It’s Cyber Monday, I hope you all enjoy the online shopping, hopefully Amazon will have as good of deals as they did on Prime Day in 2015.
Today’s Birthdays include, the savior of Arizonans and inventor of modern air conditioning, Willis Carrier, cartoonist, Charles Schulz, actor, Robert Goulet, and singer, Tina Turner,
Trump shuts down Tijuana-San Diego Port of Entry as migrants attempt to storm it, Border Patrol Agents employ tear gas after being hit with projectiles.
While some are desperate to reunite with family member here, others are desperately trying to get their families gone.
Judge denies Snuffaluffagus’ bid to delay 14 day prison sentence.
Crazy eyes plans to bolster equally crazy base while hurting party’s 2020 chances at the same time.
While the left wing media is going with “Trump attempting to hide climate report that he openly published” (odd, but ok), right wingers are going with something more substantive.
Vicious harpy may lose position on Senate Judiciary Committee.
There was a quote for that. I think it went “Elections have consequences”.
*looks around*
I went to the trouble of reading the posted information and even followed a link and no one beat me. You guys are slacking this monday.
We’re snowed in, so responses are slow.
Send St. Bernard pronto!
The St Bernard already got there. Hence the slowed response times.
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Some guy I was incarcerated with used to always say “I’m tired of all these Skank Bernards!” when he complained about women. Later, he described how he woos them, namely by traveling to Phenix City, AL, purchasing meth and trading it for sex.
by traveling to Phenix City, AL
Hard pass.
“Phenix”? Did they pawn the o?
In my childhood I spent way too much time in/around Phenix City visiting my dad’s family.
PC was the place we visited on our first pass from OCS, circa 1966. We made it as far as a steak house/club. We went in in uniform with my black room mate. Nothing happened.
The Phenix City Story came out in 1955. Some things never change.
/never made it further than Columbus
There’s a four day backlog of e-mail I had to read through.
What? You didn’t work friday and only have a weekend’s worth of e-mail?
Nope. The company I work for has the day after Thanksgiving as an actual company holiday (for US employees). Of course, for some of the call center people it’s also mandatory to use PTO for the week between Christmas and New Year’s.
If it’s mandatory to expend the PTO, why even give those days to the employee in the fiction of being at their discretion?
Its Paid Time Off — If they want to be paid for that time off, they should take the PTO.
And telling people that they only have 1 week of vacation is a hard sell during the hiring process. Telling them they have 2 weeks and putting that there’s mandatory PTO between Christmas and New Year’s for non-essential employees lets people think they’re getting a better deal. During my hiring process I made sure to ask if I was going to need to take that week off before signing the offer letter.
My point is, if it’s going to be mandatory, just make them company holidays and reduce the discretionary vacation time to accurately reflect the amount granted.
My previous response was to Brett.
Nephilium – if your company has a hard time hiring with the current benefits package honestly portrayed, they might want to revise the compensation.
My point is, if it’s going to be mandatory, just make them company holidays and reduce the discretionary vacation time to accurately reflect the amount granted.
LOL, that would require honesty and transparency to be core tenets of the company.
It’s only a mild inconvenience, but I have to subtract those days out every time I’m trying to figure out how much PTO I have left. Add in the stupid biweekly accrual and the stupid “borrowing ahead” BS and my time off portal is a mess of confusing numbers. Here’s an idea, give me all of my PTO on January 1, include zero requirements for how I use the PTO, and deal with people who quit mid-year in some way that doesn’t make the entire damn system a confusing mess for the rest of us.
Hell, while you’re at it, let us roll at least a week over.
UCS: If they made those days company vacations, then everyone would have them off. They need the essential employees during that time, but the call center volume drops off a lot. As to having difficulty hiring, that was conjecture based on different compensation packages I’ve seen.
I’m surprised they don’t do it that way. PTO is legally considered an accrued benefit and if you leave the company for any reason they have to pay you for it. Upcoming company holidays are not accrued benefits.
If they switched to considering those to be Company Holidays they could get away without paying anyone who leaves the company for any reason the extra PTO days.
Unless they think that more employees will use the PTO through the year and end up taking those days unpaid but I highly doubt that is the case
@ trshmnstr – It’s amazing when someplace does something that makes the state look sensible in comparison. We accrue 1/26th of our annual leave each biweekly pay period, and can roll over up to 40 days at the end of the fiscal year. The only problem is when people end up with “use it or lose it” time.
@ Nephilium – So they’re willing to pay the people for the slow time, but willing to be honest about how much discretionary vacation they actually get.
Only in government do you get to roll over 40 PTO days man.. My company allows 5 days max, and you lose unused PTO. That is why I am starting right with Thanks Giving till the next year.
Some states require rollover as well.
A lot of mills shut down over the holidays, and a few other companies did the same. Iirc, they just didn’t have any paid work for the period. You were free to use vacation time (pre pto years) or go unpaid. They’re hourly employees not salaried.
I can see getting that week off as a potential attractive benefit. I’ve worked in a 24/7 call center that didn’t shutdown even on the holiday itself. As a new hire, you’re not getting those days off.
Depends on the business. Hospitals give PTO that is burned on holidays, because there’s people (in hospitals, a lot of people) who still have to show up on holidays. If the whole business goes dark on holidays, then it should be a holiday that doesn’t burn PTO. If the business is open but some departments or staffing is not necessary for the holiday, then I don’t see an alternative to burning PTO. Of course, the PTO allotment should reflect that – if two weeks PTO is standard for new employees, but you burn PTO on holidays, then you should give four weeks PTO to give people paid holidays (there are around ten holidays per year).
Son got a day off today – all from 2 inches of snow. Not quite the snowmaggeden we were promised but it gives me an excuse to work from home.
I suppose that works out. It’s warm enough here that I was able to put out the trash can this morning without bothering with a jacket. (Mid-30s somewhere)
As a Floridian, for that brave act, you sir have the hardiness needed to become an Arctic explorer.
Bah, for that brief exposure, you can go jacket-free well below freezing. I was informing the lightly snowed-upon how balmy it was in New York.
Did your neighbors put anything in it?
We’ll find out when I get home. The can was full when I brought it to the curb, so the garbagemen will have to empty it before more can be put in it. (theoretically they could heap more on the can…)
I find it interesting that some places consistently have one or two days cancelled a year due to snow. I think I’ve had one or two days in the 17 years of living in Utah where the schools were closed. I’ll Grant that those have been reserved for bad wind and ice storms, and those are pretty rare.
Virginia doesn’t have too many snowplows, so when we do get snow, it tends to take a while to clear all the roads.
In January 1987, when I was in 5th grade, Richmond got one snowstorm that dumped about ten inches on us, and then a week later another one that piled on another foot. I was out of school for almost three weeks.
When I was a little kid, we had the Great Blizzard of 1978
The following table displays selected U.S. snowfall totals during January 25–29, 1978:[3]
State City/location Amount (inches)
MI Grand Rapids 36.0
Snow was piled up past the height of the mailboxes. It was a great time to be a kid – snow forts galore, skiing over to my best friend’s house, and snowball fights galore.
Yep. Even about 1,000 miles away, Blizzard of ’78 was massive. Got a nearly 3 week break from school.
Of course, it sucked in June, when we had to make up the time.
The East Coast Blizzard of 78 was way bigger. The Boston area averaged 30 inches and places on the south shore got as much as 56 inches of snow with drifts as high as 14 feet
penissnow envy?I remember it well. Snow drifts completely covered up houses. The Ohio river froze over solid and people were driving trucks across it. For about a month, the only roads open were like driving down a one lane tunnel.
Ah yes, back when Global Cooling was a problem.
“Crazy eyes plans to bolster equally crazy base while hurting party’s 2020 chances at the same time.”
Not the person I was expecting, but still Crazy eyes.
The issue seems to afflict a number of people.
Well it’s compounded by the fact that we live under a government system that is designed to concentrate the psychopaths into power. At least the monarchs came by the crazy through good old fashioned inbreeding.
Well, considering the path to nobility in most of the world began with being the winning violent warlord, I’m not sure there’s much of a distinction there.
True, but we go back every 2-6 years and see if anything worse has congealed.
Bigfoot Crossroads of America Museum
ONLY ONE STEVE SMITH. STEVE SMITH ALL OVER. YOU. HIKER. WILDLIFE.
I don’t pay much attention to hysterics, but it seems like we’ve been hearing radical Doomsday climate predictions for a few years now, right? No, it’s been going on since at least 1895. Only it’s a coin toss the direction from which they think the imminent death is approaching.
Border Patrol Agents employ tear gas after being hit with projectiles.
