SP and I had come to the delightful Twin Cities for a wedding and to have dinner with a few of the locals. We arrived at the Stray Dog and found Leap At The Wheel and Pope Jimbo waiting for us. “Where’s Tundra?” we asked. The two Minnesotans shrugged. Jimbo replied, “He was supposed to be here, I have no idea what…” His ringing cell phone interrupted the conversation. “That’s him calling now. Hello?”
“Hey Jimbo, it’s Tundra. I have a bit of a problem.”
“What’s up?”
“Well, it’s a long story, but I need bail. Can you guys help?”
“What the hell happened?”
“I was in my Triumph, stopped at a light, when a very attractive woman came up and asked if I was looking for a date. Naturally, I offered her a ride. And things started going funny…”
“Funny?”
“Yeah. She asked me to head down a road, then pull over. Naturally, I did. And she reached over and started pulling down my fly. “$20 for a Kirby Classic.” I handed her a twenty, and she leaned over the center console and started to, well, you know. BJ. It was pretty excellent, at least for a few seconds. But suddenly there were flashing lights from behind me. It was a cop! So I took off quickly. I mean, a guy of my reputation can’t be involved in some sort of hooker scandal. I figure, my Triumph can out-handle a cop car so they should be easy to lose. I was wrong.”
“What happened?”
“I ended up in a ditch. Cops all around me. They yanked me and the hooker out of the car. And her wig came off. I mean HIS wig. That was not a happy surprise. And they seemed to know him, apparently a regular. But the bastards arrested me, charged me with contributory sex trafficking, resisting arrest, mopery, reckless driving, and sodomy. I need you guys to get me out of here, they’re sticking me in a cell with a guy who keeps calling me ‘Fuck Socket.'”
“What’s bail?”
“I need $10,000 cash.”
Much laughter. “Enjoy your night and we’ll all have a beer in your honor!”
So Tundra, best of luck when you get out. We were all thinking of you.
Notable birthdays today include the great Peter Sellers, TV pioneer Sid Caesar, and my favorite country singer ever, Patsy Cline. And news… we got news.
Obama is back on the scold. We as a people have disappointed Daddy yet again.
“You happen to be coming of age” amid backlash to progress, Obama told the students. “It did not start with Donald Trump, he is a symptom, not the cause. He is just capitalizing on resentment that politicians have been fanning for years. A fear, an anger that is rooted in our past but is also borne in our enormous upheavals that have taken place in your brief lifetimes.”
Obama spent a sizable portion of his remarks criticizing Republicans in Congress, saying “the politics of resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party” over the last few decades and argued that the policies GOP leaders are pursuing aren’t conservative.
“Yeah, bad bad Team Red! Deplorables! I’m the only one who should be peddling fear and anger!” Of course, his speech followed a very familiar pattern.
Obama’s favorite word seemed to be “I,” which he repeated at least 87 times, followed by more than a dozen references to “my” or “me.”
I wonder if we’ll ever get a president that isn’t a drooling narcissist. Sigh.
My favorite zoo exhibit is the Pander Bear. And it’s always fun to see them do their tricks.
“This is an extremely nuanced issue, and through his own personal experience and his own ideals, [Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum] has come to the conclusion that he is not a supporter of the BDS movement,” David Singer, a campaign adviser to Gillum, told Orlando Weekly in an interview. Singer continued, “To be a progressive thinker, and as someone with progressive values, does not mean you are in lockstep with every position of the progressive movement. And this is one where he simply is not.”
A couple things come to mind, beyond the obvious, “I need some of that Jew gold for my campaign in Florida.” First, he’s going to be dead meat as the rest of the prog movement tears into him for apostasy. Second, why would anyone care what the foreign policy leanings are for a governor? Last I recall, this was totally a Federal issue. But, oh yeah, Florida and Jew gold.
I swear to Yahweh, I’ve seen this somewhere before…
Thunderstorms knocked out power to several homes in the historic town of Bridgeport, Connecticut on Thursday night, leaving residents scrambling for a way to see in the darkness. In the confusion, a 30-year-old woman reportedly grabbed a quarter stick of dynamite she had mistaken for a candle.
The woman suffered severe injuries to her face and hand, which may result in the loss of at least one finger.
Oh, now I remember! Wile E. Coyote! If this were the best of all possible worlds, the dynamite brand would have been Acme.
Talk about landing on the wrong side of the hot-crazy axis.
A South Carolina doctor is in stable condition Friday after suffering gunshot wounds while trying to block a spray of bullets fired by his former girlfriend, who then turned the weapon on herself, according to reports.
Jennifer Rudemyer, 39, who was found dead outside the Hilton Head Island home of Gaston Perez on Tuesday night, attacked him hours after he got a restraining order against her…
Given her business as a home organizer, he probably left his shoes on the floor in front of the couch.
And in honor of birthday boy Anton Dvorak, Old Guy Music features Roland Kirk doing a mashup of the Going Home theme from Dvorak’s New World Symphony and the classic Sentimental Journey.
Good to hear of another glibs meet up, sorry about your bail being so high Tundra 😉
At least there was no pineapple “pizza” in sight.
Pineapple “pizza” is a crime against Man and Nature.
I want to hear if he ended up the holding pen bitch or not…
I’ll kick a couple of bucks in for Tundra’s bail.
“Second, why would anyone care what the foreign policy leanings are for a governor?”
Andrew Cuomo’s biggest plank is abortion.
I thought it was how shitty America is, and that he’s a liar (but so is the opposition).
Don’t be surprised when Andrew Cuomo announces he is running for president.
Didn’t a certain Mayor go to a G20 summit a few months ago to protest.
