The CFP poll debuted yesterday. Bama and Clemson were sitting on top. Ohio State was being Kentucky and Washington State. I can’t say I’m that surprised. A large slate of hockey games took place yesterday. The winners were: Calgary, the NY Islanders, Boston, Detroit, Dallas, Tampa, Nashville, the MINNESOOOOODA WIIIIIIIILD, Phoenix (who are above .500, which should be cause for celebratory riots in PHX this late in the season), Philadelphia and the NY Rangers. Congratulations to all of them.
Famous Halloween birthdays include: painter Jan Vermeer, poet John Keats, Girl Scouts founder Juliette Low, (non-commie) Chinese head of state Chiang Kai-shek, “truth”-teller Dan Rather, actor and brother Brian Doyle-Murray, rocker Bob Siebenberg, dead-too-soon actor John Candy, the devil reincarnated Nick Saban, filmmaker Peter Jackson, incredibly wonderful musician whose music is timeless Johnny Marr, the stapler Rob Schneider, and another timeless god of a musician Adam Horovitz, rapper Vanilla Ice, and Ace Of Base singer Linn Berggren.
Big happenings on this day include: Martin Luther sent his 95 Theses to the Archbishop of Mainz, the Donner Party set up their winter camp, “The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes” was first published, Mussolini was named premier of Italy, Mount Rushmore was completed, the first thermonuclear bomb was detonated, Jim Morrison was sentenced to six months in jail, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards, and 13-year old Bethany Hamilton had her arm bitten off by a shark while surfing.
OK, now on to…the links!
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellin says that deficits are not sustainable. And says if she had a magic wand, she’d raise taxes. Right, because there’s nothing left to cut, is there dumbass?
Megyn Kelly is determined to get her money while NBC bristles at the thought. Get your popcorn, because if they don’t pay, expect the tell-all to be published in a month.
This Mueller sexual-harassment thing is getting weirder by the day. Fortunately I already had my popcorn ready over the Megyn Kelly situation.
Republican turnout is big in early voting in key California races. But that’s cool, say Dems. Because what really matters is who counts them.
Pervy Chicago firefighters cost taxpayers $11.2 million. No word if any people were held accountable for their actions. I doubt it though. They have a union contract, after all.
Somehow I don’t think this is anywhere near the top of cop compensation for major cities. But still, that’s some serious scratch for “serving” the public.
Today is an awesome day for music. Although I foresee some bitching about one of the choices. Or maybe both go them. But those people would be wrong.
Very, very wrong. N ow go have a great day!
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106) “In fact, Trump’s economic successes really began when he became a reality TV star on “The Apprentice.” That gave him national exposure, as opposed to the local exposure he’d had in New York, where he wasn’t all that big a deal.”
This was from Sunday’s Washington Post. I’ve seen lines similar to this a few times in the past 2-3 months. That Trump wasn’t a big deal before he was a reality TV star. That nobody really knew he was before then. Frankly, it’s just bizarre.
When I was in middle school and high school, I played a lot of strategy board games with my friends. (Why yes, we weren’t very popular kids at our school. How did you know?) One day I went over to my friend’s house, this would’ve been late 80s, and he had a new game called The Donald Trump Game. I distinctly remember saying, “Oh, so it’s something like Monopoly?” Now how would I have known that if I didn’t already know who Trump was? How could a 13- or 14-year old kid in a small city in North Carolina have any idea who Trump was if he wasn’t already a national figure?
In high school, I read Trump’s book “The Art of the Deal”—I found it in my high school library. Why would my high school library have had this book if Trump was just a local New York real estate developer nobody outside the NY region had ever heard of?
It reminds me of when Reagan died, the Washington Post obituary on its front page read something like, “A beloved figure on the American right because of his optimism and sunny disposition.” No, he was beloved because he rejuvenated the US economy after a decade of stagflation and he won the Cold War.
I mean, right-wing media might hate Obamacare, but would an obituary of the man in, say, the Washington Times, not mention health care reform in the first paragraph? Do right-wing historians gloss over the fact that FDR led the successful war effort in WWII?
I don’t know, when I read things like Trump wasn’t a big deal before his TV show, which directly contradicts my own experience—not once, but often enough that it appears to be a real thing the left is pushing now– it makes it really hard for me to take accusations that Trump isn’t truthful seriously. At the very least, it makes sources like Washington Post appear awfully hypocritical.
I’d heard of him back in the 80s.
His reality TV stint was barely a blip and you’d have to remind me of what ‘The Apprentice’ was by the fact that it was the show where he fired people.
The reason he got the TV show was because he was already nationally famous as a very successful real estate mogul in NYC. The WaPo is just willfully lying.
When are they not doing that? Especially when the topic is Trump.
Me too, and I was a teenager on the opposite side of the country who had never been to New York (or even the East coast, for that matter).
They have to rewrite history. It’s what they do best. And this is very easy to do in the case of Trump.
“A beloved figure on the American right because of his optimism and sunny disposition.”
Oh the evil arrogance of that sentence.
Listen. I grew up in parts of the 70s and 80s. Trump was not an unknown figure. He was a national figure. He was on Donahue for the love of God.
What’s a ‘Donna Hue’?
Damn it! I was just going to make a joke that Rufus would have to explain Donahue to the youngsters.
I figured I’d do that and blend in a bit of an Aleppo joke while I was at it.
I think Donahue is a good indicator of how the left has changed. I was watching some clips of his show with Ayn Rand a couple years ago. At one point, she said something controversial and somebody in the audience yelled something out. Donahue shushed the guy–“Now wait a minute, sir, you need to quiet down, I’m trying to get to the bottom of this!”
It’s hard for me to imagine Samantha Bee or somebody like that ever shushing an audience member so she could have a better conversation with a right-wing guest.
The left has learned that they generally get their asses handed to them in an actual debate, so they have resorted to shouting down and censoring.
I loved watching Donahue when I was like 8! I also will sometimes find old epsiodes on YouTube with Milton Friedman, etc. and watch some of them.
Mr. Marlo Thomas.
I remember that girl, would.
He was a major enough pop-culture figure to have his brain transplanted into Bill the Cat. Even Obama never achieved that.
I was concerned when I saw that Breathed was bringing back Bloom County. Overall, I’ve been happy with the reboot (although I wish he would update it more frequently). Still makes fun of both sides, and keeps the surreal stuff there. And Opus has found his old Billy and the Boingers tuba.
Bloom county is the only comic strip I ever found worth readibg
For shame, FOS. Calvin & Hobbes is legitimately one of the best canons of art every produced in the 20th century.
Delightful for kids–amazing art and fun, whimsical adventures.
And for adults–Surprisingly good philosophical subjects, vocabulary, turns of phrase–and of course the jokes.
It and Good Simpsons are the two biggest cultural influences on my understanding of culture and humor growing up in the 90s. I’m quite certain that Bill Waterson and I would not agree politically, but he leaves other people alone and has been very principled with his work (refused to merchandize it) and I can respect that.
He walked away from the strip after a decade. I remember reading that Sunday strip in 1995 at the breakfast table.
It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ‘ol buddy. Let’s go exploring!
Bill Watterson lives in the Cleveland area, and back in the day he used to go into local bookstores, and randomly autograph copies of Calvin and Hobbes books sitting on the shelf. He stopped when some of the bookstores would start hunting for those books, and then jacking up the price on them (Bill Watterson was and is notoriously private). He’s only given a handful of interviews, and only drawn a couple of comics since his retirement from Calvin and Hobbes.
Bill Watterson draws Pearls before Swine.
https://imgur.com/gallery/qDKn2
This is not my favorite strip. But good lord. This is genius. Seeing this in a newspaper was….just life-changing.
This is a talented artist and a very funny punchline. Very libertarian.
FFS, UCS! I WAS 6 IF THAT’S THE COPYRIGHT! TWO DECADES IS A PERFECTLY REASONABLE NUMBER TO USE AS AN ABSTRACTION FOR ONE’S CHILDHOOD FOR A PERSON WHO IS NOW 31!
*Grabs hair*
THE PTA HAS DISBANDED! *VIOLENTLY JUMPS OUT WINDOW*
Calm down Evan… it’s OK. 25 years works for 2 decades.
Now go watch Stripped. Bill is in it. (It’s a documentary on comic strips you pervs!)
BAAAAH! I hope I’m not posting to a dead thread! I WILL post this again if that’s the case!
Calvin & Hobbes sum up SJW ‘logic’ 20 years ago.
“Copyright 1993”
Calvin and Hobbes, go forth and read it.
You and I. Thinketh alike do we.
I have to agree.
Calvin & Hobbes is timeless.
Those snowmen were masterpieces.
My faves.
Here you go!
The structual effort required for the giant snow monster eating the snow man would be impressive even for an adult to pull off. That arm alone would be inclined to collapse without an internal support.
I had a couple of those on my cubical walls.
And a couple Far Sides. Only two strips I ever gave a damn about.
The one with with the snowman killed by a car and the father saying he needs to get a psychologist always gets me.
Does this work better for you UCS? Best picture I could find, I used to drive past that house on the way to work every day. Guy built a giant snowman every year there was enough snow.
I wasn’t saying the artwork depicted couldn’t be done. It was a remark of admiration for the caracter’s aptitude.
@UCS: Whimsy, when properly dosed, is an exaltative form of communicating abstract ideas.
Many people even regard this usage as–what we call– “fun.” Some even use the word “fanciful.”
You and my father would get along very well, where one anachronistic watch (“that wasn’t made until TWO YEARS later!!!,” he would shout) completely eliminate his ability to enjoy the rest of the work.
What makes you think I’m not enjoying the work?
@UCS: The life of every party, you are.
@Baldwin: Yes, Far Side did indeed kick ass. Different style, but nailed it in his own way.
Hey, it’s what came to mind when I saw the structure. It drew more attention than the text.
Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes are both top shelf.
It was amazing how little it changed. Hell, it was more like Bloom County than Outland ever was.
The Washington Post has turned into a full blown publicity outlet for the DNC. It’s sad to see how far they’ve fallen in terms of quality. I don’t believe a word of what they publish anymore, the NYT is more honest.
If Democracy dies in darkness, somebody tripped the main breaker over at WaPo in November of 2016.
*cough*Bezos*cough*
What do you mean when you say “turned”? By my reckoning, like most publications and older traditional sources of news we get told are supposedly non-partisian (NYT, LAT, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and any other such bullshit peddling entity), they have been part of the propaganda arm of the dnc for at least 2, if not 3, decades now. They were just a lot better back when at hiding that fact.
Imma say they mostly went from ‘left-leaning’ to blatantly partisan during GWBs 2nd term. Fox News calling these agencies on their latent leftism has just resulted in them going full bore.
I don’t think CNN really stopped trying to appear impartial until Trump, though.
As I see it you are correct in your assessment. I would like to add that I occasionally was aware of stories CNN chose not to cover – incidentally always content that would make democrats look bad – long ago showing that there was bias there, even if they were good at hiding it.
I think this is roughly accurate. But, I will add a caveat. I think they appeared to be only left-leaning because roughly a few outlets had a monopoly on the narrative. So, in a way, it’s kind of hard to telll. They could have been feeding fully left-wing propaganda and there wouldn’t be much way to tell. But, I think the emergence of alternate media has led to them becoming more openly partisan. But, I’d also say it really seems to have escalated over the last few years. They moved from openly partisan, but at least trying to push a coherent narrative to “there are definitely five lights”.
You know who wasn’t very famous until her husband landed a sweet gig?
Lady MacBeth?
Eva Braun?
Duke Leto Atreides?…
Damnit, I meant Lady Jessica
Can’t be. Duke Leto never married.
That’s the way to do it…
Portia de Rossi?
Melania?
