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I’m late! I’m late!
Well, not yet, but my closest gal pal is going to ring the doorbell any second.
OMWC is out of town attending some absolutely fascinating mandatory meetings on material they covered in third grade, so it’s the perfect time to have a “girls’ afternoon/night in.” We are both self-employed, so if we want to start drinking at 1500 on a Wednesday (or any other day), we can.
My spousal unit is also close with [REDACTED], who is a fellow scientist. I’ll say hi for you, dude! (Swiss, you know the woman of whom I speak, so if you wanna drop in, we’d both love to see you. Don’t forget the pizza for the pup. 😉 )
We are doing a really simple menu of Gruet Brut with snacks, then grilled vegetables and a couple kinds of panini on homemade bread, with some excellent red wine, then dark chocolate cookies with espresso gelato. Easy and perfect for summer.
All that to say, I am sorry you aren’t receiving links up to my usual standard, but, hey, you get that for which you pay!
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- I’m sure everyone has seen and/or commented on this story, but it just makes me happy, so I am posting it. What stops a bad guy with a gun?
- I’m not really a gin drinker.
- Oh, Green Party. You wacky kids.
- Never.Apologize.
- WTF Missouri. AND going for Hawley in the primary. “Show me” how you progress away from freedom.
- You know what is an enemy of corruption? Competition.
- For the material scientists and the other geeks among us. Non-geek version here.
- But how many people would admit to knowing SugarFree?
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321 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon SPeedy Links”
The Green Party! Spoiling things for everyone since, forever!
Just like…
Jesse James?
Do you know who else spoiled it for everyone?
Rex Beach?
Stone age herdsman who stored dairy products in sacks made of animal stomach?
This is the best “You know who else…” answer I’ve ever read.
Thank you! *curtsies*
Chipotle ?
Porsche?
The refrigerator in my old apartment?
My daughter who has no internal filter and also can binge on every new release of Voltron because she doesn’t have to work and be a father, thus leaving her with only enough time to watch, at most, one episode per day.
SPOILER ALERT – Bad guys launch an attack featuring a giant cyborg/beast, Lions get their butts kicked until they form their own giant robot. Beast is slain, peace once again reigns free.
Siskel and Ebert?
I heard the Green Party snuck into the barn and curdled Goodwife Miller’s milk during the night!
The Green Party turned me into a newt!
*lifts faceguard*
A newt?
Well, I got better.
A NEWT‽
…I got better
A newt?
From the article:
Just awesome. If he was rich, Scientology would have already signed him up.
Its not a magic bullet, but it sure helps some people.
Sad, when a nutter like this can get one thing right, and major party candidates can’t even do that.
GoodSpaceGuy lost out my top 2 primary, again. The guy is a kook, but his platform is still better than about 15 of the 20 odd candidates in the primary gunning for the top 2.
No theme music today Tres?
I like gin, but don’t think I’ve ever gone on any Amazon shopping binges.
So buying lube 55 gallons at a time isn’t binging?
I don’t think its the lube he’s really binging on.
That’s a sensible purchase. It keeps well and is a great per-ounce value over smaller containers!
The dispenser can be a bit unwieldy though.
Bringing it with you to a club or a bar sure sends a message.
STEVE SMITH NEVER USE LUBE. HIM THINK IT STUFF FOR SISSIES.
“Strange Metals” – is there some sort of conspiracy afoot? The husband has been talking about “The Father of Rare Earth Metals” and “Mr. Rare Earth Metals” all day.
This was a pretty captivating interview of Jordan Peterson.
Jordan Peterson: From the Barricades of the Culture Wars
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Yeah, he released that on his podcast a little while back. I couldn’t tell if the interviewer was giving him a fair shake or just barely keeping rein of her condescension.
Since the overwhelming majority of MO voters don’t belong to unions, it’s a clear fuck you to the minority that are.
“Tonight we send a clear message that we’d prefer our jobs be MOVED to friendlier business climates instead of making our own state a friendlier business climate which would attract jobs and thus compete for our labor by offering higher wages.”
Missouri loves company.
Golf clap.
But she will never foot the bill.
Looks like someone said “Show Me”.
I have been suggesting that as their tourism slogan for 30 years. The first time I told it to someone from Missouri, they got angry.
Indiana will be happy to take those jobs off their hands. And as a consolation prize, we’ll send an extra large shipment of guns.
Sounds like the deal you made with IL.
Everyone who’s been paying attention realizes that Indiana is the Vortex.
Paging Mr. ZARDOZ to the courtesy phone.
Our main problem is keeping up the illusion that there is just one ZARDOZ head. It’s a logistical nightmare making sure that no two of our Z-700X’s appear in the same place at the same time.
The Unions had a massive campaign to get the no vote. The other side was mute.
See my comment below. Ballot was badly worded. Between the ads and the ballot language, I believe a lot of people thought they were voting for right-to-work.
“Last week, the Miami Herald reported that the number of DUI arrests plunged by 31% in Miami and by 65% in Miami-Dade.”
So Florida will eventually lower the BAC even further to recover the lost revenue.
Those damn ‘buzzed driving is drunk driving ads’
Uber effect?
Yes, it was taken from that article.
Article?
Thought experiment. So if you were a mad foreign genius trying to destroy the U.S. who would prefer to have in charge. A mercantilist or a soft socialist? How would their foreign policies affect your calculations?
The soft socialist. They will inflict damage only on the US. The mercantilist might inflict damage on me.
