Well the World Cup is about to kick off in a few hours. I can’t wait to see how the USMNT does…in their MLS games that are still going on. Stupid bastards not qualifying. That’s what they get for assuming they’d coast through qualifying. You know who else was wrong about coasting through an opposition? The Cleveland Indians, apparently. The Chicago White Sox beat them again, for a two-game winning streak. They’re solidly out of the basement and have their eyes set on a respectable third in their division. Way to keep grinding, guys. The Astros won again, as did the Dodgers, Padres, the BIG RED MACHINE, the Marlins, Rockies, Nationals, Mariners, Pirates, Red Sox, Rays, Braves and Brew Crew, who have now created just a little separation in the NL Central after dropping the Cubs two times in a row.
Two other things of note in the sports world: the US Open kicks off today with a bevy of start teeing it up early. Come on, Jordan, get the flat stick working this week. Yeah, right. I’m thinking DJ or Dustin Thomas.
And lastly, I’m absolutely stunned that ESPN let this story get published. It goes against their base instinct to only print negative articles on the subject.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, coiner of the term “Uncle Tom” was born on this date. So were butcher/sociopatyh Che Guevara, President Donald Trump, guitarists Rod Argent and Barry Melton, singer and A-Team associate Boy George, tennis player and philanthropist (what she and Aggasi have done with their money is more than commendable) Steffi Graf and rapper MC Ren.
PARDON THIS MAN OR DROP THE CHARGES!
Its also the day the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes flag, Captain Bligh inexplicably made it to Timor, California declared independence from Mexico, Robert Bunsen invented his Bunsen burner, the first cycle in professional baseball was recorded, Hitler and Mussolini met for the first time in Vienna, Max Baer knocked Primo Carnera out, the first commercial computer, the UNIVAC 1 was put into service at the Census Bureau, Tricky Dick imposed a 60-day price freeze, signaling the absolute end of the free market, the Gong Show made its debut and Argentina capitulated to Great Britain, ending the Falklands War. Oh, and the Obama Admin charges Edward Snowden with Espionage.
That’s better than yesterday, except for the lack of musical talent. But you can’t win em all. Anyway, let’s get to…the links!
Oops!
The Special Counsel’s office looks like its being run by amateurs. Or by deliberate leakers. Or something pretty absurd.
The Horowitz report on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton e-mail crimes and exonerations will be released today. And its expected to not go easy on the FBI. Oh, speaking of the IG, when is that indictment he recommended for Andy McCabe expected to come down?
Hey yo!
Yo, Adrian! Get me a lawyer on the phone. Sly Stallone under investigation for rape that was supposed to have occurred in 1990. No word on how deep the coma she was in for those 27 years to have just woken up to file a complaint this week.
The modern-day P.T. Barnum finds his latest sucker. Surprise! Its the Chicago taxpayers. For extra lulu, its been nicknamed “Tesla-in-a-tunnel”. I guess they’re planning on it driving itself into a wall and incinerating everyone inside.
Ugh. Too much fire water.
Progressive, tolerant people want to erase history. And its looks like they’ll get a second chance too do so in San Francisco.
Boston City Council makes sure the people who live there know there is no such thing as private property. Fucking scumbags.
Aaaaaaand the plague is back in the United States.
It was either this or NWA. I chose to keep our family-friendly label.
Have a great day, y’all.
The Horowitz report on the FBI’s handling of the Clinton e-mail crimes and exonerations will be released today. And its expected to not go easy on the FBI.
I don’t know, here’s Session’s comment on it:
Sounds like at least a partial whitewash is coming.
What concerns would those be?
The one where Clinton gets a slap on the wrist for willfully and intentionally violating the laws on handling of classified materials repeatedly while Joe-Blo sailor gets sent to federal PMITA prison for taking a couple of photos?
And I bet concerns about spying on a Presidential candidate using a phony dossier paid for by Clinton as a cover, with the FBI working to undermine a candidate and influence an election in favor of Clinton. You know, just minor shit.
Nothing to see here, move along…
WDATPDIM?
Oh god, from that Kristian Saucier article:
Got it: If you’re ever accused of a federal crime, just never admit things and crack corny jokes (“what, with a cloth?”) and you’ll get off scot-free. The fact that you didn’t admit wrongdoing means that you can’t possibly be charged with it.
“Ah, right, yeah, historic preservation – that’s what we’re supposed to do! Silly us, forgetting it was right there in the name.”
Transgender teens outrun track and field competitors, but critics close behind.
This crap is going to kill women’s sports if they don’t stop it.
Nonsense women just need to accept that in sports the best man wins
Well, according to feminists women are just as capable as men in every conceivable way, so it shouldn’t matter.
THOSE ARE WOMEN!
Problematic!
“This crap is going to kill women’s sports if they don’t stop it.”
Mission accomplished.
oh shit that’s hilarious. the “T”s really are fucking up that LGBTQ coalition.
The dykes are gonna be *pissed* if they can’t win at softball any more.
Some ass was on Megan Kelly’s show yesterday claiming that doctors “assign” male or female genders at birth. “Hey, nurse, I forget. Is the next baby supposed to be a boy or a girl?”
Meh, just put it down as “TBD” from here on out.
Boston City Council makes sure the people who live there know there is no such thing as private property. Fucking scumbags. – you can’t have unsupervised economic activity. people could die. Also think of the hotels.
Suburbanites are so stoopid, living in places that don’t have museums, trains, and city councils telling you what you can and cannot do with your own home.
We prefer to let the cranky old lady from the neighborhood association tell us what to do.
“. They hope that putting them back into the general housing market could ease rents for Bostonians.”
Why weren’t they in the general housing market prior to AirBnB?
Re the featured image:
“I have bad news for each of you. You have syphilis of the feet and you have athlete’s vagina.”
If she were wearing high heels she could’ve made her pirouette.
Greatest (and most appropriate) typo ever!
It goes against their base instinct to only print negative articles on the subject.
No worries – a soy boy jumped in to remind us of our roles:
Fuck off, Zach.
I can smell his unwashed lowrider skinny jeans from here.
He’s not entirely wrong from a legal standpoint. As far as I know, the days of a Citizen’s Arrest are long gone.
In VA, at least according to the 2A rights emails I get, we can shoot in self defense but have no legal standing to restrain someone until the police come. Of course out here you would probably get high-fives from the deputies and some award from the county. I imagine the police in a many cities though would cuff you right alongside the perp/victim.
“That’s the guy who threatened to kill me, officer, in addition to stealing my mail I feared for my life!”
I thought in VA, you could hold someone if what they were doing was a felony or misdemeanor property crime on your property.
I get emails from the VCDL each week with stories from around the country of good armed guys. Whenever there’s a story of the good guy holding the perp at gunpoint, they usually include a disclaimer not to do this in VA.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding or maybe it’s dependent on the State AG. The law on carry in a religious building is ambiguous so the previous pro 2A AG allowed it but the current anti-2A one withdrew that memorandum of protection.
Restrain? He just asked them nicely not to leave while pointing the gun anywhere but at them.
So the guy is a training consultant with a ridiculously jumped up title? Tell me again about your brave accomplishments, oh wise one.
I’ll bet you $100 that dude makes kombucha in his apartment.
You misspelled mom’s basement.
LOL, the political left response to the proposed subdividing of California
Well you can compensate by uniting the two Dakotas. Also rename Minnesota as east Dakota.
The original plan was to have the north half of Minnesoda join with the north part of the Dakota territory and become the state of Superior. The south half of Minnesoda and the south half of the Dakota territory would have been the state of Dakota.
But the Dakota fuckers couldn’t get their act together so we became Minnesoda.
You should have just named yourselves Superior anyway and petitioned the feds to name them Inferior.
“It isn’t judgment, so much as geography…and Latin!”
That was some A+ shit-stirring, Pie!
*applauds*
It’s all just Bumfuckistan to me.
The Ojibwe would go on the war path if you tried to make them live in a state named after their traditional rivals.
Do you even injun, Pie?
We have seen what the Republicans have done to this Nation.
Yeah, like Trump, with his record low minority unemployment, tax cuts, booming economic growth, rising labor participation rate, millions coming off of food stamps.
The horror, the horror…
Meh it is not all attributable to Trump
Oh, I forgot, Obama laid the groundwork.
No just economic cycles.
Oh yeah, just random economic cycles, policy and perception got nothing to do with it, just a coincidence the economy was stagnant for 8 years and has recently taken off. Thanks.
Romania right now has economic growth and reduced unemployment despite the most incompetent government in history and one of the most corrupt. While government fucks things up more or less, there are global trends and cycles in economics.
Sure, but those global trends are generally driven by the world’s largest economy, not usually the other way around.
Sorry, that came off a a little cunty. Didn’t mean to.
“Business Confidence”
“Increased capital investment”
“Consumer Sentiment”
Those can all be strongly influenced by a change from “you didn’t build that” to “time to make America more competitive”
Pie is correct, Presidents have far less to do with the economy they preside over than everyone gives them credit for.
