I’m off tomorrow, so I’m mailing it in today. Enjoy everyone.
Trump to Macron — I knew you were a loser when I met your mother wife. Kidding, he actually hit Macron about having to roll back gas taxes.
Not at all sure this alternative theory to Dark Matter/Dark Energy will hold up, but at least they have some falsifiable tests for it, making it a more scientific* theory. *for those who believe in the Popperist version of science, anyhow.
PETA asks people to stop using ‘anti-animal language’. I hope they don’t expect us to try to eat the whole elephant at once.
This company claims to have the world’s first sex robot for women*, but I’m sure a woman has strapped a vibrator to a cardboard cutout of a movie star before.
“Oh God, I wish I was dead so I didn’t have to sit here”
Maybe PETA should stop beating that dead horse.
Shady talent agent does what he’s supposed to do to get his clients work, gets attacked as a sleezeball.
And to the rest of you people out there. The ones who were not first. The others. I want you to know. You’re inferior.
Blow it out your ass, Howard
But you don’t mean me, right? Right?!
I’m sorry, but were you first? No? Do I need to go on?
What exactly was it that this guy did that was supposed to be wrong. Or does not immediately joining every new lynch mob mean you’re now a sleezeball?
He asked for work for his clients while also reminding Moonves how good he was at staying silent. And his client was apparently just fine with that arrangement given her own insistence on not dealing with the media. So, he represented his client and her interests instead of making it his mission to take Moonves down.
This guy sums it up:
This 70 something year old talent agent was supposed to go along and squeal about everything he knew to the media. Not use it as leverage to do his actual job.
Both of you are sleazeballs for spelling it ‘sleezeball’.
Or feeding that fed horse
“PETA asks people to stop using ‘anti-animal language’. ”
It’s bullshit.
Also, feminist can’t eat eggs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6461695/PETA-billboard-California-claims-feminist-eat-eggs.html
Lesbian red wings aren’t permitted?
and no more “Les bee friends” either.
At this point, they’d be open to anything if they could be a contender for the cup again.
“take the flower by the thorns”
So PETA supports violence against plants huh.
Well, the song is by Poison.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DtqmaP9WkAIDA3V.jpg
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
PETA should Fuck off
Sweet Mother-of-God what is that thing?
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/state-news/cincinnati-woman-accused-of-pouring-hot-grease-on-victim-in-argument/1640469897
She seems nice.
It’s not called the Queen city for nothing.
“5100 block of Hawaiian Terrace”
Not shocked at all. I used to deliver for the local La Rosa’s Pizzeria, and we would not deliver to Hawaiian or Bahama Terrace, even though they were well within our delivery zone. It’s an absolute fucking zoo.
Did you not read the PETA article?
PETA should be alerted for her indiscriminate use of caterpillars as eyelashes.
Caterpillars? Hell no, those are filthy nasty centipedes! My jewels just shriveled into English Peas.
WTF??
It’s like if Fraggle Rock had a baby with Pokemon.
Let’s not be hasty, that sounds like makings of a spectacular reboot-into-shared-cinematic-universe.
Will do boffo in China.
“Fragu-Mon! I put you in my balls!”
Looks like a transition that wasn’t so fluid.
Do NOT mess with tha’ ‘Natti !
One of lesser-selling models of RealDoll?
Is that the victim?
It’s definitely a victim of something.
Came here to post this.
“It’s the real me”: Nigerian president denies he died and was replaced by a clone
Whewww! I was worried his death might cause problems that could delay the check I’m getting from my long lost dead Nigerian Prince/Uncle.
Isn’t that exactly what a clone would say?
This is literally the perfect political attack. There’s no way at all to prove your innocence. You can protest all you want, but in every room you go to people will be wondering.
Nigerian opposition party saw the Democrats sexual assault accusations and said hold my Star Lite.
The delusion that someone has been replaced with an identical impostor is not rare and has its own diagnosis in Psychiatry — it’s called Capgras Syndrome.
What do they call the delusion that someone is secretly a Russian spy coopted by threats of releasing golden shower tapes?
The Manchurian Candidate?
I saw an advert for some cutting News “Jornalisitic” investigation regarding the missing “Trump Tapes”. It’s scary how common something so fake can be taken as fact.
I have an embarrassing childhood memory I will not share here. But thanks for putting a name to my syndrome, Doc.
You aren’t allowed to tease something like that and not share it. There’s a word to describe people like that…
Nope, you were not having a delusion. Your Dad abandoned you to the evil clones and went off with your babysitter.
Didn’t Paul Mccartney die and have a stand in on Sgt. Peppers? Something,something warlus was Paul, something, something he blew his mind out in a car?
Would a clone even know he’s a clone?
Maybe he’s really the clone’s clone that was cloned before the clone and is the good clone. (Because when two clones are made, one of them is always evil. That’s just basic clone science.)
So you are saying you have a clone?
If I have learned anything from Michael Keaton it’s that by the clone’s clone’s clone you start to get degradation…physical twitches and mental deficiency.
“I’ve got a wallet!”
Pizza, Steve!
Because when two clones are made, one of them is always evil. That’s just basic clone science.
And Buhari (the Nigerian president in question) is now a rather conventional president but was once a brutal dictator, so if anything this bolsters the idea of clones upon clones.
I’m not the synth! He’s the synth!
Shoot him in the head. If you can loot a synth part you were correct. If not, run down the subway until the pursuit gets stuck.
Given the Creation engine, that’ll be about six seconds before he gets wrapped up on some bit of ground clutter.
Did you buy 76? I haven’t, and I’m not likely to. It looks like a complete shitshow.
No , I have no interest in an MMO. Bethesda’s only strength is cool explorable worlds you can sandbox around in. Adding pvp to that sounds horrible.
Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are…
I’m pretty sure the animals don’t give a rat’s ass what you call them.
~~~edit fairy makes you all pretty~~~
HTML code fail 🙁
You really monkeyed that up.
Desantis? Is that you?
Your only hope now is to pray for the Edit Fairy to not mock you for using [] Tulpa.
I would welcome the Edit Fairy to visit. Any attention is better than no attention!
Fuck off, Tulpa!
Here you use the < > brackets.
But what if I identify as [] brackets?
Then you’re really a square.
That’s your problem.
It still won’t change the markup.
I just select the text I want to bold and click the bold button.
Some of us are not so hobbled as to need such crutches.
Need is a pretty strong term, I just find it easier to do that way with one-hand.
Funny, since both < and > are on keys with the shift key right next to them. having to stop typing to use the mouse would slow you down.
UCS: We lost that battle years ago as more vendors go to gods damned web interfaces that don’t allow me to use standard keyboard shortcuts to jump through their application. Hell, I’ve got some tools where they didn’t even bother to set the tab order in a non-web interface to a sensible order.
Hell, I’ve got some tools where they didn’t even bother to set the tab order in a non-web interface to a sensible order.
*glares at certain vendors who shall remain nameless*
Neodymium, PREACH! I used to be very fast at 10 key. Then the accounting software decided to make me USE THE MOUSE to move between fields. WHY?! (sobs).
