Well, the Braves tomahawk-chopped the Marlins twice. The Mets beat the Yankees. The Tigers topped the White Sox. The Indians scalped the Reds. The surging Cardinals beat the Nationals. The Rangers took down the Diamondbacks. The Royals beat the Blue Jays. The Athletics sank the Mariners. The Angels beat the Padres. And the Giants took down their rival Dodgers. Fortunately the World Champion Houston Astros got a day off.
That’s pretty much it for sports. Except for using sports to point out how much of a nanny state England is. What a bunch of douchebags.
Do we have any birthday boys or girls? If so, you share this date with none other than: everyone’s favorite huckleberry Doc Holliday, TV inventor John Logie Baird, baseball’s Hall Of Fame manager Earl Weaver, rocker David Crosby, funnyman Steve Martin, romance novelist Danielle Steele, The Far Side creator Gary Larson, driver and target of chicken bones and beer cans Rusty Wallace, basketball star Magic Johnson, actress Halle Berry, strange-voiced Mila Kunis, and alleged virgin Tim Tebow.
Its also the day Kublai Khan wished he had doppler radar because he lost 3500 ships in a typhoon, Henry David Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay taxes, the last public execution in the United States was held (in 1936), the Japs unconditionally surrendered and WW2 came to a close, “I Got You Babe” went to #1, Pete Rose (who would later voluntarily accept a lifetime ban from MLB) passed Hank Aaron for most all-time at bats, and Winnie Mandela was sued by the South African government.
And with that, we head into…the links!
Russians 11-year old kids hack into mock version of Florida’s election system. Nice work there. Maybe instead of blaming outside actors, you’ll secure your own system…and simply use paper ballots and voter ID to ensure both accuracy and integrity of the process, huh?
Papa John’s is circling the wagons and hoping to make it through its current crisis intact. Although with shares off 25% and people having a short memory, maybe now is the time to buy it up.
A scathing, and timely, media takedown of…the media. But its from the NY Post, so I doubt anybody in the bubble will heed any of the warnings. Besides, they’re too busy saving the world from the free exchange of ideas and information. At least according to them they are.
Does the plaintiff even have standing? I say neigh. Others say yes.
I guess this Alderman never heard of multitasking. Or he’s just pandering to his base. Either way, its still a shitshow in that city.
And speaking of pandering politicians…this one might win the award for biggest asshole of the year. Because, you know, anyone that thanks the people who dropped their tax rate from 38 to 20% is in league with white nationalists, or something. Either way, this guy is an asshole who doesn’t realize or doesn’t care that there are actual people who work at these places. And they vote.
You know what you do with turds? You flush them.*.
*Except in San Francisco where you step around or over them because they’re on the sidewalk. But be careful not to run your foot through a heroin needle. Because they’re all over as well.
And in what should be a bigger story than it is, the Indian rupee hit an all-time low against the dollar. But global currency meltdowns aren’t as important as whether or not Trump is on a recording in the WH. Because “media priorities” aren’t important news, they’re hot takes that generate clicks.
Anyway, enjoy this bit of greatness from a wonderful band.
Now go out there and have a great day!
Comments
558 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”
Guten morgen.
Bienvenue!
Bon Giorno.
How do you know?
CAUSE I SAID SO BEATCH!
Papers, Please.
Uncivil, are you the 40K guy? You might enjoy this
Facebook.
I smell… heresey.
Excellent game, by the way. People should play it.
Orwell was also an interesting take on a dystopia. Beholder has some interesting ideas in it, but I never got a really good hook into the game.
Christ, what an asshole.
The links go on forever and the snarkin’ never ends….
The worst part is, I haven’t come up with anything to say.
Somehow, some way… we will manage to survive this.
How about that airline food, huh?
On a transatlantic flight they handed us actual metal utensils, including sharp steak knives.
The meal itself was not memorable as good or mad, so it was probably mediocre.
Phew! Was afraid the link would be to Lamb Chop’s Playalong and the song that never ends.
Rusty Wallace did win one championship. So, how about a little respect, huh?
Forgot to say:
#2 is #1
Did you do a number 2 like a number one? You saying you got diarrhea?
Thank you Alex. I don’t know why it took so long for someone to go there.
Yeah, usually it comes quickly and forcefully.
OT Trashy;
Is the Monocle version in the stickied post the newest one? And does it have comment preview? I had preview at home until I had to do a Windows reset, reinstalled Monocle and it no longer has preview. And it is kinda glitchy…like sometimes there will be multiples of each button until you refresh the page. I’m not sure what’s going on. At work it’s been that way for a while and I thought it was just something with my work PC, but now i’m seeing the same behavior at home.
Signed,
Confused
Preview wasn’t me. Perhaps SP set it up?
By and large, Monocle is no longer being updated. It should be working mostly fine, but I’m only updating Eyepiece.
The only time I get multiples of the same button is when it is executed more than once on the same page, which shouldn’t happen normally. What browser?
That’s right…Preview was TopHat by…damn. Can’t remember who wrote that.
I’m using Firefox. Updated to latest version on both machines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GIDGi-vn0
::throws chicken bone at #2 car as it goes by at Richmond::
He was great on the short tracks, because wrecking at Bristol doesn’t hurt your aerodynamics any.
Valid point.
With the exception of Daytona, Talladega, and Darlington, all Nascar races should be run on 3/4 mile tracks or less. Bigger than that and its just hot laps.
/Dirt track guy
No, NASCAR needs to reconnect with its roots. All races should be free-form road races cross country from a defined start to a defined drop-off point, and to win the driver needs to get at least fifty gallons of moonshine to the destination without being intercepted by the ATF.
And get rid of the restrictor plates
Get rid of plates.
Make the cars actual “stock” cars: meaning they have the actual car body and aerodynamics they were designed with (this will bring back the competitiveness of the manufacturers).
Get rid of (most of) the 1-1/2 cookie-cutter trioval tracks.
Bring back Rockingham and North Wilkesboro.
Get rid of the front splitter and bring back the chrome horn.
Drop the “chase” format.
As a youngster in 2003 (yeah I know) I went to Rockingham with my uncle, who was involved in the Evernham race team as a UAW rep. Got to go to victory lane with Bill Elliott in what I think was his last win, probable one of the last years they raced at the track. Seemed like a great track.
Yes to all of that, especially the second and last points. The more generic the cars got, the more boring racing got. I finally gave up watching around ’02 or ’03 when points became more important than winning races and rubbing was no longer racing– those two rule changes killed the sport for me. Now that they have these stupid stage races and points are basically everything (why even run the races at this point? let’s just turn it into a male beauty pageant or something, where at least scoring everything on points makes sense), and it just seems pointless.
Points?
1 point for finishing first, 0 points for finishing after first?
Figure 8 tracks.
C’mon we only watch for the crashes anyway.
Bristol is the only real race of the year.
The Bristol night race, just to be clear.
If that photo is the race I think it is, he crossed the finish line upside down and still got like 13th or something like that.
This is the one I was thinking of. Dale Fucking Earnhardt (of course) took him out on the backstretch. He crossed the finish line in the air and got 6th place.
That’s what you get for blocking Ironhead in Turn 4.
Didn’t Earnhardt finish 3rd going backwards in his last race?
Backwards and dead.
Too soon?
You gotta admire the dedication.
That horse sounds like a total…..nag.
I beat you by actual first as well as first to comment on Sloopy’s post. Face it senior, you’ve been bested this morning.
Oh, stop acting so……TRIGGERED
That’s a spurious accusation!
Keep it up and Swiss just may hoof it over here to deliver a gaze.
You wouldn’t want to be saddled with that, now would you?
The litigant seems unstable to me.
Just put it out to pasture already.
Maybe Swissy is still fighting that colt he had?
*narrows gaze at the lot of ye*
Rein it in with the puns. Hopefully we can corral them in the sub-thread
Well, there we go. Comments can’t get any better than that. Guess it’s time to start drinking.
I’m crying ……….foal
I now get nightmares when I see chihuahuas.
Because of that movie?
AGGGGGGGHHHHHHH STOP THAT!!!!!!! AGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
Sorry!
What? You mean Beverley Hills Chihuahua?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/searches for way to dogbutt Swiss
We have a Chiweenie (Chihuahua/Dachshund cross) who is 20 pounds of solid, athletic, muscle and teeth, who can jump straight up as high as my chest. We jokingly refer to him as the Flying Piranha.
Why would you cross a ratdog with a weiner?
We didn’t, he was a rescue. He’s actually a great dog, the mix resulted in a dog with none of the physical drawbacks of the original breeds. He’s bigger and more muscular and athletic than a Chihuahua, and has a shorter back and longer legs than a Dachshund.
If you’d done it on purpose, I’d have thought you odd(er).
And being dumped on a shelter makes me think it wasn’t intentional by the owners of the parents.
I’d have thought you odd(er).
::spit take::
When I was in junior high school, our local library had an old book (late 19th century, maybe?) by a guy who had cross-bred all sorts of dogs just to see what would happen. Lots of drawings and photographs. He would cross, for instance, a Dachshund with a St. Bernard, and photograph the grown-up results.
He produced some weird-looking dogs.
I saw a Pitbull crossed with a Dachshund – looked like a Pitbull head on a Dachshund body, that was weird.
Did it look like a Bull-shit?
The Daschund father must have stood on a chair
The single ugliest dog I’ve ever seen was a Dachshund-Pekingese mix.
Used to own a male Bullmastiff. The local Chihuahuas always wanted to fight him. The temptation to drop his leash was almost overwhelming.
Our Chiweenie is good with other dogs, but very suspicious of people. Our former very large German Shepherd was great with small dogs, they would act aggressive with him and he would just look at them like “really, dude?” and sit there until they settled down.
A Pug wanted to fight him once. He placed his paw on the dog’s head and rubbed his face in the dirt.
Whomever did that to that poor dog in that linx picture however sure was out for some serious revenge…
Had you watched it through, you would have seen a veritable herd of Chihuahuas. Tiny, but mighty!
And speaking of pandering politicians…
He should switch to Samuel Jackson
IT’LL GET YA DRUNK!
YOU’LL BE F-IN FAT GIRLS IN NO TIME!
NO I CAN’T STOP YELLING, THIS IS HOW I TALK! AIN’T YOU EVER SEEN ANY OF MY MOVIES??
IT WILL MAKE THE FROGS GAY!
paper ballots and voter ID to ensure both accuracy and integrity of the process
That worked so very well in Chicago for the presidential election of 1960.
They counted my vote 8 times, and I didn’t vote!
Overachiever.
Toxic masculinity infects British Craft Beer. And beer goes well with pizza, and drunken college kids are probably the largest group buying Papa Johns pizza.
Well apparently in England the men have insufficient sex drive for how drunk the women get
Visited a few colleges in the middle of nowhere this summer where Papa John’s was the only pizza place. Some of them where hooked up so the students could use their meal plan cards there. I wouldn’t worry too much about them.
Papa John’s pizza, while mediocre on it’s best day, was the only place that provided on-line ordering when I was newly single and drank a lot.
I’ve given them a lot of my money.
They don’t deliver to where I live, or my previous neighborhood either.
Well, strap on your driving gloves and head on over there to pick it up.
Why? It’s mediocre at best.
I need to market a pair of pizza-eating gloves
Make certain it matches your onion belt.
