It’s everyone’s favorite time of day, where they refresh incessantly until new links appear.
Today in Birthdays we have the infamous Bruce Lee, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, actor Curtis Armstrong, Super Villain, Steve Bannon, and Bill Nye The Appeal to Emotions Guy.
Today is the Mississippi senate runoff where the Republican candidate is painted as a super racist by Democrats and the media with extremely weak evidence as tradition dictates. Trump held a rally in Tupelo yesterday to help bolster her.
Mueller claims Manafort violated plea deal by lying to investigators.
Twitter continues its purge of wrong thinkers. I don’t care, they axed me months ago. Granted, in hindsight I probably shouldn’t have told that lady that she was going to die alone surrounded by 50 cats who will probably eat her face in desperation. With how sensitive Big Tech is, I’m becoming leery of those who haven’t been kicked off at least one platform.
You don’t make friends with salad.
A malfunctioning ATM in North Houston spits out hundreds.
Hard not to love this song. Enjoy your day, folks!
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I’m banned from Twitter, but mine was self imposed.
I’ve been absolutely stupefied from day 1 as to how Twitter is even a thing. I can just see Dorsey’s elevator pitch to some 19 year old VC at Y Combinator back in 2005: “So basically it’s like LiveJournal, only you have to type everything in illegible pidgin and emojis because the message limit is the same as SMS. Pretty awesome, huh?”
I guess it aggregates all your favorite famous fucks’ LiveJournals into one place, and you can fool yourself into thinking they’ll read your reply.
Which kind of explains why journalists are so into it (every podcast with someone in that world they complain about how much time they waste on Twitter), the endless kissing up to power opportunities.
I mean media people have always been a form of human centipede, but it certainly makes it easier to circle jerk each other.
I use it as a custom news feed for movie news — some political crap gets through, but that’s how I use it.
I never used it in the first place. Also, when people post Twitter links on here, I rarely can get them to open on my phone. It almost always times out.
Yep same here. I stopped clicking them partly because of that and partly because I really don’t like being exposed to cancer vectors on a regular basis.
No Script + Ad Block Plus means every twitter link I click on redirects me to “Legacy Twitter”. I guess I should wait for the Twitter Big Box edition in a couple of years.
Yeah, I don’t get the timeout thing. My thought is that its Twitter’s ploy to get you to use their app, but I don’t know if it also occurs in the laptop browser.
I’m tempted to join to just go on a trolling rampage.
All this will do is elevate your blood pressure as you realize how much stupid is on that platform Rufus, so if you want some good advice, avoid that shitshow.
I was on it a few years ago. I called myself Screeching Monkey with a Herb Tarlek avatar and attempted to do jus that. But I was too lazy.
And it was just that…dumb and pointless.
I enjoy a good shit-posting or two on the twits…
If you don’t get emotionally involved, it can sometimes be enjoyable.
Don’t follow idiots.
Pro tip: don’t end all your comments with “sorrey”.
/snaps finger. Smashes head with both hands.
Stoopid, stoopid, STOOPID!
Does it count as “banned” if it was self imposed and I never joined that shitshow in the first place because I knew how it was going to play out?
I am likewise banned from the Tory Amos Fanclub and the Maori Whale Fucking Society.
Why would you not want to fuck whales? Fat shaming is not cool brah….
I just use it because you can’t imbed pictures here.
Not only do you not win friends with salad, no really, really great story ever began with “we were all sitting around eating a nice arugula salad when…”
Great stories usually begin with something like the classic: “So then Pete turned to me and said ‘hey, hold my beer and watch this!’”
Good things don’t 32nd it -eum; they end in -teria or -mania!
How the fuck did auto-correct screw up “end”?
It’s auto-correct. You are lucky it didn’t gay it all up like happened to me a while back replying to HM here.
Uh-huh. Likely story.
Bastage.
“It was a dark and stormy night…”
no really, really great story ever began with “we were all sitting around eating a nice arugula salad when…”
Au contraire, Spudalicious and I have several that start that way. None of which I could ever say in public.
I thought the expression was Au contraire, mon frere!
Do they involve Westernsloper nibbling?
They involve a rabbit, I assume, since that’s the only use for salad.
The best short story I’ve ever read was on here, I think. It started with, “I had a vasectomy “. I cried at the ending.
It’s everyone’s favorite time of day, where they refresh incessantly until new links appear.
Get out of my head!!
Banjos, we have been seeing quite a bit of you lately. I, for one, love it and am happy you make time for us.
Going from a commute to working from home was mostly the reason why. Ken’s business exploding is the other reason. I’m getting an extra hour of sleep and my home is now only mostly a disaster instead of a complete disaster.
Ken? Who the fuck is Ken? Are you playing around on Sloopy?
Too local!
DOXXER!
^^^THIS^^^
Outing yourself as Barbie would not be appropriate…
What? Who?
Not me!
I don’t hit refresh that often. I’m no FoE.
FoE just insert his comment prior to the actual release.
He has to be an insider of some sort. No way you get that every time.
I think it was an url trick.
I haven’t been banned from the twits. Yet.
I’m looking forward to it though.
Get with the program.
Banjos was banned just for a cat lady diss? I wonder if a record of non-lefty views tipped the scale.
Republikkkins are, by definition, racist. They’re only one or two Supreme Court justice appointments away from bringing back slavery.
They’re only one or two Supreme Court justice appointments away from bringing back slavery.
Thomas will, of course, cast the deciding vote.
Well, he is a white supremacist after all.
There are a lot of black/Asian/minority white supremacists these days.
https://youtu.be/v4xHmE_Rgr0
The girl, second interview.
She wants to call him so many names.
And white niggers too.
And there’s Ben Shapiro, orthodox Jewish Nazi.
It’s sad to see the pretzel these SJW types have to twist themselves into to attack people they want silenced with the usual leftist marxist tropes…
But it sure is satisfying to watch them eat each other up over this nonsense as well.
They call Thomas the “Hanging Judge”.
Its twue, its twue!
The state is polarized along racial lines, with most white voters backing Republicans and nearly all black voters supporting Democrats.
Gee, I wonder why that is, CNN.
Listen – if we’re stuck paying to house, feed, clothe, and educate them we might as well get some labor out of the deal.
Researchers admitted that the findings of their study “disagree with those of studies associating comprehensive background check policies with a reduction in firearm homicide and suicide in Connecticut, and an increase in firearm homicide and suicide after comprehensive background check repeal in Missouri.”
Wonder what the difference is between Cali, Conn and Missouri?
Well, people are fungible, so it can’t be that.
Better hiways/traffic between Cali and Indianna?
Sounds like zero correlation to me.
Let The Caravan In
The image is shocking. A mother, weeping, running away in the shadow of the border wall, clutching a small, diaper-wearing child amid a cloud of tear gas. We shouldn’t be surprised. Under the Trump administration, a nation once world-renowned as the land of immigrants has become defined by the cries of children. The use of violent force to drive away asylum-seekers from our border is yet another moment that risks deforming our national soul.
All media outlets do it, so I’m not just picking on HuffPo, but the complete lack of any possible counterargument against “just let them in” is striking. FFS, no one I know wants to toss tear gas at toddlers. More inane “national conversations” that ignore any possible objections the other side may have.
Anyone have the articles from 13 where the last administration did the same thing?
That was totes different, because Lightworker.
Back then the media went out of their way to hide the stories (cover them with a pillow, until it died). What is surprising to me is that the people pants shitting the loudest about this for some reason think they can avoid this reminder when they suddenly act all indignant about this. Double standards and all that.
So much base stealing. They are not asylum seekers. They are not immigrants. The tear gas was a response to violent attacks on the border patrol by men throwing rocks and bottles. They are economic migrants seeking to force illegal entry. Even MSNBC now admits the caravan is mostly men.
People are conflating them with asylum seekers, by hinting at the danger and crime in their country.
Hmmmmm
And the memes
That one got a healthy LOL.
Second.
Moar
Moar meme
Last meme
Kind of disappointed there isn’t a Bad Touch Biden one.
Yeah, and maybe a Brian Williams in a flak vest one. Thanks for these, Slammer.
Yeah, if I knew how to do memes I would be working on those.
What’s happening at the border is exactly what the groups sponsoring this caravan wanted to happen. They’re not really concerned with the plight of the migrants, they’re only concerned with affecting the political discourse in the US.
^^^^THIS^^^^
They could care less what happens to these people they claim are being victimized as long as they get plenty of reel footage they can use to continue peddling the lie about how evil the people are that feel allowing law breakers to cut the immigration line is (and then, specifically because one political party sees this open border policy as the fastest way to bring in a ton of people more interested in free shit to change the political landscape of the country they hate because there are still too many deplorables).
Heres my thoughts. The Caravan was mostly ever a political ploy, it may have contained some honest refugees/migrants, but the attention and funding it got was all political. The sensible thing would have been too ignore it, the more attention it got the better because that was the unstated goal. By letting them in, it would have fulfilled the fake stated goal, but pulled the rug out from the backers who only ever wanted to see these kids tear gassed. I get why such a house of action was untenable for Trump, but he ‘lost’ this one.
Letting them successfully invade would have been a huge loss for Trump with his supporters, and would have encouraged further mass illegal entries. I think everyone other than hard left proggies realizes that deterring a violent attack with tear gas and pepper spray is an appropriate response.
Yes, and just letting them march on in wouldn’t appeal to most independents (and many Dems too) either. The people wailing about this would have been crying no matter what occurred.
Yep. Banshees wail, because it’s what they do, not because they have a specific reason.
” I think everyone other than hard left proggies realizes that deterring a violent attack with tear gas and pepper spray is an appropriate response.”
