We had a cold front blow in about 4am this morning. Like a for-real fall cold front with incredible lightning and thunder. Also the temperature hit the low 70s and will probably not exceed the low 80s today. This is very weird weather for July. Very weird. So like any good Florida Man, I am preparing for the end of the world and Fimbulwinter. This may be our last links together. I am gathering closed-toed shoes and pants in case winter arrives. I have dug out several sweat shirts. I am collecting firewood from the downed branches. Stay tuned for further notices if possible.
Archer presages reality. With perfectly safe, absolutely non-flammable helium, this is the slowest way to fly across the Atlantic. Also, as yet not proven safely able to operate for the three days it would take to cross.
John Brennan still has a security clearance?
I asked STEVE SMITH about this, and he says no cryptozoological creatures were involved. Probably just horrible humans.
Papa John’s Corporation would rather destroy shareholder value than let John Schnatter take over. Let’s see if they can destroy the whole company.
In honor of Papa John, here’s a fun one.
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Were I schatter I’d drive the damn thing into the ground until nothing is left but overly sweet sauce and unusable parmesan cheese packets
Why would you deliberately destroy hundreds of millions of your own dollars?
The board of directors said it approved a so-called poison pill provision, aimed at preventing former CEO John Schnatter from gaining more control of the company he founded.
Honestly, this is an example of one of the big problems with corporate governance. Largely due to government protections, boards and management are very free to essentially say, “screw the owners of the company”. It should be an issue broadly. But, stockholders don’t make a particularly popular constituency.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/business/george-zimmer-former-face-of-mens-wearhouse-watches-his-old-company-struggle.html
“John Brennan still has a security clearance?”
This is what irks me. The people least deserving to have a clearance have it, and they would throw every one of us in jail for even thinking about doing what they constantly do.
Let’s assume for a moment that there is nothing nefarious about Brennan still having a clearance. This just reinforces the standard of government incompetence that they cannot properly manage a TS clearance for political appointees entering and exiting.
Funny how that incompetence didn’t happen when Obama rolled into the WH and he wanted to make sure the Boosh people wouldn’t fuck with him. But when Obama leaves, the deep state suddenly has a problem doing this shit. Yeah, incompetence. Sure.
I can’t think of any good reason a person no longer working for the government should have security clearance. To me it’s like letting all the former employees keep a key to the building and their ID badge. On their last day, all that should all be revoked.
I kept my badge, phone, key and pager when I left my last job. I kept it for 3 years expecting them to realize it one day, then I threw it away. I suspect either incompence or laziness.
On my first day of retirement I reviewed all my keys, found a couple that I couldn’t identify and threw them in the brush. A few days later discovered one was to the lock on my boat motor and had to have the lock cut off so I could get the motor off.
Sounds like something I would do. Lol.
You kept the pager? How long ago was this? 😉
The last outfit I worked for the asshole boss was too lazy to tell HR I quit, so I kept getting paychecks. Six months later HE gets fired and they ask me to send the money back. I said, “What money? Here’s my attorney’s phone number if you have any further questions.”
So, it worked itself out naturally.
-1 Fixed Glitch
There’s a couple of reasons:
(1) The person has a private sector job that needs the clearance. Why not just let them keep it as long as they have a job that needs it?
(2) Senior leaders may need to be consulted after they leave. Brennan could fall into this bucket, I guess, but it begs the question of how long they should have it. If they are being consulted more than, say, six months after they leave, they should be given a position of some kind and the clearance tied to the position.
I hadn’t thought about reason 1. That makes sense. Although, as you said, if they go for a long period without using it for a legitimate job, it should expire.
It already does. A security clearance requires a renewal (reinvestigtion) every 5 or 6 years.
A security clearance is nothing in itself nor does it give the holder any special access. It just means a background investigation was done to the level required and nothing was found that was disqualifying. Unlike a badge or keys, it doesn’t mean they can gain automatic access to restricted material.
In some ways, holding a security clearance can be worse than not because you’re still required to follow the rules & regulations under penalty (unless you’re a certain SoS or other made person).
A TS has a much higher frequency of review, but the real question/concern is access to materials.
Access means not just having a clearance, but also having a need. Brennan shouldn’t have any access, because he doesn’t have any need.
Pulling his clearance will prevent him from ever getting a position where he has a need in the future.
Yeah, if they revoke his security clearance for cause. And not just he’s no longer in an eligible position (and can get it reinstated later).
The other unanswered question then is who is giving him access to classified material?
Two years after leaving the cleared position you remain eligible for clearance, after that it’s back to square one for a brand new full investigation.
https://news.clearancejobs.com/2018/06/24/creative-ways-to-keep-your-clearance-current-if-your-new-job-doesnt-require-one/
Trumps greatest crime will be forcing Brennan to fill out another SF-86 if he wants cleared employment again.
The person has a private sector job that needs the clearance. Why not just let them keep it as long as they have a job that needs it?
When I switched jobs that required a clearance, the clearance ended when I left the first of the first two jobs. I had to have it reactivated when I started the second of the two jobs, which knew I had a clearance at my old job, my boss had to have my clearance reactivated.
Reactivation is a lot less onerous than a new clearance.
Yep, my boss at the second job in my story explained that was a point in my favor when they interviewed me. Reactivation is not guaranteed though.
All norms must be erased or ignored by your betters.
But you will be made an example in order to pretend norms are being observed and protected.
I’m pretty sure this happened in Rome.
One of the links doesn’t work. ONE OF THE LINKS DOESN’T WORK. I’VE BEEN CHEATED.
I’VE BEEN HAD. TAKEN. BAMBOOZLED. ROBBED. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
You forgot HORNSWOGGLED
SWINDLED! BILKED! BEGUILED! GYPPED! DUPED! HOODWINKED!
How can you tell?
Oh, you’re actually clicking on the links? How droll.
Can’t you just hover over them to see if they work?
WHO’S GOT TIME FOR THAT?
Brett’s cat actually did the links today. I think he did a pretty good job, overall, and yet, you quibble about ONE mistake.
Alternate reply: What do you expect from a guy named Brett?
Keg stands?
damn it
Bong hits & keg stands.
Repealing Roe v Wade and all civil rights legislation and ushering in a new dark age of Amerikkkan fascism?
All hail the two mounds of flesh worth significantly more than their weight in gold!
http://archive.is/NCYmL
4, 19, 21, 27, 43, 45, 49, 52.
I’m in a bit of a “fuck-it-all” mood so I’ll just take 21.
Fukitol
Huh. I guess I’ll try something other than beer. Thanks!
But if you’re in a mood to fuck it all, why pick just one?
Two bulls are standing on a hill overlooking a pasture with plenty of heifers. The young bull says to the older bull, “Hey, I got an idea. Why don’t we run down there and each of us fuck one them heifers.” The other bull chews his cud a moment and says, “No. Let’s /walk/ down there and fuck /all/ of em.”
The old bull is wise.
I told that joke to a younger (twenty-something, I was about to turn 40 at the time) former co-worker. I don’t think he got it.
When I backpacked Europe way back when, a German guy told a bunch of people that joke, except it was a son and father shepherds and their sheep. It was the only joke he knew in English. He laughed hysterically like it was the fishsticks joke.
21 FTW
I’m think 8.5 is the perfect place to be here.
