I am in a wonderful mood today. Just wonderful, and fuck you very much. Its a good thing I don’t have a cat to kick, and my kids don’t know how to call CPS on me yet. I’m tired of being either at work or in my house or running an errand for my damn family. Its days like these I want to steal someone else’s credit card and go to the titty-bar where I can pay for overpriced drinks and fake company. Wait, no. I just want to sneak off with a flask and a fishing rod and not have anyone talk to me or want anything from me for a whole day. Unless a boatload of bikini models want to cruise by and flash me. I’d be okay with. Also, I want a million dollars and a bigger gun collection. Okay. Poor me rant… over!
Its not exactly Excaliber, but a young lady dragged a very old sword from a lake the other day. h/t Grand Moff Serious Man
Do you think our permanent interment camps will be this nice when the Socialists take over? Also, if you’re commenting from there, give a shout out in the comments!
John McCain’s will must have given Lindsay Graham his balls back. ROWR. Still waiting for a full-on flamin’ “Bitch, please.”
I think we all know Step 2 of this plan is: Re-enact the sinking of the Lusitania.
Oh yeah, I’m sure that’s what every girl told her clan: “Interbreeding with Neanderthals Protected Homo Saps against viruses”
Sometimes you just gotta throw on the old stuff, and crank it up.
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367 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Grumpy Links”
The cost of hiring a 200-person cruise ship is around €435,000 (£397,000) a week, which works out as over €2,000 per person for the Irish government.
And that’s probably on the cheap side of whatever they end up doing.
They’re going to have to write the ship off as a total loss. No paying customer is ever going to go on the boat after that.
I’m not sure why anyone would get on one in the first place.
I enjoyed my Alaskan cruise. But it was classy.
Would I want to do that Carnival shit to Mexico? No way.
One of my close friends had his bachelor party on the LA-Ensenada cruise. I choose to work overtime instead. When I went to the port to pick them up, only 5 of the 12 in the party got off. The rest were still in the brig.
The Alaskan cruises have actually been tempting, despite my dislike of the floating apartment buildings. There’s one that goes from Alaska to Japan via Russia.
That’s probably too long for me. I did 7 days, 4 stops. Salmon fishing, ice climbing, biking…. and I forgot what the other thing was.
Glacier bay is awesome when experienced from a hot tub with beer.
They really Kavanaugh’d up the ship, huh?
If you’re asking if there was ice throwing, yes. Lots.
Disney cruise with kids is good. The service is very good on those ships. Take the biggest one if you ever go (Dream). You get the same waiter/hosts for dinner each night at different restaurants and they are very good at what they do.
Downside is the kids pool is overfilled. The adult pool is nearly empty, so if you can ditch the kids at the onboard camp, for a bit, you can enjoy that.
Can you imagine what a cruise ship looks like after 200 bums stay on it and doesn’t have 50 people cleaning it every day? The Good Ship Hepatitis, I assume.
Good news everybody! Norovirus won’t need to be introduced.
One could hope that when they shit in the hallways, it’ll be in bags. One could hope.
They’re going to lose a lot of money on the open bar.
HA!
Every deck is going to be the poop deck.
They could sail it down to an African coast, declare them all “refugees”, and grant them asylum, and toss them into the lifeboats.
See how the Africans like the turnabout.
Every time the subject of Ireland comes up I am surprised all over again that their leader is a gay Indian guy.
(Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but what are the odds?)
I’d imagine a slavish devotion to identity politics, even in a country where it makes no sense, greatly increases them.
Should read makes even less sense.
Better in a nation of drunks who hate each other, and whose only identity is hating the English?
Was her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite ?
Watery tart.
Moistened bint.
I think that it is a sign that the Vikes are going to turn their season around and win it all!
I think that it is a sign that the Vikes are going to turn their season around and
win it alllose the NFC Championship by 2 points after missing 5 field goals./grounded in realism
“The cost of hiring a 200-person cruise ship is around €435,000 (£397,000) a week, which works out as over €2,000 per person for the Irish government.”
Per person, per week. And that’s not counting the cleanup.
I thought they’d just float the ship out a ways and sink it with all hands aboard.
1) Only need one week of rent
2) sunken ship will be an artificial reef that people can fish around
3) No cleanup costs.
That’s how you get merhobos.
Better merhobos than merhomos. (No problem with gays, but merhomos are always clogging up the blowholes on whales, porpoises and dolphins)
They could just force them to convert to Islam and put them on the dole. Would at least save the cost of importing Muslims.
The cost of burning the ship and collecting on the insurance should probably go into the calculation.
“It was initially reported that the sword was at least 1,000 years old, but the museum later contacted The Local to clarify that they believe it may be even older, estimated to date back to the 5th or 6th century AD, pre-Viking Age. The find has prompted huge interest from archaeologists and historians.”
Does that mean she is now Queen of Sweden?
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
a mandate from the masses
All those who voted for a Muslim invasion?
Never tell anyone you found anything.
I can protect you from disease with a few thrusts of my magic wand!
Worked for my people. According to 23 and me I’m in the 95th percentile with 317 Neanderthal alleles. I credit them with my hard to break bones.
Is McNeil Island a Bluth Company project?
Fuck City.
NO TOUCHING!
Neanderthals weren’t all that ape-like, and they actually had larger brains.
Humans are apes.
Yup.
I’m telling Roseanne Barr on you.
Yes, we sadly crossbred with our ape-like cousins and the Neanderthal brain shrank
But did they read philosophy?
