What do you get when there’s links lacking the depth of Sloopy’s, the creativity and formatting of SP’s, the sly snark (and equally great formatting) of WebDom’s, the Spanish of Mexican Sharpshooter’s, the trilingual classiness of Swiss’s, the conciseness of Brett’s, and the rape of STEVE SMITH’s? You get mine. Old, creaky, and cheap.
Before jumping into the news, I just wanted to share something that amused me. Some Amazon reviews. No, not the intentionally funny ones from the 55 gallon drums of personal lube or the wolf-moon t-shirt, but ones where the reviewers were totally serious. In this case, it was for the brand of veggie burgers that SP and I had for dinner last night. They’re a remarkable product of food science, and despite being (so I’m told) disturbingly realistic imitations of ground up cow corpse patties, are 100% vegan. Well, there’s an invitation for self-righteous delight!
Not vegan !!!on May 21, 2018Verified PurchaseProducts like these that contain “Palm oil” are NOT VEGAN, as they contribute to animal killings in this case with the extinction of MONKEYS…
Wildlife such as orangutans have been found buried alive, killed from machete attacks, guns and other weaponry. Government data has shown that over 50,000 orangutans have already died as a result of deforestation due to palm oil in the last two decades. This either occurs during the deforestation process, or after the animal enters a village or existing palm oil plantation in search of food. Mother orangutans are also often killed by poachers and have their babies taken to be sold or kept as pets, or used for entertainment in wildlife tourism parks in countries such as Thailand and Bali.
you feel like you are unboxing an iphoneon June 24, 2018Verified PurchaseThis product is gratuitously over packaged.
It may not be apparent from the manufacturer’s picture, but the 2 patties are packaged in a hard plastic tray with a clear film top, all slid inside a cardboard sleeve. When you open it, you feel like you are unboxing an iphone.
I’m a vegetarian because I want to reduce my environmental impact. So, while I really like this product, I won’t buy it again because of the completely un-necessary packaging.
And I get why they do it. This really is an exceptional burger, and they want to communicate that through the packaging. I would give the burgers themselves 5 stars. They simulate the squishy feel and look of meat quite well, which results in a very pleasurable experience. Most veggie-burgers are dry and puck like.
But the second time you eat one, you don’t need the snazzy packaging and you just end up being another hypocrite, who snacks on a $3 meat free hamburger while chucking a bunch of petroleum based plastic into a landfill.
Wherever did people get the idea that vegans are prissy, humorless twits rather than deeply concerned and serious thinkers?
And screw all those other birthdays, today is the birthday of the great Phil Proctor. “Oh, Porgie, oh my oh my oh my!”
Everybody needs a hobby. But for shit’s sake, if it’s upskirting, you have to do it right. Flash is not a good idea.
The video footage taken on July 5, 2016, contains five segments, put together as part of the Metro Police Transit Department investigation into (senior Obama administration official) Mendoza’s conduct…
In the far left of the shot you can see him getting closer to the woman on the escalator, bending down and the light on his cell phone turning on. You can then see the flash from the camera as he takes the photo…
According to Department of Education documents, Mendoza tried to take photos and videos up women’s skirts at least four times on his government-issued iPhones in July 2016 without their consent. When he took the indecent photos, he was supposed to be at work and was using a travel card funded by the taxpayer, according to the documents obtained by DailyMail.com through a Freedom of Information Act request.
It’s guys like him who give perverts a bad name. Still, that’s not the part that struck me as interesting. What was interesting was that the story was entirely unreported despite the high profile and the click-friendly salaciousness. It only came out now because of FOIA requests. You don’t think it was because he was in a Team Blue administrations, do you? Don’t you think that if a Team Red guy was caught doing the same thing, the news media would be just as happy to bury it out of a deep concern for the guy’s well-being? Of course, because their job is just to report, not cover up for people on their Team and go totally hysterical about people on the other Team.
What could be better proof of the stupidity of an entire generation than eating laundry detergent and making stars out of some rather empty-headed rich kids who happened to be at a crime scene? Maybe this.
Drake fans are jumping out of moving vehicles for a viral challenge and the National Transportation Safety Board is reminding the public that that is a bad idea…
Unfortunately, since it went viral, a shocking amount of challenge participants have taken things to a dangerous (and stupid) level by jumping out of moving cars as opposed to just dancing next to parked ones.
What was the old joke about why Polish dogs have flat heads?
Speaking of flat heads, delightful irony abounds.
In recent months, Moonves has become a prominent voice in Hollywood’s #MeToo movement. In December, he helped found the Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace, which is chaired by Anita Hill. “It’s a watershed moment,” Moonves said at a conference in November. “I think it’s important that a company’s culture will not allow for this. And that’s the thing that’s far-reaching. There’s a lot we’re learning. There’s a lot we didn’t know.”
Clearly.
If you’re going to do immigration, do it right.
Nude sunbathers watched in confusion as the group of more than 30 migrants sprinted into a surrounding forest to evade the pursuing Spanish border guards. The migrants had just crossed the strait of Gibraltar having sailed from the coast of Morocco.
A spokesman for the Guardia Civil police force in Ceuta said the migrants managed to climb over the double barrier, which is covered in small blades. He said they scrambled over “all of a sudden, with much violence”.
Come for the titties, stay for the welfare.
“You see roads melting, airplanes not being able to take off, there’s not enough water,” said Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. “Climate change hits us at our Achilles’ heel. In the Southwest, it’s water availability. On the Gulf Coast, it’s hurricanes. In the East, it’s flooding. It’s exacerbating the risks we already face today.”
Gone are the days when scientists drew a bright line dividing weather and climate. Now researchers can examine a weather event and estimate how much climate change had to do with causing or exacerbating it.
Sure they can. Suuuuure.
