I suspect Hell is about as hot, but not quite as humid, as it has been here this weekend. The rabbits and squirrels are moving listlessly, and their predators aren’t even bothering to chase them. Birds are walking. The only things stirring are our cops and our criminals.
Deputies believe Williams possessed less than 1 gram of cocaine and a 9 mm bullet without a firearm owner’s identification card, according to a criminal complaint filed in McHenry County court. Williams originally was stopped for multiple traffic violations, and then deputies searched his car, Sheriff’s Deputy Sandra Rogers said.
Williams, of the zero to 100 block of Ivanhoe Lane, has been charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and possession of ammunition without a FOID card.
Good thing that the fine folks in the criminal justice system don’t believe in overcharging to force a plea deal.
Team Blue is too fucking lazy to make giant puppet heads any more. Now, I can get behind getting rid of ICE, but what will their union say? And here’s a better idea: get rid of all of DHS, a remarkably bad idea shoved through during a spasm of hysteria. ICE, sure, but start with TSA.
The “Families Belong Together” demonstrations, like the Women’s March and the March for Our Lives protests before it, attracted crowds of seasoned activists and normally apolitical first-timers to political dissent.
I wonder if they carried on the Women’s March tradition of banning Jews? And of course, the usual abusive use of children as props:
But by far the most powerful images of the protests came from the children, who spoke out for the rights of kids their own age to enjoy happy and normal childhoods.
Y’know, I was part of protests against the Viet Nam war and I didn’t know anyone who said, “Hey, let’s dress up the kids in Viet Cong outfits and bring ’em along!”
Here’s a perfect example of why I’d start with dismantling TSA.
[TSA spokesman Mike]England said the concern is not that people may be hiding explosives or other illicit material inside of food. Rather, it’s that the food itself can look similar to the components of an explosive — therefore making it more likely that bags with snacks would be flagged for a time-consuming manual search. Officials thought it might be more efficient, in some cases, to have passengers remove the snacks from their bags ahead of time.
“Some foods and some organic materials can bear a strong resemblance to explosive materials,” he said.
Don’t you feel safer already?
And while we’re at it, let’s abolish the IRS. We have several ex-pats among us who will sympathize.
Americans overseas often face a complex filing regimen. Swanson received another shock when he found out he was behind on tax filing requirements he did not know about. “It was in the tens of thousands of dollars to get caught up,” Swanson said.
He did not actually owe much in taxes because he had been living in Germany, a high-tax country, which offset what he owed to the U.S. Most of that money went to the cost of the paperwork and accounting fees.
Here’s one more “journalist” who manages to gather the facts, assemble them, and… then miss the obvious conclusion entirely. While we’re getting rid of government agencies, let’s kill government schools. And their lobbyists.
Willie Brown Middle School was the most expensive new public school in San Francisco history. It cost $54 million to build and equip, and opened less than two years earlier. It was located less than a mile from my house, in the city’s Bayview district, where a lot of the city’s public housing sits and 20 percent of residents live below the federal poverty level. This new school was to be focused on science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM, for short. The money for Brown came from a voter-approved bond, as well as local philanthropists.
On opening day in August of 2015, around two dozen staff members greeted the very first class. That’s when the story took an alarming turn. Newspapers reported chaos on campus. Landake was later quoted in the San Francisco Examiner: “The first day of school there were, like, multiple incidents of physical violence.” After just a month, Principal Hobson quit, and an interim took charge. In mid-October, less than two months into the first school year, a third principal came on board. According to a local newspaper, in these first few months, six other faculty members resigned. (The district disputes this figure.) In a school survey, only 16 percent of the Brown staff described the campus as safe. Parents began to pull their kids out.
What’s the culprit? I think you know:
In 1978, California voters passed the state’s most infamous law: Proposition 13 severely restricted raising property taxes, and required a two-thirds majority to pass many tax measures. This gutted California’s education funding so severely that the state’s public schools, which had been ranked best in the nation in the 1950s, fell to among the worst in a few decades.
NEED MOAR SPENDING!!!
OMG, the ambassador to ESTONIA quit in protest of Trump’s brain lint! Of course, you have to scroll way, way down before hitting the crucial part.
During more than three decades as a diplomat, Melville had served at U.S. embassies in Moscow, London and Berlin before President Barack Obama appointed him to the ambassadorship in Estonia in 2015.
Art or kiddie porn? We report, you decide.
Kaplan disputed the child pornography categorization and told Indiewire that the filming of the scenes was done “under the careful surveillance of the girls’ mothers” and neither of the girls were aware of what they were depicting.
HAWT!!!
Need another reason to believe that soccer is stupid? Here ya go.
During the World Cup, Lumidolls Moscow is giving fans the chance to dress their sex doll in whatever football shirt they like. They are offering all the different football t-shirts worn by each team, England, France, Spain, you know,” Sergi, a former telecoms worker, explained.