Yes, but they didn’t understand it.
Aristotle was NOT Belgian!
The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.”
STEVE SMITH NOT PICKY.
STEVE SMITH BOOST IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND BY BOOST IMMUNE SYSTEMS MEAN RAPE
STEVE AM IMMUNE FROM ALL DISEASE.
THAT SORE AM JUST A FRICTION BURN.
“The genes helped fight RNA viruses such as HIV”
There’s no evidence that human beings were exposed to it before the 1960s. Nice try, though.
Journalism!
Go Rockies.
Also, if you find something very old and very cool, don’t let any authorities know. That’s the incentive structure.
If Bill Clinton ever does get #MeToo’ed, it seems that moving there and becoming the great leader that will break the chains for his people and shepherd them to freedom.
Nah. He’ll get sentenced to that Bob Menendez child prostitute island.
That’s what Hillary’s gonna tell him right before he gets the Vince Foster.
It’s like when you’re a kid and your puppy ‘goes to live on a farm’.
Google search for Kavanaugh or Brett Kavanaugh bylines him as “Former White House Staff Secretary”. Oversight by Google automation, I’m sure.
“First key swing senator says NO to Kavanaugh: Democrat Heidi Heitkamp will vote against Trump’s nominee leaving his fate in hands of three Republicans and one red-state Dem”
Heitkamp said that ‘[i]n addition to the concerns about his past conduct, last Thursday’s hearing called into question Judge Kavanaugh’s current temperament, honesty, and impartiality.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6238949/FBI-report-does-NOT-corroborate-Christine-Blasey-Fords-claims-sexually-assaulted.html
She already knows that she’s going to lose. So stunning. So brave.
Also fat.
And wrinkly.
She is doing this so the democrat machine gives her a cushy DC job is my bet.
As I said in the previous thread:
The last two polls that came out have her 10+ points down after being single digits down all summer. So yeah, she figured if she’s losing anyway, may as well make her future employers happy and vote “no”.
She’s had a long career in NoDak politics playing the “bipartisan” while her surrogates, most notably her radio-host brother, act as her attack dogs so as to keep her hands clean. It’ll be nice to see her go. I really hope she gets a cushy job in DC so we don’t ever have to hear from her again.
I just looked it up, triple the funding and still losing. No wonder they want to get money out of politics.
Yep. And almost all of it from out of state.
Do they run those awesome attack ads that make me like the candidate being attacked?
* Typical NY / NJ ad that makes we wish I was in the district of the guy being attacked so I could vote for him.
I’m getting some of those for McSally (Repub Senate candidate). Can’t remember the specifics, other than painting her as a Trump supporter. With Trump’s approval now at 50%, I don’t think that is going to work the way they expect.
Squawk Box interviews Heidi with some regularity, and she “seems” to have some moderate economic views, but if she is going to be a shill for Team Blue – no thanks.
It’s very telling to see her voting record. During Obama, she voted with him something like 95% of the time. Then Trump got ~60% of the vote here (and her re-election campaign started to fire up) and suddenly she’s voting with Trump something like 55% of the time.
She comes off in interviews as a very nice, intelligent, “normal” Midwesterner. But she is actually a very shrewd and calculating politician. She’s a fucking chameleon.
She’s way behind in the polls and likely to lose, so she’s voting “no” in hopes of a Soros-funded or academic sinecure somewhere. Somewhere far from North Dakota, you can bet.
Sneak peak at FBI report
Stop trying to fool people with your links!
Jackson Cosko allegedly threatened to publish health records and SSNs of the children of Republicans if outed.
Christ, what an asshole.
HIPAA violations AND Tax fraud? Jackson Cosko is gonna be doing 20-50 if he follows through.
Which leads me to my next question….
Why would anyone on Capitol Hill have access to medical records?
That they do seems like yet another argument against any kind of government involvement in health insurance.
And pretty dim, if that’s true. You can’t hold a gun to data and demand not to be turned in. It’s just more reason to turn you in.
“Cosko’s defense attorney, Brian Stolarz, told Fox News his client acted alone.”
Hey, bro… your lawyer sucks.
“There was no conspiracy. He acted alone.” Got it.
“He didn’t do anything.” You lost me
“That thing my client did not do….yeah, he was the only one involved…. in… not doing it.
The defense rests”
The carjacking case I was the jury foreman for went like this.
“I did not carjack that woman, but I know the carjacker didn’t use a gun.”
Here’s the truth. It will never, ever be proven or even admitted to. He said, “we should post their information on Wikipedia” and SJL or her chief of staff said, “I think my account (which you already use everday and know the password to) has access to that information!” Technically nobody told him to post the information or even helped him get it.
“Innocent until proven Guilty”
Huh… Nice how that is, isn’t it Jackson…
Maybe he wants to prevent his client from accidentally slipping and falling and shooting himself in the back of the head multiple times while in a secured jail facility.
This. Trying to keep the douche alive and out of max security prison.
He’s not defending Cosko, he’s defending whomever is paying the legal fees.
I actually don’t think he’s done anything illegal here. He’s an asshole of the highest order, but I can’t find anything that’s actually a crime, despite all the charges they’re throwing at him.
(Just saying)
It sounds like he didn’t have his own access to a gov’t computer.
He was not authorized to access that information, but he did.
That’s where they’ll get him.
Bet they plea him down to a couple years probation like the bike lock professor.
If true that’s a crime.
