Tuesday Morning Links

Halep is bounced, Venus and Serena both advance, Mourinho demands respect (after getting demolished) and we are only a few days away from some serious college football. That’s the state of the sports world these days. Unless you’re concerned with overpaying a prima donna receiver who isn’t half the player Rice, Carter or Moss (fine, or Belitnekoff for the old people here)  were. But the Mara family isn’t exactly known for their shrewd roster moves lately.  Have fun watching that investment blow up in your faces, Giants fans.

Go team, go!

A small slate of baseball games yesterday had the White Sox beating the Yankees, the Orioles beating the Blue Jays by a touchdown, the Nationals getting to .500 with a win over Philly, the Cubs topping the Mets, the Giants shutting out the D-backs, the Rockies falling to the Angels and the world champion Houston Astros getting some big action in the 8th to handle the Athletics and give themselves the slightest bit of breathing room. Full slate of games today, but nary a day game which is a shame.

Luminaries that were born on this date include: German philosopher Goethe, golden age cartoonist Jack Kirby, Canadian PM Paul Martin, drummer Daniel Seraphine, rocker Hugh Cornwell, underrated actor Luis Guzman, Chinese activist Ai Weiwei, Canadian singer Shania Twain, actor Jason Priestly, frog hockey player Pierre Turgeon, actor Jack Black, diversity hire Sheryl Sandberg, and singer LeAnn Rimes.

A brilliant and compassionate man…that our government spied on.

Its also the date on which Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay, the first American-built locomotive lost a race with a horse-drawn carriage, Wagner’s “Lohengrin” premiered, overrated British soldier Montgomery became the commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, Martin Luther King delivered his iconic “I have a dream” speech, the first Subway (“sandwich” shop”) opened, Israeli PM Menachem Begin announced his resignation, Mike Schmidt passed Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 homers (but still wasn’t near the hitter Williams was), and Mitt Romney (then a woman-hating racist shitbag but now a statesman throwback to a better time for the GOP according to Team Blue) won the GOP presidential nomination.

OK, with the exception of a few events, this date seems to have sucked.  Oh well, on to…the links!

Crazy eyes are all the rage on the modern left.

After cutting his teeth on the basics of grifting and self-promotion, the kid is moving on to the extortion game.  Pretty bold step. I see a political future for him.

Lanny Davis humiliates CNN for printing single-anonymously-sourced bullshit. Unsurprisingly, CNN are still maintaining that the story is legitimate.

I can’t possibly think of a better way to show your seriousness about extravagance and generally being out of touch with your parishioners. Way to go, Catholic Church. You really don’t give a shit anymore, do you?

I can’t tell if Roger Stone is serious or if he’s trying to jump on the gofundme bandwagon and set himself up with a nest egg. I don know he’s probably correct in guessing at Mueller’s strategy and motives though.

If its gonna make salmon cheaper, please drag your dead baby 2000 miles next time.

I hope more restaurants in the PNW take this serious step. Why? Because then with the supply flat and the demand lower, it’ll be cheaper for the rest of the world to enjoy one of the nautical world’s treats.

Hey Chicago, I’ve got a novel idea: let people open and concealed carry and these kind of things will be much less likely. Lol, just kidding. They’ll still happen as long as Indiana is so close. Note: this is not reportedly happening in Indiana.)

Sounds like people should have been doing a better job of knowing where their young kids were. I hope this asshole cooks if he’s guilty, but it brings a bigger point up: why do dumbass parents let their 13 year old daughter hang out alone with a grown man? Once practice or school are over, then its time to go home, sorry.  Also, he’s on leave with pay…on the Massholia taxpayer’s dime.

Man doesn’t get pony. Quits. Au revoir, grifter. Oh, by the way, the USA has cut more greenhouse gases as a percentage than any other nation…but we’re doing nothing.

I don’t know much country, so I’m gonna go with this band today even though I’m not what you’d call a fan of theirs.

Now go out there and make the most of this day, friends.

Comments

471 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    CNN deserves any ridicule they get for believing a single word that comes out of Davis’s mouth.

    1. Old Man With Candy

      “False but accurate.” I think that was the term of art?

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        It was “fake but accurate” from Mr. Journalism himself, Dan Rather.

    2. Ayn Random Variation

      They don’t care and their viewers don’t care. It really is a sad state we’re in. Pun.

    3. AlexinCT

      I think that what we have seen so far has shown that as long as it serves the narrative, even if they know it is false, CNN will repeat it and stand behind it. They know their reputation has been ruined, but the true believers will take whatever bullshit CNN peddles and eat it up like a cheap hooker gobbles cock in the hopes of a good tip. Sad times, but fun to watch these assholes pour fuel on the fire consuming them.

      1. WTF

        And then they feign offense when they are labeled “fake news”. Hey, if you don’t want to be called fake news, maybe you should stop pushing phony stories.

        1. AlexinCT

          They are genuinely pissed that they no longer can lie with impunity for team blue and get away with it like they used to. And it pisses them even more that the plebes are now calling them on it.

          1. Count Potato

            Which why they asked the social media companies to crack down on alternative media.

          2. AlexinCT

            Yup, there is a concerted effort right now to regain the once held monopoly on news. That’s because they know that despite their best efforts to hide it, enough people found out they had not just rigged the election for Clinton, but had actually had worked with the deep state that let her off easy on clear criminal charges that would have cost anyone else decades in prison. That pisses them off, because they have managed to sway public opinion in the favor of team blue for a long time now by holding back on things that were negative and over-inflating, if not outright making shit up, to paint team blue’s narrative & agenda as good things. That team red seems to be too stupid to catch on and/or willing to go along made their life easy. Then came Trump – playing by their rules – and he is running circles around them…

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Hulot said he’d been mulling his resignation for several months but one of the last straws was a meeting Monday with Macron about hunting. Hulot was dismayed to see that a hunting lobbyist was allowed to take part despite not being invited, seeing this as a symbol of lobbyists’ influence in French corridors of power.

    OMFG, a hunting lobbyist

    1. What? General Zaroff is a friend of the Administration.

    2. “Only people who side with me should be heard or given access” is progressivism distilled to its essence. Its why they’re such big fans of FB, Twitter, Youtube, Google, etc banning people like Alex Jones Milo Yiannapolis and why I’ll never respect anybody who applauds such actions.

      1. Ayn Random Variation

        Then if you create another platform that welcomes all speech the SPLC will label you as a hate speech organization.
        I wonder at what point we’ll see the non progs really start to fight back. I guess Trump was step 1.

        1. Step two is fascism!
          -progressive dipshit

    3. The French have their version of the Izaak Walton League, I suppose.

    4. So M. Hulot is taking a holiday?

      1. *rétrécit le regard*

    5. Chafed

      What does this have to do with his supposed distress about being an environmental leader?

  3. Yusef drives a Kia

    Lanny Davis needs the Chipper

  4. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: White Male Rage Edition

    This is how white male supremacy works in America. No matter how many white men go on killing sprees because they didn’t get what they wanted (a woman’s attention, popularity in school, a white America), we never discuss the problem of white male rage. Every white killer is a separate and unique “isolated incident,” disconnected from any larger pattern. This is like declaring every tree in a forest to exist in singular solitude and the forest itself to be invisible. Worse, anyone pointing out the obvious existence of the forest is treated as a heretic by polite society because it’s just rude to ruffle the leaves of all the trees. They’re extremely fragile and cannot handle any kind of criticism. After all, you never know what might set another one of them off on a completely isolated killing spree. They’re just under so much pressure these days!

    But that’s the result of creating a society that tells exactly one group, white men, that the universe is theirs to command and control; that everything is theirs for the taking. When white men don’t get what they want, how they want, the way they want it, they lash out in a mindless rage at anyone and everyone they blame for denying them what they feel entitled to. Maybe if we stopped coddling them, they’d stop being so fucking fragile. And then maybe, just maybe, they’d stop killing so many of us in petulant rages when they don’t get their way.

    The sooner we start talking about the problem instead of finding every excuse imaginable to avoid discussing white male rage, the better off the world will be.

    1. Pat

      Sounds like a bunch of superpredators to me. We should pass some sort of federal legislation to address this.

    2. Old Man With Candy

      2/3 of mass shootings in 2018 so far were supposedly done by black males. Ditto the victims. What does this moron think the larger pattern is there?

        1. The Sleeper

          That site seems to take a lot of liberties with the term “mass shooting.”

          1. Agreed. 0 deaths isn’t a mass shooting, but a mass missing.

      1. Slammer

        Wasn’t the Jacksonville shooter Jewish? Is that white?

        1. Old Man With Candy

          When convenient, yes.

    3. Drake

      So *they* are white supremacists this week?

      1. Yusef drives a Kia

        What about Jamaican Jews?

        1. westernsloper

          (((Matzofarians)))?

          1. Chafed

            You win the internet today.

    4. WTF

      …a society that tells exactly one group, white men, that the universe is theirs to command and control; that everything is theirs for the taking.

      I wonder what color the sun shines in the alternate universe he’s living in.

    5. AlexinCT

      So if we are going to just go with numbers, should pointing out that “Over 98% Of Mass Shootings Have Occurred Within Gun-Free Zones According To FBI Stats” impact any and all of this anti-gun bullshit?

    6. Count Potato

      “we never discuss the problem of white male rage”

      Except you never stop discussing it.

      1. Mad Scientist

        And we’ll keep discussing it until you agree with us!

  5. Pat

    Also, he’s on leave with pay…on the Massholia taxpayer’s dime.

    You know, what actually is the point of doing the whole “leave with pay” thing? If the accusation alone is serious enough to warrant taking them out of the job then take them out of the job. If it isn’t, keep them at work.

    1. Don’t you even pubsec union, bro?

  6. Because then with the supply flat and the demand lower

    Why do you assume the supply will be flat? Fishermen are not stupid, declining prices will make them look at other species to catch.

    1. Other fisherman will pick up the slack. Always have, always will when prices rise or fall.

      1. “It wasn’t worth it for us to fish them when they were more expensive, but now that they sell for even less, we’re all over it.”

        If the price starts to go down, the volume will go down until the price stabilizes.

        1. You telling me the volume of fish in the ocean will go down if the price goes down?
          Damn, they’re smarter than dolphins!

          1. The volume the fishermen will bother to drag to shore will go down.

            You’re not this stupid.

