I guess that Mahomes dude is the real deal after that performance in the fourth quarter last night. In a quirk of scheduling, the two losers from yesterday’s divisional one-game playoffs will meet this evening in Chicago to play the NL wild card game. The winner heads to Milwaukee to start that series later in the week. My money is on a Cubs-Brewers rematch. The AL game takes place tomorrow in New York, with the Yankees taking on the Athletics. And the second group of UCL group games starts today, with ManUre-Valencia headlining today’s slate. Look for a managerial change if the red debbils lose. And damn, are Penn State fans ever salty after they lost to Ohio State. But they’re not nearly as salty as this fuckhole is. I mean…come on dude. Do you want to ever be taken credibly again? Objective “Sports journalists”, amirite?
Are you a birthday boy or girl today? If so, you share it with the following: badass rebel Nat Turner, German leader (who failed at keeping a giant asshole out of power) Paul von Hindenburg, pacifist and sex freak Mahatma Gandhi, brilliant, unrivaled, incredible (I’d never run out of superlatives to describe the) comedian Groucho Marx, also hilarious Bud Abbott, movie critic Rex Reed, founder of NFL Films Steve Sabol, musician Don McLean, picture-taker Annie Liebovitz, rocker Michael Rutherford, actor and singer Sting, wrestler Yokozuna, skinny woman Kelly Ripa, and singer (who got naked in Playboy) Tiffany.
Its also the day on which the following occurred: Saladin captured Jerusalem, Jacques Cartier discovered Montreal, Charles Darwin returned to England, Brigham Young was arrested for bigamy, Potter’s “The Tale Of Peter Rabbit” was published, the San Diego Zoo opened, “Peanuts” made its debut, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” made its tv debut, strangely enough, so did “Twilight Zone”, “The Bridge On The River Kwai” made its big screen debut, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice, “Scrubs” debuted, and Vin Scully finally shut up after calling his last game which the Dodgers hilariously lost to the Giants.
Sorry if that last bit ruffles some feathers. I never cared for his endless droning or that voice. Anyway, on to…the links!
NBS News effectively gives an open platform to the biggest nut job this side of Alex Jones. And they excuse it by saying, in about 10 seconds, that the claims she’d made over the last hour can’t be verified or corroborated by anybody at all. Stay classy, “journalists”.
If I ever consider taking a trip to New Zealand, would you guys find someone to slap the shit out of me? Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
The left (and media)’s latest freakout? An alleged bar skirmish 33 years ago where ice may have been thrown. Because nothing says disqualifying like somebody possibly throwing ice over what nobody knows may have been said or done to him or a friend of his in the preceding moments. Stupid, puritanical SoCons, you know? Oh wait…
Mother of kid who sucks as an athlete goes out of her way to prove she’s an asshole. I’m sure that’s gonna help her son make friends.
After reading the headline, I expected the complaint to be about not wanting to sell the piece at all. After reading it, I discovered that there’s at least one smart person involved in politics in Chicago. And it ain’t the mayor.
This sounds like a good use of taxpayer money. I just hope she invests a little bit of that in getting rid of that wart or whatever it is in the middle of her forehead. Jeez, looks like a man scorned can be just as furious as a woman.
Well, if you were planning on coming to Houston to bang a robot, you may want to hold off on booking that trip. Looks like the city council will have the last word on the plan. Which means it won’t happen and pervs will continue to not have an outlet for their desires aside from other people.
I don’t want to hear bitching about my music today. I’m playing three songs because I think these guys were really solid. Song #1. Second song. The finale.
That’s it. Go to work. And have a great day!
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The left (and media)’s latest freakout? An alleged bar skirmish 33 years ago where ice may have been thrown.
Hmm… I know a woman who was thrown out of a bar after throwing ice at another patron who pushed her. She’s now a prosecutor. Should I come forward?
On several occasions she got me very drunk, to the point of passing out, and had sex with me while she herself remained sober. What’s more, I would wake up from my stupor the next morning and find her assaulting me again. And this wasn’t 37 years ago, this was up till last year. I broke off contact due to fear of reprisal after she took her job with DAs. That seems like a pretty clear power imbalance.
(Actually it’s because I couldn’t stand being around her, even just for sex, but there’s no such thing as a perfect victim, right?)
Come to think of it, I have many texts from her badgering me for sex or trying to guilt me into a relationship. Doesn’t that qualify as emotional abuse in 2018?
Are you a Cis-hetero man? Because in that case, no. You are incapable of being a victim.
Braggart.
The real question is whether I strike while the iron is hot or wait a couple decades to derail whatever higher-office aspirations she has in her 50s.
This would make you the Willie Brown to her Kamala Harris?
Because you know Willie has some stored up favors to ask President Harris.
Do u have any video if this victimization? I used to be a lawyer, I can help.
“I used to be a lawyer, I can help.”
Sure thing, Slippin’ Jimmy.
It’s infuriating how Puritanical some motherf’ers become when they think they can use it as a weapon against people they don’t like. All of a sudden everybody who voted for Hillary is a teetotaler who only engages with the opposite sex following a series of negotiations through a third-party representative, sort of like a duel, and has very calm, sober, respectful intercourse from time to time, being careful to ensure that any signs of toxic masculinity have been scrubbed thoroughly from the room.
The thing that is galling to me is that if you research these cunts now acting as if they are SoCons, you will find every single one of them not only turned a blind eye to democrats – and in particular Bill Clinton – doing the real nasty and criminal shit, but they defended these perps then with some of the most idiotic and evil cop outs you could imagine.
Right. And when you bring that up to people who are pressing for Kavanaugh to withdraw you get the “whataboutism” excuse. Well, if these people had shown this much concern when it was their own sacred ox slated for goring you wouldn’t have people like Cory Booker and Keith Ellison in the mix to generate accusations of hypocrisy.
to ensure that any signs of toxic masculinity have been scrubbed thoroughly from the room.
They should check the drapes; that’s where I always wipe mine.
This guy is a saint if this is the best they can do.
You know, if I were to try to create a mental image of “Yale bar fight”, throwing ice at each other is probably about right. As long as it’s lobbed underhand, with adequate fair warning. And the ice is made from distilled water, without harmful chemicals. And women and minorities are invited to throw some as well.
I picture a bunch of awkward slapping that doesn’t actually connect with anything.
She sure sounds like the prosecutor type.
Save it all until President Harris (shudder) nominates her.
Mother of kid who sucks as an athlete goes out of her way to prove she’s an asshole.
How bad do you have to be to get cut from a high school soccer team in America where nobody plays or watches soccer? It was basically no-cut when I was a kid.
Cut from t he JV team. Not the varsity, but cut from the JV as a junior. Because of “age discrimination”.
I think their rule is reasonable. If you try out for varsity you can’t play JV. Same how I think senators and congressmen should lose their seat if they run for president.
the rule in our high school league was simple: anyone could play varsity but only freshmen and sophomores could play JV.
Way back in the day, we had V, JV and Frosh/Soph. Anyone could be on the first two.
I wonder if Patrick Reed’s mom is gonna step up for him
Oh man, that whole situation is hilarious. Reed is notoriously unlikeable. Like Bubba Watson-level unlikeable. And Speith is one of the nicest guys on tour and is part of the clique of young golfers everybody enjoys being around. This will not go well for Reed the next time a team competition comes around (meaning next year).
Reed always struck me as a prissy bitch.
Airing laundry after a big loss is not a good look for a National Team.
Did you catch this story?
I guess they need to yell “incoming” after every shot?
Head on a swivel, lady!
I’ve got a Bubba anecdote you’ll appreciate. From a friend of one of my employees.
The guy (friend of employee) is standing at the 18th green where everyone is waiting for the pros to come off and give autographs, etc… Kid to the side of him is totally stoked to get Bubba Watson’s autograph. Bubba comes up, looks at the kid, looks at the kid’s dad behind him who’s holding a beer, and then tells the kid point blank that he would have given him an autograph but his dad is a little too drunk for his taste, so nope.
I bet he said they had an ugly dog as well?
-Roy McAvoy
Stewart Cink drank Guinness from the claret jug after winning the British.
I am sure he was not the first or the last to do that.
Someone named Bubba is unwilling to trade an autograph for the old man’s beer? WTH is up? Times have changed since I left TX. All the Bubbas I knew would sign anything for a beer…
Augusta St and uga.
On the other hand, have you ever heard anyone say anything negative about Matt Kuchar?
KOOOCH!
Wait, it says he was cut from varsity and because he is a Junior, he cannot play on JV.
Soccer is kind of big in the St. Louis area (I come from there), in fact it was even back when I went to school there (70’s). So it not surprising they had more kids try out than the team could accommodate.
My son was cut. It’s brutal where we live.
I still think its OK for parents to have their sons circumcised. I wouldn’t call it “brutal”.
>>or whatever it is in the middle of her forehead.
third eye?
STEVE SMITH FIND ALL HIKERS HAVE THIRD (BROWN) EYE.
So if they lanced it, she’d be third-eye blind? Nevermind then. They suck worse than that tumor.
You’re mental. Stephan Jenkins is a right cunt but he had a three album streak from 1997 to 2003 that was pure anthemic rock gold.
I, uh, oh, whatever.
Take this quarter, go downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off your face
Finished re-shingling the house yesterday. Oh my was I wrong about what that entailed. Excited to get back to my desk job today.
Heh. Yeah, that’s a fun job, aint it?
I cant work on the roof anymore because my knees suck, which gives me a perfect excuse to go ahead and hire someone.
I understand.
Roofing has got to be the shittiest job there is. There is no such thing as perfect weather for it. And not paying attention can kill you.
I will contest that. I believe we did have perfect weather. 55+ temp, slightly overcast, just a slight breeze.
It may not kill you but with 24″ center rafters and carrying a bundle gives you the willies if you step in the middle.
I had a friend that was a general contractor. I asked what the hardest job was to hire for, assuming it would be finish carpenter. Nope, roofers. Worst job = worst people = always drunk, high or in jail, as in he would routinely have to bail even the foremen out on Monday morning so the work might get done.
I worked with a roofing crew for two summers in high school. I was the only one who showed up on time and sober.
I do pretty much everything around my property (electrical, plumbing, auto repair, etc.) but shingling is one thing I won’t do. Thankfully, our house shouldn’t need it for at least another decade.
I did some shingling when I was a framing carpenter and it was my second most hated job, right behind concrete work.
You know there is a vaccine for that.
I just re did my roof on Sat. Started at 7 finished by 5:30. Very successful day. I hired a friend who is a contractor to put together the materials and be the lead man. That worked out excellent. He did the sheeting repairs and properly vented the bathroom vent through the roof (not into the soffit!), got us started on the rows, did the valley and ridge vent. We tore the old stuff off and nailed the new stuff on. Sometimes it’s nice to own a simple ranch house.
The insurance company paid for my new roof. I decided I was tired the pain of dealing with asphalt shingles in hail country and threw in the extra lucre to get a metal roof.
It looks great and my insurance went down $25 a month because it’s warranteed for 40 years (as long as I signed the cosmetic damage waiver).
Only thing was I think my chimney might be leaking, and my stupid ass got on the roof with the garden hose.
Metal roof.
Water.
Not well thought out. Getting back off the roof was ‘interesting’.
As in ‘terrifying’.
You need some magnet boots.
That was the exact scenario my friend (the above contractor) witnessed with his neighbor. Goes to wash the roof down with the garden hose (don’t know why) and then realizes he’s stuck up there for a while. A taller ladder was eventually brought in that he could evacuate from the end of the house with the pitch.
