It was a fun day yesterday. SP and I really love going up to Wisconsin, and yesterday’s excuse was the Ed Gein Memorial Fun Walk and Barbecue. It’s a great event, honoring a great man, and it’s fun for the whole family. It was delightful to see such diversity among the people participating, the weather was great, and I think the entire day went by with no one being groped or mugged. We need more positive things like this in our sick society.
I forgot to do the birthday roundup yesterday, and missed Robert Heinlein. I’ll forget again today because it was a pretty dull bunch. I’m not doing sports because the Orioles are setting new records for suckiness, football season doesn’t start for two more months, and there’s no other sports going on now. So let’s do some links:
Trump raises the art of “brain lint as free association” to ever-higher levels. I’m sure he’ll eventually top this, but my limited imagination can’t see how.
I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ.
Yes, I’m sure he does.
Speaking of which, how often do you meet a girl, take her home, start rolling around on the floor, get her pants off, and discover… something extra? Well, worry no more, now you can know exactly what to do.
…as Allison Moon writes in Girl Sex 101, “For some girls, too much glans stimulation can feel annoying. This can be especially true if she gets erections.” In this case, Moon recommends “small licks about an inch down from the frenulum, on the ventral [under] side of her clit.”
On a similar theme, apparently the British can’t achieve the same sense of fun and unity that we witnessed from Wisconsinites.
A small group of activists protesting against what they perceive as the erasure of lesbian identity by trans women, attempted to insert themselves at the head of the parade at Pride in London. When authorities intervened, the women laid on the floor until persuaded to move by officials.
Personally, I find the word “insert” to be triggering.
“You didn’t build that!” This is one of those articles that is so transparently ignorant and mendacious that you can make a party game out of “who can find the most fallacies, ignorance of technology and history, and non sequiturs?”
Contrary to public perception, it is government and taxpayer dollars, not private enterprise, that are the main drivers of technological innovation. If it wasn’t for government funding of new technologies, the smart phone you are holding in your hand right now wouldn’t exist. Furthermore, nearly the entire high-tech industry owes its existence to government.
Where is Sirhan Sirhan now that we so badly need him?
Legalizing marijuana means that Americans will be faced with new forms of the addictive chemical found in marijuana, THC. By and large, marijuana today is not the marijuana the hippies were smoking at Woodstock, or even the kind they were smoking outside of Metallica concerts in the ’90s. Big Marijuana is selling us “elixirs” like orange-aid with potent levels of THC in it. There are also edibles: brownies and gummy bears laced with THC.
These drugs, which masquerade as food, have caused emergency room visits to skyrocket. People don’t adequately understand how edibles work or how much THC they are consuming. One gummy bear turns into a handful, and the next thing you know, someone is hallucinating in the emergency room.
Old Guy Music! This one from a Wisconsin-born singer-songwriter whose songs about historical events are always interesting and beautifully crafted. He’s not well-known but ought to be, dammit. In any case, the futility and waste of war are recurring themes in his music, and World War I may have been the most futile and wasteful of them all. Which of course is why our Progressive president of the time found it irresistible to get the US involved in it. Oh, and if the artist stumbles across this, please don’t dox us.
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“I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.”
Makes sense to me.
SP couldn’t figure out why I was laughing the whole time I was reading that transcript. Holy shit, what an ass clown. But admittedly more entertaining than that last ass clown.
I believe somebody pointed out before that Elton is really good on the piano, and he really sucks on the organ.
““They never say I’m a great speaker,” Trump bellowed, pointing at the media attending the rally. “Why the hell do so many people come? It’s got to be something. I guess they like my policy?””
That about sums it up.
When I read a Trump transcript I get the same feeling as when I look at higher math. I can only hope that I will never need to actually understand it, because I can’t even know how much I don’t understand.
Sometimes I like it rougher and will say things like, ‘I want you to suck my dick now,’ and other times it’s very sweet and I’m all, ‘I want to go down on you and eat you out until I can’t breath.’
I have no idea who is doing what to whom.
Same here.
I’m guessing Webster’s and the like will be out of business soon.
The problem is that Broadly is basically a magazine for lesbians who also believe in astrology and witchcraft.
So like…for crazy people?
Hm… are you sure there’s a substantial “people” connection?
Lesbians are people, so, yes?
I dunno. Too many of them seem to act like any other humanoid is their enemy, like they aren’t the same species. So…
They claim to taste like chicken.
This is insane. As in, not based on reality. It’s a dick, not a vagina. Calling it a vagina does not make it operate or feel like anything other than a dick. FFS.
I have never, ever been so content to be an old married fart. Married to an actual, biological woman, that is.
Jeus fucking Christ OMWC, I think these links just gave me brain AIDS.
Also, it’s Sunday night and I’m drinking because tomorrow is Monday.
Then my work here is through.
I was going to donate blood today but for having read OMWC’s links have developed brain AIDS.
That’s what you get for sleeping less than 4 hours.
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Amazing strong women standing up to Misogyny and Lesbian Erasure. I am so proud of them. Men hate it when women say no to them, hence why there will be a misogynistic backlash from the white male dominated ‘Gay/Trans’ Organisations to women defending their hard earned rights.
Eating out their own?
erasure? like with a cloth?
“Hard earned rights.” Oh yes, I remember when women got the vote because they could be drafted into war. Wait what? They can’t be drafted? Huh. Maybe they were given the vote because they’re expected to give up their seats on the lifeboat to men and children first when the ship is sinking. Oh? It’s “women and children first?” Huh? Well, I’m sure there’s some huge societal expectation on women that isn’t on men that earned them all these rights. Right?
Don’t murder your young? Nope. Don’t hit the opposite gender? Nope. Don’t rape your minor students? Mostly nope. Don’t show your nipples in polite company? Ah, there we go.
Evidently they’re fighting hard for the right to have their tits out at the pool.
Lesbian erasure
Was expecting this
Erasure was a a fun group. They rocked my 17 year old booty, and that’s when I was hanging with some gay dudes.
His family abandoned him, but this 89-year-old found a new lease of life as a nude model
Finally, some good news.
Everybody have fun tonight.
How well does it pay?
*Fourscore perks up*
Looks like a possible career change, maybe come out of retirement. I’m a free agent if anyone is offering a contract.
Actually the missus and I have Donate to Science in our will, figuring that we’ve got most of the useful stuff out but if there
are any parts that could be used, as Ed Gein might, we could still be marketable.
With a name like Wang, how could you not be a nude model?
He could process words.
“Check out my 8″ floppy.”
9″ when I’m in the mood.
I hear this place is restricted, Wang, so don’t tell them you’re Jewish. Okay?
