, right?
Pope Jimbo
I’ve sort of missed the Koch conspiracy bullshit recently. I bet they feel like the homely gal that gets abandoned at the dance when her date sees a new hot girl (RUSSIA!!!!).
What I find especially funny is that my uncle who is a classic blue collar union Dem used to work for a Koch refinery until he retired and he LOVED the Koch’s.
He eventually made his way up to mid-management and would every 5 years or so find himself in some big meeting with one of the Koch’s. He was always impressed with them because they were no nonsense guys who ran bs artists out in short order, but were absolutely fair in their dealings with their employees.
Suthenboy
So, everything lefties are not.
Brochettaward
Researchers at Harvard University used lifestyle questionnaires and medical records from 123,000 volunteers to understand how much longer people lived if they followed a healthy diet, controlled their weight, took regular exercise, drank in moderation and did not smoke.
The five healthy habits were defined as not smoking; having a body mass index between 18.5 and 25; taking at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise a day, having no more than one 150ml glass of wine a day for women, or two for men; and having a diet rich in items such as fruit, vegetables and whole grains and low in red meat, saturated fats and sugar.
I’m not a smoker any more (no tobacco, and I vape certain plant extracts rather than combusting the original flower tops). Our diet is probably not too far out of line with what they call for here – we’re semi-low carb, so not a lot of whole grains, and we’ve shifted more toward fish and chicken recently.
Pretty much whiff on the rest of them. Well, since I’m not a wine drinker, technically I drink zero glasses of wine a day, so I guess I could count that one.
BMI is a horseshit measure. It’s as big a lie as the food pyramid. Government health guidelines are almost universally garbage.
R C Dean
I checked. Mine is 26 (“overweight”). Given my smallish bone structure and declining muscle mass, I actually think this is probably not wrong for me. If I was in better shape, I’d probably weight about what I do now, only with more muscle and less fat, so I’d still be “overweight”.
trshmnstr
The lowest I’ve ever gotten my BMI was 25. I could’ve maybe dropped another 10 or 15 lbs and shed another point, but that was it. I had a friggin thigh gap like an anorexic girl, but I was overweight by BMI standards. The only way for me to get into “normal” territory is to develop an eating disorder.
When I was an active duty Marine, I weighed 170 pounds at 5’7″. I could do 12-15 pullups, 100 crunches, and ran three miles in about 22 minutes. BMI classified me as 26.6 “overweight”. Here is a picture of me from that time, for reference. The lightest I ever was as an adult was right after boot camp graduation. I was 158 pounds. If you look at pictures of me from then, I look emaciated (cause I was). That put me at the very top edge of the “normal” range. Absurd.
Bobarian LMD
Before I retired, my BMI was 28.
I could do 100 push-ups, 30 pull-ups and walk 2.5 miles in 28 minutes (no running because of shit knees).
My body fat was around 11/12%.
Now it’s 31/32 and that is closer to the truth than that 28 ever was.
Florida Man
My BMI is 25.1. Which, not to brag, you can see my ribs and a faint outline of my obliques, but that’s overweight. So yeah, not a great measure.
The Late P Brooks
What’s shocking to me is that the collapse of the Soviet Union is so recent as to be well within everyone’s memory.
Lab rats have longer memories than progressives.
Higher IQs, too.
Just Say’n
Well done, CPRM
ron73440
OT Rant:
Watched the Bruins-Lighting game on Saturday and then went out to put the patio set my wife bought together.
Came in and the TV was still on NBC and the news was on, was going to change the channel, but they were talking about Jordan Peterson, so I watched it.
4 or 5 minutes long, first they go through his opposition to forced speech, then they interview some policy guy and the anchor and he agreed that Peterson’s audience is the same Alt-Right that supports Trump.
Next was how Peterson believes in accountability, responsibility and a few other ideals, but opposes equality.
They did talk to Peterson and showed him saying the world was grim and he was scared.(No mention of why he said either of these)
They also seemed confused that his book was a best seller and his speaking tour was sold out.
I don’t know if I mentioned it here before, but I hate the “news”
/Rant
BakedPenguin
Thanks for reminding me – I need to get his recent book.
GFY, “mass” media.
ron73440
I’m thinking I should buy it also.
commodious spittoon
These jackasses are destroying the credibility of their profession in service to a political party that would regulate them out of existence if possible. They’re poster children for the concept of “useful idiots.” They think they’d be indispensable to the regime, when in fact they’d be among the first up against the wall for “counterrevolutionary acts.”
^^^This. They’ve been duped into thinking that once the Glorious People’s Revolution happens, they’ll be part of the ruling elite. That and the standard issue warm fuzzies they get from virtue signaling.
Dr. Fronkensteen
Some I think are true believers. When the People’s Revolution takes place they feel the world will be nothing but rainbows and unicorns.
Dr. Fronkensteen
This in spite of what you mentioned above that the experiments in socialism and communism are well within living memory and are still taking place in some parts of the world.
Pope Jimbo
I’m not even sure they think they will be the Elite. Some just want to be working in the Big House after the revolution and not working in the fields.
BakedPenguin
That they can believe Peterson is “far-right” only shows how far left the ‘center’ has become. He’s an Overton Window conservative.
CPRM
Just like how Trump is a 90s democrat; but is totally far-alt-nazi-right.
BakedPenguin
Yup. Blue Dog Democrat is now Nazi. These people are insane.
Hyperion
‘These people are insane.’
And they can’t get enough of making public displays of it.
Pan Zagloba
Someone should tell them Peterson was excommunicated from alt-right for not hating Jews.
BakedPenguin
You’re assuming they will listen.
commodious spittoon
Don’t matter, homes. Shapiro is a card-carrying alt-right Nazi despite topping the list of Jews subject to antisemitic abuse. In some ways, he and Peterson are worse than Nazis. Antisemitism finds a lot of traction among lefties, but those two thoroughly repudiate the progressive narrative, which is worse than mere bigotry.
RAHeinlein
Marijuana question:
What advice/input are you giving college-aged offspring regarding use? Iowa and Illinois aren’t marijuana-friendly, so concerns about the criminal/asset-forfeiture angle, and also drug-testing by potential employers.
kinnath
Uh don’t. The entire government apparatus of most states and the federal government is focused on destroying the lives of people that use even trivial amounts.
Get drunk. No one will destroy your future career opportunities for under-aged drinking (but, no fucking driving while drunk).
I feel sad having to type that out.
Pan Zagloba
On a related note, to be safe, keep to sex with townies. Even if local totty is more conveniently located, it’s about as advisable as unprotected sex.
Better yet, stick to porn until you’re married. And even then it’s dicey.
Vaginas are like land mines nowadays.
Hyperion
Alcohol is the OK drug because it’s the drug of choice in most societies, ours included. People are fucking hypocrites when it comes to stuff like this. Sure booze is fine, because I like it. Weed bad, because I don’t know shit about it. I’ve mentioned it here before, but I used to have a neighbor who would rail against them dope smoking hippies. ‘Those people are dopers! I could smell it a mile away! I’ll call the cops is what I’ll do, they need to go to jail!’. All this while the guy is swigging down his 20th beer and smelling like a brewery from a mile away. You know, I drink too, don’t use weed, but I’ll be damned if those people like my ex neighbor are not ignorant hypocrites.
