OK, after SP’s masterpiece links yesterday, I have resolved to never try to outdo her on her terms. Like most bright 9 year olds, she’s adept with modern technology in a way that I cannot be. So I need to be more clever.
/racks brain
Fuck, I give up. She wins. For now. But one day, ONE DAY…
Anyway, the obligatory birthdays: Woody Guthrie, a despicable person who wrote some excellent songs; Martha Coakley, a despicable person of no particular achievement; Jane Lynch, tall, talented, and surprisingly intelligent for an actress; Tom Carvel, whose birthday we will celebrate with Fudgie the Whale; and Patrick Kennedy, the human equivalent of what would be best scraped off the bottom of my shoe after I’ve walked through a dog park.
In history, today marks the anniversary of the Alien and Sedition Acts, proof that the absolute first reflex of a government is to be oppressive and self-preserving. That didn’t take long. Fuck John Adams. And it’s the anniversary of the Chicago Fire, which didn’t finish the job and stuck us with multiple generations of Daleys. Loser!
On a personal note, my sincere wishes for a rapid recovery for Suthenboy. It will be great to see you back!
And in the news:
Today is the birthday of Ben Skardon. He’s 101 and still kicking. Who is that, you ask? He is the last living survivor of the Bataan Death march. And a damned remarkable human being. h/t deadhead
Guess who died? Nancy Sinatra. At 101. Not the boots Nancy Sinatra. The other one.
This whole story just infuriated me, and it’s getting worse and worse. Now the “victim” of the “hate crime” has figured out (or was advised) that there’s some extra magic words she needs to use to put someone in jail for exercising his First Amendment rights. And I rarely have sympathy for a cop, but I do for this one. Asshole shouldn’t have apologized for not arresting someone for the crime of unpleasant speech. Even his union is equivocal.
It doesn’t matter how much money we “give” the government, they can always spend more. Record tax collection, and yet still, deficits on the $670B range. Interesting, though, in that this is a perfect illustration of the difference between tax rates and taxes, a distinction which still eludes the progressive mind. And some conservative minds as well, given their nostalgia for big-spender Reagan.
This really should have happened in Florida. Well, Georgia is close.
I cannot adequately express my disappointment at this.
The youthful face of Team Blue. This is rapidly becoming a weekly feature.
And speaking of weekly features, Old Guy Music. A ’60s classic, where I can’t decide which is goofier, the costumes, the dancing, the hair, the psychedelic production, or the lyrics. Still, damn fine band and a nostalgia rush for me.
Good morning
I suppose I should be empathetic when I see a senile rambling old lady, but I really just want to clout her with a sock filled with nickels.
What’s up with Suthenboy? What did I miss?
same question
Its summer, people get busy, I doubt he’s ‘gone’ anywhere
He had an unfortunate accident. But we expect to see him up and around in due course.
Get well, Suthen. Best wishes tou you and your family
Same. All the best, Suthen.
Hear, hear! The place wouldn’t be the same without Suthen’s irascible charms. 8^>
He’s a tough guy; I’m sure he’ll be back soon enough.
Get well!
Suthen may be tough, but the rest of you pussies make me SICK!
“Oooh, Suthen get better”, “I hope you feel better Suthen”, “we all like you so much Suthen”
What the fuckety fuck! Are you fuckers not men? Do you not have any masculine traits left? Why all the well wishes? Why do you coddle Suthen with comforting words?
Everyone knows Suthen comfort is for women only!
p.s. Get better Suthen!
Sorry.
I tried to tell him that chainsaws are an *outdoor* tool, but does he listen? No.
Seriously though, get well Suthenboy.
Get well soon, Suthen. Hope you’re up and about shortly.
Damn. Best wishes Suthen!
I just wanna know – what’s the other guy/creature look like? Well ventilated, I presume.
+1 more well wish for a speedy recovery.
I’m betting he was gator wrestling.
Take care Suthen, hope you’re 100% soon!
Here’s to a speedy recovery, Suthen!
I have to assume he suffered an injury while wrestling a wild boar.
Good luck bud, get better.
Probably a pack of wild boars.
Pack? Herd? Flock?
As I learned on this very site, its a “sounder”.
*insert “the more you know” gif*
I got ten bucks it was a gator.
GWS Suthen!
Yeah, Florida fans suck. FSU fans aren’t much better, either… so coulda been a ‘nole.
Forgot to pick up his stuff properly after the convict was captured?
I’m thinking overlooked bear trap with a hair trigger, emergency need to crap, extra low hanging fruit and you have a recipe for disaster.
Thank you for mentioning Ben!
He’s not the last living survivor, half a dozen or show show up to the Bataan Memorial Death March (BMDM), but Ben is the only one who walks a part of the course. The others show up and most of them give an hour or so talk the day before the march. I’ll write a post about it from my perspective, but a web search in the meantime should well serve curious people for now.
Gotta run.
The two of us need look no more.
That is a great story and made me feel even more inadequate than I usually do. Impressive man that guy is. You #crazy fuckers who run through the desert don’t really help there either.
So “I feared for my safety” works for the pigs but not for normal people?
Corporation income tax collections have also been declining in this fiscal year.
There’s your trouble. KKKorporations are stealing money from the Treasury. We should nationalize the means of production, and put some kind hearted government functionaries in charge.
Do KKKorporations ever get tired of making white sheets? The market must be flooded with pointy hats with eyeholes.
It’s part of a pointy hood and white robe stimulus plan!
Also, they’re creating tons of jobs by burning crosses – that creates so many jobs for the cross builders since they have to be replaced!
Just in time for Judge KKKavenaugh. Kkkoincidence? I think not.
Pelosi sounds like a drunk piping up in a bar after a three hour shift. Confused, angry, and convinced that someone has done here wrong.
Ron Paul posted about this (I follow him on his Instagram. The comments there have never been good but lately, due to the racists one his ex-staffer posted I suspect, it’s been monopolized by statist howler monkeys. A few fun examples:
dj_auditthefed@dxgxring and anarchists who believe anarchy brings them freedom (most of them) are not very high IQ people. If there is no mostly neutral power keeping order, then chaos erupts. And out of that chaos doesn’t arise a peaceful NAP world, but me and my 50 asshole friends taking over towns to reestablish order. All of anarchy undone in about a paragraph
It’s also a great insight into the authoritarian mind in about a paragraph
“I will never get to hear from this man, this protector, his reasoning for why my safety — no, my life — had such little value to him,” she said, “why an American citizen could not reap the benefits of the police force when it was most needed.”
Most needed, huh? Looks like somebody’s never been a victim of an actual crime before.
And and a possible five year sentence for each alleged hate crime? Da fuk?! The only thing warranted there was a drunk and disorderly charge at most.
She did a pretty good job of flipping the roles, she’s made a drunk-‘Merica!!!’ retard into a sympathetic character. The outrage mob is getting it really dialed in when it comes to weaponizing (like the for- real applying force kind) victimhood.
I find it amusing that she thinks cops are her friends and are here to protect her. Talk about naive.
And and a possible five year sentence for each alleged hate crime? Da fuk?! The only thing warranted there was a drunk and disorderly charge at most.
This. It sounds like he did deserve something, given he was extensively harassing someone in the area they had rented, but hate crime? And complaining about a flag is not racism, either.
DaMn… wife and I got a good buzz rolling last night. And the sudden munchie run in her pajamas where we, of course, ran into one of our earnest neighbors. “keep it together, man… keep it together. don’t giggle”
We did the same, but stayed in, so I didn’t have to prevent the giggles. We sadly finished our binge-watch of Silicon Valley (the funniest and smartest show on TV), but then remembered that we hadn’t yet seen Season 9 of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Enough laughter to scare the dog.