I remember being a pre-teen and seeing Trump on the covers of check stand rags all the time. His bankruptcies were all over cable news. My parents also had the Trump board game. He did a national TV ad for Pizza Hut that I remember distinctly. He had a cameo in Home Alone 2, which my parents took me to see in theaters when I was 6. That was all over a decade before The Apprentice. And I lived in Spokane Washington. Not exactly a great northeast metropolis.
He was also on WWE (or maybe it was WWF at the time?), The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, a bunch of TV commercials, etc.
He owned the New Jersey Generals in the USFL in the mid-80s
^^This.
Without Trump, the USFL wouldn’t wouldn’t have been a thing, and they gave the NFL a run for their money for a short time.
Steve Young, Doug Flutie, Jim Kelly, Hershel Walker, Reggie White all got picked up by the USFL rather than the NFL.
I was a market hound back in the day and I remember his bankruptcies and what he said about Kelo.
Also, this was the third time Trump announced a run for president. It was why I didn’t take him seriously at first this go-round.
Sorry I missed your hundredth post, JATNAS. Belated congrats. Thanks also for taking the time to put up short (sub-article length) convo starters.
If only there were several date and anniversaries, and links to start up the conversation…
*narrows gaze*
That looks more like stink-eye.
I remember a Bobcat Goldthwait standup special on HBO in the late ’80s. He was doing a bit mocking TV evangelists who claimed God needed them to raise millions of dollars for him, and the punchline was something like “God wouldn’t go to these guys! He’s God – he’d just call Donald Trump”
The Trump airline was around in that time frame (late ’80s-early ’90s). He had a big big race, the Tour de Trump. I mean, the entire reason NBC put The Apprentice on in the first place was because of Trump’s notoriety.
“big bike race” that is
And if it had been on really big bikes, it would have been more memorable.
Big bikes, huuuge bikes. The best bikes.
Huge bikes. Like penny farthings. But we don’t use pennies. We use Krugerrand farthings. Classy stuff, really classy stuff.
I knew the name and face from god knows where before I moved to Canada, and that was (ick) 25 years ago.
Deficits are all because of that darn tax cut. You know despite US citizens having been pretty heavily taxed (it boggles the mind, but ancient culture were not this taxed). Romans at their height only taxed ~5%. (Granted they paid alot off of looting from conquest).
Roman Patricians at least bought votes with their own money rather than the public fisc.
” Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: … He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants … He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
I’ve removed some of the above quote, but it gives you the idea–that the King of Israel would take a tenth of your income was so oppressive it was akin to slavery. The US top marginal tax rate is 37%, with states and some cities taking a cut even beyond that.
It is interesting to see what the ancients considered oppresive vs nowadays we are considered whiners if we think a tax burden 3x that is a little burdensome.
But we get so much more for that taxation!
/progtard that thinks this shit is cool cause he gets free shit.
One of my favorite Bible passages. The people wanted a king because they couldn’t just obey God. Samuel told them how they would get the government they asked for – good and hard.
37% is about the minimum for the employed once payroll taxes are factored in.
Even though following the tax cut the federal government collected record-high revenue last year. It is not a revenue problem, it’s a spending problem.
Yeah, but the people doing the spending will never admit that, let alone do anything about it.
The richer a nation the more it can be taxed. In the past most people could not pay more tax without probably starving. If you make a decent amount of money and are heavily tax, you are left with enough for a decent life style anyway and it is an easier burden. Even now poorer countries cannot really sustain a high % of gdp as taxes
Tax rate cut =/= Tax cut.
Amazing how that simple redefinition changes the argument.
“Deficits are all because of that darn tax cut.”
Marxists/Keynesians (is there much of a difference?) always seem to feel economic growth can only come from government spending, which means they need to tax the people more so they can keep spending more. At least the marxist are honest and admit they want to tax 100% of people’s money, unlike these douchebag Keynesians. The problem is the spending, not the taxes, you fucking scumbag top men!
The Smiths? I don’t know. I had a college roommate who was really into Morrissey. He wasn’t as bad as the roommate who was into Jimmy Buffett, who nearly drove my insane when he’d start playing that crap. I mean, the Smiths/Morrissey had a few good songs. But I didn’t come away from that semester wanting to hear a whole lot more, either.
Headphones saved many a young college student from being murdered.
Headphones got many a student murdered…easier to sneak up on
So it’s a wash
…something you need to tell us, Slammer?
He has this awful pain in his back and would like one of us to remove the knife.
I deliberately chose Marr-heavy songs. Don’t get hung up on Morrissey’s mincing. Listen to the accompaniment. Dude was a fucking genius.
I agree 100% that Marr is a genius in almost every way, but goddamit if Morrissey doesn’t fuck it up with his faux-earnest ‘I’ve crawled so far up my ass I can see tonsils’ thing.
I really don’t like him.
But I really like Johnny.
He’s done a ton of work with other bands, too. Cool guy.
I really wanted to play an Electronic song but I couldn’t get one on YouTube quick enough to put the links up in time.
He also did work with TheThe, Pretenders and Modest Mouse. He’s got a great catalog.
Was gonna mention Marr’s work on Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Began to Sink. He’s got a very cool rhythmic and jangly style.
That album is criminally underrated IMO. Some of my favorite MM songs on that album. Very well-written. Although it is true as an album Good Things is better.
Electronic was a great project. Some of his best work.
The problem is you’re taking Moz seriously. Never take Moz seriously. Even on stuff like “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now.”
I like some of the “album tracks” more than the big hits, like “William It Was Really Nothing” or “Reel Around the Fountain”.
For sure. Every time I listen to the Smiths closely I swear I hear something new I’d never noticed.
Twirls pencil thin mustache, sips on a margarita, ponders piracy after the age of 40.
Milo, Proudboys, Gavin McInnes, and anyone who supports them hurled into the void. Antifa is still cool and has their accounts.
Facebook is banning accounts and pages associated with the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group whose members assaulted protesters in New York City earlier in October.
Hmm… didn’t NYPD release a video showing Antifa throwing stuff at the Proud Boys before the brawl began? Oh yeah, they did..
Look if you’re looking for honesty and even handedness, move along.
I got no love for those guys, but this narrative is driving me nuts.
The antifa guys say “we are going to show up at their rally and punch them”. Then the antifa guys show up at their rally and punch them. Then the guys who get assaulted beat the crap out of them.
The news story is “proud boys rally turns violent as members assault protesters.”
The NYPD not only said that the antifa guys attacked the guys leaving the meeting, they said that they tried to confront them and were turned away by police, so they snuck around the other side of the building to get to them.
But a lefty press and a lefty government have fixed that narrative. Now the victims of assault are on trial for rioting. I suppose they should have just accepted their beating.
It occurred to me yesterday, that progressives aren’t purging social media to combat racism. They are purging social media to promote racism.
When your dogma is predicated on “combating” something, you need more of it so you can demand more from the weak-minded and uninformed. Be it racism or poverty, the left, while claiming to want to fight it, has caused far more of whatever “it” really is so it could justify its envy driven need to take more.
+1 “that could have been my son”
At this point, I have no pity for these guys. They knew and know that it’s just a matter of time, but instead of migrating to a platform that is free speech affirming, they stick around on the prog-infested platform to win victim cred when they get unpersoned.
Fuck that. The victim mentality looks even worse on the right than it does on the left.
Are you sure it wasn’t inertia and the “My audience is here” mentality?
I am sure there is a ton of that, but these people should have learned a lesson from Fox News. When the internet is under attack by the people that are unhappy the dnc operatives with bylines masquerading as media, the answer is to create your own bulwark against their purges.
You mean like GAB?
Exactly. We see what’s being done to them.
Well said, Trashy.
“They knew and know that it’s just a matter of time, but instead of migrating to a platform that is free speech affirming,”
Which would be what?
Another social media site, another online format such as blogging, another online communication format such as discord.
I’m not saying it’s easy or it’s right, hut it’s either that or play the whining victim game every time FB or Twitter gets a censorship boner.
I don’t think anyone is playing a whining victim here I think they are calling Facebook on their Hypocracy
They did do that.
And “they” pulled the plug…. no hosting for you. No payment processing for you. No advertising for you!
Since GoDaddy was the hosting provider, they could also be “no DNS services for you” as well.
The left have successfully turned the corner on getting all companies of any size to heel to their leash. They have the cooperation of the banks (thanks to a push from Obama and Operation Choke Point), credit card processing companies, online payment processors, advertising networks, major social networks, hosting companies, major online retail aggregators…
Now all they have to do is get shipping and telco and they’ll have enough critical mass to put everyone under their boot.
It’s fine, all they have to do is setup their own banking system, and ISPs for Nazis that won’t block the websites, and their own DNS hosts, and their own search engines. None of this of course will fall foul of any regulation, which shouldn’t exist anyway, and things that shouldn’t be are not an obstacle. I mean, if they can’t put in twenty years and two stock market bubbles worth of effort and money, are they even trying?
And which platform would that be?
Oh right, it doesn’t exist
instead of migrating to a platform that is free speech affirming
You mean, like the one that now consists entirely of this?
Yes, fuck those guys for thinking they might be allowed to have an existence outside politics, in which they might interact with other fans of a sports team, players of a miniature game or drinkers of a particular beer, who might not be members of the same obscure shitty political group.
The fuck is this shit? Yes, fine, Proud Boys page being sent off to NazisOnline.com, sure. You want to roleplay United Colours Of Benetonstaffel, not here. Purging individual accounts is evil.
…and Gab was shut down. This bullshit argument about “MOVE TO A DIFFERENT PLATFORM” is untenable.
Find another slant.
How about this slant. When you use somebody else’s platform for your free expression, you are beholden to them. If they start targeting and removing people like you, you’re probably next. Whether or not the provider is a completely hypocritical ass, it’s their ball, so they get to make the rules.
But I guess “muh surchul murdiuh” is the modern day replacement for “muh roadzz”
Or you raise hell, expose their hypocrisy, demand they stick to the Terms of Service and “we are a platform NOT a publisher” creed they hold to and just generally annoy until they have to compromise. Why just fly the white flag and go “well you got me, your rules for me and not for thee”?
It’s kind of interesting how FB has chosen to approach this. First, they unpersoned Alex Jones, because no one would defend him, and laid low for a while. Then they whacked Police the Police and the Free Thought Project, who are far more defensible, but not mainstream enough to get a large outcry going. Now they’re going for someone who they can at least argue have questionable associations, so no one will stick their neck out for them.
Eventually, they’ll get bolder, I’d wager. I wonder how all this will end up.
“I wonder how all this will end up.”
They go out of bidness like MySpace, or become social media for leftists only?
As it relates to FB advertising, I wonder why the “bake that nazi cake” rule doesn’t apply for some of these groups.
I wonder how all this will end up.
At this point, hopefully with Congress or, preferably, the courts removing their CDA Section 230 protection.
They’re free to take whatever editorial stance they want. But, exempting them from responsibility for their editorial decisions while leaving their ink and paper competitors on the hook isn’t some sort of triumph for libertarianism. It’s simply rigging the game in some participants’ favor.
If you want to discuss non-left politics, you have to go to NaziBook.
Celebrities, recipes, sports, cat jokes, dad jokes, coordinating meetups etc, you do it where normies are, i.e. Facebook.
Normies never get to see unapproved politics. That’s all it’s about. The thinking is, normies got to see Pepe and Gamergate and then we get Trump. Put normies back into box where they can’t see other people expressing any bad thoughts and they’ll learn to keep their bad thoughts to themselves.
I’m not saying it’s gonna work, this is all Facebook is aiming for.
And they wonder why the “NPC” meme took off.
In 2018, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo was joined by four other public officials whose bi-weekly earning were at least above $10,000, or an estimated annual salary of $260,000.
$260K? I thought the NYC police commisioner would have him beat, nope.
Ya but the graft is so much sweeter in NYC
I also wonder how many more perks that the NYC po-po chief gets. The best things about a properly constructed perk is you don’t have to pay tax on it. Way better than salary in that regard.
