Hey guys, what’s up. Trying to get some work out the door and I have a date with my wife (no kids! Thank mom-n-dad!) tonight. So here’s the links, have fun. Bye now.
The Florida Woman story with the little kid turned out just the way everyone knew it would. But here’s Texas Woman, hitting 100+ in her car, and then remembering to grab the baby when she flees on foot.
Bernie Sanders gets a hard-on thinking about confiscating Amazon’s money.
Superflu at Kennedy airport?
I think chipping homeless people like dogs probably violates their rights.
I dug on Axl Rose a little in the Morning Links for getting fat, but he’s trimmed down some since going on tour.
At least superflu is better than Super AIDS.
Now…hit that mother-f’in Theme Music !
And I meant to link…..Super AIDS
It is only superflu now that they have landed at their destination.
During the trip they were superfly.
*tapers stare*
+1 Curtis Mayfield
People also complained about the plan of paying homeless to be mobile wireless hotspots.
There’s just no pleasing some people.
The article doesn’t mention chipping.
What article?
How about spaying and neutering homeless people?
This could work. We’ll need a catchy name though. How about eugenics?
Too old-school. How about “newgenics”? Or perhaps “intelligent population management”? I hear all it takes to revive a discredited idea is a snappy new name. Like “social democracy”.
“Bum control” has a certain je ne sais quoi.
“Common sense bum control”
Bum control sounds something you buy in a pharmacy
About the same I guess
Who will be the Lead Sanger?
Wow, not even a golf clap.
Here:
*Golf Clap*
“How about spaying and neutering homeless people?”
I’d prefer spaying and neutering progs who vote.
It also doesn’t mention whether the reason it “worked” in Salt Lake City might be because they fled to San Francisco instead.
Salt Lake City had 20 bums. 18 left or got help. 91%!!!!!
Okay, then how about deep frying?
Is this a real thing? I’d do it right now, go sit in the park and surf the net for money. Sitting with a Back pack full of WiFi and Beer….
The wifi enabled bums was a plan floated a few years back, of course the usual suspects complained and nothing happened.
Yeah, woodchippers would be inappropriate.
How about a Tatoo,maybe on the forehead?
First or not!
The V stands for ‘victory’…
Call it the Mediating And Regulating Known Beneficiaries Electing Additional Services Technology, and it can be used all people, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, etc.
I would pay cash money if Zina Bash would have shown up with this on her forearm. A frog tattoo would also have been acceptable.
She should have worn this:
https://archive.4plebs.org/dl/pol/image/1460/89/1460893447289.jpg
Go big, or go home.
Richtig!
Stop Bezos Act?
How old is Sanders again?
We need a ‘Stop Sanders’ act which bans taxing and banning things.
Stop Senile And Nanny-statist Democrats from Ever Reaching the Senate Act? I’m on board.
Physically or emotionally?
He sucks the youth from others. By the end of her first term in Congress She Guevara will be 65 yars old.
The bill’s name is a dig at Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos and stands for “Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act.” It would establish a 100 percent tax on government benefits received by workers at companies with at least 500 employees, the former presidential candidate said on Wednesday.
I guess the Fully Autonomous Warehouse Act (FAW) isn’t as catchy.
They’re even naming shit like Ayn Rand villains now…
“How old is Sanders again?”
81 going on 5?
“Superflu at Kennedy airport?”. This is the plot of “12 Monkeys”.
Great movie,
Absolutely and quite underrated. I toured the older penitentiary where all the asylum scenes were filmed. Pretty neat.
Does anyone do beat up but persisting better than Bruce Willis?
Slobbering all over, , good work, Great, fun Actor
Still he persisted?
Sylvester Stallone?
Gilliam is brilliant, though self-indulgent. He has also recently come out against political correctness, to the injured howls of the film community.
Looking forward to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
Was Vanilla Ice in that one?
Sup Glibs.
So my beloved Longhorns fucking suck. Again. And I certainly can’t root for the CSU Rams as they make the Longhorns look NFL caliber. I guess I’ll just spend this football season indulging in alcoholism again.
Hey, my other team didn’t block a single defender all game. At least the Longhorns were, like, 3 interceptions from victory. Even worse, I have to cheer for fucking Clemson this week in the marquee game because (a) Fuck A&M and (b) Fuck Jimbo Fisher.
Yeah Clemson skull fucking A&M is going to be my happy funtime this weekend for an hour until I watch the Horns self destruct against Tulsa.
The receivers are a clear weakness for the horns. There is no 5-15 yard play in the offensive play book, and the really mediocre Maryland secondary covered the UT receivers like a wet blanket.
The only time UT got offensive traction is when they ran and read optioned the shit out of the ball for like 10 plays in a row before throwing a deep ball to a receiver (who had to make a miraculous catch because he couldn’t get separation)
Texas did ok with the hurry up and then decided to abandon it. Ehlinger is QB1 because he has legs and they ran almost the entire offense out of the pocket. For fucks sake if you want a pocket passer then put in Buechele, the guy who can actually throw the ball.
Ingram looked great in the few plays he was in so naturally Herman benched him. Nearly every decision made by the coaching staff was suspect.
Maybe Herman paid for the new locker rooms by shaving points for Vegas….
Ehlinger is QB1 because he has legs and they ran almost the entire offense out of the pocket.
Frankly, he didn’t do all that well outside of the pocket. I can think of one good throw he made outside the pocket, but most of them were wildly inaccurate, even though he selected the right target just about every time. A decent mobile quarterback needs to be able to throw on the run, otherwise you may as well just put in the pocket passer.
True. Part of the problem was they kept rolling him out to the left for some reason. Rolling left and throwing an accurate pass is tough for an actually GOOD qb. Ehlinger doesn’t have a chance in hell.
Either way Buechele was a better fit for the offense they actually ran.
If a coach is going to make one good bad decision, its to stick with the QB he picks until his job is on the line.
Totally agree Brett. I just don’t know why he picked Ehlinger to run an offense tailored to Buechele’s strengths. Herman is a weird dude.
Here in Minne, we call that business as usual.
I had no idea they had a football team until a few years ago.
We even built them a beautiful stadium!
Excellent team in the early 20th century.
“We even built them a beautiful stadium!”
And I got to pay for it!
On the other hand, if they win that jug back, it will likely cost Jimmy H his job.
ROW THE BOAT.
Welcome to Cleveland, here, have a beer.
This year, Neph, This year the Browns are going do it!! Here We Go Brownies! WooF! Wo..hahhahaha…sigh, pass me a beer.
I miss the food from Cleveland. Don’t miss seeing so many long suffering fans get donkey punched year after year after year.
What’s the pizza like?
What kind do you want? We’ve got all sorts, including New Haven style pizza.
I’m going to a Browns game in November. My wife and Father in Law despite being abused by the organization are ardent fans.
Prepare to be let down
I’m a Bears fan. I’m used to being let down.
Are you going to ask the Browns to be pallbearers at FIL’s funeral?
To be fair, you were going to do that anyway.
True. Happy drunk Negroni makes for a better fall than enraged and homicidal drunk Negroni though
One game in and I’m reduced to watching Missouri fail as entertainment.
Supporting the Rams is Sisyphean. You might as well become a Browns fan.
But they have such a great new stadium! With beer!
Just ask the little twit who gave us a tour a few weeks back. 20 minutes of gushing about the stadium and sports complex.
I’m so glad that my tax money helped build it.
