Happy Monday, friends! Hope you had a nice weekend. I enjoyed mine immensely. Better than the New York Yankees, that’s for sure. Yikes. You can put a fork in the AL East. Although they can take solace in the fact that they’re still 26 games above 500. But those Red Sox are incredible this season. So excluding that sweep, what else happened in the sports world? The Dodgers beat the Astros and avoided getting swept as well. The Indians beat the Angels amid talk of Mike Scoscia leaving at the end of the season (his 19th!) in Anaheim, also the Braves, White Sox (surprise!), Nationals, Phillies, Cardinals, Rockies, MINNESOOOOODA TWIIIIINS, Baltim- (ahem) THE BALTIMORE ORIOLES WON A GAME, the Padres, Giants, Athletics and Mariners all came out victorious.
Man City won the Community Shield. Justin Thomas won the WGC-Bridgestone (at Firestone CC) and THE Ohio State University set up and announced the six person team that will wrap up the investigation into the Zach Smith affair that has been reported on in a somewhat unethical manner by Brett McMurphy to say the least within two weeks. Seriously, who dramatically edits the context of an article out after questioning a particular and then just lets everybody else run with it as if the later-published piece (on your Facebook page) was the original? And who in their right mind thinks “arrested” and “investigated” are remotely close enough to not merit a HUGE note saying there was an edit in the article replacing one with the other after you’d questioned someone about the veracity of the original piece? Certainly not a real reporter. But I digress.
Poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born on this date. So were penicillin inventor Alexander Fleming, comedienne Lucille Ball, actor Robert Mitchum, weirdo Andy Warhol, double-bassist Charlie Haden, “the Admiral” David Robinson, predictable (in my opinion) filmmaker M Night Shyamalan, Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, and the late Jon Benet Ramsey.
Its also the day Simon Bolivar defeated Spain at Junan, a shitload of countries declared war on each other in Europe (WW1), “Don Juan” made its premiere and with it came the Vitaphone sound on disc system, the Enola Gay made its flight over Hiroshima, Ted Williams returned to the Red Sox from fighting in Korea (and will hit .407 for the shortened season), the Beatles release “Help!” album, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, and George RR Martin released “A Game Of Thrones”.
Pretty decent batch there. Now on to…the links!
If you live in Chicago, maybe its time to get out. Meanwhile that dips hit David Hogg is protesting at the NRA for more of the policies that make the innocent susceptible to the violence plaguing cities that have such restrictive gun policies like Chicago. Or are they still blaming Indiana? I can’t keep up.
Donald Trump says meeting his son set up at Trump Tower with Russian woman (who received a spacial visa only a handful of people can sign off on) was to get info on Clinton. Proceeds to explain how opposition research works. Continues to be honey badger and not give a shit.
I would disagree with the entire premise of this headline. I mean, wasn’t it a hellscape before? Just kidding. I really feel for them with it being in the 90s with relatively high humidity making it feel like its 100! Oh the horror they are going through. I can see why they’re calling it a hellscape. Of course, we here in Houston call that “June through August”. “New York Strong” my ass.
Stay classy, African National Congress. Oh, and if you’re a farmer in that country, I highly recommend you gather up your shit and either GTFO or prepare to make a stand. And I do mean an armed, last stand. Because the end is coming and the government is about to steal everything you have.
Another misleading headline out of Berkeley. You know, since its pretty much all one side creating these conflicts. Protip to anti-fa LARPers: ignore them and you won’t get your asses kicked and then arrested after you throw bottles and rocks at the cops who are probably saving you from being put in a coma by the people you’re attacking for walking down the street. (Same could be said about Portland, but I don’t have the time.)
When they’re not killing each other, Chicago residents find time to become ignorant on where electricity comes from and who is responsible (the federal government) from preventing the building of clean (nuclear) power plants. They’ll not feel the same when their city finally becomes a real-life version of “The Purge” after these morons get their way and they’re completely run on solar and wind and a winter day and night goes completely black on them.
Dude, chill out! On second thought, don’t. Dude? Dude?! DUUUDE?!?!?!?!??!
And I’m getting my popcorn, because I simply cannot wait to see how Justin Trudeau deals with this.
Well, there you have it. I’ll leave this here.
Now go out and have a great day, friends!
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Donald Trump says meeting his son set up at Trump Tower with Russian woman (who received a spacial visa only a handful of people can sign off on) was to get info on Clinton.
ZOMG! TREASON!
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton, you know, actually cut checks through a shady law firm to a British former intelligence officer to pay Russian sources to get (mostly) fabricated dirt on Trump. Something something collusion something or other.
And then the fabricated dossier was used as a pretext by the Obama DOJ to initiate spying on the Trump campaign, while failing to inform the FISA judge that it was unvetted and unverified and paid for by the Clinton campaign.
But that’s all fine.
If they try to charge people with “conspiracy against the United States”, this will end poorly.
From their screwed up perspective, their doing it is okay. And Trump’s is treason. They believe they are the state. And treason isn’t conspiring against the country, but against the state. Donald Trump conspired against them (the state) and therefore is treasonous. Hillary Clinton conspired with them (the state and, therefore, isn’t.
“From their screwed up perspective, their doing it is okay. And Trump’s is treason.”
From their perspective they are the only ones allowed in charge, and whatever must be done to force compliance is allowed by them – one set of laws for them and another for the plebes – and someone like Trump and the people that support him have to not only be put in their place, but destroyed so nobody ever again dares to challenge their grip on power. Our political and academic aristocracy is scared that they have been exposed for the inept, inefficient, and corrupt entity they are by Trump, and they will have none of that.
Happy Birthday!
Projection baby. These Obama admin crooks were engaged in every sort of illicit and illegal activities to steal the election for Hillary, and after somehow having a guy they thought they would run circles around beat their ass down and risk all the criminal behavior they spent the last 8 years doing come out, decided to accuse the Trump people and Trump himself of being like them. And team blue assholes and never Trumper douches from team red are lapping it up, because they hate how orangeman proves the entire establishment is rotten to the core and has basically fucked over the American people, leaving them all with egg on their face.
It’s an old tried and true tactic.
Sounds like a typical Sunday
>> Away, Satan!
So did it work?
AWAY, SATAN (who posts links to soul destroying articles about truck stop hookers)!
*waves knife*
Like this?
He thought he was in the morgue.
I was gonna say, other than the dying, how is this different from any other busy night in a restaurant kitchen?
I want to say “Away, Satan!” is an album name, but it’s starting to grow on me as a band name.
Of course, we here in Houston call that “June through August”. “New York Strong” my ass.
The overnight low dipped down to 72 here last night for the first time in over a month so I could open my windows and shut off the AC. There’s an excessive heat warning starting tomorrow through Friday though. The 15% humidity does make a difference though. Especially after living in this godforsaken desert, going back to even normal humidity feels like a swamp.
Wait a second, is LARPER short for Left and Right Protesters or Live Action Role Players?
Lively And Retarded Performers.
The latter.
That’s what I thought until I clicked the link to what you called Larpers: Left and right protesters gather in Berkeley . What are the odds?
“What are the odds?”
This year? About 50/50.
BTW, Happy Birthday. Right? I think we’re the same age for the next few months.
Yes. Thank you. It was yesterday. And thanks to all who mentioned it in those links. I noted it but it was late and that thread was long dead.
Happy day-after birthday
I’m representing someone being charged from a protest, there were 7 protesters in all arrested. Non-violent responses from these people: they just blocked the road way too long, which lead to the arrests, eventually. The city was / is being very careful, from the details in the police report, to the way their cases are being negotiated. Just saying, I am sure the city attorney(s) can hear the rustle of a civil rights violation suit in the distance.
Just because you are mutant swamp people doesn’t mean the mutant sewer people are adapted to the same climate.
We’re not mutant swamp people. That’s them coonasses to the east of us.
*lights the Suthen signal*
The problem with living in the mid-Atlantic (THE ONE problem, he says…) is that since we get a little bit of all the weather you can never really get used to it. We’ll go from hot and humid summers to cold, snowy winters. Yeah, it never gets as hot as the hottest states, or as cold as the coldest, but those states stay the same and just have differences of degree. Plus we get both hurricanes and blizzards. Except for the years when none of that happens, which sets us up to have a $20 road salt budget for a follow-up year with four feet of snow.
Why would Trudeau have to deal with a NY man dead in a cafe freezer?
