74 years ago, 160,000 men got off various ships or planes and went ashore in the Normandy region of France. Enemies were waiting for them, and that meant more than 9,000 of them would be dead by the end of the day. To this day, combat experience aside, I cannot imagine what that would have been like. So as I grumbled about getting up this morning, it struck me… what would it have been like to get up that morning, and know what was coming. So I got into my comfortable auto, drove to my climate controlled office building and had a cup of good coffee and shut my gob.
In honor of that massive effort and undertaking…you get Links early.
- Your church have anything special about it? This one does. Bonus points for having the patron saint of paratroopers.
- This might make OMWC shudder a little (Australian Shiraz!!!!) but we ain’t the only ones in TRADE WARZ with China. Another example of the need for actual free trade – not having commerce turn into a lever for the CCP to bend another country to their will. Of course, this also is a good risk management teaching point for anyone who depends too much on a single market for their growth. Ride the Dragon to profits, and it may turn around and bite you.
- Sorry Cleveland, it appears your annual Biblical Plague hath returned. Maybe they could set a river on fire to repel them?
- Only the classiest, most wanted can work on the White House! Yuge charges. The best.
- We will end with someone ending their military career in … an entertaining fashion. Not the way I chose to leave, but you have to give him credit for originality.
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Judge Wapner at eight.
Wait…are you telling me K-Mart sucks?!
I’m an excellent driver.
I’m definitely not wearing my underwear…
Whose are you wearing then, and why did you end up with theirs?
ICYMI: http://www.babeschicken.com/
DFW-area chain. Yummy.
Well, there is one all of six miles from one of the places I’m thinking of visiting.
So does the Ozzy-China trade war mean Turnbull is just as bad as Trump?
Nobody can be as bad as Trump!
/prog idiot
The next Dem president will no doubt surprise us.
I predicted that all the shyster selling us Obama would end with egg on their face because the guy would not just be mediocre & mendacious, but destructive, and history has proven me right. We almost got stuck with the only person that could have made Obama look less horrible than he was, but the orange guy beat her. I would not bet against your prediction that the next dem candidate/president will make Obama look like a fucking genius either.
It’s tough to pick a favorite part of The Longest Day, but the scene in Sainte Mère Église is up there for sure. Pretty cool.
My main issue with the movie is the loose narrative. It tried to cover the entire invasion, and ended up very scattered and unfocused. Each individual subplot, when extracted and examined on its own was well-executed, but the film as a whole suffered for its diffuseness.
Ah, so K-Mart does suck!
Was that ever in doubt?
I disagree.
I was born in 1972 and my name is Michael. Coincidence? Yes. Yes, I think so!
I don’t know why I found American Cheese in an omlette to be unexpected. I used to have omlettes with american cheese in them quite often. Then I remembered we did that because we were poor, and American ‘Cheese Product’ was the only kind we could afford on a regular basis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgn9fAymS2g
I’m trying to get all my randomness out and posted before I run off and do laundry.
How’s the trip going? Where you at now?
I am in Dallas, where I will be until Monday, when I begin the long meander home. Taxarkana was bad enough that I Noped right out of there and continued on for another four hours.
^^^
That seems odd. I thought cheddar was the de facto omelet cheese. And American cheese sucks.
Do you have any Swiss? I only want Swiss cheese in my omelets and my Philly Cheese Steaks..
/Some douche
This isn’t going to be the start of another cheesy pun sub-thread is it?
If someone had told me this morning that nobody would take the bait for a pun thread, I would have said “no whey!”
Dude, I curd have told you that.
I havarti told you that I’m not interested in your silly puns.
Gruyere is the default, at least in the civilized world.
And everyone should try a parmelet at least once.
You’re killing me. I suppose you’re smiling while doing that, too. “Say cheese!”
If people knew what it’s like to live with you, nobody would wonder why I’m an antisemite.
My mother warned me about you. She was right.
Get a room you two!
1,2, or 3 large eggs, beaten
One egg? What is this, an omelette for ants!?
Scale Model Omelette is my new band name, fyi.
I’m a frittata man, myself. I use between 6 and 10 eggs, plus you can fit a lot more meat and vegetables in there. For extra awesomeness, put slices of cheese on top and broil it for a minute or two.
I am with you sir. Omelets are for snobs. 🙂
I just made one. Delicious and easy. Turned out just like the video.
Will make again.
American cheese is an excellent way of transporting chilled cheese sauce. Particularly the “Velveta” variety.
Land O’ Lakes makes a pretty good American cheese — have to get it at the deli, not prepackaged.
The you haven’t the right american cheese.
Cooper Sharp american with pepper makes a good omelet cheese
^^ This is also good cheese for making cheeseburgers.
I love American Cheese in my omelette, thank you. And in/on most other things. Provolone is probably my overall favorite though.
Me too. I also like other cheese in omelettes as well.
Of course I like most every cheese. No reason to get snobby with American cheese. With the right use there is nothing wrong with it.
I’m all about that pepper jack cheese, especially with eggs.
I’m a swiss guy for most things, but American makes an excellent omelette. American cheese is just a blend of cheddar and Colby or Monterrey Jack, then milk, oil, and annatto if it’s yellow. It’s processed, but it’s not especially “chemical”, which is usually the dig against it. Unless it’s Velveeta or some of the cheaper varieties. A good American cheese melts well, has a mild cheddar flavor tempered with a creaminess, and complements whatever it’s served in or with. It’s the blended Scotch of cheeses.
I make my own small-batch, artistical American-style processed cheese product. I’ve actually made cheese from scratch just to turn it into American cheese.
It was delicious, but too much work for the pay off.
Sorry Cleveland, it appears your annual Biblical Plague hath returned. Maybe they could set a river on fire to repel them? – the correct term is little bugs.
Such gratitude for those little heroes.
Callipygian females sporting humanity’s greatest invention.
http://archive.is/jcMPF
#4 looks like she is 11-years-old.
“OMWC sprained his forefinger by clicking on the link too quickly”
In honor of those brave men and their sacrifice, I actually read some of the links.
I’ve been exploring the d-dayrevisited.co.uk site in the paratrooper link. Very cool site.
Nice one Swiss!
In honor of D Day, I flaunted my male privilege all day.
#metoo
Respect to the D-Day men and women.
OT, but way too good to wait:
Crocodile eats beloved terrier that had spent a decade taunting it
That guy is woke AF, in a good way
The next guests will expect similar entertainment and be disappointed.
That man should be banned from owning dogs. BANNED I tells ya!!!
Doh! This would have been a great place for me to post that video I linked to below of a family dog eating a butterfly. I agree about the owner, he seems like a great guy.
See Swiss? Not only do we not read your links, we don’t read each other’s links.
*slight scowl*
We will end with someone ending their military career in … an entertaining fashion. Not the way I chose to leave, but you have to give him credit for originality. – is I was high acceptable excuse in the US military?
Um… No.
It was the National Guard… so maybe?
/narrows own gaze.
*dons Dress Blues and narrows gaze*
Guy was a copycat with a M-577. Years ago a California National Guard guy in the San Diego area stole an M-60 tank and went on a spree overrunning cars etc. It did end well for him.
Happened in Colorado as well with a guy in an M109 SP.
Turns out two guys
Another one of our heroes.
If that guy at the White House had been a Deadbeat Dad, the “comedians” of late night teevee could have had material for a month.
“Edwards’ warrant was for attempted first-degree murder, Fox 5 DC reported, citing the Prince George’s County Sheriff’s Office.”
A few bugs on the bumper? big whoop
LaCrosse mayfly hatch
The snowplows have been brought out to deal with these guys on heavy years.
Kill. Them. With. Fire.
At least they dont bite and they make good fish bait.
Not during the hatch. When the mayflies started popping, we headed for the dock.
Gah!
Some on social media lashed out at Mr Hansen, saying he was to blame for encouraging the little dog to run up to the reptile.
You don’t say.
Barbearians at the Gate
A journey through a quixotic New Hampshire town teeming with libertarians, fake news, guns, and—possibly—furry invaders.
https://magazine.atavist.com/barbearians-at-the-gate-new-hampshire-libertarians-fake-news
The survivalists were used to catching sight of the hulking intruders emerging from the darkened woods of rural New Hampshire to damage property, steal food, and deposit huge piles of excrement. Recently, though, the bears had started showing up in broad daylight, and not just at the survivalists’ encampment. Throughout Grafton, the tiny town on the outskirts of which the camp sat, residents told stories of furry forest dwellers pushing through porch windows, chasing house pets, getting drunk on fermented apples, and capering on rooftops.
…
Tent City, where the population swelled to 30 or more on any given night, was an extreme manifestation of cherished local norms. Reachable by one paved road and policed by one full-time cop, Grafton has no stoplights, zoning laws, or building codes.
…
Franz had recently traded his .357 Magnum for a Taurus Judge .410. The Magnum was more accurate, the owner of his favorite gun store had told him, but if a bear got too close for comfort, the Judge would do more damage.
…
“In my opinion, there is nothing out of the ordinary going on in Grafton.” So said Andrew Timmins, a wildlife biologist employed by the state of New Hampshire. He diagnosed a kind of xenophobia: People are often frightened of black bears for no good reason.
…
All was well until 1999. That’s when the cat massacre happened.
hulking intruders emerging from the darkened woods of rural New Hampshire to damage property, steal food, and deposit huge piles of excrement
STEVE SMITH NOWHERE NEAR GRAFTON. PREFER RAPE-ON.
