STEVE SMITH LAUGHING. HE LIKE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE AND HAT AND HAIR CARTOON. ALSO, HAVE EASY DAY WHEN VW MICROBUS FULL OF HIPPIES BREAK DOWN NEAR WOODS. NORMALLY STEVE SMITH NOT SO BIG ON HIPPIE RAPE, BUT IT HELP FINISH OFF WEEKLY TARGETS. OH, STEVE SMITH NEED REMEMBER TPS REPORT.
NOT WORRY, STEVE SMITH HAVE LINKS FOR FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE. STEVE SMITH GO VISIT COUSIN SEA SMITH FOR WHILE, SO HERE ARE LINKS IN MEANTIME;
- STEVE SMITH SAY “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.” THIS MEAN STATE OF EMERGENCY END IN FRANCE? WHY NOT?
- THINGS LIKE THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH GLAD HE NO LIVE IN NEW YORK. IT SILLY PLACE.
- EVEN IN DEATH, HATE BIRDS CAN HURT. STEVE SMITH EAT HATE BIRDS LIKE CHIPS – CAN’T EAT ONE, MUST EAT MANY!
- STEVE SMITH HATE AMATEURS. LEAVE TO PROFESSIONALS, LIKE STEVE SMITH.
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THINGS LIKE THIS MAKE STEVE SMITH GLAD HE NO LIVE IN NEW YORK. IT SILLY PLACE.
Of course, the Feds shouldn’t be involved in this sort of funding in the first place.
Or handing down diktats about tourist signage.
EVEN IN DEATH, HATE BIRDS CAN HURT. STEVE SMITH EAT HATE BIRDS LIKE CHIPS – CAN’T EAT ONE, MUST EAT MANY!
Steve Smith doesn’t rape hate birds?
STEVE SMITH TRY ONCE. HATE BIRD EXPLODE. SO JUST EAT NOW.
STEVE SMITH SAY “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.” THIS MEAN STATE OF EMERGENCY END IN FRANCE? WHY NOT?
I thought the traditional French response was surrender.
Q: What do you call ten thousand men with their hands in the air?
A: The French Army.
In the crock pot – three pounds of pork shoulder; a whole bulb of garlic; cloves peeled and separated; two bell peppers, diced; one onion, diced; a bottle of barbecue sauce.
Lets see how that turns out after cooking for a while. But it’s almost too simple to fail.
Why not add the sauce later?
I have more. That will be added afterwards. This bottle is to season the meat as it’s cooking.
Not sure how I feel about the peppers, or what they’re bringing to that party. But, bon chance, mon ami!
Remarkably spicy for you, lad.
No, it’s not. If anyone paid attention I have never claimed to like blandness nor dislike spice. It was an accusation from Bacon.
The accusation was remarkably succesful. Get him to accuse you of being quite the ladies man!
Youtube will now label media as “State Funded”.
PBS is upset. I have a very simple solution.
Ban Youtube from calling media “State-Funded”?
Ban Youtube from calling PBS, NPR, BBC, and other prog-approved media “State-Funded”
Ban gov’t funding of media?
But then we’d only have right-wing corporate media like CNN and the New York Times!!!
News is an important and growing vertical for us
When the fuck did “vertical” become a noun?
80’s really, although back then it was usually a ‘vertical market’.
Vertical Skateboarding
Plumbers and HVAC people can have a “vertical smile”.
Hey Yusef! Happy weekend making easy money!
So it’s broadly a pejorative now? Progress!
God damn you Supercuts!!! This is the last time!
Your hair, or SEA’s?
They gave me the “Richard Spencer” special.
At least there’s a bar in the same shopping center so I can come to terms with this.
Ah well, you could always buzz it all short and have the lazy man’s haircut.
Or grow it out into a mullet.
This. I buzz it back once a week.
Of course, I’m pretty bald.
You should have been more specific about how you wanted your hair cut.
Yeah, that’s the problem. My communication skills.
Reciting the Fourteen Words gave them the wrong idea?
Maybe they just smelled white nationalist on you. I hear Antifa has gone underground and by underground I mean Supercuts.
I like to say, “can you cut it so I get laid, guaranteed? Cause the last few times, I noticed you didnt cut it that way.”
Wahl is your Best friend
Wahl!
[Huh!]
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, say it again!
STEVE SMITH LIKE THAT. YOU VERY FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PERSON. YOU GO LAST ON RAPE LIST!
You’d better hope STEVE SMITH isn’t an Arnie fan. (“I lied.”)
You will look less like
David BeckhamRichard Spencer if you are a stylish moustache, perhaps a narrow one only below your nose.*grow a stylish moustache
my nominees for SEA SMITH
#1
#2
YOU NO FOOL STEVE SMITH – THAT NESSIE! OLD FRIEND NESSIE.
Ken Shultz’s sea otters.
Or Jesse’s land otters?
THAT SEA SMITH’S GRANDFATHER. HOW YOU GET PHOTO ALBUM FROM FAMILY?!
I like Q’s photos better.
The pestle says “jihad”; the mortar says “Afghanistan”
Rare find: Mass grave may belong to Viking Great Army
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/02/health/viking-graves-repton/index.html
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The double grave also held some interesting artifacts. The older of the two men was buried with a necklace bearing Thor’s hammer and a Viking sword. The evidence of fatal injuries mark his bones, including a large cut to his left femur. It’s possible that the injury severed his penis or testicles; a boar’s tusk was placed between his legs, and the researchers believe that the tusk was meant to replace what he lost and prepare him for the afterlife.
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larf
Poor bastard.
In Col. Hackworth’s autobiography, he talks about a time he was in a hospital in Korea after he got wounded. A guy in the same room got shot in the dick. The surgeon stitched it back on and the other patients snuck in a whore to see if it still worked. Hackworth heard him sobbing quietly after the whore left. “Poor bastard” is all he wrote.
Alonzo Cushing was castrated by a Reb shell while directing his cannons against Pickett’s Charge. He fought on until a minie ball hit him in the mouth, killing him instantly. Recently, he was finally awarded the Medal of Honor. Much more deserving of it than the 28 honorary pallbearers of Abe Lincoln’s coffin who were also awarded the MOH.
There was an entire regiment that got the MOH.
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Unfortunately, there were some cases where the medal was awarded to persons who did not necessarily deserve the medal. For instance, Medals of Honor were awarded to the entire 27th Maine Infantry Regiment just for re-enlisting (all 864 men).
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https://civilwarhistory.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/the-medal-of-honor-in-the-civil-war/
I have a mental draft of a subplot where a character gets nominated for the medal. It becomes a political football because his behaviour in the service is above board, but he was more… disreputable before. I’m still mulling over how to handle it.
