A full slate of games last night brought us the following winners: Atlanta, the MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIINS!!!!!, Tampa Bay, Philly, New York (AL), Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Seattle, San Diego, Arizona, Los Angeles and Oakland. The playoff pictures are pretty firm with ten games or so to go for everyone. But let’s see if anything weird can happen.
UCL winners were: Ajax, Bayern, Lyon (over a listless Man City), Real and Man United. A couple of the games ended in a tie. And the entire soccer world lost (even though Juventus won) when Ronaldo was sent off for the most absurd bullshit I may have ever seen. Seriously, that was insane. I only hope UEFA can see the penalty rescinded and not have him suspended. But knowing how corrupt they are, its gonna come down top who hands them a bag with the most cash in it. Europe League games today…have fun if your team is stuck in that competition.
Writer and scourge of high school juniors Upton Sinclair was born on this date. As were NBA legend Red Auerbach, comedian “Slappy” White, actress Sophia Loren, fat writer George R.R. Martin, Liverpool FC and Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, the ageless Guy Lafleur, rocker Chuck Panozzo, comedic actor Gary Cole, rock xylophone player/vocalist Alannah Currie, whack-job Asia Argento, and driver Juan Pablo Montoya.
-Bill
Its also the day Saladin began his siege of Jerusalem, Magellan set off on his expedition, the Battle of the Alma kicked the Crimean War into gear, the electric range was patented, The Italian Army captured Rome and unified Italy, Boss Tweed was accused of robbing the New York treasury, Chase Bank opened for business, Chester A Arthur was sworn in as president, Francis Ouimet won the US Open (and if you haven’t seen “The Greatest Game Ever Played”, you’re missing out on a fine movie), Bugs Moran put out a (failed) hit on Al Capone, Gandhi began a hunger strike, the first FORTRAN program was run, JFK proposed a joint US-USSR mission to the moon (because we used to try to engage our enemies without the media going into an apoplectic rage of partisanship. Unfortunately it failed because Russia had adopted the metric system. And no nation using the metric system has ever made it to the moon), Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs (and he settles a few outstanding debts according to rumor), the “Cosby Show” premiered, and a suicide car bomb kills 23 at the US embassy in Beruit.
The birthdays sucked, but a few big events there. Anyway, on to…the links!
As Democrat leaders say that inviting Christine Ford to testify (publicly or privately, in official hearings on meetings) is an attempt to silence her, Trump adds pressure by saying he could dump Kavanaugh if she showed up and proved to be credible. And I can assume that is also pressuring her to silence somehow, according to Team Blue. What a shitshow.
And in a story that has miraculously evaded the mainstream media, a woman comes forward with medical documentation showing a fear of more physical abuse against a major player in one of the two political parties. I’m sure this lack of coverage is due to their staffs being spread so thin what with the hurricane, the Kavanaugh story and other shit. Sure.
Chevy Chase makes a bold statement. I mean, that’s one way to announce your (effective) retirement (read: blackballing) from acting.
Judge partly throws out lawsuit alleging a career was derailed when sex was refused. Alt headline from Salon/Huffpo/Slate: Shitlord white hispanic mansplains law to defenseless woman.
Now this is the kind of protest I can fully support. Sorry coppers, but people have a right to record you in public. And the fact that you’re mistreating someone when they are filming you is no excuse for throwing them in the slammer. “Liberal, tolerant San Francisco”, my ass.
Chicago government finds another group to takedown for money. And they’re claiming its for “health reasons.” Sure thing, dumbasses. Sure thing.
What a bunch of “look at meeeeeee!!!”, thin-skinned pussies. Let the man have his day, for chrissakes.
Christ, what a Masshole. Man stabs tow truck driver five times after he hits and kills a woman.
You want to know how old people roll in Texas? This is how old people roll in Texas. Do something!
Go have a hell of a day. I’ll try to do the same.
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There is no Deep State.
1. It’s almost impossible to fire federal employees.
2. The position comes with a modicum of power.
For those reasons alone, federal jobs attract the worst sorts of people.
The Alleged Stabbers would be a good band name.
Captain Merrill Stabbing would be a good character name for a parody film. Porn parody would make it even better.
You mean like this? (Potentially NSFW)
Oh, so you’re going to pretend like you’re not a subscriber to the Captain Stabbin website? (don’t google that at work)
>>Chevy Chase makes a bold statement.
I can think of two good movies with Chevy Chase: The first National Lampoon’s Vacation and Caddyshack. Any others that I’ve missed?
Spies Like Us
You worked in the Feinstein office?
¡Three Amigos! was OK.
I thought it was Infamous.
+1 male plane
+2 little balls
It is an American classic.
https://youtu.be/TXSwJCVgJO0
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation was also good. The rest of the franchise… not so much. He’s not wrong about SNL or Lorne Michaels though. And he’s well past the point where he needs steady acting work.
Jesus the author continually trying to state that Chase is wrong because SNL ratings are “steady” was annoying. The ratings are consistently low
Calling Lorne Michaels an asshole isn’t bold. It’s just stating a fact.
Christmas vacation is good. I might get beat up but I enjoyed Vegas vacation too.
Nick Papageorgio made that film.
Jesus.
Fletch was awesome.
Spies Like Us was very good.
Foul Play and Seems Like Old Times were hilarious in their own way.
Not enough rubber fish.
I’m totally with LH on this.
You’ve met my mohel, I see.
Just cause it impresses the Sesame Street crowd doesn’t mean it’s big. You need to get some perspective.
Chevy Chase played Jesus?
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEANT!
Robert Powell performed the best portrayal of Jesus. Change my mind.
I like this Jesus story.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047216/
Well he did oppose masturbation, but he was kind of a Hitler fan.
Good Chevy Chase movies:
Fletch
Christmas Vacation
Vacation (the dog peed on the sandwiches!)
Caddyshack
Three Amigos
Under the Rainbow
Decent Chevy Chase movies:
Seems Like Old Times
Foul Play
Funny Farm
Spies Like Us
European Vacation
No love for Modern Problems?
Under the Rainbow. Wow. I saw that in the theater when I was maybe 12, and loved it. Hadn’t thought of it much since.
I had forgotten about that one too
thought I was the only person who even remembered t.
The Pearl is in the liver
I think Seems Like Old Times is one of his best. Charles Grodin was a great straight man, Goldie was still pretty hot then, and there were a bunch of very funny supporting performances (Chester, Aurora, the judge)
X-mas vacation & Fletch
The Groove Tube
Modern Problems
I forgot about Groove Tube. Yes!
Featuring Safety Sam
Funny Farm has a bunch of great scenes.
A forgotten pretty good movie…
Crum Petry rules!
The first Fletch was good, and had lots of great one liners.
The 2nd one was abomination.
“As Democrat leaders say that inviting Christine Ford to testify (publicly or privately, in official hearings on meetings) is an attempt to silence her”
An official platform to speak is censorship. Freedom is slavery.
+1 Ministry of Truth
I heard this morning that Fords attorney said something like, ‘We don’t want this to become a case of he said she said. We need an investigation so we can establish the same set of facts.’ How can they do that when they don’t know where, when or who may have been there when this supposedly happened?
I think there should be an investigation and it should start with all communications the good professor has had with left wing activist groups and Democrat politicians on strategy to stop supreme court nominations. This has gotten idiotic.
We need an investigation. Literally the only source of data for this accusation is locked in your clients head.
I would love to see a Republicans subopena the lawyer and ask her this on camera…
Unless she can produce some kind of information beyond a vague assertion that there was a gathering at some home located somewhere in the state of Maryland which had some unknown people which might include a list of specific individuals all of whom claim to have no knowledge of what you are talking about and it took place 35 years ago where would you suggest and investigator begin counselor?
In Tudor days, Actors were regarded as belonging to the same social class as Prostitutes. Admittedly, they were a bit harsh to Prostitutes back then.
Luckily prostitutes have gained the respect to differentiate between the two in our modern times.
At least we pay the prostitutes so we don’t have to deal with them in the morning.
They are also professional enough to not lecture us.
This…is very true, and I appreciate them very much for that.
The lecture costs extra.
Financial Domination is one kink I’ll never get. Maybe because I have Scrooge McDuck like tendencies.
UNless you are Cody Wilson
I’m old fashioned.
Highly-addictive tax money
Age of consent is 16 in 31 states. Just throwing that out there.
But it’s higher in the remaining 19.
but but but Europe!!!
I’ll just leave this here.
Thinking with your dick can lead to bad decisions in all 50.
I like those odds.
Over here in glorious Nippon, it’s 13*, still a bit too old for OMWC though, but hey, I tried.
*Mileage varies by the prefecture and I AM NOT A LAWYER
I rather like the euphemism of “compensated dating”.
Although buying expensive handbags doesn’t seem particularly appealing to me…
I have my reasons.
“[My] decision is not based on those allegations but rather on his positions on several key issues, most importantly the avalanche of dark, anonymous money that is crushing our democracy,” McCaskill wrote.
“He has revealed his bias against limits on campaign donations which places him completely out of the mainstream of this nation,” she wrote, adding that she was “also uncomfortable about his view on Presidential power as it relates to the rule of law, and his position that corporations are people.”
They might not be good reasons, but they’re all I’ve got.
I wonder how she feels about politically motivated character assassination’s effect on democracy. Totes legit, I assume.
He respects the status of the law as currently written and won’t implement our policy proposals from the bench. REJECTED.
Last I checked, the job he is applying wasn’t supposed to take the “mainstream” opinions of the nation into consideration.
I would like to know her constitutional theory guiding her to believe why those opinions are bad. Certainly it’s not just because preferred group x would be hurt it or outgroup y would be helped.
the avalanche of dark, anonymous money that is crushing our democracy,
SPOOKY
I saw in my feed this morning how McCaskill’s NO vote on Kavanaugh could cost her the race (this is true), and isn’t she BRAVE to stand up and put her career on the line!
Mo, I hear you. I know who I won’t vote for in the midterms.
Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything.
Dark money crushing our democracy.
I wonder what a detailed look at her campaign financing would find?
Money to Democrats is Sunlight Money. Money to Republicans is Dark, Dark, Evil Money.
“That money is not dark! It’s just not very well lit.”
The irony is that in the last 3 presidential elections Republicans have been outspent by Democrats 2-3:1.
Well, according to the sources I checked, 1.86:1
Is there ana ctualy standard definiton for a “solutions engineer”, or is it a sufficiently vague job title I can use for a character whose actual occupation ranged from “hired gun” to “hit man”.
Any job that ends with “engineer” and doesn’t have as a prerequisite an academic background in engineering is sufficiently vague that it can mean literally anything.
Where do you put software engineer in there? I have no formal education in computer science, but it’s what I do for a living?
I think “computer programmer” or “software developer” was perfectly sufficient and more accurate before they decided that every tech related job had to have “engineer” in the title.
Don’t get me wrong, I always enjoyed calling myself an “audio engineer” instead of “sound bitch”, for instance, but it’s turned into a bit of a catch-all piece of jargon.
I agree, I don’t particularly like the term software engineer either.
My favorite is client success engineer.
If you contributed to the god awful “loudness wars” I’m going to have to give you a stern lecture!
+1 But this one goes to 11!
I didn’t buy another piece of popular music for 10 years after I bought Metallica’s Death Magnetic.
It was the absolute last straw…
So you’re only buying unpopular music now?
Jazz and classical have generally escaped from shit mastering, but there exceptions to everything of course.
People buy music?
I do. ::looks around nervously::
I buy music.
Nah, I only did live sound reinforcement. I was responsible for blowing out your ears in shitty local venues so that you wouldn’t notice the loudness wars so much.
Ahhh, if we make it loud it enough we can cover up the hall’s awful acoustic reverberations!
