Its too hot for some people at the US Open, Tom Herman likes strip clubs, Urban Meyer wasn’t lying at the press conference and a couple ESPN sportscasters question Tiger Woods’ blackness because he doesn’t hate Donald Trump. And your baseball winners were: Boston, Baltimore, New York (AL), Washington, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago (NL), Oakland, Kansas City, St Louis, Colorado, Sad Diego and San Francisco. That’s the sports world in a nutshell.
I ran through that because I wanted to get to John Locke’s birthday. He is remembered on this date with: inventor Charles Kettering, beautiful actress Ingrid Bergman, jazzman Charlie “Bird” Parker, movie man Richard Attenborough, BBC chairman Marmaduke Hussey (he’s meaningless to me, but that name…damn!), POW pilot John McCain, actor Elliot Gould, shooting victim James Brady, rockers Sterling Morrison, Richard Halligan and Chris Copping, pederast Michael Jackson, actress Rebecca DeMornay, rocker Greg Steele, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.
Its also the day Charles I signed a peace treaty with the Scots, Shay’s Rebellion took place, there motorcycle was patented in Germany, the Goodyear Tire Company was founded, the Graf Zeppelin completed an around-the-world flight, the USSR performed its first nuclear test, Speedy Gonzales made his screen debut, so did “Mary Poppins”, the Beatles did their last public concert, Don Baylor is hit by a pitch for a record 190th time, Saddam says the US can’t defeat Iraq, and Lance Armstrong was stripped of 7 Tour de France titles.
I hope you got that, because its time for…the links!
The New York Times notes how the conservatives in the Catholic Church are exploiting the child sexual abuse scandal for their own purposes. Exploiting. Child sex abuse. To hurt Francis. That’s the NY Times’s take on it. That conservatives are exploiting a legitimate sex abuse scandal in order to hurt the liberal/socialist Pope. I’m not sure I could find something more retarded if I tried.
But wait, I’m gonna try! And this comes close. That dick in California who notoriously pulled a dine-and-dash on a few dates is potentially facing 13 years in prison. For running out on a few dates to the tune of $950 total. You can literally shit in the street or shoot smack into your arm on a sidewalk. You can form an antics masked mob and toss trash cans through the windows of public buildings in order to shut down speech and you won’t even get so much as a “stop, don’t do that” from the cops. But leg it on a few dates and you can face 13 years in the slammer on the taxpayer’s dime. What. The. Ever-loving. Fuck?
Trump demands that the FBI look into the Chinese hacking of Hillary Clinton’s private server (where she kept 31,000 work emails and didn’t disclose it until she was forced to and then later deleted emails after the server had been subpoena). Between that, Feinstein employing a spy for a driver for over a decade and the Awan brothers, they might not have any credibility left to salvage even if they do start looking into the hacking or Clinton’s gross negligence extreme carelessness.
The Florida Democratic primary for the governor’s race was a shocker, but the rest of the election night went according to plan. Let’s see how a “free shit!” democrat plays in a state based on tourist dollars coming in. And let’s hope we’ve finally seen the last of that piece of shit Joe Arpaio.
Aw, now at the fuck is this fucking shit?
A person would violate Ordinance 14-61 (b) 1 if he/she uses a language likely to provoke a violent reaction from another person. The ordinance lists several examples of the types of words which are unlawful. The penalty for conviction could include a fine and/or jail time. We encourage everyone to avoid violating this ordinance by speaking to others with the same respect and kindness he or she deserves.
But what if they deserve to be called an asshole?
That’s some pretty good police work there, Lou. In their defense, they are pretty busy helping to clear the city streets of excrement so the bums will have a place to lie down and shoot smack.
Yeah, don’t give it to the people who got ripped off. Take the money and piss it away on stupid boondoggles. Because who deserves the settlement money more: those who bought cars under false pretenses or the fucking government?
Child of Cuban refugees stands firm when questioned about an “insensitive” social media post featuring Hitler. Good for him. Also, he’s correct.
Just in case you were planning on moving to a Bordertown, these are the ones the FBI says are the safest and most dangerous. Surprising nobody, El Paso tops the list for Texas.
Here you go. Make sense of it if you can.
Now go out there and have a great day.
Comments
492 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
Exploiting. Child sex abuse. To hurt Francis. That’s the NY Times’s take on it. That conservatives are exploiting a legitimate sex abuse scandal in order to hurt the liberal/socialist Pope. I’m not sure I could find something more retarded if I tried.
It’s always the same Top Men shit with these people. When Benedict was holding the office this was literally the biggest stain on the church since the inquisition. But now the church has got the Toppest Man at the helm. Any suggestion that covering up sex abuse for decades might be just a little bit slimy is a strike against the very foundation of our culture! Fuck them.
They’re willing to politicize serial sex abuse in order to help keep a socialist at the helm of the church. That’s how craven the NYT is.
I agree, but the ‘conservatives’ seem to be framing this as a homosexuality issue primarily.
To be fair though, the abuse of boys by male priests as compared to girls is disproportionate enough that it it’s hard to ignore.
Is it a homesexuality issue or an access issue. I mean, they have a lot more access to young boys than girls simply due to the roles of children in the church being different based on sex.
I’d be curious to know the level of disproportion relative to access.
It’s probably a little of both. Because of the access, the job probably attracts the kind of pervs who want to molest little boys instead of little girls.
Are we saying pedophiles don’t have a preference for which gender they would target? I find that hard to believe. But I do agree that it is a question of both culture and access that attracts these types unfortunately to this profession,.
The percentage of young men abused by the clergy that, while still minors, had reached puberty, is pretty high, but gets ignored because it is an uncomfortable conversation. There is a difference between going after 7 year olds and 14-16 year olds. And many of McCarrick’s alleged victims were adults in the seminary.
Are you surprised they would do that after these people still defend communism after it murdered over 120 million people and left over 3 billion people living in misery and then proceeded to falsely label the other collectivist ideology – fascism – which also murdered over 70 million people in the most horrific war humanity witnessed as right wing so they could demonize people that point out the evils of collectivism outside the family unit?
The Florida Democratic primary for the governor’s race was a shocker, but the rest of the election night went according to plan. Let’s see how a “free shit!” democrat plays in a state based on tourist dollars coming in. And let’s hope we’ve finally seen the last of that piece of shit Joe Arpaio. – I have a lefty American friend who seems very invested in progressive Democrats winning in the US. Dunno why, especially in local elections, given he lives in Romania.
I got a friend in Singapore who thinks the exact same way. I just shrug and shake my head.
Your friend hates us?
Just hates whatever the media calls deplorables, oh wait…that’s us isn’t it?
Sounds like what your friend hates are the people that challenges ideas the collectivist machine peddles with facts, logic, and reality…
My friend said “we should always support parties who want to tax the rich to death” because “corporations are ruining democracy” and “it should not be allowed for the top 10% to have 70% of the wealth”. Also something about global warming denial.
You’re friend is what the medical profession calls “fucking retarded”.
*lights Ted signal*
It’s worse than that Sloop: his friend is a serious shitbag envious of others, and likely one of those that feels they have not been given their just dues simply for being born. These types usually are the ones with over inflated egos and senses of self worth and very little to deliver
These types usually are the ones with over inflated egos and senses of self worth and very little to deliver
They’re also usually the ones that become stormtroopers for authoritarian redistributionists who use bogeymen to gain power and exterminate their enemies. See: Hitler, Castro, Pol Pol, Mao, Stalin, Chavez, etc, etc, etc.
Indubitably sir.
But they have impeccable style sense and gravitate towards red neckerchiefs, brown shirts, small red bound books and lapel pins & broaches featuring their leader.
Look the difference between the richest and the poorest person in a country should be as small as possible.
Says people that are envious of what others have but don’t want to have to work hard to get there?
Whew boi, sounds like a barrel of fun you got going for ya there.
I like Joe arpaio. Jail is supposed to suck.
>>stands firm when questioned about an “insensitive” social media post featuring Hitler.
Ah what?
Translation: we hate guns and will shame anybody making a pro-gun statement however we can.
Trust me, if the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had a retroactive chance to be armed or submit, my guess is they’d have chosen the former.
The Europeans still want to disarm the Jews.
And by Jews you mean everyone?
They are all serfs of the state and at the mercy of whatever whim the elites in Brussels want..
Yeah, gun fetishists are just a bunch of paranoid lunatics. OK, maybe not.
