Sorry to all our Arkansas baseball fans. That was a tough way to go down last night. Especially after the foul ball from the night before. Chin up though. You had a hell of a run. And speaking of college sports, methinks Devontae Hobbs needs to learn a lesson in how recruiting actually works. Enjoy MSU, but know this: people being nice to you and people telling you you’ll play as a freshman aren’t being fake or lying. They’re being courteous and offering you an opportunity (especially since they’ve started a freshman OL and had others play extensively in recent years). Oh, and if you don’t like being told those things, you should probably never go buy a car. You might have a fucking heart attack.
Colombia and Japan are through to the knockout stages. They’ll play England and Belgium respectively. No games today but the knockout stages start tomorrow. I’m feeling good about Belgium, Uruguay and France. Don’t ask me why, I just am. On the diamonds, your winners were: Arizona, Oakland, the MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIIIIINS, Seattle (who are doing a hell of a job mostly keeping pace with the red-hot Astros), the Cubs pounded the Dodgers, Colorado, Boston, Philly, Milwaukee and your defending world champ Houston Astros.
On this date we cwelebrate the birth of America’s first female governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, actor Slim Pickens, “Godfather” and “Chinatown” director Robert Evans, the late, great Harmon Killebrew, actor and nut job Gary Busey, jewish comic Richard Lewis, rocker Don Dokken, Canadian legend Theo Fleury, and that’s pretty much it. What a short list.
Its also the date on which Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in London burned down, Apartheid began in South Africa, the first US bombs fell on Hanoi, Patrick Henry was made governor of Virginia as the state adopted her constitution, George Custer was made a general at the ripe old age of 23, the Federal Interstate Highway System Act was signed into law, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed after the Democrat Party filibustered it for 83 days, and the world’s first pregnant man (Thomas Beatie) gives birth to a daughter.
OK, on to…the links!
Some crazy asshole shot up a newspaper in Maryland, killing five. And yes, people were politicizing it about two minutes after it happened, blaming President Trump, Maxine Waters, Milo Yiannapolis, and a host of other people…until it came out that the dude was a whack-job with a vendetta against the newspaper, some of its writers, the publisher, a judge, several local officials and just about everybody who crossed him. And by the way, a Maryland Senator had this to say (emphasis mine):
“Clearly we need universal background checks and need to get rid of the military style assault weapons and private ownership,”
Hear that? He wants to end private ownership of shotguns, which is what the shooter used. Well, I hope he’s the one planning to go door-to-door and taker them away, because I can assure you the cops won’t do it (outside of a few progressive strongholds) and I can assure you his dumbass followers won’t do it after the first reports of resistance come in.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Rod Rosenstein spent several hours under oath but managed to answer almost no questions whatsoever as Congressmen from both sides of the aisle decided to grandstand rather than ask pointed, deliberate questions. Why don’t they just subpoena the damn records and hold him in contempt for not turning them over? That’s the way to handle a “reluctant” employee you have oversight for.
Democrats have been asking where their “everyman” president of the working class has been. Well, he finally came up for air…at a DNC fundraiser where guests paid $100,000 a piece to get a photo with him. See, people? Democrat leadership understands your pain and are just like you, with the exception of paying $100k for a photo and eating off of gold plates.
Oh no. The Hedgehog is the latest to get caught up in the #metoo mess. Say it ain’t so, Ron!
Vice President Mike Pence tells Central American countries to do more to stop all the migrants illegally entering the US. Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.
If you think you have a right to do what you want with your own property, then you definitely want to read this. Way to go, government. You bunch of fucking assholes.
And the US and Japan agree to continue military exercises after Trump-Kim summit.
Have a great Friday and enjoy your weekend, friends!
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549 responses to “Friday Morning Links”
First?
Chicken versus Dokken
That was funny. Weird but funny.
whoo boy. 100k for a pic with the lightbringer? What a steal…
They didn’t tell the “customers” that Obama takes a selfie of the two of them, he just slightly moves the phone so it’s only him
After all, he is the only important one…
Oh no. The Hedgehog is the latest to get caught up in the #metoo mess. Say it ain’t so, Ron!
Dude has looked like the poster boy for the sex offender registry for 40 years anyway, might as well play the part.
I didn’t even hover over the reply button. The web was a mistake.
I clearly need to photo-bomb the One, so that I can get $100,000 value for free!
It’s time we redistribute the Obama around. He didn’t build that you know.
*Threat by leonadasiv reported to Secret Service*
I’d like to know more about the Asian woman in the picture who is clearly talking about getting big fake tits.
It’s my favorite day. Pay day!
Crumbs
Does anyone know the history of why people get paid weekly or bi weekly?
Shorty after the invention of money and financial accounting cash flow became a problem and staggered disbursements prevented the merchant class from having to become extended on credit.
Thank you
How do you know how tall Glitter is?
No no, I meant it in the urban sense. I’m pretty gangster, you see.
As opposed to daily or as opposed to monthly?
I am perfectly fine with monthly pay as that is my bill cycle too.
I used to get paid on the 1st and 15th. I liked that.
I have been paid that way on two jobs, and monthly on two, and now bi-weekly, which is the worst of the 3 options.
Agree. All of my bills are monthly. Getting one or two paychecks every month makes it far easier to line everything up and automate.
It is the worst for the people being paid, but the best for the company, especially if said company likes to invest its cash.
Bi weekly is two more pay checks than the 1st & 15th.
But its not more money. It just means I have to track out of phase payments.
It also means that if you budget yourself to those two paychecks per month, twice a year you a bonus check that you can spend on booze and unnecessary power tools.
what badolph said, it’s nice having two triple pay months where you can splurge on stuff
Shut your mouth! No power tool is unnecessary.
“unnecessary power tools” is an oxymoron
+2 badolph
Biweekly also means that every several years, the company has 27 pay dates instead of 26, which they have to allow for. At my school, each payday costs about $3.5M so it is a nontrivial expense.
“And yes, people were politicizing it about two minutes after it happened, blaming President Trump, Maxine Waters, Milo Yiannapolis, and a host of other people”
Is sad that the educational level of this country is such, that these explanations are the ones picked, when there are simple and better ones available.
I’d still like to know what the fuck happened in Vegas last year. That’s an odd one, that is.
I know that the fucking cops were cowards.
Footage shows cops waiting in hallway during Las Vegas massacre
I’m sure nothing much happened in those 4 1/2 minutes.
And here we have yet another shining example that demonstrates why cops are the only ones who need guns.
There is definitely something being hidden from the public, because even the gun grabbers have avoided this incident.
The cheapest tickets for the lavish bash cost $2,700, although that did not include dinner or a photo with Obama.
Thought they repealed the individual mandate.
Well, when it comes to Obama, I hear he does like to do the occasional man-date.. Happens when you are married to a Wookie that can rip off your arms if you piss her off…
Na day the way, a Maryland Senator had this to say (emphasis mine):
“Clearly we need universal background checks and need to get rid of the military style assault weapons and private ownership,”
Shotguns are “assault” weapons now. But we already knew that gun-grabbers don’t want private ownership of any modern* firearm to be legal.
*being anything post 18th century.
Do you really think they would let people keep muskets?
Considering you can do this with a flintlock, probably not.
need to get rid of the military style assault weapons and private ownership
Does he mean private ownership of weapons, or does he mean private ownership of everything? Because he says “and”
Hes probably against all private property. That’s the commie way.
Oh, and I called this yesterday. Creepy shitbird shoots up the local tabloid with a shotgun because they wrote a salacious piece about his being a creepy creeper and he lost his whackadoo lawsuit against them; local fuckhead politicians call for a ban on MILITARY STYLE FUCKING ASSAULT FUCK WEAPONS!!?!?!!!!?? Jesus H. Christ, the bodies aren’t even fucking cold and these disgusting creatures are standing atop them promoting their horrid little agenda.
Na day the way
Glad to see we’re taking the Pidgin thing back up again.
I had da seem thought
::Sloopy hangs him head in da shame::
“Clearly we need universal background checks and need to get rid of the military style assault weapons and private ownership,”
At least he’s honest?
Nobody wants to take your guns away, you paranoid lunatics!
Nope. Not your guns. First they have to declare that all firearms are property of the state so they will no longer be yours anyway. Then they will come to take back “their” guns.
Why don’t they just subpoena the damn records and hold him in contempt for not turning them over?
Feckless
cuntscongresscritters don’t show up to do the actual job of congress.To be fair, i believe they have subpoenaed the records, they just haven’t gotten around to the contempt thing yet. Which is mostly pointless anyway. What are they going to do, turn him into a frog?
I can’t keep track of all these characters. Just gonna refer to them all as Strzokenstein.
They can toss him in a jail cell.
They would collectively need to grow a pair for that, so it ain’t gonna happen.
Remember that he told them he was quite willing to sick that machine at these congress critters if they pushed him too hard. I think that is why they have backed off. This thing playing out leaves me feeling that we as individualists and believers in freedom are doomed. The people that should supposedly have a boner about their power and thus play off against the other branches when they felt said power infringed upon, seem to all have given up on anything but grandstanding.
It’s a real bad thing when the law enforcement machine not only decides which cases they will pursue and which they will take a pass on – for political reasons – but it gets real ugly when said machine can also threaten other parts of the deep state with impunity.