I had sympathy for the PR woman at first. Some drunk asshole is trying to ruin your day and the authority figure that is supposed to protect you does nothing.
The way he harassed her should not dictate the punishment or charge. If he made fun of her looks, shoes, or just yelled gibberish it’s all the same without the threat of violence.
No sympathy. None. If words make you feel threatened, you shouldn’t go out in public.
I can see your point, I have no issues with dealing with verbal abuse or bouncing someone acting like an asshole.
I had sympathy until I saw how she decided to react. Did she fear for her safety, I doubt it. Was she annoyed and offended, sure. That is no reason to arrest someone.
If she had rented the place, I’m fine with her to expect the cop to run the guy off. But the only thing that this guy should maybe –maybe– be charged with is some sort of trespass.
The idea that she thinks the cop should be physically taking care of people for speech she doesn’t like is absolutely repugnant.
And the sudden munchie run in her pajamas
These euphemisms…
Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who took a second to realize LH meant a run for actual food. I thought he meant he was eating something else.
This. I was surprised the neighbors didn’t run away in horror.
“The youthful face of Team Blue. This is rapidly becoming a weekly feature.”
She looks surprised to be there. She really is losing it.
You get three facelifts and you’ll look perpetually surprised too.
today marks the anniversary of the Alien and Sedition Acts
I wonder if a modern day Supreme Court would even strike it down.
I have to assume it would sail through Congress virtually unopposed.
They would add a fine to it and call it a penaltax.
Eh, I’d say conservatives/republicans would split 50/50 on it, while Democrats would base their support or opposition on which party was in the White House at the time.
Bustle: Obama meeting the Queen, versus Trump meeting the Queen. I didn’t notice any mention about exchanging iPods with someone’s speeches on it.
If Trump did that, the media would go full bore hysterical mode for the next 24 hours, before moving on to the next hysteria.
Only der Drumpfenfuher is a raging narcissist. Barry is a humble man of the people. It is known.
I think I would have voted for Trump in ’20 if had decided publicly to skip meeting the queen because he’s an American and we don’t truck with royalty. And then went and played golf.
I think it would be cool to see the palace, but the idea that I’m supposed to respect some lady who popped out of the right twat is just silly.
spoken exactly like an American.
I had that conversation 30 years ago with a couple of grad-student feminists, a Norwegian girl and a French chick. It was not too long after the Princess Diana wedding and the media was trying to gin up interest in a wedding or coronation or something in Norway.
So, like one does, I went on a rant about not understanding how anyone gives a crap about these people, just because they are born of the correct lineage. I mean, a group of feminist grad students should be full-on with me, right?
Uh, no. They were decidedly not with me. They thought Diana was amazing…. I tried pointing out that all she did was marry an older man and spend a bunch of money that isn’t hers visiting hospitals for publicity stunts. Yeah….. that was a “keep digging” moment.
I finally pointed out that maybe it was a European deal…. since we don’t truck with Kings over here. At that point the French chick piped in that they cut the heads off of royalty ’round her neighborhood. So at least I got a half-endorsement. She still was all-in on the royal fanfare stuff.
Chicks.. I just ain’t gonna get it. I’ve run into top executives at major companies who are into Princess Diana. It makes no sense, a self-made woman looking up to someone who married their way into a photo-op job.
The only explanation I got for this fascination with royal weddings is “but Megan Markle is soooo beautiful!”
So fucking what? I see beautiful women walking through Kroger. She’s not special.
Kinda disappointed Trump didn’t give her the complete series of The Apprentice on Blu-Ray.
Meddler
May’s government is already teetering as a result of the Brexit negotiations, which are not going well. Trump just gave her a shove. May already faces the risk of an internal party challenge that could topple her government. When Trump casually dropped the remark that her latest plan, a compromise designed to soften the blow of withdrawal from the E.U. for British businesses, would lead to the United States abandoning or downgrading trade relations with Britain, it was 10 Downing Street’s worst nightmare come true. That makes an internal revolt by the hard-core “Brexiteers” more likely.
Did he say they were going to the back of the queue, or something?
“Brexit negotiations”
What’s to negotiate? The people voted. The govt should tell the EU to fuck off. As an American I’d be happy to lend them a certain document as a template. We have experience breaking with foreign powers. Of course, they should have Nigel Farrage leading the way on this anyway.
Where were the huge media-covered protests of Xi Jinping’s most recent visit to the UK?
You know who we haven’t heard from in a long time? Hillary. She won’t stay quiet while those evil Republicans work to take away all our rights!
She did weigh in on Slavemaster Kavanaugh.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/13/hillary-clinton-kavanaugh-slavery/
“They want to turn us against each other,” she said. “They want to divide and conquer.”
Talk about projection.
“They want to divide and conquer. Fundamental rights, civic virtue, even facts, reason and evidence are under assault”
SO. MUCH. PROJECTION.
Fun headline from Mashable. While Trump embarrassed himself in the UK, Obama released his summer reading list.
I don’t know why you wouldn’t expect that, given that he always embarrassed the country every time he went abroad. Wonder what foreign dictator scumbag he’ll bow to on this trip?
He’s so well spoken!
“I… I… I… I… I… I… I… I… I… I….”
+1 and clean
Wasn’t Mandela a Marxist?
Yes.
Too often, Western democracies have failed to present valid alternatives to unjust regimes, thus leaving the communists the political space to sell their bullshit as a solution.
Julius Malema?
One can only be thankful that he didn’t put on pajamas and paint on a dot on his forehead when visiting India.
South Africa, Commie Central? Go get get em Tiger!
Letters to the Local Rag: Joey “Climate Change” Chestnut Edition
“I can’t understand why people like having fun… I never do, and I’m perfectly curmudgeonly!
Why, I sniff my farts all day while in my Prius, that is all the fun I need. That and the cucumbers.”
The bun is more likely to contribute to obesity, what with the carbs.
Bingo. But I’m sure fartsniffer will argue till he’s blue in the face that it’s meat that causes all obesity.
“cucumber eating contest”
Euphemism spotted.
Hold on to your hat – it’s actually a world-wide phenomenon!
Yes, because nobody from any other country would participate in such a silly thing as a hot dog eating contest, right? Why can’t we be more like Japan, with their strong sense of social and ecological responsibility? You’ve never seen Japanese people scarfing down impressive numbers of hot dogs, have you?
/sarc
“given that the World Health Organization has determined ”
Fuck off, slaver. *Grills and devours ballpark franks*
She’s lucky they didn’t make her ride the donkey facing backwards.
Scarlett Johansson has dropped out of the film Rub & Tug following a backlash over the actress’ controversial casting in the role of a real-life mob boss who was born a woman but identified as a man.
“In light of recent ethical questions raised surrounding my casting as Dante Tex Gill, I have decided to respectfully withdraw my participation in the project,” Johansson said in a statement to Out Friday.
“Our cultural understanding of transgender people continues to advance, and I’ve learned a lot from the community since making my first statement about my casting and realize it was insensitive.”
“I confess my sins, and abase myself before the High Priests of the Most Holy Church of Perpetual Grievance, beg beg for absolution.”
She’s going to find out the hard way that there is no absolution.
Ok, if “cis het” people are not allowed to play transgender people, isn’t that going to reduce the number of films about transgender people that get made? After all, transgender people are a tiny sliver of the population, and if you narrow that down to those of sufficient acting skill, you’re probably down to a few hundred people.
I’m sure that when no more films about transgender people get made, they’ll be whining that they’re “underrepresented” and “marginalized” in Hollywood.
“sufficient acting skill”
You clearly aren’t consuming the same media I am. What are you watching where people have any acting skill at all? Seriously I need some recommendations here.
Non-whites are allowed to play white historical figures but a nontrans cannot play a trans person. Logical consistency is not their strong point.