That’s just making the best of a bad situation…
I have very strong and idiosyncratic opinions about this issue. Basically, if your software development is in a traditional engineering workflow in a multidisciplinary team in order to make a product, you are likely doing software engineering. If you are doing IT work in house, you are likely doing software development. Its fuzzy, and there is overlap, but I maintain that there is a useful distinction to be made.
I simply tell people that I’m a “computer guy” and let it go at that.
Solution Architect is the one that drives me buggy (and I’ve been one at previous jobs). IMO a SA is just an experienced developer who knows what sorts of dumb ideas to avoid.
I think it is a job title that helps managers get raises for experienced developers.
I’m a “Senior Business Analyst” – which is sort of a program manager, internal IT resolution, EDI Coordinator, and general “bum”.
I was a bookie in the entertainment business = (store clerk)
I felt slightly embarrassed when my job title changed from “developer” to “engineer”. (Note, this was just a name change.) Yeah, we followed a workflow such as you’re describing (or, we were making strides to…) though not for all projects but still. I too have no formal education in it nor any pieces of paper that tell anyone what I can do.
My line is slightly different, but similar. If you need to know what’s going on in hardware, you’re a software engineer. If you’re doing webdev, network admin, or application layer programming, you’re a software developer.
My SIL took a 10 week boot camp and designs webpaged for fashion sites and calls herself a software engineer.
I took 4 years of computer engineering courses, built a dual core processor from sand (okay, it was simulated… whatever) , built an operating system from scratch, and have forgotten more about microcontroller than she’d ever care to know, and I made about $40k less than her to be called a software engineer.
No, I’m not bitter, why do you ask?
Your mistake is that you’re overqualified.
Haha, turns out getting even more qualifications (JD) was the answer.
That’s not so far from my definition in practice, actually.
Is she stacked… I mean Full Stack?
Paging Q…
For a big chunk of my career I wore “supply chain engineer” as my job title. But in fact I did graduate from an engineering curriculum Tau Beta Pi and was applying proper, engineering principles to my work – enough so that some of the analytic processes I introduced at my local workplace ended up becoming the global standard in my company for addressing that type of problem.
Reminds me of when I received my college diploma. It just said Bachelor of Science with no major listed. Called up the university and asked if there was a screw up. Apparently you have to tell them what major you want printed on it. So now I have a Bachelor of Science in Shit Lording.
I salute you, sir!
“solutions engineer”?
WTF? Did your usual “cleaner” demand a title change and a raise?
I invoke my fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.
Academics in the social sciences should use the term “Word Salad Engineer” to describe themselves. See if you can work that into your next book.
Linquistic Versitility Engineer.
Word Salad sounds like it has more gravitas…
The Greatest Game Ever Played was the 1958 NFL championship. This is an incontrovertible fact.
Wrong – 1977 – Tiddly Winks – Me versus that asshole Patrick down the street.
Last year – English Rugby Premier final.
Not even close.
#johnnyunitas #suddendeath
Stopping after every few seconds of action….sure “great”.
Kenosha boy Alan “The Horse” Ameche for the winning TD!
Well I suppose you would be biased against the inaugural games of the Flavian amphitheater. It was funded with (((gold))) and built with (((slave labor))). That would kind of put a damper on the whole thing.
You appear to have misspelled “Game 7 of the 2016 World Series.”
That old-man rheumatism I’m sure is a struggle, but that’s just egregious.
I say this as a totally non-biased and disinterested individual.
I try to have sympathy for victims of Downs Syndrome, but you’re making it difficult.
My syndrome is an asset, not a hindrance! Downies are happy! I am happy looking at Game 7 of the WS! WHEEEEE!
(Honestly–I really think I’m right about this. I’ll speak only of baseball as it’s
the only sport that matterswhat I know best. The only exception would be Game 7 of the 1997 WS but no one gives a shit about the fucking Marlins. Even that is silly.Historical importance. Check.
World Series. Check.
Game 7. Check.
Going to win from a 3-1 series deficit (3 win or go home in a row). Check.
Exciting game. Check.
Many lead changes. Check.
Blown save to tie the game in the 9th. Check.
Act of G_d (the stupid rain delay where we got our shit in order emotionally). Check.
Extra innings. Check.
Crazy rally in the 10th. Check.
Giving up a run in the bottom half to cut lead to one run. Check.
Tying run on base with two outs. Check.
Game ending with difficult play by the two marquee players. Check.
Ending 108 year drought. Check.
I mean seriously. My obsession aside….Best Game of All Time.
My BGOAT was Memorial Day 1999. As awesome as that highlight was, everything that led up to it made it all the more amazing. Since we have such a huge NBA following here, I’ll have to write a longform piece about it. /s
And I love the crowd sound. That wasn’t sports fans screaming, that was teenage girls at the Ed Sullivan show when the Beatles played.
As an Indians fan, I cannot agree. Would’ve been the best game of all time if Kipnis’s foul had been a foot to the right in the ninth.
No condescension at all—that must have been rough. It took a lot to stop me from giving a full pitch-by-pitch account of that game. I maybe half-succeeded.
Sad part of that game for me–My dad was recovering from prostate surgery. He couldn’t stay awake and went to bed in the 9th or so. I ended up watching the end with my mom. She thought my childish jumping was amusing.
My dad was always my coach and we were always the Plaza Park Cubs. He took me to many games, in Chicago and elsewhere. I would rather have shared that moment with him. *Shrug* Tis a silly thing to be ‘upset’ with. He was 67 and he recovered very quickly. Similarly, he couldn’t stand the flight over here again, so just mom and I explored Hanoi. That was probably a good thing. He would have been eaten alive.
It was a great game. Indians just ran out of pitching. (Both Carrasco and Bauer on the shelf sucked) Your drought was longer, so I guess it’s some kind of justice the Cubs won it.
Lead changes
Fuck that noise. Like I mentioned below, if you want a great game, ’91 Game 7. Two HOF pitchers who kept getting out of jams and kept the game scoreless.
Way more suspense.
I remember jumping around when Tom Kelly sent Morris out to the mound in the 10th wondering what the fuck he was thinking. Then Black Jack mowed them down.
I’m speaking of the movie.
1954 World Cup final.
UFFDA!
That is just nonsense OMWC. Every sentient being knows it was Game 7 of the ’91 World Series.
Jack Morris on the mound in the 10th inning was something to see. Gravy is knowing that Lonnie Smith still probably wakes up at night thinking about how he was fooled by a sand lot trick and lost the Braves the series.
This was the one I forgot to mention.
A 10 inning shutout in game 7 to win 1-0?! I was 4 so that has no nostalgia for me, even though the Braves are my second favorite team. (Long live the Professor, best pitcher ever Greg Maddux. (I don’t want to hear about Clemens even though I know it’s correct. He was an asshole with velocity. Maddux just fucked with people with his freakish control.)
Best part about that—Someone asked the manager what it would’ve taken to get Morris out of the game.
He deadpanned–“A shotgun.”
I’d argue Christy Mathewson was the best pitcher ever but he played in the dead ball era. I’d have to favor Randy Johnson or Pedro Martinez over Maddux (who was still awesome)
Maddux is my favorite. I love the control and movement that he won with, rather than just speed. The story about the time a guy caught him with closed eyes is fantastic. And I love that he was still winning when he’s throwing 83 against MLB hitters just by outthinking them. And location, location, location.
Post the lowering of the mound: Clemens is almost assuredly the best. Pedro had the highest peak but he didn’t have the longevity. Johnson was amazing for a long time but his early career was a wreck. Maddux faltered later because of velocity but he did have 17 straight seasons of 15 wins or more. (Yes, I know that wins don’t really matter.) Favorite thing: Maddux has 355 wins and Clemens has….354.
I would put all of them in the rarified air of The Best. Like when amazing musicians or physicists can get together and talk shop and absolutely understand what everyone else is saying and how they got to that mindset, but leave the rest of We Mortals behind. That they have all that same mutual respect of being at the top is something special for me.
I have a soft spot for pus-throwing pitchers who still get guys out. Rod Beck had, at best, a 90 MPH fastball…he had some good years. Jamie Moyer won 269 games with maybe an 88 FB. Jose Lima threw a lot of fat pitches but had some success.
Kyle Hendricks is my favorite pitcher now for just that reason. Best changeup in the game today.
“He just gets guys out.”
There needs to be some kind of special recognition for Jamie Moyer types. He is defnitely not a hall of famer as he was at no point in his career a real #1 starter but damn he was a solid workhorse for a really long time
I can’t say with any confidence who the best pitcher ever was – especially because baseball is not the sport I know best – but if I needed to win tomorrow and could have any pitcher I’ve ever seen or heard of, I’d take Randy Johnson.
If it’s a regular season game, I’d consider Clayton Kershaw. If it’s in October, I’d strike him quickly off the list.
If we are talking at their peak, it has to be either Maddux, Clemens, or Pedro Martinez.
Johnson was very good but those 3 were better at their peaks.
Honestly I cannot imagine anyone being better than Martinez at his peak. In 2000 at the height of the juicing era he had 217 Innings pitched with an era of 1.74, 234 K’s to just 32 walks and an utterly unheard of whip of 0.737 the lowest ever recorded in any season and only 3 other pitchers since 1920 have had single season whips below 0.850 (Maddux in 95 with a .811, Dave McNally in 68 with a .843, and Greinke in 2015 with a .844).
For his 7 years n Boston he averaged
17 wins, 5 losses, 2.52 ERA, 197 Innings Pitched, 240 KO, 44 BB, 0.978 WHIP
There might be some old time or possibly current pitchers who can beat that but he is by a pretty significant margin the best pitcher I have ever seen
The legend has it that when TK and Morris were arguing about him coming out of the game, TK gave up saying “Ah, hell it is only a game.”
I was living in Memphis in 91 so everyone around me was a Braves fan. I remember having gobs of people over to my house for the first couple of games. As the Twins were blowing it in Atlanta, the parties got smaller and smaller.
By Game 7, only my best friend was invited over and he didn’t give a shit. I was so nerve wracked I think I had two beers that entire game. I got super drunk afterwards though.
The Bush push game.
Or the falcons pats. For football.
Ohio State-Miami National Championship.
I literally jumped straight up onto a bar table (from being stone-still) when the final play ended, took off my shirt and danced a jig in front of the entire bar.
Disturbing, yet plausible.
I had to catch an early flight the next day for work so I didn’t go crazy but yeah that was a fun one.
Super Bowl XLII. No other game will ever top it for me because I never, ever thought we had a prayer of winning.
I agree. But not because I thought the Giants couldn’t win.
The headline at Vox:
Cody Wilson, 3D-printed gun creator, is accused of sexually assaulting a minor
They eventually get around to mentioning the consensual business transaction part of thye story, then veer off into the weeds with a bunch of idiotic nonsense about untraceable guns in the hands of crazy people and other terrorists.
Wilson might be the dumbest man alive to do what he did. I still can’t belirve he’d expose himself (giggity) like this.
Narcissism & delusions of grandeur. Bad combination.
He did something incredibly stupid. It doesn’t invalidate any argument about guns.
There is a non-negligable part of the population who seem to adhere to “Any argument made by a bad person is invalid” so if you discredit the person’s character, you refute their arguments.
It’s human nature to think that way, but it’s not logical.
The article I read indicated that there was video of him coming and going from the place where the liaison took place. I got the impression that it was not security camera footage. It definitely sounded like a setup, and he fell right into it.
At the end of the day, what have they accomplished? It’s not like the cat isn’t already out of the bag.
I think mostly it’s a PR move, and a deterrent to other people who might consider rocking the boat the way he did. If you get too far out of line, you will be destroyed.
the article I read specifically said security camera footage
Not in the least. But it gives ammunition to the grabber idiots.
Yup, more headaches none of us needed, especially himself.
