Well Tiger ended his losing streak. And I have to say that he might actually win another major now, although the window of opportunity is still small. Your NFL winners were: Detroit (what’s wrong with New England?), Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles (Rams), New York (Giants), Balmer, Tennessee, Washington, Philly, Buffalo, Miami, Kansas City, and Nawlins. The Stillers play the Bucs tonight.
In college, Va Tech shit the bed, Oklahoma almost did. Texas got off the schneid and Ohio State is preparing to take on Penn State in the white out this weekend with Urban Meyer back at the helm. The Astros clinched a playoff spot and the A’s all but have as well. The AL is practically set for the postseason and the NL isn’t far behind, although Colorado is trying to hang in there.
Today’s famous birthdays include: Western Samurai William Adams, Chief Justice John Marshall, blues man Blind Lemon Jefferson, writer F Scott Fitzgerald, religious sociopath Ayatollah Khomeini, muppet man Jim Henson, cancer victim Linda McCartney, “Mean” Joe Greene, murder victim (thanks a lot Andy Dick, you asshole)) Phil Hartman, and bassist Sean McNabb.
It was also the day on which the following happened: Columbus set sail on his second voyage. The Ottomans set siege on Vienna, John Jay was nominated to be the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Honda Motor Company was founded, so was Kentucky Fried Chicken, President Eisenhower had a heart attack while on vacation, the first nuclear aircraft carrier was launched, “The Munsters” premiered, CompuServe began operations, West Germany signed the reunification treaty, Mahmoud Amadenijad spoke at Columbia University (but antifa didn’t deem it as worthy of riots as a Milo or Amy Coulter speech). And “The Big Bang Theory” premiered (and may God have mercy on your soul if you watch it).
That’s it for all that. Now on to…the links!
Wait a second, are people actually calling this a credible claim against Kavanaugh? Let’s see what she has to say (emphasis mine):
For Ramirez, the sudden attention has been unwelcome, and prompted difficult choices. She was at first hesitant to speak publicly, partly because her memories contained gaps because she had been drinking at the time of the alleged incident. In her initial conversations with The New Yorker, she was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh’s role in the alleged incident with certainty. After six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney, Ramirez said that she felt confident enough of her recollections to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away. Ramirez is now calling for the F.B.I. to investigate Kavanaugh’s role in the incident. “I would think an F.B.I. investigation would be warranted,” she said.
Yeah, seems legit.
Well, I’ll excuse you if you read the headline and think “not another Hillary article!” Well, you’d be wrong!
Switzerland voters in one province overwhelmingly affirm their hate for Cousin It, among other things. Over 2/3 of the voters. Wow.
Bill Cosby set to be sentenced today for three counts of sexual assault. I bet he gets six months to a year.
Nothing like a government manipulating the market in order for housing to be affordable for all. (That same home in Houston would probably cost $30-40k in average shape, or $60k with a complete remodel.)
You want to know whether or not public school systems place the kids first? Well, here’s Exhibit A for them not doing so. Stay classy, Chicago Public Schools.
Well, I hope none of you had invested in Lime. Because they will be done after this regardless of the facts of the case.
As Iran holds funerals for people killed in a terrorist attack, I will hold my breath that the US doesn’t somehow get dragged into the mess.
Having a hard time picking a song today. I’ll choose two: Song 1. Song 2 (may be NSFW for a few of you).
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Well, I’ll excuse you if you read the headline and think “not another Hillary article!” Well, you’d be wrong!
Harold Stassen.
You really are old. Of course I got the reference so……
Whatever else you say about the guy, can you imagine how bad assed it would be if you’re already doing time in a state pen to find out that you’re new roomie is gonna be Bill Cosby? I mean, you go from playing checkers, daytime television, and trying not to get raped to stand-up comedy from one of the legends of the business.
Yeah but you gotta keep a sharp eye on your food and drinks.
“Hey hey hey roomie, I bought some drinks from Commissary, want some?”
Whubatchuboo tubalkubin’ ‘bubout, bubitch?
+1 MushMouth
“You see, that’s the problem with prison-no Jello pudding…that and the stabbin’ and the rapin ‘ and the gropin’ . My wife Camille told me etc”
Belichick lost the team with his non-coaching of the Superbowl. Kraft should have fired him immediately, promoted Josh Daniels to Head Coach and hired a good GM.
Or, they only activate three receivers, Hogan, Dorsett, and fucking Cordarelle Patterson. Yeah, you’re so good NE that you can win with those 3.
They have a terrible General Manager and a coach who has lost it (same guy). The guy who thought he could win a Superbowl with his #2 cornerback on the bench the entire game – and stuck with that petty stupid shit even while his team was getting torched.
I should have said ‘and’ instead of ‘or’ but yes, Belichick is now so full of his own shit.
With that said, watch them now win their next 13 games with Josh Gordon catching 100 passes.
Everyone seems to be overlooking the obvious explanation that the Lions are JUST THAT GOOD.
There is a certain je ne sais quoi about Matt Patricia smoking his former team like that.
“…But Switzerland’s largest Islamic organisation, the Islamic Central Council, recommended women continue to cover their faces.”
Europeans are weird. You let them in. Then you tell them to not wear their stuff? I see their point.
What did you think they were gonna do? That’s the point people have been trying to make since the economic migrant crisis.
File under: People who think Islam is not compatible with Western values.
I mean you can consistently let them in under certain conditions, this being one of them.
So do they tell them this before they stamp their foreheads with the Swiss flag?
They pull this sort of stuff here. It was explained to me, when potential immigrants come to Canada they take some seminar about the place. They tell you Quebec is French but they don’t tell you the nuts and bolts of what that means. For example, you can’t send your kids to English public school.
So what happens is immigrants who choose Quebec and want English educations are told, ‘Sorry! You can’t do that!’ And nothing pisses them more off than being told what to do about education.
Being the transient sort, the really angry ones split for Ontario.
I mean it is not their fault Quebec is a silly place…
AT LEAST WE’RE NOT VAMPIRES!
ALL YOU PEOPLE ARE VAMPIRES
Forehead? Eye.
“economic migrant crisis”
That is not what is going on. Not at all.
Yeh, meant to be sarcastic.
Can you really get a house like that in Houston for $60K?
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5409-Bataan-Rd-Houston-TX-77033/27932412_zpid/
Not nearly as nice, and also a foreclosure, but still, that’s surprising.
Come in at threeclosure and we have a deal.
897 sq ft? You can get that around here for half of that.
You could get a parking space around here for that.
For only $320K, this one come with a free murder:
“A young couple with three kids say they bought their dream home on Long Island Friday — only to just now discover it’s in the heart of what President Trump calls the “blood-stained killing fields” of the MS-13 gang.
The four-bedroom house in Brentwood is backed by a wooded area where two girls — Kayla Cuevas, 16, and Nisa Mickens, 15 — were found bludgeoned and hacked to death in 2016 by members of the vicious gang.
Making matters worse, the home at 6 Ray Court sits on a quiet cul-de-sac where Kayla’s mom, Evelyn Rodriguez, was fatally mowed down a little more than a week ago in a dispute over a memorial to her slain daughter in front of the house.”
https://nypost.com/2018/09/23/couple-shocked-to-find-they-just-bought-infamous-ms-13-house/
They need to buy a new gun to go along with their new house. Ah, NYC, they’re outta luck.
Who doesn’t google the address of the property you are about to buy (and the surrounding neighborhood) to see what has made the news?
Wait a second, are people actually calling this a credible claim against Kavanaugh? Let’s see what she has to say (emphasis mine) – I was not sold until I saw that he wrote multiple FFFFFF in his yearbook. Anyhoo this is kind of a shitshow now and I assume he will not be confirmed. Maybe the next nominee will be more libertarian (what are the odds)
He was indicating the background color.
It’s another alt-right sign like the “OK” gesture!
What’s ironic is the group of people doing the voting on the nomination is a bunch of creepers, crooks, and sociopaths
You know, America’s political system is based on the peaceful transfer of power after an election, where the losers gracefully depart and allow the winners to govern. The left has decided they will no longer abide by that, and will undermine and obstruct and smear and even physically attack to prevent anyone but themselves from ever governing. I’m not sure they realize just how dangerous a road this is that they’re going down.
They have decided that they would rather burn down the country than be forced to wait another generation before they can rig the SCOTUS in their favor.
When you click on a hyperlink that says Song 2 and it doesn’t link to Song 2…
woo hoo
An excellent way to spend 2 minutes.
Sounds like bullshit, everybody knows that when you’re talking about someone’s penis you use the entire name, Brett Michael Kavanuagh in this case.
‘…After six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney, Ramirez said that she felt confident enough of her recollections to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party,”
All I know is millions of men are in trouble now. And another Duke scandal is around the corner.
Six days of consulting with her attorney to see how she could lie and still be safe from perjury charges or a defamation suit. Yeah, seems legit.
^^^^THIS^^^^
America is being played by a crime syndicate that has decided it would rather burn down the country and its institutions – no matter what the consequences of that action – than face the fact there are consequences to losing an election they though had been rigged in favor of their candidate.
Who says ‘penis’?
Under the circumstances ‘dick’ or ‘cock’, not ‘penis’.
I thought the first allegation could not be less credible. I was wrong. They are just inventing this stuff out of thin air and they aren’t even good at it.
You cant have my guns, motherfuckers.
It’s almost like Grassley is slowly giving the Dems a length of rope to hang themselves in the midterms.
Sane people are watching this shitshow they are throwing
Sane people
…unfortunately represent less than 20% of the voting public.
We’re fucked as a society.
My 75 year-old mother in law asked her daughter to buy her the Stormy Daniels book.
Let that sink in about how the left/DNC knows EXACTLY what it’s doing.
This is so hysterically banal that I actually believe it happened. Who would make up something this meaningless? She’s exaggerating is all.
Well this is Yale, they don’t use slang.
My favorite part is that the woman in question didn’t know that she should’ve felt terribly violated until thirty years later, when she was taught proper outrage by the Taliban. I mean, by the #metoo movement.
Also, is it me or would Joe Biden be convicted on a nigh-daily basis under these standards?
They all would. DC is full of raging egos. The odds that any of them, male or female, have never done anything untoward are near zero.
I mentioned last night to Banjos that if there was one positive outcome to this, I hoped that it would be more Americans realizing that elite prep schools and universities don’t churn out the best and brightest to lead our country. They just churn out the offspring of the connected and politically elite to continue running our country.
I wish someday a Yale or Princeton or Harvard education were looked at as little ore than one from a decent school rather than a key to the kingdom of the State Dept or another govt agency almost exclusively staffed by the children and grandchildren of the last generation who staffed it.
^This all day. The reason you go to those schools is to make social connections, because those are ultimately more important in certain arenas than actual education. Why? Because those sectors contain enclaves of legacy families from a particular social set. Anderson Cooper is a Vanderbilt on his mother’s side; old money and the rarefied air of high society is a real thing.