Yeah, and nobody wanted to talk to him so he went home.
For a bunch of people who complain “Why won’t that asshole just go away already” you sure take the bait everytime Obama is in the news. Here’s a tip from your old pal The Hyperbole, ignore him, don’t link to his speech, even if he said something really stupid, don’t read stories about his speech, don’t read tweets about his speech. Ignore him he’ll go away, and if he doesn’t you’ll still feel better for it.
Also nice to see you back to some non-Album Oriented Rock for the OGM, nice selection.
Meh, it is fun to make fun of Obama. Christ he is an asshole. Back to Brennan though, no he was not doing 3D chess in the 70’s he was being honest, just like his fellow commie Bernie who went to Moscow for his honeymoon. Being a commie is not a career ender at all. Hell, if it wasn’t rigged for Herself, there is a good chance Bernie would have won the DNC nomination for president. Both of those men as well as Obama believe in the ever holy State. All three of them are fucking commies. I have to work today so we will have to argue about this later. Have a great day!
No need to argue, you are correct, I took commie literally as in a member of the communist party if you’re using it as a catch-all for socialist I got no argument.
I agree Hyper. Good advice for any and all annoying people who ‘won’t go away’.
Sites don’t care if you give it a hate-click, a click is a click. You are only encouraging them and torturing yourself.
You’re no fun.
I just worry about you guys, you’re all so goddamned angry all the time, it can’t be good for your livers, plus you all drink too much.
I’m more of a bitter guy.
I can’t speak for anyone but I tend to digest these news items as they come and vent. Then I forget and move on to other things.
Like beating my orphans or organizing my pantry.
I think most people here approach these things more with humorous exasperation than anything else, at least I do. Sure, there are plenty of angry places to visit on the interweb but this isn’t really one of them.
Yeh. More bitey and sarcastic.
Not angry in my view.
If only it were this easy
Idiocy read on social media:
“the thing I hate worst about the patriarchy is how they demean and belittle women who prioritize their children and stay at home!”
Sorry, hon, that was 2nd wave feminism, not the patriarchy. Us shitlords are the ones who want you barefoot and pregnant, remember?
Stuff like this makes me glad I pretty much just dropped all of that.
Except twitter cause hey gotta get ez access to pics of models and all thatStuff like this makes me glad I married a girl that has an involuntary disgust micro-expression any time someone mentions feminism.
“They remembered that the previous owners had left what appeared to be candlesticks in the basement, and went to light them.”
In my universe, candles are made of wax, not cardboard tubes.
I file that statement under ‘a likely story’.
Yeah, we totally don’t own that dynamite, that is my friend’s dynamite.
“a quarter stick of dynamite” isn’t even dynamite. They are illegally manufactured firecrackers filled with flash powder sold only to complete idiots. Which, unfortunately, is a sufficiently large market. No one who does demolition or pyrotechnics uses them.
They are a lot of fun when your 12.
>No one who does demolition or pyrotechnics uses them.
But if you can find some with waterproof fuses and have access to a lake, they are a lot of fun when you are a kid living in the boonies.
Or so I hear.
Can confirm.
You gonna talk? Or you gonna fish?
There’s a crazy man in the White House! TW: Salon
My current concern is that we are already witnessing a further unraveling of the president’s mental state, especially as the frequency of his lying increases and the fervor of his rallies intensifies.
I am concerned that his mental challenges could cause him to take unpredictable and potentially extreme and dangerous measures to distract from his legal problems.
Mental health professionals have standard procedures for evaluating dangerousness. More than a personal interview, violence potential is best assessed through past history and a structured checklist of a person’s characteristics.
These characteristics include a history of cruelty to animals or other people, risk taking, behavior suggesting loss of control or impulsivity, narcissistic personality and current mental instability. Also of concern are noncompliance or unwillingness to undergo tests or treatment, access to weapons, poor relationship with significant other or spouse, seeing oneself as a victim, lack of compassion or empathy, and lack of concern over consequences of harmful acts.
The Woodward book and the New York Times op-ed confirm many of these characteristics. The rest have been evident in Trump’s behavior outside the White House and prior to his tenure.
That the president has met not just some but all these criteria should be reason for alarm.
———
Mental impairment should be evaluated independently from criminal investigations, using medical criteria and standardized measures. A sitting president may be immune to indictments, but he is subject to the law, which is strict about public safety and the right to treatment when an individual poses a danger to the public because of mental instability. In the case of danger, the patient does not have the right to refuse, nor does the physician have the right not to take the person as a patient.
This evaluation may have been delayed, but it is still not too late. And mental health professionals have extensive experience assessing, restraining and treating individuals much like Trump — it is almost routine.
“It’s for your own good. Calling it a “coup” just shows how dangerously insane you are.”
How many time are they going to write the “Trump is losing his mind” story?
As many times as they can until he’s gone.
The morons that still read their tripe sure love these stories and furiously masturbate to them even though they can see they are blatant fiction…
I saw a thing recently where they were talking about the three classic signs of potential serial killers–cruelty to animals, bedwetting, and pyromania–and apparently that’s all bullshit. Also, I’d love to see the professional psychiatrists who talk about metrics such as “dangerousness” and “violence potential”. It’s stunning. It’s like the stupidest people in the room are trying to gaslight Trump and the American public.
And it’s totally working.
I saw the speech he gave yesterday. Funny, level headed, steady and on point. I dont see a single indication that he is nuts, frantic, desperate and certainly no sign that his administration is in disarray.
Remember, it is all projection all of the time for them.
How many people go to the source material though? For most, if their favorite news source says he’s crazy he must be crazy.