Possibly. I just think immigration is Trump’s Achilles heel. It’s of the few places he has actually staked an opinion, and it has a lot of traction with his base. This can make him vulnerable to such moves like the Caravan. Like you say, he can’t ‘let them in’, because of his base. But having this standoff is exactly what the organizers wanted. I honestly do not have such a high opinion if ‘most’ people. Most people will believe what they are told by the media. A better (politically) position would Have been too reach out to the organization that organized this and talk about options for getting and “fast tracking” their “asylum” status. Then he is still hard on immigration, but compassionate. And if they refuse, then it makes the politics more evident. I think Trump was outmaneuvered.
“Fast tracking” illegals and allowing bogus asylum claims to facilitate it is not being hard on illegal immigration. His supporters would rightly see it as a betrayal, and it would encourage more caravans.
Most people will believe what they are told by the media.
If this is true we have already lost the country, and should be in the woods with guns. I am still hoping a majority views the media with skepticism.
In the woods? According to the IPCC, there are no trees any more due to climate change.
Actually they only “trust” the media when it is peddling whatever narrative they are ideologically connected to. If we had more people that simply never trusted the media until they verified what the media was peddling, things would be a lot different, though.
Most people ignore the media and are malleable political non-entities. The problem is that malleable political non-entities can be easily manipulated.
“that ignore any possible objections the other side may have”
Of course, it’s what leftists always do. And in practical terms they don’t have to engage in rational discourse; they have pictures of women and children being tear-gassed and that’s enough for most people. See, also – “we can discuss details when we get our country back.”
Well we should decide what to do about the illegals inside the country too.
When a bunch of illegals show up at a city hall meeting to advocate for a municipal ID card because it would make their life so much easier, why doesn’t ICE swoop in?
I’m pretty pro-immigrant, but it dazzles me that people who are here illegally feel no fear of repercussions when they clamor for more govt goodies. If I was an ICE goon, you would think that I’d be ecstatic that a bunch of my “clients” decided to show up in one place at a well known time.
Also if I was a landlord, why would I rent to someone with a municipal ID and no other ID? Wouldn’t that be just as big a red flag that the renter was a bad risk as having no ID? Of course, Minneapolis will probably make it illegal to refuse to rent to someone with a muni ID. And that law they will enforce to the hilt.
Four fucking pop-ups from your shit local rag. No thanks, Star-Chamber-Tribunal.
Of course they gonna appeal to emotions. It’s what these liars do.
Reason called them ‘majority peaceful’ or some shit.
Their commitment to illegal immigration as a means to an end because immigrants pick strawberries is obtuse.
There were absolutely no stories when border jumpers got the tear gas in 2013 under Obama. Not a fuckin’ whisper, so forgive me if I doubt the sincerity of these weepy writers now.
http://www.msnbc.com/sites/msnbc/files/styles/ratio–1_91-1–1200×630/public/2013/03/elian-gonzalez.jpg?itok=dAoBcAjj
The og link to study. https://health.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/newsroom/13362
It’s your link, use it when you need it
I’m an outsider, so cut me some slack but what exactly is the difference btw a “universal background check” and the check they do in states where it isn’t required?
The “universal” part just refers to all sales, rather than sales only at licensed gun dealers. In some states you can do a private sale (as you would with any variety of personal property) without involving a federally licensed firearms dealer or conducting a background check. The “universal” background check advocates want to outlaw private sales, or at least to subject them to the same background reporting requirements, which effectively outlaws them since no one besides a FFL holder would be able to comply with the background check and reporting requirements.
Which might sound ok, or at least not a terrible thing, until you realize it means loaning your gun to your friend or relative for a hunting trip is now a crime.
This is the part that conveniently gets left out: sale or transfer. Loaning your gun to your brother (or sister) for a few hours to try out on the range would be a felony. And anyone who believes that prosecutors would “only use it against really bad guys” needs to call me because I have a friend who is a Nigerian prince, and I can make you a lot of money.
Yeah, I know a few who have argued exactly that.
They are fucking cowards. They know good and well what it means.
And, of course, that would only be the beginning. If this were passed, within a year there would be a parade of FBI, ATF, etc, in front of Congress saying “If you want us to enforce this properly, we need more tools (i.e. powers) for law enforcement. We are just a few tiny steps away from making this enforceable, and if you give us more money and power, I’m sure we will get there.”
Rinse, repeat ad infinitum.
I think transfers within the family are exempt from the background check in California. Most of my collection has come from my father.
OK, I just checked. Parent to child and vice versa is ok. Brother to brother is not.
Thanks. That would’ve made my dad a multiple felon.
Exactly. My dad used to clean and restore rifles as a sideline. I like to remind my ultra-lefty sister that she wants dad to rot in prison. Then she tries to say what dad did was different and I then ask her if she’s ever read the law like I have. Then she changes the subject. Then I tell her I’m going to rat her out to the IRS for abetting her husband’s tax fraud which is the same goddamned thing as “universal background check”. Then she finally shuts up.
Nice. Much better argumentation than “fuck you, slaver”
My brother in law has a fantastic collection, particularly of vintage infantry rifles (Mosin, SMLE, Lebel, K98, etc) and I’ve borrowed them many times. Guess we’re archcriminals.
The police can run background checks for non-FFL holders. They currently do it in VA. An officer is required at every gun show to run voluntary checks for private gun sales.
I think the immediate goal is to create a gun registry. They need every single transaction to go through a background check to compile it.
Once that’s done, they’ll eliminate private sales entirely and tighten the noose.
One goes all the way to Omricon Persiei 8 to see if the applicant is clean.
“The End of the Universe is very popular, people like to dress up for it, Gives it a sense of occasion. ”
Great quote from that book:
“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
The universal crowd wants a background check every time a firearm changes hands. Every time.
I understand in oregon that if I take you out shooting, if you handle my gun, it’s illegal if I dont run a background check on you before handing you the gun.
Maybe I should enter the twatterverse, just so I can get banned by that sanctimonious nitwit Dorsey. Naah, too much work.
* I keep seeing that Dorsey is head of Square, as well. This confuses me, because somewhere in the past, I saw an interview of a guy introduced as the “inventor/founder” of Square, and he did not come off as a moron. It couldn’t have been Dorsey. Or maybe he’s just one of those people who compartmentalizes his idiocy.
Dorsey co-founded Square with Jim McKelvey, so it might have been him you saw.
“Authorities said when a customer attempted to withdraw $20 on Sunday at around 11 p.m., the machine spit out a $100 bill, Houston’s KPRC-TV reported. When the man posted about it on social media, a crowd rushed to the location, deputies said.”
First guy was lucky, next people are the kinds I worry about. They have a very loose sense of property rights. In other words they came with the intent to theive. I know the bank ended up giving the money away, but it worries me that we live with enough people who wouldn’t think twice to take money away from you if it fell out of your wallet.
Dude standing in front of me on the platform dropped a wad of bills on the ground. Maybe a hundred bucks (1OK in yen). I tapped him on the shoulder and pointed at it and he picked it up. All I got was a head nod of appreciation from him. Hell, I haven’t locked my bike in over a year and use it everyday. Once the idea that stealing is not stealing reaches a tipping point in society, all bets are off. I don’t know the answer. Just glad to live in a place where the only thing of mine that every gets stolen is the odd umbrella.
I don’t have a huge problem with taking advantage of a bank that was bailed out in 2008. We have paid, and paid, and paid for the Bank of America to survive and thrive.
Finders keepers, losers weepers isn’t exactly a recent phenomenon.
However, your point is taken that these people went there with the intent to take what isn’t theirs.
There’s a difference between finding an unsourcable amount of cash, and knowing that some money belongs to someone and taking it.
Yeah, I have to say, I view taking advantage of an institutional fuckup much less severely than direct theft. Slot machines that pay out more than they’re supposed to; bar code scanners that match the wrong UPC; employees that screw up simple math; these are all situations where you can say the recipient of the good fortune should correct the error and collect their moral merit badge, but some of the culpability flows the other way too.
Slightly on topic, but a fun question to ask is, what is the v amount of money, that if you found it in the parking lot/park, you would turn it in vs just keeping it.
What is the amount that you would go back and look for the money, rather than writing it off.
Turn it in to who, the cops? Fuck that.
Or just leave it, hoping the owner comes back and claims it.
$20 or less and I leave it. Sadly, I’m not rich enough to turn down more than $20 in found money.
One morning I was schlepping around Brooklyn, shopping for the next day’s catering job. I had all of the petty cash (about $1500) in a small zippered pouch. My 1st stop was our produce vendor where I spent a couple hundred and left; never noticing that the pouch had fallen from my pocket onto the sidewalk. The next 2 stops were vendors who let us buy on credit so I didn’t notice the loss for an hour or so. I was panicking. After tracing my steps back to the produce stand, I approached the manager and asked… he said one of his guys found it and turned it in and it was in the store safe. The kid who found it didn’t speak English but I think he understood my gratitude when I tipped him $100.
Well done. Letting people that do the right thing know it was appreciated is key in making sure they know they did the right thing man. I have done the same the two times I dropped my money clip and had it returned.
I’ve never found more than $5 on the ground.
Usually I’ll end up dropping it into the charity buckets when I run into solicitors at a big box store.
Once I picked up $300 from the floor in a mall parking garage. I kept it.
We were taking a pit stop on from a long drive and get up to the stop light on the off ramp. I’m about to right-on-red when the wife shouts “pull over!” She hops out and heads into the ditch. I have no clue what’s going on but she comes back with something like $140 in twenties.
interpret that as you guys are want to do.
“She hops out and heads into the ditch. I have no clue what’s going on but she comes back with something like $140 in twenties.”
She’s a professional ditch dancer and they were big tippers?
See rolled a panhandler? That’s a keeper!
How long was she in the ditch?
She can squint her way down to like twenty, thirty vision?
She’s a bird watcher, so she has good eyes. And an accountant by trade. Those two things came together there.
If something rings up wrong (in my favor), I’ll usually ask the clerk if they’re sure the price is correct. I figure at that point I’ve done my part.
