If you’re a normal person, this short work week is almost over. If you’re a New York Yankee, its been done for a day and a half. If you’re a Cleveland Indian, it never really got started. But that’s life in the big leagues, son. And with the baseball playoffs on hiatus for a couple days, the NHL did their best to capitalize on the sports-starved people looking for something to watch. How’d they do it? By scheduling a mere three games, of course. Nice work, Bettman. Your idiocy still never ceases to amaze me. Anyway, those winners were: Philly, Washington and Phoenix (who finally won a game!). No other sports of consequence took place.
October 11th is the day the following people came into this world: YMCA founder George Williams, condiment magnate Henry John Heinz, First Lady (for way too long) Eleanor Roosevelt, real estate developer Fred Trump, writer Elmore Leonard, soccer legend (which is an understatement) Sir Bobby Charlton, singer Daryl Hall, guitarist Greg Douglass, drummer Blair Cunningham, actress Joan Cusack, MST3K’s Mike Nelson, Buckeye legend Chris Spielman, actor Luke Perry, comedian Artie Lange, libertarian-is entrepreneur Peter Thiel, actress Michelle Trachtenberg and golfer Michelle Wie.
Its also the day on which an earthquake in Aleppo killed 230,000 people (somebody let Gary Johnson know), Pope Leo X named Henry VIII “defender of the Faith”, roll film for cameras was patented, so was the elevator, the Boers declared war on Great Britain, the Chinese civil war began, Billy Martin was named manager of the Twins, “Saturday Night Live” made its debut, Prince opened for the Rolling Stones (quite the combo), Jimmy Swaggart solicited a prostitute, and Neon Deion Sanders played for the Braves and Falcons on the same day.
Alrighty then. Here are…the links!
Hurricane Michael leaves a wake of destruction in its path. Christ, what an asshole.
Its pretty neat to watch successes. But sometimes its the failures that show man’s greatness. Wow. Whoever designed that deserves a medal.
If you thought the media digging into high-school yearbooks and college accounts of (gasp!) drinking were absurd, well, I’ve got news for you. We’ve almost reached peak idiocy from the media. Same goes for their commenters.
Women are strong, brave, and capable of doing anything a man can do. Well, they are until they need to be painted as delicate victims easily subjected to abuse in order to make political points.
I called this yesterday: the limousine operator who sent the busted-up vehicle on the road that was involved in a crash that killed 20 people, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Um, yeah. I got no snark for this one. I’m sure there will be enough in the comments.
I’m thinking prosecutors might want to reevaluate the charges on this one.
Prosecutors at the time said it was possible the charge could be upgraded to murder in light of Ryan’s death, but aggravated assault by a public servant would carry the same sentencing range and be easier to prove. As of Wednesday, no higher charges had been added, according to Jack Choate, executive director of the Special Prosecution Unit that handles Texas prison criminal cases.
Wait, what the fuck?!?!?!?!
Oh hell yeah! Enjoy the 80s.
Now get out there and have a day as great as that song is.
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…you wouldn’t be here.
Ouch.
Who the fuck are you? Some poor man’s version of Garrison Keillor? Are you saying we are all above normal like the kids in Lake Woebegone?
Nope, not above normal, Abnormal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKATtFRRZEE
Um, yeah. I got no snark for this one. I’m sure there will be enough in the comments.
Maybe there’s a reason some of our traditions from the medieval period haven’t stood the test of time.
Yeah, now they collect litter on foot.
But they still use a metal tipped implement.
OSHA will fix that.
“Master Terafan Greydragon,” will henceforth be known as “Master Perforated Greydragon”
That might be a sticking point with him.
I don’t think he’d mind. We’re obviously not talking about the sharpest guy around.
But he did score a hole in one.
*NARROWS GAZE*
FYI. I knew the man.
Hole-y shit!
Sorry, for making fun of him if he was a decent guy.
It’s OK.
Play stupid games; win stupid prizes.
I am still waiting to hear how it happened. From the WaPo articles, it sounds like no one has figured that out yet.
Based on the description, it sounds like the tip dug in and the back end was pointed at his body instead of through the gap between torso and arm. Momentum did the rest.
I had assumed that he rode into or fell onto the butt end of the spear. But then there is this:
“Something happened with that spear,” Fulton said Wednesday, “and he lost control of it or it turned, hit the ground, and as his horse was moving, the tip of it went into him.”
So somehow he rode into the tip of the spear with the butt end on the ground.
Okay, now I have no idea how that happens.
Did he piss off the Clintons?
Lance snapped in half upon contact with ground, newly-formed pointy end went in person maybe?
I am having a hard time figuring it out. When you ride with a lance the pointy end sticks out and is not towards you. I have a very hard time seeing how that point can get turned around to be pointed towards the rider. I can see how he could have been impaled by the handle end, in theory at least, but rotating a 7 foot pole 180 degrees while on horseback and having it end with the tip pointed at the rider would be quite the feat
The point stuck into the ground, but the back end he was holding then gored him when that happened.
Sorry. Now I feel like a dick for making a joke about it.
This is the hobby that get the man in trouble.
http://equestrian.sca-caid.org/activities/tourney-games/pig-sticking
Well, my question has been answered. Looks like the market rout will be before the election.
Fall is the traditional season for market collapse.
October 19, 1987
So, I’ve been expecting this and am not really worried about it, but what are some of the likely scenarios behind this and what should be expected?
Whatever you do, all of your money will be gone.
Oh, okay then. I needed to garden more anyways.
I actually did quite well the last few days because I didn’t invest too much in all these stupid tech stocks everyone had boners for. My oil stocks are rocking though. Yeah, I am evil.
I don’t know what the fund managers put my money in. So I’m betting they picked the worst possible, so I’ll be losing money this quarter.
This could get very ugly, very quickly.
The bond market is in bad shape and stocks are way overvalued. From a technical standpoint, it’s looking like 1978.
Thankfully, I don’t need the money I’ve got in the market now. And if it stays like this for 20+ years, we’re all fucked anyways.
At a minimum, you may want to get into cash. Making money is less important than avoiding the loss of money.
I was thinking about shifting some of my monthly savings from cash to investments (right now it’s at a 50/50 split), I may hold off on that and build up a bigger cash pile first. I’m somewhat interested to see how my algorithmic accounts are going to start rebalancing here in the next couple of weeks if this keeps up.
Hold off for another week or two, then scoop up the bargains.
That’s the other option. It’s really a question of how risk tolerant I am. I’m going to stick at the minimum 50/50 split, so regardless, I’ll be invested.
Every two weeks when my 401k gets an the next bit, I wish for a market crash so I can buy low, but every other day I want to see my value shooting up. Cognitive dissonance that I can’t fight.
Well, I’ve got a towel and “Don’t Panic” written down so I’m set.
“Hey you, sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is!”
We all might need a round of Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters?
+1 slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick.
The valuations are above where they usually are when a big correction hits. Too bad nobody cares about the debt nowadays. Next round of bailouts and a plunge below the zero bound coming soon?
With bond prices collapsing, I don’t know if they can keep interest rates down anymore.
That means you’re predicting a dollar collapse then. How many rats are going to stay on a ship that is leaking like that?
If you’re asking how far this goes, I don’t know. The dollar is the best looking turd in the punchbowl of currencies, so there is a limit. China is the problem. Trump was correct in his assessment of whether or not China would be susceptible to hardball tactics, problem is if he precipitates a crash of their economy (which may have been unavoidable anyway).
It’s beyond my paygrade, I’m just making short term bets anyway. Long term bets are a losing game these days.
“problem is if he precipitates a crash of their economy (which may have been unavoidable anyway)”
Indeed unavoidable. It was obvious for a decade now that the Chinese were inflating their numbers using stupid Keynesian “investments” by government. Shit, they got whole cities built during this “growth” period sitting empty in a country where close to a billion people still live at 19th century standards. And the corruption is massive. As is always the case with collectivist systems, the powerful are stinking rich. But the middle class they grew in the last decade – some 350 million people – is about to get stomped on, and these people are not going to be happy about that. There is a reason that the communist ruling party has gotten far more aggressive in the last few years about their expansionist plans, and it is that they are seeing the writing on the wall.
”middle class is about to get stomped on,”
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As interest rates rise, that debt becomes a problem. But who could have seen that coming?
That’s what I’m saying. Either surrender the bond market or surrender the dollar. Maybe it’ll be both. I have no idea.