Nephilium, not Neodymium. wtf autocorrect
I don’t know Tulip, I could get down with being Neodymium.
It’s your animal magnetism
Neodymium? Nah, I like Luther Baldwin better.
copy c:\pr0n.wk4 f:\secretsfloppy\
Hey this is all SEC sorority girls
Wow: I’m finally getting through to somebody
and where the hell did you find a 5 1/4″ drive?
Seems like they’re putting the horse before the carrot.
The SJ Taliban gets offended on behalf of many human groups that don’t really care. That never stopped them.
No kidding. That’s seriously retarded. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting some kind of moron these days. It’s like God has gotten totally niggardly with handing out the brains in recent years.
The real problem with France seems to be that the elites who rule them are way out of touch. For example, Nearly Four Out of Five French Don’t Want to Accept Any More Immigrants. Guess what, you’re getting more immigrants – and they will collect your welfare and they will hate you.
Last time French leaders were this out of touch, people lost their heads.
I sincerely hope the mob starts executing politicians.
I have a meeting tomorrow morning with a rich guy looking to provide me some capital for a side project I’m working on. Wish me luck.
When I’m a billionaire, I promise to have an all expenses paid Glib Meetup on my yacht once per year.
Good luck!
I hope you didn’t find this rich guy on Craigslist. If so I have bad news for you.
Maybe that is his side project.
He said he’d provide capital for a side project. He didn’t say it would be the side project A Fuggin White Male had in mind.
I met him on MySpace, actually.
In all seriousness, he’s a good family friend that has invested in some other successful tech startups recently.
Thank goodness. No one has ever been sexually molested by a family friend.
Noyce.
When a billionaire angel investor does it it isn’t molestation. It is an application fee.
Best of luck!
Will there be blackjack and hookers?
Just so there is a slew of Q’s cuties.
No me, but hookers are fine.
Gay webcam?
Just don’t do anything that makes you uncomfortable.
Until you have cash or cash equivalent in hand you mean?
Good luck!
“Chicago’s New PlayStation Tax Shows How Greedy Politicians Can Be
Chicago is proof that there is almost nothing that government entities won’t try to tax.
“If it moves, tax it.” That’s government’s eternal motto, as Ronald Reagan quipped. To this, the city government of Chicago has added, “If it amuses, tax it.”
A few weeks ago, PlayStation 4 users in Chicago were shocked when they turned on their consoles and saw a message from Sony. The message informed users that as of November 14, 2018, they would be required to pay a 9 percent “amusement tax” for PlayStation subscriptions such as PlayStation Now, PlayStation Plus, PlayStation Music, and others.
The tax is specifically related to streaming services, so the PlayStation games themselves will not be subject to the 9 percent tax. But in today’s subscription-heavy economy, many users purchase these consoles as a medium to stream videos and music rather than using them solely to play games. Not to mention, the tax will still include subscription services that allow Playstation users to connect and play with other users around the globe. So if you own a PlayStation in Chicago, it is unlikely that you will be able to fully avoid this tax.
PlayStation users, however, are not the only victims of this absurd tax.
Chicago is one of the most heavily taxed cities in the country. In addition to holding the title for the highest sales tax nationwide, the city also levies additional taxes on bottled water and cell phones.
The amusement tax was actually passed several years ago and included almost all forms of entertainment. Whether residents are looking to spend an evening at the theater, see a concert, cheer on their favorite sports team, go to a nightclub, or even catch a movie, they are on the hook for an additional 5 percent tax.”
https://fee.org/articles/chicago-s-new-playstation-tax-shows-how-greedy-politicians-can-be/
I’m starting to think O’Leary’s cow knew what she was doing.
Where is the all the outrage from the net neutrality crowd? Oh wait it’s the government doing it so that’s ok.
Nothing quite like the Tyranny of local nannies and nosy neighbors.
“If it moves, tax it.”
sweet! * tears up check for property tax *
Is your property not located on earth which is rotating at about 1,00 miles per hour and well as orbiting around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour which whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 490,000 miles per hour?
Pay up sucka!
doh!
Denying the antecedent FTL
Not so quick there buster. Your property is on a continent which is moving; which is part of a planet that is moving around both its’ own axis and around the Sun; which is rotating around the galactic core; which is moving within the Local Group; which is moving as part of the Virgo Supercluster.
Its’
What kind of monster are you?
One using the possessive plural of hairy cousins?
It’s like whoever wrote that story doesn’t think taxpayers have a sacred duty to spend every waking moment funding public pensions.
One of my friends talked to the aldermen who represented the Ravenswood area and they basically without saying it, he said that the city for all intents and purposes is insolvent. We spend one half of our revenue on pensions and the other half on paying the interest from our debt.
Thank goodness I moved out of the city because they are truly fucked.
Unlike the rest of the state which spends half of its revenue on pensions and the other two-thirds on debt interest.
OMWC did an article on it. Ill is ill.
Why do people live there? I get California is beautiful with nice weather, so people put up with it, but what does Illinois have going for it?
Lots of cheap Hosier Guns
Take off Hosier!. Canadian guns aren’t cheap.
Inertia.
Besides, the majority are voting for this stuff, and they are getting what they want, so why leave?
My sister and her husband, who have lived in Barrington Hills for 25 years, can’t take it any more and are looking to move to Wisconsin.
So they still want to vote Democrat?
That’s where I got a job. I am not here by choice but by necessity.
I was born in California and I would never go back (and I live in freezin’ ass cold Ohio, for fuck’s sake).
The only things that I find appealing about California are the beaches, nice weather, and the food. Many other states have beaches and nice weather – the Carolinas come to mind – and I can make good food at home.
Is there any benefit to living in Chicago worth being fleeced like this?
It’s frequently quite cold in Chicago, so you might want to wear a fleece.
Whoa whoa whoa, hold the fucking phone… The same city that had a soda tax also taxes bottled water? I thought they were trying to incentivize people to drink healthier beverages.
God, fuck that city.
Come now, we all no there is nothing healthy about all the BPA and whatnot leeching into the water from those bottles. Frankly consumers should be glad the government allows bottled water to be sold at all.
What’s with Obama and raising of his chin shtick?
I swear every time I see or hear that guy I grate my teeth.
He’s such a facia di culo.
He’s trying to ignore Bill’s hand as it creeps toward his wife’s penis.
Melania: Stop snorting.
Don: It’s not me.
They both look over to Michelle.
Bill (hears snort and smiles): Remember when you used to snort like that when I inserted my cock in your ass Hill?
Hillary: That wasn’t me you idiot.
They both look over to Michelle.
Wow. That’s pretty spicy for a Canuck. You need some Maalox, brah?
Mussolini-lite, all he needs is a balcony and a good speechwriter.
He needs a slap off the side of the head.
What a putz.
But he said he’s a better speechwriter, ….than his speechwriters.
He was smarter than pretty much anyone he hired, and only the smartest executives do that.
Oh god, I know that fucking expression and I hate it. He’s literally staring down his nose at everyone he speaks to.
