Buenos noches Glibs! Tonight, I am the only one left sober. Which I guess is okay because at least in Latin America there is something else to talk about besides allegations of grab ass at a party in the 80s.
Speaking of grab ass–Somebody at CNN pointed out there are technically two Popes, and I assume both would rather tell me I’m going to the hell of my own creation over my antipathy over climate change.
Los partidarios de ambos papas analizan su silencio en términos espirituales, formas de disciplina y fe en que la verdad se revelará, eventualmente. Otros dicen que Benedicto y Francisco son reacios a caer en una pelea de lodo con un exempleado. Algunos se preguntan si también pueden estar en juego estrategias más mundanas, como la autopreservación.
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The supporters of both popes analyze their silence in spiritual terms, forms of discipline and faith in which the truth will be revealed, eventually. Others say that Benedict and Francisco are reluctant to fall into a mud fight with a former employee. Some wonder if more mundane strategies, such as self-preservation, may also be at play.
You think?
Food prices are going up in Argentina, by 33% compared to last year. There is one reason in particular that come to mind, however it doesn’t appear to be mentioned in the article. *cough* socialismo *cough*
At least they do compare to a few neighboring countries, a few of which might have a few differences that jump right out.
En su último informe, de junio de 2017 con datos de abril a mayo, Argentina era el país de América del Sur con mayor tasa de inflación alimentaria: un 1,2%. En el lado opuesto se situó Perú, que presentó un decrecimiento de precios de un 2,1%, de acuerdo con este reporte de la FAO. En Colombia el costo de la canasta básica alimentaria mostró un pequeño aumento de 0,1%.
Por su parte, los datos del Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) de Colombia muestran que, entre agosto de 2017 y 2018, el aumento del Índice de Precios de Consumo (IPC) fue del 3,1%, una subida inferior a la experimentada en el mismo periodo del año anterior.
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In its last report, from June 2017 with data from April to May, Argentina was the country in South America with the highest rate of food inflation: 1.2%. On the opposite side was Peru, which presented a price decrease of 2.1%, according to this FAO report. In Colombia, the cost of the basic food basket showed a small increase of 0.1%.
On the other hand, data from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) of Colombia show that, between August 2017 and 2018, the increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) was 3.1%, an increase lower than the experienced in the same period of the previous year.
You know what? I’ll give AMLO this one.
López Obrador se queda cinco horas atrapado en un vuelo comercial
Tras el incidente, el presidente electo reafirmó su postura de que nunca viajar en el lujoso avión presidencial, “me daría pena”, aseguró_____
López Obrador stays trapped for five hours on a commercial flight
After the incident, the president-elect reaffirmed his position that never travel in the luxurious presidential plane, “I would be sorry,” he said.
Finally! Did your team win? I didn’t bet on mine today and lets just say SAM.BRADFORD.HAPPENS.
Need a suitable tune for Sunday? Escuchen.
Translation services provided by the Alpha Beta Corporation, who totally aren’t in the business of filtering the totality of human knowledge in a manner to suit their political biases. No sir.
“Argentina was the country in South America with the highest rate of food inflation: 1.2%.”
Venezuela’s not in South America?
There’s no food in Venezuela.
*golf clap*
All the pets have been eaten by now..
Awwww……yeah!
Hit that sweet sunday night mother-fkin’ Theme Music !
Excellent choice (especially for a second place finish.)
It was a tie. Look @ the time.
In the interest of maintaining honor and decorum, he DID comment on an article, and I jumped in.
However I provided a ill af Wall Of Voodoo song.
RE: Kavanaugh and the parade of fake allegations.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/ny-times-wants-to-know-about-your-high-school-sex-life.php
Make Orwell fiction again.
Wow. How stupid do you have to be to participate in that?
Men who hate men because they hate themselves and the actions they’ve taken in life. ‘I feel remorse for my aggression and brutishness, and my penance is externalizing blame from the personal: it wasn’t me per se, it’s just that all men are this way.’ Don’t you admire my forthrightness even though I haven’t really taken personal responsibility?
It’s like leftist’s blaming their racist dispositions on media influence (to the extent of mind control, I guess). It’s not me, it’s everyone (or everyone within groups tagged to be scorned).
Then other respondents will be the losers who prop themselves. “No, I was a great guy, I’ve always respected women. Please applaud me.”
Anyone who answers that survey with real info needs to have their head examined.
I would be happy to start a campaign to answer that survey with deliberately fake info, just to mess with their heads.
Better yet, post it on 4Chan and let that collective of autists get to work.
No doubt they’re already on it. I’m not even sure I believe this is real, it’s so stupid. But who can tell any more.
Well, I used to treat women with respect, and I believed they were the equal of men in basically all ways. Later I learned that they merely claim to be as strong and tough as men, but when necessary to support a favored narrative, they expect to be considered helpless damsels who can’t do for themselves and are offended when you act as if they should be able to shrug off a drunken boob grope after thirty-six years.
Yes, in retrospect Lisa was totally sending signals my way in 11th grade, and I regret the fact that I was a dense motherfucker back then and never even tried to hook up with her.
Yeah, this is me whenever I think back on high school.
Then again, I never got VD, so there is that.
