Who doesn’t hate the one game wild card playoff for baseball? People from Colorado, that’s who. What a game last night. With a pitching masterclass by both teams, I don’t know if that game should have ended, but they all have to and the Cubs came up short again this year. AL wild card game is tonight in New York.
It’s party time!
Elsewhere, Man City won, Juventus won, ManUre drew, as did Bayern and Real Madrid blew ou…holy shit, they lost to CSKA Moscow and its officially time to start pushing the panic button. Preseason basketball and hockey is boring, so it gets no mention. But I’ll bring up just one more thing about the Ohio-State-Penn State football game from this past Saturday. No, not to gloat. But to illustrate just how bad some decision-making can be when you think you can do no wrong.
Birthday time! Today we celebrate or acknowledge: historian George Bancroft, writer Thomas Wolfe, writer Gore Vidal, the father of butterfly goaltending Glenn Hall, rocker Eddie Cochran, singer Chubby Checker, tiger pal Roy Horn, singer Lindsey Buckingham, HOF outfielder Dave Winfield, HOF pitcher Dennis Eckersley, guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan, grifter and racist Al Sharpton, “Boom Boom” Freddie Couples, hepatitis carrier Tommy Lee, actor Clive Owen, the lovely Neve Campbell and musician Gwen Stefani.
Sarah Jessica Parker reenacts her favorite episode
Its also the day on which the Gauls surrendered to Julius Caesar, the Duke of Montrose issued a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy, Edgar Allen Poe was spotted for the last time alive, the motor-driven vacuum was patented, Trotsky founded “Pravda”, Woodrow Wilson fucked America over (and started the endless advance of the one-way ratchet) by signing a 1% income tax into law, “The Maltese Falcon” premiered, so did “Captain Kangaroo” and “Mickey Mouse Club”, jeez, so did “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, “The Andy Griffith Show”, and “Mr Ed”, Jerry West retired, the Watergate criminal trial began, the coup against Noriega failed, and the Battle of Mogadishu, which was the loose basis for “Black Hawk Down” took place. Oh yeah, and OJ Simpson walked after being acquitted on murder charges.
OK, that’s it for that. Now…the links!
“As a psychologist, I view truth as a fluid concept”
Christine Blasey Ford might have some explaining to do herself. Somebody get to the Bay Area and ask her these questions. You’ll probably find her in the Delta Sky Miles Diamond Club Lounge at SFO.
If you’re involved in a feminist journal and you’re bitching about the methodology used here, then you’re not serious about advocating equality or feminism or truth in research. Seriously, this is a bit of a long read, but absolutely stunning and hilarious in the absurdity of what these guys were able to pull off. (Open it in incognito or private mode-or somebody please provide an archive link in the comments)
The nanny state comes to Texas. Well, it was always here in some respects, but the creep, especially in Austin, is now complete.
When #believeher goes horribly wrong. But they’re, like, raising awareness to a bigger issue and if we’re gonna make a feminist omelet we’re gonna have to break a few eggs.
Look the money hit the account!!!
I feel bad for the lady, but this seems a bit excessive. No mind, they can just raise taxes!
If you’ve ever wanted to hear a killer explain how he did his thing, you can read it in his own words right here. The testimony is not consistent with many other evidentiary items, namely the video of the event. But who are you gonna believe, members of the jury…the brave, selfless officer or your lying eyes?
Well, it looks like you may be able to bang a robot in Houston after all. But be warned that Big Brother will be there to shame you. Why? Because fuck you, that’s why.
Well, I sure hope you enjoy this. I know I did. I mean…that’s every bit as good as the original.
Now go enjoy the middle of your week. Even if you’re a Cubs fan.
But they’re, like, raising awareness to a bigger issue and if we’re gonna make a feminist omelet we’re gonna have to break a few eggs.
The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is the revolution.
Well, they better start learning how to shoot if they’re gonna carry out a revolution. Because it’s gonna get to that point eventually.
Why do you think they believe that the 2nd amendment must go and are so hardcore about it?
Oh I know. But they do realize there’s gonna be a shooting war if they want to have a revolution where men are effectively put in cages, yeah? That’s gonna he against the most hardcore survivalist gun-keeping contingent. Who will gladly arm those who gave their guns up when they were forced to.
And it will not go the way that the feminists want.
When I am over at Splinter looking for derp to bring here, there is one poster who likes to post a picture of a guillotine in the comments every time they talk about reforming government. You know, because he’s a bad ass and wants to start offing his opponents instead. Guns vs. Guillotines.
Every post of that pic should be responded to with
“Citizen Robespierre had his date with Madame Guillotine too.”
That Daily Mail article is ridiculous. They all but give the men’s home addresses. What is the need for putting every bit of information they can find on men who’ve been falsely accused?
Well, it looks like you may be able to bang a robot in Houston after all. But be warned that Big Brother will be there to shame you.
Perfect, getting shamed by Big Brother while banging a robot is my kink.
That is… oddly specific.
The AI in my sex robot is saying I assaulted her. What do?
Reformat the storage device, clean the mmechanism and do a fresh install with the latest patchset.
That is how the AI comes from the factory now that the cultural revolution has been won by the new SoCons on the left…
Well there’s your problem, you bought an iBot.
iBot? How individualistic. Woke people get the WeBot.
Those are pretty rare, since the ruling that the trademark infringed on the WeaBot branding.
As long as it’s not the WeeBot. That’s just sick.
Say it wasn’t you
“Really, baby? You think I assaulted you? Why don’t you try in these magnetic earrings I bought for you? Yeah that’s right, bitch. Open your audio output device again and you’ll be wearing a magnetic bracelet!”
Or that’s how I’d picture the response in a parody.
I stand by my assertation that false allegations should carry the same penalty as the crime being accused.
We need to go back to public shaming too.
Notice that the identity of the person falsely accusing them is conspicuously absent from the story? They need to sue her very publicly for millions and millions of dollars.
“Notice that the identity of the person falsely accusing them is conspicuously absent from the story?”
I don’t get why news outlets refuse to print names after it’s been shown that the accusations were fabricated.
“Because that would scare real victims away from coming forward.”
-feminist activist assclown
Because it will keep other women coming forward with their own BS allegations. Do you really want to silence women?
Fucking shitlord
It’s not just the Daily Fail, it’s every article I’ve seen. Pictures of the accused, but even the name of the accuser.
That’s a pretty interesting idea
Exactly UCS. Until I see people that tell a lie and try to ruin someone else, I plan to always assume allegations are lies until they prove out otherwise.
I watched the new Amazon version of King Lear last night. Anthony Hopkins as Lear. Very good.
I for one am appalled that this is happening in our country. I blame Trump and his abandonment of the norms of decency that our society has developed over the years.
We are in the middle of a crisis where women are being assaulted by privileged men every single day and Amazon thinks it is OK to have an entire series devoted to some man Learing all over the TV screen? Uffda.
If you’re auditioning for the reason magazine internship, this is the wrong venue even if that was the right thing to say.
Um, OK. Do I still get some hair product as a gift for playing?
Is that hair gel?
Minoxidil body wash.
There is Something About this comment I don’t want to put my hand on.
Take a 6 minute break and think about it.
It’s a gel-like substance…
It could go in his hair…
You get a jack and a tire iron. Congratulations!
To be sure, the previous owner wasn’t using them.
Uffda. You don’t know how happy this story makes me.
I know it shouldn’t make me so happy that a person is having their life fucked over because of spurious poundMeToo allegations, but Keillor is so fucking smug that it is hard to remember principles over principals.
Translation: “But he’s a liberal, we thought everyone had forgivien him by now!”
Today is Random Acts of Poetry Day,
So I thought I’d come here to say;
Knowing this makes me feel very gay.
Today is Random Acts of Poetry Day
First off, fuck yo bitch and the clique you claim
The futility, life is unfair.
Scrambling for words.
Free verse is not poetry
Wait Poetry?
I thought it was “Random acts of pottery day”!
*turns off kiln*
There once was a man from the Twin Cities
Who loved him some asses and titties
So he waited for Q
To post pics at 2
So his afternoon wouldn’t be shitty.
*narrows gaze*
Barrows days
Marrows glaze
Darrow’s Maze?
Narrow Gays.
Twinks for days?
There once was a servant of Swiss
And never a pun did he miss
So he’d narrow his gaze
And objections he’d raise
At the Glibs who were taking the piss.
(Apologies to our limey friends)
How’s this for random? Tying Brook’s love of King Lear and FourScores visit to Minneapolis today:
Who wrote that garbage?
It doens’t even rhyme.
It’s nonsense about old age,
For which I have no time.
Let me count the ways
we can argue for days
about adding some thyme
to the avocado slime
until we get swiss to narrow his gaze.
Isn’t there some outhouse out on the prairie you should be defacing with your “poetry”?
When composing a ditty
You’re supposed to be witty
even out on the prairie
somewhere west of Gary
it’s not okay to be shitty.
There once was a holy man from Minnesoda,
who picked on the guy from Dakota.
The NoDak got blue,
and the next thing you knew,
into a tree he crashed his Toyota.
How about a Trigger Warning Mike?
Some of us may be averse to poetry.
Reading some verse
won’t put you in a hearse
but it would be a crime
to not make the words sound similar.
*askance glance*
Crowder’s new ‘Change My Mind’
I started watching this last night and didn’t make it past the first person to sit down with him. She is literally too stupid to have a conversation. But she appears to have nice tits. So there’s that.
Not nice enough for me to un-mute it.
Lol. “Can I change your mind? Because I’ve been raped. And a good majority of my friends have been raped!”
Yeah, at TCU. A place where you literally can’t find a place on campus without there being a police panic button visible.*
*They bring this up on the campus tour.
It’s their truth.
He should have asked her how many friends she had and how many of them were raped. Then told the cop standing there that she told him she’d been raped and he would like to file a criminal complaint for her.
Even if it were true it wouldn’t necessarily indicate there was a “rape culture”. The plural of anecdote is not data.
People that tell these sorts of blatant fucking lies need to be punished. That is the only way it will stop.
I couldn’t watch long. Too cringey. Did she define what she means by ‘rape’? I have a suspicion she and I have different definitions.
I am gonna bet money that if asked she will agree that she believes the false and unproven accusations made by that Ford chick that Kavanaugh groped her and put his hand on her mouth is rape. She also believes that if she consents to sex and the dude doesn’t call her the next day or dumps her, it is rape.
Yes that comes up. She believe all accusation against him, no matter the level of absurdity or lack of evidence.
