Hola a todos, Brett is in meetings all day, so he’s letting me take over for the afternoon.
- California is still on fire, and a former nuclear research site got burned. Oops. Fires are currently burning across the mountain west with concentrated activity in Idaho/Utah/Nevada and just east of the Cascades, which is just crazy since everyone knows that California’s forestry management policies are causing the fires…across 8 states.
- Floridian—who looks like every middle aged man I know who does local community theater—has a bunch of jihaddi preferred explosives “for homemade fireworks.” “‘The white crystal powder [TATP] has been referred to as ‘Mother of Satan’ by terrorist organizations who have used it in deadly attacks around the world,’ the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.”
- Speaking of Florida, our solar system is apparently about to get rocked by a “dark matter hurricane” but you probably won’t notice much unless you have severe axion sensitivity along with your EMF and gluten sensitivity.
- Lotta folks are on losartan thanks to the Western Pattern Diet, if you are one of those people, you might want to have a chat with your GP about this recall. In related news, the USG is *begging* you to at least take the stairs instead of your off-road-capable mobility scooter. The big take away is that even brief activity counts toward the backstop goal of 150 minutes of activity per week (a week is 10080 minutes) as recommended by the AHA.
Today’s musical number the video may be potentially work-unfriendly. If that got you in trouble, I apologize.
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324 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links”
I was certain the music link was going to be Electric Six.
You wound me, sir.
It popped in my head when you typed the NSFW. I showed my wife their Danger! High Voltage! video the other day and it was the sidebar.
I guess I should have linked it. Their stuff is wonderfully ridiculous.
And how do you feel about The Darkness?
I love it! They are in my hair band playlist. I’m still not sure if they are real or just a running gag.
I love their first two albums. Kinda forgot about them after the reunion. Is their new stuff any good?
That was wonderful. Thanks.
It was worth clicking.
Bursting with adequatulence!
Is that farting underwater?
I’m assuming it’s the same mechanism by which Indianapolis is responsible for the shootings in Chicago.
Scorpions tribute band?
**Whistles ‘Winds of Change’ in agreement**
These ladies are so hot they’re the ones who started the fire. Take that Billy Joel.
http://archive.is/qAmNS
8 wins the titty award. 13 wins the caboose award.
29 wants me, I can tell
I got up to a half dozen and said fuck it, too many Woods to count.
At long last, my superpowers are going to reveal themselves.
“A phenomena”?
AN phenomena
It’s better when Sandra Bullock says it
Or something like it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQsd7y5YbZw
Won’t you be bummed when you find out it’s the power to turn into psychrolutes marcidus at the full moon.
Crustacean Boy doesn’t stand a chance.
“Interstellar Spacecraft Mystery Goes Viral to the Big Bang Star”
Holy fuck,
howwhy did you find this site?I was in a hurry, couldn’t find the original article I’d read, and didn’t want to link to Gizmodo. Although I think it’d less crazy than it seems, since it’s indicating there’s a news roundup of 5 headlines…it’s just really awkwardly written.
The Daily Galaxy is obviously not a real newspaper. They don’t even have an astrology column.
They’ve got great circulation numbers in the third galactic quadrant from what I hear.
…wait? Is this a newspaper?
The illustration above shows a small galaxy being torn apart as it is consumed by a larger galaxy, like the Milky Way.-
That’s bad ass.
Join me! And together we will BE the galaxy as father and son!
Okay.
*walks off job site*
RIP, Mrs. Oleson.
That bitch was still alive?
JK/RIP
YouTube commenters don’t waste time getting to the point, do they.
I guess “shut up dickwad” is a sort of point.
I mean, the one in the middle fills out that outfit pretty spectacularly. Can you blame them?
First thing I noticed. Imagine that.
I’ll say it again. I believe explosives are covered under the 2A. It’s not owning explosives that’s the problem, it’s using explosives.
A nice man in a dark suit will be over shortly.
*shrug*
I live a boring life. The investigators would fall asleep on the job.
Tear up your FloridaMan card.
There aren’t any cards. Anyone who crosses the Florida state line and does something stupid is labeled “Floridaman” by the news.
You should change your handle to Florida UCS or Ted Florida
Except I don’t drink milk and I like food.
What did I do to deserve this?
I don’t believe there is any question about it. Keeping and bearing arms shall not be abridge. They specifically went after this guy because they said the explosives he had were arms. Done and dusted, easily protected by the second amendment.
Except the courts decided to punt on reading comprehension and have gone with “that wouldn’t be reasonable”.
You can buy a lion cub for $300?
If that’s true, I’m a-gonna have some bitchin’ slippers made.
Albino endangered African rhino slippers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyWVaZsUQjc
But how much will it cost to get rid of an adult lion?
Adult Lion gets rid of you.
Anal cancer in words.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmk3ej/all-masculinity-is-toxic
Vice is garbage.
Why do you do this to yourself?
Seriously. I didn’t read past the headline.
Don’t give those fuckers clicks man.
Derp and titties make the world go round.
That’s a a half-truth!
Why do you do this to yourself?