Oh BTW (random NoCo aside), awhile back someone posted some article about the best beers in each state and CO had Weldworks Juicy Bits listed.
I saw it in the store and tried it. Solid NE style IPA, but the best beer in the state is a serious exaggeration. Still, if it weren’t so overpriced it would be a regular feature in my fridge but it was like 15 bucks for a 4 pack (of pints). Fuck that. I can do better for cheaper any day around here.
Try the Crooked Stave Trellis Buster. Deeeeeelicious!
I’ll check it out. I’m a sucker for a good DIPA
I can get their IPA, but the double hasn’t made its way yet.
I had never even heard of it. I think that list was trying really hard to be hipster.
I like Bull & Bush Man Beer, but I’d be hard pressed to pick a “best”.
Ahhhh new stadium. That’s probably why they’re charging grown up prices to watch their Pop Warner team lose.
Yeah. I was hoping to buy some Rams tickets this season but they charge way too much money to watch their shitty team.
Are you talking about the LA NFL Football Rams? The ones that finished last year with 11 real wins, 11 and a half Pythagorean wins, the second youngest snap-weighted team, and 37% chance to win 11 or better games (per football outsiders)? They might be, just a touch, better than the Browns now that they have ejected the Human-Boat-Anchor Jeff Fisher.
Sorry. CSU Rams. I just moved to Fort Collins a couple weeks ago.
Oh, right, well then carry on.
I guess I’ll just spend this football season indulging in alcoholism again.
You say this as though it were a bad thing.
Even winners do this.
So my beloved Longhorns fucking suck.
As someone who finds Longhorn fans (present company excepted) almost as unbearable as tOSU fans, this is not bad news to me.
Full disclosure: Bro Dean is an Aggie.
lol no worries. I fully recognize that most of us Longhorns are insufferable.
My favorite Aggie joke to pass along to your bro:
Q. What do all Aggies and Longhorns have in common?
A. They all applied to UT.
RA Heinlein has a much better (and more complete) take of the Stop BEZOS Act in the H&H article immediately preceding this one. Sorry RAH, deadlines and stuff!
If courts can declare Trump’s visa ban illegal based on Trump’s thoughts, then calling something the Stop BEZOS Act is an unconstitutional bill of attainder.
It’s almost as if Bernie has no intention for this bill to be made into law, but he does enjoy all the attention whoring.
This – Bills of Attainder specifically prohibited in the Constitution,
It’s kind of Rand villainey, but maybe not grandiose enough.
Nice grammar, Ice.
Also, what the fuck was he doing in Dubai? Is it like Japan in Spinal Tap?
Connecting elsewhere I’d guess. And banging Jennifer Anniston in the champagne showers inflight.
“banging Jennifer Anniston in the champagne showers inflight”
Newsletter?
https://youtu.be/GS8nqYf5NvQ
She is so damn cute. I don’t care how horrible she is IRL.
I love that she’s drinking a Mountain Dew at the end.
Yep. Busiest airport and hub in the world measured by international traffic, and the flights are often subsidized.
Oh, that guy who stole a song from Queen and Bowie. Why am I not surprised at his lack of grammar?
https://youtu.be/6TLo4Z_LWu4
and on Freddie Mercury’s birthday!
Nice grammar, Ice.
Grammar is just white male patriarchy. The real problem here is Vanilla Ice culturally appropriated Ebonics!
Is that a verified account? Cause Id expect the REAL Vanilla Ice to tweet:
“Yo! Shit be jumpin OFF here @ JFK! People be sic af, and 5-0 all up in this piece!”
Alternatively
Go ninja! Go ninja! Go ninja! Go!
Wow. That is a deep dive into the Vanilla Ice catalog. What are you thoughts on “Play that funky music” and “Stop that train”?
A pretty good humorous review of Ice’s movie “Cool as Ice” which was right up there with Blade Runner IMNSHO:
https://youtu.be/3J6f6ABLwP8
There’s a catalog?
And I immediately thought you meant THIS Ninja .
They got mansions to flip in UAE, bro. Or do you not Vanilla Ice Project?
Sounds like Ice Ice Baby was actually
(dons sunglasses)
UNDER PRESSURE!
Repost from midday lynx since I think people should listen to this.
I’m of the opinion that you should always know your enemy. This is about as close as you’re going to get for an intellectual argument in favor of the neo-collectivist, Bernie-style wing of modern politics. What the speaker doesn’t seem to understand is that what he’s offering is not new, it’s just Marxism with a new paint job. However, I think it’s worthwhile to try and see what animates the “intellectuals” espousing this crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQvt0dkwBQw
~1 hour.
NB: Fascinating psychology at work here in that this guy has managed to convince himself that community ownership of property is *not* communist. Furthermore, his fellating of “the commons” brings to mind the adage “if everyone owns it, no one owns it”.
Listening to Commies try and explain how Communism solves the tragedy of the commons makes my head explode.
This guy’s too.
“The Commons” is what we neglect and abuse together.
“~1 hour”
Thanks, but I’ll pass.
Kind of like how a park downtown is covered in graffiti, needles, human excrement, and has a bum sleeping one off on the park bench while my yard has none of those things. Funny that.
The only thing that the SF effort is going to do is to grow the orgs and people making money “helping” the homeless. Which is entirely the point.
Actually solving the homeless “problem” would be repealing & ending government regulations that raise the cost of housing and living (hah!), ending government support of shelters and other handouts, setting standards and enforcing them (like no camping in parks or sidewalks or shooting or shitting on the same), and putting the responsibility for providing their necessities back on the individuals themselves. Failing to do so is not society’s responsibility. Who am I kidding? Never going to happen.
I blame the laws and regulations against homeless cage fighting.
They all have to fight Luke Cage? That seems unfair.
My solution to the homeless problem involves introducing the grey wolf into urban environments. It’s a totally green solution.
Then you got wolf shit all over the place.
And that would be worse?
Well then you got to release alligators to get rid of the wolves, which leads to armed gorillas to get rid of the alligators, and that’s how you get Planet of the Apes.
Well, my question is whether the streets full of wolf shit is worse than the streets full of human shit.
And I don’t think we’ll need to get rid of the wolves.
Ahem, reintroduce. The time has come, a fact’s a fact, it belongs to them, let’s give it back.
reintroduce
That’s the way I usually state it, but didn’t type it that way today. Oops.
I see what you did there, mate.
My wife claims she saw a “fox-wolf” while running in a park yesterday. I think she might mean coyote. I didn’t realize they were in Central FL. Of course, it could also have been a skinny husky off his leash. She didn’t stick around.
Fox and coyote fill a similar ecological niche. In Iowa, mange dramatically reduced the fox population and coyotes have been moving in.
The other thing that reduces the fox population is coyotes moving in. Coyotes love killing them some foxes.
In Iowa, it was mange first. To the best of my recollection, coyotes have not been prominent in Iowa in the past. The population has swelled dramatically in the last 5 to 10 years.
I’ll take foxes over coyotes any day. Coyotes are filthy, disgusting pests.
We have a fox that frequently trots through the yard, often with a rabbit or squirrel in its mouth. They’re great neighbors.
And when wolves move in, they kill all the coyotes.
I was reading somewhere that the wolves in yellowstone have pretty much eliminated the coyotes that used to live there.
Predators must be some fucking GOP types. Won’t share prey. Try to keep it all for themselves.