I don’t smoke weed and I don’t drink that much, but my sister (the ER doc) says that it’s absolutely no contest: alcohol is far worse for you. It’s worse in its direct effects and its secondary effects (ie: injuries related to drinking, violent drunks beating up their families, alcohol-related car crashes etc.). Alcohol actually destroys organs (liver, heart, stomach, brain). Marijuana appears to *slightly* increase the chances of mental illness among those who are already susceptible.
As a good little libertarian, I think all drugs should be decriminalized. But the fact that alcohol (and tobacco for that matter) is legal whereas marijuana isn’t is government stupidity and hypocrisy at its finest.
Hyperion
I think it’s impossible to be a libertarian and think any drugs should be illegal. At least that’s my perception. Also, agree, alcohol is worse for you than weed, especially if you aren’t smoking the weed. Both better in moderation for sure, but alcohol kills a lot of people, weed not so much.
Badolph Hilter
But bus drivers!!!!111!!
Hyperion
I always thought it was ‘But I have children!’. That seems to be the excuse I hear most about how I should be able to take away your rights of self ownership.
Badolph Hilter
“Bus drivers!” is short-hand for “If you legalize drugs, BUS DRIVERS will be driving around all stoned and they’ll kill all the children!”, which is an argument I hear approximately 11 out of 10 times this topic comes up among the normies.
Raven Nation
I believe there are also studies which suggest marijuana has detrimental effects on brain development among teenagers so there could be a case for age restrictions on its use.
BakedPenguin
I’ve done a lot of drugs in my life.
Long story short – alcohol is either the worst, or very near.
*pours drink*
Just Say’n
There are two known dangers to marijuana use:
(1) Complacency. Habitual users tend to be more complacent with the world around them.
And
(2) Law enforcement. Getting pinched may ruin your life.
Advice: You are going to be exposed to it. And it’s not that big of a deal if you use it on occasion, but don’t overuse it and don’t carry it on you.
RAHeinlein
This was my initial advice, but enter Complacency and carrying on-person/in vehicles (including mine).
I’m not in the aligned with Kinnath’s and have a sad.
RAHeinlein
Edit fairy!
Should read “I’m now aligned with Kinnath’s advice”
Just Say’n
Binge drinking frightens me more with college kids, as far as health dangers. Especially college aged girls who don’t realize that they most definitely cannot drink like college boys. I saw too many people in college who we probably should have called an ambulance for, but being dumb college kids we didn’t. Thankfully those situations ended with nothing more than a severe hangover the next day, but no one knows their actual alcohol limitations in college. That’s what makes it so dangerous.
The biggest danger with marijuana are the legal repercussions if you’re caught and cops on a college campus are just looking to bust kids for weed
kinnath
Marijuana is far, far safer than alcohol.
It takes government intervention to fuck up the calculus of which represents a greater threat to your long term health and well being.
Pope Jimbo
MJ is not only less harmful health-wise than booze, but it is also far better when it comes to your activities.
As my father the PO used to say, “I never get calls on Saturday night from the cops telling me that one of my pot heads got in a huge brawl at the bar. But all my drunks end up starting shit that gets them sent back to jail.”
I personally don’t smoke pot, but I totally get why we’d be better off as a society if more drunks like me did switch to pot.
Florida Man
The same is true with mushrooms. The LD 50 for magic mushrooms is more than you could comfortably eat. The real risk is getting the wrong mushrooms, which wouldn’t be a problem if they were legal.
invisible finger
Binge drinking is mostly the result of the idiotic concept called “legal drinking age”. Eliminate that and most binge drinking by young people goes away. It certainly makes no sense that a person is not allowed legally to learn how alcohol affects them BEFORE the state “allows” them to drive.
Until they define “binge drinking” down far enough.
(See the discussion on Saturday about “units” of alcohol.)
trshmnstr
I saw too many people in college who we probably should have called an ambulance for, but being dumb college kids we didn’t.
Yup. Even called an ambulance for a couple of them. I partook a bit too much on a regular basis during college, but I never understood the inclination toward drinking so much you didn’t remember any of it the next morning. That shit was dangerous and ended poorly for a whole bunch of people.
Maybe my aversion is because I never blacked out. I remember every single puke-laden moment of overdrinking.
Even worse: mixing heroic amounts of alcohol with antidepressants, antianxiety and/or other meds that kids tend to increasingly be on these days. Friend of a friend was taking Xanax for anxiety and drank a bit too much one night (not even a ridiculous amount) and ended up in a coma and on a respirator for a week. Very close to death. He got incredibly lucky and did not end up with permanent brain damage.
kinnath
My conversations with my two kids started with:
My father is an alcoholic
My father’s sister is an alcoholic
My mother’s father is an alcoholic
My mother’s brother is an alcoholic
My sister is an alcoholic
It runs in families, and your family has it in spades.
Just Say’n
There were guys in college who use to take fists full of Ritalin so they could stay up drinking all night. Mixing depressants (alcohol) with a stimulant (Ritalin) is just an example of dangerous stuff that stupid college students do, because they are not familiar enough with alcohol.
College is just a cesspool of dangerous drug combinations. Weed is substance I worry the least about kids taking
The Other Kevin
I always remind my kids that while they are under 18, I share any consequences to their illegal activity. So no alcohol or drugs. Once they are 18, they bear those consequences on their own (legally speaking), but they should still keep in mind that their can be jail time if they are caught, and drug testing when they are looking for a job.
Pope Jimbo
I sent this story to my kid (who is a sophomore at North Dakota State). I don’t think the boy even drinks much less smokes, so I wasn’t too worried. It was more of a follow up lecture to him on the following rules 1) don’t talk to the cops 2) no matter how bad you fucked up, call me and I’ll help and c) name drop the fuck out of your grandpa (he used to be a probation officer for most of NW Minnesoda).
kinnath
Let us not forget the consequences of lying on your federal application to purchase a firearm.
Traveling to visit my sister in Colorado and partaking of the local fare became a non-option when we started buying pistols.
Florida Man
I had to fill the transfer form out this morning and it reads illegal user. I take that to mean if you use in a state it’s allowed you’re good to go.
Not a lawyer, blah blah.
Florida Man
Oops. It says specifically you can’t use. That’s why I am not a lawyer.
I think we’ll see federal legalization in the next 10 years (once California legalized, it kind of forced their hand). Right now, unfortunately, I think Kinnath’s advice is probably best. Honestly, I would advise them against going to college at all, unless it’s community college while working.
The Late P Brooks
Next was how Peterson believes in accountability, responsibility and a few other ideals, but opposes equality.
Not actively agitating for equality of outcomes makes you a Nazi.
Speaking of which: this morning as part of my sleep mode malfunction, I ended up watching Bloomberg Surveillance at 4 AM. They had some bigwig economics professor on (NYU, maybe). First, he talked about the dire need for diversity in the field of economics. Later, they mentioned the 75% or thereabouts of economics students incapable of passing the mathematics entry requirements. This leads me to think they should spend more classroom hours teaching math, and fewer defining the multifarious subsets of the sexual dysphoria 1%ers and moaning about “fairness” in general.
