It’s tough being on the weekend beat- all the good news stuff happens on weekdays, and what I’m left with is the sad remnants. What’s worse, I’m trapped inside all weekend (heat indexes here at 115, with no letup), and we had an unfortunate discovery yesterday. No, not SP’s first period (though sadly, that day is inevitable and I’ll have to trade her in), but something more pungent. Our dog was at the back door going crazy- generally, this means that one of her nemeses is within sight, either rabbits (“THESE NEED CHASING BECAUSE THEY’RE HOPPY!”) or robins (“FUCK SWISS, THESE ARE TRULY THE HATE BIRDS”). Indeed, when I looked, I saw both. But I also saw… a skunk. Which has made an appearance now and then, but this time, it had an entourage. At least three skunks in a gang, maybe more, big ones for the species, and of course, any red-blooded American dog wants to chase them. Unfortunately, our dog is large enough and furry enough that there is not enough tomato juice on this planet to fix the inevitable problem. Suggestions on humane ways of discouraging this cluster of mercaptans from congregating here will be received gratefully.
Anyway, today is the 88th birthday of notorious race-traitor Thomas Sowell, whose book Knowledge and Decisions may be the catalyst that tipped me over from being a ’60s liberal to being a libertarian. Happy Birthday, Dr. Sowell!
And in the news:
Florida Man has his own animal problems to deal with.
DeVita even pulled an iguana out of her toilet after it latched on to a plunger a few years ago. “In one of my bathrooms, my roommate kept hearing something in his toilet and saw something poking its head out,” she says. “It was very aggressive.”
My suggestion: import a bunch of Chinese, equip them with nets and woks, and the problem will take care of itself.
I wonder if iguanas had something to do with this, which locked a bunch of us out of Glibertarians.com for several hours yesterday.
Some customers took to social media to discuss the outages, saying they were having trouble getting through the company’s phones and online chats. Comcast, on Twitter, directed customers to an internal website that was at one point down as well, eliciting a second round of customer complaints.
See, the worst thing here is that it’s not even a sports-related death. That would require, you know, an actual sport, not “Third World Knee Clutching and Rolling on the Ground.”
Ms Maiochi, who was single, posted a photo on her Facebook page on May 31 of herself holding a glass of wine. And in her last written post she had shared a video warning about the risks of using a mobile phone while driving, writing: “We never imagine that something like this can happen to us. But accidents do happen.”
Isn’t this a theme on PornHub?
A twisted dad made his 11-year-old son have sex with his step mother because he was worried he might be gay, a court heard today. The judge at Reading Crown Court sentenced the father to six years behind bars for child cruelty and indecent acts with a child.
I know I’m not supposed to laugh at this, but… I laughed at this.
He was allowed to walk away despite a 2015 Wisconsin law banning people from knowingly installing devices to record under other people’s clothing without their consent.
So the explosion couldn’t have been THAT big.
Trump is often incoherent. Pelosi says, “Hold my beer.”
“120, 130, 125, 130 million Americans have pre-existing conditions.”
Old Guy Music. Fuck it, that was the best incarnation of this band and if you’re going to live in the past, do it right. I can’t tell you how many times I whipped out my flute and ran through this one with my old band. A neighbor and buddy who is a terrific session guy and does bar gigs on the side has asked me to sit in on a song or two, and if I can convince him to do this one and I have some drinks in me, well, I might. Bonus: there’s a short bit at the end from a TV show. Guess who the guitarist is.
“120, 130, 125, 130 million Americans have pre-existing conditions.”
That’s a lowball estimate. Being alive is a pre-existing condition.
Does that prove there’s reincarnation?
Pelosi is going to get replaced by some 28 year old Marxist anyway, who cares?
I don’t know if that is good or bad. On the one hand the mask is off. On the other I don’t trust my fellow Americans to understand the horrors of socialism.
Hopefully they’ll figure it out by the time we get to the “wheelbarrows of cash” stage.
I always wanted to be a millionaire!
Good news, you’ll be a trillionaire.
No way, everyone on this site will be getting to work on our concentration and enjoying camp long before the hyper inflation stage.
Losing the seniority means different people on the committees too – so maybe room for some common sense in different areas.
Fun fact, I got to explain what gulags were to my friend who likes the idea of socialism.
If you are a grown ass adult and don’t know what a gulag is, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote. And it really speaks to how shitty public schools are.
A common talking point among socialists is that the USSR was “years ahead of the US on women’s rights”.
Maybe you can also give him the tidbit that a standard punishment for women – if they weren’t chosen to be sex slaves for gulag officers – was to be put in a cell with a bunch of male criminals.
One of the greatest injustices of the modern era was that so many of these Soviet animals got to retire fat and happy since the USSR was never defeated like Nazi Germany was.
The real question is – when they learned about Gulags, were they horrified, or eager?
They never, ever consider the notion that they may be the ones in the gulag – or against the wall.
“That sounds like a great place to put those stupid Rethug Drumpftards to keep them away from all us smart normal people!”
That Comcast link reminds me that I need to check if I can get ATT at my new place.
Fuck Comcast.
My last Comcast outage was the Comcast guy disconnecting the entire apartment building instead of one apartment.
Little known fact, Comcast is fully unionized.
Uhh….?
I tried hiring Comcast. They never showed up for 2 appointments so I canceled before ever paying the first bill. Worst customer service I’ve ever seen.
In the ’90s, I was in charge of a national program that allowed our company’s business travelers to call local dialup numbers and save tons on access charges. Train derailments would always end up cutting important fiber links and my team would get hundreds of angry calls on why the remote access stuff wasn’t working.
Fucking trains!
“In my religion, spiritism, I believe that everything happens for a reason.”
Somebody fill me in, is spiritism the new New Agers or is it worshipping ghosts?
I also like the possessive form. It’s MY religion, you can’t have it!
Well, since it seems to be somewhat free-form I’m going to label it as having special reverence for spirits, the bottled type in particular.
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
You don’t get what you deserve. You just get what you get.
The reason is the universe likes to see you suffer, just because.