Nestled snugly in between #8 and #9
Although 53 looks like she could be fun in a pinch
I’ll take me an 18.
That’s some serious crypto on that zoology. My browser couldn’t do anything with it.
No one’s gonna comment on the shape of that blimp? Nobody??
Which blimp? Are we talking about someone’s ex?
You just did, sorta.
why does the interior look like the set of an Austin Power’s sequel?
It’s in the article. Bum ship.
MAM, not HAV
The article did. It’s known as “the flying bum.”
When you prog hard, you lose your balls. So what you do is tell people they are laid off over email, as the NY Daily News does here. FUck I love watching these douches go woke, and then going broke.
having your shitty paper no-one wants to read fail == journalism as a concept getting choked out of existence?
yeah I don’t think so
The cherry on top is the doubling down on their smug self-superiority.
That’s absolutely pathetic. I can understand feeling bitter because you’ve been let go, but crying about it over Twitter when you’ve got a pretty generous severance package and, in theory, an untarnished professional reputation, is evidence of poor character. If I were in a position to hire this dude I’d take one look at that tweet and pass.
Which one of us is commenter Arthur Frayn
He’s not down with (((them))) though.
Maybe it’s just me, and I’m missing something. But what does tariffs have to do with print newspaper sales?
Paper is so damned expensive!
The poison pill goes into effect if Schnatter and his associates increase their stake to 31%, or if anyone else acquires 15% of Papa John’s (PZZA) common stock in a deal not approved by the board.
Stockholders would then be allowed to buy shares at a discount, diluting the control of Schnatter or anyone else trying to build up a stake.
How the fuck does that work?
What would happen if they said, “We don’t want no nigger shareholders”?
Can’t do that last part or they will castrate your ass, but you certainly can do so against people the left deems as deplorable.
Poison pills are very common for Delaware entities. Basically they allow the Board to control any takeover. If it’s friendly, they can kill the poison pill and allow the takeover, otherwise they can put it into effect and dilute the new owner out of existence.
If it’s friendly, they can kill the poison pill and allow the takeover, otherwise they can put it into effect and dilute the new owner out of existence.
Yes, they can. And its absurd. It’s basically stealing from some shareholders to benefit others. And it’s only goal is to undermine the market for corporate control. Basically, the board and management are telling the shareholders that they can do whatever they want with the company and the shareholders have to just grease up and take it.
No, the pissed off shareholder can sell the stock as soon as a poison pill looks imminent. Wish I could “sell” my legislator as easily!
Yes, they can. And forcing them to do that is precisely the point of the poison pill. But, if you believe companies are supposed to exist in order to make money for their stockholders, this is a colossal rip-off. Management is effectively robbing them of their ability to hold management to account.
The movie (and play, if you like realistic endings) Other People’s Money covers that well.
Yes, but Larry the Liquidator was the hero of that story.
Yes he is. And I think both versions make that clear.
I’m back from 2 weeks of media free vacation. Did I miss anything important? IRT the cold front, I’ve been stock piling weapons and ammo. Honestly, I was going to do that anyways.
Welcome back! I shut down for a week and it was heaven!
I was worried my blood pressure was getting too low, so I read the lynx.
I shut off all notifications, etc. Didn’t watch a second of TV.
I missed you people, of course, but that was it.
I played through saints row 4 and fished. A delightful way to waste time.
Speaking of winter in Florida, I saw a car with a Quebec license plate yesterday. Which is weird, because they’re not supposed to be here yet. WTF, Rufus?
RuUfus must be driving down to make sure his Florida hos are sending him the cash they are earning…
Climate change, duh.
But climate change should make them spend MORE time in Quebec, not less!
In the past week, here in the Richmond metro area, I’ve seen Alberta plates and Quebec plates. Very odd.
It’s an invasion. Bieber is coming.
Jesus, don’t even joke about that.
I’VE BEEN HAD. TAKEN. BAMBOOZLED. ROBBED. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS.
I advise you to stage a boardroom coup.
Nice song choice. I like the old school banked-track roller derby. Definitely not the version Mrs. TOK plays.
Papa John? I was expecting The Mamas and Papas. What do I know?
Or this.
Despite its August 2016 crash landing, and a November 2017 incident in which the Airlander 10 deflated before take-off, it has completed six successful test flights so far.
oh, well, in that case sign me up!
Is Elon in charge of this thing?
No. Elon would have claimed millions of simulated successful test flights.
How many actual tests?
The WSJ wrote up the Model 3 this past Saturday. A few takeaways:
Dan Neil is an electric car fanboy, and it shows. He lurved it.
He drove their top model, which I think has extra everything (motors, batteries, etc.) . Retail price was around $78K. Yes, $78,000 American.
The fit and finish was decent – the earlier reports that it was crap were very early production runs, and it sounds like they got that fixed, at least.
There seem to be incremental improvements in battery capacity and recharge times, although it was kind of hard to tell. Range was over 300 miles (I think) and recharge times were half an hour (I think). I’m especially skeptical of the recharge times. My memory may be off, here.
I read that he’s caught hell on Twitter for it. I find Elon Musk unpalatable as a person, and I’m not impressed by electric cars, but if nothing else it would be nice to see a few of these things get into the mass market just so Tesla’s fans will shut up about it. For the record, I don’t consider $78k a mass-market price. The Tesla is geared towards a very odd niche, and I suspect that in the long run there’s just no way for it to be profitable without some changes in the business model.
I say we “guilt by association” all Tesla owners and noisily harangue them.
Well, purchase of a Tesla is clearly a sign of a sick, criminal mind, and should be treated with shame and a good, solid shunnin’.
An aircraft that has a 75% success rate is plenty good enough for . . . wait, what?
No one’s gonna comment on the shape of that blimp? Nobody??
Does it look like Donald Trump, in a diaper?
Old news.
You’re high, Mr. CEO.
Get me to my fun place asap, please. Bring on the fucking SSTs, now!!
We killed the concord and brought back the blimp. Go home civilization, you’re drunk.
“We” didn’t kill it, certain Luddite residents of NY did.
It killed itself when it ingested a piece of a blown up tire.
My memory is not exactly correct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
Air France Flight 4590 was an international charter flight from Paris to New York City, on the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde. On 25 July 2000, at time 16:43 CET, the aircraft serving the flight (registration F-BTSC) ran over debris on the runway during takeoff, blowing a tyre and puncturing a fuel tank; the subsequent fire and engine failure caused the aircraft to crash into a hotel in nearby Gonesse two minutes after takeoff, killing all 109 (100 passengers and nine crew) aboard and four in the hotel, with another person in the hotel being critically injured.
The “royal we”, Tonio.
We are not amused.
Blimps: When you don’t care if or when you get to your destination but you damn sure want to spend a pile of cash on the trip.
Get me to my fun place asap, please. Bring on the fucking SSTs, now!!
Hold your horses. Elon Musk is going to connect London and New York with a hyperloop.
In hindsight I would have done almost anything to become so filthy rich that I could have my own (really fast) jet. I love traveling, but flying sucks.
We had a cold front blow in about 4am this morning.
Also the temperature hit the low 70s and will probably not exceed the low 80s today.
Excuse me? ‘Cold’ front?
That’s relative here.
