Alright, alright, alright. Let’s see if we get Firstros or Lastros today. George Springer starts with a dinger, as did the Cubs leadoff hitter. Bombs away, just like last year. The supposed to be contender Cubs are pulling away from the fire-sale Marlins. John Lester having given up four runs before getting the hook in the mid-4th. Meanwhile, all systems are crap for the Rays — with a smoky grease fire that is no threat to anyone being about what I expect out of them.
World leader puts foot in mouth, forcing press corps to spin furiously … Vatican edition. “Is the Pope Catholic” to be removed from list of rhetorical questions
McDonalds will now give up to $3000/year in tuition assistance thanks to tax law changes. See, work at McDonalds for 40 years and you can afford that Oberlin MFA in Puppetry, too
More proof that Ohio is just the Florida of the Midwest. Ohio woman wants to replace law-maker she was sexting with. We know he’s all about constituent service, what does she bring to the table?
Blockchain stocks falter as first round of suckers get wise. I think the blockchain in its current form scales terribly. Having to do exponentially more work on a regular basis to keep the distributed trust fresh was a cool idea — especially for an alternative store of value to fiat currency — but there are emerging, competing, less computationally intense ways of establishing distributed trust networks.
A little Eagles of Death Metal, since the gliberati seemed to like the lead singer’s statements on mass shootings.
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The smaller the swimsuit the more expensive it is, so these ladies must have spent a bundle.
http://archive.is/AEuHx
4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 33, 42.
That damn meditating guru is keeping me from the images 🙁
Me too… Q, what’s the fix for the 503 errors?
It’s working for me…
All you can do is retry. That’s a problem at the server end.
These euphemisms are getting kinda technical.
Original link if you can’t get to the archive site.
http://thechive.com/2017/08/31/as-summer-begins-to-set-dont-forget-the-bikinis-50-photos/
I’ll opt for 35 because she is obviously a cheap date.
Thanks… 27 is hypnotic.
Fantastic collection, and a great reminder that better weather isn’t far away.
Still not feeling well, though #10 intrigues me.
2 has, I hope, baby face.
6 also. Also 48.
And those lips on 8 and 15, ewwww.
All the rest are beautiful, especially 36. I love it.
Well, the “Pope with no hell” issue is a bit more complex than that, but Ima gonna wait for the dust and shakings to settle before I laugh my ass off.
It’s complex in the issue of translation, the issue of when the pope is allowed to say heterodox stuff, and the issue of eschatology.
IOW: Prove it.
Hilarious if you’ve read Niven and Pornelle’s Escape From Hell.
I remember the cover of the paperback, but I never read it.
Holy #$@#!!!
I loved their version of Inferno. Buying the sequel now!
“So you think you can learn morality from Vlad the Impaler.”
Francis tomorrow: “Above us – only sky!”
The Vatican did a not-really-a-denial, so I’m guessing he actually said it. I might join the Eastern Orthodox, do they do their masses in English stateside?
Reminds me a lot of the Episcopals 10 years ago….”yeah….Jesus wasn’t really God.” The direct quotes (which I don’t have) were absolutely mindblowing.
Alls I know is the incense smells amazing and they give you really strong rose liqueur when you meet with the priest after the service. At least, that was the case in Turkey.
“what does she bring to the table”
Impossible to tell without pics.
A sammich, I’d hope.
Wouldn’t
https://www.facebook.com/Vote4JocelynSmith/
Not really my type.
Therefore: she brings nothing to the table. Back to the breeding factory with her!
Her phone must have a wide angle lens to capture those nude selfies.
Thats an Ohio 7, right there.
I think the blockchain in its current form scales terribly.
Yup. It shouldn’t take a week to get up and running as a node. The best and brightest are working on it.
“Pope Francis: ‘There Is No Hell’”
* looks at map of Michigan
* looks at
map ofMichiganI keed! I keed!
Clears throat.
Hell is real, and it’s in Michigan.
I know that. I was saying (jokingly) that Michigan was hell.
Pope Francis: ‘There Is No Hell’
If you excuse me, there is a list of people that I need to take care of.
Damn! I’ll never see my friends again!
I’d like to thank my body for giving me crushing pain on the right side of my chest when I have panic attacks. It’s truly appreciated.
Wokie with the truth about the David Hogg/Laura Ingraham thing
There is absolutely nothing genuine about this entire thing. It is an astroturfed, highly coordinated propaganda machine using these kids like a jizz rag. And they will be discarded just like a jizz rag once they’re used up.
I think it started out genuine. But the kids (especially Hogg and Gonzales) were pretty quickly co-opted for the purposes of others, and they’re happily going along with it.
I think it started out genuine.
I think Gauleiter Hogg started off as an wokeboy and seized on this with sociopathic speed and intensity as a good platform for both his totalitarian agenda and his personal advancement. His very first thought, remember, was to video and interview people while the shooting was going on. This is a very damaged person.
I think he sincerely wants total gun confiscation and social and legal dominance over the deplorables. So, yeah, that’s genuine, I guess. I wouldn’t argue with the idea that he’s a genuine, to the bone, asshole. Maybe he’ll grow out of it; don’t really care. He’s an asshole now, and he’ll never change until he stops being rewarded, and starts being punished, for being an asshole. So, I view any abuse he gets as both (a) well and fully deserved and (b) probably his only hope of not going through life as an odious excuse for a human being.
I hope that I don’t believe this because of prejudice for his horribly medieval and uncivilized views on fire-arms ownership.
But, whenever I see him speak, his body language bothers me; he strikes me as a thoroughly malevolent person. If we were to poll his ex-girlfriends, I think a picture would emerge of an abusive and controlling individual prone to dangerous rages.
Perhaps it’s wishful thinking on my part, but there it is. That man creeps me out.
If we were to poll his ex-girlfriends
You think that kid had a girlfriend?
It’s possible! Look at how many girlfriends Charlie Manson had!
I agree with what someone said in the Morning Lynx:
The shooter would get way more pussy than Piglet at this point (assuming he was allowed to in jail).
I suppose Manson did have a pretty sizeable harem.
You’re probably more right than you know. Both liking and trusting people way too fast, and instantly disliking people for no conscious reason, are reliable indicators of psychopathy.
It’s win-win for the progs. Either you have telegenic moppets reciting your propaganda unopposed, because a lot of people are afraid of being attacked for being mean to the poor, poor scamps
OR
You get to scream your head off about ZOMG HOW DARE YOU SAY SUCH THINGS ABOUT THESE BLESSED CHILDREN?!?!?!
That only works as long as your preferred red guard doesn’t say shit like this:
‘“It’s like when your old-ass parents are like, ‘I don’t know how to send an iMessage,’ and you’re just like, ‘Give me the fucking phone’ and you take it and you’re like, ‘OK, let me handle it,’ and you get it done in one second,” Hogg said. “Sadly, that’s what we have to do with our government because our parents don’t know how to use a fucking democracy, so we have to.”’
‘“They’re pathetic fuckers that want to keep killing our children,” Hogg said of the NRA. “They could have blood from children splattered all over their faces and they wouldn’t take action, because they all still see those dollar signs.”’
Piglet does not cut a real sympathetic figure.
His dad is retired FBI? Man, if I ever told my dad to “Give me the fucking ____” it would have been the last thing I ever said.
Same here..
I have for a while suspected that the vast majority of these idiot snowflakes are made by the parents being cunts.
Douchebaggery starts at home.
Give her the goddamn camera!
He strikes me as one of those coddled “bash a fash” types that goes around punching/macing overweight middle aged Trump supporters than pats himself on the back for being so courageous. Those types never go after the Aryan Brotherhood or Nazi Low Riders.
Or just any small girl with a red hat on.
Pretty much anyone not actively promoting Marxist-Leninism who can’t fight back.
I like the Pentecostal child preacher comparison better.
That is really, really good stuff.
I was listening to an audio version of James Baldiwn’s The Fire Next Time last week and he has a whole thing on his time as a teenage preacher…when you point out the comparison it clicks together nicely.
They really nailed it.
His character was played by Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood.
Anyone remember Marjoe Gortner. He was one of the first really famous ones, but later changed his mind about the racket.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjoe_Gortner
Poll: What is your favorite MLB team?
I hate myself, so of course it’s Philadelphia.
(though I think we have a chance at the playoffs this year)
I guess the Rockies. I know they made the Wild Card last year, but I’m convinced it was a fluke.
Twinkies
Root For: Astros
Root Against: Cubs
For: Cincinnati
Against: St Louis
ChiSox
Minnesoda Twins
The best team that money can buy. Capitalism ho!
You said the same team as Chipwooder
I assume that’s the Yanks, but it could also describe LAD.
Yes the Yanks.
Hey, we’re only 7th in payroll this year, lowest since 1992.
Yankees because fuck you, that’s why. My earliest childhood memories mostly involve the Yankees, dating back to the first game my dad took me to when I was 5 1in 1981.
And right as I’m typing, Stanton starts his Yankees career with a 2 run opposite field shot.
Durham Bulls although there are only like 10 games a year that are enjoyable the rest of the season its 90 degrees with 98% humidity
Let’s go Oakland!
I thought the Midwestern League Bowling was an individual sport.
The Diamondbacks, of course.
The Brooklyn Tip-Tops.
Yankees
MONTREAL EXPOS.
RIP Rusty ‘Le Grand Orange’ Staub.
So, the Nationals?
Fuck the Nationals.
I took a different route. The Montreal Royals were the farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers and have a connection with that organization. Sooooo, LA Dodgers for me.
Matt LeBlanc has teams now?
California Angels?
Yes, Gene Autry’s team.
Red Sox
Same, although it would be easier if they were more likable. And didn’t dance in the outfield.
I haven’t been interested in baseball since the time a rather forward young Canadian girl put a young Leap’s hand on her boob. Ironically, this was during the MLB All-Star game that was being played to an otherwise empty room on the only TV in the campground.
Nationals, cuz they were founded during my lifetime and now we have a real team that’s not part of Maryland.
Mariners with the Cubs as a NL backup. Mariners because they are my son’s team and west coast. Cubs because i used to watch their Cactus league games after school and my grandfather would take me to Wrigley Field to watch them as a youngun’.
Milwaukee Braves
Cleveland Indians
Injuns. I mean Chief Wahoo AND Charlie Sheen! Most un-PC organization of all.
Not to mention Lindor, Miller, Kluber, Ramirez etc.
My Ma used to babysit for the Jacobs…she once put dish washing liquid in their dishwasher because she had never used one before. She had an I Love Lucy-type moment in their kitchen.
