Back to the grind for some of you. It feels like its been nonstop for me.I started a new business last week with my brother and a couple other people from the equipment business. Its been hectic as things get underway and its taken me away from my assumed duties here. I apologize for the absence and appreciate everyone who helped bail me out. Hopefully I won’t have to lean on them all the time in the future, but only time will tell. Anyway, my current business will continue but will eventually become an extension of the new company once my partners and I are fully underway. It’ll maintain its own identity, which makes me happy since it has my name in it and I’m a bit arrogant/nostalgic when it comes to things like that. The new company will focus exclusively on heavy equipment and such, which is really our area of expertise. And these guys expect to bring a very large book of business with them. Hopefully it will be as enjoyable and profitable as we are planning for.
Anyway, I half brought it up last week and then wasn’t really around to address. So there you go.
NFL winners yesterday were: Los Angeles (both teams!), New England, Indianapolis, Detroit Rock City, Minnesota, Carolina, Tampa Bay, Houston, Nawlins, Washington and Kansas City absolutely crushed Cincinnati. Not a good weekend for Ohio teams at any level. (And that’s all I’ll say about that debacle on Saturday night.) Not much else really happened. ManUre and Chelsea played to a 2-2 draw as Chelsea scored at the death and Jose Mourinho went berserk as an assistant coach. Otherwise everybody that was supposed to win did. Liverpool are going to struggle with injuries, that seems apparent. And the World Series is set with the Dodgers and Red Sox advancing.
Today’s birthdays of note are: composer Franz Liszt, comedian-extraordinaire Curly Howard, baseball legend Jimmie Foxx, Vietnamese emperor Bảo Đại, actress Joan Fontaine, drug connoisseur Timothy Leary, rocker Leslie West, eccentric actor Jeff Goldblum, drummer Bobby Blotzer, bassist Darryl Jenifer, musician Shaggy, filmmaker Spike Jonze, and funny man alleged comedian Carlos Mencia.
In historical events, Sam Houston was elected first President of the Republic Of Texas, the first transcontinental telegraph line was completed, the first baseball union was formed (fat lot of good it did to get them a five-day work week), Harry Houdini got sucker-punched in the gut, Pretty Boy Floyd was killed by the FBI, Jean-Paul Sartre refused to accept the Nobel Prize, Bobby Orr scored his first NHL goal, John PAUL II was inaugurated as Pope, Reagan decertified the ATC union, and AT&T bought Time Warner.
Well there you go. Now on to…the links!
8 year olds, dude. Seriously, what the fuck were these assholes thinking? If you guessed “we can do whatever we want and never face serious consequences” then you win a prize!
I wonder if Mexico would be ok with what’s going on if those people decided to stop moving north today. Or if the money they are being given suddenly dried up and they decided to stick around. Methinks their tune would change pretty quick. Until then, its a humanitarian crisis the likes of which have never been seen (credit to CNN/MSNBC for that last sentence).
What’s worse than Nazis? Well, nobody. But global warming is as bad, according to an idiot that’s about to become a congressperson. Way to go, New York. You’ve found someone dumber than Sheila Jackson Lee.
Well, if you didn’t think the Kashoggi case could get any weirder, you were wrong. Side note: candidates, officials and media members are being killed in Mexico at a rate of about one a week for the last couple of years and the Washington Post doesn’t give it any coverage. But nobody wants to note the hypocrisy.
Rahm Emanuel is determined to completely fuck up Chicago infrastructure before he leaves office. Oh yeah, and he wants to make it more expensive for commuters at the same time.
The only sad part of this story is the need for the last sentence. If you read it, you’ll know why I say that.
Ands now I present today’s song.
Have a great start to the week, friends. Enjoy the World Series from hell.
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Ratt-n-Roll baby!
+1 Uncle Milton
At least I know this one. Old Man’s music leaves me scratching my head. “Ditzy Gillespie and The Jackets? Never heard of them.”
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WTF, I knew you were kinky, but that’s beyond the pale.
Sorey
tsk-tsk
STEALING MY BIT AND SYMBOLS NOW ARE WE?
I INVENTED THE QUESTION MARK.
You did
Liar! Judge Napolitano invented the question mark!
He might not have invented it, but he did perfect its use.
I thought Dr Evil’s father invented the question mark? And he accused chestnuts of being lazy.
>>Pretty Boy Floyd
Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen.
And as through your life you travel,
Yes, as through your life you roam,
You won’t never see an outlaw
Drive a family from their home.
That’s some serious commie bullshit right there.
>>completely fuck up Chicago infrastructure
We have more and more bike lanes here – at the expense of lanes. A perfectly usable two-lane road is reduced to one, with the addition of bike lanes. Bike lanes that, needless to say, aren’t very popular to use – except for the diehards – for almost half of the year. Winter with its snow, ice, and slush plowed up on the side of the roads makes bicycling just a bit difficult.
bike lane critique
I don’t think bike lanes are a great idea
I feel a certain way about bicyclists because I seem to see the worst of them where I live. Around me, bicyclists very typically will ignore stop signs and traffic lights and weave in and out of traffic, and a fair number will hop up onto the sidewalk if the mood takes them, then pop back down to the street. They tend to switch between vehicle operators and pedestrians depending on what seems to be the most convenient for them at the time. It’s kind of a reflection of the yuppie entitlement that a lot of people in this town seem to have, and it would just be obnoxious if it wasn’t actually dangerous thanks to old, narrow streets and traffic congestion.
Bicyclists should be held strictly liable for any incidents they are involved in.
Some of us cyclists have names for those riders. Assholes.
The only time I go up to the sidewalk is when I need to push a button to cross a street (because my bike’s not triggering the sensor, and there’s no other cars going the same way). The closest to breaking the traffic laws would be what would be called a rolling stop in a car at a stop sign when there’s no other traffic around.
It’s definitely a case of a few bad apples, for sure. The frustrating thing, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, is that bicyclists can get away with a lot because police don’t tend to bother with them, at least in my ‘hood. They’re hard to catch, there aren’t nearly as many of them as there are cars, and very few police are going to jump out of traffic and try to speed down a two-lane avenue to catch a guy on a bike. And there’s also the perception that bikes aren’t really vehicles in the same way as cars, which is completely opposite of everything I understood during the brief period when I rode a bike regularly.
bicyclists very typically
There’s no DNA test for cyclists, no common philosophy, and only the thinnest collective basis. One merely assesses each asshole in turn, same as any other issue in this life, whether he’s on a bike or not.
I’m referring specifically to the sample set of bicyclists who I have personally seen, and among that set the majority have broken traffic laws in my presence. There is nothing inherent to the activity of riding a bicycle that causes the rider to break traffic laws, of course. But, as a driver, driving a large, dangerous machine with little room for error, I have to consider the worst-case scenario. Having personally experienced bicyclists behaving like entitled, oblivious idiots, it’s safer for me to assume that they all are and applaud the exceptions rather than evaluate each on their own merits and hope I don’t get rear-ended when I have to unexpectedly slam on my brakes because it turns out that yes, this one also thinks that rules are things that happen to other people.
To quote the Tweeter in Chief, “I’m sure some of them are good people”, and maybe I’m just seeing the same bad actors each time. Or maybe it’s my specific area. Who knows?
Of course; FWIW, we seldom disagree. But certain ideas creep in.
I feel a certain way about bicyclists
and that gives on to sloppier pronouncements. I’ve read the same guys here assert NAP one day and describe a punchable face the next. In denouncing bike lanes, my notes were quickly met with some tangent akin to “fuck any dude in tight shorts.”
It’s weird to me that the common sentiment is that streets are crowded, but cyclists are entitled fucks, when very question of congestion denotes entitlement. I’m surprised that the standard Glib notion isn’t something like: given public roads, traffic is just a marketplace; a trip by road is a sort of dollar vote, one of the zillions of invisible hands guiding us to balance, optimization, and new competitive opportunity. What’s freer than scooters, cycles, Ubers, and Amish ambling about as best they know how?
Of course, to me, streets are like any other engineered system: full of compromises, unintended consequences, limitations, and unforeseen issues. I know that bigger roads create (attract) traffic the same way that water or electricity in a circuit finds a balance. Knowing this, I cycle the roads less traveled and behave, of course, impeccably….but I will always hear and read that people feel a certain way about me just because I pedal.
but I will always hear and read that people feel a certain way about me just because I pedal.
Don’t feel bad we also hate you when you are coasting.
we also hate you when you are coasting
I think it’s mostly the Louisiana Hot Sauce jersey
Show me any cyclist, ever, not being an asshole and you might have a point.
Just because we both ride bikes doesn’t mean we’re friends.
I saw an asshole skateboarding on Il-72 the other day during rush hour. Speed limit is 45 and shitloads of semis. Fucker caused traffic to back up for over a mile. For a moment I did think about running him over.
Yep. The increase in bike lanes encouraged me to move out of the city and to spend less leisure time there. Doing that increased the tim it took to run errands by 50% at least. If I rode my bike instead of driving, the errands would take 200% more time to run. Only morons think that making commerce take longer has no effect on overall commerce.
Also, seems retarded to raise the gas tax for revenue when he’s done everything he can to discourage automobile use in the city.
“Once Cars Are Banned, The City will come back to life and people will move into the urban core!”
/progic
When Bloomberg didn’t get his congestion pricing tolls he reacted in fit of pique by appointing a velocipede zealot, Janette Sadik-Khan, to head the city DOT. She set to work on her vision and gleefully started eliminating 1 travel lane in each direction of our already crowded roads and installing bike lanes and wide concrete medians. The current Commie Hizzoner has implemented
New York Year ZeroNYC Vision Zero, a large portion of which consisted of lowering the speed limit to 25mph citywide. My inner hoon cries out.Vision Zero – their goal is to push auto/pedestrian deaths to zero, by strangely enough, putting more pedestrians in the streets with cars. It makes no goddam sense at all. It’s almost as if the real goal is to create more opportunities to fine motorists, but that couldn’t be, could it?
That’s textbook Progressivism, and I don’t mean that just as a pejorative, although feel free to take it that way on its merits. “Experts” want society to change in a certain way, i.e. fewer individuals with motor vehicles in the city, and more reliance on public transit, walking, bicycling, and presumably taxis since they hate Uber/Lyft with a burning passion. To achieve that effect, they’re using laws and regulations, but they can’t just pass a law limiting car ownership outright or tax/regulate it out of existence because the PR is horrible. So, instead of making driving more costly or difficult, they make bicycling easier, so to speak. If it happens to come at the cost of drivers, well, maybe they should think about biking instead.
Enh, I think bikes get outsized attention but after decades of putting cars over everything else in a city where half the residents don’t own one, I think some movement in the direction of proportional recognition of how people actually get around is welcome.