At bars and other establishments, there’s also the time honored tradition of drinks being on the house (or falling off the bill), those I won’t mention, but will increase the tip.
When I lived in Phoenix, cashiers would make mistakes regularly. At first, I’d correct them all, but eventually I started only correcting them when they shorted me. I felt bad, but come on, if you can’t do simple math you shouldn’t be involved with retail.
I call the clerk’s attention to the error, saying, “Yeah, you must have went to (xx) high school, ’cause that’s the way we learned it too.”
Regardless of which direction the error was made, I don’t want to benefit or get screwed from someone’s lack of math skills. It the clerk is working out of a counted drawer he/she may have to make up a shortage.
Are you suggesting that agent mistakes change a customer’s obligation to act in good faith in a transaction?
It’s been less than a week since I corrected a bar tab: they left off two beers. I asked for the beers, I drank them; ergo, I paid for them.
I’m not showing off: this is simply what is due. How can we hope for a more just society if we individually are not just?
When it’s systemic and happens 3 or 4 times a day, you get tired of it.
Dude, it’s owed to them.
We have whole generations of people who are brought up learning how to work the system, not how to be productive members of society.
Well, the banks did get a nice bailout the last time they fucked up….
In the end of civilization post from the weekend, I linked to the story from some years back when a Louisiana Walmart had a glitch that resulted in EBT cards not having any limits. The store was picked clean until the glitch was fixed and people just left the merchandise in the aisles.
no one I know wants to toss tear gas at toddlers.
You’re either with us, or you’re agin us.
If you don’t want to greet each asylum seeker at the border with a million dollar check and the keys to a brand new home in a nice neighborhood, you want to round them all up and gas them.
Why do you want to gas helpless little asylum-seeking babies, you monster?
no one I know wants to toss tear gas at toddlers.
Except parents of toddlers. If I could get away with tear gassing my kids (or even pepper spraying) when I tell them to go to their rooms and they get shitty about it, I would. I imagine twice would deliver the message. Instead I have a squirt bottle with diluted white vinegar, and they’re starting to grow resistant to that.
Brett is now at a CPS black site
You need to upgrade to a taser. Makes less of a mess in the house.
Not if they piss and shit themselves…
Just start putting a ring of cayenne pepper around their room, it works for some other pests. 🙂
I’ve made bedtime into a competition. Whoever gets their pjs on, teeth brushed and in their bed first wins and gets to choose what to watch while they fall asleep. Helps if they share a bedroom.
“…gets to choose what to watch while they fall asleep. Helps if they share a bedroom.”
Mom and dad doing the mommy and daddy thing?
“Do you want to watch daddy pretend to be a pizza deliveryman or a plumber tonight, kids?”
WOA!
Stop being a shitlord and let mommy do that work!
Role reversal FTW.
Peggy pegs the plumber
LogJammerz II — Sloopy Gets Some Cable
Hmmm… I too use rewards, whoever is first gets to sleep on the bed, the other kid has to sleep on the ground.
The new thing (I saw it on FB a few days ago and got into an argument, and now O. Cortez and Lindsay Graham are doing the same on Twitter) is comparing this caravan to the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. You couldn’t slide a sheet of paper in between that comparison and Holocaust denial, imo.
Except for the political persecution and real danger of death camps based on religion, sure it’s exactly the same. Because Jews fleeing the Holocaust were no more than economic migrants willing to bypass multiple safe countries on their way to get the best economic bennies.
Anyone making that comparison is not to be taken seriously, and should probably have some sense beaten into them with a tire iron.
Banned from Twitter
They’re trying to get IN to Trump’s Nazi America, not OUT.
Unless they’re saying Honduras is Nazi.
Um…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
We turned away Jews escaping Nazi Germany too
The Holocaust is the worst thing ever, which is why I compare it to this unambiguously much less worse thing.
Yeah, that’s some pretty heavy dissonance.
Even MSNBC now admits the caravan is mostly men.
All the women were raped and killed by white supremacists.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the lynx! I, too, have been banished from the Twitter but I’m particularly proud since I had fewer than 5 tweets. That has to be some kind of record.
I wonder of the failure of the universal background checks will be the top story on NPR today…
The Damned was an inspired choice, since it provides that special morning pick-me-up while setting the stage for a day of fantastic British post-punk. Well done!
I’m feeling left out. How do I get banned from teh Titters?
“there are only two genders” seems to work. Or telling an importanter person than you that they suck and will die alone. Or making fun of an importanter person.
Or just being a somewhat influential non left person.
Honestly I have no clue. As I said, I hardly tweeted anything, but I did follow some liberty-lovin’ folks, so that’s probably what got me.
Either way, I DGAF. They can continue to be mendacious cunts and I can continue to avoid them.
I was just myself. Which largely involves mocking low IQ daytime television watching middle aged women.
The Damned were still punk at that point, though, not post-punk.
I like both. Somewhat prefer the latter, actually.
I do as well. The chosen song, though, was definitely a hint of things to come.
Like when Westerberg wrote this for Hootenany
Only a year removed from this.
Indeed. I note that probably my favorite song of theirs is on the same album and it’s most definitely post-punk.
I came to that party way late (’86 or so) so it was all the same to me anyway.
I like both too, but I generally prefer the former, although “Wait For the Blackout” might be my favorite Damned song.
Fun fact – the first Samhain album was mostly songs Danzig wrote specifically for Dave Vanian to sing, although Vanian was never interested (I guess, since he never recorded any of them).
You aren’t missing anything. Twitter’s platform turned me into a less thoughtful, more mean spirited, more tribal douche canoe. The only thing I miss was the ability to follow Stillers and analytical-minded NFL journalists, but after Ferguson all the sports journalists decided the best way to engage with their audience was through political ranting. With one exception, their political rantings were of much, much lower quality than their sports reporting. So now I don’t even have that.
I’ve said before I want a service that let’s me follow a couple dozen people without having an account, partly because I don’t want to give Twitter any support but mostly because I don’t want to be tempted to reply.
But since Twitter is gradually weeding out the people I’d follow (Gay Patriot, for one, and Jesse Kelly another), why bother? What I need is an aggregator for the news sites I read. I’ll follow them long-form, which is better anyway. All Twitter is doing, really, is reducing the capacity lefties have for responding outside their bubbles. Now if they want to voice their displeasure, they’ll have to go post at The Federalist, or Powerline, or NRO, or Fox News, where they can’t mob the authors and are less likely to find a sympathetic ear.
There used to be ways to get RSS feeds for twitter streams. You might try that.
It’s a shame that RSS seems to be falling by the wayside. Used to be built-in to my browser, now you have to use a (now unsupported) plugin. There’s no more convenient way of getting updates that I’m aware of.
I use CommaFeed
I’ll check it out. I use the feeder.co plugin – I like not having to open a separate web page.
Everyone wants to tie you down to their app.
God, I am so sick of political rants from sports bloggers I otherwise enjoy reading.
Yep. The only reason I cared was to follow Michael Russo’s twitter during Wild games. I’ve since subscribed to The Athletic and have found it to be pretty much politics free. I highly recommend it for sports fans.
The funny thing is, I don’t even want to read about political thoughts from sports writers with whom I agree on politics.
It’s like sex and lasagna. I really like sex. I really like lasagna. I don’t want to mix the two.
Finding Ricotta Cheese in your sex act can be off-putting.
Dorsey co-founded Square with Jim McKelvey, so it might have been him you saw.
That makes sense. I was worried.
I know some people who use Square (as sellers and service providers), and they seem to be pretty happy with it.
Much like Paypal, their transaction rates suck.
Charges are 2.75 percent per swiped transaction. If you enter the card manually, the charge is 3.75 percent with no 15 cent charge.
Now I’m really curious about the qualitative difference between swiping and typing that costs different? Is it because typing manually is error prone, and so they lump some of those losses in?
Probably higher numbers of fraudulent transactions, too.
It’s correlated to the measure of risk. Manually entered transactions have a higher rate of fraud.
The only time Square makes sense if you’re a street vendor or otherwise don’t have a permanent presence where you conduct your business and need the mobility and flexibility of taking credit cards on a phone or tablet. Band merch tables and street food are the only places I’ve ever seen Square being used.
It’s fairly popular around me. Doctor’s offices, breweries, and restaurants all use Square. That’s not counting the pop-up shops and farmer’s market situations.
Our local Little League’s snack bar uses it.
But with square, it’s a flat fee that doesn’t change. My current merch svcs provider charges just under 2%, but by the time we’re done with fees and comliance, I’m at 4% give or take. Square also takes the compliance part out of the equation. If I wasn’t concerned with Dorsey’s politics and wasn’t so lazy, I’d have switched already.
Square’s selling point isn’t low fees. Its ease of use for small-time players. My cub scout pack processes <$5,000 in transactions each year for fund-raisers and collection of money from our families (ie for camping fees that the pack pays to the campground in a lump sum).
$137.50 in fees in exchange for a system that allows us to take plastic for fundraisers and that takes $5 to train up a new user is worth it for us.
Nice layout, Banjos!
” I’m becoming leery of those who haven’t been kicked off at least one platform.” Yep.
I’ve only been kicked off one.
FB: tried it and hated it – buh -bye.
LinkedIn: FB in a tie – buh bye.
Snapchat: Yeah, right.
insta: See Snapchat.
I saw a great sticker the other day (probably here): Too old for Snapchat, too young for LifeAlert.
My Ad Blocker has started treating LinkedIn like spam and crashing Chrome when I visit. I don’t use it too much, but there are two recruiters who have hired me for 5 jobs between them who regularly check in with me on LI. I might want a 6th job, so I keep in touch.
My home pc logged me out of FB and I only have a vague idea of what my password was. How many combinations of munch, muncher, munching and manko, asoko and shita are there? I’ve tried most, but no luck.
