Howdy, Glibs. Thanks for putting up with me actually working. I expect you’ll see a lot of guest authors in the Afternoon Links next week as I’m onsite for user testing. This week has been a hellish ordeal of Murphy’s Law and the Law of IT Projects (no matter how pessimistically you schedule a project, its never pessimistic enough). This has been a real death-march week, but things just turned around this afternoon. I feel like I have some hope of delivering something users can at least test. Note to Future Brett: Next time someone says “we want to integrate all of our organization’s disconnected databases with 6-15 years’ worth of data, AND build a CRM system in a year” — gut-laugh and run away.
Oh Florida Man — Conning straight guys into gay sex and uploading the videos. That’s not cool bro. I mean, who are the idiots who go have random encounters where you have to wear a blindfold?
Rod Rosenstein seems to be setting himself up for a 2nd career outside the DOJ after the NYT broke this.
Found my retirement job. Taking naps with cats. That I don’t have to take care of.
Jesus Christ Florida Man, what the fuck? Branding children in your care is not okay.
If this comes true, I just want to download how use woodworking tools to make straight and square cuts. Fuck kung-fu
I need some cotton-candy pop after a crappy week.
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Does rod rosenstein look really weird?
Ray Walston’s Grandson?
My Least Favorite Martian?
🙂
Someone is reacting poorly to this situation.
In this day and age I’m not sure who he wants to try for treason.
I will make a list for you
Amazing how many people responded to that tweet with “I’ve reported you in violation of Twitter’s terms of service”.
No doubt the same folks who often call for Trump’s head on a pike.
Too bad he doesn’t smoke because he looks like Nathan Thurm.
Oh Florida Man — Conning straight guys into gay sex and uploading the videos. That’s not cool bro. I mean, who are the idiots who go have random encounters where you have to wear a blindfold?
It started as a goof and just kind of spiraled out of control.
Hey, you want to play around with blindfolds, that’s cool. But not until we’ve done it the normal way at least once, and I can confirm you’re actually a woman.
It’s like the Nigerian scam, I’m not looking for the brightest, just the most gullible.
(checks license plate)
That meeting is happening in ….. Canada
Approximately 50% of the population of Ontario and Quebec spend the winter in Florida (this may be an overestimation).
Sometimes I wish they would stay there and not come back.
No. The only good thing about the hellish summers in this godforsaken place is that the canucks leave.
And 50% of the populations of Alberta, Manitoba, and British Columbia spend the winter in Yuma, AZ
Where’s the beach there?
No, but you can get there by train.
3:10pm, sharp!
Rufus, a Desert is just a beach without water.
Some even used to be beaches. oceans. whatever.
I should clarify – 50% of the populations over 65. They all come down to Yuma in RVs or fifth wheels and go across the border to Los Algodones, Mexico for cheap prescriptions. As soon as you cross the border there, you’re practically assaulted by guys shoving flyers at you: “Farmacia, farmacia!“
Mexico.
You mean Slab City?
I notice there are little or no Quebecers on Florida’s west coast.
They get into knife fights with the scientologists if they intrude on that turf.
Quebecois are all on the southeast coast from Jupiter south to Miami.
A movie just for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Florida_(film)
I’m happy to have the tourist. They help offset my taxes.
IT’s a rental truck.
*narrows gaze*
“Found my retirement job. Taking naps with cats. That I don’t have to take care of.”
Sounds like a fetish. NTTAWWT
I will await HM’s judgment.
Yes.
*extinguishes HM signal *
This is how you get me in trouble with Mrs trshmnstr for reading glibs!
Honey I don’t click through on any HM’s, or Q’s links. honest.
I dont click (because usually my wife is sitting next to me) but HM wields embedded image powers.
You have to click to get to the juicy HM links.
“Family” “Friendly”
This is true.
Why does my keyboard suddenly feel sticky?
Jesus Christ Florida Man, what the fuck? Branding children in your care is not okay.
I asked if they wanted a smiley face tattoo and they said yes! Now I’m the asshole?!
The orphans were all starting to look alike.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? If I knew that that sort of thing was frowned upon…”
I hate everything and everyone right now.
EspeciallyExcept for you guys. Using a gendered word there since it’s obvious there are no female or female-identifying libertarians.Sometimes clients are the worst. Other times they’re just a little better than that (sometimes they’re cool).
Lawyers are like cops in that they never meet people who are having their best day.
This is why family law and bankruptcy were no go’s for me.
The Jacket wrote a Kavanaugh article earlier today.
Following a late-breaking, credible accusation of a sexual assault that allegedly occurred in the early 1980s, when future Judge Kavanaugh was in high school, the outcome of his confirmation proceedings is far from clear. The details haven’t been worked out fully, but there will be some sort of extra hearings next week in which Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, will directly address the issue.
If not for the precedent it would set, I’d tell Trump to nix Kavanaugh and nominate Amy Comey Barrett.
Nah – she molested me in 1980.
PoundMeToo!
You wish.
Plus he has to save someone to replace RBG, and given the circus that will be it will be easier for the nominee in that instance if they are not a white man.
What credible accusation? All I’ve heard of was the confused Socjus ‘professor’ from Palo Alto.
What, exactly, makes her accusations credible?
They lack detail. They were initially made anonymously. They are uncorroborated; nobody has come forward to confirm, and others have come forward to deny. They are very old, well into the range when memory is unreliable. She was likely drinking, since she was at a house party where other people were drinking.
Unless “credible” is shorthand for “somebody said it”, I’m struggling to see why you would actually characterize her accusations as “credible”.