In Minneapolis they don’t use concrete barriers, they have poles sticking out of the ground about every six to eight feet or so. They just started putting them in this summer.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2016/01/16/how-frozen-minneapolis-became-biking-mecca/78269374/
Talk about stupid. When the street get slippery this winter, a lot of those poles are gonna get taken out.
Once the enemy EMPs us evil and undeserving shitlords for not accepting the UN line on AGW you people will no longer joke about Emannuel, cause his wokeness will make sure those bike lanes come in handy!
More bike lanes mean more bicyclist injuries, plain and simple. Which means more tort /personal injury lawsuits, as these sort of injuries are usually beyond what Michigan’s no-fault law covers. /went to law school with two people who started PI firms based on bicycle injury.
How’s this for ‘genius’ design – The state decided they were getting too many helpdesk calls for password resets, so they created a self-service password reset site. Then, to prevent bots from brute forcing it to harvest usernames and passwords, they required a recaptcha – which required being authenticated to the proxy to use. So the self-service site is literally only usable from the office if your account doesn’t need its password reset.
That is up there with “We will send out an email to let you know when the email server is up and working again.”
Got told last week that the help desk phone line was for emergencies only and I should email for low-priority issues. My issue – Outlook crashes on start up.
The bodega story: the very opening sentence is kind of bullshit, too:
To me “gunned down” implies the victim was an innocent person.
It would be easy to spin it “got the drop on” or “defended himself from an attack by” if they cared to.
NewWife was watching Law&Order yesterday, and it was nauseating how many times “he owns a gun” was included as part of the ostensibly cogent crime-solving narrative.
Gun ownership should be a crime / prog writers who are protected by men with guns
“Why do you own a gun? Do you want to shoot someone? What kind of a person wants to go around shooting people!?”
What kind of a person wants to go around shooting people!?
Law enforcement.
Yeah but like all people who derive their income from the State they hate the very idea of competition
It’s not even a little bit correct. To gun someone down you have to have distance, the man was literally wrestling on the ground with the robber. It’s painful to read such horseshit.
Watching old Twilight Zone episodes.STEVE SMITH bothers Shatner.>/a>.
SF bothers the link.
Goddammit>/a>
THAT STEVE SMITH COUSIN, SKY SMITH!!
I feel a disturbance in the force, as if a new weekly SMITH post were just born.
Broken link. Let me guess; it takes place in an airplane.
Nick of Time is the superior Shatner Twilight Zone guest appearance.
^ This guy gets it ^
With one caveat. Nightmare at 20,000 led to one of the greatest meta-jokes of all time. Shatner had the role in the original series, when the Twilight Zone movie came out, Lithgow had the same role. Fast forward to the show Third Rock From the Sun. Shatner and Lithgow were both playing aliens sent to earth, Shatner’s character flew out to see Lithgow’s, and commented on the flight, “It was alright, but there was something on the wing of the plane.” Lithgow’s character responded, “The same thing happened to me! But nobody believed it!”
That is pretty good. I wonder how many people watching the show got it.
I was watching Barnaby Jones the other day… and the Shat popped up for an episode.
What? Don’t all streams of refugees fleeing persecution tote the flag of their country along with them?
No, but invaders do.
Soros and his type really believe that organizing an invasion is a political winner? That crap has already gotten his organization expelled from Eastern European countries. I hope Trump wasn’t bluffing when he threatened to end their foreign aid and close the border with the military.
I don’t see how he really closes the border with the military. What are they going to do, start gunning down the “refugees” as they swarm across en masse? Without an effective barrier, the invaders will enter, because there is no way they get stopped by military force.
Well, if you’ve got four soldiers per caravan invader, you can subdue, hog-tie and deport the bulk of them. I recommend deporting them to South Africa.
This is all assuming that they make it past the cartels. I’m sure the drug war is just a front for setting up rouge states between the US and Mexico.
Excellent John-O (assuming you weren’t going for the narrowed gaze there).
In the past, that is exactly how a border was guarded.
The optics would be bad, no matter how much I’m ready to go “Fuck it, just shoot everyone who tries to cross improperly”
Sure, but the political will and tolerance such action no longer exists.
Against an invading military. There is no way to ‘secure’ our southern border, people can always make the onesie twosie crossing.
The caravan is an invading army, not onesies and twosies.
A mob of people an army does not make.
History ways otherwise.
A mob is more effective than a army against us and Europe. An actual column of armed soldiers would be cluster-bombed into oblivion miles from the border. The mob will get housed and three-squares a day while they await their “refugee” hearings. Those that make it through will collect benefits written out of our work for decades.
Whatever y’all want to say to make yourselves feel better about talking about gunning down innocent children and people.
Eh, my perception is the caravan is mostly impoverished, desperate people who are being exploited by wealthy sponsors and liberal groups for political gain.
I don’t feel anything. From my chair, they are an abstract.
Perhaps the issue is that you believe in innocence. The moment they declared “I am going to march into your country whether you like it or not” they initiated agression. Had they come to the embassy and said “may I come to your country please?” rather than burning tires and waving their own flags before setting out on their march, that would be a different matter.
I’d still say ‘no’, but I wouldn’t say ‘shoot them’.
I agree – which is why we need better obstacles and the ability to refuse entry / immediately deport.
I am ok with gunning them down. In fact start shooting as far as u can with a .50 and if they still come forward, keep shooting
Are you volunteering to do the job? Because I think that would be the least you could do if that’s what you believe is the moral and correct course of action.
Then whoever put them up to this should be hinted and killed
My guess is that Soros is hoping for optics of Trump’s military killing/detaining brown immigrant children, against a backdrop of wailing parents.
And he can count on the media to run 24/7 about what a fascist monster Trump is for detaining “refugees” and separating “families”.
“Soros and his type really believe that organizing an invasion is a political winner? ”
It will be if they get these people to vote for democrats or to just break the system so we end up with more marxism/fascism as things fall apart…
Vietnam War hero sentenced to 7 years for decades-old rifle purchase
#Abolish BATF
He didn’t realize the constitution doesn’t apply to things the government says it doesn’t apply to.
Because reasons.
Wait, you mean government gets to control the document that was created to stop government from demanding control of things the people said it should not control? NO FREAKING WAY!
“his brief time as a POW.”
I think former Vietnam POW’s have done time enough in prison.
I bet he was told that he made his sacrifice to “preserve our freedom”.
There’s a patriot born every minute.
In a just world, this case would go to SCOTUS and get the NFA struck down.
He’ll probably be paroled in 4 years for health reasons.
I don’t know, if he is tried in Texas I can easily see the Jury acquitting regardless of the facts of the case. Course, that assumes that he has the money to go to trial
I don’t know supposedly he had marijuana and cocaine, so the drug warriors will be after him too.
Last year, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents looking for the rifle raided Pick’s Plano Texas, home…
Why were they so eager to find this weapon that has been locked away in a dude’s home for decades?
They received a “tip”.
I didn’t think he’d go to jail.
Classy, gents. Classy
The comments are very disheartening. LAW AND ORDER!!!
Where is the logic that because it’s a law it must be obeyed without question?
No sympathy for the law breaker because he broke a law, regardless of the lack of harm done or even a real victim?
And this is what larger scale gun banning would look like once a ban law was passed.
“He’s a criminal” and no further.
The sheriff says he is aware that the image of an eight-year-old developmentally disabled boy in handcuffs does not reflect well on his department.
It’s not the “image” that matters, asshole. It’s that your goons did it.
Don’t shoot the dog!
https://youtu.be/sxXd6ATOPh8
And the fact that they are actually trying to defend it.
FOP:
Some of the most horrific crimes have been perpetrated by those who then plead instanity. Our boys in blue deserve the upmost respect putting their lives on the line facing these lunatics. If the public isn’t willing to stand with them, it’s hard to believe that the police can do the work of protecting the people.
You forgot the ending /sarc. And the quotes around words like “protecting”.
I don’t think FOP is ever sarcastic, so I tried to mimic them as much as possible.
I thought F1 got rid of grid girls
how did that end up there ?
Socialism: The end game
Washington bureaucrats will not take direct ownership of companies, but so completely dominate their operations that what businesses do, and how they do it, will be determined by these outsiders.
So, actual Fascism.
I gotta refresh the page more often…
Hey, great minds, etc.
The people who yell about fascists the loudest are the ones with policy positions indistinguishable from Benito Mussolini.
^^^^THIS^^^^
I suspect they will remain fascists until they have gotten their way, then promptly demand full blown marxism.
Yes. Fascism means you get to pretend to own the business as long as you make the right decisions. Also later on in life Hitler thought the Soviets nationalization was better than his model.
Washington bureaucrats will not take direct ownership of companies, but so completely dominate their operations that what businesses do, and how they do it, will be determined by these outsiders.
IOW, Italian fascism. The only economic system to survive both WWII and the Cold War.
“Nationalization of anything more than medicine does not seem to be on our horizon”
Person doesn’t seem to understand how public employee pensions work.
I wonder if that is on purpose or if they are just that fucked in the head.
Seem they don’t understand how equity works. There was a time when pensions pretty much just invested in bonds. But that ended about 40 years ago. Conveniently around the same time such pensions were re-defined as “contracts”.
Why am I not surpsed?
I’ve reached the point where I don’t care if ‘cartel’ marauders make the whole lot ‘disappear’.
Yes, I know there was a link to a different article on the same problem.
Alison Danisa wept as she knelt in the garbage already piling up on the bridge, clutching her naked 11-month-old infant to her breast.
‘We have suffered so much. She has a fever and we brought nothing,’ she said, showing the baby’s bare bottom to indicate they had no diapers.
Sounds like she’s a pretty lousy mother.
Are 11-month olds usually referred to as infants?
I feel bad for the kid, but what the fuck was mom thinking?
Idk. I would say that any baby that can crawl and/or walk is no longer an infant. If the baby can’t do either by 10 months, they’re a few months behind.
I mean, I know they are ‘technically’ infants, but my 9-month seems more like a small kid than an infant. Babies can’t move and do stuff, kids can. *shrug*
I have no fucks to give for them. If they assembled in groups that large in their own shithole countries, I’d have to imagine they could overwhelm the gangs they are allegedly fleeing from.
“What? Don’t all streams of refugees fleeing persecution tote the flag of their country along with them?”
The consensus seems to be that the oppressive regime whose flag symbolizes said oppression would have been fine if the right TOP. PEOPLE. had been in charge, so let’s go somewhere else and try to vote in said top people. Who want basically the same policies of the place they were fleeing, but with a different set of people being oppressed this time.
Because that will turn out great!
“The consensus seems to be that the oppressive regime whose flag symbolizes said oppression would have been fine if the right TOP. PEOPLE. had been in charge, ”
Why would refugees flee here? I’ve been told that America is so oppresive, what with rampant white nationalism and patriarchy.
