¡Enlaces Mexicanos por lar la Tarde Miercoles!

¡Buenos nachos Gliberinos! You all want links?? You want them with red or green salsa? None? Weirdos.

El Trumpeñero floats the idea of using the military spending to pay for the Wall but also that the Baltic states couldn’t understand the situation, because Trump knows. It is known.

“El presidente también habló sobre la caravana de migrantes de Centroamérica que actualmente se desplazan a través de México y que planean entregarse y solicitar asilo una vez que lleguen a la frontera con Estados Unidos. Él ha exigido un alto a la caravana en una serie de tweets

“Si llega a nuestra frontera, nuestras leyes son tan débiles y patéticas, ustedes (los líderes bálticos) no entenderían esto porque sé que sus leyes son fuertes en la frontera, es como si no tuviéramos frontera”, dijo.

Trump dijo que le dijo a México “muy enérgicamente” que “vas a tener que hacer algo con respecto a estas caravanas”.

Aunque dijo que Estados Unidos está renegociando el acuerdo comercial del TLCAN con México y Canadá, enfatizó que la seguridad fronteriza tendría que ser parte del trato.”

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The president also spoke about the caravan of migrants from Central America who are currently moving through Mexico and who plan to surrender and seek asylum once they reach the border with the United States. He has demanded a halt to the caravan in a series of tweets

“If it reaches our border, our laws are so weak and pathetic, you (the Baltic leaders) would not understand this because I know their laws are strong on the border, it’s like we have no border,” he said.

Trump said he told Mexico “very energetically” that “you’re going to have to do something about these caravans.”

Although he said the United States is renegotiating the NAFTA trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, he emphasized that border security would have to be part of the deal.

If you are a fan of Stella Artois, be careful as the beer may contain glass.

“La marca de cerveza Stella Artois, perteneciente a la empresa Anheuser-Busch Inbev, anunció este lunes que un lote de sus botellas que fue distribuido a Estados Unidos y Canadá podrían contener partículas de vidrio en su interior.

A través de un comunicado de prensa, Stella Artois anunció el retiro de esta mercadería. Asimismo, se precisó que se trata de botellas de 330 mililitros en paquetes de 6, 12, 18 y 24 unidades, además de los paquetes “Best of Belgium”.

¿Cuál fue el origen del problema?

La empresa aseguró que el retiro de estas unidades equivale a menos del 1% de las botellas distribuidas anualmente en América del Norte. Atribuyó, además, el origen de las botellas con partículas de vidrio en su interior a otra empresa que fabrica estos envases para Stella Artois.

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The brand of beer Stella Artois, belonging to the company Anheuser-Busch Inbev, announced on Monday that a batch of its bottles that was distributed to the United States and Canada could contain glass particles inside.

Through a press release, Stella Artois announced the withdrawal of this merchandise. Likewise, it was specified that they are bottles of 330 milliliters in packs of 6, 12, 18 and 24 units, in addition to the “Best of Belgium” packages.

What was the origin of the problem?

The company assured that the withdrawal of these units is equivalent to less than 1% of the bottles distributed annually in North America. He also attributed the origin of the bottles with glass particles inside to another company that manufactures these containers for Stella Artois

Apparently, the Spanish word for Nazi–is Nazi.

Jakiw Palij vive a sus 94 años en Nueva York y, al contrario que millones de indocumentados, tiene la seguridad de que -por ahora- no va a ser deportado, pese a tener incluso una orden de expulsión emitida hace unos 15 años. En 2004 una corte federal de la ciudad de los rascacielos le despojó de su ciudadanía por haber mentido en el formulario para naturalizarse.

Palij no reveló nunca durante todo su proceso migratorio que había trabajado como guardia en Treblinka, un campo de concentración en Polonia en el que en 1943 hasta 6,000 judíos murieron en un solo día y fueron enterrados en fosas.

El hombre, que nació en Polonia, llegó con 26 años como un refugiado de guerra a Estados Unidos en 1949, se hizo ciudadano en 1957 y vivió durante más de 50 años trabajando como dibujante hasta que finalmente se retiró.

Su pasado había quedado olvidado hasta que investigadores federales lo denunciaron por ser cómplice de algunos de los episodios más sórdidos del holocausto. Funcionarios del Departamento de Justicia también afirman que Palij también ofreció sus servicios en Trawinki, otro campo en el que se entrenaba a tropas secretas para llevar a cabo el exterminio de judíos polacos.

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Jakiw Palij lives to his 94 years in New York and, unlike millions of undocumented people, he is sure that -for now- he will not be deported, despite having even an expulsion order issued some 15 years ago. In 2004 a federal court in the city of skyscrapers stripped him of his citizenship for having lied on the form to become naturalized.

Palij never revealed during his immigration process that he had worked as a guard in Treblinka, a concentration camp in Poland in which in 1943 up to 6,000 Jews died in a single day and were buried in graves.

The man, who was born in Poland, arrived at the age of 26 as a war refugee to the United States in 1949, became a citizen in 1957 and lived for more than 50 years working as a cartoonist until he finally retired.

His past had been forgotten until federal investigators denounced him for being an accomplice of some of the most sordid episodes of the holocaust. Justice Department officials also claim that Palij also offered his services in Trawinki, another camp in which secret troops were trained to carry out the extermination of Polish Jews.

¡Cállate y dame una cerveza!

Good news everyone! The Colorado River is drying up. Either that or it was grossly misallocated for nearly a century by state and federal regulators.

De esta parte del río dependen hoy una de cada 10 personas en el suroeste del país (Baja California, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah y Colorado) y entre ellos a un tercio de los hispanos que viven en EEUU y se desempeñan en labores de producción agrícola o turismo y servicios a lo largo de la ribera.

La situación actual preocupa a las autoridades: el uso del agua del río, la población que la usa y las temperaturas globales van en aumento creciente y acelerado y como consecuencia de ello no solo se disminuye el caudal del río (por uso y evaporación) sino también hay menos lluvias y nieve para alimentarlo. En resumen: huele a peligro y no hay demasiadas (o suficientes) alternativas en proceso.

“El sistema del río Colorado enfrenta la peor sequía registrada. El nivel del agua del lago Mead, que sirve como el principal reservorio de agua del sur de Nevada (y que proviene del río), ha caído más de 130 pies desde enero de 2000”, explica a Univision Bronson Mack, portavoz de la Autoridad del Agua del Sur de Nevada.

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Of this part of the river today, one out of every 10 people in the southwestern part of the country (Baja California, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado) depend and among them one third of the Hispanics who live in the US and work in agricultural production or tourism and services along the riverbank.

The current situation worries the authorities: the use of river water, the population that uses it, and global temperatures are increasing and accelerating, and as a consequence, the flow of the river is not only reduced (by use and evaporation), but There is also less rain and snow to feed it. In short: it smells like danger and there are not too many (or sufficient) alternatives in the process.

“The Colorado River system faces the worst drought recorded. The water level of Lake Mead, which serves as the main reservoir of water in southern Nevada (and that comes from the river), has fallen more than 130 feet since January 2000, “Bronson Mack, spokesman for the Authority, told Univision. of Southern Nevada Water

Translation services available by the Alpha Beta Corporation, who now sends me ads in Spanish.

Comments

327 responses to “¡Enlaces Mexicanos por lar la Tarde Miercoles!”

  1. Rufus the Monocled

    DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?!

    1. Rasilio

      I don’t work all the time

    2. Spudalicious

      What is this “work” thing you speak of?

      1. SP

        Must be nice to be a lottery winner!

  2. Drake

    Only cops can be trusted with guns, right?
    Seven of the eight men in the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force were arrested March 2017.
    An elite police squad robbing its own citizens, stealing thousands of dollars and re-selling confiscated drugs.  

    1. Tundra

      I thought The Shield was just a TV show.

      1. Semi-Spartan Dad

        damn, too slow

        1. Tundra

          A great show, either way.

    2. Semi-Spartan Dad

      Baltimore? I thought that was in Farmington?

      Funny how The Shield could have just as easily been a documentary.

      1. SugarFree

        The Shield was inspired by real events in the LAPD Rampart division.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal

        1. Raven Nation

          And, I believe they were originally going to call the series Rampart.

        2. Semi-Spartan Dad

          Interesting!

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Goddamn republicans…

    4. Pope Jimbo

      Minnesoda Gang Task Force already did this.

      Metro Gang Strike Force officers stopped two men in the Minneapolis impound lot last summer, frisked them and took $4,500 from one and $100 from the other. Neither was a gang member and neither had drugs on him.

      The men didn’t know each other, but they had something in common — both were Hispanic and they were illegal immigrants.

