Grüezi mitenand. Your linkings are hereby here for you. Alles klar and in ordnung. Enjoying them you shall be – comments you will be making.
Sports were played, birthdays are being observed, historical events have seen another year slide them further out.
- The world continues to provide SugarFree more material. Perhaps a return to Korea for the Hat and Hair?
- This article shames me…I should get my lazy self to write up a Catalonia Update…in the interim, the link will have to do.
- I…I…can’t even come up with a good joke for this one. Something, something Turkish prison? No… oh, you figure this one out. (P.S. I got $5 says she is dead within 6 weeks).
- Ah, the usual “give us all your money and liberty or we are all GOING TO DIE in 10 years!!!” story. I seem to see these…every few years. Funny, we are still all here, right? Wait, or we were all already killed by the Tax Cuts, Net Neutrality going down, Kavanaugh sitting on the bench, etc.?
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What happened to the Russians?
Why … nothing, friend. Say, I think the phone is for you…
Funny how that story all bud died, huh?
Just waiting for the right card to be pulled…
You are on fire today sir!
I think the official party line is, since Kavanaugh is Trump’s get out of jail free card, what’s the point of pursuing it any longer…
…AND ANOTHER THING!
…
I got nothing.
Go ahead…you know you want to. Give yourself a dancing #2!
Anybody else wear their galoshes to work to keep your feet dry from the river of tears running down the halls?
I have to say – the office I work in is remarkably free of open political talk.
#metoo
Thank goodness.
So is mine, although my dotted line supervisor has signaled that he leans proggy. Of course, he’s in Memphis, in an office working with a group of ‘uge Trump supporters, so he can’t be too vocal about it. My office is remarkably free of any talk. At least the floor I’m on, which consists of IT and IT support.
I’m around a lot IT too – many are Indian indentured-servants.
That repeal the 13th talk making them nervous?
How would I know? I’m often unsure if they are speaking in English, Tamil, or Hindi.
I’m fairly certain one of the reasons I was picked up by the current company is for my standard midwest accent on the phone. You can almost hear the relief in some of the callers when I’m tagged in to a support call.
When I worked helpdesk, my callers were more overt in being thankful I wasn’t from India. They literally said it aloud.
It didn’t help that the Mumbai ‘help’ desk managed to find the dumbest people on the subcontinent who technically spoke ‘English’. So callers would end up spending forever just trying to get the issue described. The Mumbai desk also had a habit of trying to record stateside escalations as ‘transferred call’ tickets to keep their closure numbers up. So they’d get really squirrely about giving you the ticket number, and eventually open a new one with no data if you pressed the issue. then they stopped doing warm transfers for escalations and just dropped the caller cold into our queues. I can’t begin to tell you how often I had a caller pissed off about having wasted however much time with the Mumbai desk only to start over from scratch with me because the agent cold transferred them. Even with the fraudulant transfer tickets, every agent on the US desk handled and succesfully resolved more tickets per workday than the Mumbai agents. (3-5x as many). But the managers massaged the numbers to make the mumbai agents look like a good deal and the US desk got closed.
We had some douche take a sick day to mourn. When they told me that i laughed. Some people were surprised at my reaction and felt I was cold. I told them all to grow up already.
I’d be looking for any excuse to fire that person. That’s a red flag for an incoming lawsuit.
Good for you. And enjoy your pending visit with HR.
I already told them here that the day someone from HR tries to talk to me is the day I quit. Being an essential single point of failure has a lot of drawbacks, but one of the bonuses is that I pretty much am immune from anyone fucking with my regardless of what i say as long as my actions are not immediately criminal.
I would never fuck with your regardless. Now, your irregardless, I will be all over that shit!!1
Will you grab the Swingline on your way out before setting the building on fire?
You better believe it… And it better be red.
I remember our office proggie leaving work to go drink/mourn with his other proggie buddies when he learned that Paul Wellstone had died in a plane crash.
Came back a couple of days later with all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories about how the GOP/Military-Industrial Comples/Illuminati/Free Masons had killed Wellstone because he was too damn smart.
BTW, the same proggie guy was completely stunned when we fired him a few months later. He couldn’t understand how someone who could leave work for days and not have anyone miss him could be let go. Didn’t we realize how important he was?
Good for you. Taking a sick day to “mourn” a remote political event that will have absolutely zippy impact on that person’s life… What the fuck is wrong with these people? I had no idea there were that many lunatics just walkin’ around.
Fuck that. A friend at work is back today after his mother died suddenly last week. The idea that an asshole needs time to “mourn” a normal political activity is insulting to anyone who has dealt with real grief.
I went to work the day after my step-father suddenly died in front of us on my mom’s birthday.
Fuck that asshole.
I was going to take a sick day if the Vikings lost yesterday but then I remembered I don’t work. Maybe I’ll just call in anyway.
What we should do is Bitch about Kavenaugh’s jurisprudence, and then, when people bring up this other crap, act like we have no idea what they are talking about.
I like it!. “Yeah, I’m outraged about his role in the Patriot Act! Who’s with me?! (Runs out door like Bluto)
Oh he was also the judge who ruled that the feds data mining that was revealed by Snowden didn’t violate the 4th amendment.
Did anybody ask him about these 2 things during his inquisition?
So to sum up, a guy who is horrible on the 4th amendment for us regular assholes was just the victim of fake accusations. I think I found my talking points for the day, and I didn’t even have to watch tv or go on the twat.
The democrats wouldn’t understand why anyone would defend the 4th and 5th amendments.
Duh it’s a JOB INTERVIEW!!@$#!!@.
Laws, principles, common decency don’t apply. Unless of course you’re asked about your age, sexual orientation, race, national origin, etc.
You mean to make sure he was still down with it? Cause I don’t know why else they would bother.
God, that’s depressing.
No, but everyone on social media is losing their shit. Radical lefties are saying vitriolic stuff about people who were only lukewarm on Hillary, because they helped create Trump, etc.
Because the woman who defended her rapist husband by smearing his victims is totally good for women. Totally.
They don’t even pretend to have principles. Just lots of outrage and virtue signaling.
One guy said “what they’re doing to Kavanaugh is wrong, but I’m glad they are because Roe* vs Wade”, and got reamed for not towing the ? hard enough.
*Was the original case about fish abortions?
I thought it was about the pros and cons of different ways to trout fish; rowing a small inflatable or wading in the stream.
Fish hooks and inflatable boats seem like a bad combo. I’ll go with Wade.
Those poor Jill Stein voters can’t catch a break.
Well it’s on at work. It always starts with whispering in corners, but eventually reaches full throated Nazi Hitler screeching once a gang of them get together
Half as many animals with back bones and plants would lose the majority of their habitats.
LP headquarters hardest hit.
Why do the spineless get a break, but the plants get screwed?
GOTEEM
Because they’re spineless, or because they’re turnips?
(P.S. I got $5 says she is dead within 6 weeks).
So many bad decisions in one little story.
Good morning, Swissy. Thanks for the lynx.
But wow. She’s a smokeshow.
Yeah, but she presents with severe duckface, which would indicate a serious case of thot-itis.
That smoke is rising from a dumpster fire.
Ha-ha! Very true.
So glad to see that Minnesoda is catching up with the rest of the country.
Local disability activist sues several cities for running non-ADA compliant web sites.
You will be shocked to find out that McCourt has 10 other disability lawsuits pending.
That sounds like your problem, not mine, friend.
I did not know being irritated and bent out of shape is a disability. I thought it was just Monday. Hmm, I may need a lawyer so I can get in on this gravy train.
I’d help but I am retiring on the disability I’ll get under this policy!
“non-ADA compliant web sites”
Erm…
WTF is that supposed to be? You need a mouse ramp instead of a mouse pad?
[golf clap]
You haven’t lived through a 508 compliance audit? Let me tell you about trying to convince the compliance auditors on a state job that a map that could show any subset of about a million different things did not have a good web-reader alternative.
Been there.
#metoo
For a website that was going to be used by exactly 6 people, none of whom had any impairments.
So, I’m torn, because on the one hand this smacks of litigation used for personal profit or attention-seeking (can’t tell because the site is stalling trying to load a whole bunch of bullshit) but on the other hand government websites are typically the absolute worst of the worst in terms of usability, and they get away with it because of the generally shitty attitude local governments have towards the people they allegedly serve. Then again, it sounds like this guy is being a dick. If you found something via Google…you found it. Yeah, that’s not optimal, but frankly most visitors to websites these days get there from links provided by search sites, not by using the navigation. That doesn’t mean your navigation should suck, but it doesn’t mean it’s a crime against humanity for someone to find something using a search engine.
Also, this seems like one of those people who would be pissed off if he had to use the site’s search to find a page, and that’s a pet peeve of mine. Look, if there’s a search bar it’s not because we forgot to get rid of it, dipshit. We’re acknowledging that there’s a lot of content and some people prefer to just cut straight to the chase.
“Oh, I see”
The Left’s history of character assassination for profit and political gain.
NOTHING TO GAIN!
The Democrats love a good awards circle jerk. They give themselves awards and then use said awards for resume building.
I saw one on Twitter, asking for donations to the account they had set up for therapy, due to the Kavenaugh confirmation. I half think it was a conservative trying to get some extra cash out of progressives.
Genius idea.
Ahh, the Whole Foods Gambit.
I’m pretty sure she was at OU, not ORU.
I…I…can’t even come up with a good joke for this one. Something, something Turkish prison? No… oh, you figure this one out. (P.S. I got $5 says she is dead within 6 weeks).
Good to see the hot/crazy matrix still holds up.
The smile on that tatted-up ex-con’s face is the purest expression of honest joy I have ever seen.
Nah. That smile is a thing now.
Numale Wojak is the best thing to come out of 4chan since this.
I realize this is totally subjective, but that prisoner guy doesn’t look as tough as your average American prisoner. Also, she quit her job. They can’t tell her not to consort with him anymore, and it doesn’t prove they did anything but meet at the prison. Also, she makes Playboy playmates look like my public school lunchladies.
She is a British 11, that’s for sure.
I spent several weeks there last year. At a decent, larger pizza place close to the Ludlow castle, all the waitresses were shockingly gorgeous. Everywhere else, not so much, especially the women with small children, most of whom would be on the low end of Walmart shoppers.
Sort of depressing that a goober with a face/neck tattoo can pick up hotties like that while locked up.