First off a huge component of why we have a hot economy right now is the plainly obvious fact to anyone who bothers to look that we are on the rising side of another inflationary bubble. The ultimate cause of this bubble can be traced back to at a minimum the presidency of George Bush Sr although you could kick some blame in there on Johnson, Nixon, and to a lesser extent Reagan. While todays Partisans are going to try and give credit for the rising bubble and it’s attendant appearance of prosperity and blame for it’s eventual collapse to Obama and Trump based on their tribal affiliation the reality is neither had all that much to do with it.
As libertarians we also need to be careful of ignoring that bubble and trying to claim it is actually a healthy economy while bashing Democrats. We should not be wasting our breath crediting Trump for an economy he has little to do with we should be reminding everyone that the economy is not hot, the economy has a fever because it is unhealthy.
I agree, but it is worth pointing out that Democrats and their supporters said the economy would crash and burn if Trump won the election.
They said it was all but a given when he was declared the winner too…
If I remember correctly Krugabe warned us the stock market might never recover or some such shit..
Political leaders everywhere are mostly capable of breaking economies, and rarely of fixing them.
Well, he did a lot of digging that’s for sure.
Lol like Republicans would have any chance of taking over anything.
I went through the counties that would appear in each state, you’d basically get 2 deep blue and 1 battleground state out of the deal.
splitting California into 3 as in the current proposal gives Dems more power in the House and Senate and Repubs a little easier path to the White House and that is all the net change
I’m for expelling NoVa and Hampton Rhodes from Va. and annexing WV back to its rightful place as part of Va.
Also: California is broken up and Republicans take it over eventually!
It would be dreadful for the conservative leaning northern part of Cali to actually have adequate representation.
Hampton Rhodes?
Dude, at least get our stupid nickname right.
You know what I meant.
*gets coffee*
The only Rhodes is Dusty Rhodes.
Lonesome?
Hampton Rhodes will be the next Senior Class President at Exeter! Can he count on your support?
IL should evict cook county
Actually based on the current proposals map Norcal would remain deep red.
The erstwhile state of Jefferson would still be dominated by the bay area population centers.
When the proposal first came out I researched politicial leanings by county in Cal and posted the results in a comment here but basically based on this proposals map Northern California would be just about as deep blue as all of California is today, the Costal state dominated by LA would become even more deep blue than that with no red strongholds at all and finally the Southern California state dominated by San Deigo would be a battleground state with a very slight Republican tilt (like 52% – 48% R/d split).
The only way Norcal goes red is if they get completely seperated from the Bay Area which is not going to happen
“Tesla-in-a-tunnel”
Guess what I shan’t be taking…ever?
The city’s Board of Appeals had ruled unanimously in April that the “Early Days” statue should remain in place, overturning decisions by the San Francisco Arts Commission and Historic Preservation Commission to put it in storage. The board said the historic commission had overlooked its duty to preserve history rather than concealing it.
That’s just dumb. Constant revision of history is how cultures flourish.
Minneapolis is famous for having some pretty sweet urban lakes. One of them, Lake Calhoun, was named for a man who was a VP under JQ Adams and Andrew Jackson. The name stood for 200 years. But recently, the enlightened few decided that Calhoun’s unenlightened views on slavery were Problematic, so of course he must be erased.
Welcome to lake Bde Maka Ska. Really.
Again, the enlightened few, the vast majority of whom never set foot on a rez or know any actual injuns, decided for all of us what the name should be. The funniest part to me is that there is a place where just above the sign with the new name is the street sign – Calhoun Parkway, of course.
Fuck you proggies.
The amount of money, time and effort spent on that stupidity is boggling.
The only positive is watching the proggies try to pronounce the new name. I am so tempted to tell those idiots that I have a bunch of Dakota blood and am outraged by their pronunciation. Then teach them how to really pronounce it. I could have them all saying “bDAY maka SSSSKa” in the same way they all used to say Nicarrrrrrrragua when the Contra shit was going on.
*I have already had one person try to correct me when I used the old name Calhoun. I nearly pulled optic nerves rolling my eyes at them.
It annoys the hell out of me when people feel the need to pronounce foreign country names in the “native” accent in an effort to sound erudite and cosmopolitan.
You never hear a fucking French person abruptly break accent and say “United States of America” when they’re talking about our country, because they call it Etats Unis d’Amérique.
Every language has their own word for every other country which does not need to be pronounced with an accent.
Once again life imitates art:
CtPaTown (City Part of Town) is a district in South Park first seen in the Season Nineteen episode, “The City Part of Town”.
Background
CtPaTown makes its first appearance in “The City Part of Town”. When the “gentrified” SoDoSoPa shopping and dining district opens, stealing City Wok’s business, Kenny suggests that Tuong Lu Kim make his own district. Kim names it “CtPaTown” and makes commercials similar to SoDoSoPa’s. In the end, CtPaTown gets the Whole Foods Market instead of the SoDoSoPa district. As a result, SoDoSoPa becomes rundown and abandoned almost immediately.
Tallahassee officials, in a fit of self-unawareness painted a retaining wall along a thoroughfare with SoDo or SoMo or something after that South Park episode came out.
“You rike seafood? Led Robstah has all the freshest from Corolado’s many oceans.”
Welcome to lake Bde Maka Ska. Really.
Did they fill it full of fire water for the renaming ceremony?
lol Calhoun does happen to be one of the most…problematic…. of American politicians. A shit stirrer of the first order and a pretty virulent racist. Considering the memoryholing of relatively benign figures, there is no way in hell that anything commemorating Calhoun could ever stand.
Dude was a boss during the whole nullification “crisis” though. I mean come on. A sitting VP quits his job so he can go home and organize his state to tell the fedgov to go fuck itself? We need more stuff like that.
You should totally read Democracy in Chains to see the true evil of Calhoun and understand libertarians are basically just like that also
Pie bringing the A-grade trolling this morning I see.
Of the first fourteen US presidents, including the “Great Emancipator” only two never owned a slave – and they had the same last name. It’ll be fun to see what DC looks like after they pull down all of those monuments to oppression.
The Great Emancipator was the sixteenth president.
Shit, I need to check and make sure my facts match my Hyperbole – of the First 14, only 2 didn’t own slaves. Lincoln was never a slave owner, but his VP Andrew Johnson was, and Ulysses S Grant was the last slave-owing president.
Geez, I wonder how many Union general statues we’ll have to pull down?
Well, some of the Union general statues need to go because their behavior in the Indian Wars was…. problematic.
Christ, we’re going to have to rename my hometown.
Taking their logic, or lack thereof, to it’s conclusion, you would have to get rid of every statue and rename virtually everything in the country that is named for someone not alive in the past 50-60 years.
It’s almost like the proper way to judge historical figures is to judge them against their time rather than modern standards.
Presentism is a scourge.
“I think it will help us better fix any problems that we have and reassure the American people that some of the concerns that have been raised are not true.”
Wagons were circled.
Asses were covered. Favors were granted.
Situation normal in DC
Thatsbjust his opinion on the aftermath. If Horowitz lays out a bunch of sketchy shit and Sessions says “great, let’s use this as a teachable moment so it doesn’t happen again”, then expect Sessions to get pilloried by Congress, by Trump and to probably get fired.
I hope you are right, but I think you are being way too optimistic. We are too far down the path of banana republic for any real accountability for the deep state denizens, aided and abetted by the media and half of the public.
It comes down to the congressional committees with oversight. If they hit this hard and somebody from the deep state pushes back (like that squirrely little fuck Rosenstein did when he told them in a hearing that he could subpoena all of them if he wanted to) coupled with Trump latching onto this like a pit bull on a t-bone, then it could get some traction.
The media will try to gloss over it, but they won’t be able to help covering Trump going off the rails over it. And they won’t be able to not cover the testimony of the FBI agents who are willing to blow the whistle on the whole corrupt leadership of the department, should Congress he wise enough to call on them to testify like those agents have supposedly been begging them to do.
I think you’re underestimating their ability to gloss over and not cover things.
Like I said, I hope you’re right, but the congressional committees have already shown themselves to be spineless, and Trump can’t slap them down by himself, so I remain skeptical.
Update: Heard leaks from the report on the radio just now, on Comey. Apparently it says Comey made some poor decisions and acted improperly in some instances but it was not politically motivated.
Not. Politically. Motivated.
Here comes the whitewash, the report seems to give enough cover to the Democrats and their media allies to downplay it as a big nothing.
The Rebellious French Village Making Wine Banned by the E.U.
Beaumont’s beloved, black market wine is made with outlawed American vines.