Punters can pay around £67 for half an hour, or £83 for an hour, to get down and dirty with the dolls.
Expect Dirty Jobs to cover the guys who have to clean this up.
E don reach five years wey Ogochukwu dey try stop smoke Igbo. But if im stop am, small time e go start again. But for di past six months now, e dey try to stop am again. Ogochukwu say, “e first start as competition among my friends wen we dey school but before I know, e don take over my life.” Dat na how im take start to abuse cannabis aka Igbo, five years ago.
Any questions?
Old Guy Music! There are several iron laws, one of which is, “Anything by Justin Bieber sucks.” Another is, “Never try covering a Tracy Chapman song. It just won’t work.” So of course my universe is shaken by… a Justin Bieber cover of a Tracy Chapman song. And fuck, he pulls it off. This is really good.
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The TSA Just wants an excuse to grope your salami.
Mine is more of an olive loaf. I may need to see a doctor.
If it’s that way for more than 4 hours, you are supposed to call a doctor, not brag to us Glibs.
Mine looks like pulled pork. Maybe I shouldn’t have tried to screw that sack full of cats.
Officials thought it might be more efficient, in some cases, to have passengers remove the snacks from their bags ahead of time.
“Trash cans are located on the concourse for
your convenience.”Off to a good start. shoulda been
your convenience.What’s the culprit? I think you know:
I would have guessed Trump.
“Some foods and some organic materials can bear a strong resemblance to explosive materials,” he said.
+1 Doritos® Cheesy Gordita Crunch
Taco Bell food causes explosions into toilets all the time
And I’m no longer interested in breakfast.
Most of that money went to the cost of the paperwork and accounting fees.
Bureaucrats gotta eat, too.
CA uses a lottery to determine public school attendance? Starting in Kindergarten? What happened to districting by neighborhood? Seems like this would just make things even more expensive for bussing, etc if each school is picking folks up from all across town.
Stupid is as stupid does I guess.
Good Lord. The most annoying thing about reading articles on these sites is figuring out which script I have to enable to view comments. I’d prefer not to have to enable everything to read a few lines of derp.
I think it’s an SF thing to maintain the right amount of diversity.
Wouldn’t it more practical to pre-mix everyone by race when looking for housing? That would be the maximum not racist thing to do.
That’s what they kinda do in Singapore.
Another reason to roll my eyes every time I hear “why can’t the US be more like Singapore”.
Everything works inside the spectators’ heads, and how you think this scene was filmed will depend on your level of depravity.
See. You’re the sicko.
Any questions?
Why, yes.
Yes, it’s hot. My sister and her husband left their Chicago trip two days early because it was too hot to be there.
Is it ever a good time to be in Chicago?
On a Saturday in the park?
At 25 or 6 to 4?
Does anybody really care what time it is?
you know its Only The Beginning
There’s so many of these play on words that we’re already up to Questions 67 and 68.
Did they Stay The Night?
Or, any day at the Art Institute?
I am told usually one week in spring and one in fall.
When you’re the baddest man in the whole damned town?
Badder than old King King?
Meaner than a yun–yun-yong.
In 1977 my high school choir toured Scandinavia. A highlight was the hotel bar in Copenhagen having a live band that played Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. The above was one of their lyrics.
Those protest signs are pathetic. I blame fluoridation.
IT’S GOING TO TURN THE FRIGGIN’ FROGS GAY!!
Hey! There’s no fighting in the War Room.
my universe is shaken
At least it was only two minutes long. I may have to rethink my horizon broadening listen to whatever OMWC posts policy.
If Netflix really wanted to push the boundaries, they’d show the kids enjoying the post-coital cigarette.
OMG, the ambassador to ESTONIA quit in protest of Trump’s brain lint! Of course, you have to scroll way, way down before hitting the crucial part.
To be fair, it sounds like he’s one of those career bureaucrats who thinks his job is to screw the current executive’s policy Yes, Minister-style.
That brain is a small target
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has addressed a series of recent death threats she said she has received, telling would-be threateners to “shoot straight” during an immigration rally on Saturday.
Waters insisted that she was not calling for harm and said she believes in “peaceful protest.”
*Does a quick Google of Maxine Waters, LA Riots*. Uh, no she doesn’t.
She went to the after trial party for the guy who whacked Reginald Denny upside the head with a brick. The woman’s a real sweetheart.
There’s also been some fun stuff in Portland this weekend. I’ve seen some good stuff on twitter, but I guess it’s pretty small scale overall.
Maybe more on youtube later.
He got knocked down hard. ?
“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”
My life is complete.
“why you so angry?”
Could be someone swinging a bar at me.
Mama said to knock you out.
Heh, there is another one.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
I think his head went back into the scaffolding upright (the piece is called a “standard”, and…ouch).
Ha!
Few things are as entertaining as watching antifa’s would-be tough guys get knocked the fuck out.