I feel a tad bit ashamed that I understood all that…
The jobs LinkedIn link me to are hilariously not for me. I sometimes go read the ‘qualifications’ and 99% I miss something they want. Apparently I have to be all that and a bag of chips.
Meanwhile, I can probably go in there and kick everyone’s ass.
Not really. But I’d like to think that.
I joined in the days when it was just starting up and never bothered to kill it but it serves me no person. Like I give a poo-poo who viewed me.
They also acted stupid with Alex Jones joining that idiotic ‘movement’ and I put in my byline the need to stand by free speech.
I also have some connections I have no business being connected to but I figure better to be eccentric about it than just have the same people in one industry.
I plan to shut that down one of these days. I see ZERO point to it.
For some reason, legal networking disproportionately revolves around linked in. I have my account configured to only bother me if somebody sends me a message, and I immediately block anybody who messages me for anything but “I’m in DC and want to grab lunch” or “I am interested in interviewing you for a job”
Besides that, I don’t really visit the site. I looked this morning because I had just finished deleting Instagram and was debating deleting linked in, too.
When will Tundra learn that government can’t solve all the problems in the world? And even if it was possible, what are the chances that Gov. Mumbles would be the perfect one?
Clinton Fouquette? Is Mike from TOS a journalist know?
Clinton Fouquette was Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture in the Block Insane Yomamma administration.
Sounds like Mr. Fuckquat and Governor (South Dakota) Trust Fund are a match made in heaven.
I think this is just a cover story to cover up the fact that Gov Mumbles drove himself home from his secret operation at the Mayo.
Judging by the coverage, not only has Drumpf been mendaciously separating children* from their
economic migrantrefugee parents, now he is using chemical weapons on women and children. It couldn’t possibly be that theeconomic migrantsrefugees are mostly male, trying to forcibly and illegally enter the country while throwing rocks at border patrol and using women/children as human shields. And how is using tear gas in this instance different from dispersing riots in the US? Because Drumpf, that’s why.*still one of the stupidest things about the immigration conversation. Would they prefer that the children be detained in jail with their criminal parents when they are arrested for illegal border crossing?
Of course not, silly. No borders, no wall, no USA at all!
That sure as hell seems to be the plan from the people that want us to make it so the freeloaders will all beeline their way to our welfare state ASAP.
I think everyone other than hard left proggies realizes that deterring a violent attack with tear gas and pepper spray is an appropriate response.
If the the “marchers” in question were Proud Boys or some other subspecies of neo-Nazi, the hard left proggies would be cheering themselves hoarse.
Tard Tuesday: Psycho-Analyzing High School Fascists
The people hyperventilating about creeping totalitarianism every time they see an internet meme are the well-adjusted ones, you see. No inclination toward authoritarianism there, no siree.
“If you don’t agree with me, you’re psychologically defective” is just slightly reminiscent of the Soviets.
I have a shameful confession. I may have made jokes in poor taste when I was in high-school.
No Supreme Court position for you!
BTW, nice article earlier today. If I had dropped as a baby from between my mom’s legs and bounced in Bill Gate’s bank vault, that would’ve been “lucky”.
No one ever does these things ironically. That’s just not a thing. //sarc
“The core ideology of conservatism stresses resistance to change and justification of inequality ”
Let me guess, progressivism is about being adaptive and fair, and is the best.
Here is where liberals miscalculate the most. They assume their stereotypes are correct and real.
Useful idiots
Still believe the photographer who says they were just waving.
To be sure… why would he lie about it?
Which history books have these people been reading?
When I was in high school – at an all male school – a group of senior leaders in the student section used to get in a huddle before each contest and cheer “We’re going to RAPE! KILL! PILLAGE AND BURN! We’re going to RAPE-KILL-PILLAGE-AND-BURN! EAT BABIES!”… They’d do this for a minute or so for gigles and to fire each other up before the game.
I don’t think any of those senior leaders has heretofor been accused of rape or murder, and I don’t think any of them have yet eaten a baby. Actually, they’re all pretty successful businessmen, doctors, lawyers, husbands and fathers. And they probably look back on it now and think “I was trying to be edgy and funny but that was really cringey as fuck”.
High school males gonna high school male. News at 11.
(also, no, I did not go to high school with Brett Kavanaugh… but yes, I did go to an all-male Catholic school and yes we did have all kinds of inside jokes and acronyms which made their way into the yearbooks… I was a SWAT team captain… too bad you will never know what the SWAT team was).
Someone’s fired
“Some people look at these images and they listen to the president, who says, ‘It’s not women and children, it’s stone cold criminals,’” Ruhle said. “Give us the profile of who’s there mostly and what they’re looking for.”
“The truth is, the majority of the people that are in this caravan, especially outside — if we can make our way all the way over there, we’ll show you the majority of them are men,” Schwartz responded. “From what we’ve seen, the majority are actually men and some of these men have not articulated that need for asylum.”
Yeah, I don’t know how MSNBC let that get through.
Melania Trump Unveils the 2018 White House Christmas Decorations, and They’re Straight Out of Gilead
Jealousy is so pathetic.
And FLOTUS is so lovely.
Sorry harpies, you’re wrong again!
They’re sad inside. Projection is all it is.
Of course she’s the hottest FLOTUS ever and that burns these jerk offs up.
She’s also a smart cookie from what little of her I’ve heard.
She’s smart, sexy and probably good in the sack (I’m guessing because I doubt a rich guy like Trump is going to marry a bad lay).
Yeah, that is going to trigger a lot of progressive women. They have nothing in common with her at all.
NO. They hate her because Trump. If she were the wife of President Kaine, it would be wall to wall coverage and weekly appearances on the View and Ellen.
Purely perspective. Had the Obama’s done the same thing, Vogue would have been gushing over their daring sense of style.
Case and point
Boring.
Yeh, they waaaayyyy over rated Michelle. They went into over drive trying to convince people she’s beautiful and has taste.
I keep wondering if they publish that junk because:
1) They’re terrified of the social repercussions if they don’t
2) They are truly cynical
3) They believe it
A combo trio? Your choice of Fanta, RC Cola and…
Understatement of the year. I’d ask ‘what was it that caused you to massively overrate this woman in almost every area?’ But I know. I know.
Oh the sycophancy.
This reminds me of the scene on Seinfeld when Elaine got the The New Yorker to admit the joke they published made no sense and that only did so because smug.
Those trees look like colon polyps.
I was going to make a snide comment about how the Obamas could have brought back the tradition of having giant blocks of cheese stinking up the White House. Then when I was looking for a decent link, I found this story about the Obamas doing exactly that, but in a progressive better way.
The story has some decent background about how people would donate giant blocks of cheese to a president who would put it in the White House where it could be eaten by guests.
That wasn’t good enough for Sorkin and the West Wing. They used the story as part of a plot line and wrote: “Andrew Jackson, in the main foyer of the White House, had a two-ton block of cheese. It was there, for any and all who were hungry, it was there for the voiceless.”
They can’t just let crazy old stories of giant cheeses just be giant cheeses. Nope, has to be feeding the hungry and the voiceless.
God forbid.
Watching Vogue trying to assign some kind of deep meaning to Christmas decorations is an interesting thing to behold.
I loved sniffing my sister’s Vogue magazines when I was in High School. Bet the smell is different now.
Vogue magazines
Never really heard that term used for a vagina before. Quite honestly, I would never have guessed what you meant without the context of the rest of your statement.
I self censored my theory on why females in their mid 30’s have the best smell in, uh, their vogue magazines. Just deleted it. Some day when I’m more drunk, I’ll post it.
Wasn’t there leftist hysteria about last years decoration as well? These people need to get a life.
This is their life.
Yes. There were those twig tumbleweed things. They were proof Trump was gonna kill us and raze the land
You know what would get me rock hard? If a FLOTUS said that holiday decorations are a waste of tax payer money and they’d just be skipping them altogether.
At least they’ve moved from endless Harry Potter references to endless Handmaid’s Tale references. Diversity!
Authoritarianism in groups and populations is commonly compared using the UAI, or Uncertainty Avoidance Index. They need certainty more than liberals do.
*outright prolonged laughter*
*Shocked face*
The same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during the later years of President Barack Obama’s administration, according to Homeland Security data.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in fiscal 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s final full year in office. (snip)
Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently — including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under Mr. Obama. Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.
I’m noticing a pattern.
Needz moar Zyklon B.
Huh, I totally don’t remember the hysterical stories about Obama “gassing” migrants with “chemical weapons”. Must have been distracted or something.
Just as no one in the media gave a fuck when the Obama Administration was “putting children in cages!!!” either.
I’m noticing a pattern.
There pattern is: illegals were inconvenient to Obama and could hurt Hillary’s chances. Since Trump won, illegals are convenient again.
But he didn’t do it as much as Orangeman!
Something something little bit pregnant…
If Trump wants it or does it, then it is bad..
Which is why I say Trump should come out in favor of marxism, and that whole cult will die immediately.
Needz moar Zyklon B.
It would knock down the recidivism rate.
People are not happy with comedian Kevin Hart throwing his son a cowboys and Indians party
The worst part of a cowboys and indians party is that all the kids who dress up as indians take back their presents after they eat all the cake up. Of course, they don’t waste anything and use every part of the juice box (even the straw).
Ok, that’s just wrong. Hilarious, but oh so wrong.
Something something giver?
“I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with that expression.”
So when ppl do blackface or dress as slave and owner for halloween ya cool with it?
I would because I have a sense of humor.
I’ve seen a pic of Bill and Hillary that was exactly that. Herself was in blackface.
I recall that as well.
False.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hillary-clinton-blackface-photo/
I’m not saying the photo is neccesarily real, but that was a shitshow of a debunk.
“Look at this picture, Bill had a beard! Even though the picture I’m using to point out that height difference is wrong shows about the same height difference, the next picture I’ll show to debunk shows them with no height difference!”
You know who else had a socially unacceptable fabrication appear decades later in an attempt to derail their political aspirations?