Maybe not for him. He’s overseas in a country without extradition. I suppose he could just stay there and do what he was professionally doing before.
Oh, I actually did not know that about him. I just remember seeing a few interviews with him, but they never mentioned where he did his business.
He did all of his business here in the states. But he’s currently out of the country in a place with no extradition. And he supposedly left after he was informed he was under investigation for sex with a minor.
So he can stay there, I guess. I just hope for him that he drained his accounts and/or has a financial sugar daddy of his own that will be necessary to pull a Polanski and stay overseas.
And I just realized the right needs to definitely throw Polanski in the face of every single fucker who bitches about this. Of course, there is one big difference between the cases: Polanski allegedly drugged and raped his child victim whereas Wilson’s “victim” willingly engaged in the activity.
I’ll hold off on judging just ow stupid he was till I find out if he knew or had reason to suspect she might be underage.
It is stupid either way but failing to verify her age is significantly less stupid than knowingly having sex with a 16 year old
Is there proof he even knew she was underage?
Legally, it doesn’t matter.
Well that’s dumb.
Sadly, the Venn diagram for “Legal” and “Dumb” has significant overlap.
We all know that. but knowing whether he knew or should have known she was underage or if he legitimately thought she was of age assists us in judging how stupid he was
So, legally, if he got on a site that supposedly strictly vets its participates as 18, wouldn’t a reasonable person think it’s safe to assume she’s not underage?
Doesn’t matter legally. A girl can show you a completely plausible fake ID that anyone would believe, but if she’s underage, you’re going to jail.
Have I told you about my friend, mens rea reform, put forward by noted soft-on-crime hippy pinkos Grassley and Hatch and opposed by conservative stalwarts the Democratic Party, because 2018 is stupid.
Dammit, my VPN routes me through Euro servers, which blocks the post. Can anyone give me the jist?
SNL sucks.-Chevy Chase
That’s not bold, that’s been true since I started watching television (and I have to assume still true since I stopped)
And he hates Lorne Michaels like many other SNL alumni.
It seemed a bit ego-driven–he implied it was good when he was on it.
It sure does suck though, when my ex used to watch it, I’d sit through without cracking a smile once.
SNL has ALWAYS sucked. Sure it absolutely had good bits throughout the years but the good to absolute shit ratio was WAY too low to ever really have called it a good show
Right here. This is the correct answer.
Yes, this is true.
“Comedians” on SNL suck at making political jokes, a generation laughing at the worst humore, he’s Chevy Chase, and you’re not.
Thx, guys.
Can anyone give me the jist?
Cal is trailing by 6.
Glibs, I’ve lost the key to my 2014 ford. I don’t want to pay a shit ton of money to get it replaced, because I don’t use it that often. What are my best options? Can I get a key cut somewhere without the fob? Can I get the fob key cheap somewhere? Thanks
Its the kind that looks like this
I don’t think the car has anything special with regards to the key tech. The fob will be harder to replace. My question is – how are you going to get the pattern for cutting the key without the original?
We have three – mine, my wife’s, the spare in our house. We are down to two and want to get back up the three.
I think you can get a key cut then without the fob. I did for an older car that had a fob. I had to go to a locksmith and it was about 20 bucks.
You made it sound like your only key was missing and the car was a driveway ornament.
*Rereads. Squints at alien creature before him.*
So there’s absolutely no problem to deal with. It’s not at all worth the $250 that I had to pay to get my 2007 Focus key replaced. What the fuck are you talking about? You already have a spare to the car that you rarely use! Everything is FINE!
*Evaluates life and looks around hovel of an apartment*
Hrm. This may be the thing that separates People from Successful People.
You can tell a man’s importance by the number of keys on his key ring.
So… all hail Festus?
Correct.
You will need the fob, it contains a transponder that communicates with the anti-theft system. Get a spare key/transponder from keylessride.com, they are reasonably priced and frequently factory original. Bring to a local locksmith to have cut. Look in your owner’s manual, Ford used to allow on-board programming of a third key if you had two programmed keys in your possesion, not sure if that’s still the case. If it’s not, back to your locksmith for programming. Still the cheapest route. Ain’t technology grand?
It has a chip in it, I assume, so I don’t think “cheap” will be an option, unfortunately. But, I’m no locksmith. Doom or KSuellington would be the ones to ask.
I know a guy. I’ll text you contact info a little later.
He’ll tell you how to hotwire it.
If it’s a base 150 or maybe a focus, it probably still doesn’t have the transponder, which is not the same as the remote buttons. It’s the Anti theft part.
I’ve always sent people to keylessride.com
You can usually program the remote fob yourself. Keylessride has the instructions, which are different every few years.
More and more cars are using transponders.
You could cut the transponder out of one key, and place it on the cylinder. Then any metal key that is cut correctly will start the car. That’s how the older remote starts worked.
Its a Focus. Need to find out if it has a transponder in it. Do you have any leads on where I would look for that info? Owners manual? Somewhere else? Thanks!
Not really any way I know of. Lock shops have testers that will send a bunch of frequencies at it to see.
The easiest way I’ve been able to guess is if it was the base model or not. I’d lean towards it having one, just based on the year. Fleet vehicles still don’t for the most part, so some base trims dont.
I’d go to a locksmith in your area. At worst, you can get the metal key for a few dollars. It would be smart to have e a copy of the cuts In case the other let’s go missing, or if you lock yourself out. My old shop charged about 85 for one with the transponder in it.
If you’re an electronic guru, you might have the equipment to figure out how they work exactly. The transponder isn’t operated by battery. As far as I can tell from my work with them, they ‘wake up’ when the car sends them some sort of frequency, and responds. Like a resistor.
They have to be very close to the ignition switch to work.
The base key blank is an H75. You can get them very cheap, should be about 5 bucks at a locksmith.
Did you look under the lawn jockey statue?
1. People are the same everywhere
2. People are told that coastals are better than midlanders, northerners are better than southerners, etc.
3. Some people start believing #2 is true
4. But because #1 is actually true, coastals/northerners see lots of awful people. This is particularly true in cities where lots of people (and therefore lots of awful people) live.
5. The people in #4 “know” that midlanders/southerners are so much worse than their local scum, so their idea of an “average” person is a falsely negative one.
6. Thinking people are shittier than they really are leads them to treat non-friends in a shitty manner, because they probably deserve it.
7. Vicious cycle ensues.
Pretty much. Had friends that moved from Floriduh to the glorious paradise of Seattle, and they just got to the part where they realized people “suck” there too. Living life by those 7 steps is depressing, man.
WHY CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD’S HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOKS WERE SCRUBBED: Faculty Approved Racism, Binge Drinking and Promiscuity
On Monday Sept. 17th, Christine Blasey Ford’s high school yearbooks suddenly disappeared from the web. I read them days before, knew they would be scrubbed, and saved them
Seems fake
I assumed she spent every minute since Kavanaugh’s nomination scrubbing her past.
High Speed Times at Holton High?
If you’re trying to tell me that a 1982 preppy private school in a DC suburb was an epicenter of alcohol consumption, general asshollery, and other shenanigans, I’m going to be shocked.
Why redact them? They were open to the public not long ago. They were printed and distributed as yearbooks? If he has ’em publish them unredacted.
There has to be many physical copies.
Uffda. I’m truly shamed by the coots in Texas. Minnesoda kids use their healthy bodies to run away from a black bear.
What sad days these are.
Did they use a bicycle?
They would have if some fucking thief hadn’t stolen it!
Shit. I hoped this was gonna lead down a Flann O’Brien rabbithole. Apparently not.
STEVE SMITH DISSAPOINTED
Bear chases F-M couple
What is an F-M couple? Fucking Mauled?
I’m guessing it’s what people would normally call “A couple”.
Fargo-Moorehead.
So, a Couple.
Correct, from the lovely metropolis of Fargo-Moorhead.
I wouldn’t exactly call it lovely.
-Former Resident
You betcha!
NEEDZ MOAR CARBON TAX
Nearly a third of households in the United States have struggled to pay their energy bills, the Energy Information Administration said in a report released Wednesday. The differences were minor in terms of geography, but Hispanics and racial minorities were hit hardest.
About one in five households had to reduce or forego food, medicine and other necessities to pay an energy bill, according to the report. “Of the 25 million households that reported forgoing food and medicine to pay energy bills, 7 million faced that decision nearly every month,” the report stated.
More than 10 percent of households kept their homes at unhealthy or unsafe temperatures.
Women, people of color hardest hit.
“Reduce food” – oh no, I had to eat cheaply a few more nights a week.
How much do you want to bet the bulk of those 20% fell into the “we couldn’t eat out as often” as opposed to choosing between heat or eat.
“In America, the poor people are fat.”
More than 10 percent of households kept their homes at unhealthy or unsafe temperatures.
Uh, what’s a healthy and safe temperature?
Probably something uncomfortable to increase the number of poor unfortunate souls.
Technically, you can even hit that criteria by being too warm in the winter or too cool in the summer, depending on how the “safe and healthy” band is defined.
Not buying it. The people I know personally who have had this problem kept their poorly insulated, drafty houses at 65F all summer, day and night even when they weren’t home. I know because I asked why their electric exceeded 1500/mo.
Poor people are often poor because of poor impulse control and generally poor decisions. Hell, I live on less per month than most of them pay in utilities, and that includes my mortgage.
Luxury socialism means they should be able to wear sweaters indoors in the summer if they prefer.
I grew up in a neighborhood with a significant number of “poor” people. I put the word in parenthesis because while most of them made more than enough to cover their needs they pissed a lot away with bad food choices. Fast food, soda/pop/cola, chips, – lots of snack foods. They also bought bunch of crap they didn’t need.
I realized this when I first was on my own after the military. Living on the GI Bill and a small academic scholarship I saw how little I could spend in one month. Mostly Burritos made of home-made re-fried beans (beans bought dry, in bulk), bulk cheese, home-made tortillas, and bulk hot dogs cut up for the meat. Store brand corn flakes. Store brand Kool-Aid. I was able to feed myself and my wife on $50 a month (1981). Once we knew the limits we worked in a little more in our budget.
Most “poor” people I knew had no idea about a budget.
I wonder why public schools don’t teach children how to budget their money.
OK, I don’t really wonder at all, I know exactly why they don’t.
“Under my plan electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket” – BHO
Shorter Obama – “I am going to fuck you to death”
*seals honking and clapping*
I wonder how much their cable bill is.
More than mine, I’d wager.
“Chevy Chase makes a bold statement.”
Here’s another bold statement. SNL sucked when Chevy Chase was on it too. However, the movies the 70’s and 80’s cast made were classics. The 90s were the glory days for SNL. Prove me wrong.
-1 Mr. Wheat
Late 80s-Mid 90s SNL was the peak of comedy.
Given the talent of so many of the people involved, SNL has always been underwhelming.
There was a great energy to the early show. Things dropped off as the original cast left, Eddie Murphy was great. I loved Norm in he 90’s. I don’t think I’ve watched a full episode since they fired Norm. It seems very tired, PC, and controlled now.
The problem with SNL is they force themselves to be contemporaneous. The terrible political humor is an example of this. They also write themselves into spaces where they cannot end a skit in a reasonable amount of time and then it labors on too long.
Contrast it with Kids in the Hall, which just did shit they found to be funny, no matter if it synced up with the news du jour.
The best work on SNL has always been the absurd stuff that you can tell is a sort-of passion project for one of the writers or comedians.
The problem with SNL is they force themselves to be contemporaneous.
South Park has suffered from the same problem for the last several seasons.
That and there are now literally 43 different outlets for comedy vs. 3 in the 1980’s.
The best work on SNL has always been the absurd stuff that you can tell is a sort-of passion project for one of the writers or comedians.
Yes!
Celebrity Jeopardy
Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
TV Funhouse
Stealing from a friend’s theory: SNL is like music. Most people think the SNL cast (and music) they watched while growing up (teenage years) was the best time period.
