What’s up everyone? Happy Friday. My wife and I are going to see Robert Earl Keen and his slightly more famous college roommate at a nice venue tonight. Grandma and Grandpa are showing up early enough we can sit down at a for-real restaurant and have dinner. I don’t really know what to do with myself, but I shaved my neckbeard in hopes of getting lucky. And it must be my lucky day because for a rarity I managed to leave all the blood on the inside while scraping my neck. Who else is doing something fun tonight?
I was reliably informed that Jeff Bezos has no heart, so I’m guessing Amazon HQ2 is going nowhere?
Woman kills 13 people because she was mad bus driver missed her stop. She sure showed him.
Considering how unsuccessfully pandas breed, maybe they should STOP singing to each other before sex.
These crazy people want to host? have? a live birth in space. I’m not sure anyone who worked up the timeline has kids. “Oh, we’ll just have 48 hour mission to launch an expectant mother into space. I guess you could do a scheduled c-section before contractions start, but it seems like the stress of current launch vehicles is probably the sort of thing that would tell a woman’s body to drop that kid because she might not have a chance to later.
The other guy playing tonight is Julia Roberts’ ex-husband. Here’s one from him.
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So, Soros is funding The Caravan, but because some asshole shot up a synagogue we aren’t allowed to talk about it because it’s anti-Semitic.
Now you’re catching on.
Criticize a politically manipulative billionaire who is a Jew and you are an anti-semite. Call for the destruction of the Jewish State and you are promoting social justice.
It’s quantum intersectionality. You are both oppressed and oppressor.
That’s not true. You can still criticize Sheldon Addelson, because he’s a baddie or so the NYT and WaPo would have us believe
I keep hearing that said but I dont know how verifiable that is. I can barely keep up lately. Is this fact or rumor?
The thing was organized by Pueblo Sin Fronteras.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras receives funding, aid and support from CARA organizations.
CARA receives funding from…Open Society Foundation.
Open Society Foundation is Soros’s baby.
It’s like when Planned Parenthood claims that tax dollars don’t pay for the abortion side of their operation, only with a few more layers of bullshit.
It’s all pretty incestuous, as well. It’s completely disingenuous to say this has nothing to do with the activities and money of Soros. But the media has no intention to actually do work connecting dots here. They’re far too busy perfecting their flow charts that connect Trump to Putin in some perversion of games like 10 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Oh FFS, could Soros ‘slip’ and fall down some stairs already? What is it with that guy?
Alzheimer’s is too good for the guy because he won’t understand how useless he is. He, along with Bloomberg, deserve no less than a catastrophic stroke resulting in locked-in syndrome.
Hopefully, Bezos chooses Detroit as HQ2.
But it’s not on the lucky finalist list.
I think you mean unlucky finalist list.
I think he might need some ED-209 units to handle crime control in New Detroit
“Bezos added that “there’s nothing easy about Alexa,” and stressed that Alexa does not listen when she’s not being spoken to.”
Yeah, sure.
Flat out lie. Alexa has to be listening when its (uh, Jeff, Alexa isn’t actually a person) not being spoken to, so it can hear the prompt to activate it.
Unless she’s built with the same hardware as my wife. Say her name 8 times, nothing. Whisper, “goddammit why are you deaf” — “WHAT??”
Your wife and mine must be related, it is amazing how they do that.
I admit to doing a similar thing. I ignore any use of my name from another room. If my wife wants to talk to me, she can come to the room where I am instead of shouting across the house and expecting me to come to her.
How’s that working for you?
Same – stop trying to talk to me from across the house.
We have 6 handsets placed around the house: there’s no need to shout.
That’d be fine, except that she likes having whole conversations from two rooms away, knowing I am quite soft spoken and she is functionally deaf.
That suits her purposes. You’d just be cluttering up the conversation with things like “answers” and “solutions.”
I’m sure all of that data is destroyed though.
More evidence that it’s a lie: talk about some esoteric item out loud in earshot of Alexa, and next time you log into Amazon you will see that item popping up in the sale section and the “you might be interested” section.
I had Samsung’s version of Alexa, Bixby, on for some time. It’s supposed to react to your commands if you press the dedicated button or say “Hello Bixby”. However, once it got activated when we discussed Samsung Pay at home.
Love Lyle.
Still one of my favorite concerts of all time
You’ve Been So Good Up to Now
My first introduction in to Lyle.
It was being played on the local rock station. I went into the record shop (way back when) and was totally confused when the clerk sent me to the “country” section of the store. 😉
I’ve already made arrangements with my daughter that this will be the first song played at my funeral.
How will this be spun to be Trump’s fault?
https://pagesix.com/2018/11/02/alec-baldwin-arrested-for-punching-driver-over-parking-spot/
His belligerence is driving otherwise good people to be violent.
This is what happens. When you impersonate Trump, you become Trump.
“It’s like working with mercury. It’s high science, man. It’s an art form.”
I just had a vision of Trump doing the next SNL cold open as Baldwin, and I almost fainted.
What are you looking at?
The sales board, I’m trying to decide if I can have covfefe
It’s just this wall and that lying son of a bitch, Trump!
YOU ARE A RUDE, THOUGHTLESS LITTLE PIG!
Parking spaces are for closers.
Which one of you perverts?
LOL
*applause*
I think the traumatized cat in the background really makes that picture.
Second is obviously pumpkin spice.
*meekly raises hand*
*Looks innocently skyward*
7 comments?
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!
I’m still “working”… at least until the Friday afternoon meeting is done.
Sounds like a great place to work:
Splinter on Voting
On the day of the 2016 election, the site I worked at at the time, Deadspin, published this blog—How The Deadspin Staff Is Voting. Participation was optional, so I opted out; most of the staff opted in, and several admitted they wouldn’t vote for Clinton or Trump. To put it lightly, the fallout within the company was a shitshow, one that not even milkshakes a buddy and I bought for our staff could smooth over. There was lots of furious DM-ing, lots of incredulous Tweets, and even one interaction in which a friend of mine and former co-worker approached me, didn’t say hello, but instead aggressively asked me, stone-faced, “How did you vote? How did you vote?”