I know, don’t tell me. I’m a Nazi.
kinnath
Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes.
Equal rights do not guarantee equal opportunity.
Bobarian LMD
This^^
…
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is what every Nazi says.
invisible finger
” First, he talked about the dire need for diversity in the field of economics. ”
Of course. Groupthink can’t succeed if people who look different aren’t on board.
invisible finger
Teaching math might lead some students to logical conclusions and proofs. The economics profession would collapse if that happened.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Diversity of genitalia, skin pigment, and preferred jollies are the only metrics that matter.
I have both male, female and otherkin genitals, my skin is naturally purple and I can only orgasm if I’m defecating and being electrocuted simultaneously.
Where do I fall on the totem pole?
Hyperion
Throw Muslim in there and your totes on top of the pole.
Scruffy Nerfherder
You’re hired.
Please prepare your first report on interest rates and how they affect multi-party home ownership rates among illegal aliens.
Some I think are true believers. When the People’s Revolution takes place they feel the world will be nothing but rainbows and unicorns.
And, since they view themselves as noble yet grievously underappreciated servants of humanity who are “called” to the newsroom in order to enlighten the smelly hordes, when the People’s Revolution comes, they devoutly believe they will be placed on the pedestals appropriate to their status, and rewarded accordingly. Little do they imagine they’ll be rounded up and whipped into service in the propaganda mines.
Pan Zagloba
Absolutely delightful. See how much better the world is without USA Hat?
Also, Kim Hat is good addition. Everything should be fine until his bowler-shaped counterpart turns up. Then, limbs start flying.
Pope Jimbo
I can’t believe Kim doesn’t have a gat (갓). I would think that juche would make him a tradionalist.
*I wore one of those hats when I married my wife. I get lots of snickers when people see it. I tell them that it reflects my Pilgrim heritage.
KibbledKristen
Great work!!
ron73440
But there never was any libertarian society! If that was t
*pointedly ignores U.S. history before WWI*
ron73440
That was a reply to Q above that I thought I cancelled.
Iran lied? NO WAY! Say it isn’t so! Obama didn’t send enough boatloads of cash! Trump, hurry up and get them dollars flowing so that those trustworthy mullahs won’t need to lie!
“If we drop out of the Iran agreement, if we renege on the Iran deal when the Iranians are complying, it is, I think, dangerously naïve to think that this is not going to influence whether the North Koreans think we can be trusted and what’s more, whether the rest of the world will have confidence that the U.S. keeps its word,” the congressman said.
Hyperion
I really don’t get what these Democrats find so great about sending 3rd world despots boatloads of cash. And then when Trump threatens to cut it off, they throw a tantrum and start threatening us. Really? You have a rich country who’s dumb enough to just send you cash and you threaten them? Not sure who is dumber, them or Democrats.
Ho looks disgruntled. ‘Con Job’? That’s grounds for a lawsuit? I see journalists and politicians saying worse about other people every day and I’ve never seen anyone sue over it yet. Is there anything that you cannot sue over? What if I call you a poopey head? Can I be sued?
“at one point Alfie Evans’ father said he was effectively a prisoner at Alder Hey – it is almost impossible for the NHS to provide the counter argument, while ensuring it maintains patient confidentiality, remains respectful to families and protects its staff.”
It’s impossible for the NHS to provide a counter argument BECAUSE IT’S THE TRUTH.
ron73440
Medical ethicist Dr Daniel Sokol says the approach taken in recent weeks smacks of “guerrilla warfare” where threats, insults, intimidation and distortion of facts were used to put “unbearable pressure” on the health service.
If the basic facts are:
Baby is dying, another Country want to try to save him(and are willing to pay), his parents agree, the NHS won’t let them.
What facts do you need to distort?
ron73440
Also, what is a Medical ethicist?
Sounds like an excuse maker for why doing evil isn’t evil.
Hyperion
“Also, what is a Medical ethicist?”
Death panelists. But they had to make up something that sounded better, can’t be letting those deplorables win the argument.
As I always say, the job of an ethicist is to come up with rationalizations for things that normal people find ethically repugnant.
Hyperion
I always thought of them as the person who comes up with asinine and totally disingenuous reasons for why we should not be allowed to do something. Sort of a nanny/luddite who gets a credential and pretends to know stuff in order to stop you from doing stuff they don’t like.
I always thought those were the “public health” nannies.
Hyperion
Those too, but if ‘science’ fails to get the job done, you just bring in an ethicist.
Badolph Hilter
were used to put “unbearable pressure” on the health service.
Did they change anything as a result? Did they all resign in disgust at the atrocity they committed in the name of the NHS? No? Then I guess it was pretty bearable after all. For them.
If they were respectful to his family, they would have released him to the family’s care.
creech
One thing I never saw discussed in this case was the acknowledgment that a child, while a minor, nevertheless still has rights. At what point may a third party step in if those rights are abused by the minor’s parents or guardians? Lots of us were angry when the Feds disregarded Elian Gonzalez’ rights and sent him back to a country where his individual rights were abused. Point being – sometimes the parents and guardians need to be removed as the minor’s rights protectors.
R C Dean
a minor, nevertheless still has rights.
Apparently not in England. Remember, the English are subjects, not (apparently) citizens.
The Last American Hero
Great cartoon!
Should the button on Kim’s desk have been for bubble tea?
I had to fill the transfer form out this morning and it reads illegal user.
Did this change recently? I thought it asked something more like, “Are you an ADDICT?” It has been a while since I filled one out. I’m slacking. But I did just build a 1911 frame with a .22 top end on it. Shot it for the first time yesterday. I need to modify the mags. They are a horrible sloppy fit.
kinnath
It explicitly warns that marijuana use is illegal at the federal level and the decriminalization by the states doesn’t matter.
Florida Man
Yup. I obviously stopped reading short because I don’t use any drugs. I got to illegal and checked no.
I’ve filled out enough SF-86s in my life to know that the federal definition of “illegal” is absurdly broad. It also applies to taking prescription drugs not prescribed to you. Ever taken a painkiller that was prescribed to your wife? Congratulations! You’re now a felon.
Just Say’n
Unpopular take: All this talk about Kanye leaving the “Democratic plantation” is offensive, counter productive, and shows that the Left is better at communicating with minorities than the non-Left (conservatives and libertarians).
For most people, perception is more important than policy. It is perception, rather than policy, that has made the black vote so decisively Democratic.
Just Say’n
Comparing a black person who votes Democratic to a slave is so disgusting that it’s equal to the derision that Democrats throw at black people who don’t vote Democratic or hold conservative and libertarian views.
Hyperion
It must all be about perception to Democrats now, because they’ve given up on policy. And apparently the only special people they won’t turn on now are Muslims, because they’re apparently scared of getting their head chopped off.
Badolph Hilter
I guess you don’t consider “free stuff” and “perpetual grievance” to be policies?
Hyperion
They’ve even given up on free stuff. I mean it was perfect, they should have just stuck with that. I guess they are just are prone to insanity and can’t help it.
I saw Candace Owens on Fox and she was using the slave and plantation analogy also.
I’ve also heard black liberals tell black conservatives to get back on the porch.
Not really disagreeing with your point, but it is fairly widespread.
ron73440
Apparently, I also like saying also, also.
