No worries….just because sloopy is not here for the morning links, no need to panic. We have so got this!
Sports…um. OK, nothing happened yesterday. Apparently nothing will happen today either.
History – Oh, let us see here. Disneyland opened in 1955. Not really something that gets the blood pumping… How about in 1945, the Potsdam Conference began. Jo DiMaggio ended his hitting streak at 56. Man…kind of weak today. REMAIN CALM, WE HAVE BIRTHDAYS!!!
Birthdays – 1744, Elbridge Gerry (“Gerrymandering”). 1889 – Erle Gardner (wrote “Perry Mason”). 1894 – That Belgian dude who sort of was the first guy with the Big Bang theory, Georges Lemaître. 1899 – James Cagney (insert bad gangster impression here) . 1912 – Noted Canadian and early TV guy, Art Linkletter. 1917 – Baseball hooman (inventor of the infield shift) Lou Bourdeau [he was also a basketball player and coach…look it up.] Also that year, Phyllis Diller. 1920 – Inventor of the “laser”, Gordon Gould. 1952 – THE HASS! Germany rejoices.
Links –
- I need a costume change here… [dons Zerohedge hat and Infowars T-Shirt]. I KNEW IT!!!!!! SEE! HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOMELAND!1!1!eleventy!!1oneoneone!!
- Things are so bad in Syria, that people will try to enter TEH ZIONIST ENTITY for refuge. Funny, I don’t see anyone fleeing from Israel to one of her neighbors?
- “This isn’t real life; this is Instagram” – Seriously bad news for Q, HM and many others…admirers of the thicc or the busty.
- A point of etiquette, Mr. Lizard. Could you get a room, please?
So, as you see….we have things under control here at Glibs HQ! *faint sound of alarm* Now, if you will pardon me, I, uh, have to get back to things.
Decisions, Decisions!
“I KNEW IT!!!!!! SEE! HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOMELAND!1!1!eleventy!!1oneoneone!!”
Does his brother live there?
Did they visit with each other?
It doesn’t say.
An app called Facetune has made photo retouching a cinch for even the most novice of editors.
Pros use Jager.
Jagermeister? cause everyone looks cuter after that?
Keep forgetting I’m old and it’s 2018. Should’ve went with Meth.
In my experience regular ol’ beer will do, so long as you’ve got the dosage right.
In my case it is many more gallons than my belly can hold and my kidneys can process in a quick time.. I will have to stick with Jim beam and Jack Daniels.
I can’t drink more than 2 beers anymore. I blow up like a Trump Baby.
Luckily, I suffer from an advanced case of whiskey dick, which has saved my ass many a night.
I fucking hate Whiskey dick man… It is making me feel like an old man.
A point of etiquette, Mr. Lizard. Could you get a room, please?
We have learned it takes a lot to be below “family-friendly”.
Sounds very family friendly.
Hey, they were trying to make a family. What isn’t friendly about that?!
A lizard family, which, as we all know, are anathema to the health and well-being of proper, God-fearing mammal families.
Your mother didn’t seem to mind…
Well she is a lot lizzard so she is already one of yours….
They’ve moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the lizards, and they were married…
Did they take your red Swingline stapler, too?
I’d love to have an aqua blue swingline.
🙁 Sky blue was the closest.
Lol. The red Swingline is specially marked as “Amazon’s Choice for ‘red stapler'”.
Thanks!
I bet they gave him a can of roach spray when they moved him into the basement.
If you watch it carefully it’s like STEVE SMITH in slowmo
Reptilian Rape Culture…abhorrent.
Sports…um. OK, nothing happened yesterday. Apparently nothing will happen today either. – there’s nba summer league. Josh hart had 37 points for example.
NBA Summer League? you have proved my point.
[see “Doug McDermott”]
Doug McDermott is just about to break out to all star levels
What’s the MLB home run derby, chopped liver?
Yes, to answer my own question, that’s exactly what it is. I’ll also accept weak beer or small potatoes.
“Chopped Liver, Small Potatoes no butter no salt, mug of weak beer”
in today’s episode of “Sportsball or Uncivil’s Lunch Order”
It’s sportsball. Aside from the fact that my lunch order was corned beef, Liver should be served sliced and fried with onions. Small potatos are best suited as Salt Potatos which are massively salted and buttered. And we’ve discussed beer already.
Lowest Rated Episode Ever.
Best episode to sleep by.
“Funny, I don’t see anyone fleeing from Israel to one of her neighbors?”
Well, they can go to sunny Los Angeles, where (((they))) are totes welcome.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/33102/kosher-cafe-targeted-immigrant-owners-support-amanda-prestigiacomo
I even found some nice homes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5961679/Anna-Faris-cuts-price-Hollywood-Hills-home-300-000.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5961755/Sandra-Bullock-lists-contemporary-West-Hollywood-pad-2-9million.html
FTA:
Pro-immigration but anti-gentrification? Not exactly paragons of intellectual consistency there – gentrification is basically just immigration on a small scale.
Oh, no, no, they’re Pro-Poverty.
Especially if those people end up having to vote for the poverty pimp party.
I need a costume change here… [dons Zerohedge hat and Infowars T-Shirt]. I KNEW IT!!!!!! SEE! HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOMELAND!1!1!eleventy!!1oneoneone!!
Why would Kenyan leaders do something silly like that? It is one of the main leverages to power
Maybe they want fair elections?
“WH Touts Kenyan Program to Obtain National ID Cards for Voter Registration
As President Obama and his family continue their tour of Africa, the White House put out a Fact Sheet entitled “U.S. Support for Strengthening Democratic Institutions, Rule of Law, and Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.” One of the first items highlighted by the White House is a $53 million program in Kenya that helps young people “obtain National identification cards, a prerequisite to voter registration.”
https://www.weeklystandard.com/wh-touts-kenyan-program-to-obtain-national-id-cards-for-voter-registration/article/737990
But voter registration laws are racist! Looks like Obama’s trying to introduce Jim Crow to Africa!
Of course, Obama supports ID cards to vote in Kenya. After all in Kenya, ID cards keep whitey from voting.
if everyone is black, then voter ID cards are totes cool, is what these douches will reply with..
White Kenyans are still a thing. They’re also most likely to prnounce it ‘Keenya’
Democracy dies in Demented Hysteria
The events of the past few days — culminating in President Trump’s meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin — have rendered this interpretation inescapable: Trump is currently in the process of repaying Putin for helping to deliver him the presidency.
Whatever comes of this meeting — even if Trump does, in fact, gain some concessions from Putin, and even if Putin does not get what he wants out of Trump — that storyline will remain operative. The known facts have now established it beyond any serious doubt, and the only alternative interpretations of that now-established basic bargain that make any sense are actually more nefarious than that one.
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In blaming only previous U.S. leadership and the current Mueller probe for bad relations with Russia — and not Russia’s attack on our democracy, which is particularly galling, now that this attack has been described in great new detail — Trump is not merely spinning in a way that benefits himself. He’s also giving a gift to Putin, by signaling that he will continue to do all he can to delegitimize efforts to establish the full truth about Russian interference, which in turn telegraphs that Russia can continue such efforts in the future (which U.S. intelligence officials have warned will happen in the 2018 elections). In a sense, by doing this, Trump is colluding with such efforts right now.
Inescapable, I tells ya! When will the 25th Amendment be invoked? The man is a traitor!
I have a twitter feed for my podcast and it winds up following every damn lefty in creation. The amount of Russia hysteria and cries of treason astound me. Where we these folks when the Russians were actually a threat?
Lecturing us on how the Cold War was evil and the commies were really nice people with good ideas.
You are talking about the Obama years, or does this go back all the way to the Bolshevik revolution?
I was talking Cold War. Once the Russians gave up on communism, the Dems just pretended they didn’t exist for about 2 decades.
Not only that, these democrats have been making fun of people pointing out the Russians were up to no good, and this practice was in high gear during the Obama years. I think Romney is a tool, but the guy was right when he pointed out that Russia was a problem in 2012, only to have Obama and a slew of prominent democrats make fun about him and telling him that the Cold War was over. Russia was totes cool with these resisters back then and considered a non-entity. That is, until they aired the dnc/democratic party’s dirty laundry and informed the American public about how corrupt these democrats were and how the abuse of power by Obama administration – which used every organ of the deep state to go after their political enemies – made Nixonian practices look tame.
I actually had a friend post “maybe the Republicans would think the Kremlin is a threat if it was full of brown people”.
Nope, can’t think of any Republicans who thought Russia or USSR was a threat.
Ha, I just went searching for the post and it’s been deleted, probably because of my brief reply asking how Reagan fits into his theory.
Or even how Trump actually fits into it, considering he spent the previous week browbeating the Euros to spend more on defense and stop buying oil/gas from Russia. Which efforts the press and the bureaucratic class were trying to undermine, despite the fact that it would have given Trump a stronger hand in his dealings with Russia this week. You can’t knock the feet out from under someone and then turn around and complain that they aren’t dealing from a position of strength, yet here we are.
“delegitimize efforts to establish the full truth about Russian interference, ”
He’s trying to delegitimize our illegitimate attempt to get rid of him through lies.
HE STOLE THE ELECTION WE HAD RIGGED AND THOUGHT WE HAD STOLEN!
I larfed when Putin said, “about those Intelligence Agencies…I used to work for one…and, as you know, they all lie”
Can you trust that man to tell the truth about anything?!?!
I don’t know about Putin, but team blue’s anger at the Russians sure seems to be because after they hacked the dnc servers, they had the temerity to release factual information about how corrupt the dnc was, including stealing the primaries from Bernie, rigging the delegates, mismanaging the cash on hand, and basically covering for crooked Hillary, causing Americans to wise up.
I’m gobsmacked at the complete and total 180 the left has taken on trusting the intelligence community. Anybody remember the 2000s? As I recall, for about an eight year block of time (funny how that works) the feds were the lyingest liars that ever lied. Now they’re physiological incapable of anything but seeking out the truth and shouting it from the hilltops, apparently.
