It’s been a somewhat eventful week here, and despite the holiday on Wednesday, it seemed like it was ten days. On the bright side, I had a personal triumph this week, breaking an inventive drought and filing a patent application for my first real invention in several years. I got to mock JW for his amateurish attempts at posting Links. Taking advantage of a free trial, we binge-watched Season 4 of our favorite TV show, Silicon Valley. My most senior researcher retired, leaving me with all of his work on top of mine. I got a new computer. I wrote a long introduction to Links with a bunch of shit no-one cares about.
And speaking of links, here we go.
The nightmare may be upon us. WE MAY ACTUALLY TAKE OUR ARMY OUT OF EUROPE. This is, of course, unthinkable, letting sovereign nations fend for themselves instead of sucking off the American taxpayers’ teat to fund their own welfare states.
After 18 months of Donald Trump’s “America First” presidency, European leaders meeting with him next week fear the United States may change its traditional course and begin to bring American troops home from the continent.
OK, we’re probably not going to do that, this is more Trump brain-lint, but fuck, it’s a nice thought. It is amusing to see the “Trump-Is-Hitler” crowd now worrying that Hitler is going to remove his armed forces from their soil…
Now this is stunning. Apparently, the head of the executive branch actually CAN appoint appointed officials, even if his name isn’t “Obama.” There’s no exception for “hobby horse agencies created by Liz Warren.”
Mulvaney’s appointment set up a partisan showdown over who was the CFPB’s rightful acting director. Democrats and liberal groups previously aligned with CFPB backed English and refused to recognize Mulvaney’s legitimacy. Republicans and financial services industry advocates backed Trump’s authority to supercede (sic) the CFPB’s line of succession.
As usual, neither Team backs “get rid of the fucking thing entirely.”
The main highway through Chicago is being shut down this morning by a hustler-authoritarian “Father” Michael Pfleger. In theory, this is to bring attention to the fact that Chicago has a lot of shootings, because before Pfleger came along to teach us, no one had any idea. Oh, also, to hustle money. And as the photos in the articles indicate, Pfleger learned from the best, noted antisemite attention and money-whore “Reverend” Jesse Jackson.
Pfleger said his decision to shut down the Dan Ryan [Expressway] was inspired not only to make a statement about stopping violence, but also by a variety of movements including those pushing for immigration reform and the teacher’s union in Chicago.
Gee, the union thugs involved in trying to extort more money. >This< is my shocked face. Now it would be wrong of me to think that it would be just irony if someone trapped in the massive traffic jam got pissed off and shot Pfleger. Yes indeed, that would be terribly wrong and I absolutely wouldn’t be laughing my ass off about it. Nossir. What’s amazing on the surface is that the protest is backed by the Chicago mayor and police chief. But not really so amazing- for those of you unfamiliar with Chicago history, the city has no jurisdiction over the expressways because it was taken away by the courts due to a legacy of corruption and bribery by the city cops. So it’s the state cops’ worry. HAH-hah!
Every once in a while, I ask myself, “Can CNN get any more deranged?” Their response to me this time is, “Here, hold mah beer.” This is the kitchen sink of stupid.
…before a cheering crowd in Montana he poked at Elizabeth Warren for claiming to have Native American ancestry, disparagingly saying that he would send her a test kit to check her DNA: “We will take that little kit and say — but we have to do it gently. It’s the ‘Me Too’ generation, so we have to be very gentle. And we will gently take the kit and slowly toss it, hoping it didn’t hit her and injure her arm. Even though it weighs only 2 ounces.” In the same speech, he again insulted Rep. Waters’ intelligence, spewing the now-familiar mix of racism and misogyny.
Oh, no, insulted Maxie again! RACISM!
As bad as you thought global warming was, it’s far worse than that. Don’t mind the actual data which show changes in temperature far below previous models’ predictions, here’s a better model which shows that it’s going to get hotter faster and that the older models underestimate warming.
In their observations, the team saw that there are “amplifying mechanisms,” not well-represented in climate models, which make long-term warming worse than what is forecasted in climate models. “This suggests the carbon budget to avoid 2°C of global warming may be far smaller than estimated, leaving very little margin for error to meet the Paris targets,” said Hubertus Fischer, lead author and University of Bern professor.
And of course, no good climate science paper is complete without pleas for more and bigger government.
“This research is a powerful call to act. It tells us that if today’s leaders don’t urgently address our emissions, global warming will bring profound changes to our planet and way of life – not just for this century but well beyond.”
Old Guy Music, yet again. Feel free to ignore it and wallow in your nekulturni love of contemporary pop music. But this is the real deal, a classic, one of the most modally complex songs ever written, and here covered by a superb band. Besides the amazing (((Lee Konitz))), who amazingly is still alive and kicking at age 90, the band features one of my favorite trombonists, Jimmy Knepper.
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Congratulations on the patent application. That’s awesome.
Yeah, it broke a string. I was a patent machine in the past, but my move into management slowed that part of me down quite a bit. It’s nice to get back in the saddle again.
I’ve had the same problem with writing: I spend too much time re-writing lectures and then all the fucking admin bullshit leaves little time for actual writing.
Congrats!
“The main highway through Chicago is being shut down this morning by a hustler-authoritarian “Father” Michael Pfleger. In theory, this is to bring attention to the fact that Chicago has a lot of shootings, because before Pfleger came along to teach us, no one had any idea.”
I’m going out on a limb by guessing the people trapped on the highway aren’t responsible for the shootings.
‘If we can inconvenience just one knuckle dragging, gun-toting Indiana resident it will be worth it.’
Realistically, no one going anywhere quickly .
Huh? Why would he want to inconvenience how own
body guardsassistants?I had nothing to do with this one.
– Chris Christie
Chicago is indian for corruption
Congrats on the patent. I have flirted with applying for more than a few, but I always manage to do something else and forget about it. Does your job encourage applicants and provide time to work on the concept and application or do you have to do it in you free time?
I prefer your old guy music with Tony Iommi.
Anything’s better than the Beebs doing Chapman.