That was my reaction. Of course you can’t ask her that, which is why it’s always the first argument.
My best friend is a professor there…I shall SOUNDLY REBUKE him about the horrid rape culture that exists there!!!!!!!!!!111!!1ELEVENTY!
Maybe she and the vast majority of her friends went to the TCU game at Jerry World a few weeks ago and are just counting what happened in the second half.
Her nice tits, by the way, have a big old belly under them. That’s why she’s got the sweater or jacket tied below them.
Pass.
#NoGUNTS4Me
Yummy. I love it when they call self-reporting “empirical data.” Words mean nothing. Delicious.
The Bloombergouisie are talking about an earthshaking new NYT report claiming Trump committed some sort of elaborate long term tax fraud. I guess they have given up on the #METOO smears.
They’re patriots, fighting for the soul of our nation.
Tax stuff? So we’re back to the beginning of the Cycle?
Crazy Eddie does not see when opportunities have closed.
/shrugs all 3 arms
His prices are……INSANE!!!
Fling shit at the walls and hope some of it sticks and changes the decor so Hillary can become president….
Funny, I came into work today and one person was screeching about Trump raising the debt and another about the U.S. being a weak laughingstock because the whole U.N. laughed him off the stage.
I quickly tan into my hole and shut the door. I’m not checking on here to see if the regular Trump bashing coming back means the Kavanaugh liars have been exposed….
Kavanaugh fatigue. Back to Trump.
Yes, yes they have…
I heard Ford’s boyfriend came out and all but basically called her a pathological liar.
Yeah, that story is in the links!!!
That’s why i didn’t link it again Sloopster!
Who has time to read the links? And did you hear about the guy in Utah who had the Browns let him down while Lou Reed played?
Links? You don’t say…
The ex-boyfriend showed that he has no idea how to play the game.
1) He talked on the record. Everyone knows you start the game as “anonymous” and tease out your real identity.
2) He provided real names and dates. A pro would have told him that using the actual name of the person she coached on passing a lie detector test just limits your story. How can you tweak it to make it better if everyone already can run down the facts.
From the NYT article:
Much of his giving was structured to sidestep gift and inheritance taxes using methods tax experts described to The Times as improper or possibly illegal.
So…which is it?
It’s illegal if a person that the left doesn’t like does it, regardless of what the law says, just like it is just bad judgment when a lefitst breaks a real law and not worthy of any legal consequences…
+1 Clinton check years later to cover back taxes & penalties
Eh, if a Dem lies on their taxes then the IRS hard drive holding that data just gets lost.
gift and inheritance taxes
Taxes that should be abolished, btw.
Watch Ben Wittes try to convince himself that Kavanaugh should withdraw even though he knows he’s been railroaded.
It’s a sad display of moral weakness from someone who obviously knows better.
Ugh, I hate that copy/paste add-on crap they sneak in there these days.
I consider it legit to edit it out.
So if I take Wittes argument seriously, all the Democrats have to do to poison a candidate is to treat him like utter shit in public. The ensuing hatred of the party then makes the candidate unsuitable for office. Perhaps, Kavanaugh should have hidden his disdain and anger, would that have been better? In Wittes’ world, appearances matter more than reality.
“Can anyone seriously entertain the notion that a reasonable Democrat, or a reasonable liberal of any kind, would after that performance consider him a fair arbiter ”
1.That’s the risk DiFi put her party in when she decided to try to ruin this guy’s name.
2. You could say this safe thing about RBG due to comments she has made. The point being we need to look at jurisprudence not partisanship.
The precedent being set here is that the left will never allow the other side to seat a SCOTUS candidate that threatens the revolution, especially if said candidate will change the balance in a way that will hinder the clique of marxist pedants the left has so far put on the court from railroading the constitution and the people to promote the lefts power grab.
All other things I’ve picked up form this sorry episode aside, this has convinced me the Roe v Wade needs to go. I’ve been a fence sitter on that issue for most of my adult life, but now I realize how badly it has poisoned the court and why it should not be in their domain to decide. Regardless of how you feel about the actual issue, the court far overstepped its bounds and in doing so, created a political crisis that has been simmering for decades and is just now coming to a boil, threatening to take the rest of the political system with it.
Why do you think the left is so desperate to make sure the court is populated with people that would overstep their bounds to push their agenda over a court that would revert back to following the law and the constitution, huh?
Can anyone seriously entertain the notion that a reasonable Christian baker would feel like her position could get a fair shake before a Justice Ginsburg, who officiated gay marriage ceremonies prior to ruling on the issue? Can anyone seriously entertain the notion that a reasonable white man would feel like his position could get a fair shake before the Wise Latina?
Now you are just being obtuse pointing out the obvious. What’s next? You will demand that the court actually stop legislating from the bench and just did what they were supposed to?
reasonable Democrat
I am sorry to say that the Jim Webbs of the Democrat party appear to be extinct.
It’s a sad display of moral weakness from someone who obviously knows better.
He had won the victory over himself.
+5
Christ, what an asshole.
Wow. Just fucken wow.
Wow.
Piece of unprincipled shit.
I wouldn’t even want to consider the possible unintended consequences of a Kavanaugh withdrawal. You may as well drop the presumption of innocence and due process because they’re just suggestions now.
One question for this douche: How would you feel if it was your fucken son?
I sweat because I care.
But the part of the ‘if it were my kid what would I do?’ part of the calculation seems to be dangerously overlooked.
All these parents who support this madness need to stop think and reflect about what they’re saying, doing or writing.
Fricken frick &@&@^#&^#$ frick mother fricken fricasee fricken rabbit…
I swear because I care.
Mmmm, I hate to go full socon on you, Rufus, but I suspect that those parents of boys who are on board with this are mostly SJW loons, batshit-crazy single mothers, etc.
Oh, probably. For sure. Which makes it more troubling. They’d sacrifice their own son.
Sweat works.
Depends what you’re doing.
Ahem.
Vaginal self-lubrication is a process closer to sweating than anything else the human body does.
Sweat works.
I was gonna post “Pics or it didn’t happen”, but then I remembered that you don’t wave a red cape at a bull unless you want him to charge at you, and we all know about SF…
This was pretty much the Matt Welch take.
“I don’t know what happened. Nobody does. I don’t like the way the democrats handled this. I can’t believe politics has sunk this low. Therefore, Kavanaugh should withdraw or be defeated.”
TOS also has a prevailing notion that he lied about Devil’s Triangle, despite having people of the same age saying they have never heard of the new definition. (I certainly never heard a 3 way described that way, and we had a list of such metaphors. Also, despite having such a list of euphemisms, I don’t think there were any in my circle who checked that box in high school.)
They did have one salient point amid the incoherent blather…. They say Kavanaugh claimed membership in the Ralph club because he had a sensitive stomach and ate beans one time. I think they conflated a couple of things – the boof stuff went with the beans IIR, but I aint going back to verify. Anyway, Ralphing can only mean barfing after over-drinking in that context. So if he claimed otherwise… well, he shouldn’t have.
Since when is a three-way a sign of anything? Vote New Puritanists in November!
If you’re involved in a feminist journal and you’re bitching about the methodology used here, then you’re not serious about advocating equality or feminism or truth in research.
This is a wonderful troll, quite equal to Sokal. Especially since the title gave it away and the journal editors STILL didn’t pick it up.
It’s their truth.
And everyone knows that you are only a good person when you accede to the demands of deranged people that reality be overridden by their broken and idiotic fantasies.
When #believeher goes horribly wrong.
#FakeButAccurate
Please explain to me genius how else are we going to encourage victims to come forth if they could face repercussions for lying, huh?
/prog asshat
BTW, I hate not only the wild card game, but the idea of a wild card. For that matter, I haven’t cared much for baseball since they added the extra divisions.
As a kid, one of the great things about baseball was how unforgiving the playoff races were. Only 4 teams were going to be in the playoffs. No
wild cardparticipation medal teams allowed.Sometimes it sucked like in ’88 when the defending World Champion Twins played way better, but were aced out by the A’s. The race was tight pretty much through the end of August if I remember correctly. The Twins lost the race when they lost a couple series to the A’s late.
I’d rather watch a race like that than some silly series in the playoffs. Now get off my lawn!
It’s just extra games for extra revenue for owners and MLB and media. Invented hype.
^^^THIS^^^
Amen.
Shit, I remember when there weren’t any playoffs. Best AL record faced best NL record. And mirabile dictu, both leagues had the same rules.
Now get off MY lawn.
Team OMWC managed…
FAKE NEWS!
Is there any doubt that OMWC managed any other team than the 1902 Chicago Orphans
What was it like before electricity?
Less shocking.
And less revolting.
I don’t see watt you mean.
Ohmy you are so dense sometimes.
I don’t see how that statement is conductive to good discourse.
Next, joule be telling me you are an expert on that.
No, it’s beyond my capacitance.
Maybe we should stop this and go back to our current duties.
Why go direct? We could alternate.
Sooner or later, this should spark a very narrow gaze.
I expect it shortly.
If you and I have to provide that outlet, so be it.
It was a far more insulated society.
They were not enlightened enough..
They you gotta get rid of interleague games and the weighted schedule. But the problem is, those tend to drive gate and TV revenues.
Sorry gents. The WC and three division layout ain’t going away any time soon.
The sooner you realize sports exist to separate you from your money the better off you’ll be.
Costa Coffee advert banned for criticising avocado breakfasts
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45716845
An advert for Costa Coffee has been banned for urging customers to buy a bacon roll rather than avocados.
The radio ad featured a voiceover which said there was “a great deal on ripen-at-home avocados” but they will only “be ready to eat for about 10 minutes, then they’ll go off”.
The advert told people to choose the “better deal” of a roll or egg muffin.
Two listeners complained that the ad, which aired in June, discouraged people from opting for fresh fruit.
This right here is funny
Politicians excluded
Christopher Reeve and Ian McKellan hardest hit.
Everything is illegal in England.
Solution: put both avocado and bacon on an egg muffin.
Why do you hate food?
Honestly I had some hybrid eggs Benedict with bacon avocado and hollandaise sauce and overall was a little to rich…
Same here. I have had to cut down on the breakfast business. I get queasy to easy in the mornings. Sometimes wife and I just have toast.
I am sure it is not all of the vodka from the previous evening.
I generally have light breakfast workdays. Weekend a breakfast beer cuts into the richness.
I am used to always eating breakfast otherwise i would try some intermitent fasting i keep reading great things about it
I skip breakfast and call it fasting, but it’s 80% laziness.