This, although I believe that the real perk-whores in the big city PD and Fire tend to be a little farther down the scale.
My brother (LAPD) took a pay hit when he got promoted because some of the opportunities for OT went away.
Yes. Those mid-six-figure pensions I often read about are always thanks to overtime. Why someone should be paid “overtime” in “retirement” is a complete mystery to me.
Well because they have a Union and the people the Union negotiates with have absolutely no skin in the game. In fact all of their incentives are to bend over suck the Union reps dick and give him everything he wants
“The lawsuit recounts, in graphic terms, how a former chief told her he wanted to engage in a sexual act with her on her first day on the job. Another employee allegedly threw a sex toy at her. The suit says employees would watch pornography at the fire station, expose themselves to her and make inappropriate romantic and physical advances toward her.”
I think I’d let a bunch of firemen wave their dicks at me for $2M a year.
“The sexual harassment started on Dena Lewis-Bystrzycki’s first day on the job as a firefighter in Country Club Hills in 1998. She says it continued until she filed suit in 2012 and eventually went on leave in 2015”
Hmmmmm 14 years eh? I’m just gonna say it. This chick got into the gig knowing the deal. She acted cool with everything probably because she didn’t really care. Then something completely outside of her job happened, and she decided to cash out. I’m guessing she either got pregnant and decided to settle into home life. Or she began having trouble passing the physical tests.
I’m assuming a lot and very well could be wrong, but fuck em.
Dena Lewis-Bystrzycki
Yep, the hyphen last name says it all.
^THIS^
Passed over for a promotion. Bad yearly review. The fire captain started banging one of the younger gals. Could be any of those.
It could also be that she was a grade A cunt from the get go, but because she was an affirmative action hire she couldn’t be fired. Being a fireman requires a lot more team work than other jobs. This lady probably made no effort to fit into the team. Instead she wanted everyone else to change to meet her requirements.
Firemen are one of the few government employees that are explicitly permitted to watch porn; it goea along with the 24-hours-a-day on call status.
Really? You would think they’d frown on that just from a readiness perspective. I mean if everyone is sitting around watching pr0n and the alarm goes off, isn’t there going to be a bunch of confusion about what pole to slide down?
That burning house is gonna have to wait until I crank this thing out…. And it is my sixth time today, so it will be a while.
I don’t know how each department does it, but the ones that I’m familiar with had the firefighters “on shift” at the firehouse for more than a day at a time. So they were allowed to eat/sleep/masturbate while “on the clock.”
Not everywhere. My brother ran the systems for a medium-sized city here and was constantly in meetings with the Fire Chief and city manager about how to curtail porn availability. It was amazing how many hours a day those guys spent surfing the good stuff.
My buddy is a fire captain down at the air port. I’m pretty sure that they don’t watch pr0n on his shift.
He also has lots of stories about the wonder of managing women fire fighters. (who cleans the women’s locker room is a constant bone of contention).
Nobody wants to do it, or do they all fight for the privilege?
He says that the crew working the late shift is supposed to clean the locker room. Since the crews rotate shifts everyone has a period where they have to clean the locker rooms.
The guys just do it. The women are constantly bitching and coming up with reasons why they shouldn’t have to take their turn cleaning. It is always that someone on the other crew is extra messy and it isn’t fair. Constantly. Every week. He has to listen to adult women make up reasons why they shouldn’t have to take their turn.
It’s a job duty. Stop whining and do it.
UCS, have you ever thought your talents are being wasted in IT? I think with insightful comments like this, you should be in HR. You’d be so successful that money would pour in.
When I was much younger I bussed tables at a restaurant. Part of the bussing gig at a lot of jobs is also stuff like cleaning bathrooms. We used to fight over who had to clean the women’s, because it was a nightmarish shithole every goddamned time. The stereotype is that men are filthy pigs and shit all over the place or whatever, but in my experience the opposite is true.
^^^This.
Everyone that has had to clean bathrooms know that the women’s are always worse.
Fucking monsters! All of ya!
*Proceeds to intentionally miss urinal*
Really? How is that possible? It’s at least harder for them to accidentally miss, I’d think.
From what I hear, many refuse to actually sit on the seat and ‘hover’.
Yes, the hovering is a thing.
Also: Disposal of tampons/pads.
I used to work in a public park and had to occasionally clean the restrooms. I brought a mop for the men’s, and a hose and shovel for the ladies’.
I think I’d let a bunch of firemen wave their dicks at me for $2M a year.
Can you afford that?
*snort*
Yeah, the firemen should get the cash up front.
“Never start a story with the Weather”.
Oops, I did it again.
I think nearly all those writing “rules” you come across like that aren’t really there for experienced writers. I’ll point out you don’t really start with the weather, you start with a harrowing journey.
The night was humid…
As it stands, that is not much of a hook.
it’s a movie reference
You should know by now I don’t watch movies.
The word Billy Crystal was looking for was “sultry”.
Skippy Tisdale had a heart of gold, a drive to succeed and a dick as big as Christmas.
I’m glad that left a good impression on you.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellin says that deficits are not sustainable. And says if she had a magic wand, she’d raise taxes. Right, because there’s nothing left to cut, is there dumbass?
Well, to be fair her full quote is: “If I had a magic wand, I would raise taxes and cut retirement spending,”
>>Republican turnout is big in early voting in key California races.
that’s nice. I fear California is gone, man.
The “top two” primary means they’re still screwed.
Florida early voting is big republican turnout too.
Which is weird. The whole “let’s vote for a couple of weeks” thing was a DNC initiative so they could press their union get out the vote advantage. They have the buses and the manpower. Strange that suburban republicans are the ones taking advantage.
Harry Reid in 1993: “No Sane Country” Would Permit Birthright Citizenship
Democrats of the 90s seem to have a fair amount in common with the current Republican president. There is another one of these floating around that has Slick Willy expressing essentially the same views on immigration as Der Drumpfenfuhrer.
But they evolved. So that gets memory-holed.
Like how Obama is some champion for gay rights. Never mind the fact that he wasn’t for them until he was safely into his second term.
And Ellen still had him on her show.
Their philosophical compass is messed up inside.
Obama was against gay marriage while Trump had already come out in favor of it. But Trump is somehow homophobic gay-hater.
Same way Trump it’s an anti-semite who recognized Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
And has a Jewish daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren.
And the daughter and son in law are his most trusted advisors. It’s not like he disowned her or something.
He secretly hates them!
/progtard
And Trump hates the gays, even though he was an early proponent for gay rights, and may have been the first presidential candidate who waved a rainbow flag on the campaign trail.
And when he waved that rainbow flag, it received enthusiastic cheers from his supporters. You know, all the evil, bigoted LGBTQ-haters at his rally.
I see lot of those on youtube where Democrats are saying the exact opposite of what they say today. It’s mind-boggling to watch them as brazen as they are.
Which makes me wonder, are there clips from the past of Republicans on the same level doing the same?
They used to acknowledge that labor has a supply side back when they supposedly represented the “working class”. Now that they’ve dumped the bitter clingers in favor of coastal crazies, fuck the working man and his wages determined by supply and demand.
We could use a man like Cesar Chavez again.
Shaun White apologizes to Special Olympics community after controversial Halloween costume
Snowboarder Shaun White apologized to the Special Olympics community Monday after dressing up for Halloween as “Simple Jack,” a character with an intellectual disability from the 2008 movie “Tropic Thunder.”
White, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, posted a picture of the costume on Instagram over the weekend, which sparked a backlash from people associated with the Special Olympics.
I must be a horrible bigot because I don’t see why this should be controversial. (I mean, I know it is bc ‘muh-outrage’ bc everyone is an easily offended, hyper-emotional moron, but c’mon.)
He should have just made a special olympics bowling joke instead. That’s fine, IIRC.
The sad part is, he didn’t go full retard until he apologized.
Perfect comment
It’s there anything you could dress up as and not be offending anyone?
No, Leon. People are looking to be offended. They will take any excuse.
Just remember – Offense is never given, only taken.
Slutty nurse? Slutty devil? Slutty angel? I can’t see those offending anyone.
Are you going to subject us to a week of links images of fat neckbeards in slutty holoween costumes?
It won’t be a week.
Really? Here a story about how a Satanic Church wants to sue Netflix for a statue design on Netflix. And a quick search will find articles complaining about “slutty” costumes.
Bullshit
Yeah… 19-26 year old women never *want* to dress in sexy outfits. Men shame them into it……
sheesh…..
Also, if I had a nickel for every time I was told that “I dress like this for me”, I’d have a big pile of nickels.
The first time I publicly called BS on that claim was a the peak of the thong underwear fad. I was doing a bit about how uncomfortable that must be and a young lady said the classic “I wear them for me. I like it because it is comfortable”.
To that I had to publicly call her out. No way, no how is that more comfortable than underwear that fits.
Retard Jesus would be passable ironically enough.
If I understand the retard mind of a progressive, it probably would calculate “retard is bad but it’s being used to mock Jesus so it’s okay.”
See: Preacher
(Although that was Retard Progeny Of Jesus, but same effect.)
Easily the most blasphemous show I’ve ever watched.
It’s my kind of bizarre.
So godless commies write for the show.
Oh, what a surprise.
Humper-doo-doo.
I’m just glad he got a grown-up haircut and dresses like an adult now.
Bah! to the music links… How about some new Bloodbath for Halloween
Country Club Hills is not Chicago.
Don’t they have a metro FD for all of Cook County? Huh, my mistake.
So this suit will effectively bankrupt the city (except the pensions, obviously)?
Each municipality has their own fire department. Interestingly enough, some suburbs are all volunteer. Don’t know about Country Club Hills though.
Depends on their insurance – they will probably have some number of years having difficulty getting coverage, and it will cost an arm and a leg. If they are “self insured” – BOHICA.
SJWednesday: Argle-Blargle Edition
But notice how little was made of the #walkaway march and black conservatives visiting The White House. Go on youtube to see those.
“The issue of being able to access abortions” always means “somebody else pay for my stuff”.
I don’t care about people wanting birth control or abortions (and I have an adopted child), but I do care about these people demanding government use tax payer money to give them this shit for free.
“Still, the issue of being able to access abortions applies to some of us who have functioning reproductive organs.”
I mean id argue that it would effect both Men and women, seeing as you need both to have a kid, and seeing as both can be targets of Abortion.
But of course men have no say in the matter.
They are only there as a means to get cash to pay for whatever the woman decides. Sometimes even when it is not their kid.
Well, I don’t have a uterus or ovaries, but I’m not sitting here mourning their absence.
The sea of pink pussy hats had once again made it abundantly clear who figures as the subject of our reproductive and women’s rights discourse: white, cisgender women.
Wasn’t Linda Sarsour the primary organizer of the event? She’s definitely not white, and could easily pass for transgender.
I’ll give you transgender, but she’s a cracker for sure. On the Census, she checks “white”. She’s supposed to, at least, assuming her ethnic heritage is Middle Eastern or North African.
the conflation of womanhood with having those particular body parts left folks like myself who were assigned female at birth (AFAB)
There is no limit to the stupid.
Having those body parts does not automatically mean a person is a woman.
Yes, it does, period.
Fascist
You weren’t “assigned female at birth”, you were observed at birth to be female. It’s not like the doctor just spins a wheel to see what sex to call next.
In order to pretend that it is a mutable characteristic, it can’t possibly be innate.
I remember when the talking point was gender != Sex, so you could be a make woman or female man. To me it sounded like a reinforcement of stereotypical gender roles (see mom’s who claim son is trans cause he plays with dolls). But now the sex (male female) is being challenged, which is just insane. There are very few people who actually suffer from gender dysmorphia. Isn’t it surprising that they all have successful writing careers?
