Can you imagine what it’s like to be married to a prodigy like SP? I look upon her works and despair. Then she taunts me, before running off to play Barbie. At least she left me some good anniversary stuff today, the most notable being Neil Armstrong stepping onto the surface of the Moon in 1969. Right after Teddy Kennedy had a little oopsie involving killing a girl he was finished with. Oh, and it’s the birthday of Ernest Hemingway and Don Knotts. I am vastly more familiar with the oeuvre of the latter.
On to today’s leftover news:
Someday, we’ll understand what the fuck is going on between the Israelis and Hamas. Today is not that day.
Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers said Saturday they had accepted a cease-fire ending a massive Israeli onslaught on militant positions after a soldier was shot dead, once again pulling the sides back from the brink of a full-fledged war. Israel and Hamas have fought three such wars over the past decade and Hamas agreed to the second such cease-fire in a week under heavy Egyptian and international pressure.
The “massive onslaught” once again being bombing some empty buildings. I’m not saying that there’s some kind of hidden conspiracy, but there’s some kind of hidden conspiracy.
New York voters get another preview of their soon-to-be star congresschimp. Who of course will be busy representing them, campaigning for their votes, and attending to the issues that affect her district. Or maybe not.
Headlining a rally with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez sought to infuse the final weeks of Democrat Brent Welder’s congressional primary campaign with the enthusiasm that lifted her over 20-year Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley last month. Kansas’ 3rd District, where Welder is competing, represented by four-term Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder, is on Democrats’ target list as they aim to seize the GOP-controlled House in November.
When in doubt, prog harder!
According to a study by the apartment search service “Rent Hop,” the city received 50,963 rat complaints last year – more than any other city in the country. New York came in a distant second place, followed by Washington, D.C., and Boston.
The study claims “when comparing the number of complaints per 100,000 residents, Chicago topped the list with 1876.09 complaints per 100,000 residents.” Most of the neighborhoods with a higher concentration of rat complaints coincide with the neighborhoods with a higher concentration of dog poop.
This of course begs the question of, “Is Chicago the capital of rats or of complainers?”
This research explains much of the shitty driving I have to deal with on my lengthy daily commute.
The study found that cumulative RF-EMF brain exposure from mobile phone use over one year may have a negative effect on the development of figural memory performance in adolescents, confirming prior results published in 2015. Figural memory is mainly located in the right brain hemisphere and association with RF-EMF was more pronounced in adolescents using the mobile phone on the right side of the head.
Of course, this may be a self-healing condition.
Brittney N. Prehn, 22, of Illinois was holding her cellphone when she was hit. A bolt struck her in the ear and went through her body. The Kenosha County Sheriff’s office said at first they had trouble identifying Prehn because she had no ID on her and was unconscious.
This was an old Polish joke, the punchline of which is, “They thought of that, so they’re going at night!”
“To send a probe where you haven’t been before is ambitious. To send it into such brutal conditions is highly ambitious,” Nicola Fox, a project scientist from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, told a news conference on Friday.
I should make the obvious SP joke, but I value the integrity of my generative organs.
OK, Old Guy Music, and this time, I’m classing it up a bit. I’m amazed that Beethoven’s Piano Sonata 32 isn’t as well known as some of his more iconic pieces like Moonlight, but there you are. This is longer than my usual selections, but worth it. If you don’t know this sonata already, be prepared for some surprises- Beethoven foresaw jazz and boogie woogie. It’s unbelievable that this was written 75 years before Scott Joplin started composing. Seriously, put on your headphones, take 20 minutes out of your day, and be amazed.
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Letters to the Local Rag: Twerking Saves Lives
I had some scammer call me the other day, and I said I couldn’t talk because I was working. He says “you’re twerking?”. *click*
Well, were you twerking?
Inquiring minds….
I asked that of you in confidence!
Start one yourself, bitch.
I’m ashamed and I have to admit something. My high school teachers just passed me to get me out their classes, but *starts sobbing* I never learned how to twerk.
Truly a failure of the public education model.
“Great exercise, socially acceptable and out of trouble. It’s an antidote to the gun culture awash in Newport News and Hampton.”
I remember when it was midnight basketball that was gonna stop all the crime.
No, they distracted the cops at midnight basketball while their friends went on burglary sprees.
Gun culture isn’t a poison. Fuck off, Fred Astaire.
It’s funny that the author implies that shooting sports are somehow not good for kids or people of non-white races, because every time I go to the gun range, there are people of all different races, genders, and age groups.
I remember the first warnings about cellphone radiation back in the 90’s when the average output power of a mobile phone was significantly higher than it is today. The only evidence I can find for long term damage to brain function is the resurgence of full-blown socialism (and Twitter).
Heading out to my shooting lesson in a minute!
Do you get to pick who you shoot?
Jean Reno is her trainer.
Have fun! Once you get the bug you can head over to WV and take advantage of our lax gun laws! We need to be DC’s Indiana!
Go hog wild.
