It has been a long week. A long week of nothing but Brett Kavanaugh news. Having told my news feed I didn’t want any stories tagged “Kavanaugh” twice, it started floating stories about “Supreme Court” “Law” “Dr. Ford” all of which got banned 1-2 times. Eventually it just started floating 6+ stories a day tagged “TRENDING” and occasionally “Anita Hill” which got my phone put in airplane mode for the past two days.
Now that I’m avoiding news. I’m trying my best to fill my online time with pictures of Hemsworth brothers shirtless, but even the celeb gossip rags have nothing for me because they’re all talking about people I’ve never heard of or have purposefully forgotten. Except for dear, sweet Gwyneth Paltrow who is getting married to someone I’ve never heard of after being badly abused by the CA government for misleading consumers with vaginal rejuvenation eggs. Luckily she takes everything in stride.
- Dlisted has a great bear-related Hot Slut of the Day (100% safe for work)
- Lil Wayne, back from his heroic efforts to solve the drug crisis in Mexico, has released a new album and had a party…with people, I dunno.
- Owen Wilson is every episode of Jerry Springer
- Finally, something I care about: Christopher Meloni Butt It’s not OZ-era Meloni butt but then, nothing really is.
And just to convey my disdain for this week more completely: a musical number
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“Dlisted has a great bear-related Hot Slut of the Day”
Once you go black…
Hey Christopher Meloni – I like that guy. I started watching Happy, liked it a lot until I realized not all the episodes are available on-demand. Now I’m debating whether to keep watching while skipping the missing episodes.
He was pretty scary in Oz though.
Scary foine.
I heard there was this downloady thing on the internets…
Go on…
This just in! Grandchild #5 is on the way.
Congratulations!!,!
Congrats!
Gratz!
Congrats!
Owen Wilson link?
Yippee!
Awww! Congratulations, and to Mrs Animal, too!
Congratulations on the new cub. I hope hes as ferocious as his poppa.
Wow. You’re really old!
Congrats, brother!
Congrats to your growing sleuth.
Reposting from the dead thread
Off-topic /personal topic. Since getting on Dave Ramsey’s an 18 months ago, we’ve paid $112k toward debt. A solid $40k of that went to interest, but the needle is moving. Our non-mortgage debt moved from $255k to $185k.
Easiest way to become self sufficient? Pay off all your debt. Even just the handful of minimums that we don’t have to pay anymore take a huge weight off our shoulders. Next goals? Car #1 will be paid off by the end of October, Car #2 by next April or May, and then tackling law school debt.
Nice. Dave Ramsey was really helpful for my sister and her family. They’re not perfect, but doing much better.
Shameless name dropping side note: My friend’s fiancee just started working for Dave
Hell yes man. Did that one a while back and it is great. Our long term plan now is to have enough saved for me to be fully retired after this military job so I can stock shelves and take care of the kids during the week and race cars (with the kids) on the weekend. We are saving to pay cash for a house in twelve years as well, when we’ve settled down.
Keep it up!
I think about paying off the mortgage since it’s our only debt, but the interest rate is so low it’s not really worth it.
Yeah… that’s about where I am now. I figure saving and investing will get me a better return then paying off the low interest rate mortgage.
To me, I’d rather kill the monthly payment and not have to worry about it. Even if the math isn’t 100% in my favor, I get the peace of mind of knowing that I don’t get foreclosed on if I’m short of cash one month.
That’s why there’s also the savings instead of it all going into investing. I also have no children to worry about, which I’m sure makes a difference.
Fair enough. I’m quite averse to ongoing payments (despite my current situation), so the idea of a mortgage hanging around 20 or 30 years sounds awful to me.
The fact that inflation exists, makes your strategy valid. Fuck the government for continually devaluing my savings to the point that borrowing makes more sense than saving. Fuck them with a rusty chainsaw.
I paid off my mortgage rather quickly back in the ’70s-early 80s. Inflation was unreal so I just kept making multiple payments. After it was done (30 years mortgage in 8 1/2 years) I put that money into investments and it was a big relief plus a start towards the future.
Goddamn right.
My house is paid off, and I’m thinking about taking out a mortgage on it because it’s basically free.
Good for you! I listen to Ramsey on Sunday nights when he is on the talk station. He can be an ass and I have never been a fan but the man does “sell” wisdom. My folks used to do his course at their church for their parishioners and they are Ramsey disciples. Funny how their wisdom never took with me but then again I am a self confessed dumb ass. Hopefully that will change with a few tweeks on some body parts and I can work more.
You’re getting your dick enlarged so you can become a porn star?
Easiest way to become self sufficient?
Dont go unti debt in the first place.
-homeowner @30
Debt can be extremely useful if you know what you’re doing.
And painful if you don’t know what you’re doing.
I’m green with envy. We’ve got student loans and a house note, not to mention debt with family to pay off. We’re making progress, but it sucks to be 40 and have a negative net worth.
That’s fantastic. Great work.
It was pouring rain this morning, so I took my bucket hat to work.
I got weird looks, but I think it’s because it’s an army surplus one. Or maybe I just looked weird in it.
I have no links.
Hoping USC can put some drives together tomorrow.
Where was it pouring? You’re just up in Boulder or something aren’t you?
No, he went east coast, NH I think, whatever they’re all the same.
My brother is in Boulder right now with his wife.
Some bar called The Sink.
Is there any evidence that Katy Perry can sing?
Hey edit fairy, there’s probably a gif of Katy perry showing off her assets on sesame street in the media library. Can you help a brother out?
https://giphy.com/gifs/troll-perry-katy-LOHU2htO8IzQY
https://giphy.com/gifs/snl-saturday-night-live-katy-perry-PGvMzPc1IPI3e
I’ve told this story many times, but….
I’ve seen her in person. In a bikini. From 2 feet away. She’s not attractive in the slightest, even if you just got out of prison.
I have no idea how the TV magic works.
Her weight fluctuates and her face when she isn’t dolled up is 4 points lower, but I find it hard to believe that she wouldn’t be a solid would in person. For her reputation, she probably is more in line with average attractive broad you see on the street. With large breasts.