Beaumont’s beloved, black market wine is made with outlawed American vines.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/illegal-wine-from-france.amp
“This cuvée hails from the tiny, remote village of Beaumont, where it’s been perfected by five generations of local winemakers,” whispers Borel. For the past 84 years, the French government and, most recently, the European Union, has sought to eradicate Beaumont’s grapevines due to their American “blood.” Although the vines are French-American hybrids, they are more than 140 years old. Beaumont’s Association Mémoire de la Vigne makes just 7,000 bottles a year. – Americans ruin everything
“What wine do you think they carry when they go?” fumes Garnier. “For 150 years, the Cuvée des Vignes d’Antan is the taste of this land. And yet, a ridiculous archaic law tries to destroy it!” – of come on you cant just make wine without government approval, willy nilly
America, FUCK YEAH!!
OK, now I totally want to become a member; a hearty “FU” to the state plus wine = win-win.
(shipping to the US is brutal, I suspect)
The irony is that 99.9% of French vines are grafted onto American rootstock.
I swear I read somewhere that all French vines are derived from American cuttings because a pest or something had destroyed the French vines a century or more ago.
To expand on OMWC above, just the root stock. The actual vines are French varieties. Grape phylloxera is a louse that is native to North America that attacks grape vines, doing most of its damage to the roots. Once introduced to Europe by a bumbling British amateur horticulturist, it wreaked havoc on the European grapes that didn’t have any defenses to it. While the French tried many things to control it, they eventually acquiesced to grafting their vines onto American root stocks, mostly onto labrusca varieties (fox and concord grapes).
It’s like people don’t even read the articles (that’s all covered).
(it’s a good article, well worth the read)
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Avatard test
Avatard received and acknowledged.
What is it?
The nut shot heard round the world?
No, that’s this one.
Oof
Or this one.
Fixed back to Thulsa, thanks. I’m at my mom’s house using a rickety PC. The old pic is Ty Cobb drilling a catcher
You are straying dangerously close to infringing on copyright I own.
A friend and I put together a stupid company for side projects that is Advanta Research and Development. The only reason for the name is that I bought the domain advantard.com. Anyone who laughs at the name is our kind of person. Anyone who is offended is then told that it is a pretty logical domain name given our company name and we then know to cut ties with that humorless fuck.
I pasted that “your shit’s all retarded” quote on someone’s FriendBook yesterday and actually managed to get a “don’t use the R word” response from one of the humorless who walk among us.
Did you tell him he talked like a fag?
I simply disengaged. A few others later pointed out it was a movie quote.
One of by good friend’s daughter lit into us one night while we were drinking because we used the “R word”.
It was embarrassing for my friend because we couldn’t get her to change her mind. Explaining to her that we would never call some mentally challenged person retarded in order to insult them made no dent in her opinion. To her some words are just totally and completely off limits.
She thinks we are (even more now) complete troglodytes.
I still don’t get objection to the term.
re·tard
verb
riˈtärd/Submit
1.
delay or hold back in terms of progress, development, or accomplishment.
“his progress was retarded by his limp”
synonyms: delay, slow down, slow up, hold back, hold up, set back, postpone, put back, detain, decelerate; More
Are they saying this doesn’t pertain to the mentally handicapped?
Please tell me after she finished ranting, you replied “Well, that’s just retarded.”
This would have been the proper way to handle this…
“Let me be scientific about this: You are an idiot.”
She’d probably be horrified if she heard how unwoke aircraft flight management systems are.
*squints somewhat suspiciously*
OK. Good.
Don’t squint at me. It was a legit compliment.
The girl chose not to pursue charges because she was ‘ashamed’, she said.
“I’m still ashamed to this day because I don’t have any money.”
Stallone:
I don’t think that’s how a statute of limitations works.
In other words, the DA intends to run for higher office.
That doesn’t matter, because #MeToo!
That threw me for a loop, too. Seriously, how?
You know what SoL means.
Thomas Friedman doesn’t seem to think highly of Mistah Trump. In fact, he reminds me of the housewife in an old Tom and Jerry cartoon standing on a chair in her high heels, with her skirts pulled up, shrieking, “A
mouseTRUMP!”First Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image, and now he is trying to remake America the same way — into a selfish, dishonest country with no close friends, totally unpredictable, free of any commitment to enduring values, ready to stab any ally in the back on Twitter if it doesn’t do our bidding and much more comfortable with mafia-like dictators than elected democrats.
God forbid we become the United States of Trump. That would threaten our future and the stability of the world. The world has come to rely on an America that, more often than not, has been ready to pay any price and bear any burden to do the right things, say the right things, model the right things and stand for the right things — when others were unwilling or unable to do so.
That Trump. He a BAAAD Man.
In my wanderings around the various websites of the socialists and communists of the UK this morning looking for high-class derp with bad teeth, I’ve noticed a commonality among all of them.
Those guys really hate the (((Jews))). They make Richard Spencer look like a Zionist.
Gilmore’d
Brooksed.
The world has come to rely on an America that, more often than not, has been ready to pay any price and bear any burden to do the right things, say the right things, model the right things and stand for the right things — when others were unwilling or unable to do so.
And it’s past time for that shit to stop. We are not the world’s policeman, nor the world’s piggy bank. They can take care of their own fucking problems. The President of the the United States should put the interests of the United States first and foremost. That this is even mildly controversial shows how insane we’ve become.
I know we say this all the time….but Christ. What demented, self-created fantasy world are these people residing in?
I love asking people IRL and on FB to answer a very simple question: “What policies has Trump enacted that bother you so? Again. Not image. Not tweets. Not personality. *Policies.*
You get absolute crickets. It’s like everybody has been drinking lead-infused wine for the past 30 years and now all the addled impulses have flooded out.
Like with the whole “Trump wants to take away women’s rights” bullshit. I asked a proggie derpbook friend what right she thought she had that Trump has proposed taking away. I got unfriended and blocked.
Why I heard a political ad just the other day that said “Trump tried to end Planned Parenthood.” No??
If only. But even that is not taking away any rights, PP does not have a right to taxpayer money, and women do not have a right to taxpayer-subsidized abortions.
I could see that showing up in both pro-Trump and anti-Trump ads.
Those people are ign’ant. It’s amazing how many people I met who actually get their political news from FB memes and Colbert. They could at least say backing out of the climate treaty or putting Scott Pruitt at EPA.
Leftists care about style over substance. That is why they love an empty suit with a nice voice and decent speaking ability with a knack for giving speeches that have a lot of flowery rhetoric but no meaning even if he is every bit the evil his predecessor was. And they dislike a bombastic blowhard that is rather mild to decent as president as opposed to his predecessors.
I don’t get the accusations of racism and sexism either. No one can point to an example that was not taken way out of context.
I got unfriended and blocked.
Standard MO. Deviation and independent thought will not be tolerated.
I don’t get the accusations of racism and sexism either.
Yes you do. If you aren’t actively kowtowing to every grievance group, then you’re an alt-right neo-Nazi shetlord*.
*I just coined that and I like it.
^^This. I disagreed with a lefty derpbook friend, using logic and facts, and was accused by her lefty friends of being a racist, white supremacist, Nazi sympathizer. The most disappointing part was that the friend, who I’ve known for nearly 30 years and was at my wedding and knows I come from a multi-racial family, didn’t say a damn word to correct the idiots.
That does sound disappointing, seriously.
Nothing pisses off that herd more than non conformism. If your friend had actually told these douches on a holy crusade they had it wrong, they would have turned on her as well for daring to impede with their ability to virtue signal. They will eat their own, without any hesitation, in order to one-up each other’s proggie creds. Ask that asshole running Starbucks about it.
If your friend had actually told these douches on a holy crusade they had it wrong, they would have turned on her as well for daring to impede with their ability to virtue signal.
I have no doubt, and I’m sure that’s why she just stood by. She still should have had the integrity to stand up to the mob in defense of long-time friend she knew was being unjustly smeared. As I had previously for her when some of my conservative friends started to call her anti-American in another discussion.
Yeah, the problem is that conservatives usually will back down when told they are wrong (notice I said usually), while liberals will not just double down, but want to draw blood.
Drumpf BTFO
This is another of those cognitive dissonance moments that the progs seem to suffer so much from.
If you could get them to leave Trump out of the conversation for a moment, they would go on and on about how America has been completely built on an immoral foundation of greed, duplicity and treachery. From fucking over the indians, to robber barons screwing the working man, to the government secretly conspiring against the masses.
Bring Trump up though and they instantly talk about how wonderful our country was before. But now Trump is ruining it! Completely staining the great institutions of this country with his slime.
If you could get Howard Zinn and Trump on a talk show together, I have no doubt Zinn would wax eloquent about the way America had been built and operated right up to 2016.
They were against it before they were for it.
Principals before principles?
The world has come to rely on an America that, more often than not, has been ready to pay any price and bear any burden to do the right things, say the right things, model the right things and stand for the right things — when others were unwilling or unable to do so.
How the fuck could any person who values national sovereignty not see this way of doing things as inherently evil or irresponsible?
Actually, I think I get it. They think America is only doing right by the world if we are paying a price or bearing a burden. They don’t see the value in a nuke disarmament deal where America doesn’t incur some form of loss or the other party gets a big gain at our expense.
The Nork deal is bad because they get something but we lose nothing. The Iran deal was good because they got to keepcrgeirnprogram largely intact but we had to give up pallets of cash.