^Joke, despite being out of woodchipper jurisdiction.
Let me know how much you like that range! (it’s the one in manassas, right?)
Elite is a great range. If you want to have some real fun, check out Bull Run Arsenal. You can rent full autos there.
– NASA is preparing to send a probe closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ventured, enduring wicked heat while zooming through the solar corona to study this outermost part of the stellar atmosphere that gives rise to the solar wind.
Reuters sounds like they be getting some good chronic, dude.
I figured that the writer was from Boston.
They should have called the probe the Icarus.
Isn’t he point of that story not to go towards the sun?
Well, after the probe melts….
Letters to the Local Rag: Hugs Kill
Bending one’s knee before the Saudi king, however, is totes OK.
Trump has managed to troll the left into a being a nationalist movement, it’s just……goddamn impressive.
Apparently we’re at war with Russia and I didn’t even know it.
And those damned Russkies bombed Pearl Harbor too.
This from the same people who denounced Reagan for his actions toward the Soviet Union…….we truly do live in strange times. Then again we’re operating on the assumption that these folks have any principles beyond ‘MOAR POWER.’
The Soviets were communists though, good people with fine ideas to the left.
“Trump has managed to troll the left into a being a nationalist movement,”
So… nationalist socialists? Seriously, during the election Trump was the Nazi and nationalist. Now republicans aren’t patriotic enough.
If it weren’t for double standards…….TDS is becoming a very real mental disorder
She’s using Iraq and Vietnam as examples of why we should trust the intelligence community? Mind blown.
The hysteria has reached a point that I think it’s actually become dangerous. Somebody is going to do something exceedingly stupid in the near term.
So are you predicting a violent coup in 72 hours?
Shhhhh……
Come at Putin, threatening him with annihilation right off the bat. Or offer an olive branch and then come at him hard if he fucks up. These people are dangerous if they think the latter is the way to negotiate.
*The former. I always fuck those two up when I’m drunk.
The people who are shrieking about Trump being too nice to Putin are the same people who shrieked at Trump calling Kim “Rocket Man” as if this would lead to imminent nuclear war.
It’s blood. They want to see it. When your life sucks, you’ll push for a fight even if that means destruction of everything. Fucking nihilists.
These are the only two options?
I’d say to trade with them. As Hayek said, when goods cross borders, boots don’t.
Sorry, Bastiat.
Germany’s biggest trade partner in 1938 was France.
Boots cross borders when national governments see advantage in the boots crossing. The only thing that stops boots from crossing is having enough boots to make it too costly.
Read this last night. A LOT more background than I was expecting. I know there’s different mindsets involved, but given that a lot of the issues we had with the Japanese culture have been generally overcome/understood, I would have thought it would be easier with Russia…..the post-Soviet mindset may be a secondary wrinkle though.
https://strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/07/sources-of-russian-conduct.html
This is the terrible stupidity of the US bipartisan foreign policy consensus. NATO good. NATO Expasnion good. DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE WHOOHOO NO MORE MUNICHS WOOHOO. Never a thought to what that means, just sounds good on TV, and RAH RAH AMERICA.
The USSR does not exist anymore. The Russians, without the other nations of the Warsaw Pact, are an entirely different level of threat. The only way the Russians can hurt the United States is if we are dumb enough to station troops right on their fucking doorstep where they can be destroyed by Russian forces operating on their home turf.
“Americans have spilled their blood on the beaches of Normandy, in the snow of Korea, in the jungles of Vietnam and on the sand of Iraq.”
I kinda want to understand why and how the Auth thought this connected to the rest of their letter.
I was trying connect those dots too.
The Russians (Soviets) were tangentially involved in all those years. But it still makes no sense.
So “Hugs not Drugs” is no longer a thing. That’s good to hear.
“On Friday, a Palestinian sniper killed an Israeli soldier along the border — the first casualty it has sustained in four years — and Israel unleashed an offensive it says destroyed more than 60 Hamas targets, including three battalion headquarters. Four Palestinians were killed, of which three were Hamas militants.”
Israel should stop accepting “cease fires”. No standing eight count. Either Hamas throws in the towel, or they get knocked out.
This is why there’s something else going on. Israel certainly has the capability to utterly destroy Hamas in a day or two, yet they don’t.
I can’t imagine they want to deal with the chaos that would result.
Not their problem, really. The chaos is contained in that little shithole piece of land. They’ve already demonstrated what happens if someone tries to get into Israel.
Let the Gazans work it out among themselves until they work out a solution that doesn’t involve armed attacks against an infinitely more powerful neighbor. Who knows, maybe it could be solved by Trump buying up all the beachfront and turning it into a tourist resort.
Make Gaza Goy Again?
Circumcise the promised land?
Observe, my dear Feyd…wheels within wheels within wheels…
Then what? Expell the Palestinians?
Hire them. Let them set up and run businesses that cater to the tourists. You know, free enterprise.