This is the worst looking hat I ever saw!
Contrary to public perception, it is government and taxpayer dollars, not private enterprise, that are the main drivers of technological innovation.
Without government investment in the early 20th century there would be no airplanes or Maxim guns.
Why am I here? Why am I awake?
Why do I have to do Service calls on a Sunday?
Why is my pot still in bud form?
Where is my Grinder?
Why do I crave coffee?
Why oh why?
Why have coffee when you can have Leninade?
Made with “Blood” Oranges I would guess
“A taste worth standing in line for “
One could say that standing in line is Khrushchev to the experience.
It tastes better if you put sugar and Kemlin it.
“Kremlin”.
*sigh* It sucked anyway…
the next thing you know, someone is hallucinating in the emergency room.
It’s all fun and games until somebody’s face gets bitten off.
Pot doesn’t cause hallucinations
/Picks up Bong
“These drugs, which masquerade as food, have caused emergency room visits to skyrocket. People don’t adequately understand how edibles work or how much THC they are consuming. One gummy bear turns into a handful, and the next thing you know, someone is hallucinating in the emergency room.”
What a bunch of pussies.
As someone who actually works in the ER, please let me know when all these hallucinating kids with the addictive marijuana industry for parents actually show up. We can house them next to all the people having LSD flashbacks.
You probably don’t see them because you’re too busy detoxing teenagers who have been butt chugging.
“Our kids are headed into a global economy that will cause them a lot of stress. Are we going to give them a protective shield — good mental health skills that help them navigate a challenging environment and successfully manage stress? Or are we going to turn a blind eye and allow an addictive industry — the marijuana industry — to parent our kids?”
Marijuana isn’t addictive. And it’s easier for kids to buy it where it isn’t legal.
Are we going to give them a protective shield — good mental health skills that help them navigate a challenging environment and successfully manage stress
Or are we going to coddle them with “safe spaces” and decrying “microaggressions”, making them grow up into adults incapable of handling the real world?
Crap, that first paragraph was supposed to be in em tags.
If they’re in the global economy (working) they’re not kids.
I know , wrong answer
What about the orphans?
True^ in Cali, most shops are 21 and over by choice, and a good choice IMO
/Young punks on my lawn!!!
Cornel West tries to educate noted idiot and far right radical Tucker on the wonders of democratic socialism. (TW: Salon) Tucker tries to discredit it by pointing to Venezuela, when we know that’s not a correct example because the country is falling apart. No place has really tried socialism before. That’s why there are no examples of successful socialist societies as we all know.
It’s like they are arguing that airplanes would fly faster with less energy expended if they would cut off those wings which cause so much drag.
I find it pretty funny that progs who default to “not real socialism” unironically attack libertarianism by demanding “Name me one place where it’s ever worked!”
The United States?
You don’t know your history comrade, the US was nothing but slavers followed by robber barons. Then we fought some wars and then Obama (praise be his name) lifted us from the ashes and redeemed us until Trump-Belzabub came along and ruined our glorious march toward utopia. /what public school history class teaches
That about sums it up.
The difference between socialism and fascism is that nobody says true fascism has never been tried before.
Sometimes I want to start a sort of consciousness raising performance art project where I go around making the same excuses for Nazism that are made for socialism:
“But Nazism is just the notion that a country should have strong national security and full employment! Who could be against that??”
“No no, the Holocaust wasn’t the result of real Nazism. You see, they lost sight of true Nazi principles. Real Nazism has never actually been implemented.”
“So what if there were some deaths under Nazism? After all, the US was lynching black people!”
“Nazism can work – we just need the right leaders in place. Besides, it’s the inevitable course of history.”
“West asserted that U.S. foreign policy hasn’t exactly allowed outside states to embrace socialism. He said that countries have tried to engage in “self-determination” only to have external forces, such as the U.S., cripple their desired goals.”
I keep hearing this. But if your socialism can’t stand up to other countries, how good is it?
That’s the same level of thinking as “the devil made me do it”
But now that Der Trumpenfurher is in office, we’re only weeks away from The Handmaid’s Tale, the oceans boiling over, the return of chattel slavery, and a corporation-led kleptocracy!
I was channel flipping and caught a big chunk of that live.
West was utterly incoherent. He spewed forth snippets of larger thoughts in an incomprehensible stream of consciousness rant that was quickly decoupled from any topic they were discussing.
I really wish Carlson had done a deep dive on why Venezuela doesn’t count. It seems that West’s idea is that because of US meddling, Venezuela is in bad shape. No acknowledgement of the idiocy of price controls and the seizure of all productive businesses.
Carlson also tried to get a discussion of immigration policy going, and this is where West became utterly incoherent. Some New York socialist group put out a statement that included open borders, and Carlson asked him about this. He ping-ponged all over the place – his main point being that different socialists have different opinions – but never put a flag in the sand on immigration. He was not going to oppose open borders, or unlimited immigration, but he also was not going to explain how this is good for poor and marginalized people who already live here. He just kept coming back to “treat all people with dignity’, which is a nice idea, but really not all that helpful.
Cornell West has been a loud and proud racist for decades, but he seems to be pretty close to the mainstream of the loudest bunch in the Democrat Party’s base right now. I wonder why they can’t see unabashed and unashamed racism in their own tribe while inventing “dog whistle” racist tells among their opposition.
Socialism, even “democratic” socialism that starts off gently, inevitably progresses to Stage 4 Socialism, which is indistinguishable from authoritarian tyranny, Every. Single. Time. The current Venezuela may not look like what progressives have in mind, but that’s where they all end up within a generation. If you give the boulder a push downhill, you can’t say you didn’t see it coming when it takes out the house below.
Venezuela didn’t have the right Top Men, of course.
No, they did. The CIA poisoned Hugo Chavez because he was too smart and was about prove that socialism could work!
“The drugged car crash rate has doubled. ”
Not to doubt a Kennedy about car crashes, but that sounds like bullshit.
Keep cars away from Drugs! problem solved
Damn your nimble fingers
It was right there ready to grab, Bobs Think Alike?
Great Bobs think alike
My sister gave me The book of Bob for a birthday years ago and one Quote that stood out was from Bob Saget
“My First name wasn’t my problem”
The fact that he’s Bob Saget is his problem
We have to do something about these drugged up cars!
He really is a statist piece of shit. OMWC us wro g about needing Sirhan Sirhan. Let’s just drag him outside and let the sun vaporize his ginger head.
NYT Opinion: Do Poor People Have a Right to Health Care? How dare any of you expect people to have to actually work to have access to benefits! Won’t someone please think of the lazy asses!
