Coca-Cola ‘in talks’ over cannabis-infused drinks
According to Canada’s BNN Bloomberg , the drinks giant is in talks with local producer Aurora Cannabis about developing marijuana-infused beverages.
These would not aim to intoxicate consumers but to relieve pain.
The firm declined to comment but said it was watching the cannabis drinks market closely.
“Along with many others in the beverage industry, we are closely watching the growth of non-psychoactive cannabidiol as an ingredient in functional wellness beverages around the world,” Coca-Cola said in a statement.
Cannabidiol, a constituent of cannabis, can help ease inflammation, pain and cramping, but has no psychoactive effect.
It comes as Canada prepares to follow certain US states in legalising cannabis for recreational use, after years of permitting it for medicinal purposes.
It has given rise to a large pot growing industry and some high-profile partnerships.
Earlier this year, beer giant Molson Coors Brewing said it would make cannabis-infused drinks with Hydropothecary, while Corona-beer maker Constellation Brands invested $4bn more into pot firm Canopy Growth.
A partnership between Coke and Aurora would mark the first entry of a major manufacturer of non-alcoholic drinks into the market.
A little caffeine, a little weed, maybe some dark rum to mellow it all out…
Who Started the Trump Tapes Emmys Party Brawl?
On Sunday evening the tension building between Mark Burnett and Tom Arnold broke into physical violence, although it’s unclear who initiated the escalation.
The brawl took place at the “Evening Before Emmy” party which was a fundraiser for the Motion Picture Television Fund, and both parties are claiming that they fended off unprovoked attacks.
Here’s Arnold’s tweet claiming on twitter that Burnett “went apeshit” and “choked” him:
Tom Arnold
Mark Burnett just went apeshit & choked me at this huge Emmy party then he ran away with his torn Pink shirt & missing gold chain. I’m waiting for LAPDRoma Downey, Burnett’s wife, tweeted her own account, claiming that Arnold had planned the altercation, and posting a photo of a bruise as evidence:
Roma Downey
Got this bruise tonight when Tom Arnold tried to ambush my husband Mark and me at a charity event. Is your TV show worth it Tom? Please stop
Alt Headline: Tom Arnold Bad Touched An Angel
Alt-Alt Headline: Idiots Scuffle over Stupid Shit
Elon Musk wants Tesla to do collision repairs in-house, blames outside shops for long wait times
Tesla CEO and Chairman Elon Musk on Sunday said the electric vehicle maker will soon bring most collision repairs in-house — a promise he first made during the company’s annual shareholder meeting in June.
In a series of tweets on Sunday, Musk blamed outside shops for taking too long to complete repairs.
Specifically, Musk wrote: “Tesla is bringing most collision repairs in-house, as outside firms take weeks to months for repairs, driving Tesla owners (and us) crazy.”
Elon Musk sued by the cave rescue diver he called a ‘pedo guy’ and ‘child rapist’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been sued for libel and slander by the rescue diver he called a “pedo guy” and “child rapist,” according to the lawsuit filed in a U.S. district court in California.
British cave explorer Vernon Unsworth filed a lawsuit against Musk on Monday in a U.S. District Court in California for defamation. Unsworth is seeking at least $75,000 in compensatory damages, as well as an injunction against Musk requiring him to “refrain from making further publication of the False and Defamatory Accusations,” according to court documents.
“Elon Musk falsely accused Vern Unsworth of being guilty of heinous crimes,” L. Lin Wood, attorney representing Vernon Unsworth, said in a statement. “Musk’s influence and wealth cannot convert his lies into truth or protect him from accountability for his wrongdoing in a court of law.”
Tesla stock dipped as much as 2 percent Monday morning on news the Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has invested $1 billion in rival Lucid Motors.
By early afternoon, Tesla regained its footing, gaining 1.2 percent.
The investment will fund Lucid Motor’s 2020 commercial launch of its first electric vehicle, the Lucid Air, Reuters reported.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had previously touted conversations with the Saudi fund as key in considerations to take Tesla private. Musk cited a potential Saudi investment as justification for his take-private tweet in early August and claim that the necessary funding had been secured. After an uproar, Musk and Tesla eventually ended their plans to go private.
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In all fairness, Tom Arnold touched and was bad-touched by Roseanne. I think that explains a lot of his mental problems.
Add in the post-fame psychosis of the has-been/never-really-was, and I’m surprised he wasn’t wearing a suicide vest.
And a raging opioid addiction coupled with years of alcoholism.
Don’t put it past him… that may be how his vice series ends
No spoilers!
Translation: Tell us what you know, Burnett, or we’ll destroy you too.
No theme music Tres?
I was on the phone and couldn’t make up my mind.
In honor of the Saudis sinking money into Musk’s competition, I was thinking of something like this .
I’d rather have an original cocaine infused Coke.
The bubbles would tickle your nose.
Afternoon Glibs…https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/17/trump-says-he-wants-full-process-on-allegation-against-kavanaugh-826155
Is Dianne Feinstein the Most Corrupt Senator in the United States?
That’s a high hurtle – she’s up to it. Her arms-dealing husband and Chinese-spy driver probably agree.
In Office? Living? Ever? define the scope of the question.
