Its always fun to follow the Hat & Hair. When they write the political history of the 20-teens, I think that is going to get a ton of ink, or pixels, or whatever. Its just so compellingly grotesque and yet tender. Like a fawn mangled by a big dog. In local sports news, Boston Man will lick no one else in this year’s quest for Lord Stanley’s cup. Never try to out-crazy Florida Man.
The University of Florida — a class university all the way around. They’re all Gators, so obviously, fuck everyone in this story.
Nothing says innocent like Oliver North. I am sincerely puzzled by the NRA here, and will continue to not give them money, because they’ve always seemed dodgy when it came to people like me owning guns.
Oil makes a huge recover to settle at… $71? Jesus. Its like 2013 all over again! Get the jalopey ready, Ma! We’s just about ready to move back to Beverley Hills!
I would tie this to the Patriots, but nobody is worried about beating the Bears next season.
Huh, never heard this before. Probably the right band to cover that one.
The sun comes out and the clothes come off.
http://archive.is/DVMfh
6, 7, 10, 19, 28, 35, 39, 42, 44, 52, 81. 23 has a high quality Mons Veneris.
Wow, good set.
10 looks like a young Kathy Ireland.
#4 is my ex. Took me 7 years to figure out she was on the wrong side of the hot-crazy line. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.
Pics or GTFO.
Still not joining the NRA
Seconded.
Thirded?
Amen.
If I feel like giving away money, IJ is where it goes. They rock.
IJ is my Amazon Smile choice.
… Hobbit
#Metoo
#methree
Same here
Mine is a local volunteer ambulance outfit. But I guess I don’t shop Amazon enough because they haven’t received a dime from me yet.
IJ all the way
I joined the NRA after the Parkland school shooting and would do it again. It’s me giving a FU to those who are trying to make gun ownership illigitimate, like smoking.
Supporting shitty organizations to own the libs.
The NRA is as much a gun rights organization nowadays as the ACLU is a civil rights organization.
The supposedly better gun rights organizations somehow didn’t work hard enough to earn the hatred of the anti-gun mob. Not enough influence?
Ignorance. They don’t know GOA ain’t just a state in India.
As if they know it is a state in India
Gun Owners of America is where it’s at.
This, although I am with Lachowsky above and prefer the IJ.
If you want to give money to Larry Pratt and his family, feel free, but don’t expect them to actually do anything with it…
I hear the GOA us a lot better than the National Association for Guns Rights.
Thirded. Jesus christ.
#metoo
Thought about the GOA but I used to play a MMO-RPG with the same name and my level 23 wizard staff won’t convert over.
I did a long time ago, but I find I send them critical emails more than positive. All in all they do more good than bad for the second amendment.
I made my choice when I joined the Second Amendment Foundation.
Wife hit hardest
Why?
/DJ Khaled
What?
/Lil’ Jon
It said Boston Man, she was getting hit one way or another.
My alma mater makes students acknowledge that sexual consent can be withdrawn after the act.
Ohio State works with SFL to set up a scholarship.
Maybe I’ll donate to OSU and let me alma mater know about it.
After? I mean, during, sure… but after? That’s insane.
Worse yet, I bet that if, as a man, you withdrawal consent after the fact — you’ll be laughed out of the room by all the feminists supposedly championing equality. After all, I’m told its misogynistic and ?sexist? if a man chooses to refuse sex with heavier set women.
“My alma mater makes students acknowledge that sexual consent can be withdrawn after the act.”
That’s American right?
Because uh…..that could be a problem.
Maybe they’ll withdraw consent for awarding you a degree after the fact.
Maybe I’ll withdraw my tuition after the fact!
Consent can be withdrawn after the act?
Gotta wonder how long it will be before the first baby daddy uses retroactive rape to get out of paying child support?
It’s so cute how you think men will be able to withdraw their consent.
Oh I don’t think he’ll succeed but it will be fun watching lawyers try and come up with reasons why a woman can revoke consent but a man can’t and that is totally not sex based discrimination
It don’t work that way, because reasons.
The guys at that school damn sure better call the next day!
Be sure to use a false name when you do. Next lesson how to un-ring a bell.
Ladies, remember regret is not rape.
Ladies, remember regret is not rape.
You are obviously not paying attention.
It’s not ‘rape-rape’ but it’s still rape.
Unless you’re using STEVE’s definition… STEVE NEVER HAVE REGRET.
STEVE always wins
Anyhoo – fuck American.
How about dem Buckeyes? (did a single one of you click the motherfucking link?)
did a single one of you click the motherfucking link?
Want to do the whole links some time? Then you can really develop a good hate.
LOL
I did, and while it was cool I felt victimized by the lack of derp promised by the headline
If that’s true, literally (literally literally, not this millennial bullshit where they use literally instead of figuratively) any sexual experience can be considered rape. Which is insane.
It’s a non-issue. Women never lie about rape. Ever.
BTW, American has said they switched providers for its sexual harassment training and no longer uses the one that says consent can be withdrawn (and also called anyone who got a question wrong on their quiz a “n00b”).
Don’t care. They suck, and they still have a yellow rating from FIRE.
It looks like the student quote that this story is based off of was that training was “if they’re both too drunk to consent it may still be interpreted as a sexual assault.” and a student had asserted that “it was like” being able to withdraw consent the next day. The school responded and pointed out that that’s not how consent works at all, but The College Fix is still keeping that as the pull quote and buried the “update” at the very bottom.
I get what you’re saying, but when they say that if both parties are drunk = possible sexual assault… what they’re really saying is that if the woman regrets it, she can withdrawal consent after the fact. Men don’t have that option, it doesn’t matter how drunk you are or if the woman that “raped” you was sober.
Not really. The implication is that a sufficiently inebriated person is unable to adequately give consent. If nothing else happens after two drunk people have sex then yay!
As the 230 pound bearded gay dude, I was always sent back to the dorms to deliver the drunkest girls to their rooms safely after parties. There were some very incapacitated guys trying to peel off THE MOST incapacitated girl with every run. Whichever guy would casually try to lead one of the girls off, the girl would start stumbling away with him and I’d have to go back and get my lost little lamb. I got a lot of thank-yous the next days for being dogged about not letting them run off.
I vehemently disagree. I’ve seen women deliberately try to get married men drunk to bang them. I had a friend that was raped in college by a drunk 17 year old girl (he was blacked out and half asleep – I took him to the room). When she claimed she was raped by him, the brother tried to kick his ass.
The whole “men do this but women don’t” thing is bullshit. We’ll have to agree to disagree.
I’m not saying women don’t do this, but men do. I’m saying that by the time everyone is drunk consent is already out the window. No retraction needs to be made. If nobody has hard feelings the next day then it’s the dodging of a bullet. I’ve prevented enough regrettable sexual encounters of drunk people where at least one of the parties was initiating and driven to get laid and the other one was passively led along because of drunkenness. The genders of the parties were defined by the fact that I was sent off herding women. If you’re reading into it an implication that “men do this but women don’t,” then that’s you bringing that to the conversation.
I’ve certainly seen my share of different configurations of this and have been taken home while blindly drunk and plied with drugs by a stranger myself, and then followed home the next morning to “make sure I was ok” ?
I was being hyperbolic to compare and contrast how rotten my alma mater is in comparison to OSU setting up an actual libertarian scholarship in conjunction with an actual libertarian organization.
But the premise of that training is that drunk people can’t consent. And I guarantee you that a man would never be allowed to use this excuse.
“North was tried in 1988. He was indicted on 16 felony counts, and on May 4, 1989, he was initially convicted of three[…]however, on July 20, 1990, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), North’s convictions were vacated”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North
I have a very hard time believing that the ACLU would do this nowadays.
I thought for sure this would be the musical link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFv-uRu1js
sexual consent can be withdrawn after the act
I have never been happier that I am old and married.
You realize that applies to your wife too right?
When is the last time you bought her flowers…
My wife isn’t a young, insane, SJW.
When is the last time you bought her flowers…
Made her three dozen custom arrows. Does that count for something?
Don’t cheat on her from under 100 yards away.
LOL. Make it 150 if she has a crossbow.
Relevant
Don’t piss your wife off too bad. It’s possible to be convicted of wife rape.
I bought my wife two 1911 last December.
I don’t think I need to worry about arrest and conviction.
Yikes.
Also, nice pick. I don’t have a 1911 yet, but I will eventually.
Springfield Armory 1911 EMP for every day carry.
Springfield Armory 1911 EMP-4 for practice and league.
I commented extensively last fall on our search for the “perfect” pistol.
Nice. I have an EMP .40. Love it.
I have a Kimber I really like and my cousin has the ruger in 10mm. I really wish I had gotten the kimber in 10mm.
Fellas, boink her and she owns your ass until you graduate.
Me, almost every day: “Maybe I should join the NRA.”
NRA, almost every day: “Not so fast!”
Right? Same here.
I became a lifetime member when I was 18. I didn’t know any better, okay?!?
It’s OK, Florida Man. You taught me everything I need to know about coffee; you’re exempt from scorn and/or derision in my eyes 😉
I really need to get off my butt and write another article. No excuses. I start tomorrow.
*notices butterfly and wanders off*
Expect much lashings and whip cracking. I passed my exam this morning, so you all are my #1 focus again.
Congrats and ohh wee!
You’re in VA, right? Virginia Citizens Defense League all the way.
Nice!
I love that they have all those “scare quotes” from anti-gunners on their home page as endorsements!
Yes, the VCDL don’t fuck around. Absolutely uncompromising when it comes to the 2A, which isn’t something the NRA can say.
We need to start a Tennessee chapter. Although, where I live they would think it akin to joining a club to go grocery shopping
Heh. Great way to put it. Agreed.