So we’re going to let ERs deny care to the uninsured now?
Just let them Bleed out in the Parking lot…….
Of course! That’s what the evil, poor hating Republicans and DRUMPF want to do!
I thought the 13th Amendment ended the practice of one person having a right to the labor of another.
Ed Gein? This is why I don’t recommend this site to acquaintances. They will never get it.
No it’s cool. Most normal people don’t even know who Ed Gein is.
He’s the one with the pre-packaged paleo diet dinners? Gein Cuisine?
His submission on leather working was top shelf.
Booooooooo….
It puts the lotion on its skin.
So, Socialism works, but every example is met with, “but that wasn’t real socialism” Where is the example of where it DID work?
Sweden doesn’t IMO
Sweden is in the process of showing how it doesn’t work now. In 5-10 years they’ll be calling themselves Swedestan and all that sweet socialist welfare will be gone
Bobs Thinking Alike, The World is Doooooomed…..
Isn’t socialism the “state owns the means of production?” Therefore, Sweden isn’t socialist. It is just another degree of fascism, more so than the U.S. The U.S. Dems want more fascism here; very few actually advocate textbook socialism.
That’s 100% correct. I’m using the term ‘socialist’ as many of it’s advocates understand it; ‘statist policies + good feelz’
“Aaron Paul passed the time with a game of cornhole”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5929499/Twilights-Ashley-Greene-weds-Paul-Khoury-elegant-outdoor-ceremony-Northern-California.html
He did what?
Nice cleavage.
Wristwatch! Crisco!
Don’t fool yourself, girl. It’s winking at you.
Get nasty
With the country slouching towards fascism, it’s important to note what the national news media considers a majority priority for coverage: Scolding the left for being too upset about the white nationalist agenda of the White House and trying to drum up intra-Democratic drama. Unfortunately, too many leaders on the Democratic side are falling for this, which can be easily avoided by a simple strengthening of backbone.
Endless amounts of column inches and cable-news airtime are now devoted to two propositions: That the left is getting too rowdy in their opposition to Trump’s racist agenda, and that Democratic leaders have a responsibility to scold left-wing activists about the importance of not resisting authoritarianism too sternly. In some cases, this takes the form of getting the vapors at progressives who are “uncivil” by protesting Trump officials in public places like restaurants. In others, it’s about scolding those who support supposedly radical notions like the abolition of ICE, even though similar lectures are not directed at conservatives who supporting far more radical proposals to abolish the IRS.
The typical structure of these arguments is that of a concern troll: The person telling progressives to simmer down will inevitably cast himself as a concerned party who wants Democrats to win, but believes these tactics are only hurting that agenda and believes the best path forward for the party is to maximize internal sniping over nonsense.
Those dopey old “moderates” want to concern troll the Democrats into giving up the push for a socialist paradise on earth. Don’t listen to them. Full steam ahead. Bash a fash.
TW: Amanda Marcotte
Americans, what a bunch of Slouchers,
Please Democrats, please listen to Amanda. I’d love to see progressivism discredit itself for the rest of my lifetime. /A boy can dream
Eh, they’ve been banging on the fascism drum since the 60’s, starting with the lunatic German youths of the RAF.
I’ve don’t think they’re going to give up on it anytime soon.
To bad none of them ever bothered to learn what ‘Fascism’ actually means or that the great FDR was a huge fan.
“white nationalist”
“racist agenda”
Aren’t they tired of this nonsense by now?
They’ll never tire of it, it’s load-baring leg of their stool and their ideology collapses without it. I was listening to a podcast the other day about how the left LOVES the alt-right. It’s basically their Emanuel Goldstein. Without them they’d have no ever-present, never-seen enemy.
I’m not sure about the “Load bearing” part but I do detect a lot of “stool” in this verbiage.
Load Bearing Stool? Ewww.
Needs moar fiber.
There’s actually a lot of research backing up his underlying point.
When people hold to a belief, evidence that it is wrong does not make them re-evaluate their position. It makes them “believe harder”. This is for irrational beliefs – not things like “2+2=4” or “water freezes at 32 degrees”. This is for things like “crystals are healing” or ” acupuncture cures arthritis”. To avoid cognitive dissonance, people automatically build elaborate defenses around their closely held beliefs.
This is why discussions about economic ideologies are so bizarre and irrational. This phenomenon leads people to engage in every logical fallacy known to man in order to protect their chosen belief. Armies of straw men are beaten to death daily on the sets of Fox News and MSNBC in service of this phenomenon.
Also people be crazy. I know a “scientist” that absolutely despises anything to do with religion. This person thinks all people with religious beliefs are either stupid or insane.
This person also believes in ghosts.
Yes, I believe the technical term of art for the phenomenon I was describing is “people be crazy”.
The interesting bit is trying to obtain the knowledge that this lesson applies to you and yours as well.
I find sports a useful learning environment for this purpose. Because “my team” is frequently getting screwed by the refs. And if you can come to grips with the fact that the refs don’t give a rip about “your team”, you can begin to see your own biases.
– BTW.. this does not apply to youth travel league sports. The home team usually provides the officials. Holy crap, does home field advantage exist. But that’s the inevitable result of using the guy who has been working with those same kids for years. Of course he’s gonna have a subconscious bias. Still, don’t use your kids travel team for this exercise of discovery – you’ll convince yourself that you really are objective.
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Alabama football or Kentucky basketball fans bitch about the refs always having it in for their team.
What’s funny is that, as mentioned above it’s the self proclaimed ‘democratic socialists ‘ who are cheering for facisim.
That Trump thing: I hope there was a beatnik tapping randomly on the bongo drums in the background as he recited that poem. And maybe a hot chick in capri pants swishing her ass back and forth and snapping her fingers.
I’d pay good money to see Trump do poetry slam
Hot beatnick chick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzywcEgjlhw
Love those old school “pointy” sweaters.
I had a dilemma today while driving home.
I can’t read that shit either,
Turn right, turn right, turn right, no turning right, turn left, no turning right. Perfectly clear.
Turn light, no reft, reft! /couldn’t resist
You were driving in Japan. What did you expect?
I was in the passenger seat this time. My wife looked flummoxed. Have you noticed Japanese people cock their heads to the side when they are confused? Just like a black lab looking at a frozen water dish.
Yes. But do you do the the, “ehhhhhhhhhh” expression of surprise? I haven’t gone that far.
But about a year ago I knew I was in trouble as started actively listening and grunting, “un, un, un, …”. That one still cracks me up. Doubly so now that I do it too.
was your dilemma “holy shit I need to get out of Japan” ?
