By the time you read these Links, UberKillDeathMurderStorm Michael will have removed Florida from the Continental United States. Hopefully any of you that lived in that area fled, long ago. Brett is probably out taking stock of his new island home state, so I will cover the links today. I sure hope the pythons didn’t swim over to what is left of CONUS…
- How it happened/will happen/should happen. (As of time of link forging).
- Oh noes! An EU member wants to change how it operates its judiciary. Let the lawfare begin! (TW: Reuters Euro-arsekissing)
- Make it an oil wrestling match. /Patriarchy off. Or, “The Bottom Story of the Day”.
- Might as well just shot the poor SOB. Or, “Dog cheered by third wave feminists as a canine hero!”
Kind off off kilter links for me, right? I think it was reading that SugarFree piece…I don’t feel…quite normal right now.
Comments
375 responses to “Swiss, Non-Hurricane Destroyed Afternoon Links”
I’m blown away by the hyperbole of the hurricane coverage.
For once, a lot of it isn’t hyperbolic. It’s the strongest storm on record* to hit the Florida panhandle, and one of the 10 strongest to hit the US.
* Our records don’t go back very far
But the OMG GLOBAL WARMING IS GOING TO MAKE 150 STORMS LIKE THIS HIT EVERY YEAR WE’LRE ALL GOING TO DIE reactions, on the other hand…
I went through a hurricane last year and did not enjoy it.
1 star. Would not repeat experience.
I’ve only gone through tropical storms. 46 hours on a generator with a mother with dementia is no fun.
Irma was hyped as the death storm of ages but it petered out quickly and was really no big deal to sit through it. The big fucking tree that smashed a corner of my house was another story though. It took them 4 months to repair the roof and another 6 months to repair the interior damage. I moved in 3 days before the storm and spent 90% of my lease in a fucked up house.
Worst part of Irma was the build-up. At least this one formed and made landfall pretty quickly so you didn’t have a week of breathless coverage before hand.
Between Sandy and Irene I ran a generator for 15 days.
But I was popular with the neighbors. Wish I had remembered to take a picture of my dining room table with something like 4 PCs and 10 cellphones charging away.
I’ve been through a bunch. They suck but the media coverage is insane. Like, we are in TOR-CON 4!!!!! here in SC now (whatever the fuck that means…).
I blame Trump.
The winds of change are starting to blow
Into the face of time?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.
*whistling intensifies*
This guy gets it.
Hard to believe it’s stronger than Ivan. That one fucked up Pensacola but good.
It has a relatively small windfield. Tallahassee and Pensacola are only reporting 30mph winds. Panama City is already below 40mph sustained.
Aha. I had the exceeding good fortune to move away from PCola a mere two weeks before Ivan hit.
Ventusky
Pretty cool website for all kinds of data.
That, and windy.com.
They both make my MacBook angry.
Somebody at work was telling me about a Facebook friend in a hospital that is actively coming apart. It’s for real.
I find that hard to believe.
Which part?
While I’m certainly no expert, that’d be one really shitty/old hospital. Mobile homes and trailers can survive those winds just fine.
There’s a lot of old hospitals. Hospitals also tend to be multi-story buildings, which gives them problems in high winds that single-story buildings don’t have.
I just got an email from corporate (we have a hospital in PCB) evidently the damage is widespread.
Here is a live cam in Panama City.
They had some heavy wind earlier. Saw part of a hotel carport damage and a large sign over waffle house toppled.
EVERY
YEARWEEKI’m a bit winded by all the coverage.
You know why they have a cock on a weather vane? If they had a cunt the wind would blow right through it.
/G. Carlin
You know who else is blown away?
Tommy Lee Jones?
JFK?
What else do I have to say?
Didn’t the East Coast drown in blood and storm water like two weeks ago? Wasn’t that supposed to be the storm of the millennia?
The flooding after Florence was definitely real…
Eye see what you guys are doing here
We are going to be flooded with narrow gazes.
Dont get all huffy.
These puns are making me angry enough to storm right out of here.
Better wind it down now.
Hurricane Michael made landfall at 2 pm EDT October 10, 2018 near Mexico Beach, FL with top sustained winds of 155 mph and a central pressure of 919 mb. This makes Michael the strongest landfalling mainland U.S. hurricane (by pressure) since Camille of 1969, which had a 900 mb pressure, and the strongest by wind speed since Hurricane Andrew of 1992, which had 165 mph winds. Note that Hurricane Maria of 2017 hit Puerto Rico with winds of 155 mph and a central pressure of 920 mb, and was virtually identical in intensity to Michael.
Big bad storm.
Yeah, that doesn’t look good.
“virtually identical in intensity to Michael”
Looks like we have ourselves a social experiment.
Yeah, this one’s no punk. My brother lives in the Tampa area so thankfully he only took a glancing blow from it. Be safe, southeastern Glibs.
https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/southeast_loop.php
Fortunately, from that loop, it looks to be fast moving. A stall could have made it much worse.
This seems awfully soon after the glibfit article to drop another thread.
You can talk about your fitness regimen here if you want. How’s the salt intake?
You know he doesn’t use any seasoning on food.
Seasoning would simply take away from the blandness.
Which itself was dropped too soon after a Sugar Free piece.