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Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, tweeted Sunday that the use of tear gas against Central American migrants who attempted to enter the U.S. illegally may have been a violation of international agreements governing the use of chemical weapons — before he backtracked.
However, the tweet was posted for just a few minutes before it was deleted and replaced by this message: “Anyone uncomfortable with spraying tear gas on children is welcome to join the coalition of the moral and the sane. We can argue about other stuff when we’ve got our country back.”
Someone is being disingenuous.
You have to spin pretty furiously to combat the reception an image of Central Americans doing a frontal assault on a border fence will get in flyover country.
Lets attach these people to dynamos. Should produce at least as much electricity as an eco-crucifix.
Check out these details about the sponsors of this caravan. If you had any doubt that these people are being used by people that care very little about what happens to the fools in the caravan and are actually more interested in scoring political points and hurting the US, this should clear it all up.
“We can argue about other stuff when we’ve got our country back”
This is an argument I see employed a lot, particularly by the left since they were out of power for two years. It’s always struck me as dismissive. I think that the “sane” people disagree with a lot of your shtick, so dismissing their qualms by spinning the way a mob behaved and the reaction is not helpful. The left has done a bang up job of doing everything they can to push people like me (fairly “pro-immigration”/”open borders”) away from supporting this shit.
^^This^^
It was the same with Kavanaugh. There were reasons to oppose his nomination, but the scorched
earthconstitution method that the Democrats employed forced me to support him unquestioningly.Same here.
Another one is this election in Mississippi. The left is doing there best to smear her as some open KKK grandmaster. I don’t know anything about her, but I know that’s ridiculous. Shit like this has to stop, because the more “anything goes” politics the left espouses the more crazy things are going to get.
The left does this shit secure in the knowledge that the right will not retaliate in kind.
What’s the GOP going to do, call them commies? Half of them are, and nobody seems to care anymore.
Half?
I don’t think I want to live in a country that the left has in mind.
Not in to living in a third-world shithole with gulags for the hoarders and wreckers, eh?
They don’t intend for the deplorables to ‘live’ there either.
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Not only is it dismissive, but it’s a refusal to discuss the actual issue – the old prog trick of moving the goalposts.
I thought that “taking the country back” was racist or something.
Only when wipipo say it.
“Stop stalking my tweets.”
So their earlier fishing expeditions were obviously in the wrong direction (since they never did find any real crimes).
Seems like a waste of time considering Mueller has the goods on bad orange man. He’ll be taken away in handcuffs anyday now.
You’re too optimistic. Obviously Trump has compromised the FBI and replaced it with a “Shallow State”. This Shallow State (SS…) Is designed to be only loyal to him, and so it’s up to the house to take him on.
“… This Shallow State (SS…) ”
Replete with Hugo Boss designed uniforms…
The true believers support Schiff 100%
The interesting thing is that it’s statements like these that reveal their true desire, a one party state. Even if you think Trump has done wrong, there’s no rational reason to seek to blow up the opposing party unless it’s total control you want.
I don’t know, each party wants to see the other in shambles.
I fervently hope they both succeed.
Amen, brother.
Eh, the majority of the GOP seems content with a shared power scenario, even if they’re the minority (I’m looking at you Paul Ryan). The Democrats want the California model to be in place everywhere.
Calling Paul Ryan a Republican is a bit of a stretch.
Because investigating the shit out of political opponents where there is no actual evidence of any crime is the American way.
Fucking totalitarian shitbags, these people.
Look he exists, therefore he has broken some US statute, what more evidence do you want?. We just have to find the crime.
But if you mention the fact that Obama’s FBI gave HRC a clean sheet on a litany of violations, you are just a partisan hack making hay out of a nothing-burger.
+3 felonies a day
This tantrum is about making sure that team red and anyone that is unaffiliated knows that team blue will never, ever allow power not to be in their corner. That is what makes all this so much more dangerous. If this shitshow is allowed to do what it is intended to, the American people are going to be fucked over even harder and faster by team blue than the original plan called for. And team red will just go along with the Titanic sinking as long as they get to play along with the deck chair shuffling game.
“Even if you think Trump has done wrong, there’s no rational reason to seek to blow up the opposing party unless it’s total control you want.”
It’s Congress: we’re mostly talking about politicians who have climbed to the top of the dung heap over the bodies of anyone who got in the way.
I was working in the Hawaii state legislature when it was 23 Democrats and 2 Republicans in the Senate. The majority party went all out to cleanse themselves of the 2 offenders, until they got to 25-0. Then the 4 or 5 factions within the Democratic party (roughly: wholly owned union subsidiaries, socialists, communists, wind vanes, and “moderates”) duked it out.
When Ventura won here in Minnesoda, the GOP and DFL put aside their differences to obstruct his policies as much as they could. The one thing they agreed upon is that there was no need for voters to have a third option.
Jesse was a true uniter.
Republican refusal to allow Democrats to investigate certain issues
Mueller has had free reign to investigate whatever he sees fit, way outside the original scope of his investigation. This statement is so false as to be a mendacious lie.
could shatter Trump and the Republican Party.
Wishful thinking is wishful. Neither of the two major parties is going anywhere, unfortunately.
Nobody has looked hard enough into whether or not Schiff shags goats.
Only the really slow ones that he can catch.
Muh post done disappeared.
Putting the climate hysteria into context, a long history of alarmism. Spoiler: they’re really sure we’re going to die, but really inconsistent on whether we’ll be freezing or melting.
Possible dumb question, shouldn’t scientists be skeptical enough to avoid conclusions like “this short term trend I’m observing will probably continue forever in the same direction, unabated, and probably even accelerate”?
Winter Storm Bruce
I don’t see the point of naming winter storms.
I don’t see the point of naming
winterstorms.Easier to sensationalize to generate hysteria and ratings.
Damn
That storm Bruce should remind everyone of that shitlord Bruce that touched them inappropriately in middle school!
It’s for the ratings.
Maybe we need a new system.
But what happens when a colorfully named storm makes landfall and proves to be tropical storm nothingburger?
They ignore it and start hyping the next worstest-ever catastrophe.
Just like now.
They Call Me Bruce
When the storm peters out will they rename it Caitlyn?
Pueblos Sin Fronteras released a list of grievances* related to the migrant convoy. It was a lot of authentic lefty gibberish, but I found some of it resonated with me, namely the stuff about the US interfering in their elections and the drug war fucking up their country. I don’t like these people’s ideology or methods that much, but that is a legitimate concern. Although they claim we supported the “right wing” guy who won… If true, we might have saved them from the next Chavez. But still, I wouldn’t want outsiders meddling in my nation’s elections.
*Find it yourself ya lazy bums, I just tried posting another link and my comment was eaten.
None of those are justification for trying to storm the border.
Agreed. But it might be worth doing something sane about, like writing an earnest editorial in an American newspaper about how our policies affect them, or a non-violent protest.
“Pueblos Sin Fronteras para los Estados Unidos”
More accurate. My brother in law lived in Guatemala for a while and could attest to the animosity between different Central American states. I’m sure they would not be pleased to be told that any person would be allowed to come and live there.
Zelaya, a Maduro/Chavez lackey, is behind a lot of the Honduran migrants. He was legally ousted in 2009 but remains a political force.
Who was the one that was removed by the Army/Courts because he tried to install himself beyond his term and Hillary Clinton sanctioned them for it until they brought back the guy?
You would think I would quit being shocked about what a piece of shit she is.
Zelaya
Read Wikipedia’s wrap up. E consensus was that what Zelaya did was illegal, and unconstitutional, but the removal was an illegal coup. My question is how does that stance support freedom? If every country has to roll over because the dictator refuses to listen to the courts reprimanding them, then what’s the point? Or was it illegal because the CIA didn’t sanction it?
It’s ridiculous.
They’re just leaving the door open for others to try the same method. Of course, if the politics had been reversed, they wouldn’t have that opinion at all.
drug war fucking up their country – well legalize it there and move on.
Our government bureaucracy is interfering with our own elections now, so we’re in the same club as the Central Americans.
Cyber Monday, the day I curse my email inbox.
I see that the site is hiding comments again.
Since I can’t read them, I’ll just say that everyone else is wrong.
User error, clearly. I can see all the comments.
I tried posting this link twice and failed this morning, but it’s actually pretty interesting.
https://butnowyouknow.net/those-who-fail-to-learn-from-history/climate-change-timeline/
No you do not see the special comments you see enough to have the illusion you do.
So Glibs has become Twitter now?
With a much more strict character lim
Manic Monday: They Hate Ivanka As Much As They Love MIchele
There may not have been any Top Secret or Security info in Ivanka’s e-mails BUT
we are about to find out how much PERSONAL business she was conducting with China and other places she was touting her brand. She has made a slew of deals with foreign governments for marketing her brands while working in the WH. Same thing for her corrupt hubby.