Badolph Hilter
If I ever want to find my own comments in a forum I can just search for the word “actually”, because I’m apparently incapable of expressing a thought without using it. My only redemption is that I just use it as a verbal tick, and not as an indication that I understand something you don’t (i.e., I don’t start my sentences with it).
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228 responses to “The Hat and The Hair – Animated Episode 3: Land of Confusion”
Not to nitpick, but those hands look pretty big for Donald.
Its an optical effect – foreshortening, which is worse with the wide angle lenses needed to get all of Trump’s ego into a single frame.
Where is the green button for diet Dew?
If I was Supreme Overlord, there would be a beer button that summoned the beer wenches.
German wenches or Irish wenches?
Sour ales with Belgian wenches.
Duh.
Sold.
Whoa. Very sour.
yeah… yer button is broken, yo!
Like a lemon party.
Be inclusive: summon all the wenches.
EVERYONE.
Czech wenches (and Prazdroj) or GTFO.
Pale Indian wenches like Elizabeth Warren.
Nicely done. Love that Korean hat.
Agreed on the Korean hat.
Guitar jazz from Nels Cline’s latest. Hairpin & Hatbox https://youtu.be/L_PdJoChrzI
Would have loved it to have been one of those ridiculous bulbous hats.
The thing we’re missing is the Kim hair, definitely need some Kim hair.
A hair on hair smackdown, with the hats cheering it on?
I didn’t want to add too many characters and wreck it like a Hobbit movie.
LOL
The Rodman pic in the background was magic.
Related: In TDS news, Trump has members of the Olympic and Paralympic teams at the White House last week. They had Mr. T make a speech and hand out awards. I have some friends that were there. I thought it was great, and so did they. However, if you search news for that event, the main focus is on how Trump said the Paralympics were “hard to watch”. When I heard that on the live stream, I took it as his schedule is busy and the coverage wasn’t extensive so he wasn’t able to watch much of it. Of course, the *real* meaning was that Trump hates handicapped people.
If Trump said it, he obviously meant it in the worst possible interpretation.
Nicely done, CPRM – I appreciate the extra touches.
That’s usually not what the women say to me.
#ThemToo
This stuff is pure gold.
The best gold. The classiest gold. Like a gold toilet.
Gold Bidet!
That seems awfully cheap for a solid gold bidet.
That is per metric gram, I think.
For a website that is supposed to be full of Trumpalos, its odd that Glibs has Hat and Hair, one of the . . . things . . . on the internet most disrespectful to Trump.
Great stuff. Props to SF and CPRM.
“LIBURTARYUNS R JUST REEPUBLIKUNS WHO LIKE POT AND HOORS”
And Mexicans. Don’t forget the Mexicans.
Our septic system was struggling. Turns out the drain field had gotten overgrown with nasty desert plants, all woody and thorny and shit, and full of roots. The landscaping company sent one (1) Mexican, who got it cleared off and hauled a couple of pickup loads of debris out by hand (on account of where the drain field is). Several thousand dollars was saved. So count me as one libertarian who likes Mexicans just fine.
I have box elder trees that keep growing back on mine. Cut em down every year, they’re back by the end of summer.
Flush copper sulphate down your toilet. You wont have to cut them down anymore.
But that’s also where my raspberry bushes are.
We’re dosing with copper sulfate. For septics, I don’t think you want to flush down the toilet as it could eff up your microbial ecosystem. We dose in the discharge tank – two pounds a quarter, will probably cut back to two pounds every six months after awhile. It kills roots, but unless you massively overdose, it shouldn’t kill the plants.
For a septic, once a year with copper sulfate seems to work fine, and then renewing your microbes with ridex/yeast/ roebic a week later seems to work just fine.
I love Salma Hayek.
Does that count?
As long as you don’t let her breasts sway your political opinions.
Her breasts can sway me any direction they want.
Overgrown with desert plants, huh? Sounds more like you need to stop flushing so many used condoms down the crapper. I would think you would have orphans on call to deal with these issues.
Why would he use condoms?
You never want to cut down on the number of orphans.
You can’t make orphans that way. It defeats the whole purpose!
the drain field had gotten overgrown with nasty desert plants, all woody and thorny and shit, and full of roots
But could your seed find purchase?
This is truly a rocky place. The soil structure is basically sand and gravel thinly spread over granite bedrock. Which is great for putting a house on – we have a stucco exterior and plaster interior walls, and after ten years they have a handful of truly hairline cracks. The only thing bigger than that is that one of the logs holding up the porch, and one of the vigas (logs holding up the ceiling) have twisted a little and taken small chunks of plaster out. Pine can twist if its not seasoned extremely well, especially in a dry climate like ours. I count only two logs with this issue as a win.
How anything grows here is a mystery to me, but you just about can’t walk cross-country for the woody, thorny, spiky plants that cover everything. Seriously, I don’t know how the Indians got around in this country.
Life, uh, uh, finds a way.
Is buttsecks covered by hoors or nah. Cause we gotta include that too
Libertarians are just Republicans who like two things: pot, and hookers.
Alright, three things: pot, hookers, and Mexicans.
Make that four things: pot, hookers, Mexicans, and buttsex.
Look, why don’t I just come in again and start over . . . .
Twss…?
And glibertarians are just a variety that also are closet Trumpets. So it’s Pot, hookers, Mexican ass sex, and the orange one.
I had to use that at a meeting last week where I started on three and realized I had left a few things out. The older nerds laughed, the younger ones gave me a head-tilt.
“LIBURTARYUNS R JUST REEPUBLIKUNS WHO LIKE POT AND HOORS”
Yeah, Q, but it’s common knowledge that everyone who ran off from TOS and wound up here are just Trumpets and not real libertarians. At least it’s common knowledge on TOS.
It anthropomorphizes the multiple aspects of the Holy Trinity that is Trump.
Trump, the Hat, is pure piss-whoring, porn-star fucking, Twitter-crazed, McDonald’s eating id.
Trump, the Hair, is the somewhat responsible, business conscious, politically adroit, populist-savvy super-ego.
Trump, the Man, is an idiot-savant, drawn back and forth between the warring extremes.
So, we call glibs a religion and get that tax free designation!
We already have a Pope.
Each of our houses is a place of worship and tax exempt…I love it when a plan comes together!
This is very astute and accurate. Kudos.
And you are the Martin Luther of our religion…
If he’s Luther, can I be Zwingli? I wanna drown some heretics.
Sorry, Swiss get first crack at him.
You can be Jan Hus!
Well done. Good animation. Dramatic tension. Thanks!
I know this is OT and I know I already posted it in Morning Lynx, but I find that NYT editorial about how Marx was right to be so offensive and stupid that I’m posting it again.
What’s shocking to me is that the collapse of the Soviet Union is so recent as to be well within everyone’s memory. That was the “big experiment” in which a whole society was built around a philosophy that held as closely as possible to Marx’s philosophical and political prescriptions. It failed. Big time. And killed many millions of people in the process. That’s not even taking into consideration all the other Marxist failure stories; the USSR was just the first and most authentic example of Marxism in action. As Bill said, what do you say to someone who still believes? Said individual doesn’t think; he emotes. Marxism works because it *feels* like it should. I would be so great if it worked, therefore, it does work. This is the kind of “logic” you expect from a six year old. I guess that’s what American universities are inculcating now; reducing people’s critical thinking ability to that of an early grade schooler.