KFC beat you to it:
https://soranews24.com/2018/07/28/kfc-japan-creates-new-fried-chicken-eating-gloves-to-keep-grease-off-your-hands-and-smartphone/
Kentucky and clean hands for Xmas Dinner!
I had never heard of this Omarosa person before last week. Now I learn that she was passed around in the Clinton Administration like a bad penny before they finally fired her ass.
I eagerly await those same Dem officials walking their claims back or failing to remember her at all.
Oh who am I kidding? It’s not like the media will even get around to asking them.
It is only a story they feel worth reporting if it hurts team red. They never grasp that we have Trump today precisely because they do that shit.
Feminist professor found responsible for Title IX violation for sexually harassing student
You will totally believe what happened next.
The battle cry is “believe all women” rather than “believe all accusers” for a reason.
I do not wanna click a nytimes link… Is the professor vaguely doable?
She looks like the quintessential New York liberal female. Thin, mousy black hair, heavy black rimmed glasses, frumpy black clothes.
It’s not a feminist tool, it’s a tool to be used against discrimination on the basis of sex; the statute says nothing about feminism. Nice to see the fascist shits drop the mask, though.
TL/DR: feminists hate equal protection
Its not equal when its their ass being held accountable.
Seystemic oppression… only you can be evil… Yada yada
Feminism is not about equality.
^ Couldn’t be more right if you tried.
I’m a little lost in the victimhood pyramid. Does a gay graduate student Trump (hah!) a senior citizen, lesbian professor?
And in what should be a bigger story than it is, the Indian rupee hit an all-time low against the dollar.
They should just remove some zeros. Worked for us…
Or maybe there is a key in the name
The word rūpiya is derived from word rūpa, which means “wrought silver, a coin of silver”
I need to get on a business trip back to India or Sri Lanka. It’s like winning the lottery.
I had no idea dysentery was a lottery prize. Is that just in Jersey?
It’s not mere dysentery, it’s Cholera.
So I guess cryptosporidia is chopped liver ?
Five months in Sri Lanka and the only time I had real stomach distress was after eating at a Chinese restaurant. Stick with the local stuff and drink soda or beer, not water.
This is only a problem if the purchasing power of the Rupee in India is dropping fast. If it’s merely an exchange rate issue, that doesn’t hurt India in the least.
(Note – I have not read the article)
It does if they’re holding US bonds.
If they’re the bondholder, wouldn’t they be the one getting paid? If they issued bonds that they have to pay on, doing so in someone else’s currency is not the brightest move.
If you buy a $1000 bond that it takes 20000 rupees to pay off and a week later it takes 40000 rupees, I’m thinking you’re going to lose something in the exchange.
I mean loan.
Provided it’s only an exchange rate issue and not an inflationary freefall, the cheaper exports will make up in volume what the loans are penalized by the exchange variation, unless they’re stupidly over-leveraged.
Why would a bond in dollars pay in rupees?
“We need to hold these complicit profiteers of Trump’s white nationalist agenda accountable!” he wrote on Twitter.
Mistah Parody, he daid.
Former Gun Control Candidate Charged With Shooting Her Campaign Treasurer
Move on. This is not a story. We don’t want people thinking that one of the oligarchy demanding the rabble be disarmed thinks the same pain she wants to inflict on the serfs doesn’t apply to her.
“I’m not projecting, YOU’RE projecting!!”
Sounds like a bad breakup.
“SEE! Proof Is was right!” #fastandfurious
I propose common sense restrictions on politicians.
Democratic Socialism
We know, but have not actually admitted to ourselves, that democracy and socialism are completely compatible.
Voter participation was close to 110% in the former USSR, for example.
And you could vote for whatever Candidate the Communist Party nominated for the position.
If you didn’t show up to vote someone did for you. Besides, everyone knows that who votes doesn’t matter as elections are determined by whom counts the votes.
Nine different authorized parties in Red China. Totally a free country.
They’re perfectly free to act in an advisory capacity provided they don’t try to foment civil unrest or disrupt the revolutionary activities of the CCP in its effort to bring peace and prosperity to the Chinese people, and that’s basically the same thing as a representative democracy.
Huh. Wonder why they’re less wealthy than us.
The same countries that have US tax dollars pay for their defense?
Assumes facts not in evidence. And define “fair share”, and a “living wage”.
shut up and pay shitlord
^^^THIS^^^
Even those wonderful nordic countries with all of that free stuff do not overtax their corporations. I wonder how they pay for everything?
They still don’t know what “socialism” is or they are lying because for some reason socialism, despite a 100% fail rate, is not a dirty word to many people. And everything this person wants is technically illegal for the US gov’t to do (not that it has ever mattered to the powers that be).
I’m fascinated by “free education”, myself. I can only imagine it involves unpaid volunteers teaching in privately owned donated facilities using private donations for books, etc. That’s the closest I can get to “free”.
Is that what they mean? Because, honestly, it seems like a step back to me.
we put profit ahead of general welfare – when will this utterly meaningless phrase be put to rest? Objectively define general welfare
General welfare = stuff lefties want
Power & control of the serfs?
Objectively define general welfare
Well, it used to mean things that were available to or benefitted everyone pretty much equally. Stuff like roads, national defense, the post office, that kind of thing. Redistribution of wealth was not “general welfare”, it was “charity” and properly seen as beyond the remit of the federal government, at least.
Oddly, truly universal healthcare and free education probably qualify as “general welfare” programs, as long as nobody pays nuffin’ directly out of their own pocket for it.
I will believe in democratic socialism when they believe in democratic fascism.
Well, Fascism is a form of Socialism….
It’s the one that the left managed to clean up and pretend is capitalism (all it is is crony shit) while convincing the idiots that fascism is right wing.
I know that, however, proggies won’t/don’t.
“But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you – and why?”
― Walter E. Williams
Would have been more effective if he said “Then tell me how much of what you earn belongs to me and why.”
If you put Democratic before Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, or any of the Kims, does that suddenly make them nicer? What about Democratic Hitler? Does that make his brand of socialism totes cool now?
Sold!!
Lulz
That’s the way I always frame it. “Democratic” does not mean “inherently moral”.
Two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.
“Non-profit” might be the biggest misnomer of all time.
Jebus Christ. Having a police force to enforce the laws of the gov’t is not socialism.
Sorry to OT but I want to add to a dead thread and I’ve got a train to catch.
Last night in fourscore’s excellent post on aging, people were talking about vapes and smoking alternatives. I’m not a terribly heavy smoker at all. A pack will last me the workweek no problem and I’ll maybe smoke a half-pack any night that I go out. I have never gotten cravings and I never smoke until after work.
I tried the vape route but it just never felt right. I really just love the *act* of smoking. I recently picked up https://heatnotburn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DSCF1790.jpg this little guy. It is wondrous. It’s a heat-not-burn device, so you get a little inch-long cigarette and insert it in the device. One hit of a button and it heats up–takes about 10 seconds. Then you just smoking like normal. No buttons or anything. Because it’s a mini-cig, the mouthfeel is there as there is the typical filter on it. The throat hit is absolutely satisfying. I wish it would produce more smoke but it’s manageable and you can always take a deeper drag.
It’s been two weeks and I just haven’t had any desire for a real smoke. It doesn’t make your fingers smell and the smell itself is minimal. Before I’d have a smoke and then have to rush up stairs to get to my train (cuz I never ever leave early) and I’d be completely out of break and my heart pounding. Now when I have one of these before stairs or exertion…nothing. I don’t get those occasional nasty burning sensations in my throat in the middle of the day.
It really is amazing and I strongly recommend. It’s the ultimate have-cake-and-eat-it solution that I was looking for all along.
We all want cake. (sorry, couldn’t resist). Your post made me have a craving for cigarettes.
It’s like putting your penis to sleep in a feather bed…
Once in a blue moon, coffee from the Meijer’s gas station awakens the typically-dormant cigarette synapse in my brain. I just shake it off.
That goes well together: stale coffee from the gas station that’s almost burning hot, and a cigarette.
So basically the kind of cigarettes Korben Dallas smokes?
Ha! I love that movie.
Are you classified as human?
Negative. I am a meat popcicle.
Smoke you!
It has actual tobacco in it? Huh.
Juul is similar but it heats some sort of liquid nicotine solution.
Tomorrow is a public holyday in Romania so no work… I got a calendar reminder which made me realise I never knew how it was called in english.
Dormition of the Mother of God
I would have said Dormition is a made up word.
It is also a public hollyday in Germany but there it is called Assumption (Catholic I assume)
Googling it Wikipedia has even a section on the two terms
“The Dormition of the Theotokos is celebrated on August 15 (August 28, N.S. for those following the Julian Calendar), the same calendar day as the Roman Catholic Feast of the Assumption of Mary. The Dormition and the Assumption are the different names respectively in used by the Eastern and Catholic traditions for the end of Mary’s life and departure from the earth, although the beliefs are not necessarily identical.[citation needed]
Orthodox view
The Orthodox Church specifically holds one of the two Roman Catholic alternative beliefs, teaching that Mary died a natural death, like any human being; that her soul was received by Christ upon death; and that her body was resurrected on the third day after her repose, at which time she was taken up, bodily only, into heaven when the apostles, miraculously transported from the ends of the earth, found her tomb to be empty.[18] The specific belief of the Orthodox is expressed in their liturgical texts used at the feast of the Dormition.[18]
Catholic view
The Catholic doctrine of the Assumption covers Mary’s bodily movement to heaven, but the dogmatic definition avoids saying whether she was dead or alive at that point. The question had been in dispute in Catholic theology, and although she is normally shown in Catholic art as alive at the point of assumption, many Catholics believe she had died in the normal way. Pope Pius XII alludes to the fact of her death at least five times, but left open the question of whether or not Mary actually underwent death in connection with her departure, in his Apostolic constitution, Munificentissimus Deus (1950), which dogmatically defined ex cathedra (i.e., infallibly) the Assumption.[19]
On 25 June 1997 during a General Audience Pope John Paul II stated that Mary experienced natural death prior to her assumption into Heaven,”
To bad the Catholic is not still around he would have had something to comment, I assume. Anyhoo do we even work here in Europe? Meh…
The theological minutiae surrounding biblical figures about which there is practically no textual exposition is fucking mind numbing.
I have the day off tomorrow as well!
It’s Korean Independence Day. It’s the only holiday that both the NoKos and SoKos can agree on.
It’s kind of a big deal here as well.
I think Romania and Germany are just celebrating my birthday.
I, on the other hand, decided to work tomorrow.
Tomorrow is also Panama Canal Day.
What Holiday is it? Indian independence day?
Tomorrow is my regularly-scheduled work-from-home day, and since I’ve just finished a project and will be off for the rest of the week, it will be my “smoke pork loin and dick around all day” day.
“His main dilemma was the incoherency in his writing, and lack of a recognizable argument,” Professor Ronell said in a January 2018 interview submitted to the Title IX office.
*outright prolonged laughter*
Wait, what? That wasn’t a joke about the quality of analytical thought in American academia?
I was gonna say something about pots and kettles, but RACISM!
My thought was: “NOW she wants to hold him to basic standards of writing competence?”
“His main dilemma was the incoherency in his writing, and lack of a recognizable argument,”
Official: what grade did you give him?
Ronell: an A. At least while he and I were fucking. When that ended, I started failing him.
Official: I’m convinced. Expel that horrible man!