It’s one of his vices…
You usually sell your links a little better than that.
https://archive.is/UscYl/e2d3f6244d67152e4ca9f22469850897ce1dafe5
“I lived with Andrea Dworkin for 31 years…” Yes, by all means, let’s take this dude’s advice on how to live our lives.
Well, that explains a lot of things.
Yeah… wow.
Dworkin pretty much defines the angry postmodern feminist, complete with disgusting personal hygiene. That he could stay married to her for that long is a testament to his broken spirit.
Apparently he’s gay (according to Wikipedia). Not sure what the marriage was about.
But of course…
ROFL, and he still has his block and tackle? I don’t believe it.
Yes, Vice is garbage. And John Stoltenberg is clearly a buffoon. But, the truth is all he’s saying is pretty much what the underlying assumptions of feminism have been for some time now. It’s just most feminists have the good sense to at least try to pretend that misandry isn’t what their movement is fundamentally about.
Yes, there really is no feminism without an angry collectivization of all males.
To me, feminism is a lobbying group for women. What I mean is that it pushes for whatever they think benefits women whether it’s deserved or not. Then, they invent logic to portray these entitlements as merely equality; just bringing them up to par with men.
If someone introduced a bill to give every female in America $100, feminists would support it wholeheartedly and crank out op-eds arguing that it’s simply what they deserve after suffering so much for being female.
(Never mind that women in America get better grades in K-12 education, are more likely to get a university degree, have a longer life expectancy, and are vastly underrepresented in homicides, suicides, incarcerations, homelessness, and workplace deaths.)
I read this. Why? Why did I read it?
Jesus Christ, what a shitshow. It’s like all the derp involved in taking business classes in Madison, distilled down into a concentrate powerful enough to make my brains run out of my ears.
“https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/zmk3ej/all-masculinity-is-toxic”
So, umm, just one question.
When they finally get their masculinity free society and then the totally unwoke hordes decide to come pay them a visit, what exactly do they say? Throw the lube over the walls, we’ll be out in a minute? Crikey on a stick, those people are a suicide cult.
Selfie saved a Texas man from 99 years in prison. Women says he broke in an carved her with a razor. Luckily he had taken and posted a geo-and-time-stamped selfie 65 miles away at the time.
I’m ready to actually live my life, the way I want to, without having any kind of worry that this can come back and hurt me,” he said.-
I’m sorry, but no fucking way is that my take. She would get hers. Good and hard one day.
Yeah, that’s pretty much how vigilantism blooms. And if it ever does, authorities will complain about loss of respect for institutions and the rule of law.
Put her crazy ass in prison.
That is straight up vagina privilege.
I wonder how many times he was offered a plea deal by the prosecutor.
Ha! I hadn’t thought of that. The prosecutor probably just wants the whole thing to go quietly away.
KVUE is not identifying Precopia’s accuser because she hasn’t been charged with a crime.
This is precisely the problem. The police are giving her a free pass for the false accusation, so the press is following suit. The guy’s life could have been utterly and totally ruined. Hell, it probably has taken a major hit, as things stand. And no one is doing a damned thing to stop her from doing it again. It’s shit like this that leaves me skeptical of almost any accusations. If women can lie with impunity, any accusation from a woman is from someone who can lie with impunity.
she hasn’t been charged with a crime.
I’m no legal expert but that sounds like an easy case of “false accusation”.
I’m not sure what that video was, but here’s an antidote.
I’m hurt you didn’t find my apology video adequate.
I went back and checked and it seems I was too impatient.
No one is ever disappointed by that link.
Thank you.
Tossing the mask.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/democrats-not-ready-hillary/
There are that many people loony enough to vote for Avenatti?
Also, there are people spouting bullshit numbers like this after 2016?
Domestic abuser Michael Avenatti?
AKA “ensuring the re-election of Donald J. Trump”.
Socialized medicine, gun bans, abortions, and immigration — Looks like a winning platform to me!
Calgarians reject 2026 Olympic bid by nearly 60/40 split. Politicians have a sadz; reluctantly accept democracy.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-calgary-voters-reject-citys-pursuit-of-2026-winter-olympics/
It doesn’t help the parasitical NDP ran the Alberta economy into the ground.
I didn’t get out much in Calgary when I was there, but I didn’t realize 40% of them are retarded, I thought better of you Calgary!
Why not just do some more referenda until you get the answer you want?
Speaking of repeated referenda, it looks like May has pulled off Brexit.
Fer ralz?
I thought she was gonna fuck it all up for sure.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46215930
I was just reading: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-46188790
So… would there be a border check between NI and the rest of the UK?
I feel like this has always been their most difficult situation to address, not to minimize the other concerns, but it is the hardest to come up with a mutually agreeable solution to.
Yeah, I think that is the biggest problem. The DUP doesn’t want a hard border but the Brexit people argue that if you have a soft border then you just move the immigration issue unless, as you say, that start doing immigration checks on all the planes & ferries.
I’m sure they flirted with that idea.
See: UK anti-Brexit forces.
Just now saw Raven’s comment. I wasn’t expecting that, I must admit.
I was kind of referencing that so… >.>
Fuck all ya’ll.
For 40% of them, it’s a chance for more hockey and curling, and they can never reach peak hockey and curling.