I’m sure they exist, but I still can’t think of a single FTM actor.
It’s almost like acting involves pretending to be someone that you are not.
So when is the mob going to go after Chloe Sevigny?
Or Hillary Swank?
Letters to the Local Rag: Row v Wade Edition
Oh, is SCOTUS what we’re waiting for now? I was told all those things were going to happen on 1/21/17.
You know who else had his followers swear personal fidelity
Harman Kardon?
General Zod?
Dr. Evil?
Lol, Row.
It makes sense. You can either row or wade cross that river. Or we could just make it Row vs Swim?
Hey, I just saw your question from last night. Yes, indeed, we do get summer. Too much of it, actually. We’re heading for 90 degrees with about 65% humidity today.
“Letters to the Local Rag: Row v Wade Edition”
I’d rather Row a boat, than Wade in the Water, but hey, what ever works.
“have sworn personal fidelity to him”
*Rolls eyes*
And the rest of that nonsense. They attribute way to much power to scotus. But that is because they practice lawfare.
I think the “2 children dollars” remark was more mask-slippage than gaffe. The government treats tax revenue like Monopoly money anyway.
It is like “foot-pounds” of torque, or other such units.
A children-dollar is the unit of spending that democrats use. It results from multiplying children’s lives invoked by deficit dollars generated.
Row v Wade
I say, if the water is lower than mid-thigh, just wade. Unless there are snakes. In that case, you should definitely be in a boat.
*snort
This guy gets it
Row v Wade was always my problem on the Oregon Trail. That and Dysentery.
Muh Democraceeee!
A new indictment handed down Friday by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein against a dozen Russian GRU military intelligence officers exposes new details of the hacking of high-level Clinton campaign officials as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
A result of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the indictment also offers jaw-dropping context. For starters, it suggests the Russian cyber attackers took cues from then-candidate Donald Trump himself in the Russian government’s effort to boost Trump’s bid for the White House. The court documents also highlight alleged collaboration between Russian hackers and “Organization 1” – which matches the behavior of WikiLeaks – to hamper the campaign of Hillary Clinton.
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The federal indictment offers new hints of collusion between Trump and the government of Vladimir Putin, just as the two are scheduled to meet face to face. It underscores for the world – and especially our NATO allies just antagonized by Trump – that the American president may not simply be Putin’s ally, but his asset.
Rolling Stone wants you to know- Trump’s America is a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin’s Evil World Dominance, ltd. It’s just a matter of time until Russky paratroopers are guarding the White House.
I figured RS would have been sued into nonexistence by now
New Details Emerge That Trump Was Really A SIberian Candidate!*
(*details not included.)
I caught Lawrence O’Dimwit last night comparing this to Nixon/Republican actual crimes in 1972. “Those dastardly Republicans are at it again, stealing elections. Be afwaid. Be very afwaid.” Needless to say, he sounded very concerned.
“but his asset.”
Sure. The guy with decades of interviews and statements expressing pro-American sentiments is a Russian asset. This crap is on par with thinking that Barry was some sort of islamofascist manturian candidate as opposed to an incompetent, corrupt chicago machine pol.
Having read the indictment, no, it doesn’t.
What did you do today?
My grandmother never forgave Frank for leaving Nancy.
I had no idea there was a Nancy Senior. That’s unusual.
Nancy Barbaro. ‘Such a nice woman!’ as granny put it. She didn’t like how he bolted the second he became famous.
Yeah, that’s the impression I got reading that link. “Hmm… apartment in Jersey City with the ball and chain… or Hollywood and an endless supply of floozies throwing themselves at me. Decisions, decisions….”
I notice nowhere was it mentioned in that retarded Applebee’s story they were black women. Alas, the picture gave it away.
really?
“Authorities identified the four women as Demetrius Boyd, Keterah Boyd, Lakisha Boyd and Lashondra Boyd”
I do not believe photograph evidence was required.
It gave it away but would it stop them from saying things like ‘four white women Kate Smith, Belinda Carlisle, Plain Jane and Jane Wyatt…”
Whoa that’s some foursome at an Applebee’s!
Actually, they were just upset because they had been told there was an all you can eat buffet there.
Makandan tourists still adjusting to their first Applebee’s experience eh?
You racist!
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/applebee-waitress-was-stabbed-after-she-brushed-against-diner-leg-cops-say/ShMHHoDxTMd0exxqevrsHK/
Damn, the camera does add a hundred pounds.
It might just be the Applebee’s that’s adding the weight
I would love to hear the recording of that attack. Nothing tops black women shouting and talking trash as they pummel someone.
Judge: Why were you sticking you leg out? Do you think that was prudent?
Accused: Slavery and the pay gap made me do it. Prudence is a social construct.
Judge: Innocent! Now let’s all enjoy these Bomb Pops!
/Accused sticks leg out, defendant falls. Everyone in court laughs.
To be fair, they probably didn’t fit in the booth.
I can’t even listen to Pelosi. There’s something in her voice and diction. It was the same with the Obamas. I felt like Kramer whenever he heard Mary Hart’s voice.
“Like most bright 9 year olds”
Belated Happy Birthday, SP!
OK, after SP’s masterpiece links yesterday
This is the second reference I have seen in my late reading but did not read Morning links so I went and looked.
*Standing ovation
A ’60s classic, where I can’t decide which is goofier, the costumes, the dancing, the hair, the psychedelic production, or the lyrics
The way people dressed in the 60’s and 70’s was ridiculous, (filthy fucking hippies) but at least men had the sense to wear shorts of a proper length as displayed by the guitar player. I hate the shorts that society declares appropriate for men these days. The damn things hit me in the knee caps and I find it annoying. May as well wear pants ffs.
It is getting ridiculous. I imagine the pendulum will swing back towards short-shorts some day.
Well stop imagining it.
Perv.
I go running in short shorts when it’s hot out… I get some insightful comments from passing motorists.
Men in culottes has never been a good look, and never will be. The end.
I will confess that I have some Thai fisherman pants that go just below the knee.
They’re my standard pants for lounging around or doing yardwork; not something I’d wear out on the town or anything. Comfortable as fuck, though. I’m wearing them right now.
Thai fisherman pants that go just below the knee
Cultural appropriation cannot rename capri pants.
+1 Lieutenant Dangle
Man that show was funny…for a while.
It had one of the greatest lines of all time in the wedding vows:
(tearfully) “I promise to be with you… until such time as we both agree we don’t want to be together anymore!”
They aren’t shorts, they are Kilts with legs…
I proudly wear cargo shorts and will for ever. They are very comfortable and I like putting stuff in the front cargo pockets as opposed to the back pockets.
Stuff? Like what? If you are carrying such a vast amount of stuff that you need eight extra pockets I recommend you get a back pack. Or go total, “I don’t give a fuck” and rock a fanny pack.
Wallet and cell phone. And gloves if I’m working around the yard.
And there are only 2 extra pockets.
You know who else didn’t eat meat and wanted to bend the world to his will?
Co-working giant WeWork Cos. thinks it can save the environment quicker than Elon Musk.
The startup has told its 6,000 global staff that they will no longer be able to expense meals including meat, and that it won’t pay for any red meat, poultry or pork at WeWork events. In an email to employees this week outlining the new policy, co-founder Miguel McKelvey said the firm’s upcoming internal “Summer Camp” retreat would offer no meat options for attendees.
“New research indicates that avoiding meat is one of the biggest things an individual can do to reduce their personal environmental impact,” said McKelvey in the memo, “even more than switching to a hybrid car.”
What the fuck is it with these people?
Good luck with that.
Christ, what an asshole
LOL. I was away at a training conference a few weeks ago and my company bought us lunch. Trays of meat, meat, and meat were the stars. Ohio BBQ…. Yummy.