Shit happens. ?
The universe hates life, we just won’t take the hint.
But if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.
“One wants to cry out: Hell no, you can’t! But Republicans can. They have the votes. Democrats can and should fight, but the GOP controls the schedule, sets the rules and already eliminated the procedures that gave the minority a say in Supreme Court confirmations.”
Guess the moron.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/an-explosion-is-coming/2018/06/29/c3301b66-7ba2-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html
Senate the confirmation of the decisive fifth hard-right justice on the Supreme Court, quite likely signaling the end of legal abortion in much of the United States and possibly same-sex marriage and other rights Americans embrace, in far greater number, than they ever did Obamacare.
Oh, ffs.
I can’t guess it’s pay walled.
Click. Hit escape quickly before the paywall can load.
Byline will show up before the pop-up appears.
Dana Milbank
Who was the group 9 or 10 years ago saying “Yes, we can!”?
Elections have consequences. – B.H.O.
Sorry to hear about your new visitors. That stinks….
*narrows gaze*
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Beyond that, Kennedy, always a conservative, has been moving right since the advent of Barack Obama. That president, and his signature health-care statute, alarmed a lot of old-style conservatives. They regarded Obama as (as Alexander Hamilton described Aaron Burr) an “embryo-Caesar.” America, they sincerely thought, was becoming a collectivist nightmare of big government.
If Kennedy felt that way, it would explain the testy and contemptuous tone that pervaded his bench conduct during Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. The case tested the ability of state legislatures to authorize public-sector unions to collect “agency fees” from non-members they are required to represent. At argument in February, this courtliest justice quite uncharacteristically lost his temper with a lawyer defending the state’s “partnership” with unions “It can be a partner with you in advocating for a greater size workforce, against privatization, against merit promotion, against—for teacher tenure, for higher wages, for massive government, for increasing bonded indebtedness, for increasing taxes?” The moment was entirely improper, and revealing.
Kennedy is no friend of the liberal. He’s a monster. And it’s all the Republikkkins’ fault. Or something.
Kennedy was his own best fan, “bringing order to disorder”. Any opinions he had that were preferable to small government types were simply coincidence.
LOL, crazy talk. Helping to hinder the honest partnership between public sector unions and the Democrats against the taxpayer was literally worse than Hitler.
Enough already, put up or shut up.
“Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office is asking a federal court to continue postponing setting a sentencing hearing for Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty last year to a felony count of making false statements in the course of an FBI investigation into potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/special-counsel-sentencing-hearing-michael-flynn-688035
Straight up delusional.
Don’t believe me? Feast your eyes on this:
No, don’t laugh at the “support of a plurality of the public” part…. keep reading….
Yeah, that’s it. I seem to remember something different.
Does “elections have consequences” ring a bell?
Heck, Pelosi didn’t even solicit the participation of the legislators in her own party, including herself. “We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it…” At midnight. With a couple hours notice to digest a couple thousand pages….
HA! What a hack!
There is a whole lot more full-on whack-a-loon stuff in there. But here’s the closer:
That’s right. Trump getting to nominate a second supreme court justice is the final blow of the racist Nazi party. So calling for violence in the streets is totally justified…
Threading fail. Belongs on Washington post article.
minority-rule government protecting the rich over everybody else
For fucks sake…
Without reading the article, I’m betting the writer ignored the fact that Obama administration explicitly lied to sell the Affordable Care Act — including the part where it would be affordable.
I kept my doctor (‘s address in my Rolodex)
something something speedy trial something. or did I just imagine that shit.
Justice delayed is justice FBI’ed.
An iguana ate my mother in laws poinsettia. They are teaching my 2 year old nephew to hate them and chase them away.
Teach him the same for bunnies then send him over to my garden.
They are out of control this year. I have burrows all along my sea wall. This hasn’t happened in the 13 years I’ve lived in this house.
They are literally everywhere. It is like an explosion of little green monsters.
And you couldn’t have flowers before this explosion. Nobody told me when I bought the house – so I went down to Home Depot and picked up a bunch of flats of annuals like impatiens and marigolds. They were half gone the first night. The next day I came home from work to find a couple happily munching on the last stems. They ate over a hundred bucks worth of flowers in a little over a day. Greedy little bugger was just sitting there with purple and red flower stains all over his face.
And you can’t just shoot them. No… you gotta call a “professional”. sheesh.
Invasive species, ham stringing the natives, liberal government. Where else have I seen this…
Good News, Cato. You can kill them!
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-sb-iguana-handling-issues-20180131-story.html
Cyto. Stupid autocorrect
yeah, unfortunately I think even CO2 pellet guns count as “discharging weapons” in my city.
Not totally sure about that. But my neighbor doesn’t worry about that. And he has this notion that hedges stop pellets. So he’s shot out my front window twice, and hit my cars a half dozen times.
I didn’t figure out it was him until I was doing yard work and a couple of shots whizzed near my head. He’s 60 and a lawyer, so I just didn’t suspect that he had no clue about taking care with weapons. I figured it was teenagers goofing around. Anyway, we had a talk about it…. So now nobody on our street shoots them. That may be about to change though…. I’m not cool with digging up my sea wall. Dog sized poop on the dock I could handle, but undermining the only thing holding my house up? Yeah, not cool.
Can you gas them? It works really well for my mole colony that shows up every 3 years or so. I use a product called Giant Destroyer.
Plus, no carcass disposal.
You know who else made use of gas?
Tell the local rednecks they’re good to eat. That will solve the problem. They’ll all be gone in a year, two tops.
The moment was entirely improper, and revealing.
Revealing, as in, he’s not supposed to pull the curtain back, I guess.