Different arrangement of Giant Steps
With Scott Pruitt gone, Vox (TW) decides to give us a history of how the Republican Party has been so anti-science and anti-environment!
I read that and the only takeaway I can get from it is that Republicans hate the environment and good people love unfettered executive regulation.
As it typically the case, I think their elation is going to be short lived. As it’s being said his replacement will carry on in the Trump tradition of raping Gaia for fun and profit, without really so much as missing a beat.
So, because Gab is a pro free speech platform, that of course makes them Nazis and white nationalists according to media matters. (TW)
According to media matters everyone not a Democrat is racist.
Everyone who doesn’t love socialism is either a Russian bot or a Nazi.
So loving socialism is anti-Ruuskie? I haz confuzed
Linked only because of the ubiquitous presence of leech organizations that exist to be concerned and offended.
“The Action Center on Race & the Economy and the Partnership for Working Families ”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/07/06/amazon-continues-to-profit-off-the-sale-of-white-supremacist-propaganda-report-says/
Ah yes, that hateful Pepe the frog! And of course, MUH CONFEDERATE FLAG! I’m surprised it doesn’t also mention MAGA hats and Trump shirts.
Does WaPo realize Amazon has the same owner?
Pfleger said his decision to shut down the Dan Ryan [Expressway] was inspired not only to make a statement about stopping violence, but also by a variety of movements including those pushing for immigration reform and the teacher’s union in Chicago.
It’s an all purpose shakedown.
Apparently. It is good to see in the second link that the IL state police will arrest anyone who tries to walk on to the highway. I guess there is some sanity left in Chicago.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/06/opinions/trump-racism-poll-opinion-jones/index.html
“Why, then, was I suddenly struck with anger and sadness when we were asked to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance?
“… one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.”
These words I once so eagerly recited as a schoolchild now put a lump in my throat. I could not stand tall, nor put my hand over my heart. I could not look at the mostly white parents standing around me who uttered those words. Instead, I bowed my head and prayed for my niece — for all of us — for protection from the rampant systemic racism and bigotry that regards black and brown people, and women, as undeserving of equal liberty or justice.”
Jesus Fucking Christ
At least he didn’t say “black and brown bodies”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body
“An ideal black body in thermal equilibrium has two notable properties:
1) It is an ideal emitter: at every frequency, it emits as much or more thermal radiative energy as any other body at the same temperature.
2) It is a diffuse emitter: the energy is radiated isotropically, independent of direction.”
KEEP YOUR WHITE IDEALS OFF OUR BLACK BODIES
Hey Negroni, I’m a lurker here and previously at that other place. I’ve lived in or near Fort Collins all of my life (currently living in SE Fort Collins). If you feel like contacting me, my email address is my handle + 82noco at gmail dot com.
Awesome! Thanks pagal, I’ll take you up on that.
It is bad enough that someone would be so profoundly racist that they would think that way…. But someone else had to sign off on that hateful mess and publish it.
I am reminded of Michelle Obama, finally finding a reason to be proud of her country when her husband is elected president… Apparently just being a senator wasn’t enough.
I wonder if these people will ever look back on their earlier selves and see the darkness at the center of their beliefs.
Well, in fairness to Mrs. Obama, there are many, many countries where stuffed-shirt, narcissistic con artists rise to the top of the political heap, so I can understand not being especially grateful to or proud of this particular country.
They won’t.
In their observations, the team saw that there are “amplifying mechanisms,” not well-represented in climate models, which make long-term warming worse than what is forecasted in climate models.
And what about actual temperatures? Or have we abandoned going outside and checking, in favor of computer models?
They won’t let actual results ruin a good theory.
It sure is hot here and has been for a couple of weeks. Back when I was a kid, we called this summer and no one thought anything of it. I guess it’s a good thing our betters came along to educate us and volunteer out of the goodness of their hearts to run our lives from cradle to grave to save us from sum… err, I mean climate change.
My rejoinder is always to ask what the results are if you wind the model back to 1950 and use it to predict the temps in the ’60s and ’70s. How close are the results? That is usually when they admit that that test isn’t valid because there is so little data from the “olden days”.
The incoming communications boss has not been accused of harassing women, but he was such a pivotal player at Fox during a period of systemic mistreatment that many view him as integral to it.
Well, that’s sufficient evidence for our purposes. Get the rope.
That better be an all natural non-GMO hemp rope motherfucker or you’re next
It’s more guilt by association.
Fox is already mockingly referred to in some circles as “state media” or Trump TV in the Trump era. That symbiosis will only intensify.
Yes, of course. But here at CNN, we speak truth to power. We give voice to the downtrodden and oppressed members of the Deep State, for we know someday they will rise again to their rightful status and power, and we will be there to serve them when they do.
Are we still running the whole “Faux News” bit? My wife of all people, a two-time Obama voter who’d have voted for him a third time if she could have, says she finds Fox News to have the most balanced coverage and the most professional and insightful reporting. And is most likely to be critical of Trump without being shallow. She still watches MSNBC from time to time for the lulz, but she no longer regards it as actual reporting.
Man it’s a good thing they weren’t exposed as having given the Democratic nominee the questions prior to a debate. I’d hate for them to lose that sterling reputation.
Well, Pfleger is not a complete idiot – he isn’t blocking the Dan Ryan on a *weekday* morning. On the other hand, maybe no-one would notice…
Pfleger is not a complete idiot – he isn’t blocking the Dan Ryan on a *weekday* morning.
That might be… hazardous to their health. And besides, they want (or claim to, anyway) the number of shootings to go *down*.
Hey Glibs– a bit of an etiquette question for y’all.
I am attempting a big move in my life (hopefully an article coming up about that) and am trying to make as many contacts as possible. My side gig will hopefully be freelance editing/copyediting/proofreading. I wanted to narrow down fields of expertise, and one of them is certainly baseball. I’ve been following The Athletic, Bleed Cubby Blue, Fangraphs and espn (as I always do), and have made notes of every mistake that I’ve found. I’ve been doing this for about a week or so and have a significant number of, IMO, unacceptable and sloppy errors.