I’m with you, A-dog. She is hotter than sick owl shit. I’m also pretty sure that is why this is a story. The moral “outrage” is just a reason to run pics of a cutie in a bikini.
I spent a month in county jail once. On the way to be released, I somehow found myself alone in a hallway with a pretty, very petite young woman in a guard uniform. After being in a room with only men for so long, I couldn’t help but stare, and she seemed annoyed. I almost wondered if it wasn’t an intentional temptation intended to make me screw up and stay in the system.
My story like that is from boot camp. We hadn’t seen a woman in 12 weeks and during the last week we are sitting in a classroom getting our orders. They were passed out by a cute little WM and I can still remember what she looked like and how good she smelled 30 years later.
WM = woman Marine
I am willing to bet that if someone showed you her picture she would not hold up to how hawt she was in your memory. Like with alcohol, deprivation caused by long periods of not seeing females, will result in an automatic 3 point positive slide (a 4 suddenly becomes a 7).
Hence why sailors saw manatees and fell in love.
Similar experience. When I was being processed out I ended up in a room with in incoming female prisoner, and she looked like an angel to me at the time. I offered her some gum. She accepted. Then I had to go.
The kissy-lips are a huge turn-on. Not…
And his nu-male smile and face tatts – gah. They’re made for each other.
Yeah, the headline could’ve read “Young Thot in love with Scrawny Chav” for all it did for me.
Some peeps here have a curious penchant for caked-on makeup and “facetuned” photos.
I don’t think there is anything illegal here – just remarkably bad judgement.
The Football Gods apparently accepted my made-from scratch pot of Terlingua Rules Chili (no beans and no tomatoes, although they have recently [and wrongly IMO] relaxed the no tomatoes rule) this weekend. UT and Houston won rivalry games! FSU embarrassed themselves, but in a way that at least gave some hope. It wasn’t a bad weekend.
My daughter went to her first GT game. She made it thru 3 quarters, which was enough, as we were up 28 pts.
So all was well.
Fun stat from GT Friday night:
65 rushes for 542 yards.
1/2 passing for 12 yards.
66 pts on 67 plays.
Also, exactly how did FSU struggle to beat Louisville?
And does this mean Miami is only marginally better than Louisville?
Did you see the 4th quarter? That’s FSU’s default. They played 3 quarters on hate, and then reverted to form.
Francois is a decent athlete. How did he only have 4 yards rushing against Louisville? QB sweep works better than that.
Our starting QB ran for 175 and our backup for 103. And the big chunks were on called QB runs not option plays (they may have looked like option plays, but he carries the ball differently on QB keepers).
He also had a season-ending knee injury last year. Given the FSU o-line’s inability to block anybody, I think calling designed QB runs is not good for his long-term health.
It may be heterodox thinking, but QBs get hurt less (or at least less bad) running the ball than standing in the pocket.
WTF is wrong with people?
I had heard about the proggies in Wisconsin getting their cheese hats in a bunch about some Confederate war memorial. Didn’t pay much attention to it, just assumed that for some reason they had a pro-South statue or something.
Yesterday, I read a story with more details. Have to say I wish I hadn’t read it because it is just too depressing.
tl;dr version: Madison city council votes to remove a grave marker in a cemetery where 140 Confederate POW’s are buried.
That’s just wrong. And despicable. Let’s remove these people’s memorial from history, even though they were imprisoned in most likely horrible conditions. The inability to have any empathy is the reason for so many issues these days.
Marxism 101. Destroy any and all institutions or values, so you can replace them with questionable identity politics, and you can lead the sheep to the camps while they sing in joy for the opportunity to be reeducated.
Moments like this make me wish George Romero made documentaries.
Brain eating Confederate zombies come to life in Madison, WI?
BORING!!!!
The whole movie would be watching the poor zombies starve to death.
*applauds*
Wow, that’s some impressive attempted virtue signaling.
Pure evil signaling.
This is profoundly wrong.
Comment:
“Two thoughts:
1. Many object to removing the monument because its removal supposedly dishonors the dead. I don’t see how the erection of a memorial by a group with a political agenda honors the dead in the first place. Even if the monument itself is not overtly political, the group, at least in the early years, had a white supremacist agenda, one that was served by erecting the cenotaph.
The members of this group presumably didn’t know the dead as individuals and didn’t know their personal views on the conflict. Some of those soldiers may have strongly resented being forced to fight for the rights of wealthy people to own slaves, a system which undercut the value of poor whites’ labor.
From this perspective, the cenotaph actually dishonors the dead by taking the tragedy of death and turning it into a political message that some would not have agreed with–and the best way to honor the dead as individuals would be to remove the memorial.
2. Maybe because I was raised in South Florida, a place with little sense of tradition, by a Midwestern and intensely practical mother, I do not believe that respect for the dead outweighs the welfare of the living.
Try to imagine what it must be like to be the African-American descendant of slaves and to have such a memorial in your community. After all, while people may disagree on the extent of brutality under slavery, none can claim it didn’t exist: floggings for not working hard enough, stripping women naked and displaying them like cattle at slave auctions, separating small children from their mothers.
If this monument is on public land, African-American taxpayers are having their tax money go to maintain this monument because the land it is on has to be maintained and the monument cleaned occasionally, etc.
No one should be forced to pay to maintain a monument to their ancestors’ oppression–which is what this cenotaph commemorates, even if only implicitly.
This memorial should be removed and placed in a private museum. People who value this sort of thing can then pay for it.”
Fool. Ignoramus. Talk about missing the point. Talk about keeping to a myopic narrative. She doesn’t realize as the quote in the article argues, there comes a point where her stupid argument ceases and the dead become one.
Ladies and gentlemen. Her comment is the piece de resistance of modern progressivism.
Reality si whatever I want/need it to be to push my marxist agenda!
Not to mention that if someone said we should be burying muslim combatants that were killed as they were busy killing innocents, after embalming them with pigs blood, ass up, so they could serve as bike racks, this person would have a heart attack because we were being inhumane. These people are fucking evil marxists that know exactly what they are doing.
Thank God they have you to speak for them. But you know, even to the extent that many might feel uncomfortable about it (say, because thin skins and outrage are Madison’s progressive currency and fundamental values)—so what? Your hypothetical person is outraged, so scurry to erase, just to ease some small, abstract, irrational (and frankly dubious) pain? Fuck you.
Madison. Wisconsin. Not even the football players (except for the running backs) are African-American.
Taylor Swift breaks political silence in favour of Democrats
A million redneck hearts broken.
Alternate take: Neo-Nazi pinup girl endorses male Kavanaugh supporter for Senate
Tay-Tay’s album sales must be flagging.
This probably isn’t going to help them any.
Which is funny. I mean she’s not that attractive, but I’d still pick her over a slimy politician.
Look what you made me do…Kavanaugh!
…Ready for it?
Bredesen is a total middle-of-the-roader.
I cannot support Marsha Blackburn. Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me. She voted against equal pay for women. She voted against the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, which attempts to protect women from domestic violence, stalking, and date rape. She believes businesses have a right to refuse service to gay couples. She also believes they should not have the right to marry. These are not MY Tennessee values
Now we’ve got bad blood.
These are not MY Tennessee values
Other than getting your ass kicked at football, what exactly are Tennessee Values™?
Drinking (preferably whiskey), fighting, fucking, hunting, and meth
/former child of middle TN
“meth”
CULTCHURALL APPROPRIASHUNZ!
/FL
I think you put hunting and meth too far down the list.
do you even Save The Best For Last, bro?
And wasn’t she from Pennsylvania, anyway?
For the first time? Eh? I don’t even follow TS, and I knew she was “woke af” (which of course means holding the most vanilla progressive views).
Did she seriously write “colour”? Traitorous bitch.
He added that the meetings were private with only North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his sister and close advisor Kim Yo Jong
I really want to see how Pompeo signed that yearbook. “Yo Jong loved that Devil’s Triangle summit!”
REPUBLICANS AREN’T ABOUT PRINCIPLES LIKE US, THEY JUST WANT POWER.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/opinion/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html
Look, Republicans are about power, I just find it hilarious that the Democrats are trying to spin their efforts against Kavenaugh as some sort of principled stand, and not a drawn out for that they have lost the liberal majority in the SC.
I get infuriated by the constant claims that if you think government should be limited, you are for enshrining White Power. Go fuck off.
I’M NOT PROJECTING, YOU’RE PROJECTING!
That’s all they seem to have. Strong projection instincts, because they assume what they are doing and their motivations have to be the same on the other side, and a near desperate need for power. That is why the SCOTUS (like the office of the POTUS was supposed to be if Hillary won it) was a reliable and great source of balanced and noteworthy oversight while the left held control of it, and suddenly, now that they no longer hold control via a majority vote, it is an unreliable and dangerous entity (see Holder) which according to Karla Marx needs to be fixed by getting rid of the electoral college (I heard she called it the electrical college in her speech though).
“I get infuriated by the constant claims that if you think government should be limited, you are for enshrining White Power.”
But it makes perfect sense from their perspective. Remember that they are creatures of narrative and the narrative states that black people are structurally disadvantaged by the white privilege upon which our society is built; only the benign and healing hand of government can set things right, and if you’re against that you are a Nazi.
If you don’t allow/want government to grow so it can more effectively pick winners and losers, you must be a shitlord.
/proggie off
Portland Progs try to Reginald Denny a guy. He does the smart thing and hits the gas.
The wisdom of Bill Hicks.
Yes – When I lived in LA in the 90’s, I had my head on a swivel at stop lights.
This is why God invented tear gas. And shotguns, frankly, although I’d prefer the nonlethal route. These people have been failed by every institution they’ve encountered–their families, the schools, the local government–and are infected with a bizarre blend of Progressivism and Radical Marxism. It’s not surprising in the least that they’re acting like animals. They need to be quarantined, subdued, and treated. They need our love, not our buckshot. Hugs are better than slugs.
Oh, I think a few dead might not be all that bad… pour encourager les autres.
My cousin-in-law was on the way to pick her daughter up from school one afternoon when the BLM protests were big. A bunch of people were dancing down a main thoroughfare having a chuckle holding signs and stuff, feelin’ good about bein’ bad or whatever. Well, it’s the only street into several neighborhoods of commuters, plus two elementary and one middle school. The typically Progressive white people were sippin’ their soy lattes and being emotionally torn between their privilege and their desire to get home and/or pick their kids up. My cousin, who is hood as hell, rolled her window down and yelled at the woman in front of her car, “You’re making me late to pick up my kid. Get the fuck out of my way before I run your fat ass over.” It worked like a charm because she meant it.
