What’s up guys? I had a pretty good Saturday — the Astros got hammered by the Rays while I watched from great seats, but I got hammered, too. I think I win. And a pretty shit Sunday. My wife’s step-father is in hospice care and failing. She went out of the house Sunday afternoon not knowing much beyond that. It is definitely the end, we’re just not sure if its tomorrow or next week. Fuck cancer!
Our neighbors to the south got beat pretty handily. I did not get a chance to watch the match, but I heard Neymar finally got the penalty he spent the whole first round diving for. We’ll see if Japan has anything for the Belgish. The Belgs. The capital of EUtopia. Japan went up 2-0, currently tied 2-2 in the 80th minute. Update: Belgium pulls it out at the last second! Wow! Japan over-commits going for the win and gives it away.
Think of all the progressive car drivers in NYC who will be crying themselves to sleep tonight that they missed an opportunity. And you know, the rest of us who don’t wish death on the children of politicians we disagree with, let’s just give Eric Trump a thumbs-up for doing something decent.
Some people were making fun of this, but I like boiled hotdogs. I think I had five or six hotdogs at two baseball games last week. And I’m not sorry. I’m gonna buy a bunch and try this for 4th of July since my kids will want hotdogs anyways. And I’ll make ribs to fall back on if they are just hotdogs.
Rich people know the value of assets, can spot a bubble.
How the hell can you escape from prison three times and not stay on the lam. Its like Hogan’s Heroes out there.
Bill Gates praises GOP legislature for resisting Trump cuts. This is going to cause some interesting cognitive dissonance.
Hopefully, this is the first of lots of good news in this ongoing story.
I really like the guitar sound on this, and he sings a hell of a lot better than his daddy.
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Yeah, I mentioned it in the last thread. The second half of Japan / Belgium was wild.
Also, first.
Samurai blew it..
Will the ritual suicide be broadcast?
Yeah, but they made a game of it. I didn’t expect that ending.
Well, the trash got collected and no neighbors got to my can before I got it secured.
I’m sorry to hear about the stepfather-in-law.
Those comments have nothing to do with each other, even I’m not that crazy.
You too? the Mexican Gardeners try to use my Green waste bin for the neighbors yard, Pesky Varmints……
Foreign aid is one of the most evil things you can do to a poor country. It’s a welfare trap writ large.
Foreign aid: taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.
That’s only true for every time before. This time will be different.
The hotdogs actually look pretty good. I may try that.
Thanks, Brett!
Linked from the article.
http://www.simplemost.com/people-line-up-to-pay-38-for-hot-dog-water-
Idiots.
Rufus’s tax dollars hard at work. Unlike you people around here!
I’d have given him $600 for the right to watch idiots pay for it up close.
Win-win.
Women have breasts. We like to look at them. ‘Nuff said.
http://archive.is/UlTUz
I want quality time with 7 and 40.
21,24,29,39 Redheads!
What’s that on #11’s head?
That would be a golden halo.
Number nine
She so fine
Love them tittys
Like fine wine
Fuck cancer!
Very sorry to hear about the s-fil.
Yeah, as someone who recently went through this, really sorry to hear about it.
And I hope all your relatives act like adults at the funeral. When my uncle died childless, my mom and aunt both seemed to want the funeral to be about making each of themselves look good t the expense of the other.
+1 Also sorry to hear.
Those final days/weeks are just brutal. I remember the last time I saw my uncle in the hospital. I wanted to spend more time with him but being in there, knowing he was never leaving, made me want to bawl like a baby and I figured he was feeling shitty enough as it was. We did do something awesome though. He wanted a last decent meal that wasn’t hospital food. So me, two of my other uncles, and one of his close friends went to the best steakhouse in Durham and got him a ribeye and baked potato to go, complete with a tablecloth, real dishes, and silverware. They were kind enough to oblige that request once we filled them in. For the 20 minutes he was eating, it kind of lifted the atmosphere and everyone was just having a good time.
Being around his daughters, my little cousins who were 12, 10, and 7 at the time….god, what do you say to kids who are convinced their dad is going to make an impossible recovery because they simply can’t handle the alternative? You want so badly to tell them that they’re right and everything will turn out ok.
