Hi guys, how’s it going? I’ve officially hit the work lull. Nobody’s bothering me and its almost better than being off. My father and I did our annual Christmas lunch of oysters on the half shell and other seafood. It’s a nice tradition. I hope we do it for 20 more years.
STEVE SMITH VOW VENGEANCE! ALTHOUGH HIM MUST ADMIT, SHOOT STEVE FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER PROBABLY BEST WAY TO PREVENT RAPE.
And some Glibs like the thicc, and others dig otters. Here is a thicc otter for them.
The Brits call out the Army to quell drone threat near Gatwick. Whoever is flying the drones is an asshole, but the Army?
Now that the FedGov is going to get money from Juul via Altria, I assume the witchhunt will slow down until more extortion is needed.
Time for one of my favorite Christmas songs.
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429 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1075846949427908608
Holy shit. First?
Point of procedure: you cant score a first by making your first comment o/t.
Fuck.
Oh, well. Guess I’ll go read the actual links then.
*kicks pebble, stubs toe*
Looks like Ms. Claudette Colbert disagrees.
+1 precode
*faints*
Well, since you put it that way….
The good kind of Colbert.
ZING!
The Hat: Brilliant!
I’d buy that for a dollar!
Umm…is that a reward or rebuke?
Reward…definitely reward.
But she looks disappointed.
That’s the reward. Or are you not married?
And she asks the other women to join her in the bath.
Nice GIF. Where is all that white sludge coming from?
Milk bath, of course.
#TedTrap
It is a milk bath….to show the good old Roman decadence. As Ted points out, she is inviting her lady friends to join her…
The movie in question is The Sign of the Cross.
One reviewer described as Cecil B. DeMille wanting to show Christian virtue triumphing over Roman vice, with the best way to do that being to put lots and lots of vice on the screen.
There’s gladiatorial combat with animals; a lesbian dance scene between Joyzelle Joyner and Elissa Landi; and a torture scene with two shirtless men where it looks like somebody is getting off on it. 😐
Thoroughly enjoyable, and available on DVD.
I thought Sappho was Greek.
It’s what happens when you dump the entire bottle of bubble bath in the onsen.
That is so wrong, I can’t even.
At least she doesn’t have any tattoos.
How do you know? Herve is small and can hold his breath.
Deplane! Deplane!
I like that gif. I think it rivals the #1 butt gif.
Tres Sr. and I will be enjoying oysters christmas eve.
Euphemism?
no euphemism, but perhaps botulism
Something about months with R in them?
You already bought them?
Its ok. Tres is immune to vibrio.
If anyone knows about droning, it’s some squaddies.
Drone Strike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boom
HEY YUFUS!
Sup tres!!!
I recently learned that my wife hates oysters. I mean, I knew she had terrible taste when she picked me, but I didn’t think it was this bad.
I used to absolutely love them, but they haven’t appealed to me since I stopped drinking. Does mean I’ve been a philistine all along?
They kind of go together.
Vodka lowers the risk of food poisoning.
/chipotle frantically filing for distiller’s license.
They could start by properly seasoning and spicing their food.
I like oysrers on the half shell, but the best oysters are deep-fried and served in a po’boy.
I had really good fried oysters at a movie theater once. Most surprising gamble of my life.
Now THAT is true Florida Man nuttery.
Next you’ll be eating sushi at the gas station.
*tosses empty Circle K sushi container into trash*
You don’t eat it at the gas station. You let it warm up in the car on your way back to the office. Geez.
Thot Thursday continues with voluptuous vamps sure to be sturdy vessels for seed.
http://archive.is/rd9bb
Invite over 20 of your closest friends for a shameful and depraved orgy.
Any and all.
Nice list. Be easier to list the girls I’d stay away from.
See? Easy.
If I can make it through the next 1.5 hours I’m out of here until January 2. I’m planning on being offline for as much of that as possible, so if I don’t get a chance to say it, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all you Glibs out there.
And to you, Tulpa!
Enjoy!
Merry Christmas, Kevin!
Psst. He’s the Other Kevin.
Regular Kevin never made it here from TOS.
Feleeze Naviduh!
Poleece HaveyerDad?
Happy generic holiday wishes.
Especially a Merry Christmas to OMWC.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Ditto. All the best!
/punches TOK in the stomach.
Thanks!
/pulls jersey over Rufus’ head
*wipes away a tear*
Christmas fights are the best fights.
It’s so festive!
Merry Christmas and Happy Channukah and Glorious Kwanzaa and MOST IMPORTANTLY
HAPPY FESTIVUS!
Merry Christmas, I suppose. Don’t really like it, though. Watching video of Black Friday sales has soured me on the whole thing.
Merry Christmas!
Today was my first day off for the holiday break. You can get through those 1.5 hours. It’s worth it.
I thought thin bears were otters? So a thicc otter would, conversely, be a bear?
Yes.
I’ve got to hand it to the dude who started that GoFundMe for the wall. Great way to bilk money out of idiots, until you end up in prison for fraud.
They’ll never find me
If he built the wall, prison for defrauding government contractors?
Ironically he will have to flee to one of the very countries who’s inhabitants he’s trying to keep out because of their lack of an extradition treaty.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
So hard to believe that Lindsey Graham would be against saving soldier lives & billions of $$$. Why are we fighting for our enemy, Syria, by staying & killing ISIS for them, Russia, Iran & other locals? Time to focus on our Country & bring our youth back home where they belong!
Donald Trump has gone YOLO. Where was this guy for the past two years?
DJT has been killing it on the twitters today. It’s days like this that make me want to vote for him next time around without reservations. I’m sure he’ll remind me what those reservations are soon enough.