I might as well have been blind till as a teenager, youth is wasted on the young
“You know, we really wanted to get by with having just one accuser in order to set a precedent, but we’re getting our ass kicked in the court of public opinion. Let’ｓthrow one more into the mix to save our plan. It’s disappointing that we couldn’t establish a new standard by which a single, uncorroborated accusation could take down an enemy. The least we can do is draw the line at two.”
“She recalled another male student shouting about the incident. “Somebody yelled down the hall, ‘Brett Kavanaugh just put his penis in Debbie’s face,’ ” she said. “It was his full name. I don’t think it was just ‘Brett.’ And I remember hearing and being mortified that this was out there.””
Because that’s exactly how drunken college students talk?
Maybe it was his mom. “Brett Michael Kavanaugh, you get your penis out of that lady’s face right this minute.”
It was Bret Michaels.
“In a statement, two of those male classmates who Ramirez alleged were involved the incident, the wife of a third male student she said was involved, and three other classmates, Dino Ewing, Louisa Garry, and Dan Murphy, disputed Ramirez’s account of events: “We were the people closest to Brett Kavanaugh during his first year at Yale. He was a roommate to some of us, and we spent a great deal of time with him, including in the dorm where this incident allegedly took place. Some of us were also friends with Debbie Ramirez during and after her time at Yale. We can say with confidence that if the incident Debbie alleges ever occurred, we would have seen or heard about it—and we did not. The behavior she describes would be completely out of character for Brett. In addition, some of us knew Debbie long after Yale, and she never described this incident until Brett’s Supreme Court nomination was pending. Editors from the New Yorker contacted some of us because we are the people who would know the truth, and we told them that we never saw or heard about this.””
Notice this is the last paragraph.
Why wouldn’t another woman come forward now? There’s no incentive against false allegations (at least not for the people putting the woman forward). Kind of surprised it took this long, but, then again, this might be a new, effective strategy. Wait until it looks like you’re going down in flames and then go to the bench and put in your back up quarterback.
I suspect they are not coming forward in so much as they had all previously lined up to tell the democrats to use them, were dismissed because they were obviously lying shits, but now, in an act of desperation, the democrats are throwing them under the bus hoping they can somehow delay this vote. As I said before: this is an attack on our country by people that have decided to burn the fucking country down if they can’t get their way.
Are you surprised that they script their college student characters to talk like elementary school children, given that they’ve been working to turn college into adult day care?
And when was it the case that college was not?
Well then he yelled out “Eff you bitch, I’m Brett Kavanaugh! I’m gonna be on the Supreme Court one day! What’re you gonna do about it!”
I feel a bout of ebony fever coming on.
http://archive.is/dOwi4
1, 8, 12, 19 (for the DSL), 29, 46.
25 is the clear winner though.
#10, in case anyone isnt clear on what THICC is
Gah! It’s all fun and games until those things scissor your head off.
12, 28, 49
Well, given that I’m a racist, bigoted, mysogonistic, xenophobe, none of them. Except for 9, 12, 23, 28 and 56.
Let’s get to what’s important. Has Brett Kavanaugh assaulted any of them?
More to the point: which of them didn’t he assault?
He’s a white male and Republican. What sort of stupid question is this?
The Stupid Party is going to cave. This is a very important moment in history. This means that a Republican President will never again be able to nominate an originalist. If all it takes to torpedo a nominee is to fabricate accusations from 3.5 decades ago that don’t just lack evidence, but have a significant amount of evidence *against* them, we’ve moved into a new era of dirty politics.
I don’t want to commit an Availability Fallacy here, but I’m hard pressed to think of something comparable, at this high of a level in the past 100+ years. Sure, localities like Chicago have been this dirty for decades. But the Supreme Court Chicago ain’t.
They better fucking not.
The Left is fundamentally evil. Not enough people understand it.
They are stupid and craven – and would really prefer to be the minority party – but I don’t think they are that stupid. It would cost them far more than just the next election.
They want to see what happens when they go the craven route and consign themselves – through their own cowardice – to permanent minority party status; it is called California. Of all Republicans, I despise California Republicans the most.
Why stop at originalists nominated for the Supreme Court?
The National Broadcaster did a hit piece on Canadian Libertarian shit disturber Maxime Bernier; myself and some others did our level best to set some shit straight with the journo in question.
https://twitter.com/wendymesleycbc/status/1043928033852346369?s=21
Seems like some are challenging the counter-narrative?
I didn’t know there could be a less credible accusation than the first, but I was proven wrong.
“I was smoking mushrooms in dark cave, when Urthona exposed his penis at me. I couldn’t see it, but I could smell vinegar and dill. If you don’t believe me, just ask Lou Reed and David Bowie, because they were both there.”
We both know that happened.
You saying the relationship was Platonic?
*golf clap*
“BREAKING: Kavanaugh statement on new allegation from 53-year-old Deborah Ramirez.”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1044014494773469185
Good. Fuck this. Do NOT give in.
This is what happens when you have all the talking heads on TV that are “defending” Kavanaugh saying, “I’m not saying Ford is lying. She seems like a fine lady, but…”
No. “I think she made it all up for political reasons. Here’s why…” How hard would that have been?
This really bugs the shit out of me too. Stop being civil. I have already seen 5 Democrats label people “rape apologists” for defending Kavanaugh. Fuck these assholes.
