The Ravens already blew the week, so I can look at today’s games with objectivity, as a fan of football rather than a fan of the Ravens. In Jewish tradition, an adult male starts the day with a prayer thanking Yahweh that he’s not a chick. Today, I started the day thanking Yahweh that I’m not a Cowboys fan, unlike certain Irish midgets whose handles I will not mention beyond “it rhymes with ‘cruddy dishes.’” And if he’s up early and looking in, I can only say, “You know who ELSE was a Cowboys fan?”
Some auspicious birthdays. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, of course, but even more importantly, Korla Pandit.
This is a horrifying story, and inevitable given that our government puts armed agents out in the wild without a lot of scrutiny. I’m sure this guy passed his polygraph tests as part of CPB’s rigorous screening, right?
Ortiz is a 10-year veteran of the border patrol and had been working as a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol in the town located roughly 150 miles south of San Antonio on Texas-Mexico border, according to local media reports.
Authorities said they plan to file four murder charges and one charge of aggravated kidnapping against Ortiz.
Ortiz was arrested around 2 a.m. Saturday morning after a woman he allegedly tried to abduct fled and gave police a detailed description of Ortiz, including his tattoos, Alaniz said.
But at least he kept our country safe from drugs.
Did you know that Silicon Valley has a diversity crisis? A CRISIS! I had no idea. But thank the various gods, there’s people who recognize this and know the solution: a formal program of discrimination.
Silicon Valley wants to believe that we live in a meritocracy, but we need to accept that we live in a sexist, racist and anti-LGBTQ world, and that investing in pipeline programs and unconscious bias training alone is not going to close the hiring gap.
So we took a simple step and implemented quotas: 50% of our speakers had to be women of color. Later, we mandated that 10% of our speakers be non-binary and trans and 20% of our speakers be black and latinx. We’re not done: we plan to do the same for veterans, mothers, and people living with a disability.
Implementing quotas not only changed the way we operated—we created tracking systems to make sure we were on target to meet our quotas, because what gets measured is much more likely to get done—but it changed our community. It meant thinking about representation during every hiring process, planning meeting, or public event. It meant having some difficult conversations with friends, colleagues, and even with myself. It meant saying no to very successful and established white women. But change and evolution is often uncomfortable, and discomfort and friction are the keys to growth.
By “discomfort and friction,” I guarantee you she doesn’t mean hers. And I’m sure people of color like Asians are underrepresented in tech, right?
The mystery of how the Baltimore Orioles got so bad so quickly is suddenly evident.
The Baltimore Orioles will make history Tuesday when they become the first American professional sports team to feature Braille lettering on their uniforms.
This explains the inability to hit.
National Federation of the Blind President Mark Riccobono, who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game, expressed his appreciation for the Orioles’ initiative.
This explains why they can’t pitch.
Man, those scientists are just not giving up.
The Associated Press consulted with 17 meteorologists and scientists who study climate change, hurricanes or both. A few experts remain cautious about attributing global warming to a single event, but most of the scientists clearly see the hand of humans in Florence.
For years, when asked about climate change and specific weather events, scientists would refrain from drawing clear connections. But over the past few years, the new field of attribution studies has allowed researchers to use statistics and computer models to try to calculate how events would be different in a world without human-caused climate change.
“Attribution studies.” That’s a new one for me. Apparently a synonym for, “ignore the actual data and pimp for funding and more government.”
There was some discussion last night about First World Problems. And here’s a perfect example, massive outrage over… a fucking pattern on a sweater.
“Michael Kors copied a Mexican sweater design and I’m pissed. It’s not fair that he is stealing ideas from people that make their own pieces to make a living, for him to come and not even credit or pay Mexican artisans for taking their ideas.”
I may protest by making a breakfast burrito.
Here’s a great story from the NY Times. I hope you’re sitting down, because this is shocking: if you make fundamentally bad life decisions, things don’t go well for you.
Vanessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner. They found a floor to sleep on in Vanessa’s parents’ home on North Clinton Avenue in East Trenton. It wasn’t a safer neighborhood, but it was a known one. Vanessa took only what she could cram into her station wagon, a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica, letting the bed bugs have the rest.At her childhood home, Vanessa began caring for her ailing father. He had been a functional crack addict for most of her life, working as a landscaper in the warmer months and collecting unemployment when business slowed down. “It was something you got used to seeing,” Vanessa said about her father’s drug habit. “My dad was a junkie, but he never left us.”