Jeez, looks like a man scorned can be just as furious as a woman.
Meh, “I was hacked” is the modern equivalent of getting caught with drugs and claiming you’re wearing someone else’s pants.
How is that painting worth $15mil? Artistically it’s ameteurish, and it’s sheer size makes it awkward at best. And the artist isn’t even dead yet.
Because some art is “Art” – as deemed by the critics – while other stuff can be bought on Ebay or at a summer festival for $15.
Because someone is willing to pay that much for it.
AKA “marketing”.
>>The left (and media)’s latest freakout?
From my view up on top of the mountain, seeing the herd antics of the Democrats / Media (redundant) is sickening. Who can look at themselves in the mirror spouting such a line of shit?
The worst part is, not only do they not have problems, they look and go “keep up the good fight”
By. Any. Means. Necessary. Nothing more to it than this.
I suppose having no principles or conscience has its advantages.
There’s an actual diagnosis for when a person functionally has no conscience or sense of morality beyond “things that benefit me are good, things that don’t are bad”. I want to say it’s antisocial personality disorder, aka psychopathy.
When your entire political philosophy requires use of a scorched earth policy to get what you want, maybe you want something you don’t deserve.
From the art article: “This is, at best, a one-time asset sale”
This is a common mistake I see big gov spenders make. Claiming they can fund something by a one time asset sale
Harry Browne was going to fund Social Security (for current recipients) by selling off federal land.
On Monday morning, Avenatti tweeted a picture of Snow interviewing his client, along with the hashtags “#Truth #Facts #Courage #Justice.
#teamthatneverhappened
What kind of brain injury did Avennati suffer to feel no shame? It is it that he’s all in on the partisan express? When will he be censured for malpractice?
He went to law school.
+1
…Snow?
My darling Feyd-Rautha grows impatient with these links.
Travellers refusing digital search now face $5000 Customs fine
They’re knuckling down on assholes.
They are fingering the criminals.
More like fisting people in general.
The method they employ is the shocker.
Winner.
Tard Tuesday: Call to Arms Edition
refuse to leave until a SPECIAL AGENT TAKES YOUR REPORT.
It would have to be a special agent, wouldn’t it?
“He lied under oath to Congress about that many times, and everybody witnessed it. Whichever lie he told that a person has specific knowledge is false, is the federal crime to report there in the FBI field office.”
We know he did it, now we just need the proof.
They’re setting a whole bunch of nitwits up for lying to an FBI agent. Can we eat popcorn in the FBI lobby and just watch?
Yeah…. they’ll be suffering consequences for that…
Hey, wanna buy some ocean front property in Nebraska??
Plus, these people are sociopaths. I suppose most politicians are. It is part and parcel of narcissistic personality disorder. They have no empathy for others. The little people are just a means to an end.
And we will find people that will claim that he lied for the right payoff!
Holy shit, please do this, crazy people. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease. Record video of yourself doing it, in fact, and post that shit. /#Trump2020
That’s sane.
Keep it up, assholes.
Because there’s nothing cops love dealing with more then over-entitled assholes sitting in their office demanding to see someone. I’m willing to bet it’s going to work as well as sitting in the emergency room with a cold while screaming that you’re dying and need to see someone, or you’ll sue them all for malpractice.
Thursday Sep. 27, 2018 Brett Kavanaugh committed maybe 100 federal crimes.
Hm…Literally every time Her Shrillness hit “send” she was committing up to three felonies and there many tens of thousands of instances of that.
With so many words in all caps it must be true.
This man is not happy about the Cubs’ defeat. I am confident in tonight’s playoff–home field advantage with notable Big Game Pitcher Jon Lester getting the ball. Still it’s baseball and anything can happen. Breathe.
Tomorrow is a national holiday and Lady is coming down. This will be the first time together since we kinda-sorta broke up. Should be interesting.
I’m excited my Red Sox are in and don’t have to play a wild card game. But I’m not looking forward to the stress and sleep deprivation that is playoff baseball when I actually care.
I think the Indians have a solid chance if we can get past the Astros. I don’t get too invested until the World Series though.
All year few talked about the Indians and yet they probably have the strongest 4-man rotation. Four with over 200 S0s.
Plus they can hit. So yeh, they’re a legit team.
Living in Cleveland, I can hear people talk about the Indians non stop (what else are they going to talk about in sports, the Browns? The Cavs?). The issue was the bullpen at the beginning of the year just wasn’t there, and they kept winning the first 5-6 innings of the game, then losing in the end. They’ve made some moves to fix that, and they’re looking a lot better now.
Would you rather get the Yankees, or the As?
Haven’t seen the A’s so long it’s hard to say.
The As are no joke this year. I’m a little worried about getting past them in a one game playoff, because each of the Yankees starters has been susceptible to early inning disasters.
Yep. I know that the Red Sox can get to Yankee pitching – I also know the Yankees will hit Sox pitching.
Let’s go Oakland!
Brett Kavanaugh disrespected Christine Blasey Ford and American principles
SEARED!
I suppose he should have conducted himself in the sociopathic style of Hillary.
I mean really. At this point, what difference does it make?
!!!
She actually did kinda yell it, if i recall correctly.
Shrilled it, you mean.
And this:
his accusers backing off
I’m sorry, when did that happen? I must have blinked.
Really, keep it up, assholes.
Yeah, more Republican commercials writing themselves.
They can’t wrap their heads around the concept of consequences for their actions. Were they raised without accountability?
You slander someone for two weeks, then you should expect a response.
This. Instead they chalk it up to white privilege.
Yeah, let’s imagine if Dems put a black man through the wringer the way they have Kavanaugh. Crimony, what a spectacle that would.
When did you stop beating your wife with a pubic hair?
Imagine if a woman hollered as did Kavanaugh. She would be derided for being shrill. Remember what happened to Serena Williams at the U.S. Open.
Admittedly I didn’t watch the hearings, but if Kavanaugh was receiving coaching from his lawyer then stood up in the middle of questioning, smashed the table, threw his notes, and screamed at the Democratic senators at the top of his lungs that they were thieves and liars and persecuting him because he was a white man, then I want him put on the court immediately, his atrocious record on the 4th amendment notwithstanding.
That was pretty much what Lindsey Graham did, believe it or not.
I still don’t want him on the Supreme Court. Lindsey, that is.
“We saw, too, a political calculus that the prize of confirming a highly conservative Supreme Court justice was worth pretty much any moral price.”
But no moral price is too much to pay to stop it.
As noted before. The fact that they are going after his indignation means they have nothing to go on with the sexual claims.
Kava-Nope.
These people getting paid to protest are immature twits.
And Abramsky needs to lay off the soy milk.
What about Serena? She was wrong. She embarrassed herself. Did he seriously trot out her classless outburst to make his faggy point?
swap confirming with defeating and you’ve got something.
bellowed…hollered
I heard a rightfully upset man be assertive and perhaps slightly raise his voice on occasion.
powerful men reflectively rallying
*reflexively?
Just curious Kamala, what does Willie Brown’s jizz taste like?
Kamala Harris Presents Letter Claiming Kavanaugh & Friend Repeatedly Raped ‘Jane Doe’ in Car
You know who else presented a letter?
An anonymous letter. Harris deserves to be censured for entering that into the record. What an unbelievable bitch.
Censured by institutions manned by comparably unscrupulous sociopaths, wouldn’t count on it.
That ship has sailed.
Major Wagner of the 47th Panzer Corps and junior officer Lt. Hellmuth Henke of the Panzer Lehr Operations Section?
Who was it that predicted yesterday that another allegation would be leveled today? It wasn’t that difficult to predict but they credit for nailing it.
RC Dean, IIRC.
I think I said it would be today or tomorrow, since dropping it Thursday and Friday would be just too obvious, but probably tomorrow.
Me.
Holy shit, you can’t even parody this level of crazy.
R.B. Greaves?
Holy shit, Kavanaugh is either
a) a modern Caligula, and also very lucky since he has never been accused of any crime
b) or the victim of some crazy-ass slanderous shit.
or both.
Based on his choirboy behavior over his entire career, I’m gonna go with ‘b’.
Absolutely amazing that not a single one of these accusations ever arose when the guy was a Federal DC Circuit Judge
THIS.
If any of this shit is true, he should be impeached immediately. And it should have come out during his initial hearings in 2006.
Or more obviously, when he was in the Bush White House. People love them some political slander. And finding a Bush administration official that was a serial gang rapist would have been a delicious prize.
But back then, everybody that was in the Bush Administration was a serial rapist and war criminal.
How were you supposed to weed out Kavanaugh?
The Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh last Wednesday regarding a letter delivered to Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) in which an anonymous woman claims she was repeatedly raped by the judge without providing any details to investigate.
Details, schmetails. You don’t need details (or a named accuser) when you have faith. And the fact that each of these accusations is more absurd, having less probability and less potential evidence, than the last is of no concern. ///BelieveWomen
Fuck these assholes. I am now in full ‘Own-the-Dems’ mode. They are shameless in their lust for power and they need to be stopped.
touch my titties over my clothes > stuck his dick in my face > gang raped me.
I really want to see where this progression leads to.
The dems hope it leads to them controlling who gets in the WH or on the SCOTUS bench forever.
Cannibal biker gang? Hunting men for sport?
Collaborated with the Nazis!!!!
*Hides Soros Money*
Satanic ritual child-rape
All of these things are covered by being in the Bush Administration.
Maybe they need to bring up her sex life.
And how do you know she took some in the face?
I have it on good authority sir that she was a big fan of wood-peckering and constantly demanded I administer it!
She definitely had an affair with Brown (married at the time), which got her political career started.
THAT WASN’T THE QUESTION!
/evil grin.
I’m in a car dealership waiting room. The news channel just had an attack ad on a NJ Congressman who wants to repeal the NJ assault weapons ban – they even showed scary evil pictures of the NRA and Brett Kavanaugh. I would absolutely vote for the guy if I lived in his district.
They just had a news story about how NJ is 49th in the country in economic growth, Governor Murphy’s solution – targeted tax incentives (while raising taxes).
WE CORRUPT ASSHATS IN GOVERNMENT GET TO PICK WHO WINS AND WHO LOSES!
I Want to Believe
It gets even better after that.
So it’s an article of faith based on political convenience. Super, bro. Thanks for sharing.
I believe this primarily due to the hearings where he defended himself from accusations of sexual assault.
Protestations of innocence are proof of guilt, comrade.
Unless the Democrats get crushed in the mid-terms as a response to this insanity, I don’t think it bodes well for this country.
I have a suspicion that the midterms are going to crush them, but regardless of what happens, this country is already fucked because of these people.
Marxist legal prosecution tactic thought in commie law 101.
It’s taught there too.
I believe pink elephants can fly over the moon. So what?
” I don’t believe “boofing” refers to flatulence or “Devil’s Triangle” refers to a drinking game. I believe Kavanaugh knows this.”
Even the illuminati conspiracy theorists are distancing themselves at this point.
Yet Alex Jones get permabanned everywhere.
A special ROADZ edition:
Your Opinion: Democratic Socialism saves lives
Fire departments and roads are not socialism.
And I’m pretty sure Congress doesn’t fund my my town’s volunteer fire department or roads. Nor should they.
The government handles roads do well we should let them control every other aspect of our lives.
Yeah, the government builds them and Dominos Pizza fixes them when the bloated bureaucracy won’t or can’t.
