I’m not going to dig up the Mexican Flanders photo so here is an excerpt from a graphic novel featured on NPR about the life and times of Ernesto “Che” Cuevara. Found in this article are the words, “cruelty” and “execution.” Not found anywhere is “murderous,” “bloodthirsty,” “racist,” “asshole,” or even “Argentine.”
Methusela was sentenced to 5000 years in a Guatemalan prison for atrocities he committed during their civil war. Yes, I linked Al Jazeera, don’t change the subject from mandatory minimums!
Lets not forget, Mexicans don’t like the refugees migrants people from “Not Mexico” being in Mexico.
Venezuela is now doing what everyone else does when they encounter economic turmoil: seek refuge in gold!
Okay. We get it. You like to vape.
CNN digs around and finds answers to their readers queries about tear gas. Unfortunately, their answer to the question, “Why Was Tear Gas Used” does not include the obvious answer: its a useful tool to disperse a crowd WITHOUT KILLING THEM. As somebody that has been exposed to tear gas let me tell you something: there is no better agent on Earth that will clear your sinuses quicker. I caught the flu during week 5 of basic training; I was dying for three days during a Texas Ice Storm, getting yelled at for not taking that “war” thing seriously. Then they put me in a room filled with that crap, made me do pushups, and yanked the mask off. Once I was done puking…I was good to go.
Finally, I thought this clip was interesting. Sure its a couple weeks old, but it really drives home the idea that not far from where I live…they WANT a brutal dictator.
Right, you all need tunes to get you going in the morning. Here you go. Make hump day your bitch!
Links were late because they’re Mexican?
They weren’t late, they were posted from an MS-13 time zone.
That’s what? Central or Mountain time?
Murder Time
Some of us try to comment on a topic in the links instead of going for the easy stereotypical joke… But people no longer care these days
No longer care? Or never cared?
Right? I even found articles in English!
They are on Mexican Link Time baby!
Venezuela is now doing what everyone else does when they encounter economic turmoil: seek refuge in gold!
Crypto was big in Venezuela something tells me they are back to basics
Crypto requires electricity, which is going to be a problem pretty soon.
You hear they found some $425 million bucks to pay off the company that took them to court and was asking for all assets of Citgo to be turned over to them since Venezuela stopped paying them the money it owed? Wonder whose pocket that money came from. Someone should ask Swissy if it was the Chavez or Maduro Swiss bank account that got raided to do this initial payment on the $1.6 billion Venezuela owes. I am even more interested in finding out where they will find the rest of the money to pay this debt of ass promised. And who else will take them to court demanding Citgo be given to them because Venezuela owes them money too…
I. Know. Nothing. Of. This.
Sgt. Schultz! Where is Hogan????
I put heem in ze cooler as you ordered, Herr Commandant!
Are you late?
There’s a pill for that.
Buenos ding-dong-diddly dias!
I’m not going to dig up the Mexican Flanders photo so here is an excerpt from a graphic novel featured on NPR about the life and times of Ernesto “Che” Cuevara. Found in this article are the words, “cruelty” and “execution.” Not found anywhere is “murderous,” “bloodthirsty,” “racist,” “asshole,” or even “Argentine.”
Still, the creators falter when they try to condense complex ideological questions into too few panels. – very complex this communism so difficult to understand
Just because the assholes peddling it keep lying through teeth and keep changing their stories doesn’t make it hard to just take a quick look at its historical performance to quickly get that it is an ideology predicated on the envious giving power to people that promise to drag the successful down in return for a share of the loot. And considering its track record in general, it is not hard to see it is nothing but a murderous evil ideology, but for some reason it seems to be the “it” thing with the people that keep telling the rest of us, members of the riff-raff, that they are the intelligentsia.
Excellent music choice.
And crazy video
SJWednesday: White Patriarchy Now, White Patriarchy Forever
Racist much?
nuhu there is no such thing as anti white racism.
Also government should forcibly relocate non whites to Maine. Worked for Soviet Union.
You know who else forcibly relocated populations?
Yahweh?
Tamerlane?
FDR?
Nebuchadnezzar II?
The Ice Age?
Andrew Jackson?
Nauvoo, Illinoisans?
Well, I mean the Governor of Missouri did it first…
Delta?
Uhaul?
The westward expansion?
Commander Adama?
“Oh fuck, it turns out packing our entire voting base into a dozen urban centers doesn’t give us much in the way of national representation. Uh… RACISM!”
That’s it. I’m done. The 3/5’s compromise was a fucking compromise to limit the power of the slave owning states. The other options were that slaves counted as population, which would increase their representation in the house (which the non-slave states didn’t like), or that slaves weren’t counted as population at all (which the slave states were against).
If you’re expecting historical accuracy from the social justice cadre, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. For most of them, the only history books they’ve read have been written by Howard Zinn.
What is also dishonest is that, at the time, equal representation in the Senate protected the free states more than the slave states.
You’d think the people who understand the crucial importance of illegal immigrants being counted for census purposes would easily grok that.
I have always wondered how that managed to settle on 3/5ths. I have to imagine 1/2 was on the table but someone that wasn’t good enough.
Considering the non-slave states wanted 0 and the slave states wanted 1, I just find it odd they negotiated to .6. The slavers clearly had the better negotiating crew.
During the Confederation (pre-Constitution) they decided making any slaves that counted for representation also count for cases of direct taxation.
That got both sides interested in a fractional compromise and (according to wiki) 1/2 and 3/4 were proposed and voted down. 3/5 was proposed and narrowly defeated.
Enter the Constitutional Congress, and 3/5 was remembered as the best compromise.
Thanks, I guess 3/5 was easier for politicians to understand that 5/8.
Give me 17/24 or death!
Would you prefer a public or private hanging?
“I have always wondered how that managed to settle on 3/5ths. I have to imagine 1/2 was on the table but someone that wasn’t good enough.”
I imagine it was similar to when the Hawaii state senate was fighting over whether to raise the age of consent higher than 14, the lowest in the country by two years. I’d be in committee rooms covering this genteel brawl, and they’d be at 15, then someone would leave the room to go to the bathroom and it would go to 14, then a couple of other people would leave and it would go to 16, and so on.
It eventually narrowly got decided in the full D caucus to go to 16 instead of 15 — then everyone came out of that room and it was 16, always was 16, we’ve always been at war with Eastasia sort of thing.
That’s it. I’m done.
You think sjw-types are capable of nuance?
interests of slave-owning regions of the country.
Meaning the whole country at the time…
Incidentally, the 3/5s issue would arise again as the country expanded. A certain pol from IL who eventually became president did not want the expansion of slavery into new regions because of the 3/5s issue. It’s almost like he was engaged in political maneuvering to limit the influence of the opposition party rather than any care for the plight of those held in bondage. (He also supported the IL Constitutional provision prohibiting the emigration of blacks into the state, but we aren’t supposed to talk about that.)
Lets not forget, Mexicans don’t like the refugees migrants people from “Not Mexico” being in Mexico.
Someone did a poll
A poll released Sunday by El Universal, one of Mexico’s biggest newspapers, found seven in 10 Mexicans have a negative view about the arrival of the migrant families, with more than half – 52 percent – supporting blocking them from entering the country without legal documents and 55 percent supporting tougher measures on future caravans.
Support for the migrant families has also dropped in the last few months, the survey found. This has implications for President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who takes office on Dec. 1: About half, 52 percent, of Mexicans opposed his announced measure to give work visas to Central American migrants, while 40 percent support the measure.
So you’re saying Mexicans are racist.
You have to be American – and of course white (or a white hispanic, I guess) – to be a racist….
Um… you realize that not only are Mexicans one of the other groups of people living in the Americas (known as Americans) but they are also North Americans.
Was the official name of Mexico the “United Mexican States” or the “United States of Mexico” I forget which was the proper translation.
“Aztec Empire”
“Estados Unidos de Mexico” – is pretty much “United States of Mexico” unless you want to blend in some arcane linguistic inflection not plain on its face.
You seem to have missed my joke about leftists not being bothered by facts like this and make ludicrous claims that are ever shifting/morphing to define the guilty. I fail at sarcasm.
I love that we now refer to them, not as immigrants, not as illegal aliens, not as migrants, but as “migrant families”.
Words matter!
Leftist always fuck with language to suit their ends. It doesn’t matter where you’re from, if you are in the country illegally you are an ‘illegal alien’.
This is why Trump is so important in some ways. He co-opted Fake News and Deplorable has become a badge of honor.
Even though they are mostly men and not families.
Who knew Mexico had so many white Hispanics?
An Otter Is Terrorizing Koi At A Pond In Vancouver And People Are Cheering It On
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/laurenstrapagiel/vancouver-chinese-garden-otter-koi
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden describes itself as the first Chinese garden built outside of China. One of its many beautiful features is its koi pond, home to 14 of the pricey and prized fish.
So far, the otter, which has been named the Chinatown Otter, has eaten 11 of those fish. It’s basically a crisis.
“Chinatown Otter”? Care canukistanis really that uninventive?
I was just there and we didn’t see any koi – maybe a glimpse of one. Now I know why.