I’m just linking to the article. Obvious Bob Menendez is easier to buy. But the damage he does selling his influence and votes is much smaller than Feinstein. Menendez got his buddies special treatment in return for vacations and underage girls.
Feinstein got American spies killed in China while helping her hubby.
And she fingered Harvey Milk as he was dying?
I interpret that as Flake has Trump’s cheeto dust covered balls in a vise.
More proof that establishment Republicans really want to lose. They want influence in the government so they can feed at the trough, but they really don’t want to be held responsible for any of the shit they pretend to champion – less government, lower taxes, ending ACA, etc…
Elon seems like too much trouble. Lets just fire him at the moon with no return fuel.
Or just double the burn on the way? See if the impact is visible from Earth?
Elon: “Uhhh… Shouldn’t we be slowing down by now?”
The way he used Tesla to bail out family members as Solar City cratered and the blatant California EV credit fraud keeping Tesla less in the red tells me that there is a lot of financial chicanery behind the Tony Stark act. I’m telling you guys, Musk has probably lied to almost everyone investing in his schemes. And there will come a day when he can’t dance fast enough to keep the reality distortion field going. His creditors will get wise to how he duped them. And then he’s done.
I guess when he’s lost everything and is sitting in a jail cell he get masturbate to his memories of banging Amber Heard.
Fairly telling that his financial managers have all run screaming. That Solar City deal was atrocious.
So he’s the fifth Beatle?
he get[‘s to] masturbate to his memories of banging
Amber HeardJohnny Depp’s sloppy seconds…*shudder*
Another Elizabeth Holmes!
BUT HE STARTED A CONVERSATION ON ELECTRICAL CARS!
No he is nothing like Holmes. She was only ever a con woman and people really should have known better.
Musk has actually accomplished shit
“Cannabidiol, a constituent of cannabis, can help ease inflammation, pain and cramping, but has no psychoactive effect”
It’s actually criminal that CBD hasn’t already been explored as a potential prescription medication. Just another casualty of the drug war stupidity.
Shush about these “prescriptions”. As of a few months ago, Indiana made CBD oil legal as long as it was tested and labeled to have no/low THC content. It’s also legal in a lot of other states. No prescription necessary. This is one thing that’s actually turning out ok.
I have used CBD oil. It’s pretty expensive but it does help with pain and helps you sleep better.
what sucks though is that full spectrum CBD is much much better but most states won’t allow it because it contains some THC. So most everyone is stuck with isolate.
I looked at it but the prices were insane.
I may or may not have just ordered some from Infinite CBD, the stuff Dave Smith hawks. The price wasn’t that high but it wasn’t cheap either.
STEVE SMITH NO HAVE HAWK. HAVE RACCOON FRIEND. HIM NO USE CBD. JUST RUMMAGE IN DUMPSTERS.
Trash panda.
I see by the picture that STEVE SMITH and the trash bandit (fuck those damned home invaders!) are more than just friends.
Good news everyone!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-city-will-allow-gender-neutral-x-on-birth-certificates?via=FB_Page&source=TDB
In twenty years, these poor kids will have trouble getting proper documentation.
In twenty-years they’ll hate their parents so much they’ll self-identify as orphans.
Item #1 in their petition for minor self-determination.
Well they can’t allow that after a person is an adult. People will realize just how few people see themselves that way.
On a related note, I’m waiting for a call from my wife on what the sex of our kid will be.
I get a kick out of telling her to remember that we’ll only know the meaningless biological sex, we can’t know what gender Xe identifies as until Xe tells us.
My wife doesn’t find it as amusing as I do.
In and of itself, I hsve no problem with the move. What I want to know is what is the fine print? Because these sorts of things always have fine print. Will criminals get released because the police “misgendered” them? You know this is going to involve something more than a meaningless recognition of “their reality”.
My SIL who is due at the end of the month just posted a letter to her kid about how the baby will be loved and a child of God whether thebkid is good at sports or acaedmics or messy etc but then finishes out or whatever gender you identify with despite your birth certificate
*eye roll*
She is a product of a master program in something like college administration
My mom went with my niece to one of her college orientations recently (Coastal Carolina). My mom has been unaware of all of this, and was apparently completely dumbfounded when one of the students said ” Hi my name is _____, and my preferred gender pronoun is _______. ”
I also have a friend who never finished college, but is trying to do so now somewhere in Pittsburgh. He said students wear gender pronoun pins the first few weeks so everyone can learn the right pronoun. He was accused of shitlordery though when he did not remember someone’s pronoun and used the wrong (right?) one.
My preferred gender pronoun is IDGAF. Call me whatever – like anyone’s opinion but my own matters.
‘id-gaffe’?
If one presents oneself as a man, he gets “he.” If one presents oneself as a woman, she gets “she.” It’s not my duty to remember somebody’s name, much less their preferred pronouns.
I’m not going to remember your name, your face or you voice. If you try to insist on non-standard prnouns, you will instantly become “that asshole.”
Yep. And I’m not going to be insulted if you call me either or any. Like, I know what I am. That’s good enough.
Call me whatever…
Ok. How about ‘Freedom-lovin’ ski bunny’?