The tax-and-spenders kept the economy in anemic mode on purpose, because a growing economy meant rising interest rates, which would quickly make the US debt servicing part of the yearly budget the largest expense, dwarfing everything else, and cripple their ability to keep “borrowing/printing” money.
That debt matters, but nobody wants to admit that we will have to cut a shitton of spending to fix it.
Heaven forfend interest rates go back to something normal.
People might have to pay 8% mortgage rates!
When I got my first mortgage, it was something like 8.125%. A few years later I refied to 7.25% and thought I had got it done at the absolute bottom, no way were rates going lower than that.
But I like my 3.5% fixed rate
I wouldn’t mind paying that kind of mortgage rate if my bank was paying me a 6% rate or better on my savings.
Thats the reason to have a fixed rate. If it goes back up to 8% and you don’t plan on moving, it doesn’t matter.
Oh wait, you are planning on moving. Nevermind.
It’s way overdue, the problem is that most corporations have shit balance sheets and higher interest rates are going to kill them.
One of my national competitors:
URI – $9B in debt, $120M cash, $120M in quarterly interest expense, quarterly gross income of $360M on sales of $1.9B
And that’s before a $2B acquisition they made last month.
It’s not going to take much of a decrease in sales or increase in interest rates to upset that apple cart.
I have a variable mortgage now. The rising interest rates have me concerned, but it looks like I’ll spend more on refinancing costs than in increased interest. My mortgage has rate caps, both yearly increases and total, that provide a great deal of protection.
I have a stupid question…if the market does go through a signficant correction, could that actually be a boon to a young guy like me who is really just starting to build his portfolio? Wife and I have IRAs and a TSP, and we do save, but I’ve held back anticipating a market correction. Wondering if that might work out for me or if I’m totally fucked either way. Sorry if I sound stupid…
Well, I would say you are being smart about the first part of “Buy Low, Sell High”.
Some assets will be way over priced and the correction has to hit them. Real estate is going to get hit again some day. Is this the one, I don’t know because I don’t know what silliness in fiscal or monetary policy is coming.
Interest rates will immediately kill real estate prices. People buy based on how much they can afford a month, not on how much the total cost is.
At 30 yrs, 8.5% costs about 800 per $100K, vice current rates of under 400 per $100K.
Bottom line, real estate drops by 50% until inflation makes dollars worth less.
This isn’t going to go over well on a libertarian board, but if your investments are guaranteed by the government gun, you’re probably safe.
Facts are facts, whether we like them or not. Government guarantees are great until they decide to take them away, and then you’re fucked. Eventually, everyone gets fucked.
I’m expecting that too, so we have contingencies.
“Eventually, everyone gets fucked.”
Incell’s get excited.
Unless you’re shorting (or investing in inverse ETFs) stay out for the moment. But your inclination is correct. Wait for a better buying opportunity and do your research. Personally, I don’t stay long on anything anymore.
Wife and I have IRAs and my TSP set for different target dates, we just have been doing very minimal contributions. I am not smart enough on it to be making stock picks.
Index funds are my general recommendation unless you have the time to due better.
And very few full time fund managers can consistently do better than an index fund at the same risk level.
do better. I have no idea what “due better” means.
Hell frickin yes. Keep making purchases. Dollar cost averaging works great thru the down times.
Wait for the market to bottom. Give it a week or two. I think one of the biggest drivers of this decline is companies hoping to do their own stock buyback playing games with the market. If you can find which companies are gobbling up their own stocks buy those. Usually it means they know the stock will be back up soon and they will have made a killing playing that game.
I never try to time the market. If you think you can figure that out, great. But I would rather just buy all the way down and back up and take the average.
Nearly 2 decades ago I made about a 6 figure timing error…I am now a big believer in the following, don’t know who said it, but it is absolutely true:
Bull make money, Bears make money. Hogs lose their money.
is apparently the actual quote, I like that better than what I said.
Robc, that’s kind of been my line of thinking as well. Not trying to time the market, I have just been hanging around you guys long enough that a significant correction is not a surprise for me, so I figured I’ll just wait a bit to go all in. Even if this isn’t the most significant correction, it’ll probably help average everything out. Just my gut instinct, anyways.
My favorite is: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”.
That is why I don’t short. And specifically, didn’t short SCO back when it was the most obvious short play in the history of obviousness. I wanted to short it at $18. It went to $24 before it went to $0. I would have been sweating hard at $24.
I’ve always heard it as pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.
My favorite is: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”.
That should be the TESLA tag line.
I saw this somewhere else
Meet Bob, the world’s worst investor:
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market-timer/
Wait for the correction to bottom out. How will you know? Follow your nose. Or just read Seeking Alpha or investment publications. Or get a broker/IA you can trust.
Don’t worry, over time you will be ahead. Just look up ‘Andex Chart’ and look at th graph. Markets will go up and down but the trend will always forge ahead. Keep saving. Some are big on ‘dollar cost averaging’. Try and get investments that pay dividends too at some point.
There are also products out there that max. growth while protecting capital on the down side. Here they’re called ‘Link notes’ or ‘Boosters. I’ve owned them forever and doing very well with them.
Just be aware one month your investments will show $4000. The next $3932. The next $5001 and so on. Just make sure market value exceeds book value (initial investment).
Oh yeah, I’ve watched it fluctuate hundreds daily sometimes. This is the worst fluctuation, but I wasn’t kidding up above about “Don’t Panic.”
Learning from others’ lessons and reading some history, as you’ve said, makes it much easier to see those fluctuations.
You are young and only putting money into the market for retirement?
IT DOESN’T MATTER
Don’t do anything different. Don’t change strategies. Don’t try to time the market. Just keep plowing you same contributions into the same target date funds or whatever, and don’t worry.
I actually want to thank you guys for how much advice you put out there. It’s amazing how such a diverse group of intellects came together. The best part is the encouragement to keep educating myself, because it broadened my interests to the point where this sort of thing can be dealt with in a calm way while the rest of the world is wailing.
Me talk gud.
There are still a large amount of people who panic on both sides of market swings.
(Market Drops) Oh no! The market is collapsing, I need to get out before I lose too much!
(Market is shooting up) Oh no! The market is hot, I need to get my money into it so I can be rich!
Somehow, these people always wind up doing the worst in the long term. They call this “bad luck”.
I see what you did there…
I call these people “lemmings”.
Is this Obama’s economy or Trump’s?
It’s obviously Trump’s now, just like the bad economy during Obama’s term was W’s.
If you want to get conspiratorial, the big money managers are almost exclusively Democrats. With the markets being in a precarious position, do you think they want a collapse to happen before or after the election?
/tin foil hat off
It’s not like we’ve ever had a semi-orchestrated market collapse weeks before an election before…
Bill Maher approves of your message, Scruffy.
Maher is an ignoramus who pretends to be knowledgable. Just his stupid movie Religulous makes that clear.
But when I saw him scream ’19 indictments’ I knew for sure he was an ignoramus for anyone with a shred of understanding of basic law would know an indictment means shit and that in this case it was all politicized nonsense.
So it’s not surprising, being an ignoramus, he’d not understand how to read economics. He’ll just go with the standard Democrat line.
Because he’s a smug ignoramus.
Want to prove me wrong? Get off your comfy chair and go debate someone on THEIR show pal. Shapiro had balls. Let’s see yours.
Rufus, I was pointing out that Maher on his show actually had said he was hoping the economy imploded so it would hurt Trump.
I know and remember that. He’s a jerk on top of that.
What does he care how poor people suffer, right?
That was exactly my point. These people will fuck over the plebes they claim to so care about in a heartbeat if it is politically expedient.
I can’t stand that new narrative.
It’s pretty clear it’s Trump’s economy. The break in the trends make that clear. One thing they say is the economy was already ‘expanding’ under Obama. However, I see no evidence of that and if someone can enlighten please do so.
The only significant policy, unless someone can correct me, Obama passed was the Recovery Act to mixed results. Even by their own admission it didn’t achieve what they expected. Shovel ready wasn’t shovel ready remember? And recall when the economic illiterate prog said everyone should get used to low GDP growth. Doesn’t sound like someone who was confident or knew what he was doing. But all of a sudden he’s out there saying ‘I did that’? What a…./grrrrooowl.
Neither.
The boomlet we have been in was initiated ~26 years ago during the term of George Bush Sr but even he doesn’t get the credit/blame.