Well, sometimes to have to give in to the inevitable. And that means Old Guy Music. And the theme really fits. These guys got it in 1972, before most of you kids were even your daddies’ boners. Bonzo was a fantastic band, way ahead of their time, that has sadly faded into obscurity.
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277 responses to “Saturday Morning Links – What, him again? Edition”
The using a flash reminds me of the sometimes funny family Guy when Brian coughs to cover up the shutter noise while he takes pictures of a blind girl.
Don’t you think that if a Team Red guy was caught doing the same thing, the news media would be just as happy to bury it out of a deep concern for the guy’s well-being?
We all make mistakes. They just wanted to spare his wife and children from the prurient gaze of the public. It’s not like he was trying to make a profit, or something truly evil;.
18 red guy was caught perhaps asking for consensual sex in the men’s room. Okay, he was actually caught tapping his foot and waving his hand. He was in the new cycle for at least a few weeks. I don’t remember any impassioned defenses of the right to have a consensual hook up.
So yeah, I can imagine that there might have been a different reaction had a high-ranking republican official been taking non-consensual photos up a ladies dress.
A team red. Not 18. Don’t post from the phone with voice recognition if you don’t want to sound like a Nigerian spam bot.
When he took the indecent photos, he was supposed to be at work and was using a travel card funded by the taxpayer
Nothing left to cut.
But for shit’s sake, if it’s upskirting, you have to do it right. Flash is not a good idea.
He should have used Silverlight instead?
Jesus, the aughts called…
What is worse, I had the exact same initial reaction when I saw that headline.
In December, he helped found the Commission on Eliminating Sexual Harassment and Advancing Equality in the Workplace
What better place to find somebody you can walk all over like a doormat than in a “support group” for people who let themselves be treated like a doormat?
OT pretty much out of the gate, but I need a ruling. This song is fifty years old. Afterwards, Linda Lyndell was threatened by the KKK and she basically retired from music. Would it be proper to just harass her for cultural appropriation today?
Gilmore is jealous of that hair.
Q doesn’t even realize she has hair.
This song is also 50 years old
I didn’t realize the one from the 90s was a cover.
That instrumental is a cover. The original is from the 1967 Eurovision Song Contest.
Her threats were probably as real as the ones we here about today.
There has to be some truth to when people say ‘they don’t make good music anymore’.
Dang dat good.
So this song was a true story?
https://youtu.be/hT1OKo1rT84
LOL.
This is almost 50 as well. It is the original STEVE SMITH fight song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCV6paTXyCU
“Gone are the days when scientists drew a bright line dividing weather and climate. Now researchers can examine a weather event and estimate how much climate change had to do with causing or exacerbating it.”
Finally, someone with the courage to speak the unvarnished truth.
I guess some people have all of their eggs in the AGW basket and cant shut up about it even though the scam is up.
We live in a post truth world Suthen, it’s not a scam if you believe hard enough.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PSJsl0LQ
Are all the links on the site broken today or is my iPad screwed up?
I was getting blocked pop-up notifications yesterday on Chrome/Android.
The one above worked for you?
Yes.
Ah ha! I had the tracking protections on my browser set too strict.
The Costanza Dictum?
It’s not a lie if you believe hard enough.
In recent months, Moonves has become a prominent voice in Hollywood’s #MeToo movement.
How much of Julie Chen’s career is down to actual talent, and how much down to sleeping with Moonves?
Me and an old roommate watched several seasons of Big Brother and making fun of her “talents” was half the “fun”.
All of it?
The goat’s head on Nixon’s shoulders is a nice touch.
Now I want some soup.
Stunning and brave.
Who? Why should anyone care? Really, why should the response to ‘coming out’ be anything more than “Yeah, whatever”?
Homophobe!
That was my take as well.
“He’s spoken to various athletes who have come out to their teams, including other college football players, and he said he hasn’t heard “a negative story yet.”
Which is what I would have expected.
Back in the late 90s we had an attorney at the office that was in the closet. He never came out to anyone, even the guy who worked as a drag queen on weekends. But everyone knew he was gay and his roommate was not just a roommate. Not only did nobody care, it was odd that he thought they did.
As far as I know, nobody ever pressed him on the issue. Even after seeing other gay couples at corporate events and knowing that his superiors were all strongly libertarian, he never even hinted about it.
He kept a distance from everyone at work, never accepting invitations for him and his roommate to join us at social functions or nights out. As far as I could tell, they were a couple for the entire 13 years we worked together and he never once let slip that they were a couple….. Even though they vacationed together in San Francisco almost every year during Pride week.
Everyone thought it was odd that he felt the need to keep that “secret”, but nobody ever pushed him on it or expressed anything other than support.
If it was odd to be closeted 20 years ago, it is only more so now.
So you worked as a drag queen on weekends?
Well, he learned from Michael Sam that at this point it protects you from getting cut for a few years even if you don’t perform, because that would be met with cries of bigotry.
Because military academies totally don’t have long histories of unspoken hazing and abuse.
Well, that is a fair point. But then again, they kinda do that to everybody.
I thought every guy in the Air Force was gay?
Well this is Trump’s America after all, and we know that hundreds of LBGTQWERTY folks have been herded into railroad cars and sent off to the gulags.
/This is CNN.
Joe Scarborough: FNC’s Shep Smith is an American Hero. Wha?
I don’t know who old Shep’s screwing to keep his job, all the Fox News watchers seem to hate him and that’s been the case for years.
I have had the feeling more than once that Smith has one foot in the never-Trump closet.
Actually, he’s all in. He doesn’t even try to hide it.
Don’t you mean Joey Scarbury instead of Scarborough?
Last night Mrs. Suthen is watching TV news. After a few mins she asks “What the hell is wrong with these people? They are insane. It’s like listening to the chatter in an asylum.”