Regardless of my vote I would have said, “MAGA, bitch.”
Not choosing sides is choosing sides. Non voters my as well be Nazis just like people who vote for third parties, independents, and Republicans.
JFC, so much stupid in that article:
conservative legislatures across the nation made it as difficult as possible for non-wealthy citizens—especially minority groups—to register to vote in any election.
Riiiight.
When I was at the post office to register, this poor girl, clearly also a college student like me, didn’t know what “postmarked” meant and had no idea how to send an important document by mail. Most people my age have zero need to go to the post office and may have never stepped into one before. Honestly, if someone had the forms printed for me and was willing to deal with the post office, I’d be much more inclined to vote.
You are too stupid to vote.
I like where she is going with that actually…kill the post office!
Why not just have the Secretary of State’s office prefill out every ballot straight (D) and then send them over to be certified? No interaction from the voters necessary at all! It would be so much simpler!
It’s kind of what they do in Minnesota. At least up north.
On the one hand: Voting is the most important thing a citizen can do and placing any impediment thereto, regardless of the integrity of the electoral system, is literally Hitler.
On the other hand: Dealing with post office is too complex, so screw it.
Honestly, if someone had the forms printed for me and was willing to deal with the post office, I’d be much more inclined to vote.
This may be the laziest, most entitled thing I have ever read.
Agreed.
And it’s nuts that saying such a thing is so completely socially acceptable these days. Sloth is now a virtue.
Sure, why not? Ignorance has become one too.
Also:
this poor girl, clearly also a college student like me, didn’t know what “postmarked” meant
And one more time:
this poor girl, clearly also a college student like me, didn’t know what “postmarked” meant
College is the new elementary school.
yep that was how far I made it before cursing and closing the tab. “OMG like they make me have an id to vote, and like I totally have to actually know where to go, or like look around for 5 seconds for the place with the flags and stuff” If this is too hard you don’t deserve a say in how we are governed.
If the difficulty of dealing with the Post Office is keeping you from voting, good.
The secret GOP cabal running the post-office is succeeding.
Even if you have no idea what postmarked means, you can’t google it and figure that shit out? You little motherfuckers are glued to your phones 24/7 anyway, use the fucking browser and figure it out.
Was their state even in contention? I had to explain this to a friend: No, my not voting is not why Clinton lost, especially since our state went solidly blue. I couldn’t get through to her: my nonparticipation was more problematic than even voting against Clinton would have been.
Choose! Choose the form of the Destructor!
Gozer for President!
Gozer is a little poser bitch!
this message paid for by R’ylians for Cthulhu.
Nubile college age girls who will love us to death
Death by snu-snu!
This year I noticed that completely new outlets are pushing for voting. The Kindle app store was urging people to vote when I was looking for the latest “Deer Hunter” game (LOL). And I don’t recall SiriusXM pushing this so hard before any election in the past.
latest “Deer Hunter” game
I was gonna be snarky, but with that name and avatar, you simply have to.
I’ve noticed it too.
Where are you hearing it pushed on SiriusXM, I listen to various channels all day every day and can’t recall any specific calls for ‘get out and vote’, I’m not saying they don’t, I’m just curious which channels might be pushing it.
Alt Nation.
Huh, I’ll give it a listen, but if I don’t hear a “Go Vote” plea before the fifth Arctic Monkeys song I’m going to consider you a liar.
Hey, c’mon, my popcorn’s getting cold…
Grrizzly is not a liar, there was an Eddie Vedder “Rock the vote” rewind thing after only two Arctic Monkeys songs.
I have to mail something out? This is fucking outrageous. It’s damn near impossible how difficult they’ve made this. I can’t even. FASCISM!
Wait. What.
He’s complaining that his state runs a website that allows him to, I assume, instantly check his voter status. .. but it doesn’t automatically notify him? What. Someone start up the wood chippers.
Man, he has to like go on their website and check and stuff? That’s every bit as hard as Facebook. Dude, can’t the government just like fill in his vote for him?
But the website is small! And outdated! And you have to enter information!
odds that the same person defended the Obamacare “marketplace’ website?
Pandas are determined to go extinct. They should be allowed to do so.
They’re like Western Europe; why spend so much energy on saving something that has no interest in saving itself?
Right?
*washes hands* “We did all we could do to save them. It was their time, I guess.”
Just like Western Europe – aesthetic appeal.
because panda fur hand towels are just the best.
What painfully awful writing in that story. I couldn’t make it far.
It depends… does anyone know how Pandas taste?
So bad, that starving Chinese villagers won’t touch it :
Damn, that’s saying something.
Bear fat is supposed to be good.
Black bear sausage is tasty.
(Not a euphemism… who do you think I am, Jesse?)
Huh….I’ve always heard bear meat is awful.
I’ve never had bear steak, though I’ve heard the same as you.
The sausage with a bit of pork or beef added is delicious. The bear adds an exotic flavor that complements the more familiar and fatty flavor.
My dog likes soap made from bear fat.
If the bears ate a bunch of salmon, sure.
But bamboo?
I don’t think capitalism can outsmart a species too stupid to breed.
But then we have no hope once the sexbots are invented!
There are plenty of Catholics and Mormons to keep homo sapiens going a little longer.
What? Are you saying robots can’t be catholic?
Luddite!
But can sexbots breed? That is the question.
We could say the same about the Japanese, Koreans, and most Europeans
Fantastic Friday brought to you by the letters T – I – T – S.
http://archive.is/o63d4
36, while a repeat, is suitably top-heavy.
Yeah, she is spectacular.
6 and I’m out.
Jesus that bus accident in China. But I don’t follow. The bus seems to be in the middle of bridge. Did he pick her up and they continued to fight and he lost control at that point?