Something Deadliest Something Game…
Refuge to open for girls escaping sex trafficking in Texas
The ranch, located at an undisclosed location southeast of Austin, will protect the privacy and safety of the girls and the 70-person staff, while providing housing, music and pottery rooms, science classrooms, an equine therapy program, a chapel and medical care.
Might not be the best environment for sex-trafficked teens, because that sounds a lot like the brothels out this way.
So Kinky Friedman has a side-business now ?
This feels suspicious
It was the part where she was heard to mutter: “And they have to be hot and no older than 20”
I don’t know what’s so suspicious. These people want to help. Like UN Peacekeepers. Or male feminists. Definitely, definitely in it to help the girls.
Don’t visit the Joseph Biden Commemorative Relaxation Tent.
No car wash?
You might not ever get rich.
+1 Rose Royce
Funny how sex trafficking is a moral panic, but suggest illegal immigrants are being trafficked, and people will scream that you’re crazy.
That’s a lot of money. Hill country ranch, facilities, enormous staff. Who is paying for all this?
La Grange, huh?
is not a real-life scenario, and it offers a wholly inaccurate representation of the security of Florida’s elections websites, online databases and voting systems,”
This ‘hack’ is the equivalent of claiming a land speed record from need for speed. And the girl just modified the HTML on her browser to make it look like someone else won. Any idiot with a browser can do that. Using that as part if your fearmongering just shows how much they are in the tank for the narrative.
Used to just be called vandalism. Doesn’t really change the important bits.
Obligatory XKCD
https://www.xkcd.com/932/
Hangs head in shame for not scrolling down one more post…
+1 “I made a clock”
The Indians scalped the Reds. ///Triggered
Jk. The real problem is that baseball is a boring sport with way to many games in a season. There, I said it.
That said, I still like the movie ‘Major League’. (But not the sequel…)
“The Duke leads the league in saves, strikeouts per inning and hit batsmen. This guy threw at his own son at a father-son game.”
“Haywood leads the American League in most offensive categories….including nose hair. When this guy sneezes, he looks like a party favor.”
Clu Haywood was, of course, played by 1982 AL Cy Young winner Pete Vukovich. And the Duke was played by Steve Yeager, so that meant the real life pitcher played the big slugger and the real life catcher played the ace relief pitcher.
Blasphemy. The sequel is also awesome.
The third one, however, does suck.
It’s the curse of Ted McGinley.
Sequel? Now I’m thinking “Lieutenant Colonel League”.
Well, you’ve jut proven the second half of your handle to be accurate.
Baseball is responsible for an estimated 15-20% of the enjoyment that I derive out of life.
I remain firmly convinced that one’s relationship with baseball is mirrored by one’s with dogs. You really have to grow up with them to understand and appreciate them. If you never played baseball then I agree that I can’t at all figure out why or how you would become to enjoy it later in life. It just doesn’t make sense.
However, going to a baseball game live (preferably in the American Cathedral that we call Wrigley Field) is one of life’s greatest pleasures, regardless of if you really understand the sport or not.
You misspelled “Yankee Stadium”, but other than that, I agree wholeheartedly.
The old one had some character. The new is just another small field.
Wrigley has more charm in its bathrooms than New Yankee Stadium has total.
“Charm”, otherwise known as decrepitude. And the American Cathedral is the one where the greatest sports franchise in history plays, which isn’t Wrigley Field.
Crosley Field has been gone for 50 years.
Five WS titles v. 27 WS titles.
Existed in the 19th century vs Didnt.
Home of the greatest sports franchise v. home of mediocre sports franchise.
You mean as the urine spills down the stairs, and you step in it because you are dodging a rat?
Yes. Inhale deeply through your nose. Smell that? It’s the smell of baseball…and recycled Old Style draining down a trough urinal. Glorious.
This is the dumbest thing that I have ever heard. Unless you’re talking about old Yankee Stadium. I’ll give you that one.
*Looks sagely at MikeS. Thinks of tapping nose. Taps foot in bathroom stall instead.*
Ahoy, sailor.
I fail to understand the affection some people have for decrepit old shit. It’s just so much nicer to see a game in the new Yankee Stadium than in the old one.
Driving through the Bronx sucks ass regardless of the age of the stadium.
I liked the old stadium because it played differently. Home runs in other parks were fly-ball outs in Death Valley – or triples.
Driving through the Bronx sucks ass regardless of the age of the stadium.
True.
Agreed on Wrigley. Charming, great-looking field, nice sight-lines, friendly and knowledgeable fans, and decent amenities. By contrast, Fenway is at best a toilet.
I remember being furious when Baltimore tore down Memorial Stadium to build Camden Yards. My first game at the latter, I was completely ready to hate the place out of pique. Dammit, it was a great park.
Wrong part of the city. Gotta pimp that classy tourist harbor!
Coors Field is just awful. I’d rather be at any random minor league stadium.
My grandfather took me to a few games at Memorial Stadium, but I don’t remember it very well. I’ve since been to a few games at Camden Yards, and I’ve got to say, it really is a pretty stadium.
PNC is a nice new one. AT&T looks nice — I’ve only been on the outside. The Jake is decent (Progressive field to the yungins)
I can’t take Great American Ballpark in Cincy — it looks and feels cheap.
We’ve got a great AAA park in Huntington Park.
By far the most fun I’ve ever had at baseball games was watching the AAA team in Richmond, VA in the late ’80s.
The park was pretty new, the perfect size, and (longish) walking distance through residential neighborhoods from my house. The scene was pretty laid back, not at all overhyped spectacle type shit. Just a great way to spend a summer evening.
To each his own. For me soccer > baseball and that may stem from having played the former growing up. But I don’t even really follow MLS or any other league currently. I might get back into it eventually. As far as dogs, I don’t dislike them (and my parents always had one), but they are emotionally shallow creatures. And I’m out of the house for too long on work days to leave a dog. Cats make you earn their affection and can be left alone for longer. As such, I currently only have a pair of cats.
I don’t like dogs. There, I said it.
Cats #FTW.
Remember the other day when I complemented you on your intelligent comments here? I take it all back.
:-p
LOL Cats are self-cleaning. Like ovens.
So you toilet trained all of yours? Or do they change their own litterboxes?
I don’t have to walk my cats 6 times a day, either.
On the other hand, I have kids. I haven’t changed a litterbox since I got pregnant. 15 years ago.
They clean themselves, true. Then they vomit up the slimy mass of hair/spit/bile on your couch, piss in a corner because you annoyed them in some arcane cat way, and then hop on your lap, dig claws into your leg, and insist on being pet. Dogs are actual pets, cats are predators we share space with in order to control rodent infestations.
Don’t get me wrong I have both and have had at least one cat continuously for my entire adult life, but anyone who thinks cats are anything but the most vicious animal on earth, pound for pound, is deluded.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
@Jarflax: You have clearly owned cats for a long time.
I grew up a dog person, adopted two cats and was a cat person for a minute, and then adopted two dogs and became a no-pets person.
Yeah, cats are easy, but the way a cat tells you that he’s not happy with the state of the litter box is to just piss on a pile of laundry or in the corner of an armchair. Or sometimes he just does it because he’s comfy there and doesn’t want to move.
Dogs, on the other hand, might bite other dogs, or people, which is a thing. They’ll eat everything they can find, whether or not it’s inside a trashcan, behind a closet, in a room blocked off by a steel dog gate. Sometimes they’ll do it because it’s a couch. Or $200 shoes. They’ll drop grown-man size deuces in the middle of the floor because they feel abandoned. If you don’t walk them twice a day, they’ll develop neuroses and, yep, pee and crap all over the house. Sometimes they’ll do that because it’s damp outside and they don’t want to touch wet grass with their paws. Wanna go somewhere for longer than a day? Be prepared to find someone who can come to your house and take care of your dogs, because if you drop them at a boarding kennel they’ll either try to eat the other dogs, or they’ll try to dig their way to freedom and tear off a claw in the process. Sometimes they’ll tear the curtains down because they’re obstructing their view of the mailman.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my pets, and I like dogs, but, to put it delicately, the pet positions will not be refilled as vacancies arise over time. I’d like to be able to do things like go places overnight, take vacations, put food on surfaces and go into another room, leave the front door open while I get groceries out of the car, have a house that doesn’t smell like a barn, shit like that.
I’m leaning that way myself. It will have been almost 20 years by then at which point I may feel the need to downsize.
I’d like to be able to do things like go places overnight, take vacations, put food on surfaces and go into another room, leave the front door open while I get groceries out of the car, have a house that doesn’t smell like a barn, shit like that.
I have the best of both worlds…outdoor cats. Except for the fact that they try to sneak into the house when it rains, all I have to do is dump a pile of food on the back porch and keep a hopper of water full on the back deck. I also have the option of bringing them inside for a few days if we leave town. Unfortunately we cant do the same thing with the dog.
I’d like to be able to do things like go places overnight, take vacations,
We have housesitters and dogsitters. Which costs money, but solves that problem.
put food on surfaces and go into another room
One solution: get short dogs. When I had cats, this was more of an issue anyway, because they can get on the counters where the food is, and can’t be trained not to.
leave the front door open while I get groceries out of the car
Put the dogs outside in your fenced yard, or in their crates.
have a house that doesn’t smell like a barn
If that’s your concern, cats are a lot worse than dogs, in my experience.
There aren’t many breeds of dog that don’t need serious outdoor time, and/or a companion critter. A lot of dog anxiety comes from not having an environment well suited for dogs. Which not everyone can provide, I know.
Well aimed blasts of water from a spray bottle train them not to. It takes about a year or so. My kittens just have to see the bottle to take off.
My situation is probably a little unusual in that both our dogs are rescues, and rescues tend to be real clingy. At one point they had prescriptions for anti-anxiety medication, no shit. Carmen, the female, is so attached to my wife that she’ll start baying like she’s in physical pain if she sees my wife go upstairs while she’s outside, because she can’t stand not being on the same floor and within eyesight of her. She’s the one who tore a claw and chewed a pad off at the dog boarder on the second night of our honeymoon trip.
Can’t crate them. We suspect Carmen had been abused in a crate, because she’ll get so freaked out at the sight of one she’ll start foaming at the mouth like she’s having a seizure. Jack chipped a tooth pulling at the gate of a steel wire crate; the plastic ones he just busted right out of, and when we put blankets on the metal one he’d pull at them and use them to get a handle on the door so he could pull better. This is the same dog that chewed apart an aluminum door on a single-wide so he could get out and find us.
Don’t get me wrong. I love those dogs. If they hadn’t earned it already just by being sweet dogs they definitely did by absolutely doting on my daughter and putting up with her covering them with blankets and ordering them around the house since she’s been in the picture. But they come with a lot of baggage that makes them a little more challenging to deal with sometimes.
You are a monster.
So many ripostes, so little time. In this case, you are correct, which should be evident from my avatar.
Also, my kids agree with you also. #MeanMommy
I don’t like dogs OR baseball. And yes, I didn’t grow up with either.
Cats #FTW
They are technically superior animals. They are more independent, and are better predators. You cannot get inside their guard. As for house cats, they are always doing cute shit even when they are being annoying (like waking me up at 5am on a Saturday).
We have two “new” kittens. We got them at 8 weeks after our last died. I work at home. She didn’t do much because she was old and I almost never saw her, but I could not stand being alone in the house without a kitty soul. So the new ones are still technically kittens but they don’t look like it anymore.
Yes, they are annoying. They are also too cute and sweet to be mad at.