Fuck, in South Florida a “cold front” in the winter usually means we’ll get highs in the low 70s, lows in the 50s and dry weather. Except for a couple that drop the lows into the 40s and the highs into the 60s. Those are big cold fronts.
Well, by Florida standards.
If I were underwriting the Papa Johns directors’ insurance policy, I’d be notifying them of a substantial rate increase.
APARTHEID STATE! NAZI OPPRESSORS! JOOOOOOOOOZ!!!!
https://lidblog.com/israel-jewish-state-liberals/
I have been doing my part to accelerate global warming, so don’t blame me!
Straight pipes save lives!!
These euphemisms are getting a little hyperbolic.
That’s a shame about Papa Johns who up to recently was my favorite shitty pizza. Organizations that take the Starbucks route don’t get my money.
I used to eat Papa John’s, but when Domino’s revamped their pizza I jumped ship.
You’re right, drowning at sea would be preferable to either.
Pizza for me is a food I eat when I don’t want to put on pants. I never get pizza out.
I’m a Papa John’s guy, but I had Domino’s the other day and was impressed. Neither are better than the place up the road, but it doesn’t deliver.
Don’t you folks have Bite Squad or DoorDash where you live? I’ve got 21 places that will deliver pizza to my house (e.g., https://www.elementpizza.com/).
I make my own, instead. Now that I’m getting good at it, the chain stuff tastes like cardboard. If I have some dough rising, it’s only 15 minutes extra work to get the good stuff. OTOH, we occasionally call domino’s because I’m too lazy to make pizza and they’re the only ones that deliver.
I can’t really compete with the place down the street with the 900° wood-burning oven. I can essentially call them, hang up, and by the time I walk over it’s ready. So damn good.
Plus, Heavy Metal Pizza Tracker, right?
Soccerball news:
Bayern President shits on Ozil
“I’m glad this nightmare is over,” Hoeness told reporters at the Munich airport. “He’s been playing crap for years.
“The last tackle he won was before the 2014 World Cup. And now he is hiding himself and his poor performances behind this photo.
“His 35 million [social media] followers, that of course do not actually exist in the real world, ensure that Ozil has played exceptionally when he successfully finds his man with a square ball.”
“When we faced Arsenal, we always played through him because we knew that he is the weak link,” Hoeness said.
Good for Hoeneß. Fucking Özil played the “You can’t criticize me because I’m a minority” card, too.
Özil is overrated.
And Arsenal now pay him $350k /week.
Link
That’s piling it on a little thick. At least the article does mention his frequent bouts of indifference.
If there was a genius, it was Lahm.
Pretty much.
Fuck Özil for the picture with Erdogan. He knew exactly what he was doing, and he still is claiming ignorance.
Emre Can was smart enough not to go to the event for a reason.
He did?
Well, I’m being uncharitable, but he pretty much played the “race” card (except of course that Turks aren’t a separate race).
He’s right about that. He’s a bit of joke at Arsenal. And the “racism” stuff sounds like made-up BS to me. Nobody running a sports team gives a shit about your “race”, dope.
i hated him b/c of that hey-look-i’m-a-baby sucking his thumb thing after scoring. holy shit was that terrible.
Most players do that. There’s also stuffing the ball in your shirt to indicate you’re “pregnant”. It’s insufferable.
The highest altitude the Airlander can fly is 16,000 feet. Thunderstorms reach up to 35,000 feet.
It cannot fly over weather. It has to fly around it.
I think they’re going to find that the sorts of tourists who are paying for a ride that is frequently canceled by weather won’t be willing to pay lots of money for the tickets.
Floating swingers cruise?
Thunderstorms can exceed 60,000 feet and modern airliners have to fly around them.
True, but they can handle the sort of weather that rips a blimp to pieces. Moreover, they are moving fast enough that flying around a storm generally only adds a few minutes of flight time to their journey. Additionally at the altitudes they fly at, there’s actually very little weather.
Below 20,000 feet, there’s more turbulence, more precipitation, more windshear, more icing, etc.
Blimps are to flying what Duck Tour boats are to sailing.
You mean awesome and make everyone on them look like a stone cold pimp?
I might be okay for a short/overnight flight, but 3 days? No.
I don’t want it to fly too high. How else can I see if I hit my target when I take a leak or a shit from the blimp?
Please don’t lie and tell me that that isn’t the first thing you’d do if you were in a blimp with a shitter on top of a glass floor.
Are flights allowed over the U.S. Capitol?
I’m thinking that the perfect situation would be to fly over an antifa rally. Rich people shitting on idiots is the perfect metaphor.
Iron Maiden wrote a song about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbAhn7iKLPc
Given past trends of being the party out of power with a President that has sub-50% approval, all they have to do to win is not be crazy and they can’t even manage that.
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/07/23/watch-kirsten-gillibrand-if-democrats-win-first-thing-we-should-do-is-abolish-ice/
Gillibrand is a shitweasel. She’s a reliable predictor of focus group testing trends and has no apparent principles of her own other than getting reelected.
Most of her party wasn’t even willing to put their name to a vote to abolish ICE that they knew was only symbolic.
Or shambolic.
She wouldn’t vote for it. No way in hell. She’s just fishing for media attention.
Takes after her scumbag governor and senior senator.
So I was over at (t)Reason and I got called a statist for acknowledging the existence of immigration laws. I don’t get people.
The only thing to get is that, outside of a few articles by a few writers, Reason is a progressive publication now.
The first rule of internet arguing is to discredit your opponent so you don’t have to understand their argument. You should have responded with, “Takes one to know one!”
You sound racist.
I win.
I can’t be racist by definition because I’m half Irish.
“I’m half Irish”
A drunken homophobe then.
No, only half of a drunken homophobe.
The other half is obviously racist though, right?
My better half is German, so, yes. Obviously.
What did you with with the other half of Irish?
Reason? Is that still a thing?
There are some people that believe “immoral laws” should not be acknowledged. I mean, I get flouting laws you disagree with, but you should still acknowledge they exist.
John Brennan still has a security clearance?
I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t even be allowed to keep my key fob to get into the office if was fired or quit my job. I can’t fathom why you would get to keep security clearance as a former gov’t agent.
“People” get security clearances not jobs. Those clearances are good for a set number of years.
My wife had a clearance for a while. She changed position at the company. The clearance stayed in effect for some time afterwards. When it expired, there was no reason to renew it.
Clearances don’t automatically evaporate when you leave the job that required the clearance in the first place.
An internal transfer is different from leaving the company. When I left the company, I lost my clearance and my boss at the new company had to start the paperwork to get it reactivated.
I’ve never had a clearance. And I’ve been with the same employer for 25 years. So I don’t have any experience.
I’ll take your word for it.
You’re better off without one in my opinion.
When I left the second place where I needed a clearance, I never looked back. They even tried to get me to come back about six or seven months after I left. I said, “Thanks, but no thanks.”
I’ve crossed into dual-use a couple of times, but I have scrupulously avoided defense projects.
Jennifer Rubin thinks taking away John Brennan’s security clearance is a “sickening example of content discrimination, violation of the First Amendment”. I’m not sure why, but…
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1021478284893331458
Well, you would have to argue that Trump was punishing them/stripping of them of their clearance for their political beliefs/opposition to him. I mean, some left leaning court would probably take the case and block it until it went up to the latter and was affirmed. It would just require the Trump administration to argue they had cause for taking it away.