I want to message these places and show them what I’ve caught in such a short time—then I want to ask to be given a trial run (of whatever nature) to proofread articles before they’re published. I have NO idea how I’m going to word those emails, as I feel weird saying “Hey. I’ll do this for free. Send me x articles a day/week and I’ll look them over and send ’em back.” I really just want to see how the process works and get my foot in the door, anyway that I can.
I am myself in uncharted territory here, but I feel that trying something and failing is better than feeling stupid and not doing anything at all. Any ideas or advice at all would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks! My unlimited love to y’all.
If you are going to do that then include the rewrite. Without the rewrite you may look like a smart-ass. With it they can judge the value of your services.
I would try to track down the actual person or dept at each company in charge of editing the articles and call them directly instead of emailing. I don’t think your email would get through otherwise. You’ll greatly increase the odds of your pitch being successful and then follow-up with the rewrite as Chafed suggested by email.
On a related note, there’s several writing companies you can join as contractor that allow you to work from home doing things like copy editing, proofing, and technical writing. Just a thought if you haven’t looked into them yet.
^ Good advice.
My wife used to be a journalist, and she is always amazed at the sad state of copy-editing these days, both online and in print media (but online is even worse). In print media it’s tight budgets that have lead to a lowering of the quality, and online they may not be able to afford decent copy-editing, either. S-SD’s suggestion is good.
I’d spend my effort writing some original pieces and trying to get them published. Frankly, no one these days gives a shit about copy editing and proofreading internet articles.
The most money I ever spent for those services was for labels and technical information for a medical nutrition company I worked for. Good god that was grueling work.
One time, I wrote 10 articles (250 words each) about dental services. The money was good, but goddamn, it’s extremely tedious and mind-numbing to write one article then spin as unique content 9 times. The money was worth it, though.
I know this isn’t exactly on point, but if you could learn how to do indexing, you could probably make some v. good money. I think I shelled out about $800 to index a 100k word book – and that was 10 years ago.
^^^^ This.
I went to high school with a guy who got into indexing. It’s not for everyone, but the pay is pretty good and the work is steady.
Al at BCB seems like a pretty cool guy. Email him. I used to be pretty active over there from about 2006-2010. Then the commenters just got too insane.
I really just want to see how the process works and get my foot in the door, anyway that I can.
I would say that’s a good place to start. “I have been reading the material on your site, and cannot help noticing you might benefit from a proofreader.”
Speaking of the need for proofreaders and editors [from that Vox article about “Rethuglitards Hatez teh Gaia”]:
Racial and geographic realignments over the 1980s and ‘90s favored the anti-environmental Republicanism Gingrich now sought. Better-off black Americans moved to suburbs of their own, as civil rights groups spearheaded a new movement for “environmental justice.” White environmental groups gained bases in well-off older suburbs as well far-flung newer ones, but energy concerns inclined them to identify with a gentrifying downtown and the “walkability” espoused by a New Urbanism. At the same time, black-majority districts were also being created to bring racial equity to Georgia’s Congressional delegations, starting with the 5th district, which was won in 1986 by John Lewis. Black representatives became the state’s foremost supporters of environmental causes in Congress.
Is it just me, or is that paragraph completely incoherent?
*nice shout-out to gerrymandering for the Right Reasons, though
There are mostly grammatically correct sentences hiding under thick piles of authentic frontier SJW gibberish.
At the risk of sounding ungrateful (I’m not!), could I request that the comments be linked individually? I don’t know how it would be done. I run my own two blogs and don’t know how to do it, but I’m not as learned as you Glib Bosses. Thank you!
Are you collecting dirt on each of us?
I don’t know what you’re talking about. *koff*
Kindly turn your head when you koff.
I am an imaginary libertarian woman. Improbable concepts are only mildly contagious.
Look, I’ve met you and I know that you’re a 55 year old man with a graying beard.
Shhh!!!! You promised not to out me!
You’ve forced my hand, Joe.
Wait a minute, I’m Mojeaux? I thought I was Tulpa?
We’re all Mojeaux, errrr, Tulpa.
Koff, for MS.
She’s Hihn and is making a list…
We are all Hihn.
Unpossible, we’re all Tulpa. I mean Russian bots. Except for me. I find you bots highly entertaining.
I’m not sure what you mean. Do you mean lose the threading? Or…?
Email me at sp@ this website address, if you like.
No, not lose threading. Not at all. Like, if you click on the date/time stamp of a comment, it takes you directly to that comment.
+1
Consumer bureau deputy chief to resign, ceding legal challenge to TrumpWoulda been fun to watch SCOTUS strike down that little primogeniture thing they arranged for themselves, though.
Yeah. The whole episode is a reason to shut down the agency and throw her in jail.
What’s amazing on the surface is that the protest is backed by the Chicago mayor and police chief. But not really so amazing- for those of you unfamiliar with Chicago history, the city has no jurisdictionChicago is literally the New York of the midwest.
Ugh HTML fail. WTF, me?
I like it the way it is.
There’s plenty to pick at here, but this phrase stuck out the most.
“they are clearly too smart to be wrong”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/im-a-boomer-who-didnt-get-marvel-films-now-i-rock-a-black-panther-backpack/2018/07/05/a9899dc2-7a44-11e8-80be-6d32e182a3bc_story.html
Oh my God.
“they are clearly too smart to be wrong”
A phrase that defines the generation
Yeah, that might be the dumbest thing I’ll read all day – and I read *two* pro-Pfleger articles. Fuck you, Nerfherder… next time we’re leaving you with Jabba.
Halep blew it serving for the match at 5-3. Now it’s 5-all in the final set.
And Halep loses serve; Hsieh to serve for the match.
As long as anybody but Serena wins.
Watching all the top seeds not named Federer or Nadal collapse is giving me a sad, especially on the men’s side.
Anybody but Nadal on the men’s side.
Well, I don’t care for Isner, either.