She started hitting him with her phone as he was driving, well past her stop.
I was reliably informed that Jeff Bezos has no heart, so I’m guessing Amazon HQ2 is going nowhere?
Dammit, I have to take my hat off to Bezos for making the political class (city edition) his bitch which he still leads them on like a Chad. Fuck, I really do hope he ends it with “and because you are all money-grubbing assholes who are just itching to rob me as soon as the foundation is up, HQ2 will be located on a private island. Don’t worry, the volcano is 100% dormant, and sharks will not attack anyone with the Amazon RFID chip installed”.
Interesting read on early voting in the AZ Senate race:
UAF voters do tend to skew Dem, but not by a 40 point margin.
Midterms are always about turnout of the base.
Any Arizonan who votes for Sinema is out of their damn mind.
There is evidence that Any Arizonan who votes
for Sinemais out of their damn mind, based on who’ve they elected in the past.Or a recently transplanted Californian. Maybe that’s redundant.
*dusts off self*
Well, The belt grinder works. It produces a great deal of dust. I swear there’s more dust than could possibly have been ground off that little bit of handle.
dust abatement sistems are good things to have.
And at the very least, an N100 dust mask.
Well, I have finished the crafting, I even submitted the article to the editors with a small heap of pictures in it.
UCS, ever been to this website? https://www.micromark.com
Seems like it would align with your hobbies.
Nope, never heard of them before.
They have cool stuff, very focused on models and detail work tools.
And yes, I had a dust mask.
“Fecal Matter Has Made Its Photoshopped Skin Shoes Into Actual Wearable Heels—And They’re $10,000”
https://www.vogue.com/article/fecal-matter-releases-photoshopped-skin-heels-for-real-life
They look like shit.
Definitely the most confusing headline I’ve read in a long time. Turns out, Fecal Matter is a proper noun. Who knew?
I would have thought that was obvious. They capitalize all the candidate names don’t they?
“LOOK AT ME!”
I knew that was going to be China before I clicked.
China? I was thinking Philly.
HEY!!… Ok, yeah true.
That’s why I never get on a SEPTA bus
Me too, because it hasn’t been linked to Trump yet.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1058388700617498625
I can’t wait for CNN to dox the kid who made that.
Alec Baldwin arrested for reenacting a Seinfeld scene.
Do people realize that someone at ABC gave Alec fucking Baldwin an hour long interview show that he hosts every Sunday night?
He spent 1 hour interviewing Kim Kardashian exclusively. Let that sink in for a moment.
I just heard that. I also heard the premier had utterly miserable ratings.
The person who made that decision? They stared into the derp, and the derp stared back into them. They did not heed the warning.
a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49, the demographic most coveted by advertisers. The Baldwin-hosted chatfest was the lowest-rated program in the demo of any broadcast network — including the CW.
Ouch.
Nice.
Same network that fired the star of its hit comedy and attempted to continue without her, driving ratings straight into the toilet. ABC doin’ serious work these days.
Oh Alec, never change.
Love how he bashes Trump for being abrasive and uncouth and he goes out and actually lives his life that way.
I’m pretty sure Trump has never punched someone in office. What a douche Baldwin is. A classic douche.
But so is the guy who took his spot.
I’m pretty sure Trump has never punched someone
in officeever.Fixed, otherwise we likely would have heard about it by now.
According to TMZ, Baldwin had a friend standing in the spot to save it.
Fuck that. Move, or you’re gonna get run over. No saving spaces, asshole.
Baldwin’s a hot tempered fool, he just gave the punchee a hell of a winning lottery ticket.
Yep. He realized who punched him, and then….
Ambulance to the hospital.
Bethesda is so eager that no one play Fallout 76, The beta deletes itself by “Accident”
Blizzard didn’t do themselves any favors today either when announcing that the next game in the Diablo franchise will be a mobile game.
Outside of Overwatch, Blizzcon’s main presentation was kinda messy. Heroes of the Storm felt tacked on, World of Warcraft even felt tacked on, they screwed up the Hearthstone presentation. Oh yeah, the remastered Warcraft III looks good.
People have been bitten by actual releases so many times but they still flock to betas…. SMDH
The triumph of hope over experience.
Should we be anticipating that Mueller will meet the same fate as the character he’s replacing?
From TOS, fun with the campus left, from our old friend Rico. And nary a “to be sure” to be seen!
https://reason.com/blog/2018/11/02/sarah-lawrence-professor-samuel-abrams
Not exactly surprising considering they probably couldn’t find real work if their lives depended on it.
Those who can’t, teach.
Those who can’t teach become administrators.
The college loan bubble cannot burst soon enough. It’s fucked up that these students think they can behave in this manner. But the question no one ever asks is, “Where are the parents and how did their children believe that this behavior is acceptable?” I’ve told my wife that if I ever got wind of our (future) children behaving this way, I would immediately stop paying for their college.
Spawn 1 knows that college is a privilege that will be revoked with prejudice if he fucks around.
I think the school matters, too.
During my sophomore year at DePaul, I told my parents that I was going to some protest on campus. My Mom’s response was that I should protest my ass to the library and study.
Lol. Mom knows what’s up.
I’m not convinced it was students. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was faculty and administrators.
And what’s nuts about is that the faculty and administrators are shocked when the students turn on them. They’ve enabled and even encouraged this shittiness and have the gall to get bewildered when the shittiness is unleashed upon them.
I have 529s for my kids, but they’re in my name.
If they fuck around or major in something worthless, I’m buying a boat instead.
Yuck. How about a place in T&C instead.
Tits and cunt?
Yep, lots all over the place.
But Dad! Gender Studies courses are LOADED with hot trim!
Just don’t touch or you’ll go to jail.
Son, this chart demonstrates the hot crazy matrix. Notice that the hot trim found in Gender Studies courses plots in at “Will accuse you of rape because you didn’t remember the 7 week anniversary of your first coffee together.”
Don’t stick it in crazy, Boy!
