Sorry about the weekend folks, all of our great technicians were working on fixing all the issues our site had over the weekend. We tried yelling at it, we tried romancing it, we tried turning it off and on and nothing seemed to work. So we relaxed and allowed our website host to fix it and all got nicely hammered.
This should satisfy the Star Trek nerds for the day.
Birthday today? Congrats, you share it with 20th President of the US, James Garfield, Larry King, founder of the enemy of the people, Ted Turner, Calvin Klein, mediocre actress, Meg Ryan, talented actress, Jodie Foster, and nerd’s actress, Terry Farrell.
Try me with cyanide!
Yesterday was the 40 year anniversary of drinking the Flavor Aid.
After another Broward County election shitshow, Brenda Snipes submitted her resignation.
Hollywood actors pretend to be relevant. I mean seriously, the boycotting a whole state thing is beyond laughable. And what exactly do they think the Georgian government is going to do? Disobey their own laws and have a whole new election until the person they want to win, wins. The modern left lost the little remainder of their batshit minds.
Chipotle may have set themselves up for another wrongful termination lawsuit.
New York Times, still sucking the dicks of communist totalitarian states.
The bus driver who saved the lives of 22 children and their teacher.
That’s all I got for now, this should give you a nice kick in the ass to get you moving for the day.
The Bears win and you give us a picture of Dave Wannstedt???
Uffda. The Bears didn’t win. You just played the Vikings.
Lol. I shut it off at halftime and went to bed. A solid night’s sleep and zero fucks given.
I didn’t even make it to halftime. It was the classic “we seem like the better team, but we keep fucking up somehow. Yeah we are going to lose”
And we never beat the Bears in Chicago. That was always one where you knew Cutler would have a monster game.
On the Viqueen’s second drive that got them to about the 15 yard-line, I said to myself “this is where they turn it over and damn, on the very next play, they did just that! They never disappoint.
I never even turned the game on. Fucking Vikings.
He should have linked to the Alex Smith video.
I am crying… And it happened to the day that Theismann had Lawrence Taylor break his leg. Oh, the pain of being a Skins fan.
He?
Are you saying that Sloopy is married to Tulpa?
Who cares about the Bears, the most unlikely thing happened and the Broncos won which should be top news everywhere.
No, the most unlikely thing was the Giants scoring 38 points, the first time they’ve cracked the 30 mark in two years.
They are no longer playing for anything, so suddenly they are playing fine..
A successful boycott of Georgia means CNN goes out of business, right?
Hollywood actors pretend to be relevant.
Georgia will certainly miss the company of all those people who would only visit Georgia if that’s where their plane crashed.
Well if they are flying Delta from LAX to Denver they would have to change planes in Atlanta.
For real???
>>And what exactly do they think the Georgian government is going to do?
I’m sure the state of Georgia is afraid of losing that pittance of a tourist dollars. “Goodthink” people *don’t go down south anyways.
*actually when we rented a house on the coast of SC, most of the owners were from New York, Jersey, etc
There’s actually a lot of film and tv work going on in the state now. By the time all the crony tax breaks are considered, I have no idea how much it adds to the bottom line, but it’s not nothing.
Less than nothing then?
All good lefties know “The South” is an utterly deplorable shit hole that no good right-thinker should ever be in. It’s all just racists and Deliverance.
I have an old HS friend who really does believe this – and that he’ll get beaten up at the local small town bars because he is an outsider. When I tell him that real life isn’t like the movies and that crime, etc is lower in small towns, and I never had an issue with any of the podunk towns I’ve visited, he still doesn’t believe me.
The safe thing to do is to move there in sufficient numbers and vote to make it more like Maryland.
Worked for virginia
?
It’s pretty much what my ol’ college lefties who grew up in the South as well thought as well. I believe you though, been through some small towns myself and lived in the South with no problems the last 22 or so years there. I hear ya, man.
shreek believes it too
Don’t challenge the narrative or I might have to rethink my superiority!
>>We tried yelling at it, we tried romancing it, we tried turning it off and on and nothing seemed to work.
STEVE SMITH, COMP-U-TER TECHN-IC-IAN, ALWAYS AVAILABLE
“we tried turning it off and on”
Do you think they actually tried the power switch… or given the context…
Why Flavor Aid, anyway? Was it cheaper? Did Jones cheap out on his suicide punch? What a prick.
Maybe that’s all that was available in Guyana?
One thing about cult leaders is they loooooove spending their money on their followers.
/sarc
New York Times, still sucking the dicks of communist totalitarian states.
I have seen the future, and it works!
The people of Tijuana not thrilled to have a “caravan” of Central American bums land in their town. The Mexican government could have stopped this circus at any point if the bribes hadn’t been so sweet.
While there is no direct parallel, I want to point out how I find it funny how the most woke social justice types always seem to be for things they know will never impact them directly. As soon as it impacts them they suddenly lose their SJW wokeness.
I’m livid.
I just got back from 2 weeks, and what do i find in my email? A letter from my HR Manager saying i irresponsibly missed a training. Backstory: I said i was willing to participate in CPR Training, but needed more details. They signed me up. I told them i was going to be gone (i had already scheduled my outage). Now i get back and it’s my fault i missed because the way i scheduled my outage didn’t preclude others from inviting me to meetings.
I’m pissed beyond all get up, and am seriously considering giving them the middle finger and quitting today. As it stands if i send my draft response showing them the email and telling them that i take exception to being characterized as irresponsible, i will be fired anyway.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t
I too am CPR trained and responsible for it in my department. I do not remember anything from, the training except you need to crack some ribs to show you tried.
When you can’t be aggressive, be passive-aggressive.
What a mess, sorry they’re treating you like crap for their mess up.
Ignore it. No sense in quitting. Spend a few hours a day on a paid job search.
Quitting is very satisfying… for about a day.
^THIS^
The terrible fact is that they will continue on in their own inept way. They won’t shutter the doors just because you left. So leaving without a new better job does nothing except give you a few moments of joy.
This is of course the Responsible thing to do… but damn i take exception to being told i’m irresponsible. It’s like the one thing i actually try to be…
Not giving a fuck (about anything other than doing the job) is waaaaaaay more satisfying than quitting.
You’re not being responsible, you’re being quietly subversive. Good luck!
I’m aligned with Tundra – ignore is the best option. If a response is important to you, simply state that you were out-of-office for a scheduled/approved absence.
Do you believe you were irresponsible? Will there be consequences (lack of promotion or pay bump)? If not, why give two fucks? And if there are consequences, FIRST find a job so your ability to pay doesn’t get impacted, THEN tell them to fuck off…
It’s HR. Tell your actual boss and see if they care. Unless of course you work for HR, in which case you should just kill yourself now (or quit).
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, work in HR.
This is all your fault for volunteering yourself for CPR classes in the first place. Did you get more money for it? You do realize that you do the actual chest compression practice on a plastic dummy and not the cute gal in the next cube over (with the huge bazooms)?
Seriously. I was the only person in my department to volunteer, and no i didn’t get any extra money. Teach me to try to be a damned team player.
Fuck, my last place had all sorts of volunteer opportunities for that kind of shit. They never understood why I wouldn’t want to be part of the “Fun Committee”, the “Wellness Committee”, or any of the myriad planning committees. So, you want me to take extra time out of my day to help with bullshit, which will neither increase my pay nor help me get a promotion? That’s a hard pass.