“College is a hotbed of rape and racism that everyone must have the opportunity to attend!”
It’s like they don’t know we have Trumpitler in charge here.
Those will come in handy later when they overwhelm the crowds at any US men’s soccer game played in their new home.
“funny man Carlos Mencia”
You’re dead to me Sloopy.
He used to be funny before he went insane.
Not that funny. He was perhaps funny looking, but his jokes were lame attempts to make himself look cool.
here you go.
Ha, I’d forgotten about that.
Nailed it.
OK, I corrected it.
I have misplaced my shocked face.
Senator Cory Booker Accused of Sexual Assault by Gay Man
Your move #Metoo.
Does he have more verifiable data than Ms. Ford?
Wonder if he used the “I am Spartacus!” line or went with “I am Caligula”.
Probably went through the whole darn Caligula speech rather than stuck to three words.
+1 Do you…like movies about gladiators?
Explains why his understanding of what that Stpartacus show was about…..
He kept fast forwarding through the dialog to get to the scenes of nekked dudes..
Not that there is anything wrong with that..
…ever been inside a Turkish prison before ?
No.
-Russian intel officer wearing a fake beard
I’m On Welfare, And That’s How I Know It Needs To Be Abolished
This dude’s experience is nearly identical to several people I’ve known.
Fully agree with him except for “the very measures designed to help them.” They weren’t even designed that way.
The party of government dependency needs lots of people dependent on government to vote for them.
Our welfare system was never designed to help those down on its luck, but to trap people in a perpetual cycle of poverty so some people could keep getting these people’s votes. A true welfare system would exist for people that actually are working and then for some unforeseen reason lose their job or get hurt so bad they can’t work anymore. It wouldn’t require you lose everything you have before you could qualify, making the system only useful for the vote buying political class.
If we must have welfare, that is what I can live with. I would prefer we not have any of this shit, but I feel that ship has sailed.
“replaced with a negative income tax or universal basic income”
The answer to government meddling is not a different kind of government meddling.
There are degrees of badness though, and the currently constituted byzantine welfare system is almost certainly more bad than a Hayek-Friedman style UBI would be.
I wrote about 3 of my #MeToo men; one wrote to apologize
Wait… Was this creep a teacher if hers? It is he a teacher now and was a friend then. Cause there is a big difference. It sounds like he was a teacher.
“I’ll take Things that never happened for $500, Alex.”
^^^THIS^^^
I think they’re both remembering an old Police song.
He starts to shake and sweat
Heh.
Why are you standing so close to me Straff?
hey! I won’t share you with another boy!
Yeah, ok, sure, whatever….
Orrrrrrr
Maybe it really just means that you were not bothered or upset about the acts in even the slightest way and may have even appreciated them at some level and as such did not get filed as “Important: do not forget” by your brain
Presented without comment, because I can’t really come up with any.
They really are creepy, and insane.
Some cackling old hens living in a fantasy world doesn’t bother me. As long as they don’t send forth crazy foot soldiers to enforce their insanity.
The scariest foot soldiers the world has ever seen
i assume those ear loop plug things are for their leashes.
The near-constant head bobbing is a serious indication of something.
Mammary Monday To the rescue with a nubile selection of knockers.
http://archive.is/7APz7
3, 8, 11, 23, 24, 25, 36, 45, 52.
I’m hearing the Bangles singing “It’s just another mammary Monday…”
“That sounds like a fun day!
My have to motor-boat day!”
Until then, its a humanitarian crisis the likes of which have never been seen
Read a [history] book, morans.
Seriously, the ahistorical retards who pass themselves off as so-called “public intellectuals” are really starting to piss me off.
Not all of them are Irish.
The potato famine was nothing compared to this!
Ahh don’t get mad. Just laugh and realize that journalists are amongst the stupidest People in the world.
But this level of stupid should result in them being culled from the gene pool. That they still survive and often seem to thrive, tells me that nature is being thwarted in a negative way.
The word for that is “socialism”.
Fruit, veg and family life – why Spaniards are living longer
…says someone who has never actually been to an American grocery store.
Amazing how those proggy talking points stick, isn’t it?
But, but, I had trouble finding the ginger!
Nevermind it was because the volume of options in the produce section that got in my way…
Does it count if I can’t find good Andouille at one of my grocery stores? And another doesn’t stock Mexican Chorizo? And only one offers certain snacks in the spicy flavor.
I have to drive all the way across town to Jungle Jim’s to buy dragon fruit, or a goose! food desert indeed.
Aww man Jungle Jims is pretty much the only thing I miss about Cincinnatti
“Excuse me, where are the tomatillos?”
“Oh, right over there, past the bok choy.”
Food desert, my ass.
Food desert classifications are 100% bull shit.
My neighborhood is classified as a food desert. When those studies were done, I was within a mile of a full sized grocery store, a super-bodega with “Play Lotto Here” and “EBT ACCEPTED!!!” painted on the window, and two (maybe 3, third one is close) full sized drug stores. At the time of the study, there were two stores that delivered groceries to the door in my neighborhood. Now there are five.
Here’s the link. Play the game for yourself.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/go-to-the-atlas/
Most of my home town is in one. It’s a rust-belt city where all the shopping moved to the suburbs decades ago. I don’t know what their definition is but car ownership there is virtually 100% no matter how “poor” you are because there are no other viable options for most people.
Huh, When I looked only a few areas were, and guess what… college students tend not to have cars or money!
Food desert!
So, the green shows food deserts?
Am I reading this right, that a “food desert” is just “half a mile to the nearest grocery store in a “poor” area?” Because poor people don’t have legs?
According to this when I was in college i lived in a food desert next to the school. I didn’t have a car at the time. I don’t recall starving to death.
As far as I can tell.
The two USAFBs in NoDak are in food deserts. Ha-ha, right.
He’s from Barcelona, pretentious faux-intellectual asshole is what they do.
They must not be counting grocery stores as fruit and vegetable stores for some reason.
Well in these countries friut and vegetables are sold in stands with flies and dogs running around, so they might have missed it.
It’s amazing how no matter where I lived, I was able to find grocery stores, farmer markets, and other stores with in season fruits and vegetables on the cheap. Out of season stuff can get expensive, but it’s available. Fuck, there’s several houses in downtown Cleveland that have chicken coops and sell fresh eggs to the neighborhood.
There’s no way those egg production facilities have been USDA inspected, shut them down!
/Same prog who complained about food deserts.
There is some hope for the hipsters (at least here). Quite a few of them are running afoul of local city regulations when they try to get more natural. Especially those trying to do things like raise chickens (legal in Cleveland proper, illegal in most of the suburbs), beekeeping (even just having a hive in most areas requires a big pile of regulations to follow), or even setting up a little stand to sell local produce (varies by city here). So some of them are starting to realize that regulations and city governments aren’t their friends.
Fixed
Saturday, my Kroger had no large curd cottage cheese (4%) or heavy whipping cream in a pint in the cooler.
Evidently, my part of SW Ohio has become a dairy desert.
I’m sorry, he’s from Barcelona.
So, not Spanish either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O50cySmUtWY
+1 Manuel
Que?
You mean like the food deserts in Chicago where Wal-Mart tried to open stores and the neighborhood and city leaders tried gouging them on taxes until they went away?
“Fruit and vegetables are affordable for everyone,” he said. “It’s not like in the US, where you have these so-called ‘food deserts’ where you have to drive for miles before you can find a fruit and vegetable store – and, when you do, it’s ridiculously expensive.”
I live in the middle of an utterly uninhabitable desert, 65 miles from the nearest large city, in a town of around 25,000. We’ve got 3 major national chain grocery stores, all with fresh fruits and vegetables at prices similar to or lower than what I used to pay when I lived in a metro area of around 400,000. There’s also a few local hole in the wall grocers and a farmer’s market where you can get local, season produce. There is no such thing as a “food desert” in any part of this country inhabited by humans.
Even Slab City?
I heard a local government person talking about ‘food deserts’ in the area, all of which she mentioned have stores with produce sections.
Spain’s Top 5 Commodity Imports
Commodity Amount (Annually)
Soybeans $1.28 billion
Tobacco $1.32 billion
Wheat $1.27 billion
Corn $1.21 billion
Palm Oil $1.04 billion
these so-called ‘food deserts’ where you have to drive for miles before you can find a fruit and vegetable store
I’ll take this point by point:
1. it should read “so-called” food deserts. Because they don’t actually exist.
2. And yes, many of us have to drive miles before we get to a “fruit and vegetable store”. That’s because we’re an expansive nation and there are an abundance of cars on the road, roads to carry them and we don’t charge our people so much for gasoline ($2.50 a gal vs $4.50 a gal in Spain right now) that our rate of car ownership (910 cars per 1000 Americans) is nearly double that of Spain’s (492/1000).
3. Oh yeah, and we call those store supermarkets. And we can also buy everything else we need there because we’re a modern society instead of a nation whose supply chain is so retardedly backward that you can’t put a 53′ van trailer on the road and deliver with the efficiency that feeds a nation of 340 million people to the point that obesity is a bigger problem than hunger.
“Dr Jeroen Spijker, a research fellow at the Centre for Demographic Studies at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, said that Spain’s universal free healthcare system was helping people to live longer than in other countries.”
I am sure they live longer than most people in old Soviet Block countries did. Or places like Afghanistan, Syria, or Libya…..
I visited Spain once upon a time. Took miles of driving from Moron AFB to Seville. Didn’t see any stores, let alone grocery stores, on the way. Spain must be s food desert too.
The ‘food desert’ thing is just baffling to me. There’s all sorts of arguments that I may not agree with, but there’s very few arguments where almost everyone in the country across the political spectrum knows is not even close to true just from personal experience.
It would make more sense to annex Honduras.
Puerto Rico 2: Poverty Boogaloo?
That’s going to be a tear-jerker and not a comedy, right?
A farce.
Having lived in PR for 2 years, I still have a soft spot in my heart for it and for her people. Its such a kick-ass place that’s been sadly ruined by the corrupt government being allowed to live off of handouts from Washington.
Its time to shit or get off the pot there. They need to disassociate from the USA and go it alone. They’re their own people and culture and no amount of time will change that. They should be their own nation and if we want to keep part of Roosevelt Roads open, we can rent it from them or exchange there land for their “freedom”.
I just hope they will allow people who have lived there to apply for dual citizenship, because I’d do so in a minute and would most likely retire there if they get their shit together.
I am very familiar with PR too Sloop. Beautiful place, some nice latinas, and a lot of history. Unfortunately their political class has run circles around ours when it comes to corruption. I doubt they survive if they go it alone, but then again, they are never going to stop being bad.
I had a week-long vacation in San Juan – and, after hearing your tales of the lands beyond the city, wish I had booked it differently. I stayed at a beautiful hotel but the city itself – meh. Lovely water and weather though. And I got a lot of (good? indifferent? interested?) looks from the latinas there.