Because she’s accusing someone they want to destroy.
I heard a ‘legal expert’ on the cable TV news commentary the other day saying “she has a corroborating witness! her therapist!”
Oh my, my, my, what we’ve come to.
The Jacket is going to put OpenBordersLiberaltarian out of business. His gag for the last 24 hours has been to repeatedly call them “credible accusations” over and over again without support. But the Jacket is beyond parody.
Someone should ask him if how he feels about the Scotsboro 6 going unpunished when being on the receiving end of credible allegations of rape.
Or Tom Robinson.
As far as I know, it’s nothing but hearsay — as in everything anyone has heard from her was through her lawyer or DiFi.
Last I heard, Grassley requested an unredacted version of her letter from Feinstein, but she hasn’t cooperated.
Nor has anyone seen the polygraph test allegedly conducted in the office of the accuser’s lawyer.
Also, I read that the letter Feinstein sent to the FBI — asking them to investigate a local crime that may have occurred at unknown time and place — didn’t include the name of the alleged victim.
So no one in contact with the accuser is acting like it’s a “credible” accusation.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/19/grassley-demands-feinstein-turn-over-letter-from-kavanaugh-accuser-cannot-overstate-how-disappointed-am.amp.html
I want one of these fucknut commies or even a closet commie like Gillespie to tell me how this accusation and subsequent behavior could be less credible. What would it take to make the farce less believable?
Credible my fuckin’ ass. What you just did, yet again, was take a giant steaming shit on your own credibility.
Easy – if she were born after the supposed time of the assault.
No, they’d declare channeling and/or past life regression as totally credible in this case, given the severity of the charges.
“woodworking tools to make straight and square cuts”
Come on man, this isn’t hard.
That marks the line, but when actually making the cut… crosscut sled
Shooting board FTW
Just get lots of boards and keep trying.
That also works with broads.
A request for Friday afternoon: I’d like the Glibs’ advice on a better way to say “the police are not your friends”.
Here’s the context: I have a list of stuff that’s basically “things to teach the kids”, and that’s on there. The rest of the list runs the gamut from “always have a knife” to “be worth marrying” to “have a plunger within reach of each and every toilet”. Anyway, I want a phrasing that’s not so in-your-face for 2 reasons.
1) When I occasionally show/give the list to other folks, one of the main reasons is to feed them the freedom-loving parts of it, and while I want that to be included, I want it in a way that doesn’t start with them reflexively pushing back. My friends tend to be libertarian-leaning conservatives, often with an underlying law-and-order streak.
2) Some of my kids actually have friends (their jiu-jitsu instructors) that are cops, so their first response is to dispute that it’s not accurate in some cases, even though they get the difference between their individual situations and the generalization I’m making. To their credit, the cop friends definitely tell them to shut up and lawyer up.
I’m basically trying to get it in a form that’s sounds really smart and is close enough to something they already think (head going uppy-downy instead of lefty-righty while they’re reading it) that confirmation bias takes them right over into agreement with the point.
So, what are some suggested alternate phrasings I could use that would lead an audience the right way without spurring them to put up objections right away?
Maybe find a YouTube compilation of police abusing people. If a picture is worth 1000 words, that’s got to be *does math in head* at least 5000 words.
I already got that. I’m looking for a handy one-liner to fit with the rest of my list.
Maybe go broader? “Your job doesn’t make you a hero” or something like that.
“If you say no to the police, they can and will escalate to lethal violence. The good ones go slow, the bad ones go fast, and they all ware the same uniform. Most police are great human beings. A small percentage are power-tripping manics. You won’t be able to tell them apart until it is too late. When you interact with the police, you must treat them with far more deference than any human being has a right to demand. Failure to do so usually will not put you in a coffin, but the ones who demand more respect than they deserve are the same ones that will either make your life hell, or very short.”
I don’t think that’s something you should condense into a saying. There’s subtlety when describing that most cops are normal people doing a job, but that when jobs exist with power and no accountability, the incentives attract and retain assholes in the rank of cops.
Some good news in the ‘Cops showing up at the wrong house to potentially unleash death on innocent people’ file.
Man who shoots two police officers will not be charged.
The police chief claimed the warrant was originally granted because a “confidential informant” told officers that a drug dealer was living at the residence. “Our officers had worked to corroborate the information from that confidential informant, however, we did not draw the right conclusion,” he said.
According to a report from NBC Washington, when the officers arrived at the home, they “announced” their presence, and then “used a device to open the door.” It is not clear whether they used a battering ram to break down the door, or if they threw flash-bang grenades inside the home to startle the residents.
“Anyone who calls the police to deal with anything other than a violent crime is a loser who can’t handle things like an adult.”
“Cops deal with criminals a lot, and deal with everyone like they are a criminal. Be very cautious when dealing with a cop – cooperate only as much as you need to, and leave as soon as you can.”
^^#2^^
Last summer, I was walking down the road with a buddy of mine and his dog. I had the dog on leash. Up ahead, cops had a couple of guys in a truck with a couple of dogs pulled over. As we walk past, for some reason, one of the cops jerks the passenger door open, and their dogs jump out. Dogs do what dogs do, sniff each other, then one of their dogs starts to act a bit aggressively towards my buddy’s dog. Cop runs over and tackles their dog. I pull on the leash and start walking away quickly. I say to my buddy “Let’s get out of here before someone or someone’s dog gets shot”.
I’m liking the second one so far. Everybody already knows the first clause is true so they’ll agree with the second one even though they’d reflexively object if you started there.
