Hey look: the Falcons won and the Giants suck. But don’t worry Giants fans. So do the Jets. Arsenal beat Leicester 3-1 and have moved level on points with Chelsea and Spurs in 3rd through 5th place. The LeBron Lakers are 0-3. And that’s about it. The UCL returns today and tomorrow and the World Series from hell starts tonight. Enjoy it all.
White man appropriates culture. Film at 11:30.
Marcus Agrippa was born on this day. So was football coach John Heisman, TV host Johnny Carson, pitcher and politician Jim Bunning, soccer god Pele, drummer Freddie Marsden, writer Micheal Crichton, musician Greg Ridley, musician Wurzel, filmmaker And Lee, country singer Dwight Yoakam, Weird Al Yankovic, actor Sam Raimi, short man Doug Flutie, actor Ryan Reynolds, coattail rider Meghan McCain, and actress Emilia Clarke.
Racing legend Jack Brabham
Its also the day Mark Antony and Octavian routed Brutus and then he killed himself. Also, the first plastic surgery was performed, 25,000 women marched for their voting rights in NYC, the US Army fired their first shots in WW1, “Dumbo” ht the big screen, Joe Frazier won the Olympic gold medal, Jack Brabham won both the FIA drivers and constructors titles in the same season, the US national debt hot $1 billion dollars (in 1981), a suicide bomber killed 243 Americans in Beirut, Robert Bork was officially Borked, Jack Kevorkian helped two women kill themselves, Israel and Palestine reach an agreement to exchange “land for peace” (and we see how well that worked out for Israel), and for you Canadian baseball fans, today’s the day Joe Carter hit the ultimate walkoff homerun.
That’s the sports and old stuff. And now on to…the links!
I know the trunk of your car can get to be a mess, but this guy was taking things a little too far, dontchathink?
Cretinous globalists still deserve due process.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s office window was smashed in with a boulder. And at the same time, somebody put a bomb in George Soros’s mailbox. Great job, whoever you assholes are that are doing this shit.
As the caravan of “refugees” continue their trek to America (through multiple other countries where they could seek asylum if they so wished), questions linger: how will the fact that Mexico are not stopping these people, even though our government has asked them to intervene, walking over 1000 miles through their country to get to ours going to affect trade, general relations and immigration regulations between the two countries? My guess: not very fucking well.
Its a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him. Too bad for captain dumbass here that he’s not famous and can’t remember entire quotes. (The comments are predictable, by the way.)
From being called “Uncle Tom” to being Uncle Sugar almost overnight
After Chance the rapper and Kanye West endorse her and dump money into her campaign, a long shot candidate in Chicago moves quickly up in the polls. But remember, a week ago Kanye was just an Uncle Tom lapdog of Trump and doesn’t have any influence at all. CNN told me so.
I swear, men create the most toxic work environments. Just look what he made this woman supervisor do to him. LOL, fortunately for both of them, the union will be sure its the taxpayers that poor the bill. The victim here will get a fat chunk of money and the perpetrator will still get a sweet retirement. Win-win, as they say.
South Korea and North Korea reconciliation moves forward. But not everybody in the south are happy about the way in which they’re progressing. Now is the tough part, in my opinion. Selling peace to a broke-ass enemy is easy. Selling the sacrifices to a free people might not be. I wish them all the luck in the world.
Occasionally I go off and post three songs on a morning. Today os one of those days. Here’s the first. And here is the second song. And finally we come to the third masterpiece. Ignore the poor video production and enjoy the sound.
Now go have a great day, friends.
Christ, even with adblock, that SFGate site is a resource hog.
‘somebody put a bomb in George Soros’s mailbox.’
Someone set us up the bomb.
As if George opens his own mail.
“All your bases are belong to us”
– Soros
I bet when the facts come out we will fin out that he had his people do this so that the dnc operatives with bylines finally could claim the right is trying to commit violence while also diverting some of the exposure of the violent fascist/marxist anarchist gangs his money finances.
I’ll admit “false flag” was my first thought on hearing about this.
Yeah, that mailbox stunt hasn’t worked since “Dirty Harry”.
The LeBron Lakers are 0-3. – the refs were ridiculous
It’s not June. Why are we talking about NBA?
FIFY
Interesting to me that the one guy here who cares about the NBA lives in Europe. I’ve gone from being a big fan 30 years ago to not caring in the least. In the middle of football season and on the World Series, that stuff doesn’t cross my mind.
I wonder if the NBA has purposely geared itself to appeal to foreign audiences as they’ve lost share of American audiences?
Isn’t the NBA flying these days?
Sort of. Ratings are still way down compared to mid 90s.
That’s what ESPN wants you to believe. Or maybe that’s what TSN wants you to believe since the Raptors don’t suck.
You can add me to the list caring about the NBA, but I’m usually not here early enough to see Pie’s comments. I’ve been an NBA season ticket holder for 34 years, and hope to continue for at least another 20.
As far as I know, a lot of foreign fans started developing NBA attachments with the 1992 US Olympic Team. I know several international fans who avoid their home leagues in favor of the NBA (maybe like a lot of North Americans following EPL and not caring about MLS?)
Gotta be honest, I do watch the WNBA once a month.
You into lesbians? Not that there is anything wrong with that, brah.
Have you ever watched the first period?
They have periods in the WNBA?
Nah, too much dribble.
I have earned my red wings on occasion….
We are spotting you this one but you have the wrong sport
Details, details…
If you watch too long you could get toxic shock syndrome.
No idea. Its the one American professional sport I absolutely refuse to watch on TV.
I cannot understand how you people can watch baseball but not basketball. I assume you need to be born american to enjoy that. Like England (+colonies) and Cricket
Baseball is a past time. It translates really well to radio, so you can putter around your house attending to other things while listening to the game. Plus Amerikuh!
Basketball is a boring game where 7 foot tall men put a ball in a hoop that’s so far off the ground they can drop it in from their tip toes, they can travel, and if anybody breathes on them, they flop around like a soccer player to get a foul, which is an interesting notion considering how terrible many of them are at shooting free throws.
Europeans are dull enough to enjoy soccer, so they will naturally enjoy basketball.
Soccer is more interesting to me than basketball because it’s much harder to be successful. There’s a ton of nuance in the game that I think casual viewers don’t see at first — and a lot of strategy at work.
It’s boring enough to watch other people play a game. Watching other people play a game that looks remarkably similar every time it’s played is even worse.
I’m not a basketball fan but one has to admit it’s more entertaining to watch than baseball. I mean, come on.
Why? Constantly scoring is far more boring than rarely scoring.
I’m just referring to the action.
Soccer scores the least of any major sport but I like it. Aussie rules scores a lot and I like it too.
It’s not so much the scoring…it’s the standing around waiting for someone to actually move that’s boring(baseball). Football can be the same way. Soccer has action, but it’s difficult to see everything that’s going on until the replay.
I think getting rid of the offside rule would make soccer and hockey(add icing FFS) a lot more fun to watch.
Oh I watch basketball, college and high school. No interest in the NBA. The people suck, the rules (and their application) sucks, and defense is so disfavored that it’s nearly nonexistent.
Notice that the NFL is heading in the same direction.
Hell, I haven’t even heard a word about LeBron here in Cleveland since he announced he was leaving.
I love the NBA. So many incredible young playeres: Davis, Embiid, Antetemkuopko (the Greek guy in Milwaukee); Porzingis; Booker, so forth and so on.
I do, however, HATE the super team thing. Kevin Durant is dead to me.
I hate the fucking refs not the superteams. Stop calling bullshit faults. Call the real ones. And stop the goddamn traveling. A Euro step is not a Euro trip.
Oh god.. the travelling IS ridiculous. That’s probably with Brandon Ingram got mad at Harden the other night. Harden travels constantly!
Yeah, most fans don’t understand the traveling rule. Both feet have to leave and then touch the floor again or slide before it meets the definition of traveling. This is why a layup isn’t traveling and neither is a Euro step.
Sorry, disagree. if you take 2 steps without dribbling, it is a travel. Nearly every fast break layup off a pass is a travel, and posted players routinely pivot on both feet in possession of the ball without dribbling. If you receive the ball on a pass, the first foot that lands is your pivot foot, the second is your free foot. If you lift your pivot foot without dribbling, you traveled.
EDIT: Unless you jump off both feet, but if you lift the pivot and jump off the free, travel. So, so many 3 step layups after a catch.
You can disagree all you want but a step isn’t complete until the foot hits the ground and that’s what the rules are. A layup is 2 steps without dribbling but the pivot foot(the first step without dribbling) never touches the floor until the ball is released.
The NBA rules.
The issue is here:
If a player, with the ball in his possession, raises his pivot foot off the floor, he must pass or shoot before his pivot foot returns to the floor. If he drops the ball while in the air, he may not be the first to touch the ball.
IMO, the euro step violates the rule. Step 1 is the non-pivot returning to the ground. Step 2 is the pivot returning to the ground and is the travel.
The only way to avoid the travel is to dribble after the original pivot comes off the ground to establish the step 1 foot as the pivot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxIAfHoglD4
CARRYING THE BALL is a bigger deal to me than traveling.