I am a flawed individual, so I’m not going to line-item critique someone else’s physical appearance.
What I saw was an objectively unattractive woman. On TV, she’s attractive.
Good look finding many modern pop stars that can
There are plenty of them.
They’re all named Auto Tune?
Just kidding, kind of. The only pop I’ve heard over the past 10 years is the stuff that just cannot be avoided try as I might: Katy Perry, TSwift, Kelly Clarkson, one hit wonders like the All about that bass girl, Colby Caillat
Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson can sing. Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus are great singers. Katy Perry seems like she barely has a one-octave range.
I used to hate Lady Gaga because she sung pop, and then I listened to her stuff and found out more about her. She’s a badass. She’s a really admirable artist in this day and age. I’ve got nothing but respect for her. She’s probably the one pop artist I can think of off the top of my head that I’d encourage my daughter to emulate.
Did the meat suit seal the deal?
Clarkson has quality pipes, even though I am not a fan of her music.
T.Swift, Elli Goulding, Dua Lipa to name a few… they can all sing well. They likely sing pop because its popular (go figure!) and makes the money.
As an example:
DJ Fresh & Ellie Goulding cover Kodaline’s All I Want
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQv5ihwBZds
All I Want
That led to a recommendation of the “Dancing on My Own” cover from Kings of Leon.
So offensive!
The only cover worth anything (including the original) is Callum Scott.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q31tGyBJhRY
Growler, two bottles of craft, and two whiskeys down. Woooooo. Raining during kids homecoming so we bailed and are enjoying dinks and fire.
I’m drinking the Aldi knockoff of Heineken, which unlike Heineken, is actually drinkable.
I moved to where there are no Aldi’s before trying all of Aldi’s beer. I liked all I had.
Man I miss Aldi.
I could not post. I quit my browser and signed back in a few times. Now it seems to be working again.
Let me know if you need assistance later. sp @thiswebsite
I have no idea what happened. Maybe check the logs?
The logs say you had corn on the cob last night.
I know the absolute minimum about Oz, but I recall Christopher Miloni being some sort of homosexual racist skinhead on that show who raped men. Which I think describes about 40% of the cast, actually. With 45% then being the coloreds and then a few others. I found it odd that they cast him in SVU after that.
The biggest racist skinhead on that show was the yellow M&M.
How many men did he rape?
All of them.
So, in like a rape-off between STEVE SMITH, Brett Kavanaugh, and this guy, who do you think would win?
Kavanaugh is disqualified because he only rapes females. Fucking shitlord.
It’s really not a stretch to go from racist rapist to cop.
Yikes. The show is excellent and the characters are well fleshed out and broken in interesting ways. It’s been a while but I don’t think Meloni is particularly a whote supremacist. The guy from the insirance ads is their leader.
I don’t think he was a for-reals homosexual either. More like any port in a storm. His cellmate may have been, though.
I haven’t watched Oz in quite some time, but I think Keller (Meloni) was indeed one of the Aryans. When he gets transferred to Em City, no one but Schillinger (Simmons) knows who he is, so Schillinger can use him to get to Beecher. Which he does, getting Beecher to fall in love with him before he and Schillinger reveal the truth and beat the hell out of Beecher, breaking both his arms. Later, of course, Keller realizes he actually does have true feelings for Beecher.
Look at you flaunting your HBO privilege; this is all I know about OZ
I hear the coloreds have lower IQs. Have you heard about this?
Well, I don’t know about IQs, but as I understand it they don’t make very good lifeguards, if you know what I mean…
Smirnoff, splash of lemon juice, Perrier. It was a good week. Long and busy, but I pretty much kicked it’s ass.
What do you have against American water????
Too… floaty?
The fluoride in it is detrimental to our…precious bodily fluids.
Lil’ Wayne turned 36. He looks 66. I guess black don’t crack unless black do crack.
I was wondering if the creature in that photo was even the subject of the article. Gah.
Ya, dude has had a rough 36.
I can relate to jesse. (miss the tortilla in the pic btw) I have been a bit sick of Kavanaugh news too, but the links surfaced an old repressed memory that I heard from someone once that Brett Kavanaugh raped Owen Wilson at a party somewhere in Maryland resulting in Kavanaugh getting pregnant and the rapist pig Kavanaugh had an abortion to hide it and is now why he is on a solo mission to overturn Roe. Also, that is the first Katy Perry song I have listened to in its entirety solely due to the irony. You made me ironically listen to Katy Perry. I am not sure but that might be a NAP violation.
FTW.
I have mostly ignored the kavenaugh stuff. It’s all horseshit and I will pay a bit more attention after the dust settles. Paying too much attention to the day to day hypocrisy of the pukes in Washington is liable to make me sick.
Heavy snark is the only way to tolerate it.
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. It was a crepe, not a tortilla. Sheesh.
Are you trying to make Jesse MORE gay?
Seriously.
Everyone knows it was a potato pancake.
And now somebody is throwing around the hard J.
How the fuck is that the hard J?
You people are weird.
You know who else eats Latkes?
Not Tundra?
midwesterners?
Yep. Pretty much everyone with access to potatoes.
Especially the Irish.
Me? Love ’em.
A local Lutheran church has a potato pancake dinner every year, those damn jews!
I’m Lutheran, and I’ve never had a latke. I refuse, because I’m anti-semitic.
You don’t have to have a latke, just have a potato pancake, instead.
Yeah, potato pancakes sound pretty damn good right now.
This is almost as perplexing to me as when I went off to college and found out fried chicken and coolaid was a black stereotype, to me that was just dinner.
Was it? I thought it was a crepe. Where the hell is Jesse to straighten this shit out?
It was a crepe. Kavinaugh raped me with it though. So thanks for triggering me, asshole.
You were probably asking for it. What were you wearing?
Nothing, and I was playing Nirvana really loud and encouraging him, still doesn’t make it right.
Definitely a crepe
Did he set up a gang-crepe?
