¡Buenas tardes Glibs! They Glibertariati decided to pull me from the bullpen this afternoon to deliver you the links.
¡Cuidado México, ya voy!
A 4.9 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico. No word as of yet (1030ET) as to damages to life or property, but I assume rescue crews are chomping at the bit.
Un sismo de magnitud 4,9 sacudió este miércoles a 15 kilómetros al noroeste de Arcelia, México, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS).
El sismo había sido previamente reportado por el Servicio Sismológico Nacional de México, que dio una magnitud inicial de 5,3 y posteriormente de 5,2.
Según USGS el sismo se produjo a una profundidad de 81,2 kilómetros.
En Ciudad de México se activó la alerta sísmica y en Guerrero la Secretaría de Protección Civil “activó los protocolos de prevención en todo el estado, tras él sismo registrado la mañana de este miércoles con epicentro en el municipio de Arcelia, a fin de descartar cualquier riesgo para la población”, informaron en un comunicado.
An earthquake of magnitude 4.9 shook Wednesday 15 kilometers northwest of Arcelia, Mexico, reported the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The earthquake had previously been reported by the National Seismological Service of Mexico, which gave an initial magnitude of 5.3 and later of 5.2.
According to USGS, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.2 kilometers.
In Mexico City the seismic alert was activated and in Guerrero the Secretariat of Civil Protection “activated the prevention protocols throughout the state, after the earthquake registered this Wednesday morning with the epicenter in the municipality of Arcelia, in order to rule out any risk to the population, “they said in a statement.
No. Given their utter failure to do so in the previous century, I seriously doubt the Argentine government can control their economy. Not watching the video, CNN Español.
Este martes se vivió un día repleto de noticias económicas en Argentina. Por un lado, después de varias jornadas de alza, el Banco Central consiguió que el dólar baje y llevar así un poco de calma a los mercados. Por el otro, se dio a conocer la cifra de inflación oficial para abril, que registró un 2,7% de aumento. ¿Está logrando el Gobierno controlar la economía? Jonatan Viale nos da su perspectiva.
This Tuesday there was a day full of economic news in Argentina. On the one hand, after several days of rally, the Central Bank managed to get the dollar down and thus bring a bit of calm to the markets. On the other hand, the official inflation figure was released for April, which registered a 2.7% increase. Is the government managing to control the economy? Jonatan Viale gives us his perspective.
When people tell me that Trump is going to round up Mexicans and put them into camps, I happen to think they are a bit crazy, and let them know that I think they are crazy. It may sound like they have something to point to in this case, but the devil as they say is in the details. This is only for children arriving under 18 AND separated from their parents….okay this might be crazy. There is no decision yet, and the article does admit that. It is mostly a review of 4 bases in TX and AR to determine if the on base facilities meet HHS standards for temporary housing.
La orden presidencial incluye una serie de medidas, entre ellas la de elaborar “una lista detallada de todas las instalaciones existentes, incluidas las instalaciones militares, que podrían usarse, modificarse o reutilizarse para detener a extranjeros por violaciones de la ley de inmigración en las fronteras de Estados Unidos o cerca de ellas”.
Alison Parker, directora gerente del programa para EEUU de Human Right Watch, dijo que “las autoridades de inmigración deben mantener juntas a las familias y no deben mantener a niños durante la noche en celdas de detención”. Consideró además que es “una práctica común en la actualidad” a lo que se le está uniendo la posibilidad de que ahora sean enviados a bases militares.
“El gobierno federal sabe que tiene obligaciones legales para proporcionar viviendas adecuadas para los niños. Es imposible imaginar cómo esas obligaciones legales, mucho menos obligaciones morales de trato humano para los niños se pueden cumplir en una base militar. No hay justificación para esta decisión política dura y absurda”, resaltó Parker en un comunicado escrito
The presidential order includes a series of measures, including the preparation of “a detailed list of all existing facilities, including military installations, that could be used, modified or reused to detain foreigners for violations of the immigration law at the borders. of the United States or near them. “
Alison Parker, managing director of the US Human Rights Watch program, said that “immigration authorities should keep families together and should not keep children overnight in detention cells.” He also considered that it is “a common practice now” to which is joining the possibility that they are now sent to military bases.
“The federal government knows that it has legal obligations to provide adequate housing for children It is impossible to imagine how those legal obligations, much less moral obligations of humane treatment for children can be met on a military basis.” There is no justification for this political decision hard and absurd, “Parker said in a written statement
Alison, two of my kids went to a daycare on base. I assure you, people in the military are fully capable of being humane.
This may be in English and it may even be a week old, but I thought it might be fun to share here:
Obrador’s “populism” suggests Mexicans are desperate for somebody to stand up to Trump’s bullying and fight government’s deep-rooted corruption that has plunged the country into economic and political turmoil. But he’s making unrealistic promises, and his Made in Mexico policies could further threaten economic trade between the two nations.
You think that’s good? Think again.
The already volatile financial market would go into a tailspin, almost certainly sending the Mexican currency, the peso, on a downward spiral. That means less money to pay for his policies, hurting the very people he wants to get out of poverty.
A President Obrador would stand up to Trump, yes. But in doing so he could isolate Mexico from much needed economic trade with the United States and the world.
American industries – from oil to automobile manufacturing to farmers to cattle ranchers – should be worried about a President Obrador.
Obrador isn’t bluffing. He truly believes he can make Mexico self-sufficient on corn, beans, beef and a range of other current imports.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Mexico should become self-sufficient. But it should not be done so at the expense of the poor, who stand to lose the most if Obrador’s socialist agenda fails.
And if a President Obrador fails, as experts predict, that could mean only one thing: A wave of Mexicans heading north to cross to the United States – with or without Trump’s border wall.
The AZ Republic arguing against socialism? Well I’ll be.
Once again translation services are provided by the Alpha Beta Corporation. I guess they managed to stay out of the news this week…good for them!
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How can you be first if you’re so busy working?
/flicks orange peel.
Zzzjealous?
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You know, being Spanish and all
I’m not fluent in Spanish, but shouldn’t the question mark be upside down or something?
Take that upside down shit back to your own country, moran.
first
2nd? Damn that Rufus guy!
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स्तन बनाम बन्स
http://archive.is/78kFn
The orgasm you’d have with 10 would be a peak experience; right before she tore out your trachea.
10, 26 is thicc
46 – God bless America
86 is an absolute knockout.
10 reminds me of Pam from Archer, so definitely.
Huh. Turns out I didn’t need to go past 1.
Do you ever make it passed 1? I don’t.
I feel like I owe it to Q to complete the perusal.
You owe it to yourself.
Besides, I’m always wondering if there will be one even hotter than the last one that had me swooning.
Great variety today, excellent excellent excellent
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I feel like if I log on to twitter or chive 20 years from now, I’m still going to be seeing pics of Sara Jean Underwood (13).
I always thought the best camp to store our captured Mexicans awaiting deportation would be Mexico.
This is just precious. From a twitter somebody linked in the last thread, about the chick with the gun:
Also, don’t use a tragedy to push your gun agenda
No fair stealing our tactics, you scary blonde chick!
Link?
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For Just Say’n
You asked for a good article describing the facts of the Russian collusion story. I think this is a pretty damn good one:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/russia-collusion-real-story-hillary-clinton-dnc-fbi-media/
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“hurting the very people he wants to get out of poverty”
I think that started the minute he became a socialist politician.
Pretty small earthquake, pretty deep as well
Obrador is a Commie, this isn’t his first time running IIRC
I’m not late, I read the links!
Swiss will give you a medal for commenting on the links.
No carrot; he’s all stick if you know what I mean
The AZ Republic arguing against socialism? Well I’ll be.
First you build up wealth, then you start parasitism. You think Socialist learned nothing from USSR, but they did!
That the last stage is Venezuela is something that will take another 100 years to learn, but you can’t rush the poor dears.
Yeah, OK.
Damnit, I can’t do anything right! SHIT! Edit fairy, help! One more time.
if Obrador’s socialist agenda fails.
I’m not even sure how you can mess up that tag.
A question for the Glibertariat. I got a mailing from FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) requesting a donation. So far I’ve only pried open my wallet for IJ, but FIRE looks pretty good, too. Any thoughts?
I really like FIRE. They’re one of the few organizations pushing back on the campus sexual assault witch hunts and free speech suppression.
Yes, the Overlords would approve
Strong. Helpful while shopping colleges last year. They seem like tough graders.
FIRE is a good group from what I’ve read. Also, any group that advertised on the pages of Liberty I generally have a favorable opinion of
RIP RW Bradford.