I’m guessing you have a particularly idiosyncratic definition of “hot”.
Oh Playa, you would love this story.
I made it to my junior year and that’s when my grades started to fall. I was partying doing all I could to be a fuck up. Anyway, my Mom asked for my grades and I had no choice but to give them to her. There were way too many C’s for her and she made it clear that a dime would not leave her purse for me any more.
That next week, she went got herself a Honda Accord Coupe V6 engine.
Just the engine? Because it seems that wouldn’t do her much good without a car around it.
It’s fucked up that these students think they can behave in this manner.
I agree with you top some extent. But, on the other hand, isn’t it rational? What iota of evidence have we seen to date that they can’t behave in just this manner? When the school not only stands by and allows it, but the school’s president damned near openly takes their side, it’s not unreasonable for them to conclude that there’s no problem whatsoever with them acting just this way.
This isn’t exactly surprising. My late wife went tho Sarah Lawrence. “Cruel and entitled” was a reference I regularly heard from her about her schoolmates. And progressivism is a perfect vehicle for the cruel and entitled to behave that way.
Maybe my fake reason cover scared him straight on the ‘to be sure’s.
I missed that, share it again?
I sent it to MLW via twitter, then put it out on liberdon, someone took it from there and tweeted it and Matt Welch retweeted it.
https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1058056830444806146
There’s something in your eye.
yes there is. That was great.
My wife called balling with this story. He looks exactly like the kitten we rescued.
I don’t even like cats, but that makes me want one.
Certain cats can be rad as hell if you’re lucky enough to find the right one. Mine was a stray that literally came off the street. I used to play fetch with him when he was younger where he would chase toys I’d throw and bring them back until he’d tire out. I used to really dislike cats tremendously until I found him.
Both Mrs. Tundra and I are allergic to them, so alas, it’s dogs only for us.
My cold libertarian heart grew three sizes this day.
The meow at the 1:21 mark was gut wrenching. He was asking for help.
Why is it so dusty in here?
I just got done cutting up a bag of onions. What did I miss?
Lice from that cat?
I’m pretty sure that having all of your hair burned off takes care of the lice problem.
I refuse to tear up, but that was really fucking awesome.
I think that was the first time that I clicked on a Twitter link without regretting it.
Same.
Dammit! the dust around here, Good Stuff Rufus!
Thank you Rufus.
I went to Real Clear Politics and a big ad appears:
“VOTE NO ON POLIS! HE’LL B
shit
Yes, he will be shit. But that goes for anyone that gets elected on Tuesday.
Multi-post John-O.
“VOTE NO ON POLIS! HE’LL BRING SHARIA TO COLORADO’S SCHOOLS”
I have a hard time seeing that as anything other than a false flag it’s so preposterous.
You say that now. Just wait until you’re on trial for blasphemy.
Think of all the fun you could have had wearing a burka to high school.
That doesn’t even make sense.
I gleeful voted no on three ballot questions here. They were all terrible.
Good luck! We have allowing local governments to use bonding to fund “affordable housing” by NGOs, ban grocery taxes, apply the existing 3/5 legislative requirement for tax increases to fee and changes to tax exemptions/deductions/credits (personally, I think a simple majority should be able to lower any of those, but the legislatures been playing games by not calling tax increases “tax increases”), repeal state sanctuary law, & ban public funding of abortion. The county has some idiotic proposal to replace voting with scoring candidates from 0 to 5. I’d be happy with that only if you hit a certain % of 0 votes, you get executed in the town square.
We have one for justice reform. It won’t pass ’cause drugs are bad mkay.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Issue_1,_Drug_and_Criminal_Justice_Policies_Initiative_(2018)
Oh hey, did you know that you rural Ohioians are responsible for all of the killing going on in the state?
How the Ohio legislature wrestled gun control away from cities like Cleveland
115 in 2016 and 114 last year.
Or what they call a long weekend in Chicago.
But there’s only so much the city itself can do to prevent the carnage because state law keeps it from passing its own laws regulating gun possession.
Gun possession is the sole cause of murder, and gun control is the only possible solution.
Wouldn’t it be easier to blame Indiana?
No, Indiana guns would go through rural Ohio, and the problem is all of those damned hicks who want to protect themselves. Don’t they know us city folk just see a gun and become a slave to its power?
That reminds me to send the NRA and the BFA money. They’re so full of shit. How many of those murders were committed using so called assault weapons or bump stocks which are what they want to ban? I’m guessing that not one person was killed in Cleveland ever with a gun with a bump stock. How does anyone fall for their BS?
No on the 3rd question?
Correct – it’s poorly worded, so ‘No’ means “repeal this public accommodation law”, ‘Yes’ means keep it.
Poorly? Nope that is deliberate.
In this case I think it was just a fuck-up – the poor wording will lose it as many votes as it might gain.
Got it. I hate those games the politicians play. I have to be careful I don’t vote for for a property tax because of the way the ballot is worded.
My favorite proposition selling point this year. Apparently Nebraska has a prop to expand Medicare. So, you need a way to convince a deep red state to support government spending BUT you need your base to support you as well. So you write a promo like this:
“Insure The Good Life’s ballot initiative will bring $1.1 billion tax dollars back to Nebraska, sustain 10,000 jobs, and give Nebraskans a voice in expanding Medicaid.
No one should be forced to decide whether they can afford life-saving care for themselves or their families – like cancer treatment or heart medication. But too many hardworking moms struggling to put food on the table and near-retirees who got laid off because of their age are forced to make those decisions every day. “
Isn’t that nice of them to take the decision whether to raise taxes and, uh, the cost of everything, out of your hands. My state works like that too. So much easier to not have any say in these things.
Oh, no, not yakuza candy!
Unrelated, but the back half of the video clip explains why straff was at Shibuya the other day. Tied in with his UFC familiarity, it becomes crystal clear.
The only question I think is relevant here is this:
Do the yakuza give out full sized candy bars?