Jesse, you are a good looking Man, despite the Beard
Thanks. I look weird without it though
I just lost 7 monarch chrysalides to the black death bacterial infection; euthanizing these wee emerald pouches that we raised from eggs is far more emotionally draining than I thought it would be. We’ve released 16 butterflies this season and are hoping to save the last 4 chrysalides; also still have 2 juvenile caterpillars eating milkweed leaves at a fantastic pace. I’m drowning my sorrows in this amazingly delicious Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA and the rather mediocre
Colonel Kwik-E-Mart’s Kentucky BourbonKirkland Premium Small Batch Bourbon (7 years old, 103 proof) from Costco. It’s a few cents more expensive than my usual Wild Turkey 101 at my local and not nearly as good. Sigh…Wild Turkey is good. So is Old Grand Dad.
One of the most magical moments in my life has been sitting on the beach on Tybee Island. With no fanfare or notice thousands and thousands of Monarchs flew by down the beach heading south.
They are really cool critters. They go through 3 generations up here in the Northeast that live for only a week or so of drinking nectar, mating, and laying eggs on milkweed. Then a 4th generation hatches that lives for several months and eschews mating in favor of gorging on nectar for the flight down to Mexico to repeat the process.
Late to the party, but my wife raises monarchs every year for her preschool class. She’s lost a bunch to the black death over the years. It’s so cool to see them transform into a chrysalis.
Nice. Our kids are 4 and 7 and this has been a great family project. Next year will be even better. We also found a bunch of eggs on our parsley and dill so now we have a bunch (24) of Eastern swallowtails in various stages of development.
Random question – how does public domain work? I can find books by Charles “War in Heaven” Williams on the Gutenberg project in Australia, but not listed on the US site. Is that a random upload thing or are books/movies that are public domain in one country not necessarily public domain in others?
If so, how does that work if you wanted to use the property? Just curious. I’m a little buzzed from a bourbon barrel stout left over from last year – I’ll have to finish that bottle tomorrow.
Slowly uploading all my reviews to bitchute. Like vid.me, I should be able to include all my uncensored/unedited versions here – so maybe bonus clips, etc in the future.
Bit chute FTW, I’m going to migrate there as soon as I get the time
Public domain is country by country. And if you want to use a public domain work, you just use it. There’s a reason that Sherlock Holmes stories are so popular, anyone can write one. That’s also why Disney really wants to keep Mickey Mouse under copyright, they do not want anyone to be able to make Mickey Mouse stories/cartoons/etc.
No…but the issue is….if I live in a “country” where it’s not public domain, can I only release my own story or adaptation/etc in a country where it “is” public domain? Ie. a comic book adaptation….what if someone wants to import it after that?
I mean, I remember back in the day when WB owned the rights to Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but not the first Mad Max in the US (MGM still had the US rights IIRC) – but in Japan, I could buy a complete trilogy box set by WB (weird I know)….2001ish.
How does that affect new stuff?
I’m one of the few non-lawyers here… but my understanding is if you live in a country where something isn’t public domain, you can’t release your own take on it (without the standard fair use/satire exemptions). Distribution rights are a whole other kettle of fish, the reason there hasn’t been solo Hulk films is that Marvel/Disney doesn’t own distribution rights to the solo Hulk films.
This isn’t my area of IP law, so take my intuition with a grain of salt. I would guess that the laws that apply would be in the country where you reside when you publish. Complicating things is the fact that there are treaties between countries about how to handle cross-border copyright issues.
IOW, I have no fucking clue.
I’m seriously considering opening up an E bay shop to sell my Diorama/terrain pieces, my Work is as good or better than what I see, and I’m doing some interesting pieces, like these Hoodoos,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/Xc7CQZNaayQzp5CS7 I don’t see anyone doing one off pieces, I do make them, but if I can show off my bigger pieces, maybe a Commission..
Go for it! A quick glance at Etsy found these that look rather similar to some items you showed in your last article. IDW what your costs are like but $10+ per seems pretty sweet to me.
Exactly, and my mad skills smoke the other guys, thanks!
Have you considered museum commissions? A buddy’s brother is a carpenter for the Smithsonian. He does restoration work on exhibits and period replicas. They hired him on the basis of his background in fine woodworking rather than any formal education in history, so I would imagine that with your obvious skill in modelling and historical research experience you’d be very marketable.
I had my annual physical today and either my MD was hitting on me or I really am in good shape. After doing the blood work, I killed a Cracker Barrel sunrise sampler, skipped the gym, ate a danish and am pouring a big whiskey when I get out of work.
Running from Alligators and Meth Queens Keeps you in shape from what I hear,
Edit: chasing meth queens keep me in shape.
Sorry about the Crapper Barrel.
Well, his closest Chipotle is on the secure side of the Orlando airport. No point in getting his asshole violated twice in one night. I assume.
I thought the cracker barrel thing would make you less attractive, but it didn’t. Good job on being irresistible. Also, pics?
Lol. I didn’t expect the Cracker Barrel hate here. Usually I eat here but wanted to slum it.
https://www.kekes.com/
There’s a story there but I’m a bit tipsy and it can wait for a real keyvoard instead of my phone.
I wait with baited breath.
Have any of you guys watched The Shape of Water? Worth the time? or should I just rewatch Smokey and the Bandit?
Eastbound and Down, dude.
But I am neither loaded up or trucking.
try Step into Liquid, much better movie,
Smokey and the Bandit. The Shape of Water isn’t bad, but I wasn’t that big of a fan of it, and I love most of del Toro’s other works.
Thanks, I also have enjoyed previous del Toro films but the previews for this one seemed too hokey romance-y for my erudite tastes.
SKIP “The Shape of Water”
I thought Richard Jenkins was good and almost stole the movie.
Of course, I’m a bit biased because he went to the same bumfuck midwest tiny college that I did.
Richard Jenkins is a bright spot – so much potential in that film, but no cigar.
You’re not watching Bright Victory on TCM?
Ahem, I don’t even own a television.
Wait, what?
OT: Have you seen Bergman’s “Autumn Sonata”? Deciding whether to go tomorrow.