Granted wolves are more reclusive, but I’ve seen a coyote in Yellowstone.
Never seen a wolf.
https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/brothers-that-dont-get-along
Coyote are everywhere, they’ve adapted to humanity better than just about any other wild animal.
I’ve just seen a wild turkey in Harvard Square. And not for the first time.
The homeless folks hanging out around Harvard Square are pretty weird.
Oh…. you mean a bird. Right.
I’ve just seen a wild turkey in Harvard Square.
No shit? I’ve seen them in suburban/exurban neighborhoods, but there’s a lot of urban between Harvard Square and anywhere I would expect to see wild turkeys.
When I was a kid, you could get your name in the paper if you claimed to have seen a wild turkey.
Now we have them in our suburban neighborhood and they are everywhere else as well.
Ranchers out west hate them because they like to roost on their valuable hay bales and shit on it. Then the cows won’t eat it.
I’ve seen ’em about a mile from Fenway Park and I’m only in that area about 4 days a year.
Coyotes love St. Paul because the environment is so nice.
Or so says Molly Lunaris, the animal control supervisor in St. Paul.
Roaches and rats disagree.
We might be heading in that direction around where I am. There used to be a pretty healthy fox population in the area but there haven’t been as many lately, and a few have been seen with mange. No coyotes yet, but they’re as close as DC, and there are plenty of woods and suburban neighborhoods between there and here.
There used to be a pair of foxes in my neighborhood. I cheered them whenever they caught and ate squirrels or chipmunks.
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen the foxes recently.
I haven’t seen coyotes. I’ve heard fishers in the area around my house, but not seen one.
People have started buying donkeys where my parents live to protect their livestock. Evidently donkeys hate coyotes and will kick the shit out of them.
Smart Asses
At least one ass likes to shoot at coyotes.
A St. Paul cop took a pot shot at a coyote that was allegedly stalking some walkers in a park.
I’m mostly linking because of this awesome Minnesoda quote:
Uffda.
There’s no money in solving things. How is a problem even useful once it’s no longer a problem? It’s just like in medicine, you don’t cure stuff, you treat the symptoms. And continue doing so till death.
The bill’s name is a dig at Amazon chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos and stands for “Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies Act.” It would establish a 100 percent tax on government benefits received by workers at companies with at least 500 employees, the former presidential candidate said on Wednesday.
Easy solution to avoid the tax: Employ only 499 people.
Or drop them all to part time or…
Huh. They receive benefits while AT the company?
Apparently. It’s not unheard of for people receiving some sort of government assistance to also be employed. Various programs have various income requirements. I know a fairly common one is subsidized housing; it’s pretty common to qualify for Section 8 or something like that while still employed. Does that mean that the government is subsidizing companies that pay wages that are too low to support a family on a single income? I’d argue that the real problem is cost-of-living, and that’s affected by a host of things unrelated to Amazon’s entry-level wages.
Not to mention the phenomenon of people refusing to live within their means.
That’s also true. Then there’s the issue of cultures that tend to reinforce poverty, and, unfortunately, the fact that some people just aren’t equipped, be it mentally or psychologically, to hack it. I know more than a few people who couldn’t become an astronaut so they decided to just say “fuck it” and stay at McDonald’s, so to speak.
Does that mean that the government is subsidizing companies that pay wages that are too low to support a family on a single income?
No, the government is subsidizing people who can’t make enough money to support a family on a single income. How can you tell who is being subsidized? Well, there’s always “who is the check made out to”, but beyond that, getting rid of this subsidy won’t affect wages at all. That tells me it isn’t wages/the employer being subsidized.
Bill Clinton introduced Workfare to get people some job skills and eventually get off welfare or at least reduce their dependency. Now Dems hate it and blame it on Trump.
Well, it implies that there are actions people could take to lift themselves out of poverty, which of course implies that they have some personal responsibility, and that’s racist. Or at the very least the kind of disgusting, greedy, capitalistic thing a cishetero shitlord 1%’er would say.
Bill Clinton signed it, and he campaigned on something like it, but if it wasn’t for Gingrich and the Republicans in the House at the time it wouldn’t have happened. The Democrats in the House were almost entirely against it, and Clinton vetoed it twice before it passed with changes.
This is a great way to disincentivize hiring people on public assistance.
Yep. It is, however, the inevitable consequence of viewing collecting welfare as a right and having to work for a living as an unjust burden.
Drumroll please!
Without further ado, I bring you… TITS!
http://archive.is/uWFox
4, 6, 8, 14, 21, 27, 36, 41.
Glad to see you are back.
For you.
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/ad806e69bcf5c4c8d467a79166748574.jpg?quality=85&strip=info&w=600
I’m more of an athletic woman bikini guy but I appreciate the thought.
I think #11 is photoshop.
As a friend said about Playboy some 30 years ago, “Sure the pictures are airbrushed, but they look good to me.”
It looks like Lexi Belle’s face on a different body.
Superflu at Kennedy airport?
Ah, the Ebola Freakout of 2014 all over again. Fun times.
Hey, Ebola is scary – you bleed from, like, everywhere, then die, and anyone who just touches you bleeds from, like, everywhere and dies…
Now with extra Muslims.
Not really, one of the exacerbating factors in the West Africa outbreak were the burial practices of the muslims there.
Corpse washing without basic precautions (gloves and bleach)?
and signs of affection.
Stormy Daniels’ attorney tells NH Democrats to fight fire with fire
California-based attorney Michael Avenatti had a pointed message for attendees of Sunday’s Hillsborough County Democrats’ Summer Picnic fundraiser: If they want to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020, it’s time for Democrats to take off the gloves.
“What I fear most for this Democratic party that I love so much is that we have a tendency to bring nail clippers to a gunfight,” Avenatti said. “I believe the Democratic Party must be a party that fights fire with fire.”
New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley introduced Avenatti to the crowd of several hundred as “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare.”
Avenatti is the attorney representing adult film star Stormy Daniels in a lawsuit against Trump; he has spent the summer openly discussing his interest in a potential 2020 presidential bid.
Really? Yeah, that’s my take, the Democrats are polite, marquis-of-queensberry types.
“Donald Trump’s worst nightmare”
If that’s the best they can come up with, Trump is golden.
Briar patch. We already know Trump likes piss hookers.
Golden showers?
Apparently they’ve ran out of ‘everyone’. Now the NTY are running another hit piece saying that they have a super secret resistance leader planted inside white house staff and reporting directly to them. Trump’s done this time. And I bet it’s this new super secret person that got the pee tapes.
Both sides fervently believe that their side is honorable and plays by the rules. The other side, however, always plays dirty and has an unfair advantage.
Another one that both sides believe is that the other side is so disciplined. They always stick together, but we are so open and inclusive on our side that we are always going off message and pull in different directions.
He’s going to have to up his crazy level if he wants Team D to take him seriously.
The Democrats have been fighting “fire with fire” since 2006. They blamed everything that happened on Bush and once Obama was in office treated everyone even slightly to the right of him as human garbage. They can’t take the gloves off until they put them back on.
“I have a date with my wife (no kids! Thank mom-n-dad!) tonight”
Yohimbine + Sildenafil.
Dude, the little one wakes up at 5:30, we’re good for one or two goes and then out. I can do that on 3 beers and a full stomach.
That isn’t even a euphemism.
Right, so a blow and MDMA stack it is.