One depressing thing. All but three of my cousins attended Ivies. Ad did all the males of my parents’ generation.
My parents’ generation who went to the ivies show a lot of knowledge and critical thinking skills.
Their kids are fucking ignoramuses. I can argue with my progressive aunt and have a decent conversation. My cousins get nasty, mainly because they can’t fucking articulate an argument to save their lives.
They all went there in the late 80’s early 90’s.
I think the ivies have been cruising on their reputations.
“My parents’ generation who went to the ivies show a lot of knowledge and critical thinking skills.”
I agree. My brother was a post-doc at Columbia. Organic chemistry. PhD from UCLA at just turned 25. Extremely bright and thoughtful guy. Today’s crop from UCLA and Columbia? Not so much from what I’ve seen.
They also forgot the Esq.
That guy is good but I’d vote Rhinoceros Party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seAlfDLxeps
LOL
Growing up as a kid, my French-Canadian friend’s father – who had an Italian name because his family was one of the first settlers here in the 1840s – was an eccentric millionaire pharmacist with a decent car collection (he bought the 25th anniversary Trans-Am because he liked Burt Reynolds). He had season tickets to the Expos and would take his son and me often to games. He was a California Angels fan – this was the 1980s so that’s how eccentric he was. Notice I said California Angels. Who supported them back then? Anyway….he was also the type to flick popcorn in movie theatres. One time he took us to watch ‘Cannonball Run II’ and found it terrible so he just wailed away. A grown man.
He voted Rhinoceros all the time.
A true iconoclast that guy.
When I think of reliable sources…
“This is a smear, plain and simple,” Brett Kavanaugh says.
That’s his response to the new allegation of sexual misconduct against him — published by The New Yorker on Sunday night — in a story co-bylined by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer.
If you can’t trust Jane Meyer, who can you trust? It’s not like she has made a career out of smearing anybody to the right of Pol Pot.
Journalism is not a profession. Professions self police, and there will be no censure for moving forward with such a spurious story.
The Dems were quick to call for no hearing. Funny how fast this one dropped once Ford agreed to testify. This is so blatantly a political move im surprised the politicians don’t feel dirty for doing it.
They’re shameless, cunning rats.
This is so blatantly a political move im surprised the politicians don’t feel dirty for doing it.
I see you are unfamiliar with politicians.
My wife, who is like my own personal window into what these crazy people think, actually said to me last night after a little bit of heated debate that, yes, she believes a vague accusation of sexual misconduct from forty years ago should prevent someone from becoming an SJ justice. I told her point blank that she’s insane. We moved on to happier topics, like the Redskins beating the Packers. But if she’s any indicator, and I believe she is, it seems like the Dem base is buying this hook, line, and sinker. Or, more to the point, they’re fine with the manipulation of the process despite it being almost entirely bullshit. Again, justice vs. “social justice”. Brett Kavanaugh will single-handedly create The Handmaid’s Tale and turn the US into an Evangelical Christian theocracy, and the proof is in the fact that he went to an ivy league school in the 80s. He may have flashed a drunk girl once, and while it didn’t bother her until she was in her fifties, by her own account she has now learned that it should have, and so she’s grandfathering in her injury and bringing her accusation forward now.
One of the exchanges from last night went thus: “She has nothing to gain by coming forward and everything to lose, so I think it’s reasonable to believe she might be telling the truth. It should be investigated.” “Nothing to gain? Two weeks ago she was some professor in California. Now everyone in the country knows her name. She’s already being celebrated as a hero for stickin’ it to boorish frat boys everywhere. She’s going to make bank off of this with absolutely no burden to prove what she’s said. You’ve got it totally backwards.”
Her thoughts on Keith Ellison? I assume that he’s just being smeared by some lying bitch?
I assume they’d say, maybe even sincerely, that Ellison should be dropped just like Kavanaugh. It’s a meaningless gesture, of course, because he won’t be.
That’s exactly it. “Well, of course, that should be investigated too if those claims are credible.” As if documented charges with medical evidence are on the same level as what’s being thrown at Kavanaugh. Also, I guess I just happen to accidentally always change the channel right before CNN goes hard in the paint on Ellison.
everything to lose – right…
The funny thing is that it’s K who has everything to lose by withdrawing. If he withdraws, the Dems will drop the investigating, and he will forever be the man who raped a woman in highschool.
Hasen’t she already made well over $100K on Gofundme? In addition to the accolades from her fellow travelers? And the book deal sure to come? It was pointed out the other day that Anita Hill did very well professionally and financially after the Clarence Thomas circus, and that in reality not one bad thing happened to her as result. What do they have to gain by lying? Quite a lot actually, going by the evidence.
I welcome this whole shitshow. It was coming down to baseless accusations that nailed dudes to the wall. If it’s falling, push it over. It was the waiting for the hangman that was killing me. Once I had the noose around my neck, I’m fine.
Funny, when I was having legal troubles the waiting and postponements were the worst. Finally getting sentenced was a huge relief.
As detailed here last week, my wife has a similar reaction. In my experience it is fairly topical.
She had no ablity to even process the notion that a guy in his position cannot defend such allegations. There is a very us-against-them mentality operating here.
And don’t dare broach the “it is a nothing allegation anyway” line of thinking.
For a lot of women, this is a deep, almost religious topic that cannot be engaged.
So what you’re saying is a lot of women are irrational.
I would feel OK if you said all women are irrational.
Thank Christ my wife isn’t one of those. She is even more vehement that this is all bullshit than I am.
Your wife sounds like she doesn’t like rapists and doesn’t mind those who are maligned as rapist. That’s a keeper.
Mine too – she thinks they are full of shit. Might help that she has a 17-year-old son.
My wife calls it bullshit, too. If you didn’t speak up at the time, it’s too late now, no matter what happened.
What I find bizarre is the number of women who say that they believe her because they say something similar happened to them. I’m fairly sure that projecting one’s own character and experiences onto someone else makes you less objective, not more.
Granted there are plenty of men who are probably imagining themselves in Kavanaugh’s situation, but still.
Actually, my wife had something more serious happen to her, and she still thinks this is bullshit.
My wife thinks Ford is a lying sack of shit, because you never forget the details.
I would figure if it was that traumatizing, losing the details would be nigh impossible. So would not telling anyone until it conveniently allowed you to play the #MeToo darling some 36 years later…
The one thing that stands out to me is that Ford supposedly had a traumatic sexual experience in high school and didn’t tell her spouse for years (decades? I can’t remember how long they were together before they started couples therapy).
This is horseshit.
Especially since we are now invited to believe that the event was so traumatic that it fundamentally altered her life, to the point that she is technically disabled because she cannot engage in ordinary activities like flying on an airplane.
Well, there’s that on one level, for sure, and the fact that the MSM is pushing the Kavanaugh stuff to the exclusion of all else explains why Keith Ellison (“Keith who?”) is off the radar. But yeah, if you say that a teenage boy trying to pull a teenage girl’s shirt up at a party isn’t a big deal provided it went no further than that, you’re a cishetero shitlord rape apologist, you hate women, and you should kill yourself out of shame. And women never lie, and no woman has ever falsely accused anyone of anything, and the timing of this is purely coincidental, blah blah blah. We did the “80% of victims never report it to police” dance last night for a bit (“So why do you assume they’re actually victims?”) and that’s a dead-end for the reasons you point out.
But the real issue here is that the left wants Kavanaugh’s heart on a plate because he’s a Catholic, he’s an originalist (with exceptions for the 4th, apparently) who doesn’t consider the 2nd to be a typo, and he’s a conservative. Oh, and he’s nominated by Trump. That means it’s all hands on deck to find any and all dirt they can find to take this guy down. This is the same crowd that says Mike Pence is a misogynist because he won’t go out to dinner with women without his wife, remember, and then says that two women can make accusations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh without witnesses that can conclusively verify anything and without anything like a clear recollection and they must be believed because otherwise you’re basically raping other victims all over again. I think that consciously or no there are a lot of people who believe in their bones that Kavanaugh must not be on the SJ or else the world will end, and so anything bad about him is probably true, or at least true enough.
That this is all they could “find” on him is actually pretty impressive. They’re quite literally just making shit up.
I’ve found that most proggie women are one-issue voters – abortion. They know it, they are wracked with guilt about it, and it comes out as an incessant need to 1) point out how terrible some other people are, and 2) create a set of people that are dependent on them. They are simply incapable of fessing up and asking for forgiveness, and they have an innate need to put others in the same position.
Hey, you kinda jumped my ass (fairly, by the way) the other day she. I said if somebody did what he’s been accused of to my daughter, I would be on my way to her school with a baseball bat. You said “so much for the rule of law” or something g to that degree.
Your point was valid, but I will remind you that as someone who has seen the law fail most spectacularly in protecting a woman I care for more than I can put into words on two very specific occasions, and going so far as to criminalize her in one of the instances to cover for a bad actor of a cop, I very much see a disparity between law and justice and am therefore willing to be sure of carrying out the latter when the former fails in its duty.*
*when actions are verifiable.
And I will be willing to pay the price “the law” demands should I ever choose to exact justice when the system fails deliberately.
My argument of the night with the wife more intellectual. I got a gold fish as a prize at a local festival yesterday. “How could you? You know how sad I get when pets die.” “Uh, it’s a fish and we just had sushi for lunch.” “That’s different!” Dumbass me pushed that argument for another 30 minutes.
So you won’t be getting any this anniversary or birthday?
The nice thing about getting older is not caring about that so much any more.
Imma gonna eat a bullet when that happens..
I didn’t say I don’t care at all. But now I can call her bluff and convincingly act indifferent to those kinds of threats.
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/13-13-Track-13.wma
Who is that? Mesmerizing, but 20$ for a gold fish. I bought two more just to keep the other one company and they cost me 100 yen each. 20$? A bit steep for me.
Faux goldfish….
Know what I am saying, gaijin?
Goldfish scooping?
金魚すくい
Yep. My daughter tried it for the first time when she was 3. I paid the dude 300¥. Before he could hand her the scoop, she reached into the tub with her bare hand and produced the fish with their guts squeezed out. My only response was, “How much I owe you?”
LOL’d.
Women’s behavior in the Kavanaugh fiasco makes me think the 19th Amendment was a mistake.
There are plenty of women calling bullshit on this, and plenty of men piling on Kavanaugh.
Yeah this nothing to gain and everything to lose is total bullshit.
She has absolutely nothing to lose. No matter what half the country is going to believe her and 3/4ths of the other half are gonna treat her with kid gloves for fear of looking like they are not sufficiently opposed to rape or sensitive to rape victims (even though she is not in fact alleging that she was raped by anyone).
And what has she got to gain? Well I can imagine there is already a fairly robust bidding war among publishing houses for her life story which I expect will go well into the 6 figure range and her rewards just start there, where does she want to go with it? Elected office? She is a shoe in, she just needs to declare her candidacy in any open Democratic stronghold and the party will see to it that she wins. The Media? No problem there are a half a dozen media outlets who would love to have her as their resident #metoo expert, maybe even a full time gig as a political commentator.