“When you coming home, son?” “I don’t know when”
But we’ll get together then, dad
We’re gonna have a good time then
Or
“Oh, take your time, don’t live too fast
Troubles will come and they will pass
You’ll find a woman and you’ll find love
And don’t forget, son, there is someone up above”
“He landed as an only son
His mother and father said what a lovely boy
We’ll teach him what we learned
Ah yes just what we learned”
After Scalia’s death, Senate Republicans, with the backing of advocacy groups and billionaire donors, changed forever the rules of judicial appointments. Confronted with a highly qualified, popular, centrist, and conciliatory nominee, they simply refused to allow the vacancy to be filled, and they did so explicitly to politicize the court. From a constitutional point of view, this maneuver was not simply cynical but nihilistic—a direct, conscious attack on the powers of both the executive and the judicial branch.
Not doing what we want is nihilism.
Dissent is, in fact, treason.
He conveniently forgets it was Reid that changed the rules.
Muh Garland
I’d like to see Trump nominate Merrick Garland just to see the left #resist just because Trump’s doing it.
That would be hilarious.
You will like this new meme then.
Senate Republicans … changed forever the rules of judicial appointments
Harry Reid is a Republican?
Forget it, he’s rolling.
They all know that they won’t ever get called out for blatantly lying about this shit.
paging westernsloper:
A couple nights ago my X-box uno dropped the wifi connection and wont reconnect. (I only use for streaming movies and the occasional DVD) I tried rebooting the router (which is the fiber router the mofos installed when the installed it all) and I have no idea how to even access the damn thing and the xbox says maybe it is blocking the mac address whatever that is.
Blocking MAC addresses is something you have to intentionally configure on the router. Most of the ones I’ve had, it’s actually a whitelist, so you put in the addresses for your devices and then those are the only network adapters that can connect to your router.
How old is the Xbox? Could just be hardware failure. Try ordering the external wifi adapter for it, see if that works, or just spend $100 and get a firestick and a dvd player.
To access your router, put “192.168.1.1” in your browser, then look on the router for the login info, then, don’t touch anything because you’ll probably break something.
oh, and, to clarify, when I said firestick, i meant, any of the similar products that are not from amazon. Recent update on my firetv box broke the sleep function, so now when I pause something, i hear it unpause from the kitchen after the fall-asleep period passes. At least it used to just be a bitch about unpausing after waking up, endlessly spinning the loading indicator until i backout and Resume from the title menu.
Can’t get fucking Pause right. This was the last straw, after they switched the thumbnails from portrait to landscape. Hey, now it fits more rows on screen….except I do all the scrolling horizontally, through the rows, to browse the categories. Portrait thumbnails fit more titles on the screen at once, allowing me to consider more titles before having to scroll again. But you know what’s really great, is trying to scroll through the row, and having it jump back to the begining / back 10 titles everytime you stop scrolling.
Then there was a few weeks back when an update to Amazon Music caused it to activate Shuffle when you start any track from the Recents tab. Find the same song under My Music, play, no shuffle. Play it from Recents, shuffle. Turn shuffle off, play another track from recents, shuffle back on. I actually complained, and the supportfucker tried to claim that was a new feature. A feature that vanished a week later with another update. That’s taking the whole “it’s a feature not a bug” joke way too far.
It’s not just amazon though, pretty much every software development department these days seems to be run by the dumbest shitbrained motherfuckers ever to design a UI. My S7 got android 8 recently, now my work email no longer syncs what’s been read, so i have to mark everything read twice. And they updated the Camera app….by removing the orientation indicator, and STILL NOT ADDING AN OPTION TO RECORD WITHOUT THE MIC ON. And why doesn’t Edge open PDFs zoomed to fit the window? Then I have to hover around to make the zoom button appear, get the content the right size, then finagle with the now virtually non-existant window border to tighten it up so I can fit another window onscreen. Great, let’s hide/obscure/minimize the UI elements, then open it retardedly overzoomed. Oh, and definitely don’t make a product named “Edge” so that it’s compatible with your new edge-of-screen window management scheme, it’s not like it’s right in the name or anything.
16 fucking software updates a day, and it’s one step forward and 15 back.
Heads. Out. Of. Asses. Please. Or else I’m giving up and moving to the woods with STEVE SMITH.
Nice rant!
Ok thanks.
Blocking MAC addresses is something you have to intentionally configure on the router.
That is what I thought, and hence my question of being hacked by the Russians. I will fiddle with it today sometime. The Xbox One is maybe five years old(?). The same age as the Onkyo receiver that gave up the ghost a few months ago. I bought them as a self gift at Christmas back when I had disposable income.
I assume the xbox will still play DVD/Blue Rays it just won’t connect to the internet. I have a Roku still in the box somewhere around here that was a free gift for signing up for some porn site I don’t remember from again, back when I had disposable income. If I can’t get the xbox to connect maybe I will dig that thing out.
I’m getting a little paranoid. My original Xbox and Gamecubes are boxed right now (although I assume they should be good). I just lent my folks a 14 year old DVD player (region-free) that appears to still be fine. My Xbox 360 and connected HD-DVD player now 10+ years old each (and hanging on – even if I had to get the RROD bug repaired a few years ago). Probably gonna need to ebay a Toshiba HD-DVD player for emergency back-up soon – unless I want to dump and re-buy a stack of excellent HD flicks.
My Onkyo receiver is definitely on it’s last legs though – as discussed last year – only one throughput is currently working (but successfully split).
Don’t really want to replace piecemeal or all at one time either – but it might not be a bad time to consolidate some stuff as well since I”ve got everything spread so much around the townhouse.
quite likely signaling the end of legal abortion in much of the United States and possibly same-sex marriage and other rights Americans embrace, in far greater number, than they ever did Obamacare.
Pack your bags. Your train will be here shortly.
Obama wasn’t after our guns, but trump is totally after your abortions. Party of Science!
The man, 32, decided to turn himself into police after conferring with his mentor, a clergyman, about what had happened.
Don’t judge him until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes.
If only there was some easier method of getting upskirt photos like google image.
When I got home from work my wife was watching “Grace & Frankie” I caught the end of the show. I guess the gimmick is one is a stuck up conservative & the other a hippy. Anyways evidently the conservative has a gun and the lib freaked out and left. At the end the con says “I thought you were supposed to be tolerant and open minded” the lib says “ok why do you need a gun?” Con “I was scared and alone” lib “well you have me now, so you can get rid of the gun” con “sure, of course you’re right.”