Only if he’s charged with criminal contempt by the very department he happens to work for. I don’t see charges forthcoming given Sessions’ abdication of his office on anything related to the matter.
I suspect Sessions has been a deep state plant from the start. If the dude really wasn’t an agent of the deep state, I think he would have asked Trump to find a candidate to replace him while preventing Rosenstein from taking over the reigns until said person was identified and able to take over. What is going on is a shameful thing.
I heven’t decided yet whether Sessions is a deep state plant or just an incompetent boob.
I am suspecting he is both.
Sessions only has and has always had one plan only. Get them dopeheads, and Trump won’t let him, so he’s decided to just sit there and get paid for doing nothing. Nice gig if you can get it.
Fuck him if this is his stupid game.
The lawsuit named Brodie by her initials, but her attorney, Anne Bremner, said Brodie wanted to be publicly identified.
Where have all the shy porn actresses gone?
They were all empowered by Stormy Daniels
Why not buy up all the land yourselves you smug pricks?
Nothing should ever change!!! And they call conservatives reactionary.
Seriously progressives want to rip out the entire modern economy under some brief that they can control the climate.
Actually they are using climate as an excuse in the hope it will give them the ability to destroy the economic model they despise because the leaders peddling this shit have convinced the retards that think this ideology can bring utopia on earth they can take down a system that rewards the very things that life’s losers feel make life unfair.
Back in the early 2000s there was a writer for the National Post who called it. She said it had nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with system change. They want to over turn capitalism.
I have not been able to locate the article.
They are in no way interested in utopia. The goal of progressive true believers is mass graves and universal misery for whomever is left.
Except for the ruling class and every one of their useful idiots think they will be one of those lucky few.
When you are stupid enough to believe in utopia on earth (I can give the people that think there is one in the afterlife, because I can’t prove otherwise), it’s not a stretch to believe despite the fact that you are a fucking tool being used, that you will be one of the lucky ones…
DAMMIT, TUNDRA! 4 minutes!
*salutes Swissy with coffee cup*
Reminds me of the people crashing a town hall in Boston’s historic North End district to prevent a Starbucks from opening. If your community is as united against chains as you’re pretending it is, it’ll be closed in 3 months.
http://www.wcvb.com/article/north-end-business-owners-confront-group-pushing-for-starbucks/21994327
“”You’re going to commemorate Italian heritage with a Starbucks in our entrance?,” Damien DiPaola said.”
Why does everything in the North End have to commemorate Italian heritage? Also, “our entrance”? You clearly don’t own it.
South Park did it.
‘‘potentially safe from inappropriate development.’’
I work in land development and I can promise you that no developer will try to build something that they think is “unnecessary” because if it is “unnecessary it won’t be profitable.
You mean private sector developer, right? Cause the public sector seems to only produce unnecessary and unprofitable shit.
Only government knows what is and what isn’t appropriate you capitalist pig.
Government must pick the winners and losers, because letting a meritocratic system do that is evil and unfair to people that produce nothing of value but still want to rake in the tax paying productive element’s cash.
China caps film stars’ pay over ‘money worship and tax evasion’
“State Capitalism”
Nobody should be able to make more money that the political aristocracy and their hand picked friends!
The 80’s says hello.
Christ. The 80’s have some ‘splaining to do. That was terrible.
Much of the 80s was. But don’t blame me. Blame people in the late 50s and early 60s who were banging in the fall.
There was plenty of great stuff in the 80’s (cocaine!!), but that video was atrocious. The tiger-striped guitar tipping back onto the cracked desert floor was retarded. If we’re gonna have wtf symbolism, how about something like this?
Still, in my opinion, a great band. Thank you.
NSFW version!
Even better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs0osMzTZQA
That lead singer looked like he raided SRV’s closet one night after a mutual binge.
The 80’s was a great time for metal.
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I expect this comment to go to moderator hell.
“Some crazy asshole shot up a newspaper in Maryland, killing five.”
Did someone mention he was a government employee? If we’re gonna point fingers…
No cause then it would be ok. (Unless everyone was Black, then we’d have an argument about racism, but no one would get charged with murder)
KC-130s will be dropping molten amber on the 4 towns, so that they may be preserved, unchanging, for all time.
Can we….Can we DO that? Please?
I mean that we be a massive tourist destination which means the tax receipts would likely outweigh the paltry taxes paid by residents. That would be sufficient cause to eminent domain the place under Kelo.
It would be ironic if the guy who got screwed was the one to do it.
Speaking of taking over a town, has anyone seen Wild Wild Country. Watched the BBC documentary the other day.
Watched it on Netflix. Thought it was really good, though it could have been a bit shorter.
Yes, I love cults. It seemed like the cult was in the right until they started trying to murder political enemies, but the politicians were changes the laws as they saw fit to get rid of the cult. Can’t say I blame the cult.
It’s pretty bad when a batshit crazy cult comes out ahead of the government in a morality contest.
Pretty bad but pretty normal.
but the politicians were changes the laws as they saw fit to get rid of the cult
And yet these mostly Christian politicians saw no parallel with the actions of the Roman empire and their own religion?
How odd.
We could fence them off so they aren’t ever hindered by tge outside world. That includes removing them from the power grid and water/sewer systems if they’re interconnected with the world that’s come out of the 18th century.
Also, this smacks of religious persecution. Didn’t the guy say he was doing it because of his Mormon faith? If the shitheels that are putting a stop to this had all of their emails on the matter subpoenaed in discovery, I’d be willing to be almost any sum of money that religious bias is what’s facilitating the whole objection, which would be a (further) violation of his rights.
It’s a shame he’s giving up.
I saw that movie. The Village by M. Night Shamalamadingdong.
Spoiler alert…..
It sucks.
Thats not a spoiler
It’s his sled. It was his sled from when he was a kid. There, I just saved you two long boobless hours
Terrible M Night Shamalamadingdong movie? Or worst M Night Shamalamadingdong movie? You decide.
The killer plant one was the worst
You underestimate the terribleness of The Happening. And just ask an Avatar the Last Airbender fan about the movie, if you have some time to kill.
Has he ever made a movie that didn’t suck?
The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable were pretty good, but you can only play the same gimmick so many times before the novelty wears off.
^^^THIS^^^
Yes. The Sixth Sense is one of the very few movies of it’s gimmick type that didn’t cheat (I’m a-lookin’ at you The Ususal Suspects and Fight Club.)
An American Pompeii
molten amber
That’s Webdom’s porno name.
She does porn? Does she escort?
Pics or it didn’t happen.
Her middle name is “molten”? That’s so metal.
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/how-trump-is-sinking-the-liberal-world-order–18495
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/28/europe-mini-trump-brexit-britain-viktor-orban
“Martin Jay is an award-winning British journalist”
Well, now we know why that article is so stupid and… well, NYT like.
Mrs. Shpip and I recently returned from a west coast trip (San DIego to Vancouver, with a stop in New Orleans to see some friends get married). Some observations:
– The Rhone varietals of Los Olivos are really quite good
– We’re pretty sure we’d found Peak California when, while driving from San Francisco to San Jose, we were passed by a Tesla, driven by a woman of indeterminate age, sporting the license plate CRZY4DP
– Rich folks in San Francisco seem to prefer the aforementioned Teslas. The financial district of Vancouver, however, is practically overrun with Porsches. I knew there was a reason I liked Vancouver.
– There may or may not be some Glibs influence in Victoria, BC.
– Seen immediately after getting off our flight at Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans, this makes perfect sense when you think about it for a second. Sounds like a natural city for a Glibs meetup.
San Diego to Vancouver via New Orleans eh? Damn.
driven by a woman of indeterminate age, sporting the license plate CRZY4DP
That’s weird because when I lived there, almost nobody at all drank Dr Pepper. In fact, I got funny looks from my friends when we’d go out and I’d grab one at a gas station. I always thought of it as much more sout-
Oh. Ooooooooh!
I thought she was crazy for displaced persons.
The Rhone varietals of Los Olivos are really quite good
Do you remember whose you tried? I was a big fan of Lane Tanner until she retired. Foxen was also excellent. Most of the others seemed to be going for that supercharged blowtorch alcohol style.
Our favorite was Zaca Mesa. We brought a bottle of their Bear Block home with us. 14.5% ABV.
That’s approaching Port.
*perks up*
“– We’re pretty sure we’d found Peak California when, while driving from San Francisco to San Jose, we were passed by a Tesla, driven by a woman of indeterminate age, sporting the license plate CRZY4DP”
Did you flag her down and offer to help?
So long Ramadan. Here’s the final
body countscorecard.The National Trust for Historic Preservation said Wednesday that it was relieved to learn that the towns were ‘‘potentially safe from inappropriate development.’’
Land of the free. Home of the brave.
I’ve been lurking here for a while, and in the spirit of not staying on topic, I’d like to weigh in. After being stuck in Dallas for missing my connection from LAX, and having now tried new things, I have to say:
Whataburger is in no way comparable in quality or price to In N Out. A double double with fries well done animal style is the holy grail of fast food.
Did you eat at an airport Whataburger? Airport food is garbage no matter what.
In all fairness, it was attached to a gas station.
There is an unfair stigma attached to gas station food.
Some gas station food is great. There is an EZ mart on my way to work that makes excellent fried gizzards and squash.
Jesus Christ Lachowsky. Eating gas station gizzards? Is it possible to be MORE Arkansas than that?