Yeah. He’s been hitting the right people. Even ancaps have been praising him on Twitter (and they don’t like any politicians).
Mark Levin told me on hate radio that supporting troop withdrawal means the terrorists win.
Go Terrorists!
You’re not supposed to say that out loud.
Levin (2015): I don’t like Trump
*Trump bombs Syria*
Levin: I like Trump
*Trump pulls out of Syria*
Levin: I don’t like Trump
At least it’s consistent.
Neocon Fredo having a sad makes me happy.
Levin sold CRTV to Beck. What does he know!?
To get the upper hand, Levin hired Mormon lawyers to negotiate the deal, to outwit Beck’s Jewish lawyers.
Interesting, Assad wasn’t our enemy back when we were renditioning captives there for *ahem* interrogation.
The short-term memory and general ignorance of our political and media class is truly astounding
If they’d just get abortions they’d be treated like queens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/business/planned-parenthood-pregnant-employee-discrimination-women.html
Shocker, employers need people who will be able to show up to work.
Those babies/fetuses won’t abort themselves.
I’ve got a 6:30 AM flight tomorrow morning. Lyft scheduled to pick up at 4:45. Not expecting to sleep.
But then again, I won’t be back at the office until January 3. So that’s nice.
But… where are you going?
I thought people go TO Florida for winter break.
*brahmin accent*
I usually winter in Florida.
Hooters used to have really good oysters surprisingly, then they went to down in quality and I’ve never been back.
again, Euphemism?
Definitely analogy.
“they” refers to?
The oysters. I heard they had their own oyster farm and then out sourced.
So probably one of the N. FL ones that they (not Hooters, but the oystermen) intentionally let go to shit for stupid reasons. Mostly expectation of subsidies.
I ate at an oyster bar yesterday. But I ordered shrimp, because that’s the kind of guy I am this week.
I too like to live dangerously
I won’t go to a chain restaurant for oysters. Bad bet.
*Cancels Red Lobster date with Brett*
But how are the bearded clams?
Dude, there are no more bearded clams anymore.
Who ate all of them?
If I’m following Semi-Spartan Dad’s story below correctly, I think it was Jennifer.
I also have to hand it to President Trump. He’s managed to turn the left into cop-worshipping war mongers. It’s a sight to be seen.
“war mongers”
I must have missed the time when they weren’t.
For what it’s worth, I give most of the credit to Rand Paul who has been trying to sway Trump away from Bolton for a while now. There were articles about this a few months ago, but they all framed it as “Rand Paul is Also a Stooge of Russia”.
When BOOOOOOOOOSH was president.
Barack played his part in that, too.
Trump is such a mixed bag. If he gets us out of some wars, signs criminal justice reform, legalization of MJ, I’ll happily vote for him despite the tariffs and wall stuff.
Are there actually more tariffs then there were pre Trump? It’s not like we had free trade before he was President.
Personally, if Donald Trump cuts taxes, ends an illegal war, and signs even a small amount of criminal justice reform, I don’t see how he’s not easily the best President of my lifetime.
It’s beautiful!
Footage of the English Army downing a drone.
Target! Cease Fire.
Awesome
English army weapons inspection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdCNeunaK4
P14s.
I have 11 9th grade girls on their way to my place for my daughter’s annual Christmas party. Heading out for booze (for myself only!) to stay sane. My 15 y/o boy is pretty happy though.
Tell him the erection is usually too forward, but if it works, he should definitely keep in touch with her.
Sweatpants, bro.
U of Illinois Rugby club had a guy nicknamed “BISP”… boner in sweatpants.
One of the reoccurring team names at local trivia nights is “Sweatpants Boner”.
Those guys are hard to beat.
I’ll see that and raise you a “Better Late than Pregnant”
He’s staying in for the night, I presume?
Ha. Yeah. He declined a chance to hang out with his buddy.
I hope you have a doctor on speed dial in the event of an erection lasting more than four hours.
He’s 15. He’ll go rub one out. Go back to pretending to ignore the girls. Rub another out. And so on and so forth all night long. He’ll be fine.
All night? No way. Shooting blanks after round 3.
He’s 15. 15!
And have more than one bathroom.
Good luck, Chipperbot. You’re going to need it.
2 girls are louder than an entire hockey team of boys. 11 might cause permanent hearing damage.
There’s a little girl in the house behind mine. I have the strong impression that her favorite hobby is screaming.
Was OMWC visiting?!?!?!
He said screaming, not moaning.
My daughter had five 8th grade girls over last month.
Oof.
So did I, coincidentally.
Chasing cougars, eh?
Hopefully, one or two of those 9th graders has been held back a few years. IYKWIM.
Dear Pornhub, I never thought this would happen to me
This reminds me of a story my old boss told me once. This was when I was working in Foley AL, near the Gulf Coast. The boss, Mike, had a beautiful house on the water on exclusive Ono Island. His daughter was an undergrad at Bama and had invited several of her sorority sisters to come spend part of the summer there at dad’s house where he’s right on the beach, plus has a pool and a hot tub. All summer he had these gorgeous 20 year old girls hanging around his house in bikinis…..just torture.
Playa Manhattan on December 20, 2018 at 3:33 pm
Dear Pornhub, I never thought this would happen to me
Oooh. Bama sorority girls.
Yow. Za.
Obligatory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KudwS5U9ouA
I always wondered whom that recruiting video was targeted to.
I have lets say a friend, who’s sister had a sleep over at their house when they were both in high school. When the sister went off to bed, a few of her girlfriends in a larger group of about 10 decided to see what playing on the same team would be like, clothing optional of course. My friend did not complain.
