Hump Daaaaaaay! The Rd Sox doubled up the Dodgers to start off the World Series. Kershaw was Kershaw…playoff Kershaw. Winners of the big UCL games were: Bayern, Ajax, Roma, Juventus (over ManUre), Madrid, and Man City. And on the ice, the Red Wings continue to personify Detroit by sucking as much as possible. Les Canadiens and the Maple Leafs are playing great, as are Boston and Carolina in the east. Pittsburgh is getting it together and the (I hate to cll them this) Stanley Cup champ Cpitals are doing just fine again. In the west, the Preds, Avs and Jets are looking solid with the Blackhawks, Sharks and Mighty Duck Fucks nipping at their heels. The Kings, Coyotes and Blues are sucking hind tit. And that’s the day in sports.
Playwright Moss Hart was born on this day. As were famous G-man Melvin Purvis, bluesman Sonny Terry, football legend YA Tittle, musician The Big Bopper, notorious gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray, rocker Bill Wyman, underrated actor F Murray Abraham, drummer Jerry Edmonton, actor Kevin Kline, Canadian mass murderer Robert Pickton, oilman and psychotic soccer team owner Roman Abramovich, personality Tila Tequila, Mr Potato Head-looking soccer player Wayne Rooney, and Internet personality PewDiePie.
Its also the day Kepler succeeded Brahe as imperial mathematician to Rudolph II. Its also the day the Treaty of Westphalia was signed and Switzerland’s independence was recognized, West Virginia seceded from Virginia, “Black Thursday” on the stock exchange, Al Capone was sentenced for tax evasion, the (worthless) charter of the (worthless) United Nations went into effect (without any force behind it), Ike pledged support to South Vietnam, “The Manchurian candidate” hit the big screen, Zambia gained independence from the UK, Mick Jagger was busted for pot, the Yom Kippur War ended, Keith Richards was convicted for heroin possession, the Concorde made its last commercial flight, and Michael Schumacher won his fifth straight world drivers title.
And now I bring you…the links!
What could possibly go wrong? Not that it really matters in that single-party shithole. But still…this is a bad precedent.
You can either give $38M you got for free to someone else or you can pretend you’re Monty Brewster. The Irish-American running against a hispanic in Texas is opting for the latter.
Somebody in South Carolina became a billionaire last night. Elsewhere across the country, tens of millions of people voluntarily paid the government and got nothing in return (me included).
The Darwin Awards are starting a music category. Also, “Canadian rapper” sounds weird to say. Also, the last sentence of the story made me laugh.
What the fuck is wrong with people? Seriously, what the fuck?
“Actress” says “LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEE”. OTHER ACTRESS RESPONDS “NO, LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!” Then both proceed to heap raise on each other. Fucking celebrities.
And I thought initiations by American fraternities were weird. What a pisser.
Bulgarian socialists say: keep voting until we get the results we want. Well, those dips hits will have to keep trying, I guess.
You get the good stuff today. At least in my opinion. Which is what matters.
Now tell me what I should have played from the vast catalog in the comments. And have a great day!
Comments
584 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
I’d like to thank all the people that participated in the lottery to help reduce my tax bill.
Why, did somebody in government somewhere cut spending?
In WI we get a reduction on our taxes from lottery revenue.
If a player hits all six numbers to win the jackpot, they can opt for an immediate cash payment of $904million or receive the $1.6billion prize over 29 years.
I would definitely take the cash.
We talked about it yesterday afternoon. I’m not sure I would want almost a $Billion to land on me all at once.
I would somehow manage, I bet.
I would build a huge vault and fill it with gold coins. Also I would not trust government and inflation. I would rather buy a bunch of restaurateur a bunch of art or antiques and a bunch of Victoria secret models (how much does a mid tier one cost these days? )
I’m putting the lump sum into Bitcoin.
You are better off buying ether.
As always, never forget taxes. If I went annuity in MD, I think* I would still have to file as a non-resident the entirety of the annuity payments, even after moving out. However, MD has local tax rates that piggyback on the state. So lump sum would mean I would need to pay 8+% now, whereas the annuity allows me to move out and avoid the 3% local rate.
CA surprisingly does not tax lottery winnings**, so you probably would be better off taking lump before retreating to a state where they would not tax your investment income.
*, ** – only ever saw one lottery winner’s tax return, I did not prepare it and so never really needed to research anything.
***do not use this as advice, burn after reading***
I know exactly what I’d do. I’d consult lawyers and finance people to make it last for me and my immediate family (wife’s too). I’d buy a huge tract of land and build a house on it directly adjacent to a personal road course, complete with workshop. There’d be a firing range on the property too. I’d spend the rest of my days hiring instructors and learning how to drive and shoot, then probably spend the evenings in a giant study reading every book I never knew I wanted to read.
Security would be a big investment too.
There’d be an open invitation to anyone here…assuming they can answer some basic questions about property rights and Glib memes.
With that much money, I am quite certain this wouldn’t even make a dent.
So… the passphrase to enter is “fuck off slaver tulpa, you know who else had basic questions?
steve smith answer question.”?
SILLY WILD HORSE NOT GET IN, GET RAPE INSTEAD. PASSWORD CASE SENSITIVE!
Well it would only be about $625 million after taxes, or you could get ~$37 million a year for 30 years.
Every source that tells you the after tax amount uses 24% for the federal tax rate because that is the mandatory withholding from the winnings. It is NOT the actual rate, which will almost certainly be 37%,
I’d take the cash and immediately invest it.
Where to start?
Picking up from the previous thread…
Tres Cool: ” This is a group of people, who collectively, wish for a solid authoritarian regime. ”
Comparing them to the supporting the British monarchy is too kind. US progs are more like the French, enough of whom seemed to be just fine with Hitler.
just fine with Hitler
Which is an interesting development to say the least. Trump has broken people brains.
Their brains were already broken. They just take more pride in flaunting it now.
When you are that invested in your ideology that it not only defines your politics but your identity and your self worth – especially your delusion that you are smart because you believe the right marxist shit – having it fail is a major life shattering event. You would think these people might realize they are neither as smart as they think they are and that they are beholden to dumb ideas, but instead they chose to double down to preserve their delusions. Stupid is as stupid does.
“Actress” says “LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEE”. OTHER ACTRESS RESPONDS “NO, LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!” Then both proceed to heap raise on each other.
Actually, it was Louis CK who was saying, “LOOK AT MEEEEEE!” That’s what started all this.
I appreciated the Silverman story. She said, sometimes he would ask me and I wanted to see, sometimes I’d say no and we’d get pizza. He had nothing to offer me, we were equals.
Seems pretty chill.
Then the “accuser”…. He had nothing to offer me either.
But on the first day on set he asked her to watch him masturbate. So he took that away from her? She’s a victim of harassment?
I don’t think hitting on someone once is harassment. At least not in my book. You’ve got issues if you think some guy hitting on you “took away ” your big day. The only thing he might have taken from her is her respect for him…. since apparently she thinks he’s unattractive and found his advances insulting.
All his bizarre fetish behaviors aside, I’d say Louis C.K. is the one who had something taken away. He tells a coworker that he thinks she’s attractive and wants to get kinky, and her response is not only to tell him that he’s disgusting, but that he’s so disgusting that she feels that the mere suggestion that she might want to be with him to be a grave insult. An insult so great that it cannot be countenanced. It must be publicly shamed.
I mean, that’s what she’s really talking about. That a troll like that dared to come on to her. If it had been Brad Pitt, (or whatever dude floats her boat) she would have had a completely different response. Then it would have been terrific.
So despite the obviously uncomfortable situation he created by opening that can of worms, let’s not kid ourselves here. The real harm that flowed was in the opposite direction. She got paid an (unwanted) compliment. He got told he was so gross that the mere suggestion that she might want a kinky encounter with him was such an offence that he should never be seen in public again. That’s a pretty deep cut.
They didn’t have to look. And from the way I read it, one chose to (and watched) and the other chose not to (and didn’t watch)…and that’s it. Unless I missed something and he forced one of them to watch him. Which is kidnapping and sexual assault, neither of which he has been formally accused of even though he said “all the stories are true”.
If I had to watch you yank on your 4-1/2 inches of semi-flaccid Texas tube steak, I’d probably be traumatized as well.
4-1/2 inches
Flattery will get you nowhere.
You should tell him that it is shaped like a tuna can. It might not get in there deep, but it will scrape the shit out of the sides.
How could you force someone to watch? At least one hand is preoccupied.
The Male Glaze?
Both, if you are any good at it.
I think you corner them and they’re too disgusted to walk past you in case your red rocket brushes them in the way out.
Somebody has put some thought into this…
Am I doing capitalism wrong?
I thought the reason I slogged my way into the salt mine every morning was so I could get rich and famous so I could have sex with attractive women. If the end goal was simply masturbation, I could do that for a pittance. It take surprisingly very little specialized equipment to take up that home hobby.
If it was just Louis CK, I’d figure it was just a weirdo. But Weinstein liked to flog it too. What am I missing?
Jimbo, these people you reference, they are broken. Their brains are abnormal. Do not measure yourself by their actions.
I learned a long time ago that measuring myself against others only leads to mocking, pointing and me running away sobbing.
Some people get off making others watch them choke their chicken…
*strange dude on the killing floor of the poultry processing plant, awkwardly places dead chicken in front of his groin*
NO WAY DUDE!
What could possibly go wrong? Not that it really matters in that single-party shithole. But still…this is a bad precedent. – I dunno school board is kinda different from larger government so it is not such a citizenship issue
Except, I’m absolutely certain that they’ll oly be given the ballots they are entitled to when the school board election gets consolidated with the general.
Yeah, there’s no way those ballots could get screwed up or this could be a slippery slope.
You do realize school boards put tax measures on ballots? And that they award contracts? (AKA patronage). You want non-citizens doing this with public monies??
You do realize school boards put tax measures on ballots – I do not
Your first mistake is thinking school board is different from larger government. Schools make up like 80% of non-entitlement spending at the state and local level.
Even worse is how these school systems tend to spend most of their money on administrators that do shit instead of teachers.
That’s really the point: that people who send kids to the schools and pay the taxes should have some say in who administers the schools. Until we eliminate public schools, that’s the system.
I’m 100% okay with every legal resident from green cards up voting in every election. They’re subject to the rules and burdens. Illegal residents are subject to taxes as well, but if you don’t subject yourself to the rules of entry, then it’s fair to say you’re not entitled to any of the benefits (benefits of which most of us would say should be a tiny fraction of the governments we have support today).
I’m also thrilled with the indications that we might have the greatest turnout ever in a midterm; I basically think that anyone who cares enough to want to vote should get to. The prospect of my candidates losings or awful people being elected bothers me infinitely less than the idea that more people are paying attention, mixing it up and voting, and will be more invested in the government in the next two years than before. So long as one believes in voting (a totally different question), this is a great step forward.
Last, there should be no felon disenfranchisement (especially considering how disproportionate the cost of administering the restriction is compared to the likelihood that felons and ex-cons would vote anyway). It should be the opposite: on your 18th birthday, you should get your automatic voting registration based on the address on your drivers license (so long as that entity exists) or tax form telling you where your polling station is; your registration should be perpetual, with your only obligation being to update your address correctly on your taxes when you move.
I’m not hot for Dem candidates or illegal alien voting; I just think this is fundamental, simple, straightforward and obvious. It is easier to say we shouldn’t have elections than it is to say who shouldn’t get to vote.
Good morning, Sloop!
Now tell me what I should have played from the vast catalog in the comments.
All solid choices. I like this gem, too.
I really wavered on that and my second one. Like to the point that I changed the link twice.
The other songs are non-negotiable.
Those two records are their best. Hard to go wrong.
Heartbreaker or gtfo.
I have always been fond of this one
Unpopular Opinion time: The Rolling Stones suck. There. I said it.
*I do not get the love.*
They have a couple of very good songs. Fantastic songs. But I just don’t get it. My roommate has an original pressing/jacket of Sticky Fingers and Exit on Main Street. I admit that I haven’t explored much more of their catalog but I was told that those were the “best.” It’s just boring.
Case in point: Stop Breaking Down. The Robert Johnson version is revolutionary. I love the White Stripes version of it. The Stone’s rendition is…so flat. Emotionless. The same (lackluster) intensity throughout the entire song–unchanging.