(Link is a dupe of the prior one)
Trudy was involved in a gay porn shoot gone bad?
Is there any other kind?
HEY NOW!
I assume it is about the Saudi Arabia thing?
Stupid website. It’s fixed now.
He takes after his Father…this was called the Havana deep freeze technique.
Manic Monday: Fear and Loathing in Ars Technica
The link says 10 questions. I confused. Also that guy is a gun expert right?
High capacity question lists have been banned.
Maybe there’s one in the chamber?
1. Can’t we just ban everything I don’t like?
No you are progging hard enough Pat!
GOTCHA!
It was a tweet that set off a storm. Was President Trump admitting to collusion between his campaign and Russia? Was he stipulating that the now notorious June 2016 Trump Tower meeting arranged by his son Donald Trump Jr. really was all about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton from a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer and not adoption issues as President Trump had earlier claimed?
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It has been widely reported that the Trump Tower meeting and statements from the President and his son about that meeting are being examined as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible connections to the Trump campaign.
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It’s unclear whether Trump’s latest admission will affect Mueller’s probe in any way. But, as NPR’s Brian Naylor reports, if Mueller could prove Trump was aware of the meeting in advance, “or cast doubt on denials by Trump and Trump Jr., it would be a dramatic addition to Mueller’s investigation into Russian election interference in the 2016 presidential race and possible collusion by the Trump campaign.”
NPR, speaking truth to power.
Is it just my imagination, or do they sound increasingly desperate?
So, Trump Jr. met with a Russian to see if they had dirt on Hillary. And this would be illegal because, why, exactly?
Because Red Menace!
It’s just so unseemly!
/Randy Marsh voice
Can somebody ask how that “Kremlin-linked lawyer” was even in the country? There are like 5 officials who can sign off in her visa. And they’re all people with direct access to Obama.
Almost looks like an intentional try at a set-up, doesn’t it?
There is no almost here. It is exactly what it looks like: a setup. It just didn’t pan out like the people setting this up hopped it would because the Trump people decided this source was neither reliable nor worth their ime considering how much real criminal shit Hillary was really tied to.
Trump Tower convo:
Trump Jr: So whaddaya got?
Veselenetskaya: well, Clinton was involved in Uranium One.
Jr: no shit, what else?
V: her husband was paid for speeches to th-
Jr: no shit, what else?
V: in Haiti, th-
Jr: ::sigh:: no shit, what else?
V: well, the lizard people will be bringing her back for a retrofit on her motor system after the malfunction at the 9/11 cere-
Jr: look, if you’re just gonna give us shit everyone knows, you’re wasting our time. Good day!
Manafort (following Trump Jr down hallway): Sorry, boss.
About right there, Sloop (and happy belated b-day sir). I am certain that they met with this person, realized the information was already known or worse, unprovable stuff that would only make them look like lunatics if they came out with it, and decided to walk away because the whole thing was hinkey. In typical Obama admin fashion, the sting op was so fucked up it backfired on the Obama people that put it together. But they will not let up on it.
In the mean time the people that should be making my license plates – Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch, Rod Rosenstein, John Brennan, Comey, Sztrok, and so on – are all grandstanding and making huge money while the deep state goes into meltdown that orangeman is exposing them for the idiots they are.
Oh, and none of them are speaking about it when asked.
I bet after we found out about it, their lawyers told them to plead the fifth.
do they sound increasingly desperate?
Desperate to close the ’emphasis’ tagging. And I’m still trying to figure out what was done that is illegal.
Another misleading headline out of Berkeley. You know, since its pretty much all one side creating these conflicts. Protip to anti-fa LARPers: ignore them and you won’t get your asses kicked and then arrested after you throw bottles and rocks at the cops who are probably saving you from being put in a coma by the people you’re attacking for walking down the street. (Same could be said about Portland, but I don’t have the time.) – I am sure this could be better monetized. Seriously give em some random weapons put them in an arena and film that shit. You could call it Colosseum. Make American Gladiators gladiator again. If they wanna fight why not? Also separate the fighters from the hit and run cowards.
Antifa wouldn’t show. They know they lose in a stand up fight (some from experience) so they do everything they can to avoid a fair fight.
My favorite part of that story is the scare-quotes around “anti-Marxist”. They do know their audience.
Manic Monday: Don’t Forget Your Towel!
Should I be more panicked than I was yesterday, and should i be more panicked tomorrow than I am today?
Forget the 69 – the 68 is the steamy new sex position you need to try
I always thought a 68 was “Blow me and I’ll owe you one”
LOL
I prefer the 86 position.
I have a feeling there are no new sex positions…
One partner lies on their back with their feet apart and flat on the floor
68’ing sounds like it involves destruction of your ankles.
The giver of pleasure has their hands free to roam the other person’s body, while the person on top lies back and enjoys being stimulated by their partner.
Let me guess, the girl is the one on the top doing nothing.
#Metoo!
“Of course I’m sweaty, I’ve been doing cardio for the past 30 minutes while you’ve been laying their supervising.”
It’s like if Rube Goldberg wrote the kama sutra
“Donald Trump says meeting his son set up at Trump Tower with Russian woman (who received a spacial visa only a handful of people can sign off on) was to get info on Clinton. Proceeds to explain how opposition research works. Continues to be honey badger and not give a shit.”
If only he could have used the FBI, CIA, NSA, and IRS bureaucracies to do this then he would not have had to meet with the icky Russian that clearly looks like an Obama administration admin setup. I mean shit, the crime Donald committed – to snatch away from the left an election they were sure they had rigged/stolen for Hillary – is unforgivable! It’s not like he had an absolute disdain for the security and secrecy laws that, let’s say, a job as Secretary of State, might come with, and then set up a server in someone’s bathroom so he could conduct illicit money laundering schemes for a supposed not-for-profit charity that seems to be a great pay-to-play scheme, and then got away with that. Shit, that several countries with clear hostile intent to the US then scoured these servers for information that the administration in power then didn’t even bother to worry about, was nothing but an oversight. But Trump clearly is a horribly stupid man/evil genius because he prevented herself from continuing the Obama admin criminal syndicate.
Fuck these people, and Americans better wise up to the fact that the left is well on its way to create a one party deep state that will rob us all of our freedoms and only tolerate whatever these people decide is allowed. They took Orwell’s and Huxley’s books on dystopian societies, and instead of getting the message about how wrong these societies are, read them as “How to” manuals. Fucking scary.
South Africa – White people please report to the disintegration chambers.
https://moonbattery.com/south-africa-moves-forward-with-expropriation-of-white-land-without-compensation/
NY Times agrees.
https://spectator.org/some-racism-is-more-equal-than-others/
fuck white people
Fuck You
you just don’t understand subtle performative anti racism
Enough of the 68 story already… 😉
Anyone want to start a pool on how long until Trapper John and Gloria Stivick are on the television telling us how we have to send money to help those poor starving South Africans, you heartless bastard?
It looks like the goal of African postcolonial governments is to prove that decolonization was a terrible mistake.
Bob Mugabe hasn’t convinced everyone?
The real problem with African colonialism is that the native population grew way beyond the carrying capacity of the land / culture. As whitey gets chased out, we’ll witness a massive “tragedy”.
native population grew way beyond the carrying capacity of the land / culture
Only the political culture. There’s no reason these places can’t sustain a much larger population than even they have. Much of it is great agricultural land and its really rich in resources. Give the area liberty, property rights, rule of law and non-predatory governance and you’d quickly see the rest of the cultural problems fall away.
Just think what Japan could do if they magically swapped properties with one of these African goldmines.
The culture is the limiting factor. Some people would argue it’s the mean IQ. Either way, Africa’s population will crash when whitey is gone.
There was a short story in the last “There Will be War” book about the Chinese deciding to depopulate Africa with a targeted virus so they could take over the literal and figurative goldmine.
“The culture is the limiting factor. Some people would argue it’s the mean IQ. Either way, Africa’s population will crash when whitey is gone.”
I have always been of the opinion that the most backwards and dysfunctional places on the planet are the ones where retrogressive behaviors like tribalism and clannish us-vs.-them attitudes prevail, primarily because those societies are mostly lawless places where individual freedom and right to property is only as good as one is in one’s ability and willingness to use force to have the upper hand. When you would rather cut off your nose to spite your hated rivals, nothing good comes from it all.