“This Christmas, it’s felt like restaurants and supermarkets have been getting extra creative with their offerings. In case you’ve been intentionally avoiding all things festive til now, here’s what you’ve missed on the food front: deep fried Christmas dinner, the Yorkshire pudding meal wrap, massive pigs in blankets, ‘pigs in duvets’ and Nando’s Peri-Peri gravy-based Christmas menu.
But if none of that tickles your fancy, how about a reindeer kebab?
Yes, that’s right, a reindeer doner kebab – because what could be more Christmassy than eating one of Santa’s sleigh dragging team?
The variation on the drunkard’s 3am favourite is being offered by Yorkshire kebab pioneers, I Am Doner, who last year made their first foray into the world of Christmas food with the launch of their Christmas kebab.
But this year they have gone one further, by offering a kebab made with reindeer meat (though arguably that is more than one further).
The idea was dreamt up during a visit to Lapland, where the indigenous Sámi people eat reindeer in flat breads.”
http://www.ladbible.com/news/food-who-fancies-a-festive-reindeer-meat-doner-kebab-20181202
So it’s a Donner doner? I’ve had that before in Alaska. Tasty.
Urgh, makes me think Donner party instead of Donner and Blitzen.
I think that would be the Soylent Kebab.
Chinese didn’t flock to see Crazy Rich Asians. It’s shocking. Don’t they realize that the only thing that matters is that its a movie with Asian people in it, and since they have the same skin tone that those people completely and totally represent their own experiences as Asians? THAT’S HOW THIS WORKS!
It’s like they don’t see themselves as a monolithic identity group based on their skin. And that they don’t give a fuck about a shitty romcom that’s only distinction is that it features Asians in place of white people.
maybe next time they’ll try something fresh like “How Shu Got Her Gloove Back”
Uh-oh, I’m in a serious meeting when I secretly just read that. Really hard to suppress laughing out loud at that, thanks a lot.
To play devil’s advocate, measuring the success of any movie via the Chinese box office is a sucker’s game considering the massive IP theft that occurs. I’d wager that plenty of Chinese folks interested in seeing the movie had already downloaded it via torrents weeks before opening day.
If it had been the new Transformers, they would have formed a yellow line to see it that could have been seen from space.
I’m no expert on China. Comedies struggle to translate between cultures in general. I just think it’s funny that these entertainment types think simply throwing some Asians on the screen means it will resonate.
Yeah, I don’t get that.
True. But I ask myself, like I did with the “Star Wars Bombed in China!!!” stories, did the studio execs really expect these movies to do well or were they just throwing shit against a wall to see what sticks, a la Bay’s Transformers?
You really think studio execs would spend gobs of money just to see what sticks? The same studio that let Pixar kick their ass for years before they even noticed?
“Insane Poor Caucasians ” would be an Academy Award winner here though. Or I could just look at my neighbors that stand around pointing and laughing at me.
It would be a lot more entertaining than a movie about rich Asians. Mainstream Hollywood comedies on the wealthy, in fact, always suck. And it doesn’t seem like they will touch anything more on comedy these days other than upper middle class. Perhaps nepotism has finally overtaken the comedy world so that’s all some of these people even know.
Semi related rant – the progressive cunts have even butchered Shameless which was a strange but wonderful animal for its few seasons before becoming another progressive talking point of the week bunch of bullshit the last few years.
Shameful, wasn’t it?
Pretty sure Winter’s Bone, Monster’s Ball, O Brother Where art Thou, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape all nominated.
A fellow Asian person was telling me about that movie as if it were some great news for “us”.
Sorry, but how exactly is this movie going to improve my life?
https://twitter.com/certaspessoa/status/1069936487855210496
LOLOLOLOL
What do you reckon the kids think that payphone is ?
“PETA asks people to stop using ‘anti-animal language’. I hope they don’t expect us to try to eat the whole elephant at once.”
I, for one, will not be cowed by these people.
Uffda. This is a sad day in Minnesoda corporate history. 3M: Every new product must meet a sustainability goal
I wonder if there is a business plan you could put together to poach the smart engineers from companies like 3M who are sick and tired of bullshit projects like this?
“Hey Vern, want to work for a company where we invent cool stuff like postit notes? And no one has to fill out any sustainability forms? Compensation and bonus payments will be based entirely on whether or not your product makes a profit.”
I’m working with an ex-3M contract engineer. He’s awesome and seems to love the speed of a small company. He laughed pretty hard today when I said “Fuck that LEED bullshit. What material is gonna hold up best?”
I’m not corporate material.
That’s why I left my last job. Centralization didn’t become me.
One happy residue pardon-the-pun of RoHS is that I don’t hafta work with as many dangerous materials any more. Instead of waiting for the market to wise up to some of the risks (will I live that long?) and save me, I often get to just point to a list and say “we can’t.” I’m not advocating regulation, I’m just savoring the few moments in a capitalist’s life when he’s not on the ragged edge of safety because competition means we’re always pushing an envelope.
I’ve done both. Big companies and small companies. I love the freedom that comes with working for a small company. I hate the fact that you end up getting bogged down because there is no one to do the tedious grunt work.
Go figure. Work is work. Like I told a person who used to work for me, “if work was fun, you’d have to pay me to come in here.”
Government is unsustainable, so I assume they won’t be taking any more government contracts?
It’s like they don’t even care about making profits anymore. It’s as if senior management getting the nice story in the local paper is enough.
That’s what Gore did IIRC.
Definitely not Minnesoda Nice. . Must have moved here from some shit hole.
Stein didn’t read the handbook? Pretty sure that’s something that’s mentioned pretty early in Chapter 1 as a negative response
I think he skipped over that boring stuff to “Chapter 12: Ax Safety”
Ass Glibs feel free to rejoice at this collection of pulchritudinous and perky posteriors.
http://archive.is/rAcPw
Momma taught me to never look a gift ass in the mouth, so I’ll take 17.
I thought it was “never lick a gift whore in the mouse”?
The “Looks Most Like a Character From Firefly” award goes to 7
13 and 16 hit my goto for big booty AAs or Latinas with a pretty face.
1 has stretch marks.
I don’t usually comment on Q’s links, but OMG…7
Great goodness, price per gallon of gas in France is almost $6.20 which is a decrease from summertime:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/France/gasoline_prices/
No wonder they’re pissed.
I thought all the Frenchies travel by bicycle with a basket on the handlebars and a long skinny loaf of bread in the basket. What do they care about gas prices?
And yet, it is hardly the highest in Europe.
Germans are paying 6.37 a gallon, Greeks 6.58, Italians 6.87, and Norwegians 6.99.
Some of those I understand, but Norway’s a fucking petro-state. Why are they spending that god damn much for gas?
“They” aren’t. Their government is taxing them that much for gas. Carbon levies are just another way governments amass huge amounts of private wealth, claim it’s for a specific noble purpose, dump it into general revenues and then spend it on whatever they believe will get their political wing re-elected.
I hate carbon levies. None of it in the Lower Rainland™ is used for anything other than buying votes.
They gotta tax something, and it will be the ones with the money paying the taxes.