“Yohimbine + Sildenafil”
I’m no cardiologist, but that sounds like a bad idea.
How old are you again???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmO6kcCww-U
“Yohimbine + Sildenafil.”
You mean yohimbe?
Yohimbine is the substance that’s in yohimbe. Yohimbe is the root itself.
DA wants to admit ‘uncharged criminal acts’ at Cosby sentencing hearing
Numerous women who accused Bill Cosby of uncharged sexual misconduct could be called to testify when the actor is sentenced later this month on charges he drugged and sexually assaulted one woman at his Cheltenham mansion in 2004, if prosecutors have their way.
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele on Tuesday filed court papers asking Judge Steven T. O’Neill for permission to admit evidence of “uncharged criminal acts” allegedly committed by Cosby at the actor’s Sept. 24 sentencing hearing.
“The commonwealth intends to present numerous witnesses who will testify that defendant sexually abused them,” Steele wrote in court papers, claiming the witnesses will provide testimony that is relevant to the “proper assessment” of Cosby’s “character, background, dangerousness to the community and rehabilitative needs.”
“The victims’ in-court, live testimony will provide the ‘necessary evidentiary link between the defendant and the uncharged prior conduct,’” said Steele, citing state Superior Court precedence.
You diodn’t bring it up on trial. He hasn’t been convicted of it now or ay any point. It’s not proven that he did any of those uncharged acts.
That’s what they did to Ross Ulbricht – brought up the murder for hire thing, for which he was never charged (and which they’ve since admitted never happens) to get the double life sentence he received.
You are correct sir, most people don’t realize that.
Its just unconscionable.
How can you be sentenced for crimes you weren’t even charged with?
Title IX?
It’s right there in the constitution hidden behind the penumbras and shit.
Technically, youre not sentenced for those crimes, you’re sentenced more harshly for the crime you were convicted of. Pretty much anything goes when it comes to evidence in the sentencing phase. Always struck me as a little bit fucked up.
I believe it’s ‘FYTW’ exception to the Constitution.
Alright you mega-failures.
https://midsouthgunlawyer.com/building-ar-15-pistol-vs-short-barreled-rifle-sbr/
This is what I’m considering. Thoughts?
Anything shorter than 14.5″ and you’re a mall ninja.
Tell that to this guy.
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/mexican-man-19-inch-penis-big-work-article-1.2343359
I’m familiar. It’s a psych problem,
I mean, is this something you plan on carrying around on the regular? If so, well, good luck.
Like anything else, the big question is, “What do you want to do with it?”
You’re gonna have fun explaining how that is technically a pistol if you ever take it out in public.
It comes with its very own ATF letter!
(no kidding)
You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.
I’m thinking that a shouldering a pistol makes it an SBR. And if concealing a rifle is illegal in your state, I wouldn’t rely on an ATF letter as a defense.
Can’t find the actual ATF letter but here you go:
http://archive.is/abuwb
“an NFA firearm has not necessarily been made when the device is not reconfigured for use as a shoulder stock – *even if the attached firearm happens to be fired from the shoulder*”
Emphasis mine.
Can’t find anything about concealing a rifle in CO, but I wouldn’t use it that way anyway.
an NFA firearm has not necessarily been made when the device is not reconfigured for use as a shoulder stock
That’s pretty squirrelly language. The double negative is troubling, and the “necessarily” essentially sucks the juice out of the “not been made”. The “not necessarily” preserves the possibility that yes, this is an NFA firearm even when the device is not reconfigured, etc.
All this tells me that you don’t want to fuck around with this thing. Seriously, there’s a million cool guns out there. Why play the edges with a famously violent and predatory federal agency?
Here’s either the full letter or a similar one in response to a different brace manufacturer’s inquiry. Long and short is do not alter the brace from it’s ATF approved configuration and you can use it how you want (is my IANAL interpretation).
https://www.maximdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ATF-letter.pdf
I’m not a lawyer. However, arguing that a pistol with a Shockwave Blade was “not reconfigured for use as a shoulder stock” seems untenable after you use it as a shoulder stock.
The answer is still nope.
Get one of these instead: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/10/04/vz2008-vs-700-rounds/ and add a CNC warrior muzzle brake.
What do you want to use it for?
For instance.
Home defense, plinking, trunk gun, collecting?
All of the above.
PM is right not to go below 14.5 for 556. If you do 300blk you can go down to 8. If you want to go short get 9mm AR pistol. Cheaper ammo and the short barrel won’t hurt you. Add a silencer and you can get pretty quiet with 9mm subsonic.
You get get 33rd Glock mags so you aren’t even giving up capacity
Do you have an SBR? If so, what was the process like? I’m massively on the fence about venturing into NFA, not just for the headache but for the intrusiveness and lack of privacy.
But then you’d be stuck with a metric gun.
I went pistol rout for my 300blk. I did the NFA process for my suppressor. I’m sure the process is the same for SBR. It’s no big deal, it just 6 months to get the product you’ve already paid for. I didn’t do a trust because I have no kids to leave my guns to, so I did individual stamp.
Do you have a brace for you 300 pistol? If so, which one and is shouldering it actually effective?
Don’t shoulder pistols.
Good old ATF
https://me.me/i/atf-classifications-made-easy-this-is-a-rifle-with-a-6161911
NYT: I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.
“The Deep State people worry about is an actual thing”
It’s a steady state, not deep state. In other words…we will destroy from within to maintain status quo and power
Right. Keeping everything just like it was no matter who the people elect. Definitely not a problem.
That’s what most people don’t understand about the deep state, it isn’t controlled by some secret cabal, it’s controlled by bureaucratic inertia.
Live or Memorex?
I vote Memorex.
Ya know, I’d actually have a modicum of respect for the NYT, if they adopted as an editorial position: “We’re proudly progressive. As such, we will do virtually anything to bolster a left-wing administration. When it comes to a right-wing administration we will accepting any statements that are critical of said administration regardless of their credibility.”
It’s not the bias that ticks me off, it’s the condescending appeal to high-minded disinterestedness.
Yep. Slate publishing this would be whatever. NYT publishing it, though as an Op-Ed at least, doesn’t make up for the notion they are not objective to say the least.
Theweek.com just dropped their article calling for other insiders to themselves…..free and independant press my ass.
The soft coup continues on after a failed MUH RUSHA!
to reveal themselves…somehow a word just disappeared…probably my personal NSA caseworker.
Such a brave resistor to publish it anonymously.
Also, when you take a job with the FedGov you have to give a loyalty oath just as if you’re joining the military. Now I know there’s no UCMJ for bureaucrats, but this is certainly a fireable offense and, depending on job description, NDA, etc. etc. could lead to criminal charges.
The Oath of Office is NOT a loyalty oath, it is an oath of allegiance to the Republic and its Constitution.
Fair point. Honest question: where does that allegiance lead/how far does it go? Nuremburg established that the “just following orders” defense is bogus, but what is the yardstick on that? If an executive’s agenda is “unconstitutional” does that make it incumbent upon the bureaucrat to refuse to enact it? Assuming that bureaucrat is not a Supreme Court justice, he’s not qualified to make such a determination. If you have hordes of bureaucrats “resisting”, does that not amount to a de facto coup? What’s the recourse? How does the government function (not that it functioning is so great, but rhetorically donchaknow)? These are serious questions.
As an aside, mostly I think the person above is a pussy, revolutionary LARPer. Why would you want to stay in a job that you revile so much you actively work against it? Just grow a pair and quit.