          2. Fewer fisherman means a higher yield for those who continue to fish the same water.

          3. And the Chinook salmon are the only fish in those waters? You can change target species and still work in the same areas. The boats changing the balance of what they’re targetting doesn’t mean that the remaining boats will suddenly find themselves glutted in salmon they have to offload.

          4. Serious question: have you ever been on a boat in the ocean when commercial boats are operating? Generally you drag at a specific depth for specific species. And the habitats are huge but the fish tend to concentrate in areas and are easy to catch once located. If fewer fisherman are targeting a species, those who continue to fish it will have larger catches.

          5. Math:
            10 fisherman each catch an even share of
            500 tons of fish
            $100 per ton

            8 fisherman catch an even share of 500 tons at $80 per ton

          6. Other math.

            10 boats, 50 ton capacity.

            500 tons of fish at $100/ton.

            Two boats decide to go entirely for a different species, the remaining 8 deicde to spend a fifth of their time trolling for a different species, you now only get 320 tons to dock at $80/ton.

          7. Why would they spend 20% of their time trolling for a different species when they have a single hold and would have to do two haul ins and reset their entire rigging while at sea or sail somewhere else (at great expense) to get to another fish’s habitat or feeding ground that happens to be at the same depth?

          8. Fine, The expaned example would hold the same but be 10 boats, ten trips each, 5000 tons before, 3200 after, but the result is the same.

          9. Private Chipperbot

            And some of those boat captains like ham and pineapple on their pizzas.

          10. That being two boats spend no trips trawling for salmon, and the 8 remainder spend two trips looking for a fallback species.

          11. westernsloper

            It has been a long time since I was involved in the fisheries of the NW, but it is highly regulated with tight seasons and permits are not plentiful and very coveted. If a boat has a salmon permit and season is open, they are fishing salmon. At least that is what I saw.

          12. highly regulated with tight seasons and permits are not plentiful

            Joy. Government went and shat on a pure economics discussion.

          13. Cy

            Yeah… between permits, seasons and gov regs… you’re both pretty far off the mark here. Just know that these idiot in Seattle are idiots. I promise.

    2. Fishermen are not stupid, declining prices will make them look at other species to catch.

      I don’t know of a single market where participants all leave until the price rebounds. There will be plenty that remain.

      1. I’m not saying that there won’t be any, and I’m not saying the new equalibrium price won’t be lower. I’m saying the supply will not be flat, it will decline.

        1. Supply will remain constant barring a natural disaster. The fish don’t care about demand. They’re gonna reproduce at the same rate regardless. Hence the supply stays flat.

          1. We’ve just struck the same reef as trying to discuss land policy with Robc.

            The difference between supply in the vernacular, and supply in economics. Yes, the number of fish in the sea (and the amount of land in the world) is an independant variable. The quantity on the market, which is really what matters in reaching your plate (or setting prices) is a highly dependant variable separate from that.

          2. The quantity on the market, which is really what matters in reaching your plate (or setting prices) is a highly dependant variable separate from that.

            I’d have to disagree when it comes time commodities. Orange prices rise and fall based on frosts that have no impact on oranges already on the market. Same for new oil finds, bird flu epidemics or an algae bloom in the ocean.

            Commodities markets have different pressures than finished goods (or services) markets.

          3. Jarflax

            That is why time commodities have futures. Futures prices are how the market translates current pricing out of effects on supply that are expected in future. Effectively futures bring hypothetical supply to market.

          4. So basically the exact argument I’m making?

          5. Only if you’re admitting to have changed your mind.

        2. Jarflax

          Ok, this is econ 101 and I think you guys are talking past each other. The way you reach the equilibrium price here is that as demand declines prices drop because supply lags demand. eventually the lower price causes supply to decrease, because declining profits cause suppliers to leave the business, either voluntarily, or because formerly marginally profitable suppliers go out of business as prices drop.

          Sloopy is right in the short term, supply lags demand and at first supply stays constant while demand drops.

          UCS is right that eventually supply will drop in response to the lower prices.

          1. Jarflax

            supply =/= fish in the sea; supply =fish at the market. Supply always means amount of x that is at market.

          2. Supply to the fisherman = fish in the sea. Some will remain and go after an easier haul at a lower price/ton and you’ll end up with the same overall supply since the tonnage per fisherman caught is increased.

          3. Jarflax

            Sure some will remain, some will even increase their harvest as competitors leave the business, but supply responds to demand, and eventually, absent Soviet style “Comrade you will produce the quota or else” regulation, all the following will occur:

            demand will rise due to lower prices,
            supply will drop due to lower prices,
            an equilibrium will be reached.

  7. Pat

    Oh, by the way, the USA has cut more greenhouse gases as a percentage than any other nation…but we’re doing nothing.

    It doesn’t count unless we obliterate individual rights in the process.

    1. That’s the rub. These cretins don’t care about the environment. They care about controlling behavior. But the media ignored that because it’s filled with morons who know fuck all about how climate change occurs or what the causes are.

    2. AlexinCT

      Marxism is the final solution, and until we have that, we are a failure..

  8. Slammer

    1. George Jones
    2. Johnny Cash
    3. Merle Haggard
    4. Hank Williams

    1.Loretta Lynn
    2. Patsy Cline
    3. Tammy Wynette
    4. Dolly Partom

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      1 John Denver
      2 Garth Brooks
      3 The Achy Breaky Heart guy
      4 Darius Rucker

      1. Old Man With Candy

        1. Rick Astly
        2. Rick Springfield
        3. Rick Nelson
        4. Rick Derringer

        1. Yusef drives a Kia

          1. Mick Jagger
          2. David Bowie
          3.Freddie Mercury
          4.Elton John

    2. Old Man With Candy

      I’d largely agree with that list, but Patsy will always be #1.

      1. WTF

        Yes, and Johnny Cash #1 also.

        1. Old Man With Candy

          No, I’d go with George Jones, too. But Cash is always in the top 5.

          No love for Slim Whitman?

          1. WTF

            Sure, Slim Whitman, but my personal list would be:
            1. Johnny Cash
            2. Hank Williams
            3. George Jones
            4. Merle Haggard

    3. Pat

      1. Jason Aldean
      2. Kenny Chesney
      3. Toby Keith
      4. Keith Urban

      1. Reba McEntire
      2. The Judds
      3. Carrie Underwood
      4. Faith Hill

      1. Old Man With Candy

        1. Kenny G
        2. Kenny Rogers
        3. Kenny Loggins
        4. Kenny McCormick

        1. Pat

          Not gonna lie, I’d listen to that mix.

        2. Robert Plant
          Robert Smith
          Bob Marley
          Robert Palmer

    4. 1) Waylon Jennings
      2) Steve Young
      3) Guy Clark
      4) John Moreland
      … runner ups …
      5) Dwight Yoakam
      6) Willie Nelson

      1) Patsy Cline

        1. Old Man With Candy

          He would have been NOTHING without Jerry Rice.

          1. robc

            He didn’t have Rice in the USFL.

          2. robc

            or at BYU.

          3. Old Man With Candy

            Yeah, but that’s Little League.

      1. Mojeaux

        Dwight Yowkam was very good in Slingblade.

        1. Pat

          What’cha doin’ with that lawn mower blade Karl?

        2. Mojeaux

          Yoakam*

          i do no hough too spel.

      1. Stillhunter

        He’s on my list. My fave: Long White Line

      2. Meh – I saw Sturgill live and loved his first two albums. And then the atrocity known as “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” came out. The question nobody asked: “What would Waylon Jennings sound like if he made a soul album.” I know the critics and just about everyone else liked it, but a few of the hardcore fans didn’t.

    5. Florida Man

      1. Randy Travis
      2. Johnny Cash
      3. Willie Nelson
      4. Garth Brooks
      5. Hank Williams

      1. Reba McEntire
      2. Lucinda Williams
      3. Patsy Cline
      4. Tammy Wynette
      5. Dolly Pardon

      1. Pope Jimbo

        Dolly Pardon? Was she the one who sang “Stand by your Russian Autocrat”?

        1. Florida Man

          Yes.

      2. Brett L

        Are we just doing voice? Because Dolly’s song writing alone should get her top 3.

        1. Pope Jimbo

          BTW, my mom really dislikes Dolly because of her show at the We Fest (the big country music fest in Detroit Lakes, MN).

          When Dolly was going to play there her advance team organized a local choir to back Dolly up. So all the local women put together a choir and practiced a lot for her show. Then when the show went on, they used a sound track for the backup voices. So Mom and the others basically stood up there and sang into dead mikes.

          Mom wasn’t upset about the deception, she was just pissed that the organizers made them practice so much to not do anything.

          1. MikeS

            So Mom and the others basically stood up there and sang into dead mikes.

            I’m not dead!

          2. Pope Jimbo

            Hmmmmm…..

            Now that you mention it, she might have said “Stiff Mike”. I just assumed she meant dead.

    6. Pope Jimbo

      I have a warm spot in my heart for Hank Williams Jr.

      Not because of his music, but for the way he lived it up when he visited my small home town. Every year since 1983 my home town has had a huge country music fest. In the early years it was 7 days of shows and the performers would stay at the Holiday Inn (where I worked).

      The year Hank Jr showed up, he came the week prior and stayed for 3 weeks to party. He wore the suspenders with Hank Jr on them, he had at least 3 different “girlfriends” hanging out with him during that time and his bar tab was enormous. He lived just the way a rube kid from the western prairie of Minnesoda thought a super star should live.

      1. Tulip

        You’re from DL?

        1. Pope Jimbo

          Yup. Moved there when I was three and left when I was 18. Great place to grow up.

  9. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: The Greatest Most Arrogant Generation Edition” target=”_blank” >The Greatest Most Arrogant Generation Edition

    Tom Brokaw

    @tombrokaw
    pres trump – you are commander in chief by law, duty bound to honor sen mccain
    ignoring his death is a disgrace

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      I ‘tarded that up

      1. Slammer

        Teusday

      2. AlexinCT

        And you talk like a fag too.

    2. Pat

      Failing to suck McCain’s decaying cock is an impeachable offense.

    3. Rebel Scum

      duty bound to honor sen mccain

      Follow the flag code. And by my reading of it, which someone linked here yesterday, the flag code was followed. And I’d wager that the current president did not even make the decision for it to be raised after being down for the proper time pursuant to the flag code because I am pretty sure the White House has staff that handle that on their own.

