Mistah Kurtz, he dead. A penny for the Old Guy.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
I was going to do the obvious Shakespeare parody, but Swiss beat me to it last night. But before we rejoice in a death, let’s look at life and what today really means. It is the birthday of transformative inventor Lee deForest, thieving fanatical Albanian dwarf Mother Teresa, and true-gift-to-humanity Albert Sabin.
I’m not sure which was worse: the halftime tribute to McCain during the football game that never mentioned the word “Keating,” nor his disgusting personal life, nor his consistent war-mongering, nor his self-serving utter disregard for the constitution, OR the fawning encomiums from the networks and major news outlets who were branding him a racist and a Nazi when he had the temerity to run against The Lightbringer in 2008 but are suddenly his biggest fans because he hated Trump, so all is now forgiven. I won’t bother to link to a story here, you’re likely inundated with them. Oh fuck, sure I will.
American politics was badly out of balance during Mr. McCain’s final years, and while he angered some and made his share of mistakes, he accomplished as much as any politician of his time toward restoring some sense of equilibrium — and of truth, honor and integrity — to the governing of a nation that he served well and courageously in war and in peace. He became a dominant figure in the Senate through willpower, persistence and determination, because he commanded the respect due one who has sacrificed much for his country, and because, more often than most these days, he knew what he believed and stuck to it.
Truth, honor, and integrity? I couldn’t even have written this as parody. Anyone care to defend this despicable and thoroughly corrupt piece of shit who has finally shuffled off the stage?
And while on the subject of pieces of shit, let’s look in on the lawsuit between Tavis Smiley and PBS:
Smiley also sought information related to PBS’ decision to cancel his show. He contends the sexual misconduct allegations were a smokescreen and claims the network is “racially hostile.” In denying the motion, [Judge] Epstein also denied Smiley’s request to file a 145-page memorandum in support of his motion to compel. Epstein criticized the filing as “mind-numbing” in its repetition and full of “wholly unnecessary” details, such as where Smiley got his undergraduate degree.
I have an image in my head of PBS executives in KKK hoods.
Wasn’t this a Talking Heads song?
US cops described Mr Brosnan as “gleeful” when they found him leaning against his car watching the house burn down on Linden Avenue in Swampscott. The father-of-two branded one officer a “buzzkill” for blocking his view of the blaze, reports the Boston Herald. Additionally, a firefighter had to to stop the Irishman from lighting a cigarette and reported that he stank of petrol fumes.
I’m sure there was no alcohol involved.
Vegans, Frenchmen with guns, what could possibly go wrong?
The French town of Calais has been no stranger to public disorder in recent years, with recurrent battles between police and migrants or striking ferry workers making headlines across the world. But now the port town is facing a bizarre new threat, according to its council: an alliance of hunters and farmers seeking to take revenge on vegans bent on turning the largely carnivorous French off meat.
I cannot have respect for anyone in France who won’t eat cheese.
This is even better than tulip bulbs and wooden shoes.
For the first time it has been calculated what is earned in the Netherlands on synthetic drugs. According to the researchers, 18.9 billion is a conservative estimate. The amount is probably significantly higher. This amount, higher than the annual turnover of companies such as Philips and Albert Heijn, can be regarded as the contribution of Dutch synthetic drug criminals to the illegal world economy.
I note that this amount is also more than double the Dutch defense budget. Maybe their priorities are better than ours.
There really is no other choice for today’s Old Guy music.
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Good morning.
On MCCain I can only say…
Below that clip was a 10 minute compilation of various talking heads and celebrities stating “Donald Trump will not be president” before the election. That’s some good entertainment right there.
I love that movie.
Perfect clip.
“I note that this amount is also more than double the Dutch defense budget. Maybe their priorities are better than ours.”
Arent we paying for their defense? Damned right their priorities are better. We need to cut those fuckers off. They can pay their own freight.
Yes we are paying for their defense. Yes we should cut them off.
And send them a bill, a big one.
The biggest.
Reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKQlQlQ6_pk
So what’s you’re saying is, when it comes to defense spending, you want to…
*dons sunglasses*
.. go Dutch?
*vernauwt blik*
I note that this amount is also more than double the Dutch defense budget.
The Double Dutch defense: tripping invaders with jump ropes?
Boooo
I was saying Boo-urns.
Is OMWC an Apocalypse Now fan?
Lousy movie. The rubber patrol boat was totally unbelievable.
I was born in 1972, so I tend not to share the Boomers’ obsession with Vietnam.
You probably don’t like The Big Chill either.
Admittedly, I was a fan of Meg Tilly
She was adorable.
Everyone is sooooo annoying in that movie.
Even Kevin Costner?
I always thought they should have stuck with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. A bit of the point was lost by adapting it.
I need to dig around some more, but Conrad had so many great stories that I’m pretty sure have never been adapted: Lord Jim, Almayer’s Folly, The Secret Agent, (Victory was adapted, but I still haven’t seen it – might look on Netflix), Typhoon, etc.
Some great nautical writers in the early 20th century – see also William Hope Hodgson – that would probably be fairly affordable to make now comparatively speaking – what with effects, etc. (of course I’m really a fan of WHH’s supernatural/paranormal/Dead Earth stories).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad#Adaptations
Good call – betting most of the older versions have never been rereleased though 🙁
Civilization is a thin veneer.
On this I agree with Conrad.
Well it did have Lawrence Fishburne…
You also forgot the rule that retired or dead Republicans are the best and the current Republicans are always the worst.
McCain has the trifecta: dead, defeated and opposed to the current Republican POTUS!
He spent his career pissing on the constitution. I would gladly piss on his grave. Good riddance.