The other day they had Federer on pimping his new endorsement deal and mourning that he doesn’t own his monogram (yet!), in between all the commercials shilling
his brandhis tennis-in-Africa charity. The man is a walking ad campaign for himself. Which is fine but he could tone down the “smug asshole” a smidge.Oh. Mika, you scamp
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski called Ivanka Trump “utterly sick” and “twisted” on Friday for thanking President Trump for reuniting migrant children with their parents after the families were separated crossing the U.S. border illegally, saying those family separations would never have happened in the first place without the president’s policies.
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“Thank you, President Trump?” Brzezinski added later. “How sick. And how twisted. ‘We are doing this with our policy and we are twisting the truth to make it look like the president created a happy day for these people?’ How utterly sick. This is not where we need to be.”
Crazier than a shithouse rat.
I had a conversation about this stuff last night, and I’ll reiterate my point.
No, Mika, you horrible mummy, we’re doing this with our existing immigration laws. For eight years you got to live your strongman dictator fantasies while Obama selectively enforced the law. Now there’s a different strongman dictator–funny how that happens, innit–and he’s selecting to enforce the laws exactly as they’re written. You may detect a few common threads. If you’re really upset because of the effects of that enforcement, turn your enthusiastic shitposting towards Congress, not the president. Unless, of course, you just want some excuse to remind people that you don’t like Donald Trump, which I believe is the more likely case.
All I have to say is someone please give that woman some pants, those bird legs are offensive and should be banned from public.
Wearing it, I feel part of something emergent and cool.
Brony power!
“I feel part of something emergent and cool.”
People over 12 actually say that?
“they are clearly too smart to be wrong”
Do you want a Cultural Revolution? Because this is how you get a Cultural Revolution.
Patent!? Do you even libertarian, bro?
I’m a strong believer in IP. There’s certainly libertarians who disagree, but in my view, the restricted exclusivity of patents and copyrights is useful. Now that’s a far cry from claiming that the Disney-controlled copyright system hasn’t gone haywire or that the shitty examination and constant expensive litigation in the patent system isn’t a sign that massive reform is needed. But the concepts (if not the current practice) of copyright and patents are, in my view, quite valid.
I’m a believer in the concept. The expensive reality, particularly of defense, is another story entirely.
Yeah, I know the patent system much better than the copyright system, so have strong opinions (from experience) on what would fix the problems. None of which are likely to get implemented.
1. Loser pays. If loser can’t pay, loser’s lawyer pays.
2. Opening the examination process to allow submission of prior art from third parties.
3. Expedited re-examination, with real penalties to examiners who habitually allow invalid patents.
I’ve been involved in three patent fights (on the side that claims the other guy’s patent is invalid). They were all horrible and made me come to the belief that the system needs to go. At least when it comes to software. There are a fuck ton bad patents out there when it comes to software and the leeches who own them all are just shaking down the system.
All the ones I was involved in were in the IoT area. Each of them were “Connect item X to the internet to receive data and control X”. None of them involved any new technology. It was just the idea that you could connect something to the internet. Then when someone comes along and starts actually building an IoT app that may only be connecting W or Y (but that is close enough) to the internet they come crawling out and offer to license you their IP for a mere $$$$$.
I could probably be convinced that patents for things that actually exist in the real world might be a good thing. On the other hand, we are still doing pretty well despite the fact that China steals everything. Maybe even that isn’t needed.
Yeah, it seems like it should only apply to inventions of high complexity beyond what has ever come before. Unfortunately that’s too subjective to legislate. Who’s to say what’s a “completely original” idea or what is obvious “common sense”. It’s a cluster.
Bezos’ reign as the King of One Click Shopping is finally over.
On the other hand, sometimes I giggle at Amazon blatantly fucking with Minnesoda’s Best Buy. Having a patent that prevents your competitor from blocking any price comparisons with your stuff is pretty funny.
“I could probably be convinced that patents for things that actually exist in the real world might be a good thing. On the other hand, we are still doing pretty well despite the fact that China steals everything. Maybe even that isn’t needed.”
I think that’s got more to do with China still having the commie lackadaisical attitude towards quality control. If a Japanese or Taiwanese factory was stealing designs it would be a different story.
*spergs out Rothbard-style*
I’m not invested in that fight anymore. We’ve gotten quite wealthy despite (maybe, grudgingly, because of) the current system. On my list of woes it ranks somewhere around relitigating the War of Northern Aggression.
Nonet.
A group of nine musicians. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the word before, so thanks for expanding my vocabulary.
The song is impressive. Back in my youth, I was a respectable sax player, but guys like Konitz (and Coltrane for that matter) astonish me.
Also cool that you have a favorite trombonist. Who’s your favorite drummer?
In jazz, I’d have to go with Elvin Jones or Roy Haynes. That’s not to knock Krupa, Rich, Jo Jones, Persip, Thigpen…
Coltrane
i think he wrote it purposely “to be hard to play”. Not like ‘Donna Lee’-hard, but harmonically confusing because of “lots of chords, large intervals, odd changes”.
its the sort of song music teachers make into a “lets fuck with the students now” project
Baffling exodus
Across upstate New York, the state has been injecting hundreds of millions into upstate economic development assistance since 2011, yet many of the counties receiving the aid have been unable to reverse their fortunes by attracting new residents.
“It’s related to employment opportunities,” said Gary Keith, Buffalo based vice president and regional economist with M&T Bank.
The shrinking manufacturing base and severe cutbacks in other industries are to blame for the downturns in Binghamton, Elmira and other upstate regions. In Binghamton, production jobs accounted for more than 40 percent of the total in the ’80s when companies such as IBM Corp., Singer Flight Simulation, Universal Instruments, Anitec, among others thrived; Endicott Johnson, the shoe manufacturer, fueled the area for decades before that.
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“This is the ultimate barometer of ‘How am I doing?,’ ” said E.J. McMahon, research director for the Empire Center for Public Policy in Albany. “If you are doing well you don’t have the out-migration levels we have.”
I’m flummoxed. The government’s “job creation” efforts have been unsuccessful? Companies are fleeing? Must be Trump’s neo-Nazis driving everybody away.
Problem: Lack of “good paying” jobs.
Solution: Raise taxes, throw money at problem.