Couldn’t Calgary simply reuse the infrastructure from the 1988 Winter Olympics? The ice hockey rink on the University of Calgary campus was still in use the last time I checked.
Bro. 30 year old facilities. They want upgrades.
Don’t election officials in Calgary have car trunks in which to find “overlooked” ballots?
Most snowmobiles don’t have trunks.
I took my annual “Insider Threat Training” required by the Defense Dept today. Got to the examples section, specifically the “Classified Information Compromised” and was disappointed that Hillary wasn’t the example. They need to update this training!
“Information Collection Indicators” include “Keeping critical assets at home or any other unauthorized place.”
The Hand Waving seminar is a little later in the day.
Another one is “Operating unauthorized cameras, recording devices, computers, or modems in areas where critical assets are stored, discussed, or processed.” Omarosa, I’m looking at you!
“Information Transmittal Indicators” include “Using unauthorized device or computer to transmit classified information.”
You certainly asked whether private email servers in your ISP’s closet were ok now, didn’t you?
Online training – no opportunity to ask questions.
Because cops never exaggerate, and are also experts in explosives.
Anyone else think this guy shouldn’t get any charges?
Oh I get it. Brett was the man in question. *salutes*
Thats some meeting.
But what was the street value?
I imagine Florida Man was just trying to snort it.
All the other shit they listed is completely legal.
Yeah, well he had items which could be hoax explosives, so watch out guys!
Probably batteries, wires and misspelled addresses on envelopes.
… whatever happened with that guy by the way? He got memory holed faster than Vegas.
…easily converted to hoax destructive devices? So, a clock?
Couldn’t just about anything be converted into a hoax destructive device?
Even Lite Brites?
I really seized on this..
The language they are using tells me they have every intention of railroading this guy for no reason. If they really thought he was a threat to harm people, they’d be talking about the threat he poses directly, his intentions and his actions.
Instead, they lead with “ISIS uses this chemical and it is super evil!” And they repeated it several times.
I could be wrong about this, but that is a red flag that they absolutely know that this is just some guy who likes experimenting with explosive chemistry.
Which is what is wrong with our society. You should be able to mix up some thermite and cut a car in half like they did on Mythbusters. When I was a kid we played with fireworks and did other stupid things. That’s how we get people who start companies making cool products that nobody ever thought of – by letting people follow their curiosity.
I shudder to think how they’d describe our pre-teen stupidity. We made black powder bombs and used cigarettes as delay fuses. Terrorists and second hand smoke, all in one package!
They are so strict on explosives that many in the high powered rocketry hobby tried moving to hybrid motors to get around just this sort of scenario. Building your own solid rocket engines can easily bump up against the law.
“dark matter hurricane”
///band-name
I thought it was the code name for the latest FBI operation against Trump.
Tyler the creator pumps breaks on Jaden Smith relationship.
Lorde’s lyrics creep me out. She seems like a wannabe tyrant.
I did not understand a single thing in that article.
Something something ‘faux news’
Fox News is supporting CNN’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over the White House’s revocation of Jim Acosta’s press pass and plans to file an amicus brief in the case, according to a statement from the network’s president Jay Wallace.
“FOX News supports CNN in its legal effort to regain its White House reporter’s press credential. We intend to file an amicus brief with the U.S. District Court. Secret Service passes for working White House journalists should never be weaponized. While we don’t condone the growing antagonistic tone by both the President and the press at recent media avails, we do support a free press, access and open exchanges for the American people.”
I thought that out of all of them, FNC would understand that this is not a 1A issue.
At the beginning of the Obama Presidency, Obama wanted to kick Fox News out of the pool. The other networks (NBC, CNN, etc.) stood up for Fox News. I see this FNC’s move as returning the favor.
Fox has moved left.
Rupert’s kids like the New York cocktail party scene from what I understand.
Yup.
I’m wondering when their audience will realize this and leave en mass.
OANN is the new right-wing network. But it’s not available everywhere. Yet.
They have appeared on my youtube feed on occasion. Smokin hot blonde anchor.
It also seems a smart business move as CNN, MSNBC, etc. have moved farther left.
Following the pack is rarely a smart business move.
It might not be. But as long as there is no new channel right of Fox, they gain a bigger audience by moving left.
And they still call FNC a “far-right propaganda machine”. Idk, I don’t watch msm. Used to catch some FNC shows back in the day. But now all I get is Tucker, Gutfield and Stossel clips when they show up on my youtube feed.
It’s not “Left” to support others in your industry. I think it would be odd if FNC didn’t support CNN’s lawsuit
I get the solidarity, I just think the lawsuit is bunk.
Why? Have you read the pleadings?
I tend to agree that the lawsuit is weak, but so is the Administration’s justification for revoking the press pass. And that’s what makes this such a shit show.
Are you not entertained?
In regards to the move more, should I be concerned that my deadlift weight is 40 pounds more than my squat weight? Should they be close to even or is it normal to be stronger in one of the lifts?
Back when I lifted weights, I could deadlift way more than I could squat.
The squat is a pretty technical lift. I deadlift more as well, but I’ve had to deal with a knee and shoulder injury so I’m not sure if I’m subconsciously afraid to go super heavy on a squat.