I talked to my MIL yesterday. She lost her SIL in South Carolina to cancer last week. Fortunately my MIL was able to visit one last time about a month ago.
She said when it was over and it was time to take her out of the house, they asked the husband to go into another room and close the door. They didn’t want his last memory of her to be them taking her out of the house. There still are some compassionate people out there.
Also, sorry you are going through this Brett.
Sorry to hear Brett.
Sorry.
Really? Are there no grown-ups anymore?
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/02/trump-time-fart/
Sure there are.
Pull my finger.
I have thought about it for almost two hours now, and I have to say this is the best response to the proposed question.
There was a dive bar in Printer’s Alley in Nashville called Fiddle & Steel that served hotdogs, all boiled, through a window accessible for customers inside the building and foot traffic outside. They were the best goddamn hotdogs I’ve ever had, and now they’re gone.
I’m sick with a fever right now and it still sounds appetizing.
Feel better soon.
Comcast starts throttling mobile video, will charge extra for HD streams
Link is for the comments section. The complete misunderstanding of net neutrality and mobile services is mind-numbing.
Net neutrality means that I should have infinite bandwidth and data, for a fixed fee that I find acceptable. Everyone knows that.
Those comments are comedy gold.
Yeah, running in fiber is simple & cheap.
So I’m admittedly not a technology nerd; I only have a basic idea of how computers and the Internet work…
But isn’t the doctrine of net neutrality kind of like saying that every single customer at the grocery store should pay a fixed monthly fee regardless of which items they get and in what quantities?
I don’t think Net Neutrality had anything to do with pricing as Comcast was already charging fees to their high data Internet users. I don’t understand the Left’s fixation on this.
I thought Net Neutrality was primarily about preventing consolidation between data and content providers (e.g., Comcast being the only data provider in a rural town and then choosing to only allow Comcast-produced content to be distributed on their network).
Theoretically, net neutrality is about the concept that all packets of data are equal. That all services should be allowed with no network management.
It’s an absurd proposition as it would require the service providers to overbuild their networks to provide even service across the board to all customers and content providers.
The idea originated with a couple of professors who have no concept of how a network is built out or the way it is managed.
It was popularized by a bunch of basement dwellers that were pissed off that Comcast was throttling their torrents of pirated movies and porn.
It was also aided along by the misconception that the USA has horrible internet service in comparison to countries with much higher population densities. In that way it is very similar to the TRAINS obsession.
It fundamentally misses the point that the problem with internet service and costs is a direct result of local monopolies in the cable industry. Instead of attacking that problem, they choose to regulate from above, making it worse.
As I mentioned to Kinnath below, I think it’s two different ways of looking at the same thing. Making data packets equal would also ensure that data suppliers cannot block out competitor’s content. I just do not understand how pricing or overloaded networks fit into it because Comcast has always charged for high data use, which should make theoretical overloaded networks a non-issue.
Just to be clear, not a Net-Neutrality fan here. Also not a Comcast fan.
The major issue on the provider side arose with Netflix and Comcast. Netflix was funneling massive amounts of data onto their network. That required bigger pipes on Comcast’s side to handle the traffic. Those pipes aren’t free and Comcast wanted Netflix to shoulder some of the cost since they were generating the data,
It’s commonly forgotten that infrastructure costs are on both ends of the delivery network, input and output.
That’s a fair point and it looks like those payments by Netflix were prohibited by Net Neutrality.
Net Neutrality said that no one in the Internet could discriminate based on the type or source of any block of data. So you email message had the same priority as streaming media (say a 4k version of a movie from Netflix).
So if you live in a rural location and your ISP has relatively limited bandwidth, then checking your email becomes impossible as your neighbors bog down the shared pipe to watch a flick after dinner.
Therefore your basic, cord-cutting, millenial who depends on his/her smart-phone or tablet computer is appalled that he/she might be forced to pay extra to stream the latest episode of Portlandia or suffer from a stuttering screen image as his/her ISP throttles back the srteam from Netflix during peak hours.
I don’t think this is correct because Comcast was already charging those millennials an extra $50/month for high data use when Net Neutrality was active. It used to be 800 gigs/month though I believe Comcast has changed the threshold.