In my state of “The People’s Republic of Connecticut”, we have the second highest gas tax in the nation, have municipalities charging some of the highest property taxes not just to pay local shit but to send “road repair money to the state”, and are forced to pay ridiculous registration and green project related fees every time we register our vehicles, so the state can collect a shit ton of money that supposedly is earmarked for road repairs. Unfortunately all that money ends up in the general fund, where the blue pols immediately re-appropriate it for vote buying schemes. So there rarely is enough money to fix any roadz and they are really showing it. But the blue pols have a crap ton of money to buy votes from That is why we now have another blue asshat telling us he will bring back road tolls (which were removed when we were told we would “temporarily” get a state income tax to solve the overspending problem we had some 20 years ago) to pay for new roadz!
Fuck the people that tell us roadz makes socialism a good thing.
Funny how these asshats peddling this marxist wealth redistribution shit always claim that their dogma is firefighters and roads, which by all accounts seems to be a fraction of the massive tax levies these “tax and spend” socialists implement whereever they gain power, and never mention the massive amount of money confiscated from the productive actually goes to buying votes from people that do nothing but vote for the political class that provides them with that payoff.
Also, if we are to believe global warming hysteria, why are they bragging about building roads?
Non private fire departments are. Privatize all of them. Sell subscriptions.
the majority party’s priorities do not include the well-being of The People.
How is “well-being” defined and interpreted?
Who do we put in charge of this project? And why should they be in charge of the project?
What does it even mean to have “well being”, and how could you possibly implement whatever sketchy conclusions you reached on hundreds of millions of individuals?
Dude, that’s why they have
sovietscommittees, to determine all that stuff in a fair and impartial manner.Stuff like this renders me speechless, which I guess means I got rekt n told
Wtf I love socialism now
It is well known that Westward Expansion was totally stymied until the benevolent government working for We the People stepped in and build roads to Oregon (with the mandated rest areas every 75 miles) and provided fire departments and schools for frontier towns. See Deadwood for more on this. It is a great documentary.
You know who else liked to build transportation lanes…
Humpy Wheeler?
look up concepts like Democratic Socialism at nonpartisan websites
Any website that seriously discusses Democratic Socialism is NOT nonpartisan.
or consult a librarian
“Hello, what’s the deweydecimal code for books heavy enough to bludgeon someone?”
Stay classy, “journalists”.
They got to run propaganda with the cover of the technicality of the disclaimer. Win-win.
What does 1.5C mean in a warming world?
“Oh shit, it looks like that pulled-from-our-ass number we put out 30 years ago might actually get met with the current pace of technology before we get a shiny new supranational world governing body out of it.”
WOOSH go the goalposts!
Good lord. They never quit. It gets so tiresome.
Best number to date is 0.1° per decade. So even reaching that 1.5° is dubious within any reasonable amount of time.
They cant show any solid connection between human activity and temperature change. It is a natural phenomena that has been going on since earth. they cant show any feasible way that we can effect changes in temperature changes. All they can do is scaremonger people into giving them money.
The best science out there will not say that there’s no human contribution. But what we don’t know is how much of it is anthropogenic and how much is natural. Maybe our fossil fuel stuff is significant, maybe it isn’t: we just. don’t. know.
But we certainly feel
Here’s the thing: even if human activity is causing some additional warming, we are coming due for another ice age. Humanity has always done better during warmer periods with longer growing seasons and food crops viable closer to the poles. So even if humanity is causing some warming (hasn’t been demonstrated, but even if) that is preferable to cooling, especially since the additional warming tends to result not so much in hotter summers, but in milder winters.
^THIS^
Imagine how much more wheat Canada could grow if it was just a bit warmer. Colder temps should scare the shit out of countries like China and India. A few years of bad crops because of shorter growing seasons and those countries have big problems.
And don’t forget even the CDC admits cold kills more people than heat.
Personally, I’ll take crazy cold over crazy heat any day — you can always add layers if you’re cold, after all, but if you’re hot once you’re buck naked there’s really not much more to do.
Why is this always used as some sort of sound reasoning? Everything around you is dead and the next layer you put on might leave you unable to move.
Look the “I can always add more layers” thought is a mantra you repeat over and over to yourself so you can cope with the idea that you are a fucking idiot living in a climate that was not ever meant for humans.
You cling to that excuse that cold is good so you don’t go bat shit crazy.
“Welcome to Minnesoda, land of 10,000 frozen-over slick spots.
Correct: we know nearly nothing.
I have no inkling or agenda in this area.
The modeling burden is unspeakable, organizing the data is a life’s work, and the signal-to-noise is a dead heat. That so many scientists signed a social document on this topic demonstrates how weak most graduates are in math.
This isn’t a late-night Minitab correlation exercise, and anyone with remotely any experience would instinctively shudder at the scale of the work.
That partisans would interpret tiny findings for political leverage surprises no one. That the ignorant will align the conflict between studies into a malevolent conspiracy is predictable.
The people with the strongest opinions couldn’t handle an undergraduate course in linear algebra. Science is a long, slow crawl; curiosity and skepticism are both required fuels.
Legislating based on findings to date is not only premature….it’s monstrous.
“The best science out there will not say that there’s no human contribution.”
What it should do is put that into perspective however. First off, it would dismiss the idiotic idea that the primary agent for warming is CO2 and put the problem squarely where it belongs with water vapor, completely destroying the argument man is destroying the planet because of CO2 emissions. Then it would point out that man’s CO2 output amounts to noise when compared to what nature does naturally. Conclude your takedown by pointing out that the “accurate data” we have, you know the stuff that has not yet been “massaged” by your usual suspects to always make it look like we are warming, amounts to about 50 years of observation, and that is insignificant because it amounts to but a blip in a process that has been going on for at least a billion years since the planet cooled down from a liquid molten mass.
I tell people constantly that the system isn’t a closed system, and more importantly, that nature has self correcting mechanisms regardless of what man does, that simply make any attempts by man to deal with this cooling/warming stuff a nigh impossible task (review the effects of the Mt. Pinatubo erruption where global temps dropped by a full 1 degree F practically overnight in geological terms). And the real proof this is all bullshit is that the priesthood always tells us that the solution is a global marxist wealth redistribution scheme. We would be building nuke plants (the only 100% carbon neutral energy source w know of today) if there really was a drive to solve this through engineering instead of the usual social engineering we get told is the only way to save us all.
Fuck that.
Ahem, that’s State Capitalism:
Venezuela Has Lost 13% of its Population in the Mass Exodus from Socialism
They’ve successfully lowered their carbon footprint.
If enough of the population clears out we could pool our dough, hire some mercenaries, stage a coup, and set up a beneficent libertarian dictatorship. I’ll kick in a little if I can be secretary of hermitage.
Hate, grateful Venezuelan women? Count me in.
…hot
Is edit fairy fucking with me? I hot to doubt her professionalism, but mistakes like that make my hate under the collar.
How much of that exodud is to the other life?
I fully expect things to get worse, even to the point where we start hearing rumors of mass graves. Did I miss it and that has already started? I know there have been rumors of cannibalism…but then it is Venezuela, birthplace of the Carribe.
Why do you need all those different kinds of funerals? Everyone is equal in a mass grave.
It thought Ed Sabol was the father of NFL Films.
They both were.
I look forward to all the people making outrageous accusations against Kavanaugh to be duly punished/excommunicated as well.
This is straight up totalitarian.
Crap.
The “This is straight up totalitarian” is my comment and meant to be put at the bottom of the post. EDIT FAIRY YOU’RE MY ONLY HOPE.
*makes fairy offering*
That sounds gay.
NTTAWWT
More than 40 graduate social work students walked out of their classes
Just think of all the critically important education they missed.
They can’t handle the truth!
The Reign of Terror has begun.
We’re getting to “No Shit Jacobinism”. It’s out of control.
I hate the upper left quadrant of the Nolan chart. So, of course, that is exactly where we’re moving.
Yeah but Utopia soon after
>>donation to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network.
STEVE SMITH GIVE DONATION
every day? He gives from the “heart?”
I guess you can call it that considering he leads with that heart shaped… erm never mind…
It could, quite possibly, touch your heart.
Literally.
That ain’t his heart.
STEVE SMITH MAKE IT R.A.I.N. FOR REAL!
“I offer no excuse,” he wrote on Thursday. “It was impulsive and thoughtless and I apologize. … Victims who suffer assault and abuse need to be heard, respected, and provided treatment and justice.”
pussy
His very own struggle session.
And, via Insty, there is this:
WHAT
THE
FUCK
Yup. Does that surprise you?
We live in a funhouse mirror.
Like the Evergreen shenanigans. The faculty need to sack up and take control of the school.
It was impulsive and thoughtless and I apologize.
Never. Fucking. Apologize. Your statement was dead on, ffs.
Sorry if that last bit ruffles some feathers. I never cared for his endless droning or that voice.
If an announcer worked in NY or LA, he was great, classic, and beloved. Even if he was annoying like Scully or retarded and senile like Chick Hearn.
The greatest baseball announcer ever was, of course, Chuck Thompson.
The best living announcer is, of course, Jon Miller. The worst has a lot of competition, but I’ll throw Joe Buck’s name out there.
Hell no, I hate Jon Miller. He used to wet his pants in delight every time that phony asshole Curt Schilling pitched.
The greatest duo of all time was drunk and senile Harry Caray coupled with Literal Baseball Clairvoyant Steve Stone.
It is known.
Honorable mention to the time that Caray was out and Stone called the game with Bill Murray, history’s greatest human.
Stone called the game with Bill Murray
Shit, I would have loved to have heard that.
You may watch in all of its glory.
Technology is an amazing thing.
Back in the day, the Colts had Artie Donovan as the color commenter. Holy shit, he was great, absolutely the best ever. My favorite moment was when whoever the Colts were playing (I think it was the 49ers) were going for it on 4th down, and their quarterback tried to surprise everyone by throwing a long pass. The Colts had a rookie safety in coverage and instead of knocking the ball down like he should, he intercepted and was immediately tackled. Not understanding that he just cost his team 40 yards, he jumped up and danced joyously over to the sideline, whereupon the coach (Don Shula) grabbed him and started yelling at him. The announcer (Bill O’Donnell) then made a critical mistake- he asked Artie, “What do you think Coach Shula is saying to him?”
Artie (in that wonderful gruff and distinct voice he had) responded, “He’s probably asking him what the fuck he thinks he’s doing out there!”
Dead silence. Then the announcer continued as if nothing happened. My phone rang. It was my uncle. “Ummm, did you hear what I think I just heard?”
“Yeah.”
I was a big fan of John Gordon.
Even though I was not alive when it happened, I got bummed out when I read that he stopped using the phrases “go to war, miss agnes” and “ain’t the beer cold” during his broadcasting career.
Mother files federal lawsuit after son doesn’t make high school soccer team
Some parents sued my football coach for not letting their fat, worthless sons sit their fat asses on the bench. The judge threw it out, of course. I think he would have been smarter to play them against some team that had a bunch of future NFL players so they could limp for the rest of their lives, but he was a kind man in his own way.
Did that kid grow up to be “sports journalist Brett McMurphy” of
ESPNunemploymentFacebookThe Athletic fame?My old football coach got into some trouble for saying “you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken crap” when one of the richer parents in town was complaining about his kid not playing more.
For the most part though, the rest of the town agreed with the coach. Even the kid in question knew he shouldn’t be playing more. It was just the asshole dad.