With our current direction in the US, where we are splitting people into identity groups and pitting them against each other, I see that while we were mostly spared from this sort of shit when people were forced to integrate, where we are heading is back to that tribalism and the groups fighting each other over scraps.
Yes – tribal warfare is exactly what the lefties are offering up.
retrogressive behaviors like tribalism and clannish us-vs.-them attitudes prevail, primarily because those societies are mostly lawless places where individual freedom and right to property is only as good as one is in one’s ability and willingness to use force to have the upper hand.
It’s not 100% clear to me that the causality is in that direction. Or at least it isn’t one way. To me, that’s part of the problem. When you don’t have individual freedom and your rights guaranteed by law, you have to be one of those holding the whip hand. Otherwise your future is one of those people getting whipped into submission. When that’s your option, what do you do? To my mind, you line up with those you can most rely on, your tribe, and treat everyone from every other tribe as a threat and a competitor to get their hands on that whip.
What came first problem – chicken or the egg – but yeah, the problem is that in those societies one either is forced to behave that way or historically has been functioning that way for so long, that an alternative never works unless imposed by force. For all the evils of colonialism, it did put an end to a lot of barbaric shit in some parts of the world, and anyone pretending that once it ended these countries suddenly would have been doing really well if it wasn’t for the rape and robbery perpetuated by the colonialist nations, is selling shit. You look at rising ex colonial countries like India and China, and their biggest problem (other than their choice to go collectivist) is the massive culture of corruption and dysfunctional behavior.
It’s funny, when you look at the most successful countries in sub-Saharan Africa, they’re all the ones that have diverse economies as opposed to the oil-based or mineral-based economies. In the latter cases, those resources are tied to geographic location, and in some cases, such as Nigeria, there’s a lot of friction on intertribal relationships as one tribe might traditionally lay claim to most of the land holding that resource. There’s also a distinct pattern where countries that are culturally homogeneous tend to be politically stable and more free, which typically translates into stronger economies–gee, where have we heard this before? The countries that cannot get their shit together typically have a specialized, resource-driven economy, tribal conflicts within their own borders, and the inability to get over their erstwhile colonizer, either through dependence on aid or by being obsessed with getting even.
Holding other people as colonial subjects is slavery. What do we say to slavers? “Fuck off”.
Some African countries screwing up doesn’t mean they should be colonies.
When the end result is less freedom and more death, I think your analysis is flawed.
White settlers in Rhodesia and South Africa moved in to farm and settle in very sparsely populated areas.
Wait, Elliot Gould, Wayne Rogers or Pernell Roberts? Because Gould was by far the best Trapper John.
And Sutherland was a better Hawkeye Pierce.
If Wayne Rogers was alive, he’d just give them investment advise.
I can’t believe you’re defending the movie. This isn’t Jaws we’re talking about. This is a terrible movie from an already bad TV show that put inane words to what wasn’t a bad theme song and even made that worse.
Really? I thought the movie was hilarious.
Brett, the movie came first.
*not counting the book.
1) The movie preceded the series.
b) Folks really should forget both film and TV show and read the book. Richard Hooker actually served in MASH hospitals in Korea, and knew what he was talking about. And most of the characters, if you’d only seen film/series, you won’t recognize them in the book; only the names are the same. For one thing, the Hawkeye Pierce in the book had been in the Army since 1940, was married, and had two sons.
The movie was excellent. The series was pretty good for the first 3 seasons. then sank into PC nonsense. Never read the book but I might now.
MASH the TV show did not age well, I (mostly) blame the laugh track.
The TV show was a piece of shit. After about a season or two it became Alan Alda’s personal soapbox.
It took longer than 2 seasons, but yes. It was when he began directing episodes it all fell apart.
The last few years were terrible. The first…5 or so?…were excellent.
And add me to the “the movie is quite funny” list.
TERRORISM
A failed assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday was mounted with explosive-armed drones, according to news reports. Nine days earlier, and on the other side of the world, terrorists claimed to have sent an armed drone to attack the international airport in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. No one was killed in either case, and the circumstances of both remain murky. But a new and dangerous era in non-state-sponsored terrorism clearly has begun, and no one is adequately prepared to counter it.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) represent a fresh threat to the traveling public. A concerted effort must be made to confront this threat before lives are lost.
Weaponized drones start with a tactical advantage: Most can fly lower than current technology is capable of readily detecting. Even if they were carrying only a small quantity of explosives, they could bring down a civilian aircraft in flight. Commercial airliners are vulnerable during takeoffs and landings when there is limited time for aircrews to react to unforeseen, and potentially hostile, events.
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Weaponized drones are firmly in the hands of non-state actors. No one is safe. Not heads of state. Not the flying public. We cannot afford delay in devising ways to combat this new peril.
That sounds like a ransom demand, to me. Maybe the Secret Service should have a chat with this fellow.
The most striking thing about the Venezuela incident was the reaction of the military formations on parade. It wasn’t “seek cover and evaluate” it was “Run in panic.”
That’s what happens when your diet consists of cardboard and grass.
My guess is that they were behind me. Communists, like fascists, are very very adept and knowledgeable about the false flag operations. Stage shit like this and make Maduro look like the good guy and all that…
You are a communist false flag operation?
*dials HUAC*
He’s talking about that 68 position.
This guy is saying Fred Flintstone’s car is safer than George Jetson’s?
Seriously, how do you steer a car where the entire axle is a wheel? There’s obviously no turntable mechanism.
Man, animated TV is bullshit.
Push harder with one foot versus the other on the power stroke, push down harder on braking? Fred does control the engine and the brakes directly, as it were….
You lift the thing up and point it in the right direction, DUH!
+1 neutral steer
Now you’ve got me wondering about the steering mechanism on steamrollers. I can’t seem to remember what the back looks like.
They’re articulated in the middle
pivot, articulation, same ballpark.
*searches internet*
Ah, if there are not two wheels, it’s a single roller affixed to a top-pivot.
A tandem smoothdrum roller articulates in the middle with hydraulic systems
Thanks. I haven’t had cause to look closely before.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) represent a fresh threat to the traveling public. A concerted effort must be made to confront this threat before lives are lost.
It’s not a fresh threat at all. All you need is an RC plane, an arduino board, and an explosive device to have an anti-personnel drone. The plane costs maybe $500, the arduino is about $100, and I have no clue how much explosives cost.
The tech required for unpiloted drone attacks has been around for a decade. Strap a burner cell phone to it, and you can pilot it from anywhere in the world.
Yes but we have to hyperventilate about it now because reasons.
try decades. RC planes have been around since I was a kid back in the 70’s
I’m still waiting for someone to combine this…
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/tracking-point-smart-rifle-sniper/
With this
https://hexoplus.com/
and have the ultimate assasination weapon. Control it remotely from pretty much anywhere, get it within 100 meters of the target and boom dead politician
Weaponized drones
Enough about Antifa.
EPA Releases Long Delayed Report on Ethanol and the Environment
Putting corn in your gas tank is bad for everything except corn farmers.
Thank goodness for this timely and topical report. It’s not like anybody has been saying this for 20 years…
This was known before the ethanol lobby got the left to force this insanity on us in the name of saving Gaia, but who fucking cares?
Ethanol is very bipartisan. Occasionally a Republican will mention something about getting rid of it, but the the Iowa caucuses happen and nothing is ever heard of the topic again.
Wha?!?!? I AM SHOCKED. It’s almost as if regulatory capture is a real phenomenon.
I simply cannot wait to see how Justin Trudeau deals with this.
I realize it was a cool story (pun intended), but I’m not sure Mr. Trudeau would have much of a hot take (also intended) on it.
Good morning, Sloopy. Thanks for the lynx and David Beckham’s wife.
*clicks music link*
*dies inside*
The mute button is your friend.
Posh has great legs.
And Scary has great…taste in blouses.
So does Sporty. Reminds me of the back cover of her first solo album.
Speaking of Spice, imagine the teeth gnashing today if the the lone black member was named Scary?
Pot Breathalyzer: California Company Creates THC-Detecting Breathalyzer For Safer Roads
Pot Breathalyzer: California Company Creates THC-Detecting Breathalyzer For More Warrantless Searches. There fixed it.
The only way pot becomes legal nationwide is if they can develop a roadside test for it, determine a threshold thy can use to determine intoxication for DUI purposes and get that test to withstand scrutiny.
So while this sucks on one hand for the pot smokers here, on the other hand, y’all will never have fully legalized dope until this technology develops. So may as well embrace it, because it’s probably the best you’ll get.