“…Is Terrorizing Koi At A Pond …”
Hm, well… I would say that killing and eating 11 out of 14 has gone past “terrorizing”, beyond “decimating”, and pretty much fits the Webster definition for “annihilating”.
Yeah, that’s fish destruction on a larger scale.
There otter be a law
It’s a buffet, right?
Did the otter rape them first?
No, the koitus was consensual.
boooo
Koi < otters on cuteness scale. All issues of animal killing/environment morality are decided based on cuteness.
It’s the Holokoist!
What could go wrong with this idea? Instead of sending dick pics, you can now send fart smells or fromunda cheese smells… Sweet love.
We finally get Smellevision.
Flying cars cannot be far behind.
SJWednesday: Not Having Extra-Judicial Kangaroo Courts Is Misogynist and Rapey
Complete with bullshit statistics
The way this shit ends is for people that have been wronged to keep suing these schools and walking away with fat paychecks. Eventually the pool of people that pay insane tuition amounts to avoid learning anything of value that attend these places will become small enough that these indoctrination camps used by a bunch of no value add administrators to become rich and that masquerade as institutions of higher learning will have to face the reality of their errors.
Not as long as credentialism and government student lending holds up.
Give it another $1 trillion or so of money pissed away on people going to these places to get credentialed & indoctrinated, and more She Guevarra/Karla Marx snowflakes demanding their student loans be forgiven, and that house of cards will implode.
I see a market opportunity for an all male college.
Oh shit that’s illegal too?
An estimated 34 percent of all survivors of campus rape are not able to graduate due to universities’ failure to provide them with the care and resources they need.
An estimated 100% of all falsely accused men who get drummed off campus by Title IX tribunals are not able to graduate. Go go consensually fuck yourself.
Why is it the school’s responsibility? If the school failed to keep them safe, sue the school for damages and used the money to pay for counseling.
e a narrower and more stringent definition of sexual harassment – aka actual sexual harassment
Most alarming of all is a proposal to allow accused students to cross-examine their accusers – and here I though confronting your accuser was a staple of law… Also as far as I know the rule said a lawyer / representative of the accuser can cross examine
limits to schools’ ability to investigate the majority of incidents that did not take place on campus or school-owned propertylimits to schools’ ability to investigate the majority of incidents that did not take place on campus or school-owned property – hmm how would they investigate that?
If anything, rather than hurt accused men, Title IX as is has not gone far enough to protect survivors’ rights – lol
An estimated 34 percent of all survivors of campus rape are not able to graduate due to universities’ failure to provide them with the care and resources they need.
According to this idiot’s own data, “survivors” ate 6 percentage points more likely to graduate than the population as a whole.
Linky
Science says we must rape them to help them graduate. You’re not going to argue against science are you? Don’t be a denier. Steve Smith is doing then a favor.
new limits to schools’ ability to investigate the majority of incidents that did not take place on campus or school-owned property.
Something something law enforcement…
Most alarming of all is a proposal to allow accused students to cross-examine their accusers; this would build upon the far too frequent phenomenon of survivors being placed in the same room as their attackers,
to be humiliated, re-traumatized, and blamed for their own experiences.Something something right to face your accuser…
These people are wannabe tyrants.
You fight a 36 year civil war and the prize is Guatemala?
When your civil war has lasted past twenty years, you’ve lost the chance to repair the rift. There will be people of prime fighting age who know nothing but the war. If you’re really lucky you can get a ceasefire that lasts long enough for people to acclimate to not getting shot at.
Yeah, what did the winners get?
Well, it is the land of eternal spring.
“…the life and times of Ernesto “Che” Guevara.”
In my experience few people know that “Guevara” was his mother’s maiden name. His real last name was Lynch. But I guess when you want to be taken seriously as a Latin American Revolutionary you can’t do that with a name which screams “Wypipo!”.
I think this says so many things about him – none of them good.
It’s not accidental that one of history’s biggest monsters was lionized by the marxism peddlers. If these people didn’t have Hitler and the usual academics mislabeling fascism as right-wing, when it is nothing but another totalitarian offshoot of socialism, to attack and malign, they would be in trouble.
The dude was an upper-class, educated Argentine. Given a hair cut and a shave he probably wouldn’t have been safe walking down the street on the poor side of town in any major city in the developed world.
That’s the shit that is scary about these murderous asshats. They are all upper-class educated people with serious guilt/ego issues that find solace in torture and murder in the name of an ideology that represents the worst these asshats want to ascribe to religious movements. I guess stupid envious fucks with serious guilt issues can empathize with this sort of evil shit and then start venerating guys like Guevarra. Maybe Pol Pot was on to something when he ordered all the intellectuals be put down…
The commies have always liked to elevate the most incompetent to higher levels of power. They’re more grateful and compliant.
It was either going to be Che Guevara or Beto Lynch.
I was thinking of Irish Bobby reading the comment above.
Guevara did have Irish ancestry. There was talk of building a monument to him in Galway
THE PROPOSAL TO erect a monument to the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara in Galway city has been heavily criticised by the businessman Declan Ganley.
It was reported in the Sunday Times at the weekend that Galway city council are considering a proposal to erect a monument commemorating the Marxist guerrilla who helped Fidel Castro to seize power in Cuba in 1959, power he retains to this day.
The paper reported that the embassies of Cuba and Argentina, where Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara was born, will help fund the art project celebrating the links Guevara has with Galway through his grandmother who was a descendant of the local Lynch family.
Oops
So with GM closing plants (it’s amazing what happens when you go bankrupt), the stories about the plants in Ohio being closed are in the news again. Considering they cut the shifts from 3 to 1 earlier this year, it really shouldn’t be surprising that they’re trying to close this one (again). My favorite part of the story, after commenting that TJX (the company that owns TJ Maxx and other retail stores) is building a warehouse across the freeway from the closing auto plant:
News you can use!
Did Obama ever buy that Chevy Volt he promised to buy when he made Government Motors peddle that shit to the masses?
Obama? Pay for? Bahahahahaha.
The union shit just pisses me off. Maybe because growing up here in Cleveland, I saw unions kill companies over and over. Fuck, right now I live around the corner from a GM metal fabrication plant and a Ford engine plant. Both places are slowly dying, and I’ve known people who have worked at both.
Unions suck, but management at these companies has been putrid as well.
TJ Maxx? Treasure hunt!
They shut down the Oshawa plant in Ontario too.
When Maduro talks about Venezuela’s gold mining, it sounds like a smooth-running world in which government and mining outfits operate joint ventures, in compliance with environmental and labor laws.
The reality could hardly be more different.
“These miners have no labor rights at all,” says Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based senior analyst for the International Crisis Group. “They’re not protected from any of the dangerous elements — for example, the mercury that’s used in the mining.”
If there was only some way to enforce environmental regulations, we could turn this place around.
They had a successful oil and gas extraction industry, nd they destroyed it. What idiot would expect them to be able to do any better at mining?
Slaves with picks have been used in ore extraction since antiquity. It requires little actual expertise, and brutalizing people is within the core competencies of the socialist. So the hard part is in turning the output into something salable.
Are you talking about the mountain of bodies this is sure to produce being made into something of value like Soilent Green?
But they’ll all sacrifice and die in the collective together, so… success.
They had a successful oil and gas extraction industry, nd they destroyed it. What idiot would expect them to be able to do any better at mining?
I had the same thought as I read the article.
Men and women seem to be moving in opposite directions when it comes to basic questions on the size and purpose of government.
That’s been the data picture for at least 20 years.
Women: Bigger is better!
Men: Wouldn’t smaller and more efficient be just as effective?
That got a laugh out of me
You’re not talking about the government any more, are you.
But she said it was a good size!
Sure she did….
Well this is no surprise
New wave feminism is predicated on the delusion of being self sufficient. A big part of getting that is having government replace the role of a sugar daddy so you can pretend you don’t need a man in your life to help provide. I have dated a few of these harpies and when you point out that all they have done is substitute productive tax payers for the guy they used to bang so he would support their spending habits they really get mad at you.
New wave feminism is predicated on the delusion of being self sufficient.
Unfortunately, a large and growing portion of the female population has been convinced that reality (physical, objective reality) is not a thing that must be obeyed, but something that the bends to their announced whims. They’ve been indulged in this delusion by men eager to please them for courtship purposes (which has always been the case), but also by an incredibly affluent society where the costs of making the occasional irrational, self-contradictory demand happen is fairly affordable and by a government eager to pander to their votes. They delude themselves that they’re self-sufficient? Why shouldn’t they? Daddy and the government have assured them that the indulgences they’ve been granted are nothing more than their due.
In effect, our society has raised a generation of Veruca Salts.
In effect, our society has raised a generation of Veruca Salts.
Man, you hit that nail right on the head.
I remember the 90s being a generation of Veruca Salts.
*seethes*
They’re totally self sufficient until they need to pay for birth control or an abortion. At that point, the failure of society to subsidize their sex life reveals how dependent they are.
I’m gonna guess you didn’t have many second dates with these women.
Govt. as husband and provider. It’s no surprise really.