Fresh out of the fryer gizzards are amazing.
And as far as I know, a side from making them myself, gas stations are the only place to get fried gizzards.
I hear they also make some awesome sushi…
::distant banjo twang::
My wife actively searches out egg salad gas stations sandwiches. Its weird. Except at Wawa, but that’s a sandwich chain that sells gas.
That sound like someone searching for a ripe case of food poisonin’
It’s building up and maintaining an immunity to food-borne pathogens.
Ha. The last stop before the rental car return.
In all fairness, it was attached to a gas station.
The best place for Mexican food around Moody AFB is a joint affectionately known by the locals as “Gas Station Tacos”. Until I’d eaten there, I’d no idea gas station food could be so good. But for the most part it’s, uh, less than great.
We have a gas station a few minutes from our house that is known for its fried chicken – “Gas Station Chicken”. They also have about 20 craft beers on tap for tastings and growler fills. Good stuff!
KFC got started as gas station chicken too.
If it was the Whataburger in a gas station near the north entrance of the DFW airport, I can say that you probably got a decent representation of their burgers but a poor representation of their fries.
Add Shake Shack and Five Guys to that list as well. On top of which they charge about double what In-N-Out does. When I finally get the fuck out of this god forsaken state it is literally the only thing I will miss.
Where I live we have both five guys and In and out, but no Whataburger. When I was in OK I wasn’t too impressed by Whataburger. I like the other two well enough.
Don’t blame Whataburger. Blame OK. Were you impressed by anything in Mobilehoma?
/OUsucks
So Whataburger’s recipes are so fragile they can’t withstand regional variation or environment?
Sounds lame.
You didn’t fly far enough. Mos Burger does it right.
WOW. Blast from the past.
We don’t have it here, but I remember that place from my time in Singapore.
I didn’t eat there often, but I remember their stuff being just….slightly *off* in some way. Just weird. It is almost a universal truth that Asian countries should absolutely APPROPRIATE (!!!!AAAGH!) western food…but that westerners should just leave it be and don’t expect too much. They’re making it for them. Hence corn, shrimp and mayo on “pizza” here. Your fucking Pizza Wars focusing on pineapple make me chuckle.
On the other side of the coin, Asians should just accept that western Asian food…is not what they want. I think it’s very much an apt example of Separate but Equal.
The wife loves Mos Burger. I could go for some corn soup right now too.
You need to keep lurking, or stop day drinking.
Or are you trolling? Because I can see the positive attributes in a double-double. It’s a good burger. But you took it too far when you made a positive comment about In-n-Out’s French fries. Because they’re nearly inedible regardless of how much Thousand Island dressing you cover them in.
Anything you have to say about food can now be safely ignored.
Who, me? 1000 Island is fine, but using it to completely smother your fries because they’re otherwise inedible is a waste of good dressing.
I’ll repeat: In-n-Out is fine. It’s a good burger. But the test of their menu is a joke and it’s not nearly as good as a double whataburger with a side of fries and gravy.
” a side of fries and gravy.”
hell yes. Part of what makes Whataburger great is getting gravy with my fries.
The other part is being able to get a bacon double cheeseburger with pepper jack at 5:30 in the morning for breakfast.
The fries without gravy were nothing special, but will give that a go. I can see how that would make things better, much like thousand island perhaps…
Will try day drinking beforehand as well. Whatever it takes.
Also — if you don’t specify, Whataburger undercooks their fries for their customers who
are stupidlike them that way. Order your fries “crispy” or “extra crispy.”Thousand Island aka “Russian Dressing”? Sorry, but the Russians already hacked my election, I’ll be damned if their hacking my lunch.
This is crazy talk, sloops. In ‘N’ Out fries are the best.
Its okay that your tastebuds are broken. I still
respectaccept you as a person.Sounds like Tulpa talk to me.
Delurking in order to inflame the burger wars has got to earn some sort of shit-posting award. Bravo. Now do pizza.
In n out fries are shit, no matter how much you doctor them up to hide the disgusting texture. Overcooking them doesn’t make up for the fact that they’re single fried. Hiding them in a bunch of toppings doesn’t either.
Their burgers are fine. Clean and simple. It’s what I’d get if I did homemade burgers on the stove. If you’re looking to feel like you ate health food instead of fast food, in n out is your place. I prefer more flavor in my burgers, so in n out was never first choice for me.
I… I don’t care about burgers that much. Does that make me a bad person?
Compared to me? Yes.
That’s cool – I’m a libertarian, so I’m already used to being worse than Hitler.
It does lack punch around here. :/
Yes.
I 100% agree with you. Every time I’m in Texas I stop at a Whataburger because it’s all anyone can talk about. I’ve gotten a few different things, but last time I got a “Double meat Whataburger”. It was like a topping salad tossed in mustard with a thin layer of ground beef as garnish. The best thing about it was the bun. I can never understand how, in a place famous for beef, this is the most popular burger place.
The best fast food burgers are Smashburger, Five Guys, and Red Robin. Pretty much in that order.
Red Robin ≠ fast food. If you sit down and order and are waited on, I can’t count that as fast food.
Fair. Red Robin goes in the same tier as your Appleby’s and TGIF’s.
I believe the industry term is “fast casual”.
Which sounds like my social life in college.
Whataburger tastes like fast food. There’s nothing really wrong with that, they make a decent burger at a good price that’s got options like jalapeños.
Five guys and In and Out are more premium burgers. The menu is limited, and the burger is close to what it would cost to have it served in a restaurant.
Here Are The World’s Most Dangerous Countries For Women Right Now
Can I see the empirical #’s or is this just bullshit?
If the numbers are based on “self-reporting” then maybe, because even though American women are the most privileged, pampered, catered-to creatures on earth, they are constantly whining about how oppressed they are.
^^^THIS^^^
Have never met a group of people more obsessed with playing the victim to garner some benefit. Not saying they are all that way, but if they are lefties, chances are close to 100% that is their MO.
It’s literally bullshit. It was a survey to gender studies profs about their opinions about which countries where bad.
In that case, I’m impressed. I wouldn’t have expected gender studies professes to be able to list 10 countries.
They can list them, because talking about shithole countries signals your wokeness, but they wouldn’t be able to point to any of them on a map.
“Can I see the empirical #’s or is this just bullshit?”
You couldn’t understand the numbers, deplorable! / your betters, the enlightened proggies
STEVE SMITH TAKES BLAME.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation this week published its results of a survey of 550 global experts on women’s issues conducted between March 26 and May 4. The experts took into account the countries that have high rates of violence against women, a lack of economic resources, health care issues and traditions that perpetuate strict gender roles.
Oh.
So, basically things that don’t apply in the US, yet somehow the US makes the list?
It’s a survey of “experts”. The science has spoken.
“Experts” Top Men they are.
Credentialed douchebags..
We are worse than south Sudan. Let that sink in.
You have to put the US in. If you don’t, all the loudest, woe-is-me American feminists who claim to have PTSD from catcalling will stop donating.
And I let my wife leave the house! Without a gun, a trained attack dog, and flamethrowers built into her car. I’ve truly failed her.
How fucking stupid, ignorant, and deranged do you have to be to actually believe that? I can’t even imagine.
How fucked do you have to be to actually want that to be the case despite the evidence to the contrary?
If you were producing a serious report, with actual analysis and a consistent emthod, there’s no way you’d screw all your hard work up by coming up with such a ludicrous result. It would be like spending years on a thesis and then writing your conclusion in crayon.
But this isn’t a serious report – it’s attention seeking crap. They know including the US at such a high position will make headlines, and that, together with their idiot moral relativism, is why they’ve done it.
These people aren’t experts. Experts are specialists – if they’ve got any sense they don’t express an opinion on things outside of their expertise. Obviously people need to express some sort of opinion on wider issues, but the broader and more comprehensive the subject, the more likely you are to be wrong.
“The only Western country to make the list was the United States at No. 10.”
You will find the USA in the top 10 or bottom 10 of every single list like that. Why? Because all of them are compiled by progs, some even by Europrogs and nothing is more retarded than a Europrog.
Reading my news feed this morning, the existential despair on the left is palpable. The world is ending, how can we go on, etc…
The Kennedy retirement has really got their panties in a twist.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/supreme-court-is-now-trumps-and-so-we-grieve-for-america.html
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17469080/american-dream-steven-brill-inequality-poverty-tailspin
I like how they list 5 “facts” at least a few of which I know are patently false. I bet if I looked into the remainder I would also find bullshit.
TL;DR It’s only a democracy when you have total control.
Democracy means that Democrats win. I mean, it’s right there in the name!
Seems to be exactly the argument made by these people acting as if the end of times is nigh….
HuffPo had a typically cogent analysis
Would you be willing to do the same to help someone end their pregnancy? The best time to figure that out is now.
Swallow?
Since it is a state issue, you might want to lobby at that level
Just to be safe, I’ve told everyone I know to get their abortions now, before it’s too late. My mom had two last week, and I have one scheduled for next Tuesday.
*considers joke about Mom already too late…*
If Roe v. Wade is overturned, it just means that people get to vote on the legality of abortion. I thought they were in favor of democracy?
Not that kind of democracy, you dolt.
Roe is going nowhere. Trump is not anti-abortion. Jeez, if he were, he’d probably have a lot more Don Jrs. running around looking smarmy.