No she has everything to gain and effectively nothing whatsoever to lose
Her soul was pretty high price.
Meh. It’s unlikely she was using in anyway.
My wife, who is like my own personal window into what these crazy people think
Same goes for my gf to some degree. Though, your wife may be a bit further down the rabbit hole. The gf usually avoids confrontation, but she definitely takes the DNC line even when I explain the logical and legal problems with said line. For instance, we discussed the same thing last night. I explained the situation and how I am using an objective, evidentiary standard to judge this and it just doesn’t live up to it. It’s been years and I can’t get her to remove her partisan blinders. Needless to say I dare not press too hard, but I state my case and leave it at that. This means our discussions on politics and political happenings are rather short and usually end with her saying “Well, I disagree” without justification. It is frustrating but I let it go. Long story short, I get the mindset of card-carry Team Blue members from her and her parents. (I get the card-carrying Team-Red mindset from my father.)
My GF, thankfully, sits more to the center-right/mostly libertarian. She thinks the Kavanaugh story is a load of shit as well.
After six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney, Ramirez said that she felt confident enough of her recollections to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party
I hope past life regression was involved. And a Ouija board.
Yup. This is identical to the way false memories were created in those classic “recovered memories” experiments.
In those cases some evil psychiatrist pushed the memories. I am 99.99% certain that these memories are completely fabricated by a glory hound looking to score one for the social justice movement.
I think the math goes more like this:
DNC spreads stories about Kavanaugh as a teen. Keeps it alive on TV for a couple of weeks and makes it a deeply personal “fight for survival” to ensure that their team cares.
So now you have the proggie base all fired up. That’s approximately half of the DNC base, so 15% of the country that is super-fired up about this. The DNC just put them on notice: Search your past for any connection to Kavanaugh. We need some dirt on him. Think HARD! See if you can remember ANYTHING!!
So 21 million women do just that. A couple of thousand of those have some tangential connection to Kavanaugh. Maybe they went to school with him. Maybe they lived nearby. Maybe they met at a party. Maybe they went to a nearby school. The connection doesn’t have to be strong at all… just plausible..
Now they think really hard. They know he’s a bad guy….. he has to be….. so think! When did I meet him? What did he do???
A couple of weeks of that and it is surprising that they only have two people with their hands up, both with exceedingly lame stories.
Researchers have shown that in just two sessions they can convince people that they were left alone at the mall when they were little. They can even plant details like what kind of dress the lady who helped them wore, or that there was a red balloon to hold. Just a couple of times of asking about it and suggesting things can get the job done.
So spinning the wheel a couple million times, the DNC was all but guaranteed to be successful if this kind of story is how low they are willing to go
The difference between “completely fabricated by glory hound” and the scenario I paint is that someone just making up a story will know they are lying. The “repressed memory” route where they spend a couple of weeks trying to work out the details of when they met and what they did will result in a memory that is indistinguishable from a real memory. In other words, they won’t really know they are lying. This makes them much more believable.
Add in the “trauma response” ideology – that victims of trauma will have changing stories, gaps in memory, get details wrong, etc. – and you have the perfect storm. The perfect motivation and opportunity to make up a story and a built-in excuse for any detail that might be proven wrong or inconsistent.
And evil politicians. As much of a RINO as Charlie Baker may be, he beat the profoundly wicked Martha Coakley.
For Hillary the Three time Loser – or as the video says, ‘Looser’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezYjnGRweNM
This is at the better speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuLmcnyOGaU
So a couple of days ago the Company took us on a teambuilding thing as is the habit round these parts. This implied staying a night in a hotel in the mountains, drinking heavily, and the next day engaging in some silly activities. Most people attend for the drinking not the activities.
Anyhoo before the dinner and drinking started a small group of us decided to go on a walk, and found a path through the forest and when that way. When we were almost back a goddamn bear crossed the path with two cubs. It was about 100 meters in front of us and did not pay us any attention, we were 6 people and noisy so I assume they went their way. It kinda freaked us out a bit so after waiting like 10 minutes hoping it got some distance and we moved on. About 200 meters from the village there was another goddamn bear, this time seemed like a young adult alone. Now it did not really do anything or even look at us but it was just blocking the way. We waited like 15 minutes deciding what to do – it was much further to turn back and civilization was close until a dog came barking from the village and scared the thing.
Point is Pie lives to see another day. Also this is the last time I go to the woods, there’s bears in that shit.
STEVE SMITH LIKE TEAMBUILDING IN THE WOODS
In one of my more drunken backwoods moments, I chased a golden bear thru my campsite with a camera trying to get a photo. I was probably no more than 15 feet away at one point.
Did you get the photo though?
It’s hard to focus when you’re drunk and in motion.
Still, you could have sold it to Weekly World News as bigfoot footage.
Boy, Jack must have really hooked the tee shot to have been in that position.
Took me a second, but I laughed.
How big were these bears? Most of the ones here are less than 200lbs, but they can get up to 600. Live and let live I say. I dont bother them, they dont bother me.
I would be hard pressed to let the hammer down on a bear. Most bear encounters are just as you describe but…just in case…
https://ruger.com/products/newModelSuperBlackhawkStandard/specSheets/0802.html
Brown bears but not as big as the ones in Russia… no idea how big they are. The want that stopped us was not huge. The mother with cubs was larger.
Apparently average weights for females in Romania is between 330 and 450 pounds and for males 400 to 700 pounds
You guys should really cut back on the potatoes.
Also links to guns don’t help in civilized Europe.
Links to guns always help.
I’ve got some bears to sell ya. A few full sized ones! A few rugs and even a head. Seriously.
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=147494
A question for anyone who has first hand information:
After you fuck someone on a bearskin rug in front of the fireplace, how are you supposed to clean it?
You can’t. After that, it’s bruined.
*applause*
“Also this is the last time I go to the woods, there’s bears in that shit.”
But do they poop in them?
No, that’s reserved for the Pope.
Only if they’re Catholic
They’re just bears. Just don’t try to wrestle them and you’ll be fine.
I am sure you Americans would have been more scared than us brave Romanians
Meh, I was on a ship that sunk near a bunch of pacific islands back in the day, and after being saved by the natives was told I had to undergo a ritual of manhood to be adopted or I would be eaten by the tribe. So the chief told me I had to drink a whole case of whiskey, wrestle a bear, and make love to the town’s 103 year old crone…
Anyway, the whiskey was terrible crap so I drank it too fast, and after taking on the bear I was still made an honorary tribe member despite coming out and asking them where the old crone I had to wrestle with was.
I used to do this LARP’ing thing–yes, I know, nerd of the century, leave me alone–and the big rule was that any armor had to be authentic to somewhere in the world between about 200 AD and 1400 AD, so plate armor had to be at least 16 gauge steel. The usual test was to whack it with a bat, and if there was serious doubt the person had to be wearing it at the time. Anyway, a friend of mine had just dropped a bunch of money on a head-to-toe suit of plate. At one of the weekend campouts he was walking down a path through the woods when he came across a black bear. For a minute, he was a little shook up, then he thought, “Wait a second, I’m wearing steel armor; fuck that bear” and kept on walking. The bear just looked at him weird and left.
Unless you are a cub in which case you might get a date out of the encounter
It has been suggested that due to Cosby’s age his legal team will fight for home detention, according to Loyola Law School Professor Laurie Levenson.
You may as well ask for a pony while you’re at it.
This is Kavanaugh’s America now, he’ll get a wink and a slap on the wrist.
Twitter warns direct messages were exposed
Didn’t those assholes just ban James Woods?
just temporarily
lol
My penis was out for half my college life.
Did anyone notice?
They thought it was a mushroom.
I see you went to school with Stormy Daniels.
He played a lot of Mario Kart in college, apparently
New gender-neutral Army training sees press-ups and sit-ups dropped in favour of new ‘achievable’ fitness test
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7324009/army-training-gender-neutral-fitness-tests/
Field Army Sergeant Major Gavin Paton said the new tests were launched because the enemy doesn’t care about age or gender – Oh I am sure they care they want as many old women in the opposing troops…
She added: “People underestimate females in the British Army. I think it is about time we upped the ante and make it equal and not make allowances for gender or age.” – as long as it is not being made equally easier, equal is good
“People underestimate females in the British Army. I think it is about time we upped the ante and make it equal and not make allowances for gender or age.”
… by lowering the fitness standards because the women can’t meet them. You can’t parody these people.
When a lot of people die in the next war because of this we must make sure to not let the social justice warriors of the hook.
They’re all going to die from lack of universal healthcare before that happens.
I thought they all already died from a lack of net neutrality. Or maybe tax cuts.
Obligatory Remy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
Domestic Nurembergs with hangings.
They need to be like us and graduate women from fake Ranger school (before they get themselves knocked up).
The political class intended on peddling the SJW meme is not going to let reality interfere with the agenda & narrative.
Now it did not really do anything or even look at us but it was just blocking the way.
No “Look everybody, here I am with my new cuddly friend!” selfie?
I am disappoint.
Like this?
That’s one tame lion.
Also, those people are nuts.
Sometimes when I’m playing with a kitten it occurs to me how easily I could Lennie the thing, and the thought is disturbing enough that I have to put it down. Something tells me lions don’t have a similar qualm. Plus, they’d be toothier about it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6200763/Emma-Roberts-strips-lingerie-racy-scene-Hayden-Christensen-new-film-Little-Italy.html
Adorable.
I don’t get the appeal of the elder or younger Roberts women.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6200631/Demi-Rose-sports-deeply-plunging-swimsuit-continues-share-snaps-Ibiza-break.html
Well now – my uncle, who lives over in Holland (the city in Michigan), ended up in the hospital with a bad fever, inflammation, etc They couldn’t figure out what the problem was until someone there decided to test for West Nile virus. And surprise, surprise – it showed up positive. Apparently it doesn’t effect most people like this, but he is in his 70s.
West Nile can be rough. I’ve never had it, but it can definitely take you out. I hope he does ok.
Sorry, but good thing they figured it out.
Wow. Hope he makes a recovery.
DEET is your friend.
Over the weekend I sprayed enough mosquito spray on myself to kill off half of the Mekong Delta. It’s hard to swat away bugs when your up two stories on a ladder.
Damn. I hope he gets better soon.
I was just short-listing some places for a couple long weekends to use up my so-far-untapped PTO before the year ends, Holland is high on the list. I love visiting there, mosquito-borne disease be damned.
another OT: a knockout dirty blonde gal, who is in my son’s LINK class, picked him up to go to a group movie get-together. She had the most raspy, 2-packs a day kind of voice. Is this a “thing” that women are trying to emulate? Or a real physical affliction on her part?
Is it like vocal fry or like laryngitis?
I had a guy at my last job speak in vocal fry. I had to find a new job before I succumbed to the rage and threw coffee in his face.
You didn’t “have to”, that was a choice you made. And I for one say you made the wrong choice.