As a drummer, I know the importance of playing in the pocket. I get it. Sometimes that’s what the song requires. I admit that I am very biased against listening to music like that because it doesn’t interest/challenge me personally. So maybe that’s it. But I swear to god. It’s just so bland.
(I am quite sure that my dad’s argument against me is certainly correct–that in ’64 they were mind-blowing. But not being alive then, I’ve never understood.)
Sorry. My old roommate in college had those albums and made me listen. Even as stoned as a Manson family member, I was not impressed.
So what you’re saying is, you couldn’t get any satisfaction from their work?
You are not alone, my friend.
Let me get this straight. Steely Dan = Good. Rolling stones = Bad?
*shakes head sadly*
I can appreciate people’s dislike of the Stones, but calling them “bland” is something I simply do not get. Exile is an amazing record and absolutely peerless for what it is, although I will concede that Stop Breaking Down is sort of a miss that could have been left off of the final track list. The Stones were the crotch grab with one hand and upturned middle finger with the other to the Beatles’ boys-you-can-introduce-to-your-parents vibe.
^^ People named Michael as smart AF ^^
Mr. Mojeaux’s name is Michael.
Hmmm….OK, I’ll forget about the Steely/Stones thing then. ?
And I sure wish I could edit that “as” to “are”. It kind of belies my assertion…
I know that the White Stripes are not everyone’s bag. Jack White isn’t my favorite musician but he probably is the one that I respect the most. At his record store/venue, there’s a window into the recording studio for shows–just like being able to watch chefs cook. He does live recordings and cuts them into vinyl and presses them right then and there, so you can buy a vinyl of the concert you were just at.
That’s just plain cool. The Serious Jibber Jabber interview (Conan O’Brien doing Charlie Rose-esque interviews) with him was fascinating as they compared live comedy and music. Fascinating stuff.
And goddamn. I don’t care if this isn’t your thing. But it’s certainly mine. He’s obviously talented as hell, but I really love the raw energy behind it.
We went to see “Let’s Spend the Night Together” while on a high school class trip. It was simply horrible, even though like their studio music.
+1 cold Italian pizza
My favorite deep-track
My second-favorite deep track
Here’s mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACSoAJD7aJ4
This song was the very first rock and roll I had ever heard. I was eight years old and had just been moved to the States from the Eastern Bloc. It blew my mind.
I’ve got some real humdingers today.
SJWednesday: MUH PENIZZZ Edition
Well if it was a personal thing and you just left me the fuck alone all this shit would not matter.
Just do as you are told and use the proper made-up pronoun of the day.
Misogynist….. oh, wait. That’s gendered. Dang. Uh, Mis-gender-ist.. no, that’s not right. MisXenist…?
Hang on, I’ll have to get back to you once I figure out the proper level of PC to apply to the obviously Misogynistic word Mosogynist….
could I have both?
And thus an entire genre of porn was born.
It is not chicks with dicks: it’s dudes with tits.
I would never leave the house…
Fuck all of your made up bullshit. If you’re XY you’re a man; if you’re XX you’re a woman. Any delusions otherwise are just that. I will not be forced to deny reality in the name of social justice engineering of society and culture.
^^worse than Hitler^^
The only thing I care about is if I can tell your pronouns from your appearance. Look like a woman, you’re a she. Look like a man, you’re a he. Don’t get mad at me because you look like a man but you want to be called “ma’am” and not “sir.” I’m not interested in you enough to find out what you’ve got under your clothes.
I always have the impression someone like that wants to get mad, and is merely looking for an excuse. Someone who actually believes he is a woman will make an effort to look the part.
Now you’re enforcing femininity on women. And that’s gonna other bull dykes, lumberjills and softball catchers.
I had an obvious crossdresser who banked where I worked as a teller. The first time caught me a little off-guard, but I didn’t gawk or laugh in his face. I settled his transaction. After that it barely registered he’s a man in makeup and heels.
What would it boot him if I made genuine efforts to stretch the credibility of language to believe, in a well-meaning but clearly dishonest way, that he’s a woman? Would his day be brightened if I made effusive hints that I’m in on the shtick, wink wink, that I’m part of his world and believe what he seems to believe? Or does he want to be treated with the same polite indifference everyone else enjoys? Would he prefer living in a world of aloof doubters, or ostentatious believers?
Hell, would he even prefer living in a world in which he is, in fact, a woman? I wonder what progs are filching from their client caste by insisting on total sameness. This curious but harmless crossdresser isn’t a crossdresser, she’s a woman, and don’t you dare suggest she’s anything more than just a woman.
For the new trans crowd, it’s not about empathy or the pleasure of having someone acknowledge your identity, even if they say it is.
It’s about power and the pleasure of making someone participate in your delusion and cognitive dissonance. It’s about the Big Lie, hence why they make the vocabulary impenetrable and without fixed meaning. They want you to just give up and go along out of fear.
It’s got to be a bummer for genuine born-in-the-wrong-body types to watch their identities hijacked by narcissists, political conmen, and credulous youngsters being groomed to it.
I just refer to everyone as “you there” and snap my fingers when I first encounter them. That way everyone is pissed st me.
If they are female you get bonus points for using garcon. (can’t be bothered to look up the alt code for the stupid french soft c thing.)
everyone is pissed st
excellent plan
My lineage speak Mississippi Highland, including ain’t, learnt, amongst, and, for me anyways, pisst.
This.
If you look/act/sound female then as far as I am concerned you are female, if you look/act/sound male then you are male, if you are Pat then I will try my best to be nice and take a best guess or use gender neutral language until I have some clue and then go with my best guess.
I really do not care what you identify as and your “expalaining” it to me is roughly as welcome as Louie CK asking me to watch him masturbate so keep that shit to yourself. Unless you intend on having sex with me I really do not care what is under your clothes either. Finally as I said above I really don’t care about your inner psychoses and do not want to know about them but I am trying to be nice so I expect the same from you which means that if you are on the “Pat spectrum” and I do guess wrong I expect the same courtesy from you which means you do not get to be angry or upset by it and you either overlook it or give me a gentle clue of the appropriate way to address you because the minute you get triggered my willingness to be nice is going to go away and I will feel no qualms about telling you exactly what I think about your lunacy
If you’re XY you’re a man; if you’re XX you’re a woman.
I find your
lack of faithacknowledgement of biological sciencedisturbingtriggering. ///progI agree completely, but there are the occasional individuals who are neither XX nor XY.
Of course, no one mentions them. We’re actually talking about people who are XX or XY but also fucked in the head.
Am I distressed about having a penis?
Every 8th grade boy who is asked to go to the board to do a math problem right after accidentally seeing the bra strap of the girl next to him raises their hand and waves wildly in a show of unity.
As I said on an earlier thread… Female. Catholic. School. Uniforms. Mental blocks were needed.
If my wife and I sometimes engage in a sexual activity which is not something which the largest majority of people consider normal – why am I supposed to make that everybody else’s business and require affirmation from them all?
This is the point of all this PC parading of different sexual interests which I disagree with. All the different flavors of sexual expression don’t interest me enough to care about them. They have the right to explore whatever it is that they and their consensual partners want to do. I don’t get why it is that they think I have to be made aware of it.
Because you have to validate them or they feel you are being mean.
I never understood how winning Best Actor in the movie that won Best Picture could be a career-ender. I figured he must just be a supreme asshole.
He was really good in a swordfighting movie with Julia Robert’s brother and the chick from Time Cop.
Abraham was already 45 when he appeared in Amadeus. He’s a very good character actor.
SJWednesday: Not the Black Beauty Story I Remember
I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.
It means you’re a white supremacist if you don’t find fat chicks attractive.
OK, then I am one.
This thing reads like an SJW “Mad Libs”
downright oppressive
I am pretty sure whatever it is, they are using the word “oppressive” wrong.
So this article isn’t about a horse? Sad!
Bulgarian socialists say: keep voting until we get the results we want. Well, those dipshits will have to keep trying, I guess. – meh opposition does this all the time in Romania. They do not expect the government to fall it is more to signal to their base that they are properly oppositioning . These things have the dumbest names usually, like a 14 year old with a grudge writes them.
So just like the Republicans voting to repeal Obamacare only when they knew it wouldn’t matter.
Artist unveils mural of ‘superhero’ Beto O’Rourke in Austin
Nothing good ever comes from idolizing politicians.
That is absolutely Soviet.
I’m still chuckling over this little bit of vandalism.
http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Bozhinova-on-Destructive-Creation-Image-1.png
That is awesome and hilarious.
They got the exposing part right. They got Louis C.K.’s initials wrong.
SJWednesday: I Want Off This Train Edition
a little rape now
Except, even accepting that loon’s story at face value, it was sexual harassment at worst.
I found this more entertaining. Nope, not afraid of witches, or goblins, or ghouls. And why would you be proud of having disreputable and illegitimate power? Wouldn’t that say that you really don’t deserve the power? Wouldn’t you rather have power that was reputable and legitimate?
whatabbout sexy witches?
Based on Alyssa Milano’s twitter that might not work out so well.
About as well as the clip LH linked I expect.
“Nope, not afraid of witches, or goblins, or ghoul”
Clowns however…..
I know!, right?
Insane how they just assume that Kavanaugh is guilty of horrible things, without any evidence, or corroboration, or credibility on Ford’s part given her inconsistencies and outright lies.
It’s like you don’t even #believewomen.
Emmet Till was unavailable for comment.
STEVE SMITH NEVER RAPE “LITTLE”
STEVE SMITH RAPE ALL SIZES, STEVE SMITH NOT PICKY!
SJWednesday: And You Thought Emotional Labor Was the Pinnacle of Stupid
Situational awareness is sexist now?
Any level of awareness is (whatever)ist. These people’s idealized reality is blissfully ambling through life while the state provides their compass.
No sorry what they are describing is not situational awareness, what they are describing is paranoia.
Situational Awareness is being cognizant of the actual potential dangers not imagining every man in your vicinity is an immediate threat
Well fuck. I guess I should just walk through the shitty neighborhoods with my phone, money, and wallet hanging out. Since I don’t need to protect myself from violence.
Well, if you don’t want to take care of yourself, maybe we can come up with some sort of system where you become bonded to someone who volunteers to be responsible for your well being…
I like how taking care of your own household and child has become “unrecognized work”.
To feminists, it is. If it’s recognized, the woman is held in contempt for doing, you know, what she wants to do. Being a stay-at-home mom is a luxury. I stay at home, but I have my own business and work my tail off. I don’t do much housework.
It’s because they’ve got the sense of things backwards. The purpose of resources is to support your life and your family, and work is necessary for the accumulation of resources in addition to the direct work of caring for the life and family. They see the accumulation of resources as the end goal and rage that people are doing something ‘for free’.
Ant yet the call themselves anti capitalists.
It is kind of fumy. Actual Capitalists are FAR more likely to recognize that the purpose of accumulating resources is to support your life rather than the goal of life itself than Socialists are
Yes because only women do that.
Not to mention all the work women do to sustain their life functions. They are never recognized, even though they constantly breath, even when it becomes a painful job.
unpaid cleaning, cooking, and child-rearing at home
I, too, do not get paid for doing my home-maintenance. In fact, I actually have to pay to acquire the materials to do it. I never realized I was so oppressed.
emotional labor at the office
I don’t even have anything for this because it is so stupid.
I’ve seen emotional labor at the office, it gets really messy when their water breaks.
And somebody has to clean up that mess.
Women have no idea what emotional labor is till they have to suppress the desire to choke the living shit out of some moron who is scheduling a 2 hour meeting to go over what should be a 5 minute phone call
Relationship of gender differences in preferences to economic development and gender equality
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6412/eaas9899
I received an email from Michigan Lottery that I was a winner of the Megamillions. I got a little excited as I opened the email – only to find out I had matched two numbers for a winnings of $4.
At least you’ll be able to finally pay Johnny the paperboy
Why did they know your e-mail address and have it associated with the ticket numbers?
I buy online.
But then how do you not get your name and likeness plastered all over the news?
Working from home with a nasty cold. When I was little kid, seemed liked I was sick with the flu or cold 5-6x a year. Now I seem to get a cold maybe once a year. I haven’t had a real dizziness/vomit type of flu for over twenty + years.