Eventually the asshole parent let it drop and that was it. We were such rubes. We never even considered suing anyone.
“It was just the asshole dad.”
Yup, as someone that coached kids back when, it was ALWAYS the asshole parents that ruined it for everyone.
Twitter touts its recent work to ‘protect the integrity of elections’
Man. I feel so bad for ignoring twitter completely. Who knew the Internet’s equivalent of a men’s room wall was so consequential?
Well played sir.
‘protect the integrity of elections’
“Facilitate the election of leftist Democrats.”
It’s interesting that New Zealand, a nation that relies heavily on tourism, would try what they’re trying. What a dumbass move for an illusory security gain.
To be fair, how many times have the Kiwi border guards thought they uncovered kiddy porn on a phone only to find out later that it is just simple run of the mill hobbit pr0n?
Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our anti-swatting service
SPD’s process asks citizens to create a profile on a third-party data-management service called Rave Facility (run by the company Smart911). Though this service is advertised for public locations and businesses, it supports private residences as well, and SPD offers steps to input data and add a “swatting concerns” tab to your profile.
Because why should the police be expected to do a little confirmatory investigation before bursting into someone’s home throwing flash bangs and shooting anything that moves?
Libertarian Socialists are regressive leftists that are trying to steal our word.
Libertarian socialist is right up there with promiscuous virgin, tall dwarf, and military intelligence.
Oh dear. The New York Yankees are in traaaa-ble!
Libertarian socialists is an oxmoron.
Socialists dont have to take over the LP. All they have to do is stand back and let the woketarians do it for them.
Would they, or anyone, really want to skinsuit the LP? The point is to demand respect.
A pile of Koch cash and 50 state ballot access is pretty enticing.
Lew Rockwell? *Winston signal lit*
There
is
no
such
thing
Study confirms link between violent video games and physical aggression
Something correlation something causation
What the fuck? Are we actually entertaining studies that pre-state their conclusions?
Replication crisis? What replication crisis?
Look, we cherry picked a bunch of negative studies. And when you pile them all up and look at them from a certain angle, they prove that we were right all along.
And you know what they say about meta-analysis studies.
Garbage in, garbage out.
You can’t take 25 cow pies and bake them into an apple pie.
Bullshit.
You can if you use road apples.
I call BS. This has been extensively studied for at least 30 years. There was a huge bolus of studies after Columbine. Everyone and their brother wants to say video games cause violence. Every few years some yahoo designs a study to demonstrate that their biases are correct and it gets a lot of press. Then a half dozen other groups do better studies to show that the original study was wrong.
Over and over this has been shown to be false. If anything, research has shown that video games lead to less violence.
But this isn’t new, or exclusive to video games. We’ve had the same argument about popular music, football, violent movies, porn, even comic books. It is very popular to believe that some popular form of entertainment or activity causes people to be deviants and rape and murder their way through society.
Fuck studies.
Look around you. The amount of time playing video games by kids has sky rocketed. The crime rate over the same period has dropped dramatically. If there was any link between the two, I doubt the crime rate would be as low as it is.
And capitalism improves people’s lives, and socialism leads to misery.
Enough.
You’ll never make it in academe with your invocation of obvious empirical reality.
Precisely this.
Plus, I have little kids. So I can compare what school was like in the 70’s when I was a kid, vs. school today.
We had no video games at all. Pong came out when I was around 10 or so. And school was reasonably violent. So was playing around the neighborhood. I was a super-peaceful guy who was able to defuse most situations. And I was in punches-thrown fights a reasonably large number of times. I even busted a 6th grade kid’s nose when I was in the 4th grade. We had to sit in the principle’s office and write sentences every morning for a week. (the bigger kid was goaded into beating me up…. he threw about a half-dozen punches before I swung back. I only threw one myself, but it was a clean and straight right hand directly to the schnozz.) Fighting was considered normal back then.
Heck, you watch old sitcoms and they all have a “stand up to the bully” episode where the adults encourage the kid to punch back when the bully comes after them.
Now…. well, fighting is an anomaly now. Anti-bullying is everywhere. Kids are over-supervised.
It isn’t just the levels of criminal violence that have plummeted. Even mundane playground violence is greatly reduced.
Kids these days! I contend that most kids today would curl up in the fetal position if they were dropped into a 1973 schoolroom to live for a week.
+1 My Bodyguard
I’ve had the same thought. My two boys had an entirely different school experience than I had. The one time one of them did get in a fight at school, it was like a bomb had gone off.
The school administrators were aghast that I would not take time off from work to come meet them to talk about it. (My kid had not started the fight, but had stuck up for himself).
I finally told them I’d deal with it at home and that was the last that I wanted to hear about it.
I got into two and a half fights in Jr High. I went 1-1-1 in those fights. I spent a week in detention for one of them (in the same room alone with the kid I fought. The other 1.5 happened in the locker room and were handled by the track coach and involved much running on the other kid’s part (since he was a shot/discus thrower) and learning the fine art of throwing shot for me (who weighed all of 100 pounds at the time).
My son got into a “fight” when he was in 8th grade. Wasn’t really a fight, some kid just sucker-punched him. The school wanted to expel the other kid.
The next generation are pussies.
Something correlation something causation
I heard the coloreds like those games, after all.
If playing violent video games made me more violent, man I would’ve been serving a dozen consecutive life sentences by now.
FWIW, the election results in Quebec were pretty shocking.
The party that brought two referendums, once led by Rene Levesque, changed the trajectory when they won power in 1976 thus sparking a mass exodus of roughly 400 000 English-Quebecers down the 401 to Toronto and the essence of the independence movement was decimated. Not just in seats but losing its party status. The PQ for 40 years have been the main challenger to the Liberals who lost power last night to the Coalition de L’avenir (CAQ). I wish I can say in a few words what their message is but they’re all over the map. The move in and out of stupid nationalism, claims to support small business and whatever. It’s all disjointed. They’re *supposed* to be the part of business but I don’t see what’s so business about them.
The one thing I will note that seems interesting is one of the key issues during the campaign was immigration. The Liberals were hard on the ‘we’re for it’ and the CAQ along the ines of ‘yeh, not so sure about that’. I wonder how much that played a role. If it did, that puts Quebec in line with countries like Italy, Poland, Hungary etc. on the issue.
I voted Liberal (and always considered the CAQ but they speak too much about bringing in punitive French-language legislation) because they did a very good job with the economy. They pushed back $15/hr, kept taxes at bay and for the first time in the country’s history Quebec had a better bond rating than Ontario – that’s pretty significant to me.
Anyway. Charted territories anew. This may not bode well for Trudeau and may indeed be a warning shot. Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party, on the other hand, see light.
Interesting political times ahead.
CAQ – 71 seats.
Liberals – 32.
PQ – 9.
The other thing about the CAQ being bull shit about business is they will maintain the shitty carbon pricing scheme and subsidized daycare.
So they’re just a bunch of names if you ask me.
Ok, last week after listening to Kavanaugh’s questioning I opined on these very pages that among other things the dems were angling for a perjury trap. They questioned him repeatedly about bizarre and sometimes irrelevant things, trying to get him on the record with unequivocal answers. That way they could spend the next week looking for anyone to say “boof” didn’t mean farting.
And what did Jeff Flake say over the weekend? If anything turns up that shows that he either lied or mislead the Senate, then that would be disqualifying. Nice job, Jeff!
Mislead.
In questioning about partying as a teenager 35 years ago.
So what’s that standard again? “I enjoyed beer. I still enjoy beer. But I have never sexually assaulted anyone. And I have never been blackout drunk.” Does that become misleading if somebody says that he got really hammered?
Remember Flake and the Dems with “a limited FBI investigation, not more than 7 days?” We all knew that was a fishing expedition from the jump, designed to delay until they could find more crap to fling. Well, now the FBI is all focused on a bar fight, which was entirely out of the scope of the “limited investigation of allegations raised in this hearing”.
Anyone who supports Flake for anything ever again should have their head examined. That guy doesn’t have enough judgement to be in charge of taking tickets at the movie theater.
Jeff Flake? You mean the Libertarian Party candidate for President in 2020, 2024 and 2032?
In other words, someone whose public life ended no later than 2019.
Why not 2028? Another coup?
2028 is Bernie Sanders
Not even the LP wanted to be involved with that shitshow.
Team Red seems to have trouble keeping the square in tact. All these bullshit battles come down to all team blue in lockstep and everyone wondering which team red member will defect. Obamacare, tax bill, this.
Remember Flake and the Dems with “a limited FBI investigation, not more than 7 days?” We all knew that was a fishing expedition from the jump, designed to delay until they could find more crap to fling.
That was perhaps a secondary purpose of the expanded investigation. The immediate and primary purpose was to delay confirmation until after the SCOTUS session began on October 1st so that Kavanaugh couldn’t break the half dozen ties on high-profile cases on the current docket.
They were pretty good with their shotgun approach. They had the primary goal of just smearing the candidate and forcing another nomination which could not be considered until after the election.
The secondary goal was clearly to get a bunch of republicans on video with a tearful woman, nay survivor!, so they could campaign on the war on women. This was apparent from their insistence on a televised, in person hearing. They were pretty furious about the prosecutor and must have instructed their attorney… er, rather “her attorney”, to make sure that was one of her demands.
Then came the “he lacks judicial temperament” gambit, provoking him with insults and slander and then claiming that getting angry at insults and slander is not worthy of a member of the high court.
Then comes the perjury angle – any answer that we can nitpick is evidence that he is a liar *now*, which negates the “this is when they were kids” defense.
They really had a scattergun approach, with many paths to victory available. The Republicans only have one path to victory, and it is pretty tight. Just getting confirmation is only one step of victory. They also have to defend against all of the war on women slander coming their way as well.
And now Susan Collins is bleating about how the FBI simply MUST investigage Julie Swetnick’s obvious nonsense.
Uffda. I can’t believe that a homeless camp isn’t a great place to live.
Even more interesting is the reaction from Natives Against Heroin
I doubt any white eye counselors would have gotten away with that.
A small crowd gathered to watch and burn sage…
Nice.
What are you talking about. I’ll grant you that Rosenfels was never going to be a legendary Viking QB, but he wasn’t that bad either.
Some families said they have become afraid to venture to the other side of the encampment after dark because it is frequented by drug dealers.
What, you might stumble and accidentally purchase heroin?
“This is an affront to the principle of equal liberty. Using financial leverage to compel another human to change their [sic] hair is an initiation of coercive fraud, and the lie is that hair has anything to do with job performance whatsoever.”
That’s nice.
initiation of coercive fraud
An alleged bar skirmish 33 years ago
So your saying his name is really O’Kavanaugh. Get this man a beer and get him on the bench.
FWIW, the election results in Quebec were pretty shocking.
Too local. Get back to work.
initiation of coercive fraud
Look, Wimpy. If you want a hamburger, you’re going to have to give me the goddam money today.
I don’t want to hear bitching about my music today.
You won’t hear it from me. I dig those guys, even if Sting was a pompous fuckwit. I always enjoyed Copeland’s drumming, his brother’s awesome logo, and his old man’s backstory.
Agreed – I even tracked down all of the Police albums on Japanese vinyl. Love the look of those OBI strips.
Sting wasn’t bad in the Police days. It was when he went solo that his ego began inflating to hot air balloon proportions.
even if Sting was a pompous fuckwit.
He was good in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Because all he had to do was be an asshole – he played himself.