I thought the same thing: her eye color is enough; why tag on the other arguable points?
Point in WJC42’s favor: all Southerners look alike. There are only ten looks in AR, and Bill’s got one of them; I’ve got a good friend who looks just like him. There are only ten looks in MS, and I’ve got one of them; my dad looks exactly like Trent Lott; Mom looks exactly like QE2; starndard models. This will wash away some day, which will be fine.
Further, if the above-displayed image really does show Bill and Hillary Clinton at a college party, why did it take nearly 45 years to surface? Bill and Hillary Clinton met at Yale in the early 1970s, and while they both have led high-profile political lives, this photograph, which would have been political Kryptonite at any stage in their career, didn’t surface until 2015. If the image were real, it’s probable that the photograph would have been made public several years ago.
I’m sure they deployed this exact same logic when examining the claims against Kavanaugh and Roy Moore, for example.
The debunking is quite weak, except for the part about her eye color. With the side-by-sides, you can see her face is a different shape, also (which they didn’t mention). I’ll go with Fake News on that one.
…came critiques from Native Americans.
I would be willing to bet that very few complainers were actually American Indians.
I would take that bet with the stipulation that we are going to use Liz Warren as our definition of Indian.
Smart man.
Nah, they probably were, of the professional activist type. However, they represent the opinions of very few actual Indians, most of whom couldn’t give a shit less about things like this (or team mascots, for that matter).
AIM = Assholes in Moccasins
I heard that from an Indian classmate of mine in high school. The guys on the res didn’t have much time for Clyde or Vernon Bellecourt (who were from the res next to us). Most of them were appalled that those guys had moved off the res into the city. And then they were pissed that those guys claimed to be speaking for all of them.
Well those fucking Tony Romo and Corey Kluber costumes were pretty stupid looking…
I saw a segment on the news about The Shriners and the story of a kid who was in a bad place. They do God’s work and work wonders.
So I have to them.
YOU ARE NOT TO EXPLOIT THE FACT THE WAY INTO MY HEART IS TO USE SICK KIDS.
/pushes orphan off the ledge.
The reverse of that is that there is no way to get me more fired up for some old time punishment than to read about some jackass of a parent.
What the fuck is wrong with some people? My father had all sorts of parolees/probationers on his case load like this guy. They got absolutely no slack from him at all (he came from a broken home and had no time for people who hit kids or women).
“….Underwood has since lost his parental custody of the girl to Hennepin County on an interim basis. She is now in foster care. He and his wife retain custody of their four other children, who range in age from 11 to 17.
According to the criminal complaint and other court records:
The teen told a child-protection investigator that her father was upset that she came home from school on Nov. 15 with someone her family dislikes and that she was late for class.
She said he made her put on shorts, locked her in a bedroom, cut a branch off a tree and “hit her approximately 30 times with both the switch and a belt,” according to county child-protection filings.”
Poor kid.
And he still has others to terrorize.
You know why the kid had to self report the abuse? Because the child beating piece of shit looks like he might be the type to beat a social worker who poked their nose into his business.
This is why case workers go after suburban moms who leave their kid in a car unattended while they pop into the store for 5 minutes. Those sissies won’t put a beat down on you.
He’s a piece of shit.
I know what you mean.
I have no idea why but my kids only seem to be able to make friends with the broken ones with seriously messed up home lives. I’ve already mentioned the 2 kids who are for all intents and purposes living with us now but I have not brought up their newest friend.
He’s 15 and lives alone in a $700k home with his 10 and 12 year old brothers. Oh yeah they have parents, they got divorced a few years back and both moved out into their own apartments, they stop by every few days to drop off food and check on the boys. The whole reason my son reached out to this kid and became his friend is he was always depressed and there were some pretty persistent rumors going around the school that he was going to kill himself.
If the damned foster care system were not so messed up my wife and I would have just reported their asses for abandoning their kids but the reality is I cannot say for certain they wouldn’t be worse off if we got the state involved so we just try to keep an eye on them remotely ourselves
Sounds like his parents could use a good asskicking.
Man how evil are those parents?
Damn. Sad, but you’re doing the right thing. Guaranteed the state would make it infinitely worse.
Research into Foundational Physics has Stagnated.
The mathematicians took over and went nuts with string theory.
Silly String?
The Proud Boys are sounding more and more like a really weird cult.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-proud-boy-rules-less-fighting-less-wanking
If I can donate money to fund a fight to the death between JL Van Dyke and Augustus Invictus, let me know how.
So it’s a weird subreddit come to life.
Chuck Palahniuk might just have been on to something regarding masculinity and modernity when he wrote Fight Club.
A) There are homosexual Proud Boys?
B) Why do homosexual Proud Boys get to wank all they want?
They always sounded like a really weird cult.
I’ve never understood people who join organizations that have all sorts of rules governing conduct. I’ve been a member of one organization in my entire life, the Marine Corps League, which is mostly a bunch of old men (I’m 41 and I’m the second youngest member of our detachment) who do some nice charitable things like providing honors at veteran funerals free of charge (unlike the American Legion who charges a fee), volunteer at the USO, etc. Aside from that, we just have shooting days at the range a few times a month and get together for breakfast to shoot the shit and tell old war stories. If it were more than that, I’d quit.
People, especially boys, especially boys without solid masculine role models, especially boys with with a hole in their heart, crave structure.
Maybe. I always hated being told what I could and couldn’t do.
They’re a loose group of friends having fun and joking around. The media’s potrayal of them would be hilarious if it didn’t come with serious legal ramifications.
^ this
They’re just a bunch of shitlords who want to bring back the concept of “Men’s Clubs” so they get together once a month to drink beer and make silly rules ironically.
The only thing they actually take seriously is the concept of western chauvinism. Which is why they take it upon themselves to protect free speech, even if it means putting themselves in harm’s way.
LOOL
i love the media.
hey Daily Beast! my dog (RIP) is a Grand Canine Wizard in the Proud Boys. and he hates Jews. print that!
“You don’t make friends with salad.”
But if you toss their salad…
Here’s a history lesson for you.
The stigmatization of poverty in the United States is hardly new. The U.S. is heavily invested in the myth of meritocracy: the idea that if you are virtuous, you will be successful (read: rich). Therefore, if you are successful, it must be because you are virtuous and deserving. The corollary to this dearly held and demonstrably false belief is that those who are not wealthy are not virtuous, and thus deserve their poverty.
Contempt for the poor in America has been compounded by the fact that, thanks to racism, poor people in the U.S. are disproportionately black and other people of color. In the antebellum South, whites stereotyped enslaved people as lazy, even though it was white people who forced others to do their work for them. In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan railed against the “welfare queen” ― a black woman who supposedly pretended to be poor in order to obtain government benefits. And recently, Trump has echoed Reagan by claiming, falsely, that undocumented immigrants come to the United States so they can receive welfare benefits and not have to work.
It must be true.
The stigmatization of poverty…Contempt for the poor
Another fun game of “Burn That Straw-man!”
Of course, if you follow three rules, you will not be poor in the US:
1. Finish high school or get equivalent GED.
2. Get a full time job and work it responsibly.
3. Do not have children out of wedlock, and do not marry and have children before you are 21.
Don’t you just love when they redefine words? We should create a prog dictionary. It’s like a regular dictionary, only the definitions by the words are blank so they can write in what their feelz tell them.
I’ve heard this ridiculous spiel a million times – “Nobody chooses to be poor”.
Yeah, on the most superficial level, that is true. Nobody decides, given the choice between wealth and poverty, to go with poverty. But, on any level beyond the most superficial, it’s ridiculous. While people might not choose poverty, they regularly choose things for which poverty is the logical consequence. If you don’t get an education or training, don’t make an effort to be successful in your work, and regularly spend your time partying, surprise, surprise, you won’t end up wealthy. The entire scheme with this argument is to decouple cause and effect, to treat success as some sort of manna from heaven that just sort of falls on some people.
It’s just intended to butter people up for socialism. Seems to be working.
This this this
I find that laughable. Poor people make decisions guaranteed to keep them poor every single day.
” the idea that if you are virtuous, you will be successful (read: rich).”
Ummm… not sure if that’s the proper definition.
Industrial accidents were so much better before the Internet of Things.
If automation leads to increased deaths and insurance payouts then it’ll fizzle out in the market. In the meantime, you can usually count on the buggy whip makers to give you an accurate assessment of automobile safety.
The film seems like a messy load of equivocation. Dallas SWAT using a bomb-strapped robot to kill a man is some sort of turning point… but a decade of drone warfare isn’t? At least the cop was down the hall and not a couple hundred (thousand?) miles away. And maybe he points out that it’s not even the first U.S. citizen killed by robot, but the article doesn’t give Obama the dubious honor.
I’ve done IoT projects for more than 15 years and the biggest impacts I have seen are that workers actually have to do their jobs when you put sensors on things. I did a lot of work in the QSR (quick serve restaurant) area and I have tons of horror stories. Go figure that minimum wage workers aren’t the most diligent workers.
People never filtered fryer oil like they were supposed to. People used regular fryers to cook chicken (not pressure fryers). No one ever monitored the coolers/freezers. All sorts of mundane tasks that kids claimed they were doing just didn’t get done.
I know Gordilocks hated the GPS monitoring that went with trucking, but the projects I worked on would always reveal a lot of bad stuff going on. People going home, or driving for 20 hours straight. Or driving recklessly.
When I was doing some of the projects, I would laugh about how a young me working my starter jobs would hate this shit because it would have forced me to do the things my boss told me to do.
Thinks back to my teens working at a McDonald’s.
Yeah, it checks out.
My last “little kids job” (before my first “big boy” job as an engineer) was in fast food. Guy who I worked for was a specialist at opening stores for a big fast-food chain. He was wildly successful, because of One Weird Trick -> He would ask his dad, who was the Eagle Scout Advancement Chair for the District, for a list of all Eagle Scouts from the last five years. Then he would call them each up and offer them a job.