I’m on board with gender !== sex as long as we’re recognizing that genders are socially-constructed expectations based on physical sex. In other words, men are expected to act “manly”, which is a social construct, but men are also expected to have (or at least have started off with) twigs and berries, which is the physical aspect. So you can have a male who does things or acts in ways that in our culture are typically considered feminine, but that person is still a man. It’s just that in our (as in most) cultures there would be a disconnect there. Like when cats fetch tennis balls, for instance.
You know, I think I’m starting to see the basis of totalitarianism.
Ultimately, in life, somebody, somewhere, has to be ruled by reality. If you stick your hand in a fire, you’ll get burnt. If you drop an egg, it will fall to the floor. A ten gallon jar can’t hold a thousand gallons of something.
In a sane world of free men and women, the responsibility for being ruled by reality is universally shared. In a free society, you can pretend that up is down to your heart’s extent. But, you’ll have to be the one bearing the consequences of getting it wrong. Unless you can find someone willing to bear those consequences for you voluntarily. And then they have just a little more burden of being ruled by reality.
One of the truly remarkable things about both wealth and the technology that creates it is that they remove some of those consequences of not being ruled by reality. If you have a significant enough standard of living, you can kind of ignore reality and live with the losses (unless, pf course, you ignore too significant a reality). In that sense, they “free” us, just a little bit, from reality.
Now, unfortunately, people have discovered that there is another way people can free themselves from reality. They can force other people to bear the consequences of their ignoring reality. If you listen long enough to the totalitarian-inclined, you find they want their wishes, desires, and goals to be treated as physical facts of reality. But, that fundamentally means that they want to force other people to bear the consequences of their substitution of their wishes, desires, and goals for the actual facts of reality.
What concerns me is that a society can become wealthy enough, technologically enough advanced, that a large portion of the population comes to think that reality is negotiable, rather than something that must fundamentally be obeyed (even if only to manipulate reality to accomplish some goal). Enough people can become used enough to reality being faked for them that they don’t see it as something superior to their wishes, desires, and goals. And that is the beginning stages of a totalitarian society.
Well said Bill. I have always felt that the collectivist’s biggest appeal to the masses was their claim that they would basically remove consequences to bad choices by leveling the playing field (meaning, making other people pay). Claiming to be able to do that – and I say claiming, because reality indubitably will force them to deliver misery instead – is very appealing when you are discontent with reality and yourself. Especially when you figure rather than doing hard work to change both yourself and your reality, you instead demand others conform and acknowledge your reality as the reality, while pretending you are what you are not. It is insane shit to me, but a lot of people love the idea of fucking over others (and especially others that do better by accepting reality and working hard).
https://youtu.be/x98cE4QCrlk
No, having those parts doesn’t mean a person is feminine or ladylike, but it actually does mean that person is a woman.
Biology sucks because it is harshing my desire for reality to be different, so we will impose a new reality!
Extraordinary popular delusions
“reproductive rights”
If a disinterested observer was listening to the pro abortion crowd, they would hear the term “reproductive rights” and assume that these people were protesting in favor of women having the right to reproduce.
The truth is these people are protesting against reproduction. Down is up.
And by “rights” they mean forcing others to pay for their abortions and birth control.
More often than not, they also want other people to pay for their kids as well.
They protesting for the right to consequence-free sex. Which men are totally against.
Can confirm that WOC’s lady parts are also pink.
I was gonna say, I haven’t checked everyone, but I’ve done a bit of a sampler platter in ethnic terms and they’ve all been various shades of pink.
I’ve fucked the United Nations, and the outer parts are invariably shades of light to dark beige, the inner parts are invariably pink.
Yup. 15 years with my ex agrees with your evaluation.
I love Ouroborus time on the left.
SJWednesday: Remedial Fascism Edition
Best Part:
Hegel and all his bastard philosopher children haz a sad.
Nevermind that Italian fascism is the orthodox variety that predated Nazism. At least put your insane delusions in the correct fucking timeline.
Like I said below, he’s not even wrong. He’s probably never even heard of Hegel or read Plato’s Republic, let alone Giovanni Gentile.
Here’s the really fucking sad part:
The fact that this idiot is published anywhere other than in a free city weekly says a lot of about the state of the world.
I presume that the 2015 Digital Thinking Award was given for sitting around with one’s thumbs lodged firmly up their ass.
Well, it wasn’t thumbs…. but otherwise….
So, he is saying that the left is fascist.
A person who believes that there is a hierarchy of personhood — that some people are more human than others, and some fall below the threshold of being people entirely — and furthermore, that that hierarchy should be institutionalized, is a fascist.
So if you believed, say, that white men as a class of people are innate perpetrators of injustice and should have their rights constrained, while special privileges should accrue to other groups who constitute oppressed minorities, with a complex hierarchy emerging among them depending on their membership in different oppressed groups, you would be a fascist?
The whole article is an example of what spending years talking out of your ass on the internet will develop into. He’s not even wrong.
No because of historical power structures. Clearly the author does not understand fascism, and is evidence for his own thesis.
How would he understand fascism when the left has spend over 7 decades trying to obfuscate the fact fascism, like marxism, are both totalitarian socialist systems that only differ in whom really controls wealth? The marxist dispense with the need to pretend anyone but the top men have all the power, and thus all the wealth, while the fascists pretend an unholy alliance between government and industry that allows government to pick winners & losers, allowing a few more people to share in the power structure, and hence the wealth. But these fucking cunts blame capitalism for the ill these systems have caused. Go fucking figure.
“because Americans, many of them, enough of them, even especially the good ones were never really taught what fascism is.”
I’ll go along with that.
“A person who believes that there is a hierarchy of personhood — that some people are more human than others, and some fall below the threshold of being people entirely — and furthermore, that that hierarchy should be institutionalized, is a fascist”
No.
“Fascism is best seen this way. A person who believes that there is a hierarchy of personhood — that some people are more human than others, and some fall below the threshold of being people entirely ”
No. What you are describing is clearly a form of bigotry. Fascism is foremost an ideology about the organization and relationship of the state and the economy (i.e the people). It’s closest extant relative is Democratic socialism. I’m not saying that to try to demean socialism (as it stands on par with fascism anyways). Objectively Democratic socialism and fascism are pretty much the same.
I’ve long had had the uncomfortable suspicion that fascism would rise in America during my lifetime
Then it is good that the current president keeps doing the opposite of what fascists do. Then again, you probably think that “fascism” is anything conceivably “rightwing”, even though fascism is a big-government collectivist ideology.
Fascism is best seen this way. A person who believes that there is a hierarchy of personhood
SJW’s really need to look in the mirror.
But according to the progressive stack, they’re oppressed, and thus can’t be oppressing the shitlords.
I love delving into the comments. It is there where you see the failure of education:
“Go to the profile of Gustavo Broda Lóes
Gustavo Broda Lóes
Oct 29
What you think about the elections in Brazil yesterday? Bolsonaro is a total nazi-fascist!”
What on God’s green earth a ‘Nazi-Fascist’?
I notice they use the terms interchangeably. I guess it makes sense given they believe gender is fluid. So why not ideologies?
Masochist.
Nazi-Masochist
That’s because there’s only two ideologies:
Right-think (properly following the current progressive ideology)
Wrong-think (everything else)
“Go to the profile of Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards
Oct 30
While your article prompts many thoughts, and will be uncomfortable for many.
May I suggest that it is not reasonable to state that facism was “invented” in America, the same acts you mention that created “modern facism” are throughout history. Let us look at the Roman Empire, which openly documented each and every trait you’ve mentioned.
I do not mean to suggest that your article is incorrect in prompting the questions, merely that history offers more of a back story.”
Uncomfortable not for the reasons Chris think. Uncomfortable because, I don’t know, it’s written by an illiterate clown?
Poor Chris. He’s conflicted. He recognizes the author is retarded but whatever. Carry on!
By the way, I noticed this disturbing and troubling trend of blaming America for things it has nothing to do with in other threads discussing historical event. I recall one where a person asserted America started WWI and another it prolonged WWII.
I’d like to know where they’re getting this stuff.
America invented slavery.
and oppressin’ dem wymminz
I’d like to know where they’re getting this stuff.
Right here
Prolonged WWII? What, by not sending aid to the Nazis?
If I recall correctly, the saying goes ‘Britain was about to sign a peace treaty with Germany and all was going to end well until those violent Americans ruined it’.
I kid you not.
So, Japan had nothing to do with it, and the Eastern Front was just going to go away?
I was gonna say, I feel like that whole Pearl Harbor thing might’ve had a role. Maybe you can say something about Lend-Lease and economic policies regarding Imperial Japan, but I think there’s a reasonable argument to be made that “prolonging” the war in the sense of not surrendering to totalitarianism was ultimately an ok policy.
You might be able to make a case that without American aid the Soviets don’t recover from 1941.
Sure, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was a CIA operation.
Bolsonaro seems like an asshole. Fascist? Not so sure. Some other type of authoritarian.
Nice costume. Any Mech Warrior vets will appreciate.
that’s really awesome except the part where you have to carry your kids around the neighborhood.
Paramedic hurt patient on purpose, then bragged about it on Facebook, state says
That’s only going to increase belligerence from the patient.
Mean and stupid ain’t no way to go thru life son.
“…State officials interpreted the letter as Stokes encouraging a full revocation of his license, but Stokes now argues a “null and void” finding is a lesser discipline than a revocation, which he says will prevent him from pursuing a career as a nurse.”
Whoever constructed that last line has hopes of a career in comedy.
Revocation of his license? He should be in jail for assault and battery.
Battery… drilling into the bone, intentionally by the way, would rightly be prosecuted as mayhem and grievous bodily harm…. 20 year felony for being a depraved psychopath who cannot be trusted in public.
A guy who would take a drill to a patient’s bone is a guy who would do a lot worse than kill kittens.
Gotta love our hero first responders.
Megyn Kelly has adopted a scorched earth policy in her exit with NBC
oh man.. those are some sweet sweet words.
Those dumb fucks should settle with her today.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.
those are some sweet sweet words.
I agree.
funny.
who’s the bald guy with the stubble? i recognize Harris, Peterson, Shapiro, forget the Indian guy’s name.
I really hope she takes them all down.
Today I’m dressing as AL JOLSON. FUCK YOU. Come get me jerk offs!
Problem is, I don’t think anyone around here a) would know who the fuck he is and b) give a shit.
Kmele Foster absolutely should dress as Al Jolson. That’s just too perfect. Black guy who denies black label in white face wearing blackface as a protest against racist absolutism in labels and costuming…
If I had a magic wand, I’d whip you people into shape with it.
Into the shape of a pyramid. Of skulls.
By *you people* I don’t necessarily mean glibertariat people. If they don’t know who they are, they should.
You’re too kind.
This is why I should be planetary dictator. I would be benevolent not like you tyrants.
Depending upon how much can be changed, I would be awesome… while abusing the crap out of that power.
I know me. But a lot of things would be better. (And not just for me).
If I can be a minister in your administration should you get there, you can be one in mine if I get there first. I will need you where I can keep an eye on you anyway, you seem excessively ambitious.
I would be benevolent…
Not me. I’d make this brain-worm the World Anthem just to slowly drive everyone mad.
I don’t do things to make people suffer for the sake of making them suffer. It’s merely the steps required to get them free from their dependency.
You’re just evil.
Skittles, M&Ms, and Reese’s Pieces in a candy bowl all mixed together.
Okay, now that’s true evil.
*goes to get candy bowl*
Let me guess, you eat those by throwing a handful in your mouth.
My OCPD makes me sort them and eat one color at a time until I have sets of one of each color, then go through those one at a time. So Mojeaux’ bowl would not be an issue for me.
This is why I love Glibertarians, there are people here crazier than me.
I would make SugarFree the Poet Laureate, and required reading for all citizens.
Now that is some serious evil.
This is why I long for a literal poison pen most days.
I’d make Palin’s Buttplug my press secretary.
Not Agile Cyborg?