It really does help that I’m no longer shoved in a classroom or that my employment has minimal contact with the outside world.
So I’ll be tapping at the keys from home today – and watching some episodes of Cannon and maybe give Hammer House of Horrors another try. Not too impressed with the latter but the T&A helps – British TV in 1980 must have been quite lax for boobs ‘n’ bums.
#metoo
I rarely get sick but apparently picked up something over the weekend.
Also, I learned that not everyone enjoys #metoo mockery as much as you guys.
*wink wink, nudge nudge*
Say no more.
That’s one more number than I got.
Awesome!
I’ve continued my streak.
Whenever the pot gets much above $100 million I waste a buck.
So far I have only matched one number, one time.
Which means that my picks should be regressing to the mean soon, so maybe I’m due to hit the jackpot tonight!
You gave the government your email address voluntarily for something to do with money?
Are you insane?
Yes? Convenience, brother. They’re going to find me either way.
guzzoline@outback.com
He works at a steakhouse?
Free meat.
So I have had shoulder pain for a while which prevents me from working out which quite negatively impacts my life. OS I went to get an MRI and the result was minor lesion of the supraspinatus tendon and subacromial impingement of the shoulder. The doctor recommended physical therapy. I was wondering if anyone had something like this and does phisical therapy work?
On day to day it does not affect me as I have little pain and no mobility loss, just the gym thing.
I have. I learned some decent low impact exercises that helped me recover a minor torn ligament without a need for surgery, plus I keep doing them to prevent future injuries. Physical therapy gets a bad rap sometimes, but I think people should start there before jumping to meds or surgery (not that there’s anything wrong with those, but I prefer the least invasive options first).
Shoulder surgery is probably the least successful surgery; I don’t know anyone who’s said “yeah, I’d do it again.”
Anyone here?
My right shoulder is giving me some problems. My RA seems to have gone in remission, but has left me with some lingering damage there.
^^^THIS^^^
When I was told I had a thorn rotator cuff and needed surgery, I gave the arm a couple of weeks in a sling, then started doing pushups and avoiding pullups. Arm has 95% mobility, and while I can’t lift real heavy shit without it popping out of the socket (this is unrelated to the torn cuff), I am fine otherwise.
Jist had it. I’m 7 weeks out from rotator cuff repair and subacromial decompression. 5 weeks of physical therapy and still some to go, but am happy it’s done. I don’t have full strength yet but more than I had presurgery.
I need to have my left shoulder done. I dread it because it IS hell for a while, but I’m looking forward to having done it.
Your posture is probably shit, and I’d bet that the muscles in the back of your shoulder are weak like little girl. Fix those things.
Never had posture problems. The muscles in the back of the shoulder who cares they are not biceps are they?
I always tried to work my rear delts and traps with varying success. So I did not have a particular imbalance. I got hurt cause I got stupid and listend to excercise advice from a local trainer. Most fitness instructors are shit and no one should listen to them.
I’ve had several minor ailments that PT helped — among others, a muscle cramp at night that actually pulled a muscle in my calf (that was really painful), and an IT band that got tight and scraped across the side of my knee (I couldn’t walk half a block without developing a limp). In PT they give you exercises that loosen up the bad area and also give ultrasonic treatments and massages that help with healing.
I did a really bad job doing PT after my first hip replacement. It just felt…wrong. It felt so unnatural and the muscles hated it.
I should’ve been more diligent but it really was a scary and existentially painful feeling.
Ignore that (in a smart way). It is very difficult to get my right leg into “newspaper-reading stance” with that leg. I was much better with my left a few years later. It is so much more flexible and I mitigated the damage of the scar tissue much more.
Our Revolution’s Logic – History doing the repeat thing.
The simple answer it’s to execute the people rather than fine them. / I kid, kid
Corcyra would have survived if they took your advise.
Alternate title: “This is What Pure Democracy Looks Like”.
If the Dems take the House this November: it will teach them that tantrums work politically, even though such changing of power- minus a war – usually happens when the other party holds all three levers of power. ie 2010 wasn’t just about Obamacare, but the blessed gridlock which is as American as STEVE SMITH or Apple Pie.
Y’know, I’m not sure this is any tipping point when it comes to tantrums. The left has employed them for decades. It’s just that the tantrums have gone from whiny college kid tantrums to whiny teenager tantrums to whiny 7 year old tantrums. The decline won’t stop until a senator is curled up in the fetal position screaming like an infant.
Debate is dead apparently. Here is a Democrat at a debate in a synagogue, who loses his shit and starts yelling obscenities.
Why is it always population control with these fucks?
Because they hate people.
I hate people too. It’s got be something else on top of that. I’m going with toxic narcissism.
How about simply evil?
They specifically hate normal middle class people. Disgusting heterosexuals having vaginal sex, raising kids, working, going to church… Monsters.
You first, assholes. Gulp that hemlock down and get back to me.
In San Francisco, they can only participate in the school board race.
Sure they can.
But “we’re in an unprecedented arena of animosity toward our immigrant community”. It’s only fair.
I treat immigrants no different than I treat other people.
I treat Illegal Aliens like tresspassers.
That’s the way to do it. Your old life is over, but I’ll bet the new one could be kind of fun, too.
Exactly. Change your name, change your address, build a compound with armed security, hire a former secret service guy as a driver/escort and live an incredible life.
Having worked one level removed from multi-billionaires, that’s how they do it with the exception of the name and address changes. They have a driver take them everywhere or have escort cars of professionals and they have armed guards and a serious perimeter near their houses.
How far did the security extend? Kids? Immediate family?
I would imagine the threat of kidnapping/ransom is a non-trivial one.
One generation. And when you have that kind of money, it’s a trivial expense to spend a couple hundred grand a year on security for each of your kids.
I want that job.
Ugh.
My desired lotto payout is under $10M.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6310851/New-Freddie-Mercury-biopic-slammed-airbrushing-best-friend.html
I thought he was gay?
I saw a trailer for that movie recently. It actually looks pretty good.
He was probably bi if you believe in that sort of thing
“White nationalist Richard Spencer’s wife accuses him of abusing her for eight years including by dragging her down the stairs calling her ‘genetically defective’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6311009/White-nationalist-Richard-Spencers-wife-accuses-abusing-dragging-stairs.html
I don’t take divorce case accusations too seriously.
I’m not going to accept those kind of accusations as true with no corroborating evidence no matter how much I loathe Spencer.
Especially in the heat of a divorce, when there have been no claims of anything prior.
“With a raging hardon”
keep voting until we get the results we want.
Well, yea. If I don’t get what I want, Democracy is broken.
Busty blondes bring the best bang for your buck.
http://archive.is/6xMBL
3 has a very interesting outfit for going to a pumpkin patch, not that I’m complaining.
So are these the sexy bitches Lord Humungus promised above?
Gender Equality Stalls in Corporate America Despite #MeToo
Despite #metoo, huh?
Oh, ok. How?
Aren’t they just precious?
If it’s “despite #MeToo” then doesn’t that suggest the point of the movement is not to prevent assaults but to change career outcomes thru the use of accusation?
They should probably just stop talking.
Shocking news: MeToo causes men to avoid situations where they could be “MeToo’d”.
” “Why should you be worried about going out with a woman or a woman mentee for dinner or lunch?”
mutual distrust?
I can’t believe a Twitter hashtag hasn’t altered everything in the course of weeks.
#bringourgirlsback
“Why should you be worried about going out with a woman or a woman mentee for dinner or lunch?”
Oh I dunno. Perhaps it’s because she could wreck your career with just a vague accusation. Maybe she’s out for your job and wants you out of the way, maybe she thinks you’re fat or ugly and wants to get rid of you, maybe she just wants to exercise the enormous power society has given her.
Nevermind, I forgot. Women are perfect beings beyond mere mortals who never lie and never have ulterior motives. #BelieveHer.
“Treat all your colleagues equally.”
This is just patently stupid, and a recepie for organizational failure. Treat everyone with respect. But different people need different things. Personally i would hate it if my boss wanted to take me out to lunch. Treating everyone the same is the halmark of emotionless buisness that employees so often deride. If you are a leader you need to key into what makes your subordinates tick and work with them individually.
And that’s not even going into having to protect yourself. The idea that it’s somehow horrific that a Man who would want to shield himself from unwanted accusations that will immediately see his career take a nose dive is sexist, is itself not being wiling to recognize the reality that Men live in.
“Rebecca Corry
✔
@TheRebeccaCorry
Thank you. I know exactly how you feel. I can’t seem to live my life without getting rape & death threats, harassed & called a cunt regularly for simply telling the truth. I’m sorry your friend created this situation. We deserve to do our art without having to deal with this shit
Sarah Silverman
✔
@SarahKSilverman
Replying to @TheRebeccaCorry
Rebecca I’m sorry. Ugh this is why I don’t like weighing in. I can’t seem to do press 4 my show w/out being asked about it. But you’re right- you were equals and he fucked with you and it’s not ok. I’m sorry, friend. You are so talented and so kind.”
What, are these people? 12 years-old? Why are they publicly speaking anyway? Just pick up the phone and talk you nitwits.
Also, was what C.K. did rape? Traumatic probably I’m sure for some but rape?
C.K. was a creep but he did nothing particularly wrong.
They may have regretted allowing him to do jerk it in front of them, so… rape, but not rape-rape.
/prog
“Why are they publicly speaking anyway?”
Again, toxic narcissism.
I preferred her sister, Rachel Corry, aka, St. Pancake.
Oh wait, different, nm.
IT’S THE TIME OF YEAR TO REMEMBER YOU’RE LOSER IF YOU GET OFFENDED BY HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
Halloween is almost here, and it’s a perfect time to remind people not to waste their energy freaking out over costumes.
There are a few things you can count on every year during the holiday. There will be some great scary movies, lots of pumpkins, lots of candy and there will also, unfortunately, be people complaining about the costumes people wear.
Guess what? This is America. You can wear whatever the hell you want to. I don’t care if you want to be a sexy nurse or dress up as the lead in a mariachi band. Do whatever you want. This is America. This isn’t North Korea. We have the freedom to push the envelope here. I’m not saying that I’d do it, but I don’t control your lives.
A-men.
I remember when Halloween costumes were supposed to be offensive.
“Dear Emily,
I am going to a pumpkin carving contest this weekend. I’ve been told not to refer to it as a jack-off, but it seems fitting and proper to me.
Why is everyone being such a bunch of whiny little bitches?
Sincerely,
MJ”
What the fuck is wrong with people? What the fuck is wrong with San Francisco? Why and how in the world do they think allowing non-citizens to vote is fair and just to actual citizens?
I bet they think they’re all ‘compassionate’ but they’re really not seeing the big picture. Orange Man bad ergo make no-citizen vote.
Fools.
For Non-Playable Characters the value of their citizenship was already zero. It’s a “fuck-you” to everyone else who cares about such things.
That meme is alt-right, fascist, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and offends the poor SJWs.
Yes -it’s wonderful.
They are seeing the big picture, which is to allow furriners to vote. Incrementally, with local elections.
Through a political expediency calculus, yes, I understand that.
But beyond that?
What’s fairness got to do with it? Foreigners can be scared into voting the way elites tell them to, citizens might resist a little bit.
What happens if most of the foreigners are Russians? They’re leaving the door open for Putin to walk in and take over San Francisco!
Vlad and the Oligarchs are coming to progtopia! *off to trademark my new band name.
Is one of you Tucker Carlson?
“How many of these migrants are you taking in personally into your home and are supporting once they get into the United States?” Carlson asked.
i’m impressed he kept pressing that question.
What. A. Fucken. Dick. That guy from Uniwhatever was.
The balls on him. The fucken balls.
Tucker is pretty funny for a guy who frequently wears a bowtie.
He hasn’t worn one in years.
Huh. I guess it’s been a while since I actually watched him on TV; according to my research, he stopped at least four years ago.
Human capital formation during the first Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the use of steam engines
https://voxeu.org/article/human-capital-formation-during-first-industrial-revolution
While technological progress has typically been seen as increasing the demand for skilled workers since the beginning of the 20th century, technological change has historically been associated with ‘de-skilling’. This column explores how the advent of the steam engine affected human capital formation in industrialising England. More steam engines per person are found to be associated with lower shares of unskilled workers. The results run contrary to the workshop-to-factory argument of skilled workers’ downward mobility, pointing instead to a farm work-to-factory transition.