Are you Lord Byron?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh#Inquest,_funeral_and_reaction
I try to give people a lot of benefit of doubt. You never know what they are carrying around that makes them be an ass…death of a child, divorce, money problems or maybe they just found out they have cancer…you dont know. It takes a lot for me to have that kind of sentiment but McCain is a sure winner.
To me, I’m indifferent to his death. I see no reason to celebrate someone who spent his life celebrating himself.
I have a theory that the real McCain died in a plane crash, and the McCain we knew was a Vietnamese in a skin suit.
We actually lucked out when he didn’t win the presidency.
All this fawning over a self serving waffling pos is nauseating.
“McCain we knew was a Vietnamese in a skin suit.”
HEY! Don’t you mammals dare rip off our ideas
The Songbird has sung his last song.
Senator McCain is dead, stay tuned for Senator Cindy McCain if the AZ Governor is as big a cuck as reported.
I mentioned last night that Trump shouldn’t sent Pence to McCain’s funeral.
But I just thought of something even better: whenever the funeral/memorial rally is, Trump should use his constitutional power to convene the Senate for that time:
he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them
That’d trigger a… Constitutional crisis!
So Obama or McCain?
*ducks*
Barr. Because Daffy Duck wan’t on the ballot.
I voted third party because I didn’t see a difference.
Wasn’t this a Talking Heads song?
Byrne’s lyrics don’t make sense but it was definitely a Tom Waits song
The thing with Bryne is that he doesn’t sing, he talks / shouts. Similar to the B-52s singer.
I’ve always been a fan of the Talking Heads for actually doing something different.
So you liked the Last Jedi then?
Was there something actually different about that?
Rehash the story in an incompetent way and switch the genders around? Sounds like typical Hollywood to me.
This guy disagrees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXCLJp541Pw
And was the Talking Heads really different?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_Heads
Sprechgesang
That’s like Bukowski with piano.
What does OMWC think about the Great White Hope or Fear and Desire?
Are those your mom’s nicknames?
Written by the same guy who wrote Jaws 2 and the Indianapolis Speech. Ought to be favorites of yours! :p
They should have also said he was a faithful and devoted husband to round the piece out a little. Truly the greatest American. *wipes away tear*
“De mondiale toppositie is onder meer te verklaren omdat Nederland vanwege de ligging en infrastructuur een ideaal vestigingsklimaat heeft voor criminelen. Ook de tolerante houding in Nederland ten opzichte van gebruik en productie van synthetische drugs speelt een belangrijke rol. Er zijn te weinig opsporingsambtenaren die strafrechtelijk onderzoek verrichten, waardoor de pakkans laag is. En de strafmaat is laag.
De georganiseerde drugscriminaliteit leidt echter tot veel geweld. De brede aanpak ervan zou volgens de onderzoekers daarom topprioriteit moeten zijn voor de Nederlandse regering.”
I have no idea what that means. Although from the picture I’m surprised to learn someone is still making Mercedes ecstasy.
It’s German with a bad accent. I’m always surprised/amused when faced with a wall of Dutch text how many of the individual words I can get a grasp on, yet how far beyond me getting any coherent meaning out of it is.
It’s the closest major language to English – and listening to it is weird, like guttural wheezes with perfectly clear English mixed in here and there.
English is a Germanic derived language. I cannot stand the way it sounds, it’s the ugliest sounding language ever. No wonder they turned into Nazis, it’s the language that made them do it. I mean if you talk like that, you’re eventually going to think a genocide is good fun.
Hah! That’s what it sounds like to me, and I don’t speak German. I call it Canadian German.
The global top position can be explained, among other things, because the Netherlands has an ideal business climate for criminals because of its location and infrastructure. The tolerant attitude in the Netherlands in relation to the use and production of synthetic drugs also plays an important role. There are too few investigating officers who conduct criminal investigations, as a result of which the chance of being caught is low. And the penalty is low.
Organized drug crime, however, leads to a great deal of violence. According to the researchers, the broad approach should therefore be top priority for the Dutch government. “
” Anyone care to defend this despicable and thoroughly corrupt piece of shit who has finally shuffled off the stage?”
Nope.
I bet you couldn’t have a big career after being a reverse ace and torching an aircraft carrier.
I can’t imagine myself backing a bill to ban vitamins either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdb8Vxo2roE
One big problem with this video: Brooks actually liked Star Wars…
“‘National boob day!’ Gabi Grecko, 29, flaunts her ample assets as she poses in eye-popping sparkly nipple pasties”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6099191/Former-escort-Gabi-Grecko-29-poses-completely-topless-eye-popping-sparkly-nipple-pasties.html
I don’t know if it’s National Boob Day in England, but apparently it’s Go Topless Day:
http://gotopless.org/gotopless-day
Meanwhile, Q is suspiciously absent.
Back at TOS, I jokingly suggested that Lucy should have gone topless when she covered the Go Topless rally. I’ve always wondered if I drove her off.
Sweet Lucy was a dancer
But none of us would chance her
Because she was a samurai
Loose Lucy was pure delight….
She made electric shadows
Beyond our fingertips
None of us could reach that high
Well it IS 9:15 am.
He’s probably listening to preachers on the radio.
OT rant: Starbucks. I’m in Starbucks because it is near my weekend abode and ostensibly conveinient, except it’s not. Every single time I go into one it’s a shitshow of millennial workers running around like chickens with their heads cut off with no apparent delineated tasks. The line is always longer than it should be as a result which leads to more groggy customers standing around with blank and vaguely hostile expressions on their faces. I don’t like the atmosphere and I have no particular affinity for the coffee or microwaved food. Why do I come here exactly? Also, get of my lawn.
