Today, my youngest son — the “Ted” half of Bill & Ted — turned 3. Happy birthday to this future shitlord, who shows all signs of becoming a cis-hetero white male. If he chooses to identify as something else, he’ll always be my little T. Wrecks. And, its Friday people. Let’s all get wreck’d.
This Paul Manafort trial is a fucking circus. As some people like to point out, the process IS the punishment
Canada is going to fall out of favor with the gun control lobby if these mass shootings keep happening.
Lots and lots (and lots!) of caveats, but The Verge dares pose the question — is there actually any proof that nicotine alone in a moderate dose is in any way harmful.
And withdrawing from nicotine is awful: “Anxiety, depression, irritability, hunger, weight gain — all of those are symptoms of nicotine withdrawal, which are unpleasant. So that sums it up,” Leventhal says.
These people have never seen some of my coworkers suffering acute caffeine withdrawal.
Red Tide creeping up towards me. Turrists unphased. Around here, if there aren’t a bunch of dead fish and it doesn’t smell like a whore’s crotch at the end of her shift, its okay to go in the water.
Alright, y’all. Let’s get it on! Happy weekend.
I watched that video and had to wonder — what happened to the bongos player in T. Rex after Mark Bolan died? Can you imagine interviewing him to join the next band. “Right then, what do you do?” “Well, I play the bongos and sing the high parts.”
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Hyperion folds time and almost become numero uno for 2nd time in single day.
Time folding better than expected.
But you failed to remark on the links.
Bullshit call, this is not TOS, no comment needed!
We retained the standard. Because ‘First!’
There are no standards at TOS. I call bs.
Bacon for the win, Bacon is always right.
HEY! I referenced a link!
You know the rules….
Tres is a cheater! Cut his head off!
^^^^ Witness the violence inherent in the system!
Apparently almost is in fact good enough
In the midwest, ‘red tide’ means something entirely different…
What. Ever.
I’m still gonna type “Now hit my mother-f’in Theme Music.”
Thought you were going here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssMF2SuaqRM
Theme music? Every good hero should have some.
The suspect, a 48-year-old Fredericton man, is in custody and officials confirmed “there is no further threat to the public” just after 11 a.m. The area will remain “contained for the foreseeable future” as officials continue to investigate.-
Wow. Shot 2 cops and they still took him alive. Canadians really are TOO nice.
I wonder why they aren’t releasing his name?
European style libel laws?
Hueguenot privacy considerations, Id expect.
*Huguenot
Canadian practice is to be conservative with HOT TAKE details.
Remember the guy who Breviked a mosque? His name wasn’t released for hours, leading to “Muslim-on-Muslim” violence speculation.
And in other news… drum roll… ladies and gentlemen, let’s get it on!
Let the Pantshitting begin!
This is going to be a clusterfuck that will mean nothing when he’s confirmed on a party line vote.
Though I wouldn’t completely mind him getting fucked over and someone who cares about the 4th amendment *cough*Willett*cough* coming in.
Yeah, I hear you. Although I think Trump needed to pick someone safe this time around because he can’t be sure of the old bag keeling over or getting a 2nd term. If the GOP can manage to not fuck up and keep the house in 2018 and 2020 and Trump get reelected, then all hell could break loose, dogs and cats sleeping together, frogs leaving France, Trump nominating a true shitlord after the old bag finally kicks the bucket.
I hope Kavanaugh makes it through and Willett replaces RBG.
Replacing RBG with a white male might be hard. Bad optics. I predict a chick as nominee.
Janice Rogers Brown for the win.
Too old. He’ll nominate that chick with the 7 kids.
How about Judge Faith?
She’s cute.
I’m with JB
The guy helped write the patriot act. I’d just as soon he not be confirmed.
The fourth is essentially dead already, I would like to see a justice seated who is willing to breathe a bit of life into it.
Anyone else dislike that the AP URLs don’t give any indication of what the story is about?
yes. I want to have some idea what I’m stumbling into before following a link.
all signs of becoming a cis-hetero white male
Time to start the hormone treatments, I suppose.
Congratulations, Brett.
If this audio file contains few enough errors, then there will be a Lucid Blue Audiobook in the near future.
I am getting tired of listening to the narrator’s voice. The guy’s a decent voice actor, but every time I request a revision, I have to listen to 20-60 minutes of it again when the updated version comes along. (Errors tend to sneak back in unbidden).
Anyway. Shill mode… where did I leave the shill module?
LARPing news,
Charlottesville Edition: BLM and fellow travelers “concerned” about massive police presence and security measures planned for downtown Charlottesville this weekend on the first anniversary of the Unite the Right rally.
Relevant: Last year they complained about not enough police. They (BLM, et als) are the only ones with a planned event there tomorrow.
And Rev. Al is gonna be there, too! Wooooooooooo!
Is BLM still pretending to be upset about cops shooting blacks or do they not even bother anymore?
They are apparently very, very concerned about the potential for police violence against BLM in Charlottesville.
But we all know if there was no police presence planned there tomorrow that they’d be complaining about that.
Glad it’s drill weekend (just like last year). Kessler pulled his permit request so I guess it’s just the anniversary “celebration”?
Red Tide creeping up towards me. Turrists unphased.