Was curious what’s in the new trade agreement, but apparently this isn’t newsworthy.
I didn’t see it, but my wife said the outrage of the day was Trump told a woman reporter she never thinks.
WAR ON WOMEN!!11!!!
I figure he was insulting reporters in general, but experts say he thinks all women never think or something.
And this is more newsworthy than the new trade deal, apparently.
Hey, I watched a good half hour of NBC news this morning.
The FBI and NYT are expanding the Kavanaugh probe. It is super cereal.
If your kids play Fortnight or Call of Duty, you need to watch this! A new study shows that video games make kids into super violent predators! (ok, i embellished that last bit a little)
Trump is rude! And embarrassing!
That’s about it. They laughed about the weather guy some too.
No trade deal news though.
By expanding the Kavanaugh probe I think it means they questioned everyone in a day so they would be done unless they could question more.
Well, the people they initially questioned had previously signed sworn affidavits under penalty of felony, so it’s not like there was anything else to find out.
Pew should do a poll of Yemenis and their thoughts on the Kavanaugh situation. How often do we get to see a pollster being to death with a sandal?
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Negative Buzz Amplified by Russian Trolls, Study Finds. This has to be up there for dumbest article of the year.
lol.
So some portion of the portion of people who weren’t bots, who were a portion of negative tweeters, who themselves are only the Twitter-using portion of the population, are Russian trolls.
Don’t believe your lying eyes, believe the people who killed the franchise.
Audiences would have loved the 8th take on the same derivative children’s space opera if it weren’t for those meddling Russians! Hollywood is vindicated!
I guess my siblings (huge franchise fans) are Russian bots, since their organic immediate reaction to TLJ was negative and substantiated.
Of course, if you’re forking over money for Hollywood to shit in your mouth, you’re a bit of a bot regardless, nah? /pretentious douche
Joe McCarthy would have been better suited to living today.
those with a political agenda,
I.E. The people that made the movie.
That’s why I never take a tweet seriously until they describe, using single words, only good thoughts about their mother…
None of that sits well with Msall — because, he said, it’s “not tied to an operating plan.”
“There is no recurring revenue that the city or the library has identified as to how those services will be paid for. This is, at best, a one-time asset sale. If the decision is made to take this community asset out of the neighborhood, the money should be for longer-term investments — not operating expenses,” Msall said.
That’s an unenlightened way to look at things.
The town is bankrupt. They can’t meet current operating expenses so they certainly aren’t in a position to make another longer-term investment. Msall is in as much denial as Emmanuel.
Amazon increases its minimum wage to $15
A cash-rich organization rapidly approaching the largest market cap in the world supports labor policies that will bankrupt any potential competitors? Well I’ll be damned.
15 is the most magical number
It appears that the company is also eliminating incentive and productivity targets
I’m sure the productive employees will be happy to know they now make the same as the unproductive.
It’s a bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see if it works out for him.
And jacked up Prime by 20%.
I wouldn’t trust Chicago city employees to take care of a painting worth millions. If the thing isn’t already in the auctioneer’s possession, it’s bound to get vandalized or stolen. Sell the damn thing and screw the library plan.
What can that guy possibly teach us about stuff like due process?
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh will not teach at Harvard Law School in the winter, as he was expected to do, the university announced Monday night in an email to law students.
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“People are coming together to say, ‘This isn’t the type of person we want teaching at Harvard Law,’” said Jessica Lynn Corsi, a law lecturer and 2010 graduate of the school. It’s an incredibly important job, she said, to shape the minds of students destined to become Supreme Court justices, legal scholars and other leaders.
More than 800 graduates have signed the letter in less than three days, but it’s not just the sheer number that carries weight, Corsi argued. “It’s the character and the work of the people that are signing on,” she said.
The letter to the school’s dean, John Manning, asked that Kavanaugh’s appointment as the Samuel Williston Lecturer on Law be rescinded and that he not be allowed to teach in the winter term, as had been planned.
“Now more than ever, HLS must send a clear message that it takes sexual violence seriously,” they wrote. “The accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, including those by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, are credible and grave. They seriously call into question his character and morality, and should disqualify him from . . . any position of esteem, including lectureships at HLS.”
The value of a degree from Harvard Law continues to plummet.
The value of a degree from Harvard Law continues to plummet.
The only value in an Ivy League education is admittance into the social club, and that will never change.
I’m an Ivy League graduate but I live in Texas now and no one has asked me where I went to school in about 25 years. I feel like the club — if there is one — probably applies more to business school or law graduates who wind up in the Northeast.
I’m a software engineer so maybe it depends on your profession.
I think if you actually completed school as a software engineer it’s a sign of failure though. “Hey, you weren’t smart enough to drop out and start your own tech company. Idiot.”
Definitely more true for legacy professions. Law in particular. There’s certain places you will never go regardless of competence without the social capital. In terms of actually learning the mechanics of the law, east bumblefuck university can do that for you.
My brother went to Stanford Business School, and I got the impression that was very much about connections. Chelsea Clinton was in his business school class, and he said people would always get drunk and go chat her up. “Hey, my dad is a lawyer. What does your dad do?!” And shit like that.
I think the impression here about the Ivy League is a bit exaggerated though. Yes those crazy political nuts have always polluted the schools, but the vast majority of people just ignore it and go about their business. I doubt it’s that different from other schools.
My wife, who went to a third tier law school, sees this all the time whether applying or going against other lawyers. “Well he went to U of M or Harvard, he must be really good.”
And she gets great pleasure when she beats lawyers from the big (and expensive) firms in town.
Cornell doesn’t count. ; )
shape the minds of students…
Interesting… ” “It’s the character and the work of the people that are signing on,” she said.”
I wonder if she noticed that the character and work of Brett Kavanaugh was absolutely irrelevant once politics got involved.
Also: ““The accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, including those by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, are credible and grave. ”
I found them to be neither credible, nor grave. He wasn’t even accused of anything that would have been charged as a crime at the time. The only “grave” accusation was entirely a feeling …. “I felt like he was going to rape me” and “I felt like he might accidentally kill me”.
To deem that event, if true, an “attempted rape”, you would have to say that he intended to rape her when he pulled her onto the bed. Not horsing around. Not playing grab-ass. Not hoping she would have a different reaction and they would hook up. But that he knew she didn’t want any such thing, wasn’t going to want any such thing and intended to use physical force to rape her. But, for reasons known only to him, he was not able to physically remove any of her clothing at all, despite several minutes of trying using physical force, and when momentarily distracted she was able to escape to a nearby bathroom who’s privacy lock was able to thwart his intentions of violent rape.
Even stipulating her version of “this happened, then this happened”, her interpretation is highly suspect. “It might have escalated into a rape” is not the same thing as “it was an attempted rape”.
And she followed up this violent attempted rape… by leaving her friends in the company of a violent would-be rapist and saying nothing about it for thirty years. Sure, lady.
Luckily fer her it didn’t really happen or that would weigh heavily on her conscience.
“credible”
Anyone wanna place bets on the next word for the left to set on fire?
“Now more than ever, HLS must send a clear message that it takes sexual violence seriously,” they wrote. “The accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, including those by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, are credible and grave. They seriously call into question his character and morality, and should disqualify him from . . . any position of esteem, including lectureships at HLS.”
And, if Kavanaugh is confirmed, I have no doubt, they’ll decry the Supreme injustice (pun intended) that no one from their school is able to get a clerkship with Justice Kavanaugh.
Not only do they fail to understand due process, they also don’t know what “credible” means.
An actual unpersoning. Right here, in front of us. Welcome to Airstrip One.
“The accusations against Judge Kavanaugh, including those by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, are credible and grave.
I was going to say that Harvard apparently does not teach due process. But it also seems that they do not teach what credibility means.
At this point, Harvard is a bad fucking joke.
As near as I can tell, “credible” now means “not actually impossible”, rather than “more likely than not”, and corroborate now means “does not actually contradict”, rather than “provides material support”.
Because its not impossible for Kav to have tried to rape her, the accusation is “credible”. Because some parts of her claim are not actually contradicted by some of the witnesses, her entire story is “corroborated”. We have descended to the point where hearsay about what Ford said to somebody else is now “corroboration” or her accusations.
So my neighbors are idiots. They want to allow a local guy to bow hunt our properties to knock the deer population back. Not a bad idea, in fact I approve.
But this is the proposed hunter’s agreement they sent me.
“##### has my permission to archery hunt my property for the purpose of reducing the number of deer. This also includes his designees who have been selected for their experience and safety record.”
That’s the entire agreement. No hold harmless on a completely open ended agreement.
Other than everything missing from the document, this is the worst part:
I swear, my buddies are like, totally OK guys. Everything will be fine!
I really can’t believe they signed this. I wrote my own agreement in response.
I had a contracting gig once at a company that faced onto a large “green space” (aka swamp). One day, we are in a meeting and staring out the window, I see two guys in camo come out of the swamp holding long barreled shot guns. They go to a truck and get an ATV and proceed to drive around the swamp pulling out dead deer that they had just shot. Must have been about 8 of them. It was crazy that with those extra long barrels, no one in the office had heard a thing.
Turns out that the local deer in the swamp had been causing too much chaos on the local hiway, so the city had hired these guys to cull the herd.
Sort of sad, instead of hiring those guys, the city could have had a lottery and sold permits to local archers to do the same thing.
I’ll bet that regulations played into that decisions.
They probably had to get an exception to hunting regulations in order to cull that herd. That exception probably included requirements that professional hunters be hired.
Down here in South Florida we have lots of nuisance wildlife. Gators require special permits to remove…. you can’t just go shoot the thing. And even invasive species require special permits. We have boa constrictors running around and you can’t just kill them. They have a special hunt every year and you have to get permission. But they offer a bounty. Weird.
One would think that any invasive species could just be killed on site. Nope.
They even have rules about how you can kill iguanas – which are kinda like giant reptilian rats around here.
The only thing they have treated sensibly is the lion fish. Those things have been spreading in the keys, and they not only let you just kill them, they’ve been encouraging fishing for them and posting recipes for cooking them. That seems like an intelligent solution to me.
Anrnold Kling gotcha covered.
The suburb in question was like the one Tundra and I live in. It used to be way out in the boonies with lots of farm land, but in the last 10-15 years has exploded with McMansions and the urban sensibilities that go with them.
The suburb already had a process to grant nuisance permits for deer, but that was probably a hold over from its past. I’m also sure that some city administrator thought it would be much simpler to simply pay a professional quietly and be done with it. He knew if he tried to auction off permits, all sorts of animal rights groups would freak out.
Ah, the “Pain in my ass” factor.
Yes, often neglected in economic calculations.
Kind of like Eared Doves in the Cordoba Valley in Argentina.
My city has an in-city bow hunt every year. A total of 296 hunters were registered for last fall’s hunt, and they took a total of 290 deer. Not near enough in my opinion.
I have to wonder what the Justices think about this ordeal. The left is not only diminishing the prestige of their positions, but calling into question the legitimacy of the institution. How can they possibly dial back their mendacious posturing and viciousness? The only possible outlet would be to install a progressive Justice, demonstrating that the process is dead and the Court just another political institution belonging to the left. That won’t happen, but the probable alternative–Republicans confirm Kavanaugh or nominate and confirm another conservative–will only incite further lunacy. I don’t see them dialing back at all. So either the Court becomes solid-left because otherwise they’ll burn it down, or they burn it down. Even Ginsburg has to be worrying.