Per Ken’s link the definition is different depending on whether you attempting to dribble, shoot or pass.
I agree with Agent Cooper. Carrying/Palming is a lot more of a subjective call than traveling. Add to that block/charges that are often inconsistent.
The NBA’s in a weird place. There’s incredible talent in the league, but the superfriends concept has pretty much killed off whatever competition there was in a league that was already predisposed to be dominated by a small number of teams. The Knicks are bad but at least are interesting at the moment, so I’m paying more attention than usual.
Exactly. How many teams have even the faintest chance of competing for a title this year? Goldern State problaby has 85% odds and Houston and Boston split the other 15%. Barring multiple season ending injuries, there’s essentially no chance the champion isn’t one of these three teams.
“Tastes like fermented bacon”
That guy needs to apply for a gag order.
I’m sure he has someone willing to file his briefs.
They’re going to need a crack attorney for this one.
She’ll plead fruit of the poisonous loom.
*narrows gaze*
“who allegedly shoved her undies into the detective’s mouth after he griped about her leaving them scattered around a unisex bathroom at the stationhouse ”
What a Nag.
Horseface?
The instagram comments on McCarthy are predictably retarded.
Retarded is too kind. That would mean we couldn’t expect more from them. These are ostensibly fully functioning adults who can’t form cohesive arguments.
Mmmmm, pastries.
Now I’m hungry, if only I had a hundred thousand bucks to spend on strudel.
$2/pastry, for an office of 20ppl every day for a year, comes to $10.4k
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And finally we come to the third masterpiece.
I was expecting this.
It’s been done somewhat recently, IIRC. And besides, I don’t remember country ever getting its day in the sun. So I thought I’d give it to them.
I guess one day won’t hurt. At least it wasn’t Brad Paisley or Kenny Fucking Chesney.
*barfs*
Yoakam is my one country/rockabilly artist that I enjoy. Maybe because he was so good in Sling Blade. I don’t know exactly why. He’s nasally and his accompaniment is generally really high-pitched. But it works.
I like him too! *swivels hips* His videos are full of tight pants and hip-swiveling. But musically I am into him too.
Because i missed the cover song thread, here are two Dwight Yoakam covers where he absolutely owns the songs – I Want You To Want Me and Purple Rain.
Getting older and I’m beginning to like music that tells a story. *Cranks some enka*
Paul enka?
No no no, ya dummy.
Enya. Enya. Although Straff has lost me by trying to get a story out of her.
I identify with certain enka songs.
One more even though nobody cares. This things crack me up.
No, no the song Ichiro Suziki plays at bat…
Marty Friedman version – https://youtu.be/wJ05aMzcP7I
Sayuri Ishikawa version – https://youtu.be/fyifGO5P1Rg
I’m shocked! Since you mentioned previously you find the nasal quality of women singing in Japanese annoying that you like enka.
Being able to understand enka is one of the things I very much like about learning Japanese.
I’d liken it thematically almost to old style US country western. The Japanese version of the wife caught me cheating, the pick up truck is broken and the dog just died kind.
It even sounds a bit like 70’s country. Or 60’s folk pop.
I like enka and its cousin in Taiwanese/Hokkien music.
Glad I’m not the only one who thinks so!
That first comment was awesome.
“The $73,540 debt to the Illinois State Board of Elections has been paid in full,” the Enyia campaign declared in an emailed statement.
Settling your debts is a winning strategy in Chicago?
It’s certainly above and beyond the norm.
We don’t know. It hasn’t been tried there in at least a century.
Especially while playing soothing, new-age muzak.
It works in Westeros, so why not?
Selling peace to a broke-ass enemy is easy. Selling the sacrifices to a free people might not be. I wish them all the luck in the world.
Worked great for ze Germans.
Yeah, except the ones from the west.
#zhukovdidnothingwrong
“An employee of the residence opened the package, revealing what appeared to be an explosive device,” the police said in a statement. “The employee placed the package in a wooded area and called the Bedford police.”
That’s… kind of odd. My first reaction on opening an explosive device probably wouldn’t be to go take it out to the woods.
Tard Tuesday: Projection and Dehumanization Edition
I’m posting the entire comment because it really is one of the most explicit examples of “true believer” I’ve ever seen. These people are ripe for totalitarianism.
Huh. Is religion making a comeback in Progville?
It never went away. They are a cargo cult.
Actually marxism is just another religion. Unlike the old religion that had a divine, omniscient, all powerful, and benevolent father figure that promised paradise in heaven, the marxists promised heaven on earth (why, wait?) and replaced that god entity with the state. Those that gobble Marx’s cock and peddle his ideology are nothing but dangerous religious fanatics. These are the types that see camps as necessary to make man finally stand up and accept his role in their fantasy world where equality of outcome finally happens.
TL;DR: the word fits nicely into the good people vs the evil people.
And the non-marxists are evil!
Sounds like a healthy, well-adjusted, highly intelligent and informed voter. No wonder Democrats are so popular.
When you dehumanize your enemy, it makes it easier to kill them.
This is it right here.
To paraphrase Eric Hoffer: Mass Movements don’t need a god, all they need is a devil.
But progressivism is not a religious cult at all!
A McCain lover…what a surprise.
That ‘give up your guns’ thing….I think I am gonna say no.
Why do you think they want to take your guns away? Because mobs are more effective if their targets are disarmed.
Right? “You people are evil, disgusting troglodytes who I hate with the burning rage of a thousand suns and want to see burn in hellfire for eternity. In a completely unrelated note, I’d like to restrict your right to self-defense strictly for the purposes of public safety.”
More of the same
The ads write themselves
“…because I need to go to work in a couple hours.”
lol.
I can picture this person hopping in their fancy car going to their family’s million dollar company while ignoring a beggar asking for money on the way.
This person SCREAMS projection.
Perhaps some information on panhandlers is in order.
BUT THAT PERSON DOESN’T KNOW THAT.
They’re the sort of folk who expect the government to take care of that shit.
Funny, I was seeing 3/4 time Starbucks shift supervisor.
I was seeing a trustafarian who has never had to work a day in their lives. Or, who works for peanuts for a nonprofit while mommy and daddy are still bankrolling their lifestyle.
Reading this, you get a very real sense of what it took to get people to be willing to throw their fellow citizens onto cattle cars or to take them out to the Killing Fields. And not a one of the responses to this took any issue with it. If there is a party that embodies evil, it’s the party that lets this sort of talk go unchecked.
But conservative lawmakers objected, saying the deals, which had Kim’s vague commitment to denuclearization, would only help the North buy time and prefect weapons systems in the face of international sanctions.
South Korean “conservatives” sound a lot like our neo con left.
County Commissioner Stanley Moore, who has endorsed County Board President Toni Preckwinkle for mayor, said Enyia’s decision to accept West’s donation opens up a whole new line of questioning.
“If you accept money from a person like Kanye West, are you also endorsing his stance on Donald Trump?” Moore said.
“Kanye West has made comments in the past about slavery being the slave’s fault. He has talked about abolishing the 13th amendment. This opens the door for Amara to answer questions about whether or not she is embracing these same philosophies. Is she embracing Trump’s policies that hurt African-Americans?”
Phew. I was afraid the truly important questions would be left unasked.
Does that mean your candidate is open to the questions like: under your leadership, murder has skyrocketed. Are you going to do anything besides blame Indiana, whose murder rate is less that 20% of ours?
This.
Trump’s policies that hurt African-Americans
Citations, please.
They stop getting welfare!
/Prog
That record low unemployment is a bitch.
What he really meant to say is that Trump’s policies hurt the democratic party’s hold on African-Americans, but saying that might actually get more African-Americans to pay attention and leave the plantation.
I RTFA, and have no idea what the candidate stands for. At all.
“I want to be mayor”
That’s it.
True for ALL candidates.
Let’s just let that whopper hang in the air and founce in another direction. Someone’s journalisming!
The problem he forgot to mention is the fact that billionaires, and religious cults completely control one of the two tribes, and that tribe is pure evil. PURE EVIL.
Do you want political assassinations? Because this is how you get political assassinations.
I think it’s an unavoidable outcome at this point.
It has already happened, i remind you. Scalise got shot, and the only reason there wasn’t a massive body count was that he rated capitol security protection and they were able to detain the angry Bernie bro that believed these evil team red asshats were the ones blocking the new American socialist paradise (with camps for the non believers and treats for the faithful!).
We’d have had some already this cycle if Berniebot T-1000 was a better shot.
I don’t think they understand that people on the right are generally better at violence than people on the left, if it comes down to the SHTF.
The main reason they want to disarm the people and pretend the second is antiquated and dangerous, is precisely this. An armed populous will resist the tyrants’ agenda.
Yeah, but they’ll have the jump on us. As a society we’re already becoming inured to mobs of masked leftists tromping through the streets.
But whenever they run into opposition anywhere close to equal numbers, they get the living shit kicked out of them.
And the dnc operatives with bylines will report it as right wing violence, completely ignoring the fact they instigated it and were doing it first.