Simple as that (plus working like 80 hours a week, but that’s apparently what it takes to open up a fast food locations no matter who you are.)
That’s how I ended up working there.
I steal excellent service workers: if I get excellent service from a minimum wage type, I give them my card and hire them for factory work (regular hours, predictable environment, no contact with bozo/demented clients).
Good. The worst thing for an excellent service worker is not knowing how valuable in the marketplace are basic life skills like showing up on time, wearing the required uniform, keeping your mouth shut etc.
-Signed, 17 year old Leap.
Happened to one of my sons. Working as a cashier at Target he was offered a better job by a manager who liked the way he handled customers.
a lot of bad stuff going on
My process design never assumes competence or motivation; everything is interlocked, and for the past two decades it has included detection/prevention of outright malfeasance. Eg: in assembly, it’s no longer adequate to integrate a sensor to confirm installation of a component; it is also necessary to include a step in the algorithm (we say “ladder logic” for PLC) to assure that the sensor clears at the end of the cycle: to ensure that fakes/trips aren’t taped to it or over it to give a continuous “good/go” indication.
To the extent feasible, it is always better to spend a dollar on product and process design to build quality in than it is to spend a dollar on labor to think/assure. Good people make lots of mistakes; bad people are just not uncommon.
Mom Dresses Six-Year-Old Son As Girl, Threatens Dad With Losing His Son For Disagreeing
Six-year-old James is caught in a gender identity nightmare. Under his mom’s care in Dallas, Texas, James obediently lives as a trans girl named “Luna.” But given the choice when he’s with dad, he’s all boy — his sex at birth.
In their divorce proceedings, the mother has charged the father with child abuse for not affirming James as transgender, has sought restraining orders against him, and is seeking to terminate his parental rights. She is also seeking to require him to pay for the child’s visits to a transgender-affirming therapist and transgender medical alterations, which may include hormonal sterilization starting at age eight.
Someone is abusing the kid, but it’s not the dad.
This will rapidly supplant molestation claims in family court.
This is a society that’s circling the bowl. We’re living on borrowed time now.
Nah, it’s been around forever.
The Who wrote this story back in 1967.
“My name is Bill and I’m a head case…”
True. But, at least back then it wasn’t seen as sane, healthy behavior. The mom would have gotten committed for that shit. At this point, I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if the father did, in fact, get deemed abusive.
Yup, we really are circling the drain.
The mother is a pediatrician. I would be trying to get her license pulled.
dad’s broke. fucking cunt has taken scorched earth legal tactics. and the AMA et al are balls-deep with the Democrat platform which fully supports the trans community’s hormone suppression therapy for children. good luck getting even a review of her medical practice.
eventually, a District Court of Texas is going to order the chemical castration of that boy and make the dad pay for it.
http://savejames.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Save_James_Dossier-2.pdf
the dad of course will commit suicide afterward from despair. and the boy will grow up insane and will murder his mother horribly, then suicide.
Sex reassignment for children is a vile practice that should be banned, excluding extreme medical conditions.
Jesus, what a shitshow.
Hopefully none of these ladies have lichen sclerosus.
http://archive.is/ogchU
Since I’m not an ass connoisseur like many on here, I leave it up to them to decide the proper course of action.
I’m no connoisseur, but I know enough to say that 13 and 37 are the winners.
I am. 15 wins, 22 places, 34 shows.
With the exception of HM, I seem to be the lone connoisseur here of phat booties, so top three for me:
1 win, 20 place, 5 show
A Florida Woman battered her boyfriend after he “said no and went back to bed” after she “grabbed his genitals wanting to have sex” on Thanksgiving night, cops say.
http://thesmokinggun.com/documents/drunk/florida-woman-arrested-again-184906
I look forward to his congressional testimony. So brave.
You sure she wasn’t making Geoduck clams?
What the…..?
*adjusts tie–sips drink*
I would indeed have virile sex with that woman.
*smolders stare at fecund female*
A cutie to be sure. “Wonder if this is Godzilla’s wiener?” Yeah, I like her a lot.
I will show her
the StoogesGodzilla’s wiener.If you want to insert a .gif of Sylvester, knife and fork in hand, slobbering while anticipating a pork chip, it would be apropos.
Holy shit. That’s a rough looking 31 year old.
Meth is a hell of a drug….
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1067177043606077440?s=19
Where the FUCK does the government get off just taxing women on their income?!?!?!?!
Patriarchy?
Why doesn’t the IRS just use their computers to match up all the business deductions that men take for buying sex to make sure that the women reported their income correctly?
Also keep in mind that this is the same cunt who doxxed a guy on Twitter for telling her to make him a sammich.
Mother of God. Social media stars, everyone.
https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/1067408360360824832?s=19
God knows I hate ENB, but ratting anyone out to the IRS is scummy.
I do find it amusing, though, that most of those women are likely ardent Democrats who love them some intrusive government, so long as it doesn’t affect their own bank account.
Yeah, I don’t think ratting to the IRS is a great thing.
But her article isn’t even close to a fair take. I don’t use twitch, but follow enough people who do reviews on YouTube and video games; I should have seen this coming.
Twitch is the main culprit. The purpose was to stream video games. The better you are the more views. Personality I’m sure has a fair share of traffic too.
The first cam girls to utilize the site we’re mostly no big deal. They played the same video games in something low cut, but nothing that could be called anything nefarious. Then the patreon machine came in. The tops got worse. They started doing less video games, adding a second camera pointed at their butt. Doing crunches for every new subscriber. It’s at full blown softcore at this point.
Twitch has rules against it. Nothing sexual. At all. People at twitch have been caught soliciting these women in exchange for not banning them. People have been complaining and asking twitch to redo the rules, or enforce them evenly. “Nonthots” have been punished for accidents that break the rules and even talking about the thots. There are two sets of rules now.
As for the Snapchat side, I don’t know as much. It’s all related and intertwined.
I hate taxes. I don’t blame anyone for avoiding as much as they can. I also don’t really have some issue when the IRS looks at it. You can avoid the state as long as you can. They wouldn’t have been turned in if they weren’t invading a site that isn’t supposed to be for that.
I don’t think people should be turned in. I can also see why someone would he upset enough to do it.
It’s not libertarian. It’s closer to a community trying to police the site when no one else seems to want to.
You could have posted all that in kanji and I wouldn’t have understood it any less.
+1
https://youtu.be/bvFfAWFrAQI
This might be helpful?
Not that safe for work.
That pretty much squares with my understanding. Brown is trying to paint this as a case of a bunch of misogynistic incels are picking on the poor camgirls. It’s not the case. The technique may be loathsome, but that doesn’t mean the targets are innocent victims. They’ve been hijacking the site.
The irony is indeed palpable. I’ll repost what I said yesterday:
Taxation is theft and I’m opposed to the IRS and the income tax on principle.
However, I also believe in equal application of the law and unless and until the 16th amendment is repealed, if I have to file a W2, instasluts should too.
Furthermore, if people think the NSA and CIA are scary, they are cuddly kittens compared to the IRS. They don’t give two fucks about SocJus bullshit, you do NOT fuck with the Mafia’s cash flow.
However, I also believe in equal application of the law and unless and until the 16th amendment is repealed, if I have to file a W2, instasluts should too.
But, don’t you get it, Q, the instasluts are, like, waaay cooler than you and those icky incels. And the appropriate application of the law is that the law is intended to protect cool people from icky people. So, why should cool people have to abide by the same rules as icky people?
No, fuck that. I’m all for equal application of the law.
The more people get a good hard, dry fucking from the IRS, the less likely they are to vote for statists.
The delicious irony in all of it is that these women represent a demographic the votes overwhelmingly blue.
I don’t know about this. I’m conflicted. On one hand ratting people out to the IRS does suck (although a lot of the people decrying this don’t seem to have a huge objection to ratting people out on principle **coughcoughElizabethNolanBrowncoughcough**). That said, it does sound like these women are making a general pain in the neck of themselves to the gamers.
Once again shorter ENB:
I wish I had the guts to be a prostitute but Mommy and Daddy would be disappointed!
I just really doubt these women are agorists.
Still. She wishes she had the guts to *still* be a prostitute. She’s already done it once.
US Postal Service exposed data of 60 million users
I see no reason why we shouldn’t have 350 million people’s health care administered in this fashion.
Shitlord!
From an email I received this morning:
If humor weren’t dead, somebody could probably have fun with this.
I’m going to apply. Women who have penises and identify as men are women too.
Click the Geoduck Clam link above. You’re right.
WHYCOME SHE DON’T SPEAK ‘MERICAN
I see no reason why we shouldn’t have 350 million people’s health care administered in this fashion.
Just think of it as the People’s Right to Know. If Society is going to provide free unlimited health care, you have a duty to take proper care of yourself.
We need to tweak the Internet of Things so your refrigerator can rat you out to your doctor when you bring that cheesecake and fudge syrup home from the grocery store.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.
Tovarisch, I see that you’ve been eating Mallomars again! Report to the struggle session.
Last time I try sarcasm with you people.
Damned if you do, and damned if you don’t sir!
That’ll be ten minutes on the elliptical and a dozen Hail Michelles.
We need to tweak the Internet of Things so your refrigerator can rat you out to your doctor . . .
Which is why I keep telling my wife that there will be no IoT devices in our house, unless they’ve got hard-point Internet connections that can be easily severed and/or hard On/Off switches. And even then, probably not. (We passed up buying a “smart home” when we first moved to Pitt Meadows for precisely this reason.)
Replace “smart” with “snitch” and people slowly get the idea. At least a snitch phone has other useful functions. A snitch fridge appeals only to the stupid, lazy, or OCD crowd that deserve the government ass fucking they are requesting.