You can’t talk sense into dog people. Just know in your heart that you are on the right side of history.
I would expect a remark like that from literally Hitler.
There is no domestic cat that can serve as an effective member of your security team.
The Dean Beasts are not only a visible/audible deterrent, they are designated as the first wave against intruders, serving to ring the alarm and act as skirmishers/shock troops while I deploy to a firing position.
I have thought of this. In fact, Mr. Mojeaux and I have discussed it at length for SHTF. However, I am not patient enough to train with a dog for such duty, nor am I patient enough to deal with any dog on a day-to-day basis.
Shoot, my kids are half feral. I’m shocked they can communicate in complete sentences.
Not a lot of training needed. Its basic dog behavior, really. They are territorial and protective of their pack.
Now, a bona fide guard/attack dog takes a lot of training, but that’s mostly so you can control them either in directing them at a specific threat, or after they have gone to DefCon 5. I’m not terribly concerned about that if someone is breaking into my house, frankly. I figure they’re dead anyway, so the fine points of how they walk that road aren’t something I worry about.
There is no domestic cat that can serve as an effective member of your security team.
Savannah cats come pretty close. It’s basically a serval with one generation of domestication.
FWIW I’m with Mojeaux. Had cats since I was a kid. The only pee outside of a litter box I ever cleaned up is when my 19 year old Himalayan was dying from kidney disease. I got pretty lucky I guess. I always hear horror stories that way. My uncle’s house smelled like an ammonia factory from his male cats continually competing for territory.
Cats embody most of the qualities that I like in people and would like to see reflected in myself. Dogs… not so much. I don’t hate dogs in principle, but I wouldn’t own one. I am, however, so fucking fed up with having asshole neighbors who never clean up their yards full of dog shit and think that every time of the day and night is a perfectly good time for their dog to sing me the song of its people that I could easily be mistaken for a dog hater.
so fucking fed up with having asshole neighbors
I suspect they’d be asshole neighbors even if they didn’t have dogs.
There’s a reason why Mrs. Dean and I have lived on the very edge of town or in the country.
I suspect they’d be asshole neighbors even if they didn’t have dogs.
They mostly are. It’s just that their stereos and dogs actually impinge on my serenity, whereas their domestic violence and drug abuse pretty much ends for me when I close my door. The exception would be my immediate next door neighbor. A perfectly lovely older lady whose only fault is that she wakes up at about 3 AM and is utterly incapable of controlling her dogs who literally never stop barking the entire time they are outside. You’d think they’d get hoarse after a while.
I’m rapidly getting to the point where the Unibomber compound seems like a good option.
I feel your pain, Pat. The neighbor’s incessantly yapping dogs when we lived in a typical neighborhood were always at the top of the list of annoyances.
The neighbor’s dogs are far enough away now that we don’t really hear them in the house. But when the local coyote packs circulate through, jeebus. There’s no ignoring that.
Okay, I like baseball, but not until 2014, and my husband (Dodgers fan) had to patiently teach me how to watch the game to to be able to know what I was looking at and to enjoy it. (OTOH, I had to teach him how to enjoy football.)
The best way to watch baseball is outdoors, with a beer in one hand, and an unhealthy/culturally appropriated handheld food in the other. I’ve got a buddy with a waterproof TV on his deck – makes watching it on TV almost as good as being at the ballpark.
I don’t watch anymore, and I quit playing in middle school, but there’s something very zen about a baseball game for me. And everybody should experience at least one live game. Even the shitty minor league games in my hometown were fun to attend. Most of the time the stadium was only about half sold and the security couldn’t give a shit less where you sat after the first couple innings when the box office closed.
You’re nuts. Baseball is a beautiful game and the season is the perfect length.
Yes. The marathon of baseball is like reading a long novel full of intrigue and wonder.
It’s also the hardest thing to do in all of sports, hitting a baseball. If you’ve never tried it then it absolutely goes over one’s head about how mind-numbingly difficult it is. And the duel of pitcher/batter is unchallenged in all of sport (let’s ignore other ball/bat sports like cricket for now, cuz ‘Murca).
Also to mention: Sunday night baseball. Cubs down 3-0. Bottom of the ninth. Bases loaded. Rookie pinch hitter. Two strikes.
Walk. Off. Grand. Slam.
Children. Absolute childish joy.
There’s almost no sport that couldn’t be improved by shortening the season, dropping teams from the roster, and decreasing the total time of each game.
Lingerie League Football
Thank you Sloop!
I guess this Alderman never heard of multitasking.
*lights the Hyperion signal*
one must not perpetuate the idea that child rearing is an individual, not a collective, responsibility
https://twitter.com/EmilyRPeck/status/1029005590935359489
Takes a village to create a socialist idiot?
The corollary to leaning on the collective for support is that the collective gets to decide how you raise your kids.
To which I heartily respond “FUCK OFF AND DIE”
I doubt that many people think child rearing is an “individual” responsibility, in the strictest sense. It’s more a distinction between voluntary groups and compulsory ones. Ultimately people who aren’t unthinking, bubble-dwelling fascists think that a child is its parents’ responsibility, yes. Within that, the parents can seek the help of a variety of other individuals, voluntarily and exercising control over the impact on their child.
The way I see it, I have a vested interest in the children around me growing up to be decent adults who can contribute something to the world, so I try to help in small ways, and in larger ways when I can. I don’t expect help from other people with my kid, but I’m grateful when I get it. Nobody needs to be forced to do anything there, and no parent is in any way obligated to respond to the helpfulness of others by conveying some authority to them.
I’m not really seeing a distinction. I believe child rearing is an “individual” responsibility, full-stop. There is no person or group, other than my wife, responsible for my children.
I may ask for voluntary help from others, such as their grandparents, but that does not share any of the responsibility my wife and I hold.
Good, I’m glad to hear this. Because I have a lot of input for you breeders taking your kids into restaurants and onto airplanes. So long as I get to help raise them, I’m bringing along my duct tape.
The restaurant thing has been solved already.
ALL THESE RESTAURANTS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
APPLEBEES
ATTEMPT NO
DINING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE
Guna Yala: The islands where women make the rules
So the great achievement of this matriarchy is… embroidery.
I’m a lady! I do lady things!
“Like knitting, and embroidery, and… shit.”
I’ll think I’ll stay where I am with indoor plumbing, the internal combustion engine, antibiotics and electricity.
How precious. I love it when a news media broadcaster’s website posts a story about quaint tribals weaving things and I can read it on my smartphone at a stoplight. It really puts things in perspective.
I am stealing that
This ‘third gender’
They only recognize three genders. So not-woke.
Sounds like an advanced civilization.
In a society where women are the main food distributors, property owners and decision makers, boys may choose to become Omeggid, literally ‘like a woman’, where they act and work like other females in the community.
Interesting incentive there. I wonder how many of these Omeggids are actually either gay men, or are straight men playing the game.
Italy bridge: Genoa motorway bridge collapses ‘killing at least 10’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45183624
Honestly I was always impressed by Italian roads especially in mountain areas. Always looked upon with envy by Romanians…
“See that bridge, that bridge was built by Romans two thousand years ago. It is still in use today. See that bridge? That bridge was built by Italians ten years ago. It is closed due to structural problems.”
Deja Vu
Exactly.
Yikes! I was expecting to see a puny little bridge over a stream. That thing was huge.
Was it earthquake related?
HEAVEN is where: The police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics are German, the lovers are French and it’s all organised by the Swiss.
HELL is where: The police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss and it’s all organised by the Italians!!
At least we won’t have to eat snail in either.
“The police are British”
We might need to change this one, shitlord.
I was always impressed by Italian roads especially in mountain areas
I was more “scared shitless”. Something about the combination of narrow roads and crazy fucking Italians taking blind corners on the wrong side of the road.
Crazy Germans do that too. At least, the one I lived with for a year did.
No third bus for the 30% of transgenders?!?!?
Separated by sex: Parents surprised over all girls, all boys school buses
We have to send out separate buses to get them to the school where they are now mandated to share the same bathrooms and locker rooms. What a time to be alive.
Standing ovation for Pat.
Send them to government school, play by the government’s rules
I’m so glad all my kids are grown up.
I am glad my kid isn’t one of these poor kids whom have been messed up by the people encouraging this shit.
Borrero said she and her daughter had to wait another 15 to 20 minutes for the girls bus to arrive
*elbows LH in the ribs*
Women, always running late, amirite?
I mean, do they even bother to check the bulbs for the turn signals? It’s not like they’re going to use them.
The story appears on various media sites, and several reporters tweeted about the attack, but the outrage was muted. Instead, nearly every outlet went out of their way to gently describe the Antifa mob. The headlines at CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post made sure to call the group “anti-hate protesters.”The story appears on various media sites, and several reporters tweeted about the attack, but the outrage was muted. Instead, nearly every outlet went out of their way to gently describe the Antifa mob. The headlines at CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post made sure to call the group “anti-hate protesters.”
Anti-hate protester: “If you say one more mean thing, I will fucking kill you.”
Proofread? Bah!
Borrero said she and her daughter had to wait another 15 to 20 minutes for the girls bus
SECOND CLASS CITIZENS
I wonder if the routes go in different directions? Why else should a bus coming from the same place be so late?
Also this seems like a collosal waste of money.
Maybe they have women driving the girls bus. Which would explain why they got lost.
Senator Fraser Anning gives controversial maiden speech calling for Muslim immigration ban
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-14/fraser-anning-maiden-speech-immigration-solution/10120270
The Katter’s Australian Party senator’s praise for the White Australia policy has been swiftly condemned as “vile” and “bile” by his parliamentary opponents.
I find this naming parties after people Australians do weird. I would not vote for a party named after the leader. Personality cult much?
Mr Anning said “the final solution to the immigration problem of course is a popular vote”. – phrasing …
One of the directors at work is German, and is always talking about a “final solution” to be delivered to customers.
You know who else had a Final Solution for handling undesirable people?
Not really, no. I’m usually part of the precipitate.
Walter Ashby Plecker?
interestingly enough, I found a letter from Plecker that instructed local officials to on the lookout for my family, as they were suspected of being white posers (which they kind of were).
So, Irish? /joke
While that shit was horrible back in the day, it’s fascinating in retrospect.
I plan to write something about Plecker sometime during the coming year. Would love to use you as a resource.
Melungeon
Margaret Sanger?
Jeffrey Dahmer?
Dr Clive Riordan?
Related: A Turk and a Somali get into an argument at a Dutch car wash. Somalis aren’t very woke with their insults. Who wouldn’t want this in their neighborhood?
We do tend to be an argumentative people.
Damn, looks like white Europe failed and the Muslims made it well past the gates of Vienna.
Once they went woke…
Vieze vuile piken likers!
Good news! Algore has given the Trump presidency his stamp of approval. (With eco-friendly soy ink, or course) Sort of.
Gore says Trump had ‘less of an environmental impact so far’ than previously feared
“The U.S. system has a lot of inherent resilience”
I remember this being called evil gridlock.
“Less of an impact”? Haven’t CO2 emissions declined under Trump, so far?
Not that anyone has proven yet that man made CO2 has caused any warming in the first place.