Like they burned the executive down? No, they’ll empower themselves and the unaccountable institutions they own, and then at some point those institutions won’t belong to them anymore. And they won’t ever realize that they themselves initiated and catalyzed any subsequent tyranny. Those scrappy rebels will “resist.”
Sure, but even the reliable leftist Justices must be thinking what a bad look this is for themselves, the Court, and their ideology. It’s moved from merely contemptible to asinine to vile, and it’s bordering on intolerable.
What always interested me was how well the justices get along, given their differences. It’s like a club, and now this entire process has abandoned that. How can it be ever expected that Kagan and Kavanaugh have any collegiality or respect for one another?
“##### has my permission to archery hunt my property for the purpose of reducing the number of deer. This also includes his designees who have been selected for their experience and safety record.”
That’s the entire agreement. No hold harmless on a completely open ended agreement.
They left out the part about shooting back.
Don’t be silly. Deer don’t have opposable thumbs. No way they could pull back a bow string (or the trigger on a gun).
you need a thumb for either of those things
*don’t need
If you can use a bow or gun without a thumb, why don’t you see more deer traipsing around the woods fully armed? Huh, Mr. Smart Guy?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
because they also lack fingers?
The Horror Oscars: The Best Scary Movies of Every Year Since 1978’s ‘Halloween’
Poltergeist over The Thing? Nah.
Yeah, so bad it makes me question the whole list.
To be fair, I would say Poltergeist had a bigger cultural impact then The Thing. The moving the gravestones but not moving the bodies has been parodied and referenced countless times, as has the Zelda Rubinstein character. Like I said down below, I could argue for either being the biggest horror films of the year.
I thought Poltergeist was scary as hell – when I was young. Now it seems rather silly.
The Thing, however, is a stone cold classic.
As a kid, I thought the second Poltergeist was creepier then the first. The old singing preacher who brought rain wherever he walked scared me. I’m not saying that The Thing isn’t a classic, but it’s an argument that can be made in good faith which one had the bigger impact on horror films.
I have a large collection of horror movies, and the girlfriend hated horror films. So this time of year in years past, I felt it only proper to let her pick one that she hasn’t seen before to try to watch it. So far she’s learned that the majority of them aren’t scary at all. Those precious few that are scary get me yelled at (so far that list has been Paranormal Activity and The Babadook). She’s even found that she enjoys some of them (Cabin in the Woods and Tucker and Dale vs. Evil).
-1 Headcrab
Se7en over The Prophecy? Bah.
Looking over this list, I think the reason I never got super into the horror genre is because I came of age in the mid and late ’90s when it was at its absolute nadir.
Not a terrible list. I disagree with some of the selections made, but can see the arguments for them. Then there’s the rare ones I haven’t seen, such as 1997 – Funny Games. It’s been added to the list now.
Not a fan. To me, Funny Games is pure nihilism and sadistic violence for its own sake. I get that was the point the director was trying to make, but that sort of thing simply isn’t for me.
Nice to see Candyman on the list. I”m not a big horror guy, but I really liked that movie. I need to watch it again.
I’m glad In the Mouth of Madness is getting more respect as it gets older. Probably the closest a movie can get to telling a story with the feel of Lovecraft.
Candyman was excellent, and I think the author was right about it standing out in that period of time as one of the few quality, serious horror films.
Engineer spends $6,000 invalidating Waymo’s lidar patents
Trolling is a art.
Good.
Titty Tuesday!
http://archive.is/Eo6sg
Last but certainly not least, 45.
For Q
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nirvana Re-Mixed in a Major Key
Nirvana’s music really is mind-blowing.
Sir, I witnessed that thing that you did there.
This is kind of what Dave Grohl did with Foo Fighters.
Nice.
Hi all. Good morning. I found out this morning that my identity was stolen (someone opened a credit account with Samsung and bought 3 computers. Seriously, if you’re going to steal someone’s identity to buy computers, at least go with MacBooks or something) and I had to take a different route to work than normal due to a police alert that there was a 6-7 foot alligator in an intersection I use on my way to work. How’s y’alls morning going?
You misheard, it was a 67-foot alligator. Shame you detoured.
I practically live in the Everglades. There are all kinds of mythological creatures that live near me. That wouldn’t surprise me at all.
JB is Piers Anthony?
No, I can read his posts without cringing.
Although, I would like (if I was in the business that did these kind of things) to buy the rights to Incarnations and make it into a tv series, WITHOUT THE MAGIC ELEMENTS.
Which I know is kind of weird, but i would set it in our world, not the parallel world than Anthony created where magic and science are coequals.
Huh. I read On a Pale Horse. Had no idea it was part of a series.
I think you read the best one.
Thanks Equifax!
Worth pointing out, as of last week freezing your credit is free in every state.
Super early childhood memory: my mom was driving and said their was fog ahead. I misheard her and thought she said “frog”. I never got to see the giant frog eating cars.
*there
Been there. Some fucker racked up 12K on a BofA cc, as well as more on a gas card and some other stuff.
I hate thieves.
“I found out this morning that my identity was stolen”
Yikes. Sorry 🙁
Someone stole my GFs identity to get cable service. I thought that was really bizarre.
Rot and decay
In a previous book, the bestselling Moneyball, Lewis tracked how smart baseball minds were changing the game with the use of data and analytics. In The Fifth Risk (the risk posed by incompetent government leaders), Lewis turns his attention to government data collection, including weather information and the census (which, as we rapidly approach the 2020 decennial census, also lacks a permanent director).
Smart government scientists and techs have been mining this data to protect Americans. But Lewis reports, (as have others) a lot of government data is now disappearing from government websites, data on climate change at the EPA, on animal abuse at the Department of Agriculture, on violent crime at the Department of Justice. “Under each act of data suppression,” Lewis writes, “usually lay a narrow commercial motive: a gun lobbyist, a coal company, a poultry company.”
Government may be too big and the bureaucracy too complex, but Lewis delves into its critical missions: to protect us from threats, including nuclear weapons proliferation, devastating tornadoes, and food-borne illnesses; and to efficiently distribute services and benefits to those needing a hand — whether from FEMA or food stamps.
The Fifth Risk meanders a bit, with a few profiles of earnest government workers that are interesting, but then lead us to another earnest government worker. Still this is a slight criticism. Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear.
Oh, no. Our fabulous bureaucracy is being neglected. Anarchy looms.
Government incentivizes and attracts incompetence. Thanks for the hot scoop Mike.
In “oh, good grief” news…
NBC has a piece about Ramirez, the college friend with the “he waved his privates near me and I didn’t see it but i might have touched it accidentally!” accusation.
Apparently her friend is super upset that Kavanaugh may have tried to contact friends who were there and ask them if they recall anything…. and even may have asked them to vouch for him! Apparently that is super-creepy and the type of thing a deviant predator would do.
But that isn’t the “oh, good grief” moment.
No, the big thing is that they were at a wedding. And there is a picture of them together, smiling. Kavanaugh testified that he may have been at the wedding with her and he may have interacted with her, but he didn’t specifically remember. So that’s perjury, right there! Because they were totally there.
Anyway… that’s not the “oh, good grief!” either. No, that comes when her friend says that Ramirez avoided Kavanaugh and his friends the whole time.
So…… lemme get this straight….. you are the kind of person who is so absolutely horrified at the thought of a penis that you could not bear to be around a person who mabye, probably waved his willy around but you didn’t see it many years before? And you wanna admit that in public?
Oh….. Good grief.
Confirm Kavanaugh, says VDH: he has nothing more to fear from Democrats.
They’re going to have to put Flake’s balls in a vise to do it. Not that I mind.
If it didn’t require close proximity to his balls, I’d volunteer.
They’re going to have to put Flake’s balls in a vise to do it.
If the strategy relies on Mr. Flake having balls to put in a vice, the GOP is screwed.
Kav had no intention of attending the Georgetown cocktail circuit anyway. there’s never any good beer.
I bet he gets more invites now than before. My guess is that he moved way up the middle aged ladies who are married to beta fuck heads heard about his antics.
The hottest new look this year will be wearing a one piece swim suit under your cocktail dress in hopes that Wild Brett gives you a good groping in some dark corner.
This for some reason makes me think of Jimmy Swaggert’s tear soaked confession: “I have sinned against you, my Lord!”
There IS something interesting here, though it’s not what Politico thinks it is. I noticed this:
Bu-but I was told he’s been “Beto” since he was a baby! What a fuckin’ phony.
In 1991, the 19-year-old O’Rourke reviewed the Broadway musical “The Will Rogers Follies” for the Columbia Daily Spectator, the university’s student newspaper. Writing under the byline Robert O’Rourke, he panned the performance as “one of the most glaring examples of the sickening excesses and moral degradations of our culture.”
He went on to bemoan the bevy of “perma-smile actresses whose only qualifications seem to be their phenomenally large breasts and tight buttocks.”
Oh dear!
I would think this would actually be no big deal, but…. Democrats.
Horse walks into a bar…
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/horse-walks-into-bar-france-chantilly-racecourse
In Swetnick news, a minor point that peaked my interest.
Uh….. red Solo cup? In 1982?
Hmmmm…. I’m not sure if they even had red solo cups back then. I’m not really sure on this one, but I definitely don’t remember those cups being a thing back then. Most party cups would have been paper cups or those little clear plastic cocktail cups. Maybe Styrofoam. But the big, nice, sturdy red solo cup?
Does anyone else remember better than me? That just doesn’t sound credible.
The red solo cup has been around since the 70s. Her story has a million holes, but that’s not one of them.
Wait. You guys could afford the fancy, expensive red Solo cups?
I bet you ate off of Chinette plates too, instead of those floppy fluted paper plates us normal folk used.
Any other fancy, rich people stuff you want to brag about, Mr. Rich-pants!
Automatic ice makers instead of trays.
Good one!
I remember when we upgraded to the fancy plastic ice trays that you twist instead of the aluminum ones that had the little lever on top to move the dividers.
Yeah… movin’ on up!
Red Solo Cups were used a lot at keggers – in 1989 / my first year in college
https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/xypgn7/history-of-red-solo-cup
We just drank beer straight from the can or bottle in high school. I don’t really remember us ever having kegs, and liquor was pretty rare too.
When I was in high school beer was extremely rare. Really hard to come by. So was liquor. You basically had to steal it from someone’s dad. And, well, don’t go stealing dad’s beer. This was true even though the drinking age was 18, so older siblings were a viable source.
Weed, on the other hand, was plentiful and easy to come by. Several friends had their own plants growing here and there around the woods. The list of dealers was long, prices were low.
So everyone smoked weed. Even at school, smoking weed was a daily indulgence for many of the kids.
I think the jock kids may have done more beer drinking than the rest. But “more” is a relative term. They all smoked far more often than they drank.
I think there were only two of us in my graduating class who never tried it.
I also rarely got to drink beer in high school. I didn’t have a taste for it at all until a few years later. So yeah, it was hard alcohol. The one big party I threw, I managed, through an older friend of a friend, to get a bunch of hard alcohol. It didn’t end well – 16 and 17yo kids barfing into the bathtub.
So yeah – smoked more weed than drank; until college that is.