To clarify, your point about not being able to discriminate about the type or source of data sounds right, but I think is essentially the same as preventing data suppliers from blocking out competitor content.
The repeal of net neutrality means that internet providers can discriminate at the packet level. This includes both bandwidth management (to a much greater extent than allowed under net neutrality) and the outright blocking of access to certain sources of data.
The stupid is mind-boggling
These people vote.
If they’re reselling Verizon’s data plan, is there any reason why someone can’t just switch to Verizon?
Also if you’re watching high-def videos off of your cell connection, I hate you.
Comcast costs less than the Verizon plan, BECAUSE THEY MANAGE THE BANDWIDTH USAGE MORE.
These fucking idiots want their cake and to eat it too.
That, and Verizon is selling it to Comcast at more of a wholesale cost. You can only buy Comcast’s MVNO plan if you’re already a customers. Comcast is happy to selling it with a lower margin that Verizon because a bundled customer is overall more profitable (less likely to churn, etc.) to Comcast.
Yes they can switch. And Verizon will also limit their video streaming. Probably for a higher price than they were paying for before.
Sorry to hear about your step-FiL, Brett.
Good lord.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/02/police-arrest-man-threatened-murder-rand-pauls-family-ax/
Axe? The body spray? Freakin’ monster.
Someone threatened to murder Ajit Pai’s entire family over net neutrality. Net effen neutrality….
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/ajit-pai-family-death-threat-man-charged-688040
Probably a slashdot commenter.
That’s an interesting confluence of targets.
Well, according to the media, they’re both Libertarians, i.e. literally the devil.
Brett, you have my sympathy & empathy. I watched cancer take Mama Tres, and hospice isnt a pleasant place to hang around.
It’s been just about a year since my wife held her mother’s hand and watched her pass away in a hospice.
Also cancer.
“She later said, “So it’s perfectly civil to do that; no one’s telling them to be violent protesters, but we’re not going to let these people go through life unscathed. Sarah Huckabee has no right to live a life of no fuss, no muss, after lying to the press — after inciting against the press. These people should be made uncomfortable, and, I think that’s a life sentence frankly.”
That’s not some unhinged professor or a commie agitator. That’s a syndicated columnist for the leading newspaper of the nation.
It seems that describing the press as ‘lying liars that lie’ is worlds away from threatening a life sentence of harassment. I’d fire the bitch. How can these dying media outlets not see how bad this is for business?
They’re reveling in their perceived moral authority. It gets a little more dangerous with each passing day.
“To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him” – Hoffer
that’s the WaPo’s house neocon Jennifer Rubin.
Figures. She’s lost her damn mind over Trump.
I don’t think she ever had much of a mind to begin with. Honestly, I’ve always found her utterly execrable.
That they describe her as center-right is laughable. I don’t think she ever met another country that she didn’t want to bomb.
If there’s ever been a clearer example of how supposed conservative columnists care about little but their own status amongst their peers than Jennifer Rubin, I don’t know who it is. She has completely reversed herself on many, many issues just because #RESIST!
Oh, don’t get me wrong. She’s certainly beclowning herself with regard to Trump. But, before that, she was beclowning herself with regard to Rand Paul. And before that, she was beclowning herself with regard to the Tea Parties. She always struck me as if someone at the Post thought “How can we make conservatives look like complete, utter, unprincipled asshats. I know, let’s give Jennifer Rubin a column.”.
And don’t forget – she got the gig once Weigel was exposed as a lefty.
These people should be made uncomfortable, and, I think that’s a life sentence frankly.
That ranks right up there with “Make Love, Not War”.
What the fuck happened to the “left” over the last 50 years?
Also, “I may not agree with everything you say but I’ll fight like hell for your right to say it” has changed to “I may not agree with everything you say, so shut your fucking mouth you Nazi, literally Hitler, cis shitlord or I’ll hit you with a bike lock”.
My dad died of cancer almost 25 years ago. Watching them waste away is brutal.
My deepest condolences, it is a very painful experience.
“Nobody should tell me whether or how my daughter should go to preschool. Or when,” she said. “I’d rather lose my benefits than submit to force.”
I know right?