The only time I ever regretted not letting myself be roped into one of those committees was when we were moving our office and I was asked to be on the committee that would decide what cube furniture we would buy for the new space.
I had no idea how much cube walls and desks cost. Or that manufacturers of that shit would fly the committee out to see their plant (read: spend a day there and a night drinking like crazy). I missed some fun parties, but on the other hand, I didn’t have to think about what a scam cube shit is.
The office move I was a part of had it’s own special mess ups. The person in charge of it all supposedly hired full desk movers, who were supposed to carefully pack up every cube, transport it to the new office, and put the computers, monitors, and phones back in working condition. Instead, they dropped boxes of stuff at some desks, and left boxes of monitors, thin clients, and phones in front of the whole area. So the three of us in IT who were there just to verify fax lines, and deal with issues had to reassemble all of the systems. The person in charge of the move tried to yell at us when after being there for 6 hours, we went to get some food while waiting for more boxes to be dropped off.
Not addressing Leon’s problems with HR, but in general praise of work-provided CPR class: For me one of the attractive things about CPR training was that I got to fuck off work for an entire day like 3X a year and get paid for it. And if you ever save the life of a coworker or customer you’re untouchable. You never know when you might need those skills in your personal life.
Tell them you’ve been having really bad heartburn and occasional pains in your left arm, so you decided to take a few days off to rest.
That NYT article is so inane that it has to be paid-for propaganda (or possibly written by interns). The concept of convergence is pretty well established at this point.
Come on, China’s awesome: 24/7 surveillance, rampant political corruption on a scale that would make the Clintons blush, a social credit score that impacts one’s ability to participate in society, mobile execution bans and organ harvesting. What’s not to like?
Proggie heaven.. The elite get to finally tell the serfs how to be good drones!
It also ignores the impending economic collapse in China where there will be some actual starvation.
Article is bookmarked for later reference.
Did you see those sweet ass charts?!? That is undeniable math and science coming together there.
Yeah, science bitch
NYT: “A communist run country that is dirt poor because of prior communism is becoming considerably less dirt poor because they are becoming somewhat more capitalist, thus proving that communism is better than capitalism.”
AKA, the “third way” argument.
You mean neo-fascism?
The Last Podcast on the Left’s 4-parter on Jim Jones is fantastic.
Fun fact–I can’t find it now but there was a map of showing each state’s highest body-count killer. Indiana had Jim Jones and his 909 killed was the highest. Or at least I think it was.
My show on Friday went well with the violinist. I managed to drum at a very reasonable volume, which is difficult for me to do. Captain Crescendo is my name and me hit drum hard. A bunch of us went up to Seoul for the weekend. Girlfriend got drunk and with the first day of her period, she devolved into an actual crazy person yelling at me and acting like a child. She has since enthusiastically apologized in multiple ways. IYKWIMAITTYD.
Six more weeks at work and likely nine total left in Korea. Onwards.
*insert Animal gif*
Is the Pope Catholic? Hard to image somebody accidentally that much damage to the faith in the U.S.
Communists have never liked religion.
Actually they love religion, but like all fanatic cults, they only have room for their own religion: marxism. Heretics and people peddling other religions where the state is not the benevolent all powerful god, all must be dealt with harshly. For the cause, of course.
Religious tests for any high office are anathema to any thinking person. We’ve got our eye on the atheist pastor in Canada for the next Pope.
How many popes do you need?
Need? Stop with that commie thinking. Get with decadent western capitalist thinking. “How many popes do you want?” should have been your question.
As long as they are diverse. We can’t keep giving it to these Catholic Men
“We tried yelling at it, we tried romancing it, we tried turning it off and on and nothing seemed to work.”
You didn’t check the thermostat, did you?
I was gonna mention that too.
Or plying it with liqour:)
You can’t just go straight at the thermostat, like some bumbling teen-ager!
A little wine, some candles…
Yeah, baby, hmmm
I’ve been watching this show: The Road from Christ to Constantine, which is an interesting documentary, even to a non-religious person such as myself.
It certainly does give a better overview of early Christianity, it’s internal squabbling, and persecution from various religious and political factions. Also how it morphed from a offshoot/splinter of Judaism to its own religion. And the sites were Paul and Peter were executed, which seemed to be par for the course for the early apostles. Anyhoo – a better overview than I ever got in Sunday school and some admiration for what the early Christians went through.
All but John, IIRC.
you do, recall correctly.
I studied a lot of that stuff years ago. This is an interesting book that goes through a lot of that history.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UV8ZZ8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_mES8BbEZNKAX9
I’ve added this to my watch list, Lord H. One of the last set of documentaries you recommended — Simon Schama’s “History of England” series — was very fascinating. This one looks up my alley, too, as my fascination with religious history has been piqued recently by Jordan Peterson’s biblical series.
all got nicely hammered.
I assumed it was because someone was drunk at the proverbial wheel.
Fake psychiatrist prompts UK investigation of 3,000 foreign doctors
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/19/health/fake-psychiatrist-investigation-scli-gbr-intl/index.html
Zholia Alemi was jailed for fraud in October after she changed an elderly client’s will to make herself a beneficiary.
Zholia Alemi was jailed for fraud in October after she changed an elderly client’s will to make herself a beneficiary.
Everybody knows that you need to pass the bar first before doing that.
My name is Ingnio Montoya. You ate my burrito at Chipotle. Prepare to die.
From dysentery?
Good morning, Banjos!
Thank you for the great musical selection!
Monday morning punk is the best kind of punk.
Bonus Monday morning track.
This song is the same age as Evan. Ponder that on the tree of woe…
Why am I being used as a metric for determining time?!
Why not? Of course, an Evan ago, I was in grade school.
I’m only a 1/2 an evan years old.
“Too old.”
~OMWC
Skimming through the links, I read that as “Evan would go” (like “Eddie would go”)
“Evan would go” could be a new Glib euphemism.
The French react appropriately to higher taxes.
those are the bad kind of higher taxes. The good ones are those on the rich (defined as richer than I am or will be in the near future)
It seems like having riots every day over everything would get old after a while. I cant remember a time when the french weren’t revolting over something or other.
They stink on ice.
Me neither.
I think of that as part of the normal operating model for a socialist state. How else are you going to get what you’re due?
France sucks.
/fin
How much impromptu, behind-the-scenes IT work did the Russians and Chinese do for the Clintons, you figure? I bet she didn’t have a server outage in all the years she ran it.
Progressive gets off on tricking old people.
meh… if it works
“Old people are so dumb and gullible. Oh shit, the SPLC just sent me another email, there’s a new right wing Nazi extremist group, better send them more money!”
““Nothing on this page is real,” read one of the 14 disclaimers on Blair’s site, and yet in the America of 2018 his stories had become real, reinforcing people’s biases, spreading onto Macedonian and Russian fake news sites, amassing an audience of as many 6 million visitors each month who thought his posts were factual.”
Oh noes, not the Macedonians.
Not to mention, I doubt every one of the 6 million visitors to whatever site believed his stories. There is no way of knowing that.
I love how NYT’s attempt to portray the Trumpalos as ignorant rubes manages to out the progressives as purveyors of fake news. Nice “own goal” there, NYT.