The guy rode a motorcycle and wore leather. He was what Nick Gillespie wishes he was.
Individual rights is racist.
Yes. FIRE is good.
FIRE BAD!!!
/Frankenstein’s Monster
*accidentally lights finger, thinking it’s a cigar*
Go for it. I haven’t donated, but Silverglate is excellent.
FIRE – yes.
FIRE and IJ are the two civil rights organizations I gladly donate to.
FIRE and IJ are the two charities we gave all the money we couldn’t spend on strippers, blow, and this
sightsite last year. $1 each, because the stripper wanted a $2 bill. I have yet to see FIRE fail to take up a case of individual rights on campus.Couldn’t? If you are claiming you couldn’t spend it all on strippers and blow you best hand in your monocle right now. I expect agency: you either must decide to spend all the money on strippers and blow or decide not to, a squishy middle ground where you couldn’t reeks of failure. In future, if you decide to spend it all on strippers and blow but find the task daunting due to a swole wallet, just remember that you can always get creative: doing blow off of strippers who are simultaneously also doing blow off of other strippers can drastically increase your cash burn rate.
They get mad if you try to give them quarters.
Fair enough. I retract my criticism.
$2 billion is a lot of money to get your monocle polished.
monocle, knob, whatever you want to call it
FWIW, I have contributed to them and am glad I did.
I give them some of my hard earned worthless fiat currency. I could go into details, but I think that’s where the rubber hits the road as far as anything I could say about them. Oh, and their podcast is usually pretty good (but the last one was a stinker – the guest sucked).
OK, it seems to be unanimous, which is what I figured.
Obrador’s “populism” suggests Mexicans are desperate for somebody to stand up to Trump’s bullying and fight government’s deep-rooted corruption that has plunged the country into economic and political turmoil.
Wut?
What in the fuck does Trump’s “bullying” have to do with pervasive corruption in the Mexican government?
Because we’re the release valve for that corruption, and Trump is trying to put a stop to it.
Got it in one.
I’m gonna drag the tipping conversation over from the H&H thread.
The growing obligation in the US to tip for a service you’re already paying for (e.g. a haircut) is messed up. Change my mind.
To clarify some more. I’m not against tipping for add-ons like waitservice at a restaurant or a bellhop at a hotel, where the service is ancillary to the primary purpose of the establishment. I’m talking solely about tipping for services where there would be no business sans the service.
I don’t go to expensive hair joints.
I go to the local chain shop. I tip the staff 30%.
They remember me. I get great service. And I spend less out of pocket than going to some high-end joint.
I don’t think there is a right/wrong answer. I tip for exceptional service.
I don’t feel obliged to tip anyone but waitstaff and the very, very occasional valet — because they used to either not get paid or get paid less than a real wage. I tip the barber if I intend to come back. Everyone else, I tip as I feel. Except Uber drivers. Bitch, we agreed on a price. Down rate me all you want.
The fuck? I thought that was one of the selling points of Uber?!?
I do tend to tip delivery drivers (appliances, furniture, etc.)
Uber added a “tip” function at some point. What is this, a cab?
The last driver did 20 over and was passing just about everyone in sight, unasked. Smooth drive, pristine interior and ran between the doors, held my backpack instead of slinging into a pile. And left me alone after some pleasantries without forcing a conversation.
He got a tip.
I tip waitstaff well. My families pretty much stays to two local restaurants. My kids made a mess consistent with their ages and I constantly need to ask for new silverware and napkins. I also have a specific table I prefer, or to choose a my own if that’s already taken.
Despite the added work of my kids or needing to serve a table away from the others, the servers are still very happy to see us because we tip very well.
I rarely tip for take-out, though will give some for an especially large order. I’ve heard the argument that the servers are working just as hard to prepare the orders, but I don’t feel that’s reasonable. Workers at fast food do the same thing and don’t get tipped. I think preparing orders for takeout are more appropriate for a line cook or manager than a server.
I always tip deliveries that involve bringing the item inside the house (TV, appliance, etc). I give the UPS and trash guy $25 each Christmas. I tip valet a couple bucks and leave $3-5 for the hotel maid.
With UPS, etc. – I can’t tell if it’s the same guy every time – I don’t think I’ve seen the same folks too many times (I know USPS is mixed up every other day – which is why my mail sucks so hard). I will tip the garbage this next year – private company and they do take every single thing I’ve left on the curb.
A few years ago I realized why I despise tipping. It reminds me of giving bribes in Mother Russia. The classes of people you bribe there and tip in the US are completely different. But the ways you’re supposed to do it inconspicuously are very similar. Actually I am not opposed to tipping at sit-down restaurants–precisely because it doesn’t feel like giving bribes. You just pay for service separately. But all other kinds of tipping where you’re expected to slip a bill in the palm of their hand…
I despise it too. I would prefer restaurants build 18% or whatever into the price and then pay their staff on commission if they want.
At Holy Grale in Louisville (a bar I have mentioned plenty of times), one of the staff mentioned that if someone fails to close out a tab, they add an 18% gratuity. I told them I was going to stop closing my tab as that would save me money.
Not sure if it’s tipping-associated or not, but I like being recognized by staff in some joints and getting a little more familiar. Service is different, etc IMO depending on the location.
I’m nearer to homo economicus. I don’t ascribe any moral valance to payment that goes directly to a service provider vs payment that gets funneled through an employer.
I do take significant umbrage with the idea that “I don’t like tipping” should somehow lead to “and therefore I’m going to violate an implied contract after receiving my half of it.” Because that would make the non-tipper a shit head. Because fucking with someone working to put food on the table makes one a shit head, no matter how strongly one feels about tipping.
Agreed.
If someone doesn’t like tipping, fine. Write some letters to the restaurant telling them that you don’t like this policy and you will prioritize non-tipping restaurants to show your disapproval, and start a movement encouraging others to do the same.
As for not tipping as some kind of protest, that’s within your rights, but it’s a stupid way to go about changing the situation.
And trying to get the government to make tipping illegal? Fuggeddaboutit.
As an aside, it’s extremely annoying to hear Lefties whine that “tipping is just a way for greedy businesses to pass the costs onto the customer!” Well no shit! The whole idea of businesses is that an entrepreneur provides a good/service and passes the costs onto the customer. Who the fuck else is supposed to bear the costs?
I read somewhere that when asked what the profit margin of the average restaurant is, the most common answer was 30-40%. The average is right around 0% (most go out of business for a reason…). So yes, people are that stupid.
If you can’t afford to tip at restaurants, you can’t afford to eat out.
Other than that, it’s pretty much up to you.
I always tip.
Just the tip?
The whole nine (yards).
Tipping as a percentage seems odd. I do it anyways, but it’s no more work for the waitstaff to bring a glass of house wine or a glass of champagne, but it effects the tip significantly.
That’s one of the reasons they have incentive to upsell.
Can I start you off with an appetizer?
Do you have fried mozzarella?!?
I make a shit ton of money. And I inherited well. But I grew up poor and remember how good it made me feel to get a decent tip. One case that always comes to mind happened in the summer of 1981. I was working at a summer camp in Pennsylvania for rich kids. I picked up a girl from a local airport. She and her father got out of the private plane. He handed off his daughter into my care and also handed me twenty dollars. In 1981, minimum wage was about $2.00 so it was like being tipped a day’s pay with a little overtime. I remember thinking that someday I would like to be generous like that.
So I tip because I can.
When I buy a sandwich at subway or a pound of coffee from a coffee shop, I tip $5.00, which comes out to about 72% at Subway and about 35% (kind of cheap of me) at the coffee joint. With respect to haircuts, I tip 66%. In all other cases — restaurants mostly — I tip a minimum of 50% ad at times well over 100%. I eat out every day. When I see a commercial that says a person can lease a brand new car for $250/month I always think to myself — Why I spend more than that on tips!
To reiterate, I tip because I can.
It’s about being generous to people who earn a lot less. They truly appreciate it. And at the restaurants I frequent, I am treated like a king.
I tipped 100 percent on a meal once because I ordered coffee after dinner. The waiter paused for a minute and said “Do you want anything in it?” I said no and he left. He came back later with a cup of coffee from a coffee shop because that restaurant didn’t serve coffee. That’s exceptional service and he got paid for it. I only regret I didn’t think to speak to his manager and let him know what a good employee he had.
There’s a restaurant that doesn’t serve coffee? Even Chuck E Cheese serves coffee.
It was a sushi place. No idea why they didn’t have coffee.
That is exceptional service. Assuming this waiter stays in the service industry, he’ll likely end up in one of those fancy joints I can’t afford to eat in.