Either taxation is legitimate or it isn’t. The rest is mere detail.
Or is there some enlightened way to think about it?
If they tax 100% of your income, it is slavery. If they tax somewhat less, it is less onerous slavery. At no taxation percent does it stop being theft.
Per Diem is pretty nice up there. Of course from some folks who had shore leave there, it cost something like $100/person to go out for dinner at TGIF or something like that (don’t think that was including more than a couple drinks). Absolutely mind-numbing in general.
“Is A String Of Attacks Against Brooklyn Jews Really About Anti-Semitism?
“It’s less of an anti-Semitic thing than they needed a target to respond to this word: gentrification,” said Mendel Turner, 28, a salesman at the Borsalino hat store on Kingston Avenue.
Jews are pegged as the representatives of gentrification because, in many poor Brooklyn neighborhoods, they are, says Avi Leshes, a director of economic development at the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. He pointed to hotly contested development project like one in the Broadway Triangle, in East Williamsburg, from a Hasidic-owned company.
And while the attacks are targeting Jews, it may be because black people identify Judaism as “a form of almost hyper-whiteness,” according to Mark Winston Griffith, executive director of the Black Movement Center, a not-for-profit group that promotes communal organizing in the black community in Crown Heights.
In that regard, Griffith said, the attacks may Be an extension of animosity toward white people in general, who drive gentrification in Brooklyn. He added that the attacks are not on the radar of people involved in social justice initiatives in Crown Heights.
“To the extent that people hear about it, they are probably thinking about it in the national context of anti-Semitic acts, and the larger landscape of hatred that is being painted by Donald Trump,” he said.”
https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1070424115612475392
https://forward.com/news/national/415385/is-a-string-of-attacks-against-brooklyn-jews-really-about-anti-semitism/
If they’re going to emulate Trump, they could at least vote for him.
/sarcasm
So Jews siding with democrats didn’t buy them any indulgences?
They’re conditionally oppressed; like Asians.
Hasidics don’t vote Democrat, brah.
Wait, I thought I could just place everyone in monolithic blocks like Muslim or millennial or Southern and apply my prejudice universally so I wouldn’t have to think? I feel so betrayed by reality.
No, we can still say they are even worse drivers than the East Asians. All of them.
That is a pet peeve of mine. Some teen exercises poor judgment and they give him a decade for vehicular manslaughter and some old plows through a market and gets the kid gloves.
So, basically they’re saying it’s all Donald Trump’s fault and the Jews deserve it anyway.
It’s as if you can’t even rely on people’s self-preservation instincts to get them to think rationally.
Well, if you think about it, Kristallnacht was primarily about gentrification too.
They wanted the neighborhood to stay shitty!
That is one hell of a hot take.
Help me out on this one: why didn’t (((they))) pull a Mormon and escape out west decades and decades ago? I’d think by now there should be some glimmering Little Kibbutz on the Prairie, nice quiet road up to the main gate, huge fortress wall festooned with the odd proud Uzi muzzle nosing into the air. They could have renamed Kansas and done something useful with it by now?
Those interested did so around 70 years ago.
But they went east. Like East Jerusalem east.
See You gotta pick someplace that nobody wanted anyway. Hell not even the Native Americans really cared about the Salt Lake Valley, it was a bit of a “No-mans Land” between the Paiutes and the Shoshone.
Like a Jew is going to avoid an argument if he or she can.
Maybe they had enough of wandering in the desert.
It’s hard to get a good bagel in Missouri.
“They could have renamed Kansas”
Kansenfarb?
Sorry. That was our fault.
The Little Kibbutz on the Prairie was going fine until the first harvest time. Then they had a feast with their Norwegian neighbors who told them that lutefisk was totes kosher.
The survivors fled back to NYC in horror. Especially after Sven and Ole asked them if it was OK if they could have their plate of lutefisk since they weren’t going to eat it.
Seriously though. I recall reading that part of the traditional amity the LDS have historically shown towards Judaism is, in part, due to the fact that out there, Joseph Smith’s ranch abutted Jewish neighbors of whom he had good relations with.
When you say “Out there” do you mean In New York, Ohio, Missouri, or Illinois?
Midwest
“I recall reading that part of the traditional amity the LDS have historically shown towards Judaism is, in part, due to the fact ”
A possibly bigger part is that the Book of Mormon is about some Jews who emigrate to an unpopulated New World and populate the fuck out of it. So, gonna be friendly to Jews just off that — they’re a big part of their religious texts.
And attacking the hyper-white is ok.
“Judaism [is] ‘a form of almost hyper-whiteness,'”
Needz moar pumpkin spice.
“Alt-right violence against Jews isn’t predicated on antisemitism, it’s a question of class anxiety about globalism.”
Actually making the argument that it can’t be *real* antisemitism because it’s not by tiki torch wielding white people. Bold strategy, Cotton.
Zayt nisht meshuggeh.
An awesome woke rendition of ‘Baby it’s cold outside’. The song that’s in the cross hairs of SJW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=amK4U4pCTB8
Yeeesh.
He swiped left.
Tinder quote of the day:
“Every girl is a squirter if you cut the right artery.”
Hello, FBI?
If you are worried about an actual crime having been committed, the last thing you want to do is contact the FBI.
’twas a joke.
(though I’ll admit being worried about someone who’d make that joke in public. Then again I’m a known prude.)
Wasn’t there an article about that on here somewhere?
https://youtu.be/0_VWGV6_N9o
The Daily Beast has the latest Trump controversy:
Most honest politician of my lifetime. I’d also love to hear The Daily Beast offer a suggestion for tackling the national debt beyond cut military spending (which, let’s be frank – would be a drop in the bucket and meaningless). Because god knows they’d screech like retarded banshees while gnashing their teeth and beating their chests only even occasionally being able to get out cries of racist if he dared to go after entitlement spending.
“The president thinks the balancing of the nation’s books is going to, ultimately, be a future president’s problem.”
:Ahem: How does the fact that he admits it change that this has been every other politicians attitude for the last 30 years?
Yet another example of how the antipathy to Trump is driven in large part by aesthetics and not reality.
When a smooth tongued, well dressed, member of the establishment lies to you, that’s statesmanship. When a buffoonish caricature tells the truth, it’s the end of democracy.
The proper people know that the proper way to handle the budget crisis is to propose a 20 year plan. The plan won’t change anything for the first 8 years (at best you start with minor cuts to the favorite hobby horses of your political opponents). That is because during this time you will be planning super smart, super efficient, super painless cuts that will go into effect for the last 12 years.
Trump just shows what a hick he is by not trotting out the proper lie.
I mean, it is. If speaking broad truth becomes the new normal then that’s basically the end of most political platforms.
Everyone does it, but at least Trump admits he does it. Isn’t much of an endorsement.
Not Endorsing, Trump, but the same people calling him out for saying “Not My problem” are the same ones who would crucify anyone who tried to get anything changed and the same types who called people who said the debt was a problem nasty names and cranks.