So the turrists are a plasma slurry or a colloidal suspension now?
Commie Scum.
And Ted is a good name for a son.
He drinks milk.
The trailer for Michael Moore’s new movie is freaking hilarious.
HuffPo;DR
The opening scene where it’s just Moore walking around is like ‘Durr, being fat and stoopid ain’t no way to live, but I’m a do it anyway’.
Moore is sort of the left wing version of Alex Jones. Has twitter banned him yet?
Does that guy in the Grunt Style shirt punch him? I’ll pay to see this movie in the theater if he does.
Seconded. In fact, I’d like to see that happen when he’s spraying water into someone’s yard. Fucking jerk.
I’ve been actively avoiding any exposure to that fat fuck for well over a decade now. Is he still pimping his films as “documentaries”?
Yeah, it’s too bad the narrative on that whole Flint water thing fell apart right before his movie debuts.
They really are trying to whip up violence. Do they think there is going to be a glorious commie revolution?
It’s just not going to turn out the way they imagine it, as long as Americans stay as well armed as they are. Good thing our Russian overlords support the NRA like they do.
God, even Moore’s propagandist fluff filter can’t keep She Guevara from coming off as a total bimbo.
Am I the only one that hopes like hell she wins?
*sheepishly raises hand*
No matter what damage she inflicts politically, I just can’t get past my distaste for paying her a fat salary and/or pension for the rest of her life.
I’m willing to pay my pro rata share of her salary for the entertainment value.
She is almost certain to do so, having won the primary in a district that tilts very strongly blue. She’s unlikely to do much damage at first, but may hold on to that seat for a long time.
I was thinking more of the political damage she is inflicting on the Democrats.
Not so much, they’re running the guy whom she defeated when everyone was asleep, against her as a 3rd party candidate in the genaral. Apparently, this is a well known tactic in that district. She may not win, but I hope she does. I need to see her in Congress talking her clueless bullshit.
…what happened to the bongos player in T. Rex after Mark Bolan died?
Mickey Finn! Wikipedia tells me he ended up as a session guy for the Blow Monkeys and Soup Dragons.
Then he died.
Great song, Brett. Love that band.
So you’re digging his scene?
Is that Andre from The League on bass?
It was a strange time.
[on the set of the T. Rex video]
Director: “Marc baby! You look great, but could you shake your hair in your face about 40-50 more times per minute?”
Gotta have more cowbell!
Happy birthday to Ted!
A rather belated birthday, I’d say.
I said Ted, not T’ed.
Wouldn’t it be Ted’S?
Acktchually, it’s ‘Teds’ there are more than one ‘ted’ posting using that account.
So everybody is Ted, not Tulpa?
Everyone except Tulpa.
Weird, huh?
Don’t be silly.
We;re all tulpa, as are all your Teds.
in relation to the baby picture thread from the last post
My older brother and his wife welcomed Beatrice to the world this afternoon. No problems reported, and she apparently now shares a birthday with brett’s boy.
Nice! Happy uncling!
Time to set up the arranged marriage, though Sloopy might have dibs on Brett’s boy already.
Don’t be silly, Sloopy wouldn’t wait that long to Marry someone.
Nice!
My grandmother was named Beatrice.
Some very strange stuff was going on with the last Canadian shooter.
Faisal Hussain had 30 identical Glocks. As if he was outfitting a paramilitary group for something serious. It will be interesting to see if the serial numbers are sequential.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/danforth-background-brother-records-1.4764742
He also had enough poison to kill about half the Earth’s human population.
https://www.ammoland.com/2018/08/elephant-in-the-room-john-torys-grand-deflection/#axzz5Nnslfv7Q
Maybe it’s not that bad a thing he went off early and only killed 12. I doubt PM Zoolander wants to talk about it.
Carfentanil…4 out of 5 spetsnaz agree its the way to empty a theater of pesky islamist separatists!
And any other live humans.
Right. And all those kids dumb enough to get taken hostage.
Zoolander: We can never know his motive, more gun control…
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A dose of just 20 micro-grams, smaller than a poppy seed, is fatal to humans. With 1 billion micro-grams per kilogram (yes, Billion) it translates into 50 million fatal doses per kilogram.”
Sure, you could have a metric ton of it, but no way to deliver it in a way that could equate to it’s ultimate power. It’s like sitting here with a 100 megaton nuclear device and no way to detonate it.
I’m guessing this guy and his buddies were debating between water supplies and air ventilators in big buildings.
You’re all small time there, they’re talking about lethally poisoning 2 billion people. How? Exploding a nuclear device in the atmosphere so that the dust encircles the globe? I love how they make scare mongering claims like this. Anyone remember laptop dirty bombs?
laptop dirty bombs
*heads over to urban dictionary*
That started shortly after 9/11. It’s still technically impossible under our current level of technology, but that didn’t keep ‘those who are keeping us safe’ from pushing the hell out of it.
It’s like saying that people who have a poison that could potentially kill 2 billion people, means that it’s actually possible to do that.
Latest scary drug that is sweeping the country could bring about zombie apocalypse. It’s like that. I hate the fucking media with the passion of a thousand burning stars.
Do we not poisin water holes anymore?
Faisal Hussain had 30 identical Glocks.
In fairness, Glocks really do look all alike.