This is why Trump is looking like a sick puppy these days. He will not always be President and jail time is looking more and more possible for him and his corrupt family or at least they will go bankrupt in defending themselves.
Trump should just issue a statement saying that if what Hillary Clinton did wasn’t a crime, then obviously there is no way possible that Ivanka’s far less egregious actions could constitute a crime.
This. But selective enforcement of the law is a feature for statists, not a bug.
And what’s the deal with Ivanka’s email? Are they upset that she is conducing private business on a private account? Or did she conduct gov’t business on a private account or vice versa (which I believe is illegal)?
Either way, no “reasonable” prosecutor would bother to pursue it, right?
Speaking of naming storms, do you all who actually watch the news still see any coverage about hurricane Michael? I spent the weekend helping my parents clean up. They have paid out of pocket for 3 new roofs already (home, rental property, and business). Insurance wants to reimburse them a pittance. I can attest that eastern Bay County is smashed to pieces. My conspiracy theory is the media isn’t covering it much because it’s a bunch of deplorables who think they can rebuild without the government’s help. Or maybe the public’s attention span has just flitted to a new flower.
Yeah. I was looking at pictures from Mexico Beach from two people this weekend. There are spots where every tree (not an exaggeration) is down and facing in the same direction. The insurance thing surprises me a little bit. I spoke to my parents insurance agent because they were out of the country last week and see told me “if your contractor comes in with a higher estimate, send us a line-item version and we could possibly do a supplemental payment.”
The idea that you’re going to get roofs after a giant storm fucked the whole region for the same price as last year is ridiculous. But I also heard a story about USAA coming in $3000 below the estimate for another family member. Which is probably 20-25% of the cost.
Our company motto is no lawsuit over a roof. The issue in Mexico beach is that it had 11′ of flood water, so there are issues with what’s covered by a wind policy when there is both wind and flood damage.
no lawsuit over a roof
Seems like a no-brainer. I assume if I get 3 estimates that are ALL $3000+ higher than your adjuster, I’m going to call him and have him either send me a guy that can do that work (which he can’t do) OR pay the lowest cost estimate.
You don’t even need three estimates. Just pick your contractor. They can’t force you to get add’l estimates. It shouldn’t be a problem for only three grand. If they balk, just mention bad faith and say you’re going to file a DOI complaint. They will wrap it up for you that day.
Hey, if I could ask some brief advice, would you email riveruntomypeople at, sadly, Gmail?
Sure. Will get email to you today.
Chipperbot can/will you give me some contact info ?
I can’t post mine without giving personal info.
I am in the roofing and insurance restoration company.
Adjusters can easily miss things, especially after a huge storm when they are working their butts off.
We have office personel who’s entire job is supplementing claims.
We have just completed our Florida certifications and will be in Florida right after the first of the year.
We don’t work directly with contractors due to the nature of our clients. I would point you in the direction of Field Asset Services. They work with contractors. Some of the big carriers also have direct repair programs. Look into Contractor Connection if you haven’t already.
Thank you.
Would those recommendations be company specific or are they stand alone websites ?
If so which companies ?
Field Asset work with all the banks repairing properties that are foreclosed so they can be made HUD compliant for a loan. Contractor Connection works with many carriers via Crawford.
We have put on hundreds of roofs for USAA.
They have always been very generous with all my customers and we’ve never had a problem getting supplements paid.
That’s crazy.Yeh, I totes would love those people in my country. They were ready to hurl rocks at agents? And you’re gonna let that in? I don’t think so.
North America doesn’t need cheap labor. Trump has to hold the line here.
I wonder what Reason’s open borders spin on this is. I’ve yet to read them (I could be wrong of course) speak in defence of the law.
And remember when the media said there was no caravan and that it was a right-wing myth?
It’s also horrible how the parents put their kids in harm’s way like that.
There’s a decent chance that the parents were lied to by the organizers of this shit show.
Yes. I believe that. But once at the border, they should have understood that’s not how you do things.
Assuming they too, and I could just go by the pictures, were storming the border.
I’m pretty sure if they sat tight U.S. border, once things were under control, would have given instructions. I think. What do I know about these things?
They had a long way to figure that out.
You would think. But I guess you begin to believe the lie.
Of course the WaPo today has photos of children fleeing the tear gas, accompanied by stoies of “outrage”.
Which of course was the whole point of having children present.
“stories”
They learned well from the Gazan Arabs.
My 14 year old saw this on the news and commented “Well the Intifada kinda worked for Palestine”.
He’s pretty on top of things for a HS freshman.
Jim Acosta says wut?
There is no caravan of military age males with large numbers of criminals in their midsts, it’s all a sponteneous gathering of helpless women and babies.
/CNN
The AP report in today’s paper didn’t mention anything about the stormers hurling rocks at the Border guys.
Just that Border guys fired tear gas and “children ran screaming and crying.”
“Higher temperatures will also kill more people, the report says,” CNN reported. “The Midwest alone, which is predicted to have the largest increase in extreme temperature, will see an additional 2,000 premature deaths per year by 2090.”
Warmer temps would make more areas have more suitable farming climate. And I’d like to know how they did their premature death estimate.
Midwesterners are cold-adapted. They’d turn to puddles if out of their mobile refrigeration units after global warming sets in.
That’s why I have my Mr. Freeze body armor already built.
Cold causes more deaths than heat so I assume cold deaths will reduce by more than that.
Also hate to seem callous but an extra 27 premature deaths per year is to little to even consider it a valid number. Even if true the benefits would greatly outweigh the costs – not that I subscribe to utilitarianism but those who make these claims usually do
“The 11-year-old trailblazing drag kid ‘Desmond is Amazing'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxdvOLdG_34
Eleven? That is just wrong.
JHTFC
That’s sick. If an adult wants to do that on their own initiative, go for it. Parents (and media) encouraging that behavior pre-puberty is just fucked up.
The snivling spineless father needs an ass whipping for letting that happen to his son.
If the kid wants to do that at 21, well ok.
That he is encouraged to do it at 11 is sickening.
It’s fucked up when parents do that kind of shit with pre-pubescent girls. It’s no less fucked up when they do that with boys, yet this is celebrated by the media because GENDER!
The child beauty contest circuit is a truly evil thing. I can’t stand that shit.
There’s absolutely nothing sexualized about prepubescent gender bending children being paraded on national television. Do you even woke, bro?
Thumbs up vs. thumbs down on that video gives me a little hope.
Why do I have this feeling that the omnivorous/carnivorous locust swarm has not only been done before, but in something I’ve read or watched?
there were the scarabs in The Mummy…
Well, have you ever been to Virginia? Locusts from the northeast have destroyed this state.
Occluded Cortex to the rescue!
People are going to die if we don’t start addressing climate change ASAP.
It’s not enough to think it’s “important.” We must make it urgent.
That’s why we need a Select Committee on a Green New Deal, & why fossil fuel-funded officials shouldn’t be writing climate change policy.
It’s amazing how much is said in such few words.
Should probably start flagging all emails related to climate change as “high importance”. That will get the issue the attention it needs.
At least she is consistent. If you buy the rhetoric on global heatifying, it really is the biggest issue, bar none. It’s a less hypocritical stance than someone like sexy massage enthusiast Al Gore who is burning every bit of carbon he can.
Just to clarify, the word “sexy” was modifying the massage, not the enthusiast.
Goddamnit enough with the stupid names at least find one and stick to it
This.
Tell that to Ms. Hyphen
You’re no fun.
Chief Justice Roberts is wrong. We do have Obama judges and Trump judges
What judge wants to be restricted in their scope of power by the law as written?
Making shit up along the way (penaltax) is much more fun.
Magnificent Booty Monday:
https://thesexier.com/lets-appreciate-perfect-booties/
Warning: a few of these are NSFW
If I had to pick gold/silver/bronze:
55, 27, 12
Is it camera lens distortion or do many of these women have short and heavy legs? Give me a long-legged beauty every time.
Pretty sure it’s because women with a thicc booty usually have the thiccness extend south from there. Not everyone wants that, of course, though I think it can be hot.
Is The Deep State Feeling The Heat?
The Deep State is the Derp State
They’re concerned because the Brits and the Yanks have been doing an end run on the restrictions against spying on their own people by each having the other do it for them.
So, basically a foreign government coordinating with a major US political party to intervene in the US presidential election to assist that party’s candidate?
