I am three and half days from vacation time even though mentally I’m already there.
After failing to produce the original 302 from Flynn’s first interview, many are speculating as to why. Whatever happened to it, it does not bode well for Mueller considering who the judge is. We’ll have to wait until Tuesday to find out what happens next. The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.
The real news here is we finally know their weakness.
Democrats mad, vow to get those dastardly Republican villains.
A split legislature is even more beautiful than I imagined.
Economic DOOM AND GLOOM!
You had me at “collapses” and “Santa Dangles”.
Comey is back to testify again.
A video of almost two years of the media declaring the end for Trump.
That’s all I for today, here’s a song for ya’ll.
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Wait, sloopy stuck you with these again??? Christ, what an asshole.
How do you really feel about this brah?
Banjos and SP are saints that deal with the Devils on a daily basis.
“Robots Can’t Work In Cold Weather” Yeah, I saw Terminator 2 as well.
I call bullshit. The protestor, who obviously knows fuck all about robotics, is just making that up because they think it makes for a good protest soundbyte.
Is this an old story, or is this person really complaining about air conditioning in the winter?
Meh in a lot of industrial buildings they generate so much heat with their operations that Air Conditioning is needed year round. I used to work in the Old Wang Labs HQ building in Lowell Ma and the A/C went out for a week in January, the temps outside never crossed 35f but the temperature inside the building was in the low 90’s because of the heat generated by all the lighting, computers, and people.
That said I call bullshit on Amazon on this one because as far as I am aware pretty much everything from electronics to hydraulics and pneumatics works best somewhere between 50 and 75 degrees and once temps start crossing 90 at the very least some of the electronics start having issues.
Ambient air in my plant is between 40 or so in the winter and 130+ in the summer. We keep the electronics in air conditioned motor control centers, but there are a lot of field devices that live in the heat and if they are rated for it, they hold up fine. The hydraulic units and air compressors survive just fine in the heat. We do run heat exchangers with cooling water on the hydraulic tanks, but the goal is to keep the fluid around 140 degrees or so.
Most equipment can function just fine in heat if its built for it. The DC motors that are on our overhead meltshop cranes run just fine in temps that are regularly above 150 degrees.
My point was not that they could not run in the heat but rather the opposite, I have never heard of a system that functioned BETTER at say 90 degrees than it did at 70 degrees.
Sure those robots could easily have problems if you were trying to operate them at 40 degrees maybe even 50 degrees but A/C systems for humans would be working to keep the temperature to somewhere between 70 and 75 degrees and I have never heard of a single system where an ambient temp of 72 would pose a problem for operation.
The workers complaining about working conditions may be morons but the company is just as stupid if they think anyone is going to believe that bullshit line. They don’t want to install A/C because the robotic systems have no problem operating at 90 degrees and they don’t want to have to pay to cool a building that huge. It would have made far more sense to claim the reason for not installing a/c was the carbon footprint or some such nonsense.
Isn’t that what OMWC calls his van?
OT with a bit of holiday silliness, I ran across the following comment with regard to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol,
It’s a chilling cautionary tale of an admirably sound business man who was overcome by mawkish sentimentality.
My response is as follows,
Okay, now that was a true threading fail.
he felt “utterly expendable”
That’s because he is.
It is very disturbing how the media locks in onto certain phrases and agrees to use them so the catchphrase of the day is just like advertising to the seals listening.
Beginning of the end
Bombshell
Turning point
Walls closing in.
Tipping point
Won’t serve out his term.
It’s sadly very effective, I think. The average person who doesn’t care about politics (bless them—no sarc) can’t take that constant bombardment from the media. It’s unnerving.
One of the best things Rush Limbaugh does is his “media montage” where he plays back to back to back clips of the MSM using the same exact phrase over and over.
You would think that would shame some of the MSM into changing things up a bit.
When you are paid to produce/promote propaganda, shame never factors in. If anything, the feeling I bet they have is that people like Limbaugh should be taken to a camp and tortured for as long as possible before being killed after a show confession of conversion.
I have seen back to back and overlapped clips of even local news anchors literally reading from the same script. THAT is unnerving. The propaganda apparatus runs deep and you don’t need a tinfoil hat to see it.
Listening to that video it made me think of people who really really really just want the nightmare to end. They still haven’t gotten over the fact that she lost and he won. And the common phrases are more of an artifact of their incestuous bubble within the major media industry.
The primary motivating factor for this angst is the desire to reverse the election result. They were promises they were the smart ones and that their new queen was going to win, and then reality kicked them in the ass and jeopardized their whole world view.
I am not one for conspiracy theories and Big Plans carried out be Big People, but we already know that JournoList 1/2 was a real thing. There is obviously collusion to make sure that every channel pumps out as close to the same shit to jingle bell-esque ear worms.
I tend to fall into the camp of “this is what naturally happens when it comes to money and the levers of power” rather than “there is a cultivated, organized conspiracy” tent, but when it’s so blatant I just have to Occam’s Razor it and assume it is indeed planned.
*Shrugs helplessly* That’s probably what they want a person like me who’s against the agenda to think. Sow doubt and discord.
I think it can be both. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a JournoList 2.0, though considering they couldn’t keep the first one a secret. The easier one is that they are all on the DNC talking Points emails. That requires only the person sending the Talking Points to know who is getting them. And then they hang out. I’ve been thinking about this a bit and it isn’t hard to get a group of people who are benefited to believe something (e.g Trump Colluded with Russia) to keep pushing it, when they bear no cost for being wrong. I think the Media Heads believe they are right be cause it confirms their views and the perceived cost for being wrong is minimal. In this case you don’t need for a ‘conspiracy’ to be pushing a narrative over the truth but that it arises naturally in an emergent way.
It’s possible that in a highly consolidated industry with an incredibly small number of gatekeepers and all operating at the mercy of a government regulator there’s a pretty small range of acceptable opinion and that there’s both a professional bubble AND a coordinated agenda.
“coordinated agenda.”
I’m not saying that it’s not possible, i’m saying that it is by far not the simplest reason, nor the most likely. When we see patterns arise from complex systems we are trained to see it as the workings of a mind that is directing it. But it’s just like the “Invisble Hand”, there is no guiding mind, its just the various interactions of individuals.
In this case you have a fairly homogeneous culture. Everyone is Left of Center in the media. It gives them a benefit to believe that Trump is the Worst and that every day now he will fail and his presidency will end. It confirms their personal bias. If they are wrong they pay almost no cost. They are not financially invested, they won’t loose any money over it. The only cost would be for them to have to update their beliefs. but they don’t have to, because the people they work with aren’t making them do so because the same people don’t want to have to update their beliefs. You get this cyclic compound effect of group think.
The whole point is that their doesn’t have to be a concerted effort by some “conspiracy” of individuals, to produce biased reporting. The news is without a doubt biased, and you don’t have to believe in a conspiracy to believe it’s true.
True, what I’m saying is that they are by no means mutually exclusive, especially given the rather unique market position of mass media, particularly broadcast media. And the results is the same regardless, so it’s kind of an angels on the head of a pin type of debate anyway.
“so it’s kind of an angels on the head of a pin type of debate anyway.”
I thought those were the kinds everyone liked… But yes you are right in the end it’s the same outcome, but one thing that’s nice is that when leftists accuse you of being a “Crazy Tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist” you can show that there doesn’t even have to be a conspiracy for us to be right.
It might be effective to begin with but even the politically stunted will tune out when the guy’s still in office two years later. People know when they’re being lied to.
From the way the proggie sheep keep coming back for more, one wonders if they ever realize they are being played…
The proggies are not being played. They keep coming back because the media keeps telling them what they want to hear.
Perhaps, but people love being told what they want to hear.
Long ago I realized that everything they do makes sense, if you simply regard them as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party.
Whatever happened to it, it does not bode well for Mueller considering who the judge is.
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and predict that precisely nothing will happen to Mueller, or Comey, or any of the other corruptocrats involved in this shit show.
Unfortunately I agree. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Flynn walks out tomorrow with all charges dismissed. He probably has a hell of a civil case against the government.
Pientka, sounds RUZZIAN! COALUZUN!
But Pientka did not report that Flynn lied – that’s why his original went missing. Instead we should believe what Strzok wrote 6 months later because he’s an honorable guy.
Stzok had the right bias! Or is it left? Anyway, he supported the right cappo di tutti cappi, so he is good.
Pientka? Shit, we made those for dinner last night.
COL
LUSH
ZUN
! ! !