Next episode: hippy burning incense and casting spells to rid the house of negative gun energy.
*sigh* so brave.
That sounds like torture.
I’m slowly trying to extract my wife from all media. I cut cable to the minimum and will be cancelling at the end of the contract. Next on the chopping block is Netflix, but it’s like a drug. You have to ween the junkie off.
Didn’t Dharma and Greg do that 20 years ago?
My thoughts exactly, but these are 2 washed up old hacks. At least Jenna Elfman was easy on the eyes.
Not sure how much longer Pelosi will last.
Got into an argument today with some friends. Japan was losing 1-0 with ten minutes left to play. They obviously heard the news that Columbia was beating Senegal 1-0 with about the same amount of time left, so they went into full stall tactics. They accepted they’d lose the game, but make it to the knockout round. My position is that if you’re going to call yourself “Samurai Blue”, go down swinging and go for the goal even if that means you give up one and get knocked out. I’d have respected the hell out of a decision like that and think many other would have, too. What do you think? It’s like Michelson going for the green instead of laying up and taking the two. I love that kind of “fuck it, I’m not here to tie” attitude.
I think WW2 finally disabused them of the notion that they are descendants of the gods.
I don’t think I’ve heard that but most of those stupid nicknames are pushed by the media, not the teams.
Have to respectfully disagree with your tactics of radically increasing the chances of getting knocked out of the tournament. If that happened they wouldn’t hear the end of it.
Agreed that they’d catch holy hell if they went for the tie or win. Just saying that I’d like to see it.
And now a word from the Ministry of Truth
Contrary to the superficial glosses that have circulated since November 2016, most members of the white-working class actually voted for Hillary Clinton, according to a poll by The Atlantic and the Public Religion Research Institute. The truly poor voted for the Democrat. The people who voted for Trump are not those with no economic status—it is those who are worried they could lose the status they already hold.
As my colleague Olga Khazan reported, Trump voters had a “desire for their group to be dominant… Trump supporters were also more likely than Clinton voters to feel that ‘the American way of life is threatened,’ and that high-status groups, like men, Christians, and whites, are discriminated against.”
Let’s rewrite history. What could go wrong?
Fight from your knees, not your back. Unless you’re mattress girl.
“High-status groups”.
JFC. Keep that shit up and shrug your shoulders when poor whites (they exist!) continue to not vote for your shitty leftists.
So lets see, unless something changes you think you are going to lose your status. And the author thinks you should have voted for the person who wants to keep things going the way they are, in other words, you should vote to lose your status.
I thought you were supposed to vote for your “best interests”? Isn’t keeping your status in your “best interest”?
The truly poor voted for the Democrat. The people who voted for Trump are not those with no economic status—it is those who are worried they could lose the status they already hold.
So those that suck government benefits and don’t work vote for the free shit party and ones who work for their own betterment don’t? Color me shocked.
Guess who the guitarist is.
Tony Iommi?
Got it!
Left handed player narrowed it down a lot!
Great song choice, btw.
Sitting in the airport, waiting to fly home. If you’re ever in Vancouver, and looking for a restaurant, try Wildebeest. Really good.
WesternSloper, the smoked olives are green. They said they cold smoke them for 25 minutes, then vacuum sealed with brine. OMG! I need a vacuum sealer.
This is intriguing and I love green olives. Not the whatcha call it greek olives that taste like ass, but green with pimentos as god intended and go in a martini. I might give that a try. Any mention of how long they left them vacuum sealed prior to serving?
Alright all, I’m off for a week. Take care of the place while I’m gone, and I expect at least one wild party. But you’re paying for the repairs.
Wild party? Time for Garlic Salt.
Are those like bath salts?
Bye! Have fun storming the castle!
That won’t work, then you’d have to import gorillas to chase of the chinese, and Florida doesn’t get winters!
*looks around*
They do breed like rabbits, don’t they.
Iguana is part of the regular menu in most of Central America, so importing chinese shouldn’t be necessary. Just allow harvesting of wild populations by those immigrants already here…but of course that’s icky (salmonella!! E Coli!! or something!!) and the local governments would never allow it.
Over on my coast, we have some barrier islands (Cayo Costa for one) where iguanas have been plentiful for years. In addition to eating flowers, they like to climb into your attic and make a nice comfy nest by tearing up and rearranging your insulation.
We used to have a pet iguana. He loved hibiscus flowers. Lived to the age of 13, and then died the night before the Super Bowl.
Guess we know what appetizers you served during the game
I told everyone it was chicken tenders. They loved it.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kwj7/i-watched-the-simpsons-for-the-first-time-ever-and-i-couldnt-stand-it
Insufferable girl says insufferable things
I think I see where the problem lies.
I’d bet the list of things Lisa the Vegetarian does not enjoy is pretty long.
Does this girl really believe what she writes or does she have nothing to say and just parrots what she thinks she should think to appear woke?
Which is worse?
Must suck going through live a humorless fuck.
One of the worst coworkers I ever had didn’t have any sense of humor at all. It is strange watching people try to figure out why some things make other people laugh but they can’t figure it out.
My coworker would periodically attempt to say funny things to fit in.
The best time ever was when she was explaining the Newhart show to a Filipino team mate: “There were these three brothers on the show. One was named Larry and the others were named Daryl and … Daryl. Isn’t that funny? The only difference in their names was one had a little pause in front of it!”
When she said that, she was so convincing that for a minute I thought maybe I was the dumbass who didn’t get the joke on Newhart.
Millennial almost stumbles upon how humor works, but in her wokeness rejects it.
I wonder what she’s think of certain people around here who use their children as booze mules.
She needs McBain to explain things to her
You knew the answer all along. Or if Chinese migrants are unavailable, ask to borrow your neighbors dog for awhile.
Baffling conundrum of localized economic disparity
This divergence is more than a statistical curiosity. It is one more piece of evidence for a shift that is causing some leading thinkers on economic policy to make location and geography more central to their work.
