After a night of waking up every ten minutes coughing, all I want is to go back to bed. But I have responsibilities, entertaining you lovable bastards being one of them.
I’ll cut you, bitch!
Today in birthdays we have King James I, William Lloyd Garrison, Emily Dickinson, and drummer Meg White.
Crazy Eyes gives his equally crazy base an erection.
For the 100th time all the usual cast of players are predicting the end for bad orange man.
Unfortunately for them, wishcasting is not journalism.
Despite Macron temporarily backing down on fuel tax, riots continue, making people question the media narrative of this merely being about a fuel tax.
Daily reminder the media is fucking horrible.
Big drop in murder rate in the US.
That’s all I got for today, I now need to gulp down a bottle of Dayquil and drag my ass through the day. Hopefully this will help.
Last!
Speaking of, anyone else mention reports of miniature guillotines appearing amidst the crowds?
Can’t make an omlette without a miniature guillotine.
Looking at the pictures, what comes to mind is some ivory tower economists going “Just look at all the economic stimulus being created!”
*grumbles* *sifts through internet history* *Finds link to daily fail*
When you need a tax revolt squashed, who you gonna call? The EU Army!
Wow. That should –should– scare the people of Europe.
Good tweet:
Interesting that they have an army to subdue unruly crowds when it suits them.
And the key is to use another national military force to surpress the protests under the color of the EU armu, so there is no chance the soldiers will go easy on those damned other people.
The thing that I am wondering about is why we are not getting any coverage that these sorts of protests are no longer limited to France, and that there have been some in Belgium, the Netherlands, and a few of those other Euro nations. It really looks like the EU might have fucked over its plebes a little harder than they were willing to take it.
I know what I’m watching on 17 Dec. Definitely looks like a unique project. Although while you can interpolate most of the coloring, I’m curious how they selected the audio options – other than the interviews. Guessing the eventual blu-ray will have some great extra features.
I’m torn because I HATE, HATE, HATE the use of sound effects over old silent documentary film. I find it terribly distracting.
I will defer judgment until I see it, because the trailer I’ve seen looks incredible.
The trailer does indeed look fantastic and I will certainly watch it but in my prior experience I find it very hard to suspend my disbelief when the sounds of shells, motors, shouts, etc. are overlaid.
That can be very annoying. Especially when it sounds fake or the timing doesn’t fit to the video.
Same here. And the lack of woke points ought to make twitter a minefield.
Good point…at the same time, if they had had access to audio recording at the time, it’s likely that this would have normal audio just like WWII in Color, etc. So it’s not as though it was intended to be “Silent” in the same way as a feature flick or short from the time.
they hired forensic lip readers and then hired voice actors from the towns of those military units to be faithful to their regional accent.
the coolest part is the software used to fill in the frames so the video would flow and not chop around. the source material was 10 frames/second film.
Ok, that does sound like something I heard a little while back. Pretty sure Peter Jackson is going all out for accurate syncing though – between Weta effects and everything else, it should be pretty accurate. Really hoping we see some Doughboys or Devil Dogs too, but guess I’ve got to wait and see.
For the record, it’s a Fathom Events thing (mostly at Regal theaters – 2 screenings each on 17 and 27 December) in 2D and 3D (which sounds like a really bad idea – in a large part due to the dimming effect of Real3D.) – think I’ll stick with the 2D version.
This looks amazing. I haven’t been this excited for any film in the last few years till this came along.
Thanks, LT
There’s not enough cheese in France to match that shitty trailer music. I hope the whole flick isn’t like that.
In other war links, Hillsdale has a new free WW2 course with Victor Davis Hanson.
Kind of bummed that the theaters showing it are a bit far for me.
Hopefully a US blu-ray will be forthcoming.
See a couple sellers in europe that have EU blu ray releases.
For Warner Brothers – almost certainly.
WW1 footage has the unfortunate property that it looks like a Charlie Chaplin movie, all choppy and not at the right speed, So you’re watching a bunch of 17-year old boys who are about to get trapped in barbed wire and horribly killed by artillery or Maxim gun or phosgene, and your brain is all like, “Hee hee! Lookit those silly guys all walking all choppy! Lookit their silly little helmets!”
I’m also looking forward to this. I keep having things in my eyes when I watch clips from it.
Once while watching a WW1 documentary, with the unimaginative title The First World War, there was a scene of German soldiers marching under a bridge. One of the soldiers saw the camera and began to ham it up with a funny little walk while waving his hands. That little scene brought the humanity of the soldiers to home for me, since it was something that would be common today.
I’m also looking forward to this, but I’m skeptical of anything that Peter Jackson touches.
I mostly hate documentaries, because moving pictures are far more effective for propaganda than for illumination, and most documentaries go that way. Sometimes, though, its the only way that works when the medium is the message, like LA 92. I think this is one of those cases. Having dipped my toe just a little bit in the VFX industry, this is also very interesting to see some ideas that have been percolating for years finally put into action.
Wow. That is truly amazing.
A lot of amazing teeth!
Have no fear, Mammary Monday is here to save the day!
http://archive.is/RJ77t
12-19, 30, 33, 37, 51. 52 looks great before she decided to ruin herself with absurd tattoos.
23, 50, 53. Lots of nice cuties in this lineup, Mr. Q.
Whoa.
1, 3, 4, 11, 11, 11, 11. In fact, I’d trade the previous three for guaranteed 11.
35, and 41/12/15/22/26 (who may all be the same actress, or else near clones)
“gives his equally crazy base an erection”
Not clicking
That’s been lasting more than 8 hours. Call their doctor.
On the usual propaganda channels where the dnc operatives with bylines pretend to be doing news it’s been all “Trump violated campaign financing laws” shitshows, all the time, since Friday night. The fact that every real lawyer without a need to get free TV time on one of these dnc propaganda channels out there has pointed out there has pointed out that there is no proof of a violation that could result in any action, has not deterred them from pretending they have a case.
Despite
Louis XVIMacron temporarilysigning the Edict of Versaillesbacking down on fuel tax, riots continue,This all seems kind of familiar.
I was a victim of DEMARCATION! Got to work last night to find that the truck arrived late so it was yet to be unloaded and all THREE managers were sitting around for 3 hours not unloading the truck because my union does not allow them to do so. Thanks Local 338 for adding a couple hours of hard work on the front end of my night.
My first job out of college and I was doing an upgrade at a northern Wisconsin foundry. I take a screw driver out of my tool bag and go to open a control panel. The union electrician starts screaming at me, “I’m going to report you to my union foreman!” Que? I had no idea it was a union shop. I had no idea I wouldn’t be allowed to , you know, work. So I tell him that the changes need to be made in this cabinet and hand him my screwdriver. But, no, my screwdriver is not union-made. He hops in his golf cart to get his union-made tools. He returns, drops off his tool bag and says “Break time. I’ll be back.” An hour later he returns. He can’t understand the electrical drawings so I have to babysit him. We work until lunch time. The dude takes a 2 hour lunch. We finish everything up and verify that the system works. A blizzard rolls in just as we leave. I have to drive I-94 at about 30 MPH through the night to get home. Without the union electrician slowing me down, I could have finished early and beat the storm.
That was my first introduction to real-life unions.
Proper response: “You and he can go fuck yourselves, I have a job to do.”
Then he wouldn’t have made it home because all four of his tires would have been slashed.
And the next day we’d have two fewer union thugs in with world, but be richer by two shallow graves. Win-win.
The most annoying was a job doing craft services for a commercial for the Broadway revival of Hair. Part of the spot was shot in the theater and I was to setup my delicious spread in the lobby. Only members of the Stagehand’s Union are allowed to transit the theater with equipment. I had to unload my truck on the sidewalk, wait for this wee old man to shuffle out and start slowly bringing it all in 1 box at a time. For EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT. A load in/out that should have taken 20 – 30 minutes took about 3 hours, pushing most of us into overtime. I also learned that day that only members of the Broadway Producer’s Union are allowed to produce Broadway shows. That union has only 600 members and requires a 6 year apprenticeship and a 12 hour written test.
rules were followed.
The dude on the trophy you just won is holding the correct pose when the twitter mob comes for you.
Like this
NJ cops vague about how they’ll enforce the retro-active magazine limit law after Third Circuit wipes their asses with the Second Amendment.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/nj-doesnt-say-will-enforce-magazine-confiscation-court-upholds-law/
I have my new 10-round mag for the range.
here’s an acceptable application for a 10-round mag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EKDaDWVeYU
To be fair, as a Romanian watching demolition ranch is kinda fun but am a bit take aback about the kind of firepower that guy has.
I agree, it’s a paltry amount.
10 rounds and a really clumsy magazine. I think I’d rather have one of those Mossberg JM 930’s.
The mental gymnastics of their reasoning is something to behold.
Slavery is freedom.
Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Off to band practice. So TOOTLE. OO!
*Dons floral mumu and beret ala Fat Homer, smugly saunters into the night*
Welp, I lot that bet.
Wait, I thought you were dead? Has someone hacked this account?
zombie 31
I hope he didn’t see all the shit you people were saying about him the last few days.
Drop in murder rate?
That can’t be right. There are thousands of children murdered while sitting at their school desks, every day.
So there’s this school shooting, and the foreign-exchange student is hiding under a desk crying…and the American kid turns to him and says, “first time?”
I’ll be here all week.
Gavin Mcinnes was fired and unpersoned over the weekend by BlazeTV after it merged with CRTV. I really liked his Get Off My Lawn show. It was funny and the bias was very pro-American. So fuck BlazeTV. Sub cancelled.
And Youtube removed his channel last night or this morning. His channel was already heavily scrubbed and had not had a new video in two years except for two weeks ago when he posted a “in his own words” montage of several of his segments with racial minority guests.
The Leftist WRONGTHINK mob has spoken.
They got rid of him? I may have to rethink being pissed about the merger. It might be a positive, or at least neutral.