Nannytarian Propaganda Radio is at it again
After 30 years on the court, he [Kennedy] believes that once rights are recognized, they will not be taken away. That includes the right to abortion that he helped to preserve and the rights for gay people that he helped establish — including the right to marry and to be treated equally.
Time, of course, will tell. But every indication is that President Trump in a little over a week will pick someone who does not think that those are rights fully protected by the Constitution.
Once a nominee is confirmed, the only real question will be how far he or she will go to undermine or outright reverse the Supreme Court’s prior rulings on these and other subjects — from regulation of the environment to presidential powers.
If Justices want “legacies” maybe they should run for office and write laws, instead of making shit up and pulling “rights” out of their asses from the bench.
Obviously, Trump’s Rape Trains will run on time.
I loved Kagan’s dissent on Janus, arguing in favor of stare decisis – so tell me dear Justice, would that have been the case with Lawrence as well (respecting the Bowers precedent)?
These people are freaking out over nothing, Trump’s going to pick a moderate like Kennedy for his replacement and bide his time for RBG’s leaving the court. That’s the smart political move here.
In light of the 9th Amendment, I don’t really have a problem with new rights being listed as long as they’re negative rights.
Why some mammal species don’t have descended testicles, but most do
Yes, I did steal the pic for my avatar.
Were it not for this biological phenomenon, the enthralling sport of Roshambo would not exist.
Reproduction is yucky. I like video gamez.
In Janus v. AFSCME, Justice Alito capped a six-year campaign to weaken the influence of labor unions. Overturning a 41-year-old Supreme Court precedent, he wrote the decision for the conservative majority declaring that it is unconstitutional to require nonunion members who work for state and local governments to pay partial fees to help pay for negotiating a contract that, by law, provides salary raises and benefits for union and nonunion workers alike.
Yes, yes. How horrible. Meanwhile, those unions are “negotiating” rules which, among other things, make it impossible for motivated younger employees to be promoted on merit and demonstrable job performance instead of seniority. Clock-watching, FTW!
You know what shuts even the loudest proggie mouth about public employee unions? Mentioning that FDR opposed them.
Here’s a crazy idea, if unions want to thrive maybe they need to do something relevant.
Your modern prog believes that FDR was a slave-owner.
Thinks about conscription…
And Korematsu.
Sure, if they were so great they wouldn’t have to force people to give them their money. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with their funding now that people have a choice.
I like how these decisions are always couched as ‘conservative’ but other decisions are just that, decisions.
Other decisions are just common sense.
Real serious news
According to a new CNN poll conducted by the SSRS, a stunning 42% of Americans believe that President Trump should be impeached and removed from office
Sounds legit.
The rest of the article is about why impeachment is unlikely. No kidding.
Many Democrats would also rightfully be concerned about unleashing the impeachment process in our destructive age of partisan polarization. There is a good reason that Congress historically had been so resistant toward using this mechanism, fearing that it would become a normalized tool of combat like the filibuster has been in recent decades — but potentially even worse because impeachment has the potential to overturn the results of an election.
Given the extreme nature of the current political moment, with false statements easily masquerading as truth and radical political voices gaining mainstream platforms in the Oval Office and on national television, Democrats will think hard about pulling the trigger for a process which could easily fail — or place a very conservative Mike Pence in the presidency.
I thought Hillary would be President if Trump gets impeached.
42%
I’m not buying it. That’s fake news.
Maybe the followup question should have been “And if Trump is removed through the impeachment process, who will become President?” I doubt 50% would answer correctly, and those who did would say “And Impeach Pence next.”
No, see, because Russians meddled and stole the election for Trump, the election results will get overturned, all his policies will be repealed and damages paid to the victims, and Hillary will become President and gets to appoint two Supreme Court justices.
/some Harvard legal scholar in the NYT, probably
And on and on until you get 300 million or so down the list of succession to “ex-politician harridan.”
“I thought Hillary would be President if Trump gets impeached..
Don’t worry, they’re on it (from 2017 but still relevant):
http://www.wweek.com/culture/2017/12/01/hillary-2018-its-not-too-late-to-make-hillary-clinton-president-heres-how/
Is that satire?
What struck me most was the thinly-veiled vitriol where the writer is clearly furiously masturbating to the idea of Trump/Pence in Guantanamo, facing a military tribunal.
I’m guessing he needed a cigarette once he finished.
About Martin Cizmar
Martin Cizmar is the former Arts & Culture editor.
Don’t worry, they’re on it (from 2017 but still relevant):
Wow. That was… fantastic.
In California, there is nothing Prop 13 can’t be blamed for.
I’m serious.
Letters to the Local Rag: It’s Complicated, No, It’s Simple, Wait….
“Once you find the source, naturally you have control of the problem. ”
Error: logical step not found
I think it’s a common delusion that if you just build a really expensive school, the kids will suddenly love getting an education and start to behave.