I really enjoyed this article. Thanks for posting it.
I’m skeptical of this claim…
… but not volunteering to be in the control group.
Me too. For a bear, penetration would be an important factor, and a .357 would far out-perform in that area. The .45 colt would be the only thing I’d want to shoot out of the Taurus at a bear.
.410 (even the defense rounds) don’t have great penetration. Would likely just make a bear mad.
For a bear, penetration would be an important factor
something something homoerotic story
Well it happened. Congress won’t have Keith Ellison to kick around anymore!
Ellison thinks that he can win a statewide race. Minnesoda might be very liberal, but we aren’t that crazy (I hope). I actually don’t even think that he can win the nomination in the primary. I guess we will see.
The only downside is reading the list of charlatans who are scrambling to replace him in Congress. I know that his district is too blue to have any sane person win, but … Uffda!
Have you considered running?
Only to another state.
And it would only be a brisk walk. I’m too fat and old to run seriously any more.
Didn’t that racist idiot claim George Wallace was Republican?
This makes me wonder how that “Blue Wave” is panning out. If the Democrats were poised to retake the House, you’d think the Deputy Chair of the DNC would be looking for as national an office as he could latch onto.
So much for no hereditary nobility in the US…
I fail to see anything noble in a lot of inbreeding.
Why does Kansas get all the good AG candidates?
Couldn’t be more proud of my state.
Wasn’t that guy kicking around – or originally from anyway – New Hampshire?
I remember coming across him. He’s hilarious.
Thank you for the D-Day links, Swiss.
Seconded. The Sainte Mère Église story is fascinating.
*salutes*
De Gaulle gave clout to the once weak French presidency and stabilized France. But jealous of the Churchill-Roosevelt wartime bond, he remained a passionate anti-Atlanticist with a long memory. In 1963, still irate over Britain’s cave-in to U.S. pressure to pull back from Suez in 1956, he vetoed Britain’s application to join the European Economic Community. (His successors obstructed the entry of Spain and Portugal.) The following year, he withdrew France from the NATO military command and asked President Lyndon Johnson to remove U.S. troops from France. A seething Secretary of State Dean Rusk flew to Paris to seek clarification: “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France’s cemeteries?”
Hard to find the original Time magazine source: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/re-all-hail-charles-de-gaulle-jack-fowler/
All correct. He also saw the ECC more as a hedge against American hegemony and took his Gaullic nationalism to Quebec where he made his infamous ‘vive le Quebec libre’ speech. He arrogantly and without respect interfered in Canadian affairs.
He did that to forge or strengthen a Franco alliance against the Anglo-sphere.
Hey Swiss, being a hockey fan, did you see the clip I posted with Grapes on Coach’s Corner in Game 4 interviewing a General?
I saw it, but have not watched yet.
You’d enjoy it. The USA/Canada connection/relationship is always interesting.
To me anyway.
We’re connected by a border…abide by it eh?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5809457/People-sleep-8-hours-orgasmic-sex-researcher-claims.html
Apparently sleep is critical to proper bodily function. Who knew?
Hmmm.. As someone that has spent the last 40 years sleeping about 3 hours a night this revelation now worries me…
I guess I better follow my doctor’s advice and find a way to start getting enough sleep, cause this alternative bodes really ill.
I have a buddy who averages three hours of sleep a night. He’s 53 and not a bag under his eye and healthy as an ox. No sexual or behavioural issues. Top salesman at what he does at the bank for years and years.
Yes, I know people like this as well. We call these people ‘liars’.
Heh.
I wish I could be functional on just three hours sleep.
Yeah – I’m in hell for the next day if I only get 3-4 hours of sleep.
Last summer I had really bad insomnia where I would only get 1-3 hours of sleep for 3 or 4 days a week. It was really messed up. It still happens once in a while, if something really stressful is going on, but nothing like it used to.
LH’s method for better sleep:
1 – stay up later, shooting for 6-7 hours of sleep instead of 8. Don’t nap during the day and don’t sleep in on the weekends. ie – sleep restriction therapy. I started at 5 hours and slowly built up to 7.
https://www.tuck.com/sleep-restriction-therapy/
2 – have a standard bed time and “good sleep habits” – ie dark room, white noise generator, small dose of melatonin, no computer or phone for 2 hours before bed. And I listen to mellow music a half hour or so before I get ready for bed.
3 – lots of exercise to help burn off day-to-day stress
I had a bout of insomnia for about a year a few years back. It was awful. Then my body just shut down and put me to sleep. It was weird.
Since the, the best I can hope for is light or broken sleep. These past couple of years I’ve even managed to sleep 4 hours straight without waking!
Woo-hoo! /peels clementine.
If you have an unmetered internet connection, YouTube jas a lot of great 8 to 12 hour sleep cideos. White noise, rain-showers, waves lapping up on the beach, etc.
Listening to some of that stuff makes me feel like I’ve been drugged.
Nothing aggravates me more than ‘sounds of the forest’ or ‘crashing waves’ tunes. The woman with her Andre the Giant hands who gives me a message has those playing. I want to rip it out of the wall.
Play Tony Bennet or Beethoven or Piaf….or Paganini. Yeh, Paganini is bad ass.
Prime has a ton of sleep sound programs too.
I actually had a concussion at the tender age of 14 and have not been able to sleep for more than 3 hours a night since then. My doctor tells me he is worried I will eventually get organ failure, because this is stressing my system. Whatever. I would probably be hyperactive if I could get more than 3 hours a night, though and as someone with high energy already, I am unsure I wish that on the world.
“He’s low energy”
Sad!
I definitely don’t get enough sleep.
I have a problem. I tend to be more productive when society goes to sleep. When I studied in university, I would go for a midnight skate and then begin to study until the wee hours. I’m still that way. I’m at max creativity after the lights go off for most. It’s like my brain just switches. But I’m ‘supposed’ to go to bed. And I do or else, how does one function in the modern world still mostly a 9-5 construct. I go to bed because I think about my business and daughter so as to make sure I’m ready but I don’t like it. I want to be writing or reading at 2am. Or fucking Janice (the muppet).
All I’m gonna say is thank God I got out and stated my own business. I think I’d die with my migraines and poor sleeping patterns.
^^^All of this times a million.^^^
Except the “going to bed” part. (And, well, that bit about Janice.)
I’m exactly the same way. I can stay up all night without even trying; it’s usually 4 in the morning or 6 in the afternoon that my body wants to go to sleep. If I sleep 3 hrs at each of those times I can go forever.
But 3hrs in the afternoon is hard to do.
TW Rosie O’Donnell
GAH!!!!
Yikes, looks like the Trump curse is real after all. #trumpisGUILTY LOL
Trump is guilty.
It is too much trouble to say what he is guilty of and offer evidence. He is just guilty.
I wonder if the guy has ever in his life felt a speck of guilt.
A video of a great mom teaching her kids an important life lesson.
Not sure what that lesson is exactly, but learning early that life is short and brutal is a good thing.
HAHAHA brutal
I am waiting for some Disney fan to say this is not how life really works like the lady that complained that lions really are peaceful animals and not prone to kill and eat other shit when that episode of Planet Earth aired showing that.
One of my favorite incidents was that celebration – with a band and all – of some woke people releasing a bunch of seals that had these snowflakes had spent something like $20K per to get back healthy after some oil spill or something, only to watch a pack of Orcas gobble them all up in less than 20 seconds. Seeing the music just die and the people freak out was worth it. Stupid Seattle people…
I’m still waiting for the one where it’s all the fault of humans that made the animals kill each other.
The leader of the humans would be orange and looks like Trump.
Does it star Valerie Jarret too, Roseanne?
Well I watched a nature documentary where a lion cub lived peacefully with a meerkat and warthog in total peace in harmony. In fact the meerkat and warthog helped the lion depose his evil uncle and regain his rightful place in the jungle aristocracy.
So there! Science proves that lions really are peaceful creatures. That shit you watched was probably some poor lions who were forced by capitalism (and global climate change) to slaughter other creatures.
You got me brah…
Next you will tell me warthogs are wise creatures because they think stars are just balls of hot burning gas…
Public sea turtle hatchling releases are like that, but less visible. Any turtle making a run for it during the day is toast, but it’s good publicity.
LINK PLZ!
Google seems to hide that link these days, probably because it makes woke people look like the idiots they are, and I can’t remember what it was called Swissy. And googling orcas eating sealsreturns a ton of videos.
Reminds me of this.
damn your nimble fingers.
THAT MAKE STEVE SMITH SAD! TOO SOON!
love that stuff. similar one here.
HAHAHAHA!
LMFAO.
SJWednesday: Caucasian Climate Change Colonialists Create Cataclysmic Conditions Edition
lol.
There’s no doubt changes in climate patterns likely played a role in the collapse of civilizations in world history. I highly doubt, given it mostly occurred before industrialization, it was man’s fault.
The crux of the issue remains is it man-made and do we design policy around that? From what I gather, the data has been too politicized and manipulated to take seriously. No amount of policy created by man will ‘fix’ anything especially if the root of the problem isn’t humans. It’s just a scheme and a scam for opportunists.
So do I think there may be people escaping some climate disaster? Yeh, it’s possible. History says it is. But is it the way being described by alarmists? I’m leaning no.