There is no such thing as getting an escape raft from a SugarFree piece too soon.
Nobody forced you to read it.
I didn’t.
The closest I came was when people foolishly quoted from it in their comments.
Nobody forced you to read the comments.
Links are non-negotiable.
Having too much contribution from readers is a problem I think we can live with.
^
It’s that Swiss driven clockwork schedule. Must keep the
trainsarticles running on time!I suppose I’ll repost my query then.
Sous vide, then reverse sear.
Sounds like a lot of words.
It’s about 3.5 faces of 8.5″x11″ paper at 12 point font with 0.79″ margins.
I’m still having trouble picturing it.
Which 3.5 faces? Front? Back? Tops? Sides?
The 3.5 Faces of Eve, of course.
If you post it, we’ll definitely let you know how we feel about it.
*contemplates*
“What is this medicore shit?” -Tulpae
Mediocre? We’re not handing out compliments here.
“Kinda bland”
UCS gushes.
It’s either read it or do work.
I’m all for it.
not humorous, not traumatizing, nor even particularly libertarian?
Better be one hell of a clever locked-room situation, that or have a really cool car chase.
I’m afraid not.
Jeebus man, you’re not writing literary fiction, are you?
No, but I said in the query that it was in a fantasy setting. Half of it takes place in a forest.
STEVE SMITH fiction?
No.
Are the elves gay?
Aren’t Elves *always* gay?
All right, I’ve put the text to the Editors. If they accept it, it will show up.
The buildup has been epic.
I guarantee it will disappoint.
The Cleveland Browns of short stories
Why not, go for it
So long as the North Tower dudes eat thin crust and the far away land people eat deep dish, you’ll get lot of feedback.
That bulldog seems mightily relaxed after chewing off some dude’s genitals.
what kind of soy boy nancy could even get injured by an English Bulldog? Those misbred monsters can barely walk, can barely breathe and they literally can’t even fuck (nearly all of them are products of artificial insemination)
Yeah, there is one in the neighborhood. About as fierce as an old footstool.
A buddy of mine had one that would see animals on TV and would attempt to destroy the TV. Which he did more than once.
When he bought a projection TV, he had to install an invisible fence inside his house to keep ‘Bruiser Jr’ from fucking up that TV.
He was never mean, but he was ‘insistent’. I rough-housed with him a little and I thought I was gonna have to shoot him to get him to stop.
Getting that slobbering, snorting and leg-raping monster to stop was an exercise in futility.
Based on my experience, that sounds about right. Grogan was my buddy’s bulldog. The name fit him perfectly.
An above average Quarterback stuck on a shitty team his whole career?
You don’t say?
Uffda, my question is about the cops.
Our cops have guns and are so chicken shit that they regularly shoot unarmed people who pose no threat to anyone. British cops have just a baton and they manage to subdue a dick eating dog without killing it?
I don’t think we should be throwing shade on anyone’s manliness right now.
Interesting, if true. I know that 19th century pics of “Bulldogs” don’t look like the modern breed, but tend to look a lot like modern American Bulldogs, which look not much at all like modern English Bulldogs.
The ones I have met have been quite friendly, but I have no doubt that a pissed off Bulldog could put a serious hurt on you.
Yes – the English Bulldog is pretty useless. I’ve seen some if the “olde” ones – not to be fucked with.
Olde English Bulldogges are fucking awesome. All the laziness of a regular English Bulldog without a lot of the health problems. I desperately want one.
There’s one at the dog park I frequent. The owner taught it to twerk.
No else is going to say it? Fine, then I will. You know peanut butter and a lack of pants started this incident.
Poland doesn’t seem very impressed with Brussels.
That is a badass looking courtroom entrance. I think the sign next to the door translates to : “Abandon hope all ye who enter here”
You know who else isn’t very impressed with Brussels ?
Hercule Poirot?
anyone who has visited Brussels?
I had a great time in Brussels. I’m not a big fan of most Belgian beer (Flemish sours are the exception), but I love Belgian food. It’s a pretty cool town too.
Flemish sours are the exception
Nectar of the gods
One of the best meals I have ever had was in Brussels. Mussels in cream sauce.
You had the mussels? The ones from Brussles?
He’s still hot.
Heh I remember him making me sit through several crappy movies in the eighties.
The Little Green Sprout?
Nah, it just reads “Supreme Court” in Polish. Though given the nature of supreme courts, you can certainly read it as abandoning hope.
Or “Favorable Judgement Sets You Free”.
Yeah, that could pass for the servant’s entrance to Hell.
I was reading in connection with the Kav swearing-in that the SCOTUS doors are solid bronze and weigh 13(?) tons. I’ve been there, but I had no idea they were solid bronze.
For all you Harry Potter fans
Media hits bottom, digs with this impressive scoop on Stephen Miller’s third grade antics. And by “third grade antics”, I mean literally that they saw fit to print an article where his third grade teacher talks about what a weird kid he was.
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well, shit, I beseech the Edit Faerie to help me in this my time of great need!
At least you didnt SF it and leaves us wondering.
I smell bullshit
I don’t even remember my 3rd grade teacher’s name and there was only 1 of her vs 30 of us in class. I put the odds of her remembering any of her students decades later at approximately zero
“Well there was this other little monster who bit my calf and took a chunk out of it.”