If you were to go solely by, for instance, the WaPo and NYT in print, and “centrist” CNN, you would think that Trump is both a drooling, paranoid imbecile and a mob boss, too stupid to be allowed to continue in office AND ALSO a criminal mastermind who hasn’t found a crime he won’t commit. And then you see full-length interviews with him, or a speech in its entirety, and he’s…just a guy. Kind of the typical well-heeled business type you’ll see at every country club or cocktail bar in America; chummy, jovial, used to getting his way, polite but casual.
The bias in the media is absolutely stunning, but it’s reflected in the leftist audience. They’re willing dupes.
Willing undersells it.
They are rabidly enthusiastic dupes. They are so passionate about being duped that they will tear apart anyone who is not extreme enough in their delusion. They seem to be crawling all over each other trying to out-crazy each other.
Any mental health professional would lose their license if they attempted to make a diagnosis and prescribe treatment for someone based on non-clinical video interviews and unverified anecdotes from self-interested third parties.
Yup.
OT: OK, so weird work story. Fridays there is usually a group lunch between the people in my office. It used to be mexican, but we have switched to pizza buffet recently. So two of the attorneys couldn’t make it, so it was just me and Amy.
She turned to me at one point and said, “didn’t you cover a client meeting for Scott a while back, divorce client?” I remember right away, cause I did spend a long time with the guy. And it was a little unusual of a consult, as the client came back twice in the same day. He even called Amy, though she does not do divorce. Problem was he couldn’t file in Michigan yet, as he didn’t live here 6 months yet.
“Sure,” I say.
“The guy’s being charged with a double homicide.” She gets her phone out to show me the online news story, and sure enough, no question that that is the guy, that’s his name, etc.
So the story is the dude is being charged with murdering his in-laws.
Whoa. You other Glibs sure lead more interesting lives than I.
That stuff’s crazy and weird isn’t it? Reminds me of my mom who works IT and one of the security guards for the workplace killed their own kid. The whole office was all confused and wondering why they hadn’t come back until like you, they saw the online news article and on TV. They all felt really safe that day at my mom’s work.
Yikes.
From the “it’s a small, macabre world” department…remember the shooting in Annapolis, MD, earlier in the summer? At the Capital newspaper offices? So, it turns out that a close friend of mine went to middle school with him at RAF Lakenheath, as did a bunch of my high school friends who were at Lakenheath as kids. Which is also where I was born.
“Problem was he couldn’t file in Michigan yet, as he didn’t live here 6 months yet.”
I’m not a lawyer, but it sounds like he found a way around that. Because I’m thinking “you killed my parents” is probably grounds for divorce.
TShe filed first, had lived here for 6 months with mom & dad before she filed.
Then why did he want to file?
Get in first…
Euphemism?
When I met him, no one had filed yet – he wanted to be first. Sometimes there is a “race” to the courthouse, because people think there is an advantage to be first to file. In this case, maybe there was an advantage to be first, since there was a jurisdictional question.
That makes sense.
In New York you can be on the hook for a kid until their eleventy billion years old, or until the sun dies, whichever comes last. If you file in another state, I assume stuff like that can change.
more info here.
might be time to get that CCW license, EF
A million bucks for punching a cop in the head?
I had a similar weird work story yesterday.
I selected a sample of 15 invoices, and then forwarded the invoice numbers to the controller of the company we are auditing. I requested copies of purchase orders, bills of lading, and any other supporting documents showing that the invoices were actual sales to customers.
About an hour later, I was e-mailed a pdf with the documents I requested. Upon further analysis, everything checked out.
Wild, right?
Strange because it all worked out so smoothly?
So not like this?
I’ll do you one better. I went to use the MD state topographical map viewer, and the overlay transparency feature only worked in IE/Edge, so i complained…..AND THEY FIXED IT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.
The sense of astonishment ought to last well beyond my lifespan.
“A South Carolina doctor is in stable condition Friday after suffering gunshot wounds while trying to block a spray of bullets fired by his former girlfriend.
Perez’s son, Alex, said his father was struck in the chest, near his face and in one of his hands after apparently trying to shield himself from the bullets.”
So how exactly was he trying to block the bullets?
Wonder Woman bracelets?
Should’ve gone with the Captain America shield.
Relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AKHqEKwy90A
I wonder how much that thing cost?
No idea. A quick search tells me it is 12 lbs of titanium and titanium is under $40 per lb.
But it’s not cheap or easy to work.
I’ve actually been contemplating making a walking stick that will work as an improvised defensive device. Would titanium be an option? I like the properties of the metal but wonder if it would be too brittle to serve in this role. Any thoughts from anyone who actually knows about metals?
How about good old aluminum lobot?
https://www.solidaluminumcane.com
Those are exactly what I was imagining; thanks. Would aluminum be strong enough to use those as a pry-bar or to hang body-weight (<200lbs.) from a supported position?
I have no idea, maybe that company would be willing to answer your questions. You might want to leave out the pry bar inquiry though.
For a staff, you need some mass to get striking power. Plus, wood has an interesting way of flexing during a swing and then snapping into the blow.
https://www.oldeshillelagh.com/store
Tundra nails it.
I have one of these.
Plus, wood has an interesting way of flexing during a swing and then snapping into the blow.
Hickory is well suited for this purpose because of its shock resistance.
Well he survived and is in stable condition so not a wholly ineffective maneuver
I’d imagine that putting your hands up is a purely reflexive maneuver when being shot at, even though you know that it’s not gonna do jack.
If anybody would know about capitalizing on resentment, it’s that fucking bitchfaced crybaby Obama.