      1. westernsloper

        I heard on the radio box yesterday that Trump signed an Exec order keeping the flag at half until they bury the prick.

        1. MikeS

          Yes. I get an email form the American Legion whenever the flag is to be at half-staff. On Monday I received this notification:

          President Trump has issued a proclamation noting Senator John McCain’s death and legacy of service to our nation, and that our nation’s flag should be lowered to half-staff through his interment, Sept. 2.

          The full proclamation may be found on the White House website at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-from-the-president-2/

          This was updating a previous statement that it should be at half-staff until sunset, Monday.

          1. westernsloper

            “through his internment”, bury the prick……..potato patato

    4. Stinky Wizzleteats

      It’s sad to see all these lefties who rightly condemned McCain as a war monger puckering up to kiss his beanbag. It’s pathetic.

    5. What a sad loser.

    6. Endless Mike

      Man, the left LOVES this guy. I guess he’s a good Republican, now…

      1. Enough About Palin

        Because in their minds, the only good Republican is a dead Republican.

  10. Drake

    Maybe a green cruise to prove global warming is a thing will cheer up Nicolas Hulot? Oh no – stuck in the ice again.

    1. commodious spittoon

      Look, all signs indicated an open passage through the arctic. But given the vicissitudes of climate change, ice formed faster than expected and trapped the ship. You know how climate doesn’t always comport with the projections climatologists devise? That uncertainty is down to changing climate, too. When the climate underperforms relative to expected warming, that’s climate change.

  11. Rebel Scum

    Smith & Wesson hasn’t responded to requests for comment.

    “We would just like to tell that Hogg kid to kindly fuck off.”

    But maybe I am not the best PR person.

    1. They couldn’t stop laughing long enough to compose a response.

    2. S&W are the most likely to kowtow to him. Didn’t they roll over once before to the anti-gun nutters?

    3. mr simple

      The group wants the company to donate $5 million to gun violence research.

      Don’t we already know enough about how to commit violence with a gun? Why do we need to research it more?

    4. B.P.

      “Hey, you know we have a bunch of guns in here, right?”

  12. Drake

    “Canada Just Got Played”: How Mexico Stabbed Canada In The Back

    The Twink in the North is not going to be happy.

    1. WTF

      So, Trump is Tywin Lannister and Mexico is Roose Bolton?

    2. In keeping with a kind of tradition established by HM: comment about Zionism just 3 comments in. Impressive.

      1. Chafed

        That was ugly. I don’t understand what about that site brings out the antisemites.

        1. Juvenile Bluster

          ZH has a lot of “(((they))) control the economy” types.

    3. Florida Man

      I’ve heard any deal with Mexico won’t matter because it has to include Canada. Why? Mexico doesn’t border Canada. The Canadians don’t have a deal with Guatemala because it borders Mexico. Seems like the US could make an individual deal with whomever they want.

      1. Who was making that claim?

        1. Florida Man

          I tried to find the article I read, but all google is turning up is the latest stuff.

          1. AlexinCT

            You must have missed the news about Google basically returning left leaning sites for 94% of any Trump related searches the other day. I tried to google that shit to link here, but all I got was left leaning articles about how this story was not true.

          2. The Last American Hero

            Do a search for Trump, take a screen shot.

        2. AlexinCT

          Tards, Trump haters, and never-Trumpers.

    4. Pope Jimbo

      Mexicans are just doing the trading that Canadians refuse to do.

  13. Trump’s ‘cult of personality,’ thinking of past Presidents, and more: Letters to the editor

    If you wonder why Trump’s base sticks with him, in spite of evidence of his working with the Russians to undermine our democracy, and his willingness to pull babies from their mothers, there is an explanation. They have become cult members.

    Trump created a Cult of Personality, very similar to what Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators have done. Key aspects of this type of Cult leadership are; the ability to tell the big lie, to constantly denigrate anyone who criticizes them, to manipulate the media into near continuous coverage of himself, to push hyper-patriotism, to hold frequent rallies, and push his lies incessantly, doubling down even when it is shown that he is lying.

    1. Pat

      Next thing you know his delusional supporters will be saying that his mere existence is healing the environment and receding the tides.

      1. “Ruining beachfront Property Values!”

    2. Slammer

      I don’t support Trump, really.

      I just really, really hate the Left. Does that count?

      1. commodious spittoon

        Bingo. And no amount of snippy, historically illiterate op-eds comparing Trump to the twentieth century’s greatest hits will convince me to take lefties any more seriously.

      2. mr simple

        This is it exactly. I would be a lot more anti-Trump if his opponents weren’t such idiots.

    3. WTF

      …in spite of evidence of his working with the Russians to undermine our democracy, and his willingness to pull babies from their mothers

      Somebody doesn’t know what “evidence” means.

    4. Obama wanted a cult of personality like Stalin. The only problem is, he didn’t have a personality.

      1. The Last American Hero

        There’s a lady with a phone out there that disagrees.

    5. Rebel Scum

      the ability to tell the big lie, to constantly denigrate anyone who criticizes them, to manipulate the media into near continuous coverage of himself,

      But enough about Barry.

  14. Slammer

    SOURCES: CHINA HACKED CLINTON’S PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER

    A Chinese-owned company penetrated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server, according to sources briefed on the matter.

    The company inserted code that forwarded copies of Clinton’s emails to the Chinese company in real time.

    The Intelligence Community Inspector General warned of the problem, but the FBI subsequently failed to act, Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert said during a July hearing.

    1. Wouldn’t just be easier to list who did not have access to Clinton’s email server?

      1. WTF

        Actually it’s easier to keep flogging the phony RUSSIA COLLUSION bullshit as a distraction from the actual criminality by Hillary and the Obama administration.

        1. AlexinCT

          Not just the criminality, but the ineptness and lack of care for it. If anything the lesson here is that these people were more concerned with maintaining their ability to steal from the productive than to do anything to protect the country or its people.

        2. commodious spittoon

          Ixnay on the ussia-Ray! The line now is “campaign finance violations felonies.”

    2. Old Man With Candy

      Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert said

      So about as credible as Hank Johnson.

      1. Are you saying the story is going to tip over?

        1. A Leap at the Wheel

          Can we please put a cap size on the number of bad puns we are going to have in this thread?

          1. F. Stupidity Jr.

            Great, you’re going to start a big row, Leap.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Unsurprisingly, CNN are still maintaining that the story is legitimate.

    The truth is not the truth.

  16. Drake

    SOURCES: CHINA HACKED CLINTON’S PRIVATE EMAIL SERVER

    I assume every competent intelligence agency in the world has a copy of everything on that server. Is it “Hacking” if you have access to the physical server in the laundromat or wherever she had it stashed?

    1. LJW

      So expect more random botched robberyies and heart attacks in the coming months?

      1. I’m just waiting for one of the secret service sods assigned to the clinton detail to get sick of the abuse and shoot her.

        1. Pope Jimbo

          Would he have to use silver bullets for that to be effective.

          Personally, I think I would demand a stake through the heart before I would be comfortable betting against her being the nominee in 2020.

          1. Chafed

            It’s a good idea to be cautious.

  17. LJW

    The opposite of the NFL kneeling controversy?

    I’m sure someone will find a way to be offended by this.

  18. Pat

    If Police Really Put American Lives Ahead Of Their Own, They’d Hurt Fewer People

    U.S. police officers are a class of people with special rights. They bravely go where most of us fear to tread. They have done heroic things and saved countless lives. On the other hand, their job is also to enforce the law, no matter how dreadful. That ties them to prohibitionist insanities against drugs and prostitution. Increasingly, they enforce regulatory issues, sometimes clad in militaristic SWAT gear.

    Yet cops appear to believe their lives are more important than ours. Police want respect and esteem — and obedience — but they, their fraternal organizations, their unions, their chiefs, their friends and family, and everyone waving a Blue Lives Matter flag, lean on cliches such as “split-second decision” to defend unwarranted force, and stress that officer safety is paramount.

    It shouldn’t be. If police have extended legal rights (which they do), and are alway armed (which they are in the United States), then they need to be braver than the rest of us, and they need to prioritize the safety of everyone else before themselves. If they are unable or unwilling to do that, they should find a different career.

    Don’t talk about… the author.

    1. Count Potato

      “Lucy Steigerwald is a journalist and an editor at Young Voices. Her work has appeared in the American Conservative, the Daily Beast, Playboy, and Reason.”

      1. Trolleric the Goth

        need a body shot, but from that bio face pic – would

    2. Democractic Hitler

      They bravely go where most of us fear to tread take up tactical positions while a gunman slaughters school children unimpeded.

    3. They bravely go where most of us fear to tread?

      AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

  19. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Tard Tuesday: Economics for Idiots Edition

    Bonus discussion by idiots

    These people are so obsessed with the idea that they might one day be that rich billionaire that they ignore the fact that billionaires hurt everyone just by existing

    1. Pat

      These people are so obsessed with the idea that they might one day be that commissar that they ignore the fact that commissars hurt everyone just by existing

    2. I don’t know how you endure the pain.

  20. German actress claims Adolf Hitler secretly romped with her mum in long lost interview

    Schwarzer, who has finally decided to broadcast the explosive chat, said: “She [Romy] was firmly convinced that her mother had a sexual relationship with Hitler.”

    Magda met her future husband, Austrian thespian Wolf Albach-Retty, while filming in 1933 and the couple married four years later.

    During WWII, they lived in the Bavarian alps near Hitler’s retreat in the mountainside retreat of Obersalzberg, above the town of Berchtesgaden.

    The Fuhrer openly said she was his favourite actress and would have her over at his place often, says Romy who never forgave her mother for seeing the murderous dictator.

    1. LJW

      I feel like this is a “You know who also” question in reverse. It’s like Jeopardy Hitler version.

    2. *looks up Romy Schneider*

      Born 23 September, 1938.

      Hrmm…

      1. AlexinCT

        You saying you would still? Dang you granny fucker.

        1. She’s been dead about 35 years, so wouldn’t.

  21. Slammer

    Donald J. Trump

    Verified account

    @realDonaldTrump
    Following Following @realDonaldTrump
    More

    Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of…

    ….results on “Trump News” are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!

    This is a very serious situation-will be addressed!

    What’s hilarious is that he doesn’t actually have to do anything going forward, the threat of “will be addressed” does most of the work for him. The tweets drive the discussion more than any actual policy

    1. Pat

      Before you know it this tyrant will be spying on the phones and personal computers of journalists and sending reporters to jail for failing to name their sources.