For the provincial rubes in the audience, don’t forget that they drive on the wrong side of the road in Japan. So reverse everything and it is a bit clearer.
When I like Being wrong,
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/07/08/developing-thailand-cave-rescue-underway-three-boys-freed/
Just finished my writing my lecture on why Woodrow Wilson was a ginormous piece of shit. I spent a lot of time discussing war socialism and all of the evils that accompanied it. Unfortunately, I don’t trust my students to understand any of it, so I made sure to spend ample time on what a huge racist Wilson was. I’m sure that, at least, will turn them against him.
I also wrote a bit about how you should never trust any politicians. Wilson was a “peace” candidate who invaded Mexico, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Panama. He kept troops in Nicaragua (that Taft sent) and sent a few million men to WWI after promising to keep us out of it.
Can you guys think of any modern presidents who campaigned on peace and then proceeded to embroil America in a shitload of military interventions?
Answer: All of them
I recall W getting huge applause from conservatives no less when saying that America should NOT be the policeman of the world. That’s before the neocons took over. Sad thing is that I believed him. Last time I make that mistake.
Yeah. W was my final break with being a republican. I also stupidly believed him. whoops.
+ 1 compassionate conservatism
Code for spend like a drunken democrat.
If you took US history in a public school in the 70’s and 80’s, you would believe that the history of US military action since the revolution is all a response to foreign threats or invasions. So you only hear about WWII, WWI, 1812, Spanish-American War… in order of diminishing attention. I think Korea was a paragraph. But we knew all about Korea because M.A.S.H. was the number one show. (Did you know that Korea was a hilly chaparral desert?) Viet Nam was too current to be History. We never mentioned “imperialism” and Central America.
I suppose that does count as a bit of whitewashing of history.
This is the opening of that Salon article about Tucker Carlson:
For years, Fox News derided former President Barack Obama, labeling him a closet socialist and an anti-capitalist. They said Obama’s policies were the beginning of the end for the American Dream.
Obama’s tenure came and went; yet, somehow, the U.S. did not collapse.
I wonder (not really, haha) if they ever contemplate the similarity of their hysterical overreaction to Trump with the reaction of conservatives to Obama.
Somehow, the U S will survive Trump, just as it survived Obama, George W Boooosh, two Roosevelts and Ulysses S Grant.
It’s almost as if there is an underlying system which was designed to be resilient and adaptive.
They would be more than happy to run is of that underlying system. It’s an impediment to their objectives.
Rid
There’s nothing “closet” about it – the guy openly disparages the very concept of running a business and keeping profits for yourself. He constantly insists that you don’t have a right to the money that you earn and rails against “income inequality” regardless of the cause.
While true, he also never advocated for state ownership of the means of production. To a Marxist, that makes him solidly capitalistic. It seems impossible to nail down a consistent definition of socialism because it simultaneously takes on both its Marxist and non-Marxist meanings depending on whatever is more convenient for the argument.
So, is that what a Democratic Socialist is supposed to be? Someone like Obama? I know we here have just pointed at the term as another bit of ridiculousness from the left, but they must actually think it means something…?
If I were to attempt to form consistent and coherent definitions of the relevant terms without appealing to emotion, they would probably be something like this:
Socialism: in the context of Marxism, state ownership of the means of production; outside that context, any system in which the government purports to provide for the material needs of the people to a large degree
Democratic socialism: Either of the above, contextually, but genuinely democratic and without oligarchs or an autocrat
Social democracy: Democratic socialism without any Marxism; in other words, the “Nordic Model”, also applied to varying degrees throughout Europe and in parts of Asia
State capitalism: Non-democratic Marxist socialism where the primary economic driver is markets rather than central planning; may have some private ownership of the means of production, but such ownership is vetted and controlled by the state. Basically identical to economic fascism but with a Marxist rather than nationalist veneer
Note that this leaves no room for Marxist democratic socialism, as such a thing has never existed and probably can never exist; it quickly loses either its democratic or socialistic character, with the former being much more common than the latter.
Obama thus was solidly in the “social democracy” camp. However, some of his actions, especially toward the end of his Presidency, revealed a lack of respect for democracy.
Hey, that’s really helpful. I appreciate it!
Have you noticed Japanese people cock their heads to the side when they are confused? Just like a black lab looking at a frozen water dish.
I know a guy (not Japanese) who does that. It always seemed bird-like to me.
Is Hillary Clinton secretly planning to run in 2020?
Second servings of salty tears? Delicious!
Doh! I spent too much time looking at your silly signs and not posting.
Hillary Clinton secretly planning to run in 2020?
What is this “secretly” shit? She’s about as stealthy as prison rape.
How do you go down on a non-op trans woman?
SAD!
Did you cover the Third Time is a Charm campaign already?
A lot of us have predicted it and now it looks like the media is testing the waters. The problem is that while being a dangerous psychotic, she does no how to work the Dem machinery to her advantage.
I laughed at this point because I think it is true:
Are there other 3 time presidential losers beside William Jennings Bryan (among the major parties)? That would be a good look for Hillary’s “legacy”
Adlai Stevenson
Harris and Booker actually might be good opponents for Trump. They are pretty unhindered by reality and don’t seem to have much of a shame response. So it might be a good counter to Trumps bulldozer technique.
California has a budget surplus. Not too shabby-tabby:
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article210903954.html
You can bet that everyone will be clamoring to start some new program that has continuing costs. None of them will see the absurdity of spending a one time windfall on a one time fix.
At least that is how it goes here in Minnesoda when we get a budget surplus. Last time Gov Mumbles wanted to start a new pre-K program.
The two things that will never happen: 1) Give it back to the tax payers directly (Thanks Jesse!) or 2) drop taxes because obviously you are charging too much if there is a surplus.
It’s sad that most people consider these to be crazy ideas that are outside the Overton window.
My city recently built an outdoor amphitheater by the river. It’s not the most evil thing a government has ever done (it’s actually a pretty nice park) but it was touted as a measure that “wouldn’t raise taxes” because the government just put some other cost-cutting measures in place, like automating garbage collection. So, if there was money to be saved, shouldn’t they have done that immediately and lowered taxes?
That’s like if a poor man came home one day with a new motorcycle, and when his wife chided him about spending on luxuries instead of taking care of their basic expenses, he just said, “Well it didn’t actually cost us any money; I just used the money that I saved from giving up my drinking and gambling!”
Only if you ignore their long term debt obligations
https://www.wsj.com/articles/waiter-theres-a-bloody-mary-in-my-chicken-dinner-1531050667
This has been going on for 20 years already.