Avocados are fruit? I thought they were just how certain types of trees took a shit.
Damn it, SF. When I laugh like that it shows others I’m not actually doing what I should be doing.
This is how you know you are living in a country that is not free.
Innocent men’s lives will be ruined and true victims of sexual assault are pushed aside.
That’s what all this politicized hashtag bull shit hogged by narcissists and opportunists is gonna happen.
accomplish
Yeesh.
Also add in they’ll send male-female relationships back to the Victorian Era.
This is why I tell the team blue #metoo fanatics that all their current prudish and insane antics seem to tell me is that the SoCons won the culture wars.
My fear is that this time around, it will be the men that are locked up and confined to the house. They are too dangerous to let loose. They might see an uncovered ankle and go nuts. Better lock them into the cellar and only let them out when you absolutely need them (to kill a spider or change a lightbulb).
Of course, men will be allowed in society. The difference will be that women will have a cudgel to use at any given moment, with no risk, with no repercussions. The same goes for minorities, or homosexuals, or non-binaries, or whatever the flavor of the month is. Everything will be reduced to a power struggle with battles over victim status just being the opening phase of the war. Logic and reason will be fully abandoned and individual rights completely skewered.
Finally, when the only metric left is power, violence is the only possible outcome.
I’m sticking to the ONE belief I think I’m right on since the 1990s: We’re in an intellectual dark age.
That there are people who actually think the hearings is appropriate or Russia stuff is ‘real’ only points to it further.
Hey, Welch said on the 5th Column podcast that we won’t know if the Russia collusion investigation is a witch hunt until after the investigation is done.
*That was the comment that made me finally unsubscribe. Love Kmele, but I just can’t stand the others any more.
Losing Welch.
He hasn’t impressed me since Trump’s election. He seems to be falling in line with the bull shit.
I’m reading Peterson’s 12-step book. If I wasn’t already irritated by Welch’s article about him, I’m more so now. There is plenty of issues raised in the book that were perfect for Reason to pick up on and discuss from a liberty perspective. Particularly in Step 8 about lying where he discusses how gulags come to be.
Yet, not a single nuanced take on that they took.
Instead they just took a lazy, generic, he’s an alt-right we don’t understand his popularity crap.
And then the Gillespie interview about Peterson seeing ‘post modern’ monsters under the bed.
Yep. Again and again, they fail miserably.
You are not far from the truth, Rufus. A bunch of idiots have gobbled up the idiotic marxist dogma beliefs that basically serve to turn things upside down and break every possible working institution and are demanding we live by those rules, and then labeled the people that believe this shit and peddle it as the new intelligentsia. It should be frighting to people that actually want reason, logic, and facts to rule the day.
Talk to people who take the ‘other side’.
Not literate at all.
Superficial, facile and ill-informed twits seeking immediate faux-intellectual self-gratification.
No man is innocent
SJWednesday: I Actually Found an SJW Article Not About Kavanaugh This Week Edition
How do they find so much raw stupid to distill down to pure stupid?
Word salad 101…
One of the mandatory classes for your usual “studies” and far too many humanities college grads (or dropouts).
You guys do realize this is probably being done by AI via some algorithm, right? You can’t find people this stupid in the wild.
Nope, I’ve met stupid this strong.
Get out and talk to the dumbasses some time. It will re-kill your faith in humanity.
There are plenty of dumbasses out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was a dumbass. She’s a pilot now.
I’ve run into people that dumb and evil in the wild. The quote: “The math all sounds correct, but it doesn’t feel right.”
what is a Femme again?
A sexist, racist person claiming to be a woman.
This, I think
DAMMIT!
Violent.
If you can’t be more punctual about these things, we are going to have to request you come up with a new user name.
He’s also been slacking on his appointed displays of disapproval of humor.
The answer is fluid.
‘”masculine” (lack of outward emotion, aggressiveness, places self above others)’
If you label Masculinity as something bad, you can see how it is a bad thing.
I see in Masculinity these features : protecting, supporting, responsibility for family.
due to my education and whiteness.
You’ve been educated but you are not intelligent. And you happen to be a racist.
5 Ways To Create a Femme Friendly Workplace
…And the #1 answer, stop hiring men?
Play us out, Paul!
Dwarf planet ‘the Goblin’ discovered on outskirts of solar system as hunt for Planet X continues
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-03/dwarf-planet-the-goblin-discovered-on-outskirts-of-solar-system/10331800
This thing is basically a 430 mile rock. That’s nothing but a glorified commet, even though its orbit is not standard. TAnd tat whole “planet X” thing they are all looking so hard for has baffled me. Do these people not realize that you don’t need this mass affecting the other bodies in the solar system to all be concentrated in one entity? I suspect there are thousands of Goblins out there so far out in orbit that we simply have not detected even 1% of them so far. I also know for a fact that Mr. Lizard’s people use those rocks – after they install some serious heating elements, of course – as forward staging bases!
You just want all the unobtainium on planet x for yourself
The person that brings that rock into orbit and mines it will be the first trillionaire, and I plane to be that guy even if I have to walk out there to get that rock!…
Pft as if. You’re deserts are far more preferable. In fact we started Burning Man as an MWR event for our guys. It’s also a great opportunity to swap out mammals with skin suited Overlords and vice versa.
Her Shrillness is still talking.
She waxes non-philosophical about how the vast right-wing conspiracy and how those big meanie Rethuglicans don’t want gov’t programs because they hate poor people (and blacks and women, obvs) and how The Don is totes a white supremacist shill (bc Pro-fascist leftists started violence in Charlotteville, VA…). But this stuck out to me.
Clinton added that “when you are dealing with a political entity like the modern Republican Party, that is trying to win at all costs, it’s hard to know quite how to get in there to have that conversation.”
She singled out “two major, substantive reasons” why Republicans supported Donald Trump “despite the doubts of other Republicans”: the Supreme Court and “cut taxes, cut it to the bone.”
“Disable the government as much as possible. Throw us into exploding deficits and unbelievable debt, then go after Social Security, and Medicare and Medicaid, which they’ve never liked anyway, and they’re are on the path to doing that,” she added. “And they seem almost lethal about it, you know, their budget process up on the Hill right now is all about, how do we take money out of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, using the excuse that, well, we’re going to have these big deficits and debts. And of course they are the ones who have really hit the ignition on having such a fiscally irresponsible policy.”
1) Proejection
2) IF ONLY!
3) Sure. It’s not like those programs are bankrupting us or anything.
We really live in different realities. She thinks the government is not a necessary evil, but something actually good.
No she doesn’t. She thinks it’s a useful tool for her to exploit for power. I honestly don’t think she cares about anything other than that and prestige.
Fair point.
As long as said government’s evil benefits them, too many people are not just quite content to turn a blind eye to it, but actively cheer it on…
I’ve been hearing about how Republicans are going to literally end Medicare and Social Security for 2/3 of my life thus far.
I lost the election because the unwashed masses rebelled against my ideology’s agenda of destroying the middle class because the only workable system these marxism based socialist shit shows can deliver are a two class one. You know, one where the plebes are all equally miserable and basically kept busy by sicking one identity group against another, while the real powerful ruling class get to live wealthy lifestyles. It is not accidental that under capitalism the rich can wield power, but that the only people that can be rich under socialism are the powerful.
Why do publications like TA give her any space? It’s truly bizarre because she’s nuts.
I wish the answer was because they know she is nuts and figured letting her show others she was was the reason Rufus, but it seems thy actually agree with the stupid shit she says and think she is just brilliant for being that stupid.
This. She is a stone cold sociopath. Remember her laughing about getting a child rapist off and laughing while she said ‘Who cares?’
When a person like that is denied their will they go completely off of the rails. She has been that way for a while now. She’s nuts.
So when does she throw her hat into the 2020 ring?
You know she is going to. And you also know that she is going to be hard to beat in the Dem primaries. She sucks as a candidate, but she knows how to work the levers of the Dem party.
She’s waiting to see how the midterms shake out. Any hint of a blue wave, and she will announce.
I think the opposite. If the blue wave is a dud, she will come back as the “adult” and run the socialist kiddies out.
Hm, yes, I can see that. Or she’s ready to argue herself into running for either circumstance.
Or any other circumstance you can come up with…
Throwing a coup? Well she really should have been elected anyway.
Even the craziest Dems know a coup will never work without the military to back it up.
The only thing tastier than her and her supporters’ salty ham tears in 2016 would be the batch of 2020 tears that follow getting pwnd by The Donald twice.
I just got a tingle up my leg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dv6G1FWxk
Crowder’s latest Change My Mind is “Rape Culture is a Myth” on TCU’s campus. the first lady is hysterical so jump to 19m to avoid her. the police on campus were solid during her breakdown. they told the lady she could leave if she wanted to and not be part of Crowder’s show.
The least interesting work product he produces. Still a pass.
it needs some work. i blame his boring content in this segments on the subjects that volunteer to engage him.
Yeah, I couldn’t watch it.
But I love the idea. Just let crazy positions be exposed by drawing them out for further explanation.
It is also interesting to see the house of cards they have built upon made-up terminology. Layer upon layer of opinion dressed up with a new made-up terms. After a few decades they have arrived at “made-up term 1 and made-up term 2 therefore madeup-term is undeniable!” It is akin to philosophy or theology in that, but without the academic rigor.
person #3 or #4 said that his position is so nuanced that he can’t articulate it. Crowder had to get him to clarify and the kid deferred to “my professors who have read 100 books and papers on the subject”
Federal judge rules Tesla must defend itself against lawsuit alleging it mistreated foreign workers
Are the workers bringing the suit or is it the government? I can’t tell.
What foreign workers? Canooks and Messicans? Or are we talking third world sweatshops?
Are those cities in Elbonia? (Just kidding).
“We had to mistreat workers for the environment….duh. Means justifies the ends. Or is ends justifies the means? Whatever. Intentions are what matters. Not results and certainly not the conditions faced by some third world deplorable. They should just shut up and be happy.’
Crimnul!
That is to say, Trump was in the money-inheriting business. And that business was essentially, and not just incidentally, illegal. The Times found 295 income streams created by Fred Trump for his son, many of them illegal on their face. The English language has terms for people who make large sources of money from illegal activity: criminals.
The article makes clear that Trump is safe from criminal prosecution largely because tax-law enforcement is weak, and many of his apparently illegal activities took place too long ago to prosecute now. That does not minimize his culpability in any moral sense though. It’s merely a testament to the general immunity from consequences that wealthy people enjoy, and regular people do not.