Every school has the glue-eating-kid tho’. May as well call for his resignation.
The glue-eaters are forgotten, but they always remember the smelly ones.
Which one of the Glibs was a paste-eater?
Which one of you was the kid who didn’t bathe?
*scratches scalp uncontrollably*
I was a paper eater.
I tried to glue a kid to his chair…with Elmer’s Glue.
That’s actually funny.
It’s Glibs. Which ones were the glue sniffers?
Mmmm, markers.
You mean which one wasn’t, right?
She didn’t have to remember. All she had to do was look up his permanent record.
I bet my 2nd grade teacher remembers my name, unless she died in the asylum.
“Ahh, 2nd grade, the best 5 years of my life!”
/Corny dad joke
If we go back far enough we’ll probably learn that he also used to dress in onesies, cry constantly, didnt’ know any words and crap his pants. We certainly can’t have a guy like that running things.
My third grade teacher would remember me if she was still alive. Mrs. Carron was awesome and two of my best friends were in the same class. It was an awesome year and we were great.
I agree that this story is total bullshit though. Why? Because when I looked at that story, I recognized the picture. Not because I had anything to do with that school, but because I remember thinking that this story about Miller written by his classmate sounded like BS back then.
WTF? This guy was so fucking bizarre, his teacher AND his classmates all wrote hit pieces about him?
I was able to see my kindergarten teacher from 1965 a couple of years ago. She was in her 90s (she’s passed since). She remembered me and my sister, and had anecdotes about each of us. It was an amazing experience.
Some teachers do remember most of their kids.
My 3rd grade teacher was Gene Chizik while he was coaching HS ball across the street at the HS. Co-defensive coordinator for the UT National Championship in 2005 and head coach of the Auburn National Championship. I’m sure he thought I was a weird kid.
Kindergarten: Miss Davis
First Grade: Mrs. Napotnik
Second Grade: Mrs. ???? (This is going to bother me)
Third Grade: Mrs. Dolan
Fourth Grade: Mrs. Rust
Fifth Grade: Mr. Stahl
Has anyone ever watched Don Lemon or Chris Cuomo?
Tell me those shitstains didn’t eat fucking glue. I fucking dare you.
Lead paint chips.
My third grade teacher was a hot Brazilian woman.
But you hated her anyway, didn’t you?
“Of course, Stephen wasn’t political then”
Since you brought it up, lady, what are your politics exactly?
Lol. Love how none of these stories come out when Dems are in power. I’m pretty sure there’s some juice in Obama’s past. Among others.
Sugarfree, please accept my offering.
That’s some Ed Gein level stuff.
I’m tired of Gein being painted as some sort of monster. Necrophelia shouldn’t even be a crime. It’s victimless. And his mother was a bitch.
The monstrosity or lack thereof regarding necrophilia and grave robbery aside, he did kill at least one woman and very likely killed his brother, so he does deserve to be demonized to some degree.
That being said, I was commenting on his propensity for making clothing out of human skin.
Are dead bodies and graves communal property?
Psycho was fiction you know.
I don’t think any Sconni’s look down on Gein. Necrophelia seems to be pretty popular in the Badger State.
Delicious.
I reply with the raw chicken skin gimp suit.
I was going to use it for today’s Hillary story but decided it would just distract.
I am not worthy!
wtf?
SF cues up Goodbye Horses…
“I’d fuck me!”
Necro pants allow you to take the power away from your foes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2476512/Are-terrifying-trousers-The-17th-century-NECROPANTS-corpse-legs–supposed-lucky.html
You’re right, I wouldn’t have even noticed the raw chicken gimp suit.
I have pleased the gods, this is a good day.
Every time I see reporters live on scene during a storm, I want something like to happen to them.
But the reality is more like this. Or this.
The upper left corner of the Weather Channel fake gives the wind speed — 29 mph sustained; 48 mph gusts. That was what we got yesterday during the thunderstorm in eastern Iowa. I’ve played golf in those wind conditions in late March.
okay, I can see why the second guy maybe remained committed to the bit (the other people were behind him), but the lady in the canoe had to have seen those people walk between her and the camera and she just kept at it. that’s some real dedication to your “craft” right there.
I’m blown away by the hyperbole of the hurricane coverage.
I, uh… harrumph!
“White woman calls 911 after spotting a black man babysitting white children at Walmart”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6258049/White-woman-calls-911-spotting-black-man-babysitting-white-children.html
International news.
What? That a black man may be non-ironically wearing a Justin Bieber t-shirt?
Yes. This is intergalactic news.
Anyone who wears a Justin Bieber shirt is obviously a pedophile.
Good police work, there Lou.
Is Bieber a Trumpista?
Gotta reinforce those stereotypes.
European love news about how racist AmeriKKKa is.
So does the NY Post – there is a variation of that theme online every day. That story is today’s feature.
Come on. We all know black men don’t raise children.
While I can’t rule out the level of crazy you can get from some busy bodies, something about this story doesn’t smell right.
They never release the names of the Gladys Kravitzes of the world.
If they couldn’t identify her, how are they sure she was a white woman?