Why would you support the move to fire him?
Because he was unfunny, uninsightful and obnoxious. I’d also be happy if Levin and Deace were dumped, though I care less about the last one, simply because he’s merely boring.
i don’t want to party with you.
I’ll admit that you did have to wade through a lot of nonsense to get to his funny stuff. Sometimes it never came at all. I liked him just for taking swings at the assholes out there. Not all connected, but he was swinging.
I thought CRTV would’ve kept him in.
Everything Glenn Beck touches turns to money hemorrahging shit. Malkin’s gone too but it looks like that was her own choice.
He got banned from Twitter for no stated reason.
Michael Malice did a livestream about it.
He basically says once you’re painted about as the leader of a National skin-head gang and many people believe it, everything that happens is based on that perception. It’s not a fact, it’s not true…but many, many people believe it and accept it.
I’m not familiar with those media outlets, but if they’re on the right, resisting political correctness ought to be the winning move in the Trump era.
CRTV was Mark Levin’s, BlazeTV is Glenn Back’s. they merged recently. then fired Gavin. guess the demographic he was pulling was too young.
they poached him for a reason.
Ditto, just canceled. I wasn’t that impressed with their programming anyway, but I threw them a subscription just to support McInnes, Crowder, and to a lesser extent Levin. Glenn Beck, on the other hand, I don’t have much time for.
This after he disavowed the Proud Boys and grovelled on his belly on the eve of the merger?
NEVER APOLOGIZE!
Are the Democrats really dumb enough to try to remove Trump over the Stormy Daniels payments? If they are, I’d suggest they look at what’s going on in France right now. Now, try multiplying that by a factor of 100.
Well the law is the law innit?
Since when?
Since forever duh
Only problem is that the law doesn’t say what they are saying it says so they can try and remove him….
Of course, with these people that is not something they will really feel bad about, because they end justifies the means…
He just needs a FBI director to say that he was extremely reckless with his hush money payments, but there was no real intent to commit a crime there.
Nice to see that the Prince estate is still keeping on the high road.
All the vultures are circling.
“When Prince died in 2016, Rusan saw a surge of people wanting him to build replicas of the guitar. So, he got it trademarked in February. He says he then received a letter from Paisley Park asking him to give it up.
“I feel it’s kind of a David-and-Goliath thing. I’m all alone here trying to make these for fans and enjoy doing it,” Rusan said.
He says the guitars are not only a joy but a livelihood. He makes about $8,000 for each one. He says he hopes it does not come to a legal battle.”
Interesting that no one sought to trademark it earlier. Unless he signed off on it years ago, I’d tell the estate to go piss up a rope.
Given that Prince himself never sued him (and Prince seemed to sue a lot of people) I’d say this guy should be in the clear. His problem is that everyone even remotely related to Prince seems to have about 10 lawyers on retainer and with nothing better to do right now, they can come at this guy.
This is a Rusan collusion plot.
I understand the yellowjacket demands are allover the place.
I saw one along the lines of cut taxes in half but increase government spending. Some anti GMO stuff, anti pesticide stuff. Boilerplate anti corruption. Does not seem to have ani clear target or purpose, just people generally unhappy who wanna burn the place down. Also Russian bots or something.
It reminds me of Occupy Wall Street.
1. Beat uga 4 in 10
2. Win the ACC once per decade
3. Win another national title while I am young enough to go to the game.
That isn’t too demanding.
I assume this is some of your silly American university level sportsballs.
uga may be University of Georgia from a quick google
Much more relevant than things happening in Paris.
Especially since we made a coaching change on Friday.
From wikipedia
Georgia Tech is consistently ranked among the worst universities in the United States and the world. For over a decade, Georgia Tech has remained in the bottom ten public universities in the United States, and is currently listed as the least smart public college in the United States.[114][115] In 2012, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked Georgia Tech 1900th in the United States and 2500th in the world; its engineering program was ranked 900th in the world in 2013.
Also they have a team called yellow jackets
You an editor or something?
I could be
You mean it’s not this Yellowjackets?
https://www.yellowjackets.com/
Huh. Learn something new every day.
Well, that many individuals can’t possibly all have the same set of complaints.
But such movements have no chance of accomplishing much are can be easily hijacked. We had such in Romania and little good came of it.
You got to kill the bastard. That’s a little good, eh.
I am not talking about 1989. There were a whole lot of much more recent protests. Which are quite more comparable to the current french situation.
The problem is they want their free stuff but they’re tired of paying for it. There’s no
easysolution to that.RE: Paris.
Does anyone know what these people actually want? They got their gas tax concession, now it seems like they’re rioting for fun.
Pie beat me to it.
Moar?
Cake?
Cake!
That made me turn of The Smithereens. Good choice.
Mmmm. That was some tasty Cake. Here’s a second helping.
I think they finally figured out that the global socialism embraced by their leaders is a method for transferring wealth from the working class to the rich. Maybe France will elect a populist next time. Or the professional
politicianscon-men will hijack the movement the way the Tea Party was corrupted out of existence.I closed that strikeout after politician!
Apparently not.
They might realize the globalist socialism is bad for them but it is not like they have a problem with Socialism. They are basically out there protesting because no one gave them their free shit yet.
What the global socialist politicians need to wake up and realize is when you gain your power by promising people free shit you buy on credit you train the people to expect free shit just about the time you run out of credit to buy it with and then things get REALLY ugly really fast.
“They might realize the globalist socialism is bad for them but it is not like they have a problem with Socialism. They are basically out there protesting because no one gave them their free shit yet.”
I suspect this is the main contention. Global socialism dilutes the pile of money that is used by those peddling the shit, and since the group of people wanting free shit – especially when it is global – is way larger, it dilutes the free shit each individual can get. I for one, if I ever paid taxes and were now getting free shit, would be seriously pissed if that cash was given to people that simply showed up from elsewhere and are getting the free shit so politicians can get votes.
Screaming and breaking/setting fire to shit IS fun; it beats work, anyway. That’s the problem with mobs, giving in to them doesn’t silence them, it just sends them into a feeding frenzy of “What ELSE can we get?”
State police told the Washington Free Beacon the effort to enforce the law will be a statewide endeavor directed by the attorney general’s office. They would not comment other than to say they will enforce New Jersey’s laws.
“We will enforce the law of the state,” Lieutenant Theodore Schafer of the New Jersey State Police said. “That’s our plan.”
Schafer would not give any details on the agency’s plan to enforce the law and referred the Free Beacon to the attorney general’s office for further questions.
You don’t suppose they’d just go visit every person with registered firearms, and
askdemand to see them, do you?Boris Badenov: But, Fearless Leader- that would be illegal!
Fearless Leader: Laws are for honest people, Badenov.
My guess is they’ll tack the additional charges onto anyone who commits a crime with a higher capacity weapon. Gun ranges will make sure everybody (except cops of course) is in compliance.
I’ve seen guys show up with an old M1 Carbine at the range politely told to get that thing out of here before anyone sees it. (The M1 Carbine was banned long ago in NJ)
Well, THAT’s an assault rifle.
Does Japan have a real justice system or are they going to railroad Carlos Ghosn for trying to merge Nissan with Renault?
He was rich he must be guilty of something
considering Nissan thought it was a good idea to build a 4WD Pathfinder with only 7″ of clearance tells me the answer.
But look how sleek and boring the design team made it!
design team? Nissan has one of those?
It’s a station wagon for people who need a station but think they’re too cool.
So they made it the Wagon Queen Family Truckster – they should do a limited edition with the lime green/wood panel paint job.
CAFE standards drove the station wagon out of the market. SUVs take their place. The pathfinder is a station wagon that meets the truck definition for CAFE.
Somehow Mercedes has a 600 hp station wagon on the market.
CAFE standards drove the mass market station wagon out of the market.
fixed
It’s pretty complicated what he’s accused of and without access to the financial documents we can only speculate until this goes to court. Does stink of what they did to Takafumi Horie. He was shaking things up and the old guard didn’t like it so they busted him for shit they were all guilty of. Sounds familar, doesn’t it?
For the charges to be true, lawyers at Nissan would have had to be in on the scam. It sounds preposterous.
This is completely unlike America *snicker* where once they government wants to nail you for something, they will eventually. I’m sure Nissan knew what he was doing and Ghosn probably thought it was fine. Bad idea.
TCM just ran Kurosawa’s “The Bad Sleep Well” last night.
Judge Patty Shwartz, an Obama appointee, wrote for the majority that the law serves a legitimate public safety purpose.
“Today we address whether one of New Jersey’s responses to the rise in active and mass shooting incidents in the United States—a law that limits the amount of ammunition that may be held in a single firearm magazine to no more than ten rounds—violates the Second Amendment, the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause, and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause,” she wrote. “We conclude that it does not. New Jersey’s law reasonably fits the State’s interest in public safety and does not unconstitutionally burden the Second Amendment’s right to self-defense in the home. The law also does not violate the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause because it does not require gun owners to surrender their magazines but instead allows them to retain modified magazines or register firearms that have magazines that cannot be modified. Finally, because retired law enforcement officers have training and experience that makes them different from ordinary citizens, the law’s exemption that permits them to possess magazines that can hold more than ten rounds does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.”
Something something, boot, stamping on face…
*Throws Bastiat’s The Law at the Judge with righteous fury*
This is the same court that previously declared that New Jersey’s de facto prohibition of both concealed and open carry does not burden the right to bear arms. They are dishonest partisan shits.
because retired law enforcement officers have training and experience that makes them different from ordinary citizens
LOL
Yeah, in my experience they are generally much less capable than other gun owners.
different – as in trigger happy because they are protected “King’s Men?”
exactly. they are “different” because they have immunity.
“Finally, because retired law enforcement officers have training and experience that makes them different from ordinary citizens, the law’s exemption that permits them to possess magazines that can hold more than ten rounds does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.”
What?
Even the Russian judge gave a good score for that performance of mental pommel horse.