In May, Vanessa finally secured a spot in public housing. But for almost three years, she had belonged to the “working homeless,” a now-necessary phrase in today’s low-wage/high-rent society. She is a home health aide, the same job her mother had until her knees and back gave out. Her work uniform is Betty Boop scrubs, sneakers and an ID badge that hangs on a red Bayada Home Healthcare lanyard. Vanessa works steady hours and likes her job, even the tougher bits like bathing the infirm or hoisting someone out of bed with a Hoyer lift. “I get to help people,” she said, “and be around older people and learn a lot of stuff from them.” Her rate fluctuates: She gets $10 an hour for one client, $14 for another. It doesn’t have to do with the nature of the work — “Sometimes the hardest ones can be the cheapest ones,” Vanessa said — but with reimbursement rates, which differ according to the client’s health care coverage. After juggling the kids and managing her diabetes, Vanessa is able to work 20 to 30 hours a week, which earns her around $1,200 a month. And that’s when things go well.
So, no skills, no education, no spouse, three kids, and we need to be shocked that this has consequences. The comments, of course, run heavily toward the notion that bad decisions should not cause any problems for people.
I’m Black, a woman, 28, disabled and I work- everything I want to say about how miserable it is to live in this country cannot FIT into this comments section. The constant racism, isolation and looks of pity from other people, the bend-over-backwards work I do with a compromised body for 10 bucks an hour that will never get me off SSI- on and on. All I can say is TRUTH to every word of this piece. BTW: for those shaming Vanessa (“why did she have the audacity to have 3 children when she knows she’s poor and undereducated, why did she drop out of high school”)- human nature cannot be policed, no matter how much America excels at shaming. So what she had three kids, the rich often have twice that number and no one says boo. I have no children, I’ve only got my own mouth to feed and even I cannot make it! Trump voters need to learn to punch up and not down: corporations are the enemy, not the poor and brown skinned.
Of course. It’s racism, greed, and Trump. There’s no agency.
Fuck it, let’s spin some Old Guy Music. And although I was going to answer the other question from last night (“Desert Island, which music do you have with you, the Beatles, the Stones, or the Kinks?”) with, “None of the above, the Byrds,” and put up some classic Clarence White, I fell into an alternate YouTube hole. And damn, Annie Ross really was the best.
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But over the past few years, the new field of attribution studies has allowed researchers to use statistics and computer models to try to calculate how events would be different in a world without human-caused climate change. – they were going to call them literally confirmation bias studies but did not have the same ring to it
That’s the nice thing about this kind of “science”- you can do calculations and construct models incapable of falsification. Everyone’s a winner!
A number of studies have been done on storm intensity and frequency. Time and time again they’ve found no change despite the predictions. They’re saying fuck the actual data.
You are just looking at the raw data. The corrected data proves the models 100% accurate.
That’s why they’ve recently started using hinky metrics like dollar value of damages caused by a storm.
It’s kind of clever, really: there’s been more beachfront construction, so a hurricane that destroyed luxury condos today would have just rolled through an empty shoreline a decade ago.
The great thing about models is that if you don’t get the results you wanted, you can change the parameters (or add new terms/equations) and try again until you can predict the outcome you knew was right all along.
It’s funny how not so long ago we were told that weather/climate models were highly nonlinear and that small changes to initial conditions could cause widely varying results. Now they are saying that small changes to initial conditions lead to entirely predictable results.
It’s not accidental that no matter what time period you use the models these people make results in global destruction….
GIGO…
Implementing quotas not only changed the way we operated—we created tracking systems to make sure we were on target to meet our quotas, because what gets measured is much more likely to get done—but it changed our community.
I’ll bet it did. Paranoia and resentment are excellent motivators, I’m told.
The incentives this will create are going to be interesting. People will be claiming to be all sorts of genders, or smashing their knees with a hammer to become disabled.
Claim mental illness and no need to smash anything
Heh, I didn’t think of that. I must be mentally ill!
Just claim chronic pain and no doctor has been able to help you. I know way too many people who throw that out as the ultimate “How dare you ask me to be a productive human being!”
The writer runs an explicitly discriminatory “community”. I know that’s every HR department’s wet-dream but AFAIK we’re not quite there yet.
So, no skills, no education, no spouse, three kids, and we need to be shocked that this has consequences. The comments, of course, run heavily toward the notion that bad decisions should not cause any problems for people.
It’s all the fault of Right to Work laws.
I shit you not; stronger union representation is what this woman needs.
Decisions are a social construct. And white heteropatriarchy
corporations are the enemy, not the poor and brown skinned.
I don’t what kind of eggs that goose lays. I’m hungry now, so let’s just kill it and eat it.