No one wants to address the elephant in the room, which is the failure of inner-city ghetto culture. A significant number of the kids are horrible, a significant number of the parents are horrible, if they’re even around, and the schools won’t get rid of them. They’ve got to save them.
Charles Murray made an effective argument in one of his earlier books, Losing Ground, that the ghetto culture and its attendant horribleness was quite directly a result of liberal welfare policies.
My mother in law works at a Philadelphia inner city high school, newly built. It’s not much more than day care for violent morons. The girls are worse than the boys.
There are a few Jewish and Asian kids that actually study and keep their heads down, but the rest just don’t give a shit and neither do their parents.
My father who was a probation officer says one of the worst changes in policy he saw in his career was the one that insisted that juvenile offenders should be kept in school at all costs.
Before that it was ok to let 16 year old hoodlums drop out. That meant that they weren’t in a classroom harassing the good kids.
Now they have to be in school. He blames the school administrators (not the actual teachers) for the change. They want that per pupil funding
It got even worse after one of Obama’s Dear Colleague letters made it all about racial quotas.
My extremely idealistic and proggie cousin taught in an ‘alternative’ shithole in Minneapolis for a couple years. Even she gave up.
Turns out Dangerous Minds wasn’t a documentary.
40 years ago I did my student teaching in a large Texas high school (Temple, TX). I identified about 5-6 criminals
that should not have been there, based on their class room behavior alone. Even in the late ’70s there were bag checks
and security cops in the parking lot. I broke up one hallway fight and got a physical threat from the kid that was getting his ass kicked. He was lucky I was there. Got threatened with a law suit by one of the students. I later saw that those problem kids made the local newspaper for one reason or another but never for outstanding citizenship.
I had a special ed class with 8-9 kids, they were no trouble, all were fun. I was happy to finish my teaching experience and
move onto business and never looked back. I was 40 years old at the time and not willing or able to cope with the changes.
I was the one that got educated…
^^^This this this this.
What makes it even more disgusting is that it’s by design.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years”
Lackeys of the welfare state are drug dealers; get em hooked on your product and then you have them forever. It’s become generational now in which we’re at least 4 generations removed from the origin of the problem. The parents and grandparents of today’s kiddos have no understanding at all of personal responsibility, work ethic or delayed gratification, so of course the kids don’t either as they have no frame of reference. I don’t say it lightly, but I think US welfare policies are a crime against humanity that purposely depleted the spirit of millions of people, creating a permanent miserable underclass all for political gain. It sickens me.
What are you talking about? Cradle to grave government support has worked so well on Indian reservations why wouldn’t you want to spread it to the poor city folk?
Late ’70s early ’80s I remember a doc on PBS (I know) showing 4 generations living in Chicago public housing.
The “matriarch” was mid 40s- unemployed and complaining that she HAD to get up sooo early to get her Gov cheese.
Her oldest had spent time in jail/prison but had “no time” for work as he wanted to become a musician.
You get the point. I’ve looked for this online but can’t find, nor do I remember the name.
PBS did a program that was unflattering to a social welfare program!?! Were the censors on vacation?
once upon a time, PBS was actually a real network.
Free to Choose originally aired on PBS.
No doubt it wasn’t supposed to seem unflattering. I’d guess all were painted as sympathetic characters. As in, a better way would be to have a team of social workers who not only could deliver cheese, but also help these families “link to services” which would fix everything.
Then why aren’t Portland and SF filled with ghetto culture?
Team Blue is too fucking lazy to make giant puppet heads any more.
They are too fucking lazy to know facts as well. Just heard on NPR host interviewing democrats about immigration and a lady said no previous administrations separated kids from parents. That is a flat out lie and it went unchallenged by the host who knows it is a lie because they have also interviewed Oboma admin officials who said they separated families all the time. It has been going on for decades but now it is a big deal that requires stupid signs and marches.
Mexico will most likely elect a hardcore socialist as president today. Will there be a Glibs pool on how long it takes Mexico to become the next Venezuela?
It will be satisfying on some level to see yet another socialist state fail, but Venezuela isn’t right next door to us with a porous border. Though, it may take a crisis of that magnitude to finally make the Acela crowd understand what those of us who have lived in the Southwest have known for decades; secure the damn border, then create an open, legal immigration system. Uncontrolled, mass migration is a failure.
Unsurprisingly, unions hated the braceros.
And *Border Incident* is a sadly forgotten movie.
Charles Murray made an effective argument in one of his earlier books, Losing Ground, that the ghetto culture and its attendant horribleness was quite directly a result of liberal welfare policies.
No wonder everybody thinks he’s a racist.
Except for the inconvenient fact that plenty of white people share that culture, hell they originated it. But they all live in the rural south so it’s easy to ignore them.
Except for the inconvenient fact that plenty of white people share that culture
Subject of a Thomas Sowell book.
Really? 🙂
He is telling the truth
*Kiff sigh*
Now you know how Swiss feels.
LOL
Also the subject of “Hillbilly Elegy”.