He’d be too busy revising the Federal Register.
Think of the wonderful times the Judiciary would have trying to figure out what the exact wording of AC’s laws were. Poor Chief Justice Rico Suave would break his wrist from writing “to be sure” in his opinions as he tries to square the facts of the case with AC prose.
If I had a magic wand, I’d whip you people into shape with it.
You do have a cane, you know.
I should pay more attention to that Megyn Kelly thing, because I love the smell of cognitive dissonance in the morning. Smells like an electric motor burning itself up.
Brett Kavanaugh Turns Down Over 600K Raised By GoFundMe Page
Justice Kavanaugh did not authorize the use of his name to raise funds in connection with the GoFundMe campaign. He was not able to do so for judicial ethics reasons. Judicial ethics rules caution judges against permitting the use of the prestige of judicial office for fund-raising purposes. Justice Kavanaugh will not accept any proceeds from the campaign, nor will he direct that any proceeds from the campaign be provided to any third party. Although he appreciates the sentiment, Justice Kavanaugh requests that you discontinue the use of his name for any fund-raising purpose.
But does he still like beer?
$600k of beer would be more than even he could drink.
Challenge accepted!
Looks doable, what’s the time frame? And that leaves out some of the more rare beers that have sold for several hundred, like Stone’s Vertical Epic 02.02.02.
Which one of you Glibs called the cops on your crack dealer? And did you do it because you got pissed at your dog and wanted it to suffer?
The Washington Post has turned into a full blown publicity outlet for the DNC. It’s sad to see how far they’ve fallen in terms of quality. I don’t believe a word of what they publish anymore, the NYT is more honest.
WaPo is the in-house newsletter for the Deep State.
I dig the music, but it’s Halloween, baby! Red Right Hand.
And here is a bonus because Kylie Minogue. Where the Wild Roses Grow.
You can’t beat Hellbilly Deluxe for Halloween. If you’re into that sort of thing.
Pat knows what he’s talking about.
Also, hands down best concert I have ever seen was rob zombie. That man can put on a show like no other.
My girlfriend was straight-up named after Kylie Minogue. Her mom got to pick the name of their oldest and he got the second. It was 1991 and the man made a call.
I would be benevolent not like you tyrants.
My benevolence toward those I regard highly manifests itself in unspeakable cruelty toward those I do not.
What more do you want?
Battle Born Munitions sues Dicks for $5 million over ammo deal turned sour
*Nelson laugh*
“Trump’s superpower isn’t making his opponents crazy, it’s revealing they always were.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/trump-doesnt-make-people-crazy-he-just-reveals-they-always-were
I’d agree. They have been calling every Republican candidate “literally Hitler” for decades. The difference is, Trump doesn’t ignore it and hope it goes away.
Exactly! he actually fights them back using their own tactic, and they simply have no response to that.
Thanks to all who enjoyed my article. I wanted to add this video of my going down the mountain where I took those snaps. It’s overly long (incredibly so, actually)so it’s best to flip through. Strongly suggest around 1:30 you get the highlight of the trees, mountains and clouds. My vid should link directly there.
It’s also fun because it’s the cab with the GOOT guy. This is how conversations go when you literally share two words of understanding with each other. He just keeps repeating “video” and then realizes that he has no way of continuing the thought. It also shows how I bullshit my way through language barriers. Rewatching it I don’t hear him say GOOT too much. Around 2:10 or so he says it, but not in the forceful way that he used it later.
Enjoy!
Real mountains in Kazakhstan not like those puny ones you have in the states.
Cool stuff
Splinter, the wokest of woke:
Joe Biden You Don’t Have to Do It, Man
Clarification 3:00 a.m. ET: The lede of this piece and one sentence referencing Biden’s age have been updated to exclude language that could be misconstrued as ageist. This was not my intent, and I regret this error.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqxPwIOWwAAvxBW.jpg
LOLOLOLOL
I’m not ashamed to admit there is one on my front porch as we speak. My daughter told me I am weird.
It’s a fair cop.
You keep petite demure blondes on your front porch?
I’m still trying to figure out how old she is. I’m not OMWC, I don’t want to bring them inside too early.
She looks about the age where I as a father would be on the front porch cleaning guns until she graduates.
I think she is 23.
https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/ashton-whitty/
Doesn’t everyone?
NPC pumpkin is sneaky. i still have a pumpkin blank out front.. but not for long.
Hmm, we have a blank pumpkin that I might be aboe to sneak that design on later today. I don’t think my wife would know what it means.
Outstanding.
“Looks like Laura Loomer has been suspended until election day. Who’s next? Censorship of conservatives will likely go super nova over the next week. And then steadily get worse after that.”
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1057199749764308993
“Looks like Laura Loomer has been suspended until election day”
I’m convinced. Facebook is run by Russians who actively are working to gin up Republican support.
Laura could drive somewhere to deliver her message, but her tire
dry rottedwas slashed by angry liberals.Sorry. Can’t resist whenever I see her name.
Amazing. Yet Nation of Islam remains.
If someone would ask me who I loathe the most in this world I’d say it’s a tie between Zuckerberg and Dorsey. Two jerk off punks with way too much power.
Interesting timing
https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1056858287189213187
In other news, GE has cut its dividend to a penny.
“MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says Trump tweeting about the #WorldSeries was a secret code to ‘white nationalists’ that he’s on their side (not a parody).”
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/1057406598727983104
Of course it is.
*gets out white nationalist decoder ring, tunes it to twitter*
It says drink more ovaltine.
Sonofabitch!
Funny how only these white liberals can interpret the code for white nationalists…
Does that mean that Barry’s basketball brackets were a signal to the racists of BLM?
No, because black people can’t be racist, because of power differentials. Even if the black guy is the most powerful man in the world.
OT: More law schools closing their doors, including Valparaiso Law.
So broke that they can’t even afford functioning links.
Looks like they closed your link, too.
Sorry I SF’d it or whatever it’s called. https://www.nwitimes.com/news/education/valparaiso-university-law-school-runs-out-of-options-will-close/article_a9bb8569-c33a-5f6c-b19d-c09d277b8448.html
That’s where I live. I was sad to hear it was closing. Especially since my youngest is now talking about going to law school.
NO…DON’T!!!
Go on Swiss…
The era of white male games for white male gamers is ending
Is this another study of “Gamers” where they include people who play phone game apps like candy crush and lump them in with people who play the AAA story-heavy titles as if they were the same market?
‘But in reality, many video-game players don’t look like that at all. ‘
Seriously don’t give a fuck what other gamers look like.
Unless they are hot and show tits on webcam
And hot is optional, right?
do you want to see manboobs?
How many beers have I had?
*slowly backs away*
I am with you there Swiss…
People trying to refight their lost battles against gamers need the lies to push companies for tokenistic forced diversity.
They are Korean males instead of white males.
Yah – one of my favorite memories of playing Red Orchestra (WW2 FPS) is having a Jamaican commander for the German team yelling over his microphone: “Fight for the fatherland!”
Why do you hate incredible imaginations?
I love how “women and people of color” have all these amazing things to say that nobody has ever thought of before and the people who write that are NOT the sexists and racists.
Most of us just don’t give a shit.
What if some woke company created a game where an empowered transgender character went on a rampage killing white guys? And what if they did a really good job of it and it got super popular?
Anyone want to take bets on how long it would take these same people to start protesting the fact that white guys were playing Grand Tranny Onslaught (GTO)? Shrieks about staying in their lanes and how wrong it was to appropriate the culture of the transgender community.
I think there are indy titles that match that description. Some of them are satire.
Without the white male players, any AAA game developer is going to quickly go broke. So the gaming media may decry the situation, but no sane game development house would participate.
EA and Ubisoft are not sane.
The Far Cry series are pretty much based around a white dude killing the natives, at least until the last one.
A: Wasn’t the protagonist of FarCry 4 returning his mother’s ashes to their country of origin?
B: Check out their other IPs.
Battlefield: Paraplegic Black Nazis failed to hit pre-order expectations, for whatever that’s worth. That could be because COD already did WWII last year though.
Or because an EA high-up working on the game literally said “Don’t buy it”.
What I’m saying is GTO is a hit with white male players. Playing a game that conforms to every SJW wish.
Once the SJW’s saw that the game was being played and enjoyed by whitey, they’d be incensed and demand that the gaming house pull the title and apologize for making something well enough that people like it.
For starters, black folks play more video games overall: 83% of African American teens report playing video games compared to 71% of white teens.
No fucking shit. I never would have known that from all the dark green Marines who played Madden nonstop in the barracks close to 2 decades ago.
Also, a personal opinion – what’s with the ridiculous overuse of “folks” now? I despise anyone who uses that term.
Uffda. Looks like some folks get a might touchy about other folks’ grammar.
Thank Obama.
Because you are called a bigot for using phrases like You People.
So 83% of 13.4% versus 71% of 76.6%?
Though an aside, there is a demographic split in the type of games preferred by these groups as well.
Research shows that most people think the average gamer is a white, heterosexual man. But in reality, many video-game players don’t look like that at all.
So… is the average gamer a white, heterosexual man or not? Because the second sentence doesn’t contradict the first. “Many” people can participate in any activity without representing the average.
It depends… on whether you include “everyone who has touched a mobile game” or if you are looking at the market for AAA gaming titles, or if you’re looking at the market for sports sims, or if you’re looking at the indy market.
1000% correct. Any discussion of “gamers” that doesn’t clarify which of those definitions they’re using is functionally void.
Remember those professors who sent fake studies to journals that were eventually published?
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/10/30/sokal-squared-hoax-was-put-down-scholars-concerned-racial-issues-opinion
Well they’ve exposed the academy and shown the silliness of “gender studies” and other grievances studies, so naturally the academies are now determined to smear these professors and ensure that their job prospects evaporate.
Inside Higher Education does the dirty work.
From the article:
“Many white nationalists and their allies assail postmodernism as their academic foe just as their less intellectually inclined peers attack diversity, multiculturalism and affirmative action. So when we see that the authors of this hoax repeatedly and deceptively attack the scholarship that explains concepts like white privilege and that they position postmodernism as their own personal bogeyman, it is not surprising that one of them is also a regular collaborator of an avowed white nationalist.”
Get it? Anyone who questions the academies is a white supremacist.
And the conclusion:
“It is crucial to call out the racial aspects of this hoax and its put-down of academics who study and are concerned with racial issues. Either the authors do not understand the rhetoric they are engaging in and the harm it can have on others, or they fully know what they are doing. If the former case is true, they are naïve and need to be engaged in deeper conversations. If the latter is the case, then they should have to acknowledge the full implications of their aims.”
“Defend our bankrupt ideology, ye of faith”. This is what a pastor tells the faithful and is not all that dissimilar from what some Catholic cardinals (albeit a minority who should be punished with defenestration) have said in response to the Church’s sex abuse crisis. These cardinals of ill repute don’t argue against the validity of the accusations, but instead question the motives of those within the church who are demanding reform and resignations. “Defend the institution!” is what these cardinals and the Chronicle of Higher Education are yelling to their parishioners.
An immediate reversion to ad hominems. Not much of a defense by classical standards, but appropriate for today’s idiot culture.
Only white nationalists think post modernism is gobbly-gook. It is known.
And the Nazi component among them don’t really think it is, if they’re honest.
Theoretically, postmodernism makes no political claims. It just denies the existence of any truth. The socialists, fascists, communists, etc… all seek to replace the absence of any universal truth with the power of the state.
And the are stupid because they attack multiculturalism.
If they manage to make an example of that bunch, and I’m not really sure they will, it will be a catastrophe for academia and many of the commenters over there realize that.
attack the scholarship that explains concepts like white privilege – the scholarship is bullshit.
That’s why they can’t afford to have it brought into question, because it is all one great big pile of bullshit.