I cannot trust the date either way, but I have a hard time thinking anything catastrophic is caused by humans based on my understanding. That being said, I would take the alarmist side more seriously if I heard constant talk of serious research into improving nuclear power. As long as they talk wind and solar, they are a bunch of profiteers and useful idiots imo.
Yeah, I’m with you on that. The proof’s in the pudding, I think, when it comes to how seriously these people really take global warming or carbon emissions or whatever. If they were really interested in reducing carbon output and thought it was an imminent threat, they’d go all-in on nuclear. But nuclear’s their worst nightmare, because it results in so much usable energy that you wouldn’t need to enforce any kind of artificial austerity measures on people. The modern environmental movement is more about reactionary anti-capitalism and pro-socialism than it is about any kind of concern over ecological sustainability.
It’s all about profits for solar and wind companies.
Don’t forget Al Gore’s carbon credit scam…
Wait until Fusion is actually viable and watch then get out their pitchforks.
+1 Natural gas was godly while it was more expensive than oil per joule and evil when it became cheaper.
The only 100% CO2 free means of energy generation is nuclear, and these people want nothing to do with that. Instead they want marxism to fix the problem….
Obligatory
You see, whites moved to the North and warmed the planet so they would be more comfortable as a plot against the undeveloped South. It’s a scam that’s been centuries, even eons, in the making.
Lol.
See? We can laugh at satire directed at whitey!
Public policy won’t put a dent in long-term trends, but it will forestall mitigation and remediation efforts.
The idea that the Global South is stuck in time is decidedly colonial, derived from imperialist nations’ justification of territorial and economic conquest as part of a relentless “forward” march.
If this is true, does that mean that allowing immigration from the Global South is nothing more than an act of naked imperialism and colonialism? Who ever knew Donald Trump was so woke?
Not one single assertion there is true. Not one.
Do you expect these people to stop peddling that shit just because you point that fact out? After all, believing that marxism actually can work requires a suspension of rationality and logic, and these people do it with glee.
without much contact beyond more developed parts of the United States and Western Europe—view Global South cities as stuck in the past
Use of the phrase “more developed” there would imply that those parts of the US and Europe are correct about Global Shitholes being stuck in the past. I guess the part I’m missing is the judgement of “development” as a an Undesirable Outcome.
Shouldn’t those be “Global North bodies”?
Facebook rules the world.
And that power is being abused. As The New York Times reported Tuesday, Facebook shared data with at least four Chinese electronics firms, including one flagged by American officials as a national security threat. We learned earlier this week, thanks to a Times investigation, that it allowed phone and other device makers, including Amazon, Apple, Samsung and Microsoft, to see vast amounts of your personal information without your knowledge. That behavior appears to violate a consent order that Facebook agreed to with the Federal Trade Commission in 2011, after Facebook was found to have made repeated changes to its privacy settings that allowed the company to transfer user data without bothering to inform the users. And it follows the even darker revelation that Facebook allowed a trove of information, including users’ education levels, likes, locations, and religious and political affiliations, to be exploited by the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica to manipulate potential voters for its Republican Party clients.
Throughout its history, Facebook has adamantly argued that it treats our data, and who has access to it, as a sort of sacred trust, with Zuckerberg & Company being the trustees. Yet at the same time, Facebook has continued to undermine privacy by making it cumbersome to opt out of sharing, trying to convince users that we actually do want to share all of our personal information (and some people actually do) and by leaving the door unlocked for its partners and clients to come in and help themselves. Those partners have included 60 device makers that used application programming interfaces, also known as A.P.I.s, so Facebook could run on their gadgets.
I’m pretty sure there is an easy and effective opt-out. Don’t be on facebook.
But the government can totally bring innovation and competition to markets, if only we’d let them.
When the government loses your personal data, they’re really sorry about it, sort of.
Speaking of fingerprint data….
On my old Lenovo laptop, I had a fingerprint reader that I used to login. It was great. Worked fantastic.
Have a new Dell with a fingerprint reader and when I was setting it up, Windows 10 kept trying to force me to set up a PIN. WTF? I want to use my fingerprint reader to login and not have to remember more passwords.
So is it just pure MS stupidity? Or is it a back handed admission that fingerprint (or biometric) information isn’t all that secure?
I bet it is for recovery purposes when that fingerprint scanner goes on the fritz.
But then I could use my actual account password that I already set up.
If you dig into Windows Hello (new “feature” of Win 10) you will see a lot of hatred for it. As well as a lot of the usual MS fan boi shit about how much better your life will be when you are forced to remember a new PIN for each piece of hardware you use.
It’s Windows, Pope Jimbo. Expect it to fuck you over somehow…
“I’m pretty sure there is an easy and effective opt-out. Don’t be on facebook.”
Wisest words spoken. I never joined that shit show for a reason, and this is just the top of the iceberg that we are finding out about now…
“Facebook has adamantly argued that it treats our data, and who has access to it, as a sort of sacred trust, with Zuckerberg & Company being the trustees.”
FB: Like totally you can trust us.
People: We trusted you!
FB: You fucked up. You trusted us!
People need to see Zuckerberg less as a wise techie but as a goof frat boy because at its roots, that’s what they are.
At its roots it’s a gossip site.
If I want to read about churches, I want to read stories about churches that have inspiring messages in today’s confusing world.
True story: I once had a t-shirt that said “Jesus is coming” on the front and “Are you going to spit or swallow?” on the back.
*narrows gaze*
Your a moron.
It’s Moran.
Morans their everywhere
*everywear
Dumass
May your hotdish be cold.
Uuufda. That is harsh Bacon.
What happened to you Florida?
You used to be cool.
Meh, during the next hurricane you’ll see an army of Florida man headed down from the Ft Myeres Costco loaded to the gills. He is quite resourceful like that
WTF? when the ATMs stop working and the water is contaminated, beer becomes currency.
SJWednesday: We Should Scrap Capitalism and It’s All Jay-Z’s Fault
Capitalism has failed
Except for the roads and the aqueducts.
Don’t forget the computer she’s pounding out her stupid screed on.
These moronic people parody themselves and can’t even grasp it…
Or even the insanely cheap and bountiful food that she shoves into her pie hole each day. (or clean water).
It is amazing to me how much people take for granted our food distribution network that is totally created by private industry. One of the tropes of commie countries are the lines for bread or other simple food. Here? You can get pretty much whatever you want any time you want.
Fuck, I can get fish in Minnesoda that was in Hawaii less than 24 hours earlier. And it isn’t that insanely expensive.
One of the tropes of commie countries are the lines for bread or other simple food.
In communist countries you wait for food.
I capitalist countries the food waits for you.
Man, you got your Yakov bit all mixed up, and your shit’s tarded too.
They’d make the same meaningless distinction they do between personal and private property… “Of course we want enterprise and innovation and readily available consumption, we just don’t want corporations to benefit from it.” Well, sweetheart…
It always boils down to the people peddling this marxist shit wanting free shit. That and not letting other people have more than they have. And then especially if these other people have more because they are productive/successful, because the pro-marxism fucks feel that them being lazy/inept fucks, unable to contribute in any way to society, should not deprive them of crossing the finish line at the same time as the productive.
It always boils down to the people peddling this marxist shit wanting free shit.
You’re too generous by half. At least wanting free shit has some iota of decency in it. Even if you’re immoral about the means, what you want is a positive. But, a significant portion of Marxists aren’t even all that excited by the prospect of free shit. They’d take a worse life under Marxism. What they want is power. They want to rule people. They want the ability to completely destroy people at their whim. It’s not their life they value. It’s your death. Even if not literal, at least intellectual, moral and spiritual. The lazy and inept Marxist fucks spend their entire life trying to avoid coming to terms with their personal inadequacies. And breaking people, making others validate their pretense, is the means that they value.
So it is about envy, jealousy, and the need to drag others down to your level of incompetence so you can avoid dealing with the fact you are a loser.
There is a reason these people love the idea of empowering government to pick winners and losers, because they know that government inefficiency makes losers out of us all eventually.
Yes, as I sit here working from home, looking at my multiple monitors, listening to The War playing via my Amazon Fire TV on my plasma television mounted above my fireplace, waiting for the several things I’ve ordered online to show up on my porch, I can clearly see how capitalism has truly failed and I’d be better off living in Venezuela spending my day hunting people’s stray pets for food.
Studies and surveys alike show that a majority of Americans approve of common sense socialism. /I just made that shit up, but why does it matter, it confirms my bias.
Q: Do you want to live in a world where everyone has food and a good job?
When 99.9% answer “yes”, they can say that almost everyone prefers socialism. Presto!
Damn, I’m good… I could make a lucrative career as a pollster if I didn’t have this stupid “integrity” thing.
I’m impressed that you had the sticktoitiveness to make it through that dreck.
Admittedly it was a somewhat novel repudiation of capitalism.
“Jay-Z ain’t that rich and his company is going to fail, therefore capitalism is a failure.”
What I do know is that we have to work towards some kind of post-scarcity model – wow why didn’t anyone think of that?
This will require a massive redistribution of wealth. – how will this achieve post scarcity? magik?
Reparations for slavery and colonialism are a necessary first step – why?
As is some sort of universal basic income. – pass
This all sounds like communism re-hashed as some sort of new idea.
It did, now they call it progressivism. Changing words means everything.