I saw that. It’s just…amazing that people still shill for Marx.
Envy and jealousy are still the two most powerful emotions IMO.
#notTrueCommunism
“People keep jumping off buildings and trying to fly, but it’s just not working! I *feel* like people should be able to fly! I want it to be true so badly! People must not be jumping correctly. We just need to keep trying and it’ll work because it *feels* like it should!”
People keep plummeting to their deaths because their faith is lacking. If they truly believed, they’d take flight like angels from on high and soar above the milling mutant masses of unbelievers.
“You’ll see this time!”
/Cuba
/Venezuela
/Vietnam
/Peru
/Bolivia
/Cambodia
/Nicaragua
/Somalia
Good job CPRM. Always nice to see the shorts.
Always nice to see the shorts
No, actually, not always. Really depends on who is wearing them.
+\- a gunt
Korean Hat was funny. Also, the Rodman portrait on the wall…nice touch.
“Your breaking my balls, Hans Brix!”
Second. Or third.
Whatever.
Obama is sooooo dreamy
“The only difference between Obama and Jesus is it’s less creepy to think about Obama when I masturbate!”
*issues RFP for cross, suitable for crucifixion, one, plus associated supplies*
Don’t forget the Deluxe Crown of Thorns!
Who wants Spear of [insert Glib name here] duty?
TDS seems to be doing wonders for the sounevir vendors on “the fun side of the wall” as one tshirt puts it. Lots of other Trump hate tshirts.
The migrant caravan coverage than just ran on my local ABC says ‘It’s mostly women and children’ while showing video with virtually no women or children. they aren’t even trying to be convincing anymore, just get the true believers outraged.
I haven’t been following this one too closely. But what happens if they are denied asylum? Do we just toss them out the door back into Mexico? Or do we have to house them in some Federal facility while we try to arrange transportation back to whatever central american country they are from?
If you listen to the whining you’d think we would feed them to lions.
Or do we have to house them in some Federal facility while we try to arrange transportation back to whatever central american country they are from?
That, or we’ll cut them loose in-country if they pinky-swear to show up to be deported once we get the paperwork sorted out.
“cut them loose in-country if they pinky-swear to show up to be deported once we get the paperwork sorted out. In the meantime, give them free housing, healthcare and welfare and once they’ve been here for 20+ years give them citizenship because to do otherwise would be totes teh raycizm.”
FIFY.
This is the crap that gets all the rubes upset. The fact that everyone knows exactly what will happen but the ruling class insists on pretending it won’t be like that.
For example, locally we are double freaking out because Trump is rescinding all the temporary visas that allowed people from El Salvador (2001) or West Africa (2014) to live here because of disasters in their homelands.
Like Q says below, sending them home now is problematic because they have put down roots here. We are told it would be inhuman to send them back to the
shitholesglorious countries that they came from.I’m a pretty liberal border/immigration guy, but the duplicity involved in these types of deals is enough to make me demand a wall too. For fuck’s sake, admit that if you are going to let refugees in, that they will never ever go back. Don’t try to pretend that they will go back at some certain time.
Or like these yahoos, don’t let them loose and pretend that they will show up again to be deported. Either instantly reject them, or lock them up until you make a decision.
Why should women and children be given priority? It’s 2018.
Ron Bailey did the report?
Iowahawk tweet –
discussing Willie Nelson’s B-Day
(this is my wife’s joke so don’t blame me)
What’s the worst thing Willie Nelson can tell you after you give him a blow job?
“I’m not Willie Nelson.”
ALOL!
This is absolutely hilarious. A leftist law professor is gnashing his teeth over dastardly Koch-backed attempts to “bait and discredit” universities. How are they doing that? Why, by documenting the things campus leftists actually do – NO FAIR!!!!
Wait… Volokh is the new Milo? What???
Volokh was born in the USSR! KGB sleeper agent!
The dishonesty starts quickly:
Two lies, one implied and one overt, in less than a sentence:
There was a violent attack on civil rights protestors, but I suspect he’s not talking about antifa attacking the alt-righters.
The two cops whose helicopter crashed some distance from the brawl did not die as a result of the violent attack on civil rights protestors.
Look, asshole, facts must sometimes be bent to conform to the progressive truth, and if you don’t like that, you’re a denier.
In the same vein as them complaining that the DNC email hack cost them the election.
Maybe if you didn’t try to rig the primaries for Hilary, and/or didn’t send lots of emails about how much you hate the rubes, you wouldn’t have to worry about the emails being released.
The never even attempt to say that the emails were forgeries. It was just unfair to learn how the DNC was really acting.
“didn’t try to rig the primaries for Hilary,”
This encapsulates another reason why HRC would have been a disaster: a complete inability to learn. There were a number of reports in 2008 that on reason she lost out to Obama was because she had no solid ground organization after the first half a dozen or so primary states. She assumed winning the nomination would be a formality and didn’t bother. In 2016, she made a parallel mistake: assumed she would easily win “blue” states.
Trump is un-curios and really doesn’t understand how much of the world works. HRC is un-curious and arrogantly believes her education has given her everything shee needs to understand the world.
Projection, projection, projection.
Pretty much. Every time I hear a leftist nowadays, I think “how does reflect their ideas”? Funny how it works every fucking time.
Two questions. (1) Since when is the John Birch Society “white supremacist”? I thought they were just goofy Russia paranoids (which, I guess would make them mainstream considering our recent bouts of Russia fever dreams). (2) What the hell happened to the University of Chicago? How did this communist come to work for the University that was known for expelling radicals during the 60’s and 70’s?
I find this obsession with the Kochs to be both bizarre and telling. One of the things that has come out of a lot of recent history scholarship is how dominant groups tend to identify a single mastermind as being responsible for a series of events. So, Pontiac’s Rebellion implies that one individual, Pontiac, was able to get all the western Indians to rise up against the British in 1763. Historians* have clearly demonstrated in recent years that this was far from the case and that it is even accurate to suggest this was single rebellion. And yet academics quite easily latch on to “the Kochs” as being the nefarious masterminds leading America astray.
*I know the guy in the story is a Law prof, but I think my general points stands.
I was once drinking with a Lefty friend of mine who gauged the topic about the Kochs to see what my response would be. I nodded and said “Agreed- the Kochs are sellouts. They’re too milquetoast”. This blew his goddamn mind. “How are they not radical?” He asked. “The groups they fund are good, but most of them concede too many points. Rather than working on “restructuring” Medicare and Medicaid these groups should be pushing for the complete dissolution of these programs. No middle ground.”
He was thoroughly disturbed when I sent him articles from FEE and Mises.
Lefty: Woah- James Buchanan and Milton Freidman were really radical
Me: Actually, they were too moderate
Lefty: *shits himself with rage*
I’ve had that reaction to gun control.
Lefty: I know you are a nut, but can we at least agree that assault weapons are not needed for hunting?
Me: Fuck that noise. Hunting has nothing to do with it. We need guns to shoot at the govt. In fact, it is complete bullshit that automatic weapons are banned. We should be able to buy anything we can afford up to submarines with nuclear warheads.