BOOOOOSH will always be the master of resentment capitalization, remember what a dumb fuck he was, don’t you still hate him, god BOOOOOSH was the worst.
Have you not being getting a good night sleep? May I suggest moving to a country where women have equal rights? Is there nothing women’s equality can’t do? I mean, you even sleep better, knowing the patriarchy is gone!
“In the new study led by a team from the universities of Cincinnati and Melbourne, researchers used data from the European Social Survey to measure sleep quality as it varies in different countries, with a total sample of 14,143 partnered individuals from 23 countries in Europe.
While men and women still reported different types of sleep disruptions, with women more likely to be disturbed by children and men more likely to be kept awake worrying about finances, those in more gender-equal countries such as Norway had better sleep overall, co-author Leah Ruppanner explains in an article for Slate.
In Ukraine and other countries that ranked lower on the equality scale, men and women aren’t getting as much sleep.”
That they limited to Europe is silly. Anyway, maybe sleeping on massive oil reserves is more comforting than having the Russians try to kill you?
So the story is the dude is being charged with murdering his in-laws.
Not an amicable divorce, apparently.
Everyone knows the difference between inlaws and outlaws, right?
Looks like the Florida Governor race is the gift that keeps on giving. I’m just still bummed it had to be between DeSantis and Gillum.
Same here. I am not looking forward to having to live with the results for four years.
I did some searching the other day and I don’t think the LP is even running a candidate.
I think the best outcome is that Gillum wins and the legislature stays solidly penny-ante-Republican. If that happens, I’m buying popcorn stock.
At the risk of sounding like a reluctant Trumper in 2016, the Florida Supreme Court has three justices who reach mandatory retirement January 2019. No way that I was Lawton’s Leftovers being replaced by Gillum.
And for all of DeSantis’ beclowning himself with the “build the wall” ad and endless praise of Trump, he has a solid CV, and he was a Freedom Caucus guy in the House.
For those who like to make assumptions based purely on prurient speculation. From the crazy trigger-happy (right up to the end) female mammal article:
“She also had two teaching stints in area schools – once between 2003-2004 at Hilton Head Middle School and another from H.E. McCracken Middle School between 2008-2017, a Beaufort County School District spokesman told the Island Packet.”
Any takers?…
*preemptively narrows gaze*
There’s your answer. Anybody who teaches middle school for 10 years will emerge from it with a solid case of cray-cray.
Good meeting y’all last night. It was too bad Tundra didn’t make it, since we ordered his cosmo for him the way he likes it (half vodka, stirred not shaken, with powdered sugar crusted on the rim) before we heard about his… issues.
And I hate to burst your bubble OMWC, but those little Japanese girls that walked past our table wearing trashy school-girl uniform at the end of the night? I saw them get carded and walk into a bar. (SP won’t be reading this will she?)
Pics or it didn’t happen?
This right here. The Potato knows what’s up.
Tundra is always taking pictures of his food and posting it to Instagram, so we didn’t think to take any pictures of his cosmo ourselves.
So the tranny pix are on Instagram?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6145287/Kendall-Jenner-Bella-Hadid-turn-heads-celeb-packed-Harpers-Bazaar-ICONS-party-NYFW.html
Would.
The Hadid girls don’t do much for me, but I’ll go on record as saying that Kendall Jenner is the best looking of that family.
Not Caitlyn, you SHITLORD? She’s so brave!
Nah, she looks like a dude.
Kendall is largely silicon-free.
You guys are mean:) lol.
“The Brexit referendum ignored the voices of women. We need a Final Say to rectify the injustice
Ignored by privileged men on both sides of the divide, in any second referendum we must be given a chance to shape the terms of the debate”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-final-say-womens-equality-party-sophie-walker-a8528651.html
Because women in England can’t vote?
I can’t believe a woman would lose an argument and refuse to concede.
You know why you always keep having the same “discussions” with your significant other? That’s because women don’t want to discuss anything, they want you to agree with them or do what they say.
And we think the permanent class here is corrupt and incompetent.
For real. Every time I look around and think, “Man, this is a shitshow,” England’s like, “Hold my beer.”
Looking at the train wrecks that are other nations is informative. It’s like going to the county fair. As that great American philosopher Jeff Foxworthy noted (paraphrased from memory) , “if you ever feel like your family is a big bunch of goobers, just go on out to the county fair. Look around for a while and you’ll be thinking, ‘you know, we’re all right. In fact, we’re damn near royalty!'”
Ignored by privileged men on both sides of the divide, in any second referendum we must be given a chance to shape the terms of the debate”
tl;dr- “We didn’t get what we wanted.”
Yet, somehow, in the middle of women being ignored, the PM is a chick.
Someone had too much wine last night and by “someone” I mean me. Just made and ate an awesome bacon and cheese sammich with eggo waffles as the bread and sharp cheddar as the cheese. Today is looking good so far.
Enjoy GlibFit 17.0
“Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole
In the highly controversial area of human intelligence, the ‘Greater Male Variability Hypothesis’ (GMVH) asserts that there are more idiots and more geniuses among men than among women. Darwin’s research on evolution in the nineteenth century found that, although there are many exceptions for specific traits and species, there is generally more variability in males than in females of the same species throughout the animal kingdom.
Evidence for this hypothesis is fairly robust and has been reported in species ranging from adders and sockeye salmon to wasps and orangutans, as well as humans. Multiple studies have found that boys and men are over-represented at both the high and low ends of the distributions in categories ranging from birth weight and brain structures and 60-meter dash times to reading and mathematics test scores. There are significantly more men than women, for example, among Nobel laureates, music composers, and chess champions—and also among homeless people, suicide victims, and federal prison inmates.”