Racist.
Yeah, they’re black, you know.
My bad. #blackgunsmatter
Am I paranoid for thinking there might be a connection between this and the recent New Mexico incident?
You mean, other than they are both Islamonutters?
And a connection to Vegas…
Faisal Hussain had 30 identical Glocks
But did they find the 3d printer he used to make them?
Get that kid a Zardoz costume!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS COSTUME SELECTING CHOSEN ONE. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. YOU HAVE CHOSEN WELL.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
I’m posting a link to this not very interesting blathering about reconciliation in (one of the) libertarian schisms only in the hopes that GILMORE will take a moment to critique their outfits.
I’m planning on listening to that on the way home from work today.
IMHO, the Rothbardian/mises people are far superior to the reason/LP people.
I like tom woods quite a bit.
Almost no discussion of any ideas. Three 14-year-old girls making up with Woods saying over and over and over how it didn’t bother him that he got No Respect.
Would keep me from admitting I even knew any libertarians.
If anyone is missing the Man U/Leicester Game…
Not much going on.
Evergreen for every single Scum match under Mourinho.
The Leicester hand ball was legit, so fuck that defender for sticking his arm out further. I hate watching Jose-ball.
Wretched hive, etc. This will probably be the only MU match I watch this year.
It’s soccer, so of course not.
I wouldn’t say I’m missing the game, Bob.
Got an e-mail from my kid’s teacher about the open house on Tuesday. All this about “homeroom teachers”. What homeroom teachers? I didn’t have those til 7th grade. My kid’s going into 4th.
Where the fuck have the last 9 years gone?
Where the fuck have the last 9 years gone?
Please. I’m taking mine to college next week. Time is speeding up and I’m not digging it.
Remember when you were a kid and summer seemed to go on and on? Now it appears to last about 47 minutes.
In that case, hooray for global warming!
Don’t worry, it gets worse.
You and me both, brother.
Good luck. Mama is gonna be a puddle.
Is this the first one off? And where to?
Yup. Out to the land of Q, Westernsloper and Animal.
Hope all goes well for you, the student, and Mrs.Tundra. Our youngest is returning for year two in a couple weeks and I already have a pit in my stomach.
Thanks. I’m excited for him, but I’m gonna miss him. Where is yours?
Wartburg – so close.
That’s great! Mine will be at Mines, so at least it’s a cheap and quick flight.
Where the fuck have the last 9 years gone?
*ponders recycling bin full of empty liquor bottles*
No idea.
I’ve been married for almost 8 years. What the fuck happened? Where did that go? I don’t remember none that stuff.
Little lachowsky Jr is doing first grade next week. It’s crazy, but I swear he was just born a few month ago.
We never had homeroom, even in HS. And yes, time is going by way too fast these days, someone must be messing with time continuum.
They didn’t have lockdown drills when you were a kid either.
One of my schools had a big basement they designated as a nuclear shelter.
We just ducked under our wooden desks.
So the WaPo is making fun of Kavanaugh for potentially being the poorest Justice. These assholes can’t make up their mind. We like our overlords to be super wealthy, except look at this loser Trump appointed, he isn’t even rich!! Also, we hate rich people!
Also, I’m too dumb to link to the article. So, you know, patriarchy and whatnot.
I wouldn’t click on it anyway, being WaPo.
Ah, the Rubio treatment.
In honor of Friday, I present to you Weird Whisky.
How would he know what baby vomit tastes like?
Babies projectile vomit whichever way they happen to be facing. Sometimes that’s your open mouth.
This is why you should never get within 50 feet of one.
Especially if it’s a baby boy having his diaper changed
oo-D—————————— ;-(
Open. Count 1 Mississippi. Close. Count 10 Mississippi. Open and change diaper.
This is how I learned what partially digested potato salad tastes like.
Have had two babies. Both vomited on me at various times, but never into my mouth.
My son did piss on my face once while I was changing his diaper. That was what taught me to always have a diaper ready to cover his crotch with as soon as the dirty diaper came off.
Babies are jerks.
I did that to my dad the first time he picked me up. He was about to say, “Hi, there, little guy.”. And boom, projectile vomited in the mouth.
Butyric acid is a component in vomit. It’s considered a flaw in brewing at any detectable level, let alone distillation.
Rolling a small vial onto a crowded dance floor on a Friday night can produce much entertainment. A friend told me that.
You know how I know you’re not a parent?
This the worst spirit I’ve ever tasted.
http://biotechspirits.com/whisky.html
Is that vomit smeared on the asphalt behind your son?
It’s the left over slurry of meth and bathsalts from his cake.
Top heavy babes yearning for some Spanish sex.
http://archive.is/PT3E1
I’ll be having 4, 15, 18, 25, 60, 63, and 72 for a rousing game of duplicate bridge.
The girls in 64 need to have their id’s checked.
The only surprising thing here is where it is
Venezuela is not simply governed by incompetent ideologues. Regime leaders run a criminal gang. Two former ministers turned-critics estimate that over $300 billion of oil revenues have been stolen in the past decade. The armed forces are deeply involved in smuggling and drug-trafficking. The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned several high-ranking government and military officials as “drug kingpins,” including Tareck El Aissami, the 43-year-old minister of Industries and Production, who has had half a billion dollars in assets seized by the U.S. authorities. The criminal nature of Venezuela’s regime makes it highly unlikely that its leaders will surrender power peacefully.
