Still no hockey. Duke won in college basketball, preparing Americans’ disgust for the upcoming New England Super Bowl victory. And there was a big NBA trade that I couldn’t possibly care less about. And that’s it. That’s pretty much the entire sports world yesterday. I don’t count the witch hunt of the football and basketball coaches at Michigan State a sports story. But I will mention here that neither of those head coaches or men on their staff have a responsibility to monitor, punish or otherwise do anything to adults whose alleged actions are the purview of the legal system, not Title IX kangaroo courts set up by the schools. Doing so diminishes the right of due process to those people and undermines our entire criminal justice system. Participating in those shams should be actionable.
That’s it. I went off the rails again. Sorry. Let’s see if I can make it up to you in…the links!
Hardline Hamas leader “dies” after “shooting himself in the head”. Maybe the dies shouldn’t be in quotation marks. I don’t know because I haven’t seen the body. But the second part most likely does. I mean, if he got all suicidy, wouldn’t he have gone full Hamas and blown himself up on a bus full of innocent Israeli children or something?
After such a long wait, has Hollywood finally made a really kick-ass comic book movie? (Confession: I thought Spider Man Homecoming was very well-done.) Well, its Marvel, so it has a much better chance of being good that if it was a DC film. Meh, I’ll have to see what real people rather than critics say.
HBCU graduation rates are probably a little lower than they ought to be. Of course, the researchers quoted in the story have a solution: throw more money at them. You know, because the solution to a 5% graduation rate after six years has to be more spending.
All that bitching from Pelosi and the other scumbag politicians from the Bay Area about how Trump is killing their housing industry by cutting taxes appears to be what L.Q. Clemonds would call “a load of hooey”.
Chicago government can’t even figure out how to run a ticketing scam. Well, they could until the courts reviewed it and realized it was a gross violation of due process. Now if only every other city in America would abandon the whole traffic camera thing.
Republicans vote to #releasethememo. And the whole McCabe resignation gets funnier as known perjurer and Keystone Kop of an investigator James Comey rushes to support him. He did not receive such kind words, allegedly, from Trump however after his wife lost her Clinton-funded run for office. Or when he let the taxpayers foot the bill for Comey’s use of official transport after he was let go. The whole thing is hilarious and one can only expect it to get even funnier tonight.
Get some visine handy. There’s a lot of dusty air around here. Or is someone cutting onions? Oh yeah, its neither. Its the last link of the morning links. (TW: you will probably cry if you read this.)
This is for the people mentioned right above.
Have a great day, friends.
Comments
487 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”
I predict the memo will tell us nothing we don’t already know and there will be no consequences for anyone implicated by its.
*EDIT FAIRY ASSIST*
You want me to edit in a random “no” to this comment?
Yes. No consequences is what I meant.
Trump should sneak the memo to Info Wars first just for the lulz
No! I might die laughing.
If the memo was a big nothing-burger then the Dems on the committee wouldn’t have voted against the release. Well that’s my thin reed of logic there.
I’m not saying it’s a nothing burger. It may be chock full of evidence of people in high places committing felonies. I just don’t think anything will happen to the guilty parties because nothing ever does.
Gotcha – and you’re right. But in the long-run there will be more distrust of the Swamp. Well at least for a certain percentage of the population.
One can only hope. I doubt that folks like you and I can mistrust the swamp any more than we already do. Maybe this time it will convert some of the less skeptical folk.
I suspect the distrust is already there for those that are not beholden to the marxist revolution, but even amongst them, there will be some discontent because their dogma will again have been shown as ugly. Will it last? Of course not. These people play for keeps and would rather burn it all down if they were not in charge as the last year has all but made clear.
I suspect most of the top people will not feel anything but heat because of this, and the history revisionists in 20 years will have completely changed to facts to protect Obama and Clinton, but the swamp’s inhabitants, the career bureaucrats of the deep state, will feel some of the pain as there has bound to be some damage, even if only collateral, to the deep state.
People believe what they want to believe, first and foremost. If they want to trust the top men in D.C., they will do so even if you put up a video of them all sitting around a banquet hall eating babies and puppies. “Oh, my politician didn’t really want to eat babies and puppies. He/she just had to do that to stay on the good side of the people in power so they can change things from within. They’re one of the good ones!”
It doesn’t matter what’s in the memo. Even if it’s awful, only a very small percentage of the voting population will think anything more of it than parroting whatever talking points come up to cover it. After a few weeks, everyone will forget about it and we’ll go on with the status quo same as it ever was.
Oh, it’s not a nothingburger, but the Dems and the media will portray it as if it were a nothingburger, and nothing much will happen.
As predicted, here is CNN’s headline and sub-head:
Got that? It’s not about fake dossiers and illegal surveillance and lack of any collusion evidence; it’s really about Trump attacking the noble truth-seekers trying to hold him accountable.
*LOOKS GOOD TO EDIT FERRY*
Fuck, screwed up the HTML tags. Supposed to end quote after “Monday.” Edit Faerie helpz?
Thank you Edit Faerie!
I disagree. The media will absolutely not portray the memo as a nothingburger. They will undoubtedly portray it as a delusional partisan attack generated by a bunch of incompetent hacks and an example of the worst kind of dirty politics that has ever been seen and which never existed before the evil republicans began dating Dr. Evil.
That has already started
That’s a great read, I highly recommend it. It is a perfect example of today’s politics, filled with projection, myopic lack of self-awareness and general nuttiness, mixed in a salad of salient observations, half-truths and outright fantasy.
Right from the bat you get this little gem, following on the heels of a screed about Republican conspiracy theory dabbling:
This is his version of “level-headed, rational thinking” on matters of politics, as a counterbalance to Republican conspiracy theories and the GOP “working hand-in-hand with a hostile foreign government to undermine American institutions ”
It is truly epic.
I’m sure he’s really, really concerned about the dignity and reputation of the GOP. Nice concern trolling.
It’s too bad we can’t have a public comeuppance similar to the Church hearings in the 1970s. Even though those reforms were probably short lived, there actually was some action on the part of liberty.
Yep. Methinks they protest too much. My question is: How much culpability will the judges on the FISA court have if it is shown that they accepted clearly flimsy evidence to obtain the warrant?
None. When was the last time you heard about a secret judge on a secret court being reprimanded?
The judges aren’t going to want to have the stink on the court for basing the warrant on BS. I have no idea how it would work, but it would be a neat trick to get them to be the harshest critics of the FBI. Top men on Top men action is the best kind of action.
Top men on Top men action
We would still be the bottoms.
*rises to begin prolonged and thunderous ovation*
Hell, when was the last time you heard of a regular judge being held accountable for rubber-stamping police warrants based on flimsy bullshit?
Even if they unearth some god awful dirt on the court, they already voted to renew the FISA court. I want a do over if something juicy comes out.
I didn’t know the FBI made all that shit up.. it was presented as legit…
If I was a Judge, I would freak the hell out if I found out I was presented with BS evidence.
Isn’t that contempt of court? In a real court, the Agents who asked for the warrant would be doing time for contempt.
I would not be surprised some of the judges might be furious about being lied to, just like some don’t give a flying shit Drake, but I doubt any of them will do anything but be more careful after the fact, because rocking the boat has consequences in the deep state.
Qualified Immunity. These are the judges “Qualified” to determine if Probable Cause (more like Plausible Cause, am I right?) exists to issue a FISA warrant, so they have immunity.
Qualified immunity, invented out of thin air by the courts to shield themselves from accountability.
Seems legit.
Who wouldn’t like such job security?
Absolute, not qualified.
Yes… Judges gave themselves absolute immunity. Prosecutors get de-facto absolute immunity too. (see the Harry Connick Sr. case for the prime example). The further you move away from judges, the less immunity you get. Until finally we reach “we the people”, who get a presumption on innocence, unless the police say you are guilty, in which case you get a presumption of guilt. (go to traffic court sometime…. most traffic tickets carry a list of restrictions on what kind of argument you can even make. “I didn’t do it” is often not an allowable argument)
Hell, there was a court case in NJ where the defendant on a gun possession charge was admonished by the judge that “the second amendment is not available to you as a defense”.
Agreed. They seem to be in a full blown panic.
Sadly, you are correct. The Dems and their media operatives will decry the memo as a hoax or as a fake attempt to distract fro TRUMP/RUSSIA, and that will be the end of it.
Projection..
Because the Trump/Russia story is nothing but a distraction from what really happened and seems to be documented in this memo.
Pepperidge Farms remembers when the left said Trump was deranged because he said he might question the results of the election if he lost.
I mean the left thought they had rigged this election and there was no fucking way Hillary would lose it, then they not only lost, but handed a weaponized government they hoped Hillary would use to crush anything standing in the way of progtopia to the orange guy. Trump winning is possibly the first time someone managed to win despite a rigged election. I suspect that if the left ever gets in power again, elections will have no meaning whatsoever again. They will make sure they will never lose again.
Well Andrew McCabe is out of a job without a government pension, so that’s a consequence.
If nothing else, it will further discredit Mueller’s investigation, make it impossible to prosecute the people charged, and pressure him to wrap it up.
He is “retiring” – he won’t officially be off the rolls until he vests his pension in March – unless someone steps in and shitcans him first.
I wonder if that’s a wimp out or a way to force him to testify if granted immunity? If he refuses, he could be terminated for cause and lose it.
I hope a lot more of this happens. Nothing will hurt the deep state more than having the drones that thought fucking us plebes over to buy favor with the top men lose their livelihood. If enough of these fucking scumbags get hit in the pocketbook, then the others will be far less likely to commit crimes for the top men.
Edit Fairy is thicc
*EDIT FAIRY AGREES*
I may have a new favorite Edit Fairy.
adds WTF to the “I like big butts” camp.