It’s frustrating that the smarmy people like Strozk, Comey and Mueller are not only going to not be imprisoned for their crimes, but that they are heros to a good chunk of the population.
The fact that the FBI has refused to comply with Congressional requests should be a giant scandal. Providing oversight of agencies in the Executive branch is actually a constitutional function of Congress.
If those fuckers had any balls at all, they would zero out the budget for the FBI next year.
Trump funds his wall by closing down the FBI?
Two birds, one really well-aimed stoned.
What happened to putting people in jail for contempt until they agree to turn it over?
How delightfully old-fashioned of you
ifh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your coming was foretold!
Looks like they withheld potentially exculpatory evidence from the accused. Throw out the guilty plea, and enter an order acquitting Flynn. Require any further plea deal to be proved by the court before it is signed. File ethics charges against Mueller and the attorneys involved in Flynn’s case.
That’s what due process would look like.
That’s what due process would look like.
Which we will not be seeing.
I knew Mueller was dirty the minute everyone started touting what an honest and respected man/lawyer he is.
I knew it long, long before that. He came up in the Boston FBI office which produces the dirtiest of FBI Agents. His anthrax investigation was classic Mueller – punish the innocent who got mouthy without any attention to clues while purposefully ignoring the guilty.
Oh – Mueller was the guy who ruined Hatfill’s life? Nice.
Inspector
ClouseauComey helped too.Let’s not forget he was part of the Whitey Bulger coverup, to the point of refusing to support clemency for two men who were framed by the FBI for one of his murders.
Yep – Classic Bob.
Oh, yes, Dems, do please run on reenacting the penalty for not wanting/not being able to afford your terrible Obama plans.
I can hardly wait until Roberts calls out the Democrats who complain about US District Judge Reed O’Connor being a Bush judge.
Good morning, Banjos!
Thanks for the meaty lynx!
For Christmas, I’d like to see Mueller and Comey sharing a cell, the government shut down and a Porsche. Black.
…“Santa Dangles”.
I was expecting this.
Today in 1838 was the Battle of Blood River. Afrikaans kills a whole bunch of invading Zulus and saved the native population of South Africa from genocide.
You touched yourself while you typed this out.
I remember when Oprah got her DNA done years ago. She was convinced she was Zulu. She was sure of it, after watching Roots or some shit. What she didn’t know is almost no African Americans who are descended from slaves are Eastern or Southern African. She was pretty disappointed when she found out her people came from Nigeria and Ghana.
What a racist!
Sure – Dutch Sailors in wooden clogs would hop off their ships and chase down Zulu Warriors through lion country, bundle them up and drag them back to their ships.
I come bearing news–that you–can use. Through the magic of “finding attractive person attractive in BBC article (I know, right?) and looking up their business” can sometimes lead to gold. She’s the founder/chairman of ClassPass, which is some sort of yoga/gym type thing. Apparently it’s worth a half billion dollars.
This is how I found out about Payal Kadakia. This is her. HOT. DAMN.
She’s hotter than Qs hotties and yet is elegant and has the smarts/ambition to co-found the company and serve as its CEO for four years. And somehow she’s 35….which is remarkable.
I would be in my bunk…but I’ve already been in my bunk. I may come out of retirement.
DAMN!
*volunteers as houseboy*
*submits resignation, applies for visa*
This is govt in a nutshell. An article on the new “navigation center” that Minneapolis built for the homeless tenters.
When this story first started in the summer, the city wrung its hands and said they had to do something to get everyone housing by the end of September. Here it is end of December and all they’ve done is erect three big tents for the homeless to sleep in while they try to find them other housing.
I can hardly wait for the pictures of what that place looks like in a month or so.
Hmm. And where did the money go?
It’s a good thing those people weren’t just left to the mercies of capitalism.
I hope none of them stuck around in Minneapolis because the city had promised to get them out by September. Because that could exacerbate the problem. But no one could have predicted that would have happened.
That OSB is going to soak up the urine and other fluides really well.
Are there no jobs at the casinos?
Wait… “homeless shelters” a new thing now? I don’t get it.
A video of almost two years of the media declaring the end for Trump.
Come on, it’s not like the same soundbites and catchphrases get distributed to mass media outlets through email lists or something like that.
Father Of Guatemalan Girl Who Died In Border Patrol Custody
expresses deep remorse and guilt about making decisions that endangered the life of his daughter, resulting in her deathHires Lawyers, Claims Daughter Wasn’t DehydratedThe father of Jakelin Caal, who died in United States Customs and Border Protection custody, has reportedly hired a pair of attorneys and is challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s claims of how his daughter died.
Nery Gilberto Caal released a statement, through attorneys, on Saturday, claiming that he and his daughter — whom Border Patrol says died of prolonged hunger and dehydration — were properly fed, and that they had not spent days in the desert before declaring their intent to seek asylum at an official border crossing in New Mexico last week.
Buzzfeed News and CBS News report that Caal has hired Enrique Morneo and Elena Esparza to handle his case. The attorneys now say that, “Jakelin had not been crossing the desert for days. Jakelin’s father took care of Jakelin — made sure she was fed and had sufficient water,” and that they “sought asylum from the Border Patrol as soon as they crossed the border.”
The pair of lawyers also reportedly issued a threat to the Department of Homeland Security, warning spokespeople for the agency to cease “further speculation about her cause of death” because making “premature and inaccurate statements undermine the integrity of the investigation.”
Clearly Trump’s
SSBorder Patrol killed this poor child. The father deserves financial recompense.The father of Jakelin Caal, who died in United States Customs and Border Protection custody, has reportedly hired a pair of attorneys and is looking to cash in on the Ghetto Lottery.
“The father of Jakelin Caal, who died in United States Customs and Border Protection custody, has reportedly hired a pair of attorneys and is challenging the Department of Homeland Security’s claims of how his daughter died.”
I am sure he had a Rolodex with a long list of lawyers to consult and it was not some sheister working for the dnc or Soros that approached him with this idea…
No, he’s a legitimate economic refugee fleeing a narco-terror state for a better life as a scab wage lettuce picker in America who just happened to have connections with fluent Spanish-speaking US immigration attorneys. It’s all completely legit.
Hmmm… Why wouldn’t the financial backers of this charade just give the poor man his due reward directly, rather than to some attorneys? /rhetorical
So the claim is that the Border Patrol took a perfectly healthy child and murdered her within hours of picking them up?
Good luck with that. I mean, I’m as skeptical as the next Glib when it comes to people dying in police custody, but this sounds like a real stretch to me.
Doesn’t matter, if they don’t settle some jury will award him a pile of cash because they feel bad for him.
So going back to the way the Mayans ran things and providing human sacrifices is the way to prosperity it looks like…
“Jakelin had not been crossing the desert for days. Jakelin’s father took care of Jakelin — made sure she was fed and had sufficient water,” and that they “sought asylum from the Border Patrol as soon as they crossed the border.
Bullshit. Pure Bullshit. Why would you make the journey to fucking Guatamala to then go to the one agency who will keep you from making it to your destination? Unless there is some sort of idea among them that if they cross with a child they have to be released and get in. But where would they get that idea?
On a separate note: The letter K is not natural to the Spanish language. Almost any word in Spanish that has a K in it was borrowed from another language. The more common spelling for Jakelin would have been Jaquelin.
The news today said she died of sepsis shock – which means her Dad dragged a very ill child across the border. I was assured this never happens.
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/national-international/Guatemalan-Girl-Death-Sepsis-Shock-Hospital-Officials-502904621.html
Sepsis, huh? Well, if she died within what, 8 hours I think of being picked up, then she was doomed when they got her. Once sepsis starts to run like that, its over.
So, what you’re saying is Trump gave her sepsis.
Can’t be arsed to bother a real pediatric intensive care specialist for info on kids, but typically the window to save an adult who dies of sepsis closes at least a day before their death. You have to catch sepsis really early, and blast it with heavy heavy antibiotics.
So, what you’re saying is Trump denied her proper treatment.
*opera applause*
California will require zero-emissions buses by 2040
Powered by Fred Flintstone’s feet.
Hang on. They’re going for zero emissions. Have you seen what Fred eats?
Wilma?
The power for the electricity coming, obviously, from windmills and water power. Totally not a fossil fuel plant somewhere out of sight belching emissions — or carbon dioxide, which on good authority I hear is a dangerous gas that kills.
Well, they are also planning to be 100% renewable electricity by then, as well.
What they will do with the mountain of toxic waste that is aged-out solar panels, they haven’t yet said.