Did she say to 911, “Hello, I’m a white woman, and here’s my emergency,’?
I thought you had to these days.
Of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpb-S5qvPdw
Laugh, but I’ve been “investigated” for kidnapping 3 times with my adopted black son. It’s no joke, hands on the guns, cops showing up at the house based on license plates, etc. Seriously people call the cops at the drop of a hat nowadays.
That’s crazy and sad. There are all kinds of mixed families now, adopted, remarried, etc. what assholes.
Is adopting black kids white privilege and genocide these days?
I don’t know or care. Children need families and I don’t care what they look like as long as they take care of the child.
It’s weird. I noticed while watching the football game the other day that the vast majority of commercials have mixed families.
This is hardly a new phenomenon.
Yeah, I’ve noticed that too. I like it. Of course, I’m a race traitor.
This is one of those things that you can point at. No matter what people might say about race relations in the US, there is pretty solid proof that we are all getting along very well between the sheets.
The US is still likely the least racist place on the planet.
Despite the retards.
Did you see the story yesterday about the cops detaining a teenager riding with his grandmother because someone thought he was car-jacking her?
Had the kid acted differently, it could have ended much, much worse.
Busybodyism is one of the most insidious aspects of modern American life. Most people could use a healthy soupçon of “mind your own fucking business”
But hey “If you see something say something” is just common sense advice, absolutely no chance that anything could go wrong with that
Hurricane Michael Makes Landfall in Florida Panhandle
And last I checked it is still a cat. 4. That is unusual and intriguing. (or the weather channel is lying…)
My wife was showing me pictures of Mexico Beach where the eye came ashore. It was just flat wrecked on the beach side of 98.
I am awaiting the next GOP SCOTUS confirmation hearing about how he bit his mom while breastfeeding and interviewing the doctors and nurses at his birth and looking at the ultrasound.
“War on Boys”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFpYj0E-yb4
“As schools become more feelings-centered, more competition free and sedentary, they move further away from the needs of boys.”
https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1050061142544932864
She forgot the most important reform.
Of course girlhood is going to be the standard norm of primary education when something like 99.99999999997% of elementary school teachers are women.
But you can’t have male teachers! You’d attract pedophiles!
/standard response.
*checks stories about teachers sleeping with students*
They may be right.
Gah. Didn’t finish my thought.
They may be right. But they have the problem gender wrong.
To be fair, when you have a disparity in numbers, the majority sex will be the majority of offenders. Do we have statistics on population proportional offense rates?
I would be willing to bet that a far higher percentage of female teachers have sex with their students than male teachers do.
Not because the male teachers are any less likely to want to but because teenage boys are WAY easier to convince, more likely to be the initiators of the relationship, and are in general society is far more on the lookout for unacceptable behavior from the men than the women.
Basically for the female teachers, especially the better looking ones half the boys in their class are already more than willing to bang her, she just needs to figure out which ones are most likely to keep quiet about it. The male teachers do not have that advantage
And 98% are feminists who are going to falsely accuse any male teacher.
Best teacher my daughter has had so far (she’s in 6th grade) was a man. I knew he would be, too, by seeing how she interacts with older males in the extended family.
I believe I’ve found peak derp. It was hard to select just one choice quote but here goes:
Eat shit and die, Scott Galloway.
For a guy who complains about righties wanting to “own the left” you sure seem to like trashing people you don’t like. Or is this some satire I’m missing?
That’s no way to talk to your father.
Any of thousands of people could be his father.
For a guy who likes to pick fights with libertarians, you sure like to pick fights with libertarians.
One thing I know about libertarianism is the lack of infighting.
Damn Libertarians! YOU RUINED libertarianism!
(Insert pic of Janitor Willie)
I will be creating an Anti-Infighting Caucus at the next LP convention.
“Owning the left” in Glibertarian contexts means that libertarians have to never express their annoyance or dismay at the Nu-GOP’s economic populist antics because it is imagined that Trump has delivered some victories in the Culture War.
But you knew that already.
Personally I have no issues with complaints about Trump’s non-libertarianism. I will say that your “Nu-GOP” complaints at times wreaks close to the leftist “Current Republicans are always worse than Past Republicans” shtick which we saw when McCain died. And I find complaining about the Culture War rather disingenuous considering how libertarian are Culture Warriors too.
Put down the thesaurus if you don’t know how it works.
Er what?
How so? I’m not saying they are any better or worse than the NeoCons.
Rockwellian jeremiads about libertines, the reefer, and pants-sagging hippty-hop music are fucking retarded as well.
There is more to the old GOP than just the Neocons. I mean Republicans not being fiscally conservative small-types is something that Libertarians have been complaining about since Eisenhower at least.
True but I was referring to how free speech is a culture war issue these days and libertarians do support the leftist culture warriors in certain areas like the weed, Mexicans and Ass-sex trifecta. And quite a few leftist culture warriors think the constitution is illegitimate because of slavery so how is criticizing an academic who believes that not a engaging in the culture war?
*small-government types*
You can always go backwards further and further. But in the context of the usual discussion, it’s clear who the populists are being compared to.
Because the Culture War is stupid shit like Trump promising stores will say Merry Christmas again just to spit that uppity Jew with his blue paper coffee cups. It’s not actual debate about the nature of our rights derived from natural law.