Meh, some are, however, I’m sure some are also the ones who criticized other pols for kicking the can down the road. People finally get what they want and bitch that they didn’t get it sooner, and I’m sure to hear ‘Yahbut, soon as Trump’s gone they will ignore it again.’
Fair enough, perhaps the people at the Daily Beast have consistently been against the rising debt. However re “Yahbut, soon as Trump’s gone they will ignore it again.”, I don’t support Trump, but i’ll be damned if i give hypocrites a pass for supporting something “right”, just because it scores them some breif political points, since they have shown themselves to not give a damn. Call it “Whataboutism” if you want, i call it not letting hypocrites get away with their bullshit. (See Yemen for a good case study in this.)
Exactly. Nobody is serious about needing to do what needs to be done to cut it for real.
They all play their parts. Even if a politician came with the best plan ever if it cut beloved government agencies and welfare he (or she) would be destroyed in the media.
The only solutions they’d view as viable would be cut the military budget and increase taxes. Neither of which would greatly alter the trajectory of that hockey stick.
The only possible way to reign it in in any meaningful way is to tackle entitlements. That will never, ever happen, ergo, we’re fucked.
Proper fucked?
Depends on who’s doing the fucking.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy7OdvPvFyU
Well military spending is a huge issue, and I actually do think you could put the nation on a glide path to fix the entitlement spending with some reforms that would work. But there’s no political will for such a plan.
It’s hard for me to call military spending the major issue when in reality it’s 15-16% of all federal spending. Roughly 2.2 trillion is spent on social security and Medicare/Medicaid. It’s nearly 2/3’s.
I look forward to the interest payments on the national debt being larger than the discretionary spending.
A trillion dollars is still a staggeringly large amount of money, and in terms of finding places to cut, it’s much easier to work on the defense budget, especially if we ever abandon the World Police bullshit.
Close the overseas bases, restore the constitutional mission of the American military, and you free up hundreds of billions of dollars for politicians to squander on their pet projects.
So go ahead and cut military spending, but it’s a drop in the bucket when talking about the big picture.
I like the idea of 5% cuts across the board, but it can be harder for DoD especially when planning based on last year’s budget, etc. With such a complicated planning timeframe for acquisitions, upgrades, etc – this back and forth is not only petty but seriously harmful as we saw during sequestration.
Axing a few unconstitutional Depts on the other hand would do a lot more initially – and for long term federalism.
Additionally, it’s worth noting that many of the overseas bases (outside the warzones – need to get out of Afg and Iraq ASAP) are actually paying for themselves (or being paid for by the host countries) – although obviously BAH and BAS for folks stationed there can add up.
Budget cuts can play havoc even with a well run program. Cut the budget by 5% one year and you might have to spend 10% more to catch up.
When It Blows Up
This is an important question of questionable construction that was designed to appeal to kitchen-table-check-book notions of balance, as if Mom-and-Dad’s wealth weren’t described in terms of fiat currency. I’m open to suggestions, but isn’t it more likely the dollar ends with a whimper than a bang? Even moving oil to another currency isn’t a clear death knell: global production is maybe one tenth of US GDP?
The dollar will continue to die the way it has been dying: steady erosion. The scary debt myth is the left-to-our-grandkids story; it obscures the present truth that we pay for the federal debt every day in ways beyond mere interest. But, oddly, it’s a competitive advantage for the US, so we there’s no motivation to abandon ship.
But I don’t see a clear winner out there. I’m not rushing to put my assets into Beijing-denominated instruments; I don’t see any politburo as my savior. Same with gold: I don’t need speculators, South Africa, and Russia in charge of my net worth.
Diversifying isn’t a bad idea at all, but then you run into liquidity and mobility issues if you’re no longer made out of dollars; there’s not an obvious and universal answer. I’d also say just by kitchen table logic that the folks who know for certain that the dollar is falling apart should know exactly what is taking over and on what date: either they have their arms around those mechanics or they don’t.
I respect the dollar and the Federal Reserve tremendously, but, like BMW engineers, it’s a case of someone doing well what they shouldn’t be doing at all. There’s bad blood in this here barroom, but I don’t believe anyone knows which exit to head for.
I think it’s highly likely that it will blow up one day, precisely because the US is in such a strong position that it can keep coasting for a long while before the day of reckoning, allowing the problem to get progressively worse, and when it finally comes the US will probably take everyone else down with it (it is 20% of global GDP, after all). The US is not the only country with debt problems, so I imagine when things catch up to it we will see a domino effect.
If debt per se is the problem, then it follows that the end times begin with the 80% of world GDP that is worse off falling apart first; weirdly, one reaction to that might be that there’s no better plan than to ride the dollar while the rest of the world burns down. The answer can’t be that the dollar will fail because Italy and everyone else is even worse off.
I’m not saying that some dollar pop isn’t coming; I’m just saying that I haven’t read a clean theory that is mechanically sound and squares both with the facts and the trends.
“as if Mom-and-Dad’s wealth weren’t described in terms of fiat currency”
I’ve always found this to be a bit of a cop-out. Even if the US doesn’t Technically have to ‘default’ on it’s debts, inflation financing the payoffs would be just as bad.
I’m sure you misunderstood me.
I only meant to underscore that pictures of presidents are only worth what they trade for; without regard to the debt whatsoever, a dollar is worth precisely what you traded it for ten seconds ago, typically a candy bar or one fiftieth of a barrel of oil.
This is on top of your position (which I hope I understand) that paying interest is a real, hurtful thing. I agree with that even more than you guessed.
But coming back to macroeconomic fundamentals, “default” is somewhat talking in circles. I’m not talking about (arguably) trivial failures like being late on payments or any other technical or political blip that might not get every penny transferred to the right place on the right day. Rather, a printer of fiat currency can never default (or, if you will, no government announcement or posture they might take would be any worse at the end of the century than having gone full Weimar on your debt). This is what I mean when I say we pay every day: dollars are worth less than they would be if there weren’t debt because takers of dollars must always discount by some risk premium their chances of redeeming/using their dollars while they are still worth something close to what they were ten seconds ago. Said another way, the USG could simply print their way out of the debt in the next ten seconds and nothing would change: the dilution shock would be offset by net global risk premia and some time-value corrections after a few months; ten years from now it would not have changed a single thing about whether the dollar is safe.
I’m sure Mises.org has a better explanation of this than I do, but rather than say what a dollar is worth or how to manage it they would merely recommend disposing of it as an institution entirely.
Most honest politician of my lifetime. I’d also love to hear The Daily Beast offer a suggestion for tackling the national debt beyond cut military spending
Like, duh! Raise taxes on billionaires! Don’t you even Beast, brah?
“I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up”, said pretty much everybody, politicians or otherwise, for the last 50 years.
I think there’s a yuuuge difference here.
Trump really doesn’t want to be in power when it blows up.
Most other politicians WANT it to blow up on their watch because they will have the power to pick the winners and losers. THAT is what they don’t want to admit. Bush, Obama, and McCain could run to DC fast enough to get to sit in on the carve up sessions that occurred ten years ago.
Just for the record, the federal government spends a lot of money making sure they don’t spend a lot of money.