      An independent review released Thursday found some strike force officers would stop people who were not suspected of gang activity and seize their money.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        Get ready for the big Twist! All those cops got off with no charges. . Bet you didn’t see that coming.

        Fun tidbit:

        Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced last year that his office wouldn’t be filing any charges, largely due to a “disorganized” and “substandard” investigation.

        That is the same Mike Freeman who had such a hard time to bring charges against Officer Noor for shooting Justine Damond because of a sloppy investigation.

  3. As a counter to the Mexican lynx:

    Nothing more American than blondes with big tits.

    http://archive.is/tGO28

    #29 from the top ropes!

    1. Chipwooder

      2 and 22 are the same chicks

    2. Spudalicious

      I’ll take the pair in #4.

    3. Michael

      Contestant number six has a pimple on her butt.

      Also, would.

      1. Festus

        I’d hold her down and squeeze it (safety gear optional)!

  4. Juvenile Bluster

    My Yahoo e-mail account has existed since the late 90s. I rarely check it and only give that e-mail to sites/people I don’t want to have my e-mail address, so it’s nothing but spam.

    I got this e-mail yesterday. Kinda wondering who would’ve sold my e-mail to these assholes.

    https://i.imgur.com/2HxZGZc.png

    1. Juvenile Bluster

      And the rest of the text of that e-mail

      As you know, Sheriff Joe has a few nicknames too… some coined by friends and a few by foes.

      None of them suits him better than “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” and has he been proven right when it comes to the lawless situation on our nation’s southern border!

      Sheriff Joe has been saying for years that this situation has been growing more and more chaotic, out-of-control and dangerous. He has served as a bold proponent of restoring law and order, and holding our federal government accountable for its failures.

      In turn, Joe became one of the biggest targets of the open border-loving, liberal-left media, and Washington, D.C. political establishment – including Barack Obama’s so-called Justice Department which led a shameless politically-motivated witch hunt against him.

      Friend, Sheriff Joe is ready to stand up and fight for us – so we need to stand and fight with him.

      That’s why I’m asking you to join me and support Sheriff Joe for U.S. Senate NOW with your generous contribution of $25, $50, $100, $250 or whatever you can afford TODAY!

      The liberal-left cannot tolerate a straight shooter like Joe Arpaio in the U.S. Senate and they will pull out all the stops to defeat him once and for all.

      We can’t let this huge opportunity for Joe, for America, and for freedom slip away – let’s send America’s Sheriff to the U.S. Senate!

      For FREEDOM!

      Sheriff Joe Arpaio
      Ted Nugent

      P.S. Think how amazing it would be to see Senator Joe Arpaio fighting for us as the next Senator from Arizona! Let’s make it happen! Stand up for Joe Arpaio today!!! God Bless and Godspeed! Ted

      1. Chipwooder

        That thing reads like a spoof of what a Ted Nugent/Joe Arpaio fundraising letter would look like.

    2. It’s all the Nazi newsletters you’re signed up for. I mean, you’re a libertarian, so automatically Nazi.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        And vice versa!

  5. Private Chipperbot

    So I just got a text from my mom.

    “First of all, I am ok. I had a heart attack. In ambulance going to hospital for cardiac cath. Will keep you updated. Love you with all my heart (my bad heart). Lol.”

    Unsure whether to freak out or not. She is a lifelong intensive care nurse so she handles this stuff with a certain panache, so I can’t tell if she’s trying to downplay situation. Fuck.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Wow. Good luck.

      She sounds like a character!

    2. Chipwooder

      Well, she’s ok enough to send you a text, so that’s a good sign right?

    3. Drake

      I like her sense of humor. Take her lead and stay calm, we’re hoping all is well.

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Good luck, sorry to hear that.

    5. Tundra

      I hope she’s ok, because that might be the best text ever! What a woman.

    6. Mr Lizard

      Freak out then smoke a bowl or do a shot or both…then go clean your favorite weapon…then go look up flights and hotels (if applicable)

      1. Chafed

        Um… I think the shot or bowl should be last.

        Good luck to your mom.

    7. Brett L

      A giant amount of panache. Good luck.

    8. PBRstreetgang

      Good luck and sending positive vibes your way. Your mom sounds like a awesome person!

    9. Yikes. Good luck.

    10. LJW

      If she’s able to text you I’d say that’s a good thing. I hope the cath results are good.

    11. Semi-Spartan Dad

      Damn, sorry PC. Sounds upbeat though and like she’s going to do fine.

    12. Private Chipperbot

      Thanks, all. Nothing I can really do and worrying won’t help. She’s in FL and heading to some hospital in Ft. Pierce so we just have to wait for update.

    13. TK

      Damn dude, sending good vibes your way. ChipperMom will be in our thoughts

    14. mexican sharpshooter

      Damn. Best of luck, but if she was able to tell you about it in progress, it sounds like she’ll be okay.

    15. Broswater

      My personal experience tells me that as long as you are able to speak with the person having the heart attack there is no reason to freak out. If it was the hospital staff giving you a call, that would be another thing.

      She’s in good hands, and in good spirit it seems. And right now, she needs your support, it’s not the time to freak out. Do that on your own time.

      Good luck. Thoughts and prayers.

    16. SP

      She’s downplaying, but don’t freak out. It won’t help anyone.

      Best wishes to your Mom!

    17. Tulip

      Stay calm for her and best wishes.

    18. Festus

      Well that’s always a ray of sunshine on a dreary fucking day. Sorry to hear that, friend.

      1. Private Chipperbot

        Thanks again, all. Just heard 99.9% artery block. Stent in. Going home tomorrow. Modern science is keen.

        1. Tundra

          Fuckin A. That’s someone who needs to be around a lot longer.

          All the best, Chip.

        2. SP

          Wow, it’s amazing she had no AMI sooner. Glad to hear things are looking up!

  6. Enough About Palin

    Martin Luther King: ‘We Can’t Keep On Blaming the White Man’

    By Jason L. Riley

    After Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead 50 years ago as he stood on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tenn., riots broke out in more than 100 cities. There were also reports of violence on college campuses and even on military bases overseas, where some black soldiers refused to report for duty.

    Federal troops were sent to Baltimore. In Chicago, Mayor Richard J. Daley ordered police to “shoot to kill” arsonists and “shoot to maim” looters. In Washington, so many fires were set that you couldn’t see the U.S. Capitol because of all the smoke. Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded the U.S. forces in Vietnam and happened to be in Washington at the time, said the unrest had left the nation’s capital looking “worse than Saigon did at the height of the Tet offensive.”

    President Lyndon B. Johnson responded by convening a meeting of the nation’s most prominent black activists, and the invite list is instructive. It included A. Philip Randolph, who led the fight to desegregate the military; Whitney Young, head of the National Urban League; Roy Wilkins, leader of the NAACP; and Bayard Rustin, a top adviser to King who had helped organize the seminal 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., and the 1963 March on Washington.

    It almost goes without saying that the leading civil-rights organizations today can no longer count people of that caliber in their ranks. Which may be the clearest indication yet that the movement is over and that the right side prevailed. If black Americans were still faced with legitimate threats to civil rights—such as legal discrimination or voter disenfranchisement—we would see true successors to the King-era luminaries step forward, not the pretenders in place today who have turned a movement into an industry, if not a racket.

    Racial gaps that were steadily narrowing in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s would expand in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, which suggests that the disparities that continue today aren’t being driven by racism, notwithstanding claims to the contrary from liberals and their allies in the media. It also suggests that attitudes toward marriage, education, work and the rule of law play a much larger role than the left wants to acknowledge. More marches won’t address out-of-wedlock childbearing. More sit-ins won’t lower black crime rates or narrow the school achievement gap.
    Even electing and appointing more black officials, which has been a major priority for civil-rights leaders over the past half-century, can’t compensate for these cultural deficiencies. Black mayors, police chiefs and school superintendents have been commonplace since the 1970s, including in major cities with large black populations. Racially gerrymandered voting districts have ensured the election of blacks to Congress. Even the election of a black president—twice—failed to close the divide in many key measures. Black-white differences in poverty, homeownership and incomes all grew wider under President Obama.

    Discussion of antisocial behavior in poor black communities, let alone the possibility that it plays a significant role in racial inequality, has become another casualty of the post-’60s era. King and other black leaders at the time spoke openly about the need for more-responsible behavior in poor black communities. After remarking on disproportionately high inner-city crime rates, King told a black congregation in St. Louis that “we’ve got to do something about our moral standards.” He added: “We know that there are many things wrong in the white world, but there are many things wrong in the black world too. We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.”