She’d make a great speaker for the ‘Future Gas Chamber Lever pullers of America Society’ ummm… I mean “Lesbians who Tech.”
So, I can count on the gas chambers not working. That’s good to know.
I a word.
Yes ‘I’ is one of the few letters that is also a word.
u wot m8
And you thought those gamergate guys were assholes.
According to the description provided by Dharker Studios’ on the Steam website, the full version of the game includes such themes as “pressured sexual relationships”, “abusive marriages”, and “outdoor” sexual activity. One of the female characters is apparently a stripper, who undergoes additional pressure from her boss to continue engaging in the commercialized sex industry.
The game is also said to include full nudity, graphic depictions of sex (between men and women, men and men, and women and women), and sexual dialogue.
Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), expressed her concern that “Steam is willfully contributing to the cultural objectification of women with this game.”
“It normalizes the idea that men have the right to control and abuse women according to their will,” said Hawkins, “something that ought to be socially unacceptable particularly in this #MeToo era.”
Is it really any creepier, or more offensive, than taking on the role of somebody who kills large numbers of imaginary enemy soldiers, or flies a bomber and destroys cities and their inhabitants?
What the game designers ought to do is add in scripts (or whatever they call them) in which the abused women (or men) can exact gruesome vengeance. Then everybody will be happy.
Speaking of Gamergate, Cathy Young was on-campus last week and I missed her lecture.
On the one hand…
It’s not fair that he is stealing ideas from people that make their own pieces
Where did they get their ideas from?
It’s not fair that the left steals their ideas from Marx and other racists without attribution.
It’s not fair that Mexican Indians stole their ideas for clothing patterns from animals without their attribution
Instead of getting angry, I would just mock them for spending a ton of money on something you can buy for $5 in Tijuana.
Sure but there’s no reparations in that.
Not Fair!
Progressive activist Cynthia Nixon on Thursday night lamented high voter turnout as a result of spending from her opponent New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who easily defeated her in the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary.
In a memo sent to reporters as polls closed, Nixon’s campaign sought to justify their candidate’s performance while blaming high voter turnout advocated by Cuomo as one reason she fell so far behind the incumbent Democrat.
Nixon’s team cited what they called an “unconscionable influx in spending” from Cuomo’s campaign, labor unions and the state Democratic Party, which Cuomo helps fund and which sent mailers critical of Nixon to voters across the state.
“The result of this unconscionable influx in spending is that turnout is extremely high throughout the state today,” Nixon’s team wrote in the memo. “This is likely due to two factors: tens of millions of dollars in advertisements from Andrew Cuomo pushing voters to the polls; and a desire on the part of prime Democratic voters to send a message to [President] Trump for the first time since his election.”
Voter turnout isn’t so great when they come swarming out of the woodwork and vote for the other guy.
I’d be fascinated (but not actually interested enough to look for it myself) to know how many votes Nixon got from outside the Five Boroughs and Albany. Not many, I suspect.
They’re just tearing themselves apart aren’t they?
Seems that the socialists have something in common, they need low turnout.
Is it just me and my age or does it seem as we go along that people’s excuse making for failure is getting more and more pathetic?
Hover over for the county-by-county results
Once you get north of area code 845 (Ulster/Dutchess/Sullivan is the boundary), Nixon did pretty well, although she still would have lost.
Still solid blue for Cuomo though.
She won Ithaca (no surprise there) and… the Albany area. LOL looks like the people most familiar with Junior didn’t want him around anymore.
Oh, and Maloney lost the AG primary badly.
While carrying everything west of Utica. He might be a clown but something tells me Letitia-call-me-Tish-now is going to be far, far worse than he would have been.
“I lost because more people voted for my opponent. That’s not fair.”
Fuck off Cynthia.
Listened to the latest contra-Krugman podcast. It’s about Kavenaugh and the hysteria around his confirmation. It’s pretty interesting. One of the main points is how the left has no nuetural legal philosophy. Just a political ideology that should be enforced by law.
Dogs and cats are natural allies against neuteral legal philosophy.
It’s a beige alert!
Michael Kors copied a Mexican sweater design
You know who else hijacked a design from a foreign indigenous culture for his own aggrandizement?
Ralph Macchio?
Henry Ford ?
The Taco Bell chihuahua?
The designer of the Seattle Seahawks logo?
The Goths, Franks, and Vandals
“…But change and evolution is often uncomfortable, and discomfort and friction are the keys to growth.”
She may not realize it but along with all those quotas, this statement a) is bull shit and b) evil.
She’s justifying social engineering is all she’s doing.
As long as that friction and discomfort is from be people being squashed by my new vision of society.