Minnesoda has a similar plan. They want to go all electric as an “aspirational goal.”
You can’t argue with math!
Duluth has removed its electric busses because they can’t handle our San Francisco like hills. Also they had to be fitted with dirty, dirty diesel heaters because the batteries couldn’t provide enough electrical heat.
https://duluthnewstribune.com/news/traffic-and-construction/4542279-dta-temporarily-pulls-electric-buses
Or with the Second Law. Where does that electricity come from?
The wall. Duh.
What if the govt shuts down and Trump doesn’t get his wall? Then what smarty pants?
What if Trump built a wall that had rotating vertical treadmills on the Mexican side? The illegals would think that they were ladders, but as they started to climb, the rungs would rotate. This rotation would spin the generator and make electricity.
Free power!
On the US side would be banks of outlets where do gooders could charge their cars while they throw food and water over the wall to the illegals.
So Cali is to be powered by perpetual motion machines?
buses are emissions-free by 2040
There is no such thing as “emissions free”, considering all the emissions to produce the buses and generate the electricity for them (I assume they intend to have electric powered ones, which is retarded.)
“I’m an Aussie lad, I know how to ride a horse, fly a plane and f— my woman. My intentions are completely dishonourable”
Better than having him pass stupid laws, I s’pose
I’m an American lad, so two out of three.
You know how to ride horses and fly planes?
Horses are assholes. Big, dumb, nasty serial-shitting assholes. I fucking hate horses.
^^^ They most certainly are.
I thought it was just me . Never has a creature been created to more efficiently turn dollars into dung, vet bills and an enormous corpse you have to dispose of.
You’re coming to our town to help us party down?
Oh no! Fargo residents upset that they may have to pay for their decision to build on a flood plain.
Fargo/Moorhead is built on the bottom of an ancient glacial lake. There is nothing to prevent THE Red River from flooding the town. There was a big plan to do a giant diversion project, but because it impacted both Minnesoda and NoDak, there have been a lot of permitting problems. The project is slated to cost $2.75B.
By my math, that $2.75B could pay the insurance premiums for 42 years. Maybe if you made those people living there pay for the diversion project, it might be done for a lot less?
I don’t understand people whose houses flood every year, and every year they are surprised by it.
GLOBULL WARMING!
They aren’t surprised. They just don’t want to have to pay for their decisions all by themselves when they can get everyone else to chip in.
My Mom grew up on a farm in the bend of a river. It flooded nearly every year, which is why it was such good farm land. Guess where the house was? Far enough back that it didn’t flood. My mom said it got up to the back yard fence sometimes when she was little.
That area doesn’t flood anymore due to a dam built up river. I wonder how long it will remain good farm land without the regular floodings? Just looked it up, the dam was completed when my Mom was 9 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Creek_Dam
Just adjacent to my backyard is a large chunk of undeveloped land, it also happens to be a national flood zone. Go figure that it has never been developed. Apparently its the drainage system for the entire canyon just up from where i live, and that in the 80’s the city buried 2 or 3 cars to help divert flow s of water into rather than out.
Outraged Democrats vowed to appeal a federal judge’s ruling that could undo the US health care law known as Obamacare, saying on Saturday that they will use their new power in Congress to hold Republicans responsible and “expose their lies.”
Um…ok…
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer tweeted that Republicans had pretended to care about those protected by Obamacare “while quietly trying to remove that support in the courts. Next year, we will force votes to expose their lies.”
Or, and I know this sounds crazy, they and others view this legislation as outside the purview and constitutional authority of the government.
Republicans “know that they can’t repeal the ACA in Congress. So they’ve continued their crusade through the courts,” tweeted Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, a consumer-protection activist.
But is she really? Also, do you know who has engaged in *actual* judicial activism in the courts?
Lies? I mean the Act is called the “Affordable Care Act” and since it’s passed, Health Insurance prices have skyrocketed. Either way If it’s an exercise of the Taxing authority you have to.. you know.. tax people.
For their own good, right?
To be as objective as possible,
Health costs rose at a faster rate (slightly) than before ACA.
Deductibles for ordinary people rose a lot –> one of the principle side effects.
Quality of some services slightly diminished (wait times)
Coverage overall slightly increased.
All of these things were predicted before it passed and happened with RomneyCare in Mass.
If your goal is the Democrat goal of increasing coverage, you did that. Partially through force, partially through redistribution.
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I would get rid of it. What’s most popular about it is that it increased coverage for people with preexisting conditions.
That’s a silly welfare endaround. If you can’t get insurance, trying to shoehorn in an insurance scheme is nonsense.
If we want to give welfare to people with preexisting conditions who can’t get regular insurance, then I’d actually just rather we simply do so. I’m no fan of it, but it’s better than ridiculous contrivance and it allows us to address the problem directly.
“If we want to give welfare to people with preexisting conditions who can’t get regular insurance, then I’d actually just rather we simply do so.”
And give up the opportunity to make a government bureaucracy get the power to pick healthcare winners & losers? Are you fucking crazy?
They already do so. And the government already gives free health care to all people within 140% of the poverty level (higher for women and children) and every single old person (who, btw, are the richest and most financially stable class in America while having the most health care needs).
The truth is there are very few people with preexisting conditions who find that they suddenly can’t get insurance within a reasonable range. But fixing this problem is extremely popular politically, and the only way to fix this must come out of others pockets. Make a simple set of rules for determining this level that rises with average costs and inflation, and it would be better than the scheme we have now which means anyone with preexisting conditions can grab anything… a scheme that really skyrockets deductibles.
If we want to give welfare to people with preexisting conditions who can’t get regular insurance, then I’d actually just rather we simply do so.
But then how can people with preexisting conditions pretend they’re not just getting welfare?
Take out the Medicaid expansion, and my guess is increased coverage is minimal. Odd that this information is not readily available, though.
It is, I think, and I do recall reading that somewhere.
I would love to know for sure though.
The “increased coverage” came in the form of mandates for what would normally be riders, like maternity and drug addiction treatment.
I’m so happy to be paying for maternity coverage when my wife is 56 and I’ve had a vasectomy.
I admit that my healthcare situation in the US scares me and is one reason that I don’t live there. My hips don’t lie and I have no idea how much my insurance would cost in the States.
I admit that I like the idea that it would it would directly benefit me, but I know that it’s a bad policy and will pretty much kill the insurance industry. My family is baffled that I disagree with a law that would be so helpful for me.
I would take advantage of it if it were offered. Principles are hard, Free Shit is alluring, and pobody’s nerfect. Doesn’t make me happy, though.
I mean despite the propaganda U.S. health care is very high quality.
We do get the Democrat talking point: “most expensive for the worst outcomes in the first world”, but what they mean is that Americans have low first world life expectancy. Which is actually not health care related, except for a little bit of an infant mortality fudge stat that Americans measure differently.
There isn’t any surgery or treatment for a major disease that the U.S. doesn’t do as well or much better than any other first world country. If you got cancer or any other other of the 6 most common killers, your best odds of beating it would be the U.S. You would absolutely not, if you needed major medical treatment or surgery, choose England or Canada over the U.S. Not if you were at all smart.
My hope is that whatever b.s. socialist solution we invariably choose, it’s not so over the top we don’t lose that edge.
* do lose that edge
The goal wasn’t increased coverage. The goal was everyone to have access to affordable insurance without a sacrifice in the quality or availability of healthcare. The cost curve was also supposed to be bent down due to physicians ceasing to practice voodoo and starting to used “evidence based medicine” and “best practices” as determined by a council of solons in DC.
We still have 22 million uninsured 10 years in, and the majority of those that got insurance got it through Medicaid expansion. Cost have continued to increase.
It is a failure.
Now do the quotes from Collins where she managed to pull the statist cock out of her RINO lips just long enough to say repeal is too much.
It’s a turning point.
So many turns we’re right back where we were!!
Two lefts don’t make a right… but three do.
So Kennedy is in on the act?
That video is exquisite.
They should just show that when mooch journalists complain about Trump cancelling Christmas parties.
Speaking of which, I heard Trump’s wants to cancel Christmas for all!
He just wants to cancel Christmas for the non-whites.
Gotta say that this part cracked me up. Kennedy still has that bad habit of interrupting.
Millionaire property tycoon who killed lover in cocaine-fuelled S&M sex session is jailed for three years and eight months
Found McAfee’s 2020 running mate.
“She had suffered over 40 injuries – including blunt-force trauma to her head, buttocks and breast – and horrific internal injuries inflicted during a bizarre sex game involving a bottle of carpet cleaner.”