Having worked one level removed from multi-billionaires, that’s how they do it with the exception of the name and address changes. They have a driver take them everywhere or have escort cars of professionals and they have armed guards and a serious perimeter near their houses.
Somebody related this little anecdote to me, a few years ago. Bill Gates and the wife and kids were at their place in the Yellowstone Club, when one of the other billionaires unintentionally buzzed the place in his helicopter on the way to *his* shack. This incited an “OMFG KIDNAPPERS!” reaction.
Apparently there was something approaching an armed confrontation between the respective security teams.
“Give me a break here folks, let’s all act professionally,” said PG&E Corp. PCG -1.03% CEO Geisha Williams. “Why should you be worried about going out with a woman or a woman mentee for dinner or lunch?”
Seriously, what’s the big deal? Just get it all on tape. And archive it for fifty years.
“Why should you be worried about going out with a woman or a woman mentee for dinner or lunch?”
Although she sort of has a point. After all, Kavanaugh has been condemned even though Ford couldn’t even place him at any specific location with her at any particular date. So it’s not like you actually need to be alone with them to get destroyed.
Progress has “dragged to a halt,” said Ms. Sandberg, founder of LeanIn.Org, who spoke at a San Francisco event hosted by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. “We’re at a really critical moment—a really critical moment where we need to invest in leadership.”
I guess Facebook will be recruiting heavily at Oberlin. Best minds, most capable people, and all. It can only make them a better, stronger organization.
It is the biggest Confederate monument in the US – civil war leaders hewn into Atlanta’s Stone Mountain. It is also a huge tourist draw, hosting a laser light show and 100ft flame cannons.
But with its links to the Ku Klux Klan, and as Confederate memorials are being torn down, is Stone Mountain’s time up?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/ng-interactive/2018/oct/24/stone-mountain-is-it-time-to-remove-americas-biggest-confederate-memorial
I am not big on monuments or statues and would oppose building new ones but am still not certain on the value of destroying old ones, they are after all part of history for better and worse. Then again I approved of tearing down soviet statues in Romania, although those were not much about history but about showing whos boss. Anyhow if they take it down they should do something big like shoot it with a cruise missile.
What’s the Confederacy? / People in 100 years.
When watching the Man in the High Castle episode Jahr Null, I was reminded of the leftists ripping down monuments today.
I tried to start watching season 2 this week, but it’s been a couple of years since I watched season 1. I found that it was so non-memorable that I haven’t the faintest clue where the plot /characters left off. As such I had to quit after about ten minutes. I don’t think I’ll be rewatching the first season just so I can understand the second.
I felt that way about the beginning of 2. It picks up after a while. 3 is better, I think. I ended up binge watching that one.
That show is just gorgeous visually, but the female lead character is so goddamned stupid I wanted to rip the plot armor off of her and beat her to death with it.
Read Dostoevsky’s ‘Devils’. It’s the same exact loser-nihilists under the guise of ‘enlightenment’ pulling this shit.
The sculpture is the largest bas-relief sculpture and for that reason, I think should be left alone. The whole place was a klan meeting site for something like 50+ years and there are what I can only guess are klan inscriptions in the stone all over the place. The carving was conceived, started (1916-25 end of reconstruction) and finished (50-60s) in two periods of showing who was boss in the south so in that it’s not dissimilar to the statues in Romania.
I have some genuine sympathy for some of the monuments in the south that were funded by actual widows and orphans of confederate soldiers. The one in Decatur, GA is probably going to be moved/destroyed and I think that is wrong. It’s of a common soldier and not of leaders.
Thinking about how I felt watching people topple Lenin statues makes me uncomfortably aware that the issue here is not purely about preserving history, but about respecting a tradition I am comfortable with. It makes me a bit more sympathetic to those protesting the monuments. On the other hand these are statues honoring the war dead and war heroes on the losing side. They are not, except those of Nathan Bedford Forrest, in any way honoring the Klan or racial oppression.
Honestly, if it weren’t for people making a giant fucking deal out of these monuments nobody would think twice about them at this point in time.
It doesn’t help that most peoples understanding doesn’t extend beyond “muh slavery”, with what is taught about the war being thoroughly white-washed (heh) and dumbed down.
Our planet can’t take many more populists like Brazil’s Bolsonaro
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/24/planet-populists-brazil-jair-bolsonaro-environment
And in this, Bolsonaro is not unique: around the world, diminishing resources are fuelling a global rise of authoritarian leaders dedicated to doing the bidding of some of the world’s most environmentally damaging interests. – yes diminishing resources, that is exactly it. Nothing to do with many years of socialist destruction of economy, theft and corruption.
If countries do not start planting trees and cutting fossil fuels now, they said, then it will be impossible to prevent a rise of more than 0.5C, which would completely eradicate all of the world’s corals and irreversibly disrupt weather systems, bringing droughts, floods and extreme heat that will push hundreds of millions into poverty. -OMG we must needs to something NOW
History tells us that when environments deteriorate, societies turn to supposed strongmen and religious zealots rather than smart, pragmatic leaders. That is happening now. In addition to the dictatorships of China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, a growing number of young democracies have relapsed into authoritarianism: the Philippines under Rodrigo Duterte, Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Egypt under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and next, it would seem, Brazil under Bolsonaro. – Literally not one of those leaders has anything to do with deteriorated enviroment.
This is not even wrong.
I’m going to need some citations please.
eradicate all of the world’s corals
There was no coral in the Cretaceous period?
Obviously not. Coral only formed once, and the moment we’re out of this rediculously tiny band, it all dies off. Ignore the vast spans of new reef and the mountains of old reef, they’re lying to you.
That is funny. Especially just sitting there all by itself after the embedded video. Also, the dude was wearing a parachute, but held on to the plane wing until it was too low for the ‘chute to do any good. I know people don’t think straight when panicking, but dude, you are wearing a parachute!
So, I’m never going to be in a situation where I have to decide when to let go of an airplane wing, because I choose life. That said, I would think that even panicking at some point your lizard brain would think, “I don’t like where this big, heavy thing I’m holding is headed. I’ma let go and see what happens.”
I, for one, am surprised
For years, economists have puzzled over a question crucial to the well-being of American workers: Why does the law of supply and demand no longer apply to the U.S. labor market? Employers keep hiring, pushing the unemployment rate to record lows. Yet wages have refused to rise as quickly as they have in the past.
Increasingly, researchers are converging on an answer: The labor market isn’t free. If they’re right, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed, or else millions of Americans will fail to reap the full benefits of economic growth.
Government policy generally takes it for granted that the U.S. has a large, efficient labor market, in which many companies compete for workers’ services across the nation as a whole. If that was ever the case, it isn’t now. Americans move a lot less than they used to, so in most cases markets are local, limited to a single commuting zone. And industries are a lot more concentrated — so much so that in many places and professions, there are only a few relevant employers.
“The labor market isn’t free.” That’s why those researchers get paid the big bucks, to ferret out secrets like this.
DR
The labor market has an elasticity, the same as any other market. Low- and middle- talent are born or imported every day. Prices are sticky in many markets for a host of other reasons.
Gee wiz – I wonder if there is a supply side to labor? How many legal and illegal immigrants have poured in over the last couple of decades?
I had a conversation with an old friend who works for a big company. He was complaining that Trump’s tighter immigration enforcement has made it hard to hire dirt-cheap Mexican drivers. I wasn’t sympathetic and told him that 50 years ago, he would have had to hire actual American men to do that job and pay them enough in wages and benefits for them to live and raise a family. He was horrified at how much that would cut into their profit margin.
did they factor in indirect compensation like health insurance? isn’t that a well known culprit for supposedly stagnated wages?
That can’t be. Health insurance costs went down for everyone once the PPACA was passed!
This is simply incorrect and these economists are morons
I wrote this to answer a question on Quora so for the full version you can see it here…
https://www.quora.com/What-happened-in-1973-that-separated-worker-pay-from-productivity/answer/Steve-Collins-40
But the reality is that while everyone obviously always wants more money they will be willing to accept a job that pays them enough to live at a given lifestyle and that means that wages will tend to move in concert with consumer prices NOT productivity. What is keeping US wages low is the fact that consumer price inflation has been low for an extended period of time. When you combine the economic realities of low CPI, rapid technological advancement reducing costs, pressure from offshoring (sorry illegals don’t even factor in as a rounding error here) and inflationary monetary policy is exactly what we have right now. Stagnant wages and low consumer price inflation. All of the benefits of increased productivity are going into lower prices rather than higher wages which because wages are driven by consumer prices creates a self reinforcing effect meanwhile the inflationary monetary policy drives an ever larger portion of the economy out of productive industries (and therefore wages) and into financial markets which is the prime drive of “income inequality” and “wealth inequality”.
I just do not understand why no economists seem able to realize that wages are directly impacted by consumer prices and if they would just look there this entire mystery could be solved.
So we have a Halloween party at school on Friday. I absolutely hate this holiday. I loved it as a kid and I love the scene around the day. Halloween (and New Years) are hands-down the two best days to play shows, and I’ve done both many times. Slutty costumes and great revelry. That part is fantastic.
I just hate dressing up. I don’t exactly know why, but ever since I was 16 or so dressing up in a manner that I wouldn’t normally do gives me severe anxiety. On top of my very high baseline. I had a panic attack in a closet at the Halloween party at my should-have-been GF’s apartment when I was 18 at IU. I’m freaking out about doing it for Friday. I have to always wear something that’s like a normal outfit–last year I was a zombie doctor. Just a wardrobe change, no makeup or add-ons.
The best way that I have been able to explain it is that I don’t really understand a lot of things about people that others just Get. Obvious things go over my head. I think the costumes just add yet another–very visible– layer between me and others. It’s like a day where everyone is expected to lie about themselves even more than they already do.
My head teacher loves it and takes it very seriously. Last year she was the Corpse Bride. I’m not going to sugar coat it. I wanted to fuck her in public. (Well, I always do but it was very arousing to this strange boy.) God I want to take that to the hoop. That’s the only thing that’s exciting me about all of this.
Hang a giant black dildo out of your pants and go as Warty Hugeman.
I thought it was purple.
While Warty has any number of weaponized prosthetics, the Doomcock model is canonically a deep glossy black.
Should have gone as a necrophiliac…
My head teacher
Wait… they TEACH this????
More practical than poli-sci.
And you don’t have to listen to incessant drivel…
/because their mouth is full
You have a picture of the mobile school as your avatar.
Of course. I have taught The Lady well. Let us just say, that she is not unresponsive.
I think that, in the long-run, nicknaming your penis “The Lady” is not going to go well for anyone.
I dunno, it might get “The Lady” into some college girls who want to signal their sjw cred while still staying in their comfort zone.
Hmm… you might be right. It does have some trans cred.
Oh, you silly goose! His name is Lord Ichabod Bumnapper, Esquire IV.
And I’m not flexible enough to teach myself.
(Reminds me. We had kid in school named Glasscock. Funny. You could always see him coming.)
something something James Westfall and Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
My *friend*… thinks that having sex with your boss is a bad idea. Listen to… er… him.
I am out in two months. Out of the contract and out of the country.
I have one month of legal residency to make this a real thing. There is no way in hell for it to occur, unless she harbors a secret grudge-fuck fantasy. In which case, I will make her explode in ways that she never has before. This is a legit, longstanding and ongoing fantasy. It is very distracting.
And- in a surprising twist, the answer to “unfree” labor markets is more federal control.
Finally, the government should do more to stop companies building monopsony power in the first place. This will require new thinking on antitrust policy. In effect, regulators ought to consider the effect of mergers on workers as well as on consumers. If a merger seems likely to significantly increase concentration in local labor markets, Justice or the Federal Trade Commission should subject it to added scrutiny. The need to maintain competitiveness might still justify such a combination, but deals that press down on wages without providing that benefit ought to be modified or rejected.
Capitalism succeeds when its benefits are broadly distributed. At the moment, it’s falling short. Freeing up the labor market would help.
Yes, of course. Anti-trust law; what can’t it do?
So any takeover that aims to create synergies by merging a business function, resulting in redundancies, would run the risk of being kiboshed by a politician, on the pretext that the effect on workers is not being taken into account.