Maybe I need to revisit. When I was there…meh.
Mind you, islands to me are just beaches with nice water. After a couple of days I’m ready to move on.
These “migrant caravans” (read: unarmed invasions) seem to me to be a grievous error by the forces organizing them. Let’s not pretend that these little passion plays aren’t likely being funded by Soros through some intermediary.
Trump ran on ending illegal immigration and building a wall; by funding this BS I think you’re convincing people who might otherwise have been on the fence that a wall is a good idea.
On the fence on the fence? Sorry.
To address your actual point, I’ve become conservatarian. I now listen to people like Dana Loesch and Ben Shapiro and find myself in agreement with them far more than I would’ve in the past.
Good morning and congratulations, Sloop! I hope the new biz is a massive success!
Here, have a little
…Mountain!
Thanks.
I almost went with that song but then I thought I’d played it in the last couple of months while Ratt has never been let ::dons sunglasses:: out of the cellar.
Wow. Forgot about those guys. I used to have a couple albums on vinyl, too. YouTube brought up Deep Purple’s Hush afterward, which I’m also ok with.
From the sidebar of the gunslinging bodega owner, NYC’s school diversity plan could lead to another ‘white flight’.
It’s crazy time! Oh, and there was a great cameo from an old pal:
Conform, peasant!
I do love how we live in a world where “White Flight” and “Gentrification” can simultaneously exist. How problematic.
Oh, it’s very simple. “Anything whitey does is wrong.” They’re very consistant on that.
The white people have to move, but they can only sell to non-white people (based on the current, up to the minute meaning of non-white). They also don’t get to pick where they’re allowed to move to. They will be assigned an area, possibly in Utah, Montana, or North Dakota.
Wypipo bad, m’kay?
WYPIPPO ARE SCARED OF COMPETITION AND LOSING THEIR PRIVILEGE! THEIR REIGN OF GENOCIDAL TERROR IS OVER AND THEY DON’T LIKE IT!
At least they admit it: to “improve diversity” they must “remove… standards.” (How are minorities not insulted by this?)
And with that conflation they are able to accuse those who are for maintaining standards as being anti-diversity.
STEVE SMITH WILL BE HAPPY TO LEARN THAT IT IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY.
pass.
Yeah, I enjoy being employed.
ee cummings hardest hit
“Fruit and vegetables are affordable for everyone,” he said. “It’s not like in the US, where you have these so-called ‘food deserts’ where you have to drive for miles before you can find a fruit and vegetable store – and, when you do, it’s ridiculously expensive.”
Yeah, okay.
As much as Euros like to talk about the parochialism of Americans, they really know shockingly little about the US.
They know what they have seen in Hollywood’s crap and from what the screaming marxist liars in the US tell them. The sad thing is they could easily debunk all the myths they have been told, but then it might make them wonder if the paradise their masters tell them they live in really isn’t a sub par shit rental.
I remember years ago when I worked at an ISP kiosk in the mall this very nice Australian lady came up to me and started chatting. She eventually asked me if there was anywhere you could go to buy fruit, saying that she thought it was strange that you couldn’t just go to a store and buy a piece of fruit. I blinked at her for a minute trying to parse what she was saying. Apparently, wherever she was from in Oz there were fruit stands just all over the place, which I thought was unusual. We got talking, and it came down to a cultural difference I’d heard of before. In the US, people tend to shop for a week, or at least a few days, where Europeans (and apparently Australians) shop on a daily or bi-daily basis, supposedly. So a Euro hears that you can’t buy a fresh orange from a bodega within a fifteen minute walk of your house and thinks it’s a food desert, not considering that the same person will probably drive (or be driven) to a grocery store or “big box” store and buy a crate of oranges to last two weeks as part of a larger shopping trip.
Because we have suburbs, and shit to do.
So what you’re saying is, Europe has a wasteful over-distribution of bodegas and needs common-sense bodega control?
Who needs 27 different fruit stands?
That’s why Amazon in the US has a “shopping cart” and Amazon in the UK,etc. have a “shopping basket.”
In the suburb I grew up in, even the women who didn’t drive had their own personal 2-wheeled shopping carts so they could walk home with 4 large grocery bags.
Even as a kid I’d hear my grandmother talk about how in Scotland people go grocery shopping every day and they just buy what’s in the market and I’d say, “They go every day? And then they cook? That’s gotta take FOREVER! You’d have to go shopping at lunch just to be back in time to make dinner!” Her reply was usually something like, “Well, there’s not a lot to do.”
Once the refrigerator replaced the icebox people in the US seemed happy not to have to shop more than twice a week.
this reminds me of the story Gilmore told about the British guy complaining about how he couldn’t find somewhere to buy a sandwich in NYC…
I couldn’t find a grocery store in Nottingham.
In liberal Park Slope and the surrounding areas, the news was received with mixed reactions. Those against the plan were quoted anonymously in various news outlets, lest they somehow appear to oppose diversity. They had seen what happened to Upper West Side parents who were named and shamed in articles when they opposed proposals for their schools.
DEMOCRACY!
Also- the best way to raise test scores is to eliminate all the hard questions.
There is a reason marxism always delivers misery and mediocrity: they are easier to produce than happiness and success.
As much as Euros like to talk about the parochialism of Americans, they really know shockingly little about the US.
The notion of “food deserts” as applied to fruits and vegetables is especially preposterous, considering the universal availability of things like bananas and other tropical produce. You can get out of season fruit from Chile in the dead of winter.
Food desert. I can get fresh nectarines delivered to my doorstep in Maryland in January. I can buy a banana from the gas station down the street, just past the public housing. There is no food desert.
I for one greatly appreciated the nice lady’s shirt in the thumbnail. #NotEverythingIsFlatInFlorida
Yes. She seems really nice.
Yep. And her tits are enormous!
+1 Huge Tracts of Land
Highest elevation in FLA?
Despite my hesistation of Florida Girl, I agree.
TW: Washington Post.
Elizabeth Warren may really be Native American!
For fucks sake they won’t let it go!
By golly, that just changed e̶v̶e̶r̶y̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ nothing for me.
Sounds like they’re saying that while she has only 1 distant relative that was NA, that one relative had some super potent DNA. Silly stuff.
this one weird DNA trick!
Statisticians hate it!
You won’t believe what happened to Watson!
His coked up roommate murdered him?
Worse. He talked about race and IQ.
STEVE SMITH HAS SUPER POTENT DNA. PART OF ALL LIFE.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be STEVE: and there was STEVE.
And God said “This isn’t good, this isn’t good at all, he tried to… Well let’s not talk about that.”
So God started over, but STEVE was everlasting.
Unless their contention is that the reason minorities get a leg up from affirmative action is to compensate for inferior genetics, the only part of the report that’s germane is the bit about a single ancestor 6 to 10 generations back. The actual percentage of DNA is completely irrelevant on its own.
The bottom line is that Warren claimed Native American ancestry to further her career when her only meaningful connection to that ancestry or anyone else who shares it is some vague family lore and a at most a few gene markers.
-Man, that pic of people leaving Central America really crystallizes things. In one picture you can argue how stupid ‘open borders’ for its own sake really is. You can’t let them all in willy-nilly.
-When will Democrats start to take credit for having stopped more people at border under Obama. Now that would be awesome.
-That ignoramus Cortez (it’s a total downer people actually support her) claims the ‘last time America faced an existential threat’ was against the Nazis. Now that’s one way of erasing post-war history. I supposed The Cold War doesn’t qualify in her pea-brained head.
Replace ‘stupid’ with ‘foolish’ or ‘misguided’.
To be fair, she believes that America losing out to the communists would have been a good thing.
Therein lies her omission.
But wrong nonetheless.
The Nazis never were an existential threat, the Soviets with their nukes were.
Won’t be long now lefty’s are going to appropriate the NPC meme. Just like they did with the word ‘snowflake’.
I consider myself to be a “native American”. I was born here.
Last census I ticked the “other” box on the ethnicity question and wrote in “non-indigenous native American”
Last census, I ticked 1 under household size and left the rest completely blank.
I got the long form in 2000. I put 1 for household size and added something else so they would have enough info to prosecute me for not filling out the rest. The rest was blank.
A census worker came by to try to fill out more info, when he tried to guess my race, I slammed the door.
The constitution says a count. They can fuck off about anything more.
I supposed The Cold War doesn’t qualify in her pea-brained head.
We were just too stupid to realize the superiority of the Soviet system. We should have welcomed them with open legs.
Oktoberfest in Munich has really gone to crap.
Our Revolution’s Logic
Long but excellent essay. I hope the dude is overselling the situation, though.
No chance. The fuckers want it all.
– John Adams
That original federal republic is long gone – it did not survive the Civil War. What replaced it is gone now too. Accept it. Who knows what comes next, probably violence and far less elegant political arrangements.
the us empire chopped into pieces is what is next. The question is whether we use a chainsaw or a scalpelll
Rahm Emanuel is determined to completely fuck up Chicago infrastructure before he leaves office. Oh yeah, and he wants to make it more expensive for commuters at the same time.
I eagerly await seeing exactly how his newly proposed extortion scheme might survive the inevitable legal challenges.
The gas tax is shitloads simpler than a per-mile tax. If the miles driven is up and the gas tax revenue is down, then raise the tax. This isn’t complicated, unless your IQ is in the 80’s.
And let’s not forget how many miles in Illinois are driven on toll roads – those miles are essentially double-taxed because the gas tax isn’t going to the building and maintenance of those toll roads yet the gasoline being used on them is still being taxed.
I’m curious as to how he intends to implement this ridiculous idea. About half of the driving I do is outside of city limits.
Somebody has to pay for the out-of-towners (and out of staters) using the roads. Might as well be you.
Gas taxes are regularly shuffled into the general fund and spent on anything but roads. Road maintenance is a subject voters actually care about, so politicians play the Washington Monument gambit with it to expand funding everywhere else.
It’s never too soon to panic.
She’s a Republican, as are most of the people in her hometown, a rural community where about 54 percent of voters cast their ballots for Donald Trump in 2016. Evans is also transgender, as are about 1 million other adult Americans, according to rough estimates. Few combine the two identities. Evans is believed to be the lone openly transgender elected Republican — “my cross to bear,” as she puts it.
The tension involved in her unusual profile became acute over the weekend, when the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is weighing a move to define gender as strictly biological, denying the very basis of transgender identity. According to the Wall Street Journal, the scope of the new rules is unclear.
The scope of the new rules is unclear. The effect of the new rules is unclear. But you acn be certain, this will “erase” transgender people from American society.
It’s the worst humanitarian crisis in history.
It just means that you cannot legally force other people to accept your delusions.
That is what they hate the most.
So a name on a ballot. Probably the only person who ran for the position.