See…now you’re making me want to wear a bunny furry suit on the slopes (those people identify as some weirdass gender, IIRC).
otherkin?
I’m surprised it took the diver this long to sue Muskiepoo.
he must have been busy banging kids
For real though.
I am not. Elon Musk is toxic. One of the things I’ve noticed is that as one set of his schemes collapse, he comes up with new schemes and runs off to pursue them while allowing the old stuff to collapse and be forgotten.
This crap about the diver is just like that. Musk came up with a crazy idea that would take time to work, and it hadn’t come to fruition before other people solved the problem using pedestrian and a less sexy manner. And the diver made the observation that the crazy idea played no role in the rescue. So Elon picked a fight to distract people from the ridiculousness of what he had been doing.
When confronted with a toxic person who is desperately trying to pick a fight with you, generally (but not always) the wisest course of action is to walk away. If you just stay quiet and refuse to play their game they will generally move on to the next distraction.
Now the guy’s sex life will become subject to discovery. I think it’s a mistake.
By ‘the guy’s sex life’ you mean Elon?
Lets see, oh dear. It appears he’s fucked a lot of people – his customers, his investors, the american taxpayers…
No the diver.
Because if Elon Musk can prove that the diver diddles kids, then he wins the suit and the diver will have to pay Musk’s costs.
Elon Musk can now pursue discovery – i.e. seek out evidence of kiddie-diddling. If I were the diver, I’d have said “Musk is full of shit and I don’t want to waste money suing a fat-walleted fraud like Elon in a court in a foreign country.” Elon Musk is giving all the signs of a con artist that knows the house of cards is collapsing.
It’s like social violence with a blowhard that’s cruising for a bruising. Let someone else take the legal and physical risks of administering the inevitable beatdown.
$75K is nothing to Elon Musk though.
Objection. Facts not in evidence.
I would not be surprised to discover the Musk is so highly leveraged that he actually has negative net worth.
I’m guessing they chose a small number so Musk will just settle rather than going through a trial.
*grumble*
I was just at the store to pick up things to round off fritatas. I come home, realize I already had cheese, but picked up some more. Worse, I forgot to bring home anything to drink.
More cheese is never a bad thing,
And yet I still have nothing to drink. (Lets see if the site lets me post this now.)
At least the Food came out Looking decent.
Dammit. I ate the one at the top of the picture, now my diet says “stop there, fatass” while my taste buds want me to go back for the other two.
This may be crazy talk but couldn’t you, I dunno, go back to the store for beverages?
Madness! That would require deviating from my schedule.
His schedule-deviating gloves are at the cleaner this week.
I have it in my schedule “Mild inebriation until bedtime.” I can’t drive in that state!
https://drizly.com/
(and, yes, I missed the joke)
Do you have any tea bags of coffee in your house?
Or, not “of”.
Last I checked, the alcohol content of tea and coffee was not substantial enough.
Do you have any mouthwash or cough syrup?
*trying to be helpful
I’m not that boozy, just disappointed.
If you have ketchup, three tins of fruit coctail, a garbage bag, three weeks and a cool dark place like a toilet tank, I might be able to help you solve your problem.
I can just buy some from professionals later.
Professional pruno connection? Sweet.
UCS, liquor is like guns & ammo…you never have enough. Always keep building the stockpile.
??????
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warren-climate-disclosure-bill_us_5b9b6381e4b013b097795efb
Uh huh this’ll end well
“Miss Warren, please go back to Massataxes and campaign on your own time.”
The “carbon bubble” will only happen if the government outlaws carbon-based energy, in which case it will be the government’s fault.
WSJ Op-Ed re: Kavanaugh –
Mr. Kavanaugh denies all this “categorically and unequivocally,” and there is simply no way to prove it. The only witness to the event is Mr. Kavanaugh’s high school male friend, Mark Judge, who also says he recalls no such event. Ms. Ford concedes she told no one about it—not even a high school girl friend or family member—until 2012 when she told the story as part of couples therapy with her husband.
The vagaries of memory are well known, all the more so when they emerge in the cauldron of a therapy session to rescue a marriage. Experts know that human beings can come to believe firmly over the years that something happened when it never did or is based on partial truth. The Post reports that the therapist’s notes from 2012 say there were four male assailants, but Ms. Ford says that was a mistake. Ms. Ford also can’t recall in whose home the alleged assault took place, how she got there, or how she got home that evening.
This is simply too distant and uncorroborated a story to warrant a new hearing or to delay a vote. We’ve heard from all three principals, and there are no other witnesses to call. The only purpose of another public hearing would be a political spectacle in which Democrats could wax indignant for the cameras while Mr. Kavanaugh repeated his denials.
***
The timing and details of how Ms. Ford came forward, and how her name was coaxed into public view, should also raise red flags about the partisan motives at play. The Post says Ms. Ford contacted the paper via a tip line in July but wanted to remain anonymous. She then brought her story to a Democratic official while still hoping to stay anonymous.
Yet she also then retained a lawyer, Debra Katz, who has a history of Democratic activism and spoke in public defense of Bill Clinton against the accusations by Paula Jones. Ms. Katz urged Ms. Ford to take a polygraph test. The Post says she passed the polygraph, though a polygraph merely shows that she believes the story she is telling.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-metoo-kavanaugh-ambush-1537197395?mod=hp_opin_pos1
“though a polygraph shows absolutely nothing.”