One of the big reasons people dislike capitalism is that it recognises that wages are an expense. Politicians can’t and won’t accept this. A business that employs 5,000 of their constituents is ‘better’ than a business that employs 1,000, even if the latter is actually more efficient and passes those efficiencies to the consumer.
the government should do more
No. It does too much already.
Yeah, because increasing bureaucracy and government control has nothing to do with decreasing mobility.
There seem to be a lot of Tucker Carlson fans around so I’ll just leave this here for those who may be interested:
https://youtu.be/WUnqT1Hg8qo
Carlson on Adam Carolla’s podcast-very long but interesting.
So I have a new take on the lottery. I saw a lot of people talk about the cheap entertainment value of it. How it was nice to allow yourself to day dream over the winnings. So yesterday I allowed myself to do just that.
It did nothing but depress me. I looked at beautiful Montana ranches. Day dreamed about hunting elk and fishing for trout.
Today I woke up in reality in shithole East Texas looking at flat land covered in ugly ass pine trees on my way to a chemical plant.
Yay me.
So my new take is to not play the lottery. Don’t do it, don’t allow yourself the day dreams and fantasy.
I never had the illusion of winning but damn just the fantasy of it is depressing as all hell.
If the fantasy causes you to become depressed about where you are now, that is a sign you need to look at where you are and figure out what you need to do to improve it.
For only two bucks you purchased hope for a day and, you know, what UnCiv said.
Put another $2 down on the PowerBall and start it over again. Work safe, don’t be on fire!
“I saw a lot of people talk about the cheap entertainment value of it.”
That’s what all addicts say.
That’s what all sour-grapers say.
I played it last night for the first time in (…let’s see, carry the zero…) 28 years. Would daydream again.
Gun, smoking: one each
There’s a bit of uncomfortable history with Trump and Nazism, though. His first wife, Ivana, told her lawyer during their divorce that Trump kept a copy of Adolf Hitler’s collected speeches by his bedside in their Trump Tower triplex. When a reporter questioned Trump about the book in 1990, he balked and then said it was a gift. “If I had these speeches, and I am not saying that I do, I would never read them,” Trump also told the reporter. (Trump doesn’t read books, or much of anything else, so he may have been telling the truth when he said he didn’t read the Hitler collection. )
All aboard the Impeachment Express!
I don’t understand the Hitler and Nazi angle. This is especially confusing. So what if he had Hitler’s speeches. Hitler is a historical figure and a liver of history may very well desire to have Hitler artifacts.
Many if not most old Kings and emperor’s were just as bad as Hitler and I’d love to have artifacts from the Three Kingdoms period of China or from Rome or Egypt.
What’s the big deal. I have a copy of guderians memoirs and I love that book. Guess im a Nazi
I have a copy of Mein Kampf and I actually read it. It sucked but I’m not throwing it out.
Only Nazi’s have ever read the Hofbrauhaus speeches.
So what if he had Hitler’s speeches.
These are studied in public speaking classes for a reason, he was an effective public speaker despite his bad ideas.
Why is that a problem? Bruce Bartlett seems to think Hitler was a misunderstood fella with some very admirable qualities.
I have a book of Robert E. Lee’s letters, so I am an obvious slaver. No, wait, the book next to it is a collection of abolitionist tracts featuring Lucretia Mott, Frederick Douglass and others. Does Jeff Hummel’s “Emancipating Slaves, Emslaving Free men” get offset by a alternative history novel in which Lee and Jackson defeat the Union forces and win independence for the south? I’m so confused as to what my library should and shouldn’t have.
Remember when people were rightly outraged about the federal government demanding that libraries share people’s reading habits with them?
Pepperidge Farm does
Well, God bless Pepperidge Farm for remembering that dark period in American history
as opposed to the present where the government already knows what you read without asking
And no one complains anymore, because those people are baddies anyways.
In the old days, banning a book or burning books was considered illiberal. Nowadays, Amazon just takes a book off of its site and people just smile and scream “it’s their property- they can do what they want with their property”.
I imagine a lot of books that were burned back in the day were owned by someone else who freely gave it over to be burned. So, I don’t really get the difference anymore.
Trump and Nazism
Cutting regulations and taxes is exactly what fascists do…
Secret Service intercepts suspicious packages sent to Obama, Hillary Clinton
The Secret Service said Wednesday it has “intercepted” two suspicious packages sent to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
It first emerged that the FBI was investigating one suspicious package found by the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, New York. But in a statement, the Secret Service said after that package addressed to Hillary Clinton was caught late Tuesday, a second package addressed to Obama “was intercepted by Secret Service personnel in Washington, DC” on Wednesday morning.
“The packages were immediately identified during routine mail screening procedures as potential explosive devices and were appropriately handled as such. The protectees did not receive the packages nor were they at risk of receiving them,” the Secret Service said in its statement.
The Secret Service said it has launched a “full scope criminal investigation that will leverage all available federal, state, and local resources to determine the source of the packages and identify those responsible.”
Why are we providing them any security details? Nothing that befalls them has any impact on the running of the government, stop wasting the money.
based on past history I am guessing packages of unmarked used bills with Russian return addresses. Maybe with a little yellowcake dust.
Honestly, since every single “hate crime” that gets blaring headlines turns out to be the work of a leftist, I suspect this is as well. Regardless of who’s behind it, though, hope that person gets caught toot sweet. Enough of this bullshit.
The forecast shows an overcast of virtue signaling followed by a series of “we covered that” when someone mentions that ricin was sent to the president and members of his cabinet just last week. The forecast for tomorrow shows cries of “whataboutism” coming in from the lake as people mention the assassination attempt of congressmen at a ball field.
Bill has always had a suspicious package.
+1 blue dress
Things looking ever better for the Pachyderms to keep the House.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/house/2018_elections_house_map.html
They need to win 18 out of the 30 toss ups to keep it. That’s assuming this polling is accurate, which as MS has taught us, is not a safe bet.
One thing I find odd is how MT can be a Likely R House seat, yet still be Likely D for Tester’s seat. They’re both statewide elections, why the split ticket?
Well, that’s been the case Tester’s entire career. Same thing with Manchin in WV. Who knows?
What I learned as an intern for a state congressman 20 years ago is that once you get elected, your office handles (in his case) hundreds of “I didn’t get my social security check” and “my husband’s VA benefits aren’t right”. For every big ticket issue voter there are ten old people who have a “retail” experience with the official through their office staff. If you make these “customers” feel like you did something for you, they’ll vote for you in the face of monstrous stupidity. That’s the real power of incumbency. “I know I can call Jackie at Sen. Tester’s office if my disability ever doesn’t come through right, who knows what the new guy’s office will be like?”
Sounds like a great case for term limits.
And a great case against transfer payments.
My personal experience with that
a) staff can’t really do anything that the bureaucracy doesn’t want to do
b) pissed me off further down the rabbit hole that I needed an intercessor. FY, cut spending.
I don’t trust their calculus.
If it’s based on polling, and all the polls have shown redpubs surging, why is every single recent change in probability towards Dems? Would there not be some going the other way?
If it’s not based on polling, then what is it based on? Wishful thinking?
Notice 5 PA GOP House seats are apparently toast. The Penna. GOP was spineless; they allowed the State Supreme Court (5-2 Dems) re-district the admittedly gerrymandered districts. PA constitution was blatantly violated but GOP did not appeal to U.S. Supreme Court. Aren’t all of us guaranteed a republican form of government? You may not like (and I don’t) the way PA districts were drawn by the constitutional method, but to allow the PA Supreme Court to redistrict it….well Republicans deserve to reap the results.
What up, Glibs? Checking in on you guys.
I’m in Coeur D’alene, Idaho.
Got here yesterday. I drove a rental SUV from Brooklyn, today is a rest day. Flying back to NYC tomorrow. Checked Mom in a beautiful retirement community, completely different world from the Bronx shithole where she was living for the last three years after Dad passed.
We rented a TravelTab wifi hotspot for the trip…the device has fallen INTO the sealed console between the seats. In the front portion of the console there is a small door and recess with a USB port. The device has fallen through the space where the door hinges, and I cannot retrieve it. Anyone with a Ford Explorer or Ford pickup have this problem? I’m assuming the plastic side panels of the center console next to the shifter are removable, but this is a rental and I dont want to fuck them up. I’m gonna drive to Budget in Spokane this morning and let them decide.
Technically I am turning in the device, it is just surrounded by the truck.
two words: neodymium magnet
Now he’s lost both the hotspot and the magnet, way to go bot.
three words: gum on stick
Look, if that’s what gets you off, we’re not going to judge, but we’re also not going to post bail.
That’s quite a road trip! How did you end up selecting Idaho? Extended family?
I thought it was “As far away and remote as possible”
Mom has a friend here. They knew each other in the 80s and stayed in touch.
This town seems very, very nice. OMWC said it was beautiful and he was correct
Nice!
I hope she loves it. It is a gorgeous place.
They have the best Facebook Live studio in the nation.
The money the grannies make as web cam girls more than pays for their care.
Poof, you are no more.
Some studies have found that 70 percent of transgender people have been mistreated by medical providers. A March analysis by the progressive organization the Center for American Progress found that among a small sample of complaints—31—the most common grievances transgender people had under the policy weren’t that they were denied gender-affirming surgery. Instead, the data suggest they were just treated worse, more broadly, because of their gender identity.
According to Katie Keith, a health-policy analyst at Georgetown who focuses on transgender issues, under the new definition providers could, with impunity, repeatedly misgender their transgender patients or give them a roommate of an inappropriate gender when they’re in the hospital. Doctors could even refuse to treat a transgender patient outright.
Oh, horror. What does “refuse to treat” mean specifically? “No, I won ‘t cut your balls off because you couldn’t get a date to the prom.”?
This is so fucking ridiculous. These idiots are tearing their hair out over a statistically meaningless number of people. Do I think a doctor should refuse to give a flu shot to some guy who shows up in his office dressed like Minnie Pearl? Of course not. But do we really need to make a federal case out of it?
“Sure the surgeon fixed my appendix, but then misgendered me in the follow-up!”
The ACLU takes it seriously and has been suing hospitals that won’t perform transgender surgery.
We’ve gone from “bake the cake” to “cut the dick” in such a short period of time.
If that’s true, then they’ve gone beyond just being a shill for the DNC and fully into progtopia.
Oh, that ship sailed a while ago.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/04/29/trans-man-sues-hospital-which-refused-gender-reassignment-surgery/
Fact Check: True
The ACLU also spends most of its time suing hospitals that won’t perform abortions.
It’s been 18 months…what was the result of the lawsuit?
I don’t think it’s been resolved. The ACLU hasn’t had much luck at forcing religious hospitals to perform abortions, but that hasn’t stopped them. They keep filing lawsuits hoping to find a good progressive judge who will ignore precedent.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160909/NEWS/160909887
They keep filing lawsuits hoping to find a good progressive judge who will ignore precedent.
Honestly, at some point, doesn’t it become incumbent on judges to fine the shit out of them for filing frivolous lawsuits?
Wow. I never knew about this. My tepid support for the ACLU has just tipped into the fuck-the-ACLU end of the scale.
Fuck you Minton.
Like I said above, this isn’t about acceptance. This is about power and forcing people to do something against their will and/or morals.
Progressivism has always been about upper class whites knowing better than others and imposing their morals on society. This has always been its most distinguishing characteristic, even in the early 20th Century when their cause du jour was eugenics.
There is a straight line from “bake the cake” to “cut the dick”
won’t perform
“My body, my choice” does not extend to your ownership of your labor I guess.
Yeah, I’m sure the woman who’s in for a broken leg wants to be holed up with a dude who says he’s a woman. And hospitals generally are only interested in which particular set of junk you have, not what you call it.
So your doctor s[pends no time with you, tells you to eat better, lose weight, and exercise. Obviously he’s abusing you because you are a tranny.
A fat tranny.
*A transgender person of size*
Shitlord
Shitlord yourself! Xir identity is whalekin.
People who have built their identity around a perceived unfairness of natural law find other people’s reactions to them offensive? I am shocked!
“Mistreated” = told the truth.
Since rooms are assigned by sex, “given a roommate of the inappropriate gender” is nonsense. The alternative, of course, is to give someone else a roommate of the inappropriate sex.
Solitary confinement is the apparent only answer.