South African court orders citizens to hand over weapons, and just in time for the land confiscations:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-28/land-confiscations-loom-south-africa-rules-300000-gun-owners-turn-over-their
I was really trying to find a better site than zerohedge and I’d have posted it. But I couldn’t find any. So I’m going to remain skeptical
I really like this observation game that HM invented. “Israhell” gets namedropped 6 posts in at this time. Zionists at post #13. Way to go Zerohedge commenters.
Skipping the comments is a necessity when going to ZeroHedge. Just between you and me, I get the feeling they don’t really like Jews.
Re ZeroHedge comments: If I can get past the numerous da jooz!!!! posts, I’ve found some really profound thinking and helpful advice, especially on prepper posts.
You would think these folks would be up to date on it:
http://www.saga.org.za/
“It trivializes the unfathomable atrocities committed by Hitler and his henchmen.”
Uh no, it doesn’t.
My reaction as well. Talk about missing the fucking point.
I suspect (giving a huge benefit of the doubt) that what the author was trying to say is that by using a quote you can’t actually source to Hitler, you trivialize etc. I don’t buy the argument, but I suspect that’s what he was going for.
Regarding the attribution, the only things I could find were a quote in Hitler’s Table Talk which talks about not allowing conquered people to arm and is dated 1942 — not 1933. The quote is talking about the foolishness of arming a native police or militia in a conquered territory. The same site has a speculation that it’s actually from Goebbels.
This site claims the quote is from Mein Kampf — which would put it earlier than 1933. I don’t have a copy of Mein Kampf, so I can’t verify the claim.
Riiiiight. /winks
Yeah, don’t give it to the people who got ripped off. Take the money and piss it away on stupid boondoggles. Because who deserves the settlement money more: those who bought cars under false pretenses or the fucking government? – trick question. The government is us so if the government gets the $ it is the same as if the buyers got it
You didn’t buy that!
How many people who bought the Volkwagens actually gave a rat’s rear end about the emissions?
It was about fuel economy as much as emissions. I’d imagine more than a few were pissed when they found out they were getting 25% lower fuel economy than advertised. That can run into hundreds of dollars at the end of the year.
A friend of mine felt totally swindled. He now owns a Volvo.
Oh, he’ll understand the term ‘swindled’ very shortly.
/former Volvo owner
Ditto. I once owned two 850s at the same time. And they promptly started failing badly in different ways at the same time.
Replaced ’em with a LT1 powered Buick Roadmaster (I still miss that car) and a Grand Marquis (underpowered with the 4.6L V8 – all the acceleration of a 4-cyl Camry with the gas mileage of a Mustang).
I didn’t say he was smart.
Zero. The damn things are already ridiculously clean.
I bought my Jetta TDI for two reasons. It was a wagon, and it had a proper manual gearbox.
The 40+ MPG I got driving it in suburban traffic, and 48-55MPG on highways was certainly a nice bonus.
In hindsight I wish I had bought an Outback with the V6.
I replaced the Jetta with an Outback, alas with a 4cyl
Four-cylinder Subaru?
Lesbian, right?
Aren’t most Subarus flat fours?
Well, if you forget to put air in the tires.
To be fair, it was the government who made the silly rules that were broken. If the govt hadn’t stepped in and gotten involved with all its regulations, there wouldn’t have been any reason at all for a lawsuit.
Those rube consumers were just driving around all happy with their cars and not even thinking of suing Volkswagen at all.
Now they want to sue not just because they are pissed their virtue signaling days are gone and others they virtue signaled to will make fun of them, but they see a chance for free shit.
Because who deserves the settlement money more: those who bought cars under false pretenses or the fucking government?
It’s a good thing we aren’t left with the viciousness of the market to care of these things. You know, where you could sue for fraud and get restitution.
Chicago Cardinal Cupich: The Pope Has More Important Stuff To Talk About Than Sex Abuse, Like Climate Change And Immigration
Let’s see those awful conservative Catholics argue with that logic.
Hey man, you’ve got to have your priorities and grooming and banging of children is pretty far down the list as far as the Catholic Church is concerned.
It’s hard to make the case for more marxism and totalitarianism when the problem is serious abuse of power and trust…
I won’t take them seriously until they open immigration into the Vatican.
Chortle, that’s a good one.
As a former church-going Roman Catholic, I’m not holding my breath for them to follow what they preach.
Funny how the people peddling collectivism always want others to foot the bill for their virtue signalling, huh?
Of course, why should they be the ones to sacrifice their talent, treasure, and livelihoods?
And have to pay taxes too..
Tear down that wall!
There was no Chinese “hack” of Clinton’s server, I think.
That was a dead-drop
I saw again – the server for the U.S. Secretary of State was in the closet of a dry cleaners without any security. Every competent intelligence agency in the world hacked it either through the web or by direct access.
Absolutely, also what’s a dead-drop?
Not sure if serious, but a dead drop is just a secret location where items can be passed between people.
You’re with the railroad, aren’t you?
Dead Drop (noun) 1. Geocaching for spies. 2. What happens when you go for a jog at night in DC and get killed by a mugger, but the mugger doesn’t take any of your possessions.
That has been my position all along.
This was bribery at the highest levels out in the open.
Hillary put the info on an unguarded server and other countries paid her foundation amid cheers for their charity.
Cody Wilson dropped his newest payload yesterday, and it’s nothing but a master stroke 1 day after a Federal judge ruled that his company cannot distribute design files for numerous legacy firearm platforms for free, designs that have been in the wild for years. Instead he’s selling them on a “name your own price” basis per the language of the ruling.
A link to the video for the full press conference, which I highly recommend watching the entirety of…there are too many delicious moments to count. At many points it felt like he was a parent addressing their toddler. Other times he just beclowns the dozens of AGs suing his company and it’s almost too much to handle.
Here’s a news article summarising the press conference: here.
Godspeed Cody Wilson.
If he makes an even bigger fool of my state AG than Herring already is, I’m all for it.
Dude is doing the lord’s work.
Wilson on the Tom Woods Show from a few days ago:
https://tomwoods.com/ep-1224-cody-wilson-on-liberty-the-state-and-open-source-gun-designs/
Just remember, they’re posted here for download. Fuck that judge with a rusty.. ahhh… wwodchipper.
Indeed. My hat is off to Glibs for hosting. They want to destroy your 1A.
“I will be doing all of those things now.
My congratulations to the Attorneys General for saving America.”
Guys like this make me feel guilty that my libertarianism is mostly confined to wanking online.
“The anti-gun Left could not contain their excitement when news broke on Monday that a federal judge in Seattle extended a ban on Austin-based company Defense
Distributed ”
So exactly when was a law passed that allows minor activist judges to rule the country? Because I can’t remember it.
Nationwide injunctions are very old but used to be very rare, basically only used in exceptional cases. Don’t be surprised if the Supreme Court addresses them in the next couple of years, but it won’t be on a hot button case like this or the travel ban.
What kind of legal and financial backing does he have that he can afford to go head-to-head with them? I’m not accusing him of being a Koch-puppet, I just don’t think a normal schmoe could afford to take the system on without being legally and financially destroyed, regardless of how the cases end up being decided.
He already raised $200K in a week, half of which has been in crypto, as stated in the presser. He’s aiming to collect donations up to $400k and expects to be able to be able to last years with this war chest. Remember, he spent 5 years suing the DoJ and was won his settlement last month. This isn’t his first rodeo, and it seems he has already been choosing his battles very carefully and has been planning them.
Here you go. Make sense of it if you can.
I’d listen to pretty much anything with a Hammond organ.
a Hammond organ
How grotesquely inappropriate.
/James May
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The Florida Democratic primary for the governor’s race was a shocker, but the rest of the election night went according to plan.
Socialst Mayor. I’m sure the Cuban community is prepping for a big turnout.
I get the feeling that the higher-ed bubble is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
*sigh*
I think this year on election day I’m just going to get drunk and cry.
Wait, that’s what I do every year. Never mind.
I think I’m going to start a write-in campaign for Bill Cosby for FL governor…”Cosby–at least he sedates you first!”
Got an email from IT
The client was detected to visit malicious page with adware.
I suspect something I clicked from you degenerates.
I blame SugarFree. Oh wait, his links don’t go anywhere.
My botnet is like the social contract, you sign up for it whether you want to or not.
Not from us! A commenter – CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK.