Most of that falls on Alan Greenspan although Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr do share a bit of the blame.
In 1991 the economy was in a pretty serious recession and to fight it they cut interest rates. Not a little, they cut them in half. As the economy improved however for political reasons they were very slow to raise them leading to the dot com boom and subsequent crash (this is where Clinton takes some blame). With the Dot Com Crash, which was significantly worse of a recession than the early 90’s recession they again cut interest rates in half and the Bush Jr administration enacted policies to intentionally inflate a housing bubble (Bush’s blame). When that crashed the Fed cut rates down below 0 for a while and they have never been allowed to rise above the rates enacted to create the housing bubble leading to the current boomlet we have been in which is on the verge of crashing again.
By the time Obama took office there really wasn’t much a President could do to stop the cycle, we had been on a 16 year period of inflationary monetary and fiscal policy designed to prop up the value of a ton of bad debts and prevent a really serious recession at a minimum. Now we are up to 26 years of said policies and there really isn’t anything Trump can do to stop a trend that long. He could accelerate or decelerate the timing of the crash some, and he has likely accelerated it because some of his policies would have created a growth boom had the economy been fundamentally healthy, however as sick and clogged with inflationary illusions of value everywhere as it is all he was doing is accelerating the boom and therefore the bust. There is however no way he could fix it as doing that means triggering an actual depression at this point.
There are at least a few trillion in bad/overvalued assets floating around out there and that illusory value needs to be destroyed before we can have a healthy economy again
Thanks for reminding me I need a haircut this weekend.
Haircut 100!!
I linked one of theirs at TOS and Crusty claimed his gender flipped from watching it.
Good morning, Sloop!
Pretty sure it was this one.
What’s the opposite gender from asshole?
Dickhead?
I take your Haircut 100 and raise you a Foreskin 500. Bad band, but love the name.
“aggravated assault by a public servant would carry the same sentencing range and be easier to prove”
Ummm…. So is the sentencing for aggravated assault harsher for public servant’s,or is murder lenient on public servant’s?
Yes.
you’d expect the author of the article to mention the potential sentence for either or both charges, but apparently that isn’t pertinent information.
Journalisming is hard!
but isn’t that why we have elite institutions such as Columbia to make sure the right people get trained the right way to do the job properly?
“I’ve seen the systematic disinvestment in public education,” Mahlberg, a psychology teacher who had never run for office before, told the audience. “I think we can do better than that, and we can start doing better than that by simply making sure that formula increases over time.”
She smiled and turned to her left, awaiting the next question.
He should have slapped her.
“bitch, please”
Word salads have far more power with the indoctrinated minds of today than they used to back in the day when the education establishment actually thought people to think.
They made it sound like she was supposed to give him the microphone. I won’t say he was justified, it was very rude when a polite reminder would have sufficed, but I’d probably have some frayed nerves dealing with a televised debate too.
” formula increases over time”
What the hell is that supposed to mean? We increase spending levels on education indefinitely? I love how ow “The Party of Science” is the party always putting forth mythical economic plans.
mystical
It’s all a scam. I remember the people in my town voting bill after bill down because the board kept telling us they had made “drastic cuts” in the bloated education budget when all they did was reduce the built in yearly increase. They were furious that the town refused to pass the budget until they actually cut out 5% of the budget for real. You should have heard the wailing and accusations by the usual marxist because the proles that felt over taxed and pissed they were getting so little return for their money had stood up for them. That the people paying for it demanded that the school – which had 5 superintendents, each making over $160K a year and none of them working for more than the equivalent of 3 months out of the year (any random 3 of them were always away on some town tax payer funded education or other conference) – cut three of them from the budget at a minimum, was fought tooth & nail by the establishmentarians.
The commies had the gall to tell the people objecting to this travesty that they were committing the equivalent of murder, because this demand to cut spending denied the students a good education, of all things. Of course, the fact that the asshats putting the budget together tried to use the same tactics used by your usual proggie municipalities when the voters say enough is enough – they cut the essential services, hoping people then will cave – and kept cutting teachers instead of these fucking superintendents freeloading, was not missed, and we didn’t cave. But it took a lot of educating for some of the people that believe the proggie propaganda to wise up.
Yeah, real, inflation-adjusted spending on education has tripled since the 1970s, with no change in academic achievement and outcomes.
So clearly money is the answer.
Well, it’s because there’s so many regulations, so we just need to increase spending until it covers the cost of regulations, and then keep increasing it as regulations keep getting created. We can’t cut regulations because then children will die, therefore, we must increase spending forever because otherwise children will die faster than they’re born and Americans will go extinct. Then we can’t prop up third world countries’ economies in order to subsidize their green energy to prevent global warming and then they’ll all die too, along with everything else on the planet.
So we can’t cut school spending.
*scribbles on napkin*
Shit, it checks out.
That’s a valid point. One again “The Party Of Science” goes around stating blatantly false taking points. You say money has been taken away from education? Show me.
“100% + 15% – 5%, THE MINUS IS RIGHT IN THERE, DONT YOU EVEN ARITHMATIC BROH?!”
If you’re a New York Yankee, its been done for a day and a half.
As a Yankee fan, all I can say is, Go ‘Stros!
I am very well fucked. I hate the American League. Hate it. Red Sox have long ago gone into Asshole Territory and I don’t want Houston to repeat. However, nothing personal against the ‘Stros.
But. NL ain’t helping me. I really hate LA. Bad blood from 2007-2008. They can go fuck themselves.
But. Milwaukee. They are by far my “favorite” team of those remaining, and I actually REALLY like Craig Counsell. But they beat my boys. I don’t think I can stomach rooting for the team that swept us under the rug. (Cubs didn’t play poorly down the stretch, but the Brewers played on fire. They’ve certainly earned it…but that doesn’t mean that I have to like it.)
Literally going to have to just root for the best game possible. Give me mostly low-and-tight contests and a few token slugfests.
Take me out to the ballgame. Sigh.
So now I will root for Milwaukee to beat Houston in the WS.
Ah. A grudge-root. It appears that the Cubs yanked a bit too hard on your Chief Wahoo.
That’s a shame.
*blink*
Do Yankees fans even know how to use a Wahoo?
I’m grudgingly hoping the Astros win, if they keep up the sweeps it’ll ease the pain a bit.
At this point, grudge-rooting is all I’ve got. I want Boston to not make it to the WS, and I want Houston to not repeat as champs. Since I’m a Yankee fan I also dislike the Dodgers, so this is the best I can hope for.
AH. Nephilium’s point makes more sense. I just assumed that when I said I was a Cubs fan and the Indians got eliminated that you had to root for them out of spite.
Honestly—they are the best story of the year. Not a legacy team and aren’t going for a repeat. Small market. History of being overshadowed by the rest of the division. Played their asses off to get here and upset Chicago. I get the argument of being beat by the WS winner, but that’s hard right now. I might be forced to go for them as well.
I love Craig Counsell. He wasn’t a talented player but he was smart and did all the little things to help his team win. Gotta respect a guy who can stay valuable in the game despite being a .220 hitter. He also has that miracle gene where he simply doesn’t age. He’s pushing 50 and he still looks like a teenager.
The key thing is for Houston to beat the living shit out of the Sawx. After that happens, I don’t care.
I, for one, and thoroughly enjoying the “Hot Asians Playing Baseball” suite.
Mmmmmmmmm. Yummers.
I’m beginning to suspect they’re not being chosen to play strictly for their baseball skills.
They can play with my bat and balls any day.
You gotta admit though, this is hella impressive.
I can do that but I don’t wanna. Her on the other hand, I could probably do until world records are set.
I could try to do that but it would probably put me in the hospital.
I could probably do until world records are set.
World’s fastest sex act?
Seconded. She can love me.. Erm, I mean play with me long time….
I think this could go into extra innings.
Nods in agreement.
‘Pope Leo X named Henry VIII “defender of the Faith”’
I guess we can chalk that up to “you can’t get them right all the time.”
Yes he can, he’s the pope and therefore infallible. It says so right there on the hat
What kind of idiot voluntarily gets into a Russian-built space shuttle?
I imagine a lot of Americans, ever since the American shuttle program was cancelled.
Laika?
The same type of people who go against Sicilians when death is on the line and get involved in land wars in Asia.
Genghis Khan? No, wait he didn’t have to deal with Sicilians. The Romans?