My guess is this is Hamas voicing their opinion on the negotiations going on behind the scenes between Israel and the PLO.
Related: Anyone follow Scott Horton? He’s great on foreign intervention, American imperialism, police state, etc. but he does seem to have a pretty big anti-israel streak. Anyone else get the feeling that his bias discredits his work on that particular subject?
Ura
Que?
Yeah. He’s pretty good. I get Israel is by no means perfect or good, but i also get that being in a country surrounded by cultures that want to destroy you, you’ll not care as much when you deploy force against them.
Ah, I see. Israel isn’t perfect but there seems to be a preponderance of “they’re evil oppressors” sentiment when that particular subject is discussed on his show. I can’t claim to have followed his work closely enough to denounce it but I was wondering if anyone else feels he’s kinda biased on this issue.
I don’t follow him enough ( just when he interviews on Tom Woods’ show), but i get that feeling too. Almost as an overreaction to the standard conservative view that Israel can do (almost ) no wrong. I don’t think hes anti-semetic, but almost a counter-bias against Israel.
Why would anyone care. Israel is just as big of a xenophobic ethnic-cult as their neighbors. I don’t know why any American would care which group wins.
American imperialism being what? He discusses the US Phillipine war.
I’m not worried about Hamas.
I’m worried about the latest ISIS reboot.
“For instance, the study results could have been affected by puberty, which affects both mobile phone use and the participant’s cognitive and behavioural state.”
The Sears Underwear section was hands free, too.
“Most of the neighborhoods with a higher concentration of rat complaints coincide with the neighborhoods with a higher concentration of dog poop.
City Number of Complaints Complaints Per 100,000 Residents
Chicago 50,963 1876.09
Washington DC 5,036 725.68
Boston 2,488 363.16
New York City 19,152 222.11
Rat complaints in 2017 by cities sorted in descending order according to complaints per 100,000 residents.”
So the rats in San Francisco overdosed on heroin?
Maybe when there is human shit on your streets, rats don’t seem to be a big a problem.
This of course begs the question
No Panhandling. Where do you think you are, San Francisco?
Get a job, hippy.
“be prepared for some surprises- Beethoven foresaw jazz and boogie woogie. It’s unbelievable that this was written 75 years before Scott Joplin started composing”
How something is written and how it’s played are two different things.
The Kenosha County Sheriff’s office said at first they had trouble identifying Prehn because she had no ID on her and was unconscious.
Not because her face had been burned off?
*makes pouty face*
Mystery Devon penis painter could face prosecution, warns prickly council
*Update: She wasn’t shaking her head, she was nodding.
+ 1 70’s era hot dog cooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUAkezGstlQ
Anytime electricity goes through a substance
that doesn’t conduct electricity wellthat doesn’t conduct electricity well, it heats it up.Fixed for technical accuracy
Ya I noticed that but I am only a pedant on redneck/hillbilly topics and kitchen gadgets.
Headlining a rally with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez sought to infuse the final weeks of Democrat Brent Welder’s congressional primary campaign with the enthusiasm that lifted her over 20-year Democratic incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley last month.
As Gilmore very helpfully pointed out, that massive wave of enthusiasm manifested itself in a vote tally worthy of a PTA recording secretary election.
How many votes did the Bolsheviks need?
But she’s the future!!! And HRC is busy remaking herself into a socialist for the 2020 election
It would be hilarious if she loses the election.
Would the media run articles on how that was a rebuke to ‘Democratic Socialists’, or that she wasn’t commited enough?
It would blame white men and the Russians.
Some media would some media wouldn’t.
She hispanic, and she ran in a 50% hispanic community. Her platform will not be successful elsewhere unless the demographics are similar because people weren’t voting for her policies they were voting for her skin.
Joe Biden talking about yesterday’s hysteria: Migrant family separation ‘one of the darkest moments in our history.’ Damn, that’s one clean history if that is one of the darkest moments.
It’s akin to slavery, internment of civilians, and the Philippine insurrection.
This is only serves to weaken the pathos around those other problems, not elevate this one’s.
Histrionic and hyperbolic are the new norms. If you aren’t rending your garments and screaming at the sky nobody will pay attention to you. Welcome to the age of social media.
And the CBC felt the need to report on this. The report started off with the phrase “A former American Vice-President”, not mentioning the whole TEAM RED vs TEAM BLUE thing and acting as though just because the guy was a former VP that makes his comments a devastating blow to Trump.
A policy that was pursued by the administration he was part of.
Perhaps he’s getting a jab in at Obama?
“(CNN) – A cardiologist who treated former President George H.W. Bush was killed Friday morning in a bicycle-to-bicycle drive-by shooting near Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said.
Dr. Mark Hausknecht and the shooter were both riding bikes on South Main Street, near Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, shortly before 9 a.m. local time, Executive Assistant Police Chief Troy Finner said at a news conference.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/heart-doctor-for-former-president-george-hw-bush-killed-in-bicycle-drive-by-shooting/ar-BBKSuFa
Obviously we need common-sense solutions to the bicycle violence crisis.