Cardinals — that’s where I grew up.
And damn MLB.tv for blacking out the state of Iowa for Cardinals’ games.
Hell they black out Hawaii for California games. We are three frigging time zones away. Do they black out California for Braves or Nationals games?
But on the map you’re right there in the cutout over Mexico!
I guess the Rockies since they are the closest.
The local AAA team, the Isotopes, plays DH-ball. I’ve never understood that because they are the farm team for the LA Dodgers which, being in the NL, play real baseball. Shouldn’t you be giving your pitchers some batting time while getting ready for The Show?
… Hobbi
When I was ten, a brand new expansion team started up spring training in my hometown of Dunedin, Florida.
They’re still there, and I’m still a Blue Jays fan.
(For north of the border Glibs: Dunedin is also the hometown of Mike Clemons, and yes, I played schoolboy football with him. Go Argos.)
OMG Il Papa – not the first time he’s undermined Catholic dogma.
P.S. Detroit Kops
Damn commie pope to disappearance!
Get the dumbass FedGOP to start doing this; they should be making hay from Justice Dooshbag’s statements.
https://twitter.com/JeanieForrester/status/979090231164096512
Then again: Stupid party.
Commie Pope strikes again.
Yea they done fucked up when they chose him
He’s taking a decidedly godless-atheistic take on things.
Recall! Non-confidence vote! Impeachment!
There has to be a whole lotta face palming among Cardinals and Bishops these days.
They wanted a Latin American Pope and they got what they paid for.
“they done fucked up when they chose him”
They didn’t choose him. God choose him and he is infallible.
I lol’d
^^^^THIS^^^^
If he stays true to form, like the other commies, they will create hell on earth for the people unlucky enough to be trapped in their circle of doom.
If Dante were alive today, he’d update his Inferno to include a circle for progressives.
The eleventeed circle?
Yeah if Judas is reserved for being eternally chewed up by Satan, progs would be eternally getting shot into Satan’s ass in an enema.
To be fair as far as traditional American Christian demoninations go they done fucked up too. As they have been hiring liberation theology and liberation theology sympathizers onto their seminary staff for decades. Who in turn have been indoctrinating pastors for decades.
I could write an article about the shit my wife was “taught” in seminary and the progtardism of pastors behind closed doors.
I guess in short the snowflake students that we laugh at in university news stories, some of them become pastors
I get the impression left-wing stupidity is more prevalent in the Protestant ranks. I could be wrong.
In any event, it’s a virus that transcends religion, race, alien beings etc.
Oh boy does it transend
The benefit for protestant demoniation decentralized authority is that each church can say fuck that noise or amp it up as they please
Who’s winning? The ‘Fuck da noise’ faction or team ‘Amp it up’?
Eh most of the new pastors especially millennials will be progtards and libertarian theology adherents, but not all community will be open to that.
One of my college friends her husband is an award winning sermon giver but he was placed in a rural-ish community and one of the reason he was fired from that church was his politics. He is now at a church in a more poor Democratic community.
A fellow missionary I served with who was pretty politically moderate pre-seminary became a ragng progtard in seminary and is struggling with his NEw England church bc of his politics
Based on my experince in The Twin cities many of those churches can’t get enough of their leftist pastors
“One of my college friends her husband is an award winning sermon giver”
They give awards for that?! The things you learn here.
The Judies?
They give awards for that?! The things you learn here.
/realizes this probably is weird feels even more ashamed of denomination
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRY4nqY7grU
@Rufus the Monocled
From my perspective, the former is winning, for wherever the latter win they seem to lose the plot and subsequently lose the members.
@Trials and Trippelations
Out of curiosity, what denomination is that? It does seem that all the protestant denominations periodically have to purge their seminaries, which do seem to tend towards progtopia if not closely watched (Conquest’s second law, anyone?).
“award winning semen giver”
What I legitimately thought this said at first glance.
@Gadfly I was being needlessly secretive. I am Lutheran and was discussing the elca
Gadfly: wife & I are looking for a new home church & ELCA is on our list, mainly because they support women in leadership.
I’ve always been generally non-denominational/evangelical but I’ve attended Anglican churches periodically depending on location – just the best option sometimes.
I was at The Falls Church (in Falls Church, VA) when they were being sued for their building by the Episcopal heathens a few years back….still not sure why the lawsuit went so many rounds – something like 7 trials in, they finally lost. The “Convocation of Anglicans in North America” was an interesting organization since it started out under the Bishopric of Nigeria. I think it’s based stateside now, but I’ve moved on through 3 other locations and various evangelical churches. Not too hard to find a solid, Biblically oriented church if you don’t have denominational preferences IMO.
wife & I are looking for a new home church & ELCA is on our list, mainly because they support women in leadership.
ELCA is a no-go for me because I grew up in an ELCA church and watched them flap in the political breeze one too many times.
If women in leadership is a big sticking point, Methodist may be a better way to go. Less worship of the state, more worship of Jesus.
Nobody’s more retarded than (((Reform))).
Trust me.
(((for Jesus)))?
OK, that’s pretty retarded.
Heh the private clergy facebook group of a mainline demonination my wife might make Reform Jews blush. It’s full of screams about patriarchy, microaggressions, and blamed white male pastors and the church forndylan roof
We are members of a jewish community center (gym and such) and one of their emails invited members to listen to a speaker explain why single payer healthcare was bad for people of medicare. Hard for me to imagine the protestant clergy agreeing with that
“why single payer healthcare was bad for people of medicare”
I’m amazed a Jew said that. Possibly it’s because those community centers are so heavily populated by old folks and single payer would be goring their ox.
Still, hearing “Jews” calling Israel a Nazi state bent on genocide of the Palestinians is an out-of-body experience.
Still, hearing “Jews” calling Israel a Nazi state bent on genocide of the Palestinians is an out-of-body experience.
Wow 😮 That blows my mind
I get the impression left-wing stupidity is more prevalent in the Protestant ranks.
It depends. “Mainline” Protestants, yeah.
But there are an assload of one-offs and other Protestant churches that range from proggier-than-thou to snake-handling speaking-in-tongues hyper-uber-conservative.
More UK fuckery
I hope a big asteroid hits this planet..
At the rate we are going we deserve an ELE.
“Don’t upset the immigrants!
SHUT UP, THEY SAID!
Tweet has been deleted, any way to recap so I can stoke my own outrage?
Dag nabbit – looks like that whole Twitter account is gone. If I can remember the name of the girl, I could Google the article.
Anyhoo, a 14-year-old was arrested because she complained to her teacher that the classmates she was assigned to for a group project didn’t speak English and she couldn’t understand them well enough to complete the project.
Why is a story from 2006 making the rounds on Twitter?
Is Codie Stott the girl name you’re looking for? She’s now 26…
Oh jeeze!!! LOL
The current rounds its making on twitter seem to be from this guy:
It sounds better in the original German though.
PragerU has a video in the same vein by Robert Florczak. Bunch a Nazis
Lots of people grump about modern art, but degenerate is a particularly evocative term.
Here it is
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-410150/Schoolgirl-arrested-refusing-study-non-English-pupils.html
*sigh*
How can anyone who calls themselves law enforcement be more concerned about this kind of shit than with actual roving rape gangs?
Last updated at 10:27 13 October 2006
2006 was a more innocent time.
The rape gangs were already operating then.
If you read the Jay or Casey reports, at least in Rotherham, the mid-2000s was actually a period of aggressive police action which lasted until about 2009 when the project faltered due to understaffing and the exit of the highly effective Risky Business volunteers after a beaurucratic re-org, so I don’t know what to tell you.
The most recently revealed one (in a different city) had been running for several decades.
But when you run low on resources, what sane mind goes “we should stop hunting rapists and prosecute wrongspeak”
Were either of them under the control of Worsley’s Police? I’m not gonna bitch at Seattle PD for giving me a jaywalking ticket when they should stopping Chicago gang violence.
Part of the issue wasn’t just funding it was serious organizational issues. When the Risky Business program had been participating in the community they were able to get leads and use more informal tactics to find out who was at risk. As it became seen as a bigger problem the government attempted to mobilize partly based on new requirements in British law for how law enforcement handled sex crimes and partly to put more resources behind it, but they lost a lot of the community connections that Risky Business brought to the table in the process.
I think you’d find that 2009 is no accident. The Labour Party were in disarray and were about to lose an election. The last thing they wanted was the public all wee-wee-d up about a national criminal conspiracy that was a natural result of decades of immigration, which reached a peak at the time Tony Blair was trying to create “Cool Britannia”.
How they kept a lid on the whole thing so effectively – I can only put down to an impressive control of the media.
Of course, AFTER the election, the Home Office would have had access to a lot of data that would have been actionable, and yet, nothing happened.
Yeah the Jay report runs up to 2009 and has an update for 2009-2013. The Casey report seems to be a more coherent look bridging that time period. The institutional failure is fascinating but unsurprising.
You say at teh time they made this particular absurd arrest they were hard on sex crimes. Fine. But in no rational progression of the duties of a police force do you go from “tough on rape and tough on wrongspeak” to “weak on rape and tough on wrongspeak” without some serious disfunction.
It is far easier to caution someone for a “hate crime”, who isn’t going to claim racism and doesn’t have the power to initiate a riot, than it is to arrest half a dozen rapists in a multi-city arrest.
You say at teh time they made this particular absurd arrest they were hard on sex crimes.
Not really. Rothertham police and private action groups were acting aggressively at that time (first THEY). Worsley police made a stupid arrest (second THEY).
Is your point that because this one particular stupid arrest was in a jurisdiction other than the most famous rape gang, the patterns of both stupid wrongspeak arrests and ignoring rape gangs across multiple jurisdiction are not relevent to the discussion of the failings of the british state in the 21st century?
I’m starting to think we’re talking in different directions past each other.
That came out more hostile in tone than I intended. It’s late and I’m still stuck on this webex at work. I should stop commenting on the internet.
Maybe. I think there’s quite a bit wrong with the modern British state, but I think it’s weird that someone has to re-post a 12 year old story to sell the absurdity of the current British state. I mean, think about that. We don’t have much more recent versions of this story to point to?
We don’t really know the extent of “rape gangs” in England. We have one that is very well documented and further evidence of more. There seems to be a considerable effort on the part of authorities to minimize how common it is and on the obverse to make it seem like it’s a daily occurrence in every town’s back yard. Even if these events had both happened in the same town they would not have been handled by the same police teams. Major sex crimes and ASBO-distribution are going to be relatively compartmentalized. I’m just not sure how useful it is to be angry about the juxtaposition of the two stories.