Also this person seems to be pretty clearly in violation of:
“I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.”
I’m not defending that guy’s actions. If he feels that strongly, he should quit. What I’m saying is that the OoO is, in part, to protect us from personality cults and the like. A loyalty oath implies that you will toe a certain ideological line, which is why we tended to resist the phrase until FDR rolled along. However, allegiance means that you will meet your obligations to your country, but it doesn’t have the implication that you give up your freedom of conscience like a loyalty oath does.
Or just continue subverting Trump.
Something about this feels odd.
Is this really real?
So, an open admission of sedition
Got it
Doesn’t much matter, they made it all up. A columnist at the NYT wrote every word of it, 100% guaranteed.
“Fake, but accurate”
Some anonymous hit piece just dropped at the NYT Op-Ed about a “steady state” not Deep State.
Damn your nimble fingers Grizzly
https://youtu.be/loi-4jOpAaY
Re Nike: “In 2017, Parker took a 71% pay cut due to a year of poor sales at Nike and the layoff of 1,000 employees.[11] Subsequently, he will earn $13.9 million this year from stock and options.”
Ah. Now it starts to crystallize a little.
They need a jolt and they figure Kaepernick is just the guy to bring joy-joy profits.
Maybe they could save a bit of coin by not bankrolling political campaigns in support of illegal aliens.
They are more concerned with the Chinese market than the American.
Does anyone in China even know who Kapernick is? I mean, some people here know who he is, but no one cares.
They have created a brilliant meme that we’ll be enjoying for a while.
https://twitter.com/hels/status/1036745363821133825
See, it’s not bigotry because she has the right politics and Bari Weiss doesn’t. Also, she writes for the New Yorker and there’s no bigotry in such a pretentious publication
*prestigious*
But, “pretentious” works better
Yeah, I think you had it right the first time.
Not sure what that’s in response to, but if it has something to do with Weiss doing a piece on Steve Bannon, I haz confuze. Has there ever been a shred, an iota, a quark’s worth of evidence that Bannon is anti-Semitic? I have no love for the guy, but the anti-Semite slurs against him seem as clear cut a case of “it has to be true because it *feels* true” as I’ve ever seen.
Not that I know of. Ironically, every leftist on the planet seems to be anti-Semitic and that doesn’t seem to be a problem.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6136119/GQ-Men-Year-Awards-Kate-Beckinsale-45-showcases-figure-daring-cut-dress.html
That dress is awful. But this shirt still works:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6136051/Nick-Nolte-77-seen-wearing-EXACT-Hawaiian-shirt-2002-arrested.html
The second one ties in with today’s homeless theme quite nicely.
Why throw away a perfectly good drinking shirt?
The dress is awful. She should remove it at once.
“Facebook chief Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter boss Jack Dorsey become the latest tech executives to get a grilling from Congress over foreign manipulation Tuesday, where angry Republicans also probe them on President Donald Trump’s charges of bias.
The pair appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee as Russian election meddling continues to loom over Congress with the mid-terms just two months away – and the value of both company stocks took an immediate dive.
Twitter’s stock plunged 6 per cent during Dorsey’s testimony. By early afternoon, it was off 5 per cent.
Early in the hearing, panel vice chair Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia said regulation is in the cards.
‘Congress is going to have to take action here,’ said Warner, who was a telecomm investor before he came to Congress. ‘The era of the Wild West in social media is coming to an end,’ he said. ”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6133881/Facebook-Twitter-face-U-S-Congress-foreign-bids-tilt-politics.html
I really hate my senators.
You should hate dickweeds like Zuckerberg and Dorsey more since they thought it all so clever to throw themselves into politics.
They both come off like blindsided idiots. They created platforms to make money. All the moralizing and politicizing came from inside the company, after they were successful. Then the whole thing blew up in their faces when the media decided to build a narrative off their failure to moralize and politicize often enough in the right way.
I watched a significant portion of the testimony. Dorsey was well-spoken, clear, and respectful. He was also contrite, so the blood is in the water for Twitter. Two Democrat Reps lambasted Republicans for holding “political” hearings, then pushed Dorsey to pledge that he would submit to third party review of potential civil rights abuses on the platform and share data regarding the “toxic” climate for women (per Amnesty International’s report).
My solution is not use either one. In fact, the only time I ever give twatter traffic is when you clowns link to it.
I’m likely the last person to figure this out, but….
For those of us using the Opera browser in our bid to escape the GooglePlex, we can now install Monocle.
1. Install the Opera Addon called Install Chrome Extensions
2. Go here and install Tampermonkey
3. Click here and install Monocle
4. Life is better. Well, at least the Glib part is. Don’t forget to thank trshmnstr. (Thank you, trshmnstr!)
Thanks, trshmnstr!
OT shameless pitch for information. I am leaving Fedgov and becoming a forestry consultant/contractor. I am curious about thoughts on how to operate: sole proprietor or LLC. I think those are my only real options as I am basically a freelancer with no employees or inventory. I know there are numerous advantages to being an LLC, but there was some ominous wording on the MN Secretary of State website. Basically that the business was in fact treated like a corporation with all associated regulations. I assume the separation of personal liability is still worth the potential increased regulation in most cases, especially mine. Thoughts?
Further info: To start I will be collecting forestry data for the Fedgov, but I may branch out into some similar services. The only time I ever see a possibility for employees is my kids in the next 5 years or so.
Any other thoughts or advice on starting a small freelance business are welcomed and will be given the appropriate amount of consideration!
Congratulations. I’m retiring soon and would also be interested in any responses you receive.
Talk to your accountant. The’ll know all the implications of either, and may suggest a 3rd option.
Under the table cash?
That brings up another topic. I’ve never had an accountant. Pretty simple tax returns as a gov employee so I’ve always done it myself.
There seem to be numerous different financial professionals. I’ll have to research more on that.
I held off on getting a personal accountant for 20 years. Dumbest thing I ever did. OK, well… not the dumbest, but pretty dumb.
Yeah, I knew I’d have to get one now, but I never really saw the benefit. I can see after many years how it can be worth it in many cases.
I haven’t done my own taxes in 30+ years. Painful to pay the accountants every year, but still worth it.
Think of it as a 10x return on your investment.
I don’t know a ton as I’ve never done it, but many people I know that contract with the FedGov incorporate. It’s a liability shield not just monetarily, but in case of some kind of malfeasance (not that you’d do any such thing…). You should probably consult a lawyer though.
Good point. I think the others doing similar work are mostly LLCs, though a few are SP. That might be the answer to my question right there…
I assume the separation of personal liability is still worth the potential increased regulation in most cases, especially mine. Thoughts?
In my business formation class, the prof told us to ask “what liability are you trying to limit?”
If you’re operating heavy machinery next to a daycare, thats one thing. If you’re collecting data by driving a pickup truck into the middle of nowhere, thats a completely different risk profile.
Probably worth the few hundred bucks to talk to an attorney about what business form makes the most sense.
In my business formation class, the prof told us to ask “what liability are you trying to limit?”
A good question. Protecting personal assets is a big deal, though.
“If you’re collecting data by driving a pickup truck into the middle of nowhere…”
Yes, that’s pretty much it. I don’t expect much in the form of liabilities, so I assume my insurance will be fairly low. I mean driving is the most contact I have with people aside from meeting the Gov rep. I don’t think there are many scenarios where I get sued, but anything is possible.