I’m not well off enough to do it all the time, but I love leaving huge tips when I can. I’ve never worked for tips, but I grew up in that milieu (which I like saying ironically because the people I grew up with would never use that word. They’d say “sitiation.” Then maybe spit).
I’m like you. I love to leave a big tip when my wallet allows. I always make a concerted effort the month before Christmas to tip as big as I can.
I tip my grocery delivery driver usually about 30%. On orders in the $200 range, it’s a nice chunk of cash, but to me, seems average and not extravagantly generous. Anyway, they always thank me profusely, and I wonder “WTF are other people tipping???”
From the old thread
Bartenders think I’m a tightwad, waitresses think I’m JP Morgan. I have a problem tipping the former everytime they take 10 seconds to reach in a cooler and hand me a Strohs, but I think nothing of leaving 40% for the later when I get a meal.
I should add, I’m not loaded but the buck or two that make a 15-20% up to a 30-40% one means little to me but the waitresses appreciate it, also, I delivered pizza for a few years out of high school, I don’t order out pizza often (because I’m so damn good at making my own) but when I do I overtip.
I tip $2 for the first drink and $1 per/drink after. That’s what I’ve heard is proper etiquette.
Screw that I ain’t tipping my bartender $7 an hour for 90 seconds of work.
I don’t have an issue tipping a bar tender when they are good. For instance, there’s one lady at the local taphouse who is so attentive. Yeah, she knows I will spend money and tip well, but she works for it. My glass is never empty before she’s there asking if I need another beer, no matter how busy it is. I don’t mind tipping that person and well. However, tips are for quality service, if some lazy fucker is letting my glass sit there empty while just wondering around doing nothing, that person is getting jackshit for a tip.
Yeah, bartenders get a buck a drink, regardless of price – I’m not tipping you extra just because your prices are jacked. _Maybe_ a couple bucks if it’s something fancy.
I pretty much only order whiskey neat or a draft beer because talented bartenders are a rare treat.
I’m fortunate that there’s a ton of quality bar-tending in this town; there’s a whole tree of talent that all flows from a single dude alone, Jackson Cannon – his proteges have spread out through the city and across the country.
So I arrive at a hotel after hauling my luggage over a quarter mile of cobblestone street and I’m supposed to tip a bell hop for wheeling it thirty feet to an elevator and along a carpeted hallway to my room?
No.
The most nefarious attempts to force a tip come from sex workers. Prostitutes in particular.
I would like to applaud Mexican sharpshooter for the picture associated with this page. The brunette in pigtails had me mesmerized. You beat Q to the punch.
Also, I’ve always wondered if any other country salutes their flag in the same strange manner as Mexico?
I’ve seen other Latin American countries do it that way.
Topless?
I’m going to put this in one more place, just to make sure you see it. In response to your question in this morning’s links.
Oh damnit, someone else asked for this link and had a black and white avatar. I was mistaken, thought it was you.
You owe me a girly pic
Damn it, not again. *starts putting eyeliner and lipstick on*
It was Akira
Oh, is that what i mistakenly attributed to Andrew McCarthy? Thank you for digging that up.
I spent 20 mins looking for it and gave up
Yeah that’s the one. Np, you mentioning National Review is what helped me remember the title of the article.
As if one needed any more reason to think that John McCain is a douche.
I don’t get it. Welch loves NATO, I thought he’d agree that Paul was wrong to oppose Montenegro from joining?
Also, McCain is an ass
As usual, Rand takes the high road.
See you in hell John.
….from heaven
We’re going to purgatory at best. Don’t get your hopes up, no amount of hail Mary full of grace prayers will wash the stench of the hat and hair from your soul.
Not true. All dogs go to heaven (or so I was told by Disney). So you should be good
(or so I was told by Disney)
Poor, poor Don Bluth. His masterpiece (I’d argue it was Dragon’s Lair but…) can’t even get recognition.
I’m normal from the neck down. It isn’t liturgical, but I figured you’d have more familiarity with Latin.
Michael, this is the life we have chosen, and the only certainty is that none of us shall see heaven.
Not a great movie, but always liked that scene.
That picture of Samson is the thumbnail for my Song Melon Dog on YT,
Cool!
You (((people))) are looking good. But could you knock it off with all the rain?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5737329/Cannes-Film-Festival-Milla-Jovovich-oozes-glamour-premiere-Burning.html
Blame the rain on (((it)))?
I swear to god, that woman looks better now than 20 years ago.
For all their shittiness, Resident Evil movies stand as a testament to the fact.
Ukraine definitely churns out hot women at a pretty high rate.
I’ll take a modest amount of satisfaction in the fact she’s half-Serb, but yes.
It’s the ugly half that’s Serb, amirite?
It would be the half that rips your balls off while singing the Serbian national anthem.
Eh, much like half the Slavs, Serbs chose “monotone dirge” as a national anthem.
The other half of Slavic anthems are “insipid whines”.
Exceptions to the rule: Poles, and (non-tsarist*) Russians.
*although Tchaikovsky’s arrangement of God, Save the Tsar in 1812 overture fixes it.
The only “ugly half” in relation to her I can think of is her husband, and he’ an Englishman
Wasn’t she the “Fifth Element”?
I remember being particularly infatuated with that woman.
Her first flick – Luc Besson was nailing her then, married her after the flick wrapped.
Dazed and Confused would like a word
Did you ever hear her sing. Very good.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MrQOBcFfEj0
You can’t fool me. Number 4 is a mannequin.
El hambre, parte de una maquinaria cínica para obligar a los venezolanos a votar a favor del régimen
In English
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about six months ago about families morning over the fact that their children are starving to death and there’s little they can do for them.
All of the celebrities and politicians who praised Chavez and his barbaric regime should be forced to look at pictures of children starving due to a government that they praised. With each picture shown it should be repeated: “this is socialism”
*mourning*
You act like that would change anything.
I said before that I regret that Chavez died before the economy collapsed. Because that didn’t happen, the celebrities in question still claim that Chavez and the system of government in Venezuela are good and pure, and the only issue is that the right TOP MEN aren’t in charge (or, alternatively, the wreckers and kulaks sabotaging Madro).
Like wreckers and kulaks couldn’t sabotage Chavez.
It’s a depressing thing to witness people being starved to death for the greater glory of socialism. At yet it happens every single time
While we’re at it, can we take all the “pacifist” Obama voters and strap them down Ludovico-style and force them to look at the charred corpses of Middle Eastern children killed in drone strikes between 2008 and 2016?
^ YOU. You’re the one that asked for a fact-based rundown on Russia collusion story. Here’s a really good one:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/russia-collusion-real-story-hillary-clinton-dnc-fbi-media/
Thanks brah! I did see your link on the other thread, and I read about half of it, then went outside to mow the lawn. I’ll finish it later.
It’s just so hard to find good information on that whole situation since the mainstream media thinks that “anonymous officials” are a good source and that if intelligence agencies “believe” something with “a high degree of confidence”, then it must be true.
Lol. Like they give a shit.
Won’t change a thing.
fify
“this is CNN”
fify
In happier news, the country is no longer in danger of tipping over.
Alternative take: “Venezuela solves obesity problem!”
You’re joking, but I actually had to explain to an Obama appointee that no, Venezuela hadn’t solved the obesity problem, it was a measure of human suffering.
What frauds. They have organs to sell and selfishly cling to them. Do they think Maduro won’t harvest them when they die?
Nobody needs two kidneys when children are starving.
John Oliver and “comedy” hardest hit.
No they didn
Well, I mean I certainly did not say they were going to do this, I mean I don’t think anyone did, no one could have ever predicted this.
Here’s just a small highlight:
“– In the Pittsburgh area, two card-carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America topped incumbent state representatives in Democratic primaries”
Blue wave, man, big huge blue wave a comin.
Kmele, Haidt, Andrew Sullivan, and others… debate “is there a free speech crisis (on campus)”
*i think the “on campus’ bit is increasingly irrelevant; the same issues affecting campus are affecting media, business world, any sorts of public fora
In some ways, they’re more acute in the business world. They affect a wider swath of the public.
I partly disagree with you. Certainly the problem has spread beyond the campus. But a good college education should show you the importance of free speech regardless of your politics. It should give everyone the opportunity to have their beliefs tested and to test others’ beliefs. And you should be able to do it without repercussions.
I feel very fortunate in that regard. 30+ years ago when I was in college, I had philosophy and polisci professors who actively encouraged debate. All comers were welcome. I entered college a flaming liberal. I left a budding libertarian.