Rinse
Repeat
And of course it’s mostly poor people left so naturally they need more “help”.
Kinda pointless for communities to be wasting money on efforts to not suck so hard when the state is doing everything in its power to destroy your economy.
/another refugee from upstate
“We keep voting Democrats in to fix their problems, but those country bumpkin deplorables keep leaving?!”
So you’re saying offering short term discounts with long term expected skyrocketing costs (of government) doesn’t attract a permanent job base?
How does offering tax discounts to new business but not existing ones do nothing to stop the shrinkage of the existing job base?
Maybe I can get Krugman to explain how this works.
Now that’s a far cry from claiming that the Disney-controlled copyright system hasn’t gone haywire or that the shitty examination and constant expensive litigation in the patent system isn’t a sign that massive reform is needed.
Be gone, Satan, and take your nuance and sophistry with you.
It’s in the rumble seat. Want a snort?
Gardner also attributes much of the downturn to an overall cultural shift that has occurred over the past two decades, where much of the nation’s growth has occurred around urban centers, with the well-know exception of Detroit.
Many younger people, in part, perceive the more rural portions of New York as a cultural backwater, undermining turnaround attempts.
“You have to figure out how you make your community culturally appealing,” Gardner said.
Obviously, they need some government grants for an internet ad campaign to tell people how raucously hip those places are, with their pie eating and sheep shearing contests.
High speed solar powered lite rail?
When they’re old, they’ll want to go back.
Yeah, because it’s pretty cheap livin’.
They mention it like its some aberrant exception, never mind that most of the rust belt has also endured Teh Suck for the last 40+ years.
its an ‘exception’ which they’d be happier people forget, lest they dwell too long on the ‘why’ they happen to be exceptions.
another angle on this “hundreds of millions thrown at Upstate NY with no results” thing which drives me batty: you’d think billion$+ of taxpayer money thrown down toilet would merit some audit, no? particularly considering THE FUCKING GOVERNORS CRONIES WERE ALL INDICTED FOR CORRUPTION RELATED TO THAT SPENDING… no, why would you want to mention that? why, surely they *meant well*? Its this blithe, “oh well, better luck next time” attitude towards mammoth waste and utter failure of Good Government that never fails to drive me batty.
The fucking papers will treat ““Latop with malware on it” as tho its smoking gun proof of act-of-war-level espionage…
…while meanwhile, the bloody Governor can have *all his fucking friends arrested in broad daylight for corruption that has been out in the open for nearly a decade* and the papers just whistle laa deee daaaa ‘isn’t it *weird* how upstate is still an economic disaster? Its sad, really. Maybe we should throw more money at it?’
Sick and twisted, cont’d
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said that the department must comply with the July 10 deadline to reunite children under 5 years old with their parents, and July 26 for other children, “unless there is an articulable reason.”
The Justice Department had requested an extension on the court-ordered deadlines, saying that it needed more time to match 101 under-5 children with their parents using DNA testing.
“The Government does not wish to unnecessarily delay reunifications or burden class members,” the Justice Department argued in the filing, according to the Associated Press. “At the same time, however, the Government has a strong interest in ensuring that any release of a child from Government custody occurs in a manner that ensures the safety of that child.”
Justice Department attorney Sarah Fabian said that the administration has so far matched 83 children to 86 parents.
Say what you like about the Nazis, they kept meticulous records.
Are they reuniting them back across the border?
It’s what they should be doing. I never liked the wall idea, but what can we do? As soon as anyone steps foot across the border, the left and our media go hysterical to turn them into victims to keep them here, no matter who they are, and want us to pay for it. It’s total bullshit. They get enough 3rd world voters fast enough and then there’s zero chance we can avoid socialism and eventual shit hole. That’s just reality.
The border needs to be 90%+ secure (which is really pushing the governments success rate with anything). They’ll be areas where a wall may make sense and other areas where you would be better off with other security measures. Maybe we add more points of entry and make it easier to cross at those points as long as you have proper identification. We also need a better way to match workers with employers then them sneaking across the border and hanging out at the lumber yard or feed store every morning to get picked up. Of course if we ended the WOD, that would stop most of the Central and South Americans from needing to escape the cartel violence in their hometowns. You can’t talk about amnesty until you secure the border IMO.
Re the patent: I can only surmise some sort of device to attract little kids better?
I have a penis for that.
That is maybe the darkest thing ever posted here.
Do you dress it up like a Disney Princess? Or is that an IP violation.
I figured he’d dress up like the Big Bad Wolf because he was going to eat them.
He’s trying to attract them, not scare them away!
There’s a cartoon frame I’m dying to post, but can’t because Family Friendly. For the other R. Crumb fans here, it’s from Joe Blow. ‘Nuff said.
I think I can guess:)
Awooooo
Nice:) I haven’t heard that in years.
Taking advantage of the nice weather to take the kids to the Brickfest Lego convention at the Meadowlands. Y’all have a wonderful day.
That sounds like heaven to 10-year-old me. Yeah, beautiful weather finally. Nineties and humidity again next week fuck yeah!
Congrats on the patent business, OMWC. It’s young people like you that keep making the lives of older folks better, longer and more enjoyable.
Now, for the Minnesot(d)a people, and any others interested. Every fall, always the third Sunday in Sept, we host a *Honey Harvest* at my house. We spin out all the gathered honey and the ladies provide an excellent potluck lunch. The locals, classmates and any other interested people show up, to re-meet one another, laugh at me and get their fingers into the honey as we work. Its a day long event for us workers but visitors come and go, we’re family friendly, there may be some CCWs but since they are CC who knows? Y’all are invited, to learn how we interact with the bees, which we will remove before Sep 16th, to insure no one will get stung.
Mostly good cameraderie, a little education, great food from the country ladies and hopefully an enjoyable day trip. We’re about 2 1/4 hours north of Maple Grove. Few Glibs but lots of flyover repubs, a couple socialists in the mix but no one talks politics. Good family day but since most of my friends are geezers won’t be too many youngsters. Trails to hike in the woods for older kids. People will fly in from Seattle and Dallas. Several Asians, including Mrs Fourscore will be on hand. Usually about 40 people show up but every year it seems to grow a little each year.