The hysteria has reached a point that I think it’s actually become dangerous. Somebody is going to do something exceedingly stupid in the near term.
I am afraid this is correct. Which leads me to wonder; based on some of the stories about the secret Service and their relationship with Herself, would an agent be more or less likely to take a bullet for Trump than for Hillary?
According to every article I’ve ever read, the SS hated Hillary
Carlos Danger’s wife wouldn’t even fall on the sword for her.
These euphemisms….
The State Department security people despised her too. One of her falls was because she had told them to “stay the duck away” from her so many times. They all 10 yards away laughing when she rolled down a flight of stairs
The better question might be who would they be more likely to take out Praetorian guard style?
TW: Salon. Trump ramping up Republicans’ long-running war on the poor.
Wow, Salon hasn’t learned to not call the Trump supporters deplorables? I thought that was a lesson they would’ve learned by now.
If progs have shown us anything since 2016 it’s that they are incapable of learning lessons. And we’re supposed to be the autistic ones incapable of comprehending the needs and motivations of those around us.
“nfant mortality rates are the worst relative to other wealthy countries, ”
Sure i guess we can continue to compare two numbers that are collected in entirely different ways.
No kidding.
“the United States ranks near the bottom among its wealthy peers.”
This is a tiresome trope.
First off, for all the welfare we have here, Montreal has a huge homelessness problem. Same with places like Winnipeg. One would think for all our *compassion* everyone – and I mean everyone – would be sheltered. We also have problems with food banks as they always claim more and more people need them. Something doesn’t jive man.
The other part simply doesn’t pass the sniff test through simple observation. Europe has a gigantic immigration problem. Few of those people have jobs, live off welfare and don’t contribute. You’re going to tell me that doesn’t figured into the stats?
There’s gotta be more to how these stats and data are reported/collected and interpreted because you’re not convincing me European poor are better off than American ones.
I also adore how they attribute stuff that’s been a chronic issues for Western countries for decades and sharp shoot it to a uniquely ‘Trump’ issue. Those ignorant deplorables, can’t they see they voted against their interest? And then they use specious logic and data to push their lame ass stupidity.
The progressive left: Faux-Righteous, illiterate cocksuckers.
I read San Francisco spends an average $37K a year per homeless person.
State aid is generally not included in these bogus “poverty” stats. That’s why you see poor people driving around in nice cars and talking on cell phones.
The old Best of the Web at the Wall Street Journal had a feature called Homeless Watch. Amazingly, there were more headlines decrying the homeless when a Republican was president.
America is such a shithole that the leaders of the world are begging Trump to build a wall to keep all the refugees from leaving America.
Oh yea, no fudged statistics there…
God, if I didn’t have this stupid integrity thing, I could pursue a highly paid career as a professional statistical bullshitter for Lefty organizations.
The better question might be who would they be more likely to take out Praetorian guard style?
“Hey, who spilled olive oil all over the steps to Air Force One? Somebody could have a nasty slip-and-fall.”
Lace fronts, fake beards and penis enlargement: Black men losing themselves to beautification
That’s why I moved to where I was (mistakenly) thought to be a big fish in a small pond.
“penis enlarging pills, ”
Ahh what a problem to have. I wish they had penis reduction pills. Cause that’s how big…/ 15 year old
You’re losing dick sizing contests to the Japanese?
*hung like a cashew*
TW: HuffPo. Stop writing stories about how people like Trump!
No dummies. The public is smart enough to see through faux scandal and feigned outrage. They don’t love Trump nearly as much as they’ve come to hate and distrust you and your ilk.
Id say obama was pretty immune to scandal. And by arguing that he had no scandals, the media proves that point.
I dream of a day when every administration, Democrat or Republican, is taken down for the scandals that we all know they have engaged in. The shit they are accusing Trump of have occurred under every administration in my lifetime. It just irks me that they won’t see how selective they are in their outrage.
I’d argue that they are fully aware of how selective they are. The MSM has come to see themselves as king makers yet lack the self-awareness to see that the more partisan they become the more popular resentment they bank up against themselves. They did more to get Trump elected than Trump did IMO.
Obama was and is totally immune so far. It amazes me the level of disinterest in what could be the biggest political scandal in US history and is hand waved away. Obama’s administration used the FBI and intel agencies to spy on a rival campaign and then spun it into that campaign was colluding with a foreign power leading to an over the top special counsel full of rabid prosecutors. Why did Obama do absolutely nothing when it was detected that Russian hackers were trying to get into the DNC as well as election data systems across the country? He said he told Putin, “to knock it off”. What a tough guy. Why did John Brennans (a known communist) CIA do nothing about Russias interference? I don’t think these things can be ignored forever.
OK just name one scandal he was involved in other than Fast and Furious you bigot. And If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor. And the destruction of Libya.
Alright, point taken.
Lois Lerner was my favorite.