“Taxi medallions” sound an awful lot like “carbon credits”.
“Taxi Medallions” make me think of Marilu Henner’s knockers.
LeBron James: the next Secretary of Education.
He couldn’t carry 13 players, how is he going to carry 50 million kids?
JR Smith is equal to abut 49.9M uneducated kids, so the spread is closer than you might think
Well, he presumably knows about the benefits of a private education.
Fine ladies ready and willing.
http://archive.is/I3oHu
It would be a welcome surprise to find 47 in my bed.
#64 looks a bit too bitchy for me.
Did Alex Jones give us a shout out at 3:11?
Yes, but why did you share the video to start ten minutes later?
Because I don’t know how youtube links work.
No, I didn’t hear Glib, just Lib,
Yep, he clearly says Glibertarians. Fess up, which one one you guys is Alex Jones?
*shields left hand with right, points at Hyperion*
One of us being Alex Jones sounds like a crazy conspiracy.
Ted drinks milk…
*swigs distilled water*
+ 1 precious bodily fluid
It’s gonna turn the Glib g… too late.
The automated closed captioning says ‘glib Rotarians’ I think that’s better.
THE ROTARY CLUB, THE ELKS LODGE, THE FREE MASONS, THESE ARE ALL PART OF GLOBALIST ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE PUTTING FLUORIDE CHEMICALS IN THE WATER, I HAVE STACKS OF DOCUMENTS, FROM REAL SCIENTISTS, SHRIMP ARE COMMITTING SUICIDE, I’M NOT BRAGGING, BUT I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS, THERE ARE SUICIDAL SHRIMP, AND IT’S NOT GOING TO STOP THERE.
On a business trip to Munich I visited my go to beer Tap House. Boulevard single wide is mediocre which led me to the conclusion that people in Kansas City, Missouri are not that good at brewing. Anyhoo… there is some new fangled style called a brut ipa… dry humour yankee and kraut brut ipa to be exact. Not sure if want to try
Not sure if want to try
It can be a tough call with these nuevo beer styles.
ipa
Or, not a tough call at all.
Aparently it is vaguely similar to new england hazy ipa. Brut comes from using champagne yeast. So i dont think it is my taste as i like more bitter ipas…
Boulevard was purchased by Duvel several years back. It was the second of their US acquisitions if my memory serves (the first being Ommegang).
You are correct
Boulevard makes a great wheat beer. The rest of their selection is mediocre.
Wheat in Beer is a Sin, Any Grain except Wheat,
IMHO
Sup Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
Is the fire in your neighborhood yet?
Erdinger Weissbier Dunkel Sez Wut?
Aint no such thing as great wheat beer
I can barley contain my anger right now.
I am with you.
My hands down best beer I make is my hefeweizen.
And a well made weizenbock is a thing of beauty. Now I want an Aventinus.
My hands down best beer I make is my hefeweizen
Recipe? or is it a family secret. My first all-grain hefe came out okay, but needs some tweeking.
About 60/40 wheat to barley. An oz of tettnanger per 5 gallons.
And if ballsy enough, triple decoct it.
also, ferment on the warm side for bananay goodness.
I was so angry I missed the pun.
Disagree, Boulevard makes an excellent Saison.
Dammit.
Brut IPAs aren’t bad. They tend to be a little bit drier and lighter than your standard IPA. They’re fucking everywhere here right now and appeared out of nowhere.
As much as i dont like hipsters i am a sucker for cute hipster chicks tending bar at craft beer spots. The smile and are pretty and give me beer
They are smiling at you ironically.
They smile as if you are a benevolent uncle.
Try Boulevard Tank 7.
This guy get it.
“WTF Missouri. AND going for Hawley in the primary. “Show me” how you progress away from freedom”
My only guess is that the wording on the ballot confused people and they voted opposite of what they wanted.
What about the Worker Exploitation and Child Slavery proposition did you find confusing?
Oh, you said it before I did. Glad I’m not the only one who thought so.
It was confusing. Badly worded. Whoever wrote it up must have been angling for a job as a bureaucrat.
Feeling left out when California published their intention to fuck Uber and Lyft, New York gets in on the game.
Nitwits.
Council members approved a package of bills after months of
protestspayments from taxi drivers and others in favor of themSeriously, who are we kidding?
Also, what “others”? There is literally nobody else who would favor this, given that its entire intent is to prop up the taxi monopoly. Fuuuck, I hope the council gets reamed on this and hard.
“In the morally illiterate idiom of the moment, a white poet’s ‘appropriation’ of Black English serves ‘white supremacy,’ putting it in the same category of things as lynchings, cross-burnings, and segregation.”
Wow.
” the grip of moral hysteria, and its main occupation is heretic-hunting, inventing ever-more-absurd pretexts for simply declaring beyond the pale any idea or intellectual opponent progressives cannot successfully engage”
In other words their hysteria is a clear admission that they got nuthin’.
They got enough for like minded thinkers who praise them for their bravery
I bought a late-1890s anthology of a literary magazine called The Chap Book at a local used bookstore, and this thoroughly un-woke poem was in there:
http://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10049976
That’s how I read it. The man’s cheating, SP!
Some Euro company put a worldwide block on my review of “Marathon Family”. Appealed under fair use, but this kind of thing is getting really stupid. It’s the clip I included at the end, not the trailer. Definitely gonna start posting up on bitchute too in case I have to start re-uploading cut versions on youtube. I hate these stupid algorithms, etc – trying to promote obscure indie titles vs including massive clips or even the entire movie on youtube. Still need to experiment with editing more – cutting/splicing/etc… maybe with Vegas later this year.