Most people can deadlift more than they can squat, but everyone is an individual and it really does vary.
It’s normal.
Thanks everyone
Your mom is a slut.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6385855/Your-mothers-love-life-determines-romantic-partners-have.html
If your mom is hot, you are likely to be hot. SCIENCE!
“Children tend to have the same number of romantic partners that their mother had – whether they witnessed her relationships or not.”
Who knew Winston was that busy?
It would explain why he doesn’t have any time left over for thinking.
Pretty sure I shot past my mom’s count somewhere in college…
Your mom is a virgin?
Ouch! Careful, I may still be able to send Olga after you!
So about 200 then?
I kid, I kid.
Federal prosecutors reviewing altered election documents tied to Florida Democrats
The Florida Department of State last week asked federal prosecutors to investigate dates that were changed on official state election documents, the first voting “irregularities” it has flagged in the wake of the 2018 elections.
The concerns, which the department says can be tied to the Florida Democratic Party, center around date changes on forms used to fix vote-by-mail ballots sent with incorrect or missing information. Known as “cure affidavits,” those documents used to fix mail ballots were due no later than 5 p.m. on Nov. 5 — the day before the election. But affidavits released on Tuesday by the DOS show that documents from four different counties said the ballots could be returned by 5 p.m. on Thursday, which is not accurate…
“Altering a form in a manner that provides the incorrect date for a voter to cure a defect … imposes a burden on the voter significant enough to frustrate the voter’s ability to vote,” McVay wrote in a letter that was sent Nov. 9 and released publicly on Tuesday. The letter was sent to U.S. Attorneys Christopher P. Canova of the Northern District of Florida, Maria Chapa Lopez of the Middle District of Florida and Ariana Fajardo Orshan in the Southern District of Florida.
The records released by DOS, which is part of Gov. Rick Scott’s administration, point the finger at the Florida Democratic Party. Political parties can get daily lists of people who had their mail-in ballots rejected. Political parties — or anyone else — can also get the publicly available cure affidavits and send them to voters who had a mail-in ballot rejected to encourage them to fix the ballots.
In an email chain released as part of the Department of State’s Tuesday document dump, Citrus County Supervisor of Elections Susan Gill last week told DOS officials that a voter who received one of the cure affidavits with the wrong date had also received a call from a number identified as the Tallahassee office of the Florida Democratic Party, an indication the party was reaching out about her vote by mail ballot.
“When I called it, it is the Democratic Party of Florida,” she said in a Nov. 8 email to DOS officials.
None call it fraud.
It sucks because a few counties full of scumbag transplants thwart the will of the rest of the state, so you get frustrated feeling like your vote doesn’t matter, so you give up and the scumbags win, eventually ruining a great state.
trshmnstrs friend went to help
Taking “waifu” to another level.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/12/national/japanese-man-marries-virtual-reality-singer-hatsune-miku-hologram#.W-yWbfZuLIV
I mean, does she have her own copy of Fisherman’s Wife?
“I would never judge you, Krieger-San”
“Biography On Literally a Nazi”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/11/11/intellectual-dark-web-quillette-claire-lehmann-221917
FTA:
“Noxious hatred,” and in particular misogyny, is rife in the comments on Hill’s article; the phrase “vaginal privilege” makes an appearance, as do predictable tirades against “whiny” feminists. Lehmann says she regrets not moderating those comments but that she isn’t worried about reasonable arguments on Quillette’s website being hijacked by unreasonable people. “We’ve become a place where people who don’t fit perfectly into a little box or a label can feel at home and not under pressure to identify with one tribe or another,” she says. I was curious, though, if there were certain political positions Lehmann would disavow, either personally or as an editor. Lehmann says that because she is an atheist, she feels alienated from the Christian right. “I would identify with the left if they were a little more old-school in their advocacy for workers,” she allowed, “but I’m not too bothered to be aligned with a political movement.”
But, I pressed, is she worried about extremists using Quillette articles about inflammatory matters like race and gender to validate their views? “We don’t want to be considered provocateurs,” she said. “We never publish anything about Milo Yiannopoulos”—the British polemicist formerly of Breitbart—“and we never defended him even though I would agree with him on free speech issues. We never respected his methods of causing outrage for the sake of it.” She did say that she wouldn’t want Quillette to be associated with “anything like ethno-nationalism” or “racist, bigoted viewpoints.” Ultimately, Lehmann says she can’t take responsibility for how posts will be interpreted. “If we are constantly inhibiting ourselves because we’re worried about people misusing our work,” she says, “that presents its own ethical problem and leads to a corrosion of honesty.””
That was fun. I just pulled the starter off my truck, because it seems to be laying down. judging by the look of it, it would not surprise me if it’s the starter the truck left the factory with. It weighs about forty pounds.
*I got a weather window, and I’d much rather do this job now, indoors, than in February, out in the driveway. If it’s really the battery, I won’t shed any tears. Batteries are easier to change in the snow.
But, I pressed, is she worried about extremists using Quillette articles about inflammatory matters like race and gender to validate their views?