I think you fail to appreciate how rare such a thing is, and how many people who have already graduated without these sensibilities, and whose expectations greatly influence the environments in media and business worlds.
If conservative students were rioting every time a progressive speaker came to campus would we even be debating this? Of course not. Everyone would be in agreement that there is a free speech crisis on college campuses. The fact that this even has to be argued proves the affirmative position to be correct.
I dont even think the issue is a “left/right” one
(tho the people who frequently use victimhood and outrage as their cudgel are far-left)
Its just a general decline in people’s ability to disagree honestly. I’ve been listening to haidt interviews/speeches from the last few years, and he points out that the language of debate has effectively vanished from public discourse, and become a language of “Parody” and “Slurs” and “sneers”.
e.g. No one listens to what the person they disagree with actually says; they wait until they finish, then go (like Cathy Newman) “SO WHAT YOU”RE SAYING IS, JUST KILL ALL THE JEWS RITE?” – iow, responding to the most exaggerated and cynical mischaracterization of other people’s positions as possible
it kills any possibility of reasoned debate. and this sort of thing is everywhere you look. Its near impossible to get anyone to even agree on basic facts without hysterical accusations flying.
e.g. Josh Barro points out that a critic of a new cabinet appointment is technically incorrect:
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/996503408453541889
one person says, “Appointee has no experience!”
Barro points out, “Actually, she has more experience than any other possible candidate; she’s been doing this for decades”
And what is the response? People freak out at him for contradicting the critic – because TEAM is more important than FACT
And you find the same shit on the right. e.g. See the way some people are trying to defend this Candace Owens person, who seems to me to be a complete loon.
Its just a general decline in people’s ability to disagree honestly.
Yup. In talking to the people I still know who are in the policy/lobbying biz, I can confirm this. The ability to compartmentalize business from personal, and even public business from private business, is pretty much gone. Everything gets reduced to the most reptilian/personal level immediately, which is where the emotional rules over the rational.
You used to be able to issue a statement, for example, that the Other Party was just kowtowing to their big money donors or whatever, and still sit down in private with the Other Party and get shit done (for better or worse). Even that’s getting harder/more rare. And never mind that the ability to recognize that people you disagree with are just . . . people you disagree with, and not inhuman monsters who want to slaughter babies and put everyone not just like them in extermination camps.*
*I have to say, though, that number of people who actually do want to put me in an extermination camp, though small, is increasing.
The get along bipartisanship friendship and establishment first was a post war anonomaly not the rule (recall duels or caning episodes). I’m glad those are mostly gone and buried. Lie through their ass to their voters and do the opposite in office. Fuck them and their country fucking “consensus”.
I wouldn’t want to be golfing pals with Stalin or Hitler, why would I want my reps to do the same with their idealogical fellow travelers.
Lie through their ass to their voters and do the opposite in office. Fuck them and their country fucking “consensus”.
This isn’t really about that, though. I’ve seen this same thing – the loss of the ability to compartmentalize, and the personalization of everything – in the business/legal world as well. It means the loss the ability for people with genuine differences to reach a real compromise, and instead turns everything into a naked grab for power and dominance, with the concomitant need to make sure the other guy is permanently disabled from being able to do the same to you. I’ll take lying and hypocrisy, with the ability to compromise, over vicious tribalism.
This is good but misleading, Vape Juice does not HAVE to contain nicotine, which makes it a good way to quit Cigs
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/05/liberal-dems-oppose-breakthrough-anti-smoking-technology.php
“No such luck. It turns out that top Democrats like Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin are leading the charge against this breakthrough.”
I’m sure taxes and subsidies have nothing to do with it.
The wrong people do it.
Here in California we are utterly bombarded by ads about the evils of vaping. Fucking scumbags.
Best move I ever made, I can breathe again..
It seems to me the commercials actually promote vaping by showing kids talking about how awesome it is. They demonize “Big Tobacco”. It makes me wonder who is in charge of the ad budget.
Is there a reason to quit nicotine?
AFAIK nicotine is not inherently harmful to humans in normal use dosages.
There are some neuroprotective benefits to small doses of nicotine. The problem is most of the delivery systems.
No, I looked real hard for a reason, other than it’s extremely poisonous. It doesn’t cause Cancer, is a stimulant and a relaxant at the same time.
That’s what I thought. I know people that swear they think more clearly with nicotine. It’s not my drug of choice.
They think more clearly after they’ve had 10 minutes to step away from the task and clear their head. The fact that the smoke break caused them to get up and go outside is incidental.
My parents loved their trip to Argentina. From their pictures, it looks like the country has everything they need to kick ass. Thanks, government!
I’m not gonna cry for them, though.
Argentina spends most of its resources kicking its own ass.
It does. From wiki:
Gormod o Gymro yno. Maent yn cael eu sgriwio.
If I could find it in my bookmarks….
Argentina on Two Steaks a Day.
At my old job, there was an 18-year old intern from Argentina who was half-German and half-Malaysian. She made it sound like a pretty cool place – nice countryside with cheap land and tons of meat in the diet. BBQs are a huge thing there.
And yes, she was drop-dead gorgeous. Easily one of the most beautiful females i have ever laid eyes on.
Separating families crossing the border is unconscionable and not without precedent.
So, bring your kids on a trip through the Sonoran Desert? to cross a Border you know you shouldn’t?
Keep you’re irresponsibility at Home, thank you
But isn’t that standard practice when someone is arrested for a crime? If someone is out with their kid and gets carted off to jail for a crime they don’t throw the kid in the cell with them, do they?
Usually the child is not taken by the state if there is a relative nearby to care for them. I understand the logic of what you are saying, but is offensive that the government would separate families when they could house them together.
I agree, but can’t we just physically put them back in Mexico? let them apply for sanctuary over there and wait like everyone else.
Why do they get special treatment, just for jumping the Border from the South?
I agree in that regard.
Oh, its standard practice? From a government with the power to arbitrarily change what standard practice is? Well in that case, yes, by all means, please enforce the laws in a needlessly barbaric way.
Yes, illegal border crossings are illegal. But we aren’t talking about violent suspects here. What possible interest would the government have in breaking up a family while in custody?
I agree. This is needlessly cruel.
Every time I read one of your comments, I be like
http://i.imgur.com/EucIfYY.gif
I love that gif
The Tucson paper had an article on the families crossing illegally and being separated thing. Naturally, their take was that the US was “tearing families apart”, with no mention of the fact that anyone bringing their whole family across illegally was volunteering to have their kids taken from them.
Clicked too soon.
This is about deterrence, IMO. If we announce, as we have, that we will separate families for detention (which is not unusual; mixing ages and sexes in detention facilities is usually a recipe for trouble), and you decide to take that risk by bringing your family across illegally*, then its on you if the family gets detained separately. Especially considering that the current kerfuffle at the border is people who claim to be refugees, but have crossed the entirety of Mexico to the get to the US. Their refugee issues, if any, were solved when they got to Mexico; keeping on until they get to the US is economically motivated, not “fleeing an oppressive regime” motivated.
*I can guarantee you that families of Central American illegals are a net drain on the US – the parents don’t pay nearly enough in taxes to cover all the outlays on them and their kids, who get free schooling, the whole family gets free medical care, and with a tad bit of routine identity theft, they get on welfare, too.
My wife used to work for a hotel chain that routinely hired illegal immigrants from Central America for housekeeping. She told me that there was no way to keep up with their name or even know what their real name was. All of them had 3-4 identities with fake driver’s license and SS numbers.
Good to know…
Why?
All of them had 3-4 identities with fake driver’s license and SS numbers.
Means they can vote (for as many identities as they have) and get on welfare (for as many identities as they have). Who knows how many of them do, but we just had a trial here in Tucson of a Mexican criminal gang whose main activity was welfare fraud, using, wait for it, illegals with multiple fake US IDs.
But, really, that’s a sideshow. I think immigration policy starts with the answer to two questions:
(1) Do nation-states have the right to control who crosses their borders?
(2) If so, should they exercise that control for the benefit of the citizens of the nation-state?
There are people who believe the answers to one or both of these questions is “no”. And there is an argument for that, based mainly on an inherent human right to travel and live where you want. I tend not to buy this argument, but I’ve heard worse.
If you think the answer is “yes”, that sets up a whole new raft of issues around what immigration policy will benefit the citizens of the state. Its collectivist, yeah, but you can’t govern much of anything without making collective decisions. I’m a minarchist, so I’m resigned to this. YMMV.
If that guy had just followed the officer’s instructions then maybe he wouldn’t have gotten shot.