Because they’re illiterate and unprincipled twits. That’s why.
It’s hard to come to any other conclusion, honestly. I’ll give people too young to have really paid any attention to previous administrations a pass, but if you’re 30 or older there’s no damn excuse.
18 + 3 elections = 30
The Math Checks Out.
This really is it. They’ve all gone beyond the point of no return and succumbed to insanity. I can sort of see Russia as a threat in the sense that they have an army of D-grade hackers working to cause what can most accurately and charitably be referred to as mischief, but that’s about it. To think of them as a threat on the geopolitical stage is sheer delusion. Russia is a limp dick banana republic that hasn’t been able to successfully get into first gear in the three decades since the fall of communism.
Team blue, as I mentioned above, finally has identified Russia as dangerous – after making excuses for them and the evils of communism throughout the cold war – because they had the temerity of releasing the information that their hacking operation of the dnc servers scooped. Team blue is pissed that the released info showed the dnc, the democrat party, and especially crooked Hillary, for the lying, conniving, and lying scum they are, and that is unforgivable and makes them Russians the worst sort of enemies.
Every sexy bikini photo you see is probably fake
It gets worse. When your server seems sweet on you? She’s just fishing for tips.
WHAT?!! My whole world is… I can’t. ARGH!!!!
Euphemisms…
You mean … im not the only one he calls Honey?
He just calls you that because you’re sticky and full of antibiotics.
YOU LIE!
My dear Ubuntu server loves me true. I’ve got the logs to prove it.
Poor Jimbo. Ubuntu is a promiscuous interface.
Promiscuous is fine. As long as it isn’t a MS Winhoes server. Total slut bag teeming with all sorts of dll’s.
double dll’in on the downlow
Makes me want to decompile her..
Decompile Driver
Debian or GTFO…I need TWO to be happy
You mean she won’t let me wipe her with a cloth?
While the display started off cute, things escalated into a much less “family-friendly” event.
What could be more “family friendly” than making babies?
The Big Bang theory was cooked up by a Catholic priest. Because religion is anti-science, it is therefore wrong.
I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE
Some argue that digital perfection is damaging to the body-positivity movement more recently embraced by the magazine and fashion industries. About 70 percent of Facetune users are women, its rep tells The Post.
“When I was a teenager, it was perfect images in magazines that would leave me feeling negatively about myself,” says Sia Cooper, known to her 1.1 million Instagram followers as @diaryofafitmommyofficial.
“Now we’re all glued to Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook 24/7 with a constant stream of what appear to be perfect images from friends, models, celebrities and other influencers.”
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“It is so easy to make your butt bigger,” she says. “I just don’t want people to compare [themselves to others]. You just don’t know what’s edited or not.”
Cartoon bubblebutt, FTW! Because that’s sexy? No thanks.
I’m coming clean. My balls aren’t actually that vividly blue.
Hanging out on Mandrill dating sites?
But what exactly is underhanded about it? Hey, you know what else is pretty abnormal? Women striking sexually insouciant poses in front of a camera. Women normally don’t do that. Most women don’t stage photo shoots at all. Instagram models are trying to fool you by pretending to be more sexually attainable than they actually are!
“About 70 percent of Facetune users are women”
whoah. This is shaking my presuppositions to the core. 30% of the users are men!?
I just can’t even….
Can parents really not explain to children about magazines? Do sports, don’t be too fat and that should cover it anyway.
I’d think a quick glance at the people surrounding them would teach children what “normal” looks like. Unless you live in San Diego, because god damn, a San Diego 5 is like a normal world 8.
What does a San Francisco 5 get you in normie world?
Typhus.
Chlamydia?
Hep C.
Man arrested after driving car through entrance to city hall in Shizuoka Pref
Libertarian Kamikaze. Awesome.
About as effective as other libertarian activism from the sound of it.
You sure he’s libertarian. Maybe he was angry that he wasn’t taxed enough?
The guards didn’t beat him with the giant sticks they carry? What’s the point then?
Meet Ash Sarkar, the Communist Who Called Piers Morgan an “Idiot”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ash-sarkar-communist-called-piers-morgan-idiot
I mean even a stopped clock…
Also, being a communist means being a fierce critic of the prison industrial complex and the military industrial complex.
*Spits beer on screen*
Well historically it does mean being a fierce critic of OUR prison industrial complex and OUR military industrial complex….
There you have it. Most of us here are communists then.
Angela Davis shows us how it’s done
At least the gulags weren’t for profit.
I’m sure the apparatchiks running them would beg to differ.
Gold fillings don’t just grow on trees.
So what do communists do with the capitalists they don’t kill?
More executions means fewer prison beds, comrade.
Being a communist means never having to be on the side of bad people / that guy
Seriously, i dont know where you go to get a we worse prison complex than the gulags of the USSR
Of course he’s against prisons and an imperialistic military – he’d much prefer reeducation camps and a patriotic defense force. Things are much nicer when you whitewash them.
“Sarkar continued after Morgan claimed there were zero protests against Obama’s U.K. visits. (Morgan was wrong about that.)”
Then the link goes to a picture of some Muslims. Who I severely doubt were Obama deporting Mexicans.
“A man is held by police officers after clashes between the English Defence League and Islamic groups”
“It was a real mix of people. It was lots of young people, which might have been their first protest. Others were recognizable activists from anti-arms trade campaigns or Palestinian solidarity campaigns, so it put together a diverse range of political experiences.”
So free shit and kill the Jews? That is diverse.
More from that WaPo thing:
But Trump is now shrugging at that confirmed lying, and he’s still not taking this act of sabotage at all seriously. Remember, Trump himself called on Russia to hack Clinton’s emails. And according to a tally by ThinkProgress, Trump publicly drew attention to the material leaked by WikiLeaks — which received it from Russia, according to the Mueller indictment — more than 100 times during the campaign. We don’t know how much influence this sabotage had. But as Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg points out, beyond how many votes were directly moved, the DNC was badly disabled by the cyber subterfuge at a critical moment, which had to have had some kind of serious impact.
The only conceivable explanation for the Good Ship Hillary’s sinking is that the Russians torpedoed her; she was like totally seaworthy other than that.
And, of course, the true revelations about the DNC being completely “With Her” are bad because nobody was supposed to know, not because they were wrong.
I’m trying to fight against my instinctive counterbalancing against the rabid sensationalism and emotional, visceral responses that a lot of Trump’s critics display, because I’m finding myself in the weird position of defending the guy for things I don’t actually approve of, so help me clear this up. What am I missing about the Russia thing? As I understand it, there are two points of contention. One is that Russian agents have been doing things like taking out deceptive ads on Facebook, running “fake news” via their super-secret, clandestine propaganda outlet Russia Times, or RT, and generally making nuisances of themselves. The other is that Russian intelligence illegally obtained emails from the DNC’s email servers and handed them off to Wikileaks.
Wading through the bullshit coverage of all this, on the one hand there’s a strong implication that the Russian government is, at a minimum, not dissuading Russians from doing this stuff, and may be explicitly directing government agents to do some of this. On the other hand, thus far the only thing that has violated any laws has been the “hack” of the DNC servers, and while there was evidence of malware there wasn’t conclusive evidence that a.) it was Russian, or b.) it was specifically designed to attack that particular server. To the best of my knowledge, there hasn’t been a connection made between said malware, the illegal access of the server, and the emails winding up on Wikileaks. In other words, while the server may have been compromised that might not even be how the emails wound up getting in the hands of Wikileaks, *cough* Seth Rich *cough* . And, on mutant third hand, if the worst of everything is true, the story sans hysteria is that Russians tried through legal, albeit skeezy, means to influence American domestic politics, and Russian intelligence operatives stole internal emails from the DNC that prove that Clinton’s nomination was rigged and Sanders was deliberately shut out.
And yet, I keep being told that I should be readying myself for a Russian invasion courtesy of our treasonous president within the hour. Seriously, a lot of people are losing their minds over this, and I just want to make sure that I’m not in fact crazy or oblivious. Is there something I’m missing here?
So $0.79 from Russia is more effective than $1billion from Hillary? Why didn’t they hire the Russians to do their ad campaigns?
Or were they damned by the truth of their own actions getting out?
Narrative is hard.
There’s a group of people who want desperately to believe that Trump is president because Russian agents manipulated our electoral system in such a way as to break it in his favor. Some people seem to genuinely believe that if they dig deep enough they’ll find irrefutable evidence of that, but there’s also a pretty substantial group of people who just go with the strategy of repeating something so often that people just accept it as fact, without having actually proven anything or even connected the dots logically. Like seriously, the emails they’re talking about detail a scam run by the DNC to invalidate the Sanders campaign in order to rig the nomination, among other things. Why is everything up until that point interesting to these people, but not that?
“I can see Russia from my house!”
Not really.
The other thing that chaps me about all of this Russian shit is the way no one talks about what our intelligence agencies do.
Do you think they didn’t try to hack into Russian govt servers? Or run fake news stories to try to undermine Putin? Fuck our last president openly meddled in Israeli elections and the Brexit vote.
And like you said, no one has proved that the email hack was Russian. Assange has said it wasn’t and so far – at least to me – his word is better than anyone in the govt or MSM.
Yeah, that pisses me off too. All governments, including our own, try to influence the elections of other countries. Including allies. What the fuck is the Voice of America? Have people already forgotten that we got bitched out by Angela Merkel for listening to her cell phone? How many American-based nonprofits spend ad money in foreign countries to advocate for their positions? I mean, seriously, this is the most ridiculous bullshit I’ve seen in American politics in my lifetime.
I never thought the Russian collusion story would get this ‘tarded. But here we are.
This is what I have been thinking about all morning. Am I missing something? Because this whole thing seems like just another over the top, end of the world reaction that happens every time Trump does anything.