So they can spin it as unprovoked white supremacist violence.
Then you get more protests.
I do agree, though. Let’s see how popular these protests are when the threat of violence is actually reciprocal.
More please.
Oh, good, now this guy is going to get targeted by the mob (“zomg it’s ironic that he’ll get due process innit?!”).
So glad I don’t live there anymore.
*targeted again, as the direct intentional target
Here’s what seems to be the full incident. Yeah, he was 100% justified in running.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1049311168953630720
You know what’s funny. The senators who were never on the fence about Kavenaug, didn’t get constant harassed and chased around. No way that could polarize and have negative consequences for the left.
I saw Graham on the news last night where he basically produced a list of candidates for SCOTUS and asked the democrats to tell him which one(s) they would agree were qualified, only to have the democrat on the panel tell him none because democrats had not been consulted when that list was made. He recovered quickly and asked that democrat when any of their POTUS office holders ever consulted with republicans, which of course left the democrat senator sputtering in anger. The left is basically telling everyone that if they are not the ones making the decisions, whether they are in power or not, nobody gets to do it, and people better just suck that dick and say they like it.
I saw this story on the local news yesterday. 20 people killed in limo crash.
Uffda. That is an insane amount of fatalities.
“Apple Barrel Country Store and Cafe”? I googled and it’s a real thing. Somehow they’ve managed to avoid the lawsuit from Cracker Barrel.
supposedly (according to local news — remember Murray) two semi-trailers have “lost” their brakes at that intersection, so there may be a steep gradient involved. I don’t know if you can stretch a Yukon, add an extra two tons of passengers, and reinforce the brakes adequately for coming down a hillside.
Sure you can. You just have to design for it. The story (if I remember right) is the limo didn’t slow down until it hit the parked car. I’m betting the brakes failed. And I’m also betting Cuomo will demand new regulations for all limousine services and a new agency (staffed by his appointees) to make sure the regulations are followed.
We need common sense limo control to quell these mass
shootingscar-nage.Climate report: Scientists urge deep rapid change to limit warming
We really mean it this time guys! This is super cereal!
If only
this time they mean it…
So if we ignore you again, you’ll leave us alone?
No, we will just jack up the panic to 12 instead of 11 and demand you let us implement marxism to save humanity.
“The first is that limiting warming to 1.5C brings a lot of benefits compared with limiting it to two degrees. It really reduces the impacts of climate change in very important ways,” – that last 0.5 degrees is what kills you
“Scientists might want to write in capital letters, ‘ACT NOW, IDIOTS,’ but they need to say that with facts and numbers,” – kind of light on facts
we will have to invest a massive pile of cash – I am sure *we* will
Renewables are estimated to provide up to 85% of global electricity by 2050 – sounds legit
Private industry will solve this problem while no one is looking.
Nat Gas already has, to my mind.
Don’t forget nuclear power is out there too.
True you do need to pre-address the settlement of off site losses by the power generator (and not the public purse) in the event of a melt down but the industry has an overall great safety record and private insurance would be available.
The main problems for the industry are: it ain’t marxist; public thinks all nuclear fuel makes nuclear weapons; and long term storage of spent fuel rods.
“We’ve adjusted the numbers again and by gum it’s even more calamity than ever!”
I am ready a book now on SPQR named “The Fate of Rome” which is arguing as part of the hypothesis that the end of the “Roman Climatic Optimum” which lowered overall temps by several degrees was a huge impact on the entire planet, including the Med Basin.
So maybe the planet is doing what it done for billions of years. Changing the global climate picture without a hint of care about what SJW feel.
Anyone know what happened to beloved commenter Number 6?
I know he was pretty busy with a project, I assumed he has gotten entangled in that.
He became a free man?
This guy gets it.
But he’s just a number!
He ran away because he was afraid of Number 7.
Who isn’t afraid of 7?
Because 7 8 9?
He met a beautiful 9 and they haven’t been seen since.
His number is up?
IT’S A JOKE.
The few times I poked my head in the Discord channel, I seem to remember him posting in there.
Prod him to come back, plz.
I’m not feeling so hot. This is what happens when you leave your 9 year old daughter alone in the kitchen for two hours.
On the bright side, you’ll be shitting rainbows.
It looked like it was frosted by the entire gay pride parade.
Shit, I’m in my 30s and you’d be lucky to get something that good if you left me in the kitchen for 2 hours.
That’s incredibly sweet.
You didn’t have to eat it with a smile on your face. My intestines feel like the inside of a lava lamp right now.
It would probably help if you pulled your hand out of your ass and stopped feeling your intestines.
You saying I can’t feel my balls?
That’s the fun part of being a parent once they’re out of the pants-shitting phase.
Progressive parents have as sad 🙁
That soon after they’re out of that phase, you’re in it?
Damn dat’s awesome and prolly with enough sugar to be an American sweet.
This is why you lock them in a cage under the sink. Sure it seems cruel, but now you see the pitfall of letting them have free range in the kitchen.
On a side note, 2 hours of sexy time with the wife? Right on dude!
That’s too much and cool.
My daughter is the same way. I’d leaver her alone only to come back to her (and the cat) making a mess in the kitchen baking.
I love it!
My older daughter is 8, and she loves … well, I was going to say cooking, but that’s not really true. She loves puttering in the kitchen and arranging stuff and using knives and spatulas. Cooking requires sticking with it from beginning to end. She has no interest in that.
She’s a great kid and I loved it. It was a tall order choking down a piece of it, however.
Yeah…. when mine was 4 or 5 she decided to “cook desert” by putting skittles, cookies and syrup on waffles. Whipped cream and sprinkles on top! Ooh, boy! It looks so yummy!
We made General Tso’s Chicken and Broccoli last night. That turned out much better. And she got to use the butcher knife twice!
(and then she scraped all of the General Tso’s off of her plate and just ate the rice for dinner. Kids!)
Good lord, I just got diabetes.
Yesterday my 9 year old made steamed broccoli.
Two gun range moments for Manic Monday
https://media.giphy.com/media/Iwucb00c9ix44/giphy.gif
https://gfycat.com/ForthrightPepperyDassierat
Why did the range officer in the second link have rubber gloves on?
Same reason proctologists do.
I’ve noticed it more and more lately. Probably to reduce lead exposure. Not sure.
First guy made a nice recovery.
Yikes!
A retired Army Sgt Major lives in an apartment above our indoor range. I’d be running for my life if I sent a round through his living room.
This is why I go to a range an hour and a half away, in the middle of nowhere, run by kindly good ol’ boys (and ladies) who are very nice and put up with absolutely no shit whatsoever.
1) I fucking hate range selfies. That RO is awesome and I hope Mr. Striped Polo buys him dinner and sets him up with his sister.
2) I learned to shoot on empty ranges or a BSA shooting events where everything is highly structured. I hate shooting around other people. Shit like this is why.
Ayo. Public ranges give me the whim-whams.
Why I always wear my plates to the range. That second video though… glad the RSO was on his game.
I love how both parties constantly play up how United and devious their opponents are and that the only way to win is to abandon civility and high minded ethics and fight fire with fire.
Your welcome
You know, I’d expect some doctrine changes for your skin suits, they are getting predictable.
Ya but then some operations reptile has to revise procedures, then there’s new checklists, QA process committee yada yada.
To hell with all that, we keep pulling the same shit on you mammals, and your puny species keeps falling for it. Just look at the Senate race in Florida. Both sides are wearing shitty MK1 suits and your species still hasn’t figured it out.
I just knew that Icke was right.
^THIS^
Both sides are convinced that their side is just too nice. The other side is always winning because they stick together no matter what and that they play dirty. Oh, and the other side completely controls the messaging and unfairly corrupts the rubes with fake news.
Man are you ever right about that. First time I spent a few hours hanging out at DU for a heapin helpin of Schadenfreude, I could not believe how much wailing there was about how republican control of the media meant the odds were forever stacked against the progs. It was absolutely Spock-with-a-goatee universe over there.
Its the kind of opinion you can only form if you live your entire life without have to expose yourself to any yucky people on the other side and all their yucky opinions.
It’s some lovely Kabuki theater going on there, that’s for sure.
The term of art is “kayfabe.”
No, no, I’m pretty sure it’s another Japanese term with the first two syllables reversed.
Late night writers continue to impress America with their class
Notice how they never own the stupid ass shit they say.
They talk tough but when the heat comes on they cower like a bunch of degenerate cowards.
Own it bitch.
Add her to the list of female mammals secretly calling out for a good deep dicking.
/Rufus zips up.
Ariel (breathing heavily in shock): Who knew?
/Rufus ignoring her.
Rufus: I’m going to order some tabouleh want some?
That’s the spirit!
Obligatory response.
So a lefty coworker was ranting about Trump’s myriad flaws and mentioned jailing journalists. I asked for details and this was provided. I had never heard of it, perhaps owing to some unconscious preference for echo chamber politics in my part. Did anything come of it? I have to think that if journalists were sentenced under those charges, it would have been mentioned somewhere in the media, in between breathless Russia conspiracy theories.
Journalists arresting while (totally not) participating in election day riots is l-i-t-e-r-a-l-l-y the 4th Reich. Obama wiretapping James Rosen, hacking Sharyl Attkisson, and jailing more journalists and whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than any administration in history was just tough love for unpersons.
That article is from a year and a half ago. Any follow-up on the reporters? I assume they are in a gulag now?
Rioting Charges Dropped Against Reporter Covering Inauguration Protests (Updated)
This part probably didn’t fit the narrative.
If they were inciting riots why should they hide behind being journalists? I’m just throwing something out there without knowing anything about that other than what was written in the article.
Notice I wrote ”written’ and not ‘reported’. These days those lines are blurred.
I hadn’t heard about it either. However, this is apparently DC police overstepping. Tell your proggy friend he needs to actually come up with something that the President was responsible for. Something like this.
That’s how I read it. Journalists roaming the streets as part of the rioters and got ensnared in it. It’s one thing if they were singled out and targeted because they were journalists and quite another if they were arrested as described in the article.
1. I’m pretty sure DC police are run by Congress. It’s not like he sent federal Marshalls in the middle of the night to their house.
2. I think most people rounded up in those riots were let go. This doesn’t excuse the police tactic.
3 (whataboutisim!!!) Did you say anything about the dangerous precedent established by the president who persecuting more whistleblowers than any other, and the complicit media?