Get to the lede, egghead.
Nineteen paragraphs later….
“Three days later, however, the paper had vanished. And a few days after that, a completely different paper by different authors appeared at exactly the same page of the same volume (NYJM Volume 23, p 1641+) where mine had once been. As it turned out, Amie Wilkinson is married to Benson Farb, a member of the NYJM editorial board. Upon discovering that the journal had published my paper, Professor Farb had written a furious email to Steinberger demanding that it be deleted at once. “Rivin,” he complained, “is well-known as a person with extremist views who likes to pick fights with people via inflammatory statements.” Farb’s “father-in law…a famous statistician,” he went on, had “already poked many holes in the ridiculous paper.” My paper was “politically charged” and “pseudoscience” and “a piece of crap” and, by encouraging the NYJM to accept it, Rivin had “violat[ed] a scientific duty for purely political ends.”
So basically, a published paper was deleted and another paper, with the same length and page numbers, was substituted without explanation, because politics.
https://quillette.com/2018/09/07/academic-activists-send-a-published-paper-down-the-memory-hole/
More male geniuses, more male homeless winos…sounds about right.
We were talking about this the other day. I’ve always been told that men are bimodal and women cluster around the middle. Good thing to know that is considered shitlordism now.
Molyneux has more on this on his YouTube channel than anyone who isn’t Molyneux can stand to watch. If you can put aside the implications he throws out (he often reaches quite a bit further than he should) the research he cites is pretty sound.
I can’t watch him. He just radiates smug to the point where it doesn’t matter what noises he’s making, I just want to shut him up in the most blunt manner possible.
He is super smug. And as Stinky says, he often has decent data or argument and then skips over about 50 steps of logic to say something racist/stupid in the end.
That’s awful. As the author of the story writes:
Colleagues I spoke to were appalled. None of them had ever heard of a paper in any field being disappeared after formal publication. Rejected prior to publication? Of course. Retracted? Yes, but only after an investigation, the results of which would then be made public by way of explanation. But simply disappeared? Never. If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?
Well yea, a major tenet of postmodernism is that reason, science, and philosophy are not merely methods to discover the truth; they are tools to promote Leftist political goals.
“the politics of resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party”
Projection.
“the politics of resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the Republican Party”
Plus, the only reason Trump won was because of meddling by Russian haxxorz, evidence of which is totally coming out any day now!
As soon as they entrap him on perjury charges!
Well, he’s angry that they’ve stolen his playbook.
grabbed a quarter stick of dynamite she had mistaken for a candle.
You’d think she would realize that the fuse didn’t burn like a candle.
Worked for the Goonies.
Maybe someone here already mentioned it, but at this point, I’m convinced the Hair wrote the NYT anon op-ed. There’s no other explanation.
(Although I did get a kick outta this one: https://twitter.com/GrayConnolly/status/1037880253006241792)
Ooooh, I’d never heard the “Trump sanctioned it to justify firing Sessions” bit, that’s a good one. I don’t buy it for a second, but that’s a good conspiracy right there.
There are significantly more men than women, for example, among Nobel laureates, music composers, and chess champions
Patriarchy!
WE HATEZ MERITOCRACIES!
I think someone could write a good Atlas Shrugged-style dystopian novel about what would happen if the “equal outcome” and “not enough women/minorities in _____” mentalities were taken to an extreme…
A future where nobody is allowed to succeed at anything if it would disrupt the “correct” racial/gender composition. Criminal cases are thrown out on the premise that all races commit crimes at equal rates, so convictions that upset the ratio cannot possibly be right. Every work of fiction is screened by a government panel of “diversity experts” who meticulously analyze it for any perpetuation of race/gender stereotypes as well as the diversity of the cast and crew. Gender pronouns have been abolished. Entire racial groups are taxed based on shoddy calculation of “historical injustices”.
Brb, typing this out.
Don’t bother with the audiobook version, your audience will be masturbating too furiously to hear it.
“Misguided uproar over trans study
Any fair-minded person should welcome the Western world’s recent strides in recognizing the human rights and dignity of transgender people. But changing attitudes toward gender identity are also raising extremely tough questions, particularly when it comes to children who identify as transgender. When is someone old enough to make life-altering decisions? Should parents and medical professionals always validate a child’s chosen identity? These are important conversations. Yet some would sweep them under the rug in the name of progress.
In June, The Atlantic published a cover story by science journalist Jesse Singal on children and adolescents who identify as transgender but then return to the gender identity consistent with their birth sex — sometimes after undergoing appearance-changing and potentially health-damaging treatments. The backlash on social media and in left-of-center publications was fierce; the author and the magazine alike were vilified and accused of promoting bigotry.
Now, there is an even more disturbing reaction to a paper by Lisa Littman, a physician and public health expert at Brown University, published late last month by the online science journal PLOS One. Littman’s study examined something she calls “rapid onset gender dysphoria” — cases in which teenagers (usually girls) suddenly begin to report dissatisfaction with their gender, often after exposure to transgender-friendly social media
The parents who were interviewed for the study believe their children are not “authentically” transgender but are latching on to these identities both as a coping mechanism and because being transgender is seen as “cool” in their social circles. (The study mentions several instances in which more than half of the teens in a group of friends came out as transgender around the same time.) Many of these kids have mental health problems; some have experienced trauma ranging from parental divorce to sexual abuse.
The study’s detractors scoff at claims of “sudden onset,” suggesting that the parents had simply been clueless about their children’s gender dysphoria until the kids were finally emboldened to speak. That may be true in some cases. But surely these reports warrant further study and caution — which is all that Littman advocates.”
https://www.newsday.com/amp/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/misguided-uproar-over-trans-study-1.20865722
Give those kids hormones and reassignment surgery, that’ll fix ’em.