So why bother offering to expense food , if you refuse to pay for an essential part? And im not just talking biologically, but also culturally, people tend to eat meet in their midday meal.
Eat meet? Like a nooner?
Isn’t that common? Happens at work all the time. We just pile in for the midday orgy.
I think your company’s teambuilding activities are quite novel.
I am very glad that that doesn’t happen in my office. For a variety of reasons.
Signal, signal, and virtue signal our way out of this global warming predicament we will. Yes we can.
I loved the fact that they said Juicero had a similar policy.
Maybe if those fuckheads had spent more time working on their product and less time social signaling….
Nah, Juicero was a stupid idea from the get go.
Indicates? SETTLED SCIENCEY!
“Our investors are getting antsy about how much money we’re spending to build Regus but more hip and less productive. How can we cut costs?”
“Maybe we could stop letting employees expense food?”
“But that would look cheap.”
“I know! We’ll say we’re saving the planet by only allowing them to expense garbage, and then they’ll spend less!”
Pretty genius, actually.
It’s like how every hotel asks you to reuse your towels, just to save the planet. The $$ savings to the hotel in staff time, laundry costs, etc are really meaningless compared to how it will eliminate climate change.
Andrew Cuomo’s re-election campaign is all about abortion. Because everyone knows Governors appoint SCOTUS, New York is a red state that would ban abortion, and politicians would never engage in irrational fear-mongering.
https://www.andrewcuomo.com/
Well, he knows which way the wind is blowing. He’s already turned the 50-odd upstate counties into Venezuela – let’s go for all 62!
Being able to get a taxpayer-funded abortion up to and including the time when the baby passes the birth canal is the civil rights fight of our time and the only right that matters. It is known.
Looking at the government tax receipts infuriated me. Because i see (even though i already knew this) that they are collecting over 10 grand per worker in taxes. And thenthe Dems have the gall to think that lowering taxes is bad for the little guy.
I’m still getting these fricken ‘comply with the EU or else’ emails. Today one came from a marketing website saying It’s important that you ‘Capture users consent’ visiting your website.
Even the phrase sends shivers down my spine.
Fuck the EU. Them and their fancy buildings, freaky history, and fabulous food.
I would like to visit the moon, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
I’m quite a fanatic of European culture myself, but I wouldn’t even visit London, Paris, or Brussels. It sounds like these places have been turned into dystopias.
I’d still like to visit the English countryside to see some castles, check out French wine country, and maybe some other rural European places. I just hope these regions aren’t ruined by the time I save up enough money to actually travel there.
I was in London last summer and it was fantastic. It’s definitely not reached the point of, say, San Francisco.
So not covered in shit?
And piss. Don’t forget the piss.
Speaking of travel, make sure your rental car arrangements for your Utah trip are firmly in place. The wife just got back from SLC and she said the FBI had all the rental cats cordoned off in a crime scene. Just a heads up. https://fox13now.com/2018/07/08/investigators-think-fire-that-burned-20-cars-at-salt-lake-city-international-airport-rental-car-lot-may-be-arson/
They are curious as to what started the fire ?
Were any of the cars battery powered ?
Wow! We are all set, though.
Thanks for the heads up!
Yeah. She was lucky to get a car (Gold Membership gave her priority). She said the rental desks at the airport were filled with alot of angry people and cussing about not being able to rent cars.
Different company and a day later. I assume they got it all figured out today.
I hope Mrs. G has an easier time coming back!
“Columnist Retracts Harvey Weinstein Interview, Says Conversation Was a “Social Visit”
The Spectator columnist Taki Theodoracopulos has retracted an interview with Harvey Weinstein in which the disgraced Hollywood mogul was quoted discussing the sexual assault allegations against him.
In a story published Friday — “Harvey Weinstein: ‘I offered acting jobs in exchange for sex, but so does everyone — they still do’” — Theodoracopulos wrote a column in defense of Weinstein and quoted him, in the first interview since the accusations and subsequent sex-crimes charges came to light, about his alleged behavior.
“You were born rich and privileged and you were handsome,” Weinstein is quoted as saying to Theodoracopulos. “I was born poor, ugly, Jewish and had to fight all my life to get somewhere. You got lots of girls, no girl looked at me until I made it big in Hollywood. Yes, I did offer them acting jobs in exchange for sex, but so did, and still does, everyone. But I never, ever forced myself on a single woman.””
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/columnist-retracts-new-harvey-weinstein-interview-1127027
Eric Burdon has perhaps the best voice in rock n roll. Great selection, OM!
Paul Rodgers has a sad.
Charlotte City Council considers saying no to 2020 GOP convention:
The scheduled vote Monday by the Charlotte, N.C., city council on final approval for its bid to host the 2020 GOP convention is turning into an unexpected cliffhanger, with liberal council members facing mounting pressure not to host President Donald Trump’s expected nomination for a second term.
Democratic Mayor Vi Lyles pledged the city’s support last spring when Charlotte entered what would prove to be the winning bid with national Republicans. She said Charlotte should be a place of inclusion, not exclusion.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/charlottes-hosting-of-2020-gop-convention-still-not-a-sure-thing-1531566000?mod=hp_listc_pos2
She said Charlotte should be a place of inclusion, not exclusion.
Except for those icky Republicans, right lady?
Self-awareness isn’t their strong suit.
“She said Charlotte should be a place of inclusion, not exclusion.”
Woosh?
What if the GOP promises to bake lots of Nazi wedding cakes?
Well, the last one was in the Nazi stronghold of Cleveland and look how that turned out.
We’ve become even more racist.
TW: Local alt-news paper.
Oh, my. Time to seed those areas with normal Americans who know how to behave and see what happens, right, Princeton sociologist Douglas Massey?
In fairness, I do live near an area where white socks and sandals is considered acceptable, as are pink flamingos as lawn ornaments.
Y’know, I’ve reached an age where I don’t give a shit about taboo accessorizing. Socks and sandals are eminently practical and I don’t care who knows it.
See my comment above about cargo shorts
Inclusion by exclusion. Bro, do you even ‘prog’?
Interspecies erotica?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5953437/Kylie-Minogue-joins-Muppets-stage-fun-filled-night-live-UK-tour.html
So if I have the current news cycle straight: Hillary, through pure negligence, gave some SAP materials to a foreign power. FBI doesn’t care.
Russia may have given the public information relevant to their interests. Trump must be guilty and FBI spends millions (maybe billions at this point) to try to catch him. This is why I hate everyone.
I have a co-worker who still mocks tge right about their “obsession over a few emails”. I want to smack him over it, because it’s the classic arrogance from a three year old. He has no clue what he’s talking about, but John olivier said it was a nothing burger. But Trump is compromised.
John Oliver? Good lord…
I really despise that smug asshole. I’ve only ever seen him be disingenuous at best.
Constant lies at worst.
I’m quite an Anglophile – I love Monty Python, Gilbert & Sullivan, Charles Dickens, etc…
But I can’t fucking stand the sight or sound of John Oliver. He is the epitome of the crusty, smarmy, snobby, elitist British person whose face just begs for a fist.
I mean, isn’t the left’s “obsession over a few emails” from Podesta and the DNC costing the taxpayers more than the GOP obsession?
“through pure negligence”
From the way it was described to me, this individual was deliberately CC’ed on all the emails. Not negligence, premeditation; which with material classified at that level is a Capital offense.
None call it treason…
It’s not like she took a selfie in a submarine or anything.
“A 21-year-old New Jersey woman named Susan Atrach has been charged with 11 felonies for allegedly hacking into the email of singer Selena Gomez, then sharing some of the information she stole from the account.
The Good For You singer’s email was targeted between June 2015 through February 2016, according to prosecutors with the Los Angeles County’s District Attorney’s office, TMZ reported.