How about “tread lightly around anyone who can legally kill you for disobedience and face no consequences”?
Maybe “Police have quotas to fill – don’t volunteer as tribute”
There’s assholes in every job, but cops give the assholes guns.
Every interaction with a cop is an opportunity to die.
I think a gentler version of this would be “Police have guns, are human, and can make mistakes.” Maybe that let’s them off the hook too much, but it gets across the idea.
I suspect that a disproportionate number of cops are on roids.
Just for kicks, the below are the political notes on my list. It’s only the “advice” part that’s one-liners.
– The objective of politics is graft.
– Much economic error comes from a failure to understand that value is subjective, while cost and price are objective. Examples:
1) “Property value” in real estate
2) plenty of Marxist stuff
– The word “Progressive” is virtually always an indicator of an utterly wrong idea. That which is called “Progressivism” today is the evolved modern version of other religion Machen describes.
– The word “Social” used as a modifier makes it mean the opposite of the modified word. Social Justice is the opposite of justice. The Social Gospel is the opposite of the Gospel. Social Studies does not include actual study. They are diametrically opposed and cannot work together. Neither can live while the other survives.
I hope that the Iron Laws have been given their appropriate place of honor on your list.
they’re there
^This. Absolutely This.
“have a plunger within reach of each and every toilet”
Sheer profundity!
We live by this in our house.
‘Law enforcement cares much, much more about control and order than they do about justice.’
/TH
“It’s not the police’s job to be your friend, so don’t expect that treatment from them.”
just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix,-
Is that movie really considered a “classic”? I weep for society if the answer is yes.
The original Matrix is indeed a classic.
It’s too bad they never made any sequels.
This guy gets it.
They were going to, but the plans to make the sequels were in the same plane that U2 was on when they crashed and died and were never able to release another album after The Joshua Tree.
It was a beautiful day.
I thought it was a Bloody Sunday.
In a Red Hill Mining Town?
No, it was In God’s Country
That’s where they brew Old Style beer, right?
Heresy! Achtung Baby is a great album.
Acthung Baby has its moments.
Yep — A really great stand-alone sci-fi film.
It’s “Ghost in the Shell”. The actual anime, not the crappy movie.
Similarly, great backgrounds and setting, but weak actual story.
“I know, I know, it sounds absurd. In fact, when The Matrix first came out, it seemed like the single crummiest, laziest, most awful, dimwitted idea in the entire history of science fiction, but it turned out to be true. Who knew? Good work, writer of The Matrix.”
To be fair, the original premise The Wachowski Bros submitted was that Matrix was supposed to use human brains as a series of networked computers to run the Matrix. Blame the network suits for thinking that was too complicated for the rubes, and so the human battery idea became a thing, even though that made no sense to anybody that passed HS physics.
Pfffft!
I’ve seen a potato power a clock!
Portal 2 isn’t how actual physics works.
My theory is that the Matrix came out just as DVD players were hitting the market and that was the coolest movie to show how a DVD player could just stop. And unlike a VCR you didn’t get blurry jumping around images.
Guys would show their wimmin that movie and show how much cooler it was than a stupid VCR so they could get the $$ to go buy one. Of course, none of us cared a bit about the matrix. We were all thinking of how awesome it would be to freeze frame crystal clear on naked movie hooters (especially that foreign girl in American Pie).
The first night after I bought my first DVD player I rented two DVDs, The Matrix and Shadow of the Vampire. The better movie is the one that has been forgotten.
This is on my watchlist per several Glib recommendations.
I bought my first DVD player in 1999, and my first DVD purchases along with it: Das Boot, Ghostbusters, and Rock ‘n Roll High School
That’s a good one for the Glibs, since we’re (mostly) older – first DVDs purchased:
Along with my first player in 199x, I bought
– Blazing Saddles
– Caddyshack
– The Professional (aka, Leon)
– Bladerunner
– Four Weddings and a Funeral (shut up!)
On a side note, I just ripped all my DVDs onto my shiny new Diskstation. I then made the mistake of thinking, “oh, The Wire on Amazon Prime Video, let me check it out”.
The video quality of the stream is so much better than my DVDs, I don’t know why I’d bother watching those, nor why I bothered ripping them.
On the plus side, I actually own these particular bits…
Owning those bits is the BIG plus.
My first DVD was The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. My fist Blu-Ray was also The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Hey, Blondie…
There’s two kinds of spurs, my friend.
If you haven’t seen it I recommend Yojimbo, the basis for Fist Full of Dollars.
I own Yojimbo, great flick.
Thanks! Added to the list.
Toshiro Mifune was so damn cool. And a style icon.
I may or may not have provided that same advice to my brother in the form of a flowchart once.
Since we’re on the subject;
Fist Full of Dollars is the Yojimbo remake (but you should still watch Yojimbo).
Amusingly, Yojimbo was inspired by Red Harvest & The Glass Key. So that’s a spaghetti western patterned on a Japanese samurai movie, patterned on a noir detective novels.
Yojimbo was remade again as ‘Last Man Standing’ in the 90’s.
Also, watch Seven Samurai, which was remade as The Magnificent Seven.
I watched Last Man Standing when I was young and stupid and hadn’t seen Yojimbo or Fist Full of Dollars. Does it hold up? I remember enjoying it the first time.
Does it hold up?
I’ve only seen it the once, I imagine it’s fine but suffers by comparison, now that you’ve seen the others.
I was also going to recommend Seven Samurai!