Honestly, it sounds a lot more like government as indulgent Daddy.
Reminds me of the joke about the rich 17 year old daughter that wants to move into her own $5.5k a month luxury apartment to one up her friends, but daddy finally told her she would have to pay for it herself.
After much whining and tantrum throwing her dad tells her that she should learn the value of a dollar and will have to earn that money, and since her only valuable assets are her looks and youth she would have to earn it the old way by sucking his dick every month for that kind of cash.
Daughter goes nuts and calls him all sorts of names and things, but he stands firm and tells her there is a lesson in all this. Her pride wounded and totally disgusted her father would ask for something like that, she tells him she will find a job and pay for it herself.
After a month of looking for a job and numerous people laughing their asses off at her for wanting high paying jobs she has no skills for she finally realizes her only job opportunities, base on her skills/assets are either flipping burgers or stripping/hooking. She decides to flip burgers.
A week of hell later and all sorts of damaged nails and dreams she gets her first paycheck and realizes that she made about $135 after taxes and thus could never afford the apartment.
She finally tries one more confrontation/tantrum throwing/pants shitting/begging encounter with her dad, but the man stands firm and makes the same demand, so she finally acquiesces because she just MUST one up her bitchy friends.
Daddy presents her with the object of labor and she drops down to her knees and with tears in her eyes and anger on her face she proceeds to start but immediately reels back with a noise “EEEEW” and points out her father’s cock tastes and smells like shit…
Dad then replies after sighing that her brother had wanted a new Ferrarri and he also needed to learn money didn’t grow on trees….
There is a reality to what happens when women are allowed to vote and when they are encouraged to take up careers rather than homemaking and raising a family. The government replaces the husband as the partner and provider.
People tend to get pissed when they find out that I’m a complementarian , but as I mentioned in my radical individualism article, subsidized individualism isn’t sustainable or moral.
subsidized individualism isn’t sustainable or moral.
I’d suggest that subsidized individualism isn’t individualism.
Huh, I had not heard of complementarianism, but my child must naturally be one, because he far preferred suckling at his mother’s teat to my own.
I’m sure you can find someone here kinky enough to want to suck at your teat.
(I am not that someone.)
You’re using a pretty big word to say that “one set of people, each with one radically different chromosome than another set of people, will tend to have different things they are good at”.
It has the advantage of brevity, but not of comprehensibility.
Rapist Arshid Hussain ‘offered chance to see victim’s child’
Fuck. You.
Very enriching. Much culture.
Awesome.
See? There’s nothing to worry about!
The first baby step towards a new species of human?
A daring effort is under way to create the first children whose DNA has been tailored using gene editing.
“We were unable to breed the new socialist man into existance – so we will engineer them into existance!” -hope of the Chinese Communist Party before they finally implode.
KHAAAAANN!!!!
Well, I for one trust scientists in the communist nation where dissidents literally have their organs harvested for CP members to use, to only do the most ethical and humane experiments on babies.
Say what you will about the Nazis, they did
have an ethosadvance medical science*ducks*
Their data on the treatment of hypothermia was unethically obtained, but scientifically valid.
Actually, even that has been debunked.
Did they not succeed in warming the victims back up?
Why we hate the media.
Goddamit, it’s so infuriating
Par for the course.
Orwell assumed you’d need a memory hole for this kind of shit because he grossly overestimated our attention span and intelligence.
SJWednesday: True Love Is Not Showing Any Concern For A Person’s Well-Being
If I have to change my whole life to make you happy, maybe I’m not the problem.
^^^^THIS^^^^
Someone needs to tell these asshats that they have no right to demand the world and life in general change to accommodate their ever changing whims.
A couple years ago I realized about the whole LGBT etc. issue which bugs me. If me and my sexual partner happen to like doing something which many people do not consider normal why do I have to make that everybody else’s issue to recognize, accept, and celebrate? Why do I even have to bring it up? Why is it their issue at all?
The activism is not about being left alone, it is about forcing those who do not approve into submission.
You Still Misgender Them Behind Their Back
Alternatively, they acknowledge your biological sex.
You Don’t Respect the Boundaries They Set
Alternatively, they just want to see pics of their children/relatives. Everyone changes in appearance over time.
You Try to ‘Bargain’ with Them
Alternatively, they do not want you to make irreversible changes to your body/chemistry.
“1. You Still Misgender Them Behind Their Back
Maybe this scene is familiar to you: You’re talking to someone about your loved one, and when it’s time to use a pronoun, you stumble for a moment. He? She? They? How do I gender them?
In a panic, you resort to the wrong pronouns, with just the slightest pang of guilt in the pit of your stomach.
Why We Do It: You might be thinking that you aren’t really ready to educate this person about your loved one, and about what it means to be transgender. It would be easier, you decide, if I just misgender them – so I don’t have to get “into it,” or answer any uncomfortable questions.”
Or, maybe they’ve spent twenty or so years of their life calling you “she”, and while they are OK with you changing your name and your stated gender and are willing, out of politeness, to call you whatever you would like to be called, including “he”, that’s a heck of a habit to try to change. You’re not gonna remember it in the moment every time. There’s no hurtfulness intended. Get over being butthurt over how memory works unless they show unambiguously that they don’t love and respect you.
Or at least that’s how it’s worked with my son, born biologically female.
OH FUCK OFF.
Knickers the steer is a bit on the shy side, but the bovine behemoth tends to stick out from the herd.
As you might have guessed, that is Knickers at the back of the photo — the black and white one with a couple of normal-sized cows sheltering under its belly.
Standing 194cm tall and weighing 1.4 tonnes, the seven-year-old Holstein Friesian is unofficially Australia’s biggest steer.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/agriculture/big-knickers-a-standout-on-myalup-farm-ng-b881032899z
Too much BGH?
I am sure he’s natty he just lifted more than the rest
Amy Schumer really let herself go
Crikey!
^am i using that right?
I don’t know why Che gets so much careful respect.
He killed capitalists monsters! And he tortured them good and hard first!
Viva la revolucion maricon!
Haven’t you seen his pics? He was dreamy!
The Trump administration’s changes include a narrower and more stringent definition of sexual harassment that promises to dismiss and erase countless traumatic experiences
Get thee to a nunnery.
You’ll be safe there.
SJWednesday: Think It’s #NotAllMen? These 4 Facts Prove You’re Just Plain Wrong
I couldn’t really improve on the title, so I left it.
But the socialization of men is such that even a good man – a supportive man, a respectful man, a trusted man – has within him the potential for violence and harm because these behaviors are normalized through patriarchy.
These are the same retards who will tell you that there’s no such thing as a dangerous dog and children are genderless. Apparently the only things immutably embedded in our genes are patriarchy and teh gay.
I love when feminists claim a burka is a woman’s choice and everything else is socialized
I’ve been irritated about this forever. Either biological sex means something or it doesn’t. This isn’t a school cafeteria – you can’t just pick and choose what things are genetic coding and what things aren’t. You can’t scream about how there are absolutely no inherent differences between men and women and in the next breath scream about how all men are born violent.
Logic is just a patriarchal construct to disadvantage womyn’s ways of knowing.
Yes – men were designed to be dangerous and aggressive. Back when words had meaning, a “gentleman” was a man who had firm control over himself and was only dangerous when defending himself and the women around him.
Redonkulas! I needed this to cleanse after reading.
But the socialization of men is such that even a good man – a supportive man, a respectful man, a trusted man – has within him the potential for violence and harm because these behaviors are normalized through patriarchy.
You mean the socialization that starts the first day of school when boys are forced to apologize for and work contrary to their natures? That socialization?
Fuck off, bint.
Funny how these harpies never mention people’s innate nature to be evil in any sort of way other than with respect to men. It’s not like many women have a history of being manipulative evil cunts that cause just as much, if not more, harm or anything like that.
Just look at some of the wives of leaders in Ancient Greece and Rome.
Nasty.
That’s only because the men forced them to be that way.
Lady MacBeth is a fictional character, pal!
“But in a world divided into the oppressed and the oppressors, the former learn to fear the latter as a defense mechanism.”
Aaaaand there it is: Marxism.
But try and tell her she’s a little Marxist.
has within him the potential for violence and harm
Because women never hurt anyone…
I would rather take a good physical beating than some of the emotional trauma I went through with those early GFs.
When Solzhenitsyn said “the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being” I assumed he was talking about human nature, but I guess he must have been trying to The Patriarchy.
Macron talks about a unified Europe but presides over a divided France
The reaction to the new fuel taxes is interesting. It hits on precisely on the same lines that divide conservatives and progressives in the U.S. It’s a tax dreamed up by urban progressives to save the environment (which they assume is somewhere beyond the city but they have never visited). It won’t affect the urbanites because they don’t personally own vehicles or heavy equipment.