That’s a very narrow take on the “Culture War” to imply is consists solely of whatever Trump complains about and the reaction to it is. How American history should be remembered is a Culture War issue and having any opinion on it is a culture war issue sorry to say.
Except Natural Law is a culture war issue and so is the question of rights. Saying that presumption of innocence should apply to sexual assault allegations is a culture war issue.
Yesterday, I heard Don Lemon say that Trump was using Kanye for publicity and Kanye was in turn using Trump to sell his new album.
Sounds about right. Not seeing any derp there.
Look harder.
Celebrities use each other to drive publicity, this is neither news or derp.
Not even close. The link in Winston’s comment 20 below is a much better word salad.
Anyone see the new Murphy Brown?
Also they are going forward with a Roseanne-less retool of Roseanne. I wonder how that will work. Her character is pretty distinctive and a major source isn’t she? Wasn’t the inspired by one of her characters?
Interestingly Roseanne was quite a handful back in the days of the Original Show. Not sure what ABC was thinking though.
Also they are going forward with a Roseanne-less retool of Roseanne.
In production now. I believe the kill off Roseanne by opioid overdose. Trendy.
My guess is it will be a total failure.
They’ll go outta their way to virtue signal.
The domestic goddess was an essential ingredient in the pie.
(“As a _____” alert…)
As a fan of the original – which will now never be shown in syndication again – they can kiss my ass with this shit. You unpersoned her, and now have the gall to cash in on it? Fuck you.
Libertarian Moment! /Gillespie
Doing it just to make sure Roseanne can never reboot the show named after her.
Eh, if the winds shift, it will turn into a dream like the murder of JR.
They already did that by undoing the series finale of the original show..
“OMG, Arnie, I had a horrible dream that my family killed me off, stomped all over my corpse, and ran all the way to the bank with that $180 million I won in the lottery in that other dream I had.”
*source of conflict*
“If you’ve never partied with libertarians, you’ve never partied”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1049831385521770496
Fat guys pounding tequila sunrises and playing MtG at 4:00 in the morning. WOOO HOOOO
https://twitter.com/STEVESM75082769/status/1050135040200458260
He forgot to add the requisite “and by PARTY mean…”
When STEVE SMITH starts trending on Twitter, were all in trouble.
I’d party with Claire, but she’s obviously not real, because…
Who has the Steve Smith account on Twitter?
Likely the master drummer from Vital Information.
“Millennials are turned off sex, study suggests, with one in eight still virgins at 26 ”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/06/millennials-turned-sex-study-suggests-one-eight-still-virgins/
“Tomorrow’s front page: A third of under-25s now drink no alcohol”
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/1049772197374554113
Well since they’ve raised the age of adulthood to 26…
Though more seriously, it’s the completely neurotic responses to what used to be normal fumbles and miscommunication. Greater destructive potential, more alternatives, it stops being worth the risk.
only one in eight young men have not raped yet . . . . . .
Reduces chances of sexual assault charges obviously.
What has happened that the temperance advocates could not accomplish?
Fear of having your picture posted on Instagram when you’re drunk.
I suppose you could also say something unwoke while drunk and have it posted on youtube.
And modern technology leading to social intolerance of drinking. Is that part of the libertarian moment?
Probably this. I partied pretty hard in college and as far as I know there are no pics. If everyone was posting everything I did, I might make different decisions.
I cannot claim the same. The negatives are out there. Guess I can’t be on the Supreme Court now
It always bothers me when a news outfit will report on a study like this but not provide a link to the actual study. I can’t find it in a cursory Google search either.
So much for my future confirmation hearing. Wife balked at how much space the blankets she was buying would take up. Hawker said he put them in a Mexican suitcase gratis, and all laughed.
Just become a Democrat then.
http://bostonreview.net/law-justice/samuel-moyn-resisting-juristocracy
“People who were born in New York City and do not identify as male or female can now opt for a third gender category of X on their birth certificates.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the provision into a law on Tuesday, making New York City the fifth place to do so after California, Oregon, Washington state and New Jersey. Three states and Washington, D.C., also allow gender-neutral driver licenses.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/new-york-city-creates-gender-neutral-x-option-birth-certificates-n918506
Because babies are literate?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DpHVI5OWkAIzD9Z.jpg
“i’m encouraging all my fans to unregister to vote. you are dumb as shit and do not deserve a say in this country.”
https://twitter.com/danieltosh/status/1050027615673675778
College student makes news after receiving death threats. Turns out she sent herself the death threats, part (if I could put an infinity symbol here I would)
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36969/hate-crime-hoax-ohio-university-student-charged-ashe-schow
But did she start a conversation?
WTF is wrong with people?
“Start a conversation” and the privileges of victim status? You must believe them you bigot.
#believeher! Women are incapable of lying!
Not true! Women can do anything they put their empowered minds to!
Except the stuff the Patriarchy decides to keep them from doing.
We are patriarchy!
I got all my brothers with me!
We are patriarchy!
Get up everybody and sing!
Except ask a member of the patriarchy about the CEL in their vehicle within three days of activation.