Throngs of leftists mobbing in cordoned off zones on their own streets is of no concern to the right, except in that it shows the violent predisposition of the left. Wake me up when they take the fight to the suburbs.
And that’s precisely how the SHTF. When the currency of politics becomes guys willing to use violence to deal with the opposition, it’s not the Rand Pauls of the world or even the William F. Buckleys or even the Donald Trumps who wind up ruling the day. It’s the kind of bastards you don’t want to meet in a dark alley.
Stalin raises a gory ice-pick and salutes you for your wisdom.
I was thinking the Nazis’ rise to power. But, it equally applies to Stalin.
Am I following this correctly? We’re just talking about kids in yankee and Cali cities, right?
Even Charlie Daniel doesn’t start any shit down South
Freehold race attack: Jerry Wolkowitz, Asbury Park Press freelancer and longtime EMT, dies
I haven’t heard about any race riots in hymietown, did I miss it?
It’s up to us glibs , since were the only ones who don’t work
I only wish some Democrat besides myself would point out the fact that the entire Republican Party is an evil cult that pretty much belongs in prisons, or asylums. Every last one of them.
Krugabe wrote that comment?
Remember that it’s a crudely drawn NPC that is dehumanizing.
They accept their humanity and want to kill them. Totes different.
TW: Vox
Republicans and Democrats don’t just disagree on the issues, though of course they do. Americans are divided on which issues are important in the first place.
They then have a Pew research chart showing a list of 18 issues. Of those, they only have 5 where Republicans consider them big issues (and three of those have the Dems and the Pubs within 5 percent of each other). The two issues they have that are overwhelming Republican ones:
Terrorism: 27% of Dems consider it a “big issue”, vs. 41% of Republicans
Illegal Immigration: 19% of Dems vs 75% of Pubs
The biggest issues for the Dems:
Affordability of Health Care: 56% of Pubs vs. 83% of Dems
Gun Violence: 25% of Pubs vs. 81% of Dems
Ethics in Government: 62% of Pubs vs. 80% of Dems
Why do I have the feeling that of the ones that have over 50% of both parties, the solutions would be completely different?
Affordability of Health Care
Those Democrats sure have worked hard to keep premiums down.
Yeah, talk about false advertisement.
I’ll see your feeling and raise you one of my own, namely that I suspect in the context “doesn’t believe the government should get involved” or “believes existing laws/regulations need to be repealed or lessened” is the same as not considering it important.
My proggy co-workers get very amped up about CAGW, gun violence, and racism, and don’t understand why I’m not very concerned about these things.
Of course, on the one occasion that I indicated that I don’t understand why they aren’t concerned about endless wars, out of control spending, ever expanding government, and Fedgov ignoring the Constitution, it was apparent that these things are not very high on their list of important things.
The Caravan Means the Wall Will Be Built
Yep
If the Stupid party wants to keep the house next month, they just have to make a commercial showing the dudes in that caravan who painted a swastika on the American flag and then burned it.
….on a loop.
With the caption: Any questions?
“This is your country”
“This is your country run by Democrats”
“Any questions?”
That picture of Soros legitimately looks like an aged version of Jack Nicholson’s Joker.
It’s….eerie.
I don’t see it, though I will admit he looks evil.
That confuses me.
I think it’s uncanny.
Funny, I hadn’t thought about it, but damned if you aren’t right.
Twitter says it has removed several accounts affiliated with Infowars and Alex Jones
The recommended video bar on youtube had a video of “The entire Infowars show 10/22” when I looked at the site today. How are these sites going to kick all these people off? It looks like a game of unending whack-a-mole.
They’ll start kicking people off who consume the banned content would be my guess.
—John Gilmore
True in a more or less useless sense on the modern web: you can go purchase your own hardware and self-host your content so that someone determined enough will still be able to access it. You just won’t be able to advertise, have your site indexed, or use any third party content platform to host or share your material.
Farrakhan’s account, on the other hand, remains.
Off course he speaks for the oppressed
“numerous violations and warnings”
Bullshit. Alex Jones was kicked off for arguing with someone from CNN in person.
Oldest intact shipwreck found in Black Sea.
The 23m (75ft) wreck, found in the Black Sea by an Anglo-Bulgarian team, is being hailed as officially the world’s oldest known intact shipwreck.
The researchers were stunned to find the merchant vessel closely resembled in design a ship that decorated ancient Greek wine vases.
The rudder, rowing benches and even the contents of its hold remain intact.
Goddam Greek colonialism ruined the place
The Black sea is a veritable treasure trove, because at depth there is not enough oxygen to sustain most life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Black_Sea_shipwrecks
Joachim Ronneberg: Norwegian who thwarted Nazi nuclear plan dies
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-45938874
He was a real badass. That’s one of my favorite historical stories.
Stud.
Millennial: That means smashing the patriarchy, paying a fair wage, stopping cultural appropriation, censoring voices we don’t like or agree with, checking our white privilege, and punching Nazis, right?
Joy News
That diversity hire woman cop. Qualifies as ‘sticking it in crazy?’
Also. Imagine if a guy shoved his underwear in a woman’s mouth. The optics suddenly change, eh? Alyssa Milano would be steaming off the top of her lungs “#metoo!”
Literally.
The purge continues.
Cameron Poetzscher, who oversaw a string of high-profile deals at Uber, has resigned, weeks after a report on allegations of sexual misconduct against him at the ride-hailing firm.
Uber Chief Financial Officer Nelson Chai will take over Poetzscher’s duties while the company looks for his replacement, an Uber spokeswoman said, without providing further details.
Poetzscher, Uber’s head of corporate development, was disciplined last year after a probe found he had a pattern of making sexually suggestive comments about co-workers, the Wall Street Journal reported last month.
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Uber has been dogged by several accusations of having a toxic work culture. The company has also seen a series of executive departures over the past year.
Dara Khosrowshahi, who became CEO last year, has pledged to make a clean break with Uber’s past practices, which have also resulted in a litany of regulatory problems and driver and consumer scandals.
Who needs a Chief Ethics Officer when the mob will diligently target wrongthinkers?
Migrants seeking entrance into America think it’s a good idea to recite The Constitution and wrap themselves in the American flag.
Well, sorta.
http://metrovoicenews.com/shocking-image-of-migrants-burning-american-flag/
I’m starting to want more information on this ‘migrants commit less crime than natives’ angle used. I know Reason is big on it but it strikes me a tad like the ‘you’re more likely to be killed from white right-wingers than Islamic terrorists’ line.
This fiasco will not end well. Of course, I think that’s the intention by the organizers.
That holds true for legal migrants from what I understand. Anyone who leaves out that little tidbit is suspect.
I’m starting to want more information on this ‘migrants commit less crime than natives’ angle used.
It’s based on a bullshit study that measures all immigrants not just illegal aliens, relies on self-reporting surveys rather than actual crime stats, and compares crime rates among similar socio-economic cohorts – meaning immigrant crime is no worse than the poorest hoods in Baltimore and Chicago.
That’s the key, they compare to similar socio-economic strata. Since poor Americans are disproportionately violent and criminal, they come out looking good by comparison.
‘migrants commit less crime than natives’
Bullshit.
How about illegals are more likely to vote hard left? How about that?
As others have mentioned the studies lump all immigrants together whether legal and illegal. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if legal immigrants are more law abiding on average.
If supporters of sanctuary cities are to be believed, illegals are afraid to report crimes because they don’t want contact with the police, which seems reasonable. But that also means that a lot of crime is going unreported.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rover-com-was-a-win-for-dogs-walkers-and-owners-until-the-kennel-lobbyists-came-barking
Lisa Jacobson, a single mother from Colorado Springs, Colo., wanted to earn money and support her family while transitioning to a new career. Rover.com, an online platform that connects pet owners with walkers and sitters, was the perfect solution. Lisa loves animals and, due to her experience working with animals with health problems and troubled pasts, many people trusted their pets with her. She earned enough money through her work to pay her mortgage and her son’s college education.
Then, things took a turn for the worse.
A large commercial kennel noticed Jacobson’s success, and their corresponding loss of business — so it filed a complaint with the state. A state inspector informed Jacobson that she would have to shut down her home-based business or obtain a commercial kennel license. To walk neighbors’ pets or watch them for a few days while they were out of town, Jacobson would need to submit a $400 nonrefundable application fee for a license.
Unsurprisingly, representatives from the kennel industry fought the commonsense reform, claiming that the licensing requirements are necessary to protect public safety. A representative from the state Department of Agriculture even said that a child who watched a friend’s gerbil for a few days and a couple of dollars would be required to obtain a commercial kennel license under the existing rules.
…
Of the more than 1,000 occupations that require a license in at least one state, fewer than 60 require a license in all 50 states.
And of those occupations that have multiple states requiring a license, few of them offer reciprocity. Can we have someone start pushing this as a commerce cause violation?
That will never happen, because it’s a slippery slope to gun license reciprocity.
The problem is that as written the states have the power to issue these licensing rules.
That said while they are not violating the Constitution the one thing Congress could legitimately do under the commerce clause is pass a law which automatically granted reciprocity between the states.