No, no, no, this time we really mean the sky is falling! REALLY!
Yes, of course, a SCOTUS that is somewhat more likely to adhere to the actual constitution as written is a reason to grieve for America. These people are so far up their own assess I don’t know how they manage to breathe.
I understand there’s a great market for Plexiglas navels and reconfigured snorkels.
How many times has the world ended now? Trump win; net neutrality; Kennedy retirement…. which apocalypse du jours am I missing?
It’s always good to ask a screeching prog to name one Trump policy that has caused them any personal harm.
Travel ban upheld, someone in Colorado doesn’t have to bake a cake for a gay wedding, public sector unions can’t just take money from people, some sort of deal with the Barbarian of the Norks…
Truly we are in the end times.
Maybe you can afford the $20 it costs to send an email now, but not everybody has that kind of cash laying around.
Well, then for God’s sake, just have one of your orphans hand deliver the message! It isn’t that difficult.
maybe Trump will learn the lefties a lesson about concentrating power in a singular exective.
I doubt it, but that would be nice.
It will only learn them a lesson about relinquishing such power to the other party.
Yep
Well said WTF, because that is exactly what their current behavior indicates is their conclusion…
Religious people are stupid.
https://www.zmescience.com/science/psychology-science/conservative-syndrome-religious-belief-0432432/
At least it explains socialists.
I’m always sceptical of ‘studies’ that show political/religious group is inferior/superior. But I’m just back religions dummy so what do I know.
Former President Barack Obama was in Beverly Hills, California, Thursday for a lavish DNC fundraiser at the home of a wealthy donor that included a performance by singer Christina Aguilera.
But the US’s first African American president, 56, was the real star of the show, with guests shelling out up to $100,000 for the chance to hear him speak and take part in a roundtable discussion.
I still maintain that Bill Clinton was the first African-American president. Also, I didn’t know that she was still around. Anyway, Barry continues to prove he’s a man of the people.
Bill Clinton’s upbringing, as a southern boy from Arkansas, was more in tune with traditional black American culture than Barack Obama’s upbringing was.
Barack Obama is not black in the American historical and cultural sense. He’s not from the mean streets of a poor neighborhood. He never attended an urban public school. He’s not from the rural Black Belt of the South. He’s not the child of black bureaucrats and government workers that make up a huge chunk of the black middle class. Hell, he’s not even one of the black elite, with two parents who are members of the Divine Nine.
He is the child of a Kenyan communist politician and an American leftist radical. He was raised overseas by his mother and his foreign stepfather, and when he returned to the states he attended an elite private school and then went to the Ivy League. Nothing in his life experience actually matches up with any of the traditional black American experiences, good or bad.
Um, he did attend that church with the angry preacher, doesn’t that count?
His whole purpose in attending the Church of God Damn America was to obtain some black cultural bona fides.
When he returned to “the states” it was actually Oahu north shore. He probably has a stronger internal reaction to being called “Popolo” than the “N” word.
This. Mixed-race guy who was raised by his well-to-do white grandparents in a condo in Hawaii?
Never forget it was Democrats that came up with the “one drop” laws.
“Clearly we need universal background checks and need to get rid of the military style assault weapons and private ownership,”
“Hey, look over there. A nail.”
He’s everything I hate about Maryland. There are otherwise reasonable, intelligent people today bemoaning the availability of firearms. That dude could’ve had a machete and done the same or worse. This was a long-simmering episode of crazy that came to a head yesterday. The only thing that could’ve prevented at least some of those deaths was the victims being armed themselves.
Knock out round. Gotta get you all on record. I’m going with France.
I have to say Uruguay, even though in don’t think they will make it past portugal.
Literally lol’ed at that.
Uruguay
France
Brazil
Belgium
Spain
Croatia
Switzerland
England
Then:
Uruguay
Belgium
Spain
England
Belgium
Spain
Everybody is picking Belgium. Don’t do it, Sloop.
Why not, we should all give Belgium a hand for making it this far.
Spain
OK, going out on a limb for a few of these:
Round of 16:
Portugal
France
Mexico (yep)
Belgium
Spain
Croatia
Sweden
Colombia
Quarters:
France (PKs)
Belgium
Croatia (PKs)
Sweden
Semis:
France
Croatia
El Campeon Mundial…France. You heard it here first.
OK, second. Guess I should read the original post.
Croatia over Belgium – weenie little Euro countries formerly subject to the Hapsburgs, unite! You have nothing to lose but your Brazilians! Wait, that didn’t sound right…
https://mises.org/library/menace-space-cult
Rothbard on libertarian futurism:
I bet even he could get blockquote done right.
Well this is the libertarian futurism he complained about 😉
New Michigan law limits amount of opioids doctors can prescribe
You must suffer for what we have determined to be the Good of mankind. Take pleasure in your suffering
Is it wrong of me to wish debilitatingly painful conditions on politicians who support these laws?
Yes?
Too bad.
I would say it’s entirely appropriate to wish debilitatingly painful conditions on politicians who support these laws. They are saying people should suffer in pain because someone, somewhere, might be using opioids to get high. They should get excruciating ass-cancer with nothing but Tylenol to alleviate their suffering.
Hear hear
You misspelled “brain cancer” and “a framing hammer”.
Laws are for little people. Politicians will still get their meds.
These politicians are obviously in the pocket of big heroin.
I would argue this clearly increases the likelihood of people turning to alternative painkillers like heroin.
to people who are in severe pain.
And that’s what I don’t get: We’re told to have pity on the junkies who might get addicted if opiates were sold over the counter, but we’re supposed to tell the pain sufferers to piss off and deal with it.
I don’t get why a group that is suffering through no fault of their own has to be subordinated to a group that is just making bad decisions. Pain sufferers should be able to get whatever meds they need to live a somewhat normal life, and people prone to addiction should quit (I know that’s easier said than done, but it’s actually possible, unlike going through life with severe pain that sucks the joy out of everything).
Anecdotally: I work at a mail-order pharmacy that supplies nursing homes, and I hear the pharmacists on the phone trying to explain to the nurse at a facility that we can’t send opiates because of some piddling paperwork mistake. The nurses get angry and say that the patient is screaming in pain and NEEDS the meds, but we can’t send them. Thanks, regulation!!
What? All those patients have to do is make sure that they get their prescription renewed – and filled – the exact moment that the old one expires, and that nobody in the process forgets to dot an i, cross a t, get to the mailbox five minutes late, or make any other minute mistake anywhere in the process. I mean, if they can’t do something as simple as that, they brought it on themselves really.
They’re in nursing homes and dementia care units – they’re not always in a condition to handle that stuff themselves.
I know there’s a procedure that we clearly communicate to the facility for getting these meds sent, and the doctor and nurses should have done all the paperwork correctly and in a timely fashion, but it’s just bullshit that that convoluted procedure even exists and plays a part in causing people to suffer (even if some other people made small mistakes).
Just to make sure – my comment was sarcastic and I find it horrific that people have to suffer like this in order to make sure that somebody, somewhere doesn’t engage in unapproved recreation.
My sister has undergone several neck and vertebrae surgeries recently and although nothing truly horrible happened, we had several intense moments and close calls fighting through stupid bullshit just so she could get pain medication. If it weren’t for the fact that she had a crew of SEVERAL family members who could all tag-team support and work the bureaucratic process, it would have gone much worse for her.
Haha, sorry. I tend to skim through these comments really fast, and my sarc detector is in the shop.
No worries.
DEA – This doctor has prescribed an opiod four times in one month to a patient – let’s get him!
Yep. Even when they’re pushing my patience to its absolute limit, I’m generally sympathetic with the docs. I know exactly why they have to do this.
My best friend is a doc and he won’t prescribe them anymore. He refers his patients to a pain clinic. He says it not personally worth the risk for him (and he feels like shit about it).
Just imagine what a wonderful world we’d be living in right now, if every time a pilgrim had said, “I’m going to go over that ridge up yondah and clear some land and plant food and raise animals to eat,” the rest of the villagers had banded together to save those beautiful trees and preserve the pristine viewscape.
By Gadfrey, it would be a Paradise on Earth.
Yeah, paradise, with the lack of food and all.
When your objective isn’t to have enough food for all, but to make sure it is distributed equally, even if everyone starves and most sat on their ass, you do stupid shit like this.
Would you be willing to do the same to help someone end their pregnancy?
“Come over here, to the top of the stairs. I have an idea.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Saint-Simon
Is Saint-Simon the ultimate cosmotarian?
I spent yesterday afternoon talking to a delightful retired operator engineer who was happy to spend 40 minutes at an original Edison steam to (DC!) power generator describing the early optimization process of flywheel driven DC generators, improvements in flywheel governors that let them run multiple gennys in parallel and a ton of other cool stuff. And a special thanks to my work colleagues who pretended it was okay I wasted their time with my geekiness.
Flywheels are good place to store energy.
Another idiotic court ruling out of California, this time from the state supreme court:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/06/ca-supreme-court-bullet-stamping-law-survives-despite-being-impossible-to-comply-with/
“In ruling on bullet-stamping law, California Supreme Court says state laws cannot be invalidated on the grounds that complying with them is impossible.”
How on Earth can such a ruling make any sense?
In prog land, making sense has nothing to do with it.
Given this ruling, the potential for oppressive government shenanigans is practically endless.