Actually, we have a lot of single rooms now, and have an informal policy of making sure any trannies get a single room to avoid exactly this kind of clusterhump.
You can imagine how excited they were when I told them that giving trannies priority for single rooms was a violation of the anti-discrimination laws, because it means we are discriminating against non-trannies, just as giving white people priority for single rooms would discriminate against POCs.
The conversation ended something like this:
CNO: “You make it sound like we can’t win.”
Me: “That’s exactly right, and that’s no accident, either. We have to choose who we are going to discriminate against, because applying laws against sex discrimination as if the applied to gender makes it literally impossible to comply.”
Can you duck it by declaring it single occupancy rooms for the mentally ill? At least that’s a rational justification.
Considering how rare transgendered people are, they could probably just give them their own room.
mistreated by medical providers
Uh huh…
denied gender-affirming surgery
They did not want to mutilate and otherwise (physically…) healthy person? The. Horror.
“First, do no harm”. How cisshitlord.
I’m gonna drive to Budget in Spokane this morning and let them decide.
Technically I am turning in the device, it is just surrounded by the truck.
This is probably not the first time that has happened.
One thing I find odd is how MT can be a Likely R House seat, yet still be Likely D for Tester’s seat. They’re both statewide elections, why the split ticket?
People vote for individuals, mostly. The Dem Congressional candidate (some woman) seems incredibly weak.
Tester has a track record of bring home the pork, and there is a nonstop smear campaign against Rosendale. Thinly veiled allegations of accepting bribes from insurance companies (he is/was insurance commissioner, and allowed rate increases).
tl;dr- incumbents win
By the way, I don’t think Kershaw pitched badly.
Roberts bringing Woods in when Baez was on was silly.
Socons gonna socon.
https://www.chron.com/news/politics/houston/article/Harris-County-adopts-new-rules-to-pre-empt-robot-13329896.php
What on Earth could possibly be objectionable about men rubbing their dicks on silicone? The backlash against sex dolls is absolutely confounding to me.
Owning your own is one thing, but renting sounds gross.
All things icky must be forbidden!
It’s like rape, but without hurting anyone. But it’s still rape.
/prog
And it’s like a dildo but satisfies men instead of women, so bad.
This is one of those issues where the feminists and the socons will team up to screw the rest of us over.
Yep. But the left’s success in portraying themselves as the good guys seems to mean that sex workers haven’t fully grasped the danger from that sphere.
There’s quite a range of things over the centuries that have been banned or censured because middle class women thought they were horrid. Obviously men have also had a big role in banning things they don’t like, but the role of women is easy to overlook given their historic lack of voting rights.
We got Prohibition about an hour after women started voting.
And I still haven’t forgiven em!
I am really looking forward to hearing all those brave commentators telling us about why bombings are bad. So god damn brave.
You can take the Ranger out of Range, but you can’t take the Range out of the Ranger
*The Iron Range or “Range” is an anomaly in Minnesoda. Instead of decent Norwegians, Germans, Finns (or even Swedes) it consists of East Europeans who came to mine. They’ve always been a bit challenged at the concept of Minnesoda Nice.
There is also this gem:
I’m sure that some reporter will call it an “assault” metal bar soon.
I’m starting to think that Minnesotta isn’t as nice as Garrison Keillor made it out to be
“It was a sunny day in Lake Wobegon when old Mr. Smith rubbed his genitals against Mrs. O’Reilley’s bay window…..”
before rubbing his genitals on the fast food restaurant’s glass window
I laughed a little to hard at this.
I assume they caught him, since he left prints on the window?
Paint it Black
Mothers Little Helper
and….
Yeah I got nothing, 50 years of music and like 2 good songs. The Rolling Stones are by a pretty significant margin the most overrated music act in history. Literally Nickleback is better (and that is not in any way praise for Nickleback)
Oh, I totally hate you now.
“The Rolling Stones are by a pretty significant margin the most overrated music act in history.”
This can’t be said often enough.
The Rolling Stones’ best album was “40 Licks” because it included all ten of the Stones’ good songs
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Except for Nickleback, they objectively suck.
OT: judge Morty and Defendant Rick. Transcript of an actual court case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTWdP5DMdsM
Suspicious packages sent to CNN as well, Obvious right-wing terrorism.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/clintons-obama-suspicious-packages/index.html
Oh, wait…
CNN has learned another suspicious package with a device addressed to the White House was intercepted at Joint Base Bolling in Washington, DC.
Idk what’s going on, but it is not good.
We need a national conversation about how bombings are bad, clearly
THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW
DNC operatives. 99.99% guaranteed for all of these packages.
Oh I assume false-flag until proven otherwise with this stuff, given the lefts “ends justify the means” standard and multiple recent confirmed false-flags.
Yeah, bombs are typically a violent tactic of the left.
With no proof whatsoever I’m going to go with an Antifa nut(s) considering the WH was apparently a target too.
If that is the case, prepare for all the coverage they are doing now to go down the memory hole
Clearly far right neoNazi never Trumpers.
And a Suspicious Package was sent to CNN’s HQ, wich is the worst of all the incidents
(Pretty much what is literally being said on the TV right now)
Corporate lefties slow to realize libs get the bullet, too?
So, I go over to dictionary.com to look up a word, and I get hit with this:
https://www.dictionary.com/e/they-is-a-singular-pronoun/?param=HP
goddammit! How did this get here?
And it made you so mad you sent packages to everyone?
Randy Monkeies:
https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/18/randy-monkeys-have-sex-while-standing-on-womans-knee-in-forest-8051475/
“Thankfully, a tour guide came to her rescue and threw some food at the monkeys, which distracted the male and caused him to leap off.”
Works for me. My wife will throw a few Nutter Butter’s behind the couch and sneak off into the bathroom.
Something that someone in my office actually said this morning: “Did you hear that someone mailed explosive devices to the Clintons and Obama? Trump is going to get someone killed.”
They’re fake and being used to generate fake news.
I don’t know. The Bomb that went to Soros was real No?
I understand that we all know that the left and antifa are crazy, they are beating the crap out of people and what not. Hell some guy just sent ricin to people a few weeks ago. But it is compleatly possible that someone on the right did this. There are a lot of people
So real that someone took it outside to the woods and the police blew it up with their own explosives?
I’m not buying it.
Should have refreshed first. My thought as well.
The Bomb that went to Soros was real No?
Possibly, but real or not, I believe it was a set-up.
The aide picked up the “bomb” and took it into the woods. I can’t imagine many people would risk their life like that, especially for an employer, instead of just setting the package down and evacuating.
Guess who took a nice tumble down the station stairs tonight. Slipped on what very likely was puke and bounced on my ass down 4 or 5 steps. When I came to a stop, the ten people around me turned an looked. “Daijyoubu, desu. Arigato.” (I’m fine, thanks). Made it to the train as the doors were closing and hopped on. My ass is killing me and somehow managed to torque both knees. Finally realized that none of the fuckers around me on the stairs had even asked me, “Are you OK?” Not looking forward to tomorrow morning.
Fun fact: Ryu Hyun Jin was the ace of the Korean Baseball Organization’s Hanwha Eagles of Daejeon, where I currently call home.
The amount of LA kit here is deeply disturbing to me, given my abject hatred of them. Still have to root for them because fuck the AL. I never saw him pitch but games in Korea are a tremendous amount of fun. You can bring in anything you want from the outside and beer in the stadium is at the local convenience store prices (about $2.30 a tallboy). Lots of people bring in Costco pizzas and fried chicken and whatever.
One of my kids wears a Cardinals hat. We make fun of each other. I make him take it off. I never, ever see Cubs hats. I get it, because it’s simplicity isn’t too endearing to Koreans. But fuck that noise.
They let you bring in beer? Nice. They’ll search you bags here if they think you have any. At least the theaters will let us bring in whatever food or drinks you want.
Food, absolutely. I’ve never tried to bring beer in. There’s no point as the price is the same inside as out and bringing it in would lead to warm cans.
I also quite enjoy the mid-inning dance sessions on top of the dugouts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1lOl3NK3c
Men will always look, but the ahjussis here are, um, particularly bold about their leering.
That was very much a link fail.
“America has a lot to learn.”
I am also….gonna leave this right here.
Those are great.
ahjussis?
I assume that is Korean for Evan.
I’m shit at spelling Korean in English.
Means “old man.” Ajjuma=old woman.
“Ah-joo-she” and “ah-joo-muh” to Romanize it.
You monster. Now all through lunch, Ima have Larry Blackmon in my head, dancing in that ridiculous codpiece.
Never follow youtube links from Glibertarians.
Not getting anything from that link.
keeping up with who and why baseball fans root for whichever team is as complicated as an intersectional grievance chart.
It’s pretty easy.
Fuck the AL, first and foremost. Yankees and Sox get the most ire. Within the NL, fuck the Cardinals because they are our mortal enemies. LA swept the Cubs in 2007 AND 2008 when we had really good teams, so to hell with them.
I don’t really have a problem with any other team other than to react to their recent success over us. Always root for the underdog. Unless we’re the favorites. Then rah-rah-rah.
More like Middle east / Central Asia clan pettiness then?
Noooooo, my beefs are actually important.
Those people’s problems are not my business.
But stay tuned for a Central Asian adventure coming soon!
Are you going to bribe your kidnappers to post the article?
I don’t follow.
Can ZARDOZ weigh in?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/738421/Average-penis-size-length-UK-Mumsnet-AIBU-girth-too-big-sex-tips
“Homeless drug addicts in Seattle are breaking into cars to steal items, then sell/trade them for drugs. So naturally, the Seattle City Council is enabling the behavior with heroin injection sites and vans, knowing the the crime is fueled by the addiction.”
https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1055096910984278016
“The relative silence from the Seattle City Council on attacking the root causes of homelessness is especially deafening. Rather than treat the cause, they’re helping enable people to stay on the streets. Many of these folks, fueled by drug addiction, are committing property crimes and instead of going after the problem, the council wants to enable them with heroin injection sites.
In a Seattle Times piece this week, Gene Balk notes that nearly half of the roughly 38,000 incidents of area-property crime involves vehicles, making it the number one most reported crime in Seattle. Unsurprisingly, many of the neighborhoods most impacted by the crime, have the highest populations of homeless people and drug addicts in desperate need of help.
Is there a connection with the homeless and addicts with these crimes, particularly car prowls? While not all the crimes are being committed by homeless addicts, a huge chunk are — cops will tell you. When you’re in need of money to fuel a drug addiction that’s not being treated, you break into cars, steal items, then sell or trade them for drugs.
Rather than attack this problem and protect taxpayers from having their cars broken into, Seattle officials are, in some cases, doing nothing. In other cases, enabling the behavior.”
http://mynorthwest.com/1158413/rantz-seattle-council-enabling-homeless-addicts-to-break-into-your-car/
Why not just give them the drugs for free at this point?
Because heroin addicts are such a problem in my hospital, I semi-seriously proposed that we give them heroin while they are here. Yes, we can actually get pharmaceutical grade heroin. Because giving heroin to a heroin addict isn’t treating their addiction, we can’t do it.
Of course, my proposal was to give them pain pump loaded with heroin, which would guarantee at least half of them would be dead within a day.
“Yes, we can actually get pharmaceutical grade heroin.”
I thought that was illegal in the U.S.
My father’s (the probation officer) plan was to have the govt set up some barracks that addicts could go to and get free drugs and a warm place to nod off.
His contention is that if an addict can get his fix, they will basically neglect everything else (like eating properly) and just keep using. Pretty quickly they would die off. The taxpayer would be happy with the tradeoff because while they had to pay for barracks, staff and drugs, the drop in crime would be worth it.
His only worry was that some good two shoes group would sue the state because they weren’t properly tending to the addicts and force the state to give them vitamins etc.
The important thing is to get the addicts to the polls so that they vote properly.
So, instead of letting them die, just kill them so their votes can be properly recorded?
Deranged? MOI?
Given all of that, I have a question for Hewitt: If winning the decisive battle for the Supreme Court was the reason you held your nose and voted for Trump, if the 30-years war has now been won, and if Trump will not achieve anything greater going forward, will you start advocating for a less depraved alternative to lead the Republican Party in 2020, and pledge to withhold your vote if the GOP renominates Trump?
By your logic, the raison d’être for your support has disappeared. Trump’s marginal utility to conservatives is permanently diminished. The most powerful moral defense of voting for him despite his corrosive attributes no longer applies.