It could be normal. My niece for a long time sounded like that.
I listened to Cathy Young on the BATF podcast this weekend, and much as I like her and her politics (she doubts the whole Kavanaugh thing, too), her full-blown no-shit valley girl voice just killed the episode for me.
Count Potato posted this link last night but it deserves reposting to a wider audience (for those who are sick of it it’s Kavanaugh stuff):
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044056219084828672
If this doesn’t merit disbarrment what the hell does?
Did he steal from a client? No. Has he paid his bar dues? Presumably, yes. That is all state bars give a fuck about.
I don’t know because IANAL, but don’t read the comments.
Non mobile link:
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044056219084828672
Thankfully Twitter is not a window into the real world but, yeah, the comments are disturbing to say the least.
I think Tucker Carlson’s remark was the best to damage this guy’s incessant need for attention.
For our resident glib attorneys, I know lots of lawyers seek high profile cases, but it seems like lately there are a lot pushing spurious cases farther than would be beneficial for their client. Avennati is just a prime example.
IMHO, though this is clown show of a process is another chapter 8n the real time crumbling of the American Empire, I have no problems if Kavanaugh gets the boot.
I much rather see Judge Janice Rogers Brown nominated. And if Kavanaugh is destroyed, the left will have used considerable resources that they won’t have to gaslight a Brown nomination.
Someone will just come forward to accuse her of telling racist jokes 30 years ago. There has to be a higher standard of proof.
Proof. *Poof*
They have used pretty much every argument under the sun.
It would be funny to see them try some of the same stuff again.
The whole point of this charade is to push the nomination out past the mid terms so that they can get a nominee to the left of Kavanaugh.
^^^This.
The instant Grassley started going the slightest bit limp, they smelled blood in the water. The way to stop this was to completely ignore them and hold the vote as planned.
They are not called “The Stupid Party” for nothing.
They should have just voted it already.
I think his hands were tied when Flake and Collins announced to the media that they would vote No without a hearing first.
Yeah that’s the hope.
I don’t see it working, I think the Republicans will hold on to the Congress.
Even if they do retain control, if they lose even one seat the party apparatchiks will point to it as a sign that the party needs to moderate itself and insist on the nomination of an even more milquetoast former-CoC-general-counsel type of justice.
The last person named at this 4, no, 5 person party released a statement on a Saturday night saying she doesn’t know Kavanaugh so no, she does not remember being at a small gathering with him where Ford may have been assaulted. She still believes her though, because they are friends and share political beliefs.
The error here is that you think these people give a shit about facts, objectivity, or trying to not be blatantly caught lying. What is going on right now, if it succeeds, will result in more of it, not less.
Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mammary Mondays…
http://archive.is/qvxuW
3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 15, 18, 24, 26, 28, 29, 34.
Rest assured that Brett Kavanaugh raped every last one of them.
You are SO not getting confirmed for the SCOTUS.
Shapiro Lays Out Case Against Democrats’ ‘Manipulative’ Handling Of Kavanaugh Accusations
Was his solution to bomb Syria?
No silly! Iran.
Iran?
Skeletal stem cells could regrow damaged bones
Does anybody else have the feeling that you read stories about this type of research all the time, and then 10, 15, 20 years goes by and they never turn into functional therapies?
Yes. Much like how NAFTA was supposed to be awesome.
Everywhere I look, I see just what I’m looking for.
Congressional Republicans are facing a mid-term election wipeout fueled by voter resistance to President Donald Trump, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
The survey, six weeks before Americans head to the polls, shows Democrats leading Republicans by 52 percent to 40 percent for control of Congress. If it holds, that 12 percentage point margin would suggest a “blue wave” large enough to switch control of not just the House but also the Senate.
“The results could not be clearer about making a change in direction from Trump’s policies,” explained Bill McInturff, the Republican pollster who helps conduct the NBC/WSJ survey. “Once again, Americans are hitting the brakes in a mid-term.”
———-
“Donald Trump’s presidency has been about one thing: Donald Trump,” said Peter Hart, McInturff’s Democratic counterpart on the survey. “He makes himself bigger than the economy. In 2018, he has become Typhoid Trump, infecting most GOP candidates he supports.”
Would you vote for “generic wonderful Democrat” over “generic sleazeball Republican”?
“You bet I would.”
More proof the Rethuglitards are doomed. I call bullshit.
I don’t know what they say exactly, I don’t regularly check them, but aggregate polling is the only thing that’s worth a damn. Real Clear Politics is a good one to look at.
“The polls show just what I want them to show. Blue wave!”
As a starting point, if your polling incorrectly identified the winner of the 2016 presidential election, you are hereby disqualified for 24 months.
Now, who’s left standing and what do they have to say?
Yesterday I finally got to listen to my Aleph J amplifier. A part issue led me off into the weeds for too long. Next I need to finish the chassis – front, bottom and top plates – and add some feet.
Sounds good!
All the heat of tubes but none of the charm.
/ducks for cover
Needs more ultra-bright blue LEDs!
I’m kidding, as they will eventually be covered. But I can’t stand the trend of ridiculously bright LEDs on stuff that I don’t want to draw attention to.
Class A around 25WPC?
At least they aren’t “see it from outer space” blue. They are fairly dim and part of the uh, Pass Labs charm.
And yes – 25Ws with 200Ws of power consumption. Aka – the space heater.
http://www.firstwatt.com/pdf/prod_aj_man.pdf
They’re shameless, cunning rats.
Rattus Politicus.
Not cunning linguists?
Hey guys! We totes need socialized healthcare lol!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-19/u-s-near-bottom-of-health-index-hong-kong-and-singapore-at-top
Romania being better than the US in healthcare is laughable.
life expectancy is not in any way a accurate measurement of healthcare systems.
Hahahahaha I looked at the map now at the list. Venezuela has better outcomes than Denmark, Germany and the US. How can these people seriously write this? And Venezuela climbed 4 spots from a year ago.
When the hospitals are all closed down, you can’t record how bad it is
All of the Venezuelans who were having health problems or vulnerable have succumbed.
Or maybe they are spending 0 and thus the fact they are not all dead is efficient…
Heh. One better than Bulgaria!
In terms of ‘quality of care’ I saw a recent report that had France, Italy, Switzerland in the top 3.
Canada, for all its stupid bragging about public health, is never near the top. In fact, I’m surprised it’s 16th on that list.
They’re rating healthcare efficiency.
You know what would make our healthcare more efficient?
Hitler?
Walmart General Hospital.
Based on a very recent experience:
MRI thru insurance and hospital – $5000
MRI thru private clinic, cash up front – $150
Yep. I’ve long thought there needs to be such a thing built by the masters of logistics and price negotiation.
They’ve got mini-clinics in a lot of stores now, you can get vaccinations at all of their pharmacies, and most of the full-size locations have optometry. There was some scuttlebutt about them acquiring Humana as well. It’s only a matter of time.
Agree. They might not get to brain surgery for a while, but plenty of opportunity for them to start consuming the market from the bottom up.
I use my standard answer:
If you cut off the 3 fingers in a Kibbutz in Israel, where do you get them sewn back on? Is it Hong Kong? Romania? Canada? No, they fly you to Louisville KY and let Kleinert-Kutz do it.
*Note: Not a hypothetical, it happened to the son of one of my college professors. When he found out I was from Louisville he asked if I was familiar with them. Which, of course, I was, as we did a field trip there once.
Kleinert-Kutz
Tis but a scratch.
Air pollution rots our brains. Is that why we don’t do anything about it?
James Bridle
Human cognitive ability is being damaged not just by CO2 and lead, but the way social media feeds us information, making us shockingly ill-equipped to clean up the air we breathe
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/24/air-pollution-cognitive-improvement-environment
Does Air pollution also inspire stupid articles about how reading them destroys the brains power to stop reading them…?
“Air pollution rots your brain. Don’t believe me? Just read this ridiculous shit I’m about to write!”
QED.
” 3D gun advocate Cody Wilson posts $150,000 bail, released in Houston
Cody Wilson was brought back to the country this weekend from Taipei by U.S. Marshals to face sexual assault charges.”
https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/gun-advocate-cody-wilson-posts-150-000-bail-released-houston/1uYJ8W7099GHHrmDrWVb8I/
So his bail is set at $150K but the two dudes who shot a guy in the back alley were let go at $25K?
He’s going to get suicided if this doesn’t work.
I’m curious if he goes for a plea deal and then moved out of the con try or if he makes this case an indictment of our legal system’s abandonment of “mens rea “ in cases like this.
Also, based on what I’ve read about him being caught on “surveillance” video rather than them being called “security cameras”, I’m thinking this was a setup.
I really like cody Wilson. I hope he can beat this. He is a fighter. If he has been hoodwinked, I think he will fight it.
This is where we see what’s he’s made of. I hate to say it, but the fact that he doesn’t have a wife or kids is to his benefit here. He doesn’t have a family to think of when the Feds come at him with both barrels.
Hitler to stand against Lennin in Peru election
“Hitler? Never heard of the guy.”
“after learning of the unenviable coincidence, decided to embrace it anyway.”
Obviously they are White Supremacists. This is the Age of Trump.
At least it’s an ethos.
You know who else was named Hitler?
Like clockwork.
“Speaking as a lifelong moderate, Republican woman, this is over. Ed Whelan’s tweet storm trying to name another man as the possible assaulter of Dr. Ford was a tipping point for me, and many others. Clearly, Whelan, a GOP operative, knew about Ford before her name was made public. Many of us supported Kavanaugh, because of his reputation and character as a family man, great husband, and devoted mentor of his female law clerks. But, Kavanaugh cannot serve on the high court with credibility now. This is not 1991, this is 2018 and a whole lot has changed on how we see sexual assault, and how we treat victims of such assault. More importantly, the #MeToo movement is not going to sit passively by and allow another man credibly accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault of a woman get voted onto the court without some hell to pay.”
WTF??
“Credibly”
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Hey, if it’s good enough for The Jacket. (Yes, he really did use that term.)
If some rando Republican asshat starts advancing his own theories about what could have happened, that adds credibility to the accusations. It’s simple logic.
Does she speak as a lifelong gun owner on any topics? Just curious, because I can’t help but think I’ve seen this same statement but with a few words changed. Almost like Mad Libs for bullshit.
2/10 concern trolling.
Letters to the Editor: ‘Economic liberty’ is morally bankrupt
“substantial polluters of our common air, water and soil. Do they not have an obligation to those that are harmed?”
I haven’t looked into,let alone read, any libertarian literature regarding property rights and pollution, so I will instead insert my own view of what they must think here.
No Head Start. – how is that working?
No ambulance or fire service. No public roadways, no national parks. – yes Republicans are totally running on that.
So stealing money from people at gun point to pay for “government services” isn’t morally bankrupt? Does the author realize that even after the tax cuts the rich in this country still pay for an overwhelming majority of government waste?
“It aims to remove wealthy people from any tax responsibility beyond the military.”