The silly thing is they won’t tell me which site. Although I am not sure they are allowed to look into browsing history… Antivirus scans turned up nothing. I usually am careful what I click on but occasionally something may slip
Your employer isn’t allowed to look into your browsing history?
There are some rules I don’t fully know between the union and the parent company and the laws in the respective country… But there are some clear restrictions. I know we are not allowed to track usage of the internal tools we implement unless it is fully anonymous.
Was it actually from IT, or was it a phishing attempt?
Yes. I called the it guy before anything.
I fell for a test phishing attempt that the IT department did to test the user a few years ago. After that I became more careful.
Being usually the first in the office I made sure not to tell anyone so that I am not the only sucker. Most people fell for it…
Report: Yahoo and AOL will scan your emails and sell the data to advertisers
I wasn’t aware Google had stopped doing the same. Er, “stopped”. I’d be stupefied if it isn’t happening still.
Hmm… I have an AOL account. All I use it for is stuff I know will result in junk email. So now they will scan my junk email and send me more junk?
Given that 95% of Yahoo email is spam, I don’t see how scanning it is of any use in any case.
I use gmail, but I have a business account and specifically exempt it from any scanning other than for search purposes.
Like Google does what they agree to do.
It probably double-scans the opt-outs.
Given that 95% of Yahoo email is spam, I don’t see how scanning it is of any use in any case.
For real. I still have an old Yahoo address that I haven’t closed just because it’s associated with the recovery option for a few websites I still use. I haven’t sent or received an email on it in probably 8 years. Every time I log in there, the spam folder has at least 600 emails in it.
Then how the hell does Google Assistant work? There’s no way they aren’t reading your emails on the Googs.
I use gmail for personal email.
One time and one time only I emailed a friend and mentioned CNC machines.
Immediately and 6 months later I am getting ads for machine shop equipment.
I use gmail for ‘Formal’ mail with certain institutions (The city, etc)
I connect to it using thunderbird, and deny google the right to set cookies or execute scripts in my browsers.
I don’t get ads.
A followup to a story from yesterday:
Toronto residents campaign against sex doll brothel due to open next month
And I thought Canadians were polite.
She has torn down a number of ads for the shop, arguing the business “doesn’t belong here”.
Oh, beggin’ your pardon, your Majesty.
*tugs forelock*
The exploitation of silicone mannequins must stop!
“Oh no…guys will have an alternative to our controlling them through pussy”
Those women must have a very low opinion of themselves.
Yes, they do.
This is also why the loudest opponants of sexbots are feminists.
Just change it from a “brothel” to a “sperm bank”. Boom, now it’s respectable.
That suggestion takes a lot of spunk.
It’s a seminal idea.
Swiss gets salty about these sub-threads
If he decides to take a hard line he may explode all over you.
Cum on…that’s enough now.
Screw this, I’m outta here.
Hey Sloopy, we can have vas deferens in opinion and still be polite.
I’m afraid we all need to prostate ourselves before Swiss and beg his forgiveness.
High school student arrested after #MAGA hat fight: ‘That’s a racist and hateful symbol’
Jo-Ann’s father said he doesn’t approve the way his daughter handled the situation, but that the issue regarding political clothing deserved some attention.
“I don’t agree with grabbing someone’s hat and verbally talking to them in that way,” Chris Butler told CBS. “But as far as the issue being brought up, maybe this is something that needs to be brought up.”
The girls father is probably the worst part of all of this. I know my daughter is a psychotic little shit, but can we talk about the dress code?
Hopefully the victims parents drag them to every court hearing. The state usually gets irritated that they can’t plead it down to probation so they take it out on the defendant.
Based on what many liberals think should happen during a “conversation” this guy can go jump into a volcano. Free speech rights aren’t up for conversation, end of conversation. Have a great day.
Yeh, that father is out there.
Why does someone wearing a cap ‘need to be brought up’? Because you disagree with it?
Asshole.
She learned that behaviour somewhere.
Watching Jerry Springer?
What people don’t get is a simple apology and some remorse goes a loooong way to diffusing most situations.
Take us at the daycare. When a parent comes late what we’re looking for is an apology; an acknowledgement of being tardy. That’s it. The educator accepts and there’s little or no ill-will. I may even waive the late fee – which I’ve done many times in the past. But yesterday I had a guy come in late a tad too aloof for our taste. It’s almost as if we run on his clock. Guess what. You’re paying buddy.
If I’m the parent of the victim and see that….lemme tell ya. Gloves are off.
The little shit doesn’t plop far from the tree.
Imagine if someone was attacked for wearing a Black Lives Matter what.
Lagos 57 gay suspects: ‘Homosexual accuse wey Nigeria police take arrest my broda na big fat lie’
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-45334270
Court don order Nigeria police to release on bail di 57 gay suspects police bin arrest on Sunday according to wetin lawyers to some of di suspects tell BBC Pidgin on Tuesday night.
Elder broda of one of di boys wey Nigeria Police arrest on Sunday for Lagos ontop accuse say dem be homosexuals, say im broda no be gay.
Go to see Nigerian police focusing on the important criminal issues in Lagos
“there motorcycle was patented in Germany”
what?
South Africa Rules 300,000 Gun-Owners Turn Over Their Weapons
That would make the land confiscation / whitey massacre a lot easier.
TW: zerohedge. That site used to be interesting 8 years ago
They have accurately predicted 5 of the last 2 recessions.
News Rand Paul endorses Libertarian Party candidate at the expense of liberty
For all his issues I still kinda think GayJay can be a viable pro liberty candidate overall, especially since he was a reasonably popular governor. But maybe the republican guy should withdraw….
Maybe Johnson should have stayed a Republican and run for Senator a long time ago.
I agree. For his craptastic Preezy bid, I think on a smaller state level he can shed some of the less-libertarian rhetoric. And he doesn’t have a Trump to contend with.
he was too pro-abortion to gain any traction during his failed run for President. – I doubt he would have had more traction if he were more anti abortion
Even if Johnson is fiscally conservative
And that’s a big “if”.
I would say he was.
The past tense is important there. When he was a governor he wasn’t talking about financing humanitarian military interventions with a national VAT and carbon taxes. He’s lost his fucking mind over the last few years. Or smoked himself stupid or something.
The does seem to be the case. He went from a sensible libertarian Republican to a burned out hippie spewing nonsense in the last decade.
I assume still better than a democrat on fiscal issues …
Yes, in the sense that a kid playing with matches is better than an arsonist.
Probably too much thin air from mountain climbing and triathaloning.
The GOP candidate must really suck for Rand to have done that. I wouldn’t endorse Johnson for dog catcher after that embarrassing joke of a campaign he ran in 2016.
According to this site Johnson could be a bit of a spoiler.
… Hobbit
Yeah, don’t give it to the people who got ripped off. Take the money and piss it away on stupid boondoggles. Because who deserves the settlement money more: those who bought cars under false pretenses or the fucking government.
I quietly cheered on Volkswagen for pulling that trick.
Catholic Cold War Turns Hot
Is the church going destroy itself after years of covering up the activities of gay priests?
His other articles are very much worth reading for a summary of what’s going on. HT: Just Say’n
Hey Ted. Did you look at the “insensitive” Hitler post from that baseball player?
::blinks rapidly::
So, the guy quotes Hitler on gun control and that is insensitive? I don’t get it.
The H-word is the new N-word.
It’s baseball. Why would I pay attention?
To police proper use of apostrophe’s.
OT: a question. If you are reading historical fiction, how much accuracy/authenticity do you need?
For example, if you were reading a book about vikings, would you rather have the term jarl (a Scandinavian noble ranking immediately below the king) used, or something more common, like Duke or Earl?
Jarl
Seconded.
If they’re vikings, a Jarl should be a Jarl, not the Saxon corruption ‘Earl’, and certainly not the latinate ‘Duke’.
Eorle is the Saxon corruption, you Johnny come lately revisionist
That’s it, you’re getting hanged, drawn, and quartered.
Most of your readers are not going to be historians and will be none the wiser anyway.
I would go for a good bit of accuracy as that is something that I look for. Te whole point of historical fiction imo is to be well researched otherwise it is not that historical.
Depends on how old the book is. Anything in the last 25 years should probably use Jarl. Before that it seems like was common to Anglicize things.
“Historical fiction”
My book is going to be a Viking/STEVE SMITH mix up /not really.
Viking ‘Romance’ – the longships pull up onto the shore, they overrun the convent, then depart the way they arrived.