Rand Paul is the only sane voice out there right now.
https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/1018988386575532032
Don’t wade into the replies.
OK, Coop, next time you give a warning use the blink tag…cause I didn’t listen and now I have lost cognitive function half my brain.
He’s the only sane voice on Twitter, based on those comments. Yet again, people on the left advocating violence against people with whom they disagree. Shit, it’s like they can’t actually just “disagree”, it has to be a life-or-death struggle against an implacable foe any time somebody says something they don’t like. Everything is a crisis that warrants discarding the usual norms of social behavior.
It’s nice to see all of these transnationalist dolts become super-duper patriotic all of the sudden. “Why won’t he stand for the United States?!” “He’s sold out our country!”
Actually, he never did that. He joked about Russia already possibly being in possession of the emails but never invoked anyone to commit a crime to his benefit.
But don’t let my hair splitting get in the way of your heroic journalism, WaPo.
I’m glad I’m not the only one to notice this.
As I recall, his joke was about how we couldn’t seem to lay hands on the emails we needed for a full investigation (due to obstruction and spoliation by the Clinton apparat), so maybe the Russians could help us out, since we already know that Clinton’s security was (literally) criminally inadequate.
Can parents really not explain to children about magazines? Do sports, don’t be too fat and that should cover it anyway.
“Don’t be a self-absorbed narcissistic dimwit” helps, too.
No matter how much you might want to, you can’t stop them from becoming teenagers.
Legally.
True, but you can threaten them with becoming a teenager of the opposite sex, so there’s still some leverage.
So I have been on and off the comets these days, has the Elon Musk pedo lawsuit been talked about? What was the consensus?
Obviously Teslas AI is so great it can ID pedophiles before they try to get in your car.
OMWC hardest hit.
He’ll be ok until they come up with the Tesla panel van.
Comments goddamnit
The consensus is that Elon is right now making pedo traps to be distributed throughout the world. The taxpayers of course will subsidize it.
So that “submarine” was actually a mechanism for capturing children?
And the Boring Company is constructing tunnels to traffic them.
Musk will have to pay… either through a judgment, or a settlement (with a retraction and apology).
In other important news, a 16-year-old has boobs:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5961951/Ben-Stiller-sweetly-cuddles-daughter-Ella-16-enjoy-casual-day-NYC.html
Hmmm did not scroll through the mail sidebar in a while…
Her face is a bit… off.
She’s cute. Plus, if she plays her cards right through the college years she’ll come out the other end built like a brick house. In the complimentary, Commodores way, I mean. Q-fodder, if you will.
My wife is Russian-Moldovan. Should I be scared that she’s going to be accused of being a Kremlin agent because she’s a Trump supporter? I mean, I used to kid about that. But in light of recent news about that American University student…
Yeah thats scary shit. I have friends who lived in Russia for a few years as missionaries. Will they be hauled away for ‘questioning’.
Only if you accidentally say the trigger phrase.
снова сделать америку?
I’m sorry, I don’t speak foreign.
It’s *dons sunglasses* For You.
The Americans was a prophetic warning for our times.
My wife is also from Russia. I do have concerns for her job prospects with these insane lefty companies in boulder if she ever gets laid off. Not so much the government…yet.
May I present….Wooooolf Bliiiiiitzer!
No, you may not.
C’mon, it only takes him literally 35 seconds to spit out his first question.
Wow.
In the first season of Boondocks, they have some spittle-flecked talking head on TV shouting at MLK (imagining if he hadn’t been killed), “why can’t you just say you love America!?”
Wolf comes off as even more unhinged here.
I dont think Lou Bourdeau actually invented the shift, he just popularized it.
Looks like he might have popularized some type of wine.
Nobody is better at blasting the FBI than Howie Carr.
Obama urges Kenyan leaders to soothe ethnic tensions
So what you are saying is that Barry is colluding with Kenya. //Obama-Kenya //KenyanConnection
It’s a step down from his previous collusion, but, hey, he’s an ex-president, they have less to trade.
Our phones and gadgets are now endangering the planet
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/17/internet-climate-carbon-footprint-data-centres
But there is a big problem, centred on a power company called Dominion, which supplies the vast majority of Loudoun County’s electricity. According to a 2017 Greenpeace report, only 1% of Dominion’s total electricity comes from credibly renewable sources: 2% originates in hydroelectric plants, and the rest is split evenly between coal, gas and nuclear power. – I would think nuclear is quite clean energy
ominion is also in the middle of a huge regional controversy about a proposed pipeline that will carry fracked gas to its power plants, – if that replaces coal it is good.
Of I forgot magic windmills
I don’t understand why hydroelectric isnt considered renewable.
C’mon, there’ only so much water on the planet,once it spins a turbine it’s like Ruined, Man!
We are never getting that entropy back!
It is considered renewable when someone wants to boast that a high percentage of their energy supply is renewable.
Sounds like renewables need to step up their game.
Really, though…when they cite these pitiful numbers, their intended message is about how neglected these forms of power generation are. But…what if the numbers are pitiful because those forms are just shitty?
A similar thing can be seen in feminist “arguments”. If women are underrepresented in STEM, my charitable (and I think largely true) interpretation is that women aren’t terribly interested in those fields. The feminist explanation is systemic bias. But what if there isn’t bias, but you believe, like a feminist, that it’s somehow a “problem” that women are underrepresented? Then, really, you’re blaming those stupid bitches for not stepping up their game.
Opponents with non-self-defeating arguments would make me less lazy. Step up, assholes.
We just did our annual review of applications for internships, specifically web dev internships. Maybe four out of the thirty who made it to the “scan resume to make sure it’s not in crayon” stage are women. Two of them are engineers from India who are vastly overqualified and probably looking to get an extension on their work visas, and two of them think that it’s actually a design position. Like graphic design, not even web design. And I was going through specifically looking to get some chicks up in this piece, just so I could meet a woman in person that I could say “recursion” to without her throwing up or screaming and running away. No dice. This is the third year, and it’s the same every time.
Our content manager, a woman, took a class on basic web development, just HTML and CSS. She said she made it through and never wanted to deal with it again. All of the content people are women; all of the dev or design people are men. No matter how hard we try. It’s not like, say, nursing, where there are cultural biases against men getting into the field–which nevertheless hasn’t stopped a lot of men from becoming RNs–because, especially in the case of front-end dev, the vibe is that it’s basically slightly nerdy, slightly hipster art that involves rare brushes with basic math but is mostly about making magazine covers that you can click on. There’s no “masculine” bias to web development, unlike the debatable bias being talked about in regular ol’ programming. So no, I don’t buy a systemic bias.
If an eight year old could be eligible, ask SP.
I think there’s a form or something. I’ll check with HR.
The Surry nuclear plant (owned by Dominion) is the cheapest power on the grid in the Mid-Atlantic. The environuts hate Dominion with a passion.
Another school joins the lynch mob.
TW: ESPN
Oregon State has suspended its sponsorship with Papa John’s, school vice president and athletic director Scott Barnes announced Monday.
The move comes days after John Schnatter, the corporation’s founder, admitted to using the N-word during an internal conference call.
“The derogatory and insensitive comments made by Papa John’s founder John Schnatter are not reflective of Oregon State University’s values and the inclusive environment we strive to foster throughout the university community and within OSU Athletics for all student-athletes and fans,” Barnes said in a statement on Monday.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but hearing reports of the use of th “N-word” cause me to literally lose my capacity for rational thought.
Pappa johns founder, please.
Technically, he was quoting someone else. Like reading Huck Finn, only dumber (Not that reading Huck Finn is dumb).
Back when I was in university, our history professor quoted Edmund Burke I forget the exact quote but it offended a student (it was something relating to European civilization needing to civilize Africa. I can’t remember). The student went off on the guy as the professor implored it wasn’t him saying it but that he was merely quoting Burke. To the class, this was self-evident and no one in their right mind would possibly think otherwise but not to this asshole who kept on pressing (with all the usual empty jargon weak minds use) and going off on tangents about how ‘ignorant’ the professor was (he was actually one of the best professors I had in university) to the point of holding the class hostage as the rate of rolling eyes among us grew. Even my buddy (an international business major) who sat in the class wondered who this moron was. This was c. 1993. Pre-SJW. He was ahead of his time I guess.
Anyway. Turns out this guy dated someone we knew and he was every bit the jerk and asshole he came off to be.
Forgive the run-on.
NO! *loads rock salt into shotgun*
He’s made of felt, the rock salt isn’t going to do much to irritate the wound.
I thought the salt was just because it’s frangible (?) and so less-lethal than metal shot, not for the irritational effect. I mean, if you just got a chunk of your ass taken off, you think you’re gonna feel the salt in the wound on top of that?
Salt is lighter than lead, so it doesn’t penetrate much. Its also got lots of sharp edges, so it does a fair amount of relatively superficial damage. And I think having chunks of salt embedded in your flesh is going to cause quite a bit of pain and irritation. Next time you get a cut, put salt on it and see what you think.
Next time you get a hundred cuts, put salt in them and tell me if you notice the difference.
Idk, PCU came out in ’94, right? The internet has amplified their voices and created sturdier echo chambers, but SJWs today seem ideologically and constitutionally quite the same as those proto-SJWs.
In his apology, the retard actually said that context doesn’t matter.
What a fucking idiot.
Isn’t that the same nonsense the Scottish Judge spouted about the Nazi Pug?
using the N-word
Via citing someone else using it…
I feel like “using” a word actually involves its deployment in a statement. Citing someone else using the word is demonstration, not usage.
Doesn’t matter, a lack of melanin combined with specific air vibrations generated from human throat tendons creates an unstoppable whirlwind of stupid.
Rick: Cute. Your sister’s boss gave me a microscope that would have made me retarded.
Morty: Ooo, oh boy Rick, I-I don’t think you’re allowed to say that word. Ya know?
Rick: Uh Morty, I’m not disparaging the differently abled. I’m stating the fact that if I had used this microscope it would have made me mentally retarded.