Republicans are spineless and won’t take a stand on this. Nothing but a bunch of worthless squishes who seem to be trying to lose.
Who didn’t see this coming? The first one wasn’t working out so another piled on. I don’t like but he’s through.
They needed to throw something else out there before people fully figured out how full of shit accuser #1 is.
The whole point is to try and stall this until it becomes food for the mid-terms. Anything that goes into mid-october will linger in its political resonance.
But will it will it really linger in the Democrats favor? Most polled people think the accuser is lying.
I didn’t vote Republican in the last election, but I am pissed. I totally will now.
Remember: Democrats are also really stupid. Will this really work out in their favor?
I don’t know.
I don’t think so. I agree w/ you, and i’ve seen same polls.
But my general opinion is also that opinion polling is dogshit, and that turnout is everything, and there are really just a handful of local-elections that ‘matter’, and anything they can do to prolong the process, and potentially draw attention to the ‘target’ politicians they’re trying to unseat? the better for them to motivate the old-fogies and partisan-whackjobs who are the types who vote most-often in mid-terms.
I think their motivation is really that “any publicity is good publicity” and that simply hammering this gives the media something to jaw about in their favor.
I mean seriously, the accuser’s “legal teams” include the entire editorial boards of the NYT, WaPo, CNN, all the networks, etc.
There was more credible evidence in the Obama Birther story than this
The Jacket has a sad.
He avoided calling the previous accusation a lie. So glad to see him outright call this one a smear.
Twitter is a cesspit but at lest James Woods is occasionally entertaining:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-22/james-woods-suspended-twitter-over-satirical-meme-could-impact-election
Whoops, maybe not, he just got banned-the old stuff’s up but it looks like he’s done.
Even telling people it’s a parody isn’t enough for some people to tell if something is a parody. Ugh.
Those people shouldn’t be voting anyway.
Something is wrong at Zerohedge. I scrolled through dozens of comments without finding something anti-semitic.
“text and imagery that has the potential to be misleading in a way that could impact an election”
That describes half the blue checkmarks on Twitter.
Next up:
Kavanaugh allegedly naked at Saybrooke strip!!!!!!
Inneresting little blog piece:
Should Libertarians Support Private Prisons?
Bonus: he misspells Robby’s name
Based on this alone I’m going to say private prisons are better.
But seriously, of there is one area the state could have a legitimate purpose it is in meting out justice, which could include running the prisons themselves. I do like the recidivism based payment scheme, wonder what the results were as it sounds like that was 2 years ago or so.
I’m against private prisons because profit is an incentive to incarcerate more people.
This is true and I wouldn’t defend private prisons. But there are also very perverse incentives for government agents to want more people incarcerated even if its just in plain old public prisons.
I guess you’re not allowed to behave like you’re in college anymore. This new rule is retroactive going back 35 years.
The lack of forgiveness or redemption is the key plank of the identity politics/social justice religion.
At this point I really don’t care about whether the Kavinaugh shit is true, I’m now just wondering can no one atone for their past misdeeds? If you got drunk at 15 an grabbed a girls tit but spent the next 70 years of your life literally saving junkies and walking grandmas across the street are you still an EVIL RAPIST!?
Only if you oppose TEAM BLUE.
Nope. They’re like tigers that taste human meat even once. Gotta be put down.
Next up, ancestral sin.
Not next up, remember this?
I do.
Because the fact that it obviously isn’t even true is what makes me the most angry, personally.
That’s another issue you’re pointing out.
Hmmm I wonder why?
https://mobile.twitter.com/bostonglobe/status/1005621880236249091?lang=en
That’s a tough one. Give me some time to figure it out.
*hands Chafed application forms for government grant*
Next Kav allegation
Another vague drunken accusation from more than three decades ago which was spoken of to absolutely no one and completely denied by the supposed “witnesses” named. Sounds legit.
We can’t let him face his accuser. He’ll stick dick in her face again.
Cheney has been out of office for 10 years, let it go.
And required six days of ‘consultation with attorneys” to figure out.
good lord, could it BE more fake? But it’s just what the squishes need, and will vote no, and it’s done.
“But it’s just what the squishes need, and will vote no, and it’s done.”
Yep, he’s done. So’s the next nominee if he/she’s more conservative than the left likes.
Conservative? I think you’re being too kind to Kavinaugh. I think you mean not a shreiking leftist.
I went to McMartin Preschool. Probably the same attorneys.
Thats the part that sticks out to me as well. No one needs to do that unless they’re asking them what can be done to protect oneself from perjury charges.
You mean no one needs that unless they are afraid they will be gang raped by Tump and Kavinaugh on the senate floor, which is the reality women face everyday.
Fake news! They are much safer there than they are on college campuses.
The Left is teaching girls that they can destroy boys with a word – at any age. This shit is now totally out of hand and is going to get worse.
Opinion pieces are like assholes, they get drunk and rape everyone.
I figured they get raped by drunken Republicans.
Thanks, Drake. That was a very good (i.e. sobering, depressing, horrific) read.
It was. “The War Against Boys” is an excellent book.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/05/the-war-against-boys/304659/
It was published 18 years ago, and things have only got worse since.
Does it make me a terrible person to hope that these girls grow up to marry alcoholic wife beaters?