Any interested email me at: latvia2112@yahoo.com Use “Honey Harvest” in the subject
“Congrats on the patent business, OMWC. It’s young people like you”
Wait… young people? I thought the OM part actually meant something. Now we’re going to learn that he doesn’t drive that van and has no candy. Russian bots, everyone is a Russian bot, the signs just keep coming.
I tip my hat to the only person on this site who can call me “Sonny.”
I doubt his authenticity since he didn’t tell you to get off his lawn.
Starts with OMWC, ends with “Honey Harvest.”
Doesn’t it always?
OH NOES, IT’S OFF AGAIN!
It was the rocket man DVD wasn’t it? Or is it because Pompeo didn’t take Rodman along? Look, you amateurs, you should have taken some Blantons for the dictator, that always does it. Dictators love Blantons, I mean fuck!
And now for something completely different
The Capital Gazette newspaper on Friday called for Maryland lawmakers to take action on gun laws in an editorial piece, arguing that “this madness must stop.”
“Our society has to be capable of surveying the long and growing list of victims of mass shootings and come to grips with a pretty straightforward idea: A mounting death toll is not a price we’re willing to pay for putting the Second Amendment above all other freedoms,” the staff wrote.
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In the editorial, the paper makes a plea for the “madness” to stop, arguing that society “must find a way to stop people who wander in and out of the attention of authorities, terrorizing people along the way with hateful behavior — but never quite crossing the line into something that would lock them behind bars or place them safely within the care of a psychiatric hospital.”
It adds that they are not wise enough and implores Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and other state lawmakers to take a stance on issues related to gun violence.
I think we all know an assault weapons ban would have kept that guy from getting his hands on a shotgun.
Also, it were Trump what dunnit. Ban Trump!
Guns are already about as illegal as possible in MD. Anything more than they’ve already done will get them on the wrong side of a SCOTUS decision.
*clicks Tavor TS-12 link, sighs wistfully*
The three biggest mass murders in the US are still planes (9/11), a truck bomb (OKC) and gasoline (the Happy Land club).
And the biggest mass murder at a US school is the the Bath School massacre(1927) which used explosives.
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mountingdecreasing death toll is not a price we’re willing to pay forputting the Second Amendment above all otherany freedoms.BWI has non-stop service to those freedom free paradises you desire. Fuck you for inflicting your night terrors on the rest of us.
Again, I’m not saying that anyone deserves to be murdered for being a bunch of stupid assholes, but the Capital Gazette editorial staff is notorious for being a bunch of stupid assholes. I’m honestly a little surprised something like that shooting hadn’t happened before. I’m just happy that in probably another week this will have fallen completely off of the national radar and it can go back to lining the cat boxes of Anne Arundel County, which is about the only thing the Capital’s good for.
this is an angle i haven’t seen anywhere, but which seems apparent from the story they did on the crazy-stalker-shooter guy
it was a slimy, tabloid, “Hey look, heres [GUYS NAME IN HUGE HEADLINE LETTERS] and he plead guilty for harassment. HA HA.”
the headline was “Jarrod wants to be your friend”, or something like that. If that typified their journalism – basically, hanging around the courthouse and then sensationalizing ever shitty thing that happened therein, then i can see why you thought poorly of them.
i’m not even remotely suggesting that “being assholes means they deserve to get shot”. just that the ‘being assholes’ thing has been otherwise not talked about so much. Which I suppose is understandable
See my comment below. I suspected it was something like that when I couldn’t find the original piece, just second/thirdhand reporting about.
if you want to read a copy of the original story, its included in the court filings of his defamation suit
https://thedailyrecord.com/2015/09/18/jarrod-w-ramos-v-eric-thomas-hartley-et-al/
The thing that pisses people off about The Capital isn’t that it does tabloid-style reporting. After all, it’s a local paper, and Annapolis ain’t Baltimore or DC, which is to say you can only run so many articles about crabs, the various boat shows, and high school softball before you start hanging around the courthouse looking for stories. It’s that it does that kind of reporting while totally ignoring local stories of importance AND acting as a mouthpiece for the local Democratic party. Nobody–and I mean nobody–who has lived here for more than ten years considers The Capital to be anything more than light reading at the bar, kindling, or as a handy source of newsprint for when you need to protect a surface from paint or crab bits.
In some ways it’s actually a good thing, because it has spawned a lot of local journalism. There’s a kind of (in)famous guy who has been doing a lot of amateur journalism around here via several websites and social media over the years who has become something of an authority simply because he actually goes out and gathers local news, talks to local politicians and asks them actual questions, etc.
“” It’s that it does that kind of reporting while totally ignoring local stories of importance AND acting as a mouthpiece for the local Democratic party.””
So, like a poor-man’s Village Voice.
*maybe that’s unfair – the voice actually does A-list journalism from time to time. But they do fit the bill of being “narrowly interested in promoting Left-issues, while obvious stories of interest to general readers are ignored if they’re not congratulatory to their narratives”
Perhaps “poor man’s City Paper”. but even that’s probably too generous.
I think this whole thing where newspapers return to being baldly-political propaganda mills is something people need to accept and realize, “was always the underlying truth”… which was only masked by ~50 years of a cold-war “centrist-ideal” which made news outlets hew to a sort of American news equivalent of RP-English
iow, a pose taken to ensure the largest mass-market will accept you. If you wanted to be seen as ‘trusted news’, you had to hew to a false ‘centrist’ appearance which no one really held.
Now, the opposite is the case, and all outlets either stick to left or right points of view, and declare the other the Partisan one.
The newspaper also called out President Trump’s attacks on the media, saying they would never forget being called the “enemy of the people.”
“No, we won’t forget that. Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do,” the staff wrote.
Uh-huh.
Because exposing evil, shining light on wrongs and fighting injustice is what we do
*searches website for:
“Venezuela AND socialism”
“Obama AND immigrant children”
“Hillary AND Uranium One”
“Mueller AND conflict of interest”
comes up empty, wanders off*
The scary thing is some of them actually believe that.