Morty: Ok but yeah, I don’t think it’s about logic, Rick. I-I think the word has just become a symbolic issue for powerful groups that feel like they’re doing the right thing.
Rick: Well that’s retarded.
What’s so horrible about the word ‘microscope’?
Oregon State has taken an official stance against the use/mention distinction? Do they have a linguistics program to shutter? Because they might have to do that, to be consistent.
Whatever, Beavers.
CNN continues to prove critics right
Former National Security Council Comms Director Michael Anton was scheduled to appear on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” on Monday night but canceled citing his distrust of the network.
CNN’s Erin Burnett tweeted about the cancellation, writing: “Michael Anton, Former Trump NSC spox, canceled his appearance on Outfront tonight because he couldn’t defend @realDonaldTrump today.”…
“From the moment President Trump’s press conference ended, CNN’s coverage was atrocious and histrionic,” Anton said in the statement. “I did cancel, because I knew that whatever I said, CNN would try to use me as a cudgel with which to bash the President. I support President Trump and I never want to be misused as an instrument to undermine him or his administration.”
“As soon as CNN was informed of my withdrawal, they threatened to cite that withdrawal on air to bash the President,” Anton continued. “And that’s exactly what they did. It’s clear I made the right decision.”
///FactsFirst
Its trumps fault. He called them fake news so much that they just sank to that level.
Why even mention who couldn’t be there?
OT: Lord H and I are on vacation /stay-cation. My goals are: to see if I can not gain more than 3 pounds (lol), how long can I make the box of wine last without being ashamed (ok, I have no shame, for this item), and how many times can I eat fish?
Are you punishing yourself for some terrible deed?
Enjoy. The daughter and I are on stay cation starting tomorrow, but the wife is working another two weeks until then. Burp and fart contests FTW.
That box lasts longer if you switch to cocktails after 2 glasses of wine.
Re: box of wine, are we talking hours or days?
I’m taking a mental health day today since I’ve got zippy to do at work, the wife’s traveling on business, and the MIL is picking my daughter up from daycare. I’m toying with the idea of trying to keep pace with William Powell through the first three Thin Man movies, but I may run out of vermouth.
Please do not try…you will end up dead.
“How many drinks have you had?”
“This will make six martinis.”
“All right. Will you bring me five more Martinis, Leo? Line them right up here.”
“I think there are a lot of perceptional things I’ve been dodging my whole life. I may not look like I belong at these real estate meetings with these white men who are buttoned up with their suits and ties: that isn’t me. They never look at me first; they always look at my husband first. I still deal with that, but you’ve just got to realize this is the nature of the business. I’m not going to internalize it. It’s the way this business is and it’s antiquated and it’s BS, but I always remind them that I’m the freaking boss. I’m the one who makes the final decisions when it comes to where we’re opening our next location. That’s something I’m currently still dealing with now. Women have to deal with so much of the same crap they dealt with in the past. I grew up working in nightclubs, bars, and restaurants, dealing with chauvinistic men. I kind of brush it under the rug now because I’ve been so exposed to it my whole life.”
https://www.teenvogue.com/gallery/chillhouse-ceo-cyndi-ramirez-fulton-interview-fossil
Maybe get some pants without holes?
If you’re at real estate meetings with your husband, I’m guessing you’re either buying or seeling a house. So I’d wager this is not related to your day job – if you even have one. I’d wager you’re giving off a “not really stable” vibe and they turn to the member of your couple that is less crazy.
As for women in real estate, I’ve found them to be a substantial percentage of participants. Especially as realtors. Not counting potential sellers, the only men I interacted with when buying my house were the loan officer (who I never met in person) and my lawyer (who I met once at the closing). So I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Ah, I see, getting space for a business.
Well, that changes zilch about the rest of my commentary.
Stop exuding crazy, lady.
I think the agent in every real estate transaction I’ve been involved in has been a woman. A women dressed in business attire, not a pajama top and ripped jeans like a sophomore on the way to sociology class.
She does not look like someone about to engage in some sort of business transaction. Rebelling against ties is fun and stuff, but dressing appropriately for a business meeting is a signal to the other participants that you’re going to take it seriously; a person who can take the time and effort to dress appropriately for the occasion and still get there in time is a person who is probably responsible and reliable. There’s also more generally a respect issue, i.e. showing the people you’re meeting that this event is more important to you than, say, washing your car or stumbling into a bar to get a beer. And finally, there’s a power signalling issue, which she sees every time someone ignores her and talks to her husband, who is probably dressed in at least business casual. People who are in charge of things dress well because they have money, and they look more formal because they move in higher, more refined circles where more formal clothing is the norm–that’s the perception. People who wear ripped jeans and a boyfriend shirt are liberal arts majors who work at H&M sometimes.
If I were her I would be mad because she only got 4 casual pics of her lounging about in a restaurant for this article. When they interview Bezos or other male shit lords, they get at least 7 candid photos of them rolling around on a bear skin rug to go along with their interviews.
Smart attractive women should accept that they have a huge advantage in business and just go with it. Don’t try to pretend that you are a victim. You won the lottery in life.
I’m sure you do.
At every chance you get.
You know what they say about having to tell people you’re the leader…
clearly women are property. is that what she’s looking for?
also, don’t bring your husband to *your* business meetings.
I got the distinct impression that he might do more of the business talk. I don’t know why. I think it was the unhinged, looking for a reason to be offended vibe I got from the author.
I’m sure she’s a real peach to work with.
If I were cutting a deal with her, the easy thing to do would be to suck up to her displays of superiority (masked inferiority complex). She’s making herself easier to manipulate by putting on a show like that.
Oh, man, soooo many of my ideas would magically turn into her ideas. My ex-stepmother was just like that, and my dad used to pull me aside and say, “Watch this…” and then basically feed her an opinion. By the end of the discussion she was arguing my dad’s point against him, at which point he’d shrug and say something like, “Ok, well, if it’s that big a deal let’s just do it your way.”
A hilariously disjointed article:
How to Stop Giving Amazon Your Money
TLDR: use these other services, that we also hate for not being politically perfect.
Trump should go to Kenya and make peace happen.
And then Tweet asking for Obama’s Nobel peace prize.
It would be glorious.
When your mini-skirt is too short. NSFW
Captain Outrageous is an old porn site.
goddamnit
+ goddamnit.
::chortles and rubs hands with glee::
My work is done for the day.
double dumbass on me
“You wanna see my Tootsie Roll?”
I don’t understand why hydroelectric isnt considered renewable.
Why do you hate the little fishies?
Because I have to throw the little ones back and can’t cook them.
You fish with the little ones to get the big ones.
/Mueller probe
That will get you a big ‘ol fine from the DNR. If you keep it up, your drivers license as well. Extra sassy will get your guns taken and your privilege of hunting and fishing on the kings land revoked.
What, really? You can’t fish with minnows or whatever?
https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/fishing/questions/fishasbait.html
Further discovery…
Caught fish can be used but each bait fish caught will count against your limit and the fish must meet any minimum requirements on that water.
Well played
If you haven’t been to NYC hotspot Chillhouse yet, we strongly urge you to do so as soon as you can. The Big Apple hardly seems like the place most go to relax, which is exactly why the city was more than ready for the cafe-spa to come in and revolutionize the industry.
The brain behind the brand is none other than famed entrepreneur Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton, who was already the founder of blog Taste the Style and a co-partner in the The Garret Bar, Dinnertable, and Dullboy before opening her new zen Lower East Side space.
*loads sock with nickels, books flight to New York*
^heard that in Bill Hader’s Stefon voice from SNL?
I didn’t realize who I was hearing it as until you reminded me, thank you.
Man, reading that bio…that says “delusional arm-candy” to me. I mean, first, partner already means “co-“, so you don’t have to say it unless you’re, you know, not really a “partner”, per se, in a technical sense, as it were. I know smart, talented women with authority, and nothing about this broad reads that way to me.
I had a girlfriend a long time ago who is now one of these self-made “tastemakers”. It’s completely insufferable.
famed entrepreneur Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton,
Totally famed.
More than 60 British rabbis have written a joint letter saying Labour has “chosen to ignore the Jewish community,” as the party’s ruling body prepares for a meeting on its antisemitism code of conduct.
Some of the UK’s most senior rabbis, in a letter to the Guardian, said Labour was acting in an “insulting and arrogant way” by choosing – in its new code – to amend an international definition of antisemitism.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/16/68-rabbis-labour-chooses-ignore-uk-jewish-community
Now they notice this?
A code of conduct to address rampant antisemitism. Doesn’t that just sum up the progressive left in a nutshell. White identitarian bigotry is everywhere but invisible, because we swim in it like fish in water and don’t recognize how pervasive it secretly is, even though pinning it down in any concrete and consistent way is difficult and atoning for it is impossible.
But manifest bigotry for Jews is a teensy problem that we’ll iron out at the next Party Congress by changing a couple provisions in our code of conduct.
“The Labour Party does not have a problem with Antisematism, we have a problem with the Jews.”
– Labour
No wonder they were so bad at real estate negotiation.
TW: It’s the New York Times and it’s really, really stupid.
1)Buy gun company
2)Set about creating guns that no one actually wants
3)????????
4)Profit!
Step 3 – Sell to virtue signalling lefty for more than you bought the company.
The Navajo Nation is the poorest American Indian tribe in the US. I wonder why.
which controls a $3.3 billion investment trust
Stewards of the public monies, them.
Minnesota woman. Probation? Seriously? She must give the best BJ’s in the universe.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/day-care-owner-gets-probation-for-hanging-toddler-from-a-noose/1306794582
This kind of bullshit really pisses me off:
Judge Jay Quam agreed with the assessment by doctors that Karia was “a low risk” to reoffend. He called her actions “the perfect storm of factors unlikely to ever be repeated.”