I think this is -overall- a positive step. I think there are many people who would agree to marijuana legalization if there were a roadside test (I used to be one when I was still mostly a SoCon). I know, more warrantless searches, but they aren’t going away. So if that’s what it takes to legalize pot, don’t we have to take what we can get?
I’m sure it will be just as accurate as the alcohol breathalyzer. (Two links, one from 2007, the other from 2018.)
But according to the courts, the science is settled.
Serial sex attacker raped one terrified victim over 1000 times
John Dickson preyed on a succession of partners and terrorised one woman with a nine foot python.
Dickson admitted being a violent bully – but denied to jurors that he was a rapist.
Now, IANAL, but…
Dickson… 9 foot python… oh my.
Sexism in animation! There aren’t enough of the womenz working in animation. Too many white men.
And another story with a similar topic. Locarno Film Festival signs pledge for gender parity in programming.
No, you aren’t entitled to anything. If your films are shit, they don’t deserve to share the spotlight with films by men that aren’t shit.
EVERYONE MUST CROSS THE FINISH LINE AT THE SAME TIME AND WITH THE SAME SHIT OR IT IS NOT SOCIAL JUSTICE!
What’s important is not the quality of the work, but the genitals of the people creating it.
What work? Demanding people work is wrong!
Paging rufus to the courtesy phone…
Serious question, does anyone make as much as Aisha Tyler doing voiceover? Does that not count?
Aisha Tyler has said some dumb shit, especially of late, but she’ll still be in my top three from way back in her Talk Soup days.
My favorite shave soap in my rotation is the Texas Leather scented soap. I smell like John Wayne’s saddle.
I assume John Wayne’s saddle smells like John Wayne’s ass.
HAWT
I’ve been using this because I received it as a gift. Smells minty and makes your skin tingly. I’ve tried a few other fancy pants shave soaps as well. I always end up going back to plain old glycerin soap from Van Der Hagen. Slicker than teflon. Smells like nothing.
I use this.
Followed by this.
Best combo I’ve come across.
I’m off aftershave. I used to use Nivea Post-Shave Balm, which smells and feels lovely, but I’d always end up with white heads the next day. Switched to plain old witch hazel. No white heads and you only smell like shit for about 2 minutes until the alcohol base dries up.
My rotation goes: wife’s hair conditioner, wife’s pore cleanser, wife’s special hair treatment, water. Have a can of shave cream, but it’s amazing how well the conditioner works.
Shave soap? Well there’s a sucker born every minute.
Olive oil with glycerine, vitamin e and eucalyptus oil mixed in. Make it yourself. Use it in the shower on your facial hair (especially a beard) and then use a thin coat of it to shave.
You’re welcome.
I’ve tried a few shave oils. Not a fan.
Currently using Michael’s Wool Fat soap, and I like it quite a bit. On really hot-humid days, I use Moma Bear’s Eucalyptus and Menthol soap
link to the Eucalyptus and Menthol. It does a better job of avoiding razor burn when its hot. I also keep Kell’s Hemp and Aloe on hand. I once had an alergic reaction on my face, and this soap was the only thing that made the rash feel better (didn’t even shave with it, just put it on and let it sit for a bit).
Proraso Green is all I need.
Barbasol, bitches. Still works just fine. I shave in the shower, which makes a world of difference.
Powerlifting has a Nazi problem, and it can no longer hide it.
https://womensstrengthcoalition.com/powerlifting-nazi/
It’s easy to think that the culture of powerlifting has changed. Go to most meets or gyms and you’ll usually see a good number of women and minorities involved in some capacity. In fact, from 2014 to 2017 the number of female-identifying powerlifting competitors more than doubled, and women now make up 1/3 of the sport. Minorities act as referees, coaches, and state chairs for most of the major powerlifting and strongman federations. Yet the mere presence of women and minorities does not automatically translate to an inclusive culture. – starts well enough
Regardless, the explosive growth of powerlifting has meant that far more people, and different types of people, are involved in the sport than ever before. On a superficial level, this appears positive, and in some respects, it is. On another level, it has thrown nascent issues of race, class, and gender into stark relief. Among these issues is the growing visibility of active white supremacist participation and support within the powerlifting community. According to both federal law enforcement and the Southern Poverty Law Center, white supremacist ideology, and its corresponding actions, are increasingly popular in the United States. This is reflected within the microcosm of the powerlifting world. – well if the SPLC says so it must be true
Powerlifting is a majority white sport that has been markedly slower than many other sports to adapt in any way to the concerns of minority participants, let alone actively welcome these participants. For example, while USA Weightlifting explicitly allows for religious headwear to be worn while competing, many of the major American powerlifting federations still expressly do not allow this or have wavered on including it in their rulebooks, instead treating each individual lifter as their own special case. This creates situations in which minority lifters must advocate, often through several levels of leadership, for the ability to do things essential to their culture or religion – for observant Jewish athletes, this means not competing on Saturdays, for example. – meh if you can’t lift on Saturdays do not enter the competition
Incidents like this are becoming increasingly public and problematic as more minorities become involved in the sport. Minorities tend to be more well-versed in the language of hate, and therefore more readily able to identify coded verbiage or symbols (“88/SS” or the totenkopf or death’s head), or recognize the names and themes of known hate organizations (ie: Wolves of Vinland) that the white majority may not be aware of. – right…
Why has powerlifting, as a community, been so reluctant to address the glaring issues of white supremacy within its ranks? – address how exactly? the powerlifting “community” is so loose it is barely a community
It goers on a while although no links or actual examples which would illustrate the point. Are there white supremacist powerlifters? Sure… Has the powerlifting community a nazi problem? meh
What a fucking crappy word salad. When I read shit like this all I can think of is that the writer is making a desperate cry for help because they have some serious mental problems. That or they get paid by the word and have monkeys banging out whatever the fuck they want on typewriters.
If your thesis is “x is non-inclusive of y,” and your essay mutates into allegations of white supremacy, you’re stealing bases and your writing is weak.
All the meathead gyms need to hold sensitivity training.
Maybe Dunphy was infiltrating their ranks the whole time…
Powerlifting is a majority white sport
Oh, jeez. Just wait till she finds out about recreational swimming.
I notice that they don’t actually show that “Powerlifting has a Nazi.” Maybe they do, but this author didn’t put forward any argument or proof. So, meh.
I’m sure a Venn diagram between Nazis and powerlifters would have some overlap. I fail to see the significance.
Some overlap is both a mathematical certainty and a useless level of granularity. One lifter with a neck tattoo? Every single meet has a bunch of guys with White Death t-shirts and red armbands yelling slurs at minority lifters?
My comments on the OSU thing:
1. Maybe Meyer needs to be let go, I don’t know. I know he recruited Aaron Hernandez, so he isn’t beyond sticking with violent people.
2. I do know that McMurphy needs to be fired.
It is possible they both need the boot, but I would be more willing to take a chance on Meyer in the future.
Who’s gonna fire McMurphy, Facebook?
The guy is a freelancer who broke the story on his Facebook Page. And there’s nothin wrong with that, but there is something wrong with using the “edit post” button and changing a fundamental part of your story as it relates to the question you asked a coach and then him for his answer without noting the edit from “arrested” to “investigated”.
Meyer doesn’t deserve this shit. It’s a #metoo social signaling exercise and it’s time it cake to a screeching halt. And if Title IX gets put in the spotlight for all its unintended excesses, all the better.
Let’s just get rid of college football and basketball and quit acting like it has anything to do with education. Make them minor leagues and everyone can keep beating their wives.
I don’t feel strongly one way or the other about Urban Meyer, but this seems pretty ridiculous. So far as I can tell, the beef with Meyer is that he failed to fire a guy when he heard through the grapevine that he had been accused of spousal abuse. That’s pretty thin gruel, frankly, and I think that’s a horrible standard to set. Laws should mean something, and the justice system needs to be respected if it’s going to work. Of course you have the right to associate with whomever you please, but to fire someone on the basis of an unadjudicated accusation as if he’d been convicted of an actual crime sends the message that mob justice and hearsay is more relevant than the burden of proof and assumption of innocence.
For larfs I got the movie The Red Menace:
from Rotten Tomatoes:
I, for one, wasn’t laughing… at least in the 20-30 minutes I got to watch before we had to switch to something else. It almost seemed oddly related to today’s craziness: the using of the mob by lefties
You have a great day too, Sloopy!