Shouldn’t this change everything for you? After all, it isn’t as though Trump is no longer an unapologetic bully, a serial liar, and a bad example to children.
Aww, not the
livestockchildren, George.Conor Friedersdorf wants Trump thrown overboard. Trump has contrived to prevent Hillary from hijacking the Supreme Court and made a “conservative” Court a reality. That was the only reason true conservatives like Hugh Hewitt voted for him. Now that the Court is safe, it’s time to bring in a reliever (like Jeb!, I suppose). You know, somebody who can restore sanity and bipartisan consensus and get America back on the straight and narrow.
Controlled opposition
At least support a bigger war hawk Republican. Geez.
“a bad example to children.”
Starting wars in Libya, Flagrantly getting around government transparency laws = GOOD Example
Conor Friedensdorf knows well the role his paymasters require of him. What a good little soldier he is!
Get back to us if Notorious R.B.G. is still around in 2020.
TBF, Double Dare is a helluva lot more enjoyable than Brian Stelter.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/10/23/cable-news-ratings-cnn-nickelodeon-fox/
I find Mark Dice mocking Brian Stelter by using a mickey mouse voice to be rather entertaining, myself.
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1055088032020340736
HOT TAKES! Get your hot takes from people who can’t remember history before 1996. HOT TAKES!
Am i the insane one? Do i live in some strange bubble where only the violence to the people I disagree with get talked about? Cause it seems to me to be the opposite of what they are claiming. If this is a real deal, then it will be used as evidence that Trump and the Right are encouraging this kind of violence. The fact of them matter is that everyone want’s to keep their charged rhetoric while claiming it is their opponents charged rhetoric that is causing all the violence in the country.
Yes.
I think this Tweet can be summarized as “HuffPo reporter, who suffers from mild retardation, desperately seeks victim hood status. Other reporter mocks mildly retarded reporter. Stupidity continues un-abetted, as people seem more concerned with *who* sent bombs to people rather than the disturbing realization *that* someone sent bombs to people”
What makes a ‘hot take’? What are its defining characteristics?
Being done quickly and with poor thinking are key characteristics.
“Dear white people who are upset that you can’t dress up as another race or culture for Halloween: your feelings don’t matter. The only feelings that matter are of those who feel disrespected/mocked by you appropriating their culture for entertainment. Show some common decency.”
https://twitter.com/KirstenPowers/status/1054824232444743681
Wasn’t Kirsten Powers relatively sane?
Regardless, it’s getting ratioed, and hard.
https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1054926505875259393
“The only feelings that matter are of those who feel disrespected/mocked by you appropriating their culture for entertainment.”
Yes. And they don’t seem to care. Only white upper class people seem to care. Imagine that
So by her logic, we shouldn’t care about appropriating culture.
Also, how retarded is that phrase. It ASSUMES that every (non-white) person thinks exactly the same. It’s not like some people could be offended and some people could like that you accept some of their culture. Strange that people are different.
“Don’t be a bigot by viewing minorities as a monolithic group with shared ideas” but “Do assume all minorities share the opinions of entitled white people”
Totally different
Does that count as a tweet that is “ratio’d”?
Yes.
that you can’t dress up as another race or culture for Halloween
Bitch, I will dress however I damned well please. And idiots like you make me want to dress as offensive as possible to prove that point.
Wasn’t Kirsten Powers relatively sane?
If I remember correctly, yes she was.
She was indeed one of the less ridiculous lefty talking heads, but I guess she’s another one that was broken by Trump.
“White people are untermensch, and should be treated as unpersons if they disagree with their melanin-advantaged lords and masters.”
This road leads to camps and mass graves. The only questions are (1) Do we get/stay on it? and (2) If we do, who gets sent to the camps?
A little older article but interesting nonetheless.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/more-companies-dropping-college-degree-requirement-for-new-hires
When colleges become worthless, people who actually need people to work for a living will no longer require it.
It’s already like that in IT almost everywhere. Experience is what matters.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1055095328280592384
That’s some graphic.
Bringing in women to replace the bad actors doesn’t, in itself, bother me. What does bother me is the fact that the people they’re bringing in aren’t going to be particularly competent.
From the files of “You can’t build that”: Locals outraged that huge warehouse will be built
Yeah, how dare those people who bought a house next to land they knew would be developed into a business park have to put up with having to live next to a business park! I sort of understand the dismay because we had a similar thing happen in our neighborhood. It sucked losing 10 acres of undeveloped land that had become the neighborhood dog park, but I never would have thought of trying to force the owner not to do what he wanted with it.
When the apocalypse arrives, don’t run down to the grocery store with the rubes. Find the warehouse.
I can speak from the landowner’s end.
A lot of neighbors were pissed at me when I closed my woods off to them. No, you may not hunt, fish, harvest lumber, or harvest hay from my property. I don’t care that it sat vacant for 2 two years and you did as you pleased. You should have bought the land yourself if you wanted to do these things.
It really pissed me off to find deer carcasses rotting with nothing but the backstraps cut out and my pond completely fished out. Finally, after stringing new fence, new barbed wire, warning signs, and walking around with a shotgun, the last few holdouts got the message that my property was no longer theirs.
Are you saying they didn’t take care of it when they all used it?
Are you saying that the Tragedy of the Commons is actually an argument FOR private property and not for more regulation of a resource?
Horrible, horrible jobs.
We run into this in my industry all the time. If you want the land to remain as is, you need to by it yourself.
And in local news: http://www.wfmz.com/news/lehigh-valley/former-allentown-mayor-ed-pawlowski-sentenced-to-15-years/817743114
15 years for a crooked politician. That’s a good start, now go get more of them.
Dude shoulda taken the high road and pulled the Budd Dwyer. On TV.
https://twitter.com/willwilkinson/status/1055113630008700929
The Will Wilkinson brand of “libertarianism” is not an alternative to anything, if we’re being honest. Wilkinson displays his unique ability to parrot popular opinion absent all reflection, once again.
Controlled opposition
Wilkinson is a twat.
That is my only opinion on the subject.
Well, that and holy fuck is he stupid.
““Socialism” is hot b/c folks want safety nets & unrigged markets”
Someone is a little confused on the 2nd point.
The fact that he gets paid to peddle this unmitigated bullshit amazes me.
Elizabeth Warren’s market-friendly social democracy.
Words fail.
Wow, if Liawatha’s socialism is “market friendly”, I’d hate to see what market unfriendly is.
I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen anyone, even the most wokest of leftist dems, as hostile to markets as what White Squaw is. In White Squaw world, everyone just goes to Harvard for free and lives happily ever after. No stankin capitalism needed.
In White Squaw world, everyone just goes to Harvard for free
I would support this plan.
And my daughter wants a pony, and I want to fuck Alessandra Ambrosio on the hood of my mint condition 1966 Corvette. Life is full of unrealistic dreams.
*Googles Alessandra Ambrosio*
I’d also like to do her on the hood of your mint Corvette.
I resemble this comment, and the seed is strong.
Apropos of nothing – way back when I lived in SoCal, there was a Brazilian place around the corner from my office that had a lunch buffet. It was tasty and cheap, so I went there quite a bit. Food on the buffet fell into four rough categories: roasted meats, fried meats, bean dishes, and rice dishes. So it was with amazement that I routinely watched gorgeous model-looking Brazilian girls, all of them tall and slender, eat plate after plate of this incredibly fattening food. Good genes, I guess.
Wow, that place is still there almost 20 years later
In San Diego, Cafe Sevilla was the Brazilian hangout on Sunday nights. It got seriously horny in there, up to and including screwing in the unlit corners of the dance area.
That guys like Wilkinson or Brink Lindsey are still taken at all seriously shows the utter intellectual bankruptcy of the libertarian establishment. Their strategy of cozying up to progressives was tried. It proved a complete and utter failure. Simply, their ideas don’t work.
They were serious about libertarianism, but then they had to weigh that against cocktail party invites. Gotta have priorities you know.
I know.
But, I still wonder, why does anyone else take these guys seriously? They’ve been disasters. First, it was cozy up to the left under the banner of “liberaltarianism”, only to get thrown to the curb once the left took power. That alone should have been enough to discredit them. Instead, we witnessed the rise of the Tea Parties and the same libertarian establishment declaring a “libertarian moment”, all without bothering to recognize that the renewed interest in libertarianism was coming from the right. Unsurprisingly, without any encouragement from libertarianism, that interest simply moved on to Donald Trump’s particular policy menu.
The only real success we’ve seen for libertarianism has come from guys like the Pauls, who these guys have been indifferent, if not downright hostile, to.
Does anyone actually take them seriously other than middle of the road Democrats? I find it exceedingly difficult to believe that the Niskaninnies have any influence on anyone else at this point.
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1055082930735845376
I’m no zoologist, but that’s a lot of fucking bats.
Just a flock of Romanian Tourists visiting Italy.
Damn Romanian tourists. They always bleed you dry.
Won’t be sharing that one off to the wife.
fucking bats
Uffda, I thought that white stuff under the bat house on my shed was guano. The more you know.
They’re welcome to roost in the bat house in my backyard. Anything to help with the insects plaguing us.
No time to post or even lurk much. Just amused over the dems sending themselves bombs. I bet Hillary was dodging bullets and rescuing poor immigrant children at the time she got hers.
Hobgoblin, ahoy!
As the country deals with an onslaught of powerful hurricanes and other weather-related events, those intangibles have become more evident, and more and more important. Michael is—according to experts I spoke with—both a harbinger of a future climate and a representative of a class of disasters that in the past few years have exposed the vulnerabilities of local and national institutions. Those disasters have highlighted the role of inequality, civic instability, and poor planning in amplifying the effects of both extreme and mundane weather. The evidence seems to be mounting that not only will the developing climate regime, if sustained, expose the cracks in the American democratic project, but it will also widen them.
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As heat, disaster risks, and rising seas bombard local governments, the ability of those governments to fulfill their basic functions—the delivery of services, the maintenance of the safety net, and managing civil, familial, and educational institutions—could be degraded, too. This could manifest in three distinct phenomena that are already on display in disaster-affected areas: the increased dominance of private and developer-class interests in local politics, the acceleration of existing wealth inequality, and the collapse of institutions dedicated to disaster response.
Climate doom is coming; women, minorities, poor, hardest hit. How do people like this manage to drag themselves out of bed in the morning?
It’s been this way my entire life. People are obsessed with doom scenarios. First it was Jesus coming back, then it was the Russians and nuclear war. OK, that one was a real possibility for sure. Now it’s climate change.
Such as throwing money at people to encourage them to build in hurricane-prone regions?
So government continues turning everything it touches into shit, but now we blame it on climate change.
How in the fuck do they get away with that? They keep talking about rising seas…has anyone noticed that they are not actually rising? That hurricanes are the same as they have always been?
That hurricanes are
the same as they have always beenless frequent than they used to be?That was before we had MONSTER storms!
No, they keep changing all of the time. You can see it like twice a day!
I have never, not even once seen any measurement of sea levels having risen. You’d think they would be posting this proof everywhere, but nope. We just have to believe it, because they said so. It’s almost too late you know.
amplifying the effects of both extreme and mundane weather.
More people and structures exist in the paths of hurricanes than before. . .
It’s sort of like how tornadoes started happening, back in the 60s when I was a wee child. I remember older people saying ‘There warn’t any them thar tornaders back when I was a growin up’. Yeah, there were gramps, but there wasn’t any people to see them or get their trailer parks in the way of them.
“Canadian rapper”
I guess one could say he is now well grounded.
RIP J-Roc.
+1 Ya know what I’m saaaayin.
Gravity is a very harsh mistress.
A tip of the wing salue to him.
He should have written down his lyrics and practiced them extensively. Maybe future rappers will now realize the danger of winging it.
Innnnnnnforma, something something something, a licky boom boom dowwwwwn
I forgot to add this bit last night in the talk of the lottery: Many years ago when we had our very first state lottery drawing I bought a ticket. I was very disappointed the next day to discover that I had come so close to winning…I only matched five numbers. What a let-down. I threw the ticket away. It was probably six months later when I found out what I had done.
… you threw out a second place ticket?
Yep. I sure did.
*bangs head on desk*
Do you remember (roughly) how much it would have paid?