The Yojimbo sequel, Sanjuro, is also pretty good, though not quite as good as Yojimbo.
I haven’t seen them all but I’ve enjoyed the Kurosawa films I’ve seen:
Watch The Hidden Fortress and see where Lucas ripped off Star Wars from.
Watch Rashomon, so you get the reference when people mention it (it’s also a great movie).
The Road Warrior and T2 only because our new projection TV had some serious speakers.
The first DVD I bought was Fight Club. When I bought my Blu-ray player I made sure that was also the first Bu-ray I bought.
I think my first DVD was Real Genius.
So can you hammer a nine inch spike through a board with your penis?
“Not yet.”
“A girl’s gotta have her standards.”
My HD-DVD player came with a copy of King Kong.
Which one?
This one. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360717/
Bummer
My first DVD purchase was Embrace of the Vampire.
My first and only DVD purchase wasBring Me the Head of Alfredo Garica/em>. It was the only Peckinpah movie I couldn’t get through Netfilix or borrow from the Library so I had to buy it because I have a crippling completist streak.
We used to have a regular patient visiting our ER whose name was actually Alfredo Garcia. When I told the nurses “bring me the chart of Alfredo Garcia” they never got the joke.
Did you ever say it in front of him? My name is the same as a mildly famous person, most people of a certain age know him for being married to someone much more well known and I constantly have to hear “whats like’ jokes when first meeting those people, luckily they are dying off and I don’t get that very often anymore. I imagine the Alfredo Garcias of the world similarly are cursed by that movie.
insert ‘famous woman’s name” between “whats” and ‘like”
You’re Brad Pitt?
Matrix was my first DVD (really hit the market at just the right time – fully loaded snapper case as it was – early fall ’99 – brand new – started my 20 year collection and got me hooked on movie collecting in general.
“Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested last year that he should make covert audio recordings of President Trump in order to build a case for removing him from office, according to a New York Times report.
Rosenstein disputed that account on Friday, and a Justice Department official who was reportedly in the room when Rosenstein talked about using the 25th Amendment to end the Trump presidency says he was being sarcastic.
That account agrees with a Fox News report based on sources who were in the room and said the meeting took place May 16, 2017.
The Washington Post, too, cited a source who said Rosenstein’s comment was biting but unserious.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6194563/Rod-Rosenstein-denies-discussing-recording-Trump-chaotic-rants-make-case-removing-him.html
None dare call it treason.
a Justice Department official who was reportedly in the room when Rosenstein talked about using the 25th Amendment to end the Trump presidency says he was being sarcastic
So, Rosenstein did talk about using the 25th to get rid of Trump. We are now only arguing about his tone of voice.
I don’t have a big problem with it if he was being sarcastic. I make all kinds of sarcastic comments and would hate to have them used against me, though they do get misinterpreted sometimes. A lot of freakouts about Trump are when he makes offhanded sarcastic comments, like how he “asked” the Russians to hack Hillary’s email.
On the other hand, if Rosenstein was serious, he should be fired.
Did he really ask that? I thought his comment was that the Russians already had the emails.
That’s why I put it in quotes. He didn’t ask that, but that is how the hyperventilators have reacted to his statement. It was a sarcastic comment on his part that got completely twisted.
People on one side of the political divide were so much in the bubble they couldn’t understand the reference made by Trump. To be sure, some actors maliciously “misunderstood” it but most low-info Trump-haters were unable to grasp the context.
reposting from the now dead shotgun thread…
The balls on this chick….
It’s like a crappy remake of Midnight Run.
Jonathan Mardukas: No, I don’t have to do better than that, because it’s the truth, I can’t fly: I suffer from aviaphobia.
Jack Walsh: What does that mean?
Jonathan Mardukas: It means I can’t fly. I also suffer from acrophobia and claustrophobia.
Jack Walsh: I’ll tell you what: if you don’t cooperate, you’re gonna suffer from “fistophobia”.
Sad. War criminal BA Baracus had the same problem.
Hannibal: “BA, here’s some milk.”
BA: “Look, I ain’t getting on the plane.”
Face: “Yeah yeah, just drink the milk.”
BA: “zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…”
every. single. time.
Just put knock-out pills in her milk and then put her on the aircraft.
Just don’t accidentally brush up against one of her boobs while loading her on the airplane. 35 years from now, she’ll remember the next conservative SCOTUS nominee raping her on some airplane.
I was going to type something along the same lines, but I figured making a joke involving date rape drugs would be both in bad taste and confusing.
I was going for bad taste!
Yeah, milk isn’t going to cover up the rohypnol.
You’re at Glibertarians. You’re going to have to try much harder.
Double dose?
The Aristocrats!
Wait a second, you can drive from the Pacific to the Atlantic over a weekend.
Its a hell of a long drive for two days – over 40 hours from Palo Alto to DC. I wouldn’t try it in less than three, and would probably want four. Looks like doing it by train would take 3 days.
It requires hot-seating the driver and including Friday evening, but if I can do it just to say I dipped my toes in both oceans in a weekend, the US fucking government should be able to find a few drivers to get her there on time.
I hear Pelosi has a line on some good drivers.
I’ve driven from LA to Miami in 47 hours towing a 32′ trailer. She has plenty of time.
+1 Ted Kennedy
(Oh. He’s a DEAD Kennedy.)
She’s John Madden?
No, John Madden is a national treasure.
So, she only drives convertibles?
How long before someone finds evidence of her boarding planes all her life and only remembering this phobia about a week ago? (Likely during counseling.) I say Monday at the latest.