Also the yakuza headquarters is a known location? Japan is awesome.
Certain activities? Like illegal ones?
Murders ok but giving kids sugar is not. They take their keto seriously.
Don’t tell them rice isn’t keto!
It’s not murder if you can’t find the body.
Or you’re a cop.
Appears that there is actually a candidate for Ohio governer that I can vote for. Not that it matters.
https://www.ballotready.org/oh/ohio-ohio-governor/travis-m-irvine/
Ah yes the Ohio gubernatorial race between CFPB dude and 2nd amendment sellout RINO.
Yeah, Elizabeth Warren was just here campaigning for Cordray.
“Giant Douche will sell your children to sharia pedo gangs!”
this message paid for by citizens for Turd Sandwich
but if you don’t vote you are literally Hitler
That’s an indication of what a ridiculous one-party state I’m in – Warren is running for re-election and apparently doesn’t need to campaign here.
Democrats don’t need to campaign in NY either but hell if I haven’t seen an endless stream of commercials from them (and none from their opponents). That’s an indication of how much flush with union cash they are.
https://www.ballotready.org/wv/west-virginia-u-s-senate-west-virginia/rusty-hollen
My State’s L candidate. The pic alone makes me reconsider my inclination to go straight R on Fed votes.
He forgot “Fuck you, cut spending!”
But he does have a kitten in his picture. Plus this:
“I will oppose any tax increase, and fight to abolish the income tax and IRS.”
He’s speaking my language but I don’t know how he’s going to abolish the IRS as a Governor. Nullification?
I don’t know I think an evil cat would fit right into the Senate.
Ugh….looking through the rest of the field for WV and the goddamned “Mountain Party” fielded more candidates than the state libertarian party did. *spits*
Founded “Central Ohioans Countering Kasich”, Snicker.
My mailbox has been stuffed with flyers from both campaigns. If it wasn’t raining again this weekend, they’d make good firestarters.
We have a mail slot and the damn political glossy oversized cards prop the door open enough to channel in rain. Yet another reason to hate politicians
Just got a letter from the Sheriff. He wants a 1c increase in sales tax to fund a deputy in every school cuz shooterz.
No. We already have some of the highest sales tax in the nation (9.5% – 12.5% depending on parish) which allows us to have some of the lowest property tax in the nation.
When I went to school: Grammar school – principal had a shotgun in his office, 6th grade WWII vet teacher had a shotgun in the classroom.
Jr. HS – coach had a pistol in his desk and Asst. Principal had a shotgun in his office.
HS – coach, principal and Ag teacher had shotguns or rifles in their class or office. Student parking lot had numerous guns openly stored in cars or trucks.
Most of those were because those guys hunted before or after school. School shootings weren’t a thing back then.
In most school shootings these days I hear about teachers putting themselves between the shooter and the students. Those people need to be armed. I dont hear about cops putting themselves between shooters and the students. Not arming the teachers is bullshit.
I like this Sheriff, but I aint voting for this tax.
Don’t even need to “arm” teachers. Just stop prohibiting, in both law and policy, adults from being able to defend themselves as they feel necessary simply because they’re on school grounds.
On a related note I watched a thing a while back about the drawbacks of school cops. Turns out school shooters are rare enough that cops get bored. Teachers get tired of dealing with unruly kids by themselves. Teachers start calling the SRO overtime Timmy acts up. Timmy ends up face down in handcuffs and with a record as a juvenile (an actual one, not a “permanent record”) rather than detention.
SRO’s do more harm than good most of the time. And unless there are a bunch of underreported stories they seem to do jack shit when the shooter does show up.
And then there’s a string of misconduct by SROs.
Every girl on the cheer squad gets the ol’ stop and frisk?
“…unless there are a bunch of underreported stories they seem to do jack shit when the shooter does show up.”
“…Timmy ends up face down in handcuffs…”
^This x 1000^
The teachers are already paid, already there and dont fix a watch with a hammer.
Barrington School District is gearing up for a levy in a couple of years. 60 percent of my property taxes already goes to the schools in Barrington (pensions, salaries, building maintenance…..all that jazz) and yet they are crying that they need more monies…for the children. The reason why the are in this predicament is because they have waaaay too many administrators, the benefits for the teachers are absurd and yes the most important part of this fucked up equation…..the pensions.
Yep, We’re an aging society. All of these benefits for the elderly Social Security, Medicare, and pensions will end up bankrupting the country and we can’t do anything about it until it’s too late.
I have to admit it: I don’t understand what the naked proggies are trying to communicate here.
All I know is that I am not aroused.
(TW: Twitchy)
I saw some of those before. Run with that “body positive” shit D’s. In fact, you need to purge all the attractive people from your ranks to show how woke you are.
That’s not really much of a challenge at this point.
Those women all look very unhappy. Not angry but genuinely unhappy. They must not be getting any. No wonder they’re so desperate for attention.
Eye bleach:
https://archive.is/MfpaW/3b855cd159673ef13ff8315e3e373d4f518b04d5
https://archive.is/MfpaW/9afecb0e14caa566f7ce3e11e9edea892db4bc1e
https://archive.is/MfpaW/37e5435a2ad3bf0b51f477e6f54af803250b63f5
https://archive.is/MfpaW/75b4346053560c1f609ca9f3c43dd4d273e899e6
Thank you Doctor Q!
Ah, much better.
Thanks, Q!
The local cafe, which is prog-central, had some flyers up recruiting people to “text people in competitive race areas”.
Some out-of-state asshat texting me out of the blue to instruct me how to vote would enrage me and push me to vote against any candidate they were pimping.
*makes notes on how to run false flag texting operation*
Indeed, that was one of my first thoughts.
For the first time ever, during municipal elections this year I got a ton of text spam, which I ignored and refused to be annoyed by. If you can’t prove provenance, there’s no point punishing ostensibly guilty party.
“edgy get out the vote campaign”
I think it will work, just not the way they intended.