This walks the line. They want to say that libertarians want the poor to pay for everything, but they can’t do they just insinuate it.
They sure love the word ‘common’ a lot.
Once again, all the believe in is a ‘command common good’. Not a voluntary one. It’s a mythical ‘greater good’ like that dead-beat dad Rousseau’s ‘noble savage’. They chase shadows and tell the rest of us we’re come up short in our humanity.
Fuck. Them.
Just yesterday I learned Justin Trudeau’s father Pierre had a daughter who he basically cast away like a dog.
https://en.wikialpha.org/wiki/Sarah_Elizabeth_Coyne
I mention this because that twirp Justin talks about this crap too and he never mentions his sister – ever.
These people are the last people to lecture, scold and ruminate about family and community.
Do they not have an obligation to those that are harmed?
The courts of libertopia will happily allow you to file suit and present facts demonstrating your damages.
Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut
Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was working alone in a ‘rompong’ when heavy winds snapped its moorings
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/24/indonesian-teenager-survives-49-days-adrift-at-sea-in-fishing-hut
The Most Common Sex Injuries (And How To Avoid Them)
I know a guy who broke his penis during marital relations.
Yup
Precisely why I only do it in missionary, through a sheet, with the lights off, for the sole purpose of procreation.
I would thing woman on top bouncing would lead to more injuries than missionary… Just go doggy style…
+1 Quest for Fire
They were right, you really do have to think about the possible consequences before going for that threesome.
For me, Kavanaugh is too damaged in the eye of at least many Americans in a way no Supreme Court nominee has been, including Thomas.
Mission Accomplished.
You forgot the Panthers beat the Bungles
I has a sad
Shit. I don’t know how I missed that. Sorry.
One disadvantage is the lack of moral discernment of a “free market.”
Nobody “deserves” to own a Ferrari.
Video of Brett Kavanaugh in college documenting his depravity.
I thought it would be Spacolli.
First sex robot brothel in US enrages religious group ‘because it trains men to be rapists’
I think it trains users to be losers with a capital L.
Also board-games are Satanism
“Our biggest concern is that if creepers and perverts can get their rocks off on a robot they might stop patronizing human traffickers and then there goes our raison d’être and all of that sweet sweet grant money”
“It resembles something we don’t like so it must be banned.”
Also see vaping.
If it means a pedo won’t be diddling a real life child, then I say “hell yes.”
Pats need Jules back.
Who is Jules? Some chick I assume… Why did she live Pat? I don’t follow US soaps…
It’s Russian code.
Because I mentioned team building earlier, one of the activities was something like there was a rope web between two trees with little bells on the ropes and the members of the team needed to get through the gaps without sounding the bells and without two people using the same pass point. There were some gaps 5 feet above the ground and the only way to pas through them was to get two of the women to stay straight like a plank and some of the men stayed on both sides picked up the women and passed them through the web by slowly shifting them in their hands to avoid touching ropes and triggering bells. Normally nothing would seem strange to me, but I think I have been reading too many American meeto stories because it seemed to me a bit to much physical contact…
ROMANIAN RAPE ROPES!
Lions beat the Patriots.
::prolonged laughter::
I understand that they’re 5 point favorites over the Christians.
*thumbs down*
Pic
Even more embarrassing is the Vikes got beat by the Bills. Badly.
After consulting with DNC lawyers, she later recolllected that Kavanaugh was the person to blame.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-world/doctors-reportedly-recover-dead-turtle-inside-woman-s-vagina/1470671880
It might go for 30 or 40 k in Houston, but it wouldn’t look so nice inside.
Its obvious, if you are spending $1 mill+ on a property, you are going to furnish it nicely. It is just apparent the difference between a 1000 ft home in Bay Area vs flyover country on the inside.
“One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old.”
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/9/23/17890700/brett-kavanaugh-alyssa-milano-assault-allegations-why-i-didnt-report
TW: Alyssa Milano, writing for Vox
“My experiences being around Hollywood perverts are typical of everyone’s life!”
And then it’s off to college where 11 out of 10 women will experience gang rape with no lube.
“Grab it by the leg”
How about saving us from clicking vox and tell us how the fuck they got those numbers?
They pulled them from here (*)
Green Bay Packers’ Clay Matthews blasts NFL after controversial penalty: ‘I think they’re getting soft’
I’m curious as to how the ratings are this season. Only reason I’m watching is because my college team is a disaster and the Chiefs offense is fun to watch.
The previous series, the Redskins had a much more violent sack on Green Bay. At this point, Matthews is marked and the refs are going to penalize him every chance they get.
I’m a Redskins fan–well, victim might be closer to the truth–and that was a shit call. Matthews must have pissed off some ref or something, because they’re on his ass like white on rice. There wasn’t a damn thing wrong with that tackle.
Agreed. The penalty against Matthews was even a worse call.
The Rams and Chargers played each other yesterday (both in LA obviously) and it was only 3/4 full. I was watching the end of the GB/WAS game (after the Ravens game, played in front of a light crowd) and the crowd noise for Rodgers final drive was inaudible. My eyes tell me attendance is in the shitter at least.
He’s not wrong. There was one call yesterday that cost the 49ers a touchdown and even I thought that was a bad call. (Pass interference of your own team?)
That Green Bay game was the only football I’ve watched in a year, and that was a shit call. Might as well go to “flag football” at least for the quarterback, at least then the defense would know what they could do.
It might go for 30 or 40 k in Houston, but it wouldn’t look so nice inside.
It’s a $200k house on a $2.8m lot.
Land tax would fix this
No, not really. Well, it would help. But zoning deregulation would fix it.
Y’all missed my overriding point. The lot and/or home are only worth that because the local and regional government has made it impossible for people to build what they want on property they own. They are regulating out of existence builders who want to subdivide property or build neighborhoods rather than “mixed use” bullshit or setting aside a percentage of their land in order to comply with green space regs or multi-family units that must remain below a certain rent level (and cannot be sold as condos!).
The location is only pare of the reason for the cost. Government is a much larger driver, otherwise there wouldn’t be nearly this disparity with the rest of the country with a robust tech sector but more relaxed zoning/government manipulation of the market.
Nothing was missed. Your overriding point was so obvious I thought I would throw in some detail.
Breaking legs and handing out crutches as usual. Housing prices are “too high”! Let’s hold workshops & meetings to figure out what new regulation/payoff to connected cronies/government expansion will “fix” this!
Government is just wealthy homeowners who vote against policies that would lower the values of their homes together.
Tommy Wiseau’s wonderfully terrible ‘The Room’ is free on YouTube
I wish we could do a mst3k-style group viewing.
Vampires was a documentary.
“A high-level Twitter official who was not authorized to speak on the record told The Daily Wire last week that the platform was suspending accounts that tweeted “pieces of media,” including memes and graphics, that falsely portrayed certain messages as coming from the Democratic party.
The official said that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) “flagged” the content for Twitter and the platform deemed it was part of a “misinformation campaign” that was being viewed as a “targeted voter suppression initiative.”
Woods was told that if he deleted the tweet the suspension on his account would be lifted.
Woods told the Associated Press on Sunday that he will not delete the tweet, saying, “Free speech is free speech — it’s not Jack Dorsey’s version of free speech.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36227/twitter-suspends-james-woods-woods-stands-his-ryan-saavedra
Somebody’s fighting back without equivocation. Weird…
‘Our time is now’: world youth poll reveals unexpected optimism
By Rebecca Ratcliffe and Carmen Aguilar
Survey across 15 countries finds 90% of teenagers in Kenya, Mexico, China and Nigeria hopeful for the future – in stark contrast with those in developed nations
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2018/sep/24/our-time-is-now-world-youth-poll-reveals-unexpected-optimism
Poor Michael Moore.
Hahahahhaha
I saw them promoting this all over with ads, too.
So then week two should do boffo box office if word of mouth is so great.
I blame Citizens United.
Which would have restricted Both “Fahrenheit ” movies because they were corporate-sponsored political speech specifically targeting a candidate.
The Swiss federal government in June opposed a grassroots campaign for a nationwide ban on facial coverings.
The Swiss cabinet said individual cantons should decide on the matter.
Federalism is racist.
The New York Times sues the FCC to investigate Russian interference in net neutrality decision
Dead people are only allowed to vote in Chicago.
Is this just going to be the leftie tactic for everything they don’t like now? Just screaming about Russia? Bloody hell fire but the left is dangerous at the moment.
Either scream Russia, racist, or rapist. One is bound to work.
Replacing reading, righting and rithmetic as the 3Rs all children must learn.
Literal LOL
Their entire modus operandi is to ensure that the public doesn’t find out what NN actually is.
Mosquitoes force high-speed chase suspect to surrender
https://abc13.com/4319667/
About 7 years ago, a buddy of mine and I had the opportunity to hunt a lease in south arkansas. The area is rice growing country. We loaded up and left about 2 in the morning to get there before sunrise.
It was early November, and it was unseasonably warm. I parked the truck at the lease and we both went our separate ways. I got to my spot and spent the next 45 minutes getting eaten alive by mosquitos. I didnt want to be the one who pussed out, so I stayed for as long as I could bear before returning to the truck. I was embarassed at myself for not sticking it out. However, I felt better about it after getting to the truck and seeing that my buddy had already been there for 15 minutes.
I understand the guy in the story’s predicament.
I have heard a story, likely apocryphal, of a test pilot who had to ditch his plane in Northern Canada during the summer. He was in an extremely remote area and help took a week to find him; by then he had shot himself with his service pistol because the mosquitoes were so intolerable. Probably BS, but one of my old bosses was stationed in Fairbanks in the AF and during the summer time, serious infractions were actually punished by sending someone outside in only boxer shorts and no bug spray for five minutes. It was a very effective disciplinary tactic (this was before the military got largely pussified).
I have also heard a more credible story about a moose found in Alaska that had literally been eaten alive by mosquitoes; stung so much that its corpse was practically unrecognizable.
Cops in Parkland shooting under criminal investigation
Well, maybe they are.
inb4 the DA brings premeditated first degree murder charges with no lesser included.
It’s established that cops cannot be held liable for inaction. So this is definitely to shield records.
Speaking of women you would never have heard of if they hadn’t married successfully…
Washington (CNN)Former first lady Michelle Obama on Sunday urged Democrats to turn out for the midterm elections, telling them “democracy continues with or without you.”
Obama was speaking in Las Vegas at an event for When We All Vote, an organization committed to voter registration that she co-chairs. The appearance is part of an effort to rally Democrats ahead of an election that is largely a referendum on the Trump presidency, which has made undoing former President Barack Obama’s legacy a central focus.
Michelle Obama told attendees that she is “sick of all the chaos and the nastiness of our politics,” but that the importance of voting still remains.
“But here’s the problem, while some folks are frustrated and tuned out and stay at home on election day, trust me, other folks are showing up,” Obama said. “Democracy continues with or without you.”
The event was the first of two events that the former first lady plans to attend this month to rally voters. CNN first reported on her involvement in the organization earlier this month.