Historically, within the same country, poorer places have tended to converge with richer places. Policymakers and macroeconomists could focus on trying to improve overall national well-being, with confidence that a higher growth rate or lower unemployment would be, over time, widely shared.
But averages can mask a lot of discontent. If growth in jobs, incomes and output is concentrated in a few areas, the overall national numbers might look perfectly fine even as people in huge areas of the country feel despair and a lack of opportunity.
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Mr. Kessler, the vice president for policy at Third Way, says the Democratic Party needs to put this divide at the center of its policy agenda.
“Income inequality is a moral issue, but this is a different type of inequality — it’s inequality of opportunity,” Mr. Kessler said. “The question is how do you make sure that more people who do not have a college degree or come from the right place are able to have opportunity.”
His organization has proposed, among other things, a public fund to support small-business loans in the struggling regions, nationwide broadband internet and vouchers to help the unemployed move to places where there are more jobs.
Some counties, some regions, are richer than others. Some are growing economically, some are contracting. Economists including such luminaries are Larry Summers are scratching their chins and pondering this puzzle. Let’s give people from West Virginia vouchers to pull up stakes and head for Seattle; that should be a fun experiment.
My pet theory, which appears nowhere in the article, is that the massive consolidation of businesses over the past ~three decades is a major factor. Why has there been so much consolidation? That would be worth investigating. I think it is in large part a shift in corporate culture which is a result of “theories” about business promoted by business schools, combined with the effects of regulation. Compliance has created its own economies of scale.
“leading thinkers”
I usually dismiss everything that comes after that turn of phrase.
Names and arguments please.
Besides which, the term itself is insufferable.
What do you do?
I’m a leading thinker!
The first poster is the leading thinker.
Hmmm….
So you think “leading” is pronounced “leeding”?
I always assumed it was pronounced like the metal “led”. As in he ate a bunch of lead paint chips when he was a kid and is now a leading thinker.
Better that the thought leaders that is used to describe every speaker at a trade show.
Luckily, there’s a place you can go to become a certified Leading Thinker.
The suburbs of the biggest concentration of power in the western world are humming along while their rural Trump-voting yokel neighbors “suffer”? Knock me down with a feather.
Oh, fucking wonderful. Because when I want something to be open and accessible, the first thing that comes to mind is “have the federal government take it over”.
/sarc
Income inequality is a moral issue
No it isn’t. It is a result of people making decisions for themselves.
In case you’re wondering about commenter rankings, SP has effortlessly taken first place. It’s been a remarkable showing. Step your game up, nerds.
Wait, we’re ranked now?
I was told this place was totes egalitarian.
Lol, did SP told you that?
So cutthroat. That’s why she’s #1.
Do SP tell**
I think he means commenter as in one who posts/comments links articles.
In which case, he’s correct. 😉
*begins thrashing comment orphans with cane*
Ok. I’ll quit my job.
Clearly I need to step up the titty posts.
Uffda. The only way you could double or triple you posts of mammary glands would be to switch to provocative pics like this. I’m not sure I’m down with that plan.
So apparently my lefty gf’s lefty parents went to DC this weekend to protest the president enforcing current immigration law that, as I understand, has been the law since the 90s. I mean, I assume that is what they are protesting but that may not be what they think they are protesting. I explained to her how stupid and hypocritical that is, which went as you might expect (deflection and changing of the subject). So that’s my morning.
What’s baffling about that is, from what I understand, it’s a job for Congress to solve so in effect shouldn’t they be demanding Congress do something? What they’re doing really is indirectly hurting the integrity of the law enforcement agencies tasked to protect and secure the borders be it ICE or border patrol. It leads to misplaced cynicism of their institutions doing their jobs. And for what? Because they hate Trump? Obama, as we all know, imported more illegal immigrants than any President, I reckon that too hurt or broke up families as well on some level. They didn’t seem to mind then. The hypocrisy and ignorance is shocking.
https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3D_-S0lEdvCqs&source=gmail&ust=1530452262825000&usg=AFQjCNGhBkzdWVTGs0BOCchnbAmIgSSgwg
it’s a job for Congress to solve
This, of course. There are so many things wrong with their perception but they are victims of CNN and MSDNC so I have to give them a little slack. I retract some slack because they are also blind partisans, which I knew from the time I met them.
Are they wearing pussy hats? Is that still a thing?
Idk. But they went to one of those ‘protests’ too. -____-
Ask siri about restaurants with no pussy hats. I guess it is trending or something.
Could you imagine Pelosi AND Hillary steering the ship?
Yeesh.
Of course I can, I’ve seen the movie Titanic.
A good and fun way to keep skunks and wood chucks out of your yard is to start urinating outside around the perimeter. I recommend doing this after several drinks.
Also skunks dig up and eat grubs in the ground when the grass is wet. So cut back on over watering the grass.
Last defense is trapping and release over the border. Be sure to separate the young from the parents during this process to punish them for crossing on to your lands. I would hire a professional for this as this is one area where getting your hands dirty is not character building.
Aren’t they put in camps after being caught?
It depends on who is in office.
“120, 130, 125, 130 million Americans have pre-existing conditions.”
Namely the condition of being a living person. But that doesn’t give you the right to procure healthcare at the point of a gun.
OMWC’s Dog…You think THAT after I brought you pizza?!
I haz a sad.
…
but the robins do need chasing. Always chirping too early and too late.
My dog loves to try to eat skunks. He has the pit bull stubbornness. the last incident he ingested so much skunk musk that he was farting out the creature’s essence for days. I had a Lemmy sized oily halo on my white fence.
Gah!?!
I hate airports.
Maybe you shoulda taken a seaplane or hydrofoil back to Seattle from Victoria and then fly outta SeaTac?
You don’t like CNN and barely literate government drones making you take your belt off?
I hate everything about traveling these days. Airports, for all the obvious reasons. Hotels – they all ban smoking now and you can’t even open a window to get some fresh air. The only thing that isn’t worse than it was a decade or so ago is that Uber exists.