How the fuck is revoking a privileged status granted at the pleasure of the President a 1A violation?
Rubin needs a brain transplant.
See above. A security clearance isn’t really a privileged status. It’s little more than a background investigation was done within a certain amount of time in the past.
That’s retarded, but it is Rubin we’re talking about here.
And it’s a tacit admission that Brennan is using his clearance to obtain information otherwise unavailable so he can leak it.
Because, at the end of the day, Jennifer Rubin believes in a dictatorship by national security elites. Because Trump is running afoul of the wishes of those elites, she feels that they’re perfectly well within their right to leak anything they want that will undermine his impudence. Actual leaker laws are only meant to apply to lesser mortals.
Brennan is using his clearance to obtain information otherwise unavailable so he can leak it.
One thing that was always pointed out to me every time I had to work in a secure facility, its not that I have a clearance that matters. I must have a “need to know” the information they are trying to protect. I must have both to be able to see it. Which as a former head of the CIA tells me he has absolutely no need to know.
Yes, you need “need to know” as well, which I forgot about. I remember getting those lectures too. “Just because you’re cleared, doesn’t mean you can see everything.”
I had a friend on the defense side of the house that recounted a funny story. The customer (dudes in uniform) were visiting for a project status update. One of the dudes in uniform was being an asshole and demanded that everyone in the room be verified as having need-to-know for the project. So the project leader pulled out the sheet with the name of all the authorized participants. It turns out asshole in uniform was not on the list. So project leader booted asshole in uniform out of the room.
Clearances mean very little actually.
That is just delightful.
Seconded.
I love it when its the asshole getting fucked.
Yes. I know what I said.
There’s probably some people around here who can help you with that…
STEVE AM NOT NECESSARILY “PEOPLE” BUT AM ALWAYS WILLING TO HELP.
AND BY HELP,…
Which as a former head of the CIA tells me he has absolutely no need to know.
But, as a member in good standing of the #Resistance, he has a need to know everything that can be used against Trump.
Apparently he still gets “access to finished intelligence, a courtesy offered to all previous DNI & Directors.“
Screw Jennifer Rubin! She’s pretty much the poster girl for authoritarian shitheels.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/06/24/reality-intrudes-on-the-libertarian-delusion/?utm_term=.9b76e2b0430d
When you are the token right wing contributor at places like the Post, you are generally the most loathsome and fraudulent type of creature imaginable.
I get a special joy out of bypassing their crappy pay wall.
But, Rubin is a special sort of vile. I mean guys like David Brooks or Ross Douthat are basically retarded, but at least kinda sorta seem to mean well. Every now and then, they’ll trip over a halfway decent point. Rubin is different. Her columns have a pretty consistent theme. And its basically a theme of “the agents of the government should have unchecked power and you little peasants should just shut the hell up and take it”.
Like Stewart Baker on the Volokh Conspiracy.
God, what a shit stain he is. ‘Thanks’ for reminding.
it’s so nice that the cognitively impaired have an outlet for their expression.
Dovetails quite nicely with one of my previous Glibs articles.
https://freebeacon.com/culture/review-sex-matters-by-mona-charen/
Shameless self-promotion:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/02/sex-wars-episode-1-aka-what-about-our-family-friendly-rating-aka-8d-i/
Every time you post the “free beacon”, I read it as “free bacon” and then get angry when I realize I’ve misread it.
http://www.freebeer.org/
Communist beer? So nobody is going to get drunk.
HIV patients in socialist paradise with government healthcare
are healthy because they get free medsare dying because they can’t get meds and have to resort to DIY treatments.https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article215223510.html#storylink=latest_side
I gotta hand it to you Muskipoo, you kept the con going a lot longer than I expected you to.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/21/elon-musk-is-a-total-fraud/
I hope you enjoyed all the money, attention and tail you got cause the gravy train is coming to a stop.
You mean Tesla finally went bankrupt and Musk has been arrested for fraud?
No? Then he’s still keeping the con going.
Yes, but the wheels are coming off the bus.
Here’s my prediction FWIW.
Tesla is being kept afloat by a bunch of accounting fiddles. My guess is that their capital situation is worse than what is portrayed in their filings. Additionally, based on how the bailout of his family members during the Solar City bankruptcy structured, I expect Elon has been raiding his successful ventures to prop up the unsuccessful ones (or at least pay off the people he cares about). Last but not least, there’s some pretty demonstrable fraud Tesla engaged in vis a vis the California tax credits (basically CA bureaucrats are categorizing Tesla’s cars as earning the highest tax break the state offers, which is only supposed to go to electric vehicles whose batteries can be swapped out at a service station (allowing them to be ‘refueled’ as fast as gasoline and diesel powered vehicles.
So, this negative press is the beginning of the end. At some point, one of his fiddles will be investigated. There will be a lawsuit along with discovery. He’ll fight it. Forensic accountants will be brought in by his opponents trying to figure out where the money is going. They’ll uncover more fiddles. Some will create a public uproar. Each uncovered fraud will prompt more victims to file suit.
And, at some point, some AG wanting a big scalp is going to swoop in and prosecute Musk. And he’s going to end up in the same cell block as Maddoff. But, he’ll at least be able to close his eyes and play back memories of banging Amber Heard. Of course he may not want to do that, because once she sees he’s going down, she’s going to sue him too.
You think the CA or NY AGs will go after one of their own?
Oh yes…. Given the right circumstances, they’ll go after it.
They’ve been putting out stories lately to signal that he’s not really one of the good ones, after all.
Maybe they can pin the Venezuela fiasco on him too while they are at it?
You dream big.
How many shares have you shorted? This might be our opportunity to get really rich so we can go into some business that is more visually appealing than using orphans to make monocles and mine coal.
Short Papa John while you’re at it.
To his fans, he’s the greatest entrepreneur ever. One guy even excused his retarded ‘pedo’ comment because he’s such a great mind.
Though I’m not sure how he qualifies as one since his two biggest pet projects have nothing to do with his inventiveness and more to do with he has the cash (and managed to get government tax dollars) to play rockets and EV.
And for PayPal, I read he was part of a team to accomplish that.
Beyond that, I can’t comment because I think he was involved in other stuff before all this.
With the pedo comment, I was left wondering if that and other recent public remarks haven’t been aimed at getting himself removed. Then when the shit hits the fan he can claim it would never have happened with him at the helm.
The PayPal thing pisses me off. Did he write the back-end? Did he set up the site? Or did he hire some nerds to do it while he went to meetings and glad-handed people? That’s fine, that’s a thing that needs doing, but that doesn’t make you a “tech guy”, and that’s his rep. Same with that idiot Mark Cuban.
So, it destroyed 90% of half of the car?
I literally died reading that.
No 10% of one half of the car. That’s what decimation is, the killing of 10%.
I think the author means that the front bumper was cracked and had to be replaced.
Wouldn’t it be destroyed 10% of half the car?
I love you guys for correcting my correction.
And by love mean…
Technically love is the best kind of love.
Christ, what an asshole.