Venezuela is in free fall. Unfortunately, we haven’t seen it hit bottom yet.
When you’ve lost NBC…
I dont see the S word in there anywhere.
Well, other than the headline, that is.
Well shit. I didn’t open the link.
As is right and proper for a Glib.
State Capitalism?
dammit.
refresh then post.
The “S” word you’re looking for is “State Capitalism” right?
That’s because it’s not socialism, it’s Chavezism!.
“former ministers turned-critics estimate that over $300 billion of oil revenues have been stolen in the past decade”
This is my shocked face. Brazil was actually on it’s way to becoming a first world country and then 12 years of socialist heroes Lula and Dilma who manged to steal hundreds of billions of dollars of state owned Petrobras oil money. If the socialist could only get into power here, imagine the windfall and the equality of all being equally poor we could share.
If the 300 Billion weren’t stolen socialism would have totally worked.
If 300 billion wasn’t stolen under socialism, that means there wasn’t that much to steal.
Leftist governments are always criminal gangs. This is nothing out of the ordinary. I just assumed this was known.
It’s definitely assumed.
I’ll bet that the NOT REEL SOSHELIZM crowd is already tweeting their impotent petulance at this article. They can holler about the mmagical “democratic” component that’s instrumental to their brand of utopia until they’re blue in the thumbs, but they’ll never comprehend that this system of governance always results in a strongman consolidating all of the power after their Rube Goldberg political machinations fail to get anything done.
They can holler about the mmagical “democratic” component that’s instrumental to their brand of utopia until they’re blue in the thumbs,
It wasn’t long ago they were crowing about how the Venezuelan government was totes legit because it was . . . . wait for it . . . . elected.
Venezuela has democratic socialism.
I would actually pay good money to witness an exchange between some DSA dweeb and an honest-to-goodness tankie.
“Venezuela is a state capitalist dictatorship. It isn’t real socia…”
“No, it absolutely is socialism! Isn’t it fucking great?”
Ah yes. I miss joe from lowell. “Trust democracy.”
I miss joe from lowell.
Dude, you gotta correct for windage and elevation.
elevation>
He’s shorter than you think he is.
Speaking of bongoceros, this is a sweet little track from a great one-off album of bongo heavy stuff.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6uC26Z-VgNw
Unless it’s butt bongos I’m not interested.
So the WaPo is making fun of Kavanaugh for potentially being the poorest Justice. These assholes can’t make up their mind.
What’s the deal, is Kavanaugh some some sort of pissant millionaire? That’s funny. For a year and a half they have been hooting and flinging shit in every direction because trump turned over the keys to Washington to teh Oligarks!
For those in the Columbus area, I’m going to be down in Canal Winchester for BrewDog’s AGM (Annual General Mayhem) in two weeks if anyone wants to grab a pint.
I dont see the S word in there anywhere.
He actually says it, early on.
Maduro has reacted to the collapse of the economy by consolidating the dictatorship, intensifying human rights abuses (including torture) and further cracking down on the private sector. He claims that his regime is the victim of an “economic war” waged by the opposition and the United States. The reality is that this man-made tragedy has a well-known culprit: socialism.
Of course the author is some alt-right fruitcake from that well known hotbed of Nazi propaganda, Cato.
This story was discussed in a blog post linked at Instapundit. Clearly, your reaction is supposed to be what a tragedy this was, a pity for two beautiful souls, etc……
However, since I’m a spiteful asshole, my immediate reaction when I read something like this:
“You read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place,” Mr. Austin wrote. “People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil.
“I don’t buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own … By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind.”
…all I can think is “What a naïve, stupid person who brought about his own demise.”
I just read that and had the same reaction. Beyond stupid.
I was talking to a climbing guide in Utah about that dude who had to cut off his arm. He described the guy as “the kind of asshole that gets his friends killed”. Sounds like Austin is the same kind of asshole.
Jesus Christ, the first comment on that article:
No, fuckhead, those murderers are evil and deserve a painful death.
Just landed in Bucharest turned on the phone and whatapp groups going wild. There was a big anti coruption protest which friends attended and it turned violent. No one i know got tear gassed though aparently they left just in time
As usual footbal hooligans joined the crowd with the purpose to fight the gendarmes.
Shit, you flew from Munich to Bucharest in the time it took me to return two phone calls. I really have not accomplished much today.
1 hour 45 minute flight… which is a lot for europe
That’s a good sized protest.
https://www.romania-insider.com/diaspora-protest-bucharest-live/
Tres Version 2.0 started 6th grade this week. Back in May, his school sent a letter advising he was being placed in AP Math. I didnt know if I should cry solid tears of pride, or point at him and yell “NERD!”.
So I did both.
Steal his lunch money.
A swirly is also appropriate.
(But good on 2.0!)
He got away before I could administer the wedgie. Either he has a 6th sense that its going to happen, or I have a ‘tell’.
What? A prodigy? Or is that a different kind of AP? Calculus???
Good question. AP Math in my day was taken by juniors and seniors.