Who fucking cares???? She committed serious crimes that she deserves to be punished for, regardless of whether or not they think she’ll ever do it again.
Woman generally get significantly lower sentences for the same crimes.
True fact. The judge in that case is the older brother of one of my best friends growing up and has personally beaten me up a bunch of times.
He is actually very libertarian dude and a good guy (despite childhood abuse).
I saw that story and wondered what was up (knowing who Jay is).
I think there a lot of cases where people are over sentenced but damn. What would she have to do to get removed from society? I think we’ll probably find out.
Yep. I generally, as a rule, try to err on the side of too little incarceration, but the bitch tried to hang a toddler. If that doesn’t deserve at least a few years in the clink, then almost nothing does.
I’m ok with the sentence provided she was released directly into the custody of the child’s parents in an isolated field far from prying eyes.
The defense argued for probation, pointing out that Karia already has served time in jail and lost her child care career.
Sure, he raped a patient, but he lost his gynecologist’s license. Isn’t that punishment enough?
Curiouser
It’s now clear why Papa John’s board of directors asked former Chairman John Schnatter to stop talking to the press.
Schnatter, in an interview Friday with a Louisville, Kentucky, CBS station, accused media agency Laundry Service of trying to blackmail Papa John’s for $6 million to keep quiet about a May conference call in which the founder admitted he used the N-word. He also told the TV station that he was provoked into using that language and accused officials who removed his name from a gym of “cracking.”
Schnatter told Kentucky CBS affiliate WLKY that an executive at Laundry Service threatened Papa John’s that “if I don’t get my F-ing money, I’m going to bury the founder.” The Louisville-based pizza chain issued a press release at 11:46 p.m. Sunday, saying Schnatter was prohibited from talking to the press or making “any further statements to the media regarding the company, its business or employees.”
——–
While he again apologized for using the racially charged slur, Schnatter told the TV station he was baited into using that language.
“I was just repeating what somebody else said. I was actually kind of provoked,” he said of what was supposed to be a confidential media training session. “They were promoting that kind of vocabulary, and they kept hitting it and I was like no, we’re not going to do that … that’s not what we’re about.”
Schnatter said the other party on the call, which he didn’t identify, repeatedly used the word. “By the fourth or fifth pass, I just said, ‘No, we’re not gonna be part of any such thing. So-and-so used the N-word, and we don’t use the N-word, and we’re not gonna use the N-word. And that’s it,'” he said.
Now he says Laundry Service (WTF? edgy name?) tried to blackmail and extort him after the call, and took the story to Forbes when he wouldn’t pay.Weird.
Also- good luck with that gag order, Board of Directors.
Also- good luck with that gag order, Board of Directors.
They could try serving him a slice.
*opera applause*
[insert Pappi’s scenes from Seinfeld]
Styxhexenblabla just said something about Nerve Gas being used on our Soldiers during the first Gulf war, any truth to that?
Paging GW1 Veterans,….
Someone should send him a glibs shirt.
A lot of people have claimed that, and attributed “Gulf War syndrome” to it. No idea if there’s any truth to it.
It was aspartame.
Frum was trying for most hysterical take on Trumputin, but Chait is the undisputed champ of pants-wetting paranoia.
Trump’s most incredible, against-the-odds achievement to date is his ability to make leftists retroactively into harsh anticommunists who were tenacious in opposing the USSR.
Big nothingburger.
“…Yes, his racism and mendacity have been evident since his youth,”
it has?
I wouldn’t mind some real, hard proof. Not the hearsay that passes as such.
It’s honestly the craziest shit I’ve read yet. It’s beautiful mind crazy.
Get all of that? The Russians picked Trump as future President three decades ago.
So when Trump was a dark horse in the GOP primary and nobody thought he could win, the Russians knew. They knew because they had been planning it for 30 years. They even got him to switch parties!
“. “The president has believed for 30 years that these alliance commitments are a drain on our finite national treasure,”
I’m sure this CFR scholar was able to instantly and quickly demonstrate how this was a false conception of reality, since it seems to be so self-evident to the Beltway/Manhattan class of Hamiltonian types that open ended and one sided foreign commitments are such a good deal for America as a whole.
Jonathan Chait, ladies and gentlemen:
https://twitter.com/WorldofIsaac/status/1017736553551007745
Getting smacked around in jail is no laughing matter.
He stayed at the National Hotel, in the Lenin Suite, which certainly would have been bugged
Which is relevant how? It’s possible they might have potentially embarrassing behavior recorded, but Trump wasn’t a politician with any kind of security clearance at the time.
Every hotel room in every Bloc nation was bugged. If you traveled over there, they recorded you, they monitored you. It’s irrelevant at best.
18 year old me is probably on some old East German tapes. I’ll be starting my run for President in other fifteen years, should come in handy.
So he went to a surveillance state and they didn’t make an exception for him? Clearly, the wiley Russkies had our number years ago.
A very good article from Popular Mechanics about the history of steel:
The Entire History of Steel
From:
To:
TW: Since PM is woke AF these days, the last few paragraphs are about making steel production Gaia-approved.
Popular Mechanics has gone that route too? I knew Popular Science was long since in the tank, but PM seemed much less so for a long time. Too bad.
Oh wait…I may have been thinking of PopSci.
I can’t say if PM has followed suit. I don’t regularly read it. I sure hope they didn’t.
I don’t read it so often anymore either, so I can’t say for sure, but PopSci definitely went totes woke a long time ago.
“This you can trust” – Spot the quote.
OK, no takers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVx4LafsvSU
“Iron that comes from meteorites has a higher nickel content”
Can’t they at least have a metallurgist edit this stuff for basic technical coherence?
“Meteoric Iron-alloys have a higher nickel content”
Better?
Natural Selection in Modern Humans (UK; N ≈ 500,000) http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/12/1707227114.abstract … Traits currently favoured by selection: Younger age at first birth in ♀️; higher BMI in ♂️ Traits being selected against: Intelligence; educational achievement (!)
https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1019033760874938368
Educational Achievement is not a genetic trait.
Tendency to higher achievement may have genetic components or not… But in itself it is obviously not
If it can get you some strange or keep you alive long enough to do so, its a genetic trait that can be selected upon. Wealth generation and land ownership are genetic traits. They are not phenotype traits like eye color or blood type. Genetic traits are the result of a particular phenotype mediated through the environment. “Genes load the gun, the environment pulls the trigger.”
Height, cardiac health, and muscle attachment points are phenotype.
In 1818, an exceptional specimen in height, cardiac health, and muscle attachment points might be a logger and live a middle class life, attracting a middle-of-the-road wife.
In 2018, an exceptional specimen in height, cardiac health, and muscle attachment points might be an NFL pass rusher, bank tens of millions a year, and attract as much top-shelf female attention as he could possibly want.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this has always been the case. Those traits being selected for are all advantageous to survival and procreation. And the traits being selected against aren’t surprising either, as successful people have always tended to have fewer children, on average (for example, in ancient Rome they had a law to encourage the nobility to have more children, because they were having so few the emperor thought this would be harmful to society).
What about thiccness?
For all the screeching about Trump and Russia, a)why doesn’t anyone seem to be interested in the fact that the DNC has never submitted its servers as evidence? b)why is it almost never reported that there was an attempt to hack the RNC’s servers as well, but their security was better?
And the RNC cooperated with the FBI in the investigation, while the DNC hid its servers and ultimately had them destroyed, submitting an analysis from Crowdstrike instead (owned by a Russian by the way)
Ukranian, I think.
The whole thing is dumb beyond belief.
– The Dems destroyed the “evidence” probably because it would point to Seth Rich and / or their own crooked Pakistani administrators. And they were worried in general about what other kinds of dirt would come pouring out of those servers if a law enforcement agency ever examined them.
– The actual “hack” just showed that the DNC had rigged the primaries for Hillary. It never changed vote counts or affected the election apparatus as the Dems like to imply. If it was the in fact the Russians (highly doubtful), we owe them some gratitude for exposing the rot.
Exactly – they act as if there were Russians tampering with voting machines or something. All that happened was that information that was embarrassing and damaging to the Democratic Party was made public, yet I’m supposed to be storming a recruiting office to join up today to go fight the Rooskies as if it were December 8, 1941?
Yep, this keeps coming back: even if it was the Russians who hacked the DNC and not Seth Rich (and there is almost no information to support that it was the Russians, and a good amount to indicate it was Rich, or another person inside the DNC, perhaps a pissed off Bernie fan), all they did was release true information about the Democratic Party. Not once have the Democrats or their media lapdogs once made the case that the leaked emails were falsified.
This whole thing is basically a crooked CEO blaming the whistleblower for his prison sentence, and not the fact that he embezzled 10 million from the company.
Honestly, it makes this scene from Liar, Liar keep running in my head:
Jim Carrey: I object, Your Honor!
Judge: On what grounds?
Carrey: Because it’s very damaging to my case!!
Tard Tuesday: Adrenaline Fueled Edition
Well if we do decide that “war” includes cyberwar, I’m sure we will get right on jailing all the hackers our intelligence agencies employ to hack into other countries infrastructure. Right? Because they would be guilty of engaging in war without getting a declaration of war from Congress.
I have a serious confession to make. Last week, I put Russian dressing on a cheeseburger. So should I turn my self in, or wait for the FBI to pick me up?
The taste police are on their way.
It’s the suede denim secret police,
They have come for your uncool niece
What an embarrassment. Makes me glad I’ve never given Harvard Law School a penny.
If one defines ‘war’ to include cyberwar
That’s a pretty big fucking if, Larry. Hacking into a computer = dropping bombs?
—e.g. by deliberately hacking into a nation’s computer-based election infrastructure
Something for which there is exactly zero evidence, and which Obama himself (PBUH) assured us was not happening.
And the rest is a textbook example of how, once you start from bad premises, you will wind up spouting nonsense.