What exactly is the con? Did he not produce the products advertised? Was anyone who did basic research somehow duped into reaching a conclusion that the EV and Solar businesses do not depend on subsidies? Are his investors being lured by the promise of unattainable returns or investing in a vision for the future?
“Are his investors being lured by the promise of unattainable returns or investing in a vision for the future”
There is something to be said for caveat emptor, however I think this statement is true. You’re correct that he created products. Are they as advertised? I’d say no.
When the stock price exceeded that of Ford I think that was a pretty clear indicator to anyone that it was not financials in the driver’s seat. With regard to the product and advertising, I think you’d have a difficult time finding where there was a delta between the product and the literature significantly different than what other manufacturers have. The general grips I’ve picked up are unreliability with body electronics, but never drive train issues. Comparatively, it is within the tolerance for other luxury brands with too much added electronic junk.
Disclosure: I lived with a model S for quite some time and ultimately elected to purchase a base model Leaf. Given both are mere appliances I couldn’t justify the cost of a new Tesla, however nice of an appliance it may be, in comparison to a proper automobile. I may wait till they’re deprecated to around 30k and reconsider.
I could use some damned winter right now.
You’re the one who chose to live in Louisiana. :-p
We can’t skip Fall dammit.
I hope Papa John wins. As in the guy.
Fuck the board and all these PC assholes pulling everything out of context.
Same with the idiot sports writers grabbing their panties and pearls over Hader and the standing-O he got.
Sports writers/commentators truly are the bottom of the barrel. Insufferable and sensitive douches.
deadspin has an especially dumb take on Hader’s standing O by all those awful white people.
https://deadspin.com/giving-a-guy-who-was-racist-online-a-standing-ovation-t-1827785357
a couple times the writer brushes up against the idea that maybe it’s just anti-PC solidarity but never quite grasps it. nope, it’s gotta be those racist white people.
a lot of those tweets look like rap lyrics
https://twitter.com/kjen1327/status/1019421268154646528/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1019421268154646528&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthebiglead.com%2F2018%2F07%2F18%2Fjosh-hader-twitter-racist-homophobic%2F
and “suck my cock, i’ll murder your family” is a Will Ferrell movie quote from Semi-Pro. seriously. which is Will’s best movie FYI.
https://twitter.com/SydneySmithh123/status/1019430744446373889/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1019430744446373889&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthebiglead.com%2F2018%2F07%2F18%2Fjosh-hader-twitter-racist-homophobic%2F
Totally under rated.
ELE!!!
Step Brothers or GTFO.
I’d say any movie Will Ferrell is not in is better than any of his films.
Our enthusiasm, however, was tempered when on its second flight, the largest aircraft in the world went nose first into the grass near its hangar at a U.K. airfield shortly after take off.
Reminds me of the Top Gear Airship Caravan bit where May flies over a commercial airport.
I am amused that the STEVE SMITH link is garbage.
I know I linked to this story in the Morning Lynx but this is too LOL worthy to not post.
http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/stormy-daniels-divorce-745923
“the husband of Stormy Daniels accuses the porn actress of committing adultery”
lol wut?
She’s a fucking porn star! She fucks other men for a living! SMH
No, that’s different!
He was cool with her fucking people for money! Adultery was when she did it for no reason!
Lol.
I imagine such things are more complicated than they appear when it comes to “adult” “actors”.
Wasn’t that a sub-plot in Boogie Nights?
SPOILER ALERT for a twenty or so year old movie!
If I remember correctly, not only did the wife fuck guys on camera, she fucked her co-stars at parties. When the husband, who was a porn film camera man, asked his wife to stop fucking guys at parties, the wife told him to fuck off. At the end of “Boogie Nights”, the husband, at a party, shot the wife, the guy she was having sex with, and himself.
I believe Bill Macy murdered Nina Hartley over it.
Maude’s husband? I never heard that.
A friend of mine ran into something similar. A girl he was sleeping with separated from her husband because he slept with another woman without telling her. The couple were swingers but the wife was completely pissed that her husband would sleep with one of their swinger friends behind her back.
He said it was a strange situation, but he got lots of great kinky sex out of the deal while it lasted.
My guess is that those situations require a lot of compartmentalization.
Speaking from experience, the whole point of non-monogamy is honesty, and there may even be ‘rules’ about what is allowed and not allowed with outside relationships. So, yes, you can be have a situation where you are in a non-monogamous relationship and the other party cheats on you.
Stormy still a crazy ho though, either way.
Sounds complicated. I know for a fact I wouldn’t be able to be in a non-monogamous relationship, unless we’re just talking about just casually dating. I know there are people who are married and swing and all that and make it work, but I’m too old school.
It is complicated, sure. But the fundamentals are similar to monogamy; trust, truthfulness, communication. I’m not an evangelist and definitely not one of those who think being non-monogamous is somehow more enlightened or some bullshit.
I’ve thought about writing an article but I’m getting a rep as the pot and perversion guy and I do have other interests.
I mean, there are cultures around the world where it’s the norm, and lord knows there have always been traditional marriages with “arrangements” that work out just fine.
The World’s Largest Aircraft
Looks like a prop for an Austin Powers naughty bits reference montage.
Stormy times ahead.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/07/23/stormy-daniels-getting-divorced/
Banging your own lawyer has consequences.
Speaking of Tesla. Guess who wants retroactive discounts from their suppliers?.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/23/report-tesla-wants-money-back-from-suppliers/
Hey. Worth a try, no? What will he call them when they refuse?
Haven’t heard any Static-X for a while. Nicely done.
Canuck Mayor wants people to be defenseless.
On Monday, Toronto Mayor John Tory addressed the City Council in the wake of a deadly shooting in a popular Toronto neighborhood on Sunday night in which a shooter murdered an 18 year-old-girl and a 10 year-old girl while wounding 13 others. Tory called for stricter gun control, asking, “Why does anyone in this city need to have a gun at all?”
Tory stated:
I have said for some time that this city has a gun problem and that guns are far too readily available for far too many people. This is an international problem and this is a domestic problem. There are far too many people carrying around guns in our city and our region who should not have them. You’ve heard me ask the question of why anybody would need to buy 10 or 20 guns, which they can lawfully do under the present laws. And that leads to another question we need to discuss: Why does anyone in this city need to have a gun at all?
I can’t imagine. How was the gunman stopped again? (Hint: Other guys with guns)
“why anybody would need to buy 10 or 20 guns, which they can lawfully do under the present laws”
It only takes one guy with one gun and ill intent to kill a lot of people douchebag. Why don’t you just come out and say you don’t have a problem with the number of guns a person can own, you gave a problem with people owning guns period?
Well, he can start doing something about it.
He can order all the police to turn in their guns for destruction. After all, they don’t need them, do they?
“This is a just fate for those who rebel against the glorious socialist government of Nicolas Maduro” – Millennial “Democratic Socialists”, probably
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article215033815.html#navlink=SecList
Well…bye.
https://nypost.com/2018/07/23/global-warming-is-making-more-people-kill-themselves-study/amp/#click=https://t.co/G7977PZjMB
I have a rock that keeps tigers away.
I thought this was a good thing: fewer people therefore fewer CO2 emissions?
I personally see no problem.
I killed myself.
You guys are just being big jerks!
None of you have ever committed ritual suicide even once in your lives! And yet you feel entitled to pass judgement!