They have that in Nevada and our kids were in ‘AP’ math 6/7th grade. It was what I would call normal paced math class. They just didnt dwell on concepts and for kids that understood weren’t held back when their peers couldn’t understand. Honestly nothing advanced
Sounds different from what I understand by AP.
Yeah that’s what I remember too.
Where’s Musk’s Financing Coming From? Reports Say SEC, Tesla Board Want to Know
Great question!
The shitty part about geting home at midnight is that i didnt get the chance to run the ac before sleep. Hopefully i am tired enough to sleep despite being too warm. Some scotch may help
Crank it up and drank it up. Sleep will come.
I thought it would be a bit cooler down in the crypt…
Ham sandwich
Grand Jury in South Carolina turns in 904 indictments in a single 10 hour session. That’s an average of 1 every 39 seconds.
“Lets get these indictments in before we have to give a shit about the defendants’ rights!”
In a just world, all 904 indictments would be dismissed with prejudice.
You get less of what you punish
I haven’t had a cigarette since Saturday. If they ban Juul, it is entirely possible that I’ll just go back to smoking.
Keep the faith, brother!
Its been 4 years for me, and I still use smoke-less. But every so often, generally in the morning, I still get that craving. Stay strong.
I’m starting to get the feeling that the State wants people like me to go back to cigarettes. I can’t imagine why!
Some time ago I looked at what Ohio takes in for alcohol & tobacco tax, and if I recall, it was in the $2 BN range.
Of course the state doesn’t really want people to quit smoking & drinking, despite the commercials to the contrary.
If they ban Juul, it is entirely possible that I’ll just
go back to smokingbuy it off the dark web.I came across a guy on the internet that claimed to have stockpiled a lifetime supply of vape specifically because he anticipates its going to get banned.
Good idea, but find the Source of pure nicotine and you got it made, Vegetable Glycerin is pretty common, I use it in my Fog machines
Be very careful handling high concentrations of nicotine.
I’m laying about even odds on a ban or on taxing the everloving shit out of it.
Also skoda superb has a ton of legroom in the back seat. Very comfortable. Still a skoda though but for a hire car it is great
Had a hilarious and depressing exchange at work.
We had three tornadoes here in MA in the past month. Of course, all the local news is talking about how this is the result of global warming. And all my NPR-supporting coworkers are drinking it in. This is unprecedented! It’s never happened before.
So I downloaded a dataset of every tornado that has hit MA in the past 60 years, and prepared a chart. The 1960’s were a very active time, with multiple months with numerous tornadoes. The modern era is much quieter.
I showed the chart to my coworkers to justify my argument that global warming wasn’t causing more tornadoes to hit MA. They got upset. “I believe in global warming” they cried! I said, “the warming of the Earth is not causing more extreme weather events! Look at the data!” They struggled with the connection.
I told them numerous climate scientists were fighting a losing battle to keep things honest – that they were drowned out by activists trying to create the false belief that the extreme weather was getting worse because it scared people and made them more willing to accept the policies the activists wanted.
Then they asked “why is there all this news that weather is getting worse? Is this actual fake news?”
I just asked them why someone would spend millions of dollars to give them information for free? Is it out of the goodness of their hearts? Or is it because they thought there would be a payoff in how the consumer modifies their behavior in response to the information?
They asked “what’s a reliable source?” I said there is none, that I had a policy of ruthlessly cutting off any organization that I caught willfully misleading me – especially ones that were trying to mislead me in directions that aligned with my prejudices. That at this point that pruning process had eliminated every news organization that I had previously trusted.
They rebelled against doing something so extreme. But maybe I planted the seeds of skepticism in their minds.
I think I see your problem: you live in Massachusetts. You should fix that, pronto.
FACTS?
I’m sure they cannot handle this and probably will not be able to work for a month because triggered, but I’m sure you’ll be happy.
BTW. I was living in Hamilton, OH during the 1974 Super Outbreak. Talk about freakish scary weather. And my grandfather was working on a construction project in Zinia and I went there with him a couple of days later.
Tres will definitely remember this if he was around in 74. That’s probably the most scared I have been in my entire life. You would have just had to have been there to understand, that was no ordinary weather pattern, it was fucking insane surreal scary.
Oh yeah. I still remember Channel 7 meteorologist Gil Whitney standing in front of a radar, trying to warn people in Xenia & Green County…
Let the record show that I was a toddler, but I have a remarkable memory….
Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkWmNamVS2Q
I was 14, Tres, and like I said, I was terrified. I think I spent 3 sleepness nights scared shitless. And the trip to Zinia with my grandpa? That is truly something you cannot unsee. Still didn’t compare to how scary the weather was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Super_Outbreak
holy crap!
My goal isn’t to put them in their place or own them.
I want to wake them up. These are good, intelligent people. And if we are going to save western civilization, we need to get them to stop listening to the people who are deluding them into willingly offering themselves to slavery and death.
Good luck, they’ve probably been indoctrinated their entire life and cannot snap out of it. But it’s admirable that you are trying.
You explained more than I would have.
Just say “weather hasn’t gotten more extreme because of global warming”. This is a fact. An easily verifiable one.
Going into whether the media is full of shit or anthropogenic global warming is not real… that’s way too big a thing to delve into.