Nyet. DC Metro Police is the police force of the Washington, DC government. Congress does have direct meddling powers for DC government which they don’t have over other municipal governments, but DC does have an elected mayor and city council who actually run things and often enjoy tweaking Congress, particularly when that Congress has a Republican majority.
Congress has it’s own police force – the US Capitol Police. You can get arrested every day of the week in DC, and twice on Sunday, and be arrested by a different LEO each time.
I don’t get it. Trump is the DC Chief of police?
Trump is responsible for all evil that happens when he is president, just like a democrats should be given credit for anything good that happens while they hold that office, in either case, regardless of their real involvement or not.
And the Democrats are in charge when a Republican holds office, because there President was responsible for the conditions that allowed for that good.
Even if you grant that these journalists were unfairly arrested, they were were nabbed by local cops. I don’t see how Trump had anything to do with this.
Since they were arrested literally during the inauguration – locking up these people I’ve never heard of must have been Trump’s first order.
While that sucks, I don’t see any trend of Trump prosecuting journalists as a matter of policy in the manner that Obama did. This seems to be a case of the Capital police getting too aggressive. On the other hand, I don’t really give Trump any points for unwinding the Obama machine.
Interesting that he was able to gain control of the capital police so quickly and order these actions. I mean, he hadn’t even been in office long enough to try out the oval office desk. But still, Trump jailed a bunch of journalists!
In a less snarky note, activist journalists get swept up in protest clearing actions all the time. PINAC guys practically made it a way of life there for a while. When the police say “clear this area” and you don’t clear the area and a bunch of stuff gets broken, it kinda goes with the territory that you are going to get arrested if you are running around with a cell phone and a go-pro and start screaming “I’m a journalist” after they arrest you. The local CBS affiliate cameraman with a big Sony rig and a microwave uplink isn’t going to get arrested. So it probably isn’t “the press” that is being targeted.
Still, it would be better if the police would do a better job of coordinating with journalists of all stripes who are attempting to cover stories like this.
“Interesting that he was able to gain control of the capital police so quickly and order these actions. ”
That was part of tha Russian collusion 7D chess he is always playing!
/progtard off
Sports were played, birthdays are being observed, historical events have seen another year slide them further out.
Well done!
Re: the prison guard—-that’s seems pretty obvious to me. Why would a smokeshow like that want to put herself at risk by flaunting her attractiveness to violent prisoners? No sane person makes that decision.
She just wanted to find a bad boy. Why not work around the baddest of the bad and bounce as soon as your broken psyche finds what it’s seeking? That’s not at all fucked up, nosireebob. But if that was her play then it makes sense in a profoundly dangerous way.
Office romances, Evan. Put a key next to a hole and you get this kind of thing.
If you’re making a subtle charge that I want to have sexual relations with my immediate boss and one other co-teacher…
…then I am going to strongly confirm that I want to have sexual relations with my immediate boss and one other co-teacher.
About six weeks until my contract is up. I hope to god that sly minx is up for some widows-shattering orgasmic domination. I’d be in my bunk, but I was already in my bunk thinking about it. I might go back into my bunk.
Reminds me of my favorite prison guard romance story: The tale of Michael Rudkin.
In 2008, Rudkin was a prison guard at FCI Danbury in Connecticut. He struck up a relationship with a female inmate. Which he probably could’ve gotten away with a slap on the wrist, but he tried to plot with her to kill his wife. Ends up getting sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder, and he’s sent to USP Coleman in Florida. Once he gets there, he tried to plot with his fellow inmates to kill his wife (again), her new boyfriend (for some reason, she divorced him after the first arrest), the prosecutor that convicted him, and the inmate he was having an affair with in the first place. Not being dumb, and not wanting to help a former CO with this, the inmates went right to the warden. FBI comes in, Rudkin wires fake FBI hitman money for the killings. Now serving 90 years. Originally at Florence ADX, now at USP Terre Haute (about as restrictive as you can get for not being ADX. Also where federal death sentence prisoners are held.)
You’re not fooling me, that’s the Harley Quinn origin story.
Langone to millennials embracing socialism: ‘I’ll put you on my plane and fly you to Venezuela’
But Venezuela isn’t real socialism. Real socialism has never been tried.
Is that the argument? It shifts sometimes. I’m never entirely sure.
It shifts between real socialism had never been tried to, the US purposely destroyed their socialism.
I also like it when they tell you that the wrong top men were in charge, and because they were secret capitalists or not true socialists, they wrecked the whole thing..
Date-coded mammals have no interest in studying the failures caused by the wrong Top Mammals. Or they might just start blaming it on my people.
Frankly, that’s because we don’t have actual capitalism. If the failures aren’t allowed to actually fail, the capitalist system is broken.
The frightening part is that with each successive rescue of the finance miscreants, the systemic risk increases. At some point, the government will not be able to prevent the full-scale meltdown and all hell is going to break loose. Capitalism will be blamed, and the system that replaces it will be worse, much worse.
^^^
I’ve tried telling my lefty friends that we’re under crony capitalism and unfree markets which would only be intensified/worsened by going full socialist. Imagine how the responses were.
In a way you make yourself susceptible to the same criticism as the “… but that’s not REAL socialism” dweebs when you get into those fine distinctions. In the US we don’t have a laissez-faire free market, but it’s still arguably accurate to call it “capitalism”. And even as bad as it is by comparison to a laissez-faire free market, it’s still so much superior to socialism that the comparison itself is offensive.
That is a valid consideration I didn’t fully notice at the time. Agreed though, I’d rather have the American “capitalism” than socialism any day of the week.
It is susceptible to that line of reasoning. But I would argue that as opposed to “NOT REAL SOCIALISM”, the problems with the system can be identified and a method to correct them exists. I’m yet to hear how anyone could fix “running out of other people’s money”. Invariably, the failures of socialism are blamed on externalities, but somehow they always seem to end up the same way.
I agree, there are substantive structural differences, but tu quoque is about as much depth as you’ll ever get out of anyone bought into that ideology so you have to tread carefully. To be fair, “capitalism” is a fairly nebulous term. Any system where capital is allowed to accumulate in private hands could conceivably qualify, regardless of how free or unfree its financial markets actually are. Laissez-faire/free market capitalism is the variety of capitalism we favor, but I’m willing to entertain the notion that our mixed markets and welfare state can be called “capitalism” too. Like I said, it’s a minor detail really. Even the most debased variety of capitalism outperforms even the purest form of socialism in every possible way, both morally and practically.
Its capitalism. Its market-based capitalism. Its not free-market capitalism.
Difference between market-based cap and free-market cap is hazy and arguable, but its there. And free-market capitalism has been in place in many times and in many markets. Sometimes it gets taken over by cronies. Sometimes it get obviated due to technology change. But it rarely causes genocide or refuges trying to get away from it.
The financial crisis was worse than “failures not allowed to fail”
The entire thing was precipitated by federal requirements for “mark to market” pricing. Everything on the bank’s books had to be valued as if you were going to sell them today. Which sounds reasonable…
Except you aren’t going to sell a mortgage portfolio today. Certainly not at below-water prices. Not when you can wait around an reap a tidy return.
But with all of the uncertainty, the value of mortgage portfolios quickly went toward zero in a “what can I get for it today” world. (they are required to get actual quotes for their assets).
We ran in to the same thing. We were required to “mark to market” price some of our assets that similarly have a fixed payout over time. When the market crisis hit, nobody was buying anything – because of all of the uncertainty. So our accountants were requiring hundreds of millions in write-downs. The CEO kept complaining – “but that isn’t the price. It takes two to agree to a price, and I’d never sell at that price in a million years! I’d just hold the asset and collect the revenue myself.”
It doesn’t matter.
So mark to market is a broken idea – where the “value” of an asset is only what a buyer is willing to pay, not what a seller is willing to sell for. It makes no sense, being only half a transaction, but that is what it is.
And because of that, bank portfolios were seriously underfunded over night. So they were forced to sell off assets in the teeth of a bear market in order to raise cash. Which, predictably, further reduced the value of those assets….. requiring more selloffs.
The feds came after one of my banks on a Friday afternoon…. it was perfectly fine… but they forced them to sell off a bunch of mortgages. By Sunday they had liquidated the entire bank, costing me about 40 grand. Thanks, Feds! (eventually they made me pretty much whole selling off assets… it took almost a year. But none of it would have happened if they had just left them alone.)
This is what you get when you let government pick winners & losers in a quasi-capitalistic system: a nonsense system. Now compound that by giving government absolute power under socialism, and the causes & effects are just going to be orders of magnitudes higher. I tell all the millennials telling me they are pro-socialism that the only way socialism makes everyone millionaires is by devaluing the currency like we saw in every socialist shithole. Collectivism can only deliver misery, because any system predicated on the premise that it will produce equality of outcome starts off doomed to horrible failure leading to mass graves.
It is almost as if they never read Harrison Bergeron.
Or maybe they did… and just empathized with the wrong characters.
These are the same people that read “Brave New World” and “1984” and see them as instruction manuals rather than a warning of the evils of totalitarian systems that want to fix the injustices of an imperfect world create, so I hold very little hope they ever can get over their stupid ideological handicap.
I replied to some millenial doofus who was opining that we needed government action to police up false news stories by saying:
“Great idea! That’s an idea who’s time has come! I know, we can call it the Ministry of Truth!
Yeah, that’s the ticket! The Ministry of Truth!”
He didn’t get the sarcasm.
Jeez people, read a book.
Agreed, there were any number of major fuckups baked into the system that were government driven. The ratings agencies, the artificially low interest rates, the push to provide mortgages to under-qualified buyers, the GSEs that would buy any shit paper out there, etc… the list goes on and on. It is only natural that an industry would evolve to take advantage of that perverted system.
“the push to provide mortgages to under-qualified buyers”
This to me was the gist of the problem. Government decided to force lenders – on the risk that they would lose their accreditation – to give money to seriously bad risk people base don the ridiculous premise that it was unfair that these people were disqualified from being homeowners, and in order to force these institutions to go along with that insanity, made tax payers responsible for the bills when the shit eventually would hit the fan. Everyone knew that the system was broken and would collapse, but nobody cared because government was picking winners and losers and fighting injustices/ the laws of economics and human nature be damned.