Chicago bike-safety activist hit by illegal immigrant driver
diehard believer
I think you’re an idiot, but I’m not rooting for another immigrant driver to test whether 20 or 40 mph is hard enough.
not publish the exact location so as to avoid incriminating the motorist
and this
without a driver’s license that she might not have been able to get anyway due to the impairments of her advanced age
seem like encouraging a dangerous situation… That is if you are the kind of person who believes in driving licenses…
Even if you don’t believe in driver licensing. The motorist struck and injured the cyclist, so at least negligence, plus liability for the cyclist’s injuries.
Wonder Ms Proggie Cyclist will feel bad when the old bat runs over someone else.
Maybe next time she’ll run over some kids at a bus stop.
But the important thing is that she not be deported. Or prevented from continuing to drive illegally.
Because Trump.
Why? Motorists must have insurance.
Wouldn’t matter anyway. After getting the ticket Juanita would become Rosa.
At least she put her money where her mouth is. Except for the Medicaid bill, of course.
I just realized what a brilliant scam this is if she biffed it on her bike and now she’s hitting up gullible lefties for a quick $10k.
And even if not, what’s the takeaway here? Lefty suffers accident, appeals to the generosity of strangers, uses incident to condemn the country anyway.
The cyclists on Milwaukee Avenue are out of control. I will never go near that area because the cyclists never follow the rules of the road and this shit happens at least once a day.
If illegal immigrants are going to run down bicyclists then we need to import a lot more illegal immigrants.
Naw, just make bicycling a strict liability act.
we put profit ahead of general welfare – when will this utterly meaningless phrase be put to rest? Objectively define general welfare
A Romanian, of all people, should know what that means. In a truly just political system, profits are taken and used for improving the welfare of generals.
That guy Ceausescu had it figured out.
Iowa Supreme Court Closes Warrant Loophole, Slams U.S. Supreme Court For Weakening Fourth Amendment
I always wondered why good State Supreme Court Justices aren’t considered for the Federal Supreme Court. This guy sounds better than most.
That’s precisely why he can’t be considered.
Because unlike federal court judges they aren’t in the federal congresscritter dick sucking system and are therefore largely unknown to anyone in DC.
What are you talking about? How is this ruling going to make it any easier for the police to do their jobs?
/most republicans
11-year old kids hack into mock version of Florida’s election system.
I thought the mock version was the only version in FL.
simply use paper ballots and voter ID to ensure both accuracy and integrity of the process
Election integrity is racist, unless Russians are involved somehow. ///VoteEarlyVoteOften
They used box cutters.
Nice! I don’t have to wait until 8am for the morning links!
/on a business trip in CA
Very fishy: China rules rainbow trout can be sold as salmon
Much of what is sold as salmon in China is reportedly actually rainbow trout, so now the authorities are making it official
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/14/china-rainbow-trout-and-salmon-the-same-thing
We know until we don’t.
International trade laws limit fish sold as salmon to the Salmon region of France.
The trout identify as salmon, so they’re salmon.
Technically, they’re all salmonids.
I am deeply disappointed that nobody else has posted this yet.
The Pro-Lesbian Anti-Transgender “Pussy Church of Modern Witchcraft” Recognized by IRS as Church
they will magik your dick off son, stay away from em…
All of these hoops you have to jump through just to obtain the benefits of free association and exemption from having your corporate income taxed. But if we did away with corporate income tax and nondiscrimination laws we’d have Somalia, only with the KKK instead of regional warlords.
They are not right wing, so totes cool?
I say neigh.
*Narrows gaze*
But the question is, will the owner pony up the dough?
Random shit found on twitter…
https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1028431111767121920%5D
I remember ol’ Cathy from reason although I don’t think she is a libertarian. Anyhoo I find it annoying how these people are so quick to say communism was not as bad as Nazism
“Communism purported to speak for the poor and “left behind.” I agree that it’s not as viscerally repulsive as Nazism. (I agree that a good but misguided person could have been a communist in the 1930s; a Nazi, no.) Still, it killed some 100 million.”
Communism was always a revolutionary and murderous ideology.
“I agree the “SJWs” have ostensibly noble goals. But tbh this reminds me a bit of the whole “is Communism as bad as Nazism” debate. ”
Ahh the old complete useless and utterly unverifiable appeal to goals and intentions…
Still, it killed some 100 million.
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Appears to have been memory-holed.
There’s an extraneous right bracket at the end of the link, just remove it.
And are we going to uniformly condemn people who were attempting to survive under the Nazi regime? Even some (still living) Jews cooperated with the Nazis as a way of not getting shot.
I’m sure they’d make an exception for cases like that, if for no other reason than George Soros’ life story. The main point is that there is no moral ambiguity about wanting to gas the Jews, but wanting to murder the bourgeoisie and expropriate their material possessions (in no particular order) to the service a unitary party with global expansionist aims didn’t necessarily make one a bad person.
The only real differentiator between National Socialism and Communism is the blood and soil aspect of the National Socialists. Otherwise, they are/were both murderous collectivist ideologies that make the individual expendable in service to the aims of the state. It just so happened that it suited the aims of the National Socialist to to exterminate the Jews, just as it suited the aims of the Soviet Communist state to exterminate the kulaks.
Treating them as wholly separate ideologies is entirely unjustifiable and is only done to protect the legacy of the communists by not associating them with the National Socialists, who aren’t around to complain anymore.
Note that I refuse to say Nazi anymore. Let’s call them what they actually are.
Yes. One system had a class of enemies exterminated that was based on economic class, the other on religion, that’s all.
If you think that she’s saying that Communism is not as bad as Naziism, you’re working awfully hard to think that that’s what she’s saying.
maybe but there was no reason for that comment about good people in the 30s. If it was included for no reason I would like to know why
As long as declared communists teach in universities and win public office in Europe and I assume the US I see no need to be charitable with such comments.
I mean… that literally is what she said dude.
Granted she’s using that argument to ingratiate herself to the Twitter SJW brigade to keep them from outright rejecting her main premise, which was the similarity of the SJW left and the alt-right in their argumentation. The analogy being that the SJW left, like communism, at least pretends to have good intentions and therefore may ensnare a well-intentioned dupe into their ideology whereas the alt-right, like Nazis, can’t lay any claim to the well-meaning dupe, racism being the modern secular equivalent of total depravity. But still. She’s not as viscerally put off by a proletarian revolution as Jews in cattle cars. Which is fine as far as it goes. But let’s not pretend she said something else.
No, it’s very much not what she said. She’s saying that communism sounds better if you’re a moron because it claims to be about the good of mankind, but that national socialism doesn’t, because it explicitly is only for the nation.
You’re aware that she grew up in the Soviet Union, right? You can find plenty of her writing about how much she doesn’t like communism.
I assume you are replying to me as Pat seems to be on your side. Possibly… But that twitter thread started with this
But I do see the differences (I even explicitly said that I don’t want to get into the question of “are they equally bad”). I just think there’s a very ironic, and revealing, similarity of basic mindset.
talking about SJW and alt right and the continuation gave me the impression that the argument extends following comments to commies vs nazis.
I assume you are replying to me as Pat seems to be on your side.
He was replying to me, and I am on the “I think that was a really stupid analogy” side, FWIW.
Also, in Romania at least, most early supporters of communism were scum. That’s why it was in the end more brutal than some other eastern block nations. Not well meaning morons, scum.
I am admittedly fairly sensitive about this shit, because in Europe at least communism still has a lot of legitimacy in some circles. Though to be fair fascism is making a strong comeback. Sadly libertarianism is not going anywhere.
She’s saying that communism sounds better if you’re a moron because it claims to be about the good of mankind, but that national socialism doesn’t, because it explicitly is only for the nation.
A premise with which she concedes she agrees. Twice. I understand the broader point to which her argument was in service, in the context of the group to which she was speaking. I don’t think it changes the plain meaning of her words. You can not like communism and still not like Nazism more. If anything I would suspect the geopolitical history between Russia and Germany might incline a Soviet emigre to take precisely that type of stance.
“I agree that it’s not as viscerally repulsive as Nazism.”
Communism had nicer gift wrap, I guess.
Yet the Nazis had such nice outfits.
They looked Boss.
Writing for the majority, Justice Brent Appel noted that his court is the “ultimate arbiter” for the meaning of the Iowa Constitution, and repeatedly chastised the U.S. Supreme Court for seeking “to minimize the scope of individual protection under the Fourth Amendment.”
Put this guy on the list for when Ginsburg tips over.
Still, it killed some 100 million.
To be sure, there were a few wrinkles never quite properly ironed out.
Getting those damned historians to straighten out their stories, for example.
Somerville has a population of about 81,000
I think they might want to look at what their mayor is spending his time and their money on.
shed light on living conditions in each country
What about living conditions in Somerville?
When I lived there for a year (this would be, umm, more than several years ago), it was a solidly blue-collar/working class burg, with a little spillover from neighboring Cambridge (that would be me). My apartment was actually about a block from a mob hangout (an honest-to-God Italian restaurant with Caddys and Lincolns illegally parked out front and a couple of goombahs hanging out on the sidewalk). The mob hangout kinda bothered me until I realized that it made my block one of the safest in the city.
The things have changed: million+ dollar condos are commonplace these days in Somerville.
Oh, Vienna! Is it really the best place to live in the world?
The Austrian capital has toppled Melbourne from the top spot in an annual index. It has great infrastructure and low crime – but scores lower on urban grit
https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2018/aug/14/is-vienna-really-best-place-to-live-in-world
Vienna is not bad but as always depends what one looks for. Amsterdam is much better for craft beer and hipster coffee for example… But Vienna is not a bad city, the climate is decent, the infrastructure is ok…
Don’t forget the Waltzing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18r322mUsB4
Oh, Vienna!
Other than Brouwerij ‘t Ij (https://www.brouwerijhetij.nl/?lang=en) what craft beer scene in Amsterdam???
Yeah, yeah… Brouwerij Troost De Pijp and Brouwerij Homeland Amsterdam, but volume?
A lot of bars have craft beer. Not necessarily local or Dutch, but they have it. In Vienna most bars have mainstream beers.
I find the lack of the greatest artist of the 80s in these follow-up comments disturbing.
Believe her
Omarosa Manigault Newman, the reality show villain who campaigned for Donald Trump and followed him into the White House, is an amoral, dishonest, mercenary grifter. This makes her just like most people in Trump’s orbit. What separates her from them is that she might be capable of a sliver of shame.
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Still, there’s no question she has useful knowledge of our ruling clique. Perhaps the most interesting thing about “Unhinged” is its insights into how Manigault Newman, a former Democrat who’d worked in Bill Clinton’s White House, rationalized being part of Trump’s white nationalist campaign. I’ve always been mystified by how the president’s enablers, who understand his venality and incompetence, justify their behavior to themselves. (Even most bad people want to believe that they’re good.) Manigault Newman is an unreliable narrator, but her book is still the best account we have of how the Trump cult — a term she uses repeatedly — looks from the inside.
Her version of her own motivations is probably sugarcoated, but it still isn’t pretty. She’d been part of a pro-Hillary Clinton “super PAC” and was bitter that she didn’t get a job on Clinton’s campaign.
Michelle Goldberg, ladies and gentlemen:
“She may be a lying scheming whore, but she says what I want to hear.”
I Want To Believe
Trump’s white nationalist campaign
When did this happen? Because I totally missed it; thank God we have the media to let us know Trump ran on a platform of white nationalism.
There are these sparrow-sized birds that I see every so often which I’ve been trying to identify for a while.