For Historical Fiction, I’d say -at the very least- the names/titles should be correct to the period and location.
I want, if I wikipedia any historical characters, to be able to say, “Yeah, the author seemed to get him right.”
There’s always going to be one reader who will “know” and will pick you apart, eager to show you that they “know.” They might actually know, and you might actually be wrong, but it’s obscure knowledge only an acolyte would know.
Of course, but I assume anyone writing historical fiction will research enough to pass the two sigma test.
Sure, there will be that 2.5% of the population that knows more about Viking culture or cryptography or whatever. But it shouldn’t be more than that. And those people should only have minor nits to pick at.
I got picked at for 3 things.
1) That in 1780, Englishment pronounced “lieutenant” “leftenant.” A Brit writer got upset with me over that. “What, don’t you know your own language’s history?”
2) My sailing ships moved too fast. I knew that. Couldn’t keep up story momentum if I made it true.
3) My heroine has difficult pregnancies. She has what is now an ob/gyn who performed a medical procedure on her someone didn’t believe could be done then, but it was in its infancy. “Nope, sorry, medicine was more advamced tham you think.”
Yeah, #2 would piss me off too. Just like sci-fi can’t go breaking the laws of physics, unless they explain how they are breaking the laws of physics.
[Niven and Pournelle apparently worked out 4 pages of differential equations in order to “explain” their FTL system in Mote (in the book it is explained in 1 or 2 sentences)]
As far as I can tell Phillip K Dick pretty much ignored physics in his books. Science-y things just “were”. Flying cars, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, time distortion, etc.
True, I guess it depends on the type of sci-fi. If you want to be Niven or Bear or Vinge, your physics should make sense. If you want to be PKD or Vonnegut, just wing it.
*looks up Vonnegut’s cause of death for bad joke*
Holy… he lived to 2007? I could have sworn he’d died long before that.
I understand completely and you’re right. I made a conscious decision.
My reader was sympathetic, but said she only knew because she was a pirate LARPer and is on period vessels all the time.
“Timey-wimey things.”
I want the bad joke!
Anyone who mispronounces it ‘leftenant’ will be hanged, drawn and quartered.
Jarl.
The only alt-history viking book I would read would be one where Drew Pearson is properly called for pass interference and the ’75 Vikes go on to win the SuperBowl.
That might belong to the fantasy genre though.
Would read.
You have to read it because a Vikes SB isn’t coming to a TV near you any time soon.
Further, I think the reader should be given the benefit of the doubt as to being smart enough to recognize the unfamiliar without explanation.
Thanks, everyone. I told myself I would never write another novel again but find that I need a hobby project to keep me busy (and my thoughts away from work-work).
Make it accurate. Historical fiction should be written to educate the reader.
If that’s the priority, write nonfiction. The story should always be of primary importance.
I’d say somewhere in between your two comments would be the happy spot for historical fiction.
I’d say you’re wrong and side with Mojeaux on the issue. You need to entertain first and tell a good story. If you fail that, it won’t matter how accurate your history was.
Of course it has to be a good story, but if your “history” is loosely based bullshit, it isn’t historical fiction, it’s just fiction.
This
Perhaps educate was a poor choice of terms. “Illuminate” may be a better option.
Your statement implied advocating sacrificing story for the sake of educating the reader. I couldn’t tell you how much access the average peasant in viking age britain had to candles, but unless I give the churl a flashlight, I don’t think it really matters.
I was answering MikeS, but the interposition of Scruffy’s reply has make me laugh given my example.
I’m too easily amused.
I think we are all in violent agreement.
Such coincidence. Much chuckle.
Just call it “alt-historical” fiction and be done with it.
Historical fiction should be written to educate the reader.
Works for McGraw-Hill at any rate.
+1 Snoop Dogg
https://nypost.com/2015/05/09/snoop-dogg-thinks-game-of-thrones-is-based-on-real-history/
The original loose inspiration was drawn from the war of the roses.
Obviously he deviated from that starting point.
Jarl.
Why would you use the name of a basketball team anyway.
/Loosens collar. Looks for red light at back of the room.
I need some. There’s been a couple I tried to read and they were just so off on some things, it ruined it and I couldn’t keep reading.
SJWednesday: The Trashy Clothes Gap Edition
Presuming that your customer base is broadly representative of national demographics, most of your customers are going to be white. Sorry.
Trump going after Google, Facebook, and Twitter is pretty hypocritical
So this is the “story” now – a few memes and fake news stories swung the election.
“a few memes and fake news stories swung the election”
And they were from Russia.
Having a shitty Democrat candidate who didn’t bother to visit the rubes in the rusty, heroiny hinterlands had nothing to do with it.
Did Google actually say that their search engine is not biased and not trying to drive a political agenda? Did they really say that? When I read that I was like ‘OK, so they’re now to the point that they’re just going to right out lie and say because fuck you that’s why?’. Unbelievable smugness.
What is funny is that “fake news” was originally an attack by the Hillary campaign agains Trump. They thought they were calling him out as a liar and he immediately flip flopped it on them.
Tom Herman likes strip clubs
I imagine the Yellow Rose is still open. Or… shit, the good nudie place that my next door neighbor worked at. Everyone should live next door to a stripper when he’s 21. Saved me a lot of money and time wasted in strip clubs.
That’s some pretty significant pronoun ambiguity.
Is not the bot you were looking for. Turns out that she is a Russian bot, not a sex bot.
Have Russian bots been blamed for climate denial yet? I may be smelling a big grant application….
Like, they are robots that were made to type out anti-democratic propaganda onto the keyboard, and that’s not okay.
You would think that China would be able to pull off this Russian shit on an even bigger scale, but nary a stone unturned there.
Of course, 100% of Americans were in agreement about climate change being the most important issue of today. Until Russia hacked our opinions and made too many of us deplorables and shitlords. There’s nothing that Putin cannot do.
Tom Friedman ponders an impossible counterfactual, comes off like a paste-eating moron. Go back to sucking authoritarian cock, Tom. It probably tastes better than paste.
To be fair, Tom Friedman couldn’t ponder the fucking weather without coming off like a paste-eating moron.
Uffda. Why make things up? He could have just straight up reported on how Obama killed American citizens without a trial and how half the politicians found ways to praise him for that.
Sure Obama didn’t do anything as tactless as actually hold the weapon himself or leave a tacky body laying around, but the result is the same.
Don’t worry Tommy, only the morons believe what you write.
Wait, it’s the NYT….
“That’s because we all now know that Trump was right when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and his supporters would stick with him. We’ve seen him get away with too much by now. No restraint on Trump will ever come from his party or his base — especially after the passing of John McCain. So save your breath. Trump will be restrained only if his party loses the House or the Senate. That’s what is at stake in the midterm elections — so vote accordingly.”
Lol.
Is this all the NYT got?
Lord me.
Then again. We all know what makes up the comments community over there.
“ThisandThat
Tallahassee, FLAug. 28
Times Pick
At its most basic Trump is presenting America with a question: Are we going to give up misogyny and racism or are we going to give up democracy? Trumpism is using the former to attack the latter, threatening nothing less than to end the grand American experiment. As an old white guy, I’m stunned by how many people like me know exactly what and who Trump is — and are willingly taking his deal. They expect, wrongly, that he won’t eventually turn on them.”
That’s a Times pick.
How do they do the pick? Draw someone out of a hat? Because every single NYT commenter sounds exactly like that.
Oh FFS, is this what passes for commentary these days? How does this idiotic tripe get published anywhere, let alone the “paper of record”?
Friedman is fried man.
The problem I see isn’t that “Trump is so bad that people could believe that he killed someone,” it’s that politics is so bad that people will unquestioningly believe any is that helps their team. And that fools thike Tommy take advantage of it by posting salacious headlines and then pretending that they did it to illustrate a point.
This right here. Please put that in bold on a damn billboard.
It would be like a smaller, more intimate Tiananmen Square?
“comes off like a paste-eating moron”
Right now, Friedman and Bruni are fighting like two hungry kittens over the grape flavored paste.
Common STDs Hit New U.S. Record
As cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have surged, the CDC also warns one of the diseases is getting closer to becoming drug-resistant.
You old fucks that had your heyday before AIDS and drug resistant clap really had it made.
As a teenager in the 80s, AIDS fearmongering was very high.
I had it in my head you were older than that. In any case, I meant the general ‘you’. Modern dating sucks.