Blech! That sounds awful, and like an idea they shouldn’t have recycled.
Aww, Babs has finally forgiven me for leaving her to go to Vancouver. She hasn’t snuggled with me since I got back until now. She has her head on my lap.
What’s Elton John’s best album? Madman Across the Water? Tumblweed Connection?
Madman Across the Water was my theme in High school, I can’t say why I never picked up Tumbleweed Connection…
Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only The Piano Player
I’m partial to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Benny and the Jets, Saturday Nights All Right for Fighting both take me back) but yeah I wore out my Madman Across the Water album as well (Levon is a great tune). I can’t pick a favorite really. Depends on my mood. He’s definitely one of my favorite musicians.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
“Elton John”
Get the documentary “Born to Boogie,” It’s Marc Bolan, Ringo, and Elton rocking out. There’s a lot of controlled substances happening too, but I still love it. Otherwise I am partial to “Goodby Yellow Brick Road.”
Just finished my writing my lecture on why Woodrow Wilson was a ginormous piece of shit.
I hope you covered the Palmer Raids. The methodology was… unsound.
Naturally. I like to focus on all the times the government is both stupid and evil.
Is there a reason that Evan is getting out of Dodge before the posse shows up?
Why, I will just be be damned.
Looks like the po-po gonna have to soak someone for more OT money now to make up for the loss.
Uh huh. Tell me more, Mr. Spokesman.
Interesting that they (eventually) got this one right, despite some potential or even probable shady aspects of the couple’s lifestyle.
More often you hear about the immigrant taking $12k back to Mexico and getting it all seized, despite a noted lack of any evidence of any criminal nexus and support from their employer as to the legitimacy of the cash.
Also noted – the police department had to cover their legal bills. I have the impression that this might be a singular event in the world of asset forfeiture.
“I felt that the glitter on the seized cash was compelling evidence, but apparently the police department disagreed,” said defense lawyer Faccidomo.
They should make that version of Clue.
Miss Kandy in the private booth with a thong?
Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.
via the video…….”as per department policy I am going to ask you to pop the trunk.” Fuck that guy and all cops of his ilk.
Also, would.
It is rumored that most paper money has at one time or another been in a strippers g string. This is why you should always sniff your money, but remember there is a good chance it has been in the back pocket of a trucker too so this should be done with caution.
Editors? Proofreaders? Salon don’t need that.
Now Fox News has to grapple with a real party that champions the tenants of socialism, and its opinion hosts are struggling to describe its rise.
How much rent do they pay? Or is it free, in socialism?
I make that typo all the time. I also find it impossible to type Democrats without typing Democrates for some reason.
“Here are some books on western civilisation that I’ve been lucky enough to discover, and that I would recommend to anyone interested”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1015721328509194240
She’s trying way too hard.
Civilisation by Kenneth Clark or GTFO
“A) THE GOVERNMENT BACKING OF STUDENT LOANS:
This started with “The Higher Education Act of 1965″.
It has a seemingly fine and generous idea: let’s help the less fortunate get a higher education so they can be more competitive.
I love this idea. The feeling is correct.
But unfortunately it failed due to corruption, lousy economics, lack of understanding of basic finance, and a ton of other reasons I’ll get to.
I have a solution which I’ll describe in a bit.
—
B) PRICE OF TUITION:
Since 1965, the price of tuition has gone up HIGHER THAN INFLATION every single year (EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR) by an average of 9%.
By comparison, medical care costs have gone up faster than inflation by an average of 5% every year.
Corruption #1: Since the government is backing it, college Presidents are simply charging more without thinking about the future consequences of the country OR OF THE STUDENTS who take on these loans.”
https://www.quora.com/Will-the-United-States-ever-collapse/answer/James-Altucher?share=0ecacb7f
The chart of new organizations is the most depressing of them all.
I think there is starting to be a backlash against the ‘college at all costs’, at least among the families in my boring, middle class world. I spoke with quite a few kids at grad parties recently who are pursuing the trades or another route to money making.
This is too close to the “predatory lending” bullshit of 2008 or current arguments for why we need single-payer healthcare.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
I agree with you. It’s the question of who’s got skin in the game. Things get fucked up when the loans are made without any real underwriting or recourse.
Thanks for digging up the info on county sheriffs. I didn’t get back to that thread until midday yesterday.
You betcha!
It’s also the matter of asking why certain businesses should be excoriated for placing profit motive first. If we were talking about a widget factory, we free-marketers would laugh in the face of anyone who would suggest that the factory has any fiscal responsibility beyond making its shareholders as much profit as possible – yet for certain industries, even soi-disant fiscal ‘conservatives’ are whining about social responsibility, “fair trade”, and other communitarian bullshit.
Caveat emptor. Although getting the government out of the student loan business would quickly let the market do it’s thing.
Just like getting them out of ethanol, solar, EVs…
“Milo Yiannopoulos, Tomi Lahren cast for anti-abortion Roe v. Wade movie”
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/395955-milo-yiannopoulos-tomi-lahren-cast-for-roe-v-wade-movie
Why?
First boys rescued from Thai cave:
MAE SAI, Thailand—Thai authorities said rescue divers extracted four of the 12 boys trapped along with their soccer coach for over two weeks in a flooded cave in northern Thailand.
Thai Navy SEALs said on their verified Facebook page that the boys were brought out from the 6-mile long Tham Luang cave system one by one, accompanied by two divers each. It was a grueling journey through semi-submerged caverns and passage ways that even experienced rescue divers found difficult to navigate. One diver, a former Thai Navy SEAL, died on Thursday after running out of air.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/thai-rescuers-begin-perilous-operation-to-free-trapped-soccer-team-1531023230?mod=hp_lead_pos1
“Thai Navy SEALs said on their verified Facebook page” words I never thought I’d read in any context.
I heard this on the radio. Good news. Also, yesterday was the first time I heard how far the kids where in the cave. 6 miles? What the hell was their coach thinking? Or did they go deeper in when it started filling up with water?
Or did they go deeper in when it started filling up with water?
Yes, it’s my understanding that they moved to higher ground, but that meant going deeper into the cave.
aah
Dick Durbin is rambling incoherently on Meet the Press. What a surprise.
I mean I can totally understand the left wanting to get rid of their old elite guard. The problem is they’re replacing them with clueless millennial commies. But I say, carry on, comrades.
“I can think of no better description than to call ICE a terrorist organization”
https://twitter.com/CynthiaNixon/status/1015287106032340999
Pick a random word and that would be a better description.
CBP offered my wife a job yesterday. We’ll see how it goes, it’s a lot more money then she’s making now. IOW, moar man stuff for Mr. Hyperion.