You must be sober. Airports are not meant to be visited in a sober state. Early morning breakfast drinking was invented so one can deal with airports, or at least that was always my game plan.
Same here. Loathe them. Like hospitals. All those people. Blech and yuk.
Albuquerque airport this morning for me.
Family free lines for security would be nice, I might pay for that one.
Free internet and Glibs keep my little remaining sanity at airports
Several years ago the dog brought a skunk corpse into the house to play with it in his bed. We woke up choking hard.
wow. Dogs do love themselves some smelly and can’t get enough of it.
I like a good whiff of skunk. Driving through the valley and catching the scent takes me back to my childhood. It’s like vinegar, there’s something appetizing about it. But dead skunk in the house with the killer it sprayed is a bit much.
Idk if it’s similar, but one of my two cats likes to bury his head into my shoes right after I take them off.
Same here. They love to curl up on my socks too.
My old mutt loved water. Any stinking pool he could find during a walk was good for a few minutes of him wallowing around in it.
Until we got home and I would hose him off to try to keep him somewhat clean. He’d writhe around under the hose like a vampire being doused with holy water. “I stink so pretty now! What are you doing? The bitches won’t be able to keep their paws off of me and you are ruining it!”
It is weird how their noses are so much more powerful than ours and they love to smell the piss and shit of their neighbors.
A representative comment from that NYT article about regional economies:
tom
midwest2h ago
“from 1940 to 1980 the wage gap between poorer and richer cities in the United States converged at an annual rate of 1.4 percent — but that on average there has been no such convergence since then.” What changed in 1980 and since then? Republican macroeconomic policies? It is certainly true in the rural urban divide as well. A core issue nationwide is a lack of opportunity for an equal quality education for every child. When will Republicans and their party supporters start valuing education? Education is not just college but trade schools and apprenticeships (unions used to be the biggest provider but the union busters have succeeded), technical and two year colleges and even public private partnerships at high schools. Alas, Republican policy for the past 35 years seems aimed directly and indirectly at reducing those opportunities and have inflicted the most damage on their own supporters.
Those NYT commenters have some serious residual hate for that Reagan guy.
Republicans have been running American education for the last 35 years? Huh. I’ll have what he’s having.
I didn’t read the article, but the premise seems to be that if we shipped more of these dumb Trumpistas off to live in cities, they’d love it and see all the great opportunities that there are in diverse places and vote D, too. Because that’s basically how these simple fucks think.
“… most damage on their own supporters.”
Oh, the insufferable, paternalism of it all!
Stop voting against your interest and follow us for your own good!
lack of opportunity for an equal quality education for every child
Interesting. And what is it that has taken it upon itself to educate the nations youth? It’s almost like there is some kind of government monopoly on the whole thing.
When will Republicans and their party supporters start valuing education?
They do. They propose competition in education because competition breeds excellence. Leftists oppose this.
Lefties use education as an indoctrination factory and a slush fund for their political machine.
Since you’ve all been such good little Glibs, here is your reward.
http://archive.is/YvBde
2, 18, 21, 30.
You can easily tell the naturals from the bottle reds by the slight hint of crazy in thier eyes.
Timeloose, are you still coming here next week?
End of July not June.
Hope you don’t have a thing for cool dry weather…
Kidding aside have fun, I’m jealous even with the heat and humidity.
I’ll be going to Manila for a week after. I despise humidity, but what can you do. The North East US is no picnic right now either.
Hint of crazy? 24 would murder you in broad daylight. Probably because she is starving.
#13 – who says that’s bad luck?
Hard to top 1, really.
Girl Next Door winners: 8, 13
Most Likely to be a Sexbot winner: 26
Who’s ready to vomit?!
Trevor Noah!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Ag5HiF0-I
Trevor Noah sucks as much at explaining what happens in his own country as he does America. Truly, a citizen of the world.
It’s a stunning thing to watch considering the severity of the violent reprisals going on in a shit hole like South Africa.
Of all places.
Didn’t that New York commie that just won the primary call for a South Africa style truth and reconciliation for ICE?
Trevor Noah unsurprisingly thinks that speech and thought should be criminal. Christ, what an asshole.
Oprah is annoying.
+1 free car
The only thing that isn’t worse than it was a decade or so ago is that Uber exists.
Leading thinkers are on the case.
I wouldn’t mind hearing ZARDOZ’s opinion on this problem.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/6641019/dear-deidre-wife-obsessed-with-sex/
I’m guessing he put on the brakes the second she expressed a desire to have sex with another dude instead of faking it with the other woman just to please him.
“Honey, when I said I wanted to be non-monogamous, I meant only I get to have sex with other people. It’s only fair.”
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN QUESTIONING ONE. THE FOOL OF A BRUTAL HAS FORGOTTEN THAT THE PENIS IS EVIL! IT SHOOTS SEEDS THAT CREATE NEW LIFE AND POISONS THE EARTH WITH THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. THE BRUTAL NEEDS TO KEEP IT IN HIS PANTS, AND THE BRUTAL’S WIFE NEEDS TO BE CLEANSED IF SHE CANNOT REFRAIN FROM SO MUCH PENIC ACTIVITY. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I was out at bar last night. Was talking to this couple who I had seen there before. The guy had been going to this bar for a while and I had talked sports with him. They had told me they had just gotten married last weekend and showed me a video of the proposal. They leave and a little while later I feel someone running their fingers across my back and it was her and she sat down next to me and her husband next to her. She’s flirting with me and invited me back to their place for some fun. I totally did not see that coming. There was a another couple that used to come in there and that dude was into watching his wife do other dudes. I’m not sure if that was their deal or they were looking for a threesome. Anyway I was pretty drunk and kind of speechless and didn’t take her up on the offer even though she had nice tits and was totally doable.
The weirdest thing in that story: showed me a video of the proposal.
Well the reason I had talked to him before was because we were both Viking fans and he proposed to her at some Vikings bar during a game so I guess that’s why he thought I would care.
That also apparently qualifies you to put your penis in his wife. Maybe I need to start supporting the Vikings…
Lol.