The tax royally screws the country bumpkins who have to drive to get anywhere, fuel their farm equipment, fishing boats, etc…
These bumpkins might finally be realizing that their elites are very prone to do things they claim are in the name of social justice that practically always result in hurt to the bumpkins but from which the elites are always protected. That is how we got Trump here. Now this discussion being about France and all, one needs to keep perspective that those bumpkins are only pissed because it is not other people’s money that is involved. In general however, it pisses off the globalism peddling elites – especially here in the US – that the bumpkins are starting to wake up and realize that they have really not been helped by the elites’ top men planning, and that while the elites have done real well financially selling this social justice shit, they have not seen any of the promised lucre.
Not only that. Macron has called for protectionist measures within the EU and has chastised Italy over its immigration policies.
Some unity.
Unity means you do what I tell you.
Orban’s ‘rebellion’ is gaining steam in Europe.
Good for him, Hungary, and all the Europeans waking up to how much bullshit the EU is. Good for Farage, too
These country bumpkins you refer to are the same people that demand shitloads of price protection schemes, tariffs, and other agriculture subsidies?
Both sides can go fuck themselves. Each side wants their handouts, and each side wants to claw back some of those things they’re handing out. And bureaucrats are happy to play both sides as long as they get their cut.
Let’s talk about six signs that you might be disrespecting a transgender person in your life – and some ideas for how to do better next time.
Ooh, let’s!
*turns up teevee*
WaPo distressed that Medieval Times is “Stuck in the Dark Agres”.
Hey, they didn’t give out forks, but they have provided wet wipes.
Wait until they find out that there’s no quadriplegic gay transgender black midget Civil War reenactors.
What war did these fuckers fight in?
In that case I won’t give any forks either.
Best part of The Cable Guy (faint praise, I know)
Steven: Could I get utensils?
Waitress: There were no utensils in medieval times, hence there are no utensils at Medieval Times.
Steven: There were no utensils, but they had Pepsi?
Waitress: Dude, I’ve got other tables.
Except they did have utensils in the Medieval period. And the fork came in, displacing them, around the turn of the millenium (1000 AD), moving north as time progressed.
You and your pedantry…..
And prior to the fork, people commonly used their daggers to cut and spear food to eat it. In fact, there is a long table at Bunratty Castle where there are grooves in the table edge from diners wiping their daggers on the table edge while eating.
Ocasio-Cortez is gonna be good for the Babylon Bee
fish in a barrel there, my friend.
Still giggling about this line:
The Onion haz a sad.
Dammit, every time someone links to the Babylon Bee, I get stuck there, following link after link…
They are funny.
Pathetic Conservative Hasn’t Even Been Banned From Twitter Yet
Some are intersectionally funny
Two more:
Progressive Christian Wishes Jesus Were As Woke As She Is
Migrant Caravan Mysteriously Disappears But Leaves Behind Cool Wooden Horse
Political humor is very hit or miss for me because a lot of times it’s “trying too hard.”
SNL forces itself to be politically relevant and the results are often awful. Same thing can happen on the other side of the comedy aisle. When we were writing for our satire news blog, I rarely did political content because I had to force things. We got much better results from organic humor coming from whatever we found funny.
I heard she is hoping to be lucky enough to meet Phil Abuster.
This has gotta be trolling. Aides can do this to their boss, and she lets them?
The Babylon Bee is a satire site.
Aaaah, a conservative Onion. Got it.
Well, outside a couple of countries support for democratic institutions has always been tenuous at best in Latin/South America. The yearning for a strongman is never too far off.
So it’s not surprising it’s losing support.
Democracy can only work for as long as the people don’t realize they can use the power of the vote to get themselves free shit. The Greeks pointed this out more than 3000 years ago.
In what direction? I mean, did they point?
There? Over there?
Anarchy and eventually the collapse of civilization. Don’t remember if it was Plato or Aristotle that made the quote, but he basically pointed out that no state could survive a corrupt leadership class that retained power by praying on the always existing greed and envy of the masses by promising to use government force to redistribute wealth in return for votes.
So when you enter a space – any space – as a man, you carry with yourself the threat of harm.
I’m going to start humming the “shark comin'” theme from Jaws every time I enter a room.
Go on…
This might be something I should start doing too…
Good thing women have never caused any harm to men.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek
Replace “man” with “black” and watch what happens.
Facebook and its ‘black people problem’
“Black staffers at Facebook know that by raising our voices we risk jeopardizing our professional relationships and our career advancement,” – do they know that or think that? Is there any evidence?
Black people are finding that their attempts to create ‘safe spaces’ on Facebook for conversation among themselves are being derailed by the platform itsel – lol. The big scary internet and safe places. It is enough to hear safe places and realize there is nothing worth reading there
The protruding nail gets hammered down regardless of its color in every organization, ever.
This.
“Non-black people are reporting what are meant to be positive efforts as hate speech, despite them often not violating Facebook’s terms of service.”
Hey! Turning the tables is not fair!
The weapons were meant to be used only against their enemies not against themselves
Sounds like someone is looking to get re-hired for a VP job.
Or get a huge payout from a lawsuit?
I thought all the black people stayed on MySpace?
Twitter
Mypipo.
“Black people are finding that their attempts to create ‘safe spaces’ on Facebook for conversation among themselves are being derailed by the platform itself.
They haven’t had any trouble segregating themselves on college campuses lately.
That’s been true since at least the 80’s
Yep. I was at UVA from 1995-99, and one of the dorms there was “the black dorm” and the bus stop closest to it was “the black bus stop”. This, of course, was entirely by the choice of those black students, all of whom requested that particular dorm.
Yep. We used to purposely sit in the “black” section of the cafeteria for dinner, mainly to be contrarian 19 year old assholes. Occasionally, the black students would ask why we were sitting there. I’d usually reply that I didn’t see any signs saying “coloreds only.” Luckily, I didn’t get my face re-arranged. Like I said, 19 year old contrarian assholery.
I guess he wasn’t that Luckie.
Machine learning of brain gray matter differentiates sex in a large forensic sample
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hbm.24462
Nothing pisses off the SJW types more than AIs that look at pure data, without bias, and then conclude things that are not approved by the ideology. What you get then is attempts to gerrymander the AI into coming up with approved results, and a whole lot of stupid.
Maduro’s attempt to dig his way out of trouble has now run into opposition from the Trump administration, which considers him a socialist dictator and is pressing for his ouster.
“Socialist Dictator? You just made that up.”
So not that you ignorants would not, but in 3 days it is the 100th year of Romania becoming fully Romania (except Moldova which is no longer fully Romania) and obviously there will be great nationalistic celebrations (a great opportunity for the plebs to get drunk and the politicians to steal many millions building monuments and organizing public gatherings).
So because one more monument was exactly what the fine city of Alba Iulia needed, they built one there. Guess what the more puerile section of Romanian internets likened it to?
https://s.iw.ro/gateway/g/ZmlsZVNvdXJjZT1odHRwJTNBJTJGJTJG/c3RvcmFnZTA3dHJhbnNjb2Rlci5yY3Mt/cmRzLnJvJTJGc3RvcmFnZSUyRjIwMTgl/MkYxMSUyRjI0JTJGMTAwOTUzMV8xMDA5/NTMxX21vbnVtZW50LWFsYmEtMS5qcGcm/dz01ODAmaGFzaD1jZmI0ZjlmNGUwZmE2MWFmOTAzODA0OWExNWUyZjlkOA==.thumb.jpg
Hmmm weird link but it does lead to a picture. You can trust me on that one.
Girthier than the Washington Monument but the same idea.
Obligatory
Dammit
Great minds think alike
LOL. That’s where my mind went too.
Obligatory
Scruffy & Pat win the Synchronicity. Prize
“Black staffers at Facebook know that by raising our voices we risk jeopardizing our professional relationships and our career advancement,” he wrote.
Maybe you should try doing some of the stuff you’re being paid to do, instead of whining about how unfair life is.
Where is the ability to make a quick and effortless windfall in that sort of crazy thinking, dude?
Special Report on Sea Level Rise
https://judithcurry.com/2018/11/27/special-report-on-sea-level-rise/
Bought and paid for!
Exxon!
Argle Blargle!
Judith Curry, eh?
The media will get right on reporting this.
Toss this stuff in the garbage can then.
Amazon’s next healthcare move is software that can mine medical records
Certainly nothing bad will ever come from this.
Last line wasn’t intended to be blockquoted.
They should put government in charge of it so it is then totes cool and safe…..
Editing posts?
No healthcare at Amazon. In fact, healthcare everywhere…
Amazon can defy HIPPA?
If course they can. whether their HIPAA violations cause them trouble is a different matter.
I’m sure its HIPAA compliant, at least on the front end. The data is likely either de-identified, or they are a “business associate” of whoever they get the data from.
Now, can Amazon behave itself, and keep this data from being sucked into their other data-mining operations? We’ll see.
They aren’t opening branches in NYC and DC for no reason.
They can’t even manage to recommend products I actually want. Recommending medical procedures is stupid dangerous.
Um, the software already exists.
I worked on software that did exactly that for Nuance. It read in medical records and did real time quality control checks end, Coding, and reporting data extraction on them and it is already integrated with all of the largest EHR (Electronic Health Record) providers
Mystery solved
At one event, she said, by way of expressing her affection for a local figure, “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be in the front row.” If it hadn’t occurred to her that this might be seen as a crude reference to Mississippi’s history of lynchings, the reactions, particularly from other Mississippians, surely made that clear.