Shouldn’t the onus be on the State to restrain itself since it holds the monopoly on violence? We can argue whether or not these parents are good caregivers, but that seems to be beside the point. We should oppose the government getting involved in familial relations except in extraordinary situations. There is no reason why the State needs to separate these children from their families
There is no reason why the State needs to separate these children from their families
As I mentioned, there are a couple of reasons:
(1) Mixed age/sex detention facilities are bad news.
(2) Deterrence.
You might not think those are good enough reasons, but the alternative is to give special treatment to people who have gone out of their way to come here illegally.
The real reason I have a problem with illegal immigration is the exact same reason the Democrats want it. I’m sorry, but we have enough uneducated morons here who will throw away everything that is right about this country to get another month of free shit. No, just fucking hell no to open borders.
Fully agreed.
The GOP could win the immigration debate… Not just a round of the debate, but the entire thing… By simply giving these illegals a documented status that makes them permanently ineligible for government benefits and citizenship. It would cometelt sweep the rug out from under the democrats. Which is why it’ll never happen.
Completely*
I think most voters in their own party know that they would cave on any such agreement in less than 10 years, and they’d be right.
“with no mention of the fact that anyone bringing their whole family across illegally was volunteering to have their kids taken from them.”
Well, that’s our precious media in a nutshell, it’s what they do. They don’t report the news, they report what they want the news to be. No different to how they tried to portray the refugee crisis in Europe as just a bunch of innocent women and children. Who’s afraid of a few women and children? Then of course it turns out that those innocent women and children were mostly 18 to 20 something year old males. Then the Jerusalem embassy move, when the media tried to portray is as the Israelis firing on innocent peaceful demonstrators and blame it on Trump when in fact it was all Hamas up to their usual not so peaceful bullshit.
The Broward Sheriff’s Deputy who cowered outside during the shooting in Parkland and then retired will receive his monthly pension of over $100,000 a year
This is my shocked face.
You beat me to the punch.
And SP beat you both to the punch in her glorious and clickable am links.
You’ll never dislodge SF, but you might get a “Get out of Catbutt” card.
Already have one. 🙂
As if anyone reads those
That’s not even $10K a month!
Truly, he is the greatest victim here.
Pension reform: an issue that Hogg character should really be touting. No wonder this cop wasn’t in any rush to get ventilated. I’ll bet if you looked at his timecards for the last five years, you’d see a ton of overtime that built his pension far above what his base pay would have given him.
That’s correct, I believe only $75k was the base. Changing the overtime-counts-towards-your-pension-amount rule alone would go a long way towards solving the problem.
What Problem?
/FOP
Civil suit?
Meanwhile, not a complete coward.
Good on him.
I linked to this earlier, but it’s just too much fun to not do it again.
https://youtu.be/sg0D1PpgCXs
The pussy who hid while students were being gunned down is set to collect a cool $104,000 annual pension. Taxpayer money well spent as always.
I’m kind of glad that my property taxes are escrowed, because writing “Go fuck yourselves, slavers” on the memo line of a check might get me in trouble.
I once wrote “Infernal Revenue Service” on my annual contribution and lived to tell about it!
SO FAR.
Senate tries to rescue net neutrality:
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/387985-senate-votes-to-save-net-neutrality-rules
Man, we’ve got to give them a Republican majority next time.
Collins and Murkowski doing their thang, as usual.
Some Republicans are really chasing those skinny jean, thick rimmed glasses wearing hipsters who will never ever vote for them anyways. Thank God the House is set to crap all over this
Anytime anything shitty is up voted by ‘republicans’, you can always be sure who 2 of the ‘republicans will be…
” Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) ”
What happened to McCain, not feeling well enough to vote?
The only time Republicans act like Republicans is when they’re in the minority.
I’m appropriating that.
Stolen for the tweeter
Good BBQ in the high country of SC? North of Greenville area, NC border (Travelers Rest, Landrum, etc.)
I am loyal to a BBQ joint in Flat Rock, but wouldn’t mind finding something closer to my dad’s house. I like a classic pulled pork shoulder with coleslaw.
Drive two hours north to Lexington.
The worst BBQ I’ve ever had was in KY.
Lexington NC, not KY.
This. Go to this.
Okay, I was worried about your taste buds, JB.
Have you had NY barbecue?
And the war begins……..
Grilled rat is not bbq
Grilled anything is not BBQ
Correct
You’re supposed to use barbecue sauce, not vaseline.
**opera applause**
I’m getting pissed off at the “young faces of the new right”. Particularly Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. Kirk’s just an idiot, and Owens is a grifter who was a SJW 2 years ago (and tried to start a site “Social Coroner” to dox people who commit thoughtcrime) before realizing where the money is in Trump’s America.
It’ll have the wrong sauce, so no.
**Picks up spear, kisses children good-bye, prepares for holy war**
Well, it’s no NYC bbq…
Get a rope.
I literally LOL’ed
Go here on Friday. Get there at 11am. Drink free St. Arnold’s beer (tip the guy manning the keg!), stand in line, and make sure to get the beef ribs. For a fun experience with good barbecue, drive out to Driftwood, south of Austin, and spend an afternoon sampling the wine at the Salt Lick and then get in shape for the drive home by getting their 3 meat plate.
Didn’t Franklin’s burn down, or am I thinking of somewhere else?
There is no better BBQ in the world than Killen’s.
Worth any drive or any wait.
He buys only prime meats to start and treats them well.
And it’s clear none of y’all has been to Hubba Hubba in Flat Rock. Poor, benighted souls
Wilburs in Goldsboro not far from Greenville is highly recommended. Haven’t been myself.
Wait a sec. You meant Greenville, SC right? That NC after made me think Greenville, NC.
Yes, SC. Landrum, Travelers Rest area
Hmmm…with an agenda like that, he’ll be needing a lot of cheap labor to run the farms and ranches. It would be delicious irony if in desperation to get his agenda to work he had to start enforcing the border from his side.
Good thing being a True Believer is way more important than being mildly intelligent. It’s way less successful, but it’s way more important status-wise.
Maybe Americans will go there and do the jobs Mexicans don’t want to do.
Become a terrorist. Join the NRA.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/16/debbie-wasserman-schultz-lets-face-nra-just-shy-terrorist-organization/
Let’s face it Debbie Wasserman Schulz is just shy of being a full-blown traitor who passed secrets along to Pakistani spies.
^^^^ This cannot be repeated often enough.
There are new rumblings out of Washington that the Russian hackers of the DNC server was actually he IT guy Awan (sp) and that is why she is trying to protect him like she has.
Allow me to virtue signal about how terrible is the NRA, while I ignore the unprecedented threat against the 2nd Amendment that we face
They don’t want to take our guns except for the wanting to take our guns part.
Fuck. These people are going to force me to send money to the NRA.
I think they broke a record March or April but yeah I need to re-up.
And yet these people never seem to move to whatever country they tout as being so much better than us. If there was a country better than the US in those areas most important to me, I would move there.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/16/deep-thoughts-minnesota-dem-whyd-bother-independence-anyway/
I’ve said it too many times before, but I am way past sick of all the people claiming how great Europe is and not a damn one of them will move there. I wonder why?
Would they even let us in? Real question
Of course they would because the US is the only country without open borders because we’re racist and child haters.
I lived in the NL for three years (I have an Irish passport). If you don’t have an EU passport (or aren’t living like a refugee) then it is a long and difficult process to legally work in most EU countries. It’s almost like other places have immigration laws too.
I heard the same from a French native who married an American woman he met while she was working as a nanny over there. They moved to the US because it was easier for him to find work here than for her to do so over there.
Really? Those House Hunter International shows seem to imply that it is easy for trailing spouses to find work abroad.
Work? Hah. In Germany my wife (a Nurse Practitioner) wasn’t even allowed to volunteer for medical stuff. She got a lecture about volunteers doing work for free that someone else should be getting paid for.
Are you kidding me? They know the second we’re in, we’ll drive around in out giant SUV mounted with machine guns and start running down grannies and shooting the place up.
Hell, most “progressives” can’t be bothered to move to another US state even as they praise those states for being socialist utopias.
Don’t huff glue, kids.
You’re asking too much; I’d settle for less glue.
Examining his photo, I can see the reason why he wants to return to British rule. The guy looks like a House of Lords reject.
Or a serial killer.
Why can’t it be both?
Good point.
Yeah. That dude’s tasted long pig.
Upper Class Twit of the Year Contestant, anyway.