The Abbasid Caliphate?
The kind of idiot who thinks he or she can be a 1:250 million astronaut?
Rod Rosenstein Refuses to Turn Over Subpoenaed Memos – Backs Out of Thursday’s Congressional Hearing
That’s the kind of thing that gets people fired in normal jobs.
“That’s the kind of thing
that gets people fired in normal jobsthat Americans have come to expect from their public servant’s at the FBI.Obama’s admin weaponized our government by loading top government agencies with nitwits that valued partisan politics over just sustaining the big bloated bureaucratic machine. This guy is one of those key players.
FIFY
Refusing to comply with a subpoena won’t just get normals fired.
After the election he’s going to be gone, not before.
None of the executive agencies that were ordered by the executive to declassify documents have done so either. According to the judicial branch, both the legislative branch and the executive branch lack authority over the people who work for the executive branch.
Isn’t that something?
Boss says “Do this”…you say “Fuck off boss”…and you still have a job. Doesn’t make much sense really.
Well, once they are declassified and we get to see them, a lot of the stupid narrative since Trump won an election they had rigged for Hillary will not just fall apart, but we will discover how downright corrupt Obama’s tenure was. Lots of people will have serious trouble if that happens, and they are all now just covering for each other.
“None of the executive agencies that were ordered by the executive to declassify documents have done so either. ”
Really? I thought they had. The FBI, CIA and NSA are top three for need to be abolished, and former officers investigated.
I may be behind on that story. They were stonewalling and refusing to comply initially, they may have relented by now.
Trump rescinded the order a couple days after he issued it. Surprisingly that didn’t get much play.
Have the Capitol Police seize Rosenstein at gunpoint, like Elian Gonzalez.
So the surgery went well no pain little bleeding and i can breathe normally. This no nose packing surgery seemn good
Something must have gone wrong.
Excellent!
Here’s to breathing!
Nice
Pie on this day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVLF2gYnTHw
You survived. You’re face look like Conor McGregor’s right now?
Count Orlok, but he can breathe.
So Starbucks has insisted guns have no place in their stores while encouraging homeless vagrants to set up shop. I don’t have much hope that a story like this would cause them to reevaluate their policies.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-facing-charges-after-punching-starbucks-employee-in-attack-thwarted-by-licensed-gun-owner-authorities-say
I’m Ashamed of our shitlordness here in UT. A real femme man would have let that guy beat that female employee and then let him beat him up.
I am told this never happens.
Well yeah, in this case all you really needed to do was throw a hot cup of coffee in the attacker’s face. That would have subdued him without using the g-word.
Gengis Khan? Gravitas? Gyroscope?
Gumption.
You call yourself a writer.
*pfft* Gumption gets you tossed out on your glutes.
Gynecology?
Gangsta!
+1 Lee Marvin and Gloria Grahame
A civilian-involved shooting, in which the civilian’s gun discharged.
You think it’s bad now, but wait until the police start going to Starbucks.
South Park punted on Kavanaugh last night, spending much more time making fun of Ambien use causing racist and offensive tweets, and PC babies (“PC babies sometimes don’t even know why they’re crying.”). Ending in a mild dig on the Simpsons.
They should do a mild dig on themselves-they ain’t what they used to be (which The Simpson’s also did first).
The entire ad campaign for the season has been #cancelsouthpark.
That’s actually kind of good. If I remember correctly they were seriously considering ending it several years ago.
They should have…
I barely remember the Roseanne tweets and I’m old. Not so timely, are they.
I hate baseball (sue me!), but I love voluptuous Asians. Carry on.
+2
As somebody who has been saying for a long time that interest rates are too low, I won’t let myself get outraged about them going up. I don’t like those parentheses on the brokerage statement, though.
Yeah, but good luck finding a non-Jewish money manager.
South Park punted on Kavanaugh last night
That show’s still on?
It’s not as great as older seasons, but it’s still hilarious.
I think Matt and Trey may want out though and they’re scared Comedy Central might replace them and keep the show going, hence this season’s motto/theme/hashtag being #CancelSouthPark.
I think the same thing. My guess is somewhere in their contract there’s a clause that if they quit, Comedy Central gets the rights to the show. If they get cancelled, they keep it. So my guess is they’re going to push as far as they can, and they already know mocking proggies gets a bigger reaction than socons.
Yep, and all of the proggy review sites were up in arms over the last couple of weeks, hoping this week would be South Park DESTROYING the Kavanaugh hearings.
The Kavanaugh hearings were already peak Kavanaugh hearings.
The Seemingly Harmless Phrase All Husbands Need to Stop Saying
Yeah, I’ll actually agree with that to an extent. That’s a really good way to turn an argument up to 11, not just with your spouse, but with anyone who is actually acting that way.
More news you would already knew if you were married, at 10:00
my wife and i both use “don’t be silly” as a joke response to the other person saying something obviously true but not what you want to hear. does this mean i need to stop?
And here I thought “calm down” was the deadly phrase.
Yes. That’s a good way to piss her right off.
Also, “what the fuck are you talking about?”
When women want to argue everything will piss them off.
And yet, I never learn.
I’ll point out that it seems odd to single out husband’s. Unless they are saying that only women are too sensitive…
When women criticize and demean their husbands, they are being empowered and standing up to the Patriarchy.
Lol. Where are all these wilting violets? My wife frequently tell me to “stop being such an asshole” (it’s a fair cop).
Respect doesn’t have to be touchy-feely bullshit. If you’re in for the long haul, you better cut each other a lot of slack.
Right! Yesterday as my wife was leaving for work, I told her I hope she has a great day. She responded with “I hope you don’t choke on a mouthful of cocks.”
2nd Trimester makes her a little spirited.
Go with roast beef instead of chicken.
She’s just looking out for you.
LOL
I think you may be remembering wrong.
Sounds like you are about to get the “Look what the fuck you did to me” fight soon.
Did you give a wink and a “you, too.”
What, exactly, do you do for work?
https://youtu.be/XF2ayWcJfxo?t=70
But when I say those things, I am rejecting and invalidating my partner’s feelings.
Ok “bitch quit trippin”
Just call her a cunt and get it overwith.
Use the flashy thing from MIB.
But….sometimes she IS being ridiculous.
What do you mean, ‘sometimes’?
invalidate your partner’s feelings
If I feel that your feelings are invalid, do my feelings not deserve validation?
But it’s A-OK for wives to nag their husbands and do the passive/aggressive thing.
Newsflash: Sometimes feelings NEED to be invalidated
I usually just turn it around and say “I have no idea what you are saying.”
Wait, “diffuse”? So spread the situation all over? Sounds about right.
Between Trump being president and McCain dying,something has made Lindsay Graham
great againacceptable for once.“I would say that if you think what happened to Brett Kavanaugh was civil, we have a definite different view of what civil means. Civil means that you do not destroy a good man because you want power. You don’t hide the evidence and ambush him, you don’t turn to the [Michael] Avenattis of the world and allow accusations completely unfounded. You tell Dr. Ford, ‘Hey we would go to California,’” Graham stated.
He continued, “So, you know, Michelle Obama said ‘when they go low, we go high.’ Here’s my view of the Democratic Party regarding Kavanaugh — going low is a step up for you. You are in the gutter in terms of the Democratic Party’s approach to Kavanaugh.”
Burn.
Shots fired.
The thing with Graham is that he’s been a part of the club for a very long time, and there used to be certain rules and privileges that went along with it. The senate in particular has always fancied itself a high-minded check on the rowdy rabble-filled house of representatives and the cretins it represents. Decorum and collegiality were part of the deal. He’s dutifully held up his end of the bargain dick sucking every Democrat in the senate at one point or another in order to grease the legislative skids and keep the cogs turning. Now he feels like he’s been backstabbed because the rules of the club have been tossed out the window and he’s pissed right the fuck off that he’s not getting the expected reach around now that it’s his turn in charge.
That’s how I take it. It is still fun to watch.
Bingo. If you watch his entire part of the Kavanaugh hearing, that bit really comes through strongly. While he was ranting about how disgraceful the Dems’ actions were, he threw in a comment about “people who I thought were my friends”. They hurt his feelings because everyone was supposed to be pals. All the better than he’s had his eyes opened, but it’s not like he’s exactly standing on principle here.
To be fair, that’s how the Founders originally envisioned it.
