Hey hey Glibbys.
Popping in to give you some quick links because it looks like Sloopy is still, uh….indisposed…as OMWC so generously shared yesterday morning.
First up, this blasted hurricane. I have cousins down south who are going to be getting hammered. And they also have to deal with the hurricane. It’s a big motherfucker.
Apple is getting ready for its annual device release, and looks like this might mean lower prices.
Football season is back. For those of you who care, here’s how all the teams got their names.
Scientists (ahem…some scientists) are trying to return Pluto to its former glory.
The Baldwin Effect, which is some sciencey thing, has something to do with the adaptability of lizards.
And continuing the busy week in science, some new sea creatures have been discovered.
Georgia wants to beat the shit out of your children.
The border between Ethiopia and Eritrea is reopening after 20 years.
The Atlantic thinks NASA shouldn’t be putting logos all over its stuff.
A collision in Phoenix resulted in dozens of beer kegs spilling out along the highway.
And your boozey link: craft beers inspired by cocktails.
Today is a great day to do a little dancing, so I leave you with…
Comments
601 responses to “Morning Links, WebDom is feeling snarky”
That sounds euphemistically ambiguous.
Did he fail to make bail?
He is in that tranny’s pit where he gets told to put on the lotion or get the hose three times a day is what SF told me..
He’s not getting out until he learns to tuck properly.
educational material
WTF?
Sounds like a modified National Lampoon cover is in order. “Donate now, or the Buckeye gets it!”
First up, this blasted hurricane. I have cousins down south who are going to be getting hammered. And they also have to deal with the hurricane. It’s a big motherfucker. –
I mean yeah it seems real bad. On the other hand here in Romania we ignore hurricanes and they go away.
Just wait, the next Black Sea Hurricane is going to be a doozy!
Yeah, we’re lucky around DC in that it looks like it’s cutting inland, but that’s going to suck for a lot of people down south. It’s still chugging away at Cat 4.
But they still won’t be cheap enough to make me buy any.
Have you ever considered becoming really rich?
That wouldn’t change my preference for not having apple products.
Trejo machine pistol has an apple on it and looks fun. Different apple though… The apple logo on the side of the slide is a reference to the town Zacatlán de las Manzanas (Zacatlán of the Apples, near Puebla), which is famous for its apples and apple cider. )
Also Despacito? Really?
*Waits for Pie to be placed in a burlap sack, and beaten with reeds*
Must you always expect others to enact your labor for you?
Obviously the superior version is Leo Moraccioli’s cover, to be found here.
Postmodern Jukebox also has a cover… Although that may be a cover of Justin Beibers cover…
Better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPm3FSTbrQ4
Football season is back. For those of you who care, here’s how all the teams got their names.
How did Atlanta Peaches not win? Or at least Vibrants? Are there even any falcons in Atlanta?
Hawks and Falcons adapt to urban environments fairly well. They have ample food in the form of various vermin (pigeons, squirrels, etc) and plenty of places to perch. I’m not sure if they nest in buildings or trees, but it’s generally Eagles that have a hard time living in cities.
There are Peregrine Falcons on NYC’s Chrysler Building.
Peregrines have adapted/are adapting to human activity quite well. They have traded cliffs for man-made structures for their nesting. In the town I work in, Peregrines have been successfully nesting on a water tower for many years. And their young have been spotted nesting on buildings in other towns in the region.
A few years ago I was working at a large construction site in Yonkers on the Hudson River, which was overrun by the Fucking Hate Birds, the Birds that Hate. Then I started to notice fewer and fewer of them hanging around and would sometimes see a mutilated corpse. I understood what was happening early one morning when I got to the site and there was a Peregrine Falcon perched atop a utility pole with nary a hate bird in sight.
Peregrines are doing God’s work.
I’m sorry you had to spend substantial time in Yonkers.
So was I.
It’s fine.
We certainly have to many damn winged rats in Bucharest. Fucker need some culling but people still feed the damn things.
Be careful you don’t upset their masters…
I hear they are real creatures of the night and out for blood..
Annapolis is technically a city, but it’s not urban like a DC or Baltimore, certainly nothing like NYC, and we’ve got a ton of water around us, so we’ve actually got a fair number of Bald eagles around. We’ve also got red-tailed hawks, although you don’t see them quite as frequently. We’ve got osprey like other places have pigeons, though. They nest on the channel markers in the larger creeks and rivers that feed into the bay.
About once a week I see an Osprey flying around with a 3 – 5 lb fish in it’s talons while driving across the Bay Bridge. One day while stuck in traffic at the tolls I actually watched an Osprey with a rather large catch trying to defend it from about 6 other Ospreys who were trying to steal it from him. It was a rather amusing aerial battle to watch and I do think the original guy eventually got away to eat his dinner in peace
A buddy of mine who lives here used to find perch and the odd bass in his yard from osprey dropping them on the way back.
Yup
Growing up in NE GA for the most part, I’m more familiar with golden eagles. We’d see at least one mating pair pretty often by my parents’ house, they’re rebounding pretty well. Doubtless that’s why I didn’t see falcons often.
Also are falcons officially cooler than hawks? in Romania Șoim is cooler than Uliu…
In know there are some falcon nests in the north downtown area of Atlanta. I also saw one get in a staredown with squirrel last month while sitting at a stop light.
*pictures squirrel and Falcon getting into a street race through downtown Atlanta*
The Fast And The Fur-i-ous 9: ….I’ll stop now
They were saving Peaches for the WNBA franchise.
Atlanta Hot Mess was my suggestion.
How involved was the U.S with Ethiopia and Eritrea. I’ve read a few articles over the last few months but no specifics of direct involvement (if any) in peace talks.
“According to one newspaper report, the concern was raised at the 1993 NFL meetings that a team nicknamed the Panthers that featured black in its color scheme would appeal to street gangs and reflect poorly on the league.”
Unlike the Raiders
Or Vikings…
The Raiders are a street gang.
What about the Golden State Warriors? Can they come out to play?
This is so sad Alexa play Despacito.
“The Atlantic thinks NASA shouldn’t be putting logos all over its stuff.”
At first I read that as the Atlantic Ocean doesn’t want NASA logos on its stuff, like Bermuda.
I don’t know why this is surprising. It’s apparently uncouth to put American flags on the moon anymore. A Nike swoosh and a Kaepernick wig on a Mars Rover seems a bit much by comparison.
They should make some of these cool patches and put them on things
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/satellites/g2728/best-spy-mission-logos/
Nike on the Moon
One small kneel for man
One giant protest for mankind
“Just Moon It”
hmm…maybe not.
There was an old joke during commie times something along the line:
US astronauts landed on the moon and see a Russian vessel also landing.
Huston, the Russians have landed and it seems they are trying to paint the moon red!
Let them finish and then get the white paint and write coca cola …
So yeah that’s it
Favorite Commie joke:
Guy is in prison, goes to prison library, asks for a book by author.
Librarian says, “we don’t have the book, but we have the author”
It’s far worse than simple patriotism. The program is :gasp: thinking of getting some funding by selling it’s naming rights. OMG Trump had ruined science. If Doritos gets its name on a probe, we’ll be back in the dark ages.
I want to live in the future where an asteroid that is emblazoned with the Facebook logo crashes into Earth and destroys civilization.
Facebook really is destroying the world.
NASA, NASCAR, what’s the difference?
I don’t CR
“The Man Who Sold the Moon” was written by RA Heinlein in … 1949 according to wikipedia. IIRC, they used lasers to put Coke’s logo on the full moon as part of the main character’s effort to fund a moon mission. This is an idea so old it’s new again.
Meh, I prefer the original
>>The Atlantic thinks NASA shouldn’t be putting logos all over its stuff.
The Glibertarian Satellite of Ass Sex, Pot, and Mexicans?
While this person is having a conniption over the name of a satellite (last I checked the name is a property that hasno effect on the scientific merit.) He ignores that such things have been done before, and generally the names have been classy.
Everyone I hear “classy”, I can only think of a Trump speech.
It will be the classiest satellite, with gold lame panels and faux marble.
Everytime
Have you seen the lunar lander?
Totally pimped out.
Glib Interstellar Exploration Craft Deep-Dish
My 2018 calendar was one Nasa sold in their gift shop. The image for September is of a Space-X module meting up with the ISS over Dubai*. I think we’re past worrying about having corporate branding on spacecraft.
*I initially wasn’t sure if it was showing the straights of hormuz, but the palm-tree shaped artificial islands along the coast confirmed it. The description of the picture is all about the capsule, but the background imagery is more facinating to look at.
That must be the Muslim outreach Obama was talking about.
just for the record: does the glib credo require acceptance of all three? (ass sex, pot and mexicans)?
I want to say it does, but then again, we’re not much for loyalty tests are we?
*looks over shoulder in paranoia*
Do not worry, Friend Computer is always watching.
…Watching your back, I mean. Friend computer would never spy on you.
Why, you got something against mexicans?
The next probe to Uranus to be sponsored by PornHub.
“Scientists (ahem…some scientists) are trying to return Pluto to its former glory.”
Pluto’s size, orbit and angle of orbit all suggest that it is much closer to a comet than a planet. Even by their definition (going off if planetary formation) I’m not convinced that Pluto is like other planets
Pluto is a fucking planet, bitch!
But it has a moon and everything!
More like it’s Moon has a planet…
More like a swarm of comet-type-things all orbiting together. Like group sex, Pluto and Charon are the hot chicks so they are the center of attention…
That’s no moon…
You mean it’s a Potato?!
I’m taking an awful risk.
Geologically, Pluto is much more similar to Earth than most planets.
STEVE SMITH CONTENT BEHIND URANUS
I feel this could be a lot funnier…
https://twitter.com/SamSykesSwears/status/1039302092567932931
Sitting in the doctors waiting room for an appointment. I didn’t get home till 2am because the Somali truckers from Minnesota didn’t get to my business until 11pm last night with my generator shipment. I think I’ll pass out in the MRI.
Trust me… You’ll have no problem staying awake in the MRI.
Oh and hope everything is ok.
Hope everything turns out OK.
I hope everything is OK.
Thanks. Probably a bulging disc but they check for everything these days.
It’s them lawyers and their pursuit of the American dream (a medical lawsuit’s windfall)…
I had an MRI for my bulging disc, and started to doze off towards the end. I found the noise to be sort of rhythmic which probably helped. Good luck.
Best of luck. And wear earplugs, those things are loud.
Hope everything goes well.
I actually enjoyed my last MRI. The sounds were fun to this drummer. I made a Thom Yorke-esque elctronica soundtrack in my head. Surprisingly, I was not stoned. I somehow felt very peaceful.
Best of luck, brother
Racist or not? This is why those fuckers who have called everything racist are such shit heads.
I sort of think that this is pretty high on the real racist scale. But because everyone and everything is racist, this guy can probably escape the mob.
I think a police chief who makes a video saying that America needs to wake up because too many people at a famous national park are not speaking english might be a problem.
What an asshat. Speaking of this, I went back to the States a couple weeks ago to visit family so the old man and I went to the Kennedy Space Center. It was amazing and touching how the majority of the guests there were foreigners from all over the place.
A couple years ago we were in AZ over the xmas vacation and my wife really, really wanted to go to the Grand Canyon. I couldn’t talk her out of it. So off we went.