      1. Count Potato

        You’re only saying that because he’s black.

  22. westernsloper

    RE Astro’s girl and old dude on the right. Discretion man, discretion is needed when perving.

    1. Evan from Evansville

      I think he’s old enough to safely not give a fuck.

  23. Scruffy Nerfherder

    I heard there was a local LP platform committee meeting, so I took a video camera.

    1. I call bullshit. I didn’t see one slap fight or tinfoil hat.

    2. Pat

      Ha, you can’t fool me. No pot. No Mexicans. Buggery debatable.

    3. Slammer

      Kek.

      I thought Lolbertarians were much fatter. There’s not a guy more than 120lbs soaking wet in there

  24. Earth Native American girls are easy?

    94 Percent of Native Women in Seattle Survey Say They’ve Been Raped or Coerced Into Sex

    In May 2016, a disturbing study by the Department of Justice revealed that out of the 2,000-plus Native American and Alaskan Native women surveyed (who lived both on and outside of reservations), 56 percent had experienced sexual assault and rape; the report blamed the high rate of sexual violence on a “flawed tribal court structure, little local law enforcement, and a lack of funding.”

    But it appears that even in urban settings, Native women are just as likely — if not more likely — to face violence of a sexual nature. Of the 148 women surveyed, 94 percent said they had been raped or forced to have sex; 86 percent reported that they suffered from historical trauma (a term that refers to the concept that trauma from colonization and historical oppression is passed down from generation to generation); and 69 percent claimed they experienced street harassment. According to the survey, nearly 54 percent of the surveyed women lacked permanent housing — a factor that increases the likelihood that one will experience sexual assault.

    1. gbob

      Easily duped by glass beads, smallpox blankets and firewater.

    2. PieInTheSKy

      Of the 148 women surveyed, – uhuh …

      86 percent reported that they suffered from historical trauma (a term that refers to the concept that trauma from colonization and historical oppression is passed down from generation to generation); – lol

      What is the exact definition used for rape or coercion ?

      Lets check ENB twitter she is usually on this

      1. PieInTheSKy

        1) rape & coerced sex are lumped together, w/coercion defined as sex after someone lied, “made false promises, threatened to end the relationship, wore the victim down through repeated requests, or exerted their influence or authority”
        come on baby you sure you don’t wanna bang. think it over. you’ll like it – rape?
        2)definition of rape here includes “any completed or attempted sex” after “the giving of drugs or alcohol to the victim” (*not* incapacitation via drugs/alcohol)
        – wait if you buy a chick a drink in a bar and then have sex with her it is rape?

        3) sexual assault definition includes unwanted comments & flashing

        whut?

        1. In other words, the same way they claim eight out of four girls at college are raped.

          1. AlexinCT

            Made the fuck up..

        2. WTF

          Unwanted comments? Christ, I’ve been sexually assaulted so many time I’ve lost track!

      2. Spartacus

        So, most of my family is originally Welsh. Does that mean I can claim Edward I as an historical oppressor?
        Where’s my reparations?

        1. The Welsh don’t count. For anything.

          1. Spartacus

            Oh yeah? Well, llanwynfargelwyffynldd to you too, buddy.

    3. Slammer

      By other Natives?

    4. Private Chipperbot

      lack of funding.

      I think I see the angle here.

    5. The Last American Hero

      historical.fucking.trauma.

      Stop now.

      Oh, and way past time to disband the tribes. Form NFP’s, give the land to the NFP’s, end special funding and toss em in the Medicaid/welfare pile with the general population, who don’t get raped.

  25. ChipsnSalsa

    Soo much going on in your first picture selection, guys happy with the view, other girls giving the stink eye. hilarious.

  26. PieInTheSKy

    Attempt to replicate major social scientific findings of past decade fails

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/aug/27/attempt-to-replicate-major-social-scientific-findings-of-past-decade-fails

    In total, the team tried to replicate one main finding from each of the 21 social science papers published between 2010 and 2015 in Science or Nature, widely regarded as the two most prestigious scientific journals.

    They found evidence to back the original conclusions in 13 of the 21 (62%) studies. But, on average, the sizes of the effects recorded were about 75% as big in the replication studies, despite these using sample sizes that were on average five times as big.

    And I assume even the ones which replicate does not mean they were well designed or their conclusions interpreted correctly…

    1. This shit goes away pronto once you pull no-strings-attached grants for science from governments, so people have more skin in the game.

    2. Pat

      But, on average, the sizes of the effects recorded were about 75% as big in the replication studies, despite these using sample sizes that were on average five times as big.

      Or perhaps because the sample sizes were on average five times as big.

    3. AlexinCT

      As soon as I see the word “social” in combination with study, science, or facts, I know I am about to be lied to.

    4. commodious spittoon

      “62% of the time we were 75% correct. Almost batting 500. What’s the problem?”

    5. A Leap at the Wheel

      A reputable new source would link to the original journal article it is lazily cribbing from.

    6. mr simple

      “These results show that ‘statistically significant’ scientific findings need to be interpreted very cautiously until they have been replicated even if published in the most prestigious journals,” said Magnus Johannesson of the Stockholm School of Economics, another of the project leaders.

      I think anyone who didn’t know this doesn’t understand statistics or econometrics, i.e. they fucking love science. No one study proves anything and no number generated from a regression should be taken literally. All studies should be run multiple times and updated accordingly. I’m going to stop here before I start to rant.

  27. Curious George would have been so much more interesting if he acted like a real chimpanzee and hurled his feces at people during some of his antics.

    1. Furious George?

      1. The first Curious George book is pretty epic. The Man in the Yellow Hat kidnaps him forcefully. After he comes to terms with his captivity, he sits down with a nice pipe to smoke after dinner.

        1. AlexinCT

          Erm, is that pipe smoking comment some sort of euphemism?

          1. Mojeaux

            Nope.

          2. ChipsnSalsa

            George has a drug problem.

          3. AlexinCT

            How come that story doesn’t end with George waking up and his ass hurting and being covered in Vaseline like all those knockout jokes go?

          4. Spartacus

            Don’t forget the $11 in wadded-up singles stuffed in his pockets.

  28. Pat

    The World’s First Beer Hotel — With In-room Taps and Shower Mini-bars — Is Finally Opening

    In March 2017, Scottish beer company BrewDog launched a campaign for the “world’s first crowdfunded craft beer hotel,” complete with taps in all the rooms, mini-fridges stocked with beer in the showers, and a spa that uses beer-infused products.

    Fast forward 17 months later and the 32-room hotel is now inviting guests to “the world’s first beer hotel where you can wake up inside a brewery.”

    Starting Monday, Aug. 27, craft beer lovers can expect to be greeted by a whole host of “rocking amenity options” at The DogHouse in Columbus, Ohio.

    While you will sadly not be able to soak in a hot tub filled with IPA, the brewery has been able to make good on the rest of its promises, including in-room taps filled with seasonal BrewDog beer, mini-fridges stocked with beer in every room and shower, and malted barley massages for a vitamin B-rich spa experience.

    1. Mr Lizard

      Perhaps your species may be approaching peak craft beer

      1. robc

        Maybe, but its an asymptote, not a parabola.

        1. robc

          Also, the key is when it stops being craft beer and just becomes beer.

    2. robc

      Maybe its a scale thing, but Holy Grale in Louisville has a Bed and Breakfast. I don’t know if they ended up doing the taps in the room or not, probably not, knowing KY alcohol laws. But, its still a “hotel” attached to a beer garden and bar.

      http://gralehaus.com/sleepytime/

      1. Nephilium

        The girlfriend and I were just down at BrewDog. The hotel looks nice, the biggest issues are it’s about 20 minutes outside of Columbus, and there’s not much else out in that area. I backed the hotel (at a discount as a share holder), to get a weekend stay. I think we’re currently planning on taking advantage of that some time in December. The other part that was left out of that was they also put in a big sour program down there based off of one they’re running in Scotland as BrewDog Overworks. I got to sample some of those beers, and they were really good.

        And they may just be the first to be an actual part of the brewery, because the Dogfish Inn has been around for a couple of years now.

    3. You need to drink there because it’s in the middle of nowhere. (Canal Winchester, Ohio)

  29. PieInTheSKy

    Thieves in Paraguay have stolen 42 powerful rifles from the police armoury.

    During an inspection, officers found that the FN FAL battle rifles had been replaced with wooden and plastic replicas.

    The inspection had been ordered after the rifles started appearing a year ago on the black market, where they can fetch up to $10,000 (£7,785).

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45320202

    1. *Looks around for Eric Holder*

    2. PieInTheSKy

      As a gunless Romanian, are FN FAL any good? Can you buy one in the US? How can Belgians of all people make guns?

      1. Pat

        Variants of the FAL have been used by damn near every military in Europe and South America. Semi-auto variants are available in the US.

      2. AlexinCT

        French crap.

        1. PieInTheSKy

          Belgians are not French. Belgians eat mussels.. French eat frogs

          1. I thought the French ate Snails.

            So many invertibrates.

          2. PieInTheSKy

            Also snail. I had snail with butter in Dijon with a nice Chablis. Not bad. Followed by Boeuf Bourguignon with a glass of the local Pinot Noir. And a cheese palate with another glass of red. Overall not bad

          3. AlexinCT

            Indeed.. and well accompanied.

          4. Troy

            Real men eat bacon.

          5. AlexinCT

            Belgians are made fun of by the French and the Dutch, because they are stupid on both counts.

          6. mr simple

            At least the Belgians know how to make good beer.

      3. I would love to own one some day. Iirc Lachowsky owns one.

      4. Trolleric the Goth

        decent for it’s day (the 1950’s) but nothing special anymore.

        overpowered for a combat rifle, but not enough mechanical accuracy to make into a DMR, weird operating system too

        1. I remember it for being the same rifle used on both sides in the Falklands war.

          1. Trolleric the Goth

            I would think a stickler for detail such as yourself would note the fundamental difference between the L1A1 SLR and the proper FN FAL, the lack of a selector switch on the former

          2. *waves dismissively* yes I know the brits were using the semi-auto variant. But I don’t give a crap.

        2. Democractic Hitler

          linux?