Has this been covered around here? Cause it seems to my like it is so 2018… except for roosh who I though had crawled under a rock for good but apparently hes still out there.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/rightwing-trolls-report-online-sex-workers-to-tax-authorities-in-thotaudit/news-story/16cff3e5f5f4303b78d1dc23c80af4db
Online sex workers have slammed a viral campaign by right-wing “incels” and men’s rights activists to mass report them to tax authorities for allegedly failing to declare income.
The hashtag #ThotAudit, which appears to have been started by a Facebook user calling themselves “David Wu”, began to trend on Sunday after being promoted by controversial pick-up artist and “legal rape” advocate Daryush ‘Roosh’ Valizadeh.
“Online thots are finding out that all income generated from their breasts and vagina is taxable,” Mr Valizadeh tweeted.
“Men are aggressively organising to report all thots. I don’t blame them: these girls are getting a free ride via beta bux and a broken sexual marketplace that is rigged in the favour of females.”
Way to confirm these guys are shitbag losers. Calling the tax-man on prostitutes. I mean, better than shooting up yoga studios but not exactly the kind of move that’s going to make a woman swoon.
Mostly cam girl really…
Even sadder.
“David Wu”
The carpet pisser?
So classy.
I wouldn’t object to a pimp beating the shit out of them.
Well most incels are ex special forces so hard to beat… But thing is assholes like this will always exist on the internet so to think outside the box one should abolish the IRS to stop this
Maybe many of these (likely prog) “sex workers” should re-consider their views on big government and the necessity of the IRS itself.
Sleazy as these guys are, I can’t argue with their logic. If I have to file a W2, they should too.
Don’t be too hasty.
It could be a 1099.
“What’s a 1099?”
“If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.”
That would leave Democrats with limited options: Agree to a greater deficit on other committees to preserve Judiciary seats for potential 2020 hopefuls, or convince a more senior Democrat to take one for the team.
Leaders could try to lure Democrats away from Judiciary with spots on other panels, such as Senate Finance, where the midterm losses of Sens. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., may create new vacancies. But those panels are not as likely to command national attention or provide political opportunities to challenge Trump.
Who knows, they might even unintentionally stumble into doing “the people’s business” once in a while, if they feel like taking a break from grandstanding.
The Senate Republicans should just bypass committee hearings for any future nominees and just go right to a vote to deprive the Dems of bad-faith grandstanding opportunities.
^^^This. Scorched Earth. You know they’ll do it once they’re back in power, might as well launch a preemptive strike.
Just drop all of the gentlemens agreements in congress. The left has no respect for such things and will eventually throw them out as soon as it benefits them. This whole “then the left can use it” bullshit is pointless. They’re gonna use it either way, may as well throw the first punch.
Seen at the border:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro
“Men are aggressively organising to report all thots. I don’t blame them: these girls are getting a free ride via beta bux and a broken sexual marketplace that is rigged in the favour of females.”
Pathetic losers are pathetic.
I don’t even follow the vernacular.
It is funny when these people call others betas. Because nothing says alpha like what they are doing…
Money people like Minnesodans way more than stupid, elitist New Yorkers.
Good, one more step to getting money out of politics
“Higher temperatures will also kill more people, the report says,” CNN reported.
Tell that to all the people who abandon Montana for Arizona every winter.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
I’m inclined to go with the right-wingers take on things about climate change.
While I won’t go with the hoax thing (though I can sympathize), it’s definitely an over-politicized issue with all the requisite manipulations and a dash of a trompe l’oeil.
I think it is exaggeration plus politics plus massive confirmation bias but will not use the “H” word
I think that the religious fervor of many adherents take it (barely) out of the hoax bucket. They are perfectly willing to distort their findings, suppress dissent, and generally take positions that aren’t justifiable based on the data, but are justified based on their fervent and sincere belief that global warming is an existential threat.
That fervent and sincere belief is what keeps it from being a true hoax, which is a knowing and more cynical fraud. But take out that subjective element, and its indistinguishable from a hoax.
I actually just require a cost-benefit analysis that shows me that spending trillions on carbon taxes will pay off. I don’t understand how anyone can support a massive expense without one.
I am more on the wind and solar is insanely fucking stupid so I will take you seriously as an environmentalist when you want to go all in on molten salt reactors.
We have massive wind farms out here in Texas so it’s very annoying to me when I hear they are “good for the environment”.
They literally and immediately destroy the local environment with a massive footprint.
They are death machines for birds.
Here in NJ, I’ve seen corn fields dug up, sprayed with herbicides, and replaced with solar panels – for the environment.
They exist, at least for the US government. They are put out the the fed gov every once in a while. They are all highly, highly dependent on the discount rate applied. At 0 (which is argued for by some stupid people) then nearly any reasonable intervention is worth it. At a discount rate of 3% and 5%, climate change still has a large negative impact. When private citizens propgated that out to a 7% discount rate, climate change is a net positive for something like one to two hundred years (I don’t remember) and then becomes a net-cost after that. (this assumes no major structural changes to the economy, environment, technology, or personal preferences)
Tellingly, the government is by law required to report future costs with at least a 3% and 7% discount rate, though they can use other rates if they like.
Over/Under on when this new woke craft brewery goes under? (Just rhetorical because no way its demise will be noted in the press)
Read the article — just seems like he’s trying to find a niche in an ever-crowding market (craft breweries).
My “read” is not a directive to you, by the way. I forgot to put “I” at the beginning.
My scorn is more for the media gushing over this guy and his craft brewery, than for him (although registering as a public benefit corp is close to the line).
No problem for anyone who sees a niche and tries to fill it.
MPR’s story is all about how great a craft brewery is because of who will be drinking there. Not because of how good the beer is.
“Good Beer” and “Latin America” are concepts that are not generally associated. I’m not saying there aren’t any (because I know Nephilium is going to come by and drop a few examples no one ever heard of) I’m saying it’s not an association people generally make.
Well he is from Uruguay, so he isn’t really from Latin America. Although your point still stands because no Uruguayan beers spring readily to mind.
We must be operating from different definitions of “Latin America” as my understanding was that it stretched from the northern border of Mexico to Cape Horn, with debatability for the handful of english-speaking enclaves and Brazil.
Portuguese is a romance language, Brazil can fairly be included. Pretty much everything on the continent except Belize, the US and Canada.
You forget Guyana and French Giuana. Though if you’re so crass as to include any Language descended from Latin rather than just Spanish, French Guiana doesn’t stand out.
Suriname is a former Dutch colony.
Huh. I’ve always thought Latin America was Mexico and the little shitty central American countries. I never thought of South America as part of that.
If this wasn’t the internet, I’d confess to having a weird brain fart and admit that your definition was correct.
Since this is the internet – and common netiquette demands it – I will instead question your basic intelligence, sexuality and viability as a sentient being. No way I am wrong!
Not really. I’d have to look some up. From what I’ve read, they’re just getting a craft brewing scene (equivalent to the US in the late 70’s early 80’s) now. Difficulty in getting licenses (alcohol and business), raw materials, equipment, brewing education, and currency fluctuations have all been pointed to as the issues for them lagging behind in this.
What are the legal/tax issues around that? Sounds like bullshit to me.
As I understand it, very little to nothing. I believe that some people theorize it could help ward off share-holder lawsuits if they were acting in a not-profit-maximing way to benefit their public benefit. Every one needs to filing a short form describing their public benefit work each year. You can read La Dona’s 2018 filing here. Looks like a couple hundred buck of in-kind donations to community events.
It’s really one of my favorite government regulations – optional, low-compliance cost, and providing for formalized transparency.
Meh. If they make good beer, they’ll probably last for quite a while. We may be reaching the beginning of another Craft Beer shakeout, but I’m not so sure. So far, the national brands are the ones having the most issue (generally due to over expanding, shelf space, and taking on too much debt): Stone, Green Flash, New Belgium, etc. Locally, here in Cleveland we’ve had only a couple of breweries close in the past several years. The reasons for them closing didn’t surprise anyone in the local scene: one had a bad location, expensive ingredient costs (due to their boil kettle, they needed specialty malts to avoid DMS), couldn’t decide if they were going to focus on their beer or their rum; another was a small business who lost their location due to a fire, couldn’t find a location that fit their needs, so they closed; a third lost their distribution, believable stories of drug/alcohol abuse by the head brewer/owner; and the fourth had mediocre beer, and moved to a larger location that their crowd couldn’t afford.
There’s still new breweries opening all the time up here, and several breweries in the area that make passable beer (IMNSHO) but stay in business. Hell, there’s one place that’s open for 8 hours a week. Four hours Friday night, and four hours Saturday night. No canning line, no bottling line, they may distribute kegs (I haven’t seen them on tap, but they’re on the other side of Cleveland from me), but it’s just a taproom.