Ghetto culture exists on racial lines not socioeconomic ones. The poor crackers aren’t doing drive byes in Appalachia.
People expend a lot of effort to pretend not to see anything outside the Overton window.
For those prices, I remain flummoxed as to why someone would choose to have sex with a doll instead of an actual prostitute. The technology just isn’t there yet.
Dolls don’t judge you.
Dolls don’t run up a massive bar tab either.
I hope those shared dolls have a flush port like a boat engine. Fucking gross…
No. Fucking icky. Cunnilingus gross.
Or accuse you of rape weeks later.
The sex dolls also don’t occasionally “borrow” your wallet and credit cars.
I meant “cards” not “cars”.
Either works.
“42% I’m not buying it. That’s fake news.”
As a quality manager would say to me 25 years ago, it’s “directionally correct.”
Polls are just like the rest of American discourse and really just boil down to identity politics anymore: which side are you on. So “agreement” or “approval” or “disapproval” are nothing more than another chance for folks to check a box for TeamProg or FauxNewsTrumpsters or whichever kind of degenerate you might be.
And due to sophistry (shadily worded poll questions) and projection (seeing and reading into something whatever you want it to mean), every poll has a baseline of 33%: 1/3 of Americans always agree with something. This lines up with “the base” and the idea that the extreme wings aren’t going anywhere. So we will always, always come up with 33% checking the “impeach Trump” box because what it really means is “I identify as a Prog” or #Resist or somesuch whatever. Conversely, we never have a problem with getting some other 33% of America to check a box when they really mean “I identify as a truckdriver” or “I’ll kiss a guy who dips snuff” or “jail Hillary.” There is always a hard third base for any answer in any poll.
And then there’s Trump. He’s unlikable: he drives on the green, his language skills are quite shallow and imply a lack of worldliness, he routinely resorts to ad hominem attacks, he’s a bully who often resorts to spurious claims (I’ve got his Kenyan birth certificate sort of stuff), and he attracts other very small people to his service. You don’t need to be a prog to see this, to wonder why his wife demonstrates zero enthusiasm for his person or his policies, or to find his onboarding of his children as White House staffers as legendarily laughable. None of this means we should have voted Democrat by any means; it just means that it very, very reasonable for moderates (DixieCrats, union labor, law-and-order Nixon Dems) or peaceable Republicans (Log Cabins, George Will and Bill Kristol readers) to add, point by point, another 7% the prog base.
I’m not saying these 42% are correct; I didn’t vote for Hillary, and I’m unaware of any impeachable offense Mr Trump has committed. Rather, I’m just saying we shouldn’t be surprised by the math: it’s directionally correct because it’s somewhere between 33% and 50%.
Interesting breakdown.
I was thinking something similar. I believe the number because it’s probably close to the people of people who identify as Democrats – who will automatically side with anything anti-Trump (they don’t necessarily support actual impeachment, but it sounds good so why not) – plus the percentage of moderate non-Dems who will do the same.
Interesting analysis.
Sure… why not? While we’re completely making shit up, how about the right of Rhywun to enjoy a summer day under 90 degrees?
I’d be happier if my parents weren’t using me as a political prop.
Seriously? Was Robert C. Byrd unavailable for the naming rights? At least he’s actually dead.
JFC
At least New York has the grace to name everything in sight after prominent Democrats after they die.
And yet, Willie Brown’s greatest tribute might come when his once-unknown ex-girlfriend Kamala Harris runs for President. Wonder what Willie’s wife during the Kamala fling would say about that.
Slow Sunday morning so I don’t expect many of you to see this collection, in spite of it being one of the better ones in a while.
archive.is/h09hQ
I can’t even with #1. #4 dat ass. #16 dem tits. #60 wins Best in Show.
When you think you’re having a bad day.
Two young siblings from Southern California were diagnosed with brain cancer just two weeks apart from each other, and now face a long road of aggressive treatment to keep the tumors at bay.
Well, I stubbed my toe earlier so what about my problems?!?
Ist solicitation verboten here?
Here’s a libertarian notion: just make great medicine work ( it’s for the children for reelz ): St Jude research hospital; it has been my only charity beneficiary for 40 years.
No taxpayers were harmed in the curing of many childhood cancers.
Sandra Klememschits:
http://www.espn.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=3470547
Welp. I’m on beer #3 at 8:15 am watching soccer. I love the weekend.
I have to make a run because some asshole drank all of mine yesterday. Totally poor planning and a misjudge on how thirsty I was going to be.
If it makes you feel any better it’s actually 9:15 real time.
Voxsplaining how the American Dream is totes dead.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17469080/american-dream-steven-brill-inequality-poverty-tailspin
GFY Vox. The average person in “poverty” in America has 2+ flat screens, 2 cars and is so well fed that they’re far more likely to suffer from obesity than higher income people. Capitalism has created such an abundance of wealth that even with the welfare state’s best efforts at abusing property rights to death, the only people dying in the streets are either severely mentally ill, or there by choice.