      5. EvilSheldon

        FN-FALs share a similar problem with the 1911A1 – they’re a platform rather than a gun. There are a whole bunch of outfits making FALs and clones, and the build quality can vary widely from manufacturer to manufacturer.

        They’re also old, fairly heavy, they have terrible iron sights, and they’re kind of a pain in the ass to work on compared to a modern rifle.

        That said, if you get a good one, the FAL is an absolute joy to shoot. A shorty L1A1 with an old Singlepoint reflex sight, circa Ian Yule’s character in The Wild Geese, is one of my dream rifles.

        http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese#Custom_L1A1_Battle_Carbine

    3. Gustave Lytton

      “Rubber ducky, you’re the one
      You make range time so much fun”

    4. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

      Right arm of the free world.

  30. Mr Lizard

    From the story about alleged mating of an undersized mammal

    “LeColst developed a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old girl and it continued until she turned 15 in 2005”

    Hmmmm, there is math here and it is relevant to the story

    1. AlexinCT

      What sort of “relationship” do you develop with a kid?

      1. Mr Lizard

        Well I was more curious about the 13 year delay in allegations…

        1. commodious spittoon

          There are no perfect victims, shitlord. Or very punctual ones.

      2. Not Adahn

        A two-year one, apparently

  31. westernsloper

    Spoon, told KOMO News. “The plight of the orcas right now is so tragic so important to maintain their food resource it was very simple and no-brainer to take off the king salmon from our menu to help our environment.”

    They are starving and that is why the baby Orca died. Got it.

    From the link about the Orca in that story:

    Balcomb also noted that the orca didn’t seem malnourished, a positive sign for her survival.

    Wut?

    1. Pat

      Forget it, he’s rolling.

    2. Pope Jimbo

      Could I bring up the fact that the Wisconsin DNR (WISCONSIN FOR DOGS SAKE) has managed to build a giant king salmon fishery in Lake Michigan entirely through stocking them.

      I’m sure Washington/Oregon and British Columbia could boost salmon numbers through a similar stocking program if they wanted. Or maybe the problem is that the bait fish salmon feed on are way low, so the salmon can’t feed?

      If it is a problem with the bait fish, eating salmon would be the best thing you could do. Reduce the salmon temporarily so the bait fish can rebound. The bait fish in Lake Michigan collapsed at one point because the WDNR overstocked salmon to get as much fishing $$ as they could. For a few years (late 80’s?) salmon fishing was tough.

      The WDNR restricted salmon stocking by a lot for a few years and the bait fish are back. Now they have a more balanced take.

      Salmon also have a 4 year life cycle so not eating fish now only impacts a few generations of salmon at best.

      1. Gustave Lytton

        The big problem is mostly salmon habitat in fresh water (and access to that). Running hatchery program can inflate the numbers for a time, but it becomes a mostly open water fish pond (chokes out native subspecies, lack of diversity, disease transmission, etc.) at a large cost.

        Even though I disagree with the author’s apparent philosophy (and much of the modern conservation approach), I do recommend Jim Lichatowich’s Salmon without Rivers.

        1. Pope Jimbo

          Totally agree. Wisconsin has gotten pretty good about finding the balance between salmon levels for the fisherman and the native species.

          We’ve had some interesting conversations with game wardens over there about the stocking programs. The charter captains are some of the biggest supporters of the limited stocking. The ones who were around for the crashes remember how bad it was and don’t want that again.

          The ones who bitch about it the most are the ones who travel there from Iowa and want to fill up a cooler of fish no matter what. (To be fair, this same type of person will also bitch about the weather if it rains while they are there so they aren’t the best people to listen to).

          I’ll have to check that book out.

        2. Pope Jimbo

          OK, a bit of an OT rant. I went to Amazon to look for the book Salmon without Rivers that Gus recommended and what do I see?

          Hardcover: 3.29
          Paperback: 5.55
          Kindle: 16.99

          FUCK. I don’t want a real book. I love my Kindle, but how can authors/publishers be so silly as to keep their prices that high? Why not take advantage of the long tail to try to get a few more sales for this book that was written in 2001?

          I know there are writers amongst the rest of you cretins. I’d love to know who can be blamed for this? Author? Publisher? Amazon?

          1. If you look, those physical copies are secondhand. Even those that are ‘New’ were sitting around in someone’s inventory and they dropped the prices to clear them.

            The eBook price is set between the publisher and Amazon. There is no secondhand market involved, and no inventory clearance pressure to lower price.

          2. Pope Jimbo

            I get that there is no inventory pressure with an e-book, but the flip side is that there is also no cost to sell that e-book (no delivery, storage or other costs).

            Is it just the fact that the publisher doesn’t go back through their catalog and adjust prices accordingly?I’d think some intern could go through the back catalog for shit like this and say, “why don’t we change the price to $5.00?”.

            My dark horse suspicion is that this book might still be getting assigned as reading for some college courses. That would explain why the price is still high. (If I was a student assigned this, I’d totally fork over the extra money for the convenience of not having to lug it around as well as being able to use x-ray to see other people’s notes.)

          3. I’m not convinced that the publishers actually understand the eBook market. They’re used to setting one price when they go to print, then never having to worry about it again unless they do another printing. So they may not even have anyone reviewing the back catalog to see where they could squeeze a few dollars more out of the titles by adjusting the ebook prices.

          4. A Leap at the Wheel

            If publishers understood their market, they’d have a universal subscription service full of people not reading a book and paying a monthly fee to do so.

            If they understood human psychology, a yearly subscription to the service would include a $4 canvas grocery bag with their logo (and date!) on it so all the non-reading paying customers could conspicuously show off how they are the kind of people that value reading.

          5. Gustave Lytton

            Your suspicions are correct Your Holiness. I read it as part of a fisheries & wildlife class.

            I find Conservation studies to be pretty depressing. My summarization: despite millions (and probably billions) thrown at it, there are very little success stories to show for it. A lot of supposed mitigation or fixes don’t work, other than widespread abadonment of natural resources (and even then, may not fix it). Lots of hubris that we can understand and control complex biological systems (in the same vein as hubristic assumptions of being able to figure out and run economic systems for specific desired outcomes), including just letting letting the chips fall where they may and deliberately kill off more or less some species.

          6. Democractic Hitler

            Yeah, that’s a real pisser, and not at all uncommon.

            I’m pretty sure it’s not Amazon, they basically lost a contract negotiation showdown with all the major publishers in 2014/2015 which allowed the publishers to control the prices.

            http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/04/14/what_the_amazon_harpercollins_deal_means_for_e_book_pricing_and_publishing.html

  32. Rebel Scum

    ESPN does not know what a sports network is

    Tiger Woods is asked something stupid about the president and gives a nonpartisan answer. That just can’t be allowed.

    “It really bothers me. I’m angry at what Tiger Woods said, because it is a thoughtless statement dressed up as a thoughtful statement, and it either holds in contempt the intelligence of people who hear it, or else it’s just a stupid thing to say,” said Kellerman. The co-host argued that “having respect for the office means, principally, in my view, is the officer-holder should have respect for the office.”

    “Well, we all know that,” agreed Smith.

    “Tiger Woods is … being slick,” continued an upset Kellerman, adding, “I don’t even know if he believes that’s what he’s saying.”

    “Well, first of all, we don’t know what Tiger Woods believes. He’s Cablinasian. He’s not black,” responded Smith. “When he got arrested, he was black. He was listed black on the report.”

    Who’s racist again?

    1. Stinky Wizzleteats

      ESPN is hemmoraging subscribers and they can’t seem to learn. I want my sports news to be about grown men throwing a ball around, not the damn president.

      1. AlexinCT

        But they want to ride that socials justice bandwagon and prove their wokeness creds!

    2. LJW

      Really sad. As a kid I woke up every morning and watched SportsCenter. Now I won’t even touch the channel except for the rare occasion my team is playing on one of the ESPN’s.

      1. Pope Jimbo

        My 17 year old no longer watches SportsCenter before school. When he was in Jr. High, that was what he did during breakfast. He was a walking sports encyclopedia, but now he is as bad as I am at knowing who the hell we are watching.

      2. Drake

        Same here. I watch the MLB network summer mornings I’m home. Much better coverage, no politics, and no soccer.

    3. Pat

      With us or agin us.

    4. Rebel Scum

      So, let’s understand that, Tiger Woods, that’s the issue the African-American community has always had, because, obviously from a historical perspective, if one-third of you has a darker hue, a darker pigmentation, the bottom line is you are black and it is that simple. … So, what I’m saying to you is, clearly, you are perceived as being a black man and even though you didn’t want to disassociate yourself from your mother’s ethnicity, who is Tai I believe, the bottom line is, that’s the reason why he took that position. But black Americans haven’t respected that from Tiger for quite some time. They haven’t heard him speak on a plethora of issues pertaining to having a social consciousness on many, many occasions.

      Tiger is supposed to play golf, not bloviate about politics.

    5. Michael

      Our media is ran by a bunch of toddlers. How pathetic.

    6. Rufus the Monocled

      I just heard that on the radio.

      Holy shit what a shithead!

    7. Scruffy Nerfherder

      He’s Cablinasian. He’s not black

      Wut?

      1. kinnath

        To the best of my recollection. Father was black with native american ancestry. Mother is/was dutch and thai.

        Tiger used to say he was caucasian, black, indian, and asian. So Cablinasian.

        1. Scruffy Nerfherder

          Hold on while I recalibrate my racial identity giveashitometer…

    8. Rufus the Monocled

      “…Smith claimed that Woods doesn’t identify himself as black, to the disapproval of the African-American community, ”

      Poor wittle little black community all upset a golfer don’t identify with them.

      Jesus Christ. What the fuck?

      Woods doesn’t their fucken ‘approval’ asshole.

      1. AlexinCT

        He dared to not let them restrict him to the plantation…

      2. Rufus the Monocled

        ‘doesn’t identify’

        and

        ‘doesn’t need their’

      3. Pope Jimbo

        Boy, I so remember when Tiger was unstoppable how the black community shunned him. No matter how much he begged everyone to ignore his Thai mother and let him in the black club, no one would let him in. You never saw any articles about how Tiger – a black man – was the greatest golfer ever.

        1. kinnath

          When Tiger started playing as a pro, he was pretty consistent about talking about being mixed race.

          Once Nike started handing over the boatloads of cash and pitching him as the greatest black golfer ever, Tiger stopped talking about his race and let his silence do the talking.