That came out more hostile in tone than I intended.
Nah don’t worry about it. I’m stuck at work late too (although it’s finally time to clock out). I’m dragging and cranky myself.
The arrests (and convictions) on similar charges since then (ie, the scottish dog video, tweeting about airport lines with a joke, banning journalists from the country for wanting to talk to people, defacto blasphemy law enforcement for criticism of islam, etc) meant we didn’t notice that it was actually tweleve years ago, as it looked like something right out of today’s patterns.
It’s just easier to enforce silence and cow the normies than it is in confronting the civil rights shitstorm that rolling up a sex syndicate. Most of these girls don’t die, dammit. Most of them grow up, rebuild their shattered lives, become tax payers or state dependents and carry on.
It’s worth noting, however, that particular care is taken to ensure that places like Luton, Watford, Crawley and Reading are kept out of the news. Why? Because they’re close to London, where the power-brokers have their homes.
I always used to dismiss the old Labour-loyalist complaints that the Conservatives didn’t give a damn about anyone outside the South-East. They were half right.
None of the political parties give a damn about anyone outside the South-East.
::Cue interviewee from a Ken Burns documentary, hear swelling harmonica incidentals::
Today’s Biggest-Balls-Award Goes To:
Cheetah enters man’s car; he stays utterly still and does not make eye contact, so cheetah ignores him.
When i was like 10 i encountered a rabid dog on the way to school. I froze and it just drooled and circled me for about 2-3mins. I have benchmarked my ‘level of fear’ of any/everything since that moment. It is very, very difficult to remain calm when you’re around a completely wild animal that you know is willing and capable of fucking you up very badly in a split-second.
Those claws….yeesh. My kitten’s claws hurt like hell imagine getting swiped by those weapons. It takes a special kind of balls to stay still like that with a predator snooping around BEHIND you. The cat can leap in a second and fuck you up.
He’s lucky too it was a Cheetah – one of the smaller cats out in the wild.
I wonder if the same would happen with a lion, tiger, jaguar etc.
I like the reply with the cheetah climbing onto the car and taking a dump down the sun roof…
It is very, very difficult to remain calm when you’re around a completely wild animal that you know is willing and capable of fucking you up very badly in a split-second.
I dunno, happens around here exactly once a month.
Only when you run out of tampons?
This is why there are no female libertarians?
Or did you really mean wild animals coming to your homestead
The first in jest.
My biggest fear from wild animals is Lyme disease or a brown recluse bite. Though I did hear a loud rattle nearby while walking in my woods last year and froze solid. Couldn’t see where it was coming from.
Normalizing “fear of animal” score at a maximum of 100 and based on animals that I might actually encounter:
Human – 100
Brown Recluse – 7
Mountain Lion – 5
Moose – 3
Bear – 1
All others below 1.
My “fear of animal” rating is a function of the distance to the nearest probable hostile member of that species.
Clown – 1,000,000
http://ontext.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/clown.jpg
It’s like he’s staring into your soul
What about Easter Bunnies?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/briangalindo/19-vintage-easter-bunny-photos-that-will-make-your-skin-craw?utm_term=.pv2VgVGE8#.edd3P305B
The typical reaction of a female libertarian upon entering a room of libertarians
I’d be happy if Natalie Portman showed up at all.
Would
yeah, that probably could have been expressed more-accurately. as in “And you’re not packing”
there is a distinct difference between “angry animal” and “rabid animal” tho. Wild dangerous animal is one thing; wild dangerous animal with brain-rot that will spontaneously lash out and murder? has different vibe.
i’m not going to re-tell my “zombie moose” story, but there’s that one, too.
It was an admittedly poor joke.
I agree. Even packing, I would not want a rabid dog within striking distance of me.
Twitter comments are a cesspool. Just watch the video don’t scroll down.
I have benchmarked my ‘level of fear’ of any/everything since that moment.
That resonates, a lot! At about the same age, I was playing in the harvested cornfield at the end of this street. On reflection, one of the neighbors saw the movement and thought that there was a coyote out in the field. At the time, all I knew was that the gruff scary neighbor down the street was pointing a gun at me. I didn’t move a muscle for 45 minutes.
My Dad worked for Schwans Ice Cream years ago. When I was 10 years old, my brother and I were on the route with him. Most farms had dogs. One place had a pair of Aussie Cattle Dogs.
My Dad jumps out of the truck and leaves the door open. The dogs come and sit with their heads in the cab and growl every time either my brother or I even breath heavily. We sat there, frozen in fear, for 15 minutes. It felt like 3 hours. My brother is white as a ghost and I’m thinking I’ll let them have him while I make a break for it.
Dad comes back out and the dogs follow him. Tells us to get out of the truck and help carry in the order. Dogs are completely relaxed and friendly.
when we left, we both lit into Dad, who thought it was funny as hell.
Hey, don’t you fucking chew on my seat! AHHHHHHHH
/Me in that situation.
I still want a pet cheetah anyway
Was expecting this…
You foxed eared asshole!
Things Are Not Looking Good For Tesla Right Now
Gee didn’t see this coming.
This has been so blindingly obvious for years but the Musk ball lickers in the press just kept pimping them despite the easy to see problems.
“Wooed by Musk’s personal appeals, bond investors pretty much ignored the carmaker’s prolific cash burn and repeated failures to meet production targets and lent it $1.8 billion at record-low interest rates.”
So much for the ‘wisdom of crowds’.
It’s amazing how we’re willing to ignore bad shit when we choose to.
That’s because you didn’t read the morning links.
::kicks pebble::
To be fair, things were not looking any better for Tesla this morning, either.
there was a bumper crop of derp today
Millennials are using avocados to propose
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2018/02/20/millennials-are-using-avocados-to-propose.html
Me? I’d hide the ring box in a bag of chips and casually hand it over while watching TV.
This guy needs to come out of the closet
https://www.instagram.com/p/BL1IQMChEyw/?utm_source=ig_embed
Top comment:
“Did he say yes?”
I presume he was the recipient.
That’s one nasty-ass, diseased looking avocado.
That’s all Avocados.
At least put some lime on it so it doesn’t brown so quickly. Talk about foreshadowing the marriage..
Lots of anal?
Secret to a successful marriage.
If someone gives you a ring with an acacado on it, say “NO!”.
The chips were extra-crunchy.
Looks like they’re both yoga instructors…me thinks the problem is occupation not generation.
Didn’t Playa use one, too?
I’d go with the popcorn box in the lap trick with two surprises in there.
Extra butter?
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
-Sloopy’s movie date
You proposed the next week, right?
Eventually.
we truly live in the best timeline
Trump Vows to Protect 2nd Amendment, Congratulates Roseanne in Infrastructure Speech
http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/03/29/trump-talks-second-amendment-congratulates-roseanne-ohio-infrastructure-speech
I wonder if you told people right after the moon landing that in 50 short years this would be our country how quickly you’d be involuntarily committed.
All that talk about the government using your television to listen to you in the living room, the paranoid thought that someday the government won’t let you fly without ID and body search, that our phones will give both government and companies access to where we are, slept, spent time with and purchased….
Yeah. They would lock your ass away for being right about the future.
1. Order Attorney General to rewrite the dictionary so he can ban bump stocks without needing to wait for a law to be passed.
2. Propose, then back away from, a federal law to raise the age one can buy a gun from 18 to 21.
3. Vow to protect gun rights.
nth dimensional chess?
Maybe I can mumble something about MENSA-grade Accidental Libertarian President, but I doubt it.
Trump Vows to Protect 2nd Amendment
So he’s going to tell Session to withdraw those bump stock regulations?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hell doesn’t exist. Guess he hasn’t been to Detroit.
You’re one fifth of the way there.
http://www.krdo.com/news/pueblo-district-60-to-move-to-4-day-school-week/721956763
TDS: help find a cure
‘Roseanne’ co-star Sandra Bernhard says women who support Trump can’t ‘think for themselves’
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/03/29/roseannes-sandra-bernhard-says-women-who-support-trump-are-unable-to-think-for-themselves.html
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“A lot of women have compromised, given in, raised their kids and not had the luxury of being able to think for themselves,” Bernhard said Wednesday, adding they are “under the thumb of [their] husband[s].”
The 62-year-old, who has yet to make an appearance on the recently premiered TV reboot, then suggested perhaps the reason why women voted for Trump was because they were intimidated by Hillary Clinton’s intelligence.
TRUMP PERSONALLY CALLS ROSEANNE TO CONGRATULATE HER ON RATINGS
“[Maybe it was] being so offended by Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton’s legacy that you turned on her,” the actress suggested. “Or feeling inadequate, feeling like how can somebody be so educated? How can somebody who brought themselves up from their experience and gone to the top? Educated herself, fought for rights, civil rights, and equality. And I think that is threatening to a lot of women.”
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Cool, she’s a moron in real life too.
I had tried to forget Bernhard, and had been largely successful. Then you had to go and ruin it.
I always thought Laura Kightlinger was funnier
Tax accounting is funnier.
from my souvenir file
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Sudden|4.29.14 @ 11:22PM|#
Y’know Derptologist, I made a conscious decision not to have children so that I wouldn’t get pissed off by shit that’s 11 years old.
Thanks for fucking that up for me.
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Shes always been a no talent B lister at best Her only success comes from the fact that she had famous friends who helped get her potty mouth on the air. She’s an idiot.
I liked Hudson Hawk
/ducks…..
SO DO I!
So do I, but I look away from the screen every time she’s on it.
F-U-G-L-Y.
::shudders::
Lady look like a dude!
I’m of the opinion that, maybe, Bruce clocked her right in her gob just before filming.
Either that, or she looked inside the Ark
“Hillary’s so amazing that I’m consumed by envy and must vote against her! My husband told me I have to!”
“People who think for themselves think like me.”
Jesus was ‘drag king’ with ‘queer desires,’ claims theology professor
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/29/jesus-was-drag-king-with-queer-desires-claims-theology-professor.html
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Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew, chair of New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., said Jesus was a “drag king” who had “queer desires.” He also claims the Last Supper was a “literary striptease” and that Jesus was not a man, but gender fluid.
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“[Christ] ends up appearing as a drag-kingly bride in his passion,” he argues. “If one follows the trajectory of the Wisdom/Word or Sophia/Jesus (con)figuration, what we have in John’s Jesus is not only a ‘king of Israel’ or ‘king of the Ioudaioi [Jews],’ but also a drag king.”