The Democratic majority in Jersey will be satisfied with a fig leaf of an argument.
But off-duty and honorably discharged Veterans of the Armed Forces do not enjoy those privileges.
I could sign up for every handgun safety training class ever offered and I still wouldn’t get an exception to magazine limit or get granted an NJ carry permit.
The Judges know this and don’t care.
No special exemptions for law enforcement, ever.
That ticks me off to no end.
Do you think they understand that they just threw a few more straws on the camel’s back?
I don’t live there, so I’m not seeing red, but it does bug me that our betters are somehow able to pretend that the 2A somehow has all these exceptions built into it.
Just got this from our local gun group:
These dumb fucks will never stop.
Perhaps it’s time for mandatory hunting and fishing lessons for all children.\
Get rid of the “Yeehaw for Kindness” weeks and instead make the kids skin a rabbit.
Civics and wilderness survival mandates for the curriculum?
Gun safety classes should be a mandatory class for all kids.
For fuck’s sake, we had to pass basic swimming in my high school to graduate because it was a “safety issue” (there was so much water around my home town, that this actually a true statement).
Safety issues?
LOL
I like the idea of making the kids kill something, dress it out, cook it, and eat it.
Too many people have no idea/appreciation for where their food comes from. It’s part of what’s wrong with the country.
…gun deaths and crimes are on the rise
No, they are not. This is a fact that is easily checked.
Facts? What do you mean, “facts”?
Uffda. That (and the fishing pics in the summer) is one of the few redeeming features of the Red Star.
And yeah, I’d love to see more pictures of kids in North Minneapolis using guns responsibly and having fun.
*For the non-Minnesodans, North Minneapolis is a local dog whistle for “criminal black people” . It is funny that this person won’t be called out for being a crypto-racist.
the rise in active and mass shooting incidents in the United States
Isn’t the opinion kind of question begging, tho?
If they say it enough times, it will be the truth eventually.
Fucking, god damned NoDaks! DO NOT DO THIS!!!
I love visiting and hunting in the area around Medora. I do not want thousands of new tourists stomping around the area fucking up MY enjoyment. The only thing that makes me even a bit optimistic is the fact that I doubt a presidential library is going to draw all that many tourists.
I’ve said it before, the Black Hills would be so much better if Mt. Rushmore wasn’t there. Then it would be like Glacier in Montana. A super pretty place that is visited only by people who like pretty outdoors places. With Mt. Rushmore you get throngs of slob tourists who drive there and bother the rest of us.
typical selfish libertarian
I fully admit that this is the case. That area is one of my favorite places on earth. And because almost no one goes there, it is almost entirely mine to enjoy.
The oil boom is an unmitigated disaster for me and a huge boon for the other 99.9999% of the people.
Yeah, but it’s pretty easy to avoid them. Fishing in Spearfish Canyon, for instance!
“It would have more visitors than anyplace else in the state.”
OMG. Is NDak really that bad?
Yes. I remember when the oil boom hit the Bakken fields. During our annual hunting trip my dad and I were ranting and raving about all the people we saw out there.
My city slicker boys pointed out that we had only seen about 10 oil tankers all that day. We were like “I KNOW, CAN YOU BELIEVE WE SAW TEN TRUCKS!”
On a serious note, this is one of the reasons that I don’t like the ideas of more tourists driving around. Some species seem to be directly impacted by increased human activity. Since the oil boom we don’t see near the numbers of mule deer or sharp tailed grouse that we used to. I don’t know if they just move back from the roads or the populations really drop.
We talked to a game warden one year who said that they really dropped in numbers but that the message from Bismark was clear: oil drilling does not affect game in the area.
Don’t know anything about drilling in the Bakken fields, but in ANWAR they proposed using diagonal drilling to lessen the impact on wildlife. Concentrate the well closer together. If they are spread out across the land, that would be disruptive.
They use a large amount of horizontal drilling. They do concentrate the wells.
What Jimbo is hysterically describing was the boom exploration phase. There were people everywhere, drilling rigs roving all over the place, and not near enough pipelines so you had to truck all the oil. It is markedly different today.
DON’T YOU CALL ME HYSTERICAL!!!!
It is really rough country so I doubt that they could do any of that fancy drilling. The activity in the area has dropped because a) a lot of the infrastructure is done being built and b) they cap a lot of the wells when price is too low.
The worst thing about the wild catters is that they all became ND residents and made it almost impossible for a foreigner like me to get a mule buck tag. (Or at its peak, even a doe tag).
Due to all the technological advancements, the “too low” dollar amount has dropped significantly. There’s no capping of wells going on; NoDak is still the #2 oil state.
Do you know what the number is? When this started I had heard $75, the last I heard it was $60.
Granted my source of numbers is from people drinking in places like Buzzy’s in Beach, ND, so you may have to take them with a shot of whiskey.
What I’ve heard read and also from talk at work (we make a lot of products for the oil industry) the best guesses are mid-low 50’s maybe even into the 40’s. Everyone is holding that info pretty close to their chests, so it’s kind of a guess. But what they all do admit is that it keeps going down.
Every well, investor, and operating company has its own operating structure. So-called lift costs don’t normally include non-site overheads, which vary substantially. Shale lift costs can be as little as $30 (where there’s easy logistics and utilities), so, just to make up something, figure it could be as little as $40 up there and then range higher for more problematic operations.
Some owners won’t shut in so long as they’re making one solid buck a barrel. There are fixed costs for shutting in, and the spot is volatile: you can’t shell out $5,000 on a Monday just because the news was bad last week; you might be in the black by lunch if you just keep stroking. And your well or system or lease might be designed to collect several weeks’ production on site on in the co-op, so even in marginal times you might merely put off collection day a week (I’m betraying a small guy perspective with this last bit).
Anyway, anyone with any sense is heavily hedged: the well itself is just one part of the portfolio. Depending on your paper, your put on a given day could easily be worth ten times more to the good per barrel than you’re losing on site; still that’s no reason to keep making losses at the well-head.
The worst thing about the wild catters is that they all became ND residents and made it almost impossible for a foreigner like me to get a mule buck tag.
That’s bad, but the worst thing about wildcats is that they don’t have any tie to the land. Especially on third for a quarter deals, they’ve got no skin in the game. Their brother-in-law got the drilling job (or they did it themselves), they’re okay if it never pays the first barrel, and how the neighbors and land are treated is defined simply by what they can get away with.
No.
Just ribbing you. My sister went to uni at Trinity college and we’d have to make the haul through all of Western Minnesota to get there. I’d much rather live in a place like that, but gotta make a living and I can’t do what I do there.
Wait, you have a job other than drinking with salarymen?
I also drink alone.
That’s just sad. Don’t be like me, find someone to drink with.
I also drink alone.
So this is you?
Oh I know. I just really find it hard to believe that this TR Library is going to become our #1 tourist attraction. I think there’s a lot of wishful thinking with other people’s money going on here.
Should have read the whole article; if the Guv means that the library could make Medora the #1 attraction; that could happen. It is already a tourist trap and it’s the “gateway” to Teddy Roosevelt state park.
That is my ray of hope. By the time I get to that area Labor Day has come and gone and Medora is mostly buttoned up tight. So even with a library, I doubt there will be all that many more people there.
* I almost got t-boned in Medora when visiting with my family one summer. It was all my fault too. I was so used to Medora being a ghost town, I was totally surprised the presence of other cars on the road.
It’s crazy how that little town transforms for a few months a year.
When I was growing up, my town would go from 5K population to about 25K with all the tourists/cabin owners.
I can identify with the Medorans.
Cape May, New Jersey: Population 4,668. During the summer tourist season: 50,000.
That’s one expensive library.
The Yellow Vest Riots, who’s responsible? It’s hard to tell really.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7943418/france-paris-riots-russian-trolls-fake-news/
Nah, I’m kidding, it’s the Russians (an earlier article from Bloomberg to this effect has been memory holed it seems).
All of a sudden, the Left magically becomes anti-war again.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/america-s-war-afghanistan-now-trump-s-increasingly-bloody-problem-ncna945401
they were always anti-war citizen.
For those in Ohio, the Bourbon Lottery has opened up. Fill out a form to have a chance to purchase a bottle of Pappy or Buffalo Trace Antiques. If only there was some way people could find a way to allocate a limited supply based on some signal of demand.
The Bourbons learned nothing and forgot nothing.
Can non residence enter?
residents
Negative. You have to have an Ohio address and Drivers License (DISENFRANCHISEMENT!). You also have to pick out what local liquor agency you’ll be buying your bottle from.
I’m guessing that if you won, there is no way you could sell it to someone else.
Of course not, it’s right in the terms: “Bottles are for personal use, not for resale.” There’s no secondary market for rare bottles of bourbon.
“I’m just sharing with my close personal friend ‘BourbonDrinker276’.”
The Reindeer boob is coming to town
After heart-shaped boob, glitter boob and boob contouring, we bring you the latest seasonal way to dress your chest
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/9501cdb2-fedf-4d59-b439-460ed8e095fb
I’m glad that didn’t catch on.
Gramma, why is your reindeer looking at your slippers?
Wait for the camel toe they have ready for Ramadan.
Yeah, but it is super frustrating that you can’t eat it until after sun down.
HAWT
/Blitzen
Dominique Sharpton learned the shakedown business from Dad. Congrats to all you NYC taxpayers.
Armed citizens?
What will protect us from future Hitlers?
Ban right wing and libertarian speech?
But what would that do against a National Socialist?
We have to start somewhere
Let’s establish a strong international mechanism to protect us from future Adolf Hitlers.
We know they are out there. Let’s make sure we’re ready to stop them.
there is no right to arms in that prog document:
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
instead, they have “rights” like this:
Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.
Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Shorter version: “Everyone has a right to the fruits of someone else’s labor.”
Pretty much this.
Even shorter: “Shut-up and do as you’re told.”