Did you read the article? I skimmed quick:
He’s not Hillary, so he’s fucked.
FIRST!
So do you think the unauthorized login was the problem?
I think we should take another look …
WOW. How does he think this is going to end for him?
Fucking looney toons.
He’s going to love the toilet wine.
“Delicate bouquet!”
So, he was using someone else’s login. Good to know government stooges are so good at keeping secrets like passwords to themselves.
Come on. We all know that out of the 535 elected officials on Capitol hill, 535 have given their passwords to someone else, and 525 or so don’t actually use their own password ever.
And at least 500 of them are variations on ‘password’
That reminds me. Next time I need to update my password, I’m going with “Podesta”.
wh@tthefuckismypassw0rd? is a very strong password and easy to remember. But I don’t use it anymore. You can have it.
We’re forced to change every ninety days, and can’t reuse one of the past tweleve passwords. This guaranteed that I’d never remember my current password without a schema.
No I can’t tell you what the scheme is.
Fucking 15 characters, at least two upper case, two numbers, and two special characters, and cant be ‘similar’ to any of the last 10 pw.
Reset every 90 days. Diff pw for every DB we use, all while using CAC enabled system to initially log in.
So pw gets saved to text file or ePostIt or taped to bottom of keyboard, because remembering is impossible.
I’m wondering if they even made everyone change their passwords after that big IT scandal with the Pakistani brothers.
The password was probably on a yellow sticky note stuck to the monitor.
Fabulous, fun and foxy females that almost certainly have a below average anogenital distance!
http://archive.is/6f09U
15 has the smallest anogenital distance of all.
In case you were wondering:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anogenital_distance
oh god I just saw a ball sack on wikipedia,. ugh
I was not expecting those photos
NSFW, also, if you’re eating corned beef, you may want to put that down.
That dude’s completely out of balance. Needs to see his chiropractor.
15 has the smallest anogenital distance of all.
*blank stare*
So you’re saying they’re prone to urinary tract infections?
Like digit ratio, anogenital distance is another proxy for hormone levels in utero and gives rise to various general physiological qualities. Females with a below average distance seem to be more fertile, feminine and (by conventional measures) attractive. Men with above average distances are typically stronger, more assertive and have larger penises.
I would have guessed 28 would be your choice
She was my runner up. The uber bright lipstick for some reason turned me off.
“they said the sword was likely authentic and should be reported to authorities, which the Vaneceks did”
Idiots
Common sense weapons regulations (for commoners).
Upon report of the blade, the child was arrested for weapons possession.
/Probably not satire in the EU.
I’m kind of surprised that the “civil commitment” nonsense hasn’t been challenged on Constitutional grounds. I’ve read about that stuff and it’s absolutely absurd to me.
1) Many people end up on the list for petty/ridiculous things.
2) If these people are so dangerous, why have they been released from prison at all.
3) FYTW.
They’ve been challenged numerous times and upheld. See this case, among others.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1649.ZS.html
Basic constitutional reasoning, as you’d expect, is FYTW.
Civil commitment has been a semi-big deal in Minnesoda for at least a decade.
The root cause is that a lot of the offenders were originally sentenced before the sexual predator freak outs, so their sentences weren’t for life. So instead of letting them out prosecutors got them committed civily.
In Minnesoda, it is technically possible to get out of the civil commitment by behaving. The problem was that NO ONE ever got out. The inmates sued and the courts agreed that civil commitment had to have some realistic chance of ending.
Since then, a few inmates have been released. Politicians though have been eager to pass new laws to prevent people from getting out.
When this first started popping up, I was stunned that my super progressive uncle was all for keeping the offenders locked up forever. He is a psychiatrist and flatly said, that these people have something wrong and there is no cure. My father a probation officer basically said the same thing. According to them letting them out is a recipe for disaster.
Both of them, however, are both big civil liberties types and had a really hard time with the implications of what they were saying. They didn’t lightly call for permanently locking these people up and throwing away the key. Both of them understood the potential for this to be abused. It was pretty interesting listening to them a) talk about this and b) agree (they dislike each other a LOT).
1) Is this uncle your father’s brother or is this a relation by marriage? Just curious.
2) The recidivism rate of sex offenders, while higher than all felons, isn’t out of line with violent felons (aka things that were felonies two hundred years ago.) These perpetual lockup or exile schemes haven’t really moved the needle. Good news, your family is supporting evil for no reason. 😀
1) Half brothers.
2) No body was more surprised than I was at their stances. Both of them are normally in the “locking people up sucks and doesn’t do anyone any good” camp. I am not sure, but I think that both of them are completely biased because they have worked with offenders and their victims during their careers. I think seeing the damage these jackasses do probably colors your thinking more than it does for some web design jockey like myself.
I should also add that both of them were very specific that they are only talking about a small percentage of people. They both acknowledge that “sexual offender” is applied to way too many people. So they are just being as narrowly evil as they can be. 🙂
My preconceived bias is that we lock up too many people and have gone way past the point where increased police presence/arrests/lock-ups do any good. But objective studies have shown me to be wrong, with more policing and more jailing probably reducing violent and property crime.
But those same objective studies failed to show any reduction in sexual-crime recidivism, even among the violent sexual crimes. We appear to already have blown past the saturation point for those crimes.
Why not just have them summarily executed and be done with it?
