SP has cut me loose for the next few days while she wanders off to deepest rural Appalachia. This reduces the number of likable people in the household to approximately zero. The Mighty Wonder Dog is bereft, though not so bereft that she stops begging for Swiss to come over with his usual offering of pizza for her. The real victims will be the door-to-door campaigners, of which there are many; SP usually prevents me from answering the door, but without her here, I can enjoy the fine sport of trolling. The first question is almost inevitably, “Have you decided whom you’re voting for yet?” The proper answer, if you’re a sick fuck like me who wants to make them uncomfortable (and give them stories to tell) is, “No. Tell me why I should vote for your guy.”
In the Illinois governor’s race, I truly haven’t decided. As usual, the Team Red and Team Blue candidates are repulsive quasi-humans, with Team Blue offering a Chris Christie look-alike with Maxine Waters-level intelligence. Team Red offers us a completely ineffective Progressive. The third party candidates include a rather, ummm, colorful Libertarian and a so-con authoritarian hired by unions to pull votes away from Team Red. We watched the Browns play football instead of the debates, which made us winners. Other people unfortunately had to watch the spectacle.
Rauner said of McCann: “He has received funding from Mike Madigan for his campaign. He was put on the ballot by Mike Madigan’s attorney.”
“You’re a liar. You’ve been lying to the people of Illinois from the very beginning,” McCann replied.
Rauner continued his attempts to portray Pritzker’s support for a graduated-rate income tax to replace the state’s currently mandated flat-rate tax as “proposing a massive tax hike on all the people of this state.”
That prompted Pritzker to interject, “Gov. Rauner, you’re lying. You’re lying again.”
Sparkling rhetoric!
I don’t often feel sorry for members of the media, but I admit some sympathy here. The Browns game was much more interesting. And this increases my resolve to figure out how to get the hell out of this state.
Wait, did I forget birthdays? That’s awful because today is the birthday of the autodidact Michael Faraday, one of my personal heroes. Especially so, since I spent most of this past week setting up chronoamperometric experiments. Read all about him. Not just a great scientist, but an interesting human.
When I worked in Europe, my least favorite city was Venice. Insane traffic, smelly, dirty, and not terribly scenic. And whatever you do, DON’T SIT DOWN.
The city’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, has proposed a fine of up to €500 (about $585) for anyone planting themselves down in an undesignated spot. The proposal isn’t without precedent in Venice. People are actually already prohibited from sitting in tourist hotspots St Mark’s Square or the Rialto Bridge. The mayor’s proposal is part of the city’s #EnjoyRespectVenezia campaign, which has been in full swing this summer. It’s all part of a general Venetian crusade against rampant overtourism.
I think we all know how to help them with their overtourism problem.
Over 3 million people died from alcohol consumption in 2016, equating to 1 in 20 deaths globally, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. “The alcohol consumption level continues to be very high,” said Dr. Vladimir Poznyak, WHO’s Management of Substance Abuse coordinator. “All countries can do much more to reduce the health and social costs of the harmful use of alcohol.”
Alcohol consumption was also found to cause more than 5% of the global disease burden and reported to be a causal factor in over 200 disease and injury conditions.
Of course, there’s the expected goal here.
“Far too many people, their families and communities suffer the consequences of the harmful use of alcohol,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO. “It’s time to step up action to prevent this serious threat to the development of healthy societies.”
And by “action” he mean “rape.” Well, the statist version of rape.
Though 95% of countries impose taxes on alcohol, WHO expects more actions to be undertaken by countries, adding that fewer than half of them use other price strategies such as banning below-cost selling or volume discounts. The member states of the WHO agreed in 2010 on 10 measures to reduce harmful use of alcohol, such as pricing policies and actions on marketing and alcohol availability. As part of the agreement, they declared “its associated health and social burden” as a “public health priority.”
Conclusion: Mexican Sharpshooter is worse than Hitler.
I know it shouldn’t, but this story delights me.
Agents with the OIU had began investigating Twenty Two Fifty, Inc. which is also known as Sharky’s in May of 2017. During the investigation, agents say they were able to buy drugs and lap dances by using food stamps. During the five-month long investigation, agents exchanged more than $2,000 worth of food stamps to buy heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, cocaine, methamphetamine and lap dances.
Man does not live by bread alone.
“If it weren’t for these goddamn customers, we could get our work done more efficiently!”
The New York City subway can be a daily adventure. Waterfalls cascade down stairways in storms. Ceilings drip and sometimes collapse. Elevators, when they work, seem to double as urinals. Panhandlers, dancers and musicians hustle for tips. People jostle, argue, clip their nails and eat smelly foods.
Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said the precious seconds lost to commuters… were partly to blame for delays plaguing one in three subway trains. The MTA has ordered conductors to be more assertive closing doors and not allow limbs or bags to force them open. The new policy is part of a broader push launched in August to reduce delays, in part by training riders to stand clear of closing doors. If subway workers can shave seconds off a train’s journey at intervals along its route, transit officials said, the MTA can significantly improve punctuality.
New York would be great except for New Yorkers.
And weekends would be great except for that Old Guy who keeps throwing out music that doesn’t even have light shows, dancers, and autotune. In this case, something triply appealing to me: Hot jazz, Django-style, Albanie Falletta, and a live performance in one of my favorite Austin clubs, the deeply-underground Elephant Room. Check out the bass line played on sax!
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“Far too many people, their families and communities suffer the consequences of the harmful use of alcohol,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of WHO. “It’s time to step up action to prevent this serious threat to the development of healthy societies.”
They never talk about the quality of life benefits of being left the hell alone.
I thought population control was a top priority for the WHO
Control is the main focus area. Reduction or stabilization of numbers is incidental.
Common Sense Population Control?
Perhaps they have a modest proposal to achieve that.
Curiously,. paying a tax to be left alone is called a bribe, and is illegal.
Maybe that’s not so curious.
It’s funny how so many solutions to public health problems involve paying the government more money.
I would bring The Wonder Dog some pizza, but I have been claimed already for today and tomorrow. …Unless you wanted to come to my local tonight, and I could send you home with a slice for Wonder Dog.
Or heck, I’d pick up a lovely cheese pizza (thin crust – no deep dish now…) and you could just take the leftovers.
Do dogs like pineapple?
a lovely cheese pizza
Do you see “pineapple” anywhere in there, you terrible, terrible man?
I never said I like pineapple pizza. I wouldn’t eat it, so I’d have to give it to the dogs.
So you are cruel to dogs then?
Dogs eat their own shit. They’ll eat anything.
We don’t have pineapple in the house, anyway.
Wonder Dog turned down pizza from Gatti’s. That will tell you how bad that shit is.
My dog loves to find cat shit in the yard and then carry it around in her mouth for a while before finally chewing and swallowing that delicious cat scat. I tell her she is disgusting, but she won’t listen.
I am relieved I don’t have to watch my cats do that. They do eat their own sick, though. At least that usually has chunks of food in it.
Chunks of food?! That’s gross!11!1
(Really not the worst part of eating vomit there.)
New York would be great except for New Yorkers.
If the MTA’s actions result in the deaths of more NYC people, is that a bad thing?
(Sorry, NYC Glibs.)
Why is regular toilet paper treif on Shabbos?
On Shabbat you’re not allowed to unattach things which are attached. So if something is sewed together, you can’t un-do the string.
Wow, that’s really specific.
That strikes me as an excessive prohibition.
THAT. THAT is what crosses the line for you.
Excuse me, I need to turn on some lights, clouds moved in.
” I told that kraut a fucking thousand times that I don’t roll on Shabbos!”
Nice!
Ted, I think my newest review will by right up your alley. Very cool title. Just go to my youtube channel.
You reviewed milk?
Don’t you just hire a shabbos goy for all your bathroom needs?
Such a bathroom aide is known as “not-too-shabbos”.
It’s all part of a general Venetian crusade against rampant overtourism.
They should go back to blowing glass.
I think we found the new port of entry for all those refugees.
During the five-month long investigation, agents exchanged more than $2,000 worth of food stamps to buy heroin, fentanyl, carfentanil, cocaine, methamphetamine and lap dances.
If they were paid a living wage, they wouldn’t have to make these hard decisions. No one should be forced to choose between food and the necessities of life like drugs and lap dances.
“fentanyl, carfentanil”
I seriously doubt they were buying those on purpose.
I love the “five month investigation” angle to this. I saw this article yesterday and it was a big “meh”.
But now that you pointed out that it was five months of buying lap dances for food stamps…. wow!
So, exactly how does that work? They go in and buy some drugs and a lap dance one time…… “OK, men, let’s go make the arrest!”
“Uh… hold on boss. I think we need a little more evidence. We are going to need to go back in and make another buy. Can we get some more food stamps?”
“Yeah… uh, sure guys. Here… go ahead.”
They come back with another buy and a bunch of lap dances. “OK, good job! Let’s go make an arrest!”
“Listen boss, we really need more evidence.”
“No…. I think we are ready to make an arrest…”
“Look boss, we really need more on this. I think maybe you should come with us and make a buy. That way they won’t get suspicious!”
“Yeah. Ok. I mean, of course! Yeah, I should totally go buy some lap dances and drugs, that way they won’t suspect that we are on their trail! And we definitely need some more evidence…”
–Fast forward to 5 months and hundreds of lap dances later…. “Lieutenant, why do we have a $50k bill for food stamps?”
“OK, boys! Let’s go make that arrest!!!”