The first thing you have to know is that being a kid from the prairie, I had forgotten how much higher up the Grand Canyon is than Phoenix. So we left warm Phoenix and climbed up a couple thousand feet only to find that it was moderately cold there. It had also snowed pretty hard a day or two before we got there. We were totally unprepared for the weather. However, we were Minnesodans so the cold wasn’t even a patch on what we had back home. So while it would have been nice to have had a jacket and hat (we had sweat shirts and I was wearing sandals), it wasn’t the end of the world.
I think that 80% of the other visitors there were from Asia (mostly India, but a lot of Chinese too). And they were all dressed like they were going to climb Everest with heavy boots and coats. We were a hit with them because none of them thought that any human could survive temps below 50.
Like you, I thought it was great that all of them were there gawking at the majesty of the US.
Please tell me you were NOT wearing socks with your sandals.
Is there any other way to do that? I don’t wear sandals, but I have always seen people wearing socks with them…
That’s a great way to get your ass kicked.
You are showing your age. That look is all the rage with the kids today.
And no, I don’t get it either.
Uffda. C’mon SP, that is a dumb statement even for a Packer Backer. Of course I didn’t wear socks.
I wear my DIY huaraches everywhere. You can’t wear socks with those.
Yes, the snow got all over my feet on that trip and it was pretty chilly. But it was worth it to Minnesoda-gloat over the freak out our brothers and sisters from warmer climes had over the idea of snow touching bare skin.
I worked in the Visitor’s Center gift shop one summer (1981) while in college. We used to get these huge tour groups of Brazilians who would advance through the aisles like locusts and scoop up half the store for gifts to all their friends. I was often tasked to help them since my Spanish was decent (which is the closest to a Portuguese speaker that we had), and they were all very nice people who spent lots of money. Manager loved them.
That’s awesome and jeebs there is no way I’d make in the Grand Canyon with sandals in winter-time, Pope. I hope to see the GC one day too, it’s gotta be a real beauty. That’s cool too, Spartacus, yeah a good number of the South American tourists are really nice big spenders, at least based on my experiences living in Miami.
Dear Chief Bunde,
If they are talking to you, then you might politely tell them that you only speak English.
If they are not talking to you, then MYOFB. Problem solved.
When he starts advocating for different treatment of those people because they do not conform to his arbitrary standards, then he’s an actual racist.
Until then he’s a bigoted asshole.
Aren’t you a bit worried though that as Police Chief, him being a bigoted asshole might lead to different treatment of people in very bad real ways?
That is what made me bump this up from “who gives a shit” to “they might be onto something here.”
I don’t think the mob needs to burn him at the stake right away. They should look at his actual conduct while in office and maybe get some context from people who know him. Then burn him at the stake.
That’s uh…that’s retarded. I mean, we want people from abroad to come look at our stuff and go, “ooohhh”.
“blablablablabla” isn’t racist. We use “blablablablabla” even when talking about people speaking our own language.
“All I heard was ‘ching-chong ching-chong chinaman gook gook’” might be racist, though.
“All I heard was ‘like? like? like? like?’”
Things across the street are getting a little tense. Apparently VP Pence is stopping by this business. The entire parking lot has been cleared and there are a lot of suspiciously black Suburbans about.
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/09/mike_pence_to_visit_grand_rapi.html
Normally, I’d wonder why anyone thinks someone might assassinate a Vice President.
But we live in deranged times.
Remember the attempted knife attack on a GOP candidate yesterday? I didn’t, either.
Damn it all.
I did. That, along with the bernie bro shooting up the baseball field, etc, etc, I had to revise my previous assessment regarding the risk to a vp.
I forgot all about it right around 7:26 this morning. Thanks for the reminder….
I would normally rail on about the over cautious nature of this sort of shit. Who really wants to bump off a VP? Why does the Secret Service get away with shutting down major roads any time some jackass politician wants to go somewhere? Are there ever any true credible threats that warrant this nonsense?
Then I read stories like this and realize that the atmosphere really is getting crazy where people are being driven to violence by hysteria.
How can you kill that which is already dead?
The spectre of Pence shall haunt Washington…
Rattle of chains in Observatory Circle,
Lonely moans and cold spots in the West Wing.
Dead? Or just in a state of suspended animation?
That would be a creepy Sus-Pence story.
suspiciously black
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His post is actually goose-stepping.
Is it because black cars are supposedly cheaper? I mean, nothing adheres to the narrative than a fleet of menacing dark-colored vehicles prowling the streets.
How some nice champagne-colored Camrys?
Always with the racist Suburbans.
Well, the alternatives to the Suburbans would be the Metros…
And now I see few guys in suits and dark sunglasses – the secret service stereotype – and a bunch of county deputies standing around. Also a K9 unit dog.
And only another two hours to go before Pence shows up. This has been early kabuki security so far.
I’m wondering if any protesters will show up.
If the crazy kind show up, get some pictures.
He was here a few weeks back and drove by my work. In addition to all the guys you are seeing already, keep an eye out for a helicopter. I missed him actually driving by, but some other guys said it was hovering over his car, flying sideways and nose-down so those inside always had eyes on his vehicle. They said it was a pretty impressive bit of flying by the pilot.
Some poor bastard had the unfortunate luck to get a flat tire on his route. He immediately got a LOT of “help.”
I hope any Glibs in the path of Florence are taking the warnings seriously. Stay safe.
Yes, this one looks like the real deal and not another instance of media overhyping.
I’m with SP. Stay safe Carolina Glibs.
Fourth’d on this one. Be careful and don’t take any unnecessary risks y’all.
You only live once. Show nature who’s boss. I’ll hold your beer from a safe distance.
Florida Man Lane Pittman agrees.
The threat of a direct hit has decreased here on the Pamlico Sound, but the surge and rain could still be catastrophic. After work today, I’m grabbing my cats and heading for higher ground.
Good idea.
Good luck!
These euphemisms…
Stay safe!
Grab ’em by the, er, scruff.
Yeah, it has been a long time since a big one hit the outer banks.
Way back when I was a kid a big hurricane hit down there. A friend of the family had a huge house down on the south end of Emerald Isle. When we went down to the beach the next spring he took us down to see the “house”. We drove to the end of the road and he pointed to a buoy about a hundred yards or so off shore: “See that marker? That’s about where my house was….
Those islands tend to move around a lot in these big storms. And the flooding on the coastal plain is no joke.
Stay safe, friends..
“In 1933, Bert Bell and Lud Wray purchased the bankrupt Frankford Yellowjackets. The new owners renamed the team the Eagles in honor of the symbol of the National Recovery Act, which was part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.”
Dang it! The Eagles are commies!
As a Giants fan I am not at all surprised to hear this.
Has anyone seen this on any national news? It seems like it should be considering the kid was allegedly pistol whipped before being shot in the back of the head. Maybe I’m a glib cynic, but I’m guessing if the victim had darker skin, it might get more attention.
Protest planned for Devils Lake man fatally shot by police; attorney asks for $20 million settlement
Once you pistol whip the guy, you have to kill him. Lest he snitch on you.
If it wasn’t for the FYTW clause, you would think that Devil’s Lake would be in even more hot water by refusing to let her speak. Equal application of the law is just for books I guess.
I’ll ask my kid about this. His two room mates are from Devil’s Lake area. They might now the guy.
I’ll take this opportunity to say that our DL is better than your DL.
Uffda. Did some piece of large farm equipment fall on your head?
The kids from your DL lit up when I told them that they could go to our DL and visit my parents who live two blocks from the beach. They know the real deal when they hear it.
So just because there’s a Zorbaz, and miles of beach, and there are no cops pistol-whipping and executing people, you think your DL is better? Elitist!
In all seriousness, those kids are too young to remember when our DL had beaches. After rising 25′ the lake is a little different than it used to be.
“The detective’s attorney, Mark Friese, told the Herald that Fuller attacked Potts, adding the officer was trying to get away when he hit the man and accidentally shot him.”
That’s rich.
Well, at least 1 of them got home safely.
He was trying to get away and in doing so, accidentally pistol-whipped him 3 times and then shot him in the back of the head. He was barely able to retreat with his life!
Meanwhile the EU has decided to punish Hungary for wrongthink:
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-parliament-votes-to-trigger-article-7-sanctions-procedure-against-hungary/a-45459720
They’ve shown over the past couple of years that they don’t like sovereign states who are no longer onboard with the project exercising their right to leave. I wonder how long chattering class idiots will be able to pretend the EU guarantees peace in Europe, rather than threatens it.
“The move means that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government could eventually lose its EU voting rights.”
Imagine if this happened in the United States….. Oh wait…. Nevermind.
You know who else guaranteed peace?…
Emperor Xerxes?
You really don’t want to piss off Hungary. Nice people, but those mothers can hold a grudge like nobody’s business.
Hungary was one of the first countries to start breaking free from the USSR in 1989, so far as I’m aware…
Jim Carrey Urges Democrats To Embrace The Socialist Label
You should always take advice on branding from the ’90s talking butt guy who hasn’t had a role in 20 years.
Oh yeah, let the guy who made millions doing shit like talking with his butt lecture us about income inequality and the joys of socialism.
He’s just letting others have a chance at working. How egalitarian of him.
And then he started giving all his own money away, right?
Because as a socialist, he realized he had way more than he needed. And on his next movie, he demanded that he only get paid as much as the average crew member.
“And then he started giving all his own money away, right?”
That made me laugh. These douches always expect others to do the actual paying.
From his wiki:
But I’m sure he goes back to Canada for the medical stuff.
Oh, and apparently he’s as much an anti-vaxxer as his erstwhile amour, Jenny McCarthy. You know, I used to feel a little bad for the guy because obviously something has zigged when it should have zagged, but, you know what? Fuck him.
Canada isn’t a socialist country.
It is a hat.
I for one echo his advice to democrats. In for a penny, in for a pound.
He was a kid in Canada. Everything is paid for when you’re a kid.
That’s lax parenting, at least make the kid contribute to the household.
He also homeless in Canada, but not homeless in the United States.
Late to the thread, but Canada’s “free” socialized health care doesn’t cover prescription medication. You either pay out of pocket or have private insurance to cover it. He’s either a liar or a moron. Or both.
“has now been demonstrated at the genetic level in a population of dark-colored lizards adapted to live on a lava flow in the desert”
Suck it mammals, we’re here to stay
https://youtu.be/ZhuFkN63r6M
You are welcome to live on all the lava flows you want. Hell you are welcome to come to my yard, my dog loves lizards. I pick up chewed lizard bits at least 3 times a week.
Down here in Florida lizards are kinda like grasshoppers or somesuch throughout the middle of the country. My dog chases, catches, plays with, rolls in lizards on a daily basis. He even confronts big iguanas (before thinking better of it).
And all of it makes no difference. Those things are like locusts. They are everywhere, and no amount of predation by a single pup seems to make a dent.
We have frogs.
My dog loves to stomp them to death.
*poke with nose; jump with frog and land on top of it
On the beers inspired by cocktails front, Short’s (owned by Lagunitas, owned by Heineken), also has Melt My Brain which is a gin and tonic inspired blonde ale.
Melt My Brain was my go-to summer ‘beer”. It really does taste like a fizzier gin ‘n’ tonic.
Melt My Brain is a great summer beer. They also just released Passion Grass which is excellent. Their fall beers are coming out this week. Happy to get into some browns and ales and away from IPAs.
“Gin and tonic inspired blonde ale”. Beer? Wut?
They steeped it in twigs and quinine.