Lorne Michaels said this in his interview with Norm on Netflix (uncomfortable to watch, btw; Lorne is unpleasant). It’s true.
But yeah, SNL has always *mostly* sucked. It’s inherent to the way the show is made: you make an episode within a week, spending just a day or two with little to no sleep shitting out whatever you can in writing.
spending just a day or two with
little to no sleepsnorting cocaine shitting out whatever you can in writing.That’s what I said! Little to no sleep
Ticketmaster caught enlisting pro scalpers for online resales
Ticketmaster pulling some shady shit? Now I’ve heard everything!
Eddie Vedder was right!
Is there proof he even knew she was underage?
Sugar DADDY, duh. He should be tried for incest.
Jon Burge, the former Chicago officer that tortured multiple suspects into false confessions, has died
This is the kind of time that makes me wish I believed in an actual Dante-like Hell so I’d know he’ll be tortured for eternity like he deserves.
And OF COURSE the Chicago FOP is still defending him.
What a shit-heel. Hope there is some justice in the after-life.
The Fraternal Order of Police does not believe the full story about the Burge cases has ever been told
And I’m certain they’re thankful for that.
Speaking of “keyless entry”-
There was a story a few days ago about some guy who stole a Tesla from a rental agent by “hacking” it with his phone. When I looked for the story later, it seemed to have disappeared. Has anybody else seen it?
I hadn’t seen that.
I’ll look around for it though. I believe it’s very possible to do.
OH NO!
Garrison Keillor is going to leave us.
He is going to sell his hovel and move to NY. What will we do?
*Please give to NPR. You can see how underfunded they are by the fact that Keillor – despite being wildly successful – was only able to afford a $2M house.
Who?
A truly awful, tone-deaf singer who also writes moronic opinions for the editorial page.
A truly awful, tone-deaf singer who also
writeswrote moronic opinions for the editorial page.And don’t forget he looks funny.
My kid sister used to be a professional beggar for MPR and she hated it when Keillor would do a live show in town. According to her, they would get swamped from people dying to get tickets to the sold out show somehow. As long time members of MPR surely she could get them tickets somehow. When she told them that she couldn’t some would cry and others would get abusive.
My sister is pretty proggie, but even she is puzzled by the devotion to Keillor. She doesn’t understand the attraction either.
And they apparently can’t afford to heat the studio either because that one guy always has (had) to wear a scarf.
“*Please give to NPR. You can see how underfunded they are by the fact that Keillor – despite being wildly successful – was only able to afford a $2M house.”
You have a point, but Keillor’s NPR work does not disqualify him from selling his own books or getting paid to speak. The man is a raging capitalist.
Oops. I misread your comment. Nevermind.
I saw his one-man show in Austin. He talked about how brave he was for leaving the safety and security of his previous marriages to take the risk with a woman half the previous wife’s age.
He did this twice.
He’s groped every woman on the Prairie and needs to move to the city for more.
That makes no sense.
How do you grope a Prairie woman? By definition they are flat, flat, flat.
Should Detention Center Photos Provided By the Government Be Considered Propaganda?
So I’m guessing to the author, Candace Owens must be one of like one of the collaborators.
Now not to say that Trump is the new Hitler but that’s exactly what I’m trying to imply.
All channels of information in Germany were controlled by the Nazi party.
Just like here in America where the media is state-run and all live in fear of criticizing Trump.
Why should I fast forward to 2018? To conveniently skip over all the other propaganda produced by every other administration? Why not fast forward to 2030 then when the exact same shit will be happening?
What is Bitcoin selling for in 2030? also can you download daily stock reports for the next 12 years and send them my way?
the stark similarities between how both men carried out their detainment programs cannot be ignored.
The scenarios are not even close to being the same. What an asshat.
“Madalyn Amato, 20, sophomore, Fullerton (Calif.) Junior College”
I think Lorne Michaels lost his way especially during the Obama years. He let his show get more cynically political (there was a difference during other years. It just didn’t feel that overt or in your face. We still all knew everyone was Democrat but it wasn’t insulting). How he let those two dingbats sing that creepy tribute song to Obama I’ll never know but it permanently tuned me out. It doesn’t help Obama gave Michaels a medal of freedom.
As for those two nitwits doing the Week-End Update, the absolute worse I’ve seen. Plus they smugly admit they’re focusing on Trump. At least be good at it.
All these medals and awards mean shit to me. All ways to give free shit to pals.
Chase sounds like a bit of an ass. I saw him on MacDonald’s show on Netflix (which I think is very good) and I don’t know. Let’s just say he’s very into himself. Lorne Michaels was on the last one and I get the sense the condition was ‘don’t ask me hard questions’. I find he could have offered more.
Billy Joe Shaver though….that interview was a hoot!
I think Lorne Michaels lost his way especially during the Obama years.
The entire industry collectively rounded the fucking bend during the Obama years. The only historical parallel is probably FDR. Seriously, this shit was just fucking creepy.
lol. Iggy Pop taking care of the elderly.
I wonder how many of those pledges were kept.
Michael Strahan. I don’t get it.
For example, has Strahan shown more love to strangers?
lol. Jason Bateman. Wtf? He oozed he knew he was bull shitting. LMFAO.
My pledge is to completely ignore all your pleas.
The very idea you connected your ‘pledges’ to Obama cements you have no intention of doing it yourself. You off-load it over to your former god-deity.
Idiots.
How they’re not embarrassed is beyond me.
Ok. Enough fun. Gotta skip.
That’s just Bateman’s natural demeanor. He pretty much just plays himself in everything. I didn’t remember he was part of that bullshit, though, which is sad because I do like his work.
You know, I watch that and all I keep hearing is “Ich schwöre bei Gott diesen heiligen Eid,
daß ich dem Führer des Deutschen Reiches und Volke…..”
Two things watching that now – I still have no idea who at least half of those people are, and while Alyssa Milano still looks pretty good today, she looks like a hag compared to how she looked then.
em>Now not to say that Trump is the new Hitler, but the stark similarities between how both men carried out their detainment programs cannot be ignored.
To be sure.
That call on Ronaldo is enough to send that ref packing.
The thing that’s really irksome is the during the past 10 years or so, Real Madrid and Barcelona players have gotten away with much worse. Ramos, for example, it perhaps one of the most reckless tacklers out there and barely gets cautioned let alone a red. If he’s on a yellow, he would have to break an ankle to get the second one. Pique can hand ball all her wants. That horrible penalty call against Juve last year. As for Ronaldo, he committed far worse fouls and antics with Real but again, nothing. Never really got disciplined. All those offside goals (think the Bayern game) and UEFA let him roll on.
I don’t want to say it’s aliens, but it’s….UEFA. There’s something going on and it’s BS.
I’m OK with a make-up card 🙂
It would have been nice while he was at Real.
It will be interesting to see what UEFA does. You have to think they want him playing against United. You have to also think they like swinging their power around arbitrarily.
Welcome to the hard centre – and the future of British politics
OMG
THAT’S SO GOOD
THAT’S SO ORIGINAL
This whole Somalia thing…I don’t see ANY evidence that it’s been government-free at all. Is this like socialism? Like, “Things are bad in Somalia, ergo it’s not true government.” – is that it? How did the Somalia=libertarian meme become a thing, and how did it stick?
Somalia because people know about it from Blackhawk Down as essentially Mad Max come to life – a land of anarchy ruled by warlords. WTF that has to do with converting government pensions to defined contribution plans and not sticking our dicks into every third world shit hole that says mean things about the USA is anybody’s guess.
In that case, shouldn’t progs breathe the air of government “care” right now by moving to Germany, Sweden, or even Venezuela? I hear Venezuela in particular is looking nice this time of year.
Why go half-assed? North Korea is the workers’ paradise.
Oh you’re right, plus they can do all the leader-fellating their heart desires.
Because Spanish would be easier to learn than Korean – but of course, people who make these BS arguments are not talking about something anybody would do in real life.
But I thought Socialist (re)Education systems were second to none!
Depends on how you measure it. If in terms of the percentage of survivors being able to repeat the phrases and doctrine imparted to them, well, I guess those are the best!
Is this idiot actually arguing that the GOP’s libertarian tilt left the door open for Trump?
It’s hard to tell when something is that stupid.
SOMALIA! ROADZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“So what are the options facing the Tories? The American right was lured by libertarianism: ‘neither state nor nation’. This is manifestly ridiculous: I tell my libertarian friends that they do not need to wait in America pining for nirvana. They can breathe the air of freedom from government right now by moving to Somalia.”
Oh, fuck off you unbright smug prick.
Libertarians believe ‘neither state nor nation’? What a dipshitted douche.
Dump May, create a somewhat conservative platform, push Brexit through.
Well, yeah. I would add that anybody who postulates that – “Republicans = people who voted for Trump = Libertarians” – has no Effing idea what any of those three different groups are.
Shitlord, they’re all shitlords. /prog
Sometimes I wonder, having lived on the other side of the Pacific for a few decades now, what meaning this “shitlord” term has among the general population. I hear it being bandied about on this blog but wonder what nuances it may hold if I were to use it when back in the USA.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shitlord
‘neither state nor nation’
That’s not what libertarianism is. PASS.
This New Political Board Game Is Like the DC Version of Settlers of Catan
Players choose between six political ideologies in “The Partisans” board game.
It’s nothing like Settlers of Catan if it’s not prone to an inodrinate number of “wood for sheep” jokes.
It’s about DC, so you skip the innuendo and go straight to sheep-fucking.
Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, Nazi, and goodthinkful progressive.
“Europa League games today…have fun if your team is stuck in that competition”: UEFA to Sloopy, hold my beer: “we can come up with an even more irrelevant comp”:
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/45483586
It’s too bad because UEFA/FAIRS/Europa was/is a good competition. There’s still solid soccer particularity in the last 16.
I just want UEFA to once and for all bring VAR into the tournaments. That’s what’s killing things more than anything in my view.
lets go back to the old 3 comp system. Champions league is for champions only. cup winners cup for, um, cup winners. And then europa for really good teams that didnt win a trophy.
No hablo español.
I like the national comps better anyway.
I tell my libertarian friends that they do not need to wait in America pining for nirvana. They can breathe the air of freedom from government right now by moving to Somalia.
Uggh, ya got me!
*clutches chest, falls down dead*
warlords ARE a government.
Does he also tell his socialist friends that they do not need to wait in America pining for nirvana. They can breathe the air of proletariat cooperation in Venezuela?
Interesting map/graphic How much does someone making $100K take home each month.
I was surprised that Chicago beat Minneapolis. My view might be colored by the fact that I spent all my time in downtown Chicago paying the extra hospitality taxes that they use to fleece visitors.
Wow, that’s a lot of stupid and NYC provincalism. It’s almost as if she’s trying to tell herself “I did not make a mistake living in this expensive city”.
on the other hand, we like roads, schools, public transportation, the social safety net and other things that state and local taxes pay for.
I’ve visited Seattle many times and live in Las Vegas. I can confirm that they have roads, schools, public transportation and social safety net programs (most of which are federally funded anyhow). hth
*lived
It’s almost as if NYC wastes most of its tax dollars.
Oh right, all of New York wastes all of its tax dollars.
I should know, they pay me.
we like roads, schools, public transportation, the social safety net
It is known that Houston has none of these things.
It’s true. I rode my horse to work today.
Carpooling with your jackass of a hubby doesn’t count as riding a horse to work.
Does it count if their car is a Mustang?
I was in Houston a few months ago and was taken aback by how well maintained everything was. They obviously must be stealing the money for all of this from one of the blue states somehow.
I know more than a few people who are convinced that the Red States all live off the largess of the high taxes in the Blue.
Places like Slate and Vox write articles saying exactly that periodically.