, Albanie Falletta
Good stuff! I shall listen to more while i herd temps today helping with hurricane response.
“Republican Minnesota rep quits re-election campaign after his own DAUGHTER, 23, claims she entered a psychiatric facility after ‘he inappropriately touched for 12 years’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6195701/Republican-Minnesota-rep-quits-election-campaign-daughter-claims-inappropriately-touched-her.html
Gross.
“The Senate Judiciary Chairman has reluctantly granted Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser an extension to decide if she will testify about her sexual assault claims against the Supreme Court nominee.
In a string of tweets Friday night, Senator Chuck Grassley wrote: ‘With all the extensions we give Dr Ford to decide if she still wants to testify to the Senate I feel like I’m playing 2nd trombone in the judiciary orchestra and [Senator Chuck] Schumer is the conductor.’
This came after Grassley rejected Dr Christine Blasey Ford’s key concessions under which she would testify and then gave her until 10pm Friday night to come to a ‘reasonable resolution’. He said if Dr Ford and her lawyers failed to reach a decision his Republican-run panel would vote on sending Kavanaugh’s nomination for Supreme Court Justice by Monday.
But before the 10pm deadline, Ford’s lawyer said her client wants another day to consider terms for testifying about her allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were teens.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6192107/Kavanaugh-accuser-says-testify-right-terms.html
Oh ffs, just call the vote or force her to testify via subpoena. I think it’s pretty obvious that the woman’s either lying or terribly confused and knows it, but doesn’t have a way to get out of this and save face. Well, too bad. This has gone on long enough, and she’s not only impugned Kavanaugh’s reputation but she’s doing further damage to an already horribly flawed process. Subpoena, or vote.
she’s doing further damage to an already horribly flawed process
It’s not really her doing at this point.
I dunno. If you walk into a tinder-dry forest and light a match I can’t see how you can pretend the resulting conflagration is not your fault.
They’ve already given her more than enough time. Why is TEAM RED so fucking stupid?
They are just playing their part of pretending there is an alternative to the Deep State. That and they have itty bitty testicles.
The only reason I can think of for needing “more time” is because they need time to gin up some corroboration.
It was clear from her demands – that they wait until after the FBI investigates and after Kavanaugh testifies to have her testify – that their intention was to ensure that her story was unimpeachable. By knowing every possible landmine and every objection, she could craft her story to be perfectly in line with every available bit of evidence.
So now that they aren’t going to get a month or 2 of FBI investigating to push them past the mid-terms, they want as much time as they can get so they can run around to all of the private school proggies from the era and see if they can find someone who will say that these two guys were handsy with some other girl, or maybe just drunk and out of control at some point. The longer this sits in the news, the better chance they have of finding some woman who went to one of these schools 35 years ago who will, after long pondering on the topic, recover some memory of how Kavanaugh did the same thing to her, or maybe that she heard them bragging about it, or that she heard that they had done something like that….
And make no mistake.. that’s how memory works. Remember all the “recovered memory” hysteria of 20 years ago? We had men all over the country being accused of molesting daughters or nieces 30 or 40 years prior, all due to “recovered memories”. Science has since demonstrated exactly how that works. And repeating this story on the news enough with enough people being asked to think really hard about “don’t you remember something like this happening back then”, you’ll get a few who will “remember” something that didn’t happen. And once they do, it works in the brain exactly like a real memory, so they can’t even tell the difference.
Leave it to Team Red to give Team Blue as much time and chances as it needs to crush them. I wouldn’t be surprised if they snatched defeated from the jaws of victory once again.
I hate the left. They are insane and would probably pit my white ass in a redducation camp (where they probably teach u to love pineapple deep dish pizza and Steven seagal movies) But Jesus how I fucking manage to hatE Republicans more. Is there some special school you have to go to to become such abject cowards? These spineless cocksuckers havent conserved anything. Nothing.
Fuck dudes Ford is just a crazy bitch. And like 90% of women are crazy bitches. Why would you give crazy more time to just be all crazy and crazy-shit all over everything?
I’m with you with the pineapple pizza. But I’m okay with Seagal movies. Love me some snapping arms and elbows!
Hey, the GOP gets paid either way. They have their money, their pensions, and their social position. Why would they rock the boat?
Your links give me a fire down below.
About the only thing I remember from Under Siege: https://imgur.com/P2NwsO8
NSFW
Tommy Lee Jones selling his soul is safe for work. Or is it that cake scene?
They all want cake.
Tommy Lee Jones #FTW
Ah, yes, The Eyes of Laura Mars.
I had a fixation on him after The Fugitive, and hunted down pretty much everything he ever did.
The best Steven Seagal movie is Executive Decision.
Reduction camp is actually worse.