College in the mid-80’s, nobody was worried about AIDS. It was a gay disease and you were allowed to say it back then,
As a teenager in the 70s, AIDS hadn’t been heard of yet and we (well, at least I) got laid pretty regularly.
Adam Carolla has posited, correctly IMO, that the best time to be dating was the mid-coke (“it’s not bad for you, it just gives you energy!’), pre-AIDS 70’s.
Came of age in 1988-1989. It sucked. Girls decided to raid their dad’s closets for the largest flannel shirt possible, and then button it all the way up to their neck and then wear a stupid hat, too. And AIDS11!!!!!11!!!!!!1!!
Son turned 15 earlier this year and I get copies of his texts. He was talking with a girl and she showed him a dress she was trying on, thinking about buying. Holy shit you can tell she’s stacked already. Thank God for all those hormones in foods, huh?
A constant drumbeat of “sex will likely kill you!” wasn’t ideal.
I don’t recall AIDS really being a thing as far as the (hetero) dating scene goes into at least the mid-80s (when I exited the market).
That seems about right – I was in high school from 1985-1988 which seems like peak AIDS panic.
Class of ’88 too – I grew up hearing all about the “gay disease”.
’86 here.
There was a kid at church with hemophilia who had AIDS, so while it was the “gay disease,” for us it was also “collateral damage.”
Remember kids, you got the clap because the CDC didn’t have enough funding.
Duh. Trump.
Everyone’s grab them by the pussy.
I thought the point of STDs was that one was supposed to catch ’em all.
According to Catholic conservatives, you are only supposed to play Pokewife and then you wouldn’t get those STDs. But if you insist on catching them all, the following hierarchy is:
Pokewomon
Pokemon
Pokealtarboys
This is why you’re the Pope.
Don’t forget the latest pack- Pokeseminarians
Bernie Sanders’ Problem With Amazon
This coming from a parasite who never worked an honest job in his life.
Socialists are the black plague of ideologies.
I have an idea to eliminate the suffering of these Amazon employees. How about it if we invent this thing, let’s call it a free market. And in this hypothetical free market, other people can start companies and sell things, just like Amazon does. I know, this is a radical idea, but bear with me. Once this free market thing is going, if the Amazon employees are unhappy, they could just go get a job somewhere else where working conditions are better. Yeah, I know, I’m a dreamer.
Amen brother.
So, Sanders just knows that working for Amazon is an oppressive situation, but is having trouble finding real-world examples? In retail politics, it’s the constituents who usually come to the politician with their problem, not the other way around.
Look out, he’s sciencing!
Fake News! That border city story talks only about the Mexican border. When Canada sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing Moosehead. They’re bringing Molson. They’re hosers. And some, I assume, are good people.
Moosehead is terrible. So it’s true.
And Geoff Molson is a clueless owner of a hockey team.
And Gerald Moosehead is a jerkface.
My dad sold a car for a sixer of Mooshead to a down-and-out couple for a story, and to be nice.
It was an early ’80s K-Car type of thing. I remember the overwhelming greenness of that car. It even had moss growing on the top of the car. Turns out the couple wrecked it not long after. I remember playing in it and climbing over the seats as he interviewed them in the parking lot for Libs Chocolates.
This would’ve been in ’95 or so, putting me at around 7-8 years old.
Thank you for listening to this fucking *THRILLING* story! It’s weird what memories get burned into your noggin.
We had a K car. POS.
And? Don’t leave us hanging.
Did he like the beer?
Of course, he did. My dad drinks 100 proof Southern Comfort straight. He does not have taste. (I actually like SoCo. It’s one of the few things I can do shots of without getting sick.)
In university me and my flatmates had a pretty simple beer hierarchy for our drinkin’:
Poor: LeBatt Blue
Mid Week: Molsen
Flush: Moosehead.
But then came PBR. I was in the trenches, living in the hipster “ghetto” at IU mid-aughts. PBR was rampant. This did not bother me, as a four-pack of tall boys sold cold for $3.99 at my liquor store down the block. You got yourself a customer.
Speaking of cheap beer. It looks like some of the larger craft brewers are starting to lower prices to attract more customers. Mentioned in the article are Founder’s Solid Gold and Ballast Point Sculpin (I’ll need to check the prices on that, if it’s dropped from $15/6, it may be worth getting again). And I know that at least one Columbus brewer has started targeting the American Lager market.
“Founder’s Solid Gold”
I saw that at one of our local stores. Is that any good?
It’s a lawnmower beer, light bodied, inoffensive, easy to drink. It’s a solid choice for a day drinking beer when it’s hot out. Is it going to be the best craft beer ever, or top many best of lists? No.
I’d say it’s one of the best American lagers out there. I know that isn’t saying much for a lot of people, but it’s a damn good representative for it’s style. My beer store has it regular-priced at around $15 for a 15 pack.
It’s a great lawnmower beer. Also priced to compete with the macros.
“Of course, he did. My dad drinks 100 proof Southern Comfort straight.”
I get sick just thinking about that. The only time I ever drank that horrible stuff was when I was in my 20s. I drank about half of a litre and I don’t think I have ever been that sick from alcohol. All of there years later, I think I’d gag if I even smelled it.
Hey man, I referenced Libs chocolates in a post the other day!
I know ya did, baby! I was thinking about you!
The much more important establishment in that parking lot, however, was Mazio’s Pizza.
We used to go there (or McDonald’s) after our little league games. That shit was right. And good arcade games. I don’t care what anyone says–the early 90s were a helluva time to be a kid. I’m assuredly a part of the last generation to have good arcades (in America at least. Korea/Asia still has a dope arcade culture). I also used a library card catalogue exactly ONCE in my life–in second grade at Willow Library (which is haunted!) to research a school report on scorpions.
*SF sheds a solitary, bibliophillic tear*
SF and I are from the same neck of the woods. There’s an outside chance he knows about Mazio’s/Willow.
We have some good arcades in Colorado:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/manitou-springs-penny-arcade
http://www.the-1up.com/
I think I have a couple of nieces and a nephew around your age from Evansville. Haub Steakhouse and Wolf’s BBQ are about the only restaurants I’m hip to.
Shoot, you can smash someone’s head with a bike lock and still not get 13 years.
Sessions should have brought federal charges.
Knowing my family, there’s no way in hell that guy gets away with it.
And I have stories to prove it.
Sessions? You talking about the same guy who just sits in his office all day fapping about the idea of ruining some poor kids life over a plant? Surely you jest.
New Report Exposes Global Warming ‘Law Enforcement for Rent’
Can’t persuade them? Just sue them!
Tale as old as time.
The damned EPA has been handing out grants so people can turn around and sue the government for more grants (among other things).
It’s absolutely corrupt and needs to stop.
Has Stephen King spoken out against the Red Sox pitcher?
Aren’t the Red Sox ‘woke’? Besides, playing neat .700 ball of course.
“Just in case you were planning on moving to a Bordertown, these are the ones the FBI says are the safest and most dangerous. Surprising nobody, El Paso tops the list for Texas.”
A 67-photo slideshow? Fuck off, Chron.
Only the first 12 or so were the cities list.
DNA Tests Quietly Reinforce Terrible and Scientifically Inaccurate Concepts of “Ethnicity”
It’s fine to use them to understand your immediate family. But don’t expect them to provide anything definitive once you get a few generations out.
https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/dna-tests-quietly-reinforce-terrible-and-scientifically-inaccurate-concepts-of-ethnicity.html
What worries me most, however, is that companies offering personal genetic testing customarily seem to report back to those sending along a sample of their spit that they are a mix of different “ethnicities.” This is more than simply statistical nonsense. I fear doing this can also be dangerous. Claiming that it is possible to map ancestry in this fashion may be giving discredited old ideas about ethnicity and race new visibility.
I mean I don’t care about my ethnicity but genetically probably there are significantly more similarities between two Romanians than between a Romanian and a Japanese
My wife sent her spit in to one of those places. Turns out she’s Norhern European.
I got something like 87% Romanian and the rest from the area.
Unpossible. Vampires can’t have children.
Are they only doing anal?
The test results seem odd until I realized she hadn’t brushed first.
My Latvian father and grandparents were apparently Swedish. For 80 years I was 1/2 Latvian, 1/4 Irish and a 1/4 Swedish. After I apparently failed the DNA test I am now 3/4 Swedish, 1/4 English.