I remember the last time Harry Reid was elected they simply bussed in union thugs from California to vote. After the election they could not find a single voter in Search Light that voted Reid.
Voters may have rejected RTW but I doubt they were Missouri voters
They rejected it 2-1. I doubt they bussed in that many voters.
Ballot language was awful and confusing. I doubt that many people voted against RTW.
*on purpose
Who did this?
GLIBERTARIAN
(Sometimes “Glibbertarian”) From GLIB + libERTARIAN. A well-off or self-made individual who offers easy nostrums for complicated social and economic problems, usually centered around such premises as “A government program never helped anyone,” or “Government is the cause of, not the answer to, America’s problems.”
A glibertarian response is frequently preceded by “Oh, just let this happen” or “Oh, all we need to do is . . . ” Sometimes these statements elucidate libertarian principles, if a bit superficially, but more often invoke knee-jerk responses that offer snappy, painless solutions from anything but government.
“We have to get manufacturing back into this country.”
“Oh, just let the magic of the market take care of that.”
“What are we to do about illegal immigration?”
“Oh, all we need to do is get these folks onto a market-driven salary and off all these government programs like public schools and health care.”
sarcastically: “Where on earth did you get all these wonderful solutions?”
“Oh, I’m a self-made man.”
Original speaker sotto voce “A Glibertarian worships his own maker.”
Derp accidentally deleted the href
I tried. Sorry man.
Jew editor >>> Mexican editor
Has anyone here ever received a wedding party gift in the form of a piece of glassware, and then gone on to use that glass on a regular basis instead of dropping it off at the thrift store / garbage? I have a young and dumb friend getting married soon, and he was very excited to tell me that he chose glassware because 1) he thinks other people give a shit about his wedding and 2) he thinks other people will want a glass with his and his new wife’s name on it.
He’s got too much of a soft heart for me to crush it with the truth that no one gives a shit about someone else’s wedding, or theirs once it is past. So for his sake I am Very Interested in the design of his wedding ring and his groomsman gifts and his table declarations, etc.
I got a coffee mug at a wedding with the bride’s and groom’s names on it. The names wore off after 10 or so cycles through the dishwasher. I doubt I could even pick out which mug it was at this point.
I gave each of my groomsmen das boot beer glasses. But it was an inside joke and I didn’t stamp my name on them.
Has anyone here ever received a wedding party gift in the form of a piece of glassware, and then gone on to use that glass on a regular basis
Yes, I have a beer glass I use often. Received for being the best man at one of my high school buddy’s wedding, 20 some years ago. Of course, he had the initials of the bridal party member etched into the glass not his and his new wife’s.
The best wedding party gift I ever received is my Shun Chef’s knife. This also the only wedding party gift I remember.
A recommended engraved Opinel knives, which are beloved by both hispters and crotchety old-folks (which I’ve been since I was 12) alike.
Sweet.
After I was in the wedding party for one of the first of our circle to get married, I wasn’t invited to be in any more. Odd, now that I think about it.
Glassware, no. I did however get a beer coozie with the wedding particulars printed on it at one wedding. That is a gift that keeps on giving.
Same here. My SIL and her husband gave printed coozies. My wife uses hers from time to time.
We gave packets of wildflower seeds at our wedding.
I gave each groomsman a cooler (not personalized) full of steaks. While the steaks are long gone, they still have the coolers they use all the time.
In romania things are simple. The wedding gift is cash in an envelope. The standard rule of thumb is the gift should be more than the total cost of the wedding divided by number of guests so the happy couple make a bit of profit
We call those “wedding gifts,” and yeah that was the way it was where I grew up until Millenials decided to go into five figures of debt to finance their wedding.
I’m talking about gifts that are given by the bride and groom to the groomsmen and bridesmaids.
I didn’t get anything at my one at bat as groomsman. WTF, [REDACTED]?
Hmm i did not fully read the original comment and just scrolled through a thread on what i though were wedding gifts. My bad…
Anyhoo Romanian weddings are stupidly expensive. To much food to much booze and way to long
The problem isn’t the food or the booze, its everything else. If you have sufficient consumable, no one gives about anything else and you can cheap out on the venue. That’s an important lesson from the Bible, Pie.
Well in romania you drop a few grand on the photographer and you have a wedding band usually dping covers a traditional music singer – popular music it is called round these parts – and a DJ for when neither the band nor the singer are on stage. Also professional dancers for a bit of show. Sometimes a clown for the kids. The venue is not cheap because you need to show people your wealth. And the cost adds up.
Ah see, where I grew up, you show off your wealth by purchasing booze in a glass bottle, instead of a plastic bottle or jar.
you have a wedding band usually dping
You Euros really try to keep the spirit of prima nocta alive at those things.
But there is always lotsa food and an open bar. Romanians cant grasp the concept of paying for your own booze at a wedding
This is right and proper.
I gave out hip flasks with each groomsman’s initials engraved on their own.
#metoo. And I got one for myself…which I’ve used once.
I used mine a few times. Left it with the ex :/
Likewise.
I’m a misanthrope, so I rarely attend weddings and have been in a wedding party precisely once, outside of my own.
We dispensed with having a bridal party.
Perhaps gently nudge him into having each person’s initials engraved on a glass.
Best wedding party gift: a BJ outside in the parking lot at Spudalicious’s wedding.