Huh….class of ’94 here, and we never had trouble getting beer. There were several avenues. Many got it from older siblings. There were certain convenience stores that would sell to anyone with an ID saying 21, no matter how obvious a fake it was. One was in a neighborhood that was almost all Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian immigrants. The guys who worked there spoke next to no English and clearly didn’t give a fuck so long as you had something laminated with your picture that said you were born in 1971 or earlier. You could also just bribe a wino to buy you some. That was my go-to – there was a guy that basically lived in the vacant lot behind my local 7-11 who would pick me up a 12 pack of Lite Ice (which was very big in the early ’90s) if I gave him ten bucks.
Only the hippies smoked pot among people I knew, so it wasn’t something I did. Never tried it until college, and wasn’t overly impressed. I’m lazy enough without something making me lazier.
Yeah, I graduated in ’85 and it was a rare high school party that had a keg. Too hard to buy (and then you had to return the keg/tap too).
Much easier if everyone brought the booze they purchased underage. I don’t remember many parties where there was punch either. Most of us stuck to beer/wine coolers. Making punch meant getting hard liquor and that was a lot more difficult.
85 grad as well. Plenty of all three, as the drinking age was 19 and there were older siblings who would help out. I’m not saying I participated, but in those days the driver’s licenses had raised numbers that could be removed with a razor blade and reglued in the proper sequence.
Where there is a will there is a way.
Fuck, I just bought most of my beer underage. I’d go into a road house and brazen my way into a sale. If they asked for ID, I’d simply leave. Most of the time though (like you said you only had to look 19) if you were confident you could buy.
There was one place that I could always score in the winter because the owner loved fishing and knew my father was a great fisherman. So any time I tried to buy, the guy would take my money and then ask where my dad had his fishhouse before he handed over the beer.
I remember sitting at dinner with a guilty conscience as my dad ranted about how it was impossible to move his fish house anywhere without a bunch of other dudes showing up and crowding around him.
Graduated in ’83… before 1st period when I was in 10th, we’d meet in the student parking lot – this was on the side of the school where the student smoking area was… where the burnouts and gearheads hung out. The jocks and preppies hung out on the teachers parking lot side. Everyone would kick in a couple bucks, and the junior or senior with the van would be recruited to go to the packy and get the keg (drinking age was 18). School grounds bordered a park/forest where we had a bonfire pit and a rope swing. This was done on a fairly regular basis.
Kegs were hard to come by. We once had a forest party with a keg and it was the party of the summer. Such a pain to hop out of a car in the middle of traffic on the northwest side of Chicago and lug a keg ten minutes deep into forest preserves that not even police will go into at night. Then we partied with some satanists who were none too pleased about our party, but we outnumbered them by quite a bit.
Fucking Santaists. I hate partying with them. Fucking all dressing in red, and being jolly. On the other hand those fat fucks really know how to surround themselves with hot chicks. Ho, ho, ho’s everywhere you look.
It was a real “Libertarian Moment!”, though. We exchanged access to beer for access to certain foliage. And thus was the peace. At first when they confronted us, appearing out of the dark, we thought that there would be a fistfight for sure. But, trade created peace. Imagine that
PJ was the thing at our HS parties. PJ or Purple Jesus because it was purple and if you drank enough you’d see Jesus was Everclear + Hawaiian Punch Fruit Juice + Actual Fruit. The classic was the pretty young things who didn’t drink so decided the would, “Just have the fruit instead”.
Ahhh, good times.
Solo cups were a mainstay in 80’s keggers.
Clear, not red.
Agreed. Clear keg cup was the only thing I ever saw.
Sometimes – but usually red or blue.
Karen Monahan Shares Why She Won’t Release Alleged Ellison Abuse Video
Bad decision on her part
Which one? Not turning over a video after trumpeting its existence, or claiming to have a video when you don’t?
Even if she does possess the video, she’s made her son out to be a liar. And if she doesn’t, she co-opted her son’s decency to perpetuate a lie. Both are pretty gross gambits, and for what? She has the police report, she has the medical report. Why give Ellison and his media defenders a hook to hang their hats on by saying, “Well, clearly she discredited herself by refusing to turn over the only piece of evidence we’ll accept”?
Ok, but then you’re not entitled to continue to accuse Ellison of abusing you. Absent evidence, that’s slander.
Whispers: There is still more evidence against Ellison than there is against Kavanaugh, including a police report and multiple accusers
How’s y’alls morning going? –
Better today than yesterday. Yesterday I opened the door to my shitty Chevy Aveo and the alarm went off for 30 seconds. For the rest of the day it did that every time I opened the door or started it. It made running errands after work rather embarrassing. Then I found out two of my co-workers (one being our lead developer) put in their two week notice. More rats leaving the sinking ship.
But today the car is not acting up and I had a good workout. It’s a start.
“my shitty Chevy Aveo”
I think I found the problem.
Around here, if you drove a “foreign” car to a steel mill, you used to get seriously harassed. I’m not sure if it’s still that way. But someone pointed out that my “American” Chevy Aveo has a sticker saying it was made by Daewoo in Korea. They just put Chevy logos on it. While my “foreign” Honda Civic was manufactured in the US or Canada. I always use that as an example of how “Made in America” no longer has any meaning.
I live by several auto plants (GM and Ford). Their (almost abandoned) parking lots still have signs by the entrance that say:
“Foreign cars must park in the back of the lot”
you are the kind of person who is so absolutely horrified at the thought of a penis
Zardoz will be pleased.
Apparently the ACLU is spending a million bucks to pressure swing senators into defecting on the Kavanaugh confirmation.
ACLU
✔
@ACLU
NEW: When we said we’re going to use the full force of the ACLU to stop Brett Kavanaugh, we meant it.
We’re spending more than $1 million to run ads like this in Nebraska, Colorado, West Virginia, and Alaska ?
Is that even kosher with their nonprofit status?
They’ve really gone all in. What a shame.
Issue advocacy. They are opposed to nominee who decides civil liberties cases. should be right in their wheelhouse.
But, I’m gonna call them out because they jumped on this partisan bandwagon.
Bonus points, they compare Kavanaugh to Bill Cosby in the ads. And…. wait for it…… Bill Clinton.
Yup. They went there.
They actually defended Bill Clinton during the 90’s, which is the funniest part about all this. Send in the clowns…..
I hadn’t seen the ad to see how close it got to a partisan endorsement. To be sure, it is a fine distinction that our tireless public servants in the IRS have to make…
(SLD, there shouldn’t be a corporate tax and hence no tax-exempt organizations, and every organization should be allowed to do whatever it wants with its money in the political arena)
Fuck no. but who’s going to do anything about it?
That’s what sort of annoys me. I don’t long for the smack of firm government in the first place, but it’s striking how completely the left has taken over the levers of power, to the extent that their team gets away with everything and the other team gets punished.
Yale Law gives its students the day off for protesting. Harvard Law takes away Kav’s teaching post. Christine Fair doesn’t appear to have been fired (though Twitter did suspend her). No Democrat senator will be censured for their behaviour. Avenatti won’t be struck off. None of the journalists who’ve lied and emoted while pretending to be professionals will have any negative impact on their career. The ACLU won’t incur any consequences for their behaviour here.
To add insult to injury the left still pretends to be like the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars, fighting against the Man.
“Christine Fair doesn’t appear to have been fired (though Twitter did suspend her).”
I’m surprised.
You know what’s funny about this?
The ACLU took out a full page ad in the NYT defending Bill Clinton for lying under oath in the 90’s.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/the-scrapbook/the-aclu-now-more-than-ever
LOL
TW: The Weekly Standard
“come for the trite dialogue, stay because you want to read people advocating for murder overseas”
Nebraska, Colorado, West Virginia, and Alaska
didn’t the ACLU already fuck their image in those states cuz gunz?
Fischer in NE is a toss up right now so they might be thinking they can flip her. Murkowski in AK. Not sure about the other two.
The simple fact is that the Dems don’t want to vote on this before the election for a reason. And the reason is that it puts Dem senators in swing states in an uncomfortable position. Knowing that, if they wait until after the election, Kavanaugh is doomed. His only chance is to get it done now.
Neither Murkowski nor Collins are up this year. If the Repub base really is in angry backlash mode, running those ads may actually provoke a reaction that pushes them to vote for Kav.
Fake news
President Donald Trump said Monday night that Democrats opposed to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh are “trying to burn down our future.”
“This is election is a choice between a Republican Party that is building our future, and a Democrat Party that is trying to burn our future down,” he told the crowd at a campaign rally in Johnson City, Tenn. “The Democrats only know how to obstruct, demolish and destroy, as we’ve seen in recent weeks — Democrats are willing to do anything and hurt anyone to get their way, like they’re doing with Judge Kavanaugh.”
“They’ve been trying to destroy him since the very first second he was announced because they know that Judge Kavanaugh will follow the Constitution as written,” he added.
That’s ridiculous. Those Democrats are merely acting in the best interests of the nation, based on their carefully reasoned analysis of the facts.
https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1047130306464112642
LOL- “Anyone who didn’t like the new Star Wars is a Russian bot, so says stupid study”
These people are “grown-ups” (supposedly) and yet they accept fairy tales on “faith alone”
The people buying into this Russia stuff, and the crap about ‘populism’ are being incredibly irresponsible. All they’re really doing is handing a blank cheque to powerful people who don’t like to be criticised. Allowing them to pretend that the public’s response to their decisions is in fact the result of some completely external phenomenon is so very very stupid.
It’s also a completely unsupported conspiracy theory that has been convenient at silencing dissenters. The united front of pro-war factions across the Right and Left has settled on their baddie.
What did the box office say? That’s all that really matters.
Box office says the audience punished them when they released Solo. It was a much better movie, but people stayed home. Apparently Disney is pumping the brakes on the whole thing.
Exactly, Solo wasn’t good, but it wasn’t absolutely shitty like The Last Jedi, which I took my kids to because they really wanted to see it. I was already over it after Episode 7, which was mindboggling stupid on its own.
Solo and Rogue One were both much better than The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
I took my kids to see it in the theater. My youngest was all over the place, so I spent half the movie trying to keep her quiet instead of watching the movie.
My brother, a big star wars fan, asked me what I thought. “It was alright. Pretty good even. The trip to Monaco for animal rights week was dumb, but other than that… ”
He was aghast. He asked “what about this… what about that…”. Yeah, the flying princess was stupid.. I missed that part…. Didn’t notice that… Huh….
Anyway, after it comes out on DVD I watched it again. Yeah. Not good. Much better if you aren’t paying attention for most of the movie. Maybe a re-edit could save it, like the famous re-edit of Episode 1 to remove Jar-Jar.
How much did Putin pay you to write this, bigot?
I wish he’d show up with a checkbook. I can bloviate. I’m no Mary or Hihn, but I can be prolific with the rhetoric. I hope he pays by the word….
Business Insider is the Salon of “business” news.
So the WSJ is the Breitbart of “business” news?
Yeah, actually, I think that analogy works pretty well.
I must be missing something – why would Russians give a flying fuck about Star Wars?
Ye of little faith.
That had to be the worst written movie I’ve ever seen.
Now I’m a Russian bot.
I … I…
Oh, I’ll just say it.
I LIKED THE DAMN MOVIE.
*hides in shame*
Which part did you like?
You should hide in shame. It is a terrible film. I made it about 2-3 minutes on Netflix and turned it off at the asinine “humor” of Poe’s prank phone call to the bridge of the Space Nazi ship. I am so glad I didn’t go to see the movie in theaters, I’d have gotten up and walked out and demanded a refund.
John C. Wright, the sf-f writer has a 16 part (Yes, 16) fisking of the damn movie that’s only up to part 11 on his blog: The Last Straw. Wright is an interesting character.