    9. Democractic Hitler

      Seriously, how is ESPN still in business?

      1. Bundling.

        If they’re included in your cable bundle, you’re giving them money, even if you never tune in. It’s how CNN hasn’t gone under yet either.

      2. Rhywun

        I’m watching the US Open all day, every court covered. It’s real easy to avoid their politics – just don’t watch the “news” shows. It also helps to have zero interest in baseball, football, or basketball.

      3. Democractic Hitler

        UCS, I suppose so. I would have thought the effect might be the reverse of that: I assume a whole lot of people only pay for their cable bundle to get ESPN, so I would have expected a mass departure of ESPN viewers to have knock-on effect on cable revenues. But, it’s not like I can be arsed to get any data.

        I assumed CNN is kept afloat because half of the country is getting exactly what they want from it.

    10. JaimeRoberto

      Come on Tiger, wear the ribbon!

  33. Pat

    Singer claims he was drugged and raped in 2010 by classical music power couple

    An up-and-coming baritone singer alleges he was drugged and violently raped in 2010 by two of opera/classical music’s shining stars, David Daniels and Scott Walters.

    Daniels, 52, the most famous countertenor in the world, has been a favorite of the Metropolitan Opera, while his now-husband Walters, 36, is a respected conductor.

    The couple is so highly regarded that they were married in 2014 by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

    Samuel Schultz claims that in 2010, the same couple drugged and raped him following a performance in Texas, leaving him unconscious. He claims that he awoke the next afternoon in a strange bed, disoriented, in pain and bleeding from the rectum.

    1. AlexinCT

      Not important because he doesn’t identify as a tranny?

    2. Slammer

      STEVE SMITH MAKE HIKERS SING ALTO

    3. Democractic Hitler

      ONE OF YOUR KIDNEYS HAS BEEN REMOVED, GET TO A HOSPITAL.

      ALSO, WE STUCK IT IN YOUR BUM.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    “Well, we all know that,” agreed Smith.

    Sit down, Shirley. I’ve got some bad news for you.

  35. PieInTheSKy

    The Challenge of Reforming Nutritional Epidemiologic Research

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2698337

    In recent updated meta-analyses of prospective cohort studies, almost all foods revealed statistically significant associations with mortality risk.1 Substantial deficiencies of key nutrients (eg, vitamins), extreme overconsumption of food, and obesity from excessive calories may indeed increase mortality risk. However, can small intake differences of specific nutrients, foods, or diet patterns with similar calories causally, markedly, and almost ubiquitously affect survival?

    Assuming the meta-analyzed evidence from cohort studies represents life span–long causal associations, for a baseline life expectancy of 80 years, eating 12 hazelnuts daily (1 oz) would prolong life by 12 years (ie, 1 year per hazelnut),1 drinking 3 cups of coffee daily would achieve a similar gain of 12 extra years,2 and eating a single mandarin orange daily (80 g) would add 5 years of life.1 Conversely, consuming 1 egg daily would reduce life expectancy by 6 years, and eating 2 slices of bacon (30 g) daily would shorten life by a decade, an effect worse than smoking.1 Could these results possibly be true?

    1. Pat

      Could these results possibly be true?

      No. Epidemiological studies are mostly garbage and not able to test causation. Next question.

  36. AlexinCT

    Did you Glibs discuss this jewel, yet?

    NYCHA workers transformed a Bronx housing project into their own personal sex club — engaging in wild, boozy orgies inside offices, the groundskeepers shop and even empty apartments, sources said Monday.

    “[It happened on] overtime, during working hours, after working hours, any day or any time of the day,” said Throggs Neck Houses Tenant Association President Monique Johnson. “I now understand why work wasn’t getting done.”

    Things got so bad earlier this month that NYCHA had to transfer the entire complex staff — roughly 40 people — to another location as a result of the romps.

    Now that is what one would call a serious government benefit..

    1. >>“I now understand why work wasn’t getting done.”

      And who could tell the difference?

      1. F. Stupidity Jr.

        Things weren’t going to shit as fast as usual, and people were starting to notice.

    2. PieInTheSKy

      Round here there was this joke: why aren’t government employees having sex on the job? Because they are all related

      that NYCHA had to transfer the entire complex staff – what’s wrong with firing?

      1. AlexinCT

        Government employees brah. Can’t fire them unless they are Trump supporters…

      2. It’s not a joke. The proportion of state Employees in New York who have relatives who are also state employees (or retirees) is pretty high.

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Things got so bad earlier this month that NYCHA had to transfer the entire complex staff — roughly 40 people — to another location

      OMG, they got transferred. Who says government employees aren’t held accountable?

  37. AlexinCT

    Does this sort of circular logic not seriously make the case to do away with FISA warrants?

    1. Troy

      The fact that we even fucking have secret courts with secret interpretation s is just yet another piece if evidence that the Constitution is dead.

      1. Pat

        You don’t remember the star chamber clause in the constitution?

        1. Troy

          Oh yeah…. It is right before the Fuck You, That’s why clause

    2. westernsloper

      It not only makes the case to scrap the FISA court, but makes the case that anything that came out of illegal warrants needs to be chucked and the prosecutors pursuing cases obtained through illegal actions should be in front of grand juries themselves.

      1. AlexinCT

        I think the judges should also be held accountable for not taking their job more seriously..

  38. Troy

    So in the dystopia that is the American Empire, tech companies can openly collude to fix elections.

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevincollier/tech-companies-are-gathering-for-a-secret-meeting-to

    I wish we didn’t have Benny Hill playing yakity sax as the Empire’s Attorney General

  39. MikeS

    Mike Schmidt passed Ted Williams and Willie McCovey with 522 homers

    Fuck yeah, Schmidty!

  40. Pat

    Meet the world’s smartest drug dealer

    The man who supplied Demi Lovato with drugs the night she OD’d said she knew exactly the chance she was taking … that she was ingesting “aftermarket pills,” which made things risky.

    Brandon Johnson told our photog Demi texted him at 4 AM, the morning she OD’d, and asked him to come over. He says he read between the lines and brought pills, which they freebased together.

    He strongly insinuates the 2 of them did drugs together many times before and even had a sexual relationship. Our Demi sources strongly deny there was any sexual relationship.

    As for the pills, Johnson says Demi knew they were not pharmaceuticals, but much stronger … though he denies knowing they were laced with anything. TMZ broke the story … Johnson notoriously got pills from Mexico, many of which were allegedly laced with fentanyl.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Interesting collection of weapons he’s got there.

      1. Count Potato

        That is weird.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    The other day, i saw an Atlantic story (by noted retard Annie Lowery) concern trolling the dopers. I tried to find it again, but could not. Maybe it was so stupid they took it down.

    tl;dr: [Modern] Dope is so addictive and debilitating we cannot allow it to be legalized without federal regulation on a massive scale. take that, hippies!

    1. Troy

      Do you mean weed or meth? An old man like me dope = weed. For the whippersnappers, dope = meth.

      1. commodious spittoon

        I thought dope is heroin.

        1. commodious spittoon

          Wait, I’m thinking smack.

          But I’ve never heard meth called dope.

        2. Juvenile Bluster

          Dope was heroin way back in the day. It’s how Joe Friday referred to it (marijuana was just marijuana or “tea”)

          1. Trolleric the Goth

            yeah, hence “dope fiends”

            noone’s a fiend for weed…

          2. commodious spittoon

            The constant smokers I’ve known are more like pot slouchers.

          3. commodious spittoon

            Wait, wait, pot pooches.

  42. straffinrun

    Vanesa Campos: Five charged with murdering Paris transgender prostitute

    Campos, who had worked illegally in France for two years, was attacked by about 10 men armed with knives, sticks and a handgun after she tried to stop them robbing her client’s car, a police source told Le Parisien newspaper.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Eight people were arrested last week and five have now been charged with murder and robbery, AFP news agency reports.

      No names? Gee, I wonder why.

  43. Scruffy Nerfherder

    If you really want to see someone shred the piano. Here’s a music link for you.
    Definitely watch until the 2:30 mark.

    1. Pat

      I love ragtime.

  44. Certified Public Asshat

    Apparently that Bishop will not be moving into the house:

    San Jose Bishop Says He Won’t Live In $2.3M Home Bought By Diocese

    “I failed to consider adequately the housing crisis in this valley and the struggles of so many families and communities in light of that crisis,” the bishop’s statement read. “I have heard from many on this topic and I have decided I will not move into this house.”

    He really wanted to though.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?”

    2. So what you’re sying is “Bishop doesn’t take Castle”?

      1. MikeS

        You are a king of comedy.

      2. Certified Public Asshat

        It’s not that black and white.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    Do you mean weed or meth?

    Marijuana. For recreational use. By civilians, with no government supervision. It’s a horrifying thought.

    1. Troy

      Oic…. Ty

    1. I don’t get it.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        Not sure if serious, but it’s in response to all the fawning over John McCain. Just a joke using the same logic used in his memorials.

        1. I’m not being serious. I understood the context of the twit.

    2. Slammer

      Quote Tweet
      Hillary Clinton
      @HillaryClinton
      “Donald Trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead.” —Hillary
      SSxpreme
      SSxpreme
      @darkwebgirl
      ·
      20h
      ……because the country would have stopped if she didn’t concede…so, from all of this, I’ve taken that you’re just hardheaded and ignorant on the matter, BUT, after reading this, I’m seeing that you dont understand how our country works at all.
      SSxpreme
      SSxpreme
      @darkwebgirl
      ·
      20h
      I bawled my eyes out when she conceded. I raked my fingernails over my head in sure disbelief to ensure I was awake. But the tweets you are choosing to ignore are right – we cant get him out until we move forward with everything, step by step, including her public statement.

    3. LJW

      Ya I assumed a joke. The tweeter is actually a lefty, props at least for not being a hypocrite. The comments are full of gold.

  46. MikeS

    It’s a bold strategy Cotton, lets see how it works for her:

    She fatally shot an unarmed black man. Now she’s teaching other cops how to ‘survive’ such incidents.

    Shelby is poised to bring her state-approved training course, “Surviving the Aftermath of a Critical Incident,” to the city where her own “critical incident” unfolded. Shelby’s scheduled appearance Tuesday at the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office has drawn condemnation from local activists, who argue that the former Tulsa officer should not be imparting advice to law enforcement – especially not in the community where she killed the 40-year-old motorist and father of four.