Women are capable of doing anything but incapable of lying?* Head explodes*
If only she would act on her threats now
“Ayers went on to call the threat sender cowardly, weak, and worthless,…”
Well, she DID get that right. Not bad for a journalist.
Darwin Award nominee
Can they still win since they didn’t finish the job?
“Should women be spelt womxn?”
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45810709
No, because the first “B” in BBC stand for “British” and you should be able write in your own language.
This would be more coherent if it were in pidgin.
We need to just eradicate words containing the syllable “men” from the language altogether. Example: “Those womxn have mxntal health problems.”
Hmm Seems easier to just eliminate men…
Especially when they are mxnstruating.
I was raised to speak “Mississippi Highland” which includes spelt, amongst, and learnt.
Which is correct: fixin’ or fittin’
A: NEITHER. No civilized people ever say, “I’m fixin/fittin to go to lunch”
No civilized people eat hotdish.
I had hot dish last week. I used Kraft cheese slices instead of real cheddar.
You’d be welcome at my house, there’ll be ketchup and mustard to put on that hotdish if it needs spicing up, which it probably wouldn’t.
When did I/we ever claim to be civilized? We ain’t putting on airs.
I guess I can retire now. No need for linguists to do linguistics when we have PhDs in Film Studies doing it for us.
In actual historical linguistics, as opposed to pull-out-of-ass linguistics, the “man” in “woman” is a Proto-Indo-European root word for “human* being”. In Old English, the sexes were differenated as wer and wif. “Wer” being cognate to the Latin “Vir”. Thus, we had wereman (yes, like werewolf), and wifman. Eventually, they would be shortened as “man” and “woman”. Now if you want to make “man” wereman again, be my guest, but this “woman comes from man” bullshit myth needs to die a horrible death.
*human coming from the Latin humanus, which stemmed from the Latin humus, or “of the earth”. Not related to the “man” above.
A snarky rebuttal would probably be appropriate. And fun for us.
I like wereman, though. It’s got a nice ring to it.
It’s not an attested word in Old English, but it’s cool.
I prefer scealc or beorn if we’re going back to old English instead of wer, myself.
What about the PhDs in film studies that promote it?
They deserve a fate worse than death: the promotion committee doesn’t approve their tenure.
But that damned Bible said something about ribs and the origin of the word woman.
“Progressive activists:
* Make up 8% of the population
* Are twice as likely as average Americans to make >$100k a year
* Are three times as likely to have a graduate degree
* Only 3% of them are black
* Except for devoted conservatives, this is least racially diverse group.”
https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1050033177077665795
Study shows what everyone already believed to be true.
Progressive are the actual privileged white people and their tirades about white men allow them to feel better about their privilege and to hate the poor. What a shock.
Bullshit. “Progressives” as in crypto-Marxist morons promoting socialism and class/race conflict? I guess there could be 26 million of them. Progressive “activists” – no way.
Their definition of Progressive Activist was those who preach the progressive doctrine, and pretend to believe it. The article that talked about the study was linked in the morning links. It included gems like only 25% of devoted conservatives have a minority opinion, and that ~80% of people think political correctness is bad.
“Moons can have moons and they are called moonmoons”
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2182158-moons-can-have-moons-and-they-are-called-moonmoons/
Now you’re just making shit up.
What is a Moon but a Star’s Moon’s moonmoon?
A star is but a moon of the galactic center.
What about Moons-Over-My-Hammy at Denny’s ?
Mumus?
I’m just happy that the replies to the tweet announcing this is made up mostly of the Moon Moon meme. As it should be, because this is stupid.
I thought they were Units. And those who have moons, are indeed called Zappas.
“Britain’s slide into bizarre authoritarian banning of all and sundry continues, with an advert featuring a healthy model next on the hit list after receiving a mammoth 22 complaints.
The Nasty Gal advert featured a model in a bikini. The company confirmed that she was a healthy UK size 8 with a Body Mass Index within the healthy range for an adult woman.
Despite this, the Advertising Standards Authority have ruled that during the advert some poses had “drew attention to her slimness” including the “model lying on a sun lounger stretching her arms, which emphasised their slimness and length”.
This meant that they “considered that the model appeared unhealthily underweight in those scenes and concluded that the ads were therefore irresponsible”.
And so as a result “the ads must not be broadcast again in their current form”.”
https://www.westmonster.com/nasty-gal-advert-banned-despite-featuring-healthy-weight-model/
Thank God for the First Amendment
A dear friend of mine recently moved back to England and I often wonder how long it will be before he decides dealing with a work visa here is less of a nuisance than seemingly everything there.
Big controversy there today was a group of soldiers who posed for a picture with Tommy Robinson. That’s some kind of hate crime now.
The company confirmed that she was a healthy UK size 8 with a Body Mass Index within the healthy range for an adult woman.
When a company has to say that, the war is already lost.
Trying to tell us she’s a British 9, which converts to a 5 in the rest of the world.
Sad to say we’re seeing this here in
AmericaCalifornia too. This bill was just passed and signed into law that bans restaurants from listing any beverages other than water and unflavored milk as included with kids meals.https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1192
114379.20. (a) A restaurant that sells a children’s meal shall make the default beverage offered with the children’s meal one of the following:
(1) Water, sparkling water, or flavored water, with no added natural or artificial sweeteners.