They exposed it to be
At least the authors are (politely and intellectually) getting savaged in the comments.
concepts like white privilege
I, for one, welcome leftists to keep their racism on full display.
Wait Stephen Molyneuex is a white nationalist?
I mean he’s not far from one. He seems to be from the anarchist to statist pipeline
I dispute that characterization. I don’t care for Stephen Molyneuex or studies that claim to show a ranking of intellect by race (I put as much stock in these studies as I do in any other study, which is very little).
Call me old-fashioned but I’d rather reserve the smear of “white nationalist” for those who proclaim ideas of “white supremacy” or use racist language.
There’s a better argument that Molyneuex, like anyone who engages in racial politics, is not a libertarian, though, since he is viewing people based upon some characteristic and then imparting that belief on individuals.
I don’t follow Molyneuex so I don’t know how he approaches the IQ issue. Does he take Murray’s position that it can be explained away by cultural differences or does he take the actual bigoted position that the differences are inherent?
does he take the actual bigoted position that the differences are inherent?
I’ve still yet to have it explained to me how that’s a bigoted position in a way that doesn’t render the entire field of population genetics off limits.
If you prejudge the individual based on the collective, then it is.
It’s not bigoted. It’s bad scholarship, in my opinion.
I take a very dim view toward sociological or psychological studies. Especially something like an IQ test which has so many variables that it’s impossible to say what the results actually mean.
Above all else, I think the variable of “who is or isn’t white, or black, or Hispanic?” Do they make all test takers take a genetic test?
Perhaps. But if you start concealing inconvenient research observations because you’d rather not deal with their implications you’re not really being honest. “In the aggregate, Dutch are taller than Vietnamese”, for example. Is that a bigoted statement? Nobody’s likely to argue with it, because it’s both demonstrably true and relatively uncontroversial. Nobody really gives that much of a shit how tall you are.
“In the aggregate, Ashkenazi Jews have higher IQs than sub-Saharan Africans” is an exactly equivalent statement from a statistical standpoint, but is treated very differently because it has implications for social status.
As, JS has pointed out, it first must be a demonstrable difference. Height is easy, IQ is not.
I’m not sold on any position other than everyone must be treated as an individual. I’m more concerned with someone’s culture than their genetics (excluding the particular genetics that lead to this outcome)
“Perhaps. But if you start concealing inconvenient research observations because you’d rather not deal with their implications you’re not really being honest. “In the aggregate, Dutch are taller than Vietnamese”, for example. Is that a bigoted statement?”
I agree. And that’s why I don’t think that people should be ostracized for pursuing these studies anymore than I think people who study gender studies should be ostracized.
I don’t put much stock in either discipline, but one is no less legitimate than the other.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that those discrepancies in measured IQ necessarily are the result of inherent genetic differences between isolated populations. Only that I don’t think it’s inherently bigoted to suggest it as an explanation for the observed data. In an environment of open and honest research you could test that hypothesis among dozens of others to try to explain the data. Or you might find that the data themselves are corrupted or unreliable. Or you might conclude that IQ determinism is a type of magical thinking. Etc etc.
“Only that I don’t think it’s inherently bigoted to suggest it as an explanation for the observed data.”
Agreed. That’s why I don’t accept the characterization of Molyneux or Murray as “white supremacists”.
One is a bigot if he behaves and talks like a bigot. Asking uncomfortable questions doesn’t make someone a bigot. Using racial slurs and not associating with people of other races or actually advocating separatism is bigotry.
Just Say’n, what topics of ‘study’ in ‘Gender Studies’ still remain? I see a lot of marxist pablum, a lot of ‘research’ set up conclusion-first, and that ilk, but I’m open to the idea that someone is doing actual research that isn’t under the umbrella of a more traditional discipline.
“what topics of ‘study’ in ‘Gender Studies’ still remain? I see a lot of marxist pablum, a lot of ‘research’ set up conclusion-first, and that ilk, but I’m open to the idea that someone is doing actual research that isn’t under the umbrella of a more traditional discipline.”
In college I briefly dated a graduate student in gender studies (though, she was a really shitty feminist as she openly admitted that she accepted and liked old fashioned gender roles) and most of their stuff is basically all psychology based studies about supposed inherently biased gender roles that are programmed in us from a young age.
Again, I largely believe most sociology and psychology is nonsense (the IQ tests are just another sociological study). These disciplines are not meant to give us definitive answers. I view them as only providing a mental exercise in how to examine different problems from varying perspectives.
And it should be noted that Marx (along with Dirkheim and Weber) is one of the three original sociologists, so it’s impossible to exercise Marx and Marxism from these social sciences.
More along the Murray position imo.
I am not saying he is a white nationalist now, or at least not in the open, just he seems to me he is heading there.
He explicitly states that you can’t judge any given individual by their group’s characteristics, and that includes IQ.
Nonetheless, I think IQ studies have as much validity as studies on gender wage disparities. You cannot invent a test, administer among people, and then reach conclusions based upon a test taker’s self-identified racial category.
There are a lot of variables that makes the whole IQ studies very suspect. I never thought any of it was all that valid.
I agree, the racial IQ stuff is seriously flawed and, even if you accept that it exists, good luck parsing out how much of the difference is due to genetics and how much to culture.
That being said, I don’t particularly care for Molyetc., he’s a self-important blowhard that makes statistical inferences that make me doubt his grasp of the subject, I just don’t see him as a bigot.
Agree on all points.
But, I not only largely discount IQ studies. I take a dim view on all sociological or psychological research.
Hayek had a good book about this, parsing out what is and actual science and what is not. Fields like sociology or psychology cannot provide use definitive answers and therefore their studies should not be accepted as “true”, unlike the physical sciences (which get us very close to being conclusive) and mathematics (which is pure truth).
To add to what JustSay’n is just saying, I used to work at the Yerkes Primate Center at Emory University. A big chunk of the faculty in that center were psychologists, sociologists and affiliates like behavioral sciences.
I attended a lot of their lab meetings and journal clubs over the years that I worked there. My background is in genetics and molecular biology. So my training was in hard science research, where data isn’t just suggestive, or solid, it needs to be nailed down and unassailable.
When I started sitting in on their meetings, I was appalled. Their idea of proper controls, experimental design, and methods for drawing conclusions were….. well… unscientific. And these are not some fly-by-night weirdos. This is one of the most elite institutions in the world, particularly in the field of primatology.
After talking with them about their controls and design several times, I came to appreciate just how terribly difficult designing experiments in these fields is. There is so much subjectivity to everything involved, and everything gets really expensive, really fast if you try to get reasonable numbers. So I came to empathize with their problem.
But my exit interview was basically an hour-long rant about how they need to bring in more hard-science faculty and have interdisciplinary collaborations on a routine basis in order to elevate the fields. The standard to which a paper in psychology is held is not even close to the standard that a chemistry or physics undergraduate research project would be held. And psychology is way, way, way more disciplined than things from the world of sociology like “women’s studies”. Their stuff seems to be nothing more than opinion pieces wrapped in references to other opinion pieces.
the smear of “white nationalist”
I’m white.
I think the US government should operate for the benefit of the US, so I guess I’m a nationalist.
Am I a white nationalist?
He pushes the race IQ disparity stuff so it’d be more appropriate to say he’s an Asian supremacist.
Shorter answer: No.
“one of them is also a regular collaborator of an avowed white nationalist”
So you are saying it was George Soros?
What nobody seems to be considering is that the Sokal Squared Crew are legitimate Feminist scholars!
The submitted their “academic” work to the gatekeepers and had it accepted!
If someone passes the bar and gets their law license, they are a lawyer — it doesn’t matter what their political beliefs are or even if they think the law is complete bullshit. They have their credential. These guys have more publications and more awards from legitimate grievance-studies journals than most professional hyphenated-studies academics.
Good point
The focus on the pinkness of these particular body parts presumed a white subject, failing to truly encompass the beautiful racial diversity of women – and femmehood.
CINNAMON PUSSIES MATTER
The old “what color are her nipples” test
Electric fences and armed patrols: on the frontline of New Zealand’s avocado war
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/oct/31/electric-fences-and-armed-patrols-on-the-frontline-of-new-zealands-avocado-war
Suthenboy approves.
Can’t they just hire some Orcs to patrol the permiter and maybe an elven mage or two for back up?
The orcs would just use the avocados as tennis balls, ruining the whole thing.
Halloween Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9ZQSZ9G9I
One of the most Halloween songs by a band that was meant to be played on Halloween
I can’t believe this hasn’t been posted yet.
That’s a good response.
Here’s another.
This on’e almost too scary.
This one is a personal favorite.
My only response is more oldies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxnN05vOuSM
My brother once dated a member of Ministry’s daughter. I forget who it was, because it was so long ago. But, I was jealous
Both are good songs. Tough choice.
Threesome.
+1 pumpkin faces in the night
“Reflex in the sky warn you you’re gonna die
Storm coming, you’d better hide from the atomic tide
Flashes in the sky turns houses into sties
Turns people into clay, radiation minds decay”
Climate Change NPC bots and Algore the Truth Man adopt this song for their scam.
You take that back! Nuclear Holocaust is not the same as climate change.
I will fight anyone who disputes the greatness of Black Sabbath’s first five albums
I’m a fan of something a little more light-hearted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg
Sure, I can do that.
Not explicitly Halloween themed, but works on that distinctly obscure Christian ’80s power electronics spooky level.
5 Minutes after I die
Why I’m turning from law-maker to law-breaker to try to save the planet
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/31/law-breaker-save-planet-direct-action-civil-disobedience
On Wednesday I will join hundreds of others in Parliament Square to assert that we will not stand idly by in the face of climate breakdown and ecological crisis. We will affirm a commitment to engage in non-violent but illegal activities to try and force urgent action. Collectively we have signed a declaration to this effect; an Extinction Rebellion against the British government for criminal inaction. – next week China. Then India. Because otherwise it is pointless.
“Extinction Rebellion”
Are they comitting mass suicide?
If they truly believed this they would take action in China or India, but they know that the Chinese, in particular, will not tolerate their antics. Most self-declared “rebels” nowadays are very boring and conservative. They want to play “revolutionary”, but they don’t want to endanger themselves.
“They want to play “revolutionary”, but they don’t want to endanger themselves.”
So much this…
“next week China. ”
Good luck.
SJWednesday: A New Anthem for a New Era
Anthem For a New Tomorrow
https://5newsonline.com/2018/10/29/woman-tased-while-she-watches-her-house-burns-down-police-say-it-was-necessary-use-of-force/
Assholes.
“Not obeying our commands”
That’s when a peasant has to be punished.
Assault innocent person and claim they were “fighting” you, then tase/arrest them. Procedures were followed.
People should be excited about the opportunities for traditionally underrepresented people creating communities of budding digital creatives, whose incredible imaginations are just waiting to explode into the digital space.
Not this, again.
In a digital space, no one can see you. It doesn’t matter what victim groups you belong to, that is all invisible. There is one sure-fire way to ‘explode into the digital space’:
MAKE BETTER CONTENT.
Nobody but the progressive bigots gives a damn what you are or what you fuck, just make good content and stop trying to be a victim.
Meritocracy is symptomatic of White Supremacy!
So what you’re saying is Non-whites are just less capable? Am I understanding you correctly?
/Cathy Newman
No, it’s because of institutional privilege!!11!!!!
Dude, don’t you even prog?
“So what you’re saying is, customers unable to see the creator’s identity will still buy more products made by white people?”
/Cathy Newman
There is one sure-fire way to ‘explode into the digital space’:
I thought they were talking about porn. This is about online porn, right?
As per the smoking article last night–I switched to a vape but it didn’t take. Just didn’t have the right feel to it. Now I have a new baby ( I think straff has one as well) that I’ve been using for several months now.