Great. More of that ass backwards “Language creates the world” idiocy.
“Language creates the world” idiocy.
It’s one of the major tenets of the modern left, though, isn’t it? They think that reality is a function of perception, rather than, properly, vice versa.
The age old Plato v. Aristotle argument
Aristotle was right. Plato was wrong. And if a tree falls in the forest and nobody’s there to hear it, it still makes a sound.
“Aristotle was right.”
An obvious fact that philosophers have long tried to disprove since the Enlightenment.
How would you know? Do you know if the cat will be alive or dead before you open the box?
No, only because I don’t know what universe I’m in before I check. I may be in the universe where the cat is alive or I may be in the universe where the cat is dead.
Many-worlds/Everett is a cop out!
How would you know?
Because we have enough evidence to know that a falling tree creates a series of compressions and rarefactions in the surrounding air that would be interpreted by the human ear as sound.
that would be interpreted by the human ear as sound.
But there’s no human ear present. Are the compressions the sound or is the interpretation the sound?
What I’m getting at is that despite the empirical evidence you cite, the assumption you make still enters the realm of rationalism. A strict empiricist would say that without an observer, you can only hypothesize about what would likely happen, but you can never say you know what will happen. Thus, we can’t solve the paradox without taking something from Plato’s rationalist pile.
Of course this is naval gazing, but I taught my students about black swans this morning.
Are the compressions the sound or is the interpretation the sound?
I’d suggest the former. If I’m in a room with a deaf person, the sounds I’m hearing exist. He or she is simply not able to hear them. Otherwise, you have to work from the assumption that there is no thing as objective truth. And then you find yourself in a Humpty Dumpty universe where any discussion is pointless.
Again, like Gadfly, this is a statement of metaphysics and not epistemology. Two people can be realists (as opposed to idealists) and still differ on how we know what we know.
Otherwise, you have to work from the assumption that there is no thing as objective truth.
I don’t know if that’s true in this case. Although I suppose at that point you’re getting into the muddiness of what “sound” means and whether or not “sound” is the pressure wave or the experience of it. Not hearing it doesn’t mean there isn’t a measurable pressure wave traveling through the air, but to get back to your deaf person, even if they feel rumbled by a pressure wave do we interpret that as “hearing the sound”?
If the rainbow trout never gets to the ocean can it be a steelhead?
+1 mad pain and Martian pain.
Y’all are full of shit. When a tree falls in the forest there is always someone there to hear it. Always, without exception
There is some merit to that. Some people posit God, as omniscient observer, to be the answer to the uncertainty principle.
Or bugs. Bugs are everywhere
How would you know?
Whether you know it or not, it still works that way. Most people don’t know economics, but that doesn’t mean it stops working the way it does.
Ok, but that’s metaphysics, not epistemology. If you start out with Aristotle rulez! Plato drools, you don’t get to use inductive reasoning.
This tweet by The Orange One is a hot mess but the last sentence warms my heart:
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1062311785787744256
Fuckin-a, if they can afford their supranational army they don’t need NATO or our money (which they don’t need anyway but it’s a good excuse for us to get out).
Is this the part where we all pretend as if this idea floated by Macron and Merkel is realistic and totally not just bullshit?
Alina Putina
@realDonaldTrump
Idiot President I think you may find it was Russia not USA who won WW2 for the allies and you would do well to remember that …Go Yandex how many Russians died fighting on the eatern flank and it was Russia who took berlin single handedly
We’ve gone from “Russia is evilz and gave us literally Hitler” to “Actually, Russia saved the free world, stupid literally Hitler”
All those Russians that died at Normandy will never be forgotten.
She is right. The Soviet Union was by far the main force in defeating Germany, the Western allies played an important supporting role.
The Russians wouldn’t have liberated France though
I can easily imagine socialist France.
The Soviets would have done to France what they did to Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia….
Something like 70 percent of German military casualties were from the eastern front if I recall correctly so you’re right, she has a point.
That important role being the supply of all necessary equipment, right? Russia has always historically had an endless supply of warm bodies to throw at armed conflict but little of anything else.
Russia saved Europe during WWII by secretly negotiating an alliance with Germany; coordinating an invasion of Poland with the Germans; convincing the Germans to try and capture political targets during their invasion of the Soviet Union rather than oil reserves, and then accepting massive amounts of weaponry and funds by the US to help drive the Germans from the East.
Our heroes
“and then accepting massive amounts of weaponry and funds by the US to help drive the Germans from the East.”
This.
Russia’s contribution to defeating Germany does go unappreciated in the US, but if we had not gotten involved, there’s a good chance the Red Army would not have stopped in Germany, which would not have been good for Western Europe.
Hm, I think there is a not insignificant chance that without American involvement the Reds lose to Hitler.
This. Yes, the Russians did contribute a lot in terms of fighting. No one is denying that. But, absent U.S. equipment and materiale, they’d have gotten the defeat they deserved for conspiring with the Nazis to carve up Europe in the first place.
There is absolutely no way the Soviets would have been able to move anywhere past Belarus without Lend-Lease. They manufactured T34s in quantity, but things like trucks, airplanes, locomotives, aka the necessary equipment to project power eluded them.