In theory a snitch fridge could be built that was semi useful. I’m thinking that sensors on the compressor and other major components could tip you off about pending problems before it breaks and you lose all your food. And it could be done in a way that doesn’t really require any connection to the internet (local panel could show alarm codes).
The problem is that the fridge makers want that data to help their process. That requires it to upload data. And then you have to come up with a “sexy” app to show the public to make them think that this intrusive behavior is OK. The stupid app that shows you a picture of what is in your fridge while you are out shopping for example. Who has actually needed that? But it looks so much more fun than the simple app that tells you that your compressor is icing up because it is low on coolant.
Jeffrey Dhamler would have loved this app so he could share the images of his fridge’s content…
*Apple believes that gender expression is a fundamental right. We welcome all women to apply to this program.
Patriarchal constraints! Light the torches.
Three US soldiers killed in Afghanistan by a roadside bomb.
Anyone want to tell me why we’re still in that godforsaken country?
Budget preservation. It’s fucking sick.
Protecting our freedoms from assault by goat farmers living in mud huts?
We should be there to protect the goats from assault by those goat farmers.
We’re in Scotland??
Hey the Scotts abuse sheep, not goats.
We really should be in Denmark because apparently they go for the whole zoo
Pigeon fuckers?
Lockheed’s stock price ain’t gonna raise itself.
We’re very close to the point of sending soldiers to Afghanistan who were not yet born on 9/11/01. How ludicrous is that?
You were there, no? I know Swiss was. I remember when the Japanese sent a crew to Samawah (?) back in 2003 or so. Their soldiers had to be protected by US troops because of their rules of engagement. Crazy shit, but at least they weren’t dumb enough to stay for another 15 years.
Different war. Hard to keep em all straight.
Not Afghanistan, no. I was in Uzbekistan in 2003-4 and Iraq 2005-6. Anyway, I was the very definition of a REMF.
How many Evans old do you think the war in Afghanistan will get before we get fed up and go home
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Is Deemed ‘Racist’
Several people commented that the screenshot accompanying the tweet proved that the show was in fact racist — because Franklin, the “black kid,” is sitting on one side of the table by himself:
“If y’all don’t think racism exist..check out Charlie Brown…so you mean to tell me, no one wanted to sit by the lil black kid and why they give him the worse chair….think about it…”
That word no longer has any real meaning.
Some rando said something stupid on Twitter. NEWS AT 11!
This is basically 2/3 of the news cycle today
Charles Schulz was a raging Nazi, it is known.
Well, he did have a skinhead as a main character, and the Red Baron is mentioned several times.
/SPLC
Traitorous counterrevolutionary types are holding back our glorious progressive reimagining of America.
“There is this idea that if all these suburban areas are blue, that will mean they’re automatically more progressive,” historian Lily Geismer told the paper, noting that while these voters may support progressive candidates, they also show “commitments to a lot of kinds of inequality.”
Geismer’s skepticism isn’t entirely unwarranted. Orange County may look blue right now, but as the Times notes, California voters also rejected Proposition 10, a rent-control measure backed by a coalition of progressive grassroots organizations and unions, like the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment and the California Teachers Association. A successful opposition campaign persuaded voters that rent control would, in the words of one ad, “take rental housing off the market, reduce construction of affordable and middle-class housing when we need it most and make it harder to find a place to live.” It’s hard to imagine an ad better suited to play on the most deeply held fears of suburban homeowners. Similarly, Colorado voters elected a Democratic trifecta the same day they rejected a ballot initiative that would have increased taxes on incomes over $150,000 a year to provide new funding for public schools.
For some suburban voters, Democratic candidates were clearly more palatable than progressive policies. It’s reasonable to ask whether suburban victories in the 2018 midterms will ultimately backfire for Democrats. But there is no singular answer, partly because the party itself is so fragmented. Fiscally conservative Democrats won’t be dismayed by the possibility that suburban voters will vote against increasing taxes to fund expansive welfare programs. But left-wing Democrats may need to reckon with the possibility that a suburban bloc will oppose some of their initiatives.
Oh, no, they rejected rent control. They declined the opportunity to throw even more money at schools which have proven themselves impervious to improvement. Did you seriously think those people would be willing to subject themselves to your idiocy?
Translation: they’re not progs, they’re anti-Trump.
A successful opposition campaign persuaded voters that rent control would, in the words of one ad, “take rental housing off the market, reduce construction of affordable and middle-class housing when we need it most and make it harder to find a place to live.”
All indisputable and observed facts that not even labor economists bother trying to refute. “That 1 standard deviation in IQ separating these goddamn suburbanites from our urban base is really shitty man!”
Wrongthink.
https://www.redstate.com/alexparker/2018/11/26/kevin-hart-eniko-kenzo-birthday-party/
The interests of suburban voters are not universally opposed to the interests of the urban poor, or of the rural poor. If the party’s base does shift to the suburbs, left-wing Democrats won’t necessarily have a policy problem. Low- to middle-income suburbanites don’t really have material reasons to oppose a child allowance, for example, or really any policy that increases taxes on wealthier voters. Rather, the party’s left flank has a messaging problem. They must convince white suburbanites that they have interests in common with their non-white neighbors, and not the one percent — that the precarity they fear is real, and that the prosperity they desire has been hoarded by the wealthy enclaves they aspire to enter. That political task did not spring fully formed from the aftermath of the midterms. A suburban base won’t create new problems for progressives as much as it will reinforce old challenges.
“How do we reach these keeds?”
It’s not that they’re just plain wrong about things. They merely need to tweak the phrasing, because the rubes are too dumb to comprehend what a great deal they’ll be getting.
Well, of course not. It is self evident that Marxism is the salvation of mankind. Why would they ever reconsider that??? They just aren’t good enough at marketing it.
Not enough graves is my guess…
Every Marxist revolution has run into the same problem trying to get the proles properly agitated. The ideology only appeals to the most self indulgent bourgie navel gazers.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6431083/Demi-Rose-puts-brazenly-busty-display-sparkling-gold-mini-dress-beauty-awards.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6430021/Demi-Rose-sets-pulses-racing-flaunts-perky-derri-TINY-red-swimsuit.html
I anxiously look forward to her mid-thirties when her looks are just starting to go downhill a little and she resorts to porn to try and stay relevant.
See? That’s how you play the long game !
STEVE SMITH PLAY LONG GAME.
SHORT GAME MUCH MOAR IMPORTANT FOR PUTTING IT IN HOLE.
Elephantine. Definitely not perky.
Silicotine?
You didn’t need the question mark after “thicc”.
Day-yam.
“The number of children struck down with the rare ‘polio-like’ acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in the US has risen to 116, officials have confirmed.
Thirty-one states have now reported cases of the poorly understood illness, which can cause paralysis and, in rare cases, prove deadly.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently investigating a further 170 cases of people with tell-tale symptoms of AFM.
There has already been more than three-and-a-half times as many cases as last year, but doctors remain baffled as to what is causing the illness.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6433015/Paralysing-polio-like-disease-spreads-31-states.html
That sounds way worse than the romaine thing.
Ban children from grocers and restaurants.
doctors remain baffled as to what is causing the illness
The only thing we know for sure is that it’s definitely not disease vectors from the third world where all of our goods and labor come from, because that would have uncomfortable implications.
I remember a few years ago there was some outbreak of a disease previously seen only (mainly?) in Central America. The CDC came out and said something along the lines of they weren’t going to consider that it was showing up here because of immigrants. I don’t know how that one finally worked out, but for the CDC to say they weren’t even going to look into politically incorrect possible vectors was disturbing.
“Look, we don’t have the funding to go after soda and communicable diseases, so give it a rest.”
I blame guns and obesity.
/CDC
AFM is a symptom and not a disease, so we have no idea what actual disease is causing this. If we did, we could probably come up with a cure.
This strikes as precisely the sort of thing the CDC should be focusing on.
Straff:
Curious if you started learning Japanese before you moved, or moved and then started taking immersion classes. Also, did you meet your wife and then decide to move there, or did you move there and then meet your wife?
It’s just an interesting life path for someone from Ohio (?) to take.
Think Straff is from Wisconsin (Chippewa Falls).
Maybe he was a mail order husband? During the Lindy Infante years a lot of parents in Wisconsin were so depressed about the future that they gave up their kids in the hope that they could find a real team to root for.
Could rival the Cleveland tourism video for comedy value.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/11/visit-portland-stay-for-the-riots.php
Dayum
LOL
obstruction or just normal sloppy cop talk?
Last month, Van Dyke was convicted of murder. Now, three other officers who were at that station are scheduled to go on trial Tuesday on charges they tried to cover up for him.
Might indicate obstruction or conspiracy. Might just be stupid cops repeatedly doing stupid cop stuff that looks bad. But either the kid had a knife or he didn’t; Jury One wasn’t impressed.
Might just be stupid cops repeatedly doing stupid cop stuff that looks bad.
Like lying to protect one of their “brothers in blue”?
Well, that’s the obvious part I imply on the other side of my Might indicate obstruction or conspiracy.
But there’s a chance they both wrote the same stupid thing in a chimps-hammer-out-Hamlet sort of way.
“Gigi Hadid finally overcame her fear of facials”
https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1067050601970835456
“Gigi Hadid finally overcame her fear of facials
Gigi Hadid keeps it simple when it comes to skincare. So simple, in fact, that she only just got her first facial a few weeks ago.
In a video for Vogue, the 23-year-old Victoria’s Secret model played a game of “Two Truths and a Lie” alongside some of her fellow Angels, challenging Shanina Shaik to guess whether she was lying about getting her first facial that week, studying criminal psychology in college or being a natural brunette.
Of course, Hadid is a lifelong blonde who loves “Law & Order” — meaning that her confession about visiting a facialist for the first time prior to the lingerie brand’s annual runway show is true. Still, it’s a semi-shocking statement from a woman whose face is literally her livelihood.”
https://pagesix.com/2018/11/19/gigi-hadid-finally-overcame-her-fear-of-facials/
That’s a little on the nose.