I’m pretty opposed to any form of extended “Imprisonment”. I don’t think it does much and if someone is so dangerous to society that they need to be kept from it, why keep them alive? Because you are already taking their life away from them. I’m not arguing for more Capital Punishment, but i think locking someone up for 20 years makes no sense. I think Exile makes more sense, where you’ve decided that someone is not allowed in this society anymore, but we aren’t going to pay to house you either.
Exile is basically what the sex-offender registries are.
Perhaps though, historically most exiles were permitted back after some time.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dor_zOHU4AA9Yv8.jpg:large
Funny, but true.
Flake is pulling the same act again and “consulting” with Coons. How pathetic is that guy?
Hearing him talk earlier this week about Kavanaugh’s partisanship, he basically said he wouldn’t vote for Kavanaugh. Then bitched out on it when asked about it again.
I suspect what’s Flake’s doing here is a case of, “Nice nominee ya got there. Be a shame if something happened to his confirmation.”
I hope they promise Flake the moon, and once confirmed tell him to fuck off and pound sand.
If he defects, he’s never going to escape it. His only option will be tho guest commentate on MSNBC with Al Sharpton
If he defects and it ends up scuttling the nomination he’s going to have his pick of big money jobs at any number of left wing K-Street lobbying hosues.
As their token “conservative” so they can claim to be bi- or non-partisan.
Well maybe Mika will let him swap in once in a while, just to keep Joe in line.
Spitroast.
^^^^ This^^^.
He’ll get his name on the door someplace.
John McCain’s will must have given Lindsay Graham his balls back.
I still maintain that McCain’s will must have given Lindsay Graham Jeff Flake’s balls.
“In the continuing attempt to undermine Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a bizarre new tactic has taken hold: victims of sexual assault are coming forward to express their belief that Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth. The logic seems to be that because something bad happened to them – because they were victimized by a person who is not Brett Kavanaugh – they are therefore entitled to declare Brett Kavanaugh guilty of sexually assaulting a woman who is not they.
Take, for example, Connie Chung’s latest column at The Washington Post. Chung, a longtime TV veteran, says that because she was sexually assaulted when she was 20 by her doctor, Brett Kavanaugh is guilty of assaulting Christine Blasey Ford when he was 17. That’s not an exaggeration. The title of the piece: “Dear Christine Blasey Ford: I, too, was sexually assaulted – and it’s seared into my memory forever.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/36709/new-anti-kavanaugh-claim-if-i-was-hurt-someone-who-ben-shapiro
I’ve noticed it as well. I sincerely hope no female friends of mine try this argument on me, because I am not going to lie to preserve the friendship.
Of course, the big problem with Ford’s assault is that it wasn’t seared into her memory at all. As far as I can tell, there are two parts of Ford’s story that haven’t changed (other than the stuff she doesn’t recall): Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her, and she had one beer. Oh, and the names of the people who can’t corroborate her story.
Somebody should ask Chung if she remembers when she was assaulted, where she was assaulted, and how she got home afterward.
Why? She’ll just say some women are so traumatized they don’t remember anything but the assault.
The Atlantic printed this story today. It’s written to make what’s common sense to people not in the progsphere is uncharted territory.
Atlantic’s Emily Yoffe: There Are Some Problems with BelieveSurvivors Movement
Their readers had audible gasps at the title.
Actual original story.
5 bucks says they get her fired from the Atlantic.
That was actually a fairly pleasant read. Thanks for linking.
She used to write for Slate.
As best I can remember, she has been opposed to the Title IX crucifixion of men based upon #believeher.
I always enjoy her articles even when I don’t agree with her.
Of course if you actually read the linked article . . . .
I have also spent the past several years reporting on the injustices done to accused students—almost all men—in campus sexual-assault proceedings under Title IX, the federal law that forbids sex discrimination in schools. (Here is my Atlantic series on the subject.) During the Obama administration, that law became the basis for vast college bureaucracies that govern the sexual behavior of students.
“and it’s seared into my memory forever.””
Unlike CBF’s.
I’ll take my searing medium, thank you very much.
STEVE SMITH SEARS YOU RAW UNTIL YOU ARE WELL DONE.
Think that asshole who kicked that anti-abortion woman is contrite?
“On Wednesday night, Hunt defended his actions on Twitter. The self-proclaimed “pro-choice” warrior repeated that he only intended to kick the phone out of the woman’s hand.
“I will NOT apologize for defending women’s right to choose. Even to a woman,” he wrote.
In another tweet, Hunt appeared to compare himself to other human rights crusaders.
“Heroes were always attacked in their day for defending the rights of others. MLK, Ghandi, susan b Anthony. I will NOT back down for defending women’s rights,” he said.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/man-claiming-to-defend-women-s-rights-caught-on-cam-kicking-female-anti-abortionist-1.4121038
I mean, who hasn’t heard the parable of when Ghandi round house kicked a white woman?
Gandhi did support the Nazis. How does intersectionalism work there, anyways? He supported the Nazis because they were fighting the British colonizers. And the Nazis were mostly killing white people, so were they really that bad?
Gandhi was lucky he was up against the Brits.
There was a short story in the There Will Be War series where the Nazis won and Ghandi tried his luck with them. Can’t remember the title.
That would be a short story, indeed.
He was a religious zealot who was lucky enough to go up against basically the one and only empire in all of human history susceptible to his tactics.
Wasn’t he a rabid racist while he was in South Africa?
And I thought it was primarily because he opposed all war, no matter the justification. Which, in of itself, is a stupid philosophy.
Christ, what an asshole.
Huh. Ghandi is a douchebag.