Obama and her husband have largely avoided criticizing the Trump administration in public, though the former president offered a pointed critique of his successor earlier this month, saying President Donald Trump is “capitalizing on resentment that politicians have been fanning for years.”
They don’t badmouth him in public. You have to pay to hear it.
It’s a crying shame democracy has been hijacked by people who don’t vote the way they should.
I’m sick of the nastiness of our politics, but if you don’t get out there and vote those redneck racist bible-thumping gun-loving bitter clingers are going to keep making all the rules – is that what you want?
I present to you, the next nominee for SC Justice
LOL
Dude, the Guardian is cancer. This caught my eye more than the linked article:
GET! OUT!
Racism outside of the US? Now I’ve heard everything.
Jeez, just wait till they discover the Han Chinese appropriated Jim Crow from us.
I think I see what went wrong.
“Read this paragraph from the New York Times, then re-read it.”
https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1044076733450866688
Sorry, I can’t quote a picture.
“Read Christine Blasey Ford’s letter detailing the alleged assault by Brett Kavanaugh
“I am available to speak further should you wish to discuss. I am currently vacationing in the mid-Atlantic until August 7th and will be in California after August 10th.””
https://www.king5.com/article/news/nation-now/read-christine-blasey-fords-letter-detailing-the-alleged-assault-by-brett-kavanaugh/465-8b4adeae-050c-4085-8659-f4859eb5c4c9
Then you drove across the country in three days?
Nice catch
I will be quite disappointed if this doesn’t show up in H&H.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11338
“This is what keeps me up at night. Waste of a juicy booty on that evil fucker. proof that god is white, chile”
It’s creative, I guess.
English professor. English. Jesus H. Christ.
I’ll be the odd woman out and say it is deliberately worded and spelled so as to reveal the writer’s race and culture.*
She should have capitalized “proof,” though.
*I don’t spell things “correctly” when I’m writing people speaking in dialect.
““He’s impulsive, greedy, gleefully ignorant, big bootied, erratic, terrible w money, sexually violent, hooks up felonious friends, has 3 baby mamas, & eats all the chicken.””
WTF am I reading?
“It’s a shame all the best qualities of black men and black culture are wasted on this white POS.”
Get used to it. That’s what’s gonna replace Shakespeare.
The Markup, a tech-focused investigative news site, raises $20 million from Craigslist founder
If the Ford Foundation is involved, I’m probably not going to like it.
Y’all missed my overriding point. The lot and/or home are only worth that because the local and regional government has made it impossible for people to build what they want on property they own.
I didn’t miss your point. There’s a reason that’s a 3 million dollar lot, and it’s not just the California weather.
Also, don’t kid yourself- government restrictions on housing are in the largest part a response to what people want. It’s everywhere. People fight like hell to keep their neighbors from changing anything. “OMG that asshole wants to put a second story on his house. He’s stealing my view of the mountains! That other asshole wants to tear down his garage and build a bungalow in the alley and rent it out. His tenant is going to want to park in the spot where I keep my boat.”
And on, and on. Every time I turn around, I hear somebody whining about what other people “oughtta” be allowed to do.
https://www.uaex.edu/business-communities/voter-education/issue1.aspx
This is somewhat interesting. There has been a lot of noise around here the past week or so regarding this being put on the ballot for the November election.
I’m reflexively against it, but it’s an interesting idea.
The insurance lobby in your state out-donated the trial lawyers’ lobby this year.
I am of two thoughts on punitive damages. One is they shouldn’t be limited artificially, because that defeats their purpose.
Two is that they should require a criminal trial, not a civil trial. Punishment shouldn’t be in the bailiwick of civil suits.
I’m with “the civil courts are about restitution, not punishment”. Punitive damages should require a criminal trial. If we are going to award them in a civil trial, they shouldn’t go to the plaintiff and shouldn’t be part of any contingent fee calculation.
+1 to your second point robc, well-observed.
The clouds are starting to break up, and what do you know- snow at the higher elevations.
What the fuck happened to summer? I’ve shit I need to get done before it starts snowing for serious.
It’s down here. The reservoirs are practically empty it’s been so hot and bone dry.
It’s been raining and in the 80s here for a solid week. We have had one of the wettest summer’s I can recall. I need to mow my yard, but it hasn’t quit raining long enough to in a week. I cut hay 3 times this year. That doesn’t often happen. My pastures are still green and growing. They are normally dead and brown this time of year.
“In a healthy society, there’s an ongoing conversation about what’s in the public interest—a debate that includes legislators, regulators, the institutions of civil society, the private sector, and the general public,” said Gardner, in a statement. “We aren’t having that debate right now about new technologies because the level of understanding of their effects is too low. That’s the problem that The Markup aims to fix, and I am delighted to have Craig Newmark, and some of the United States’ most prominent private foundations, join us to do this.”
I’ve got a baaaad feeling about this.
In a healthy society there is no conversation about it – government should be doing very very little and it already does far too much.
Trump says he’s with Kavanaugh “all the way” and there’s this:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/ny-times-abc-news-throw-shade-on-new-yorker-kavanaugh-hit-piece/
There may yet be life in this guy.
This is fucking ridiculous. I’m not a “there ought to be a law” guy, but damn it seems like there ought to be a law. Does Kavanaugh have any grounds against any of these people for a libel suit?
If he doesn’t, I don’t know what libel laws are for.
Geezus H. Give Farrow the Stephen Glass Award for Reporting.
I think a libel suit would have the same problem as the accusation. Nothing can ever be proven about the story, one way or the other.
Yeah, it certainly feels like “there ought to be a law” territory.
The fact that anyone in the mainstream media is covering this is shameful. Even if you believed it 100%, which you shouldn’t, pulling out your junk as a joke at a college party in 1984 is not newsworthy. (in fact, that is probably the genesis of Farrow’s “people who knew him” saying it was “possible”. 20 year old dudes act wild at parties in a way that hurts no one all the time, so sure, that could be possible, in the same way that “he once ate a goldfish” might be possible)
I’ll tell you what is newsworthy though – and won’t get their attention….. the fact that every major news organization is doing everything it can to smear a guy’s name in order to further a partisan political agenda, and nobody seems to think this is a bad thing.
This is the kind of slander that harms someone for life, and deep down every single one of those people parroting the story knows that they are slandering someone. They may believe their own hype in the moment, but just like all of those OJ Simpson supporters, when the passion fades, they are going to change their mind and realize just how wrong they were.
I still remember the look on Barry Scheck’s face when Simpson got acquitted. He was the DNA expert. You could see that he knew they just got a murderer off. Up until that second he was just doing a job… then suddenly he was dealing with setting a murderer free. As everyone was celebrating, his face just fell. That’s where a lot of these folks are heading for…. except that they will feel justified if they can keep this anti-woman monster off the court.
Your NFL winners were
AND CLEVELAND YOU FUCK
It’s a building year.
I’m getting a strong sense that these might be women who were never actually invited to any of the cool kids’ parties and are still harboring bitter resentment over it.
I know a guy who did basically what Kavanaugh is accused of doing to Ramirez.
Except:
1) He was and I think still is an Irish drunk of Boston police lineage
2) He was doing it to show how much he still loved his ex-girlfriend, which she was not appreciative of.
3) He then puked on his own dick.
4) The rest of us drug him out of the room and apologized to her.
Or, they’re #resist activists approached by Soros front groups offering cash payouts to fabricate accusations.
No one linked this yet? One of the few commercials I remember from my childhood. Takes the kid’s coke & gives him a dirty sweaty towel. What an asshole.
This commercial spawned a movie or a tv special.
And a zillion parodies. Christ I must have seen that thousands of times when I was a kid.
It was his jersey. Which the kid immediately put up on eBay for mad coin.
Holy crap, how did I miss that for forty years? Thanks for ruining my childhood Mean MikeS!
Also, Happy Birthday Mean Joe!
From the Wiki on Andy Dick:
And this is why Jon Lovitz is one of the very few famous people I can think of who I’d want to meet and have a beer with.
Whoever thought of bringing Jon Lovitz in to replace Hartman on Newsradio deserves our praise. I just hope Lovitz put a lot of effort into making Andy Dick’s life a living hell.
He slipped on a lemon wedge that someone threw on the ground and I was trying to stop him from hitting his head! Yeah…he slipped…that’s the ticket.
Everyone say it with me now: Gun. Grabbers. Lie! YAY!
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3238736
Officially a new iron law.
oh, John Lott..
*handwaves away the article*
I have no problem with the guy. He’s one of the few (only?) academics doing statistically rigorous research in favor of gun ownership. He sure ain’t perfect, but I’ll take what I can get against mountains of fake reports showing that guns mow down children in the street of their own accord.
Was doing an impression of what the gun grabbers’ allies will do.
Ah.
There are certain places in the middle east where mass murder, albeit usually not by gun, is pretty damn common.
Officially a new iron law.
To particular. I’m debating between “Everyone lies.” and “Everyone always has a reason to lie.” Leaning toward the second.
Fair enough. The first one also is IP of Dr. House.
You are correct that the second is better. Everyone (almost) always has a reason to lie, whether they do so or not (which is the true test of character), so it behooves people to not be too credulous. The first is too cynical, and even though it is probably technically correct it will nevertheless ring false to too many people. The second teaches the same lesson without indicting everyone, which is something most people will find a bridge too far.
Farrow was forced to admit he had no eyewitnesses but he insisted that people who knew Kavanaugh at Yale said it was “possible.
Did Ronan Farrow fuck that sheep?”
“I wouldn’t put it past him.”
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution rests.”
I was at a party once in college in which a girl gave some dude a blow job in the middle of the room in front of everyone. Does the fact that I watched disqualify me from political office?
Oh, there are plenty of other reason to disqualify you from political office.
“I promised the world TITTIES!”
Universal breast implants!
Impractical, some ladies don’t need ’em. Now universal basic minimum breast size, is something we can all agree is a proper function of government.
OK good, I can get on board with that.
Minimum size: I’m ok with 34D (translates to 32DD, 30F, etc). However, it’s not just about size, we also need nipple angle from horizontal as well as distance from collarbone to nipple. If those don’t meet minimum criteria (ie: too saggy), then lift + implants.
As an aficionado of small tits, I will fight you in the streets, I will fight you in the fields, I will fight you on the shore, I will fight you to the knife to stop minimum size legislation.
I’m with you Creosote! Viva la itty-bittys!
Fine. As part of a grand compromise, we will allow a small percentage (say 5%) of those below a C to retain them. Otherwise, I can’t get the votes from the Itty Bitty Titty Caucus.
Huh-huh. You said “cock us”. Huh-huh
I need to do more research into the distribution of breast size before I can agree to this number. But I’m willing to discuss the matter if we make it closer to 10% and you have my full support for the sag metric.
Yeah, 5% is way to small. I’m looking for something more around 20%. Which compared to current numbers, must still be a *removes sunglasses* reduction.