You people need to get y’all’s minds right.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6042837/YouTube-takes-climate-change-deniers.html
I grew up in central Mass. My Dad used to talk about a hurricane that came through and really trashed the town when he was a kid. Must have been sometime in the 50s.
Let’s not forget the Perfect Storm hurricane in the ’80s, which beat the shit out of New England.
Not the 1953 Worcester Tornado?
Dad isn’t around to ask, but that has to be it.
I would ask them why only bad things would happen from climate change. Wouldn’t it be reasonable to assume that some good things would happen too? Like longer growing seasons for example.
Good things don’t sell newspapers or get grant money.
Longer growing seasons = more food = more humans = bad thing
Newsflash: The US Constitution does not allow for a direct democracy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/09/opinion/constitution-founders-democracy-trump.html
TL;DR but I am completely shocked! they advocate for mob rule. Never change, The NYT.
Then they asked “why is there all this news that weather is getting worse? Is this actual fake news?”
Although I admire tarran’s attempt to take take them even further, I think I would have said “You tell me. This is the data. Yet they are reporting something that is contradicted by the data. And, now that you can see that they reported something contrary to the data this time, how much will you trust the next reporting you see on extreme weather events increasing?”
I notice they don’t cite any historical examples of pure democracy working out real well on a large scale.
Democracy is the will of the mob. Thank God we aren’t one.
There’s a reason we’re the only developed country without guarantees such as universal health care and paid maternity leave.
Yea, the government is not allowed to do those things.
While preserving and expanding the Bill of Rights’s incomplete safeguards of individual freedoms, we need to start working toward the establishment of a new political system that truly represents Americans. Our ideal should be a strong federal government powered by a proportionally elected unicameral legislature.
The BOR details a few negative rights that the gov’t is explicitly prohibited from interfering with. But it does anyway. Damn you and your positive rights bs. Keep your mob rule to yourself.
But intermediary steps toward that vision can be taken by abolishing the filibuster, establishing federal control over elections and developing a simpler way to amend the Constitution through national referendum.
The constitution has a means of amending it written in to it. You will have to begin by amending it under its current rules or call a convention to change the entire thing. You do not have anywhere close to the necessary political support/power for either, which should tell you something. So good luck, and kindly fuck off.
Which is it? “Preserving and expanding the Bill of Rights’s incomplete safeguards of individual freedoms” or “a strong federal government powered by a proportionally elected unicameral legislature.” Can’t have both, you know. What do you think that strong federal government is going to do with all its newfound, err, strength?
And do you somehow believe we don’t have a strong federal government now? Or are you just butthurt it doesn’t do what you want?
abolishing the filibuster,
Like, for judicial appointments? Any bets as to whether these two came out in favor of the Repubs continuing the Reid Rule? The filibuster is just a Senate rule; the Senate can get rid of it any time it wants. So go for it: lobby the Dems (they are the only ones who will listen to you) to push for abolishing the filibuster while they are in the minority. Let’s see how that goes.
establishing federal control over elections
Why do I doubt that they really want Donald Trump establishing the Federal Bureau of Election Integrity and having it put national regulations in place?
developing a simpler way to amend the Constitution through national referendum
Develop away. It will still have to go through the current amendment system first.
Socialists are stupid
No need to point it out.
I bypassed those things in my comments, but they should be pointed to leftists, whether or not it will help them see the proverbial light.
Oh, Germany…
Police rescue man from baby squirrel
Also,
THEY’RE EVERYWHERE!
And we laughed about the server squirrels at TOS. Little did we know.
LOL
63,880 homicides in Brazil, a nation with a little less than 2/3rds of our population, in 2017:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-violence-murder/brazil-suffers-record-murder-tally-in-2017-ahead-of-election-idUSKBN1KU2R5
Their murder rate is six times higher than ours and, from what I understand, it’s really difficult for a law abiding person to own a gun.
Do they need blowdart controls?
I see you aren’t woke. The savages don’t know any better, so it’s totes OK for the savages to kill each other because there’s no need for the government to pay for that, after all, no one knows. What happens in the jungle, stays in the jungle. I mean until one of the savages walks out of the jungle and discovers the WIPIPO Brazilians, who ironically are way more brown and less Asian looking than the savages. And then they get Bolsa Familia and all the shit for being oppressed and all. And free Michael Kors stuff and Ithingys because everyone needs that.
“from what I understand, it’s really difficult for a law abiding person to own a gun.”
Nope. It’s practically impossible unless you are approved by the government for ‘reasons’. And I’m sure ‘reasons’ is not a mystery.
But don’t take my word or anything, I’m just married to a Brazilian lawyer and know a lot of people there pretty high up in government. Just believe CNN instead, the most trusted news network in all the world.
What is reasons, you can afford to pay a bribe or is it simple political connections?
Reasons is that you are a government employee who needs it, because reasons. If not for that, you are not getting permission to own a gun, for any reason whatsoever.
Ah, I see, at least the rightist candidate is campaigning on loosening up gun control laws although the article doesn’t go into what entails.
There’s a pretty large 2nd amendment like movement in Brazil and they probably have more America style libertarians (I mean Glib type, not TOS style) than anywhere in the world outside of the USA and Canada.
That being said, when you are found to have one, illegally, then the bribes thing totally kicks in, if you can afford it.
“post-facto licensure”
I didnseenuthin, but my family has food tonight.