An excellent but difficult movie. Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann play a mother and daughter who haven’t seen each other in years, and by the end we understand why. If you don’t want to watch dysfunctional relationships then this isn’t a movie for you.
It’s also a he’ll of a lot better and m0re straightforward then something like Cries and Whispers, which I hated.
Hell, not he’ll, damn auto-correct.
Thanks. I saw and enjoyed Cries and Whispers last week – my husband hated it.
I doubt most guys want to watch women taking jagged glass to their vaginas.
And for those who haven’t seen it, while films of today generally have a color palette of teal and orange, Cries and Whispers has a palette of red, red, red, red, and red.
Not fair – there is also black and white.
Sure, I could recommend Wild Strawberries or Smiles of a Summer Night.
But films of today aren’t normally made in black and white.
I randomly thought of this movie this morning:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074279/
Man what a stupid movie.
Superior:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072856/
It’s good Del Toro stuff – as usual not as good as his Espanol flicks – but yeah…a little more sjw-ish than his older flicks.
That is to say, if you haven’t watched “Cronos”, “Devil’s Backbone” or “Pan’s Labyrinth” yet – do yourself a favor and watch them…or save them for a favorable comparison afterwards – but they are all far superior IMO. (Even Blade 2 is better IMO).
If you haven’t seen it yet, may I suggest The Seven Five.
Looks good but I’m not in the mood for angry watching just now, anyhow I see that Bat 21 is on prime so I’m set.
Always a fine choice.
Yes, it’s an extremely well-made (direction, script, acting, cinematography, set design, etc) film with an idiotic plot. It’s basically a $20M B-movie.
So, the LP did a thread on Kavanaugh
I think the highlight (for me) is when they said, “Elect LP candidates! We’ll protect you from rapists”
NAP, something something, LP magically restrain rapists with power of govt something something, magic sauce.
It also cites a handful of arcane precedents which i’ve never heard of which it claims he’d simply allow to continue. *as though judges bring cases challenging precedent and make arguments against them*.
It’s an alright thread without the #metoo and Ford bullshit.
you mean the “muh gold standard” and “whycome congress don’t declare war”?
sure. it has zero relevance to a scotus nominee, so it serves as nothing more than non-sequitur filler-material between pathetic-squeeing
Presumably if an LP candidate won the presidency, they’d want to be able to get a qualified nomination through w/o insane popular borking-process derailing them.
I don’t want to be all like “uh, rule of law uber alles”, but the inverse here which the LP is doing – cheerleading rule-by-mob – is far more retarded
I agree with you on all points.
Another thing that really annoys me is long Twitter threads as long form compositions. They are an eye nightmare. Write a bl*g post.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way.
#metoo
I think when you use the #MeToo and Ford bullshit as your segway into attacking his politics, you’ve kind of abandoned any pretense of having principles. At least libertarian ones.
I don’t even know who they’re trying to attract with this. The five people who both believe that an unfalsifiable attempted sexual assault allegation should always be believed and those who are still up in arms over the abuses brought on by the War on Terror? You know why almost no one really bothers to make a serious point about Kavanaugh’s role in the Bush administration abuses? Because both team red and team blue signed off on that shit repeatedly over the last 16 years. Mainstream leftists can’t go any further than vaguely connecting him to Bush or some bullshit scandal (HE USED INTEL STOLEN FROM DEMOCRATIC STAFFERS!!!!!11!!)>! They voted for the same shit.
Here I see the LP embracing character assassination as a means to…fuck, they’re not even after power here. That’s the most pathetic thing. The Democrats are at least going to get something out of this. These faux libertarians posting this crap under the name of the Libertarian Party are even bigger cucks and stooges than guys like Flake.
They are trying to attract more liberals into the fold, as Sarwark is fond of doing, and it’s the same failure of a strategy as 2016.
“”I don’t even know who they’re trying to attract with this. “”
I think they watch ‘regular political parties’, and their nonstop irrational-appeal to emotions? and just copy that.
In my opinion, the LP is in some sort of very compromised position; on one hand, they genuinely want to be a vehicle to help elect local political representatives. I’m 100% for that. There need to be more state-senators/representatives, and hopefully, LP congresspeople, eventually.
But this idea that they’re somehow ever going to compete on a national-level? makes them pretend to be something they’re not. they’re also too-often pretending to be a unified ‘voice of libertarians’. They’re not that either. They’re just an umbrella under which a wide-variety of very-different views of libertarianism fit (e.g. both pro AND anti abortion, both thick and thin libertarians, both open and less-open border-types, etc)
They need to recognize that the absolute best they could ever hope to shoot for… is probably 10% of the voting public. and that’s wildly optimistic.
If they were more realistic, they’d recognize that the best way to rally support is to simply be a protest of the status-quo.
Simply say, “Clearly the nomination here process shows that politics as usual is corrupt, amoral shitshow. VOTE FOR US, at least we’re honest, and we all like the constitituion” Spare me the gold-standard, and the ideological lectures. 90% of the potential converts don’t care and are just turned off by your Lyndon Larouche-sounding gibberish.
Whatever, they’re fucking morons. They literally take people who are already libertarian, and drive them away. Forget ‘recruiting people’.
So, they decry partisanship while often times adopting the worst partisan attacks of both sides?
Do they really think that, or do enough of them simply make a good living claiming that?
not exactly.
I think they imitate the pathetic-appeal (not the ‘X is the ENEMY!’-partisanship), the mushy bullshit like the tweet that said, “We have candidates who will safeguard you from rape”.
That doesn’t even make sense from a non-libertarian POV. Politicians can’t ‘prevent crime’. And libertarians want to reduce policing-role in people’s lives. there’s literally no logical way that argument works from any point of view. Its just pure *feels*.
Or they say, “Weinstein was fired! Matt Lauer was fired! Garrison Keillor was fired! they should ‘fire’ Kavanaugh”
As tho govt jobs are like media-popularity-contests. Its just vacuous rhetorical gibberish.
That’s the shit they copy from the major parties.