And what would she like, a United Nations Enforcement army that invades countries whose governments commit atrocities and violate the rights of it’s people?
Because you know nothing makes a countries situation better than being invaded by a foreign army intent on conquering it and then imposing regime change on the people.
I used to never get sick, and then I had a kid.
Then after she got old enough to get every illness her playmates had, we decided we liked having a cold all the time, so lets start the whole process over again.
got old enough to not get every illness her
I was a sickly little kid – earaches, flus, and multiple colds a year. My first job out of college – working phones at a support center – sent a lot of germs my way.
Now? I haven’t had a dizzy/puke flu for ~20 years. I may get a cold once a year…or not.
For the first two years of my daughter’s life I got everything that passed through daycare. I’m like a damn canary. If there’s a cold going around, I’m gettin’ it. The past year has been great because as her immune system has toughened up she seems to have spread less illness around the house. So, like you, we’ve decided we should get sick more often and have a son on the way in May.
Sex-Trafficking Victim Convicted of Murder at 16 Must Spend 51 Years in Prison
Based on that snippet it sounds like she did just flat out murder the guy. If she had killed the guy who was actually choking, beating, and raping her, that would be a different story.
This is making the rounds but I am not sure of the facts in the case. I find it strange that she had a gun in her purse to be honest, so I assume it was the sort of trafficking when the guy convinced her into sex work by claiming he loves her and needs her to do this. I mean otherwise she would not have a functioning gun…
While what the guy shot did was obviously wrong if her age was clear, the phrasing ” a man who bought her for sex” seems off, she did not buy her from a pimp/brothel but picked her up on the street. I am not convinced she should be free from jail for the shooting as it seems unlikely the guy took her to his home to shoot her. That being said 51 years seems harsh given the circumstances
I blame the pimp lobby.
Big Pimp has a strong presence on K Street.
A strong hand, you might say…
I read she shot him in the back of the head while he was sleeping, then robbed him — taking his money, guns, and truck.
This is why you pay hookers to leave after the sex.
See. That is always the problem with Kut Throat prices, always a catch. It only seems like a deal.
If only there was some way people could find a way to allocate a limited supply based on some signal of demand.
Why not just do it by skin color, you monster?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I COME FROM SEPHARDIC JEWS WHO FLED TO PUERTO RICO
Can’t wait for the Trump tweet
Dios mio, she’s nuts.
“The culture in Puerto Rico [was] that people [would] open their closets, there would be this small menorah inside. And as they had children, and their children had children and their children had children, these cultures started to kind of mix in a way that many people in those subsequent generations didn’t understand: to practice Catholicism on the exterior, but when you’re at home, to practice Judaism.”
So opposite secret nazis?
“I inherited more victimhood than you.”
Maybe she is 1/1,024 Sephardic Jew.
I immediately assume anything that moron says is…inaccurate.
You are way too kind. I think it will more likely than not be a damned lie and have no bearing on reality.
She’s the gift that keeps on giving. I hope the media continues to kiss her ass and elevate her as the face of the New Democrat Party. Sure, she’s great red meat for their extra-chromosome base, but she is poison to the normals.
Also ironic since she’s voiced support for BDS.
Ocasio-Cortez told the audience of her family’s struggles as
Sephardimshitlords, and how they were forced to flee into the mountains ofPuerto Ricothe internet during theSpanish InquisitionYoutube purge and practiceCatholicismvirtue signaling as a front to escape antisemitic oppression.I am confused. The hysterical left thinks they can impeach a president for actions he took while he was NOT president? How does that work? And since when are NDAs illegal? Are they claiming he used campaign funds? I thought Cohen paid out of his own pocket and then Trump paid him back out of his own pocket.
I am thinking they have a snowball’s chance of pulling this off.
Not only do they feel they have the right/ability to do so – when there is nothing like that provided by the law – but they also want to appoint Hillary president according to what I was forced to watch on CNN this AM while getting my iced tea at DD.
They really are deranged. It seems they have lost all capacity for rational thought.
I do not know enough of US law to tell, but I find it they seem to be way to focused on this as if it is the one great issue at hand
I mean, you can impeach the President for anything if you get the House to vote for it and 2/3rds of the Senate to convict. “High crimes and misdemeanors” isn’t defined.
They’re obviously not going to do it though. Among the other problems they’d be handing Trump the 2020 election if they even put it to a House vote.
Impeached and removed from office are two separate things. I never thought I’d see Bruce Jenner being woman of the year either, so you never know what’s coming down the pike.
Way to deadname Kaitlyn.
I don’t see why they bother. Only 2 more years, and I think they can beat Trump in the next election.
Not if they keep up the craziness, they can’t.
It didn’t seem to hurt them much in the midterms.
Except that the senate candidates Trump campaigned for mostly won, and the Dems lost seats in the Senate. And the Democrats didn’t gain as many House seats as the out-of-power party has in the past under comparable conditions even with all of their “vote harvesting” and other election fraud hijinks.
Actually, gaining something like 40 seats is a bit higher than the midterm mean of 30-32 seats picked up. It certainly wasn’t underperforming compared to other midterms.
Bill Clinton lost 54 House seats in his first midterm in 1994, and Obama lost 63 in his first midterm. They both lost the Senate as well.
WTF pointed out that the “historical” trend for this past midterm was how few seats team red lost – especially considering how many of them were seats where the team red incumbent walked away which makes it being contested easier – considering the massive amounts of money and negative propaganda from team blue. I am not even going to bother pointing out that at least 10 of those seats they took got overturned after ballots were “mysteriously” found in the most unlikely of places.
And team blue actually losing ground in the senate tells me that most people that went to vote made sure Trump could continue to nominate SCOTUS members and that the senate could check the house if it became insane in its campaign funding effort around the whole impeachment shitshow, hoping that roadblock would give the deep state less power.
Also remember that the team red asshats in the house also deserved a far harsher ass kicking considering they actively undermined the Obamacare repeal & replace efforts they promised as well as undermined the wall and immigration reform.
All things considered, this midterm team blue pretends was a repudiation of orangeman really was a serious let down for them, and considering the cash & nonstop propaganda efforts they put in, is why they are getting desperate about fatiguing people.
All they mustered was 40 seats when “Literally Hitler” was in the White House. If God forbid we ever elect an actual Hitler-type, I would hope the entire congress would flip except for 3-4 holdouts.
You mean by finding bus loads of uncounted ballots all for democrats?
Sure. By using whatever formula just worked in this election.
But data also shows that Republicans are losing popularity in pretty much all major strongholds and only gaining it in rural areas. The new demographic may have helped in the last election, but it’s eroding support elsewhere. Run someone not Clinton in the next election and Democrats may well get this one. I’d bet on the donkey.
the real ballsy power play would be to impeach Kav from SCOTUS.
I posted this a few days back:
“Yep. To continue my personal disappointment/anger with CATO’s fall from grace…they had a guy on one of their podcasts a few months back who argued that paying a cover up to a porn actress was an impeachable offense because it meant him (& I assume other voters) were denied full knowledge about a candidate when making their election decisions.
And, as you point out, this from the same people who treated the Russia allegations as a serious, geopolitical crisis for months.”
The only good thing about this stuff is that at least we don’t have to listen to RUSSIA!! anymore.
This is also a gift that keeps giving. What works in their coastal enclaves does not play well among the normals, and that includes the suburban soccer moms that won them the house. They can pull this shit and continue to run up the score in Cali and NY then complain about popular vote when they lose.
“Miley Cyrus admits her mother Tish is responsible for her smoking weed again… a year after she quit the drug in order to keep a ‘clear-head'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6478897/Miley-Cyrus-admits-mother-Tish-responsible-smoking-weed-again.html
I learned it from you, mom!
Miley – wood or wood not?
Wood I would say why not?
petrified
nothing wrong with her: healthy and arguably talented
but the less she could look like Madonna there more I’m interested
Wood, I suppose, but I wish she wasn’t such a whackadoo. Like if she’d grow up a smidge she’d probably be a lot of fun to hang out with.
Nope. Not terribly attractive, and a body like a pre-teen boy.
She’s older than thirteen, right? Take some responsibility for yourself.
I give her half a pass because if someone has substance abuse issues, you are a real shit for enabling them.
Re Murray: NEVER APOLOGIZE.
Re: The Eagles. Man were they jobbed by the refs.
Fricken lousy Cowboys. They can barely beat a practice squad.
*Three players from the Eagles recover the clear fumble on the opening kickoff*
Refs: Well, we can’t tell WHICH ONE OF THEM recovered, so there’s no clear recovery. Dallas ball!
And then, of course, the OPI on Philly Goedert near the end…
Then agian, just like the Tennessee game, our defense did fuck all in the OT, so … yeah.
I could’ve accepted this as “one of those things that happen” things if it was against any other opponent. WHY DID THEY HAVE TO DO THIS TO US AGAINST DALLAS
Exactly. The call was preposterous. That changed the whole outcome. As did the missed PAT. The Eagles, as depleted as they are, let this one go.
Losing TWICE to them is irritating. The Eagles have more talent. The Cowboys are meh.
The Eagles just don’t have any personality. They don’t have Dawkins, or Ron Mexico, or the Chunky Soup guy.
What about Don Henley? And lets not forget Glenn Frey!
Glenn Frey?
I heard he was on tour somewhere with Lou Reed
The OPI call against Crabtree near the end of the Ravens/Chiefs game was also a WTF moment.
/Chiefs fan
Football is a crazy game where one play – like a kicker’s only missed PAT of the season – decides a game. Three or four bounces, calls, fumbles, don’t go your way and its a short step from the Super Bowl Champions to not making the playoffs. Oh, yeah, DALLAS SUCKS.
(no homophobia intended.)
I was rooting for a tie, and it almost happened.
I know that there’s no such thing as bias in officiating in the NFL and any perception of such is just team bias or selective memory or whatever…
but…
…the amount of home-cookin’ at Jerry World is unbelievable. And it happens every goddamn time.