Dear God the Republicans are so spineless it’s ridiculous, nothing but a bunch of wusses who cringe at the thought of pissing off the same media that is going to hate them no matter what they do. If they fail to seat this guy before the midterms it’s going to seriously suppress their turnout.
Stop being such pussies fellas.
I have no problem believing that a prog would use false accusations to derail a supreme court nomination made by a republican president. Especially given the apocalyptic screeching made by Democrat polititions every time. He could have nominated a minority trans communist who performed abortions on the weekend for fun and they would still cry wolf about something.
That’s not to say I give a rats ass about Kavanaugh but I certainly condemn the left’s character assassination strategy even before these accusations.
It’s a teaching moment.
In an interview with Here and Now, Adam Howard, a professor of education at Colby College, argued that places like Georgetown Prep do, indeed, have a lot of good attributes, but “they also encourage win-at-all-costs attitudes, unhealthy levels of stress, deception, materialism, competition and so forth, selfishness and greed.” Kavanaugh himself described the school’s culture in 2015 as, “What happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep.”
Van Dyke acknowledges that the school should be evaluating its culture. “It is a time to continue our ongoing work with the guys on developing a proper sense of self and a healthy understanding of masculinity, in contrast to many of the cultural models and caricatures that they see,” he says. “And it is a time to talk with them honestly and even bluntly about what respect for others, especially respect for women and other marginalized people means in very practical terms—in actions and in words.”
Confess your sins. Prostrate yourselves. Plead for forgiveness. Distribute your worldly riches amongst the poor and downtrodden. Vote Democrat.
Obama was at a rally in Philly yesterday.
Seriously, dude, Shut The Fuck Up and go away.
When does the movement begin to repeal the 22nd?
Totes.
From threads yesterday.
Bob Boberson: the Defense Distributed fundraiser a few weeks ago had the proceeds directly payable to the Second Anendment Foundation, not Defense Distributed. To me my cash donation was a no-brainer. Assisting Alan Gura and his team in humiliating 20-odd scum of the earth State AG engaging in highly pernicious lawfare?
Warty: if the reports are true, Cody Wilson’s travel documents have been cancelled and Taiwan’s lack of an extradition treaty with the US is now basically irrelevant due to the former point. Dude’s probably getting deported since he doesn’t have Right of Abode there.
Telltale is shutting down.
Good riddance. I stopped giving them money after they gave me a fifth of a game for full price up front and said “the rest will come later”. Either finish your damn product before selling it, or sell the episodes separately for 1/5th the full game price.
“The Definitive Guide to Superhero Dicks
Is Superman circumcised? What about the Thing’s thing? We answer all the questions you never had here.”
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/mbwg5x/the-definitive-guide-to-superhero-dicks
Screw Vice. I’ll stick with Larry Niven. He was a man of consummate taste.
Love that one.
It makes assumptions not supported by evidence.
Besides it overlooks the most simple solution – A red light room.
Being solar powered, and returning to near-human parameters under a different set of wavelengths of light, the whole problem goes away by controlling the ambient illumination.
Niven can go fly a kite. If Power Girl were my first cousin, I’d be dropping loads in that thicc ass all day, fam. I double dog dare him to suggest otherwise.
Concern troll is concerned
And in this endeavor, Kavanaugh himself bears the burden of proof. This sounds like unjust ground to stake out in a society in which the accused is innocent until proven guilty. But in practical terms, Kavanaugh is the one who has to persuade the marginal senator to vote for him. He is the one who has to give Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski enough confidence in him that they can vote to confirm believing they can defend their actions to a legion of angry voters. It is he, not Ford, who needs to count to 50.
The injustice, in fact, is largely optical. The question before us, after all, is not whether to punish Kavanaugh or whether to assign liability to him. It’s whether to bestow on him an immense honor that comes with great power. Kavanaugh is applying for a much-coveted job. And the burden of convincing in such situations always lies with the applicant. The standard for elevation to the nation’s highest court is not that the nominee established a “reasonable doubt” that the serious allegations against him were true.
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Getting out does not mean admitting that Ford’s account of his behavior is accurate, something Kavanaugh should certainly not do if her account is not accurate. It means only acknowledging that there is no way to defend against it in a fashion that is both persuasive and honorable in the context of seeking elevation to a job that requires a certain moral viability. It means acknowledging that whatever the truth may be, Kavanaugh cannot carry his burden of proof given the constraints upon him.
It means accepting that it is better to continue serving as a D.C. Circuit judge than to play the sort of undignified games that Republicans are playing on his behalf.
What a blathering idiot. “You’ll never prove your innocence to the satisfaction of people who were never going to vote for you in the first place. The only honorable thing to do is withdraw your nomination. And that’s what I’ll tell the next guy, and the one after that.”
ps- Don’t blame the people slinging mud all over you, blame the guy who nominated you.