Here’s the real life example:
http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/News/Features/Display/Article/349726/legend-of-airman-snuffy-the-maynard-smith-story/
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The term ‘Airman Snuffy’ has been a part of traditional jargon used by Military Training Instructors to describe bad troops on the verge of trouble, but many people don’t know that Airman Snuffy actually existed–and he was the first enlisted member to receive the Medal of Honor.
Maynard Smith was born in the small town of Caro, Mich., on May 19, 1911. He was the son of a school teacher and a successful attorney, and had the reputation early in life as being spoiled, trouble prone, and an absolute nuisance to others around him. He lived off of an inheritance and worked as a tax field agent until his misconducts caught up with him. A failure to pay child support charges caused the judge to offer Smith two options: jail or the military.
“When I went into the Army, a group of 30 of us assembled on the courthouse steps for a picture. While we were lining up, the sheriff came down the steps with Maynard Smith beside him… in handcuffs,” quotes author/researcher Allen Mikaelian.
At the age of 31, Smith hated taking orders from men who were usually 10 years younger than him. Smith shocked his basic training instructors by volunteering for Aerial Gunnery School in Harlington, Texas. Since this field was the quickest route to gaining rank, Smith was promoted to staff sergeant after completion of training and assigned to the 423rd Squadron, 306th Bomb Group in Turleigh, England.
In the days where B-17’s had a 50 percent survival rate, Smith went out on his first mission and significantly made history. On May 1, 1943, stepping in as a replacement, his mission was to bomb St. Nazaire, France, better known to bomber crews as ‘Flak City.’ Smith’s small physique made him perfect for the position in the ball gunner turret.
When his aircraft was hit repeatedly by flak and cannon fire from FW-190s, Smith stepped up to the plate rendering first aid to the wounded crewmen. In the heat of combat, he also manned machine guns desperately throwing exploding ammunition overboard.
The aircraft suffered from severe damage, cutting the wing tank off and causing gasoline to pour inside the plane catching it ablaze.
“At this point, I had lost my electrical controls and I knew something was wrong,” said Smith. “I manually cranked the thing around, opened the armored hatch and got back in the airplane when I saw it was on fire. The radioman became excited and jumped out the window without a parachute. ”
With the oxygen system and intercom shot, and crew members bailing out, Smith stayed aboard and assisted an injured tail gunner.
With a fire onboard burning violently and melting everything in sight, Smith wrapped himself in protective clothing and completely extinguished the flames by hand. Alternating between manning the available machine guns, applying first aid to his comrade and fighting the fire that had began to weaken the B-17’s fuselage, Smith commenced to throw everything out of the rear of the plane that wasn’t too hot, too heavy or bolted down.
Because of his heroic efforts and saving the lives of six remaining wingmen, the aircraft made it out of the ‘hot’ zone and landed safely near the southwest tip of England.
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I keep getting hung up on whether the character’s actions would merit the nomination.
From a political angle, ATOM and their pet congresscritters want to be seen as a ‘real’ branch, on par with the rest. The problem is the guy who stood out the most was the one with an overturned murder conviction.
“The word ‘marijuana’ is rooted in racism — here’s why you should say ‘cannabis’ instead”
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/959158919095398400
Ganja,
So M*A*S*H stole that story line from him?
Whoops…..fucked that. Supposed to be under “castrated in war”
The actual reply to Yusef was “Michoacán! Its Michoacán!”
-Cheech & Chong, “Sgt Standanko”
You’re a real doper, aren’t ya kid?
Been using CBD salve on my knees (running) and hands (guitar). Really helps alleviate pain, but most importantly seems to really sooth throbbing/inflammation.
What is CBD? Cannabis?
It is a non psychoactive cannabanoid. I believe it is legal in most states at this point. Good for inflammation and pain relief.
I should try it on my elbows.
The feds argue that the signs violate rules aimed at preventing distracted driving — which leads to crashes and deaths across the nation’s roadways.
I don’t see what is so distracting about those signs.
They’re not – but it’s a defiance of the Federal Regulars’ edicts. Thus they must throw their weight around.
Well, the photo doesn’t help much, but on the I-84 East, just before the Newburgh Bridge, they have about 20 of them, on each consecutive utility pole.
One is for “We love NY Transit”. Next one “NY Police, Serving you”
What with them, and the fucking insane lane discipline of Tristate Area drivers, and the new road layout, and the huge numbers of legitimate signage for exits – yes – they’re a distraction.
Yuck. I’ll try to ignore them when I head through that area in the summer.
OK, that’s gross. I thought it was just the usual “here’s a tourist spot” stuff.
IT’S A COOKBOOK!!!
The laughter they generate??
If you can’t laugh and drive at the same time, you shouldn’t be driving.
Hysterical, weeping laughter.
or Danica Patrick during her ‘special time’?
Treehouse “That’s What She Said” is a pretty good beer.
Sounds tasty if a bit low on the ABV
I’m going with a Brew Rebellion Cranberry Milkshake double IPA with dinner, should be, interesting
rew Rebellion Cranberry Milkshake double IPA
I am not sure what to make of that.
I got five bucks Yusef just made that shit up.
Given my recent track record, that’s a bet I shouldn’t take.
“Police say a man wearing a mask and carrying what turned out to be a fake gun walked into Northeast Pizza in Barre on Tuesday, according to CNN affiliate WCVB.
Surveillance video shows the man climbing over the counter and forcing one of the workers to help him open the register. Employees wrestled him to the floor and held him there until police arrived. When police arrived and took off the intruder’s mask, employees recognized the would-be robber as a former manager who was fired last summer, according to the station.”
edition.cnn.com/2018/02/01/us/pizza-shop-attempted-robbery/index.html
Those meddling kids!
Barre’s such a small town, they have to recycle the stunt men and extras.
Which reminds me … John Wick 2.
So, I understand that they were going to release Nemo today. How’d that go?
Schiff is going to play Dory.
He already played Woody in Toy Story.
I’m not pulling that string.
Well the democrats switched from the power of screams to the power of laughter, so they are doing all the Pixar movies. Who would be the pretentious rat?
Schumer.
Perfect.
No; I think Schiff is emo.
no no no, MEMO…….
REMO?
I liked that movie, but then again I was 8 when I saw it. What does it have to do with today?
Fuck the Pooper Bowl. I’m-a be zooted all to hell come Sunday afternoon.
GO BRONCOS!!!
Elway!111!!!!
“I’m-a be zooted all to hell“
Wait, you mean you’ve scheduled a Hyperion space squid gangbang?
No; she’s wearing a 40s suit.
That sounds like more fun than watching a Super Bowl.
+1 Zoidberg
Cannaboids ahoy!
New thread. I left this as the last post on the “old” thread. (I know “first” is celebrated. but I think I should get some credit for being the absolute fucking last person to check in on threads!)
“Any Minnesota Glibs going downtown tomorrow at 4:45 PM to see Bob Mould? At first I thought it was solo, but it turns out it’s “the band”– with Wurster and Narducci. Think I’ll brave the cold.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0ZEpJRpAE
“absolute fucking last person to check in on threads!” I think i have that covered, YMMV
🙂
Get back to your filthy lucre-making, man.