The revelations illustrated the degree to which Trump was paradoxically the most under-vetted presidential candidate since the invention of American mass media. It’s not that there was a dearth of Trump coverage — just the opposite. There was so much Trump coverage, for so many years, that it overloaded the circuits. New Trump outrages kept crowding out old Trump outrages. Trump produced so much that was bizarre, offensive, unprecedented, or otherwise newsworthy that some of the basic vetting work could not be completed.
Trump Derangement Syndrome- the gift that keeps on giving.
Yes, the problem with a guy who had near-total tabloid media saturation for a 20 year span while he built and imploded high profile casino businesses and acrimoniously divorced 2 wives is that people just didn’t know about who he was.
“The English language has terms for people who make large sources of money from illegal activity: criminals.”
Yeah and the US Espeionage Act is also very clear about what should happen when government agents send classified material via an email system on an illegal servers that allow foreign powers to then hack and track that shit, all so they can hide the criminal activities of a supposed non-profit that basically functioned as a pay-for-play entity, but I never saw the asshats at the NYT do anything but try to obfuscate these indisputable facts (or for that matter call the douchebags at the FBI and DOJ that under orders from the Obama admin turned a blind eye so Obama would not be taken down if Hillary was prosecuted) so she could run for president.
Fuck them.
Like I said yesterday, I won’t listen to anyone complain about Trump’s tax avoidance unless they also railed about Tim Geithner getting the Sec of Treasury job.
“The revelations illustrated the degree to which Trump was paradoxically the most under-vetted presidential candidate since the invention of American mass media.”
Because he hasn’t been a celebrity for decades?
I see today that the left is getting very desperate. They are basically stamping their feet and screaming “NO!NO!NO!NO! Because we said so!”
Cavanaugh will be confirmed is my guess and the elections next month will be a disaster for them. Hillary is back to calling voters the worst. Cruz is getting poisoned mail. Republicans and Trumpers are being harassed in public. Any bets on some no-shit political violence before the election?
We are watching the death of a party. Good riddance. They never should have let the lunatic fringe pinkos take over their party.
If this is not a symptom to a diseased symptom I don’t know what is.
Also you are all a bunch of closet republicans /troll
I’m an open Republican. It’s just no one ever bothers to ask outside of the polling site on primary day.
I know you are. Probably a few more… but most are pretend libertarians
By voter registration I am officially unaffiliated. I’ve never participated in a primary or caucus for any party. I’ve voted for candidates from the Republican, Libertarian, Independent American and Constitution parties. Never voted for a candidate from the Democratic party and can’t imagine I ever will. Make of that what you want.
I registered GOP for the first time in my life in 2007 in order to vote for Ron Paul in the Prez primary.
I kept it after that to vote for his son in primaries.
I was registered Dem from 1987 to 2007. I tried to register LP in 1998 but apparently the county clerk ignored it and left me in the Dem book. I didn’t even know this until 2007.
Well, the LP is a raging shit-show.
Twitter manifesto
The only viable course is to continue supporting the right candidates and pushing libertarian principles where you can.
And the only place that small L’s get any traction is in the GOP. Amash, Massie, and Paul are more effective than the LP will ever be.
And Trump is accidentally the most libertarian president we will likely ever see.
If Massie will run to replace McConnell, whenever he retires, I could have a great pair of Senators.
I dont like being labeled at all. Labels dont tell much, everyone means something different when they use a particular label. I sure dont want to be associated with the LP. I have never registered with a party. I have always registered Independent.
You are correct. A lot of people that call themselves libertarians are not, but I haven’t really noticed any around here. This is as liberty friendly a crowd as you will ever run across.
I think that’s an overstatement, although I’ve always been open about the fact that I’m not a 100% doctrinaire libertarian. I would say that my beliefs are, in general, closest to libertarian by a significant degree.
Anyway, from a party politics perspective, I would say I’m an anti-Democrat first and foremost. The GOP sucks ass. They’re frauds. They’re liars. They promote many things I find repellent. However, I think the Democrats are much, much worse. I will never vote for a Democrat for any reason, ever, period. They are 100% pure evil. There are some Republicans I would vote for and many more who I would not. The sad fact of the matter is that candidates who are close to my beliefs stand virtually no chance of being elected to anything. I had high hopes for Rand in 2016, but he went nowhere.
Rand isnt done yet. He is still a young man. Besides, he is doing quite well where he is.
I’m glad Rand Paul went nowhere. He’d have been toast. He’s not used to running a hostile organization. If he won – and that’s a big if – he’d have been a one-term president whose political career would be over.
Instead we have a senator who is slowly undermining the walls the tyrants are building.
Plus, we got the toilet speech. It ain’t “don’t fire til you see the whites of their eyes”, but it is the best screed against government overreach in the last decade.
Democrats are much, much worse. I will never vote for a Democrat for any reason, ever, period. They are 100% pure evil.
Same view here. As I mention above, and given the right circumstances I could vote for a Dem in the vein of Jim Webb. But those Dems are extinct. Current Dems want power for the sake of power and they absolutely mean to rule you with an iron fist.
I am trolling stout yeomen
I assume that to be always true, Mr Tepes.
I’ve never been much of a joiner, which is why I’m actually the One True Libertarian©.
“We are watching the death of a party.”
Hardly. And I don’t think they will do so poorly in the elections. I think most people have bought into the “Kavenaugh should just go away” line.
Who have you been talking to?
True it’s anecdotal, but the co-workers I hear are the ones with the attitude that he’s a rapist, to the Republicans need to nominate someone else.
As far as I can tell, not even my team blue co-workers are buying it. So I’m not going to wager very heavily on the coming election.
That’s the part of the calculus the left is genius at. Keep howling like mental cases and eventually ‘moderate’ minds just look at the other side being attacked and say, ‘We know they’re full of shit but maybe you should just go.’
And that’s how you get gulags.
The GOP needs to hold the line. I’m telling you.
Yeah, I agree with this.
This is like the terrorists in middle eastern countries who keep bombing cafes and markets. Eventually the people get pissed at the government for failing to stop them instead of the terrorists. I don’t understand the psychology, but it exists.
As the party is now it cannot survive, but I will admit that making predictions is hard, especially about the future.
The only thing I see dying is due process. I’d be terrified to be accused of rape and have to face a jury with several Democrat women on it.
Jury? Only if you are lucky.
Don’t forget the Duluth Model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth_model
I think he should just go away to the Supreme Court. If assholes weren’t pushing for evermore government, we’d never hear from him again.
As long as Collins and Flake are senators he’s not getting a vote. There will be a new accusation literally every 7 days and renewed calls for a new 7 day investigation of the credible and explosive new allegations in perpetuity. Flake’s out when the next congress convenes next year. Collins is there until 2020. After the elections, regardless of result, the party leadership will call on Trump to withdraw the nomination and find a nice, moderate candidate that they can confirm quickly, and voila, you have Anthony Kennedy 2.0.
“I see today that the left is getting very desperate. They are basically stamping their feet and screaming “NO!NO!NO!NO! Because we said so!””
Erm, that was all they have done since Trump won the election they thought they had rigged for Hillary…
We’ve always been and always will be at war with the lunatic fringe. Who cares if the party called “The Democrats” disappears?
If only we were witnessing the death of that party. Vermin are notoriously hard to kill.
I don’t think they’re dead by a long shot. They’ll be back in power soon enough. Sucks, but I wouldn’t bet against it.
I don’t doubt it. So much of this shit is cyclical anyway. Since both parties do a lot of awful things, before too long people are tired of their shit and decide they’d rather get the other’s shit shoveled on them for a while.
People forget too soon. One would think after the last century and the murder of over 120 million while close to 3 billion people lived under the hellish yoke of communism, and the brutal and destructive second world war where that other leftist ideology fascism was fought, killing another 70 million people, you would figure nobody would want anything to do with these collectivist ideologies. And yet, here we are today with people again going all weak in the knees for this horrible shit.
Femmes are people who identify as a femme, usually because of some connection to prioritizing, appreciating, or embodying elements of what has been labeled “femininity.” Some femmes identify as women, some identify as men, some identify as nonbinary or genderqueer, some identify only as “femme.”
You don’t say.
If they were serious male female and nonbinary would be enough. No need for additional identities
You can’t scare up more victim points with a fixed identity set.
“I am the specialist snowflake in the whole snow storm! How dare you try to define my lived experiences, you raging shitlord!”
If you limit it to that, how are the thousands of genders studies students/professors going to distinguish themselves with new scholarship?
That is not a chick with a dick: it is a dude with tits.
Tim Cook calls removing Alex Jones simply ‘curation’
Think different.
At least he’s being honest in a roundabout way.
that reeks of circular reasoning.
That’s how people in his orbit talk.
I’m sure you will go on and on about the superiority of 4 way stop honesty.
The “Minnesota Standoff”.
Guy eastbound: *waves northbound through*
Gal southbound: *waves eastbound through*
Gal westbound: *waves southbound through*
Guy northbound: *waves westbound through*
Then they all go at once.
Amazing, really.
The worst ever is a 4 way stop with 4 old Japanese ladies. Watching the amount of head bowing and imploring the other to go first is amazing.
So yeah, Minnesoda is bad, but Okinawa was waaaaaaaay worse.
I just paused to consider how Israelis, who are generally pretty dismal drivers, might handle a four way stop. It made me realize that in all the time I’ve been here, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered such an intersection. Weird.
And you had to be extremely cautious because you have the gaijin “Y” license plate, which we all know stands for Yankee Your Fault.
My favorite thing about Oki was seeing the honchos repeatedly pull over to piss in the middle of the street.
“We’ll think for you” -Apple.
That is the motto of their design department.
That has always been their motto, what with their walled garden.
Gotta give it to the totalitarian left. They sure know how to be creative with their jargon in justifying their authoritarian impulses.
I don’t think he sees the irony of his position.
Jones never called for the suppression of anyone’s speech. Cook is doing exactly that. Which means, he’s the totalitarian but he doesn’t see himself as that because he’s a zealot.
Again.
It’s this mind set that leads to gulags.
Leftist authoritarians in a generation: We’re merely “curating” bodies to remove the offensive bits.
“It wasn’t politically motivated. We just took him down.”
Sure, Tim.
Spun another way:
“We don’t want to suppress your speech, we just want you to think before you speak and shut up because it will hurt others.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQwa99i5r8
The most obvious lie is that it wasn’t coordinated with any other tech companies.