They’re still talking about that? This confirmation is longer than my confirmation in the 5th grade!
Lessgo end this circus-charade already.
Well that’s a crock of shit. The games are pretty obviously coming from the DNC in this case.
I hope people just fucking humour WHO.
Pricing policies. Go fuck yourself.
“Here’s why white feminism is racist.”
https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1042997097073725440
Who would have guessed Al Jazeera hates Jews?
Too much progsplaining
Needs more intersectionality. I’m getting conflicting woke/unwoke vibes.
“Plants, but no pants: Florida man gardens in the nude”
http://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-news/plants-but-no-pants-florida-man-gardens-in-the-nude-1
Tell me something I don’t know.
Was it Dino Ciccarelli?
San Francisco says, “Have I got a deal for you!”
It doesn’t help that trying to keep the city as a museum piece is contributing to its sinking.
(Seriously, cities just kept building up as the land subsided, but anti-development policies prevent that.)
“food stamp trafficking”
SMDH
Better or worse than trafficking in government cheese?
“. @CountDankulaTV speaking at the UKIP conference about free speech & the sinister arrest of @realbasedamy for saying ‘have a gay day’ to someone”
https://twitter.com/DAYFORFREEDOM4/status/1043201256951619584
That was her only “crime” apparently.
You can’t use “gay” or “queer” in the old sense any more?
No, everything in England is illegal.
Well that’s rather queer.
And we never heard from Raphael again
They’re right. It’s annoying as fuck.
Don’t you people know a joke when you hear one?
Rep. Ralph Norman, a Republican from South Carolina, has just found himself in hot water after making a tasteless joke about the sexual misconduct allegation against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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“Did y’all hear this latest late-breaking news from the Kavanaugh hearings?” Norman asked the audience at a Kiwanis Club debate Thursday, according to The Post and Courier. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg came out that she was groped by Abraham Lincoln.”
After he began to take heat for his remarks, Norman defended himself on Twitter by arguing that his comments were “meant to add a bit of levity to a very serious debate” and claimed that they “point to the circus-like atmosphere that Washington DC has become.”
“People really need to learn to lighten up,” he added. “Clearly my opponent understood it that way since for the next hour we engaged in a substantive discussion about our many differences without mention of my comments.”
Lynch the bastard.
That’s pretty much the lesson of the last decade.
I find RBG’s accusation credible.
And Lincoln must testify first and prove he is innocent of these allegations or wiki will be edited to include Lincoln was a rapist. What you say Lincoln can’t prove his innocence because ya know, he is dead? Well then it is a proven fact Lincoln was a rapist due to his inability to disprove this allegation.
/shrugs. It’s a credible accusation. whatyagonnado?
Especially so, since I spent most of this past week setting up chronoamperometric experiments.
You people just make words up don’t you?
“You people.” SO YOU’RE JUST LIKE HITLER.
I was referring to all flavors of engineers and sciency types, but yes, last I was informed I was worse than Hitler.
So were you the last to know, then?
. . . . just kidding, I am not usually this bitchy, I just thought of a funny comeback for once.
https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/1042810297726070785
I remember when people with mental illness suffered in silence. I miss those days.
You mean Ford, or the raving lunatics populating Twitter?
Yes
Progs.
Progs never change.
FBI investigation of a non-federal crime. Whatever, Hellboy.
Okay, then
Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, said in an email to employees on Friday that the company has never and will never bias its search results for political purposes.
Mr. Pichai’s message followed a report in The Wall Street Journal this week about an internal email thread from early 2017 in which Google employees discussed President Trump’s travel ban, enacted by executive order shortly after his inauguration.
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“Recent news stories reference an internal email to suggest that we would compromise the integrity of our Search results for a political end. This is absolutely false,” Mr. Pichai wrote in the email, which was obtained by The New York Times. “We do not bias our products to favor any political agenda. The trust our users place in us is our greatest asset and we must always protect it.”
I’m glad we have put this ridiculous unfounded slander to rest. And if you don’t believe us, here are some articles from Salon about the existential danger posed by “free” speech, and why we should never allow alt-right speakers to poison the minds of America’s youth.
“The universe has a liberal bias.”
/this is what they really believe
Ok, but, arguendo, from a free market standpoint what is ethically wrong with a private company choosing to bias its search engine results if they choose to do so? It may be bad business, but as long as they are open about the bias, what’s the big whoop from a libertarian standpoint? Doesn’t it just make room in the market for a conservative-leaning search engine?
Well, yeah. It would be nice if they stopped lying about that.
If it were a free market, but it isn’t.
So we should levy the power of the state to enforce some sort of regression to the ideological mean?
In my opinion, the status quo is preferable to that.
It may be bad business, but as long as they are open about the bias, what’s the big whoop from a libertarian standpoint?