Not from Spudalicious, you assholes.
Spuds Mackenzie?
WOOF!
The flower girl?
Deflower girl.
SJWednesday: Every Cultural Difference Can Be Explained By Racism
They can’t even get their racism right. Hockey should also be on the list.
Played on frozen water.
Black people have been actively denied access to water in America. And continue to be.
Yup. Why just the other day, I saw a “No Negroes Allowed” sign at the swimming pool. Brought a tear to my eye, it did.
Totally off topic, but one of the recurring structures of religious myth is the idea that there was a ‘before time’ where all sorts of stuff happened for the first time, and then once done that way one time, the pattern was imprinted on reality. Like for example, the Greeks had a story about how Prometheus tricked the gods into picking a pile of burnt bones as a sacrifice while the humans got the left over meat and fat hidden in another pile. Because of this one thing that happened in the mythological past, no one could ever countervail this tradition.
It was an immutable, timeless form that could never change. No matter how many generations separated Promethius some pious greek, the sacrifice must always, always be a product of that thing that happened so long ago that no one today actually experienced it.
I sometimes think about that. Don’t know why.
Water water everywhere and not a drop to swim in.
And many a black woman would disagree on the hair thing
Ima say the article is a lamer attempt at humor than most of my posts.
It is not the root though… medium is serious intelekchual stufd
There’s like 70 public beach accesses in a 13 mile section of beach around here.
It’s true that poorer blacks have little access but not because intentionally denied
Alexandria la installed 4 small water parks a few years ago
Inside 6 months they were destroyed
Nobody tell Swiss
Yes, we must keep this a secret, as we don’t want to make Swiss Guard against this kind of thing.
Swiss has a narrow mind for puns.
And he’s so glib about it, too.
His gaze is focused on puns.
Are you listening, NYC? Probably not. They are going to waste our time dragging their own unlawful regulations through the courts.
Probably not since NY is in the Second Circuit.
Yeah, but they could at least look at what other courts are doing and think twice.
The gift that keeps on giving.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/07/ocasio-cortez-minivans/
Like, this is exactly how I, like, imagine she speaks based on the photo.
For sure. Like, no soccer moms have 2 vans anymore. They can only afford to wear like one trendy skate shoe nowadays.
The modal number of cars per household in American is 2.
In fairness, the minivan has been replaced for many by the crossover SUV, which is pretty much the same thing. Mostly True //Factcheck
Thats only because the minivan is the worst kind of vehicle ever designed. Except for the ones made by the commies.
Or the Italians.
Minivans at least have a purpose. Unlike sedans.
Yeah, a special purpose.
Or the British.
It was designed to get around car regulations.
Possibly. But the only real reason for the rise of the minivan was the government’s squeezing out of the market for the station wagon. And social distaste for the minivan was the reason for the rise of the crossover SUV. For your average family in exurbia, a Mini Cooper or a Prius just isn’t going to cut it. That’s the thing I think a lot of the faux sophisticated urban intellectual class don’t get. It isn’t ego gratification. It’s a family of four needs to have room for four people and all the shit they have to haul around.
Yeah, Minivans >>>>> Station Wagons.
Frankly I never got all the minivan hate, they are the perfect vehicle for hauling a family around, especially a larger family. Sure they aren’t sexy or sporty or fun to drive but I have yet to see a superior vehicle to meet the needs for a family with 3 or 4 kids
Sliding doors for the win, especially when your kids are in car seats.
Bisimoto 1000hp minivan F.T.W.
it also doesn’t help that the main reason for needing a minivan is you need to carry a large family and the percentage of families with 3 or more children under the age of 18 living in them has fallen from about 9.6% to 8.1% in the last 15 years.
It is much easier to decide to go to a Crossover when you have 1 or 2 kids than when you have 3 or 4
If she’s not getting support from the GOP in the form of steady-contributions, she should be.
She has to be a plant. I get the feeling each party’s sole purpose since 1988 is to troll the other party and the backfires have caused them to troll even harder.
Man at N.M. compound trained kids for school shooting
The father of a missing Georgia boy was training children at a New Mexico compound to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court documents obtained Wednesday, as authorities waited to learn if human remains found at the site were those of the boy.
The documents say Siraj Ibn Wahhaj was conducting weapons training with assault rifles at the compound near the Colorado border where authorities say they found 11 hungry children living in filthy conditions in a raid Friday.
Prosecutor Timothy Hasson filed the court documents while asking that Wahhaj be held without bail after he was arrested last week with four other adults facing child abuse charges.
“He poses a great danger to the children found on the property as well as a threat to the community as a whole due to the presence of firearms and his intent to use these firearms in a violent and illegal manner,” Hasson wrote.
Prosecutors did not bring up the school shooting accusation in court on Wednesday during an initial appearance by the abuse suspects. A judge ordered Wahhaj held without bond pending further proceedings.
In the court documents, authorities said a foster parent of one of the 11 children removed from the compound had told authorities that the child had been trained to use an assault rifle in preparation for a school shooting.
Christ, what an asshole.
Its odd, but it sort of reminds me of the story of the Arizona ‘Miracle Valley’ shootout story i mentioned the other day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_Valley_shootout
at least in the sense that this guy seems like a “east coast, black muslim who retreated to southwest to form militant religious group”, which is close to what the Miracle Valley people were (albeit pentacostalist).
That said, his compound looks like its more out of Mad Max than the rural/suburban enclave thing
I notice nothing on the guys background, motive or belief system
I guess we will never know
It looks like a typical Arab slum to me.