“University of Florida President Kent Fuchs acknowledged that the school had been “inappropriately aggressive” when rushing graduates across the stage Saturday, a videotaped incident that has stirred controversy online amid suggestions that the white usher was motivated by race because the students were black.”
I thought Usher was black?
Where White Ushers come from.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DceEfO1UQAAVo4_.jpg
“Huh, never heard this before. Probably the right band to cover that one.”
It doesn’t sound different enough.
WTF?
https://nypost.com/2018/05/05/nxivm-doctor-charged-with-conducting-human-experiments/
But the OMPC has now accused Porter of moral unfitness, gross negligence and gross incompetence among other charges. He is accused of showing “human subjects an actual video of the horrific and brutal murders and dismemberment of four women by machetes; and violent film clips, including a male African American being viciously stomped by a Nazi ;a conscious male being forced to eat a portion of his own brain matter; and a graphic gang rape.”
An “actual video?” Not a “virtual video” or a “pretend video?”
a conscious male being forced to eat a portion of his own brain matter
So, Ray Liotta in Hannibal?
True OGs showed human subjects Daisy’s Destruction by Peter Scully before it was cool.
Even mentioning the name of that video is going to give me nightmares. Thanks a lot.
Faces of Death……
Who’s ready to see how the Caps fuck this up?
If they don’t choke, my annual routine of “Oh look – the Caps choked” will be disrupted!
Apparently Trotz mixing the lines up again in effort to fuckup the chemistry.
Not I. I’d root for ISIS over the Penguins.
It’s not about rooting – it’s about preparing for the inevitable. Like we do every. damn. year.
It’s easier for me because I’m not a Caps fan – I’m a Rangers fan. I just hate the Penguins THAT much that I am extremely invested in wanting the Caps to win this series.
Fuck the Rangers.
This year? I agree 100%.
This is the one thing that Flyers fans and Rangers fans can agree on 100%.
Fuck the Penguins.
https://i.gifer.com/MFNY.gif
Be careful
that was good
Hilarious. Still hate the Penguins. (admitted Preds fan).
You will be. You will be.
/Yoda voice
There feels like there is room for a joke about a handy-J in there, but I can’t quite work it out.
Something about the Bears beating themselves.
Scared no one is.
/Wise Yoda voice
Is salad gay?
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/993299802745024512
Sleeping with a person that has a penis and testicles doesn’t make him feel gay, but salad does?
Tossing a salad is gay. End of story.
Salad is the gayest thing on the planet.
You’ve never seen Top Gun or watched the Pro Bowl?
Yes, but I never ate a salad while doing it.
Well maybe a taco salad, but it’s not gay if it’s taco.
Eurovision is gayer.
TIL:
1. Romania has countertenors.
2. Gaystep is a thing.
I think Men(dot)com is trying to score another viral hit. Their videos have had a run of barely clandestine gay sex in front of women since that went viral.
I blame the tiara.
https://twitter.com/JoeySarson/status/993570375098290177
Wait, that’s the guy banging Blaire White? Does he at least drive a Ferrari?
“Female Donald Trump lookalike revealed as Spanish potato farmer who doesn’t own a mobile phone”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/spanish-potato-farmer-who-doesnt-12423687
Woops! Gilmored.
Gilmore is a female Spanish potato farmer?
The More You Know,
The *Gil*more You Know
The Browns have a beer they would like you to hold for them.
The Browns would need to have the capability to beat the bears before they could worry about failing to do it.
The only way the Browns could do worse this year is to lose the preseason games as well. They’ve got nowhere to go but up.
They don’t play Chicago for the next three years.
You can see how closely I follow football…
And yet they will still find a way to lose to them
Oil makes a huge recover to settle at… $71?
Ruling commies in Alberta become intrigued.
Would suck if they got served 11th hour reprieve, though…
Aren’t the conservatives united again?
I’m too young to remember the Iran-Contract thing and have only read about it a little. I got the impression that North was the fall guy for th higher ups who were really running the operation. Am I way off?
Well North was running it, at Reagan’s orders. Probably.
The Cold War is that sticky widget where libertarian purism runs afoul of reality, in some cases. I don’t think a Vietnam quagmire or playing “chase the Taliban” in Afghanistan is on the same level of strategic idiocy as insuring the the strategic backyard of the US is kept free of Communist missile bases and troop depots.
In his second book (about his life after he left the army) Col Hackworth wrote about Iran Contra and the major players. I don’t have it on hand, so will go from memory.
Basically Oliver North is an incompetent self promoter. He’s also greedy. He was getting kick backs from the arms suppliers from whom the U.S. purchased arms for the contras. They were paying top dollar for shitty weapons that were useless in the field. Oliver North’s take on the kickbacks amounted to $110 USD, and the contras got fucked over.
Hackworth detailed a bunch of other shit about North. Basically, he sucks at strategy. He is shallow and facile. He got played, badly, by the people he was negotiating with.
He’s the last guy you want leading an organization that is in a conflict with enemies seeking its destruction. He’s one of those energetic morons you want to ID and evict as quickly as possible before they blunder their way into a major defeat.
The Bloomberg crowd must be high-fiving themselves at this foot-bullet the NRA just shot into its foot.
Sorry… not $110.00 but $110,000. Whatever hs feelings, Olliver North isn’t for sale at crack-whore prices. He’s classier than that.
s/hs feelings/his failings/
$#@^!
I used to work for Maj. Gen Fred Haynes. He was Ollie’s boss at one of his (Ollie’s) early-career postings. He said the guy was a liar and a weasel.
I’ll have to read that. sounds interesting.
Ouch.
He was a Light Colonel – he wasn’t making policy decisions.
Some shitty sportsball news.
Sir Alex Ferguson had emergency surgery on Saturday for a brain hemorrhage
Fuck haters, he made ManU a giant and will probably remain an unmatched TOP!MAN! of the sport.
I think you mean haemhorrage.
Probably but Chrome didn’t like it so I gave in because I hate dotted red lines.
If you’re going to use the æ ligature, you might want to spell the rest of the word correctly. :-p
And as a Bayern fan, I can’t possibly be a fan of Mr. Ferguson. (Not that I want to see people suffer brain hæmorrhages, of course.)
Or did he mean haemhorroid?
We are talking about soccer, right?
Is it wrong that I was thinking how my eulogy for John McCain would go?
“McCain served his country honorably. Despite repeatedly destroying US Navy warplanes, this son and grandon of admirals was able to persevere and still make it as a pilot in combat. After being shot down, only a few of his fellow prisoners accused him of giving information to the enemy. He then went on to a distinguished political career. He never let his status as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Keating Five scndal deter him from standing as a beacon of honest integrity. He authored the landmark McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act, which only three separate Supreme Court decisions ruled was an assault on the 1st Amendment. John McCain was never one to let the Constitution that he swore an oath get in the way of his own judgement and belief in the righteous course of action.”
Way to soft-peddle. “John McCain’s only trait was that he was a raging asshole convinced of his own rightness, regardless of the situation or truth.”
There’s a Swanson for that
Dave Barry (way back when): The Keating Five were known as the Keating Five because calling them “Prostitutes with Laywers” would libel.
Mccain is survived by his first wife, Carol Mccain, who he cheated on extensively after she survived a horrific car accident and waited for his return from captivity, and by his second wife, Cindy Mccain, a rich heiress and beneficiary of a government granted fiefdom.
Ouch.
The University of Florida — a class university all the way around. They’re all Gators, so obviously, fuck everyone in this story.
UF graduations take forever. If you let every dumbass drag ass across the stage, it will never end. Caving is stupid. I’m tempted to get another degree just so I can take 5 hours to walk across the stage. Dumbasses.
My brother’s graduation took exactly 11 seconds per name. We were out of there rikky tik.
I’ve been to more UF graduations than I can remember. It’s soooo long and boring without dancing idiots.
Do they do everyone’s degree awarding at the same time? That seems crazy. UVA broke it down by department – everyone did the walk down the Lawn together, sat through the various speakers, and then you went to your department’s degree ceremony. Which kind of sucked for me, because ours was in the old Mem Gym which has ancient, ineffective air conditioning and it was about 700 degrees inside that building.
They break it up, but it’s such a huge school it doesn’t really matter.
But it was a dry heat.
In Charlottesville? Hardly.
“I am sincerely puzzled by the NRA here, and will continue to not give them money, because they’ve always seemed dodgy when it came to people like me owning guns.”
North is a bad pick, but supporting the 2nd Amendment and then attacking the only viable anti-gun control organization doesn’t make much sense to me.
As flawed as they are, the NRA is the only viable defense against gun control.
Yep. They’re not going on the offensive, which I wish they would, but they hold the line.
And there is literally no significant alternative to the NRA. The logic here just makes no sense to me.
My personal strategy is support NRA & push it in a favorable direction while also supporting other groups like GOA or some state level ones that are a bit hardcore.
As far as the NRA, I don’t want to abandon it entirely so it will be taken over and worn as a skin suit. I also remember when the NRA and Lapierre got slapped hard for the jack booted thugs comment, so the current cop fellating isn’t a suprising result.
Anti-gun control unless the coppers are against that kind of gun or ammo. I’ll keep my morals, you catch the fleas.
Just don’t be surprised when the 2nd Amendment is whittled into oblivion
Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, buddy.
I’m not disagreeing with your points. You’re right. I just don’t think it makes sense strategically. Whatever, it doesn’t matter
The NRA has some enormous flaws that are hard to overlook but there are plenty of smaller and more local organizations that are worthy of people’s donations if the NRA doesn’t cut it for them.
Sure, but then opposition to gun control will be scattered among various groups with differing messages.
Are the local state affiliates of the NRA better than the national?
Depends on the locality I guess. I donate to GOA but I hear plenty of people speaking highly of various local orgs. Hell, I even toss a buck to the NRA once in a while-I prefer others but they have their place largely, as you point out, because of their size and existing clout.