Wow, I just keep running across articles about the womenz this morning. Gender Pay Gap starts with kids’ allowances.
Kids should not get allowances. If they want money, they can get a job.
You should write a parenting book.
“12 rules for turning your kid into a lunch money stealing psycho”
It should be common sense – teach the kid early on that most things are not free.
^^^THIS^^^
My kid cleans the house, gets good grades and behaves and she gets a couple hundred yen a week. I honestly don’t see the problem.
Employment as an off the books housekeeper is still employment.
Fine, it’s employment. She’s at the age where she can contribute to the functioning of the house. Around here the kid is expected to take care of the adults into their old age. I’ll take that trade off rather than rotting in a nursing home.
You have no idea how many families I know where the only thing the kids do is demand their parents be better maids/butters to them.
Some people do a lot of dumb shit to their kids. I bribe the hell out of mine. Don’t see any harm with it. Rewarding the good is a helluva lot easier than punishing the bad. Results may vary depending on the kid, but it works with mine.
We largely operate on a quid pro quo basis, but my kid’s 3, so there’s a limit to what she can do and what she needs. Right now we’re still at the “You can have some hot chocolate after you finish dinner” and “We’ll put on a movie but first you have to pick up your blocks”. And it’s mostly about getting her to want to do it herself because it’s a good thing to do rather than because she’s pushing our buttons, so we’ll help her pick up and generally keep things light. It works; she voluntarily started feeding the dogs and letting them in and out, tries to put dishes away, stuff like that.
Allowance is getting money for gracing your family with your presence for another week. Paying for chores is different.
I’m of the opinion that some chores are done as part of living under my roof, and only after those chores are done can money be earned by doing other chores.
Yeah, we repay the gracing us bit in kind. When the time comes, I’d be willing to entertain an allowance on the basis that it’s essentially a grant to support a working student, but it’s going to be minimal. I also do not pay for doing one’s share of the housework or yard work. I am, however, willing to pay for some of my share to be done for me, which is what I’ll try to do when she gets a little older.
I’m certainly not above bribery, but my wife and I have tried to withhold some stuff that is taken for granted in other families so that we can use it as incentive for good habits. For instance, my daughter has no idea that we can buy ice cream from a store or make it at home. If I told her there were stores that only sold toys, she’d faint. These are cards we’re keeping up our parenting sleeves for when we need to get her to do stuff like shower on her own, put her laundry away, stuff like that. My daughter is like me in that her instinctive response to the stick is to dig her heels in and swing right back at you, so we try to go the carrot route as much as possible rather than going to the nuclear option of dad losing his shit.
Get more girls mowing lawns is what I get out of that…
Lies. Most people don’t want boy babysitters.
Bear noted the BusyKid study isn’t scientific — it doesn’t have diverse demographics, such as income levels, because parents pay to use the app — but said the high volume of users is a trustworthy sample size and should spur further study.
That earns a Hihn-like *snicker*
My kids have the ability to earn equal allowances. My son chooses to do more to maximize his allowance, my daughter prefers to spend more time reading in her room and drawing. While she grumbles sometimes about Alex having more money than her, she has made the considered decision that her reading and drawing time is worth more to her than a few extra bucks.
You’re contributing to the Pay Gap! You should force her to leave her room and do more work until she earns as much or more than he does!
That’s not very woke, he should just be paying her the same no matter what, because Patriarchy!
Meanwhile that dips hit David Hogg is protesting at the NRA
All the while having armed security.
Yawn. No one’s stopping you from leaving lady.
I don’t understand how these people don’t understand that being able to say things like what she said without government retribution directly contradicts saying things like what she said.
I think the answer, in this case, is almost certainly “stupidity.”
I think it’s important to assume that people who disagree with you might know something you don’t or have something interesting to offer that you hadn’t considered, but, upon investigation, sometimes the thing you didn’t know turns out to be just how very, very stupid that person is.
Not only is no one preventing her from getting the fuck out, she chose to come here! Who held a gun to her head and made her leave the Congo for the US in the first place? If she doesn’t like it her, then tough shit – she has no one to blame but herself for the consequences of her decisions.
Well, it is the Congo, a hotbed of murder, rape, cannibalism and internicene tribal warfare. So it’s quite possible she was forced out at gunpoint. But it is also true she is free to leave the US if we’re so awful.
I wish I was making any of that up.
Young boy dies ‘after mistaking father’s meth for cereal’
To be fair, any 8 year old from middle America should know meth when he sees it.
Since when does Methamphetamine look like cereal?
Were they using fucked up cereal, or was that fucked up meth?
Honey Smacks?
That headline would read:” Boy Dies From Salmonella After Mistaking Honey Smacks For Edible Food.”
From that ars technica 3D gun link:
The states argued that allowing Defense Distributed to release the files violated both the 10th Amendment (which allows states to regulate activity not specifically described in the Constitution) and also a federal administrative law.
In essence, they were concerned that if Americans could access these files and make anonymous, untraceable weapons, it would be circumventing state-level firearms laws that, for example, prevent people convicted of domestic abuse from legally obtaining a gun.
“We must do whatever we can to keep criminals from acquiring and creating these guns,” Washington Governor Jay Inslee said in a statement. “The Attorney General’s actions today are an important step in developing common-sense gun measures that will help to protect public safety.”
Wait, what? 10th Amendment? I thought we repealed that one. Of course, I also thought the 10th was intended to put limits on the power of the government, not supersize it.
I think I would trade (legal) gun plans on the internet for this 10A precedent. Especially since their bans would stop nobody ever.
Except that it would be an awful precedent. Rather than reserving powers to states, they claiming that it requires the federal government to exercise power on behalf of the states. And of behalf of only certain states as well. Fuck the other states that don’t want this.
I’m re-commenting the following since I first put it in a nearly dead thread:
Any Yoopers here? Or people very familiar with the UP? The wife and I are planning a vacation to the South Shore of Superior. We’re going to spend the majority of our time in the Porkies and the Keweenaw with maybe a day (or two) trip to Marquette.
Anyway…I’m asking for recommendations to must-see attractions and must-eat-at restaurants and any other must’s. Having a pasty as well as some whitefish are two culinary items on the list already. That and bringing back some smoked whitefish or lake trout.
Much obliged for any recommendations.
I’m told Isle Royal is amazing. Pictured Rocks is gorgeous.
Dress warmly. Went to the UP in late August and ended up not having enough jeans and long sleeve shirts. Summer, needless to say, ends a little quicker up there.
Lady Humungus, since her dad was a Yooper, spent much of her childhood up there any may have more insights.
Thanks LH. And I would greatly appreciate any advice her Ladyship would be willing to share.
Hi Mike, Lady H here. My dad’s family is in the Houghton area, which has a lot of mines. I really like the Keeweenaw national historic park, very good enactors there, and the whole thing is open to the public, including any excavation. There’s also a great historic fire station in Lake Linden/ Calumet, which has been in operation the whole time, so not just a “historic” sight, or renovation. If you can make it, try to see the Maple Leaf Bar on Bootjack Road in Lake Linden. Like drinking in your friend’s basement. Or the Downtowner motel in Houghton. On the way to the copper country UP, go to Engadine on US2.
Thanks EF! Great info! I am going to check out all your recommendations.
We are going to spend a few days at McClain SP near Hougton and maybe a few days at Fort Wilkinson. We are both rockhounds, so we’re looking forward to the rock and gemstone museum at Mich. Tech. as well as hopefully getting to do a little picking in an old mine rock pile or two. We’d love to find a few small pieces of native copper.
Thanks again!
Fort Wilkinson is highly worth it. Dreamland Motel on Bootjack road is also worth it. . . hope it never changes!
Hah! I remember something similar from my time in Montana. You could always tell the people who’d been to the fireworks on the lake on the 4th of July at least once because they wore jeans and brought a light jacket.
Grand Marais – brewery on beach, rock hunting in lake. Dunes and falls are 10 minutes west.
Fayette – ghost town (inside a state park). Really neat with lots of history, trails, actual cliffs surrounding the bay.
Manisitque – Kitch-iti-kipi – clear spring down to 60 feet. It’s pretty neat and a stone’s throw from Fayette.
If you head east, the Antlers is in Ste St Marie. My family always goes there when we head up north. It’s not my thing, but it’s an attraction. You can check out the locks as well.