FTFY
^^^This. Worthless pile of pseudoscience.
Next up: Scrying
Beheading a chicken and reading the blood spatter is well known to be the most accurate arcane lie detection method and, as it turns out, is just as reliable as a polygraph.
Why not trial by combat?
I believe dowsing would be most appropriate.
So this is an older article but I tortured the discord with it, so y’all will get to read it too…
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html
It’s every climate apocalypse ever in one convenient place for wanking
Starts off with ‘science deniers’. Perhaps Mr. Wallace-Wells could define ‘science’ for us. I am betting he cant.
Mammary Monday continues!
http://archive.is/Oh3Tt
1, 7, 21, 23, 36.
25 and 39 win going away though.
I’ll take #17, since you don’t seem to want her.
I read an article that looking at breasts makes men live longer. So according to the calculations on this cocktail napkin, Q is over 9,000 years old.
WTF is #24 wearing?
Mall ninja cosplay?
Alt-Alt Headline: Idiots Scuffle over Stupid Shit
I was told the links were Kavanaugh-free.
Poor Elon.
He’s learning some tough lessons about manufacturing. From SA: Tesla: Fix It Later Doesn’t Work
I’m sure his managers and attorneys would love to lock him in a room with a bale of weed for a couple quarters. He really needs to shut the fuck up.
This was the theme of a 25 year old (maybe older) internet meme that was a fictitious memo between Bill Gates and the Auto CEO’s. Bill talks about how important quality and innovation are, then the auto guys respond about what happens if you car suddenly goes BSOD while you’re zipping down the freeway.
Since everybody else is gong off-topic….
Don’t be a follower, Ted.
Ha! Genius!
He’s gone, though. We’re looking for someone who goes wide left. It’s kind of our thing.
Good old Blair Walsh.
He learned from the best.
‘Till the day I die I will blame that on Denny Green. The highest scoring offense in history (at the time) shouldn’t have taken two knees and then let the kicker win it for them.
Not to mention that was the only kick he missed all year.
Ah, Gary Andersen. 🙂
MikeS on September 17, 2018 at 3:28 pm
‘Till the day I die I will blame that on Denny Green.
They’re crowning his ass in heaven right now.
I blame Denny for playing the starters late into game prior to that one (against the Cardinals). John Randle got hurt well after the game was a complete blowout. He was playing on one leg against the Falcons.
One of my favorite jokes the next year was about Denny showing up to the combines to test how fast the QB’s could take a knee.
Now you’ve got Bailey and he’s pretty damn good (last season notwithstanding)
How do the Vikings after years of kicking costing them when it matters the most not make finding a decent kicker THE priority during an off-season? Also at least they aren’t the Browns, good lord.
They took Carlson in the 5th round!! I blame them for not pulling the plug in the preseason. It was pretty obvious the stage was too big for him.
My son was at D2 football camp last summer. There was a kicker doing pretty well. Then the coach had everyone stand nearby and yell at the kid while he tried a field-goal. He missed by a mile.
UVA’s kicker routinely drills 45-50 yarders in practice and warmups, then struggles with 30 yarders in games,
Yeah Justin Tucker got kinda shit on in Baltimore two years ago when he scoffed at a question asked of him by Stan White (revered Baltimore Colt), who suggested Tucker might not care much about a loss because he is just a kicker. How dare you get snappy with a real footbaw player, when you are just a kicker, kicker!
Yet, I think Tucker being a cocky, emotional guy is necessary when actually being a good kicker.
AKA having confidence.
I think I posted this this am, but it’s so apropos…and so funny.
Fear not Purple Faithful!
All is well.
At least the Browns kicked the kicker to the curb. Sorry man, but you had one job.
So how will the Browns mess up Thursday night?
Re: Coca-Bowla. It’s kind of funny (ironic?) that after 130-ish years, Coke is getting back into the health-tonic business.
Hundreds of thousands of people with diagnosed ADHD would like to suggest they never really got out of it.
un-diagnosed. un-diagnosed.
un-diagnosed?
Something to do with your nose.
What about those with misdiagnosed ADHD which merely needed some time to run off excess energy in an unstructured manner?
Look! A squirrel!
Not to make fun of anyone with a chemical problem, but my dad observes about general rowdiness in class:
if those kids had a dozen kids to milk at 4am and a mile or two to walk, they’d be ready to shut up, sit down, an listen by they time they got to school.
dozen cows
kids are even harder to milk
That’s what OMWC says… but it’s worth the effort.
I hope he meant goats.
I have known a few people where I genuinely agreed with the diagnosis. Most people I ran into who got a script because of ‘ADHD’ were normal beforehand, and less so afterwards.
Doesn’t really pay the same as office work…
Kind of six of one, half dozen of another– along with lack of unstructured & structured physical activity, a lack of discipline. Misbehavior: oh ADHD, here’s your scrip, not you know how to behave, and you’re getting a paddling.
Don’t forget teachers that don’t have to answer for shoddy test scores because half their class has a variance.