    Marq Lewis, the founder of the community organizing and government watchdog group, We the People Oklahoma, said the class newly highlights the injustice of the incident, making the police officer out to be the victim when it was Crutcher who did not survive the encounter, robbing him of any capacity to describe its fallout. A protest Monday outside the county courthouse condemned Shelby’s planned appearance. Signs urged, “Ban Betty.”

    1. WTF

      She “survived” shooting an unarmed man.
      So hero. Much brave.

    2. Juvenile Bluster

      She got away with murder and now she gets to teach other cops how to do that. Apparently it’s working out pretty well for her.

      1. Private Chipperbot

        She’s got this one weird trick!

        1. Next of kin *hate* it!

    3. Seems like the cops are already very adept at getting away with shooting unarmed citizens. I fail to understand why they need additional training.

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        She’s training them how to deal with the public aftermath, like having to pay for that round of drinks with your fellow cops or trying not to laugh with the prosecutor and judge during the “trial” or how to instruct your fellow cops where to sit in the gallery and stare at the jury so they come up with the correct verdict.

  47. Juvenile Bluster

    Fun day yesterday. Wife went to pick up kid early from school, went into the office, felt lightheaded and passed out. Woke up fairly quick, school called ambulance (something something we need socialized healthcare because that bill isn’t going to be fun), went to ER, where they found absolutely nothing that would explain it (except her electrolytes and potassium being low). So now we’ve got more doctor appointments to try and figure out WTF is wrong.

    And I’m supposed to be away all this weekend at a conference. Joy.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      That sucks. How’s her blood pressure?

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        Her BP was fine. Her heart rate was fine. EKG was fine.

    2. Damn that sucks. Murphy’s Law never fails, does it?

    3. MikeS

      Make sure they check her thyroid

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        They are. She’s hypothyroid and has been on thyroid meds since I’ve known her (22 years now).

        1. MikeS

          Good. My wife had a similar episode a month-ish ago and we learned that she was hypothyroid. Hopefully they just need to adjust your wife’s Thorazine (or whatever) dosage.

    4. Same thing happened to my mom – at age 75 though – and no amount of tests could find anything. She was put on some anti-seizure medication which, to put it frankly, made her nuts. She got so tired of feeling awful all the time that she stopped taking the medication. The doctors never found an answer except for “possible dehydration”.

    5. A Leap at the Wheel

      My brother passed out when he was 14, just standing around and plop. We discovered that he had replaced all vegetables in his diet with Swiss Cake Rolls. So you should check for that.

    6. Count Potato

      Sorry 🙁

    7. gbob

      It’s the sort of thing that’s scary with how hard it is to track down why.

      Both my SO and her daughter have something similar. Feeling fine, then out of the blue, feel dizzy, hot and then pass out. First time it happened to her, we were at a restaurant. Everyone must have assumed she was drunk. Numerous doctor visits, cardiologists, and a host of other folks. Finally diagnosed as POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome).

      Hope she can track it down!

  48. Juvenile Bluster

    So I’ve mentioned before I’m a huge fan of old radio dramas. Was listening to one from the early 50s, and there was a public service commercial. Talked about how Americans should fight against all forms of prejudice (specifically “Christian against Jew, “white neighbor against colored neighbor” and “native born against foreign born”) … because that’s how the communists want us to act. The Commies want us all to fight each other (“so we will be weak and easily overcome”), so we need to remain allied.

    This brings two thoughts to mind:

    1. What would be the reaction if we ran the same commercial today? Modernize the language but keep the “We need to not be prejudiced against each other because that’s what the communists want”.
    2. How it fits in with the modern-day left trying to re-segregate every small gender/racial/religious/national group.

    1. The American Left is just picking up where the Soviets left off. Manufacturing strife among all the US’s disparate groups was a key part of their plan to take it down. It’s quite sad that the Soviet strategies to destroy the US outlived the Soviet Union itself.

    2. Trolleric the Goth

      was it Kellogg’s PEP! Superman by chance? that’s the only one I can think of (besides old AFRS broadcasts of other shows – but they were basically propaganda though)

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        It was an American broadcast of a show called “Tales of the Texas Rangers”.

        1. {|}===[|}:;:;:;:;:;:;:>

          I love that one.

    3. Trolleric the Goth

      could you seriously imagine “I was a Communist for the FBI” being broadcast today? or any time in the past 40 years?

      1. Juvenile Bluster

        IIRC, that show (and a similar TV show) was half parody done by writers who’d been blackballed by McCarthy.

    4. A Leap at the Wheel

      https://www.supermanhomepage.com/other/other.php?topic=PSA

      Superman telling us that Jews are ok, black children are ok, and shooting a rifle to win NRA badges is ok.

      1. Count Potato

        Racists aren’t going to listen to an illegal alien.

        1. A Leap at the Wheel

          Immigrant farm hand able to do the work of dozens of men for no pay by the time he’s twelve. Big city intelligentsia type with Semitic features, working in news publishing and dating a gentile. Major villain is a military leader concerned with racial purity and wears a double-breasted jacket with spit-shine boots.

          He’s like an alt-right nightmare.

          1. Heroic Mulatto

            He also once turned Lois Lane into a black woman.

          2. A Leap at the Wheel

            If you have a cover showing how he turns some frogs gay, that would put a nice bow on this thread.

          3. Heroic Mulatto

            Gay is Batman’s beat.

          4. Heroic Mulatto

            I just noticed that Superman is checking out black Lois’s ass.

          5. AlexinCT

            Nothing wrong with that gents…

      2. Clearly just dog whistles for a call to action of the pure white race to destroy all impure beings and race traitors.

    1. BakedPenguin

      Wow, 26 is scary in that picture. Why did she (or whoever) send it in?

    2. straffinrun

      Absolutely shitty day made better. Thanks Q.

      1. Shitty day becomes titty day!

    3. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Imma interrupt your blonde misadventures with some brunette

    1. “Don’t forget what happened to Wendy Davis”

      Yep – hyped up in the news, trounced in the election. I seriously doubt that a guy who has to run to Commiefornia to fundraise can really win this race.

  49. Count Potato

    “Video footage has sparked more conspiracy theories that Melania Trump has a body double .

    During her trip with her husband President Donald Trump to Columbus, Ohio, on August 24, FLOTUS’s clothes and hair were the center of attention for the most bizarre reason.

    The 48-year-old donned a monochrome ensemble including a polka dot blouse and sunglasses.

    But people on social media who believe the theories suggested her alleged stand-in couldn’t get the outfit right.”

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6105035/New-footage-Melania-Trump-gets-internet-wondering-FLOTUS-really-does-body-double.html

    1. A Leap at the Wheel

      Is that… is that news? That the president and first lady have doubles that they use sometimes? I thought that was common knowledge.

      1. Heroic Mulatto

        Everyone knows that members of the Illuminati have clones from which they harvest organs from to extend their lives.

    1. I’m beginning to sound like a broken record here: would, but enough with the butt injections.

      I blame Kim Kardashian for making fashionable the enormous, bulbous, fat ass. It looks comical and disproportionate.

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Dam thicc, cuz.

    1. Scruffy Nerfherder

      It’s an entire culture of mentally fucked up people. What do you expect?

    2. commodious spittoon

      “Get outta my spotlight, bitch.”

    3. It’s just weirdos all the way down. The dude is the most normal of the bunch. I don’t know, shit like that was edgy and dangerous and fun when I was fuckin’ 14 years old and hated my dad and stuff, but ever since I’ve had to pay bills and buy groceries and stuff I’ve got no time for that nonsense.

      1. commodious spittoon

        Well, you had the misfortune of not fucking an Italian model and bilking her for a $380,000 dollar payout years later, so you had to be a normal human being like the rest of us.

    4. Definitely would have when I was 17, but Argento is a soft 6. Would NOT.

      McGowan is significantly more attractive, but the massive amount of crazy radiation drops her at least 2 integers.

      1. F. Stupidity Jr.

        That, and McGowan has lost a lot off her fastball. Younger RMG, no question, crazy and all.

        1. Rhywun

          She’ll always be Amy Blue to me.

  50. Okay, this has annoyed me for a while. Every so often, desktop support will reboot my work computer without my permission. When I log back in, Windows will remember that I had IE, Word and Excel open, and start those applications – but it won’t restore my browsing session or open the documents I’d been referencing. So all it reall does is slow down the boot process by logjamming the undersized lowest-bidder processor until these programs start and I close them out again. Why did microsoft think it was of any use to restart the programs when it didn’t remember the content – which is all that really matters?

    1. A Leap at the Wheel

      You know the answer. Microsoft’s user experience team was replaced with an overtaxes pseudo random number generator in 1991, and all UE functionality has been procedural generated since then.

      1. Democractic Hitler

        Out of curiosity: compared to who? MS’s UE isn’t perfect, but it is ahead of about 90% of the other shit I use, both consumer and corporate. The stuff that your average computer-illiterate dumbass can accomplish in MS Office is a pretty strong testament.

        1. The Ribbon is so unusable that it makes any process involing office take two to three times as long. I had to switch ot Libreoffice to get a halfway decent UI back. (Though work standard dictates that I keep seeing the mess they made of it). Office products were pretty much done decades ago, and all the incessant fiddling manages to do is introduce errors and issues.

          1. A Leap at the Wheel

            Oh yeah, forgot about the ribbon… that is just bad.

          2. Democractic Hitler

            Who? Who doesn’t want to use the ribbon?

        2. A Leap at the Wheel

          I don’t necessarily mean bad. I mean weird. I dare you to give a rational explanation for all of Visio’s behavior compared to sketchup, illustrator, or various CAD packages that do similar stuff.

          1. *sigh* you just reminded me of how much time I spend fighting the damn connector tool just to get the lines to come out of the side of the object I want them to so that the flows are easy to follow with the eye.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Are you running a cleaning utility that deletes your browsing history on exit?

      On my newer PC, it restores the pages I was looking at. If I install CCleaner, it most definitely will not.

      1. Not with IE, which is used only for opening work applications (like our ticketing system). On Firefox (where I do my external browsing) I do, but I’m not griping about that (nor does Windows start firefox back up after murdering it on reboot)

    3. AlexinCT

      To piss you off?

    4. No serious organization should anything but Linux.

      Windows = you’re a dinosaur ponderously ambling toward extinction (you work for gov’t, so checks out).