I think that’s pretty normal. Most of the women I’ve watched getting a facial flinch as it happens.
Just be careful to avoid the eyes and aim for the mouth as much as possible.
Q knows what he be talking about!
It’s apparently also Jean Grae’s 42nd birthday today. The musician of course, not the mutant.
https://twitter.com/BridgetPhetasy/status/1067154769809035264
LOLOLOLOL
“Some call me “Whale Fucker”. Alright. There’s a private club of a few dozen Maori men and one butch woman – that meet in Molokai each year to fuck a whale. True. Men on padeleboards herd the whale while one tries to fuck it. Wouldn’t let me in the club. Tried it alone. Epic fail.”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1067415394279936000
Good God, but we missed out when we didn’t elect that man!
“Some call me “Whale Fucker” sounds like the first line of Moby Dick slash fiction.
Just imagine how all of the people who get their panties in an uproar over President Trump’s tweets would react to that.
Isn’t there some federal conservation program he could appoint McCafee to head? Like, goodwill ambassador for healthy oceans?
National treasure
Stephen Miller
Verified account @redsteeze
2h2 hours ago
Replying to @officialmcafee
Did you try getting the whale drunk first?
12 replies 14 retweets 394 likes
John McAfee
Verified account @officialmcafee
2h2 hours ago
No time. The reality is far more razor edged frantic than whatever fantasy is keeping you going.
ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND Banned from Twitter for expressing violence against whales.
The follow up is even better:
Alex Pundit [XVG] [BTC] [AI Trade] @Alex_Pundit
Replying to @officialmcafee
I read on the news just this week about 25 or so whales washing up on an NZ beach. Did you do this?
John McAfee
@officialmcafee
Replying to @Alex_Pundit
Had I managed to pork one, she wouldn’t be on a beach somewhere. She would be stalking me still . . . . begging for another go round.
I made the mistake of reading through that tweet thread…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6430317/The-orangutan-sex-slave-forced-work-BROTHEL.html
Senator Warren just now in some national defense strategy (sub?)committee via C-SPAN3: “If throwing money at it hasn’t worked so far . . .” That’s my best effort to quote her verbatim, but I might have a word or two wrong.
Anyhoo, I’m always tickled at how clear-headed people are about bloated budgets for things they don’t like, but, somehow . . . .
Didn’t she say that Money spent is the metric, when it comes to schools?
https://reason.com/blog/2017/01/19/on-entitlements-elizabeth-warren-says-th
Senator Warren just now in some national defense strategy (sub?)committee via C-SPAN3: “If throwing money at it hasn’t worked so far . . .” That’s my best effort to quote her verbatim, but I might have a word or two wrong.
Oh, come on. We’re just not hitting it hard enough.
“Meet New York City’s highest-earning official. He’s a debt collector for predatory lenders.
In the 1960s, New York’s loan sharks would send thugs with nicknames like “Jimmy Dimps” to beat up borrowers who fell behind on their payments.
Now predatory lenders have a quieter way of collecting debts: an obscure city official named Vadim Barbarovich. Armed with a badge and a stack of court papers, he empties peoples’ bank accounts nationwide and keeps a cut for himself. He earned $1.7 million last year, giving him the most lucrative job in New York City government.
Barbarovich is a city marshal. In an archaic system dating to colonial New Amsterdam, he’s one of 35 mayoral appointees who compete for fees recovering debts. Marshals mostly evict tenants and tow cars, but Barbarovich and a few others have become cogs in a debt-collection machine that has crushed thousands of small businesses. They use their legal authority on behalf of lenders who charge more than some mafia loan sharks once did.
In theory, Barbarovich’s reach ends at the city limits. In practice, it spans the nation. From a third-floor office near Coney Island in Brooklyn, he has grabbed cash from a physician in California, a roofer in Florida and a cattle auctioneer in Illinois. Borrowers say he and other marshals routinely push the limits of their authority.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-confessions-of-judgment-millionaire-marshal/
Love the hole-in-the-wall office in glamorous Sheepshead Bay.
Hmm. Need more information. On one hand I’m loath of the government in any shape. on the Other hand I get really annoyed when people trot out debtors as some oppressed class. These people aren’t debt slaves, they weren’t being coerced into leveraging themselves. If they default they are stealing money from their creditor. I don’t get why some debtors are typified as “good/oppressed” types and other people who do the same thing (take money and then reneg on paying back) are the “swindlers”. In particular it’s the “Swindlers” who generally are getting people by asking for “Investment” i.e no guarantee of payout.
Yeah.
I’m assuming this debt collector doesn’t smash knee caps for non-payment, so that’s a tiny step better than the small-m mafia that isn’t a government agency.
This may be old news, but I just came across this and thought it was cool. It’s a good description of ideologues’ projection and ad hominem attacks when they’re debating. It even has a name, Sargon’s Law…
“Whenever an ideologue makes a character judgement about someone they are debating with, that character judgement is usually true about themselves.”
WOMP WOMP.
http://www.theintell.com/news/20181126/ex-attorney-general-kane-loses-appeal-may-soon-head-to-jail
the Montgomery County district attorney’s office said it plans to ask a judge Tuesday morning to revoke her bail.
Good. This is how you stop overzealous prosecutors from playing these sorts of games.
Now, if memory serves me correctly, Bill Cosby was prosecuted in Montgomery County. Maybe he could use a cell mate.
“Hey, hey, hey!”
Somebody gettin a puddin pop.
this is a nightmare. reading through the court docs wrt the mom who is brainwashing her 6-year old boy.
http://savejames.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Save_James_Dossier-2.pdf
mother alleges abuse b/c father cut the boy’s hair. the school principal reported the father for child abuse for the haircut but Texas child services said nope, not abuse.
also, this madness:
Request for Permanent Injunction
Petitioner requests the Court, after trial on the merits, to grant an additional injunction as follows:
1. Cutting Hair. Enjoining the Respondent from cutting the hair of the children.
2. Enjoining Jeff from signing Luna up as James for any activities or taking her as James or calling her James or using male pronouns related to Luna at any activities outside the home, including but not limited to school and extracurricular or school activities.
3. Enjoining Jeff from allowing the children to remain in the presence of anyone who is not calling Luna by her chosen name, “Luna,” not using female pronouns to refer to her and otherwise not affirming Luna.
Has anyone asked the kid, away from the presence of the mother and the doctors who are making money from “treating” him, whether he wants his dick cut off?
Honestly i think the Kid just wan’ts to his parents happy. When he’s with dad he’s a boy, when with Mom, he does the girl stuff. In the end i think the way the Mom is going will have extremely detrimental effects on his development (She will push to put him on Hormone blockers, but God forbid the Father petition the court for an injunction on that as abuse).
dad’s petitioning to have the boys tested to see what meds they’ve been given over the last year.
Yeah. As someone whose view of my parents was poisoned (not directly intentional) by one of my parents during/post divorce, I feel sorry for the kid.
apparently when the mom is in the room, then he says girl. but otherwise boy. apparently mother won’t release the boys medical information so dad is petitioning for her to be compelled to release his medical records. it’s a mess.
apparently mother won’t release the boys medical information so dad is petitioning for her to be compelled to release his medical records.
As a custodial parent, he has parental rights, including equal rights to those records and to medical decisionmaking, unless and until a court strips him of those rights. What an utter shitshow.
Of course, all that only works if the powers that be choose to obey the law.
hmmm. unsure of his custodial status. but i didn’t make it up. this is from his counter-petition:
Ordering Counter-Respondent ANNE GEORGULAS to execute any releases required for obtaining medical and psychiatric records.
maybe the mom hired a Gender Dysphoria expert who’s dragging their feet hoping the dad doesn’t have the money to file this counter-petition.
If he has visitation, he’s most likely custodial. Very unusual for a court to terminate all parental rights, and still allow visitation. He shouldn’t even need to get authorizations to see medical records; he has an independent right to them unless and until a court affirmatively terminates his parental rights or at least terminates all of his rights to make medical decisions.
well, this is now a trending story on at least one other site besides Federalist so with traction perhaps we’ll get some clarity.
He’s a damned 6 year old. He doesn’t know what he wants other than ice cream and trying to keep Mommie Dearest happy. For whatever reason, she’s out of her fucking mind and using the kids to fulfill some deep seated mental problem.
Tangentially it would be interesting if there was some good data on how common this is (parents with extremely young “Trans” kids). I know i’ve seen it both ways, but there seems to be a common thread of mom pushing for boys => girls, but it’s all anecdotal.
Honestly, if she gets away with this nonsense, I won’t shed even a single tear if I find out he has her stuffed in the attic in twenty years.
“LUNNNNNAAAA!!!
No, Mother, she’s a good girl!”
*adds note to self to give a wide berth to any sketchy-looking motels in Texas*
Those demands are those of a lunatic. Except that insanity is treated as good these days.
And the school principal filed an abuse report over a haircut? Fucker should be fired on the spot. No way should someone like that be allowed to run the education of children.
The father must be wondering what kind of lunatic world he’s living in.
You just know the trans activists are involved in this. I’m certain they’re bringing political pressure everywhere they can.
this whole situation screams DON’T STICK IT IN CRAZY.
sure, you can usually save yourself from crazy but if you get her pregnant, then you have to also save your kids.. and if you don’t, then good luck looking at yourself in the mirror every morning.
The problem is that realizing that crazy is happening often is a belated epiphany.
I speak from long experience.
Plus, crazy good in and out of bed is usually accompanied by bleedthrough of crazy into everything else.
Rapid Onset Crazy?
Has anyone asked the kid, away from the presence of the mother and the doctors who are making money from “treating” him, whether he wants his dick cut off?
Do you really want to be your mommy’s live dress-up doll?
To be fair, he just wants mommy to love him and stop cussing every time he does boy things.