Huh
https://fee.org/articles/justice-ginsburg-calls-kavanaugh-hearings-a-highly-partisan-show/
When you’ve lost RBG on a “woman’s issue,” you’ve lost America.
Article says the interview was before the Ford accusation.
That didn’t make the show less partisan.
Yeah she’s probably made an adjustment since then. That is the game after all.
Too bad this segment didn’t make it into the RBG movie.
Too bad it’s probably going to work what with Flake being such a shitstain.
If I were the RNC chairman I’d hire a midget to run up and punch Jeff Flake in the balls as soon as he enters the room.
She looks half dead.
Shhhhh….
Shhhh…
Half?
She’s a lich!
(I got bettah)
Kimbal Musk is on Closing Bell – what a moron, no wonder the rest of the board wants him out. He is also on Chipotle’s board – enough said.
Tornadoes all over Richmond right now, including a quarter mile from my house. Christ….
Stay safe, RVA glibs.
I’m in the Tornado Watch zone, but not near any touchdowns.
typical Robby:
That’s a shame, because the accusation itself—while still decidedly unproven—is not without supporting evidence. It is much more difficult to dismiss now that we know the name of the person making it.
what supporting evidence does he list?
1. polygraph
2. Mark Judge was always wasted and not a reliable witness
3. ?
that’s it.
in conclusion:
On one hand, it’s tough to say that Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court should be unilaterally derailed over an unconfirmed 35-year-old allegation made by a Democrat at the most politically opportune moment—this is the weaponization of #MeToo for partisan political purposes. I’m not naive, I see that. On the other hand, Republicans were taking advantage of political opportunity as well: the opportunity to find a replacement for Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy before the midterm elections.
^take THAT, Tonio!
Indeed, RB, I am humbled.
That’s their job.
Those sneaky bastards! That’s how they get you!
And also completely irrelevant, unless you’re using toddler-logic.
Stay safeget shit-faced.Why not do both?
Parking lotHurricaneTornado Party!I mean, it IS Virginia.
Stay safe we had to deal with that in durham this morning
We had a couple touch down near my old stomping grounds (I think a building was destroyed and someone was killed). Constant alerts at the office all afternoon and was shaping up for a possible tornadic storm to hit the office right before I left around 5. And there was some debris along the 288 corridor on my way home. So far, nothing of mention at my house.
Thoughts, opinions, existential dread?
https://m.theepochtimes.com/the-first-full-trailer-for-mary-poppins-returns-is-here_2663257.html
is it just me, or was that trailer shot like a Liam Neeson action movie? I was waiting for a shot where Mary holds a chormed out 10mm uncomfortably close to her face and chambers a round, followed by a bunch of jump cuts to shots of her punching, shooting, and curb stomping characters with names like “Dock-yard thug #2.”
To be fair, that sounds like a fat superior movie
Narrator: In a world…
**backlit shot of a woman getting gunned down in a seedy ally**
Little Girl Screen: MOMMY NO!!
Narrator: Where crime is rampant. One man…
**Jump cuts of Chow Yung Fat jumping sideways down a flight of stairs, ass-over-head, and blasting away with a Heckler & Koch USP in each hand**
Narrator: Will do anything to keep his little girl safe. But he never expected to need…
**cut to Emily Blunt in black tacticool pajamas and vest, rappelling out of a hellicopter with a kite-looking drone in her hand that she sends up when she lands
Narrator: The help of one very special woman.
**Cut to Mary chambering a chromed M1911 in 10mm**
**Jump to Shots of Mary punching, shooting, and curb stomping extras**
Sound Effect (at jump cut): Chuchunk – Chuchunk
Narrator: This summer, from Executive Producer Uwe Boll and Director McG Emily Blunt…
**Shot of Mary behind a goon, one hand over his mouth, one sliding a Ka-Bar knive into his kidney.**
Mary: (whispers) “Shhhh, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.”
Narrator: and Chow Yung Fat…
**Shot of Chow butt-stroking a mook with a Smith & Wesson 3000, then picking up his sleeping daughter and gently placing her over his shoulder.**
Narrator: are (dramatic pause) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
**Explosion**
I’ll buy that for a dollar!
I feel like I’ve seen half a dozen movies where Chow Yung Fat puts a sleeping little girl over his shoulder. Possibly in the rain, while looking pensive and/or bleeding, but I can’t think of them. But I might go figure out which ones those are and watch one now.
When is the premiere?
The trailer said this Summer, but we’ve actually decided to move it to an early February launch.
Mary Poppins crossed with Taken.
How is Disney going to shoehorn some SJW into Mary Poppins?
With some lube.
Well, for starters Mary is now a transgender afro-carribean half muslim.
Julie Andrews can show off her boobs again.
They probably don’t look so good anymore.
With a spoon full of sugar, or course.
Nice. You just microagressed SugarFree.
It takes a milliliter of saccharine to make medicine go down…
Kristen Bell already did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlTO8ggfes8
the best Mary Poppins was Anne Hathaway in that SNL skit where she gave the chimney sweep and the cop hepatitis.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/mary-poppins/n12320
I’d see that. Mrs. TOK and I are big Disney fans.