I generally don’t like ’em too big actually, but there’s just something about this one.
Whatever, John Jr. 😉
It’s big but shapely.
My opinions on breasts are well known, but THICC Edit Fairy definitely has some nice gams.
Sorry WTF. Your favorite faerie is triggering to us Viking fans. I demand you guys remove her. (or at least use an Eagles green faerie for the next 38 times)
*EDIT FERRY SEZ NO!*
Get some visine handy.
Question is, did he bang her?
*narrows gaze*
Hey, priorities.
Totally legit question IMHO.
Well he did say “I wanted to give her something back before my time was up.”
(TW: you will probably cry if you read this.)
Real men don’t cry… they mist.
After such a long wait, has Hollywood finally made a really kick-ass comic book movie?
We wuz blockbusterz and shit
Naked Mole Rats Don’t Die of Old Age
a Calico principle investigator
Copy editor needed on Aisle 8.
I dunno, The Calico Principle is a unduly neglected field of study, often overlooked in favor of the more general Little House on the Prairie Conjecture.
naked mole rats are neither moles nor rats. But they are naked. Like all wild animals
This was written before McCabe got fired so it’s out of date on that topic, but interesting that a former Agent is arguing that the problems with the FBI stem from lack of independence from the political DOJ. All the recent FBI Directors have been DOJ guys and Mueller did much to surrender FBI independence.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/25/salvaging-the-fbis-legacy/
Yeah, but that was surrendering independence to Obama. Things are different now.
I think it’s been going on from at least the Clinton Administration.
Hoover was a nasty blackmailer, but he generally used that threat to keep asshole Presidents and their DOJ lawyers away from his Bureau.
While there may be some truth to that, let us not forget this is the agency that was run as J. Edgar Hoover’s personal fief and goon squad for almost 40 years (50 if you count his time as head of the FBI’s predecessor). An independent FBI can be just as bad as a politicized FBI. The whole notion of a Federal agency in charge of general law enforcement is questionable at best. The Feds have the ability to mobilize the permanent armed forces and the national guard, and the states can lend assistance to each other and cooperate on their own. The FBI is basically an exercise in “what if we could use the commerce clause to go after criminals?”
Sounds like bureaucrats itching for more power. Fuck ’em. If the FBI is to exist, it is to be subservient to DOJ.
Why? The DOJ may be the most thoroughly politicized agency in the federal government.
The FBI should be conducting investigations and making recommendations for prosecution without any consideration to what the politicians at DOJ want.
What the fuck is the point of spending billions on a department that makes recommendations for prosecution if the DOJ is going to ignore them anyway?
Better to have one politicized agency than twice as many.
“What the fuck is the point of spending billions on a department that makes recommendations for prosecution if the DOJ is going to ignore them anyway?”
Well, then there’s a paper trail, if nothing else.
Anyway, the DOJ is the gatekeeper to government accountability, but since government malfeasance is ordinarily either due to the executive branch or due to the administrative state, and the DOJ culture tends to support one or the other or both, it’s useless. Congress should just give itself its own police power and legal department to use for the purpose of supporting its oversight and impeachment role. If nothing else, if the DOJ itself is receiving contempt of Congress citations, Congress should simply execute it on its own.
Hey! Where did my link button go?
STEVE SMITH LOST LINK. HAVE BUTTON.
Don Cheadle mansplains to Nikki Haley.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/actor-don-cheadle-gets-vicious-nikki-haley-twitter-sit-girl-youre-drunk/
What, are you dueling LH to see who can cram more links into the comments first?
I say pistols at dawn, good sir. I shall send my seconds.
The Duellists
Christ, what an asshole.
That’s “vicious”?
Taxes: no one wants to pay, everyone wants the benefits
The anecdote that sticks in my mind was the liberal couple who, after Obamacare kicked in, complained “We wanted everyone to have insurance but we didn’t know we were going to have to pay for it” when they found out how badly they were being soaked.
Yeah, fuck them.
Wasn’t there another article about Portland restaurant owners complaining about the new minimum wage hike? Where they were wailing about how they support a Living Wage™ but they can’t afford to pay their employees at this rate and they’ll have to lay people off and/or cut hours? Ya know, all the things that minimum wage supporters say would never happen?
Count me in.
“Imagine having to pay, individually, education for every one of your children.”
They would most likely get educated
Having to pay for your own shit?! The horror, the horror….
And the whole teachers union cabal goes away too? Double bonus…
Imagine not having to pay, collectively, for the education of every child in the country for the rest of your life.
I know. Imagine being able to stop paying for a service that doesn’t do what is advertised. The biggest argument they have for taxes is public goods theory, and they don’t even argue it correctly. Education is by definition a private good. The real argument here is: you don’t see how much this costs you now, what if you had to pay for it yourself!!!! Forget that you are already paying.
Taxes built our highways – what fucking percent of taxes go to that?
And gasoline taxes, which are supposed to finance the ROADZ, are basically user taxes. So people who don’t drive don’t pay and the less you drive the less you pay.
In “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” we have a slew of taxes that were created to fix roadz/infrastructure, all of which now go into the general fund and for which the money now is used to buy votes from people that vote for a living, while the political class tells us that we now need moar taxes – and toll roads too – to get money to fix the roadz/infrastructure. And then they also tell those of us that point out they will screw us over again, that we should be ashamed to point out that they will just shift those funds to the general fund as well…
According to a quick search –
In the US, $165B is spent on highways, and $3,654B is collected in revenue on all federal taxes. So, 4.5% of taxes go to roads. Interestingly enough, excise taxes/tariffs – the type of taxes the federal government was originally restricted to collecting – bring in $146B of the total, and gas taxes bring in $58B, so infrastructure could be built entirely off of infrastructure related taxes.
Most infrastructure spending is at the state and local level, but it still constitutes a small percentage of their budgets. For example, my county (Anne Arundel) spends about 8% of its budget on roads and bridges while my state (Maryland) spends 12% on transportation, but 40% of that latter number is from the Feds and it includes buses and trains.
But even these numbers are quite large. Easily half of what gets spent is on compliance (at all levels) rather than construction or engineering. There was a good bit in Slate Star Codex on Cost Disease, noting that the U.S. spends way more than other developed countries on infrastructure (although the author doesn’t settle on any one cause for the cost).
Education? I don’t think that was the word he meant to use. INDOCTRINATION FTW.
Does this dumbass not realize that lots of people do, in fact, pay individually to have their children educated? In addition to paying the school taxes?
Well, about 220 (constitution), but math is hard.
Hey, cut him a break: math skills in this country have taken a nosedive since Betsy DeVos shut down all public schools. Plus, Ajit Pai sold the Internet to evil corporations so you can’t even look up tutorial videos on Khan Academy anymore. Between all this and the constant worry about ending up in one of the various death camps that Trump set up, people are just too stressed out to learn basic arithmetic!
Imagine 15.3% of my income going into a retirement account.
Okay, okay, 12.4% is SS. And technically 10.75% (12.4/115.3).
Um. The founders didn’t want us to have a standing army, numbnuts.
If you’re going to make a dumb argument, at least get your facts right.
Exactly, which is why it could only be funded for 2 years or something like that.
A standing Navy, on the other hand, was fine with them.
Which makes sense from a purely defensive point of view.
It is interesting though that in a piece lamenting how people don’t want to pay taxes, the author whines about “what if” every citizen had to shoulder the costs. Isn’t that what taxes are?
It’s almost as if–shocker–even people who write paeans to taxes don’t want to pay them and think it’s somebody else’s responsibility to foot the bill.
Would it be a dumb argument if the facts were right?
Well, you’d have to rephrase the argument first.
Could the militia replace the standing army while maintaining the same capability and discipline? No.
The real question is, is that necessary?
Tolls built several of our highways, not taxes.
A system that didn’t funnel income – whatever the tax might have been – specifically levied to maintain/create infrastructure elsewhere so politicians could use that fund to pay for vote buying social programs, should also do that. However, the issue today is that funds collected under the guise they are to maintain or build infrastructure, end up being spent on social programs that buy our politicians their job.
The problem isn’t money, or collecting enough money. It is that the money collected is spent elsewhere, on programs the public would likely never agree more money should be spent on, every time…
“Taxes pay to have our children educated”
Only after cheap-ass Protestants forced their way in to getting their kids educated via subsidy.
I like how they conjure up the boogeyman of religious schools. You know what? I’m not even religious, but if I had a gun to my head and had to choose between mandatory prayer in school and the blatant pro-government indoctrination that occurs in schools today, I’d pick prayer.
Also, I’m not sure why charter schools are so scary. Pretty much everyone who can afford it sends their kids to private schools because they’re virtually always better than government schools. With regards to education, I want everyone to have the same choices that rich people have. That’s apparently an evil, right-wing position now.
Eh, Black Panther will probably be solid like most of the Marvel movies have been. But this one will be portrayed as absolutely incredible and amazing because muh diversity (almost no wypipo). So yeah, waiting for the comments of real people is the way to go. Since you bring it up, on my second viewing of Spider-Man Homecoming, I think I might’ve been a little too harsh on my review of it. The little bits of SJW crap didn’t stick out as much to me as they did when I watched it in the theater.
I though SMH was meh – just okay. I’ve watched it two times and it just doesn’t do much for me. And yes the high school looks like a diversity casting call but what do I know? My suburb is so white it looks like a Klan rally.
I’ve already registered my problem with Black Panther: There is a scene where two armies of foot soldiers rush together on a plain. In the same Marvel Movie Universe that started with with Tony Stark demonstrating a bunch of tiny missiles that would effectively destroy either army. It’s just become a CGI trope that needs to die.
“almost no wypipo”
Those that are in it are a Tolkien minority.
+1 *Rim shot*
BOOO
You, of all people….to boo a pun?!
