Okay, well, I’m just about well enough to start drinking my way through Friday afternoon, although there’s a good chance my kids will be drawing on my face in permanent marker by 8:00tonight. Hopefully, not dicks unless my wife is particularly annoyed with me and gets them started.
This thing that happens regularly since the Clinton administration is All Trump’s Fault! Meh. If only the government were to actually shut down.
Mattis unveils new Russia and China strategy. Will roundhouse kick them to space if they don’t shape up.
CNBC finds the one TSA crew in the world doing their job.
The latest on the Las Vegas mass murder. It looks to me like a Whitman style attack where a smart guy got sick in the head and figured out a good way to kill a lot of people — the same way, get a high spot that is hard to get to in a target-dense environment and shoot a lot of rounds.
Dicks on face or not, I think I’ll just stay here and drink.
“The present research tested the prediction that mixed-sex interactions may temporarily impair cognitive functioning. Two studies, in which participants interacted either with a same-sex or opposite-sex other, demonstrated that men’s (but not women’s) cognitive performance declined following a mixed-sex encounter. In line with our theoretical reasoning, this effect occurred more strongly to the extent that the opposite-sex other was perceived as more attractive.”
-“Interacting with women can impair men’s cognitive functioning”, J. Karremans, et. al., Journaly of Experimental Psychology (2009)
http://archive.is/HBhoy
1, 2, 3, 5, 12, 16, 20, 39, 41, 45, 47
Zeroth!
#43. My wife is gonna have FLBP and no…you don’t get pics. I don’t trust you perverts. But if she shows up on Qs links I might just be biased.
I don’t believe you. PICS OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN
Oh I agree but if anyone is gonna go to the bunk…its me
Well played, liar
We all play a game every now and then.
At least tell us you indulge in Spanish sex on a regular basis. Otherwise, what’s the point?
FAIL
Also, does that mean she *is* #43?
The punctuation there is really crucial.
Good God I wish she was. Wait…I mean, she is lovely.
Tundra, what is good in life?
1, 1 and 1.
Best leadoff hitter in any of your links to date
The Rickey Henderson of Q’s links.
I think of this episode. Happened to me many times in school.
Not fooling me twice, NONE of these women is Angela White.
That shirt on #4….
OHMAHGERD THE GUBMINT GONNA SHUT DOWN
How will ever tell the difference?
I got told I’m essential for continuing operations, so 6 people in my office will end up with paid vacay while Bob n John get to stay and do much of their work.
Should add about 45 minutes of real labor each day, and a lot of things we’ll blow off because it ain’t important.
I hope it does. I am a federal officer, lesser in nature, but agree we need to let the levithan die
Federal police?
Now that the republicans are back in power, you can just transfer to the Church Police.
No a lessor officer. A minion of the dark lord
They will in 45 minutes. Just like they do every Friday at 5pm Eastern, unless enough of them played the :59 minute rule. They it’s effectively shut down already.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
54 dead 851 injuries Damn!
That’s way too high, somethings stinks
Vast majority of injuries were not bullet related. They’re counting everyone who got medical attention for being knocked down, stepped on, trampled, crushed, hit by cars as people panicked, etc.
Wow. Not even a majority. Dense crowds and high velocity bullets.
Most of those injuries are not due to gunfire.
Panicked crowds are very dangerous.
“Tell us about it”
/11 ghosts from Riverfront Coliseum
I raise you the 2015 Mina Stampede.
2000 dead, no gunfire.
Or, from the Jewish histories of Josephus:
1 NOW after the death of Herod, king of Chalcis, Claudius set Agrippa, the son of Agrippa, over his uncle’s kingdom, while Cumanus took upon him the office of procurator of the rest, which was a Roman province, and therein he succeeded Alexander; under which Cureanus began the troubles, and the Jews’ ruin came on; for when the multitude were come together to Jerusalem, to the feast of unleavened bread, and a Roman cohort stood over the cloisters of the temple, (for they always were armed, and kept guard at the festivals, to prevent any innovation which the multitude thus gathered together might make,) one of the soldiers pulled back his garment, and cowering down after an indecent manner, turned his breech to the Jews, and spake such words as you might expect upon such a posture. At this the whole multitude had indignation, and made a clamor to Cumanus, that he would punish the soldier; while the rasher part of the youth, and such as were naturally the most tumultuous, fell to fighting, and caught up stones, and threw them at the soldiers. Upon which Cumanus was afraid lest all the people should make an assault upon him, and sent to call for more armed men, who, when they came in great numbers into the cloisters, the Jews were in a very great consternation; and being beaten out of the temple, they ran into the city; and the violence with which they crowded to get out was so great, that they trod upon each other, and squeezed one another, till ten thousand of them were killed, insomuch that this feast became the cause of mourning to the whole nation, and every family lamented their own relations.
—–
OMWC should do a Jewday Tuesday about him. Taking his activities around the Roman sieges of Judea, he’s basically the Jewish Benedict Arnold.
The fart that killed 10,000. Impressive.
Well garum was fermented fish and spices so I can imagine the fart was “impressive”.
Can one guy with that weapon injure 851 people?
Topper Harley did it.
That movie’s one of my favorite guilty pleasures.
442 injured by gunfire (plus the deceased). I think the implication is that some people got injured running for cover. I’ll suspect that some people are faking injuries or claiming PTSD as an injury.
I assumed that was the running count from the shutdown.
“This thing that happens regularly since the Clinton administration is All Trump’s Fault!”
It always is
But why isn’t it Bush’s fault?
I finally saw the doc, which I should have done a week ago.
I have both strains of the flu.
At least I have Tamiflu now.
Playa goes to the doctor.
“A million to one shot!”
So, before I typed my comment there was no link. So now I look crazy.
So what you’re saying is…
I’m indestructible?
Overachiever
Shouldn’t flu be in “quotes”?
Or are we not doing euphemisms anymore?
I actually have the flus.
I wish it were more interesting, but it’s not. I haven’t had sex with anybody but my wife in 18 years, so anything funny is ruled out anyway.
Well, there is another possibility…
Airborne chlamydia?
The noisy killer!
Bifluvial
There isn’t a gaze narrow enough for that one.
I’ll try…
*NARROWS GAZE*
DOCTOR STEVE SMITH HAS CURE FOR WHAT AILS YOU
Umm. That looks like a proposal to me. It’s just one they don’t like.
My IT dude sucks pickles.
Where have you been?
Been busy @ work and firewalls suck.
I miss all of u.