    King’s successors mostly ignore this advice, preferring instead to keep the onus on whites. Where King tried to instill in young people the importance of personal responsibility and self-determination notwithstanding racial barriers, his counterparts today spend more time making excuses for counterproductive behavior and dismissing criticism of it as racist. Activists who long ago abandoned King’s colorblind standard, which was the basis for the landmark civil-rights laws enacted in the 1960s, tell black youths today that they are victims, first and foremost.
    A generation of blacks who have more opportunity than any previous generation are being taught that America offers them little more than trigger-happy cops, bigoted teachers and biased employers. It’s not only incorrect, but as King and a previous generation of black leaders understood, it’s also unhelpful.

    Black activists and liberal politicians stress racism because it serves their own interests, not because it serves the interests of the black underclass. But neglecting or playing down the role that blacks must play in addressing racial disparities can only exacerbate them. Fifty years after King’s death, plenty of people are paying him lip service. Far too few are following his example.
    Appeared in the April 4, 2018, WSJ print edition.

    1. Drake

      We can’t keep on blaming the white man. There are things we must do for ourselves.

      What a shitlord.

      1. Bobarian LMD

        Jason L. Riley must be David Duke’s penname.

      2. Grumbletarian

        Dr. Uncle Tom.

    2. Obviously hate speech you racist.

    3. Tundra

      …not the pretenders in place today who have turned a movement into an industry, if not a racket.

      Nailed it.

    4. Scruffy Nerfherder

      That dude is going to get lambasted by the progs. I hope he already shut down his twitter.

      1. Chipwooder

        He’s used to that kind of shit already

      2. grrizzly

        He’s a regular columnist for the WSJ. This is far from the first time he discussed the problems in the black community in this manner. In other words, the progs have dismissed him long ago as Uncle Tom.

  7. The Late P Brooks

    The rule of law is an impediment to the attainment of our goals.

    A persistent complaint about the government’s response to the financial crisis has been that the executives who helped push the economy to the brink were not charged with crimes.

    Prosecutors have not been able to prosecute managers with the usual tools for pursuing white-collar cases, like wire fraud or false statements, because defenses of ignorance or good faith could not be overcome.

    One way to remedy that problem would be to lower the level of intent needed to establish a violation. Doing so might make it easier to hold an executive who is not part of day-to-day decisions responsible for wrongdoing.

    Mens Rea is an outdated concept. We will scrutinize your behavior, post hoc, and charge you as we see fit.

    1. You’d think they’d use that remedy on those who set up email servers to get around handling classified information.

      1. I. B. McGinty

        Something something laws for peasants and not for Hillary.

  8. The Elite Elite

    A great guide on how to protect yourself from Fake News by a very reliable and trustworthy man.

    1. Chipwooder

      To catch a thief, etc etc

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Oh FFS

    3. PBRstreetgang

      Brought to you by the creators of other helpful videos, such as “How to not fall for email scams” by Prince Ndubi of NIgeria and “Creating uncrackable passwords” featuring John Podesta

      1. Chipwooder

        “How to Win an Election” by Hillary Clinton

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      Obviously we live in a simulation and the programmers are fucking with us.

    5. Zunalter

      Favorite reply:

      “Rob Solo
      @robsolo

      6h
      Replying to @TheYoungTurks and @DanRather
      April Fools was on the 1st dummies”

  9. Apparently, the Spanish word for Nazi–is Nazi.

    Many years ago, Azteca America used to air old movies in the lunchtime slot. I was watching one day, and the movie they showed was Espionaje en el golfo, about fifth columnists in Mexico during World War II.

    The thing I remember most is the captioning screwing up: when the Nazi sympathizers said “Heil Hitler” to each other, it was captioned as “Hi Hitler!”

    My Spanish is nearly non-existent, but it seemed like it was no worse than any of the B movies Hollywood was making at the time.

    1. Bobarian LMD

      “Hi Ted!”

  10. Suthenboy

    “global temperatures are increasing and accelerating”

    I think they need to have their thermometers repaired. The river is dropping because of increasing population using water in a damned desert.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Evaporation has been a big problem from the Beginning as well, a giant lake, in the DESERT!

    2. Mad Scientist

      Since water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas by a wide margin…

    3. JaimeRoberto

      I remember seeing stories about the drying Colorado River decades ago.

  11. Tundra

    If you are a fan of Stella Artois

    Nope.

    1. It’s beer.

      That’s the problem.

      1. DOOMco

        Boooo

      2. robc

        It’s beer.

        Questionable.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          It’s overpriced shitty beer.

      3. Yusef drives a Kia

        Oh Ted……

  12. LJW

    Officials to keep close eye, ear on fan behavior at Masters

    Fuck off slavers. Now I know where the term Masters comes from.

    In all seriousness I don’t know how I feel about this. People who yell are obnoxious, however is this really a thing in golf outside of tournaments in New York?

    1. robc

      The Masters may keep a close watch on speech, but they sell concessions for dirt cheap.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Prosecuting a bank is easier than proving an individual committed a crime.

    And, as we all know, that’s where the money is.

  14. CPRM

    be careful as the beer may contain glass.

    I’ll buy some when it has Hulk blood in it.

    1. Drake

      Awkward….

      1. Bobarian LMD

        We were out of the bottled stuff; had to go with what I had on tap.

    2. LJW

      “The doctor recommended that Ashby undergo a procedure in which she would be inseminated with both sperm from her husband and an anonymous donor who matched the couple’s specifications”

      Sounds like they made a cucktail. *Dodges tomatoes*

      1. Pope Jimbo

        In Vitro Veritas?

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          +100000

        2. Zunalter

          *standing ovation*

    3. The Last American Hero

      Wait until the other shoe drops and we find out that he injected his seed with his cock.

      1. It was an accident; she tripped and fell on his penis.

        1. Festus

          “Million to one shot, Doc!”

    4. Zunalter

      After news of the lawsuit, a spokeswoman for Ancestry.com said in a statement Tuesday that DNA testing “helps people make new and powerful discoveries about their family history and identity.”

      There’s an understatement.

    5. Grummun

      When we (at work) get genetic information for family linkage studies, we run that data through a relationship checking protocol to verify the family structure reported by the clinicians. It is not unusual to find “full siblings” that are actually half siblings or other hijinks. I’ve no idea if that information goes back through the clinicians to the subject families. Probably not, seems like a good way to get consent withdrawn.

      1. Rasilio

        Wasn’t there some research out there that showed that based on genetic testing between 6 and 10% of people were not fathered by the person who they thought was their father?

        1. Grummun

          No clue. I don’t think we see that high a rate of dubious relationships, but it’s actually not always obvious who is related to whom, and how, even with dense genetic samples or whole genome sequences. People are disgusting squishy things, and genetics is a messy and confusing field.

          1. jesse.in.mb

            People are disgusting squishy things

            And now I’m aroused.

          2. Rasilio

            Well women in committed relationships turn out to be significantly more fertile when stepping outside of that relationship. Combine that with them being more likely to step out when they are ovulating and a relatively small number of one night stands can lead to a relatively large number of of children resulting from them

  15. The Late P Brooks

    I had a heart attack. In ambulance going to hospital for cardiac cath. Will keep you updated.

    Holy shit. Hang tough, Mom.

  16. TK

    Hey look its the links post that was up at 3AM this morning but got deleted before I could comment on it.

    1. IntraveneousWoodChipper

      *waves hand

      These are not the links you are looking for.

  17. Chipwooder

    Hey, all the gun talk in the last thread made me wonder – where has Vhyrus been?

    1. LJW

      He’s still on the discord channel.

      1. Chipwooder

        I don’t even know what that is.

        1. LJW

          The official unofficial glib channel on discord. Discord is a chat application mostly used by gamers.

          1. Chipwooder

            aha….that explains why I don’t know about it. I pretty much just play Madden and MLB The Show, and never online.

          2. Zunalter

            It is pretty much just a rolling comments section.

          3. Rasilio

            yeah just like in here but faster and more stream of consciousness

  18. Winston

    https://mises.org/library/never-dull-moment/html/c/503

    Rothbard on self-defense

    Hence, the use of lethal weapons in self-defense, or in defense of others, is only morally justifiable if the victim’s life is in danger. If it is not, then such excessive violence is in itself just as criminal and invasive of the looter’s right to life as is any other capital crime.

    Every man, then, has a moral right to his own property, which includes, and includes above all else, his property in his own person and life. When a man invades the property right of another, he only loses his own rights to the extent that he has invaded the similar right of his fellow man.

    Therefore, shooting looters, whether by the merchant himself or by the police, is absolutely impermissible. The right to life, after all, is more important than the right to own a camera or a color TV set, as important as the latter undoubtedly are.