Better to boo a pun than to poo a bun.
Hey now, the Orcs and Uruks OUTNUMBERED the white guys at all three of the major battles of LOTR.
I recall a few months ago that early reviews for The Last Jedi were calling it “the best Star Wars movie since Empire”. I didn’t find it to be superior to even Rogue One, let alone Return of the Jedi, so I don’t place much weight on these things. As for Spiderman: Wokecoming, I turned my nose up at it due to the SJW nonsense, but maybe I should give it another shot.
Yeah, on first viewing the SJW stuff just immediately stood out. On my second viewing, I guess because I already knew they were there, they didn’t seem to stand out as badly.
I skipped all 3 of the last ones after the second series left me feeling the whole thing was basically turned into more Hollywood politicized drivel. From what I hear, I did the right thing.
With Black Panther there are a couple things that worry me, mostly due to the trailers. First, it looks like way too much CGI, and second I don’t care for the music in the trailers. I doubt either are actually representative of the movie.
On Spider-Man: Homecoming; it is so far my least favorite Marvel movie. Spider-Man is my favorite Marvel character, and Michael Keaton one of my favorite actors. But the movie had a meandering plot, lacked heart and did a few things with the character that I didn’t care for. That being said, it is better than the last 3 Spider-Man films that Sony made.
I was disappointed by Homecoming. I had high hopes for it based on Spidey’s appearance in Civil War. It was the first movie appearance of Spider-man that I thought captured the wise cracking teenager accurately. One of my biggest problems with Homecoming was the super Spidey suit. If they wrote the movie right Spidey should not need all the gimmicky gadgets.
Yes, the suit is one of the things they did with the character that I didn’t like.
Shouldn’t the Eldrigdge Cleaver estate contest this?
/obscureSopranosReference
If it helps Trumputler, it’s a nothingburger. If it can in any way be construed as legitimate news, they’ll be fitting Hillary for a crown and ermine robe.
Shit, if Trump wants to help a charity, all he needs to do is say he hates the focus of the charity.
Slightly OT: I’m still amazed and somewhat angry that OMWC refuses to watch Jaws.
I’ve seen it once, and like Alien, it just doesn’t do it for me. I can acknowledge it as a great work of art, but give me Hitchcock any day for suspense.
I love Hitchcock. He’s the master. But you two, and anyone that agrees with you, are clinically insane if you think Jaws was anything shy of an outstanding movie.
I’d go so far as to call it probably a perfect movie insomuch as you couldn’t make it better by adding, deleting or changing anything about it.
It’s a fucking masterpiece.
It’s a very well made boring movie.
How is it boring though? The slow parts are full of amazing dialogue and camerawork, not to mention the score supplementing the latter expertly.
Did it need a shark with frickin laser beams shooting from its eyes?
It’s been years since I watched it, and I’m no film student so I couldn’t tell you why I found it boring. It’s just that, nothing about it interested me. I didn’t find the dialogue interesting and I didn’t care for the plot. Of course, nothing to complain about with John Williams’ score, he is very good at what he does.
I remember watching that movie as a kid, and then that same night going out to swim with some friends in the ocean. I pulled a prank by screaming that I was being attacked by a shark, then watched all the bozos scramble to get out of the water. Maybe it was because of that joke, that I a couple of years later while lobster hunting with a harpoon stepped into the mouth of a small sand shark and had it rip off my heel. That repair surgery sucked ballz.
We’re going to need a bigger comment section.
Too many wypippo. I say make a new Jaws with black sharks, laser beams and shit.
I agree. It’s a great flick.
I watched it this summer in a theater that does a “retro movie” night, with my son and his friend (who are 16). It was superb on the big screen, anamitronic shark and all. The crowd was really into it, the theater was packed, and we had a great time. One thing that hit me was how much music is part of the overall experience.
I don’t know if people realize just how integral music is to a movie. Music is the greatest of the art forms in my view.
E.g Morricone and Cinema Paradiso tugs at your soul.
My favorite JAWS story is John Milius dictating the Robert Shaw Indianapolis monologue to Steven Spielberg over the phone
Sloopy, something is wired wrong in my adrenal/ fright or flight reflexes. I do not enjoy scary movies, because even though I physically jump, mentally, it doesn’t really truly scare me. I do not enjoy most amusement park rides at all, but I love whitewater rafting. I personally blame my mom for making me watch all the old scary movies when I was a kid.
A-frigging-men! This is especially true when one learns of how troubled the production was. That’s probably what helped it (the mechanical shark not working well), as it forced Spielberg to focus more on suspense and the great characters of Hooper, Brody, and Quint.
Plus, that phenomenal Williams score. SO much more than just those two famous “Jaws” theme notes.
It captured the feeling of summer, petty small town politics, a little bit of the John Ford “men working as a team” vibe, the actual terror many people feel when in the ocean and thinking of sharks, plus, that awesome “Indianapolis” scene.
Eh, he isn’t missing out on anything. It’s an overrated boring movie.
*adds TEE to list*
You’re gonna need a bigger boat
Yeah. A bigger boat to put all the anti-Jaws people on and then take it out to sea and abandon it. Because they deserve that fate.
Well played sir.
If Double-E changes his mind will you …..
TEE off?
Thank you.
Ooooh, big rubber fish!
Not gonna waste my time.
I’m with Sloopy, you are a deplorable if you don’t watch Jaws.
We aren’t talking about something stupid like the Bond movies. We are talking Jaws!
Like I said. You aren’t missing out on anything.
The movie opens with a naked chick. Like, right there at the very beginning… full-on naked chick. You don’t get that kind of cold-open any more.
I’m still amazed and somewhat angry that OMWC refuses to watch Jaws.
OMWC
Brilliant
Wait is that a minor swimming?
“a likely affair Donald Trump had with porn star Stormy Daniels”
He says they didn’t. She swore they didn’t. Has she flipped? It doesnt seem likely to me but if they did, so what?
She said she did in an interview in 2011. Allegedly.
I thought she had signed an affidavit previously saying she didn’t? I haven’t kept up because I stopped paying attention to the accusations against him.
In a 2011 interview with In Touch magazine, however, Daniels recalled her relationship with the future president, complete with at least one sex act.
I have a feeling that story has changed more than once. Who cares, anyways?
I don’t care if he paid her to tinkle on him. The left just doesn’t get it, do they?
The left used to be proud of Clinton using that chubby intern as a humidor….
Minnesoda is on board with the Resistance!
Betty McCollum becomes the first Congress person from Minnesoda to sign onto the articles of impeachment for Trump.
Uffda.
What are the high crimes and misdemeanors cited? Because what she said is basically just “we don’t like him”.
That’s SOP for impeachment. Go talk to Andrew Johnson.
Interestingly, what constitutes ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ from – constitutionally – is entirely up to the congress. It could very well be “we don’t like you” if they’ve got the votes for it.
What the hell is she talking about? Has she released her own taxes? In what way is he obstructing justice? What behavior? The courts are flying int he face of the plain text of the constitution by trying to block his execution of his constitutional duties. These people are insane. I will fly to the moon before fohtee fie is ‘peached.
Suthen, you had exactly the same reaction I did.
Why didn’t the reporter ask those same questions? Why didn’t all the reporters at the press conference burst into laughter.
McCollum is as big a commie as you can get, but she isn’t stupid. That is why I think this is just the GOP version of voting to repeal Obamacare. A symbolic move to appease the crazy base of the Dems.
If 2018 is a monumental wave, and the Dems actually won enough seats to push impeachment through, do you think they would? Are there enough sane Democrats left that would realize that impeaching Trump would cause a civil war?
Because they are undisputed FACTS.
Particularly because the crazy left would then go after guns countrywide. I keep telling a friend’s mom, when she posts gun grabbing stories and lies (and reposts things from unhinged leftist Congresscritters) that she needs to remember American history, and what finally put the Revolution into full swing: gun confiscation.
Wanting to fire a hack bureaucrat from a department you’re in charge of and backing down when your counsel wisely threatens to resign over it is totes obstructionary.
What do releasing his taxes have to do with obstruction of justice, you halfwit harpy?
This will not work out the way she thinks.
Actually, if she thinks this will get her votes from the Minnesoda socialists, it probably will.
She is in a 100% safe district. No way they will vote for an Republican ever.
This is probably to cut down on the crazies in her district calling to ask her why she hasn’t tried impeaching him yet and installing Hillary to the throne.
So proud to live in Minnesoda.
(Facepalm)
Minnesota, Plundered by Vikings
An ugly deal, made by bad people, cheered on by stupid people. Oh, and then there’s this:
You should see some of the crony shit going on here in the build up to the olympics in 2020.
Crucifixion of all involved. Along a major highway leading into Minneapolis.
I’d love to hammer a Wilf.
WILF
Nice. Was expecting Brimley. Minnesoda nice rears its face again.
Oh, yeah. Now we’re talking.
Tundra, are you trying to get my BP up into the red zone? The stadium shit always riles me up because we got fucked so bad.
Also, many of my buddies who work downtown have bitched about how much their lives are being fucked by the SB. With all the streets being closed for security or higher prices they say their lives suck. I wonder how that was accounted for in those “economic studies”?
Again, if we have to give someone a half billion dollars, why not give it to Amazon to build their HQ here? At least then we’d have a bunch of real high paying jobs here all the time. Not just 8 games a year.
Sorry, brother. Just wanted to spread the misery.
Also, many of my buddies who work downtown have bitched about how much their lives are being fucked by the SB.
Yeah, a lot of people I know just said ‘fuck it’ and are working from home this week.
At least you got a fantastic stadium out of that heist. The taxpayers of NJ paid through the nose for Met Life Stadium, and it looks like a giant toaster.
I blame the Jets being involved.