We miss you more
Awww
It’s very hard to use my phone while at my desk.
These euphemisms.
I did see you over at TOS lately, Deep Undercover work?
HOLY SHIT IT’S BACON
GET HIM!
Tos is not blocked….pretty sure my IT guy is Tulpa.
my IT guy is Tulpa
You’re your own IT guy?
He’s done all kinds of research and stuff, but you have to have something to do with them when they’re too old to polish monocles. Bodyguard and villainous underworld thug seem like the best career options.
Great to see you, bacon!
*drops gloves for high five*
And we miss you too, Bacon.
Mmmmmmmm, bacon
I had bacon this morning. I didn’t realize you were gone.
I had bacon for lunch. Also missed bacon here. Him and Mr Lizard are excellent always in character folks.
[offers bacon-magic a tall glass of milk]
*accepts*
*hands ted a ?*
BACON!!!!!
+1 electrolytes
“Interacting with women can impair men’s cognitive functioning”
Filed under “Things my grandmother told me.”
I approve!
*broadens gaze*
What do people think about this supposed FISA memo some congress critters want to get released?
Release it. Otherwise it’s all political posturing and vote grabbing.
On the one hand, the president could just declassify the FISA warrant and show us that this is all made-up. On the other hand, the president is an idiot. So, I’m not sure what to believe
Being vastly oversold by Peter King and such. If it gets released, it’ll turn out to be a disappointment.
Yup. I’ve learned my lesson by now not to buy into this kind of wishful thinking.
Release the Kraken. Might truly be a bombshell…we’ll see.
Release it already. They’re teasing it like a big Hollywood movie.
If they have nothing to hide, we should all be able to see it.
Yes. Let the people judge.
The secrecy didn’t stop DiFi from releasing…I don’t even remember what she released last week.
More than likely a few dusty, fishy queefs.
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/954412921538347008
I’m not defending the position of the person who is using ‘natural law’ to justify his actions, but this is so ENB to take issue with the use of ‘natural law’. I mean ‘natural law’ is a very foreign concept within libertarianism. Who uses that nonsense?
ENB = SJW with a couple opinions off the reservation. Things make much more sense when you view her that way.
I view her making a sandwich for me.
It’s my hot body. I’ll do what I want!
It’s not that hot
Well, he finally saw the doctor.
Don’t make me challenge you to a milkshake contest.
Pfft…as if you could beat me. We’re talking about drinking milkshakes, right?
We’re talking about bringing all the boys to the yard.
I’d prefer if we just see who can drink the most milkshakes…..and…..GO!
Perhaps if the rest of the usual gang of idiots try hard enough, they can join Reason alumnus Dave Weigel as Fake News Awards winners for 2018.
Also… while you’ve got me going, I skimmed ENB’s Twitter feed. I see (retweeted by ENB) Lucy Steigerwald blathering again:
This is from yet another “professional libertarian journalist”, who spends so much time on Twitter in a bubble she doesn’t know who Jordan Petersen and Stefan Molyneux are, but she was “terrified” by them being “alt-right”. Actually looking at their years of freely available media detailing what they actually believe? Why bother, her circlejerk on Twitter “signaled everything” the paycheck is going to clear anyways.
Also, below, I see that Cato identity politics rot. Taking a look… Washington DC. Tens of thousands of tweets. Shocking.
(Sorry, reading a bunch of bullshit about “Russia/NRA collusion” didn’t exactly put me in a good mood earlier. And I just can’t stand the absolutely mindblowing laziness of modern “journalists” who can’t even be fucked to make a single search inbetween tweeting every 8 waking minutes and rushing out their halfbaked articles.)
OMG, bitch, pink hair hasn’t been edgy for 20 years. Your bangs are played. Piercings have been a thing since the 80s. You’re not doing anything new, you’re just parroting the things we and your parents did before you. And badly, I might add.
There’s a serious contingent of men who are terrified by brightly colored hair/bangs/piercings
It’s not terror you’re seeing in our eyes. It’s disgust. We’re not afraid of you, we’re afraid to stop looking at the trainwreck. When you look like an 80s punk fucked the pillsbury dough boy, you’re going to get weird looks.
/guy who hates tats, excessive piercings, short hair, and stupid dye jobs
Derpe, if you’re still around, you were asking for new music, here ya go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vej5BipygEQ
Others have suggested them to me. I listened. Meh.
How about you stick this in your cauldron and smoke it?
Ooh, I like!
Surely you’ve already listened to Sepultura?
Needs more umlaut.
IRON CLAW
like sabbath, but only totally unsucessful
check out “pavement artist”
if you don’t like absurdly long intros, skip to 0:58
I would also recommend some new music. Saw them twice in the last 3 years and they are two albums in.
It’s just great straight forward Rock and Roll played by a guy with a bass guitar ans a drummer. Must be some serious effects pedals.
Royal Blood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSdtvfBQd6c
More like Q’s tastes that I really like.
French Metal? I didn’t think was a thing, but I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DPhFpZW5a8
France’s output isn’t high, but some of the stuff coming out of that country is great. Deathspell Omega is great if you like black metal, which I don’t. I’m more partial to, oh, anything in this post.
I like that. i tend to like all the ‘minimalist’ rock, power-trio/duo type bands. fewer players tends to make the few remaining do smarter stuff.
More.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oviT6nebx7Q
Still more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p19_nAuLDVI
Enough to get you started.
What a high school girlfriend called “sterilization music”. Fortunately for both of us (and subsequent girlfriends) it seems to have worked.
Más.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8CAlV-naWw
Going to go out on a limb and say she wasn’t a STEM student. (actually, lots of terrorists are STEM students or professionals, just not in this case…)
Charge: Former student set fires on St. Catherine campus in retaliation against U.S. military intervention
Classy.
If she was at St. Kates, she wasn’t a STEM student.
Sounds like a blast to be around.
‘You guys are lucky that I don’t know how to build a bomb because I would have done that.’ ”
A man would have gone on the internet and got the FBI to build him a fake bomb.
She was demoralized because her president would say “You Didn’t Fake Build That”
She seems like she’s only 2 standard deviations below, and it takes 3 to get the FBI involved.
“A 19-year-old former student”
Unless they have an accelerated degree program, I can think of at least one motive that’s far more likely.
My father just retired from a lifetime of community college administration. His shorthand guide to reacting to bomb threats:
1) Is it mid-terms or finals? Yes –> Don’t cancel classes No–>Never happened
I was disappointing that the story didn’t say that her motives were unknown. Omar Mateen has a sad.