WTF? A bottle of carpet cleaner? How does that fucking work? Where are our resident experts on this sort of shit to explain this to me. Did this bottle get jammed up her cracks or was she beaten about the chest, breasts, and neck with it? I am not getting this shitz.
A bottle of carpet cleaner. Kids these days and their slang. It’s called a douche.
Kaboom that stanky crack?
You rang?
I … don’t know about the bottle of carpet cleaner. Unless she was a really heavy masochist and they were doing some kind of chemical play trying to cause pain. The article is poorly written and not terribly descriptive so I don’t know. Drunk and raged up on coke…so who knows what if anything they were thinking and doing. Or if he snapped and went all real torture on her.
Washington faces a partial government shutdown in five days and there doesn’t appear to be any urgency or a plan by lawmakers to negotiate a way around it.
Shut it down.
Robot Sex Conference Cancelled
Attendees mad over scheduled appearance by former Donald Trump strategist Steve Bannon
“Wait … what does Bannon know about sex with robots?”
You seen the guy? I am pretty sure he ain’t getting sex unless the thing he is fucking is non-sentient.
So he’s banging the entire Womyn’s Studies department at some Ivy League school?
That sounds more like punishment than actually getting laid man… My nightmares of abusive punishments that would trigger the Geneva Convention include this scenario you just described Jimbo.
You apparently have not sampled the joys of hate fucking women whose mouths have been duct taped shut, except when otherwise occupied …
Or so I’ve heard.
I think black electrical tape looks much better when you take pics than duct tape.
Referring to the angry hairy heifers that usually populate those departments, I think there is not enough tape in the world to make them fuckable…
“No weirdos or outsiders at the robot sex convention!”
Just sex robots smoking & talking about sex ?
Before or after?
During
Doesn’t the talking get in the way of the smoking and humping?
I think robots can handle all 3.
Robo-hos got skills you can only dream of. They can smoke, hump, talk and julienne a carrot all at the same time
…julienne a carrot…
Yikes! Too much room for error there!
Nice to see you ifh! I trust all is well?
Yeah, not sticking it in equipment that has built in julienne tools…
Hey Tundra, all’s good with me. Hope your world is full of sparkles ‘n’ shit
Totally. Like a stripper exploded.
julienne a carrot
Only the Bad Orange Man needs to worry about that feature, right?
So what pithy advice do we need to come up with now that our new robot overlords are here?
Don’t stick it in cyber?
Beware the automatic selfies of your fuck faces now on the internetz?
Sadly, men will still need to wear rubbers. Not for birth control, but to protect against actual electrical shocks.
Don’t stick it in Google.
Siri, I need help?
Ron Paul is not feeling very positive (nothing new, I know)
The money quote:
Ron, you could have just said “we’re fucked”.
This is what I said in 2008.
You obviously want to see the world burn.
It is pretty and gives warmth.
Win-win.
Still remains unpopular with eh people that want to gamble big to get richer and use government to force tax payers to bail them out when they end up fucking up, because that is the agreement they made with the government entities obsessed with picking winners & losers.
I recall in grade-school being taught that “Laissez-faire” caused the collapse and subsequent depression. I read years later that Hoover did not advocate government non-intervention until after he had left office, having engaged in the very government intervention that caused a prolonged depression while in office. It seems that government school textbooks are full of
bullshit liesdisingenuous misrepresentations of events.Government Schools are Pro-Government… Strange.
I recently read American Default: the untold story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the battle over Gold, by Sebastian Edwards. The story of how FDR played political games with Hoover during the transition period in early 1932 while banks continued to fail is pretty infuriating. I recommend the book.
Aren’t import tariffs a Constitutionally legit way for the fed to collect revenue?
Yes, but that still doesn’t make them a good idea.
I recall the LP advocating funding the Fed Gov’t via tariffs and eliminating the income tax at some point in the past.
I’m pretty sure that’s how it used to be done.
When it crashes it is going to have to correct for the malinvestment made that caused it to originally crash in 2008 plus another decade of malinvestment. All that fed policy of the last decade has done is continue to build the bubble that should have popped 11 years ago.
I saw a suggestion for a 3rd axis added to the Nolan Chart. At one extreme is radical burnt-in-all-down-ism and the other end is don’t change.
Its a measure of how quickly and radically you would move to your position.
Outside of the far extremes, the two ends would be radical overhaul and incremental change.
They forgot “plug your ears and pretend you can’t hear anything”
Isn’t that just how conservative you are? I mean, that’s why they are called conservative, not willing to make quick changes, to conserve.
Well, no, on the nolan chart, conservative would socially conservation and economically conservative. How you get to that point from where we are today would be the 3rd axis.
And, yes, that is another definition of conservative, but not the one we are talking about.
Developer is ordered to build an EXACT replica of a landmark San Francisco home designed by a famed architect after he illegally demolished the $1.7million property to make way for a new mansion
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Property rights, you can’t have them.
Rather than wait until it’s built and then relitigate when they inevitably can’t match the shade of paint or the wainscotting isn’t quite right, couldn’t the parties just agree to damages?
Sooo, if the guy ignores the order to build a house exactly as specified by some non-owners, and just leaves it as rubble as he appeals the ruling, what are the consequences?
Triggered!
Amazon declares war on loss-making ‘CRaP’
What kind of abject fucking tool is order a 40 dollar case of smart water from Amazon rather than pick it up at a store within 5 miles of their house for $20?
One who is in his pajamas all day?
Also, it’s totally fine to call a product CRaP, but when i point out that an employee is unprofitable, i’m the bad guy.
(Jabs thumbs at chest) this kind of abject fucking tool! I don’t buy water, but buttwipe, tissues, paper towels, and sometimes laundry detergent at Amazon are comparably priced with Target or WallyMart. And I if it gets delivered to my front door, I don’t have the frustration of dealing with the slow-assed, unwashed, inconsiderate patrons of Target
I mean if it’s close in price that makes sense, but I am certain I’ve seen cases of Smart Water at Albertson’s and Smith’s where I live for way less than $37.20. It’s like that with most of the foodstuff that Amazon sells.
I think the point is that selling a $15 case of SmartWater for $37.20 allows for a profit after eating the shipping charges, while just selling a six pack causes a loss.
If hardly anybody buys the case, it is still better to have a few sales where you make money than a bunch of sales where you lose money.
Then they’re just bulking in the shipping charges in the price of the item. That has a tendency to scare off customers. Another option would be to just make the products not eligible for free shipping (at least until a higher dollar threshold is reached). They already have gobs of small items that can’t be put on orders under a certain dollar amount.
Scaring off customers of a product you’d lose money on seems like a decent strategy. The free shipping thing would fix the problem only if the underlying product is priced right. Heavy bulky items cost way more to move around than lightweight stuff.
The water that comes out of my faucet is a lot cheaper than that.
I just don’t get the buying of bottled water, especially for those who have a treated tap.
If you have a well I can sort of understand it, but even then there are considerably less costly options.
I used to have a well, and while the water was safe to drink it was a bit unpleasant when straight from the faucet.
A simple filter I replaced every few months took care of the water for cooking and my drinking water (tea)
5 gallon jugs re-filled at the grocer/wal mart for 39c a gallon took care of drinking water for wife, and brewing water.
Bottled water is a good idea for situations where you anticipate not having easy access to a tap or drinking fountain. Driving in your car — hanging on to the front row spot at a concert — the city water supply temporarily supplying allegedly unsafe water, as happened here in Austin lately. That “just in case” supply of bottled water in the pantry avoided the hassle of boiling all drinking water.
Move along, citizen. Nothing to see here.
Page and Peter Strzok, who were both married but reportedly having an affair, worked for the FBI and were assigned to the Hillary Clinton email scandal. Strzok went on to work on Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. The two sent thousands of text messages to each other, but on Thursday, the Justice Department revealed some 19,000 messages were deleted.
Like with a cloth?
Magically.. nobody ordered this move or perpetrated it either…
Karnack predicts there will no outcry regarding obstruction of justice in this matter.
” Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential election.”
I mean we all know that’s really what it was about, but IIRC the purview was to investigate any Russian Meddling in the election, not just in regards to Trump…
It quit being about Russia and collusion a long time ago.
Is that 19000 separate charges of obstruction?
Hey OMWC, you know this fella?
If we are demanding answers from OMWC, I want him to comment on this: Danish researcher: Vegan diet leads to mental retardation.
That’s real science. You think a scientist getting paid by Big Pastry would extoll a meat free diet, but that guy went where the facts took him.