Well, since she already scrubbed her social media clean (Wiped? Like with a cloth?) I’m sure she already thought of that.
I had two thoughts:
Unless she has a phobia that prohibits her flying, and has never flown, this is bullshit. If you’ll fly anywhere for any reason, you damn sure can get your ass to DC in time for a SCOTUS confirmation hearing.
For someone who claims to fear for her life, driving cross-country seems like an odd choice.
Courtesy of the NYT: “Dr. Blasey’s decisions to teach at Pepperdine, in Malibu, Calif., and to complete an internship at THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII were are least partly informed by the campsuses’ seaside locations.” Unless she drove to Hawaii….
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-allegations.html
Ooh, more questions to kind of ease into the hearing: “I understand you interned at the University of Hawaii. Did you take a boat to get there, or did you fly?”
Experts agree that phobias can start at any time…
+1 Chuck McGill
HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!
If you get to bring comments back from the dead than so do I:
Yeah, totally not crazy.
If I was questioning her at the hearing, I think I’d open by asking her how her trip went, whether (if she drove) she had looked into Amtrak, if she was worried about having to travel across the heartland, if anyone had threatened her, that kind of thing. Real interested and friendly-like.
I’d also ask her about how her last vacation was. How she moved from DC to the Bay Area in the first place.
Err… Didn’t they already offer to send some people to California to interview her if that would make her more comfortable?
Why can’t Elon Musk build a trebuchet?
I’m pretty sure i the next few hours some enterprising soul will produce a list of a dozen plane trips she’s made in the past year. Then we’ll all be expected to move on to the next absurdity with a slight shoulder shrug.
“If this comes true, I just want to download how use woodworking tools to make straight and square cuts. Fuck kung-fu”
Have you tried Festool?
And now for the weather. It’s a bit chilly in Spain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6193931/Lily-Rose-Depp-cuts-casual-figure-leggings-slogan-t-shirt-arrives-Spain.html
Meanwhile, it’s warm and sunny in Italy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6193699/Emily-Ratajkowski-shows-toned-midriff-white-crop-matching-skirt.html
Back to you Brett, after the break.
Turkeys are done.
Thinn.
Too thin. Can we get some straight guys in the fashion industry?
Aximetricaly-opposed to “Thihn”. BULLY!
I for one am grateful that we have a Homeland Security Department that can keep America safe from the scourge of gay dudes who trick unsuspecting quarter wit straight guys into blindfolded sex acts. Never forget.
The overlap with islamofascists is HUGE.
No one posted this here today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk
Did I see that right? 226 million views?
734 million views
(I believe Gangnam Shit is the video with the most views, unless that record has been surpassed.)
Amazingly, this only has 478 million views.
That is surprising.
Gangnam Style is a great video, though.
Do I really have to enact your labor?
I feel better for only having watched 3 out of the top 100.
Only 2.2M views but I’d like to think that HM would approve.
I have watched #16, if you include the version HM linked to.
(TW: HM link – but maybe ‘trigger’ isn’t right).
After review I, too, am in the low single digits with that list.
Yes, you do. Thank you.
Ed Sheeren is #2 (and also some below that)? My niece-in-law is going to a Sheeren concert this fall and is all excited, but I don’t get it.
This has over 15M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ
Ford has reportedly told friends she is uncomfortable in confined spaces
What’s the penalty for lying under oath in a Senate committee hearing? Could that have anything to do with it?
I believe it’s legal to do depositions under oath via videoconferencing.
Bingo, you can do the testimony! And from a secret lair so you and your family are totally safe!
Yeah, the Senate should have gone that route. Told her to go to the nearest DOJ office with videoconferencing capability and do it from there. On Monday. Would have stripped a lot of the drama from the whole farcical hearing. In person is very much superior, in all ways, to videoconference. So, she’s on TV, Kavanaugh is in the room for her testimony, they switch off the TV and Kav takes the stand.
I’ll be interested to see who Grassley allows in the room for this. Will he restrict attendance to staff, or allow “visitors” who are sure to disrupt? The latter might actually be the smart play.
I think we know how that would go…
She’s uncomfortable with video because… err… cameras steal peoples’ souls. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
“A Missouri man who killed his neighbor after demanding that he “turn the bass down” in his apartment was sentenced to 24 years in prison.
James C. Blanton, 29, of Maryland Heights, was sentenced Wednesday after pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in the death of Yi-Ping “Peter” Chang in December 2015, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Blanton — who suffers from autism but was ruled competent to stand trial — admitted killing Chang, 35, after investigators said he told Chang to “turn the bass down” while his neighbor at the Benningtown Heights apartment complex had been watching a movie with his girlfriend, police said at the time.
Investigators were not able to determine if the loud noise actually prompted the shooting. Blanton told cops who found him outside Chang’s apartment that he shot the man in self-defense. The victim’s girlfriend was not hurt.
Prior to the shooting, during which Blanton wore a bullet-resistant vest beneath a hooded sweatshirt, he visited websites pertaining to stand your ground laws, including a news article titled, “Man cites stand your ground law after shooting neighbor over loud noise,” police said.”
https://nypost.com/2018/09/20/man-sentenced-for-killing-neighbor-who-wouldnt-turn-the-bass-down/
“turn the bass down”
I have no idea how you turn down a fish.
I hate those singing bass decorations.
There are no volume controls.
They work just like a T-Rex, simple and elegant.
Somehow I don’t think the other case with noise complaints from the neighbor on the next floor is going to go down like this.
Relevant
I was expecting this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
796,554,282 views
That’s a fun video.