As if you couldn’t get anymore stench on this:
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/09/23/michael-avenatti-says-he-has-another-kavanaugh-accuser-not-deborah-ramirez-demands-opportunity-to-present-testimony/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
Let’s just start the civil war already.
Agreed.
Why won’t you be courteous enough to allow them to disarm us first!?
We don’t need no civil war.
So this new accuser just happens to retain a lawyer that is already going after Trump. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I thought his name looked familiar. The guy is a shitshow, the woman’s credibility got lowered just by being associated with the scumbag.
Okay, since the dam has broken, it’s time for me to tell my story.
Brett Kavanaugh fondled my genitals in elementary school. I told him to stop, but he was drunk. I mean yeah, it was in third grade and we were on the playground, but he had serious problems, even back then.
I said, “Brett Kavanaugh, please stop fondling my genitals”, but he wouldn’t stop. It wasn’t until the bell rang to go back to class that he stopped. That was the longest ten minutes of my life.
I was too traumatized to tell anyone and very embarrassed. From that point on, anytime someone fondled my genitals, my thoughts went back to that dark day on the playground.
Well yeah, I was in California and he was in Maryland when we were in elementary school, but I have vague recollections that tell me it’s true.
You are now the most credible witness against Kavanaugh.
If you identify as a woman, I believe you.
No, I’m a straight male. Nobody knows this, but when Brett Lavanaugh is drunk, he’s bisexual.
Seems legit.
I heard that he touched your butthole.
Maybe a DNC lawyer can help you recover the memory. I mean, how could you forget something so erotic?
You seem to have fixation on buttholes what with the Chipotle/Taco Bell thing. Did Brett Kavinaugh touch your butthole 80 years ago? if so you can get a large settlement from the federal government. Respond with a self addressed envelope to learn more.
I once saw Kavanaugh pull a dead body out if his trunk and throw it in the Mississipi River back in the 70s. Or maybe it was the Ohio River in the 80s? The important thing is that it for sure happened and I relive it every night in my nightmares in vivid detail except for which river and which decade. Plus his penis was out at the time which traumatized me. ‘Cause seeing a penis is terrifying.
Was his penis smaller than average with a head like a mushroom?
It was either really small like a thimble or very large like a baseball bat. I remember it like it was yesterday.
After meeting with various members of the DNC and receiving a sizable cash payment, I remember something very similar. But when I testify, Kavanaugh is only allowed to respond in Middle English translations of Air Supply lyrics.
They can’t pay you cash just like that. They need to launder it through a book deal.
Strangely, it doesn’t not fit.
Or maybe it was the Nantucket Sound in the 60s? Time does fly.
The Nantucket Sound sounds like a WNBA team. Make of that what you will.
They’re all lesbians?
Uhhhhh…….Detroit. I mean….Detroit. You know…..Detroit…..they’re +13 over New England
Am I living in some alternate universe ?
I’m not surprised. The Patriots suck. After Belicheck coached the Superbowl like a petty fucking asshole and cost the team rings – lot’s of talent headed for the door. The hometown discount he was getting for talent like Nate Solder was in return for championships. That’s all over now. I’ve lost most of my interest in the NFL and am watching the Red Sox / Indians game right now.
I get all that, and why they suck this year. But I would expect a dime-store, second-rate NE team to be far better still than, you know…..Detroit
Without looking it up – name an offensive or defensive lineman (other than Tight End) on the Patriots.
Point taken.
Marcus Cannon. Guy had cancer and fell to the fifth round, but was a first or second round talent.
Yep – the only one I could name off the top of my head too – and it has nothing to do with his talent as an O-lineman.
I stopped caring about the Patriots. Last month I changed the cable package and can now watch all the Euro soccer matches on the weekends. Finally I don’t need to rely on anyone else’s opinion to know that Lionel Messi is the best.
I can guarantee that the list of things replacing the NFL on Sunday afternoon does not include watching soccer.
#ImWithHim
Philistines.
For two straight weeks, the Pats are getting beat to shit at the line of scrimmage.
Was going to go with Reese describing the Terminator, but this works better. This stuff ain’t stopping until the country tells them to fuck off.
Note to self: keep calendars from 1982.
I went to college in the 80’s. If you asked me about a specific party on a specific night, there’s little chance I would remember it at all.
And if some dudes penis came out during a drinking game and some chick inadvertently touched it, everyone would be laughing their asses off, especially the women, and especially the one who touched it. And nothing else would happen. Ah, the goid ole days when men were men and women were fun.
The Lacrosse team used to get drunk and do the elephant walk.
You monster. Fuck you.
Now I have this song stuck in my head.
Oh, This is the song that came to my mind.
Now just imagine it with a bunch of guy with their pants down.
Agreed, I was in college from 1978-1982. I remember going to parties. Sometimes we played quarters or liar’s dice. People played the AC/DC album “Back in Black” on the stereos too much. That’s about the extent of what I recall.
Who keeps a calendar from 35 years ago listing their HS activities? I mean that is a little strange.
I wouldn’t care if the calendar is fake. The accusations are fake so fight fire with fire.
Watch ebay prices on vintage desk diaries spike.
Parents?
moms.
They keep everything.
My mom started including bits of our pasts in with Christmas and birthday cards. She puts ornaments we made in kindergarden on her Christmas tree to this day. And she has great-grandchildren now.