Or he believes that the DNC’s mail servers are election infrastructure. Not that there’s any evidence that the DNC servers were even hacked…
This video might be better titled “How to Make the Normies Completely Subservient to Your Every Ridiculous Whim”:
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-be-a-better-ally-to-the-queer-community-1827017520?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Lifehacker&jwsource=cl
“Duties”? Blow it out your ass. I don’t owe anyone a goddamned thing. I do my best to treat everyone with courtesy and respect in my dealings with them. Beyond that, kiss my ass.
My response is “Duties? I tolerate your existance. Anything more has to be earned.”
I don’t talk to people much.
“Duties? Yeah, I did that in the Marines. And to you I will extend common curtesy and basic respect. However, If you demand any more than that, well, that’s the reason why I arm myself in public to the extent of what is legal – and probably more than you have a concept for.”
If they mean excise duties. Sure, I’ll take the twerps’ lunch money.
How is that a “life hack”?
many people don’t know exactly how to perform their duties as an ally
I’m sure it needs no saying in this forum, but I think there’s an entirely appropriate response to such a suggestion. Something to the effect of “Fuck off, slaver!”
It’s beautiful.
Srsly, tho. Beautiful.
Cool.
The other important event from that year is that Trump visited Moscow.
*cue ominous music*
many people don’t know exactly how to perform their duties as an ally
“Enact my labor, you dupes.”
Honest question: how long until another James Hodgkinson takes a shot at Trump?
Also, is this the CIA’s end game? Is this what they want? Is this why the media – including Fox News – are parroting the same talking points? So much talk of treason, there are plenty of fringe people out there that are now genuinely convinced they’d be a hero if they killed Trump. And all it takes is one.
And then the War began…………….
And that’s what I’m afraid of.
They want war. They don’t care if it’s war with Russia, or war with ourselves. The media thrive on conflict.
How many campus progs and pussy hat paraders are just larping their civic engagement, and how many take the talk of treason seriously? Hell, how many even show up for off-year elections?
I was a teenager for most of Bush 2. I remember it was pretty loony on the left, but I can’t remember whether we were ever this hysterical. Bushitler was part of the globalist arms-dealing elite trying to perpetuate war forever, he was a chimpanzee and Cheney was his Satanic organ grinder, Rumsfeld and Rice were his house n–rs, Bush told FEMA to stand down because he hates blacks, NCLB would kill funding to failing schools that needed it most, they wanted to privatize Social Security so their bankster friends could make off with America’s savings, the housing crash was his fault, etc., etc.
If anything, it seems like the left has lost the specifics and simply degenerated into autistic screeching.
We talked about this a little yesterday. They’ve lost all credibility with anyone but their die hard base because they go over the top ape-shit over every. Single Fucking. Thing.
I’m predicting a backlash, in the form of Republican gains this next election. Your everyday Joe Voter has got to be getting tired of this, especially because most of it does not apply to him. The stuff that does, such as jobs and health insurance, are actually improving.
I just wish they were doing less outrage mobbing at restaurants and bars and more shutting down freeway traffic. How are you going to take the message to the people unless you make them late to work a couple times a week?
“Your everyday Joe Voter has got to be getting tired of this, especially because most of it does not apply to him. The stuff that does, such as jobs and health insurance, are actually improving.”
Also, in what universe is going to war with Russia preferable to diplomatic negotiations? That seems to be what they’re suggesting. Like I said yesterday; they hated Bush because he started wars; now they hate Trump because he won’t start wars. SMH.
I’m predicting a backlash, in the form of Republican gains this next election.
I’d like there to be a backlash, and I’d like people to tune out the screeching. I’m trying to be cautious, thought, about seeing what I want to see.
It was pretty nuts, but this seems much worse. Maybe it’s rose-tinted glasses, but nobody was talking about treason, and certainly nobody was advocating violence. I never would have thought I’d yearn for the salad days of the left during the W administration, but here we are.
This is an excellent point. Just as I’ve been saying for the past couple of days that we seem to be lurching closer to a Kristallnacht-type mass assault on anyone not deemed Prog enough for the #Resistance’s tastes; I think not just Trump, but any Pub politician should be very afraid of violence.
I notice none of these people are following Jim Mattis around. Wonder why that is?
Has he done anything since being appointed whatever post he’s in?
Still on your anti-jarhead soapbox, I see?
Not particularly. Still isn’t someone I’d choose to fuck with.
My question had nothing to do with his former service. If he’s not doing anything that gets their attention, they won’t notice he exists.
Well, the military just released “gender neutral” fitness requirements that are a real change from the former ones. For lack of a better term, more “crossfitty”, and at least initially not tuned to allow women to qualify.
So, if (big if) they stick to that, expect a fair of women to wash out. That’ll get the SJW’s attention.
They will have exceptions. Shit, they are trying hard to force the SF units to change their standards to allow even one woman a chance to pass.
Has he done anything since being appointed whatever post he’s in?
You mean, other than bomb a Russian airbase and kill a bunch of Russian “mercenaries”?
But how many more Russians would he kill except Trump is in Putin’s pocket??
“I may delete this tweet.
The person misidentified as the Russian was someone who actually worked there.
Yes, she’s an NSA staffer, and she looks nothing like the Russian chick other than having a faintly similar hair color.
So blue. Much checkmark.
Just one of these days, I’d like for a Glib to say “hey what is my girlfriend doing on there?”
http://archive.is/vfuXy
I’d like to rule 34 it with 34.
I’m pretty sure most of us would be happy to be able to say that.
I’m too old. If my daughters or nieces show up I won’t say a thing.
I dated 32 once.
She has totally sharp knees in person.
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1019140953242849282
Shoe bobs and visine.
Top. Men.
Christ, I don’t even leave my phone in my car ever!
“Odds on the team wasn’t being followed and this wasn’t a terrorist group stealing the materials, statistics from the San Antonio police department indicate that this Marriott had 87 thefts between 2016 and 2017.
One of the employees who lost the materials was given an award the very next month. There was no trail to following for the missing plutonium, “no useable prints, no worthwhile surveillance video of the crime, and no witnesses.””
Marriott needs to buy some cameras.
Holy shit. I wonder if it was a really lucky random crook or some kind of a spy.
It was probably a random crook, who now has cancer.
A random crook is liable to just chuck it, and they’ll be a radioactive lump in a landfill for the next few million years.
*there’ll not they’ll
Plutonium’s half life (Pu-239) is only 24.1K years. Pu-240/241 have very short half lives ranging in decades (that is why they are even more deadly as they put out more radiation). I don’t think you need a few million years for that landfill to be clean, but then again all of us will be gone before this shit decays anyway.
I could be pedantic and point out that half life is just that – how long for, and you’ll keep going by halves as time goes on, plus factoring in the decay products own radioactivity and decay rate.
But the truth is, I was thinking of Uranium when I made the remark.
2018 lunacy peaked and started emulating 2013?
Those are check sources for a scaler or field instruments. It was dumb to leave them in the vehicle but it isn’t a big deal at all as long as the thieves dont grind them up and snort them.
Pfffffft, you and your facts.
If I were Trump I’d send those Mexican kids to Russia.
Nah, Russia is importing White south African Farmers,
From the Obama article:
It’s interesting to me that he would comment on internal affairs of a foreign nation while there – on the one hand, I can see why you’d want to bring up things you think need to be addressed, but on the other hand it seems bad form to criticize your hosts.
It will be interesting to see if he’s consistent on the next stop of his trip:
The current government of South Africa has just as many issues as that of Kenya, but my bet would be Obama won’t subject them to the same criticism. Props to him if he does, but it has seemed for a while that the ANC has been able to use memories of their past good deeds as a shield against criticism of their current malfeasance.
If anyone is an expert on divisive ethnic politics, it’s Barack Obama.
Maybe they’ll let him shoot a couple of white farmers.
” to use memories of their past good deeds”
What past good deeds?
Like it’s kind of hilarious how much a curve the ANC is graded on. They didn’t go full Zimbabwe the first five years after taking power, they waited 20 years to do it……so……yay?
“Hey Nelson, great job not immediately allowing your psycho ex wife to murder ALL of her political opponents, just some of them. You’re a real statesman.”
Something something soft bigotry of low expectations.
They invented a new method of public torture and execution, that has to count for something!
Where I bet Obama will not mention the evil, barbaric and heinous crimes committed by blacks against whites in South Africa.
Amnesty for White South African Farmers!
We need to send troops to Maine and Washington State to secure our moose and flying squirrels.
More Russian meddling!!
acktschually, Fearless Leader is Pottsylvanian.
Vigilante thought police
Members of the far-right “Proud Boys” were chased out of a Los Angeles bar on Saturday by a group of democratic socialist protesters.
Video from the incident shows the left-wing activists shouting “No Proud Boys, no KKK, no fascist USA” at the group at L.A. bar The Griffin.
The L.A. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) shared video of the incident on Twitter, in which their members and others from anti-gentrification group Defend North East Los Angeles can be heard chanting and yelling “F— you fascist,” “Get out of here, Nazi” and “Facist pigs, squeal — you’re all swine.”
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“Last night our members and allies in Defend North East LA ran a proud boy meet up out of the Griffin in Atwater Village,” the DSA wrote on Twitter. “The bar knew about it and the manager defended them, but we shut it down anyway. Don’t let nazis convene in your city!”
Why do I envision a lot of purse-swinging?
The DSA is a bunch of mendacious pieces of shit.
The Proud Boys are a bunch of mendacious pieces of shit.
Fuck em all, I hope they all kill each other.
How so? I’m not trying to defend them; I’m genuinely wondering, as I’ve never read anything about this group that struck me as particularly outrageous.
They’re certainly not the right-wing equivalent of Antifa. Not even close.
I thought they’re basically about anti-PC and not spankin’ it, but I don’t know a bunch about them.
Why do I envision a lot of purse-swinging?
On both sides.
The bar knew about it and the manager defended them, but we shut it down anyway.
Is this a quotation from the Beer Hall Putsch or what?