Yusef: I WILL STAY UP DRINKING UNTIL 5 AM TO PROVE YOU WRONG! HA!
Which time zone?
Does it matter which time zone?
Maybe I wanna play? I’m loaded and Loaded
We all know it’s me.
Tomorrow???? That’s only a few days from now!
A “Hihn”.
Hihn?
You jest but Hihn has been showing up a lot during the day this week. With the inevitable result in every thread.
And John has apparently left the building.
I don’t blame him. It’s really bad there now.
Not here!
Calling me, “Hihn?” That’s hitting below the belt. BULLIES!!!
OT, but I wonder if I will live long enough to see Pelosi’s head explode and the lizard person underneath exposed?
Nancy is not one of usssssss. She is from a much uglier planet.
It’s lizards all the way down with Pelosi. She’s like a reptilian Russian nesting doll.
Ya she’s one of ours. But she went native 35 years ago. She also experienced subdermal sublimation with her incursion suit. She is stuck in that form
The Eagles have to win this. HAVE TO.
Fuck Tom Brady.
Fuck the entire city of Boston.
Ben Franklin moved from Boston to Philadelphia because he fucking knew Boston was a shithole. It was a shithole in 1722 and it’s a shithole today.
Most racist city in the United States.
GOD FUCK I HATE BOSTON.
I need a lot of booze to get me through the next 48 hours. Or benzos. Either one. Or maybe heroin. That’d be good.
They move the beer to the front of the supermarket. Isn’t that thanks enough?
Take it easy there. The Adams family was from Boston and they were good people. And Boston was the heart of the abolitionist movement (I never understood why it was dubbed “most racist city”).
The city does suck ass, though. But for other reasons than you mentioned
It was. Modern day Boston is hideously racist.
I’m just testy tonight due to a lot of things (job stress on top of the Super Bowl) so I needed to yell. Franklin did flee Boston though, after his brother was arrested and put in jail for 3 weeks for criticizing the governor of Massachusetts in his newspaper (Franklin at the time was 16 and working as his brother’s apprentice), and moved to Philadelphia at age 17.
Franklin is overrated and Washington is underrated
No, and Yes.
No idea why it is described as racist, nope, none whatsoever.
http://www.wbur.org/news/2014/09/05/boston-busing-anniversary
Busing was controversial throughout the country
In South Boston it was a little more than “controversial”.
And the requirements in Boston were harsher than in other places. There’s a reason why it was abandoned
I’m not saying busing was ever the right solution, but the behavior of South Boston deserves being called what it was.
The Adams family was from Boston and they were good people.
I even remember that playground song about them!
The Adams family started
When Uncle Fester farted.
They all turned out retarded,
The Adams family!
+1000 blowing up Trains
Haha. Never heard that one.
Also, it’s *Addams
Yes, grasshopper, but the thread reference was about an “Adams” family, not The Addams Family.
Now go do 500 ‘wax on, wax offs’.
Yes, sensei
+1 Batman smells and the Joker got away.
I never understood why it was dubbed “most racist city”
Spend some time in Southie.
I got fag-bashed by some Southies cruising by in their giant Hot-Wheels truck during the second night of my one and only ever visit to Boston.
Physical assault or just horrible sounding aural spew that contained no terminating “r” sounds on weds ending in “r”?
*words
Just “Yo, faggots!” or something shouted out the window. Yeah, I was with my BF at the time and neither one of us is into PDA’s but maybe our hands touched or something and that was enough to trigger their delicately-tuned Spidey senses.
Yeah, you know why those senses are so finely tuned.
Irish queer – a guy who spends time with his girlfriend instead of drinking with his buddies.
I like to imagine your avatar drawing a sword and them running away.
his avatar reminds me of a WH40K painting, pretty sure it’s an assault marine mid-leap.
Medusa, no?
I have no idea what that is, but my avatar is actually Medusa.
His avatar is from the painting of Medusa by Caravaggio, also known as the rock star of the Baroque period, and one of my favorite painters. This particular painting is in the Uffizi in Florence, but if you like Caravaggio and ever happen to be in Rome, don’t miss the Galleria Borghese, a private mansion turned into a small art museum, that has several of Caravaggio’s most famous paintings, including David with the Head of Goliath and Self-Portrait as Bacchus. Caravaggio’s works seem so alive it’s hard to believe they were painted nearly 500 years ago.
As I mentioned below I lived in Southie for six years. With my partner. Never noticed any problem. For several years half of the owners in our condo building were gay couples.
Cool. Yeah I hesitate to generalize based on one experience. I liked the city overall and that one thing didn’t ruin it for me at all. We just brushed it off.
Lemme look up the intersection before I comment.
Ok, so I went to help my older brother move from his shithole at Yale to Boston. Summer 2001ish.
Appleton between Berkeley and Tremont.
Rainbow flags everywhere. EVERYWHERE.
You’re talking about South End, that’s where the Boston gay district happens to be. It’s different from South Boston (Southie) that I’m valiantly defending here. Anyway, Southie has experienced a tremendous degree of gentrification in the last 15-20 years. People’s perceptions of Southie, if they heard about it decades ago, are usually outdated.
Last year we stopped at a winery in Australia and the woman pouring wines stayed in Boston for half a year several decades ago. She said she was told not even think about visiting South Boston because it was so dangerous. And we’re telling her how much the things have changed and that a typical local conversation inevitably turns to how much the real estate keeps appreciating.
It sounds like it’s all because of Mark Wahlberg and Goodwill Hunting.
I had been living in Southie for six years until a year ago. All schoolchildren in Southie are black. I also didn’t notice a greater support for affirmative action there than in the rest of the country to call it “most racist city.”
Great if it has changed – arguably it has since the busing nastiness was back in the 70s/80s.
So what you’re saying is that you support the Alien and Sedition acts? / Channel 4 Interviewer
Someone at work asked me, “Philly or New England?” I said to him, “What are you talking about?” He said, “The Super Bowl.” I said, “I don’t like football. I don’t give a shit.”
Boston still sucks though.
Yeah, I haven’t met more than a handful of people from Boston but every one of them was a serious asshole. Every one.
Go Pats!
Tom Brady is the GOAT!
He is also very handsome, looks much younger than his age and is married to a supermodel. He must be the only current NFL player whose wife had a higher income (before she retired).
Here’s a story, of a lovely QB…
You’ll appreciate that the front door a couple down from me already has a sign on it: “EAGLES FANS ONLY. PATRIOTS SCUM NOT WELCOME”
https://www.redstate.com/patterico/2018/02/02/significant-inaccuracy-thememo-calls-credibility-question/
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/456063/nunes-memo-big-flaw-confirms-new-york-times-story
I saw that. I’ll giveconser publications this- they are critical of their own. I doubt you’ll see any pushback on the spur of the moment memo that Democrats are writing from their media outlets
I have a hard time getting all excited about this memo. The Repubs knew all this, and still voted to reauthorize (and expand) Section 702 of FISA – the very thing they are now throwing a hissy fit about. Of course the Dems know this – after all, they helped pass that re-authorization and they know that Obama Admin hand was in the cookie jar, but any chance to storm around in high dudgeon cannot be refused.