Worst 3some ever! All Vikings fans? No one will ever reach the promised land and finish on top.
a little while later I feel someone running their fingers across my back
#metoo
“Ginny, who’s been forced to give up work because of the condition, added: ‘I was always a very sexual person.'”
I’m guessing this means she was a prostitute?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/6587045/mum-never-orgasm-permanent-nerve-damage-nhs-blunder/
That Argentine girl who died, she was quite the pretty.
Shame and sad.
I had a friend who came quite close to something similar. He was walking from his car to a party, slipped on the ice and a shard from the bottle of rum that broke cut him very deeply in the forearm. He was also stunned so he was laying there bleeding out before a passerby found him. This was pre-cell phone so the person (who was walking their dog) had to go bang on doors to get help.
Turned out well for him though. Has some cool scars and a great story.
None fake news. Interesting article about fake economic history.
https://fee.org/articles/the-real-questions-you-should-ask-your-economics-professor/
“Certainly, there were hellish examples of cruelty in some places where children worked. Those places were often government-run poor houses for orphans, or early factories where government agencies assigned “parish-apprentice” orphans to work under no supervision. To blame capitalists and capitalism for what was frequently a government-created problem is outrageously unfair. Ultimately, it was capitalism and its ever-higher productivity that made it possible for parents to earn enough to feed the family and keep the children at home.”
Were there no libertarians?
Good stuff.
An AMERICAN solution to the hate bird problem.
Illegal Canadian immigrants must be stopped. They’re not sending us their best. Criminals, rapists and gangsters.
Withdraw from the Migratory Bird Treaty before or after WTO?
Emphasis on the “former” of former producer; they couldn’t have someone this self-aware working at CNN.
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/former-cnn-producer-calls-acostas-latest-white-house-outburst-an-embarrassment-on-multiple-levels/
Acosta explains how CNN chooses which experts to believe.
“SICK SEX ED Dad forced 11-year-old son to have sex with his step-mum in bid to stop him turning gay”
No pics of the step-mum?
I think she’s around 60 now. You still want to see the pics?
Clearly the article-revelant pics would be from the time of the offense.
Also, the reporter was lax in not finding out if the treatment was effective.
in bid to stop him turning gay
Sure, that’s why.
If only the gay Glibs had parents caring enough to force them into incestuous relationships with females at an early age, their gayness could have been prevented.
What indication did they have that he was gay? Fabulous hair? Impeccable sense of style? Keen eye for matching decor?
To be sure.
Posters of a Miata on his bedroom wall.
Also acceptable- Porsche Boxster
FUCK. YOU.
“At least three skunks in a gang, maybe more”
That’s called a “surfeit”. They’ll often walk shoulder to shoulder so at night it’s just sort of this dark mass that doesn’t look like an animal. Anyway, be careful, skunks can carry diseases such as rabies and distemper.
I’m surprised he had the decency to resign, usually this would result in a promotion for the press.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/30/reporter-resigns-after-false-tweet-that-maryland-shooting-suspect-had-maga-hat.html
I get the sense that MAGA hat guy was joking. This sanctimonious cunt isn’t:
It’s sad how quickly they look for validation of their worldview in these cases. Finally, a journalist got got and it wasn’t by a black guy! Now we can totally say we were right!
Stuttering John Melendez gets patched through to Trump on Air Force One.
I thought it would at least be funny.
Your tax dollars at work
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a timber project near West Yellowstone, siding with environmental groups that say the project will eliminate important wildlife habitat.
U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen Wednesday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Forest Service from carrying out its North Hebgen Multiple Resource project, which the agency had hoped would move forward this summer. Native Ecosystems Council and Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued over the project in May, arguing it was proposed under a flawed amendment to forest regulations.
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Approved by the Forest Service in 2017, the timber project consists of 5,670 acres split between lands north of Hebgen Lake and on the Horse Butte Peninsula. Parts of it are meant to reduce the risk of intense wildfires near homes while others are focused on restoring certain tree species such as white bark pines and aspen.
It also includes thinning near Rainbow Point Campground to increase visibility and prevent run-ins between campers and grizzly bears. About 15.6 miles of temporary roads would be built for the work.
Another skirmish won by the
environmentalistszookeepers. Let not one tree fall, lest Nature Herself perish.The supreme irony of this is that allowing forests to get overcrowded like that makes them vulnerable to pests and disease and makes it much more likely there will be a catastrophic forest fire.
If you want to get rid of skunks, just paint a white stripe down a female black cat and have her prance by the yard.
MUH RAYP KULCHUR
It worked for Pepe LePew, so it’s gotta be real.
HAWT.
Mercaptans, as a group of compounds, are largely responsible for ‘rotten egg’ smell. Or natural gas. Methane is actually odorless, mercaptan is added so if there’s a leak, someone can detect it ideally before something explodes.
When dealing with skunks, you have some aromatic -thiol things banging around your olafactory centers. Unless the skunk had eaten a lot of eggs, in which case, I just dont know.
Pope Jimbo’s meme shot above reminded me of the time I watched an osprey make a pass at a gosling as a bunch of geese were swimming across a pond. Unfortunately, he was unsuccessful. One of the parents spotted him on his strafing run and rose up on top of the water, beating its wings and squawking frantically. I was rooting for the osprey all the way.
Back in high school my father and I would fish on a lake that had an osprey that would snatch fish early in the morning. As soon as he caught one, an eagle would swoop in and badger him until he dropped the fish. Then the eagle would grab it and the osprey would have to go get another one. We always rooted for the osprey too.
We have plenty of osprey here. My wife was talking to a recent PRK transplant a couple of days ago and he was livid because the osprey has depopulated his expensive koi collection. Yes, I larfed when she told me.
What indication did they have that he was gay? Fabulous hair? Impeccable sense of style? Keen eye for matching decor?
The father sent the boy out to change a tire, and discovered to his horror the boy was not up to the job.
Sure it wasn’t the time dad caught him in the bedroom with a container of fruit sushi?
“It was hot and I was hungry!”