Walter Williams: Fruits Of College Indoctrination
Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.” Much later, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said, “Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” From the Nazis to Stalinists to Maoists, tyrants have always started out supporting free speech, just as American leftists did during the 1960s. Their support for free speech is easy to understand. Speech is vital for the realization of their goals of command, control and confiscation. The right to say what they please is their tool for indoctrination, propagandizing and proselytization. Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses. Much of the off-campus incivility we see today is the fruit of what a college education has done to our youth.
Two drivers charged for having marijuana within arms reach while driving: OPP
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/wellington-opp-drivers-caught-with-container-of-marijuana-1.4916708
the charge amused me
If you have a small car, no pot for you.
“At around 9:40 p.m. Friday, Wellington County OPP officers stopped a white passenger van at a check point on Highway 6 and Laird Road W. in Guelph.
The officers detected the odour of marijuana and noticed a container of dried marijuana “in plain view.”
A 31-year-old woman from Puslinch Township was ticketed for driving a motor vehicle with cannabis readily available, contrary to the Cannabis Act.”
It sounds like a silly law, but it doesn’t sound like the size of the vehicle would matter.
Someone just isn’t down with O.P.P.
Lol. How incompetent are the Trudeau Liberals? They managed to mobilize a pro-pipelines protest which rarely, if ever, happens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVNW9GDbOWQ
We put too much weight on environmentalists and Native demands – who sometimes or usually just want to line their pockets. Canada IS but about natural resources and the government’s stance is irresponsible to an industry so vital to growth.
There is no bad science. There is science and not science.
Do we at least get to keep the categories of Mad Science and Superscience?
A bit oversimplified… Science can be wrong
Science is a process and methodology. A scientist can be wrong. Conclusions can be wrong. You can fail to apply the scientific method properly (or at all). Science is not something that itself has opinions or makes statements of fact.
You can disprove a hypothesis and even theories with new experiments and observation. If it can’t be disproved with data, it isn’t science.
Over/Under on when this new woke craft brewery goes under?
They’ll probably get protested for cultural appropriation.
Since the guy is from Uruguay, I can also see him getting taken down by the LGBT Rainbow Warriors for homophobia.
“Every time I ask him where he is from, he just calls me gay!”
it sounds more like he is Chinese and shortening gweilo.
Glad he found a good job after the Cubs
Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed. This is increasingly the case on university campuses. Much of the off-campus incivility we see today is the fruit of what a college education has done to our youth.
An excellent illustration of this is the recent hoopla over the Koch Foundatiion’s attempts to endow Montana State with a grant for an “economics of regulation” research facility. You would have thought they wanted to reproduce Josef Mengele’s research on twins.
The faculty freaked out. Apparently they realize the power of the truth. If you actually allow the students n opportunity to hear an opposing view, they will abandon your pro government theology in a heartbeat. It’s entertaining to see them ope3nly admit how feeble their reasoning is. I believe the faculty successfully put the whammy on it. I haven’t heard anything about it for a while.
But it’s the KKKoch brothers, the ones who control all the racists in the country with their clandestine machinations.
Misery, pain, meaninglessness and disappointment are all part and parcel of the tragedy of human existence. Distract yourself with titties.
http://archive.is/BzsBE
12. Dayum.
2, 4, & 9. One at a time or all at once, it don’t matter none to me.
Gold/silver/bronze: 2, 18, 10.
12 does seem to have the biggest pair.
Kmele had on a bunch of black scholars to discuss race and racism on last week’s Fifth Column. Before you gouge out your earballs, as of ~forty minutes in the tone is conservative enough to send Moynihan and Welch bawling from the room. (They didn’t sit in on this episode, thankfully.) I don’t think any of the four is an avowed conservative, but they’re similar to Kmele in his skepticism for the race consciousness of the left.
I stopped listening to 5th column a while back because Kmele is the only one I could stand.
Ditto
I take that back. Moynihan can be interesting when he’s not talking about politics.
Except Moynihan never knows when to shut the fuck up and let someone else talk. But yeah, he can be funny as long as he stays away from politics and journalism.
He is always ragging on people because they work for some media outlet I have never heard of. Way too inside baseball for my taste.
^THIS^
Welsh and Moynihan were bad enough, but they kept inviting other “journalists” on to make it even worse. Kmele was the only one who didn’t make me tear my hair out.
I finally unsubscribed when Bari Weiss was on and sort of admitted she was against Kavanaugh because he was one of those jock frat boys that she hated in high school.
is that a podcast?
Ayeh
My current plan is to push Kmele for the LP nomination in 2020. Otherwise I’m writing him in.
* Unless Kamala Harris is nominated, in which case I’m voting for Trump.
Seconded.
His wife said she’d divorce him if he runs for anything, I believe.
Did you just doxx yourself as Gay-J? I think he said he’d support a Kmele candidacy during an interview on the 5th Column way back in 2016.
You don’t have to be an avowed conservative to find today’s left has lost the plot.
And yet, despite the fact that this loony toon shit has been openly unashamedly pushed by them 24/7 for the past few years, they still are able to retake the house. I wonder what the great thinkers who ushered in the enlightenment would think if they could see this is how it all ends? We need some type of super caldera eruption to go with our new dark ages. Or maybe a large meteor or comet would do.
There’s a reason Team A and Team B collude to prevent the creation of Team X, Y, or Z.
But the A Team pities them fools.
While the A Team’s ability to perform miraculous work on vans in a barn at a moment’s notice is admirable, it is all negated by their horrendous marksmanship.
In the years and years they spend on the lam and the millions of rounds they fired from their van as they tried to outrun bad guys, did they ever hit anyone? Or did all the bad guys end up rolling over after wiping out?
No wonder we lost Vietnam, if our elites couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. (You will notice the A Team never fucked with Vietnamese crime bosses, they learned their lesson).
The only gunshot resulting in an injury that I recall happened off-screen, where BA had been hit in the leg and getting medical attention was what led them to the town of the week.
I’ve joked for years that a pandemic is sorely needed. I’d either be dead or able to gambol across the plains with all the freedom I’d ever want.
Or be forced to live underground in weird yet interesting Terry Gilliam dystopia.
That was, needless to say, a surprise for me. And makes me wonder how much longer the “institutions” can last. They’re already decayed, warped, and teetering. It won’t take much to push the country toward a dictatorship. Because that ‘god like” power is what the extreme left craves.
Any bets on what the next decade or two will look like?
I’ll hazard a guess, but my musing should be taken with a grain of salt since I really like post-apocalyptic fiction:
1- more gun control. To the point where the black market begins to blossom
2- more political correctness; which can already be seen. Right wing “extremists” will be driven underground since people will be afraid to lose their jobs for holding the “wrong” views.
3- an eventual erosion of the senate / house, where the presidency holds all the power. See Rome
4- said president will always “win” – see Lenin
5- a bloody Civil War
???
Profit!
So… “Venezuela”.
Gold. Rations. Ammo.
And I really need to buy a gun (or two or twenty).
I recommend some silver, too. Either “junk” silver or 1 oz coins. More tradeable than gold. Although 1/4 oz (roughly) British sovereigns could also be handy (and lighter than silver).
I’ve been thinking about putting together a couple of bugout bags. Aside from the usual (clothes, hiking shoes, water purification, handguns and ammo, knives/multitools, some survival chow, etc.), they will each have some bullion coins in them; in a SHTF scenario, you’re gonna need to buy some shit and pay some bribes.
We’re still a good ways away from a Venezuela collapse – hell, it took them over a decade – but the gear I would want is likely to be harder and harder to get as a collapse like that approaches. The real question for me is . . . bug-out to where?
Maybe the Amish will need some armed guards.
I’m looking at Korea as my bugout place. It might not be any free-er than here, but the food is good and they like to drink and fight.
Not my Amerikkka!
California Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday condemned the use of tear gas on a group of migrants that included women and children after some members attempted to breach the U.S.-Mexico border.
Newsom quoted a tweet that included a widely shared photo of a woman and two young children running from tear gas near the border.
“That’s not my America,” Newsom wrote. “We’re a land of refuge. Of hope. Of freedom. And we will not stand for this.”
Get back o me when you decide to declare war on the Union.
Gavin, the moment you let Californians be free, I might start giving you the benefit of the doubt. Until then, stop shitting on the english language.
Who is this “we”, kemosabe?
If you throw rocks at the police, they disperse the crowd with tear gas.
This is generally considered an advancement over mowing the crowd down with machine guns.
That was my take.
“This is us being humane. You wouldn’t like us being not-humane.”
“You wouldn’t like us when we’re angry.”