And Trump plays his part perfectly, signing off on more surveillance while playing the wounded party of partisan belligerence.
What a fucking retarded Kabuki – and fuck every last person wailing and gnashing their teeth for either side.
It’s TOP MEN all the way down.
Yes. The real scandal is why wasn’t this memo released before they voted on FISA renewal
702 was a totally different thing. That was a good secret court thingy.
/Nunes on Fox.
Did he really? Christ what an asshole.
I get that and agree. But I still think this is a pretty big fucking deal. I can’t help but think of it as what if W’s administration had looked at Obama’s dealings and connections to known domestic terrorists and rabid Islamic lunatics and opened an investigation on him so they could eaves drop on his campaign. What would have happened if he did that and it was uncovered? The Democrats and media would have formed a posse and hung Bush from the closest tree. Literally. The “in the know” maggots who had a hand in all of this knew the collusion thing was a crock and pushed it to cover their illegal bullshit “investigation” of the Trump campaign. The FISA shenanigans came later. I have heard it suggested that the whole FISA thing was maybe to cover up the crimes that were gathering in the basket of illegality that was already done. That sounded pretty plausible to me and I was even sober when I heard it.
“I was even sober when I heard it.”
Now we know you’re lying
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455885/expected-clinton-victory-explains-federal-employee-wrongdoing
Appears to have been lost on the first try…
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455885/expected-clinton-victory-explains-federal-employee-wrongdoing
Here’s me being an ass on this topic over at HnR:
Ok, we’ve run a half of a news cycle on “the memo” and my go-to authoritative source for libertarian news and opinion has run one article summarizing the tweets of others and one article that has the take that we should already severely mistrust the FBI.
I expect a little more from Reason. So let me give you a boost…. here’s a list of topics to cover in depth, just dealing with the contents of the memo.
1. The FBI paid for the production of the Fusion GPS opposition research file. That was new to me. The Clinton campaign paid for it, and the DNC paid for it. And then the FBI paid for it. And then used it to justify spying on members of the opposition party’s presidential campaign. This is a big deal. Remember, the FBI worked for Obama at the time. If you can’t connect the dots to why this looks bad, you aren’t a libertarian.
2. Someone in the government declared this memo as classified. Really. Go re-read the thing. Is there even one syllable in that thing that could plausibly be deemed as classified? Reason has run articles about over-classification as a problem in the government in the past. This one reeks of a potential partisan cover-up, but you don’t need that to have a really important story about the casual abuse of the “classified” label.
3. A deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice was working with Steele as a direct source of information. Mr. Ohr’s wife was working for Fusion GPS developing opposition research on Trump. Ya get that? No potential conflicts of interest worth digging into here, are there? He works with the guys who are submitting the warrant application to the FISA court, his wife is getting paid to dig up dirt on Trump, and he’s the liaison to the chief source of dirt on Trump.
4. FISA courts. Secret courts that hear secret evidence to determine if it is OK for the government to spy on its own citizens. We hate this stuff, remember? If ever there was something ripe for abuse, this is it. Reason has written reams on this topic. Here ya go! We have absolute evidence that the FISA courts have been perverted for partisan political purposes. If you don’t want to make the leap simply on the basis of the facts presented in this memo, pull in the fact that they “unmasked” the Americans captured in the wiretaps and subsequently distributed this top secret information with the expressed intent of undermining the incoming president elect. This last bit is not conjecture. They openly bragged about it in the New York Times.
Random other thing that I’d like to see Reason do some original reporting on:
Apparently there are allegations floating about that Fusion GPS paid several news outlets to publish their stories on Trump. It seems that this is given up in answer to a question put to the head of Fusion GPS by the investigating committee.
So here’s the possible scenario: Clinton pays Fusion GPS to dig up dirt. Clinton pays Fusion GPS to make sure dirt makes the news. After failing at leaking the dossier to reporters, they end up just paying for placement.
Did that really happen? Because if it did, that’s also a pretty big deal. It goes directly to the perversion of the 4th estate. What is the price of integrity in the media these days? Or is this all just gossip and it never really happened.
Plus, the FBI terminated Steele as a source because he was going to the media. This rumor makes it sound like he was going to the media because that’s what he was being paid to do…. paid to do so by Fusion GPS, who was being paid by Clinton and the DNC.
#3 Is a huge deal. Seriously these fucking dolts see no conflict of interest. How do you not see conflict of interest? I don’t think they know what it means and or care. The only interest is the one they myopically focus on. There is no integrity there and why I stand by my thought that the FBI should be disbanded and the rank and file melded into the mission overlapping agencies. Kill it. Kill it with fire and salt the building.
Okay, those are dumb, though the second one slightly less.
Link 1: Redstate opens with an irritating semantics argument that pisses me off. The memo says that the dossier was “salacious and unverified” according to Comey. Redstate says nope he just said some parts of it were “salacious and unverified”. If they treated that as a minor thing, I wouldn’t mind as much, but they say that calls the entire memo into question. Fuck off. Let’s say I say, “Winston, your mom is a dirty slut and a good cook”. Winston replies “that statement is slander”. If I replied, “no, only part of it is slander” I would hope someone would slap me. By parts of the dossier being “salacious and unverified” that makes referring to the hole thing as that just fine.
Of course that’s not their main argument. They are saying, maybe part of the dossier is true, since Comey didn’t call the entire thing bunk. Fuck that. IF, big if, there are true parts of that dossier that aren’t trivial matters, they need to be independently verified due to the crap and factual errors in the rest of it. If you independently verify it, then you don’t need the dossier for the FISA court, which they did. Complete crap argument.
Link 2: David French cop sucking master. Alright I souldn’t poison the well but fuck that guy. Anyway, his actual argument is that because the memo admits that their was an investigation before the dossier, it proves there might be some fire to this smoke. Given the FBI invented evidence, I’m not willing to say that the initial case was even warranted but it was for a low level guy Trump probably didn’t even know the name of. Connecting that to Trump is a major feat.
What he’s really arguing is a strawman. The reason this means something is because the memo proves that the FBI lied to the court to get surveillance on a political target. Full stop. Even if there was an investigation before, that doesn’t make this conduct any less disturbing.
Semi-related to today’s revelations about how the FBI treats people . . .
The second episode of the Paramount Network’s Waco series was as honestly biased as the first. What do I mean by “honestly biased”?
Just like the first episode, the ATF and the FBI are made out to be arrogant, idiotic, power mad, evil shitheads–with some good people in their ranks.