If all that’s defending the second is the NRA, then the second is dead. Time and time again, the NRA have shown themselves to be a bunch of quislings.
Yeh, I was gonna say that. It’s pretty weenie-scary if the only thing protecting the 2A is the NRA.
Counting on the NRA to defend your gun rights is kinda like voting republican so that you can get smaller government and fiscal responsibility.
^This x1,000,000
The only?
The one and only?
Really?
It’s the Just Say’n of gun-rights organizations.
The only significant group. No other group has as much sway.
I’m not even a member of the NRA
Not in Virginia – the VCDL is much more active and effective here.
Ok, I didn’t know that about Virginia. I’d say from where I am, though, the NRA is pretty much the only game in town
We all know the NRA is secretly controlled by the JPFO.
I wish!
Of all people, one would think that (((they))) understood the importance of an armed population.
Check out Israel. I think (((they))) do, at least.
Me = JPFO life member.
The only effective one, yes.
The same NRA who tried to sabotage Heller because they thought it was a losing proposition?
Fuck the NRA. Badge licking pieces of shit.
I didn’t know that. Link?
Also, haven’t you defended the ACLU in the past because you think they are good on speech?
In the past, as in pre-Trump. They were still decent then. Not any longer.
Do you have a link on the Heller thing, because that’s crazy. I didn’t know about that.
I’ve read the same thing as JB, but it has been years ago. They only jumped aboard when it was going to be litigated with or without them. Their reasoning was the unknown was better, compared to a loss in Heller.
Here’s one: https://www.thetrace.org/2016/03/dick-heller-second-amendment-hero-abolish-gun-regulation/
“The case still faced other hurdles. Early on, lawyers for the NRA — fearing pro-gun forces lacked enough votes to convince a Supreme Court majority that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to bear arms — tried to talk Levy out of pursuing the case. They then attempted to dissuade him from using as his lead lawyer an untested sole practitioner, Alan Gura. Doubting Heller’s prospects, the NRA filed a competing suit, Seegars v. Ashcroft, helmed by a leading Second Amendment advocate, Stephen Halbrook.
The NRA’s concerns were strategic, but Levy says now that something else was going on. “I think the real concern was that three lawyers from outside the NRA started stepping on some toes, and the NRA wasn’t appreciative,” he says.”
Thanks for posting this. Definitely it doesn’t justify NRA bashing by some folks here.
Here’s a 2008 Cato take: https://www.cato-unbound.org/2008/07/25/david-kopel/nra-supreme-court
Even presuming the “stepping on toes” thing is true – there were still valid strategic concerns and Alan Gura was hardly a known winner. Further still, he fucking hedged on automatic weapons in oral argument which I think weakens his case. I had a chance to take him out to lunch once and pushed him on that point, he fed me that same line about being popular with guys in cabins said he didn’t think the court was ready to hear those arguments and thought anyone pushing for deregulation of automatic weapons is a nut. I called bullshit and said he had opportunity to point out the weaknesses in Miller but walked away from taking the argument to its logical conclusion. You can concede a point on regulation but nevertheless call attention to the underlying weakness in the law supporting it.
You think he was wrong? You do know how much effort he made on P&I in McDonald and completely went down in flames on that. The man knows what will and won’t fly in front of the Nazgul; you might not like that, but you wouldn’t even have Heller to hang your hat on without him.
Mrs. Animal and I are both Life Members. If nothing else, it’s worth it to hear the RRHHEEEE from an obnoxious proggie when one of us occasionally has reason to show them our membership cards.
My alma mater makes students acknowledge that sexual consent can be withdrawn after the act.
Taking the concept of “indian giver” to a whole new level.
New expression — Indian Fucker?
“Chelsea Manning vows to eliminate US borders, close prisons and abolish ICE before it commits ‘ethnic cleansing’ as she campaigns for Maryland Senate seat
She says she doesn’t, in fact, even consider herself a Democrat, but is motivated by a desire to shake up establishment Democrats who are ‘caving in’ to President Donald Trump’s administration. She vows she won’t run as an independent if her primary bid fails.
She’s certainly got an eye-catching platform: Close prisons and free inmates; eliminate national borders; restructure the criminal justice system; provide universal healthcare and basic income.
The top of her agenda? Abolish the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal agency created in 2003 that Manning asserts is preparing for an ‘ethnic cleansing.’
Manning ticks off life experiences she believes would make her an effective senator: a stint being homeless in Chicago, her wartime experiences as a U.S. Army intelligence analyst in Iraq – even her seven years in prison. She asserts she’s got a ‘bigger vision’ than establishment politicians.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5699757/Chelsea-Manning-vows-eliminate-borders-close-prisons-abolish-ICE.html
“That’s nice, dear”
Wow, Manning has really gone off the deep end.
Controlled opposition.
Bingo. And the people fall for it every time.
Holy fuck, how did we let that into the Army in the first place?
The US Army takes homeless people off the streets of Chicago and makes them intelligence analysts in combat zones?
They were really scraping the bottom of the barrel in the waning years of Iraq when recruiting was a very tough sell.
So, you have gender identity issues and delusions of grandeur? Welcome aboard!
In regards to the Ta-Nehisi bloviation that was linked in the previous post, I want money back. That was Tommy Friedman level narcissism parading as commentary.
That guy has got to be the most overrated writer I have ever seen. Blows Pynchon away.
Only thing I know about that guy was he was on Finding Your Roots and he was an insufferable prick.
Must everything be a god damn party? Take your fricken diploma with quiet dignity and move the fuck on.
Fuck me people annoy me sometimes.
I was just having a good time! Yeh well there’s a time and place for shit like that.
Do what I did. I didn’t show up to get mine. The school – I forget the name – had to call me a couple of times to come get it or else they were going to donate it to War Amps or something.
One of the Glib hosting servers seems to have a weirdo font cached again.
Thank god you noticed that, too. Thought my rods and cones were on the fritz.
It’s because you touch yourself at night.
SP has requested (in the way she always requests, “Do it or I shoot off your testicles!”) that Dreamhost clear their server cache, which apprently is the cause of the problem.
Indeed. I’ve already asked them to empty the server caches. This seems to be an issue after theme and WP updates every once in a while.
Also. Michael Starhan. I don’t get it.
He’s like the mail room guy Elaine promoted and then leveraged it to another better paying job.
Strahan.
Meet the new Regis, same as the old Regis.
Why, what happened?
He blew off one of his fingers like JPP.
I remember the Iran Contra hearings getting plastered all over tv. Summer wasn’t it?
And yes, hot Fawn Hall testifying.
Dammit. Was supposed to go underneath the next one.
Yes, summer of 1987. I can remember my mom listening to the news reports on the radio every day as she drove me to swim practice.
That was the summer my grandfather died.
(You don’t have to offer your condolences, he was 82.)
“Oliver North is a legendary warrior for American freedom, a gifted communicator and skilled leader. In these times, I can think of no one better suited to serve as our president.”
We’ll see.
Also- He’s no Mike Pence. North isn’t (wasn’t) afraid to hire a hot secretary.
Fawn Hall — ’80s hawt.
Love the mom jeans! Sexy!
Would have.
RE: revoked consent
I don’t know they while story by any means, but it sounds fishy to me. My wife’s cousin is sitting in jail in New Mexico right accused of rape. He is a 20 year old who works on oil rigs. I have known him since he was 14 or so. He has been at my house many times.
Anywho, he broke up with some girl he had dated for a short period of time and not long afterwards was accused of raping her. He told my wife that it was wasn’t true. He said he quit answering her calls and has a few weeks of pleading text messages and voice mails from her from after the time of the alleged rape.
I don’t know for certain of he is telling the truth, but I suspect that he is. Either way, he’s in a world of trouble right now, no matter how this turns out.
Make sure he has a good lawyer and he’ll be fine. Real life isn’t college. And keep those texts.
I had a buddy in the National Guard going through a divorce who had exactly the same shit happen to him. The cops knew she was lying but had to lock up for a few days. They did a “rape kit” and found out she hadn’t had sex at all in a while, he had an alibi (drinking at a bar with many witnesses – shocker). Of course she suffered absolutely no consequences for filing a false police report.
mental sandbox time
I wonder what people’s brains look like when exposed to derp. Does it light up the pain or pleasure centers? I’m kicking myself for doing derp for so long and am just now thinking about this.
An interesting thought: from a biological perspective, reason is not meant to be an unbiased tool to uncover the truth; it is a tool to argue, manipulate, and persuade.
I would agree. Even without pointing to the neurology of the prefrontal cortex, Aristotle was quite clear in his belief that logos was just one of three arrows in the quiver of rhetoric.
The other two being a large club and what else?
Enlightened view of women and slaves.
Ethos, pathos and logos.
And #4?
A swift kick to the yarbles… if you got any yarbles!
“I wonder what people’s brains look like when exposed to derp. Does it light up the pain or pleasure centers?”
I don’t remember who it was, but some conservatarian thinker recently postulated that virtue signaling was an addictive, pleasurable experience akin to smoking a cigarette or looking at pornography. So I would think that the reaction of exposure to derp likely depends on whether the derp aligns with the reader’s ideological slant.
It absolutely is. I was listening to NPR this weekend and they were interviewing some SJW who was gleefully explaining what a neo fascist Becky is, as if it were the revelation of the century. Her joy at being allowed to pontificate in an illiterate fashion on the buzzword of the week was palpable.
I heard the same interview. Yikes. To think that awful person was a professor with a captive audience. She also implied she was a member of some Code Pink type group that splattered fake blood on the door of a senator who voter against O-care. I think the group was called RevBitch or something equally stupid.
I know that reading/hearing something you agree with lights up the same parts of the brain as food and sex. Hence the popularity of circle-jerk chatrooms.
LARF!