To accuse him of being a shill would be crumby.
He doesn’t seem flakey.
Everyone has their price. They must have offered him a bunch of dough.
STEVE SMITH NO LIKE PUNS. MAYBE HIM COME VISIT PUNSTERS. BY VISIT, MEAN…
…you’ll come in their back door?
Narrowed gazes versus gaping narrows?
Pun day, fun day?
Ahem, this was in my brilliant links this past weekend. Too busy trying to steal your piece-of-shit bike back from Tundra to read my beautiful prose?
Good luck to him. That fucking thing is a fish habitat in Lake Minnetonka.
Fuck that shit. It is in Bde Maka Ska. I doubt anyone in that neighborhood is going to traipse all the way out to ‘Tonka.
Sorry, I’ve been too busy fucking off on the weekends to catch up. Glibs is great during work time, but I resent it when it cuts into my time.
Sort of like shitting.
+2 at work
“Boss makes a dollar, I make Dime. That’s why I shit on company time.”
I’m still not sure if that’s a cause or an effect.
Follow the cheese money.
We’ve shared our contact lists.
You pass them to him when they age out?
I Have Seen the Future of a Republican Party That Is No Longer Insane
The era of small government is over?
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is
libertarianismgiving away other people’s money. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be theLiberalsBritish and the liberals would be theToriesHessians. The basis of conservatism is a desirefor less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedomto win and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”“Niskanen’s”
As far as i got
to find ways to keep Democrats from voting
Even death does not keep Democrats from voting. And it often causes former Republicans to vote Democrat.
right’s obsession with the protection of property has made it hostile to democracy
There in lies the problem with “democracy” and the reason the US is not one. My rights > your vote.
^^^ This. If Democracy is at odds with Property, it is not the property owner who is in the wrong. It’s been said a million times, but Democracy has become a catchall word for “Good thing” that anything that opposes it must be bad. And it’s not like the morons peddling this nonsense don’t understand. If you took this same logic you could say that 10 years ago Gay Rights were at Odds with democracy, and that enacting them overturned what the people wanted. But they would obviously recoil at that.
Democracy means the mob taking your shit – this is known.
been known for 2500 years.
Disingenuous little shit. When the federal, state, and local governments are at all-time highs in terms of expenditures and shrinking the government gets short-shrift from all comers. Niskanen is chickening out and opting for going with the flow instead of standing on principle, assuming they ever had them to begin with.
Niskanen is literally about appealing to the elites at cocktail parties so this is no surprise.
The Niskanen Center is to Libertarianism what Hillary Clinton is to Socialism
I think Hillary is probably more socialist than Niskanen is libertarian.
So, basically, their vision is two Democrat Parties? Am I missing something?
Nope
after he illegally demolished the $1.7million property to make way for a new mansion
Had it not been paid off? Was it the collateral on the loan? Because if he owned it (had clear title and undisputed possession), I don’t see how knocking it down could be illegal.
I know, I know…
Last year, Will Wilkinson argued against “small-government monomania”
No shit?
Did my children die because I married my cousin?
It’s almost impossible to overstate how much better our culture and society are for the incredibly rich traditions and diversity engendered by a welcoming immigration policy.
But Falafel food trucks!
“He said he looked like normal baby. He wasn’t sitting or crawling, but my husband said some children were just slow,” Ruba says.
If that is what a normal baby looks like in Pakistan….Yikes. Poor kid.
Marrying your cousin doesn’t have a huge risk of birth defects and is widely acceptable throughout the world. Your risk of birth defects is as high if you have a baby after 35.
Marrying your cousins for GENERATIONS compounds that risk, however, and it became a problem among royalty in Europe because they continuously kept doing so without adding to the pool.
Yep, when you’re the product of cousins and you marry your cousin who’s the product of cousins and your and her parents were too, going back generations, that can be highly problematic
So you’re saying it’s a bad idea?
Yes, unless she’s hot, in which case go for it.
Not if you want to have little freak babies to sell to the circus
+1 Habsburg Jaw
That’s really sad. Indeed–poor, poor kid.
I am a carrier for Niemann Pick Type C (I have no idea how, my family tree is as far from the subgroups for which it is common as possible). At some point, I am going to have my daughter tested, and if she is a carrier too, I am going to make her require a genetic test of any potential dates. No point at even starting a relationship if it would have that horrible a possible ending.
” I am going to make her require a genetic test of any potential dates”
I suspect that you don’t get how that whole age of consent / not living with my parents thing works.
Oh, and this: Niemann–Pick type C affects an estimated 1:150,000 people. The chance of her finding anyone with that gene seems vanishingly small, if she doesn’t marry a cousin.
I’d suggest giving her the sound advice of dating people who look very different from her, and calling it a day.
Actually…don’t date French Canadians may be good enough.
Niskanen’s scholars have criticized the failures of conservative policy you might expect — climate science skepticism, the Republican health-care plan
WHAT “Republican health-care plan”?
This one?
https://www.randpaul.com/news/obamacare-replacement-act-rand-paul
Thumbs up to that one.
It was real popular, though. Like 2% of people liked it.
Sprint, T-Mobile merger would cut employee pay, even at Verizon and AT&T, study says
Was trying to wrap my head around how they came to their conclusion. Then I saw it, “the report released by the Economic Policy Institute and the Roosevelt Institute said.”.
Son of a bitch must have accidentally hit reply
Mesmerizing Monday (possibly NSFW??)
https://thesexier.com/those-eyes-38-pics/
Allegedly about the eyes, but if you don’t also notice the sweater puppies a bit further south …
16 and 23, plus, for sheer massiveness of the … eyes … 36 or 37
Jesus take the wheel. But please don’t let Mohammad ride shotgun.
Someone take the wheel.
Ermmmm
Take your Hands Off The Wheel.
Is that new? I like it. I’ve not heard a lot of Oleander, but what I have heard I’ve liked.
I think I’m going to cancel my Patreon to you and use that money to buy some Oleander music. Thanks for the tip CPRM!
New in 2003. Sadly I don’t think they’re together anymore, I think their last release was in 2013
Is that new?
’90s I think. I have the CD.
oops, missed it by a few years.
I’m really hoping that the tweet was in response to Ilhan Omar’s earlier tweet
Anyone want to bet over/under on how long it takes her to fire off a press release condemning the bigotry of having Mohammad ride shotgun?
BTW, Ihan Omar’s tweet was extremely bigoted against Christian culture.
I’m not religious and don’t much care myself, but you couldn’t get away with that against any other religion I don’t think.
“don’t much care myself”
I don’t care much either, I don’t think it was particularly funny, but my sense of humor may be different. What does bother me is that (as you pointed out) they want others to respect them, but show none. It’s bad faith and hypocritical. But of course Hypocrisy has been established as a main tenent of progressive thought due to “Systemic, cultural and historical privilege”.
In the case of Somalis, they’re mostly victims of themselves.
The worse thing about it was that it wasn’t even that funny. But you are right, it was very dismissive of Pence’s beliefs.
And you are right that she would be one of the first to be outraged if you mocked some muslim’s beliefs like that.
The “Who Ya Gonna Call? Goat Fuckers!” reply made me chuckle
Ahhhh, memories of childhood
In its quest to cut costs and maximize profits, Amazon is reportedly looking to eliminate product quantities that it can’t make money on. These goods, codenamed CRaP, are offerings that Amazon “Can’t Realize a Profit” on, once you factor in shipping costs.
Those MONSTERS!
*crawls off in general direction of fainting couch*
What??!! I’m not going to be able to get fifty pound bags of dog food for less than I pay at the local grocery store anymore?
Don’t worry Brooks. Super Woman is on the job, helping fight Amazon.
I wonder if she is worried about too many Somalis moving from her district out to Shakopee to be closer to their jobs. That might make her vulnerable to a primary fight in two years (especially if she beclowns herself).
You mean other than campaign finance violations and marrying her brother to avoid the proper immigration process?
My hope is that she irks the establishment Dems enough that they put a fatwa on her and give the MSM press the greenlight to look into her “marriage”.
“who’s the first Somali-American ”
How far do you get down the qualifications before it becomes ridiculous to be keeping track.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for “first San Marino-American” or “first Liechtenstein-American”.
https://www.econlib.org/archives/2012/05/curley_effect_i.html
Heh
https://glibertarians.com/2018/03/the-greatest-political-movie-ever-and-my-favorite-politician/
I am going to say it again because it gives me such great pleasure.