That’ll make constructing the accusations easier. Much obliged!
That alone tells me he’s innocent. That’s full on nerd, right there.
“We’ve got bush, we’ve got bush!”
+1 booger
Christ Almighty.
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044006928416825344
You have seriously jumped the shark when porno lawyer is leaping into the fray. This is a major gut check for the Senate Stupids; if they let this shit work, they are well on the way to becoming CaliPublicans.
Shit. Playa beat me to it. Oops.
He left off “Pompous Asshole”.
How nature says “do not touch”
The plot twist here is that he’s talking about Stormy. Trump and Kavanaugh are secretly penis brothers and that’s why he was really nominated and Trump is sticking by him. Not because Trump thinks the accusations are bullshit like most people with common sense. But because he knows the accusations are true and they’re kindred shitlord spirits who have a special connections. With their penises.
Does the media or the democrats think that they’re doing women any favors by all of this? They may help accelerate the perfection of robot women.
They don’t care about women.
Truth.
Today I learned that sexual assault is trivial, and should only be brought to light if it can be used as a political weapon.
Stop Using Sex as a Weapon!
/sung by Pat Benatar in 1985, clearly upset with what she remembered from 1982
So… Kav has a Toad-look-alike dick?
If they join together their power becomes invincible.
Wonder Twin powers activate!
FORM OF……SCOTUS !
Like Voltron?
Stormy getting spit roasted by Donnie Two Scoops and Predator Brett. I sense a new H&H episode…
Get ahead of the curve CPRM, make it an even dozen accusers.
Now I wish I were a better animator; I would make the next episode take place in a harem with donny 2 scoops and kavinaugh having a plain ordinary conversation while there was an orgy going on in the background…
57, like in The Manchurian Candidate
He has followers? Who follows people like that?
It’s sad that the Breitbart comments section is the most sane of all the “news” sites regarding this Kavanaugh mess.
Yikes
As I’ve said many several times before: Breitbart is unashamedly biased, but they are one of the few outlets doing real journalism.
Selected Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals’, as they would pertain to Kavanaugh (IMO):
#1 Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have
#5 Ridicule is Man’s most potent weapon
#6 A good tactic is one your people enjoy
#8 Keep the pressure on
#12 The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative
Many people hate Saul Alinsky and think he was evil. While true, the Stupids are only living up to their name to not *at least* understand these rules and, even better, use them against the Evils.
Exactly that.
I wonder if the best tactic going forward with these sorts of accusations isn’t to immediately take legal action. I mean, even if it doesn’t go anywhere in court, it’s probably the most effective way to at least contest the PR battle.
Right?
What’s preventing Kavanaugh from filing a defamation suit ?
I wonder what the dollar amount for ‘pain and suffering’ is for not getting on SCOTUS. This could prove more lucrative to him.
You assume these people have any money.
If it were me, and my shot at having a seat on SCOTUS got de-railed, it wouldnt be about how much money she had. It would be about how much money could I get, then prevent her from ever having in the future.
Strictly a punitive dick-move, but if thats what cost me a job like that? She’d be seeing wage-garnishment until she was dead.
Don’t get me wrong, he should definetely sue for defamation. I just wouldn’t expect a big payday out of it.
Twofold:
1. The optics. Kavanaugh and the GOP have tiptoed around even calling Ford a liar. Instead simply saying she may be mistaken. They believe that attacking the accuser is going to play poorly. War on womenz
2. She consulted with a lawyer precisely to prevent that. So she can sit there and claim her memories are hazy from drinking. There’s no way to prove she lied maliciously. While I’m not an expert on this matter by any means, the standard of proof is high. You lose, and plenty in the media would claim it adds credibility to the accusation.
3. A lengthy court battle is something few people want to get involved in. They don’t want these accusations hashed out in the public eye over and over. I’d guess this would be worse for a guy looking to get on the Supreme Court.
But I still think it’s the only real strategy to fight back against these fuckers. You’re going to get attacked and treated as if you are guilty by the media. Most people like to think that if wrongly accused, they’d be pretty vehement in their denials. A legal counterattack is the only real weapon you have.
The process is the punishment.
It’s not hypocrisy because she is lying!
As I pointed out earlier- Ellison is losing his mind over calling his accuser a liar, very publicly. And while she could be, she seems to have better documentation than either of Kavanaugh’s accusers.
Not a peep out of the media, tho.
Also….why are these things always aired out publicly, and in the media, before anyone has even bothered to call the cops and make a valid criminal complaint ?
To be sure, the
Reason has taken the position from the get go, in each article, that Ford is credible. No one there has explained exactly why they think its credible. But here’s Robby actually saying that this claim is even less so.
But its two and that makes it like a pattern.
Well, a pattern of Democrats grasping at straws is a pattern.
Well, Reason is a progressive/DNC publication so it’s not surprising.
No one there has explained anything for quite a while. They each have their schtick and Trump is bad, Mkay. Please like them?! They are that kid always saying he’s going to kill himself but never does.
well, consistency _can_ be an indicator of quality….
As long as we’re taking positions on credibility….
Yeah…. someone who pursues a doctorate in psychology is TOTALLY credible. She totally didn’t do it to try and fix herself.