As long as they’re not committing fraud by lying about the nature of their product, I agree.
If they’re out there claiming to act without bias, then that’s fraud and deserves to be treated as such.
That’s why I qualified the statement. If they claim the search engine results aren’t biased, and they are, then, of course, that’s a fraudulent claim. That having been said, how does one quantitatively measure ideological bias in search engine results? Meaning, by what metric do we define ideology? As libertarians, many of us are familiar with the criticisms of the overly simplistic left wing-right wing framework.
You can’t use “gay” or “queer” in the old sense any more?
Clinging to outmoded linguistic conventions is a queer fixation.
But it makes me so gay!
I picked the wrong month to quit fags.
Harvard Law Students Say School Should Reconsider Brett Kavanaugh’s Teaching Job
I wonder who gets to define “full and fair” and what exactly these totally-not-leftist ideologues have in mind.
All it takes is an extremely-suspiciously-timed accusation made by a progressive partisan and which lacks critical details for you to feel uncomfortable? Also, how presumptuous of you to call yourself a “vulnerable” person, whatever that means.
We are truly entering an intellectual dark age.
Also, I am for ending harassment in the workplace, which includes false accusations meant to derail someone’s career. That shit needs to be prosecuted.
A dark age with unclosed links
At least SOMEONE here knows how to fix things…
You fixed it? Are you… *lip quivers* …saying edit fairies aren’t real?
*runs from room sobbing*
They’re probably feel fine taking a class from Bill Ayers though.
They’d, dammit
It means she’s “vulnerable” to being taught by someone with the wrong politics.
More accurately, she’s vulnerable to accusations of wrong think from her fellow progs by taking a class from him. As with everything else in the social media age, it’s the perception that matters most.
Now get out there and repent.
Where does this end?
Historically, it ends with people starving to death in gulags.
Screwflies.
Plastic bags over heads? Good thing Kroger is not going to use plastic bags anymore.
Entering? We’re already there.
Harvard is leading the charge.
BREAKING: Matthew Yglesias is an asshole.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1043345194345816065
Convenient, that.
There was already an “investigation”. The man lost out in the “Court of Public Opinion” before his name was even announced for the nomination. Disingenuous concern-trolling jerks.
Sadbeard raped me in college. It’s all true.
Truly a bold truth teller
Woohoo, got my absentee ballot sent in but sadly the only thing that looks worse than the Florida senate race is the governor race.
I present you with the choice between Tim Kaine and Corey Stewart.
We have DeWine and Cordray in Ohio. The asshole and the ass.
Home Sweet Home was great…
Woops. Different Corddry…
Yeah, Ohio is a lose-lose situation.
There will be only one candidate in my congressional district. The GOP doesn’t even bother to nominate anyone. There’s more political competition in Putin’s Russia.
You all have most unfortunate elections as well. This is the moment I drink myself to sleep and yolo the vote.
https://twitter.com/henryrodgersdc/status/1042805709677768704
This shit is hilarious.
That’s a lot of fatties
None of their parents taught them to chew with their mouths closed? WTF is wrong with people?
They obviously are working for someone or an organization because no way in hell protestors are that organized and pay for all that.
I don’t know if I will go to any protest …. wait a minit…. there will be pizza, so yeah, I will go. / thinking it over as I decide to protest or not.
Doing right ain’t got no end.
The Clarence Thomas battle ended when Thomas took his seat on the court. The Kavanaugh war could escalate if he reaches the same height. Trump’s multifaceted attacks on rule of law and his sprawling corruption, ignored, excused or fully embraced by the Republican Congress, have clarified the stakes for Democrats. It’s no longer just about who gets to run things until the other guys take over. David Frum’s ominous insight, that conservatives forced to choose between democracy and conservatism would choose the latter, is now operationalized in every branch of government.
It will be in Democrats’ political interest to delegitimize a partisan Republican court waging war against a Congress and state governments under Democratic control. When Democrats regain sufficient strength in Washington, Kavanaugh will appear to them as a wounded, vulnerable prey.
Democrats can revisit evidence of his misleading testimony. They can pursue documentary corroboration, among the vast trove to which Republicans denied the Democrats and the public access, to buttress potential claims of perjury. And if Ford is bullied out of her moment now, they can give the alleged victim a belated but still-powerful platform, designed to her specifications.
A public re-vetting of Kavanaugh would take place in a very different context – almost certainly after special counsel Robert Mueller has given an accounting of his investigation into Donald Trump. By the time Kavanaugh’s case would be reopened and relitigated by a Democratic majority, perhaps not until 2021, everything Trump previously touched will likely appear tainted, and suspect.