Hawaii volcano may threaten geothermal power plant
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/07/hawaii-volcano-may-threaten-geothermal-power-plant.html
It’s like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a knife.
I once jokingly suggested solving the nation’s energy problems by harnessing the power of the Yellowstone supervolcano.
Setting it off would also solve those problems.
He’s no Terry O’Reilly or Wayne Cashman, but the best we can hope for these days.
He’s more like Ken Linseman. He’s an idiot.
Or Milbury.
Boy, the Bruins sure had their fair share of lunkheads, eh?
/wink.
Don’t forget Lucic!
The first professional sporting event my dad took me to was a Bruins-Whalers game. Somebody took a cheap shot at old Bobby Orr. The entire Bruins team came out and beat the hell out of the entire Whalers team while Orr skated figure-8s. It was glorious.
Too bad the Bruins couldn’t pull that shit with the Habs. Epic rivalry.
/winks and ducks.
You better duck! Ever see this classic playoff fight? The Canadiens’ enforcer Pierre Bouchard decided to fight the Bruins’ undersized Center, Stan Jonathon. Literally a career-ending mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLai4SByaCg
The Bruins could never push the Habs around. Gainey and Robinson alone would eat them and then Nilan came along. And then there was Chelios, Ludwig, Green….
Big Bird was a bad, bad man as well as a helluva defenseman.
Last time I was paying attention, the Habs were a bunch of pussies whose strategy was to make cheapshots, start fights, then dive for the ice to avoid beatings.
New York magazine runs a piece by some drooling idiot from Jacobin. The results are pretty much what you would expect. Ideological diversity = making sure you have Marxists debating with run of the mill lefties. I’m sure it will come as no surprise that the Niskanen Center gets an approving mention from a Marxist:
There is something just delightful about a Marxist bloviating about how his ideological opponents have such stale, discredited ideas.
Many on the center-left regard this as a dead debate — one that Joseph Stalin settled decisively long ago.
Almost as though those old farts were alive at the time. Bernie’s showing us that gulags are cool again, get with the times.
Wonder how long that asshole would last up against O’Rourke or Williamson? Over/under on dissolving into a puddle of piss rage?
I thought it was common knowledge that military training involves yelling, swearing, and other high stress situations. I guess someone didn’t get the memo.
“You are f****** weak!” Shocking viral video shows female Army recruit reduced to tears as instructor hurls abuse at her
The instructor may face a court martial after footage emerged of him screaming at the r
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/you-f-weak-shocking-viral-12490017
Poor Old Blighty. They just keep sinking lower.
The good news is that they’ll have a completely shit military when they are declared an Islamic Republic.
“Army – Be the
BestWhatever”It’s a Man’s Life in Modern Army.
I’ve recently discovered Monty Python in its entirety (series, movies, German TV specials, documentaries, sketch collections) is on Netflix, so I’ve indulged. On one hand, they are still awesome. On the other, some of the gags just ended up being quaint.
E.g. a guy comes to the registrar and says I want you to marry me…
Bayonet training is probably the biggest mind-fuck in the military. It’s a lot of cheerleading and yelling and adrenaline pumping; because, if you actually need to rely on it in modern combat, consider yourself truly and horribly fucked.
Soldier who led Afghanistan bayonet charge into hail of bullets honoured
A soldier who led a bayonet charge across 260ft of open ground through Taliban gunfire has been given the Military Cross.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9571522/Soldier-who-led-Afghanistan-bayonet-charge-into-hail-of-bullets-honoured.html
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British casualties were light, but nearly 28 guerrillas were killed. And as recently as October of 2011, a British Army lance corporal named Sean Jones led a squad of soldiers from the Prince of Wales Royal Regiment in a bayonet charge against Taliban fighters in Helmand Province, Afghanistan
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What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle
The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.
Perish yourself but rescue your comrade!
Attack with the cold steel! Push hard with the bayonet!
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-Suvorov
It’s safer to kill the enemy with drones, but killing them with bayonets sends a real message.
Tactically, what actually happened was they did a flanking maneuver under supporting fire, causing the enemy to break contact.
Great and heroic…but the ‘bayonet charge’ was just a headline grabber. Nobody got stabbed. He needed his guys to jump fast. Fixing bayonets is an adrenaline trigger.
In his own words — “We had to react quickly,” said Cpl Jones. “There was something different about this. It was obviously a well-planned ambush and they overwhelmed us with fire from three points initially.”
https://youtu.be/29HFaG9aOqo
Dammit. Meant for that to be this one:
https://youtu.be/ZL-5uyp44WA
“Professor Tells A Harmless Lingerie Joke On Elevator. Unfortunately, There’s A Gender Studies Professor Aboard. You Can Guess What Happened Next.
According to Katherine Mangan, political theory Professor Richard Ned Lebow of King’s College was in an elevator with a bunch of other human beings, including Professor Simona Sharoni, who teaches women’s and gender studies at Merrimack College. Sharoni, who clearly had been conditioned to submit to the patriarchy, offered to hit buttons on the elevator. That’s when Lebow did the unthinkable: he jokingly asked for the women’s lingerie department. And his buddies — the scum! — laughed.
So Sharoni complained to the International Studies Association, just as an empowered woman ought to do. She tremblingly wrote, “I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that we froze and didn’t confront him.” And they took her complaint seriously enough to launch an investigation. They determined that Lebow had violated the conduct code of the organization.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/30325/professor-tells-harmless-lingerie-joke-elevator-ben-shapiro
So brave and empowered.
“Oh, good morning Mr Tyler…..going…down?
Our work elevators automatically say that. It’s hard keeping a straight face when I’m in one with an attractive co-worker.
Have you tried turning to her and asking “Well…?”
Sharoni, who clearly had been conditioned to submit to the patriarchy, offered to hit buttons on the elevator. That’s when Lebow did the unthinkable: he jokingly asked for the women’s lingerie department
Why? Did she have bright blue hair and wouldn’t shut up about her pussy?
Damn your nimble fingers!
(At least I included a link.)
And it is very much appreciated, Mr Ted S.
He should have talked about his pussy.
Shapiro going for the click bait “What happened next” headline.
I may be visiting Merrimack in a few weeks as my son is looking at D2 football schools. I’m not sure what to think of that story, So they have Victomology studies twats on campus like most schools. I was hoping Professor Lebow was from the King’s College in PA, but it appears he from the one in London.
Unfortunately, There’s A Gender Studies Professor Aboard.
What a versatile statement.
“I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that we froze and didn’t confront him.”
Verbal rape.
There’s A Gender Studies Professor Aboard.
The first person to be eaten on the boat.
And there is literally no significant alternative to the NRA.
David Hogg agrees.
Can I get some dressing for this word salad?
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/
Coates is the very definition of a pseudo-intellectual. He writes painfully long pieces filled with pointlessly flowery and verbose language that ultimately say nothing. It’s as if a thesaurus vomited all over the screen and we’re expected to be amazed at his intellect. He is to intellectualism what Obama was to the Presidency; all style, no substance.
An entire career built via white guilt. The only person I’ve ever heard come right out and say he’s not a particularly impressive writer is Glenn Loury, who is black. Every white public intellectual or opinion writer is terrified to call this guy what he actually is: a profound mediocrity.
Cornell West also attacked Coates.
Cornell West is a stand-up guy. You can disagree with his politics, but he’s a fair minded guy who’s respectful even of noted douchebags like Sean Hannity
Morons never use 1 word when they can use 5.
“human-operated manual process”
I made fun of the guy who wrote that. Unfortunately, he was my boss.
Meh, worth it.
You can find delicous Glib dressing in previous thread.
Obama didn’t even have style if you ask me.
He was just plain superficial.
Coates is an insufferably bad writer and he’s no thinker.
Hey, is he one of those guys who succeeds despite their own mediocrity as Michelle recently railed about?
It’s like 10,000 spoons, when all you need is a
knifeflashlight.https://twitter.com/jennlynnjordan/status/993142584116678657
Curious.
Ah, the heyday of Satanic panic.
I once found the instruction manual for The Legend of Zelda while cleaning. I demanded to know why there was such an instruction manual but no NES and no Legend of Zelda cartridge in my possession. My mom laughed and then told me a tale of running for local school board and how that was a prop she’d used to illustrate the insidious influence of Satan into children’s lives what with fairies and potions and all that.
Kurt Schlichter spells it out.
Why Science and Experience Command That You Buy an ‘Assault Rifle’
Kinda split on this.
https://nypost.com/2018/05/04/josh-rosen-is-the-bad-guy-even-when-hes-donating-money/
On one hand, it’s a little douchey to post on social media for warm fuzzies when you do something nice; on the other hand, the trolls ripping him for it are pretty weak sauce. I don’t see any of them leaving a $300 tip.
He’s easily the best pro-quarterback in this year’s draft.
Probably not-terribly-original-or-profound thought I’ve been mulling over recently: the main conflict in American society stems from utopianism. Almost every shitty idea imposed on us originates in a utopian mindset of how we can perfect the world that we live in. Utopian thinking is the root of all evil.
It’s pretty harmless if you just go around trying to talk people into your silly utopian vision like Nick Gillespie. It’s the people willing to control and even kill others to achieve their nutty ideas who are the real menace.
State-enforced utopianism, yes.
…the people willing to control and even kill others…
And those people are why I own firearms.
I think it’s more neo-puritanism that utopianism. All the shitty ideas forced upon us are for our own good, according to who is coming up with the ideas.
Could one argue that neo-puritanism is a form of utopianism?
Absolutely. I mean, so is old-school Puritanism.
I think there is a difference. Utopianism is the thought of a harmonious society full of happy people working together in harmony.
Neo-puritanism has an authoritarianism baked into it with the idea that there is a moral judge who decides what is to be and not to be done.