“where authorities say they found 11 hungry children living in filthy conditions in a raid Friday.”
Not that shit can’t be staged, but this is where body cam footage comes in handy because I reflexively think everything “authorities say” is an outright lie without visual evidence.
The pics of the ‘compound’ are crazy enough that if they say 11 kids were living there, the fact that they were probably starving and filthy isn’t much of a stretch
https://cdns.abclocal.go.com/content/kabc/images/cms/automation/vod/3896534_1280x720.jpg
the entire place is made of garbage, tires, tarps, and sharp pointy things with tetanus on them.
Ohio Green Party spoiler a Russian plant says expert on Geopolitics.
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/08/08/alyssa-milano-accuses-russia-meddling-in-ohio-special-congressional-election.html
Gotta love that they’re just trolling the lefty loonies now.
She was hot back in the day
Which one was Eva Savalot?
YESSSS! I forgot Her name, “when things get, Heavy”
HAWT!
Hollywood. Is there anything they don’t know?
Yes, when to shut up.
Wait until they get their asses handed to them in November
There will be Russians behind every bush
It’s funny to see them blaming the Russians for their failures just like the alt-right blames the Jews. Everything’s a conspiracy.
So it’s really the ((Russians)) who run the world?
Russian…bushes…
I found this week’s porn search terms.
Haunting and beautiful
I built one of those bastards for my son. He proceeded to not play it at all.
I build one and put in an old Box so it looks “Authentic”
My Electronica Band is named TEPME3, Russian for Termin/Theremin
Interesting….didn’t know you could do this. https://youtu.be/ajM4vYCZMZk
That’s exceptionally good playing.
I built a theremin a long time ago. Then I sold it because I never used it.
Oh Florida…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6039385/Democrat-drives-mans-house-shoots-heated-political-disagreement-Facebook.html
I like the defining characteristic of the attacker is that he’s a Democrat. No word on the victim.
Earlier id’d As unregistered
No way. All shootings are done by right-wing extremists.
The ballot was poorly worded and the ads were confusing. I don’t believe that many people wanted to keep the unions because our district rep was elected 2 years ago on the promise that she would vote for right-to-work, and this is a district with a Ford plant.
I am quite certain a good lot of people thought they were voting for right-to-work.
If this appeared on the ballot, it is confusing:
Fair Ballot Language:
A “yes” vote will adopt Senate Bill 19 (“right-to-work”), passed by the general assembly in 2017. If adopted, Senate Bill 19 will amend Missouri law to prohibit, as a condition of employment, forced membership in a labor organization (union) or forced payments of dues or fees, in full or pro-rata (“fair-share”), to a union. Senate Bill 19 will also make any activity which violates employees’ rights provided by the bill illegal and ineffective and allow legal remedies for anyone injured as a result of another person violating or threatening to violate those employees’ rights. Senate Bill 19 will not apply to union agreements entered into before the effective date of Senate Bill 19, unless those agreements are amended or renewed after the effective date of Senate Bill 19.
A “no” vote will reject Senate Bill 19 (“right-to-work”), and will result in Senate Bill 19 not becoming Missouri law.
Yes, that was it.
I knew what it was, what I was voting, and I STILL had to read it 3 times to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind.
So it was a set up.
I believe so, yes.
It didn’t seem confusing to me. How should it have been worded?
Same here. They could have done without the last sentence, and the second to last sentence is crap drafting, but I thought it was reasonably clear.
A “yes” vote will adopt Senate Bill 19 (“right-to-work”), passed by the general assembly in 2017. If adopted, Senate Bill 19 will amend Missouri law to prohibit, as a condition of employment, forced membership in a labor organization (union) or forced payments of dues or fees, in full or pro-rata (“fair-share”), to a union.
Maybe I read too much legalese, but that seems pretty comprehensible to me.
Women poised to take charge in Dem majority
If Democrats win the House in November, 35 women are poised to lead committees and subcommittees in the next Congress — an historically high figure that would put female lawmakers in the driver’s seat for some of the most pressing issues facing Congress and the country.
That number would almost triple the amount of GOP women currently holding similar positions, and it would mark a measurable achievement for Democratic lawmakers looking to take the “Year of the Woman” to new heights of power….
“The critical issue is the agenda changing,” Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee’s health and labor panel, said Friday by phone.
The 14-term lawmaker rattled off a list of gender-based issues Democrats are vowing to tackle if they take control of the House, including women’s health care, domestic violence, equal pay and family leave. DeLauro said those were once considered “fringe issues” that went too long ignored or underfunded by Republicans who have controlled the chamber since 2011. She’s been passing out a pamphlet to fellow Democrats arguing that women are uniquely positioned to turn the ship around.
“When women take the gavel, Congress responds to the major issues facing working families today,” it reads.
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) argued another benefit of having women in charge: They are simply more open to compromise, a breath of fresh air in a Congress practically defined by partisan conflict.
“I believe women tend to find common ground, work together and accomplish big tasks,” said DeGette, who’s in line to lead the oversight subpanel of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
“As more of us get elected to Congress and fill these critical leadership roles, chances are good that we will see less gridlock and more cooperation.”
That hasn’t been my experience with women. But sure, whatever. ///GURLPOWR
Ya more like cats fighting over a spot on the couch
Ah, Diana DeGette… The same dumb broad who thought that a “high capacity” magazine ban would work because people shoot all the ammo out of them and apparently discard them.