Shoot, poor people have a phone in their pocket that would have made Gordon Gekko drool.
I’m gonna need a ruling from an expert. Q to the courtesy phone, if you will.
I’ll never look gift tits in the mouth, and it is cleavage so of course I’m gonna support it.
BUT, it seems to me to be (as the name implies) the opposite of a pushup. Some of those girls have decent-sized jugs but somehow the top makes them look small. So I’m saying you’d better be packing some serious heat for that top to look good.
Looks stupid. I’m a traditionalist, I guess.
Yes, please.
I think she made a deal with the Devil.
Hugh Grant is either the dumbest man alive or the one tired of her shit. Or both.
I don’t think many women are going to buy swimsuits that fall off in water.
Yesterday I finally went and did some archery (recurve bow). I’ve been wanting to give it a shot for sometime and finally got off my ass to do it. Super fun. I doubt I’ll ever switch to bow hunting because a) I like guns and b) bow hunting season is too early and it’s still hot outside. But I think playing around with recurves for fun is something I can get into.
Do we have any archery glibs here that can recommend a good starter recurve bow?
Samick sage. Relatively cheap and good quality
Cool. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
I have a Damon Howatt Hunter. 62″ 46#. I haven’t shot it for a long time, but it’s a decent (and pretty) bow.
Now made by Martin, it appears.
whoah those look a little more expensive than I’m looking to go.
Since I know Rhywun’s around so I have at least one person to geek out about soccer:
I understand that objectively Spain’s possession oriented “lull the other team to sleep” strategy is impressive and effective; but I find it boring as hell. It almost, *almost* makes me understand why people find soccer so boring in general. If you didn’t understand the game’s subtleties, you’d probably think every team plays like that. TBH, I think even Germany is more interesting to watch than Spain.
I really don’t have an opinion of strategy – whatever gets the job done. But heh yeah, even the commentators here are complaining about it.
That’s Russia’s second own goal this world cup.
It’s like the neutral zone trap in hockey. Really effective and really boring for the average viewer.
Don’t know if that PK was warranted, but I’m glad to see it tied. Watching Spain play up 1-0 is the worst.
“We are not opening today because of some reasons.”
Oy
An hour later she bit off another guy’s ear.
????????
My granddaughter was a big Justin Bieber fan.
Then she turned six.
Hopefully, when Swiss gets back, he can fire-up that fondue pot and help avert a national crisis.
I’m not even going to ask why “America has a stockpile of cheese”. I thought “government cheese” was a joke that died out decades ago.
Are you some sort of monster who would let dairy farmers starve? You have to buy all that milk or prices would plummet. And cheese is really the only way to store all that surplus milk
Couldn’t they at least store it in the form of a better cheese like Cheddar or Fontina or Gouda or….
I’m right there with you. We mostly buy extra-sharp cheddar.
As I recall, the stereotypical ‘gubmint cheese’ (alternatively ‘not-cho-cheese’) is actually good stuff. Its like a weird cheddar/velveeta hybrid that melts nicely and is great to cook with.
I remember when my black lab ate a three pound block of gubmint cheese. She didn’t shot for three days.
Male-feminists are the most misogynistic people on Earth.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/46370/
Of course he would be an ‘anti-rape activist’.
He didnt want all the competition.
*lights OMWC signal*
I’m giggling just at the idea of that prick using the ‘Costanza Defense’
“Was that wrong? Am I not supposed to do that?”
There is a story like that every week.
Jeff Sessions is going to have to endure yet another case of them blue balls.
“Don’t sell it: There is no legal commercial market for marijuana.”
Thank God there not going to do anything to put the violent drug gangs/cartels out of business. Wouldn’t want to do anything too intelligent.
I have a question for the more wizened glibs, does it ever feel like the cause of liberty is lost, it seems precious few people truly care, beyond using it as a justification for their preferred policy no matter how badly they must torture the idea to get it to fit.
Everything is always lost. Life is a cruel joke; nasty, brutish and short. Each and every one of us will expire for no reason, with no questions answered, all alone.
That should be liberating.
+4 Nobel Truths
Thanks, I couldn’t help laughing at that.
I just got back from a fly in fishing trip to Canada, something that has been an annual event for over 20 years. The average age of
the party was 80 +. We had to make a decision, we had to admit that just getting in/out of the boat was becoming dangerous.
We called it quits, had to tell the outfitter that after all the years we could no longer make the trek. Mornings at the breakfast table
looked like a pharmacy. When we finally got into a position financially, time wise, family wise, we ran out of gas. It wasn’t
an easy decision but reality is a son of a bitch.
A couple of us are hardcore glibs but the fight has settled into shaking our fists at the clouds. I can only feel bad for those
youngsters like my grand children, in their 20s, that will see a different world than the one I enjoyed and not realize it
doesn’t have to be like that.