*BOING*
If there was a storyline, it would be Jennifer decided she likes girls over boys and wanted to convince Jessica and Sarah that they did too. True story.
You have our attention. Continue…
I wouldn’t want to lose the family friendly rating we enjoy.
Sounds like it’s staying in the family.
I just picked up shrimp on special. U6. I didn’t even know it existed.
U6?
6 per pound. They’re the size of my fist.
Aren’t those just referred to as “small lobster tails”?
I also bought 2 rock lobster tails for the wife and I. The shrimp are actually bigger.
That’s like the shrimp I saw in a restaurant in Thailand. They were massive.
Damn, I didn’t even know any shrimp grew that big. Are they good? I’ve found myself to prefer shrimp on the small side. Larger prawns haven’t tended to be as flavorful in my experience.
I’ve never cooked any this big. I might have to change my methods so they cook all the way through. Or… butterfly them.
sous vide dude. Sous vide.
That’s a definite maybe. I did a test run with Red Baron on one of them… So ridiculously good. I don’t want to ruin these by overcooking, but I also don’t want to poising my family.
What temp do you do for shrimp?
I don’t eat seafood, but Kenji has this that looks good
https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/01/sous-vide-shrimp-garlic-sherry-smoked-paprika-recipe.html
That was the first hit when I searched. It seems lower than I expected.
BTW, do you eat land food?
Land Food
Yeah I don’t care for any fish or shellfish.
Six to a pound.
6 shrimp make a pound?
17 pence a piece, guv’nuh.
102 pence; so less than half a pound?
Damn, I picked up some U15 yesterday. Now I’m jealous.
How are you going to season?
I looked for my usual mesquite seasoning, but they were out. I’m going to try Red Baron (basically a seasoning salt with paprika and celery powder) instead.
I’m grilling using the Traeger recipe.
https://www.traegergrills.com/recipes/seafood/grilled-shrimp-cocktail
I bought one of the Traeger smoker grills for the office this week. We’re doing poor man’s surf and turf (shrimp and flank steak) for the Christmas party.
I don’t buy seafood. So this is the first time I have learned that shrimp are basically sold in a gauge system.
AP Headline:
US sportswear traced to factory in China’s internment camps
iowahawk’s response:
I hate to think American college athletes might be wearing uniforms made by unpaid labor
I get that it’s meant to be ironic and funny, but a full ride scholarship, including free clothes, top notch medical treatment, and free tutoring isn’t exactly what I’d call unpaid.
“top notch medical treatment”
Apparently, you’ve never been to the Student Health Center.
Neither have they.
First result happened to be my Alma mater.
I went to public school.
a full ride scholarship
And can you even put a price on a sociology degree?
Oh and a never ending train of jersey chasing tail.
“In particular, several terms referenced originated from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and specifically reference Black women’s bodies. Using them in a sea otter meme without that background makes insinuations we never intended. We need to do better. 3/4”
https://twitter.com/MontereyAq/status/1075507606049808384
OFFS
What is this “We” shit?
Any otters that were offended by being compared to…
Oh wait, that’s not what you mean?
If these tweets are all from the same person I’d be inclined to believe that they’re taking the piss.
At least I would hope so.
You HAAVE got to be kidding.
They diddindonuffin wrong.
First they came for the memes, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not MLG.
Merry Christmas to all.
“Forever 21 Apologized for Using a White Model to Sell a ‘Black Panther’ Sweater
There’s no doubt that Marvel’s Black Panther—the second mainstream superhero movie featuring a black hero—was monumental for black America and was a celebration of black excellence. So when Forever 21 decided to use a white model to sell a “Wakanda Forever” sweater, people were understandably upset.”
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a25627733/forever-21-apology-white-model-black-panther-sweater/
people were
understandablyupsetOh, FFS.
They’re misusing “understandably”.
Can’t even count.
Yeah what about Steel?
Wesley Snipes’s tax resistance has made him an unperson.
And therefore a hero to me.
So does that make Spawn the first? I haz confuse.
Any white models that were offended by…
I’m just not doing this right, am I?
“Wakanda Forever”? Since it has never existed, how can it…. Nevermind.
Palestine isn’t real either, but they get to sit in on the UN’s assemblies.
How? It’s a movie about a fictional African nation.
Because white progressives say it is. Their narrative is everyone’s reality.
“Michelle Obama is instantly a “fashion icon” for wearing these bizarre $4,000 dollar balenciaga thigh highs, but Melania is completely ignored by every fashion magazine because of who her husband is.”
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1075841786319392771
I’d love to see Melania troll them by wearing the exact same boots tomorrow.
Wouldn’t they be a little loose on her? Wookie feet are a lot bigger than a straight’s.
You want to give Melania MRSA?
Those ugly things cost $4000? Looks like they got some boots from Payless and rolled them in glitter.
I am definitely in the wrong business.
Absolutely.
Haven’t you seen the Payless commercials bragging about how they’re able to trick people into paying top dollar for bargain basement shoes?
Didn’t HM come up with some covers with Melania the last time this was trotted out?
That was long before she was First Lady.
This is truly one of the stupidest memes to have appeared on Yokel Twitter. Are we supposed to forget all the navel-gazing articles that appeared after Melania wears something to a particular event? Or even the more milquetoast “This is Melania’s style” articles? Fuck, even CNN covers what the bint wears. Yes, it is entitled “A Year of Glamour and Gaffes”, but there isn’t a law that says coverage has to be sympathetic…yet. I’m sure the Ever Trumpers will start crowdfunding for that legislation as well.