If you’re going in August, you’ll probably miss the color change. My folks stay in the Porcupine mountains every fall and it’s breathtaking.
Thanks for the info. It seems like all the things people are recommending are further east than we plan on going. Might have to re-think our plans. Early on, we had been eying Grand Marais as a nice spot to spend a couple days…maybe we should add it back to the itinerary. And Picture Rocks does look awesome, as well.
We’re going the week after labor day, so I assume we’ll be a tish early for the fall colors. I guess that’ll give us an excuse to come back again.
Stop using obscure words to confuse the foreigners. I am feeling excluded and othered
Don’t worry, no one else outside the UP knows what those words mean either.
I’m merely challenging you to expand your (already impressive) English vocabulary.
I smell like John Wayne’s saddle.
You have my deepest sympathy.
He’s 68 in the stirrups.
American Airlines kicks musician off flight because her $30,000 cello is ‘too big’ for the seat she bought for it – then two other passengers are boarded and pilot flashes VICTORY sign as she leaves
does she play it sidesaddle?
Next time, take…
Da Bussy.
She has to Handel it better
Ok pal, you’re on the Liszt!
This thread is starting to un Ravel.
We won’t Bach down!
Maybe we should Bach it up?
Swissy has to be Hayden this sub-thread.
I bet she walked off the plane bow legged.
The Sharp note the ariline took left her feeling a bit flat
Thats the treble with airline travel these days. The customer bass is treated like cattle.
He wasn’t showing the V sign he was signaling two open seats.
Hu’s weighs less than 10
Left off a zero? Or is it some fancy carbon fiber cello?
Nope. They are pretty light. With the hard case, though, it’s gonna be more than 10 pounds.
My violin and hard case has to be pushing 10, but you’re right, a burlap bag would be lighter.
It depends on the cello. Mine is a standard cello, made of wood. In my soft case it probably weighs 20 lbs. A hard case would add another 10 – 15 lbs. I’d guess. If you’re talking about a cello like this it probably weighs less.
She has my sympathies.
/Neil Peart
It’s clear she wasn’t Rachmaninov to stand up to them.
News you won’t see on CNN: Florida mass-shooter stopped by armed civilian.
I have it on good authority that this literally never happens, and that the good guy with a gun will only get confused and start randomly killing everyone he sees.
More likely than not if he pulls this off in a blue state, the law will prosecute his ass for making the blue nanny stater types look bad.
Luckily he wasn’t a cop.
Attempted mass shooter. Thank goodness that asshole couldn’t aim or someone besides him might have been ventilated. We should start a GoFundMe for the guy who shot him to include a parade and a medal.
WTF is this?
Seriously, did they not pay here to play a role? Usually there are contracts with these people spelling out what is expected from them, so not being willing to go nude when the part calls for it should have basically been on her, not the producers.
The stunt coordinator wanted a stunt woman to do a scene but Lilly insisted an doing it herself. So obviously the “misogynistic” stunt guy was to blame for her getting hurt.
Hebrew, a dead language of 8000 words, is resurrected by fanatic. Now spoken by nearly 10 million.
I really didn’t know modern Hebrew is a Frankenstein language, and that is totally bonkers.
And why is it called HEbrew instead of SHEbrew. Patriarchy!
incidentally, language names in Hebrew are feminine nouns.
Shocking video shows cop shoot romantic rival in the face
The best and brightest
Gang bangers and punk teenagers I can see forgetting about ubiquitous CCTV. But a cop?
I can see it. Also, there’s a good chance he didn’t expect anything to come of it even if he was caught on camera.
What an icon1
Who?
Also, don’t tell them that Iconoclasm has come back in vogue.
absolute unit?
Brother Keith gets Amazon to pull Nazi themed merchandise.
Luckily, it was just nazi nazi stuff. Brother Keith’s ex-mentor Farakan’s stuff seems to still be on sale.
Some anti-Semites are more equal than others.
The executive said Amazon was preventing the sale of the items in question and was in the process of removing them from fulfillment centers.
Sounds like a purge to me.
Speaking of gender equity- Indra Whatsis (too lazy to look it up), CEO of Pepsi, has announced her impending retirement. This has resulted in a bunch of, “Oh, no. Now teh womynz will be even more horribly underrepresented in Kkkorporate Amerikkka!”
Yeah, whatever. I think she did a solid, if unspectacular, job. At least she didn’t drive the business to the brink of extinction like that moron Sculley at Apple.
I’m reminded of an argument from Australian Feminist who got in a position of power and decided that some emergency service will only recruit women for a span of X time. When called on her sexism and asked why the emergency service couldn’t just pick candidates based on the best person for the job, she kept repeating “Who’s to say the best person for the job isn’t a woman?” I kept wishing someone would shout back at her “YOU ARE! The best person for the job would beat all compeditors, regardless of sex, and doesn’t need most of the field eliminated by sexist fiat.”
I hope PepsiCo avoids the stupidity of identity politics and picks based upon competence.
What are the odds of that?
To get into management, at least at the plant I work at, you need a BS or BA. To get into the more skilled hourly jobs you need to pass some basic competency tests.
Late as always, but unspectacular is an understatement. Hopefully the first order of business for the next CEO is cancelling the order for Tesla semis.
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Proud Boys as a hate group.
Well, I’m convinced.
Some of the marchers were dressed in black, the common uniform of antifa (anti-fascist) activists. They held up signs such as “Hatefully targeting marginalized groups is not political discourse” and chanted slogans in support of a host of leftist political positions.
Uniforms? So what you are saying is that the ever ironically named ‘Antifa’ is a militant terrorist organization. And none of those words mean what you think they mean.
The Proud Boys need to powerlift more…
Or more Power Chairs, that would be funny
True. Real white-supremacists workout.
In fairness, there’s not a whole lot else to do in prison besides shanking rivals.
Shower fun, man.. Make love, not war!
The proud boys are not a hate group.
They’re just … weird. Really, really, weird.
They hate antifa. Antifa hates racism hence, ergo, therefore …
I wanna know… where the Proud Boys.. go!”
The groups said that Amazon’s “weak and inadequately enforced” policies allowed racist, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic groups to generate money and spread their ideas.
Ellison, who is deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, asked Bezos how much money Amazon made from selling material including books published by hate groups since 2015, and whether it would destroy such merchandise at its warehouses.
I thought liberals were opposed to burning books.
Haha, I crack myself up.
If Bezos had any stones, he’d run a report that includes all the Nation of Islam crap they sell like this and send it to Brother Keith.
You know what the worst part of no longer being a wild indian working from home and having to go back to sitting in a cube on the reservation?
Not being able to fart whenever I feel like it.
Not sure what I ate yesterday, but whatever it was (mixed with a lot of beer) has turned me into a walking methane plant.
SBDs for the Win!
Cropdusting coworkers and disappearing around the corner.
Better out than in brah..
For you Pope.
WTF kind of people do you work with when they want to be around you when you fart? Are they getting turned on by the stank or something?
Just detox on a diet only of oatmeal, canned tuna, and protean powder. That’ll clear you right up.
+1 Drive bys
FloridaArizona manAt roughly 11 a.m., according to ABC 7, when employees opened the door of the walk-in freezer, the 54-year-old man, who hailed from Arizona, leaped out. CBS New York reported, “After being discovered, the man picked up a kitchen knife and yelled ‘away Satan’ before attacking employees, who were able to disarm him and wrestle him to the ground.”
The man apparently suffered a heart attack and was transported to St Luke’s Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Dude was just trying to keep cool in the Arizona heat, and these employees fucked up his mellow…
I can’t help but thinking ‘Satan’ was the name of his horse.
Or his wife…
Wait, was this a guy that looked a lot like Saddam from South Park?
No, Maduro is a different Link.
WOA! You just opened up a whole conspiracy can of worms here man.. Is Maduro a spanish speaking Saddam?
No I’d say Saddam was smarter.
Visual similarities aside, Maduro was picked because he wasn’t a threat to Chavez. He won by default when Hugo kicked the bucket. Saddam built up his own power base and took over by his own efforts.
Maduro is in over his head with the position he’s in. I’m starting to suspect the reason he’s not been coup-ed out of office is because the splintered power blocs can’t manage a takeover.
*reads the rest of the links.*
Whoops.