Something like…
No state shall bar any person from performing work in an occupation which requires licensing in that state if that person is already licensed in the same occupation in another state.
would be perfectly Constitutional. It would never pass, the Bar Associations at a minimum would see to that but it would absolutely be legal. The states would then get to decide whether to require licensing for a given field but once you were licensed in any state every state would have to accept that license.
That said I would much rather see a Constitutional amendment banning all levels of government from enacting licensing schemes which have the effect of being a barrier to entry into the field, If you want to enact a licensing scheme that is fine, you cannot charge more than the license scheme costs to administer and in order for it to be legal you have to demonstrate that the license requirements are actually pursuant to public safety and not merely claim that they are
And that’s the kind of law I would get behind. It’s one of the reasons I’m a big fan of the Institute for Justice they take on quite a few of these licensing cases. (And friendly reminder, they’re an available charity on Amazon Smile).
I’m a bit toasted, but if this lady could pay her mortgage and her son’s college education, how much of a burden is $400? (Yes, it’s still bullshit, but…just sayin’)
It is more complicated in the article. The fee did not guarantee the license. For example she had grass in her yard and the rules said it must be all concrete
Concrete? These licensing people hate dogs, clearly.
Seriously….in what way is concrete preferable to grass as a surface for dogs???
The government way.
Which is stupid in of itself. Ostensibly, the concrete is required because it is more sanitary, but concrete is a sponge. Unless it’s coated with epoxy or some other non-permeable coating, concrete slabs are notorious for harboring infectious diseases in kennels.
Suppose I could’ve clicked on the link. Knowing the govt, I should’ve guessed.
“…claiming that the licensing requirements are necessary to protect public safety.”
I HATE when they claims that.
why do you hate children? I assume it is because you have to deal with the little bastards every day, but there could be different reasons.
Aplenty of reasons.
Reasons aplenty.
Lol.
Heisman went 10-2-1 vs Clemson, and didn’t punch a single one of their players.
Actually, I don’t know that latter part for sure. Heisman was a dick, so he may have punched 3 per game and got away with it.
He would have finished his career at GT, but he lost Atlanta in his divorce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4
From his wikipedia entry:
Georgia gonna Georgia.
I was pelted with ice by old Georgia fans (not students) in 1989.
It’s amazing no one has walked up to their table, as they sip their fine wine and dine on lobster and prime rib, and punch them in the face.
Sounds like somebody wants a bloody shirt to wave.
Sounds like envy.
I know that the “Russia Collusion” fantasy that gave uninformed and marxist indoctrinated progs boners – mostly because they somehow bought into the idiotic narrative that this would prove Trump a KGB agent and reverse the 2016 election results handing Hillary back an election they had rigged in her favor but somehow managed to lose to a blowhard – has not been front and center for a while. But since I love prog tears, news like this just warms my heart. I wonder how many of these morons will finally realize that their ideology sucks ass and that looking down on people that see through the marxst-globalist tripe is a bad recipe, even when you think you should be winning elections because your cult has more urbanites that believe your bullshit or simply vote for your party because of the free shit (or both) than the average rube they like to look down on.
“namely, that Mueller and his team have not found any smoking-gun evidence of “collusion” between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russian government because no such collusion took place.”
This won’t dissuade them one bit. They’ll (meaning those who buy into this shot) just point to circumstantial evidence and take it out of context to use as proof. “That idiot Trump was too smart to leave behind a smoking gun but the totality of facts and behavior shows him to be guilty.”
“…Perhaps the best argument I have seen in favor of repealing President Trump’s pointless tax cuts…”
Pointless. Lol.
” ….as the superabundance of disposable income American liberals apparently spend on things like Robert Mueller bobble-head dolls, “Mueller is Coming” and “It’s Mueller time” T-shirts, Mueller “prayer” candles, and even children’s books featuring a super-buff bare-chested but tie-wearing Mueller lookalike hero.”
Did they seriously venerate Mueller like this?
And they say Republicans are a cult?
Projection. Always.
Not Dwight Yoakum, but listen to it anyway.
Love Lyle Lovett
Rise Up.
I thought he was a dork when I was younger, but he sure could bring it. This is my favorite performance.
And the man got to fuck Julia Roberts — for a while anyway.
Julia’s overrated.
I love David Rodriguez; here’s how you get both: Ballad of the Snow Leopard and the Tanqueray Cowboy
Lovett and Yoakam!
https://youtu.be/luE-psCs0r8
That would be an excellent song if Randy Newman was out getting a cup of coffee when it was recorded.
Much better
Brexit must not end free movement, Nobel scientists say
How did Newton do it without a supranational government in Brussels directing English tax and immigration policy?
FIFT
Science needs “the flow of people and ideas across borders”, it says. – yes. people with a minimum qualification.
If there had been an EU, Newton and Leibnitz could have collaborated!
Sadly calculus is sexist and as such UE would disapprove
Go tell Lauren Southern about free movement.
“The flow of … ideas accross borders”
Hey Pie, how is the GDPR helping with freeing up the movement of ideas through the internet?
If we want free movement for scientists post Brexit then we can have it, at least as regards European scientists coming here.
I don’t particularly care about immigration, but the status quo facilitates free movement irrespective of scientific (or other) achievement for (mostly white) Europeans. As a small country we then have to impose more severe restrictions on the (mostly brown) rest of the world.
If these people had any sense they’d push for Britain to adopt looser restrictions on scientists wherever they come from, rather than just trying to recreate what we had before.
One of the things Daniel Hannan repeatedly banged on about was the fact that under EU rules, citizens of the Commonwealth frequently couldn’t visit or immigrate into England, while Poles could.
He argued that under Brexit England would have the freedom to craft an immigration policy that was completely arbitrary (i.e. whatever they wanted), including the possibility that both EU citizens and commonwealth citizens had freedom of movement.
I doubt the latter will happen (my understanding is that Eastern European scavengers are responsible for a staggering amount of theft of salvageable metals such as wiring for street lamps on highways). My guess is that most Brits are fed up with the crime wave and want it to be stopped.
I haven’t seen much discussion of this, but I suspect freedom of movement (as opposed to freedom of labour) is partly based on the needs of the Euro. There’s undoubtedly an ideological element in it too, but it’s a good indication of the tail wagging the dog in terms of how the EU works.
Fucking Gypsies. Even when it was the Eastern European Scavengers, I KNEW it was the Gypsies.
Well, I wouldn’t bet against the significant percentage of East European Scavengers being Gypsies…
Adequate Consumption of ‘Longevity’ Vitamins Could Prolong Healthy Aging, Nutrition Scientist Says
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/10/412016/perspective-adequate-consumption-longevity-vitamins-could-prolong-healthy-aging
Then Congress realized how out of hand they had gotten with their spending and passed new spending legislation that would eliminate the debt.
#todreamtheimpossibledream
Then Congress realized
how out of hand they had gotten withno one was really complaining about their spending and passed new spending legislation that wouldeliminate the debtsteal all the money.#realitywakesyourassup
My constituents backed Brexit. But I didn’t enter politics to make them poorer
Phil Wilson
Now we know what leaving means, let’s do the right thing and have a second referendum
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/23/brexit-constituents-poorer-leave-labour-second-referendum-phil-wilson-mp
I mean they really should listen to their betters. Democracy means we do what the people should want, not what they actually want.
In the democratic tradition, we must continue to hold referenda until we get the results we want.
The typical leftist tactic of keep holding votes until they get the result they want, then no further voting is allowed.
I think we should apply this same logic to trials by jury; just keep trying them until you get the government-approved result.
Well, like all rights in the constitution, the clause against double jeopardy is subject to reasonable restrictions and regulations.
Don’t encourage them with this sort of idea validation (you know they have already been thinking of how to make that happen).
The “now we know what leaving means” is just a bare faced lie. Remoaners were trying to ignore or overturn the referendum result from the morning it came in. We also had an election the year after, at which c. 80% of voters voted for parties that pledged to uphold the vote.
In any event, we don’t know what leaving means beyond the short term – we only have the thoroughly dodgy projections of Remoaner partisans. Then there’s the fact that people like Wilson won’t face up to what Remaining would entail (or have entailed) – namely power grab after power grab, with those who rule us too frightened or too treacherous to say no.
Titty Tuesday hijacks your limbic system and ruins your decision-making capability.
http://archive.is/ojHc6
6, 8, 16, 28.
1 and 30 seem like they would have great personalities.
This made me laugh.
8 wins
Report says NASA lost historical artifacts due to lax procedures
Nonsense. NASA does not make mistakes.
A couple of widows and widowers would like to talk with you…
Operationally, that’s all just junk cluttering up the storage room. This is not terribly shocking. When engaged in one line of work, one does not regularly think that some people might place high value on your trash.
And punishing people who considered that trash to be treasure back then by now stealing it from them is bullshit.
Plus the high-res Apollo 11 video tapes they couldn’t keep track of.