That’s just stupidly nuts.
You guys are actually going to claim that you all simultaneously did something you’ve never done before and used to explicitly state that you would never do, and you all did it to the same group of people and you did it at the same time. Randomly. It just happened…. like, you know, a coincidence.
Holy crap, that takes balls.
Tells you what their opinion of your intelligence is..
The RESISTANCE gets bolder.
A suspicious envelope that was addressed to President Donald Trump was intercepted by the Secret Service on Monday, US authorities say.
The envelope did not enter the White House, according to the authorities.
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The Secret Service said in a statement that the envelope addressed to the president “was not received at the White House, nor did it ever enter the White House”.
It said it was “working jointly with our law enforcement partners to fully investigate this matter”.
The incessant demonization continues, and when some mentally unbalanced true believer finally manages to harm a low level nobody with this sort of antic, the NYT and WaPo will publish longwinded chinscratchers about political polarization (Trump’s fault, of course) and the need for a national conversation about tolerance and inclusivity.
Oh come on, a little ricin in the mail is just typical juvenile hijinks.
I mean, what do YOU do with your surplus castor beans?
Trade them for Pollux leaves.
Trade them for a cow?
Splinter comment:
I wonder which right wing Christian militia separatist group sent this thinking this would start the race war, and I wonder what left wing group will be blamed for this.
Fuck. Real life beat my parody again.
To: PreZidEnt FasCiSt
FRoM: TotAlly NoT A prOGresSive
From the #believeher article’s headline talking points:
Victim had claimed she met Badkoobehi in a nightclub who invited her back to his Wynn Las Vegas hotel suite to carry on drinking
Victim? More like, “victim”. I mean, crap, when they show pictures of the falsely accused, but not the false accused, you know things are bad. When they don’t even name her in the article, but give details about each of the falsely accused, you know things are worse. But, when they’re still referring to a false accuser as “the victim”, you know we’re entering Christine Blasey Ford levels of utter horseshit.
Yeah, I noticed that too.
They also said they were proven innocent, but never really said how. There was mention of a cell phone video, but no video, no context for how a video could contradict her story…. nothing.
But we got mugshots of the victims of false accusations and detailed descriptions of their workplaces. Because that’s the relevant set of facts to get down. #MeToo!
But, when they’re still referring to a false accuser as “the victim”, you know we’re entering Christine Blasey Ford levels of utter horseshit.
I want to know more about the exculpatory video evidence. I can’t help thinking it’s her, saying, “Come on boys, don’t quit on me now! Get back in here.”
I like how they share all sorts of details about the victims of her false allegations and nothing about the bearer of false witness.
Makes you want to go all Old Testament on them.
How will raining for two score days and nights do any good?
“I’ve got a cavity that needs drilling!!!”
That’s what she said!
He should have worn his brown wetsuit
Yikes. Fuckin’ whites terrify me. Tigers too. Both of those see humans as food. Bulls are no joke either.
I forget what percentage of shark attacks on humans come from great whites, bulls, tigers, and makos, but it’s the vast majority of them.
Bulls are no joke either.
I had three guys load fill the barn loft for hay a few weeks ago. I wasn’t with them and forgot my bull was loose. He was raised almost as a pet so is very friendly.
They didn’t know that though, and I was told all 3 experienced farmhands nearly shit their pants when he came charging in to be petted.
*though I do need to keep a large stick on me when I’m in the fields during breeding season. The bull gets overly playful and can be dangerous just due to his size.
You can raise him as friendly as you like but he’ll always have a taste for human.
“That cow’s tasted human blood!”
They say that whites don’t really see humans as food, they mostly mistake us for seals. That’s why they typically only bite once.
It only takes once, though.
Bull sharks actually will actively eat people though. Jaws was loosely based on a New Jersey bull shark that ganked a number of people.
The nice thing about bull sharks is they can swim in brackish water. So we get them in the canal behind the house. The one the kids and I swim and kayak in.
Luckily, the water usually isn’t very clear so you you can’t see them if they are around. You know…. so you don’t worry so much.
What kind of crazy animal would eat people willing to swim in Jersey? Jeeze.
holy shit that’s hard to watch
I know he got a run out of it, but was taking Rizzo out an error by Maddon?
My first reaction was, what if it goes extra innings and they need his bat?
Instead, he said: “What users want from us and what we’ve always provided them is a curated platform. We think the what the user wants is someone that does review these apps, someone that does review the podcasts, someone that on like Apple news, where a human is selecting the top stories. And that’s what we do.”
Based on previous discussions on this topic, doesn’t that make Apple a publisher, and liable for the content they “curate”? I wonder how long it took the legal department to schedule a sitdown with Cook.
Remember that reporter in DC who violated DC gun laws live and on camera in a bid to humiliate an NRA spokesman? Remember how he wasn’t prosecuted?
There’s one law for the lords, and another for the little people.
https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/02/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/
Can’t read the WSJ article, but this article was written by the professors who trolled the academy.
I bet they want his head chopped off for daring to gore their idiotic dogma.
But, remember, this totally isn’t just a religion. They definitely believe in research and following the data. They just also have unquestioned dogmas that all should abide by and never question. These academics just need to take a leap of faith and accept these dogmas as correct, despite all evidence to the contrary.
PS: This is totally not a religion
The mere existence of “feminist geography” is a stain on scholarship.
I thought that Q’s links were all about “feminist geography”? Am i wrong to love them hills and mountains?
“feminist geography”
Show me on the map where the bad man touched you.
This guy gets it!
John Kerry, the gift that keeps on giving
I can’t believe anyone could say that with a straight face.
Where is CNN’s snarky chryon correcting Kerry?
Ignoring the obvious Chappaquiddick; it’s OK to do whatever you want as long as you “step up and own it” afterwards? Fuck off John. Please go away.
There’s no sugarcoating it:
He stepped over the line.
Let’s not argue over ‘oo killed ‘oo – this is supposed to be a ‘APPY occasion!
We can’t have a lush like Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court!!!! How outrageous!
Hilarious
Florida man tried to buy girl from mother at Walmart, police say
He should’ve gone to Costco. He could’ve gotten 5 for $450,000. Much better deal.
Yeah, but they spoil before you can finish them.
Obligatory
Fast fingers, wdalsio. Nicely done.
How much for the little girl?
Great minds.
He’s 81, the woman should have stood up, flipped him the double bird and stone-cold stunned him before slapping on the walls of Jericho.
Florida needs to do Florida better.
A tough negotiator, that one.
Sell me your children…
(shit that happened) (this)
Someone should link to that scene in Blues Brothers. You know the one.
People have been calling Brett Kavanaugh a ‘dry drunk.’ What does that mean?
Kavanaugh must be the best actor on earth if he’s been such an alcoholic for so long without anyone noticing.
Just like Trump and his illegal activities, he is a master of confusion!
Nothing he’s done in the last 30 years matters. It’s all a ruse to cover up his drunken teenage and college years.
Is this what is meant by ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’? Because that’s some weak shit there.
Normal people would withstand an onslaught of vitriolic calumny for a week, then thank their abusers for it. Only a “dry drunk,” or some other variety of moral reprobate, would give an impassioned defense of himself and call out his slanderers.
Another medical “professional” diagnosing people without ever having even met with the subject. I’m sure the ethics and licensing folks will get right on it.
So in their world being groped through clothing at age 15 is a devastating trauma that derails your entire life, but having a crowd of smug liars do their best to utterly destroy you and your wife and children is no reason to raise your voice?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/03/christine-blasey-ford-changing-memories-not-credible-kavanaugh-column/1497661002/
Notre Dame professor dares to question her university’s faith.
I thought they had lost their faith.
No. Like other universities, intersectionality is still the predominate religion
It’s a damned stain on Western civilization.
Even worse, it’s a damned embarrassment to Daniel Eugene “Rudy” Ruettiger (the pride and joy of Joliet Catholic).
I can already hear the howls of protestation from the professional student victims. It will be interesting to see if Notre Dame administration has a spine, as opposed to USC or the other one that censured a prof this past week for daring to disagree with the party line.
Comments almost all against Ford.
But she uses twenty dollar words like “indellible” and “hippocampus”. She also wears cool glasses. Fuck your need for any explanation, shitlord!
Which one of you freaks is doing THIS??
Knee-highs for me or GTFO
Goes from one to two is “more”.
I suspect the number is still tiny.
“Men”? I don’t see any men in that article.
Shit, I don’t know why WOMEN wear those ridiculous, uncomfortable things. Well, I guess I know why, but it’s unnecessary. If you see a good looking woman wearing anything from sandals to running shoes to Timberland boots, she’s still someone you want to get with. I think I’ve seen my wife wear heels higher than a couple of inches maybe twice ever.
I don’t think anyone – even the gayest of gays – want to see me in size 13 stilettos
Paging Jesse for a claim verification!
Dry drunk syndrome describes “a constellation of symptoms that occur after someone stops abusing alcohol yet still exhibits the majority of the maladaptive behaviors that are associated with alcohol abuse disorder and alcohol dependency,” addiction specialist Neeraj Gandotra, MD, chief medical officer at Delphi Behavioral Health Group, tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
You’ll never be cured. Give us money.
Hey man, it’s a major industry here. These guys lead the rackets.
My cousin went through that place a few times. Funny, he only got clean when he decided to stop taking drugs. On his own. With no ‘clinical’ help.
Weird, huh?
What’s weird is that it always works out that way….
I’m seeing a lot in the news about the FBI interviewing new witnesses for the Kavanaugh investigation.
Question: Did they ever interview her?
Apparently not, because her lawyers sent a letter complaining that they weren’t going to interview her. I don’t think they’re interviewing Kavanaugh either, since they both already gave sworn testimony.
I’m certainly not satisfied with the softballs they lobbed at her.
Anthony Hopkins as King Lear. I think I’ll watch this tonight.
Say, maybe there’s something to intellectualizing modern fare with classical stories rather than saddling classical stories with our stupid modern politics.
*sigh*
So, is this week when the FBI announces the appointment of a 2nd special investigator to investigate Kav’s involvement with Russians?
Gaslighter-in-Chief
Just this week, Trump deployed a classic gaslighting technique when asked whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would be disqualified if he had lied about or mischaracterized his history with alcohol. Rather than answering the question, Trump said, “There are bad reports on everybody” and launched into accusatory remarks about Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Cory Booker and Dianne Feinstein.