Then they sprinkle a bunch of stuff like ‘the gold standard’ and ‘slaughterhouse law’, and arcane rulings about how the war on terror was fought… etc. leaping quickly from empty-headed feels, to pure Ideological Legal Analysis.
All they need to do is say, “Do you hate DC? So do we. these people are utter shit.”
“Fire them and hire us: we’re constitutionalists, we want to fix immigration and the justice system, we’re opposed to wars, and we hate inflation. Vote libertarian”.
You could triple the size of the party in one year on the back of this televised shitshow. Instead, 90% of libertarians read their tweets and go, “Who are you? I don’t know you.”
Imagine what a “moderate” LP would look like. I think it would be something like the old “movement conservatism” except it would take the position that it has no position on social issues–“the government shouldn’t tell you how to live your life”–and would be non-interventionist but pro-defense–“we support the men and women who keep us safe and refuse to risk their lives defending foreign dictators or policing the globe”. Let’s say pro-immigration but not open borders, and anti-tariff, laissez-faire foreign trade policies. Domestically, no sales tax, right to work, maybe throw in some environmental regulation targeted at “tragedy of the commons” type stuff like water pollution using tax incentives rather than fines. It becomes a party for people who hate the identity politics and statism of the Progressive left but don’t want the social conservatism and statism of the right. It would really be the “keep government out of the bed room and the board room” party.
“They’re just an umbrella under which a wide-variety of very-different views of libertarianism fit ”
Maybe. But getting libertarians together is like herding cats. Both pro and anti abortion, both open and less-open border-types, exist.
I keep hearing this. It has me questioning whether or not I really know what the word credible means.
She’s either good at acting, or she’s managed to convince herself that her own story is true. Just because she delivered her testimony with emotion doesn’t change the fact that her story has holes big enough for a dump truck.
I mean, did you actually find her convincing? Or emotional? Because I didn’t. I saw someone who was coached. I mean that sincerely. Someone can accuse me of bias, but she would have to have completely shit the bed for the media not to have deemed her credible and sincere.
Her actions that we know about do not indicate credibility. And she either lied repeatedly during her testimony or truly has no fucking clue what her representatives are doing on her behalf.
How do I contact my congressperson? I’m just a wittle girl.
I also don’t think normal woman, hearing what she claims she went through, claim to have experienced some sort of trauma. The women I know have had creeps do borderline shit to them. I doubt 30 years from now they’ll be guilting their husbands with such stories to guilt their husbands into going along with their desires on a home remodel.
The best case scenario is that you’re talking about a true blue fucking believer who has been awash in the victimhood mentality of college campuses. But then you look at the totality of her behavior and it indicates a fucking lying bitch.
100% agreed.
Have you found any Eskimo titties yet? I heard their nipples are always hard.
That is what I mean. Credible to me is, person A did X at Y location on (day entered here) and here is proof. The problem is we have an accusation of X by person A, but not a fucking clue about Y and or (day entered here) and no proof so how in the wide world of sports is that credible? Sure she believes herself but if she can’t prove it that is the literal fucking meaning of lacking credibility. If this is the new meaning of credible, all schizophrenics and delusional people are now credible. With this new meaning of credible Alex Jones should be reinstated to youtube ASAP.
“With this new meaning of credible Alex Jones should be reinstated to youtube ASAP.”
He should anyway.
Ok, it wasn’t by person A, it was about person A. I may have needed another variable in my word problem. I told you guys I was bad at math. Just know the answer to the problem is Potato pancake and roast beef. And with that I need to eat and go to bed, I have to work tomorrow.
Or “testify”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3dvbM6Pias
*hork*
I generally despise them and their politics. Super fucking hypocrites. I like their music and particularly find value in this video. Would a Gore Whitehouse have been significantly different than a Bush Whitehouse? I don’t think so. Gore may have made some lameass back loaded nod to global warming but you can be sure nothing with any impact would have occurred during his tenure or his possible successor’s. Other than that, I can’t think of much that would have been different other than the media coverage.
And when I say music, I mean the beat, the guitar, the overall sound, not the lyrical message.
I despise them, their politics, and most especially, their music.
I can respect that. Different folks, different strokes.
Yep!
Remember that the antonym is incredible, like leprechauns and Nessie and
Arthur FraynZardoz. It only need be in the realm of possibility to be credible. Is it possible that Dr. Ford was molested in high school and she believes the perp is Kav? sure it’s possible thus credible. it’s an extremely low standard which is why it’s so easily bandied about.Credible as in can be credited. I like “feasible” as a synonym. Yes, it’s not outside the bounds of reason that Kavanaugh could have groped her in high school. It’s not outside the bounds of reason that she could be mistaken. It’s not outside the bounds of reason that, absent evidence to the contrary and based solely on hearsay, that I could be a seventy-year-old Filipina from Irkutsk, for all anyone here knows.
I’m not, by the way.
But you don’t know that.
Friend request withdrawn.
Kamchatka! I knew it!
Credible = she said things which fit my already structured narrative (works for both teams).
I think if you pay attention to the lyrics this song has a good message. TW: hip hop
https://youtu.be/z61GFxVD8K4
“I’m rare as affordable health care”
I like this
I saw a 3% insignia on someone’s hoodie at an agricultural fair this evening and it made me smile.
What does that mean? Is that like 1% bikers?
It’s the CO2 content of the atmosphere libertarians support.
III
OK, thanks.
Glibs after dark.
http://www.hottystop.com/tessa-busty-redhead/7.jpg
NSFW.
http://www.lowbird.com/data/images/2012/03/tumblr-tumblr-lvd5nsvgoc1qminlvo1-1280.jpg
NSFW.
http://blondethumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/photo-Babe-Big-Tits-Bikini-Blonde-Hot-243322150.jpg
https://archive.is/GAJdn/2ae3a4bce282f50b029497ce8f454eaad0d02d8e
https://archive.is/GAJdn/402788aecff931424a7bcfc25226d354bb203857
https://archive.is/GAJdn/da82e7bea5849a509b49bd634180f366adcbc406
Talk about product placement….