“We’re a land of refuge”
Well, Cali is definitely a long of refuge these days. And shit too if you visit San Fran.
Gavin Newsome’s America isn’t my America, so I guess we’re even.
Gavin McInnes quits the Proud Boys to alleviate pressure on the PBs arrested in NYC who beat the shit out of a group of Antefa after a speach at the GOP Club.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGrPjx2V_TA
I used to find Gavin entertaining in small doses on Red Eye, but now he has this weird right-wing hipster thing going that just doesn’t have the same comedic gravitas.
Still no reason why he should be banned.
Nope.
Never watched him on Gutfeld’s show. I find his current work of trolling the shit out of the Left to be very funny and watch his GOML show on CRTV a couple times a week.
I admire his unabashed pride in the West.
Let’s ignore the fact that the antifa totally needed the shit beat out of them. It should happen on a daily basis.
“Trans Activists’ Campaign Against ‘TERFs’ has Become an Attack on Science
Consider, for instance, last year’s saga involving Rebecca Tuvel—who was hounded by trans activists and scholars after applying a theoretical application of transgender ideology to the idea of “trans-racialism.” Scandalously, the article in question was edited post facto so as to remove the name “Bruce Jenner”—in response to the claim that these two words served to “dead-name” the person now known as Caitlyn Jenner (despite the fact that Caitlyn Jenner herself repeatedly refers to “Bruce” in interviews). To cite the historically verifiable fact that someone named Bruce Jenner once existed is now seen as a sort of religious heresy. And like all heresies, it must be ritualistically expunged—not because it is factually wrong, but because it is seen as morally wrong.
In August, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island was criticized for removing a news release about a peer-reviewed study published in PLoS One by one of its academics—Lisa Littman, a physician and researcher at Brown’s School of Public Health. Littman’s article, titled “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports,“ discusses the phenomenon by which social media and peer pressure seem to have fuelled the recently observed trend by which young teenagers (typically girls) suddenly declare themselves transgender. The paper infuriated transgender activists, who claim that the entire notion of rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is a transphobic invention. Both Brown and PLoS One also were attacked as Brown’s enablers.”
https://quillette.com/2018/10/18/trans-activists-campaign-against-terfs-has-become-an-attack-on-science/
*Grabs popcorn*
The one good thing about this psuedo-marixist leftist stupidity is that it eventually eats its own.
Pharmacology question. Is there any additional processing to turn the sap/latex/whatever of the poppy into opium if not producing morphine (or the society has not discovered morphine yet)
Just google ‘how is opium made’. Make sure to do it on your work computer and CC the results to proper authorities.
Term it “traditional poppy cultivation and refinement of indigenous Afghani tribes” and now it’s all cultural and woke.
Not sure I understand the question. Its my understanding that opium is basically the dried sap of the poppy, and morphine is refined from opium.
I’ve had a similar level of certainty, and been proven wrong, so I was looking to be certain.
Just ask an old Chinese lady or some coolies.
Can’t get the info from Wikipedia?
Looks like it’s ready to smoke at that level. Morphine takes further processing.
It was unclear to me whether that was the case.
This part does confuse me:
So – back when i was 18 – did I smoke Opium or “Morphine Base”?
Well, what did it looke like? was it more of a jelly or a brown paste?
30 years ago – but I remember it looking like black/grayish tar. It was, as far as I know, the real stuff. After that there was a flood of fake opium that didn’t have the same (wonderful) effects as the first time.
That was one drug that I adored since it erased every damn problem in your mind. Complete relaxation. The next day I immediately wanted to smoke some more(!) but my source, who lived two states away, was spotty. So no addiction for me.
We always called it SOAPium, due to the order and taste.
So, it really was made from cilantro?
I am one of the cilantro-soap people.
did I smoke Opium or “Morphine Base”?
They could be one and the same. I guess I would say that if, before morphine was a thing, that raw jelly-like opium was still processed “by a simple acid-base extraction” into what people smoked, then “retail” opium and morphine base are pretty much the same thing.
As ever, UnCiv, I applaud your OCD need to get these kind of details straight.
“Rantz: Evergreen students aim to disarmed cops, want ‘sanctuary campus’ and ‘fun’ instead
More than a year after holding then-professor Bret Weinstein hostage for taking a position on a controversial protest they didn’t like, protesters now ask Evergreen State College to cease their hiring of two new police officers, while chanting their demands that the officers disarm themselves and promote “fun” and their status as a “sanctuary campus” instead.
The protesters with IWW South Sound General Education Union gave the school 14 days to submit to their demands. Evergreen has ignored them.
“This is a college not a war, what do we need rifles for!” the protest of about 100 students and faculty members chanted earlier this month, according to the Cooper Point Journal, a student-run publication. A sign at the protest: “No Guns, More Fun.”
The protest came after students learned the school was hiring for two new officer positions, while cutting some faculty members and programs. The cuts come as the school faces a “catastrophic” enrollment crisis.”
http://mynorthwest.com/1195970/evergreen-students-cops-sanctuary-campus/
How are they still in business?
When you admit 98% of the people who apply, you’re not going to end up enrolling the best, but you’re going to end up enrolling many people.
Fun without guns. Interesting concept. However, back in reality, people who have no one with guns to protect them, typically are not having too much fun. They’re too busy being robbed, raped, and brutally murdered.
Well, it’s in Olympia not Mogadishu.
Just give progs total power for a while, that will fix it.
True.
“It’s abundantly clear from the decision made by the administration and board of trustees that the school is not being run in the interest of students and faculty.”
Evidently correct, since it’s hemorrhaging students.
It’s more like an adult kindergarten.
the school is not being run in the interest of students and faculty.
Well, considering it’s a state school, it’s not supposed to be run in the interest of students and faculty. It’s supposed to be run in the interest of taxpayers.
“This is a college not a war, what do we need rifles for!”
I’m sure you’ll say the same thing if there is ever an active shooter at Evergreen.
“No Guns, More Fun.”
“
Orange ManFirearms bad.” ///npcThe “catchy-chant” generation is full of absolute retards.
Now, look, I know for a fact that’s not true.
More guns
Fewer cops
Live happily ever after
They are taxpayer funded.
“Twitter Slides Further into Irrelevancy
A lot has changed in 10 years. Today, Twitter is mostly dumb people yelling at each other and self-appointed hall monitors trying to shut down accounts they don’t follow. On Saturday, feminist Meghan Murphy was permanently banned for stating that men aren’t women. Sunday, conservative commentator Jesse Kelly was permanently banned for … who knows? Twitter gave no explanation. In response, ur-blogger Instapundit deactivated his account and others are likely to follow.
With every dead account, Twitter gets a little less interesting. And since the social media site hasn’t been very interesting for years, that’s something CEO Jack Dorsey can little afford. There’s an obvious anti-conservative bias at play — most of the big names are booted for disagreeing with leftist narratives. Meanwhile, charmers like Louis Farrakhan say whatever they want.”
https://ricochet.com/575177/twitter-slides-further-into-irrelevancy/
Kelly is a supreme asshole (copyright 2018 Robert Soave, all rights reserved), but I think what specifically got him banned was … um … *checks list* … saying that the southerners who fought for the Confederacy were mostly poor non-slaveholders.
Well, the rich do usually avoid having to fight in war.
Huh, resentment against slaveowning landowners and blaming them for the Civil War wasn’t uncommon afterwards.
I don’t know anything about Jesse Kelly. Megan Murphy and Laura Loomer are arguably assholes, but they shouldn’t have been banned.
Besides, crazy assholes is largely what makes Twitter interesting.
If you’re a crazy antisemitic asshole, you’re the right kind of crazy asshole for Twitter.
I don’t know anything about Jesse Kelly, but that matches up pretty well with all of the historical evidence. Slave owners were a small minority of southerners, and the number of people who owned more than a couple of slaves were even rarer and mostly limited to the extremely wealthy. They could pay draft substitutes or just pay the fee to not fight.
Your with your historical evidence. How am I to hate all things southern if I can’t assume all southerners are evil bigots who fought for slavery? //sarc
I have brought up that the average person fighting for the csa was unlikely fighting to protect the institution of slavery because a) they are in economic competition with slave labor and b) they, themselves, did not own slaves. It is usually scoffed away. Critical thinking is not most peoples strength.
One of the first “human interest” type stories I ever read about the Civil War was a situation where a union soldier and confederate soldier were talking (don’t exactly remember the details of why they weren’t just shooting at each other). The union soldier told the confederate that he was fighting to preserve the union and end slavery. What was the confederate fighting for? The response was “We’re fighting because you’re here”.
fighting to preserve the union
Ironically, the voluntary union of the founders was destroyed when it was held together by force of arms. My response when people lay this disingenuous claim is “King George III thought the same thing.”