“Probably the only person who ran for the position.” That describes at least 50% of Libertarian Party victories.
I wonder if the few who keep getting re-elected manage to make a major difference in their towns?
JFC. Ok, you hyperbolic pissant, I want you to walk up to the United States Holocaust Museum this weekend and stand at the entrance this weekend with a sign saying as much. Since it’s the worst humanitarian crisis in history.
I donno, the Black Death, the Great Leap Forward, and the Holodomor all dwarf that too.
Don’t forget Kavanaugh.
His death toll was 0 after the tax cuts and net neutrality killed all of us.
Kavanaugh was out in the killing fields
bayoneting survivorsgrabbing them by the pussy.Sam’s Club running out of free samples dwarfs that.
Funny how people steeped in marxist education and consider themselves intellectuals, seem to have so little real knowledge, huh?
I think that bit was added as sarc?
TD;DR but I wonder if they implore xer to get back on the plantation where xe belongs.
the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is weighing a move to define gender as strictly biological,
A flat-out lie. The proposal is to define sex as strictly biological. Not the same thing at all, and being done to roll back the illegal ultra vires attempts by various agencies to apply a statute that prohibits sex discrimination so that gender discrimination is also prohibited.
Officer safety!
The New York Police Department has suspended the use of almost 3,000 body cameras after one of the devices exploded over the weekend, the department said.
An NYPD officer wearing a Vievu LE-5 body camera noticed smoke rising from the device and took it off before it exploded, the department said in a statement Sunday.
No one was injured in the incident, which happened Saturday before the officer began duty, the NYPD said.
“The incident revealed a potential for the battery inside the camera to ignite,” the department’s statement said. “The cause and scope of the defect are currently being investigated.”
All officers outfitted with LE-5 cameras have been asked to immediately discontinue use and return them to their commands.
Risking their lives.
“This particular model was not robust enough to survive officer tampering as required when recording must not take place.”
Juicy tidbits from our local news:
https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/wilson-county-town-s-residents-say-colored-tap-water-undrinkable/1534156902
Racism? You decide
We have a saying back home. If it’s brown, drink it down. If it’s black, send it back.
This is the one I’m familiar with:
If its brown, flush it down
If its yellow let it mellow
What, are you on a septic system or something?
I hate the idiots who don’t flush their piss but then go to the sink and run the water for a minute while washing their hands.
Heh, well played.
nice euphemism there.
Another local gem:
https://www.heraldsun.com/news/local/article220380085.html
Not shure about all the detailz, but one thing we no for shure: Spelling iz hard
“Voter suppression” = asking voter how they spell their name. JFC
Anything that might interfere with democrats getting illegal votes is voter suppression.
OK, for the record, apparently much of Standing Rock Sioux reservation (the same ones who started the pipeline protests last year) doesn’t have street addresses; they have PO. Boxes. The ND voting law (that was just upheld by SCOTUS) says that the ID must have a street address to prove residency. To me, proving that you live in the precinct in which you are trying to vote sounds pretty damn reasonable.
But, what do I know? I’m a apparently a vote suppressionist.
Oh, and I might add, ND has no voter registration. So, to vote, all you have to do is go to a polling station and show them an approved ID (DL, Tribal, Military, etc.) That’s it.
My guess is that a lot of blacks have unusual spellings for their names, which is what led to the request for spellings. I guess if you want to avoid looking like you’re discriminating, you should ask everyone how to spell their name.
Or perhaps the poll worker was asking white folk to spell their name as well when they couldn’t figure it out themselves and nobody cares. I suppose the only true way not to discriminate is have the voter point to the letters in their name on a big chart sequentially.
Yes, I did wonder if the poll worker was asking everybody and only certain people complained. Which makes the whole controversy made up.
I got the styrofoam graveyard stones up, the giant cobwebs and spider, and the Halloween laser light show.
And we’ll be handing out full-sized candy bars – as long as supplies last.
…and supplies are gone.
Not into Halloween, but if there is full size candy bars being handed out… What zip code do you live in?
I can’t prove it, but I think the dime Snickers of my youth were much larger than the standard bar today.
Conversely, the dime Coke of my youth was 6 fl oz min, whereas the standard today is the 12 oz can.
My wife bought a box of “Reduced Sugar Fudgesicles”. They were half the length of the normal ones. I mean, I can’t be that mad about a gag that good.
We still have to put up our Halloween stuff. I made wooden headstones this year, but I’m considering casting some in concrete next year. This will be determined by whether the wooden ones are stolen or vandalized. I’m also awaiting delivery of my new fog machine. Another Glib (Yusef perhaps?) inspired me to take it to the most irrational limit this year. It isn’t Halloween until the fire department gets called.
Also, +1 on the full sized candy bars.
Yeah the styrofoam graves suck – a bit of wind and the plastic pegs tear out from the base. I told my wife I want to get real ones next year and got that “are you insane?” look.
The ones we have now took about an hour to build. They’re basically just hollow boxes made of plywood and 2x4s. They’ll be staked into the ground by two lengths of conduit that’s affixed to the inside of each headstone.
I’ve lived in my place for 18 years and have gotten all of 3 trick or treaters (not each year – 3 total in 18 years). If I were a kid, I’d be hitting up this condo every year – 300 units in 19 acres. That’s a candy-target-rich environment.
My suburb is rife with little kids – and the nearby, less affluent areas bring their kids to our neighborhood. The – ahem – black population shoots up considerably during Halloween night. But, depending on weather, we only get 40-50 trick ‘n’ treaters. My co-worker has gotten over a hundred in less city-fied suburb.
I get zero.
I don’t put out decorations, keep the lights off, and don’t answer the door, but none of that could have any impact on the total.
I don’t put out decorations, keep the lights off, and don’t answer the door
IOW, even after you make it clear you are not participating in trick or treat, people still come to the door anyway.
yes.
I’ve gotten so used to no trick or treaters, I’m thinking of putting together some candy in advance for my new next door neighbors, who have a couple young’uns, so they leave me alone on Halloween.
I don’t get many either. Gave the newspaper salesman a lozenge just for fun last year.
*contemplates flying to Japan to trick or treat at Straffin’s place just to annoy him*
Make it here and it’s all the lozenges you can fit in your mouth.
Ludens Wild Cherry?
Those things are better than candy!
My favorite childhood throat “lozenges” since they taste exactly like cherry LifeSavers.
Never heard of them. If I were in the states, I’d answer the door wearing a cardigan and my bifocals. Fly open. “Have a Werther’s, young lady.”
Mike, the absurdly low to nonexistant menthol quantity means they are candy. For actual medication, I use Fisherman’s friend, which is disgusting but at least has 10mg, and will knock out the nerve response in the throat/sinuses pretty solidly. Ricola is a mere 4.7mg, and the rest come in a 2 or 0.
The key thing about Ludens is that they don’t work because of eucalyptus or whatever they put in Halls and Ricolas. They work because they taste like candy and up your mucus production.
KK, on those occassions I need cough drops, it’s because I’ve been hacking up phlegm until my throat bleeds. Upping mucous production would make that worse. I just want to shut down the vicious response cycle of coughing causes soreness causes coughing, and let the medication for the primary ailment work on the other symptoms.
I’m picturing UnCiv cruising down the highway at the speed limit, lozenge in his mouth and driving gloves at 10 and 2.
No no – the new proper hand positioning with the advent of airbags is 8 and 4! Are you suggesting UCS has a car without airbags??!?
In his mouth? Sounds a bit spicy.
Oh. Didn’t know the rules changed. I’m still going with the 12 and 6. Easier to take out mailboxes that catch your eye.
My preferred hand placement is arm rest & 12
Probably in the left land too, like an Ohio driver.
/starts raising hand
/puts hand down
Yes, the majority of drivers in my state are idiots.
I hate passing on the right.
I will slow down and give a driver in the left lane plenty of time to get over, way too much in fact, before I will pass them on the right. And I don’t tailgate or flash lights or any of that nonsense.
On the other hand, if they have an Ohio plate, I don’t even slow down, I just pass on the right. I know they will never get over anyway. One two many Ohio plates on I-65 between Nashville and Louisville pissed me off so no one in Ohio gets any benefit of the doubt any more.
When I lived in Dubuque – we stopped counting at 800 trick or treaters. I had to go to the store 3 times for more candy.
Woah!
I like seeing excited little kids, and I’ve got a budget for candy. After than, it’s goodnight, Irene
I like seeing excited little kids
So does OMWC.
This sounds like someone was running a racket..
relevant: compliments of The Onion .
I LOL’ed
My cousins lived next door to noted public intellectual Plaxico Burress. They knocked on his door for haloween, which is something he’s never had to deal with before apparently. There were three of them. He opened a bag of poptarts, gave one to the first kid, and realized he had two kids and one poptart left. So he got a really sad look on his face, broke it in half, and put a half in each kids bag.
Lights were out next year.
I want a full-size weeping angel as a permanent fixture in my yard.
Needs MOAR Dr. Who.
More like Dr. WTF? You’re supposed to scare the kids not give them stigmata.
FTR,
1. Eccleston
2. Capaldi
3. Tennant
4. Smith
But Donna Noble always and forever. ❤️
1. Tom Baker
2. Sylvester McCoy
3. Jon Pertwee
4. Patrick Troughton
5. Peter Davison
I haven’t seen any pre-Eccleston.
I saw them as a kid when they ran Baker reruns and McCoy new episodes on PBS. Then I binged the bulk of the classic run later.
Do you get RetroTV? http://www.myretrotv.com/
Old episodes are on every day.
I’ll check. I need something to glom since I hit the skids with Boardwalk Empire (didn’t watch season 5).
Pertwee
T Baker
Davison
Troughton
McCoy
C Baker
Hartnell
Baker
Eccleston
Tennant
And Catherine Tate is still a solid WOOD.
Cause she’s funny af
She is. I love her.
That is the correct order for old Who Gustave.
You are both wrong. So wrong that I am all but speechless at the wrongness of you two.
Last year we bought two bags of fun-sized candy and only 6 t-or-t-ers came by. Apparently all the kids have grown up in our neighborhood.
I live in a development and a guy a couple houses down puts on a hell of a show each year. Decorations, sound effects, fog, etc. It’s a little loud and obnoxious for my tastes, but all the little kids seem to love it.
Talked to the brother. He is adamant that I should in no way take the content editor gig, even if it really is only 2-3 hours a day. He reasonably argued that it’ll bog me down and that you never know how the workload could change and that it would be much smarter to just do the hustle myself. He swayed me, but I still have reservations and fears. I have the follow-up interview on Thursday to see what happens.
I sadly but freely admit that my lack of ambition is one of my larger failings. I’m reminded of a quote in A Short History of Nearly Everything when Bryson talks to a biologist and is quoted as saying “Life desperately wants to be, but it doesn’t see to want to be much.