The point is made repeatedly that the siege never needed to happen, that the whole thing was set up and staged so that the ATF could get some positive publicity for themselves, etc., etc.
It’s hard to believe such a production ever saw the light of day.
Nothing made about Waco back when it was happening was anywhere near as honest as this series has been. Back then, you would have thought that David Koresh was some kind of Charlie Manson, and after the Oklahoma City bombing, you would have thought that David Koresh was some kind of Osama bin Laden.
It’s almost like this series was made by the militia movement for Trump voters or something. Either that, or maybe I’ve just lost faith in the American people to want to watch something honest that’s both accurate, critical of the government, and makes the kind of people who might vote for Donald Trump seem almost human. The elitists must have been on a latte break when they green lighted this project.
Damn it Ken, I wasn’t going to watch this show. However, if you continue to hype it up, I might change my mind.
Ken, I never thought anything other than they were slaughtered by their own Government, and McVeigh was the Response, I celebrate Waco Day
Paramount network? Aren’t UPN, CBS and ABC enough?
Yeah, we only get 500 or so channels on our TV, but I don’t think we get Paramount Network, unless they’re between the home shopping channels and the news in Punjabi channel.
I just looked it up. It used to be Spike.
Also, UPN was the original Paramount network (launch show: ST:Voyager) and is long gone.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Television_Network
Forgot this. And the early backing of Dumont.
CBS and Paramount have the same parent company. Also Paramount t was an early investor in CBS back in 1930s.
And ABC merged with Paramount’s former theater chain in the 1950s.
D’oh! I was wrong.
You get Spike?
Spike is Paramount Network now.
It’s the channel with Inkmaster.
I think UPN ans Spike were the same thing at times.
Now it’s just called “Paramount Network”.
I think they made the change within the last couple of weeks.
Oh, and you can watch the first two episodes for free online via the paramount network’s website.
If you have cable anyway. That’s how I watched it.
Pscyhopaths will throw other psychopaths under the bus, and enjoy it, if it happened in the past and those psychos are out of power. It’s projection, distraction and misdirection, all carried out so they can try to claim a moral high ground. We’re not the bad guys cuz why would we go after other bad guys if we were?
I seem to recall Schumer being extremely pleased in a Congressional hearing that the state did this to the Branch Davidians.
You’re right. It’s a surprisingly anti-police show
Or, like I said, you can’t really tell the truth in this case without being anti-ATF and anti-FBI.
I think they’re just being honest.
Yeah, but even from the beginning they portrayed Koresh as trying to calm the situation.
To some, being honest is anti-police
They could have peacefully taken Koresh on any of the many occasions he went to town. They wanted to play army though. The cops goto is always escalation.
That’s the big thing that I make sure to point out to people when Waco comes up. Let’s say everything the Feds said about Koresh were absolutely true, and he was a menace the likes of which our country had never before seen. He routinely trucked his happy ass into downtown Waco, which is not exactly an isolated backwater, and they knew it. Besides which, the compound wasn’t like al-Qaeda headquarters; people came and went, deliveries were made, stuff like that. The bottom line is that the Feds wanted to make an example of the Branch Davidians. Frankly, I think they saw a bunch of fringe white gun-owning Christians and wanted to make them look as crazy and dangerous as possible, hence the siege. They wanted to provoke a fight so they could win a cultural battle.
I don’t know what you consider ‘back when it was happening’ but I remember a fairly government critical documentary made a few years after the fact. I think it was called ‘Rules of Engagement’ but all I’m finding are the TV show and the Tommy Lee Jones Movie.
Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco%3A_The_Rules_of_Engagement
NORMALLY STEVE SMITH NOT SO BIG ON HIPPIE RAPE
Hose them down, light incense and double wrap to avoid the clap. That should work.
I don’t think STD’s are a worry to a rapesquatch. I think the STDs should WORRY ABOUT STEVE SMITH INSTEAD!
It was a general information bulletin. Had I the connections it would have been paid for by the Ad Council.
You guys have helped destroy the American people’s faith in secret courts that help skirt 4th amendment rights. It’s a travesty. Shame on you.
You live on Mars though, aren’t the rules different there?
We’re bad people. The people who secretly spy on us are noble.
For someone who laughs at the “parchment barrier” argument put forth by some constitutionalists, I seem to be a more vociferous defender of the constitution.
It’s not hard to be a more vociferous defender nowadays. If you take the document seriously you’re already a better defender than half the people that claim to be “civil libertarians”
this sounds like a paraphrase of Nick’s weird article from earlier.
TDS patient zero
New York State Employee Demands Death For Trump Supporters, Still Employed
https://conservativetribune.com/government-employee-demand/
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After the victory last month of President-elect Donald Trump, an employee of the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities reportedly posted a disturbing message to his private Facebook page wishing death on the former GOP nominee’s supporters.
“To all my friends that live in red voting states,” the screed began. “You have 2 months to move. After that, if you don’t do not consider us friends. I want you dead. I want your families dead. I want your wives, husbands children and grandchildren dead. Not just dead but horrible painful deaths.”
“Torturous cancers — bone, brain,” his twisted post continued. “Burning alive in a fire. Drownings. Wives and daughters or should I say your c***s as you Republicans like to call them should be brutally raped first.”
***
“I’m not seeing the issue here,”
-what some people I know on Facebook would respond.
Well I think We should round up all the Derps and Herpa Derps and put them somewhere safe, so they can’t hurt themselves, We’ll call it , California. put up some Padded Fences to prevent escape, and UBI for all!
Now someone will quote that and declare that Libertarians are Xenophobes and Racists, that’s how unimportant a rant really is,
Damn, Unciv has a mouth on him.
Darn, it’s OPWDD. I was about to joke about how OMRDD saves money by using their clients as staff.
Oh… Heh, it is OMRDD, rebranded.
That would be the “Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities”.
Well somebody skipped lunch…
Well he is developmentally disabled.
So how did everybody prepare their celebratory Groundhog today?
We’re still waiting for the First six weeks of Winter, it’s been dry as a bone
Deep fried, as per tradition.
With extra basil.
MSP at 8pm on a Friday is fucking depressing. Me wanna be home. 20 hours of traveling to give a 45 minutes presentation this morning.
It’s Minnesota. Of course it’s depressing.
Sweeeet, I picked up a most excellent prime rib this afternoon. Reserving for Sunday.
jealous. love Prime Rib. Maybe I’ll go pick one up for dinner tomorrow
Nice.
I made croissants and pain au chocolat, and I’m also going to put Philly cheese steak fillings in a pita bread. Other than that, just drinking beer and whiskey + peach brandy.
This your second go at croissant?
When I was a teenager we used to go to this French Canadian breakfast place that had these off the hook chocolate and feta+spinach croissants. They had amazing homard omelette as well.