Atrach has been charged with accessing and using computer data or taking supporting documentation without permission; five counts of identity theft and five counts of accessing and using computer data to commit fraud or to control or obtain money, property or data, according to the outlet.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5952907/Selena-Gomezs-email-hacked-New-Jersey-woman-charged-11-felonies.html
Also an amazing jam.
Yes. Yes it is.
Once upon a time there were girls with Daddy issues. They sought approval by taking nearly nude pictures.
http://archive.is/iUqEb
Too many to list individually, but 27 gets extra credit.
3’s outfit seems…impractical.
58 is the opposite of thicc and that’s a-okay with me.
87
Holy washboards girl. Can I bring my laundry over? Actually, that is kind of gross. I doubt she wants me to rub my swamp ass boxers on her stomach but you never know what someone might be into.
#72
Vintage rotary engine porn:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0XbqHUAI-0
Radial! How cool! Thanks, Count – that’s a good one!
Would!
The decline of small business entrepreneurship
If smaller and less productive businesses are driven out of business by bigger, more productive ones, is that bad for the economy? Maybe, maybe not. But it could have profound social and political effects that are hard to measure.
For centuries, small business has been a route to the middle class and the upper-middle class for the enterprising and the self-reliant. Merchants and craftspeople made up much of the urban middle class in pre-industrial Britain and France — the people Karl Marx labeled the “bourgeoisie.” This group benefitted enormously from the advent of modern capitalism, and in communist countries like the Soviet Union they often suffered severely.
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In other words, declining business opportunity may be pushing Americans toward socialism.
Of course, that might not be a bad thing; socialism, of the democratic kind practiced in Western Europe, has much to recommend it. But anyone who wants to preserve capitalism needs to grapple with the issue of big business dominance. They should be thinking very hard about policies to help small businesses compete with the big boys. That could mean stronger antitrust enforcement, lowering the barriers to starting a company, or directly supporting small businesses against their larger rivals.
The lack of small business opportunity may be pushing the trend of favorable views toward socialism? In part, maybe. The seemingly inexorable march toward bigness definitely worries me.
I don’t like the sound of that “directly supporting small businesses against their larger rivals” idea, though. And I definitely don’t think democratic socialism is the correct answer.
Maybe remove the regulations that the big guys can shrug off but hamstring the little guys
“big business dominance. They should be thinking very hard about policies to help small businesses compete with the big boys. That could mean stronger antitrust enforcement, lowering the barriers to starting a company, or directly supporting small businesses against their larger rivals.”
As someone who has worked almost exclusively in small businesses, the biggest hurdle,/issue is that government policies and regulations hinder small business and help big. The march to consolidation and big business is fueled by the fact that if you don’t get big or get absorbed by someone big, you will eventually not be able to sustain the regulatory burden.
Oh FFS. The only practical difference between the US and Europe is they take a larger share of money from productive people and give it to unproductive people. I don’t think that qualifies as even “democratic” socialism.
Democratic socialism is just facisim dressed up with a fancy name. Notice how most of these “Socialist” countries are also fiercely nationalistic.
Residents of Manhattan enthusiastically support an entire wish-list of policies that are killing small businesses there and then have the gall to complain about it. Stupid is…
“socialism, of the democratic kind”
Mass-murder is ok as long as it is democratic, right? Or am I not playing this game right?
Regulation and artificially low interest rates fuck over the little guys, at least in my industry.
I think this guy has a crush on Glenn Greenwald, but can’t admit to himself.
https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1017838992778321921
Thats stalker level creepy.
SJWs ruin everything.
http://smokeroom.com/2018/07/13/fifa-tells-world-cup-broadcasters-to-stop-zooming-in-on-hot-women-in-the-stands/
They did it to the F1 girls. They’ll do it to everything. They must be stopped.
What’s interesting was that everytime I click on a link I expect the story to skewed one way or the other. That was actually just straight reporting with no opinion. I don’t know the last time I saw that. She could have maybe added a couple of quotation marks.
“hate crime”
This should not even be a thing. It is, imho, patently unconstitutional to punish speech/thought. You punish the action, not the motive. And in this particular case, the guy didn’t actually assault her. So she can kindly fuck off. Of course, he can as well. There was no reason to berate that woman.
Hate crimes are an abomination because they amount to thoughtcrime. Who the fuck cares what was going on in someone’s head when they assaulted someone? The assault is the crime, not what the assailant was thinking.
Devil’s advocate. Defendants thoughts are taken into account during sentencing all the time. Did he have a “good” reason or feel remorse. What are his chances of doing the crime again. Those things matter. Making sentencing for one line of thought more formal isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Not just sentencing. Premeditation often increases the degree of charges, and mens rea is part of (or supposed to be part of) whether someone committed a crime.
Although I do agree generally that hate crimes should be charged for the underlying crime. The enhancer gives notoriety and accomplishment to some people. Charging them with mere assault (or property damage) takes a bit of wind out of their sails and perhaps publicizes their acts less.
As part of determining intent, I have no issue with it. I do have a problem with making it a separate crime or modifier altogether.
It allows the Feds to get involved in everything for what usually amounts to nothing other than an exercise in political grandstanding.
The “but he needed killin’ defense”. Not sure we want to head down that slope.
… Hobbit
“”Defendants thoughts are taken into account during sentencing all the time.”‘
even if true (it is), i think its moot re: the question of Hate Crime *charges* being made w/o first proving some underlying crime occurred.
iow, the thoughts by-themselves can’t be the basis for a prosecution. and yet what seems to be charged in this instance is mere-speech
The Wimbledon tennis gods have been listening to me the last couple days, at least on the men’s side. Happy results.
Damn. Forgot to watch that.
Why are you not a fan of Nadal out of curiosity?
Djokovic is an AC Milan fan so he’s okay by me.
He’s so tweaky and gross-looking it’s uncomfortable just watching him. So, purely subjective reasons.
Oh, and now I have to root for Anderson. Thanks for sharing that info!
I’ve never rooted for Nadal, but damn is he a tenacious competitor.
He’s a bully who whines constantly when anybody has the chutzpah to enforce the rules against him.
Go Kerber!
Seriously.
Entrepreneurial opportunities for degenerate Glibs.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-make-hundreds-of-thousands-per-year-owning-a-porn-site-2013-8
So I’m sitting on a beach on the last day of vacation. Swimming is red-flagged as it has been most of the week. Today and the first day here were the only two days that it seemed justifiable. So fuck the nanny-state. Anyway, I ate a lot of good food and drank a lot of good beer/wine. Not looking forward to getting back to the old grind on Monday.
OBX?
So what are they gonna do, arrest you for swimming?
As someone who has worked almost exclusively in small businesses, the biggest hurdle,/issue is that government policies and regulations hinder small business and help big. The march to consolidation and big business is fueled by the fact that if you don’t get big or get absorbed by someone big, you will eventually not be able to sustain the regulatory burden.
He makes it sound as if supply chain efficiency and economies of scale are what hinders small businesses’ ability to compete, without mentioning compliance costs and the forced inefficiency and time wasting effects of regulation.
It’s funny because the common view is that competition is the sticking point for small businesses, but in reality most small businesses don’t have to focus on competition as much (they still need to be competitive), since they only need to carve out a small bit of market share to sustain itself. Raising costs of operation, via regulation, hurt small biz. The opposite is the case for big biz who have to focus on competition much more than hiring another lawyer.
supply chain efficiency and economies of scale
Seems to me that the internet and info technology in general are probably/could be eroding the advantage of having an “owned” supply chain and economies of scale by allowing smaller outfits to network, do group purchasing, etc. I also look at the advances in third party logistics management (thinking mainly UPS, but they aren’t the only one) as another way for smaller outfits to match the advantages of bigger outfits.