I agree let’s disolve ICE. Tbe DEA, and IRS also seperate kids from families, so let’s disolve them as well.
It’s not that i disagree with leftists, often we agree, its just the hypocrisy and shallowness of the left (and right, but it’s on full display on the left) that drives me crazy. Cause as soon as their anointed one takes power, criticism stops.
If by “terrorist organization” you mean “state-sponsored terrorism”, I wholeheartedly agree.
This has been building up for 20+ years and all good-thinking people were calling libertarians crackpots for pointing it out. Now it becomes the leftist cause du jour but their complaints are all shallow.
“Property manager calls cops on man for wearing socks in pool
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (KTRK) —
A Memphis property manager was fired after what happened at an apartment complex swimming pool on Thursday.
Camry Porter says the manager at her apartment complex approached her boyfriend for wearing socks in the pool, but before he could comply, the police were called.
Porter says this all happened because she and her boyfriend are black.”
http://abc13.com/3718670/
Socks in a pool. Yeah, with the country rubes who make it into Memphis in search of the Big Time, I think that the manager was right to try to nip this in the bud. It isn’t so much that he is black as it was because he is obviously from the country.
There are just as many white country crackers who do stupid shit like this as well. My guess is she would have run them out too.
I agree, though.
hmmmm socks vs dollar store huggies. i know which i’d choose.
“Property manager calls cops on man for wearing socks in pool”
If this is a trend, it spells bad news for Germans vacationing in Brazil.
Unthinkable
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Saturday calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency are misguided and doing so “would compromise public safety.”
“During the Vietnam War, millions of Americans demanded an end to the war; no one seriously demanded that we abolish the entire Defense Department,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post. “Obviously, that would have completely compromised national security.”
———–
“Calls to abolish ICE only serve to sow even greater division in the American public and in its political leadership, Johnson said, “damaging any remaining prospect of bipartisan immigration reform.”
Abolish a government agency? That’s just crazy talk.
It’s worth noting that the INS, founded in 1933, was originally an agency under the Department of Labor.
PS Nice Old Guy Music this am and no that is not related to eating ass.
Agreed. Very Dylan-esque (but in a good way)
Allow me to rectify that.
Funny video, but I can’t stand auto-tune.
This here is why I keep coming back to this site. I spit coffee when it opened.
He plays around Denver a lot (lives there now), worth seeing. Here’s another one you might like.
Ya, I like that. I don’t make it to that side of the mountains very often. Here is something you guys might like when you are planning your next vacation. https://www.bluegrass.com/telluride/lineup.html It is up the road a couple hours from me. I did not go because I am a reclusive antisocial get off my lawn sort but I hear it is a great weekend.
Damn. Looking at the line up had I known I would have gone. I really like these guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0qBgkaULU
Cool band!
Is it Mexican ass and is weed involved?
The article made no reference to the true libertarian moment.
https://twitter.com/LilithLovett/status/1015836682644381696
Is that Melania in the Space Force?
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-melania-trump-knauss-first-lady-erections
I hope one of those costumes goes into the First Lady gowns exhibit at the Smithsonian!
Points for honesty, I guess
I will admit freely that I’m predisposed toward unions. I’ve seen their effects in my own life. My father was a high school dropout, but as a unionized mechanic at the United States Postal Service he earned a solid wage. His union paycheck (along with my mother’s low paid, nonunion job), financed a house, a car, and Catholic school educations for three daughters.
Before I trained as an economist, I spent six years as an organizer, forming unions among secretaries, library workers, and lab assistants at Harvard and the University of Minnesota. I saw firsthand the increased economic security that unionization brought these predominantly female workers, in the form of higher wages, more generous pensions, and paid maternity leave.
Thanks to the new research, evidence going back nearly a century now shows that unions have formed a critical counterweight to the power of companies. They increase the earnings of the lowest skilled and sharply reduce inequality.
But the Supreme Court’s decision will curtail the capacity of unions to organize and represent workers. The court ruled that unions can no longer collect “agency fees” from those government workers whom they represent but who have chosen not to join. These fees have helped pay for contract negotiations as well as prevent the free-rider problem that arises when only some pay for benefits enjoyed by everyone.
Incomes in the United States are now as unequal as they were in the 1920s. The gulf between rich and poor will widen if, as I fear, unions are weakened further.
Another NYT article about the wonderfulness of unions.
Hmm; if unions achieved so much good in her lifetime, then why are incomes “as unequal as they were in the 1920s?” Things were more equal before unions hit their stride? None of this supposed inequality is due to the latest ruling by the Supremes.
And why do they have to coerce people to join?
Not to mention the whole workplace democracy commie style. One [organizing] vote, one time.
Why doesn’t this free rider thing apply to taxes?
Also, the USPS is not the best example for this since
they don’t require you to join the unions and to the best of
my knowlege don’t pay for the “scabs”
I am still stuck at, why do government employees need a union? You get to negotiate with the public every 2-4 years at election time. If you don’t like your government working conditions, appeal to the voters. Forming a conspiracy with your fellow government employees to defraud the public should not be lumped in with private-sector workers forming unions to advocate for better conditions. When the private-sector unions got fat and parasitical, they killed the companies they were attached to and thus killed themselves off. When the same thing happens with government unions, there is no reckoning*.
* = With the occasional exception, most notably being Reagan firing the airing traffic controllers (which shouldn’t be a government job anyway, at least outside of military airfields)
In most cases of unions negotiating, there’s not really a free rider problem at all since a lot of those benefits can be restricted only to union members who opt in. Wage scales, health insurance, pensions, paid vacation, etc. can easily be set up so that they only apply to union members.
Some things are non-excludible, like an air conditioner for a factory building, but that’s not really a free rider problem – that’s just the union choosing to provide a benefit that applies to everyone. It doesn’t give them the right to take money from people who didn’t want to be part of their organization.
I could sing opera songs in my backyard and charge five bucks for admission, but I can’t go to my neighbor’s house and demand five bucks because they got to hear me singing for free. Nobody would call this a free rider problem, yet they insist that this term should apply to unions negotiating for non-excludible benefits in the workplace.
Most of the time, unions are creating a perception of a free rider problem as an excuse to confiscate more money from employees who don’t want anything to do with them.
The question of free riders and “non-excludible benefits” is a red herring. This was about the unions spending on political advocacy with dollars specifically collected on the premise that they would not be spent for that. The unions just couldn’t give up their role in the political machine, and now they face the consequences. There are a number of ways this could have been done differently by the unions after SCOTUS raised the red flag in the past. They could have handed out voting recommendations, they could have set up a separate entity for political advocacy, they could have dropped political advocacy altogether, etc. Instead, they insisted on commingling political and non-political contributions. While that’s fine for a voluntary organization, the unions in question were not voluntary.