I need to start just grabbing gigs left and right but another of my big failings is that I’m very skittish and am afraid to look behind the curtain. As this semester transitions I’m going to have to force myself to take the leap.
I am terrified but excited. I call this Good Nervous, and is exactly how I feel before I go up and perform. The fear goes away immediately once I start, but this feeling has been obviously infinitely more prolonged as I have anticipated this moment for months.
Good luck!! Do you find the longer you’re with a company/organization, the more a bitious you get? That’s the case for me – once I get to know the lay of the land and the internal politics, I start thinking of ways I can contribute more.
I find the better I know a company, the less inclined I am to help them. But it could just be that I’ve had a track record of ending up with assholes and short-sighted managers during my private sector tenure.
For me, it’s like “if I were in charge, x, y and z would have been better”. But I can only get to that line of thinking once I’ve been there for a while and know who all the players are.
I have high standards – I expect managers to remember things they personally approved and not reprimand people for acting on what the manager has said.
This is why I do everything via email, ticket, Slack, or chat. I never take instruction or tasking verbally. Never.
Generally my motto is “if it’s not in a ticket, it doesn’t exist”
It was food service, the employees didn’t have e-mail from the company.
/college job.
It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even answer my phone unless it is a VP calling.
The VP, who is temporarily running our department, doesn’t do anything by email. It’s all verbal communication – which I suppose her method of creating plausible deniability.
My solution to the verbal VP would be to write up an email summarizing our conversation and sending it to them. They don’t need to reply – it’s just a record.
I had a PM ask me to do one thing verbally, and I did it, then the customer wanted something different and my PM basically blamed me. I learned my lesson then.
This. Although I have to admit, I’ve had stand up managers in my lifetime.
In my history I have been a very hard-worker, but very much in a “put my head down and get shit done” type of way. I am not a leader of men.
The exception is my current school, where I’ve mentioned that I feel that I’m being gas-lit and there is no longer any communication and it’s dreadfully awkward. I said good afternoon to the ladies as I walked in the other day. Not a single response. So fuck it. They want to ignore me then I’ll ignore them. Only thing that keeps me from completely checking out is personal pride in doing a good job.
Once you start to actively have fantasies about beating the shit out of the children in your charge, you know it’s well time to get out of the game. Two months and four days left. Sigh. Good thing is that my shitty classes are all front-loaded. After 4pm tomorrow I don’t really have a bad class for the rest of the week.
@Don: The first contract is to be for 3 months (which is a worry because they need someone now and I’m not available). I think that stability as I learned to get into everything would be very comforting. They’re giving me a login so I can take freelance projects for them on the side. The could equally be the foot-in-the-door that I need.
It will largely depend on what they say on Thursday.
>>but very much in a “put my head down and get shit done” type of way. I am not a leader of men.
Are you me? Am I you?
::ponders that on the tree of woe::
Look into my eyes, and know that I love you.
I hear ya. I’ve been lucky in that I was at State Dept for 10 years because I loved my managers and colleagues and the work was generally good. Same thing seems to be panning out at my current job (not surprisingly, I’m working with a bunch of people I worked with at State). Ambition is probably tied up in how much management is trustworthy.
Take the job if you wish.
Quit later if you wish.
Faucohantas haz a sad
https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/national-native-american-hall-of-fame-names-first-twelve-historic-inductees-e-Uu9NZBh0K9TPrv992tyQ
She came in 1024th.
Well, someone came for her 1024th.
http://tinypic.com/r/sxgglf/9
lol
That’s even too high for my tastes. I like her to be 0% and for it to stay that way.
#BELIEVEHER
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., on Sunday said that she took the DNA test that showed a relative six to 10 generations ago was Native American in an effort to rebuild “trust in the government” through transparency.
Warren said the comment during a tense debate with her Republican challenger for Senate in Massachusetts, state Rep. Geoff Diehl. Warren, 69, is running for her second six-year term in the Senate and is a potential 2020 candidate for president.
She said that trust in the government is at an all-time low and changed her mind about the test after saying no to being tested in March.
What a maroon.
Sweet Jeebus, this woman is dumber than a box of rocks.
When you find yourself in a hole, step one is to stop digging.
It’s truly amazing. She didn’t just step on a rake – she actually paid a company to place the rake in front of her, took a running start and stomped down on it with all the might she could muster.
Don’t worry: here in MA, the consensus is that she didn’t step on a rake. Rather she danced beautifully with it like Fred Astaire with the broom.
They’re not called Massholes for nothing.
When Elizabeth Warren first ponced onto the world stage, my mom watched a couple of her speeches and came to a very scathing conclusion about her based on her body language, the way she made herself up and the way she comported herself.
“That is a very vain woman who desires people acknowledging her as being superior.” And I think that is about right. The Native American thing popped up right after being native american went from being a negative to being a positive. During the financial crisis, she came up with the CFPB, and designed it to be very much like the Hoover-era FBI (unaccountable, with access to troves of information useful for blackmail). And when Obama wisely decided not to put her in charge of her creation, she immediately pivoted to seeking a senate seat and from there the presidency.
I’m actually grateful to Trump for sabreing her presidential ambitions to the point where they’re bleeding out on the sand.
This article gets so close, but fails to point out that the “social contract” is complete bullshit.
https://fee.org/articles/do-we-really-consent-to-be-governed/
Still, it’s worth a read.
I don’t think it fails to point it out. The entire article is essentially a proof that the social contract is neither a social thing, nor a contract.
I suppose you could make the case for “consensual rape”, but I haven’t heard it.
fires Creosote flare pistol
or just read this
There should be a safe word for when we’re dealing with government agents.
Goldwater?
Ruby?
Waco?
Mises?
I can’t think of one that would be easy to work into the throes of regulation.
Smith or Wesson?
In romance, it’s called “forced seduction.”
In the Fountainhead it’s been referred to as “rape by engraved invitation.”
I liked it, if I was abetter writer, it is what I would write, but I would have added to this
Any resistance is punishable by death, no matter how small the original “crime” was.
I liked it, and would have written something similar if I was a better writer, but I would have added to this part:
Any resistance is punishable by death, no matter how small the original “offense” was.
FEE! Hey remember >a href=”https://fee.org/articles/pearl-jam-vs-ticketmaster-a-holy-war-on-reaiity/”>this?
Want to know when you’re going to die?
Wonder if he has anyone on his staff named Pinero…
Quick question: haven’t watched any Marvel Netflix shows since Iron fist S1 (haven’t had time for Punisher, JJ S2, Defenders, LC S2, etc) – is there a refresher at the beginning of DD S3 or does it just pick up from where season 2 ended plotwise?
On vacation this week and only connectivity is via my phone for the moment.
For all of them there’s a little recap. If you haven’t watched Defenders, DD S3 starts based on the ending for that, which is a bit of a change from the situation in DD S2. Feel free to ask if you want specifics, and I’ll spoil it.
I am a huge fan of the Daredevil series and I just started the third season. There isn’t a refresher at the beginning, and to complicate things, it pick up at the end of the Defenders series. So it goes: DD season 1 > DD season 2 > Defenders > DD season 3. If you have time, I’d watch in that order. But if you don’t have time, (vague spoiler alert), Defenders ended in a final battle with the Hand, where Daredevil and Elektra were caught in a building collapse and presumed dead.
I haven’t watched the other series, except for The Punisher, which I thought was amazing.
The Punisher is about my favorite character in the series, I also liked Luke Cage. I think Iron Fist is the weakest character in the franchise.
Well, Iron Fist and Luke Cage have been cancelled by Netflix. Here’s the hope that it leads to both the Daughters of the Dragon and Heroes for Hire.
Ditto. The Punisher is awesome.
I haven’t watched the Daredevil series, but my wife and I loved the Punisher series.
Probably the most enjoyable and mostly realistic action series I can remember.
I just started watching the 3rd season of DareDevil. Good sofar. Vincent D’Onofrio’s King Pin is very well done, I’m glad he is in the new season.
I’m just a bit upset that we’ll probably never get the Daredevil/Spider-Man friendship. And I’m also loving this version of the Kingpin. Can we get a live action version of Tombstone next?
I feel like the guy overacts big time, but DareDevil is all right.
Ok, I think I can watchdefenders, IIRC DD S2 ended with Elektra in the resurrection box. I’ve heard very mixedthings h,
Stupid phone. Heard mixed things re punisher from razorfist, etc. May check it out when I have more time.
There’s a short “previously on Daredevil” video somewhere in the playlist, but I’m not sure how helpful it will be, since I saw The Defenders and both seasons of DD as they came out and I mostly remembered everything in it anyway.
So this popped into my YouTube feed. Can’t stop watching it… https://youtu.be/YSjsNzffUGQ
That is hilarious!
*Checks upthread* You guys want to gun down the caravan? *Slowly distances self*
related: Mexican Caravan
Groovy Caravan
Another groovy caravan.
Oh, good one. I know what this afternoon’s playlist is gonna look like.
Another caravan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzgJIF00Xdw
It will sense a clear and concise message to future potential migrants.
You misspelled “invaders”.
Yet you missed the typo in ‘send’.
It was mentioned, but if you can’t find a better way of turning them away without slaughtering them, you aren’t trying hard enough.
Sometimes, it doesn’t pay to be the nice, principled guy. The direct, unequivocal message is easiest to understand. I doubt we’d actually shoot them, though we can deploy enough manpower to seize and deport the bulk of them at the border.
Agreed – we have plenty of federal cops and soldiers who could take them down without shooting them. They shouldn’t be processed for refugee status or anything else – just sent home unless Mexico wants them.
I would laugh hard if we just crop-dusted the convoy with tear gas every day until they turned around.
“President uses chemical weapons on helpless babies” – CNN
That would work.
The “gunning down” is a bit hyperbolic, but it’s designed to make a point. Basically, absent these individuals following some well-defined immigration process, a mass wave like this could be viewed as a foreign invasion force and fair game to be shot. I don’t think that’s a good solution; however, assuming you believe in the concept of national sovereignty and a nation’s ability to police its own borders, it’s a valid point to be made.
Stunts like this should piss off those with permissive views on immigration as much as it pisses off restrictionists. It damages the arguments for permissive/open borders by fueling the counter-argument of “we won’t be able to handle/assimilate the flood of people that will be coming in!” Caravans like this are not natural or the normal immigration pattern; it’s clearly being organized by left-wing groups.
The people I see being all bleeding-heart about this are white suburbanites who’ll never have to deal with it.
Speaking as an open-borders fanatic, this stunt does piss me off, for exactly that reason.
Consider what would happen if the U.S. government did nothing in regards to the collumn. Where’s it going to go? Where are its members going to disperse? What are they going to do when they get there?