Non-Trump voters still hating trump is still goid though.
Good grief, Berlatsky:
Political science research on presidential approval isn’t conclusive, but there’s a good bit of evidence that elite signals, and media framing of those signals, affects people’s support for the president. In a study of presidential approval, Matthew C. Wossner notes that “in the aftermath of a major political event (such as a scandal), citizens look to elite rhetoric as a barometer of issue importance.” Other studies have also identified a correlation between elite opinion and presidential approval. Research in the Trump era is ongoing, and it’s possible that the effect is diminished now, but we know that elites have spoken out against Trump in unusual ways and that his approval ratings are unusually low.
Listen to the Serious People, and do as they say. They will tell you whom to hate. They will tell you whom to fear.
I don’t see them saying its right, it’s just the way people act. It makes sense to me. Most people don’t want to be bothered by politics. They look at popular media to gauge how much they should care about certain events/policies.
I think the “Elites” have been overplaying this tactic, and eroding its usefulness.
This week was awesome. In one 24 hours period, House Dems were chanting “USA” while Maxine Waters supporters were burning the flag. You can’t beat that for comedy.
I also rather enjoy that the same people who get their panties in a knot about USA Chants at sporting events are just tickled about them on the House floor.
‘House Dems were chanting “USA” ‘
I was surprised that Democrats would take such a position, as it could alienate a significant part of their voting base that aren’t citizens.
By George, I think she’s got it.
Nevertheless, longtime U.S. allies have been unsettled by Trump’s foreign policy stances, even before he met with Putin.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned in May that Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear agreement “damages trust in the international order,” and that Europe could no longer rely on the United States to provide for its security.
“It is no longer such that the United States simply protects us, but Europe must take its destiny in its own hands,” she said.
Part of that “taking your destiny in your own hands” thing involves getting your checkbook out, I’d say.
“Europe could no longer rely on the United States to provide for its security”
I love how this is spun as “the US isnt trustworthy ” rather than, “European governments balk at having to provide the most basic service of government”
From 2015 but it’s only gotten worse-German army using broomsticks as machine guns during a NATO exercise:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/19/germanys-army-is-so-under-equipped-that-it-used-broomsticks-instead-of-machine-guns/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f55a228ce792
You know who else took destiny into their own hand?
I stumbled across a link tothis while reading a old story about that Portland bakery who fired employees for telling a black woman, correctly, that the place was closed. The earnest way in which this jackassery is reported is fucking hilarious.
The fuck does “snatch some edges” mean? Oh, and the picture of these clowns shows them to look exactly like you’d expect them to look.
“fact-based views.”
As ever, misplaced arrogance is their strong suit.
Self-proclaimed ‘white allies’ of course.
It would be hilarious if they were racist towards whites and Asians. But they’re not against blacks so all is cool!
‘Stupid fricken Asians and their math.’
‘Hey, that’s racist!’
‘No it’s not. I love blacks!’
‘Dammit. I got another Indian customer service person. Give me someone who speaks proper English!’
‘Hey! That’s racist!’
‘No it’s not! I defend blacks!
“Europeans smell.”
“Hey, that’s racist!”
“No it’s not! I protect blacks on the internet!
What do they do when a black person asks them to shutup?
Those aren’t real blacks.
Call him an Oreo.
Like this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH_J-dTuIV8
Oh fer fucks sake. I see they are big in defending cultural appropriation. Whatevs.
In other race news, I saw this the other morning.
https://www.cpr.org/news/story/for-these-two-reverends-pursuing-social-justice-and-liberation-means-throwing-out-all-the
Those two women are so oppressed they were able to start a profitable business telling white people they are racist.
Think of how much more successful they’d be without people like us though. Where do I send my check?
“Mark Tidd
The work of Reverend Tawana and Rev. Dr. Dawn should be the big feature on everyone’s morning newsfeed if they are interested in how to change the world. The Revs led a spring and fall Facing Racism Cohort at Highlands Church Denver and changed the trajectory of our church. Most of us in the classes didn’t know now MUCH we didn’t know and now we know there is SO much more to learn, experience, change and act upon. Before our sessions we were not all convinced how racism and white privilege are two sides of the same coin but now it’s apparent they are inseparable. The time spent with these amazing two women was one of the most important things I have done in decades. Mark Tidd”
Yeah-k, Mark. Whatever.
Racist white privileged males live under your bed. We get it.
“…racism and white privilege are two sides of the same coin but now it’s apparent they are inseparable.”
Lol.
If you have white privilege (not that Mark can define precisely who qualifies as such. I’m guessing he thinks the vast majority…just to be safe so as to not wreck is remedial and superficial world view) then you are racist. Period? Exclamation point?!
If I have WP and by extension this makes me racist since it’s intricately intertwined, what can I possibly do (since it’s a subjective metric) to convince jerk offs like Mark I’m not racist? It never seems to occur to them, moreover, it’s possible to have ‘privilege’ and not be racist but that would be boring and ruin the narrative of these two amazing women.