These fucking dopes like Friedman hate America. They hate our standing in the world and hate it when we get something in a deal without giving up more than we receive. They are pieces of shit.
It’s the same thing with Bill Maher earlier this week. A recession would be great because we’d get rid of Trump! They don’t give a shit about the poor plebs as long as their world view is confirmed.
It really is sick – they openly root for bad things for America just so their side can regain power.
This is a statement I make regularly: It always seems that things that hurt America and Americans generally benefit the democratic party and the progressive movement, so I am not really buying any of these people pretending they love this country. After all, they want to fundamentally change it…
Hell, they tried to counter MAGA with “America was never great”. And then of course Michelle Obama’s “This is the first time I was proud of my country”.
I think this is spot on. If America doesn’t come out behind, we aren’t paying for our cultural sins.
It’s the same kind of reasoning that made bombing Serbia OK. There was really nothing in it for us, so it must be good.
And Libya. Let’s not forget that one of the justifications of the US fucking up Libya is that our hearts were pure because there was nothing in it for us.
Think about that: if something is in America’s interest, we shouldn’t do it, but if it isn’t in our interest, we should.
Prog-think.
Shouldn’t that be: Prog-feels?
I’m assuming Friedman meant for that stuff to sound bad, right?
Obligatory:
http://thomasfriedmanopedgenerator.com/about.php
Doxxing, assault, death threats: the new dangers facing US journalists covering extremism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/doxxing-assault-death-threats-the-new-dangers-facing-us-journalists-covering-extremism
As violent street protests between the far right and anti-fascists become standard fare, rightwingers see the press as a threat – and aren’t shy to act on it – ah yes anti fascists that is what they are … also when did this become standard fare?
The truth business is becoming more dangerous for many American journalists. – truth… yup
This reflects a broader trend during the Trump era: rightwing groups stage incursions into liberal bastions like Portland, Berkeley and Charlottesville, and anti-fascist groups respond – now not that I approve of some of the assholes at Charlottesville but the distinct lack of far-left definitions of the so called anti fascists must be some of that truth business journalists engage in.
anti-fascist groups respond
By acting like actual fascists.
You used to be (somewhat) neutral.
Controlling narratives is our job.
Somebody tell those journalists to make me a sandwich.
I’m at work and The Lady messaged me to say that a student tried to strangle her. She’s not off work yet but somehow I think she’s exaggerating *just* a tad. I have put on my deer stalker hat and imaginary pipe is packed.
Westernsloper mentioned the Four Floors of Whores building in Singapore. That brought me back. Ex-Lady used to work right across from there. We’d get lunch there regularly. Bitchin’ Thai basil beef. (These euphemisms are getting more culinary…?) That was such an amazing People Watching paradise.
Also got me thinking about Sentosa. Lots of good memories. Saw Deathcab for Cutie there. I, no fucking joke, got shushed at that show by a very stereotypical Singaporean. Go fuck yourself. Hm. There’s no point to this post. Just a very odd time in my life—not sure how I feel about it. It’s so flooded with memories and connotations.
“strangle” her with loving attention?
We are not the world’s policeman, nor the world’s piggy bank. They can take care of their own fucking problems. The President of the the United States should put the interests of the United States first and foremost. That this is even mildly controversial shows how insane we’ve become.
I’m sure the lefties would rediscover their inner noninterventionismists if Trump said he was willing to send “military observers” to Zimbabwe to discourage attempts to seize the land of white farmers.
Millie Bobby Brown Quits Twitter After Trolls Turned Her Into A Fake Anti-Gay Meme
https://wokesloth.com/millie-bobby-brown-quits-twitter-anti-gay-meme/distributor/
That is a fucking 14-year-old?!?!?!?!
I am……conflicted. I haven’t felt like this since I hit on two girls in a bar in Kazakhstan and they turned out to be 14 and 15. I suppose the tea should’ve been a signal. But who doesn’t like tea?!?!
The link doesn’t work for me but based on previous photos I’ve seen of her, in my mind there is no way that she is not being abused.
They dress her like a little sexpot and get her to pose for extremely suggestive stuff, it’s creepy.
Um…yeah. I think you have a point.
She looks like a young Alyssa Milano. Who during the Charmed years, is literally how I would design a woman in a computer if I had that ability.
Also: Charmed is a really dumb show. But it was on before Law & Order. And she was on it. Smoke a bowl and watch that shit.
She still looks like a kid
Jeez, she was 12 in those pictures? I’m guessing her parents are famewhores who are happy to pimp her out for anything so they can leetch money out of her.
People used to tell us we should have our cute-as-a-button daughter do kid modeling. I can’t think of anything I’d want to do less.
Okay, that’s funny.
Holy shi-ite, that was funny.
It is too bad that she didn’t take that ball and run with it. Of course the first time she actually embraced the meme and said “faggot” the gayz would freak out and pillory her. So maybe she is smart to not get tricked into thinking that she could join in on the joke.
Also 14… then again there a lotta shit postin 14 year old these days
Whenever I begin to hate internet trolls, they go and do something like this and totally redeem themselves.
Too old.
Researchers Construct Face Of God Based On Survey Of American Christians
Racist America confirmed.
What does God need with a starship?
“No kidding.”
/Grace Slick
If God had a face what would it look like?
And would you want to see if, seeing meant
That you would have to believe in things like heaven
And in Jesus and the saints, and all the prophets?
lol did Romania just get the 90’s?
Also insert picture of Alanis Morissette
Not alanis, but close
God is a sad, lesbian woman.
A Pit River tribal member, Morningstar Gali, called the sculpture a “monument to genocide” and scoffed at assertions that its removal would show disrespect for history. “We have existed here for thousands of years,” she said. Other opponents carried signs that read, “Tear Down White Supremacy.”
That the “natives” were constantly waring with and enslaving each other long before the arrival of the dreaded/evil ‘white-devil’ was conveniently left out of the discussion.
Wait, what?! Didn’t they leave in peaceful cooperation and gamboling until the White Devil introduced violence?
They absolutely lived in total harmony with each other and Mother Gaia. Don’t you remember that old traditional indian folk song “I left my heart in Tenochtitlán”?
Nice!
This is why I so loved the book Empire of the Summer Moon, which someone else has recommended here as well. It doesn’t go through the usual white-guilt filtering of portraying North American tribes as gentle cartoon characters. You can acknowledge the generally appalling way the United States dealt with Indian tribes while also being honest about how brutal those tribes often were towards each other as well as white settlers. For example, before I read the book I didn’t know that the Comanche had only been the dominant tribe on the plains of Texas and Oklahoma for a relatively short time before their wars with Texans. They split off from the Shoshone in the 17th century and started moving south from modern-day Wyoming. They fought their way into Texas in the 18th century, defeating the Apache who were already there and pushing them south into Mexico and west into New Mexico. The Kiowas did much the same, and the two tribes formed a close alliance. They fought together against the Pawnee, inflicting such pain on that tribe that the Pawnee ended up being allied with the US against them, with many Pawnee braves serving as scouts for the US Army.
And they took every chance to get help from the Europeans to help wipe out their enemies.
A buddy of mine is Arapahoe, which is one of the tribes that battled the Comanches. I told him about that book, and he said, “Huh, that makes sense. When I was a kid, if someone had the shits, my grandma would say, ‘Got the Comanches after you?'”
Editorial: Institutions have a moral and ethical duty to make scientific research more diverse and representative. Improving the participation of under-represented groups is not just fairer – it could produce better research
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05326-3?utm_source=twt_na&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=NNPnature
A more representative workforce is more likely to pursue questions and problems that go beyond the narrow slice of humanity that much of science (biomedical science in particular) is currently set up to serve. Widening the focus is essential if publicly funded research is to protect and preserve its mandate to work to improve society. For example, a high proportion of the research that comes out of the Western world uses tissue and blood from white individuals to screen drugs and therapies for a diverse population. Yet it is well known that people from different ethnic groups can have different susceptibility to some diseases.
Yes because science needs more wokeness, it does not have enough problems already
Well Nature has gone to hell too. So much for science magazines.
This sounds like they are asking we implement a system akin to the lectures the Zampolit used to give Soviet scientists about making sure their scientific findings supported communism…
Nikki Haley, you’re my hero ///CameronFrye
Haley spoke before the U.N. General Assembly voted for a resolution introduced by Algeria, Turkey and the Palestinians that condemned Israel for “excessive, indiscriminate force by the Israeli forces” against the Palestinians.
Haley, who attempted to include an amendment that would have condemned Hamas, started by noting that the “Special Session on the Situation In Gaza” was only being held to vilify Israel, pointing out that over 146 peaceful Nicaraguans have been killed by their own government in the past two months as they protested, that thousands of peaceful Iranian protestors have been arrested, with over 25 dead, that the world’s worst humanitarian crisis was going on right now in Yemen, with millions are at risk for starvation, and in Burma, almost a million innocent people have been driven from their homes in a campaign of ethnic cleansing. Yet the UN was not interested in talking about that.