To which I answered “You know that scene at the end of the monster movie? The one where the hero discovers the monster’s lair and it is full of eggs and baby monsters? He pours out a jerry can of gasoline on them and lights his zippo then tosses it on them. Then there is much screeching and screaming and crying as the baby monsters squirm and flail about as they burn. That is where we are right now. We are watching that scene. That is what is wrong with them. Trump set them on fire. You should be enjoying the show.”
You know that scene where the hero walks away, job well done, and the camera pans back to set up the sequel, revealing that the monster was only an average one for it’s breed and there are far more of them that are far worse and you will see them in the sequel?
You don’t think it was because he was in a Team Blue administrations, do you? Don’t you think that if a Team Red guy was caught doing the same thing, the news media would be just as happy to bury it out of a deep concern for the guy’s well-being? Of course, because their job is just to report, not cover up for people on their Team and go totally hysterical about people on the other Team.
Scandal Free Administration!!
The cover ups for team blue apply to the FBI as well. I started listening to Gregg Jarrett’s new book yesterday at work as I do mundane bullshit. The first chapters are about Herselfs server and while I did not hear anything I did not know, I had never heard it all tied together in the way Jarrett does. That one investigation alone is cause enough to completely restructure the FBI and DOJ and numerous people should be going to jail over it.
Powerful people getting away with things that’d land us in jail is a positive feature to most of those people who are in a position to do any DOJ restructuring.
I take that back, I did learn one thing I did not know. There is an ‘inspector general’ position at the state dept that would have waved red flags at the selling of access at the SOS office and the use of a private server avoiding records retention laws, but Obama did not nominate anyone for that position the entire time Herself was SOS which worked out well for her, and probably was pre-arranged before she took the position.
They did a pretty good good job of burying that arrest during the election. I liked the whole “resigned before the administration could complete their investigation” bit. I’m sure his resignation just completely foiled them.
It’s the same plan they have now for the 2018 election. They hope to win back the house so they can stop the investigations and prevent the American people from finding out how criminal in nature the Obama administration was.
The Root: Donald Trump is America’s greatest president. TL;DR version: Trump perfectly represents America’s horribleness.
‘America is so horrible, i make my living just whining about it.
At least im not some dumb racist miner, they do nothing for society’
*waves tiny American flag*
Trump is America’s Chicken!
/Rev Wright
We believe in equality and tolerance, despite ranking No. 1 on the list of the most racist countries in the world.
Hmm, what does his link say?
What follows is a list of what various websites consider to be the most racist countries in the world. The list is in no order of more to less, given that various researchers and indexes have failed to agree.
I fucking love science.
And by “various websites”, they mean The Root, Jezebel, and The Root.
Seriously! Any idiot who would claim that the United States ranks as the most racist country in the world can safely be ignored. Hell, the United States might well be the least racist country in the world. Everyone on the left likes to hyperventilate about how horribly prejudiced we are against Muslims, yet this is one of the largest Muslim populations in the world. The same goes for many other minority populations. There are more Hispanics in the United States than in most Spanish speaking Nations.
It must be exhausting writing the same tedious bullshit over and over again. It is amazing that guy hasn’t thrown himself off a bridge yet.
I was thinking something similar. At what point is the paycheck no longer worth it?
Dunno… Having a real job is hard – you have to get things right, double check your work, and work even harder if you fuck up.
These grievance industry professionals don’t have to worry about any of that. They can just make shit up without regard for objective facts and still keep their jobs. It’s basically just writing clickbait for some of the dumbest people in the world.
I’d love to have a job that easy if not for this stupid “integrity” thing that I’m cursed with.
What a shithole
But the debate sounds very different there than it does in the U.S. There’s no Second Amendment in Canada, and the Supreme Court has explicitly said that nobody in the country has a right to bear arms—instead, it’s a privilege granted only to those who make it through an intense screening process.
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As Toronto’s city council passed a motion Tuesday to urge the government to ban handguns, the mayor, John Tory, said, “Why does anyone in this city need to have a gun at all?”
About 2 million Canadians own guns, out of a total population of 30 million. Handguns are usually obtained either through legal purchase or through illegal smuggling from the U.S. (Authorities have not yet announced publicly whether the Toronto shooting suspect legally obtained the handgun he used in the attack.) “Our problem is, because we share a border with you,” Cukier said, referring to the U.S., “even if we ban handguns, we would still have a problem with smuggled guns.” A ban on guns only impacts the legal stream; the illegal steam can continue unabated.
Bow down, serf, and give thanks for the benevolence and generosity of your betters in the palace. And, whatever you do, stay the fuck out of Indiana.
Yup, if they weren’t next to the US, a gun ban would totally stop anyone from owning guns. Isn’t that a nice excuse for when your policies don’t work as you sold them? “There’s high gun crime in Chicago because they bring guns in from states with lax laws!”
What’s the big deal you gun fetishist? If they manage to ban handguns I’m sure that’ll be the end of it.
If there were a global prohibition on guns, the Moon would be blamed for mass shootings.
“A ban on guns only impacts the legal stream; the illegal steam can continue unabated.”
An explicit admission that if you outlaw guns only outlaws will have them. I thought they foo-fooed that bumper sticker on a regular basis. Now they admit it is true.
They like that shit. Look at Britain. The criminals run rampant, and the top men hide the fact the citizenry is getting fucked over. As top men, they have people protecting them, so they give a rats ass that the plebes are getting raped. Pay your fucking taxes and suck dick you stupid plebes!
“Our problem is, because we share a border with you,”
I’m sure life in canada would be fantastic if they didn’t share a border with the largest economy in the world. Its right we just have too much freedom here.