    1. Chipwooder

      Rothbard is really good on some things and really bad on others. This is one of the ones he’s really bad on.

      1. Winston

        This was back in the 1960s when he hoped he could ally with the Black Panthers and the inner-city blacks to create a libertarian revolution.

    2. The Last American Hero

      So Murray, do I have to wait until the rapist penetrates my wife? Because prior to that moment, it’s really just assault and property damage in the form of torn clothes.

      1. Pan Zagloba

        Yes, but once he does, you are permitted to penetrate him, too! Which puts you in accordance with one out of Three Principles.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          That’s the absolute worst kind of threesome…

          No wait, I take that back; the worst is when your wife invites a third and he penetrates you.

          1. jesse.in.mb

            the worst is when your wife invites a third and he penetrates you.

            Where is your sense of adventure?

          2. Bobarian LMD

            “Surprise, Honey!”

          3. Rasilio

            What of the 3rd is a she and she is penetrating you?

          4. Pan Zagloba

            Any sexual act described as “worst” has to involve Warty in some capacity.

          5. Rasilio

            Encountering Steve Smith while escaping from Warty’s Dungeon

      2. Bobarian LMD

        You have to wait to see what she thinks about it.

    3. Zunalter

      “Excuse me, mister looter, before I enact self-defense on your center body mass, would you please specify which level of violence you intend to mete out to myself and my children?”

    4. Pan Zagloba

      Damn, it just occurred to me (because I needed coffee), the retarded attitude from Daily Mail Morning Links story has impeccable libertarian backing.

      1. Pan Zagloba

        I mean “guy gets charged for assaulting burglar”, “retarded Daily Mail story” is a broad category…

      2. grrizzly

        We have met the enemy and he is us.

    5. Winston

      https://mises.org/library/never-dull-moment/html/c/470

      Surely looting cannot be condoned, but capital punishment for looting, which is what shooting amounts to, is just as criminal and unjustifiable. In my view, a criminal forfeits the rights which he takes away from another person; and therefore a murderer, who takes away from another person his right to life, deserves capital punishment. But surely, and by any known moral standards, capital punishment for mere robbery is so far excessive a punishment that it, in turn, amounts to criminal murder of the victim. We all revile the days of pre-Industrial Revolution Britain, when petty thieves were executed. Are we to return to that brutality now?

      1. Pan Zagloba

        . We all revile the days of pre-Industrial Revolution Britain, when petty thieves were executed. Are we to return to that brutality now?

        ZARDOZ ASKS THE BRUTAL ROTHBARD, IS THIS A TRICK QUESTION?

  19. Derpetologist

    today I learned

    https://www.asbestos.com/asbestos/history/

    ***
    Around 456 B.C., Herodotus, the classical Greek historian, referred to the use of asbestos shrouds wrapped around the dead before their bodies were tossed onto the funeral pyre to prevent their ashes from being mixed with those of the fire itself.

    the ancient Romans were said to have woven asbestos fibers into a cloth-like material that was then sewn into tablecloths and napkins. These cloths were purportedly cleaned by throwing them into a blistering fire, from which they came out miraculously unharmed and essentially whiter than when they went in.

    While Greeks and Romans exploited the unique properties of asbestos, they also documented its harmful effects on those who mined the silken material from ancient stone quarries. Greek geographer Strabo noted a “sickness of the lungs” in slaves who wove asbestos into cloth. Roman historian, naturalist and philosopher, Pliny the Elder, wrote of the “disease of slaves,” and actually described the use of a thin membrane from the bladder of a goat or lamb used by the slave miners as an early respirator in an attempt to protect them from inhaling the harmful asbestos fibers as they labored.

    Around 755, King Charlemagne of France had a tablecloth made of asbestos to prevent it from burning during the accidental fires that frequently occurred during feasts and celebrations.

    In 1280, Marco Polo wrote about clothing made by the Mongolians from a “fabric which would not burn.” Polo visited an asbestos mine in China to disprove the myth that asbestos came from the hair of a wooly lizard.
    ***

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      You should continue with how the US Navy knew asbestos was a killer, but forced shipyards to hide that fact during the WW2 war effort, which then continued on into later decades.

    2. LJW

      You know who else saw the adverse effects of asbestos?

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Steve McQueen?

      2. Drake

        Heat?

      3. The ambulance chasing lawyer on daytime TV?

      4. mexican sharpshooter

        The Law Offices of James R. Sokolove?

    3. The Last American Hero

      Town Caller circa 760: Hear Ye, Hear Ye, havest thou or a loved one worked in the feasting, tablecloth making, or merry making business? Ifeth so, thou shoulds’t consult with thy local esquire, as thou mayest have been exposed to asbestos and entitled to a significant amount of largesse from the crown.

    4. Yusef drives a Kia

      i was lucky enough to remove Asbestos Ductwork when it was still legal to do, no mask, no problem, then they changed the Law, we went to school to learn about it. I’m a walking dead Man……. and part of the Class action suit.

    5. JaimeRoberto

      Fun fact. California’s state rock is serpentine, which contains asbestos. Someone should sue to make sure we put a Prop 65 label on all the Welcome to California signs.

  20. KibbledKristen

    Don’t stick it in crazy anecdote: the erstwhile squeeze has to go to court to file a restraining order against this woman, because she apparently contacted everyone in his phone. Everyone. Probably his mom, too.

    The schadenfreude, she is tasty delicious.

    1. Brett L

      Just because you aren’t paying for the phone doesn’t mean its free. Yowza.

    2. That’s awesome.

    3. The Last American Hero

      While he’s there, maybe he can get a restraining order for his jock.

    4. Festus

      I dunno, KK but sometimes you might be judged by the company that you keep. This guy sounds like a primo loser. Does he keep jars of things on his windowsill? Just to see what happens?

  21. The Other Kevin

    Good luck Chipperbot, hope things work out ok.

    We’re going through our own health crisis at my house. This Sunday we took my middle daughter to the ER for vomiting and stomach pain. (For those following at home, this is the same one who recently got us involved with DCS when she got into a fight with mom) Turns out her intestinal blockage from last year was back (or never went away). She had surgery yesterday to bypass the narrow part of her intestine. Surgery went well and if things go as planned she’ll be home this weekend. I’m very happy that we have access to some top-notch doctors in Chicago.

    In case anyone’s interested, the cause was determined to be SMA syndrome, which you can add to your list of rare disorders that can kill you without warning.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I hope she gets better soon. That’s rough.

    2. Brett L

      Glad she’s doing well.

    3. Chipwooder

      Yeesh. Sorry to hear that, Kevin. All the best to your family.

    4. Tundra

      I hope it’s a quick recovery, Kevin. Scary as hell.

    5. That stinks. Sorry.

    6. TK

      Damn, its been a rough week in Glib-merica. Best of luck with everything Kevin, we’ll be thinking about your fam too.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        OTOH, MY WIFE TOOK A STEP! it’s been 15 months since the foot chopping, and her other foot needed to Rehab, to take the weight. WSe got her a badass Knee holder upper scooter thingy so she can practice while prepping for her new Foot

    7. The Other Kevin

      Thanks everyone! I’ll post an update in a few days.

    8. Semi-Spartan Dad

      Damn, I’m sorry you’ve got more going on. I hope she feels better soon.

      Strangely enough my sister had SMA last year.

      1. The Other Kevin

        SMA is a really strange thing. Some people swear it doesn’t exist, and the ones who do think it exists are very reluctant to diagnose it.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Take care with your Young’ns, and God Bless you all

    9. KibbledKristen

      Sorry to hear that – hope she recovers soon!

    10. Tulip

      I hope she recovers soon.

    11. SP

      Scary stuff. Glad you treated it seriously and took her in!

      Hope she comes home on schedule.

    1. jesse.in.mb

      At least he understands how NOLA bars are supposed to work.

    2. Gustave Lytton

      Documenting the off limits establishments?

  22. Broswater

    OT : A friend of mine has a auto part recycling business. He deals exclusively in VW parts. He goes to scrap yards, remove the good parts and resell them on Ebay. He makes a very very decent living doing just that. Most of his business in on the US side (thanks to Cash for Clunkers – Thanks Obama!).

    I saw some pictures of this and asked him if it was his fantasy or nightmare :

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clLmtOFZITc

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-10/vws-pile-up-by-thousands-awaiting-fix-or-scrap-yard-in-buyback

    He did told me it was a wet dream but that of course if they salvage all of them the market for his business would be overflowed with parts.

    Fortunately for him, he told me that at one of the scrap yards where he goes, there is a huge pile of them that are going thru the press…. So yeah, WV seem to be on the path to destroy 200 000 drivable cars in good condition. The EPA won’t even let them export them to other countries unless they fix them to EPA standards. How is that any good for the planet I don’t know.