The utopians imagine that their society can exist without enforcement. The neo-puritans know theirs can not.
Maybe…..however, they are perfectly willing to use authoritarian methods to bring about that harmonious society of happy people working together. After all, that’s the theoretical end state to Communism – sure, they have to break a few eggs to make that omelet, but EVENTUALLY they will reach that temporal nirvana where everyone is equal in every single way and everyone is happy about it. If you have to generate a few hundred million corpses to get there, well then that’s just the price to be paid.
To me, the difference is in the delusional mind set of the utopians. They believe that a harmonious world can be maintained without violence.
The puritans realize that’s not possible and act accordingly.
ding ding ding
See Vision of the Anointed by Sowell for details.
On NPRavda today, the NRA guy was patiently explaining how many people screwed up in the Parkland shooting and how many laws were broken. The host was a bit flustered but ended up saying something like “well, that means we need better laws with more enforcement! we must DO something!”
[head desk]
That’s why you find yourself a little space in the world where the Utopians will leave you alone. At least long enough that you don’t have to see your children or grandchildren slaughtered. The great grandchildren? Sorry kids, I’m not Atlas.
That was the appeal of the New World and the Western Frontier for centuries.
Even California was the place where you could be you and there were millions of possibilities and opportunities.
I’ve had the same thought.
The equity-obsessed, for example, will never be satisfied until private property is abolished.
She tremblingly wrote, “I am still trying to come to terms with the fact that we froze and didn’t confront him.”
The incalculable force of patriarchal laughter. None can withstand it.
Well of course they were paralyzed by fear – had they actually confronted them he no doubt would’ve dismissed them as hopeless bullshit artists. That could’ve actually killed them.
“CNN anchor Don Lemon revealed that his network will limit the amount of time it devotes to airing President Donald Trump’s 2020 rallies unfiltered.
“There will be no rallies that run in real time,” Lemon said at a Variety event on Friday. “There will not be so much space for candidates to let them ramble on. The American people will demand that. We will expect more truth from our candidates.”
According to Variety, Lemon referenced “CNN’s decision to carry live coverage of Trump rallies without much commentary as something that won’t be repeated.”
During the 2016 campaign, Trump used his rallies to give his perspective on issues like illegal immigration and trade that went counter to the legacy media’s preferred narrative. He even highlighted “Angel Moms” and people of color whose families were victimized by illegal immigrant crime—like Jamiel Shaw Sr.—that the legacy media had conveniently chosen to ignore.
The legacy media aired many of Trump’s rallies unfiltered because they never thought he could actually win the presidency. But the joke eventually ended up being on them, and now the legacy media seem intent on not making the same “mistakes.”
Lemon’s remarks indicate that CNN will try to severely limit the amount of time its viewers get to listen to Trump without anti-Trump pundits, Republican useful idiots like Ana Navarro, and left-wing anchors like Lemon trying to take Trump out of context and ginning up scandals.
Lemon, at the same event, after all said it was his “obligation as a journalist” to say that Trump is “racist.””
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/05/06/2020-don-lemon-reveals-cnn-will-limit-airing-trump-rallies-real-time/
Instead of watching him speak, we’ll summarize everything he said for you. And the summary will always be “Racism.”
Mmm, yes, I’m also familiar with the playbook of RTV Serbia from 1987-1993 (not saying it didn’t go on after but that’s after we bailed).
Translation: We’d prefer people watch on other networks. Our ratings are already so lousy, we see no need to change now.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/russia-report-redactions-cover-fbi-missteps/
For those who haven’t seen this article already, the FBI was redacting information to Congress and claiming that it was due to “national security”. Turns out they were only redacting issues that reflected poorly on the FBI and DOJ.
If they keep this up, they may sully their reputations.
“A surprising number of straight people are having same-sex experiences, study reveals”
https://www.indy100.com/article/a-surprising-number-of-straight-people-are-having-same-sex-experiences-study-reveals-8330581
https://www.theonion.com/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-1819584210
One of the best Onion pieces ever
^^THIS^^
It’s the second best of all time for me, behind the post-9/11 “Hijackers surprised to find selves in Hell”. https://www.theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-hell-1819566162
The absolutely best one was taken down, but one can find mirrors of it.
The best was “Smells like Splattered Brains”.
That reads like a Norm MacDonald joke.
Libertarian dilemma here:
I need to apply religious exemption for homeschooling. Reasons and supporting citations must be on religious grounds and cannot be any sort of philosophic or metaphysical objections to compulsory education in
prison systemspublic schools.These narrow restrictions discriminate against non-Abraham religions, such as Taoism (close enough to a religion), that are inherently metaphysical in nature.
Our bona fide reasons are Taoist in foundation, but I have a feeling this path would result in an epic fight in a county where approximately 99.999% of the population are devout Christians. (((We))) could go Old Testament style, which I think would be acceptable, but I dislike having to do so.
I guess it’s not really much of a dilemma since I’m going to keep my head down and go the Old Testament style. The whole thing just pisses me off. It’s a blatant example of religious discrimination by the State. They also dropped the compulsory age from first grade to preschool. I think its part of the push for universal preK.
Keep track of the goal.
I don’t have any moral qualms about lying to the government so long as I am not under oath.
This
The Soviets taught us this lesson quite well enough.
Yes, these are my thoughts as well. I despise Fauxohontas but have to give her props for gaming the system spectacularly (and legally).
Totally.
Never give the bastards the truth unless they point a gun and a Bible at you.
Well for gawdsakes when you actually have to talk to a federal agent keep your mouth shut. They can lie to you with impunity, you to them, not so much.
Aren’t you in Virginia? There’s no religious requirement for homeschooling here.
There is a non-religious track available. This requires regular updates to your local school system (such as submitting lesson plans annually) and I believe they can require assessments of your child’s progress.
There is no additional communication with the local school system once religious exemption is granted. I would prefer to keep their reach as far away as possible.
It’s highly dependent on the locality. I would recommend you find out who the home schooling coordinator for your county is and contact them directly. Ours was quite amenable.
That’s good advice, thanks.
If you press the non-Abrahamic angle, you will prevail. The only question is whether or not the County has a legal team that is smart enough to realize that they have to give you an exemption. But, if it went to court there is a slim to nil chance that you won’t win.
https://www.becketlaw.org/
You should check these guys out. They specialize in religious liberty cases
You shouldn’t have to lie about your religious beliefs in order to receive an exemption that should be afforded to all faiths
“Shouldn’t have to” is how I would start every governmental regulation.
You shouldn’t have to…but you do the way things are.
I’m fairly positive you could get an exemption. It comes down to how far you want to push the issue
I think so too but don’t want to put my kids through that. I’ll skip the limelight on them.
At least I can fall back on my ((())) so don’t have to technically lie. The whole concept of having to justify your religious beliefs to a local school board, all the members of which are devout believers of a different religion, is just insane.
“We’re Satanists.”
Then have fun suing. Remember to donate 10% to this excellent website.
Their reactions would be priceless. I wouldn’t be surprised to find an actual lynch mob at my gates.
Our bona fide reasons are Taoist in foundation, but I have a feeling this path
*Narrows gaze*
Sorry, overuse of puns is just my Way.
The Tao te Ching is my favorite book. I think Taoism is absolutely a religion. If there were more communities out there I would probably be a practicing Taoist.
I agree. I’m surprised Taoism hasn’t taken a firmer hold in America.
Governing a nation is like cooking a small panfish.
“must be on religious grounds”
“approximately 99.999% of the population are devout Christians”
Have you heard of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster? Making your case while dressed as a pirate with a pasta strainer for a hat. Invite many journalists and tell those asshats how important Pastafarianism is to your life.
Merciless ridicule can do wonders.
Pastafarians have received religious exemptions to wear pastas trainers in drivers license photos. So there is precedent
It would be almost as entertaining as OMWC’s suggestion.
(((We))) could go Old Testament style,
Grow your hair out and drop a temple on ’em?
We already have biting insects and wild animals. I’m going with locusts, that’ll really piss off the farmers.
What if you have an unpopular religion? Shouldn’t you be able to keep it private, because you fear being outed as a minority religion?
Exactly. I think there are much wider liberty issues with this beyond my personal one.
What do they require you to provide? Typically it’s just a statement of your religious conviction
From HSLDA:
As a parent with a child who has been and is still partially home schooled, I can say that it is highly dependent on the locality. Mine is very permissive in this regard.
And we are in Virginia.
And I recommend to pay for the HSLDA membership. They are an invaluable resource.
I think it will work out okay. Even if it doesn’t, I’ll be shelling out for a lifetime membership to HSLDA in case homeschooling turns against us at any point in the future.
I’m glad you have a permissive locality. I think mine is too. From reading the cases HSLDA has intervened in though, it doesn’t seem like many are.
SP is an ordained minister, holding a Doctor of Divinity. She will gladly write you a letter, but it may contain phrases like, “Fuck off, slaver!”
Haha, thanks. If I have to go in-person before the school board, it will be a struggle to refrain from voicing similar sentiments.
I would be much more articulate than that, but that would be the basic message underlying everything. And a mention of attorneys might get slipped in.
Also, I homeschooled my kids to keep them out of the hands of the public school system, although not in Virginia. Let me know if there is some way I can help.
You homeschooled your kids to keep them out of the state’s hands, but delivered them into the hands of OMWC? Please tell me you met him when your kids were, um, safe…
That’s outrageous
Am I reading this right?
Do you have to claim a religious exemption exemption in order to be granted a waiver to home school your kid?
If so, that is fucked up. If I were so inclined, I would home school my kid and tell the state to fuck off.
You’re reading correctly.
Claiming a religious exemption ends all further contact between your family and the school board.
Going the secular route requires annual updates and possibly assessments on your kid’s progress. In our area at least, this route also requires any person with a Master’s degree or higher to sign off on your curriculum each year before presenting to the school. Not a problem for us (wife has one and I’m in progress) but they really make it difficult for people.