The bars I go get espresso/latte at sometimes serve as many as 1500 by noon. I wait, maybe, two minutes for mine and one of the bartenders (barista has lost its bar cache) isusually an older man. All they do is look at you, you give your order, they nod and you wait. No writing names on cups.
They always look at like I’m strange when I order a medium coffee instead of some kind of milkshake.
No one likes espresso. That’s why they have to add all that crap.
/looks stoically at AJB.
Ahem.
/crosses arms. Narrows gaze.
Had an Italian friend as a child and his mom was always making espresso in her espresso pot of which that was the only one I ever saw. Brings back fond memories as she was a very sweet lady. His dad on the other hand. I didn’t speak Italian but I knew cursing when I heard it. We moved away because of forced busing, but I reunited with him at a party in HS and we hung out a few times. Unfortunately he was killed not long after.
Wow. Some story.
I think old immigrant men harbour a lot of pent up anger/disappointment.
My buddy’s father, for example, who always had a cigarette dangling from his lips (he was a slim, handsome sort reminiscent of an America GI in the war), was still angry at his parents for having taken him out of the third grade.
The other interesting observation I made – and this was observed by a few of us – a lot of these guys valued education and spent their personal time reading and educating themselves. My father could read Dante in its original form and is a powerful writer. Grade 3 level education he had.
‘Still angry’ as in this was the 1990s.
People certainly seemed to value education over credentialism more than today.
Was that a Moka pot? I have one of those and I love it. In fact, I’m about to make some of that delicious crude oil brew right now…
That’s what it looked like so I assume that’s what it was. We’re talking over 45 years ago:)
It’s overpriced bad coffee.
We have a little diner just up the highway. It is straight out of a ’50s movie.
Eggs, bacon, toast and pancakes. Coffee. Just coffee. It was five bucks the last time I was there. That is my kind of place. Now, get the hell off of my lawn.
That’s what i miss about where I grew up. Dinners with good breakfast food and bad coffee. West Virginia really seems to have traded out whatever small town culture they had for chain stores. Dinners and the like (with some notable exceptions) are hard to find without going for a longer drive and some of those are just plain awful.
On our hunting trips in West Virginia we always stop at Harding’s. It’s on the Mink Shoals exit of 79, just outside Charleston. It’s a great little diner It even has one of the crappy little gift shops where you can get figurines.
Sure, Tulpa.
Last time I went to a diner, it was $10 for that, including tax and tip.
Yeah, it’s not as cheap as it used to be but there’s always a crotchety old waitress chewing gum and calling you “hon”. I love the diners around here.
NY diners are fantastic. The Golden Reef Diner in Rockville Center, Lawn-guy Land has an old Sicilian immigrant who has been hand-making their heavenly gelato for 40+ years.
We have an old school diner in the downtown area. I used to stop there after school on my way to work and get chili, chicken fingers, and a milkshake. They have a “wet grill”, basically a big heated pan in which the burgers are fried. There’s a local joke that the burgers are so good because the grease hasn’t been changed since the restaurant opened in 1935.
I just want a coffee shop where I can take a shit, talk about race and go home without buying anything.
I’m cheap. I make basic black coffee in my Mr. Coffee and take it to work.
Is there anything better than a stale cup of Hills Bros. mild after it sat on the burner for two hours?
Also, When short on time, I actually like a cup of Taster’s Choice.
A former colleague (who is an operations research PhD) stopped at a Starbucks before a meeting with a particular client. It was the only coffee shop near the client and horribly run. The whole time were waiting in line she was muttering about firing them all and how she would reorganize the space for more efficient flow.
If you’re on Oahu, Big City Diner is a mini-local-chain – great food, excellent prices and fun service anywhere I’ve gone. My perfect Sunday brunch nearly every week I was on island. (I also ate Thanksgiving dinner there….). Coffee was pretty solid overall, but the food in general was exceptional IMO.
I have no idea who this is:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6098097/Dua-Lipa-flashes-abs-checked-crop-90s-inspired-trousers-Reading-Festival.html
Would
And in the morning be embarrassed when you struggle to remember her name
anyway a lot more would than the previous mail link
I don’t hate this song from Dua Lipa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2qgadSvNyU
“If you’re under him, you ain’t getting over him” is such a great line.
It sure is. Catchy song.
Also, I’ve watched this video numerous times and just now noticed the scenes of The Confidante hotel in Miami. Shit… that’s where I stayed on my Miami trip. Can’t believe I never noticed this before.
And tats that look she did them in class in the sixth grade using a ball-point and a safety pin.
Re McCain. It truly is amazing, eh? You would *think* they would discount his personal shenanigans, being part of the Keating Five, repeated calls for war etc. into their tributes to him.
There’s McCain the war hero and then there’s McCain the political fiend.
Doesn’t matter as he is a dead defeated Republican and opposed Trump so of course they love him.
Like Dubya.
These are the worst kind of *friends* to have.
McCain-Feingold.
He gave a double middle finger to the first amendment, I the same to him.
He looks ridiculous.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6099437/Justin-Bieber-dons-quirky-floral-shirt-bandanna.html
My mocking of Beiber doesn’t quite reach rage because from what I hear he has a real, deep soft spot for sick kids. I just can’t hate on people who help sick kids.
Cristiano Ronaldo is another. Damn I hate his antics on the pitch, but dude paid for a kid’s surgery when he heard the family couldn’t pay.
He’s just trying too hard. Must be tough having people dress you up like a kewpie doll all those year’s.
All those year’s what?
He’s going for the grunge look. He’s just a couple of decades behind the time. But I mean, he’s Canadian, right? It’s tough growing up in an igloo. But scroll down some, he’s scoring some thicc there. I think that will have some cankles in a few years though.