Apparently, some of these sounds indicate that the sex is about to get violent and could leave one of the pandas with serious or life-threatening injuries.
I guess that could count as a safe word.
STEVE SMITH UNDERSTAND SOUNDS OF NATURE
Another BIF beer, a Munich dark. It’s a bit flat but has still manages to taste good.
You know who else liked Munich?
Not Israeli olympians, I am pretty sure of that.
Me. The Hofbrauhaus was touristy but fun. Rathaus-Glockenspiel was cool. Dachau was pretty powerful.
Would go back.
I’ve been to Munich three times. I’ll be back.
Arjen Robben?
Polka bands?
Classic American cars aren’t really my thing, but mad respect.
Wow. That thing is completely immaculate. Nice sled, lady.
The only classic cars are American.
As for the Eurojunk, dont even.
I’m gonna have to disagree, there, Suthen.
I am not going to budge on this, or admit my fondness for the Karmann Ghia.
Always stick to your shtick!
I can’t believe you didn’t get struck by lightning just typing that!
I’ll just assume you already started drinking and leave you this.
Drooooooool
wrong
It was made in American, but it is a Rolls-Royce.
err…. “made in America”.
I wouldn’t kick this one out of the garage, either.
Unless I needed to make room for Jarflax’s car, of course.
Wood.
It doesn’t even have to be exotic.
Sweet!
Don’t forget the Blokiest Bloke’s car ever!
+1 seat up!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_Special#/media/File:Ford_Falcon_Mad_Max.jpg
SO WOULD
I’d find more good Euro cars, but it’s time to go back to work. Bugs. Fuck.
Yeah, I prefer the late 60s early 70s muscle cars.
If I ever get a winning lottery ticket, this is my first purchase https://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/dealer/pontiac/trans-am/2095926.html
*drool*
Nice. I’ll wanted a ’71 Chevelle 454 for a long time.
69 is my favorite model as well, but I want red with a black stripe.
If I were to go down that road, I’d find me a minty ’66 Galaxie 500 7-liter.
Ahem
Is that a clown car?
And, of course…
She’s amazing! Love her, love the car, HATE the gas can in the trunk.
Thanks, man. That was good.
That’s a damn nice car.
Alas, the story doesn’t have a happy ending.
23 mufflers over 60 years and 120,00 miles? I get that a muffler is gonna rust out whether you drive the car or not but one muffler every 2.6 years, bullshit.
The car has two mufflers. So it’s a pair every 5.5 years.
Then how does it come to 23? huh! 22 or 24 sure, but 23? what about that, smart guy!!!
Nah. Still a happy ending. She gets the cash, and gets to pick the next owner. And the next owner gets a suh-weet Bel Aire. Everybody wins, in my book.
suh-weetFresh Bel AireWhen I go cruising for bitches to murder, I’d like to be riding in that.
Beto wasn’t going to win anyway, but this can’t help:
O’Rourke refutes undercover video and Cruz, says $300 went to charity, not migrant caravan
The denials seem oddly hedged:
Of course, they could have bought diapers and stuff for the local nonprofit, and also sent money south of the border for the migrant caravan.
The unasked question might be “Why does this campaign have prepaid cards in its field offices?” What are they being used for, anyway? I don’t know if they leave a paper trail of what they are spent on, but if they don’t this seems like an excellent way to launder campaign money for either illegal campaign activities or for diverting from the campaign.
Good grief. My father is an election judge in Harris county. I was talking to him yesterday and that election came up. I casually said “Beto is a little light on his feet, isnt he? NTTIAWWT but it seems that wouldn’t help him in TX.”
“Oh yeah, there is a photo of him in drag.” was the answer.
Whatever. So I just searched for it and found this: https://splinternews.com/the-texas-gop-cant-stop-pointing-out-how-hot-beto-orour-1828684175
Excuse me while I go puke.
I can see prepaid cards being a convenient way to pay for expenses that a field office incurs, like food for the volunteers, office supplies, etc. I can also see them as a convenient way to buy votes. It would be nice to see an intrepid reporter ask about it, even if they do get a line of bullshit for an answer.
Prepaid cards are used to obfuscate where the money is going. They’re just as anonymous as envelopes of cash. It’s much easier from an accounting and cost control standpoint to hand out actual credit cards so your accounting people can track spending.
Get out the vote!
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/11/02/nypd-releases-photo-suspect-scrawled-anti-semitic-graffiti-inside-brooklyn-synagogue/
Yup. White supremacist, just as predicted.
Both Prospect Heights and its adjacent neighborhood Crown Heights have seen tensions between its black populations and its Chasidic Jewish populations for decades.
Hate of the other is the one thing that brings us all together!
I thought taxes brought us all together.
Why not Mary Jane instead?
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/11/02/anthony-scaramucci-think-trump-will-legalize-marijuana-midterms/
But will he do the fandango ?
“Why not Mary Jane instead?”
I would pay so much to see that… it would be the greatest epic meltdown from the left in history.
Here’s one way in which the article is dead wrong, though. If it’s Trump behind this, there will not be a single dem vote in favor, not one. And if Trump can manage to get it through, the dems will become the most hysterical drug warriors we’ve ever seen. That’s the greatest thing about it, besides it needs to be done anyway because morality and freedom.
I just look forward to the media progsplaining to me how when Trump does it, it’s racist.
Ok 2 things.
wait death, death also brings us together.
3, 3 things bring us together hate, death, and taxes.
Atomic Bombs?
Tits?
All we are is dust in the wind.
One’s death is the ultimate individual experience, though.
and one of two we all will have.
If no one is Emmanuel Goldstein, then everyone is.
I relate, or not…..
“There’s no evidence this was any kind of “false flag” attack.”
Of course not.
So USPS comes over and hour later than normal. Which I don’t care about. What I do care about is she left packages in my driveway instead of my porch. USPS sucks. I wish Amazon would not use them.
Trumputin mole confirmed! Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Russian Collusion has got to go!