Exactly. Transgender is the new goth. It’s edgy and controversial, so kids are going to do it.
The difference is that goths typically did not make radically life-altering decisions; they could usually grow out of it at some point and live a normal life (Marilyn Manson tattoos notwithstanding).
My niece was one of these. No way in hell was I going to call her ‘he’. Like the kid otherwise, but we all do dumb shit when growing up.
We have lasers that can deal with tattoos now, have yet to hear about the penis-un-mutilating laser yet though.
I’m just going to leave this here for Sloopy:
Eagles Mark Best Start in Program History with Win Over Ohio State
Women’s Soccer? Find a real sport. Actually, seeing as the USWNT could probably beat the USMNT, I’ll just stop talking.
LOL – no idea what they were thinking putting the boy’s team up against the Brazilian glitterati last night. What a shit-show the whole enterprise is right now.
Ok, people, I’m out of jail. All is well.
Pro-tip: never, ever, miss a meet up with the Founders. Sorry I missed you guys but at least I got a fictional BJ.
So there’s that.
Is it fictional because it was a tranny/dude with tits?
We’re not 100% sure about the tits.
Was the tranny’s Johnson bigger than Tundra’s too? That would be a soul crusher…
Bitch set me up.
Pro-tip #2: when a decent-looking female walks up to your car and offers a “date”, it’s a sting. Always. And the real perp will not be arrested for prostitution, because the police are allowed to do it when they have a good reason. It’s right there in the statute, in the fine print: “Police are allowed to violate laws because THIN BLUE LINE.”
You should ask whether the person who offered you a BJ for $20 was arrested, because that’s a crime too. Of course, we all know the answer to that.
Speaking from experience there Cory Booker?
A few months ago I was having dinner with some former coworkers at a local bar. Some nights it turns into a nightclub after 9 PM. This was one of those nights.
My former coworkers and I lingered a bit after the nightclub started up. At some point, some 20 something good looking blonde sits down next to me and says, “Are you guys rich? Do any of you want to be my sugar daddy?”
No.
Points for honesty, though.
I totally woulda lied.
You want DEG to be your sugar daddy, but you would hide that fact?
She lots a few points for honesty though.
We chatted with her a bit. She said she had just split with her boyfriend and was on the rebound. That was believable. She was there with two friends. We met those friends, so believable as well. Where things broke down was we had noticed a guy hanging around he. We asked if she was with the guy. She said no, he’s just a friend. While we didn’t talk to him, it became pretty clear she was a) with him, and b) using us to make him jealous.
“lost”, “lost”, not “lots”. Shit. PROOFREAD!
Heh.
My ex-BIL was/is moderately wealthy, after the divorce he started hanging out with lots of good looking women who were just using him as a payday. Tried to tell him he’d be better off without ’em, but oh well. The guy started doing lots of drugs, hallucinating, got sick and became suicidal.
Not sure what hes up to these days, if anything at all.
For no reason:
Women are like elephants. I like to look at ’em, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
W. C. Fields
W.C. Fields – elephant fucker.
As his significant other, erm, heavy?
Based on that quote, I’ma say yes.
“A billionaire pharmaceuticals executive who has been blamed for spurring the US opioid crisis stands to profit from the epidemic after he patented a new treatment for drug addicts.
Richard Sackler, whose family owns Purdue Pharma, the company behind the notorious painkiller OxyContin, was granted a patent earlier this year for a reformulation of a drug used to wean addicts off opioids.
The invention is a novel form of buprenorphine, a mild opiate that controls drug cravings, which is often given as a substitute to people hooked on heroin or opioid painkillers such as OxyContin.”
https://www.ft.com/content/a3a53ae8-b1e3-11e8-8d14-6f049d06439c
“Hooking the nation on opioids” must be the new “beating your wife”.
“Apple has purged Infowars from its App Store, after previously banning Alex Jones and Infowars from using its platform to publish podcasts.
This comes just a day after Jones and InfoWars were Permanently blacklisted by Twitter, which justified its actions by pointing to a video of Jones confronting Oliver Darcy, the CNN reporter who ceaselessly lobbied social media to ban InfoWars — twitter called the confrontation “abuse.”
Infowars has now been banned by Apple Podcasts, the App Store, YouTube, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even Pinterest. Alex Jones still retains his personal page on Facebook, although it has been locked for 30 days.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/07/apple-permanently-blacklists-infowars-app-from-store/
TW: Breitbart
(((CENSORED)))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1jeXMF25eM
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1038088785798602753
How long before his web domain registry is pulled and the alternative sites who continue to host his stuff have their payment processing ability attacked? This stuff is dangerous.
They’ll come after this site eventually.
Yep, we’re probably #164029 on the list, but there is a list and we are on it
My twitter account got suspended. I was probably following the wrong people.
Was this before or after officer friendly entrapped you by trying to find out what was inside your tootsie pop?
Before. I believe they are unrelated, but who knows.
So much for my political run. Would have been fun to be a Senator.
If you wanted to be a senator, YOU are supposed to give the BJs.
#williescockholster
“Boy, you can’t really prove a conspiracy theorist more right than banning him the day after he showed up at your hearing to confront you about censorship.”
https://twitter.com/Communism_Kills/status/1037821329536430081
Hey Yusef, I was reading the comments from yesterday evening and I hope you are doing okay today. You’re not alone man, and you need allies in that fight. You’ve got them, just keep pushing.