Social Engineering is the best kind of Engineering doncha know?
It’s not racist and sexist like all those other engineerings.
It’s social, so it’s something ALL OF US can do together, no matter how much a good number of us may suck at it.
Re Old Guy Music: The Byrds – Bob Dylan cover bands don’t count as real bands.
Annie Ross – meh.
According to the graph provided by OMWC, hurricanes peaked during the 1941-1950 period. Before that 1891-1900.
Hm.
Has anyone been paying attention to Bono these days?
Christ what a shill and an asshole.
The man has been dead for 20 years Rufus, have some class man, plus I thought he was all right.
-1 ski accidents.
South Park handles him nicely.
It’s unreal how good they are at seeing right through bull shit. Mind you, how hard can it be with celebrities? But they nailed it with Bono. I still HATE the fact Parliament gave the shit head the chance to speak.
“…human nature cannot be policed, no matter how much America excels at shaming. So what she had three kids, the rich often have twice that number and no one says boo. I have no children, I’ve only got my own mouth to feed and even I cannot make it! Trump voters need to learn to punch up and not down: corporations are the enemy, not the poor and brown skinned.”
I bet you she votes for people and ideologies that do nothing BUT try and police human nature.
The basic premise of classical liberalism – at its core in my view – is that you can’t control (and legislate) against human nature. This is where personal agency and all that comes into the picture etc.
how miserable it is to live in this country is “I’ve never read a fucking history book in my life”
Unless you count Howard Zinn as history.
I still remember the time when David Chase sneaked in a plug for Zinn on The Sopranos. It was a a scene where AJ was reading in the kitchen that popular Zinn history book. That wasn’t by mistake. I notice these things.
Same thing with Goodwill Hunting and a number of others that I can’t quite remember at the moment. It’s definitely a ‘must-read’ for any aspiring SJW
Heaven forbid they read De Tocqueville.
A shame they make students read that too, at least according to what my friends told me about their school experiences. I was fortunate none of the schools I went to even mentioned that book.
That reminds me, has Canada started arresting foreigners who say disparaging things about Trudy yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51znByKA4MY
Because the rich are not dependent on other taxpayers to take care of their kids.
“You didn’t procreate that.”
In case you didn’t know what a Korla Pandit was. https://youtu.be/uChjf1Zmqkw
*swoon*
The basic premise of classical liberalism – at its core in my view – is that you can’t control (and legislate) against human nature.
Listen, shitlord; if something is too difficult, or too dangerous, or too expensive for *somebody*, then it’s too difficult, dangerous and expensive for *anybody*. We must save people from themselves, whether they like it or not. That’s what freedom means.
^I’m sure if you searched the interwebs comment sections you could find 1000 comments that say this almost verbatim
Yeaaaahhhh… Let’s put the word free back in freedom.
Speaking of Florence how’s that going? still raining?
I’ll play devil’s advocate here and say the woman with the kids and the job taking care of her crack-addled father is making good-ish choices for what she knows. She’s got 3 kids and diabetes and no husband, but she works and tries to keep her shit together insofar as she is capable in her culture.
As to the commenters, the rich do not have more kids than the poor. That shit’s expensive! (Unless you enslave orphans.)
the rich do not have more kids than the poor – In Romania they certainly don’t and if some do as long as you can afford it…
*awkwardly coughs and covers up the entrance to the orphan cellar*
Right you are. Children are indeed expensive, no way I could afford one or two of those.
If you make those choices, then role with whatever the consequences of those actions are. I didn’t read the article, but it sounds like this person is. I’m okay with that. It’s when they blame ‘social constructs’ and other people or something else I start to get a little muppetty.
Read the article? Who does that?
I agree. It’s unfortunate that “All Mine to Give” isn’t still a concept.
I googled that. Thanks for the movie rec.
If you like sad Christmas movies.
There was a black and white short I remember from my childhood, the “Little Match Girl,” that aired during Christmas, where the girl hallucinated while she was dying, then died at the end but finally she was warm.
A friend found that for me and it was as poignant as it ever was. I don’t know why I liked it so much except that for her, it was a happy ending.
I partially agree- for example, her life DOES suck, and she is at least trying to work- but the suck is largely a consequence of her own decisions. Charles Murray and Thomas Sowell have argued that the welfare system encourages exactly these sorts of bad decisions (dropping out and having kids before having a means of providing for them), and to that extent, she’s a victim of the best intentions of progressives. But- and a major ‘but’- she’s still a human with agency. She’s now stuck and has no good way out, and for that, I feel sorry for her. But she had choices earlier, and she’s now reaping the consequences of them.