Start or join a commune?
That’s the big difference between freedom (capitalism) and communism. With freedom, she’s free to live as a communist – the opposite is not true.
But the capitalist will infringe on the freedoms of the communist by selling him things he doesn’t need and making him indebted so he has to work as a wage slave to afford the luxuries the capitalist forces on him. True freedom means killing the capitalist to allow the communist to live like an ascetic.
If the state wants you to register your firearms you should comply, right?
A member of a prominent farming family was charged with a dozen weapons-related felonies, after he attempted to comply with California’s state-mandated gun registration laws.
I’ll be keeping that in mind as New Jersey goes even more full-retard.
No good comes from following any law passed by woke fuckers intent on taking away your second amendment rights. Everything they do is a stepping stone to that final solution which involves making it impossible for private citizens to fight their tyrannical agenda.
I’m thinking I need to find a place to store them across the line in PA.
One more year of High School for the son, then I think it will be time to find a new place to dwell.
Funny you mention that, because a lot of my hardware is up in Maine at an ex-BIL’s place specifically because in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” they would throw my ass in jail for owning that stuff.
All of them tick me off, but the magazine limit now means I have to plug some of my magazines.
As other states have already adopted this lunacy – there is a at least source for Glock magazine plugs. Anybody have any experience with them and any functional issues?
every firearm ever manufactured was tragically lost in a boating accident.
Yeah, the few guns I own on the record might catch a terrible case of flash-rust, resulting in their complete and total destruction, should Maryland get even shittier. God willing, I’ll be long gone by then.
SJWednesday: It’s All In Your Head Edition
This one belongs in the SJW Hall of Fame
You get the idea of what it would look like if witch hunters or alchemists in the Dark Ages had access to social media through these people.
I love how a) they punch someone and then spin it like they’re the victim and b) make an unsubstantiated and clearly ignorant comment and then claim people trying to educate them as ‘alt-right’ or crazy or Old Testament.
It’s truly the Bizarro World.
The funny part is the disdain for scientism, when it’s the left that loves to engage in the worship of scientists.
‘Chosen’ scientists.
Like Bill fucken Nye.
Nick Di Paolo had the balls to stick to him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–WsHDiGWmE
My problem with Leftist “pro-science” rhetoric is that they are speaking of science as if it’s a group of human beings. Scientists say X; therefore you must believe X. Never mind that there were numerous times in history when the entire scientific establishment shouted down a new idea which later turned out to be correct.
In my mind, this is the real anti-science view. It’s more of a religion at this point.
“Scientists say X; therefore you must believe X.”
It’s even worse. It’s more like ‘Someone I agree with says X, therefore you must agree with X’. And the group divide is more like:
Leftist: Science true believer.
Anyone right of Mao: Science denier.
Science claimed bad smelling air caused the plague back in the 14th century. They also claimed Newtonian mechanics had ended all advancements in physics. Heck some even tried to sell us that Relativity was the end-all, be-all. Now the first two are well known as wrong, and the later is in an upheaval as we learn that a lot of shit that we thought we knew is not right.
But hey, people that believe there is an fixed and optimal global temperature are the ones that love science.
Yeah..
Exactly. They see science as a fixed set of beliefs, not as a process.
This person probably also believes that global warming is ‘settled science.’
“Scientism.”
That’s an awful lot of nonsense just to rationalize being fat
That’s exactly what Western medicine wants me to think? Dude…
because what is truth anyway?
If I say that what is, is, or that what is not, is not, then I speak the truth. If I say that what is not, is, or that what is, is not, then I do not speak the truth. — Socrates (IIRC) defining truth in one syllable words, as translated by CS Lewis.
enough with that Vulkan logic mumbo jumbo, fucken Nerds.
There’s not a lot to object to until the huge stolen base at the end. “Because science is in part socially constructed and uncertain, and given to validating the biases of interested parties, scientists included, therefore my bugaboo is the better interpretation of contestable facts.” I doubt she’d apply the same logic to climate science or transgenderism. Hell, not even climate or transgenderism skeptics argue from that position: global warming isn’t debunked because of political influence, it just leaves ample reason to doubt the conclusions.
“SJWednesday: It’s All In Your Head Edition”
Just another example of why this bullshit and Marxism go hand and hand. If you want lefty utopia, you have to lie to people and they have to buy into it. What better way to achieve that than brainwashing people into believing that there is no real truth? I mean, our media have been working overtime on that concept lately.
And I really love how the people who freaking love science think we’re supposed to believe in magic and all sorts of other non-sense.
Last night I finished Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! and at the end he went into a detailed description of what is and what isn’t science.
Nowhere in his description was “subjective”.
It was a great book, by the way.
I’ll tweet ‘Justice is subjective” and see what happens.
I’m in eastern Kansas today. I’m getting alerts on my phone and the news is all freaked out about “elevated ozone” levels. What the hell? I’ve been in plenty of places where it gets hot and have never heard of that particular worry.
ELEVATED OZONE MAKES THE FROGS GAY!
Did you open the app and possibly see an ad? mission accomplished.
Pretty sure the summers in suburban MD have had excessive ozone most days for the past 20 years. I wouldn’t worry about it.
(ChipsnSalsa above suspects ad sales as the culprit, I suspect it’s to salve parents who want an excuse to prevent their kids from playing outside)
My wife, who does neglect and abuse cases, is currently representing a 5th grader who has no family to be there for him; mother apparently left. So the kid is a ward of the state. My wife, bless her soul, is going to take him shopping for new shoes (his current ones are apparently rags) and also wants to take him to the town parade on the 4th. Talk about bringing your work home.
Thank your wife for me.
Hear hear!
Kudos to your wife. Be extra nice to her today.
Thanks guys. I wish he had family relatives to take him right now, long story, but he doesn’t. There may be a pastor who’s a potential placement in the future. I feel more responsible for him because his mom is out of the picture – she was more involved with his situation while she was in prison, but then she got out and went AWOL from a halfway house.
This kid should thank the powers that be he is being helped by someone like your wife and not a woke UN worker or other such leftist, if you get where I am going with this…
IOW, he’s not going to be dressed up as a girl and forced to attend a pussy hat parade?
Raped by a Blue Helmet or sold by an NGO worker.
My wife, bless her soul, is going to take him shopping for new shoes (his current ones are apparently rags)
Good for her. This is what charity is all about (that and and workfare). It makes a real difference for someone in your community. My wife sometimes gets patients like this, and we buy them coats or shoes.
Damn. She’s a cool chick, LH.
Good. My wife is a church deacon and always doing clothing and lunch-money programs for those kinds of kids.
When you have kids, that’s the most important thing in your life for a couple of decades. I don’t understand anyone who thinks different.
When we were going through the process of adopting our kids, we’d sometimes run across someone like your wife. Every time, it made a huge impression on us and we were so grateful there are people like her out there. These kids need so much help but so many aren’t getting it.
Most people think it’s the state’s job. Ugh.
Highly commendable.
Does she work with CASA-GAL? My mom did some work with them in the past, and I remember her bringing “her kids” to the house a few times.
I am not a CASA but I could be, I’m the kids LGAL – will be for the foreseeable future.
Your wife seems well-skilled at finding monocle-polishers.
“…bear in mind that the midges serve a useful purpose in controlling the role and impact of man in Scotland. Without them Scotland would be a different and a lesser place…”
The same could be said about Africa and the tsetse fly. The same could be said about many places and the mosquito. A bunch of Malthusian horseshit.
The black plague is what shaped my history!
You mean jungle fever?
I am these days doing my tour of Asia according to my friends, but yeah, there was some of that in the past..
Bullshit. A majority of humanity has been good with porn since the first cave scratchings depicted the cute cavegirl down the way getting plowed.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/poll-trump-accuser-stormy-daniels-sparks-democrats-to-embrace-porn
I laugh at this headline. Most democrats are far more like Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Menendez, or Fredo Corleone (Anthony Wiener) when it comes to sex and the treatment of women, leading me to assume they not only watch porn, but then watch the freakiest fetish porn possible, so pretending that someone else drove them to do what they have been always doing is just idiotic.
‘Fredo. lol.
I love the scene where he pleads to Michael he deserves respect and that he’s ‘smahrt’. But his body language and the way he sits slouched in the chair suggest otherwise.
Still, Michael over reached in killing him. I still hate him for it.
“That’s the way Pop wanted it.”
“WELL IT AIN’T THE WAY I WANTED IT!!”
“I love the scene where he pleads to Michael he deserves respect and that he’s ‘smahrt’.”
When I hear politicians talking about how we peons should let top men like them make all the decisions for us idiots, but especially the woke democrats that peddle marxism, this is the scene playing in my head Rufus.
So I went to the chiropractor yesterday because of lower back stiffness and tingling feet and got a warning that if I wasn’t careful I was going to rupture a disc between L4 and L5.
Fuck
https://www.chirobase.org/12Hx/mencken.html
There are plenty of chiropractors out there who sell snake oil. However, there are also reputable practitioners who tell you the limitations of what they can do and help you regain mobility without surgery. Mine is of the latter type. He tells you what is possible for him and when you should go see a physician.
Ouch, sorry.
It’s Reaganomics in blackface — trickle-down economics rooted in magical thinking that enriches the few at the expense of the many.
Capitalism is magical thinking, but a “post scarcity” utopia complete with reparations and free money for everybody is totally legit.