Then he used Jesus’ crucifixion to try to show the Passion of Christ was really a “(homo)sexual bonding of the Father and the Son.”
“What I am suggesting is that, when Jesus’ body is being penetrated, his thoughts are on his Father. He is, in other words, imagining his passion experience as a (masochistic?) sexual relation with his own Father.”
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The religious studies professor also argues John’s multiple references of Jesus wanting water, giving water, and leaking water “speak to Jesus’ gender indeterminacy and hence his cross-dressing and other queer desire.”
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One parent told Fox News they sent their son to Holy Cross for their “conservative Christian values” but now they’re being “shattered” leaving them to question if their son should transfer schools.
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Oh, how I would *love* to see this asshat try to make a similar argument about Mohamed. Actually, no- that would basically be committing suicide.
So edgy. So brave.
Awesome. Do Mohammad now.
So Jesuit.
He’s breaking new theological ground, that’s for sure.
Ah yes, one of those things only a supposed “intellectual” is stupid enough to believe
“Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew”. Come on, this a character from Portlandia right?
That’s got to be a joke name, right?
You say that like it’d be a bad thing.
Outdoor club at college in Maine accused of being ‘massively white’ and ‘sickeningly privileged’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/43404/
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In addition to AESOP, Geddes also claims the school’s Outing Club is “massively white” and “sickeningly privileged.”
“The social capital (and outdoors experience) required to be an Outing Club member–let alone leader–is enormous, and the established pure-white-privilege environment that the club has established makes it unlikely for anyone unlike the club’s intended audience to feel comfortable engaging in their space,” Geddes argues.
This “cruel” and “exclusionary” makeup “hurts marginalized groups,” he said.
Offering several suggestions for improving the alleged deficiencies of the group, including “anti-racist activism” and “queer identity formation,” Geddes implored its leaders: “Please help students like me feel okay about your hegemony on campus–and if you can’t, maybe it’s time we shut this frat down.”
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[head desk]
Can’t somebody just kick the shit out of this guy? It would be good for him.
I don’t know about that. It would probably just cement his victim identity.
Point and laugh seems more apropos.
“The horror! The horror!”
My undergrad alma mater! In the 80s we just got the new freshmen really drunk. Guess we weren’t so woke. I did go on a couple Outing Club trips. Since there were maybe 3 black kids in the whole school, you could say it was overwhelmingly white.
Swedish government commissions, then withdraws under pressure, leaflet approving of child marriage
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/swedish-government-commissions-then-withdraws-under-pressure-leaflet-approving-of-child-marriage
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Domestic. After the morning’s quick and very powerful reactions to the National Board of Health’s new folder “Information for you who is married to a child,” the authority now withdraws the information sheet, which in social media has been accused of being a brochure for pedophiles.
It was on Thursday morning that it was discovered that the National Board of Health and Welfare published a leaflet entitled “Adapting to adults who are married to a child”.
The folder states, among other things, that it is “inappropriate for you to live together if the child is under 15 years” because it is forbidden to have sex with children under 15 in Sweden.
Nowhere in the text is there anything about prison.
In the magazine you can also read that “The Social Service may suggest that you do not live together for a shorter or longer period.”
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*lights OMWC signal*
No no stay where you are, wouldn’t want to trouble anyone
*crawls back on hot rock*
Why would OMWC buy the cow when the milk is free?
France: Muslim tries to run over soldiers while screaming in Arabic, “reason remains unclear”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/france-muslim-tries-to-run-over-soldier-while-screaming-in-arabic-reason-remains-unclear
OK, this definitely deserves my favorite Far Side comic.
France’s finest detectives are on the case.
lol
My favorite, it seems even truer today.
Simple and effective.
A board I frequented in the past had a poster named Midvale Dave, who named himself after that cartoon.
I’m really not understanding their motives.
The grievances that trigger workplace violence are usually not apparent to those not actually working at the site where the attack occurs.
I see what you did there
isn’t that how progressive policy as a whole works?
I don’t own a gun soooo, gun control! What do I care?
Minimum wage is great! Especially since it won’t impact ME!
Of course fines and imprisonment for hate speech is cool! If you have nothing to hide, and don’t say stupid stuff you’ll be fine!
Out of sight, out of mind is the best kind of policy for lefties.
If I were going to commit a terrorist attack, I’d scream “Reason remains unclear!” too.
Outis did it!
Imagine if one of the twin towers attackers said just before crashing, ‘Holy Mohammed’s hummus this is fucked up…..I change my mi….”
from the golden age of The Onion
https://www.theonion.com/hijackers-surprised-to-find-selves-in-hell-1819566162
The post-9/11 “edition” of The Onion is perhaps the finest bit of satire journalism ever produced.
“It might actually be the most painful thing we can do, to show these murderers the untold pleasures that would have awaited them in Paradise, if only they had lived pious lives,” said Praxitas, Duke of Those Willingly Led Astray. “I mean, it’s tough enough being forced through a wire screen by the callused palms of Halcorym and then having your entrails wound onto a stick and fed to the toothless, foul-breathed swine of Gehenna. But to endure that while watching the righteous drink from a river of wine? That can’t be fun.”
Outstanding.
Did they keep on their stupid prog march from the last couple of years. I stopped when they started being stupid.
The Onion has really gone downhill:
Dunkirk Survivor Praises Film As Most Realistic Depiction Of Cowardly Fleeing From Battle
https://www.theonion.com/dunkirk-survivor-praises-film-as-most-realistic-depicti-1823391789
Right on, Onion. It’s high time someone took those uppity WW2 vets down a notch. I bet those losers didn’t even try to punch any Nazis.
Meh. There are so few survivors around that it doesn’t matter. Old fucks ain’t gonna be able to do nuttin’.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised you can put a whole platoon of french infantry on the run using nothing but a stolen car.
stuff I learned today
Stormin’ Norman’s dad was also a general. He was a narrator for the radio show gangbusters and also trained the shah of Iran’s secret police.
He also bore as striking resemblance to General Halftrack from Beetle Bailey.
Can you tell who’s who?
Behold
You do know that Brett actually did have some links at the very beginning of this post, right?
And superindent of the New Jersey state police, and ran the Lindbergh baby investigation.
He also designed the NJ State Police uniforms.
To be fair, there probably are many people in my home state too stupid to fill out a ballot.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/democrat-voters-stupid-fill-ballots/
If they can’t figure out how to fill in a ballot, I’m okay with them not voting.
Cry me a fucking river you partisan hack.
I’ll bet she’s also in favor of compulsory voting.
“Voting is a right, but also a solemn privilege, and an effective democracy requires everyone to participate. But ballots are too tricky and time-consuming to fill out, so we should just make it possible to vote on a myriad of issues and candidates by filling in one square.”
At this point I’d say it’s safe to say that you can’t be pro-life (or pro-2A for that matter) and be a Democrat.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/cardinal-dolan-reflects-op-ed-democrats-dont-want-lose-pro-life-politicians/
At least not an intellectually honest one.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/john-kricfalusi-ren-stimpy-underage-sexual-abuse?utm_term=.wxpaaD6xn#.hslMMegNo
Happy Happy Joy Joy Happy Happy Jo… oh… oh no.
Is anyone going to be surprised by this?
I can’t imagine anyone that’s watched his shows could possibly be surprised.
Based on his animation, I find this completely unsurprising.
Why the fuck would she do this?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2018/03/29/corporate-warfare-nutrish-jumps-aboard-david-hoggs-advertiser-boycott-laura-ingraham/
Rule #1: NEVER APOLOGIZE
Her advertisers are terrified, therein lies the problem.
I guess her principles only go as far as her wallet.
Why? David Hogg is just a genetic mishmash of Hitler and Pajama Boy.
For all his faults, this is my favorite thing about Trump. The Right just doesn’t get it. Their appeasements will never satiate the Left’s appetite for their blood.
fun facts about Stormin’ Norman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Schwarzkopf_Jr.
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As a 10-year-old cadet at Bordentown Military Institute, near Trenton, he posed for his official photograph wearing a stern expression because – as he said afterwards – “Some day when I become a general, I want people to know that I’m serious.”
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He was also a member of Mensa.[26] Schwarzkopf graduated valedictorian out of his class of 150,[27] and his IQ was tested at 168.
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Schwarzkopf later recounted many officers and NCOs he met in this assignment “had no sense of duty or honor, and who saw the world through an alcoholic haze.”
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Still, his experiences in Vietnam embittered him to U.S. foreign policy. Upon returning to the United States, he spoke of a wariness of future conflicts to author C. D. B. Bryan in 1971:[55] He related these experiences under the assumed name of Lieutenant Colonel Byron Schindler.[56]
I don’t think there will ever be another major confrontation where the armies line up on both sides. If that happens, it’s inevitably going to be nuclear weapons and the whole thing. So I think all wars of the future are going to be—and again, God forbid, I hope we don’t have any. War is a profanity, it really is. It’s terrifying. Nobody is more anti-war than an intelligent person who’s been to war. Probably the most anti-war people I know are Army officers—but if we do have a war, I think it’s going to be limited in nature like Vietnam and Korea. Limited in scope. And when they get ready to send me again, I’m going to have to stop and ask myself, “is it worth it?” That’s a very dangerous place for the nation to be when your own army is going to stop and question.[55]
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Soldiers seeing the world through an alcoholic haze? Uh, I have no idea what’s talking about….
[nervously tugs on collar as beads of sweat form on forehead]
Reminded me of this
Glibs, I just realized I’m going to be spending Easter Sunday at a Southern Baptist church. I grew up Catholic and left for doctrinal reasons, not aesthetic reasons, and now muddle through Lutheran service which feel very informal and uncomfortable to me. Say what you will about the Jesuits (and I do), but they can put together an airtight homily that was logically consistent and intellectually rigorous. Or at least the one Jesuit priest that offered mass at the church I used to attend when I was young could do it.
I have no (particularized) problem with Southern Baptist, but the aesthetics of their services make my skin crawl. And I can’t complain about this to anyone I know IRL because it makes me sound petty. Which is fine here but I don’t think my wife will take to kindly to me trying to slip out of her sister’s church service.
Having grown up Southern Baptist (which admittedly has a wide range of styles and severities), I feel for you.
I cannot stand hand waving and mass shouting of Amen’s.
Last time I went to my SIL’s church, there where people speaking in tongues, parishioners clapping in time during a sermon, and a dance team performing interpretive dancing (Dancing!!! it could lead to playing cards!)