I bet you did not even once think of the children that can be saved by laws that are impossible to follow.
Being impossible to Comply with means it’s clear violation of 2A, if they go to SCOTUS I can’t see how it could stand.
SCOTUS doesn’t take 2A cases.
Not yet, anyway. It may very well change when Kenedy’s replacement is seated. I would love to see the bullshit in New Jersey, New York, and California get slapped down hard.
This may change. Cert only takes 4 votes, and its entirely possible Kennedy was one of the justices that sided with Heller and McDonald but wasn’t voting for cert.
I’ll throw a little grease on the burger fire. When Five Guys showed up in Bozeman, I thought I’d give ’em a try. Three strikes. I haven’t been back.
They’re not inedible, but not even closed to great. The milkshakes are pretty good, though.
I only go to five guys when I’m on vacation – and tired of spending $60-$100 for a family meal. At least I can get the burgers lettuce wrapped instead of the bun. And their fries are just there – kinda bland. They certainly don’t have the addictive quality of McDonald fries of yore.
The McD’s fries fried in beef tallow were the absolute shit and I mean that in a good way.
I have like that at 5 guys you can put on all kinds of stuff on your burger that you can’t in a lot of other places. They are a bit high on their prices for what they are.
Mooyah’s is better.
*burger flame war on*
Five Guys burgers are slightly better than Wendy’s. Their fries are borderline edible.
The best chain place in my burger-deprived area is Smashburger.
I haven’t been in a while, but Five Guys has always been hands-down the best burgers where I’ve gone. Mind you, I’ve been going since they were a very local chain, when they had like maybe five or six stores in the DC metro area, so growth might have shot the quality. Or it could just be that the O.G. stores are the best and the further you get from the burger singularity the weaker the burger signal is, or something.
Carl’s Jr. has the best milkshakes.
Judge reverses jury findings in LeGrier case; LeGrier family gets no money
Depends on the statute in IL. In FL, it would be hard to validate a wrongful death lawsuit with those conditions as “fear for one’s life” is written directly into the statute for self-defense with deadly force.
As a nation we have got to make it easier to fire judges, this is just terrible.
Um Kennedy replacement?
Fire judges? The judge ruled according to the law.
No, we need to do two things:
1: fire legislators who pass laws like this that effectively place LEOs above the law a “civilian” would have been prosecuted for and at a minimum held liable for.
2: eliminate pubsec unions that negotiate a separate justice system for their members with the politicians whose campaigns they effectively funded.
This isn’t a judge problem. This is a union/politician/equal protection problem.
Bad decision. The jury’s job is to make a finding of fact as to whether a reasonable person would have feared for their life. Absent some kind of extreme circumstance, a judge shouldn’t overturn the jury’s findings of fact.
The extreme circumstance is the Judge’s need to protect a fellow member of Team Government.
Poll Finds Gay Men And Older LGBT People Are Most Opposed To A Brown Stripe In The Pride Flag To Represent People Of Color
The gaytriarchy strikes again.
So what letter does this add to LGBTQWERTY?
There’s an underwear skid-mark joke in there somewhere.
I thought the brown was for colon cancer.
Intersectionalism is hard.
I thought Pence was going to round them all up for the death camps.
Yet this is apparently the extent of their problems
They should get excruciating ass-cancer with nothing but Tylenol to alleviate their suffering.
Exactly. The liver failure will take their minds off the pain.
John Kerry haz a sad.
“We have to strike a better balance of fairness in the minds of our fellow citizens, and only when we do that in a way that is fair — fair on immigration, fair on trade, fair on taxes, fair on all of the issues that make up the body politic of our country. That’s when we’re going to earn the right to lead and win, and that’s what we have to do,” he declared.
The “great challenge in America today,” Kerry said, is pushing back on “the increased polarization, obviously the increased populism, the nativism, the nationalism, the urges towards authoritarianism.”
“But they’re coming on the right and the left, and if we don’t recognize the similarities in anxiety and disquiet between our citizens on both sides, we will not adequately fashion the kind of consensus necessary to pull the country back together again,” he said. “So I think it’s urgent for us to begin to talk a different language ourselves at the national level, and you can’t just talk about civility, you have to show the civility and set an example for civility. And that means not getting involved. You know, when the president was Tweeting about me on the Iran deal, I did not respond on that.”
I eagerly await him to define “fair” for me. And I may be mistaken, but Trump seems like the least “authoritarian” president of my lifetime (90s child) with all his talk of deference to Congress to legislate and reduction of taxes/regulation.
“But they’re coming on the right and the left, and if we don’t recognize the similarities in anxiety and disquiet between our citizens on both sides…
A house party is only as good as the worst guest. Clean up your train wreck of a party first and toss out the nutbags. Then we can talk.
Rising crime pushes Mexico bulletproof car production to record
What would become of the glaziers if no windows were ever broken?
Pane and suffering?
What you did was not unseen.
Let’s temper our reactions.
I’m not sure I know how to frame the question
I’m telling Swiss on all of you.
I’m glazing over from all these puns.
Now you’re just being sill-y.
Anyone seen the Sicario sequel?
I am planning on seeing it.
I liked the first one, in spite of how stupid the female FBI agent was.
Given our recent insights into the FBI, I’m inclined to think that was a realistic portrayal.
I thought that was one of the best parts of the movie, honestly. It was quite believable, that an FBI drone would just go along with whatever obviously crazed bullshit was coming down from on-high, and then be dumbfounded when they discover they have played like a bitch. Ripped from the headlines, really.
“In ruling on bullet-stamping law, California Supreme Court says state laws cannot be invalidated on the grounds that complying with them is impossible.”
Since a “law” is, in actuality, a magic spell, there is no such thing as a law impossible to comply with. When the magic words are inscribed upon the magic paper, the effect is instantaneous and incontrovertible.
They should pass a balanced budget amendment then.
So hasn’t CA effectively outlawed the sale (and maybe possession?) of “new models” (whatever that means) of semi-auto firearms? But there’s no “infringement” of the right to keep and bear arms?
Ha ha! I already knew that I don’t have the right to do what I want with my own property!
How much caffeine can Starbucks (yes, yes, I know, but it’s the only place within walking distance) put into my coffee before it becomes deadly? Asking for a friend.
I think the LD50 for caffeine is equal to about 150 cups so you’re probably good.
Who are you trying to murder?
Opening your home to refugees is one powerful way to resist Trump’s immigration policy
I’d really like to think of this as a “libertarian is born” moment but I know better.
Good for them. This is how immigration should work.
Four transgender women from Honduras….
I think they’re called gay.
Yes, seems a little too perfect. Transgender women from Honduras and El Salvador?
Or they’re not as dumb as progressives think, and can read the prevailing currents in American politics. Show up at the border with a child, congratulations, you’re an honorary American. Here’s your voter card. Claim to be transgender, you’re an asylee.
agreed.
So, four biological males. The odds that they are actually transgender is vanishingly small, far less than the odds that they are lying to get an advantage in migrating to the US.
I wonder, as their sponsor, will there be any consequences for her when they disappear? Because they will, I am quite sure.
I sure hope we get some follow up reports on how this works out for Grace. Lots of stories in Europe where similar morons got their heads bashed in.
I have no problem with this.
…to seek refuge from discrimination and persecution in their native countries
Bullshit, they are economic migrants.
And they came here? Where Trump rules?
“from Central America to seek refuge from discrimination and persecution in their native countries.”
The moment they crossed the border out of their native countries they got the refuge they sought. If they went much further they were looking for more than refuge.
Well, either Mexico is a bigger shithole than anyone wants to admit and it’s just as bad as the country they came from, or they’re shopping for real estate. If you’re on a desert island and you pass on the first ship that comes by, you’re not marooned, you’re on vacation.
Mexico really is a shithole. I recently read and article about 130 candidates being murdered this election season. But let’s not mention anything about their violence and corruption.
Can’t wait for Ms. Aheron to be cited for violating a zoning ordinance she supported.
I was headed north on I-97 yesterday away from Annapolis and I knew there was something going on when about 30 cop cars were headed the other way.
I knew then that the speed traps were gone.
*smacks self for being too soon*
This is Glibertarians. There is no “too soon.”
Whew!
That’s not what she said.
Meh, sounds like her problem.
until it came out that the dude was a whack-job with a vendetta against the newspaper, some of its writers
Until? A segment this morning on CNN involved a bunch of hacks shouting questions at the president, asking why he directed that guy to go shoot reporters. (Basically.)
Everyone’s narrative got destroyed here (was a dude with a specific grudge against this specific newspaper, and he used a shotgun), but dammit they’re not going to let that get in the way.
If that was the case, he obviously shot the wrong reporters.
I was trying to slog my way through that steaming pile of tear drenched melancholia from Slate (linked above), and this occurred to me: have these people who are so distraught about their supposed oppression and mistreatment at the hands of American conservatives never heard of the internecine conflicts of central Africa? You know, like the ones where Tutsi and Hutu slaughtered each other with machetes? Would you like to talk about the hazards of being female?
I don’t think they have the vaguest notion of how good they have it.
They don’t want to know. Victimhood carries benefits.
That also applies to the perpetually aggrieved on the right.