I have that fish in my card room.
Duh.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/bassomatic/n8631
Throw it back in the lake.
Meghan Trainor has a sad.
Jesus. That guy’s picture is basically if 4chan became a person.
The Ivar, Timewalker comic did this a few years ago. I posed a link to it in some Lynx comment a little bit ago when we were talking about time travelers trying to kill Hitler. His goal was to draw a penis on Hitler’s forehead.
Tru Fact: The technology to erase sharpie wasn’t invented until 1951, after Hitler’s death AND before the invention of sharpies.
Looks like he’s in a bit of treble.
A request for Friday afternoon: I’d like the Glibs’ advice on a better way to say “the police are not your friends”.
Not really what you’re looking for, but “Treat any policeman as you would an unknown and possibly rabid animal.”
Look, I’m getting annoyed by all the pussy footing around with Ford. Why can’t any conservatives state the obvious: This is a Bernie supporting, Pussy hat wearing, Berkely left-wing Anti-Trump nut job. Hell, we’ve been hearing for months that if Kavanaugh is confirmed then we could expect everything from Roe V. Wade to the Louisiana Purchase to be overturned. Then when people question her credibility, they claim she has no reason to lie. They can’t even bother to listen to themselves.
Hell if I thought it would help stop no knock raids or legalize weed, I will testify that Justice Ginsburg touched me in my no-no parts at an undisclosed date and time. Just don’t put me on the record for that.
In your heart, you know you want RBG to touch you in the no-no parts.
Her hands would be too scaly.
Don’t knock it till you try it….
I thought the whole point of trying it was that she’s was the one knocking it.
Well normally it’s your female mammals the dig it.
Cuz once you go green you’ll never be seen.
It’s not easy being green.
Then when people question her credibility, they claim she has no reason to lie.
“Everyone has reasons to lie. If you think someone doesn’t, you just don’t know them well enough.”
Sure she has reasons. Money, ideology, and ego.
Haven’t you read the NYT lately? If Kavanaugh is confirmed, then we will be forced into some dystopian country where women are forced to dress like Handmaid’s Tale cosplay, and the glaciers will all melt, and we all get cancer, and I think a T-Rex escapes from Jurassic Park. Whatever. Don’t ask me for the details. This will be like a like 100x times deadlier repealing net neutrality and withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, times a billion.
” This will be like a like 100x times deadlier repealing net neutrality and withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, times a billion.”
0 * 1,000,000,000 = 0
100x times deadlier repealing net neutrality and withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, times a billion.
To put it in mathematical terms: (100 x 0) x 1,000,000,000 = 0.
So, they’re not wrong.
Dammit. Should have known “Count” would beat to the punch with a math joke.
Then when people question her credibility, they claim she has no reason to lie.
A more accurate assessment would be that she has no reason not to lie. I mean think about it, if a Congressman revealed a tape of her flat-out planning to lie about Kavanaugh and out-and-out admitting that the entire claim is bull**it, what would happen to her? Anything?
Frankly, I think that’s the reason she’s reluctant to testify to Congress. She has the iota of a clue that, if she were to lie under oath to Congress, she could actually face some possible repercussion, no matter how modest.
I’m hoping her car breaks down, putting her behind schedule, she gets caught in traffic and misses the hearing by just a little bit, and they go ahead and vote without the whole #metoo perjury fest.
Then she grabs a flight home.
A quick view of the trip
Really, I meant to link to this
Sort of on topic- and Kavanaugh related. I had two hearings with the same attorney on the other side who’s hung with on lots of other hearings. I asked “So have you been following the Kavanaugh stuff lately?” And his response was “sort of.” I asked his thoughts, and he said “we still have the presumption of innocence. It makes no sense that people want him to go first, and then the other side to respond. I mean you have a right to face your accusers.”
Everyone who isn’t part of a lynch mob says the same thing.
He further elaborated that, normally. these people “including my assistant of 20 years” would think that was normal (for the defendant to defend!) , but here they want to make an exception, and always believe the (crazy) woman.”
I say we try Keith Ellison the same way.
Here’s a hentai manga that has been translated into Australian English: Me Stepmum’s Too Fuckin’ Hot, Mate.
Even hovering over that link on a work computer would probably get me fired.
I feel certain that IT has a special filter just for your machine, just to collected fucked-up links.
LOL
I mean you have a right to face your accusers.
Right wing propaganda from some moldy old piece of parchment that’s hundreds of years old. Overruled.
They wrote that stuff back when they invented slavery.
They’re making up their own rules as they go along and daring the GOP to stop them. It didn’t look good for the GOP for the last 8 years they’ve been doing this, so I guess the dems are thinking it’s a good bet.
There you go again. Weaponizing due process.
“Rod Rosenstein seems to be setting himself up for a 2nd career outside the DOJ after the NYT broke this.”
I must be missing something. Because I can’t figure out how the NYT sees this as benefiting their beloved left. Has Rosenstein been chosen as a sacrificial lamb? I mean unless they are thinking this gets Rosenstein fired and in firing him, Trump nudges the midterms just a little leftward… OK, I don’t get it.
They are attempting to do a laser pointer on the mammal with the hair in an attempt to distract from the current Supreme Court nomination process.
The “what’s the first DVD you bought” thread I attempted to start (see above) has lead me to realize The Criterion Collection has all sorts of stuff on Blu-Ray now. I thought I was done with physical media, but maybe not. I mean who doesn’t want a Blu-Ray of Fantastic Planet?