So. Since it’s a subjective thing, this is precisely how we get ‘wrong think’ and the purging that comes along with it. It doesn’t matter if you can or can’t prove it, if people like Mark deem you to be racist – well, it’s curtains for you fella.
To not be a racist you have to:
You have to be some soccer mom who thinks them coloreds don’t love their pikininis and face that fact to truly get past your racism. Seriously, who are these people who go to these sort of things? Urban closeted Klan members?
At this point, I just think they’re liars.
I have never encountered anyone who speaks this way in North America. I’m sure they exist but they must be such a tiny almost insignificant minority of a minority.
In Europe on the other hand….oof. The stuff I heard.
The original denotation of “to snatch edges” referred to the act of pulling on a woman’s (or drag queen’s) hair extensions, now it carries the additional meaning of describing something so amazingly good that catches you off guard so much that it not only makes your hair stand on end, but that hair wants to leap off your head.
I believe the author is using the first meaning.
We say “snatch you bald-headed” – the “snatch some edges” is a new term to me.
That conjurs up a different image to me.
Learn something every day
Bust a weave.
I can’t imagine why.
I think the “Elites” have been overplaying this tactic, and eroding its usefulness.
I think, in the context of that HuffPose piece, Berlatsky is plainly calling for “elite” Republicans (the ones who agree with him) to beat the anti-Trump drum harder, and for the media to broadcast those attacks as widely as possible, in order to bring the deplorables to their senses.
Perhaps, i was judging from your quote, about the research, and not any pushes by the articles writer.
Ugh – need to get a magnifier for soldering – my eyesight for closeup work, even with bi-focals, isn’t getting any better.
It’s gotcha journalism but so what?
Should we kill Lauren Southern video by Lauren Southern:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQrnH20sVHk
>>The “massive onslaught” once again being bombing some empty buildings
Krugman sez STIMULUS!
“Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies?
Google Translate is moonlighting as a deranged oracle—and experts say it’s likely because of the spooky nature of neural networks.”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
“and experts say it’s likely because of the spooky nature of neural networks.”
You mean they work like all other predictive algorithms? Garbage in, garbage out.
To illustrate most people’s misunderstanding of data and NN in particular, i had a sales guy tell me about this idea that we (the company i workef at) should feed code from github into a NN and then BAM! We’d have an automated programmer.
I want retarded Skynet. Don’t you?
That could be a great remake of ‘Gaslight’. Set in post-robot-apocalypse the humans only chance at survival is to feed the machines bad information.
The public is smart enough to see through faux scandal and feigned outrage. They don’t love Trump nearly as much as they’ve come to hate and distrust you and your ilk.
I find this WHY COME THEM NO HATEZ TRUMPUTIN? idiocy amusing, because the Democrats have created the problem all by themselves. By screaming “WOOOOOOLF!!!” so loudly and for so long, any time the average person can get up in the morning and look out the window and see no mushroom clouds, as long as his sleep was not interrupted by the wailing of neighbors being spirited away to the death camps, as long as he doesn’t have to stand in a bread line, he can say, “Well I guess that Trump guy ain’t so bad after all.”
need to get a magnifier for soldering
I started using a pair of high power reading glasses (+3.5 or so) for welding. it makes a big difference.
I am not sure that is really safe. I still use a welding helmet but I am old fashioned.
Ah – Lady Humungus has taken off for the day on a roadtrip with her mother. She also took the heir, so I have a day of sweet, sweet freedom.
Plans: get drunk, test drive a BMW convertible and/or new MINI, eat out for lunch, and work on a tube amp. Not necessarily in that order.
Who do you plan to eat out?
Whoever is then going to work on his tube amp.
I see.
If I may interject a recommendation, I would test drive the BMW to lunch with your tube amp and tools in your backpack where you get drunk and yell at the waitress for more beer and better lighting so you can solder.
Yeah…put drunk last, and you should be fine.
Don’t solder and drive. The consequences can be life changing.
Drunk and high voltage.
Are you originally from Florida?
“get drunk, test drive a BMW convertible and/or new MINI,”
I’d to the latter before the former, but I’m a pussy.
“When your electric butt plug short circuits, and there’s no ground fault interruptor… ”
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1020506301795667971
lol………buddie got all winded doing that. He might want to up his cardio routine a bit.
That 2 year old’s vote counts the same as ours. *facepalm*
LOL, good grief, please tell me that is parody.
Grrrl Power
For her national political debut, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez traded the concrete jungle of New York for the endless wheatfields of Kansas.
The bright new face of the left joined Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, a leader of the progressive movement, at rallies in support of two congressional candidates who argue that leftwing, anti-corporate politics can galvanize Democrats in Republican-held districts crucial to the push to take back the US House.
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Ocasio Cortez and Sanders campaigned for James Thompson, a civil rights lawyer who in 2017 narrowly lost a special election in the fourth congressional district, and Brent Welder, a labor lawyer and former Sanders delegate who is running in a six-way primary in the third.