    Fuck the EPA. Fuck the Watermelons.

    1. TK

      Wow, completely fucked. But I know what my step-sister would say “well, if VW hadn’t cheated, then we wouldn’t have had to destroy all those cars!”

      Similar reasoning to when I ask her about the homeless problem in LA – when free tiny houses for the homeless get destroyed by the “companionate” leftists for not being up to code. “Well why didn’t the charity build them up to code? That’s just building to fail deliberately.” *facepalm*

      1. Semi-Spartan Dad

        Or free food given to the homeless being confiscated and destroyed because it wasn’t prepared in an inspected commercial kitchen.

        1. J. Frank Parnell

          OMG you want the homeless to die from food poisoning?

    2. Pope Jimbo

      I think I found the problem:

      “The public doesn’t realize the monumental undertaking that they’ve pulled off to do this in a year and a half,” said Matthew Welch, general manager of Auburn Volkswagen near Seattle. “Nothing like this has ever been done.”

      Doing for VW what he did for Reason.

    3. Tundra

      Just sickening. And will make used cars even more expensive.

      1. The impetus for the fraud shouldn’t have even needed to be addressed with the fraud, it’s a God damn train wreck. Ultimate lesson is to not engage in the fraud.

    4. The Last American Hero

      What is the environmental footprint of destroying thousands of usable vehicles, and of course replacing them with thousands of brand new ones?

      1. Viking1865

        It’s a fucking cult. It’s like tossing perfectly good virgins or meat animals into the volcano to praise the gods.

        1. Bobarian LMD

          This^^

          Most of those cars easily exceeded the required standards of a short time before they were built.

    5. Broswater

      Well, my friend was worried about what would happen to his business once the model he mostly deals with gets too old to fix. He deals in VW mk 4 – 1997 to 2003; those destroyed in Cash for Clunkers. His markup for selling in the US vs Canada is about 300%. I guess he can now go to newer models and sleep soundly knowing that the EPA is making sure his business is secure.

      Did I say fuck the EPA already? Fuck the EPA, just to be sure.

  23. TK

    Today’s afternoon gaming lynk: The legal ramifications of microtransactions game makers

    The loot box controversy is a particularly attractive target for class action claims under consumer protection statutes in protective US states like California and Massachusetts. Statutes in such states allow class actions on allegations that the developer advertised a game as having features it did not have. These statutes are ready made for inadequate or inaccurate disclosures. So, for example, a game that overstates the odds of acquiring particular in-game features through a loot box purchase would likely violate such statutes and, if the practice is widespread and profitable enough, would likely trigger a class action complaint.

    But potential exposure does not stem only from overtly false claims about game features. A class could allege that a game was advertised with footage showing features or characters locked away in loot boxes and was advertised at the shelf price, but in reality the price to unlock those advertised features was much higher and the features were not available for the advertised price.

    Battlefront II drew harsh criticism for the effort necessary to unlock major characters like Darth Vader. Some estimates determined that it would take over 4,500 hours of gameplay unlock all of the game’s content. Of course, players could purchase enough credits to unlock everything – for $2,100, 35 times the cost of the game.

    I am not a fan of the government stepping in to do anything about the lootbox problem (and yes, I do think lootboxes are a problem – fight me). That being said, I think the more interesting angle here is the class action lawsuit one. False advertising can lead to justifiable legal action – but I don’t think that Star Wars Battlefront II lives up to this, seeing as how Darth Vader can be earned in-game with the $60 base version without paying EA extra money – it just takes too long (but its not false advertising). If Darth Vader was only accessable through purchase-only lootboxes, but was featured in advertisements that indicated that he would be included in the $60 base version, than its a deceptive practice in my book.

    Either way, EA makes some pretty garbage decisions when it comes to micro transactions. Its a road they ought to be able to go down without the threat of regulation, but I avoid their games because of it. Its a damn shame considering they have some really decent IP.

    1. Zunalter

      If loot boxes are cosmetic, I have no problem with them. If they are not cosmetic, I do have a problem with them, but will likely put up with them if the core experience is strong enough. If loot boxes are the only thing that make a core experience worth playing, then I don’t purchase.

      In any scenario, the market decides what is acceptable behavior…

    2. Am Sock

      This is a topic where I’m not very sympathetic to either side. On one side what EA is doing is obnoxious and clearly trying to hide a significant portion of the game, as well as competitive advantages, behind a paywall (and a randomized one at that). On the other hand the calls for the government to step in and put an end to the practice are just cries for more governmental paternalism. Just let EA suffer the consequences of their shitty practices until their wallets hurt bad enough to stop, the market will sort it out. Look at what Epic has done with Fortnite, free to play with purchases relegated to purely cosmetic items and they are killing it. Maybe we’ll see more of this model in the future and less of the EA lootbox bullshit.

      Like you said though, the real shame is that they are still in possession of some great IP that won’t get the treatment it deserves until either EA loses it or they finally turn themselves around.

    3. Pan Zagloba

      My favorite video games blogger wrote an article, based on an excellent video (linked in there) on the history of EA’s microtransactions. Very helpful to me, since I don’t FIFA and turns out, that’s where it started (and was huge – like, Trumpian YUUUUUGE) before migrating everywhere.

      Sadly, loudest voices are always cunts who want the government to stomp in and start regulating. Lots of them because they’re retarded, some for revenge (and do I ever sympathize) and some because they know regulation on one issue will give them leverage to push on others.

  24. I love the Spanish links. Gives me an opportunity to just say “mentiroso”

    Also, it is getting very obnoxious how media outlets take every possible opportunity to state that Cambridge Analytica is “Trump connected.”

  25. Derpetologist

    mental sandbox time

    A lot of things went wrong in Mogadishu in 1993. I will leave aside the questions of whether the US should have gone after Aidid or intervened at all. The plan was a raid to capture Aidid and some of his top guys. Hence the helicopters. Since there are very few places to land a helo there, the Rangers had to fast rope in. Trucks were supposed to meet up with the Rangers after the raid to evacuate them.

    But the trucks got lost and a few helicopters got shot down. More air support would have helped, but the request for an AC-130 gunship had been denied weeks earlier. Requests for tanks had also been denied previously. The US ended up having to request help from Pakistani tanks to clear the streets of obstacles and Malaysian APCs to bring in reinforcements. Few Americans spoke Urdu or Malay, so the language barrier hindered coordination. US forces did well considering the circumstances.

    Given the same resources, it would have been better to assault with a much larger force. That would have exposed more men to danger, but they would have had an easier time fighting their way out of trouble. A larger force might even have intimidated the Somalis from fighting.

    1. Chipwooder

      The mistake was replacing the Marines with the Rangers. ‘RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

    2. Bobarian LMD

      Doing more with Les… Aspin.

      The repeated requests for US Armor were turned down at DOD level.

      a Bradley heavy mech team as a QRF would have been entirely sufficient to support that operation.

    3. Pan Zagloba

      I may have recommended Concrete Hell earlier, if you’re interested in urban combat. The author studies a bunch of city fights and comes to a conclusion that, contrary to the general rule of “never send armor into cities”, tanks are vital component of urban fighting. If used properly. The chapter on first Russian incursion into Grozny is harrowing (to be fair, post-war Soviet doctrine on cities was “bypass and keep going”, but, seeing all the hard-won lessons of Stalingrad that had been re-learned in Berlin and Konigsberg forgotten was surprising).

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      *checks photo*

      Didn’t read the article but I think I like the cut of this guy’s jib.

    2. JaimeRoberto

      He looks like he should be doing a commercial for the Turkish version of Dos Equis.

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      “Women are amazing manifestations of God,” Oktar explained to me, when I met him in Istanbul in early February. “They are the most beautiful beings in the world. They are incredible works of art, created by God. They are glorious beings that should be respected, admired, loved, cherished and protected all their lives as blessings.”

      IF SHE BREATHES, SHE’S A THOT!!!!

      1. jesse.in.mb

        *is confused, gets high, watches again, appreciates*

        1. Pan Zagloba

          How to Glibertarians.com

  26. Juvenile Bluster

    Ah, Liverpool. Only you could make a 3-0 Champions League victory so nerve wracking.

    1. Rufus the Monocled

      Roma literally GAVE Barca four goals.

      Unreal.

      1. Rufus the Monocled

        Talk about an undeserved scoreline. They couldn’t catch a break.

    2. They better not blow the second leg.

      1. Drake

        You can do better with the euphemisms.