Look, do you want thousands of unfirable, useless bureaucrats and union goons hanging around on the payroll or not? I mean, come on.
Wow, really? People in Seattle don’t have roads? I wonder what those road-like things I saw were then.
Compacted poor people fossils.
Certainly enough money to go 3 years and a couple billion over budget on that tunnel project (that I think just got delayed again)
So on avg. roughly 29%?
On the one hand, that extra 13.5% effective income sounds nice… on the other hand, we like roads, schools, public transportation, the social safety net and other things that state and local taxes pay for.
Imagine what a great place to live Seattle will be when they finally get roads!
Just because Seattle doesn’t tax income, doesn’t mean they don’t tax.
To be fair, they tried to tax income but the state constitution explicitly forbids it.
And they have a lot more ideas too:
https://taxfoundation.org/2017-tax-proposals-seattle/
Withholdings may be less in Chicago overall, but the city really nickel-and-dimes the ever loving fuck out of you.
Gosh, wonder what happens to that “take home pay” after the property tax and sales tax finished STEVE SMITHing you?
*turns empty pockets inside out*
/Chicago
In order to be good, comedy needs honesty, sometimes uncomfortable, and have an edge to it. A bunch of boring PC progs spouting off the same prog talking points, making the same boring/lame Trump jokes is painful to witness. Remember when Trump was elected and all the comedians talked about how great he was going to be for comedy? I guess they were right in that they exposed the hacks from the genuinely talented.
And to answer C’s question from last night: baptized Lutheran, confirmed Lutheran, remain Lutheran. All three of my girls are baptized Lutheran. Haven’t regularly attended church since we moved a couple years ago. Need to fix that.
I’ve never been into stand up much, but I’ve been trying to listen to different comedians on Spotify recently. I can’t find anyone I would recommend listening to.
I even tried Lewis Black again the other day just to see what I am missing. He is right about candy corn, but insufferable otherwise.
There’s few good ones left. Stanhope, Bill Burr, Owen Benjamin, and Norm are all great, probably a few more I can’t think of at the top of my head. But the rest I feel like are lecturing me. And they’re morons, complete fucking ignorant dipshits with punchable faces. I get flashbacks from my college days.
“A bunch of boring PC progs spouting off the same prog talking points..”
That’s the great thing about progs. They come up with fresh batches of talking points, associated with fresh outrages, every day. Keepin’ it fresh, to the point that those who don’t internalize the latest talking point find themselves on the wrong end of the mob.
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/mbwgap/kavanaughs-accuser-is-the-poster-child-for-why-young-women-dont-come-forward-about-sexual-assault?utm_medium=vicenewsfacebook
Uh huh
Yes it has nothing to do with the fact that she conveniently came out just days before the accused was set to be confirmed to the Supreme Court.
“It doesn’t ever go away”
WHAT doesn’t ever go away? Nothing actually happened! Fuck, you wanna talk about trauma, I got the everloving shit beaten out of me a few times at school when I was a kid – black eye, busted lip, bloody nose, the whole nine yards. Serious, real, physical pain, but you don’t hear me wailing about it now. It was 25+ years ago, I healed up fine, and I barely remember the details now.
As Glenn Reynolds said, if women don’t like the stereotype of being hyperemotional hothouse flowers then maybe stop acting like it. Grow the fuck up.
Vice and Vox are indistinguishable.
Not quite. Vice covers, like, weird sexual fetishes and interesting cultural fringes, and has decent music coverage…sometimes.
Vox is altogether shit.
I’m not accepting their premise that any significant number of young women aren’t coming forward about sexual assault without some decent evidence. And this ain’t it:
OK! It’s Korean Thanksgiving in 24 hours and The Lady and I are going to Chiang Mai. Is HM around? I’ve been to all of the SE Asian countries except Myanmar, but I’ve never been to Chiang Mai.
If by any chance anyone has any recommendations then I’d love to hear.
Hilariously enough…Lady wants to go to a ping pong show. So we’ll lose our cherry to that together….should be interesting. Also plan on doing obvious tourist stuff, an elephant sanctuary (no riding!), zip-lining through the jungle (they have gibbons! GIBBONS! EEEEE!). She wants to go to the Golden Triangle which I was told is a very scary heroin running area, but Top Gear went and apparently it’s safe now. “They have an Opium Museum” she said. “Do they have opium?” I asked with great interest.
And of course I need to buy rounds and get people to give me info on living/working there and how it all goes down. In Seoul Friday night and get to CM mid-Saturday. Very excited.
…is a ping-pong show what I think it is?
Oh, dear.
*Slowly taps nose.*
In Okinawa, it was the banana show.
It’ll always be Burma to me.
Yell if you see Donna.
That sounds like fun.
FanDuel sports book refuses to pay winning wager
Same shit the casinos pull every time a machine pays out a large amount.
If that’s the ticket they gave him, they should be paying.
I’m sure they would have refunded him if the game had gone the other way.
‘Glitches, yeh, that’s it. It was a glitch!’
/Joe Pesci with a toothpick.
Colorado mascot shoots self in balls with t-shirt cannon. Gets carted off field.
You can win a non-fatal darwin award that way.
Boy, that bearly got him.
Don’t try and buffalo me into thinking that’s a bear.
Bye, son. We don’t need you buffaloing us with your ungulate puns!
Your terrible puns give me great paws.
You all are unbearable.
What I refer to as punishment.
Maybe he was just a little horny.
Don’t try to stampede over the truth with your bear pun there.
Right? These people who think it’s a bear are bruining the whole thing.
Why must this issue be so Polarized?
It was quite a grizzly spectacle.
A Kodiak moment if I ever saw one.
*narrows gaze*
Part of the right to bear arms is safety and responsibility.
Holy shit. I was at the game with my 10-year-old boy right near where this happened, but didn’t see it directly. We heard the bang; it sounded like the gun malfunctioned. I told the boy “I think Chip just hurt himself”. A crowd of cheerleaders and others surrounded him for ten minutes, and then he was carted off on the meatwagon.
On the one hand, that extra 13.5% effective income sounds nice… on the other hand, we like roads, schools, public transportation, the social safety net and other things that state and local taxes pay for.
What a maroon.
I dOnT kNoW WhErE rOaD fUnDs CoMe FrOm
mostly the general fund.
Regardless of Chase’s take on the show’s quality, “Saturday Night Live” is still kicking, and walked away with five Emmy Awards at Monday’s ceremony
That’s not a ringing endorsement for either institution.
I think it’s better than it had been since, say, Phil Hartman, but I’m a solid Norm McDonald guy, so what do I know.
All that matters, though, is what Nike wearers think.
Customer data is compromised as hackers crack Newegg’s security
Just ordered a HDD from there on the 14th. Thanks Newegg. Really appreciate not receiving any notification and learning about it from a news headline.
What time frame? *read article* August 14 to Sept 18.
Oh good, I didn’t enact any transactions during that window.
If they’d been able to siphon out the customer database info, I’d have been in trouble though.
You may want to call your credit card company and get a new number issued, Pat.
Heh, ironically enough it’s a debit card that was just replaced after expiring at the end of August.
inviting Christine Ford to testify is an attempt to silence her
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
They’re not even trying now. First, the Dems explicitly demanded that she be brought before the Senate to testify. Now that she has been invited, they’re screaming how it’s to silence her.
Hurricane Florence: 2 Patients Chained in Van Drown While Being Transported by Cops
You think it’s so bad getting drowned in a van the police chained you into? WHYNCHA MOVE TO SOMALIA SEE HOW YOU LIKE THAT
But unlike you, we have the power to make sure those answers are the ones we want to see. The officers did nothing wrong, of course.
Didn’t you see the part about “persistent and ongoing efforts”? They did all they could. And now they have to live with it for the rest of their lives.
/prepping for disability claim
… do you work for any number of Cook County Sheriff’s Deputies?!?!?!
If they were locked in the van, I’m not sure the chained part matters. I’m sure the supervising officers managed to scramble to safety though.
Just like you, we have questions we want answered.
My questions include “who will be fired” and “what will the criminal charges be”. I suspect they have different questions, like “how do we get away with doing nothing” and “do they have family who might sue us”.
#MeToo
SHUT UP, LADY, WE’RE PROTECTING WOMEN HERE
Rape is improperly capitalized. DISQUALIFIED
Rape is improperly capitalized.
NOT WHEN STEVE DO IT.
You just lit the Hyperbole signal.
Whataboutism!!!!11!!!
It’s a wonder anybody works at all.
According to the Data, the Entire Restaurant Industry Is Plagued by Harassment
Exact numbers are difficult to come by, but an often-quoted Hart Research Associates survey from 2016 cites that 40 percent of female fast-food workers experience unwanted behavior in the workplace. Troublingly, it’s one of the more conservative estimates.
In 2017, data put Carl’s Jr.’s sexual-harassment rate at an astounding 66 percent. McDonald’s has faced its litany of complaints, and Papa John’s has been accused of creating a culture where female employees feel objectified and harassed.
One commonly cited 2014 report found that 80 percent of women and 70 percent of men in the broader restaurant industry say they’ve experienced harassment while working, and a full 90 percent of female workers claim they’ve encountered unwanted come-ons. Fifty-two percent say that at least once a week they get harassed at work by managers.
Exact numbers are hard to find, and we use an incredibly broad definition of “abuse” but the fact remains: nobody should ever be made to feel uncomfortable.
Nothing here says anything about WHO is doing the harassing. I’d bet 99.44% of the harassment comes from asshole customers.
Get a bunch of young people, put them to work in close quarters with lots of interaction? Surely not.
The standard joke when I waited tables was when a coworker grabbed something from under the counter/lower shelf was to say “while you’re down there…”
My wife used to be a waitress in Austria. She had a boss who said that if she would be his “girlfriend” she could stay in the apartment above the restaurant for free. You know what she did? She quit and found another job. She doesn’t seem particularly traumatized by the incident.
“culture where female employees feel objectified and harassed”
Oh noes, not a culture where people feel something.
How the hell does someone get shit on the toilet seat without it being intentional? I’d forgotten why I’d decided to never use the bathroom closest to my cube, but it didn’t take much to remind me. What is wrong with people?
Stop othering the differently asshole-abled.
The only explanation I can think of is that the stall was out of toilet seat covers, the occupant as a germaphobe, so he decided to do the gargoyle pose on the seat and missed the hole.
I call it “UFOing”, where your ass hovers over the seat.
‘Hovering’ which is why the ladies restroom can be such a horrid mess.
The one that comes to my mind is that one of the Indian consultants is trying to use it like a squat toilet.
Might want to avoid shaking his left hand the rest of the day just to be sure.
Bingo….
/From sad experience
Second crap of the day and didn’t wipe properly after the first?
Not with the… volume of material left behind.
Are you shitsplaining to us?!
We have potential clients in the building today so HR has told all of us to dress up and behave for a few days. This morning as I went into the rest room, I almost ran into one of the clients who was trying to escape with a guilty look on his face.
When I went into the stall to do my morning constitutional I realized why he was skulking about. The crapper in question has a dicey flush handle. It always flushes it, but at times it seems like it is just broken. Sitting in the bowl was a big nasty dump that the client couldn’t flush away.
I hope I run into him again today so I can look . knowingly at him.
“Hey your Holiness, any reason why the account just cancelled on us? Did you say something?”
No chance. My cube is way in the back and I never see anyone if I don’t want to.
So you’re saying you deliberately sabotaged this account?
Deliberately sabotaged? I don’t know about that, but I may have flushed any hope at getting that account down the drain.
Larry Craig would probably blame his wide stance.
In Singapore the locals would get real pissed at the People’s Republic of China (PRCs) who would use the western toilet like a squat toilet. It would fuck the seat up and it would break with shocking regularity. The filth.