It’s locality dependent though as Scruffy mentioned his wasn’t bad. I imagine it’s also family dependent.
Jeebus, That gives me a chill. The state is serious about their indoctrination program.
shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
On a large stone tablet. This is my exemption motherfuckers.
Religious exemption: “I don’t worship the State”
Yes!
LOL
I recently did a large job for a guy who was an Army Ranger in the early to mid 1980’s. He claimed that he participated in raiding coke labs and storehouses in Central America during that time. He said they used to joke about how the coke and money they took was going to Ollie. He said it was open knowledge among his unit that what they took was somehow getting funneled by Uncle Sam.
I know that a journalist for the San Jose Mercury wrote a great deal about the coke and arms trade to support the Contras. It’s been years since I read it. I know the government admitted to some of it, but I’m sure there was a lot more to it.
SJM angle: Dark Alliance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Alliance
Most of the more radical claims have been debunked or, at the least, have been demonstrated to lack evidence. The journalist, Gary Webb sadly committed suicide in 2004.
Wow. I thought wikipedia had some sort of “neutral view” requirement.
Gary Webb was so suicidal, he shot himself in the head twice.
George Zimmerman, known idiot, arrested again.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/george-zimmerman-accused-of-stalking-private-investigator-officials-say
And I once again have to explain to people that this has nothing to do with whether or not he was justified in shooting Trayvon Martin. Because I still don’t know if he was, but I also know that the government couldn’t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.
Fuck that. You shouldn’t have to premise that. Justified or not, Zimmerman still was partly at fault for escalating that situation
Deputies said Zimmerman phoned the victim 55 times, left 36 voicemails, texted 67 times and sent 27 emails in a nine-day span.
Lol. Not too bright, this one.
Anyone want some free ketchup?
I need to apply religious exemption for homeschooling. Reasons and supporting citations must be on religious grounds and cannot be any sort of philosophic or metaphysical objections to compulsory education in prison systems public schools.
This is why I despise “religious conviction” exceptions.
“Because fuck you that’s why” should be the sum total of the argument. End of story.
So the alternative would be no exemptions?
A right doesn’t require justification, or it isn’t a right. Technically this is a religious privilege. Better to have a loophole than none at all, though.
This isn’t a special privilege. It’s allowing you to avoid government mandates that shouldn’t exist anyways.
And the entire home school movement owes a debt to religious accommodation as it began with exempting the Amish.
I would say it lies equally with allowing children to attend parochial schools instead of public schools.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_v._Society_of_Sisters
Let’s not forget that compulsory school attendance has its roots in anti religious, particularly anti Catholic progressives and the KKK (which was less of a racial org in the 1920s).
To echo JS, I think it’s a right to not have your children marched off to indoctrination camps under threat of imprisonment or a bullet for the parents. The religious exemption only exists because it’s been tenuously linked to the Constitution. I don’t the Founders ever imagined an amendment preventing this would be necessary.
Didn’t mean to come off harshly micro. I think right shouldn’t require justification; however, we’re seeing justifications being required for all rights across the board.
The original bill of rights as drafted by Madison included “freedom of conscience” rather than “religion”. And the Founders already included exemptions for Quakers in the Constitution (not having to swear an oath, but merely affirming is allowed).
In their words and deeds it’s clear that the Founders supported the notion of religious accommodation. They probably didn’t realize that it would be necessary to invoke such a thing to avoid government mandated schooling
That isn’t a link to the 1st, it is a wholesale perversion of it.
The best sentence I’ve read today:
Source, but the article is unremarkable except for that standout. I could never take seriously any assessment done by a guy(?) with a name like that. I’m assuming the name was self-inflicted, but if not I think that’s a case where you should really consider a nick-name.
Now I have that Meow Mix song stuck in my head. Thanks.
DeadMau5 ?
So the alternative would be no exemptions?
Equal treatment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
And if my “free exercise” of no particular religion at all is not respected, why should I kowtow to yours?
You’re missing the free exercise part.
The irony, of course, is that religious accommodation is what led to the home school movement. It was the Amish who were first afforded such an accommodation.
How many Amish are there still in Europe? Zero. How many European countries let you home school? Almost none.
Coincidence?
Merciless ridicule can do wonders.
Some of us find religion too boring to ridicule.
You’re missing the free exercise part.
You seem to be missing the equal treatment part. I couldn’t give a fuck less what you tell your kids. Nor do I care if some random Maoist yanks his kids out of school because he doesn’t want them exposed to the horrors of American capitalist education.
Then it’s simple: there would be no home schooling option without religious liberty. So, everyone will be treated equally.
Freedom of religion is the closest thing we have to freedom of association and freedom of moral choice in the Constitution.
It’s a threadbare substitute, but it holds back some of the tide.
And it’s expanding which really makes me wonder why anyone would want to abandon it now. Pagans are being afforded religious accommodation to grow beards in the military and pastafarians are being allowed to wear spaghetti strainers in driver license photos. I don’t think people realize how much broad liberty has been achieved just from that one clause.
Home schooling and conscientious objection from the draft are ones the first only applied to the religious and then were expanded to everyone.
Religious exemption and guns are the two big things that save us from becoming the UK
It’s incentivizing religious behavior and so I can see how non believers would be offended by it. Allowing people a way out of state sponsored indoctrination is a good thing, but (from an atheists POV at least) it’s promoting another type of indoctrination. Personally, I’m glad at least some people are getting out from under the thumb of the state, but…. You get the point.
^This. All of you, but particularly Scruffy.
there would be no home schooling option without religious liberty
Sure, because the state owns your children.
I just ran across this Gem of Gibberish at the Economist,
“Its members are less stoical and unwilling to suffer in silence.”
https://www.economist.com/news/china/21741602-they-are-one-biggest-threats-countrys-social-stability-chinas-cities-young-people
A Design Lab Is Making Rituals for Secular People
An interesting article on an industry I didn’t even know existed. I guess it takes all sorts.
In the USSR and Warsaw Pact countries, they tried to replace baptisms and confirmations where young people were sworn to be “Moral Builders of Communism”. Many felt this was lame and secretly went on celebrating religious rituals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Code_of_the_Builder_of_Communism
***
Loyalty to Communism, and love of the socialist Motherland and other socialist countries.
Conscious work for the good of the society: One who doesn’t work, doesn’t get to eat.
Care for the collective property, as well as the multiplying of this property.
High consciousness of the social responsibilities, and intolerance to the violation of the social interests.
Collectivism and comradery: All for one and one for all.
Humane relationships between human beings: One human being is a friend, a comrade and a brother to another human being.
Honesty, ethical cleanliness, as well as simplicity and modesty both in private and public life.
Mutual respect in the family, and care for the upbringing of the children.
Intolerance to the injustice, social parasitism, unfairness, careerism, and acquisitiveness.
Friendship and brotherhood with all the nations of the USSR, intolerance to all racial and national dislike.
Intolerance to the enemies of communism,peace and freedom of peoples of the world.
Brotherly solidarity to all workers of all countries, and nations.
***
So, New Age re-rebranded because Milennials….
That is the most B-Ark thing I have ever read. I was waiting for some tenured worthy wondering whether ritual should be available in a nasally-installed version.
How about this?
“The voices in my head told me not to send my child to your public school system.”
I can’t beleive a state has a law that makes you claim religious exemption to hime school
That is wrong on so many levels. I never knew this.
In my state, you don’t have to a reason to home school, there is just a minimum requirement of course material.
Even that is ridiculous. The government is the servant, not the master (yeah right). Make lesson plans available to homeschooling parents if they wish it.
Want to feel small? Read this and hang your head in shame like I did.
Some people do far more with far less.
Any background on this creature? …totally not looking to help one of you puny weak mammals…I mean just wondering
For fuck’s sake can’t people write blogs?
Oh good, it wasn’t just me.
#metoo
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I don’t get it. Who is supposed to be the shithead in that?
But I did like….
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You must be a conservative A democrat would have passed them by or had their chauffeur take them.
This is a shock…not.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/may/7/climate-skeptics-more-eco-friendly-global-warming-/
Anecdote: a friend/roommate of mine was a big time environmentalist. She worked for Earth Share, then went to law school (though she eventually gave up on environmental law and practices corporate contracts law now, I think).
Our shared bathroom waste basket would, I shit you not, fill up in 2 days with all the tissue and disposable products she was using. She was one of those types that thought she was exempt from certain aspects of green living.
She preferred purple living.
Here we go…
I am changing my superstitious ritual of NOT watching the Caps in the playoffs. This year, I will not change the channel for any reason, even Antiques Roadshow (though I think the Caps have one more shot if the Pens win tonight?)
Yes, the Caps have another shot if the Penguins win tonight.
However, we all know what would happen in that game 7.
The refs would tip the game in favor of Cristiano Ronaldo?
Fuck Real Madrid. This is one final too many they have now.
Juve had them. Fuck UEFA too.
/gently blows slid whistle.
Two too many as they should have lost to BM last year too.
Amen.
Was watching tennis earlier and as usual they couldn’t go five minutes without jabbering about Nadal and I learned he’s a “noted Real Madrid fan”. I thought, “Of course he is.”
OMFG the puck was right in front of you, dickweed!
Just once, I’d like to see a coach interview after a series loss say, “Look, our guys fought hard out there, but in the end we didn’t get the bounces, we go out hustled on the board, and Bob Smith didn’t wear his T-shirt from the 2000 championship run. Thanks Bob, remember to do your part next year.”
Carlin (I think) did a bit about the losing team blaming God for being on the winners side and the winners taking credit and claiming the losers just didn’t give it their all.
Appropriate blast from the past
Sometimes the Tweeters are good (TW: Twitchy)
Somehow they didn’t see that response coming.