Hillary lost. She isnt president today. She isnt going to be president tomorrow. She is never going to be president. Never. Ever. It is never going to be her turn.
Ha ha ha.
I love heartwarming comments like this. Especially this time of year. God bless you Suthen’ for sharing the Christmas spirit!
She’s going to run again so we’ll see.
Trump’s legacy: Gorsuch and Kavanaugh
Herstory: nobody
Poor Mueller. Looks like Jack Reacher never showed up.
I can never see that name without thinking “round” has fallen off the end of it
ha
Serial rabbit-killer terrorises picturesque Brittany village
We call them Coyotes around here.
They’ll be just fine. Those things breed like…you know.
LIKE SMITHS? STEVE SMITH TRY BREEDING… A LOT.
The city believes he then wanted to flip the home for a profit. Johnston has claimed he wanted to move his family of six into the planned mansion.
Traverce filed a complaint to the city over the demolition, fearing what a larger remodel could do to the cost of an already expensive neighborhood.
‘Demolishing a $1.2million house and replacing it with a $5million house only makes the affordability that much worse in the city,’ said Commissioner Dennis Richards.
‘We’re finding there’s an epidemic of these kinds of things happening.’
This requires a special sort of willful, proactive stupidity. The People’s Republic of Pacifica has a nice ring to it. Just go ahead and secede.
I…. uh….. oh fer fuck’s sake.
“OK, I’ll build a five-condo building at $1M each.”
*neighbors go apeshit*
Traverce filed a complaint to the city over the demolition, fearing what a larger remodel could do to the cost of an already expensive neighborhood.
That’s a new one. Usually, people bitch about new projects that they think will lower their property values.
In that neighborhood? For sure. She must be a true believer™.
California’s property tax laws create a whole lot of unintended consequences.
Gun Confiscation Begins in New Jersey
The law, signed by Gov. Phil Murphy in June along with five other new gun laws, gave New Jersey gun owners who currently possess the magazines in question 180 days to either surrender them, permanently modify them to only accept up to 10 rounds, or transfer them to somebody who is allowed to legally own them. The deadline is set to expire on Monday.
A lawsuit brought by the Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs and supported by the National Rifle Association failed on Thursday as the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals declared the confiscation law constitutional. Any civilian caught in possession of a magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds may be arrested and prosecuted. Possession of such magazines after the deadline will be considered a crime of the fourth degree under state law and carry up to 18 months in prison and up to $10,000 in fines or both.
Nearly all modern full-size or compact handguns and rifles sold in the United States come standard with magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition…
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.”
1) The “public safety” exception must have been left out of my copy of the Constitution, as is the limit of self-defense being “in the home”. 2) Good lord, no they are not different than “ordinary citizens”. They are citizens hired to enforce the law. This is a literal violation of equal protection. This fucker would look you dead in the eye while pissing on you and say it’s rain. Not to mention his “taking is not taking” or registration reasoning. Jebus Christ. . .
Supported by the NRA? How? A fucking press release?
Hey NRA, keep filing lawsuits, assholes.
We’ve gone around on this before – Judges think that cops get an exemption because they are so awesomely trained, but refuse to make a similar exception for members of the military, Veterans, and other civilians who have similar training.
Police unions and political endorsements by cops in uniform need to be outlawed.
Or disenfranchising them as Peel did?
https://glibertarians.com/2017/04/liberty-de-facto-liberty-de-jure-freedom-helped-by-corruption/
New Jersey is corrupt yet unlibertarian. How is that possible.
Makes sense, All the places that Stringently impose the law are Libertarian Paradises.
Is Zimbabwe libertopia?
I mean if we want to keep arguing in bad faith we can, but it doesn’t make you look smart.
In all seriousness the problem with “corruption is libertarian” is that it assumes that corrupt politicians want to leave you alone and know their policies are terrible.
And the reason I brought this up because of Menendez.
“corruption is libertarian”
Well if you took the time to skim through Pie’s article you would see that he was not arguing that. He was saying that Corruption can help people be more “free”. If you can bribe the cop to look the other way, you are free to operate your black market operation. The argument is not for corruption in crafting the law. Its that corruption in skirting the law can be good for people.
I didn’t mean to imply that Pie thinks that way but some do:
https://tucker.liberty.me/in-praise-of-political-corruption-marion-barry-edition/
“Second Amendment’s right to self-defense in the home.”
Hmm I missed the “in the home” part of the Second Amendment.
When did Amazon quietly push out the edited version of the Bill of RIghts that contains the phrase “in your home”?
As always, I am sure that the “in your home” modified applies to the 1A as well. So you can speak freely in your home, but the State can ring you up for hate speech in public.
“Like all constitutional rights, the first amendment is subject to reasonable, common-sense restrictions.”
I’m taking it this will end up before SCOTUS? It doesn’t seem like anything that would get a majority opinion there.
It doesn’t seem like anything that would get a majority opinion there.
SCOTUS has been running away from Heller as fast as it can, mostly by letting lower court decisions upholding gun control stand without being reviewed.
Yes, SCOTUS is notorious for letting anti-second amendment 3rd circuit decisions stand. Like when they declined to take up the 3rd circuit’s decision in Drake where they ruled that New Jersey prohibiting bearing of arms does not burden the right to bear arms.
“or transfer them to somebody who is allowed to legally own them.”
i.e. agents of the state.
I like a bunch of individual janquis, but these head-scratchers keep coming up. As to the betrodden in Jersey, I recommend they move: to Michigan.
I can’t help but observe that the Southern urge to resist such centralized over-reaches remains the closest approach to the American ideal.
* checks pistol, re-holsters *
* goes to play golf *
New Jersey’s responses to the rise in active and mass shooting incidents in the United States
Objection. Cites facts not in evidence
IIRC recent gun-grabbing efforts in NY and CT got like single-digit compliance. I’m guessing the intent here is more to pile on offenses when they paw through your car during a stop or something.
We will enforce this law only against those who we have decided need a good enforcin.
/the state
GOP shot themselves in the foot again. instead of forcing the Dems to kick off a senior member in the name of equality, Kamala Harris will remain on the Judiciary Committee. in return, the GOP get to add another one of their own.
I hope they got something in return for allowing her to grandstand for the next couple of years.
Not really. Just one extra seat. But apparently it’s not a popular committee despite purview over appointments.
Not a lot of graft in the judiciary appointments.
I’m not sure. I bet Kamala would have made bank with the claim that she was kicked off the committee because she was too black, too woman and too honest.
Sure she gets to grandstand if there is another nomination fight, but I bet she would rather be talking about her victim status as opposed to how the Patriarchy snuck a domestic abuser onto her staff.
That’s preferable to having her voice amplified at every single judicial committee hearing in perpetuity.
A retry of my bit of holiday silliness. I ran across the following comment with regard to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol,
It’s a chilling cautionary tale of an admirably sound business man who was overcome by mawkish sentimentality.
My response is as follows,
Nice.
WHYCOME YOU NO MAKE PICTURES ‘STEAD OF A BUNCH OF WORDS, CUCK
THIS AIN’T BOOK CLUB
(I did in fact enjoy reading that. And the whole bit with Scrooge plonking some poor guttersnipe with a guinea and demanding he fetch a turkey wasn’t what I’d call charitable.)
And the whole bit with Scrooge plonking some poor guttersnipe with a guinea and demanding he fetch a turkey wasn’t what I’d call charitable.
Ah, I hadn’t thought about that bit. I was thinking of his backtracking on his previous refusal to donate to the other businessmen who were taking a collection. But, doesn’t your example fit my point? He gives the kid a decent tip for services rendered and the kid is going to go all over town telling everybody what a great guy he is.
You may have a point, although that’s certainly not the morality tale Dickens intended to portray. He was going for mawkish sentimentality and a single dimensional caricature of capitalism as evil, as he was in all of his writing.
Dammit I thought leftist politics in entertainment was a new thing. /Internet Star Wars Sequel hater
I remember, way back, S.I.L. had a version that ended with Tiny Tim saying “And I’ll buy my own damn crutches.”
Manic Monday: ROOOOSSSSIANS!
a compromised moron into the U.S. presidency.
But Hillary lost.
Is it me or has this Redskins outrage died down? Snyder seems to be holding the line and won’t budge. Good for him.
It takes assholes to defeat assholes.
Better this than bending and bowing to every person who is offended.
Comedian defends being forced to sign a document promising not to be homophobic, transphobic, sexist, racist. blah, blah, blah. Lionel is a lot funnier than the comedian he’s debating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JRZ1z-i3B4
I bet her comedy set is a freaking laugh riot.