^This.
boycotting a whole state thing is beyond laughable.
Apparently Hollywood
activistsactors do not care for the plight of the middle class people working lower level jobs associated with the film productions.Ron Perlman is an asshole. Funny 5hing is I’m guessing most of that film money is concentrated in Atlanta which no doubt mostly voted for the Dem. Lol.
Yep.
I think the new gov should cancel all filming subsidies and tax breaks. Problem solved, for everyone.
Sorry about the weekend folks
No problemo, and welcome back, thanks for putting up our rant space. I hope the Tgiving post comes back. That looked great and the print to pdf tab is awesome.
Do low carb diets increase energy expenditure? Study review
https://mennohenselmans.com/effects-low-carbohydrate-diet-energy-expenditure/?fbclid=IwAR0QOr6hJHdav_VyTZA-Ze7oO8H8UOkNNwhVoQ4gOG-Y2TeLVL7DW2VQzFM
Sorry. That study doesn’t seem to take any special considerations for the Latino Community so I can’t take it seriously.
I wonder why nobody listens to Welch and his buddies when he insists that immigrants aren’t a drain on the taxpayers? Is it because us rubes are constantly bombarded with stories about how we need to build more social welfare programs for immigrants (with indoor playgounds) because Latinos are too dumb to recognize vegetables in the produce section?
Them darn Messikans are just too damn stupid to eat right! The white man’s new burden is to force feed the idiot black and brown people organic kale and wheatgrass.
Go split some wood.
Ban snowblowers and watch obesity rates plummet!
It’s almost like gym memberships, or, if you can’t afford even that minimal cost, pushups and situps and whatnot, don’t exist in Minnesota.
The government doesn’t need immigrants to create vast, soul sucking programs.
Stossel is really good.
I don’t deny that there might be secondary effects beyond the calorie is a calorie notion, but I suspect the this one trick quality distracts people from simple intake and exercise management.
98% of people would be the size of their grandparents if they ate and worked like their grandparents. In terms of public health, any distraction from this is unhelpful.
Why do you want to make people eat and work like their grandparents? That would be a miserable life. No fresh veggies in the winter. Only the basics that you canned yourself. Fresh fruit would only be available when it was in season. Your job would require hard physical labor that would age you prematurely.
I’m not saying that being morbidly obese is OK. But I also don’t think that the good old days were better because people were virtuous. They were skinny because they didn’t have the money or time to get fat as fuck. They sure wanted to though.
Mine wasn’t a screed against importing off-season food or against enjoying the choices and comforts of contemporary life, it was,strictly an observation in the narrow topic at hand: calorie type and balance.
Mind you, my idea does have disproportionate impact if you don’t enjoy the long growing seasons and have the epic food preservation skills my folk have.
Truly truly though my gripe is the shortcut philosophy most want. I have money in the bank
Ugh….and am strong because I don’t look for shortcuts: I work and save. I want more people to focus on the simple truths and live them.
Why would you work and save only to have the asshat that didn’t do any of that get a government handout from taxes they will make you pay for making the right choices? Remember that you rob the banks because that’s where the money is, and when you have a system that robs Peter to pay Paul, Peter is the guy doing the right things and thus has money you can steal.
Sorry, my original reply was longer and more meandering, when I cut it down it came out more negative than I meant.
I completely agree with your main point that the big problem is the idea that there is some “ancient Chinese secret” out there that will let you be skinny and eat like a pig without any negative side effects.
An interesting thought experiment for me is what will happen if/when scientists do come up with a way to block nutrient absorbtion via a pill. In effect a magic pill that does allow you to eat as much as you want, but only keep the calories you need to live. The rest would be shit out.
Think of the SJW campaigns that would start up to shame people. The new Puritans already are bitching about how much food we throw away. What happens when we eat food just for the taste/pleasure? Knowing that we will shit out thousands of calories?
I’ll be able to sell my shit to poor people?
We’ll just start calling them poop people.
I think overall diet is more important than exercise for purely reducing fat, but equally important for overall health,.
I’m always looking for new concrete methods and tools.
Until he falls over into the cement?
Then you just smooth the concrete over him?
Ezri Dax was hotter than Jadzia.
You’re dead to me.
hmmm… not sure about this one… she has a special look though
Saw Bohemian Rhapsody this weekend with Mr. Mojeaux. It was lovely.
I missed Glibs yesterday. Couldn’t post dick jokes during church.
Looks like a decent pic, but I liked Val Kilmer’s Morrison so…
Saw that. Liked it.
That said, I’m a Val Kilmer fan.
+1 Top Gun beach volleyball.
Ice Man. *teeth snap*
Peace loving Antifa.
https://billypenn.com/2018/11/17/jewish-man-mistakenly-identified-as-proud-boy-attacked-at-right-wing-rally-in-philadelphia/
To make a Nazi omelette one must break a few Jews
Relevant
“A 34-year-old Jewish man who attended Saturday’s “We The People” rally in Philadelphia said he was mistakenly identified as a member of the right-wing Proud Boys group and attacked by small group of counter-protesters. The altercation took place outside the National Museum of Jewish American History in the city’s Historic District.
Left-wing organizers in Philadelphia with knowledge of the attack have started a crowdfunding campaign to help the victim, they said.
In numerous videos shared by reporters, Zachary, whose last name Billy Penn is withholding,”
Crowdfunding for an anonymous victim?
So they know who did it but aren’t arresting him on a battery charge?
They thought he was one of those ‘bad’ people, so in that case assaulting him would have been legal.
Mammary Monday returns after a weekend dry spell because of the website problems.
http://archive.is/Cqwb9
15 wins by default due to porn. 26 is the winner in the amateur division.
12 and done.
5, 12, 43, 47.
I’m guessing 5 lives in Honolulu from the buildings in the background, which I eventually got around to noticing.
13 is a bunny boiler.
Life Lesson: Do not play touch football with young men between the ages of 18 and 21 when you are in your 50’s. Not only will your legs feel like they have been run over by a steam roller the next day, the damage to your ego will be even worse.
The low point was when the other old fart and I both managed to wipe out on cuts (due to frozen ground) on the same play. Getting back on your feet while a bunch of young louts are laughing themselves sick is almost too much to bear.
Absolutely horrible that the other 50 year-old and I knew more about how to play the game, but just couldn’t physically run with the knuckleheads. Now I have all week to look forward to the traditional Friday-after-T-giving game. My son is already taunting me about it.
Are you trying to hospitalize yourself?
Seriously, don’t try to compete, just play dirty.
I did play dirty. That only made me realize that my baby boy has become pretty strong and I can’t bully him as easily as I used to be able to.
The punk even used my trade mark “It is a Man’s game”* catchphrase when he was jamming me on the line.
*A legendary Gopher basketball player Trent Tucker used to say that all the time when he was announcing T-Woof games and someone would blatantly push off. I would then say that when pushing the kid around on the driveway hoop.
I say play touch football with women between the ages of 18 and 21
^^^This guy gets it.
“too old”
–OMWC
“Have you noticed that QB Pope Jimbo never goes on anything less than a snap count of 139?”
-18 year-old female center
Your spatial awareness is astounding, sir.
So 2/3 of an Evan old?