It is extremely noticeable. I hate the Eagles and even I have to admit they got boned.
I turned off football for the day when I saw that terrible unnecessary roughness call on Malik Hooker. He hit a “defenseless receiver” on the goal line causing an interception. What he was supposed to do was let the guy catch it, take a few steps into the end-zone, then watch him do a celebration dance.
That was a bad call.
Bullshit.
It’s no more nor less than any home stadium.
That one bad call that early in the game didnt decide the outcome.
I notice you dont bring up the totally baseless roughing the passer call on Dallas D lineman Gregory that kept a drive alive that lead to a touchdown IIRC.
I remember the play fof sure but am 50/50 today if it was on that drive.
None the less it was a major blow call when seen on replay.
I seem to be seeing more blown calls the last several weeks. That fumble in the Dallas game was a mystery to me. When even the ref-sucking “experts” on TV are SMDHing calls and reviews, its not good.
The one thing that has changed this year that I like is that the defense is allowed to play the pass this year. They have gotten more lenient, and seem reasonably consistent, on allowing defenders to touch receivers downfield.
On the flip side, making QB sacks into roughing the passer calls is getting silly.
Agreed.
Ok. Counterpoint: you noticed a deviation from the trend and it sticks out in your mind.
Or, and this is also a possibility, refs across the league are botching games. It just sure as hell seems as if a lot of them happen in Dallas’s stadium. Maybe it’s the lighting.
“Racists distribute anti-Semitic KKK pamphlets in the Pittsburgh neighborhood where 11 Jews were killed in mass synagogue shooting
The material was found on Sunday in neighbourhoods including Squirrel Hill, where a gunman entered the Tree of Life synagogue on and killed 11 people in the deadliest attack on Jews in US history on 27 October.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6476811/Anti-Semitic-papers-reported-near-shooting-site-elsewhere.html
Ignoring the misleading headline, who thinks this is another hoax?
It’s not a hoax, it’s starting a conversation.
The KKK has pretty much no resources or members, so probably.
100% hoax.
but hoax here is defined as “not done by GOP supporters”.
‘such hate-filled material’ will not be tolerated
I don’t know what that could even mean.
So far I hear it is not, but I hope the temple is activated as soon as possible: defiantly living well is how I would respond, and I would enjoy seeing that the congregations agree. I doubt we’ll see the AR15 and Uzis that might solidify things, but that’s well within their rights.
Hoax.
Peeps: I’m in need of a new laptop computer. Looking for something decently powerful (Core i7/16 GB RAM). Everything else is negotiable. Looking Dell XPS 13 but not loving lack of USB-A ports. Ideas? Thoughts? General insults?
Stay with Dell or Lenovo. Most laptops out there are crap just waiting to break. The Surface is also acceptable.
Do you need a laptop as such? I’ve never had a good experience with laptops. I’ve had tolerable experiences with Lenovo, but still not stellar. I build my own PCs and have always been shocked by how underpowered and terrible even “performance” laptops are. And pricewise you’ll never get anything as good in a laptop at the same price, while for the cost of a laptop I can build a much better desktop PC. Besides, if you’re the kind of person who buys a laptop, sticks it on a desk, plugs it in, and never moves it, you’re much, much better off with a desktop.
Rant over, I’d say Lenovo or a higher-end Dell, or a Macbook Pro if you’re willing to switch.
I need a laptop.
I’m moving *away* from a Macbook. Their build quality has gone to shit. The reason I’m buying a new computer is that my keyboard is shot and they want $600 (plus potentially more) to replace it.
Why I stay away from Apple
https://youtu.be/o2_SZ4tfLns
Interesting. Thanks!
It’s generally overpriced, but Alienware is solid. I’m on my second in 6 years, only because I wanted the upgrade.
My wife dropped her Lenovo and shattered the LCD, and the way she did it is by tripping over the power cord that she habitually leaves plugged into the thing across her path of egress from the chair to anywhere else in the room, and which, if you can’t tell from my tone, I’ve brought up a number of times. She has it insured, but we’ll still have to pay some replacement fee I’m sure.
I use a Lenovo at work because where I am the people who buy stuff think computer === laptop, and I hate Macs. I’m content with it, but I’m just doing web development on it and I have two monitors plugged into it. And a separate keyboard and mouse.
I have a 5 year old Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series laptop/tablet that has proven indestructible if that helps.
Since I live close to where Dells are made, there’s a store nearby that sells refurbished Dells for half new. Got a laptop with i7 for a couple hundred.
Laptops are the way to go if you don’t want to be anchored to one spot and don’t care about gaming — desktops will get you more power for a given price point.
I’ve become a fan of Asus. I bought a gaming laptop from them 5 years ago and it’s still going strong.
+1 Asus
Less shovelware on it too
I bought the Spawn one last year. Metal chassis, plenty of horsepower. Seems to be working fine for him.
Me, I’m gonna ride my MacBook Air until it pukes and then reassess.
I got a Dell XPS 15 and like it a lot. My biggest gripe so far is Windows 10 on it, but the hardware runs great.
After looking a bit more that’s where I’m leaning. Need the computer before I go away for Christmas, since I have to work remotely, so probably buying in the next couple of days.
Dell has their deal days up and new ones at 11 AM, so I’ll see. Thanks for the advice all.
After years of Toshiba, they got so cheap that I finally went Dell.
My dings on Inspirion 15-3xxxx are few:
* the touchpad is easy to set off, often racking the cursor to some undesired destination; since I came off the road, I’m a mouse guy
* I’m unclear on how to use a touchscreen if the laptop doesn’t fully fold over into pure-pad mode
* I just had to order a $40 replacement powercord: three years of wallowing on the couch with it has apparently produced shorts
I had a MacBook that worked for 8 years until it would no longer support updates. Never had a problem with it.
*braces for Mac hate storm*
I like macs a lot. Unfortunately they decided that being able to replace your own memory or hard drive was costing them too much and started soldering those in. WTF?
Last time I was shopping for a laptop, I just couldn’t pull the trigger on a macbook. The cost was too high and the quality of my work macbook was so much shoddier than my old macbook (that like yours ran and ran and ran).
For about half the price I got a Dell XPS 15 that has way better specs.
I know i’ll get mocked for this, but I’ve enjoyed my HP Envy, simple, and durable. Granted I’ve gone through a battery already and i almost exclusively use my Linux Boot.
Linux is a game-changer for laptops, man. I had an old Compaq that I got a few extra years out of by tossing Linux on it.
Have they gotten around the issue of missing drivers for proprietary laptop hardware?
I don’t work with laptops all that often, and that was a concern the last time I recall regarding laptop installation of linux distros.
I haven’t checked lately just because I haven’t had a laptop in years, but a guy I talk to at work has had some success with Mint on an old Lenovo Thinkpad. I think it depends on where you stand on the whole Linux purity question. If you’re willing to install non-open source drivers I think support is much better.
The Linux driver situation with laptops is way better now than it was ten years ago. Dell even offers a version of the XPS preconfigured with Ubuntu.
*Remembers running puppy linux off a thumb drive in Dell with a dead HD and all the headaches trying to get the wifi drivers to work* *shudders*
You have to have an Ohio address and Drivers License (DISENFRANCHISEMENT!). You also have to pick out what local liquor agency you’ll be buying your bottle from.
Society requires sensible regulation of people who wish to purchase expensive limited-quantity booze.
It’s not like you’re picking a President. Anybody can do that.
What’s that say about what the government thinks is important?
The KKK has pretty much no resources or members, so probably.
They always have access to the Xerox machine at FBI headquarters.
What did the Clinton Crimesters say during their speaking tour that kicked off in Toronto? Well, watch. A coupe of them are a doozy. McKenna should be embarrassed for his pathetic performance in pansy sycophancy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpzOnMrnojs
She’s older than thirteen, right? Take some responsibility for yourself.
No means “don’t bogart that joint”.
Groundbreaking study examines effects of screen time on kids
Your daily media misrepresentation of a scientific study to stir up fear.
I can’t imagine phone screen time is any different than computer or TV screen time. All the people I know who spent hours in front of computer screens when we were young are doing just fine now.
*looks at millenials*
No, I don’t think they’re doing fine.
My kid alternates between being engrossed on her tablet and running around like a crazy person jumping off the couch or playing hide-and-seek. We’ve done nothing to moderate her “screen time” and she seems to naturally split between sedentary stuff and physical activity. Thinking about it, I was similar as a kid, and I suspect most kids are. This is just another thing for helicopter parents to fixate on.
If a kid has someone that’s not a sibling, to play with I suspect that’s what they’ll gravitate towards.
All summer and autumn mine would occasionally ask to watch something, hear a friend outside and immediately ask to go outside instead.
Now that its winter and the neighbor kids are spending more time inside than out she just wants to watch stuff.
Depends on the kid. Kid number one likes tech and TV, but self regulates and basically just gets bored of sitting there after a while and does other things. Kid number two would not get dressed and sit in front of the TV like a zombie for 16 hours a day with a bag of potato chips and a bedpan if you let them.
The difference is that people now have their screens with them 24/7. If your parents sent you out of the house to play, you didn’t have that computer with you.
I really think screen time is a problem for adults and children. In general, people are developing a type of ADD and can’t concentrate for long periods of time. Just yesterday my wife and I went to a hockey game and at the end of the day she realized that while she was surrounded by friends, she still checked Facebook 30 times. Every one of us knows someone who does that.
In general, people are developing a type of ADD and can’t concentrate for long periods of time.
Yup. I guess its possible that people have always had very short attention spans, and having a screen with you all the time that you can look at when you drift off makes it more obvious, but I think that smartphones have given people brain AIDS.
I just drove back from Knoxville to Norfolk and every damn car that couldn’t hold a lane was piloted by someone with a smartphone in their face.