You can’t expect people to sit on their hands and let the Republicans run things, just because Trump won that election. Democracy means permanent ironfisted control of the government by the Democratic Party. Anything short of that is unacceptable. When the Democrats regain power, they must impeach all the SCOTUS justices not appointed by Obama, and replace them with right-minded liberals who understand the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
#RESIST
They really are willing to burn it all down to get their power back.
My eyes just got burned out from the projection.
“When the Democrats regain power, they must impeach all the SCOTUS justices not appointed by Obama, and replace them with right-minded liberals who understand the Constitution is not a suicide pact.”
When this happens, there will be a lot of us folks using metal detectors to troll the bottom of all those lakes, streams, ponds, and rivers where those boating accidents happened and all the firearms fell over the side.
Do metal detectors work in a body of water? Thinking along the lines of submarine EM-transmission.
You people keep talking about pizza. Now I want pizza.
Damn you all to Hell!
Just go to Chuck Grassley’s office.
Pizza and $15 / hour
Let’s assume for a second that Ford is telling the truth.
We’re talking about a drunken teenage groping incident. Kavanaugh never threatened her, he apparently never repeated it, and he’s led a squeaky clean life since then.
I’m not going to judge a person’s life work based on their high school dumbassery unless it was emblematic of a larger pattern.
These nitwits would be fine with nominating an unapologetic terrorist like Ayers to the Supreme Court if said terrorist met their political requirements.
He committed 3 unforgivable sins. First of all he is a man and secondly he is a Republican and the third is the most unforgivable of all, he was nominated by Trump.
The first two sins are dis-qualifiers. The third sin means, for the protection of all, he should be thrown in solitary confinement for the rest of his life.
“Let’s assume for a second that Ford is telling the truth.”
Here’s my thoughts. It could be true that it happened and still not have been Kavenaugh. 36 years is a long time and as far as we can tell this is the first time she’s ever named anyone with it. And she doesn’t have to be lying, she could be remembering poorly. 36 years is a long time.
I don’t love how she’s letting herself be whored by the Dem establishment and media, and her initially not wanting to testify makes me believe that she doubts the story herself.
A girl assaulted me at work once. It was 20 years ago. I remember what she did and where, but I don’t remember her name.
You’re more charitable than I am at this point. The whole thing screams “cleverly-plotted in advance” to me.
Letting herself?
Beer that tastes like beer? What a queer notion.
Given the current ubiquity of ales with huge flavors, such as barrel-aged stouts and hazy IPAs, many craft drinkers are gravitating back toward simpler, more drinkable beer. In other words, beer that tastes like beer. With that in mind, let’s shine a spotlight within the world of lager—specifically the “Helles.”
Born in 19th century Bavaria to compete with neighboring Bohemia’s immensely popular Pilsner-style lager, Munich’s competing Helles (German for “bright”) was designed for drinkability. The brews were pale gold in color with a frothy white head, packing a bread-y malt sweetness and less of a hop character than found in Pilsners. Despite remaining a popular daily beverage in Bavaria, Helles has been relegated to relative obscurity in the U.S., compared to Pilsner. Recently, however, it has become fashionable among American craft producers to try to recreate the historic Helles style.
Sounds tasty.
Some are good. Some meh. I find them almost too sweet (but then I think Coors tastes sweet). Short’s Brewing has Thirsty Mutilator…
I like a good Helles.
Ooo I’d like to try that. I probably had some when I was a lad in Bayern but don’t remember.
Since we seem to have had a potty fixation the last couple days:
https://mobile.twitter.com/DamCou/status/1042444284195229696
“How the U.S. Senate Became a Campus Kangaroo Court
By RICH LOWRY
September 20, 2018
Christine Blasey Ford deserves a hearing, although at the moment it’s not clear if she really wants one. What she doesn’t deserve is to be believed automatically just because she’s a woman making an accusation.
The problem is that Ford’s accusation doesn’t seem particularly provable—an alleged incident 36 years ago, with few details to check against—and the Democratic-media complex isn’t very interested in proving it. It wants to take Ford’s truthfulness as a given, as matter of cosmic and gender equity.
“I believe the survivor,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal says of Christine Blasey Ford, asserting her status without having any idea whether it’s accurate. The point here is to take rhetorical and political advantage of her alleged victimhood before it’s been established—indeed to use her assumed victimhood to foreclose any serious questioning of whether she is a victim or not.
What we’re seeing, in effect, is the importation of the infamous kangaroo-court apparatus for adjudicating sexual harassment and assault cases from college campuses—which often denies the accused basic protections of due process—to the United States Senate.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/20/brett-kavanaugh-allegation-senate-220520
Nice.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1043342816389132288
“A tale of two tweets”
Best response:
https://mobile.twitter.com/EdwardMSuarez/status/1043344142666014720
Due to the paucity of b-days, let me add one: Hall-of-Famer Bob Lemon. He probably shouldn’t be there (his 38 WAR is well below what a non-reliever should have), but he did win 20 games seven times (although back when that was a regular occurrence, about 7 or 8 pitchers a year).