Yep, like I said above, he’s lucky he was up against the Brits, and not the Germans or the Chinese or the Russians….
Yep, like I said above, he’s lucky he was up against the Brits, and not the Germans or the Chinese or the Russians….
He’s also lucky the Russians politely declined Hitler’s offer of joining the Axis, as his vision of dividing the world was to give the Russians Asia while the Germans kept Europe (it’s fortunate for everyone that the Russians preferred Europe).
his vision of dividing the world was to give the Russians Asia
“Hey, Japan, Russia, why don’t you guys go fight?” Something like that?
One shudders at the barbarity of the Russians and the Japanese fighting over China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War
Fuck off, ghandi.
That’s not the half of it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7–ZDROlhjE
He kicked ass in Ghandi II!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ega5Rcct2s
C’mon Rufus. Remember when Ghandi kicked Mother Teresa right in the face? Or when Malcom X suplexed Rosa Parks for being an Uncle Tom?
Heh.
But I’m sure that piece of shit Dorsey will leave him on Twitter despite his violence:
https://twitter.com/jordan_hunt18/status/1047674608705519616
Alex Jones literally never hit anyone and he’s gone. This jerk off KICKED A WOMAN and he still has his account.
The left are evil.
Jordan Hunt
@jordan_hunt18
pro- choice warrior and a part of the #resistance I stand up to the evils of Trump, Nazis, Conservatives, the 2nd amendment and Capitalism.
2nd Amendment? Does he know he’s Canadian?
On a serious note, it’s interesting how the essence of the U.S. Constitution is a document that stretches beyond American life and borders.
The right to bear arms is a fundamental right in my view and people from around the world who agree fall in philosophical line with the 2A as if it’s their own.
Men who beat women while surrounded by a crowd of their own friends are often ok with no-one having a gun. Its so weird.
I wonder if they would have said anything if he started Raping her? I mean they are okay with this violence against women…
You missed the key two words at the end: Satire Account
HA! Fuck!
Never ever do this while three glasses of wine in!
Thanks.
I’ve seen Gandhi throwing some blows, yeah
That dude is headed for a beatdown.
Yup. If his victim has a brother/father/husband/boyfriend his is in for a bad time.
He’s using the little seen “Modified Ike Turner Defense”. He’s such a staunch defender of women’s rights that sometimes he’s just gotta kick one of them mouthy harpies in the face.
HAR!
Rasmussen is apparently reporting that Trump’s approval rating among blacks is up to 35% (it was 23% a year ago). If that moves even 5% of black voters off the Dems and to the Repubs, I expect it will have a major impact on some races.
it will have a major impact on some races.
One might say that the impact will be black and white.
Weird. You would think the constituency that rallied around the mother of Emmit Till would be more prepared to #believeher
everybody likes a winner.
You have a link? I’m not seeing it on their website.
Jessica Valenti, ladies and gents.
Or only gents, because there are no libertarian women.
(and yes, she’s talking about the US and not Saudi Arabia. No, I don’t get it either. Even for her it’s dumb.)
Her victim status provides her with her continuing moral authority. She will never relinquish it because it will mean the end of her intellectual social status. Therefore, I expect her to get progressively dumber and dumber in her pronouncements. There’s no other way for her to go.
We still have no word to describe what happens to women living in a country that hates them
What’s sharia, Jessica?
We still have no word to describe what happens to women living in a country that hates them
Abortion?
Harsh.
But fair.
Well, half the time anyways.
I think she’s confusing a country that hates Jessica Valenti with a country that hates women.
Perhaps she should try Pakistan?
That would work. Saudi Arabia is nice this time of year too.
In case she’s wondering, the women are the ones wearing sacks and being herded like livestock.
Rand Paul’s Wife Confronts Democrats for Egging on Political Violence
I doubt it will work because douchebags like Booker don’t feel shame and don’t think through the consequences of their actions.
That neighbor should have beaten her too!!! / Prog
Even the fucking mafia stayed away from families.
Scum.
Today was a pretty awesome day. Had an authored study published, recognition from multiple senior execs for work on a different project, and my wife told me that her very attractive friend said she really really wished I had a brother.
Lest my ego get too big, I also realized around 2pm that I forgot to put on pants today.
you have it figured out
Not so much. It’s been a rough few weeks at work, so it was nice to have some wins today.
Sounds like there’s an opening for a…..
Threesome.
Are you asking for yourself?
NTTAWWT
I wish.
You know you’re losing it a tad when whenever your wife speaks to you about her friends you say, ‘why don’t you ask her for a threesome? C’man!’
One of my wife’s friends and a gal I drank with several times once said to us; “Don’t you remember that one time I wanted to have a three way with you guys.”
Me: ?
Wife: ?
And then?
nothing. Which is too bad since I always had the hots for her. Feisty punk rock blondes are my weakness.
*Somewhere Billy Idol feels disappointed for some reason*
Billy!
My sex life is more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU
You’ll need this, then.
Just because I love this song.
LAME
::whispers:: Well I did spend a night with her when my wife was out of town. Shhh…
(not really) 😉
Your wife is either very trusting, or has a PI on retainer.
She’s very trusting, but I still sensed a pit open before me with no clear path to a safe reply.
Who? Why would she want to know that? Huh.
So I’m guessing your wife’s friend ran into you around lunch?
“And then I bumped into her again!”
STEVE SMITH BUMP INTO SEVERAL HIKERS EVERY DAY.
ALWAYS GOOD TO MEET NEW PEOPLE.