If only there was some way to understand the motives of Muslims who commit violent acts:
https://vimeo.com/231610462
Trump-supporting bitter clingers, most likely.
“You guys are lucky that I don’t know how to build a bomb because I would have done that,”
I’m still laughing at that. That’s the kind of shit you’d say to someone if you owned a lot of ninja outfits that you bought from ads in the back of Black Belt Magazine in the 80s.
Least of all, their fellow Muslims don’t.
actually, lots of terrorists are STEM students or professionals
Yes indeed:
Ramzi Yousef – electrical engineering
Khalid Sheikh Muhammad – mechanical engineering
Mohammed Atef – agricultural engineering
Imad Muganiyah – engineering student before leaving school to go terroristing
Mohamed Atta – architect
Ziad Jarrah – aerospace engineering
Zacarias Moussaoui – holds an MBA
Ayman al-Zawahiri – pediatrician
Just to name a few
Don’t forget Aafia Siddiqui, the neuroscience PhD.
OBL- civil engineering
The more interesting thing about Mohamed Atta is that he still sat in his mom’s lap when he went home to visit.
Yeah, but most of those guys are terrorist ‘masterminds’…
You get the humanities students to do the dirty work of blowing themselves up.
Just like the FBI.
I like to point out that the Bell Curve applies to all occupations.
Here’s something from my neck of the woods:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-red-line-delays-argyle-police-activity-20180118-story.html
Now this is just your typical story about a guy dousing someone in chemicals and then setting a train car on fire. Nothing out of the ordinary. What I’d like to direct your attention to. however, is the following:
I see this kind of thing in local stories regularly enough that it makes me wonder if there’s more that isn’t being reported. I’d like to see a scrappy young journalist somewhere actually follow up on these “minor injuries” that public employees seem to be suffering rather disproportionately, because my guess is that there’s some very generous paid time off that follows. Just a hunch.
Uptown is nothing but halfway houses and a sprinkling of yuppies who couldn’t afford to live in River North or Lincoln Park
Shoot, you don’t live in Uptown- do you? I meant to be funny- not offensive.
No offense taken. I’m actually on the opposite end of the city and mostly venture north of Roosevelt just for work these days. I recently revisited my migratory pattern while living in Chicago the past twenty years, and it became obvious I’ve subconsciously been inching toward Indiana the whole time.
“became obvious I’ve subconsciously been inching toward Indiana the whole time.”
Considering the City and State’s prospects that’s not a bad idea
Or you’ve been subconsciously been inching toward Calumet City.
Fire on CTA train. 8,000 injured, including 7,890 first responders.
Sen. Bob Menendez (D – NJ) will be re-tried for many counts of corruption. He’s also up for re-election this year which should for an interesting campaign.
NJ would elect a flaming paper bag full of dog shit if it had a (D) after its name.
Which, coincidentally, it does.
You think he’ll be able to buy another cruise for a juror on this one?
Menendez – that’s the one that Reason barely noticed in favor of wall-to-wall Roy Moore coverage, right?
Maybe they would have noticed if he was a sitting Senator fucking underage girls in return for political favors. Oh wait, he was.
News is for covering things that aren’t considered typical or expected.
If the jury is going to consist of Puerto Rican high school dropouts who have spent their entire lives working for the state, I’d say he is pretty safe from a conviction.
https://twitter.com/KatMurti/status/954059917526294528
The women’s march is super libertarian-y!
Identity politics are so libertarian
Feminism – because libertarianism doesn’t mandate anything!
Headshot.
Well, well, well. Menendez going on trial again.
Dammit, Drake.
I live in NJ so the electrons had less distance to travel.
Science!
(Old, not New) York banned Uber from their city last year, citing the volume of customer complaints received.
It turns out over 80% of those complaints came from taxi drivers in the city
…they’re still complaints, duh.
Can I complain about taxis?
York doesn’t want sacked again. Best to pay the cabby-geld
William Wallace drives for Uber?
“Unite us! Unite the transportation networking companies!”
And my youngest niece moved out of NYC because Uber was banned.
cross-posted because good derp deserves it
NJR, derpmonger extraordinaire
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/01/requiem-for-an-agency
***
I am not usually the sort of person who gets misty-eyed about federal regulatory agencies. But I will miss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It was the one part of the U.S. government that seemed sincerely committed to taking on corporate wrongdoing. It wasn’t perfect, but it actually helped people, which is more than can be said for many other parts of the federal bureaucratic octopus (see, e.g., the Pentagon).
***
The US military has never helped anyone, ever? I wonder if he knows why the Pentagon exists in the first place or who ordered its construction.
***
Federal agencies are boring. Disclosure requirements for mortgage servicers are boring. I can see why a lot of what the CFPB does isn’t considered sexy, and I’ll confess that I only read a small portion of the 700-page arbitration study before falling asleep on my desk. But while much of what the CFPB does isn’t sexy, we’re all much better off in a world with it than we would be in a world without it.
***
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Everyone involved with the CFPB belongs in jail. Everyone.
They started abusing their power before the ink was even dry.
The Bank of America settlement should have sealed the fates of everyone there and the political leadership that endorsed it.
Sadly, a large swath of the electorate is ok with a lot of what they did, particularly against auto lenders under the guise of “fighting discrimination”.
Rule of law doesn’t matter, I guess.
That’s exactly right. Most people I encounter, right or left, care about the outcome and not the process. Their motto might as well be principles are for suckers.
Sexy. Yes, we need more of the government to be sexy.
Q–Get me a link of RGB wearing a black robe, and only the black robe.
Unbeknownst to you, that’s ALL pictures of RGB in a black robe.
So…he should find it quickly.
He’s struggling because his auto-complete is trained to append “big tits” to all his searches.
“I don’t know what it does, but I’m glad it does it”
Truly, the height of intellectual discourse.
So, has Al Franken finished his resignation speech yet?
I hear he going to incorporate it into an SNL opening sketch.
Sort of a resignation filibuster
So either the WaPo changed their headline and forgot to change their URL, or someone snuck in a little funny. They aren’t fit for wiping my ass with, but I gotta give them props for “shithole shutdown”, that’s just a fine turn a phrase no matter what you think of the situation.
Work is doing a construction project, and of the 20,000 spent on it so far, over three quarters of it is going to various government hoops, boondoggles, and payoffs. I can’t wait to see what the final percentage of money which is actually going to actual workers to do actual work, and not to various bureaucrats and cronies.