True believers. Glassy-eyed, spittle at the corners of their mouths. The kind of people who would line the streets and cheer as the wrong people are led away to the camps in coffles.
Fuck me, need more ammo.
Anyone have a link to the original column/story that the Capital Gazette did on the later shooter? From what I can find about it, the stories are about the subsequent court case that went against him and makes it sound like they reported about his arrest & conviction, which are public records. But I can’t find the original and I saw references that it was by a columnist which makes me wonder what was in it.
https://thedailyrecord.com/2015/09/18/jarrod-w-ramos-v-eric-thomas-hartley-et-al/
click the download link.
…the Capital? The fuckin’ Crapital? Are they being fucking serious right now??? There are Facebook groups run by drunks that provide harder-hitting, more insightful journalism than that piece of shit rag.
learn how we interact with the bees
I thought we eradicated bees.
Spiders are the new bees.
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/05/spiders-can-use-electricity-to-fly-through-air-like-real-life-spiderman.html
Like many things YMMV. We pay about the same price for bees (plus inflation, of course) as we did 15 years ago. Supply and demand, how does it work?
SEE?!
Many parts of Southern California hit new high-temperature marks Friday, with a few spots reaching the hottest readings ever recorded.
Among the places that set all-time records were Van Nuys Airport (117 degrees), Burbank Airport (114), UCLA (111), Santa Ana (114) and Ramona (115), according to the National Weather Service. Riverside tied its all-time high temperature of 118.
Downtown Los Angeles hit a new high for the day, at 108. Long Beach Airport hit 108 and Woodland Hills, 118.
Incontrovertible proof.
“Heat wave hits desert. Film at 11”
I look at those and mostly see masses of exposed asphalt. Riverside is, of course, the back door into Hell. The Woodland Hills temp is impressive., though. If it’s the same place I grew up, it’s over in the San Fernando Valley — just over the mountains from the ocean. I’m curious what the old record was.
For anyone who’s forgotten just how crazy and depraved the left are, I’ll just leave this right here.
WTF?
Hey, moonbat crazy may not want to sleep with you until after you’ve filled out the purity test. Oh noes!
I mean, it makes practical sense. She’s limiting her choice of men to those who won’t object when she tells them she wants to “get this thing out of me”.
Fighting the battles of the 60’s in perpetuity. Winning was the worse thing that could ever happen to them.
Stop using sex as a weapon.
/Pat Benatar
And if the last link doesn’t do it for you, let’s try this:
How can we fix men?
“What the panelists did agree on is that the crisis is damaging American society—harming men’s educational outcomes, women’s well-being, and the public’s safety. Bridges pointed to research showing that when men feel like their masculinity is challenged, they are more likely to advocate for war, discriminate against homosexuals, express an interest in buying an SUV, and believe in the inherent superiority of men. They are also more likely to express attitudes supportive of sexual assault and coercion.”
Express an interest in buying an SUV?
“express an interest in buying an SUV”
Yep, we’re doomed for sure. Next thing you know, they’ll be getting a motorcycle or boat.
The guy probably just bought the SUV and a boat because his weekend was already shot.
LOL
You think that person might just have a few screws loose?
It’s SUV’s all the way down.
It’s mental illness all the way down.
“Believing there to be a “masculinity crisis””
There may well be, but not the way they mean.
My wife drives an SUV, I drive a sedan.
I know a lot of women who drive SUVs. I guess they need some hormone therapy. Or maybe one of them just needs to beat the shit out of that prissy little soy boy.
We have two FJ Cruisers. I drive the stock(ish) one, and Mrs. Dean drives the one that’s lifted, supercharged, and armored up.
Tell her she does that because she’s having a masculinity crisis, and she’ll snap your spine like a dry twig.
“she’ll snap your spine like a dry twig.”
You’re a lucky man:).
That is how it is in Minnesoda. The hiway is full of gals on their cellphones while driving the giant SUV’s.
I blame two income families. The wife needs the SUV to make it home in the snow at least a few times every winter. Her husband will somehow make it through the same storm in the Camry. When he gets home from his white knuckle of a commute he will have to listen to his wife tell him how horrible it was for her to drive through it in 4WD.
Which is OK. The problem is all those other days when it isn’t snowing and those gals ram their way through traffic like they are driving a sports car.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
There’s a reason Mrs. Dean has aftermarket bumpers that weight around 500 pounds or so – solid steel, bolted directly to the frame, so the “crush zone” is your car, not hers. And its not to ram her way through traffic.
Its because other people do.
Sadly, the hooligans are through to the semis.
Reginald Denny reference?
I would cheer like a schoolgirl if they made it through and somehow beat France or Belgium.
Listen up, deplorables!
Trump’s patriotism centers on symbolic displays of loyalty like standing for the national anthem and waving the American flag.
But such displays haven’t been at the center of American patriotism, either. Historically, American patriotism has meant taking a fair share of the burdens of keeping the nation going.
This includes volunteering time and energy to improving the community and country. It has meant paying taxes in full rather than lobbying for lower taxes, seeking tax loopholes, or squirreling away money abroad.
It also means refraining from making political contributions that corrupt our politics, and blowing the whistle on abuses of power even at the risk of losing one’s job.
Real patriotism involves strengthening our democracy—defending the right to vote and ensuring more Americans are heard, not claiming without evidence that millions of voted fraudulently and pushing for laws that make it harder for blacks and Latinos to vote.
True patriots don’t inundate government with industry lobbyists, attack the freedom of the press, criticize judges who disagree with them, or fill the airwaves with lies. They don’t direct employers to fire employees who exercise their freedom of speech.
True patriots don’t court foreign dictators, and don’t excuse tyranny by denigrating America.
Stop fooling yourself. Robert Reich knows what it means to be an American patriot, and you don’t.
“They don’t direct employers to fire employees who exercise their freedom of speech.”
So, the left are not patriots? Good thing I learned about that today.