Look for the most Asian person in your office. Then punch them in the dick.
That’s a problem. The profile of 100% of our consultants: Indian male whose family still lives in India and has to return periodically for visa reasons. There are too many suspects.
We have no East Asian men in the office, so it’s not a PRC.
Even if you had a billion screaming chinamen in your office it wouldn’t be them.
Shit? Nope. Pool of piss on the floor? Probably.
That is why they are called the Yellow Peril.
That pool is splashback from the urinal (I hope)
I work with some asshole who constantly wipes his shit on toilet paper and throws in it the small, open trash can in the stall instaed of into the toilet.
I hate that motherfucker
Venezuela should try socialism. Much better than their state capitalist economy where most people starve
I think I see your problem.
a woman comes forward with medical documentation showing a fear of more physical abuse against a major player in one of the two political parties.
Yea but he has a ‘D’ next to his name. Your evidence is no good here.
Mary Jo Kopechne unavailable for comment.
“Good data on this just doesn’t exist,” says Stefanie Johnson, a University of Colorado Leeds School of Business professor who wrote a Harvard Business Review paper earlier this year on sexual harassment in the industry. “As a researcher, you can say, ‘Have you ever been sexually harassed?’ and a person will respond, ‘No.’ But then you ask them, ‘Has anyone ever forced you to have sex with them to keep your job?’ and they’ll say, ‘Yes.’”
Wait, what?
More like, “has anyone ever made a pass at you”.
Critics say the fast-food industry’s response to these alarming figures is not enough. Of course, all fast-food companies have anti-harassment policies in place, but the effectiveness is questionable. Some Papa John’s employees have told Grub Street that they received no on-the-job training. And McDonald’s remains vague about its procedures, but Fight for $15 believes that only supervisors get official instruction. The group goes on to say that some employees don’t even know they have a legal recourse if management fails to respond to a complaint.
Needs more unions.
Don’t be an asshole. Training over.
I thought the big benefit of running a fast food joint was banging the teenage help. Did pornhub lie to me?
*bom chicka bowow*
*bow chicka nugget wow*
They call me Big Mac.
So, the outfit that wants to put all fast-food restaurants out of business is pushing this, completely unrelated agenda? *Kiff sigh*
What fucking official instruction do you need? Hey, Manager, don’t make the employees blow you for shifts?
This is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what my niece who spent 8 years working in the restaurant industry told me.
At the fast food places, most people are working hard and if you demonstrate any reliability, you are given more work and usually a small bump in pay. Keep it up and you keep moving up, although you may be stuck working the late shift and dealing with cleanup and money because that’s where the most reliable people are needed.
It isn’t much different at mid-end, wait-staff type places, although the wait-staff often get very competitive with each other for the better-paying shifts. But more often than not the managers are scrambling to get their best people the best shifts and they don’t like when their best people ask for a Saturday night off, but they usually accommodate them because having them 45 Saturday nights a year is better than having lesser staff cover those shifts more often. So generally the managers are at the mercy of the workers.
This is also true at the high-end restaurants EXCEPT for the “celebrity chef” joints. The Celebrity Chef joints are run by assholes with bigger egos than Obama and Clinton combined. THAT’S where the sexual harassment is rampant. After working at one of those places for 3 months, she was completely fed up with the restaurant industry and will almost never dine at a celebrity chef establishment ever again.
This is in line with my experiences, only to add that i mid-end, wait-staff type places, everyone is fucking everyone else every chance they get, and its pretty common in fast food too.
I would be willing to be that the definition used by the paper includes consensual sex between front-line workers and management, under the tissue-thin theory that no consent can be possible in such a power dynamic.
My brother greatly out-earns his wife… is that a power imbalance? But she dictates how his money is spent… is he being oppressed?
I’m gonna use the ZARDOZ principle of sexual dynamics here. THE PENIS IS EVIL.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Brett Kavanaugh’s chances of joining the Supreme Court rose today as Republicans rallied around him and trashed the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her 36 years ago – a charge he unequivocally denies. But senators voting on his nomination should make sure they’re asking the right questions before deciding whether to put him on the highest court in the land.
Must they believe Kavanaugh is guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt before they vote against him? That’s not the right standard, writes Cass Sunstein. Instead, if they think there’s any chance he assaulted this woman (back when she was 15 and he was 17), then they have to ask themselves: Is a man who is, say, 30 percent likely to have tried to rape a girl a suitable choice for this lifetime appointment? And aren’t there, like, 20 other people on the list endorsed by the Federalist Society who could do the job just as well and who aren’t under such a cloud? Read the whole thing.
Of course, almost anybody President Donald Trump picks to replace Kavanaugh will automatically be tainted, merely by dint of their association with a thuggish president, writes Frank Wilkinson. Interestingly, Trump has been on his best behavior in this case, saying today he wanted to hear from Kavanaugh’s accuser before making up his mind. But increasingly everything and everyone Trump touches turns the opposite of gold – even if they’re not accused of sexual assault.
Even if it’s not true, he’ll never be able to conclusively prove his innocence; this stain on his reputation can only disqualify him.
Bring in the next victim.
Must they believe Kavanaugh is guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt before they vote against him?
“Reasonable doubt” has stood the test of time as a pretty good standard.
Is a man who is, say, 30 percent likely to have tried to rape a girl a suitable choice for this lifetime appointment?
What if it’s more like a 3% chance?
There’s a 10% chance Mark Gongloff fucks farm animals. Should Bloomberg continue to publish his work? What if this unlikely scenario proves to be true??
Comrade, we have no evidence that you raped that girl, but her unsupported accusation makes you 30% guilty. Be of good cheer for 30% guilt is not sufficient to sentence you to drawing and quartering! It is just enough to unperson you.
What the hell is due process and beyond a shadow of a doubt? Chopped liver?
The new process is to require the accused prove their innocence beyond a shadow of a doubt. Oh, look, an accusation exists and casts a shadow of a doubt on their innocence.
Oh, I think I understand this all now, спасибо товарищу.
The woman evidently sat through two months of hearings while Kavanaugh batted down Dem’s asinine grandstanding lectures disguised as questions, watched as the media tripped over itself attempting to disqualify him and failing, and didn’t think it worth outing her supposed grievance until a few days before what looked like a sure-thing vote for confirmation. But we’re supposed to give better odds than not that a progressive UC professor wouldn’t lie in a desperate gambit to derail it.
Progressives lie about everything including what they had for lunch, but an activist professor facing no downside and all upside wouldn’t tell a fib, no sir.
I think the last minute surprise was planned all along. I initially heard some pundits say that Feinstein sat on it because she didn’t find it credible enough, but I don’t think so. More likely the Dems believed this grenade had maximum disruption power if she waited until the 11th hour to throw it.
Logic, LOGIC I SAY!
Note that the author is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, certainly qualified by his long career of writing fiction.
Applying logic to the charges themselves, there is a very good chance that Blasey’s appalling account is accurate
What logic? I mean, sure, its not impossible, but her charges are so vague as to defy confirmation or falsification. They are completely uncorroborated; nobody has come forward to say they have any independent knowledge of the attack, just her say-so. There are plenty of people saying what she described didn’t or couldn’t have happened. And that’s leaving aside the suspicious timing and misc. shenanigans around her accusation, all of which diminish its credibility.
One thing that sometimes seems to get ignored by those of us not in the prog world, about this, and the prosecutions of any Trump aid/campaign official they can find or create a charge against, and the Clarence Thomas debacle, and the public berating and physical attacks against Trump supporters etc. Is the long term effect it has. It is being made crystal clear that if you enter the public discourse with a right wing voice you will be investigated, slandered, physically attacked, and eventually destroyed. I have to say it is challenging my libertarianism because I don’t see a way to effectively combat this while continuing to follow our principles. How do you defend against an all out campaign designed to silence all dissent while following the NAP and respecting the rights of private entities (Twitter et al.) to control their own property?
Fighting speech with more speech only works as long as the other side allows you to speak.
In a war, the aggressor sets the rules. Now as always, it’s not libertarians who are the aggressors here. Sticking to principle means you get to lose with dignity.
How do you defend against an all out campaign designed to silence all dissent while following the NAP and respecting the rights of private entities (Twitter et al.) to control their own property?
That’s actually relatively easy. The law, even libertarian law, provides that private entities that control their own property have legal responsibility for that property. The entities you’re citing have specifically been exempted from such responsibility. There’s nothing at all un-libertarian about removing that exemption and letting them face the slings and arrows of legal responsibility.
Bingo. The immunity from defamation should be limited to organizations that do not make decisions based on the content of what their users publish on their platform, outside of a narrow allowance to remove illegal content.
Stupidity or hubris?
I’m trying like hell to figure out what the hell would make Sunstein offer up an argument like this. He doesn’t need to. He can rely on the lower ranks of progressive cadres to make this sort of idiotic argument. But, he made it, himself. He’s a guy whose very existence relies on his role as a Top Man and his access to other Top Men. Probably, even more so than Brett Kavanaugh. And he’s saying, in no uncertain terms, that it’s perfectly okay to destroy a career on nothing more than accusation and innuendo.
Does he think he’s going to be immune from the argument in any future appointments on his part? Hell, he’s just given his opponents all the ammunition they need.
He has to prove himself innocent beyond any doubt?
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you Cass Sunstien, POS extraordinaire
Maybe it is time for Trump to publicly say that he believes Ford and would pull Kavanaughs nomination if he could. Unfortunately he is worried that pulling the nomination would open him to obstruction charges from Mueller (of course it doesn’t make sense, but logic isn’t needed here).
Immediately all Dems would support Kavanaugh’s nomination as well as several GOP Never Trumpers. Kamala Harris would trample four children on a school field trip to get in front of a camera to denounce Trump for trying to lynch a great man like Kavanaugh.
That’s not the right standard
That’s literally the legal standard. These people are off the rails.
Must they believe Kavanaugh is guilty beyond a shadow of a doubt before they vote against him? That’s not the right standard, writes Cass Sunstein.
I agree with him here.
Instead, if they think there’s any chance he assaulted this woman (back when she was 15 and he was 17), then they have to ask themselves: Is a man who is, say, 30 percent likely to have tried to rape a girl a suitable choice for this lifetime appointment?
No, the only relevant issue is whether the man who sits before them today is a good candidate. Even if they think there is chance he got “tried to rape” Ford over 30 years ago, that’s begging the question of how relevant that fact is to the job he is applying for. As ever, these people had no problem vehemently supporting a President with multiple accusations of sexual assault, so apparently they are capable of separating old accusations from the current situation.
And aren’t there, like, 20 other people on the list endorsed by the Federalist Society who could do the job just as well and who aren’t under such a cloud?
They aren’t under such a cloud because they haven’t been nominated yet. Kill the Kavanaugh nomination with a remarkably weak and old accusation of sexual assault, and you can be sure that anyone else appointed who won’t toe the proggy line as a Justice will also be targeted and “disqualified” the same way.
First, I am going to go against the grain here and sat that a man who 100% absolutely did in a moment of youthful drunken indiscretion tried to rape a girl as a teenager but has then corrected his life and has NEVER had a single incident of that type in the ensuing years it should still not count against him being appointed to the highest court in the land. Who he was 35 years ago as a teenager is not relevant, it is who he has demonstrated himself to be as an adult that matters.
Second, ok lets go with that.
Let us assume that these allegations have at least some shred of truth to them and are not a complete fabrication.
Nobody, even people she has alleged were present remembers there having been a party anywhere in that time frame that meets the criteria she has set forth. What are the odds that if said party happened as she claims to remember it that no one else would?
Even if the party did happen and just no one else recalls it what are the odds that she misremembers the details around her assault?
Even if she does remember the details of the assault what are the odds that she has identified the right person as the culptrit?