100K If I remember correctly.
Ouch.
Did you tell Mrs. Suthen?
She was not thrilled.
Wow.
It was the first one. I didn’t read the rules. I thought you either won or you didn’t.
I’m laughing Suthen because if I were in your moccasins, I would have done the same thing. I’m never going to be mistaken for a great gambling mind.
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1054944730885218304
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Try again…
So, I go over to dictionary.com to look up a word, and get hit with this…
https://www.dictionary.com/e/they-is-a-singular-pronoun/?param=HP
Paging Heroic?
“It’s OK To Use “They” To Describe One Person: Here’s Why”
No, it isn’t. Because it’s stupid. The end.
But this isn’t anything new. I’ve heard it and probably even done it in the past. In fact the article says it’s be common since the 1300’s. Everyone does it all the time with the variant their. It’s a big nothing burger.
Yeah, if you say it like: “They went to get some beer and will be back”. It is OK in that context and yes I do it. But to refer to someone directly like ‘Would they like another beer?’, is fucking stupid, period.
They agree.
“My cousin just woke up.”
“Would they like another beer?”
I don’t think I’ve ever used “they” to refer to an individual. Its possible, but when I am referring to a person, I almost always know their sex, and if I don’t I either use their name or ask (“Dr. X? Him or her?”). If I know Bob went to get beer, why would I say “They went” instead of “He went”?
I can remember the big push to stop using “him” as the sex-neutral pronoun, and use “him or her”. I always thought it odd that women complained about having a pronoun that was exclusive to females, while men only had a pronoun that was sex-neutral.
Its usage was always restricted to situations where one did not know the sex of the referent. Now we are being asked to use it at the request of the referent for political reasons.
“They? You got multiple personalities or something?”
*phones rings*
Mr Dean: Hello?
Caller of indeterminate sex: Could I speak to Mrs. Dean please?
Mr Dean: *hands phone to Mrs Dean* Honey, they want to talk to you.
Mr Dean:
*hands phone to Mrs Dean*Honey, they want to talk to you.Who is calling?“Kelly”
Oh wait, that was a different prank.
“Kelly”
*Mutes phone* “You expecting a call from a Kelly?”
What are you, her secretary?
It’s easy in the Latin languages. Masculine always takes preference when gender is unknown or it’s a mixed group. Wiminz, chilluns, and colored folk hardest hit.
I find that the trope “Here’s Why” and similar is an excellent marker for stupidity.
+1 weird trick
Whoever decided that needs to have his head examined. He’s clearly too woke for his own good, and he’d do us all a favor by resigning his post in disgrace.
I’m beginning to think there are some unhinged people out there.
And thus their courtiers abandon even monumental tyrants like Mussolini—who at least had his mistress, Claretta Petacci, with him at his ignominious end. (Melania’s affections are considerably less certain.) The normal course of events is sudden, epic desertion, in which an all-powerful political figure who loomed over everything is suddenly left shrunken and pitiful, a wretched little figure in gaudy robes absurdly too big for him, a figure of ridicule as much as, and even more than, hatred.
This is going to happen to Trump at some point. Of the Republicans in Congress it may be said of most of them: Those he commands move only in command, nothing in love. For now, admittedly, there are those who still court his favor—Senator Lindsey Graham, for example, once the trusty vassal of Senator John McCain, the bravest of warriors and noblest of dukes, seems to have switched his allegiance from his dying lord to the swaggering upstart aged prince. But that is about ambition, not affection.
Eliot Cohen just might be in serious need of professional help.
They cashiered KDW in favor of this tripe?
Senator John McCain, the bravest of warriors and noblest of dukes
*endless projectile vomiting*
This is just a transcript of the wet dream the author had last night. Pure fantasy.
Cohen is an avowed neocon who pushed heavily for an invasion of Iraq. In a just world, he would be run out of polite society.
Didn’t you see the Krugnuts tweet praising Max Boot that I posted yesterday? Progs are loving the hell outta some neocons these days.
“Senator Lindsey Graham, for example, once the trusty vassal of Senator John McCain, the bravest of warriors and noblest of dukes,”
I agree this person needs help.
In the “Why we should trust number crunchers like FiveThirtyEight.com to predict elections because they’re really good at math” category, we have this from 538 on the three most recent polls in the NM Senate Race (yes, THAT Johnson, aka Gary Johnson):
Heinrich Rich Johnson Margin Adj. Margin
SEP 20-24
NSON Opinion Strategy 932 LV 36% 10% 28% D+25.6 D+23.8
SEP 16-17
In Lux Research 900 LV 38% 10% 28% D+28.0 D+25.2
SEP 7-13
Research & Polling, Inc. 966 LV 47% 26% 16% D+21.0 D+21.8
Now, if you were an ignorant person like me, you might look at those numbers and think, the Democrat is losing support, the Republican is being written off as unelectable and being treated like the third party spoiler, and so we have Johnson down just 8 points with undecided voters going from 1 percent in the first poll to 24 percent undecided in the most recent.
If you were 538’s Nate Silver, you would publicly announce the Democrat in the race is up by 26 points, and that NM is a solid D race.
If you were 270towin.com, you would show seven pundits, all showing NM as a solid D race.
Hey, what do I know. They’re smart people, right?
I look at those numbers and go “I wish these were labelled better”
With Natey making 87% chance house turns blue predictions, I’d be very worried if I were the Ds.
Well, that, and the fact that Natey keeps predicting the Ds pick up 36 to 40 seats in the House for a solid majority, but if you look at his own map of outcomes for each district based on just polling, it keeps on looking like a nailbiter, around 218-217, sometimes R, sometimes D.
But, hey, Democrats weren’t worried about Hillary losing either, yeah?
The Pub should drop out and endorse GayJay. That of course won’t happen.
Q, I don’t think you can drop out within a fortnight of election day proper. In some states, people have already cast ballots.
Well, you can publicly say you have no chance of winning, and ask all your supporters to vote for candidate X.
But people can still vote for anyone on the ballot.
http://unsavoryagents.com/?projects=dark-waters
got a chuckle outta me
That’s old news. Now that rethuglicans are sending bombs to democrats, we all know what side the real violence is coming from.
I’m sure one of the other Minnesoda Glibs covered this already, but this news about Brother Keith being behind in the polls makes me smile.
If the lead increases much more, I expect a parade of “brave” DFLers like Klobuchar and the others to publicly announce that they can’t support Ellison who is a domestic abuser.
Its been a mystery why he gave up a safe seat to run statewide for AG. I always figured he was planning on using it as the traditional stepping-stone to governor. Since he’s a bigshot with the DNC, I expect to see a flood of DNC money in Minnesota.
The chick who married her brother, though, looks to be a shoo-in for Congress. Probably even if the feds indict her for immigration or student loan fraud, or whatever undoubtedly illegal reason she had for doing it.
I was baffled as well. It was like he got high sniffing his own farts and thought that he really was loved by everyone.
How he thought that a radical, liberal muslim would run well in out state Minnesoda is beyond me.
Because we’re a fucking clown show. Busty Amy is up 23 points! WTF?
What? Who?
‘Busty’ Amy Klobuchar, our senior senator. Absolutely awful, but wiping the floor with her nitwit GOP opponent.
Because MSP is big enough to out-vote everyone else. Especially when you throw in prog votes from St. Cloud and Duluth
Speaking of shitty polling:
https://www.colorado.edu/lab/aprl/sites/default/files/attached-files/2018_colorado_political_climate_report_election_topline_10-21-18.pdf
Oh jeez Rick, oh jeez, Polis is up by like a zillion points oh jeez.
Uhhhh, first of all, this is Registered Voters, a pretty shitty thing in and of itself
Secondly, most absurd, is the breakdown of the voter demos. D = 37%, R = 32%, I = 26%, Other = 5%. Anyone familiar with Colorado politics knows that this is a *ridiculous* overrepresentation of Dems and underrepresentation of Independents. And 538 says this is a B quality poll. I still think Polis is gonna win, but this poll is worthless and so is 538 for using it.
Gross story.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-man-killed-trying-to-protect-woman-from-sexual-assault-cops-say
*lights nerd signal*
http://www.eyeofthebeholdermovie.com/
Which eye?
PTSD
Hagan, the article’s lead author, said she believed it was the first of its kind examining an election’s psychological impact on college students. She was motivated to conduct the study by what she saw in her classes the day after Trump clinched the presidency.
Her students were “visibly upset,” she recalled in an interview. “Some were even crying.” They told her that they were scared and anxious about policies that had been discussed on the campaign trail, she said, as well as about the elevation of “a candidate who had an audio recording of him describing sexual assault.”
The analysis reveals that women, racial minorities, people from working and lower-middle social classes, Democrats, non-Christians and sexual minorities reported significantly more election-related distress. Accounting for connections among various factors, the most useful predictors of stress were sex, political party, religion and perceived impact of the election on close relationships — more so than race and social class. Controlling for party affiliation, other demographic factors still influenced stress symptoms. In other words, Hagan said, it wasn’t just a case of sore losers.
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The data does not spell out the long-term consequences for mental or physical health of election-induced distress. Nor does it establish the cause of the trauma-like symptoms. But the researchers speculated that “issues of identity and social inequality prominent in election-related rhetoric” played a role, as they wrote. “Repeated exposure to visual stimuli and words relevant to one’s identity, when perceived to be threatening or priming negative stereotypes regarding social group membership, can negatively impact psychological well-being.”
Trump is killing the children. He’s going to erase them.
What do you do when you’ve morally justified committing violence in your head, but you’re too chickenshit to carry it out?
aaaah fuck, now we can get FMLA for someone I don’t like losing an election?
to quote the Pope “Uffda”
Controlling for party affiliation, other demographic factors still influenced stress symptoms. In other words, Hagan said, it wasn’t just a case of sore losers.
Just how many identified Republicans claimed to have been traumatized by the Republican winning the election? Color me skeptical that this is anything but (delusional) sore losers.
Any students–anyone at all, really–who had these sorts of reactions to any election in this country ever needs significant psychiatric care.
“a candidate who had an audio recording of him describing sexual assault.”
It’s not assault if they want it. (which is what he said…)
Shhh – they’re sciencing.
Like what? A wall? I mean, what the hell did Trump say that would make anyone behave like that?
“What’s that honey? You didn’t actual hear Trump say it? You read it on Democratic Underground? Bless your heart, chil’.”
It aint called Trump Derangement Syndrome for nuthin’.
Has anyone seen/heard from clock-boy lately?
Four suspicious packages sent to prominent Democrats – and CNN – all contained the same return address, law enforcement officials said.
Suspicious packages were intercepted before they reached former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Another package was discovered in CNN’s New York City bureau mailroom. A fourth package was discovered at Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (D-FL) Sunrise, FL, office.
The packages all had one odd thing in common: The return addresses belonged to Wasserman Schultz, law enforcement officials told NBC.
BREAKING: Three senior law enforcement officials tell NBC the return address name on the suspicious packages found at Clinton, Obama, and Soros’ addresses belongs to DNC official Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) October 24, 2018
Hahahaha! Now, that’s funny.
LOL who puts a return address on a “suspicious package”?
Wile E. Coyote
An idiot staffer sending them out for DWS?
For the love of God, please, please, PLEASE let Debbie be the person who actually sent the packages…
OK, now I’m thinking disgruntled Bernie fan.
That occurred to me also.
It wont matter. No matter who the nut turns out to be the MSM is going to label them a Trump supporter.
I’m not sure how the George Soros package factors into that equation.
She was his preferred candidate and he gave her a lot of moolah:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-15/soros-alarmed-by-trump-pours-money-into-2016-race
I’d imagine he pulled other strings behind the scenes too.
law enforcement officials tell NBC the return address name on the suspicious packages found at Clinton, Obama, and Soros’ addresses belongs to DNC official Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
At least it wasn’t some place like Kalispell.
There’s a lot of reporting about “suspicious packages,” but the only one I’ve seen verified as a bomb is the original (Soros) package. Are the others bombs or not?
I’m thinking that none of them are real bombs. I don’t believe that this is the worst bomb maker ever.
I could see 4chan or a similar outfit doing this with fake bombs – the DWS return address indicates a cheeky sense of humor. I doubt if it’s a Dem, unless they are trying their hand at N-dimensional chess. (Damn, there’s that “they” used as a singular.)