At least now I know what all the hubbub was about. She doesn’t exactly come off as a genius, but all things considered she could be worse.
She strikes me as your typical southern Phyllis Schafly wannabe, without the brains.
There’s a difference between a legal execution and a lynching.
that Dems jumped all over was just more shark-jumping. scrambling to get any foothold.
now when is Kamala Harris stepping her ass off the Senate Judiciary Committee?
“Hyde-Smith had visited Beauvoir, the home of Jefferson Davis, whom the Confederates installed as their President, and then posted a picture of herself calling the place “a must see”: “Currently on display are artifacts connected to the daily life of the Confederate Soldier including weapons. Mississippi history at its best!”
What about people who go to Auschwitz?
This may be the dumbest thing I’ve ever read.
How to thwart shooters at Oakland University? Hockey pucks.
I clicked the link figuring I’d be disappointed and I wasn’t. Good find.
No, you stop fruit with a tiger. Or a 10 ton weight.
Wait, what in the hell was I replying to?
*Looks at coffee* what’s in this stuff?
Oh, sorry, we had to sub out some from a stashed marked “Agile”
after all this years of internet existing the odds are low
when i think of devices to thwart shooters stamped “Made in Czech Republic”, i’m not thinking of their pucks.
Shit, just pucks? Issue everyone a nice Tacks or Vapor and let Mr. School Shooter play padless goalie for awhile.
Hockey puck can HURT!
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/terry-sawchuk-face-hockey-goalie-masks-became-standard-game-equipment-1966/
University Police Chief Mark Gordon says to fight effectively, faculty and students need to be prepared to throw heavy objects that will cause a distraction. He says pucks fit the bill and can conveniently be carried in brief cases or backpacks.
Or, you know, someone could be prepared to shoot back.
Blasphemy!
/Academic
maybe the could get something shoot the pucks automatically for them.
Yhuge magazine
I would suggest “bike locks” for the other Oakland.
I AM FLORIDA WOMAN, HEAR ME ROAR!
Brrraaapppppp
Oh no no no
Holy fuck. Did you check out the totally unrelated embedded video? That entire page is a cornucopia of Florida flatulence.
And the video submitter is named…Paul Flart??? QUIT FUCKING WITH ME, MIAMI HERALD.
It’s a rather meandering path, but he finally gets there:
He [Ron Shaich, founder of Panera] believes that the fixation on short-term profits is jeopardizing the future of American business, and creating social instability that has contributed to our current state of political polarization.
In the summer of 2017, Lynn Paine and Joseph Bower, two Harvard Business School professors, published a piece in the Harvard Business Review arguing that the idea that profits are all that should matter to a company’s leadership is a relatively new one. They trace it to an essay by the free-market economist Milton Friedman, which ran in the Times Magazine in 1970. In the piece, Friedman outlined what he called the “Friedman business doctrine,” which holds that ideas of corporate social responsibility, which had become popular in the business world, were undermining the American way of life.
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The tension between long-term and short-term economic interests has become a favorite topic in policy circles in recent years, but the election of Donald Trump, in 2016, brought the implications into clearer focus. Much of Trump’s base is made up of white, rural voters; many of them have seen jobs disappear from their communities, while wages have stagnated for those still working. In the midterm elections, Democrats won at least thirty-eight additional seats in the House of Representatives (as of Wednesday), gaining a majority, but Republicans performed better than many people expected; high-school-educated voters came out, once again, strongly in favor of the party of Trump. According to Shaich, the resentment that these voters feel is a direct result of the quick-profits-over-all ethos that dominates economic thinking. “When we live in a world where we view value creation as the end, and not as a by-product, which is what short-term thinking lends itself to, we end up doing great damage to every other constituency, and that’s what ultimately drives back to the kind of ‘let’s rip down the establishment’ nihilism that in my view is at the core of Trumpism,” he said.
As is usual with these articles, it’s not completely wrong. Short-termism unquestionably creates its own set of problems. But blaming Friedman for Trump is a tactic I have not seen before.
Wasn’t there recently an article in FEE about how businesses plan for the future way better than do governments? Too lazy to look it up though.
Governments never look past the next election.
Yes. I mean you have to be in serious denial to think governments do a good job planning for the future.
Governments do a good job of planning for their future. Which doesn’t include such miscellany as going bankrupt, having to downsize, responding to consumer demand, going to jail, etc .
Because government is planning for its future, not ours, it should be no surprise that its plans aren’t good . . . for us.
Public pensions prove that the government does a shitty job of planning for its future.
Pensions love them short-term gains to paper over their shitty planning by pretending that 2-year returns of 11% and 13% are good enough to assume that they will get about a 12% return every year for the next 60 years.
Considering stock prices are based on long term cash flows, I have never seen how short termism is a problem. Maybe for large, relatively stable companies it is, but when you are a start up with high valuations relative to current profit, it is all based on long term expectations of growth. Who cares if Amazon misses estimates by a cent in Q4 of 1998?
I can see if they make the argument that the Manager/Officers are compensated by how well the company performs that a short run profit would be beneficial for the Managers to pursue at the expense of the Stockholders. But these days Managerial pay is usually tied to stock performance rather than just a flat compensation. This means that they have incentive to make them better, not just in the short run.
But really what they are arguing is that Businesses need to be forced to be ” Socially Responsible”. Milton Freedmen argument was that the only social responsibility that a firm had was to turn a profit, because that meant that it was employing resources more efficiently than other firms. But since that sounds icky it can’t be taken seriously at all.
Senior management is rarely there for the long haul. They want to show strong growth for a few years, then cash out and move on. I see it all the time. Talk about significant investments required to grow in a market segment in the 3 to 5 year time-frame and their eyes glaze over. That’s beyond their horizon and they will not take the money out of operating profits or go ask the Board for it.
I saw that firsthand in tech. The revolving door of corporate executives is a farce. The boards rarely provide any stability and generally serve as a rubber stamp social club for the CEO.
The biggest problem, IMO, is the way boards are elected. It should be easier, not harder, for a minority interest to get a board member.
If there are 9 members of the board, and you control 11% of the stock (via proxy or whatever), you should absolutely be able to control one board member.
If their ability to cash out is based on stock price and stock price is based on present value of the profit stream to the end of time, then the best way for them to cash out is to increase the projected long term stream.
You are assuming that investors and Analysts can disarm where they’ve skimped on long term investment to boost dividends.
Investors are often wrong in the calculation. Thats why stock prices move, right? Different investors have different results or different risk tolerances.
“Please halt all work on this project until Q3” is all you need to hear to know that a company is not focused on long term cost minimization, but on artificially goosing a metric for the next earning call by people who don’t expect to be around for the one after that.
Hiring bans, travel restrictions, budget freezes… Seen it all.
TBH though, 3-5 years is a huge discount on any idea. If it takes 3-5 years there are likely more profitable projects that you can be working on in the meantime rather than pushing a lot of resources into that.
Senior management is rarely there for the long haul.
I think is more true of for-profits than non-profits, simply because you can’t cash out of a non-profit after a few years of strong growth.
Heh, non-profit management is its own retirement program. They’ve got bilking down to an art form.
*looks up from incentive payout update and quarterly deferred compensation statement*
Sorry, what was that? I was distracted.
“They want to show strong growth for a few years, then cash out and move on. ”
Senior management does this. And so do 90% of all the other employees of any business. The other 10% either know they are too stupid to get a better job elsewhere or have been proving their value and getting annual increases that make it worth their while to stay.
We must end the job-hopping!
One of the things I hated working for public companies is that every quarter there is a push to juke the numbers. Can you bill a client now for work you will do next quarter?
Even if the company numbers are good, you don’t want to be the hindmost department, so let’s push it.
Then after you spend a bunch of time in the next quarter doing the work that you already recognized the revenue for, your numbers will look bad unless you find some way to bill a client for future work. Rinse, repeat.
It gets tiresome. And it has been at every public company I’ve worked at.
A certain company I worked for would go so far as to book airline seats for product on the last day of the quarter so that it would get to the customer and be counted in units shipped. The punchline was that most of the units would end up coming back because they weren’t properly completed and calibrated.
On the other hand, in private companies the amount of money that can be wasted is insane. With no need to report numbers, people can work on vanity projects that would never fly in a public company.
The problem is companies do not make decisions, people do and the people making the decisions that actually matter (no not the CEO, think 3 or 4 levels down the chain of command is where the real decisions get made) almost never care about anything more than 3-4 years out because they know within that time frame they will have been promoted or moved to a different company. The goal then becomes to make your departments numbers look as good as possible for those 3 – 4 years so you get than new job and you never have to worry about paying for any of the accumulated debt (financial, technical, etc.) that you have incurred because that is all gonna fall on your replacement’s shoulders. If you time it right you even make it look like it is all his fault
Man, I read that first sentence wrong. I was wondering why someone was linking to a story about the founder of Pantera, and was wondering when Dimebag was talking about economics.