“I like my heroes who don’t die”
Lol.
I’m surprised Trump hasn’t tweeted that yet.
Too soon.
Again. I use my MIL (who stayed over night with us) as a barometer about issues of the day. Last night it was McCain. She eating all the tributes up like crazy. She was watching some interview with Diane Sawyer. I watched, maybe, 20 seconds and could how full of shit McCain (finally) was.
She asked me why I was so ‘disrespectful’ about someone who just died. I tried to explain to her he didn’t deserve any to some people but she was having none of it.
This mind set forms a large part of the voting block.
It weird to me how closely Canadians follow US politics. I doubt I could name one member of Canadian parliment (or whatever it’s called). That probably says more about my own ignorance than anything else.
Justin Trudeau.
PM Zoolander excepted of course.
Yeh. Except Canadians, I think, hold a rather mundane, standard, ABC-CBS-NBC generic view of America.
Worse, they think it’s a ‘nuanced’ and sophisticated take on America.
I can’t get to all of them.
Every time I think of Canadian government, all I can do is picture the time that Zoolander apparently bumped into a female member of the parliament… that is what they call it, right? Anyway, they were all scurrying around trying to resolve this ‘crisis’, it was comical as hell even though they all seemed to take it so seriously. They so woke.
Agree one hundred percent. Here in the Great White North there is a sense on the part of the majority that Canadians are so much more sophisticated and civilized than the ugly, racist, gun loving, imperialist republic to the south. Then they go and vote in The Shiny Pony with a majority. Ugh. Why is it that so much of the Canuck national identity is defined by being “Not America”? Frustrating to the max if one tries to have a conversation with the average Canadian re. the USA.
“Why is it that so much of the Canuck national identity is defined by being “Not America”? ”
Got to keep up with Europe I guess. I just see it as since the USA is the richest country with the highest standard of living, they have to do something to feel better about themselves, like a sense or moral superiority. Like one German said to me ‘Sure, everything there is cheaper, but we have a higher standard of living’. I don’t even have an answer for that. If you’re that delusional, there is probably nothing I can say to fix it.
‘Whatever it’s called’.
Lol.
The Shouting Room?
Yea, I don’t think death expunges your misdeeds in life. Dying is something that will happen to everyone; it doesn’t put you beyond criticism.
I think part of that is the older crowd. They grew up in a different country. Everyone they knew trusted the media. Little memorials are not political agitprop to them.
I see it as a barometer of boomer politics.
“NAACP: Man accused of urinating on black girl committed hate crime, assault”
“This is clearly a case of child molestation, as well as a hate crime, and should be treated as such,” Cle Jackson, president of the Greater Grand Rapids National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said in a Friday, Aug. 24, statement.
The suspect has a history of mental illness and sexual assault, court records show. He is accused of urinating on a 5-year-old girl through a fence, and calling her the N-word, while several children played hide-and-seek Wednesday, Aug. 22, near the West Leonard library branch on Leonard Street NW.
The mother of two children playing with the victim said the girl was apparently crouching near a fence when she was urinated on.
The local NAACP is “demanding” that prosecutors charge the man with sexual assault, assault and a hate crime. The organization is “monitoring the situation and working with law enforcement to ensure that all investigative processes are thorough.”
It said that if charges are filed the man should “be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/08/naacp_man_accused_of_urinating.html
XOMG, what a horrible monster! Everyone, gather your torches and farm implements!
Oh, wait, no never mind.
“Children made up story about white man urinating on black child: police
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — A story about a white man urinating on a 5-year-old black child and calling her a racial slur was fabricated, police said.
Kent County prosecutors said the parents of the children, in talking with them, ultimately determined the children “concocted the story to avoid trouble.”
“We appreciate the conscientiousness of the parents in bringing the matter to the attention of the police, and continuing to ask their children questions as new evidence was obtained,” prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said the 60–year-old man had a “verifiable alibi” from other people who vouched for his whereabouts.”
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2018/08/children_made_up_story_about_w.html
These stories always end up to be fake. Lucky for that dude they fessed up. Can’t imagine how his incarceration with a bunch of Detroit criminals would have been.
“Well, um, it’s not about this one particular case, but rather about the national dialogue on problems like this!”
/prog
And by dialog they mean, they lecture and you apologize.
Good thing it can’t be a hate crime to accuse someone of a different race with committing a hate crime.
Wait, R Kelly is 60?
Did he ever get out of the closet?
thieving fanatical Albanian dwarf Mother Teresa
Penn and Teller’s Bullshit episode on Mother Theresa was beautiful.
Not sure she can top commie pope.
Wow. She even took money from Charles Keating.
That’s brutal. The end when the Church used her to deflect attention from the rapists was interesting.
Not sure what they’re going to do today, though.
Former nuncio to the USA Viganò: “The Pope must resign”
This organization is in deep shit. I wonder who will suddenly become a saint now? John Paul II?
They’ll just decide that commie pope wasn’t commie pope. The next pope will be a more commie butch dyke who identifies as a unicorn.
Can someone for the life of me please explain what Urban Meyer was supposed to do? So far all I hear is a combination of emotional outrage, vapid respect for woman is low rhetoric, and things he didn’t do.
But what specifically was he to do in such a situation? I’m a boss and not sure what I would do.
All these faux-righteous sports commenters on the radio are pieces of work. I wonder how many of them would ‘do the right thing’.
How in the fuck did the sports world get eaten up by pinkos?
Sports writers have been pinkos for a long time.