And…. Palo Alto University TOTALLY isn’t trying to piggyback on Stanford’s reputation. Nope. Not at all.
Let’s be fair, she doesn’t do clinical psych, she’s a psychometrician.
She “surfs” in an SF Giants jersey.
QED
I concede.
I’m not sure the Chiefs would have won if the 49ers had kept their penalties under control. KC defense may not have sucked today as badly as it has been, but they still allowed too many points. Sadly, the 49ers QB tore his ACL. Ouchie.
Well, if they don’t sign Kaepnick now they most assuredly racist and probably rapists as well.
It’s okay. If they need to outscore people, Patrick Maholmes will do it. He’s making it look easy.
I felt bad for Alex Smith – this seems to always happen to him – but it’s clear the Chiefs knew what they were doing.
They always called Smith a game manager (with disdain). Even though Smith really started to throw after Mahomes was drafted (“The quarterback in your mirror is closer than he appears.”) and did it well, I didn’t truly grok what “game manager” meant or why that was a bad thing till I watched Mahomes work this magic play after play.
Smith has been snakebit his whole career.
1) He didn’t draft himself ahead of Aaron Rodgers
2) In SF, he had to work under a new offensive coordinator every year for the first 6 years of his career
3) Lost his job to injury, never got it back
4) Plays very good football to bring KC back to playoff form, gets shown the door anyway because, well, can’t blame them
Smith’s had a good career; it really could have gone a lot better.
I thought he was getting an MRI tomorrow for his knee?
Which makes sense since they have to let the swelling down – I assume there was some of that.
I heard torn ACL. I assumed they had good clinical evidence and would correlate with MRI tomorrow.
*Ramirez is a registered Democrat who “works toward human rights, social justice, and social change.” But she told The New Yorker she wasn’t motivated by politics.”
She wasn’t motivated by politics. She was compelled by politics.
Those things are universal values, not leftwing causes.
This Kavanaugh stuff is all appropriate retaliation. We all remember the bitter fights the Republicans put up over Sotomayor and Kagan.
Sotomayor was overruled by the Supreme Court the year before she was nominated.
If you want to talk about disqualifiers, here’s a good starting point.
Has anyone else noticed that as more time passes, the more certainty the media adds to Ford’s accounts? She doesn’t remember what year the attack took place in/how old she was. But that doesn’t stop the media from definitively stating, as Farrow did today (is that guy a one trick pony or what?), that was 15 and it happened in 1982. They’re filling in the details where she shouldn’t.
So Kavanaugh can provide all the fucking calendars he wants and it won’t refute shit. All the while assholes like Farrow can gloss over the complete lack of details around the allegation (while simultaneously getting friends to attribute any odd behavior to supposed trauma suffered at the hands of Kavanaugh).
But the FBI – they’d be able to suss this out!
The level of double think involved on the part of those reporting is astounding. From the Facebook post on how there was “buzz” about an incident between students of the two schools which completely contradicts Fords actual story to the above…we need to investigate even though it’s not expected that anyone besides Kavanaugh, Ford, and Judge would even know this took place…
I’ve watched this about 500 times in a row now, and I’m not stopping.
I was disappointed that it wasnt a fish in bed with a dude.
You let me down.
Meh, call me when it grabs its crotch.
#GrabsItsOwnPussy
That’s up there, for sure
Zebras.
I don’t get it.
Don’t draw attention to the fact the other zebra that is closer to the lion is a rapist and maybe the lion will eat him instead of you. Best I’ve got.
I believe the point is along the line of the boy who cried wolf.
Tigers don’t hunt zebras… because tigers don’t live in Africa.
Well, it, uhh… it probably escaped from a zoo.
They do, only in Kenya.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPtBnhehPOU
I’m getting the feeling that the Dems may have overplayed their hand here with this new accuser that even many left wing reporters are calling unlikely on Twitter.
They risk casting a shadow on their star (Ford) with patently absurd accusations (Ramirez et. al.). Of course, this all depends on if the Stupids aren’t stupid which is unlikely.
K called it a “smear”. Sounds like they’re fighting back to me.
It certainly sounds like he is. We’ll see if the rest of the team gets on board.
Game over, postgame handshake time…Belichick took an extra second or two than usual (presumably because former assistant), then walked away like he just received the greatest humiliation of his life.
Tell you what, gracious losers lose more often than sore losers. It may not be admirable, but sore losers win more.
I think Belichick suffers from incurable impotence. He sublimates all his frustration to football.
OT: Has anyone ever worked front desk at a hotel? I see a job listing for a 3rd shift desk clerk at a local hotel. It sounds like exactly what I want – a low-stress job where you do some menial tasks between long periods of sitting around doing nothing. Is that accurate? I live in a small-medium sized town in Ohio; it’s not like this is the NYC Hilton or something.
I’ve never done it but I’m guessing that’s the shift responsible for getting the suicides cleaned up.
Yeah, and dealing with all the guys doing the old “kill the hooker and hide her under the bed and pretend you found her there to get a free room” scam.
Heh, I actually did think about a career in crime/trauma scene decontamination. But I don’t think I would like a job that has you on call 24/7 (as most of those services do).
Work-life balance – leaning heavily towards “life” – is the most important thing for me right now, and I don’t think that line of work has much to offer in that area.