        1. True, I only accept blowing the third leg.

  27. Winston

    Rothbard claiming that the USSR and Mao had anti-statist sentiments.

    https://mises.org/library/never-dull-moment/html/c/512

    It is instructive, by the wayhttps://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty that American imperialism gets along well with those Communist countries which have more or less abandoned the revolutionary, anti-statist side of Communism: Soviet Russia being the outstanding example.

    https://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty

    Lenin had a decidedly more revolutionary stance toward the State, and consistently defended and supported movements of national liberation against imperialism. The Leninist shift was more “leftist” in other important senses as well. For while Marx had centered his attack on market capitalism per se, the major focus of Lenin’s concerns was on what he conceives to be the highest stages of capitalism: imperialism and monopoly. Hence Lenin’s focus, centering as it did in practice on State monopoly and imperialism rather than on laissez-faire capitalism, was in that way far more congenial to the libertarian than that of Karl Marx. In recent years, the splits in the Leninist world have brought to the fore a still more left-wing tendency: that of the Chinese. In their almost exclusive stress on revolution in the undeveloped countries, the Chinese have, in addition to scorning Right-wing Marxist compromises with the State, unerringly centered their hostility on feudal and quasi-feudal landholdings, on monopoly concessions which have enmeshed capital with quasi-feudal land, and on Western imperialism. In this virtual abandonment of the classical Marxist emphasis on the working class, the Maoists have concentrated Leninist efforts more closely on the overthrow of the major bulwarks of the Old Order in the modern world

    1. mikey

      Holy Fuck!
      This is in the not even wrong category.
      I’m in the middle of The Black Book of Communism in the chapter where Lenin is literally killing striking factory workers.

  28. PBRstreetgang

    Anybody else watching that Netflix docu-series about the Baghwan Shree Rajsneesh, “Wild, Wild, Country”?
    Its fascinating, I do recommend.

    1. TK

      I watched the first 2 episodes and then started to ask myself: Is there really enough content here to do a multi-episode series? I started to feel like they could’ve condensed those first 2 episodes into a 20-minute segment of a 2-hour documentary.

      Maybe I’m wrong, I dunno.

      1. Chipwooder

        I’m not even completely through the first episode yet and I already have that feeling. I really am not that interested in a detailed history of a dumbass hippie cult. I’m watching because said cult did a bunch of lunatic things to try to completely take over a little town – cut to the chase already!

    2. PBRstreetgang

      In definitively could have been streamlined better and cut the running time down by half. That said, I found it really interesting. Wasco County issuing a blanket prohibition on registering new voters to stymie the cult’s plan to vote in a new county board was pretty egregious. Of course, the cult’s counter plan to poison the entire county was something of an overreaction.

      1. TK

        Maybe I should just skip to the last 2 episodes.

      2. Gustave Lytton

        The Rajneeshies were proto-Free State Project in that regard.

      3. IntraveneousWoodChipper

        I finished it. FedGov also basically pull some crazy shit once they catch the Bagwahn too. Its worth seeing to the end. Apparently guru-centered cults like this are *relatively* common in India?

        Anyway in anothet life that Sheela lady could have run Sobibor. Fucking psycopath.

  29. Winston

    Rothbard finding the Khmer Rouge “exhilarating”

    https://www.google.ca/amp/s/reason.com/archives/1975/07/01/the-death-of-a-state/amp

    What has been happening so swiftly in Indochina can only be exhilarating to any libertarian: for what we have been seeing before our very eyes is nothing less than the death of a State—or rather two states, the Saigon regime in South Vietnam, and the Phnom Penh regime in Cambodia.


    Another cause for libertarian rejoicing was the body blow that these events have delivered to U.S. imperialism, and to the notion that the United States has the moral duty, and the permanent power, to install, prop up, and rule governments and peoples throughout the world

    to howl about a forthcoming “bloodbath” (this from a government that murdered millions of innocent Vietnamese peasants, conducted the greatest bombing offensive in world history, and led over 50,000 drafted American soldiers to their deaths!)

    1. Pan Zagloba

      Jesus fucking Christ, Rothbard! I thought WInston’s editing was malicious, but nope, you are in fact “This Tall To (Helicopter) Ride”.

      But I’m glad to see “retarded hot take forcing every square fact into ideological round hole” doesn’t require Twitter, Trump or Millennials.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        At least George Lucas made Star Wars from his NVA fellating.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    What is the environmental footprint of destroying thousands of usable vehicles, and of course replacing them with thousands of brand new ones?

    Stimulus! Multiplizer!

    I hate diesels, but I could probably force myself to drive a five speed Passat turbodiesel wagon, if somebody gave it to me.

  31. Yusef drives a Kia

    And they can’t take them elsewhere because Why again? They BOUGHT them back, they should be able to do what they want with the cars, WTF? somebody ‘Splain…..

    1. Bobarian LMD

      somebody ‘Splain…..

      We’re the government, and shut the fuck up.

    2. Mad Scientist

      These cars were originally registered in the US, so they have to meet US standards for export.

      The EPA-approved fix is a simple ECU flash, but then each car has to go through an EPA certification process. It’s basically a make-work program for some EPA morons. The EPA also mandated VW provide a 10-year warranty on these cars when they’re resold, so they’re selling as fast as they can be certified for nearly new car prices.

      1. Tundra

        You mean CA standards.

        VW upped their warranty significantly on all their vehicles. I haven’t seen numbers, but the dealreship I go to was hopping the last couple times I was there.

      2. Gilmore

        These cars were originally registered in the US, so they have to meet US standards for export.

        The EPA-approved fix is a simple ECU flash, but then each car has to go through an EPA certification process. It’s basically a make-work program for some EPA morons. The EPA also mandated VW provide a 10-year warranty on these cars when they’re resold, so they’re selling as fast as they can be certified for nearly new car prices.

        This whole thing seems like a crazy case study in “How regulations end up costing / causing far more ‘damage’ than they protect anyone from”

        1. Mad Scientist

          Sure, for sane people. The rest want to know why you hate the environment.

          1. Tundra

            All the green stuff and animals. Annoys me.

          2. Mad Scientist

            I’m willing to bet these three ships pump out more pollution than the combined exhaust of every VW ever made.

          3. Tundra

            Yes, but those are righteous emissions. Like the massive environmental hit from making and disposing of giant batteries, it is magical pollution that doesn’t really exist.

          4. Creosote Achilles

            Many years ago when usenet was a thing there was a group alt.pave.the.earth where discussions were had about how best to make the earth topologically flat, so it could be paved. All food production would be moved to underground cities where we would grow grain and cattle to make beer and burgers, and then we’d be able to take our hypercars out on the paved earth to drive at ludicrous speeds. There were heretics who wanted to chrome the moon, but this idea was rejected as silly. it was such a beautiful dream. Alas, I do not think it will come to fruition.

          5. Gilmore

            chrome the moon

            we have the technology. all we require is the ambition and the will.

          6. Gilmore

            The rest want to know why you hate the environment.

            Have i never mentioned it before? My family was eaten by polar bears.

  32. Creosote Achilles

    Wine question. I am probably a philistine for asking this but…recommendations of a wine for making fondu with? I know that one wants something crisp/dry and tart. Also cheap since we’ll be pouring it into a pot with cheese and heating it up.

    1. jesse.in.mb

      Kirschwasser

    2. Bobarian LMD

      Maybe something cheese flavored?

      I hear Boone’s Farm has a lot of flavors.

    3. Thunderbird.

      1. Tundra

        Fondue, not tapas.

        MD 20/20

        1. Bobarian LMD

          Are you mad?!? You do realize that fondue involves an open flame, right?

          1. “What’s the word? Thunderbird!
            What’s the price? Fifty twice!
            What’s the reason? Grapes in season!
            Who drinks the most? Them colored folks!
            What’s the reaction? Satisfaction!”

      2. Mad Scientist

        Night Train

    4. mexican sharpshooter
    5. Creosote Achilles

      The question is about wine to add to the cheese when cooking, not to drink with the meal. Of course we’ll be going MD2020 as the pairing. I am given to understand I want a white that is not too sweet and thus relatively low in sugar.

      1. But Enough About Me

        I am given to understand I want a white that is not too sweet and thus relatively low in sugar.

        Correct. You can use any dry white wine with relatively high acidity; a wine made from Chasselas grapes works really well (you can get Chasselas wines from the Okanagan region in Canada). The Swiss Chasselas-derived wine usually used is Fendant, but it’s not necessary.

        1. Creosote Achilles

          Thank you! That is what I needed to know.

      2. pistoffnick

        My father-in-law’s recommendation for fondue: any <$8 Chardonnay or Sauvignon Blanc.

        Kirschwasser is generally an aperitif for after eating fondue in our family, but man is it nasty.