I don’t get it at all. Take the NFL for instance. Most NFL fans are not lefty prog millennials. They lost nearly 50% of their audience last year. They’ve already started the kneeling stuff this preseason and I’m hearing that their attendance at games is down by 50% again already. They’re basically telling their customer to fuck off. As I’ve always said, you let the progs in, they turn everything they touch into shit. They have the Midas touch in reverse.
Maybe the goal is to end this bastion of Male Toxicity. The only sport allowed in Proggietopia will be women’s soccer.
I don’t think that’s the goal. The goal is to take it over and turn it into a heap of prog dung. But in the end, it will be the result.
All reporters seem to be drawn to the profession by imagining themselves thought leaders of the masses. They ape what they perceive an intellectual is.
The sports reporters just didn’t get the gig they wanted.
There must be cocktail parties involved, somehow.
It’s all in the name. No one has a name that just screams ‘Look at me! I’m a metro sexual way cool prog like guy!’, like this guy.
I think i would tell people to come up with evidence and take it to the police.
I’d have respect for a coach who said he’d let the legal process run its course and not suspend players the mob is beating about. But going back to Florida Meyer’s been a sanctimonious prick claiming to be a virtuous Christian and family man, while ignoring that pretty much everybody but Tebow was a raging thug.
Why John McCain is a great guy
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"Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran"
Keating Five
Ill-tempered bully
Condescending elitist prick
"Upgrade wife-o numero uno for heiress"
Military aristocrat
Apparent budget dove, 'specially DoD
Domestic spying advocate
<<<<<<<
If I could say anything good about the asshole is that, at times, he wasn't overtly hostile to 2A.
Due to his prolific and lengthy political career that predates nearly twice the amount of time I was even cognizant of politics…there's no doubt that I left off lots of accomplishments.
No matter what else McCain did, I mostly remember him as being the guy who would back the worst legislation anyone could think up. I’ll always remember him as the guy who wanted to ban vitamins. For the children, or something. Fucking douche.
Piss dossier involvement
Shitting all over the Constitution, particularly his hatred of 1A
Why is no one talking about commie pope? I hear he’s big news these days. Or was that 2 days ago and now old news?
ABC News was tut-tutting him last night. Is that good enough?
Commie enough for the MSM?
Needs more gay shit and dolphins.
I dont understand why it is a big revelation that he knew about kiddy-diddlers. This is a surprise to whom?
I’m sure he’s pining for the good old days when they would be able to burn climate deniers and commie non-bleevers. Just another example of how when you let the left in, the first thing they do is spread some gasoline and strike a match.
I googled commie pope and this says commie pope is not commie
https://www.catholic.org/news/hf/faith/story.php?id=51986
Someone should form a MAGA rally across the street from McCain’s funeral
Making America Great Again, one funeral at a time.
I was getting a bit depressed at all the bullshit media waffling and aggrandizement about McCain. But, one funeral at a time, makes me realize something. I might just live long enough to see all the swamp rats die off one by one. For some reason, this gives me a soft warm fuzzy. Which great defender of freedom and justice is next I wonder. We should have pool.
Apparently you are not familiar with the nature of a rat infestation.
I hear you. I know there will be an unlimited supply of new rats to come. But those are not our rats. Those will be our kids’ rats to deal with.
“Verified Checkmark Watch #VerifiedHate”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uszz152F5R4
Unbelievable! Not all the anti-white racism on Twitter. I expected that. Sargon made a video under six minutes long.
Anyway, check this out before Twitter bans it:
Blue Check Watch
https://twitter.com/meme_america
It’s an impressive amount of research.
Also, this:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/VerifiedHate
I see mister Nolan Brown made the list
Did he make a sandwich too?
Anyone who thinks the left would not fill mass graves here given the chance is fooling themselves.
It’s obvious that their only objection is that they don’t get to hold the clipboard. Also, sad that they actually believe that they will get to hold the clipboard.
But the rich and poor would get similar mass graves. No inequality there.
You can put the SS to shame for their timidity by just perusing the comments of the root for a day. The twitter comments are moderated for public consumption compared to what they say in more selective spaces.
Ha. French farmers can troll too. They should have allowed the festival.
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1033581235119915010
WTF am I watching?
When did Bill Nye get so fat?
Looks like McCain will lie in State at the Capitol rotunda in Washington and Arizona, burial at Naval Academy Cemetary. Schumer is pushing to rename the Russell building.
Why not, he sure lied everywhere else.
+1 zillion
Why does the movie Underworld come to mind? I mean, Hillary is a reanimated corpse so it must be McCains turn to sleep?
Just think how awful it’s going to be when Hillary dies. We won’t have a single break form 24/7 fawning for months.
Did you say Razorfist had a rant about McCain and his death? I looked and no joy.
That POS will do anything to stay in the Senate another day.
Even Google is getting into the fellating.
“He’s accused of grabbing lady friend’s behind at party in his home—nearly year ago. Accuser is 55 & has been his friend for years.Why not tell him to buzz off? Why call cops months later? She’s a #MeToo artist. He was arrested,handcuffed, shamed. INSANE”
https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/1033450855796592640
Before much longer if the SJWs have their way, you’ll be arrested if some woman says that she swears you looked at her boobs 45 years ago. Burn them witches.
SJWism taken to it’s logical conclusions women walking around in Burkas and societal norms that Cotton Mather would call Puritanical.
*results in women…..
I don’t even know what they’re waiting for. Obviously we have to shut down universities, where women are raped by rapey rape guys like 5 out of 4 times a day. Or… we have separate dorms divided by a giant wall with barbed wire on top, women in burkas and guys with male chastity belts. It’s the only way. Fun must be abolished completely. Humanity must be reduced to the nameless, faceless, funless Borg.