I have conducted some smart phone research and determined that 10% is an acceptable number of B-cup and smaller breasts based on research indicating that both men and women express a preference for those sizes as ideal in the 9-11% number.
Agree to 10% and we can get this thing done, Q.
Cup Size
Percentage of Population
AA Cup 2%
A Cup 15%
B Cup 44%
C Cup 28%
D Cup 10%
DD Cup 1%
Source: http://www.theaveragebody.com/average_breast_size.php
“Fine. As part of a grand compromise, we will allow a small percentage (say 5%) of those below a C to retain them. Otherwise, I can’t get the votes from the Itty Bitty Titty Caucus.”
Approval needs to come from the Itty-Bitty Titty Committee.
Shape is more important than size.
kinnath, you damn SPLITTER
I think that loading a single page from Glibertarians is enough to disqualify anyone. Posting here might be enough to get you sent to a re-education camp.
Vote Q 2020. He will put tit pics on C-span.
People might actually watch it…
I record C-SPAN: bookTV, any intelligent interview or lecture
Are you one of Mr. Lizard’s advanced scouts sent to observe and report?
Rod Rosenstein is resigning – supposedly.
You can’t fire me! I quit!
CNBC is salivating about this right now – saying Rosenstein is going to the White House to be FIRED…no wait, he will either be FIRED or RESIGN, but this is only because Trump was going to fire him. Not a word about DOJ/FBI corruption.
He is openly defying a direct order from the President to release all of the Twitter traffic between Strzok and Page. There’s really only two ways that should end – he resigns (on principle) or he is fired (justifiably).
Wasn’t there also some indication that he was wearing a wire during meetings with the President? That alone would be fireable.
In other news, a woman with large breastesses is having a sale on libertarian shirts:
https://twitter.com/PetiteNicoco/status/1042841082583764992
You had me at “woman with large breastesses”.
Huh, it looks like Deborah Ramirez may have worked for Statfor.
Hahaha….figures. And according to the New Yorker article, even her best friend said it was probably politically motivated before walking that back later.
i’d be surprised if it was the same person. the Deborah Ramirez in that “cancel subscription” email to Stratfor worked at Kom Capital which is a defunct hedge fund. isn’t the Deborah Ramirez accusing Kav of pensmacking her a social worker?
also this:
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/jane-meyer-accuser-told-ronan-farrow-she-wasnt-sure-of-story/
Jane Mayer said on Monday that Deborah Ramirez, who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually harassing her, told her New Yorker colleague Ronan Farrow that she couldn’t be sure of the Supreme Court nominee’s guilt.
Confronted with a New York Times report indicating Ramirez expressed doubts about Kavanaugh’s guilt to former Yale classmates, Mayer said Ramirez shared those doubts before they published their bombshell report on Sunday.
“Song 1”
Fuck you.
“Song 2”
Fuck you again.
I’m debating between “Everyone lies.” and “Everyone always has a reason to lie.” Leaning toward the second.
How about “Truth is Subjective.”
How about “Truth is Subjective.”
While I certainly think that an argument can be made that truth is subjective, it relies on a definition of truth and ultimately reality that is fundamentally narcissistic and even solipsistic. I believe that there is an external reality that, while our perceptions of it may ultimately be so conditional and processed as to be “subjective” in some senses of the word, it is nonetheless the case that this external reality can be more or less accurately perceived/described and that the more accurate perception/description is more “true”. “Perception is reality” is more an indictment of people’s lack of self-awareness, IMO, than an actual description of objective reality.
The Iron Laws are ultimately about human nature. Perhaps “Everyone believes what they want to believe” or even the more cynical “People believe what they are paid to believe” seems more consistent with the rest of the Laws.
The posited bullshit that all truth is subjective is the foundation of the modern left. Yet this is a self-contradictory statement in of itself.
Memory is absolutely subjective. Feelings are absolutely subjective. Two plus two is not. Atomic bombs are not. Bridge load schedules are not.
And for that matter, I would like to limit the amount of subjectivity in the law. Although its presence may be unavoidable, there is no reason it should be maximized, and there are plenty of reasons it should not.
Truth is not subjective. People’s interpretation of events is subjective. There is only one truth.
^This. I get into this argument a lot. Yes, human experience and perception is subjective. Yes, to some extent, the subjective experience and the subjective perception of phenomena is more important in terms of meaning than an absolute truth. However, this doesn’t mean that absolute truth doesn’t exist. In other words, my inability to perceive something outside of the framework imposed by my own limitations does not change the nature of the thing perceived. If you make a photocopy of the Constitution and start making edits with a Sharpie, that doesn’t change the contents of the original.
Also, how about “People believe what will benefit them the most.”
I personally think it’s too cynical to be an Iron Law. Yes, politics is fucking over-run with liars, but I don’t believe that it’s an immutable part of human nature. I think plenty of normies will tell the truth even when it’s not explicitly to their advantage. I could go for “Never assume someone isn’t lying” or whatever, but that’s not saying much is it?
Oh wait, these laws aren’t settled by committee. Never mind.
too cynical to be an Iron Law
Not sure that’s possible, actually.
Fuck it. I’m checking out on this week and reading novels. Lemme know whether we still have a country on Friday.
“SCHOOL OF SOCIAL JUSTICE”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOxwbs4SRPU
I was finishing up last week’s econtalk this morning (still not quite done) and heard a great line from the guest:
That is the problem with progressives — they have it the other way around (although I question their love of humanity in many cases, but at least most claim that).
I expect the Democrats to stoop to unfounded slander and libel to try to score political points. Demonstrating their hypocrisy is useless as they feel no shame at it. They are the party of evil, after all.
But the GOP isn’t the stupid party. They are the cuck party. Perhaps ironic for someone in a non-monogamous relationship to use that as an insult, but Fat Happy Buddha’s balls, show some fucking spine and stand up. Trump has already demonstrated that it works. That is an effective tactic. That’s how you deal with this sort of nonsense. But no, they’d rather stand in the corner and watch their guy get ass-raped while tut-tutting and trying to look reasonable.
Worse, this is how you get people that make Trump look reasonable and classy. Because eventually there will be people who are willing to stand-up, to brush off obvious bullshit, but they are going to be unprincipled and dangerous. This is the sort of thing that long term can lead to an actual no-shit patriarchy.
God damnit. This country is fucked.
“Perhaps ironic for someone in a non-monogamous relationship to use that as an insult”
My understanding of the term, used as insult, is someone who doesn’t really want to be involved, but is too weak to stand up for himself. IE: wife decides she wants to fuck other men, husband doesn’t want her to, but goes along anyway because he’s spineless. Also, traditionally, it was a man who, knowingly or unknowingly, was raising another man’s children due to his wife’s infidelities.
I don’t think it really applies to situations in which all parties are on board.
I don’t either for the reasons you outline. I can see someone going ‘wait a minute…’ And I really can’t think of any phrase that better describes the GOPs behavior. it is baffling to me.
Which is the traditional meaning of cuckold, so that would make sense: a man who meekly accepts his wife flaunting her infidelity.
I think this is just Flake being an asshole. I thought I saw that Snow was willing to vote without a hearing. I think Flake is fucking us all in the ass by refusing to vote Kavanaugh out of committee without a hearing, which is why the Repubs have looked so spineless in letting hard deadlines and reasonable accommodations go by the wayside.
that’s my going theory.
Think of it as Flake’s audition for that MSNBC talking head gig he so dearly covets.
He’s a feckless cunt, if there ever was one.
I mean, I’m at the point where I feel like Will Ferrell in Zoolander: “Am I taking crazy pills?!?” Ford named three people as witnesses. Each one of the contradicted her. She has no timeframe more specific than “the early ’80s”. She doesn’t know exactly where it happened. She never told anyone until supposedly saying something (without naming Kavanaugh) to a marriage counselor in 2012. This other bint’s own best friend not only refused to affirm her story, but actually told Farrow that she thought Ramirez’s accusation might be politically motivated! And a bunch of other people who were supposed to have been at that party have said “Huh?” NOT A SINGLE FUCKING PERSON NAMED IN EITHER BITCH’S STORY HAS BACKED THEM UP. Not one.
And yet this is continuing on, and actually getting worse. Despite absolutely no actual evidence being presented against Kavanaugh and no one corroborating either story, the feckless eunuchs of the GOP Senators are running scared.
Your last line is 100% correct.
The Iron Laws are ultimately about human nature. Perhaps “Everyone believes what they want to believe” or even the more cynical “People believe what they are paid to believe” seems more consistent with the rest of the Laws.
I almost went with “Truth is Fungible” but that’s not really correct usage of the word. Malleable, elastic, manipulable, subject to revision…
Maybe just “‘Truth’ is subjective.”
“Truthiness is subjective.”
“Tales were told.”
Also, traditionally, it was a man who, knowingly or unknowingly, was raising another man’s children due to his wife’s infidelities.
Derivative of “cuckoo” (the bird), then?
Correct. Via wiki:
“The word cuckold derives from the cuckoo bird, alluding to its habit of laying its eggs in other birds’ nests”
The modern sexual subculture of deriving sexual gratification from your spouse having sex with a third party would be better described as “candaulism”, not “cuckoldry”.
See also “Crazy, Stupid, Love”
I could tell some stories.
So if (when?) These allegations come out as false, those that have been pushing them will have to finally own up, right? It’ll be harder to sweep into the memory hole than uva or mattress girl. Right?
Russia hacked the election
How do you disprove a declaration that people have accepted on “faith alone”?
“science is a liar sometimes” – Ronald MacDonald.
Stupid science bitch.
accuser #3 who Brett mooned at a gas station in college is waiting in the wings.
The only way to disprove it is to moon the Senate.
So that the Senators can determine whether Brett’s asscheeks are, in fact, the ones described in detail by his accuser.
Exactly!
I’m having a real hard time understanding how thinking that the Kavanaugh accusations are a political smear primarily because they lack any and all corroborating evidence is a conservative partisan position. But, accepting these accusations at face value, absent any supporting facts, is somehow not a partisan position.
^^^ Russian bot !!!!!!11!!1!!11!!!! ^^^
I guess for me, I didn’t care what side you leaned to a week ago, but every day it gets more obvious that it’s a political move.
From the New Yorker article:
The former friend who was married to the male classmate alleged to be involved, and who signed the statement, said of Ramirez, “This is a woman I was best friends with. We shared intimate details of our lives. And I was never told this story by her, or by anyone else. It never came up. I didn’t see it; I never heard of it happening.” She said she hadn’t spoken with Ramirez for about ten years, but that the two women had been close all through college, and Kavanaugh had remained part of what she called their “larger social circle.” In an initial conversation with The New Yorker, she suggested that Ramirez may have been politically motivated. Later, she said that she did not know if this was the case.
Ramirez is a registered Democrat, but said that her decision to speak out was not politically motivated and, regarding her views, that she “works toward human rights, social justice, and social change.” Ramirez said that she felt “disappointed and betrayed” by the statements from classmates questioning her allegation, “because I clearly remember people in the room whose names are on this letter.”