It’s a blonde ale (generally light bodied, easy drinking beer), that was then flavored with juniper, quinine, and lime. The point being to make a beer taste like a gin and tonic.
The Atlantic thinks NASA shouldn’t be putting logos all over its stuff.
Without actually reading the article (natch), I’m kind of inclined to agree. It’s going to end up turning into the Energy Star program for billionaire rocket boys.
It’s naming rights, not program related, it any directive rights. I don’t see how letting rich people help pay for NASA programs is a bad thing, when it’s just too buy the name.
I say we let the rich pay for NASA programs, just not voluntarily. If they were paying their fair share of taxes we wouldn’t be in this mess!
If rich dudes are paying for it then I don’t see the necessity of the pretense that it’s a NASA program. Moon shot nostalgia is the last acceptable form of jingoism.
I’m not completely dialed in to the NASA demographic, but I wonder whether they shouldn’t have a fundraiser where a tastefully soft-spoken mature woman sells them a coffee mug for $100 or a canvas tote for $250.
European MPs vote in favor of controversial copyright laws
https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/12/EU-copyright-directive-article-11-13-law-internet-ruling-censorship/
Well this is fucking awful…
“the provisions are merely intended to give creators and smaller outlets the opportunity to reclaim the value of their work”
Well I suppose it’s ok if the intentions are good /s
We all know everything is intended only for good and it always works well
We’re going to have to invade to remove the EU, aren’t we?
Sure, it will be a six minute war, but still.
The last time we tangled with the Germans it was pretty ugly.
this blasted hurricane
People in RVA are still being hysterical/irrational about this storm despite the recent changes in projected path (including the gf, who happens to be concerned that I am not “taking it seriously”…). I don’t get people. I do have a cousin in SC though. So I’ll be monitoring her situation.
Dude, I’m due east of DC on the bay and our local Giant was damn-near cleaned out of water and toilet paper by Monday. Last night my wife turned to me in bed and asked me if our homeowner’s insurance was up-to-date.
My mother in law lives in Carroll County. She’s freaking the fuck out. There is no reasoning with her.
Yup. Henrico County already closed the schools for Friday. Silliness.
Zookeeper accused of targeting big cat rescue group in plot
All I see is:
“finished third in a three-way “
STEVE SMITH FINISH IN ALL WAYS
Norm – only guy in Hollywood who is honest.
Norm is quite possibly the greatest American comedian of his generation. Naturally, he’s Canadian.
He’s already made the mistake of apologising, sadly.
It may “result” in that, it won’t “end” in that.
“Last year, another study, led by Alan Jamieson, found that some of the organisms living in the Mariana Trench showed evidence of having ingested man-made plastics, meaning human pollution had reached even where sunlight could not.
Jamieson, who is a marine ecologist at Newcastle University and was on the recent expedition to the Atacama Trench, called last year’s find “very worrying.”
“Once these plastics reach the deep seafloor, there is simply nowhere else for them to go. Therefore it is assumed they will simply accumulate in greater quantities,” Jamieson said then. “Also, the number of areas we found this in, and the thousands of kilometer distances involved, shows it is not just an isolated case. This is global.””
WaPo just had to throw that in at the end.
Over 95% of all plastic in the oceans comes from just ten rivers. And none of them are in North America or Europe.
So man-made plastics are causing the oceans to rise?
Leaked Google employee’s email reveals effort to boost Latino vote, surprise that some voted for Trump
‘non-partisan’.
Oh, that’s rich.
I bet it was.
Opposing Trumpitler is non-partisan, duh!
Multicultural Diversity Officer: Have a seat Francisco.
Frank: You can call me Frank.
MDO (looks down on sheet): Ha, ha. Good one Francisco.
Frank: No seriously. No one calls me Francisco.
MDO (jots down on sheet): Alright, Francisco.
Frank: What did you write?
MDO: Oh, nothing. Seems here you voted for Trump?
Frank: How do you know that?
MDO: Here at Google we encourage diverse opinions and want to foster a caring and open environment. It’s important for you to understand this.
Frank: Ok.
MDO: May we ask why, just out of curiosity, you would do such a stupid thing like vote for Trump?
Frank: I like his policies. He’s not as crazy as being portrayed in the media.
MDO: I see. Well thank you for your honesty Francisco.
Frank: Ok.
Franks walks toward door.
MDO: Not that one Frank. The other one…..the black one.
Frank opens the door. Two brawny men meet him with straight-jackets. Grab him and slam door shut. MDO smirks maniacally as she takes notes.
“. We kept our Googley efforts non-partisan and followed our company’s protocols for the elections strategy”
Hard to Jive that with the rest of the email. Also this is a strategy of saftey by keeping a separation. Sure they didn’t say “Vote Hillary Clinton”. But they did decide to Target the one group they thought for sure wouldn’t vote for Trump (as evidenced by the rest of the email). You can keep your motives quiet as long as the actions you choose move your agenda forward.
Liberals: when you call half the country low IQ inbred hicks because the President they voted for won’t let a bunch of low IQ inbred hicks that speak a different language into the country
They don’t care about inbred hicks. They are desperate to get more than 3 votes outside of a major urban center. Who lives and works outside of a major urban center that might be more receptive to the Free Shit Brigade? Maybe a bunch of migrant workers.
the astronomical union demoted Pluto to dwarf planet status.
I think they prefer the term “little” planet.
Bleeping useless proxy. Its now blocking Glibs and oracle support.
Technically the only one I’m supposed to whine about is the one I don’t use as often (oracle support)
Oh, while last time the proxy acted up, Glibs was blocked as “unclassified” this time you rated “Philosophy-Political Activism”.
Activism? Seriously? We are philosophically against all political activism.
WHAT DO WE WANT!?
Less government intrusion!
WHEN DO WE WANT IT!?
Meh
A suspect tried to steal a car Friday with a five-year-old sitting in the back seat and was subsequently shot and killed by the child’s father.
I’m told this kind of stuff is impossible.
Good shoot.
The best.
“One explanation has been that many of an animal’s traits are not fixed, but can change during its lifetime. This “phenotypic plasticity” enables individual animals to alter their appearance or behavior enough to survive in a new environment. Eventually, new adaptations promoting survival arise in the population through genetic changes and natural selection, which acts on the population over generations. This is known as the “Baldwin effect” after the psychologist James Mark Baldwin, who presented the idea in a landmark paper published in 1896.”
Isn’t that the opposite of evolution?
The science is settled!!!
IT MADE THE FROGS GAY!
Letter: Reject dictatorship while there’s time
etc
Wake me up when he burns the Capital Building and blames it on the Mexicans.
Or orders the US intelligence apparatus to spy on his political enemies’ campaigns while trying to rig an election… You know, like the last administration did.
Right? Didn’t see any of our big voices crying about that.
I think it’s pretty standard to think that Van der Lubbe really was just a wacko arsonist.
Suspicious as hell. And it was obviously used to further The Plan. But even evil people catch an incredibly lucky break from time to time.
(4) Hitler wore shoes. Mr. Trump wears shoes. The coincidences are too frightening to ignore.
Exactly. These people have not just become deranged, but they are mad that we won’t take their derangement seriously…
Hitler didn’t smoke and gave up drinking. Trump doesn’t smoke or drink…. it’s so obvious.
Hitler was a Mormon?
it just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it?
So the gold plates were made with Nazi Gold?
Hitler had one girlfriend with whom he probably never had sex. Trump also never had sex with Hitler’s gf.
I am convinced.
“Are you aware that our president is following Hitler’s playbook”
Where were these people when the Obama administration actually did a lot of the shit that was in your usual tyrannical government’s playbook?
Sniffing his farts and begging for more. Unprincipled sycophant hacks all the way down.
This is the same type of person who probably would have laughed at someone who referred to ‘Mein Kempf’.
When their guy is doing Hitler – or Stalin, Mao, Polt Pot, Che, any of the Kims, Castro, Chavez, Maduro, to name a few other heroes of the left – it is for the plebe’s own good.
This is a perfect example of someone who read history superficially but didn’t actually understand it. They always seem to see analogies that fit a narrative (ie Trump is obviously literally Hitler and move from this point on), spewing and distorting facts without any thoughtful consideration.
Hitler was white…Trump is white…they both married younger women…if you still can’t see the parallels I don’t know what to tell you.
Hitler was a nationalist, not a patriot.
Not necessarily mutually exclusive.
“(1) Hitler governed by surprise (read chaos) featuring changes of topic, tactic, pace, or direction, that came fast and furiously, preventing time to think, confer, accept, or reject his statements before he delivered the next shock (tweet, tweet, tweet!).”
Bullshit. He was Austrian and Austrians are incapable of not being orderly.
I guess because the damning evidence was not provided by anonymous/unnamed sources, CNN feels confident in claiming that the texts that provide the evidence that the FBI, after it let Hillary off by botching an investigation into a clear crime and failing to rig the election they wanted her to win, decided to undermine the elected president.
~~~edit fairy shrugs in dismay~~~
Why is that text all blue?
think of the water, lapping across the shores of silent seas.
Fraking linxs.
Creepy tactics of ‘sex for rent’ landlords exposed
GROUP sex and role playing are just some of the requirements landlords have laid out for female tenants in seedy “sex for rent” deals.
Shitlord Prime
““And I’ll even give you an allowance every week so that you feel that you’re looked after.”
I think that makes you a mistress not a tenant. If this guy had just gotten a mistress first and then put her up he’d be fine.
Ummmmm pretty certain you’re not supposed to have the mistress in the same house. Even Reptilian Overlords know not to do that
Because guys don’t step out with the Nanny or the Maid?
And that never goes bad?
Meh. It is sleazy but I can’t say I have a problem with it as long as no actual coercion is used.
There needs to be a reverse (pound)MeToo movement for shit like this.
Why are these landlords not offering these opportunities to everyone? Dudes and ugly people need somewhere to sleep too.
WhyNot#MeToo? Title LXIX?
Life imitates porn. Next we’ll get a big exposé about plumbers who aren’t really cleaning drains…
Or cable guys not plugging in boxes?
Phrasing?
+1 Does he fix the cable?
Don’t be fatuous, Jeffrey.
The plot is ludicrous
Spoiler Alert: Turns out they have satellite and don’t even have cable.
They are laying pipe. Close enough.
I thought prostitution was legal in Australia? Just rent the place for money, then use that money to hire a hooker.
Exclusive or semi-exclusive access has value in of itself. Your average prostitute is shared with too many other people.
There’s this amazing word that exists and it’s only two letters.
No.
You know who else guaranteed peace?…
The Borg?
Row over yoga pants ban continues in Wisconsin school
I can see where these women can get annoyed by dress codes as it gives creepy administrators the excuse to harass them over their clothes.
But I like yoga pants… when worn by good looking gals.
Exactly. I wonder if the ban happened because it was precisely the people you never want to see in yoga pants that wore them to school…
If you learn nothing else from your high school experience, ladies, know that yoga pants are not a substitute for healthy eating habits and regular exercise.
My daughter will only be allowed to wear yoga pants if a.) I don’t catch her before she leaves the house, or b.) they’re under a snowsuit.
Reminds me of this old college humour thingy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPJz850ibII
Leggings were fine 30 years ago, when I was in school. Somehow I survived. Why is this still an issue?
But do you remember what you learned or were you distracted by leggings?
I learned alright. That asses & legs are nicely shaped. That’s the important takeaways from school, right?