Lefty: Whaaaaaaaat?
Education is another one.
Lefty: We don’t need charter schools
Me: I agree. A lot of charter schools are just rent-seekers
Lefty: (unsure of what “rent-seeker” is, but glad that you agree with them) Right
Me: That’s why we should just have vouchers. We don’t need more schools. We need more choice
I once won a case of beer from a Lefty who didn’t believe that the Dept of Education was created by Jimmy Carter.
He was sure that it had been a cabinet post from the very beginning of the country because how else could we have education with no big federal bureaucracy to administer it.
* I never collected that case of beer, but I did win it. Shocking a lefty didn’t pay up, right?
I’ve sort of missed the Koch conspiracy bullshit recently. I bet they feel like the homely gal that gets abandoned at the dance when her date sees a new hot girl (RUSSIA!!!!).
What I find especially funny is that my uncle who is a classic blue collar union Dem used to work for a Koch refinery until he retired and he LOVED the Koch’s.
He eventually made his way up to mid-management and would every 5 years or so find himself in some big meeting with one of the Koch’s. He was always impressed with them because they were no nonsense guys who ran bs artists out in short order, but were absolutely fair in their dealings with their employees.
So, everything lefties are not.
I’m doomed.
I’m not a smoker any more (no tobacco, and I vape certain plant extracts rather than combusting the original flower tops). Our diet is probably not too far out of line with what they call for here – we’re semi-low carb, so not a lot of whole grains, and we’ve shifted more toward fish and chicken recently.
Pretty much whiff on the rest of them. Well, since I’m not a wine drinker, technically I drink zero glasses of wine a day, so I guess I could count that one.
“having a body mass index between 18.5 and 25”
BMI is a horseshit measure. It’s as big a lie as the food pyramid. Government health guidelines are almost universally garbage.
I checked. Mine is 26 (“overweight”). Given my smallish bone structure and declining muscle mass, I actually think this is probably not wrong for me. If I was in better shape, I’d probably weight about what I do now, only with more muscle and less fat, so I’d still be “overweight”.
The lowest I’ve ever gotten my BMI was 25. I could’ve maybe dropped another 10 or 15 lbs and shed another point, but that was it. I had a friggin thigh gap like an anorexic girl, but I was overweight by BMI standards. The only way for me to get into “normal” territory is to develop an eating disorder.
Well?
When I was an active duty Marine, I weighed 170 pounds at 5’7″. I could do 12-15 pullups, 100 crunches, and ran three miles in about 22 minutes. BMI classified me as 26.6 “overweight”. Here is a picture of me from that time, for reference. The lightest I ever was as an adult was right after boot camp graduation. I was 158 pounds. If you look at pictures of me from then, I look emaciated (cause I was). That put me at the very top edge of the “normal” range. Absurd.
Before I retired, my BMI was 28.
I could do 100 push-ups, 30 pull-ups and walk 2.5 miles in 28 minutes (no running because of shit knees).
My body fat was around 11/12%.
Now it’s 31/32 and that is closer to the truth than that 28 ever was.
My BMI is 25.1. Which, not to brag, you can see my ribs and a faint outline of my obliques, but that’s overweight. So yeah, not a great measure.
What’s shocking to me is that the collapse of the Soviet Union is so recent as to be well within everyone’s memory.
Lab rats have longer memories than progressives.
Higher IQs, too.
Well done, CPRM
OT Rant:
Watched the Bruins-Lighting game on Saturday and then went out to put the patio set my wife bought together.
Came in and the TV was still on NBC and the news was on, was going to change the channel, but they were talking about Jordan Peterson, so I watched it.
4 or 5 minutes long, first they go through his opposition to forced speech, then they interview some policy guy and the anchor and he agreed that Peterson’s audience is the same Alt-Right that supports Trump.
Next was how Peterson believes in accountability, responsibility and a few other ideals, but opposes equality.
They did talk to Peterson and showed him saying the world was grim and he was scared.(No mention of why he said either of these)
They also seemed confused that his book was a best seller and his speaking tour was sold out.
I don’t know if I mentioned it here before, but I hate the “news”
/Rant
Thanks for reminding me – I need to get his recent book.
GFY, “mass” media.
I’m thinking I should buy it also.
These jackasses are destroying the credibility of their profession in service to a political party that would regulate them out of existence if possible. They’re poster children for the concept of “useful idiots.” They think they’d be indispensable to the regime, when in fact they’d be among the first up against the wall for “counterrevolutionary acts.”
^^^This. They’ve been duped into thinking that once the Glorious People’s Revolution happens, they’ll be part of the ruling elite. That and the standard issue warm fuzzies they get from virtue signaling.
Some I think are true believers. When the People’s Revolution takes place they feel the world will be nothing but rainbows and unicorns.
This in spite of what you mentioned above that the experiments in socialism and communism are well within living memory and are still taking place in some parts of the world.
I’m not even sure they think they will be the Elite. Some just want to be working in the Big House after the revolution and not working in the fields.
That they can believe Peterson is “far-right” only shows how far left the ‘center’ has become. He’s an Overton Window conservative.
Just like how Trump is a 90s democrat; but is totally far-alt-nazi-right.
Yup. Blue Dog Democrat is now Nazi. These people are insane.
‘These people are insane.’
And they can’t get enough of making public displays of it.
Someone should tell them Peterson was excommunicated from alt-right for not hating Jews.
You’re assuming they will listen.
Don’t matter, homes. Shapiro is a card-carrying alt-right Nazi despite topping the list of Jews subject to antisemitic abuse. In some ways, he and Peterson are worse than Nazis. Antisemitism finds a lot of traction among lefties, but those two thoroughly repudiate the progressive narrative, which is worse than mere bigotry.
Marijuana question:
What advice/input are you giving college-aged offspring regarding use? Iowa and Illinois aren’t marijuana-friendly, so concerns about the criminal/asset-forfeiture angle, and also drug-testing by potential employers.
Uh don’t. The entire government apparatus of most states and the federal government is focused on destroying the lives of people that use even trivial amounts.
Get drunk. No one will destroy your future career opportunities for under-aged drinking (but, no fucking driving while drunk).
I feel sad having to type that out.
On a related note, to be safe, keep to sex with townies. Even if local totty is more conveniently located, it’s about as advisable as unprotected sex.
Better yet, stick to porn until you’re married. And even then it’s dicey.
Vaginas are like land mines nowadays.
Alcohol is the OK drug because it’s the drug of choice in most societies, ours included. People are fucking hypocrites when it comes to stuff like this. Sure booze is fine, because I like it. Weed bad, because I don’t know shit about it. I’ve mentioned it here before, but I used to have a neighbor who would rail against them dope smoking hippies. ‘Those people are dopers! I could smell it a mile away! I’ll call the cops is what I’ll do, they need to go to jail!’. All this while the guy is swigging down his 20th beer and smelling like a brewery from a mile away. You know, I drink too, don’t use weed, but I’ll be damned if those people like my ex neighbor are not ignorant hypocrites.