Relevant
Those ancestry sites are entertaining as all hell. Apparently, my family is Spanish, Taino, Northern European, Irish, and Moors. Viva the sailors in my family who WENT AROUND.
Knowing my jizz will cause some future racist ancestor to commit seppuku after getting his results. Priceless.
All according to keikaku.
My gut feel is that all this genetic testing is being done for Americans and Americans only. At my last job I worked with a lot of Europeans and they all thought Americans were strange because we were so interested in where we came from. The Spanish dudes all were from Spain. They had zero interest in finding out if they had any Moorish blood from way back. Same with the Germans. No one was even slightly interested if they might have some Italian blood from when great-great gramps brought back a war bride from the sacking of Rome.
So maybe the dna testing companies are just reacting to the market. Us mongrels want to know what countries kicked out our families.
I actually wanted to get the health and nutrition thing to see what it tells me, although that is probably even more bullshit than the ancestry. But I have no genes which increase chances of dementia or cancers so there is that
That’s what it means to be American. Our ancestors were kicked out of every respectable country in the world.
^^This is so lovely. I misread this/my brain got confused and it didn’t register properly. Now a happy bomb.
You are FROM Russia, yeah? I was wondering if you mistyped when you used “our.” But then I remember that you got your US citizenship sometimes earlier this year and that you *are* an American.
But I still have a quibble with it—(barring familial history that I obviously have no way of knowing)–It wasn’t YOUR ancestors that were kicked out. YOU were the person kicked out.
*You* are the ancestor to everyone of your Now and Future Clan that made the leap to the States that made them into Americans. We have my great-grandad’s (mom’s side) signature from the ledgers of Ellis Island when the Stefanski Clan moved over in 1924. They changed their name to Stevens.
I guess the equivalent to you would be the passport stamp on your first trip here. That is seriously fucking cool. America is a special, special place. It’s a shame that everyone is so delighted to fuck it up as quickly as possible.
*Sighs. Kicks pebble*
*Gets happy again.* Congrats!
I thought Grzzzly was from Russia. Animal is, too?
Wait. Do I have the correct bear?
I’m second-guessing myself. My point still stands regardless!
*crosses fingers*
Blame the soju.
In Team Spirit ’88 our Sgt. Maj. would regularly call us “soju sucking heathens” during the morning formation.
I still love going to a soju tent when I visit my relatives out in the boonies. Nothing like day drinking in a tent on the side of the road.
All bears look the same to you Evan!
I’m hearing John Winger: That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
South Park had a great spoof about the genetic testing. I’d link it if I wasn’t at work, but a quick search should find it for you.
I don’t care about that stuff, I want a my full genetic information for future medical purposes. And for fun.
The price was dropping rapidly on that until the State stepped in.
I mean I don’t care about my ethnicity but genetically probably there are significantly more similarities between two Romanians than between a Romanian and a Japanese
If there’s a discrepancy between the statistics and the ideology the problem obvious lies with the statistics. Gaucher’s and sickle cell be damned.
When peoples separate from each other and any of them stay isolated for a long time, you get genetic drift and so the markers will show that. But it’s best if we just deny this and get woke instead. Science is overrated although we freaking love science, we love wokeness more.
I work in statistical genetics. I assume, given it’s their business, that places like Ancestry are using more sensitive methods than we do (we’re only interested in very broad ancestry categories). Even so, my experience in detecting ancestry using full genome samples is that when Ancestry says “you’re 32.8% American Eskimo,” they’re reporting with too much precison, by at least one order of magnitude.
Microsoft Windows zero-day vulnerability disclosed through Twitter
This is more interesting than another windows bug. App for what platform, from where and under what caveats?
I miss Windows XP. It was the last decent release of Windows IMO.
After years of tinkering, I got 7 working in a manner I like. (Of course everything I like was removed entirely from 8 and above)
I’d have taken you for a OS/2 man.
LOL
OS/2 is for running ATMs. (Seriously, ATMs were where that OS lived on well past being retired everywhere else)
Believe it or not, the community got a distribution license from IBM and actually released a new build only a couple of years ago.
That’s just sad.
BeOS lives on too
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
An OG OS/2? Or some punk johnny-come-lately OS/2 Warp poseur?
It’s the last Windows OS I had.
I mean, you can always just use VirtualBox like a civilized person too.
‘Civilized’ is a euphemism for degenerate.
I run XP on a virtual box for an application I need for my work.
Otherwise I, like UCS, got 7 fully customized and comfortable. I’m not changing until forced.
Also, my desktop is Windows 3.x green rivets.
I only use Windows for gaming these days, and it lives on a different drive than any of my data or primary OS, but for years I kept my old XP installation time capsuled in a VirtualBox image.
Win10 actually isn’t that bad once you spend an hour or so in the control panel and registry neutering all the spyware.
There are spyware elements you can’t disable, so the one box which has Win10 on it is airgapped from the network and not allowed to connect to anything. (I paid $150 for it, and it’s handy as something to type on when in random locations. It literally has less processing power and memory than my phone)
Windows is so shitty.
Why are there in effect 2 interfaces? The X-boxy updated desktop bullshit vs. the old-school File Explorer/Control Panel/Under the hood bullshit.
Don’t get me started on PowerPoint. What a fucking disaster.
Because they are stuck between a rock (users who like the old-school interface) and a hard place (users who want the interface to be sleek and “new”)
Also, I like Windows 10 very much.
Archive site is fucked up, but that will not stop the titties from raining down upon you.
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=boobs+site%3athechive.com%2f2018%2f08&d=1814057258690&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=qHqAAJD-zHlbDhbY2xShEnE76Tj7MB2x
13 must have very small nipples (which I dig), so I’m going with her.
Had me at 1
you want me to get another call from IT?
Were they complimenting you on your taste in women?
3 is a bombshell, 44 has a lovely peach, and damn it if only I got to see 2’s face I’d be able to make a call.
“The ruling was intensely shaky and a jab to both the First and Second Amendment, so naturally Democrats were aroused.
But their celebration was premature.”
What has been done, has been seen.
Dozens at Facebook Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
“Dozens”
Pretty much sums up the entire situation.
Next week’s headline “Facebook lays off dozens of employees”
I logged on to FB for the first time in a month. It was filled with posts from “news” sites I’d never heard of. It’s more than worthless now.
Who is on the shirt Straff? I can’t make it out.
Dr. Huxtable.
Nice. That works on many levels.
Good for them.
It was bound to happen,
“We are a political monoculture that’s intolerant of different views,” Brian Amerige, a
seniorformer Facebook engineer, wrote in the postftfh
RE: Primary-a-palooza.
“She will square off against *Republican* Maria Elvira Salazar, a *Spanish-language television journalist*”
Emphasis mine.
Anyone who thinks that all “Latinos” (whatever that means) are automatically Dems should spend a little time in Miami among people of Cuban descent.
Didn’t she lie about being an immigrant or some shit about her upbringing?
Not sure. Her wiki page says she was born in Miami, presumably to Cuban immigrants. Would, though.
*cheers in Miamian Cuban descendant*
“Anyone who thinks that all “Latinos” (whatever that means) are automatically Dems should spend a little time in Miami among people of Cuban descent.”
All of them are. The ones who say they aren’t are FAKE Latinos. Uncle Juans if you will.
RE: Dine and dasher.
This guy has to be gay. Who uses Tinder to scam a free meal from some girl but doesn’t stick around for the dirty and shameful anonymous sex?
(((You))) tell us.
It’s a tough call. Opportunity to be (((cheap))) vs. potential super-gonorrhea.
I guess if you find a girl who’s will to go along with both then she’s the One.
“NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch humiliated former Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley on Tuesday after O’Malley attacked the NRA in response to the shooting in Jacksonville on Sunday.
“Another tragic mass shooting in Florida. Republican Governor Rick Scott proudly boasted that he passed more Pro-gun, NRA legislation than any other governor,” O’Malley tweeted. “Time to close the chapter on deadly pandering. #WinBackYourState, Florida.”
“The handgun was legally purchased in your state, Governor, which has a 30 day waiting period, registration, permit to purchase, may-issue LTC, and in 2013 you signed a law prohibiting involuntary institutionalized persons from possessing firearms,” Loesch fired back. “This isn’t Gov. Scott’s fault.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/35165/governor-slams-nra-after-shooting-dana-loesch-ryan-saavedra
So what I’m getting from this is that gun control doesn’t work. Thanks, Governor!
Oh, and Dana is a fox.
“Dana is a fox”
Would.