And while there were some that wore longer tops, others wore regular t-shirt or blouses.
Because now looking at people means you’re raping them.
I’m reminded of something but couldn’t find the (brilliant) clip.
They could wear leggings 30 years ago, but still had to cover their ass with a skirt that came down to at least 2 inches above the knee.
But those leggings were paired with giant potato-sack sweatshirts and Dad’s XL flannels (buttoned to the top) so you had no clue what kind of shape the girl actually was.
I suppose that’s going to be enough for some of them, but that’s not going to be very full coverage for some of the more gifted.
I seriously don’t get this. We (public school, stricter dress code, no uniforms) had no tank tops, no advertisements for liquor/drugs/tobacco/alcohol, longer skirts, shorts had to touch the top of the knee, no excessive cleavage, etc. This was late 80s-early 90’s. They also had a “no distracting clothing” rule, which meant that most of the girls kept a pair of sweat pants and a sweater in their locker in case they got a dress code violation.
I drop by the high school to drop a kid off today and the girls are dressed like a)they’re going dancing at the bar or b) just got out of spin class. Now, as a straight, red blooded, meat eating American Male ™, I appreciate the female form as much as the next guy, but how do these young dudes even concentrate at all these days? Are they just numb to it because they’ve been surrounded by scantily clad women all day?
They’ve been exposed to so much soy that they think they’re girls too.
Out of curiosity, what is the “shorts much touch the top of the knee” equivalent rule for “no excessive cleavage” ?
High school in 1974. No dress code. Halter tops were in fashion. Try concentrating on anything other than the couple of strings crossing the tanned back of the young lady sitting in front of you.
I am more of an ass man…
Yep. And short shorts, and tube tops.
Most tone deaf PR flack ever steps on dick discussing windmill controversy.
SD retirement fuckers are pissed that a company is going to build really tall windmills in Minnesoda a few miles away. Old fuckers vent about how it will ruin the views on their lake.
The PR flack actually said this:
His land? What he wants to do with it? Does he think this is the 1890’s or something?
What is extra funny, is that area is really one of the few areas where wind power makes a lot of sense. Buffalo Ridge is a geological formation that funnels a lot of wind through the area.
Georgia wants to beat the shit out of your children.
It was a penal colony.
‘Battlefield V’ Censors Words Like ‘Nazi’ ‘Titanfall’ And ‘White Man’
It’s fun watching EA dig their own grave.
It’s idiocy, but EA isn’t digging anything but mountains upon mountains of cash.
Preorders were way down on this one, and the last few SocJus titles did very poorly. If there’s anyone bean-counting at EA, they might notice the pattern. “Hey, we’re not making as much as we should”
They won’t notice. And even if they d, they will pull a Nike, because Virtue Signalling is more important than the stock value.
They’re making their cash off of FIFA. However I could see that taking a hit as consumers are becoming more aware of how rigged that game is.
Also consider that EA is currently suing Belgium to avoid having to stop selling the loot boxes that are the real cash cow for FIFA – which Belgium recently banned as being gambling aimed at minors. If that kind of thinking spreads throughout Europe, EA is looking at a big hit to their revenue, so they best be careful about pissing off their customers.
I love the PR guy’s response in the forums. I do not believe for one second that “white man” or “Titanfall” or “DLC” were accidentally banned. EA’s been on this tip for a while now. Frankly, the Nazi thing is the only part that really puts me on tilt. I mean, seriously, how in the shit are you going to make a game about WWII and then pretend Nazis weren’t involved?!
Pacific Theater?
The Japanese were punching up at Pearl Harbor. They were structurally oppressed by the white man and the comfort women, slave labour camps, human vivisections etc. must be seen in this light /EA development representative
Ok, WWII Allies in the European theater. You couldn’t even do a really specific Italy-only campaign.
Really specific, and really really short, After the first couple weeks the axis forces fighting in Italy were pretty much 100% German.
It’s like how Call of Duty: WWII which takes place in the Western Theater doesn’t have Swastikas.
How long until history books are rewritten and the word “Nazis” are replaced with “Pre-Trumpists”?
Is that copyrighted? Can I use it without attribution?
I believe the term would be Proto-Trumpists, or PaleoTrumpists.
Strange. Proggies spend their time calling all ideological opponents Nazi’s while simultaneously whitewashing (heh…) historical based games of them.
Like all Power Words, they reserve usage to themselves.
Me and a couple of my idiot friends spend about half an hour in squad chat coming up with increasingly obscure words to see if they were banned. The blacklist is pretty impressive. If they’d put half that much effort into things like, say, fixing the half a dozen unique game-breaking spawning bugs, they might have put out a playable game.
Does Madden 19 feature anthem-kneeling? Because that would be epic.
Especially if it also resulted in a loss of revenue in whatever campaign mode those games use.
Free kegs of beer on the road in Phoenix?
Hot dog, I’m on a flight to Phoenix as I write this.
Free beer should help with the expected temperature of 108F today, and me in a wool suit.
What are you doing in sheep’s clothing?
A rare exception to the rule that the answer to news headlines with questions is always “no”: Did Amber Guyger get special treatment as a Dallas officer after she shot Botham Jean?
Bonus derp: Photo of the murder’s family, a couple of them making “ok” signs, obviously they’re all racist!
Not that rare though
GROUP sex and role playing are just some of the requirements landlords have laid out for female tenants in seedy “sex for rent” deals.
Just don’t call them “sugar daddies”.
“sugar nerds” are the landlords who offer women free rent in exchange for GROUP role playing.
Bunch of chicks sitting around a table watching a dude roll dice behind a screen and wondering if they should have just offered to blow the guy.
I used to peripherally now a group of 4 programmers in the Atlanta area who paid a hot chick to be their live in GM. They were all banging each other as well but officially she was paid room and board along with a salary to be a paid game master.
Some physicians in the United States are performing double mastectomies on healthy 13-year-old girls. The justification is gender dysphoria (“transgenderism”)—the girls now identify as boys and therefore want to look like boys.
The Monsters!
The doctor in that story really is a monster. I found the picture across the top to be disturbing.
I thought that just tomboyery?
that was just*. Edit Fairy, whatever you identify as, please help this poor dumb soul.
It is, hence the exclaimation that this surgery is monstrous. No 13-year old is able to make a permanant life decision like that, and the doctor should redirect them to therapy if there is sign of real disphoria.
Agreed, I think it requires a lot more thought and care before doing something permanent like that.
In 10 to 15 years there are going to be some VERY angry, fucked up young adults who are never going to forgive the people who were supposed to be protecting them.
And a non-insignificant portion of them will express that by clinging to the lies as a defense mechanism against facing the betrayal.
This is true.
And massive lawsuits
And every single one of those angry adults will be registered Democrats.
Well, they will need free healthcare.
Tits don’t grow back. Much like a penis. Maybe I’m just a horrible bigot, but this doesn’t seem like a decision that 13 year-olds should be allowed to make. They have some terrible parents
I posted this yesterday:
[ACC Entry] Should Transgender Children Transition?
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/08/acc-entry-should-transgender-children-transition/
There have been a number of recently published articles and papers that have been attacked or taken down for political reasons.
Letting your kid walk to school alone is child endangerment and cause for government agents to take your kids.
This permanent mutilation of confused kids, however, is just peachy.
Shit like this is why I believe the Fermi paradox is right that societies, when they get too advanced/prosperous will devolve and destroy themselves, and it is one of the major reasons we have not met any other intelligent life (not that we are after revelations like this one)..
I’m not a huge fan of the state getting involved in parenting, but I would suggest that a parent willing to sign off on this procedure is a hundred times more worthy of a CPS visit than one who smacks their kids for mouthing off in the Wal-Mart. And any physician who considers performing the surgery should lose his or her license, for starters.
I mean, seriously, how in the shit are you going to make a game about WWII and then pretend Nazis weren’t involved?!
“The Libertarian Army just invaded Poland! Get out there and make the world safe for democracy.”
Don’t you mean Trump’s New Model Army?
Led by Generaloberst Rand Paul of course.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6158907/Demi-Rose-PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Voluptuous-star-displays-curves-distinctive-black-bikini.html
too thicc.
I think she needs a bit more tummy, but I still #would.
No. She has weird hips and her legs are too skinny. She looks like a pear riding a chicken.
Someone has scientifically demonstrated that the Baldwin brothers are all lizards?
::reads link::
Ah. Nevermind.
Task force will study whether Chicago should impose a universal basic income plan to help struggling families.
With their massive budget surpluses, why not? And I’m sure there wouldn’t be any corruption in the administration of such a program in Chicago.
I’m sure this program will only help the needy families in the City and definitely won’t just be another giveaway to rich people. Just like all those government subsidized “artist lofts” that they build to satisfy their federal affordable housing mandate are not just to the benefit of budding propagandists (an artist who lives off of state subsidies is, by definition, a “propagandist”).
Wait! I thought they already had a UBI?
https://wgntv-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/wgntv.com/2018/07/22/chicago-mayoral-candidate-willie-wilson-hands-out-cash-to-potential-voters/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwgntv.com%2F2018%2F07%2F22%2Fchicago-mayoral-candidate-willie-wilson-hands-out-cash-to-potential-voters%2F
Willie Wilson is actually a good guy. The guy supports vouchers and is a self-made man who seems to honestly care about fixing the problems in poor communities. He probably shouldn’t have just been handing out cash, but it’s not like he’s the only one who does it.
A UBI that’s only given out to needy families is missing the U part. The only way UBI can work is if it’s 1) actually universal and 2) replaces all other forms of welfare.
“Pat Supports Government Hand-outs to Rich people!”
-Campaign ad.
“To be fair, he supports a lot worse things than that”
– The Committee To Elect Pat
Norm MacDonald Won’t Toe the Line and That’s Problematic
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/arts/television/norm-macdonald-tonight-show-metoo.html
“Tonight Show Cancels Norm MacDonald, Because He Won’t Toe the Line” is how the headline should read.
The only thing you have to do now to be “edgy” as a comedian is just refuse to accept the popular narrative. And our most rebellious comedians, who refuse to accept the narrative, are now people like Norm MacDonald, Jerry Seinfeld, and Dave Chappelle. Comedians, who just fifteen years ago, would have been considered milquetoast (with the exception of Chappelle).
Eh, I don’t think milquetoast is how I’d describe Norm.
He certainly wasn’t a controversial comic
He didn’t do politics, but he wasn’t Jerry Seinfeld either.
True.
Seinfeld is “controversial” now, just because he doesn’t give a shit and no one can do anything to hurt him. Jerry has “fuck you money”.
It’s insane how much money that show generated, and I say that as someone who is a huge fan.
I couldn’t stand to watch it. I hated the characters and wanted to directly hurt them several times an episode.
I quote Seinfeld all day. In my opinion it was the greatest sitcom in history.
Jerry and Larry David never have to work another day in their life. That show is syndicated on multiple channels so royalties are still pouring in for them.
Seinfeld is untouchable so he can start a boycott against performing at colleges and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. And he can complain about how Roseanne was fired and again, there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Well done, Jerry.
UnCiv was disappointed to find out that show wasn’t literally about nothing.
My wife has started watching it from S01E01 again. I wasn’t a big fan in the day and still kind of don’t really care about it too much, but I can’t argue that the writing isn’t absolutely hilarious at times, and the chemistry between the actors is undeniable. It’s legitimately considered a classic, groundbreaking show for very good reasons.