What really pissed me off what that the prime players that created that shitshow – Dodd and Frank – then demanded to be the ones that would fix this while blaming the lenders they first forced to go along with an impossible demand, and then told they would bail out with tax payer money. And we have basically recreated that same failed bullshit system yet again, forced loans to unqualified people and tax payers backing up the lenders being forced to do this, but will be all surprised when we get another market crash sooner than later as that whole thing plays out.
Living in the western Fort Lauderdale suburbs, I have time on occasion to go to Weston, which is home to a pretty large group of Venezuelan ex-pats. Few months ago I was driving through and there was a large protest in front of a fancy neighborhood. Turns out one of Chavez’s former cronies lives there.
Anyways, don’t even have to send them to Venezuela. Send them down here to one of the Venezuelan restaurants in town (awesomeby hte way) and let them talk for 10 minutes to one of the ex-pats. I’ll even pay their hospital bill after they’re knocked unconscious.
I’ll do the same if they go to Calle Ocho in Miami and talk about how wonderful it is to the Cuban ex-pats.
I’m in a nearby area and a buddy of mine is from Venezuela. He came here for college before all of this mess started, but his parents got shafted. They had two hotels and a night club right on the beach. They knew all the international stars who came to perform at their club. Chavez took all of it. They live in a house their son bought for them here. Their other son tried to make the best of it and worked out a deal to build a bunch of neighborhoods for low income housing, funded by the government. When he was about half way through the project, the government stole the whole thing and tossed him in jail for not thanking them. Lie down with dogs, get fleas. Lie down with tigers, get eaten.
As you say… don’t try running that socialist crap by them… and definitely don’t try any Hollywood-style appologetics for Chavez.
NYT suddenly discovers that FEMA is a corrupt wasteland of waste, blames it on – wait for it – Trump and “climate change”. I didn’t RTWFA but it was being pimped within seconds of me turning on the morning news and had my eyes swiveling uncontrollably.
Didn’t Stossel get his beach house rebuilt like 4 times on federally subsidized insurance just to prove this point?
That prison guard isn’t bad looking. But I have to imagine there are some issues there.
Someone’s really into the bad boys.
BakedPenguin; master of understatement.
The hot/crazy matrix exists for a reason, Dear BakedOne.
Are the rest of you surviving Kavanaugh’s first week? Things are bleak here. The few women left after net neutrality are mostly dead, and it took me twice as long to get to work because I had to avoid the torrents of blood and coat hangers emanating from the back alleys.
A big flock of Hate Birds, The Birds That Hate just landed on the open field next to my work. Obviously Kavanaugh sent them.
I traded a hunk of meat for enough fuel to make it to work this morning. I then shot the man to get my meat back. It’s rough right now.
Pfft amateur! You should have harvested that man’s carcass for more meat.
Most of my beers have vanished the last few days. More quickly than usual. I believe it was Kavanaugh’s fault, if he likes beer so much, he should go buy his own.
It’s been pretty good for me, actually. So far I’ve snatched up about half a dozen women right off the street and chained them up in my shed. I’m taking bookings from local Republican politicians to rape them with no lube or contraception. I plan to force them to carry the rape babies to term and then eat them after the delivery. Not one single person finds this at all strange. In fact, my local chamber of commerce is considering me for man of the year.
You have an opening for 2 PM tomorrow?
After the beer, grope, and ice-throwing sessions all weekend, I’m too tired to count how many of my female employees are dead.
I hear Lara Logan will no longer set foot in the U.S. of A.
Who?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-lara-logan-assaulted-during-egypt-protests/
I would think somebody who was for-real gang-raped wouldn’t be tolerant of the kind of bullshit Ford and the others were peddling. She can stay in South Africa, nobody ever gets raped there.
Did she actually get raped? The phrase “sexual assault” has been stretched to cover so many things I can’t tell what actually happened to her.
Well, the story I heard strongly implied the forcible violation of at least one orifice, so I’m good with “rape”.
Careful, years from now somebody is going to pull that quote that you’re good with rape to paint you as a sexual predator.
I don’t know what you’re grumping about. It’s all kegs and rape trains here.
After yesterdays referendum I am now assaulted by the gay agenda on my way to the subway.
The wife is still in mourning. She’s been trying desperately to come up with some bad thing that’s happened or will happen, but she’s having a hard time propping up Ford’s credibility and doesn’t know what the 4th Amendment is other than something radicals use to impair Barack Obama’s glorious vision for a new America so she’s mostly not saying anything. She briefly tried threatening a move to red districts so as to specifically vote against Republicans who supported Kavanaugh, but then realized that a.) her vote would be a drop in the ocean, b.) it would be canceled out by mine, and c.) a lot of those places are areas I’d like to relocate to anyway.
Wait, so the fact that you would like to move someplace is a strike against moving there in your wife’s mind? Am I reading that right?
No, it’s the places in particular. Most of the places I’m interested are in the south or the west, and they tend to be redder than not. The red bit is what she isn’t wild about.
It’s cause quite a bit of bitterness in my household as well. Not sure how long it will take to get out of the “rape apologist” doghouse, but I’m probably going to have to walk on eggshells for months for the crime of daring to suggest that Brett K may not be a rapist.
Well, my Monday was a shitshow. A break to begin the day but seven classes in a row after that. Which wouldn’t bother me but six of them are pretty terrible. Four of them I have to make up my own curriculum and most of the kids aren’t advanced enough to follow lesson plans that don’t have a book and some basic structure. I am pretty much disallowed from using outside materials. I have to coax them into speaking through charisma and magic. Korean kids are better at keeping their traps shut than hardened gangsters. Pussies.
I do not like this school. Seven more weeks to go and I’ll get my bonus and my pension. Tomorrow is a public holiday for us–Hangeul Day to celebrate King Sejong’s adoption of the Hangeul alphabet.
I have some gruyere left over from Chiang Mai. I do believe French onion soup is best delivery method. Cheerio!
re: prison guard story-
They don’t say what the guy was in jail for. I’ve got this whole scenario running in my head about how he pulled off a bitcoin heist worth hundreds of millions of pounds, and the story ends with him washed up on a beach somewhere and her living a life of quiet opulence in Macau.
If so, he is also a master of disguise – because he looks like an absolute fool.
Taking my gf as a measure of what Democrats think, they think that Der Drumpfenfurher is going to be a one-term president. I think he will win re-election in a landslide. We currently have a wager on the matter. Democrats are largely believing their own propaganda.
I think it is to early to tell but it will not be a landslide especially if a new recession comes. And it probably will.
Even if a recession is not forthcoming the Fed will create one. A lot depends on who the Democrats decide to run and whether they decide to keep shitting on working class white people.
I think you’re right. It’s going to be the best example yet of a “least of all possible evils” exercise.
Granted. I shouldn’t have said landslide. But I think he will win, extenuating circumstances notwithstanding. Our wager is contingent on him, again, getting over 300 electoral votes.
What are the stakes?
Anal, of course.
This can be cool depending on who pitches and who catches…
Then let’s hope you don’t lose.
May the odds be ever in your favor…
“We currently have a wager on the matter”
Go on…
A lot can happen in two years, but the key, as always is to look at the swing states that took a chance on him in 2016 and where they will land in 2020. It doesn’t matter that every last citizen of LA, SF, Portland, Seattle, NYC, and Chicago votes for Harris in 2020.
lol
Kavanaugh was bright enough not to have a professional photographer capture the moment he grabbed Christine Blasey-Ford’s tits. Maybe that contributed to the difference in outcome?
Franken never should have resigned. That whole thing was stupid, and he should have just said so and weathered the storm.
Not that I’m sad to see him go. It certainly doesn’t seem that his first election was legitimate, and he got to where he was by being an unentertaining hack at political talk.
Something tells me the party of Gerry Studds and Bill Clinton probably could have found room for him in their ranks if he’d chosen to stick it out, but it’s still a ridiculous comparison. We can argue whether a little passed out boob honking really rose to the level of sexual assault, but there’s not the same type of ambiguity with Franken as there was with Kavanaugh. His accuser didn’t come forward 35 years after the fact with no recollection of the year or location of the event and finger half a dozen witnesses, none of whom share the same recollection of the events in question.
Doubly ironic considering Minnesota Dems still stumping Keith Ellison for office.
Even the local conservatives at PowerLine wrote the Franken shouldn’t be forced to resign. They said that he should stick around and then have to face the voters next time he’s up for election. Especially since he didn’t even really grope that gal (He pretends he is groping her for a pic, but it doesn’t look like he actually touches her).
I think his problem was that they needed him gone so they couldn’t be called out as hypocrites on Roy Moore. So they pressured the shit out of him to take one for the team.
I’ll also note that they continually cite Bush v. Gore as “handing the Presidency to Bush”, despite that we’ve known for years that every after-analysis of the votes showed Bush still winning Florida.
And despite the fact that it was the Democrats who were trying to game the system by only recounting heavily democrat areas.. something clearly not allowed in Florida election law.
Also despite the fact that every elected official involved in the disputed “butterfly ballot” county is a democrat, including the supervisor of elections.
Facts don’t really enter into political arguments.
*sigh*
Let’s see FactCheck walk this back to make that into a “True”
#MeToo Movement’s Alyssa Milano On ‘Meet The Press’: “We Are Defining What Due Process Looks Like”
Yikes
. What does it mean to have a fair investigation in these processes – beat a confession out oh the male
She’s running.
her mouth.
It is difficult to make Harvey Weinstein seem sympathetic, but I have little doubt that they will succeed.
Poor guy was cursed with a large appetite but truly terrible taste in women.
It would be funny if there weren’t several tens of millions of people that agreed with her.
Seriously.
Do they really want to go back to the guilty before innocence deal? Somebody get this poor lady a time machine to 1892 where she can see many fine examples of where her logic leads.
before innocent* damn my hands.
Due Process is a legal construct you nitwit, that doesn’t change depending on the type of case.
How in the everloving fuck did Alyssa Milano become the official spoked-thot of #metoo anyway?
If there were ever any people on that movement who took it seriously, which is something I cannot personally vouch for, I feel bad for them.
we are defining what due process looks like
Defining it to not look like due process.
Accusation => sentencing
#dueprocess
Due process only applies to democrats, as our overlords in the media have often told us. When you point out that how they tell us they are not reporting on a story that is negative to a democrat until the facts are in (and even then they don’t or give them cover), but lead with any story – no matter how obviously false/faulty – when the accused is a republican and want the charges themselves to be enough, one would see that as bias. What pisses them off is that we have ways around the cock blocking they used to do.