Why the focus on Gaza? Haley asked. She answered, “What makes Gaza different for some is that attacking Israel is their favorite political sport. That’s why we’re here today.”
She ripped the resolution being offered, noting, “It is totally one-sided. It makes not one mention of Hamas, who routinely initiates violence in Gaza. Such one-sided resolutions at the UN do nothing to advance peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Everyone recognizes that. But advancing peace is not the goal of this resolution.”
It’s almost like the UN is a useless organization.
Useless?
Try illegitimate and immoral.
Tear the sucker down.
Mmmm, Mia Sara. (What were we talking about?)
Oh, yeah, Nikki Haley. Seriously, another home run from Trump.
Briefly alluded to this at TOS once, but:
Way back in Uni, I did a work study job upholstering furniture on campus. One Saturday morning was especially rough. The cotton mouth was either from the tequilla or the muff diving from the night before. Sat at my sewing machine. Tat-tat-tat-tat. Watching the needle plunging into the naugahyde reminded me of the chunky chick I had been with the night before. There was one exchange student from Cameroon in the shop. Everyone in the shop avoided him like E-, uh, the plague. I was always hungover AF on Saturday mornings and would sit silently doing my thing. Cameroon thought that meant I was some kind of fellow traveler on his world tour of spreading hate. Meh, I didn’t care. He didn’t bother me and I didn’t bother him, so the boss would always sit us next to each other because everybody else hated him.
One mid December, Cameroon got called to do a repair in a dorm room and so I thought I’d do a nice thing for the workshop Pariah. Christmas season. I grabbed a scrap of brown naugahyde and stitched up a little gingerbread Christmas tree ornament for him. I even embroidered his name on the back. Before he came back from his call, I went over to his sewing machine and hung the ornament from the wheel of his machine.
Yeah, you know what happened. I was 19 and barely functioning thanks to my raging hangover. Cameroon howled and raged at our boss, trying to get me fired. “Dude, sorry. I didn’t mean that. It was supposed to be a gingerbread man. Sorry.” Our boss was a fat, old white dude with a ZZ top beard and hated all the college kids he had to supervise. But, kudos to that old bastard. “It’s a goddamned gingerbread man, not a lynching. Get over it.”
I have no idea what would happen today if a kid made the same mistake I did. Benefit of the doubt seems to have been replaced with benefit of the guilt. How the fuck is anyone supposed to live any sort of fulfilling life with the social and mainstream media mobs running around shit stirring up racial animus. Just thought I’d share this story.
What I got from it is that government should be paying for college so you don;t have o work.
I do not know what the outrage mob these days thinks they will accomplish besides making everyone equally stressed out and miserable. But they don’t care
Why did everyone else hate him? It sounds like he’d be the star of the show in today’s university system.
Great story – I’m sharing with my son so he can appropriate for the horrific diversity class he is taking this Summer.
My son had a similar issue happen. One of his friends claiming he said something racial. It was just kids busting on each other. He was making fun of how pasty my son is and my son busted back. Parent pitched a fit with the school.
Mind you my wife has driven this kid in our car to and from school activities for years. Parents couldn’t be bothered to call my wife and instead went straight to the nuclear option.
Needless to say my kid dropped this kid as a friend and we haven’t spoken to the parents since. School, by NJ law, has to investigate and did so. Result was as expected – nothing. But the investigation sticks with your child’s records.
I actually feel bad for the kid because he has some intellectual development issues and my son was one of his few friends. But with parents like this we want nothing to do with family unfortunately. I don’t think he understands what damage his parents did as a result of his comments.
he has some intellectual development issues
With parents like that I’m not surprised.
The ability to handle differences directly has been totally destroyed in this country, and intentionally so. The authorities want you to come to them because it makes them the arbiter of everything. Those parents are shitheels for doing so.
^^^^THIS^^^^
It is easier to divide people and then conquer them..
“…a unanimous Board of Supervisors vote demanding a new hearing, but were willing to hear further evidence that the statue’s continued presence was a “manifest injustice.”
Maybe. Maybe to them. But it happened. It’s history. Get over it and over yourselves.
Progressives think everyone in the clergy were cold, stark, raving mad murderers.
Such nuanced thinkers.
Running around wrecking stuff kinda makes them like the villains from the past they are accusing of wrecking stuff
If you didn’t have 2018 prog values at any point in history, you’re an oppressor.
Think of poor Mark Twain. He was never loved. Everyone in his time thought he was a fucking asshole liberal because he saw everyone white and black as people. Now he is a monster because he used the N-word.
At least the old time people read his books and understood what he was saying. Now his haters don’t even bother with that.
At least some future prog will be hoisting them on their petard they erected. I’m thinking (hoping) taxation, especially the income tax, will be seen as one of the most barbaric systems man has ever created. Sure, it doesn’t kill you quickly, but it sucks your life force as effectively as any vampire.
Penguin Random House fires an author and writing judge because she mocked their new PC policies that replaced judging writing on it’s actual quality.
quality is white supremacy
And of course they fail to see what they are doing by equating quality with white.
These people hate any sort of merit based system, because nothing is more oppressive than judging individuals by their actions.
The ends are the only measure of anything.
“Shriver seems to view diversity and quality as mutually exclusive categories. We are compelled to ask: does she truly believe that diverse writers are incapable of penning good books? That women of colour are incapable of working editorially? That marketing is a job limited to individuals who identify as cis, white and straight? Does she believe that someone with a disability, or from a working-class background, does not have what it takes to grasp the concepts of plot, dialogue and use of language? If she truly does believe these things, we ought to be having a very different conversation.”
This is prog-think sophistry at its finest.
It’s ‘so what you’re saying’ deflection.
Is there an antibiotic for the Progressive Plague? Penquin needs help!
Postmodernism underpins all of this bullshit. You can’t argue with them because they do not recognize logic as a valid method of argumentation. “Alternative ways of knowing” and weighted subjectivity are placed higher on the value chain than reason, which is explicitly denied as existing.
Penguin has been going downhill for a while, ever since they redid their book printing about fifteen years ago. Used to be thin pages with flexible spines & soft covers, and was pleasant to hold & read. New books have these awful precision cut plasticky hard covers that feel like holding a knife. The books themselves have no flex in the spine and don’t hold open like the old ones did.
“But fortunately, antibiotics make it possible to treat most cases now. Between 2010 and 2015, there were around 584 plague deaths around the world.”
Aren’t there people out there who think antibiotics are bad? They should rethink their position.
Overuse of antibiotics is bad. Antibiotics in of themselves are not bad.
You should tell Japanese doctors that. The hand those puppies out like candy.
I had a bad reaction to an antibiotic last year. First time that’s ever happened to me. The resulting inflammation fucked up my joints and back. I won’t be taking them in the future unless absolutely necessary.
I’m talking about those who are against it full stop.
I just don’t go to the doctor for anything short of near dear experiences. At least I get to pay through the nose with the nationalized healthcare for the privilege to do just that.
‘Antibiotics Crisp’ a delicious chocolate bar with wafer, malt and antibiotics!
There is something missing from that story and I have a suspicion why that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQG5rrPafz4
No1 source of plague in the US.
I can be a softie and felt bad for those critters. Lol.
That’s a big .22 (I know, technically 5.56). I was with a friend once in central Texas, we had a pump action .22 — like a boy scout rifle. We were tagging an armadillo at about 50 yards. Fucker would jump straight up in the air and run off in another direction. 15 year old me thought that was pretty funny. And just to be clear, we were trying to kill the little fucker because he was digging holes where my friend’s grandfather didn’t want holes. We just didn’t have the firepower.
“We have a person in Elon Musk who started an electric car company from nothing and started a space company from nothing and he has proven that he doesn’t like to fail,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who shares that “failure-is-not-an-option” trait with Musk.
Billions of taxpayer dollars are “nothing”.
The Model 3 begs to differ
I appreciate space x but do not get Musk cultists.
Yeah… he didn’t build that.
There is no such thing as success if failure is not an option.
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things review – how capitalism works
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/14/a-history-world-seven-cheap-things-rak-patel-james-moore-review
Raj Patel and Jason W Moore illustrate a ruinous economic system that benefits a minority class – I am honestly amazed you can look at the world today compared to any other time and say it is a ruinous economic system
Patel and Moore’s essential argument is that the history of capitalism, and therefore of our current mess, can be usefully viewed through the lens of cheapness. (An earlier, more knottily theoretical work of eco-Marxism by Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life, argues that “cheap nature” is as central an imperative of capitalism as cheap labour.) – eco Marxism will totally work man
One of the most persuasive aspects of Patel and Moore’s argument, in this sense, is their demonstration of the extent to which capitalism’s reliance on cheap labour is itself reliant on what they call cheap care – the domestic work mostly performed for nothing, and mostly by women, that is rarely factored into the cost of labour.