If you want to make the case that Congress would be better with more women, DeGette should not be the one at the forefront.
She learned everything she knows about guns from the Matrix. Shooters bring a bag of guns to a shooting, fire until they are empty, then reach into the bag for more.
Apparently she has never worked with a woman who clawed her way to the top of the power structure. They make the power hungry men look tame.
DeBlasio is rightly getting hammered for being in the pocket of the taxi medallion cartels, but I think that his critics are really missing the bigger issue at hand. If NYC’s transit system hadn’t ever been mismanaged into the current mess it is despite its bloated budget, Uber and Lyft might have but a fraction of the market share they enjoy today. DeBlasio understands that letting them continue serving the public relatively unencumbered would eventually lead to the revelation that the progressives’ approach to governing cities has been a colossal failure.
https://twitter.com/NYCMayor/status/1027289516145557505
Remember, every one of those taxis represent around 1M bucks in the city’s coffers
Looked it up
2013 – 1.3M
Today – 160,000
Whaddya know.
Heard that on the way home. Something something competition.
Not to be funny, but why are Progressives obsessed about public transit? As a former city dweller, I loved it but remembering hearing some dipshit proposals from the Chicago City Council about taxing drivers to relieve congestion.
Same reason they create shortages- Control
It’s always about control
Consumption and freedom of movement are two things that the Progressives hate.
Only in that it’s an impediment to their dreams of impending Utopia.
Or in the case of the left leadership, the appearance of implementing Utopia.
Wealth and freedom of movement empower individuals
High taxes and pub trans fixes that
Every single plank they haves is calculated to attack individuality , to make you smaller and have fewer options
Top down planning
Here’s my (semi-educated) guess: Progressivism grew out of the early 20th century infatuation with using data to analyze and solve problems, the idea being that fields like the humanities and social sciences were subject to “laws” in the same way science was. However, people proved damnably hard to predict. On the other hand, if you could get people to act in large groups, their behavior was much more predictable which meant planning was more likely to succeed. So, the movement of a million people pushed on to public transit is easier to predict, and therefore plan for, than are a million people using their own transportation. As Suthen wrote, it’s about control, I just think the control is rooted in this idea of planning a better society (see, for example, “Things to Come”).
It’s the entire underpinning of Marxism
I notice that once they think they consolidated power that mask comes off
No more talk of common good and utopia
Then it’s just the boot and gun
It’s what they do every time
Remember our friend bezmennov:
When they see the reality of their world of social justice they (useful idiots) won’t like it very much and they will dissent. Dissent cannot be allowed.
I’ll say it again: not many people outside Manhattan – which remember is the vast majority of the city population – are replacing the subway with Uber for regular trips – not when the fare is 10x as much or more. And as a regular daily subway rider for going on 20 years, I submit that the current “crisis” we keep hearing about is overblown*. The media is full of anecdotes from people who like to complain. Not so much is heard from people that don’t have all that much to complain about.
*standard disclaimers about bloated budgets, corruption, etc. apply
New Jersey news was just running a story about riders bitching about the service and the need for much more funding. My reaction of course was “fuck you, you ride it, you fund it”.
Riders have been bitching about service since 1904. This is literally nothing new. But there is a narrative to push so the media are plugging it harder than usual.
The left always pushes public transit problems when R’s are in the White House.
Makes sense. I’m sure Trump has cut funding to the bone.
What I don’t get is how Uber and Lyft add to gridlock. OK, more so than taking the subway I suppose, but they’re *identical* in nature to cabs in terms of street usage during the ride. Maybe even less so when not carrying passengers. Not being in a serious taxi city, I’m not sure what the average taxi does when not carrying a fare or sitting in the line at the airport.
It’s possible – I think I read there are some tens of thousands of Ubers and Lyfts on top of the 17,000 or so taxis. But in the rush to prop up the taxi regime everyone is ignoring all kinds of other factors that impact congestion, like the economy, population growth, etc.
In SF the government cartelized taxi medallions (just like NYC I believe). Here they artificially created a shortage of taxis by limiting medallions. This drove up the price of them to over 250k just before Uber/Lyft hit the scene. Now from my estimate about one out of every ten cars on the street at any time is a rideshare vehicle. If you push the request button on your phone at any time of day or nite a car will be outside your door in two or three minutes.
I remember living in SF in the 90s how hard it was to get a cab. You could call one if you were near a phone (no cell phones) and cross your fingers. Or wait on the street to hail one and watch every cab sail by because they’re responding to a phone call.
Yup. I live in the Sunset near Ocean Beach so I had cabbies refuse to take me home from downtown when they heard my address (too out of the way for them).
The last time I tried to use a cab was about six years ago. I called three hours ahead to reserve one to go to a wedding at the Great American Music Hall. When the time came and no cab I called them up. “No record of you reserving anything” after a five minute wait on hold. “We can send one out in about 45 minutes. No, fuck off. I called my gypsy cab Chinese guy who was as there in 10 minutes. Later that week someone told me about Uber. Man I wished they had that in my younger bar hopping days. It would’ve saved a bunch of my friends from DUIs as well.
Arne Duncan, asshole extraordinaire
https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/08/obamas-ed-secretary-i-wish-id-pushed-common-core-even-harder/
If only we had more control…
That asshole’s name is on my high school diploma. He left CPS a smoldering mess and now have the balls to push a curriculum that a lot parents do not like.