Lindsey Graham – Stayin Alive!
that grin.. damn i’m starting to like him. YOU BASATARD
LOL
This one is my favorite.
“The New York Times effect on man.”
Also, he gets into a fucking Range Rover.
OT: Tomorrow loyal sidekick Rat and I are off to the Bosque del Oso to do battle with antlered ungulates. Reports to follow on our return.
The bloodwind calls! It’s time to hunt.
Good luck!
Wishing you much success! Perhaps we might expect a write-up of your adventures?
I’d say that’s more than likely.
Animal wrote:”…do battle with antlered ungulates”
Wait, the muleys shoot back?
Why do you think we need assault weapons for hunting?
No, but when you hunt the elk, the grizzlies hunt you.
Where was his dang rifle? Ugh.
Already? Our season doesnt open until mid-november. We get squirrel season the first weekend of october, that’s it.
Our big-game seasons are pretty much wrapped up by mid-November. Partly because a lot of the high country can be inaccessible by then.
In TN we start ‘early’ cause there are so many varmints to be harvested. You could feed the entire state from the meat walking in everyone’s yard.
Trying to diffuse the situation, you turn to them and say “You’re so sensitive.” Those three little words are offensive and, if not monitored, can be toxic to a relationship.
Next time, try, “SNAP OUT OF IT!” and see where that gets you.
“You’re being irrational” is also a good one to try.
I usually go with “Bag the fuck back”
do battle with antlered ungulates.
Don’t shoot them when they’re downhill from the truck.
EU pushes for new tax on tech giants ‘by Christmas’
I have no love of “tech giants” but they are proposing a Bill of attainder.
Because they are not bound by the US Constitution.
I know. And I will certainly not be reading the EU Constitution to see if it’s legal there. But if they can do this, they can destroy anyone they want.
Guessing from past experience, but I dobut the EU has many constraints built into it’s founding documents.
Although I’m not sure how they enforce it on American companies, based in America.
They have sales and presence in the EU. It’s enough.
I’m sure CA taxacrats are taking notes.
I didn’t know that the EU had taxation powers. I thought that was all left to the member countries.
Not long ago, Trump was talking about interest rates, and he said something along the lines of, “Low rates are great because you can pay down your debt and get ready for the next round of [whatever].”
That makes perfect sense, and not just from the standpoint of a real estate mogul. Unfortunately, discounting your “rents” and reducing cash flow (not to mention not cutting expenses) makes that pretty much impossible. And if you can’t fire your team of CFOs (all 535 of them) you’re fucked.
So the surgery went well no pain little bleeding and i can breathe normally. This no nose packing surgery seemn good
Glad to hear it. Now, get out there and do some lines off a teenaged hooker’s ass to celebrate.
The storm came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson wind scale, the biggest storm on record to strike by Florida Panhandle. Its sustained winds were just 2 mph (3.2 kph) shy of an extremely rare Category 5.
This wouldn’t happen if we had commonsense climate control.
I do find it interesting that it strengthened as it was making landfall, though. We are supposed to get the remnants today. It is still tropical storm strength, but I suspect our main thing will be rain.
Actually, after looking at the local weather, they have me in a moderate risk zone for high winds (sustained 25-35mph and gusts 50-60mph) with up to 6-7 inches of rain. Should make for a fun evening /night.
It’s pretty gusty here. I got blown into the other lane on my way to work.
Riiiiiight. Lets see how well you can walk a straight line.
“Its pretty neat to watch successes. But sometimes its the failures that show man’s greatness. Wow. Whoever designed that deserves a medal.”
American Nick Hague and Russian Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to carry out a ‘ballistic re-entry’ to get back
Aleksey Ovchinin sounds like the name of a starting forward for a hockey team.
I’ve heard about them, but I’ve never seen an actual QAnon believer in the wild until now. Somebody posted in response to something my wife said about Trump:
I’ve heard of QAnon, but don’t know what it is. What’s the quick version?
tl;dr version is that there’s a guy who totally ins’t a 4chan troll who calls himself Q, who says there’s a gigantic overarching pedophile conspiracy amongst pretty much everyone in Hollywood and everyone in Washington except for Trump, and that the “deep state” is all these people trying to keep this silent, and Q is an insider, and that everything Trump is doing is secretly leading to destroying this gigantic conspiracy and throwing everyone into prison (usually a military prison for some reason).
It’s big enough that there’s even a Wiki page on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
Oh, of course….
I love it, that is wonderful.
I do kind of have a beef with them wrapping the Seth Rich incident into it though. Sure, there are a lot of conspiracy trolls that have taken that incident and turned it into a nonsense conspiracy clusterfuck. However, it remains extremely shady to me and the fact that it’s been buried/relegated to conspiracy theory is disappointing.
No mention of chemicals turning the frogs gay. Obviously that person doesn’t know what they are talking about.
Similar experience here. A person I once considered rational has been posting flat Earther stuff lately. I thought at first maybe he was joking, but it looks like he is serious.
“flat Earther”
Well *that’s* not a conspiracy, that’s totes real.
Gotdamn, that is some tasty crazy. Yummy.
Oh man….the other day, we invited a girl who is friends with our daughter and her dad for dinner. Now, I like this guy. He’s funny, he knows how to do all kinds of random shit and has been very willing to use those skills to help up out with things like replacing our bathroom sink and repairing our shed door, I’ve gone shooting with him, and his daughter is a wonderful little girl who is a great friend to my daughter. Now, he’s always been a bit out there politically, was on the Trump train from the very beginning, but that’s not that crazy. The other night, though, he went on a extended rant about QAnon and those supposed sealed indictments and it was all I could do not to burst out laughing. Just 100% pure lunacy. I knew he was a little nutty but I didn’t think he would completely buy into that stuff. Still a good guy, but it’s going to be weird the next time I see him.
Secondhand Storm Report. MiL is well, but without power. Talked to several others in Tallahassee that got about what I got last year (downed limbs and trees, no house damage). One guy said him mom’s house up in Central GA got tore up, but she was okay. My folks are going up to check on their beach place which is about 20 miles east of where the center made landfall. They are checking today to make sure there are roads to get there. The coastal highway (98) looks like it got torn up in a bunch of spots between their place and St. Marks (due south of Tallahassee, and about where it goes inland 10-15 miles before turning south). We’ll see what’s left once they get down there.
Glad everyone is safe.
Why don’t your people a) work and b) move to good weather places…like Montreal?
a) it’s raining and business is slow
b) poutine
Half the damn population of Quebec won’t stop invading us every winter and you want us to go up there? Can you at least keep your own people there instead?
Actually, I’m kidding. I love snowbirds. It’s because of them and all the tourists that I don’t have to pay any state income tax.
What was great about living right at the Florida-Alabama state line was not paying income tax in Florida and being able to drive over to Bama and not have to pay FL’s high gas taxes, either.
Move eight million Anglos up there and pass laws to eliminate the use of the French language in Quebec.
A) Too much work.
B) Frogs who get uppity when you speak english at them.
“Bonjour-Hi!”
Thot Thursday is upon us!
http://archive.is/ptkMZ
A few repeats in here but they’re all awesome.
Q! I have come across what should be your rockabilly theme song:
80085 – Hillbilly Casino
LOL I like.
The Internet Bill of Rights is just one piece of our moral obligations
Yeah, no
From the sound of it, this congressman doesn’t understand the purpose of the Bill of Rights.
Wait, since when can Bajorans serve in Congress?
Since that Kardasian Schumer and that Ferengi Waters were allowed in?
I mentioned this last night when the Miller story came up, but I’m going to mention it again.
Miller must have really been an asshole in 3rd grade because the kid who sat next to him also wrote a story about him back in June.
A classmate and your teacher from 3rd grade both write some dirt about you? That stinks of collusion big time.
It’s pretty sickening when you think about it.
When they go low you go high!
Progressives are the worst. The absolute worst kind of hypocrites.
Imagine if Fox went after Dems and their elementary school past.
You don’t have to go that far into their past to find downright criminal shit, yet it will immediately be ignored or called as untruth by the dnc operatives with bylines.
I have it on very good authority that for *at least* the first year of life, he was so disgusting that he routinely shit his pants. Is *that* the kind of leadership we need in this country?
Leadership? I think I’m sort of dialed into things, but I have no idea who this guy is or what he has done to rile up the Left.