Yep. One more year until 50 and I have to verbally tell my legs to move when I want to go somewhere.
Imagine how the US women’s soccer team feels getting schooled by a boys HS team. No doubt the women know a shit ton more about playing soccer.
My friends and I used to do a tackle game (no pads) around Thanksgiving. It only lasted 3-4 years before it fizzled out (this in our early 20s). It was not fun waking up the next day.
Absolutely horrible that the other 50 year-old and I knew more about how to play the game, but just couldn’t physically run with the knuckleheads.
There’s a reason why old men are coaches, foremen, and generals while it is the young men who are athletes, linemen, and soldiers.
This is why I play baseball. A team full of geezers can beat a team full of young’uns because experience and teamwork can help overcome diminished skills in other areas.
You can play baseball while holding a beer.
Therefore, not really a sport.
That concrete guy is awesome.
This woman is some piece of work
“Sherrod Brown says the election was stolen. Do you agree that it was stolen and do you think that Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor-elect of Georgia?” Tapper asked.
“The law, as it stands, says that he received an adequate number of votes to become the governor of Georgia,” Abrams began. “And I acknowledge the law as it stands. I am a lawyer by training and I have taken the constitutional oath to uphold the law. But we know sometimes the law does not do what it should and something being legal does not make it right.”
Tapper tried again, asking, “Is he the legitimate governor-elect of Georgia?”
Abrams replied, “He is the person who won the adequate number of votes to become the governor.”
Pointing out the fact that she wasn’t actually answering the question, Tapper pressed one more time. “You’re not using the word legitimate. Is he the legitimate governor-elect of Georgia?”
“He is the legal governor of Georgia,” Abrams repeated. “Words have meaning. I spent my lifetime not only as an attorney but as a writer and I’m careful of the words I choose.”
“He won by the rules of the game but it is still a failure of democracy because I didn’t win.”
Either make a specific accusation or STFU
“but we know sometimes the law does not do what it should and something being legal does not make it right”
So in other words… The law didn’t guarentee me victory, and that’s wrong? Kinda creepy.
I haven’t been following this, why is it that this is such a travesty of justice?
Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio? Isn’t he the Democrat senator that heroically and sacrificially agreed to take in a family from the Caravan and asked that we compassionate Americans do likewise because it wouldn’t be Christian to compel us to take in deserving strangers?
Ask her if Trump is “legitimate”.
Trump is a bastard, but he’s our bastard.
“Almost every single person I’ve ever heard of with an AR-15 has been a mass murderer.”
https://twitter.com/ninaburleigh/status/1063817196961452038
So what does that make those with more than one? You know who else was worse than a mass murderer…
AR stands for mas murder in Aramaic
“Get on the right side of history”
You know who else had a quasi religious belief that they were the pinnacle of history?
“All of the headlines that I seek out telling me that AR-15s are mass-murder machines tell me that AR-15s are mass-murder machines! Checkmate gun nuts!”
I envy people this stupid. Their lives must be one big fucking hot air balloon ride.
I assume he has only “heard of” that which is in the news and does not not know any of the average people that own one.
The only people I’ve ever heard of with a grievance studies degree are power seeking little shitheads with a victim and superiority complex.
And Pauline Kael* couldn’t believe Nixon had won because nobody she knew had voted for him.
(*)Pauline Kael did not actually say this but the story has become part of the apocrypha of Twentieth-Century politics.
That’s been hilarious. She got ratioed to the extreme, and everyone that disagrees with her is a Russian bot.
“2/ What should interest everyone, whether you’re #2ADefenders or not, is why the Russians care. I’ll answer for you: A heavily armed and paranoid minority, a Trojan Horse, distrusting fellow Americans, saves them a lot of time, effort and defense money.”
Still with the Russians?
A heavily armed and paranoid minority…distrusting fellow Americans…
That’s an apt description of a government seeking to disarm its citizens.
A new study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology provides evidence that cannabidiol, a component of cannabis, can inhibit the motivation to consume methamphetamine in rats.
https://www.psypost.org/2018/11/study-high-doses-of-cbd-can-act-to-reduce-methamphetamine-consumption-in-rodents-52602
So if you have a problem with rats eating your meth stash , try some cannabidiol
I’ve been vaping CBD oil all day, and the rats are still eating my meth stash. Now what?
Didn’t that happen in Detroit in 2016?
Occluded Cotex strikes again!
“If we work our butts off to make sure that we take back all three chambers of Congress — uh, rather, all three chambers of government: the presidency, the Senate, and the House,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Saturday while on a call with Justice Democrats.
The three branches, not chambers, of the U.S. government, are the executive, legislative, and judicial.
“Maybe instead of Republicans drooling over every minute of footage of me in slow-mo, waiting to chop up word slips that I correct in real-tomd [sic], they actually step up enough to make the argument they want to make: that they don’t believe people deserve a right to healthcare.”
Ocasio-Cortez urged people to join Justice Democrats’ #OurTime campaign on Saturday to help them identify Democratic House incumbents that are “demographically and ideologically out-of-touch with their districts,” the Huffington Post reported.
In other words, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed a campaign that says that people can’t represent those who are “demographically” different from them, which is the very definition of racism.
An intellectual titan, that one.
Not even sworn-in and already beclowning herself. Outstanding.
Can’t remember who here said it first, but she is the gift that keeps on giving.
I’ve said it before but the Democrats are truly doing everything in their power to make sure Trump gets re-elected in 2020.
The media will keep covering for them.
Politics really is arguing at the level of a three-year-old.
Need a little boost to your blood pressure?
Vox wants you to know how gun laws should work.
Massachusetts laws are what every state should have. You should have to ask permission to ask permission. It’s totally not an onerous and capricious system, it’s merely common sense. The police should have discretion over your rights, because they’re imbued with special psychic abilities.
MA sucks. Not nearly as bad as NJ, NY, and CA.
Ironically, my sister in MA has a state CCW even though she doesn’t own a pistol. I couldn’t dream of getting one in NJ.
Sawed off shotgun under the trench coat?
Freedom means asking permission and taking orders…
Hey, the site is up and working. I tried dating other websites during the outage, but Everyday Feminists don’t seem to like rape jokes. Who knew. *Shrugs*
STEVE SMITH GET NO LOVE???
Would drinking a lot of vodka be good for curing my current cold/flu/creeping crud? I’m on Day 2, and feeling better than yesterday, but I’m afraid the shit might hang around for a few more days and mess up my Thanksgiving festivities.
I come before you alcoh – I mean, Glibmasters – for guidance.
Chug the Nyquil and sleep whenever you have time after work. I also like swimming to clean the pipes out. Leaves some lengthy snags in the pool as a bonus.
Is “swimming” some euphamism for blowjobs?
I mix NyQuil and vodka in equal amounts, topped with some diphenhydramine.
I call it the Cosby-tini.
I don’t often use the word ‘hero’, but –
…you are the greatest hero in American history.
A Socialist Response to Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers’ Report
Fatal Conceit? Bah I’ll show you conceit.
I can get if a hard core marxist gets frustrated with “Soft” democratic-socialisim (which if we are honest, resembles fascisim more than communisim), but don’t try to play the word games to then argue that you are right. If the conservative arguments against Socialisim are correct then it doesn’t matter that they misslabeled “Transition Policies”, since the destination is still shit.