Which is fine for other people, but if i’m looking for a religiously-inspired altered state of consciousness, I’m drawn more to the “mortification-of-the-flesh-and-say-the-Rosary” variety (although I don’t say the Rosary any more, either…)
Dancing at a SB church? Inconceivable!
It was buy the Liturgical Dance Team or some such, and it was only women. Not this sinful Boy-GospelGap-Girl-Hands-On-Shoulders dancing used by Satan to tempt you to further sin.
So you’re saying it was worse – it was Lesbian Dancing!
Maybe you should go reallllllly low church and then make your way back up. Who knows maybe some Pentecostal snake handling will work for you in a way you never imagined. Maybe the Spirit will come on you and you’ll receive the gift of tongues or prophecy or something.
The Baptists will feel more formal by comparison.
Pentecostalism Is Just A Conspiracy By Big Snake To Get You To Buy More Snakes!@!!!!
I’ve been to one Pentecostal service. That was enough for me.
I grew up in a church roughly under the Pentecostal banner, lotta speaking in tongues and shouting amen, but no snakes.
The founder of the church Aimee Semple McPherson is particularly fun because she was around during the newsreel age and is on film making fun of hypocrites re: Prohibition.
Snake handling is so passe. All the cool churches are juggling chainsaws these days.
Think about the alternative (ie: not going): you will not get laid for at least 2 weeks.
Suffer through it.
You’d look ve Charismatic Catholicism.
It’s like the worst of both worlds.
*you’d love
Why don’t Southern Baptists have sex standing up?
{tsk} {tsk} / {start finger-wagging}
Might lead to dancing . . .
Oldie but a goodie!
Yep.
This is why I love this site! I made an off-hand remark on a dead thread yesterday and now it’s Pentecostal this and Pentecostal that. We’re all going to our own circle of hell.
“See, work at McDonald’s for 40 years and you can afford that Oberlin MFA in Puppetry, too”
It’s not the company’s responsibility to pay your tuition.
This type of shit drives me nuts. Health care should not be associated with your employer, education (not important to your advancement at the company) should not be associated with your employer.
We pay people in money so they can decide how to spend it.
Inside info on the 13 year old VT governor candidate.
Public school one day a year. His Facebook is a disaster.
The libertarians could learn some stuff though, I think he knows where aleppo is.
This ranks among the stranger-stories i think you’ll come across
I will spare everyone the Rashomon-esque attempts to re-create ‘underlying truth’ from fragments, and just blame it on Menopause
The picture is showing six people. Where go two others dammit?
I’m guessing Thelma & Louise?
Yeah, I was reading about it too.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/29/family-killed-in-california-cliff-crash-had-recent-visit-from-child-protective-services-police-say.html
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The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services had opened an investigation after the children were “identified as potential victims of alleged abuse or neglect,” Oregon Live reported, citing the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office. Bruce and Dana DeKalb, the next-door neighbors of the Harts in Woodland, told The Associated Press they called child services on Friday because they thought Devonte was going hungry. They said he had been coming over to their house too often in the past week asking for food.
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Friends and relatives said the married couple, Jennifer and Sarah, were loving, inspiring parents who promoted social justice and exposed their “remarkable children” to art, music and nature. They were often seen at festivals, events and rallies such as one for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and the 2014 protest against police violence that gained them nationwide attention when Devonte was photographed hugging a police officer. They often went as a group wearing matching T-shirts.
“They were really radiant, warm, adventurous inspiring people. They were always on some grand adventure, and the kids were living this life that was kind of like this dream,” Zippy Lomax, a photographer who knew the Harts, told The Associated Press.
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The Dekalbs also recounted in August 2017 one of the girls rang their doorbell at 1:30 a.m. asking for protection.
“[She] was at our door in a blanket saying we needed to protect her,” Bruce DeKalb said. “She said that they were abusing her. It haunted my wife since that day.”
In 2011, Sarah Hart pleaded guilty to a domestic assault charge in Minnesota. Her 6-year-old daughter had told her teacher, “Mom hit me” when she went to school with bruises on her stomach and back, according to Oregon Live.
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Hart received a 90-day suspended jail sentence and a year of probation in 2011.
Jen Hart appeared happy on social media, posting on Facebook earlier this month about the adoption of three of her children nine years ago.
“I am a better human in every possible way for knowing these children. They have been my greatest teachers,” she wrote, according to Oregon Live. “Contrary to the common notion that we can’t choose our family, we absolutely can. We choose by loving – and that’s worth celebrating every damn day.”
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I feel sorry for the kids.
Yeah, not mentally stable.
C’mon, that’s from The Onion, right?
If you transpose it his name is “Lippy Zomax”; which sounds like a new prescription drug.
this made me laugh the other day:
The Iran-Saudi Arabia retard slap fight- a century of laughs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Mecca_incident
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There is a long history of tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who had what Shia Muslims considered a “deviant innovation” in promoting Salafi Islamism,[4] had initiated the destruction of various religious burial sites in Hejaz, and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, a family descendent of al-Wahhabi, continued with this initiative, destroying parts of the Shiite-revered burial site of Al-Baqi’ in 1925. This caused outrage in Iran, with the Iranian government calling for the ousting of ibn Saud, and banning Iranians from performing the pilgrimage in 1927.[5] In 1943, an Iranian pilgrim was beheaded based on Saudi charges that he brought excrement inside the Great Mosque on his garment. Iran lodged a formal protest, and suspended pilgrimage until 1948.
For years, Iranian pilgrims had tried to stage demonstrations called “Distancing Ourselves from Mushrikīn” (برائت از مشرکين) in the Muslim holy city of Mecca during the hajj.[7] These demonstrations had their origins in 1971, when Ruhollah Khomeini instructed his Shiite followers to distribute political messages when performing their pilgrimage.[8] Even though a few Iranians were arrested for this act, the Saudi officials were generally apathetic, as they did not view these political messages to be a threat to the Saudi royalty.[9] The practice of distributing political messages, which were mainly criticism of the United States and Israel, as well as pro-Western governments, continued up until the year 1981.
In 1981, this was escalated into openly chanting political slogans in the Masjid al-Haram and the Prophet’s Mosque, two of the holiest sites in Islam, resulting in violent clashes with Saudi security and one death.[1] In the same year, King Khalid of Saudi Arabia wrote a letter to Saddam Hussein saying “crush these stupid Iranians” as Saddam pushed on with the invasion of Iranian territory.[10]
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Anyone got $35 grand in their couch cushions?
https://www.mensjournal.com/food-drink/the-macallan-releases-rare-50-year-old-scotch-whisky-for-35000/
One more promo for this week’s video: https://youtu.be/m7LjeOZkifM Obscurity doesn’t help viewing #s – especially when I can’t get a good quality trailer or screen caps. Trust me when I say the flick is worth watching if you can find it.
I threw in a ‘like’ because it sounds really cool.
I guess I’m glad my TV is old enough that it has a ‘Zoom’ feature basically designed to get the non-anamorphic widescreen DVDs to play correctly. I think I still have some in my library, too.
Thanks. My older HDTV does have that function, but I barely ever use it – probably not even for this, but it is a consideration. Part of the hassle is that the removable subtitles take up more of the bottom bar space – so probably a chance you’d lose some of them, although the burnt Bahasa subtitles (meant for the theatrical cut) are on the film itself.
Again… trying to figure out if there’s a database somewhere I can look up who purchased distro rights for this film and others (if anyone). Really hard to see something with the accolades it has not go any farther (possibly picked up by Weinstein company and shelved like many others). This is one I’d try and fund with a little investment – for digital distro or limited Blu-ray release (like what Twilight Time does – every disc is limited to 5000 copies in general). Or burn on demand like Warner Archive.
Some people are apparently very upset by the “Rosanne” show reboot
He keeps going after that.
Seriously tho, if i were an editor, I’d never want this fuck-knuckle’s name even vaguely associated w/ my publication ever again, but i suspect this gibberish screed actually serves to make him more popular with the scribbler-set in America right now. if you’re not shrieking your wokeness at the rafters 24/7, then you’re working for the enemy.
The proggies always love strawmen and blaming false consciousness. They just can’t help themselves.
Never heard of him. But I suppose that was from him burying himself so far into a bubble.
“”Never heard of him””
Me neither. Lets find out what his prior ‘greatest hits’ were….
NYT: Donald Trump’s Toxic Maculinity
(an original thought if there ever was one)
New Republic: I Told the Truth About a Donald Trump Rally. Then the Trolls Threatened My Life
Politico: “I Found HanAssholeSolo’s anti-Semitic Posts. Then, the Death Threats Started This is what it’s like to report on extremism in the Trump era..”
Its hard, really to pin down the key themes of his oeuvre, his writing is so broad, far-reaching, and eclectic
“Much of white working-class America is racist and intolerant.”
There’s that winning message for Dems.
If the party had any sense, they would shut assholes like this up.
Heh!
oh fuck!
You’re serious, right?
Life must be easy when you know what is in your political enemy’s heart better than they do.
I wouldn’t say John has it easy.
Fuck you, you lying prick.
*tangential straw man tirade*
Half-wit!
BULLY!
I guess that’s one way to guarantee the same size audience next week.
Will & Grace though lecturing with their little cheap shots at Trump are totes cool and okay.
Go fuck yourself.
Even they learned to cool it after they got some pushback.
“Author of The People are Going to Rise”.
Yeh. I’m guessing who he includes as ‘people’ differs from mine and yours.
What a douche.
It’s not *who* rises.
It’s about who is left standing once the shooting stops.
I’ve heard people reference Trumps bigoted statements, but I’ve never seen the actual examples.
I’m starting to think we live in the middle ages again, where the elite live how they want, tell us peasants how to live, expect us to fix their mistakes, and be grateful for it.
McDonalds will now give up to $3000/year in tuition assistance thanks to tax law changes. See, work at McDonalds for 40 years and you can afford that Oberlin MFA in Puppetry, too
I will be uncharacteristically optimistic. I think the types of people that work at McDonalds and who take advantage of this program (like some of the folks in the article) won’t bother with Oberlin.
Yep. You could probably get several courses a year at a good community college for that.
Looking through the policies at work, I can petition the chief of the campus police (state troopers) for permission to carry a weapon.
The question is do I? It would out me in some ways. Wondering if anyone who works on a campus has a similar policy in place and what they’ve done
You have no expectation of privacy.
He reports to the administration, and so, even if the campus police are pro-2A, you really want the Chancellor, Provost and Academic Office to know?
I work in facilities, so not sure they would even care to know. But it might get out
“Chief?”