So, they need a wall on their Southern border?
Only if they make us pay for it.
Wendy CUKIER.
Yes, I realize she pronounces it Coo-kyay, but its funnier (and more reasonable) to read it as Kooky-er.
It could also be said “cuck-ier.”
So their police and Mounties won’t have handguns any longer?
It’s not our job to help neighboring countries with their prohibition, any more than it was Canada’s job to ban booze when US bootleggers were smuggling it across the Great Lakes during alcohol prohibition.
Fuck off, transnational slaver. You can’t have my guns.
“Gone are the days when scientists drew a bright line dividing weather and climate. Now researchers can examine a weather event and estimate how much climate change had to do with causing or exacerbating it.”
Except when we have extreme cooling weather patterns. If you are going use weather to push CC, then people should use ut as evidenced against CC.
You really don’t understand how ratchets work, do you?
Except when we have extreme cooling weather patterns. If you are going use weather to push CC, then people should use ut as evidenced against CC.
No kidding. Based on last winter, I’d say we’re careening into another ice age. Where’s my grant?
It’s waiting for you in the second term of the Trump administration.
‘America is so horrible, i make my living just whining about it.
America sucks.
That’s why all those people from all over the world keep showing up here. They are victims of America’s overwhelming suck-fu.
Unabashedly hypocritical rant OT: Breakfast
My local diner serves up a healthy plate of bacon,eggs,toast,and coffee on the cheap.
Added bonus: you get about 1/8th of a pound of bacon added to your order for a buck twenty five.
Pro Tip to food related small business owners: Eat a few pennies now to ensure repeat customers. It’s worth it in the long run.
Letters to the Local Rag: Not My Problem Edition
“I was reading Mr. Spalthoff’s letter to the editor regarding his lost credit card and the stress it caused him. I understand his distress, but the reality is that losing credit cards is not a reason to stress anymore. I lose one every week and I don’t even bother to look for it. I rarely cancel a lost card either. I simply wait for the bill to come in and if someone used it, I inform the credit card company and they put their fraud team on it and take the fraudulent charges off my bill. MasterCard, Visa, Amex, etc., accrue hundreds of millions of dollars for stolen cards against the billions that they earn in net profit. So don’t stress; you are covered.”
He doesnt bother because someone else pays for his carelessness? What a stand-up guy.
Personal responsibility is so passe
^This.
God forbid you take a few minutes to report your carelessness so that a few minutes accrued per customer behaving in such a manner can be reduced and said extra operating cost not be passed on to you and your fellow customers. What a douche-nozzle.
There is a certain amount of malice involved here also. He probably spends more time on the phone with the CC company reporting the fraud and getting that straightened out than he would if he would just report the card lost and have it cancelled. He is sticking it to the CC company: they make filthy profits so they deserve it. Success must be punished.
Actually he’s sticking it to the merchants who took the stolen card. The credit card company doesn’t hold liability at all.
If that’s how that really works, this guy makes Hitler look like someone I’d want for a neighbor.
Why do they keep issuing a moron like this credit cards?
Because it’s in their best interest?
You’d think that after the second or third time, the companies would make him eat the charges.
They don’t care for the reason I have above. As a merchant, I attempted to report stolen cards before. The processor wanted to charge me a fee for a stolen card report.
” I lose one every week and I don’t even bother to look for it. I rarely cancel a lost card either.”
Oh, you’re sooo cool in your childish irresponsibility.
I don’t stress either over it but I sure as hell don’t look at it like this dolt.
And he loses one every week?
I’m looking forward to his letter expressing his outrage his card was canceled.
Letters to the Local Rag: Priorities Edition
“I have been watching the police lip sync challenge from all over the country and my question is, where are the videos from the city of Williamsburg and James City County? I know our men and women in blue could do an amazing job. So let’s challenge our departments to get into the challenge.”
That police lip syncing garbage just fills me with a white-hot rage for some reason. If they want to humanize themselves they should start with promoting ethical behavior and not shooting people unnecessarily. It’s just another example of authority fellating assholery.
Glad to know I’m not the only one.
Completely agree.
Maybe they just don’t have it in their blood ?
In regards to the vegan reviews, I’m reminded how this the veneer of civilisation is.
If a catastrophe were to occur, these people would be there first ones to shoot you in the back for a Twinkie.
No, because they wouldn’t have icky and non-ecological things like guns in their possession. The only vegans/vegetarians who would survive would be the fringe oddballs like WebDom, SP, and me.
I think the three of us represent 99% of the intersection between “shooters” and “non-meat-eaters.”
Technically no more than 75%, unless there’s a fraction of a person at that intersection.
Maybe if you go by weight?
Ok, stab.
Point remains that they are fundamentally vain and selfish beings more concerned with the appearance of being virtuous than anything else. I wouldn’t trust them in an emergency at all.
Never bring a knife to a gunfight.
Know who you don’t trust when the shit hits the fan? Spudalicious. He’ll lose all your guns in a boating accident.
It happened again just this week.
It will be humiliating when you get eaten by vegans.
If I get eaten by vegans, they’re not vegans.
They will for the greater good.
Me, my Mossberg 590, and freezer full of Gardein products take exception to your math.
Wapo asks for help identifying Trump’s golf partners:
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/399313-washington-posts-asks-for-help-identifying-trumps-golf-partners
Those people aren’t going to harass themselves.
What if Shoggoth doesn’t want to be id’d?
Conor Friedersdorf GOTCHAS! Hillsdale College
But some associated with the institution fear that cultivating ties to politicians and a power-seeking ideological movement will inevitably tempt a mission-driven educational institution to compromise its values, setting a corrosive example for the principled undergraduates it attracts.
Are Hillsdale’s worldly gains imperiling its soul? Pence’s commencement address should be an occasion for its stakeholders to reflect.