It looks like a damned Jawa Sandcrawler. My high school class, and the one after it have a private PayPal account setup to send a friend (who is super short, and cosplays as a Jawa) to a Vikings game. We keep putting in $1 a month, and probably will be able to send her next season.
Perfect comparison. I will never look at it the same way again.
You should be glad it’s not ABC doing the Superbowl. Disney would have Stormtroopers, Jawas, and Sandpeople outside of it.
So this damage was caused by storm troopers? I should have known those blast points were too accurate for
Somalissand people!This is a common tactic. Show all the new spending at the restaurants and etc around the stadium and forget that most users of the stadium are local, so they would have been eating somewhere else.
This was used as a tactic with the new Louisville arena too.
“Imagine having to pay, individually, education for every one of your children.”
Imagine not being compelled to foot the bill for a terrible education for the children of others.
it takes a village.
To create some idiot SJWs?
Almost 100 suspected sex workers arrested in Hong Kong anti-vice crackdown
I cant bring myself to say it.
It’s just sitting there waiting for one of the dawgs to lick it up.
well this is a classy family friendly site after all
Oh I just couldn’t decide which joke would be the best.
Sasquatch may soon be spotted — on state license plates
But there are plenty of people that “love the idea of Sasquatch representing”
STEVE SMITH ALWAYS REPRESENTING
AND BY “REPRESENT” MEAN RAPE!!
STVSMTHLUV
Too many letters, or too little rape?
What are the odds Trump mocks a person who is sitting in front of him tonight? I wish they were higher, but I bet he doesn’t. I’m saying 5:1 at best.
But it sure would be nice if he kicked Pelosi fir being out of touch calling those raises and bonuses “crumbs” tht don’t count. Or kick McCain for sticking around when he’s incapable of even dressing himself anymore.
I’m hoping he has the illegals coming as guests arrested in the middle of the speech.
Now that would be a classic: “well they are here illegally.”
Oh Jeez. That would be hilariously fucked up.
He does have as guests the parents of a girl murdered by MS13 illegal aliens.
I think he plays this one straight. Unifying and professional politician. Tomorrow he starts the Memo Insanity.
I wish he would follow the constitution. He should just send a note to be read to congress and not actually show up himself.
Maybe it should say, “The state of the union is pretty good, see you next year.”
BTW, I promise to do this if I am ever President.
In fairness to the letter of the Constitution, I would be willing to take myself down, in person, and present to the leadership of each chamber my written SOTU.
Too much of an ego to do that.
He won’t do it in the speech itself, but I’m sure he’ll unleash himself on twitter soon afterwards.
https://twitter.com/Landdownoz/status/957346575952596992
Big Moo is the largest cow in Australia weighing 1.5 tons
Tjere is a guy who lives about 5 miles down the road from me who is running a 1500+ head of cattle operation on several hundred acres. He has several smaller lots fenced off near the highway where he keeps his bulls segregated when not in use.
From time to time he will have a Charolais pinned up out there that is the biggest damn bull I have ever laid eyes on. He has to be in the 2500 lb range. He’s enormous and I swear you can see his balls from a half mile away.
Spray paint “Trump” on them.
Shut it down, comedy can give up for the rest of the year, we’re done here.
keeps his bulls segregated when not in use – bullfighting is a thing in Arkansas?
No, it’s about keeping genetic diversity in your heard. Keeping the same bull with a group of cows for multiple generations is not a good thing. You don’t want a sire breeding his own daughters. Also, it’s wise to use a bull with a history of making low birth weight calves for the first breeding of a heifer. Mr. Stud bull gets put away when the calves are ready for their first breeding and Mr. wimp bull gets to have his go for awhile.
Nice. Get the virgins
Betas gotta get some too…
How did Warty get in a pen near you?
Also
https://twitter.com/Landdownoz/status/957256934335401984
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/30/video-nyu-students-really-hated-trumps-sotu-speech-hasnt-happened-yet/
De-fund ALL colleges
…and deport all lefty professors…
Typical AJC:
Look at the list of other selected colleges for comparison.
Anything obvious missing? A normal person would just think it was an oversight, but after 30 years of following the AJC from afar, I know it was actually intentional.
(This was on the HBCU article, btw)
Can you spell it out for dumb old me?
They listed 5 selected colleges in GA for comparison.
3 were HBCUs, so those had to be in the list. Then they also picked, although they aren’t HBCUs, University of Georgia and Georgia State. Leaving off the most prominent state school for the two lesser state-wide schools – but those two have journalism departments.
Georgia Tech (my alma mater) doesn’t have a J-school, and gets regularly treated like shit by the AJC. Like I said, that chart alone wouldn’t set me off, but a literal multi-generational history of pulling this kind of shit gets noticed. **I** have only noticed it for 30 years, older alumni who live in GA have noticed it for much longer and in more detail.
Well I mean you have to have a journalism school if you want to be like Columbia.
I just figured they left it out because it wouldn’t support the narrative. Tech’s 6 year graduation rate [assuming that drop outs are counted as “not graduated” as a sane person would] has got to be a lot lower than UGA’s — and it presumably would make UGA look like a party school/diploma mill. The freshman classes (heck, just D-mag/Re-mag by itself) would assure that.
It is much higher than it was in my day or in the “look to your left/right” day.
The 6 year graduation rate for the entering class of 2009 was 85%.
That is the latest number I could find. For 1996 it was 68%. That is the oldest I could find.
The 4 year rate is hovering around 40%, but I am sure co-ops have a lot to do with that.
Please note that institutions that have very few Pell Grant-eligible students typically have very, very high graduation rates.
They should just get rid of Pell grants entirely and then the graduation rate would be 100%!
Its almost like people value something more if they are paying for it themselves!
Donald Trump’s Presidency Is the Libertarian Moment
Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch hit hardest?
To be sure.
“The Wall Street Journal editorial page is a bastion of pro-Trump conspiracy-theorizing about nefarious deep-state plots, in addition to celebrations of the administration’s economic record. Grover Norquist, Stephen Moore, and Ron and Rand Paul, among others, have all staunchly defended the president.”
What kind of nonsense is this?
Firstly, I wouldn’t consider the WSJ to be a ‘libertarian’ publication and when has Ron Paul or Rand Paul ‘staunchly defended the president’? They just don’t suffer from TDS and haven’t allowed blind hatred to consume them.
And who the hell still thinks of the Niskanen Center as ‘libertarian’? That place is a fucking joke. They make Nick Gillespie look like Murray Rothbard
Scratch that. The Niskanen Center makes Nick Gillespie look like Samuel Edward Kotkin III
You’re saying the Niskanen Center is the Nick Gillespie of libertarian centers?
But they have such libertarian stalwarts as Egg McMuffin on their advisory board!
What? Libertarians are principled enough to Grant proposal to some one that they don’t like when he tries policies that they might like? It’s better than pretending that you don’t argue for the stuff that you have been arguing for the last ten years.
This reminds me of commies complaining that if a Republican senator voted for tax cuts they were ‘complicit’ (whatever the hell that nonsense means). People are suppose to retreat from their long held position that tax cuts would be good for the economy, because someone who offends the sensibilities of rich white liberals is president?
/read title. Looks at author’s name.
Ah yes, Chait.
Perfect example of a dullard who gets to express his views at ostensibly reputable intellectual publications.
/sighs.
Fine I’ll take a peek at it later. After I eat my raspberries. I have a feeling I’m gonna need a shot of some berry-power.
Ladies and genteleglibs I give to you The Libertarian Case for Drug Prohibition
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/01/20650/
Freedom isn’t just the bare ability to do something; it is the ability to act under the influence of properly functioning cognitive faculties. If you value freedom, then you should oppose the legalization of recreational drugs. – Yes let us define properly functioning cognitive faculties
On this point, one essential ingredient of personal freedom is rationality. – nuhuh
While is true that alcohol prohibition did ultimately fail, it failed for political reasons. – of course it was totally working for other reasons
Of course, not all drugs are used recreationally. Alcohol can be consumed as a mild social lubricant without the intention to get drunk. – sounds recreational to me.
Where many libertarians go wrong in their support for drug legalization is in their conception of freedom. – off course. Freedom means making the right choices
The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Sweet Jesus, that was just more terrible neo-Puritan bullshit.
Puritans > Catholics
Math checks out.
You forgot to carry the one.
Fixed it for you:
Catholics > all variants of Protestantism
Catholics are the Nick Gillespie of Christians.
That is utter nonsense
Yeah, you went too far on that one.
Christian Fight!!! Hey you guys, Christian fight!!!!
How very Eddie of you
I was going to say the same thing.
Just Say’n is an Eddie sock. The rest of us are Tulpa.
Well, Eddie was always Tulpa too
Not me, I’m Dunphy.
Grandstanding douche Boston mayor douches on
No commentary on consumer agency or personal responsibility.
risk for addition – how are the math skills in Boston schools doing?
Only a Democrat could look up to Nixon’s WoD and think, “He was on to something there.”
Any commentary on how this is a giant middle finger to people with chronic pain issues?
Nah, they are content to look down on chronic pain patients and ridicule them as closet addicts.
Until they need the meds, then that’s somehow different.
Stop delivering prescription drugs to pharmacies with Boston and Quincy zip codes?
Cash grab and political résumé padder.
Not in New Jersey. That will leave you with empty campaign coffers.
Did the pharmaceutical companies saturate the market or did the prescription writers saturate the market?
Oh wait, I forgot, Doctors are part of the government-protected caste of the virtuous, like the police.
“Marty, Marty we’ve got a huge problem Marty! Its the opiates Marty! They’re killin’ the kids Marty! Y-you’ve got to fix the opiates Marty! My chapped, bloody testicles Marty – I need you to lick them! Yes Marty ! It’s the only way to fix the opiates! You have to lick my balls, Marty! The saliva needs to be warm and fresh! And it must be administered by your tongue, Marty!”