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/02/new-laws-in-denmark-for-immigrant-ghettos-prompt-range-responses.html
Good lord.
50% of your income =/= free. She must have gotten her math skills from the same welfare system.
I usually laugh whenever I do a search for a movie on a streaming service and for “price” it says “Free with subscription.”
In other words, free if you pay.
Ah our friends on the peaceful and tolerant left.
For some reason the number 12 comes to mind… 😉
Talking to OMWC too much?
Because we’ll probably see this story linked here a dozen times over the next few days?
Have you heard about the guy in Oregon yet?
You forgot to pick up some eggs?
Okay, okay. Apologies to Q.
He’ll likely accept your apology by way of boobies, so you have that going for you!
This should help
I don’t suppose this qualifies.
No problem. Had to step out for a bit. Here you go.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/e22d4cf66c774f38596ea6dc5f60cc5d_width-600.jpeg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
I don’t know that we really need to bring a jury into this. W is a good kid, seems like he could be let off with a warning, maybe some community service.
*scrolls up*
Boobs?
*looks closer*
Oh, you mean Q’s other post.
In re: hot dogs. Ill just leave THIS here.
I’m jealous, just this once though, Damn fine Munchies!
/Tall Cans!
Skyline is some mighty fine eating.
HEY YUFUS
FAKE NEWS!
Never been a fan of skyline. They are to chili and chili dogs what taco bell is to Mexican food. Now I make some damn fine chili and chili dogs.
Why would anyone put spaghetti sauce on a hotdog?
Bleh!
Skyline is the best chili that I ever had that I shat out within an hour of eating.
You want ‘too local’? Cause I’ll give ya too local.
Clearly, its a slow day in SW Ohio.
TW- autostart video
Was it this guy?
https://youtu.be/bBFXzyp3sks
but we’re not going to let these people go through life unscathed.
These cretinous buffoons are really starting to piss me off. We? WE? WE?
Guess what, honey- that “we” you’re so proud to be a part of is nothing more than a mob of howling bloodthirsty hyenas. This is America, you stupid cunt.
Get
off
my
lawn.
Preach it, Brooks!
Well put, but you forgot k̵i̵l̵l̵ ̵H̵i̵t̵l̵e̵r̵ FUCK OFF SLAVER
I get the feeling that you have an opinion.
Sorry to hear about FIL. My limited knowledge of hospice folks gleaned when my grandmother passed is they do god’s work. I trust he will be as comfortable as possible.
I think I had five or six hotdogs at two baseball games last week. And I’m not sorry.
Never apologize. And that looks interesting. Would it ruin the sous vide stick to just run the dirty water through it? Or maybe just a bowl filled with dirty water surrounded by the heated sous vide water. I don’t like the bag idea. Too much work to get a dog.
I’d float the bowl of dirty water on the pool of hot water, just to be safe.
I had catastrophic bag failure making pork for carnitas, all that orange cinnamony onion pork fatty water circulated through my Anova for who knows how long, at least 4 hours, I rinsed it thoroughly and ran in it two or three batches of fresh water, seems fine.
I have yet to have a bag failure but this morning I woke up to see the stick had somehow added about 50 hours to the cook time of the brisket point I was cooking. I am not sure how that happened. Maybe a power surge? The temp was the same it just had 65 hours on the clock.
Do you really need a fucking $400 (or however much) sous-vide to make dirty water dogs at home? Couldn’t you just keep them on a simmer in a pot? It’s not like you can overcook a hot dog in water.
I was wondering the same. Wouldn’t a $30 Crock-Pot do the same?
$40 is more accurate. Where did you get $400 from?
I’ve never felt the need for one but I thought they were several hundred dollars. I guess maybe prices have come down?
I paid $80 for one that included the vessel, the kind that clip onto a pot you already own are cheaper than that. What year did you last look?
When sous-vide become a thing? Like 5 years ago? I just remember reading an article at the time that quoted a price of something like $300-$400 for one, and thinking “Nah, don’t need one”
Mine was around $90. But ya, for a dirty hot dog operation I think a crock pot would do as Mike S points out.
Crock pots won’t hold a constant temp. but there are Sous Vides machines that don’t circulate, that you can use like a crock.