        We usually have fondue 2-3 times per year. It is probably my 2nd favorite meal

  33. JaimeRoberto

    I thought that by international law asylum seekers must apply for asylum in the first country they get to. If so, shouldn’t the caravaners apply for asylum in Mexico? Or is that just an EU law that gets ignored?

    1. Doesn’t count because shut up.

    2. I thought it was first “safe” country. For some values of “safe”.

      1. JaimeRoberto

        In that case, Trump should say, “It’s not safe here. Look at all the mass shootings!” Then put them on a bus for Canada.

  34. Winston

    Rothbard on black nationalism

    https://mises.org/library/never-dull-moment/html/c/472

    The Negro movement has come a long way from the days when compulsory integration was the goal and the NAACP was the leader. The old civil rights movement was thoroughly statist and modern-liberal; its goal was to use the arm of the federal and other governments to coerce whites into hiring, eating, and living with Negroes. The new movement, headed by Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael of SNCC, is totally and radically alienated from the government of the United States and the entire “power structure.” To contrast, once more, two statements of LBJ and H. Rap Brown, LBJ proclaimed: “From its earliest day, our nation has been dedicated to justice, to equality — and to order,” while Brown declared: “The white man makes all the laws, he drags us before his courts, he accuses us, and he sits in judgment over us.”

    There speaks the voice of a true black nationalist; and the logic of black nationalism, finally explicitly stated in the National Black Power Conference at Newark this July, is a national black republic totally separated and seceded from the US government. As absurd as this goals seems when first stated, this is the inner logic of the continuing rebellions of the Negro ghettoes, and this is the direction in which these rebellions are, willy-nilly, moving. For the other traditional solutions are not going to work. The conservative solution of ever-greater force it not going to work, for during the rioting it was the entry of the National Guard that stimulated and accelerated the retaliatory sniping; the conservative solution cannot work, short of exterminating the entire Negro population.

    And nothing is deader than the liberal solution of more federal funds, more playgrounds, and the rest of the liberal pap. Detroit was supposed to be the great model home of Liberal Race Relations, with plenty of playgrounds, inter-racial committees, and all the rest. And Detroit suffered a week-long civil war and property damage of $1 billion. Detroit murdered liberalism, and good riddance.

    1. jesse.in.mb

      Detroit murdered liberalism

      I’m comfortable believing pretty much any statement that begins “Detroit murdered…”

      1. mexican sharpshooter

        Detroit murdered the sedan-truck combo.

        1. Tundra

          No they didn’t. My F150 is ridiculously car-like. Pretty sure it’s quieter than the old Town Cars.

          1. Mad Scientist

            The F150 is a legit truck. Mexican Sharpshooter is Mexican, so he must be lamenting the demise of the El Camino.

          2. jesse.in.mb

            Mexican Sharpshooter is Mexican

            How DARE you assume his background!

          3. Tundra

            How dare you use an Italian to portray an Indian!!

            Also the El Camino was one of the greatest vehicles ever built.

          4. mexican sharpshooter

            I’m actually more of a Ford guy and thus would prefer the Ranchero.

    2. Winston

      In 1993 Rothbard still held a similar but more skeptical attitude.

      https://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/murray-n-rothbard/their-malcolm-and-mine/

      There is no question that black nationalism is a lot more libertarian than the compulsory integration pushed by King, the NAACP, and white liberals. But there are deep problems with black nationalism, which Malcolm never had a chance to explore. The most fundamental: black nationalism in what territory? A nation has to have territory, and blacks are only one-fifth of the American nation. “Black nationalism” within the United States is then only a phony nationalism, and beginning to look like a drive for an aggravated form of coerced parasitism over the white population. The territorial question was at least faced by the Black Belt thesis of the Communist Party of the USA during the 1920s: Black Belt slave counties of the South. There were two grave problems with this doctrine: (a) what do you do with the existing usually majority white population in these areas, and (b) as time has gone on since 1865, more and more blacks have moved out of the historic Black Belt, and have taken over various inner cities in the North.

      A second, and more plausible, form of black nationalism is for a separate black nation in currently existing black areas: a New Africa comprised of Harlem, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Detroit, Watts, et al. with its capital the old Washington, D.C., and President Jesse Jackson sitting in the Black House. But then more problems arise. Apart from all the problems of enclaves and access, does anyone really believe that this New Africa would be content to strike out on its own, with no massive “foreign aid” from the U.S.A., and strictly limited migration between the two nations? In a pig’s eye.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        So what is is it with you and Rothbard, Tulpa?
        Did he kill a Relative in Battle or something?

        1. Winston

          So I post some of Rothbard’s more dubious writings so therefore I must be a Tulpa sock? :Rollseyes:

          1. Gustave Lytton

            Everybody’s Tulpa here, friend.

      2. Suthenboy

        Looks to me like he had a bad case of oikophobia
        I never understood why such people are drawn to alternative exponentially worse than the one they hate

      3. mikey

        I’m enjoying this. I’ve never read any Rothbard and never knew how whacked he could be. How’s about enacting some more of your labor and giving us some of his good stuff (guessing there must be some)?

    1. But Enough About Me

      So that’s where Vhyrus went . . .

    2. Yusef drives a Kia

      Steve will be by Shortly…….

      1. Grumbletarian

        YOU NO READ? STEVE SMITH WENT BY THERE ALREADY. AND BY WENT BY, MEAN…

  35. Winston

    https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/50th-anniversary-mlks-murder-us-govt/

    He writes in his letter: “What is radically threatening about the assassination of John Kennedy, inextricably linked with the killings of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy, is that here we are faced with a total system of evil that envelops us and our society. We have denied its gross reality for three and a half decades for the sake of sheer psychic and personal survival. In a painful part of our being, each of us knows the truth…May I suggest the possibility, to you and to myself, that we are ruled behind the scenes by a benevolent fascism? We consent to it by a tacit agreement. “

    1. quincy

      Chemtrails at the grassy knoll!

      Also, the CIA gave my cat cancer.

  36. Yusef drives a Kia

    Here’s my current task, replacing a cracked drain pan,
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/akeIV0dZoizWXjuP2
    The pan is the Beige part below the Evaporator coil, and you can see what a complete unit looks like right behind my Project, Fun!

    1. mikey

      Hmmm. I’m trying to de-googlefy my life and it’s not working. In Brave the Yusef’s page appears but the pictures don’t. In chrome the pictures load just fine.
      Is this some sort of Google plot, or is Brave not ready for prime time?

      1. jesse.in.mb

        It looks like Brave is Chromium-based so it should have all of the bells and whistles of a current Chrome browser.

      2. Yusef drives a Kia

        Odd, i thought it worked for all,

      3. Yusef drives a Kia

        Well, it’s equal to tearing off the front end of your car to get at the Stereo, but, FILTHY LUCRE!

      4. mikey

        I go to my own google photos page and the same thing happens. The page is all there except for the photos.

        1. mikey

          Anyway, Yusef, how you get the pan out from under? Down you have to dismantle the whole thing?

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            6 AM Thursday, i break the foam insulation seals and VERY gently lift the coil about 2 inches, without Kinking the copper, If i do I’m FUCKED (OZZYMAN) slide out the old one, pry in the new one, and reassemble. if I forget, i can look at the unit next to this one for reference, Piece of Cake
            /Hard Sarc Harder job

          2. Yusef drives a Kia

            See if this works, a single image
            https://photos.app.goo.gl/S8H3DepjcJvlrEF42

    2. egould310

      Cool. Thanks for posting.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Slightly narrows gaze,…

        1. egould310

          I didn’t mean to pun. But if you need to vent, well go ahead.

  37. Brochettaward

    So, some on the left are currently trying to go after Roseanne for some photoshoot she did putting little people cookies into an oven while wearing a Hitler mustache. Reading the story, I couldn’t help but laugh as perhaps the American left’s most fraudulent and slimiest sack of shit made an appearance:

    Yet some find the photos to be beyond what’s appropriate for parody:

    The photo is real. @therealroseanne burned cookies that looked like people in an oven while dressed as Adolph Hitler. I am actually crying. I think of the anguish of my family. I think of this little boy, Antosh, my sons’ great uncle, murdered at 11. One of Roseanne’s cookies. pic.twitter.com/rEWWk6ezfW

    — Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 29, 2018

    You would have thought they’d be quietly trying to pretend he doesn’t exist, but it really is amazing how truly awful a leftist has to be before people on their side will come to grips with it. This guy so clearly doesn’t have a shred of credibility in any sense. Yet he remains what they consider a serious individual.

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      “I am actually crying.”

      Grow a sack you you fucking loser.