I postulate that the short attention span is an evolved trait. Individuals too focused on one task would be picked off by predators, so those who were more prone to looking around and seeing what else was nearby lived to propagate.
I wonder how that squares with the popularity of long form podcasts, or binge watching 10 – 12 hours of a show on Netflix of Hulu.
Well titania mcgrath was suspended… all the good parody accounts are kicked of the twitterz
if you mock them and embarrass them sufficiently, then you are depersoned. her crime was getting the NYT to publish her OpEd..
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/08/spoof_comic_claims_authorship_of_ny_times_oped_how_can_i_cure_my_white_guilt.html
The byline reads “by Cherly Strayed and Steve Almond” who are real authors.
not an OpEd, my bad. she’s “Whitey”. she wrote in to The Sweet Spot which bills itself as A radically empathic advice column from Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond.
“you’re feeling the full force of what it means to be white in a white supremacist culture and it makes you feel uncomfortable because up until now, in some unconscious way, you’d exonerated yourself from it”
A white supremacist culture eh? SMGDH.
Stop the world, I want to get off.
I suspect that Twitter is committing suicide. If they are just going to turn themselves into a progressive bubble they are going to suffer badly. I am not sure what the point of their action is.
If Trump had lost the election, they would have filed for bankruptcy a year ago.
I made the mistake of looking at the WaPo. Every story I saw was some foaming-at-the-mouth anti-Trump hysteria. It is incredible. None of it looks like it was written by a sane person. It’s like the whole newspaper has Borderline Personality Disorder. Someone needs to put that Brennan guy in a box with duct tape over his mouth.
WaPo’s articles are now indistinguishable from Buzzfeed and their comment section is indistinguishable from DU.
They’re nuts. They’ve always been biased, but the trip from Obama to Trump broke them and now the editorial board is just unhinged. And honestly they reflect the mentality of the left in the DC metro area.
I suspect their marching orders are to fling as much shit as possible onto the walls, because it has done wonders for the dnc campaign fund raising efforts…
So the whole Muller investigation uncovered…campaign finance violations? Is this the real world we’re living in now? Although I can’t imagine how rough this must be for all the Clintonistas considering their universally favored candidate outspent her opponent two-to-one and somehow still managed to lose. Her complaining about campaign finance now would be like a champion marathon runner bitching that the quadriplegic that beat him used PEDs.
Campaign finance violations that aren’t campaign finance violations.
You know what would be an actual campaign finance violation?
WHATABOUTISMS!!!11!!!
Last night someone pointed out that quite a few congress critters have used taxpayer money to pay for NDAs while in office. I am not sure how that isnt a crime.
Or this…
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obama-2008-campaign-fined-375000-085784
“I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here!”
That Mueller/Stormy Daniels thing is some serious bait and switch. As I recall, Mueller was tasked with looking into Russian interference with a presidential election. There is no doubt at this point that he sees his job as looking for any wrongdoing Trump has ever done that can bring him down.
Remember when MSNBC-13 and CNN kept repeating the phrase “hacked the election”.
Mueller was tasked by the deep state with making sure he could prevent Trump from starting an investigation into the criminal activity him & Comey engaged in to both spy on Trump for the Clinton campaign – on orders from the Obama administration – and to cover Hillary’s criminal use of a server to avoid FOIA be used to expose the Clinton Foundation as a criminal enterprise where powerful people traded money for favors (current or future). He has no interest in admitting that this is a witch hunt, and every interest in dragging this out until the risk to the people that really should be under investigation – which includes him personally – is gone.
A lowered probability of pregnancy in females in the USA aged 25-29 who received a human papillomavirus vaccine injection.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29889622
I’d like to see the controls on that.
It would stand to reason that girls who receive the vaccine are more promiscuous, so they could have contracted other STDs or they could just be using birth control more reliably since they don’t want to get pregnant from sleeping around.
I couldn’t tell from the abstract, but isn’t the vaccine given pre-puberty? Or was this different?
One pre, and one post, currently.
They’ve really got him now!
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watergate-journo-bernstein-for-the-first-time-in-his-life-trump-is-cornered-due-to-mueller-probe/
He’s “cornered”? Really? They need to start putting Lithium in the water where these people live.
The apparatchiks all seem to feel a requirement to parrot the establishment line, whether they’re Democrat or not. DC is filled with eunuchs.
Reality be damned! We will impose our will/desire on it!
Melanin Monday (NSFW):
https://thesexier.com/how-not-to-love-hotties-with-tan-lines/
8, 27, 22
28 is the future chubby girl who reached her peak a few hours ago before she showed she didn’t understand how sunscreen worked
Stupid is as stupid does
Luckily, it doesn’t look like she can jump high enough to hit the rotor.
A chick here climbed out of a float plane and walked right into the prop. Nasty.
Yikes!
It’s funny how male and female dumbassery differs. It’s like, typically, women do stupid shit like that because they’re all, “Oh my god! Get a picture! I’m so excited! Yay, a helicopter!” while men seem to say something like, “Dude, I’ll bet I can X…” or “Hey man, I dare you to Y.” Like women get wrapped up in the cuteness or the fabulousness, where men are well aware of how stupid the thing they’re about to do is, but think they’re uniquely able to do it without suffering negative consequences.
A while back someone was going to teach their wife or girlfriend how to shoot. I warned them about a specific behavior that I just realized by your comment is mostly female.
After they shoot the first shot in their life the logical brain turns off and the OMG I did it! part turns on and then they turn towards you for approval and support…still holding the gun that they completely forget they are holding and now pointing straight at you.
*updates will, dons kevlar*
At least once a day I have cause to think of the Godfather, when he says, “Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.” I’m not saying that all women are careless, but I meet a hell of a lot more women than men who are careless. I think it’s because when you’re a man you can’t expect a safety net in our culture, whereas, third-wave feminism notwithstanding, protecting women is still a very, very strong cultural norm in nearly all cultures. In many circumstances, women can behave carelessly and expect to be insulated from the consequences of mistakes where men can’t.
I actually had this happen with my ex, whom then promptly realized what she did, panicked, and squeezed off a round before dropping the gun. Lucky for us we were at an “outdoor range” with nobody else present deep in the country, she missed me when the round went off, and the gun didn’t go off when she dropped it and hit either of us. Needless to say i decided that we were done for the day and I think it she never was able to overcome her anxiety after that event.
Yikes!
“Mars missions may be all-female to avoid astronauts having sex during 1.5-year journey”
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1519454/mars-missions-may-female-avoid-astronauts-sex-1-5-year-journey/
Clearly, they’ve never seen Emmanuelle in Space.
>>The report claims that all-female crews would be the best option, as women work better as a team, and are less likely than men to fight over who is the leader.
yeah…
What a fucking crock.
Centuries of military history would argue otherwise.
Wait until the start sabotaging each other out of spite and the whole thing gets out of control…
Have these people never worked with women?
Also, on space missions, the leadership and roles are defined before setting off.
Bullshit.
Xavier Fitch:
We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
Preston Lennox:
More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don’t get out much.
“less likely than men to fight over who is the leader.”
I’m curious to see the reference to the scientific article that they used to get this information. Because i see this claim trotted out (that men will constantly fight to be the ‘leader’ but women just want to work as a team), but it seems like a steryotype. I know a lot of guys who have no desire to manage or lead. They just want to do their job and go home. If you try to step on their job they’ll get pissed but they aren’t seeking domination over one another.
It is not just that some men might not want to be in charge. The idea that men will constantly fight for control is moronic. What actually happens is that in cases of ambiguity yes men will resort to some form of conflict to establish a dominance hierarchy. It might be physical violence or it may take some other form. Once that conflict is over, and in almost all cases it is over within hours at most, the conflict is done, the men all understand their place in the hierarchy and immediately begin to work as a team. The only time the conflict would resume is if the winner of that conflict suffers a humiliating defeat or demonstrated himself incapable of doing the job at which point the process is repeated and within minutes to hours a new hierarchy is in place.
Women, yeah they don’t fight for dominance that way. They won’t have a conflict but rather they will engage in constant ongoing games of political manipulation to try and tear each other down
This is all correct. Men form stable hierarchies, women for unstable unstable egalitarian networks. Neither one is better than they other – they are different tools for different jobs. Picking the obviously worse tool in the name of social signaling is a mistake.
These behavioural strategies go back to primitive division of labor in the pre-sapiens days. A hunting pack or fighting party that did not act with unity was doomed. Those who were engaged in less dramatic pursuits, such as plant gathering, could benefit by undermining rivals to climb to the best placement without subjecting the whole band to catastrophe.
Its like the authors have never worked with women. Or maybe never worked with men. Either way, nobody who has worked with both would ever make those claims.
My wife’s 7 years of experience playing on all-female roller derby teams would dictate otherwise.
Awesome.
I presume on both marks of sex and who is in control?
At the end of 1.5 years the crew will have separated into warring pairs of best-sister-girlfriends, if they haven’t killed each other off with poison. Also, are the authors aware of the concept of homosexuality?
Future documentary: The Licking Five
…go on…
4 women on a long road trip? They will end up on Venus.
But at least they’ll all be on the same cycle.
That is an absolute fabrication. And I think women would agree with it. Most I know do.
But think of the cost of all the long distance calls…
:Ducks:
I disagree 5 men unlimited access to Porn Hub would work much better as a team.
5 men unlimited access
I’m sure that’s already on Pornhub.
But all that semen in “zero gravity” in an enclosed space.
wet/dry shop vac?
Didn’t Obumbles fill NASA up with idiot wokesters?
As recently as just a few years ago, I would have assumed that this idiocy was just silly PR and that the adults at NASA (the article only put the first letter in capitals) could be trusted to go with the most talented crew available. These days, I wouldn’t put it past them for this to be policy. And the Mars mission’s catastrophic failure will be cited as why we don’t need space exploration.