God dammit I am sick of the fuckin internet being borked. I swear for the last two weeks my browsers are constantly locking up for several seconds all the gotdam time. Both at home and at work, so it’s neither my PC nor my ISP. I’m blaming this fucking Meltdown/Spectre thing. God damn you internet, fucking work!
That’s because they killed net neutrality. /Prog
Fortunately, I now have an inexhaustible supply of corpses to burn to keep my house warm with all this arctic weather we’ve been having.
OMG THEY WERE RIGHT ALL ALONG.
DAMN YOU ALL, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELLLLLLL
I’m glad im not the only one.
Here we go again:
Michael Douglas accused of masturbating in front of former employee
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/19/michael-douglas-accused-masturbating-in-front-former-employee.html
***
Michael Douglas’ former employee has accused the actor of sexually harassing her and masturbating in front of her when she worked for the star in the late 1980s.
Susan Braudy, a journalist who worked for Douglas’ production company Stonebridge Productions, told The Hollywood Reporter the “Fatal Attraction” star sexually harassed her on multiple occasions.
Before Braudy’s account was published, Douglas told Deadline more than a week ago that he vehemently denied Braudy’s claims. He did not name Braudy to Deadline, but confirmed a woman accusing him of sexual misconduct was a former employee of his from 32 years ago.
“I’m bewildered why, after 32 years, this is coming out, now,” Douglas told Deadline.
Braudy claims the Academy Award-winning actor, who was at the prime of his career in the 1980s, commented on her appearance and openly spoke about his affairs with actress Kathleen Turner and a European heiress.
***
I’ve been a man my whole life and I’m just now hearing this is a thing. Masturbating in front of people.
I don’t… get it.
As I always understood it, masturbation was something you hid from other people, hence one of the main reasons teenaged boys keep their bedroom doors shut all the time.
When you’re giving it a tug in front of someone, the idea is that they’ll come give you a hand.
I just can’t see that being a high-percentage move.
Maybe it’s just because I’m used to women ripping off my pants like a starved dog tearing into a box of Milk Bones.
Bitches, Chipwooder. They’re called bitches.
I don’t know how many times I’ve told you boys to never call chicks broads.
If “rape” has a different meaning nowadays, no reason why “masturbation” wouldn’t be getting a new one too.
“I wasn’t playing with myself, I was just looking for some loose change in my pants pocket to give you a tip”
More along the lines of “I think he had a hardon, so masturbating.”
It wasn’t a hard-on, it was my TI-59 Programmable Calculator!
Looking like you might be attracted to someone = rape or masturbation.
Multiple occasions? Jobs at production companies in LA are very scarce, I guess.
Could there be any more damning praise for Trump/Mattis’s neoyokelservatism than this?:
I have an idea for a start up:
Pay John McCain to publicly endorse things that we hate.
I thought he was already doing that pro bono ….
Hi, I’m John McCain, speaking of behalf of girls with flat asses everywhere…
Hi, I’m John McCain, and I’m here to tell you all about deep dish pizza.
*readies catbutt*
I’m U.S. Senator John McCain, and I’m a huge fan of Duke basketball.
Hello friends, I am John McCain here to tell you about the wonders of intersectional feminism.
Hello Friends, I am John McCain and I’d like to introduce you to my friend Preet.”
I’m John McCain, and I’m here to tell you about the STEVE SMITH SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS SEMINAR.
THOSE BE FIGHTING WORDS. STEVE SMITH HAVE STANDARDS.
STANDARDS BEING “RAPE ON SIGHT”
Hello fellow Americans. I’m John McCain, and I would like to share some very important news with you. I had sex with Tulpa. And it was marvelous.
Eh. John McCain’s going to be dead soon.
/not soon enough
In fairness, there is no such thing as military action that John McCain doesn’t like.
“Airstrike on Vienna? Sure!”
“Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Milan!”
“predatory economics” sounds like bullshit to me.
How dare you provide excellent products and services at reasonable prices??!!
Hey, that’s gonna mean more DoD funding, which creates jobs, and if it works, we’ll force the heathen Chinee to stop making iPhones for us on the cheap, bringing those valuable manufacturing jobs back home! Win-win!
Listening to CSPAN today was mostly Democrats playing the field by trying to blame all of this on Trump/Republicans (which really could be the case for the Republicans, but I don’t know,I haven’t been paying attention)
The worst was when Pelosi blamed Trump for not taking leadership. I’m sorry but he’s the fucking president not dictator if the government, and not a legislator. Get your act together and do your job.
“Blame”??? I see it as “credit”. The republicans get credit.
He’s taken leadership with those executive orders on the travel ban. Funny how TEAM BLUE doesn’t like that leadership.
Get your act together and do your job.
Dude, you really want them to get their act together and get effective?
Valid point. As you were, cary on.
She sounds like an old lady lost in the grocery store.
Isn’t the government shutting down because the Democrats are filibustering the funding to try to force the Republicans to capitulate to their demands on immigration? That’s what I heard, and if it is correct then the Dems really don’t have a leg to stand on. You can’t break your favorite toy and then go crying to your mommy that it’s broke.
That’s the spin I also heard from NPR this morning – the Democrats have decided they have “leverage” to get what they want.
And then I laughed and laughed.
Yep, and that’s similar to what it was the last time, and the time before that. They want more money, and if they don’t get it, they’re going to take their ball and go home.
You would hope that the Republicans would show some backbone once, and just leave it shut down. I can see the Trump tweet now:
They fully expect the media to carry the narrative. And I doubt they are wrong about that, even though I doubt the media, for all the pulling can haul that carcass up the hill.
General Motors recently released photographs of a new breed of self-driving vehicle they’re intending to introduce soon. These cars will have no pedals, no steering wheel, and will be entirely autonomous in function.
I think the advancement of this technology might present the regulatory state with a politically viable opportunity to incrementally and deceitfully strip the citizenry of its access to traditional vehicles. They’ll simply add restrictions until using and owning older cars is unlawful, or prohibitively burdensome.
Sounds like a scary amusement park ride.
It strikes me as diabolical.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/12/gm-fully-autonomous-car-no-wheel-2018/
::slinks away to that barn down on his uncle’s farm::
The Country Place? i thought know one knew about it?
I had heard it used to be a farm.
As much as I love my song, it being brought up makes me roll me eyes hard.
**eye roll*
John.
**sigh**
Yes, they will. And we all know that but will be laughed at just like we were about sugary sodas.