Whit Stillman boxed set of Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco, and Barcelona. I might have pull the trigger.
The Criterion Collection has some great extras.
And alt-right white supremacist movies like this.
Haven’t picked that one up on Blu yet – have the UK BFI DVD of it – prefer Les Maitres du Temps (Moebius designs), but it’s interesting to see 3 French animated flicks each produced in a different communist country – see also Gandahar.
It’s hard to decide on what to upgrade – since there’s a lot of stuff I never bought. I upgraded from the original Seven Samurai DVD to the Remastered DVD, haven’t upgraded to Blu yet. I had the massive Brazil collection too on DVD – think I picked up the 1 blu-ray edition. They’re cool, but so pricey….not often on sale on amazon, etc. Honestly haven’t picked up too much from them lately at all since some stuff they do comes out after the UK releases (like the Del Toro blu ray collection) or other fancy titles. Eventually I will pick up more once I work through more of my backlog.
As an aside, props to Criterion for a beautiful and functional website. That’s really well done.
Fantastic Planet was the creepiest thing to watch on HBO when you’re 7.
Agreed. Still weirds me out – it was randomly playing at a local bar last year or so and several of the other patrons were having a “what the fuck is this?” reaction.
I actually splurged for my first Criterion Collection set just yesterday, the Basil Dearden set. I was thrilled to see The League of Gentlemen [not extraordinary] on DVD, plus it’s got Victim.
Just another reminder that my next review is finally out: https://youtu.be/ponDbw6tk-c DVD is harder to track down, but it’s free to view on Prime. Highly recommended! Appreciate any feedback on the “mad editing skillz” on display this time around….marginally improving I think.
I shall carve out some time this evening.
Done – nice review; sounds like they kept the ‘decadent West’ themes fairly light.
I have a friend who looks like a dead-ringer for Kveta Fialova in that film. That’s not a bad thing.
No kidding. Thanks for the feedback.
For anyone who can’t understand how acronyms work, this should settle the “were Nazis socialists?” debate.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dnfk62AVAAA-5ZD.jpg
I knew it! White supremacist socialist barbie!
That makes me giggle.
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/1043190006188269568
Indeed.
Wut? JFC indeed.
“Censor yourself, citizen, and you will be permitted to speak.”
So #WhyDidntIReport is trending on twitter right now. Of course, the left wing media jumped right on it.
I’m really getting sick of the left weaponizing sexual assault. Even though I have family members who were no shit drugged and raped years ago that didn’t report it for pretty solid reasons, I’m to a point where I automatically assume women are lying when they talk about this shit.
And some of these top trending tweets even say that they weren’t raped; nothing actually happened, but they’re ashamed of themselves for not calling the cops.
There’s no other class of crime where the accuser is supposed to be automatically believed, and often is by very many, which is especially rich since its a long established fact that accusers very often lie about it for all sorts of reasons.
While generally a personal thing in the past,
accusations of sexual crimes of all stripes have become a political weapon of the left against the right. I blame modern feminism simultaneously telling women they’re the superior sex that can do no wrong while convincing men that women are fragile flowers in need of coddling. Its seriously damaging gender relations.
accusations of sexual crimes of all stripes have become a political weapon of the left against the right
#metoo is a torpedo that has already circled back on a bunch of leftists in the entertainment industry.
It will be interesting to see if it also circles back against Keith Ellison. If you want to know what a credible accusation of abusive behavior looks like, his ex is backing hers up quite well, IMO.
“But, but, but #MeToo was meant to take out conservatives, not our own! Fuck #MeToo!”
– some near-future prog
“Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China
Google bosses have forced employees to delete a confidential memo circulating inside the company that revealed explosive details about a plan to launch a censored search engine in China, The Intercept has learned.
The memo, authored by a Google engineer who was asked to work on the project, disclosed that the search system, codenamed Dragonfly, would require users to log in to perform searches, track their location — and share the resulting history with a Chinese partner who would have “unilateral access” to the data.
The memo was shared earlier this month among a group of Google employees who have been organizing internal protests over the censored search system, which has been designed to remove content that China’s authoritarian Communist Party regime views as sensitive, such as information about democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/09/21/google-suppresses-memo-revealing-plans-to-closely-track-search-users-in-china/
Huh? We already knew about this.
Well the Ministry of Truth needs to get cracking at it then and throw it down the memory hole.
Apparently “Don’t Be Evil” has morphed into “Be Stupid”.
“Wealthy L.A. Schools’ Vaccination Rates Are as Low as South Sudan’s
Hollywood parents say not vaccinating makes “instinctive” sense. Now their kids have whooping cough.
When actors play doctors on TV, that does not make them actual doctors. And that does not mean they should scour some Internet boards, confront their pediatricians, and demand fewer vaccinations for their children, as some Hollywood parents in Los Angeles have apparently been doing.
The Hollywood Reporter has a great investigation for which it sought the vaccination records of elementary schools all over Los Angeles County. They found that vaccination rates in elite neighborhoods like Santa Monica and Beverly Hills have tanked, and the incidence of whooping cough there has skyrocketed.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/wealthy-la-schools-vaccination-rates-are-as-low-as-south-sudans/380252/
So, the article is satire?
No, but it is 4 years old.
no, no, I wish it was satire, but it’s true. There is nothing more awesome than watching a bunch of WE LOVE SCIENCE BITCHES moms going off on how “vaccines cause autism and mercury is sooo dangerous and Jenny McCarthy and all that are right, my precious baby must never ever be at risk for anything” These are the same women who love People of Color especially their housekeeper and gardeners, and then they stick rocks up their vaginas because Gweneth Paltrow told them to. They are insufferable.