I was almost ready to declare that they were American goldfinches, except when I did an image search, goldfinches always had white stripes on their wings. The striking features of the birds I saw were the combination of 100% black wings and 100% bright yellow bodies. If it were one individual without white markings, I’d say it might be an odd individual, but it was multiple birds, every time.
Does anyone know of a similar-looking New York-resident bird that fits the bill? (Black wings, yellow body, sparrow size and shape)
Evening Grosbeak?
No. The ones I keep seeing are only black and yellow, with no real variation in color intensity within the plumage areas.
It’s vexing me because black and yellow and damnably common colors on birds.
Thank you for looking.
Did you try whatbird.com?
I think so.
If I were at home I’d look in my books. Bird identification is one place where I prefer an actual book over the internet. Sometimes the internet is nice to help nail down an unsure ID because you get more angles and views. But if I had to choose one method, it would be my two books.
Anyway…if you don’t have an answer by this evening, I’ll check my books and see if I can help. If I remember…
Thank you.
Perhaps it’s a juvenile? There are a couple pics in that wiki article where the white stripe is pretty muted.
If it were a single individual, I’d concede the possibility. But I’ve been seeing these birds for years, and none of them have had white markings.
An additional possibility is that some of those I’ve seen in flight have obscured the presense of such markings via their motion.
Yes. You’re looking at goldfinches.
Goddamn it! I couldn’t find your white paint when I came over and used your miniature paints to paintyour sparrows to look like goldfinches, OK?
Pun intended?
Cornell University Orrnithology Lab is my go-to for bird identification. Great resource.
+100000
UCS’s post made me realize I didn’t have their app on my new phone yet (Merlin). Downloading as we speak.
They are African Killer Bees. They finally made it!
Persecution of the innocent
As with everything about Mr. Strzok’s public role over the last year, it’s hard to know what to make of his firing. Mr. Strzok’s texts with Ms. Page were indefensible. (The Justice Department inspector general wrote that the two displayed “extremely poor judgment and a gross lack of professionalism.”) But the F.B.I.’s Office of Professional Responsibility recommended that he be demoted and suspended for 60 days — not fired. His dismissal instead came at the direction of the F.B.I. deputy director, David Bowdich, who overruled the formal recommendation. As my Lawfare colleague Susan Hennessey wrote, Mr. Bowdich’s highly unusual intervention raises the “specter of politically motivated retaliation” against Mr. Strzok.
The president, of course, can’t help himself. Within an hour of Mr. Strzok’s firing, he took to Twitter, crowing over the defeat of his latest whipping boy and hinting that the Russia probe should be tossed along with Mr. Strzok.
This, ultimately, is the core of the smallness and viciousness of the Strzok affair. His dismissal will not make the Russia investigation go away. At the end of the day, he was thrown into the grist mill of pro-Trump media and chewed to pieces by Fox News and House Republicans for a few months’ worth of cynical, lucrative outrage.
But his humiliation is also a message to public servants: Here’s what will happen to you if you cross the president.
That poor, poor man, devoted solely to the defense of democracy and the rule of law, made a scapegoat by an evil vindictive traitorous President. Why was he fired? It’s baffling. How low we have sunk, since the glorious days of the Ascended One. We need the Deep State resistance now more than ever.
The smirking alone merited shitcanning.
This is why I want the left to burn. They are fucking evil. They believe that the end justifies the means and truly subscribe to the philosophy that having people suffer so they can get their way is just peachy-keen. Fuck them.
And since the ends justify the means, they won’t play by the rules and won’t honor any compromise… Which is why the rest of us kind of expect to be in a civil war before long.
I expect a spate of riots and assassination attempts as leftists continue losing ground (even if they’re not really, they’re just underperforming vs. their expectation of electoral supremacy).
it’s hard to know what to make of his firing. Mr. Strzok’s texts with Ms. Page were indefensible.
Question asked and answered, seems to me.
“specter of politically motivated retaliation”
Are we still talking about what Strzok did?
the core of the smallness and viciousness of the Strzok affair
I couldn’t agree more. Small vicious people have no place in law enforcement. Bonus points for the “affair”.
HA HA HA!
I donated 25 cents.
Take that, Trump!
Is there a payment processing fee for these things? If so, someone should totally create a bot to make thousands of one penny contributions.
I think the fees assessed against the recipient are by the total value of the campaign when it closes, not by the number of transactions. You might hurt GoFundMe if they themselves get billed by the transaction, but not Pete.
Kind of depressing he’s raised that much money.
The left likes to look out for the mones they consider to be their champions. Besides, he will need it for his legal fees, and they need to make sure he doesn’t start talking until democrats have power and can shut down any effort to find out how corrupt they are.
Seasonal allergy can eat a bag of dicks. This is all.
Buy local honey and eat spoons full of it.. In a week you will develop immunity to the local pollen and other pollutants.
Better, if you can find it, is to just get the bee pollen itself. I have found that it is hard to find actual locally sourced pollen, which is what really does the trick.
At the risk of winning today’s most gullible award: Really? This actually works?
Supposedly. Studies are mixed on the topic.
The idea is that ingesting local pollen causes your body to build up a tolerance.
Anecdotally, localish bee pollen has helped Mrs. Dean’s allergies.
I had issues with that stuff and got that advice when I was a kid. Not sure if it is partially mental or not, but I have not had allergies since I started doing this.
For those with Daisy Duke fantasies.
http://archive.is/NcZOz
Some fashions never go out of style.
Did Daisy Duke ever have boyfriends on that show or was she, like, a lesbian?
She was never allowed. Everytime some blue-eyed city slicker showed up, the boys and Uncle Jesse really put the clamps on any burgeoning romances.
Well, technically, after the sheer number of bona-fide felonies she committed with ample witenesses in the first episode alone, she should have been in prison.
I just assumed that Bo, Luke, and Uncle Jesse were her “boyfriends”. Wasn’t it set in The South?
Speaking of which, I went to this fine establishment yesterday.
The kids were not interested while Dad goggled at the General Lee.
Jeremy Corbyn: Well sure, I held a wreath at an event honoring the Palestinian terrorists who murdered eleven Israeli Olympians, and I was adjacent to their terrorist memorial, and later we, er, they honored the PLO leader who plotted the killings, but I wasn’t, like, involved.
Your next PM, England. Enjoy!
It is quite fascinating, in a morbid way. Corbyn’s credulous admirers aren’t holding their collective nose because they like his politics. They viscerally believe him, in spite of all the evidence, to be a kindly old man with a nice beard. Ed Miliband didn’t have any of this baggage (ignoring his father) and he didn’t have thousands of moneyed idiots chanting his name at Glastonbury either.
I wonder what Corbyn would have to do, or be revealed to have done, to make any impact on the credentialed, well-healed little nitwits that make up his core support. He could probably get away with dropping his trousers and defecating on the Cenotaph on Armistice Day, frankly.
Lock him up! The ensuing riots of Liverpool fans might be amusing, and educational.
Are you not allowed to use a cell phone while driving, or only if you’re driving to the Merseyside police?
Somerville’s mayor says he won’t drink Sam Adams anymore after Jim Koch thanked Trump for a tax break
“We need to hold these complicit profiteers of Trump’s white nationalist agenda accountable!”
If you disagree with me on tax policy you are a Nazi, white-supremacist, bigot. It is known.
I lived in Somerville for a while before they got all gentrified and woke.
Not sure if true, but I get the impression that loving Sam Adam’s Octoberfest is the equivalent of a white girl in uggs loving her a pumpkin spiced latte.
Regardless, I do love SA Octoberfest.
Marzens are one of the styles that I’m not a big fan of. Of course, Boston Beer Company makes a lot more then Sam Adams, they also make Angry Orchard, Traveler Shandy, Twisted Tea, and Truly seltzer. I read an interview somewhere that Jim Koch refuses to allow his name to be used in any advertising for all of the other products, but the company needs to make them to stay profitable.
Is she single? Asking for a friend. Obviously.
I can’t believe I missed this.
IKR?
Unfortunately I was busy shaving my balls with a soldering iron and a pair of pliers, so I had to miss it too.
Apparently, it was a tongue bath.
Chris Cuomo: Garbage Human
Cuomo downplayed Antifa’s violence by saying they only “confronted” police and “berated” journalists.
“All punches are not equal morally,” Cuomo said. “In the eyes of the law, yes.”
“When someone comes to call out bigots and it gets hot, even physical, are they equally wrong as the bigot they are fighting?” Cuomo asked. “I argue no. Fighting against hate matters … drawing a moral equivalency between those espousing hate and those fighting it because they both resort to violence emboldens hate, legitimizes hateful belief, and elevates what should be stamped out.”
Cuomo then attacked President Donald Trump for condemning all violence and all racism ahead of this year’s rally.
“Fighting hate is right,” Cuomo continued, comparing Antifa to civil rights activists and combat soldiers. “That’s why people who show up to fight against bigots are not to be judged the same as the bigots even if they do resort to the same kinds of petty violence.”
Except the people “fighting hate” are always the ones to initiate violence in order to stop speech they don’t like. The “anti-fascists” are the actual fascists here, Chris.
Did Chris pinch his brother’s stupid pills?
Chris Cuomo is known as Fredo for a reason.
No, he just knows which side his bread is buttered on. These people will cling to their team until the bitter end.
“Fighting hate is right,” Cuomo continued, comparing Antifa to civil rights activists and combat soldiers. “That’s why people who show up to fight against bigots are not to be judged the same as the bigots even if they do resort to the same kinds of petty violence.”
Keep on this path buddy… We’re arming ourselves en masse, and we’d really enjoy the moral high ground of fighting your hate.
(to Preet: this is not a direct threat against Cuomo, no matter how much you want it to be)
So if somebody is hateful, why not just shoot them in the head with a hunting rifle?
That would appear to be what Chris is unironically suggesting. (Unlike those of us here who use violent language metonymically as a shorthand for self defense, since, unlike Chris Cuomo and the fascists he defends, we’re not turning out to silence and beat down our political adversaries, however inexcusably repulsive their ideology.)
Forgive Cuomo, he thinks that in any two-party system, one side of any argument is always correct.
People who talk about “hate speech” hate speech.
Ha, Preet ain’t in business no mores.
They weren’t fighting bigots, Chrissy. They were fighting journalists.
The Nazi LARPers were off in another area.
Shhhhhhh, he’s rolling.
I saw pictures of the Nazis in DC and the ones in Charlottesville and my only thought was “damn, look at those man titties”. I suppose having a C cup man boob is a prerequisite in order to be part of the master race
Those busts were so big that I think even Q could grudgingly appreciate the man boobage
We need boob redistribution. No man needs to have boobs that big.
“people who show up to fight against bigots are not to be judged the same as the bigots even if they do resort to the same kinds of petty violence”
Conditional morality? Check.
Belief that you adversaries (ignorant, racist assholes that they are) are subhuman/second class citizens? Check.
Approval of violence as a tactic? Check.
Congratulations Chris! You’re just as big a Nazi as the people you claim to be fighting.
“When someone comes to call out bigots and it gets hot, even physical, are they equally wrong as the bigot they are fighting?”
Also in news of the day:
Somerville’s mayor says he won’t drink Sam Adams anymore after Jim Koch thanked Trump for a tax break
“We need to hold these complicit profiteers of Trump’s white nationalist agenda accountable!”
So it’s okay to use violence against bigots, and bigots are anyone who disagrees over something like tax policy. Is this one of those dog whistles I keep hearing about?