@UnCivil . Three things.
1. You’re not supposed to like them. No hugging. No learning. It was revolutionary.
2. To really get the show, you have to understand and relate with the characters. I am regularly called Costanza by my friends, because I so closely identify with him. I make bad choices, but the thing about George is that he is always right. People should thank YOU if YOU bought the Big Salad! You can’t just thank the person who merely handed off the bag! You can’t! Won’t!
It’s also a reflection of how many of us wish that we could act but are constrained by our surroundings and brain chemistry and psychology.
3. The show isn’t really about nothing. It is indeed about social minutia, but the writing becomes the point of the show (once Seinfeld/David figured it out) was that the show was really a mystery, in my viewing of it.
No line or action is wasted. The trick is to see how all of those seemingly meaningless plot points and quotes will all manage to dovetail and collide together at the very end of the episode. When those laces are all knotted so perfectly right before the credits role…it’s just a very special and unique style that I think is second only to Good Simpsons and Curb (which obviously doesn’t count here.)
(It is fun that the show absolutely bombed in the Netherlands/Germany. The neurotic social culture just didn’t translate.
“…Just tell ze person vat you think ze problem is!” ~~German
…..”NEVER!”~~Costanza
Sigh. And you wanna be my Latex salesman.
(It is fun that the show absolutely bombed in the Netherlands/Germany. The neurotic social culture just didn’t translate.
They should have pitched it to Japanese TV…
1: If I don’t like any of the characters, I’m not going to stick with a work in any medium.
2: There was nothing relatable about them by the time I shut the TV off in disgust.
3: As far as I could tell, the show was about irritating the viewer as much as possible. This assessment was based upon the duration I was able to sit through, and is not an in-depth analysis.
They should have pitched it to Japanese TV
“Why did they bring us more oranges?”
@UCS
I’m reminded of Hoosier Hero (hey!) Vonnegut’s rules for short story writing:
They go on. But at the end he qualifies it by saying that Flannery O’Connor broke every one of these rules but the first.
Seinfeld is that inner child in me that wants to treat the world exactly as I see it, but in real life I know that I cant, and I stew over it pretty much every minute of the day.
The Opposite” is indeed pretty much my religion.
It’s just…me. If you can’t relate to the mindset of the characters then I understand why you wouldn’t like it. But for me, it’s like looking in a mirror.
UnCivilServant: I’m going to guess you’re not a big fan of British comedy shows. Quite a few of them have no really likable characters, and that’s where a lot of the comedy comes from. As for not liking Seinfeld: de gustibus non est disputandum.
Some of my favorite shows were BritComs. Where there are insufferable people, there are also main characters who are not so insufferable and have good qualities too. I suppose it’s a difference between well-rounded and utter cunt.
@Evan from Evansville
You mentioned two of my favorite authors. You’re alright in my book.
You should have discussed what Vonnegut had to say about semi-colons
@Just Sayin’ and others: Vonnegut’s full list.
. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
5. Start as close to the end as possible.
6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them – in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
He was wrong with #8. expositional information should be more evenly distributed throughout, though it will naturally need to be more prevalent nearer the beginning, pouring too much out interferes with the ability of the reader to pick up on what’s going on and get to know the characters.
“Some of my favorite shows were BritComs.”
Benny Hill FTW!
He loved to mock women, fatties, gays, and homeless bums. Got away with it because we expected comedians t be edgy back then.
And Blacks.
I just read the Breitbart piece linked above, and everything Norm said was basically common sense.
Actual quote from the NYT article:
““Out of sensitivity to our audience and in light of Norm Macdonald’s comments in the press today, ‘The Tonight Show’ has decided to cancel his appearance on Tuesday’s telecast,” the network said in a statement.”
The U.S. will be successfully invaded within two generations.
Do:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6158649/Amber-Heard-picture-elegance-stunning-poppy-covered-dress.html
Don’t:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6158285/NYFW-Madonnas-daughter-Lourdes-just-protects-modesty-displaying-unshaven-legs.html
Fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree.
She ugly
AH: Yep, that’s how it’s done. Classy and attractive.
L: Oh, jesus. I’m not sure if it’s worse to look like shit because you can’t be assed, or if you put obvious effort into looking like a methhead ex-raver.
OKCupid users can choose a pronoun to display in their profile
Is catfishing not a thing now?
The catfish identifies as a stingray. And you should put all logic and reason aside and just abide by what the stingray says.
My chosen pronoun is “His Exalted Majesty”.
You may joke about this, but I signed up for an IT conference recently, and put exactly that as my preferred mode of being addressed…
I can play this game.
I’ve already resolved to tell my children to do exactly that if they are ever forced by a school to engage in that kind of idiocy.
“Now that I’ve collected your pronoun cards, I’m going to dump them all in the trash and refer to everyone who failed to protest as ‘shithead’.”
Sounds better than getting to the date and finding out.
I agree, with the caveat that the profiles should also list actual sex along with gender identity so there can be truth in advertising. Much better than having to find out like in The Crying Game.
Oh, no, that would be transphobic. How dare cishetero shitlords not love non-op transfolk.
I’ve got something in my eye…
In Life’s Last Moments, Open a Window
Some ninja be chopping onions right next to me, I swear to glib.
EU will fine social media sites for lingering extremism
It seems we’re going to have to save Europe from themselves again.
I’d have thought the idea preposterous a few years ago. But people don’t seem to realise how dangerous this unelected dipso and his chums are. They seriously think they can tell everyone in Europe – and the rest of the world where possible – exactly what to do. Any pushback, in any form is ‘populism’.
They’ve made their ruling, now let them enforce it.
Extremist content like Count Dankula and Stefan Molyneux, I’m sure. Not, you know, the other kind.
Online dating service OkCupid now allows its non-binary and LGBT users to choose their pronoun.
I’m all for efficient sorting.
^^
This right here. Please make it easier for me to thin the herd, so to speak.
nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said at a recent meeting that he would convene a committee to explore whether nasa could make some extra cash by selling naming rights to rockets and spacecraft.
I don’t see a problem with this. It is voluntary funding.
But it’s dirty money. The only clean money is taken by force and realocated via byzantine procedures!
Cajun Navy deploying to Carolina. These guys are the best of the libertarian idea of mutual aid and self-organizing response to disaster. Good on them for making getting out there.
600 jeeps and 2 airboats. they’re going to need more airboats.
So Libertarians don’t really need roads. Because we’ll just drive airboats and Jeeps (with machine guns mounted in the back of course).
Not just the back. You’ve got the pintle mount for dealing with agressors, and the hood-mounted pair for pursuit.
Panic
Of all visits between 2006 and 2015 (the latest available when this research began), two-thirds of patients who were prescribed opioids to treat doctor-diagnosed pain, and an additional 5 percent of patients received opioids for cancer-related pain. But in the remaining visits — 28.5 percent — physicians did not record any pain to support the opioid prescription.
The research team did not make a conclusion that these prescriptions were inappropriate, said Tisamarie Sherry, an associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the letter’s lead author. There was not enough information to make that judgment, Sherry said.
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In many cases, physicians prescribed opioids without a clear understanding of how addictive those medications were. Greater awareness of this riskin recent years, along with a nationwide prescription drug monitoring program that flags doctor-shopping, has led to decreased opioid prescriptions. But the work isn’t finished.
“In too many cases, addiction still starts with a prescriber’s pen, either directly or indirectly through prescription drugs left over, and acquired or stolen from friends or family members,” Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said during a speech in April.
Doctors hand out opioids like candy, because they either don’t know what they do, or they are consciously in cahoots with the drug companies to get everyone in America addicted to pain pills. Or maybe they’re just stupid.
Better everyone in pain suffers than creating one addict!
How do we know you’re really in pain? Compound fractures don’t hurt that much.
Or possibly physicians prescribe them prophylactically, like for example when my oral surgeon gave me a 3 day supply following my wisdom tooth extraction, even though I did not present in his office with pain (and didn’t end up needing the whole 3 day’s worth). Because sometimes it’s better to make relief available to the patient even before they present with symptoms.
Did he actually give you the pills or just write the prescription?
Some people (not accusing you) treat prescriptions like the law – as if it is illegal to NOT get a prescription filled. After all, a person of authority with a government-issued license wrote it on paper.
Just the prescription, of course. I filled it because I figured it’d be nice to have them around if I needed them instead of dragging my carcass up to the pharmacy with a wad of cotton in my mouth if and when the necessity arose.
Thirteen hundred people combined to suggest more than 500 names, including Peaches, Vibrants, Lancers, Confederates, Firebirds, and Thrashers.
That would have been fun. But the Peaches? Totally gay.
During a September 2016 Poynter Institute seminar on opioids in the U.S., Dr. Debra Houry, who directs the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said the United States would reverse skyrocketing rates of opioid misuse and overdose, “if we can stop the tide of people getting addicted in the first place” and find “better alternatives.”
Since then, policymakers and the public have pressured the medical community to adopt more conservative practices in prescribing opioids.
We should have a system whereby the public can participate in a phone vote on which individual patients may be prescribed pain meds. We could call it GoAddictMe or something.
Deaths from prescription opioids have been generally constant or trending downward since 2010, and despite a recent small uptick are still below 2010 levels.
The “opioid crisis” is really a heroin and fentanyl crisis, but yeah, go ahead and focus on prescriptions.
Time for a little something different for Gams Glibs.
http://archive.is/5tCLr
Not too many guys I’ve met say they’re “leg men” but there it is. Gotta keep the audience happy.
I will admit that I like my women to have legs. Two, even.
Guys literally only want one thing and it’s fucking disgusting
I want at least 3 things:
-food
-water
-shelter
I actually do need what she is implying from the ladies (I can do my own food/water, shelter, and, other labor related to just living), but I am glad plenty of women don’t find that stuff disgusting like she does. Someone should ask her what she feels entitled to so we can get a great view of how the issue really is that she wants a beta taking care of her needs while she plays the role of a queen.
I think the humor is supposed to come from the juxtaposition of her pose in the profile pic versus the content of the comment.
I always enjoy a nice reuben. And I generally always want calamari. Oh, and fresh oysters, but not those damned Blue Points, they’re like eating a salt shaker.
You…legist.
No Dr. Adder references?
OK… at least two, as many as eight.
30, yowza.
25 could have a promising career on her hands if Ringling Bros hadn’t gone out of business.
I’m down for Afternoon Delight with #20.
#31’s that rare bird who is both thick and has nice legs.
4’s caboose is damned near perfect.
FDA and USDA will meet to debate the future of lab-grown meat
What are the gonna call it? Ladies call my meat Boris cause he is so scary….
FDA has clear jurisdiction, but I believe they would prefer to focus on non-food issues. I “hope” the FDA doesn’t abdicate here – far more technical expertise – this is beyond the depth of the USDA.
“The political leaders coming from around the world for Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate action summit this week will grapple with a lot of urgent deadlines to drive down emissions, but one date is especially exasperating.
It is 2035 — the year advocates aim to kill off production of gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles.
Keeping global warming to levels society can tolerate could hinge on meeting that target. But even clean-tech-nology capital California has no clear path for getting there.”
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-climate-engines-20180911-story.html
If California can mandate bullet microstamping when that tech doesn’t exist, then I see no reason why it can’t mandate zero-emissions vehicles.
“To facilitate better enforcement of law, we have officially banned California.”