I wonder how they got it made though? The author hated the original movie and swore she’d never let them touch her work again. Maybe something expired?
Like the author?
Curses
The author?
I thought they had already embedded the preview in the last Stars Wars
moviedebacle?Mary Poppins.
…
….
Would.
Just gonna leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
Cats are assholes.
https://wtop.com/animals-pets/2018/09/cat-knocks-out-power-to-7500-in-new-orleans/
That one won’t be repeating the trick, though.
When I was in High School, a classmate did the same thing. It was a very nice memorial service.
Or maybe only 8 more times?
Cats are truly the masters of the earth
Fucken-A.
What a marvel of a creature.
That’s the worst CYA excuse I’ve ever heard.
The company added that, when it happens, the animal doesn’t survive.
You don’t say.
And yes, cats are assholes. When I was trying to sleep in Sunday, my two were taking turns trying to wake me up to feed them. Usually the younger one is left to do the dirty work of the older one because she is just adorable. But this time they were both at it. Various tactics were employed, starting with some aggressive poking at my feet and back through the covers and ending with seeing who could cuddle and purr better.
Mine just take turns jumping on the bed near my head and staring at me. They know I’m a very light sleeper.
This story made me laugh.
At least until I got to the last bit.
They didn’t have the house inspected prior to closing?
Unfortunately most home inspectors at that time were useless as demand far outstripped supply and everybody’s retarded cousin got in on the act.
I would consider suing the inspector.
something… gun… something… bullets… something…
IANAL but how can the inspector be off the hook, the contractor fucked up but they bought it after the fact, caveat emptor and what not, and you’d have to prove the realtor knew about the problem, but the inspector? that’s what you pay them for, and presumably, a reputable one would have insurance against such oversights. Maybe she hired a fly-by-night home inspector, what we need is home inspector inspectors to inspect the home inspectors.
At the height of the bubble, home inspectors were generally worthless.
Building inspectors are worse than useless. Much like every government entity tasked with protecting you, they provide only the appearance of protection, while charging for the full package.
A dirtbag friend of a friend (decent guy just broke and lazy all the time) got a job in Arizona as a city inspector and he admitted he would jerk people around scheduling-wise until they finally agreed to just leave him the key and he could do the inspection on his own. He would then watch TV and pass them. Never did any inspecting at all.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/15/aggressive-goats-taste-human-urine-airlifted-park/
Submitted without comment
How long did it take for those goats to arrive in San Francisco?
News you can use.
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19534928/anal-itching-causes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59GVr-Arjcs
At least I can blame my laundry detergent.
Disgraced Brian Ross: <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/ex-abc-journalist-brian-ross-free-to-cover-trump-again"Trump's attacks on the media are having a chilling effect! I mean, if there's one thing the media isn't doing, it's enough negative coverage of Trump.
But this sense that something goes wrong, you correct it, you go on—now it’s a death sentence from the point of view of the president.
It’s funny how all of the issues that need corrected seem to lean one way, isn’t it Brian-boy?
Funny how the corrections seem to get A LOT less coverage than the fuck-up, too.
Meh, they should go blow it out of their ass somewhere else. Don’t like being called an asshole? Stop being an asshole.
Harsanyi: Democrats Have Made Sure That Brett Kavanaugh Will Never Get A Fair Hearing
There will never be genuine due process on the floor of the Senate circus
Dr Judith Curry, an actual climate scientist(!) has some words to say about Google’s effort to provide authoritative sources to combat false facts:
Fucking Lysenkoists.
The Link: https://judithcurry.com/2018/09/17/a-test-of-the-tropical-200-300-mb-warming-rate-in-climate-models/
Google specializes in popularity, not truth and accuracy.
These links are not machine generated. They are curated by humans…. :/
My point still stands
“a philosopher of climate science and evolutionary biology, as well as a scientist studying women’s sexuality” = bullshit artist
You know what? That part doesn’t bother me. Steven McIntyre is a mining engineer who has an interest in climate science. His day job has nothing to do with climate science, but he’s written a few of the best papers in the field.
We should judge them on the quality of their work…. OK, she’s a fucking bullshit artist.
I see nothing that suggests intellectual rigor in her description.
Looks like TOS is updating their tech stack.
BTW, some great journalism there. No mention of how they got that way.
Uffda. It appears to be an epidemic!
I’m sure it is climate related.
They should have euthanized the little bastards. Freakin’ squirrels.
With one of those mallets you use at the fair?
JFC. I’ll be under my desk, weeping for America.
It is a super special knot that Commissioner Gordon would always use when tying up the criminals that Batman caught?
You really can’t make it up. “Google it”, huh?
You know, the original, Alexandrian solution would have worked on the squirrels.
You get my vote
“Israeli media is reporting that the family of the Palestinian who stabbed American Israeli Ari Fuld to death yesterday has already received an initial payment of $3,350 from the Palestinian Authority; if he’s given a life sentence, they will ultimately receive over $1.7 million.”
https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1041779347349295116
Again, the Pali’s should thank god it isnt me in charge over there.
Nor me. My decision:
“You assholes had your chance, now you’re finished. You have 1 month to move all your shit into whatever Arab nation you happen to border closest to, then we’re steamrolling in, seizing all land and arresting anyone left behind. If you resist, you will be killed.”