The piecemeal, patient implementation of a regulatory regime over a long stretch of time, and especially across generations, desensitizes the populace to intrusive government. I imagine it won’t be overly difficult to convince the snowflakes of today that banning traditional cars is permissible.
I think more than 90% of them already think that anything is permissible as long as the majority votes for it.
I mean, except for COLLUSION of course. That’s treason, as defined by the declaration of constitution.
It’s in the ‘LOVE TRUMPS HATE’ Amendment.
Have you met the urbanite millennial who views cars as nothing more than expensive, polluting machines that take up too much space and almost ran them over while they were drunkenly crossing the street last friday night? “People are tricked into thinking they need these things and end paying hundreds to thousands a month in loan payments, gas and insurance.”
You been talking to John lately?
Yeah, every single one of our autonomous vehicle discussions on the old site digressed to that.
Yes, the government may choose to use a new tool to abuse our rights. This would be neither the first time nor the last. But that isn’t an argument against the tool.
I’m with John on this one. If I’m not in control of my car, someone else will be. I don’t like that.
But you aren’t in full control now since you have to share the road with so many shitty drivers.
I made no argument against the existence of the technology in itself, but its development will inevitably and inarguably create avenues for government to begin gradually imposing prohibition upon the ownership and use of traditional vehicles.
Gee, you mean like gun control?
I agree with you. Fuck these silly Jetson cars.
How about we let the market decide?
No.
Yeah. like in what, a hundred years? Maybe similar to laws today that say you can’t ride your horse on the Interstate?
Probably. You can’t bike on the interstate either, but you can on the streets.
A hundred years? Your optimism is unwarranted.
It’s GM. So this is vaporware. Maybe they’ll get it right in a couple of decades.
So here are my problems with entirely autonomous independent vehicles.
As Chipwooder says, if you’re not in control of your car, who is? Think about how often GPS navigation goes wrong. Years ago I lived in a new development of townhouses and it took about two years for any of the streets to show up on most GPS systems, MapQuest, etc. Some roads are unmarked. If you can control your car, none of this is a problem, but if you can only go to locations you can pick from a menu, effectively, these are showstoppers.
Another issue is that if you can’t control your car, someone else can, and there’d be nothing you can do about it. What’s to stop every new autonomous vehicle from being Lo-Jacked? Now if a cop wants to stop you, they just turn your car off. How long will it be until someone comes up with a good, portable, remote control script that non-geeks can use? Because it’s almost trite to say that as soon as this technology hits the streets someone will have hacked the bejeezus out of it.
Let’s talk about liability. Who’s liable if you hit someone with your malfunctioning autonomous vehicle? What if it’s functioning just fine but fails to stop in time when the kids playing basketball in the street chase after a loose ball unexpectedly? That’s something a human driver can notice beforehand and anticipate, but that a computer wouldn’t necessarily recognize. An autonomous car would probably be able to stop faster once it determined it needed to, but it is never going to have the predictive ability or the judgement of a human driver.
The only way these things work is if they’re effectively private cars that hook onto trains. You’d need roadways that were only accessible by these vehicles, and that includes pedestrian traffic. Otherwise even if you outlaw normal cars, you’re going to run into serious problems that aren’t just growing pains the technology would develop out of.
One day – and I hope it’s a long way in the future – these meshed cars will be ‘talking’ and their algorithms will determine that two or more vehicles will be in a crash, that may be fatal for one or more of the people riding in the cars. And the algorithms will decide who is to live, and who is to die.
In nations with socialized healthcare, the algorithms are also likely to take a number of factors under consideration, such as ROI for each of the riders. In nations with somewhat more capitalistic attitudes, the calculus will be more actuarial. In nations like Venezuela, the riders’ relative social standing and familial proximity to the current caudillo will be assessed.
Either way, the average citizen is likely to end up on the slab.
No surprise here. Fuck you, Chicago.
Better than even odds they get reinstated with back pay and a little more for emotional trauma of being fired.
Kinda like The Shield. All the oversight recommendations just get shitcanned.
For as deeply fucked up as our police department and cop culture are, this is one case I’m really having trouble throwing any enthusiastic support behind. The original video showed O’Neal absolutely fucking hauling ass down a narrow residential street in a stolen vehicle before any of the shots were fired. If I had to guess, I’d say he was easily going in excess of 50 mph. While he may have not been out to intentionally kill anyone, he certainly didn’t seem to give a shit if any incidental damage or death occurred either. This situation is far less Eric Garner and far more Michael Brown.
If there’s anything to take offense to here, it’s definitely not race related. It’s the fact that the CPD acted like a bunch of Keystone Kops and exposed local residents to serious danger while trying to collar this piece of shit.
This^
I think that exactly why the oversight committee recommended firing them. The cops’ job isn’t to make a dangerous situation 10x more dangerous.
So there is a huge push by the proggie corps of parents in my home town to build a new high school. And they have completed their planning: The price tag is a very reasonable $300,000,000 for a school that covers 6 grades and a planned student body of 2,215 students.
Note, the reason for a new school, overcrowding, is basically the product of the town participating in the METCO programme. They accept students from outside the town, and the town pays their ‘tuition’. Unsurprisingly, the teachers union and their enablers in the Friends of Belmont Education scream bloody murder whenever anyone points out that simply accepting fewer students (and doing away with the teaching positions to teach them) would solve the funding problem nicely.
The town I grew up in decided they didn’t like the elementary school. They recommended tearing it down and building a new one. Being in New England it had to be approved at the Town Meeting, where people asked insightful questions of the Town Council like “are you fucking high?” before voting against the stupid idea.
Jeez, that’s a Texas high school football stadium price tag!
I was just gonna say, if Texas school districts can’t even justify a football stadium that priced…
The annual interest charge alone, per student, on the bonds (20 years, 2.5%) is like $3,400. I’m too lazy to figure out the annual principal repayment. I’ll bet your local Libertarian Party is riling up the taxpayers about this boondoggle. /snarc
Crazy.
That is more than twice as much per square foot as what it cost for my old home town to replace its 80+ year old high school building a few years back.
$20.5m for 56000 square feet facility for up to 600 students. I think that figure even included demolition and removal of the old building, including the asbestos coated crap that was part of the reason they didn’t want to do repairs.
They went ahead and replaced the school building even after residents of the district voted 2-1 not to replace it because they thought that the price was considerably higher than it needed to be.
The average cost of a year of private high school is about $13k.