I know a girl who did it through college. Said it was mostly low-maintenance work with a lot of downtime for studying.
Have to be careful of shenanigans, though.
That sounds great. I’m trying to prepare for a “real” career as a freelance copywriter, and something that would give me time to read copywriting books or do actual writing would be excellent.
I’ve worked that job at 4 different places. I hated every minute of it – especially the overnight position (which I did to varying degrees at all of them). The one exception is if you have someone there with you but at most smaller hotels you’re all alone. That means you (a) have to deal with all the crazies yourself, (b) have to fix everything that goes wrong if you can or deal with the public shouting at you if you can’t, and (c) go batshit insane with boredom. In my case – and I know this doesn’t apply to everyone – (a) and (c) interacted in a nasty way that left me constantly on edge waiting for the next crazy and/or violent person to walk through the door.
Long story short, I would seriously reconsider.
I honestly think my strong point is dealing with boredom. I’m great at totally zoning out; I could stare at a wall for 12 hours if you paid me.
The crazies do sound like a pain in the ass… This job sounds like some position where you just check people in and out and dispatch the maintenance/cleaning staff if there’s some issue.
I do deal with people shouting at me on the phone right now (medical billing) so I guess it might not be that different.
Unless it has more than a couple hundred rooms, you’re the maintenance and cleaning staff.
I really hate interacting with the public – if you’re OK with that, you’ve won half the battle I guess.
Wasn’t a hotel, but I did 3rd shift work for the dormitory when I was in uni. 95% Japanese students, so I simply had to walk around the dorm once an hour and ask them to turn down the volume on Street Fighter. I read about 15 books a month when I had that job.
Sounds like a fucking dream come true for me.
Here’s what baffles me: People ask me how work is, and I tell them that I hate it because there’s way too much overtime and stress. I tell them that I want a job that requires less involvement – something where you just do some simple tasks, go home, and forget about it until your next shift. The advice I always get is “go back to college and get a better job”. Given what I’ve told them about my career preferences, why do people think that taking on more responsibilities and bigger responsibilities would make me happier??
I gotta say, the folks at the universities have performed one of the greatest feats in the history of marketing by convincing people that their product is the only possible way to have a good life.
Either the job gives you freedom or it pays well. Good luck. If you get skilled, hopefully you can get both.
Just front desk clerk, or night auditor and other functions?
Maybe not lucrative enough in a smaller town, but maybe driving Uber/Lyft?
I’d think that would be more interesting and also low-stress/menial.
You’d also stand a better chance at getting laid with drunk girls and then accused of sexual assault.
Yeah but sexual assault will be legal once the Kavmeister is on the SC, so no big deal there.
So, a little dog got excited Today, She had a Seizure, not the first, now She’s chillin’
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pxQXExTupNFpeWEU6
50 Lbs of Hell,
Cute pup.
I keep calling Her that, it doesn’t Work
https://archive.is/YvBde/6eb14da44152d489b12552d7db61bf3af001f0b4
https://archive.is/YvBde/b1264981e2df9055a8871902ae242ac793b90ae5
https://archive.is/YvBde/c289b912b1877825e88f4f1a3cf838ff3f363f6c
Dog had a seizure? Here’s some boobs.
The answer to all problems.
And the source of many of them.
I just saw an Acura ad in which the soundtrack was Motorhead’s cover of Sympathy for the Devil. I… I… don’t know what to think.
Duh, buy an Acura.
OT:
I stopped watching Doctor Who a while back.
I just found out that girl Doctor hasn’t even started yet. Then I looked it up and it turns out they only announced girl Doctor last year. I swear I thought they announced her like 5 years ago and she’d already done 3 seasons.
Doctor Who ended in 1989. Sadly it’s never been resurrected.
It starts October 7?
Jeebus glibs. I have been tied up with work and what not for a week or so.
Cody Wilson is the victim.
The Cavanaugh sexual assault allegations are bullshit.
My fucking property taxes are due and I have a 2002 dodge neon I’m willing to sell to anyone who is willing to give me the money to pay them.
My wife is about ready to pop child #2 and I have anxiety aboit how to lay the medical Bill’s that will follow.
Life is good.
My brother is complaining that this whole Kavanaugh thing is causing him to hate women. Personally, it’s causing me to love some women even more.
It just makes me hate Left Wing activist women and liars. There seems to be a fair amount of overlap.
I am a married man with no inclination towards infidelity. This insulates me from the #metoo hysteria.
I’m glad I reached this status before male/female relationships got political
Luckily, my looks, age and income doesn’t result in pussy just falling in my lap.
You ought to see me straffin.
I’m a big good looking dude who has a good income in an ecocomically depressed part of the country.
If I wasnt married, I’d be prime #metoo fodder.
Sort of like another known rapist, Brett Kavanaugh.
You’re correct.
I’d be fucked if ever appointed to the supreme court.
I’m insulated by the fact that I was a high sc
Jeez….cont. ..a high school outcast who girls never talked to.
You also work in a heavily male profession which is good. Just make sure you never find yourself in a room alone with whatever few women may work with you.
Or get in the way of a fast tracker.
HAHAHAHA!
Last time I worked is a place with a significant number of female employees, I was constantly hit on by a cute girl who ran a stator winding machine.
She got to me and and is now my wife of eight eight years and mother of my children.