“clearly remember” and yet she was drinking and doesn’t remember other details like whether it clearly definitely was Kavanaugh.
this lady is nuts.
So… meaningless twaddle, denials of human nature, and outright evil. Got it.
WaPo had a lulz moment over the weekend. the Outlook section of their Sunday paper has HE PERSISTED on it’s cover with Kav’s picture. i didn’t bother reading it. just guffawed loudly at the pic and header.
Expounding further on candaulism:
There is definitely some interesting psychology going on here. As I’ve outlined in my previous articles, this is a case of the Frontal Lobe overriding the midbrain to engage in activity counter to evolutionary mandate. Therefore, it’s fully in the realm of modern man, higher functioning and conscious decision-making.
There are some theories floating that it actually is, in fact, originating from the midbrain due to “sperm competition”. I don’t personally buy it, but I have no evidence either way. It’s much more interesting to me as a higher function anyway. It also doesn’t explain why women would be just as interested in this.
One theory says that the husband (I’ll construct a situation in which it’s the wife having sex with a third party for simplicity) has completely melded his identity into that of his wife and, therefore, it’s a way of living vicariously but as a woman, something he can never do. Another theory is that the man is essentially displaying his wife as a status symbol, as well as confirming her overall desirability and thus ensuring his place in the socio-sexual hierarchy. There’s also the “pornification” of society encouraging the husband to place his wife in the role of his porn fantasies. Finally, some people say they simply derive pleasure from their partner getting pleasure; I think is may sometimes be part of the reason, but I’d be surprised if this is the full psychological explanation.
something he can never do
Um, that’s, like, really offensive?
Trannies aren’t people. Everyone knows that.
There’s a lot of complex things going on and many different types to this. Sort of a spectrum from; *shrug* whatever, because the other partner isn’t competition, to comperssion, to candaulism, to enjoying the status signaling you mention, to enjoying the humiliation of your partner being serviced by someone “better”/or the humiliation of the partner by pimping them out so-to-speak, to those who have some sort of bi-sexual or trans-sexual fantasies as you describe.
I’m interested why you put quotes around “better”. Are there not objective measures of better or worse (ie: penis size, orgasm quality/frequency, blow job abilities for females, etc.). This is where the Frontal Lobe has to work really hard at not getting drowned by the midbrain’s jealousy and fear of losing the partner. A more philosophical explanation might be that one’s sexual ability is the one thing that one would hope defines total and utter uniqueness and god-like power. To have that undercut by someone objectively better is having the metaphysical rug pulled out.
Two things I was getting at: what is better is somewhat subjective. Plenty of women would rather have a normal size cock than a really large one so I’ve heard from women with no reason to lie about and who have the experienced to make them credible, as the claim is that really big ones sometimes don’t get all that hard. Or men who prefer women in their 30s who have slightly more fat on them to a 20something hard body, because the lady in her 30s has a better idea of what to do with her body, or more confidence. The objective measures aren’t always directly correlated with better performance.
There’s also an element of a kind of cognitive dissonance that humiliation focused play involves. The person being humiliated may know that they are actually a good partner and lover but gets the thrill from being humiliated by one of those objective measures. It winds up being reassuring that the partner comes back after experiencing a better sexual encounter and creates the frisson that drives the pleasure.
“It winds up being reassuring that the partner comes back after experiencing a better sexual encounter and creates the frisson that drives the pleasure.”
Fascinating.
No those would be subjective measures of better.
While I am not a woman those who I have talked to all had very different preferences to what they considered better. A person who was rated by one partner as horrible could be the best ever for a different partner. There are of course a handful of things that generally improve your “score” with the bulk of the opposite sex (good hygene, actually being interested in their pleasure, etc.) but I have never encountered a single trait, skill, or activity that was universally considered a positive.
As far as Cucks, getting that metaphorical rug pulled out is what gets them off. For whatever reason they like being humiliated. Maybe they have some level of deep seated self loathing that they want to be punished for, maybe by giving in to their insecurities in those somewhat controlled environments it makes them easier to deal with elsewhere I am not sure. While I do actually enjoy sharing my wife with others I derive no humiliation from it and if anyone tried to humiliate me over it things would end badly for all involved so I cannot speak to why they are the way they are. I have just known enough of them to know that this is how it is for them.
For myself however, it has never once occurred to me to worry about whether anyone else she might be with is “better” than me and I have never once feared that I would lose her over a sexual encounter. We have built a life together that would be extremely painful for both of us to sever and that would be true even after all the kids have grown and moved out so why would she put herself through that pain and hardship for a better lay when she knows she could keep seeing that better lay whenever she wanted with my blessing? No if she were to leave me it would be solely because I was no longer meeting her needs, other lovers would have nothing to do with it.
Also I know most of you do not understand or get it but If I thought she would be happier with someone besides me then as painful as it was I would step aside and let her have her happiness. Yes it would be painful for me but trying to force her to stay when her wishes are elsewhere is not really going to make it any less painful for me and will make it much more painful for her so why waste time on it. I would let her go and get on with the process of healing so I could move on to whatever is next in my life. Given that other sex partners on her part pose not threat to me or our relationship status whatsoever.
but I have never encountered a single trait, skill, or activity that was universally considered a positive
Non-syphilitic, maybe?
Hell no. I get the thrill of rolling the dice.
Being involved in this at varying levels for many years I can offer some insignt…
Yes in these cases it is usually only the man sharing his wife aspect that needs to be examined. Women sharing their husbands has a rather long and established history generally resulting from their greater comfort with bisexuality or their considering even a shared portion of him to be preferable to the alternative of being alone.
That said while I cannot say that this theory contains no validity at all I do not think it is a meaningful driver of the phenemonon. I think it would be much more likely that he would want the freedom to fuck anyone he wanted whenever he wanted and since as a man he cannot do that he can live vicariously through his wife doing it as a woman. He is not putting himself in her place and feeling things as a woman but rather in being sexually empowered to have an almost unlimited number of partners.
This is one of the main drivers, competing with actual cuckoldry as being the largest driver. For most of the men who have been into this that I have known having a desirable wife elevated their status and so they recieved an ego boost by watching their wives be with other men.
Also a factor, usually goes in tandem with the prior theory
While this is somewhat more rare when it is present it is generally the only reason present. Some people are just lacking the jealousy gene and they consider anything which is at least reasonably healthy makes their partner happy
While this is somewhat more rare when it is present it is generally the only reason present. Some people are just lacking the jealousy gene and they consider anything which is at least reasonably healthy makes their partner happy
Compersion is the word the poly community uses and I know some folks like this. It’s a little weird interacting with them and they are rare birds as almost everyone gets jealous at some point.
Thanx for the insights doods.
As one of those rare people who does not get jealous and does experience Compersion I know just how rare it is.
I kind of envy you that. I’m not into the wife-sharing as being non-monogamous so mine is more a ethical position. Her boyfriend isn’t going to take her away from me. As you mention, we have a life together that is incredibly good and if we ever split up it would be over things not related to our sex life or her running off with another guy. So I’m more indifferent with occasional instances of irrational jealousy. (What the fuck do you mean you ate /Italian/ with him. I love Italian, but you rarely want to go eat Italian with /me/. Or she’s got a date and I don’t that weekend due to logistics.) My wife gets the compersion thing too, but she’s gotten jealous once or twice when she felt like the person i was dating was too much like her for her comfort.
Well it could be worse.
While I am perfectly happy for my wife to be seeing other people I had to go and fall for someone who does not share my enlightened views. 17 years together and she is still convinced that I could not possibly actually be into her and am just settling and the minute another woman so much as talks to me it means I am leaving her forever.
Not that this is much of an issue as I have pointed out to her it has been more than a decade since any woman (largely including her) has really shown much of any interest in me so it is not like she has any competition anyway.
“17 years together and she is still convinced that I could not possibly actually be into her and am just settling and the minute another woman so much as talks to me it means I am leaving her forever.”
I wonder how common this is, considering my gf is the same way.
I could not possibly actually be into her and am just settling and the minute another woman so much as talks to me it means I am leaving her forever.
Is she wrong?
Lol yes she is wrong, That said her growing adoption of social justice bullshit is making me question that
Think of it as Flake’s audition for that MSNBC talking head gig he so dearly covets.
He’ll be ready to step in when the men with the butterfly nets finally come for Scarborough.
Joe’s Song
I could tell some stories.
Please don’t.
Finally, some people say they simply derive pleasure from their partner getting pleasure
Just buy her an ice cream cone.
Something I’m having to remind myself from time to time before I get too worked up about the political scandal du jour… politics is in and of itself a fail state. When a problem becomes a matter of policy, and therefore susceptible to prevailing political winds, it’s already defaulted to failure. We couldn’t come up with a proper solution, or we couldn’t fend off those who didn’t want to see a proper solution reached, and therefore humanity has failed and turned to politics. Some problems are by their nature wicked and thus default almost instantly to failure, and become permanent wards of politics. Others will gradually find themselves quagmired in failure, or in a sudden reversal of deregulation, freed of it. But it’s good to remember, at least for keeping one’s sanity, that politics isn’t a matter of good and evil, although there are good people and evil people engaged in it, but grades of shittiness. Whether you want your shit sandwich with big wogs of shit or just a thin shit spread doesn’t make it any less a shit sandwich.
That’s an excellent way to look at it. The goal for anti-statists of all stripes should be to change the culture, not to win the political fight. Libertarians can’t win in the Team game because libertarianism and its fellow travelers are ill-suited to the contest and don’t really want to win anyway. They can’t really turn the two big parties too successfully either, again, simply because the nature of the end-goal sort of eliminates people who buy into it from winning the political contest; it’s like saying you want vegetarians to win wing eating competitions by selling contestants on vegetarianism. But if you can take topics off the table of discussion for political decision, then you win. The win-state looks like a bunch of PTA members arguing over who should design the nightwatchman’s uniform while the rest of us get on with the business of living.
But it’s good to remember, at least for keeping one’s sanity, that politics isn’t a matter of good and evil
Wut?
I have been assured by highly knowledgeable people that politics is the realm of two teams: TEAM Good, and TEAM Evil. TEAM Good must triumph, at any cost.
And we are now to the point that you determine how good a cause is by the tactics used to advance the cause: if you aren’t willing to advance your cause “by any means necessary”, then your cause must not be righteous. And you can only provide you will use “any means necessary” by, in fact, using them. In short, the worse your tactics (defamation, smears, violence, lies, intimidation, etc.), the more righteous your cause.
Hence, the death of civil society.
if you aren’t willing to advance your cause “by any means necessary”, then your cause must not be righteous.
What sort of wishy-washy dissembling ponce doesn’t want to burn his enemy’s eyes out with a red hot poker?
Exactly!
Alinsky had it right: Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their
womencis-gendered shitlords!Fuck the U.N. can’t cross a major avenue to get back to work to eat the lunch I just bought. How retarded is this