The AGW scammers are getting as desperate and ridiculous as the Hillary supporters.
Important intersectional news you can use!
Sports and IT collide when Twiggy the waterskiing squirrel retires.
That is the hard hitting local news we expect in Minnesoda.
Intersectional? Intersectional, my ass! There’s not a black midget tranny or a non-gender-conforming one-armed albino anywhere in there.
I feel gypped.
Did you even ask the squirrel who xe identifies as?
Racist.
Posted without comment
https://nypost.com/2018/07/22/even-a-serial-child-killer-will-soon-go-free-thanks-to-cuomos-parole-board/
Admitted to killing three of her kids and is suspected of killing another five. I’m pretty lenient when it comes to crime and punishment but she needs to die in prison.
Yeah. Tomorrow. Violently.
It’s just a late term abortion, so she’s really just a progressive.
I think twelfth trimester abortions are illegal in most states.
That’s just the result of the patriarchy.
How are the cop-killers relevant to this? Oh, it’s the Post. Never mind.
Frankly, the cop-killers should be paroled precisely *because* they killed cops.
Fuck everybody in that editorial who says killing a cop is worse than killing a non-cop.
2018 Jeep Wrangler JK Sport S Rental Review – Time Machine
Sometimes I really like Baruth.
That’s harsh and good.
With inflation, the 2018 Wrangler is cheaper than the 2012 Wrangler, but probably not by enough to justify the lesser product, than the 2012 Wrangler.
I had a Jeep Wrangler Sahara. It did wonderful things going up very rough roads, but every time I got into and looked around at the cheap, plastic interior I thought “Ugh. This is a Chrysler.” I guess that’s why so many people pimp the hell out of them with aftermarket stuff.
I still want one though.
Mine is a 2007 four door and it is fan-fuckin-tastic. It is a beast that cant be stopped. It comes in handy on timberland. I will drive it until the wheels fall off.
I had a 2004 Grand Cherokee and you could drive it right through 4 feet deep snowdrifts, seriously. I was driving it around in Ellicott City, MD back in 2010 when we had like 35-40 inches of snow over a few says and there were vehicles off the road stuck everywhere. I just kept driving until I got beer, no problems.
1996 Cherokee Sport. Ran like a top. Then a 1998 Grand Cherokee — not terrible but should’ve sprung for leather seats. Wife had a 2002 Liberty — it was decent.
I miss that Cherokee.
Reminds me of Tom McCahill. Don’t read reviews like that much any more. Jack probably won’t be getting any Alfas to test now.
Q. How come a $5000 luxury car comes with a $1 jack that doesn’t work?
A. Ran out of the fifty-cent ones.
… Hobbit
I like it. Fuck these thin-skinned car flacks who lose their shit when some punk car guy insults their baby. Who was it that called the Subaru Tribeca grill a ‘flying vagina’?Farrago?
Whatever. I get tired of fawning reviews.
Florida’s Man delivers a beat down.
https://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/07/20/home-invasion-suspect-had-to-be-bandaged-following-confrontation-with-homeowner/
““From the upstairs all the way to downstairs he got his (expletive) tore up,” Quiros said.“
“I never seen the guy,” Quiros said. “I don’t want to know him, either. But I told them, just like I told you — you disrespect my house, you gonna get served. I don’t care who it is.”
Florida Man FTW!
Maybe don’t break into the home of the dude with the facial tats.
Since I wasn’t here for the morning lynx and I’m too lazy to look, did we discuss the British Medical Journal’s editorial calling for knives with pointy ends to be banned?
No, but are you sure that’s not news from 2014?
2005, even: https://www.bmj.com/content/330/7502/1221
What happens when they discover you can make any knife have a pointy end with an assortment of readily available tools? Hell we made knives by putting nails on the RR tracks to be flattened by the trains and then sharpened them on the concrete sidewalks
Won’t somebody think of the baboons?!!
More climate-change nuisance suits:
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/east/2018/07/23/495780.htm
Completely speculative suits should be dismissed with prejudice.
I would love to see the sued oil companies announce that they would no longer make deliveries to municipal departments.
Sure, the cops won’t be able to gas up their cars, but the ocean will be 5 angstorms lower.
It seems strange, too, that, assuming fossil fuels are responsible for climate change (and that’s a big “if”), Baltimore would not be just as culpable for demanding and benefiting from the stuff. That was what that California federal district court opined when it dismissed that nearly-identical municipal suit.
Baltimore is broke and looking for cash.
People need to stop using this term if they intend for it to have any meaning.
Like playing craps, your probability of rolling a 7 is 1:6, for every roll. You can hit it multiple times in a row but over time it will even out.
“says Baltimore has been impacted by sea level rise and climate change leading to “property damage”
Yeah, that happens when you get 6 inches of rain in 3 hours. Is it unprecedented? No, I actually checked. These people are fucking morons.
“It says the Baltimore area has suffered two 1,000-year storms within three years.”
Bwahahhaahaaahahaaa! RUSSIANS HACKED OUR WEATHER!
Also, I might want to add that, a known fact, in 1972 the water in Ellicott City was WAY higher than it was in the 2 recent flash floods. Like a lot lot higher. Anyone can look this up. Also, 1000 years? Really, we’ve been keeping records for more than 1000 years? I don’t think so, Skippy.
Completely speculative suits should be dismissed with prejudice.
The lawyers who bring them should be sanctioned for bringing a frivolous lawsuit under the current rules of civil procedure.
Why judges don’t use that rule more often, I have no idea. I mean, it wouldn’t be because the plaintiffs bar provides a lot of campaign contributions for judicial elections.
Of course, I don’t understand why any lawyer is allowed to donate to the election campaign of a judge. Conflict of interest, anyone?
Odd how they didn’t identify the gunman right away.
Yup. Never going to know that motive. Move along citizens. Nothing to see here.
I heard he was shouting L. Ron Hubbard akhbar. Those damn Scientologists…
I thought he was shouting ‘Me and Jebediah gonna get all medieval on your hindies.’ Those damn Amish…
“The only lesson to take from this is that law-abiding, peaceful people should not bear arms.”
– Toronto Mayor
Handguns are registered and tightly controlled in Canada. Little turd of course doesn’t mention that.
That means they aren’t controlled enough. Only total confiscation will do, and open borders of course.
Unless it turns out they don’t want to hear the answer, in which case they and the media will ignore it.
“Shooting occurred because gunpowder ignited, propelling lead bullets at high velocity towards the targets.”
…and blame it on one of their pet boogeymen instead, whom they will go after as long as they can keep their constituents outraged.
Reminds me of a message I heard on commute from work today, lovely commute, about a 45 minute delay on what is normally a 30 minute drive. 5-6 cars, one car which they hadn’t managed to scrape off the left lane concrete divider, yet. So totally destroyed, I couldn’t even tell you what it was, some sort of gold/tan colored sedan, I think. No one lived in that car, I’m sure. It looked to be about 18″ wide side to side at the widest point.
Anyway, message from the mayor. We’re going to save our city! The violence must end! We will find real answers!
Yeah, sure you will, you won’t like the real answers if you manage to accidentally find them.
He said the city will be relentless to find out why the shooting occurred.
Which (a) has nothing to do with the legality of guns and (b) sure he will.