Shit, the US Army operated their motor maintenance for them. Soviet troops could drive, but when the truck died they would just leave it at the side of the road.
The Soviets fought with incredible bravery and tenacity, and they had their fair share of good strategists and tacticians, but modern war is about logistics, and the Soviet state, being a communist shithole, was unable to fight and win one without the American economy supplying them.
If we had not gotten involved there is a good chance that the Red Army would have been stopped in Poland. The two front war is what doomed Germany, as it did during World War I.
And remember, without the US there wouldn’t have been any “two front” war in WWII. The British were on their knees and the French were thoroughly defeated by the time the US entered the conflict. The British survived due to the US “lend lease” policy before we entered the conflict.
The USSR benefited substantially from the lend lease as well. They received massive amounts of American equipment.
The British survived due to the US “lend lease” policy before we entered the conflict.
But, the same applies to the Soviets.
This raises the interesting (if armchair) counterfactual of what would have happened if D-Day failed. The Germans would have transferred a lot of forces to the east. They would have slowed down the Soviets even further. With no prospect of a “second” front (in reality a third or fourth front), is it conceivable Stalin might have asked for an armistice and the status quo ante bellum? Maybe.
Related is your broader point of US involvement. Without the US, it’s very unlikely the UK could have launched an invasion of Europe. Hitler would have kept more forces in the east and maybe forced Stalin to the negotiating table.
All that said, once the Nazis invaded the USSR, it’s impossible to see any scenario by which they win the war even if their are a few counterfactuals that suggest stalemate.
One forgotten factor is Italy – aiding the allies. They invaded Greece from Albania, and then promptly got their asses handed to them by the Greeks. Mussolini had to beg Hitler for help, and the Russian invasion was put back several weeks. If that doesn’t happen, Germany might have taken Moscow before the winter hit. If that happens , it’s a different war along that front. Russia could have moved a lot of machinery out of Moscow, but they couldn’t have moved all of it. And Moscow at the time had a huge percentage of Russian industry.
RE: Failure of D-Day
I don’t think so. By then Isn’t Italy about wrapped up? (Allies had just taken Rome) Plus, I think The Eastern front for Germany was doomed by then anyway.
My understanding is that the Germans were pretty much done when they failed to take the oil fields in the Caucuses in ‘41 ‘42 and from then on it was just a matter of time.
The only chance the Nazis had with the invasion of the Soviet Union was to turn Russians against their Communist rulers. It didn’t happen because the Nazis considered Slavs subhuman and intended to eliminate a large part of them in order to clear space for Lebensraum. The main goal of the invasion was in direct contradiction to the only way it could succeed.
They killed as many of their own people as did the Germans and turned into even more of a communist hellhole after the war, but sure.
The US had no major role in the war despite fighting on multiple fronts/theaters and keeping the armies of the allies supplied and fed. Fuck. Off.
This is a good point. The Soviets defeated the Germans (if we want to accept that simplistic narrative) only to enslave half of Europe once again, but under a new TOP MAN
Yes, someone around here pointed out the last time this discussion came up that there were four aggressors in WW2, and only three of them lost.
Germany, Bulgaria and The Mufti of Jerusalem?
Italy barely lost really.
My buddy’s father was in the U.S. Navy and was escorting a convoy to Murmansk when the Japs bombed Pearl Harbor. So U.S. supplies to the Soviet Union began before the U.S. entered the war.
Damnit JS, I can dream can’t I?
I fully support Europe not living off the American taxpayer.
The comments are hilarious.
I thought that out of all of them, FNC would understand that this is not a 1A issue.
Maybe somebody at FOX has read the Iron Laws. Trump won’t be President forever.
Sean Hannity doesn’t read. But, he does know karate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fkdv9g5aFk
Human Rights Activist Tommy Robinson Denied Visa to Speak to US Lawmakers in Washington DC
I would love to know who denied him the visa and if the British government asked that he be denied. He could just fly to Mexico and jump a fence. I’m told that’s perfectly fine.
Technically he’s a convicted criminal so it’s not surprising but, yeah, it’s ridiculous.
Republicans pick wimpy moderate McCarthy as Minority Leader because they love losing so much.
Money Quote:
UH, obviously you want the most unreasonable motherfucker in opposition (so long as he can sound reasonable on national TV). Not go-along to get-along ‘moderate’.
Team Blue does everything in their authority (and not in their authority…) to get what they want. They play dirty AF. Team Red should have learned this lesson by now. I think they are simply not serious about actual conservatism, let alone anything resembling small government.
The House Republicans are some of the most pathetic wusses on the face of the planet and they deserve to lose. The Senate Republicans seem to be miles better for some reason and can at least sometimes find their spine.
Amazing that they cannot look back at Denis Hastert, John Boehner, and Paul Ryan – and think “why not try a non-Rino for once?” They wonder why conservatives can’t be bothered to vote for them – they fucking want to be the minority party.
Seen in the recent Atlantic article about young people having less sex these days:
I may be immature, but in my opinion this is far from an “unfortunate” portmanteau.
This one factoid explains so much about the world of today.
This one factoid explains so much about the world of today.