Alternate herstory
Republicans got their guy on the Supreme Court. But no one in Washington is satisfied with the way Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation process played out.
That’s because Congress was forced to deal with something it was extremely ill-equipped to deal with: A sexual assault allegation that ran into one party’s desire to control the court for perhaps a generation.
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“I urged the president to nominate a woman,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) said days before the final vote as he tearfully and hopelessly pleaded for America to separate the gender debate from Kavanaugh’s nomination. “Part of my argument then was that the very important #MeToo movement was also very new and that this Senate is not at all well prepared to handle allegations of sexual harassment and assault that might have come forward.”
He was so right. Kavanaugh’s confirmation process started off reflexively partisan. It morphed into something much more unwieldy: perhaps the biggest test yet in the #MeToo era of how much burden of proof to put on the accused, rather than the accuser. Congress, already torn and tired and entrenched in partisanship, was quite possibly the worst possible place to deal with this. And it showed.
Is Sasse trying to pretend he knew Kavanaugh was a rapist? Or is he just a blithering imbecile?
And, anyway, Congress is just a den of iniquity and white male privilege. How could they be expected to believe a survivor? That poor woman, brutally tortured, gang raped and beaten all those years ago; denied justice then, denied justice now.
Is Sasse trying to pretend he knew Kavanaugh was a rapist? Or is he just a blithering imbecile?
Nah, he’s trying to say that if Trump had pandered in the way he wanted him to they could have avoided having their nominee railroaded, which demonstrates a charming naivety on his part. If he’d have nominated Amy Coney Barrett we’d be discussing how she participated in the sex crimes of the Catholic church and once supported right-wing militia groups who phoned in bomb threats to Planned Parenthood. This is the game now, and this fucking rube still thinks he could have won with a better hand.
It strikes me as naive as well. Making it a male nominee just made it easier for the Dems to play off the current outrage of the day, changing it to a woman would only have made them ponder their approach to opposing her for an extra five minutes,
I think Trump is saving the woman nominee for next time. He probably figured that getting a woman through will be easier so why not try a man this time and save that ace card for later.
A woman to replace Darth Bader G. when she croaks.
Since he will be replacing RBG, that is when he wants to do a woman. And I am praying this happens so we can really see the left shit its pants.
Just based on the quote and my generally positive opinion of the guy, I’d guess it’s more that he was arguing for Trump to nominate a conservative woman on the grounds that he could’ve headed the Dems off at the pass on the whole “#metoo” thing. Which isn’t a bad idea, except that what would happen is they’d go after her on Roe and basically accuse her of being the feminist equivalent of an Uncle Tom. Or they’d do the usual, which is attack her on the basis of cronyism or wealth, or give her the Palin treatment and paint her as an ignorant hillbilly. You can’t just stick your head in the sand and pretend the partisanship isn’t there. You’ve got to either embrace it or attack it head-on. I don’t think either strategy is propelled by nominating a female candidate per se.
Feinstein already tipped her hand on Barrett – trying to argue that the Constitutional provision on no religious test for office means you can’t have a religion we don’t like.
Ahh another Constitutional scholar! “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United State” clearly means that you apply a test which bars people from office based on having a religion…
Yeah, remember how the progressives all gave DeVos a pass in a show of vaginal-American solidarity?
That is a blind spot for people on the left.
Scientific American has “60 second science” podcasts that give science news headlines.
They ran a bit on Kavanaugh. It was Dr. Ford talking about how seratonin release locks in the memories, so she can’t possibly be wrong about who attacked her.
So, science proves that she was almost raped and murdered by Kavanaugh. They completely miss the underlying assumption… before you get to all of those details, you have to assume that she indeed was the victim of an assault.
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe suffered from the same fallacy. Claiming to eschew politics, they tried to give a “what does the science say” take on the whole thing. So they summarized the studies that say that traumatic experiences resulting in PTSD often heighten certain memories while other memories fade. So everything in her story is perfectly consistent with having been assaulted, including the holes in her story. Up to that point, they were perfectly correct, particularly after 35 years.
But what they failed to notice was that their “science” take had an underlying assumption. That Kavanaugh actually attacked her.
There are other perfectly valid and plausible scientific angles worth exploring. Like the whole “recovered memory” phenomenon. And the way that memory works … that accessing memories actually rewrites them. So they become less and less accurate over time, and at the same time we become more and more sure of our recollections. Her comments about it coming up in therapy and the details becoming more clear over time are certainly compatible with this science. But because they have an underlying bias that lead them to assume “Kavanaugh attacked her”, they never saw any of these angles.
Accusers never lie.
Survivors Scruffy….. Survivors..
Right. This is the argument I kept making over the past week. Ford’s story makes sense in that it’s internally consistent and not outside the bounds of reason, but that doesn’t mean it’s actually true. It all makes sense, sure. Another explanation is that she’s lying. Another one is that she’s mistaken. Another one is that she herself was impaired at the time and her appraisal of the situation in the moment was flawed. Another is that she’s remembering the events accurately but that she has changed her interpretation of them. It’s like saying that it is technically possible for the mailman to have shot me in the head but for me to survive; absent any evidence, that doesn’t mean the mailman shot me in the head.
That bastard mailman!
It also completely glosses over the fact that eyewitness’ and even victim’s accounts of crimes are notoriously unreliable. How many times has a victim misidentified the perp from a lineup and locked up the wrong person? This is why forensic and other hard evidence is critical to the process. It’s also why we have statutes of limitations and a high burden of proof on criminal proceedings. This nonsense with Ford is a farce and was a sham from the beginning. Everything that’s come after it is designed to delegitimize Kavanaugh and provide justification for packing the court once a prog gets in power.
https://youtu.be/XivAy4E7jL8
“#BelieveSurvivors” has that stolen-base baked in. Sure, believe survivors—what about people who claim to be, but aren’t, survivors?
MUH SCIENCE. MUH RATIONAL SKEPTICISM.
I hate these people more than the forthrightly unhinged emotionalists.
the details becoming more clear over time
Yeah, that’s a huge tell that her memories (if any) were “adjusted” to fit various environmental pressures and narratives.
The people at Skeptic’s guide wouldn’t know science if it smacked them in the face. They are all into Science That Confirms My Pre-Existing Biases. I listened to the show for 2 or 3 years and couldn’t take it anymore when they were making excuses for the guys at East Anglia fudging results and refusing to release raw data. The so-called “scientists” have never heard of replication studies or don’t seem to think they are important, and lastly they are dickheads. The amount of “punching down” on 6000 year old earth creationists gets a bit old.
beating up kilosextengenarians is never cool.
Democrats are largely believing their own propaganda.
“Everywhere I look, I see proof that I am right!”
Even if a recession is not forthcoming the Fed will create one.
“I will gladly pay you Tuesday, for an economic recovery today.”
I’ll also note that they continually cite Bush v. Gore as “handing the Presidency to Bush”, despite that we’ve known for years that every after-analysis of the votes showed Bush still winning Florida.
I have read that there were serious “discrepancies” in the 1960 election, but Nixon did not protest, because he thought it would be bad for the nation. But of course, the Democrats are obsessed with their “Good vs Evil” pantomime, so any time they lose an election, it’s the end of civilization.
and his anger and paranoia about that fact gave us Watergate.
So T-Swift decided to get political. What a maroon. I never cared for her or her music anyway, but I appreciated that she was a celebrity that kept her politics to herself and didn’t try to morally grandstand. Oh well.
^^ Agreed.
I have to admit that I missed the money quote in the story about the Chinese hardware hack the first time I read it.
“and the adult film industry, which did not.”
That’s like, your opinion, man.
Well my opinion is that the content transmitted by the adult film industry resulted in more people on their knees than the Morman sermons did.
Not your opinion, the author of the quote.
You and I agree!
LOL
Credit where it is due, that is a fine piece of writing.
I saw that a few days ago. I hope the author gets that framed and hung on the wall.
The Venn Diagram of Mormons and Porn Stars at minimum has overlap of Magical Underwear.
The Brett Kavanaugh travesty will breed a formidable backlash
“which had convincing corroboration”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
BELIEVE HER!
/progtard
Look, a second accuser said he might have waved his willie at a party. Maybe. She didn’t see it though. But still, it traumatizes her to this day.
So there’s your corroboration of Fords allegations, right there! A different person said something entirely unrelated to the accusation, and nobody has come forward to corroborate her story either. WTF do you want, a signed confession!?! It is corroborated. Now STFU.
“which had convincing corroboration”
Funny, the suburban women in red states that I know don’t seem all that outraged.
I think more women are outraged that Ford is being held up as a survivor than are outraged that Kavanaugh got on the court.
This is accurate for the people I associate with.
Short of a very active (and practically always paid for) very vocal and social media active group of harpies and beta dudes, I think most people saw this attempt to railroad a guy the democrats felt compelled to block at all costs as something really bad for our country, the rule of law, our crappy political system, and liberty in general.
Yep.
Sadly the suburban women my wife (20 to 35 year olds) is friends with are.
I’m not sure what there is to be outraged about; they must be swallowing the MSM garbage hook, line and sinker.
^^^^THIS^^^^
Find me an angry women, and I can guarantee you her opinion is based on falsehoods and misinformation.
CNN talking points are literally all I get from the gf and her parents. They. Do. Not. Think. Beyond. TEAM. But the efforts to red=pill the gf continue anyway.
Make sure you videotape all your sexual encounters to protect against future rape allegations; also for… other reasons.
Q says if there is no video or photo evidence it didn’t happen…
Should say some not all arwoutraged. I don’t know why either. Well I know one is certified crazy. As for the others they seem like nice people until they start talking politics on FB.
Are outraged*. Damn phone
It’s all about the picture being painted to them. The MSM is treating this as if the GOP, in an unprecedented power grab, forced a rapist onto the Supreme Court over the compelling testimony of one of his victims.
The fact that none of that is true hasnt crossed their minds.
My wife, no fan of Trump, was pretty ticked off about the whole thing. She says where does someone get off making an accusation 36 years later?
which had convincing corroboration
They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
including a second woman accuser
Yea two more that were each less believable and less substantiated than the first.
the hearing was stacked against her
10 Democrat senators spent the duration of their time licking her taint. But, sure, it was stacked against her.
hasty swearing-in of Justice Kavanaugh on Saturday was another heavy-handed partisan move
“Elections have consequences.” – BHO
The “corroboration” of Ford’s story cannot include an entirely separate accusation.