Even if the party happened and the details match and it was Kavanaugh what are the odds that he was actually attempting to rape her as opposed to thinking she was into it or just making a rather clumsy and inarticulate drunken pass or even just non sexually roughhousing with no intent of it ever progressing to sex, especially given that he does not appear to have EVER repeated the action?
I would put the odds that he actually attempted to rape her based on all of the above at well less than 10%, nowhere near their 30% threshold
Taken all together I would put the odds that
Facebook and Airbnb told to change their ToS to fix EU consumer rights issues by year’s end
On one hand, it’s Facebook.
On the other, it’s the EU.
I just want one of these big companies to add code to their site that puts up a banner for EU visitors that says “Due to the EU regulation (relevent listing) We are unable to provide you with any services and must block your access to our site – your betters in the EU commission say it’s for the best. Have a nice day”
This website contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer.
The EU might just be doing their charges a big favor.
I bought a bag of potato chips the other day – it had a Prop. 65 warning on it.
I deactivated my account last week and received an email warning that my profile was scheduled for deletion. I figure I’ll leave it as my only undeleted message when I get rid of gmail.
^Facebook account
I’m with you UCS.
Having worked with a bunch of EU folks, though, I don’t think they’d riot. They would feel smug and superior that they have all these “protections” in place.
I see the EU at some point reverting back to AOL status, while the rest of the world gets to have the real internet.
I’ve already talked with companies that are blocking access to their websites from the EU to try to escape being governed by EU law. Granted, these aren’t international companies, but still.
The EU won’t care.. the US didn’t care about prosecuting off shore betting CEO’s for people who got around their blocks. Unless the companies never move any assets into an area that will enforce the EU’s rules and employees never travel to their jurisdiction etc.. The US asserts universal jurisdiction if it wants… the EU will also and governments are willing to wait. There is no clear delineation of law and sovereignty in international transactions, and the resulting cases look like might makes right. Don’t we already have British libel awards against US persons that a protected by US caselaw? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_Evil#Libel_controversy
It isn’t just access to your site. If you have data from any EU resident, you can get fucked by GDPR. So if they VPN to a US IP and then manage to sign up you are potentially fucked.
What I don’t know/understand, is how the EU could enforce any penalty against a company that does no business in the EU. If I got something from Brussells that says “Your hospital violated EU law and you owe us a billion dollars”, I would laugh and tell them to get a judgment from a court that actually has jurisdiction to enforce the penalty on me. Even within the US, a judgment in one state has to be “domesticated” in another state to be enforced there.
I’m sure Keith Ellison is under this kind of scrutiny as we speak.
“Hopefully the truth will emerge”
And there you have a summary of much of what is wrong with modern America: all sides of politics and most social ideas. Everyone lives inside a pre-constructed narrative arc. Information which supports the narrative is true. Information which does not support the narrative is false or irrelevant. So, for this woman, Kavanaugh is guilty – without evidence. We just need to find the evidence.
She’s showing you the man, now she’s working on showing you the crime.
Ellison: Multiple accusers. Proof= 911 call, medical notes, other people hearing about abuse at the time it happened
Kavanaugh: One accuser who tried to stay in the shadows. Proof: therapist notes that don’t mention Kav by name. 35 years later.
Only a shit lord would even try to conflate those two stories. Obviously Kav is a monster and Brother Keith is a victim of a witch hunt.
A true profile of courage.
Trump’s official reply
Yep. Just a tish uglier every time…
There has been an awakening.
Wednesday that he has left the organization that he helped create and that he has regrets about some of the things that he has said since he entered the public spotlight.
“One of the things I never really did was watch myself,” Kasky said. “If I was on a screen I kind of tried to run away from it. I’m not entirely sure why. But, looking back on that it’s like you said, you touched off on this very well in the intro, I’m not going to kick myself for it because I’m 17. Despite the fact that I thought I did at the time, I don’t know everything.”
“This summer when March For Our Lives went on the summer tour that we embarked on, I met that person in Texas who’s got that semi-automatic weapon because that’s how they like to protect their family,” Kasky continued. “I met the 50-some-odd-percent of woman who are pro-life, even though I thought it was preposterous that a woman could be pro-life and not pro-choice at the time. I learned that a lot of our issues politically come from a lack of understanding of other perspectives and also the fact that so often young conservatives and young liberals will go into debate, like I said earlier, trying to beat the other one as opposed to come to an agreement.”
The activist added that he plans to start a new podcast called “Cameron Knows Nothing,” where he will host discussions with people on both sides of the political spectrum on current political issues.
It’s good he has learned something. But he is stealing Dave Rubin’s shtick.
Naziism?
Eh….I doubt he’s actually changed his outlook. More likely that he realizes what a fucking asshole he and his ilk come off as.
Which, I suppose, is some kind of progress, but of a rather faint kind.
Better a slight change while he’s 17 than some of my friends who are in their late 20s and older who haven’t learned jack shit.
This might have been covered already.
Institute for Justice Dismantles Philadelphia Forfeiture Machine
Stop it with the good news.
Hell yeah. More of this, please.
That reminds me – I need to throw IJ some bucks.
Styxhexenhammer on the Cody Wilson unfortunateness:
https://youtu.be/93EqkJ7FctU
That’s not Styxhexenhammer. That’s some guy in a shirt.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6189519/Demi-Rose-flaunts-eye-popping-cleavage-tiny-sports-bra-sultry-selfie.html
Did she get a butt implant? Cuz a quick image search shows a much better proportioned version of her.
NSFW-ish – no nudity but not something I would want my co-worker/boss seeing me searching on.
http://wallsdesk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Demi-Rose-Wallpaper-.jpg
Looks it. Shame, imo.
She was quite attractive then.
Hot damn, she looks gorgeous.
Apropos of nothing, the Bud guy was stocking the shelves when I showed up for work and he comped me a sixer of the new Budweiser Copper Lager (aged on real Jim Beam Barrel Staves) and by gum, I’m finding it pretty good. It tastes like regular Bud but with more flavor and mouth feel. I will drink it again and I will certainly cook/bake with it; a solid 3 out of 5.
How many different alcohols can the same barrel make in its lifetime?
It can only make bourbon once (by law).
But a lot of other things after that. Wine, tequila, beer, scotch.
Used to be, you could get used bbourbon barrels for cheap here in KY. Now they’re probably worth more once they’ve been used, because of demand.
I’ve heard good things about some of their other limited edition/artisanal beers.
https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2018/09/messing-about-in-boats/
A nice little happy read that captures why I fuck around in the shed.
A more accurate story about how my boat building attempts would go.
Oh, now this is fuckin’ rich. A bunch of famous actresses who almost certainly knew all about Harvey Weinstein (and god know who else) and never said a damned thing have made a video supporting Christine Ford.
“We believe you can advance the proggy agenda.”
Oh Marisa, you disappoint me.
Anyone old enough to remember the Soviets and has a functioning brain can see exactly what these fuckers are up to. They can go fuck themselves. Kavenaugh is most likely going to be confirmed in spite of their efforts.
In a just world, the blowback for Pelosi would be intense, and mostly from her own party. “How could you think this stunt would be a good look for us?” But I think leftists are beyond shame at this point.
Oops, Feinstein.
Eh, WDATPDIM
As a foreigner, I am genuinely astonished at how eagerly leftists and the media have gobbled up Democratic talking points. And the number of people basically saying that this accusation must be true because there have been other instances of groping is terrifying.
In a just world mentioning their names would be met with “Who?”
Sign this letter condemning Jewish doctors and their plot against comrade Stalin…
SHUT UP AND SAY YOUR LINES
I told you they would do a psa! Keep ’em coming, you fucking ‘tards. I’m sure it will help result in a #BlueWave.
Produced by Moveon.org another layer of cream cheese frosting on the richness scale.
The organization formed and *named for* the generalized concept that when a powerful man rapes a woman, we as America should Move On? That Move On?
That is… just, wow.
I learned that a lot of our issues politically come from a lack of understanding of other perspectives
Whoa, whoa, whoa! This kind of heresy will end with you tied to a stake in the middle of a pyre.
I disagree. It comes from fundamental and irreconcilable differences in basic principles and policy goals. Progs want unfettered power and domination over the populace. Liberty-minded folk want limited government and individual freedom. There is no misunderstanding, there is a schism here that can’t be bridged. One side wins and the other loses. That’s how this plays out; not finding “common ground”.
^exactly
Makes me sad, but every passing day I’m believing that more.
Somethings, I think you are right on. On something like abortion, I think both sides have a pretty fair understanding of what the other side wants and their disagreement comes down to mutually inconsistent first principals.
On other things, not so much. Advocates for public funded, government administered schools have a lack of vision that primary education could be publicly funded but not government administered. When they hear advocates of school choice speak about dismantling the public school system, they jump to “Aha, you want prevent poor people from attending school!” when (many of) the school choice advocates actually want to maintain the public funding and want to only get rid of the government administration precisely because they think doing so will help those poor families that can’t afford to move the the expensive suburbs where the public schools are pretty good.
I gotta disagree with you Leap. Advocates for public school don’t give a shit about educating poor kids. They just say that in the same way gun grabbers say they support the 2nd Amendment and don’t want to take your guns.
Public schools supporters want the government in control of the education system. It’s easier to lead the argument with vulnerable populations than with support for government indoctrination.
If you drill down past the subject of funding, you’ll find the objection remains to taking schooling away from under the thumb of government. Otherwise, this divide would have been long solved with charter schools.
I think most other issues are fundamentally the same way.
If you assume everyone who has a different ideological orientation than you is a strategic liar about their base ideology and goals, you are going to be wrong often, probably depressed, and always completely incapable of enacting change (unless you think we are ever going to be a large enough voting block to do it without building a coalition.)
Twitter is littered with “no we really want to take your guns away.” There isn’t nearly the same level of “No we really think that school superintendents are more important poor kids.”
I’m just confused why y’all think there’s any level of thought behind these positions.
Teachers good. Corporations bad.
That’s as far as it goes for most people.
I agree, but self-interest, especially when it comes to your offspring, is going to win out in the end. If Jane Doe sees Mary Sue’s kids excelling at the inner city Charter School while her own kids are falling behind, getting involved with bad crowds and starting down a bad path, Jane is gonna want her kids in that Charter School no matter what propaganda the political machine churns out. So they just have to make sure nobody has such an option and the government schools are the only game in town (and forget about home schooling you religious fanatic crypto-Nazi).
If Jane Doe sees Mary Sue’s kids excelling at the inner city Charter School while her own kids are falling behind, getting involved with bad crowds and starting down a bad path, Jane is gonna want her kids in that Charter School no matter what propaganda the political machine churns out.
Many will, yes. Many others will paint themselves as victims or heroes for enduring the injustice of a racist, sexist system.
What victimhood culture hath wrought.
This ^. I’m vaguely recalling some op-ed in a national newspaper about the valiant heroism of some lady because she left her white bread kids in an urban public school to “be a good example.”
Ignoring the soft racism, that woman was focused on the wellbeing of exactly one person… herself.
The average workaday lower class inner city single mom is not likely a strategic liar; in fact she would probably much prefer to put her kids into a Charter School that will actually educate them. However, “the powers that be” (read: Unions, Dem Politicians, Donors) have worked tirelessly to block any such effort because such an effort is a threat to their monopoly.
They may not be shouting their intentions from the rooftop, but their actions say more than enough.
And the average workaday middle-class suburbanite that isn’t a union operator, a politician, or a donor, who vastly outnumber the union operators, politician, or donors and who also claims to support public schools because they think its the best way to help the average workaday lower class inner city family, you think they are secretly sitting in back rooms formulating plans to protect the monopoly at the expense of the WLCICF.
Everyone knows why the bootlegers (the unions, the dem politicos, and the donors) are in favor of the status quo and are willing to lie to maintain it, that’s not interesting and not what either one of us is was talking about to begin with. Its the baptists who generally agree on some thing (helping disadvantaged = good) but disagree on the ideological and empirical framework of how to get there.