Yeah, that was something else. My guess is you’re like me: Don’t say shit and suffer alone. My wishes are that he can deal with it. Still freaked me out a bit.
That dark cloud has been with me my whole life.
If anyone here ever needs someone to be there, please reach out to me. Mustang dot 314 at protonmail dot com.
You’re a better human than me. I don’t get it. People I respect think they’re broken. What does that make the rest of us?
Not broken, just wired in a way that requires some different thought management techniques I think.
Bomb inside the wiring, eh. Avoid it if you can. Honestly, I think having the kill switch at my fingertips means that I’m still a free man. Take that away from me, and I’m a slave.
Everyone is broken.
^^^ This. And I don’t think it is really broken. I think we all have fears, obsessions, suppressed desires, and other “weird” stuff we are afraid to express publicly or even confront internally.
We are all born into the human condition.
Agreed. It is just a matter of degrees; where one is at on an imperfect scale.
If one is potentially dangerous to their self; they need help. If they are a danger to others, they need help and to be institutionalized. Unfortunately I have little faith in private “institutions” to handle the mental health of the dangerous people. I have even less (zero) faith in the government being helpful.
We were talking about Jobs’s treatment of his natural daughter the other day.
That asshole was BROKEN.
I didn’t think anyone would refresh this page so…
I think egould is right, and incidentally is something JP (and a lot of religions) acknowledge. The only question from there is what you’re going to do about it. I think the only rational answer is make the best of it, on a personal level. Others may say to try to change the world and your fellow men. But I think that ignores the nature of man, and our fitness in the greater universe.
I not only deal with the dark cloud, but my teen daughter as well. My poor husband nhas to keep a weather eye on both of us. My brother is on the edge of ECT. He and my SIL stopped having children because of his (brother’s) faulty wiring. I give my late dad grief, but sometimes I wonder how much mental incapacity he was dealing with. We’re all playing with a not-full deck, so we cheat as best we can.
Can you explain this to me. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Just wanting to end it? Who doesn’t get that way once in a while? Will to life? I genuinely don’t get what the unique experience is that you are going through that others aren’t. Not meaning to be an asshole, I’m simply not seeing it.
I don’t know how to explain it except as an ongoing feeling of hopelessness, worthlessness, despair, only it’s not a normal cycle of despair and rejuvenation. The sun never comes out tomorrow.
It’s a chemical imbalance in your head that doesn’t ever let you control your own thoughts. You don’t get any relief from it without chemical help. Sometimes it’s a vitamin/mineral imbalance. Sometimes it’s a physical ailment that mimics depression (hypothyroidism, for example). Or some misture.
You just never feel like you can get out of the hole your brain has convinced you you’re in.
So it’s the duration that sets it apart? I can see how extended time in that state of mind would cause you to have terrible thoughts. Not going into detail, but I’ve had the hammer hanging over my head for years. Someday it’ll drop. My solution is to try to speak truth when I can and be nicer to people around me. Of course that isn’t going to work when the problem is chemical. I always feel like a person with no medical training looking at someone having a heart attack when I see this arising around me. And I have. Repeatedly.
For me, diet can help control it. Vitamin D and massive doses of iron help control it (iron-deficiency anemia is another ailment that mimics depression). However, I need drugs to be productive and not lying in bed crying all day every day for a while (depression), then super productive for another while (mania), making promises I won’t be able to keep when the depression cycle rolls around again.
I guess I should read yesterday’s post to see what’s going on.
Yusef, whatever it is, you’ve got my support too.
I read it. Whoa.
Yusef, I hope you get through this.
Apropos of nothing, when what’s-her-name asked Kavanaugh whether there were any laws restricting men’s bodies, he should have mentioned this one.
Oh, you mean the one that says if the government decides it needs cannon fodder you’re either pressed into service or do real, actual prison time?
But that’s empowering for men because women aren’t
ableallowed to serve in those roles.Kinda like a woman enjoying sole discretion over whether to bring a pregnancy to term, regardless of what the father wants, means she’s unduly burdened by the decision.
And if you fail to register, you can permanently be denied government benefits, programs, or assistance that women, because they don’t have to, won’t be.
Yup, I immediately thought of that when I heard Kamala’s dumbass question. Recently a proggie friend of mine brought up the bullshit line of “laws that only apply to womens’ bodies” and I mentioned Selective Service. She tried to claim it didn’t exist. “Maybe it doesn’t exist because you never had to sign your body up to become the property of the US government.” That didn’t go so well. She is now banned from discussing politics with me.
When people ask what militia I’m part of, I show them my selective service registration.
Ha! I’m going to have to use that the next time I hear the idiotic “but mulisha!”.
Its not even wrong. I mean, SS is wrong, but the argument is pretty solid, imo.
All men over 18 and under 55(?) are in the militia.
17 & 45. So not only are firearms restrictions for 18-20 year olds unconstitutional under the explicit wording of 2A, it’s the same under the only militia reading. And for 17 year olds to boot.
Picking on Tundra after all the compliments he gives you all on your old fart music. Shame.
This comes just a day after Jones and InfoWars were Permanently blacklisted by Twitter, which justified its actions by pointing to a video of Jones confronting Oliver Darcy, the CNN reporter who ceaselessly lobbied social media to ban InfoWars — twitter called the confrontation “abuse.”
This is a private dispute, not a prosecution, but-
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.[1]
The Sixth Amendment underpins cultural traditions as well as courtroom procedures.
For some reason, I suspect the “confrontation” consists of Jones saying, “Prove it.”
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1038087482603200512
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
“I’m not a Nazi, but my dog is.” God bless that man.