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What Pence said aligns well enough with Hillsdale’s professed values. But Pence’s words deviate so sharply from his actions that some stakeholders at Hillsdale surely noticed the question-raising dissonances.
Pence purports to believe that “secular popular culture” corrodes that which is most important, and extols religious faith as “essential to maintaining our republic,” yet worked to make a reality-TV star who celebrated greed, Playboy, and Howard Stern—a man with no credible religious convictions—the most powerful man in the GOP and the United States.
Pence purports to lament moral relativism and to believe that moral character is essential to good leadership, but worked to empower an obviously prideful, avowedly greedy, famously lustful, sometimes wrathful billionaire who publicly bragged about adulterous trysts, appeared in a soft-core porn video, and ran an Atlantic City gambling house.
Trump is no one’s idea of a moral man.
Uh huh. Tear it down.
If Trump did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Everything within the state; nothing against the state; nothing outside the state.
It’s been interesting to see the left coming out as moralists lately.
It’s been going on since the days of political correctness, so at least 30 years.
minus 1992-2000
I am surprised we haven’t heard more venom about Hillsdale. They have deliberately set themselves outside the influence of federal money and thus Title IX and leftists agitators so that they can stand on principle. That is bound to get under the pinko’s skin in a big way. Perhaps the storm is coming but I dont see that they can do much about it. It seems likely that any whining about Hillsdale would only serve as recruitment efforts rather than scare potential students away.
You know how Lefties will tell you that the whole media is biased against the Left, but they’ll cite Fox News as the only example while ignoring the blatantly political behavior of literally every other media outlet?
I think Hillsdale College is becoming sort of like the Fox News of the college industry.
Wait a minute. Root dude above was complaining about how Trump hates everything not Christian.
Which is it?
I have two word that answer your question:
“Two Corinthians”
Maybe Pence believes in overlooking Trump’s flaws in order to Make America Great Again>
It’s not really all that complicated. Evangelicals did simple math; we can support people who actively hate us and want to eliminate all traces of our religion from polite society or we can support someone who has a checkered past but has at least some chance of leaving us alone. Sure they’d prefer President Pence, but they’ll take President Trump over the Blue Machine. Fairly similar to how a lot of libertarians approach the guy as well.
That’s overblown. Friedersdorf is wrong because it is a commencement speech. It doesn’t tell you what the institution believes.
They have deliberately set themselves outside the influence of federal money and thus Title IX and leftists agitators so that they can stand on principle.
But they have not loudly and unrelentingly denounced Trump and Pence. Therefore, they have no principles!
Game, set and match.
DARK MONEY
PhRMA’s 2016 dark-money contributions included $150,000 to Americans for Prosperity, a conservative group associated with the billionaires Charles and David Koch. Their group has already signaled it will be active in November’s elections, running attack ads against Senator Jon Tester, a vulnerable Montana Democrat, for not supporting a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
PhRMA also gave $50,000 to Americans for Tax Reform, run by the conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist.
PhRMA and other trade associations donate to such groups “to avoid attracting attention” amid the political fray, said Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability, which seeks to shed light on corporate political spending. “They’re achieving their goals by giving money to these folks and helping elect members that are going to be in support of them.”
Industry trade associations give money to people lobbying for things they want? How shocking.
Maybe, just maybe, if the government did not have its slimy tentacles in every corner of the economy, there would be less need for such activity.
“if the government did not have its slimy tentacles in every corner of the economy, there would be less need for such activity.”
What we need is MORE government control, that’ll fix everything.
I love how these are absolutely piddling sums compared to what government sector labor unions pour into the Democrat Party’s coffers, yet we’re supposed to be horrified of all this “dark money”.
Dark Money in the anti-Kavanaugh campaign
I don’t really know what “dark money” is (I assume it has something to do with the Joos), but unless I’m missing something, an all-out fight against Kavanaugh seems strategically pointless. You’ll just get another similar nominee. The reasons given are … unconvincing.
Liberal groups opposing Kavanaugh are working hard to catch up to the Judicial Crisis Network, a conservative group that has spent millions supporting originalist judges around the country and has dropped $5.3 million to support Kavanaugh. The group says it fully respects Demand Justice and other groups keeping their donors secret.
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Meanwhile, some Democrats in the Senate agree Kavanaugh is a grave threat. Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) said supporting him is complicity in “evil,” and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) said he will “pave the path to tyranny.”
Keeping to the original text of the Constitution will almost certainly turn us into 1930s Germany.
Check out Big Coathanger up here.
WOLF! WOLF! WOLF!
Huh. For some reason, I thought I’d be a “nice guy” and whitelist the Bozeman Daily Chronicle from adblock.
What have I learned? Tester and his bleating flock of sheep must be scared shitless of Matt Rosendale; there are anti-Rosendale ads splattered all over every page. Carpetbagging Thief of Our Public Lands seems to be the most prominent charge. Also, he is that most odious of all creatures, a developer!
Saturday cheesecake.
http://archive.is/3B8lQ
And something for the penis-preferring Glibs.
http://archive.is/haJuR
I’d like to thank the ladies in 58 for showing us what friendship is all about.
Q – servicing the entire Glibertarian community since 2017.
Pretty much all of them.
Thank you.
I’m a vegan
Would also work for:
“I do Crossfit”
“I went to Harvard”
“I drive a Tesla”
etc.
some Democrats in the Senate agree Kavanaugh is a grave threat. Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.) said supporting him is complicity in “evil,” and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D., Ore.) said he will “pave the path to tyranny.”
Where do I send my request for a
sex slaveHandmaid? That’s what I want to know.You could start by perusing the goods in line at Planned Parenthood. Your tax dollars are paying for it, might as well take advantage of the clientele they attract.