She had lunch with my wife today. In hindsight, I should have had them both here for an oyster roast.
go on…
“Dear Glibhouse forum,
I never thought this would happen to me…”
These always start out good, but they always end with: “This place is a sausage fest. I’m outta here.”
“Glibhouse forum”
I laughed
Hey Mr. Ego,
You wrote an article about cutting the cord, didn’t you? Could you provide a link?
Amazon just came out with a DVR for your antenna called Recast. Looks legit.
Thanks, trashy.
Definitely, here you go:
https://glibertarians.com/2018/08/cut-the-cord-vive-la-revolution/
Awesome! Thanks, man.
“Forgot” Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
Look, that didn’t work for me and I don’t care how smart you think you are, it isn’t gonna work for you either.
Haha, truth.
$20.4 trillion in wealth – I don’t think that word means what they think it means
Aren’t they accidentally using “wealth” correctly, they just mean “riches”, to use the terminology of Chris Rock’s (?) Rich Vs Wealthy bit.
GMSM & K lurk?
Nate Silver is a moron. Can I ask why he’s famous again?
Because he can use Excel? Because it’s really tough to grab a bunch of polls and make a spreadsheet.
Because he can write clearly for a lay audience about notoriously difficult-to-convey statistical analysis in an area that people are highly interested in.
exactly
Correlating data usefully isn’t as intuitive as we’d wish. We all know there are still companies that compensate sales and executives based on revenue instead of after-tax earnings; people generally are just terrible at this. So, after a century of presidential polls being reported only as national trends instead in the useful electoral bits by which the president is actually chosen, someone finally collated and updated the proper bits. It’s as if the journos and politicos had been trying to maintain the speed limit by watching the oil pressure.
That the polls Silver feasts on aren’t very nutritious since the abandoning of land lines isn’t his fault; how much attention we want to pay to his refrying in the absence of excellent ingredients is a value proposition: YMMV.
There’s still a lot of use for analysts like him because people are terrible not only with simple math but also probability and its application (game theory, management, etc). People almost unanimously fail to solve simple A vs B probability problems. I repeatedly sit on jets with C-level idiots who can’t parse the facts and symptoms right in front of them into simple business decisions; to bully them, I routinely destroy them with simple coin-flip scenarios they can’t solve (well, they’re not really coin-flip issues…it’s a ruse…but that’s the point: they can’t bring simple high school math to traction or reason which tools to use on which problems).
There are two kinds of people in this word. Those that admit to failing the Monte Hall problem the first time, and liars.
That problem is one of the best I know of for showing people that their instinctive/intuitive reaction is not necessarily the best. The key to the problem, as I recall it, is that Monte knows something you don’t (which door is the good door), so when he picks a door to open after you choose a door, he is picking a door that he knows has a booby prize. I can never quite recall the part that shows that the problem doesn’t just become a coin toss between the two closed doors, though.
the problem doesn’t just become a coin toss between the two closed doors
I think it does, you’re swapping your 33% chance for the 50/50 coin flip.
Please come over poker night….please.
/jk
no, really, bring cash
Do this for yourself: just plot out for yourself all the what-if scenarios and compare the outcomes; you’ll quickly see that the new car is behind the other door 2/3 of the time.
This is the problem: it ain’t a coin flip (see my arrogant notes above about C-level folk); when you’re told where one booby prize is, you’re being given a lot more data….it’s not even luck any more.
Yeah, I was stirring my chili when I remembered the actual thing.
Please come over poker night
What’s the game hold’em, dealers choice, Devil’s triangle?
it’s not even luck any more.
Well, it is, but the odds (2 chances out of 3) are on your side.
I’ve had this argument with my dad dozens of times: his “intuition” is really just lizard brain fear of risk; it’s just that he protects himself from a better answer.
His 2008 predictions were really, really good. 2012 weren’t bad. Plus he was the only one giving Trump a legitimate chance in 2016.
But the last couple of years he’s become pretty partisan.
The sports stats on his site are cool though.
Even in 2016 it was a grudging chance. But heck most people, including myself, thought Trump has a near zero chance. I thought, however, that there was _something_ there just based on the rally turnouts and his hectic schedule visiting the swing states versus Hillary’s “I’ve got it in the bag.”
Trump was certainly acting like he had a good chance – instincts? internal polling?
I feel like its 2004 and I’m on a Football Outsiders comment thread full of people who don’t understand win probability models.
I’m just commenting on his attitude more than his method.
Sorry missunderstood you
STEVE SMITH MASTER OF INTERNAL POLING.
Nice.
Actually, a lot of HnRers called it. I remember people arguing with Cytotoxic, who was so super sure Hillary would win and that the rest of us were idiots. Because THE POLLS.
But many realized that our day-to-day experience and the enthusiasm levels didn’t nearly match up with the polls, or even resemble what they implied.
2008 was not a hard election to call… 2012 wasn’t that tough either, and of the competitive states, I think he only nailed like 60%… big whoop.
Since then, he’s been awful (2014 midterms and gubernatorial races, Brexit, 2016 US election, etc, etc)
Given that most of his win probabilities are in the 60% range… that’s actually a just about perfect record.
Like I said, most people don’t understand win probability models.
*stares at Leap*
You’re using a lot of big words I don’t understand, so I’m going to take it as a sign of disrespect.
stats R hard. It took me a good five years of consuming football stats before I really understood them in any serious way.