The fashion industry, as a de facto rule, causes women to develop body-dysmorphia and eating disorders, if not depression. Ask anyone who’s ever done serious modeling.
This supposed outrageous hypocrisy is relatively banal. Like Hollywood and DC, the intersecting fashion world perfectly exemplifies the cliché of “With friends like these, who needs enemies?”
I brought up that point last time. Isn’t haute couture the very definition of elitism?
I thought we were all yellow-jacket wearing, anti-intellectual, salt of the earth, got friends in low places, populists now.
The problem is, to quote former-anti-imperialist, future-empress Grimes, “we appreciate power.” If Melania were featured in those magazines, were accepted by those particular elites (and not just the partial elitism she currently enjoys), ‘anti-elitists’ would .. appreciate that?!
“[Average p]eople still actually give a shit about the queen.”
This is sadly true. Our current anti-elitists aren’t truly egalitarian, they are just anti-these-elites. In their heart of hearts, they crave the power that the institutions they rail against currently possess. They want to see Kirk Cameron movies in IMAX. They want models to strut down the runway wearing those pink sweatshirts with the rose and crying kitten. They want Michelin to award three stars to Chick-fil-A.
This was long but worth reading about the intellectual shackles required if you want to associate with the right kind of people.
“His appearance in American politics coincides with a larger trend on the left that now serves to elevate every form of personal disappointment into a symptom of “systemic” abuse. The result hasn’t just been that my erstwhile friends are afflicted with debilitating persecution complexes: It also has destroyed their ability to exercise independent thought.”
The fact that we have transformed well-to-do urbanites into “victims” and lower-income rural residents as “oppressors” is one of the weirdest turn of events in modern America
Who’s we? Well-to-do educated urbanites who believe a victim–victimized dynamic undergirds every relation are incentivized to conceal and externalize their own privilege. It’s not surprising.
I now regularly read Quilette thanks to you and Rhywun. Great online publication.
I’ve noticed a few select friends of mine on the Left who if you even remotely have a disagreement with them, they will proudly say,” If you believe this than fuck you, we can’t talk anymore,” or “If you’re silent about X, then you’re just as bad as the person perpetrating the act.”
There’s no nuance with them.
There really isn’t. I have a hard-left progressive friend who called me “racist” for not believing in Russia Fever Dreams. It literally made no sense. He pretty much refuses to talk to me now. He said “I thought you were smarter than this”.
Their wild-eyed conspiracy theories are like gospel to them. This is their faith
Your ex-friend is Bizarro-World leftist John?!
“I thought you were smarter than this”
I have a friend who said this exact line to me when I tried to explain he was incorrect about some Trump claim he made — and I wasn’t in any way defending Trump, just clarifying what he said.
These people all just hate, hate, hate Trump, and there is no reasoning with them or getting them to want anything except his demise. Trump could rescue a child from a fire and CNN would root for the fire.
PROTIP: Someone who does this was never really your friend to begin with.
I don’t think nuance is the correct word. What they lack is peace of mind. They lack self-esteem. After the “self-esteem” movement in public schools for the last generation all they’ve got is vanity. Their “intelligence”, their “politics”, their “victimhood”, their “socio-economic status” – these are nothing but prized possessions to them. Disagreeing with them bruises their ego so much they think it is psychological rape; their reactions indicate desperation rather than wisdom.
I agree with this. I think you hit it on the nose.
As we brought up in a discussion in another forum today, I wonder how happy these people are in their lives otherwise. To be so overcome with hatred for Trump, does that rob them of all other joy?
I’m sure that for many it’s just a means of bonding. See: All my peers in Sacramento. Hating can be enjoyable. It doesn’t matter if they often get the facts wrong. That’s not the point. Why do we come to Glibs and read the linked-to Vox/WaPo/NYT/Guardian mendacious op-eds?
But there are lots of people who take it to excess, and they’re definitely miserable—they’ll even admit that it makes them miserable. “Why do you ‘turn on CNN for 15 minutes’ every free chance you get when you know it makes you angry and miserable?” You’re not exactly enjoying it with people; you even said it spikes your blood pressure! Stop doing this thing that makes you feel bad!
” Why do we come to Glibs and read the linked-to Vox/WaPo/NYT/Guardian mendacious op-eds?”
I don’t click those links. I hover over them to see the source and skip the Vox/NYT/etc. ones because it’s the same old same old and I don;t want to give them additional traffic. I do appreciate those who click the links and make an intelligent comment here which often spark a decent conversation.
Me neither, for the same reasons. I should’ve said “the quoted passages” from those articles, not the linked-to articles. No one clicks the links, after all.
Knowing what the other side is saying is helpful so that I know what to ignore when an acquaintance brings it up. I’m happy to address and get worked up about stupid opinions if they are original. I get no pleasure out of people parroting other opinions that they put no thought into.
I had a conversation a few days ago with a prog friend who fits that “people parroting other opinions that they put no thought into” description — he now lives in the People’s Republic of Santa Cruz, so I guess he thinks he needs to spout the talk if he’s going to meet any local women. But when he began to criticize my libertarianism, he actually started out by saying, “my friend, you have to realize that we all need a thing called roads“, and it was all I could do to not pull out my phone and say “can you start that again? I want to film you for the Glibertarians website.”
The next time someone says “ROADZ” to me I think my argument will be:
“Ok I concede. Now explain to me what roads has to do with a massive domestic spying apparatus, endless foreign wars, infringements on civil liberties and an income tax based on the premise that you are the property of the government?”
^^this.
“Jamie” sounds like an asshole. Good riddance.
And the Russia fever dreams… it’s all just so bizarre. Like pod-people bizarre.