“Earlier today the Grand Jury for the District of Columbia charged twelve Russian intelligence officers with conspiring “to gain unauthorized access (to ‘hack’) into the computers of U.S. persons and entities involved in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, steal documents from those computers, and stage releases of the stolen documents to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.” The operation was sustained and sophisticated, and it targeted “over 300 individuals affiliated with the Clinton Campaign, DCCC, and DNC,” according to the indictment.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/robert-muellers-indictments-show-witches-are-very-real/
Sorry, Dave, that doesn’t mean that those Russians were successful, that they were responsible for the DNC emails put on Wikileaks, that a bunch of hackers from other countries weren’t doing the same thing, or that the DNC wasn’t at fault for the content of those emails in the first place.
French is like the Dalmia of NR.
I don’t like French, but that’s just mean.
“e DNC wasn’t at fault for the content of those emails in the first place.”
Mentining the racist, elitist and illegal content is verboten.
Meanwhile, Imran Awan, his friends, family and Debbie Wasserman Schultz managed to get by with a cursory glance from law enforcement and diligent indifference from the media.
that they were responsible for the DNC emails put on Wikileaks
The indictment claims the DOJ has infrastructural and financial evidence that the same parties are behind the DNC & DCCC hacks, DCLeaks, and Guccifer 2.0. They additionally claim to have evidence that “Organization 1” (WikiLeaks) solicited and received stolen emails from Guccifier 2.0.
This being an indictment it does not actually go into any detail, it just makes allegations. But this is not the usual lazy inference on the part of journalists, the indictment actual is claiming the emails on WikiLeaks came from the hack(s).
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Now we’ll see if Trump offers Assange a deal in exchange for testimony.
I eagerly await the lawyers for the Russians demanding a speedy trial and forcing the DOJ to put up or shut up. I predict, “shut up”.
Wasn’t the DNC server destroyed rather than let the FBI look at it? Although why the DNC would be worried about what the FBI would do with anything, anything at all that it found on the DNC is a mystery. The same FBI, hell, the same group of agents, let Hillary walk when we now know (and they knew) that every single email on her homebrew server was in the hands of a foreign country.
infrastructural and financial evidence
OK, financial evidence I get – they’ve tracked some money transfers here. Great, although that is a long way from proving what the money was paying for, which is kinda the point. I have no clue what infrastructural evidence is, but I’m betting its something from the NSA tapping internet traffic which they can’t disclose in court.
Hacking into computers and stealing shit – fine, that’s a crime. Releasing documents to the public? Unless those documents have classified info in them, not a crime. And if they did, it sets up people who were responsible for keeping that classified info secret for charges themselves. If so, who gave classified info to the DNC and the Clinton campaign, and why aren’t they being charged?
As you know, claiming to have evidence is different than showing evidence. And I doubt there will be any discovery unless they indict an American.
The first batch of Russians Mueller indicted demanded to see the evidence and proceed to trial, which means they want to conduct discovery. Why would this batch do anything different? There’s no downside – no way any of them will ever see the inside of an American jail or pay a penny in fines (or legal fees, since I would expect the Russian government to pay the lawyers defending its military).
Even if they do, expect to hear claims of national security/secrets will be exposed, therefore granting exemptions.
If the government can’t present evidence sufficient to convict, for any reason, the charges get dropped or dismissed. And they can’t present evidence in a criminal trial in secret (as far as I know) or before the defense has a chance to look at it.
“If you knew what we know, but aren’t going to tell you, you’d convict” is a guaranteed loser.
The objective is not to convict.
The objective is to throw the mid-terms.
Yeah, I know. I don’t think its gonna work.
What just astonishes me is that, if you take Mueller at face value, that the Russians are trying to create disruption in the US,* these indictments play directly into their hands because now they have criminal court proceedings to fuck with us, either by embarrassing the DOJ/FBI by forcing the withdrawal of charges or by forcing the disclosure of our intel capabilities. Because there is no way at all that these cases were built without info from the intelligence community.
*Perhaps the one thing he is right about.
Of course the Russians are trying to disrupt our political process. I don’t understand why we are trying so hard to help them.
One should be very skeptical of any such claims. Given what is alleged, it should all be provable without any “secret” evidence. Of course, this being a trial and all, the evidence won’t be immediately available to the public even if it’s not “national security” related.
Caveat: above statement does not apply to proving that the individuals named in the indictment are agents of the Russian government; that would almost certainly require at least some classified intelligence to show.
I understand that the most recent indictment is of actual Russian military officers, so “agents of the Russian government” is pretty much a given. Of course, the lack of US jurisdiction over them is also pretty much a given, as well.
Fair enough. I had not actually looked into who was indicted. Then the lynchpin would be proving that the named individuals are, in fact, the perpetrators.
I’m betting its something from the NSA tapping internet traffic which they can’t disclose in court
That’s doubtful. More likely, the evidence–if it exists–consists of logs and other records extracted after the fact by a forensic investigation. “Company 1” may (read: should if they were competent) have also set up an IDS and network monitoring once they were hired, and that would also provide evidence. Of course, all of these things* can be forged/tampered with easily so the key to assessing it will lie in corroboration from multiple independent sources.
* = With some exceptions, like the bitcoin blockchain.
a forensic investigation
Of what? Not the DNC server. I have no idea if the Clinton campaign let the feds get their hands on their server, but I seriously doubt it. Did these foreign agents actually use servers located in the US that the FBI could get their hands on? Again, I seriously doubt it.
Prediction: as pure publicity stunts, these cases will be dismissed, with sanctimonious statements from Mueller that its Trump’s fault.
The indictment alleges that many computers were compromised, not just one server. And as noted, a company (Cloudstrike, I assume) was hired to provide security services. Of course, if the FBI or another police agency did not have any access to any of the affected computers, then the chain of custody is called into question.
But even if it was just one computer, there are still ways to find out if something suspicious was going on without directly accessing that machine. Records of packet traffic crossing the network boundary and login records from the domain controller are, off the top of my head, two pieces of evidence that can be collected from other sources. Depending on how the data was stored, there may also be other implicating records as well (e.g. unusual access patterns to the SAN, etc.).
And Cloudstrike was founded by Dmitri Alperovitch, who was born in Moscow.
Moreover, current best practice is to record “audit logs” of any potentially suspicious activity on a computer and automatically upload those logs to another location. So, for example, if I compromise a machine, I can scrub any evidence I was there and prevent the exact nature of what I did from being recorded. However, I can’t stop the fact-of my intrusion from being recorded. However, it is doubtful that the DNC was doing this, especially before they hired a security consultant.
I defer to the more knowledgable as to what evidence can be pulled from computers that the FBI actually has (legal) access to.
However, I am highly, highly skeptical that this case was built without using intelligence, rather than law enforcement, assets. And that’s going to poison the case, either because the FBI/DOJ can’t or won’t disclose it, or because it involves evidence that is inadmissable because it was gathered without a warrant.
We’ll see, of course, but the mere fact that this case has all these difficulties makes it even stupider to bring it against people you have no jurisdiction over.
I don’t agree with the lack of jurisdiction. The DNC and DCCC are based in the United States and the crime, as alleged, was committed against them and their equipment located here in the U.S. While the Internet complicates questions of jurisdiction, the alleged victims are undeniably Americans on U.S. soil. Foreign nationals certainly aren’t exempt from prosecution for crimes committed here.
Guccifer might have sent emails to Wikileaks, or not. That doesn’t mean he hacked the DNC.
Also, the transfer rates on the DNC emails make it look like it was local.
I dunno what they have, of course, but I think not having any evidence from the actual server that was hacked is going to make “reasonable doubt” almost insurmountable.