Facebook and Google are run by today’s robber barons. Break them up
Toby Walsh
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/23/facebook-and-google-are-run-by-todays-robber-barons-break-them-up
The History of the Standard Oil Company, published by Ida Tarbell in 1904, described the espionage, price wars and courtroom antics that allowed the company to dominate the oil business. Eventually Standard Oil became so powerful it had to be broken up into 34 new companies. To balance the power of corporations, we also introduced institutions like unions, labour laws and the welfare state so that workers would share the benefits that industrialisation brought.
Today, we have a new set of robber barons, running digital monopolies and again receiving disproportionate benefits from the disruption brought about by new technology. History tells us we will need to regulate their monopolies just as we regulated previous monopolies.
The six biggest companies on the planet today by market cap are now technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Microsoft, Facebook and Alibaba. With this immense wealth comes immense impact and responsibility. We’ve always had to regulate markets; unfettered capitalism tends to go to excess. Regulation is needed to ensure that companies act in line with the public good and not just the stock options of their CEOs.
Because DNS servers are a natural resource?
Not even the schadenfreude of seeing the pseudointellectual tech megalomaniacs hoist on their own petard could bring me to support something that irredeemably stupid.
Exactly what I was going to say. No matter how repulsive the Silicon Valley crew is to me, this is ridiculous.
“Regulation is needed to ensure that companies act in line with the public good and not just the stock options of their CEOs.”
Fuck off slaver. I don’t want to argue anymore i just want these people to go fuck off. I’m in a pretty pissy mood and seeing this bulshit come up over and over again. Freedom means getting off your fucking ass and taking care of yourself. I think what pisses me off most is that these fuckers don’t give a shit about public good they only care about what gives them and their own power and recognition. Well you can go stick your head in a woodchipper. Piss off.
I would say that the proggie agenda of making STEM evil partiarchy, is playing out just swell…
It is Trump and the rethuglicans destroying education buy cutting vital funding to give billionaire tax cuts. If the schools got the money they needed this would not happen.
Who needs math when you have victimhood?
Then lower the standards, knuckleheads. They’re clearly too high, or more students would pass. DUH!
I think it is not coincidental that this occurs as the Fed gov and others are putting more emphasis on STEM. They always fail, so this should be expected.
Trump insults the Cajun Navy at a rally for Ted Cruz. If I didn’t know any better I’d say he’s trying to sabotage Cruz.
Actually, that totally sounds like something he’d do, even if it hurt Team Red.
https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1054533345063759872
I don’t think Trump does much thinking when he talks. He does not seem to need to.
Additionally, the owner of a lunar rover vehicle prototype, which was spotted in a residential Alabama neighborhood and reported to NASA, expressed a willingness to return the vehicle to the agency. But after months of no activity on the part of NASA, the owner passed away and the vehicle was sold to a scrap yard owner who later sold it at auction.
Your tax dollars at work.
It was last seen in the Villages being driven by a drunken widow headed to a swingers party.
Buzzbomb cornered at the 7-11!
Hasn’t NASA moved on to climate change activities? What are they gonna do with a lunar rover?
NASA has spent the last three decades running from its image of white-men-in-hornrim-glasses and doing climate change and females-in-science. When I was working there, we were told explicitly that those were our number 1 goals, and no, a plan to go to mars isn’t something that will captivate the imagination of young people.
Never meet your heroes. Especially if they are a government agency.
+1 Mr. Peterman looking for coupons.
OT; building shenanigans. The intruder was caught on video over the weekend. He comes in, sleeps in the elevator, in his undies, and uses the men’s room (sometimes). And sometimes the ladies rest room. He is also seen on video trying to open all the locked office doors.
But one of my office mates caught him while he was here, and told him to get out, and then called the cops. Dude didn’t deny he’d tried breaking into locked doors, instead he said “you guys don’t have anything worth stealing anyway.”
I’m surprised my office mate called the cops, but not surprised that he confronted the intruder. . . so that’s larceny (or attempted larceny) from a building, four year felony, IIRC.
Turns out one of the security card entrances was open all night, mis-function on the card system.
“Doesn’t anybody here keep meth in their desk?”
Or printer toner in a pinch?
“I was just trying to fix your shoes.”
Made me laugh right there Straff.
‘This is evil at work’: how should a small town react to neo-Nazis?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/23/this-is-evil-at-work-how-should-a-small-town-react-to-neo-nazis
“I didn’t make a plan. I missed the bus”, Rose says, raising their eyebrows under a battered cowboy hat.
They – Rose is genderqueer – live an itinerant lifestyle, traveling around the US Pacific north-west. They had been staying in the small town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, (population 10,000) when they had heard about a violent neo-Nazi by the name of Jake Laskey who had been using a store, Wolfclan Armory, as a base of operations for reviving the American Front, one of the oldest white supremacist gangs in the country.
In Cottage Grove, public meetings had been organized by anxious residents. Leaflets and posters had distributed, and street protests outside the store had been organized.
Nothing had seemed to work, and Wolfclan Armory was open and trading on Main Street.
“Wait, you mean people can just operate legal businesses and I can’t start a vigilante posse to run them out of town?”
People who use “they” as a pronoun are not just annoying but extremely confusing. It’s torturing the English language.
“We are not amused.”
They has alwyas been one or more person or persons of unknown or mixed identity.
SHE is not unknown or mixed, SHE is a SHE.
Does she know that?
“We are Legion”
Using her logic, burning down someone’s house when they’re not at home isn’t violence. But I guarantee that calling someone an ethnic slur is.
And it sounds like she’s not really up for dealing with the consequences.
“Rose is now facing a felony charge of criminal mischief”
I hope your little passion play was worth it.
“drank a glass of mead”
Because this shit happened in 12th Century Norway?
Don’t fuck with my mead dude.
Gee thanks, you just reminded me that I have a bottle that’s been sitting in my fridge for years. I recently decided to open it, broke the wax and realized I had mislaid my corkscrew. It had waited for years already, so I wasn’t going to try any of those hacks for uncorking a bottle without the proper implement and wait until I either found my corkscrew or bought a new one.
It’s still not open.
Was it “autumnal”?
Funny anecdote. The visitors penalty box at LCA (Red Wings) has Pit of Misery advertised on the boards in front of it.
How dare they!!!!
Interesting. I don’t know if any of you remember the Atomic Fruitbat from TOS. He is a city councilor in Cottage Grove.
No, but really?
The gun shop has been harassed for a while now, for the actions of their son. I guess ancestral guilt flows both ways now.
What you neighbors think or say counts for nothing,
but you should be ready to deal with what they do instantly
same as any other day
Eez zees your shimpanzee minky? French lawmaker proposes bill to outlaw mockery of accents.
Peter Sellers hardest hit.
Hank Azaria approves.
Now that he got his, he does.
Of course we are French! Why do you think we have zees outrageous accent?
I RTFA, and have no idea what the candidate stands for. At all.
You have to elect it to find out what it plans to do.
That’s always true I suppose. Maybe I should be glad they’re not bothering to lie about what they plan to do first?
It is Trump and the rethuglicans destroying education buy cutting vital funding to give billionaire tax cuts. If the schools got the money they needed this would not happen.
A+ Go to the head of the class.
Education funding is mostly local, paid for mainly by property taxes. Has Trump actually somehow required cuts to school budgets?
No, but his followers are anti big budgets that tax people to death, so that impacts money for schools and kills kids. You should see some of the idiotic campaign adds that commie douche Ned Lamont is running here in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut” saying his opponent wants to follow in Trump’s footsteps (he is promising a tax cut for those of us already getting ripped off by a top heavy state entity) and murder kids because he is pushing tax cuts. When he is told that school funding is a local issue, he reminds people that our bureaucrats in Hartford send a ton of money from the general fund (mostly funded by gas taxes) to some special municipalities for their schools. What we need according to that asshat is even more economy crushing taxes as well as the toll roads that we got rid off 20 plus years ago in return for a “temporary” state income tax….
Seriously, these people will tax taxes if they can get away with it.
And hey would you look at that, we spend more on education that we do on defense…
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_chart_1985_2020USb_20s2li111tcn_30t20t
This guy is so fucking tedious.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bensmith/obama-midterm-elections-vegas-jacky-rosen-senate
“‘When you hear all this talk about ‘economic miracles’ right now, remember who started it,’ Obama said.”
LOL. Right… the guy who repeatedly said throughout his entire 8 years in office that reaching 3% growth was impossible.
“He denounced Trump’s attempts to pressure the FBI and Department of Justice to target political foes.” ‘That is not how America works. That is how some tin-pot dictatorship works,’ he said.”
Ummm… I don’t know of Trump ever saying any such thing and furthermore, along with a corrupt FISA court, this is *exactly* what you did to Trump.
The man who eviscerated the Dems at all levels of government is back on the campaign trail. He’s almost as toxic as Shrillary at this point IMO.
Sure. Keep the market in slow growth / mild recession with massive government intervention was just brilliant. That way, when Trump was elected, there was a ton of pent-up growth and investment to be unleashed when the government boot on the economy was slightly lifted.
Yeah, this is the guy who said ‘What Magic Wand Do You Have’ To Bring Jobs Back?
Gee, cutting taxes and regulations, maybe?
Wait, you can resurrect Steve by cutting taxes and regs?