This is not normal behavior from anyone, let alone the president of the United States. But Trump’s behavior is so continually outrageous that it has been normalized — and mainstream Republicans who fail to call him out for fear of retribution are complicit in constructing this alternate reality.
Dictators and would-be dictators use these same tactics to gain power and control over their constituents. The more gaslighting continues, the more off-kilter and confused the population becomes, until people are too tired to fight back.
That Trump. What a scamp.
I like how the dumb bint doesn’t even bother to offer up any coherent definition of “gaslighting”. If you’re an enlightened anti-Trumpista, you already know.
Holy shit, they have REALLY fallen in love with that word.
They have ruined another perfectly good word – now I can’t use it – Ingrid Bergman weeps.
He could have said whataboutism, but he didn’t.
That is not gas lighting and it is a common evasive technique you can see politicians using any day of the week. In fact, nearly every time you hear one speak.
as someone who literally wrote a book on the subject, you’d think she could spot the difference between evasiveness and making your partner question his or her own sanity. she looks young; did she even watch the movie?
Does she even know there was a movie?
Two movies.
Re: Ford’s ex-boyfriend. Dated her for 6 years – sounds like he dodged a bullet not continuing the relationship. I’d like someone to ask him if she ever spoke in the “vocal fry” little girl voice that she used at the hearing. I’ve read that her psychology background would make her aware that some sexual assualt victims tend to speak that way. So did she do it for show? Her claims are really starting to stink.
‘I knew six days in she was a little off. So much so it took me six years to carefully plot my way out of the relationship.’
He was worried about boiled bunnies is my guess.
She has a ratemyprofessor page, so I figure she must have lectures out there.
The lectures, along with her posts and anything that might show you what sort of shitshow she is – including her year books – seem to have been scrubbed just before she was trust into the forefront by DiFi… Conveniently, some would say.
The FBI should dig those up, but they won’t.
Democrats told them not to bother, is my guess.
She used the annoying fry/pretend cry voice while reading her written state or talking about the alleged event – she moved to little girl sweetness or naivete when responding to Mitchell or the SJC.
Looks like the lady questioning her didn’t fall for it like so many people that still pretend she was credible.
Mitchell did a good job, and her memo/report was excellent. Grassley made the correct decision to go with a professional.
Sure as hell denied those team blue asshats the ability to claim a bunch of white men for the KKK attacked her and raped her all over again….
Arbour sums up her voice perfectly..
https://youtu.be/QSeyvYq0ZlA?t=3156
So the latest Kavanaugh evil to be revealed is that he helped squash the idea that Vince Foster could have been a homicide instead of a suicide.
Must be confusing to be a lefty these days. https://www.yahoo.com/news/sinister-battle-brett-kavanaugh-over-202425923.html
Is that why Hillary hasn’t complained about Kavanaugh?
I think she hasn’t complained because she was told not to.
Because…. her husband actually raped somebody, and then she smeared the victim.
I wonder what she thinks of the current bimbo eruption.
Treading lightly, she is.
Current bimbos are to believed. All bimbos are to be believed unless the accused is one William J Clinton.
Real Democrat heroes don’t leave a bimbo to testify later.
HRC was on the media circuit making the case for an “easy FBI investigation” almost immediately after the Ford allegations surfaced. Kavanaugh noted Clinton revenge in his opening statement last Thursday.
You’re paying closer attention than I am!
You haven’t even been paying us attention lately! I haven’t seen you ’round these parts in a while.
“Christine Blasey Ford might have some explaining to do herself.”
Is there anything she didn’t lie about? So, there’s this and apparently she lied about the 2 front doors also. I can’t confirm this one, but there’s chatter going on that she claims to be a psychologist when in fact, she is not registered in CA as any type of medical professional.
Can I just, under oath, stand up in front of Congress and lie about being a medical doctor and still be taken seriously? I don’t remember? I don’t recall? Wiped it with a cloth?
The problem is that an investigator would have to listen to her speak and start contemplating suicide after a few seconds. It’s not worth the risk.
Name the right criminal and you can claim you saw him dancing naked in the woods on hexennacht and still be feted as a lefty darling.
“you can claim you saw him dancing naked in the woods”
While consorting with da debil?
I put together a list of like nine things in yesterday’s links, and still people added things I had forgotten. This broad’s story has more holes than a wheel of Jarlsberg.
If you will allow an observation, I would say that wheel is 12% cheese, and the rest is holes.
not that she isn’t, generally speaking, full of shit, but you don’t need to be an m.d. to be a clinical psychologist. California being California, though, there’s almost surely a licensing board for therapists.
They heard her petition, then decided she was too much of a risk to her patients from her voice alone.
My guess is that she chose psychology as a course of study in an attempt to fix something horribly wrong with herself and maybe never completed her doctorate. I’ve met a few women through mutual acquaintances that did exactly this, and they were completely nuts.
I have a relative that did exactly that. Who knew that abortions were so mentally traumatizing?
A lot of people. But it’s taboo to talk about it. Can’t risk the next lambo for the planned parenthood board member.
Minnesota Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison called his ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan a “bitch” over a fight about money, he admitted to an attorney his own party hired to investigate domestic abuse allegations against him.
Burn him!
(For being a moron and letting a girlfriend spend his money)
If they go off the rails so badly that I feel compelled to stick up for Ellison I’m going to be pissed.
I’ve already stuck up for him, here. The guy is innocent until it’s proven otherwise, I don’t care who he is. And it’s also not totally unbelievable that the GF could have been a bitch and not illegal to call her that.
I’m not sure how the left actually believed they could start a massive witch hunt and that no witches would be found among their own. Unbelievable stupidity.
I haven’t been following his situation that closely to be honest but going after a guy for calling a woman a bitch in the context of defending himself from serious allegations is too much. If the allegations are found to be true that word pales in comparison to the substance of what happened so it just seeems silly and unfair to me.
Waiting a couple years before making a stink, and only when the ex gains prominence, is a huge hit to credibility in my book. I don’t know whether that’s the case here; for all I know, she’s had a complaint open for years, and chose now to use political leverage to resolve it. But if it’s a case of looking for a payout–or revenge–after enduring a poisonous relationship, only one side of which we’ll ever hear about, then no, much as I despise Ellison, that’s BS. Especially if she conspired with her son to out this “video” she’s unwilling to release and perhaps doesn’t have.
The video is still in production.
We have an entire generation being churned out by public schools and Universities both public and private, who have been brainwashed for more than a decade that the highest achievement you can achieve is to be a victim.
Is Karen the sister of Haven?
Called his gf a ‘bitch’ in the midst of an argument? Yea, no ones ever done that. I still think the guy is a pos, but that in and of itself is not terrible.
Seriously, this is a bit of a long read, but absolutely stunning and hilarious in the absurdity of what these guys were able to pull off.
Amazing. I don’t know anything about that world, but it appears to need a serious intellectual enema.
Still chuckling about this:
Well played, former professors.
The problem is that the authors still think there is value in that steaming pile of dogshit and that it’s just being corrupted by the greivance mongers. What they don’t get is that identity politics is baked into the entire field of humanities now and postmodernism is the support structure for all of it. Until postmodernist philosophy is attacked, forcefully and effectively across the board, this shit will only get worse.
I do. I say leave it as it is. If you clear out all the scoundrels from these departments, they are going to go somewhere else in society. Right now they self-identify as useless and everyone knows it and no one takes them seriously.
If they’re this prolific, and their fraudulent work so indistinguishable from the normal fare, why not put ’em on payroll?
The other day I went jogging, and after a mile or so I saw a gaggle of running high schoolers turning down the same street I was about to take. The race was on!
I was on one side of the street while they were on the other. For a solid quarter mile I managed to keep ahead of them and even put some distance between us.
Of course they were a bunch of high school girls. ::shame face:: And I felt like I blew out a lung.
That’s pretty impressive what with catcalling and waving your willy around.
Confess your sins. Abase yourself. Accept and embrace your humiliation.
Imagine how differently it might have played out if Ford and Kavanaugh had met in a private room with a trained facilitator instead of making separate appearances under the klieg lights of a nationally televised hearing that many saw as a kangaroo court. In a restorative justice process, Ford could have asked Kavanaugh questions; she could have described the particulars of her suffering, how she had come to this point in her life, and what she needed to move forward.
Kavanaugh could have asked his own questions, and at the same time, he could have faced up to what many perceive to be established facts—his pattern of drunk, boorish behavior as a teenager. Digging deeper, he might have finally been able to move past his flat, repetitive denials and, as Archila suggested, “hold the harm he has done.” In this process, they—and we—could have moved away from a world of sides: innocent and guilty, winner and loser. Survivors of sexual assault might have finally received some real justice, and seen some real recognition and grappling. Those who perpetrate sexual misconduct might have realized there was a way to be held accountable without being sent into permanent exile.
There has been a heated debate about whether Kavanaugh should be punished for what he may or may not have done as a teenager. But I agree with Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern that the real question, in judging Kavanaugh’s fitness and character for a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court, is whether he is willing to come to grips with his past conduct and show remorse and insight. A person who is willing to reflect and change is qualitatively different than someone who is not. A restorative justice process would have offered Kavanaugh that chance to show us—and Ford—whether he was up to doing that difficult, humbling work.
And, of course, the possibility that Ms Ford might be wrong (if not intentionally mendacious) is never for a moment contemplated.
That guy was a boorish lout. We know this, a priori, because he is a white overprivileged male.
Sounds like restorative justice isn’t really justice to me. The left really does want to throw the presumption of innocence on the old bonfire, don’t they?
It’s just a hindrance to achieving power.
Only for those not members of their tribe/team.
Confess! CONFESSSSSSSSSSS!
The latest trend in the newest witch hunt seems to be about what a menace to society anyone who ever drank in high school, is. Which pretty much means 90% of our adult population are a menace to society. Liberals? Yeah, that sort of lost any meaning a while back. So now, we need to go back to high school to judge people’s character? Why the hell stop there? Let’s go back to Kindergarten. The left have completely lost their fucking minds. How can any sane person be on board with this? Oh, and not even to mention the rank hypocrisy of these idiots. So, it’s totes OK that the Beto dude in TX was drunk and left the scene of an accident when he was in his 20s. But it’s an earth shattering unforgivable sin that Kavanaugh drank in high school? Fuck these morons with a flaming cattle prod.
I drank in high school. And had sex. And smoked pot. Good times.
And in college, I did even more of all that. But yet I somehow – years later – still manage to hold down a job, have a mortgage, keep my family fed, etc. Amazing that.