During the election, I posited that the Clinton campaign was pushing the most outrageous lies imaginable to test the waters to see if they could get people to accept them. If they could, they would know that they could get the public to buy into whatever they wanted. So far, my theory seems to be being confirmed.
In contrast, Trump lies not even expecting to be believed by his supporters.
Yeah, I’m half way through and I can already tell “Jamie” is so far up his own ass there isn’t a lever long enough to dislodge him. Garbage.
Come and get him girls. He’s lazy, self centered, unfaithful and potentially abusive! What a catch.
From what I can tell, “Jamie” was always little more than a charlatan. The author even pointed out that he hadn’t actually read all of the literature he was referencing all those years. He got on the right track and played it to the top of the pyramid. It’s just, when he got there, he didn’t have the talent or knowledge to back it up. So, he latches on to the social justice con to keep the balls in the air.
Phrasing?
In the end, most people with charisma wind up abusing it.
I’m not sure what greater point this makes about some zeitgeist, but it was a really good read. What a surprise, the author is a very good writer.
False paternity.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-12-19/surprise-dna-results-are-turning-customer-service-reps-into-therapists
LOL. Your mommy was a slut.
hah….when my sister and I did Ancestry DNA a while back that’s like we said to mom – “Hey, kudos for not cheating on dad!”
I needn’t bother – when we were kids walking around my father’s hometown, we had locals just sort of squint and say, “are you Bobby [X]’s kids?”. The family resemblance is strong.
Big foreheads
Among other things.
Big (5”) taints?
Light brown women gets her Ancestry results and has a sad because she’s European.
That sucks. I feel bad for people who find out about that shit so late in life. It’d be hard to trust them after the decades of lies and secrecy.
It’s been done
Movies aren’t real life, Ted!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116275/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_60
Darth Vader did it better.
In Vermont if somebody plans to steal your guns, the cops will come and steal them first.
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201812police-school-officials-avert-middlebury-middle-school-shooting
Why grab the guns when the wanna be thieves are in custody? That’ll teach him to not almost be victimized.
Have some “student journalism”
These five urban areas are thriving, rural communities, however, are not. Since the 2008 recession, a high percentage of new jobs created in the US requires a bachelor’s degree, and many of these jobs are clustered in cities. As money is highly concentrated in cities, rural communities seeing money get siphoned out of their economies are vulnerable to exploitation.
With their rugged natural beauty and mountains that make skiers salivate, places like the Methow Valley of northern Washington face a tough decision. Struggle economically, relying on industries rapidly becoming automated like timber, agriculture, and mining, or sell out and allow the masses to come with their skis, bikes, and boots to recreate.
Keep the place small and rural, or become a Bend, Oregon, Jackson, Wyoming or Bozeman. As Mark Haggerty puts it, “if you have an airport, a national park, and a university, your problem is too much growth. If you don’t have one of those things, you’re probably losing people.”
For years, the Aspen Ski Corp tried to build a mega resort in the Methow. Maggie Kuhn, environmental activist living in the area, fought tooth and nail for years against the company. She recognized the impact such a behemoth development would have on the land, wildlife, and community.
Miraculously, she managed to fend off the impending ski resort, breaking the land up into several 200-acre allotments. Sitting in the grass amongst the wide-diameter Ponderosa Pines, admiring the treed mountain to the south of us, it was hard to imagine this place with thousands of people, giant buildings, and acres of paved parking lots. When given the choice of reaching the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, the Methow decided to avoid it, keeping their rainbow untarnished.
Is it just my imagination, or is that entire thing a disjointed, incoherent pottage of important-sounding yet random phrases?
And, of course, that bullshit about “rural communities seeing money get siphoned out of their economies are vulnerable to exploitation” line spikes my blood pressure.
But there’s good news:
“Miraculously, she managed to fend off the impending ski resort” and now the people not worthy to join her self-congratulatory circle jerk are free to gambol in the pristine wilderness, assuming they have not yet starved or moved away.
Go fuck yourself, kid.
Somebody needs a proofreader and a spanking.
I discovered a new fetish.
These five urban areas are thriving, rural communities, however, are not.
Who was that commenter at TOS that always misused commas?
I, don’t know, what you’re, talking, about.
/somebody who reviews his work for extraneous commas because he tends to go overboard
My senior thesis in Uni was on Hemmingway. It’s “Ernest” not “Earnest”. At least I consistently misspelled throughout the entire paper.
Also, it’s Hemingway, not Hemmingway!
The Importance of Hemming the Earnest Way
Heh, heh. *shrugs*. Comment grammar ain’t pruff read.
You, just have to, read it, in Shatner’s voice.
My God, you are, right!
Me, maybe? I have to watch myself.
Punctuation is like sprinkles on ice cream. You don’t place them in certain spots. You just throw them in throughout your post and hope that the coverage is adequate.
Assholes
Everyone who works at Ferrari should be able to buy one.
These five ivory cubes are a rich ebony color.
“Colorado baker back in court after refusing to make cake celebrating gender transition
DENVER —
Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds – a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court – argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again over his refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition.
Lawyers for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver, are suing to try to stop the state from taking action against him over the new discrimination allegation. They say the state is treating Phillips with hostility because of his Christian faith and pressing a complaint that they call an “obvious setup.”
“At this point, he’s just a guy who is trying to get back to life. The problem is the state of Colorado won’t let him,” Jim Campbell, an attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, said after the hearing. The conservative Christian nonprofit law firm is representing Phillips.
State officials argued for the case to be dismissed, but the judge said he was inclined to let the case move forward and would issue a written ruling later.