Its a garbage indictment on so many levels. But the worst part of it may the timing. You do this right before the President is supposed to meet with the Russians? You couldn’t wait a week? No, the timing gives the game away. Mueller is about disrupting and delegitimizing the President of the Unites States. This is what treason looks like in a bureaucratic state.
“Guccifer release was not the same as the Wikileaks DNC leak release. I feel like people are conflating the two.”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1017806818159091713
What I’d be most concerned with is that they have sufficient unclassified evidence to prove all of the claims except that the named defendants were the actual perpetrators and/or that they are agents of the Russian government, for which they will defer to “classified” evidence that can’t be released. They’ve built up enough hysteria through the media that the perception “Russian name = Russian spy” will be enough to convict in the court of public opinion. In other words, they will prove all but the most important element of the alleged crime and bank on people trusting they can prove the rest.
“You know they’re witches because we hanged them” — David French, ca. 1690s, Salem
“This is rapidly becoming a weekly feature.”
She’ll never retire. I for one will be happy when she’s gone but I’m not very confident that her replacement will be any better given the derptardedness of her constituency.
The horror
Got an add to support the site quoting chomsky “any dictator would love the uniformity and obedience of the US media”. Don’t think this site is quite off the reservation when they are puppeting the same talking points as the rest of the media.
How can they allow this to go on and on? Seems to me, that a permit would be needed.
“any dictator would love the uniformity and obedience of the US media”
Hard to argue with that.
Philadelphia has had a long history of not putting up with bullshit lefty groups and being quite heavy-handed in dealing with them (despite being a democratic stronghold since basically forever)
maybe they should pack up and move to Osage Ave
Pack up and MOVE to Osage Ave?
Ha!
😉
night-sticking young women and children to the ground
Is there video of this? I’m willing to believe they did (Philadelphia cops and all), but I think its kinda unlikely. And I certainly don’t take anything Occutards say at face value. This whole thing is a publicity stunt, so I would expect video of just about any break in the routine. Video of police on horses beating women and children to the ground would be red-hot, especially since the only thing you can reach with a nightstick from horseback is the head.
Show me the video, or it didn’t happen.
Yeah, I’m calling bullshit on that too.
She said there was plenty of photographic evidence proving the cops were beating children, young women, and people in wheelchairs.
She was just too busy to post any of it.
Oh those poor, poor invalids known as college-age females…
I love the way they brag about using children, the handicapped, and women as human shields.
Sounds like a child endangerment charge is in order…
College age females? You mean adult women?
All this talk about tariffs… so I’m trying to find out what tariffs we charge per good/country and my Google foo is failing. Ie where can I see what tariff we charge on Imported German cars. I was able to find that Germany charges 29% on American imported cars.
Maybe this:
https://hts.usitc.gov/current
I havn’t poked around much to see what it actually has.
Seems Live animals are duty free but 6.8% on asses. HM hardest hit.
Piling on the tariffs a bit thicc, huh?
Maybe with a bit of lobbying we can get them to crack on that one.
I’d rather we just send them all to Uranus
I’m going to call my congressman, and urge him to get to the bottom of this. End these tariffs. I blame tRUMP.
Thanks. Tons of info but still nothing about tariffs on imports per country.
Most of my searching has just resulted in OMG Trump articles.
To be honest, I am not even sure what I am looking at there. The abbreviations in the “special” column I assume are countries? It would require more effort than I am willing to expend at the moment to understand how to read that table. I am in pool, beer and cooking mode.
How can we get the Supreme Court to reshape society into the Paradise we envision?
Beyond devoting Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings to learning how many ways he can avoid opining on abortion rights and Roe v. Wade, the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee should focus on the precarious state of the court itself. How does Kavanaugh propose to preserve the court’s integrity when so many of its decisions are issued as red team versus blue team? How would he help construct a bridge across the court’s expanding partisan chasm? How can the court’s decisions be better crafted to reflect American society as a whole instead of sharpened into weapons of one political party or one side of a culture war?
It’s a lamentable sign of our times that these questions need to be asked.
Lamentable, indeed.
The truly lamentable thing is that “thought leaders” (at Bloomberg and elsewhere) write about the Supreme Court without ever mentioning the Constitution.
“Bi-partisan” means the left gets everything it wants and the Constitution is used to line bird cages.
“Liberals have a new wish every time their latest wish is granted. Conservatives should make them spell out their principles and ideals. Instead of doing this, conservatives allow liberals to pursue incremental goals without revealing their ultimate destination. So, thanks to the negligence of their opponents, liberals control the terms of every debate by always demanding “more” while never defining “enough”. The predictable result is that they always get more, and it’s never enough.”
…Joseph Sobran
They just want “common sense” incremental change in perpetuity.
Very much like children.
I disagree with the use of the word liberal here, although I admit the term has been coopted. You can always move further leftward or rightward, but liberalism itself has a finality to it (see: Coolidge’s speech on the matter). Once you have adopted freedom of speech, there is no new wish (in that matter). The only thing left to be done is to live up to that value.
“I disagree with the use of the word liberal here”
Unfortunately Progs stole that monitor after they ruined the term progressive. Now that they’ve ruined liberal they have started using prog again. Public has short memory.
Moniker.
“How can the court’s decisions be better crafted to reflect American society”
Thats not how decisions are supposed to be written so this question is a non-starter. The fact that saying the court is supposed to apply the constitution is seen as ideological is a problem. Id say that we have a problem where one side has gone completely authoritarian, but both GOP and Dems are fine with chucking the constitution.
“decisions be better crafted to reflect American society”
It’s not supposed to reflect society. It’s supposed to reflect the document that created the government and what the governments authority is.
But government is society/prog
“And I rarely have sympathy for a cop, but I do for this one.”
I don’t. First if all, his only job at a park is to keep drunk people from harassing people and he can’t even do that so what’s he getting paid for? Second, even if he wasn’t a cop, he could at least be a man. If I see some asshole harassing some young girl and getting in her face that POS going to have to deal with me and if he doesn’t stop he’s getting his ass kicked. First amendment doesn’t mean you get to force everyone out of a public space by getting in their face and calling them names. I’m not leaving, and I’m not putting up with it. So the cops either handle it or he’s probably going to the hospital. Avoiding personal justice lime that is the only legitimate reason for a justice system to exist in the first place. So handle it or give me immunity for handling it myself, instead of arresting me for giving ass kicking where ass kicking are needed. Assholes don’t get to avoid consequences. It sounds like the department is handling it and little ms snowflake just needs to stfu up at this point, but fuck that cop.
Harassment is an act of aggression.
I won’t go that far, because it opens the door for a lot of violent government action. Especially when harrasment is defined by one party.
Your with your family at a park (that you pay taxes for) minding your own business and trying to enjoy your day. Drunk guy gets in your face and calls you names and won’t leave you alone. What do you do about it that doesn’t involve being a pussy?
As i say below, what you outline sounds much more like assault and not mere harrasment. I won’t rehash everything i say below but in short equating harassment and aggression opens the doors to represive policies. See SJW’s campaign against free speach.
I’m with Almighty on this. Harassment (at least beyond a certain point) is an act of aggression – credibly threatening violence or putting a reasonable person in fear of violence is aggression.
Fear or not. Getting in my face and calling me names is an act or aggression and as I said, if the cops aren’t going to deal with it, then anyone who is not a pussy will. How does that even make sense? At all. I’m trying to figure out what else is supposed to happen?
I’d call that assault, but i don’t think it’s wise to equate harrasment with aggression out right. Think of any partisan who is harrased by another party. Does that ok violence against that party? (Think how modern SJW’s want to actively go after those with wrong think). Obviously this is easier when happening on private property, because refusing to leave is an act of agression. But here on ‘public property ‘ it gets confused.