I remember then-gubernatorial candidate Jesse Ventura infuriating a crowd at a college when asked by a woman, “What are you going to do for single mothers like me so we can go to college?” and answering, “I didn’t tell you to have a kid before you were done school.” Ventura was a doofus, but often said absolutely correct things.
The left doesn’t believe in ‘agency’ so they will always conflate “bad luck” and “bad choices”. It has been a very successful strategy for them.
It’s so easy to convince people that they are victims. It’s almost like they want to believe it!
It’s easier to say “it’s not may fault!” when you rule out agency.
Her comment was that they often have more kids — which in raw numbers is true, if not as a percentage.
And the proper response to that is that they can afford to.
Is there actual outrage, or did a few people on Twitter say stupid shit that a lazy writer could cobble together to create a story/meet their deadline? I think we know the real answer.
It’s a nothing burger wrapped in a tortilla.
*faints*
So does anyone know how to stream over wireless from laptop to smart tv with Ubuntu?
I think I may need to get windows. Would be the first time ever I bought windows…
hmmm… Currently i have my computer hooked via HDMI to the TV. I think that depends a lot on the smart TV you have.
Yeah I usually had it HDMI. But I want to be closer to the computer while occasionally sending things to the tv. the tv code is 55MU6102 but i think these differ by region so it would not mean much in the US
Plex might be supported on your TV
Supported TVs
Depends on your Samsung.
Support
I think it might have the Plex app on there. You should check out the smart hub app list and see if you can install it. If it does, then you just crank up the Plex server on the Ubuntu notebook, and away you go.
I’ll try thanks. the app exists on the tv
Talk about “appropriation”…
I’ll play devil’s advocate here and say the woman with the kids and the job taking care of her crack-addled father is making good-ish choices for what she knows. She’s got 3 kids and diabetes and no husband, but she works and tries to keep her shit together insofar as she is capable in her culture.
I read that whole thing yesterday. It’s impossible to not feel sorry for that woman. Her life sucks.
What I find objectionable (if not unconscionable) is the NYT writer’s use of this single anecdotal example to promote an array of programs which have demonstrably failed to improve the lives of vast numbers of their “clients”. Stronger unions? Higher minimum wage? Sure, that’ll fix everything. Or maybe it will price marginal workers out of any opportunities at all. But, of course, if society valued matronly nurturing as it should, she’d be getting a fat check from the Treasury every two weeks, and everything would be fabulous.
Have I told you I appreciate your manner of threading? I do. /no sarc
I mean, a lot of people in those situations are. 1/3 Americans are already on government healthcare. 1/4 homes with children get food stamps with tens of millions of able bodied adults also getting them.
So does anyone know how to stream over wireless from laptop to smart tv with Ubuntu?
Youtube “cast” feature works for me on my linux laptop, I think. It works from the android phone. Do they have roku in the Land of the Vampires?
I do not want to buy a gizmo. I wanted a way to just send from PC to TV
Have you tried Plex Media Server?
I have not. But it needs i assume to work both on ubuntu and my tv
I assume Hitler was, because that is some sick shit.
Gandhi, George Washington, Winston Churchill…
“You know who ELSE was a Cowboys fan?”
George Armstrong Custer?
Poor Chuck Todd. He can’t get any of these guys to bitch about Trump.
Hey Pie I finally read your transalpina post. Great post. Reminded my wife and I of our year in Slovakia especially the sheep
ehm thanks i think…
Well the flocks blocking roadways
Why does the President dispute these numbers we keep trumpeting to make him look bad?
Now Chuckie is fapping over Manafort.
“This time we’ve got Trump dead to rights. We’ll squeeze that weasel till he sings.”
They always have him on the ropes. This whole debacle is pretty much one really really long episode of Wile E. Coyote vs. the Roadrunner.
CNN asks the important questions like what is wrong with Tucker Carlson:
The notion that he hasn’t drifted right, but that they’ve gone batshit left doesn’t even occur to them.
Oh, and the answer will shock you. Carlson didn’t change. He was always a racist. Per this lady:
Wow, she’s lucky she made it out alive. Courage!
I notice that they did not answer his question.
Easier to just say he’s a right-wing nutjob than actually try to answer his queries or justify their positions on anything.
no need if the answer is self evident
“Now, he shouts about immigrants, cries that big tech is stifling conservative voices, and poses questions like “How, precisely, is diversity our strength?” on his nightly Fox News show.”
Because that’s bad?
I mentioned this to my wife because she is a Tucker fan. She said “I can hear him laughing already”.
Another reason tatts are the worst. Or, well, the best.