I hate to break it to them, but every company does that.
They remind me of teachers. Sheltered from the real job world and always complaining.
Gosh i cant stand teachers. I have a friend on facebook who used to always complain about how little he got paid. I wanted to look at him and say “Dude, you chose to be a teacher, You knew the pay was shit”. I also hate when they argue “We are so important we teach the next generation, and yet we don’t get paid enough”. You do shit for teaching kids. Start teaching them better and we’ll talk about pay. Finally when they say crap like “We have to pay for our own things in the class”. Yeah and I’ve paid for my own professional development too. It’s something all professionals do.
“Dude, you chose to be a teacher, You knew the pay was shit”.
The pay is pretty good considering the total lack of credentials or accountability required, particularly if you break it down to an hourly rate since most teachers only work 3 quarters of the year.
Teacher pay is great, add in benefits and time off and it’s even better. My buddy is a math teacher. One of the few who doesn’t complain. It took me 6 years out of college to make what he started with in salary. During those 6 years his pay increased at a minimum of cost of living. I haven’t seen a raise in 8 years. All my pay increases have come with promotions. I’m not complaining, I love my job.
Plus, let’s not forget the sizeable automatic bump for getting additional degrees, regardless of how half-assed a degree program it may be.
“We have to pay for our own things in the class”
Idiot obviously doesn’t know how to itemize on his income tax return.
GOP shot themselves in the foot again. instead of forcing the Dems to kick off a senior member in the name of equality, Kamala Harris will remain on the Judiciary Committee. in return, the GOP get to add another one of their own.
You silly person, nothing can get smaller in government. That would be a rejection of progress.
Forward, Comrades! Into the future!
Actually, I like this. It means a single dipshit Repub Senator (yeah, I’m looking at you, Flake) can’t derail a confirmation.
Marines Testify About the “Antifa Mob” They Say Attacked Them in Philly
“I could have died that day,” one of the marines told the court on Thursday morning.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/12/13/marines-assaulted-philadelphia-keenan-massey-antifa/
Are we sure those blood thirsty marines didn’t premeditate their assault on those Poor Antifa
goonsprotesters?There are assholes in Philadelphia? Who knew?
Santa knew.
** Shakes head in disappointment at Wing Marines. Arranges a couple infantry squads to visit the next Philly Antifa meeting…
Hey! Like I said below, in my day even the Wing would have gone out to get some back.
Maybe because they were reservists?
Hey, now!
I was a Reservist most of my time – that would not have mattered – and might have made it less likely somebody in the chain of command could have squashed our Philly road-trip.
I had the same thought – maybe reservists aren’t as tight?
We had some epic brawls with airmen from Kadena when I was in Oki. After a while Marine were banned from the Banyan Tree Club, the e-club at Kadena.
As a rule Marines were banned from the e-club at Kadena when I was there.
We were doing some joint training with the Kadena ATC folks so we got special “club cards” that would allow you in.
Yeah, when I was in Okinawa there were at least two major brawls between our unit and another unit that was entirely a followup to a fight the previous week. One time was to get revenge for some our ours getting jumped. The other was because we knew the other unit was out looking for some payback against our guys for the previous fight.
Not a good showing for the air wing of the Marines though.
I’m a bit flummoxed though that these two guys haven’t been visited by some of these Marines squadron mates yet. I think that in my day, we would have gone out and exacted some revenge on any antifa assholes if one of my squadron had been fucked up.
I joked above, but yes, uniformed Marines attacked on the street? When I was in the Infantry, no question that would have been followed up with a road trip by the whole damn platoon.
#MeToo
2 marines against 12 attackers? I don’t like those odds.
It isn’t that they lost the fight. What us ex-jarheads are mad about is that their unit didn’t show up later and lay waste to any pasty bastard who had a can of mace and a handkerchief.
Fair ’nuff. But maybe their unit didn’t want jail time, cuz that’s what they would have got.
I doubt they would have gotten jail time. They might have been brought to the station and then released to their Sgt. Major for “proper discipline” but that is about it.
Most cops are pretty pro-military. Unless you were fighting the cops, they usually let you go without charges and just remanded you to the custody of the Marines.
As a fellow air winger, I agree. There would have been fucking massacres had that happened to anyone in my detachment. We may have been air wing, but we had some orney motherfuckers who were always itching to fight. Several of our NCOs/SNCOs were former infantrymen who had lat-moved into ATC due to injuries that made infantry life too painful.
the judge ruled that both men would be held for trial on aggravated assault and conspiracy charges — both felonies — as well as several misdemeanors. The judge also added a felony charge of ethnic intimidation against Keenan.
i assume those felonies will be plead down to misdemeanors, probation, and time served.
Mammary Monday bounces into your day!
http://archive.is/brKvh
Great collection.
53 has an OMG hot pose.
50 for the visible nips.
23 has the pretty lactating virgin thing going.
1 wins the THICC award.
SHUT UP!
I’m at work and the summary makes it extra hard not to click that shit.
Just out of curiosity how many Japanese are visible in #50?
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-foreign-policy-authoritarianism.html
“Trump is not the first president to value weapon deals over even the most basic human rights principles, but he’s the first to come out and say it so nonchalantly.”
Money Quote.
” For instance, both Warren and Sanders (rightly!) rank climate change solutions near the top of America’s global priorities. But any serious proposal to address climate change is going to require the world’s largest carbon emitter, China, to play a leading role. Would a Warren or Sanders administration be willing to downplay China’s near-genocide of its Muslim population if that’s what it took to get Beijing’s agreement to binding CO2 targets? Would it let North Korea’s abuses slide in exchange for nuclear inspections? Could it work toward Middle East peace without the help of Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, and yes, even Saudi Arabia?”
LOL
Oooh, e-mail from HR: Invitation to Self-Identify
Sadly, it’s just to (optionally) self-identify as a vet or as disabled, for government contract reasons.
My dream of responding “I sexually identify as an attack helicopter” will have to wait.
“I self-identify as intensely annoyed by this bullshit.”
I have no idea how I’d manage to work for a company large enough to have HR.
They can mostly be ignored.
Unless the goddam benefits renewal requires me to prove my spouse isn’t eligible for some other company’s benefits. $185/month if you don’t submit an affidavit with tax or SSA backup.
Ooof. I’ll amend that to “my HR can mostly be ignored.”
We haven’t yet gone down the “we won’t cover your spouse if they could otherwise be covered” road, though that recently happened to friends of mine.
https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1074486397111885827
Niskanen continues to win praise from neocons.
As if there was ever a difference between themselves and neocons.
The only real difference is that the neocons are more quick to call for war.
What is “right of center” about the Niskaninnies? Every fucking thing they advocate is collectivist in nature.
Between somewhat to the right of Lizzie Warren
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-big-idea/2018/8/16/17698602/socialism-capitalism-false-dichotomy-kevin-williamson-column-republican-ocasio-cortez
https://theweek.com/articles/810564/who-rise-postliberal-world-order
What a load of self-serving malarkey. The technocracy, by its nature, isn’t liberal and isn’t all that interested in getting out of the way. They’ve only preened themselves that that was what they were doing to cover for their own authoritarian tendencies. In no small part, that’s what’s given way to the “post-liberal world order”. Wide swaths of the public have realized that the liberalism that the technocracy was selling them was usually little more than the technocracy stacking the deck to their own benefit while claiming that was a free market and a “meritocracy”.
by its nature, isn’t liberal
This. The trouble with self-described liberals is that they are not.
Holy shit, what a steaming load of crap. And I read one of the linked articles (Suicide and the chimera of American prosperity) and it may have been even worse.
Muh Monopoleee!
Virgin Galactic is in a race with SpaceX and Blue Origin to send the first fee-paying passengers into space.
But Andy Thomas, Australia’s pre-eminent NASA astronaut, yesterday condemned the Virgin Galactic mission, describing it as, “go nowhere, dead-end technology”.
NASA astronaut Andy Thomas has described his discomfort with how Virgin Galactic technology was being marketed.
“Who said you could do that?”
I don’t get the claim of ‘muh monopolee’ at all, just “this is a bit of hucksterism”
I think we’d all agree with this:
And this:
This weekend I witnessed the greatest ever trolling at my extended family Christmas. Most of my family is Republican (Libertarian and they don’t know it), with exception to my cousin and his wife who are leftists. My uncle is fully aware but plays dumb with them. Throughout the day he throws out random “can you believe this” comments to them. When they attempt a rebuttal he just continues on the conversation as though they agree with him. It’s a great little trick I might start using it.