Hunting season is coming but it means sitting in a tree stand, no more duck blinds, no more corn fields.
Liberty appears to be overrated nowadays; kids are all about pursuing happiness.
“people are all about pursuing distraction.”
FIFY.
Bread and circuses.
Panel 18
lighting the optimist lamp for Suthen
I rather expect that the cause is lost. The unhappy signs for me include
a) SoCon authoritarian streak in “Republicans” means there’s no powerful, partisan home for libertarians
b) social media has given powerful access and sense of community to the dumbest fraction of the populace
c) more people believe that liberty is the result of winning elections and then enforcing their own vision of society
d) millennials, generally, add another demographic that is looking for actualization through centralized power and free shit
However, there are a couple of odd vectors that aren’t problematic
z) a new Confederacy is stronger economically and more racially consolidated than ever; working-class Blacks might even be happy to join a move to secede and succeed through individual creativity and toil and thoughtful, voluntary private groups (church, etc); anyone who can say “y’all” and back a trailer is generally welcome down here
y) the dollar cannot help but erode; since WW2, the rest of the world is resurrecting while American assets are offset by increasingly larger credit markers; without free shit to distribute, the center cannot hold; however, this is more wildcard than vector: authoritarianism could just as likely ( more likely? ) flow into the breach as any other system
Sisterhood, song and yoni steaming: women set for UK’s first man-free festival
Unfortunately, the festival seems kinda problematic:
I’ve made my opinion on this clear: any woman who calls her spasm chasm a “yoni” possesses one you’d never want to see.
I have a rough time making the distinction between that and ‘Yanni’, so Im better served finding a woman that uses a more tasteful and classy title.
Like, ‘stench-trench’.
I dunno, there are some awfully hot Desi chicks
So… a festival of hippie clap-trap that just happens to be “women only”. Reminds me of the “women’s marches” which were really more about leftism than about women.
Fun times.
Cue screams of EVIL TERF OMG!!!111!!!!one
That’s probably the funniest thing I’ll read today.
Gaia will get even when the ‘dormitory effect’ kicks in.
You’d think they’d try to keep a lid on that so they don’t make the various flavors of not-woman women among them feel left out.
Everybodys gotta shit on somebody. They must be the n*rs of the gender identitarians.
“Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg, 21, was reportedly shot in an incident in Toronto’s Queen West and Peter Street.
News outlet CP24 reports witnesses heard multiple gun shots near Cube Nightclub in the Entertainment District shortly before 8 pm on Saturday.
Two male victims and one female victim were said to be rushed to hospital and one of the male victims later succumbed to his injuries, police said.
Police have not identified the deceased, however Smoke Dawg’s friend Mustafa The Poet confirmed on social media that the 21-year-old MC had died.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz/713387/Smoke-Dawg-dead-shot-toronto
Unpossible. Canada has “common sense gun control” so no one is permitted to die by gunshot.
As a rule, I think if Im at a party or other function with anyone named “Smoke Dawg” and “Mustafa the Poet”, its time to find another party.
Then again someone named “Smoke Dawg” probably has serious tree.
The world has lost a true poet.
JIM MORRISON AINT GOT SHIT ON ME!
What I wouldn’t give for Russia to score a counterattack goal in the last 5 minutes. Spain is so tedious.
They do carry it to extremes, don’t they. I don’t like Spain for other reasons but yeah why not add “tedium” to the list.
This is ridiculous. Spain is obviously the better team. Why shorten the game when you have the advantage? Seems very counter intuitive.
Florida Woman™ behaves in a very Florida-y fashion when reporting for jury duty.
Aluminum is the new black.
https://twitter.com/WeWuzMetokur/status/1013237886966255618
“lolbertarians”?
Different from glibertarians?
Was this in reference to some protest that is going on?
Portland, apparently.
That would have been my first guess.
It was only a matter of time before one of those racist Idaho skin heads went off because of Trump’s rhetoric. Oh wait…
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article214149584.html
Local story.
Cleveland cops can’t even murder a dog correctly.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/state-news/ohio-family-demands-answers-after-police-open-fire-on-home-with-children-inside-shoot-dog/1276480569
“Walker said she believes the officers fired more than a dozen rounds at the dog, with only one of the bullets hitting Neo. ”
Yup. Sounds about right.
fired more than a dozen rounds at the dog, with only one of the bullets hitting Neo
Matrix 4: The Canine Matrix?
Given the progression of those movies, that would make sense.
How are they gonna get the cool sunglasses to stay on his head, tho?
https://woof.doggles.com
JFC on all sides. I hope the family sues the shit out that city and the neighbor pays too.
“BulbaGarden: Political Pokemon To The Rescue”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY1SYvZfcuA
Gotta catch’em all doesn’t apply to illegal Mexicans, apparently.
This should be fun.
I hope he at least cast some decent piss hookers.
Stormy Daniels is likely available.
If Citizens United had gone the other way, he wouldn’t have been allowed to release it that close to the election.