I don’t smoke weed and I don’t drink that much, but my sister (the ER doc) says that it’s absolutely no contest: alcohol is far worse for you. It’s worse in its direct effects and its secondary effects (ie: injuries related to drinking, violent drunks beating up their families, alcohol-related car crashes etc.). Alcohol actually destroys organs (liver, heart, stomach, brain). Marijuana appears to *slightly* increase the chances of mental illness among those who are already susceptible.
As a good little libertarian, I think all drugs should be decriminalized. But the fact that alcohol (and tobacco for that matter) is legal whereas marijuana isn’t is government stupidity and hypocrisy at its finest.
I think it’s impossible to be a libertarian and think any drugs should be illegal. At least that’s my perception. Also, agree, alcohol is worse for you than weed, especially if you aren’t smoking the weed. Both better in moderation for sure, but alcohol kills a lot of people, weed not so much.
But bus drivers!!!!111!!
I always thought it was ‘But I have children!’. That seems to be the excuse I hear most about how I should be able to take away your rights of self ownership.
“Bus drivers!” is short-hand for “If you legalize drugs, BUS DRIVERS will be driving around all stoned and they’ll kill all the children!”, which is an argument I hear approximately 11 out of 10 times this topic comes up among the normies.
I believe there are also studies which suggest marijuana has detrimental effects on brain development among teenagers so there could be a case for age restrictions on its use.
I’ve done a lot of drugs in my life.
Long story short – alcohol is either the worst, or very near.
*pours drink*
There are two known dangers to marijuana use:
(1) Complacency. Habitual users tend to be more complacent with the world around them.
And
(2) Law enforcement. Getting pinched may ruin your life.
Advice: You are going to be exposed to it. And it’s not that big of a deal if you use it on occasion, but don’t overuse it and don’t carry it on you.
This was my initial advice, but enter Complacency and carrying on-person/in vehicles (including mine).
I’m not in the aligned with Kinnath’s and have a sad.
Edit fairy!
Should read “I’m now aligned with Kinnath’s advice”
Binge drinking frightens me more with college kids, as far as health dangers. Especially college aged girls who don’t realize that they most definitely cannot drink like college boys. I saw too many people in college who we probably should have called an ambulance for, but being dumb college kids we didn’t. Thankfully those situations ended with nothing more than a severe hangover the next day, but no one knows their actual alcohol limitations in college. That’s what makes it so dangerous.
The biggest danger with marijuana are the legal repercussions if you’re caught and cops on a college campus are just looking to bust kids for weed
Marijuana is far, far safer than alcohol.
It takes government intervention to fuck up the calculus of which represents a greater threat to your long term health and well being.
MJ is not only less harmful health-wise than booze, but it is also far better when it comes to your activities.
As my father the PO used to say, “I never get calls on Saturday night from the cops telling me that one of my pot heads got in a huge brawl at the bar. But all my drunks end up starting shit that gets them sent back to jail.”
I personally don’t smoke pot, but I totally get why we’d be better off as a society if more drunks like me did switch to pot.
The same is true with mushrooms. The LD 50 for magic mushrooms is more than you could comfortably eat. The real risk is getting the wrong mushrooms, which wouldn’t be a problem if they were legal.
Binge drinking is mostly the result of the idiotic concept called “legal drinking age”. Eliminate that and most binge drinking by young people goes away. It certainly makes no sense that a person is not allowed legally to learn how alcohol affects them BEFORE the state “allows” them to drive.
Until they define “binge drinking” down far enough.
(See the discussion on Saturday about “units” of alcohol.)
I saw too many people in college who we probably should have called an ambulance for, but being dumb college kids we didn’t.
Yup. Even called an ambulance for a couple of them. I partook a bit too much on a regular basis during college, but I never understood the inclination toward drinking so much you didn’t remember any of it the next morning. That shit was dangerous and ended poorly for a whole bunch of people.
Maybe my aversion is because I never blacked out. I remember every single puke-laden moment of overdrinking.
Even worse: mixing heroic amounts of alcohol with antidepressants, antianxiety and/or other meds that kids tend to increasingly be on these days. Friend of a friend was taking Xanax for anxiety and drank a bit too much one night (not even a ridiculous amount) and ended up in a coma and on a respirator for a week. Very close to death. He got incredibly lucky and did not end up with permanent brain damage.
My conversations with my two kids started with:
My father is an alcoholic
My father’s sister is an alcoholic
My mother’s father is an alcoholic
My mother’s brother is an alcoholic
My sister is an alcoholic
It runs in families, and your family has it in spades.
There were guys in college who use to take fists full of Ritalin so they could stay up drinking all night. Mixing depressants (alcohol) with a stimulant (Ritalin) is just an example of dangerous stuff that stupid college students do, because they are not familiar enough with alcohol.
College is just a cesspool of dangerous drug combinations. Weed is substance I worry the least about kids taking
I always remind my kids that while they are under 18, I share any consequences to their illegal activity. So no alcohol or drugs. Once they are 18, they bear those consequences on their own (legally speaking), but they should still keep in mind that their can be jail time if they are caught, and drug testing when they are looking for a job.
I sent this story to my kid (who is a sophomore at North Dakota State). I don’t think the boy even drinks much less smokes, so I wasn’t too worried. It was more of a follow up lecture to him on the following rules 1) don’t talk to the cops 2) no matter how bad you fucked up, call me and I’ll help and c) name drop the fuck out of your grandpa (he used to be a probation officer for most of NW Minnesoda).
Let us not forget the consequences of lying on your federal application to purchase a firearm.
Traveling to visit my sister in Colorado and partaking of the local fare became a non-option when we started buying pistols.
I had to fill the transfer form out this morning and it reads illegal user. I take that to mean if you use in a state it’s allowed you’re good to go.
Not a lawyer, blah blah.
Oops. It says specifically you can’t use. That’s why I am not a lawyer.
Federal law — fuck the states.
I think we’ll see federal legalization in the next 10 years (once California legalized, it kind of forced their hand). Right now, unfortunately, I think Kinnath’s advice is probably best. Honestly, I would advise them against going to college at all, unless it’s community college while working.
Next was how Peterson believes in accountability, responsibility and a few other ideals, but opposes equality.
Not actively agitating for equality of outcomes makes you a Nazi.
Speaking of which: this morning as part of my sleep mode malfunction, I ended up watching Bloomberg Surveillance at 4 AM. They had some bigwig economics professor on (NYU, maybe). First, he talked about the dire need for diversity in the field of economics. Later, they mentioned the 75% or thereabouts of economics students incapable of passing the mathematics entry requirements. This leads me to think they should spend more classroom hours teaching math, and fewer defining the multifarious subsets of the sexual dysphoria 1%ers and moaning about “fairness” in general.
I know, don’t tell me. I’m a Nazi.
Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes.
Equal rights do not guarantee equal opportunity.
This^^
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is what every Nazi says.
” First, he talked about the dire need for diversity in the field of economics. ”
Of course. Groupthink can’t succeed if people who look different aren’t on board.
Teaching math might lead some students to logical conclusions and proofs. The economics profession would collapse if that happened.
Diversity of genitalia, skin pigment, and preferred jollies are the only metrics that matter.
I have both male, female and otherkin genitals, my skin is naturally purple and I can only orgasm if I’m defecating and being electrocuted simultaneously.
Where do I fall on the totem pole?