With all that hard and soft talk I’m having trouble deciding if leon is all just talking euphemisms.
Was that Tom Tuttle from Tacoma?
One of the main themes in Road to Serfdom was that the top men would put people into jobs which they aren’t competent. That writer proves Hayek was right.
Ocasio-Cortez urged people to join Justice Democrats’ #OurTime campaign on Saturday to help them identify Democratic House incumbents that are “demographically and ideologically out-of-touch with their districts,” the Huffington Post reported.
Watching the Democrats eat their own, like some sort of rabid hyena feeding frenzy, will be a great source of amusement to me.
The Hyaena analogy is most apt.
‘Our time’ is such a terrible slogan. It stinks of self-entitlement.
Not to mention its irrational. They talk as if they’re never in power. The county is only three years removed from a Democrat in power.
Our time for what? To rape, pillage and plunder with economic illiteracy and identity politics?
This is what NY sent to Congress?
I think this sums it concisely.
Every day utopia is delayed, we all suffer.
It’s our time, down here.
Would drinking a lot of vodka be good for curing my current cold/flu/creeping crud?
Add a little orange juice, and you’ll be good to go.
my sister in MA has a state CCW even though she doesn’t own a pistol.
License first, pistol afterward.
In NYS it’s the opposite. Buy the pistol, but leave it at the gun store. Take the receipt to the Sheriff’s office. After they get around to issuing or updating your license, they’ll give you a coupon you take back to the gun store to pick up your gun.
You can’t even apply for a license until you’ve paid for a gun.
What if Zardoz gives you the gift of gun?
I’m pretty sure that NYS doesn’t consider ZARDOZ to be an authorized firearms dealer.
Took me less than 20 minutes yesterday to walk out the door with this:
https://smile.amazon.com/photos/all/gallery/K-hB0DjZRm-1HyN6bcrGmw
First is the Firearms permit, then typically buy a gun, then get a carry permit.
But sis’ skipped ever getting the gun and got the carry permit. (Her husband is a firefighter and has cop connections). I think she did it just to annoy me and our ultra-leftist sister-in-law for entirely different reasons.
Everyone in MA has to have a License to Carry if they want to buy a handgun. To request a carry permit you simply need to put a check mark next to the “no restriction” option on an application form for an LTC. Those who want restrictions will have to put a check mark elsewhere. But the process is absolutely identical, so it doesn’t make sense for an applicant to choose anything but “no restriction” (== concealed carry permit). Then whether you get an LTC restricted or not depends on your town. It will be always restricted in Boston (unless you have connections), but in many other towns everyone who requests “no restrictions” gets it.
In other words, your sister probably got a carry permit more or less by default.
Ah – they changed the rules since I fled.
Cypriot farmers struggle to meet demand for halloumi
Shortage of sheep and goats in Cyprus coupled with growing taste for grilled cheese in China ‘threatens global supplies’
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/11/cypriot-farmers-halloumi-shortage-milk-global-demand-china
If a shortage of sheep and goats are the most pressing issues on the island of Cyprus then that place has gotten a lot better
Has anyone else read the #GreenNewDeal Karla Marxist and others are pushing? It is full of committees of top men to get us to 100% renewable energy, guaranteed jobs,……etc
When has a soviet…uh, committee…ever steered wrong?
The buns to bookend Q Continuum’s boob pics:
https://thesexier.com/underbun-pics-that-we-all-love/
2, with an honorary win for 11 for the suggestiveness of that picket fence post.
Ultimately though, the report reveals conservative, bourgeois economists’ ignorance about constructive political discourse.
You are a stupid person, with stupid ideas. No sensible person is going to take you seriously. Go away.
144 Comments and I can’t see any of them.
Bug or feature?
Heh, Drake can’t see our responses. Take your shots while you can.
“Abrams has since responded to the calls for a boycott, saying that while she appreciates Hollywood’s calls for action, she does not want them to hurt people who make a living in the state’s film industry. Instead, the Democratic politician wants them to get involved in a new voting rights organization she is launching called “Fair Fight Georgia.”
No, no, no! Don’t do that! I didn’t mean it! I didn’t think riling up the mob up would lead to this!
In a Sunday morning interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Abrams refused to call Kemp a “legitimate” governor and claimed there was “a deliberate and intentional disinvestment and I think destruction of the administration of elections in the state of Georgia.”
And then starts over riling them up.
Democrats are retarded idiots.
a deliberate and intentional disinvestment and I think destruction of the administration of elections in the state of Georgia
Be careful what you wish for. The more (effective) investment and administration of elections, the fewer opportunities to play games with the count in close ones.
^This. The people they will really be hurting are the people they claim to love – the working class. For every director or actor there are ten grips, makeup artists, lighting techs, craft services people, caterers, drivers, generator operators, best boys, security people, medics, etc.
Dude, virtue signaling is much more important than productive activity.
And Ron Perlman has become Duke of the Virtue Signal Islands.
“Democrats are retarded idiots.”
Yet they just won the house.
“Democracy – that system of government in which the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.”
Ranked choice voting results in the first round and second round winner losing in the final round.
No one gets to claim anyone “spoiled” the election for this one.
Unlike Broward county, Maine’s office of elections apparently has their act together: “The runoff only took a few minutes to complete as specialized computer software eliminated Hoar and Bond from the equation and redistributed their supporters’ votes to the candidates – either Poliquin or Golden – who they had ranked highest.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/11/15/final-ranked-choice-vote-count-slated-for-noon/
I heard about this on NPR. I have always been a proponent of ranked voting to eliminate the spoiler factor. It will be interesting to see what the courts say on the “one person, one vote” claim of Poliquin.
Arrow’s Theorem still applies. But it is still better than plurality wins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
I would prefer Condorcet, since Instant runoff requires a central database of all individual votes. Condorcet summarizes the data in a way that generates a single winner. But building the matrix requires a computer front end which has its own problems.
This seems to be a case of “We like IRV if we win, we prefer the first past the post and no runoff if we would have won that”. Clearly if this was a standard runoff, it would have came out the same way, unless you imply that your campaigning between the first vote and the second would be strategic.
Companies are gonna have to start standing by their employees and not sacrificing them to the mob.
If employees don’t feel like their company has their back, the integrity of the whole operation will begin to disintegrate and cynicism sets in. And when cynicism enters the blood stream you get ‘you’re not getting fries with that’.
Clearly, some of these companies are run by short-sighted individuals.
Look Rufus, you can get another manager for that Chipotle for a few bucks. Who cares if the old manager is totally screwed. She should have thought of that before she tried to better herself by working her way up the ladder. If she really was a decent person she would have had the good sense to be born to a rich family with connections to someone at Chipotle’s corporate HR so she could have worked there coming up with PR campaigns to explain why so many customers get sick.
And who are you going to believe? The people that actually work at a location and know how the miscreants are? Or your fellow social media travellers who have taken untold hours of college courses on racism?
Nah, let’s throw everyone to the howling mobs.
A suicide at the University of Texas Reveals Dark Side of #MeToo Movement
“Before killing himself with a drug intended for rapid and painless animal euthanasia, Richard A. Morrisett…”
Sounds like he took a… *removes sunglasses*… JAGGED LITTLE PILL
Alanis Morisette lost that “it” factor for me when it turned out that “You Oughta Know” was about Dave Coulier.