“Body cam video contradicts NAACP president’s racial profiling claims”
http://www.scnow.com/news/local/article_023a88d4-563a-11e8-9448-e37f81cc3ad5.html
99.99% of reported racism incidents are false.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/trumps-9th-circuit-nominee-faces-opposition-briefs-landmark-gun-rights-free-speech-decisions/
Trump nominates garbage pick for 9th Circuit (opposed Citizens United and Heller)
He’s keeping the 9th pure.
All things considered, if he can gerrymander the assholes into a few, specific courts while improving the rest, I’ll take it.
Not that I think he’s that smart.
Is there some sort of fuckface requirement to be on the 9th? ‘Cause that certainly would clear a lot of things up.
Does anyone know the numbers on the 9th’s rulings being overturned at SCOTUS versus the other districts? It’s abysmal right? And it’s often not even along ideological lines…I think they have a fair number of 9-0 beat-downs.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/16/scotus-california-county-can-regulate-gun-stores-existence/
SCOTUS keeps letting the 9th bad gun rulings stand.
The declined to review a ruling from the 9th that allows local governments to ban gun stores from operating in their jurisdiction.
Very disappointing the Supremes didn’t take the case.
If you read the linked article it’s not as bad as it looks at first glance (although still not good).
I think standard practice for the circuit court nominations is to only nominate someone approved by the senators of the states said circuit covers. So in that case, yes, there is such a requirement for the 9th.
I swear to god, that woman looks better now than 20 years ago.
She [Milla Jovovich] looked pretty sweet in The Messenger.
I’ll be in my bunk.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/21/8d/8a218d0469d227c6ed7b7512db699697.jpg
A new scientific paper finds that “Organic matter loading by hippopotami causes subsidy overload resulting in downstream hypoxia and fish kills.” Or, in plain language: Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die.
Your link text should be the name of an Album.
That’s the actual name of the article. I couldn’t not link an article with a title like that.
Solution: shoot some of the hippos
Which raises the question: how does hippo taste? It’s possible you could kill two birds with one stone with this method.
*…. i recall reading a story of early african exploration and bush-living … and the subject of hippo-eating came up more than once.
If i recall, it was considered very good. but: often logistically complicated. one, you had to kill one without making another one mad. then you needed to clean and dress a carcass the size of an SUV.
apparently there was a problem with Hippo-eating in the congo a while back
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9980282/ns/us_news-environment/t/taste-hippo-meat-threatens-population/#.Wvy6G0O5tPY
http://www.saukvalley.com/2018/05/16/dixon-high-school-shooting-former-student-shot-wounded-after-bringing-gun/axbadt5/
The officer was not injured. Also, nobody in the lower castes was injured.
Exactly.
Fun fact: Dixon, IL has a piece of the Berlin Wall in their downtown. Reagan grew-up there and someone gifted it to the town.
“EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University says it has reached $500 million settlement with women and girls assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.
Michigan State University has reached a $500 million settlement with hundreds of women and girls who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar in the worst sex-abuse case in sports history.
The deal was announced Wednesday by Michigan State and lawyers for 332 victims.
Nassar pleaded guilty to assaulting victims with his hands under the guise of treatment. He also possessed child pornography and is serving decades in prison.
He treated campus athletes and scores of young gymnasts at his Michigan State office. He had an international reputation while working at the same time for USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.
Olympic gold medalists Jordyn Wieber, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas and McKayla Maroney say they were victims.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michigan-state-nassar-victims-reach-500m-settlement-n874666
332?
“332?”
That dude had a lot of energy, no?
That’s 3 more victims than a CTA bus crash.
It’s a good thing that Michigan State has that kind of money in the couch cushions.
More best of Mike Tyson Mysteries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCWMYVChBok
/wiping tears of laughter with soiled napkin.
Euphemism?
Will you grow up?
Same goes for all of you.
Are know you are, but what am I?
TK, good article on Hildabeest and the Email server! She should be in prison for this right here,
“It is impossible to paste a classified document into an unclassified email accidentally, because the three computer systems (Unclassified, Confidential/Secret, and Top Secret) are physically separate networks, each feeding into an independent hard drive on the user’s desk. If a classified document appears in an unclassified email, then someone downloaded it onto a thumb drive and manually uploaded it to the unclassified network — an intentional act if ever there was one.”
Fucking Cunt!
Someone wake up Sessions.
The garden gnome is in permanent hibernation. Cannabis users everywhere thankful.
This article looks to be a rehash from a Forbes article from late last year: “The Pentagon Can’t Account for $21 Trillion (That’s Not a Typo)”
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagon-cant-account-for-21-trillion/
That’s a lot of money.
Writer for RT? hmmm…
I hate articles like that. I keep thinking that if I had just $1M of that, which is a tiny fraction, I’d never have to work for the rest of my life.
I read it, but still don’t understand it. How can you spend more money than the US GDP?
Over decades, not all in one year.
Since 1998 I think. Still righteous bucks though.
Still, it boggles the mind. If they didn’t piss away that much money, the US government could be debt free.
Go have a look around NOVA, I’m sure you can find some of it.
I don’t think he’s ever heard of a light year, but where did all this missing money come From?
In general, the military can’t account for anything.
I knew a Navy accounting auditor, he said that they basically went around to all the major bases and found major accounting problems so that the resulting reports could get buried in a filing cabinet. Then the audit was done and everything was good.
Nothing. Left. To. Cut.
Crumbs. /Nancy
Since I fucked up above…
I’m getting pissed off at the “young faces of the new right”. Particularly Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens. Kirk’s just an idiot, and Owens is a grifter who was a SJW 2 years ago (and tried to start a site “Social Coroner” to dox people who commit thoughtcrime) before realizing where the money is in Trump’s America.
Would Candace Owens. Don’t judge
“Owens is a grifter who was a SJW 2 years ago”
It’s not impossible that being around a bunch of SJWs would make someone have 2nd thoughts. Just sayin…
Has this made the rounds yet?
http://www.businessinsider.com/john-bolton-may-sabotage-north-korea-talks-libya-2018-5
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North Korea and the US backslid from previously rosy relations on Tuesday when media from Pyongyang attacked President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton.
North Korea took issue with Bolton calling for a “Libya model” of denuclearization, as Libya’s leader met with a violent death after disarming.
Bolton almost certainly knew what he was doing, and experts say he may be sabotaging the deal.
Bolton has written extensively to advocate for the US bombing North Korea.
***
[head desk]
Thanks a fucking lot, Obama and Hillary.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Bolton’s sabotaging it on purpose, he is a war-mongering sack of blood drenched monkey shit after all.
It seems to me the “Libya model” refers to the strict verification of country’s giving up on WMD (unlike the “Iran model”) and not to what happened to Libya’s leader under the next US Administration.
It seems to me the “Libya model” refers to the strict verification of country’s giving up on WMD (unlike the “Iran model”) and not to what happened to Libya’s leader under the next US Administration.
I’m sure it did. But, it’s goddamned idiotic to cite the last instance where somebody agreed to disarm at our behest and wound up getting mass sodomized as a result. I wouldn’t be surprised if he were trying to sabotage the deal. Yeah, Obama and TEH MOST QUALIFIED CANDIDATE EVAH!!! blew the credibility of American non-aggression promises to smithereens. But, there’s no reason to advertise it.
“media from Pyongyang attacked President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton.”
We may be reading a little too much into this. Pyongyang media only really knows one mode, attack American and glorify dear leader. It’s probably pretty difficult for them to change that up on the fly. And yeah, everyone knows Bolton is a neocon dickhead, nothing new there.
That time a sea captain challenged another sea captain to a duel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_USS_Chesapeake
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As the Chesapeake appears now ready for sea, I request you will do me the favour to meet the Shannon with her, ship to ship, to try the fortune of our respective flags. The Shannon mounts twenty-four guns upon her broadside and one light boat-gun; 18 pounders upon her maindeck, and 32-pounder carronades upon her quarterdeck and forecastle; and is manned with a complement of 300 men and boys, beside thirty seamen, boys, and passengers, who were taken out of recaptured vessels lately. I entreat you, sir, not to imagine that I am urged by mere personal vanity to the wish of meeting the Chesapeake, or that I depend only upon your personal ambition for your acceding to this invitation. We have both noble motives. You will feel it as a compliment if I say that the result of our meeting may be the most grateful service I can render to my country; and I doubt not that you, equally confident of success, will feel convinced that it is only by repeated triumphs in even combats that your little navy can now hope to console your country for the loss of that trade it can no longer protect. Favour me with a speedy reply. We are short of provisions and water, and cannot stay long here.