Arne was pushing his agenda on Squawk Box this AM – Joe had none of it and the segment ended early with Duncan shrieking about Trump not supporting 90% HS graduation rates.
Scoured thrift stores today for music.
Scored a lot of good stuff, but I picked up my 5th version of Carmina Burana. Haven’t listened to it yet, so it could be shit for all I know.
I thought I had read the worst take on the Jeong shitshow already. I was wrong.
“Much of the Jeong furor has been about actually racist alt-right trolls weaponizing old tweets in bad faith to get an Asian woman fired from an important job. The New York Times refused to be cowed, and good for them. (Also do read my Vox Media colleagues at The Verge, who wrote a powerful statement condemning the cynicism of these tactics, and defending Jeong’s excellent work.)
But Goldberg’s piece traces another fault line in the Jeong debate, one that I see people of good faith struggling with even days after the initial frenzy, and that has implications far beyond this single controversy. Are Jeong’s tweets the equivalent of Goldberg’s old woman yelling racial slurs at a bank teller — that is to say, are they an actual expression of animus towards real people? Or are the critics making that argument engaged in an absurd form of literalism, refusing to recognize ironic discourse even though it’s been repeatedly pointed out to them?”
https://www.vox.com/technology/2018/8/8/17661368/sarah-jeong-twitter-new-york-times-andrew-sullivan
I almost wish I was enough of an asshole to move to Korea and make a living telling Koreans how shitty they are.
In answer to his question, yes.
Amazing that that they have the stones to to hand waive away their own obvious textbook bigotry while leveling baseless accusations at others
I have no problem with her keeping her job but the hypocrisy they display, we all know they absolutely would not be cutting this person any slack if they went after one of their favored groups, is nauseating.
And it’s been repeatedly pointed out to voxsplainers that she engaged in this behavior through dozens if not hundreds of tweets over some period of time I don’t recall but longer than “irony” would plausibly explain.
The whole nonsense of ‘Yes but you see when we lefties say racially-loaded things we have NUANCE and CONTEXT!”
…’nuance and context’ that they’d never in a million years grant to anyone on the other side. They’re very sophisticated people! with deep layers of metatextual discourse! Whereas anyone they dislike is 100% to be read at obvious face value and must be taken as cynically as possible:
See: “Enforced Monogamy”, which Vox and others treated as some sort of declaration by peterson that he wanted to send women to be sold like slaves @ wedding auctions to their male-masters. And they do that “randomly taking quotes out of context, and using them to slander people” thing all the time.
Hell, so do people like ENB/Robby. The quote-mining character-assassination tactic is like the go-to method of “new journalism”. and yet they insist suddenly,”WHERE DID THE NUANCE GO! WHY DO YOU ALLOW NO CONTEXT!”.
.
They’re unpersoning people quoting other people using the N-word. I think they’ve lost any right to be taken seriously by anyone.
They NEVER accord ‘context and nuance’ to the other side.
Of course, let’s not overlook that some of her racist outbursts came completely out of the blue. Not sure what nuance or context there is to that, other than “why would she say that unless she meant it?”
The “context” is that she’s a racist Asian leftist and the “nuance” is, so far as I can tell, fuck whitey.
One of the best threads on Sarah Jeong vs our Sexy Cyborg – just scroll down: https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1026484587684397058
I find Jeong’s claim that there aren’t significant cultural differences between South Korea and China absurd.
alt-right trolls
I saw some pretty mainstream names. I guess its true that if you aren’t woke, you’re alt-right.
weaponizing old tweets
So retweeting or publishind “old” tweets (they were from, what, 2016?) unedited is now “weaponizing”? Good to know.
NYT can keep her. I’m sure she fits in a treat, and will contribute mightily to its continued decline. The kerfuffle over firing her has accomplished its purpose: demonstrated (again) the appalling dishonesty and hypocrisy of the left. Best comment I saw was one to the effect that, as a minority, she’s so powerless she can tweet things that would get you fired, and keep her job.
I never thought that a porn site would be stupid enough to come out as pro-censorship but here you go:
https://www.thewrap.com/youporn-drops-alex-jones-hate-has-no-place-on-youporn/
Eporner for the win!
*facepalm*
Publishers advocating censorship
Idiocy
Welcome to our house! We’re glad you could stop by and hang out. If you want to be invited back, please behave accordingly.
That’s vox?
I thought all the lefties killed their comment sections
I’m guessing any one of comments on this board would get the author banned
And Proud of it!
What you just did there- I saw that.
*conspiratorial clap
Do you want to tell Suthen or should I?
SP has a very low tolerance for assholes. Other than me.
I must be Assholing wrong. Every since you jerks chased off my good buddies Eddie and that naked guy I’ve been begging for a catbutt, all I have to show for my efforts is a future Gliby™ for ‘Best series with no less than five and no more than seven parts about the home building industry.’
“My wife has a little asshole: me” — Napoleon
From National Lampoon in the 70’s
… Hobbit
For god’s sake, why did you have to make that your avatar?? Ya know, some of us may be planning to eat, sleep, and/or masturbate tonight…
I’m doing two of those things right now!
I’ve been meaning to say something about that, myself. The human cue-ball from CNN is probably worse than Female Seth Rogan (Maddow) and her kid sister (Hayes) at MSDNC combined.
Alex Jones is out. Now look at this triple penetration video!
There’s something to be said for honesty.
Actress Mila Kunis admits she lives in a progressive Hollywood bubble that is so knee-deep in pro-abortion advocates she doesn’t even know of a pro-life movement, much less pro-lifers.