In the book’s exploration of how capitalism secured the cheapness of a particular “thing”, each chapter begins with some or other aspect of this colonial original sin. All but one, in fact, begin with Columbus, whom the authors intend to stand, in all his viciousness and greed, for capitalism itself – which, they argue, is historically inseparable from colonialism
That seems like pretty standard development theory clap-trap. Basically, it’s the whole Leninist take on Marxism that became so popular in the third world, particularly in Latin America. It’s sad, really. You see a lot of scholarly work in stuff like this and “world systems theory”, which is related, that amounts to blaming capitalism for causing obesity in places where famine used to be commonplace.
Nutritious food, clean water, antibiotics, clothing, shelter, transportation, and electricity?
But other than that, what has capitalism done for us?
It forces us to toil to pay for our expensive new i-Phone and the damned plan they fool you into buying so you can be part of the social media movement!
This guy gets it.
How the fuck is anyone supposed to live any sort of fulfilling life with the social and mainstream media mobs running around shit stirring up racial animus.
So, what you’re saying is, you want to round up all the persons of pigmentation and ship them back to Africa.
and ship them back to Africa.
Do you know who else?
Record store that bought too much Toto?
You can never have too much Toto! *turning up Hold the Line*
Chicago and Musk. Hmmm.
I’d love to see how that racket went down.
That has to be the first time I’ve ever clicked on every single link. Great links, the BEST!
Do they really think people catching connection flights out of O’Hare (my second least favorite airport in the country) are going to take that stupid mole-Tesla to spend some time in Chicago? Good luck getting back through security on time with that fresh gunshot wound.
As long as you keep the dripping blood to a one quart bag of 3.4oz containers, you’ll be fine.
I am utterly certain that absolutely nothing of import will come out of this IG report. It will be a bunch of mild finger-wagging and stern-sounding words that nevertheless excuses everything that happened.
Magic 8-Ball says “Most Likely”.
If you need some commuting podcasts, this series by Chris Calton is great. The newest one takes Lincoln to task for his suspension of habeus corpus. Unconstitutional is the case he makes. Makes you realize the “good guys” in our history textbooks weren’t always the ones they tell us were the good guys. Lincoln was a POS, but he was a better POS than Jefferson Davis. Check out the podcast. Good stuff.
How’s the host? The charisma of a podcast host is arguably more important than their material.
With interesting, though dry, topics like that, it’s good to know if they can give the subject life and be engaging on something that is very nuanced.
Calton has decent charisma, and he presents the material in a way that keeps you interested.
He occasionally seems to over-dramatize things in his vocal intonation, if anything.
I’m so proud of this Minnesota girl who got her head stuck in the fart can exhaust of a truck. Yes, alcohol was involved.
https://jalopnik.com/pro-tip-dont-stick-your-head-in-a-tailpipe-1826794613
How in the hell?
Honey I’ve got some good news and some bad news. / Steve Smith.
Could she really suck-start a Chevy V-8?
Yes, alcohol was involved.
Allegedly!
Let’s start editing those physics books.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44472277
The theory of relativity is RACIST!!!11!!!!
And therefore must be expunged.
If it wasn’t racist, it would be called something like the “Theory of References”. That Einstein used relativity because he knew that “L” in it would fuck with Asians for decades.
I saw that this morning. How is it even news?
Einstein didn’t like Asians, so fucking what?
It was the Chinese he didn’t like. He was fine with Japanese, in fact quite admired them.
Though that’s not good for the “RACIST!” panic.
In them, he makes sweeping and negative generalisations, for example calling the Chinese “industrious, filthy, obtuse people”.
Einstein would later in life advocate for civil rights in the US, calling racism “a disease of white people”.
If that’s all he said, he’s not only not racist, but fairly respectful of the Chinese.
Are we going to pretend that different cultures don’t have different standards for cleanliness? He lived in famously clean Switzerland, after all.
It’s bigotry at worst.
And irrelevant.
This would be the China where they ran PSAs ahead of the Beijing Olympics admonishing people not to spit on the floors of buses and trains, and not to launch snot rockets in mid-stride?
Time to remake a bunch of old 70’s movies.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/13/berkeley-declares-climate-emergency-worse-than-world-war-ii-demands-humane-population-control.html
You know who else demanded ‘humane’ population control?
Terminix?
George Soros?
Margaret Sanger?
The Chinese Communist Party?
You first, Berkeley kids and staff. You first.
Pay no attention to the Japanese internment camps.
But that was ordered by a beloved Democrat president, so it doesn’t count.
Dick’s CEO gets grilled by shareholders for destroying revenue streams and alienating customers in favor of political correctness. He responds like a petulant child.
Stupid is as stupid does
Sure would be interesting to see some of these CEO’s lose their jobs for virtue signaling at the shareholders’ expense. My guess is we’re not close to that happening yet.
My guess is we’re not close to that happening yet.
Unfortunately, I don’t think that point will ever really come. The truth is a lot of state governments have made it possible for management to essentially say “Screw the shareholders!” without much recourse. The only downside they ever face is having their stock options suffer. The rules around corporate governance are so favorable to management that the entire market for corporate control doesn’t do much. Of course, those same governments ensure that if they’re unhappy with management, they’re out.
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder which way the big institutional investors that have the say in most cases would go if there was a small shareholder push to replace the board?
Because they don’t care about politics, they tend to vote for the money. And cronies.
Because they don’t care about politics, they tend to vote for the money.
No, mostly they vote with their feet. Which, unfortunately, is the smart move for them.
It’d serve them right if Elliott Management took an interest. They’re sharks and feed on this sort of mismanagement.
Dick’s was terrible before this. For example, Dick’s does not “do hockey” as their manager told me once when I was looking for some practice pucks. They do three whole aisles of lacrosse but no hockey. One of the Big 4 pro sports in this country. And they don’t carry gear for it.
Dick’s in King of Prussia, PA has a ton of hockey stuff. Every high school has boys and girls hockey teams around here.
Hockey is big in my area too (all high schools, many many rinks and clubs, and more rinks on the way) but disappointingly the store doesn’t carry it.
I love shit like this. Please, by all means, virtue-signal. Or hell, don’t virtue-signal; make company-wide business decisions based on your own personal ethical values. Advertise to all and sundry how you feel about gun owners. I would rather know who I’m giving my money to than unknowingly fund someone who might be taking some of that money and donating it to PACs or political campaigns that run against my interests.
“Almasi accused CEO Edward Stack of violating fiduciary duties by knowingly and purposely giving up money”
Well he did. If the board of directors had half a brain between them, they’d have fired his sorry ass immediately. It would be like Apple’s CEO deciding that Smartphones were bad for youth because of sexting and pulling out of the iPhone market.
CEOs *do* have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders; they don’t own the company, the shareholders do. If Dick’s were privately owned, then the owner can do whatever kind of ridiculous bullshit he wants, but he doesn’t. It’s the board of directors’ job to keep the CEO in line. When he goes on a personal moral crusade, it’s time to can him.
That said, if the board wants to turn the company into a partisan political tool, that’s their right. But I’d be dumping Dick’s stock if I owned any. I won’t be party to a company that despises me personally, even if their decision turns out to be financially successful.
That said, if the board wants to turn the company into a partisan political tool, that’s their right.
Actually, its not their right, because its not their company. Its the shareholders’ company, which means the board has fiduciary duties to shareholders. If I was a Dick’s board member, I’d be talking to me personal lawyer right now about my personal exposure in a shareholder suit against management and the board. If they don’t get rid of the CEO and reverse course on this, I could easily see a shareholder suit succeeding against the board.
If they don’t get rid of the CEO and reverse course on this, I could easily see a shareholder suit succeeding against the board.
Very unlikely. All the board would have to do is show they were apprised of the decision. If even that. Seriously, what was the last shareholder suit against a board that has ever succeeded. The laws so overwhelmingly favor management and the board, that the prospect is a joke.
There are class action suits filed against boards not infrequently. Most of them settle. Why, just a month ago Wells Fargo coughed up nearly half a billion in a shareholder suit.
Much easier for people to sell off their shares and tank the stock price IMO. Rather than waste my time getting involved in a class-action clusterfuck, I’d just cut my losses, wash my hands of it and bail.
D&O insurance is pretty standard.
I’m not sure it’s really their right. They are supposed to represent the shareholders’ interests.
The Shareholders should fire the whole lot of them.
They should. Many may even want to. The deck is so stacked against them that that isn’t going to happen.
I vote when I own stocks, and one of the things you can do is vote against members of the board..
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/business/dicks-earnings-beat-expectations-despite-gun-backlash
Oh well, fuck all that then. Ban away.
Dick’s made its announcement at the end of February, so a small caveat on that number as it is for an odd quarter that has a month of pre-ban data. Still, it surprises me. If that holds, then there really is no case for the board to fire him or the shareholders to sue.
Agree that it’s too early for them to claim victory just yet. I couldn’t even tell from the article if the sales gain was relative to previous quarter or same quarter previous year, although the way it’s written sounds like relative to previous quarter. If so, that could be normal seasonal variation for all I know. Still, the fact they beat estimates and raised their forecast says something.