— Philip Broke, original message edited by James and Chamier 1837
***
-One entire “Master and Commander”/Aubrey-Maturin series book is devoted to this showdown; ‘The Fortune of War’.
The entire series is worth reading simply to get to this point. its pretty much impossible to understand the plot or the historical context w/o at least 3 or 4 books prior. Its some of the very best historical fiction.
I liked the running battle against the Waakzamheid(sp) in the Southern Ocean, it gives me the creeps thinking about it…..
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/16/crossfire-hurricane-investigation-trump/
NYT bemoans that the FBI didn’t announce that it was investigating the Trump campaign during the election. But, the Senate report now concludes that no evidence has been uncovered to suggest that there was any collusion.
Leftists will not be satisfied with this, but no one should forget the people who allied themselves with Bill Kristol and other warmongers to push a bogus narrative from the get go all because they were butthurt about an election.
(I didn’t link the NYT article, because it was behind a paywall. There should be a link to the NYT article in the article linked)
No worries though. The Democrats are busy electing avowed socialist candidates in the primaries. Trump is a goner now. Blue wave baby!
This election’s going to be decided by who has more of a foot left after both parties spend the next 5 months shooting themselves in said foot, repeatedly.
Democrats are electing to run the most far left loons out there, one after another. Remember when they ran the one blue dog type Democrat and won that primary they were all so excited about? Yeah, well that shit is over with. Read that link I posted upthread, they’ve done shot off both feet and are now working on legs.
Yeah, the Democrats are worse than the Republicans with the “Permanent Majority” bullshit. A moderate wins an election and they think it’s a sudden mandate for socialism, hardline identity politics, gun control, and progressive hectoring.
If the Republican party as a whole just had a sliver of fucking sense, the Democrats would be a minor party with no real power. But at the rate they are going, Democrats are just going to do the Republicans job for them without Republicans having to really do anything outside of not being batshit crazy.
It’s that kind of mad drive for power that has me seriously considering voting Republican from now on.
The Democrats have totally dropped the mask since Trump won. It’s obvious that they only care about free and fair elections if it results in a Democrat winning. I think next time they’re in power, they’re going to do everything they can to make sure that this kind of election never happens again. It wouldn’t surprise me if they pushed for censorship of the press under the guise of combating “fake news” and “foreign interference”, campaign finance laws in order to cut off their opponents’ supply of money, a rollback of voter ID requirements that would allow them to get away with massive voter fraud, and “hate speech” laws that would be used to jail anyone who speaks out against their policies.
For all their faults, I don’t see the Republicans doing any of this, or at least being competent enough to pull it off. There is a very real danger of the Democrats trying to seize permanent power and turning the US into a Leftist dictatorship.
I wouldn’t make such a wild prediction if it were not for the hard facts staring me right in the face. The next time a Democrat is elected POTUS, they will not vacate their office at the end of their 8 years or will not accept defeat and leave office at the end of 4. They’re already formulated their excuse, it will be under the guise of ‘saving our Democracy’ by not allowing anyone like Trump to get elected again. And anyone who gets elected who is not a Democrat, will be like Trump. I mean the horrors we’re suffering right now you know. They’ve never actually told us what those horrors are and we can’t actually see or experience them, but we need to believe.
Lol. That’s a good way to phrase it.
Russian Soldiers Are Complaining About Exploding Guns
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russia-makes-some-dangerous-guns-the-ammo-big-problem-25792?page=show
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As one infantry veteran lamented: “The Russian arms industry makes reliable and simple weapons, but ammo quality just annihilates it.”
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Well, I mean if the Russians hadn’t been so busy colluding with Trump to steal an election, maybe they could have paid more attention to ammo.
Ancient Rome’s Collapse Is Written Into Arctic Ice
The article is about scientist studying ice cores for lead pollution which was supposedly a byproduct of coin production and correlating this to the economic situation in Rome. An interesting idea, but I don’t know if I buy all the claims they make.
That’s a whole bunch of boot strappin’ to make those connections there. Seems more the realm of speculation than science.
I read that slavery sowed the seeds for the fall of Rome, because it concentrated power in the hands of the few and disenfranchised the many. Even that is probably too simplistic.
It was definitely a factor in the fall of the Republic and Empire.
The Republic’s ever bigger military victories brought ever more slaves into Italy. This changed the economics of the Republic – originally built up with small landowners / citizen-soldiers. Gradually the middle-class was eliminated as they couldn’t compete with
Walmartbig plantations worked by slaves. And those small-landowners were getting called up for longer deployments overseas – so they would come home bankrupt.They had to keep lowering the requirements for military service, then eventually gave up and just went with a professional army.
Giuliani: Mueller’s team told Trump’s lawyers they can’t indict a president.
The IG Report is soon to be released.
“All they get to do is write a report”
Did anyone outside of some loons off their meds at sites like DU, actually believe otherwise?
They have 3 paths to get rid of Trump. Impeach and then vote to remove from office. He resigns. Or defeat him in 2020.
1 and 2 are not happening. 3, at this point, is very unlikely. In fact, if he gets 400 electoral votes, I will not be surprised. I think the effect of the corporate tax cuts, when it goes into effect, will be more than enough to ensure the Democrats are not going to win in 2020. I mean even without them tripling down on their leftist idiocy, which is already more than obvious.
TK linked to a long article in NRO, I’m almost finished, but it sounds very similar to the tactics the Nazis used to gain power in 1932, without the Fire thing…..
Glad the Witch lost
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/russia-collusion-real-story-hillary-clinton-dnc-fbi-media/
It’s a coup attempt. Nothing less or more. And the Clinton’s are behind it. You’d better be glad she lost and so should the rest of us. Clinton is no doubt the most destructive US president of my lifetime and his wife it 1000x worse. The Clintons make Obama look good, even Jimmy Carter.
As SJW / Victomology dilemma is brewing in Canada.
Well, they’re just going to make her bake… I mean wax that pee pee, am I right?
Something, something, “it’s a woman’s penis”
Uh oh, tough one. They’re going to have to consult The Big Book of Oppression Hierarchy.
No need, Muslim is in the top slot. They won’t do anything about this.
I mean, who really cares about religion here? This is basically about compelling someone to touch someone else’s penis.
Agreed. She should be able to not wax the pee pee, should she choose not to. However, let’s not forget the double standard here. If she had made the same claim but substituted ‘Christian’ for ‘Muslim’, there’s 100% chance she’s losing her job, 100%. But because it is what it is, nothing is going to happen.
It just boggles my mind that “progressives” think Muslims are friendly, warm, and fuzzy and reject any connection between that religion and the crimes against humanity that occur in the Muslim world, yet they have no problem criticizing all Christians for homophobia, oppression of women, and persecution of people of other religions – in short, everything that Islam does 100 times worse.
It’s just that radical Islam is so much like them, they can’t control the affection.
It’s what they wish they were – brave enough to back up their talk with violence.
Maybe they could issue little paper cones.
Not sure if someone mentioned it, but Obama did the same thing regarding military bases and immigrants (had them reviewed to figure out if they were a feasible place to put them).
Cable News and the resulting 24 hour news cycle is the worst thing to happen to this country since its founding.
Change my view.
Social media has been more damaging.
Though, arguing with myself, social media likely wouldn’t be as bad without the 24 hour news cycle
Tough call on 24 hour news v social media. There’s a big feedback loop, where each makes the other worse.
The internet is no better, well except for Us Glibs, we make the bestess links around!
Unlike Naked News, which by all rights should have been bigger than Twitter and Netflix combined.
The temperance movement and the resultant generational progressive hegemony was orders of magnitude worse.
My go to are usually the doctrines of qualified and absolute immunity, and the choice made by the Founders for winner-take-all instead of fractional representation. 24 hour news is bad, but I think those two are still a little bit worse.
Qualified immunity is a hella strong addition to the list, top 10 for sure.
16th amendment.
*mic drop*
Winner.
19th amendment
(TIWTANFL)
Lol
Are you not entertained?
think of this as the derp equivalent of eating a ghost pepper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPZoQC8IoQY
Disappointed they didn’t ask their views on reasonable gun controls. Kids know.
This is why they should be able to vote, did you see how well they followed our instructions? /democrats
I’m 100% sure those kids were not pre-selected or coached. No siree, didn’t happen.
my faith in the basic decency of humanity is restored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTP4okl0gUk
See, in this case, the kids really did need some coaching. After Coach Hyperion?
Woman: What do you have on your body that I don’t have?
Boy 1. Duh, well, i dunno, show us!
Boy 2. Yeah, baby, show us them tits!
Boy 1. Let’s grab it by the pussy!