*walks off whistling with hands in pockets trying to be inconspicuous.*
More LARPing news: DC Metro transit union in conflict with Metro management over plans to operate special trains for white nationalist protesters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2018/08/04/metro-no-longer-considering-separate-trains-for-white-nationalists-attending-unite-the-right-rally/
Two Virginia state troopers conducting surveillance of the event were also killed when their helicopter crashed.
Let’s just toss that in there for no apparent reason.
They keep doing that. I’ve seen it in multiple different stories. They want sooooo badly to hang those deaths on the alt-right.
^This.
I think they also want people to not ask questions about why the helicopter crashed during routine operations. Because you can be damn sure that if they could have plausibly blamed the protesters they would have done so.
Shocking footage of the crash.
Yea, they clipped a tree, which is unrelated to the happenings at the rally.
Oh, there’s more: “Local 689 is proud to provide transit to everyone for the many events we have in D.C. including the March [for] Life, the Women’s March and Black Lives Matter,” Jeter said. “We draw the line at giving special accommodation to hate groups and hate speech.”
Interesting. I have heard some pretty hateful things from all of the mentioned groups.
The Woman’s March, of which one of the organizers was the noted anti-Semite Linda Sarsour? Right…
Another had been a convicted terrorist, but she got deported after her citizenship was revoked for lying to immigration about the conviction.
I keep hating that I’m seated among odious people. Then I look and realize the group banded together because of an onslaught by people who are not merely odious, but actually evil.
And I kept reading for some morbid reason: “But it is imperative that the safety and rights of communities of color and those protesting white supremacists’ message are equally protected,” she said.
We protect both kinds, Country and Western.
That’s what the argument from these people comes down to, but the other side is the one being racist, sexist, or whatever ism they want to peddle to discourage anyone from challenging their idiotic dogma with facts, logic, or common sense.
I simply cannot wait to see how Justin Trudeau deals with this.
He’s got a pair of socks for every occasion.
He’s got at least one pair that is missing a sock though. Rufus took it to make his muppet.
A homeless man living in Benidorm who was allegedly paid €100 (£89) by a British stag group to have the groom’s name tattooed on his forehead has said he accepted the offer out of desperation.
Tomek, 34, who met the group in the Spanish resort in May, said he was paid to get the words “Jamie Blake, North Shields, NE28” inked on his skin.
“When you live on the street, you’re hungry and you need to drink, that kind of money is like winning the lottery,” he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/06/homeless-man-paid-forehead-tattooed-desperation-benidorm
Jamie Blake, 37, told the Newcastle Evening Chronicle he had nothing to do with the tattoo and claimed Tomek was not homeless.
“I got drunk and was asked to leave the bar,” he said. “I was never in the tattoo parlour and as far as I know, he was not paid any money.”
well this is fucked up wither way
Don’t drink and tattoo?
Sounds like a win-win.
Hard hitting investigative reporting from NPR
Ten years after the housing collapse during the Great Recession, a new and different housing crisis has emerged.
Back then, people were losing their homes as home values crashed and homeowners went underwater. Today, home values have rebounded, but people who want to buy a new home are often priced out of the market. There are too few homes and too many potential buyers.
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So how did we get here, especially in cities like Boise that have long been affordable?
One answer lies in the immediate aftermath of the Great Recession, when home building ground to a virtual halt. The rebound has been slow and painful. Single-family home construction is now at its lowest rate in four decades.
Housing experts tick through a list of reasons for the slow pace: There’s tougher zoning, there’s not enough undeveloped land, lumber is expensive … and one of the biggest problems, a labor shortage.
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In its quest for more affordable housing, Boise may look to voter-approved bonds. Boise Mayor Dave Bieter admits there’s a real housing crunch.
“Our figures show we need to build about a thousand units a year in the city of Boise to keep the kind of demand we’re seeing,” he said. Boise is way behind on that goal — they’ve built about that much over the past five years. One large project that’s underway on city-owned land not far from Bieter’s office could help ease the market. But it’s not going to do much in the short term.
It’s a dadgum mystery.
Maybe the government should provide housing for people. You can’t expect capitalism to fix a problem as this.
Later in the NPR article they did say that the city government was involved in a “partnership” to build housing on government land.
Government: breaking legs and handing out crutches.
I know we have a NoDak or two lurking here. Maybe they can answer a question:
It’s North Dakota. Shouldn’t this quest take a week or less?
H/T: SugarFree
Well, if he decides to cover the entire state, you’d need to factor in driving time. But if it’s just Fargo… I donno.
The Fargo/Moorhead metro area population is about 250K, so I assume he’ll be eating chicken strips for a while. Especially since every little bar probably has a chicken strip basket on its menu thanks to the preponderance of AutoFrys in kitchen-less establishments.
“Oh, and if you’re a farmer in that country, I highly recommend you gather up your shit and either GTFO or prepare to make a stand.”
And people who like to eat. They should leave too.
Maybe the farmers can go to Zimbabwe:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-03/zimbabwes-exiled-farmers-urged-to-return/9392322
It’s a shame South Africans haven’t learned the lesson from their cousins to the north.
Cry babies!
““It’s environmental racism — that’s what I feel like it is,” said Cristina Martinez, a longtime McKinley Park resident, after a late-July community meeting about the asphalt plant, which opened with minimal input from residents.”
There is so much wrong with that I dont know where to start. How about this? Fuck them. Starve, you stoopid bastards.
It’s not environmental racism, it’s environmental classism. Which is simple God-given economics.
From the article: “The impacts of current land uses such as warehousing, distribution and transportation logistics uses have already negatively impacted the quality of life”
Those three industries are literally the reason Chicago exists. Almost every other industry in the city cropped up to support those. There is no LIFE in Chicago without warehousing, distribution, and transportation. These idiots would complain about the stench of wild onions 200 years ago.
That they don’t know how cement works? It has to be 30 minutes or less from the destination. Industrial foremen will send it back if it isn’t poured in less than 45 minutes. If they want their fancy parking lots, the cement plant has to be close by.
Cements come in bags and deplorables with shovels and wheelbarrows mix them up by hand.
Oh FFS.
Funny how nobody raised a stink while those areas were populated by wypipo for, you know, the majority of their existence.
Feeling like life is just an endless wasteland of drudgery and pointlessness? Distract yourself!
http://archive.is/fWtxy
90 can take my temperature anytime. Side note: the “upsidedown bikini” thing has got to go away immediately.
What’s an upside down bikini?
See #58.
This is bad why?
OT: a friend of mine told me he was in rehab for a week, and now he’s in intensive outpatient 3X per week. His attitude is positive about it. Sort of scary though, as I had no idea he had a substance problem. Oh, the things people don’t tell you, until they do.
Especially that one. Some of the best addicts are very high functioning and often the exact opposite of the stereotype.
I hope he succeeds.
Business is good. That’s bad.
There are well over 6,500 craft breweries in the United States as of mid-2018, more than triple the number at the start of the decade.
And that, not multinational corporations buying up independent brands, is the real problem for craft brewers — and maybe for the U.S. economy. The existential threat doesn’t come from AB InBev but from the small operation down the street coming out with its own IPA or Belgian sour.
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Cheap financing. Consumer spending. Tax cuts. All sound familiar? The latest GDP figures, the same ones that showed 4.1 percent quarterly growth in that benchmark, showed consumer spending driving most of the economy — and nonmortgage debt (including credit cards and personal loans) and the effects of the tax cuts are driving much of that spending.
But how long can it last? Inflation is starting to drive up prices of goods. And we haven’t even discussed the tariffs proposed or executed by President Trump. One on imported aluminum, in particular, could end up walloping the bottom lines of craft brewers, who will probably pass along any extra costs to consumers.
For now, though, things look sunny — for the overall U.S. economy. For craft beer, it’s another story, and a possibly predictive one at that.
Incoherent (to me, anyway) story about how we should be worried sick about an economic collapse based on the boom in craft beer.
Oh, well. We’ll always have Trump to blame, won’t we?
Well, well, well…I’ve been told that doesn’t ever happen with regulations, taxes, min wage…
I think we may be past due on a contraction on the craft beer market. There are a lot of places opening up, and I think some of the ones that went through rapid expansion will need to contract or close (it already happened to Green Flash, Stone, and New Belgium to various degrees). I’m noticing a lot of the newer breweries opening up with just a tap room and a minimal (if any) distribution footprint.
Based on what I’ve heard, the aluminum can prices have already jumped up.
Prior to the beer wars, the beer market followed the power law (approximately, of course).