When someone comes to call out bigots and it gets hot, even physical
Just a dash of the passive voice to gloss over who is actually initiating the violence.
Chris, why the dancing around? Just come right out and say it: using violence to get what you want is fine, as long as you’re on our side.
Whose beer will he drink now? Did a brewery announce they would keep paying the old corporate rate as a way to screw Trump?
When someone comes to
call outassault bigots and it gets hot, even physical, are they equally wrong as the bigot they are fighting?Actually, no. As someone who came to commit violence (and antifa is crystal clear on that), they aren’t “equally wrong”, they are wrong in a whole different way.
I was talking with my dad the other day. He’s relatively apolitical, but leans right because he understands TINSTAAFL. He mentioned to me that he previously thought Trump was “being Trump” with the whole fake news thing, but the Sarah Jeong NYT thing changed his mind.
Identity politics, FTW!
Christine Hallquist’s bid to become the first transgender governor in American history — and the first trans person elected to any statewide position in Vermont — will face its first electoral hurdle on Tuesday in the state’s Democratic primary.
If she wins Tuesday night, she will become the nation’s first transgender gubernatorial nominee for a major political party.
A former energy company executive, Hallquist is already a trailblazer. She was the first CEO to transition while in her job, according to the Victory Fund, a political action committee backing Hallquist and “dedicated to electing openly LGBTQ people” up and down the ballot.
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“This is not a time in American history to sit back and be apathetic,” she said at that first campaign event. “We must be bold in the face of the headwinds from Washington, we must be bold in the face of continuing unpredictability from Congress, and we must be bold in the face of the chaos from the White House.”
Hallquist’s policy pitch has been focused on building renewable energy and boosting the rural economy by expanding broadband access. She also supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and addressing racial disparities in the state’s criminal justice system.
Policy, schmolicy. Elect a carnival sideshow freak, so we can show Trump how woke we are.
RESIST
I like how they phrase this. Hallquist was the CEO of the Vermont Electric Cooperative. Probably not what people think of when you say “energy company executive”.
She’s a titan in the regulated utility monopoly business. That’s why you can take her seriously on minimum wage and tax issues.
So after all the cis-hetero white people have been exterminated, who do they go after next? And who will be leading them into this glorious new future? Will it be a Transgender Omni-Racial Otherkin Amputee? Or will it be the Blind, Filipino-South African Land Grabbing HIV-positive Feminist Antifa Porn Actress?
“addressing racial disparities in the state’s criminal justice system.”
In Vermont?
Counterfeit maple syrup, it’s a thing brah.
Trump Derangement Syndrome got you and your Commie buddies down? Never fear! Salon presents Trump Regret Syndrome to help you bury your head in the sand!
https://www.salon.com/2018/07/18/trump-regret-syndrome-is-spreading-among-republicans-after-helsinki-how-far-will-it-go/
It’s kind of amazing just how powerful the media is. They cover the kiddie concentration camps (ignoring the picture that started it was under Obama) and Helsinki and craft the narrative and force it into being news despite no one caring. They ignore DWS employing spies and all the irregularities with that and if you mention it, no one knows what you’re talking about. They will controversies into existence and force others to only be held by “conspiracy nuts”. Scary.
Of course that’s why they must pressure youtube et al to crack down, so they can control what is a controversy and what isn’t.
“Of course that’s why they must pressure youtube et al to crack down”
^^^This, this, this. The internet is the first thing to threaten their hegemony, so naturally they must destroy it. It is with supreme irony that one of the original mantras of Silicon Valley was “information wants to be free”. Now they’ve added an asterisk:
*if it’s been approved
I was talking yesterday to a GOP fundraiser. He claims they have already written off four GOP seats in the Phila. and So.Jersey suburbs (that is, funding has been re-directed to several other GOP seats that are in danger.) While Trump’s base may be holding, I fear the suburban
independents who voted for a GOP congressman but also for Hillary are going to have a “told you so” moment at the polls in November.
Is it too much to think that all GOP seats where Hillary won the presidential vote are in jeopardy as are those where Trump squeaked out a win?
Frankly, I think the GOP congress sealed their fate when they shat the bed on repealing Zerocare. That was the absolute cornerstone of their campaign strategy for almost a decade leading up to 2016 and when they actually had the chance to do it, they suddenly misplaced their gonads. It was absolutely shameful. I believe a lot of people shut down after that, regardless of the tax cuts, deregulation and economic boom.
Frankly, I think the GOP congress sealed their fate when they shat the bed on repealing Zerocare.
This. Not that I would’ve voted, but the GOP pussy behavior about o-care reaffirms why I left the GOP in 2012.
Apparently these people still–still–haven’t cottoned to the fact that most Trump voters voted against Clinton, or voted reluctantly for the Republican candidate. These are people who are not Trump bitter-enders, any more than reluctant Berniebros are Clintonite shock troops just because they punched the card for her.
Besides, that article is nearly a month old. How did Helsinki shake out, politically? Not exceptionally well for the right, but not well at all for the progressive left. It certainly hasn’t locked Democrats into a House majority, though by most accounts they’ll take it. It’s just become another of Trump’s many missteps. Meanwhile we have strong economic growth (which is Trump’s to dash if he wants his effing trade war), a second bite at the SCOTUS apple, the moderate left is losing ground to extremists, the Iranian theocracy is once again rocked back by its unhappy populace rather than being buoyed up by American policy, the Norks are shady as hell but what else is new, etc., etc. No, not everything is unimpeachably great. Trump isn’t leading us into the broad, sunlit uplands and social and political comity. But as a corrective to Obama’s and Clinton’s millstone technocracy, we could do a lot worse. We could have Clinton, for example.
NPR haz a sad
No one is born with an inherent knowledge of how the U.S. government works, and everyone has some interaction with government every day. But some students learn more about their government than others.
On the civics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the “Nation’s Report Card,” students of color and low-income students have consistently scored lower than their white, wealthier counterparts. “If there are students who are not receiving adequate instruction in civics education, and if those students are among the disadvantaged groups, then that’s going to perpetuate some of the barriers to political participation and representation that we’ve seen in the past,” says Elizabeth Levesque, an education research fellow at the Brookings Institution.
That distance between marginalized communities and government has a disenfranchising effect.
“What’s happening is the affluent communities — political elites — are getting a good civics education,” Charles Quigley says. “This is contributing to the empowerment gap.”
We’re not indoctrinating hard enough, apparently.
I’d like to see the test.
My third grade daughter’s federally approved handout on government included “diversity” as a core government function. 5 pages dedicated to it, as opposed to two to cover the rest of the government’s responsibilities (which was riddled with errors).
I would have sent that shit back with a note stating that my kid will just read the Constitutions of the Federal and State government.
So the less affluent aren’t learning that healthcare is a right, the job of congress is to implement the president’s policies, and the states were formed as administrative sub-divisions of the federal superpower?
Academia’s new motto: Contribute nothing, and your rewards will be great.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11213
There’s a word I haven’t seen in a while. It was a favorite of the Red Army Faction IIRC.
I would attribute this to the Grievance Studies dopes running the administration and showing favoritism to their preferred departments. They seek bureaucratic power like flies seek shit.
Yeah, and similarly, I would be interested in seeing what the HR wastrels earn at my former company versus the folks who actually do stuff.
Clearly the demand for those professors is just incredibly high. Markets work! (except when they don’t, of course)
Reign of Terror! TW: Salon
Among the reasons the Trump administration gives for these brutal policies is that they are necessary for “restoring law and order” and “making America safe again.” But the law and order the president seeks to restore does not seem to apply to violations committed by the corporate class, and the threats that America must be made “safe” from apparently do not include pollution, rip-offs and recklessness unleashed by deregulated corporate greed. Enforcement against corporate criminals and regulatory violations, a new Public Citizen report finds, has dramatically plummeted since Trump took office.
Public Citizen found that in 11 out of 12 agencies led by a Trump administration official for most of 2017, the dollar amount of penalties imposed on corporate violators dropped, in most cases by more than 50 percent.
At the DOJ, corporate penalties dropped 90 percent; at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), penalty amounts against all violators dropped by 94 percent.
Even those who did not expect robust corporate enforcement from President Donald Trump are shocked. When legendary academic and political dissident Noam Chomsky mentioned the report on Democracy Now!, he said the rollback in corporate enforcement the report revealed was so drastic, it was “almost comical.”
An example of Trump’s perfidy:
Reducing corporate penalties by eliminating payments to third parties that help right corporate wrongs. The practical result: British bank Barclays, by credible estimates, paid less than half of what it might have in penalties for securities violations that fueled the financial crisis, because the Trump-era settlement did not require the bank to fund consumer relief. Similarly, Trump’s DOJ reduced Harley Davidson’s penalty for alleged emissions cheating violations by $3 million because the funds would have gone to a third party: the American Lung Association.
No more ransom skimmed off to third party activists. Oh, the horror. Surely this will serve to bring him down.
legendary academic and political dissident Noam Chomsky
LMAO
Also, this article is just “waah waah Trump doesn’t align with my priorities”
It should be noted that Chomsky doesn’t buy into Russiagate
https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/noam-chomskys-surprising-take-on-the-russia-scandal
Which disturbs the shit out of the burgeoning neocon/progressive alliance
burgeoning neocon/progressive allianceDo you want Nazis?? Because this is how you get Nazis!
Oh, pish. Racially tinged nationalism and socialism are nothing to worry about. Besides, its never really been tried.
Hitler wasn’t a real national socialist. We just need the right people in charge.
National Socialism isn’t the same as Socialism… It’s more patriotic!!
Hey you Nazi’s…we practice Democratic Socialism here. The best part is it hasn’t
failedbeen tried yet. It’s totes the best!Alternatively, they could argue that Obama tamed the corporate beast and put them in line so that there are no more violations taking place now.
Trump’s DOJ reduced Harley Davidson’s penalty for alleged emissions cheating violations by $3 million because the funds would have gone to a third party: the American Lung Association.
Jesus Fucking Christ. They hold this blatant fucking extortion out as something that I’m supposed to SUPPORT? I’ll tell you what boys, if you’re trying to seal my vote for Trump, you’re doing a hell of a good job.
MUH SHAKEDOWNS!
Reducing corporate penalties by eliminating payments to third parties that help right corporate wrongs.
Using the federal government to shake down businesses to fund NGOs should be a felony.
*Except in San Francisco where you step around or over them because they’re on the sidewalk. But be careful not to run your foot through a heroin needle. Because they’re all over as well.
I’ve said this before. If you visit San Francisco, hang out in the financial district. Or maybe a few miles south in Burlingame.
Yeah, I suspect the dung-needle district is the same as it always was – Loin, lower Market/City Hall, not-yet-gentrified South of Market – just more intense.
Father of Parkland Victim: Time to ‘Be Less Polite’ and ‘More Direct’; ‘Just F**king Vote’
“We will break that lobby’s grip on our legislators and we will win,” Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting, said at the protest.
“Let me say this to those who are outside of this crowd walking around with AR-15s and other weapons: if you’re a lawful gun owner, I hate the fact that you think you need to make a point to those of us who have lost loved ones. I hate the fact that you are doing it in such a vile, vicious, obnoxious and evil way. However, if you are a lawful gun owner, I support your right to do it – that said, we need to put in place laws and limits,” he added…
Manuel Oliver, who lost his son Joaquin in the Parkland shooting, called on the public to vote in favor of candidates who do not support the NRA in the midterm election on Nov. 6.