After marrying her, I went straight to heavy industry. No chance of meeting any more cute women at work there.
Isn’t there someone here whose philosophy is that there’s a Simpsons quote for everything?
Of course, at the time, the left leaning creators were mocking Republicans for going after Clinton.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftQNuv_MsjY
The Devil Went Down to Georgia https://g.co/kgs/oNn64W
My son heard this for the first time today. Great fiddle playing.
New York Magazine is a totally serious publication!
https://twitter.com/frankrichny/status/1044028302002872320
That’s rich.
“Brett Kavanaugh must also be asked about this entry in his yearbook: “FFFFFFFourth of July.” We believe that this stands for: Find them, French them, Feel them, Finger them, F*ck them, Forget them. As well as the term “Devil’s Triangle.” Perhaps Sen. Grassley can ask him. #Basta”
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044056219084828672
Dude has a mouse in his pocket?
I have to believe that the responses to that are bots to keep from killing myself.
FFFFFFFFF SAKES.
Yep. They’re parsing fucking yearbooks now?
This is the alleged “serious” party that represents sober government instead of the madman Trump.
“And as you can see here, if you take the words ‘Have a nice summer’, rearrange the letters, and run them through a simple cryptographic algorithm, you get the words ‘I am an attempted rapist’.”
Wait, is he being sarcastic?
Nope, serious as a heart attack
If the U.S. had an NKVD, cody Wilson would go down in the same way.
OT: A rant about college (tangentially related to my career woes expressed above)
I hate that they’re still telling every child in America that they MUST go to college or else they’ll die in a gutter. It’s not 1960; a college degree is no longer the magic ticket to a wonderful job that it once was. There’s a saturation of degrees in the job market, and that means that you have to do increasingly more college just to get your foot in the door of certain industries. My brother got an associate’s degree in software development and found that no employer gave a shit about it since everyone had a bachelor’s or better. Now, partway through his bachelor’s program, he has done some more research and thinks that he might have to go for a master’s to land any kind of decent job.
And the Internet has opened up opportunities that never existed before, most notably in the gig economy and online freelancing.
It’s like if they told every schoolkid that they have to buy stock. All of senior year was spent showing them how to sign up for E-Trade accounts and read stock tickers. If any child said that he didn’t want to buy stock right away, he would be hauled into the guidance counselor’s office and given a stern lecture about how important it is to buy stock. Children were treated to presentations with fancy bar graphs showing how stock owners have more income on average. And if any kid went on to buy stock and later failed, everyone just told him to buy more stock. No one would give any hearing to the notion that perhaps buying stock is not always the best idea.
Tl;dr: “Go to college” is the right choice for some people, but it is completely spoiled by its incompleteness.
FWIW.
I neglected college. Instead I learned electricity and controls.
FWIW I’m way better off than most the guys I graduate high school with.
Excess schooling will end up making the population less productive over time. Schools are essentially babysitting children rather than teaching useful skills. I felt like highschool was a waste of 4 years. I could have gone straight to college after 8th grade with little difference than going after 12th grade.
#MeToo
Several decades ago, a 2-year degree would give you a reasonable chance at landing an awesome career. Now, it’s just the new high school diploma – it’s just the baseline; it won’t really get you ahead of the competition, but not having one will be a serious red flag. Now with this “every single person must go to college” push, the 4-year degree is headed the same way.
I don’t get what benefit people think there is to creating a situation where people have to be in school until they’re 25 or 26 just to have a chance at a career. And of course, this longer time in school doesn’t mean they’re learning more – the curricula have been dumbed down to accommodate everyone and cover up some potentially embarrassing “disparities”.
It frustrates me that you spend 13 years in k-12 education and you’re not qualified for the vast majority of jobs on the market. You wasted 13 years of your life not learning much and not learning marketable skills.
Exactly.
But people are going to freak the fuck out if you suggest that maybe K-12 should not be compulsory.
If schooling were optional, the kids who are destined to dig ditches will go and dig ditches instead of wasting several years learning shit that they’ll never use in life.
And since K-12 would be relieved of the burden of loafers and troublemakers, it would probably move along faster, meaning that kids who want a professional career could probably start college at age 16 and graduate by 24.
It’s all about profits for teacher’s unions so that they can funnel that money to the Democrat Party.
My degree opened doors that would’ve been closed otherwise. And that is all it did. Total waste of time and energy.
Tomiuri advice column today:
Husband won’t show me his pay stub
I’m a woman in her 70’s and I’m writing about my husband. We’ve been married 45 years and have 2 kids and 2 grandkids.
When my husband gets paid he takes out his allowance first. He takes out advances on his salary from the company and in total uses 700~800 bucks a month.
He has been using his allowance only on himself for decades. When I asked him why he took out advances on his salary he said, “Uh, I dropped money somewhere” or, “Accounting made a mistake so I don’t have a pay stub”. Both of these are clearly lies.
I don’t want to have a lot of money. I’m just angry that he lies and takes advances without telling me. I told him that I don’t want to live with him and handed him divorce papers. “You can’t divorce me. What do you think you are, a celebrity or something?”, he said and ripped up the papers. I need some good advice. Thank you.
M子 in Osaka.
Not to worry, mostly like he’ll be dead soon and you won’t have to worry about paychecks anymore.