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission said Phillips discriminated against Denver attorney Autumn Scardina because she’s transgender. Phillips’ shop refused to make a cake last year that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside after Scardina revealed she wanted it to celebrate her transition from male to female.
She asked for the cake on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would consider Phillips’ appeal of the previous commission ruling against him. In that 2012 case, he refused to make a wedding cake for same-sex couple Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins.”
https://abc7chicago.com/society/colorado-baker-back-in-court-after-refusing-to-make-cake-celebrating-gender-transition/4930768/
The state legislature needs to dismantle the commission and dismiss all its employees with prejudice.
Never happen. Colorado’s transition into East California is complete as of last November.
Can’t now, they’ve gone TEAM BLUE. I would expect more of this to come.
Thinking that cake should’ve been blue on the outside and Hershey brown on the inside.
Ewww, that doesn’t taste like chocolate!
My ruling, “Okay, he can be forced to bake the cake. But, by God, I’m going to send the same men with guns to make sure you eat the damned thing!”
How can he bake anything if he is always in court?
“Bankrupt the cake baker”
– Bill Weld
Yeah, just an innocent victim, that transgender attorney. Merely celebrating a gender transition, not exploiting and maliciously targeting this man to make an example of him.
“Jackie Fuchs has worn many hats in her life, including being the lead bassist for the 1970s band The Runaways. Her latest, though, is three-time “Jeopardy!” winner.
Fuchs, who used to perform under the name Jackie Fox, began her run on the popular trivia game show on Dec. 14, where she took home $14,200. She returned the following Monday where she came out on top again, winning an additional $19,889. The winning streak continued during Tuesday’s episode, where the bassist, writer and attorney scored an additional $24,600 bringing her three-day total to $58,689.
She will return on Wednesday to attempt to claim her fourth victory on the show. As Pitchfork notes, this is not the first time that the musician has appeared on a TV game show. In 2013, she tried her hand at “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” as well as “The Chase.”
The Runaways was an all-female rock group with hits such as “Cherry Bomb,” “Hollywood” and “Queens of Noise.” She later went on to earn a law degree from Harvard. When asked by host Alex Trebek how she made the transition from rock star to writer and attorney, her response was simple.
“I just get bored easily, I guess,” she said.”
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/the-runaways-jackie-fuchs-wows-on-jeopardy
I had a client who (with his wife and kids) won three times on Family Feud. His advice for anyone on that show is “when it comes time to steal, always go with the family’s suggestion”
He said that if you go with the family and you are wrong, no one yells at you. One time he went against the family and was wrong (family’s guess was right) and they nearly lost that match. Decades later they still give him a hard time about it.
“You never listen to me Dad! It was just like that time on Family Feud.”
Did you ever ask him how they split the money? $5000 split five ways always seemed like a shitty prize.
“Fuchs” is way more punk, isn’t it?
The aquarium apologised 24 hours later, saying, “It has come to our attention that some of the references in this tweet are problematic and insensitive.” They posted the “learning moment” in the initial thread.
Never apologize.
“Fairytale of New York” is a good song.
Good?! It’s the bestest of the most favoritest song I like more than anything.
Right, I should have said it’s not a bad song.
May you get Shane’s dental hygiene for Christmas.
He’s got new teeth now.
Hey. Good for him, though I’m not sure he looks much better.
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/shane-macgowan-gets-new-teeth-for-christmas-34301600.html
It’s an awesome song, especially bittersweet so close to December 18th.
https://twitter.com/nanimachines/status/1075534365692698624
Lizard people?
I am both repulsed and aroused.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
What is up with the fixation on direct democracy and the popular vote?
Local proggie columnists gushes over column that bashes Founders unholy Electoral College
The obsession is they think they’ll win that way. Er, I mean, it’s more “fair”; it’s morally just! (…that the right people win.)
Because, at the moment, it would give them more power. If it would give them less power, they’d shake those pom poms in celebration of the Electoral College.
And if it was the other way around and the major cities were right leaning, they would do whatever they could to not allow the popular vote to come into existence.
They’re aren’t doing this because of fairness, they’re doing this because they want to be able oppose their will on the the wrong thinkers in the “flyover” areas.
The don’t like decentralized power. What a shock, ain’t it?
Power is the ends and the means for a prog. It’s the alpha and omega of their existence. Everything they do is motivated by accumulating power over everyone else so that all will be forced to kneel to them.
Mobs gonna mob.
There was a guest at my family’s annual holiday dinner last weekend that decided to go on a tirade about how the electoral college is racist. No real explanation, really, just racist. I even had to explain the 3/5ths compromise to him.
Did you also explain the NPC meme to him while you were at it?
Well, my sister’s family has adopted him, so he comes to all of the family functions. He’s 40 fucking years old. I called him ignorant at the time, which is not my style, and felt bad. Now I feel less so.
I’ve got some aunts/cousins that are hardcore progs. I always veer off sharply when I can tell they are wanting to get political. When all they have are memorized talking points there is no point in discussing it.
They’re not interested in discussing it. They’re interested in you conceding.
This is the same chick who ripped a Muslim colleague for voting for Trump.
https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2018/12/19/rosen-from-penis-envy-to-penisectomy/
LOL good one
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Multiple administration sources tell CNN they are concerned and convinced that the president may make a similar announcement about US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and soon.
WTF- I love Trump now. Where was this guy for the past two years?
Wouldn’t it be funny if Trumps legacy was as the most libertarian president since Cal?