We could do it, if we wanted to.
We don’t want to because we hate black people.
That’s my explanation for why we don’t.
1) Here are your reparations for the grave injustices inflicted on your ancestors by whitey; but
2) You’re not allowed to invest them because capitalism is magical thinking.
3) and you will have to share most, if not all, of it with others, because you didn’t earn any of it?
revised:
1) Here are your reparations. The majority of the proceeds have already been distributed to the collective for your convenience, You’re Welcome.
I was supposed to get my reparations and they said I was getting them, but somehow all my reparations wound up in the hands of white lefty politicians. That wasn’t supposed to happen! I didn’t see it coming! It’s going to work next time!
1) Here are your reparations for the grave injustices inflicted on your ancestors by whitey; but
2) You’re not allowed to invest them because capitalism is magical thinking.
2.b) Your reparations have been adjusted for the numerous white people throughout history – abolitionists, Union Army soldiers, members of the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron and the US Navy’s African Slave Trade Patrol – who made extraordinary sacrifices in order to stop the slave trade.
trickle-down economics
REAL “trickle-down” is having the government control the economy.
Razorfist goes after commie Hollywood:
Hollywood Was Always Red: A Rant
https://youtu.be/ZOtinTlx7yo
Interesting stuff…
Pretty much a rehash of Demonic (?), the only decent book by Ann Coulter.
Actually, I think these are the exact *opposite* effects of sexbots.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/05/the-downsides-of-sex-robots-include-stis-and-pedophilia/?utm_source=url_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
I have a hard time understanding why _anyone_ would want to have sex with a plastic doll, but hey, more power to ’em.
But, according to the powers-that-be, if that doll is small / childlike – then horrors! Uh – it’s a plastic object. It could be a model of a sheep, or a scaled down Titanic. It doesn’t have feelings.
“Ceci n’est pas une waifu.”
“or a scaled down Titanic”
SEASMITH TRY REAL THING
As someone without an overabundance of upperbodystrength, I also don’t see the appeal until the bots are fully ambulatory.
And can make me a sammich!
“Back dat ass up, Bay-bee, you want me to give you new batteries!”
Thanks for the D-Day links, Swiss.
To remember…
“Broccoli coffee: Scientists hope powdered veg can improve diets, cut down crop waste”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2018-06-06/broccoli-powder-packs-nutritious-punch/9834964
WTF Austria?
I bet they also endorse this super food…
Because it doesn’t have sugar?
Does it have sugar?
“White Grape Juice Concentrate”
You know who else was an Austrian who loved vegetables?
Coffee causes cancer and broccoli more than likely as well. We’re just waiting on the right funding so we can prove it.
/needz moar funding!
I so wanted to make a vegemite joke.
as a warm, broth-like beverage might be the only way I’d consider consuming that product.
How about pizza?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De_F7OLV4AAUxdn.jpg
Add bacon and we’ll talk.
This is TaT reporting in the mission to expand libertarianism through procreation (the Tom Woods method) is a success.
Maisie Joy was born at 0721 today (one of the few babies born on her due date). Her mom did kick ass, no epidural, and is doing fine
Yeah! Congrats!
Congratulations! Love that name.
Nice! Congratulations!
Awesome! Many blessings!
expand libertarianism through procreation
It beats the waifu pillow!
http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/240049-dinner-with-waifu-otaku-dates
I bet they sell more of those in The States.
Congratulations!
Just remember that when she’s waking you up in the middle of the night, Ambien works great on babies. I’ve only lost two that way, the rest are doing great.
Ambiens for everyone makes the night better for everyone
Of course it works, they’re too young to drive yet.
One may be regarded as misfortune, two smacks of carelessness.
W00t!
Enjoy them while they are small and cute.
Eighteen months of walk and talk already baby, followed by 18 years of sit down and shut the fuck up already..
Congrats.
Congratulations!
congrats!
Thanks for the well wishing everyone
YES!
now the fun begins MUAHAHHAHAHAAHAAHA
Her big brother is in for the biggest surprise
Get some sleep….you’re gonna need it if your daughter is anything like my son was!
Congrats!
Really happy for you three, double T!
Daughters are a fantastic gift and I wish you much happiness. Great name, too!
Congrats. Now don’t forget your libertarian indoctrination duties.
Congratulations!
Congrats!
Congratulations!!!
Mazeltov!
Expect Brett and Sloopy/Banjos contribution in about 16 years.
Congrats!
Congrats.
Outstanding!
Congratulations!
Awesome! Love the name.
Gay?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/De5IuIJX0AAPOjA.jpg
Dork
Mine was more literary. *mutters*
D’orktagnan.
He looks like he’s ready for a swordfight, if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Capitalism ruins everything, ch 7,802
When fossils are held by private owners, there is no telling where they might end up, Paul Barrett, merit researcher at London’s Natural History Museum told Newsweek. Although some owners make great effort to keep their specimens accessible to the public, Barrett said, others disappear into obscurity. He even knew of cases where disgruntled ex-partners had thrown out their former spouse’s old fossil collections following a messy divorce.
The SVP were even stronger in their claims, writing: “Fossil specimens that are sold into private hands are lost to science.”
Although the auction of fossils is not unusual—museums, for example, may purchase fossils in this way—aesthetic interest in the specimens is driving up their price. “There is genuine interest among private individuals in these as nice objects to have in your home or your corporate headquarters, or as an investment,” Barrett said. “Unfortunately for science, these objects are now starting to move into the same realms as fine art.”
Other paleontologists were disheartened by this latest auction result. Steve Brusatte of the University of Edinburgh told Newsweek he was “very saddened” by the sale. “I respect that [it] was completely legal, but if dinosaurs are fetching this much money as commodities on the open market, then there is no way museums can afford these prices.”
Oh, no! Private ownership of dinosaur skeletons is, like, the worstest thing ever.
You’ll have pry those from my cold, fossilized hands.
aesthetic interest in the specimens is driving up their price
Which would never, ever, ever, inspire more people to dig up more fossils. Never.
Dig hell, cheaper to just crank some out in a Chinese factory and sell them at Pottery Barn.
Probably more attractive pieces too, if people were making them intentionally. Well, I mean, as with any art-product, there’s gonna be cheap, tacky junk too.
Get a load of this shitlord, thinking incentives matter to people. Psht. //sarc
WTF are you saying? If we reward bad behavior we get more of it? NO WAY!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/06/omg-anti-trump-deep-state-spy-stefan-halper-was-busted-on-crack-cocaine-charges/
crackheads easier to squeeze for cooperation?
The case was from 1995. The case file was destroyed. I’d like to know if it was destroyed per a document retention policy, or got special treatment.
Out here in the real world, if you have a conviction for a federal crime, you can’t contract with the federal government. How the fuck did this guy get a contract for $400K with a federal criminal record? Whoever let the contract may have violated federal law. Who was it? Did they commit a crime by hiring him?
So many questions, all fated for the ash-heap of “And nothing else happened”.
“Suppose President Trump punched the First Lady in the White House (federal property = federal jurisdiction), then ordered the Secret Service to conceal the assault. POTUS has Article II authority over Secret Service. Is that obstruction? Under Sekulow/Dowd, apparently NO”
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1002984804885893122
Senior Editor, The Atlantic.
But Melania hasn’t been seen lately so this sounds plausible.
Good to see Frum’s zeroed in on the things that matter most.
Speaking of the prestigious above partisan politics publication:
THEY’RE ALL RACISTS!
“Trump’s a wife-beater too!?”
Suppose a president deliberately and with malice armed enemies of the United States and the enemies of allies of the United States. What should we do Dave?
What if said POTUS sold them nuclear and ballistic missile tech for $2 million in campaign contributions from the armed services on a country on a direct collision path with the US over control of the Asia-Pacific region?
Asking for a friend.
The Judge is in.
Going with the classic “When did you stop beating your wife”, eh, Frum?
“Suppose FLOTUS threw an ashtray or book or lamp at POTUS in the White House (federal property = federal jurisdiction), then ordered the Secret Service to conceal the assault. POTUS has Article II authority over Secret Service. Is that obstruction?”
https://twitter.com/CarmenYulinCruz/status/1001868052764471298
Show me a list of names.
So she’s actually advertising her abysmal failure to prepare for and respond to the hurricane? Is she proud of it?
She’s blaming Trump.
Just in case any of you guys want to get in early on the backing.
ACTION FIGURE HERO
Stretch Cunt Strong?
Cunt Crypt Keeper?
Hey, we all learned it’s alright to call women cunt from Samantha Bee, right?
Does it come with a super kung-fu holding onto power when it really ought to be retired grip?
And life-like hair!
Headline is so poorly written, unless they are taking the actual human being and turning her into an action figure.
“A young woman who falsely accused two Sacred Heart University football players of rape to win over another man was sent to jail on Tuesday.
Jury selection in 19-year-old Nikki Yovino’s trial was set to begin Tuesday in Connecticut court, but at the last minute the teen took a plea deal, admitting to making the assault story up, according to the Connecticut Post.
As part of the deal, the Long Island woman will spend a year in jail. She will be officially sentenced in August, but decided to skip posting bail on Tuesday in favor of starting her sentence immediately.
Yovino was a student at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut when police say she reported being raped by two football players at an off-campus party in Bridgeport in October 2016.