I’m not on Twitter but I do look through some of the threads when links are posted here. It seems like a common response to any follower who disagrees with a post is to call the follower a [Russian] bot.
Those crazy people who identify as animals may actually be geniuses.
Lol.
If I’m someone’s emotional support animal do I fly for free?
I’m my wife’s emotional support animal! RUB MY BELLY!
Let’s not share so much.
candid shot of Mad Scientist at home
Oh, man, those dogs get to play outside!?
“Those crazy people who identify as animals may actually be geniuses.”
Every actually sane person should start doing that, along with claiming to be a different gender every other day. Overwhelm the crazy.
*Sigh*
No will power this afternoon: hot chocolate, chocolate, Pepperridge Farm…
#ketofail
#soulwin
#StayStrong
“Jugsy” the gf left a box of ho-ho’s here quite deliberately. This evening, I got “do I need to count these?”
I said, “go ahead”. She was mildly disappointed at my resolve.
/opens another 3.5g-carb shitty beer
Why is jugsy trying to sabotage you?
Right? I mean, if she really wanted to crack my base weaknesses, it would be a mexican whore who’s down with ass sex, a pile of pills, and a handle of some high-octane booze she ‘accidentally’ left.
Ho-Ho’s, while delicious, aint shit.
If she left all that for you, she’d be a keeper.
Sincerely,
-Always Looking
I’m wondering if any teen girls even watch this anyways.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/netflix-series-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-shocks-with-underage-orgy-scene
“Family Research Council’s senior fellow Peter Sprigg told Fox News that “Sabrina” is not suitable for its target audience.
“Taking once-wholesome comic book characters and turning them into sinister and hyper-sexualized TV characters is a troubling trend in itself. The dark, occultish elements in ‘Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’ provide reason enough for parents to keep their children — including teens — far away from this show,” Sprigg said”
“taking once-wholesome comic book characters”??!! Bullshit. Odds I could find a FRC press release from the 1990s decrying the “normalization” of witchcraft?
Meh. I’m not going to take up the cause of the Family Research Council. That said, I can’t say I disagree that orgies might not be the entirely appropriate for a teen audience. Not everything in the world has to be sexualized. And orgies kind of qualify as over the top. Obviously, they have a right to create it. But, I’m not going to say the FRC is wrong to criticize it.
And they don’t even show the scene! Now I have to research it myself so I can
cumbe outraged!I know! And think back to watching Melissa Joan Hart when I was a wee lad….
You misspelled “wanking to.”
Having done the research and showered, they are all clothed, so not so much an orgy as a group makeout session.
You shower after you masturbate?
not after.
You have internet in your shower ?
You don’t have wifi?
No way in hell I am clicking that. Anyone who does will probably end in in the Fed Pen one of these days for having you-know-what in your browser history.
Definitely do not watch the opening credits from Carrie then. Nor even search for them. Definitely not.
“Sponsored by Teen Vogue”
“Woman kills 13 people because she was mad bus driver missed her stop. She sure showed him.”
Still no common sense bus control in China?
I think further investigation will reveal the driver swerved because of a wěi shēn jīng.
Well, that’s as far as I’ll get on that bug tonight. Time for another BIF beer. I really like this one.
I feel like you’ve been drink BIF for like 2 weeks and mine was all gone in like 2 days. Not fair!
I have been quite ill this week, especially with GI problems, so alcohol has not been on the menu.
I’m going to keep that up at least another week.
Not even hot toddy’s?
Sorry, get well soon.
I was catching up and didn’t see the Ren Faire picture until a few days after you posted it (and I guess removed it because the link went no where). I also heard I missed a blowjob discussion while I was on vacation.
Wait…there was a BJ symposium and I missed it?!
*rends garments*
WHYYYYY!
I’ve been moderating my intake. I gotta get my weight under control but I am not going to give up beer.
Glad to hear that.
This one was a good choice. Thanks!
you are welcome
No Friday night plans here. We can do things while everyone else is working. Whatever that is.
I did remove two of those vermin pheasant from the earth this morning. I predict pheasant and chanterelle risotto. And enjoyed pizza and beer this afternoon.
“the world is terrible and everything sucks and comic books and video games are fertile grounds for white nationalists to recruit aggrieved young men but anyway how are you”
https://twitter.com/MagsVisaggs/status/1058375879297064960
Nazis, Nazis everywhere.
Yes, the problem with comic books today is the right wing messages they are pushing. Right.
A lot of Leftists have a really hard time admitting that many large and/or powerful institutions have a Leftist bias (Hollywood, news media, academia, tech companies, major organs of the FedGov itself, and now even corporate culture).
They’ve internalized this “little guy” narrative so much that they are blind to reality.
Why would the corporate media support them? It’s not their bias. It’s reality’s bias!
Nazis, Nazis everywhere.
Most especially in her head.
Like this article that said Daredevil season 3 was ‘Jeff Sessions Fever Dream’ but I watched the whole season and he didn’t beat one fag or pothead. He just did Daredevil stuff.
I’m stalled out on episode 4, but does Daredevil at least gay convert someone?
No, and with all that Catholicism you’d think he’d at least give some alter boys some wine and show them the ways of older men. But instead he’s like all worried about ‘morality’ and shit, it’s disgusting!
Well, at least hopefully The Punisher remains strong on 2nd Amendment….
…aaaaand reading that thing, it’s a tendentious piece of garbage, published by…oh, a company that’s directly interested in the failure of Netflix.
Fuck, the only legit complaint is the “realism” angle, and it’s the reason I dislike Marvel Netflix shows. “We’re realistic! Except whenever something stupid comes up we scream ‘Comic Book Logic’, switching between the two with more or less elegance!”
“BREAKING: This is quite a read. Woman who claimed Justice Kavanaugh raped her now admits they’ve never even met. She’s been referred to DOJ/FBI for investigation and could soon be in serious legal trouble.”
https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1058475460483575808
Please please please throw the book at her, pour encourager les autres.