It’s a “smoke not burn” device. The smokes look like normal ones but are only about an inch or so long It also has a normal filter on it so it gives you the exact same mouthfeel as a normal smoke. It heats up the cig and will vibrate after about 30 seconds to let you know it’s ready (ladies….)Then you just drag like normal. No buttons or anything. The throat hit is great and it lasts about the same time as a normal. The taste is absolutely legit. My menthols are great. I wish there were a bit more smoke/vapor but it’s a negligible problem.
When it’s done (more vibrations….ladies….) and you just take out the cig. There is a tiny bit of dark tobacco in the middle from where it gets poked by the heating element. The paper isn’t burned at all—my favorite part is the filter is absolutely pristine. No tar stains whatsoever.
This has really taken. I still smoke a couple normies at the bar but that’s it. No desire to. I feel much healthier. I’m sure it’s not perfectly healthy or anything, but I know it’s greatly minimizing the harm.
This is what I have but mine is blue.
I started moving from smokes to dip back in the Marines to try to improve my run time. Then I married a woman who hates smoking, which hastened me to completely convert to smokeless. I go the Swedish snus route now, for the lack of spitting and the studies that have shown no increase in cancer risk. General Mint all the way.
General Mint all the way.
Same here. Its basically substituted for/broken my cigar habit. Last fishing trip, I fired up a couple of cigars and just didn’t enjoy them any more. Gave all the ones I had left to a guy I work with.
“Many white nationalists and their allies assail postmodernism as their academic foe just as their less intellectually inclined peers attack diversity, multiculturalism and affirmative action. So when we see that the authors of this hoax repeatedly and deceptively attack the scholarship that explains concepts like white privilege and that they position postmodernism as their own personal bogeyman, it is not surprising that one of them is also a regular collaborator of an avowed white nationalist.”
I like the careful distinction between “authors of this hoax” and the “scholars” they attack. I thought it was the main goal of “scholarship” to seek the true and refute the false. I guess I’m a candidate for re-education. I’ll pack my bags await transport to the camp.
I have literally had someone call themselves an intellectual before proceeding to “dismiss” me after I had laid out an actual argument. It was surreal.
Doesn’t count unless they’re a “public” intellectual.
“I am an intellectual, you are not, therefore your arguments do not have merit, QED”
It was something along the lines of “I literally can’t even! I am an intellectual, sir, and I dismiss you!”. I responded by restating the argument and asking if this is really how he engaged in conversation. I believe the response was something like “Are we still on this?! I thought I dismissed you!”. This was in college. I’m sure he thinks he is the smartest person as he “destroys” his opponents in this way.
So, he’s a full professor now?
Did you laugh in his face? I can’t imagine taking seriously someone that full of themselves.
Diplomas have now become modern day titles of nobility.
In the late medieval age when urban merchants became more wealthy than the landed rural gentry, the nobility insisted that they were superior to the urban merchants based upon the titles and privileges granted to them from the king. This was the only way that they could claim superiority anymore, since their wealth (which was largely illiquid) was dwarfed by the raising class of merchants.
Today, diplomas serve the same purpose. As a welder makes substantially more than most college graduates, the only way that academics or graduates can claim superiority to the welder or some other field that does not require a liberal arts diploma (though a skilled trade is still necessary) is to claim to posses knowledge that the welder or some other skilled laborer does not posses based upon a simple piece of paper.
The only difference is that this new titled elite is substantially dumber and a lot less useful than the ancien regime that preceded them.
“Diplomas have now become modern day titles of nobility.”
It is not an accident that we have the most inept, inefficient, insane, and narcissistic credentialed elite class ever. It is also not accidental than purity of thought and articulating the right things is more important than actions and results with these people…
Also, I am pretty sure I have met Tony from tos in real life. It was at dinner with my gf and some of her friends/acquaintances early on when we started dating. He went straight to political “jabs” and even uttered the words “rights come from government”. I explained that is not correct, at least in the US, by pointing out that all powers of the government are stated in the affirmative such that they are granted and that all mention of rights is in the negative such that they are assumed to exist (i.e. use of the english language matters). He laughed and moved on to something else. This person, whoever he was, taught english to immigrants. He didn’t get paid for this so I assume trust-fund child and limousine leftist. It was a fascinating exchange.
US government accuses Chinese hackers of stealing jet engine IP
Jokes on them, it’s a Puegeot engine.
what is a Puegeot?
I blame the frogs. They use incorrect spellings and I cna’t ever remember how they put it.
Notice how the DiFi Chinese spy story has been memory-holed?
Not surprising in the least given that even with russian jet engines in their possession China has proven incapable of internally manufacturing clones. As a general rule the Chinese clones of the Russian engines produce about 20% less thrust than the original Russian Model
This is not a bad meme for a politician
https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1057020300628582400
Rand Paul > Massie > Amash
That’s my ranking
The hack afflicted unnamed aerospace companies
Oh, come on. “AFFLICTED”?
The Rangers suck but God bless ’em they can beat San Jose, twice.
Fuck that! They’re ruining the tank! Drafting Jack Hughes should be the only thing this season is about.
‘I’m not anti-Trump, I’m just pro-Jesus’: the evangelicals stumping for the Democrats
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/31/trump-democrats-evangelicals-pro-jesus-republicans
The Common Good teaches us to seek what’s best for everyone,” – so libertarianism?
I was listening to a bunch of church leaders (not Mormons) argue for an expansion of Medicaid in Utah this morning. The first thought I had was “Open your own coffers and pay for it.”
The Puritan left and the Puritan right is a match made in Heaven. Really, they’ll get along great.
The common good is a way of both living and governing as dictated by scripture: loving your neighbor as yourself, not serving money over God and others, and looking out for the poor.
Not one of those things actually has anything at all to do with any “common good”. The works Christ instructed his followers to perform are for the kingdom of heaven, not earth.
On the other hand, he did instruct his followers to bear the yoke of oppressive government, pay their taxes, and obey earthly authority. But the “Grovel to Totalitarians” tour doesn’t have the same zing to it.
Or Democrat vs. Republican vs. ______.
Hah….yes, they’ll find a warm welcome in a Democrat party that actively despises Christianity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46040515
Glad she’s being released, hoping she’ll remain safe, but as to the rest… Protests to put someone to death for blasphemy in a civilized nation? That’s f***ed up. Not surprising – I had been aware of the story prior to this news, but reading the report of the protests just feels surreal, like falling backwards in time to Dark Ages.
They never really left the Dark Ages.
She better get the hell out of Pakistan or she will be put to death, just not by the state.
“Protests to put someone to death for __________ in a civilized nation? ”
Seems like we are seeing this elsewhere…
NPR ran that story this morning, never referring to the xenophobic muslims in the story as anything other than (and I quote) “The Religious Right.”
Because they all voted for Reagan apparently.
“She’s literally Hitlering over here and you want to talk about 69 million dollars? Sheesh.”
This whole thing screams of a setup by NBC. Let’s get her in on a controversial topic twist whatever she says into something offensive and fire her.
Agreed. My theory is that they’ve wanted to get rid of her for a long time, they just needed some kind of reason, no matter how thin.
Dismal ratings should be enough, no?
Yeah, but then she would have an ironclad reason to fleece them for doing so. Claiming they need to dump her because she is a racist gives them the chance to at least argue in court they shouldn’t give her all that money they owe her when they cancel her contract. After all, she is a woman, and they at the most should only give her 2/3 of what they would give a dude….
Maybe not a setup, exactly, but certainly a convenient excuse to dump someone they really regretting hiring.
Not following this particular bit of palace intrigue in detail, but I think they are going to have a real problem not making a big payout. Maybe not the full $69mm, but a big payout nonetheless.
It is really bizarre to me that so many of these multi-million dollar contracts are simply starting points for negotiation when they come to an end.
Al Golden (former Miami football coach) just sued to get the money he is owed. It explicitly states what the buyout is in his contract, but they refused to pay for 2 years and now he has to go to court. That’s just nuts. If I was a judge, you’d better have something better than a shuck-and-jive show when you got in front of me or I’d slap you with punitive damages and make you pay all legal fees, plus interest.
Her contract says exactly what they owe her. I don’t see how there can be any argument.
The Wonderful Women of Wednesday give you a jump start on slutty girl dress-up day.
http://archive.is/FTZNZ
Lots of THICCness here. I’m gonna go with 17.
I’d go on a jog with 10 IYKWIM.
My wife has the panties on the girl on the right in 17. God knows I love my wife, but hers….don’t quite look the same when she’s wearing them.
#6 – God Bless America! I’m saluting in my own personal way.
You got sprung?
“So-called Birthright Citizenship, which costs our Country billions of dollars and is very unfair to our citizens, will be ended one way or the other. It is not covered by the 14th Amendment because of the words “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Many legal scholars agree…..”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1057624553478897665
It tells you something about the state of our society when someone tries to take down Mueller using bogus sexual assault claims and the guy already has a history of targeting innocent people and ruining their lives. People overlook that, but OMG HE GRABBED A LADY’S HOOHAH and it’s a hanging offense.
NB: The guys perpetrating the frame-up are so beyond stupid it’s mind blowing.
Yes, Mueller putting innocent people in prison and framing a man who then committed suicide should be an outrage, but of course it isn’t.
To be fair, that’s pretty standard for a person in his position.
the former, sure, but the latter is a bit extreme even for a prosecutor.
It is all too much for one NBC executive to stomach.
‘She needs to accept that she is done at NBC and leave. We’ve already paid her the equivalent of a Powerball win so it’s not like she struggling to pay the bills,’ said the executive.
‘Have some dignity Megyn and move on.’
Stupid bitch. How dare she try to hold us to the standards we hold others to?
feeling the pressure.
It’s almost like she had a contract that they need to stick to.
She’s an unprincipled hack – but I still hope she takes NBC to the fuckin’ cleaners.
No wonder the Democrats are hysterical:
President Donald Trump’s approval rating among black voters is at a record high, according to the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll released October 29 shows 40 percent of the black voters that were surveyed say they approve of President Trump’s job performance.
“strongly approve” is 25% which feels like a more significant number.. in the sense that it will determine how you would vote down-ticket. heck, for whites, strongly approve is only 37%.
Yeah, if a significant percent of those who strongly approve switch from voting Democrat, the Democrats are screwed, and they know it.
The dirty secret is that African Americans, generally, vote in such low numbers and comprise such a small part of the electorate that all of these studies are not very helpful, except for a handful of congressional districts where African Americans can tip the final vote.
If the Democrats lose their 90+% lock on the black vote nationally, that could be significant.
I’m skeptical of poll numbers by default, but your point is a good one. If that 25% figure is even remotely accurate Democrats should rightly be shitting out their large intestines in panic right now.
Left not taking it so well:
Tzippy Shmilovitz
@Tzipshmil
Oct 29
Trying to imagine how it must be to be so deranged, brainwashed and self hating, and my imagination just isn’t so wide. Can you share?
I like how approving of historically low black unemployment and a strong economy is “self hating”.
So tolerant.
“We embrace all groups and minorities, we’re a big tent! Unless, of course, you decide not to vote for us then you either have self-hating false consciousness or you’re intellectually defective and insane.”
If the number of black folks on YouTube stumping for Trump is any indication he’s pretty popular.
My theory is that this is in part due to Trump’s rather outspoken personal style, which is more relatable to blacks than the usual stuffed-shirt affect of most politicians.
That’s crazy.
It’s a Democrat nightmare scenario. I’ve been saying for years that the Soviet-style margins Dems enjoy with blacks is a weakness, not a strength. When you have to keep 90+% of that voting bloc just to tread water, you’re hugely vulnerable even if only 15-20% of them leave the plantation. No wonder they’re desperate to bring in good little socialists from outside the country.
“CNN’s Don Lemon: “We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.””
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1057467550869540864
“doing something about them” = camps? mass graves? Please enlighten us Mr. Lemonade.
I’ve tried to parody this type of thinking but this guy’s done a much better job of it.
He should unironically call white men “super-predators”.