For anyone interested, Dave Smith’s Part of the Problem on the Norm MacDonald kerfluffle:
https://art19.com/shows/d0ab5d6f-1972-4441-b3f8-6b61d09f7f15/embed?playlist_type=playlist&playlist_size=10#
Listening now – thanks for the link.
“Mormon mother-of-six prompts a furious debate by arguing that unplanned pregnancies are ALWAYS men’s fault – because condoms are more readily available than the pill
‘If you want to stop abortion, you need to prevent unwanted pregnancies,’ she continued. ‘And men are 100% responsible for unwanted pregnancies. No for real, they are.
‘Perhaps you are thinking: IT TAKES TWO! And yes, it does take two for _intentional_ pregnancies.’
She continued: ‘ALL unwanted pregnancies are caused by the irresponsible ejaculations of men. Period.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6173039/Mormon-mother-six-says-unplanned-pregnancies-mens-fault.html
You misspelled ‘Moron’
I mean… don’t be a fool wrap your tool
Or at lest I do not understand how so many guys have unprotected sex with chicks they barely know. First of all you don’t know where that has been. Second, you end up paying for it.
“First of all you don’t know where that has been.”
Actually, I do. That is why I run.
In many cases, we all end up paying for it.
i mean ir kinda sucks when you don’t even get laid and you still pay for it
Ah, so you’re married too?
no…
I’m not sure what being a Mormon has to do with the story. Oh wait, SHE was the one who started that. Why she thought it was relevant to her brain lint or why anyone else paid attention remain mysterious to me.
Bing! Bing! Bing! Its essentially the equivalent of “Republican talking head quits party”.
I agree with great availability of the pill.
put it in the drinking water?
Get out of my head!
“irresponsible ejaculations”
Hmmmmmm….current fem emo band album name.?
Or
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY
What about irresponsible ovulations?
From PP:
condoms are 85% effective. https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control/condom/how-effective-are-condoms
So yeah it’s all men’s fault. My personal feeling is if you consented, you should recognize the possible consequences.
This is coming from the Woke SJWs in the church (yes, they exist) screaming about Teh Paytriarcky, fuelled by our own sex scandals (nowhere near the Catholic church’s). I’ve divorced myself from the noise because it’s childish, and I don’t have the
investmenttime or energy for outrage.Then again, that’s a libertarian’s dilemma, isn’t it? Too busy being shitlords and ladies that we don’t push back when the folks who have anything to do gain ground.
who don’t* have anything to do
The penis discharged.
That Trump guy, he’s so fucked up and incompetent. He’s such a mess, he should be sleeping under a bridge and pushing all his worldly belongings around in a shopping cart. There’s no difference between Trump and the woman in the NYT story except for skin color and dumb luck.
That’s the impression I get from listening to the huffing and puffing on Meet the Press.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6172863/Alison-Brie-turns-heads-edgy-black-frock-Variety-Women-Films-2018-Pre-Emmy-Celebration.html
She’s beautiful, but that dress is awful.
Looks like she’s wearing a Hefty bag, one of the expensive no tear Heftys certainly but it’s still terrible.
I quite liked GLOW. Gave up on the new series of Bojack though. It’s always been preachy but it’s got aggressively “I took a women’s studies course and agreed with it”.
In a good play, everyone is right (or in a bad play someone is wrong). Having one character who is woke and reveals eternal truths to the numbskulls, who are wrong, is bad writing. (It’s also a stupid way of looking at the world, but you knew that).
Even classic Simpsons used to do this a bit, putting the idiot opinions of the writers into Lisa’s mouth.
BREAKING: Kristen Stewart NOT dressed like a hobo
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6172695/Kristen-Stewart-showcases-stellar-stems-white-skirt-walks-red-carpet-TIFF.html
I feel old, probably for a good reason. Every time I click on one of these ‘hot starlet’ links first I think “Who the hell is that?” and then “Is she even old enough to drive?”
She’s 28.
The grim plot unfolded when Wozniak, a community theater actor, needed money to pay for his wedding to Buffett and their dream honeymoon, prosecutors said.
“Former Disney princess found guilty of helping boyfriend cover up murder of two friends to steal $62,000 for their dream wedding and honeymoon
In the lead up to the murders, Wozniak’s honeymoon-related Google searches, such as ‘best all-inclusive sandals’ began to include more ominous searches such as ‘how to fake thumbprints,’ ‘how loud shotgun’ and ‘how to hide a body,’ the court heard.
Prosecutors said Wozniak shot Herr, an Army veteran, with a shotgun at a Los Alamitos theater, and then dismembered the body in a scheme to steal $62,000 in hazard pay he had saved up while serving in Afghanistan.