I have a good friend who is a professional statistician. He’s often made the point to me that many people THINK they understand how statistics works and this is what makes their use problematic by a lot of people.
Not a criticism of you Leap, more reinforcing your point.
No worries. I know I’m at the Only Know Enough To Know I Don’t Know Anything stage and it only took me half a decade of education and another decade professional and amateur model building to get here.
Well thank goodness you’re around, oh mighty one.
The pomposity is really Cytotoxic level.
most people don’t understand win probability models.
So, there’s a 100% chance he’s right, 60% of the time?
Actually, his 2008 predictions were really, really bad. Basically all of his model’s favored contestants won, but their win probabilities weren’t high enough to make that an expected outcome. His model’s best performance was 2016 – an unexpected but plausible outcome was scored by his model as unlikely but possible.
Just sell them your stock picker for $199 cash.
*sigh*
The girlfriend went grocery shopping, and somehow she got charged over $12 for about 1.25 lbs of carrots. She saw nothing wrong with this.
I’ve now sent her back to the store to get a refund.
Is…is that not a fair price?
https://goo.gl/images/aUNWAo
I knew it!
Those are some fine heirloom organic carrots nurtured by monks in a Japanese Zen monastery.
Does she live in a food desert?
Were they in a cake with nice creamy icing?
Aww damn do I love a good carrot cake.
She got confused by the self checkout asking her how many bundles of carrots she was buying as how many individual carrots she was buying. Then she didn’t notice that she was being charged as much for carrots as for a decent steak.
I refuse to use a self checkout. I expect to be waited on and someone to bag my groceries.
I’d pay a premium to not have to deal with cashier’s.
I’d pay a premium to not have to stand in line.
But what about the joy of knowing you are robbing a poor person of a job?
Priceless?
Considering I bag my groceries in a sensible manner, and the store baggers generally haphazardly throw shit in any bag they want, I’d rather bag my own groceries. I also don’t have to pretend to chit chat when I’m checking out myself.
The part I don’t understand is why some of the stores close the self checkout lanes. Assuming no mechanical or technical issues, why would you close a self checkout lane? To make the cashiers feel better?
I asked a store clerk in the market why they took out the self-checkout, and I expected the answer to be something about the union or it wasn’t employing enough people, but she told me it was actually the opposite. Too many customers need help, so they were having to staff the self-checkout line anyway. At that point they might as well just have a checker.
Never ever follow your favorite actors and actresses on Twitter. You know what, don’t join Twitter.
“don’t join Twitter”
We have a winner!
That’s right up there with “Don’t do crack!”
Interview done. Kill me now.
Good news, I guess, is I realize a number of areas I need to fix.
NPR is pimping the “THERE WASN’T ENOUGH TIME” crap.
They should be taking the opposite tack since time has only revealed how specious their arguments are.
LOL
Funny. Before the FBI investigated the line was that the Anita Hill investigation took only 3 days, so why not have the FBI investigate these accusations?
https://twitter.com/SenatorHeitkamp/status/1047916605823492096
Fat and stupid is no way go through the Senate.
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And not being appointed to be on the Supreme Court isn’t ruining his life. By that standard *most* people’s lives are ruined.
They just don’t get it.
We’ll see how she likes it if it ever happens to her.
Yeah, a majority of the Senate voting in broad daylight that they believe you committed a violent crime and lied about it is considerably more than merely “not being appointed to SCOTUS”.
I suspect most of the people waving off the value of his reputation are people whose reputations aren’t worth shit anyway, so they have no basis for understanding what a good reputation actually is worth to the person who holds it.
I still think that McConnell should schedule two votes, in this order:
(1) Remove Kav from the DC Circuit and refer him to the DOJ for perjury.
(2) Approve his nomination to the Supreme Court.
Let’s call their bluff, see if they are willing to act on what they claim their beliefs are. You are either fit to be a federal judge, or you are not. If you are not, either because you’re a lying rapist, or a hotheaded partisan who lacks judicial temperament, you shouldn’t be on any federal court. The Dems made this about fitness, and claim he isn’t fit to be a federal judge. So, back your roll, Dems (and wobbly Repubs).
“Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?”
“Room 101.”
tl/dr
It’s not politics when we do it
On Washington’s McNeil Island, the only residents are 214 dangerous sex offenders
We now know where STEVE SMITH’s lair is.
STEVE SMITH RAPE DOESN’T OFFEND- -IT OBLITERATE.
put him in water and see if he floats
I do wonder if the protester or other people my age and younger even understood that reference.
“Bitch, please.”
We laugh, but he could potentially pull it off.
Re-enact the sinking of the Lusitania.
They should put lawyers on the ship instead.
“Emily Ratajkowski
Verified account @emrata
Today I was arrested protesting the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault. Men who hurt women can no longer be placed in positions of power.”
“You’re joking, right? “Arrested?” I watched the cops walk up to you and ask politely if you wanted to be arrested. You & Amy Schumer said “yes.” Then you both just sat comfortably on the floor until the cops gave you special wristbands & politely escorted you out I have video.”
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1047971129225306113
You can’t even believe the women protesting for believe all women.
Such bold.
Much brave.
Amy Schumer? Isn’t she that racist comedian?
Women hurt each other all the time and wind up in positions of power.
been accused by multiple women of sexual assault.
I think I found the problem.
a man who has been accused by multiple women of sexual assault
Gosh, what other national figures have been accused, etc.?
And no, this isn’t “whataboutism”. It is a challenge to either your sincerity (you aren’t really opposed to Kav because of the accusations), your intelligence and/or your morality.