Not a redhead but holy cow.
I want to make babies with her.
You keep your god damn hands off my future ex-wife!
Meh, you would be raising Owen Wilson’s kids.
Have you even thought about how large those child support payments are going to be?
He can still fuck her on the weekends as far as I’m concerned.
How did she not burst into flame?
That escalated quickly.
That is my GIRL. Man, she’s a smokeshow. I’m something of a fan of her work.
I mentioned this in the morning threads, but I deactivated my FB and deleted my Twitter app. I think what finally did it was watching the guy who turned me on to Libertarianism and lent me his Atlas Shrugged and Hayek’s books, turning into a full blown prog. This guy is a good friend but watching him slowly turn into an SJW is something that I didn’t see coming, especially from a guy who I view as being rational. His wife is your typical raging North Shore Prog, but even then he always politely disagreed with her. But now that he has two children, he has went from, “Folks are better able to make their own decisions,” to “There oughta be a law.” It’s nuts how a rational person can accept the concepts of Progressivenism and not see how it’s leading us down the road to serfdom
Maybe he was just telling you what he thought you wanted to hear before. My guess is that his true thoughts all along are coming out now.
Oddly enough, he chided me for me being a Democrat and even told me that the Dem’s don’t give a shit about black folks or the poor. But now, despite him not agreeing with their platform, he wants to vote for them to save the country from the evil GOP. It’s fucking mind bending.
“So you think a woman who got a little horseplay in the 80’s is a bigger hero than the Libyan orphan whose parents got blown to smithereens? Oh? You don’t? Well then why the hell haven’t you mentioned those victims EVER?”
That’s a transformation that I haven’t gotten to see personally. I don’t live in a large city and most of the people I know who are even somewhat political are crazed veterans who aren’t going prog anytime ever. But, really, they aren’t that much different. Most will readily jump to the “there oughta be a law” for things they dislike. They just never fancied themselves as perfectly consistent individuals. Or intellectuals. So it’s not really a chance as much as they’re typical hypocrisy.
I do know some conservative types who have gone into certain fields and have toned down their beliefs (probably aren’t even aware of it) to fit in.
Sorry to hear that – we are essentially social media free other than Glibs and LinkedIn as a contact list. Are you still in Chicago-land?
Yep. In the Northwest Suburbs. My friend is from the People’s Republic of Evanston.
We are downtown. Evanston has so much to offer, but no way to stomach the politics.
That’s strange to me. In my experience, the libertarianism people I know started somewhere else and ended at libertariaishness.
Seems to me that-
Once a person can see the state for what it is – an evil organization- they dont generally go back to any sort of statist philosophy.
Pussy, dude. I’ve done dumb shit for it when I was younger.
I’ve done some dumb shit, but to completely reconfiguring the way I look at the world it would take a lot more than pussy. There’s plenty of it out there. No need to turn yourself into someone you aren’t in order to get it.
Not you, but some dudes are one dumping away from becoming an incel. Those are the ones that’ll sell their last scrap of dignity for even the foulest of chicks.
The X factor: pussy. She progged him with her love quim.
Come all without, come all within, you’ll not see nothing like the mighty quim.
His belief is that libertairans are too ideologically rigid and lack any sort of compassion for the poor or downtrodden.
When I look at Chicago or Baltimore, I think compassion is really doing wonders for these people.
Both of those are irrelevant to the concept of non-aggression.
Libertarians firmly believe that we should leave each other alone. Such a ridgid ideology is anathema to peace and cooperation.
-barf
Sounds like he grew up. ;-D
I don’t know what happened but he’s on social media saying that Kavanaugh is a rapist and that the GOP supports rapists. Along with that, he went on a rant against minimum wage saying that small businesses needed to be eliminated because they are inefficient and that they are keeping folks from gaining skills for the 21st Centruy. His logic is that by getting rid of those jobs, the government will force corporations to train the former minimum wage workers to handle stuff like coding and information.
Trump’s winning really must have been a mindfuck for some people.
No kidding.
Government is the reason that corporations don’t bother with that to begin with. The most effective ways they have to screen for people capable of being taught aren’t allowed.
Thicc
https://youtu.be/tv9AVEusmes?t=277
I missed the great acuckening because I was asleep. Blech. Anyways, got up at 6:30 to help the kid get ready for Sports Day at her elementary school. 100’s on little Asians running around in a pseudo military parade still freaks me out a bit.
What should really freak you out is when you get your ass kicked by a 9 year old Asian when playing Halo. When the droid wars start, we’re fucked.
He’s so mean!
It seemed like it might not be a cuckshow, the Pubs had actually achieved penetration, but at the last second, Flake forced a pullout and the Dems got in just in time to blow their load.
What? A little Japanese imperialism never killed anybody…
I kind of feel sorry for the kid who has to wear the number “731” pinned to his chest all day.
It’s been years since I read about it. But damn unit 731 is as evil as any government entity that has ever existed.
Do they know what it means?
“No meaning! Never happened!”
/gaisensha
Probably not. August 6 and 9, 1945 are taught religiously in schools. December 6, 1941? Not even trivia nuts know that one.
Have you had a chance to visit the Yusuhukan at Yasukuni Shrine? It was hilarious reading their blurbs about dealing with the “Nanjing Insurgency”.
I used to walk by it on my way to work. Japanese right wingers and commies screaming at each other. Nah, just keep walking, keep walking.
I must’ve went during a “good” day then, jeebers.
Dec 6?
Fat finger. I used to check my posts before posting.
Even fat fingered, it’s still technically correct. Which, of course, is the best kind of correct.
Hmmm…exactly the opposite as in the US. Interesting.
The state minimizing its own crimes is universal.
If they want to teach about American atrocities, the March 9 1945. The firebombing of Tokyo killed more civilians than nuking Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Dresden should be up there. I won’t second-guess what people did during the war, but that should be mentioned if you’re going to talk about atrocities.
That is just unfortunate.