If anyone in this world needs to own an eastern European accent, a black leather paramilitary uniform with a red snake on it and ridiculous, oversized round glasses, its her.
One of the least appreciated reports in North American political history in my view was when the Auditor-General a few years back slammed the gun registry in her report.
Basically, in a nut shell? It was a $2.5 billion disaster with little to show for it. There was sufficient prove ever presented that ‘more gun control’ and ‘registries’ discourage crime.
Guess what? We’re still addicted to this ridiculous belief. Trudeau’s liberals – egged on by Montreal’s Mayor – want to ban small arms after a recent shooting.
Gun-grabbers are to crime what socialists are to economics.
It doesn’t matter how much evidence there is that their policies fail, they’ll never, ever rethink their position.
It’s a religion.
Just to clarify. There never was sufficient evidence.
I’m sure I don’t need to fix my….where’s the edit button anyway?
No, needs moar gun control. Why are any firearms allowed to be sold??
If he had the wherewithal to realize he’s been humiliated.
“The handgun was legally purchased in your state, Governor, which has a 30 day waiting period, registration, permit to purchase, may-issue LTC, and in 2013 you signed a law prohibiting involuntary institutionalized persons from possessing firearms
Well, that’s inconvenient.
Speaking of gun control, not sure if has been discussed here. But the current front runner in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election is touting gun rights for Brazilians as a way of curbing crime. He’s right on at least that issue. Well, he’s not actually the front runner, problem is the real front runner is in prison and will not be allowed on the ballot. So effectively, he’s the front runner.
the real front runner is in prison and will not be allowed on the ballot
If only our democratic institutions had as much credibility and integrity as the ones in . . . Brazil.
“Top story on Google News is that Google isn’t rigged.”
https://twitter.com/jamestaranto/status/1034546100844355585
Self-licking ice cream cone.
Everything is politicized. Everything is partisan. Tiger Woods is lambasted by some jamoke on ESPN for being insufficiently histrionic toward the president, something one would think is wide afield from his remit as a color commentator or Woods’ as a golfer. We can’t help but see our dismal, childlike politics infect every aspect of our lives.
So Of course Google biases their search results. How could they not be? ESPN can’t keep its apolitical pants on, but Google, a hyper-progressive culture war juggernaut, somehow maintains a nonpartisan ethos despite owing nothing to and wanting nothing from conservatives? Who’d they think would believe that?
^^^Russian troll confirmed.
“We have this black box, and you don’t know what goes on inside it, and other black boxes give wildly different results that show nowhere near the same partisan selectivity as ours, but you just have to believe us, out black box is not weighted toward CNN, NYT, Salon, Huffpo, Buzzfeed, or any other leftist outfits that populate the first several pages of results.”
Whatever you say tovarish. How does Putin’s cock taste?
“It’s not homophobic, it’s, um, a beautiful act of love between two men…”
/Colbert
Apparently, the new guy in charge wants to ween ESPN off its political track.
How they thought it was a good idea to let SPORTS personalities weigh in on issues – and issues that always tended to be nothing more than a generic broken record about how bad whitey is and America sucks and kneeing is good and all that crap – of the day while cynically riding the ‘woke wave’ is beyond me.
And it was somewhat working until Kellerman and Smith opened their mouths.
Of all the things to get upset about. What Woods said is more than fair, valid and appropriate.
He was being diplomatic and these assholes like sharks with lobotomies jumped on him for it.
Have to think it’s the same reason that The Last Jedi took Disney’s humongous investment clear off the rails, and none of the higher-ups seemed prepared to rein it in. They have a proven product that’s popular with a certain demographic, but there’s not a lot of room for overhauling success. So they shake things up hoping to make a name for themselves, and come up with an abortion of an idea–whether it’s Rian Johnson’s script or ESPN’s The View meets Sunday Night Football model.
Plinkett finally has a review up.
That guy is fucking awesome.
“Top story on Google News is that Google isn’t rigged.”
Real story = they lie.
“Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1034654816046329856
Trump just needs a reasonable prosecutor.
He needs an attorney general that doesn’t suffer from cranio-rectal syndrome.
Sessions will be gone after the midterms. Talk about something that is over due.
This is a watermelon:
“Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization…”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1034600638158594048
Well they do all wear black masks, so I guess that counts.
“Let’s be clear what’s going on here…”
Followed by the exact opposite of what’s going on.
“If You Want To Know Why Conservatives Don’t Trust Media, Watch CNN”
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/29/why-conservatives-dont-trust-media-cnn/
Jeffrey Toobin always looks to me like Fred Armisen doing a character.
“Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization…”
An African American organization made up entirely of white boys from wealthy families. OK.
“Fuck you, Dad!”
RE: GayJay getting Rand’s endorsement.
It’s purely symbolic. NM will not send a Repub (or a Libertarian, but that’s a given) to the Senate. The Dem is a lock. NM has the possibility of being slightly purplish very occasionally under the right circumstances, but this cycle is not one of those circumstances.
While I’ve not thought much about NM politics, I regularly find myself a little surprised its not more conservative. I probably do so because it’s located between TX & AZ. I assume the metro areas dominate the state?
Metro areas do dominate the state and it’s got kind of a unique situation in any case. For one, it’s very poor so there’s a lot of dependence on the government already, but there is a long history of “patronage” to the government dating all the way back to the Spanish colonial times. It’s not so much an ethnic thing, the Hispanic population in NM is very different from the Hispanic population in any other state, I think it’s just ingrained voting habits.
Like other Sun Belt states, it’s growing rapidly from internal migration. It remains to be seen if the transplants from elsewhere in the country will pull it left or right, or not at all.
Interesting. I didn’t realize the level of poverty since my exposure to the state has been limited to SF, ALB, & downtown Taos.
Goats ‘drawn to happy human faces’
When your species survival has depended upon getting along with humans, responding to their mercurial temprament is something that matters.
Goatfuckers got consent?
Just make sure to cuddle afterward.
Mistaking instinctual reaction for conscious recognition. Ah, science journalism.
“The School Shootings That Weren’t
How many times per year does a gun go off in an American school?
We should know. But we don’t.
This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.
But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.
We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2018/08/27/640323347/the-school-shootings-that-werent
I am legitimately shocked that NPR would not only do that research, but publish it. That screams “story that needs to be killed for the sake of the narrative”. Someone is probably going to lose his job.
That was my first thought as well.
I mentioned this at the TOS. It was the first thing I noticed.
Good for them.
Bum taps all around.
Rufus is condoning sexual assault!
They know they want it.
That just reinforces the position that the Education Department is hopelessly politicized and needs to be completely scrapped.
Of course, that needs to happen for other reasons as well.
So we’ve got Free Shit dude (thank fuck our lack of a state income tax is enshrined in the state constitution) versus “I’m so far up Trump’s ass that I’m going to use my kids in a commercial building a wall with legos as a stupid metaphor” dude in the Governor’s race in November.
I think I’d rather have Charlie Crist vs. Rick Scott again.
Now that’s brutal. You’re making me weep for my home state.
Has Charlie Crist come out yet?
That’s my Congressman you’re talking about! Seriously. Fuck.
Wanna trade congressional reps?
Not if I get DWS
Apparently Kathy Griffin is still around:
Kathy Griffin attacks Trump for McCain condolences: ‘Take his name out of your mouth’
“You maligned his military service while you did everything to avoid serving. You attacked him repeatedly while you knew he was dying,” Griffin continued.
“And you cozied up to Putin while he did everything he could to oppose him,” she wrote. “F— you.”
Kathy Griffin Slams Louis C.K.’s Attempted Comeback: ‘The Boys Club Won Again’
Louis just went on a long vacation and didn’t do anything to show that he has reformed/changed. He’s a multi-millionaire who finally got some sleep after working nonstop for years. This is how we are making people are paying penance in the #MeToo era?
Shorter Griffin: “Please, please, please look at me! I want my career back!”
Inaprobs dude. She’s already only like 4’6″ as it is.
Sorry hon, dying is not a defense to criticism, particularly when you remain involved in politics despite it.
And her comedy is as hilarious as ever.
I’ve tried listening to female comedians on Spotify…they are all terrible. I even subjected myself to Amy Schumer to see if I was missing anything.
I thought her first couple of “My Life on the D list” bits were pretty funny. But after that, yeah.
I can’t believe she hasn’t taken her own life by now. She is the poster child for the crazy entertainer.