They really don’t. Especially teh wimminz. The whole “middle to upper class white women emoting online about RESIST!!!!” annoys the shit out of me. Office prog was talking last week about ZOMG REFUGEES. She has two empty bedrooms in her big ass house because her kids are grown. Put your money where your mouth is and invite a refugee family into your home. Trade your Lexus in for a Honda and spend the difference at the ACLU. This bitch works part time for fun money basically. So her husband, who pays all the bills and fills up the 401k, he’s a big Trump guy. Her, who only works to fund her shopping habit, is still #WithHer, and literally never shuts up about it. Which is actually another annoying thing: you think if I walked up and down the halls at work yelling TAXATION IS THEFT!!!! that I wouldn’t get reprimanded?
“up and down the halls at work yelling TAXATION IS THEFT!!”
Do this. Please. As an experiment.
My wife made me a taxation is theft t-shirt. I wear it to work without any problems. Granted 90 percent of the day it is covered up by my work shirt.
You got a keeper there.
According to this totally unbiased survey, American women don’t have it too good either:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-10-most-dangerous-country-for-women-thompson-reuters-survey-amid-metoo/
We really should be ashamed.
Nice kind of humorous video on that subject by Peterson.
https://youtu.be/TaAA_jkkkpU
Mormon Church must end children’s sexual interviews, members say
That certainly explains the pornography consumption rate of Utah
I felt like I was some sort of sexual deviant or pervert for doing it.
What makes him think he isn’t?
I felt sick from anxiety and asked to leave and go to the toilet but they wouldn’t let me do that.
Well sure, you wanker.
I think the technical term for that is Kidnapping.
That’s creepy.
Interviews??
Mormons, in my experience, are wonderful people. We have Mormon neighbors and you couldn’t ask for better neighbors. They’re friendly, helpful, generous, and best of all they mind their own business. And yet….their religion is downright bizarre.
I’ve had the same experience. Never met nicer people than the Mormons I’ve encountered, but their religious practices are just downright fucking bizarre. And I say that as someone who still at least nominally considers himself a member of a religion that believes in the imminent second embodiment of a 2,000 year old dead Jew who will save the world.
I worked with a guy a few years ago on a project in Utah. He was Mormon, of course, but I noticed that every morning he had a huge bottle of Diet Coke on his desk – and he swore like a Marine top sergeant.
One morning I asked him about the Diet Coke – “aren’t you supposed to refrain from caffeine?”
His reply: “It’s really more of a guideline than a rule. Besides,” and here he put on a big grin, “I’m really not a very good fucking Mormon.”
Great guy though. Good-natured, generous, great guy to work with.
It’s possible a lot of negative press is bullshit.
“At one point during the interview I felt sick from anxiety and asked to leave and go to the toilet but they wouldn’t let me do that.”
I’ll say the same to you as I do the #metoo idiots: stop grandstanding online or on twitter about all of the horrible things that happened to you and go to the fucking police and file a report naming the individuals who detained you against your will. Otherwise, I’m inclined to believe you’re full of fucking shit.
Why should I trust an article from a Muslim website about a Christian practice?
Xenu comin’.
After the discussion yesterday, I’m going to be writing articles (i) on a review of the important cases from the Supreme Court term from a libertarian perspective, and (ii) handicapping the replacement for Kennedy. Both will be next week, last day of a fiscal quarter is super busy for me.
That’d be great. You do a good job explaining stuff to us non lawerly types.
Yes, I’m looking forward to it.
Looking forward to it!
Sounds like it should be an interesting read.
Will there be anime tiddies?
“Say it ain’t so, Ron!”
I’m guessing it ain’t. If you get paid to have sex for a living, it seems unlikely that you’d have to rape someone. When I made my living as a road musician, at the end of the night, the last thing I felt like doing was playing guitar. In fact, what I wanted most of all was quiet.
Well, a lot of times rape isn’t about sex, so I’ll wait and see.
STEVE SMITH LIKE SEX. AND BY SEX MEAN…
I have outlets in my house that need to be replaced. I know what you mean.
Haven’t touched my personal website in two years. Yep.
Leave the 120 work for the kids.
I lol’d
Did anyone talk about SCOTUS decking to look at the Silk Road case? Just curious.
Grace Aheron has never met the four transgender women from Honduras and El Salvador currently detained in a federal immigration facility in New Mexico, but she’s waiting to welcome them into her home.
This made me laugh.
I would also like to know more about “her home”. Something tells me she probably doesn’t own anything.
Interesting. If she rents, she’ll need the owners permission, I’m pretty sure. Or maybe all 5 will just get evicted.
If that was the case, he obviously shot the wrong reporters.
Not enough of them, assuredly.
Has anyone asked what Biden did to encourage the Annapolis killer? He used a shotgun, after all. And his grudge stems from 2011, under Obama’s watch. Seems like Uncle Joe owes us some answers.
Re Obama. He’s the worst.
‘At some point you’ve made enough money’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpoTSeuLffA
You will note that he did not say “At some point I’ve made enough money”
Key word being “you”.
In Obama’s defense he didn’t actually make any of that money, it was gifted.
Obama clearly hasn’t reached that point yet, as he is still raking it in.
When he was president, I disagreed with his positions, and as time passed I grew increasingly to see him as scummier and scummier, but I have to say the way he’s behaved since he left office drives me straight to hate. Think of the vitriol spewed at W during his presidency and afterwards. Did he stick around DC in order to organize a “resistance”? Nope. Did he even mention Obama’s name, or shit, even appear in front of a camera? No, no he didn’t. Whatever else can be said about the man, he packed his shit up, moved back to Texas, and had the class to keep his opinions to himself. Obama can’t do that, because he’s such a petty, narcissistic piece of shit it probably never even occurred to him.
That’s not true at all. He was quiet for at least a few weeks after the election while he was at Richard Branson’s Private Island in the South Pacific.
W has found the time to signal his NeverTrumpiness.
He can go fuck himself.
I remember reading a biography of J. R. R. Tolkien which said that at some point after “The Lord of the Rings” went big, Tolkien was in the UK’s 98% tax bracket. I mentioned this to a former roommate of mine, a Socialist, and in response he said, “I’m sorry. If you make that much money you deserve to be taxed that much.”
How the left does it. Former colleague/friend predictably acts like a backstabbing asshole in associating Peterson with Hitler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eP-s7iVNRo
Leftist projection all the way down.
That MSU recruit reminds me of the movie The Program. Omar Epps plays a running back they recruit, on his campus visit they welcome him with cheerleaders, have Halle Berry give him a campus tour and announce his entrance in an empty stadium. Then when he shows up on campus after he commits he is greeted only by two other players who call him a worm shit freshman. Here is a crappy clip you can barely hear.
The Program is such a stupid movie yet I used to love it so.
I. Huh. What?
Can a lawyer type explain how the dude sending dick pics did anything illegal as there wasn’t an actual underage person involved?
I dont understand the legal reasoning, but if that 13 year old girl you think you’re gonna get luck with turns out to be a 35 year old Male FBI agent, you’re going to prison.
Ha! FYTW Clause. Entrapment what?
Not a lawyer type, but I know a guy in prison for pedo. It was an FBI agent the whole time, of course, as I would guess it is 99% of the time, but the charges in his case were based on the fact that he was offered pics and accepted them, and then arranged a rendezvous thinking that he was meeting a young girl.
So, if I bang an 18 year old who I think is only 14, do I go to jail for statutory rape? No? Then why is texting an adult male who I think is a 14 year old girl a crime?
Preach. I’ve known the dude I’m talking about since high school, and he was a totally normal guy. Not renowned for making good decisions, but reasonably happily married, gainfully employed, and with a number of good friends who spent time with him. Apparently, what happened was he was hanging out on some porn site and a guy struck up a conversation with him in a forum or something. That led to the guy sending him pics of some girl and asking him if he wanted more, then asking if he wanted to meet up with the girl, and then when the idiot said, “Yeah, that’d be awesome”, the feds show up, confiscate his computer, and bust him for possession of child porn and solicitation of a minor. From his own admission, he willingly went along with all of it thinking in his head that he was going to hook up with a 14-year-old girl, and the way he puts it is that he was in a very, very bad place and made a huge mistake. But, for my part, I’d bet everything I own that if the feds didn’t work him absolutely nothing would’ve happened. I believe with all my heart that he was set up from the get-go.
Entrapment.
https://5newsonline.com/2018/06/28/arkansas-lawmaker-arrested-for-failing-to-pay-income-taxes/
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas lawmaker has been arrested on six felony charges after authorities said he failed to pay income taxes for several years and owes nearly $260,000 to the state.”
Aw damn it. I thought being on team government meant I didn’t have to do that any more.
Unexpected side effect of aging: I suck at road trips now. Only 9 hours in the car yesterday and I feel like I got beat with sticks today. I don’t remember feeling this beat up when I would drive 12-14 hours in a day when I was like 23.
I did a straight shot from Asheville NC back to Michigan. On four hours of sleep. It was horrible, even splitting up the driving with my wife. Next time I’ll fly.
When I was 19 I drove from Tallahassee to Lexington, Kentucky on 2 hours sleep.
I’m reasonably sure that would kill me now.
I did Madison WI to Atlanta GA leaving as it was starting to get dark in Madison, so by the time I arrived in ATL I had been up for about 28 hrs.
It wasnt a big deal. That was 25 years ago, it would kill me today.