Canadians, man. Just Canadians.
In Canada, Dave Coulier’s “cut-it-out” bit really captured the zeitgeist of the times
I was once the subject of a poem that got published.
Imagine that.
There was once a man from Nantucket,
Who liked to put his hand up a Muppet,
He kissed it on the mouth,
Then moved him down south,
Then he would vigorously fuck it.
Was it that one?
THATS THE ONE!
My goodnes. These people are despicable. And evil. What a sad, and frightening, story.
Why I am better than you
Here’s a simple idea I bet most Americans agree with: No qualified high school student should ever be barred entrance to a college based on his or her family’s bank account. Yet it happens all the time.
When colleges review applications, all but a few consider a student’s ability to pay. As a result, high-achieving applicants from low- and middle-income families are routinely denied seats that are saved for students whose families have deeper pockets. This hurts the son of a farmer in Nebraska as much as the daughter of a working mother in Detroit.
America is at its best when we reward people based on the quality of their work, not the size of their pocketbook. Denying students entry to a college based on their ability to pay undermines equal opportunity. It perpetuates intergenerational poverty. And it strikes at the heart of the American dream: the idea that every person, from every community, has the chance to rise based on merit.
A hollow self-serving argument, based on a false premise. This guy is truly Presidential material.
“When colleges review applications, all but a few consider a student’s ability to pay.”
Really? I’ve never seen this (other than programs to ATTRACT low-income students).
I’ve never seen this
Because, simply, it doesn’t happen. Think about it. Did you ever submit your parents’ tax returns when you applied to school? No. You don’t. Because they don’t take it into account.
The truth of the matter is much, much, much more mundane. Because top tier schools attract the best students, they attract the best scholarship students. The same students who can get a scholarship at a “lesser” school are only going to get admission at a top tier school.
That’s actually how I wound up choosing my alma mater.
The only thing colleges care about is your ability to hock your future by borrowing tons of money to learn nothing of value. I once had one of these progtard academics tell me that everyone should have free college. He was baffled when I agreed with him. He didn’t like it however when I pointed out that it I would only go along with it if he and others like him worked for free, because I was never going to agree with robbing other people to allow asshats like him job security and way more income than they are worth.
When I was in HS, some friend of a friend got accepted to Harvard. He was a really smart, brilliant guy but Harvard, even after scholarships, wanted essentially all of his parent’s then middle-class income ($30k-40kish?) a year, leaving them nothing to live on.
He ended up going to Michigan State instead.
I got into an Ivy. My family didn’t have much income to contribute and I wasn’t getting any special scholarships either so I knew it was all going to be on me. I passed.
And now your living in a van down by the river due to the inadequate education you received.
Enh, my college fuck-ups were entirely on me. I’m kind of glad it didn’t cost me ten times as much in the end.
Bloomberg has supported Hopkins significantly over the years. As a rule, Hopkins does not offer merit scholarships, only ones based on financial need. This will certainly make it easier for them to underwrite their scholarships, but ignores the fundamental problem, rapid tuition increases incentivized by bottomless federal student loans. In the 25 years since I was there, base tuition has quadrupled.
How does a system based entirely on merit not end up just as skewed toward Richie Rich as the current one? Rich kids can get more help with tutors, go to better schools and have more time to study than their poorer peers.
And I think you are insane if you think that Biff isn’t going to get a seat at an “elite” school when his father is willing to build a library.
Maybe the better plan would be to stop thinking that the Ivy League is anything special. They really are nothing but a 4 year debutante ball where the wealthy kids of the ruling class are introduced to each other.
Why would we want to wreck the life of a solid farm kid from Nebraska by throwing him into that cesspool?
+1 Scent of a Woman.
I WOULD TAKE A FLAME THROWER TO THIS PLACE!
Something something federal student loans. And since when does a leftist value merit?
Or you could do 2 years at a community college to get all your generals done at a lower cost. Then transfer to a bigger college. That’s what I did (while working 2 , sometimes 3 jobs).
I’m of the opinion to go to a two year in the area of your field of interest. Then get a job with an employer that will pay for schooling to get your bachelors, if needed.
You would be surprised how much most of the money pits masquerading as first rate institutions higher education hate people that do this stuff…
If this guy is so concerned about working class people being disadvantaged in college admissions, surely he rejects the use of identity politics in determining admissions, right? As it stands now, in the eyes of Harvard and their Ivy League compatriots, that kid who was raised on a farm in Nebraska is seen as being more “privileged” than President Obama’s daughters based solely on the color of their skin.
No qualified high school student should ever be barred entrance to a college based on his or her family’s bank account. Yet it happens all the time.
I don’t suppose there is any data for this. My impression is that if anyone is disadvantaged by their family’s bank account, its not the poor (who qualify for no end of “aid”), its the middle class who can’t get in on the means-tested gravy train.
In any event, being denied entry to “a” college due to financial considerations is not being denied entry to “every” college. As Lord H points out – can’t afford Harvard? Go to State U instead.
Former NJ National Guard here – if you are in the Guard here, you don’t pay tuition at the state schools. I doubt NJ is the only state with that deal.
That doesn’t include books, food, and room – it does make working your way through school without accumulating much debt entirely possible.
Some good news on the qualified immunity front.
There are four Trump appointees on the Seventh Circuit, one Clinton appointee, one Obama appointee, and the rest appointed by previous Republican presidents. Elections have consequences.
B-b-but the chilling effect! Think about the chilling effect!
So the cop is running a little extortion scheme, and when confronted with a recalcitrant victim, he shoots the target.
In my book, that’s attempted murder. But I see how it got this far, the family is firmly ensconced in local politics and positions of authority.
In a just world, the cop would be mob lynched and the rest of the family run out of town (I would say on a rail but the sheer size of them makes that impossible).
In a just world, the cop would be mob lynched and the rest of the family
runrolled out of townAnother shining example of a newspaper being nothing but government propaganda.
A recent analysis by The Times found that at dozens of America’s elite colleges, more students came from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the entire bottom 60 percent of that scale — even though many of those lower-income students have the qualifications to get in.
If *everybody* can’t go to an “elite” college, nobody should.
Nazi President Hates the Free Press
The White House sent a letter to Acosta notifying him that his pass granting him temporary access to the White House grounds would be suspended after a temporary restraining order runs its course. The letter is the latest in the fight between the White House and the CNN reporter who caused a fracas at a recent presidential press conference when he refused to give up the microphone.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly issued an injunction Friday morning ordering the White House to reinstate Acosta’s credentials, saying his Fifth Amendment right to due process was violated. The judge was clear, however, that he made no ruling on whether the First Amendment right applies for any reporter to be at the White House.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders presaged the letter in a Friday statement warning Acosta, “in response to the court, we will temporarily reinstate the reporter’s hard pass. We will also further develop rules and processes to ensure fair and orderly press conferences in the future. There must be decorum at the White House.”
CNN responded to the letter in a Sunday statement saying, “the White House is continuing to violate the First and 5th Amendments of the Constitution. These actions threaten all journalists and news organizations. Jim Acosta and CNN will continue to report the news about the White House and the President.”