The craft beer movement is getting us back to that, but they still havent filled in the middle tier. And really, I think I calculated once it would take about 10k breweries to entirely fill it in, so we aren’t necessarily overdue for contraction. However, I think the middle tier will fill in thru mergers and acquisitions. It is already happening.
BTW, I am considering a series of articles on the Beer Wars, with maybe 1 or 2 (depending on length) on the history of American brewing prior to 1970.
Rough outline (I guess it would be 5 articles):
1. History – pre-prohibition
2. History – post-prohibition thru 1970
3. Early beer wars 1970-1980
4. End of the beer wars 1980-1995?
5. The rise of craft
I assume there would be interest?
Much, I assume.
I have to get my Pabst ownership timeline down. Basically every midwest regional brewery of note was either owned by Pabst or owned Pabst in the 1970+ timeframe.
Bonus points if you can give a timeline for when Schmidt beer did and didn’t market with the possessive Schmidt‘s. (I’m talking about Jacob Schmidt Brewing Co., not Christian Schmidt Brewing Co.)
yes, yes, yes.
Prime plus three percent.
Some of the acquisitions and mergers are interesting. This infographic doesn’t even include everything (such as Victory and Southern Tier merging). So far, of the big ones, I’ve been happy with the Duvel acquisitions, and still hopeful that Firestone Walker makes it here to Ohio.
And I hope it goes without saying that I would be interested in the series of articles regarding beer.
ABI bought Breckenridge? NOOOOOOOOOO
Now who will make the youtube commercials mocking the macros?
YouTube… Commercials?
God bless ad blocker.
Yep, it happened a couple years back.
Creaft beer is not diverse enough. To many white man. How can a black woman enjoy beer if she does not find herself represented among the brewers?
There’s always Garrett Oliver over at Brooklyn Brewery, and he’s been there since the first Craft Beer wave back in 1994. Nice guy too.
And The Brewmaster’s Table is an excellent book. I have had a few online conversations with him, he is a great guy.
There are a number of craft breweries that are husband-wife teams, with the wife running the business side and the husband doing the brewing.
Lazy Magnolia in Mississippi is the opposite.
She could brew some craft malt liquor.
We missing any Glibs tis morning?
Pantless driver dies after being ejected through his sunroof while masturbating to porn on a cellphone
That is not going to look good on a headstone.
At least he died doing what he loved.
That’s quite a way to go.
This is why self-driving cars are so desperately needed.
Masturbating to porn on a phone, while driving?
This is why we need heads-up displays.
Or a robot hand in the car?
Anything over 68 degrees is awful and it’s not impressive that you like awful things.
From the article: “The impacts of current land uses such as warehousing, distribution and transportation logistics uses have already negatively impacted the quality of life”
Creating jobs in low income neighborhoods? That’s not fair.
More feral children yelling, “BONK BONK!” I hope they all starve and/or freeze to death.
Boston Fed reports: reducing subsidies to universities results in 17 cent tuition hike for every dollar of public support withdrawn, but increasing subsidies to universities results in tuition hikes, too.
*shocked face intensifies*
The solution is to give em so much money that they cant spend so much and lower tuition
Aside from the whole principles thing, I stopped at the headline “17 cent tuition hike for every dollar of public support withdrawn”. So net positive for cutting support? Let the axes swing.
Yeah, that doesn’t sound like a bad deal to me either.
Hence, the only proper solution involves a lot of bankruptcies.
What are they counting as “public support”?
Sounds like its checks written by governments, so this study tells me that 83% of that money is wasted/surplus/not needed. If I was a legislator trying to balance a budget, this would tell me I can cut the checks I write to the universities by 83%.
Consider, also, that the 83% that they can do without is probably funding things (buildings, infrastructure, jobs/departments, etc.) that have their own carrying costs, so that money is actually building a cost base that tuition has to cover. I know pretty much for a fact that I could go into a large university and close entire overhead departments (anything with “diversity” in its title) and could save a ton of money on “student life” bullshit. 17% of the budget? Very possible. The hard part is dealing with the bloated physical infrastructure, which will continue to eat money regardless. The lavish non-educational buildings and whatnot on major universities are a crime, IMO.
“The hard part is dealing with the bloated physical infrastructure”
Only for schools in University Towns or Cleveland/Detroit. I’m sure Georgetown or Columbia would be able to find a buyer without too much trouble.
“17 cent tuition hike for every dollar of public support withdrawn”
Sounds like an overall 83% savings. Why are we not doing this???
One theory holds that colleges and universities simply aim to maximize revenue
No, no, no. That’s crazy talk. Those schools are *non-profits*.
Must be why the only cost to the consumer that has gone up by factors magnitude higher than inflation has been the cost of education. What I do know is that in spite of the massive cost of either primary or secondary education today, we are not even close to getting a fraction of return on that investment. In fact, my experience has been that paying for college is about the one thing most Americans seem to do their best to get the least return on investment from (college kids find ways to cheat the system so they have more time to party).
Cost to whom? is the real question (and you have to separate public and privates for this)
In Florida public universities, the inflation-adjusted cost per credit hour for in-state students is about the same as it was 30 years ago. The difference–other than inflation–is that 30 years ago the state paid 75% of that cost and student tuition only paid 25%. Now it’s close to 50-50. So, yeah, the cost to the student has gone up, but the cost to the taxpayer has gone down. Whether that is a Good Thing or a Bad Thing depends on your perspective, I guess.
Even in nominal terms, at my school tuition has been frozen since 2012-13. Students who graduated in May paid the same rate for their entire college program. Maybe tuition is going up, but it’s not going up everywhere.
Hey more revenue does not necessarily mean more profit. Not when you have creative ways to spend the revenue
Sports & History combined: Today in 1992 at the Barcelona Olympics, the oldest still-standing men’s world record on the track (Kevin Young’s 46.78 in the 400 hurdles) was set. Only 2 men have been within a quarter-second of that time since. And also 26 years ago today, the USA men’s basketball team squeaked by Lithuania 127-76 in the semifinals.
I watched that year on the infamous “Triplecast”…NBC & Cablevision lost big on that bet, but you can be sure the International Olympic Committee still got paid.
That caused me to look up the 1996 olympic champion in the 400-Hurdles, who was at GT the same time as me (He was an ME, but a year behind me, so we didn’t have any classes in common). On his wikipedia page, I saw this (bolding mine):
Yeah, I remember him. Not surprisingly he was #1 in the world in 1996 (and in 1995 also, when he was world champion.) I didn’t know he was an engineering grad and hadn’t heard about his retirement escapades though. I guess if the main event of your sport is at the Olympics, you have to be of Michael Phelps-level fame to get noticed in your outside life.
Oooh, a “written admonishment” to the department. The blood must have been ankle-deep in the hallways when they got that.
“17 cent tuition hike for every dollar of public support withdrawn”
The surest way to determine the value of a thing is to see how willing people are to pay for it with their own money.
“Free college” is such a monumentally stupid idea it boggles the mind.
Same thing was said about high school 100 years ago.
And they were correct.
It wasn’t so bad when failure was still an option. Now that no child is left behind, the only way to accomplish that is to make everyone else wait up for the slowest.
You missed that today was also the birthday Alexander Fleming, which discovered penicillin in 1881.
Oh yeah, like they weren’t going to find that anyway
From the SFGate opinion piece masquerading as an article:
“By 12:30 p.m., several dozen right-wing demonstrators amassed at the marchers’ intended destination, wearing “Make America Great” caps and waving signs with slogans such as “No to Marxism in America” and “Slave labor made America great.”
What are the chances that sentence is true? I don’t doubt the slave quote sign was there, but curiously I cannot find a picture of it. I’d give 100 to 1 odds that it was carried y antifa or one of their blue haired minions.
Speaking of twins:
gross.
their parents must be so proud.
This is the second one in a week or so. Sloopy linked one last week. Weird.
But, like the last one; would X2. (the ones in the dresses)
“Of course, we here in Houston call that “June through August”. “New York Strong” my ass.”
Try going in the subway
Or my kitchen. Most of us don’t have central air.
Comfort is dominated by humidity; a totally useful estimate of the ambient misery is to simply weigh the water that drips out of your AC every day.
As a Southerner, I can tell you Houston is tough. But there is zero chance I’m vacationing in Chicago or New York before theater season: when it’s cold enough that the humidity bothers me less and I can wear a proper suit without melting the collar off my shirt in 30 seconds.