Yes, it’s my second go at croissants. The recipe I have (from the Food Wishes channel on YouTube) makes quite a bit, so I made a batch of regular croissants then some pain au chocolat.
I may very well experiment with savory croissant fillings. I thought about putting scallions and cheese in this batch, but I figured I’d better master the basic version before I go fiddling around with it.
Only snobs serve prime rib at a super bowl party.
(thumbs up emoji)
Prolly, almost certainly, not gonna super bowl. Cept for the massive dump I’ll take on Monday morning?. Heyoooooo! Bonus odor from asparagus.
I just ate some rib eye that the wife cooked and I know it was good, but I don’t remember how good it was. But it was good, this bottle of Buffalo Trace is going bye bye, you shitlords. No, really, it isn’t, but it’s pretty, there’s a buffalo on it and he’s purty and I’m a drank more.
My wife doesn’t eat things that had fur–for no reason than her mother put her on a funky diet as a child and now anything but seafood, chicken, or turkey makes her sick–so when she goes out of town I stock up. So this weekend I’m introducing my daughter to lamb chops tomorrow for lunch and a pork loin for dinner.
Has she ever seen a sea urchin? I mean really, I’ve seen my wife and her family and our hired guides eat those things raw and I couldn’t do it, and I’d eat almost anything that doesn’t eat me first. IOW, there are worse things than things with fur.
Sea Urchins are not food.
Yeah, but you can eat them. You want pics?
Sea urchin toast or GTFO.
I know what it looks like
Sea urchin gonads are good food. Mediterranean or Nipponese, it all works for me.
Don’t ever criticise my food preferences again.
Meh.
Full agree. Unless it takes 21 years to acquire a taste for it. I may give up trying soon.
It’s not for everyone. Sloopy once characterised it as a neutral/meh experience, “creamy ocean” to be precise.
I think it goes great tossed in at the last moment with sauteed garlicy shellfish over something like gnocchi.
Raw?
Essentially raw, kind of how you’d drop shaved beef into a hot broth to cook it and quickly eat after.. You cook em too much, they disintegrate.
I prefer the North Atlantic ones to the much larger Pacific urchin I’ve had in the past. There’s this trading company in Portland Maine run by a Japanese proprietor that lets me walk around his seafood processing company when I come to buy unagi and live urchin when it’s in season. Fresh as you can get. The trays with Japanese print ready for export are cool as hell and $$$$.
Mostly Central American workers doing the processing work and blasting norteño music.
I’ve eaten urchin at sushi restaurants, but I kind of look at it as a poor substitute for salty oysters. She won’t touch the things, though.
She always tries to get back on the beef wagon, but it’s hard on her stomach because she’s gone so long without eating it, apparently. For some strange reason, though, she genuinely doesn’t care for pork or ham or pig in any form. Doesn’t like the taste, she says. I can’t even imagine what that would be like, and I’ve done a shitload of acid. When I think of the concept “tastes good” I immediately think of bacon or a nice Virginia ham, or pulled pork with a nice cider vinegar dressing. Ribs.
You guys and your euphemisms.
Furry pork? They would be almost too cute to kill.
Some people is mean.
Furry Pork
I’m planning on shooting one of those furry porks soon enough with an arrow.
I think he’s too cute to eat. But then again, I grew up in a different era. I remember that when I was in 2nd, 3rd grade of elementary school, there was this farmer who liked to make a sort of gallows for hogs right where we got off the school bus to walk home. This was every fall and he’d have these slaughtered hogs hung up by their feet with their heads on the wagon below. I’m not and have never been an easily grossed out person, but that shit was nauseating.
There’s a halal (formerly Italian) butcher across the street from me and sometimes I see them hauling entire beef carcasses into there. This is NYC so they just double park out front and pass them down the chain and through the front door. Yum!
There’s a halal (formerly Italian) butcher across the street
How did the Halal’s get the wop out of the shop? One would think that is impossible to remove for some of the more fundy types.
I dunno, splash some whatever their equivalent of holy water is over the place…?
Back when it was Italian, I once got an earful from the old gal at the checkout stand about the hideous taxes and regulations in this city. (It flipped like a month later.) I hear the same from some of the Egyptians that run most of the little shops around here when I engage them on such matters from time to time. Warms my heart.
My grandfather was a butcher, but he was retired by the time I was born.
He had better hot dogs at his house than what Mom bought, though.
I mean, we definitely watched Babe a few times over Christmas, and I thought to myself, “Ok…I won’t eat that particular pig, but one of his cousins might have a tragic accident while Babe’s off at a competition is all I’m saying.” My rule is that I won’t eat things I’ve named or been introduced to.
My only rule is that I won’t eat cat or dog (not that I’ve ever had the opportunity).
Arbitrary? Sure. I’m the biggest carnivore around, but I can’t bring myself to eat the flesh of animals that I had for pets as a child.
I grew up on a farm. We did eat critters we had named. My grandparents visited every other summer and my grandpa like rabbit. So, every other year, we ate rabbit. Once a kitten got into the rabbit hutch and the buck stomped it to death. I ate Bucky with relish. He killed my kitten.
I feel like you had every right to fuck Bucky up and consume him to take his rabbity strength as your own.
It happened toward the end of summer, and about a week lAter, my grandpa said, “I want hausenpfeffer, which should we eat?” I said, “that one!”. Grandpa wrung his neck and cleaned him and we ate him that night.
The story is better when Bucky is your kitten.
I was on a fucked up mostly ovo+lacto vegetarian diet as a kid. My dad would take me to get bacon cheeseburgers at A&W every once in a while. I am now a voracious omnivore. Keep doing what you’re doing, Bill.
We go to barbecue joints all the time. I figure if we sit close enough to the smokers eventually it’ll percolate to her brain.
Lambs don’t have fur; they have wool.
Potato, potahto. Basically feathers, scales, or shells are fine, everything else is hit or miss.
My dad has a fish allergy, so I never got to eat it growing up.
An allergy to ALL fish?
Balko REALLY loves the FBI and hates anyone who questions Russia fever dreams.
“If there was anyone who ‘put things in motion’ it was the student by going home with Slye, he said.”
Doesn’t seem like a very smart thing for the defense attorney to say
I hate everyone in that story. Seriously. They are all idiots and if any one of them had had a tenth of a brain the whole tragedy could have been averted.
I am following Reddit’s 52 weeks of baking challenge and 1920s theme is upcoming. What should I make?
Dunno, but you might find this useful:
http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org/1920-39.html
I have a cookbook called “Anyone Can Bake” that was a gift to my grandmother in 1922. But just picking something from there feels too easy.
“Anyone Can Bake” sounds like it would be a great name for one of the new local recreational marijuana dispensaries.
There is a defunct bowling alley just down the road from me that is for sale. If I had the money I would buy that and the hay field next door and open “Smoke n Bowl Fun Center and Campground”
Nothing but bowling, Ms Pac Man and Gallaga machines with a 5 star snack bar in a smoky haze.