That was wrong and a bad thing to say, for anyone offended by this joke, the Russians hacked my account.
You know they’re DTF so it should be a fertile hunting ground.
Sounds like the dude I worked with that told me he only dated pregnant women, cause he knew they were DTF and they couldn’t claim the baby was his…
Superfetation is a thing, better watch out.
Always projects with those guys.
Wyden should thank his luck stars Merkley is there to make him look like a genius by comparison.
Send it directly to Senator Booker.
(there have been rumors…)
Corey Booker? The guy who won’t even meet with Kavanaugh?
If the media was really going to do their jobs, their first question when these clowns make some grand announcement about being complicit in evil would be: “When did you meet with him and what exactly did he say that made you feel that way?”
Know who you don’t trust when the shit hits the fan? Spudalicious. He’ll lose all your guns in a boating accident.
I, uh, gave all my guns to an artist, who melted them down and cast them into a bust of Obama.
Honest.
Send the statue to Syria or Yemen.
Speaking of the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and the intellectual collossi who write letters to it:
Congratulations to Katy Osterloth on her clear and effective letter advocating sex education and access to contraception as an effective means of reducing the number of abortions. We also need to advocate for a global program of sex education and contraception for another reason: There are too many of us!
We desperately need to stop the growth of the world’s human population. This can best be accomplished via a strategic commitment to effective contraception, coupled with education, particularly for women. Zero population growth, coupled with a commitment to economies based on renewable energy, will facilitate global efforts to achieve economic and social development for all the Earth’s population, while reducing the threat of climate change. We humans need to recognize that our growing numbers and consumption of the world’s resources are not sustainable.
Does this mean war with Korea/Russia/Mexico/China would be a good thing? Nuclear winter would be an effective and rapid antidote to global warming, too.
You first.
(not you P Brooks, the letter writer)
Good luck having your welfare state with zero population growth…maybe that’s how we finally win? Earth is dying! Stop having babies…for the children!
http://www.vhemt.org
“Well, for those I approve of.”
We need alcohol education modeled along the lines of sex education to teach the kids how to drink responsibly, since they’re going to drink anyway.
Uh….yeah. we do.
Single motherhood skyrocketed at the same time sex education came to exist. There’s no reason to think sex education or lack thereof has any positive effect.
That Spanish invasion clip needs either a break in the quote bar or an ellipsis. They aren’t crossing the Straight of Gibraltar to Ceuta.
Nothing could be a better example of just how insane cultural marxism makes people than the current situation in Europe regarding its invasion by barbarians while the inhabitants cry tears of joy waiting for their throats to be cut and their children raped.
The pendulum is going to swing back hard in the direction of “pogrom” in Europe. Won’t be the first or second time.
Should we start a rumor that Trump plans to blow up the moon to celebrate the next 4th of July to see how much traction that gains with the left?
It’s always great seeing country music legend CS Lewis, Jr. at the height of his powers.
ADA vs Title IX: The Final Battle!
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/47278/
I hate to be a jerk, but why is that poor kid in college in the first place?
Congrats to the kid for trying to do as much as he can given the limitations he has been dealt with but maybe he should find things to do that are more in line with his abilities. Not everyone can be an astronaut.
p.s. Fuck the gals who reported him in the fucking neck.
Can I get a link to these super veggie burgers?
http://beyondmeat.com/products/view/beyond-burger
thanks
Hey CPRM, I found the bumper music for the Hat & Hair animation!
https://youtu.be/WRwarsqzZ_M?t=1m49s
Darksied in the House!
This is what happens when you get freaky inter-species fucking.
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/07/27/whale-dolphin-hybrid-hawaii/
HM to the courtesy telephone.
I blame SEA SMITH
You would think that a creature with a BLOWHOLE wouldn’t accidentally get knocked up.
Dolphins are so damn cute. They’re practically asking for it.
Post coital tristesse.
https://www.studyfinds.org/study-pcd-men-experienced-sadness-after-sex/
No way! Flooding the body with endorphins & other hormones and then stopping them would never be expected to cause something like that.
My typical post-sex response is to want to go again. But maybe that’s just trying to cover up the depression or something.
I blame the anti-smoking nannies and the demise of the post-coital cigarette.
Huh. I just want to take a nap.
Mourning their sperm?
Maybe the dudes are just sad because they know they are going to be in the dog house if they leave to go play video games. I mean some dudes really like their games.
But If they learn to love the dog house than theyre good to go.
That story tells me that she is a bum lay. I think that in the past, I have had more fun with 6’s and 7’s who were into fucking than with the prettier girls who thought they were doing you a favor just by sleeping with you.
Of course, I hit the jackpot with Mrs. Pope who combines the best of both worlds (she might be reading this sometime)
So true. I had this girl who was a 6 at best, but my god, the things she did in bed… I had to break up with her because she was crazy (as in, ‘swinging a boxcutter at me’ crazy) but sometimes I wonder if it would have been worth it to keep her around.
ROOSKEEZ EVREEWHERR!
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/07/27/are-russian-spy-hookers-targeting-tech-leaders-and-vcs-at-infamous-silicon-valley-cougar-nights/
They ask such questions without presenting evidence for examination
The Politicization of Everything, ch 6,209
These women aren’t only leading large companies that have a large impact to our nation’s economy. They’re also leading by example and speaking out on issues important to their businesses, their employees and their families. Marcario recently stated that women in the outdoor industry needed to stop “living in the gray,” her way of encouraging women to stand up, speak out, and do what you can to protect those landscapes to sacred to business and families.