But due to your confession, you are ineligable to hold office if appointed by a republican.
We don’t need no stankin confession! Guilty! /the left
You’re an overly privileged rapey shitlord who’s oppressing women, people of color, and the poor. You just haven’t had it feminazisplained to you yet.
I willing to accept that every piece of legislation voted on by someone who ever broke a law be declared null and void.
Problem is, legislation gets voted on by members of Congress. And none of the things they vote on actually apply to them.
Thank God A.J. Hawk survived.
I was on one side of the street while they were on the other. For a solid quarter mile I managed to keep ahead of them and even put some distance between us.
Of course they were a bunch of high school girls.
CREEPER!
Yeah… and he wasn’t even jogging; he was in his car.
*wild applause*
They were just keeping behind him a little so that when he collapsed on the sidewalk, they could cross over and take turns kicking him ‘Get off our sidewalk, gramps!’.
You Idiot Reporters Are Making It Worse
Goldberg is a douche, but he’s right sometimes.
I read that, and yes, he’s dead on in this case.
“Which brings us to the current moment. Democratic senators who announced they would never vote for Kavanaugh under any circumstance keep getting asked if the FBI investigation they demanded will be “enough for them.” Enough for what? To still vote no? I’m not criticizing the Democrats themselves — though I obviously could — I’m criticizing the people who interview these senators. Time and again, these journalists interview the Democrats as if they were open-minded about this investigation when in every breath they insist that the investigation will be illegitimate if it doesn’t prove what they want it to prove.”
How dare you do to her what she’s doing to him?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brett-kavanaugh-julie-swetnick-sex-life-republicans-sexual-assault-accuser-explicit-senate-a8565996.html
doesn’t the FBI very specifically *not* make that sort of assessment?
Yes. They simply compile interviews.
When the FBI achieved hero status for starting the Mueller witch hunts, the left got this idea that the FBI are now their personal bludgeon to be used against whoever or whatever perceived enemy they can dream up. They all imagine themselves as little Hitlers who can call out their brownshirts at a moments notice. Sort of like being on the board of directors for your local HOA, only more violent.
I don’t think of Avenetti as Left. Or Right. Just whatever it takes for self-promotion.
Foxy females ready to flood your fantasies with fun!
http://archive.is/2RBbl
Most excellent group.
24 looks cute
if their food scraps are going to a compost bin instead of the trash, they may be able to downsize to a smaller trash cart
“If you gain all your weight in your ass, you may be able to downsize to a smaller belt.”
Swiss efficiency in recycling. Takin that shit to the next level .
That’s just wrong, the other Crematorium was correct when they stated
The crematorium and the state have no right to this material. Ghouls are better behaved.
Momma Tres was buried with a couple thousand dollars worth of jewelry, as it was her wish. In hindsight, I question the wisdom of that.
It was her decision to leave that property to the gravedigger instead of you. Get over it.
Oh, I’m “over”. My brother has 2 daughters, and some of the pieces may have made nice heirlooms.
Que sera, sera.
re-read, but this time imagine me with my arms crossed, with a super-cereal expression, maybe even some finger wagging.
oh, or, even better, replace me with Atticus Finch, since he’s all the rage lately.
or, even better, where’s that goddamn sarcasm font already.
I cant do that. Your avatar makes me giggle.
Someday i’m going to lightpaint one with a tophat.
Am I the only going to predict that the FBI are soon to lose their hero status with the left? Again.
Trump shoulda just hired Comey to run the investigation, then on day 3 or so, fired him again.
https://imgur.com/IvmxFmZ
Dear government,
Please stop forcing manufacturers to put vullshit failure prone wattage limiting devices in my ceiling fans. It’s annoying and I’m tired of fixing these things. Thays the second ceiling fan in my house and the 3rd or 4th one at someone’s else’s house that I have gotten rid of.
what is the point of ceiling fans? never understood
To provide you added surfaces to dust.
To even out the thermal layers by mixing the hot air by the top with the less superheated air near the floor.
You wouldn’t have to worry about that if you left your home open to the elements so it’s boiling hot or frigid most of the year. That’s mom’s theory, anyway.
I realized, looking up at her swamp cooler this weekend, that she’d done a shit job covering it for winter. Then I realized she’d never taken it off for the summer. Now I wonder when’s the last time she ran it. Crazy lady.
Where can you live, where a swamp cooler actually functions, that doesn’t get so hot that not running it would kill you?
There less chance of getting hit by the blades than if you put them on the floor.
why have a fan at all?
Not all of us live in sarcophagi in constant-temperature underground mauseleums.
how does a fan help? AC is a gift from the gods. A fan?
Even with AC, Without fans, you will need a lot more AC wastage to get the same temperature.
As the saying goes, “Fans cool people not rooms.” Our bedroom is small and, as UCS pointed out, if we only ran the a/c we’d need to set the thermostat to be about 60 to be comfortable. A ceiling fan cools your body with the moving air, and we can set the thermostat higher. Also helps in the kitchen when cooking.
I have a large fan in my living room. 52inch blades. In the dead of summer, I can keep my house at about 80 degrees and with the fan running, it’s as comfortable to me as a 72 degree house. Running a fan motor uses a hell of a lot less energy than running the compressor in my a/c unit.
mom got the power company to do an energy saving audit a while back, and their best recommendation was giving your clothes a 2nd spin in the washer, because motors convert electricity into motion more efficiently than heating elements convert it to heat.
the heat capacity of water prolly has something to do with it too (shaking water off is more efficient than evaporating it)
Running a fan motor uses a hell of a lot less energy than running the compressor in my a/c unit.
*than running the compressor AND the fan motor in your a/c unit. oh, and the blower. like, the math is stupid simple:
fan motor VS blower, compressor AND a fan motor
I was told there’d be no
mathenergy austerity.Obviously you couldn’t hear my over my ceiling fans.
For that matter, stop forcing printer manufacturers to put non-avoidable energy saver modes on their shit. The thirty second warm up times waiting for a printout ticks me off.
For the two times a year I print paperwork for the HR dept.
Oh, and 30sec to wake up, but you’re leaving out the 10mins for it to decide it can connect to the same fucking wireless network again.
“Please consider the environment before printing this email”
Who prints e-mail? that defeats the purpose
Also, from the land asinine regulations-
Around 2007 or so, the government mandated that all 3 phase industrial electric motors had to be ‘high efficiency motors’ electric motor manufacturers had for years been offering standard and high efficiency motors for sale.
The difference between the two is the amount of air gap between the O.D. of the rotor and the I.D. of the stator core. The high efficiency motors have less room between the two.
The only wear item in an electric motor is the bearings. As the balls in the bearing wear, the rotor of the motor moves inside that air gap. If the rotor makes contact with the stator core, the motor grounds out and will blow out its windings: which runs the motor. The fact that all these motors have a government mandated smaller air gap means that if wear problems in bearings aren’t proactively monitored and corrected, then the effective life of an electric motor is severely reduced. So, now we have ‘high efficiency’ electric motors that blow up as the bearings wear instead of standard efficiency motors that develop end play and start causing coupling/linkage/gearbox issues when the bearing wear.
But muh feeeeeeeeelz about electricity usage!
you’re not supposed to count the energy cost of material extraction, construction, and shipping of multi-ton equipment, you shitlord.
This sucks.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-23-becomes-youngest-adult-13344496
It’s probably just a symptom of UK society in general. He doesn’t actually need a working Brain, the gubmint will tell him what to think when thinking is needed.
Yikes. Story seems a bit suspicious though.
“I was very troubled by the tone of the remarks. … The interaction with the members was sharp and partisan, and that concerns me,” said Flake, who was instrumental in initiating a week-long FBI investigation into the allegations. “I tell myself, ‘You give a little leeway because of what he’s been through.’ But on the other hand, we can’t have this on the court. We simply can’t.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-kavanaugh-flake/flake-concerned-by-kavanaughs-partisan-interactions-at-senate-hearing-idUSKCN1MC22M
a little leeway for two solid weeks of slander? are you fucking shitting me? if you can’t have someone with a spine on the court, then that’s the Dem’s playbook 100% from here out: attack, slander, attack, slander until the nominee fights back –> then it’s “oh, we can’t have a partisan on the court”
Flake is right, it was partisan, Kavanaugh pushed-back on the part including those who were attacking him.
Kindly fuck off into retirement, idiot. Could AZ quit sending bitchy prima donnas to Congress?
Flake & Reason seem made for each other.
Either Flake is the cuckiest cuck boy of all time or he’s a Dem plant. I don’t see how it could be otherwise. He behaves like he has some sort of serious hormone imbalance. Is he undergoing sex change?
My theory:
McCain had Flake’s balls in a jar on his desk, and would let Flake use them occasionally. When he died, he left them to Lindsey Graham, triggering the sudden rush of testosterone that we saw last week.
It explains all the facts. Prove me wrong.
McConnell, Graham, and Grassley share one ball between them, and pass it around when needed.
No, he just hates Trump. Which is understandable, but his further problem is thinking any of this shit really matters, as if respectability is really something to be concerned with.
Embrace the chaos, Jeffery. Embrace it like a long lost love.
Flake is behaving as if he has identified a common enemy in Trump and is happy to support erstwhile ideological foes in order to stick it to him. This is the kind of thing you see when two different parties clearly share more fundamentals in common than not, and I’d argue that in this case it’s the career politician in them that unites Flake and co. and the Dems against Trump and people who sympathize with him. And the thing is, I don’t even believe that Trump’s anti-establishment bona fides are particularly strong, but that doesn’t matter. The problem for Flake and the rest isn’t that Trump is or isn’t anti-establishment; it’s that he’s perceived that way. So even if he’s the same old same old, he can’t be seen as propelling a successful anti-establishment platform, because that would threaten the status quo that politicians on both sides of the aisle have gorged themselves on for decades.
Huge blow for Trumpnazis
So, the UN has ordered, ORDERED the USA to stop not playing fair with Iran. Nice headline there, MSN.
Dear UN,
Kiss my white ass.
Love,
Donnie
Is an E.O. sufficient to remove the UN delegates and have the building razed?
The Donald knows Real Estate.
He should hike the rent until they move out then convert it into condos.
Seriously, we simply CANNOT have someone with a documented history of underaged drunkeness on the Supreme Court!
Every time I hear Winfield’s name, I think of his pals Ron Behagen, Corky Calhoun, And Bill Musselman. #believelukewitte
I think of George Steinbrenner and Howie Spira
*DuckDuckGo Luke Witte*
Wow. That was certainly not “Minnesota Nice”.