“We didn’t get every single one of our demands met” =/= “the hearing was stacked against her”.
I hope there is good footage of the shrieking harpies having a meltdown and scratching at the door to SCOTUS while he was being sworn in.
The forced confirmation
What does that mean, I wonder? The confirmation followed the usual process, except for the last hearing which was done to accommodate the accuser. The votes were all held in public, and given Flake’s vote and requirements for approval, its hard to say any Repubs were “forced” to vote for approval at the committee level. After the final background investigation came in and even the Dems admitted it showed no corroboration, I’m not seeing any Repubs “forced” to vote for approval at the Senate level, either.
I guess what they mean is that the Repubs refusal to allow indefinite delay of the confirmation was “forcing” it through.
Mammary Monday once again bounces, jiggles and squeezes into your life!
http://archive.is/YyvsC
Party and 19’s place to play doctor with 21 and 23. 50 used to be in my handle so she gets special mention.
I’ll split the difference with 22. And I’ll take 39’s Uber to get there.
33
Yummy
I have just heard that the dream democrat ticket for 2020 is going to be a Weiner-Holder ticket…
We are living in a more gender-fluid time. It could be a Holder-Weiner ticket. Don’t be so gender normative.
I LOLd.
On the “Capitalism vs Socialism” (and the definitions thereof):
Any system where capital is allowed to accumulate in private hands could conceivably qualify, regardless of how free or unfree its financial markets actually are. Laissez-faire/free market capitalism is the variety of capitalism we favor, but I’m willing to entertain the notion that our mixed markets and welfare state can be called “capitalism” too. Like I said, it’s a minor detail really. Even the most debased variety of capitalism outperforms even the purest form of socialism in every possible way, both morally and practically.
I think the crucial distinction, and overwhelming superiority, of capitalism is decentralization of decisionmaking in the marketplace. As soon as you start allowing government bureaucrats to direct production (including “benevolent capitalist nudges” like subsidies and special tax breaks) you’re headed for disaster.
The term Ministry of Plenty makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up, precisely because it conjures a vision of the exact opposite; widespread poverty and starvation.
I agree there’s a spectrum of government interference in the market. The prosperity of a society is inversely correlated with that amount of interference.
Yeah, that’s basically what I was trying to get at in an inarticulate way. You can have a system that can be reasonably branded “capitalism” with various degrees of market freedom, and the more the better. But even a capitalist system with less market freedom (like the mixed system we have now) still handily beats even the most pollyannaish conception of socialism.
Scientific American has “60 second science” podcasts that give science news headlines.
They ran a bit on Kavanaugh. It was Dr. Ford talking about how seratonin release locks in the memories, so she can’t possibly be wrong about who attacked her.
So, science proves that she was almost raped and murdered by Kavanaugh. They completely miss the underlying assumption… before you get to all of those details, you have to assume that she indeed was the victim of an assault.
Don’t forget, we’re dealing with people who think the Handmaid’s Tale is a documentary. It’s like they have never heard of play-acting.
Not to mention that “serotonin locks in the memories” nonsense is oversimplified psychobabble bullshit.
If that was the case traumatic memories would always be correct which they, you know, aren’t.
I dont get mad easily or often but one thing that pisses me the fuck off every time is the destruction of science’s credibility. I never thought I would see what these fuckers are doing today, but I guess it is no surprise.
I remember when Scientific American emphasized “Scientific” instead of the other word.
Just landed in Denver, final destination of Ft. Collins. I forget which glibs are in the area, but I’m here through Thursday afternoon if somebody wants to get a drink some evening.
I would, but FoCo is pretty far out of my way (~2 hour drive). Negroni lives up there though.
Her serious allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Kavanaugh, which had convincing corroboration, including a second woman accuser, Deborah Ramirez, were never fully considered.
Something something half-way around the world before the truth gets its boots on.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6249941/Demi-Rose-displays-jaw-dropping-curves-barely-tiger-print-bikini.html
Fat-assed.
I’m beginning to think you’re a little bit obsessed with Ms. Rose.
Beginning?
good grief. The proggie tears over the Kavanaugh confirmation are just unbelievable.
If any of you worked I would say you should put this up on your computer screens and leave it to see how many suicides you can inspire.
https://tenor.com/view/deneldtremp-deneld-lel-donald-trump-gif-5126134
This has to be the greatest and most amazing photo to come out of the whole sad affair.
Christ. How bad do you have to be to get me to root for Lindsay Graham?
I have to hand it to the guy, he really sacked up. I am stunned.
I realize this thread is dead and no one will ever see this comment, but I saw that exact photo posted on twitter last week with the caption “everyone on the internet is one of these three people”.
I will never die.
Why more women don’t win Nobel prizes in science
I’ll bet you can guess why
We can’t celebrate a win for women until we take all those wins for men away.
Look, do you want to continue to suffer under toxic masculine science or benefit from the unique perspectives brought about by lady science?
I don’t know. Is Lady Science hot?
I hear she prefers it in the back door.
Falsification is a bitch…
I was talking to one of my friend’s daughters about 10 years ago. She was doing math homework for highschool. She said math was her favorite subject.
I proceeded to explain that she had a guaranteed career in engineering if she could finish college with average grades.
She decided to go to some culinary school instead. Dropped out and took some shitty job someplace.
Most women don’t want to go into STEM fields. That’s why they are under represented.
^^This. As of 10 years ago, women in engineering outperformed their male counterparts by a half GPA point, in my experience. Girls at Purdue with a 3.0 were competing with me for jobs and I had a 3.5.
By the way, most of them that did make it to graduation ended up in a non-technical role within 3 years.
As a final thought, this doesn’t impugn their ability. Some of the women I worked with were just as good as the guys. Usually, however, they weren’t the 3.0 students.
It felt good typing out my response, even though I redacted all of it. 😉
I started writing a long, outraged comment to this, but then decided it’s not worth arguing against such stupidity. The whole concept of “underrepresentation” is Harrison Bergeron horseshit.
I have seen that at the undergrad level, women in STEM get job offers and salary amounts that few men get. IIRC, there was as study that showed that there was a pay gap for physics PhDs, in that men were making less than women.
Not surprising. But daren’t one suggest that the systemic sexism goes in the exact opposite direction.
Jeebus. Everyone has barriers to advancement in their careers, because advancement happens in pyramidal organizations – every step up means somebody, generally many somebodies, loses out.
Weird. That sounded exactly like something I read on The Conversations and.. yep, its a reprint. Why is the BBC reprinting stuff from The Conversation?
It’s all bullshit. I had the same conversation with the head of the Econ department when I was in college with regards to there not being a lot of blacks in the field of economics. Someone suggested that it was because perhaps economics (and I kid you the fuck not) is inherently racist because most of the field is based on classical economics which is racist because of Milton Friedman and Adam Smith. After composing myself after that dumb statement, I responded that there’s nothing wrong with not having black students in econ. As far I as know the econ professors weren’t remotely racist nor did the department place barriers for black students to major in econ, so what was the big deal?
It’s the same with STEM. I’m pretty sure that there are some jerk offs who tweak women the wrong way, but overall, there aren’t any barriers to entry for women in the STEM professions. And fuck man, women like Marie Curie and Mary Collins had to face men who thought they weren’t good enough based on their gender and said, “Fuck that,” and excelled in their fields. This whole victim complex, especially
among American women is getting old.
Dambisa Moyo is an economist with a doctorate from Oxford. Prior to that, she studied Chemistry.
You probably haven’t heard of her because she argues against foreign aid for Africa.
Watched an interview with her a few weeks back actually.
See also George Ayittey and Jonathan H. Frimpong-Ansah
Moyo link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6yDIZas68
I have heard of her precisely because of that.
She is one of those people that realizes the whole foreign aid scam, like welfare in general, is mostly about currying favor while keeping the people that are looking for handouts in their place, is my guess.
This makes me wonder how often high school guidance counselors push white boys with 3.1 GPAs into humanities while pushing others with 2.9 GPAs into STEM courses. Judging how utterly useless my high school guidance counselor was in 1980, I can only imagine such ill-suited-to-the-individual guidance is being rewarded even more today in order to make demographic-based numbers.
My high school guidance counselor told me that traditional college was probably out of reach for someone with my intellectual abilities, and I should focus on either technical school or, preferably, a trade. My high school guidance counselor was a fuck wit.
This is so tiresome. A woman just won for physics, can’t we just celebrate her achievements? But, no, they have to whine about how she’s not a full professor. She says she never applied. Can’t we just celebrate that a woman, who seems to be living her life without regard to someone else’s definition of success won?
No.
/progs
That would require considering her as an individual, not as a useful identity-group proxy / abstraction.
My wife works in a cytogenetics lab.
All are women, even the head of the lab, save for 2.
One of the males is a student/intern.
Dayum. Lucky him, now that rape is legal.
“As a history teacher, I feel comfortable telling you that the founding fathers thought that you, yes you personally, were stupid and did everything they could to limit your influence while constructing their enlightenment era utopian oligarchy.”
This derp was brought to you by a derpy acquaintance on Twitter who shared a derpy tweet by a derpy history teacher.
“As a history teacher, I feel comfortable telling you that the founding fathers thought that you, yes you personally, were stupid and did everything they could to limit your influence while constructing their enlightenment era utopian oligarchy.”
And you are living proof of their prescience.
But even a capitalist system with less market freedom (like the mixed system we have now) still handily beats even the most pollyannaish conception of socialism.
Yes.
If you consider PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company- the cash flow was bled off for decades, in pursuit of political goals. A management free to make decisions based on the market would have directed their returns into reinvestment in equipment maintenance, exploration, et c. They would have set prices at a profitable level. There were stories years ago about Venezuelans filling their cars and whatever other containers they could find with subsidized gasoline in order to go to the (Colombian, I think) border and re-sell it at a huge profit. Professional managers do not sell below cost. Politicians do.
I recall, years ago, demanding my company sell to PDVSA only on irrevocable letter of credit basis. And they agreed, even while complaining PDVSA had a U.S. sub that was “good for credit.” I wonder how many other sellers accepted that PDVSA was safe from the looters?
from the PDVSA engineers I talked to once a few years ago, Chavez was mostly alright and let them run things more or less as they wanted and just skimmed the profits. He seemed to know on which side his bread was buttered, but when Maduro came in, he purity-tested all the operations people and replaced the mostly anti-Chavista workforce with his own stooges, who proceeded to run the company directly into the ground.