At the end of May, the Montana Mountain Mamas partnered with national group Moms Clean Air Force and held Montana’s inaugural “Mamas Summit,” a weekend steeped in bonding, outdoor adventure, advocacy training and steps women can take to run for public office. Over 20 women walked away from that weekend and joined their local planning boards, entered city commission races, and took the tools and encouragement they gained that weekend home to their communities.
We plan on doing more of these Mamas Summits across Montana, and across the West. Now – more than ever – women’s voices need to be heard. Women need to be running companies, running school boards, and running for office.
By all means, ladies, do your best to tell your potential customers “You’re either with us or against us.” That’s the best way to grow and succeed as a business. Tell me what a heartless destructive monster I am, and then sit there wondering why your cash register isn’t ringing.
Now – more than ever – women’s voices need to be heard.
And here I thought the problem was they wouldn’t shut up.
Women need to be running companies, running school boards, and running for office.
Well, which is it? Do they “need to be heard”, or do they need to be exercising power? Two different things, ladies.
They won’t shut up because you never listen. That’s why they need to be heard.
Encouraging outdoor women to stand up?
Do they not get how our plumbing works and why those outdoor women are behind those bushes squatting? It isn’t the Patriarchy.
BTW, #1 reason my wife isn’t into the outdoors more is because she does not like to tinkle in the Great Outdoors. For my sons, pissing on things was a bonus feature of being outdoors.
I worked with this gut named Tom Stack when I was in university. Never talked to him, but didn’t dislike him. He was a skateboarder when it wasn’t cool.
One night I went out to the bar and a football player told me I had to take off the hat I was wearing because it had a number of one of the players on the team. My roommate, who was the quarterback of the team, gave me the hat to wear that night.
The dude telling me to take off the hat was a lineman on the team. Had me outweighed by 150lbs. Fuck you, my friend gave me the hat to wear. I hadn’t tried to pass myself off as a member of the football team, but fuckhead lineman didn’t care. He wanted to rip that cap off my head even if my head was still in in it.
Being the asshole I am, I refused and the lineman grabbed me by the lapels and was about to blast me in the face when out of nowhere comes Tom Stack flying in off some imaginary top rope and breaks the grip the lineman had on my lapels. After that a big fight breaks out in the bar, but a least I had a chance.
My lesson is: be like Tom Stack.
My lesson from that story: drink at home alone.
Poorly told, but I’m drunk. Did I tell you how much I love you and titties?
https://ncache.ilbe.com/files/attach/new/20170215/377678/1650222217/9448339618/281b6ce2ab1a3ec07522c1e1ad25496c.jpg
Fair nufff. I’ll be in my bunk.
Well, how about that
Holy Mother of God.
Forgive the drunk posting, but I love Tom for that.
More Tom Stack, less Mary Stack.
be like Tom Stack.
Wait for your target to be distracted, then blindside them. R C approves.
Off the top ropes. Dude didn’t give a shit where he landed. Just saw something he didn’t like and acted. The opposite of an LP candidate.
I’m guessing the guy wanted to fight somebody and your cap gave him the excuse and the target.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DjIO2YLVsAATVGO?format=jpg&name=small
molon strawbe
Man bites dog.
https://gazette.com/ap/man-charged-with-stealing-tractor-biting-k/article_e5bef2fa-92d4-5dc6-9008-3c0952e6c884.html
That’s no killdozer.
What I’m doing today
http://imgur.com/gallery/zC5Glns
Cool! What sort of building? What do you do?
It’s a furniture store. I provide the concrete equipment.
Does that rig with the boom arm/concrete hose have a pump on board?
Found via a YT video, Yuzhoukee Power Equipment chainsaws on Ebay
No retail website, at least in English that I can find. I think it’s some enterprising person or company trying to import Chinese chainsaws. The Batman-esq logo on the bar would seem to be enough to get seized by CBP. Then there’s the brand name itself- You Jokey. I think I’ll pass on a saw whose gentleness is for me only.
I love the corset-and-fishnet clad model. Nothing . . . odd about that.
The 42″ bar one is a real doozy. I would hope that the low kickback on the bar is not just stamping, because there’s no chain brake on this thing. I’m not sure those are legal for sale anymore. I do like the photos.
No chain brake? Definitely not legal
I guess they keep costs down by using Google translate.
What could be better proof of the stupidity of an entire generation than…listening to Drake on purpose.
YES. What Drake creates is not music. It barely qualifies as sound.
Is that a voice synthesizer they run his vocals through to “clean them up”? Whatever it is, it’s annoying as hell.
Whatever it is…. It’s God’s plan..
I blame Degrassi.
I didn’t know that existed.
What do you get when there’s links lacking the depth of Sloopy’s, the creativity and formatting of SP’s, the sly snark (and equally great formatting) of WebDom’s, the Spanish of Mexican Sharpshooter’s, the trilingual classiness of Swiss’s, the conciseness of Brett’s, and the rape of STEVE SMITH’s? You get mine. Old, creaky, and cheap.
Yeah, go fuck yourself. Don’t tell me you were expecting a different response. *Hesitates on clicking submit comment, but not too long*
/runs off and cries, old dusty tears
Love you, man. I can pretend to be 13. Don’t run away.
Alt-right neo-nazi confirmed:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6001675/Taylor-Swift-donates-concert-tickets-Massachusetts-cops-tragic-killing-police-sergeant.html
Would.
Those poor helpless women and children fleeing oppression and violence jumping from that dingy fleeing the fascist Spanish border patrol. I saw none of those beachgoers go and embraces those desperate migrants. Clearly Spain is like Nazi Germany. The fact that they even have a border patrol makes me feel sick. Oh the inhumanity.
“‘They always call me up’: Margot Robbie reveals the VERY nerdy LA venue she frequents… after she admitted friends hired a ‘Harry Potter-themed stripper’ for her hen’s party”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6001307/Margot-Robbie-reveals-nerdy-LA-venue-frequents.html
What’s a hen’s party?