Three months after the incident, an investigator pressed Yovino on her accusations in an interview at her home and she admitted that the sex was consensual. She said she made up the story because she was scared another man would lose interest in her if he knew the truth.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5809523/Student-pleads-guilty-making-rape-allegations-against-two-college-football-players.html
Well, she fucked up big time. She should have just went to her title IX coordinator, where she would have gotten those two rapey rapists’ lives ruined and lived happily thereafter herself.
Fairfield? My sister is a professor there, I should see if she knows anything about this. Also, anyone know what happened to number 6? That’s his territory as well.
He escaped in the final episode, with “All You Need Is Love” playing in the background.
Best show in television history.
I haven’t seen him around lately, was just thinking the same thing myself. If I recall correctly, he was planning on launching his own company based on some code he had been working on, so he may be tied up with that.
Suppose President Trump punched the First Lady in the White House (federal property = federal jurisdiction), then ordered the Secret Service to conceal the assault.
Suppose David Frum were a sane person…
Yes, I know, some things are simply too outlandish to contemplate.
“Amber Heard strips naked to star alongside ex-husband Johnny Depp in controversial movie London Fields
The movie was shot in 2015 but is set for a delayed August 2018 release
It was shot before Johnny and Amber split in May 2016”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5812331/Amber-Heard-strips-naked-star-alongside-ex-husband-Johnny-Depp.html
I want to see that.
So my friend’s 15 year-old has been instructed to write a paper explaining why communism is better than capitalism.
I suggested that he write one sentence saying communism is better because some animals are more equal than others. (His teacher also had previously said that the pigs represent Trump and Congress)
Any other suggestions? This is a smart crowd.
Communism is better because its failures can always be explained away as “not true Communism”.
I think the main thrust of the paper should be that nations prosper by following the examples of other prosperous nations such as
the Soviet UnionCubaNorth KoreaVenezuelathe Nordic countries. Communism works there, why not here?Communism means that common people will no longer have to deal with the headaches of maintaining vehicles or private homes. Nor will they have to choose between 23 brands of toothpaste or which Kate Spade bag to take that day. Smells like utopia to me.
They have a perfect record solving the obesity problem?
^^^ This right here.
And over population. And fertilization….
Under capitalism, some people can afford Five Guys and others can only afford McDonald’s. Under communism, everyone gets to eat out of the same dumpsters.
I also suggested a short paper listing commie regime death tolls. Or handing in that satellite pic of North and South Korea
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140226-north-korea-satellite-photos-darkness-energy/
Communism is better because it eliminates light pollution.
No time wasted agonizing about what to watch on Netflix tonight.
And far fewer people exhaling carbon dioxide.
But remember, calling the public schools a socialist indoctrination center is being a crazy rightwing conspiracy theorist.
Crib from Pravda and dare her to say boo.
Just take all the positives that come from free-market capitalism and refer to them as negatives that will be eliminated under communism.
Exactly. “A Modest Proposal”, communism style. A+ if written in a way that the teacher doesn’t catch on.
This can’t be real. Can it? Seriously?
Thanks guys! I knew I could count on the wit of this crowd.
I’m going send this thread to my friend.
Woah careful there, have you prepared them for what they may see here?
Jeezus Christ. What’s the next assignment? A defense of the Nazi’s genocide? How segregation was beneficial to blacks?
(Unfortunately, the last one is being pushed now by racebaiters and grievance mongers. RIP MLK’s dream.)
Yeah the progs would defend this as “It’s a good assignment to have kids write in favor of a bad thing, it sharpens argumentation skills.”
But a public school teacher would never assign “write in favor of Jim Crow” because that’s a bad evil thing. As opposed to communism which is a glorious perfect system that just keeps ending up subverted by the state capitalists.
Although it might be really fun to bate the teacher by praising Che Guevara’s rounding homosexuals into concentration camps and executing them as one of the glories of communism by eliminating such bourgeois degeneracy (his own words).
I certainly hope it’s for a creative writing class.
It’s for a critical thinking class. The teacher failed, but the student still has an opportunity to learn.
An exercise in making the weaker argument the stronger?
People are persecuted for trying to illegally enter capitalist countries. In communist countries, people are shot for illegally trying to leave.
Well, I see where you’re going Billy but you make it sound pretty negative. How about: In capitalist countries, people are allowed to be disrespectful of their country and their leaders. In communist countries, everyone loves their Leader (or else!).
Strange. Would it not be more appropriate to have the students lay out all (credible) arguments in favor of both and compare them in practice so as to gain a better understanding of both?
As far as telling him what to write, have him do a book report on this book.
Alternatively write a paper taking a rightful and justified sh!t all over the very concept of communism, given that it does not even work in theory because it flies in the face of human nature.
“it flies in the face of human nature.”
Don’t worry, we’re going to use social engineering to change human nature. Maybe we can just nudge them, if not, that’s were the re-education camps come in. We didn’t want to do it, they made us! If only they would have listened to their betters! And no worries, progs, you’re the right thinking folks, nothing will happen to you, we promise.
it does not even work in theory
Yes! The biggest lie about Communism is that it sounds good in theory. It’s an even bigger lie than that it works in practice, because a lie of that magnitude is so clearly propagandistic it barely warrants disputing. But the lie that Communism sounds good in theory is an insidious invention because it leads to a logical conclusion: it’s such a pretty theory that all that’s needed is to sand down the rough edges, slap another coat of paint on it, dial back the odometer, and that lemon’s ready to sell again.
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/review-jason-brennans-why-not-capitalism
I don’t even think it sounds good in theory.
Interesting read. Especially this passage he quotes:
How is it morally defensible to encumber those who would otherwise flourish in a given capacity? Especially relative to the morally neutral proposition of doing nothing to curb their pursuits. It seems like any effort to equalize the disposition of talents and interests necessarily means imposing restrictions and decapitating ambitions. If unchecked talent and ambition create “barriers to community” for those who lack them, how does the necessarily unequal hindrance of same not breed disunion and resentment? Isn’t carrying around a millstone to check one’s strength a barrier to community? Are students who are held back to the level of the slowest pupil more empathetic toward their classmate, or less?
I would use the common philosophical ground between Nazis and Communists for my source material.
Quoting Hitler would be even better, just save it for the punch line.
Short and sweet
I cannot tell a lie. Capitalism is better than Communism
F-, recommend intervention by Child Protective Services.
Any other suggestions?
I’d suggest, “Communism at least has the advantage that state employees trying to peddle their own political agenda on students can be taken out back and have a bullet put in their heads.”
In communist countries, teachers have to spew whatever goodthink the government tells them to. In capitalist countries… well, actually not much difference on this one, but I guess there’s a few weirdos who homeschool?
So the paper should point out that communism is better because those that dare to home school and thus avoid the teachings the state wants to impose,can be turned into fertilizer?
I think the interesting opportunity in this discussion is no about the ends, but the means. Your typical superficial communist only discusses the ends. The means are studiously ignored.
He might list the goals of communism, but buttress it with actual quotes from Marx, Lenin, etc… about the means at the end.
“there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror.” – Marx
“The state is an instrument for coercion … We want to organize violence in the name of the interests of the workers.” – Lenin
“The next world war will result in the disappearance from the face of the earth not only of reactionary classes and dynasties, but also of entire reactionary peoples. And that, too, is a step forward.” – Engels
Celebrate the death of the wrong-thinkers at the conclusion of the essay using source materials from the original communists.
Like.
The reason why leftists are so dangerous, is that they are so convinced they are right, they want to force their ideas on everyone else, no matter what it takes. The end always justifies the means. This is why they are so fascinated by Islam. It’s sort of a sister religion. Sure, the invisible sky god has never shown up yet to smite their enemies, and communism has never worked. But that matters not, you must have faith. If the American left continue to lose elections, it will not be long before the violence starts. We’re already seen manifestations of this in antifa. If the dems do not take the house in 2018 and fail again in 2020 and Trump gets reelected, does anyone who’s actually considering things, think they could last another 4 years before calling for violent revolution? I don’t.
True story.
My first inklings towards libertarianism were in the 6th grade during a debate project where I was assigned to defend drug legalization in a debate against someone else.
Before that, I was just sort of mildly in the drugs are bad camp. The research required for that assignment was a huge eye opener for me.
That’s excellent. Do you think the teacher foresaw the possibility that people might see both sides of that issue? I wouldn’t completely rule it out, there are a few subversive rogue teachers out there, or at least there were in my day.
My 10th grade social studies teacher was a complete rogue who very, very delicately gave us all the lesson that most of what you see from those who claim to act on your behalf is a gigantic facade and once you put on the special glasses it’s all big OBEY billboards. Guy was awesome.
I would enumerate all of the utopian Marxist claims about communism and explain that they only seem unachievable because kulaks and wreckers have historically sabotaged their implementation. Emphasize that communism’s rejection of property rights applies to the individual right to life and thus acts as a safeguard because saboteurs can be summarily liquidated.
Fabulous.
I don’t have anything clever to add but god I hate communists with a fervor bordering on a mania. Like a thousand supernovas worth of hate.
I would turn in a list of the dead.
All 120 million of them?
Easiest assignment ever. Hand in a blank sheet of paper.
dude, name, period, etc
How else is he gonna get his A?
Go for the underlying reason communists support communism.