Funny, just thought of that same quote.
And I doubt that most U.S. soldiers fighting in Korea had any clear idea what Capitalism v. Communism was all about. When your “leaders” say fight “those evil bastards over there” then you’ll fight.
Most southrons bought the idea that they had to fight Lincoln’s invaders in order to preserve their homes and protect their women and not be told what to do. Then when you’ve accumulated 300,000 dead, most aren’t going to say “well, they died in vain.” No, you manufacture “glorious lost cause” b.s.
Well, also, at a certain point, it stops being about principles or orders and starts being about a bunch of guys with strange accents stomping around your yard shooting at your friends.
No, they were fighting for debutante balls. You know, those “peculiar institutions” in the articles of secession. The shape of Oklahoma had nothing to do with slavery, but whether people should address an individual as “y’all” or “you”. The secession started upon the election of Lincoln because they didn’t like his position on mint juleps . The Missouri Compromise was really about whether the banjo should be considered a stringed instrument or an abomination.
There were many differences between North and South in the civil war, but I can only come away with one conclusion – it doesn’t get fought if slavery weren’t an issue. And while most members fighting in the Confederacy saw themselves as “America 2.0”, fighting off an imperial power, they were fighting to preserve their “way of life” including those” peculiar institutions.
There were many differences between North and South in the civil war, but I can only come away with one conclusion – it doesn’t get fought if slavery weren’t an issue
Slavery was the defining issue of the war, but some like to oversimplify it into being the only issue of the war. The South was sick of the North’s shit, both on slavery (in which the North was justified to be shitting on the South) and on other issues (where the North was just being a bully)
Respectfully, I think you’re conflating some issues. The Civil War didn’t happen because the North one day said, “Hey, you’ve got slaves,” to which the South replied, “Yep, wanna make somethin’ of it?” at which point the North said, “Yeah, fuckers, it’s WAR!” Slavery was the spark that ignited the war, but the beef had been building for decades over economic issues, cultural differences, and political rivalry. Saying the Civil War was about slavery is a little like saying World War II was about the Holocaust.
Of course, no one can say whether the Civil War would have been fought if the South hadn’t tried to retain chattel slavery and/or the North hadn’t decided to outlaw it.
To me, the underlying issue that the war was about wasn’t necessarily what other political issues the North and South were divided on, but whether a state or group of states had the power to withdraw from the United States. The other political issues were what set the timing for the war over whether states could secede; the essential argument, and what the war, in my mind, was “really” fought over was whether states could secede.
The South wasn’t trying to take over the federal government by force of arms or coup d’etat to maintain slavery, it was trying to leave (mainly) to do so.
Again, no way to know, but I think a civil war, or at least a military suppression of an attempted secession, was inevitable at some point, for some reason. Whether this means the Civil War was fought “because of” slavery is mostly a semantic argument, in my mind. That was the immediate cause, but not the underlying reason for the war.
Perhaps in a few years, everyone on the site can agree with each other about everything. Problem for Twitter is, there’ll only be a dozen members.
Yeah, the intensification of leftist paranoia and exclusionism means that dialogue becomes infinitely more acerbic as the population dwindles. It’s like PUBG but for politically-honed retardation.
The only thing I’ll add is that, as Twitter (and the rest of the social media) becomes more intentionally selective in their appeal, they run the risk of losing the political cover that makes their business model viable. I know some folks here, even, get tired of my Section 230 comments, but it is a real issue. Now, add to this the fact that the leftist political class seems quite interested in painting the tech giants as “the new robber barons”, and you run into a situation that logically becomes untenable for them. Does Dorsey think conservative, or even libertarian, politicians are going to make defending his fortune a priority while he systematically attempts to bar them from the public square?
Not tired
Just intrigued why a Glib is so fascinated with unhelpful laws
I think stripping social media platforms (and even website hosting services) of immunity from libel laws by treating them on the same plan as (other) “publishers” when they engage in “bad faith” double-standard content-driven prior restraint could be very helpful indeed in either (a) returning these platforms and services to their original “wide-open” format or (b) policing the damage they do.
The original concept behind the CDA isn’t bad, but the world has moved on and either the law needs to be updated, or it needs to be applied with current realities in mind.
The world has moved on to suing S&W instead of the trigger man. The retelling of the story doesn’t convince.
I’m not gunning for anyone, but these moved on exceptions usually have interesting motives and don’t seem to come up when the correct ox is being gored.
The world has moved on to suing S&W instead of the trigger man.
Except, as I’ve said before, your analogy only works if S&W maintains control over who can and can’t have one of their guns. If S&W decided they had the right to decide who could and couldn’t own one of their guns, they’d just about certainly have legal liability for selling one of their guns to someone who used it illegally.
If S&W decided they had the right to decide who could and couldn’t own one of their guns, they’d just about certainly have legal liability for selling one of their guns to someone who used it illegally.
Traditionally, only the people who participated in a crime as either the primary criminal, or their conspirators or accessories, were responsible. That was back when mens rea was a thing required for anyone to be convicted, and not just the well-connected.
My argument on the current CDA is that it requires “good faith” determinations of “offensiveness”. A double standard (based on the politics of the speaker) cannot be good faith, and Twitter and Facebook are rife with double standards. Nobody who bans anyone for anti-Semitism, but keeps Farrakhan, can be said to act in good faith.
Traditionally, only the people who participated in a crime as either the primary criminal, or their conspirators or accessories, were responsible.
Certainly, that holds true for criminal liability. Does it for civil?
For civil liability, traditionally you would have to show at a minimum some kind of negligence, and also a chain of causation (what counts as causation is always contested, of course).
So, if S & W (1) controlled retail sales of its firearms, and (2) vetted buyers for risk, and (3) negligently missed a risk, and (4) that risk has a sufficient causal connection to the crime, it could be civilly liable.
Except making an exception to the law for some people and not others is pretty much definitionally abusive.
That’s true if the exception is based on identifying individuals as exempt, but not true if it the exemption is behavior based.
Envy as a measure of poverty
Critics of the federal poverty guidelines argue that these numbers are too low, thanks to growing inequality — in the 1960s, the federal poverty level was about half of the median income, but is now well below that. Moreover, as a country grows richer, hunger becomes less common, so using it as measure of poverty becomes less useful. When the middle class is defined by having “a chicken in every pot and a car in every backyard” (a campaign slogan from 1928), then simply having a chicken would seem to indicate that you’re not poor. But when your middle-class neighbors have several cars, several televisions and spacious homes, you might feel poor.
This is where the second measure — relative poverty — comes in. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development defines poverty this way: If you earn less than half of the median income, you’re poor.
It doesn’t matter what you have. As long as somebody else has more, you’re oppressed. Them rich folks is stealing from you.
The easy fix is to live somewhere where you don’t have a neighbor, then you’ll always be rich!
Land waster killing mother Gaia.
Easier fix: move to a shithole where nobody has more than you do.
At least they’re being honest about it.
Equality of outcome, even if it’s starvation is the only just way.
Don’t forget that skin color and race are also factors in poverty. If you’re a wipipo, you can have the lowest income on the scale, but you still are not poor. Because.
Smash the system!
Also, your neighbor with that stuff could be making more than you, or be in a hell of a lot of debt; or both.
The 10th Commandment is as dead as the 10th Amendment. Both were key to holding our society and government together.
That’s the one where you aren’t supposed to covet dat ass, right?
But don’t they see that such a measure is useless… It would be impossible to limit “Poverty because there will always be people who are above average and below average. The only way you could attempt to mitigate that would be to Institute some kind of scheme where everyone got paid the …. ohh i see now.
Do they think we are so stupid that we won’t notice that they have for all intents and purposes defined poverty to mean the bottom economic quintile regardless of how wealthy that group is?
On second thought, yeah the average person probably is that stupid
If everyone in America had double the wealth tomorrow, poverty would increase based on the relative poverty metrics we and the UN now use.
The United States has actually 0 poverty based on absolute poverty metrics (and welfare here alone is more valuable than what people make in third world countries).
“hunger becomes less common,”
What are you talking about? I saw a few tv ads recently where Hollywood celebrities assured me that “1 in 6 Americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from.” If that were literally true, wouldn’t the authorities be picking up starved, dead people by the truckload every morning?
Who believes this nonsense??
That’s a terribly misleading statistic. I don’t know where my next meal is coming from because I haven’t decided if I’m going to the grocery store or if I’m just going to scrounge in my fridge.
Hunger is also not a real thing.
It’s even more dubious than our relative poverty metric.