– Pulls troops out of Syria
– About to sign prison reform legislation
– Threatens government shutdown
He’s been hitting it out of the park this week. He’s getting me so hard
No homo (NTTAWWT)
You ain’t kidding. The best praise I could afford him previously was that he wasn’t Hillary, but this performance has been something else. If he was to suddenly tweet that he’s ordering MJ rescheduled I think my boner would tear right through my pants.
Wow.
OH NOEZZZZZZ…….WHAT HAPPENS IF NO WAR????
TOGA PARTY?!
Clearly you’ve missed The Hat and Hair Christmas Specials.
Bringing them home to form working parties on the wall construction?
Is there such a thing as a peace-schadenfreude boner? I think I have one. I doubt it will last 4 hours though.
I’m guessing this will be like the time he told the DOJ to declassify all those documents and within 24 hours had been talked into rescinding that order by the hacks in his administration.
Bolton has got to be on suicide watch right now
“I don’t want to live in a world without illegal wars”
“Son, we’ve got to keep our heads until this peace craze blows over”
What if Bolton goes full Brittany Spears and shaves his mustache during a breakdown?
And then attack Trump’s limo with an umbrella?
Baby, just bomb Arabs one more time.
I don’t want to live in a world where John Bolton doesn’t look like the Lorax.
As long as that’s all he shaves. I just don’t want to see him getting out of a limo in a short skirt.
Note, I was already working on the next episode, similarities are only a coincidence.
He’s playing right into Hilary’s plan!
When the Left sees that Trump is pro-peace, they will naturally gravitate to the most hawkish Dem out there for 2020. Who is that but Hilary?
“The Full McCain: Turn the Middle East to Glass” will be her slogan.
The only thing I don’t like is that he is announcing this shit in advance.
My dream would be that we could keep the pullout secret so that all the grifters would wake up one morning and find out that Uncle Sugar and all his loot was gone. Even better if we coordinated it so that we also pulled out of the NATO bases on the same day too.
“Concerned,” eh?
“We were always
anti-pro-war.”I fucking love science! Removing junk food from grocery checkout lines helps reduce impulse snacking, study suggests
This is exactly the cutting edge science that the private sector refuses to fund!
I wonder if the study took into account the lost revenue and its impact on the profitability. Not only are impulse buys very lucrative, but I’m sure suppliers pay stores to get their products placed on those shelves.
I’m a cheap bastard so when I look at the candy in the check-out aisle I think about how much more expensive it is than the same stuff back in the candy aisle.
^This. I snack more than I should but NONE of it is purchased at the checkout aisle. In fact, I was pondering ONLY buying snacks at the checkout aisle as that jacks up the expense and maybe I won’t buy as much.
It’s shocking that they sell more items when they are placed in a prime location that manufacturers fight over. They might want to read a book on sales from the 50’s to find out more shocking truths.
It’s a mystery why they put the eggs and milk in the back.
The Kroger by me used to have a little dairy case on the end of one of the aisles right up front by the registers, so you could grab a bottle of milk and get out quickly. I was so pissed when they got rid of it.
Much more sensibly, they have a fridge of mixed single bottles and cans of craft beer up front.
That’s how you rope me into an impulse buy.
I rarely buy stuff at the cash but now I will buy that bag of dill chips just to stick it to this study!
‘at the cash’? what kinda Canadian hipster bullshit is that. It’s the ‘checkout’.
The cash rules everything around me
cream, get the money, dolla’ dolla’ bill ya’ll
Most people think it’s the government’s job to protect citizens from the consequences of their own bad decisions – isn’t that fucking depressing?
Mattis is retiring in February, which kills most of my optimism over the Syria troop pullout.
At least we won’t have to hear everyone talking about their boners anymore. *Looks upthread*
To expound on Chip’s comment re: Kroger- I just blew $15 in there on a 15-pack of shitty beer and a quart of store-brand NyQuil.
Kroger totally rocks my fuckin’ nuts off.
(no boner)
Love the Kroger, but they need to up their pickle game, I’ll buy almost anything Kroger band if it saves me even a dime, but their pickles are shit, I’ll spend the $2 a jar more for Claussen’s deli-style hearty garlic sandwich slices, the Kroger band just can’t compete.
Their store-brand pickles in the refrigerator case are a decent Claussen’s substitute in a crisis. But Im with you.
*avoid private-selection pickles at all costs
Nathan’s famous dill pickles are excellent, but I can’t find them anywhere anymore, so Claussen’s it is.
Grillo’s does a decent job, too.
But Claussen are the standard.
Milwaukee Dill is the the BEST pickle.
Are troops being pulled out of sweatpants and 15-year old girls?
Well we could always go back into to Syria……if Congress voted for that. Other than that there really is no negative to ending an illegal war.
Trump should announce that the reason he is pulling out is because his lawyers have determined that without authorization from Congress, Obama’s deployment of those troops was against the law and potentially a war crime. Maybe appoint a special prosecutor.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still happy about it, but it makes me more worried about the future. Mattis was actually sane.
Nooooooo!!!!! 🙁
His replacement. Knock on wood.
Mattis is retiring in February
Perhaps Mad Dog is finally seeing 20/20?
Gatwick closed due to drone activity
You know who else had to deal with excessive drone activity ?
Jean-Luc Picard?
Me listening to my college Ethics professor?
This tube?
Queen Bee?
Every NCO during a field problem.
We’re about getting a tropical storm right now from the way the weather’s picking up. Worst thunderstorms are on the leading edge of the front too..
So, normal Florida weather……
Were in the dry season, so these storms are pissing me off.
Follow up on Orlando:
I waited too long to pull the trigger. Ticket prices jumped to $750. So… whoops.
Whoa!
I don’t think I’ve paid more than $320 round trip LAX-MCO.