How long until taqaandan is advised, nay, DEMANDED by these regressives?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_fracture&ved=2ahUKEwiFsOr0-YrdAhXlmeAKHUoSB_8QFjABegQICxAE&usg=AOvVaw3sM9N02j-9wZAZipPJWOB_
This is correct. Rigid victorian like standards of conduct and chaperones are where we are going. Not sure how that will turn out though. Pussy isn’t as valuable as it used to be.
The subset pushing this are the same as the ones concerned about the Handmaidens tale coming alive. Yet they are pushing in a direction that makes the price of having women as workers and friends far too high and far too risky. As men start seeing women as having not much value as anything except baby incubators the harpies of this movement might get their dystopia.
Wait you can go to jail for grabbing ass? I have never touched a woman in a sexual way if she did not want me to so I would never have such an issue, but seems excessive.
“Victim Feminism: What Kind Of Woman Sends A Friend Of Thirty Years To Jail Over An Ass Grab?
When I saw that the former head of the C.D.C. was arrested on a “sex abuse charge,” as the headline appeared on Twitter, I thought — “Oh, gross…maybe he did something to a child.”
I couldn’t believe the actual charge — an alleged butt grope at a party…a year ago. Of a 55-year-old woman he said he’s known for 30 years, who just reported this to the police now — leading to the guy’s arrest.
Yes, for an alleged butt grope. And not of a child but of an adult woman.
No, people shouldn’t go around grabbing at people’s asses, but having it happen is — or used to be — just one of those shitty things people do, like throwing up on your rug after drinking too much. It’s something an adult, male or female, should be able to quickly handle — on their own — and be done with. At least that’s the way I see it.
Women today, in our country, are more free and more powerful than at any other time and place in history, yet there’s this weirdly regressive victim’y behavior.
I’ve said it before: I see these grabs for the mantle of victimhood as a way to have unearned power over men.”
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2018/08/women-today-in.html
Women today, in our country, are more free and more powerful than at any other time and place in history,
*gasp
Burn the heretic.
Please this is the enlightened left. Send the heretic to reeducation camp on half rations.
B-b-but sometimes women have to pay for their own birth control! And sometimes there are even protesters outside of abortion clinics!! It’s exactly like The Handmaid’s Tale!!!
* puts on bonnet and red frock in protest *
If someone did that to me I would turn the other cheek.
Jordan Peterson is a Conservative, Not a Classical Liberal
https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/jordan-peterson-is-conservative-not-classical-liberal
SO is the site libertarianism.org libertarian? Because I would not call myself the Canadian bill opposed by Petersen human rights legislation and most libertarians would not.
“Jordan Peterson has, not unexpectedly, found his moment in this political context. Peterson is the archetypical conservative described in Hayek’s essay. Peterson, currently a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, was a privately practicing clinical psychologist before his rise to prominence in 2016 through his vocal opposition to a Canadian human rights bill that would extend workplace nondiscrimination protections to transgender Canadians.”
Also
“In Adam Smith’s first book, A Theory of Moral Sentiments, Smith makes the case for a type of liberalism that seems to contravene much of Peterson’s self-styled “self-help advice.” Peterson seems to embody the worst strawman levelled against advocates of liberalism. Rather than viewing society as an aggregation of voluntarily associating individuals working together toward mutually advantageous ends, Peterson seems to view society through a lens of zero-sum atomistic individualism. Peterson encourages his audience to look inward for a sense of purpose, whereas Smith and other liberals envision a harmonious society where individuals enrich themselves through meeting the needs and desires of others. ” I am not sure where this comes from…
He doesn’t really strike me as being either libertarian or conservative. He just seems to be a guy who is speaking out against the insane shit we are seeing today, like identity politics. But here we go again, everyone has to fit into some type of predefined box.
I think myself he is more conservative e than libertarian on some issues and more left that libertarian on others. I just did not like how the article made its claims coming from a I assume libertarian website.
Everything (which is admittedly quite limited) I have seen from libertarianism.org seems to be pretty ‘belt-way-cocktail-party’ so it’s very important they distance themselves from Petersen, not on the basis of his ideas but because he’s liked by the wrong sort of people.
TOS2?
They actually started this debate series at TOS that kind of reminds me of old TOS except for the commenting of course.
Peterson seems to be prettt liberal to me altough in more of an old school Camila Page sense as that he doesn’t suffer the modern day liberal racists and sexists.
I am shocked that the author of “12 Principles for a 21st Century Conservatism” is conservative.
But for anyone who is actually familiar with Peterson’s work outside of the soundbites disseminated on Youtube, this is no grand revelation. Culturally, he is a communitarian paleoconservative type, and socio-economically he seems to be a radical centrist. Which, to be honest, is quite weird for the most famous modern-day Jungian, but that’s a story for another time.
To be honest, I had a similar article brewing in my mind, but now I don’t have to write it and can continue focusing on Jade Kush videos.
Radical centrist seems like an oxymoron.
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1033608164770373632
Why is NJ so expensive?
the mob takes a cut
This.
*Maybe* in NYC and then only if you’re a certain sort of person.
“I’m at the Oregon State Fair. They sell “Deep Fried Kool Aid.””
https://twitter.com/JonahNRO/status/1033431658106503168
Rich Lowry’s weed is better than I thought.
I don’t get over here much anymore but I sure wasn’t going to miss the death of that crapweasel John McCain. The net is sure to be a shitshow today. Fortunately he will only be useful to the media for a few days dead.