From Wikipedia:
Factoid has evolved to define itself. Which is a fun…factoid!
Indeed it is. Language is at times a funny thing. My favorite example of this is that “ravel” has drifted to mean the same thing as “unravel”, despite the negative prefix being right there in the word.
“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
If it’s OK by Shakespearenit’s fine by me.
anything to reduce the successes of Norman Mailer is a good thing.
Zimbardo is the same psychologist that milked the faked Stanford Prison Experiment for 35 years. Just about anything that charlatan says can be discarded out of hand.
Be that as it may, I’d say “procrasturbation” is a positive contribution to the lexicon, so he’s done at least one thing right in my book.
If Republicans lose in these recounts because of fraud a) what is the GOP good for if they won’t fight and b) how can they get away with it if they break the law?
Grow a pair FFS.
Who says their good for anything? Kevin McCarthy was just elected House Minority Leader – the most coveted title in the party.
Good or bad choice?
Terrible, he’s a typical country club Republican from the John Boehner mold.
Paypal booted BitChute.
ACADEMIC FREEDOM!
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/13/philosophers-will-launch-interdisciplinary-journal-allows-authors-publish-under#.W-rUAZ-Ch3o.twitter
How many pseudonyms allowed per author?
On the one hand, I see what they are trying to do. But on the other hand, why would the early career, nontenured academic publish anonymously/pseudonymously? They won’t be able to put in on their CVs, which, will, in turn, lead to tenure protections. As Singer mentions, the tenured, well-accomplished folks won’t be publishing anonymously, so what’s the point?
I call ‘Supersmarttittyfucker’!
Because sometimes you just have to say that the king has donkey ears, and there might be others who want to hear it?
Yes…but that’s what blogs are for, no?
I can see the appeal of some kind of peer review and general back-and-forth in the letters column where you have some faith that you’re not arguing with just any asshole, but an asshole who at least has the basic grounding in your field.
Such animals exist. I was thinking about this place in particular.
I have to admit I didn’t see that coming.
What’s the fascination with virgins? IMO, virgins are lousy in bed.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7733272/virgin-bride-for-sale-facebook/
“500 cows, three cars and £7,500”
Righteous bucks…
Damn, thats a good price (for the seller). Of course they blur the face so, who knows?
And they kick some people off for icky political opinions.
Forest management may not have an impact on the number of fires but it most definitely has an impact on the size and severity of fires. The Forest Service has finally figured that out but the tree huggers still sue everyone in sight to prevent thinning. Liberal politicians don’t fight back.
The vast majority of fires on that map occurred over the summer. They are consider still “active” until the rain and snow starts falling.
Oops. Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence.
I guess no presidential run? Or did he seal his reputation as a fighter?
I was just reading that too. I cant imagine he is genuinely THAT stupid.
Stinks of theatrics and a media grab.
Hi, do you know who Michael Avenatti is?
I beg your pardon, but what’s a Venatti?
Avenatti, a man so worthless he got schooled by Robby Soave worse than Rolling Stone
Ouch. I stand corrected. And that was yet another reminder why I dont do the twatters.
*clicks link, starts reading replies*
You’ve tricked me for the last time JB!
*shakes fist impotently in the air*
You should know that any of my links are either going to be cutesy moe anime shit or something that’s going to piss you off. Or both, if you dislike the cutesy stuff.
When Robby Soave doesn’t find your claims “credible”…
Dayum. Whose pair did he borrow before writing that?
We’re supposed to believe her without question, right? I mean, to even challenge her account of things is tantamount to endorsing domestic abuse.
Only if it’s a near-four decades old accusation uncorroborated by anyone else she names, with significant holes, miscues, and outright fabrications in her recollection.
A perfect capstone to an illustrious career.
Stormy has a sad.
Welp, there goes my “he’s Trump’s mole” theory.
*Nelson laugh*
I told the commentariat that we skin-suited him a year ago.
All you motherfuckers need Jesus, or at least David Glantz’s lecture on myths and realities of Eastern Front. Just over an hour plus Q&A, awful video but the man has been doing that shit for thirty-odd years and it shows.
All you motherfuckers need Jesus
Not today, Satan!
What if Pan Zagloba was a Christian?
I like this fellow. He doesn’t have the credentials but he does manage to keep it interesting:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9mAzZEZ3BZs
I found TIK this year and damn, the man really tries. His “Battlestorm” series is at this point History Channel-quality, and I don’t mean “Ancient Aliens” stuff.
Also, he had two videos on why Nazis are Socialists, which I always appreciate .
Yeah, he’s good. This guy is good as well but he tends to talk more about tactics and equipment:
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA
I read Beevor’s book on Stalingrad this year. Man, I thought I had a decent understanding of how awful it was but I was schooled.
Also, have been reading the third book in Evans’s trilogy and he makes a persuasive case that Stalingrad changed things substantially on the German home front.
Les Bienveillantes by Jonathan Littell is good at depicting what happened to the Germans in Stalingrad and how the catastrophe was received back in Germany. Here’s the English translation.
Beevor’s book is OK but it’s very shallow and used out of date information even at the time (more than 20 years ago).