Pretty sure that as much of an uber prog as Steve was he would rather stay dead if that was what it took to revive him.
Course he was also a massive narcissist so he might not care that much
“an uber prog as Steve”
I don’t think Jobs was a devout prog. Didn’t he chastise Obama for this anti-business approach?
His claim about the economy really pisses me off because it’s so demonstrably false – statistically and by his own fricken words. Narcissistic little weasel.
Of course he is such a narcissist he likely believes his own bullshit.
I’ve actually come to the opposite conclusion: his narcissism is the product of his deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. I believe it’s called ‘compensatory narcissism‘.
That’s why he’s so desperate for people to tell him how clever he is.
I think after a lifetime of having the skids greased for him, and being told how awesome he is, he actually believes he is a far superior being, responsible for all that is good and holy.
It’s a defense mechanism, because to realize that he didn’t deserve all these unearned accolades would induce incredible feelings of guilt. It’s not an uncommon thing, particularly among entertainers, and Obama is an entertainer.
To borrow a turn of phrase from a brilliant orator, get in the back, douchebag.
Why is anyone listening to him? Go away, has been.
I hard part of the speech on the radio. He also talked about how the GOP is all about dividing people into tribes.
Dispatches from Airstrip One.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/22/government-bans-phrase-fake-news/
The Ministry of Truth has tight editorial standards, you understand.
And it sounds like she’s not really up for dealing with the consequences.
You’ll like it in jail, Shirley.
Tribalism isn’t a threat to democracy, those evil, subhuman vermin from the other tribe are!
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/polarization-tribalism-the-conservative-movement-gop-threat-to-democracy.html
*irony meter pegs at 11*
Christ, the projection with the left is unreal. Do they have no self-awareness at all?
The not-particularly-bright Jamelle Bouie is very perturbed by the racism shown by passers-by who ignore him while petting his dog.
The horror! The horror!
people ignore my wife and I in favor of our dog too
Why is that construction so difficult for people?
Yeah, I pretty much ignore the humans when I am petting their dogs. Because I like the dogs and want to pay attention to them.
When I’m walking my dog, absolutely no one greets me, but most of the people we pass want to pet her because she’s a fuzzy little wirehaired dachshund who is the dictionary picture for “cute”. Somehow, I’m not losing sleep over this.
The proper greeting is obviously “Hey boy, where’d you steal that dog?”
Also- in that noxious excrescence from the Guardian, they have a photo of Trump waving to the crowd, and IT LOOKS JUST LIKE A NAZI SALUTE!!!1!1!!!
Sieg Trump, Baby!
Such clever.
“Poppy dons white sheer look as she leads leather-bound gimps on leashes to YouTube’s Streamy Awards”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6305603/Poppy-dons-white-sheer-look-leads-leather-bound-gimps-leashes-YouTubes-Streamy-Awards.html
Still don’t get the Poppy think at all
Latest Glibs meet-up etc…
The article says something about “So many stars…” The only one I saw was Charo. Who has to be a lot older than 67.
Managers don’t get math; they make a ton of mistakes; and NFL coaches are managers
If you still don’t get the Monte Hall challenge, you’re always welcome to my monthly poker night. And if you can’t follow this article, don’t worry: from what I can tell, you’re still qualified to be CEO of a Fortune 500 firm.
SF’d the link.
ah….I know what I did
when to go for 2
I would start going for 2 every time if I were a coach to see how successful I could be. Three 2-point conversions is basically a TD.
No, it’s a field goal, you’re only picking up 1 extra point.
Math is hard!
/Agent Cooper Barbie
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The reason why football is more resistant to data driven decision making is because the sample sizes are MUCH smaller than other sports that play more games (and play the same opponent multiple times). It’s why I cringe everytime I’m watching the Patriots play and I see some ridiculous stat saying the Pats are 21-0 when some fairly rare game state occurs.
17-0 in games where Belichick wears a cut-off hoodie and Brady kneels at least 3 times.
I clicked on that link and I don’t understand anything in there.
I have seen coaches screw up games chasing the extra point too early. But that doesn’t mean this math is wrong, there are just way more factors than being considered here. This is the anniversary of Iowa taking an intentional safety with 8 minutes to play. It made the score 6-4. Penn St had two possessions after that and couldn’t get a game winning field goal. I guarantee there is no stats that said that turning a 4 pt lead into a 2 pt lead in order to free kick from the 20 instead of punting from the back of the end zone is worth it with that much time left. But Ferentz knew the flow of the game.
1) It worked out this one time != it was a smart move. Especially in football, which has the highest variance of any team sport. “Oh yeah, well one time…[tells story with no predictive power],” is exactly the error that Don is talking about.
2) The expected points added when holding the ball at the 1 yard line is about -1.6 if you assume that the offense and defense of both teams are equally matched (In the NFL, in the last decade or so). If Ferentz knew that both defenses are better than both offenses, taking a safety could absolutely be called for in a well-calibrated model.
I’m pretty sure I don’t want any of your help on poker night.
You can either play the people or play the probabilities. I find players who obsess over the probabilities to be more irksome.
Good players who “play the people” still know the basics of the probabilities even if they can’t calculate them themselves. If you have put a player on a flush draw, for example, you still have to know if the pot odds justify calling him down.
I was just pointing out it isn’t quite an **or** situation.
You can’t really be good unless you can do both, at least to some degree.
You can’t really be good unless you can do both, at least to some degree.
This highlights a separate, important point: a lot of sports math is trend-based, and trends change. Today, an attempted stolen base generally reduces the chances of scoring in an inning, but how often the baserunner is thrown out today is in some fraction related to the catcher’s expectation that an attempt will be made. If everyone stops stealing attempts based (pardon the pun) on the recent trend, catchers will probably stop looking for attempts, and the success rate of the thereafter rarer attempt might go up….maybe enough to entirely change the value of an attempt to becoming higher than the value of merely having a man on first.
Your #1 is why I said “that doesn’t mean this math is wrong”. The example was more for your #2. There are way more considerations than just averaging over the league average numbers. Coaches should follow the numbers more often, but they have to also know when to deviate from it and play the actual situation.
I think coaches need to fake the xp and go for 2 in many of the situations where coaches usually make the wrong decision. That doesn’t work in NFL though.
Also, if your opponent is flagged for a 15 yard penalty after a TD, you should always* on-side kick. I hate watching a kicker just blast it out of the back of the endzone in that situation.
*certain late game situations excepted.
“We recommend that the Government rejects the term ‘fake news’, and instead puts forward an agreed definition of the words ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’. With such a shared definition, and clear guidelines for companies, organisations, and the Government to follow, there will be a shared consistency of meaning across the platforms, which can be used as the basis of regulation and enforcement,” it stated.
Stand by for an announcement from the Ministry of Truth.
We have always been at war with eastasia.
“Anatomy Doesn’t Determine Gender According to Experts”, But Also “Sex” is “Gender” When Convenient
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/health/transgender-trump-biology.html
The NYT continues to lose its ever loving shit over the notion that the federal government will define Title IX sex discrimination based upon…..the definition of sex. To combat basic knowledge and simple logic, the NYT peddles out some gender studies “experts” (which it would appear is the equivalent of being an expert in theology, which is really what gender studies is about).
The Grey Lady is a joke
FTA:
“Defining gender as a condition determined strictly by a person’s genitals is based on a notion that doctors and scientists abandoned long ago as oversimplified and often medically meaningless.
Researchers who have studied gender issues and provided health care to people who do not fit the typical M/F pigeonholes said that the Trump administration’s latest plan to define gender goes beyond the limits of scientific knowledge.
“The idea that a person’s sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true, and we’ve known that it’s not true for decades,” said Dr. Joshua D. Safer, an endocrinologist and executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. He is also president of the United States Professional Association of Transgender Health.”
Notice how often “sex” and “gender” are used interchangeably here, while at the same time in order to combat basic biological facts the mantra remains “sex is not gender”. And yet, they freely use “sex” and “gender” interchangeably. This makes no fucking sense.
Luckily, these people have adopted an epistemological system which demands no consistency, indeed, it demands double think.
It’s gobbledygook.
But, remember what the Fonz says: Cultural Marxism is totally a myth or something. And post-modernism is good or something. Also, be better to socialists.
The idea that a person’s sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true
He’s right. It is determined by the 23rd chromosome of the sperm that fertilizes the egg at the instant of conception.
MUH INTERSEX
NB: This is always what they come back with. The fact that we’re going to build policy and culture around miniscule percentages of people that are literally biological fuckups is so… progressive.
Fuzzy group membership functions don’t mean that the groups don’t exist. Outliers in a clustered point-cloud don’t meant the clusters don’t exist. etc etc.
I’m actually rather happy with the gender=social role; sex=biological feature distinction. Its a good syntax. It also clarifies when people are bullshitting, like here.
I don’t dispute that such categories exist, I just don’t think you build policy backed up by men with guns around corner cases.
I was agreeing with you.
I’m actually rather happy with the gender=social role; sex=biological feature distinction.