I always refer to the restaraunt as Pantera Bread.
The foolish long term planning of some businesses is causing Dimebag to roll over in his grave.
It’s making him……FUCKING HOSTILE!!!!!!
Mind you the most valuable companies in the world are those that rarely if ever post profits, let alone have dividend distributions, and we’ve been pushing a monetary policy for 20 years now that obliterates long-term investment and savings. But yeah, obviously a paper written 50 years ago is responsible. Nobody in the history of business had ever considered time-based strategies prior to 1970.
Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ.
This is strained to say the least.
Yes, an absolute focus on quarterly earnings reports is detrimental to good corporate governance. Does that somehow lead to Trump? No.
Trump is a product of the left’s consistent caricaturing of the right as evil people and the adoption of identity politics as their raison d’etre. He is also a product of the GOP’s betrayal of their voters by not delivering on promises made.
And also: the public’s lack of faith in the media. Trump’s direct bypassing of the media I think is an underrated factor.
You gotta add a lot more words to that if you think your gonna get a pundit gig.
Absolutely correct though.
But blaming Friedman for Trump is a tactic I have not seen before.
They blamed him for Pinochet, iirc, so it’s makes sense he’s responsible for Literally Hitler, too.
It’s absolute bullshit. Companies pour tons of money into product development. Do they think that new products just materialize out of thin air in under 90 days?
Much easier to prevent rivalrous goods from coming to market by regulatory capture.
Sunny Italy, New Found Gun Freedoms
Eccellente, Italia!
Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta!
Excellent news!
Page Blocked – “Category: Weapons”. What’s the news?
Looks like Italy relaxed some gun laws
Still repressive by US standards, but an improvement nonetheless
Yay.
Thank you for sharing. This work proxy has a distinct bias in what it blocks.
pro-police, pro-freedom
European politics is weird.
US ‘conservatives’ take the same stance.
I hadn’t thought they were still pretending to be pro-freedom.
American progressives: “Just because other countries don’t accept
illegalundocumented immigrants doesn’t mean that we can’t! We must set the example for all other countries to aspire to!!!”Also American progressives: “Single payer now! If every other
European shitholedeveloped nation can do it, then why can’t we???”Friedman, as quoted in that New Yorker article:
“The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned ‘merely’ with profit but also with promoting desirable ‘social’ ends; that business has a ‘social conscience’ and takes seriously its responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers,” he wrote. Instead, he went on, “They are preaching pure and unadulterated socialism. Businessmen who talk this way are unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these last decades.”
i’m going to go out on a limb and attempt to contextualize this.
“Outside agents who attempt to
persuadecoerce corporate management into diverting corporate resources into their own pet communitarian projects are basically pursuing a socialist agenda by stealth. Managers, who are merely the employees of the stock holders, have a fiduciary duty to the owners which takes precedence.”And again, the solution to short-termism and “shareholder activism” is to keep the goddam business private.
And keep HR on a very short leash.
My quick short list of what should be HR job; benefits management and filling out the hiring / firing paperwork.
Ahhh, the boot camp tear gas tent. That was worthy of an uffda.
The difference between the tear gas training in boot camp and the field is amazing. The tear gas training in Okinawa was barely a mist. In boot camp, I couldn’t see the other side of the tent it was so thick.
On the other hand, my kindly CO put my name in as our squadron’s rep for joint chemical warfare training. Which basically was a 3 mile hump in MOPP-4 gear in Okinawa. Not many made it the whole way wearing that rubber suit in high 80 degree weather.
Did you?
I did. Mostly out of hatred.
I was so pissed that our CO put me up for this, that it kept me going. Like Heartbreak Ridge: “Don’t give him the satisfaction”
Absolutely right. Gas chamber in boot is a miserable experience. In the fleet, it’s a piece of cake.
I remember when we used to watch the Stinger guys doing their humps around the flightline with full packs, in the summer heat with like 90% humidity, and laugh at them. You have my sympathies.
That was what urinated me off so much. What the fuck is the world coming to when a MATCS guy can’t ride? We never walk!
Hell, MACS boys barely even ride. We fly everywhere we go.
I bet your feet were sloshing.
I can remember times when we had particularly long formations, where a ton of guys were getting promoted or awarded, where there would be puddles of sweat accumulating below everyone’s hands as they stood at attention.
What is funny is that it basically proved that MOPP gear in a hot, humid environment would be so bad that you’d welcome the mustard gas.
Several times, I had to break the seal on my gas mask to let all the sweat slosh out.
Yet asylum seekers can slog a thousand miles from Central America, dragging three kids, and still have the strength to assault the border wall?
Hannibal’s army crossed the Alps, and they didn’t even have Nikes.
Well they did have BA and his van….
From this week’s Econtalk about financial market regulations:
They later return to this theme with Russ condemning the belief among economists that all people are rational actors driven by self-interest—except for economists.
Of course, that’s just dreary economics. There’s a lot of wiggle-room in the data and the narratives they can spin with it. It’s messy, uncertain, and crude, driven more by stories than by incontestable facts, much as they try to mathematize it. Unlike climate science. Now there’s a hard, rigorous, math-driven field, a true science, practiced by earnest and selfless experts concerned with the fate of the world.
I am getting near the end of the podcast…this is one of the ones where I wish Russ would be a little bit more confrontational.
The guest is very good at identifying the problems, but I think Russ should push her more on her suggested solutions vs his.
You know, when a policy-maker talks to an academic, they know the answer they want to hear. So they will talk to certain academics that, you know, tell them what they want to hear.
Now I’ve heard everything.
It’s a great episode. I would take away a slightly more sanguine outlook on markets than Admati does, but the central tenet is that financial markets are irretrievably corrupt, and regulators are an integral part of that corruption. She and Russ agree that the public indignation over banksters had it backward: nothing they did to precipitate the 2008 crash was illegal. And that’s the problem, we should be talking about punishing the regulators who got it so wrong. Instead they’re hailed as heroes, even while they’re encouraging the same excess leverage that will cause the next crash.
She and Russ agree that the public indignation over banksters had it backward: nothing they did to precipitate the 2008 crash was illegal.
I think that’s an understatement, and part of the reason I’m reluctant to use the term “banksters”. Not only was what they were doing not illegal, it was exactly what the authorities wanted them to do. Home ownership was hitting all time highs. The politicians of both parties were thumping their chests about it. The Fed was specifically keeping yields low to drive markets into riskier assets. The regulators weren’t not paying attention. They were cheering it on.
And the
funnysad thing is that the response to the house of cards collapsing was to push more of the same.Yep. The biggest pushers were state pension funds – they didn’t like the relative safe but paltry returns on their Fannie and Freddie portfolios and insisted they up the returns. That means jacking up risk, which the state actors suddenly didn’t like when it became, you know, risky.
Judge orders former PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane to jail
Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, whose appeal of her 2016 perjury conviction was denied by a state court this week, was ordered by a judge to surrender to begin serving her stint behind bars.
“Given that the rationale for defendant remaining at liberty pending appeal has expired, post-sentence bail is revoked,” Montgomery County Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy wrote in a court order issued late Tuesday afternoon.
Demchick-Alloy, who presided over Kane’s August 2016 trial, ordered Kane, 52, to surrender at the county jail in Lower Providence no later than 9 a.m. Nov. 29 to begin serving a 10-to-23-month jail term.
Jerry Sandusky’s latest victim.
Judge Wendy….Demchick? Oh come on, that can’t be a real name.
Home prices have surged — and so will the government’s share of mortgages
Electric Boogaloo
What’s the definition of insanity again?
A close to 1/2 million dollar house isn’t part of the “high-priced areas”?
Oh come on, how are these poor people supposed to live in Downtown San Fran?
Housing prices in “high-priced areas” are WAY more than 150% of whatever measure they’re using to come up with the “base” limit.
Median price in King County WA (home of Seattle) is about $600k, in Northern VA is over $500k, in Denver is $465, and in Boston is about $650.
These areas are somewhat pricey, but aren’t Beverly Hills, Manhattan, or Palo Alto.
And that’s the problem, we should be talking about punishing the regulators who got it so wrong. Instead they’re hailed as heroes, even while they’re encouraging the same excess leverage that will cause the next crash.
All of a sudden, there are a bunch of “business journalists” noticing how heavily leveraged companies are. Offer people free money, and they take it.
Who could have seen that coming?
And those idiots don’t know one fucking thing about accounting. Most of them go apeshit about stock buybacks (they’re buying at all-time highs!!!) without realizing that stock is just another kind of borrowed money. In general, stocks are a higher risk than bonds (for all parties involved) so issuing a bond when rates are low to buy back stock is nothing more than trading some higher-risk liability for lower-risk liability – paying a short-term premium to reduce long-term risk. The business journalists spend too much time on jargon, technicals, and other shortcuts, with zero knowledge of basic accounting. And they do that because accounting courses require a little bit of thinking, whereas the other shit is mostly just rote memorization which any shit-for-brains can do at a passing-grade level.
If the company borrows to do stock buybacks, they increase risk, because they add debt. Stock places no demands on your cash; debt does.