These people have no plan. The organizers haven’t actually organized what’s going to happen at the destination. Why? Because they aren’t supposed to get there. They are supposed to be stopped by the U.S. government. They are supposed to be stopped violently. And this will make great propaganda against Trump.
It’s fucking inhumane. If I were to interview the participants in the march, I am highly confident that I would discover that the organizers had systematically lied to them. That the enlistment of the refugees into the column was based on fraudulent representations as to what was going to happen to them.
If the organizers truly cared for improving those people’s welfare by relocating them to the U.S., they would have done it very differently. The organizers don’t care. Rather they are trying to push the buttons of people who are worried by unrestricted migration, to provoke those skeptics into a violent response. It’s utterly depraved.
Perfectly fair criticism. I highly doubt these people think they are on some suicidal Kamikaze mission and they need to be informed that they aren’t getting in by storming the walls.
They literally stormed the wall (OK, “fence”) to get into Mexico, and are now unarrested and undeported in Mexico, making their way north.
But sure, US, who sucks at protecting its border, refuses to enforce immigration laws until forced to, and even then is a total failure at deportations will stop them.
They’re getting in, at worst they’re going to get caged up for months on end and will provide midterm electoral propaganda, which is the purpose of the exercise. And all the jerking off is just that (including my idea for “keep it moving north, dump it on PM Zoolander”).
You’re right. It’s another case of brinksmanship. You could start shooting Antifa when they smash windows or block highways. If Trump plays this right, he may be able to watch this blow up in the Dem’s faces.
Agreed.
This isn’t going to end well for anyone.
It’s just going to end in a Mexican stand-off.
“It’s utterly depraved.”
Agreed. I can’t blame these people for being desperate to get away from a corrupt, violent, poverty-stricken country. It is a special kind of evil to prey on that desperation and use them as pawns to try and provoke a political crisis.
Let’s say it’s trespassing. Well, you’ve had millions of people trespassing for as long as I can remember. In libertopia you may be able to blast a guy that set foot on your property, but we don’t live in libertopia. There a many, many steps you should take before you ever get guards on towers mowing down people. It’s the same thing I always get into when I talk about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Maybe at that exact moment it was the correct thing to do, but the culmination of multiple mistakes leading up to it are what we should mainly be focusing on.
The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were one of the few disagreements I have had with my wife.
Being Japanese, she was totally against them and I was a 19 yo Marine so I was totally for them and was dumbfounded that she could not see that they were “necessary.”
I realize how we were taught that it had to be done, and had never thought about the morality involved.
I have since come to realize that bombing cities is evil, regardless of whether nuclear or conventional munitions are used.
They bring up the oil embargo, the shit the other European countries were doing, etc… It’s more than just the state of the pacific theater on those two dates. As Bill Burr says about the woman who gets beat by his wife, “Well, were you fuckin’ with him?”
we had to show them dirty commies we meant business. the Japs were just conveniently handy.
That’s actually the reason why you don’t put war-important factories in dense cities. Or actually, that’s why the sickest fucks DO put their important shit in dense cities – they think the likelihood of getting bombed is smaller in dense cities, preying on their enemies’ greater sense of decency than their own.
The transport infrastructure and worker base is already there. Put the factory somewhere else and you’ll have to build new transit links and housing, and then you’ll find you have just built a brand new city to get bombed.
Only need to put them 5-10 miles out of town to keep most of the people from getting melted. Makes the factory easier to see from air reconnaissance, but keeps everyone not on duty at the factory at time of bombing from getting destroyed.
You did touch upon it, but I find the firebombing of Tokyo to be a worse example of military atrocities.
I think the Bombs needed to happen. Invasion would’ve been terrible for US troops and many more Japanese would’ve starved to death. Stalin was sitting right outside read to split Japan like Korea got split. The Bombs arguably scared him away and led to a more peaceful and productive Japan, more quickly. I think a blockade would’ve been–overall–more deadly and wouldn’t have allowed to the US to take the firm upper position in the Post War politik.
I don’t like the utilitarian arguments that I make here, but it’s how I feel. Imperial Japan was a dreadful force and they deliberately fucked us (although to their credit, they at least chose a military target).
Very much an instance of not starting a fight but making goddamn sure that we ended it.
I understand all that, sometime you really do have to choose the lesser of two weevils.
I agree 100%
the A-bombs were “necessary.”
There’s no reason why the US could not have simply focused on perpetual tactical, high-explosive bombing of military infrastructure until capitulation. There is no formulation by which a nuclear device is necessary instead of this. Their air force was gone, their global threat was an evaporating residue; time, equipment, and money were on the American side.
The Marine efforts in occupying Japan could then have proceeded as if capitulation were achieved by nukes. Any shock-and-awe preference for nukes is merely argumentative and unprovable; that Marine lives were at stake does not in any way settle the question of how to secure capitulation.
That said, I’m a great admirer of Thank God for the Atomic Bomb; Paul Fussell was a keen essayist….and combat infantryman.
Wasn’t that the idea in Europe? Lots of cities were burned to the ground pretty indiscriminately anyway.
that Marine lives were at stake does not in any way settle the question of how to secure capitulation.
I suspect it rather settles the question definitively for the Marine lives that would have been at stake. I’m sorry, but I don’t entirely buy the “lives are lives are lives” argument. The option facing the wartime decision-makers was whether to sacrifice the lives of thousands of people in the country we were at war with or sacrifice the lives of thousands of our own people. A government that doesn’t place a greater value on the lives of the people it ostensibly represents than the people of a country it’s at war with lacks a moral claim on any particular loyalty on behalf of its citizens.
Thanks. I did not mean to argue “lives are lives” at all, but that’s surely a fair reading. I should have written
to the extent that capitulation could have been secured just as easily without nukes, the weight of Marine lives doesn’t matter.
I don’t normally second-guess military planning, but I often second guess pop notions and that was my intent: I merely contend that nukes were unnecessary and that arguments to the contrary are fanciful.
I merely contend that nukes were unnecessary and that arguments to the contrary are fanciful.
Solid point. But, I think it’s necessary to differentiate between “necessary” and “just as easy”. It’s pretty hard for me to imagine a conventional strategy that wouldn’t have involved either the commitment of ground forces or indiscriminate strategic conventional bombing. The distinction between the latter and a nuclear weapon, to me, isn’t a particularly important one. A guy burned to death in a fire bombing is just as dead as a guy killed in a nuclear blast. And the former is where you run into the question of how many of our lives do we sacrifice to protect theirs.
Yeah, that’s where we differ.
With the lack of accurate bombing back then, I think it would just be a case of ripping the bandaid right off rather than slowly pulling it away. The more bombing raids would have increased chance for both US and Japanese civilian lives lost and in that military situation I do agree (asshole that he and others have been) that a quick war is a merciful war.
I also think that without that show of strength to the Soviets the Cold War very likely could’ve taken a different tack. Making sure that they knew they were at a position of weakness for the 4 years it took them to get nukes is, I don’t think, an inconsequential thing.
“Their air force was gone, their global threat was an evaporating residue; time, equipment, and money were on the American side.”
And they chose not to surrender. Instead, two of their aircraft factories were still operating and after the first of them was bombed they STILL decided to put more of their people at risk. Bomb me once, shame on you. Bomb me twice, shame on me.
Government arrogance for the loss, example #1,366,765.
We ardently agree that they needed more bombing.
I have since come to realize that bombing cities is evil, regardless of whether nuclear or conventional munitions are used.
I’m not so sure. The question comes to me of who was the aggressor. Honestly, given the fact that the Japanese started the war against the U.S., I’m not entirely convinced they didn’t deserve whatever consequence we chose to visit on them in response. In the interest of not punishing the innocent, we should have broadcast the fact that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were on the table as targets. But, I believe we did. Beyond that, I’m not sure I entirely buy the argument for restraint in war against an aggressor.
If I recall correctly, warning was issued, but Japan took it to be hyperbolic bluster. After one of their cities turned up missing, they realized we were serious. But they remained silent for too long, and a second one went away.
That’s how I remember it.
That’s….pretty fucking charitable of us, if you ask me. I doubt any military in human history has revealed and warned the opposition of such a super weapon before utilizing it.
I just can’t justify carpet bombing civilians in their homes.
Even if you think it’s justified, has it ever worked?
Not talking nukes, but has carpet bombing cities ever cowed the populace and made them want to surrender, or has it had the opposite effect and hardened them?
Insufficient data.
Not carpet bombing per se, but the Mongols’ brutality certainly preceded them and many cities cowed to them with relatively little (or no) bloodshed. As long as tribute was paid.
How so?
The Germans bombed the hell out of England and we bombed the hell out of the Germans and Japanese.
Evan, the Mongols were akin to a nuke, they could wipe you off the map.
It only speaks to the mindset of the saxon and japanese cultures. Saxon bloody-mindedness and japanese dedication are well known.
So if you have a strong culture bombing won’t work?
Where would it work?
According to the North Vietnamese, Operation Linebacker was actually making them want to negotiate an end to the war, and if not for the US homefront, would have taken more unfavorable terms than eventually got handed down. I don’t remember how concentrated the targetting was in that campaign.
I had never heard that about the NVA.
The Tet offensive was one of the greatest PR wins in history.
Apparently Linebacker was “Precision” munitions rather than saturation bombing.
My mistake.
Osage Avenue?
“Precision” munitions are fine.
Taking out a military target and carpet bombing a city are two very different things.
I believe the latter is evil, and that the Air Force General who came up with the plans for us to do it to Germany and Japan was guilty of war crimes.
We won, right?
Hard to say for sure, it probably did help the war effort. I don’t think anyone is claiming you can win just by bombing shit, you need to credibly threaten complete occupation. The bombing is just a way of showing you can and you will force your will upon them, and they cannot stop you.
@Ron
@Ron: I agree with you that the Mongols were a 13th century nuke.
They where, however, quite happy to let you keep your city, your religion and your government as long as you towed the lion and paid them tribute.
Their “nuking” cities and stacking up mountains of skulls was meant to serve as a warning to other cities who thought about resisting.
If you gave in, they were–for the time–fairly forgiving about your surrender and let you live the way that you had before. Just give the conquerors their riches and they’d largely let you live the way you had before. You were conquered but still had a bit of your own identity.
The Japanese were not willing or able to capitulate until we showed them such a deliberate show of force and violence. They were the bright lights that proved to people that fighting back was no longer a viable option.
And the Soviets took notice, as well.
We had two options – (1) blockade and bomb until they gave in, which would likely have killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, or (2) invade, which likely have killed tens of thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians.
The nuclear bombs were the most humane way to force a Japanese surrender, in my opinion. Naturally, the alternatives are speculative, but about the only thing I can think of that would have been more humane would have been to drop the first one offshore of a major city so they could see what it would do, and hope they got the message. I believe part of our issue was that we only had two of the damned things, which might be a strike against a demonstration bombing.