It is a proven method for putting (some) members of the intelligentsia in control. It elevates people who would otherwise live out their lives in mediocrity to positions of great status and wealth. Candy-coat it with an argument that capitalism selects for brute capability and short-sighted thinking, while communism selects for intelligence and long-term plans to fundamentally transform society, and casts off the chains of bourgeouis morality that might otherwise impede achieving utopia. Only with communism can the best and brightest lead the deplorables and irredeemables out of the dark night of tooth-and-claw capitalist consumerism and materialism to a future based on equality of result, no matter what the cost.
How did you keep the gag reflex down long enough to type that out? Or was it like the power lifter, just puking and typing at the same time?
I think soliciting here has shown that the kid can pull off way more than a 1 sentence response.
“why communism is better than capitalism.”
this is an invitation for parody
Communism is better than Capitalism because under Communism the truly exceptional are able to rise to top positions of power and then enforce their exceptional ideas on the lesser among them via the party infrastructure, secret police, and using compulsory education to indoctrinate students so that they cannot even conceive of Capitalism being superior. Capitalism on the other hand allows for a plurality of power sources and the proletariat to choose for themselves which they consider to be most authoritative and the educational system encourages them to question authority and think for themselves.
“Americans Rally for Tommy Robinson at British Embassy
American Youtube political commentator Ashton Whitty says that civil liberties infringements could cause political destabilization worldwide. “I want to help those people gain their independence and right and liberties that our founding fathers fought for for us,” she said.”
http://news2share.com/start/2018/06/03/americans-rally-for-tommy-robinson-at-british-embassy/
Good luck with that. We led that horse to the water over 200 years ago.
True, but those old-timey Brits had the good sense to treat Britons better than the colonials. That doesn’t seem to be the case now.
In case you were wondering, Corey Booker is still a mendacious, race-baiting twat.
“You said to me before that I’m unapologetic in talking about injustice, racial injustice. I am unapologetic and I still remember being in one moment where somebody was talking to me like ‘you’re playing the race card’ and I’m like ‘it’s not playing the race card when you’re pointing out a reality that is existing.’ What playing the race card is is when you begin your campaign talking about Mexicans and Muslims, that’s playing the race card from the very start. [Trump’s] campaign was started with playing to those fears. It was a fear in demagoguery, playing to fears, and being a demagogue,” Booker said recently during a discussion with Steve Phillips, founder of Democracy in Color.
“It’s hard to talk about the Trump phenomenon without acknowledging his – and I wouldn’t even call it a dog whistle; it is a bullhorn – that he does to those streams within our larger societal waters that exist. And I’ve seen it change in my community, and I’ve just seen it and I really lost my temper,” he added. “It was so hurtful to me when he made those comments about s-hole countries and then even the people in the room, which I think is even worse, who want to lie about that. I mean, to me the opposite of justice is not injustice – it’s silence, it’s indifference. It’s not having the courage as we saw many people do, ranging from the Holocaust to, as you said, conscientious objectors and even slavery.”
Booker said one of the best ways to tackle racial injustice is to have an “honest conversation and dialogue.”
“What folks need to understand, and we saw this recently from Canada to a recent shooting, the shooting we just had in the Waffle House, is we’ve had about over 80 terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11,” he said. “The majority of them have been right-wing organizations, the majority of those white supremacist, folks who subscribe to that philosophy. And so we need to speak to this and we need to call it out unapologetically and that’s not playing the race card; to me, it’s playing the justice card.”
I’m just going to say that I do not think the world is as he thinks it is.
What did T-Bone have to say?
My thing with police brutality is that the overwhelming majority of police brutality happens in large American cities, at the hands of professional unionized police forces run by experienced professional police executives who go from small cities to large cities as they move up the ladder. They are well funded, equipped, and organized. They are overseen by Democratic city councils, Democratic bureaucracies, and Democratic mayors. In many cases, these politicians are racially diverse, if not outright a black majority.
Freddy Gray wasn’t murdered by Deputy Billy Bob in Bugscuffle Alabama. Akai Gurley wasn’t shot in the head because Sheriff Olafsen got trigger happy in an apartment complex in West Uffdah, Minnesota. Tamir Rice wasn’t killed by Officer Wrangler in Flat Valley, Montana. It’s big city professional police forces that do this.
This shit where cities and counties that vote 70% Democrat keep blaming white Republicans for police brutality is wearing pretty damn thin. Baltimore has been under the control of the black Democratic machine for decades. At some point, you gotta stop blaming Nixon for police brutality and start actually running your own city.
“At some point, you gotta stop blaming Nixon for police brutality and start actually running your own city.”
Judging by the fact that nothing really changes politically in these cities I’m not sure that’s the case. The pols are just telling their constituents what they want to hear.
It also seems to happen where the population is highly transient, very poor and there is a culture of the hood. Crime is already very high and respect for the law low. Couple that with what you sand and what you have is a recipe for disaster.
Deputy Billy Bob lives in the neighborhood of the people who pay his salary.
The naked Waffle House guy was a right wing terrorist? Booker really is a lying bitch, good for him his audience won’t bother to look into his claims.
So my friend’s 15 year-old has been instructed to write a paper explaining why communism is better than capitalism.
In a capitalist system, if you want something which belongs to somebody else, you have to work hard, save your money and negotiate with him until you come to an agreement which makes you both happy. That’s a lot of work. In a communist system, you just kill him and take it.
In capitalist countries, eating dogs is frowned upon. Under Communism, all will be free to eat as many dogs as they can catch.
Pol Pot shot all the teachers.
See, there are upsides if you just look hard enough.
So did Hitler. At least the ones in the USSR only ended up in gulags.
Where most died of starvation.
Or worse.
^this^
*”Pol pot shot all the teachers. So did Hitler. At least the ones in the USSR only ended up in gulags, until they were shot.”
That would be awesome as the entire essay.
Hand in the script to The Killing Fields.
Many summers ago I did amphibious landings on the Isle of Wight with the TA. Those landing craft are slooooowww and the doors open sloooww. And wading through surf under load, then up on the beach with waterlogged feet. I was convinced that the only reason anyone made it ashore alive on DDay was simply because there weren’t enough German bullets. Thank god.
Isle of Wight? Were you invading Smithfield?
No, but we did destroy a bit of a pub’s glassware. At least the ones that weren’t nicked.
Rode in Higgins Boats in the Pacific back in the day, One of the things Saving Private Ryan got right was people puking. We had a Marine puke all over the deck – then threaten to kill the Squid driving it when he complained.
An actual Higgins Boat? How long were those things in service?
That was 1992 I think. We were on a LST which was retired shortly afterwards. The boats probably went with it to moth-balls of the scrap yard.
There weren’t enough German bullets. The Krauts only had a skeleton crew manning the coast. They thought the invasion would be in the north.
I have a K-98 and a M48 plus a shit-ton of surplus Nazi 8×57 captured after the war. My brother and I took them out once to play a bit. Let me tell you, you can reach out and touch some shit with those 198gr spitzers. At 1000 yards hitting a man sized target is almost child’s play.
If the Krauts had fully manned the coast it would have been a slaughter that would make what did happen look like nothing.
I gotta say Swissy, I had a hard time paying attention to the links because of your opening. What it must have been like….
I dont think we have really seen anything like that since then. Korea was close. Vietnam was bad too, but neither like WWII.
*sigh*
My company just announced that they’re gonna pressure our outside counsel to staff
affirmative actiondiverse hires on our cases. It’s hard enough to find competent outside counsel without being hamstrung by some racist/sexist quota bullshit.Treadmills never have a destination.
https://quillette.com/2018/05/14/the-racism-treadmill/
“Affirmative action” means hiring people because they can’t do the job well.
– Fred Reed
And in case you were wondering if they have you – be assured, they do.
Melinda Gates Bashes ‘White Guys,’ Says She’ll Discriminate Against Them
havehate youShe can be as sexist and racist as she wants to be with her own money. As long as she isn’t trying to pass a law forcing us all to be as stupid as she is, she can piss away her money on bad ideas until she runs out of it.
MSNBC business channel
President Donald Trump’s order to keep failing coal and nuclear power plants open — and a proposal to use obscure executive powers to achieve that goal — has been slammed by environmentalists, energy industry groups and competitive power markets.
It turns out conservative and libertarian free market think tanks are not fans of the plan either. They are panning it as “economy-crippling central planning” and the intellectual work of someone in the “third grade.”
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Some conservatives who study policy suggested the Trump administration is scrambling to fulfill his campaign promise to revive the coal industry after a bipartisan regulatory board rejected an earlier bailout plan put forward by Perry. Since Trump was elected, 36 coal plants have retired and 30 have announced they will close, according to a count kept by the Sierra Club, an environmental group.
Katie Tubb, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said the administration can’t find justification in past experience to subsidize the plants, so it is evoking potential future threats like cyber attacks and terrorism.
Trump is a doodoohead. Other than an aside about natural gas, they make no attempt to define “failing”. Nor do they mention the erratic delivery of those “renewable” sources which are presumably putting coal and nuclear plants out of business, with the assistance of massive subsidies.
Trump’s doing it. Therefor, it’s wrong. That’s pretty much what I get out of this story.
It turns out conservative and libertarian free market think tanks are not fans of the plan either.
The people who rail against subsidies and corporatism rail against subsidies and corporatism? You don’t say.
No shit. “Every OTHER time they rail against a centrally planned economy we tell them they’re all lunatics and baby-killers, but this particular time, they happen to be right.”