“This is Jesus, Kent.”
Ugh – France.
“Heidi Klum poses topless as she reveals how German childhood left her ‘comfortable with my body'”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5901269/Heidi-Klum-poses-topless-reveals-German-childhood-left-comfortable-body.html
I know incest is wrong, but if I was her kid, I’d wear a dress and act fabulous until Dad “cured” me.
That website needs to be nuked from orbit for those fucking pop-up videos.
If that’s the first thing you noticed, then you’ve never had sex with your step-mom.
Okay, there’s something that needs to be discussed. It was touched on yesterday morning but I really think it deserves more attention.
Sloopy puts Thousand Island dressing on his fries.
There, I said it. I’m a “live and let live” kinda guy, but some things are just a step too far. I cannot condone shunning but I would understand it.
There’s no accounting for taste among TOSU fans.
He lives in the Republic of Tejas now. Having managed to escape there myself and get back to SW Ohio, there’s no telling what they’ve done to him.
But I really do miss What-a-Burger.
You have to understand that Sloopy is basically a tard. Oxygen deprivation at birth. Once you get that, everything else makes sense: the love of soccer, Thousand Island dressing, artisanal mayonnaise, the cake decorating, the MAGA hat.
No mention of Jaws?
That too.
So, like this?
The owl shriek’d at thy birth,–an evil sign;
The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time;
Dogs howl’d, and hideous tempest shook down trees;
The raven rook’d her on the chimney’s top,
And chattering pies in dismal discords sung.
Thy mother felt more than a mother’s pain,
And, yet brought forth less than a mother’s hope,
To wit, an indigested and deformed lump,
Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree.
Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born,
To signify thou camest to bite the world:
And, if the rest be true which I have heard,
Thou camest–
Thou camest
That’s what SHE said.
I knew that would happen the moment I hit POST COMMENT.
Actually took longer than I expected….
Shouldn’t it be “Thou camest hard”?
Everyone knows that the only acceptable topping for fries is Cholula and heaps of salt.
… Hobbit
*Head on desk*
You misspelled mayonnaise.
*retches*
There is no finer accompaniment to potatos of any kind than a good New Mexico red chile sauce.
https://twitter.com/Barbara4u2/status/1013087674716942336
Your mom?
“Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history. Passing an anti-lynching law is long overdue.”
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1012756083990040577
But what about common-sense flint control?
We need an anti-lynching law for everyone but the gov’t, right Kamala?
Its totes OK when they kill people.
I’m still not convinced she isn’t a plant for Trump ’20.
Passing an anti-lynching law is long overdue
The “lynching loophole” in the laws against murder and conspiracy has long been a stain on our great nation.
A couple of racebaiters got in a room together and concocted a brilliant plan to cry racist Republicans when Congress naturally doesn’t give a shit about passing this nonsense.
ding ding ding
Straight out of the playbook.
Yep.
I will bet money that if anyone votes against it, does not participate in the vote, or publicly states that it’s a waste of time, we’ll see headlines on all the Lefty media outlets crying “REPUBLICANS VOTE TO LEGALIZE LYNCHING“.
We actually had an anti-lynching law in America. The Enforcement Act of 1871 where KKK tactics were made federal crimes and Grant used federal troops to break the KKK.
The law was quite rightly struck down by SCOTUS in U.S. v. Harris (1883). Assault and murder are state crimes, not federal.
So maybe, if nonsense, the GOP should craft their own bill, refuse to accept Dem co-sponsors and then pass it.
Any Dems who voted against the “GOP Anti-Lynching Bill” would do so at their peril.
Indeed, fucked up.
wondering how different that is vs. catering to crazy kid’s trans-feels and giving them drugs to prevent puberty and alter their hormone balance for the rest of their life
Here is how healthy parents deal with these issues
What happened to just taking the kid to a brothel, like a normal father?
AIDS
tho i suppose that ruined gratuitous sex for everyone. but it really turned prostitution into russian-roulette.
i think the real answer is actually something more like, “kids are overly sheltered and never really have the chance to have many sexual encounters until college”, and consequently you have lots of super-repressed teen dudes and idiot parents who are terrified by them
Not this?
“Lynching is a dark, despicable part of our history. Passing an anti-lynching law is long overdue.”
Wait, what?
Lynching is legal? If only I had known of this sooner…
Its not too late, you know.
“WATCH: Socialist Ocasio-Cortez Can’t Differentiate Between Socialism, Democratic Socialism”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/32489/watch-socialist-ocasio-cortez-cant-differentiate-ryan-saavedra
Those are some crazy eyes.
Um, I’m pretty sure a lot of people would say that they’re capitalist if given the choice between socialism and capitalism.
Bernie-brxs have done the country a service by making Americans slightly more aware of what socialism actually is and making them less credulous of the anti-capitalism propaganda the left has been shoveling out for decades.
People also don’t wake up in the morning and say “I’m not a complete idiot”.
“New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said late Thursday that she doesn’t think President Trump “knows how to deal with a girl” who is from the Bronx.”
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/394773-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-i-dont-think-trump-knows-how-to-deal-with-a-girl
It must have been tough growing up on the mean streets of Yorktown Heights.
Oh, I’m pretty sure Trump has “dealt with” a few girls from the Bronx, IYTWIMAITYD.
Especially one that really isn’t from the Bronx.
Get a skunk trap. Once trapped, drop the trap in a tub of water. When dead, dispose of bodies in a remote location. You didn’t hear it from me.
Olives in the electric smoker sans heat, brisket flat in the sous vide, most chores done and now it is time to retire pool side. RE pool not holding air in upper inflatable ring that keeps the water in I mentioned last weekend. Spray foam insulation injected into the bladder on the low side FTW. The chinks may have manufactured this pool, but American white trash ingenuity keeps the water in it.
Suggestions on humane ways of discouraging this cluster of mercaptans from congregating here will be received gratefully.
Since lights-out instant death is humane in my books, a .22 round through the chest or head should do the trick.
a .22 round through the chest or head should do the trick.
CCI subsonic pest control