Yusef, are you feeling better this morning?
It’s still a touch early on the west side, but it’d be nice to get a check-in just to make sure everything’s alright.
That story about Tundra seems a bit far fetched. I just can’t believe that he thought it was a real woman. It’s not really an excuse that’s it was dark. He should have known better.
Yusef, hope this morning is treating you a bit better. Find help where you can, we’d like you to stick around.
Any port in a storm, K.
I’ll second the well wishes. I went back to see what happened last night – whoa.
Yusef, Tres needs you man.
Well, we all do, but Tres most of all.
No judgements Tundra. I know the weather up there can get more than a bit rough. Maybe Q could even help by posting one of his galleries featuring dangling appendages with the t&a.
Yusef, Tres needs you man.
Well, we all do, but Tres most of all.
This. Hopefully it was mostly the liquor talking last night, because this place wouldnt be the same without ya, Yusef.
Based on my experience beer/liquor does not typically improve depression. I would stay away from the stuff if feeling down.
*continues drinking beer at 11 AM* /hypocrite
*goes and grabs a beer, too*
It wasn’t meant to be ??
*gets paper towels to clean beer off the floor*
Jesus Trashy. I will say one Ave Bacchus for your soul.
*sigh*
I was in baby hell over here. Wifey forgot to clean his bottles… and a million things in the sink. So lunch was late, cue lotsa crying from normally stoic kiddo. Thankfully he’s taking his nap now, after a strangely abbreviated one this morning.
Glad he finally went down for you! This bottles are a constant chore for a while. Sometimes it was like I’d clean them and by the time i turned back around they were all dirty again!
Baby trshmnstr has been dealing with her molars coming in, which meant waking up every 2 hours to cry. She finally felt better yesterday, but a thunderstorm came through right after bedtime, waking her up screaming “all done!” and “bye bye boom boom!”
^This. Stay away from stuff that isn’t going to help. Aristotle explained this in detail thousands of years ago.
“Wow. I honestly thought this was some conspiracy theory shit so I double checked. Yup. They were both tweeted at the same exact time. So if i’m not mistaken, CNN reported on something that happened on Twitter before it even happened.
WAIT… Somebody pointed this out to me just now: reporters were briefed by Twitter about this beforehand. Buzzfeed tweeted about it at 4:45, AP at 4:46, then NYT, followed by WaPo and Politico. I didn’t even think to check the other media accounts.”
https://twitter.com/PardesSeleh/status/1037850909118742530
“CNN Reporter repeatedly posts and writes about Alex Jones not being banned. Jones confronts CNN reporter Twitter permabans Jones the next day, reports say it was due to confronting CNN reporter. CNN and other news outlets given advanced notice of Jones’ ban.”
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1037908630044073984
I wonder if we’ll ever get a president that isn’t a drooling narcissist.
Trump isn’t a drooling narcissist, he’s a bombastic narcissist, so he counts right?
Jennifer Rudemyer, 39, who was found dead outside the Hilton Head Island home of Gaston Perez on Tuesday night, attacked him hours after he got a restraining order against her, Beaufort County officials and police told the Island Packet newspaper.
That restraining order did a hell of a lot of good.
Maybe they should have made it out of Kevlar rather than paper.
Some gun maker should release a special “restraining order” edition.
“In this clip, he is citing someone else’s position, not stating his own. I don’t want a single person who shared this clip to ever complain to me again about “oh why don’t facts matter anymore?”. Harris is choosing to lie here, period.”
https://twitter.com/KSoltisAnderson/status/1038431837494956032
According to the replies, he was either supposed to flatly condemn the position or he accepts it wholeheartedly… because an evenhanded jurist is supposed to be a partisan ideologue rather than looking at the text of the law?
It’s more that the Democrat senators knew they couldn’t block the nomination, so Harris, Feinstein, Black Spartacus, et al. used the hearings to stage a clown show to drive fundraising and generate campaign fodder.
Lost it at black Spartacus.
Remember tuffgai with the baseball bat running for NYS AG? He just put out a new one with dog whistles to antifa.
Classy guy.
*prays for SMOD*
Like he’s going to take down Trump. Apparently, someone at the DNC decided their local candidates should run on national issues. Because they are all doing it.
As a resident of NY, what I am really concerned about is what he’s going to do to help Puerto Rico.
Now that it’s a clean slate, we should force their independance.
I really wish they were independent. Sadly, that’d likely just mean the Island would depopulate even more when they totally, completely fucked it up. Its not like you can revoke their citizenship when you grant the independence.
Maybe after a Fillbuster could go and conquer it for our commercial interests.
What a time to be alive. /wistfull
The local pols constantly going on about PR is getting pretty tiresome.
No one is going to top this for a long time:
https://twitter.com/mchooyah/status/1038140646056501251
LOL.
If I get this right… OP was one of the guys who actually, really did kill Osama?
Yes, he was the one who pulled the trigger.
To be honest there is at least one other who claims that honor. But there was no doubt he was part of the team that did.
Wow. He shot down a troll and Osama bin Laden.
God. Damn. They’re gonna have to identify that dude by his dental records after that burn.
So, a friend of mine, nice guy, but proggy to a bone posted this:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/judge-brett-kavanaugh-should-be-impeached-for-lying-during-his-confirmation-hearings.html
Is it all lies and misinformation, or not? Help me out peepels.
More like bullshit. During his 2006 confirmation hearing, he was asked whether some unspecified memos affected his judgement, and he replied that he hadn’t seen them.
The rain has knocked down the humidity and the temperature. After a week of 95* and 95%humidity, we have the windows open listening to the patter of rain and enjoying the fresh air.