Throw Muslim in there and your totes on top of the pole.
You’re hired.
Please prepare your first report on interest rates and how they affect multi-party home ownership rates among illegal aliens.
This fits right in here
Modern Educayshun
Some I think are true believers. When the People’s Revolution takes place they feel the world will be nothing but rainbows and unicorns.
And, since they view themselves as noble yet grievously underappreciated servants of humanity who are “called” to the newsroom in order to enlighten the smelly hordes, when the People’s Revolution comes, they devoutly believe they will be placed on the pedestals appropriate to their status, and rewarded accordingly. Little do they imagine they’ll be rounded up and whipped into service in the propaganda mines.
Absolutely delightful. See how much better the world is without USA Hat?
Also, Kim Hat is good addition. Everything should be fine until his bowler-shaped counterpart turns up. Then, limbs start flying.
I can’t believe Kim doesn’t have a gat (갓). I would think that juche would make him a tradionalist.
*I wore one of those hats when I married my wife. I get lots of snickers when people see it. I tell them that it reflects my Pilgrim heritage.
Great work!!
But there never was any libertarian society! If that was t
*pointedly ignores U.S. history before WWI*
That was a reply to Q above that I thought I cancelled.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/24/ad/e2/24ade20e8721421a6857c1e74b512d17.jpg
I’ll have to see what that is later, I can’t get to pinimg or archive sites at work.
It’s a human female with two excellent sets of eyes.
Oh noes!
Iran lied? NO WAY! Say it isn’t so! Obama didn’t send enough boatloads of cash! Trump, hurry up and get them dollars flowing so that those trustworthy mullahs won’t need to lie!
But the ranking democrat on the intelligence committee said Iran was complying perfectly.
I really don’t get what these Democrats find so great about sending 3rd world despots boatloads of cash. And then when Trump threatens to cut it off, they throw a tantrum and start threatening us. Really? You have a rich country who’s dumb enough to just send you cash and you threaten them? Not sure who is dumber, them or Democrats.
Ho looks disgruntled
Ho looks disgruntled. ‘Con Job’? That’s grounds for a lawsuit? I see journalists and politicians saying worse about other people every day and I’ve never seen anyone sue over it yet. Is there anything that you cannot sue over? What if I call you a poopey head? Can I be sued?
She is suing Trump? You would think Powerline will be in deep shit then because of this mockery of the “mysterious guy”
Con job? That’s absurd! Everyone knows she’s only good at one kind of job.
Oh, I bet she’s good at *at least* 2, maybe 3 depending on how kinky she is.
I’ll never be president, it’s Trump’s fault!
Gee, how original, John, no one’s ever done that before.
BBC sez: “Oh NHS, it’s so big, I don’t know if I can fit the whole thing in my mouth!”
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-43898972
“at one point Alfie Evans’ father said he was effectively a prisoner at Alder Hey – it is almost impossible for the NHS to provide the counter argument, while ensuring it maintains patient confidentiality, remains respectful to families and protects its staff.”
It’s impossible for the NHS to provide a counter argument BECAUSE IT’S THE TRUTH.
Medical ethicist Dr Daniel Sokol says the approach taken in recent weeks smacks of “guerrilla warfare” where threats, insults, intimidation and distortion of facts were used to put “unbearable pressure” on the health service.
If the basic facts are:
Baby is dying, another Country want to try to save him(and are willing to pay), his parents agree, the NHS won’t let them.
What facts do you need to distort?
Also, what is a Medical ethicist?
Sounds like an excuse maker for why doing evil isn’t evil.
“Also, what is a Medical ethicist?”
Death panelists. But they had to make up something that sounded better, can’t be letting those deplorables win the argument.
As I always say, the job of an ethicist is to come up with rationalizations for things that normal people find ethically repugnant.
I always thought of them as the person who comes up with asinine and totally disingenuous reasons for why we should not be allowed to do something. Sort of a nanny/luddite who gets a credential and pretends to know stuff in order to stop you from doing stuff they don’t like.
I always thought those were the “public health” nannies.
Those too, but if ‘science’ fails to get the job done, you just bring in an ethicist.
were used to put “unbearable pressure” on the health service.
Did they change anything as a result? Did they all resign in disgust at the atrocity they committed in the name of the NHS? No? Then I guess it was pretty bearable after all. For them.
If they were respectful to his family, they would have released him to the family’s care.
One thing I never saw discussed in this case was the acknowledgment that a child, while a minor, nevertheless still has rights. At what point may a third party step in if those rights are abused by the minor’s parents or guardians? Lots of us were angry when the Feds disregarded Elian Gonzalez’ rights and sent him back to a country where his individual rights were abused. Point being – sometimes the parents and guardians need to be removed as the minor’s rights protectors.
a minor, nevertheless still has rights.
Apparently not in England. Remember, the English are subjects, not (apparently) citizens.
Great cartoon!
Should the button on Kim’s desk have been for bubble tea?
I was just going by the LA Times.
I had to fill the transfer form out this morning and it reads illegal user.
Did this change recently? I thought it asked something more like, “Are you an ADDICT?” It has been a while since I filled one out. I’m slacking. But I did just build a 1911 frame with a .22 top end on it. Shot it for the first time yesterday. I need to modify the mags. They are a horrible sloppy fit.
It explicitly warns that marijuana use is illegal at the federal level and the decriminalization by the states doesn’t matter.
Yup. I obviously stopped reading short because I don’t use any drugs. I got to illegal and checked no.
I’ve filled out enough SF-86s in my life to know that the federal definition of “illegal” is absurdly broad. It also applies to taking prescription drugs not prescribed to you. Ever taken a painkiller that was prescribed to your wife? Congratulations! You’re now a felon.
Unpopular take: All this talk about Kanye leaving the “Democratic plantation” is offensive, counter productive, and shows that the Left is better at communicating with minorities than the non-Left (conservatives and libertarians).
For most people, perception is more important than policy. It is perception, rather than policy, that has made the black vote so decisively Democratic.
Comparing a black person who votes Democratic to a slave is so disgusting that it’s equal to the derision that Democrats throw at black people who don’t vote Democratic or hold conservative and libertarian views.
It must all be about perception to Democrats now, because they’ve given up on policy. And apparently the only special people they won’t turn on now are Muslims, because they’re apparently scared of getting their head chopped off.
I guess you don’t consider “free stuff” and “perpetual grievance” to be policies?
They’ve even given up on free stuff. I mean it was perfect, they should have just stuck with that. I guess they are just are prone to insanity and can’t help it.
Isn’t Bernie working on a plan for “free” jobs?
https://i.imgflip.com/1huhsj.jpg
Whatever, Tulpa.
I saw Candace Owens on Fox and she was using the slave and plantation analogy also.
I’ve also heard black liberals tell black conservatives to get back on the porch.
Not really disagreeing with your point, but it is fairly widespread.
Apparently, I also like saying also, also.
If I ever want to find my own comments in a forum I can just search for the word “actually”, because I’m apparently incapable of expressing a thought without using it. My only redemption is that I just use it as a verbal tick, and not as an indication that I understand something you don’t (i.e., I don’t start my sentences with it).
I actually do the same thing.
Akshulee, you’re right. You do.