If you’re operating an automobile, you have liability.
That is the main one I can think of for what I am doing. I will be talking to our personal agent and seeing if it’s worth going somewhere else or if we can save by doubling up.
Good for you, man! Fun and scary at the same time.
I’ve done LLCs almost exclusively. I’m sure your lawyer/accountant will suggest that. The only reason to go S corp is if you’ll have more shareholders.
The regulations and record-keeping aren’t that onerous. Anything that limits your personal liability is a good thing.
For the record, s-Corp =/= sole propretorship
Yes, sorry. My lawyer and accountant always discouraged me from ever doing the sole-proprietor thing.
Yep, sole preprietorship is like barebacking your customers, all it takes is one run-in with a bull dyke hankering for cake, and your business catches SJW crotch rot.
Pretty much what I thought. The ‘guide’ on the SoS website was ok, but actually made me question what I’d heard/researched.
Thanks. I’d hoped you would chime in since I knew you were in-state and had run small businesses for years.
I’m freaking out a bit inside because I’ve only ever had this gov job with a family. I’ve never had to worry about my next paycheck while providing. However, I’m fried from gov work over 15+ years. I just can’t take the crap anymore. Now I finally feel confident enough to pull it off.
Article! Article! Once you take the dive, write an article! I don’t have the cojones to strike out on my own, but I love hearing success stories from those who do!
I thought of that. Both the story of a fedgov employee dealing with the ‘evolving’ Forest Service and the result of years of frustration: breaking free from the chains!
I have been thinking of various business to get into the last few years. I am just dipping in toes given I just want it to be me and the woods. None of the really complicated stuff like hiring or supply chains.
Good for you. It’s definitely a different way of life and you will often feel like you’re on an island. The family part is a great motivator, though.
Feel free to email me: minnetundra at those fuckheads who own us all. Happy to provide any help I can.
I may even share my top ten fuckups!
Thanks again! Very nice offer. I am sure there will be hardships and the grind will hit me, but I know i can make more money with more freedom and feel productive again. I honestly feel like a weight has been lifted from me.
You can do a sole S-Corp. My wife does. You can pay yourself via salary or distribution or both. There are some benefits to having a portion of your income on a W-2.
Interesting. I kind of glossed over the S-corp section in the ‘guide’ I found. I should know better than that.
That’s the way I did it for years. It cost me a couple grand a year between payroll, corp expenses, and my accountant, but it also saved me several grand in taxes. (I always thought it was maddening that I had to give California money for workman’s comp when I was the owner and sole employee.)
Did you try hitting your thumb with a hammer?
We operate as an LLC and I’m aligned with the suggestions provided – consult your accountant and lawyer. Additionally, check with the agency who will provide your business insurance and also determine the specific insurance requirements needed for your clients – this may dictate your business structure.
Thanks. Am I naive to think I could get away without having a lawyer? I suppose at least talking to some and finding one you can call when needed is a must. The only lawyers I ever needed were for… uh… other reasons, not running a business.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Sure, you probably won’t run into any issues. However, if you do run into issues, you want ironclad documents to work from, not fill-in-the-blank templates.
My son in TX went LLC. He is the only employee of his corporation. He had a friend attorney that wanted 4K, he used Legal.com for 500, if I remember correctly.
AFAIK he is satisfied.
$4k? Damn, I need to do that as a side hustle!
LLCs are not corporations, although they provide some of the same legal protections.
Thanks. Was the $500 for forming the LLC? Filing the papers, etc?
In CA, an LLC costs $800 per year for even existing.
Yikes! I need to make sure I read the fine print on that MN SoS site! They mention some annual renewals they make you do, which I assume come with fees. Is that the $800? Filing fees and permits?
Are you totally set on registering your business in Minnesota? Ask your attorneys about other options. You might find it advantageous to be registered someplace other than where you reside, as am I. My corporate HQ is physically located in Wyoming, as well as legally.
I don’t know but he was quite satisfied with the results. Said it pissed his friend off though
Oh yeah – always file your sales and use tax report, even if it’s zero. It’s how they determine who they’re gonna anally probe first. A friend of mine got audited and it was a massive pita.
^this.
And on your 1040, where it says occupation, write “Legitimate businessman”.
I appreciate both comments!
I own a commercial property. I used an LLC.
When some asshole sues over the handicapped parking spaces, it’s the company’s name in the lawsuit, not mine.
That alone is worth it to me. There are many other benefits, but like others have said, consult a lawyer and an accountant. Also… plan for the worst.
My tenant right now is a dry cleaning business. They’re honest people. But, what if I find out that they’ve been dumping toxic chemicals into the property? My LLC will be done, but I’ll be fine.
You (or your LLC) is soooo fucked. Those dry cleaning places are pretty much hazardous waste dumps. I have 2 clients with properties that previously had those for tenants, the dry cleaners are broke and the environmental cleanup bill is like a superfund site.
They agreed to spot checks and a very large bond as part of the lease agreement. All of the tests have come back clean.
The dry cleaners are a very well established chain, and I can pierce the veil if needed. The owner is Mr. Moneybags.
Nice Stillhunter. I’m actually hiring a forester now, based on Suthenboy’s advice, to provide some independent input on having our woods thinned out some. Of course, I just found out the guy actually works for the rival lumberyard, but I guess two bids are still better then going blindly with one.
My wife and I have been seriously looking at setting up our farm as a business, for the tax deductions and possibly liability protection. I spent a lot of time researching and talking to an accountant and just didn’t really see any substantial advantage for going with a sole or partner proprietorship. My understanding, which could be inaccurate, is that the legal protections for your personal property are much flimsier with a proprietorship as well, especially if you aren’t extremely strict about keeping them separate.
Why don’t you hold off a bit
I have an article coming out on that soon with much more advice
And I just found my copy of a book my father wrote on selling timber – a lot of info in there
I am going to submit a summation of the book also
Awesome, I’m looking forward to reading both of those.
I’ve got a few weeks before the forester comes out to the walk the woods with me, and all the time in the world to make a decision.
Thanks, that is what I understand as well, generally. I imagine there are reasons to stay with a sole proprietor in today’s world, but I can’t seem to find any.
Re: the forester I will say be careful. The competition for your timber helps your short term bottom line, but a bigger concern might be what they are taking, and the inverse, what are you left with? The latter is the most important question to answer, IMO. (Blatant generalization based on fact coming…) Timber companies are good at taking what they like without much regard for what kind of forest you are left with going forward. In a thinning scenario you aren’t worried about regeneration I assume, but you likely are very concerned with what you will have left, since that is what you will have to work with to reach your objectives for the forestland (You have a plan right?). You can’t put ’em back on the stump!
If you’d like another opinion (not that Suthenboy doesn’t know his stuff), let me know and we can figure a way to chat.
This was submitted before I saw Suthenboy’s response, but is still valid.
I won’t try steal any thunder, but I thought of probably the most important thing. As anyone on this site should know, the contract is king. Get a good contract.
Thanks for the advice. We have way too many trees and they’re starting to fall across my access road, into the pond, and down across my fences. I want to keep the woods, but I think they could use some thinning out. I know absolutely zero about this, but figured it couldn’t hurt to see what the lumbar companies and the forester have to say. That isn’t much a of a plan, but I’m also still just gathering information.