I don’t even know what is parody anymore. Likewise, idk how he cannot see the inherent contradiction in his statement.
We have to stop demonizing people
*proceeds to demonize people*
Huh.
Whites and blacks kill about the same number of people every year, mostly of their own race. It’s just that blacks make up 12.5% of the population and whites 61%. So blacks are killing at 5 times the rate whites are.
I’d throw that in Lemon’s face and see how he responds.
Racist stats…
The only racism I pick up is that black people are racist towards themselves and are implementing their racist views with deadly violence.
It’s mostly people in the illegal drug business in a half-dozen counties.
Rural blacks have a lower murder rate than rural whites.
No doubt.
I’d throw that in Lemon’s face and see how he responds.
The human equivalent of a ‘blue-screen’ error.
Are you saying, perhaps, that he may only be programmed to have certain interactions that follow a pre-set storyline, and that he is incapable of coherently moving beyond the storyline when confronted by a
playerperson who acts outside of that preset narrative?I’ll take, how to get white people to join the alt-right for $500, alex.
Hahahaha.
BURN THE HERETIC
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/31/science_shows_sex_is_binary_not_a_spectrum_138506.html
Commit career suicide using this one simple trick!
Commit career suicide by stating an obvious truth.
That is what really scares me about all this shit. The left seems to have read Brave New World and 1984, and decided these are instruction manuals of how to run a society.
A college acquaintance on her Facebook
I guarantee that she was called these things at a political protest rally where she was facing off with a small contingent of nutjob neo-Nazis, yet she talks about it like it happens daily on the street. She’s also one of the most confrontational and political people I know. I’ve rarely been around her when she wasn’t talking over everyone else.
Funny. I’ve been Jewish my whole life and never once has anyone said anything even remotely like that. The worst I’ve gotten is “Jews are cheap” in a joking manner from my friends. And it happens to be true.
I’ll bet the last three are straight up lies TBH.
Do people in the street even notice you’re Jewish unless you are wearing a Yamaka or dressed as an Orthodox?
The Jew gold is a dead giveaway.
They’re like Leprechauns?
No. I have pretty Semitic features (olive skin, dark hair and eyes), people often mistake me for Mexican.
My Filipino BIL constantly gets mistaken for Mexican, particularly by actual Mexicans who just start talking to him in Spanish.
I knew a guy once named Joel de la Cruz. Always assumed he was some kind of Latin, with the name and appearance….four or five years after meeting him, discovered his family is 100% Filipino.
Before we took the Philippines in the Spanish American war, they were a Spanish colony…
I used to run into a university professor who frequented a bar I went to, who would make hilarious antisemetic jokes. He had a big Star of David tattooed on his forearm. Real life Tim Whatley.
The nastiest jokes on Jewish people I ever heard were told to me by one of my best friends, who happens to be a practicing Jew (he tells me that means something).
The Black Student Union didn’t let me join either.
Yeah, the Women at work league at my company demanded I show them my panties before they would let me join too…
so, did you?
Lets just say I opted to just date a few of them which was also a big mistake as I now have them giving me the “I am gonna kill you” or “I hope you get hit by a truck and die” eyes..
So she hangs out at a lot of DSA functions is what she’s saying?
I bet she was never called any of these things unless she’s been hanging around Palestinian students.
All this happened since January 2017?
I feel left out. The piece of prairie I grew up on had almost no jews so I never got to learn any good anti-semitism. I didn’t think we had any jews in our entire school, but an old classmate of mine told me that a quiet kid named Bob was jewish.
Every time crap like this comes up, I feel like a total rube. I don’t even know the basics like are jews dirty? Or lazy? Or stupid? I need some hints on how to properly keep them down!
Skin suited humanoid lizards bent on weakening the populace for eventual takeover by the first wave of Reptilian shock troops.
You don’t follow @realDonaldTrump, do you?
I dont think I have ever met a jew in real life. I have been wanting to oppress me some Jews for a long time, but I’m having a hard time finding any.
I sense a (((business opportunity))). You could start like an online dating service that matches Jews in need of oppression to people interested in supplying it.
There’s probably already a Fetlife group for that.
It took me until college to meet one my own age. And the first time I ever heard a Jewish slur was in high school which was really strange to me, because there was exactly one Jewish kid in the whole high school and probably zero Jewish people in the surrounding area.
Bigots never make any sense
There were more Muslims in my high school (about five) than there were Jewish kids.
Ironically, though, the people who got the most shit in my high school were the Polish, who were mainly recent immigrants, as opposed to the Irish, Italians, and Greeks who were more established.
I’ve actually had several of these things happen to me. Never thought of myself as a victim.
I have been called “Jew Bastard.”
Not quite, but I was called a kike during high school. The guy didn’t find it quite so funny after I socked in him in the face in front of everyone. Bitch didn’t even throw a punch back.
Actually, come to think of it, my wife does get a kick out of calling a jew bastard in good humor.
I have been told I am going to hell and that I killed Jesus.
Yes, this one has actually happened. My wife’s roommate’s Catholic mother got wasted and start screaming at me that I killed Jesus. I just laughed at her. The woman could barely stand.
I have been shunned from entry to places because I am Jewish.
My parents and their friends were banned from the local country club in the 80s. Hence the rise of the JCCs. Perfect example of the free market at work and why free-association is just fine.
I have been prevented from joining groups because of my heritage.
This one sorta happened to me. My public high school had an official Christian club. When they were called to leave early, a Jewish friend and I stood up to walk out with them because we wanted to leave school for the day. Holy shit did that piss a lot of people off. Had no idea anyone cared.
This is all trivial shit that everyone goes through regardless of their religion or ethnicity.
The “going to hell for killing Jesus” one is the one I can believe. There are some fundy loons that think this way, as I know firsthand.
The denied entry thing is in the distant past, I believe. It WAS common for many years – here in Richmond, there were three major country clubs in the are. Virginia County Club was the hoity-toity high society club. Hermitage Country Club was the serious golfer’s club. Richmond Country Club was the Jewish club, because for much of the 20th century Jews weren’t allowed membership at the other two. None of that is true anymore, not since maybe the early ’90s.
That’s correct. The country club I mentioned opened up membership to Jews in the early 90s.
The “going to hell for killing Jesus” one is the one I can believe. There are some fundy loons that think this way, as I know firsthand.
Romans 11 should have put that entirely to bed, even if you could somehow manage to reconcile hating Jews for killing Jesus with a theology where the Jews’ rejection of Christ as the messiah and his subsequent death on the cross are the only reasons why the gentiles are able to participate in salvation.
I have never understood Christian’s who are mad at Jews for killing jesus.
If nobody kills jesus, the entire basis for the Christian religion goes away and we all stay Jews.
Likewise, no Judas, no Christianity.
Meanwhile, Peter, who denies Christ three times, gets to run the church?
John 21:15-17.
I have been told I am going to hell and that I killed Jesus.
This one is totally believable. I’ve known plenty of fundamentalists that fit that bill.
She’s also one of the most confrontational and political people I know.
So you’re saying she is an insufferable “policy wonk” that is sure of her moral superiority and irritates everyone by being vocal in her virtue.
“Policy Wonk” is too generous. “Overbearing Virtue Signaler” is more appropriate.
If we’re being honest there are a lot of religious faith traditions and ethnic groups who could claim similar experiences. Do we want to revisit country club bans that applied to a whole swath of faiths and ethnicities that we now consider “white”? Up until the 1980’s a wealthy suburb of Chicago still forbade home sales to “Jews, Catholics, and blacks”. They only got rid of the law after the threat of a federal lawsuit. None of that changes the fact that the US is still the safest place for all faiths and all immigrants.
It takes a lot of dishonesty to pretend as if that isn’t the case.
I know “that’s different”, because we are taught that it is so.
I grew-up in an area with various ethnic ghettos and the shit that people said about “the others” or the things that kids did to “the others” would make SJWs explode with rage (not to mention that a plethora of hate crimes could have been prosecuted if it wasn’t for the fact that the police were their own gang looking after their own, just like each ethnic group was doing the same).
None of that changes the fact that the US is still the safest place for all faiths and all immigrants.
$50 says Canada is safer.
I have been called “Jew Bastard.” etc.
I would think the odds of that happening are highest on a college campus with an active pro-Palestine movement.
Trying to imagine how it must be to be so deranged, brainwashed and self hating, and my imagination just isn’t so wide. Can you share?
That’s the long way around to “get back in line, Boy”.
I have been shunned from entry to places because I am Jewish.
Of course you have. Everywhere I go, I see “No heebs allowed” signs.
“We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them.””
Psst- if you really want to stop demonizing people, you’re doing it wrong.
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1057442806422224896
LOLOLOL
He hasn’t gotten banned by Jack yet?
He was locked out for a while, but they let him back.
If you needed another reason to vote R…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/10/30/barbra-streisand-eyes-move-canada-if-republicans-retain-house/1827232002/
Why not Mexico?
Like it matters – they never move anyway
Way to put it all on the line, Babs. Dems are still projected to take the House AFAIK. SO BRAVE!
Just barely, but yeah
I doubt it.
It’s going to be great fun watching Dems tear themselves apart over Pelosi if they don’t have a clear margin.
She’s been a walking parody of herself for decades – why stop now.
If she moved from Malibu to Canada in November, I would develop a tiny amount of respect for her. Republicans could win every single seat in the House and it wouldn’t happen.
NO! FUCK YOU SHE’S ONE OF YOURS!
Starts the “American Lefties, Stay Out Of Canada” sign-posting campaign
How to lose friends and alienate people.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/george-korda/2018/10/30/opinion-how-lose-political-friend-five-ways-george-korda/1816650002/
I splurged on a kegging setup. If I understand the process correctly, the only thing I’ll be missing is a kegerator. The beer fridge can probably be jury rigged to fit a keg, so that’s the plan for now.
One of my buddies bought an old fridge off Craigslist and then just drilled holes in it for the tap.
Look for solid faucets, don’t go with the cheap ones. I’ve heard really good things about the flow control ones, and Perlick stands behind their product. I had some faucets that were starting to drip (which turned out to be an issue with one specific model). They could have just sent me a rebuild kit, or told me to piss off (the problem started 3 years or so after I bought them), instead they sent me new faucets of the most recent model. Make sure you plan to keep the CO2 outside of the keezer/kegerator as well.
And for the love of all that is holy, make sure you have an easy way to change the beer lines.
If only there were a highly effective pesticide that, with strictly indoor use, carries minimal risk to mammals and the environment…
https://www.whio.com/news/local/dayton-other-ohio-cities-rank-top-bed-bugs-list/nI1Re9wTC2sErpXTdMORPI/
There may be more effective ones, but this one is the most fun
Question: Can you use sugar instead of salt?
Answer: LOL – do you want ants?
Michael B. · August 5, 2017
Using sugar instead of salt would create a zone, a zone of danger.
Technomancer · November 20, 2017
Is it carbon? I hear it’s going to end all life and leave our planet a Venusian hellworld. And that’s with only a couple hundred parts per million. Imagine what concentrated carbon would do.
I spent a couple years working in a plant that made graphite electrodes. There was carbon dust on everything in there. Life continued.
Bedbugs were developing a resistance to DDT at the time it was discontinued. I don’t know if that resistance is still there or not though.
I studies up on the little critters a few years back trying to decide if I had a business opportunity there. The licensing was a real bitch.
Well, to be fair, Ioffe is so stupid it’s not difficult at all to refute her brainless claims.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/law-professor-refutes-ioffe-others-claims-trump-caused-surge-anti-semitism/
Trump dunnit. Meanwhile, this is what real intersectional feminism looks like.
I assume this means they’ll also be deleting Antifa linked accounts as well right?
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bans-proud-boys-accounts-groups-2018-10
HA HA Ha HA!
Well that was pretty fucking predictable by anyone with at least half a brain.