And here are bigger horrors than he ever writes about. Even in his Berlin book.
I love the three books by Michael K Jones.
“The Retrat” is about 1941 invasion and retreat from Moscow. If you think Stalingrad was bad, of 6 million Soviet POWs, Jones claims about half died by the end of the year. Disease, cold and starvations, since Germans basically dumped them in fields surrounded by barbed wire, shot anyone who tried to feed them and then, well, shrugged and mostly left them to their own devices.
“Stalingrad” is in a way a response to Beevor, and presents the completely different picture of the battle than usual. He not only accessed the archives, he went and interviewed the Red Army veterans who fought there to get their perspective on the battle. That stupid opening scene in Enemy at the Gates, with boats crossing? It turns out it’s based on real event – and as presented here, it was so outrageous that I’d refuse a movie that presented it.
And, in case you thought this is as bad as he gets, his third book is “Total War” about 1943 onward. Because there are more horrors that await. Bits about Red Army troops discovering death camps in Poland, the testimony of the then-alive veterans are not only interesting, they were more or less buried after the war. And he doesn’t shy from crimes committed by Red Army troops in Germany (particularly East Prussia, where Soviet command genuinely feared that they lost control over their troops and had to reassert the discipline).
Yet unlike Beevor, I never got the feeling Jones sensationalized the events, and he’s reasonably even-handed to both German and Soviet soldiers.
Thanks!
Congratulations!
Y’all Motherfuckers Need Jesus! – The Goddamned Gallows
yY’all are full of shit. When a tree falls in the forest there is always someone there to hear it. Always, without exception
Go home, Suthen. You’re drunk.
Lucky!
I think I’m going to get a little drunk tonight. Shitty work week so far.
I’m going to get a little drunk tonight.
Does Amazon deliver little drunks or do you still have to go out to a bar to pick one up?
“My friends got my a sweater for my birthday. I’d have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but a sweater’s okay.”
I’ll just leave this here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUNu3S6z7Qg
I thought it was going to be hot fuzz
I’d rather like to get a little drunk. Sadly, I always opt to get a lot drunk.
I’m close. Drank my last bit of Tullamore Dew. Now working on Powers.
Noyce
That is strangely, hypnotic…
Seems relevant: https://www.shirtpunch.com/whatever-a-spider-can?mc_cid=980d394d33&mc_eid=fc8cc5b7cd
Cute
Creepy porn lawyer arrested
Law enforcement officials have reportedly arrested attorney Michael Avenatti for felony domestic violence after his estranged wife filed a police report Tuesday over an incident that left her face “swollen and bruised.”
Sources told TMZ that “the alleged incident occurred Tuesday, but there was a confrontation Wednesday between the two at an exclusive apartment building in the Century City area of L.A.”
The woman reportedly ran out of the apartment building today, screaming on her cell phone, “I can’t believe you did this to me. I’m going to get a restraining order against you.”
“We’re told security brought her inside the building, took her upstairs and Michael showed up 5 minutes later, running into the building,” TMZ reported.
Avenatti later reportedly screamed, “She hit me first,” adding, “This is bulls***, this is f***ing bulls***.”
Heh.
Karma’s a bitch.
And the name of the prostitute he normally pays to beat up. Probably.
Apparently not his wife – they’re separated, and she’s said it wasn’t her — so it’s some other woman. maybe, if it’s not some schemer. But at least LAPD confirmed the arrest, so that part’s not bullshit.
Believe the victim… believe all women….
Well, except this one time. This one time it is bullshit.
As it turns out, the man — Manuel Granados — is on the Board of Directors for the Women’s Initiative
There are three hens on the local cable news channel right now totally shocked that thousands of public housing residents are without heat tonight. “The city needs a plan to solve this.”
I assume getting rid of public housing is not their proposed solution?
You win!
Whoa – now they’ve got Nicole Gelinas on talking about the fleecing we’re gonna get thanks to Amazon. How’d she get in the door?!
Been stuck in a aluminum tube all day. Come out to find a H&H episode. Makes up for only having one drink.
Waiting for fried chicken before driving to Paducah. Hitting up a quilt museum tomorrow.
Also, chubby Trisha Yearwood- still wood.
A
Quilt
Museum
?
Dude…
?
With the wifey.
I will keep my eyes out for you in a future link here on Glibs.
“Hitting up a quilt museum tomorrow.”
…
The EU wants to be an empire, an “empire of peace”.
German empires with an army. As my favorite line from the Avengers movie puts it: “Historically, not awesome”
I bet Poland and Hungary are thrilled by this latest interest in militarism.
Goal one for Thanksgiving is done. Two beers kegged up and hooked up to CO2 to carb up in time for Thanksgiving. Next goal is Friday… completing grocery shopping.
Some of your home brew?
Yep, a basic APA (threw the recipe together, as my standard would be a Saison, which my sister doesn’t like), and an English Mild. The APA is ~5.5%, and the Mild ~3.5%. Both should work well with the food.
Nice:)
I’m tee shirt shopping.
This one seems appropriate for this crowd – https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/1647562-dungeons-and-dragons-shirt-d20-roll-funny
One of my favorite DnD jokes right there.
I like.