Stock is another form of financing, and the line between debt and equity can be blurred, but I’m not sure I’d say stock is another kind of borrowed money.
This. A drop in your stock price is not nearly as damaging as a bond default.
You’re only looking at it from the “losses” side. From a “profits” view, paying that bond off earlier is a heck of a lot better than having that public pension fund trying to get a few woke assholes on the board and paying them the same dividend as everyone else.
Stocks and loans (including bonds) are liabilities on a company’s books/balance sheet. Cash is one type of asset. Every company’s liquidity need is different.
I’m not writing a book here, I know I’m oversimplifying it. But my point is too many business journalists don’t realize the company is weighing their options on the type of liability they wish to hold. Much like they don’t realize that a person’s deposit account at a bank is a liability from the bank’s point of view. I won’t soon forget 2007/8 when the same publication would stump for bank bailouts and then complain about the shitty rates on CD’s after the bailouts.
Everywhere I look…
Kansas is recalling hundreds of vehicle license plates on the streets containing the “JAP” lettering in the wake of complaints that it is an ethnic slur offensive to Japanese Americans.
The Kansas Department of Revenue said there are 731 active registrations containing that random letter combination on standard license plates. Vehicle owners were sent a letter dated Tuesday asking them to return the plate to their county vehicle office within 30 days for replacement at no cost. Plates not replaced within that period will be identified in the state’s system and will be replaced at their annual renewal.
The issue arose last year when Keith Kawamoto spotted a car with the Kansas plate in traffic near his home in Culver City, California, and took a photo of it. The 70-year-old California man wrote several letters to Kansas officials, including Gov. Jeff Colyer.
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out.
Is 4Chan going to hack the DMV and make all the replacements say KEK?
I bet FAG and WOP plates were already a no-go… the fact that JAP slipped through just shows how totally racist they are.
Rest assured, they’re going to nip that trend in the bud.
I’ve been waiting for my narrowed gaze for over an hour now.
Swiss’ eyes squinted up so hard that he passed out and is recovering with some Swiss Miss.
I remember, back in the ’90s, when there was a furor because the DMV here in VA issued a ZYKLON B plate to a neo-Nazi. Suffice to say that one was revoked before the ink was dry on the news story.
My favorite vanity plate of all time
A friend of a friend got away with: IVPLAY for a while. Until someone who knew Roman Numerals twigged to what it meant.
The line of Film Actors Guild members vying for that plate is pretty long.
Keith Kawamoto has too much fuckin’ time on his hands.
Kansas should tell the commifornian to fuck off.
Sorry, not I’m not woke enough. If shortening citizenship names is o.k. for the Brits (Britains), Aussies (Australians), etc. then what is wrong with Japs (Japanese)? 95% of current U.S. citizens weren’t even alive when the “Japanese” bombed Pearl Harbor. And even if they were, “Japs” was probably the least offensive name by which they referred to the enemy.
The other derogatory nickname for Japs was “Nips”. I wonder if there are any NIP plates out there?
When I was a brand new lawyer in Virginia, one of the other associates had a vanity plate: “JEWBOY”. I wonder if that’s still allowed.
LGB will offend some people to, but that one will certainly not get revoked. Because “those people” deserve to be offended.
Che Guevara’s actual last name was “Lynch”. Not that its something I couldnt have learned on my own, but by G_d, the things I learn here.
Ironic considering he hated black people.
Sounds non-ironic to me.
“A former Florida police chief has been sentenced to three years in prison for instructing officers to frame innocent black men for burglaries.
At a hearing Tuesday, ex-Biscayne Park chief Raimundo Atesiano claimed that he felt pressured to boost crime statistics in the small village of about 3,000 residents.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6432579/Florida-ex-police-chief-faces-prison-framing-suspects.html
When I read your extract, I thought that the village was suffering a lack of crime and this was a scheme to justify the budget.
No, it was just the typical lazy stain not wanting to go through the trouble of doing their job honestly.
Three years isn’t nearly enough.
He deserves a public hanging.
I wonder why this is international news….
We don’t have news services in this country, so the daily fail found an online niche reporting on local US stories to fill the demand.
Oh, I hope he gets tossed into GenPop. Ya know his dance card is gonna be full every evening.
“The Bill and Hillary show! Power couple kick off 13-city paid speaking tour in CANADA where bank executive lobbed questions at them in half-empty arena, as they accuse Trump of being part of a Saudi ‘cover-up'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6436001/Bill-Hillary-kick-13-city-Evening-Clintons-paid-speaking-tour-CANADA.html
They appeared on the same stage? I’d have figured their rider would so tediously elaborate the steps to keep them from crossing paths that Dr. Ford would balk.
“We need to get someone back in office, the bribes have dried up!”
Some diva has her green room toilet seat replaced after every show. I expected the Clintons would have the whole PA system replaced between his appearance and hers.
‘All the rhetoric was just for consumption, it was just rhetoric. And we did some real damage I’m afraid to our relationship and if we did I ask for your forbearance because we do love you, most of us, in America,’ said Clinton, who inked the NAFTA agreement during his tenure.
What a slimy turd. So Trump’s rhetoric was just a sop to his base (fine, I don’t disagree), but Canadians and Mexicans are just too dumb to realize it, and might crater their trade positions because they’re so dense?
“Donald Trump Is Destroying My Marriage
“Shortly after the election is when I became aware of it,” says Lois Brenner, a New York–based divorce attorney. “People were thinking about splitting up their marriages because of political differences.” She’d never encountered this before, but she’s since found herself litigating two such divorces. “After people got over their shock,” she says, “they started arguing.”
By now it’s a truism to point out that the election of Donald Trump and the #MeToo movement have prompted a wholesale realignment of American politics. But it’s also sent shock waves through heterosexual romance.
Donald Trump and the Republican Party have plenty of female supporters, of course, especially among white women. But politically speaking, as evidenced by the recent midterms, there is an undeniable, and growing, gender divide in American politics: In 2018, almost 60 percent of female voters supported Democrats, compared to 47 percent of male voters — outpacing the gap in other recent elections. What can make matters unworkable for couples whose viewpoints aren’t aligned, says Stephanie Coontz, a professor of family studies at Evergreen State College, is that Americans have become increasingly contemptuous of those who hold different positions on divisive political issues — and contempt is singularly destructive for long-term relationships. “Mary Matalin and James Carville,” says Coontz. “How the hell do they make it work?””
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/donald-trump-is-destroying-my-marriage.html
Stephanie Coontz, professor of family studies at Evergreen State College, ladies and gentlemen.
Gee, who’s encouraging most of this contempt?
Some coontz.
TWO CASES!? This is madness!
Shorter Coontz: “My husband gave me an excuse to file for divorce.”
How the hell do they make it work?
Mostly by laughing their asses off at the witless rubes they get to be so insanely loyal to the people they tell them to that they view even long-standing loved ones as the enemy. On their way to the bank to deposit the checks they get for brainwashing them.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1067337457111314433
That can’t be real.
Give your kid a real breakfast of bacon and eggs. Let the woke cereal companies wither and die.
Whatever was left in the hopper, dump here. Keep collecting it until we can do a packaging run.
That’s got to be disgusting to eat.
Brought to you by GLAAD.
Guess I should’ve refreshed
Isn’t GLAAD outdated now? I figured they would have updated their acronym.
Nowhere on their site or FB page can I find what the acronym actually stands for.
Bullshit.
You’re the most homophobic gay man ever,
racesexideology traitor!“To support Spirit Day, the most visible anti-LGBTQ bullying campaign and united show of support for LGBTQ youth, Kellogg Company today launched a special edition ‘All Together’ cereal in collaboration with GLAAD supporting inclusion and to stand up against bullying. ‘All Together’ will be available today at Kellogg’s NYC café. Visitors will receive an ‘All Together’ special edition box and can make their own ‘All Together’ cereal by mixing a diverse combination of Kellogg’s cereals.
The special edition ‘All Together’ box features beloved characters including Tony the Tiger, Toucan Sam, Snap, Crackle & Pop, Mini (from Frosted Mini Wheats), Sunny (from Raisin Bran), Apple and CinnaMon (from Apple Jacks), and Cornelius (“Corny”) the Kellogg’s Corn Flakes mascot.”
OFFS
They put it out there, but I don’t think its something they’d sell in stores.
(would eat)
I don’t see any Count Chocula.
CEREAL TOO WHITE
What you need is a nutritious bowl of Booty O’s. Meets 100% RDA of HM material.
Nigga, please
Count Chocula is a General Mills product. As is Cocoa Puffs.
Sadly, it seems to be:
https://www.glaad.org/blog/kelloggs-and-glaad-launch-special-edition-all-together-cereal-spirit-day
French Toast Crunch is best cereal. Kellogg’s got nothing on General Mills.
Cap’n Crunch Crunch Berries is the greatest ever, with coco pebbles as a closed second.
The science is settled.
Fruity Pebbles. Everything else is pineapple on a pizza. ; )
aka “Crack”
He deserves a public hanging.
By the heels, from a lamppost.