For $300 million, you could provide 6 years of middle/high school education to 3,800 students at private schools.
So we asked some of our favorite Glibs commenters to send us a short video message and we complied them together for you.
Fake news – too many women.
And not 98% wypipo.
tales from the derp
Two cooks in the USSR modified the grill in their restaurant so that they could cook the same amount with less fat. The sold the excess fat on the black market and pocketed the cash.
The KGB caught them and they were sentenced to the gulag as “economic saboteurs”.
During the Gorbachev years, there was a campaign where university students were recruited to comb the countryside destroy private vegetable gardens.
It sounds like the restaurant cooks got what they deserved.
It’s interesting to read the stories of KGB defectors. The main reason was they were ashamed of what they had done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan_Stashynsky
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Bohdan Mykolayovych Stashynsky (Ukrainian: Богда́н Микола́йович Сташи́нський, born 4 November 1931 in Barszczowice, Poland) is a former KGB officer and spy who assassinated the Ukrainian nationalist leaders Lev Rebet and Stepan Bandera in the late 1950s.[1] He defected in West Berlin in 1961.[2]
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Bohdan Stashinskyi, who had been persuaded by his German-born wife Inge to confess to the crimes and take the load off his troubled conscience, stuck resolutely to his statements. His testimony convinced the investigating authorities. He reconstructed the crimes exactly as they had happened, revisiting the crumbling business premises at the Stachus, in the heart of Munich, where Lev Rebet had entered the office of a Ukrainian exile newspaper, his suitcase in his hand. And he showed how the hydrogen cyanide capsule had exploded in Rebet’s face and how he had left him slumped over the rickety staircase. The case before the Federal court began on October 8, 1962, and world interest in the incident was revived. Passing sentence eleven days later, the court identified Stashinskyi’s unscrupulous employer Shelyepin as the person primarily responsible for the hideous murders, and the defendant – who had given a highly credible account of the extreme pressure applied to him by the KGB to act as he did – received a comparatively mild sentence. He served most of it and was released. Today the KGB’s ‘torpedo’ is living as a free man somewhere in the world he chose on that day in the summer of 1961, a few days before the wall was erected across Berlin.[3]
In 1966, Stashynsky was released from prison early on parole, and was reportedly handed over to the CIA.[2] Bohdan Stashynsky and Inge Stashinsky were given new identities and provided asylum by South Africa in 1984.
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Self reliance is the anathema of community, what are you? Some kind of racist?
Communism is the absolute pinnacle of retardation. God help us.
Sounds like California’s Board Of Equalization.
Update on battery light on truck: bad stock battery. One of the cells went tits up apparently. This shop is slower than shit. But it’s not my truck so whatever dudes, keep it until it’s done.
This is fun, No DACA and No Federal Workers, thanks Dems,
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/01/18/please-dont-shut-down-the-government-democrats-because-that-would-be-awful-not-n2435670
One thing I noticed this time around different that the last time the .gov almost got shut down: Snarky articles like these.
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Schlichter’s often good for a dose of high-density mocking of liberal retards, but it’s never very long before he swerves the bus into conservative retard-town.
Oh, how I laughed
Professor argues small classroom chairs reinforce sexism, disempower women
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/41123/
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Professor research includes visit to IKEA store to test theory on ‘small chairs’
An Australian professor has taken aim at the “small chairs” used in early childhood education, calling them “problematic.”
Such furniture can haunt individuals, and they symbolize “the undervalued nature of teaching young children,” Jane Bone writes in her recent article published in the journal Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.
“Chairs, as objects that furnish human lives, can also haunt those lives and give contradictory messages of power, comfort and suffering,” the senior lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne writes in the abstract of her paper, “Ghosts of the material world in early childhood education: Furniture matters.”
She continues: “Now and to come, the chair is a trace, a symbol, an instrument of torture and object of desire.”
What’s more, Bone details in her article how she visited an IKEA furniture store and sat in “small chairs” as part of her research on the topic.
The paper was flagged by the Twitter account New Real Peer Review, which highlights academic papers it finds laughable and says it has been the target of doxing attempts.
Bone did not respond to The College Fix’s request for comment regarding her paper.
Bone explains in the abstract that her goal is “to trouble the position of the small chair in childhood settings” and writes that child-sized furniture is often “taken for granted” when situated in the classroom.
The professor asserts that “ghosts haunt educational contexts” and grounds her findings in the study of “hauntology,” a concept drawn from a 1993 work by a French postmodern philosopher that posits “Marxism would haunt Western society from beyond the grave.”
“I am drawn towards this approach by a personal experience of being haunted by an object from the material and everyday world. There is always a story attached to a ghost,” Bone writes.
As for early childhood education, Bone writes that it is perpetually stuck with ghosts because of the white males that have influenced the field of education over the years.
“In terms of theory, early childhood education is haunted by the dead white males who still whisper their theories in the classrooms of the present, and inhabit thoughts and conceptualisations about children and their lives,” Bone writes.
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She continues: “Now and to come, the chair is a trace, a symbol, an instrument of torture and object of desire.”
Reminds me of how my wife and I fight over my La-Z-Boy recliner.
Must not be a fan of “Doofus”
Since women are on average shorter than men, wouldn’t they benefit from smaller chairs?
Meanwhile in news about people who are totally normal and not at all batshit crazy:
Woman marries ghost of 300-year-old pirate
You go girl.
*stares blankly*
In related news, local woman wonders why husband now wearing eyepatch and hook to bowling night.
Does she use a potters’ wheel?
No Ghosting!
via Jordan Peterson
this is…. well, to be expected
BBC calls in security experts after Cathy Newman becomes subject to ‘vicious online abuse’
when you can’t beat people honestly, pretend to be fouled.
I don’t doubt she’s sincere.
There are some really horrible people glommed onto Peterson who only know him from the videos with titles like “Peterson wrecks transgender activist.” They are tribal and stupid. I left a facebook group devoted to Peterson because it was being taken over by Nazis and the group admins seemed unwilling to do anything about it.
as i’ve noted elsewhere – half the awful people are the genuine alt-right racist types, a quarter are just dumbass kids spouting edgy nonsense, and another quarter are actually lefty trolls echoing the alt-right types because it misdirects/poisons the entire atmosphere.
there will always be a proportion of shits in any internet forum. the moderated nature of Glibs.com is the only way you can screen them out.
the moderated nature of Glibs.com is the only way you can screen them out.
And yet many of us are still here, so the effectiveness of that is at best debatable.