Separately from that, I do have about 7 acres on a hill that used to be an open field and is now covered in hundreds or thousands of five year old pine trees. Eventually I’d like to clear cut these and plant black walnuts or oaks for my great-grandchildren, but I’m content to set that aside for now.
Sure, I would really appreciate both of your advice. Maybe we could chat once I have some more info from the forester or an idea from the timberyard of what they are willing to do.
Will you remind me of your general location? What types of trees are in your forest? Which ones dominate? Now you got me going. I won’t bore folks, but there are lots of things to consider. They typically aren’t just trees when you actually own them. They are something more, from college tuition for the kids to hunting grounds to spiritual sanctuary *remembers libertarian principles*.
It sounds like you are in an area where pine grow very quickly. Loblolly? It should be ready in 15-20 years for pulpwood or fence posts. Then it sounds like oak could be the best bet if it’s on a hill, but if there are sites with more moisture black walnut should work fine. You southerners have lots of options…though vegetative competition is worse than anywhere else ($$$).
While we’re on the topic of forestry and timber, I have a few large oaks, probably 3’+ diameter and straight as an arrow for at least 25′. There are 3 about that size and a few slightly smaller oaks and hickory (1.5′ to 2′ diameter, straight for 20’+). 10 total trees. Anyway, they’re all too close to the house and I’ve been trying to figure out a way to get them removed without paying 5 figures for a tree trimming service to do it. Do you think it’s worth talking with some loggers for such a small haul?
SW VA. It’s mostly pine, but a lot of oak and I think poplar too. I need to take a closer look, and maybe some pictures. Actually, if you’re able to drop me a line at SemiSpartanDad at gmail, I can send you a few pictures. I’d really appreciate any thoughts you might have on it because I know absolutely zero about trees.
There are essentially zero protections for a sole proprietorship other than what your insurance covers.
I am not a lawyer, but you absolutely do not want people on your property cutting down trees with chainsaws as a sole proprietorship.
Separate topics, but agreed on both.
I’ve recently started a C corp and a couple holding companies (all registered in Wyoming) after running a (Texas registered) LLC for 10 years. There are significant financial benefits in my particular instance to being an employee/officer and not dealing with the pass through nature of an LLC.
Definitely consult an attorney, a CPA, and perhaps a dedicated tax attorney as well. Business insurance coverage needs and cost will vary quite a bit depending on those answers.
Interesting. The only C corp I was ever part of was a startup with a lot of shareholders and frequent money raising.
LLCs aren’t necessarily pass-through. An LLC can elect to be taxed as a corporation.
Getting your vendors and customers to understand this can be difficult though.
I believe I read that the LLC can choose to be treated like a corporation rather than a sole proprietor for tax purposes. I may look deeper into that as well.
It’s great there are options and you can try one and if it doesn’t work you can dissolve and restart it another way. With the requisite amount of process as punishment of course.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday introduced a Senate bill — the “Stop BEZOS Act” — that would require large employers such as Amazon.com and Walmart to pay the government for food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and other federal assistance received by their workers.
That’s what he wants to call it? Certainly not discriminatory at all. And aren’t these things already being covered by a myriad of other taxes and wouldn’t this just be additional cost transferred to consumers?
The article, like most such pieces, has a poster child to tug at our heart strings by pesonaliizing the described horrors. The poster children are always the same.
o Single, unskilled woman with
o Multiple children and
o No father(s)/husband in evidence.
We’re not subsidizing Bezos’ wage scale, we’re subsidizing this woman’s poor choices.
I know what I must now do.
After earning a heap of C-Bills, I must buy a Highlander and name it “Prince of the Universe”.
There can be only one.
https://twitter.com/ashtonbirdie/status/1037395342948327424
I don’t believe Marco Rubio when repeatedly says he has no idea who Alex Jones is.
“Serious question for @marcorubio, if you don’t know who @RealAlexJones is… how can we expect you to have any idea what was going on in that hearing? It means you’re completely out of touch.”
https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1037405561711747074
Why should Rubio know or care? I barely know who he is, since I don’t watch cable news, don’t listen to his online content, am not on Twitter, and don’t give a shit. AFAIK, he’s just some crazy conspiracy guy. I’m with Marco on this one.
Ditto for me. Heard the name, but didn’t really know who he was until social media banned him. Which was foolish. Now I do know who he is.
Was he one of the Monkees?
Little Marco? Is was either that or he starred on that Big Bang show, I can’t remember which.
He guest starred on Fantasy Island as Tattoo’s cousin.
You know, I don’t like Rubio or Alex Jones. That being said, Alex Jones isn’t voting on issues that can affect my life, so if Alex Jones kicks the crap out of him, I’m fine with it.
Speaking of the “working poor” and their sometime practice of dipping into the benefits cookie jar…
I was told a story about some woman (mother of a friend’s child’s friend, I believe) who was offered a raise/promotion or something and turned it down because it would have bumped her out of some benefit she was receiving. Food stamps, probably, but maybe something else. But there is no “poverty trap” and there is certainly no such thing as a greater-than-100% “tax rate” on marginal income.
Argue about whether the benefits shpould exist all you want, but in practice there should be an effective way to allow people to better themselves without being punished for it.
^^^
This is legit.
I had an employee decline a raise because she would lose (i think it was) health care for her kid. She was @$18/hr before the raise offer.
Lucky for you the acronym for the Stop Sean Act is already taken.
“I had an employee decline a raise because she would lose (i think it was) health care for her kid. She was @$18/hr before the raise offer.”
Discouraging productivity and ambition among the citizenry is a hell of a racket.
Unemployment benefits have a lot of that going on.
“Town Suffering Economic Hardship After Restaurant Kicked Sarah Sanders Out
The town that is home to the restaurant that refused to serve White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders is suffering economic woes after receiving lots of negative publicity over the incident.
Rockbridge Regional Tourism approved a move that will boost its digital marketing campaign an “additional $5,000 per month from the office’s emergency fund,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports.
Director of Marketing Patty Williams said that the region is still reeling from the effects of The Red Hen kicking Sanders out of the restaurant.
“For a town our size, it was a significant impact,” Williams said. “We would certainly try to portray ourselves as a friendly, welcoming place. And focus our marketing toward accomplishing that goal.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35451/town-suffering-economic-hardship-after-restaurant-ryan-saavedra
I’m skeptical that one incident effected the town that much. Also, maybe it’s time the left stop calling for boycotts on anyone that doesn’t tow the lion.
Toe the line
Not around here we don’t. We tow the lion.
It’s toe the lion.
Toe the Line, Land Lubber!
What ever happened to Toe, the Blue Lion?
“Land Lubber!”
You never been downeyocean, hon!
Shot while making furtive movements.
I do see it written incorrectly so much here that I wonder if I’m missing a joke
How bout you just two the loin on this one.
That’s how they do it in Charm City, hon!
It’s a running joke that came over from TOS, Wesley.
My name is Ryan
“My name is Ryan”
That’s what he said, Tulpa.
Forget it, he’s rolling.
Ill most likely kill you in the morning for that correction.
Sleep well
I’m skeptical too, but it would be funny if they tagged her restaurant with a special $5K assessment this year.
Wokeness has a price. We must pay it, time for business leaders to grub for roots and eat cake.
“We would certainly try to portray ourselves as a friendly, welcoming place”
Actions speak louder than words bitch.