Democrats are totally sane, normal people
Be sure to click on the picture for maximum hilarity.
And apparently non-existent
Dems all got the Betus.
Just because youuuu can’t see it…….
Happy now?
It looks like he is wearing shorts that match his jacket?
He thinks he’s Angus Young. Sad!
“Did you know? In 2006, then-Senator @HillaryClinton voted for a fence on the Mexican border. So did Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and 23 Senate Democrats. So what changed? For Democrats, illegal immigration is now all about political power.”
https://twitter.com/prageru/status/1067201561065975808
https://www.prageru.com/videos/illegal-immigration-its-about-power
I like that they make videos around 5 – 6 minutes long.
Things that you’ll never hear about on CNN?
Still Alive?
Don’t be silly. They ate him.
Death by Snu-Snu!
“Young women have vast sexual power. Everyone who is being honest with themselves knows this: Women in their sexual prime who are anywhere near the beauty-norms for their culture have a kind of power that nobody else has. They are also all but certain to lack the wisdom to manage it. Toxic femininity is an abuse of that power, in which hotness is maximized, and victim status is then claimed when straight men don’t treat them as peers.”
https://quillette.com/2018/07/09/on-toxic-femininity/
Looks like some new college course material.
Not likely, Heying is persona non grata at most colleges.
Right?
Is that what college students call baling?
Good article. Should get her banished from the Sisterhood.
It’s a vagina!
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/first-pictures-qatar-world-cup-13657047
Warty Hugeman says…
would
Dame Zaha is rough on the eyes. Worse than the stadium.
And only like 2500 slave laborers died building it!
The word we are looking for is vulva!
“What’s the matter with Portland?
The prosperous city has become the epicenter of antifa and political violence
With its impeccably progressive monoculture, Portland is fertile ground for leftist ideologies such as intersectionality and Marxism. Most Portlanders have little to no experience of talking to real conservatives. The ‘#Resistance’ has become a powerful rallying cry for residents who think they are in a cosmic battle. In reality, they are often just targeting their neighbors. Last year the annual East Portland parade was canceled after it received threats of violence for allowing the local Republican group to march at the family event. In August, a leftist man who brought an American flag to a protest was mistaken for a conservative. An antifa mob surrounded him and one bashed him on the head with a metal bat. He laid on the ground in a pool of blood and required stitches for the injury.”
https://spectator.us/matter-portland/
Their problem is that the leftist groups routinely step over the line and commit assault, battery, vandalism, etc… but are largely ignored by the authorities, This encourages the behavior and attracts more violent nitwits to the city. Their is no doubt in my mind that they will regret this in the long term.
Where’s Frank Rizzo when you need him?
Here?
https://www.pandora.com/artist/the-national-lampoon-radio-hour/best-of-the-national-lampoon-radio-hour/frank-rizzo-the-philadelphia-police-league-for-retarded-children/TR2577gltj92bwZ
That video would be hilarious if it weren’t so pathetic and infuriating. The constant waving in front of the camera…..they’re fucking two year olds. Seriously.
I was watching a soccer match in Portland and spotted Antifa in the supporters’ section of the stadium. How European!
An antifa mob surrounded him and one bashed him on the head with a metal bat.
And arrests were promptly made, charges filed, and the perps are scheduled to go to trial next week, right?
Even when they arrested that fat cow in the yellow jacket who was spitting on and punching people, they released her without pressing charges. Assault is legal in Portland, so long as it’s the correct people being assaulted.
New game – we kidnap a member of Antifa, dress him up in MAGA gear and dump him off back at the protest.
+1 Stalag 17
Holden in Stalag 17 is the greatest antihero ever on film.
Cool Hand Luke begs to differ.
An antifa mob surrounded him and one bashed him on the head with a metal bat. He laid on the ground in a pool of blood and required stitches for the injury.
And nothing else happened. And that’s why you have the problems you do. In effect, the leftist thugs in Portland are a law unto themselves. And, until this sort of thing is met with downside consequences, it will only get worse.
Meh – They have Portland and San Francisco. I notice they don’t try to beat up people in Dallas or Indianapolis or even Boston. Maybe too lazy to travel away from home, or smart enough to stay clear of places they are outnumbered and don’t have cops on their side.
I’m not so sanguine. Tolerating this sort of garbage always leads to tears. For both sides.
man who brought an American flag to a protest was mistaken for a conservative
As if that should matter. Assault is assault. Perhaps the guy assaulted will learn something about his violent, leftist cohorts.
Yeah right.
The way he was carrying he was asking for it.
I met a black guy who had just moved to the area from Portland at a local bar. Talking to the guy, I was informed that he’d moved (with his family) in part because of how racist Portland was, as compared with suburban southeast Texas.
“Tear gas usage at the border by year (because border patrol keeps records):
2012: 26 times
2013: 27 times
2014: 15 times
2015: 8 times
2016: 3 times
2017: 18 times
Why is 2018 the only time the media has freaked out about it? ?”
https://twitter.com/TimRunsHisMouth/status/1067541984074698753
“You tear-gassed women and children, asswipe! And on Thanksgiving weekend, you piece of shit, asshole, motherfucking, evil-creature-person!!”
https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1066848888525590528
What difference does Thanksgiving make? Is it a Central American holiday?
Alyssa Milano no doubt worships the ground Obama, the man who had a boy (an American citizen, no less) killed by a drone because of who his father was, walks on.
Totes different. Obama told us he was really good at killing people.
What more do you need?
She seems nice.
ha, i love the NPC “Orange Man Bad” meme.
The U of MN student raped by dreamy Cuban interpreter and the U ends up paying victim $137K for not babysitting her better.
Several good candidates for pull quotes, but I will go with this one:
Yeah, a senior in college needs someone to tuck them into bed each night.
Another goody from that article:
The next day, Riviere told Carlson she should have known better than to go with Benet, the complaint states.
Well, she’s not wrong.
at least the interpreter “was a gentleman and walked (her) home after,” Carlson wrote.
I honestly don’t know what to do with that.
fast-acting Stockholm syndrome?
a punch to Riviere’s gunt would be an acceptable response.
Better watch out. Riviere didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose her. Don’t fuck with hip hop promoters/managers. That never works out well.
I honestly don’t know what to do with that.
And you call yourself a lawyer. Obviously you sue the only entity that has deep pockets. Who cares if The U of M doesn’t have any real wrong doing, they have money!
And lets not overlook the bigotry of
Carlson should have been more aware of cultural differences
Apparently, rape is just a thing Cubans do. Part of their culture, you know. They don’t see anything wrong with it.
Rape is only bad when white males do it to a female. Otherwise it’s totes cool.
Once again, the dumbfuckery of Title IX, Cleery Act, and thinking the school gives a bit beyond protecting themselves (and that goes for school PDs as well). Call 911 and report a rape, go directly to an outside hospital and have a rape kit done, do not discuss the investigation with any school employees until the criminal case is adjudicated.
Forget bullshit pseudo penalties like suspension or expulsion for the short term. The rapist isn’t showing for any classes when they’re in a jail cell or prison.
“go directly to an outside hospital and have a rape kit done”
That costs money! That’s totally unfair!
Does any hospital/police/prosecutor bill the victim for this anymore?
I… um….
OK. That tears it. I’m officially anti-women’s suffrage.
/jk… kind of
The U? What. you snowbillies think you’re Miami now?
THE U of M. Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Maine, Maryland and Massachusetts can suck it.*
*I left Mississippi out of the list because they have no institutions of higher learning there.
In late due to much bullshit wrapping up my current job before moving to the next.
http://archive.is/LjhKM
NUMBER. 5.
UN committee invites Israelis living on Gaza border to speak to them on the threats they face.
It goes pretty much exactly how you’d think it would go.
Stupid Jews. Thinking they can defend themselves from violent invaders. Why don’t they just lay down and die already.
came near the border fence
Because that’s all they did…
Without reading it, I’m guessing it’s like this:
Israeli: “Hamas constantly shoots rockets at us and sends their foot soldiers to try an infiltrate our home.”
UN: “Well what do you expect you Nazi? You are evil genocidal fascists who want to eradicate all of the poor Palestinian victims from the planet. They are simply defending themselves from your inhuman hate and rage.”
Israeli: “We just want to live in peace, but the Palestinians will never be satisfied until Israel is wiped off the map.”
UN: “Shut up Nazi. Why don’t you just send those Palestinian women and children to the showers? There. We just approved another resolution condemning Israel’s existence and revoking all Israeli citizens of their humanity. You are now on the same level as insects.”
Israeli: “What the…?”
UN: “Do you wanna get demoted to bacteria? Then shut up you fucking fascists piece of shit Nazi. I hope you die in a fire and your children get AIDS.”
TW: Jezebel
Jezebel posts apologia for Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Louis Farrakhan. Surprisingly, the commenters call them out on their BS.
“To me stepping down is not the right answer. A. It’s a win to conservatives hypocrites. B. None of these woman have actually citied violence against Jewish people. They aren’t on the Trumpian level yet.”
Because Trump actually citied [???] violence against Jewish people?
Forget it, xe’s rolling.