The plan took an even sicker twist when Wozniak lured 23-year-old Kibishi to Herr’s home with his phone, and then shot her and staged the scene to make it appear that Herr had raped and murdered the young woman, and then fled.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6172271/Former-Disney-princess-guilty-helping-boyfriend-cover-double-murder.html
crap
I am thinking that maybe that marriage wasn’t going to last long anyway.
She’s conjugal-visit worthy.
It’s hard to believe she got caught after all that crack research.
“Alexa, where can I buy some crack?”
Nice. Now Trumphitler is a depraved sociopath, utterly lacking in any sort of empathy or normal Presidential emotionalism.
“Kerry Would Sue Trump for ‘the Lives That Will be Lost’ Due to Climate Change
“I don’t try to be a troublemonger or to be somebody who tries to scare people, but I’m telling you folks – and I write about this in the last chapter of the book – I mean, I wish I could find legal standing to bring a case against Donald Trump for the lives that will be lost and the property that will be damaged and the billions of dollars because of his decision on climate change. This is life and death. Our democracy matters that much,” he added.”
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kerry-would-sue-trump-for-the-lives-that-will-be-lost-due-to-climate-change/
I wonder if anyone on that show mentioned that the warmistas have a 100%, fifty year record of being wrong. Not one single prediction of theirs has turned out to be accurate. Someone here pointed out once that psychics have a better record.
Beyond that, US carbon emissions continue the downward trend they started during the Bushitler years.
that is evil fracking so it don’t count. the spirit of the carbon emissions is still there
It is amazing to me how shameless these liars are. This AGW crap is the biggest scam in human history. The damage they have done to science is incalculable. Wasn’t it Bailey back at TOS that wrote the story on the majority of published papers now cannot be duplicated? The people doing this should be staked out for the buzzards.
meh i avoid calling the claim a scam cause in the end we don’t know for sure. the industry around it i clearly a scam. Also do you have a minute to talk about Our Lord Wind Solar?
Nah. Just call it what it is. It’s a scam.
The climate changes. They are just using it as a pretense to take your money.
The thing is if they were really worried I would see a sort of moonshot to cheap nuclear… the windmill crap makes me doubt their sincerity. no rational human can see windmills as solution to energy imo
It isnt meant to be a solution to energy supply. It is meant to use taxpayers as a piggy bank. It is about subsidies, nothing else.
Theoretical windmills are great! Real windmills purée birds and become problematic. Theoretical wave power is great! Real wave power is unsightly and disruptive to wildlife. Theoretical solar is great! Real solar, like Ivanpah, cooks birds in mid air.
There is no source of power they’d be happy with. You could invent a handheld fusion system that takes in CO2 and generates electricity by spitting out O2 and rainbows and they’d have a problem with it, because it’s not actually pollution or the environment they care about.
I think we know for sure that they fake data and have been taking money based on false claims. Sounds like a scam to me.
The same Bailey who decided that “the science is settled”?
If you didn’t get the book I linked yesterday morning, I urge you to do so. Spencer comes down hard on the side of, “Our data are so incomplete and so noisy, and our models are so flawed, that we really can’t give any definitive answers, yea or nay, to the basic questions. The science is very much in its infancy.” And being highly politicized (both pro and con AGW) makes it a near certainty that serious science will be stunted. See the sad story of Judith Curry as an example.
my True Believer friends say yes the data is bad and insufficient but we don’t have good data so we must respect the authority of the scientist…
I didn’t get it. I will go back and look.
What I find so troubling is that science is not lab coats and beakers. It is a method. These people dont even pretend to follow that method.
Data is collected and analyzed. Patterns are sought. A hypothesis is formulated and then tested. If the hypothesis fails the test you shitcan it and start over. If it passes all the tests then you have a theory.
The warmistas start with an unfalsifiable conclusion and work backwards. That isnt science, it is religion. Nothing about it even comes close to science, yet I am the science denier.
I remember Feynman calling unfalsifiability the single most damning criticism one could make about an assertion. I agree. The warmistas have deliberately concocted an unfalsifiable assertion. It is laughable on its face.
The problem is not that the entire endeavor is a scam, the problem is that the scam has been intertwined with the science. It is a prototypical motte-and-bailey argument. The motte consists of rising temperatures, the greenhouse effect, and the emission of greenhouse gases by human activity. All of these things have pretty solid empirical footing. The scam starts to set in when the measure of these things gets amplified. The warming gets inflated, the mechanism of the greenhouse effect gets overextended, and the amount of greenhouse gases emitted gets aggressively extrapolated. Throw in non-scientific beliefs about naturalism and economics and you foment a dangerous mix. Pretty soon, you’ve got a whole lot of people making lots of bailey arguments about death and destruction, and the necessity of certain policy solutions. When called on it, besides throwing out the only occasionally accurate “anti-science” label, they fall back on the motte arguments.