NASA hasn’t been interested in anything more than social-signaling and anthropogenic climate change in at least two decades. At least that was my experience working there. The same director told me face-to-face that the public doesn’t have any appetite for a manned mission to mars, and that the biggest challenge NASA faced was that their indelible PR image is all white men in white short-sleeve shirts with horn-rim glasses in the control room.
Take for example this “news article” featuring a bunch of people wearing more approachable colors and a man-and-woman in a carefully choreographed dance, which I am 100% sure is nothing other than a well-manicured PR release.
Clean slate, dissolve the agency. If they’re not doing exploration, we’re not funding them.
You assume that they aren’t doing exactly what their political bosses in DC want them to be doing. You should try being a little more cynical.
You assume I care what the political bosses want. They can be dissolved with the agency.
“a short little merry chungus special @HuffPost is mad about rudolph and i’m like ‘bitch we been knew’ and also fox news loses their shit”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1072075536283983872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAHWmt65iSU
Is this English or some recently adapted language for retards?
That’s old hoodese. It’s the past perfect. As in:
That’s the joke. She’s a white girl from an upper middle class family.
So who wants to learn how to run for Congress if you’re broke?
Find a district full of fools and promise them the world. Saved you 5 minutes of reading, you’re welcome.
That’s a lot of words to express the concept of “machine politics”.
Well, you’ve shown that you can’t manage your own life, but you should totally be good making decisions for the whole country.
“A Surfeit of Empathy and an Absence of Compassion
“As a parent of an ROGD teen, it has been so disheartening to see so few mainstream sources publishing balanced views on this topic. We have glowing “protransition” pieces in the left-wing press, and (often) angry, and even anti-trans pieces in the right-wing or religious press. These articles are just what we need to open up a more balance, less hate filled dialogue. More, please.
~comment from parent, Psychology Today.”
Within one hour of airing my post, Psychology Today editors had already received complaints from activist groups. Soon thereafter, a wave of posts, tweets, and petitions seeking to defame my article and my character were spreading on the internet. My attempt to call for compassion for all sides of this debate in a further Psychology Today piece earned widespread support from parents and clinicians, but only made matters worse with activists. As my inbox was flooding with hate mail, blog posts that grossly misquoted my work were now painting me as a transphobe and misogynist. One commenter in Psychology Today suggested I should “go to prison” for “harming so many children,” while countless others accused Dr. Littman and me of promoting ideologically-driven pseudoscience. Yet, the sources cited by activists to discredit studies of ROGD invariably take one back to a self-referential loop of other blog posts and opinion pieces by activists. It is a strange world indeed when unscientific ideologues accuse scientists of being pseudoscientific ideologues.”
https://quillette.com/2018/12/09/a-surfeit-of-empathy-and-an-absence-of-compassion/
Crazy people are pretty defensive about being called crazy. I have seen it a thousand times.
I have only known a few who weren’t. One old guy used to say to me quite frequently “Mr. Suthenboy, you know I am crazier than hell, right?”
They rest would deny it vehemently.
The problem seems to be that — like most politicized issues — it’s polarized to crazy on both sides.
The difference being that on the left it is not only polarized, but it is a weapon to be used. The modern right is judgmental but is not calling to silence and excommunicate dissenters.
True, it’s not the right that’s trying to stifle debate on the subject.
When you’re the one sane man in a world of crazies, you don’t give in and say what the crazies want you to.
That’s a bingo.
“Irish woman who married ghost of 300-year-old pirate says they have split up”
https://www.irishpost.com/news/irish-woman-married-ghost-300-year-old-pirate-says-split-162579
Who couldn’t see that coming?
Are we still doing phrasing?
P-p-p-p-p-p-pirate ggggghost??
/Shaggy
Now that’s Irish crazy.
Was it the raping and plundering? I see this all the time, pirate ghost wives just don’t understand what their husbands job entails.
my first laugh of the day
True love is dead
I saw that episode of ST:TNG
By far the worst episode.
BY FAR.
I don’t know man. ST:TNG also had the clip show.
But the clip show had pieces of better episodes in it.
“Code of Honor” (planet of the tribal Africans) says “hold my beer”.
Anyone else annoyed by the fact they went to the trouble of saving the life of the woman with a speaking part, but did nothing for the bystander who was hit?
WELLP I should refresh.
Dang. I was really pulling for those kids.
Beverly Crusher?
The original Yellow Vest protests against a carbon tax perfectly encapsulates why the Western Left has largely abandoned “class concerns” and latched on to “identity politics”. The dirty little secret is that only the rich embrace the Left’s politics and it’s been that way since the end of World War II.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/a-tax-revolt-in-france/?utm_source=theamericanconservative.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=amconswap
“A Tax Revolt in France”
I keep thinking that if it wasn’t for a false rape accusation, DSK might be the President of France.
Its not so much that the left has changed, they’ve always been the intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, etc. (A hundred years ago, the stereotype of a radical Jewish intellectual was still one of poverty, and radical movement were doing some reverse-conspicuous-consumption.) Now, the economy selects for that type much more strongly than it has in the past. As this same cohort has moved up in class rank, they have simultaneously abandoned class analysis RIGHT AT THE TIME THAT THEY ARE PUTTING INTO MOTION THE ENVIRONMENT THAT MAKES CLASS ANALYSIS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER.
The hard left is too ashamed to return to this type of analysis, but not ashamed enough to actually change their behavior.
“The dirty little secret is that only the rich embrace the Left’s politics”
Nit-picking: I think there was a pretty close conformity between the Labour Party, leftist ideology, and working-class unions in Britain say, from the 1950s to the 1980s.
True. As there was between the Democratic Party and private sector unions during the same time.
Had my son’s first robotics contest on Saturday, which was an astonishingly draining day given that I wasn’t involved in coaching the team (I wanted to push the little bird out of the next, and on that mark it was a big win. Next year I will be a coach.) Also, worked about 12 hours over the weekend.
Fortunately, I did find time to smoke a big fattie with my 9 year old kid, which took the edge off.
That’s a pork loin with an equilibrium cure of 1.5% NaCL, 120 PPM of #1 cure, and 0.5% maple syrup smoke with applewood pellets. We sliced a test piece off when it came in the house, and it was great other than the smoke needing time to settle.
Nice!
I volunteered for a couple years while Spawn 1 was in robotics. It was great fun and actually pretty inspiring.
The little bastards are smart.
I have a few reservations about the league he’s in (partly because its not EXACTLY HOW IT WAS WHEN I WAS A KID*), but over all it was a great experience for him.
When I was in college, the robotics contests trend was just getting off the ground. Step 1 in building our robot was literally dumpster diving for an old 486 computer that we cannibalized and mounted in an acrylic enclosure we milled, tapped, and died ourselves. There were no simple raspberry pies, arduinos, etc. Needless to say, those competitions were very, very different social environments – hard core nerds instead of families with anxiety over their 4th graders prospects of getting into the Ivy League. And that was truly the exhaustive part. All the other teams where chartered out schools with words like “Academy” or “Montessori” in their name. Your team was my public-school kid and 4 unschooled home-schoolers.
Our kids did great on the technical robot-building parts (coming in 7th out of 40 some odd teams) But they bombed the other 50% of the contest, which was basically a competitive test of your teams ability to send social signals of upper class bullshit and kissing up to authority. For example, the team that won the “best teamwork” award won because they had a practices cheer/clapping routine and went around to ever other table in the pit crew and did the cheer to ‘cheer them up.’ The best sportsman award winners brought play dough and laminated place mats and gave them to every other team. It was all bullshit competitive awards for conspicuous-but-hollow demonstrations of “core values,” without any actual programming that educates or fosters those alleged value.
I told the coach we could all get together and watch October Sky next weekend instead, and he thought that was a great idea.
Fortunately, none of the kids picked up on any of this. They had a great time, they made real accomplishments, my kid learned a lot, and I get to help coach next year. Oh and we planned a hiking trip with one of the other families for the end of December.
Blah, that was way more negative than I felt. It was a great day with just that one little social hiccup that was custom designed to press all my class-annoyance buttons.
It wasn’t that negative. I’ve seen those, too, and just chose to ignore the rah rah bullshit. The kids get really competitive and have to work together to win. I dig that.
Fortunately, I did find time to smoke a big fattie with my 9 year old kid, which took the edge off
So, we are NOT doing phrasing. Good to know.
““Democrats can’t find a Smocking Gun tying the Trump campaign to Russia after James Comey’s testimony. No Smocking Gun…No Collusion.” @FoxNews That’s because there was NO COLLUSION. So now the Dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution,…”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1072095127894667265
TFW, you can win the Presidency, but not a spelling bee.
you interrupted my morning covfefe for that ?
Question — is it deliberate? Is there a troll in there somewhere?
What difference, at this point, does it make?
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1072139423117127682
Niskanen Center and neocons fall in love.
Hey Bill, how’s the magazine business going?
If Larry Hogan is an example of center-right, then center right basically means pro-ACA, pro-gun control Republicans.
GTFO
And Kristol’s self-selected photo tells you just about everything you need to know about him.
Smug asshole?
Try as they might, NPR can’t quite ignore this little tidbit
Unless there’s surveillance camera footage of Trump taking a giant sack of money from Russian President Vladimir Putin — which there almost surely is not — the outcome of the Russia imbroglio may remain subject to partisan interpretation, in the way “collusion” means different things to supporters of Trump and his opponents.
The evidence in the investigation that is public thus far is far from a slam dunk for the president’s opponents. No one has been charged with conspiring with the Russians who attacked the election.
Don’t let that stop you from insinuating any manner of heinous crimes and treasons, though. Trump knows a lot of unsavory characters. Not like those selfless servants of the common weal in the Deep State.
These are the same people who became Boofing Truthers during the Kavanaugh hearing. Every single accuser against Kavanaugh has admitted to lying or has been proven to have lied (with the exception of Betty Ford whose own story is flimsy) and yet they still say that Kavanaugh is a rapist.