“But what about the catalytic converter?” said every nanny statist shistain since 1975.
That represents all of the platinum I own.
The political leaders coming from around the world for Gov. Jerry Brown’s climate action summit
Is this even legal?
“This year, some rabbis, eager to woo younger people to High Holiday services, are holding programs in a beer garden, replacing deep reverential bows with goat yoga and celebrating the end of the season with glow sticks in a mosh pit.”
https://twitter.com/skestenbaum/status/1039699827695779840
Would make more sense to promote the High Holy Days by getting high rather than with depressants.
Judaism hasn’t been this cool since Matisyahu was cutting records.
Someone yesterday posted something from SlateStarCodex on gender dysphoria and transgenderism in children (since it was from SlateStarCodex, it’s better described as a wall of text). I’ll go ahead and repost it:
http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/08/acc-entry-should-transgender-children-transition/
I find it supremely ironic that, in all likelihood, the same crowd advocating for giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones followed by surgery to a little boy who plays with Barbies also freaks out about circumcising said little boy at birth and calls it a crime against humanity.
Circumcision debate aside, I can’t possibly understand how it is considered mainstream and standard practice by a subset of physicians to do permanent (and, let’s be honest, disfiguring) medical procedures to minors when there is a mountain of evidence that the child will grow out of the dysphoria. There is nothing to be gained, and everything to be lost, by not waiting to do these things until the person’s identity issues are sorted out.
I have no issue whatsoever with transgender adults doing whatever necessary to align their body with their mind (as long as my taxes aren’t paying for it). But guidance to block children’s puberty and start fucking up their hormones in irrevocable ways can only be described as abusive.
Your comparison between their revulsion to circumcision with their open embrace of gender reassignment is spot on. Think of Iceland where circumcision is outlawed (they begrudgingly allow some exceptions for people of Jewish descent) while the state funds transgender surgeries.
Circumcision debate aside, I can’t possibly understand how it is considered mainstream and standard practice by a subset of physicians to do permanent (and, let’s be honest, disfiguring) medical procedures to minors when there is a mountain of evidence that the child will grow out of the dysphoria. There is nothing to be gained, and everything to be lost, by not waiting to do these things until the person’s identity issues are sorted out.
I do not think this is mainstream and instead is very much fringe surgeons who are probably ultra-prog. I’ve worked with a few breast reconstruction specialists and I can’t believe they would ever do something like this.
On the other hand, the AAMC is increasingly pushing political belief as a factor for medical school acceptance. The MCAT even includes a new “wokeness” section. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if this becomes more mainstream over the next couple decades.
the AAMC is increasingly pushing political belief as a factor for medical school acceptance
uhhhhhhhhh what?
Sadly this is true. SSD is right that the MCAT has explicitly been politicized such that conservatarian/traditionalist candidates must essentially hide their beliefs if they want to get into med school.
The AAMC added a new section to the MCAT specifically designed to identify SJWs who want to go into medicine. Here’s a description straight from the AAMC that includes social behavior, social structure, and social inequality.
Psychological, Social, and Biological Foundations of Behavior
http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2013/05/mcat-sections.aspx
Adoration of Obamacare and socialized medicine is also an unwritten requirement during the interview process.
for a psychiatrist, sure. i get it.
for an orthopedic surgeon? it should be diagnose + fix.
SJWs are insane.
That THIS is very Nazi-like.
I remarked on this above, but it’s worth saying again. I’m 100% on board with beginning CPS proceedings against parents who pursue this kind of “treatment”, and I believe physicians who agree to perform it should lose their licenses and be barred from practicing medicine. If male or female circumcision is abuse, and I think the latter certainly is, how the hell could you possibly consider gender reassignment surgery on a minor child anything less?
In all likelihood the CPS will eventually begin proceedings against parents who DON’T pursue this kind of treatment for their snowflakes that want it. How dare you harm a child’s self esteem? And if they grow up to be a fucked up, depressed adult, it’s the Republican’s fault.
As I said, with the same link posted above, the problem is that the issue has become politicized. People are getting slammed for merely discussing desisting.
And like anything political, it gets polarized by opposing idiots, where both sides are wrong.
i’m unsure about human growth hormone for short kids just b/c the parents want them to enjoy all the social benefits of riding roller coasters. apparently there’s an increased cancer risk but what doesn’t cause cancer in the long-term.
puberty blockers in pre-pubescent kids is a slam dunk hard NO.
these parents are failing their children. these doctors are guilty of malpractice.
Nobody NEEDS more than 72 inches of height.
The bastards.
Need has nothing to do with it. Besides, 72 inches is short.
*rests arm on top of JB’s head.*
I was on growth hormone when I was 14-15. I’m only 5’7″ as it is. Would’ve been 5’2″ or 5’3″ without it.
Nothing to do with anything, just mentioning it.
Has your doctor mentioned getting a colonoscopy at 40 instead of the typically recommended checkup at 50?
No, though now I’m thinking I should mention it.
I could not agree with you more. I’ve discussed my 18 year old daughter’s claim to be “transgender”. There are several students at her tiny rural school that claim the same, which is highly unlikely statistically speaking. My kid’s been in therapy for years and it’s never something that has been seriously discussed. Which to me indicates that this has gone from a very niche thing to being the latest fad. My kid has mentioned surgery, but my wife and I (and her therapists) have all said “not only no, but hell no.” She can’t even decide on which tattoo she wants to get in the future, why should we allow her to permanently alter her body in such a major way? I can’t even imagine allowing an even younger kid to make that decision. This is insane.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330
to being the latest fad.
that’s along the lines of what Littman found.
That’s pretty interesting, Raston. It almost seems like these teenagers like to find an “outsider” group to belong to as part of deliberate separation and rebellion against their parents. But that would be unprecedented in the history of teenagers.
obviously the solution is for you to come out as trans to take the edge off. make it uncool.
We’ll fight this thing right down to your last nickel
Hours after President Trump announced last year that the United States would exit the Paris climate deal, a broad group of governors, mayors and business executives declared that they would uphold the agreement anyway and continue tackling global warming on their own.
It was a striking move for a coalition of local leaders: Making a case to the rest of the world that they, and not the president, spoke for the nation on climate policy.
To date, however, that groundswell hasn’t been enough to counteract the effects of the Trump administration’s retreat on climate policy. Now, as many of those same local leaders and executives gather for a high-level conference in San Francisco this week, the group they created finds itself at a critical juncture, the moment when it shows whether or not it can rise to the task.
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The gathering in San Francisco, which is spearheaded by Governor Brown, will bring leaders and civil society groups from around the world to discuss ways that states, cities and businesses can work together to reduce their emissions.
The stakes are high. So far, 2018 is on track to be the fourth-hottest year on record worldwide. Deadly heat waves scorched all corners of the globe this summer and huge wildfires set California ablaze. Scientists are warning that countries have delayed so long in cutting emissions that many long-predicted disruptions from global warming are now unavoidable.
Blah blah blah saving the world by speaking truth to power. Such noble. We’ll all perish without the selfless grandstanding of these brave politicians.
Douchebags throwing a tantrum because this guy is undermining their very lucrative communism peddling scam.
It was a striking move for a coalition of local leaders: Making a case to the rest of the world that they, and not the president, spoke for the nation on climate policy.
Foreign policy is in the purview of the federal government, not State or local.
“Why pharmacy access to birth control prescriptions is good policy
Monument-filled Washington, D.C. and mountain-topped Utah are two very different places, especially when it comes to politics. However, both recently agreed that birth control prescription access is a problem, passing legislation that allows pharmacists to prescribe hormonal birth control—something that, previously, only doctors could do.
They’re not alone in this effort; D.C. and Utah join eight states that also allow pharmacists to prescribe birth control. This pharmacy-access model is catching on, and for good reason: The benefits of pharmacy access to birth control are vast, especially for women in rural or poor areas, and for this reason, more states should follow suit.
A trip to the doctor for a prescription, followed by a trip to the pharmacy to get it filled, may not sound too burdensome. But depending on where you live, it can become nearly impossible. Getting a birth control prescription can be challenging for women, especially those who have less access to medical care. In particular, women in rural areas are more likely to be poor, lack health insurance and be further away from a doctor than their city-dwelling counterparts.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/why-pharmacy-access-to-birth-control-prescriptions-is-good-policy
Or, you could just, you know, remove the prescription requirement.
Why should it require ANY kind of prescription?
Because Republicans for a brief time during 2012 floated the idea of making it OTC in response to Sandra Fluke’s absurd testimony, and because our politics must always be as dumb as possible, Democrats insisted that women must see a doctor to get permission for birth control. Somehow, that’s not patriarchal.
Making it OTC is patriarchial because then it would have to be paid for.
The doctor visit and the prescription version, however, are “free” (for certain variations of free).
Exactly. I recall that being one of the main complaints during the Fluke/Obamacare lunacy.
The reasoning is that you get your yearly PAP smear at that visit to make sure you don’t have cancer.
The requirement to get a doctor’s appointment is far more onerous than you can imagine, as I’ve detailed here in the past.
I debated this on FB with a proggie friend, and fisked her assertion that it was the Republicans delaying this. She actually had the grace to go, “Oh, hm. That’s good to know. I don’t know why the Democrats would block that.”
Then an OB nurse had to chime in and detail all the ways this was detrimental to women (including getting the wrong formulations and not having her cancer screening).
I said, “Soooo you think a) women can’t decide for themselves and b) require poor women to go through this onerous process, which makes abortion the easier answer and c) that the only reason women need BCP is for birth control. Please check your middle-class white woman’s privilege.”
My proggie friend tried the “Well, those are certainly things to take into account, but I still think it would be better to make BC OTC.” Then she asked about Plan B being rx-only and women had to jump through hoops to get that.
I had to inform her that Plan B is OTC. Find a 24-hour pharmacy and have $50, and it’s yours. She didn’t know that either. NONE of the proggies in that thread knew Plan B is OTC.
Put BC behind the counter, talk to the pharmacist (who knows more about the drugs than the docs), and determine what brand/formulation you want. Newsflash: they ALL have the same side effects; it’s just which ones in which measure you can tolerate that will determine your formulation. If it’s OTC, you have a month-to-month determination of which ones you can tolerate and which ones you can’t.
In my experience the more a proggie feels compelled to show you how they have the facts on something, the more likely you are to find out they are totally wrong/misinformed about the shit they are peddling.
I only said something because I know this particular proggie friend will give credit where credit’s due. She was genuinely (if politely) mystified by her OB nurse friend’s insistence that a doctor must be involved.
PWND.
Without a prescription insurance will not pay for it…
So?
Nanny staters that get votes from freeloaders get pissed when you upend their cart…
Feature, not a bug. Fuck on your own dime, toots.
Plenty of generic brands are $5/month. A woman who would go through those hoops (IF she can) to save $5 is a woman who deserves the grief.
There are thousands of women with plumbing problems who don’t need BCP for birth control pray for the day it becomes OTC. A good Republican PR campaign could make sure these women could pressure their Dem congresscritters to pass the legislation.
But of course, Republican and “good PR” never had anything to do with each other.
The other thing about OTC is that it cuts slightly into the FDA’s action. Sudafed went OTC in the ’80’s and they’ve been trying somewhat successfully to claw that back.
“None of You Idiots Is Spartacus
Our politics are getting dumber because we’re defining ourselves by the caricatures of our enemies.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/g-file/cory-booker-spartacus-antics-kavanaugh-hearings/
Hey now, *this* idiot is Spartacus, so you’re wrong.