“I have to start being a little less polite,” Oliver said while wearing a “Just F**cking Vote” T-shirt. “I have a message from Joaquin and his dad to the NRA. F**k you. Enough with them – that was totally the attitude my kid had through life. Everything was about fighting for his life and the rights of others. He would be thinking that as we are thinking right now.”…
Guttenberg said that gun-rights activists who are against the passage of more gun-control laws are “delusional” and they “have no argument” to support their views.
“There is a mental health facility for people who think they are funny. Our children died and you guys are over there laughing – this is not funny. This is the reason we will defeat you,” he said to gun-rights activists. “You have no argument for what you believe. I support the Second Amendment but please, all of you, go step into a mental health facility and make sure you’re stable.”…
Oliver addressed opponents of new gun laws.
“The price that I paid of losing my son is not even close to how you feel today. Until you understand that, then we can have an argument and then we can be on the same level. Until then, f**k you,” he said…
“My feelings” > “your rights”, derision and dismissal combined with good ole fashioned conspiracy theory. It’s an interesting strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.
“passage of more gun-control laws are “delusional” and they “have no argument” to support their views”
Easy to say your opponent has no argument when you won’t listen to it.
I support the 2nd amendment, I just don’t think anyone should have guns unless I agree that they need a gun. Also, none of you actually need a gun.
“We will break that lobby’s grip on our legislators and we will win,”
The biggest problem with the gun control side is that they reverse cause and effect. The “gun lobby” isn’t powerful and therefore people like guns; Many people support gun rights and therefore the “gun lobby” is strong. It’s the epitome of “everyone agrees with me, and if you don’t, your opinion doesn’t count because you’re a stooge (or dumb, bought propaganda ect.)”
But nobody they know actually supports gun rights, therefore a powerful cabal corrupting senators with their filthy money, which they got from the Kochs, is the only possible explanation.
I wish these ghouls would quit giving platforms to parents to publicly flog their grief. I can hardly blame the man for being unmoored in his rhetoric or argument, but the buzzards circling these families are moral cretins. You want to know why your profession is sliding into ignominy and your brand into irrelevance? You want to know why gun owners are viscerally resistant to these cynical publicity stunts by gun control groups? This is why. You give the podium over to someone like this for the spectacle of the thing. It’s not even to advance your cause: nobody who wants to retain their rights in the face of progressive furor directed at them personally will be swayed by the exploitation of a man who cannot possibly persuade anyone who isn’t already won over to the cause. This is clickbait. This is fundraising. This is not moral suasion.
The price that I paid of losing my son is not even close to how you feel today.
I did nothing to you or your family. You have no reason to punish me. If you try, well, since you are trying to punish me for no reason, I will respond as anyone would to someone who is trying to punish me for no reason. Get a grip, deal with your personal issues, and stop trying to fill the hole in your life with politics.
“stop trying to fill the hole in your life with politics”
This has a great and storied history starting with Tom Mauser.
Game time! Match the quote to the speaker:
a) “Socialism as the final concept of duty, the ethical duty of work, not just for oneself but also for one’s fellow man’s sake, and above all the principle: common good before own good, a struggle against all parasitism and especially against easy and unearned income. And we were aware that in this fight we can rely on no one but our own people. We furthermore are convinced that socialism in the right sense will only be possible in nations and races that are racially and ethnically diverse.”
b) “Because of the lack of productive capacities of their own, whites cannot carry out the construction of a State, viewed in a territorial sense, but as a support of its own existence it needs the work and creative activities of other nations. Thus the existence of whiteness becomes a parasitical one within the lives of other Folks. Hence the ultimate goal of the white struggle for existence is the enslavement of productively active Folks.”
c) “We want to build up a new State! That is why the Republicans hate us so much today…. They are, after all, plutocracies in which a tiny clique of capitalists dominate the masses, and this, naturally, in close cooperation with corporations and approved by racist whites.”
d) “We know that there could ever exist a state with lasting inner health if it is not built on internal social justice, and so we have joined forces with this knowledge.”
1) Ta-Nehisi Coates
2) Linda Sarsour
3) Noam Chomsky
4) Thomas Frank
Much too succinct and credibly constructed for Coates.
A – Chimpsky
B – Coates
C – Sarsour
D – Frank
That’s muh guess.
3, 1, 2, 4
Great minds think alike, they say.
Yes. But, you agreed with me.
A = Chomsky
B = Coates
C = Sarsour
D = Frank
1. Some vile piece of human garbage
2. Some vile piece of human garbage
3.. Some asshole
4. Some stupid asshole
shit I mean a b c d the quotes not the people
So it seems we’ve reached a consensus that it’s:
Chomsky, Coates, Sarsour, Frank.
Sorry, you’re all wrong!
All of these quotes are Hitler with a few minor tweaks.
Well played, Q.
So, what you’re saying is, you deliberately decieve people for fun.
/Cathy Newman
You know who else quoted Hitler with a few minor tweaks?
Chomsky, Coates, Sarsour and Frank?
Unintentionally of course.
Mel Brooks?
Actually, it was Mr. Pitt!
I was right! And a Nazi, probably.
*Prolonged democratic-style fist-salute*
*writes down names of first 3 people who stop applauding*
I knew something was up! These quotes are way too eloquent for any of those schlubs.
I knew none of us commenters actually read the articles but I didn’t realize the links makers don’t either…
Now from the article…
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While I have no doubt whatsoever that the web front ends of every states election systems are hackable they aren’t hackable in minutes by preteens and they aren’t likely to be hackable at all in a way that you could actually alter an election outcome unless you had the backing of a nation states intelligence apparatus behind you and likely not even then.
This was a pure stunt to discredit the vote of an election that has not happened yet so that if it goes badly for the Democrats they have a culprit to pin the blame on
TOS had an article about this and said that this is a “credible concern”, which I find odd coming from people who oppose Voter ID laws. Either both Voter ID laws and foreigners hacking our elections are a myth or both are credible. It takes a good deal of mental gymnastics to believe that domestic voter fraud is not true, but foreigners hacking our elections is totes possible, despite that argument having less factual basis to its assertion than the latter.
There is piles of anecdotal evidence that non-registered people vote. I won’t pretend to know how widespread the problem is, or if it affects elections in any meaningful way, but it exists. There is ZERO evidence that the actual election apparatus has ever been hacked, or that a single vote has been switched. Hacking the DNC and showing people what corrupt shitheads the Dems are is not hacking the elections. I agree, this is a stunt to prop up the “Russia’s single handedly got Trump elected” narrative.
That’s what I meant.
“It takes a good deal of mental gymnastics to believe that domestic voter fraud is not true, but foreigners hacking our elections is totes possible, despite that argument having less factual basis to its assertion than the latter.”
I should have said “former” rather than “latter”
Oh, and they trained the kids how to “hack” the deliberately unprotected site first, and then let them at it.
Yeah, I’m calling BS on the whole thing.
“This was a pure stunt to discredit the vote of an election that has not happened yet so that if it goes badly for the Democrats they have a culprit to pin the blame on”
Bingo. Also, there is no 100% secure voting system as long as it depends on humans to do the counting. However, if you want to minimize the opportunity for fraud my steps would be:
– 100% ID check cross referenced to E-Verify
– Paper ballots only
– Explicit chain of possession monitored by reps from both parties
– Vote counting monitored by reps from both parties
I would add:
– Voting on a single day only. The longer the polls are open, the harder it is to maintain security. Make election day a holiday if you want.
– Absentee ballots are available only on presentation of a photo ID. If you can’t get to the elections office to pick it up, maybe we have volunteers who will deliver them and check your ID (by taking a picture of you and a picture of your ID). Mass mailings of ballots off of the crap voter rolls are a gaping security hole.
– Mandatory review and cleaning of voter rolls every couple of years, cross-checking against death records and confirming residency. Maybe require confirmation of registration by voters.
I love the way the lefties flop between “democracy is sacred!” and “we shouldn’t do anything much to ensure the integrity of voting.”
Add:
– No same-day registration
– Voter registration at DMV shouldn’t be “check the box if you would like to register”
Nor should it be automatic registration with a driver’s license or any other unrelated government transaction.
My only addition would be computer printed paper ballots, that print the name of the candidate selected, so there is no question of overvoting or undervoting. If it doesn’t print out the name you want, destroy it and start over. If it goes into the box, it is a valid vote.
This.
You go into the booth where there is a computer, you enter in your votes, when the ballot looks correct you hit print. It prints out a ballot. You review the printed ballot and if it matches your selections you click submit, if not you feed the ballot into a scanner/shredder (scans the document to ensure you are feeding the previously printed ballot into it and shreds it in the process) and then the machine returns you to the ballot selection screen where you repeat the process until you get a valid ballot.
Once you hit submit the machine makes an electronic tally of your votes but your paper ballot is then submitted to a ballot box.
You now have the electronic ballot to compare to the paper ballot and they can be used to cross reference each other in a recount scenario and it should be immediately obvious on election night if a box of ballots is somehow missing because you would know from the electronic counts just how many ballots were cast.
That’s more or less how the ballot machines work where I live. You use a touch screen to make your ballot selections, then on the final screen it prints up a “receipt” of sorts showing all your selections, which is viewable under a glass pane for your review. If you need to make a correction it voids the paper ballot and returns you to the selection screen. When you’re happy with the printed results on your ballot “receipt” it scrolls into the machine (presumably collected later; I’m not sure how they actually do the counting, but the paper ballot “receipt” is matched to your unique barcode ID that you feed into the machine, so it should be auditable).
One other potential cross-check: the machine prints two ballots/receipts with the same ID number (not tracable to an individual). The polling station gets one, you get the other. That way, if there is a question about integrity, you can check your own ballot to make sure it hasn’t been tampered with by bringing in your receipt and asking that it be reconciled.
Wait…what???
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/14/world-renowned-lesbian-nyu-professor-suspended-after-probe-finds-sexually-harassed-gay-male-student-report-says.html
“my astounding and beautiful Nimrod“
I haz confuz. As long as a penis hasn’t being used on a vagina, it’s acceptable to a lesbian? How exactly does that work.
Also: ” between two adults[…]who share an Israeli heritage” (((THEY’RE))) at it again!
On the one hand: grow a spine, it’s not harassment, it’s an unwanted advance, you were never in any danger except, presumably, of being disgusted, jadda jadda. And on the other: taste their own medicine, play by their own rules, jadda jadda.
But it also occurs to me: say the student was vehement in shutting her down, then decided, judiciously, that it didn’t warrant following up with the college. This is the course I would be inclined to pursue, because I’m not a narc. (Of course, I’m not likely to be harrassed, because I don’t hang out with avowed feminists.) And she, knowing the trevails of a Title IX investigation, and knowing the power he holds over her, faces a dilemma: rely on his merciful silence, or turn it around on him and file first?
It seems wise to file a strategic complaint, even in borderline cases, even if you’re disinclined to ruin a person’s career, because the alternative is seeing your own ruined instead.
It seems wise to file a strategic complaint, even in borderline cases,
This is the system they have created. May they have the joy of it. Speaking of which:
UCSB Held In Contempt For Violating Court Order To Re-Evaluate Stalking Allegations Against Male Student
Fine their endowment. That’s the only way they’ll learn.
That’s what she said!
Take every administrator responsible about 25 miles out to Santa Barbara Island.
Reinstatement? Fuck that noise.