That’s because he’s the true (((leader))) pulling the strings on Trump’s marionette. You’re not meant to know. He’s on a crusade with QAnon to finally crush the Deep State and usher in the 4th Reich.
It’s Sandra Fluke all over again
Buy your own pills.
While I support Notre Dame and any other institution’s right to not provide whatever services and coverage they want, it’s kind of funny to see them become staunchly Catholic on this issue when their university is a fucking cesspool of Marxist postmodernist bullshit, indistinguishable from their secular counterparts.
Yup. Cafeteria Catholicism writ large.
This again?
Honestly, go buy your own damn pills for real.
“They’re all about doing the right thing and making sure that everybody has a place … and feels comfortable. And then they’re like, ‘Well, except for this.’”
Yup. That’s fucken right. Don’t like it? There’s a nice little liberal college down the street.
Why must they literally make a Federal issue over everything?
Because it’s not enough to get their way – they have to dominate and humble their enemies.
KDW agrees, and explains why literally everything must be made a federal issue: it’s because the federal courts are, or were, their surest gambit for getting what they want.
Heh, I was just too lazy to link it. Tks
For those that didn’t understand the reason the left went so low on Kavanaugh, this is basically it. The court now is no longer reliable to back them on this sort of shit.
F’king ridiculous. As it stands, they’re already dirt cheap. Make them OTC and they’ll be even cheaper.
BUT BUT MENZ GET INSHOORUNS FOR VIAGRUH
Actually… about 95% of the time they don’t. Most insurance companies consider Viagra to be non-essential and will not cover it.
Viagra just lost its 20 year patent and everyone now issues generics.
Also, ED is the body not working as it should. Pregnancy is technically the body working as it should.
“Rivaldi is frustrated by the university’s backdoor dealings”
STEVE SMITH NEVER FRUSTRATED BY A BACKDOOR OR ANY DOOR
“The university’s efforts so far have been unsuccessful in court.”
They only filed one suit and lost in front of Richard “The Bill of Rights Doesn’t Mean What It Says It Means, Because Magic” Posner.
As an aside, my Catholic high school filed their own lawsuit apart from the archdiocese when the suit was first brought. It was the only high school, that I am aware of, that filed its own individual lawsuit. Those Irish Catholics are militant and the Christian Brothers don’t mess around. They play for keeps.
Posner is like Krugabe with a law degree
He use to do a blog with Gary Becker that I use to read. You could watch in real time as he became more unhinged and incoherent as the years passed. Such a garbage jursit
But what should not be neglected is that we as individuals have not just rights but also moral obligations to this public good—the Internet.
I don’t like the sound of that.
My brother in South Carolina is taking care of my dog and the dog has enjoyed the fallen tree limbs from the weather…
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Qgpf9ZH5MPR6uAUE6
Ha! From the back he kind of looks like one of my dogs, a Boxer/Great Pyrenees/hound mix, who also loves sticks and tree limbs. He has been known to tear branches off of ornamental trees in the back yard to play with.
Speaking of impending market corrections:
The Campus Diversity Swarm
Touring a school with Spawn 2, I was grossed out by the young tour guide proudly exclaiming “we have seven diversity offices!”.
“That’s eight too many”
Steer clear of that one.
There’s going to be some serious howls of rage when they’re unemployed.
If parents needed to understand why the cost of these colleges have been out of control and factors higher than inflation, this sort of stupid shit is why.
CSU?
Got it in one. Although in fairness, the soshul justish amenities are played up pretty much everywhere.
They’re trying hard to catch up to CU in the wokeness arena.
“we have seven diversity offices!”
guy from the back of the tour group: “How much does that add to your student debt?”
The thing is, it’s not just a waste of money, it’s actively detrimental to society.
/shitlord off
I have to mixed emotions when I sat through a long lecture by diversity admins at THE U of M when my daughter was going through orientation. On one hand, it was nice to hear about all the cools stuff my little half breed would have access to as part of the MLK Program. On the other hand, I was sort of peeved as a white guy that no one was out recruiting crackers to partake in all this academic goodness.
I thought most of these schools considered Asians to be at least equal to crackers, if not worse, and had policies to fuck with them. Your daughter being both would make her a serious oppressor to them. then again her gender might be what saved her.
That’s just astonishing. That bubble can’t pop fast enough.
Your education dollars at work.
When we dropped off our son at college we attended an orientation for the parents. They put up a slide with their motto which was Diversity. I got a few looks when I muttered “Oh Jesus” under my breath.
*Stands up in the middle of the presentation*
“I will not stand for the bigotry on display at this university!”
It’s not only happening in academia. I’ve been seeing a ton of it in corporate environments as well. In the olden days, these people were known as “grifters”.
OT: vacation day 4. Daily goals: lunch out, buy a gamecocks shirt (because it’s so out of place & somewhat offensive in Michigan), and buy a bit of groceries.
We were supposed to go sea shell hunting but the tour was canceled because of high winds. It’s super windy – gusts of 45mph. So I guess no beach today.
Ain’t that a beach.
“buy a gamecocks shirt”
Excellent vacation euphemism.
What caliber of a rifle do you use when hunting shells?
It depends on the variety.
.458 Win Mag. Them’s some dangerous shells and you don’t want to leave anything to chance.
are you asking what shells you use to hunt shells?
Charleston?
Yes.
I greatly enjoyed that city when we went a couple years ago.
I’ll highly recommend The Ordinary if you need a dinner suggestion. The Macintosh was also very good.
Husk, of course, but if you don’t already have reservations…
Where are you vacationing?
You can’t beat our Cocks!
somewhat offensive in Michigan
You mean ‘completely offensive everywhere.’
Good choice!
Fiske said Miller never had any academic problems other than sloppy handwriting
Hang him.
“Of course, Stephen wasn’t political then — it wasn’t until later that he started to make waves,” she said.
Political leanings develop after the age of 8? *shocked face*
Not gonna lie, Miller does have that creepy nazi appearance. I have limited exposure to him, but having heard him speak, particularly on immigration, he sounded knowledgeable and non-threatening.
So Miller wasn’t one of those woke 8 year olds, huh?
Miller looks a lot like Mike Ehrmantraut in Beverly Hills Cop.
And Mike aged into a real bad ass
Totally not racist. Not at all.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2018/10/11/cnn-segment-calls-kanye-token-negro-attention-whore-and-what-happens-when-negroes-dont-read-n2527459
it’s not racism when the black person supports a Republican president. duh.
The token white guy on the panel widely never opened his mouth.
I would have said something mean like “Democrats haven’t been this mad since Republicans took away their slaves.”
widely / wisely whatever
The eyebrow raise and blinking said it all.
“I was really just kind of in a state of shock,” she later told The Washington Post. “I just wanted to make sure I kept my composure.”
She doesn’t recall feeling any anger or embarrassment. “Just disappointment,” she said. “How would anyone feel being on the receiving end of that disrespectful behavior? Disappointment, for my current representative.”
When Quam finished speaking, he leaned across the table again and offered the microphone back. Mahlberg looked at it briefly but did not take it. When he continued to hold it out, she looked away from him.
I am woman. Hear me roar.
Yeah, but he seems kind of like an ass.
So, the girl I’m dating just declared herself to me to be a Libertarian. She didn’t know what one was until I told her what my Glib swag T was all about. So what, are there like 6 female Libertarians now? And whatever happened to Riven? Haven’t seen her here in awhile.
They’re all really Tulpa.
Unpossible!
I’m in the process of converting my wife. She’s still hung up on a few issues such as government mandating Maternity leave. Which is rather funny considering she is getting 12 weeks at 100% pay from her company. I asked why would they pay her for leave if the government doesn’t require it? Yet to get a response.
What act of sorcery did you do?
It was the Glib propaganda! Gushing thanks to whomever here designed that logo.
I may have to ask you later for tips. Speaking as a rather young and mildly experienced bachelor.
He’s got that _magic_ wand.
Black magic!
Long, narrow, and pointy?
It’s all in how you use your magic wand.
I hope you gave her at least 5 minutes of foreplay as a reward.
You’d like her, Q, IYKWIMAITTYD.
I’m far too classy to ask for pics.
But he’s asking for pics.
but only if the pics are numbered and sort-of adhere to a vague theme.
It’s a lie. There are no Female libertarians.
Yeah, righhhht
well, if she’s not Mexican and doesn’t smoke weed, then when all know what she’s saying. *nod and a wink* say no more.