“I know from our policies manual that in theory, there could be armed persons on the campus other than your officers. You don’t have any idea who might be?”
This isn’t to say you shouldn’t do it, but I wouldn’t assume that the won’t care.
That’s probably the best wording to not just ask before I know what the actual policy is.
I wouldn’t want to make that request unless I knew the answer would be a yes. I assume the chief has complete discretion, because, yeah, WTF rule of law. How you go about learning what the answer will be, hard to say. Got any conservatives, libertarians or gun owning liberals in your social network that work on campus you could ask over a drink?
I’ll test some waters
Know anyone who’s friends with the Chief?
Batman and Robin?
An old friend now works as a police officer there, but haven’t talked to him in a while. Ill reach out and see how its going
McCloud?
I’d probably ask, since it’s VT. Although VT academia is probably just as fucked up as the rest of the country, loose gun laws or not.
Thanks KK. I assume most are left, but the police probably aren’t and might be ok. I’ll tread lightly.
Interesting too – didn’t think Blockchain was a currency per se – everything I’ve read discusses it more as a crypto-based technology. One of the key drivers is for international container shipping since it allows virtually perfect tracking of sealed containers once they’re in the system. (don’t remember the rest of the details offhand).
It’s a general-purpose technology, and it uses cryptographic technology to ensure that the record it contains is not tampered with, which is valuable when you want an ‘honest’ currency.
So, when transaction (of any kind) is recorded on the blockchain, it can’t (easily) be altered, forged or removed without the action being very obvious to everyone who can see the blockchain. And that’s where the distribution comes in. If you want lots of witnesses to keep the chain ‘true’, you have to have a mechanism that allows all those witnesses to see the data. And that’s actually a challenge.
it isn’t. think of it more like a book-keeping method (which is why ‘distributed ledger’ is actually a better term, imo) Immutable, self-updating record keeping. Obviously the first thing people thought to use it for is “value transfer” between accounts. because what’s the difference between cash moving between accounts, and virtual #s?
Logistics/supply-chain management is one of the areas it will have huge influence. the food industry in particular, because of the transparency it provides all the way through from ‘ag supplier’ to finished-product retailer. but every aspect of shipping/logistics will be using distributed ledger tech at some point.
Simple supply and demand.
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/03/hillary_clinton_is_back_in_nj_today.html
When you don’t have any influence to sell…
My cousin just picked up a new pistol in FL and said it took 1/2 hour because they have to check individually with the FBI, DHS and ATF now. Anybody know what changed?
Some states have an integrated system which passes on the data query to other systems downline. Other states deal with (for example) ATF directly.
At the moment, I can completely imagine the FBI being overloaded. I made a purchase last week and my local gunstore tried to get the 4473 OK’ed and the FBI system was down. It was back up an hour later, but we only knew because the CT state system has been coded to actually tell the operators when the federal systems are offline.
I did a google search and can’t find any changes in the law. He bought a gun in December and it was quick and this time at the same store was much longer and he said the form had changed. Maybe the shop has changed their policy without any laws changing.
There was a very minor change to the 4473 form itself in late 2016
Under normal circumstances, once you get thru’ to process a 4473 they just say “Yes”, “No” or “On Hold”
Hmm. Curious. He asked the dealer about it and said:
Maybe. But the guy told me he had BATFE in his shop for 4 hours the other day doing compliance checks and making sure that they are following the new protocol.
Anything to do with Florida’s new gun law BS?
I don’t know. He just text me a little bit ago saying he got a new gun and complained about the process. Google turns up nothing.
My most recent pick up took longer than expected and the guy working the counter was complaining about the processing time. And I’ve got a CCW permit no less.
Maybe the ATF broke his fingers a little bit for some minor infraction when they did their compliance check, and the delay is the dealer having to be a bit more diligent.
That’s my guess. I going to go buy a gun to test the theory.
Just did two weapons at the Orlando show. Two different people <10 min
Of course that was the weekend.
Does not compute.
If your taxes went down why would rates be going up?
Oh right, you’re an inefficiently run legal monopoly trying to avoid real efficiencies.
Because they know people will have a little extra money in their pockets and they want to wet their beaks.
And may video cards return in stock at MSRPs, amen.
Also, FFS, AMD, get your finger out of your ass, I don’t want to be an nVidia consumer, but you leave me little choice.
A pet of SEA SMITH?
‘Demonic’ fish with spikes of armor glows red in terrifying photo
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/03/29/demonic-fish-with-spikes-armor-glows-red-in-terrifying-photo.html
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The Pacific spiny lumpsucker is a funny-looking fish with a round body, bubbly eyes and a mouth agape. But under fluorescent lighting it looks terrifying — “demonic” even.
That’s the conclusion Leo Smith, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at The University of Kansas, drew as he researched different techniques to capture head-on images of the fish’s skeleton for a method paper. He plans to submit his findings to the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.
“Inherently, it’s like Cartman from ‘South Park,’” Smith told Fox News, adding that it’s one of his favorite fish. “They’re really cute. They’re fun. These guys are best known for their pelvic sucking discs, so they can hold onto things like little rocks.”
***
“pelvic sucking discs”
90’s industrial album?
I was thinking HM’s new fetish.
An inspiring story
Teacher who saved hundreds of young Jews during Holocaust dies at 107
http://myfox8.com/2018/03/29/teacher-who-saved-hundreds-of-young-jews-during-holocaust-dies-at-107/
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Johan van Hulst, a former Dutch senator and teacher renowned for his efforts to save hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, died March 22 at the age of 107, the Dutch Senate announced this week.
As principal of the Reformed Teachers Training College, van Hulst found himself at the center of a growing operation to smuggle Jewish children out of Amsterdam to protect them from Nazi persecution during the Second World War.
The college garden bordered that of a Jewish day-care center, from which hundreds of Jewish children were passed over the garden fence to be temporarily hidden by van Hulst before being collected by members of a children’s rescue organization and smuggled to safety.
***
Today, she’d be a racist if that happened in Rotherham.
Yo, one of the commenters (Carl/Thane) wants to get in touch with you, but rarely gets to the links in a timely fashion
OK. Not sure what to do about that, though.
I’ll keep and eye open for him on the threads. Thanks, Jesse.
I can get SP drunk and steal your account email from her (this is a lie, I cannot out drink SP, I have tried and failed spectacularly).
Other than that if you pinged one of the site admins through the email system with an email you’re comfortable with me forwarding they can get it to me off board…then the bowling ball hits the spring-loaded clown shoe, which kicks the domino…
That’s fine. Have at that email. SF and Riven should have it.
Clearly he wants to meet you. Give you free drinks then steal your organs
It’s no fun if you give the game away ahead of time.
The fun is which organs are taken
Jokes on him. Straff will go to the wrong bar.
S’pose I deserve that.
Sorry straff. I don’t know why I find it funny. Like John and his chubbies or Winston’s mom.
Amazing. I love these stories. The great cyclist Gino Bartali saved Jews in Italy. His cover? He was a beloved cyclist so few suspected him. So whenever he had to carry secret messages he would just tell whoever stopped him he was training.
He was a beast before the war and after. A champion.
Smuggling children? Sounds like OMWC to me….
Parkland suspect Nikolas Cruz showered with fan mail, donations: report
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/03/29/parkland-suspect-nikolas-cruz-showered-with-fan-mail-donations-report.html
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One 18-year-old from Texas purportedly professed her love to Cruz in a March 15 letter adorned with smiley faces and hand-drawn hearts, South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel reported.
“When I saw your picture on the television, something attracted me to you,” the letter said. “Your eyes are beautiful and the freckles on your face make you so handsome.”
The missive flatly concludes: “I’m really skinny and have 34C sized breasts.”
…
A New Yorker with a bushy moustache sent Cruz a card featuring a cat and a photo of himself sitting in a white 1992 Nissan convertible, according to the Sun-Sentinel.
At least for now, though, the mass murderer’s suitors are pining at the wind. Jail officials, who screen all letters to inmates, said Cruz has not seen the letters, and remains on suicide watch.
…
The unseemly interest in Cruz may stem from women with poor parental relationships, or a strong desire to save an apparently lonely and vulnerable figure, mental health experts told the paper.
***
[head desk]
Mass murder is the ultimate neg?
Actually, I’m sure PUAs have a more evolved theory on why this sort of thing happens. Dare I explore the swampy nether reaches of the manosphere?
Eh, not worth it.
I don’t *think* Real Social Dynamics have based any of their boot camps on Mass Murder yet. Maybe in 2019.
It is kinda counter-productive, if you have pussy throwing itself at you only after you no longer have access to it…
Maybe they can work something out with Brevik? He has experience with both mass murder and training camps.
Ever heard of a conjugal visit?
Don’t you have to be married for that to take place?
I mean sure, look at Jeremy Meeks – although he’s out now, and not a murderer. It’s just an extreme version of Bad Boy attraction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybristophilia
I already have this spell!
The unseemly interest in Cruz may stem from women with poor parental relationships, or a strong desire to save an apparently lonely and vulnerable figure, mental health experts told the paper.
You can’t control who you fall in love with.
Disagree; I don’t permit myself to hope, so I fall in love with no one.
“I’m really skinny and have 34C sized breasts.”
Pics or GTFO.
I have to test applications when the windows admins get a software upgrade rolled out to a batch of 38 VMs.
Quoth the webex “We’re having problems with all these servers.”
It’s going to be a long night.
“We don’t have snapshots”
*headdesk*
This is supposedly the Production update, but there’s no evidence they tested it on dev…
And no one bothered to take snapshots before starting this process which breaks the network stack before fixing the network stack.
*Tugs hair and screams at ceiling*
Kmele, wrecking shit
That guy’s awesome.
That linked NYT article starts with a lie right out of the gate: The New York Times is driven by a simple but powerful mission: to help readers understand the world
I’ve lost my tolerance, what little I had, for the argument that diversity (of skin color and genitalia) brings advantages to an organization, specifically a corporation. There is no rationale for this argument, it’s just a tenet of the faith. Yet it is immensely prevalent in business books and consulting.
Tolerance does not mean to accept and welcome, it means to put up with. I am tolerant, I don’t assult murder or otherwise violate people for their inherent traits. That’s as far as I’m going to cede on principle. If you want acceptance, earn it.
Patience would have been a better word
It’s a contradiction. First they say that everyone is equal and identical. Well, if that’s true, why bother with the diversity thing? Then they turn around and say that there are all kinds of unique groups that must be included at all costs.