Indeed. Think of all the restaurants, supermarkets, grocery stores, food wholesalers, fruit orchards, grain farms, dairy producers, and fisheries that are required to create one meal for Sarah. Rockbridge was like one of those mining or mill towns that were completely owned by one company.
As long as she gets her pie.
I don’t know what is worse, that Hat & Hair makes me feel protective of The Pie, or that it makes me want to have The Hat?
Pizza the Hut !
Maybe Bruce Springsteen can write a song about it.
Indeed, considering that the other half of the population was already boycotting Lexington because the graves of white supremacists, Robert Lee and Thomas Jackson, are open to the public.
“Bernie Sanders gets a hard-on thinking about confiscating Amazon’s money.”
I’m sure comrade Bernie would be happy with Amazon keeping most of it as long as Bernie can skim off a few billion for himself. I mean he’s going to throw a few crumbs to his adoring followers. No wait, crumbs!, it’s a scam! Guess it’s best if he keeps all of it. Nancy understands, all of your crumbs is belong to me.
Holy shit! I missed this. Was starting to plan a trip this winter.
I bet it is up and running in less than a month. I visited Kobe about 9 months after the big earthquake in the early ’90s and they were up and functioning.
You’re late to the party.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearing-democrats-lack-civility/
Highlights from the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest.
Better to just visit a hooker.
https://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2018-09-04/on-again-off-again-relationships-may-be-more-trouble-than-theyre-worth
It’s pointless to even bother telling people this. The sort who break up and then get back together and then break up endlessly are compulsive whackaloons and are never going to change.
I would never get back together with some previous lover or spouse. There is a reason (or many reasons) they are an ex, and those issues are still going to be there in some form. Once that dynamic is set up, it’s really difficult to break and most people can’t/don’t want to.
Disappoint me once? Let me show you my trusty rusty tin can lid collection!
(That usually nips any desire for a second chance in the bud.)
Once I briefly got back together with an ex-girlfriend. Boy was that a mistake. I will not make it again.
One ex-girlfriend offered “good-bye sex” when I dumped her. I said no, and got out of there as fast I could.
Oops, I guess the condom broke! Oops, I guess I’m pregnant and now you can’t leave me!
^^This guy gets it.
One drunken night me & ex-MrsTresCool got together for ex-sex.
Boy, was that a horrible idea.
Horrible ideas make for the best stories
I had just bought a tempur-pedic mattress topper, which I had to throw in the trash shortly after she left. You cant wash those things.
I was out a solid $60 .
There is a big difference between hooking up and getting back together.
*sets ablaze the Sloopy Signal *
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https://twitter.com/WarPlanPurple/status/1037450289882824704
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The only good bug, is a Dead Bug
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I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say KILL EM ALL
MEDIC!
/Next?
YEAH! YEAH!
Oh, so you’re the one responsible for commie pope. Now we know.
“I want to start by making something clear: we don’t consider political viewpoints, perspectives, or party affiliation in any of our policies or enforcement decisions. Period. Impartiality is our guiding principle. Let me explain why.”
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1037399082023698434
Yeah, sure.
“This is a real article.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1037427719565262848
Oh, come on.
https://jezebel.com/would-you-have-sex-with-johny-johny-yes-papa-1828635224
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“TREASON?”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1037464177269514240
Uh.
No.
“NEW TACK: Asia Argento Now Claims That Underage Boy Raped HER
Asia Argento now claims that Jimmy Bennett, then 17, was the one who raped her and not, as he claims, the other way around in 2013.
Bennett last month charged that Argento sexually assaulted him when she was 37 and he was 17. Days after the allegations emerged, TMZ obtained text messages allegedly sent by Argento to a friend that said she had sex with Bennett at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Marina del Rey, California.
But her attorney, Mark Jay Heller, now says that Bennett’s allegations are not true, and it was Bennett who was the aggressor. He claims Argento’s boyfriend, the late Anthony Bourdain, agreed to pay Bennett $380,000 simply to protect her.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35458/new-tack-asia-argento-now-claims-underage-boy-joseph-curl
She is a lying liar who lies.
Holy shit was Bourdain a cuck. He’s paying off teenagers his girlfriend banged while Trump’s paying off the Playmate of the Year a third as much to keep her mouth shut after their fun time.
Here’s a random, crazy thought… maybe it was entirely consensual for both of them.
Here’s another random thought, both of them live in a culture of immoral liars and thieves who perpetually stab each other in the back for fun, profit, or whatever. So yeah, probably consensual. Only in the state of New Puritan that we live in, he couldn’t have consented because he was only 17 and she has to be believed because vagina.
Which one of you Glibs did this?
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article217791780.html
BREAKING: Matthew Yglesias is an asshole.
“Folks, the federal government has the means to create all the money it needs.”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1037386443709136896
He sounds just like…..Trump
Sure, Sadbeard, until the runaway inflation. Yeah, I know Pauley Krugabe said it can’t happen here. Pauley Krugabe is a moron.
Sometimes Chrome decides not to load some links. It’s weird. I want to use Brave but there’s no monocle support. Might move to Opera.
“Thousands of creepy-crawlers stolen from Philadelphia museum”
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/bugs-lizards-stolen-philadelphia-museum
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Those Lizards can run, but they can’t Hide, General Winter is coming………
I was drawn to the steaming pile of drivel in the sidebar.
Because woke or something – it’s hard to tell because it doesn’t actually say anything meaningful.
Actually it says, “Those beautiful open-concept kitchen photographs are a lie. You aren’t going to cook as much as you think, your kitchen will be trashed all the time, and everyone will see it. Wall it off to kill your anxiety.”
Which is an opinion I support.
Enh, I have a tiny walled-off kitchen. It stinks. I think it actually makes me cook less than I would like because I want to talk to other people, watch TV, or whatnot while I’m cooking. If your kitchen isn’t clean, it’s because you’re not cleaning it – not because it’s “open”.
I’d love an open kitchen. I’ve got no room in my small kitchen, and the size hasn’t prevented it from becoming a dumping ground for all and sundry such that I have to spend twenty minutes cleaning it before I even start cooking.
But I have a theory about the people hanging out in the kitchen thing. It’s because the art of hosting has died.
Gatherings have become much more casual. It’s unusual to go to a party where someone is serving people drinks and hors d’ouevres. When you have guests being served in a living room or on a patio or the like, they stay there. Maybe they’ll move around the room, maybe some will duck off to neighboring rooms to have private conversations, but mostly they’ll stay in those spaces. On the other hand, when you have a casual, “beers in the fridge” type of thing, you’ll always have at least a couple of people where the drinks are, and usually that means the kitchen. So what happens is the mingling you’d have elsewhere happens where the drinks people are looking for are found.
I like that theory. When we host, people get served where *I* want them to eat. Nobody gets to come in my kitchen. It’s my space, nobody else’s.
OK, but if your guests are Hispanic or Southern European, that might seem rather odd to them.
We don’t host often, but most places we go are either friends who are very, very casual or family who, again, are all very casual, and with the one friend’s place the only reason the kitchen isn’t the main area is that he has a large, roofed porch. What’s interesting to me is that both of the family houses who host frequently are decent-sized houses, but the kitchen is the center of the ground floor in both cases. One is a very open floor plan and one is less so, but in both cases the kitchen is literally the center of the house.
The apocalypse is upon us. Gillespie has become the most reasonable writer at TOS.
Hung your children for the four horsemen ride
I’m not buying it.