      Mac = you work in some Millennial snowflake factory startup with a ball pit that will soon be in Chapter 11.

        1. No serious organization should use Linux.

          Solaris on Sparc or GTFO.

          1. Gustave Lytton

            You misspelled SunOS. SysV can rot in hell.

      1. Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m happy for you, but I don’t feel like employing a full time IT guy to keep up with that Linux shit.

        1. Sooner or later you’re going to need a full-time IT person for something.

          1. Scruffy Nerfherder

            Not anytime soon if I can help it

          2. Democractic Hitler

            And when you get to that point, make sure you hire some snot-nosed punk-ass bitch with a chip on his shoulder who will constantly explain to you that the system they created is beautiful and it’s not their fault your employees are too dumb to use it.

            (No reflection on UCS)

          3. I don’t deal with End Users anymore. I just try to keep things running. It’s ‘Ave Machina’ and chants to the Omnissiah most days.

      2. Nephilium

        Except that there are still Enterprise applications that only officially support IE (looks at the entire suite of Cisco phone tools).

        I’m also one of those curmudgeons who prefers an actual application then trying to run everything through a web browser.

    5. Democractic Hitler

      If they’re force-rebooting your machine without reasonable notice, then the message is pretty clear: your output is irrelevant. So what’s a few more minutes added to the reboot? Don’t you have some kind of mandated 30 minute union break after each reboot?

      1. The reboots happen after standard working hours. they give no notice because “Nobody’s supposed to be working then.” Which is exactly why I have to do my work during those times.

        1. Democractic Hitler

          Ahh, I see.

          In my office they actually shut the fucking lights off at 7pm. “Fuck your productivity, out you go.”

          1. Nephilium

            Last three buildings I’ve worked in have had motion sensor lighting. So if someone isn’t wandering the halls every 15-20 minutes, the lights go off.

            That is one thing I miss about my old job, I prefer natural lighting or the glow of a monitor, no need for bright florescents above me. The lights above my desk burned out, and I was able to convince the person doing building maintenance that it was fine. So I had a high-walled cubicle that was nice and dark.

          2. Spartacus

            I used to have that in my office. The sensor was behind the door so whenever i left the door open (which is pretty much always) the light would go out after 10 minutes or so. After about 2 years, I finally made them put in a regular light switch.

            The best one is the motion sensor in the bathroom, which appears to be set for about 30 seconds. You can’t sit still on the toilet for very long or else it goes dark on you. And then you have to flush three times because it’s low flow.

          3. Rhywun

            Just be happy you’re doing your part, citizen.

    6. PowerPoint is an absolute shitastic monstrosity from a UE perspective.

      1. ChipsnSalsa

        From any perspective really.

  51. Count Potato

    “South Africa: You have the support of Britain on land reform – Theresa May

    Britain supports South Africa’s land reform program provided it is carried out legally, Prime Minister Theresa May said in Cape Town on Tuesday, adding that she would discuss the issue with President Cyril Ramaphosa.

    “The UK has for some time now supported land reform. Land reform that is legal, that is transparent, that is generated through a democratic process,” May told newsmen.”

    https://www.today.ng/news/africa/south-africa-support-britain-land-reform-theresa-146710

    1. “Of course it’s legal – we just re-wrote the constitution to say we could take everything without recompense.”

    2. Wokeness kills.

  52. Count Potato

    “Stormy Daniels Isn’t Backing Down

    Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels, photographed in New York. Zac Posen dress. Tiffany & Co. earrings.
    Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, October 2018”

    https://www.vogue.com/article/stormy-daniels-interview-michael-cohen-donald-trump

    1. Needz moar explicit sex.

    2. Scruffy Nerfherder

      Leibovitz?

      The official photographer for self-important assholes everywhere? Particularly self-important assholes from New York.

      They’re really working overtime to make these people cultural heroes.

      1. Once they fall off the radar there will be an Avenatti/Daniels porn to try and stay relevant. Mark. My. Words.

  53. Not really news, but the chart of what Sharyl Attkinson thinks is Left vs. Right I think is interesting.

    https://pjmedia.com/trending/google-search-results-show-pervasive-anti-trump-anti-conservative-bias/

      1. Democractic Hitler

        Good luck buzzfeed. PS, your core audience thinks everything should be free.

    1. PieInTheSKy

      significantly less bad than many of these things I saw

  54. I find it increasingly hilarious the hyperbole of these people.

    https://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2018/08/27/brett-kavanaugh-protests-across-country/

    The constant “Handmaiden’s Tale” bullshit is absolute comedy gold. Especially since they’re so desperate to dump Trump (who is about the least SoCon Republican you could hope for) in lieu of Pence (who is a massive SoCon). Not that President Pence would cause the Handmaiden’s Tale to become reality either, but he’s a lot closer than Trump.

    1. F. Stupidity Jr.

      Especially since they’re so desperate to dump Trump (who is about the least SoCon Republican you could hope for)

      It’s the most remarkable part of this whole shitshow.

    2. I always say that they have to make a movie about the US becoming a religious totalitarian dictatorship because it’s so far from reality, but nobody’s needs to make movies about countries that adopt Socialist policies and then suffer catastrophic economic collapse, for instance…

      1. Drake

        I think of Socialism as a religion.

  55. Wikipedia is not a serious source for any kind of political/controversial information and relying on it as such reveals you as a clown.

    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/08/27/wikipedia-president-trump-advocate-of-neo-nazi-conspiracy-theory/

    1. Democractic Hitler

      That’s not what I read on wikipedia.

    2. Troy

      Try infogalatic com

  56. Count Potato

    “A Brown University Researcher Released A Study About Teens Imitating Their Peers By Turning Trans. The Left Went Insane. So Brown Caved.”

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/35119/brown-university-researcher-released-study-about-ben-shapiro

    Here is the study:

    “Rapid-onset gender dysphoria in adolescents and young adults: A study of parental reports”

    http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330

    1. It’s like Camille Paglia said, trans is just the new, cool rebellious thing for teens to do. It’s the new punk or grunge for wokified snowflakes. The difference is that before they grow out of it, they could do irreversible damage to their bodies; which is why I’m extremely skeptical of any kind of medical “treatment” (aside from psychiatric treatment) for gender dysphoria for minors.

      1. Count Potato

        “I’m extremely skeptical of any kind of medical “treatment” (aside from psychiatric treatment) for gender dysphoria for minors.”

        So am I, partly because it’s extremely difficult to diagnose at that age, and partly because kids are much more susceptible to pressure from peers, parents, propaganda, etc.

    2. Count Potato

      “The very scary reality of this is the study openly admitted it wasn’t conclusive of anything more than there are patterns that warrant more investigation. The fact that studying something is now verboten should be worrisome to everyone.”

      https://twitter.com/gwdowell/status/1034435936480899072

      1. Do you want more Lysenkoism? This is how you get more Lysenkoism.

        1. A Leap at the Wheel

          Well, I could only agree with that if you stipulate that the Lysenkoism features in the parents are a product of genetic change caused by environmental factors, and not innate and immutable.

          1. Not sure if serious but environment definitely has epigenetic effects and spontaneous mutation can change genetics.

            Lysenko posited that things could actually change species on short time scales (~decades) based on environment.

          2. A Leap at the Wheel

            Look man, its really, really hard to make a joke about how stupid Lysenko’s theories are without walking into epigentics and still tie it to the previous comment so it doesn’t look like a comment from left field thus revealing that I’m just trying to show off that I have a vague knowledge of what Lysenko actually thought.

          3. Democractic Hitler

            LOL

          4. Fun fact. There is a lake in Africa which shifts between one ans multiple bodies of water depending on the water level. Extended periods of drought leave the fish populations separated from each other, and scientists have observed that after the water levels rise, the populations are no longer able to interbreed. The changing water levels keep slicing the fish populations into multiple species that keep diverging from each other. Technically, this means they have changed species in short time scales, but do so with a seriously tiny population.

        2. commodious spittoon

          “That’s when we get to tell you what science is, right? Yes, we want more of that.”

    3. Relevant to this comment and comment 60.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politicization_of_science

      Notice how there isn’t a single example of Left-wing pseudoscience (for which there is a mountain of examples). They juxtapose the Soviet Union with W. and Trump. No mention of any Obama initiatives.

    1. Count Potato

      Who is that on the t-shirt?

      1. straffinrun

        Cosby, of course.

  57. Count Potato

    “Records: Jacksonville shooting suspect hospitalized for mental illness: “… as a teenager he was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities and that he was prescribed anti-psychotic and anti-depressant medications.””

    https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1034169261084819457

    1. Count Potato

      “Additionally, ATF says murderer “legally purchased.” So MD gave him qualification license, even after he was twice institutionalized for mental illness and on anti-psychotics? Did they also issue him a hard-to-get CHL?”

      1. A Leap at the Wheel

        Oh its going to be like that huh?

        1. If gunz didn’t exist, he would have been a perfect angel feeding starving African war orphans.

          /prog

    2. A Leap at the Wheel

      Has it been reported how he acquired his weapon? Direct purchase from an FFL? Straw purchase? Stolen from a relative? Something else?

  58. Canada Glibs rejoice! Your prayers have been answered.

    https://www.rt.com/news/436986-sex-doll-brothel-toronto/

    1. Count Potato

      Isn’t prostitution legal in Canada?

    2. Heroic Mulatto

      Aura Dolls will be opening in a strip mall

      “Rock bottom” is when you visit a sex-doll brothel located in a strip mall.

      1. Democractic Hitler

        I wasn’t really interested until you put it that way.

      2. …and you have to use a condom to protect yourself from the spunk of the previous user.

  59. There’s long been known a statistical correlation between marijuana and schizophrenia, this study doesn’t do much beyond “people with a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia are more likely to be risk takers and substance users.”

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/scientists-discover-genetic-link-between-13151184

    Determining causation is *incredibly* difficult and this study does nothing of the sort.

    1. A Leap at the Wheel

      This doesn’t even get past the almost-but-not-quite-null-hypothesis that people with similar mental functions tend to self-medicate with similar drugs in similar ways.
      *glances as my stack of empty Diet Dr Pepper cans and thinks about ADHD…*

    2. Related:

      https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-marijuna-us-adults/one-in-seven-u-s-adults-used-marijuana-in-2017-idUSKCN1LC2B7

      1 in 7 ADMIT to using it. Predictably, the article concludes that we need MOAR REGYOOLASHUN.