Which is it?
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
It’s never diversity of opinion, which may or may not be helpful in its own right.
Maybe already linked, but Gun Nuts have Tiny dicks!
Would someone PLEASE take MLB games away from ESPN. They fucking suck at it.
I thought muting the TV and listening to the radio was the preferred method for basically all sports these days?
I would, but they rarely sync-up. My solution: Unless Vin Scully is calling the game– which he don’t no more — 99% of the time I just mute all sports broadcasts. Listen to music while I watch.
Radio all the way for me for baseball. I love listening to baseball on the radio. I also listen to just about every Clemson game on the radio too.
note: imo, saudi arabia doesn’t do fucking anything without approval/consultation w/ the US. they’re dug into D.C. like ticks.
Basically, i’d guess this involves significant US guidance and assistance. but smartly (if they’re smart) State dept should keep their yaps shut about it, because obvious reasons.
this is not an example of “oh wow yay trump omg nth dimensional chess” – but it IS an example of the sort of shit that State dept under Obama admin COULD NOT do because they were too busy Ben Rhodesing their way through the world, and trading their diplomatic influence for futile- feelgood gestures against israel in the UN
You know who else had meetings with you know who?…
You know who else met with a powerful Muslim leader?
Richard The Lionheart?
John Roberts, in Washington DC, with a Bible?
The mountain?
Where’s the money in that move? Someone’s getting paid. No way it’s just about “Peace, man.”
I donno. seems to me like its probably about agreeing that Iran is a bigger regional threat and that they should have some strategic security relationship
enemy of my enemy sort of thing.
So I was out as White Sands Missile Range… for some comms testing and we set up at this one site. On my way to a porto I pass a couple of Conn-ex’s – one marked KSA and right next to it, one marked IDF. No pics, but I double-checked after I pissed.
I don’t have numbers readily to hand, but pretty sure both of them are among the largest buyers of American weaponry in the world.
(quick check)
Saudis are #1, Israel is #5
interesting note below:
perhaps related?
Oh and with regard to derpetologist’s link about MBS bullshitting about Wahhabism – he doesn’t lie very well for an Arab.
More Even Moreproof that Ohio is just the Florida of the Midwest
Someone has a bugs bunny fetish.
Well, who doesn’t?
The Expanse season 3 starts 4/11.
Woohoo!
☺
I second your “Woohoo!”
Today in Strange Tales of Hollywood:
That time Steven Segal was in the middle of making a typical Steven Segal film and suddenly decided he didn’t want to kill people (or, more accurately, “pretend to kill people”) anymore.… and has to be talked into it via a combination of infant-grade reverse-psychology and appeal to “eastern mysticism”, where he’s convinced that all the people he’s murdering are actually being liberated from the cycle of suffering and allowed to reincarnate… oh fuck, whatever, just watch it.
Not as good as that thing about “Please Kill Klaus Kinsky”, but i really like the repetition of the “We have a problem” line
I like these guys‘ choreography. Money shot at 2:34.
I like it, too.
Screwed up the link.
https://youtu.be/FMrqlo_L-gY
It’s dumping at Copper Mountain. *sobbing emoji*
Did they close already? Or you just can’t get away?
It’s a real expensive trip out there, and not possible on a moment’s notice.
Larry King – second amendment only existed because of slavery. The old it’s racist argument.
But, seriously, how fucking ignorant of the arguments and issues of the time period it was crafted to think it was because of slavery?
Especially when he’s been around long enough to remember it.
Let’s ignore the racist history of gun control at the same time.
As one freedman in Louisiana recalled, “I would say to every colored soldier, ‘Bring your gun home.’”
It cost them about $14 and I always wondered why one 43rd USCT from my town brought his home. Strangely enough, he
lived in a small black community surrounded by Quakers and not Klansmen. Still he thought it a good idea.
Why not? Because he wanted to keep it should be reason enough.
OH, and I spent last night watching Death of Stalin after it came up in the comment section. I had seen a preview at some point, forgotten it, and was reminded of it here. Decent comedy. Not exactly hard hitting.
What I find funniest is just Googling it and seeing how many will attempt to tie it to the Trump era. Or Putin.
Looking forward to it this weekend – but Kyle Smith at NRO has already told me it won’t be as good as “In the Loop”….then again, it’d be hard to top that flick or “The Thick of It” series at any rate. Think I posted this before…but Peter Capaldi makes both of those. https://youtu.be/cIPxLzfw6wU (NSFW obviously)
Unlike my previous link about the UK girl, this is 100% real and up-to-date. Hand to dog – this pic is from Boeing itself. It’s not April 1!
Sarasota County operates an airline?
I thought it was for a particular style of improvisational singing.
Well, do I have a bus for the artists of this under-appreciated art form!
No, I think it’s a new airline that specializes in catering to scheisseporn aficionados.
I feel dirty for enjoying this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU3dvLy249Q
you are bad and should feel bad
[clicks replay 5 more times]
Hillary remains clueless
…because those failed candidates stopped campaigning on Wednesday after Election day.
In other Hillary news, the business of Clinton.inc has taken an unexplainable nosedive.
Just think of all that ‘charitable’ work going undone!
Hence the speeches. The old girl has a lifestyle to maintain and who is going to pay for her travel if she doesn’t do speeches. We know she won’t pay for it.
She acknowledged she lost the election? Big of true.
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/how-deal-newly-empowered-xi-jinping
Since when is gridlock a bug?
I’d rather the traffic jam than the efficient authoritarian boot.
Perhaps instead Congress should ask for its balls back from the executive and judicial branches.
Even Chinese inclined toward democracy have trouble defending the American system these days.
Because arguments for freedom rest on utilitarian grounds.
SMH.
You know who else appeared serious, determined, and competent about running an authoritarian regime guided by a murderous ideology?
Did anyone see that this was from Cato?
Yes. Cato is a shell of its former self ideologically and intellectually.
I was too disappointed to point that out. It’s pathetic. Let the rest of the think tanks push the national dick measuring contest agenda.
I predict China will continue as the corrupt, shambling bureaucracy it’s been for the past 3,000 years.
China has had about 1/4 of the world’s population for a long time. And how many Nobel Prizes for China? 8. ‘Murica has 371.
Western civilization is superior, the end.
For all the early innovations China gets credit for, they never seem to follow through on the toys they build to make useful tools.
Why bother with labor saving devices when labor is cheap?
SJWs make a terrible rap video and are roundly mocked. Now they’re back for another round:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wAvHwATDRM
spoiler: lots and lots of bullshit and whining
Those Aussie chicks managed to make me feel ashamed for white people.
Ha ha ha!
I’m sure they’ll hit their targets with long term success in those regions.
“The Gender Balance Steering committee headed by Mr. Barry French, Executive Vice President, Marketing, Communications and Corporate Affairs, is driving an holistic action plan starting with awareness, and over 1900 leaders and managers were trained on gender balance topics in 2016. ”
Couple of observations: It’s not a coincidence that marketing is in charge of that effort. And holistic must be the new synergy.
What is a “Gender Balance Steering committee”?
The first budget to cut.
Another funny. You misspelled last to be cut.
For that, we’re cutting your budget to zero as well.
I think your genders are all out of whack. Let me help you with that.
F.O.C.
Friends of Chappaqua.
Middle East and Africa? What is that, around an 1/8 of the planet? And they are hiring 100 women graduates and advertising this as a huge gain in diversity? This brings the beleaguered woman in America problem into focus.
a pair of links that gave me a good laugh
Sweden to Hungary: Stop using us as “an example of failed migration”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/sweden-to-hungary-stop-using-us-as-an-example-of-failed-migration
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Fridolin said he was also concerned about the rhetoric used by the Fidesz party headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, which has pointed to the negative impacts of mass migration in Sweden ahead of April’s general election, Sveriges Radio reports.
“We have our problems and challenges the same as you probably have in Hungary. At the same time, we now see how people who have come from other countries to Sweden get more work, get involved, and contribute and make Sweden their own. It is obviously a description of reality that is also needed,” Fridolin said.
“The picture that Sweden, when we had and received so many asylum seekers, still has a positive development when it comes to economy and work, it actually needs to be there too,” he added.
Hungarians are set to go to the polls on April 8th and the Fidesz party has made mass migration one of the key pillars of the campaign.
This week, Orbán gave a speech on Hungarian radio saying: “Europe is full. Its external borders must be defended, and migrants must not be brought in – they must be kept outside Europe.”
***
Swedish MP announces plans to migrate to Hungary to escape Muslim migrant chaos
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/03/swedish-mp-announces-plans-to-migrate-to-hungary-to-escape-muslim-migrant-chaos
Surprise headline of the evening
I missed part of that…
I seem to recall this might have been mentioned before, but I’m tired, I’ve passed the fourteen hour mark from the start of my workday, and I’ve spent the last four listening to people fumbling about unprepared for the problems that arose, or even having taken proper precautions against failure.
STEVE SMITH MAKE HIKING TRAILS A STICKY WICKET.
New guy reporting
I love the Steve smith comments
Welcome, new guy!
First posts need to be manually moderated. You should be good to go from now on.
“manually moderated”
2/5 euphemism.
Deeply vetted?
New guy?
Sounds like something Tulpa would say…
So he is a Marxist.
(apologies if that joke has already been taken I am not reading almost 500 comments right now)
Commie Pope.
http://wizbangblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/pope_communist.jpg
Heh….but why is Colonel Sanders in the bottom right corner?
Condemned Soul was my nickname in HS.
That’s not really condemned though now is it.
I’m not sure. Where you sent to a gulag after HS?
I get the feeling the Pope is trying to lure back secular westerners by watering down the things they don’t like.
It’s not going to work. Groups that stand for nothing are not attractive to people looking for a purpose in life.
Just stop.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/nation-world/latest-trends-that-may-put-your-children-at-risk
Studies show that media-reported ‘trends’ actually involve such a vanishingly small number of people that they’re actually mere statistical noise.
It’s just all nonsense. Christ.
The life-cycle of a youth trend: Middle schoolers talk about things they think older kids are doing, it’s complete horseshit, but middle schoolers think they’re cool. A credulous adult overhears this conversation and believes that this is a common activity. Credulous adult starts warning other credulous adults. Youth who would never actually imagine doing something hear that this is a thing and a small number of them try it (say buttchugging). Credulous adults point to one or two actual cases, claim national crisis, Newsweek does article on it. Everyone realizes it was bullshit if Newsweek is doing an article on it. Rinse, repeat.