It’s a party for clucks.
What’s a Margot Robbie?
Youre welcome
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vAcAAOSwFV9X1vmK/s-l300.jpg
A little Hermione and Ginny action? Ok, I’m feeling it.
Does it happen in Virginia? The episodes shot there are the best. Every red blooded male loves Va Ginny action!
It’s a bachelor’s party but your fiancee blows the stripper.
opposite of the bachelor party? So the stripper puts a tip in your fiance?
She’s not a slut, she just blew him! We’re dealing with it!
“Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims she is different because she doesn’t accept money from corporations and private equity firms. Ocasio-Cortez has taken $3,399 from JPMorgan Chase & Co (a corporation) and $2,700 from Elevation Partners (a private equity firm).”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1023060813886550016
It looks like she’s the gift that keeps on giving. Also, a corporation or private equity firm giving that commie-lite babe in the woods even a single penny is just incredibly stupid. Their money would be better used if they burned it.
The government relations types run the political donations at most companies. They are mercenaries at best, and seek to continue the system of graft & corruption for their own benefit (no surprise). Companies would be better off without hiring from the revolving door of lobbyists. But in the current environment, that doesn’t work as Microsoft found out years ago.
It’s all business as usual until the monster that your donations helped to create turns around and eats you and they’d be some of the first to go if it was up to her.
So you think she is a True Believer? With principles?
I think she is more of an opportunist who caught lightening in a bottle with this socialist shit. I think the
bribesdonations are a good investment. She’ll take a meeting with you to get more of that lucre. And she is dumb enough it shouldn’t be hard to get her to support whatever it is that you want.Although $4k is nothing to JPMorgan Chase.
More precisely, whatever number is nothing to JPMorgan Chase, $4k is nothing to that number.
I wonder if the money came from the company (not really allowed, I don’t believe), its PAC, or its employees.
Huh. Imagine that. After repeatedly getting assaulted by people while the cops stood around and waited, Patriot Prayer now has armed security for their buses and are looking at convening in a location where they can be legally armed. City police reconsidered their policy of aiding and abetting the violent shutdown of PP, no wait
No mention of actually providing any sort of physical security for people lawfully conducting a rally.
Meanwhile, we have a group that’s publicly stating they have & will use violence and nothing happens
What right-wing violence?
If you accept the premise that words are violence, which they do, there’s been a hell of a lot of RW violence.
“Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims she is different because she doesn’t accept money from corporations and private equity firms. Ocasio-Cortez has taken $3,399 from JPMorgan Chase & Co (a corporation) and $2,700 from Elevation Partners (a private equity firm).”
What a noob.
Somebody should take her aside and explain how “dark money” works. You tell your kkkorporate benefactors to make the donation to a Social Justice nonprofit, and then *they* spend the money on your behalf. Jeepers, it’s like these people don’t even read the New York Times.
Why does she accept money at all? Money is evil.
No, no. Other people’s money is evil. Mine is doing the Lord’s work.
a corporation or private equity firm giving that commie-lite babe in the woods even a single penny is just incredibly stupid. Their money would be better used if they burned it.
Think of it as an advance on the ransom; you know it’s coming.
What right-wing violence?
Their very existence is a slap in the face. Nazi-punching is self defense.
Was this posted already?
“This autistic student asked for a ‘fist bump’ and a selfie. He got two Title IX investigations.
A “fist bump” and a selfie may have ended Marcus Knight’s educational career right as it started.
The student, who has autism, cerebral palsy and a shunt to relieve fluid pressure on his brain, was not allowed to defend himself against allegations in two Title IX investigations this past fall, his mother told The College Fix.
The first incident occurred in the first week of September when Marcus was in the Student Services office and asked a female student working there if he could “fist bump” her. She agreed but soon filed a Title IX complaint.
The second incident occurred in October. (Aurora was not sure whether it happened before or after the October meeting about the first incident.)
Marcus was involved with the college’s musical theater program, and wanted to ask a female student in the program if he could take a selfie with her. According to Aurora, her son’s assistant approved him asking the question, and the female student said yes.”
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/47278/
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1023221629084676097
What the fuck is wrong with these battlecunts?
All this time I’ve been giving my nephew fist bumps. I guess I’m a pedophile.
What kind of bitch would press a case against some poor guy like that?
He’s autistic, palsied, with a plastic tube sticking out of his head. He’s creepy, ugly, and weird looking. If George Clooney, Jr had asked these girls for a fist bump or selfie, no problem-o, and no Title IX investigation.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It was posted up above. I was the deplorable who (while being properly disgusted by the women) was more puzzled by why this kid was in a college.
Everyone deserves to have the college experience, Title IX beatdown included.
I feel shitty for even thinking that, but deep in my heart I know that taxpayers are funding some huge bureaucracy that exists just to give extra money to the mentally challenged so the can have the “college experience” just like everyone else.
Give more money to autists than aspiring artists, imo. One is an aggravating worthless drain on society, taking up valuable space that belongs to normal people, and the other just wants fist bumps.
Yes. In the comments of these very Saturday morning links.
Ignored, ADA forcing a school to admit someone who is clearly not capable of college level work and providing them with special assistance & exceptions.
Taylor Swift helped raise the spirits of a mourning Massachusetts community following the tragic death of a police sergeant.
She could raise my spirits.
RACIST!!!
White trash, two heebs and a bean
Headline to an article on google news which I have no intention whatsoever of reading:
Gaming’s Toxic Men, Explained
Yeah, sure. Whatever.
If the title has the word “explained” in it, it’s bound to be completely factual and without any bias whatsoever.
What kind of bitch would press a case against some poor guy like that?
She didn’t want to, but she felt she owed it to society.