Chavez needed the money for his daughter & wife’s spending habit, and of course, for his Swiss bank accounts.
And now the Venezuelans can barely even get the oil out of the ground.
I didn’t think I was going to like this idea for a movie, but….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSGFt6w0wok
If it’s true to real events and not just a prog passion play I think it could be interesting.
Adam McKay tells me that your hopes shall be dashed.
The walking dead premier was about what I’ve come to expect from the show. A solid meh, but an improvement over last season. I did like the Gregory bit though and Maggie’s reaction.
I’ll keep watching unless it starts pissing me off again.
That show is still on?
I assume they’ve cleared out the zombies with traps and kids with .22’s on roofs?
Yeah, I saw previews for it, and was floored it was still on. I got tired of it after season 3. I’m rooting for the zombies at this point.
But there’s overwhelming evidence that women remain underrepresented in the Stem fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
Women remain underrepresented in the field of mass murder. Come on gals, up your game.
How true…
https://imgur.com/a/umhJBPw
Heh.
I’d like to say it wasn’t deserved.
I’d like to…
Speaking of that “hastily sworn in!” nonsense; the Court is already in session.
Somebody needs to get to work.
Apropos the chatter the last few days about the ABQ Balloon Festival:
Really nice pic on the Bing splash page of what looks like the beginning of the sunrise mass liftoff.
Stepping off from a hot air balloon is one of the most memorable moments from when I used to skydive.
Pointless link – old metal UFO’s Rock Bottom. I’ve loved this song since I first heard it. I still think it’s one of the best guitar solos. But whatever, anyone who wants to listen can judge.
Play stupid games etc. etc.
https://lawandcrime.com/crazy/pro-choice-man-who-allegedly-kicked-pro-life-woman-is-in-more-trouble-than-we-thought/
I can’t remember where I ran across it, but whoever coined the term Cuck Norris in reference to this incident is a god.
I found it on a Twitter thread about the fellow.
You think Carlos ever stuck his tongue out the side of his mouth before delivering a famous roundhouse kick?
The Kavanaugh confirmation is already impacting world events:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/10/08/bulgarias-viktoria-marinova-third-journalist-murdered-eu-last-year/1563296002/
Bulgarian television reporter Viktoria Marinova has become the third journalist to be murdered in the European Union in the last year and the fourth since the start of 2017.
The 30-year-old’s body was found dumped near the Danube River in the town of Ruse, northern Bulgaria, on Saturday. Police said she had been beaten, raped and strangled.
Well now that rape is legal, my office managers have been rounding up local college coeds and housing them in rape cages for when employees need a bit of stress relief during the workday.
You work for a Japanese conglomerate, I see.
Bukkake break at 2 pm sharp everyday.
Well, a politician’s assurance that her murder had nothing to do with political corruption should settle the matter.
I don’t know what you’re kvetching about, I feel safer already.
“Listen. We did not rape her. We just murdered her, okay. I mean, c’mon, what are we, monsters? “
Oddly enough that human pyramid thing reminded me of a Clive Barker short story I read in high school.
“In the Hills, The Cities” – good one
Yep, that’s the one I was thinking of.
https://twitter.com/SameeraKhan/status/1048646062066622465
WTF???
Is she a retard, or is this a weird joke?
“Russian Today DC Correspondent”.
This actually makes me want to write the article idea I’ve been tossing around in my head about evidence and truth. I’m letting the idea ferment before writing it, but this tweet motivates me to expedite the process.
You know, when I read things like this tweet, I start to compile logical responses, but then I realize it would be a waste of time (see also conservatives & pot).
Absolutely! My article will be more navel gazing than anything else. I wouldn’t dream of engaging such a lunatic. Flat earthers are less deluded.
I….how….sigh.
Jesus christ
That is just evil
It’s not what they don’t know as much as all the shit they are sure they know but have completely and irrevocably wrong that makes these asshats so evil and dangerous. Stalin was great, so marxism is cool. Ok, Stalin was a major evil and murderous asshat, but Lenin never wanted him in power, so the USSR ended up corrupted. Yeah fuck that stupid level of shit.
The trolling continues. He’s obviously just doing this to have more women to harass!
Sorry if this was already posted, it just popped up in my news feed.
What is with the way she’s standing? Who stands like that? What sort of white nationalist Nazi KKK bona fides is she signaling with those crossed legs?
My thought when I saw that pic:
“Kind of a shame those two girls’ got their father’s looks.”
Oof. Harsh, but fair.
That needs made into a 4chan meme. Keeping her legs closed is a signal of a gender traitor.
Meme confirmed.
NPR suddenly decides to do some journalism
Brett Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court justice. That much is certain after senators narrowly approved his controversial nomination Saturday, putting an end to his bitter confirmation battle with a slim vote in his favor.
But even as one phase of Kavanaugh’s story ends, another is beginning: His lifetime tenure on the highest court in the U.S. And this story promises to last much longer.
So, what can we expect to see from Kavanaugh on the biggest, thorniest issues likely to come before the Supreme Court? Of course that question won’t be answered with certainty until we see him actually on the nation’s highest bench — but there are clues to be found in Kavanaugh’s past statements and opinions.
Why bother to delve into his judicial philosophy prior to his confirmation when you’re hoping for him to get shot out of the saddle? That’s a lot like work.
Gosh, do you know when would have been a great time to ask a question like this?
For them this is the right time, seeing their hopes were 100% that eh would be withdrawn after the shit flinging started, and now they need to know these details so they can accuse him of having had another sort of rape gang.
See, this is what’s so fucking stupid about the whole thing. Democrats’ best chance to stop the nomination would have been to do a thorough review of Kavanaugh’s judicial record – you know, how confirmations are typically handled – and find areas of concern that could peel off sympathetic Republicans. Instead they decided to let Feinstein turn it into a three ring circus right out of the gate.
They did that review and found nothing that would disqualify him legally and they knew claiming he was just too conservative was not going to work. Their main objection was that he would be the deciding vote to roll back Roe v. Wade, which is kind of preposterous. They had NOTHING they could use to disqualify him, and the 3 day freak show that they claimed was a hearing showed that. That is why they had to invent the whole rape accusation, and failing to have that result in a withdrawal of his nomination, kept doubling down on stupid shit hoping to run the clock out.
I am hearing some people claim Feinstein did this on her own because she is worried about the guy that is running against her, and that most democrats didn’t know about it. I suspect that it is far more likely that the democrats not only knew about it, and new about it for months before Feinstein lobbed that shit sandwich grenade, but played dumb and acted as if the revelations simply was earths shattering new information that would affect their vote (which was going to be a firm no regardless). The most likely scenario is that they knew about the accusation before the hearings, had already sent their own investigators to find dirt on Kavanaugh – because those guys where going to dig deeper than the FBI legally could – and made a tactical decision to drop it when their digging for dirt efforts came back with nothing. The democrats basically chose to backburner this, temporarily, hoping their indignation on his stance on abortion itself would be enough to derail the nomination, and then use it as a hail mary. When Kavanaugh managed to sail through despite their freakshow efforts, they gave the OK to go to this desperation tactic, as I already pointed out hoping the accusation itself would be enough to force Trump to withdraw the nomination, and if that failed, at to at least delay the confirmation vote past the midterms..
I still think congress needs to drop this shit about letting sleeping dogs lie and not doing the investigation into who leaked this information because it might impact their ability to reach across the isle to work with each other, because the team red idiots are assuming that team blue will let go. Nothing can be further from the truth. team blue will not let this go, and I expect them to double down on a way to destroy Kavanaugh, and failing that, the court itself as a legitimate entity that can put a check on their agenda.
“George Soros’s March on Washington
Saturday’s protests and unlawful disruptions were brought to us by a well-funded network.
I started following the money for the “resistance” when it was born, hours after Election Day 2016. I have organized my findings in a spreadsheet I have made public. At least 50 of the largest organizations that participated as “partners” in the Jan. 21, 2017, Women’s March had received grants from Mr. Soros’s Open Society Foundations or similar funds in the “House of Soros,” as his philanthropic empire was once called internally. The number of Soros-backed partners has grown to at least 80. At least 20 of the largest groups that led the Saturday anti-Kavanaugh protests have been Open Society grantees.
On Saturday I also studied the fine print on the signs as protesters waved them defiantly at the Capitol and the high court. They came from a familiar list of Democratic interest groups that have received millions from Mr. Soros: the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the Center for Popular Democracy, Human Rights Campaign and on and on. MoveOn.org, a Democratic organizing and lobbying group founded with Soros money, sent its army of partisan followers regular missives that led them to a Google form to ask for train tickets and places to stay.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soross-march-on-washington-1538951025
I’m all for George Soros spending every penny of his wealth on politics. It’s his money, and he can do with it as he pleases.
What I’m not all for is the collusion with the MSM to fraudulently portray his action groups as grassroots activism.
What I’m not all for is the collusion with the MSM to fraudulently portray his action groups as grassroots activism.
Astroturfing is the exclusive domain of the Kochtopus and their alt-right minions.
You know, when I read things like this tweet, I start to compile logical responses, but then I realize it would be a waste of time (see also conservatives & pot).
Objective reality is for chumps.
Persistance!
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has received more than a dozen judicial misconduct complaints in recent weeks against Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice Saturday, but has chosen for the time being not to refer them to a judicial panel for investigation.
A judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — the court on which Kavanaugh serves — passed on to Roberts a string of complaints the court received starting three weeks ago, said four people familiar with the matter.
That judge, Karen LeCraft Henderson, had dismissed other complaints against Kavanaugh as frivolous, but she concluded that some were substantive enough that they should not be handled by Kavanaugh’s fellow judges in the D.C. Circuit.
In a statement Saturday, Henderson said the complaints centered on statements Kavanaugh made during his Senate confirmation hearings.
Doin’ right ain’t got no end.
Judge Henderson is a Reagan/Bush appointee, for what that’s worth.
I’d be very curious to know what statements he made to the Senate give the basis for non-frivolous judicial misconduct complaints.
In recent incidents of SCOTUS misconduct, I can’t think of anything worse than Roberts allowing Kagan to participate in the ObamaCare case.
Maybe he was so drunk he fell asleep in an official public appearance on national television, casting the court into ill repute?
Oh noes! We can’t let people do things we don’t approve of!
Moral panics are unseemly coming from either team.
Thank goodness.
Huh. Brooksed it