My Instagram feed is blowing up with McCain tributes. My mental comments:
‘Hey @_______ I’m on this stupid thing so I can see your slutty bikini pics, not your stupid political signaling dejour’
Has anybody talked about this yet? https://racer.com/2018/08/24/lilly-diabetes-pulls-daly-sponsorship/
TL;DR version is that Lilly pulled Conor Daly’s sponsorship because of some comment his father said before he was born
Yes, but it’s so outrageous it’s worth repeating.
What’s the most recent post in which this story *wasn’t* mentioned?
“John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the rise of reality TV politics
McCain empowered a demagogue who put the Republican Party on the path to Donald Trump.”
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/25/17779128/sarah-palin-john-mccain-legacy-trump
Of course, because the rise of Trump had nothing to do with the way democrats and the media treated people for the last twenty years.
That one section in the article tho, “McCain sacrificed his values to win”. I am impressed and dumbfounded as I have no idea what values he even had then.
https://mobile.twitter.com/nivirce/status/1033539670548905984/photo/1
Never know if these people are serious .. but apparently all people who leave Venezuela are fascists cause otherwise they would support Maduro
None of those people could even define “fascist”.
From a friend:
“We should all come together and pray for that hero that died today. RIP brain tumor, your mission is complete. Cheers for ridding us of that satanic snake that was your host-finally.”
… Hobbit
Best. Tribute. Evar.
+ eleventy
Nice
I love it.
I wish I’d written that.
stolen
Good one!
I’m sick of all the sympathy pouring out for this warmongering shitbag who made the world a worse place.
Breakfast = Grilled burger patty topped with over easy egg slathered with green chili.
I should have made two.
Are you a hobbit or something?
Dinner: fresh picked tomato, plain white Romanian cheese, salt, pepper, olive oil, bread and wine
Sounds lovely. I got more tomatoes from my neighbor. I’m going to make a tomato tart with a pesto pastry crust. It’ll be an experiment.
No I am not a hobbit, the second one, had I made it, was going to be for first breakfast. For second breakfast I will be having Trailer Park Mimosas.
I am having a Screwdriver made from freshly squeezed OJ from my own yard. Unbelievably delicious.
I realized after living here a few weeks there was no way we’d eat oranges and lemons at a good pace and didn’t want them all to go to waste, so I bought an Aicok masticating slow juicer, a marvel of modern technology. So yesterday I harvested a bunch of fruit and let ‘er rip through the juicer. I love that thing.
Such great design progress in juicer tech from when we had to hold down fruit halves over the dome-shaped ribby thing. And everything but the motorized stand is machine washable! Me Likey!
Ya, juicers these days are awesome. I have one I pretty much only use to make mojo for pork shoulder. I always forget to buy fruit because it is not by the meat or beer. You are making good use of your orange surplus.
Please, oh please, tell me that you bought a Juicero.
At a minimum, your juicer has to be internet ready.
Lol, what?
I want as few “smart” devices in my house as possible. Don’t need my door kicked in by jackboots because my juicer said I’m a Libertarian.
Feel free to send me a box. When my parents were snowbirds, they had an orange tree and a grapefruit tree. Like tomatoes, you just can’t buy homegrown.
I should try making one of those someday. It all sounds pretty damn good.
Stupid allergies. First 33 years of my life I never had an allergy and now at 34 I developed something that blocks my nose in August. The rule should be if you font get allergies by 30 you should never get them.
Amen, brother. I got asthma after hitting 40. WTF??
25 years ago, I underwent 5 years of allergy shots and afterwards I felt much better. Hay fever season didn’t shut me down.
Then a year ago I underwent an allergy test. The nurse said she had never seen someone so allergic. So I thought, okay, the nurse is young, that explains it. Then the doctor said the same thing. Dammit. So I’m stuck taking allergy shots again.
Fuck allergies.
“John McCain’s legacy represents an unparalleled example of human decency and American service. As an intern, I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy. He meant so much, to so many. My prayers are with his family.”
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1033538876370046977
Ugh, what a load of horseshit.
I learned a lot about the power of humanity in government through his deep friendship with Sen. Kennedy.
Backhanded compliment or serious?
I once heard Mark Levin say “Trust me. I know because I worked with these people. No matter how bad you think the people in Washington are, they are ten times worse.”
I believe him.
I was thinking yesterday “how does a twit like her rise to power” and then I remembered that every one of these creatures is groomed by the most wretched scum and villainy that that make up the machinery of their respective party. And it’s not just Washington, it’s every state capital and major city too.
Now that you mention it…yeah.
I see somebody is polishing their lying skills for their political career.
She interned for Ted Kennedy?
Yeah.
Who was it on here that said he fucked her brains out? Every time I see her that comment comes to mind, and laughter spills out.
What a sack of shit. She wants to play the socialist revolutionary on TV, but she’s really just a deep state asslicker. Fuck her (and not literally, because she has a skeletal face and psycho eyes).
I just returned from some chores and passed several shop windows plugging a DA candidate with the tagline “The People’s Lawyer”. I just chuckled and thought “perfect”.
I’m reminded of the presidential candidate in Taxi Driver (a really overrated movie BTW) whose slogan is “We are the people”.
Oops. I meant AG. From the deepest pit of far-left city council swampery to statewide office. I can’t fucking wait.
I’ve only seen Moloney’s commercials about how he wants to be unsafe by not defending himself with a gun.
Ding dong the witch is dead, the witch is dead
https://twitter.com/voguemagazine/status/1033493876412227589
Math is hard.
If millennials have taught us anything it’s that adolescence lasts until at least age 35. If Boomers taught us anything it’s that adolescent thinking lasts until death.
This growing up thing, that typically happens by necessity. Today, adult children are coddled at home and in academia. They are taught to never grow up, therefore they won’t.