The only time the distinction ever seems to be employed is for the purposes of obfuscation and politics, so it’s becoming increasingly useless. It’s a vast oversimplification anyway, given the complex ways that the biological differences between the sexes contribute to differences in behavior, disposition, and social preferences.
^^this
The cynic in me sees the tearing down of truth inherent in all post-modernist/prog movements
I use it all the time as a parent and as a Cub Scout leader. The goal of Cub Scouting was to turn young boys into men, and it is now to turn young girls into women as well. Nearly nothing in our programming about masculinity or femininity has to do with sex (locker rooms and youth protection etc aside). Nearly everything has to do with gender.
Using this kind of formulation fits in with the boots-on-the-ground reality I live with all the time. The fact that some shits on the internet don’t use it right is a very distant secondary concern for me.
“The cynic in me sees the tearing down of truth inherent in all post-modernist/prog movements”
And the one fundamental truth that every child learns at its earliest stage is that there are two sexes.
I use it all the time as a parent and as a Cub Scout leader. The goal of Cub Scouting was to turn young boys into men, and it is now to turn young girls into women as well. Nearly nothing in our programming about masculinity or femininity has to do with sex
You often need to reference your children separately in terms of their gender and their biology?
I guess things were… simpler when I was a kid.
Can’t teach my son to be a man if I don’t know what that means and can’t articulate it. And its not the ability to write my name in the snow. Can’t teach my daughter to be a woman etc etc etc.
That makes more sense in context. I was thinking in the more academic sense.
nearly nothing in our programming about masculinity or femininity has to do with sex (locker rooms and youth protection etc aside). Nearly everything has to do with gender.
I don’t know that I can articulate this without coming off boorish, but I’ll try. Speaking in generalities, of course.
Sex seems to have a bunch more to it than which dangly bits a person has. This is why you can’t just bolt tits on a dude and make a convincing chick. However, it seems in vogue in just about every corner to reduce the sex differences to physical differences only.
Whenever somebody mentions that males and females think and feel differently, shit starts flying. Why? Because when there are biological distinctions between how men and women process a situation (even before we layer on the societal side of the equation), then the line between sex and gender becomes much more blurred.
Women are, on the whole, more community oriented than men, meaning that women are, on the whole, attracted to jobs, behaviors, and social norms that are more communal than solitary.
Some seem to ignore the mental and emotional predispositions associated with sex because they can be deprogrammed and overcome. I don’t know that I buy the implication that a mutable characteristic is somehow less fundamental than an immutable characteristic.
So, this could potentially turn into a very long post, which I don’t have time for, but…
1) I don’t really disagree with what you are saying
2) Let me be a little more clear in an example. One of the goals of BSA scouting’s curriculum is to develop in our scouts the abilities required to be self-reliant in nature. A scout should learn how to care and use woodworking tools, tend fire for cooking and survival, and various bushcraft skills. These are what I call “first order” skills.
The purpose for this, which has been explicit since day one, is that we are molding our scouts to be young adults who have the confidence to be self reliant in nature, to have actual no-shit accomplishments under their belt, to know how to go about skill development, and how to transmit those skills to their inferiors (younger scouts). I call these the “second order” skills.
Why do we target these second order skills an not other second order skills? After all, the ability critically engage ideas by comparative study of the classics is a perfectly cromulant second order skill that BSA doesn’t shoot for. We shoot for these second order skills because these are the second order skills that are comparable with the adult masculine role in our society. Why are these second order skills the ones that are masculine? Like you said, there is a sex-associated biological reason for that (though I prefer the nature loads the gun, environment pulls the trigger model.)
Here’s a list of the major second order skills that I see in the BSA program: Self reliance, metacongnition related to self improvement, critical introspection, navigation of stratified and formalized social hierarchy, development of instrumental social relations (aka how to represent BSA to your church for the purpose of accomplishing a goal, as opposed to non-instrumental relations like hanging out in a social group because its fun), skill transmission to younger people, organizational leadership, and high-risk/high-reward navigation.
These are all a part of the masculine role in society.
I read an article recently that said actual intersex people are starting to get irritated at being grouped with the “I’m totally a woman despite my dick and balls” crew.
Sex is biological, whether or not you think gender is biological. They are simply trying to redefine terms to suit their agenda by counting “gender” as “sex” for purposes of Title IX and other sex discrimination laws.
Marxist word salads help the masters destroy any system of logic that would interfere with the plan.
Researchers who have studied gender issues and provided health care to people who do not fit the typical M/F pigeonholes
IOW, people whose gravy train depends on this nonsense…..
You know what else is medically meaningless? Whether or not you believe you’re one sex or the other.
which it would appear is the equivalent of being an expert in theology
I would dare say that Thomas Aquinas and Augustine of Hippo contributed more to humanity than the cumulative effort of every gender studies expert combined ever will for the rest of history.
Yeah, that’s true. They were ultimately philosophers, beyond theologians, though. Aquinas doesn’t get enough credit nowadays for reintroducing philosophy to the West. We always discuss Descartes, without mentioning who he was responding to.
Well I mean if we’re being truly honest, even pop evangelists like Billy Graham are intellectual titans by comparison.
Yes. I’ll grant you that. Your average clergyman of various faiths are typically very well read. I once heard a Catholic priest give a long talk on the radio once years ago (I was driving through rural Illinois and there were only a few stations) and it blew my mind. He was discussing the different versions of “love” that the Greeks had and then commented on Cicero’s thoughts about love. It was a fascinating narrative.
I think the Orthodox and Catholic communities definitely have a richer intellectual tradition than the evangelical protestants.
It’s because they’re older and less reliant on the literal wording of the Bible. But, I’m sure that evangelical protestant pastors are far better versed on the Bible and the original Greek words that were first used when it was written.
I once heard a protestant pastor discuss the meaning behind “The Word” and its Greek word “logos” a while back and that was equally fascinating.
I think the Orthodox and Catholic communities definitely have a richer intellectual tradition than the evangelical protestants.
Yep, thanks to the second great awakening. Fuck revivalisn.
Don’t gender her, shitlord!
I wonder what the reaction will be when some dude starts to say he’s a woman in order to sit on the board of a company based in California.
That is a very good question.
*readys popcorn for popping*
I’m predicting a sudden need to prove that your gender identification is “real” (in some sense).
If using the ladies room gets me a six-figure sinecure on a board, I could be convinced to give it a go.
#metoo
I think you’re making it too complicated. Dems are violent because, as Suthen says, Commies are the same no matter when or where they are. They’re violent thugs who want to force other people to live a certain way. It really is that simple.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/barton-swaim/the-madness-returns
I remember many years ago seeing an interview with a holocaust survivor where he was discussing the notion of the Nazi superman – “They were no such thing. They were just cheap thugs.”
Matty Yglesias: AKSHUALLY, THE MEDIA HAS A CONSERVATIVE BIAS.
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/23/18004478/hack-gap-explained
Don’t click on that. It’s Matt Yglesias writing at Vox and it still manages to be dumber than you’re imagining it to be.
I liked one of his dad’s books when I was in high school, other than that there is nothing good I can say about Matt.
Sad Beard is truly the bottom of the barrel, even for Vox.
Oh NYT never change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/22/nyregion/george-soros-explosive-device.html
I don’t condone people using bombs (it helps to remember that Dems are not the only violent ones, even if they are most of the time), but I find it hugely ironic that their site initially opens begging for money with “The Truth Matters” on the form then proceeds to fill a column with howlers.
Soros was the target of anti-Semitic smears!
Umm… he was an actual Nazi collaborator.
Roseanne called him a Nazi!
Cuz he was.
They falsely claim he’s behind the “migrant caravan”!
Pueblos Sin Fronteras organized it and they directly received funding from his “charity” (read: revolutionary group).
Not to be one to defend Soros, but he was not a collaborator.
True. I don’t know where that myth came from, but it’s quite an offensive slur.
It came from an interview Soros gave where he told a tale of helping to seize the property of his neighbors for the Nazis.
Really. I never knew about that.
Nonetheless, I think being threatened with death for noncompliance excuses one from the moniker “collaborator”
Of course he said he had no regrets about any of it, and 1944 was the best year of his life.
He was 14. He went from being a hated minority to being the mascot of a powerful man.
It’s fucked up, yes. But it doesn’t make him a Nazi. He didn’t participate in deportations. He didn’t finger people for extermination. He basically played in the property of people who had been deported to the camps.
The fact that he enjoyed it and doesn’t feel guilt implies one of two things:
1) He’s a sociopath.
2) He feels that he had no agency in what happened.
I think the stuff he does now is what we should focus our ire on. Not the stuff he did as a young kid.
You asked where it originated. He told the tale and said he rather enjoyed the task and the power. That could easily lead people to go “Yeah, he didn’t do that because he was threatened”.
Your standards for the definition of “collaborator” may vary.
From a 60 minutes interview in 1998:
“KROFT: (Voiceover) To understand the complexities and contradictions in his personality, you have to go back to the very beginning: to Budapest, where George Soros was born 68 years ago to parents who were wealthy, well-educated and Jewish.
When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros’ father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, confiscating property from the Jews.
[…]
KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.