Any “open borders” policy will lead to this sort of thing sooner or later. Not everyone is going to queue up nicely because we make it easier to get in.
I know. That’s why I do my bit when its my turn to carry the ammunition for the chainguns that keep the hordes of impoverished Vermonters from sweeping into Massachusetts.
Despite the failings of Massataxes, the culture from state to state is still far more similar than it is from country to country. And we have already sorted all the freeloading bums into California, so there’s less welfare-migration among the rest of the forty-nine.
And we have already sorted all the freeloading bums into California
The panhandlers sitting on seemingly every major intersection, sometimes 2-3 per, seem not to have gotten that memo.
Yes, I know. In this case, I was being less than fully accurate. I still have a few exceptions left on my pedant licence before I have to start paying fines.
It’s gotten almost gratuitous. I don’t remember it ever being this bad. You’d see one every once in awhile. Now it’s every couple blocks, and almost every freeway on and off-ramp. Is shame totally out of vogue? It makes sense, since guilt is so fashionable: guilty socially conscious drivers acting like patrons for shameless homeless larpers.
In the DC metro area the beggars have moved to the suburbs to occupy all the median strips on the highways. They move farther out from the city every day.
“… it’s clearly being organized by left-wing groups.”
The whole point of the open borders crowd is to import as many commie votes as possible. That’s what they aren’t saying, but that is it.
Kind of like being fisted without permission could be viewed as rape. The people that put them up to this should be shot in the head on pay per view
Prevent them from crossing, arrest and deport if they manage. No guns, although I do realize it’s hyperbole.
That’s all I’m sayin’. Appropriate force to stop them.
When I was in the National Guard they asked for volunteers for a border patrol mission. I volunteered, then un-volunteered when they told us we would be bringing no weapons. While I have no desire to shoot people, I have even less desire to be killed because I’m unarmed in a dangerous situation.
I’m more from the tough-love school: we set up catapults that sling barrels of SF sidewalk excrement and crates of application forms from Ohio State at them until they retreat in horror. Or
we could let Early Cuyler handle it
+1 dont touch the trim !
Hey hey, I thought that had been canceled.
When Elizabeth Warren first ponced onto the world stage, my mom watched a couple of her speeches and came to a very scathing conclusion about her based on her body language, the way she made herself up and the way she comported herself.
“That is a very vain woman who desires people acknowledging her as being superior.”
I’d say your mother is an excellent judge of people.
Warren exudes an insufferable sanctimonious schoolmarm aura.
She looks like she should be rapping kids’ knuckles in a Dickensian schoolroom.
She really does exude that vibe. I can’t image anyone putting her in charge of anything bigger than a library.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh!
A lot of people love her for exactly the same reasons. Yeah, I don’t get it either.
“Ands now I present today’s song.”
Gay band or gayest band ever?
Their video for “I Want a Woman, Not Some Little Girl” cracked me up.
The song is all about how they don’t want an immature girl, but the video is full of high school girls.
These people have no plan. The organizers haven’t actually organized what’s going to happen at the destination. Why? Because they aren’t supposed to get there. They are supposed to be stopped by the U.S. government. They are supposed to be stopped violently. And this will make great propaganda against Trump.
It’s fucking inhumane. If I were to interview the participants in the march, I am highly confident that I would discover that the organizers had systematically lied to them. That the enlistment of the refugees into the column was based on fraudulent representations as to what was going to happen to them.
I’m naive, but I find it hard to believe the “massive column of refugee invaders” actually exists, for exactly this reason. How fucking stupid would you have to be, to join this aimless catastrophe?
I know you don’t often get to interact with human beings out in the wilds. Talk to a human being again sometime. The average person is stupid.
George Carlin:
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Heh
The Soros folks recruited the dumbest people they could find, gave them a few bucks, promised them meals and rides (when the TV cameras aren’t rolling). The recruiters hope these dummies get beat up and abused at the border. They want victims.
Of course we should stop the convoy, if for no other reason, we can’t take that kind of hit to the nation’s collective IQ.
This summarizes pretty well what I’ve observed about elite, white, Leftists and why they despise Trump so much.
http://archive.is/qGbGu
Trump has plenty of legitimate things to criticize, but everything does seem to boil down to a matter of taste and culture. Trump is a boor. He’s a vulgar ruffian who doesn’t properly apologize for his success. Trying to spin that unemployment among minorities being at historic lows is somehow a bad thing shows how much tribalism can rot your mind.
I can’t get to archive at work, is it worth bookmarking for later?
I think it’s a decent read. Written by probably the only member of the Yale faculty that doesn’t virulently hate Trump.
Gelernter is a fascinating dude.
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/19/business/david-gelernter-s-romance-with-linda.html
It’s pretty good.
Good read. Pretty much puts words to my view of the man.
it’s 1,585 miles from Tegucigalpa to McAllen. when i think of the logistics required for a Boy Scout camping trip, it boggles my mind that there aren’t dead Hondurans littering the trail already.
Because the whole thing is organized and paid for with Soros money. They get off the trucks and buses for a while and walk around posing for cameras. Then they are fed and loaded back into the vehicles until the next stop.
oh, well fuck them then.
There very well might be. Not that the organizers give a shit.
Curly is the best Stooge. Hands down.
Oh, a wise guy, eh?
I will never forgive the LP for failing to nominate this man.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1054194692773105664
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1054196671465353218
Gotta disagree with him on the Scotch though.
He seems to prefer Irish whiskey.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1050410282382708736
I love that there is a real gun in the background propped against the stereo.
Jack
@jacky32475
14h14 hours ago
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Why does cheap wine taste better?
John McAfee
Verified account @officialmcafee
14h14 hours ago
No clue. It just seems to follow everything else in life. Rolls Royce’s are the worst cars on the planet. The most expensive Scotch is shit. Homes in Beverly Hills are tiny cause they sell for $10,000 per square foot. The cheapest Ho’s on the planet are Thai. They are the best.
That’s how you do rich guy. Awesome.
I will never forgive him for his horrible “security” software.
When I cancelled my subscription, I took their little survey. My answer to what would make me come back “Your product would first have to stop crashing the network stack and stop making the machine run slower than molassas running uphill in winter.”
That’s the great irony. The software *IS* the virus.
Curly is the best Stooge. Hands down.
*uptwinkles*
Trump has plenty of legitimate things to criticize, but everything does seem to boil down to a matter of taste and culture.
Short-fingered vulgarian!
Re the caravan. If they make it,. house them at Reasons and Nick’s place
They should also house a lot of them in the dorms at Harvard & Yale and all the other schools where the students are crying out in support of refugees.
Let them in and put on a caravan of buses and drop them off in downtown LA, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle and SF.
This “migrant caravan” along with however many other crises being funded by him not just in the US, but around the world, gets me thinking: What the hell do you do with someone like Soros?
He is definitely entitled to his own views, and he’s entitled to spend his (I assume legally, if unsavorily, earned) money as he pleases. However, the guy does seem to be some kind of real-life Bond villain intent on using his considerable wealth to sow as much chaos, discord and instability around the world as he can. While it hasn’t happened yet, there is the very real possibility that his meddling could directly lead to a war.
What do you do?
I’m actually a little surprised that he hasn’t met an unfortunate accident yet.
I’m not condoning that, I just think he must be on some lists.
Since he confessed to being an actual Nazi during their reign, there are a few… options.
The problem is the organization he’s set up that will outlast him.
Yes, but hopefully without their criminal mastermind sitting atop of it, they will be less effective.
And yes, Mossad was forefront on my mind.
Isn’t he still wanted in several countries for illegal currency manipulation? I’m still surprised the Brits didn’t kill him after he screwed with the Pound.
Hungary has several active warrants for him and has requested his extradition, not sure about others. So his homeland is sick of his shit at any rate.
Ultra-super-far-right-wing Hungary…? ?
So do we know Soros has funded it? I hadn’t heard there was any evidence of that.
Even if this particular incident wasn’t his doing, the number of confirmed incidents tracable to him is sufficient to ask the original question.
Absent any evidence whatsoever, I’m more inclined to believe it was goaded on by the various leaders in Central America.
I’m kinda with you here. While George Soros is a Bond villain and I’d love to see him brought low, I think it’s at least as likely if not more so that the governments of the various shitholes sending their extraneous poor people north are at least tacitly involved.
I could be succumbing to conspiracy-mindedness, but I have a hard time believing it could be anyone else.
I feel like this may be another terrible tactical season in a long recent string of them for Democrats.
During the Obama administration, I at least thought thought that party was making decent strategic decisions.
Do they really think Americans are going to be that sympathetic to this? Or is this not going to make Trump look like a hero again?
Immigration is the #1 issue in America right now, and polls indicate Trump is on the winning political side. I personally don’t rate it a serious issue, but Is this the issue Democrats really want to highlight right now?
This is incredibly foolish.
You mean Soros is actually a sleeper agent for the alt-right playing the long game as the necessary villain?
Yes. Most rational explanation, clearly.
Conquest’s third law in action.
Yep. I think that the image of that sea of people demanding entry is going to be a boon for the Repubs.
In romance, it’s called “forced seduction.”
I cling, despite plentiful evidence to the contrary, to the notion that I am “irresistibly adorable”.
That’s an essential component.
who needs CCTV when Swedes are getting chippy
Swedes really are a special kind of stupid
They bled all their strong Viking blood away.
Over/under on how many years before they’re mandatory? Five?
Only for Dhimmis.
So do we know Soros has funded it? I hadn’t heard there was any evidence of that.
If George Soros did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
More info on the “caravan”.
http://www.pueblosinfronteras.org/viacrucis.html
…and this article claims that this is, in fact, a front group funded by Soros, working in concert with the Honduran government.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/10/illegal_caravans_encouraged_by_honduras_and_soros.html
If your current neighborhood is so bad, just get your ass up and move, you don’t need any ‘status’ to do that.
At the risk of sounding shitlordish, being upset because you’re not getting government aid is contributing to your situation. Think about it like this: whatever else you think about illegal immigrants, they’re picking up stakes and crossing a desert to move to an entirely different country hundreds of miles away. If an illiterate housewife with five kids and no car from Oaxaca can get to Texas, Elaine from SoWeBo can get to Lancaster, or Hagerstown, or fuckin’ Perry Hall. Put another way, if I’ve got to lock my door when I take the trash out to keep the crackheads from stealing my TV, camping alongside the highway is better than the status quo.
i’m assuming ICE will request Nat’l Guard assistance at the border.
Already an NG presence in every border state since last year. CA is the only one with serious restrictions…any bets they’re gonna head for San Dog again? Wall or no?
While the wall may not be terribly effective at stopping onesey-twosey illegals, it would certainly give us some options for dealing with these kind of mass violations of our borders.