John C. Wright, the sf-f writer has a 16 part (Yes, 16) fisking of the damn movie that’s only up to part 11 on his blog: The Last Straw.
For the love of Christ people, It’s a kids’ movie.
@ACLU
NEW: When we said we’re going to use the full force of the ACLU to stop Brett Kavanaugh, we meant it.
Have they named one or more people they deem to be suitable alternatives? So we can, you know, research their backgrounds.
I wish McConnell would call the Dem’s bluff already on Kav. If you really believe that he attempted to rape Ford in high school and then perjured himself multiple times before Congress, then I don’t see how you can vote against:
(1) Removing him from the DC Circuit
(2) Referring a complaint against him to whatever state bar(s) license him, requesting that he be stripped of his license.
(3) Referring a criminal case against him for perjury to the DOJ, requesting that he be imprisoned.
So, let’s have votes on those. I think it would be politically useful to get the Dems on record demanding the logical consequences of their accusations. I think the Dems have an electoral loser on their hands now. I think they expected him to quietly withdraw, and never thought they would actually have to have a hearing, which made them look ridiculous to a lot of people. So, let’s circle back and see how serious they really are. Vote to have him fired, drummed out of his profession, and jailed. How can they vote against it? How can they look anything but crazy to vote for it?
Keeping the nomination open and this wound bleeding might be the best thing electorally at this point for the GOP.
Might be. If I was arranging the vote on this thing, I think I’d start with the three that I mentioned above, and when they were defeated, hold the vote on his appointment. If nothing else, it would put the wobbly Repubs on the spot by forcing them to vote against the logical consequences of the campaign to bar him from SCOTUS.
the problem isn’t the Dems, it’s Collins and Flake. Collins is now publicly pushing the ludicrous Swetnick accusation, saying that she can’t vote for Kavanaugh unless that nonsense is investigated.
On the plus side, all the shitheels are publicly exposed. There’s no denying the role they’re playing in this one.
I’ve seen a couple of polls moving against Dem Senate candidates. They may not need Collins, Flake, or Murkowski. The Dems have to roll two Repubs; the Repubs just have to roll one Dem. If Collins, Flake, and Murkowski all defect, then the Reps still just need two Dems.
I dunno. The dems have gone all-in on this one. They are willing to disrupt dozens of lives, hurl scurrilous accusations as if they were fact, even having attorneys “represent” these “victims” pro-bono…. but still dancing to the tune of the DNC.
I can’t see them just allowing anyone to vote their conscience. They would definitely take retribution on any defectors.
I wonder if they can get people to tow the party lion even if it costs them their Senate seat, though.
There’s a reason they don’t want the vote before the election.
I’m surprised they haven’t gone after his wife and whatever job or positions she holds, simply for standing by her husband.
Hell, maybe she has. Who’d report it?
And the polls don’t really need to move that far. There are more vulnerable Democrats than Republicans in the Senate races. Honestly, McConnell should play that to Collins and Murkowski (Flake should be made clear to be a dead man walking, politically, as an example). Sit them down and explain to them the facts of life, at least for the next few years:
Lisa, Susan, glad you could both stop by. I wanted to talk to you about the outlook for the upcoming Senate races. I’m glad to report that it’s looking pretty good for the GOP, at least in the Senate. That’s great news for us all. It means that, if this thing does get stalled out until after the midterms, we should be able to put Judge Kavanaugh in comfortably. Neither of you will have to worry about the possible implications of your votes. Oh, by the way, I was speaking with Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy about planning for the upcoming budget. Yeah, sorry to have to tell you this, but I’ve got some bad news. We were assessing our strategic priorities and it looks like Alaska and Maine are going to have to take a hit. The tax cuts have added a little bit of budget pressure and, well, we don’t want to have to worry about the possible implications of our votes to be generous to your respective states.”
I thought Swetnick already changed her story and it was considered to have collapsed.
Ye of little faith
Salvation for our society and our country requires you to accept insane conspiracy theories on “faith alone”.
PS: This is totally not a religion
I miss the days when the Dershowitz types were more influential in the party.
Another NPR “review” of devoted Obama-fellator Michael Lewis’ new book about what an anarchist rat and a shitheel Donald Trump is.
“Before the election, the Obama administration had spent the better part of a year and a thousand people’s time creating essentially the best course ever created on how the federal government works, and what the problems are in each of these departments,” Lewis tells All Things Considered, “with the idea that the day after the election, hundreds of people from the new administration would roll in, and get the briefings, and learn what the problems were and how they dealt with them.
That handoff they were expecting; there was a fumble in the backfield. Some no-name fatass from the other team scooped it up and ran it in for a touchdown. Sad losers are sad.
Hmmm….. It seems to me that I remember Bush bending over backward to be generous to the incoming administration. And getting kicked on the way out for his trouble.
And it also seems that I remember Obama reluctantly meeting with Trump. And It also seems that I remember the Obama administration spending the days after the election working hard to “unmask” Americans they had been spying on and to disseminate classified information around the government in order to leak it following the inauguration, with the specific intention of getting Trump impeached. It is that effort that led to the Russia Investigation.
Here’s the NYT article from March 1, 2017, only a month after the inauguration, bragging about their plot to undermine the incoming administration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html
with the idea that the day after the election, hundreds of people from the new administration would roll in, and get the briefings, and learn what the problems were and how they dealt with them.
And I’m sure all of those problem definitions and solutions were entirely policy-neutral and had no implicit assumptions about what should be the role of government, what should be the government’s “strategic priorities”, and what defines fair and equitable outcomes.
Lewis was on Power Lunch yesterday – not the first time – talking about how Trump didn’t even bother to learn how to handle nuclear waste!
Since when was it his job to know that?
OT: I’m going to be in Charleston next week. Not sure if any Glibs are from the sweltering racist south.
I’m gonna add this to list of “shit that didn’t happen”.
Applebee’s Customers Reportedly Stiff Waitress: ‘We Don’t Tip Black People’
Torn straight from the headlines!
::croaks::
You’re my tiny dancer
Dancing for bit o’ honey
Oh, “tiny dancer”. I always thought that song was saying “Tony Danza”.
To be fair, though, “Tony Danza” makes more sense. Who wants to be held by a “tiny dancer”? That’s weird
Back when Will and Grace was funny, one of the characters would sing the song as “Tony Danza”. Then on one episode they had Elton John on and he sang it that way too.
There’s some comedy show or movie clip that I am too lazy to look for right now; it’s Tony Danza explaining to two idiots that the words are actually tiny dancer, then it cuts to the three of them in the car all singing Tony Danza. Pretty funny seeing/hearing Tony do it.
The point is moo.
Who doesn’t want to be held by Tony Danza?
Josh Groban?
OMWC?
Peter Dinklage ?
I think they expected him to quietly withdraw, and never thought they would actually have to have a hearing
Scene: a large lavishly furnished office. On the wall behind the ornate desk is a large portrait of Adolf Hitler.
SS Captain places a Luger, one round, a small stemmed glass and a bottle of brandy on desk in front of disgraced general. He nods solemnly, clicks his heels, and leaves the room. General sits quietly, staring off into space. Finally, he pours himself a glass of brandy. He drinks it slowly, thoughtfully, savoring the heat and taste on his tongue. He drinks another brandy, more quickly. Then, he picks up the Luger and chambers the round. He looks at the gun for a moment, then smiles a grim smile.
“Captain. Would you come in here for a moment?” he calls.
The captain enters, looking somewhat put out and confused.
“I just want to show you something,” says the general. He shoots the captain in the chest and pours another brandy.
There are so many clowns nowadays that we really need a regular article titled “This Week in Beclowning”
For example:
Nate Silver says there is a 99% chance that Kavanaugh lied under oath. How does he derive this probability? Math, obviously, you bigot. What corroborating evidence that he have that Kavanaugh was lying? You tell me what “boofing” means if not “anal sex” you stupid Russian bot.
This is “math”, bitch
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1046911998192234496
Oh, fer fuck’s sake. First, Kav didn’t deny passing out, he denied blacking out, which are two different things. Second, I drank like you would expect a frat boy in the campus animal house to drink, and I never either passed out or blacked out. Not even once. Barely made it back to my dorm or apartment many times, collapsed in bed with the bed spins, but never even slept on the couch or failed to get out of my clothes.
Their new one is that Kav tried to tamper with witnesses and lied about not knowing in advance what “Dick-Waver” Ramirez was going to accuse him of, because his team was looking for witnesses to exonerate him from her accusations. Of course, his team knew about it because Ramirez was contacting mutual friends and acquaintances before she went public, looking for corroboration. Some of those people contacted Kav, and so they responded exactly as you would expect, by asking friends and acquaintances to support Kav against whatever she was cooking up.
Are you questioning science, bigot?
A defense attorney once cautioned me against speaking to potential witnesses with exculpatory evidence against a family member who was falsely accused of a crime. “Witness tampering is a broad brush.” he told me.
I fucking hate the criminal court system.
How can one tamper with witnesses when this isn’t actual criminal proceeding?
They are trying to have it both ways.
If Kav’s people looking for witnesses is tampering, how is the Dem operatives looking for witnesses not also tampering?
Whether its tampering or not goes to whether you try to influence the witness’s testimony, not whether you are seeing if they can/will testify.
Isn’t that what Twitchy.com is for?
No. That’s just about Twitter. There are clowns who have bylines, too. They don’t just Tweet
How could anyone not believe her?
Dershowitz said that Swetnick’s allegations should “thoroughly be investigated” and says if she is found to have committed perjury, “there should be consequences.”
“Swetnick affidavit should be thoroughly investigated by the fbi and her alleged witnesses named and questioned. If perjured, there should be consequences,” Dershowitz tweeted.
Dershowitz, who is a contributor for The Hill and who regularly defends President Trump during cable news appearances, appeared to be responding to reports that the FBI investigation into sexual misconduct claims against Kavanaugh was being limited and did not include Swetnick’s allegations.
Michael Avenatti, who is representing Swetnick, responded directly to Dershowitz to express confidence in his client.
“When the statements are proven true, Mark Judge, Brett Kavanaugh and others should be criminally prosecuted. And the Senators that called my client a liar should resign their seats. Do you agree?” tweeted Avenatti, who also represents adult-film star Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against Trump and has expressed a desire to run for president.
Those claims are completely credible.
If there also was serious legal consequences for the democrats peddling this shit, I would feel justified to let this shitshow play out. But since these cunts will never be held accountable I say fuck them and vote the guy in just to make them shit their pants.
WSJ publishes Mitchell memo regarding Ford allegations (see link to PDF near end of article):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/this-case-is-even-weaker-than-that-1538433190?mod=hp_opin_pos1
Or, you can check out a nonpaywalled version.
Flake wanted a belt and suspenders. Collins wants a belt, suspenders, plus a set a those really wide red suspenders that clowns wear to keep their hoop pants up. FBI has to interview Swetnick to get her vote. fuck it.
Actually, I’m all for the FBI interviewing Swetnick, because that will finally expose her to legal consequences for lying. Her “sworn” affidavit was no such thing, as far as I can tell. I believe they have refused to release the names of any of the “corroborating” witnesses to her lurid fantasy, so lets call some bluffs here. Lets call all the bluffs.
Odds that the DOJ would bring charges considering the triggered screaming from progressives and woketarians: 0%
I’m thinking she just clams up rather than risk it.
Yeah she does and then her lie become myth parroted by people who have accepted SJW politics as their personal savior