CNN’s Brian Stelter speculated in his Sunday evening newsletter that the White House is likely trying to establish a paper trail to indicate that due process was given to Acosta, as the remainder of the legal battle remains to be fought out in court.
President Donald Trump told The Daily Caller in an exclusive interview Tuesday he was unsure his administration would prevail in the lawsuit, but noted “we’ll see how the court rules. Is it freedom of the press when somebody comes in and starts screaming questions and won’t sit down?”
This whole thing is beyond stupid. You don’t have a right to attend a press-conference or to be called on to ask a question.
And this:
Trump suggested later in a sit-down Sunday with Fox News that in response to the lawsuit “I think one of the things we’ll do is maybe turn the camera off that faces them because then they don’t have any air time, although I’ll probably be sued for that and maybe, you know, win or lose it, who knows.”
Heh.
That is funny. “Yeah, I don’t give a fuck.” Entirely the proper attitude.
The letter is the latest in the fight between the White House and the CNN reporter
Somehow, they both win. CNN gets to preen, Trump scores points with the base.
Why not let him in and never call on him? Have CNN effectively waste its seat on someone who might as well not be there?
I like Trump’s idea of not giving any screen time to the prima donnas in the White House press pool.
Is Trump’s treatment of Acosta fundamentally different from the Saudi’s treatment of Jamal Khashoggi? Trump is a murderous dictator who tyrannizes the press pool and threatens to assassinate journalists’ careers. And his aides handing out microphones are basically hired killers. This episode is a chilling reminder of the dangers journalists like Jim Acosta endure to report from behind enemy lines.
And you know what real heroism looks like? It’s Jim Acosta. The man is offered an out, permitted to leave captivity as a prisoner of war in the White House press room like John McCain from Vietnam, and you know what he does? He says, No, I will stand with my brothers in arms, we will languish in this camp until we all are allowed to go home. None of us or all of us, Jim says. That’s real heroism.
“There must be decorum at the White House.” == “There will be no fighting in the war room.”
Maybe we can get SF to draw up a list of proper decorum…
Donald J. Trump
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Jim Acosta is a showboating whore of a man. We’ve indulged his antics for too long. You can’t use crass language in the White House or ask leading questions. What kind of person would defend this disgraceful man? SAD
We live on the best possible timeline.
Is that real?
“There must be decorum at the White House.”
In NYS it’s the opposite. Buy the pistol, but leave it at the gun store. Take the receipt to the Sheriff’s office. After they get around to issuing or updating your license, they’ll give you a coupon you take back to the gun store to pick up your gun.
You can’t even apply for a license until you’ve paid for a gun.
Good grief. I wonder if it has ever occurred to anybody that they are incentivising “extra-legal” gun sales with this nonsense.
You can’t even apply for a license until you’ve paid for a gun.
This makes zero sense. I assume the intent is to make the process so burdensome as to dissuade people from attempting to acquire a gun. And, of course, this is all highly unconstitutional.
There seem to be two schools of gun control. One is largely pro-2A but believes that the government can and should regulate gun ownership to prevent gun-related crimes, and genuinely believes that there is a satisfactory balance that can be found between protecting gun owners’ rights and minimizing gun crime. The other is viscerally opposed to private gun ownership and is only willing to compromise that position if such compromise seems likely to move the law further towards gun prohibition. The problem is that they need the support of the first group, but they have two advantages.
First, the know full well that when a law is passed it quickly becomes the new norm and is unlikely to be repealed. Second, they have most of the first group fooled into thinking that they’re arguing in good faith and ultimately want the same things. That’s not true; they’re less concerned with safety or limiting crime than with removing guns from the hands of private citizens. But because most people believe that the government’s power can be limited and that most serious people are reasonable, act in good faith, and are willing to compromise, the gun-banners can con the reasonable people into moving towards an effective ban by making purchase and ownership so difficult as to be effectively impossible. As an example, look at CCW permitting in many shall-issue states.
Prohibition by incrementalism…
Because they cannot imagine anyone not a hardened criminal seeking to bypass unconstitutional red tape. And when you do bypass the process you are, ipso facto, a hardened criminal.
https://twitter.com/ninaburleigh/status/1064262259021684737
“Reporter” declares that everyone she has ever known who owns an AR-15 is a mass murderer. Then calls people who responded to her asinine assertion “Russian NRA bots”. It’s a real wonder why trust in a hopelessly partisan media has plummeted so far.
Good thing she doesn’t have any nukes.
Something tells me she doesn’t have anything deadlier than unsympathetic condescension in her arsenal.
I would not be surprised she has armed bodyguards. It is not coincidental that it is practically always the case with these virtue signalers that they are the most adamant in their support for real stupid shit they are likely never to have to worry about and feel no shame forcing it on others bound to be screwed over by their asshattery.
This is the same well-balanced woman who said ‘I would be happy to give him [Clinton] a blowjob just to thank him for keeping abortion legal. I think American women should be lining up with their Presidential kneepads on to show their gratitude for keeping the theocracy off our backs.’
Yes. The irony, of course, is that she is the new theocracy wishing to impose her own morality on everyone else, but surely it’s different this time.
The spiritual adulation these women have for abortion is creepy af.
There’s a whole lot of multifaceted derp packed into that quote. God forbid people like her have any access to meaningful political power.
OK, I’ll admit it. I’d sell my vote on any issue in about 5 seconds if it meant a lifetime supply of BJ’s from random women.
I might not admit to my wife that that was why I cast my vote in that way, but I have to think she’d be almost as happy.
How will you ensure compliance after the vote has been cast?
If you can’t trust a woman and her promises of future sex, who can you trust? Women never lie!
Here’s the thing I find laughable. They actually believe this nonsense. They exist in such a hopelessly incestuous bubble that it doesn’t occur to them that there are millions of law-abiding AR-15 owners and that those gun owners don’t particularly care for the idea of having their rights infringed upon.
I’ve tried to explain it to a would-be gun controller this way: How about we pass a constitutional amendment. We’ll call it the “For the Children” Amendment. It will both repeal the Second Amendment and outlaw abortion.
You could see the idea kinda, sorta get through to her of how repulsive gun owners find their proposals. But, then thought loyalty to the team quickly pushed the idea aside.
Bah! I was trying to reply to Just Say’n.
It’s a self created bubble. They don’t believe that any argument outside that bubble has validity.
Bah! I was trying to reply to Just Say’n.
We’re all
socialistsBrooks now.I tried asking this yesterday, but the squirrels ate it. Now that a white house press pass is constitutional right, which DC area glib wants to volunteer to be our white house correspondent?
How much does the gig pay?
If you have to ask, it’s not enough.
Industrial policy in drag
Parts of rural America lack fast broadband internet, a big disadvantage that the authors want to see addressed. They urge heavy federal investment in 10 or so “growth pole” midsize cities that are close to struggling smaller towns and can serve as economic drivers.
And finally, they suggest more federal support for people who want to move to greater economic opportunity — a countermeasure for one of the more surprising trends of the last generation, a decline in Americans’ mobility in pursuit of better jobs.
————
In one of a series of papers published by the Hamilton Project, David Neumark of the University of California, Irvine, described a plan in which the federal government could subsidize the wages of newly hired workers in extremely poor areas. The subsidies would be 100 percent at first before tapering off — in hope of pulling more people into the labor force so they can develop skills that will allow them to earn a nonsubsidized wage.