“Gamboa asked councilmembers to block KinkySDollS opening in the city because it “would exacerbate the risk of sexual assaults for women” as men accustomed to using the human-like sex objects could transfer the behavior to real people.”
So you are saying they are going to get married?
“If you’re involved in a feminist journal and you’re bitching about the methodology used here, then you’re not serious about advocating equality or feminism or truth in research. Seriously, this is a bit of a long read, but absolutely stunning and hilarious in the absurdity of what these guys were able to pull off. (Open it in incognito or private mode-or somebody please provide an archive link in the comments)”
Private mode didn’t work. Or I’m doing it wrong. Could someone put up an archive?
incognito doesn’t work with WSJ. It used to, but no longer.
Oh well.
How do I do that without my name being on top of the screen? When I’m logged in (which you have to be), it says my name.
California bans animal testing for cosmetics:
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Senate Bill 1249, the California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, into law on Friday, Sept. 28.
Authored by Sen. Cathleen Galgiani and co-sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Social Compassion in Legislation, SB 1249 will make it unlawful for cosmetic manufacturers to sell any cosmetic in California if the final product or any component of the product was tested on animals after Jan. 1, 2020, with some exceptions for regulatory requirements.
“With the passage of SB 1249, California now leads the country in supporting modern, reliable cosmetic safety testing, while protecting animals from unnecessary suffering,” said Galgiani.
https://www.happi.com/contents/view_breaking-news/2018-10-01/gov-brown-signs-california-cruelty-free-cosmetics-act
How are you supposed to know if it’s safe unless you test it?
Why am I hearing Pelosi saying “you have to wear it to find out whats in it” ?
Orphans.
If that’s too offensive, then prisoners and other welfare recipients.
I’d rather use animal testing protestors. “We have to test it on something. If you’re willing to take their place, we’ll test it on you. Otherwise, piss off.”
Trying to read the tea leaves on the FBI wrapping up early. I think this means they did some followup on the accusations of sexual assault, and that’s it, without investigating Kav’s high school yearbook, frat boy days, etc. And, given that DiFi is demanding that the report be kept secret, I’m guessing they turned up more problems with Ford’s story and junked the other accusations.
Ford’s ex has come out with a statement, too. Its anonymous, so for the moment I am disregarding it per my standard that if you won’t put your name on it, I won’t take it into account.
Is it anonymous? I thought it was redacted by the judiciary committee. In any event, it’d be easy for Ford to out his name or out it as a fabrication.
Yes, it was redacted.
FWIW, the friend who was supposedly coached by Ford has denied that it ever happened. However, I’ve been told that the fact that Ford knew the names of some of Kavanaugh’s high school friends means she’s telling the truth, so the fact that the ex-boyfriend knew Monica McLean’s name, and she is in fact a friend of Ford’s whose name was not public before this, must mean he’s telling the truth. Right?
McLean’s was public: she signed a letter in support of Ford.
I hadn’t heard McLean denies having been coached. Seems like a tough thing to prove either way.
You are correct. His original letter had his name, which was redacted.
I see that the now-FBI agent that Ford is supposed to have helped with lie detector testing (which she denied at the hearing) is saying Ford did no such thing. It seems an oddly specific thing for her ex to make up out of thin air.
That’s easy, put her under polygraph. Wait… shit.
“And, given that DiFi is demanding that the report be kept secret”
I looked, but couldn’t find where she said that. Only people saying she said that.
Since this kooky betrayal of process, Feinstein has been speaking solely through sympathetic media surrogates. Almost like she doesn’t want her wrinkled ass associated with this stunt.
Lindsey yelled at her and hurt her feelingz.
What I have seen is purported quotes from Feinstein. Looks like these background investigations are usually confidential to the Senate anyway, and that’s how this one will be handled.
All that matters is the President’s “vicious” and “vile” comments from last night night’s rally:
“How did you get home?” Mr. Trump asked, mimicking a questioner during last week’s hearing that also featured a defiant Judge Kavanaugh.
“I don’t remember,” Mr. Trump said in mock response of Dr. Ford.
“How’d you get there? I don’t remember. … Where is the place? … I don’t remember. … How many years ago was it? I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said, the crowd cheering.
“Upstairs, downstairs, where was it? I don’t know. But I had one beer. That’s the only thing I remember.”
Michael Bromwich, one of Dr. Ford’s lawyers, wrote on Twitter that Mr. Trump’s comments were “a vicious, vile and soulless attack,” adding: “Is it any wonder that she was terrified to come forward, and that other sexual assault survivors are as well? She is a remarkable profile in courage. He is a profile in cowardice.”
Oh my god, he said snide things about her???? The bastard.
Repeating factual statements is vile.
Well, he really doesn’t need to do it, he’s an ass, and it doesn’t help his cause (unlike some of his other ramblings). He should just let Ford get charged with perjury and maybe then crow about it.
he should shut up b/c it’s not helping. but he’s at a rally full of red meat and potatoes GOP and they demanded to be fed.
Those are also the same kinds of people who will, or won’t, show up to vote for Republicans in their senate races. It’s a pressure tactic and he knows exactly what he’s doing.
Fucking 2D chess!
expanding that thought, this is the Knight’s move isn’t it, one step to the side and two forward, or two to the side and one forward? Either way, he’s making it to the finish line before the guy making one step forward and two steps back. They dropped that piece in the early versions of chess.
I’m not one of the Trump is a genius guys but this kind of move doesn’t take much genius. Seeing the Republican base cheer that will enter the thought process of the senators that are waffling and stiffen their spines. You don’t think that’s plausible?
I found it amusing.
it “would exacerbate the risk of sexual assaults for women” as men accustomed to using the human-like sex objects could transfer the behavior to real people.”
They should ban marriage, based on that line of reasoning.
“Well, my wife lets me fuck her pretty much any time I want; that means I should be able to bang the hot new receptionist if the urge comes over me. Why should I have to wait ’til I get home?”
That line of reasoning is even more an indictment of marriage than sex dolls. Fungibility between live women is much greater than between women and dolls. Sure, your wife might not be in the mood, but you stand a good chance of persuading her. So why not treat your secretary as persuadable? She’s a woman like your wife. Contrast that with what I assume is the appeal of a sex doll: it’s not a woman. That’s the point.
“3DPD” and anime obsession and body pillow waifus is a phenomenon among a certain demographic of unfuckable young men for a reason, and it’s not because they’re obsessed with pulling Revenge of the Nerds hijinks to score with hot women.
*formulating analogous analogy between hamburgers and textured soy protein product*
DOES NOT COMPUTE *blue smoke*
“CNN’s Camerota: Ice Throwers More Likely to Sexually Assault”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/mark-finkelstein/2018/10/02/cnns-alisyn-camerota-ford-accusation-makes-more-sense-given
This is what desperate douchebaggery looks like.
given that DiFi is demanding that the report be kept secret
Unexpectedly!
be kept secret and leaked at a later date.
Anyone seen that the Mueller team shed another 2 attorneys? What got me however was the following passage in the article:
Two prosecutors detailed to the Russia investigation for the past year are returning to their duties in other parts of the Justice Department. They join two other attorneys who left the team, assigned to investigate potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, over the summer.
Note they avoid mentioning that the two unnamed Mueller team members that “left” this past summer – Strzok and Page – were not dropped by Mueller team after a ton of the previously unreleased or blacked out text exchanges were finally released showing how much of a partisan hack they were. These two were part and parcel of that cabal that let Hillary walk and then invented the Russian collusion hoax to torpedo Trump, and they became liabilities.
The rest of the article sucks just as bad as these fluff pieces usually do, as it doesn’t address the key issue here, which is that Mueller’s probe is winding down because there is simply nothing more for them to do in their fishing expedition and that whole Russia collusion thing was nothing but bullshit.
I managed to get drunk tonight without raping anyone.
You fail at patriarchy.
LIAR!
But did you throw any ice?
The line was too long.
Well, it’s all over for Kavanaugh now: celebrities are protesting!
That reminds me: did I see that there was a gofundme for Kav?
I just checked – there appear to be several.
Watch him donate the proceeds to FIRE.
I am reminded of this scene from the criminally underrated Used Cars
loved that movie
Ditto.
Lena Dunham…
If she came out against burning infants alive, I’d be for it.
“Playa Manhattan converts to the worship of Moloch”
I don’t know if it has been mentioned specifically, yet-
There is an article (sorry, no link: fake news) about some dentist who is saying he went out with that Swetnik chick, but he dumped her when she expressed her desire for multiple male partners simultaneously.
I thought he was a weatherman?
In any case, Swetnick is clearly a nut and she’s already backpeddling on her story.
You don’t need to be a weatherman to see which way the wind blows.
Apparently,
itshe blows in several directions at once.I have a feeling when this is done, she will find that her security clearances stripped, and her job as well. Its laughable that someone making this public display should have any security clearances at all.
She has a public trust clearance to work for the IRS, and we all know how honest they are.
He’s not down with the wobbly H?
Why do I find the possibility that Swetnick dated a dentist so incredibly believable?
I thought he was a weatherman?
Oops. You’re right. I got my train schedules mixed up.
I’ve come around on Ford. I was willing to give her some benefit of the doubt that something happened that she reconstructed in the academia pressure cooker into a traumatizing sexual assault. But as her story has fallen apart, around things that have nothing to do with the assault – fear of flying, the door thing, the offer to do the interviews in CA, the refusal to release the therapist records or name of the therapist, etc., I have come to the conclusion that she is just lying about the underlying accusation against Kav, too. Her stories about when, where, and who have just shifted too conveniently to stymie confirmation/disconfirmation. She has been a willing participant in the Dem’s hit job, which was constructed from day one as a last minute smear to force Kav to withdraw.
That and she said that she never advised anyone on lie detectors. Tangled webs.
Criminal charges for her and censure for Feinstein are warranted.
I’m not quite there yet. Oh, her account is totally IN-credible, but I believe there is still a chance that she had a bad experience in the past and that the Dems are just (ab)using her.
What is with the midget fetish on the main page lately?
Sloop goes through themes until he gets bored of them and wanders off to some other image set.
And the whole midget fetish…
Did u guys get ur president alert?
Nope.
/dead phone.
I can neither confirm nor deny…
But even though it was planned it’s almost as if they think they might need it soon…
Yep. It was the best alert ever. Super classy. A very, very good alert.