Some county ordinances would have to change but it is always fun to dream about the best business ever. The snack bar would be named “Piss Hookers”.
Jesus, that’s like my life circa 1985 but with smoking. Throw in a roller-skating rink and I’m sold.
Functioning cigarette machines por favor.
With some work the parking lot could be used for roller skating but the building is not big enough.
Functioning cigarette machines por favor.
They would be stocked with nothing but no filter Camels and pre rolled blunts.
I’ve done a lot of crazy shit whilst stoned out of my gourd, but bowling was not one of them.
I must try this. Thanks!
Scones
There’s an Irish theme in a few weeks. I’ll do scones then.
Wife is going to Amish place for conference/brunch tomorrow morning. Bringing me back some Black Rasberry Cream Pie:)
Check out those Amish wenches and take some pics for us, JB, specially is they be THICC. Nothing better than girls in bonnets with TNA!
I won’t be there. I’ll be home waiting for my new smartphone to be delivered, well pre-owned so not new but new to me. Next time I go though. When’s Rumspringer?
Tell your wife that Glibs are doing research on THICC girlz with bonnets. That works every time, trust me.
You forgot the mustaches and uni-brows.
If you’re on Reddit for some specific reason…
I’m not a member, but I was looking for a way to learn baking.
I just grabbed recipies, read them to see if I thought I could manage, made them as written, then started experimenting with them.
I do that, but this gives me specific things to try, like muffin, crackers, or meringue. A focus, if you will.
Yeah, I understand.
I don’t have any suggestions.
I do have a picture of the pastry that vexes me
Kirschtorte. I get it wrong in some manner every time…
Mmmm, cherries.
That filling makes for a superb pie filling too. Just bake the crust and fill then top with whipped cream.
I’m think about popovers with creamed chicken. According to the anyone can bake book, that was an elegant luncheon.
That doesn’t sound bad.
No worries, bro, I get on Reddit a lot, but typically to do with gaming. Most of the people there are dicks, but there are some good people.
Per this guide to throwing a 1920s Great Gatsby party, I recommend baked ham.
When did Beef Wellington become popular in America?
Probably not in the ’20s, but you could find an excuse to make it anyway.
Wife: Baby, are you still drinking?
Me: Yes.
Wife: Do you think you need to drink more?
ME: Yes.
Wife: Why?
Me: OK.
Because I’m still conscious?
I have to day that this Buffalo Trace is good drinking for the price. I have nothing else to say.
That should say it all.
Well put.
– Why?
– …try Bud Dry? I give up, why?
I picked up the New Belgium “Blend Like a Brewer” mixed 12-pack tonight, which has 2 bottles each of 6 different beers and a little pamphlet with recipes for blending them.
Currently drinking the “Splash Out”, which is an even mix of Belgian White and Tangerine IPA. It’s fairly light and fruity and the kind of thing I could sit around drinking all day.
It just occurred to me that I should have tasted each beer individually before mixing. I’ll try to remember to do that with the next one.
I remember the heady days of my variety pack beers. Newly divorced. Newly free. I can’t even remember the names of the 12 beer, 2 of each variety packs I was buying locally. But life was good. The pussy was flowing. The beer was flowing.
There used to be (maybe there still is) some brewery in Portland that did mystery 12 packs. We’d always get a couple of those for parties, and the rules were the whole box had to be put into the fridge, and you had to reach in without looking and drink whatever you pulled out.
Now I’m on to the “Spare Room” – equal parts Abbey Belgian Style Dubbel and Cellar Blender Limited Release Sour Ale. It’s very dark and sour. 24oz of this might be a bit much.
The wife is up in Harrisburg having passed through the Amish ghetto without too much trouble. Proving that I chose well in matrimony, she called to confess that she’d gone off the rez budget-wise because she stopped at a quote “beer warehouse” to get a sixer of Miller Lite and picked up a double IPA (Liminal Moment) and a Russian imperial stout for me, the latter because the guy on the can looked like me, she said. I didn’t ask whether or not it was Rasputin.
You can buy 6 beers in Commivania? Last time I was there, you could only buy bulk.
I don’t think she was at a regular ol’ beer store. She described it as a warehouse, so maybe it was a distributor or something. When she gets back tomorrow I’ll get the scoop and promptly forget after I drink the beer she bought me.
Ah, Dark Necessity, the stout’s called.
Liminal Moment
Hey, themz my home boyz. You like the EC double IPA style?
I’ve moved away from the super-hoppy stuff, but I do like a double IPA from time to time. I used to be a sucker for Dogfish 120. My go-to’s around here are Loose Cannon, Dale’s Pale Ale, or Lagunitas IPA, so I’m still in the hoppier-than-not range, for sure.
If she bought you beer, figure out what she did.
^ yep
It’s more what she plans to do. Usually she softens me up before she asks me to do something I don’t want to do.
Deep. This is “libertarianism”. Some sort of squishy mush which pleads “both sides, dude!”
Super-cereal!
Christ Almighty. Not that it’s not expected, but come fucking on Robby. So goddam squishy I’d call it sea urchin,
So squishy that…
What do you call those little kids toy capsules where the sponge dinosaurs pop out when you put them in hot water?
We should call them Robby capsules.
I have at least three Robby capsules under my couch right now. There is another one in a cup of water growing somewhere.
A Robby infestation.
I recommend permethrin.
There are some very shitty people on both sides. There has been shittiness on many sides.
-alternate universe Trump
C’mon, he’s got to balance it out to try to pacify the maniacs who would attack him for being a Trumpalo, but probably get attacked anyway.
If by “every underhanded thing” you mean “tweeted out semi-incoherent nonsense” and “Took in less than half the cash of his opponent, mostly from smaller donors” and “spoke almost entirely in nonsensical and over-bold statements of personal greatness and winning”…. then yeah. Every underhanded thing.
Oh, and I suppose you could add “showed up in Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania.”
That’s what’s so dumb. Trump did nothing “underhanded”. He was swept into success by a tidal wave of retards who hated everyone else.
and Clinton, meanwhile, managed to commit political atrocities: e.g. sabotaged her primary competition w/ aid of the DNC. had complicit journos in CNN and NYT handing her every advantage. repeatedly fucked up and blew her own shit up (e.g. exposure of wall st speeches which she’d lied about), stupidly denying things basic facts contradicted… and the media steadily cleaned up her filth in desperate attempt to keep her smelling acceptable.
yet the prince of retards won.
you can hate the fact that trump is the prince of retards, but you can’t blame anything other that “voters are free to be dumb as they want”.
Honestly, if you wrote a Trump biography, I’d buy it, read it with pleasure, and gift it to all of my relatives.
Prince of Retards
by Gilmore
“Once upon a time, there was a very Orange fellow, who despite his hue, lucre, and vanity, appealed to the common folk of Middle America.
I was expecting that to go in a Dr. Seuss direction.