Ok, but, arguendo, from a free market standpoint what is ethically wrong with a private company choosing to bias its search engine results if they choose to do so? It may be bad business, but as long as they are open about the bias, what’s the big whoop from a libertarian standpoint? Doesn’t it just make room in the market for a conservative-leaning search engine?
In theory,it’s no worse than Salon or the Atlantic publishing left leaning articles, or the Wall Street Journal publishing pro-capitalist content (I assume they still do that). I object to the (self-)deception inherent in their claims of impartiality. In my view, Google News’ story results have a distinctly progressive weighting, these days. I can find more “conservative” editorial voices, if I wish.I agree. It would be better for all around if they were just open about their bias. It would be a small step towards slaying the unicorn of perfect objectivity.
I think at some point they’ll have some real competition and this will be a mute point.
The latest kerfuffle keeps reminding me of this.
In 1984 Violet and Gerald Amerault were convicted of assaulting little children in the Fells Acre Daycare witch hunt. They were accused, among other things, of anally raping a child with a large kitchen knife. There was no physical evidence off any kind. The children were basically shamed into testifying – “All the others say he touched them – are you sure he didn’t touch you?”
18 years later when Gerald was paroled the “victims” were interviewed (by then they were adults) and it was clear they truly believed that the abuse had really happened. In effect the were victims – they’d been abused by the State.
The whole tragedy likely began when Gerald helped a little boy clean himself up after he’d wet himself and reported it to his parents.
WTF?!?
I guess he saved his Get of of Jail card from the Monopoly game.
Replace “air traffic controller” with “cop” and it’s a dog-bites-man story.
Yeah, I saw that. The fact that the victim didn’t show up for the hearing might have made a conviction difficult. So they get a guilty plea, time served, and probation. Still seems like a future rape/murder waiting to happen.
“Justin Schneider, 34, was accused of kidnapping and assaulting the woman on August 15, 2017, strangling her until she lost consciousness and then masturbating on her, court documents show.
Schneider was charged with four felonies, including kidnapping and assault. He pleaded guilty to a single felony assault charge in the second degree in exchange for a sentence of two years with one suspended, plus three years probation. Schneider received credit for time served while wearing an ankle monitor and living with his wife and two children.”
That’s like jail, amirite?
STEVE SAY WTF? BUT ANSWER OWN QUESTION.
I can see not liking planes but some of the other stuff makes this chick sound like a nut job. Interesting that it appears that she may have never mentioned the connection between her phobias and Kavanaugh to anyone until a month ago.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/09/21/christina-blasey-ford-needs-time-drive-across-country-doesnt-like-airplanes/
Yet she interned in Hawaii…
She took a kayak.
Con-Tiki.
With all the other total BS I am being expected to believe about this whole thing I won’t be surprised when they tell me I’m supposed to believe she took a Greyhound to get there.
Dollar to a donut some legion of progs will wave this around as a result of how badly she was de-railed by Kavanaugh assaulting her.
Alt right fake news!
“Trump has elevated growth to 3 percent on an annual rate, and the latest projections are that the growth rate for the second and third quarter (which ends September 30) will be over 4 percent,” Steve Moore explained. “One might say all it took to get the economy really crackling was getting Obama out of office.”
Try not to fuck it up, Twoscoops.
We just got back from vacation and I don’t recall seeing that many trucks on the road in a long time. Some of that could be restocking after the hurricane but I’m guessing a lot of it is the improved economy. Will be interesting to see how Christmas season does.
Checks CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN.
No. No. All of this is because of the policies Obama enacted.
A nasty letter from Ford’s attorney will appear at 2:25, Grassley will schedule the vote for Monday, mass hysteria and much rending of clothes will take place, the vote process will be a complete shitshow, Kavanaugh, who is now forever tainted will take his place on SCOTUS, this will be the center of the Dems campaign ads until November, Team Red will keep the House and Senate, and we’ll never hear about Ford again.
From your lips to God’s ears.
CONSENSUALLY?
God can fend for himself. Also, he was asking for it.
Also, shortly after the election the results of the Democratic investigation of the Keith Ellison spousal abuse will come out and state “Those bitches be lying” and the matter will be settled for all time.
Well, we won’t until her book comes out just in time for 2020 election.
“My Struggle” by whatever the fuck her name is.
You know who else wrote about his struggle…
Karl Ove Knausgård?
Campers who had a run in with STEVE SMITH?
Good God I hate Cathy Young’s voice.
471 views? I hope those guys have real jobs someplace.
Barely tushed it. Bummer. Butt still highly impressive.
I’ll be in my койка.
Oh my. When I die I want to come back as a women’s high jump pole.