And from the category stupid twiter things that I find funny for some stupid reason
https://twitter.com/Frenemy1080/status/958104134149984256
That’s great! I love the Tag Heuer ad.
The Hugo Boss one is even better. What could be more appropriate for a white nationalist shitlord?
That’s not a Tag.
/Watch Snob
He’s got a wedding ring on. That’s great.
That is just awesome!
Lol Armani
Glenn Greenwald, again, with a truth hammer
I don’t like his politics, but dammit he’s consistent if nothing else.
Greenwald is a good egg
The ACLU are known Nazi sympathizers.
Yup. Documented Nazi sympathizers.
Sadly, the joke probably doesn’t work anymore because the ACLU has abandoned its absolutist stance on free speech now that Trump is threatening our great nation.
Principals not principles.
Not Greenwald, he has principles, even if I don’t agree with them.
They evolve.
How that mammal has eluded the grasp of the mammal with the kankles is the most impressive thing. She must be ssssssliiiiping
Yup.
Another liberal I’m starting to respect is Jimmy Dore.
Yeh, he’s a prog and all things being equal disagree with his philosophical outlook but damn he’s going after the DNC hard and basically sounding like Greenwald.
George W. Bush, who … let New Orleans drown
Given his audience (and his own beliefs), I’m sure this one resonates. But it’s ridiculous nonetheless. And the building up of DHS/FEMA in response to it will lead to more civil liberties abuses in the future. Not to mention that anywhere Federal dollars flow in great numbers is ripe for corruption.
Meet the Former Sex Worker Calling for an End to the Glamorisation of Escorting and Prostitution
She looks possessed.
Probably ‘wouldn’t’ if I had to pay
Well, if you’re willing to do things most girls won’t do, then that’s the market in action. Of course you will make more money. You did choose to do those things though. I don’t know what you’re complaining about.
Legit LOL. In her second pic she is a DEAD FUCKING RINGER for Vigo (THE CARPATIAN!) in Ghostbusters II.
That’s it! I knew she reminded me of something movie related and I just couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
The scourge of Carpathia, the sorrow of Moldavia?
If you’ve never read this story about the guy who played Vigo, you should. Fascinating.
TW: Deadspin
What a well-written, interesting, biopic. Deadspin?
Prostitution is illegal in most places. I don’t see how you can claim it’s been glamorized.
Was thinking the same thing.
How the hell is it glamorized?
Pretty Woman?
“How the hell is it glamorized?”
Congress. They’re all whores, and doing God’s work if they are Democrats.
Prurient self-flagellation
I remember talking with my roommate after I got home. She wanted to know how my weekend went — I told her that Julie and I didn’t have sex because she wanted us to stay friends. I remember saying, “I hate when people aren’t clear about what they want. She seemed like she wanted to fuck me, so I kept going, but all she kept saying was that it would be weird. If she didn’t want to fuck me, she should have just said so.”
I realize now that this was my problem, not Julie’s.
I considered myself a feminist back then. I still do — I fight for gender equality, and I actively try to be a better man every day. But it still took me years to realize that what I did to Julie was wrong. It was coercive. She told me she “didn’t think we should have sex,” and I kept trying anyway.
I thought I was getting signals from Julie that she wanted to have sex before the encounter started — the flirting, inviting me to her home. Maybe she did want to have sex. But at some point, she changed her mind or, at the very least, wasn’t sure how she was feeling. It wasn’t enthusiastic consent throughout, and at two different points, she objected. I ignored that.
Soft core porn with a twist.
I get the impression from this that #metoo now includes males of the woke-ocracy who want everybody to know they can be monsters of toxic alpha maleness, but hate themselves for it.
Are we supposed to ignore the reality that women often decline sex just to see how bad the guy wants them?
Sex isn’t some kind of business deal that is settled with a handshake. It’s a flurry of complex and sometimes contradictory emotions. These people are trying to redefine rape as persuading a woman into having sex when she initially rebuffs your efforts.
We all know the progs are going crazy with TDS and wrongthinkers, but damn.
A co-workers last night said it was time that neighbors be willing to kill neighbors to protect democracy. He was a little miffed I didn’t agree.
Later, either my responses shamed him or he decided to put the mask back on. He said he’d calmed down. The Trump stuff and his supporters were frustrating him.
See y’all in the gulags, I guess.
Is his name “Cain” by any chance?
Resident Masshole
Since proggies generally aren’t the ones with the guns, I don’t think it would turn out the way he thinks it would.
Sounds like you might be on the list now. “If you aren’t for us you’re against us” you know.
Your friends and neighbours. They can vote to grace you with a tax cut or allow you the privilege of consuming highly regulated and taxes intoxicants. They can also vote to take all your shit and lock you in a cage for the rest of your life. Democracy!
*taxed
Did you point out that we are not a democracy?
His brain might have melted if I did that.
Don’t go to the company Softball game
That’s probably good advice
Is he by chance a rabid gun-grabber?
While is true that alcohol prohibition did ultimately fail, it failed for political reasons.
Ow, my head.
hungover?
Ow, my
headballs16 YO me: “Prohibition was a mistake”
My Grandfather: “You dont know what you are talking about. You weren’t there. You didn’t see it.”
16 YO me: “You are right. That’s fair. Would you say it is better now with regulation or better under prohibition”
My Grandfather: “It’s better now.”
And my grandmother would have the exact opposite answer, as my grandfather and her were never heavy drinkers (grandpa was her 1st husband, straight out of high school and college, his dad was an alcoholic deadbeat that left right after they starting going steady). In addition, my grandma’s parents were a doctor and a old school Presbyterian (of Scottish stock) who did not drink much as well (from stories, my great grandmother only starting having a glass of wine a week when great grandpa insisted it was good for her health).
Didn’t see what, the organized crime that resulted from prohibition? Is that why we needed prohibition, to fight the outcome of prohibition?
Or was he referring to that time humanity nearly went extinct due to alcohol?
I am from Kansas City. What is this Prohibition you speak of?
Related: We really won in Vietnam, if you just take away all the ways in which we lost.
Watchdog: Pentagon suppressing info on growing insurgent control in Afghanistan
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A government watchdog report released late on Monday says the Pentagon is withholding information that shows insurgent control is growing in Afghanistan, despite the effort of U.S. military’s nearly two decade-long war there.
The report found that the Defense Department has restricted data on the number of districts and people living in territories under insurgent or government control.
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“As of October 2017, approximately 56 percent of the country’s 407 districts are under Afghan government control or influence, 30 percent remain contested and approximately 14 percent are now under insurgent control or influence,” said Navy Capt. Tom Gresback, a U.S. military spokesman.
Those figures represent a substantial decrease from November 2015, when the Afghan government controlled 72 percent of territories, insurgents held 7 percent and 21 percent were contested, according to the Department of Defense data.
“This development is troubling for a number of reasons, not least of which is that this is the first time [the inspector general’s office] has been specifically instructed not to release information marked ‘unclassified’ to the American taxpayer,” Sopko said, according to Voice of America.
Congress has already appropriated $4.9 billion for Afghan forces for this year and $74.8 billion since 2002.
President Donald Trump announced last year that
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President Donald Trump announced last year that he plans to increase U.S. troop levels and military spending in Afghanistan.
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I’m sure this, the 17th year of war, will be the one that finally turns the tide in our favor!
We’re getting very close to the point of having soldiers fighting in Afghanistan who weren’t even born yet at the start of hostilities.
Any minute now we’re winning this thing. Any minute.
It’s not like a low-level Forever War is a negative in a lot of peoples’ book
From a systems engineering standpoint it might be a good thing if you’re optimizing for stability.
Yeah… I was hoping that Trump would have pulled us out of that never-ending shithole. But apparently some shitholes are worth the effort – ha.
We are still in Afghanistan. This is so fucking stupid.
I am not
No more Camp Dracula?
Another trillion or two and we’ll turn this thing around.
It would be cheaper to spend a billion or so to buy as much poppy as we could. I really don’t care what we do with them, but it would be much easier and cheaper to buy off Afghan farmers than fighting them.
Yes, although the Taliban would likely steal the money and use it to fund the insurgency.
It would be better to produce heroin in the US to flood the market and cause the price to collapse.
Someone please tell me what we are going to win if we beat the Taliban
The Middle East problems will just go away as they rise up and proclaim a new democracy; we will become brothers-in-arms walking together to the new glorious future. /not really
Win what?
Absolutely nothing. Part of why this is so stupid.
We win a barren country governed by other corrupt warlords! Totally worth the thousands of dead Americans and the billions spent.
We won’t have to fight them anymore and we will prevent similar groups from forming.
Ideally, we get a peaceful, prosperous, democratic Afghanistan.
It’s a long shot, but that’s the goal.
Had it been my call, there would have been a punitive raid in 2001 to kill as many Taliban as possible followed by an extremely aggressive hunt for bin Laden. No occupation and no nation building.
If it was my call now, I’d round up all military age males in Taliban-controlled areas and put them into prison camps. For each person killed by the Taliban or ISIS, one of the prisoners would be killed.
Jordan does something similar now. When ISIS executed one of their pilots when Jordan refused to release ISIS prisoners, the Jordanians killed all the prisoners. ISIS avoids Jordan these days.
The situation is tricky because although the Pashtuns are the in most influential group in the Taliban, they are succesfull recruiting other groups.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/15/ethnic-minorities-are-fueling-the-talibans-expansion-in-afghanistan/
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The Taliban’s new recruits have contributed to significant gains on the ground in the north, helping expand the group’s reach to levels not seen since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001. There are no official statistics available on the number of non-Pashtuns who have joined the Taliban in recent years. But the Taliban has made a clear shift towards recruiting from other ethnic groups, which have assumed positions in the Taliban leadership and key posts in the provinces.