I didn’t highlight “accused” in my quote, which makes my response ambiguous.
I was basically saying accusation ≠ proof or conviction.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/04/elon-musks-settlement-with-sec-hits-a-snag.html
This is just stupid. Why bother with the SEC if the Fed gov then goes and says the regulator (ostensibly the experts) isn’t being harsh enough. Just come out and say, we’re shaking you down and our goons didn’t do good enough.
I wonder if the EPA has spent all that VW money yet.
“Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow to Star on Broadway in ‘Hillary and Clinton’ (Exclusive)
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow, both two-time Tony Award winners, will team up on Broadway to play the power couple who have been a prominent part of the American political landscape for the past quarter-century in Hillary and Clinton.
The play by Lucas Hnath is a four-hander set in New Hampshire during the 2008 Democratic primaries, as Hillary Rodham Clinton, her chief strategist Mark J. Penn and her husband Bill Clinton butt heads over whether bringing in the former president will be a liability or an asset in HRC’s troubled campaign to secure the nomination for a White House run. Her opponent, Barack Obama, is the play’s unnamed fourth character, referred to only as “The Other Guy.””
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/laurie-metcalf-john-lithgow-star-broadway-hillary-clinton-1149081
If they’re smart they’ll get Roseanne to play Chelsea.
Not paying money for that, ever.
2016 would be way more fun.
So Lithgow is playing Obama? Bold move.
Today was a great day. I was relaxed, my research assistant wanted help with his game theory class and that was fun. My boss stopped by to tell me how much he appreciates my professionalism and graciousness towards the assistant director. And, there is three day weekend coming up. Aah, life is better.
Nice.
One for you.
Alright all. I’m looking for some new horror films to check out. Anyone have any recommendation of hidden classic (or modern classic) gems that slipped through most of the cracks?
The original ‘I Spit On Your Grave’ is a timeless classic, and relevant today in light of the Kavanaugh hearings.
A favorite from my teenage years
Jaws?
The Keep?
Wow. I forgot about that movie. Nice pick.
It’s out there. I only found it a few years ago because I like Tangerine Dream.
Never even heard of it before, it’s been added to the list.
Tangerine Dream! One of my faves.
Me too. The fun part here is that the music is wildly inappropriate for the content of the movie. And most if not all of it was not even composed for the movie unlike some of their later soundtracks. I’ve heard bits and pieces of it all over various releases from that period.
That movie was so, so bad and worse yet, it’s suckiness is the reason we don’t get a Repairman Jack movie.
Yeah but it’s so bad, it’s good. But yeah, a RJ movie or three would be awesome.
I understand a lot of people were so horrified by The Last Jedi that they had to leave the theater, if that helps.
Depends on what counts as ‘hidden’ for you? Do you only know the eighties slasher shlock or do you have the entire Mario Bava filmology on Blu-ray?
I’ve got the full gamut of 80’s slasher flicks, as well as a good selection of 90’s horror films. My education is mainly in the American and (later) Japanese horror films. The only Italian one I believe I’ve seen (and remember off the top of my head) is Cemetery Man (which I really wish was a reasonable price). If it’s a modern film that’s gotten a lot of buzz (The Babadook, It Follows, Don’t Breath, Get Out, etc.) I’ve probably seen it.
This is another Italian:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076786/
Meh, he can just wait for the remake. It’ll be better they always are.
For foreign horror, have you seen Eyes Without a Face?
And its sequel Flesh for Fantasy?
Man, Billy is everywhere tonight!
Flesh and Fantasy.
Which reminds me that Dead of Night is a really good horror anthology from the UK.
You might be able to help here…
Are you aware of any series of low-budget, British TV horror/thriller movies that came out during I guess the mid-70s? I saw a bunch of them on PBS when I was a kid but have not been able to find them anywhere since.
I assume you’re not talking about Hammer Pictures stuff.
Horror isn’t a genre I know as much about, so I did the IMDb search thing, which doesn’t help much because I don’t understand what IMDb considers a British production.
No, not Hammer. I haven’t seen much of those – other than a roommate had a bunch of them which I ignored – but I’m aware of their style. These were more thrillers, “weird tales” kind of things, usually contemporary settings. Unfortunately I can’t remember any details other than random images and such. I too did the imdb search long ago without any luck. Ah well.
I only have the Anchor Bay DVD of “Dellamorte Dellamore” – pretty old now. Will look up a blu eventually.
Testuo: The Iron Man
Maybe not ‘horror’ as we know it.
I liked the conjuring, the hills have eyes, pumpkin head, jeepers creepers 1, Friday the 13th is probably my all time favorite.
Also the awakening is really good.
Have you seen anyone of the asian ones? If you haven’t, and don’t mind subtitles, start there.
People raced about the audition. It was ok. House was weird.
Shutter, Dark Water, Ringu, etc. are all better than their American remakes. Just like [Rec] is better than Quarantine.
It’s not a genre I follow but I do have one called “Infection” and can recommend it.
I liked the Japanese horror films House and Ju-on (aka The Grudge)
The Seventh Victim will be on TCM next Saturday (October 13) at 2:15 PM ET.
Nosferatu 1922
I hate horror movies.
Phantasm was groovy, though.
Yep, a classic.
Onibaba
Zombie Strippers!
Thanks all. I’ll be doing some research, and seeing which ones I can trick/convince the girlfriend to watch, and see which ones I’ll need to watch alone.