I’m cracking up at the “50 people try” videos on the epicurious YouTube channel. The fact that some of these people avoid drowning when it rains is a miracle.
A coworker has a wife that had a stroke some years that left he altered in a way that makes her childish. Evidently, she started dinner this week and just walked away to go do something else and burned the kitchen down. So now he is divorcing his wife and sending her to Puerto Rico to live with her parents. The ladies telling the story we’re calling him pure evil for doing that. Im not so sure.
In sickness and in health…
Good point. That vow can really challenge you. My wife is home sick today and I made her homemade soup and brewed her tea and was happy to do it. But she is going to get better and we will get back to our regular lives. This lady won’t and I’m not sure how many years he has been effectively without a partner.
I have to drive my wife to have knee surgery next week. Damn vows.
Depends on whether you’re in the relationship for your own advantage or for the advantage of the relationship.
If I had a stroke and was disabled, I would want my wife to move on. I don’t think I could abandon her if the roles were reversed.
My greatest fear is that I’ll have a stroke that leaves me conscious and intelligent but renders me unable to reach the pistol drawer. I have no interest in her enduring my uselessness, and I have no interest in riding that out for myself either.
If I had a stroke and was disabled…
…SP would put her Plan B into effect.
And I would thank her if there is an afterlife
I didn’t think she was old enough to need Plan B.
Begs the question of what he thinks the word “marriage” means; we don’t know what’s going on at their house.
But if he were the sick one I know how he would be defining things.
As for me and my house, we are roped together, sink or swim.
Yep. Two the hard way.
Ugh! It’s a shitty situation, either way. Having to go through life with someone who is, for all intents and purposes, in need of perpetual adult supervision is a heartbreaking state of affairs. I’m not saying divorcing her is right, but I sure as hell am not buying the “pure evil” bullshit. You’re talking about one of those situations where I don’t think it’s anywhere even bordering on right to judge how much another man should have to bear. And the ladies telling that story, what exactly would they be prepared to endure? Maybe someone should ask them if they’d be prepared to spend the rest of their natural lives in a perpetual state of limbo knowing that, at any moment they’re away, their loved one might do something that would utterly destroy their lives and maybe kill themselves in the process. Oh, and while we’re at it, no meaningful love life and watching the person you love only a shell of themselves.
Maybe someone should ask them if they’d be prepared to spend the rest of their natural lives in a perpetual state of limbo knowing that, at any moment they’re away, their loved one might do something that would utterly destroy their lives and maybe kill themselves in the process.
The question that comes to mind is “what’s the alternative?” It’s not like the lady’s problem goes away because the guy ships her off to her parents. Now her parents have to deal with all the same exact perils that you laid out.
It’d be one thing if she, by her own moral failings, jeopardized the marriage, whether by adultery, by inhospitability, or whatever. This lady had a medical condition that resulted in this hardship. Yeah, I have some sympathy for the guy, but I have more sympathy for the woman who’s getting thrown out in the cold.
I’m not saying the guy is in the right. I’m saying there are some situations that are so shitty, I can’t bring myself to fault people for not being able to take them. Maybe he thinks the parents might be able to watch over her in a way he simply can’t.
And, yeah, I do feel sympathy for the woman. As screwed up as she’s become, she probably still has the presence of mind to know how much pain she’s causing and probably still has the presence of mind to know she’s being abandoned by the guy she thought she was going to be with forever.
Like I said above, it’s an incredibly shitty situation, no matter how you slice it.
I don’t disagree that this is an incredibly shitty situation. I don’t fault him for feeling very tempted to walk away. I’d feel very trapped in that situation. However, your character isn’t shown in how you act in good situations. It’s shown in how you act in shitty situations, and this guy is a coward. Not saying that I wouldn’t be a coward in the same situation, but I’m just calling a spade a spade.
This situation strikes me as categorically similar to abortion. Something horrible happens that affects everybody involved, and one victim compounds the horribleness on the other victim(s) in order to attempt to alleviate their own portion of the burden.
abortion *after rape
I know what my threshold for bad situations is, but I won’t fault someone else for having a lower threshold. Same as I hope those with higher thresholds wouldn’t hold it against me.
I divorced my schizophrenic wife about 45 years ago, gained custody of my two kids. She lived the next 20 years in a sheltered environment until she was finally successful at suicide. She had threatened suicide at least twice while we were married, I stopped her once and took the knife away from her in the kitchen, the next time was a big handful of aspirin that didn’t do much.
She refused her medication at times, catatonic. While marriage is supposed to be forever sometimes a marriage is not made in heaven. Children should not be exposed to that type of environment. I don’t regret breaking the contract. I was not sad when I got the news of her death.
Thank you for sharing that story. I’m sure it isn’t easy to talk about.
My kids hadn’t seen their mother in many, many years before she died, my daughter went to the funeral, my son didn’t. Their mother was in NJ, D in MN, S in TX. My daughter now works in a group home but some of the clients are able to handle a job with the medication, some are not. She likes her job, even though some of the clients can be difficult at times but I think most relate to her as a mother figure.
I’m not going to be too hard on the guy because I believe almost anyone will crack under the right pressure.
I have a close friend who’s dealing something similar. He’s taking his vows seriously and working through it the best he can. I can only admire him for that level of integrity.
That PETA thing is dumb. Not just that I disagree with their sentiments (although I do), but mainly that the replacements they suggest fail to convey the same meanings as the phrases they want to retire. “Feed two birds with one scone” infers multitasking but lacks the reference to difficulty that “kill two birds with one stone” entails. “Be the test tube” lacks the danger and potential for self sacrifice conveyed by “Be the guinea pig”. “Bring home the bagels” lacks the depth of provision implied by “bring home the bacon”, since meat is more central to a human diet but less easy to acquire than bread. “Take the flower by the thorns” is just stupid, while “Take the bull by the horns”, while it involves an element of stupidity (or daring, depending on your read) mainly infers attempting to take control of events. Even “feed a fed horse” for “beat a dead horse”, while being their best replacement, lacks the implied futility of the original. The whole thing reeks of being whipped up by a couple interns over the course of an afternoon, with an eye to getting home early.
girl isn’t PETA fan
IT’S A BUTT SEX CONSPIRACY!
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a25348551/anal-sex-truths/
First Teen Vogue and now this?!??!
IS NOWHERE SAFE!?!
Men’s Health didn’t get the “front hole” memo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zHVW7Zy_vg
Question for jersey lawyers. My friend got caught driving drunk in South jersey. No accident, was pulled over for whatever they made up..didnt use turn signal when changing lanes, whatever.
Anyway, based on my prior advice, he didn’t blow into machine because he knew he would fail.
So after talking to various lawyers they all told him he’s fucked for not blowing, that jersey specifically has a statute that you’re guilty no matter what of a dui if you dont blow. They didn’t take blood either.
I knew he’d lose the license for x amt of time, but was unaware of this blatant 5th amendment violation. I’ve had this happen to me in a western state and was always told not to blow by lawyers.