My crock pot cooks the the bejeesus out of hot dogs, but my SV will keep them going for all day.
The Instant Pot Ultra can be used as a sous vide. Now I see they’ve got the Instant Pot Max out that can be used for pressure canning. Holy moly. It’s like a smartphone for the kitchen.
I’ve been thinking about getting one of those for the missus.
Yeah. But I’d go for a “just because” gift. Avoid anniversary, birthday, Christmas, Valentine’s, etc.
They sure are handy. Want ribs on a weeknight? You can do that (k, not as good as slow smoked, but, still, ribs on a weeknight!). Once I took a venison roast out of the freezer and was eating it within 2 hours.
I almost pulled the trigger a while back, but when I heard about the new one having the ability to can I held off. They sound slick as a greased pig.
And yeah, a “just because” gift for sure!
I was gonna get the ultra, but I am also in the market for a pressure canner. Damn if they didn’t fix that issue.
I found one random internet comment that claimed a Crock-Pot service rep informed them that on “Warm” they hold a constant 165 degrees. (Which is still 15 degrees more than the dirty dog article said to maintain)
On warm, my crock will cause the hot dogs to explode and bleed all the color and juices into the water.
The dogs end up tasting like over-cooked ass.
Also, overcooked lips.
I didn’t realize until after posting that “low” and “high” aren’t temp settings, they are just how fast it gets to it’s max temp. Which is supposedly around 230 or something.
Well, I am a crocked rep of some sort, and I think my crock pot holds a constant temp on warm but I have never checked what temp that is. I recently bought a really cheap crock pot for work and its warm is barely warm. I fear it might be a food poison machine unless the dish should be served at slightly above room temp.
The chunk of brisket holding in the crock at the moment is at a steady 158. Slightly higher than I would like but oh well. I might need to fine tune my Oster roaster skills for warming and holding. By fine tune I mean develop. I have never tried it.
It’s not like you can overcook a hot dog in water.
You can, but it usually involves forgetting about them for an hour or longer.
KOKANEE GROPER. Another cousin of STEVE SMITH?
Now that is hilarious. I clicked on the link and there was an add for bras right below the headline.
Merkel reaches deal on immigration:
Chancellor Merkel’s CDU, Bavarian Allies CSU Reach Agreement On Migration–Seehofer
*Seehofer Says Will Stay On as German Interior Minister
*Agreement Means Germany’s Merkel Will Likely Survive Standoff With Bavarian Allies
*Conservatives Agree to Establish Closed Facilities for Asylum Seekers at the Borders
*Authorities to Quickly Examine Asylum Claims In Such Centers; Deny Rejected Asylum Seekers Entry to Germany
https://www.wsj.com/articles/merkel-faces-showdown-over-migrant-policy-1530539359?mod=hp_lead_pos2
Great, we get many more years of Angela. Where would the world be without her steady, mature guidance?
Both sides blinked, the AfD is the big winner here.
They were talking about how this would hurt the CSU at the Bavarian state election this fall.
You know who else had Bavarian Allies?
I’m sorry to hear about your FIL. Cancer is an evil bitch.
I saw my grandfather over the weekend at my sister’s shit show of a wedding. His mind is pretty much gone with no recollection of anyone save the daughter who was forced to take him in after being kicked out of the nursing home for banging out too many of the female residents. We were essentially strangers anyway but still sad to see his mind go.
Now THIS is how you do collusion to effect a national vote:
https://news.sky.com/story/cameron-personally-requested-obamas-back-of-the-queue-brexit-warning-11423669
The British government really does make ours look restrained and humble.
So Obama was Russian all along?
Somebody mentioned Luke Cage season 2, which was really good, but is anybody watching GLOW? I gave it a chance and ended up practically binge-watching it over the last couple of days (the 2nd season just came out Friday I think). It was great. The world may be going to hell, but like Ken says (wherever he is), we really are in a golden age of TV.
I haven’t watched Luke Cage, Iron Fist, or Jessica Jones yet. Are any of those worth a watch? I have heard mixed reviews. I loved Daredevil, Punisher, and Defenders.