Granted, she’s more crazy than entertainer, but still.
I find it hysterical how Democrats are all of the sudden all adoring of McCain. If Trump criticizes Hitler, they’ll all start wearing swastikas. Zero self awareness.
Keith Ellison is a shithead.
But you knew that already.
Yes, I did. But this
Immediately lets me know his opponent is a shithead.
They’re all shitheads.
I was making this point to my kids the other day. Just because one is wrong, does not make their opponent right.
“human-trafficking epidemic”
I remain amazed that this has become a talking point/campaign issue despite absolutely no evidence that such an epidemic exists.
I think I’ll invent an issue and run for Congress.
“If I’m elected, I will never stop fighting the scourge of frogs raining from the sky!”
Are we talking gay frogs or heterofrogs, and do you mean amphibians or french?
I’m inclusive of all frogs, gay or straight. I’m definitely not a homophobe and I want to foster a culture of diversity and inclusivity.
Except for those fucking Frenchmen. Fuck them.
The war on drugs is dying and they know it.
They wanted to create a problem that would allow them to keep all that power they’ve given themselves as a result of the war on drugs.
Enter “the human trafficking epidemic”
They started messing with people’s legitimate pain medication.
I remain amazed that this has become a talking point/campaign issue despite absolutely no evidence that such an epidemic exists.
Well, they have historical models to construct a scare.
Huh. I thought all the human trafficking victims had moved on now that the SuperBowl has come and gone.
Yeah, they are all shit heads. My favorite is that the local rag will sort of mention the one woman who claims Brother Keith was mean to her because she does sound like a nut job with no proof. The other woman? The one who has a 911 call to back up her claims? Not a fucking peep.
My theory is that Keith is going to lose a squeaker because he won’t get any votes in out state rural Minnesoda.
Dude, MN has a long way to go at turning the AG’s office into a partisan shakedown machine if it wants to catch up with NY.
“Keith Ellison is a shithead.”
Well, he’s a lefty so it’s guaranteed.
“Busy? Dude you spent all day watching Baywatch reruns. The guy monitoring you got bored and went home.”
https://twitter.com/TheMossadIL/status/1034502280329011200
LOLOLOLOLOL
“CNN, Credibly Accused of Lying to its Audience About a Key Claim in its Blockbuster Cohen Story, Refuses to Comment”
https://theintercept.com/2018/08/28/cnn-credibly-accused-of-lying-to-its-audience-about-a-key-claim-in-its-blockbuster-cohen-story-refuses-to-comment/
Very fake news.
When CNN doesn’t like, it’s because they’re not reporting on anything.
Elon is back off the wagon. That didn’t take long.
He’s losing his mind.
And his bumpers.
Hold on, you want these cars to be “waterproof?” That’s the problem with all you “car guys.” Stuck in the old ways of doing things.
Waterproof is less than minimum. Cars should be amphibious.
Given the price point, the wait backlog, the liability and limited lifespan, the thing better fly.
It does – when the battery ruptures and propels the vehicle like a rocket!
An electric car that comes apart at the seams in the rain isn’t the most reassuring thing I can think of driving.
But electricity and water get along shockingly well!
Like a house on fire.
I get a tingle up my leg just thinking about it.
If you needed more evidence that Q is a Russian bot, I don’t know what else I can do.
http://boredboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/06-Average-Breast-Sizes-By-Country.jpg?09cc63
We may think we won the Cold War, but one glance at this map proves otherwise.
“A YouTuber referenced in one of our recent articles objected to being called an “ethnonationalist.” We have updated the piece accordingly.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1034599585178677248
Laura Hudson, Garbage Human
https://twitter.com/laura_hudson
This person’s biggest fans are apparently Anita Sarkeesian, She Guevara, and some unhinged person trying to play the victim because she’s moving?
No more information needed.
I thought he was an extremist, white-nationalist, alt-Right Nazi that sane people from all sides rejected?
https://freebeacon.com/politics/more-half-countrys-attorneys-general-endorsed-kavanaugh/
Kavanaugh is a Russian bot. Those are all AGs from backwards deplorable states. Once Mueller gets Kavanaugh’s wife’s emails, then then he’ll be hauled in stripes along with Trump.
Interesting to note:
“Most violent border city in Texas” El Paso has a lower violent crime rate (for 2016) than Billings, MT.
The cartels have a vested interest in making sure the violence does not spill over the border.
NYT math: 24 is over 10 times larger than 15
Well, they have a guy there with a Noble prize in economics who knows nothing about economics, two lead writers who can’t write at junior high level, and a racist who writes about racism. So it’s no surprise they don’t do math either.
Obama’s is the shortest.
So apparently our new contract is official enough that the gubmint sent a check to the vendor. BUT WE STILL DON’T KNOW WHICH COMPANY IT IS!! GAH! I’ve been trying to suss out who it is for weeks – no dice. At least you know the folks at [agency] are good at keeping secrets. I guess.
Is this one of those situations where they didn’t say and now it’s been weeks and it’s far too late to ask?
LOL – no. We have out-and-out asked who the new company is. The gubmint can’t/won’t tell us. We have to wait til the new vendor contacts us.
I feel like if they have a check in hand, they should probably be contacting us.
In my experience, people are less, not more, responsive after the check clears.
^^^THIS^^^
Minesoda Man tells Florida Man: Hold my LSD and watch this!
In drug-infused rage, Minn. man allegedly bit off man’s finger, tried pulling woman’s face apart ‘as hard as he could’
No editors at the Herald?
I’ve seen 4 different articles in recent months use the word aircrafts, so I”m gonna say “no”.
I wonder what the safe word was? Get the Fucx away from me?
To me, “drug infused rage” is the real winner. Sounds like a hipster cocktail.
I’m just assuming the emergency safe word is the pointing yell from Body Snatchers.
Friend on Facederp: *tags me* You gotta what this horrific video of abuse by a dog trainer!
Me: No, thanks
Derp friend: Here’s a full description, minute by minute, of what’s happening in the video.
*watch
Friend on Facederpt: *tags me in event* Hey come out for beers and brats, bro! We hardly see you anymore!
Me: *deactivates account*
Friend on cell phone: “We’re really worried about you”
Me: *throws phone away*
Friend dropping by: “I wanted to make sure you were still alive”
Me: *chases friend away with shotgun*
Q: *chasing old friend away with shotgun* ‘You’d better be more worried that you’re still alive, get off my lawn!’.
Pssshhhh. Must be nice having friends that still talk to you.
Facederp: Based on your surfing habits we thought you’d be interested in this video made by Democrats that clearly shows Facebooks algorithms are terrible at matching interests.
Me: *Blocks video and reports as sexually inappropriate
“we thought you’d be interested in this video made by Democrats that clearly shows Facebooks algorithms are a fig leaf to disseminate progressive propaganda”
FIFY.
Hm… flag everything innocuous as sexually explicit, they’ll have to advertise you sexually explicit content.
*head tap guy*
Crazy – something like nine players tapped out yesterday. I’m getting a heat stroke just moving around my apartment.
Global warming?
That’s an odd autocorrect for “August”.
Before long autocorrect will direct you to a Wikipedia article on global warming, when you type anything that could be considered a challenge to the settled science.
Look, here’s the dictionary!
SETTLED!
I suppose you don’t agree with the dictionary!
This is the same counter post I received from a poster at The Hill in regards to me posting that people who call themselves liberal today are not liberals.
They’re already making the FL gubernatorial race about … race. Believe it or not.
Don’t Monkey it up
I mean I guess someone is assuming that the word monkey is only used as a reference to black people.
Considering the phrase is “Don’t muck it up.” I’m just going to go with the candidate isn’t bright.
He’s a politician, what do you expect? I’m not sure he can monkey it up, the other guy is a radical Bernie bot in the mold of She Guevara, calling for guess what? $15 an hour and single payer, among all the other prog issues.
Well at least the commie wing of the Dem party has a unity of message/platform.
SocoList?
The guy who said that has been called a Trump acolyte. I don’t know anything about him, but careful selection of words designed to make your opponents in the media look unhinged has some precedent…
I’ve heard that exact phrase before and, like it you would think, it means don’t screw it up. There’s no racial connotation unless you associate black people with monkeys.
Watching people get all twisted up about nonsense like this is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
Florida man with no arms, no feet, armed and on the run.
KDW takes lefties to the woodshed over segregationist progressives and “conservative Democrats.”
>_<