You know, it almost sounds to me like he must be defending the 30 something year old pussy who attacked a 16 year old at a fast food place. Because I really cannot think of anytime in the recent past where any leftist has lost their job over anything, they just apologize and nothing else happens.
I see that Double-R had to write these thoughts down. Probably because he is still hoarse from shouting the mountain top about Obama’s abuses of power. The Trump shit is still only a pale imitation of all the protests and demonstrations over Obama’s droning of Americans without a trial or of his imperial executive approach to ruling.
I love how patriotism now doesn’t include asking Congress to change the law. Changing the law through elected legislatures is unamerican now? Criticizing judges is unamerican now? One wonders how many unamerican criticisms Reich has made of Scalia, Thomas, etc.
I agree with him on blowing the whistle as a patriotic act. I guess that makes him and his employer unpatriotic for burying the abuses of power by the Obama administration? And since making political contributions is also unpatriotic now, I’m also be curious as to how many unpatriotic political donations he has made.
I also agree with him that true patriots don’t court foreign dictators, and eagerly await his mea culpa for giving Obama a pass on all the bowing, scraping, apologies, and planeloads of cash.
Reich’s intellect is only matched by his stature.
Especially not SCOTUS, and definitely not while delivering a State of the Union address, right? That would be totally unpatriotic! Huh? Oh, never mind….
Re: pulling out
It’s pretty fucking rich that Europe and the American left CONSTANTLY bitch and moan about the American military and American hegemony and our being world police, but the second a president thinks of pulling troops out it’s all “well you can’t do THAT!!!1!1!”.
What this really is is the European countries know if they have to foot the bill for their own goddamn defense they won’t be able to appease their retarded inbred people with free shit.
Every military town has that. The locals bitch and moan about how terrible it is that all these servicemen are stationed in their little slice of heaven and are ruining everything. But have even a rumor of a base shutdown or even a drawdown and they all freak out because they know how much money those servicemen dump into the economy.
This European withdrawal is the same thing writ large. Personally, I hope that when they do withdraw, they dynamite all the infrastructure. Let the EU weenies have to rebuild all those airstrips and other buildings.
I lived in a German town with a small base. The Yanks left almost 2 decades ago and now it’s been taken over by the University next door. There really wasn’t any bitching and moaning about them being there nor AFAIK when they left.
*I should add this was in a civilized region (Bavaria).
That would be an epic trolling of the EU.
This shit really makes me angry. The smarmy fucks sit around saying how much better they are, how the USA doesn’t have healthcare and how everything is sooo much better there. Make them pay for their own defense and let’s see what they have to say. It’s about damn time.
It’s hilarious how brainwashed fucking Euros are about like here.
I’m under 30, and I don’t have any chronic health conditions. But if I had to go the doctor, I would just go. Then I would pay a 50 dollar copay, which is on top of the 30 a month I pay in insurance. No wait list, no bullshit.
Euros seem to think that every American is walking around either sick or bankrupt from medical bills. Like, you tell them otherwise they don’t believe you. They think you’re lying, because the BBC is always telling them how terrible American healthcare is.
“they won’t be able to appease their retarded inbred people with free shit.”
Exactly. I have nothing against forward bases if they help greatly with OUR national defense, but screw us paying for theirs when they’re perfectly capable of paying for there own. I think we should drop out of NATO as well. That’s not to say we can’t ally with someone later if prudent and necessary but we should not be obligated to defend Europes borders.
NATO went from mutual defense alliance to another globalist organ when the Wall fell. The Warsaw Pact was genuinely scary. Russia without East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Baltics is not as scary, They lost a lot of manpower, they lost a lot of industrial capability, and they lost a lot of their strategic advantages in geography.
What’s scary is the insistence by the Northeastern Elites that run the government that we should totally pledge American blood* and treasure** to making sure “the right side” wins the Ukranian Civil War. No way that could blow up in our face.
*Not their blood, the blood of the Deplorables, because Winthrop Caldington III, Deputy Undersecretary of State, will not be deploying, and neither will his son, who is away at Yale right now, and of course not in the ROTC program.
** Not their treasure, the treasure of the benighted working people. Winthrop Caldington III has been in public service his whole life.
Yeah, it’s appalling that the neocons and liberal hawks (but I repeat myself) believe that the purpose of American women is to breed cannon fodder to recreate the world based on their globalist fantasies.
Re: pulling out
Well, that went in a different direction than I was expecting.
Toxic maleness = Express an interest in buying an SUV?
That’s weird. I thought women were the target market for SUVs.
I like tanks. Specifically ’90’s era Suburbans.
Yeah, those are pretty cool. Speaking of old trucks, I hear that Ford is reviving the Bronco.
Resto-modded Blazers and Broncos are the hawt thing in the gearhead market these days. There are some sweet ones out there, if you don’t mind 400 horses, air conditioning, and surround sound.
“if you don’t mind 400 horses, air conditioning, and surround sound”
Perfect!
Totally. Well, the “soccer mom” demographic, at least.
Look at how most SUVs are designed. They’re basically raised station wagons. When they’re built on truck frames they’re still lower than the truck they’re based on so it’s easier to get in. They’re designed to haul people and their stuff in comfort. Later model SUV designs are converging with “crossovers” to become even more car-like. A lot of manufacturers have at least one hybrid SUV, because the demographic that appeals to is typically female; men like horsepower, torque, and fossil fuels.
There are exceptions of course, but it’s mostly SUVs to women and pickups to men.
another angle on this “hundreds of millions thrown at Upstate NY with no results” thing which drives me batty: you’d think billion$+ of taxpayer money thrown down toilet would merit some audit, no?
Something something pay no attention to that
manboondoggle behind the curtain.Re: pulling out
Well, that went in a different direction than I was expecting.
No kidding. I was expecting something about Justice Goodman.
Today is writer Robert Heinlein’s birthday, born July 7 1907 in Butler Missouri.
*Raises glass*
“I don’t believe in luck, Sam. Luck is a tag given by the mediocre to account for the accomplishments of genius. “
My favorite novelist, ever.
‘To me, the acme of prose style is exemplified by that simple, graceful clause: “Pay to the order of. . . .”‘