‘I bet you miss me’
/Rob Ford from the grave
Imagine a Ford/Trump meeting. I dare you.
(I’d dare SugarFree, but I know he’d actually rise to the occasion).
I wish.
LOL. I don’t think Toronto the Good will see his like again.
The only lesson to take from this is that
law-abiding, peaceful peoplethe subjects of an almighty sovereign should not bear arms.I thought they have common sense gun control in Canada?
No, we have common nonsense gun control.
Wikipedia of course won’t say it outright, but good luck getting a PAL for a handgun if you’re a nobody – shooters and collectors used to be able to get it after jumping through hoops, but the hoops keep narrowing.
What happened to CanCon? Can’t even use the good ole C7, have to use the US M16 as the foundation for that family of rifles.
Colt Sporter.
Well. now they need non-common sense gun control.
Import a zillion people from a violent, uncivilized culture and then use their violence as a pretense for disarming the law abiding.
A) My patience with open borderers has run out.
B) No one wants to make you defenseless for your own good.
People like this mayor are the worst kinds of people. A public hanging would be too good for him.
“This kind of thing doesn’t happen in other countries”
– Barack Obama
Such a pretty young woman. What a waste.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44933175
The WaPo assured me this morning that the shooter was white. I thought it was funny they mentioned that. For some reason that story is gone. Fucking lying douchebags.
I’m sure he is white. He just happens to be named Faisal Hussain. Because I don’t think they’ve called him a Canadian citizen yet, the odds are he’s an immigrant, and with that name, I’d bet he’s one of their recent crop of “Syrian” “refugees”.
But, he might not be a jihadi. He could be in a gang, or he could just be crazy. Regardless, it was probably pretty clear when he was waved through immigration that he wasn’t going to make Canada a better place for Canadians to live.
Probably an Amish kid on rumspringa.
Does anyone here own a handgun in 357 Sig? Buds has a sweet deal on factory remanfactured 226s in that caliber but I don’t know if I want to add that particular one to my stable.
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/2084_2108/products_id/718004169/SIG+P226+357SIG+CERTIFIE+PRE+OWNED
They’re all too loud to shoot without ear protection like you might need to do with a bedside gun but it sounds like 357 Sig in particular might be very much too loud.
Great penetration. Expensive ammo. I’m going to be buying a .357 Sig barrel for my Glock 23 .40. Evidently that’s the only thing needed for conversion. Might be worth looking at a conversion if you want that caliber. Your not stuck running the pricey stuff through it all of the time. Unless your rich, then do whatever.
That’s a thought, they have remanufactured 229s in .40 available too. That just might be the way to go.
You ever buy from Buds before? If so, how was it? I’ve heard mixed things. They have a nice online selection.
I have, but not for a couple of years and it was a new gun.
Clicked post too soon. No complaints, was in stock, no issues that I can recall.
Cool thanks!
I’ve bought several guns from them but the most recent was a couple of years ago-I never had a problem with them. One thing though, if you notice a problem at your FFL refuse the transfer, if you accept it you’ll have to deal with the manufacturer.
Good tip. Thanks!
SIG has the barrel for 189.
https://www.sigsauer.com/store/barrel-p229-357sig.html
Thanks.
I’ve heard of noise being an issue with .357 mag from shooting from inside of a car but not sure about .357 Sig. I know it can be a pretty hot round. I want one just for fun. Might be SD ammo out there that takes that into consideration.
My P226 is .40 SW. Well, the one I lost that time the canoe swamped, and it went over with all the others.
It would have to be pried from my cold, dead, hands. If I still had it.
It’s a nice looking pistol, not Beretta Model 92 nice looking but close enough.
I have a Inox 96 with after market grips that is dead sexy.
Oh yeah, those are sweet looking.
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/share/j7XTHO8JJ60vvT8vteL33Tdd0qiLJDWlB2BNe620Ke8
Here.
Other side.
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/share/tHexT72skJfGEqBcGrVGeJAPhV41EpOi010Rko1SQhS
Impressive. Love those grips.
Don’t like magnum handguns. The sharp kick and especially the loud report are a recipe for getting a flinch. And once you get one, they are hell to get rid of.
A friend offered his .44Mag for me to shoot. Three rounds later I handed it back to him. Very uncomfortable.
That said, I love, love, love my GP-100 in .357. I’ll start off shooting .38s and after a little bit it’s not enough and switch over to the mags. Something about that satisfying “thump”.
And I’m a fanatic about not owning a magnum rifle. My hunting buddy had a .300WinMag and I couldn’t fire more than a few rounds. I advocate a caliber that is comfortable to shoot and therefore you shoot it often. Shot placement means more than blasting a hole in the side of an animal.
… Hobbit
See, I love my .300 Win Mag. Heavy beast, which helps with recoil. She would never give me a flinch. Slow powder makes for a forgiving gun.
I’m pretty sure the end of the world has already arrived in Balmer. And I’m also pretty sure that god lied to us about not destroying the world by water again. I’d better get back to work on my Ark.
Dude, it has been raining since always. My wife and kid went to the beach early, and I’ve taken the week off. I’ve spent three days stuck in the damn house with two dogs who won’t go outside if it’s dewy, never mind raining.
Crikey, dude, it was monsoons all night last night, now it’s at it again. Out tropical houseplants look happy as hell, but my poor tomatoes again. They were just producing a lot of fruit again, and now this, again…
I feel like I live in Manaus instead of Maryland. Everything outside is starting to smell like wet moldy towels.
I wonder why that shit isn’t moving north. We have the 90% humidity in NYC for the next week but so far it refuses to break out in rain except a couple sprinkles at night. Anyway my next electric bill is going to look interesting.
You had one job, Brett.
Why did they pixellate the car’s badge?
Japanese production
I HATE that.
Needs more Steve Smith ?
We all know about STEVE SMITH’S rap career.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/3bdfc71c47d96e8e8170cbd3000d5aac.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/8149258/521full-lindsey-pelas.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSg7LQGU8AInxN7.jpg:large
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https://handbra-central.tumblr.com/image/176097045325
http://www.bigtittybabe.com/tgp/sara_stone_03/images/09.jpg
NSFW.
Nice girl next door action.
Ahh… a porn tumblr that hasn’t turned on safe mode. Thanks!
Wow! She’s gorgeous
Not bad.
The World’s Largest Aircraft Will Have Luxurious Bedrooms and Glass Floors
The glass ceiling is now a glass floor. The women are floating above it, and the men are just looking up at them…
High enough to see under the Skirts
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2018/07/post_646.html#incart_target2box_default_#incart_target2box_targeted_
Reporters are immune from being compelled to testify, even about something they report on publicly, unlike the rest of the public. Must be nice to be special people.
I hope George HW goes to a fiery pit on the other side for his ADA. Bullshit mandated dial a bus door to door taxi service.
STEVE SMITH CAM LIVE FEED
Harry and the Henderson’s out-takes?
Kinda like this ?
Oh great. Pornhub has a banner with a link to a pro-Net Neutrality site.
HM’s link is NSFW by the way.
Work sucked today. Playing catch up after a week off is not fun.
On the flip side,it’s my gf ’s birthday. She’s already drunk on the bottle of Basil Hayden she wanted. ?