So… with a family of 5, there goes the affordable vacation.
Sorry dude. I know the kids always have fun at WDW.
Odd. The center of low pressure is over Virginia.
That’s a long fetch.
Yes, there are more than two genders.
Ha! This is hilarious.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/12/on-gender-reality-intrudes.php
OT: Gene Dykes broke the marathon world record for ages 70-74. The Wall Street Journal has a short article on him. In a slightly older article Gene mentions that his knees have improved since he started running seriously 12 years ago. FWIW, my knees have similarly improved in the ten years I’ve been running.
You can see some of Gene’s ultra results at UltraSignup.
Two of my local inspirations are a 69 year old who ran 300 miles in 6 days a year ago and a 76 year old who ran a 100 miler in October and has another coming up in February.
BTW, the entry fee for the Bataan Memorial Death March goes up on January 1st, so get good and drunk on New Year’s Eve and sign up. You’ll be glad you did.
Knees .. improving .. from long-distance running? This counters my laziness-justifying biases and I don’t like it.
Hmmm…. I’m trying to get back into running (used to run 35-40 miles a week). I ruptured an ACL straight through last year, and got the surgery. Hopefully running strengthens it.
Mattis is leaving because Trump stopped listening to him. Mattis wanted to leave the troops in Syria and he doesn’t want Trump to start a drawdown in Afghanistan, which has also been announced. Sounds like over 3,000 are coming home.
I think there’s even more turnover coming.
Only Nixon could go to China, and only Trump can end the endless War on Terror.
It’s another data point for me in my theory of strong men vs weak men.
I consider Obama, W, and Clinton to all be weak men. Particularly, all three of them had daddy issues out the ass, and I think these daddy issues led them in their foreign policy to play the strong man, to start and continue wars because they, as weak men, fear being revealed as such.
By contrast, we see Reagan, with the withdrawal from Lebanon following the barracks bombing, HW with his refusal to do anything more than a return to the status quo ante in 1991. Two strong men, who were confident in themselves, who didn’t fear being thought of as a pussy.
It’s why I think Clinton would have been a disaster. She has throughout her political career sought to demonstrate how tough she is by vigorously supporting every single war she could.
Were Wilson and FDR weak men or strong men?
These seem like post-hoc and cherry-picking attributions to me.
Not sure I agree entirely with the first part. My theory is they may have their differences but they are all part the the cabal of douchebags who have nothing to lose and everything to gain from the expenditure of blood and treasure.
In regard to HRC however I agree 100% (plus she’s already in the douchebag cabal anyway)
Now that is Christmas
Yes
Guys, c’mon, we all know Orange Man Bad is only bringing the troops home so he can have his very own SS to round up the [insert ethnicity], just like Hitler!
I used to somewhat like A. B. Stoddard’s opinions but based on how apoplectic she is right now on Fox, it appears her TDS is getting worse.
Jesus… Rahm is the adult in the room?! Illinois is truly fucked.
“I believe when you’re promised something . . . you ought to get whatever you’ve been promised.”
I didn’t promise anything. In fact, I think I promised the opposite.
When you’re raped, you have to keep the baby.
Funny how their constitution allows the “promise” to be ratcheted in a certain direction, isn’t it.
Amazing what not-trying-to-retain-political-power will do to a person.
I’m scrolling through the documentaries on the Showtime App trying to find anything to watch. I’ve yet to see one that doesn’t appear as though it will be lefty talking points de jour. Any recommendations?
Anything on the War on Drugs. But Showtime is mostly shit.
See they are smart enough to have cornered the softcore market since HBO/Cinemax decided to ditch it. I guess thats sort of like Randy Marsh buying the Blockbuster.
People still watch the premium channels for the tits? What is this? 1995?
The last time that sort of thing accidentally popped up on my TV, it was clearly hardcore porn with different camera angles.
“accidentally”
I know what I said.
Some accidentally may have popped up on my screen too. Seems as though they can’t recruit the talent they could in the 90’s. That and HD is probably not necessarily an asset when you are filming on a low budget. Some of those girls are solid 6’s.
Some of the movies, including ones about witches, aliens, and cowboys, are downright disgusting.
I’d pay not to watch them.
The Evil Dead, the only documentary worth watching
HRC made a documentary?
I celebrate Bruce Campbell’s entire catalog.
I’ll assume this isn’t available anywhere.
Just finished watching The innocent man on Netflix. If you enjoy having your nuts repeatedly punched over 6 episodes, it’s a very informative watch.
I want to see that. I got mad when Netflix divested themselves of FX shows and at the increasingly ‘woke’ content (as if Hulu or Amazon are any different) and cancelled my subscription, at least until the next season of Mindhunter is released. I’m going to keep that one filed away for later.
I have a few friends who are execs at Netflix. They don’t favor the woke stuff per se.
They have a bunch of it because it’s damn near free.
Interesting. I started the ballad of buster Scruggs today. I didn’t get a chance to finish it before work, but so far so good.
You should finish it. I think the Cohens did a pretty good job with the short stories
I plan on it.
Second the recommendation.
Made with other peoples money no doubt so it was no sweat to sell cheap.
I interviewed with Netflix a bit back. Very interesting culture. Much more adult than typical post-bubble internet company.
Money Heist is pretty good, if you don’t mind lips not syncing with the dubbed audio.
One more day until my four day weekend. Yay.
I have to work Monday. 🙁
Keeping with the boner theme.
https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a25606010/how-to-get-over-small-penis-insecurity/
What worked for you?
I have a three inch penis… FROM THE GROUND.
An amputee, eh? Desert Storm?
BAM!!!