Is william goldman dead?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Goldman
apparently not. he hasn’t written anything since 2001 that i can tell.
for a second i thought he’d written “heat” (michael mann), then i realized it was the burt reynolds version in the 1980s
there’s really a shortage of good writers in the media who could have great fun with the current landscape. Hitchens, HS Thompson, Plimpton, … i know Wolfe is still alive, but christ, who wants to deal with the modern day when you’re 86 years old.
there’s no one with any brains and wit in the game, as far as i can tell. We have nothing but Burge and his quips.
I’m still pissed that HST offed himself. He would be having some fun right now. Hitch as well.
Great writers have a habit of being serious drunks, seriously depressed (too much contemplation of truth is bad for life expectency), and a fondness for firearms.
Yes, every underhanded thing, like that time Trump conspired with the RNC to have rival candidates sabotaged.
Oh wait, that was Clinton.
But then there Trump’s improper handling of classified info on a private email server, which he got to keep his dirty deals secret.
Oh, my bad. That was also Clinton.
Add more examples as needed.
“every underhanded thing” = used the so-called “electoral college” to subvert the popular vote.
Yeah, wait, what underhanded things did Trump do? He gave speeches. He did nothing that any other candidate for the office hasn’t done, certainly nothing illegal or unethical. Shit, he did a hell of a lot less than Clinton did to get the nomination. As a matter of fact, Trump ran a pretty straight campaign. You can not like the man for what he’s done outside of politics, and that’s totally valid, and you can think he’s a boor or whatever, and that’s fair too, but he did nothing underhanded whatsoever when it comes to the campaign.
Matt Welch had a sober article when Russia fever began saying that if Russian collision isn’t proved it will be damaging to the country.
Turns out he was wrong. If nothing is ever proven, people will just be expected to assume that it occurred. Which is what Robby is doing here.
I suspect that he wrote that over a meatless salad.
Oh my God.
What is a meatless salad? Mayonnaise?
/deliberately obtuse
A proper salad with the best part left out.
Meatless salads are the Nick Gillespie of salads
Herring in a coat!
you got a link to that one? don’t recall seeing it.
Originally in LA Times. Came out last January should be link at TOS
I wouldn’t dispute that the “Russian collusion” thing hasn’t been proved and has made damage to the country.
Robbie’s headline on May 6, 1937: Don’t forget the Titanic sank, too.
I do think this AP headline is funny
Trump says Russia-probe memo proves bias; Dems say no‘
“the recently disclosed facts lead me to believe there is institutional bias”
“nuh uh”
“ah…. touche”
That was the first article I read about the released memo this morning when I woke up. Knew immediately from the AP’s wording that it was damaging. Being predictably biased actually makes the AP a reliable source. You just flip the insinuation on its head.
yes
great point really. they actually do report news, and barely have time to spin it. their attempts at spin is simple to decode.
See – it’s already been debunked!
Tony|2.2.18 @ 1:56PM|#
I support Democrats mostly because they are the only thing standing between humanity and the most destructive organization in the history of civilization. Purely out of necessity.
Someone get him over here. That is gold.
The Judean Peoples’ Front?
TOS has been infected by a huge number of parody accounts lately. I mostly tolerate it, even approve of some of the better attempts.
But Tony is the real deal, and just so mindfuckingly stupid and mendacious it pisses me off. I honestly don’t understand his motivation.
Tony and Hihn are on that thread pissing everywhere to put out the fire. Every argument is some technicality they are pointing out which they think vindicates their position. It’s beyond trolling. It’s just boring.
Maybe Tony is the original parody – I dunno. Some of his shit is so batshit insane you would think so, but most of it just typical DU shitflinging.
Hihn is, well, I think we know what his problem is.
Holy shit. Tony is my ex girlfriend. I have heard that one before.
You never know.
And that’s why progs are intolerable. If you define yourself in opposition to something rather than for something you aren’t going to have principles. Republicans bad so anything used to stop them is okay. No bad methods only bad targets.
Hydra?
The SPLC?
ANTIFA?
Oh, wait, duh, the Wobblies. No?
The UN.
Damn, gimme a minute, I’ll get it eventually.
The League of Calamitous Intent.
You guys need to relax with something Good,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5Crpbs05FEwo6dlY2
http://imgur.com/NYCQv8k
My wife has been making me t-shirts since I got her a cricut this past christmas. I’m wearing this one tomorrow. Most excellent
Remember, I would like one, 🙂
White lettering on Black Shirt
Fuck Off Slaver!
Glass Antiqua Font Big, the Glib Font,
Paypal is our Friend….
Meh. Those signs don’t look all that dangerously distracting. They’re not even remotely close to the stupidity that are roadside billboards with QR codes on them.
I haven’t seen thos but that’s funny. Are you supposed to stop on the side of the highway to scan them?
My Life In Monsters: Meet the Animator Behind Star Wars and Jurassic Park Is it sad or intriguing I knew who this was by the headline?
i saw ’empire of dreams’ which interviewed same guy (or used/had rights to early interviews which collected all the guys who did early Lucas special effects)
that early team that became industrial light and magic were definitely some of the most important people in film history… i think they probably made money, eventually, but the ones who didn’t were still legends in the community of effects people.
So many of the people that were bit players in the Star Wars trilogy went on to make huge impacts in the industry, even if the people don’t realize it.
I guess this hits a chord as well, because I just bought a maquette animation device for my niece’s birthday present, not only because I think she’ll like it, but because I wish I had it as a kid.
everyone even 2 stages peripheral to the Lucas crew admits that they basically unilaterally reinvented entire dimensions of cinema, and created massive demand for “more” effects.
Pixar and Dreamworks would never have happened, and none of the CGI without the shove they put into “why can’t we get x effect”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair#Crisis_and_reshaping_the_political_landscape
Some late night music: https://youtu.be/sc71Z4qS330
More my style for easy listening.
Trivia: Collective Soul got their name from The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/02/02/salacious-unverified-memo-misquote-comey-dossier/
Interesting. Claims that the Piss Dossier might be slightly false as opposed to totally false since Comey gave a no comment. And we know parts have been verified how?
And claims of additional evidence that Nunes ignored. This alleged ignored evidence is secret of course.
And yes during the Dreyfus Affair the Army did claim that yes there was forged evidence but the rest is real but it is secret.
Related.
Heh.
Damn wasn’t mean to be a reply.
Man after mine own heart.
If RH is reading this, I’ll be at the hotel at 7. If you guys can’t make it, leave a message here. Thx.
We waited. Leave a message here if you want.
Good Morning – hopefully you see this. I had Saturday, Feb 3 at ~7PM – looks like you may have been here Friday. We’re departing Tokyo Thursday. Room 4803 a the hotel if you would like to leave a message.
Misread the time-stamp from your post. Not sure how we missed each other – we were at the Park Hyatt entrance from 6:45-7:45.