Speaking on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Kunis reflected on the mean-spirited prank she pulled on Vice President Mike Pence by donating to abortion conglomerate Planned Parenthood in his name without his permission…
“Every month, to his office, he gets a little letter that says ‘an anonymous donation has been made in your name,’” she said. “I don’t look at it as a prank. I literally, I strongly disagree, and this is my little way of showing it. It’s a peaceful protest.”…
Kunis admitted she knew absolutely nothing about the pro-life movement or pro-lifers when she saw that an opposing side donated to pro-life groups in her name.
“So there’s an address that was listed online that’s not necessarily my personal address, but it’s listed as if it’s my personal address,” she said. “So then people started giving donations to the opposing side, which I didn’t even know that there was one. Okay, I don’t want to promote it, whatever it is.”
The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List received nearly $300,000 after Kunis revealed her prank on Conan.
Kunis did, however, admit she was impressed with people putting their money where their mouth was.
It’s okay, Mila. I still very much and with great enthusiasm WOOD.
Look at the Hollywood idiots and you you will find lots of very fucked up early lives
Abuse, neglect, poor education, desperation, poverty
Don’t let their current wealth and glitter fool you they are a walking talking mob of personality disorders
They are the least qualified people to tell others how to live
Even Pence would have dinner alone with her.
She has Babushka Written all over that pretty little face, Wait and see,
Take the makeup off and you don’t even have to wait.
lol.
+1 Kelso.
I don’t look at it as a prank. I literally, I strongly disagree, and this is my little way of showing it. It’s a peaceful protest.
I wonder what her reaction would be if somebody made an anonymous donation to Priests For Life in her name.
Did you read from this part on:
Kunis admitted she knew absolutely nothing about the pro-life movement or pro-lifers when she saw that an opposing side donated to pro-life groups in her name.
“We are extremely grateful that nobody else was injured in this incident,” said Deputy Chief Todd Hutchinson in a statement. “This suspect opened fire at a crowded public park, this could have been so much worse.”
Notice he didn’t say thanks to the bystander.
Are you sure he wasn’t describing the bystander?
No. It’s possible I suppose.
BUT WHY CAN’T HE JUST COME OUT AND SAY IT!?
At least he didn’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater!
Candace Owens briefly suspended by Twitter.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/05/twitter-suspends-candace-owens/
/Innocent smile. Hand to mouth. Ooops!
Remember the academic dude who clubbed people with bike lock at a protest and then was shocked, SHOCKED to be arrested for it?
3 years probation, and time served (4 days).
four counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon, causing great bodily injury,
And he walks. This will not end well.
I hopeful that karma will succeed where justice failed.
*I’m* hopeful
I’d like to think that was a brazen attempt to summon a sexy edit fairy, but really I just fucked it.
You would have gotten the skanky edit fairy.
Works for me.
Or were you saying you fucked the sexy edit fairy?
I would NEVER refer to an edit fairy as “it”, Ted.
An orphan, sure. But not an edit fairy.
shrug I looked back at Discord chat and it’s literally what I was expecting
So yeah, it’ll end quite well for him and his. And nothing will happen.
That’s retarded.
Time for some Sicilian justice.
Why would the prosecution even offer a plea deal? Did(does) the victim of the alleged assault have any say in whether to offer one?
IANAL but my understanding is that victims have no influence over the criminal proceedings once they’re under way. The cynical guess would be that the prosecutor’s office is sympathetic, or at least didn’t have any interest in pursuing the charges too aggressively. Or maybe they think that the trial would be more trouble than it was worth, what with trying to find an unbiased jury and so forth. Or maybe they’re just idiots.
Well hopefully the guy can press a civil suit of some kind against this turd if he wants to.
I think the victims could probably get more traction there. I’d hope so at least.
That’s disgusting.
That’s no so much a “plea deal” as much as it is the prosecutor’s office saying, “good job son”
I mean, i suppose they could say that the video evidence by itself can’t prove its him, and that his subsequent admissions might be thrown out, or that he could perhaps claim that he was reasonably afraid for his own life (there were lots of people around fighting! he lost his head in mortal fear)…. but still, you’d think they could have at least gotten a felony admission.
I can’t see a ‘feared for my life defense’ holding water. The guy reached out from behind someone else to hit a guy who wasn’t swinging at anyone. I am also thinking it’s a “we secretly think you’re a hero, but we have to charge you with something” situation.
I cannot believe that he wouldn’t at least get some prison time considering he was clearly there with the intent to hurt people badly and did so several times, unless of course the prosecutor’s office wasn’t particularly bothered by some dirty Trumptards getting bludgeoned, or suspected they couldn’t find a jury that would convict him. In either case, I think I would have very little problem with this guy getting roughed up a few times by the victims and/or their friends. I know it’s too much to hope for in Berkeley that people would ostracize him because he’s a cowardly, violent scumbag, but that would be even better.
Do Millennials Know The First Amendment?
Yup. And the ones who have been college mostly hate it, as near as I can tell.
“I do not a agree with what you say, but I will defend to my death your right to be arrested for saying things I don’t like”
I got game night, so I’ll just leave this here, like a neighbor’s dog leaving a gift on your lawn at 3 AM.
Alex Jones deals in vicious stupidity. It’s not free speech — it’s incitement
Canadian Murray Rothbard, ladies (as if!) and gentlemen.
“admit to knowing SugarFree”?
In the biblical sense?