If you have the same expectations at age 35 that you had at 18, you are mentally ill. I can tolerate derp from an indoctrinated youth because it is not their fault. A grown-ass adult on the on hand, can just fuck right off.
I know people I grew up with who are still exactly like they were at 14. Except for the grey hair and aging skin, there’s zero difference with them. I post at Glibs which proves that I’ve matured to at least 15 year old level. 14 year olds lack the cynical nature of a well rounded witty 15 year old.
I think sometimes it’s because relative to you, they’re the same age. I see that with some of my friends/acquaintances as well in our conversations, reactions, references, etc – since our POV is generationally different from other folks (and we’re pretty much all vets or still active, etc). Similar with the Third Culture Kid phenomenon with other folks I know.
I started out being serious. I’m talking about people who never got an education past high school, never developed any real skills, never had any ambition to achieve anything, and are still sitting on the front porch in the same town they were born in. Any conversation you have with them will be the same one you had with them at 14, because they have nothing else to talk about. You want to talk about world events, politics, travel, whatever… forget it. If you want to talk about the time that we blew up the old guy down the street’s mailbox and raided their old man’s beer fridge and got drunk, then it’s all good.
Ok, so more like Simon Pegg’s character in “Worlds End” – don’t see that as much in my “circle” given our shared experiences, but I can see that happening some places.
Sounds legit.
The pre-frontal cortex doesn’t finish development until around 32 years of age. If we define adulthood as the completion of maturation, then it should start at 30 (to give it a nice round number). Likewise, voting and other adult rights and responsibilities should be delayed until then.
I am serious.
That’s not a bad idea but I’d still rather it be property owners, ‘skin in the game’ and all that ,regardless of how developed their brain is.
Baby steps.
Limiting it property owners is sounds silly.
So does making it thirty.
How about we get rid of numbers here outside of living on your own and paying income tax. If you do not pay taxes, you have no skin in the game. If you support yourself, you have skin in the game. Exclude senior citizens since they’ve previously paid their way in if they supported themselves until retirement age.
Even if I agreed with that in “principle”, it’s too complicated to be workable. It’s difficult enough already to have fair elections that allow citizens of age. Every additional qualification increases fraud.
Of course it is. I just assume we’re just talking because everyone knows it will never happen. It’s like the idea of cleaning up welfare and making able bodied persons support themselves. Never going to happen.
When you’re a 30-year-old property owner, you’ll understand.
But not until after you’ve told someone to get off your lawn.
I would say tax payer, and I mean income tax, not sales tax. Just because owning property is too difficult these days depending on where you are. In my hood, you’re starting price is $450,000 and 10k a year in taxes. No way anyone can swing that without being well over 6 figures in income, so probably about the top 15% of earners.
Limiting to property owners is fraught with awful problems the first of which to come to my mind is a property ownership map I saw from the late 1800’s. There were only a dozen property owners in the parish, one of whom was an insurance company.
It would mean that what?… 1 or 2% of people in SanFran could vote? Like it would make any difference.
Yeah, I don’t think “property” necessary implies anything positive. They are just as capable of voting for “free shit” as anyone.
s/b “property owner” of course
Probably late enough to this that nobody will see, to clarify I was just saying: property owners > 30 as a voting age. Both have their problems, I just see property rights as a safer road to go down than SCIENCE!
You’re going in the opposite direction of the democrats. They want to give voting rights to 16 year olds.
They know their popularity is highest among those with underdeveloped brains.
Not a bad idea. Somehow democracies never contract the vote, they only expand it. Possibly a flaw in the system.
“Remembering John McCain, a brave warrior for human rights who stood up against repression and torture.”
https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/1033536211103756288
2 peas in a totalitarian pod.
Secret desire:
I hope the queen of england suddenly dies so people will shut the fuck up with their John McCain hot-takes.
None of this would be happening if McCain hadn’t torpedoed ACA repeal and said bad things about Trump. Disagreeing with Trump is today’s sure fire way to become a hero. Nothing else required. Fuck Trump, I’m a hero!
You shoulda heard the intro on Meet the Press….ooo nelly it was a doozy.
His death isn’t ‘tragic’. It’s sad sure maybe even funny to others.
But it ain’t no tragedy.
Man do I loathe the media.
The pastor, this morning, just had to include McCain in his benediction. Acknowledged he was less than perfect, as are we all,
but admired his courage to speak up when he saw wrong. I almost felt like acknowledging this “call” to speak out by
standing up and calling McCain a war-monger and false Christian.
I’m Poppy.
I, for one, welcome our new Poppy Overlord.
And all this time I feared that Poppy had just disappeared. What is life without Poppy?
Neil Simon has passed away.
His songs, ‘sweet caroline’ and ’50 ways to lose your lover’ will live forever.
I always liked Heart of Gold and You’re So Vain
I am definitely buying this album. Weaponized funk.
I like it.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Today’s Doonesbury is about putting Trump voters into reeducation camps.
Go fuck yourself Trudeau you piece of commie shit.
Please repost this in the next thread. I always found that comic insuffereable. Pure DNC hackery that doesn’t even attempt to be funny.
Ok.
IT’S SATIRE!
IT WAS JUST A JOKE!
HE WAS JUST IMAGINING IT!
YOU’RE PARANOID!
Get out of my head, muppet!
Once muppets are in your head….
Wow as that guy always been proggie?
Sixties hippie sort IIRC.
I hadn’t read that in decades and it’s worse than ever, apparently. At least he used to attempt humor.
Good Lord. Whatadouche.
Imma have to share this Drama News snippet from Family Guy. MacFarlane is a lib, but at his core he knows BS when he sees it.
Plane Crash reporting
Cheese is disgusting.
MAD SCIENTIST HAS SPOKEN!