“MSNBC Does Not Merely Permit Fabrications Against Democratic Party Critics. It Encourages and Rewards Them.
You would think that any real journalists inside NBC News might be bothered enough by this classically McCarthyite tactic – accusing a journalist of being an agent of Russia without a shred of evidence – to denounce it, but you would be quite wrong. Just look at how identical the script is used by Nance to the actual words McCarthy spoke at one of his notorious hearings:
That’s because NBC News and MSNBC have essentially merged with the CIA and intelligence community and thus use their tactics. The network is filled with former Generals and CIA officials who are part of the community that pioneered these smear tactics of accusing journalists and critics they dislike of being traitors, spies and Kremlin loyalists. Indeed, Nance sometimes appears on MSNBC along with former CIA Director John Brennan, who MSNBC also hired as an “analyst.” This is who they are.
It’s also what the Democratic Party is: this is their go-to tactic.”
https://theintercept.com/2018/07/08/msnbc-does-not-merely-permit-fabrications-against-democratic-party-critics-it-encourages-and-rewards-them/
“These are the 6 Republicans Putin’s puppets undermining our security and our elections by catering to #putin who hacked #Democratic national caucus and the republicans national caucus, helped Julian assange tamper orlur voting rolls, and voting machines! @Alyssa_Milano”
https://twitter.com/JohnLeguizamo/status/1015682751809380357
Assange is mighty powerful for a man trapped in an Ecuadorian embassy.
While i sometimes find greenwald interesting, shit like this is why i can never take him too seriously.
you can’t use words like ‘essentially‘ as shortcuts to ‘making something not technically true seem rhetorially-plausible’
no, MSNBC isn’t a branch of the CIA. they’re just retarded.
Yeah, the key point is that they are all former officials. It’s a factional dispute and the major networks have chosen sides. They think having all these former spooks gives their argument credence. Although, they would do well to remember the adage about fighting monsters (real or perceived).
This is too close to the “predatory lending” bullshit of 2008 or current arguments for why we need single-payer healthcare.
I think government backed/guaranteed loans should be thought of in terms of inflationary pressure on prices, rather than “predatory lending”.
The ever-increasing push to send everybody to college is a different issue.
If we’re talking about the recent high school graduate, I would say that trend has been lessening currently. However, my institution has built its Scrooge McDuck money bin from 30-somethings going back to school for career advancement, which is still a huge growing market. This generation of students are looking for a quick and convenient path to some sort of vocational training. Schools that invest in online and hybrid delivery models coupled with competency-based education and/or project-based learning are poised to thrive in this new environment.
So what kinds of things are these 30-somethings studying? Any clue who is paying (students/employers)?
I’ll give you one example (yep, anecdotal not the result of a broad study): my department is looking at developing an online Graduate Certificate in History so that high school teachers with an MEd can qualify to teach dual enrollment high school history classes. Another department at my school did the same thing and went from 20 MA students to 100+ in about 3 years. That’s not the VoTech HM is referencing but it is a competency.
*raises hand*
I fall into this bucket. I cannot advance my career without a master’s or preferably doctorate. Even though my work will be the exact same, it doesn’t matter without those little letters added to my name.
Two semesters left to finish up my online masters. More and more universities are starting to invest in online formats.
I haven’t closed the door on either an Executive MBA or an MDiv , obviously for very different reasons. The EMBA would have to be subsidized by an employer for me to be interested. The MDiv would probably be as I’m winding down my career.
IF you go for a MDiv, go all out for the PhD, so you can wear the spiffy elbow stripes on your robe.
Derp of the day.
1. Not the feds responsibility
2. That picture is likely of a routine hydrant flushing. Fire departments will open hydrants to flush out build up, often spewing out brown water.
Schools that invest in online and hybrid delivery models coupled with competency-based education and/or project-based learning are poised to thrive in this new environment.
I hope that happens.
I was thinking about this, earlier, for some reason: my impression is that “college” now, as opposed to in the past, is more about the credential than the pursuit of knowledge.
*sweeping generalizations pulled directly out of my ass- YMMV
A lot of it is credentialism, however you’ll be hard pressed to find a reputable engineering program that doesn’t still believe in hard truths
Getting there is part of my everyday work.
Absolutely. And this receives full-throated praise by many! Just try bringing up the subject here, for example.
I’ve always said if you want to fix the education system. Eliminate the majority of majors and focus on education that’s valued in the workplace such as pre med, engineering and so on. I know people who have finance degrees that can’t balance their budget and people with human behavioral science degrees who work in accounting. Just goes to show most of our learning comes on the job.
And there you go.
Meh, Everyone falls victim to existence bias at some point. You could even steelman that to mean “it will be easier to pressure universities to drop inflationary degrees than to pressure employers to cease requiring degrees.”
The latter would be made substantially easier if they would pass a law saying that disparate impact is not the same thing as disparate treatment. As it stands, the courts can undo any criteria for employment–even degrees–if somebody can show some statistical disparity between actual outcomes and “expected” ones along some axis completely irrelevant to the job (like race, sex, etc.).
It is interesting how many of the problems in civil society today can be traced back to the Warren court’s activism. They imposed stupid rules by fiat and 50 years later everybody is scratching their heads wondering why social cohesion and trust is low.
Correction: Griggs v. Duke Power was decided in 1971 under Chief Justice Warren Burger.
Meh. I don’t give a shit what people study as long as they’re the ones paying for it. Eliminate the court-imposed bias for degree holders in employment and the government driven distortion of the education marketplace and a lot of this goes away*. If you want to study dance or archaeology or critical theory at $30k/year out of your own, your family’s, or some privately-funded scholarship’s pockets, you should have that right. Just don’t expect to get a high-paying job because of it, or to be able to pass that cost off on the general public.
* = Which is not to say that law drives society. The underlying cultural factors won’t disappear just because the laws change, but some unstated assumptions might get questioned. Like, why can’t we test people for job proficiency before hiring them? Why can’t we have probationary periods for training and assessment? etc.
Exactly, just remove the perverse incentives (including federally guaranteed student loans)
We have arrived at the outcome of several decades of wishful thinking. That everybody can go to college; that we can eliminate racial (andd other categorical) disparity administratively rather than minimizing it organically; that society can be transformed without adverse and “unintended” consequences; that economic truths can be ignored when the intentions are good; etc.