+1 rainbow party
Unwrapped condoms? pussys. Back when I was a kid we would snort used condoms we found on the ground at the drive-in when we were walking to school.
That’s how you build up tolerance for the next plague.
Dude, I’m cheesing my f-ing brains out right now.
http://theweek.com/articles/761372/fraud-classical-liberalism
*stifles mocking laughter*
I hope no one got paid to write that.
Sub minimum wage, given the quality.
Ya, ok, agreed. Other than the fact governments are created by the people is left out.
Could it be because they did not stop at only the first quote? When has there ever been real free trade?
Wonderful, a new generation of idiots discovers the glory that was wartime central planning (follow the link about the “brilliant study”; it was originally published in 1944). Fun fact: the U.K. Labour Party wanted to keep wartime rationing going indefinitely and that is the single biggest reason why the Conservatives won in 1952 (yes, 1952, seven years after the war was over, rationing was still in place).
Last of the formal rationing didn’t end until 1954.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom#Post-Second_World_War
There is some halfway interesting discussion in the reviews and comments.
For example, one of the reviews, while quite thorough, could basically be summed up as: the author makes egregious factual errors but he’s still basically right [because the reviewer hates capitalism]. Besides that, though, most of the reviews are just “capitalism bad”.
jesus, this alleged great work of economic history is a giant apologia for socialism; and not even as an uplifting institution, but as a soul-crushing machine which all must recognize as absolute and essential. The best response to it wouldn’t even be an economic one; the realization of Polyani’s vision is 1984.
When I was a teenager we had a black market cable box (thanks Grandpa!) luckily it had parental controls…Unfortunately for my parents they didn’t know how to work them and left me to set them up. Needless to say I occasionally watched 99 (not even on mute) and didn’t have to guess if I was looking at boobs or a dude’s knee.
Oops, that was a response to AlmightyJB on “trends”
I’m assuming you were more of a knee man. Lol.
The Spice Channel was….disappointing for me, but I watched it anyway because I wasn’t allowed to.
Of course. What kids starts smoking because they like it.
Why you shouldn’t get high and talk politics. At least, I hope the dudes were high.
Oh they’re definitely high.
Baked af.
THere is no one in that video I would want to fuck. And yet, fuck them all.
I meant that for Derp’s Dont look at it Marian! post, but it works here too. 🙂
Don’t look at it Marion!
How Gun Advocates Sound to Normal People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVKGgwu9Mno
[head desk]
“Fuck those idiots” can’t be said enough.
Zing!
Twitter is no place to try to be subtle.
Not at all which is what makes it all the more fun.
If it gets retweeted by the grabbers, it’ll be a good thing
I lol’d
Sharia would fix this.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/confessions-intimacy-director-do-direct-sex-scenes-age-metoo/
Well, bitches, tomorrow is my last day in the Blue State of Minnesota before I inflitrate the People’s Republic of California.
Wish me luck! We shall stay in touch so that I can preserve my sanity.
Congrats.
I’ve been on this webex for seven hours now. So my sanity is gone.
This has been a fifteen hour day so far and we’re not close to being done.
Burn everything down and then take disability retirement for mental health reasons?
Are you not drinking enough? Get on the stick, man!!
That’s crazy. Good luck.
Good luck!
Fun fact: until 1935, Texas had a larger population than California.
Well, Texas is less in the middle of nowhere than California. California is so remote there’s no reason to ever stumble onto it.
Speaking of remote, I am SO moving to Ramona. That is my fantasy land.
OT @ ‘Splosives: I’m going to be in MSP on Tuesday. Are you available for drinks/food? Jimbo and A Leap’ already have plans. Any other Twin Cities Glibs wanna meet up?
Oh, I looked up-thread after commenting. I guess not! Ha-ha!
🙁
Nah, you’d have to hook up with Mr Splosives (who is a hoot, BTW).
I am but a faint memory soon.
He’s invited too!
Hey, good luck with everything. I’m glad I got to hang out with you in meat space for a couple hours.
Speaking of Minne Glibs, haven’t seen Still Hunter around for a while.
“Still Hunter?” You mean Tundra?
No, this was a guy from Wisconsin, living in Northern Minne
Oh, yeah, I think I remember him now. Up around Duluth, right?
Also, Tundra is missing, but I am pretty sure he is on vacation.
I talked to Tundra a few nights ago. I know he was planning a vacation, not sure when that was upcoming.
Yeah, Still Hunter was up north somewhere in the rivershed the Pope talks about all the time.
Get settled in, write up an article!
Bon Voyage, mon amie.
I love it when you speak French!
*starts humping 6’s leg*
/teenage girl
I don’t care where you go, or what you do, just call me to let me know you’re alright/Mom
Don’t do it. The coffee there gives you cancer!
Ok, so I guess the overlords directed most of their left over funds into the donations; seems like I’ll have to fund the cartoon through a Glibstarter.
CPRM’s forthcoming cartoon
(never realized that Mr Carlson was the molester when I watched it as a kid)
OMWC and I truly bonded when I told him about the cartoon idea I had as teen, of a Scout leader who was clearly a pedo (made his troop do things like car washes as he videoed) but everyone around him just always saw it as a misunderstanding. A reverse of the comedy trope.
Isn’t that, uh, just the Canteen Boy SNL sketch?
“Canteen Boy meets Tobias Funke”. Up until recently, that pitch would get you a meeting, at least.
Not safe for anyone still at work.
Yikes. OH
JOHN RINGOTODD SOLONDZ NO.I’m still at work. I’ts 1am here.
Have the Ops guys beaten with sticks until they remember to take snapshots before fsck’ing with the VMs. Should have been part of the change management process (and it should all be scripted, of course). /me waves cane at the damn kids and their GUIs
The linux admins remembered. The windows guys didn’t.
If it makes you feel better, it’s 1am here too. Though I’m home. And drinking rye. After drinking wine at dinner, which was good fried chicken. This probably isn’t helping…
Then hopefully you didn’t click that link. But government OT, sweet cans.
I’m not so sure I’ll be able to go in to work in the morning… or later today.
Color me unsurprised. That sort of thing is consistent with my experience of far too many years.
Go into, just stay punched in and go to sleep, not like anyone will notice; asleep you’re probably more productive than 3/5 of the people there.
I’m covering for people who aren’t in, and we’re in the middle of several significant projects.
I’m sure it’s unhelpful for tonight, but after, what, 14 hours? You’re not at your peak, despite your best intentions – you should have been tagged-out a while ago. I feel your pain, geeky-brother(?). Napping would be a net-positive at this point.
You’re a government worker with ethics?! I think that’s one of the seven seals!
Well, I worked my normal shift from 7-3, then came back at 4:30 and am still here… so at least 15 hours worked.
He’s a government worker who hangs out on an explicitly libertarian site, so we’ve already established he’s not like other guys.
Well then, go ahead. Click the link. It’s just youtube. It won’t bite. As for me, I need to sleep, no one is paying me to be awake.
Per my company’s (rather excellent) incident management protocol (and you’re definitely in ‘incident’ territory), you would mos def have been tagged by another SME by this point.
Stay strong, nap if you can, and dream of that sweet OT (I hope you get OT).
There isn’t another. I’m it.
Oh, and I’m salaried, no OT
OT: Just watched the original (Michael Caine) Get Carter.
Frickin’ awesome.
I think I watched it after watching the Stallone one, but I’m not sure.
It was interesting at the time, because it was the first thing he did since he’d become famous where he was a solid, unambiguous antihero.
Get Carter is a great movie. If you are on a Michael Caine jag and it has been a few years since you’ve seen The Man Who Would be King it stands up to repeated viewing,
Jaws III is his swan song.
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I here I thought Ken wasn’t an idiot.
I don’t get it – is he comparing advertisers voluntarily withdrawing their support from Ingraham with Masterpiece Cakeshop (possibly) being compelled by the State to bake cakes for gay weddings if so asked? Because that’s not the same at all. A voluntary advertiser boycott of Masterpiece would be the same thing, but that’s not what’s happening. Ken’s a smart guy, so I assume I’m missing something.
I used to think so, too. My guess is his distaste for socons made him momentarily lose his faculties.
Well, he certainly has a way of drawing nonsensical comparisons between non-like events and making a point of fuck-all.
I’ll give him that.
Heh.
I think it is sarcasm. Where in it is ok to go after bakeries that exercise freedom of a association, but not ok to go after advertisers who do so with Ingrahram. Or maybe the other way around, I am not sure because I am sober. I am not so smart as those professional libertarians so I may be wrong.
IT’s DONE!
2AM And FREE!
WOOT WOOT!
That’s fucking awesome! Happy Dance!
WTF are you talking about though?
Upthread – I was at work for 17 1/2 hours.
Slacker … Stealing from the good citizens of whatever state you are from. 🙂
I almost missed the meaning of the comment.
I’m back at work, it feels like I just left…
Careful thread-time-travel is rough on your psyche
So’s sleep depravation. I’m the only state employee from my unit in today, and someone has to watch the consultants and the problems resulting from last night’s work.
Cunt of a drive home this morning. We’re under a weather alert (heavy snowfall) and the plow drivers are sunning themselves somewhere nicer. It took me 40 minutes to get home rather than the usual 15 or so. I doubt our power will last if this shit keeps up. Pray for Festus…
I’ll pray for you Festus. Would you be so kind as to reciprocate? About to set off on family drive from NYC to Miami for Pesach at my Lubavitch Hasidic sister-in-law’s house. This bitter agnostic would be in much higher spirits about it if Glaat Kosher food were not so universally wretched.
Matzo was tasty when my Grade 5 teacher’s wife cooked it for us. Still the only (((them))) that I’ve ever really known in my life. Good people, proggy to the core. And you are included in my prayers for whatever that entails. Best Wishes?
Regarding an earlier discussion. Y’all are nuts – Steak & Shake for chain burgers, Shake Shack for regional chain burgers (visit the Lawnguy Land location not Brooklyn or Manhattan), best (restaurant) burger on Earth is hands down from Peter Luger Steak House. Their burgers are made from all of their steak and prime rib trimmings and their bacon is 1/4” thick and cooked in the Salamader at °1300 for 45 seconds.
Good God, I have a weakness for Wendy’s Bacon Mushroom Melt. Those fuckers made it seasonal because it was out-selling all of the rest of their burgers. Yes, people in my town are pretty fat but I’m not! I demand my Bacon Mushroom Melt and I won’t be satisfied until those people bow to my will! *Raises greasy, clenched fist, keels over in apparent stroke*
*shits pants explosively*