Both candidates are running on a Sanders-style platform that includes universal healthcare, tuition-free college and a higher minimum wage. That may be a tough sell in Kansas, which is home to the billionaire Koch brothers, who have spent tens of millions of dollars to promote free-market policies. Donald Trump won the state by more than 20%.
Oh, no! Teh Kochtopus!
What a shameless tongue bath [insert teenage girl reaction]. What fierce. Much noble.
How did we get here?
Where does that highway go to……..
I learned it from you, Dad!
In Kansas City, Welder told a sweat-soaked audience her victory was galvanizing leftwing candidates.
“She has become the kind of inspirational leader that people across the country have become desperate for,” he said.
Welder is hoping to replicate Ocasio Cortez’s victory in a district where Clinton narrowly beat Trump, making it one of the most contested races of the midterms. To win across the country, progressives say they must “expand the electorate” by bringing new voters into the political system – as did Ocasio Cortez and Sanders.
Great. Vote early, vote often.
Need moar dead voters.
Summer dreams, make me feel fine.
http://archive.is/6qqNK
12 will do nicely.
18… Pizza floats are the best floats.
Maybe if I said I’m a pool float, they’ll ride me
7, 32, 37.
I stopped at #1.
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: THAT’S NOT FUNNY!
https://ricochet.com/535983/the-left-gives-up-on-comedy/
Well, I really fucked up his gastrointestinal system. I think my issue was knowing what to expect. Being completely naive the first time probably helped me shoot better.
Anyhoo, if you’re in NoVA, Elite in Manasshole is the place to be. It’s, like, all chicks there.
https://ibb.co/h4YWBy
“Well, I really fucked up his gastrointestinal system. I think my issue was knowing what to expect. Being completely naive the first time probably helped me shoot better.”
Say what?
I shot way better my first time
Good grouping.
Yeah, that grouping is excellent. Could just be your point of aim. Flinching can cause muzzle drop as well. Might want to practice dry fire at home and look for the muzzle dropping.
I’m hoping it’ll get better. I’m going to try to do an instructor session once a month for the next few months.
Good idea. Dry fire at home too. Looks to me like you’re doing great for as little as you’ve shot! I’d be pretty happy that you’re getting those kinds of groups.
Ah. After clicking linky, maky sense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eofZAOIbhQA
Looks good.
Nice. Make him die nice and slow and painful.
Tell me again about the rabbits, George.
Nice. Took my wife to the range when we were in Australia years ago. First time she held a gun. Instructor told her to go for center mass, but her very first shot was right between the eyes. Cracked me up, because I wasn’t even close.
The guy in the booth next to me was shooting a target of a man holding a woman hostage. It wouldn’t have been so concerning if his first target hadn’t been a hot mess of holes all over the place.
The novice with the gun always hits the hostage taker with one shot. You saying that isn’t true?
The more concerning part was I don’t think he was a novice!!
Relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ivbqib3qM
That’s hilarious…WTF is with the one-handed? I bet the instructor was like “whatevs!”
What a nuisance. I’d have been pissed if I were shooting that day.
I did note last time I was in Manassas that the women on average there are a lot prettier than Balmer women. Anyway, that’s likely to be my next hood inside of a year from now.
You should check out Elite when you get there…it’s fancy!
Will do, thanks Kristen!
Glibs shoot up meet up in manasshole soon?
I havent shot my carry gun in a while, so I’d like an excuse to blast the lint out of it.
YAS. I’d be more up for it later in the fall after I have had a few more instructor sessions. I’m the kind of person that worries a lot about etiquette when I’m a n00b, so I’m in no way ready to shoot without instruction.
To be honest, I don’t make it out to the range often enough to feel comfortable about the etiquette either. I assume as long as I don’t do anything dangerous, I’m not gonna piss people off too much.
Gut shots? Who are you? Charles Bronson in Death Wish 2?
Maybe this was covered, but in my late reading of posts the other day I saw the Mueller immunity requests mentioned and a comment by RAHeinlein offering up the possibility of Podestas. I thought, aaaaah, yes, makes sense. That was before this…. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/20/tony-podesta-offered-immunity-to-testify-against-paul-manafort.html
I don’t know how anybody can think what Manafort is going through is any kind of justice. Ya, he is probably a sleaze ball just like the Podestas, but wow they are running the guy through the wringer and Podesta gets a pass.
Well, it’s easy. What we have here is an attempted coup by democrats. Podesta is on the right team. Simple as that. All I can say is that I hate these scum more every passing day, there is not a hell hot enough for them.
Thanks a bunch for the music. I had not heard that before. Joplin obviously had.
A cautionary tale for Web Dominitrix and other inksters.
Man – 90% covered in tattoos – has genitals removed so his view of his ink is unobstructed.
Biggest, baddest humble brag of all time?
*OK maybe WDx doesn’t have to worry about this exact idiot move.
So not clicking that.