*sweeps Hitler the Grouch picture under the rug*
I have no idea what you’re talking about!
I have been told this place is awfulness distilled. That we are the scum of the earth concentrated in one place.
*raises glass*
I guess I just dont wanna be right.
I have been told this place is awfulness distilled. That we are the scum of the earth concentrated in one place.
Say hi to Shreek for me.
Why do you think I hang out here?
To meet chicks?
Animal, meet Tundra.
Mrs. Animal is waaay too good a shot for me to go around soliciting other chicks.
Wait…this *isn’t* Farmersonly.com?
Where’s the form I fill out for a refund?
Not sure you could even expect *half* to be “genuine alt-right racist types”. Exceptional claims, exceptional proofs. A very few loud bigots punch way above their weight in a thoughtful, civilized forum.
An arsenal of catbutts, a nuclear powered site admin (SP) and ruthless commenters help.
Is she trying to come off as a bigger bitch than she already has?
Fucking baby is what She is, no one’s gonna hurt her, other than her Feelings, pssh
Given that it’s pretty clear she was trying to sandbag him, and BBC’s version of “Comment is Free” would have been just the same but with Peterson as the “victim”, it’s awfully hard to gin up very much sympathy, absent some reliable evidence of “true threats”.
BBC-fellators are every bit as nasty and aggressive as the people who are savaging Newman in the comments.
She got decimated, like 5-0 in the first half decimated. She’s just trying to heal some of her bruised pride by throwing a hissy fit. If that’s all you got, sugartits, it ain’t enough.
Her first mistake is that she went in trying to hit Peterson with gotchas. Problem is, Peterson’s arguments are so well-circumscribed and his claims are so specific and precise that you’re not going to get him to talk himself into a hole. So then she’s basically trying to get him to admit that he’s a big ol’ meany because he doesn’t subscribe to intersectionality and whatnot, and what happens is he comes off as a very reasonable person saying very normal things who’s being hectored by an unhinged moonbat. I think what it comes down to is that you can argue against Peterson’s conclusions or his methodologies or what-have-you, but you can’t just throw SJW talking points at him and expect to get anywhere because he doesn’t concede any ground to that ideology. You can’t throw feels, sloppy thinking, and indignation at him and expect him to take it as seriously as documented, peer-reviewed studies.
OK everyone gather ’round, it’s time for another set of Uncle Q’s tips for degenerates!*
There’s been a lot of talk around here as to how various friends of yours might be able to obtain various substances on the gray market. Keep in mind, this is no Silk Road, your friends would (primarily) only be looking to get unscheduled substances. I’m not saying your friend *couldn’t* get Scheduled substances from these sources, but that would be a personal choice and subject to considerably more risk.
For regular pharmaceuticals that your friend may (or may not) have a prescription for, my friend’s go to place is:
reliablerxpharmacy(dot)com (link intentionally not completed)
The would be the place to get the PDE5 inhibitor of your friend’s choice, Clomid, Cabergoline, Amantadine or other such excellent sexual and lifestyle enhancers. If your friend is willing to go a bit further, he can get Dapoxetine (will make your friend last as long as he wants in bed) or Bupropion (central sexual enhancer for both sexes). Already discussed of course is Yohimbine which your friend can get off Amazon.
For things that are a little more out there, your friend would need to go to a peptide research laboratory to get various substances to feed his lab rats. My friend’s rats’ favorite place is:
peptideswarehouse(dot)com
This would be the place for Clenbuterol, Albuterol, aromatase inhibitors like Exemestane, as well as the aforementioned scheduled substances that we won’t talk about here.
Finally, the easiest lifestyle enhancement that any degenerate can do is good ole’ Kegel exercises. These have gotten a reputation for being a “female only” thing. While they definitely work on females (ben-wah balls), there are no female libertarians. So for you guys, squeeze for 10 seconds than release. Do that 10 times. Then do 50 one second long pulses. Do that routine 3 times a day and within a month, you’ll reach your goal (the goal being to shoot it over her head).
If you have 100 bucks burning a hole in your pocket and want to engage in conspicuous consumption, you can try this, but it’s nothing you can’t do on your own.
https://www.minnalife.com/products/kgoal-boost
*This advice does not reflect that of Glib management or Q himself. This is strictly from Q’s friend passed on to your friends. Your friends should exercise personal responsibility and thoroughly research everything before embarking on a journey. Be careful. Your friends have been warned.
Nice try, narc.
And even if your friend doesn’t have that ‘life goal’, there’s been some credible anecdotal evidence that an exercised prostate area is a healthier prostate area.
Careful, you’ll put out an eye?
There’s something very wrong with you.
1 2 3 4, WE ARE WOMEN HEAR US ROAR
they really pick terrible times of year to go on marches, imo
activists will return to the streets this weekend in hopes of converting anger and enthusiasm into political f[a]rce.
At least that’s how I’m reading it.
“But now how do we translate that noise into something concrete or fulfilling?”
Oh, so they do understand the problem.
Blended scotch for her.
I could understand it if they were going to market a cheap prosecco and a pack of oxycontin in a nice pink box.
Or a Rose with some Xanax.
Charles Shaw and Lotrimin.
LEAVE TWO BUCK CHUCK ALONE!
Glibertarians.com needs a site-makeover, and it needs to use this guy as a template
https://www.lingscars.com/
i honestly don’t even know how i gilmore’d that one. I had no intent of replying to you. I blame the internet
that’s a chick. Ling Valentine.
whatever man. squeeze her brains
Phrasing
Arizona guarantees Grand Canyon won’t close over shutdown
https://apnews.com/0bbca8338c5742d6b3668b0d5b961a8b/Arizona-guarantees-Grand-Canyon-won't-close-over-shutdown
sigh
am i the only one who imagined the vast gulf of the canyon, shutting like a vice, while some retiree hikers shrieked in the distance?… and the deep voice of some Earth God going, “NO FEDERAL MONEY, NO NATURE FOR YOU”
I imagine a Bunch of Union ditch diggers filling it in with shovels, Job Security
I believe that was what happened when Obama did it.
Wait…
That was the republicans fault.
Just like this time.
The progressives are for progress and anyone who stands against them clearly trying to stop progress, so obviously everything is the republicans’ fault.
I imagine it as one of those weird Monty Python animations and as the viewpoint pans back, you’re between a woman’s thighs
Well then the Grand Canyon would actually be called Maeve.