Who said this (paraphrasing)? Was it Sowell?
“In 3rd world countries, the government’s role is to make things seem better than they are. In first world countries, the government’s role is to make things seem worse”
you might feel poor
Relevance?
relative poverty
Relative to the rest of the world, the “poor” (no matter how it is defined) in America live like kings.
This is thinly veiled communist claptrap.
People might have varying needs, desires and abilities, but that’s not fair. We need to go full Harrison Bergeron.
@Richard, if you are reading.
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Uffda. Andrea Duarte sounds like a fun person.
Small town daughter of immigrants goes off to college and now is going back with a poli-sci degree and a burning desire to
get whiteyhelp the other immigrants.The story shows that Duarte is basically the Reese Witherspoon character in Election. She has gotten tons of scholarships, mentorship from a dean at her college and also a Minnesoda Supreme Court justice. You can just see the violence inherent in they system that keeps her and other immigrants down.
Is this talking about government decisions? Business decisions? Charitable decision? Romantic decisions?…
I don’t know about your town, but we have a White Council here. We gather monthly to discuss everyone’s future and set guidelines for proper development.
Uffda Scruffy! You aren’t supposed to talk about the White Council. Pretty soon you will let out the code word and the secret handshake too.
Why do we even bother setting up and maintaining a secret racist patriarchy if guys like you are going to fuck it all up by blabbing about it?
And you go spilling confirming information? You’ll get us all sanctioned!
I’m a race traitor for marrying a Korean, so you can’t believe anything I say.
Sorry man, I meant to say “Sweater Council”
I bet he also let the cat out of the bag on the secret hand sign, the one the hot white Latina used at the Kavanaugh Nazi trials.
Why be content to just help people when I can control them?
The arrogance of youth and stupidity.
Her parents, who hadn’t gone to college themselves, supported this decision.
And there’s your problem. My bet? Duarte took more advantage of her parents in getting them to float her useless degree than all of the white people in Worthington combined.
My guess is that her parents haven’t had to pay a dime of tuition yet.
Duarte seems like she is bright enough to have done well on the ACT’s and combined with her race and having poor immigrant parents, I’m sure St. Kate’s found all sorts of financial aid for her.
It also looks like she is ambitious as fuck and has networked her way to countless other scholarships and fellowships. Which is a pet peeve of mine. How many of those dollars can be traced back to the tax payer? I would have no problem with lefties funding future lefties out of their own pockets. Most of the time though it seems like those scholarships are awarded by some foundation or non-profit that gets all sorts of govt grants. So it is basically laundered tax money that goes to this sort of thing.
“Simon said Blegen is right: “In Worthington, diversity is huge, but all of the big decisions are still made by white people. I’m hoping that young people like Andrea can change that.”
Every town deserves their very own She Guevara.
Good luck, Worthington. When Mexicans run things, things are run like Mexico.
Not really buying that. I’m pretty sure Worthington would be just as screwed with Anglo Social Justice Cadres running their affairs.
We’ll see how it works out.
Worthington is built around a meat packing plant. No way a self respecting SJW is going to want to be involved in that icky stuff.
They’ll close down the meat packing plant and replace it with a tofu processing center. Powered completely by green energy, of course.
Given how much of a hard on Minnesoda has for green renewable energy projects, you could probably make a pretty good go of that based on all the subsidies you’d get from the state. Even if you just threw the tofu out.
Probably. And we all get a free Prius.
A lesser man would make some crack about how it wouldn’t work because a Prius can’t hold the minimum number of illegals, but I’m too woke to say something like that.
How dare you suggest we will have illegals making our tofu for $3 an hour. We will only use real migrants who just happened to accidentally cross the border, for $3.50 an hour. And they get free tacos every day for lunch! Hah!
Over the holiday, I told Pater Dean I thought there was a Prius that he would be willing to buy. He scoffed. I showed him the Prius with the roof-mounted Vulcan cannon. He admitted I had a point.
We will only use real migrants who just happened to accidentally cross the border, for $3.50 an hour. And they get free tacos every day for lunch!
Even the Pakistanis?
You racist! Why can’t we experiment with Central of South American immigrants running things? It’s not like we’ve ever seen the results before! Racist!
I’m sure this is saying something terribly important but for the life of me I don’t know what it is. Other than the fact that the people obsessing over this stuff are racists.
I don’t want to be surrounded by people who look like me. I’d prefer to be surrounded by attractive people.
Nah, man: crab bucket all the way to the top.
I’d call this the definition of racism.
And when they say “look” they really mean “think” and “behave”. It’s disgusting.
Smells like “privilege” to me.
I can’t believe a white male of privilege in academia got away with using the word “trojan” in an email to an underling student.
Maybe she’s just keeping that in her back pocket for now. In case Blegen gets nominated for something important 30 years from now.
A few more birthdays, Hall-of-Famers all:
Saturday: Joe Medwick
Sunday: Marilyn Monroe’s ex-husband (aka Joe Dimaggio)
Today: Lefty Gomez
I had hoped Piscotty would be the next DiMaggio (he’s even SFO stock): smart, lanky power.
I was sorry to see him leave St. Louis, but glad he is doing well in Oakland. It’s good that he was able to be closer to his mom before she died.
“5/ I called out another major creep on this front last month, but these people NEVER STOP. They do it for months and months and months and when no evidence emerges to support what they’re claiming, they do it some more. It’s middle school.”
https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1066915163524218880
That Jesse Signal does not look like a barrel of lube, I feel duped.
Dude, you’re on Twitter. It IS middle school.
Now, add to this the fact that the leftist political class seems quite interested in painting the tech giants as “the new robber barons”, and you run into a situation that logically becomes untenable for them.
It’s hard to balance that “We’re not REALLY a monopoly” claim with “Agree with us or we’ll lock down your account”.
In honor of Robert Goulet’s birthday, I present his best work.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/robotic-exploration/china-gears-up-for-ambitious-landing-on-the-moons-far-side
People are still comparing lettuce to guns:
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1066569949664210944
Spoiler Alert: It’s still retarded.
What, you mean I can’t just dunk the romaine in cosmoline and store it for decades without rot?
We must have common sense lettuce control. Don’t be silly, we are not coming for your lettuce. Only the romaine. No one needs 6 different kinds of lettuce.
We can’t let high-capacity heads of iceberg fall into the hands of children.
Dude. It is high capacity pea pods. Does anyone need more than 6 peas in a pod?
Do you even botany?
Then what are the green things that go up?
We don’t talk about the Jolly Green Giant when he sees Sprout bend over to pull a carrot from the ground.
I ate Romaine Lettuce last week after the ban.
Yeah motherfuckers, I’m THAT libertarian.
Oh yeah? Well, I smoked some romaine, even though that is not officially approved by the FDA!
I liquidated some and injected it straight into my eyeball.
OK, you win.
Is Romaine lettuce the stuff they used to call gypsy lettuce until the PC crowd got their hooks into Big Lettuce?
We only have one kind of lettuce here in Minnesoda and it is only used for salad (although some health freaks will add it to a cheeseburger). The really cosmopolitan eaters will sometimes mix in shredded carrots into their salad, but that is about it.
It,wouldnt surprise me if PapaD winds up dead in his cell before the 14 days are,up.
“Jamal Khashoggi’s borrowed white privilege made his murder count”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/26/jamal-khashoggi-white-privilege-murder-middle-east-dissidents
You know, there is an argument to be made on that topic without adding the blisteringly stupid intersectional bullshit into it.
But it’s the Guardian.
The whole Khashoggi kerfuffle illustrates two things to me:
(1) The shallow provincialism of Our Betters in the DemOp complex. They don’t give a shit about anyone being killed unless its one of theirs.
(2) The eagerness of the DemOp complex to seize on anything at all as a stick to beat Trump. For Allah’s sake, there are plenty of legitimate policy disputes out there; don’t dilute your legitimate opposition with endless baseless cheap shots.
Everything is viewed thru the Trump goggles these days. It’s stupid and corrosive.
Terry Gross has a particular obsession with Trump. She’ll conduct an interview with a master gardener and somehow manage to work a Donald question in there.
And here I thought it was “journalist privilege” or “a useful cudgel against Trump privilege”.
Wait, kills millions?
The largest tallies of casualties in Yemen offered by anyone is 50,000 and the official number is closer to 10,000 and those cover both civilians and combatants killed by both sides. You might have another couple hundred thousand killed from second order effects like starvation and disease brought on by the war.
So how is it that the Saudis are “killing millions” in Yemen?
The total population of Yemen is only about 27million. While that is more than I thought they had, it’d be a bit more obvious if ~10+% of the people were dead.