(2) Unflavored milk.
(3) A nondairy milk alternative that contains no more than 130 calories per container or serving. For purposes of this paragraph, “nondairy milk alternative” means a non-dairy fluid milk substitute that meets the standards for the National School Lunch Program as set forth in Section 210.10 of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(b) The beverage listed or displayed on a restaurant menu or advertisement for a children’s meal shall be one of the default beverages listed in subdivision (a).
*renames beverage section to 210.11, new section 210.10 is “any beverage safe for human consumption”*
FYCaTW
Busybody assholes
“We didn’t add the sugar. It was already in there.”
No artificial sweeteners? Dumb idiots.
That would be normalizing sweetness.
Confirmed: John is running the Advertising Standards Authority. Totally into fat chicks.
Were they wearing body armor?
It has come to my attention that Netflix is currently showing the entire series of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Life just got incrementally better.
+1 Dead Parrot
And now, the Larch.
Just because.
Number 1: The Larch
“CNN Panel Mocks Kanye West as Trump’s ‘Token Negro,’ Don Lemon Laughs (Video)
“Kanye West is what happens when negro’s don’t read,” said Sellers. “And we have this now and now Donald Trump is going to use it and pervert and he’s going to have someone who can stand with him and take pictures.””
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-laughs-as-cnn-panel-mocks-kanye-west-as-token-negro-video/
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1050045731812401153
It’s okay when the
LeftRich, Educated, White people do itActually, the only white person on the panel looks incredibly uncomfortable. Like he wants to laugh, but knows he can’t.
Whatever you do, don’t leave the plantation.
“You will be redirected to this site in 15 seconds.”
“No, I won’t.” *exit*
When the 2004 Presidential Elections where going on, I was undecided at first between Bush and Kerry and this white progressive girl from my mock trial team told me that Kerry is owed my vote because without the Democrats, I wouldn’t have my rights. Don’t be mistaken that the Progressives view black people as their equals because they don’t. They only see them as a means to implement their utopia which is explains their vitriol whenever a black person leaves their plantation
Wow, so, so much wrong with that chick’s premise.
Kerry is owed my vote because without the Democrats, I wouldn’t have my rights
Puzzling, since I believe a majority of Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act.
That was before the great Democrat/Republican game of Red Rover, Red Rover, Let Racists Come Over!
There are so many ways to screw with someone like that. I’d get myself in trouble.
“Without Hitler Israel wouldn’t exist”
The Democrat Party has an embarrassingly racist history… From slavery to Jim Crow to the “progressive” eugenics movement of the early 1900s to the Japanese-American internment to the rabid anti-Semitic comments coming from black Democrats…
Their whole anti-racist schtick is just a guilty conscience in action.
When negro’s what don’t read?
I for one, can’t wait for Kanye to drop “Token Negro” It gonna be lit.
20 people died in the Schoharie limousine crash, and many families lost multiple members. Why are people acting as though it’s more important to remember the fucking “first responders”?
I know I go on and on about the use of that phrase, but the increasingly common culture of treating people with the government stamp of approval as somehow more important than the rest of us is really enraging.
Shit, I SFed the link. Here: https://wnyt.com/news/vigil-schoharie-limousine-crash/5103072/?cat=10114
You SugarFree’d the link, Ted.
At least my reply came before yours.
One of the ads running during the local news was a Congressional candidate saying her biggest honor was serving the military members stationed at Ft. Drum. Apparently she doesn’t care son much about us taxpayers who pay their salaries.
$5 says she doesnt have a child or close family member currently serving and about to go visit the mideast.
Also…..HOOAH Ft. Drum. 10th Mountain (as I recall) has some tough mf’ers.
First day. New refresh button.
#NewPhoneWhoDis
First day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlOhSt_qW0
It’s a tragedy and one has to feel sympathy for the families left bereft. One thing puzzles me: not one survivor. Back in high school, a friend of mine hit a huge tree dead on at 50 miles an hour one night. All three in the front were killed. All three in the back seat lived. No one was wearing a seat belt. His car looked like Godzilla had stomped it. Now pictures I’ve seen of the limo don’t show it crushed, even some windows intact. Odds are some inside should have survived. As I said, puzzling.
I wondered the same thing. No survivors? No tin foil hat conspiracy here, just really surprised.
Inertia = Mass x Velocity, and is conserved. The limo probably weighed at least 3x what your friend’s car did, maybe as much as 10x. Also, if you are still touching the seat you were sitting on when you hit the seat in front of you, you at least haven’t absorbed ALL of that velocity transfer. once you get airborne, you have. Its essentially like everyone in the back got ejected from the car, and pretty much everyone who gets ejected from a car because it stopped and they didn’t, dies.
It’s primarily because the police and firefighter unions are overtly political. Kill the unions and a lot of that ends.
You do realize that a lot of those people were volunteers, right? How many scalps, limbs, and other body parts did you clean off the road this weekend? And how much did you get paid for it?
Well said, Playa
OK, this is silly, but the headline from mini-Puff has me wondering:
“LGBTQ Ohio University Student Senate member receives death threat”
“An LGBTQ Ohio University Student Senate member has received a death threat, and Student Senate leadership believes the threat likely came from another senate member.”