Back when I was in radar school in Pensacola, I had just gotten back from dinner at the chow hall around 6 pm on a Friday. Been up since about 4:45 am. A kid I was friendly with despite the fact that he was an incurable fuckup came by. He had just graduated his school and needed to get back home to Winchester VA. Could I drive him there for $200?
Sure, why not? So we took off in my big ol’ Buick and rolled in Winchester 14 hours later, around 9 am. His mom let me sleep in their guest room, I think I slept for about 14 more hours. Left there in the wee hours of Sunday morning and got back to Pensacola in time for dinner on Sunday.
back to Michigan
I’ve never felt more sympathy for someone as I do for you at this moment.
You’re right, he probably had to drive through Ohio.
I have a hard time leaving this: video.
Yeah, that’s how I felt about leaving this too.
That’s hilarious.
I notice as I get older, that after a sufficiently long road trip, I’m wired afterwards and can’t sleep. When I go to Pennsylvania, I leave at night to avoid traffic. I get to wherever it is I’m going at about midnight and try to go to sleep. I can’t. That did not used to happen.
The next day I’m usually a wreck.
Exactly. I got back home close to midnight and was way too wired to sleep, so I watched Gun Jesus instead.
Forgotten Weapons?
Yeah. Turns out that listening to him answer questions for an hour puts you in the mood to sleep.
Hmm… I’ll have to try that next time I have trouble sleeping. Thanks!
I am planning a road trip vacation in a couple weeks, and am carefully planning stops so I have 6 hour driving days. Years ago I used to do Cincinnati to Vegas in 2 days about once a year. now I am taking 4 days to yellowstone…
Oh, Friedman, it’s amazing you get paid to write this mindless twaddle:
Why Are So Many Political Parties Blowing Up?
Hmmmm….what did his cabdriver in Karachi have to say about it?
Quasi?
deficit-hawk party
LOL x infinity
The U.S. Democrats are fractured between a Bernie Sanders quasi-socialist wing and a center-left wing, but are glued together for now — thank goodness — by the overriding need to defeat Trump.
And what happens when this coalition of the thieving gets pee-pee schwacked at the ballot box for having no agenda other than “FUCK DRUMPF!”?
Then they tear off the mask and finally admit that they are Marxists.
Been there, done that.
The next stop is terrorism.
Weathermen part two?
They’re too lazy for true terrorism. They’ll settle for burning down the ghettos while Cooper and Maddow cry on live TV.
“And the Brexit-loving Tories, having pushed Britain to exit the E.U. without any plan, are now divided and paralyzed over how to implement the economic suicide they’ve promised voters.”
Fuck off and die Friedman. If leaving a moribund Zollverein that’s only been in existence 25 years represents “economic suicide” then who isn’t that didn’t have any plan.
Isn’t that -> is it
Friday makes the titties even better.
http://archive.is/s2Bew
1 and 2 and I’m spent.
#2 drink Natty Light too, so you know she’s a cheap date.
I don’t care that #6 has crazy eyes. But you know, instead of going for an orgy, I will turn over a new leaf and just spend quality time with #34.
Michael Moore to put his body on the line to stop Trump.
I mean, it might work. The amount of time it would take to get a forklift to move his fat ass might very well put a crimp on Trump’s day.
mega speed bump for the battle tank he is going to try and stop.
Is Honduras going to hide behind him or something?
Huh, for someone who is so certain that the majority of Americans agree with the progressive platform, it sure seems like he left a few key planks out of it.
Forklift? I think he needs one of those cranes they use for the cargo ship containers.
Does the fat shit actually believe this? Or is it just red meat to keep the lefty rubes financing his lifestyle?
The second one.
It’s about time for another “documentary”. We got to hear about how great Cuban healthcare is. Now it’s time to hear how the US gov’t abuses migrant children.
Not Adahn, I’m catching on old threads and I saw your gun post from a few days ago on NYS gun laws. I knew NYS laws sucked, but I didn’t realize it was that bad.
RE: Ronny J.
I remember watching this several years ago and enjoying it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282856/
He seemed like a nice enough, down to Earth guy; I suppose you’d have to be that way to survive for so long in that business. I’m a little skeptical about these accusations. I unfortunately think a lot of these younger gold-digger types see this #metoo nonsense as an opportunity for shakedowns of rich men. Or not. Who knows?
One of the more memorable porn scenes I’ve ever seen was the Hedgehog fucking some girl doggy style while balancing a pizza on her ass. He proceeded to eat the entire pizza, then shoot his load. If that’s not talent I don’t know what is.
I’m skeptical of the charges too. A former roommate of mine has met Ron Jeremy a few times and had only good things to say about him.
I remember in the early 00s there was a gonzo porn site whose schtick was “Can you fill Ron Jeremy’s shoes?” They claimed to pick up random guys to see if they could perform and Ron Jeremy critiqued their performance. I remember in one trailer clip, Ron Jeremy said something along the lines of, “Guys, if you need to jerk it to stay hard for the scene, you aren’t cut out for porn.”
Hear that? He wants to end private ownership of shotguns, which is what the shooter used. Well, I hope he’s the one planning to go door-to-door and taker them away, because I can assure you the cops won’t do it (outside of a few progressive strongholds) and I can assure you his dumbass followers won’t do it after the first reports of resistance come in.
So…. what this asshole politician is saying is I need to buy more guns.
Like I said upthread and yesterday, Maryland’s legislative geniuses will take an episode involving a paranoid schizophrenic with a grudge against a newspaper that wrote a story about his stalking shooting that paper’s reporters with a shotgun and use it to pass a law introducing a complete ban on AR-15s. Imagine the stupidest, most evil, most selfish parasite of an alleged human being you can; our politicians are a half-step down from that.
Not to harp on the Capital shooting from yesterday, but this ought to put a stake through the heart of the argument that guns aren’t necessary for self-defense because you can and should depend on law enforcement. The office building where this happened is literally across the street from the Annapolis Mall. Bestgate Road is two lanes one way and two the other, and there’s a light at the intersection between it and a straight shot from the mall to this office park. County police maintain a permanent presence not just at the mall, but parked on the side of the mall closest to that office park. When the shooting got called in, apparently the first cops on the scene were there in literally one minute following dispatch, so maybe five minutes from call to cop. This was the absolute best-case scenario in terms of response time you could ever hope to have short of being attacked inside a police station, and nobody could get there in time to prevent five unarmed–and, because it bears repeating, I say again *unarmed*–people from being killed.
It won’t happen, but this should be the spur to, at a minimum, make Maryland a shall-issue state. I can’t think of a better scenario to illustrate why trying to disarm bad people is exponentially less effective in terms of preventing or mitigating crime than arming potential victims.
CNN was on at the gym and their theory is that anti-media attacks & bias led to the MD shooting.
That, along with all the MUH RUSHUH bullshit, CNN has become the InfoWars wing of the DNC.
That’s defamation… Infowars is nowhere near as bad as CNN.
Definitely self-inflicted, but I still give Trump a share of credit for having the guts to call out the MSM on their bullshit. I distinctly recall that pre-Trump, if you had the audacity to question the veracity and fairness of the unbiased MSM you were largely viewed as a tinfoil hat wearer. I think Trump made it ok for even the normies to point out that the sainted truthkeepers are, in fact, not wearing any clothes. I know that they’ll never, ever forgive him for that, and I find it hilarious that they’ve done everything they possibly could to prove his point for two solid years.
Then they are outright lying because they must have the information that shows the guy was being crazy, stalking, harassing, and nursing insane grudges starting in 2009.
Is it really lying if you didn’t actually do any research and are just assuming what you want to believe Is true?
Which is well after the Republicans started talking about the so-called “liberal media”. Check. And. Mate. EVISCERATED! #resistance
So I hear you’re running for Congress as a Dem?
Damn your superior prog logic!!
The line I’m hearing now is “Well, sure this loon has had a grudge against the paper for a long time, but why didn’t he shoot at them before? Because DRUMPF, that’s why!”
Think I’m kidding? Here is the thread at the Giants page I post at.
Points to him being a leftist, actually. Everything was – well, not fine, but good enough to keep him from killing back when Obama was president. Now that a republican is in office, he snapped and got his murder on.
Basically, that talking point reads as though their ideology makes some of them commit murder. Are they sure they want to go with that?
Of course. I mean, what they’re either missing or deliberately ignoring is that the Capital is sort of known for, shall we say bush league reporting, and it has a long and storied history of borderline hit-pieces written at the level of a high school newspaper. It’s known for, frankly, a left bias, terrible writing, and lazy reporting. If you look at Gilmore’s link from last night to the court docs from the nutjob’s suit against the paper the text of the article is included, and it reads like Buzzfeed but without the talent. So, you’ve got a paper whose editorial policy is to try desperately to get attention writing an article about a person who has clearly taken several steps down the road to Crazy Town, and then you throw the Anne Arundel County judiciary into the mix, about whom the less said the better. And IIRC all this went down before Trump.
^this is a good point which i didn’t really highlight, and which you clearly grasp better than i could
Even while Ramos is obviously a batshit freak….
the impression you get from the story included in the defamation suit is that the Gazette basically jumped on the guy with both feet, for no other reason than they simply could. Its like doing a hit-piece on the local village idiot. ffs, it was titled, “Jarrod wants to be your friend”. Its not particularly hard to see why “crazy obsessive guy” might take that personally.