I think you just need to look at Plisade’s etsy store for confirmation.
I just started dating a girl who claims to be libertarian. A couple of her quotes: “taxation is just wrong” and “government is inefficient” She said these things under the assumption I am conservative. Could be a ruse, but I’m willing to find out.
Spoiler: she has a penis.
Fake. News.
So, the girl I’m dating just declared herself to me to be a Libertarian.
So what you’re saying is she has a drug problem?
It’s definitely not a problem 😉
She just likes Mexican Ass Sex.
She also has a penis.
It’s hilarious how much breathless coverage and lefty donations have been flushed down the toilet that is Rob O’Rourke’s campaign. They really thought they had a chance in this one, which is why it’s so funny.
Makes me laugh as much as Bill Nelson’s website saying far right supporters of Rick Scott giving him more money than people donating to Nelson (5-1). This is some funky alternate reality stuff going on down.
Can’t a fake Hispanic candidate catch a break?
My guess is they were working with the media to keep pushing the narrative that it was a toss-up in hopes it would drive more people to the Democrats and keep the Republicans at home.
That does not make sense.
Probably the same people that told us McMuffin was going to carry Utah and Hillary was gonna take Georgia.
Clearly the solution to this is more gun control laws.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-paul-bauer-glock-handgun-20180928-story.html
Dershowitz slams the ACLU
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/alan-dershowitz-aclus-opposition-to-brett-kavanaugh-sounds-its-death-knell
There appears to be a direct correlation between the ACLU’s fundraising and its priorities. When the ACLU’s national political director and former Democratic Party operative Faiz Shakir was asked why the ACLU got involved in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight, he freely admitted, “People have funded us and I think they expect a return.” Its funders applaud the result because many of these mega donors could not care less about genuine civil liberties or due process.
Trump should nominate Dershowitz to the SC next just to hear the howls of rage from the progs.
if only he were 30 years younger. dude’s 80.
many of these mega donors could not care less about genuine civil liberties or due process.
Huh. And neither does the ACLU.
https://spectator.us/2018/10/white-liberalism/
“White Liberalism Is Dying”
In this article, “liberal” is used interchangeably with “progressive”. Daniel McCarthy is always worth a read and this is a good article.
FTA:
“The protests liberals whipped up against Kavanaugh this weekend, on the other hand, revealed too much about their own weakness. Washington, D.C. is a majority Democratic city with a black majority. But the Democratic voters out there yelling about Kavanaugh were as white as any country club gathering of Republicans. They looked like a line of Starbucks patrons — Caucasian, professional, largely millennial, with earth tones and earnest expressions aplenty. Men and women wore the same fashionable glasses and more or less the same clothes. It was a Pumpkin Spice Riot.”
Pumpkin Spice Riot
Can we get dibs on making this a band?
Republicans are all shotgun-toting pickup-driving cousin fuckers and lily-white country club members?
Heh, you should see the country clubs around here. I have no doubt all members are packing shotguns and at least a few are cousin fuckers.
They used to be real nice, but became derelict after all the highly paid executives left town once the factories closed.
I realize it’s their job and so I shouldn’t really be surprised by exemplary craft, but that photo is great. Millennials: reduced to crying because they just can’t even. Gen Z: WTF is wrong with these goofballs?
Soaking in their own emotions is a net good for them. To me, it makes them barbarians.
It looks like they need someone to comfort them. Sounds like a job for Justice Steve Smith.
I’m sure it’s paywalled, but I’ll link it anyway.
The stated goal of the War on Poverty is not just to raise living standards, but also to make America’s poor more self-sufficient and to bring them into the mainstream of the economy. In that effort the war has been an abject failure, increasing dependency and largely severing the bottom fifth of earners from the rewards and responsibilities of work.
In 1965, before funds were appropriated for War on Poverty programs, all five income quintiles had more families in which at least one person worked than families in which the head of household was of prime working age. So broadly based was the work ethic that the lowest income quintile had only 5.4% more families with working-age heads and no one working than did the middle quintile. The lower-middle quintile actually had proportionately fewer families where no one worked than did the middle quintile.
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The massive reduction in material poverty that government transfers have allowed has come at a considerable underappreciated cost. The War on Poverty has increased dependency and failed in its primary effort to bring poor people into the mainstream of America’s economy and communal life. Government programs replaced deprivation with idleness, stifling human flourishing. It happened just as President Franklin Roosevelt said it would: “The lessons of history,” he said in 1935, “show conclusively that continued dependency upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber.”
This just means we need Universal Basic Income.
Stated goals are next to meaningless
My stated life goal is to have a week long orgy with all the Victoria’s Secret Angels.
And some of the retired angels. I’d like to throw Tyra Banks into the mix. Still would
Just a friendly reminder to not stick it in crazy
I’m not greedy – I don’t need all of them. I could content myself with just Alessandra Ambrosio, Miranda Kerr, and Adriana Lima.
Actually the stated goal is to keep a whole bunch of people employed permanently doing nothing of value, which is precisely why the war on poverty will never end if they have a say in it.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
We just need the right man in charge to usher in our UBI utopia.
https://quillette.com/2018/10/06/a-new-kind-of-economy-an-interview-with-andrew-yang/
Anyone who thinks technology displaces workers, in more than just the short run, can be safely ignored.
Unfortunately not everyone will ignore him.
That’s because the “stated goal” of the WOP is exactly the opposite of the actual goal: It is a massive government-funded apartheid maintenance program with the end goal of building a race-based voting block that is entirely dependent on (meager, once they have filtered through the bureaucracy) government handouts. Judging by its ACTUAL goals, it has been wildly successful.
“White Liberalism Is Dying”
Not according to that guy at the Atlantic.
Are you referring to the article in The Atlantic that got everyone huffy because it said:
“Among the general population, a full 80 percent believe that “political correctness is a problem in our country.” Even young people are uncomfortable with it, including 74 percent ages 24 to 29, and 79 percent under age 24. On this particular issue, the woke are in a clear minority across all ages.”
And the kicker:
“Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white. They are nearly twice as likely as the average to make more than $100,000 a year. They are nearly three times as likely to have a postgraduate degree. And while 12 percent of the overall sample in the study is African American, only 3 percent of progressive activists are. With the exception of the small tribe of devoted conservatives, progressive activists are the most racially homogeneous group in the country.”
This info does reassure me. I did visit the states and didn’t see too much of people trying to language police or be “woke” when I went but this helps me out too. All we really get to hear way out here are the loudest voices/headlines as usual.
We shall see. The Faith of Wokeness is in retreat throughout the West. I expect progressives to become ever more violent as their ideas become ever more marginalized. Their violence and intimidation tactics are not a show of strength, but a tell of their impotence.
Nothing more dangerous than a wounded animal.
Nothing more dangerous than religious zealots.
The Chicago Tribune reported in March how the gun — known as a “Baby Glock” for its compact size — made its way from a gun shop near Madison, Wis., to Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago. Now the open and unregulated market that carried it into Chicago has come into sharper focus as federal charges have been filed against Caldwell and a second Wisconsin man, Ron Jones.
WTF?
Damn Winsconsonians, trying to edge in on the rightful business of gun running Hoosiers!
Well everyone knows that outside of Utopias like Chicago, they just hand out guns like party favors. All you have to do is go to the gun vending machine and you can buy yourself a Child Murder Death Machine Assault Clip with the Thing That Goes Up for a pittance.
Automatic rounds sold separately.
This is correct. Way easier to obtain than a book.
Indeed, we issue book licenses and call them Library cards. Almost no one has one because it’s so difficult to get. I’m one of the lucky few with book licenses.
Check your library privilege shitlord! I live outside of a library district, no card for me.
Excellent!
Literacy desert… amazing you even have the ability to read.
Or birth control.
Compared with the rest of the (nationally representative) polling sample, progressive activists are much more likely to be rich, highly educated—and white.
My point, exactly. If not for overprivileged, overeducated, wealthy white people, “progressivism” would be dead.
Well they own the media, the education system, most major metropolises, and the deep state bureaucracy so me thinks their death knell may be premature.
Agreed. However, the more they kowtow to the demands of the Far Left, the more marginalized they become. Whether they like it or not, the majority of the population, Democrat and Republican, still reject Far Left Marxism. They’re trying desperately to change that through the education system, but if they keep overplaying their hand like they are now, it’s weakening their position.
How could I forget pop culture as well. I guess you could include them in the media.