Prog: Look, almost no crime and murder in the UK because guns. Guns are the difference. Guns are the problem of violence in America.
R.S.: *cites violent crime/murder rate and strict gun control of Brazil with implication that, internationally, there is no correlation between availability of firearms and violent crime*
Prog: That’s different because shut up!
The Europe argument is totally irrelevant. Europe is a completely different demographic than the USA. The USA is much closer to Brazil than it is Europe in demographics. The West is a violent society still where as Europe seems to have settled down and become more passive after thousands of years of war. I would go deeper, but since I’m already sort of buzzed, I’ll just say, shut up Eurotards, if you think we will not totally kick you ass again just for fun, you’re mistaken.
I’m pretty well convinced at this point that there’s no direct causal link between gun ownership and important measure of violence. It looks like there’s some impact on some very narrow categories (suicides by older white men, etc). But overall, number of guns in circulation seems to have no direct link on the amount of blood in the streets.
This is a very, very surprising thing for me. Guns are powerful tools. Good, bad, up, down, I would have been sure that the availability of a powerful tool would have to have some kind of impact outcomes. But I just don’t see it in the data.
I’m not any kind of expert but I don’t see it either. When you see huge murder disparities between two cities in the same country and with the same or very similar anti-gun laws (say, NYC vs. Chicago), something else is going on. There are more influential factors that are being buried under the endless squabble over GUNZ.
something else is going on
Not all cultures are equal. This is one reason why comparing countries to other countries, generally, and especially based on the parameters gun-grabbers provide, is apples to oranges comparison.
I live in an area awash with guns. There is no violent crime here.
Canada is going to fall out of favor with the gun control lobby if these mass shootings keep happening.
*Scans article*
I see no description of the suspect other than “the Suspect”.
He’s a Canadian dammit! A Labatts swilling, hockey-playing, flannel wearing regular Canadian. Racsist to think any different.
Red Tide
So what you are saying is “Aunt Flow” is visiting.
My first thought was it’s a synonym for #bluewave.
You mean antonym.
No, I was hearing the old-school understanding of “red”.
Ditto.
That’s an interesting new look you have there.
Halloween’s a-comin’.
Telling you guys, it’s a trap, she’s a Russian bot and will turn you into a Drumpf voter.
I like it!
That’s how it starts, right before you wake up and realize you just voted for an orange tyrant.
@Tundra, thank you, kind sir!
@Hyperion, look at my pretty cookie house all decorated with goodies and candies. Here, have a cupcake, pretty cupcake–no, no, that’s not an oven. That’s a fort you can hide in. Go on. Oh, it’ll cool off once you’re in there…
*ahem*
I think I clearly addressed that at the top of the page, when my rightful title was taken from me.
Don’t worry, Tres, one day you will be first. Read the nader thread now.
*drunkenly talks to beer*
“Ill show you FIRST! Ill show you! Ill show you all!”
*falls on floor*
Good vid breakdown of the report posted here a few times last month. – albeit a little late. https://youtu.be/hc42V3WzAwA
Why do we support these 7th Century mindset psychotics again?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-08/saudi-arabia-crucifies-man-city-mecca
Sure, they still crucify people but at least it’s done post-mortem (they behead and then sew the head back on).
they behead and then sew the head back on
Oh, well, nothing to see here. Decapitation, reassembly, and then crucifixion is totally not barbaric at all.
Wait till the resurrection tho…
“Sean Young and her SON are caught on surveillance video loading chairs and wrapped items into an SUV as NYPD hunt for actress suspected of stealing from Queens production company
CCTV footage shows the moment Sean Young and her son allegedly robbed a Queens production company and loaded items into her car.
The actress, known for her role in 1982 film Blade Runner, and her son Rio can be seen carrying a table and chairs out of the building before putting them into a black SUV on Thursday.
At one point, her son is seen walking out with a wrapped item and putting it in the trunk.
NYPD are now seeking the duo who they say is guilty of stealing two MacBook Pro laptops with a combined value of $12,000.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6048873/CCTV-footage-shows-Sean-Young-son-loading-wrapped-items-SUV.html
How do they know it’s her and not a replicant?
She just did the same thing Hillary did when they left the White House. on a smaller scale. So you’re telling me NOW its a crime ?
And am I so out of touch with Apple products that a MacBook Pro goes for $6K ?
Sure, if it has about $4500 worth of software on it.
thicc?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6046855/Demi-Rose-shows-sideboob-skimpy-orange-bikini.html
Oh FFS. Her again? How many days in a row is that?
That’s def thicc. Very nice body.
I know we discussed seasons earlier and I usually enjoy summer….
Just walked the dog and was attacked by a cloud of gnats. This summer seems to have had the perfect amount of rain for them to breed in vast numbers. At this point I can’t wait for a good freeze to kill their assess.
Gnat attack? You must live in Kansas .
I wish. New Jersey.
“Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is told he faces three years in prison for posting 2015 sex video of 13-year-old girl after violating his probation by getting arrested TWICE”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6045357/Rapper-Tekashi-6ix9ine-facing-three-years-prison-posting-2015-sex-video-13-year-old-girl.html
That’s the second-stupidest name I’ve ever read.
Face tattoos. Say no more.