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Even as Washington prepares for divided government, regional development is one area where ideological lines are not calcified. There may be some room for deal making, as with the Jobs Act, aimed at spurring small business, that was passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President Obama.
Even if that doesn’t turn out to be the case, candidates for the presidency in 2020 have a huge political opportunity to pull together a policy approach that sends a message that the whole country can enjoy the benefits of prosperity, not just a handful of rich regions.
For the people most in the thick of the research on the issue, there’s a sense of urgency — but also a feeling of modesty in facing this complex challenge.
“While we may not know the complete and perfect solutions,” said Mr. Muro of Brookings, “we do know that we need to get started with the experiments.”
Yes, of course. Let’s use that Amazon HQ2 dog and pony show to jump start a national conversation about entrepreneurship and innovation. If only they had fiber optic internet out there on the windswept prairies, they’d all get rich writing apps.
Because nothing says bold 21st century economic adventurism like a bunch of federal initiatives to put training wheels on crony capitalist “innovation incubators”.
“In one of a series of papers published by the Hamilton Project”
LEARN ABOUT ANOTHER FOUNDING FATHER!
Someone please make a play about Sam Adams or Patrick Henry. I promise they were woke af
Broadway plays are God’s way of teaching progressives history, much like war is God’s way of teaching American geography
I learned everything I needed to know about human behavior from Cats.
The ones living with the lady that is pissed no man takes her seriously, or the Broadway play?
I want to see the part where Henry opposes the constitution.
The gunpowder incident would also go over well.
When government doesn’t get to pick winners and losers, social justice is prevented! Down with capitalism, profits, and anything not decided by top men getting rich from those decisions. I mean it is not like the Clintons & Obamas, men of the people, are not both close to being worth a billion or so after their term in the WH…
STEVE SMITH HAVE GROWTH POLE THAT CAN BE USED TO DRIVE, BY DRIVE…
Also, in that NYT thing, is this:
The authors are similarly skeptical of large-scale infrastructure projects, arguing that such efforts in Europe, called “cohesion policy,” have tended to create nice roads and bridges in remote, poorer areas, while doing little to help incomes and employment rise in those areas over time.
I immediately thought of the time I drove across West Virginia. Zooming past backwater shitholes on a broad, smooth beautiful interstate highway, en route to someplace *not* West Virginny.
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1063914610200317952
“Dart championship descends into madness as players accuse each other of farting”
We need to shut down the whole digestive system until we can figure out what’s going on here
Late entry for headline of the year.
I don’t think anything can top this recent gem of theirs.
Nut busted for ejaculating on straphanger
Patricia Arquette is a little bit of a loon, but her reply to that is A+ work.
One of my clients just sent a bulk email regarding their annual “Giving Tree” – this year, the charity has requested the following SPECIFIC items only:
ADULT winter items
Gift Cards ($20-25) to three specific vendors
Fleece cozies for dildos?
Do you know how embarrassing it is to have your tongue get stuck to a frozen dildo just as company is coming over?
Nice.
I just got a request from one of my customers to support their glowing profile in the state construction journal by buying an ad in the magazine. It’s about $500 for a tenth page in a bullshit magazine that nobody reads.
One of my vendors sends a blank check every year for us to do with what we like. I realize as a shitlord I should just cash it, but IJ wins again this year.
The Tundra Fund: Money for People.
You guys think IJ = Institute for Justice.
Us locals know it is shorthand for Iggly-Jiggly’s a cut rate strip bar.
It’s not cut rate!!
Not for you, Mr. Moneybags.
“Fundra”
aaah, no.
Is one of the vendors the local liquor store? Might as well be after the gift card gets sold for cash.
Crotchless longjohns and heated nipple clamps?
Shiny black Sorrel boots with stiletto heels?
Stocking cap with pistol grip ear flaps (and absorbent pompom on top)?
Rawhide snowshoes that can be lashed together in St. Andrew’s Cross?
^^ Kids, this is what cabin fever looks like. ^^
How else do you explain ice fishing?
“Hey Ole why are you drilling all them circles in the ice?”
“Ummmmmm…… Well Sven, I was gonna try catching fish”
“With what pole?”
Little early for that. It’s gonna get real weird in late January.
You have no idea.
What are you talking about? We’re in the middle of the Rut right now.
You’d know that if you saw all the scrapes I have been tending in my front yard.
Is one of the vendors a liquor store? Because I think flask when I read adult winter item.
I’m assuming the post re: all of the submitted recipes (nicely formatted) will be re-posted at some point?
Whichever one of you miscreants linked this gem I’m very grateful.
Easy and perfect results.
Same here.
6 minutes for soft-boiled eggs
Mmm, I love runny egg on toast. Lots of salt and pepper and a dash of Tabasco.
Eggs over medium on a smoked brisket laden piece of toast for breakfast here.
The spouse is a big escabeche fan – I used some of the canned version with added apple cider vinegar/sugar per your recipe – he loved them. Looking forward to trying with fresh.
*looks up escabeche – I have never heard that word.
In this case, pickled jalapenos.
Dash Rapid Egg Cooker – Last Amazon Prime Day best purchase.
“Store in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.”
Hard-boiled eggs last way longer than that.
Not around here they don’t.
“No kidding”
– English darts player furiously waving hand under nose
Remy tribute to Stan Lee
Steller.
I hope he’s my dad!
Awesome.
Ummm, I thought she was doing a nationwide stripping tour making money hand over fist capitalizing on this nonsense.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/11/stormy_daniels_tells_oxford_union_that_trump_and_politics_have_completely_destroyed_her_career.html
From the article: “Cue the world’s smallest violin for Stormy Daniels, the stage name used by Stephanie Clifford when she took off her clothes and had sex with strangers”
I don’t think the people fapping care one way or another if she’s fighting with the President or not. If her career is failing, it’s because she’s pushing 40 and has a lousy boob job, both things not really considered assets in the porn world.
Yeah, Trump destroyed her career, that’s why she stopped be being a major star 10 years ago.
Can’t imagine there’s much profit in appealing to the sexual prurience of suburban moms and beta males, however much they hate Trump.
They should have gone with “Cue the world’s shiniest, most lube-saturated violin”. Come on guys, a little effort.
“Period Taboo and Menstrual Cups in the Black Community
Why are some Black menstruators so disgusted by menstrual cups?”
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/period-taboo-and-menstrual-cups-in-the-black-community
https://twitter.com/TeenVogue/status/1063236530368651265
Not clicking that at work…
Because they are worried that using them would be cultural appropriation of the weird suburban rich white chick culture?
A solid case against “acting white.”
I’ve got nothin’.
Fact: Black women didn’t menstruate before slavery.
I think you got that a bit mixed up.
True Fact: Black women didn’t have periods before slavery.
Background: Before being enslaved by evil Western men women lived in harmony with nature and had no need for a written language. So they didn’t have periods. Or semi-colons, commas or any other punctuation.
If menstrual cup is not a typo for the receptacle performers at Ren fairs collect donations, I don’t want to know what it is.
I think we should do away with the term “drag show”. From now on any time a man paints his face and pretends to be a women so he can sing campy songs, it should be referred to as a “menstrual show”
Eve Ensler hardest hit.