And the rates of Autism? Isnt that what the vaccines are purported to cause?
I am guessing those stayed level.
They would have been so much higher otherwise, shitlord.
Actually, diagnoses of autism are up. But this is confounded by changes in the definition of autism and by additional funding for autists that are available to schools.
About a quarter of new cases can be attributed to a chance in definition, maybe as high as 38%. This is significant but not close to explaining it all. The tests used for diagnosis, especially the ADOS, are completely separated from any relation to schools.
I’ve read the studies that tested the validity and specificity of the ADOS. It’s good, rigorously conducted science without obvious bias.
If anyone’s interested in the topic, here’s a link where you can read about the ADOS:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226341116_The_Autism_Diagnostic_Observation_Schedule-Generic_A_Standard_Measure_of_Social_and_Communication_Deficits_Associated_with_the_Spectrum_of_Autism
So what’s the thinking on cause of the (apparent) increase in autism?
We don’t even know yet what causes autism to develop, so that’s a difficult question. Hell, what we call autism may actually be 20 closely linked conditions that just behaviorally manifest the same way.
The latest research I’ve viewed estimates autism development is about 50% genetic and 50% environmental. There’s also a very strong tie to mitochondrial diseases. Don’t know if these mitochondrial conditions influence autism development or vice versa. If the former, than anything causing these mitochondrial issues can then also increase autism prevalence. Higher maternal age, a definite issue in the West, is a major risk factor for autism. Certain heavy metals and minerals exposure or deficiency has also been strongly associated with autism development. Changing diets of expectant mothers combined with a genetic risk could be involved.
Also, very interestingly, research on a new metabolic blood test has just been published that claims to be able to identify 18% of the autism population using biomarkers. I’m waiting to see if this pans out, but it would be a major breakthrough and begin a shift away from behavioral-based testing.
You said 50% environmental.
Now, my kid’s a handful. He’s not autistic but he confounded his doc for a long time because some of his tics can present that way. (He’s ODD.) My dad would’ve beaten the kid into submission by now, which is only indicative of my dad’s generation.
Could it be that in the past, when physical punishment was the preferred method of dealing with misbehavior, autistic kids were disciplined harshly enough to make them compliant? Therefore, with the decrease in physical punishment it can appear as if there is a rise in autism?
I don’t think compliance is it exactly, but you are right that an acceptance of autism and learning more about is a major contributor to the increase. In previous times, even really smart kids with autism that were non-verbal would have just been locked up in an institution or written off as mentally retarded. This should fall under the change in diagnosis-related increase.
I know it seems the current rate is unbelievably high, but it’s realistic when one looks around. Even here on Glibs, a random group of people representing a wide range of demographics. I think 3 of us regular posters have children with autism. How many kids are there among the regular posters? 1:50 seems reasonable.
I didn’t mean actual autism. I meant diagnosis by the new definition. Isnt that what caused the initial anti-vax panic? Autism diagnosis were rising? If they all stop vaccinating their children from cooties shouldn’t the rate of autism drop? If it isnt dropping….
Must be global warming. Or gay frogs?
This is what happens when humans aren’t compelled to be sensible in order to survive. They stop surviving.
The Atlantic tweeted out an old link for some reason. Sacramento passed a much more stringent vaccination requirement for schools recently.
Found my retirement job. Taking naps with cats.
Who’s really doing the volunteer work there, man or animal?
Take a victory lap wylie.
A co-worker brought me a bag of assorted hot peppers today including chocolate habaneros, ghosts, and reapers. Spicy!
?
My Trinidad Scorpion peppers are just now ripening, time to make some Five Alarm Chili.
You don’t put beans in it do you?
real chili has beans! That meat sauce southerners call chili is the knockoff.
Pah. The one true chili (New Mex red sauce) has no beans, but can contain chunks of pork.
Of course not, I use pineapple.
I guess I won’t ask you to share your recipe then.
?
That sounds more like Eleven Alarm Chili.
“She and her colleague Eric Edsinger put five Californian two-spot octopuses individually into the middle of three connected chambers and gave them free rein to explore. One of the adjacent chambers housed a second octopus, confined inside an overturned plastic basket. The other contained an unfamiliar object, such as a plastic flower or a Chewbacca figurine. Dölen and Edsinger measured how long the main animal spent in the company of its peer, and how long with the random toy.
Next, she dosed the animals with ecstasy. Again, there’s no precedent for this, but researchers often anesthetize octopuses by dunking them in ethanol—a humane procedure with no lasting side effects. So Dölen and Edsinger submerged their octopuses in an MDMA solution, allowing them to absorb the drug through their gills. At first they used too high a dose, and the animals “freaked out and did all these color changes,” Dölen says. But once the team found a more suitable dose, the animals behaved more calmly—and more sociably.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/octopuses-on-ecstasy-prefer-each-other-to-chewbacca/570763/
Sounds like an elaborate ruse for getting their mitts on pharmaceutical grade Ecstasy, to me. If so, I applaud their initiative.
This comics stuff is getting crazier and crazier. I’ve dropped a few series and backed a few more indiegogo titles – but these guys keep doubling down.
I’ll keep supporting my local stores with back issues and TPB purchases, but gonna be a lot more limited with new books pretty soon. Not sure if Gbob is tracking more of these interactions or not – still a few eps behind listening to your podcast.
Maybe better: “Treat any policeman as you would an unknown and possibly rabid dog owned by the King.”