Then there’s other issues, like the ground temperature record being tampered with, the temperatures hypothesized from ice core sampling being put on the same graphs as temperatures measured with completely different methodologies, the blaming of every climate or weather related event on the grand unified theory of CAGW, etc.
John Kerry says – “I don’t try to be a troublemonger”???
It’s just who I am
Finally, some good news from the world of fashion.
Also, likely relevant .
‘how to fake thumbprints,’
“First, buy a good quality pair of tin snips…”
Sidecutter would probably be better.
Re: quota link above. For trying to change Silicon Valley, kind of strange to hold their first leadership summit in NYC (post in yesterday’s beer thread). Almost as if their driving force isn’t even in SV.
“None of the above, the Byrds,”
I can see that. Although Crosby’s voice might start to grate over time.
Then go to Muleskinner. I mean, how can anyone not love Peter Rowan’s voice?
“The classmate accused of being in that room alongside Kavanaugh once wrote his own teenage drinking “reached the point where once I had the first beer, I found it impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated.””
https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1041034521200812032
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/brett-kavanaugh-mark-judge-high-school-drunk-allegation-alcohol/
This shit is getting ridiculous.
It’s the top story on Mother Jones website.
Good thing mother Jones is one of them respectable media establishments
I am sorry but I see nothing except a unprovable allegation that suddenly surfaced in a specific time. I smell bullshit. But either way, this has nowhere near the evidence to be taken seriously.
I wonder how drunk she was.
I am guessing that the whole story is a fabrication. Not a word that these people say can be believed.
I think I overheard this morning on teevee that the entire russia/trump collusion crap is a fabrication, they always knew it was false and pushed it anyway. I think they said Gumby had texts saying that they always knew there was nothing. So, what in the fuck is Mueller doing? Fire his ass already.
The left has zero credibility. And if no one has guessed yet, I am hung over and grouchy as hell this morning.
I had some respect for MotherJones but after seeing their Twitter header. I think I’ll just ignore them.
They lost me years ago with ‘by 2012 a billion people will be dead from the effects of global warming.’
Lying pinko shitweasels.
There would have been…if they used the statisticians who measured the deaths from the P.R. hurricane.
This shit is getting ridiculous.
I was flipping through the channels a while ago, and I think I heard somebody talking about how completely unqualified Kavanaugh is.
It’s pathetic.
Well, to be fair, after the most qualified candidate in history couldn’t get elected that means everyone else is unqualified.
“Journalist Bob Woodward said in a radio interview on Friday with Hugh Hewitt that in the two years of investigative work that he conducted for his book “Fear,” he found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia — which Special Counsel Robert Mueller was hoping to find.
Nearly half an hour later, Hewitt once again pressed Woodward about collusion, asking: “Very last question, Bob Woodward, I just want to confirm, at the end of two years of writing this book, this intensive effort, you saw no effort, you, personally, had no evidence of collusion or espionage by the president presented to you?”
“That is correct,” Woodward said.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35918/bob-woodard-drops-bombshell-interview-democrats-ryan-saavedra
I cant really express how happy all of this makes me. I have been saying for years that our self-appointed permanent class of incompetent, corrupt shitheads needs to go. I never really held out any hope that it would happen, yet here we are watching them squirm like worms in hot ash.
If they lose or make no gains in november the screeching and wailing will be so beautiful. I should buy more tear storage barrels.
On the other hand, Woodward is no longer a credible source 🙂
The problem to my mind is not that this was always wrong. People make mistakes, sincere accusations can be proven wrong by investigation, etc. The problem is that the mainstream media apart from certain exceptions will never admit it was wrong. They will eventually move on from it but they will leave millions believing it was true but just never got properly tried. Meanwhile, they will bury other accusations before the evidence is fully investigated or when there is strong evidence of malfeasance on the part of the investigators. The end result is leaving everybody believing there is some kind of conspiracy afoot. Then they will whine about the lack of social trust, the lack of trust in institutions, and of course the gravest sin of all, mistrust of the government. They refuse to connect the dots back to their own actions.
the whiners = the talking heads in the media
Also, apologies for using the rhetorical device “the problem is not X, the problem is Y” too often.
Some more birthdays today: Hall-of-Famers Robin Yount and Tim Raines.