Finally i want to say: that in this specific case i might agree that the actions were aggressive, but im talking about the general argument that “harrasment is aggression” which i simply can’t get behind because i feel it makes aggression to vauge and opens the door for many repressive policies.
Again though, I’m looking for the solution. Seems like either the cop deals with it or I do. I’m paying taxes to ENJOY that park. My options are let every drunken asshole who doesn’t like white males chase me out (not an option) or beat the shit out him (which is illegal). I hear what you’re saying but you’ve offered no viable solution.
“Harassment is an act of aggression.”
This is the point I’m in disagreement with. I’ve stated multiple times this sounds much more like assault. The ideal solution would be to have private ownership and let the owners set policies. When we get into public ownership we get these situations where there is a lot of confusion. But as stated earlier my opposition is to the phrase “Harassment is an act of aggression.”
Obviously the word harassment could be subjective. I think there’s a difference between me coming into your space and telling you what you can and cannot say and you coming into my space just to fuck with me. There has to be a solution that doesn’t involve the aggressor being the only person allowed to enjoy a park that everyone in the community is paying for. Certainly if I go visit a courthouse or someplace where there is a protest going on or even walking down a sidewalk then its on me to put up with it or leave. That’s a different situation.
“public property ‘ it gets confused.”
Seems to me like the purpose of the public place can make a difference. You can”t harass people at a library, you cant even disturb people at a library or you will be taken out of there by the cops. Is that an infringement on the 1st amendment? Are libraries just safe spaces for snowflakes? Why should I be prevented from utilizing a public park?
Ok seeing you are refusing to acknowledge my point im going to try one last time from your angle. At what point is someone elses activities preventing you from enjoying the park? Does someone wearing a MAGA hat mean you can cry harrasment and have them hauled away? Im not saying this asshole was right or deserved to not be taken away. Im saying mere “harrasment ” should not be the bar for initating retributive violence.
I thought acknowledged your point in the comment above the one you responded to.
I apologize i somehow missed that.
No worries bro:)
*slow clap*
There’s no laws against being a non-violent asshole.
Agree with them or not, there are laws about disturbing the peace.
Same goes with public drunkenness and there are usually specific rules regarding that at public parks.
Shockingly, there exist laws that are plainly unconstitutional.
Im looking forward to seeing “the right to harass families at public parks” on the next Libertarian platform.
Well you probably know more about restraining orders than anyone here OMWC:).
Try parking in a neighborhood at 2am with Slayer cranked up on your stereo.
LOL Slayer? You in Minnesota or something? In my city it’s inevitably shitty autotuner rap flavored by whichever the dominant ethnicity of the neighborhood is. You’d be surprised how much Middle Eastern shit rap there is.
Yes, it’s rap here as well. Going to get worse as I get older.
Uffda. You can’t say mean things about our musical tastes here in Minnesoda (Tundra is an outlier).
We are just as “hip” as any of you big city types.
Now who is this “Slayer”? Are they a new band? I should go download some of their stuff so I can play it in the card to impress my teen age kids.
Minnesoda Music
Bad link. Was it Prince?
Gah! Why did I figure out what your broken link went to?
I would rather participate in a weekend long dance-a-thon featuring nothing but noted NoDak Lawrence Welk music than sit through a half hour of a Prairie Home Companion
Not sure what happened. Let’s try again.
Not exactly
See?! NoDak is better than Minnesoda!
Cute:)
Nancy is really looking waxy these days.
They’re too tired from protesting Trump
How old are those juveniles?
In some cases, actually young, 5 to 10 years old.
They’d just be protesting “guns” instead of actual underlying issues so why bother.
“The principal question before the joint investigation of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees is whether the Democratic administration’s law-enforcement and intelligence arms strained to manufacture an espionage case against the Republican candidate, having buried an eminently prosecutable criminal case against the Democratic presidential nominee.
It should be straightforward to answer this question, provided that the investigative process has the one attribute central to any credible probe: the capacity to compel the production of evidence and testimony, with the corollary power to hold witnesses in contempt for defiance.
The House investigation has devolved into farce because it lacks this feature.
Oh, it exists on paper. There is even a statute making contempt of Congress a crime, punishable by up to a year in prison (and not less than a month). That may not sound like much, but the months can pile up: A separate offense occurs each time a question is ducked or a document is not surrendered. As the Wall Street Journal’s Bill McGurn explains, Congress has inherent power to enforce its subpoenas unilaterally, or it can seek assistance from the other branches.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/peter-strzok-testimony-congress-should-use-contempt-power-or-end-investigations/
As usual, McCarthy sums it up well.
Yes, I’ve been wondering why contempt charges weren’t ordered.
“Leftist Activists in Portland Berate Black ICE Agent, Repeatedly Call Him a ‘F–king N—-r’ (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/leftist-activists-in-portland-berate-black-ice-agent-repeatedly-call-him-a-f-king-n-r/
Faking nagger?
Faking Numenor.
These SJW’s and their LARPing
Numerator, please.
At least he always gets to be on top.
Another example of the racial division in this country. Sad.
It’s a product of toxic whiteness, to be sure.
I don’t look forward to the remainder of these comments.
I feel like there’s a pattern in these comments, but I can’t find the common denominator.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiCfEp5V4AIfhtI.jpg
“I demand the heat death of the universe!”
I know right.
It should be straightforward to answer this question, provided that the investigative process has the one attribute central to any credible probe: the capacity to compel the production of evidence and testimony, with the corollary power to hold witnesses in contempt for defiance.
Based on the video clip of that smarmy little homunculus Strozk’s behavior before the committee (linked recently by somebody), the fact that he wasn’t dragged out of his chair and clapped in irons on the spot pretty much makes the notion of “contempt of Congress” as a punishable offense meaningless.
night-sticking young women and children to the ground
It’s an antifa wet dream.
https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1017790471073091584
oooh burn!
“Trump’s ambassador lobbied Britain on behalf of jailed right-wing activist Tommy Robinson
LONDON (Reuters) – Sam Brownback, the U.S. Ambassador for International Religious Freedom, complained to the British ambassador in Washington D.C. about the treatment of an English right-wing activist who is in jail for disrupting a trial, according to three sources familiar with the discussion.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-britain-robinson/trumps-ambassador-lobbied-britain-on-behalf-of-jailed-right-wing-activist-tommy-robinson-idUSKBN1K331J
We’re probably supposed to be outraged! at this, right?
I’m sure. Defending a far-right nut-job and/or meddling in other county’s affairs.
I think we can just be outraged at the defense of free speech rights, at this point.
They should fire back with questions about one of our political prisoners. Say, Ross Ulbricht.
If only they gave a shat.
I’ve got mixed feelings on Ulbricht. A lot of what he was charged with is bullshit, but it seems pretty clear that he was involved in some shady genuinely criminal shit (kidnapping, attempted murder-for-hire). The government pulled a Capone on him but that doesn’t make him not guilty.
Except he wasn’t convicted of any of that stuff.
Hence, mixed feelings.
I dunno. It seems like if they had a case they would have piled on as many convictions as possible.
Nebulous bullshit is easier to prosecute.
The trick is to be outraged all of the time.
HOW DARE YOU?? *faints*
In other news, average Reuters journalists can’t break 800 on their combined SAT score.
“Silly Trump should be known there is no freedom of speech in Britain. What a maroon.”
Religious freedom means never having your religion criticized? Somebody in the West should let Christians know, I’m sure they’ll be surprised to hear that.
Of all the things Robinson has been convicted of, fraud is not one.
Well, actually…
It’s not why he’s in jail right now, though.
Huh, well shit
They should fire back with questions about one of our political prisoners. Say, Ross Ulbricht.
Kim Dotcom.
Going to jail for speeding?
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/georgia-officers-accused-of-using-coin-flip-app-to-decide-whether-or-not-to-arrest-woman/1302122126