I seriously think “Eric Holder” when I hear “famous gun runner”. Maybe Ollie would be the second person I thought of, tho.
Which is not surprising: I suspect most LA Times journos are either unaware of Fast & Furious OR think it was completely blown out of proportion by the alt-right
Anti nut punch:
Local contractor a hero after accident
And you may be pleasantly surprised at what phrase doesn’t make an appearance.
Good for him.
SCOTUS allows cops to sit back and watch as the kid gets bbq’ed. God FTW. Not a Christian, but (these days anyways) they’re starting to grow on me.
Evidently I’m posting comments too quickly. Don’t tell me to slow down, Buddy.
I’m not your buddy, pal.
I’m not your pal guy!
Relevant
Site mods, editors, PTB, anyone who knows WordPress stuff – I am finishing up HHH part III and I have an idea. Question – is there a character limit for alt text?
Not unless it was set in the theme, I think. I write a lot off alt text (section 508, yo), and haven’t reached a limit. But most of what I write is less than a paragraph.
Technically, you’re limited by the number of atoms in the universe….
Oh Yeah, well what about Multiverses Ted? What about Multiverses?
Based on what I’ve seen HM do in his posts, I’m afraid that there likely isn’t.
Go for it. If it needs tweaking, I’ll help you out.
Cool, I should have it sent out Tuesday night.
NY AG Eric Schniederman, one of the sleaziest of the sleazeballs in the business of law, and who has been as partisan a hit-man as you can possibly find in the left…
…apparently is a woman-slapper and serial-sexual-assaulter
Ronan Farrow has made a real name for himself in this #METOO game, but i have to give him credit on this one. Getting Weinstein was more just a reporting layup, imo = anyone that sleazy in the entertainment business will eventually be outed. But going after public officials? Different story, imo.
Dude used to eat in the State Dept cafeteria with the rest of us slobs. That kind of endeared me to him, even if he was a FOH.
I never saw Michelle Kwan in the cafeteria. Just sayin.
He’s just following Eliot Spitzer’s lead.
OMG I’m giddy!
Uh… now it’s gone.
Damn.
The NY’r piece
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse
(the above link was a twitter thread, which gives some highlights; reposting a new version which i think works)
https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow/status/993645386098204677
This reply was astonishing.
….aaaaaaand the typical reaction from leftish twitter
way to go supporting your fellow women, ladies.
#BelievetheVictim but only if she’s accusing somebody with unapproved political views.
“Unfortunately, these women are totally credible.”
Wow.
The NYT article also has a host of similar, “THIS IS PROBABLY A SETUP BY TRUMP” comments.
How quick this, “believe all women” stuff collapses.
And how ridiculous for people to treat this guy as tho he’s some important public figure being unfairly threatened….
….except for the fact that the very reason people are so concerned is that they KNOW he’s such a vicious and hyperpartisan figure … for their team. Which makes him a good person, somehow.
He’s an utter scumbag in his public life as well, and that’s WHY they like him. because he ‘hurts’ their enemies. He’s a shameless abuser of the law for political ends, and they LOVE him for it.
I mean ffs – 2 weeks ago he was trying to change NYS law so he could go after anyone ever pardoned by Trump
He’s a scumbag of the worst sort. and that was true before any reports of his fondness for rough sex
TL;DR but I didn’t see any reference to the many, many awful things he’s involved in. Just the #metoo hypocrisy. But props to the New Yorker I guess even though they surely endorse the many, many awful things that man is involved in.
Before you get too-excited:
Its a good chance he’ll be replaced by Preet.
lolfuck
I vow to ban all woodchippers in the NY area. I mean…Preet vows that. Preet. I’m totaly someone who’s not Preet spying to keep you ne’er-do-wells in line because I have a lot of free time.
What seems notable about this one – compared to say the weinstein stuff, or the even less-substantial Franken takedown – is that this one actually has legitimate allegations of *abuse*. Slapping people, threatening violence, genuinely apex-asshole abuse.
”
Ray Rice-level abuse.
Schneiderman released a statement effectively conceding that the claims were true, but that everything was consensual
http://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/four-women-accuse-new-york-attorney-general-eric-t-schneiderman-of-physical-assault/1165573770
OK, I’ve been watching the game on mute because I was also watching Youtubes. Now that I’m done with YT, do I unmute? The Caps scored under mute conditions.
More YT, it is!
OK good. Hot Ones has a new episode.
Jeezus. John Mayer is booooooring.
I don’t YT so you know what my answer is.
During the Mavs magic run in 2011 I started watching games on mute because they made a comeback once when I was sick of the announcers. They won the Title that year, and it was definitely because I watched on mute.
See?????
I’m sure I’m not the only one, but sports are the one thing I get superstitions about. That was also the first year after LeBron went to Miami, so the extra bonus was not hearing the announcers slobber all over him.
We’re binge-watching Season 5 of The Avengers.
Emma Peel.
I get some remarkably narrowed gazes.
Isn’t she too old for you?
By many years.
Well, back when she was amazing, he was a very young fellow – so it’s just role-reversal.
No, mostly just eye rolls.
And I danced…
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/four-women-accuse-new-yorks-attorney-general-of-physical-abuse
What is “Shit that never happened,” Alex? I’ll take Hatchet Jobs for 500.
Yes me thinks the fat mammal Weinstein is playing stronger ProggieMon cards than the DA.
Prog eating prog has my full approval.
Cuomo just threw Schneiderman under the bus. In less than two hours. Not even a hint of defense. The cat(rowr!) is out of the bag.
I guess Cuomo can only fight so many scandals at once.
And two hours after the story hit, Schneiderman resigns. Good riddance you self righteous pile of shit.
Holy shit.
!!!
This is very close to making me believe in a just God.
It’s really jaw-dropping. Dude must be guilty af.
I would definitely nut in my shorts if Maura Healy was also #metoo’d
Same goes for California’s current AG.
God I hate these narcissistic scum.
So it’s Teacher Appreciation Week.
Thanks, Mrs. Anderson, for including Anthem in high school sophomore English. That was a life-changing book, to say the least!
A secondary thanks to Mrs. Rhodes for including Invictus in senior English
Thanks, Mrs Baldwin for keeping ADD mikey under control (just enough) while still letting him be rambunctious(just enough). And telling his mother that yes you should teach him to read (first grade) as Dick and Jane was boring him to tears
I give my teachers award to Mrs. Romo. She told my catholic self in 7th grade that the pope was responsible for the holocaust. She convinced me that what I was learning at school was worthless and that I would be better served to pursue knowledge on my own. I owe a debt of gratitude to that bitch.
I am the peak human male. I can lift a fully-grown horse above my head, and I can hold my breath for ten minutes. To settle a wager, I once ate a pound of P.B. Fouke strongest badger poison and then ran a mile in the nude. I cannot feel pain, and I can see for two miles unaided by a lens. No man can kill me. I have beaten a man of every race in formal combat, including a Turk, a Pygmy Negro Man and a rare Deepwater Jew. A medical doctor and two priests have written and signed a document confirming that I have no soul.
I’m far from the peak human male, but I think I could beat a Pygmy Negro Man. Not sure about (((SEA GOLDSMITH))).
This just sets you up to get killed by a woman at your moment of triumph. It’s like you don’t even trope.
I’ve heard that Deepwater Jews are over rated
Kind of briny.
At least I’m not as emotionally invested in this as I was for the Vikings-Saints. I can’t take that kinda roller coaster.
Crap on a cracker. OVERTIME?? FML
It was fun seeing Favre throw that INT.
I got couple of bottles of vape juice today. One of them tastes like feet. And not in a sexy shrimping sexy way. It’s more like a foul cheese. The other one is a blackberry ry4 that seems pretty good so far.
In other news, I haven’t smoked any tobacco in over 3 weeks.
At the risk of starting a too-long subthread, anyone got any pointers to a good starter kit? I want to get off cigs. I don’t want flavors or anything fancy. Just a cig replacement.
Buy this from Xhale.com, it Rocks, Ijoy Twist, variable voltage, simple to use
https://www.shopxhale.com/products/9557
Oops, I meant this one,
https://www.shopxhale.com/products/11186
Does it come with a… whatever that is… to English translation?
It means the Heating Coil sits in the juice tank and is always”wet”, so they make nice clouds of Vapor, and it doesn’t stink up the joint. I smoke 2 cigs a day, and spend about 10$ a week on vape juice, I used to smoke a pack a day /25 $ a week
So that thing needs to be filled like a fountain pen or something? I don’t see the “juice” mentioned in the description. Sold separately?
Juice is separate. It needs to be filled. It’s also limiting in the kind of juice it can use. It can’t handle high VG, and citrus flavors can crack the tank.
I much prefer VG over PG. Vegetable glycerin feels smooth. Propylene glycol feels dry and scratchy. YMMV.
I had a Kanger Evod starter kit and went back to smoking cigarettes. I was frustrating because half the time it wouldn’t deliver a good hit, and there was no good way to tell what was wrong. It also burned through coils very quickly.
I have had my box for 7 weeks and i have yet to burn a coil, I figured I should have by now
Maybe they’ve gotten better.
My new set-up has a built-in ohm meter that tells me the resistance across the coil.