It does seem like it makes the case to fire them a pretty steep uphill climb.
“I can’t wait to see how the USMNT does…in their MLS games that are still going on. Stupid bastards not qualifying. That’s what they get for assuming they’d coast through qualifying.”
Come on man, you’ve got to give these guys a break. In that last qualifying game, they had to play Trinidad AND Tobago.
I know what some of those words mean.
Everyone wants to blame Arena, but he did the best he could. Klinsmann fucked them and ruined team morale. Arena couldn’t salvage it.
That’s not to say it’s an excuse; I’m still traumatized from that game.
Bull. Shit. Arena sucked last time he was the coach, too.
I agree that Arena was not the best, but Klinsmann wrecked everything and they didn’t actually win any games until Arena came back.
The whole enterprise needs a reboot.
I watched them fuck up in Orlando — 3-2 against a hugely inferior squad. And they’re just lollygaggin’ around the field after giving up one that a HS keeper should stop every time and then a lazy goal. WTF. It wasn’t like they were just in control. That was toward the end of Arena’s term. He didn’t do shit for them.
Not disagreeing, I just don’t follow things as closely, but what do you see as Klinsmann’s primary errors?
Klinsmann was *obsessed* with tinkering with the team. It’s ok to do that in friendlies and during training, but once you get to the competition, you find something that works and stick with it.
Even when they played well, he’d switch lineups, formations and strategies the next game. He was constantly moving people in and out of position. He also focused far too much on conditioning and not enough on team cohesion and chemistry. Friend of a family friend is a coach at the USMNT youth-level and is plugged into that world. Inside sources said that morale among the Senior Team was absolutely wretched by the time Klinsmann was sacked.
Maybe Arena sucked, but he was given a shit sandwich to try and salvage in the middle of qualifying.
Thanks.
Hmm. On the one hand, I expect it will be a clusterfuck, because Musk is at the head. On the other hand, if they do get it to work, who wouldn’t pay to leave Chicago at 100 mph.
So, don’t charge for inbound trips, and charge double for outbound trips? I think that could work.
Sort of like the old Connecticut toll roads.
Trick your brain into thinking you will be engaging in reproductive activity!
http://archive.is/76kST
22 is sufficient.
17 is purty………
Dark money!
Americans for Prosperity- Montana, a conservative advocacy group, said an executive order signed by Gov. Steve Bullock last week was an invitation to intimidate, harass and silence state contractors for exercising their First Amendment rights.
Under the governor’s executive order, recipients of major government contracts who have spent more than $2,500 in the past two years in elections are required to disclose their donations. The order applies to new contracts for goods over $50,000 and new service contracts of more than $25,000. The order includes contributions to “dark money” groups that are not otherwise required to disclose their donors.
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In an emailed statement Monday, Ronja Abel, communications director for the governor’s office, said the order would not deny contractors work because of its contributions. Abel pointed back to a section of the order that specifically prohibited discrimination against companies applying for state contracts based on the required information.
The order, she wrote, helps ensure state government is responsive to voters. Montanans have long known that tough, honest disclosure laws for “dark money” organizations make our elections and our democracy stronger, Abel wrote.
We can’t allow the wrong people to attempt to influence the government. Those damned conservative advocacy groups are trying to destroy America.
recipients of major government contracts who have spent more than $2,500 in the past two years in elections are required to disclose their donations.
This is what’s known out it the real world as “routine disclosure of conflicts of interest.” I’m in favor.
Of course, being the fucking government, they drop the ball with “but we won’t discriminate against people who give us money.” That’s the whole fucking point, you idiot. Right now, I am quite sure you are discriminating against people who don’t give you money, and thus don’t create conflicts of interest. This order locks in the wrong result by getting it exactly backward – you resolve conflicts of interest by either refusing to do business with companies that create them for you, or by prohibiting anyone with a conflict from involvement in the selection process, not by guaranteeing the company creating the conflict that you will give the special treatment by saying any adverse outcome would be discriminatory.
Bullock is a corrupt piece of shit. Also the only real explanation as to how he escaped the Montana red wave in 2016.
NY AG going after political enemies – most companies use foundations to promote their business. Given the “restitution” request of $2.8 million, doubtful much to see, but gives them an excuse to shut-down the foundation.
The New York state attorney general’s office on Thursday sued the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its directors, accusing the charity of unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.
The lawsuit also accuses Mr. Trump of using the foundation’s charitable assets to pay his legal bills and promote Trump businesses. The attorney general’s office seeks to dissolve the foundation and asks for of $2.8 million in restitution.
“As our investigation reveals, the Trump Foundation was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality,” state Attorney General Barbara Underwood said in a statement. “This is not how private foundations should function and my office intends to hold the Foundation and its directors accountable for its misuse of charitable assets.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-attorney-general-sues-trump-foundation-alleging-illegal-coordination-with-trump-campaign-1528988443?mod=hp_lead_pos1
Huh, funny description of what they are alleging…it sounds like a light-hearted, low volume version of a similar racket
I swear I read about a private family foundation in NY that spent its assets lavishly on someone’s wedding. Ah, well, I’m sure the gimlet-eyed AG has already shut them down.
Irrelevant. The question is only one of legality.
Black Vegans!, with bonus quote
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/food-justice.php
Fucking depressing
The lunacy is rampant
3 Ways black Veganism is different from uncritical adoptions of veganism
Then proceeds to use four bullet points on the slide…
The odious straitjacket of gender identity, or something
There are so few positive variations on what a “real man” can look like, that when the youngest generations show signs of reshaping masculinity, the only word that exists for them is nonconforming. The term highlights that nobody knows what to call these variations on maleness. Instead of understanding that children can resist or challenge traditional masculinity from within the bounds of boyhood, it’s assumed that they’re in a phase, that they need guidance, or that they don’t want to be boys.
Numerous parents of gender-nonconforming children report initially trying to stifle their child’s tendencies out of a protective instinct, thinking they might forestall bullying if only their child would fit more neatly into the box that’s been set up for them. Ultimately, though, most realize that their child is less happy when prevented from gravitating naturally toward their preferences.
“My little boy wears a dress to school, and that makes me a proud mommy.”
I am completely at a loss. Gender stereotypes are stronger and more restrictive now than they have ever been, she says. Seriously? Assuming(!) this to be true, I cannot help but wonder if it might have something to do with the progressives’ obsession with sex and “gender”, much as the incessant bleating and fascination with race and racialist analysis of every fucking thing in Obama’s Post-Racial America might have had some unintended consequences.
dan·dy
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noun
1.
a man unduly devoted to style, neatness, and fashion in dress and appearance.
Re: Dick’s-
The Coraopolis, Pa.-based company’s net sales grew 4.6 percent to $1.9 billion for the three months that ended on May 5. Net income was $60 million, or 59 cents per share, which beat expectations of 45 cents.
[…]
After the earnings report, Dick’s stock was up 23.33 percent from the prior day’s close to $37.59.
I saw that. Have even contemplated doing a little write-up, but have not (yet, maybe).
Based on what I saw, the stock price bump was attributed in large part to a short squeeze, and there was something weird in there about same store sales being down, so I don’t know if they brought new stores on line or if they made an accounting adjustment, or some other anomalous variable was at work.
Agree, this performance would have to extend for a couple more quarters to be a convincing case.
On the flip side, once you get a few quarters out, you’ll be able to blame any further change on other vagaries of the market, it will get harder and harder to point to their posture on gun sales as the definitive cause.
I feel like there should be some kind of award for this level of PUA skill
Fake news.
i need to believe that man exists.
the blues/porn-soundtrack for a roadside 3-way w/female highway patrol officers writes itself
Can’t be real… but if it is, hats off to that guy.
More from the agony aunt in the Atlantic:
em>There’s a word for what’s happening here: misogyny. When school officials and parents send a message to children that “boyish” girls are badass but “girlish” boys are embarrassing, they are telling kids that society values and rewards masculinity, but not femininity. They are not just keeping individual boys from free self-expression, but they are keeping women down too.
It is lopsided to approach gender equality by focusing only on girls’ empowerment. If society is to find its way to a post-#MeToo future, parents, teachers, and community members need to build a culture of boyhood that fosters empathy, communication, caretaking, and cooperation. But how? Could there be a space or an organization for boys where they’re encouraged to challenge what’s expected of them socially, emotionally, and physically? What would the activities be? What would the corresponding catchwords be to the girls’ “brave” and “strong” other than “cowardly” and “weak”?
Misogyny. The answer is always “misogyny”.
“The answer is always ‘misogyny'”
Misogyny (and all this other horseshit) is just Trojan horse to further break down education into a morass of meaningless cultural Marxism. The end goal always is and always was complete and total control of education, then transformation of the education system itself into a madrassa in which students are taught that nothing means anything, objective reality is a lie and truth is subjective. It’s a demoralization campaign; wipe away any understanding of objective truth and you can replace it with whatever you like.