      1. Derpetologist

        My favorite Eichenwald moment was when he was on CNN talking about how Trump had disrespected the wonderful, noble intelligence community. He broke it a speech about the wall of honor at the CIA and yadda yadda- as if that asshat cared in the slightest about those people a few years ago.

        here’s the twitter version
        https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/823607638357397505?lang=en

        Leftists in general hate the military and the IC, and the people who work in them know it.

        1. I can’t be the only person who hates the “Let’s break up a blog post into dozens of tweets” style of posting.

          1. Yusef drives a Kia

            I hate Tweets period, and the Godawful long FAZBUK links,
            Ted, we agree more and more, I’m scared for us both…..

    2. Gustave Lytton

      “And now alt-tab to get back to my tentacle pron!”

    3. Heroic Mulatto

      So the fact that Roseanne is Jewish herself adds no context to the picture?

        1. Creosote Achilles

          And the photo was from a Jewish humor magazine called ‘Heeb’. I’m not sure if irony really is dead or simply so pervasive you can’t see it anymore.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            It was from Heeb? That’s hilarious as that mag/blog was super-lefty.

          2. Creosote Achilles

            Yup. It just gets funnier the more you know about it.

      1. Stinky Wizzleteats

        Context is irrelevant now if ignoring it can claim a scalp.

      2. Brochettaward

        THANKS FOR RUINING ROSEANNE FOR ME

        Just another one of (((their))) plots.

    4. Gilmore

      I harbor suspicions that the real Kurt Eichenwald died years ago, and that this other, newer thing is actually a Soros Industries-designed cyborg

  38. Derpetologist

    mental sandbox time

    Suppose you make a drone in the form of a small blimp. A drone like that could stay in the air for a much longer time. Put a machine gun and some infrared cameras on it and you have a very scary package.

    The military used blimp drones for observation in Afghanistan and Iraq. It wouldn’t be much harder to put a machine gun on them.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU

    1. I didn’t think blimps could move that fast. Or handle windy conditions.

    2. mikey

      The video is a pretty small gun. Anything of size to standoff would likely have too recoil for a blimp to handle.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        It would look funny as Hell getting blown back by every shot, Blurble,blurble, snap, Fall!

    3. Derpetologist

      you could have a combo of blimp drones for observation and Tucano attack planes

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano

      1. mikey

        The trouble with lighter than air vehicles is that they’re lighter than air. The air moves and they move with it. Station keeping is really hard unless you’re way above normal altitude.

        The surveillance blimbs we have are teathered.

        If you haven’t yet Derp Google USS Akron and see the Navy’s experience with LTA. Really cool stuff.

    4. juris imprudent

      What could possibly go wrong?

  39. Derpetologist

    not a good day for military aviation

    ***
    The incident marks the third crash of a U.S. military aircraft since Tuesday, when a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed during exercises along the U.S.-Mexico border in California, killing four crew members.

    Also on Tuesday, a Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier jet crashed in the East African nation of Djibouti during a training exercise. The pilot ejected and is currently in “stable condition.”
    ***

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/04/f-16-jet-crashes-at-nellis-air-force-base-outside-las-vegas-officials-say.html

    1. The obvious solution is more funding.

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        You realise that IS one correct answer? there are others…….

        1. I think somebody needs to check his sarcasm detector….

          1. juris imprudent

            Perhaps he ventured a little too close to an actual seat of govt – that could cause all kinds of problems.

    2. mikey

      “Training mission in Djibouti”? Is that by Allepo?
      Is there any shithole we haven’t got troops?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        Nope

  40. Brochettaward

    The crazy son-of-a-bitch is actually going to do it:

    Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump will sign a proclamation directing agencies to deploy the National Guard to the southwest border, Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Wednesday.
    But key details like the numbers of troops, how long they will be deployed, how much it will cost and where they will go are all still being finalized.

    https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/politics/trump-national-guard-troops-border/index.html?sr=fbCNN040418trump-national-guard-troops-border0438PMVODtopLink

    I am not a wall guy. But when you a “caravan” of Mexicans (I don’t care where they’re from – they’re all Mexicans to me) moving on the border with a list of demands, it’s incredibly poor optics. The GOP refuses to fund Trump’s primary campaign promise. If he is serious about this and goes all out, it’s going to be one hell of a show. If Trump is serious about this, where do you go if you are a Republican in office?

    We may see Congress actually have to face questions about the authority they’ve given the executive.
    We may see Congressional Republicans cave and give into to Trump on the wall.
    Democrats are going to wail and gnash their teeth like never before.

    It could be a hell of a negotiating tactic and incredibly shrewd if Trump goes all in.

    1. Brochettaward

      CNN’s tone is also amusing. They want to actually downplay how not unprecedented something Trump is doing. Bush and Obama did it, too, and it wasn’t effective! Border crossings aren’t a problem!

      They know what they’re selling isn’t popular even among many who vote Dem. They know Trump taking action behind his campaign promises is going to help him.

    2. Tell your nearest Mexican that it’s a caravan of Mexicans. 😆

  41. Festus

    I love the chum thrown in regarding that Colorado River article. “1/3 of America’s hispanic population hit hardest!” This. It’s come to this. I rolled my eyes so violently that one of them popped out, bounced off the keypad and now the cats are playing with it. They’re hard to corral without depth perception but I’m smarter than them.

    1. Tulip

      Are you sure?

      1. Festus

        I for one, know the mystery of the doorknob and have been well-versed in the intricacies of the “Ritual of the Opening of the Can”, so I think I’m alright. Should they turn a baleful gaze upon me, pray for my corpus. I beseech thee!

        1. Tulip

          My cat (angry at being shut out of the bathroom) has mastered the round door knob.

          1. Festus

            Mine are soft in comparison but my large one will butt his head against a closed door. We had a cat when I was a kid that would jump up on the window and shimmy across like Bruce Willis and then drop on the screen door latch in order to let himself into the house.

          2. Yusef drives a Kia

            My Dog attacks my Cat before she gets to the Bathroom door, don’t you even Dog?

    2. juris imprudent

      Good god – you mean the article was more stupid than the lede?

      1. Festus

        Indubitably, Good Sir! Yes, fucking indeed!

  42. Brasidas

    The hospital where my son was born is still finding new charges to send us. Four months later.

    And the billing person I have to go through works approximately 12 minutes a week and will not return phone calls.

    1. Festus

      Shoulda just got her to leave the hut and drop the bairn in the sheep-fold like a civilized ancestor. J/K, I hope all of those bureaucratic assholes find a new circle of hell where everything they do winds up in endless toilet lines and no hope of tissue. Even better, pay toilets but the currency is based on “soul”.

      1. Brasidas

        We were shooting for that.

        The midwives, our birth plan A, had us prepay cash to cover every thing. I got a nice itemized bill two months into the pregnancy. Then the bastard decided to come a month early and the midwives were legally required to send us to the hospital.

  43. Vacuous Insight

    In class today I saw a flier titled “Protest First Aid Training”. I was confused for a moment. It went on to explain that it will provide first aid training specific to injuries that might result when you are protesting. At the bottom of the flier, I read that it was sponsored by my university’s Antifacist Group.

    1. juris imprudent

      Antifacist Group

      I didn’t know the FB blow-back had gone that far. And dammit I’m deep into a bottle of pinot noir!

    2. Festus

      Bike-lock good, Free speech baaaaaad!

      1. Vacuous Insight

        Sometimes I think about attending an extremist political event on campus just to see what it’s like. Then I remembered it is better for my health and sanity to not go out of my way to find derp.

  44. juris imprudent

    Either that or it was grossly misallocated for nearly a century by state and federal regulators.

    Un-possible. Must be capitalist caused climate change.

  45. Winston

    J. Warren Kerrigan, glibertarian?

    Gay and said this:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Warren_Kerrigan

    At one of the final stops, a reporter for The Denver Times asked Kerrigan if he would be joining the war. Kerrigan replied:

    I am not going to war. I will go, of course, if my country needs me, but I think that first they should take the great mass of men who aren’t good for anything else, or are only good for the lower grades of work. Actors, musicians, great writers, artists of every kind—isn’t it a pity when people are sacrificed who are capable of such things—of adding to the beauty of the world.

    1. Yusef drives a Kia

      Jesus H Christ! I GO away for an hour and your still rambling? Kerrigan? Who? where’s the AssWeed and Mexican Sex!

      1. Winston

        It is You’re not your.

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          OK, You got me, Arrghh….
          I still fucked your Mom, and spelled it right

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Christ, what an asshole!

      1. Winston

        Him or Errol Flynn?

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          Lawrence of Arabia

  46. Yusef drives a Kia

    I have things to do, so good Evening,