“Failing” = we want to regulate them out of existence.
Amidst all the furor over the Eagles non-visit to the White House, I’m glad someone’s bringing Tim Thomas up.
2012: How dare you not go to the White House with your team!
2018: #RESISTDRUMPF
The same people lauding the Eagles now were ripping Thomas back then.
“Wait a fucking second: so the Broward County Sheriff’s Office received numerous genuine warning signs that Nicholas Cruz was in danger of unleashing his power level on a whole school but a CalArts University shuts down because of a spicy meme made by a trap obsessed Englishman?”
Yes.
https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/calarts-shutdown-threat-animation/
CalArts sucks. A friend of mine went there in the late 90s, when that animation style was first starting up. It looked like ass then, but at least it was novel. Now it’s just derivative ass.
“The Norwegian flag is the Swiss Army knife of flags: It contains six other flags!”
https://twitter.com/simongerman600/status/1004082945081118722
Then how come it doesn’t have a Swiss flag? That would be a plus.
This is a comment under that tweet.
“cheese-eating surrender monkeys”
*leaps out of the way of incoming gaze*
Sick burn, dood!
The $63 billion takeover of Monsanto by Bayer prompted a thorny branding question: what to call the new company? The company’s management has announced its decision: the new company will be called “Bayer,” despite the name’s longtime association with Nazi slave labor camps, fatal human subjects experiments conducted on prisoners supplied by the Nazis, and complicity in the production of Zyklon B, the lethal poison used in concentration camp gas-chambers.
But for all those sins, the company name is still apparently less toxic than “Monsanto,” a name that has become synonymous with immoral attempts to corner the world’s food supply and patent life-forms.
Yeah, we should all be
living in blissful harmony with naturescratching in the dirt for subsistence.What a bunch of retards.
That’s not even fun Godwinning
Aspirin is literally Hitler?
I’m skeptical about how common this association really is, at least in this country. Ima bet that well over 99% of Americans think of Bayer as “those aspirin guys” not “infamous Nazi drug company”.
infamous Nazi drug company
Cool 90’s punk band album
“It’s been incredibly disappointing to watch how few women-led businesses are getting funded,” Gates said. “Ultimately, if we want more innovation and better products, we’ve got to put more money behind women and minorities. That wasn’t happening, so I decided to step in and see what I could do to help a little bit.”
Uh-huh. That’s nice, dear. Just ask your husband for another hundred million to blow on your new hobby. He’s good for it.
Theranos was really well funded.
Ouch.
Excellent point. And, seriously, does anyone really think a guy claiming he’d discovered how to conduct blood tests with a revolutionary new process to be simple, fast and painless, would have gotten anywhere near the blind faith Holmes was accorded? And does anyone think a guy wouldn’t be looking at significant jail time and being sued into penury (both of which Holmes is getting a pass on)?
So he’s saying that women and minorities can’t compete in the market? That seems rather unwoke.
It reminds me of how at the prison, we had to order our office supplies from some “diversity network” of minority-owned businesses, and everything was way more expensive than it would be off the shelf at Staples. I always wondered about the premise behind this. Do they think a black guy can’t run a successful stationery company without handouts from the state?
‘Do they think a black guy can’t run a successful stationery company without handouts from the state?’
Yes, yes they do.
Do they think a black guy can’t run a successful stationery company without handouts from the state?
Try doing a little digging into who those particular women and minorities are. In the majority of cases it’s not “Tyrone’s Envelopes” or “Cindy’s Pens”. They generally either prove they can do business just fine without handouts or they go out of business. No, the contract is usually with “Global Stationary Supply Corp”, which, when you look under the corporate veil, is 47% owned by a prominent politician’s wife and 18% owned by a minority pastor or activist who endorsed another prominent politician. Global generally acts as a middleman purchasing from a wholesaler that the state could just as easily have purchased the stationary from itself. This is called “helping the historically disadvantaged”.
Oh, definitely.
I used to work for a small manufacturing firm that was run by a husband and wife. The husband indisputably spent more time in the shop and did the day-to-day management, but it was in the wife’s name because they got a number of government perks for being a “female-owned business”.
Lefties are nothing if not full-throated partisans for illusion over substance. Who cares whether she runs the business or even benefits to the same degree her husband does? The salient point is that she’s “CEO,” and therefore a Good Example for all girls and women who may themselves someday “run” a “female-owned business.”
There’s a reason one of their catechisms is “Perception is reality”.
Obama was a transformative president because he struck a blow against whites. Who cares that a good many whites voted for him, or that those who didn’t had ample reason to object to his policies? Who cares that his supporters had the definite gleam of Magic Negro in their eyes when they beheld him? Who cares that he did more to set back blacks than any white man since Johnson? The important thing is that he’s black (and so articulate!), and sets a Good Example for other blacks who might wish to scale the world of big-city machine politics to take their place in the political firmament.
I away – breathlessly, mind you – for the *wifi enabled tampon.
*this will probably be a thing. You can monitor your data flow and your… er… flow! Sign up now, operators are standing by.
await – damn hands are faster than my brain.
Patent that thing brah!
My girlfriend sometimes attends a yoga class called “Flow” (I believe that it’s stretching oriented.) Do I take great satisfaction in asking her afterwards how Flow was that day? Yes, yes I do.
This is scary,
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1960/11/first-wave-at-omaha-beach/303365/
Well, um, I have it on good authority that Antifa people are fighting Nazis too, so they’re just as brave as the people who stormed the beaches on D-Day.
/sarcasm, but not too far off from what some Lefties actually believe
fucking intense.
They’re coming for you, Doomco
News that ski industry giant Vail Resorts of Colorado has agreed to acquire Vermont’s Okemo Mountain Resort has become the talk of the town in Ludlow.
“It’s the way the market and the business of skiing is going,” observed skier Janet Salem. “So to me, it’s not a surprise. And hopefully, the new group will do a good job.”
The $82-million deal announced Monday also includes Mount Sunapee in New Hampshire and a third destination out West—Crested Butte Mountain Resort in Colorado.
In a separate $67-million transaction, Vail Resorts announced it is also purchasing Stevens Pass Resort in Washington.
I realize it’s a Vermont paper, but- Crested Butte, too? Fuck.
I try not to be a luddite, but I cannot help thinking consolidation is out of control. Maybe in a few years the megabusinesses will be breaking themselves up.
Maybe in a few years the megabusinesses will be breaking themselves up.
They will. They always do, eventually, with vanishingly few exceptions. The usual trap consists of some combination of “too big to manage” combined with short-term chasing of financial goals, which generally leads to overleveraging assets, followed by insolvency, default, and break-up.
“insolvency, default, and break-up.”
Unless they can reach Too Big To Fail status and get that sweet sweet taxpayer cash.
hey, ludlow is where my fam rented a house for 5 years
teeny town. there was a pond across which JD Salinger was reputed to live. it was like ‘haunted house’ = don’t go near there, he’ll shoot you.
we skiied at okemo 3 days, then would drive 20 mins to Killington (which was more expensive) for like 2 days, and did that maybe twice every winter
Okemo was/is a great skiing mountain. at least in the 1980s/90s. it was 50% ‘hard stuff’, and they never groomed their bumps. if you were mogul skiier, there were 5 or so long runs that were steep and insane. but there were also non-bumps black diamonds, with huge drops and steeps that transitioned into hard curves. basically inviting you to eat a tree. and the moderate stuff was pleasing to ski as well. basically no “big wide flat stuff”.
Would that all our adversaries were so appropriately named (and their arguments so flagrantly specious).
the argument by implication is probably the most popular attack right now
esp. when its “fans of x are all white male (and therefore racists)”
i think the ‘we can’t actually catch jordan peterson saying anything crazy-wrong except that weird ‘enforced monogamy’ statement’ .. . ‘so lets just go after his fanbase as racists’… is the prime example
oh, they’re doing it w/ everything else too. harris. hitchens. enlightenment philosophy.
I’ve been working on this theory lately of Leftist thought: It seems like they view society as a play being acted out on stage, and every demographic is represented by only one actor.
They observe that some ill-defined number of white people are racist, therefore they incorporate that the White Man character in their mind. Never mind that the vast majority of white people are not racist at all – White Man oppresses Black Man. It’s in the script, and there’s no room for anything more.
And the relationships of the characters do not change with time. Slavery happened, so White Man oppresses Black Man. It’s of no concern that many white people at the time opposed slavery and that practically no white people nowadays would support slavery. White Man oppresses Black Man. There’s no plot to this play; it’s just one static state of things.
Same exact scenario with men and women. Women were held in subjugation in the past, although attractive women have always had immense power over men in the fact that they can grant or withhold sexual and reproductive access to their bodies. And government policies undoubtedly favor women these days. None of that is significant. Man oppresses Woman. There’s no room for nuance, subtlety, or change.
White Man oppresses Black Man.
Man oppresses Woman.
Straight oppresses Gay.
Christian oppresses Muslim.
Rich Man oppresses Poor Man.
That’s their entire worldview.
the idea of categorizing people into classes and insisting that those classes have fundamentally opposed interests…
…hmmm, can’t remember where i’ve heard that notion before
Carl Bogus attempts to taint the Second Amendment by linking it to America’s greatest historical evil, slavery.
Whereas gun control is very easily linked to America’s second greatest historical evil, Jim Crow.