Yeah, I mean, I’m not saying this to justify the guy murdering people in cold blood, but The Crapital, as it is colloquially known, has a reputation for being basically amateurish yellow journalism mixed with articles about some old lady’s beloved Labradoodle. They routinely poke various bears partly because they want attention and partly because the very small staff trends a certain direction politically. Hillary Clinton could’ve been president and this would’ve gone down exactly the same.
The U.S. Democrats are fractured between a Bernie Sanders quasi-socialist wing and a center-left wing, but are glued together for now — thank goodness — by the overriding need to defeat Trump.
Let the hate flow through you.
They’re too lazy for true terrorism. They’ll settle for burning down the ghettos while Cooper and Maddow cry on live TV.
“Look what Trump made them do!”
Don’t know if this has been linked already at some point (I’d be surprised if not), but I actually find it a bit amusing.
http://archive.is/ZpDJb
Note to all feminists/SJWs/progs/DemOpMedia hacks: please keep this up. Please break the outrage-insanity knob trying to turn it past 11. It’s working so well for you.
TW: WaPo. I use archive because I refuse to give them any traffic.
50 years since the commercial publication of the “SCUM Manifesto”.
You know who else burned books?
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/25/623184440/little-house-on-the-controversy-laura-ingalls-wilders-name-removed-from-book-awa
Lt Col Bill Kilgore
Oh, books. Nevermind then.
AmericansThe people I talk to are very liberal. They take the liberal position on most issues. They believe women should be paid same as men, they believe there is climate change, they don’t believe people should be thrown in jail for smoking marijuana.“I like people who agree with me. They make me feel smart.”
It reads like someone who realized that open, unapologetic contempt for middle-Americans isn’t a path to electoral victory.
“I know those dumb rubes secretly think like I do, or at least enough of them to install our next Democrat president.”
STEVE SMITH HAVE A SAD.
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/sasquatch-music-festival-is-calling-it-quits/
CRIES OF VICTIMS ARE ONLY MUSIC I NEED.
STEVE AM MASTER MUSICIAN OF ORGAN.
HIM CAN PLAY THE FUCK OUT OF IT.
NOT WORK BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH RAPE LIKE WOODSTOCK.
Next Glibs meetup?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/713065/swingfields-sex-festival-2018-swingers-orgy-malvern-gloucestershire-uk-news
Is going stag to an orgy considered uncouth, like showing up to potluck empty-handed?
Yes. Many won’t allow single men at all.
FINE. I’ll start my own orgy, with blackjack. And hookers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rkAjnFB1g4
This one, apparently, allows unaccompanied men but they have to pay extra.
I didn’t read the article. I guess I should have.
Yes, some will allow single men but only if they pay. And pay lots of money.
Just have commodious identify as a woman and go with you and you guys are home free!
Is it true nudity if I wear a merkin?
As far as I can tell, most swingers are the type of people you don’t want to see without clothing. See: nude beaches or nudists.
There are, of course, exceptions.
“Most of the women, I decided, would have looked better in clothes, preferably togas. If this was what the preachers had been worried about all these years, then they had been barking up the wrong tree…The total effect was depressing. That was my first impression–but before I got to my destination even that had worn off. Ugly bodies weren’t any more noticeable than ugly taxicabs; the eye discounted them automatically. And so it appeared with everyone else, too; those on the streets seemed to have acquired utter indifference.”
Whatever that’s quoted from, it sounds like I need to read/watch it.
You call yourself a libertarian!? * tears up membership card *
(RAH, ‘The Puppet Masters’. Great book).
*sits in shame corner*
Heinlein, “Puppet Masters”: sorry I misled you.
All the bad teeth….
*shudders*
Blow job Russian roulette.
Only there are bullets in every chamber.
Gloucestershire, England?
PASS.
Starting to think maybe I did fuck up my foot the other night and shouldn’t be hobbling around waiting to quit hurting.
Look up “freak accident” in the dictionary and you’ll find a picture of this girl.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/world-cup-2018/6657677/brazil-football-fan-dies-celebrating-world-cup-2018-serbia-victory/
Like a scene from Final Destination. Grisly.
Sad.
Like John Cusack in The Grifters.
That’s a deeply fucked up movie. I love it.
Anjelica Huston is creepy AF. I’d be fine with never seeing her in another movie again.
I really liked her work in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Manhattan Murder Mystery.
TOS has an erection over “libertarian” Polis.
https://reason.com/blog/2018/06/27/jared-polis-races-leftward-to-snag-color
That they ever called him libertarian is embarrassing.
It’s been a while since I’ve been to ToS – commentator quality has dropped fer sure.
When you put the ball in the gutter on occasion, it can be attributed to an off day or a lack of experience. When nearly every ball you throw ends up in the gutter, maybe you don’t get the point of the game.
I never realized what a huge Stevie Nicks fan Don Dokken was.
Dad brag incoming…
Son is getting ready to perform on the Wanamaker organ at the Philadelphia Macy’s as part of the intensive organ camp he’s participated in this week.
He’s gotten his first taste of real musical competition this week. We’ll see how he reacts, these kids are incredible (all 5 of them).
https://imgur.com/a/uEkRou9
That organ is impressive. I’ve never seen it in person, but I’ve seen videos of it.
Missed the Ron Jeremy thread?
That’s cool! What got him into playing organ?
He was invited to do it a couple of years ago by a local music professor at William and Mary after he heard him playing a self arranged Brahms piece on the piano.
Awesome!
Obligatory. But, he’s probably already picked tune.
Thanks for posting, saved me the trouble.
Toccata and Fugue FTW
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 or GTFO!
La Jetee by Yann Tiersen!
Three points:
1) Gerrymandering sucks no matter who’s doing it.
2) Dems are retarded for not understanding that their policies and messaging have increasingly limited their appeal to urban enclaves.
3) How the fuck can Senate seats be “gerrymandered”? I thought these guys were supposed to be all mathy n’ smart n’ shit.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-congressional-map-is-historically-biased-toward-the-gop/
They’re gerrymandered by state borders. California should have, like, eighty senators while Utah should have maybe two. Maybe.
Translation: Democrats are not winning every single election
It’s OK when they do it, bad when the other guy does it. We get it.
Over at DU, they are going nuts over their latest hero, She Guevara. It’s almost impossible to believe that site is not a parody site. Most of the comments about their latest hero are a lot like the comments over their last heroes, Mueller, the ho, John McCain, anyone who says anything negative about Trump. It goes something like ‘YOU’VE HAD IT NOW, DOTARD!’. They were doomed the moment it was announced that Kennedy is retiring, but now they’re suddenly on the verge of victory because some commie chick wins a primary in a deep blue NY district and she’s going to take down Trump.
I saw a Google news headline from some news source that her mom says she wants to be president. Good luck with that.
TBF, your mom probably wanted you to be president, too. It’s not an uncommon (low-level) desire. Or maybe a doctor, or a lawyer. And maybe you could marry that nice Miller girl from down the street…
Sorry, I wasn’t keeping the pronouns straight. She Guevara wants to be president.
https://nypost.com/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-wants-to-be-president-mom-says/
any volunteers for a quick dig through research? i’m trying to find the study that determined there have been between 100,000 and 250,000 self-induced abortions since Texas passed HB2 (ambulatory surgical center standards) that resulted in half the abortion clinics in TX closing.
i emailed the UT folks and they sent me this link:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/txpep/_files/pdf/TxPEP-Research-Brief-WomensExperiences.pdf
guess i’m missing the extrapolation somewhere.
i searched through several studies at their main publication page with no luck before contacting them. that estimated number of self-induced abortions can’t be bullshit, can it?
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/txpep/Publications/publications.php
No matter what study you’re talking about, I can find 3 that completely contradict it. Coffee is good for you, coffee is bad for you, blahblahblah.
83% of all statistics are simply made up.
67% of people know that.
100,000 and 250,000 self-induced abortions since Texas passed HB2
What’s a “self-induced abortion”? I work in a hospital and I’ve never heard that term before.
Texas passed HB2 in 2013, I think. Probably went into effect in 2014(?). Let’s just say 5 years, so they are claiming between 20,000 and 50,000 “self-induced” abortions a year. Query: if the abortions are “self-induced”, how do they show up in anyone’s statistics?
SHUT UP PEASANT YOU WANT WOMEN STRIPPED OF HUMANITY AND PUT IN BREEDING FARMS
+1 Prime Cut (the movie)
Quick glance at the study shows that “self-induced abortions” are mostly medical abortions done with the same drug that medical abortions are done with by prescription. They just went to Mexico to get the exact same drug without a prescription.
exactly. most are with the abortion drug in Mexico, but they also have that category of “herbs…” and other witchcraft that were unsuccessful. if they’re counting them as well, which is likely, then this 100K-250K stat is really shaping up to be garbage.
but i’m really just looking for the 100k-250k range quoted somewhere in their published studies. still no luck. going to bail on it.
thanks for checking!
how do they show up in anyone’s statistics?
well that’s mostly what i was after. what methodology were they using to reach that estimate.
here’s one of the footnotes from the TxPEP study citing another TxPEP “article” published in 2013. again, no 100K-250K estimate..
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418533/
i’m beginning to think it’s all bullshit.
I think they did surveys, for what that’s worth. And then “extrapolated”, for what that’s worth.