I don’t mean to sound like a Randroid, but I think she did get a pretty good take on the underlying mindset of Marxism (and you’re right, this is nothing more than a cultural manifestation of Marxist ideology) – it’s a hatred for existence as such. The people who buy into this understand their fundamental human inadequacy. Rather than improve themselves, their reaction is to destroy the very values they prove lacking in. So, to the author’s thinking, courage, strength and independence aren’t values that they fail in, but manifestations of a misogyny that is to be rightly damned. At the same time the “culture of boyhood that fosters empathy, communication, caretaking, and cooperation” is one that will leave the boys both empty and perpetually at a loss.
Sure, Marxists want to take your property. So does any thief. The difference is the Marxist has a much worse intention than the thief. They want to break your spirit.
Doesn’t that assume that traits such as athleticism, courage, strength, etc. are inherently masculine traits?
Tag fail. The answer is always tag fail.
I don’t hate you guys. Honestly, I don’t. However, since I inflict peak Ezra Klein on you, I will understand if you don’t believe me.
Haha:
“Ryan
@alwaysonoffense
Replying to @ezraklein
can we talk about how amazing chick-fil-a sauce is?”
“Thomas Dodson
@Auburn1977
Replying to @alwaysonoffense @ezraklein
It’s made from a mix of cow and chicken tears.”
There are some real diamonds in the comments
Matt @Matt03441 · Jun 11
Lefties will defend abortion but are against eating honey because beekeeping “stresses out the bees”.
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Melissa Wyatt @wyattmelissa · Jun 11
Replying to @ezraklein
Wait until the carrots weigh in.
Lonnie for MVP @thatman416 · Jun 11
Never trust a carrot. They’re evasive and generally malfeasant
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ZzyzxRoadNRA @zzyzxbaker · Jun 11
Replying to @ezraklein
The cows in the ad aren’t even beef cattle. They’re dairy cattle.
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And for the unkindest cut of all…..
NorseThunder @Odinsonsmjolnir · Jun 11
Replying to @ezraklein
Maybe the cows can’t spell because they earned a political science degree from UCLA.
That tweet is like a honeypot for idiots. It’s honestly kind of scary and depressing that so many people are that stupid.
The best business decision Jeff Bezos ever made was telling Ezra to fuck off when he asked for that big raise. Vox is a fucking clown-show. I’m still unsure how they stay in business other than hate clicks.
So after the Obama buyout (and finding out Susan Rice is on their board) I decided to get off my ass and cancel the Netflix account. I had been meaning to do it for a long time, but was too lazy.
So for the last week I have been going through their catalog to see if there is anything worth watching before this month runs out. Ran across a new series where Vox “Explains” things. Ezra had a big writing credit on how whitey fucked Black Bodies with their home ownership tricknology.
I have to admit I watched the whole thing with a morbid fascination of how stupid shit can be. The only upside is that it erased any doubt about the wisdom of dumping Netflix. I think they are solidly in the skin suit phase now.
They should have to label it more honestly “Voxsplainin’: The Idiocracy Version of Subjects Too Difficult for Us to Grasp”
There is nothing in the known universe that can’t be definitively explained to you by a callow twentysomething with limited life experience and virtually no actual expertise in anything they’re purporting to explain.
Klein is a retarded asshat who collects his own spittle in a Dixie cup so he can examine and write poetry about it later, but blacks were vastly mistreated under the home ownership push of the 50’s and 60’s. They were largely denied financing with government backed loans and were refused from many developments.
How or if it should be redressed is another matter entirely.
Credit and income explain that.
“Perhaps a restaurant specializing in discarded fetus sandwiches would make Ezra and his friends happy.”
Ouch.
Oh, his moaning about chik-fil-a ads
Yes, there was something about that which said, “This is the peak moment at which the world ceased even trying to take Vox seriously”
i think it was the “unimaginable suffering” line
It takes a mind like Ezra Klein’s to take “Don’t eat me, Bro” and turn it into a treatise on large scale agricultural efficiency and the horrors of capitalism.
So… an underachieving 5th year sophomore majoring in General Studies after having smoked way too much pot.
The funny thing is, he’d be an 8th level toady, collecting the cigarette scraps from his boss when the next 5 toadies above him were distratcted to sell for cheap liquor, eating just a little better than prisoners, but probably having decent clothes if he didn’t live in a capitalist society.
The sad thing is that there’s a legitimate discussion to be had regarding stuff like “factory” farms, animal welfare, and all that sort of thing, but Ezra approaches it right off the bat by not-so-subtly insulting Chic-fil-a and anyone who has ever had a chuckle or a grin at that ad. It’s like saying, “So you’ve eaten Aunt Jemima syrup, have you? Uncle Ben’s rice? I’m sorry, but I just can’t enjoy something that celebrates the enslavement and oppression of African-Americans the way yo do.” It opens and immediately slams shut the discussion all at once, and not to his credit.
BTW, sloopy, your auction of arrowheads and stuff has sent me straight down the rabbithole. I only regret that money is a little tight right now, or I’d be bidding up a storm.
Query: when it says “internet premium: 18%”, does that mean I will pay 18% more than my bid?
GHOST GUNZ
A Kissimmee man who built and sold more than 200 firearms without a federal license will spend the next five years in federal prison.
Hector Luis Santiago-Jorge, 48, received the maximum sentence for manufacturing the so-called “ghost guns,” which have no serial number and are tough for authorities to trace.
Most of the guns were AR-15-style, authorities said.
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The man also surrendered 10 rifles and 168 rounds of ammo that federal authorities seized from his home.
“This criminal thought he could circumvent the laws in place that make our communities safer from weapons trafficking,” said Homeland Security Special Agent in Charge James Spero.
Sleep well, America. You’re safe, now.
No mention of Cory Whatsisname. I wonder if they’ll start looking for “co-conspirators” who aid and abet such lawlessness.
“Shriver seems to view diversity and quality as mutually exclusive categories.”
She seems to because they are, and they are by design. That is the whole point of diversity. I think there is a book that explains this. Rules for something something.
Damn you, Sloopy.
Damn you to hell.
*continues absently singing Karma Chameleon*
Tuccille, at TOS:
What’s a politician to do when it’s clear that people will vigorously resist attempts to restrict their lives? Well, you could empower government officials to arbitrarily punish anybody who might help them exercise their freedom. That’s the approach favored by three Democratic members of Congress, who appear to see the path to limiting private firearms ownership in harassing gun dealers and subjecting them to the whims of government officials.
Not that they’re the only legislators to wield regulations as bludgeons, but it’s always a lousy idea.
Ostensibly, the “Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act” (a name that maintains the congressional tradition of pompous bullshit) is aimed at “gun dealers who engage in illegal sales practices,” which is to say it’s supposed to make it more illegal to do illegal stuff
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As of today, the entry for the bill, formally H.R. 6075, is a placeholder lacking details. But, in a press release, Deutch’s office says:
“Specifically, the Keeping Gun Dealers Honest Act would:
Authorize increased ATF inspections of gun dealers to ensure compliance standards are met.
Strengthen penalties for falsifying gun sales records, including longer prison sentences for violators.
Add new types of civil sanctions for gun dealers who violate ATF regulations.
Permit ATF discretion in issuing gun licenses.
Allow ATF to require dealers to conduct physical inventories if more than ten crime guns are traced back to them.”
Why are these new penalties and powers necessary? Because, claims Deutch, citing the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, “just five percent of gun dealers supply 90 percent of guns used in crime,” and “the combination of stringent standards and depleted budgets put ATF inspectors in an impossible situation.”
So, among other things, they want to change ffls from “must issue” to “may issue” I guess.
We’re just not making these things illegal enough. Hit it harder, it”ll go.
Near zero chance of passing.
Also, how is Tuccille still writing at TOS?
New Jersey also wrestles with the menace of teh dread ghost gunz
New Jersey’s attorney general on Tuesday sent warning letters to manufacturers of unregistered “ghost guns” as state lawmakers pursue a formal ban on the sale of firearm parts used to make untraceable homemade guns.
“These weapons are illegal in our state,” Attorney General Gurbir Grewal wrote in the letter. “Your actions violate the laws of New Jersey and, if you do not stop these activities within 15 days, I will bring legal action against your company.”
The letter targeted companies advertising online for the sale of “unregistered and unserialized firearms — including assault weapons — constructed, at least in part, by the purchaser.”
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Another bill still awaiting legislative approval would criminalize the ownership of any gun that doesn’t have a serial number. The “ghost gun” measure (S2465) was passed with support from Republicans and Democrats in the state Senate and awaits a vote in the Assembly.
OBEY!
Musk is credited by the good mayor Rahm as “creating Tesla “out of nothing”. I suspect the original founders of Tesla aren’t happy with statements like that. Musk is a shrewd marketer (another likeness to ol’ P.T.) who has managed to twist history with the help of the courts in order to be considered a “co-founder” of Tesla, but that doesn’t make it so.