Any advice, words of wisdom from jersey lawyers or those who’ve gone through this in jersey? (Other than don’t live in jersey)
I’m pretty sure he is not one whit worse off than he would have been if he had blown. I agree with your advice in general and hope you’re not feeling guilty.
/not an NJ lawyer
I concur. Judges and cops always refuse, that should tell you everything you need to know. He can probably get work driving privileges.
/ also not a lawyer.
Lawyers also said in N.J no special driving privileges for work and such
Yeah, those are some of the hashest penalties I’ve seen for refusal. In Ohio, it’s an automatic 6 month suspension.
https://www.jonbramnick.com/articles/what-are-the-consequences-for-refusing-to-take-a-breathalyzer-test/
Harsh? Refuse to blow in NM and you lose your license forever.
Also, if daughter #2 is any indication, 2 DWIs in Michigan and you never drive again.
We must concede that being forced to leave NM, OH, MI, or NJ is not the worse thing that has ever happened to someone.
Leaving NJ dramatically increased my quality of life, happiness, and income. I escaped ~20 years ago.
Wow. That is messed up.
JB ? If you’re charged with OVI in Ohiom, your lawyer can NOT challenge the operation/functionality of the breathalyzer, or subpoena anything about it
2 DWIs in Michigan and you never drive again.
Risking being that asshole in two topics in a row, good! Momentarily setting aside all of the unconstitutional bullshit that cops do to catch drunk drivers, I’m all for harsh punishments for drunk driving. I’ve seen enough ruined and shortened lives to plant me firmly in the “throw the book at them” camp. In these days of Uber and Lyft, there’s no excuse for DUI.
Granted, I think the detection and enforcement methods should be completely reworked to be constitution friendly.
/going to get a beer because I’m evidently in a ranty mood
no blood, no foul
How about he millions of miles driven “drunk” every year that result in no injury to anyone?
You live in a populated area, don’t you?
It’s amazing me to how many bullshit statistics there are related to drunk driving. Like, 1 out of every three drivers at this time of the day is fucking shitfaced and only a miracle of god stops them from killing you and everyone you love!
Well, the Squirrels ate my original rant, so you only get the condensed version.
How about he millions of miles driven “drunk” every year that result in no injury to anyone?
Enforcement mechanism should change. If you can drive fine, the cops shouldn’t be able to stop you. Only after you make some significant traffic violation should you be liable for a DUI. In my opinion, DUI should act as a sentence multiplier on an existing traffic violation. Frankly, in that scenario, I’d be glad that it’s the drunk’s life being ruined for once instead of an innocent bystander.
You live in a populated area, don’t you?
It’s certainly not N. Dak rural out here. Uber and lyft are out here, usually 30 minutes or so away. Closest bar is about 6 or 7 miles away, and there’s a whole bunch of horse farms between here and there. Ya know, when I go drink at a bar, I plan ahead and either don’t drink so much that I’m a menace on the road, bring a DD along, or wait until ive sobered up enough to drive home safely.
Fuck drunk drivers.
You literally just admitted you drive intoxicated. Newsflash for you – if you had even a minor accident, even if completely blameless, you would be liable under most if not all state laws.
You literally just admitted you drive intoxicated.
How bout you read what I wrote next time.
Enforcement mechanism should change. If you can drive fine, the cops shouldn’t be able to stop you. Only after you make some significant traffic violation should you be liable for a DUI.
I don’t care about your make believe world of what should be done. I’m talking about the real world and actual laws and what could get you labeled one of the drunk drivers.
But in the meantime, lock ’em up and throw away they key, right? We all know that the arbitrary DUI threshold level is far more likely to be reduced to .06 rather than anything fair being done with DUI laws.
Right, depriving someone of their liberty and livelihood is perfectly fair punishment for a traffic violation.
How about distracted and sleep-deprived driving? Studies show that those are just as dangerous, if not more, than drunk driving. You ever talked on the phone or eaten while driving? Do you only drive if you are fully rested? Pull over immediately for a nap if you yawn?
I don’t care about your make believe world of what should be done.
Okay, then why are you getting all defensive with me when every one of my posts in this thread has a carve out saying that I think the current laws suck? From my prior posts:
I don’t know how to be any clearer, but I’ll try one last time.
The current rules for drunk driving suck ass. However, this doesn’t mean that true drunk drivers (the ones who are a menace on the road) are anything other than massive assholes who deserve to have the book thrown at them.
I’ll leave you to define “true” drunk drivers, but general experience tells me that most people are complete hypocrites on this particular subject. Particularly those who are older and who grew up before drunk driving laws were actually a serious thing.
When I hear someone say I drink and wait to sober up, that in particular leads me to call bullshit.
I can readily admit I had a DUI and was by own opinion someone who should not have been on the road that night. But then again i know a shit ton of people who have driven drunk off their ass with no consequences (usually ones who are just fine saying things like throw the book at’em) and then there are a shit ton of people who had DUI’s and may meet your criteria of true drunk drivers who…no, they didn’t necessarily deserve to have the “book” thrown at them.
Then we can get into a number of arguments on behaviors people engage in that increase the risk of something bad happening, and which we punish based on the increased risk rather than the actual harm done.
But in the meantime, lock ’em up and throw away they key, right?
If you aren’t gonna actually read my comments, what’s the point in my responding?
I seriously dont know what I can say to make it any more clear that I think the current laws suck. Geez, it’s like you guys think that drunk drivers are saints or something.
When I hear someone say I drink and wait to sober up, that in particular leads me to call bullshit.
I was a passenger in a car during college that was pulled over by the cops for driving like an idiot. The driver was as drunk as I was and had no business being on the road. Despite being seriously drunk and having a prior DUI, he got off with a warning. That experience has really shifted my opinion on the topic. That and the number of people I know who have been smacked into by drunks. Oh, and the number of drunks I’ve dodged on the road.
I’m extremely conservative in my drinking when I know that I have to drive. I’m talking like 2 beers over 3 hours conservative. Im not gonna get busted by the cops for a DUI, and I’m not gonna take any chances while driving a 2 ton metal purveyor of death.
What sort of punishment should there be for the people who are in the cars drunk with other drunks way too drunk to drive? Or how about people who don’t stop drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel/willingly go along with them?
Here’s where I feel vindicated for saying that most people are hypocrites on this subject. Because not only have most people done it themselves, but then damn near everyone knows someone or has allowed someone to do it. And you basically confirmed that, and I’m willing to bet if not guarantee that you’ve done it. You’ve met the criteria to be one of your own “true” drunk drivers.
What demographics tend to get the most DUI’s? Who is it that’s being punished?
Maybe not follow it up with:
and
No, but they aren’t all literally worse than Hitler, either.
It’s obvious from your posts and comments that you are an intelligent and logical person. But on this you really seem to be letting emotion drive your thinking. Are you also waiting for the time when the government can read our thoughts so we can finally stop murderers before they kill?
Unlike what I just typed, I wasn’t being facetious in my earlier comment. I’m really curious about how you feel about distracted and sleep-deprived driving and how you square your thoughts on that with your thoughts on drunk driving.