+1 Bill Cosby
I’m just recovering from one of the worst weeks ever. Early last week, I had a source control fiasco. No one is able to say what happened, but I lost a version or two of a couple very important source files and even recovery from backup didn’t fix it. Today I was finally back to where I started before the catastrophe. Client asking me today what happened and I just took full blame, it’s the way I roll. I don’t know what the fuck happened. It’s one of those once a decade fucked up situations. I just said ‘my bad, my apologies’ and moving no. No real fallout yet, a week late on urgent stuff, maybe more.
Straight-up honesty, coupled with heaping the blame on yourself and stressing how you accept the responsibility, is how I handle fuck-ups when I deal with a client. Its easy to appreciate that approach, cause everyone has fucked-up at some point.
I wasted a solid 4 hours of Lafarge Gypsum processing very specific and expensive materials just for 1 test program I was doing. The delay? The filter media we were using came with a solid plastic backing piece for shipping that I wasnt aware of. We couldnt understand why we couldnt pull any gas through to sample. My guys were all putting the filter media in the holder with it in place. I just went to my client, humbly, and said “you’re not gonna believe this….”
Oh, I heard about it (client was kinda a dick) for a long time, but I kept doing business with them.
I ran into a Zone controlled system in a CONDO today and had to tell the Lady, “hey your Zone dampers failed, and they buried them in the duct shafts”
She is Fucked, and I couldn’t help her, very sad……
People appreciate honesty and also when someone accepts responsibility.
I did this last year with someone I work with. Hard to explain without giving too many details but, bottom line, they completely dropped the ball on something that had to be done but was for their benefit. I took it on the chin and apologized to the external people we were dealing with implying that I was at fault. After everything was taken care of, some of the external people contacted the person I work with. And that asshole blamed me for what had gone wrong and also blamed me in an anonymous evaluation of my performance to my supervisor.
Bottom line: I’m not going out of my way to screw them over but next time they fuck up they’re on their own.
Excellent anesthesia for when you give it to her shock and awe style.
I always hear this Coop song when I type out HEY YUFUS!
HEY YUFUS!
I’m Stoopid? I love Vince, here’s MY song,
GO TO Hell,
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VRL1hGPOUTo
and…. TALL CANS!
SUP TRES!
No, you silly California person…substitute HEY STOOPID for YUFUS
And Im the drunk one….
I get it, I’m still Sober though, gimme a minute Jeez! I’m on Left Coast time here so I’m just getting started………………
If they have Late night links, let’s go over and cause a Commotion………
You got the moves?
I have a shit load of apostrophes just for you Ted….
[suggests Yusef check thermostat first]
“Causting a Commotion” I usually go for the Official Video myself…………..
I don’t think Madonna made a video for this one.
Sea Smith pet missing?
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/07/23/shark-shocker-20-foot-great-white-deep-blue-caught-on-camera.html
They’re gonna need a bigger cage.
Pet or marital aid?
At the risk of Winston-ing I have a question about the FISA Spygate thing. The Deep State, countless FBI agents and at least 4 federal judges lied, ignored protocol, broke rules, and/or committed crimes so that they could get permission to spy on the Trump campaign. Why didn’t they simply just spy on the Trump campaign? Lying, cheating, lawbreaking all fine, but un-authorized eavesdropping is beyond the pale? I must be missing something.
Because this way everything has the veneer of legality and no one goes to jail?
But this way there’s a paper trail of possible crimes, if damn near everyone’s cool with it just do it, why leave evidence?
https://youtu.be/s3UxfSiczbA
But your “get out of jail” card doesn’t usually count if you steal it.
Watergate casts a long shadow? As long as it’s legal, it’s fine, BUT NO UNAUTHORIZED SNOOPING!
I’m still trying to wrap my head around the Left’s past (and possibly current) denial that anyone in the government ever spied on Trump’s campaign.
Yes, just a few years before the election, Ed Snowden blew the lid off the massive spying program that was going on under the Most Transparent President Ever™, whose operatives were spying not just on average American citizens with no possible connection to terrorism but also foreign leaders of countries supposed to be our allies.
But no, it’s absolutely wackadoo Alex Jones bullshit that the government would spy on Trump.
Especially given the fact that they’re all above the law.
I’m still not clear on why Strozk and his consort arent in jail for at least contempt.
Also, un-related, if Cohen was retained by Trump as his counsel aren’t the recordings he made, while shitty, “lawyer-client privileged” and as such, inadmissible? As much as I can understand the rabid fervor they’ve worked themselves into to pursue Trump, wouldnt this set a standard that would make even the most crappy lawyers afraid?
Because fuck you that’s why.
The Special Master says no such thing as privilege anymore, basically.
The fact that they could go in and seize all records at every location he had, just infuriates me. That’s all I’m going to say right now.
A warrant is either justified or not. the number of locations and documents is irrelevant.
In case you haven’t seen it: https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/1021180699380920320
Christ, what an asshole.
Why Reason got it heckles up against Peterson still confuses me, but this is just…wow.
Because Reason wants to be the libertarian woke and Peterson is most definitely not woke.
The man is a soft lefty who likes Jung a lot. How did that become new Trumpism?!
Because he became famous by saying that he would not be forced by the Canadian government to use fake pronouns that a handful of bullies made up 5 minutes ago. Then he had the audacity to not grovel and apologize but hold his ground. He was Public Enemy #1 from that point forward regardless of anything else he says.
Because people are idiots.
I just heard a couple of seattle lefties describe peterson as
“A Canadian reactionary who hates trigger warnings, and started a campaign to make the use of personal pronouns illegal”
If you ask yourself, “do they say this because they know the truth, and are dishonest; or are they just ignorant?”… you will soon find the answer is “Neither” =
as Reagan said, They’re Very Informed. Its just that they know so many things that aren’t so.
Nick’s jealous because he wants to be the intellectual everyone wants to talk to. Kind of how Hillary feels about not being president. They deserve the spotlight, not these Johnny come latelys!
Wow.
I’m not sure I can make sense of that.
he’s just being pedantic and nitpicking peterson because peterson is “bad”, so he has to pretend he’s found some error in his argument
Hitler is emblematic of “Nazism” because it wouldn’t have existed (and didn’t) w/o him. But stalin is’t the perfect analogy to that – Marx is
Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot are EXAMPLES of people who ‘did bad things’ b/c they followed Marxist ideas, but he’s trying to say, “AKSHULLY YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID MARX” but its such a silly-twaddle of a point that its stupid no matter how you slice it.
Ah…. Nick IS Tulpa.
It’s all starting to make sense.
Holy shit, this is now my head canon!
Reason doesn’t actually have a staff – it’s all Nick writing under various names, and photos are from hired actors.
Now that’s an embarrassment for a supposedly libertarian publication.
And a Dolt. Stupid I can deal with. Asshole I can deal with. Stupid asshole I have no use for.
lol, ok nick
Just finished Peterson’s book. Well worth reading. The people calling him a shitlord clearly haven’t read the book. Here are his oppressive ideas:
Stand up straight with your shoulders back
Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping
Make friends with people who want the best for you
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not who someone else is today
Etc etc you get the point
In other Shark News…
I… ugh.
Damn, I’m staying on land.
Via Dave Barry who said “the science is settled”.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to think about that keto-diet thing.
I’m gonna live forever!