In the 1990s, the predominately Pashtun Taliban movement encountered a hostile population in Afghanistan’s north, where the majority of people are not Pashtun. The Taliban fought fierce battles and endured heavy casualties in wresting control of the region from ethnic Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek warlords and militia groups, often committing violent atrocities and alienating the local population.
Now, non-Pashtuns make up around one-quarter of the Taliban leadership council and its various commissions. In January, at least three non-Pashtuns were inducted to the leadership council.
Ethnic minorities have also gained a larger number of provincial and district shadow governorships and zonal commands. The insurgent shadow governments and military structures in the north have increasingly adapted to be more accommodating to non-Pashtuns who are willing to fight under the flag of the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate, but not directly under Pashtuns.
The Taliban has recruited ethnic Tajiks in northeastern Badakhshan Province, and ethnic Turkmen and Uzbeks in northwestern Faryab Province and in the northern province of Jowzjan. Qari Salahuddin Ayubi, an ethnic Uzbek, was the Taliban’s shadow governor for Faryab until he was killed in a NATO air strike on October 6, 2015. And his predecessor, an ethnic Uzbek known as Yar Mohammad, was killed in 2012. Mohammad ranked so high in the Taliban hierarchy that the militant group, which rarely confirms casualties, issued a statement to commemorate his death.
In Faryab, the Taliban has also given operational command to foreign Uzbek militants from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which appears to have attracted local ethnic Uzbeks to their cause. In 2012, NATO said it had killed an IMU commander, who was also a Taliban district governor, in Faryab. In 2013, three IMU commanders were killed in Baghlan, another northern province.
In fact, the Taliban’s ranks have been bolstered by hundreds of foreign fighters — including Central Asians, Chechens, and Chinese Uighurs — who resettled in northern Afghanistan after they were flushed out of their safe havens in Pakistan’s tribal regions by a Pakistani military offensive earlier this year.
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So we pissed off enough of our former allies against the Pashtuns that they are now switching sides, and we did that in pursuit of completely unrealistic goals. I swear, dont any of our guys read history books?
It sounds to me like we are about to withdraw, vietnam style. From what you are saying we are getting our asses handed to us, and we asked for it.
So dozens of foreign tribes continuing a centuries long life-style that is pretty much impossible to understand if you didn’t grow up in the culture, and even then I bet a lot of the history is lost to the mists of time.
What a puny plan.
“We won’t have to fight them anymore and we will prevent similar groups from forming.
Ideally, we get a peaceful, prosperous, democratic Afghanistan”
We don’t have to fight them right now ano there is zero chance the we can “win” and then leave and other groups just like them don’t pop up. Zero chance.
A peaceful, prosperous, democratic Afghanistan is a pipe dream. Not gonna happen, especially with our encouragement.
The Taliban survives because it has safe havens and because the central govt is corrupt, inept, and unpopular.
I’ve read that if anything, we should spend less in Afghanistan because it fuels corruption.
It’s a clusterfuck for sure. I’m just looking for a way to win.
Afghanistan was stable for about 40 years before the Russians showed up. It was monarchy then.
If the US leaves, the Taliban will likely conquer the country. There is a possibility that then there will be a civil war between the Taliban and the local ISIS branch.
Long story short, the only chance for a good outcome is to wipe out the jihadis. Military force is part of that. The biggest room for improvement in my view is psychological warfare. Our propaganda sucks compared to the jihadis.
That still leaves the question-
What have we gotten for our troubles?
Aside from experience in fighting counterinsurgency wars? Very little.
And lots of people on disability for PTSD.
Tacticool culture, generally normalized black rifle ownership, an increased mistrust of government, and arguably a more libertarian leaning batch of vets.
America no longer has the political will to commit the level of violence necessary to destroy the jihadis.
^This^
It could be won in a year if we did, but I am not willing to go there.
It stopped being stable when the King was chased out by a Socialist relative of his around 1972….they really started into civil war in earnest in 1976. They were screwed from that point forward.
The ancient Greeks would put out a trophy before a battle and award it to the winning army.
Maybe we should start doing that – at least we’ll have something to celebrate.
Regional location and friendly power next to Pakistan and Iran that has military and resource based (at least for oil pipelines) applications for foreign policy.
That’s the logic I’ve been given.
Insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result.
The Defense Department is doing the same thing twice and expecting no one to care about more body bags coming home
The result is the same – and they never wanted a different result. Lots of money shoveled to bureaucrats and defense contractors – this has been the goal since day one.
Anyone read Scott Horton’s “Fools Errand” yet? It’s on my amazon shopping list but the lazy part of me is holding out for an audiobook. It’s been pimped pretty hard by the Mises crowd, I don’t doubt that it’s excellent.
Just ordered the book. Need to finish another one before I begin it. Below is a good article that he wrote in the American Conservative about a month ago.
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/war-without-a-rationale/
The Mises crowd is drooling over Horton right now. Dave Smith mentions him in nearly every podcast he does
Ever hear him interviewed? Makes Shapiro sound sloooow.
Really? I heard Horton interviewed before, I don’t recall him talking real fast. I guess I wasn’t paying close enough attention. Ben Shapiro does speak at an unacceptably fast tempo.
Sounds fast to me because he packs so much information into each sentence that by the time I’ve sorted it out in my head he’s already three sentences on. I usually have to listen to them twice. You can count me a fan.
Yeah, I’ve heard him interviewed several times, he’s a really sharp dude. I heard him on Dangerous History make the point that if the anti-war left isn’t controlled opposition it may as well be, who better to keep people away than Michael Moore…..I thought that was pretty insightful
He also has his own podcast through Liberty.me
He also has his own podcast through Liberty.me.
He also has his own podcast through Liberty.me.
It’s on my list. From what I have heard it’s extremely well done.
Ed Sheeran booed as he wins Grammys 2018 award over Kesha and Lady Gaga
https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/ed-sheeran-booed-and-slated-on-twitter-as-he-wins-grammy-award-over-kesha-a3751791.html
I am happily unaware of all the songs nominated
I know of Lady Gaga, I have vaguely heard the name Kesha but couldn’t tell you what the hell she sings, and I have absolutely no idea who Ed Sheeran is. It’s great becoming a cranky old man.
Oh I have heard of the artists not these particular songs.
I was about to make the same comment. I actually have a few GaGa records in my collection ::hides head in shame::
I guess because only vagina-people were supposed to win this year?
Or people who identify as vagina-people
Which bothers some men. They don’t like the word and find it difficult to say. Vagina.
Whereas, without batting an eye, a man will refer to his dick, or his rod, or his…….Johnson….
Three syllables when one will do.
Vagina is only used to artificially increase the grade reading-level of an article.
Woke and The Vagina People.
There’s a novel in there somewhere. I can feel it.
Certainly gingers are never supposed to win – far too white.
Where else?
Weird venomous sea creatures wash up on South Florida beach
ehm Australia?
They even have florida man in Australia
https://twitter.com/Landdownoz/status/957006013923840001
This sounds more like a Japan problem than a Florida one.
On the shithole brouhaha…
Insults hurt in proportion to their truth.
One of the departments at the bank expanded into a new space. They put up loads of motivational posters yesterday, shit like “Dare to try” over a tennis player reaching for a return. Do managers strive to be as cliche as possible, or is there a consensus that offices have to hang up this trite shit? And I swear there’s a corollary to the joke that all candy corn was created in one run in 1911, because I’m pretty sure I saw every one of these posters in one classroom or another back in elementary school.
+1 Cat Butt
Cat Butt!
We had some morbidly hilarious versions in our Army barracks and workspaces. One of my favorites was a wide shot of a military graveyard, headstones filling the frame, with the caption “LAID BACK LEADERS LEAD TO LAID OUT SOLDIERS!” “Let No Man’s Soul Cry Out, Had I The Proper Training!“
See, vintage war propaganda would be great. Or get some classy stuff, like a poster of that tennis player lifting up her skirt.
One of my friends at my last job received a motivation picture in a frame from his wife. They were divorced a few years later.
Was it her with another guy?
Why yes it was. My friend at the time of getting the pic: “What the fuck is this? Why would she give me this?”
Welp, sounds pretty motivating.
Despair has you covered for all your motivational needs.
In the state of the union address, I’m sure Trump will call out the Democrats on immigration.
Schumer’s pathetic budget shutdown antics did nothing but 1) show Trump how weak Schumer’s hand is on immigration and 2) infuriate the pro-immigration lobby at Schumer for selling them out by ending the shutdown. Schumer’s so beaten down, he can’t stand up for immigration without hurting the midterms for the Democrats, and he’s so beaten up from within the Democratic party that he can’t compromise on immigration either.
Meanwhile, Trump offered a path to citizenship, not just for the 900,000 Dreamers who applied for deferment but for all 1.8 million Dreamers regardless of whether they came forward? Trump’s gotta hit ’em on head over that.
Trump should rub the Democrats’ faces in immigration tonight like they made a mess on the rug and then beat Schumer on the butt with a rolled up issue of National Review while yelling “Bad dog! Bad Dog!”
At some point, I’ll share a statistical analysis of how badly the Republicans should expect to get beaten up come the midterms. They’ll perform towards the top of that variance to the extent that they can mute issues like immigration. Like it or not, Republican control of congress will be tied to perceptions of Trump come November, so they better dance with the one who brung ’em.
If they can mute invective against Trump (and themselves by extension) by answering the prayers of 1.8 million, sad eyed, immigrant children, with nowhere to go, then they should do that. . . . especially if by giving those bunnies a path to citizenship, they can sell their own constituencies on having exchanged a chance for Dreamers for a secure border and putting a damper on immigrants sponsoring their relatives.