Damn. No fucking mercy. Lol.
Egypt certainly doesn’t want them. I don’t think Jordan does either.
As for the rest of the Arab nations, I doubt any of them want them. They care about the Palestinians so much as they exist as a way to have the international community against Israel.
They really are fucked up.
Oh, right. Lack of water does that to you.
The Palestinians have developed a completely insane, savage and dysfunctional culture. I am sure there are plenty of individuals worth saving, but the culture as a whole should be exterminated. A good start would be sending a missile up Iran’s ass and skinning that fucking Obama alive.
I am sure there are plenty of individuals worth saving
Maybe. I’m inclined to think the ones worth saving got the hell out and have peaceful, productive lives somewhere else.
If you can stomach reading such a thing, here’s how Al Jazeera described it.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/09/israeli-settler-dies-stabbing-occupied-west-bank-180916103313893.html
Then again, at least they reported on it. The only major US media I can find that reported the stabbing was USA Today and the Washington Post, and WaPo’s reporting wasn’t much better than Al Jazeera’s.
Golda Meir was right forty/fifty years ago when she said (paraphrasing) : “There will never be peace in the Middle East until Palestinian mothers love their children more than they hate Israel.”
“This sleaze, this dirt, was searched for by staffers of members of this committee, was then leaked to the media, and this committee and this body validated it and displayed it at prime time over our entire nation……It is a high-tech lynching.”
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1041683259569037312
She Lied.
Another struggle session success story.
I think I see what his first mistake was.
The personality type to bring forth something earth-changing is rarely the personality type that generates warm&fuzzies. He is, legitimately, a horse’s ass, but without him there is no linux. While it will likely make some people’s lives a little more pleasant, I’m not sure this is a win for the people using linux. Which, to be 100% crystal clear, is every single person using a computer that’s hooked up to the Internet.
Agreed. Real world-changing people are rarely agreeable.
I had nearly zero problems with the article (minus the stupid sentence about gender disparity) until it got to the shit heads with Twitter accounts. Glad Torvalds finally realized that he was a first class asshole. Hopefully he’ll be less of an asshole going forward.
What. A. Surprise.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/grassley-feinsteins-office-not-cooperating-with-scheduling-follow-up-calls-with-kavanaugh-and-accuser/
Stop fucking around and just call the vote. The D’s shoved a bunch of shit down our throats, now shove some down theirs. It’s their own doing. Fuck ’em.
Flake and various other “brave Republicans” aka scumbags would flip their vote if that was done.
What is Flake’s endgame here?
An eventual Democratic run.
Still getting invites to all the right cocktail parties. You know he isn’t going to move back to AZ and rub elbows with the rubes
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Remember when TOS would regularly bathe him with their tongues? He was just sooooo dreamy!!
They never go back to Pocatello.
It’s their own doing. Fuck ’em.
This is where I am at. Fight to the level of your enemy*. If they change the rules, play by them.
*By this I mean leftism in general, whether it is from Team Red or Team Blue.
Sure, this is a delaying tactic until after the midterms, if they win the Senate the confirmation goes out the window, if they don’t they’re in no worse position than they were going in.
The thinking has to be delay followed by farsical hearings followed by a drawn out farsical investigation followed by elections before the confirmation vote. If he withdraws there’s no way they’ll get him/her in before the midterms.
If I was Kavenaugh, I would have said fuck y’all and fuck this shit and wrote a scathing letter about the whole process calling everyone fuckstains. And peaced the fuck out.
Normal people would. But he is a crap weasel who has lived his entire life to get on the SC. That is what is really sad. He passed up on a lot of fun to get here and now it is all going to shit.
That’s not sad at all, if your whole reason for being is to rise to a position of power over other people, when you get cockblocked at the threshold of that goal, that’s hilarious, even if the reasons are spurious and politically motivated.
You misspelled ‘funny’.
“A group of women who went to Christine Blasey Ford’s high school are circulating a letter to show support for the woman who has alleged that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh tried to sexually assault her while they were in high school.
“We believe Dr. Blasey Ford and are grateful that she came forward to tell her story,” says a draft letter from alumnae of Holton-Arms, a private girls school in Bethesda, Maryland. “It demands a thorough and independent investigation before the Senate can reasonably vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to a lifetime seat on the nation’s highest court.”
The women also say that what Ford is alleging “is all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves.””
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/christine-blasey-ford-holton-arms-brett-kavanaugh_us_5b9fb3c2e4b04d32ebfabbc6
TW: Autoplay, HuffPo
Geez, if this the climate at Holton, I suggest parents start withdrawing their children ASAP.
Academia has largely become a make-work program for the mentally ill.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11307
Not mentally ill per se. Just smart enough to convince themselves of anything with no push back to snap themselves out of a cognitive bias. Sort of a Einstellung effect (my new favorite $5 word) writ large.
So apparently they’ll be testing a scheme on Thursday whereby the President, through FEMA, can send a message to all cell phones in the United States.
There’s some been ridiculous wailing about this, mostly due to Trump (OMG WHAT’S HE GONNA USE IT FOR?)