KNOCK IT OFF
I dont see Trump pulling the petty, spiteful bullshit that Barry did during the last shutdown. Shut it down and I dont see much of anything happening. Trump might even find it a handy excuse to cut more federal positions.
I posted about it a few times this morning but to summarize recap: Trump has a huge opportunity to further mock and humiliate the establishment here.
When the federal government shut down in 95, the Governor sent the AZNG to the Grand Canyon to reopen it.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-11-18/news/mn-4701_1_grand-canyon
Jokes aside, if Mattis gave me a narrow gaze it would not be something I would ignore. I might even piss my pants a bit.
Looks like I missed a good discussion today.
So did I, evidently.
I’m not saying I wouldn’t contradict Mattis, but if I did, I would damn sure think long and hard about how right I better be.
What I don’t get about government budgeting is why everything has to be combined into a single budget. If I were Speaker of the House I would break the appropriations process down and pass the popular, necessary stuff first, then argue about the rest. Surely an appropriations bill that just funded the military or one that just funded social security would pass through without objection. Then all the leverage of a shutdown is gone: most people don’t care about government beyond that and you can easily kill any programs you don’t like by sinking their specific appropriations.
And miss the opportunity for some great political theater? No way!
Both sides want the pork. All they’re arguing over is who gets it.
Isn’t that pretty much what the House did? Then they went home and left it up to the Senate.
No. Next question?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455565/california-model-state-successful-despite-liberal-policies
Hear! Hear!
This makes a nice counterpoint to the piece linked yesterday about how the counties that produce the most wealth voted for Democrats in the last election. There is a disconnect between the policy positions that win elections and those that enable economic opportunity.
Moreover, it should not be assumed that political choices are deterministic of non-political outcomes. Except in the most egregious cases (revolutions, communism), people retain some measure of freedom and thus will achieve outcomes that don’t depend on the approval of politicians, or will suffer from problems not of any politician’s making. Assuming direct cause and effect between policy framework and slate of outcomes is fallacious.
Truer words have never been spoken…
Houdini, with horns
Yellowstone bison escape capture facility, none found yet
Yellowstone officials are trying to figure out who helped more than 50 bison escape captivity at the park’s northern edge earlier this week.
When they returned from the holiday weekend, park staff found that the 52 bull bison that were being held at the Stephens Creek Capture facility for a potential quarantine program had escaped their double-fenced pens. The park did not give specific details about how the bison escaped, but it has launched a criminal investigation.
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The bison were being held for a potential brucellosis quarantine program meant to make them available for transfer to enhance existing bison herds or establish new ones.
The program had yet to begin, and park superintendent Dan Wenk said in an emailed statement that the incident will likely delay those talks.
“This is an egregious criminal act that sets back bison conservation,” Wenk said. “It delays critical ongoing discussions about a quarantine program and the transfer of live Yellowstone bison to tribal lands. The park is aggressively investigating this incident.”
Previous headlines and stories made it sound as if those animals tunneled their way to freedom or something. Some
nature loversjackass(es) cut the fence and turned them loose. Because retarded romantic monkey wrench bullshit.No justice, no Tatonka!
That’s how STEVE SMITH got out.
FENCE NO HOLD STEVE SMITH!
https://youtu.be/1koa2xAxCAw
When i was in high-school, putting your fingers on your head and saying, “Tatonka” was a way to indicate that a conversation was going nowhere. I liked that, and would still do it, but no one would get the joke.
Apparently, there will be no troops stationed at the entrances to Yellowstone to repel visitors in the event of a budget crisis. No machine gun emplacements, no tank traps, no nuthin. What a gyp.
Do you have any idea how large your fields of fire at the Grand Canyon would be?! There are not enough range cards in the world to plot that shit out!
/Former 11B10
From Reuters, in it entirety:
A Kentucky man accused of a physical attack on U.S. Senator Rand Paul last November has been charged with assaulting a member of Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday.
“Assaulting a member of Congress is an offense we take very seriously,” Josh Minkler, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, said in a statement. “Those who choose to commit such an act will be held accountable.”
Can’t wait to hear what the Morning Jokesters have to say. I suspect they’ll tie themselves in knots trying to separate respect for the office with justifiable regicide.
“”assaulting a member of Congress resulting in personal injury, which is a felony under federal law””
I didn’t realize they needed special legal protections. Assault is a felony already, last i checked.
I’ve got mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I agree, and I also don’t like special privileges. On the other hand, intimidating a legislator does seem to fall into the valid things for the Feds to criminalize, in the spirit (albeit not the letter) of the Speech or Debate clause.
Assaulting your betters is more serious donchaknow.
I dunno, I’m kinda torn on this one. Beating the shit out of someone for their politics seems worse than doing it because he kicked your dog.
There’s not a district in Kentucky that could have jurisdiction?
Apparently they passed on charging it as it should be charged. Apparently someone at the DOJ was waiting for the same to happen and said enough is enough.
Apparently I need to work on my writing skills. Apparently.
Not a huge fan of Ace, but damn if he doesn’t nail this.
This involves a lot of base mockery and ridicule, something that the petty nobles of the liberal-leaning nominal right find horrifying when a right-winger does it, but don’t seem to notice or at least care that their masters, the Lords of the Left, do nothing but this.
Pepe. The best thing about mocking the squishy left at cultural institutions is that they automatically put you the deplorable bucket. One bucket becomes diluted and representative of most people’s perspective. The bucket they are left with contains highly distilled hate and isn’t potable.
I’ve got a problem guys. There are still piles of bodies left over in the streets from the net neutrality ruling. Where are all the dead from the government shutdown going to go? Should I just light a funeral pyre and toss them all in? I don’t want to break any laws here.
Is there even anyone left to kill? I thought tax cuts already mopped up the net neutrality survivors.
Text me, I’ll send the refrigerated trucks around to pick them up. Waste not want not
*narrows gaze, yet slow claps*
And the living shall envy the dead.
We’ll have to eat them to stave off the massive hunger looming due to the upcoming tax (or more like, no-tax, thanks to cuts) season.
Wonderful music, Brett. Merle was a national treasure
When we were young we used to call intense hangovers “Merles”. So Haggard…
Wonderful music, Brett.
MerleHaggard was a national treasure“It can be both…’
Should I just light a funeral pyre and toss them all in? I don’t want to break any laws here.
Luckily for you, all EPA clean air regs have been rolled back, so just bulldoze them into a giant mound, add tires and diesel fuel as necessary, and immolate away.
Be sure that the runoff makes its way to a pristine watershed, just to dot the eyes and cross the tees.