Well….Violet Crown doesn’t have anything other than a handful of random Kubrick films playing in Oct – doesn’t fit my schedule either. OTOH, the local Alamo this year has a stack of great flicks. Gonna try the retro exploitation “Let the Corpses Tan” tomorrow night (watched the trailer months ago and forgot about it. And then looks like some classic Hitchcock coming up this month as well as Nosferatu with live accompaniment, etc. Should be fun – https://drafthouse.com/charlottesville/calendar/charlottesville – just a much longer drive from my location 🙁
Jealous.
re: the CO alarm discussion this morning. We actually had an issue in my grandmother’s house when I was staying with her during college break – alarm went off early in the morning during Christmas break ’99. Turns out some of the furnace vents had cracked and there was some significant leakage in a few spots. A little chilly since it happened in the winter and we had to leave the system off for a few days – other than space heaters – but better safe than sorry IMO.
Yeah, one of the 6 firefighters (the hot one ?) went to check the boiler on the ground floor while the rest came up to my apartment on the 7th floor. I guess there were no issues there, I didn’t see him again.
Start a fire.
Duh.
https://youtu.be/db96IqgANDw
OK
I’m a little disappointed, Rhywun…
I didn’t realize my brain was supposed to do a fuzzy search.
FINE .
Not like I haven’t linked that before.
You didn’t pretend to pass out so one of them would carry you/give you mouth to mouth?
My dick needs oxygen, stat!
I was still half-asleep, cut me some slack.
IF HUFFIN PAINT AIN’T KILLED ME YET A LITTLE CARBON MONOXIDE AIN’T DOIN SHIT
1. Knee replacement surgery sucks.
2. Knee replacement surgery when you are pretty much completely resistant to opioids REALLY sucks.
Nerve block from the operation wore off this morning, and man, the pain came on like a ton of bricks. Doc upped my meds to 2 percocets every 4 hours and 2 tramadol every 8 hours. They might as well be tic-tacs – no pain relief, and they aren’t even making me drowsy. Only thing it has done is completely shut down my bowels. Can’t even lift my leg off the bed to roll over without terrible pain. I have a feeling this is going to be a very long weekend…
Stolen from the AoS thread about credible allegations against Official State Rapist Brett Kavanaugh:
…Okay, I even m’fing refreshed before clicking comment… there’s no way that was a reply.
I guess I was lucky. I never really had all that much pain even without painkillers with my knee replacements. The rehab was somewhat painful.
Found out a dude I knew growing up had his knee broken during a fight. He just underwent surgery for his busted knee. The fuck does that happen?
+1 leg-sweep
I don’t take opiates. Ever. They make me feel horrible. I guess I’m lucky in the long run, because I have an addictive personality.
My doctors know all of this, and are willing to work with me.
I’ll reiterate what I said before: if you can’t get pain relief, find a way to sleep through it. There are dozens of options, a few of them more than a hundred years old.
I had some severe burns about 12 years ago. Mostly superficial, but extremely painful. Among the things that helped me beat the first week: Choral hydrate.
If you can’t beat it, sleep it.
Opiates sound amazing. I took half a percocet once, no idea what dosage. Knocked me into next week for half a day, that shit. Didn’t really enjoy it so much as felt dopey and aloof. Given how I am with booze, though, I think opiates are a bad fucking idea. I’d like to think I’d be more willful about them, but fuck me, I think I’d be sucking dick for heroin money as soon as I drained my bank account.
My brother got off lucky, kinda. He’s a hugely addictive personality (whatever the fuck that means), but opioids make him puke. Even after getting his MCL and whatever else worked on, he couldn’t do most pain meds. So he’s just a drunkard like me.
First time I took a percocet, it put me on my ass. Second time, not a god damn thing.
Different opiods can affect you differently at different times. Mostly they do nothing for me. (tramadol which people here say doesn’t work does just enough so I don’t limp). I’ve had percocet several times, usually does nothing. But after I had my wisdom teeth out it made me just loopy enough to fuck up a business deal.
Either it’s your thing, or it’s not.
When I had mono, my throat was swollen shut. 90% constriction. They gave me codeine syrup and a shot of demerol in the ass cheek. I puked everywhere.
I’m lucky.
When my little brother ran me over in his truck and broke my leg, after the shot of demerol they gave me after he took me to the hospital, I was hugging my brother and thanking him.
Demerol is good shit, for me at least.
All I think of is the Tasp from Larry Niven, and it gets me thinking.
If the tasp is so infinitely pleasurable, could you hit a fetus with it and make life itself unlivable for a child born like that? Would a newborn baby pine for death in absence of its pleasure center hit?
Puking with 90% constriction? Yeow. Were you intubated?
Esophagus, so no trouble breathing. But yeah, some stuff came out of my nose for the first 3 minutes.
#metoo
I also have an addictive personality and I won’t touch some of the shit that some of my friends do recreationally ever again.
As for pain meds, I dunno. Fortunately I haven’t needed them knock on wood.
Am now into the latter half of a bottle of gin, plus two pints of Pabst… I think I need a better drunk. A better drug. I think I need a better high. I don’t much agree with pot, it turns me inside out, it makes me doubtful of myself, it makes me hate my size. And I like being drunk, but I hate being high. I need something that gives me less hangover, but doesn’t make me poke at my belly fat the way pot does.
Exercise?
That’s what everybody says. Twenty four hours in the day, six of which are reliable sleeping time, eight for work, but I’m in class for five, that leaves a lot of time. Exercise was kind to me once. I’m trying to rekindle the passion. It’s lacking.
Yeah, fatty, exercise! it worked for me! I gained a pound once and lifted for an hour and I was back to the perfect weight. Why can’t you handle that fatty? You lazy fuckhole! I don’t want to hear this nonsense that you were born fatter than your twin and your twin never had a weight problem even though they ate more than you and were less active, it’s all your goddamn fault lardass! (not my experience per se, but that of one of my cousins)
EHHHHHHHHHHHH chicks are just bitches anway, why bother
just make your life miserable
fucking hell, I’m miserable now alone, why complicate shit with a woman
Kratom.