“Author of ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ arrested for allegedly killing her husband”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-news-romance-novelist-busted-for-murder-20180911-story.html
why did he not file for divorce when she published that?
“Christ, I TOLD you I was going to do it”
That mug shot. I can only assume he welcomed death.
You answered UCS’s question above.
Suppose the sequel will be ‘How Not to Murder Your Husband’.
Is he dead or isn’t he?
That’s a great plot for a book.
When she was a teenager, murder mystery author Anne Perry helped her best friend murder her mother. She did time.
There are very few artists I boycott for (their) personal issues, but she’s one of them. To me, she is profiting off a murder she committed.
Kitty!
A cougar is likely to have killed a woman whose body was found in an Oregon park on Monday in the state’s first-ever confirmed fatal attack by a wild cougar, authorities said Tuesday.
Diana Bober, 55, of Gresham, Oregon, was last heard from on August 29 and was reported missing by out-of-state relatives on Friday, Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts said.
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“Because this is an unprecedented event in Oregon, we don’t believe that the threat to the public that’s posed by cougars is any greater today than it was yesterday,” Wolfer said. “However, we don’t know and can’t quantify the threat this particular animal may pose to the public and so we’re making every effort — along with our partner agencies — to locate this animal so that we can ensure the safety of the public.”
Wolfer recommended that people prepare for what to do in the event they encounter a cougar.
“Be aware that cougars are more active at dawn and dusk. We recommend that people try to hike in pairs or with a group. If you have a dog keep your dog close and on a leash so that it doesn’t attract a cougar back to you, and if you have children, keep your children close,” Wolfer said. “If you do see a cougar, look big — raise your arms above your head — yell, do anything to make sure that animal knows that you see it,” Wolfer said. “Maintain eye contact and back away slowly and don’t turn your back and run.”
Oh, come on. They just want to cuddle and play.
And if it continues to advance, draw your concealed carry piece, right Wolfer?
Semi-automatic rifles kill twice as many as other guns, study finds
“Researchers who examined FBI data on nearly 250 “active shooter” assaults also found that the chances of dying, if shot, were the same no matter the weapon.”
Watch out these semiautomatic rifles could be in your neighborhood looking to kill you!
Stupid headline, stupid article.
So many variables that go into weapon choice. You cannot positively conclude that someone with a rifle is always going to kill more people. Also noted the article says semit-automatic rifle in the headline then goes on to say semit-automatic weapons throughout the article. Is it rifles or anything semi-auto?
Well it’s like the bit about AR-15s being the most commonly used weapons in shootings. It’s the “pit bull” effect. They’re both really, really common. If you’re afraid of guns, ARs look like your idea of a scary gun, just as if you’re afraid of dogs pits look like your idea of a scary dog. When someone uses a black rifle in a crime, people who already don’t like guns see it and assume it’s the scary gun; when a dog bites someone, even if it’s a mutt, if it’s got short hair and a short muzzle it’s a pit, because everybody knows pits bite people all the time.
There are a TON of AR-15s in the wild. I seriously doubt that the numbers used in crimes are disproportionate to the rates you’d see in any other kind of firearm. And I daresay they’re lower than many others.
Statistically very few murders are committed with rifles of any kind, so conflating semi-auto rifles with semi-auto weapons is the only way to make it seem like an issue. In other words, they lie to advance their agenda.
Suthenboy’s iron law.
Woof, that one’s a doozy.
…lolwut?! And this was from the lead researcher. I haven’t read the study, but shortly after this humdinger they refer to the fact that, in shootings, more rounds are fired from semi-automatic weapons than from non-automatic weapons, because they can fire faster. Well…yeah. But a pump-action shotgun isn’t semi-automatic, and it’s not exactly a Nerf gun.
America’s Forever War In Afghanistan Has Engulfed A New Generation
That’s kind of depressing.
This is why kids today don’t understand Orwell. For them, we have always been at war with Central Asia.
It was sad enough when we were sending guys who were in elementary school on 9/11/01 to Afghanistan. This is beyond ridiculous.
“The use of e-cigarettes has become an epidemic among teens and needs to be stopped, Food and Drug Administration chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb said Wednesday.
The FDA said it was cracking down hard on sales of vaping products to teenagers and said it was reconsidering a grace period to allow makers to apply for FDA approval of their products.
“We see clear signs that youth use of electronic cigarettes has reached an epidemic proportion, and we must adjust certain aspects of our comprehensive strategy to stem this clear and present danger,” Gottlieb said in a statement.
“We’re announcing the largest ever coordinated initiative against violative sales in the history of the FDA. This is the largest single enforcement action in agency history. It’s aimed at retail and online sales of e-cigarettes to minors.”
The FDA may also limit the sale of certain flavored products, Gottlieb said.
Makers argue that e-cigarettes can help adult smokers transition away from burnt tobacco products. But Gottlieb said the easy availability of e-cigarettes is hitting teens.
“I’ll be clear. The FDA won’t tolerate a whole generation of young people becoming addicted to nicotine as a tradeoff for enabling adults to have unfettered access to these same products,” Gottlieb said.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/e-cigarette-use-epidemic-fda-chief-says-n908781
Trump needs to can that asshole.
“They might get addicted, and when we finally get e-cigs banned, they’ll start smoking tobacco!”
By the same logic, I propose we should do away with the FDA lest any innocent child grow up to occupy the position and turn into a totalitarian asshole.
They won’t tolerate a whole generation of nicotine addicts not paying massive taxes for the product.
My sister-in-law is a registered nurse and was going on about e-cigarettes last week. I asked her if nicotine itself was harmful. She sputtered in outrage – then failed to name any real way that nicotine, rather than the normal delivery methods, was actually harmful.
It cuts into anti-depressant sales. You want public pensions to go broke??
use of electronic cigarettes has reached an epidemic proportion
It wouldn’t be an epidemic if 100% were using. It’s not a disease.
Amen. The whole corrupt organization needs to be cleaned out and/or axed. It couldn’t be more obvious they don’t give a shit about actual “health”.
We are killing Gaia, part 136,354,635:
Experts say Minnesota’s climate changing faster than other states
In order to save its own populace, the Minnesota legislature is slated to vote on several bills that will encourage residents to relocate to different states.
Good thing I don’t live in Minnesota. Just like I don’t live in California, because based on the labels I’ve seen, nearly everything you use there will give you cancer.
I bought some carpet padding for a home project last week at the Home Despot. Big California Cancer Warning sticker on it. I don’t live in California, so I don’t think the carpet padding will give me cancer.
You planning to eat it? Cause that is how it gives you cancer…
It was going to be filler in quiche.
Journals, Universities Deep-Six Study For Noticing Men And Women Are Different
IFLS
Down the Memory Hole!
Sad to see the West embracing Lysenkoism.
because 3rd Wave feminism is stuffing wool in your ears and deplatforming science.
I find it endlessly amusing that the same people that hate the Catholic Church behave exactly like it.
According to the NYT news alert on my phone, the FDA says there is an EPIDEMIC of teen vaping.
Humanity is doomed. Again.
Just wait till they start butt vaping.
Waited a few days and today I finally asked a half dozen Japanese women what they thought of The US Open final btw Serena and Osaka. To a person, they ripped Serena to shreds. I’d love to hear what other people outside the US have to say about that. Pie or Evan ask any of the natives about this?
I’m guessing the response to their response will be similar to the response they get when white American women say that other white American women wearing a kimono is cultural appropriation and Japanese women say “Actually, we love it”
Those stories crack me up. “How dare you not get the vapors about someone stealing your culture”
It’s particularly amusing when it involves Japanese culture, which is practically based on taking things from other cultures and Japanizing them.
Serena behaved like a sore loser. There was a time when Americans hated nothing more than a sore loser. But, now despising a sore loser depends on their genitalia and the color of their skin
Eh…..while Johnny Mac got plenty of criticism for his antics, a fair number of people loved him because he was fiery and his tantrums were often entertaining.
However, no one was gnashing their teeth when he’d get penalized during matches.
But Mac wasn’t a sore loser, he just had better eyesight than the line judge.
Joke I saw in the comments of a video: “I didn’t know Chewbacca died in The Umpire Strikes Back.”
Oh, that was the second of the Steer Wars films. that one was decent. I was disappointed in the Return of Judy that we never found out who Judy was.
A week after even Politfact said that no, Brett Kavanaugh did not say that birth control pills cause abortions, Hillary Clinton is back repeating the lie.
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1039864914486149121
In the crazy world that we live in, it’s offensive for Kavanaugh to call some contraceptives “abortion inducing drugs” (I know he was just quoting from the case), but it is totally fine for Chelsea Clinton to talk about how much value has been added to the economy because of abortion.
Religious beliefs are offensive, but eugenic talking points are fine. Everything’s upside down.
Abortion has resulted in fewer criminals being born. It’s not a human being.
How they make these two arguments one after the other without noticing the problem is problematic.
Criminals are not human beings, duh!
Therefore if you outlaw abortion, you are able to…
“Tess Holliday and Cosmo: Fat Acceptance is NOT Okay.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A93c0p_ZQB4
WaPo: Hurricane Florence is Trump’s fault
(fun fact: Many hurricane scientists (who believe in AGW!) don’t think that global warming has an effect on tropical systems. To the extent they may have an effect, there will actually be FEWER storms (though somewhat slowed down and possibly increased in strength by 5-10 mph)
I wonder if the people who write this shit are crazy enough that they actually believe it, or if they are just knowingly feeding fake propaganda to their readers.
Little from column A, little from column B.
The current crop of journalists? I suspect they’re true believers. Earlier generations knew they were lying. (“Supply the Pictures and I will supply the war.”)
Joe Bastardi @ WeatherBell (well worth the $25/month for me during hurricane season)
holy cow! that’s a keeper.
Heh
I had a great time last night. One of the things you learn being an expat is that your friends just go away. Likely never to be seen again. I went to a going-away party for a friend of the Lady.
My bar owner friend lets me play music a bunch and we jam together. He was working this little hottie who’s new in town. Very obvious what his play is. She says she can play guitar and sing. Friend invites me to drum with her and him on bass. She was….teeeerrible. Not like she couldn’t play or sing, but that she was just out of practice. I was laying the (soft) beat pretty thick for her. Euphemisms. She kept playing the same tempo songs and was just silly and I was a bit embarrassed.
Friend and I took over with some slap funk bass and I nailed it. She did backing chords in A and sung. Taking over from her was a necessary move strictly from our sense of pride to let the rest of the audience know that we weren’t the ones that were sucking.
This story serves no purpose. But all y’all musicians know what’s up.
Credibility gap
Sanders was asked if the White House press corp can “expect the White House to give a list of all the things in the book that are wrong and that qualified Woodward to be a liar.”
“I think that would be a complete and utter waste of our time, so no,” Sanders replied.
The White House press secretary was then pressed on whether Trump “[thinks] he can actually win a credibility battle with Bob Woodward,” who “is a legend.”
“I think I would rather take the actual, on-record account from people who are here, who have been working in this building, who have interacted with the president day in, day out, like general [James[ Mattis, like general [John] Kelly, like myself, not disgruntled former employees that refuse to put their name on things when they come out to attack the president,” Sanders said. “I think that those are far more credible sources and certainly far more reliable voices within this administration and that can accurately tell what’s taking place in the building behind me.”