Nattering nabobs
Talking about the Trump administration, the HBO host asked Moore on “Real Time with Bill Maher” whether “fascism” coming to America had affected the views Moore expressed in his 2002 documentary film “Bowling for Columbine.”
“You know, I was going to ask you, about ‘Bowling for Columbine,’ about guns,” Maher said.
“Now that facism’s coming to America, and their side has all the guns. Any second thoughts?” he asked.
“Seventy-eight percent of Americans do not own a gun,” Moore responded.
“Right, and they’re all the liberals,” Maher shot back.
————
Moore added that the high numbers of firearms in America were a worry among some Hillary Clinton supporters in 2016, who warned of possible violence from Trump supporters upon her expected victory.
“People who voted for Hillary were afraid that she would win, because of, he told ‘my Second Amendment people’ that ‘this is going to be a rigged election, get your guns, get ready.’ He was calling for an armed revolt if Hillary won,” Moore said.
Moore went on to argue that the civil war “would already have happened” if Trump had won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College.
Nice how he glides right past the outraged Not My President bullshit from the lefties.
Just yesterday, I got stuck in a traffic jam because the police were rounding up a bunch of homosexuals and loading them into a horse trailer and taking them away. I didn’t ask where, because it doesn’t matter. In the fascist dictatorship which is Trump’s Totalitarian America, you keep your head down and don’t ask questions.
Moore and Maher – sounds like torture. Who the fuck watches that?
It isn’t recommended. Only Derpetologists with the latest in anti-derp protection (ADP) should even attempt it.
Genesis’ Domino- the official song of Trumpmerica.
As a rule, I think if Im at a party or other function with anyone named “Smoke Dawg” and “Mustafa the Poet”, its time to find another party.
We’re just gonna call you “Whitebread” from now on.
I catch enough shit from people as it is for nearly constantly listening to Shade45 on SiriusXM
“Illegal immigrant is arrested for ‘starting dozens of wildfires in Colorado that forced hundreds to evacuate and destroyed 38,000 acres of land’, as video shows blaze rapidly engulfing one of the many decimated homes
Jesper Joergensen, 52, was taken into custody last Saturday for the suspected arson that started the Springs Fire
Joergensen is not a U.S. citizen and will be handed over to ICE once he has faced arson charges
The fire has scorched over 38,000 acres (15,378 hectares) between the towns of Fort Garland and La Veta in southern Colorado”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5905453/Illegal-immigrant-arrested-starting-dozens-wildfires-Colorado-destroying-38-000-acres.html
It doesn’t say from which country.
He must have changed his name from Joergensenez.
Degeorge?
Based on the photo, Im going with canuckistani.
With a name like that, sounds like he’s a refugee from Minnesota.
“New Miss USA says beauty pageants should keep swimsuit competitions because they are ’empowering’”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5906097/New-Miss-USA-says-beauty-pageants-swimsuit-competitions-empowering.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5905533/Stella-Maxwell-flaunts-taut-torso-slender-legs-walk-Kristen-Stewart-Los-Angeles.html
Send food and clothing.
Moore and Maher – sounds like torture. Who the fuck watches that?
Retards.
In a refreshing change from the Cleveland article, it seems no dogs were harmed this time.
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions is drafting a regulation that will narrow the asylum rules and likely deter many people from taking the costly and risky step of migrating towards the United States, according to Vox.com.”
https://www.breitbart.com/2018-elections/2018/06/29/report-ag-sessions-rewriting-asylum-regulations/
TW: Breitbart, Vox
You’re the one that wants to redefine “asylum”, asshole.
That’s what you get for boring the hell out of people, Spain. Adios.
W00t! Their arrogance did them in. Poetic justice.
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions is drafting a regulation that will narrow the asylum rules and likely deter many people from taking the costly and risky step of migrating towards the United States, according to Vox.com.”
This is “bad”, I suppose.
I’ve been told the Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty is “law” not just a sentiment. Apparently, if you read the Libertarian Party’s platform correctly, every person in the world is entitled to come to the U.S., except for the violent ones of course. No mention of prohibiting welfare for them. Will be interesting to see if this platform plank gets amended during this week’s convention.
Yea, I encountered someone who thought that as well. She said, “I mean, it says ‘give me your poor, your hungry’ and all that…”
Lose a point for thinking that an inscription on a statue is the same as a legal statute.
Lose a point for not knowing the source of those words.
Lose a point for not even knowing the entire passage.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dg40S5VU0AIBeJp.jpg:large
I know I shouldn’t have laughed at that.
I cannot be helped.
Not enough moobs on Chucky.
Fuck, it’s hot. Yesterday, in Vancouver I needed a sweater. Today, I’m sweating just standing outside.
“Feels like” 108 here. Like I’m gonna go outside pffft.
I went outside to grill lunch. It’s very unpleasant out there.
Rainy days on Sundays always get me down