Boy next door – *swoon*
Wow. Just wow.
“*Debate Begins*
Shapiro: “Well, as Plato stated in book seven of The Republic, the allegory of..”
Ocasio-Cortez: “Man, shut the fuck up nerd.”
*Audience gives standing ovation*
*Kool-aid man crashes through wall, high fives Ocasio-Cortez*
*Thunderstruck by AC/DC starts playing*”
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1027763453207961600
“Hungary Discontinues Gender Studies Programs: ‘Ideology, Not Science’
The Hungarian government is discontinuing programs in gender studies at state-run universities after determining the programs serve no identifiable purpose and are based on “ideology rather than science.”
Bence Rétvári, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Human Resources (EMMI), said that university degrees must be rooted in a scientific basis, whereas gender studies, “like Marxist-Leninism,” are more aptly termed ideology than science, and are inappropriate matter for university-level education.
A spokesman for the Hungarian government told Breitbart News that there is no demand for gender studies graduates in the Hungarian job market.
“There is no economic rationale for studies such as these,” he said, and nor does the program “furnish students with skills that can be readily and directly converted on the labour market.””
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/10/hungary-discontinues-gender-studies-programs-ideology-not-science/
TW: Breitbart
I think that Eastern Europe needs to become our new allies. They get it, they know what real socialism is.
I have long thought that.
Good on them.
“Just more evidence of super ultra far right-wing hate.”
/every MSM outlet
“Cafe shuts after Union Flag breakfasts branded racist
A CAFE which served full English breakfasts with a Union Flag has been forced to close in a racism row.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/722433/cafe-shut-english-breakfast-racist-union-flag-race-row-hornchurch
England is over – stick a toothpick in it.
Stick a rusty chainsaw in it. They did this to themselves with their eyes wide open.
If that’s legit I feel bad for them but I think the customers ordered the breakfast just so they could throw the flags on the floor is just flat out sympathy seeking bullshit.
https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/venezuela-maduro-helicopter-attack-psuv-extractivism-oil
As the economic and political crisis deepens, it’s become obvious that neither the government nor the opposition will offer any real solutions. While Maduro betrays the revolution by courting the bourgeoisie and sliding backwards into neoliberalism, right-wing forces have brought in violent mercenaries to try and disrupt the country even further. As these two groups struggle for power, ordinary Venezuelans are watching the gains of Chavismo slip away.
But next time, they’re gonna get it right!
“The crisis in Venezuela represents a complete rejection of the Bolivarian revolution: the gains made by the poor and working classes have all but disappeared while the capitalist elite have maintained their wealth and power.”
That’s rich
What can you do with people who are dead set on never seeing reality? People who have essentially dedicated themselves to the opposite of truth?
Ignore them?
That’d be good if they weren’t actively successfully agitating us closer and closer to the dark side because they don’t have jobs, and more dollars than sense.
The rest of us have to work and at some point, we’ll have to start spending our time and money fighting back.
I certainly understand the desire to. I have to admit, though, I find their recent resurgence disturbing.
“For years, I have offered suspected white supremacist Ben Shapiro $10,000 to debate me. But instead, he chooses to deflect and write bogus articles about me on his fake news site the Daily Wire”
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1027946337868775424
“A hispanic white supremacist confessed to racially targeting a Black family in a failed drive by shooting at a Palm Springs hotel”
https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1027317330060034048
Hispanic white-supremacist ? Has he even seen the Clayton Bigsby bit Chappelle did ?
He is quite the comedy act.
Matt Welch finds fame for being a tattletale.
MSNBC Guest Says Network Hosts Routinely Tell Him They’re ‘Sick of Our Viewers’
I don’t think he’ll be re-invited.
All I can think about when I read this kind of thing is the painted and perfumed dandies in the Court of the Sun King, covering their mouth but not enough to keep you from seeing their affected shocked and giggling reactions.
Sun King?
Sun Ra
https://youtu.be/xVaJWIVHg_c
To be fair, reason got tired of its readers and went all TDS all the time.
I’m sure Matt shared stories about all the assholes who used to comment on his articles.
Probably, but his hosts didn’t go blabbing about “Libertarians at Reason hate their audience, ahahahahahaha those retarded libertarians”.
I think I posted this here before. But if you are just chillin with some fine whiskey, check this out.
Drive
Nice. Background vocals make it.
Two drummers is interesting, too.
Thanks, Hyp! Not sipping any whiskey, but I like music I haven’t heard before.
Yes, thank you. I put it on my buy list.
Drive
Which is what I was expecting. Beautiful song.
80s overload – nice
Drive
Speaking of THICC…
She can interview me any day.
Dem armz……THIC
Rocking it tonight. Grilled Wagyu hanger steaks and garden tomatoes two ways, caprese and bruschetta. Big glass of Pinot on the side.
And yeah, we’re beached up inside in the air conditioning. 107 today.
I just turned off my living room AC for the first evening in two weeks – fresh air FTW
And… now the temp is going up again. Along with the humidity. AC powers activate.
I don’t really care who does it, it’s gorgeous.
And she’s HAWT.
In my youth, Kashmir was the song on Physical Graffiti. These days, it’s In The LIght.
A kind soul has finally delivered the social justice cheat sheet we all could us so desperately.