Did the Browns let him down while telling him that Trump was impeached too?
I just have this feeling that this is not going to be as great as what he was thinking it would be.
What doctor does that?
She has tits. For now.
Pics?
/Q
What… it’s morning already? Why am I still drinking beer?
Because you’re a professional. Keep up the good work! Don’t forget to eat.
Shit, I must be. I made myself a cheeseburger this morning at 5:30am. I keep thinking about this song:
Have Some Fun
“I like a good beer buzz early in the morning”
I pretty much NEVER drink early in the day. And my wife is going to be displeased and probably chase me around the house with her granite rolling pin. But, man, I have to tell you, I’m really fast for a guy in his 50s. No worries.
Although, she just texted me and ask me if I want a beef and cheddar from Arbys, I love those. Fucking Arby sauce man. I didn’t tell her I’m drunk already, lol.
Good tune. I’m still in recovery mode from last night.
“Sebastian Gorka’s Everyday Carry
Pistol: Glock 29, customized by Robar Guns with a SharkTac trigger guard cover, or;
Pistol: Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm full-size with RDS and compact frame customized by Robar Guns carried in a holster by DH Custom Leather
Flashlight: Surefire 6P and a thin penlight (for polite work)
Fire: Commemorative MFO Zippo lighter bought while visiting the Sinai in 1991 and retrofitted with a jet insert to light cigars
Medical: C-A-T Tourniquet. “I can deploy it with one hand.”
Blade: CRKT Hissatsu
Power: USB battery charger for mobile phone
Reference: “I never go anywhere without my copy of the Constitution, the owner’s manual to the greatest nation on God’s earth.””
http://www.recoilweb.com/zeroed-sebastian-gorka-131578.html
10mm for EDC? Is he in bear country? Hope he reloads.
Ya also I would’ve gone with an all steel Tangfoglio compact for that caliber
“let people drink the red liquid from the dark sarcophagus
innes mck started this petition to king of skeletons, egypt
we need to drink the red liquid from the cursed dark sarcophagus in the form of some sort of carbonated energy drink so we can assume its powers and finally die”
https://www.change.org/p/let-people-drink-the-red-liquid-from-the-dark-sarcophagus
Sounds legit.
Other topic I guess. But I’m downloading Star Citizen again for another try. Pretty much a wish and a promise thing. They just released 3.2 and supposedly there is some improvements in performance. I backed this POS 3 years ago and up until a few months ago, last time I tried it, it was unplayable. With an i7, Samsung SSD, 32G of system ram, and a fucking 1080ti, I was getting 12 FPS, sort of like trying to swim in quicksand. Now, WTF are they patching? I’ve been downloading this update for like an hour. The last entire 30 gig game I downloaded took about 20 minutes. What even in the fuck? I’m going to be really pissed if this thing still runs like dogshit.
Yes, but what generation i7?
Just kidding. That’s crazy. I’m assuming you don’t have anything misconfigured and get good frame rates in everything else.
(I have an ancient overclocked 3570k i5 and 1080GTX – and at lower resolutions runs anything I throw at it. CPUs are finally getting interesting enough to consider an upgrade!)
I dreamed this morning that I was living in a shithole apartment in some big city, and came home to find my door kicked in and the place ransacked. And while I was really upset that they stole my computer, I was a little excited about the prospect of building another.
Currently using i5-6600k 3.5GHz and 970. It works reasonably well, very little I’ve thrown at it needs to be tuned down significantly. (OTOH I’m not running modern twitch shooters or anything like that, so my needs aren’t extreme.) But at some point I’d love to rock a 4k screen.
You would assume right. But wait… with this new version, I’ve went from 12 FPS to a whopping 28 FPS! You know, except for the frequent frame drops down to 1 FPS, that’s not bad. What the fuck is even wrong with these people? 5 fucking years and you can’t make a game playable even on high end rigs? This guy needs to be tarred and feathered, I have over $100 backing this garbage.
“(I have an ancient overclocked 3570k i5 and 1080GTX – and at lower resolutions runs anything I throw at it. CPUs are finally getting interesting enough to consider an upgrade!)”
Go play this and let me know how that goes.
I’ll just make a comparison here.
In Elite Dangerous, with every graphic settings maxed out:
1080: 144 FPS solid.
2560×1440: Over 100 FPS
4K: 70-90 FPS
That should be all there is to know.
Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Haha, that’s a trick question, right? Feminists don’t screw. They’re into self-empowerment and the celebration of womanhood freed from the constraints and antediluvian stereotypes of patriarchal society.
Well, they attempt to screw over everyone they can in an attempt to make someone more miserable than they are, so they can feel a little better about how wretched they really are. As far as sex is concerned, they probably have 2 choices, butch dyke as fugly and lonely as they are, or battery operated plastic.
“battery operated plastic”
Sometimes even that rejects them.
The moon landing was on July 20th. I don’t think they waited a day to get out of the lander. I’m sure they needed to take a leak.