They’re almost assured of keeping the Senate due to the historically lousy map for the Dems. The House is a little dicier, better hope they do hold on to it since if they don’t the Dems will impeach immediately and turn the process into the punishment.
eat Schumer on the butt with a rolled up issue of National Review
Nah, pay Stormy Daniels to do it for him.
I’ll share a statistical analysis of how badly the Republicans should expect to get beaten up come the midterms.
If its not race by race, its probably not very predictive.
I agree with this: How the Repubs do in November will have a lot to do with how Trump is doing with the public. The Repubs have painted themselves into a corner by starting the year with a whole lot of do-nothing with a sticky coating of anti-Trumpism. They’ve got nothing to run on now that Trump doesn’t get credit for. I don’t know if they realize that they have painted themselves into his corner, as far as electoral success goes.
“The first superhero movie to star a black lead character” – I guess Wesley Snipes is not the White People of Black People.
“now”, not “not”. Dammit
Well, he did do time for believing that the IRS has no legal basis for demanding his income taxes, so . . .
If he isn’t Caucasian, that at least makes him practically Posse Comitatus, doesn’t it?
Tobar Mayo had Snipe’s beat by a decade or so. Hell, ‘…First Black Superman‘ is right there in the name.
Did I imagine Hancock?
Didn’t whites pick him up when the blacks drafted Tiger?
Charlie Murphy: Because of my complexion, he use to call me Darkness. He calls me and brother Darkness. The Darkness Brothers. See, this is long before Wesley Snipes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j57tnck2Ynw
I thought that would have been the appropriate music link considering the description.
Let her be as the loving hind and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
http://archive.is/7LXDI
Number 1 has an interesting way of saying “howdy” and I’d like some quality time with 19 in spite of the tats.
Let her be as the loving hind and graceful doe
Riddled with deer ticks?
No, just feeling a lot of regret for what she did for 5 bucks
This is actually a good one. Lots to choose
All White. Fine. I’ll go with the chick in the MRI.
Be careful Straffin. Like lots of fantasies, reality might not be as good. Turns out being sucked
offinto an MRI machine isn’t so cool.I’ve picked 17 before, and shall remain faithful to her.
HM in serious danger of entering the seventh circle of hell.
No circle for pointless, mystifying capitalization? Where’s Trump going?
Also, spending eternity in the company of Bradley Manning is a fate too cruel even for Hell.
That’s The Hinth circle.
I am laughing while in the clinic waiting room and receiving odd looks from other patients.
That’s a keeper.
*Naturally, forced to embrace reality and themselves exactly as they are, souls on this level experience extremely high levels of depression, even for hell.
That’s pretty damn funny.
Very funny. However, I think the fourth “level” should “actually” be the eighth.
https://twitter.com/adamgoldmanNYT/status/958350384426176512
This is an adult ‘reporter’ claiming that Zero Hedge is a Russian front based off of the opinion of ‘Prop or Not’, notorious warmongers who want to bomb Russia because of feelz. What a joke of a man
Zero Hedge is for traitors and vodka swillers and you just made the list.
Seriously though, it’s a good website, just steer clear of the comments.
https://twitter.com/JD_Tuccille/status/958351978618212353
2 chili- the last grown-up in the room
Perfectly and succinctly summed up.
Somebody responded to him with “show me proof”.
The entire existence of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is due to the FBI and CIA (and probably some other three-letter agencies) having spied on and harassed American citizens. Fuck, all Tuccille has to do is link to Popehat’s piece about lying to the FBI to show that they’re still dirty. Never mind asset forfeiture or their history of entrapment.
Unions vs. Technical progress.
Buggy whip makers hardest hit.
I know a “progressive” who is a hardcore tech nerd and automation enthusiast, but he also thinks labor unions are heroic organizations that are the only thing standing between us and the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad Robber Barons™ era of American history. I’d be interested to see his take on this.
FedEx rubs its non-unionized hands in glee….
UPS has repeatedly tried to get FedEx reclassified so they can be forced to unionize. It hasn’t worked yet but I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried again.
That’s funny because the people I know who work for FedEx make a ton of money and love their jobs while the UPS people get low pay and are treated like shit. They hate their jobs.
I’ve heard of other situations like that. I won’t go so far as to say unions are anachronistic altogether, but many legacy unions in this country have been whistling past the graveyard for a long time. They refuse to adapt or change their stances based upon changes in the market or competition, even when the facilities and companies they depend on for support wither and die.
Huh. In my hometown, the two youngsters working for UPS are thrilled with it. They like the money, and the benefits and enjoy their work.
Oh, BTW – it was late yesterday, but do you have a cite for that Bolivian Air Force parade of planes into the mountain? None of us could find any mention of it, anywhere.
yeah, I also looked for that, nothing found
Uffda. Get the popcorn out.
Wozniak says no one should trust Musk.
How will the hipster fan bois process this? Their heroes are fighting!
Mark my words, one day, Elon Musk will be residing in the same cell block where Maddoff is currently incarcerated.
Hipsters don’t know who the Woz is. They think Steve Jobs was the sole creator of Apple Almighty.
Finally immigrants from Wakanda can feel pride in their heritage. I mean even the Polish already got their own superhero movie.
Heard on the radio this morning: McCabe steps down “after a year of abuse and accusations by the president.” Not a political news station, this was a brief sum-up on a music station.
At some point it’s no longer “They must think we’re stupid,” it’s “This is so stupid they must be stupid to think anyone would be stupid enough to believe this.”
I mean, even if you buy the idea that this forty-something career bureaucrat is so thin-skinned and infirm that he’d step away from his job because Trump is less than magnanimous toward him on Twitter, and that his decision has nothing whatsoever to do with the HUGE PARTISAN SCANDAL brewing all around him, why in the world would Rosenstein accept his resignation, considering how OBVIOUSLY BAD THIS LOOKS?
Jonathan Chait linked above, too
You would think a libertarian might have some deep-seated qualms about leaving untrammeled executive power in the hands of an obviously ruthless and autocratic leader like Trump. The only practical way to restrain Trump’s efforts to carry out massive personal corruption and turn federal law enforcement into a political weapon under his control would be to help Democrats regain one or more chambers of Congress, so they could conduct oversight and act as a check on the executive branch. But the Kochs are committed to doing just the opposite: The highest priority of their political action this year is maintaining Republican control of Congress, which will enable Trump to escape meaningful oversight.
That’s some serious delusional paranoia, Bub. Seek professional help.
Good god. Libertarians have been screaming forever that the executive shouldn’t have the power to do the things that you are scared of him doing. If you would have listened to us all this time instead of cheerleader the expansion of executive powers under the past fee administration’s then we wouldn’t be in this situation would we?
I don’t think that is obvious at all. In fact I have no idea where the idea even comes from. I’ve seen no evidence he is any more of either of those than his predecessors.
Just look at all of the political enemies he’s had executed, or the forced labor camps all the Twitter #resist’ers have been sent to.
Chait in a nutshell:
If you look at 2017 entirely in isolation and out of context, and apply a Madisonian view of the Presidency which you should most definitely not apply when a Democrat is in office, then Trump is a uniquely terrible President. In a set consisting of Trump and George Washington, Trump is the worst ever! Now, let’s use the Federal bureaucracy to get rid of him, because fuck elections.
Actually, scratch that last sentence. Chait, at least in this piece, is only calling for the election of Democrats to the House and Senate (good luck with that last one). Presumably, he wants those Democrats to weaponize the bureaucracy (more than it already is), but that’s not directly what he’s calling for.
But I’d question even the charitable interpretation that all Chait wants is for the Democrats to keep Trump in check. Sure, they will have a different legislative agenda than the Republicans. But the Democrats have demonstrated no qualms with the basic concept of a massive, abusive, unaccountable state. They just want their own people in charge of it.
I was listening to a Cato Daily the other day about the bill in Congress trying to stop Trump from launching nukes. They seemed to genuinely believe it was possible he would do so.
My God that is some highly concentrated projection. It hurts my eyes to look at it.
When we were saying that about Obama what was Chait’s position on presidential power?
I’m probably not going far out on a limb in thinking he never wrote at length about the need to restrain executive powers. Fuck, they won’t even discuss it under a man they fear and loathe.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/business/article197285764.html
“The notion that a federal regional haze plan was ‘imposed’ on Arkansas is ridiculous. Congress ordered states to clean up coal plant haze pollution in 1990,” Director Glen Hooks said. He said Arkansas didn’t forward a plan until 2011 — more than two decades after Congress acted.”
Look, we’re not imposing anything on you. We’re just telling you, you have to do this or else. That’s not an imposition, it’s just a forceful nudge!
More notably, I love how they have to insert “in our parks and wilderness areas” repeatedly to provide the fig leaf of authority.
It’s also a bunch of bullshit to start with. I have been all over the parks and wilderness of this state. It’s not hazy. They aren’t polluted. They are actually very nice.
The Sierra Club stopped being interested in conservation long ago. They tip their hand in that piece; it’s not about conserving our parks and wilderness, it’s about ending coal (and presumably oil and natgas too) no matter what.
After such a long wait, has Hollywood finally made a really kick-ass comic book movie?
I am sure that those reviews have 0% to do with virtue signalling.
In fact I have no idea where the idea even comes from.
He stole the election from Hillary. And he said mean stuff about her. If that’s not ruthless and autocratic, what is?
But he never said a thing about her shithole, that was SugarFree.
The Woke crowd = Woke people = woke folk = Foke.
Foke. Let’s make this happen.
If she fokes, she pokes?
Writer looks at labor market, and sees exactly what he’s looking for
This is where unions come into play. At this point, views on labor unions fall neatly along party lines, with Democrats thinking they’re the main way to ensure workers get fair treatment and Republicans thinking they’re counterproductive and corrupt. But labor unions have economic utility by serving the needs both of employers and workers. For workers, they’re to ensure higher pay, benefits and employment predictability. And for employers, they’re to ensure an adequate supply of labor and cost certainty.