I didn’t think much of it until I noticed that I can’t turn the notifications off like I can with the Amber Alert and Weather notifications. Now it kind of pisses me off.
He promises to only use it for things that are hugely important.
I seem to remember this same discussion during the Obama reign. Is it just coming on line now?
Would Obama have used it needlessly?
He only hit us because he loved us.
“There are those who say Tundra didn’t need to be hit. That it was abuse. Well, I disagree. My father called it bonding.”
Spare the rod, spoil the subjects.
A pimp’s love is very different from that of a square.
Pfft. This was explained twenty years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGN6P4G5N8
Trump declassifies a bunch of bullshit.
^^ sooper genius ^^
That’s actually a fairly big deal…should have been done a long time ago.
Does ‘other information related to the Russia investigation’ mean the FISA applications/warrants etc.?
I would declassify everything related to it and the investigations into Hillary selling out the country. Lay it all out for everyone to see.
From the WSJ:
This is excellent. I think there may not be a blue wave after all. Darn.
The dems have been behaving like the stupid party lately and are determined to convince moderate democrats to not bother voting. I know a couple people who are lifelong democrats who are sick and tired of being told they’re racist sexist monsters by their own party.
It’s not their party anymore. It is the radical left, something very not American. They will eventually have to crawl back under their rocks.
Relevant
What about this?
1) Pull Kav’s name
2) Put in some chick (lord knows they are the only ones who can get through)
3) Quietly have a thorough and independent investigation into the accusations against Kav
4) When RBG kicks it, renominate Kav and release the results of the investigation. Schedule a vote in 3 days because he is pre-vetted.
step 2 wouldn’t finish before the senate scarpers for the midterms.
They can find a way to Bork a broad, it could even be something as simple as another sex accusation.
STEVE SMITH BORK TOO OR WHATEVER
If Trump wants to do that, nominate Amy Comey Barrett. She’s more conservative than Kavanaugh is.
Question for those that know more about Musk than I: given all of his business disasters, how is SpaceX his one success (I am defining success as “reliably launches rockets for paying customers” – I have no clue if they are in the black or not)? Is he not very involved in the business and engineering stuff, so they can actually get the work done? Given how unreliable and crappy his cars are, his rockets seem pretty decent. The reusability of them is a huge breakthrough.
It’s a joint venture with people who can actually get shit done.
That’s the only thing I can figure. When I worked with them (tangentially), they were always professional and responsive.
Paypal doesn’t count?
Don’t get me started on that vile thing.
Good CEOs are great salespeople. Steve Jobs didn’t sleep in the fucking factory, he would just pump the shit out of the products and had an army behind him.
I guarantee you SpaceX has an office for Elon that has all kinds of cool flat screens, buttons, etc., where they stuff him when he visits. He can sit in there and pretend to lead.
They let him out to talk to the media and/or the money guys.
BREAKING: Matthew Yglesias is a an asshole.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/17/17869978/kavanaugh-trump-sexual-assault
By that logic, neither can the Democrats because if Kieth Ellison.
Wake me when they disavow Billy Clinton
“put forward the name of a judge who has not been credibly accused of any attempted rapes”
They have that now.
As far as I can tell, there are no credible accusations against the nominee.
Step 1: make up some crazy actuation ie. Russia, rape ect.
Step 2: talk about it constantly and fill up the air waves with it until no one talks about anything else.
Step 3: Magically have everyone talking about it pretend it is now fact and begin to talk about what to do about it without proving the underlying act
Step 4: Have cuck Republicans bow to the pressure.
It’s worked with everyone but Trump, so of course they try it here.
It’s Vox. I don’t know anyone who takes that, er, publication seriously.
Or more specifically Yglesias. Jesus, that guy makes the special olympics look like a brain trust.
“Conservatives have a robust theory of the jurisprudence of plutocracy ”
Matty probably invented that little turn of phrase himself
Vox is basically a boil on the butt of U.S. journalism. Yglesias has his echo chamber, and nothing else.
His opinions are a continual nothingburger.
Actually, Matty, it would be impossible if you consider eleventh-hour poorly remembered allegations from over 35 years ago that are contradicted by the accuser’s own therapist and unsubstantiated by any evidence or witnesses to be credible.
Also, Matt Yglesias raped me some large number of years ago, at a place I don’t clearly recall, and there may or may not have been other people in the same time zone at the time. And you all are the first people I’ve told of this.
‘Credibly’ is another word that’s lost all meaning in the last year.
#metoo
Who Started the Trump Tapes Emmys Party Brawl?
I actually enjoy watching this stuff more than those same people on screen. But that’s a low bar…
RE: pronouns.
If I find myself in a situation where I am asked to use certain pronouns, I will refuse. I will also not use the traditional pronouns. That person will only be referred to by name, no matter what. I’m sure that’s somethingist, but that’s how I will operate.
RE: Asses
I think this one will please everyone, regardless of where you stand on the THICC spectrum.
I haven’t been around too much, looking for work, but I still have time for this,
A most beautiful Surf scene,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/rcZKoVmdBH9PV4Ea7
3 more months or so……
Haha. I was expecting sunset over a pier with some surfers catching a wave.
It’s looking real good, Yusef. That water explosion effect is very cool!