Which is actually somewhat disturbing. When all your wishful thinking doesn’t work, presumably at some point you have to resort to “kulaks & wreckers.”
“is more about the credential than the pursuit of knowledge”
Yep, and is promoted by the absurd generalization that people with a college degree make more than those without.
I also believe it contributes to why most college students learn so little: they’re there for the degree and so they take most courses to check off a box rather than learn anything.
Yep, and is promoted by the absurd generalization that people with a college degree make more than those without.
The ultimate example of “correlation is not causation” in society today*. The group of people who have college degrees has a higher average income than does the group of people who don’t have college degrees. That does not mean your income will be improved by having a degree, nor that this is some immutable property of the degree and not a product of other factors–some of which relate to the degree, some of which relate to the degreeholder–which can and may be changed. We should be seeking to make high-school diplomas more valuable rather than pushing everybody into college.
* = With the possible exception of “homeownership makes people more responsible”, although that one seems to have fallen out of vogue for the moment.
That metric showing that college grads earn more is largely based on two things:
1) Many people who graduated college in previous decades – when a college education was more rigorous – are now at the top of their careers earning massive salaries.
2) People who get STEM degrees are earning very high salaries, and through the distortion of averaging, this is obscuring the fact that for every engineer earning six figures, there are probably three or four people who got a worthless degree and now work at Starbucks.
Well, it’s not just STEM and not all STEM degree holders are high earners, but I’d add:
3) People who get degrees tend to be more intelligent than people who don’t* and our economy has increasingly focused on jobs with higher intelligence requirements.
* = Again, correlation not causation, and more intelligent doesn’t mean “better” just something along the lines of “able to do more complicated tasks”.
Went to check out the range yesterday: https://www.eliteshootingsports.com/
It’s a beautiful facility and very woman-friendly. Only problem is their instructors only work on weekdays. So I’m going to have to hoof it from Alexandria to Manasshole during rush hour. I’ll bite the bullet (pun intended) and do 3-4 sessions, then I think I should be able to find a weapon to purchase and go on my own on weekends.
Most ranges allow outside instructors.
Good list of rentals. My brother is close to pulling the trigger (pun!) on the SIG356. You may want to try a couple of theirs.
Or 365.
/dyslexic
Wow. That’s a nice looking place.
If you were a Florida Woman I could cut you a hell of a deal on an HK USP compact. It dates back to the AWB and only comes with 10 round magazines (which I find infinitely amusing)
That made me laugh. At my job, one of our customers is a facility in Manassas, and every facility has a six-letter code in the system. The code for that one is “MANASS”. I guess this woman who programmed it like that didn’t realize it at first, and she was the butt (no pun intended) of a lot of jokes.
We also have “SHLONG” and “BONING”.
I’ve been wanting to go over there to shoot. It’s only 15 min from my house.
And there you go.
Knowledge for its own sake is good, and should be encouraged. Just don’t go broke or saddle yourself with unmanageable debt in the process, I’d say.
ROI is a real thing!
After a lunch of chili on top of organic lettuce, I am heading out to do some door-to-door for a dude running for judge. Lord H is ill and his cold is busy trying to infect me by making him cough and sneeze too much. Lovely day here, one that’s made for working on the yard, swimming, and other outdoor fun.
My brother is close to pulling the trigger (pun!) on the SIG356.
Tell him he might want to look at the P 225. I have an old German cop version (P6), and I really like it.
I like my P6 too. It’s trigger is much improved with a lighter main spring than stock.
Made in West Germany stamp? I love the look of those things. They look like a mechanical contraption bolted together, no smoothing or flow.
Hey, there are C&R versions of that, aren’t there? That’s goin’ on my wishlist. If the ATF ever gets around to signing off on my license, that is.
I don’t think there any of them that are c&r eligible.
I think he’s already got that one. There was something about the striker fired one he liked. The weight, maybe?
I heard there were some issues with striker dead on that. May be corrected by now. There wee also some issues with the trigger reset spring but I think that was addressed.
Striker drag not dead.
Bingeing on Manhunt: Unabomber on Discovery. Very much in the style of Netflix’s Mindhunter, if you like that show (I love it). Top-notch cast (Liev Schrieber, Christopher Plummer, Paul Bettany).
Oops – Chris Noth, not Christopher Plummer
I’ve always liked Chris Noth. Sadly, he apparently he isn’t getting many calls lately. I just saw him doing a commercial for one of those travel websites.
downloading now
is there just the season1?
For a lovely, sunny, Sunday morning, those links are some fucked up shit.
Reminds me of the punch line to a prison joke, “come over here and suck yo’ momma’s dick”.
I had you specifically in mind.
If you were in Plainfield, I think you were in Chips’n’Salsa’s neighborhood.
Be Afraid, America
A small arsenal of weapons that authorities seized from gang members during a six-month undercover operation lay across the tables at LAPD’s Hollywood station Thursday.
It’s not unusual for the Los Angeles Police Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to grab high-power weapons during these types of sweeps.
But these AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles and pistols were different — homemade, untraceable “ghost guns” without the traditional serial numbers, built from parts purchased over the internet.
Authorities said they are seeing more gangs turn to homemade guns as it becomes more difficult to acquire real ones.
“Criminals are making their own weapons because they cannot buy them legally … or they are paying other people to make those guns for them to get around the gun laws,” said Bill McMullan, special agent in charge of ATF’s L.A. Field Division. “This is a trend among Southern California gangs.”
Gangs! Interwebz! Gunz!
It’s a perfect storm of fearmongering.
The Second Amendment is a second-class citizen in the Bill of Rights.
These weapons are effectively unknown to law enforcement, making them difficult to track or trace.
Oh, the horror.
I’d like to know how that “track or trace” the registered guns.
“If these guns had been back on the streets, you can imagine the number of homicides [they] would have been involved in,” Chow said.
Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed a combined 47 felony charges, including the manufacture of assault rifles, possession of a silencer and criminal conspiracy, against Saucedo and nine other associates.
Just imagine. If those guns were allowed to roam the streets, nobody would be safe.
Judging by all those charges, it appears there are already laws in place.
NEEDZ MOAR MAGIK SPELZ
“If these guns had been back on the streets, you can imagine the number of homicides [they] would have been involved in,” Chow said.
Now we can all rest comfortably knowing that the homicides won’t involve these weapons.
“manufacture of assault rifles”
I thought they said they seized “AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles.” Where do they get off with a charge of manufacturing assault rifles, which are automatic?
“possession of a silencer”
*sigh*; it’s a fucking suppressor!
LA Times reporters = ignorant turds
“ghost guns”
In the spirit of today’s internet diction, those guns are literally invisible.