Boy 2: I got it right here, baby! Get on them knees!
Boy 1. Make us a sammich, baby!
Boy 2. She’s busy!
That’s #CoachHyperion boys, gonna make men of you!
You could see those 2 boys being like, “Yah, Ok mom, whatever.” Also the black kids.
the white kids w/ glasses who were being crossgendered in kindergarten were clearly complete zombies and doomed to a life of complete confusion.
Millenials Eat Chik Fil A For First Time
“having strong opinions abt trivial things as form of status-signaling” is something uniquely different from GenX, imo.
i know that’s probably what these people’s clips were selected for – it makes better TV/video – but its really just the particular style of their nitpicky judgements. As though they’re unsure whether they can just like something or dislike it for its own sake… or whether they have to wrestle with all sorts of other social baggage before being able to pass judgement on a @#$*(&@()$ chicken sandwich.
I have Misophonia and am Millenophobic. *Triggered*
Why is it that Chick-Fil-A always has the crappiest pickles and smushed buns? Like they have some retard in the back playing with them before he puts them on your sandwich?
And the white ‘male’ in that video makes me want to exterminate all white people.
Call me crazy, but I think that guy wanted to hate it.
That’s what i’m talking about in my above comment.
There’s an apparent “needing to project a *complex and over-wrought* opinion”-feeling that comes out of all of them. *Having an opinion* is a sign of sophistication.
again- half that is probably just, “what makes good TV”. but its very different from the “existentially aloof” gen x hipster attitude which would be like, “Yah, i don’t know. Its good i guess.” You’d have to use dental pliers to get a strong opinion from a 1990s 20-yr old. These kids are like, “MY STANDARDS FOR CHICKEN SANDWICHES ARE VERY HIGH AND MY INITIAL REACTION IS AN EMOTIONALLY LET-DOWN BY THIS PRESENTATION OF LACKLUSTER EXISTENTIAL CHICKENNESS” Before. He. Takes. A. Bite.
“You eat first with your eyes”
-some French guy I assume
I had it for the first time only recently. It did in fact have smashed buns. But the pickles were not all that bad (esp compared to most fast food)
Every person in that video sounds like an NPR host.
Up-talk and vocal fry is annoying enough for a woman- it is inexcusable for a man.
Vocal fry on men is especially egregious.
Don’t get this guy started…
https://youtu.be/hjKMNyZ2oTc
Pearl Harbor II
They play football in Japan? Is it time to remake Mr Baseball as Mr Football?
I have not read the newest reporting from the NYT…
but apparently this “Crossfire Hurricane” story is the natural compliment to the one being discussed earlier (National Review: the history of the Russian Collusion Story)
I presume there’s probably some contradictions or different representations of some of the same facts in each piece. Both are probably worth reading and re-reading.
Plan. Backfiring.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/dems-pour-cash-california-races-avoid-nightmare-shutouts/
This is just too delicious. A system rammed through by Dems to try and shutout Pubs from showing up on the general election ballot blowing up in their faces. AMERICA.
Ugh, one of the sidebarred stories refers to a “hero cop”.
I had an internal review of a project that has been extremely difficult. I have been very stressed, but it went really well and now, I am exhausted. Also, my peonies are gorgeous with some blooms more than 6 inches across.
Had no idea that was the plural for penis.
Pfft. You wish
Are you sure *you* don’t wish?
Is that a common female fantasy? We could take a pole of all the lady commenters…*breaks out laughing*
This is why there are no libertarian women
If you think US war movies are silly and melodramatic, try watching some Russian ones:
https://youtu.be/f_rNUH3hKzM?t=6m25s
First good Afghan war movie I watched was the 9th Company. Import DVD.
You should watch The Cranes Are Flying. Or Ballad of a Soldier.
I’ve seen some especially good Russian war movies set in Astan but I’m sure there’s plenty of trash too, just like here.
Heyyyy! …well to be fair…
“Come and See” is a Russian movie from the 80’s and might just be the best WWII movie I have ever seen. It follows an apparently dim witted Russian boy who joins up to fight the Nazis. He soon comes into direct conflict with Oskar Dirlewanger and his company, which largely consisted of murderers, rapists and thieves the Nazis took out of prisons, gave uniforms and guns, and sent to the Eastern front. They conducted themselves just as you’d think. There are no illusions about any glories of war, no heroes or winners or losers. Just madness and horror. It’s an extremely tough watch that I almost turned off several times. But it is undoubtedly a visceral experience and pure artwork.
On the list to check out eventually: https://trailersfromhell.com/come-see/
This has been mentioned to me repeatedly as “the most traumatising and realistic film of war ever made”
i’ve seen clips, then i go, “Yeah, not today”
Looks like it’s on YouTube but the quality looks bad bad bad.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/16/10-reasons-cat-deserves-win-intersectional-victim-olympics/
Well, *my* cat (a Russian Blue) just enjoys piss hookers and hacking Diebold voting machines.
“Stormy Daniels will perform with naked Trump statue in Oregon
When Stormy Daniels tours Oregon this week, the adult film actress attached to the President Trump scandal that just won’t go away will have a naked statue of the chief executive in tow.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, will reportedly dance with the Trump art installation. The project, known as “The Emperor Has No Balls,” commissioned five artists in as many cities to construct a pot-bellied statue modeled to resemble the president in 2016, then only a candidate for the Republican nomination.
The art installation from Seattle will accompany Daniels as she tours Oregon.
The Associated Press reports that this is the last of the statues that wasn’t vandalized or destroyed when they went on display in the weeks leading up to the 2016 election. It sold at auction for between $20,000 and $30,000.
Its owners in a release said Daniels will stage “a re-enactment of Stormy spanking Donald,” a scene made famous when the adult film actress discussed it with Anderson Cooper on an episode of “60 Minutes” earlier this year.”
http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2018/05/stormy_daniels_naked_trump_statue_oregon.html
I miss the days when the president’s whores were discreet. She’s a disgrace to the profession.
I tell you what, there was something about Marylin Monroe. She exudes sexy.
The Kennedy brothers did well for themselves with her.
+1 spit roast
Damn, Canada. I thought Starbucks was fucked up.
Its a side effect of having to be so polite all the time. It’s a stress relief valve or stress relief sphincter, I guess.
Meh, who hasn’t done that?
B.C. Bud is a helluva drug.
this made me smile: Navy SEAL speaks at college graduation
https://youtu.be/3sK3wJAxGfs?t=1m54
Real life Bond villain.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/california-deputy-district-attorneys-speak-soros-pouring-millions-local-races/
And in real life the Brits don’t have the balls to deal with him even after he crashed the Pound.
He’s no Iowahawk (but then, who is?) – but I bet he is Suthenboy’s neighbor. https://twitter.com/MetricButtload/status/996906215547420672
“Can’t talk. Degaussing the hounds.”
Navy nerdery abounds
Now this is something else ;p https://twitter.com/TheMilanTooner/status/996808569889742849
When I was a kid, there was a cartoon called TaleSpin. The bad guys were the People’s Republic of Thrembria, which was a burlesque of the USSR.
“5’1?! Too tall! Send him to turnip peeling school!”
https://youtu.be/XVJALeFRV58?t=4m22s
The Russia Collusion timeline article that NR did has this interesting bit that I wanted to note:
When the dossier first became public knowledge, it was CNN and Buzzfeed. Buzzfeed posted the specific allegations within it and did more damage to the Russia narrative than any other story before or since. CNN, however, continued to report on the story in the same way as the previous articles that used Steele as a source. They skimped on the details, and gave it the air of authority by how they classified Steele.
When some politician or political hack like Brennan makes reference to secret information that they just can’t share but which totally justifies their abuses of power, there isn’t enough scorn and doubt that can be directed at them.
Related:
this story broke yesterday
Two Colleagues Contradict Brennan’s Denial of Reliance on Dossier
The whole thing is worth a read. Everyone involved was deviating from standard protocols to suddenly convert ‘utterly unverified info’ (handed to them by Clinton campaign) into “Verified Intelligence”. Clapper purposely limited the review of the intel to 3 agencies, while allowing the press to run with claims that “all 17 had validated”.
this is some banana republic type shit. and if anyone cared about rule of law, people would be going to jail. But no one in the business of politics wants to go for blood; they just want political benefit, so they’ll fight it out in the press.
but the net result is people get a glimpse at how dirty things have gotten behind the scenes. And it erodes any confidence in the fairness of our political system. What’s to stop the GOP from utilizing every tool of the intel agencies for their own benefit, this time around? Every tactic used in politics ends up getting used against you.