“Is the president still a credible voice?” the reporter asked.
“Absolutely,” Sanders replied.
But he says stuff they don’t want to hear.
How fucked up do you have to be that two years after your ideological side lost an election they had rigged you still can’t get over the fact that your ideology is not only imperfect, but you just spent 2 years validating people that said you were unfit for any kind of position of authority because you are as vapid and out of control as a slighted teenage girl?
annoyed now. I was in the middle of snarking and the network went down.
Florida Glibs want to weigh-in on this?
With a Bernie Sanders-backed progressive facing off against a populist conservative favored by Donald Trump, the Florida gubernatorial race might turn out to be a dry run for the 2020 presidential election. But first, it could set the stage for a long-overdue debate among Democrats.
The Democratic nominee, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, advocates Medicare for all, increasing the state corporate tax rate to 7.75% from 5.5%, and boosting the minimum wage to $15 from $8.25. In a statement issued during the primary campaign, Mr. Gillum endorsed “a comprehensive immigration overhaul that includes abolishment of ICE in its current form to be replaced with a more compassionate and focused agency that actually keeps us safer.”
The Republican, Ron DeSantis, who recently resigned his seat in Congress, supports President Trump’s agenda down the line. He sports a 100% rating from the National Right to Life Committee, 94% from the Club for Growth, and 93% from the National Rifle Association. At the other end of the spectrum, he receives 0% ratings from the NAACP and the Human Rights Campaign and 3% from the League of Conservation Voters. His website features endorsements from Sean Hannity and Mark Levin as well as the president.
Florida is the nation’s third-largest state and one of the fastest-growing. Its population is extremely diverse: nearly 26% Hispanic and 17% African-American. And it has become the most hotly contested state in presidential elections. In the five races from 2000 through 2016, the Democratic candidates have averaged 48.8% of the vote and Republicans 49.3%. In each election since 1996, the winner in Florida has prevailed nationally.
Recent gubernatorial contests have been just as competitive. In 2010 Republican Rick Scott defeated Democrat Alex Sink by 48.9% to 47.7%. In a hard-fought re-election race four years later, Mr. Scott prevailed over former Gov. Charlie Crist by 48.1% to 47.1%. Exit polls after the 2014 contest showed that turnout had fallen short of expectations in virtually every group that was key to a Democratic victory.
These narrow defeats formed the backdrop to this year’s Democratic primary. Progressives argued that nominating business-friendly candidates favorable to suburban voters was a failed strategy. The alternative was to select a candidate who could inspire urban-based racial and ethnic minorities to go to the polls along with unmarried women and young progressives. Such a candidate could counterbalance the large white majorities Republicans typically run up in small towns and rural areas, especially in the Panhandle.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-florida-take-a-left-turn-1536705094?mod=hp_opin_pos2
Gillum-DeSantis is somehow a worse choice than Crist-Scott was.
DeSantis is the one who had a commercial with his kids “building the wall” (with legos) and touting his support from Trump.
The race is a dead heat. Whichever one of them wins we’re probably fucked.
I’m not seeing any proggie agitation yet. The mid terms tend to be a snoozer. I suspect they do not have funding for a nationwide push.
“The Democratic nominee, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, advocates Medicare for all, increasing the state corporate tax rate to 7.75% from 5.5%,”
I realize Hauser’s law applies to Federal revenue, but the effect should be negative revenue growth if they push the rate up by 2.25% given they can move to another state. Thinking you can tinker around with this stuff and not have negative side effects is pure hubris.
“Louis Fonzi”
That woman is amazing!
Hahahahaha….
https://sports.yahoo.com/reports-umpires-consider-boycott-serena-williams-matches-fearful-next-ramos-2-220947324.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_16
I wonder about that. Considering how much abuse the umpires potentially face and the personal nature of that interaction, how long until someone has such a reputation that they can’t get an umpire to work the game?
People will go to great lengths to avoid being called a bigot. Perhaps there’s a tipping point if they do conduct their boycott en masse, though.
Something’s rotten in the WTA and USTA, that’s for sure. If I was an umpire I’d think twice about working any women’s match.
“The Twitter account that allegedly threatened to shoot up the MAGA event appears to have changed their handle.”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1039679236829638657
“Antifa groups are using Twitter and Facebook to advocate for the assassination of President Trump
While social media companies collude to silence right-of-center influencers, violent far-left extremist groups appear to be given a pass. This NYC based antifa group has been using their “leftist privilege” to freely violate Twitter and Facbook Terms of Service. In another glaring example of “non existent social media bias”, this extremist group is apparently allowed to use their social media account to advocate for murder.”
https://farleftwatch.com/antifa-groups-are-using-twitter-and-facebook-to-advocate-for-the-assassination-of-president-trump/
“‘Threats of Rape and Strangling’ Force D.C. McAllister Into Hiding After Anti-Abortion Tweet
Last week, PJ Media contributor and Fox News guest Denise McAllister sent out a powerful tweet denouncing the abortion movement. Little did she know, days later she would be in hiding, scared for her life. When she went public about receiving death and rape threats, pro-abortion Twitter users championed the threats against her.”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/threats-of-rape-and-strangling-force-d-c-mcallister-into-hiding-after-anti-abortion-tweet/
“Free” college
Sometimes referred to as “free college” programs, most are relatively new, sparked by the relentless rise in college costs and by a desire among state leaders to improve college access, especially for low-income students. Hundreds more free college programs have popped up at the local level, too. But a new review of 15 of these statewide programs, conducted by The Education Trust, finds that states vary wildly in how they define both “free” and “college.”
“I mean, I get paid to do this,” laughs Katie Berger, a senior analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group, “and it was very challenging for me to understand the nuances in a lot of these programs. … And if it’s hard for me to understand, I can’t imagine how challenging it is for low-income students and first-generation students to wrap their heads around this.”
Sounds like a scam, to me.
Didn’t NY state do this? The free college for everyone routine. Except the criteria to qualify are so onerous and difficult, that they only had like 22K people qualify (or bother to qualify). But the political class keeps claiming they passed free college into law…
It’s not onerous IIRC – it’s just that it only kicks in after you’ve exhausted every other possible source of aid. IOW, it’s a subsidy to the middle class and above.
Funny how these marxists’ policies always seem to help the top men, even though they scream at the top of their lungs that they are fighting for the little people….
relentless rise in college costs
And no one asks “why?”. Might it be that, because of the student loan program, schools know they are going to get their money anyway so there is no incentive to control costs? Hm?
Or to deliver a quality product. After all, what are these fucking plebes gonna do? Declare bankruptcy? HAH!
Shut up and give us more free stuff.
I got into a debate with a German neighbor over “free” college “like they have in Germany”. I asked her if professors worked for free or if the buildings built themselves. When she said no, then I said, then it’s not really free. Finally she acknowledged that they paid for it with their taxes. She changed the subject before I could ask about the percentage of people who go to college and how hard it is to get into one of those “free” colleges.
What they have going on is a lot better than our pretense of “college for all”. She shouldn’t be ashamed of it but it sounds like she’s been suckered into the left’s bullshit.
Libertarian judge returns to private sector…
Judge Forrest said she studied the theories behind the country’s sentencing laws and “spent an enormous amount of time trying to come up with a sentence that fulfilled our society’s goals on criminal punishment.”
She said she stands by the handful of life sentences given during her tenure, including of Mr. Ulbricht and of an Egypt-born British cleric convicted of terrorism charges. “Whenever you give a life sentence, it doesn’t leave you,” she said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-who-oversaw-silk-road-case-rejoins-cravath-1536746401?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1
Now that she’s in the private sector and Preet is doing nothing but whining about Trump on Twitter, can we talk about Judge Forrest and her proximal relationship to woodchippers?
Mr. Gillum endorsed “a comprehensive immigration overhaul that includes abolishment of ICE in its current form to be replaced with a more compassionate and focused agency that actually keeps us safer.”
*outright, prolonged laughter*
Is this evidence of an honest, childlike faith in the benevolence and generosity of the Leviathan, or monstrous cynicism?
They’ll name it MiniWelcome or something and leave everything else alone.
“Castro Valley man allegedly cursed Trump, tried to stab GOP congressional candidate
A Castro Valley man shouting profanities about President Trump attacked a Republican congressional candidate who was working an election booth at a town festival, threatening him and trying to stab him with a switchblade, authorities and the candidate said Tuesday.
Farzad Vincent Fazeli, 35, was jailed after the alleged Sunday attack on Rudy Peters at the Castro Valley Fall Festival. Alameda County prosecutors charged Fazeli on Tuesday with a felony count of making criminal threats and misdemeanor counts of exhibiting a deadly weapon and possessing a switchblade.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Castro-Valley-festival-stab-attempted-rudy-peters-13221444.php
Almost nothing about this story in the MSM.
Doesn’t fit the narrative and might make democrats look like the shit weasels they are, so the dnc ops with bylines are ignoring it.
He should see if he can find the bike lock guy’s attorney. Or prosecutor. But I repeat myself.
About Article 13
https://openmedia.org/sites/default/files/stl-article13-faq.pdf
“Jimmy Bennett—who claims he was sexually assaulted by Asia Argento in 2013—has also been accused of sexual misconduct with an underage girl in the past”
https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1039856168024383490
This shit is getting ridiculous.
Is that girl going to be accused of misconduct with someone else next?
Six Degrees of Asia Argento
Its abused people all around these days, because suddenly everyone wants to be a victim.
“Have you stopped beating you wife?”
“She’s never said the safe word.”
It do be like that sometimes
If you doubted the fucking marxist were out to control our thinking by controlling our language, shit like this should leave no doubt…
I’m not a lawyer, but as far as I know, “illegal alien” is a correct term.
They will demand you use undocumented worker, because saying illegal kind of brands them with the fact they are illegally, and that undermines the narrative.
“Undocumented worker” can apply to citizens. Ever mow a lawn for cash as a kid? Did you file a return on that money? Congratulations! You’re an undocumented worker!
I’d be willing to accept “undocumented migrant” or “undocumented resident alien” but, frankly, the lack of documentation is what makes the residency illegal, so…
The mildest term I’ll accept is Illegal Alien.
Well, the Count’s absolutely right. “Illegal alien” is the correct term, both legally and factually. All the other terms are just silly euphemisms meant to push a political agenda.
So the 4473 form is hate speech?
oh yeah. that whole form is one big hate speech.
Center for Immigration Studies says Twitter is tagging the phrase ‘illegal alien’ as ‘hateful content’
That’s literally the legal term. . .
https://twitter.com/neontaster/status/1039631378449670145
This shit is getting ridiculous.
Garland had an actual psychotic breakdown at some point. It’s the only reasonable explanation for the shit he says.
What annoys me is that kooks like him get blue checkmarks, and people like Sargon get banned for life.
They found out he wasn’t actually a Sumerian Emperor.
This guy gets it.
Ayup…
Nothing makes someone more like Hitler than having a hooker pee tape..
It’s not onerous IIRC – it’s just that it only kicks in after you’ve exhausted every other possible source of aid. IOW, it’s a subsidy to the middle class and above.
One of the articles I saw the other day (it’s uncanny, the way these topics “spontaneously” become ubiquitous; more of that bird flocking behavior, I guess), in the Atlantic, probably, specifically mentioned the “last dollar” nature of many of these programs and the effect it has on who gets the money.