The actual story of the Beer Hall Putsch is kind of hilarious. They storm the Bürgerbräukeller, confront the three Bavarian leaders in front of the crowd, then take them into a back room where the three guys simply keep saying “No” as Hitler first demands and then pleads for their support, the Nazis finally just release them, the authorities show up, the Nazis decide to march down the street with no apparent goal, they get shot up, and the putsch is over.
That is exactly the the parallel I was thinking about. I’ve tried talking to more than one antifa stone-thrower about this. Their position is that if only they would have roused a little more rabble in the Beer Hall Putsch days, Hitler never would have gained power. Either that, or they don’t know what the Beer Hall Putsch was or what role violent black-clad Marxists played in the rise of the Nazis.
In short, ahistorical idiots.
The bar knew about it and the manager defended them, but we shut it down anyway.
And when I hear that, I almost wish they’d try this shit in Sonny LoSpecchio’s establishment.
“The bar knew about it and the manager defended them, but we shut it down anyway. Don’t let nazis convene in your city!”
You know who else did not believe in freedom of association?
https://twitter.com/onthebasisofsex/status/1018872936571101184
Masturbation challenge?
Funny how Sandra Day O’Connor was the actual first woman on the Supreme Court but that gets memory-holed because she was conservative and appointed by Reagan.
Positive rights are all the rage.
https://memegenerator.net/instance/51904032/king-of-the-hill-hank-hill-did-having-a-woman-justice-ruin-the-supreme-court-yes-and-that-womans-nam
I did a google search for images of the actress. I can manage!
Sigh…the things I do for the team.
failed. sorry, guys, i tried.
Was I supposed to wait for some kind of signal, or…?
I only watched the home run derby to see if I could spot
Seb Gorkhamy boss on TVIs your boss liable to start throwing punches on TV?
Possible, if the Nats are losing
For the soccer glibs:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DiRqvomV4AA3PVf.jpg
LOL
What is the Papa John’s N-word, anyway…piNeapple?
Neapolitan
Nigiri. He was just saying he doesn’t want sushi on his pizzas.
Naggers.
Niggardly nincompoops.
This warms the cockles.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/46853/
Click on the link to the primary source. Its a pretty amazing read.
Critics of charter schools and voucher programs argue that the state isn’t doing enough to financially support traditional public schools. State legislative leaders tout that they’re providing record levels of K-12 education funding, but critics say that when adjusted for inflation the per-pupil amount is less than what was given before the recession of the late 2000s.
yeah, those times, they aint coming back.
Meh charters.
Don’t get crabs from Venezuela.
“Multistate Outbreak of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Infections Linked to Fresh Crab Meat Imported from Venezuela”
https://www.cdc.gov/vibrio/investigations/vibriop-07-18/index.html
Don’t tell the secret service.
“Seriously bad news for Q, HM and many others…admirers of the thicc or the busty.”
Fine by me as long as I can keep gawking at them.
Seriously, I haven’t had so much fun with sliders since the 90s.
“Iranian woman ‘sentenced to 20 years in prison’ for removing headscarf in protest”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-woman-hijab-protest-arrest-jailed-prison-shapark-shajarizadeh-headscarf-white-wednesdays-a8439816.html
Gotta make an example to keep the peasants in line.
What is the Papa John’s N-word, anyway
“Nutritionist.”
we also would have accepted “eNdocriNologist”
Looking at Trump’s statements and the backlash, it occurred to me that the geniuses at the Deep State and the DemOp Media have managed to align Putin and Trump’s interests here – its in both of their interests to resist the narrative of Russian collusion and interference. Not only that, they have given Putin leverage over Trump – Putin can now, thanks to their efforts, threaten Trump with, say, the release of information ( likely manufactured, because nobody in the Deep State or the DemOp Media is going to question it) supporting the anti-Trump narrative.
From Trump’s actions so far, it is crystal clear he is no friend of the Russians. Looks to me like the Deep State and the DemOp Media are doing everything they can to change that.
Exactly this. They couldn’t push Trump further towards Russia if they tried.
“Putin can now, thanks to their efforts, threaten Trump with, say, the release of information ( likely manufactured, because nobody in the Deep State or the DemOp Media is going to question it) supporting the anti-Trump narrative.”
The one issue with that: if that were to happen, that would mean the entirety of the media would have to go, in less than a day from “PUTIN IS THE DARK LORD AND PRINCE OF LIES AND TRUMPS PUPPETMASTER” to “PUTIN IS SAVING THE WORLD FROM EVIL TRUMP BY RELEASING THIS INFORMATION. GIVE HIM A NOBEL PRIZE”
They have painted themselves into a corner here.
Look at how they treated Comey: he snatched victory from Hillary’s hands by reopening the email case, he was a quisling, a Trump pawn, he should have been fired by Obama and stripped of his pension, he’d ruined the reputation of the FBI, the FBI in fact was suspect for even opening the investigation in the first place, it was all a plot to discredit Clinton and install Trump!
Then Trump fired him, and within minutes the careerist Trump-enabling traitor became a crusader for truth and justice, a #Resistance hero cut down in his prime, an incorruptible who validated all the honor and glory due that fine department, a man who was, perhaps, the last glimmer of hope as fascism extinguished all goodness and light in the country.
You’ll remember they did the same for Rosenstein, who recommended Comey’s firing. Now he’s another #Resistance hero, all past sins forgiven.
These people would about-face on Putin as shamelessly as they would quickly if Putin gave them half a reason.
Right and it’s absolutely destroying their credibility. There’s definitely people who have noticed the whiplash on those two swamp critters, but it’s all just inside baseball.
But we will soon be at 2 straight years of daily POOOOTINNNNN!!!!! hysteria from every media network. They’ve been pounding this RUSSIAN COLLLUSION meme since Hillary declined to speak to her supporters early Wednesday morning, and that whole time Putin has been the Dark Chessmaster What Stole Our Democracy With His HAXXXORSSS.
They can’t successfully polish that turd. In a story, minor villains can see the light and minor heros can fall to evil, but the Big Bad and The Hero must remain in their roles.
I read something on NR yesterday that said by indicting the 12 Russians, they’ve taken this from being an intelligence issue to granting those 12 due process in the US legal system, and therefore declaring them all innocent until proven guilty. I’m not sure that was the best move.
Putin certainly called that out at several points during the press conference.
That’s an interesting take, but of course the indictment will be considered as good as a conviction by the media, as is often the case. Since they won’t be able to actually get them into a court room, they’ll never have to actually go to trial and fail. It’s like me saying, “I could absolutely win the Masters, but I just can’t get to Augusta so I can’t actually show you, but I definitely could.”
Not only that, but Mueller didn’t make the same mistake he did in the troll farm indictments: he immediately handed it off to another epartment where it will fade from the public eye without ever being prosecuted.
It is being “transitioned” — i.e., buried — in the Justice Department unit that deals with counterintelligence matters that do not result in public trials.
Not an expert in criminal procedure, but I still think the accused Russians can hire a lawyer to put in an appearance on their behalf, and demand a speedy trial.
I note that the trial against the Russian troll farm has descended into farce – the evidence produced by the DOJ was apparently a massive file of untranslated Russian posts and data. Because posting stuff in Russian is totes gonna have an impact on an American election.
everybody knows egyptian heiroglyphs are the most effective symbols for influencing american voters. morans.
That’s because Heiroglyphs are magic. They don’t need to be read to influence people.
Hail Tothmekre
If Trump had even hinted that he accepted that there was Russian interference, the headline from the dnc operatives with bylines would have been “Trump admits to colluding with the Russians to steal election from Saint Hillary and the progressive movement!”. He was damned if he did, and damned because he did not. There was no scenario where these cunts would have done anything but try to undermine his authority.
The WSJ gets it right: The Speech Trump Should Give ‘I order declassified all FBI and Justice material Congress has subpoenaed.’
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-speech-trump-should-give-1531778571?mod=hp_opin_pos2
I can only think–if my theory from the other day is incorrect, that Sessions and Trump are as weary of FBI meddling as the FBI is of theirs–that Trump believes stringing out the drama serves his purposes. The FBI continues stonewalling and diverting, their disgraced agents appear in front of Congress and make a hash of the proceedings, Democrats trip over themselves making the FBI look like it has something to hide, ‘Pubs pull off a couple zingers like Gohmert did to Strzok, and ultimately the thing fizzles out because there’s no there there.
It’s more of the “Trump is not nearly as stupid as his enemies think he is” thing. I think they were hoping they would actually find something, and failing that they would goad Trump into firing them, and then they would be able to claim that Trump was shutting them down to hide his numerous crimes.
But by letting them keep investigating, Trump gets to go on Twitter every week and point out that despite having years to investigate along with millions of taxpayer dollars, so far all they have done is indict a few people on bogus charges. If Trump had fired them and shut the whole thing down, they would have been able to convict him in the court of public opinion, under the “Only someone with something to hide is afraid of investigations.”
By letting them continue, Trump makes them actually prove something in the court of law. Now, they probably could get a tame Obama or Clinton appointee to rubber stamp some bullshit crime, but they might also get a straight shooter judge. For people who are actually undecided on this issue, most of them will say “Hey Mueller’s been doing this for 2 years, and he’s still going……and he’s not found anything.”
I knew the whole thing was BS from the start. The feds were spying on the Trump campaign remember? If Trump actually did collude with the Russians, it would have been leaked to the media on November 4th, and he would never have won the election.
Not firing Mueller – I get that.
Not ordering the disclosure of all the information requested by Congress – I don’t get that.
Never interrupt your opponant while they’re making a mistake.
Defying Congress with regards to the information does not look good for the FBI, and either they don’t realize it or whatever they’re hiding is even worse than being openly defiant. It will eventually come to light, but the longer they stonewall, the worse their credibility gets. By simply twiddling his thumbs, he’s winning either way.