What, do you doubt her lived experience?!??
She had that really bad dream and she wants it known how much she’s suffered!
If there’s just 1 thing that miserable soul Jeff Sessions could possibly come in handy for, it would be to insure she’s tarred and feathered on the steps of the capitol.
I mean…..following a fair hearing, with evidence presented in her defense, and judged by a jury of her peers. But after THAT…….
Meh, this woman is nuts, she doesn’t need to be locked up, she needs help, her family and friends should intervene, the rest us should simply ignore her like we do with all the other crazy people out there.
Deal. But we get to lock up creepy porn lawyer in her stead.
I don’t see what basis there is for claiming that she’s any crazier than the other accuser he had who can’t prove she ever even met Kavanaugh. She simply wasn’t smart enough to make her accusation so long ago as to be damn near unfalsifiable and went too far over the top on the details.
Maybe there’s a delusional aspect to her accusation. Maybe she is batshit. Or maybe she lied for political reasons. Or to be famous. Or to feel important.
Agreed – if she’s truly nuts, give her a slap on the wrist. But put the screws to Avenatti.
What help does she need exactly? “When things don’t go your way, don’t create rape charge out of thin air” lessons? Should we get her in a class with Jason Wohl and Jackie?
If Crime novels and TV cop shows have taught me anything it’s that every time there is a high profile case people come out of the woodwork with false confessions, accusations, and eyewitness accounts, We could lock ’em all up I guess, and it may have a minuscule deterrent effect but people aren’t smart and there will always be attention seekers, and nut’s who believe the “Most important thing ever” spiel. “Throwing the Book” at these people would be Sisyphean, it might assuage your ‘get the other side’ anger but it won’t achieve much else.
I could make this argument about any number of things that people do. People are just going to keep defrauding one another, so why throw the book at them? You aren’t going to stop the next snake oil salesman!
I don’t know, maybe because she intentionally did harm to another individual? Maybe because there is an actual victim in this case who deserves justice?
The reason we have a criminal justice system is as a trade off for our giving up private vengeance. If we let people deliberately destroy other people’s lives with no legal recourse we are going to end up back in the days of vendetta.
What harm?
Still doesn’t answer my question of “what kind of help does she need”. Her statement quoted above seems reasonably sane to me (not a psychiatrist, granted), and the investigators found this tidbit:
This is not the crazy religious guy in Crime and Punishment taking on Raskolnikov’s guilt because he’s a crazy religious guy. At the very least extorting public apology to the victim of her slander seems reasonable to me. Might make the next liar think twice, at least reducing the set to the determined and the genuinely crazy.
And for the record, someone doing the same to Bill Clinton or…I dunno, Anita Sarkeesian, to pick someone I loathe, should get the same treatment.
But why would she lie?
#BelieveHer
So weird. The NYT and WaPo were so diligent about demanding proof when a ridiculous sexual assault allegation was alleged against Mueller, how could they have missed this?
No one would lie about such a thing, except the people that did.
My sizeable gut tells me that she was a party stooge all along, and once her handlers realized the jig is about to be up, they cut her loose with the “mental issues” label, hoping that’s her defense, and it sticks.
/cynic
I buy that she’s just an attention seeker that saw her chance. But, I am able to see things objectively. #believeher would mean that not only should we believe her when she is lying about being raped, but also who she is. She isn’t the woman who sent the letter, she just saw someone else accused Kavinaugh of rape and saw that as a way to stop him. The person who sent the initial letter doesn’t even seem to have come forward.
No, she had a lawyer that jumped on with her. You’d hope at least 1 person in that situation is lucid.
Which one?
We’ve hit the point where, in order to attack Trump for supposedly cozying up to authoritarians worldwide like the Saudis, the Washington Post is giving an authoritarian the chance to pen op-eds attacking his geopolitical rivals.
Say what you will about the scumbag Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, at least he’s not destroying a once functioning secular democracy.
I think you’ll find he is…in AMERICA!
https://twitter.com/pebbul/status/1058474030615937024
I’m thinking HM is behind this.
Too wholesome.
I wonder if we will see a resurgence of hepatitis A in America.
OT: The other night, I ordered a book called “Skin In The Game” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (never heard of him). It was in my Amazon recommendations, and my interest was snagged by the phrase, “Beware of complex solutions from those who got paid to create them“. I went ahead and ordered it in a spirit of breaking out of my bubble of Austrian school economic books (and also a
slightlymoderatelycompletely drunk spirit of “why the fuck not“).Has anyone read this book, and how was it?
Talib is 95% genius and 5% idiot.
That’s a pretty good summation.
You can thank him for every time you hear the phrase ‘black swan’.
Every time I hear the phrase “black swan”, I think of Tyrone Power and Maureen O’Hara.
I think of lesbians. Different generations I guess.
You are a man with hidden depths. Well chosen!
Surely you know I’m a fan of old movies.
And Laird Cregar died much too young. 🙁
In Australia, all swans are black.
In Australia, all swans are
blackaborigines.Nassim
NicholasTaleb sounds like ajewterrerist!I read Black Swan. I don’t remember being terribly impressed.
From Wiki:
“Taleb has called for cancellation of the Nobel Prize in Economics, saying that the damage from economic theories can be devastating.[58][59] He opposes top-down knowledge as an academic illusion.”
Sounds like he has some out of the box ideas at least.
The spouse is watching local news in the next room and so far EVERY SINGLE AD has been political.
PLEASE LET THE SWEET METEOR OF DEATH END IT ALL SOON.
I hear you, it’s the same here, and not just during the news.
Same when I watched local news the other day. Not only is it shit from the candidates, but from a programmer’s standpoint, it’s terrible ad scheduling. You should never air ads from competitors in the same ad break.
It’s hard not to have competing ads back-to-back when practically every single ad is political.
In a way it’s nice, you get to weigh the different arguments against each other in real time (until it happens for the umpteenth time).