Well, I tried to start with nothing fancy, and ended up getting frustrated with it and going back to smoking. There are two extremes, the high-ohm simple e-cigarettes that they sell at convenience stores, and sub-ohm RDA’s with big dual-battery mods for massive clouds. My set-up is in between. A vaping machine has two main parts: the mod which contains the battery and electronics, and the tank which holds the juice and the heating coil. I have a box mod (meaning it’s basically rectangular) capable of clouds bro vaping, but I use it with MTL (mouth to lung) tanks. MTL is more like smoking (DTL, direct to lung tanks are more like taking bong hits). MTL is better suited for lower juice consumption with higher nicotine levels. DTL generally uses up lots of juice and electrical power to massive amounts of vapor with low nicotine levels. The advantage of using a mod built for DTL is that it will have a wide range of adjustments, and will last much longer before you have to recharge it or replace the batteries. Mine uses a single replaceable 18650 battery. So it’s smaller than most clouds bro mods (it’s only about 1″ X 2″ X 3″). My MTL tanks have adjustable air flow — which is important to get things right, and can use any kind of juice, which is something you aren’t going to get from less fancy all-in-one e-cigarettes.
Considering how expensive cigarette taxes are, the $120 or so I spent on new hardware (mod, tanks, batteries, separate charger) already paid for itself.
Here is a decent guide, from an excellent vendor: https://www.mtbakervapor.com/new-to-vaping-a-beginners-guide/
tl;dr: If your cig replacement isn’t satisfying enough, it won’t be able to replace smoking.
My Wife uses the Pen i linked to, I use a Priv one by SMOK, it’s a box about the size of yours, High nicotine, very satisfying,
/Vanilla……….
LOL electrical diagrams…
Well thanks, I’ll research that a little more.
That’s old school. At this point that’s for competitive cloud chasers running mech mods. You want a regulated mod. They are widely available now. So you won’t need to do any math.
If you go buy a Vaporesso Swag ($35), a battery ($10), an Aspire Nautilus 2 tank ($20), and whatever you juice you like (I recommend 12mg 30PG/70VG) you should be fine.
Yeah, I don’t want to be one of those giant cloud nerds. I see that shit and just laugh.
Here’s my Box, Juice and Cigs for size comparison, it appears it’s is what the Count described as far as good stuff, i like it a lot…
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Q1WgdVBfBuzWt9zg7
Yes, mine is very similar. Although I prefer a more narrow drip tip.
Right now I’m running around 10W.
In other news, I haven’t smoked any tobacco in over 3 weeks.
And yet our worses in the government sector want to crack down on vaping, presumably because people enjoy it more than the other smoking-cessation choices.
I’m thinking of a Kisckstarter for a game show. Where federal prosecutors are pitted against different wild animals.
Fuck the Penguins!
Now go Lightning.
How could I be looking at this silly (awesome) website when the Caps beat the Penguins? Go Caps!
Motherfuck. I’m going to have to watch all of the next series, aren’t I?
I have no love or hate for any of the teams left.
The Caps have sucked for time immemorial, please let us have a moment of hope.
Ha OK
For aesthetic reasons, I’m hoping for Jets-Lightning. That would be like an ’80s series.
Or a 50’s Gang Fight….
Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno were so smoking hot.
I just told my wife (native of NoVa) and her reaction: “you’re shitting me”.
Cracked is still Fun sometimes, this is a true winner
http://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/8/656448_v1.jpg
Hey Yusef! I understand your pain now. This West coast time zone is messing with my head.
Well, every one goes to bed by the time the West gets going, so it gets lonely round here. Are You Stuck here? or just visiting?
Just visiting. Normally I’m in Philly, but work decided to send me to Vegas for the week.
Remember, it’s a dry Heat………….
/Ducks behind a Slab
I can actually attest to that; 100 degrees in Vegas is so much more comfortable that 90 degrees in Wisconsin.
When We get monsoons in late summer, it will get 109 degrees and 65% humidity, and it is crushing, just horrible, and none of the AC keeps up
HA! Try 98 degrees with 90 percent humidity. That’s the shit I moved back to for a noble and stupid reason…grumble grumble grumble…
The day before I left for Vegas it was 89 in Philly; when I landed it was 91 in Vegas. Vegas was much more comfortable.
That being said, I got a sunburn in Ireland, so I’ve avoided going outside in the daytime. This desert sun will make me go up in flames like a vampire.
I’ve gotten sunburn on my scalp a couple times; none of which was I lived in Vegas…Must be the Ozone hole or some shit…
I was in El Paso Texas July 4th weekend of 2011. It was 110.
When I got back home to 100 degree humid as fuck arkansas later that week, I finally understood the dry heat thing. Yes there is a difference. 100 degree high humidity is a lot worse than 110 dry heat.
This is coming from a guy who knows a thing or 2 about being hot.
Weather like that is the reason why I’ll never live South of the Mason-Dixon. I’ll take snow anytime over temps like that, humidity or not.
I’m almost as far north of the Mason Dixon as one can get without hearing a slight canadian accent creeping in, and that describes my summers.
Pennsylvania rarely breaks 90.
Tell me about it. I’m drunk when everyone is sober and vice versa, except I’m drunk then, too.
That’s just cuz you’re a sconnie.
People on here are sober? Since when?
I am He and you are He and We are all…. Drunks!
Cheers Straff!
NFL games starting at 10am was the worst; my hangover hadn’t finished before I started drinking for the games. I don’t miss that timezone.
Cracked editors were losers. How could this have not won the “If Disney had made classic films” photoplasty I I entered it into (it wasn’t even selected to run on the page?!)
Unfortunately, Cracked went full SJW, and just isn’t funny anymore.
That was when I left.
So there’s speculation that Preet Bharara’s going for the New York AG position.
GENTLEMEN, START YOUR WOODCHIPPERS
The left is already cranking up the campaign. Giddy tweets and shit. I don’t get it. The guy may be a power-hungry madman who lost every scandal he prosecuted but AFAIK he’s a blank slate progressive-credentials-wise.
many people on the left are cheerleading the idea.
Many of those same people probably don’t recall that he put Andy Cuomo’s close buddies in jail. Not to mention Sheldon and Skelos.
So he’s never going to get love from the NYS democrats. I think if he actually ran for AG, he’d probably end up mysteriously floating in the hudson.
Mysteriously? It was an obvious robbery gone wrong, with the double tap to the back of the head and no possessions missing and all.
Dump him in the Delaware around Hancock so Pennsylvania and New Jersey can play hot potato with his corpse.
No – all of those were overturned on appeal. Most of them are nearing retrials. That is why he is a complete failure. Or all it was all just for show.
Really?
The Pecoro verdict was only in March. It was overturned?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/nyregion/percoco-corruption-bribery-trial-cuomo-guilty.html
i know Sheldon is being retried, and Skelos got off…
but i thought the people most closely involved w/ Cuomo – the above-mentioned Pecoro, a close family friend, and the others (e.g. Kaloyeros) connected w/ the “buffalo billions” thing – were on their way to doing real time
So; if anyone is still left; new Hat and Hair Super Funtime Cartoon Show tomorrow at 11am Central. Yuesf says you’ll all love it it; if you don’t it’s his fault.
So you got my idea for Super Funtime Explosive Penguin Assassin? COOL!
No? You told me not to change a thing. +1000. So if anyone doesn’t like it, it’s your fault.
You Can’t Stop the Signal,
Mal, they killed me with a sword, how weird is that?
It will be well received, OMM’s Life Depends on it
Sweet, does this mean I can marry a sexbot?…The whole libertarian thing really sinks in with that…I’ll be in my bunk.
Sitting on pins and needles. (Gotta stop squatting in these alleys)
I’ve recently been listening to a variety of “Anything recorded by Steve Albini” things.
Came across this, and was first sold on the name alone:
Rapeman – Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Obviously, that demands a listen. was sort of surprised by date. 1988? my initial reaction was that it felt much more modern. The only thing ‘albini-esque’ about it seems to be that the singer is recorded with a potato, and the guitar has that “sawing through aluminum sheet metal” sound that he was so fond of at the time. The drummer is pretty damn good.
Also liked “Radar Love Lizard”. The ZZ-top cover tune is probably something that i would have advised against. the drummer almost saves it.
Starts whistling and casually strolls away from Gilmore…
reason for the shitty vox was, well duh = its steve himself. didn’t realize that. he was never made to be in front of the console.
Blue balls.
I was expecting Babe The Big Blue Ox porn. You let me down.
If I had that axe, I’d use it to slaughter this guy.
I must be quicker than you then…
I don’t get it. Thanks to you and the YouTube sidebar, I know there are Japanese game shows involving handjobs and blowjobs. What would motivate any of them to watch this?
Love.
erm…. was that suggestive in any way I should know about? I’m Drunk so i can’t see anyway, nevermind,
This is more my thing; probably why I’m so lonely.
I don’t think they really got what Fried chicken was all about by the look of it, Maybe the Colonel showed up and saved them, Straff?
Only been to Korea once. Send the Colonel on an Inchon landing.
My uncle was at Inchon. Sadly his stories are lacking of Robocop and fried chicken.
Only to be surrounded by Starving Nork Soldiers Begging for Milf Chicken,
“Fried chicken is all about doing 90s jap milfs” replied the hat as he gazed upon the visage of his mint condition Robocop Necca collectible…Ok, I’ll leave the prose to SF…
I dunno about loving it, but those Myojo bowls are pretty good. Best of the instant noodles, especially with fresh green onions and hardboiled eggs.
I like Alien OG bowls, with hard boiled eggs on the side, as a salad or Deviled, Tasty!
Full Metal Hope
I won’t be around for the morning lynx so maybe you guys will catch this. I predict some of your scheistier mammals are planning another shootout. Your Future Reptilian Overlords are predicting it will be an IKEA in the Atlanta area. The weapons will all be acquired via armslist by a less than desirable mammal. They may even have him wear a MAGA hat.
They are also predicting it will happen right before or after Labor Day
We haven’t decided if we will have some skin-suits there to help or stop it.
Disclaimer: the above may actually be a plot sussed out by actual alien reptiles posing as humans, or it is just a horrible thought that occurred to me while drinking my morning coffee, reading too much derp, and pondering just what scenario the grabbers could arrange for the most impact (assuming one puts validity into various conspiracy theories)