These people are no more stable than those who cried about birth certificates under the Obama administration or those who now pimp the QAnon conspiracy. An insane person with a byline is no more stable than an insane person without a byline.
They cannot admit their mistake. The first ones to do so will be cast out of their social circles.
They are the “Respectable Man’s Alex Jones”
“attacked the election”
Bullshit.
Unless there’s surveillance camera footage of Trump taking a giant sack of money from Russian President Vladimir Putin — which there almost surely is not
Keep hope alive.
I love the implicit assumption that Trump did take a giant sack of money from Putin, but managed to do so off-camera.
Well if he ever produced his tax returns, we’d see those W-2’s and 1099’s from the Kremlin and then he’d have some splainin’ to do.
I think the American right is grossly misrepresenting what the yellow vest riots are about. Spoiler alert it’s not something Libertarians nor conservatives will like. Here is a list of their demands.
End of the tax hike on fuel.
Promote the transport of goods by rail.
Tax on marine fuel oil and kerosene.
Monthly minimum wage at 1,300 euros net ($1947 CAD per month after taxes).
Indexing of all wages, pensions and allowances to inflation.
Nationalization of the fuel for home heating and electricity sectors.
More progressive income tax (more marginal tax brackets).
The end of the austerity.
No withholding tax.
Restoring the taxes for the ultra-wealthy.
Same social security system for all workers, including the self-employed.
The pension system must remain in solidarity and therefore socialized.
No retirement pension below 1,200 euros ($1797/month CAD).
Increase of disability allowances.
Retirement at age 60, and a right to early retirement at 55 for workers who have worked a hard manual labour job.
Continuation of the Pajemploi help system until the child is 10 years old.
End of outsourcing of work for French corporations.
Limit the number of fixed-term contracts for large companies, replaced with more full time employment.
Maximum salary fixed at 15,000 euros [monthly] ($22469/month, or maximum annual salary of ~$270,000).
Jobs for the unemployed.
Any elected representative will be entitled to the median national salary.
The popular referendum must enter into the Constitution. Creating a readable and effective site, supervised by an independent control body where people can make a proposal for a law. If this bill obtains 700,000 signatures then this bill will have to be discussed, completed and amended by the National Assembly, which will have the obligation, one year to the day after obtaining the 700,000 signatures, to submit it to the vote of all French.
Return to a seven-year term for the President of the Republic.
End of presidential allowances for life.
Proportional voting system.
Elimination of of the Senate.
Accounting of the protest/blank/none of the above ballots.
Promote small businesses in villages and town centers. Stop the construction of large commercial areas around the big cities that kill the small business. More free parking in city centers.
No further privatization of French infrastructure.
Improved funding for the justice system, the police, the gendarmerie and the army.
All the money earned by highway tolls will be used for the maintenance of motorways and roads in France and road safety.
Immediate closure of private trains, post offices, schools and maternity homes.
Maximum 25 students per class for all ages.
Large corporations (McDonald’s, Google, Amazon, Carrefour …) pay big [taxes], small businesses (artisans, SMEs) pay small [taxes].
Protect the French industry to prohibit outsourcing.
End of the business tax credit. Use this money for the launch of a French hydrogen car industry.
Eliminate credit card fees for merchants.
Lower employers’ charges.
Continue exemption of farm diesel.
Improve the lives of the elderly, by banning exploitation and making money off the elderly.
Substantial boosts in mental health fund.
Prohibition of glyphosate.
Immediate end to temporary foreign worker programs.
Plan for improving insulation of housing (help the environment by helping the household).
Rent control. More low-rent housing (especially for students and precarious workers).
Treat the root causes of forced migration.
Fair treatment of asylum seekers . We owe them housing, security, food and education. Work with the UN to have host camps open in many countries around the world, pending the outcome of the asylum application.
Return of unsuccessful asylum seekers to their country of origin.
Real integration policy is implemented. Living in France means becoming French (French language course, French history course and civic education course with certification at the end of the course).
Whoops copy and paste error
You forgot “Ken Shultz for President”.
*applauds*
Bows head in shame.
As I said a few days ago, this is just more “Gimmedat” ranting.
Well, “gimmedat” coupled with some interesting immigration bits.
Detroit-sur-la-Seine
I have no idea what that is, but it can’t be worse than Detroit, Michigan.
Iron Law: It can always get worse
* polite applause from the box, stage left *
tres bien
The original protest was started by rural and suburban people specifically against the carbon tax. Labor and other interests latched on to the protest once they gained initial success. The Yellow Vest protesters are not a monolithic group. I’m not sure who is making these demands, since there isn’t any one leader of the movement. This is just like the Tea Party protests which were originally opposed to government spending. They weren’t a monolithic group either as both Rand Paul and Sarah Palin were supported by different Tea Party factions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/world/europe/france-fuel-carbon-tax.html
From the NYT:
“The day fulfilled some of the dire predications of French officials, who had anticipated smaller, but still violent, protests as more radical elements and professional vandals, called “casseurs,” or “breakers,” exploited the atmosphere of insurrection in pursuit of pulling down the government or engaging in anarchic pleasures…
By the midafternoon in Paris, the cassuers had ripped down the plywood that had been placed over the windows of nearly every business in hopes of preventing smashing and looting. The Champs-Élysées was quickly covered in tear gas, and hundreds of people beat a hasty retreat down the avenue.
The presence of the vandals increasingly appeared to be provoking a split in the movement, between the bulk of Yellow Vests and the more violent anarchistic elements that have progressively grafted themselves on to it.
In some areas, the casseurs — fit, determined young men dressed in black — could easily be distinguished from the Yellow Vests, often middle-aged men from the countryside.
In at least one instance, on Avenue Marceau, Yellow Vests could be seen replacing protective boards ripped down from shop windows by the casseurs.
The Yellow Vests looked on in horror and bemusement as the vandals smashed in the windows of a sporting-goods store and made off with boxes of sneakers on one of the most chic avenues around the Arc de Triomphe.
“This is just madness,” said a middle-aged Yellow Vest, Franck Morlat, a train driver who had traveled from central France. “Totally unacceptable.” Others around him looked disgusted.”
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
No one because this has never happened in revolutions before.
Ever. In the history of anything. The original French Revolution was led by a bunch of people who were all influenced by the physiocrats (even though the revolution was partially sparked by the king’s Finance Minister who was seeking to deregulated the grain market) and Bastiat.
Aren’t the English mulling over going full commie? Sounds like the French want to beat them to it.
Jesus. The marketer in me (yeah, no phrasing) wants them to cut it down to a list of 4 easy-to-remember things. And come up with a logo and snappy hashtag.
“Reset the clock. Another male feminist entertainment journalist was outed as pedophile and found guilty for possession of CP and its production. Note his attacks on @benshapiro and Brett Kavanaugh.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1072080979798372352
This seems like a near-daily occurrence.
Man, the comments/replies/whatever those things are. When you’re retreating to “people are just people and some people do bad things and looking for any other commonality means you’re the problem” you know you’ve lost your way.
Who wears sheepskin? Sheep and wolves, that’s who.
Excuse me, aren’t you also forgetting people with excellent taste in cold-weather work gloves?
He’s also forgetting books.
Books are people too!
/onlysaneman
Who wears sheepskin?
Dudes with latex allergies?
If you delve into that and read the article you come up with the fact that the dude was guilty of perpetrating AND filming child porn over a 12 year period but his punishment was no jail time. Additionally he was not barred from using the internet only the Firefox browser.
What the hell is the point of barring someone from using a specific browser?
Question – if someone is banned from using firefox, does that extend to forks such as palemoon and the onion browser?
Wait… wat?
Oh, Scotland.
WTF
Well, it’s not like he was spreading harmful ideas. It’s all about having the proper priorities.
Here is a list of their demands.
Ponies and cake!
Next stop, Utopia.
All they hear is “Who wants cake?” Let me tell you something: They all do. They all want cake.
Rand’s not too stoked about Barr.
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Right on.
My spidey-sense went off the moment I saw glowing tributes to him in both NR and City Journal. Be afraid.
FISA abuse is bad, but only if it impacts Trump, so says Trump.
https://twitter.com/VancityReynolds/status/1072126050350624768
What?
That’s funny.
He wrong, doh.
More.
That CNN Picture reminds me thatI bought this t-shirt a week or so ago:
https://www.amazon.com/Guevara-T-Shirt-Meme-MAGA-Non-Player/dp/B07JFNK8B2/ref=sr_1_1?s=apparel&ie=UTF8&qid=1544458986&sr=8-1&keywords=NPChe+Guevara+T-Shirt+Funny+NPC+Che+Meme
the NPC “diversity is our strength” t-shirt is also a winner.
France is better entertainment than the NFL at this point. I have especially loved the EU-branded semi-killdozers.
Hoping to shoot the new Ruger (aka “Harriet”) next week. Pew pew!!
ooooo what’d you get?
is that a Dirty Harry caliber reference?
Huh, that Russian broad who was sorta kinda involved with the NRA has decided to plead guilty:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-10/alleged-russian-honeypot-spy-changes-plea-guilty
She must have gotten a hell of a plea deal.
Or a hell of a threat
Why not both? Our top men are really good at this sort of gangster behavior. Running the country responsibly and to help us people? That they suck at.
Pleas and threats go hand in hand.
Props for the indexing on those photos.
The feds made it clear they were going to keep her locked up indefinitely, in what sounds like pretty bad conditions (strip searches, etc.). The deal may just be setting a deadline for how long they can hold her.
I love that the Russians protesting her treatment is cited as proof she is a Russian spy. Before Trump was elected, I didn’t think my opinion of our federal law enforcement industry could get any lower. Boy, was I wrong.
They are going full banana republic monkey. I think this kind of thing has been going on all along but it is getting more exposure these days. I am with you: I dont think my opinion of them can go down from here. I would almost rather deal with the mafia, at least they seem to have better morals.
have to respect a woman with good trigger discipline.