Jessica Jones season 1 was great purely because of the villain, but it takes a couple episodes for him to show up so be patient if you start watching. Haven’t gotten around to finishing season 2, only watched the first 1 or 2 episodes.
I liked Luke Cage season 1, although it was not as good towards the end. Haven’t watched season 2.
Iron Fist was crap.
Iron Fist had a shitty bad guy. Something most of the others did not.
I am behind, I have only seen 1-2 of Daredevil, and 1 of JJ, LK 1/2 of Punisher, and 2/3 of Iron fist (Stopped watching because I stopped caring about what happened). The scene in Iron Fist where the 3 people having something like 2/3 of the shares of the company got “voted out” and told that they were only “left with only their shares” was so fucking stupid it really ended any fun I was having watching it.
JJ and LC are worth it. IF sucked dirty hot dog water (thats a bad thing right?)
Both Daredevils are good
Both Jessica Jone’s are good. I liked the 2nd season better, but I’m in the minority
Skip the first season of Luke Cage, the second is good
Iron fist is garbage.
I love the opening scene in The punisher with the sniping of the guy in Mexico, then the zoom backwards. One of the few times TV gets geography right.
I loved Jessica Jones, but I could watch Krysten Ritter read the newspaper.
do anything
Advancing technology broke the oligarchy of the major networks. First with cable TV (HBO), then the Interwebz (Netflix, Amazon, etc.). Many more avenues for creators to get their stuff out. Some people lament the fragmentation of the media market, but from a libertarian perspective, it’s a great thing. The gatekeepers of the marketplace of ideas gave been neutered to a good measure.
It makes one wonder what great content was kicked to the curb in the past because some network suit thought it was to risky. I wonder if the current environment could allow for some of that content to be resurrected, if it’s still timely.
Glow is a lot of fun. Plus – Annie’s boobs. (Lights the Q signal)
Annie’s Boobs?
Don’t you mean Betty Gilpin’s boobs? She finally does a nude scene and she’s a well put together woman.
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling is back?
+1 Miss Elizabeth
Don’t forget the Fabulous Moolah.
Moolah was a notorious POS who pimped other women wrasslers.
GLOW is great.
Do I want to spend $1500 to visit Texas in August?
It seems like a bad deal to me.
Does your local gym have a sauna? Or just light a grill and stand on it.
Unless your trip involves a beach on the gulf (ideally Padre Island)….probably not.
Save the money & take Drake’s advice.
No. Not unless you’re going there for a reason completely unrelated to Texas.
Is it an all inclusive where you can drink your money back? I have never done one of those but I want to some day just for the challenge.
Meet me in New Braunfels first week; the Shiner is on me.
I’m going to see my son, so: beer, tacos, guns, tamales, beer, tubing in the Comal or Guadalupe, beer, rellenos, etc
But my out of pocket will only be a few hundred USD.
You will forgive me for thinking this is epic horseshit being used by Rhodes to cover for what was a widely-considered gaffe on Obama’s part; particularly the fatuousness of his use of ‘queue’ which came off snide and pandering and was mocked by UK voters.
iow – Rhodes is pretending they were arm twisted into what was a ‘stepping on rake’-moment of their own making.
He might pretend the motives for the move were collective – but the blame and the discredit was 100% Obama’s. If the rhetoric worked, they’d be calling it 100% an Obama victory; instead, the failure is an orphan
Obama’s a snake, Rhodes is a snake, and Cameron’s a snake-either version of this story wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
Because interfering in another country’s political process is totes legit!
Rhodes is a smarmy little shit. That anyone can take him seriously after that profile where he openly admitted that he led DC “journalists” around by the nose and fed them them a straight diet of propaganda boggles my mind.
Honestly what boggles my mind even more is that they continue to treat him like he’s some sort of legitimate authority. The guy essentially called them fucking retards to their face and they have so little self respect that they continue to buy into his bullshit.
He’s on the right team. Just like lifelong L.A. Lebron James haters are about to become his biggest fans.
I get why Lebron wanted to go to LA (I guess due family). Ain’t gonna be easy to win titl if too have to get past Golden State every year.