The weakening of labor unions worked out for employers over the past several decades, as workers lost bargaining power and wage growth stagnated. So companies got used to a plentiful supply of on-demand labor at low wages. But that’s over.
One possible surprise in the economy in 2018 would be if firms with union labor outperformed those without it. From an employer’s perspective, labor unions might have their costs — perhaps higher short-term pay and benefits — but in a tight labor market you’re guaranteed an adequate labor supply at agreed-upon wage rates, which short-handed firms will be scrambling to find and paying top dollar to get.
“I like unions. Everybody should like unions.”
What in the everloving fuck leads to the conclusion “unions guarantee an adequate labor supply” in a period of tight supply, and chronic skills mismatch? I suppose if you have a union contract which enforces over-staffing, it builds a bit of a cushion into the system, but I am not aware of anything which empowers a union to pull trained and productive employees out of a magic hat.
Moreover, if unions generally did deliver such value to employers, then you wouldn’t need to use the NLRA to force the employer to recognize them.
A union can behave like this author describes. But it has to exist in a voluntary association. As soon as one side is compelled to associate, the need for mutuality vanishes.
If unions operated properly, they would provide medical care and retirement benefits (and unemployment benefits) to their members instead of having it go thru the employers.
If they did that, then the benefit add of providing a pool of labor at a consistent price would make them worthwhile to companies. Companies might then voluntarily choose to have a closed shop.
I’m pretty sure it’s currently illegal for employers to not provide those benefits. The unions couldn’t do it if they wanted to.
From what I’ve gathered this is how the ironworkers union actually works. The union covers the employer for the labor pool and carries the employee benefits & pension costs as well as surplus labor. There are goofy rules for crew selection and your usual deadweight members but at least the union is the one responsible for the consequences of their negotiations.
Sorry for the late reply, but that’s how my brother-in-law’s equipment operator union works, regarding benefits, retirement, etc. In that context they seem to work well. Jobs come and go, and companies need for labor varies on an almost continual basis, and the union can supply workers as they need them.
celebs are morons, exhibit 35M
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/01/30/celebrities-host-counter-event-to-state-union-trump-supporters-are-ugly-underbelly.html
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Moore said removing Trump, Pence and “the whole disgusting lot of them” isn’t enough.
“We must remove and replace the system and the culture that gave us Trump in the first place,” he said adding “We must also cleanse our American soul of our white male privilege.”
Later in the night, Amy Schumer introduced fellow comedian Wanda Sykes who spoke about the “ugly underbelly” of Trump supporters who voted him into office.
“Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon also took the stage calling 2017 a “dark year for America” and said Russian interference was to blame for “shifting the election” to Trump.
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In the 2016 election, the margin of victory in 18 states was 10 points or less. In 12 states it was 5 points or less.
It’s almost a shame these people pull in so few viewers, because this shit should be on blast from the stratosphere. Middle-Americans enjoying a banner year for employment and compensation is “dark.” Record unemployment for Black Americans is “white privilege.” Go with that, guys. Trumpet it from on high.
It’s still a mystery to me how actors came to be regarded as wise intellectuals whose opinions should be respected more than those of the average person. Everyone is entitled to form an opinion and express it using any resources they want, To Be Sure™, but I don’t see why an actor’s opinion is more valuable than that of the garbage man or the grocery clerk (in fact, I’d trust the opinions of working-class people more than that of a celebrity, who probably knows nothing but a life of unfathomable wealth and privilege).
Halo effect. People who have an outstanding positive quality (usually looks, but sometimes intelligence) are assumed to have similar qualities across the board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
It probably started when TV and radio “journalists” became celebrities. And the ensuing cocktail parties.
There were always dipshit newspaper columnists that had celeb-like followings, but a medium in which the customer can pick and choose which content to consume and which to ignore is very different from a sequential medium where the content is spoon-fed and the customer has to put up with shit he doesn’t want to get to the morsels he does want.
To really get your anger up, watch old newsreels. Produced for the stupidest people in the crowd, loaded with wrong information and propaganda. This was the model for TV news.
The irony is that it is dubbed ‘the people’s state of the union’ and they disparage half of the country during the whole thing. They only represent the opinions of rich white liberals, the most privileged and bratty class of people in this country. I would probably give the president a pass if he droned that event, despite the fact that I oppose drone use within the US and extrajudicial killings of Americans. Nonetheless, these people deserve to be droned
Time to fire up those ovens comrades! We’ve got some vermin to exterminate!
Your average celebrity has had more spouses than Donald Trump. These people can’t successfully manage a personal relationship and were supposed to take ethical and moral advice from them.
That’s a really good point which should be made more often.
Trump started out as a celebrity.
“Moore said removing Trump, Pence and “the whole disgusting lot of them” isn’t enough.”
“We must remove and replace the system and the culture that gave us Trump in the first place,”
It would be very foolish to think that these people wouldn’t be operating camps and firing up ovens if they had the chance. Very foolish indeed. Most people I know foo-fooed away Hillary’s ‘camps for adults’ remarks. Most people really believe it cant happen here. These scum would work themselves into a froth rationalizing how the firing squads and mass graves were for the greater good. I would bet good money they are already fantasizing about it.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/01/30/trump-campaign-put-donors-names-onscreen-sotu-livestream/
This is something to criticize the crazy son-of-a-bitch for, but instead we get Russia fever dreams from the opposition.
Now he’s just thumbing his nose at them
I don’t even know if it is worth criticizing. It is a livestream from the campaign website. I suppose we could set up our own livestream and overlay our snarky comments….. for the low, low price of $1 per letter. Or do it MST-3k style and sell ads.
At least we’d be funny. Maybe not funny ha-ha…. but still.
today I learned
One of the Army radar guys who detected the Pearl Harbor attack invented the switch used in garage door openers.
http://signal.army.mil/old/history/1942_pvt_joseph_lockart_pearl_harbor.html
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Lockard left the Army in December 1945 and held a variety of jobs. He started first as a trackman for Pennsylvania Railroad; when he left, he was a maintenance supervisor. He worked for Sylvania Electric and then AMP Incorporated, from which he retired in 1986.
He was an inventor for AMP and holds some 40 patents for switches and connectors. He has the original patent, for instance, on the switch inside your garage-door opener.
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I’ll have you know I have neither a garage, nor a garage door opener, elitist scum.
Time for clickbait.
https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/porn-star-diet-and-workout-tips
Step 1: Be 19 and hot.
Step 2: Whatever you do, you are still 19 and hot.
Step 3: Daddy issues a plus.
Step 4: Nobody cares what the guy looks like.
Proof of #4: Ron Jeremy. Apparently a wonderful and sweet man. But not young and hot.
Armageddon comin’
If humans want to avoid boiling the oceans, we’ll have to find ways to use energy more efficiently. This, in turn, requires solving a problem that people don’t typically connect to climate change: the turbulence created when we pump air, water, oil, gas and other substances through countless miles of ducts and pipes. Thanks to its confounding effects, fully 10 percent of all the electrical energy produced on Earth gets wasted.
There is actually something interesting buried in this article, but dumbfuck’s kneejerk global warming doom mongering almost completely obscures it. Efficient transmission of fluids is definitely something to be pursued. Hopefully, these researchers make practical discoveries.
my favorite ocean heat meme
Or we could invent an almost limitless and unimaginably cheap source of energy and just say “screw it, pump it any way you please”.
That would make no difference. The whole point of environmentalism is to destroy our ability to create wealth. they dont give a shit about the environment. It would be ironic if such a source were discovered more hastily because of these people’s screeching. Still, like fracking and NG which they used to tell us we needed to replace coal, as soon as technological advances make it possible it will be the new boogey man that must be stopped.
The funny thing is that we already have a source of power that is very clean yet plentiful enough to power the entire world. It’s called nuclear. Even the cool countries in Europe are using it!!
I’m sure if the nuclear regulatory commission would ease up a bit, the private sector could come up with new reactors that make it even safer than it already is, and they would have plenty of motive to do so since, ya know, a meltdown that makes your entire facility unusable is not really good business.
But no, let’s just deliver more pallets full of taxpayer cash to the solar and wind power company executives.
“10 percent of all the electrical energy produced on Earth gets wasted.”
remind me of the perfectly efficient energy transfer mechanism? i’m sure it exists somewhere.
Woman denied emotional support peacock on United flight
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/01/30/woman-denied-emotional-support-peacock-on-united-flight.html
Seeing eye dogs are one thing. This is just silly.
The emotional support animal thing has got to stop. Unless you’re a vet with PTSD, there is no reason. I see more and more of that nonsense every time I go to the airport.
Sounds like a Monty Python skit.
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/fishlic.php
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Customer: Hello, I would like to buy a fish license, please.
Shopkeeper: A what?
C: A license for my pet fish, Eric.
S: How did you know my name was Eric?
C: No no no, my fish’s name is Eric, Eric the fish. He’s an halibut.
S: What?
C: He is…an…halibut.
S: You’ve got a pet halibut?
C: Yes. I chose him out of thousands. I didn’t like the others, they were all too flat.
S: You must be a looney.
C: I am not a looney! Why should I be tied with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? I’ve heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabardo has a pet prawn called Simon and you wouldn’t call him a looney; furthermore, Dawn Pailthorpe, the lady show-jumper, had a clam, called Stafford, after the late Chancellor, Allan Bullock has two pikes, both called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an haddock! So, if you’re calling the author of ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!
S: Alright, alright, alright. A license.
***
Also
Frank’s a nice name. President Nixon’s got a hedgehog named Frank.
Woman denied emotional support peacock on United flight
The stewardesses should hand out pacifiers.