Suburban soccer moms (regardless of their political stripe) are the perfect example of the slacktivist who doesn’t have to live with the consequences of their own policy preferences. By and large, wealthy suburban public schools are half-decent; however that by itself may be changing. In CO, we have very strong Charter laws and they are growing in popularity so much that many of the public districts are having trouble retaining enrollment across the board. This is simply because, even in suburban areas, the Charters are just plain better.
Regardless, suburbanites usually have many good choices, acknowledge that inner city districts are a dumpster fire, but assume that the system itself works, it just needs to be tweaked to fix it where it doesn’t perform. Not to drag race into this, but there is a definite correlation, and it all ties into the “white man’s burden” and guilt surrounding how shitty most inner city districts are. HOWEVER, we can’t possibly let them negroes (or spics if you prefer) make their own choices about how to educate their children, they’ll just fuck it up. The political machine is only too happy to perpetuate this attitude among suburbanites and we end up with a situation in which there is almost an inverse correlation between funding per pupil and student performance.
1) There is no conversation about education in the united states without dragging race and class into it. There is no way to discuss it clearly without both of those separate concepts front and center.
2) I don’t think you and I disagree on much here, and its mutually exclusive with what you said earlier. “Progs want unfettered power and domination over the populace,” can not be reconciled with “suburbanites usually have many good choices, acknowledge that inner city districts are a dumpster fire, but assume that the system itself works, it just needs to be tweaked to fix it where it doesn’t perform.” In your second sentence, you are saying that they want to fix education for the disadvantaged and are just wrong about how to do it.
If I had ever actually read the Art of War, here is where I would whip out some quote about needing to be able to know the enemy to defeat it, but that doesn’t mean you have to respect them or their choices. But I haven’t, so please go enact that labor for me if you would be so kind.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Just because suburbanites have choices doesn’t mean that the progs still don’t control the framework and milieu. They fight charters in the suburbs just as hard as they do in the inner city, but they don’t have as much success because the suburbanites have more time, money and political clout to fight it.
For an example (and this is down in the weeds), look at the JeffCo Colorado schoolboard psychodrama that played out from c.2014 to c.2016 (or something like that). An anti-union, pro-choice board majority was *finally* elected and immediately started instituting major reforms to teacher pay, tenure, union influence and advocating the building of several new charter schools. Keep in mind this is a fairly wealthy, largely white constituency. The NEA, AFT and various Soros funded front groups descended upon the land and began saturating everything (TV, radio, newspaper, paid outrage mobs, the works) with Chicken Little predictions ranging from kids being indoctrinated into religious cults, to having science cut completely out of the curriculum. They ultimately began a recall effort and it fucking worked. The suburban districts may be better performing overall, but don’t think for a second that the progs don’t want just as much control and domination over them as they do over the inner cities.
I agree with SSD. This problem has already largely been solved with Charter Schools. If the Education/Union/Industrial complex actually gave a shit about educating children, they’d be acknowledging the successes of Charters and supporting them 100%. Instead, all they see is a threat to their power and their gravy train so they fight it tooth and nail. Job #1 for them is exercising and consolidating power; indoctrinating kids to support that agenda is a natural extension of their mission. Actually teaching kids useful things is far down the list of priorities.
a lack of vision that primary education could be publicly funded but not government administered
Nope. What the state funds, the state controls.
Didn’t you say you put money into a tax-credit scholarship account that can be used by the recipient for damn near anything a family can convince a judge falls under “education expenses?”
I can get a dollar-for-dollar state income tax credit for donating to certain approved educational charities that help pay for private school tuition. The state never touches that money.
Although it looks like this excellent program will go away due to the machinations of Blue Staters trying to evade the limit on SALT deductions by making sham “charitable donations” to the state.
I hadn’t heard it was in danger of going away. That’s a real kick in the pants if it does.
That system may not be public funding in an actuarial sense, but it is in a real (economic-jargon definition) sense public funding of private education.
Ah, I took “public funding” to mean “government funding”. I don’t usually think of charities funded by donations as “publicly funded”.
By default, neither do I. But in this case I think it clearly is.
Only one solution.
So, a final solution.
They do seem quite popular.
And I can assume that is also pressuring her to silence somehow, according to Team Blue.
Well, when someone tells you “put up or shut up” and you don’t want to put up, that can feel like being pressured into silence. As it should.
Thot Thursday.
http://archive.is/cLyQj
Choose one with which to embarrass yourself with your pathetically inadequate sexual performance.
Do not project your inadequacy on us, Mr. Q. FOR SHAME. BTW, 9, 16, and 29 please and thank you.
27 would be a strong contender, but fuck the Cowboys
Kavenaugh is most likely going to be confirmed in spite of their efforts.
I’m afraid the probability of withdrawal is better than 50%.
It is unfathomable to me why anybody would subject him(her)self to the shitflinging howler monkey mob.
Why better than 50%? Flake unflaked after the accuser flaked.
flake flake flake
I’m afraid the probability of withdrawal is better than 50%.
Not if she doesn’t show up on Monday. I think a lot of people doing the voting get a sense of what this will mean. After all, Kavanaugh is basically a member in good standing of the club. If he gets forced to withdraw, the club is pretty much dead. Any GOPer will know his or her ambitions, and those of their children, (not some nobody who doesn’t matter, but a member of the club) can be destroyed by nothing more than an accusation, one with no confirmation whatsoever. The only option will be to respond in kind.
the probability of withdrawal is better than 50%
I’m a little more optimistic than yesterday. I’d put it at 40%, based on the Repub Senators long history of weakness and cowardice. They are facing an enormous amount of pressure within their bubble (DC, DemOp Media, etc.), and they have consistently caved in recent years to that pressure. I hope they see that caving now will mean they have lost all control over appointments, but I don’t know that they are smart enough to think that far ahead.
Willing withdrawal by the candidate himself? I doubt it: Confirmation is akin to exhoneration here, if he withdraws he’ll forever be known as the guy who didn’t make it to the SC because he tried to rape a girl and I would bet he’s smart enough to realize this.
Nah. There wont be any ‘tried’. It will morph into ‘raped’. It will be common knowledge and thrown up in debates for 50 years. Trump will also be the president who nominated and stood by a rapist. They are already saying that. You are correct in that Kavenaugh will never be able to wash it off.
They are in a corner now. Win or die.
Hell, they already call Trump a violent rapist due to an off-the-cuff bit of locker room talk over a decade ago. Repubs need to stop being such emotional pussies about being called names and either laugh in their face or tell them to fuck off, preferably both.
If you’re an (R), expect to have your character assassinated and learn to blow it off.
If you’re an (R), expect to have your character assassinated and learn to blow it off.
THIS!!
For fucks sake don’t give this shit so much gravity. Respond quickly and definitively and move on.
If they weren’t the stupid party, they would have learned this from Trump. But they are, so they won’t.
Both sides and their associated media trade in character assassination; it’s the chief product since neither delivers on hardly any of their platform. Both sides whine constantly; both sides feel aggrieved constantly; it’s quite predictable and boring.
And no one’s opinions about anyone is changed by any of this: in our era of identity politics, the only dynamic is the circling of the herd.
(R) have a majority. I have no idea why they don’t quietly have their vote and just move along; I’ve never understood people who dignify silly arguments.
We really are all just tall hairless apes playing dominance games, every single one of us (possibly not some autistic folks, but it goes double for schizophrenics, so it averages out.)
I would be absolutely livid, and never back down to that despicable woman.
There’s also the cryptic predictions from Ed Whelan and Leonard Leo that Kavanaugh will be totally exonerated. That’s a pretty big leap for anyone to make in a situation where the public knowledge is vague regarding a 36 year old incident. I have no idea what could actually exonerate him, but it’s an interesting thing to ponder.
Another point I’m seeing some people making – if Kavanaugh’s denials were false, he’d be taking a massive risk because he’s essentially making them under oath. He could be prosecuted for lying to Congress. You’d imagine a smart lawyer like him would hedge his bets a bit if he knows he actually did something rather than outright saying “I was never at such a party, no incident ever happened, I don’t know this woman” just in case she has some sort of corroboration that she has not yet produced. Add that to the fact that she is now backing away from testifying, and I’d say Kavanaugh’s position is looking increasingly strong.
/sigh. My daughter plays soccer with this girl’s younger sister. She almost gets it. Maybe not use the cash to head to the Netherlands.
Ha. if you type redacted between the two arrow keys it actually removes what’s in between. What a time to be alive.
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Willing withdrawal by the candidate himself? I doubt it: Confirmation is akin to exhoneration here, if he withdraws he’ll forever be known as the guy who didn’t make it to the SC because he tried to rape a girl and I would bet he’s smart enough to realize this.
Or, maybe, every opinion will be apostrophized with, “And, as was predicted, the rapist appointed by Trump over the principled opposition of every sensible person in the nation voted to strip the people of their rights despite overwhelming polling data.”
That’s gonna happen no matter what already. Gorsuch is already seen by the radical Left as “illegitimate” since he “stole” the nomination from Garland. Therefore, every decision in which he’s involved is invalid in their feverish, psychosis-ridden minds.
Even when they’re well-behaved and aren’t acting like shit-flinging howler monkeys, they’re committed anti-Constitutionalists. What do I care what they believe to be legitimate or illegitimate? They denigrate my rights anyway.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/aberdeen-maryland-shooting-multiple-victims-police-respond-scene-n911386
We’ve got a mental health problem in this country. It’s being fueled and accelerated by the news media and social media. Be safe out there, Glibs.
It’s a shame that people like that don’t just quietly put a pistol in their mouth and leave everyone else out of it.
Be safe out there – carry.
This woman was carrying, and look what happened: the gun leapt into her hand and started shooting people.
woman opened fire at a Rite Aid facility in Maryland
This wouldn’t happen if they had commonsense gun la – oh wait…
It is migratory season for the Indiana Wild Firearm.
This story is so ridiculously damaging I almost suspect it is a con job by the GOP. But they would never be that smart.
tl;dr; “When I wrote that bullshit story on FB, I didn’t realize people would take is seriously and ask for proof.”
To all media, I will not be doing anymore interviews. No more circus. To clarify my post: I do not have first hand knowledge of the incident that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford mentions, and I stand by my support for Christine. That’s it. I don’t have more to say on the subject.
So, you’re a lying, libelous shithead.
Good to know.
Time for a vote.
lol
The incident DID happen, many of us heard about it in school.
The man has had six FBI background checks. If it was common knowledge that he raped someone in high school, it would have come out.
Its amazing to me that people think they can destroy the life and career of a sitting federal judge without being put under some scrutiny and asked some questions. But apparently that’s what both Ford and this bint thought.
The fact that six background checks didn’t turn up his attempted rape is just proof of the rape culture in which we live.
can we talk the watering down of the English language?
“In my [Facebook] post, I was empowered and I was sure it probably did [happen],”
what’s with the whole “empowered” part of that sentence? yes yes, it’s all jumbled horseshit. but specifically, what is that empowered part supposed to mean? you don’t have the right to defame someone. quite the contrary. and if all it takes is a Facebook posting to empower you, then i think that word has lost some meaning.
what is that empowered part supposed to mean?
I think they confuse “empowered” with “poor impulse control”.
I imagine it’s kind of like the dragonball super sayan thing. Her hair stands up on end and she starts glowing while she types out stupid shit on social media.
People hear bullshitspeak that trickles down from Progland and they think that’s how smart people talk.
This!!!!
I hope they see that caving now will mean they have lost all control over appointments, but I don’t know that they are smart enough to think that far ahead.
Lucy promises she won’t pull the ball away next time.
#BELIEVEHER
Don’t talk about Lucy!