What sort of punishment should there be for the people who are in the cars drunk with other drunks way too drunk to drive? Or how about people who don’t stop drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel/willingly go along with them?
I see that as a completely different issue, and it seems to do what a lot of drunk driving apologia does… pass the buck. Just like charging the bartender for letting the drunk drive home or charging the gun manufacturer for selling the gun to the murderer, I think the legal culpability is completely misplaced when it lands on anybody but the person operating the car while impaired.
Sure, those who surround and enable the drunk driver have a moral duty as friends and community members to keep the person off the road when the person is a danger to others, but the ultimate responsibility rests on the person who decides to get in the driver’s seat.
Maybe not follow it up with : . . .
I stand by those words I wrote.
Sure, there’s a boundary issue. There’s no clear line between alright and too much.
I still think that the intentional choice to get loaded up to the point where you’re a menace on the road is megalomania to the extreme. It’s the same “radical individualism” I wrote about in my article a few weeks back. “Fuck everything but my rights”
If this were an issue of private actions on private property, I think my response would be different. However, these are public actions on shared public property, and I think that the combination of a violation of the usage rules of the shared space, the danger to innocent others created by such violations of the usage rules, and the premeditated impairment that caused the violation of the usage rules can and should be viewed as a very serious incident. The social acceptability of the situation be damned.
Regarding distracted driving, I think a similar standard should be applied. Again, we have a fuzzy line to contend with. At one end is doing something that completely takes your attention off the road, at the other end is something like listening to the radio. I think the intent and premeditation come into it. Texting while driving seems an awful lot like drunk driving. Not saying I’ve never texted while driving, but it’s fairly obvious that there’s a conscious choice to impair one’s driving while behind the wheel.
Sleepy driving is a bit different in that you’re not intentionally impairing your driving ability. Maybe it rises to the level of criminality if the person intentionally doesn’t get enough sleep before a long trip… I dunno.
Anyway, I think that much of the issue is the general social acceptability of driving like an idiot, no matter the reason. If we treated our guns like we treated our cars, the 2nd amendment wouldve been gone 75 years ago. I wish I could think of a better analogy, but it’s hard to find anything that has a similar mix of public exposure, necessary skill to operate, and deadly consequences when improperly operated.
Fuck off. Go to weekly standard or Soccer Mom Digest
In order to stay philosophically consistent, the radical individualist ends up sounding like the punk 17 year old whining that his parents can’t tell him what to do anymore. This is the most superficial way that radical individualism harms broader libertarianism.
Libertarianism has a reputation for being something you grow out of once you get real life experience. I don’t know how many times I’ve heard that it makes sense on paper, but the real world is too complex for it to work. I think that a large portion of that sentiment comes from the outsized influence of the most virulent form of radical individualism, Objectivism. I’ll freely admit that I’ve never read a word of Rand, and I’m not beating the library’s door down to get a copy of Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged. However, her influence is felt far and wide through the libertarian movement, and it undergirds the complaints that libertarianism is a pipe dream of maladjusted teenagers.
Here’s my preemptive response to your comment.
So, refusing to testify against yourself is a crime?
Legal under the FYTW clause of the 5th amendment.
Other states get away with this under the guise of having the DMV take your license away and inflict its own punishment. So, it’s just an administrative penalty and not a criminal matter. This has the added benefit of allowing both the courts and the bureaucracy to dip into your pockets. So win-win.
It’s my understanding that courts have ruled differently on this matter.
Right: how can it be said any other way than violates 5A
to say nothing of a victimless crime for which the penalty is the loss of a license to do something that one should be free to do without a license
now, if he hurt someone, give his house to the victim just before you hang him
Driving is a “privilege” not a “right” is how they justify it.
Well, that is a rhetorical justification. But the legal one needs to be different because they are convicting you of the crime for not blowing.
I’m sure there’s a Moonves joke there…but I’m well into my bourbon and can’t figure it out.
Princeton a Cappella Group Cuts Little Mermaid Song After Complaint Performance Promotes ‘Toxic Masculinity’
http://time.com/5471686/princeton-a-cappella-group-kiss-the-girl-cut/
They’re all little babies.
Dare’s no freakin’ Santa Clause. Are youse kids stoopid or sumpin’?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46462356
*attempts to suppress vision of Christie in a Santa suit*
“you can’t fool me, there-a aint-a no sanity clause ”
(watch the whole bit for what I imagine is Swiss doing contracts)
Ok, why a duck?
It seems pretty clear to me that Jimmy Carter is some sort of demon. How else can you explain his longevity? Peanuts are not that good for you. Clearly he’s aligned with Satan
“History’s greatest monster”
A man so boring even Death avoids him?
He’s slowly evolving into Mr. Peanut
Well, he was a member of the Illuminutty.
good Southern cooking and submarine reactor farts cancel out peanuts
Unrelated, I’ll be down in Central Ohio next weekend if anyone wants to meet up for a pint. The girlfriend and I are using my pre-paid weekend at the Doghouse at BrewDog.
Actually, I think our Presidential funerals epitomize one of the attributes that make America great. Take a good idea and overdo it. “You got a good idea, huh? Here, hold my beer, America is going to show you how it’s done.”
Unfortunately, we don’t discriminate. We take take bad ideas and treat them just the same. And it may be what undoes us, but I would like to have at least some hope.
No strippers in the funeral procession? No exaggerated wailing and garment-rending from clearly terrified spectators? We ain’t shit.
They got salmonella from the funeral potatoes.
I LOLd.
Wailing and rending your clothes? What effort does that take? Anybody can pull that off. That’s why it’s so popular in 3rd world shit holes.
I do like the stripper angle though. Throw in 747s, multi vehicle processions screwing up traffic, trains painted like AF 1, 21 gun salutes, now we’re talking.
Even China is getting uptight. Prudes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_lW37aU2jTQ ?i?
*lights the HM signal*
Is she growing a baby in her right boob?
Don’t worry. I’m pretty sure it’s not yours…
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WOW. And I spend 45% of my day listening to ‘urban contemporary’ on Sirius Shade45
(the other 45% is Marky Ramones Punk Rock Blitzkrieg. The remaining balance is 700 WLW)
BLCKMND. Did vowels cost extra?
A true pimp move.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6464953/Did-Cardi-B-dump-Offset-threesome-Leaked-text-messages-revealed.html
Those kids are going to be so messed up
Exhibit number 23,345,334 on how wealth and fame have absolutely no correlation with class and dignity.
When it comes to the entertainment industry or politics…which, really, is the main means of obtaining fame, you can rest assured that there is an inverse correlation.
Some PETA news I heard on Something’s Off With Andrew Heaton: PETA Asks a Village Named Wool to Change Its Name to Vegan Wool
Fuck ‘em. Change the name to Lamb Chop, Mutton, Leg ‘O Lamb, etc.
Guess they’re not happy about Sheepshead Bay.
What the fuck is Vegan Wool?
Tranny ska band out of Poughkeepsie.
This Jon Stewart “we’re just being funny” schtick that they’ve been running with lately is getting really tiresome.