*greatest trolling ever phone grammars
LOL
So I sent a Facederp message to a woman who I think may be my brother’s sister. At the very least, she’s one of his brazillion first cousins (his grandparents had, apparently, 8 children), but I’m hoping for more. I’ve been watching too much Long Lost Family, I think.
Keep your fingers crossed!!
I’m very confused. You sent a message to yourself?
(adoption – it’s a thing)
FWIW, adoption was what I inferred.
For you weirdos that think she is attractive: Miley Cyrus risks a nip slip on ‘Saturday Night Live’
As my Ma would have said “she looks like she smells bad”
And if you touched her she’d be sticky
You say this as if it’s a bad thing.
I, for one, enjoy the sticky sultriness of hot, panting breath, and sweaty excitement of dopamine and nitrous oxide scattershots.
I’m reminded of a frontman in one of my bands during a side-project show. “Who wants to have sex with sweaty bitches?!” he cried out with seeming derision.
Uh…me?
You are a complicated man
I’m talkin’ ’bout
meShaft.She doesn’t look like she smells like sweat. She looks like she smells like day-old cigarettes, coffee breath, and dirty socks.
now now… I wouldn’t marry Miley or even have a long-term relationship for her. But I bet she would be fun to party with. And at my age, I would probably me the most likely to die from the experience.
Cause of death: Cocaine induced atrial fibrillation or, alternatively, complications from advanced neurosyphillus.
Probably best to steer clear.
Baby.
So apparently The Weekly Standard is publishing its last issue today. Now long before Niskanen scoops up the intellectual powerhouses that are Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes?
All I can think of when I hear the name Fred Barnes in the SNL McLaughlin Report parody
WRONG!!!!
That was the only Sunday news show worth a damn. RIP
True. It’s still on via YouTube, but you can never replace John McLaughlin.
You all had Special K with banana!
Patty-Patty Buke-Buke
Looking forward to the bidding war between Reason, CATO, and Niskanen
Kristol’s going to need a cooler wardrobe in order for Reason to consider him.
Bomb everyone in the world, then let them move here!
They get paid to write it over and over in different ways. It beats working for a living.
I thought Kristol was already one of Niskanen’s advisors?
What is the real difference between Bill Kristol and Brink Lindsey (Niskanen) on foreign policy? Honestly. Brink Lindsey, Bill Kristol, and Bill Weld have all supported the exact same foreign interventions since the 90’s.
I don’t get the claim of ‘muh monopolee’ at all, just “this is a bit of hucksterism”
To me, it came off as a complaint about uncredentialed moneygrubbers tainting science. Maybe I’m prejudiced.
Madoff victims have gotten about 70% of their lost principle restored. With wins in the remaining lawsuits, it could get up to 91%.
Anything above 30% in these type of situations is unheard of.
Two ex-associates of Michael Flynn charged with lobbying for Turkey
Two ex-business associates of former national security adviser Michael Flynn have been charged over alleged illegal lobbying on behalf of the Turkish government in the United States and making false statements to the FBI, according to an indictment unsealed Monday.
Bijan Rafiekian, also known as Bijan Kian, and Kamil Ekim Alptekin of Istanbul were charged after allegedly being involved in a conspiracy to “covertly influence U.S. politicians and public opinion” against a Turkish citizen living in the U.S. whose extradition had been requested by the Turkish government, according to the Justice Department.
That Turkish citizen is Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused of directing a failed coup.
The alleged plot detailed Monday included using a company founded by Rafiekian, referred to in the indictment as “Company A,” based upon “Person A’s” national security expertise. Person A reportedly is Flynn.
According to the indictment, the purpose of the conspiracy was to use Company A to “delegitimize the Turkish citizen in the eyes of the American public and United States politicians, with the goal of obtaining his extradition, which was meeting resistance at the U.S. Department of Justice.”
Kian and Alptekin allegedly sought to conceal that the Turkish government was directing the work. According to the indictment, Turkish cabinet-level officials approved the budget for the project, and Alptekin allegedly provided Turkish officials updates on the project.
Both Kian and Alptekin failed to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), under which Flynn, the former White House national security adviser, also failed to register connected with his work with Turkey. According to the indictment, Rafiekian was vice chairman of Flynn’s business group, the Flynn Intel Group. The two worked throughout 2016 to seek ways to have cleric Gulen extradited from the U.S. to Turkey.
“let’s read every single piece of communication he’s ever had. then we’ll just throw a ton of shit out there and see what sticks”
There are about three civil libertarians left in the country. Most of them have thoroughly discredited themselves during the course of this investigation. Their low point was when Julian Sanchez (CATO’s “civil liberties expert”) was enraged that House Republicans were demanding that FBI reports of the investigation be declassified.
Were there ever more than three? Considering how quite a few “civil libertarians” behaved in WWII or what they thought of the Soviet bloc I do wonder…
That’s one hell of a convoluted conspiracy.
“We need to get him back to Turkey.”
“I’ll start a business!”
“How is that going to help?”
“Uh, I’ll get an American intelligence guy to work with.”
“I still don’t see it.”
“Um, you’ll pay for it.”
“I think we’re talking past each other here.”
“Something, something…profit!?”
“Ok, here are the funds.”
Shorter Niskanen: Sweden and Denmark are totes awesome and we will create a fiscally responsible welfare state somehow.
Russia Fever Dreams is the respectable man’s QAnon.
https://www.thenation.com/article/russiagate-russophobia-mueller-trump/
From The Nation
Late link poll question: Who’s the bigger asshole, the guy in the left turn lane who waited until the light turned green to wave a homeless guy over for some change, thus making me wait through another light cycle? Or me for wanting to strangle him?
You. For not wanting to strangle both of them.
Homeless people are to be run over, not to be heard.
This is why “The Purge” was first invented
Last night I was watching “Dial M for Murder” – and afterward I was thinking how many women I’ve met in my life that can compare to Grace Kelly in the beauty and poise department.
I could come up with one or two – tops.
I like my women to be more of a bottom, but to each their own.
You forgot “thank goodness the woman I married (who comments here) is one of them” 😉
https://twitter.com/umarsaif/status/1073541896759377920
holy shit the excuses and whining in the responses. a complete attack on the idea of merit and hard work.
we are becoming a small people.
Becky
@BeckyEscalator
With a garage?! In THIS economy?
wotton
@WottonLang
Doesn’t have to be in SF! Cheap garages in Montana, many such places
Becky
@BeckyEscalator
1. With what job?
2. With what healthcare?
3. With what civil liberties?
4. With what art/culture/community?
5. What infrastructure?
wotton
@WottonLang
Hey do you want an “early struggles overcome” narrative or what? How easy do you want it to be?
To be fair, the stories of oppression I hear coming out of Montana are pretty shocking.
1. With what job?
– Isn’t that what you are doing in your garage?
2. With what healthcare?
– Hey with no income at first it can get it for free!
3. With what civil liberties?
– Well Property Ownership and Self defense to start…
4. With what art/culture/community?
– Didn’t know that Art was required for a startup
5. What infrastructure?
– You really think that it’s Somalia outside of California don’t you?
Hey do you want an “early struggles overcome” narrative or what? How easy do you want it to be?
Exactly. Becky sounds like the kind of person who wouldn’t know left if train plowed through her right side.
“4. With what art/culture/community?”
Why is this important? You need art galleries nearby in order to invent something?
What infrastructure?
Umm, sweetie, CA has some of the most dilapidated infrastructure in the whole country. It has been underinvesting in maintenance and expansion for a generation or more.
With what art/culture/community?
And, here’s the tell. She is far less interested in actually inventing shit and starting a company than she is in “being” an inventor/entrepeneur and living a hip urban life.
Yeah, the whining is incredible. The fact is, those young businesses would have loved the stuff available to entrepreneurs today. Digital mailboxes, swanky shared workspaces on the cheap, telecommuting, relatively cheap online advertising, free or inexpensive applications to handle just about any business function, etc.
In fact, three of the companies mentioned (Apple, Amazon and Google) have helped to make starting a business easier than ever.
Madoff victims have gotten about 70% of their lost principle restored. With wins in the remaining lawsuits, it could get up to 91%.
How many of those people complained to the SEC about their “fishy” ~20% annual rate of return?
70% seems cheap for the lesson of “too good to be true always is”.
Doesn’t have to be in SF! Cheap garages in Montana, many such places
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO1111!!!!