That was a hot mess. Fuckin phone.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/12/28/a-stunning-profile-of-ben-rhodes-the-asshole-who-is-the-presidents-foreign-policy-guru-4/
Rhodes probably wrote the speech. If he was a good speech writer he would have used, “The UK is going to be in the back of the bus”.
I look forward to the day karma catches up with Ben Rhodes.
Rational op-ed about the NHS:
Yet if the health service were really the wonder of the world we’re so often told it is, you might think other countries would have noticed. But stubbornly, they have not. No other country thinks the NHS a blueprint for excellence. None have copied it. Perhaps they are all mistaken. Or perhaps they have appreciated some sensible truths we are blind to.
The NHS is only a system of providing healthcare. To hear nostalgists talk, you’d imagine no other country in the world provides healthcare for anyone. But look, NHS sentimentalists splutter, the alternative is an American system in which personal bankruptcy is always an option. Except, of course, the alternative is not an American system at all but rather any one of a number of European systems that — this may surprise some people — contrive to provide healthcare for all their citizens too.
Universal healthcare can be provided in many ways and it’s a peculiar conceit that imagines the NHS model is the only one that’s feasible. A peer country such as France manages a mixed system in which the private sector plays a significant role and yet, astonishingly, the French still manage to treat the sick and heal the broken.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/nhs-has-become-the-greatest-cult-of-our-time-2rpzqksnw
the French still manage to treat the sick and heal the broken.
And so does the American system he decries.
Aside from the bankruptcy angle, there’s a myth that a universal, single-payer system provides a superior level of care for all but the very rich. This is categorically, undeniably false. Aside from all sorts of studies that confirm this, I can personally attest that I had a better level of service from my primary physician in the US than I currently do in Canada.
I thought Canada imitated the NHS. For decades you had to go into exile to get care outside the state system.
This is true. I exiled myself for 6 years.
Has this been linked yet?
How to Write a Vice Article.
Funny.
For some reason the number 53 comes to mind… 😉
Two posts ago might as well be never!
Very
That was special.
*adds white board and purple dildo to shopping list
I posted it this morning.
Man arrested for threatening to chop up Rand Paul’s family with an ax:
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/02/police-arrest-man-threatened-murder-rand-pauls-family-ax/
No shit? Twice in one day… what are the chances?
3 or 4 times. Must be a band of ax wielding maniacs running around!
Kinda like N. London, amirite?
Well damn…
Now do you see why I complain about these things?
But thats not the biggest one of you’re pet peeve’s is it?
[throws glass of milk in Mike S’s face]
What are your thoughts on cussing?
I think Ted is ok with it if there is not a misplaced apostrophe.
Starbucks, the continuing saga:
Starbucks Corp. SBUX 0.43% should audit its stores for prejudice against customers, review the racial diversity of its staff and help pay for antibias training for local police, according to a report compiled by outside experts advising the coffee chain on its diversity efforts.
The report was released Monday by Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Heather McGhee, distinguished senior fellow of the think tank Demos.
The pair came on as advisers to Starbucks after an incident in April when a store manager in Philadelphia called the police after two black men who hadn’t purchased anything didn’t leave the store when asked.
Ms. Ifill and Ms. McGhee urged Starbucks to revamp how it hires, trains and promotes staff, including evaluating managers on goals around “cultural competency and management of diverse teams.”
“Bluntly, some managers and even corporate leadership may not have a future with the company under the new standards,” they wrote.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/starbuckss-diversity-advisers-call-on-chain-to-revamp-hiring-training-promotion-practices-1530547636?mod=hp_lista_pos2
Never apologize.
some managers and even corporate leadership may not have a future with the company under the new standards
Especially the ones that are willing to say (or even just keep their counsel private) that the emperor has no clothes on, and the diversity consultancy is as much a scam as most consultant suggestions.
Once they get rid of the kulaks & hoarders, they can concentrate on the ones who stopped clapping first during the show trails and struggle sessions.
Yea, once you bow your head and let them hang the shame sign around your neck, the abuse from the Red Guards only intensifies.
So glad I sold my stock.
This past weekend, I noticed that every store bathroom in Philadelphia that I saw was locked.
Starbucks is done. They’ll never be able to root out the sjw influence from their company without instigating a major backlash. Once the parasites get their hooks in, they won’t let go.