She can only be 1 of those letters. Shouldn’t she be made to claim at least one? Or is she just that fluid ?
If she’s trans, can’t she be both L and G, which would make her B too?
I like to think that T would cancel out the others, as it’s own identity.
But thats me devoting entirely too many synapses to it.
Oh, I bet it came from a Senate member. Not so sure about it coming from another Senate member, though.
Covered above.
The QT threatened the LGB
The first 1:20 of this is awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbvR4CJNQGU
A double-barrel AR-15?
I was reading about the Plantations of Ulster. The English wanted to send to Ireland a bunch of people who would be loyal to English Rule to fill an area that been the most opposed to English Rule until that point. It succeeded admirably (at least in Northern Ireland) but did have some deleterious affects in Ireland and England too. For example it helped kill Classical Liberalism by splitting the Liberal Party over Irish Home Rule. The fate of the Ulster Protestants was the major reason that Irish Home Rule was so divisive. John Bright, the king of Manchester Liberals, beloved by Rothbard, Raico, Richman and Roderick Long was a Liberal Unionist for this reason. He also distrusted the protectionist views of the Home Rulers, oh the irony, and Joseph Chamberlain was a Liberal Unionist as well even more ironically.
And interesting comparing it to modern times. The Democrat’s interest in immigration is getting more voters. The Republican base’s opposition to Mexican illegals owes quite a lot to this. And Trump exploited this. And in Europe quite a few anti-immigrant types are motivated by the importation of voters. Terrorism nd Rape gangs do not help.
Muy caliente!
http://archive.is/wBIA7
Definitely some THICC going on here.
17, 18, 25, 39. Also, nice DSLs on a number of those like 2.
#28 Por Favor
#18. That is all.
I find this very interesting. I’m guessing he doesn’t get along with Mom.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/susan-rices-republican-son-allegedly-physically-assaulted-at-pro-kavanaugh-rally
Stanford College Republicans president
That pic of him is quintessential “college republicans president”.
doesn’t get along with Mom.
She blamed the content of his YouTube channel for the assault.
He looks remarkably like Rowan Martin.
Just finished Goldberg’s newest Remnant podcast (from last week) with Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (“Coddling of the American Mind”). Excellent cross-aisle discussion with some points I hadn’t heard before – or at least in more depth regarding the loss of the childhood emotional/mental growth phase since approx mid-90s. Some good suggestions including pushing more states to pass the Utah Free Range Parenting law, etc.
Moving on to Dennis Miller’s podcast. Slowly adding to my list of free crap to listen to while driving, but for my vacation in a few weeks I’ll probably still pick up another Iain Banks audio-book for the longer drive.
Does Goldberg fancy himself among Remnant, in Albert Jay Nock’s term?
That’s where he got the name for the podcast – or at least something along those lines.
Someone is very proud of slipping this past the editor:
This is in relation to the Ohio Governor race.
I hate both of them. Planning on not voting for either.
I’m right there with you.
Ill likely write-in Vermin Supreme.
Again.
…or Trafficant
Lol
I’d rather have DeWine over Cordray. Corday was the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency unaccountable to the citizens of the US. And he thinks it was a good idea.
If it is not close I will vote for J Sub D and Almanian.
Earlier, someone linked this article.
There’s a really weird line in the article, that struck me:
(in talking about the Senate) Dissatisfaction with this aspect of constitutional design fits in with leftover frustration over the Electoral College in 2016. Together these nonmajoritarian flaws are breeding demands for change.
Nonmajoritarian ?
That seems an odd choice of words. Majoritarianism is a system of government where the majority has no limit on its rights to impose whatever it wants on minorities untrammeled by any sort of minority or individual rights. I’m not saying that isn’t what some of these people are looking for, but it’s odd they come out and say it.
They have no idea what the majority is. Donald Trump didn’t spend a fucking dime in California because he understood the rules of the game.
Meanwhile…. Every single Cal game that I watched from August to early November in 2016 had several dozen Hilary for Prez commercials. She spent tens of millions of dollars on TV advertising in CA.
If anything, Hilary getting the majority vote is another sign of her incompetence.
What amazes me (well, okay, no, because Team Blue histrionics on this issue) is that more Dems don’t acknowledge this. The Atlantic article from right after the election and ‘Shattered’ both go into detail on WHY Hillary spent – her people actually feared she would win the electoral college but not get the vote tally, so they deliberately overspent in safe states to boost her totals. This while ignoring the DNC ground staff who knew she was losing midwest states and had the calls for money ignored. No one who was in her campaign should ever work again, that’s for damn sure, but they will.
But yes, every time an ad for her came on it was like watching money swirl down the drain.
but it’s odd they come out and say it
They have long since removed and destroyed their masks. They want mob-rule because they (wrongly…) assume that the mob will always be on their side. They are dangerously ignorant morons.
Even with a remake they haven’t fixed the typo?
Oh Christ… why?
Well, Yankees lost. The fact that they lost to the Red Sox is gravy to me, but the important point is they lost. Ha ha ha.
Also, I suck at making football picks, but you guys already knew that. If anyone wants to take over, let me know.
Most people picking football games week in and week out with the spread end up at about .500.