I hope everyone survived the hurricane of the century. Last night’s national NBC News reported that Trump said he needed to be at a campaign rally in Erie, Pa. I heard his conference at the WH: he explicitly said he didn’t want to go to Florida immediately because his entourage would only disrupt the important efforts to deal with the hurricane. Fucking lying (or half truthing) national media. The 8am Today show focused on Michele Obama and her “Day of the Girl” instead of the hurricane. At least they didn’t diss Trump again. Maybe the Kochs should use their billions and buy one of the networks and get it to dispense even-handed reporting instead of the spun shit we get every day and night?
No hurricane, here. Just more snow.
Damn. We had a brief return of summer (temps up in the upper 80’s), and are now settling into the proper fall gloom. Supposed to be in the 50’s and cloudy all through the weekend. Just in time for Cleveland Beer Week, and the return of Cleveland Christmas ales (one taps Friday, one on Saturday, one on Sunday, and GLBC releases theirs on the 25th).
Fall still hasn’t arrived here. Low 80s and 90% humidity for weeks. So over it.
Yup, same here. My daughter had a softball game yesterday evening and I was drenched with sweat just sitting there in the stands for two hours. And it was only 80 degrees! Fuckin’ humidity, man.
Yeah, what is up with the humidity? It’s BS.
Snow here too. Brief respite tomorrow with more on the way this weekend.
Ohio University Student Senate member who claimed to have received death threats arrested for making false alarms
https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2018/10/anna-ayers-student-senate-ohio-university-death-threat
#believeallwomen
A lot of them are desperate to gain the benefits granted by victim status…
Well, she certainly is a victim of her own stupidity.
I do believe I called that one yesterday, although it was pretty much shooting fish in a barrel.
Indeed. The only certainties in life are death, taxes, and anonymous “hate crimes” being hoaxes.
So my IV is out and I can type better.
Overall the surgery was better than expected. On the outside my face looked perfectly normal. You could not tell I had surgery. I felt no pain whatsoever. There is some bleeding but not a lot. I was able to breathe through my nose the whole day although this may go down the next few days as blood clots form part of healing.
The price was 5800 Lei which means nothing to you. Lets say a month and a half of Bucharest after tax median wage. Although it was pricy du to other clinics not having the skill to do this new method.
The good part is that i have my own room with my own bathroom. I got pijamas slippers clean towels everything I need. I did not neet to give any bribes or tips unlike the government system. People were nice and the nurses came quite fast when I rang. None of them is particularly hot though
Glad to hear your surgery went all right. Hope the next few days aren’t rough on you and may your recovery be good, smooth, and chill.
*raises and drinks a glass to your health*
Sorry to hear that.
He really ended the post on a low note.
They came quickly, though. Sounds like a bawdy bunch.
Here, watch this clip of a hot milfy type with a huge rack getting into a pool and feel better.
I was expecting some kind of rickroll, but you came through.
I never kid when it comes to milfs with big cans.
The Curb Your Enthusiasm soundtrack is a bit much.
Nice. She still looks good
I’m happy to hear you’re recovering well. I hope you’re back up and running quickly.
Do you tell the nurses you are so excited to be able to breathe through your nose because now you can eat pussy for hours?
Also thanks all for not wanting me to lose my nose
Enjoy it now before the syphilis gets it.
Also, wouldn’t getting a gold nose like Tycho Brahe be the alpha-monocle move?
I’m sure the rest of us would pause our orphan beatings to doff our top hat to anyone sporting a gold prosthetic nose with built in monocle.
Good deal, hope your back to whipping orphans in no time!
AI is totes sexist.
https://www.standard.co.uk/business/amazon-artificial-intelligence-hiring-computer-says-no-to-all-women-a3958541.html
Are we to believe that it wasn’t already programmed with a bias in favor of women, minorities, et cetera? Uh huh.
If math and sciences are sexist, and computers & the computer languages and code written to create an AI, depend on that stuff, the AI can’t help but end up being a sexist.
Rock-solid logic.
They would say they arrived at that conclusion, not by logic or the use of any reasoned proof, but because of feelings, which, as we all know is the only objective and accurate way for anyone that is woke and knows the truth to arrive to solid and correct conclusions.
That’s hilarious. The machine didn’t spit out the results “HR Professionals” wanted, so it must not have worked right.
Reality is whatever our marxist theory says it should be!
Then clearly reality must be wrong.
Since there is no truth but what we believe it to be, then yes, reality is wrong if it doesn’t agree with what we believe…
/proggie idiots
Of course, the measure of success for the AI, and the way to improve it, is something that I am sure they didn’t do:
Look at how the hires performed. The ones who stay employed, get good performance reviews/raises/promotions, should have their resumes analyzed and compared to the hires that didn’t do as well. That analysis should tell the AI what to look for in resumes.
I believe that’s what they did.
My guess is that they didn’t feed gender into the system at all, just the sections of the resume that related to objective, skills, education & experience, and then their performance history after the fact.
And the system was choosing resumes based on those things and coincidentally not liking the ones submitted by women as much as the ones submitted by men.
BTW, the company is not being stupid. This goes back to the federal government’s suit against Duke Power back in the tail end of the civil rights era – wherein any preemployment test (and running resumes through a computer is a form of test) that has disparate impact is treated as racist.
Something needs to be done to kibosh the ‘Disparate Impact means Discrimination’ bullshit. It’s patently false and must be excised from the jurisprudence.
Discrimination needn’t lead to disparities, as Chinese minority populations prove everywhere they settle. But lefty labor regulators are sure as hell going to get those disparities, even where no discrimination exists (or pre-exists). See the conversation yesterday about questioning criminal records on employment forms, as an example. It’s Robert Conquest’s third law in action.
I am gonna bet that gender was actually taken into account and reality was that males did better (especially if they were looking at actual performance/code quality rather than at only at performance reviews).
I wouldn’t at all be surprised that, even with a modifier preferencing women over men, men still eclipsed women. I’ve seen no numbers attached to reporting on the subject, so it’s anyone’s guess what the rates of preference for male over female applicants actually were. It could be that men enjoyed mere better than not odds of being selected over women, which would comport with expectations if you’re not an egalitarian dead-ender but would indict the system if you are.
But that may lead the AI to more wrongthink. If it becomes self-aware, it may even be *gasp* libertarian.
Friend Computer would no more be Libertarian than it would be Communist. How dare you!
Alpha Complex is completely protected by Friend Computer, who is not a member of any secret society or fringe belief. Just trust that Friend Computer has your best interests in mind, and don’t forget your mandatory daily medication Citizen.
Common sense carbon control
“Exxon sees this as a way to be part of a real emissions reduction strategy — without significantly affecting their bottom line,” said Noah Kaufman, a research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
“It’s a tax on their product, but they could pass most of that tax along to consumers,” Kaufman said.
Americans for Carbon Dividends is advocating a carbon tax policy proposed by former Republican secretaries of state James Baker and George Schultz. The group’s co-chairman is Trent Lott, the former Republican Senate majority leader.
Importantly, the Baker-Schultz carbon tax would be “revenue-neutral,” meaning it would not boost government revenue. Instead, money raised by the tax would flow back to American households through a “carbon dividend” that could total $2,000 a year for a family of four.
I find this completely believable. Sign me up.
It’s fucking infuriating. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Our only hope is that the green taliban are so blinded by their hatred of oil companies that they will reject this surrender and vow to keep fighting.
It’s nothing but trying to deflect attention from the crocodile gobbling up all, in the hopes they are eaten last. What a bunch of fucking pussies.
“And we at CNN totally support corporate lobbying efforts.”
Last fucking time I ever gas up at an Exxon.
Hey, thanks for trying to make your product a lot more expensive to use. I assume the places you actually burn fuel – offshore rigs and shipping tankers – won’t be affected at all by this.
I’m not surprised at all. BP has been pushing this for at least the last 20 years. I know the guy who was internally assigned to lead that effort on Capitol Hill. Of course, anything BP became toxic after Deepwater Horizon.
Florida woman.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/inside-edition/woman-arrested-for-reenacting-039dirty-dancing039-scene-in-liquor-store/1512830488
24??? Hoo boy, it’s obviously been a hard 24 years.
Uppercase penis.
Nice misleading headline. She arresting for “disorderly intoxication”.
Should have practiced orderly intoxication like Brett.
Practice makes perfect.
Might.