Sooner or later he’s going to have to call the hand, or the Deep State wins.
I wonder if he’s waiting for the midterms to pass, which is kind of a gamble in itself. If the Repubs do well, he can make his move from a position of strength. If the Dems do well, it will not play nearly as well.
“Sooner or later he’s going to have to call the hand, or the Deep State wins.”
When you have the better hand, you let the other guy keep putting money in the pot. I think he has the better hand. If he fires Mueller, then they screech COVERUP and probably persuade enough people of that. By letting it go on, he forces them to actually prove something in court. Which they can’t do, because there’s nothing there.
“I wonder if he’s waiting for the midterms to pass, which is kind of a gamble in itself. If the Repubs do well, he can make his move from a position of strength. If the Dems do well, it will not play nearly as well.”
The Senate map is so bad for the Democrats. They just have too many seats to defend, and there are so many in red states. This is the the 2012 Senate group, that rode on Obamas coattails to some razor thin margins to give the Dems Senate seats in places like Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota they now have to defend. Plus seats that they have to defend in Trump states like West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. The Republicans are probably going to lose in Nevada, but their other incumbents are in places like Texas, Missisippi, Nebraska, Wyoming. So strategically, they can write off Heller and go on offense. There’s 11 Democratic Senators representing states Trump won in 2016. The GOP is going to pick up Senate seats, and if they do well they could have 55 or more votes, and the ideological complexion of the Senate will change as well, with guys like Flake and Corker giving way to more conservative Senators.
By letting it go on, he forces them to actually prove something in court.
I’m not wondering why he doesn’t shut it down before it gets to court. I’m wondering why he doesn’t force the disclosure of the initiation and conduct of the investigation to Congress.
Maybe he is just saving it for an October surprise. I could see that, especially if Mueller drops a steaming October surprise of his own. Which raises a question: there was no rush to indict the Russian officers; why didn’t Mueller save that for October, rather than drop it in the summer to coincide with Trump’s trip to Russia? Sure it caused a news cycle kerfuffle (which I’m pretty sure will be forgotten soon). If that was his best shot, seems like he would have held it to October. Its pretty clear Mueller’s goal here is to do as much damage to the Trump administration as he can. Does that mean Mueller does have something better that he is holding onto until it can do maximum electoral damage?
“Does that mean Mueller does have something better that he is holding onto until it can do maximum electoral damage?”
Maybe, but I think he is completely misreading reality. Some kind of ZOMG RUSSIANS indictment isn’t going to save Joe Donelly in Indiana, or help the five Democrats in the other Midwestern states Trump flipped. I again think that the Midwestern Trump voter just isn’t falling for this RUSSIA shit at all. Yes, Bill Kristol and Jen Rubin are furiously masturbating to thoughts of a Russian war, but the people who elected Trump did so for pocketbook reasons and hes fucking holding up his end on that.
Right, which brings me to the above two theories: either Trump is fearful of what the FBI might do if he takes a more active role in the Congressional probe, or he believes the FBI is only hurting their case against him by continuing to stonewall Congress.
What’s not believable is that the FBI is sitting on dynamite they haven’t leaked after almost two years of leaking anything and everything, however insubstantial, and after all the grandstanding when making petty indictments having nothing to do with Trump.
Why order it now when it will all be forgotten by November. Order it in late October.
Watching Fed Chairman Powell’s testimony – Warren is shrieking at him about banks making money. Even Sen. Heitkamp (who I normally like) was shrill “you can’t live on less than $20/hr!”
Yes you can.
You can’t live a comfortable middle-class existance with multiple vehicles and an annual vacation on under $20/hour, but you can certainly live. The question is how many roomates do you take on, and how much bargain hunting do you do for food.
How dare you demand anyone live within their means! Granted, governments ranging from the Fed down to the town/municipality level seem to not do so, but us citizens – well, the plebes amongst them – are expected to do so. hence the left’s new push to make everyone millionaires, not realizing that that leads to deflation of your currency’s value or inflation that still makes this shit nothing useless attempts by people that want to impose utopian dreams on economic reality.
They move the goalposts on the minimum wage debate constantly. No, of course you can’t raise a family of four on a single minimum wage income. In ages past, this is why you’d have multiple generations living in the same household, so that parents could help young people start families and, in turn, expect to be cared for in their dotage by the now-established younger generation. Or, young men wouldn’t propose marriage until they’d established themselves in a career with enough of an income to support a wife and children.
Now, for a number of reasons besides just the presence of an extensive social welfare safety net, there’s less of a disincentive to get knocked up out of wedlock or without at least some means of support, and where it used to be the case that starting a family was a sign of someone who had earned that right through responsibility and work it’s now considered a human right to be exercised at will and supported by the rest of society if needed.
A single person can live just fine on less than $20/hour. I did for years. As you said, I had roommates, I lived within my means, and I did what I could to earn an extra buck here and save an extra buck there. My emergency backup plan if I wound up unexpectedly becoming a father was to join the military and have a cheap wedding, just like my dad did. You can wear the uniform so you don’t have to rent a tux, see.
My first job when I wasn’t living at someone else’s expense paid $12.32/hour. I supported myself and made my loan payments. I wasn’t living high on the hog and slept on an air mattress on the floor of the room I was renting in someone else’s house, but I made do.
That’s the thing. When you don’t have better options, you do what you have to until you can do better. That might be hardship, sure, but it’s not an undue hardship. That’s what normal is supposed to look like.
Your Bachelor’s in Fine Arts is supposed to be a ticket to the middle class, and the docent job at the Met you’re promised is just the leg up you need to become a professional, highly paid curator/gala director.
A BfA is the sort of degree someone gets when they’re already wealthy and can afford to faff about opening a gallery of their own.
My brother has an MFA. I’m not sure how he actually makes a living.
Ever watch ‘The Producers’?
Clearly this means he should be attacked again.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/16/rand_paul_people_hate_trump_so_much_they_refuse_to_work_responsibly_with_russia.html
They move the goalposts on the minimum wage debate constantly. No, of course you can’t raise a family of four on a single minimum wage income.
And the idea of people spending their whole lives in a minimum wage job? Where did that come from?
If you’re against a trainee fry cook at McDonald’s making less than $30 an hour it’s because you hate poor, single black mothers, you shitlord you!
I fully support raising the minimum wage to $20/hour.
/robotics and automation industry lobbyist
This is why I keep telling them they are low balling it at $15 an hour and should shoot for $50 or S100. I can’t wait for the rise of our burger flipping robot masters.
Sounds like reason enough to take the kids away.
Just can’t catch a break
Brutal.
it needs someone to do voice-over where at moment bird strikes, there’s this cockney, “FUCKIN ‘ELL MATE I WAS JUST LEAVIN” complaint
At least you didn’t have to deal with dead rodent on the porch.
Thank you, Hawk, for cleaning up the cat’s mess.
That poor cat at the end of the video. “WTF??? Where’d my lunch go?”
No sports today??!!
There’s the first qualifying round of both the Champions’ League AND the Europa League; the deciding one-day international between India & England; not to mention the next round of matches in the Scottish League Cup…
Like the man said..
I know what those words mean individually, but strung together the way you have them, it makes no sense.
Tour de France!
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTe7U92ecX8
I have no idea about Trump and Putin but I’ll say this:
If he’s pissing off CNN and Fox News equally, he’s gotta be doing something right.
Well said titty-man.
The titty man can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good.
“Taps his foot to the tune and nods in agreement”.
When House Hunters Renovation pulls in 400% more viewers than you do, I’d say you’re in trouble.
https://deadline.com/2018/07/sacha-baron-cohen-who-is-america-ratings-low-debut-showtime-1202427802/
I’d pick the rennovation show too. I’d also take UFC over Baron-Cohen without hesitation. What confuses me is why the number is even as high as it is.
#Resistance #Winning
However, the politics free HHR also pulled in an audience of 1.4 million.
No show is politics-free. Being politics-free is itself a political agenda to deny a platform to the #Resistance. So by not obsessively denouncing Trump in every particular, even if it means losing much of its market share, HHR is in fact endorsing Trump. The only way to expunge the taint of Trumpiness is to foster abysmal ratings. Only then can the show be pure.
WE’RE DOOMED! DOOOOOOOOOMED!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/opinions/trump-helsinki-no-longer-free-world-leader-avlon/
http://www.cnn…. *stops reading*
I thought Merkel had been the leader of the free world since Trump took office?
Merkel is the leader of the Servile world.
Easy mistake to make.
Under what fucking basis can blue states sue the fed gov over new fed gov tax law.
Legal basis? none. They might try to argue apportionment, but that would imply state taxes are federal taxes, or backfire even worse.
What they’ve got in their corner are Corrupt New York Judges and the dipshits on the 2nd circuit. It will make the Nazgul before being smacked down.
“Legal basis? none.”
Could have stopped there UCS. This lawsuit is because these fuckwads hope an activist judge will stop the new law from blocking the abuse that these high tax blue states were privy to because of the loophole in the fedgov tax. Rich fucks that used to get huge fedgov tax deductions because of the massive amount of state taxes they paid out, and I note that these rich people are the very people that the group filing this law suits constantly demonize but (1%!!) now want to protect, now no longer can prog hard. They are getting hit where it counts: their wallets, and now the left which always rails against the 1%ers is trying to screw with a tax law that helped the middle class so they can keep their rich donors from moving.
We cap all kinds of deductions in different ways, so that can’t be it.
You know, this might be the case where we revisit the ability of a single federal judge, with limited geographic jurisdiction (the district or circuit) to issue orders with nationwide effect.
I wonder if the Repubs took a leaf from the Dem’s book on ObamaCare, and left out the severability clause, so that striking any part of the tax reform invalidates all of it. If so, a NY judge striking down a massive tax cut is going to create an absolute political shitstorm.
Isn’t the reason we have a DC circuit for suits against the Feds? Or is it just appeals of Agency rulings?
I think its just for agency stuff.