Noooooooo!!!!! Where will I purchase my over priced burnt tasting coffee then?
I actually have two Starbucks gift cards I’ll have to use up. My sister always used to send me Dunkin Donuts gift cards for Christmas, but she moved to Minnesota and they don’t have Dunkin Donuts there.
I have to see if they sell ground coffee by the pound in the stores.
AhhhhhHAHAHAHAHA
How’s the appeasement working out for ya, boys?
Bahahahahaha!
Delicious.
Yes, because racial tokenism is always a cure for racism. Remember when a black man became president and all racism disappeared?
tl;dr: Make them watch PowerPoints until they’re not racist anymore.
You forgot pay tens of thousands of $ to con artists to make PowerPoints about how to not be a racist.
“outside experts”
The worst.
Australia / Philippines B-Ball game
Come for the shitty ball handling, stay for the martial-arts moves
*for those who watch to see what provoked it: i blame the aussies.
One aussie tried flopping hard to draw an off-the-ball-pick call… his teammate saw him hit the floor and mistook his hard fall for the real thing, so he turned and sucker-punched the Flip player in the jaw. its easy to miss because there is a simultaneous amount of chest bumping going on just around them so you don’t really see the first flagrant foul
No love for Weng Weng ?
i think i saw one of the Pino point-guards try and punch an Aussie center, and he had to take a running flying jump to reach up to his head. he missed.
That is a good little movie clip. i genuinely liked how the guys in the stairwell kept ‘about to be getting up’ then the midget would come and kick them in the nuts again.
Well, as fake as the scene, evidently the little guy had some skills:
“Weng Weng demonstrated martial artistry in his films. He trained in many disciplines including Jeet Kune Do under fellow Filipino Dan Inosanto and the hybrid martial style Ju Gran Chaud which he was taught by Ju Gran Chaud’s founders Laurent Painchaud and Matthew “Granimal” Granahan who travelled through Southeast Asia and Compton preaching the discipline.”
The guy trying to throw the flying kick had his hands down. Someone that knew what they were doing would have made him unconscious.
Yeah, I’ve been in bball brawls like that. For being athletes, basketball players suck at fighting. Alonzo Morning has some funny clips of him throwing down.
Be on the lookout for a sweet transvestite and some dude in gold short shorts.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/02/time-warp-discovered-outside-las-vegas-paranormal-investigator-claims.html
Im going guess from Transexual, Transylvania?
Q comments there too:
I didn’t bother to read the comments.
Definitely FLBP.
I admire her bravery in wearing a dress in the desert wind.
God bless her. Did bless her.
Well, he isnt wrong.
I read it, it was a jump, to the left though
If it brings back Little Nell’s nipples, I’m all for it.
She was my Favorite, fuckin Hot…..
“Oh…..slut!”
Utter horseshit.
And microseconds is a pretty short amount of time, and he never made any mention of the accuracy of the instrument…
“any measurement made, without prior knowledge of the uncertainty of the measurement system, is useless.” -Walter Lewins
John Legend says he doesn’t care “about fucking Sarah Sanders.”
I wouldn’t fuck her either, but I don’t know if I’d go public about it.
Sorry to hear about your FIL. Lingering death sucks and takes a heavy toll of loved ones.
I think I may see the problem here.
“The tree overhung a creek in a swimming area near Alligator Springs. The teen was on a raft when the gator approached her.”
For all your edibles how-to needs: (not my site)
https://www.cannadish.net/
At least the Japan game was played at 3 am Japan time. My God, even watching the highlights was heartbreaking.
Because they don’t care about TV ratings?
At least in that you couldn’t watch it live unless you’re unemployed. Belgium’s first goal…*SMH*
I’m relatively familiar with Stephen Crowder, but I did not realize he was calling himself a (conservative/)”libertarian” these days. I’ve seen/heard him argue in favor of the drug war, for instance. Perhaps he has seen the light. Anyway, he crashed the Democrat convention.
He’s more paleoconservative than anything. I find him less objectionable than most.
This seems like a winning platform.
https://twitter.com/nycDSA/status/1012808259818926080/
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Crissakes, Q, one of these days you’re liable to smother to death.