I love love love opioids. A high dose of hydrocodone makes me happy and productive.
Unfortunantly, as with all drugs, it’s not a good thing. Tolerance goes up. Mood problems occur. The habit gets expensive. Etc.
I haven’t used an opioid in seven or eight years. They are great for me in the correct situation, but findng the balance between addiction and personal enhancement is nigh impossible for me. I just leave them alone now. Not worth the cost/risk.
You know your limits. Don’t EVER doubt them.
I have some stories that might not be appropriate to tell publicly. Close friend from childhood.
If you love it, let it go.
BTW, looks like Christopher Maloni goes both ways.
That better be a clip from The Souler Opposite
Dammit.
What if…
1) Ford is telling the truth?
2) An incident occurred, but she misremembered it?
3) She made it up?
Think the FBI is going to tackle the allegations from all three of these premises? Looks to me that the only people capable of looking at number 3 are anonymous internet posters.
It’s all CYA at this point so there’s no reason to give it any further thought for the time being.
4) Kavanaugh has a previously unknown evil twin brother who has made it his mission to commit sexual assaults pinned on the good brother.
Controlled opposition or limited hangout? I like it.
5) Turns out that NRO guy who staked his reputation on his Google research and Zillow evidence was right.
6) The dudes who came forward as Ford’s actual assailants are cleared by the FBI and sue to be recognized as her attempted rapists.
This was actually a plot line on All My Children about 35 years ago, if I correctly remember our school lunch watching gang episodes from back then. Rich Adam and his secret twin brother Stuart who lived in the attic.
Laugh if you must, but I always got to hang around with the hottest girls in my med school class by watching that lunchtime soap together with them.
I’m at the point of, so what if it is true? What are the infractions that disqualify people indefinitely from ever being accepted into society or being forgiven? Can we please get a list. I mean it sure isn’t leaving a woman to drown in a car you crashed, and I’d say that’s worse than a crime that leaves someone alive even if they are traumatized.
We’re sitting in the airplane and watching out the window as engine after engine gets sawed off by a gremlin on the wing. “There goes freedom of speech. Now, it’s due process. The little bugger is working hard on that one.”
I thought that gremlin was just the Shat’s imagination.
So much this. Does the intervening 30 years matter? The utter lack of any allegations during that time tells me even if the allegations are true, he is a changed man.
If the Shat would’ve just taken the blue pill, it would’ve been fine.
As the father of a daughter and having once been a teenage boy, I’m in a weird position here, but I’ve got to say I agree. You know what teenage boys do? They try to get teenage girls naked. You know what teenage girls do? They try to get the teenage boys the like to get them naked, and then back out of it, and then get back into it, and then back out of it again, and then either get very naked or leave. Sexual confusion is defined as being between the ages of 12 and 20.
I still think that even if she thinks she’s telling the truth there’s so much room for interpretation that the same exact facts could be considered as her flawed recollection or intoxicated spin or as Brett Kavanaugh being a sexual bully in his high school years. But whether or not the former is the case, it doesn’t seem like the latter meshes well with his behavior ever since. I mean, when you’ve got Cory Booker in the room who’s got recent sexual battery evidence on record it’s hard to say that he’s totally fine but Brett K. clearly acts like a vicious rapist.
The Booker thing is something else I was going to bring up, but the then I got
highdrunk.4) Fuck Trump at all cost
+2 year temper tantrum
You reversed 2 and +
The FBI isn’t conducting a criminal investigation here. Even if that were possible. There will be no conclusion from them as to the guilt of Kavanaugh or the dishonesty of Ford. It’s a farce. The process here is they collect statements from the people involved (which we already have).
So, when it comes to the FBI, none of this is relevant.
1) Ford is telling the truth?
Then he should not confirmed because he is a 4th amendment hating, presidential power expanding, yale graduate swamp critter.
/but, that’s just like my opinion, man.
Oh, if only the Kavanaugh hearings went like this .
Had no idea WTF anyone was saying, but the cinema is great.
You wanna hear a good joke/nobody speak nobody get choked
What’s the difference between a duck?
One has both legs the same.
Pourqoui est le canard…
I DON’T SPEAK LATIN
FUCKIN SHOWOFF
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
About all the Latin I come up with off the top of my head.
/raised catholic
Espiritu sanctu, de gustibus, they gassed the bus, they missed the bus. When’s the next bus? Magna cum laude, summa cum laude, the radio’s too laude. Adeste fidelis, semper fidelis. Post meridian, ante meridian, uncle meridian, and all the little meridians.
Would.
Aren’t you clever
PS: loving the animated hat and hair videos
Hat and Hair vids now on bitchute, which has a handy donate button on the player!
damnit, link.
Thanks
Layne Staley was such an incredible singer. What a damned shame.
Blame it on the opiode ‘crisis’.
I’ve posted it once before, but….
Chills
Best grunge bands in order:
STP
Soundgarden
Alice In Chains
Jane’s Addiction *Grunge enough for me
Screaming Trees
Fight me.
STP is the best. Telatubbies and Sarah Michelle Geller? Would.
I’m crying right now. You get me, you really get me. My absolutely favorite STP song.
I need to sleep, but yeah kismet, but I love that Vasoline was based on The Eagles’ Life in The Fastlane.
Geez. One of my high school summers: Vasoline, Black Hole Sun, I Stay Away on MTV. Missed the rape train.
That’s great. Love both those songs.
Is it not hilarious that with the circus happening on Capitol hill, Trump has been in the background. Like he’s the grownup in this situation. They’ve put crazied Trump.
What a time to be alive
There’s got to be a lot of hate farts flying in the oval office
Stinky. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EUz55LzBUBA
What’s the new standard? Every allegation, no matter how convenient or implausible, gets treated as the word of God? The Great Terror Redux.
Robespierre would be proud
His jaw would drop.
Not the only thing of his that would drop.
“a woman named Varunie Vongsvirates, who supposedly works for American Addiction Centers in L.A., let Owen know that one of his butterscotch-flavored dick pudding sperm fishes knocked her up.”
Nice
Would Katy Perry.