Mr. SOROS: Yes. That’s right. Yes.
KROFT: I mean, that’s — that sounds like an experience that would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, many years. Was it difficult?
Mr. SOROS: Not — not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child you don’t — you don’t see the connection. But it was — it created no — no problem at all.
KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
Mr. SOROS: No.”
So, correct, not an outright collaborator; and I can’t say that if I were 14 I wouldn’t have done the same thing to save my own skin. What kills me is the “no feeling of guilt” thing. How could you not? That’s sociopathic.
Alright, you guys blew my mind. I’ve been red pilled
I don’t know. Seems like a stretch to me.
I dislike the man and not feeling some guilt is wrong… but…
Not so clear cut, it seems he sort of was.
Thank you!
I’ve given up pointing it out because nobody seems to care.
It’s like the claim that Pope Benedict was a nazi (because he was drafted as a young teenager in Germany to man a position in an anti-aircraft battery crew towards the end of the war).
I suspect that much of the fucked up shit Soros supports is because he believes it will prevent the rise of future Nazis.
My impression of Soros is that he hated the Nazis and so his sympathies lie with the enemy of the Nazis, the commies. That’s just my impression based on not very much actual knowledge. It’s more of a suspicion.
Political violence is wrong. Somehow, though, I expect the Old Grey Disgrace to fixate on this incident, even without suspects, far longer than they did the attempted murder of Rand Paul and his colleagues on a baseball field
I don’t condone people using bombs (it helps to remember that Dems are not the only violent ones, even if they are most of the time),
Assumes facts not in evidence, namely, that the bomb was left by a Repub/right-winger.
In all likelihood someone shipped it to the bill-to.
Yes. How many poop swastikas, assaults, etc turn out to be false flags?
“After Chance the rapper and Kanye West endorse her and dump money into her campaign, a long shot candidate in Chicago moves quickly up in the polls.”
The mayoral race in Chicago will come down to who can out commie the others. Emmanuel was always the “better than the alternative” candidate.
“Literally the first thing I encountered in the vicinity of the Cruz/Trump rally was Alex Jones screaming at a pile of shit”
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1054503815548936192
Why was Alex Jones yelling at her husband?
A pile of shit is much more masculine than her husband
Perusing Weigel in Drag’s twits, it seems that the two main pillars of libertarianism are legal whores and trannies.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’ve nothing against legalizing prostitution, but good lord woman, have some perspective.
Perusing Weigel in Drag’s twits,
On first read, I missed the “w” in “twits”.
Well, ain’t much to peruse there
I don’t know how she thinks this is indicative of anything other than the fact that she and Alex Jones are considered about equally credible for press access.
Alex Jones is no more a conspiracist than herself. That knucklehead wrote an article about how some Thai prostitute held the key to Russia collusion and she willingly accepted the Kavanaugh gang bang story with not an iota of corroborating evidence.
That knucklehead wrote an article about how some Thai prostitute held the key to Russia collusion
Oh, the things I’ve missed by avoiding TOS! That one sounds amusing.
https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/07/russian-model-nastya-on-trump-election
She wrote it in March and it’s ridiculous. She really is not that bright, despite the fact that she is a decent writer in comparison to the other writers
I give Jones more credit. The guy’s a performance artist FFS. He doesnt believe a word of what he says. It’s an act.
ENB, on the other hand….
“The idea that a person’s sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true, and we’ve known that it’s not true for decades,” said Dr. Joshua D. Safer, an endocrinologist and executive director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. He is also president of the United States Professional Association of Transgender Health.”
Objective reality is boring. Use your imagination. I am a rainbow flavored dragon, flying lazily through a confectionery sky.
“The idea that a person’s sex is determined by their anatomy at birth is not true”
Fact Check: False. This is most definitely true and one of the most basic facts of nature.
You obviously don’t fucking love science!
See how the rhetoric moves?
It used to be “Gender” isn’t determined at birth becaus Gender is just a social construct with Gender Roles and the way someone feels. Gender and Sex are different.
Now:
Sex isn’t determined at birth because sex and gender are the same thing.
and they wonder why people say they are arguing slippery slopes. I don’t think it’s invalid when you can show the actual arguments slide down the slope.
Fine, Dr. Safer. So, let’s write up an agreement. Any medical professional who treats you is now free to ignore the fact that you’re a male and you and your estate forfeit any right to sue them for malpractice if they improperly diagnose a condition or provide inappropriate treatment for your sex. You’ll be signing off on that, right Dr.,? Dr.?
You are fucking evil for trying to make him live the consequences of the choices that were made. Remember that with these people, this shit is all about getting your way, regardless of the situation.
Gender is a social construct and an entirely arbitrary distinction because sex isn’t phenotypically determinative… but deciding which arbitrary gender you are is The Most Important Thing About You.
Also: gender is nothing more than a set of terrible offensive stereotypes… but adopting a set of terribly offensive stereotypes you weren’t born into is So Very Brave. But don’t you dare adopt racial stereotypes, because that’s unmitigated evil for some reason.
gender is nothing more than a set of terrible offensive stereotypes
I am so using that.
Gack, tag fail, I am so using that.
You know you want it.
Get your bids in early.
Early bidding is stupid. It drives up the price minimum and reduces your chances of getting a good deal. That’s why most online auctions see little activity until just before they close, whereing people try to get the lowest maximum bid in just before the process ends. The long durations are mainly advertising so potential bidders can see the auction.
Sniping is the only way I eBay anymore.
I only use “Buy it now” options at agreeable pricing.
“Buy it now” is preferable, to be sure, but the numismatic items I buy are almost always via auction.
Most bitz vendors have buy it now, and they tend to be cheaper than finding a whole kit with the handful of plastic pieces I’m looking for.
Ooooooo. Instant financing!
What the F would you do with a ferry?
Have him sing show tunes to you?
Implement an edit button?
Gender-in-sport question: Does the IOC still do DNA tests on “female” athletes?
It looks like the Varidesks that were ordered for us are too big for our (literal) study carrel cubicles.
Government. Measure never, order dozens.
So the option is to get the Varidesk installed and never be able to raise it, or get the Varidesk installed and never be able to lower it.
I’m LOLing.
^^ That gif is awesome.
Sheesh. I mean I can stick my arms out and have both hands outside opposite sides of my cube, but at least it’s bigger than that.
“After the Salem Witch Trials, a Boston merchant called Robert Calef published a pamphlet denouncing the trials & the superstitious attitudes that drove them. The President of Harvard at the time–Increase Mather–burned his book in the campus yard.”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1054560630575788032
“Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony has been spray painted across Yale’s campus.”
https://twitter.com/sahluwal/status/1054517144702992384
I’m betting they omitted “Where did it happen? I don’t know” “When did it happen? I don’t know” “How did you get home? I don’t know”
As long as they got “indelible in the hippocampus”
Right next to “insane in the membrane”.
I would love to go to Yale’s campus and spray paint “Emmet Till was a victim of BelieveAllWomen.”
Bingo.
Did they do it in squiggly letters to indicate the vocal fry?
Researchers Who Said Raising Minimum Wage Was Bad For Workers Now Say It’s Good, Actually
The researchers learned that low-wage employees who worked the most in the nine months leading up to the wage increase saw the biggest benefits. The Times writes that those workers “saw a significant increase in their wages and only a small percentage decrease in their hours, leading to a healthy bump in overall pay—an average of $84 a month for the nine months that followed the 2016 minimum-wage increase.” Workers who worked less in those preceding months were relatively unaffected by the minimum wage increase, making about $4 more a month on average. Finally, workers who were considered possible “new entrants” into the workforce fared worse.
Derp.
Crumbs!
Smaller scraps than the tax cut gave them, probably.
I’ll at least give them credit for looking at cohorts rather than just the overall rate. Also,
The bigger problem is what happens when Seattle isn’t a booming tech hub anymore, which is a certainty over a long enough timeframe. Nobody* in the 1950s thought Detroit would end up where it was twenty or thirty years later, never mind today.
* = Actually, some people did see the signs, as early as the 1930s and 1940s, but they were ignored.
Then it will be utopia because everyone will be equally poor. Wage gains are peachy at the low end but the worst thing evar at the top end because GENTRIFICATION!
Im in a 1920s warehouse full of 40,000 gallons of flammable paint and paint thinner. There are questionable electrical upgrades, inadequate sprinklers, and the employees are smoking in the warehouse.
Hoping I don’t make the news tonight.
Good Luck..
Marco from Tropuja
On the plus side, 1920s wood framing and brick construction is a lot more interesting than the steel beams and sheet metal warehouse of today.
The thinner is probably not flammable; most of it is blended for a flash-point of 142F = highly, highly combustible.
Containment and separation are what get people in big trouble. If the thinner is in plastic (a very regrettable change from the steel F-style cans of seventies), the risk is that any fire in the space can heat the plastic and cause those jugs to fail; fuel would be added to a small fire much more quickly than any response could be designed to handle.
Odds are that the sprinkler is standard sprinklers (k=5.6 instead of k=8.0) spraying pure water. When the system goes off, it’s not going to stop the fire, it’s going to export it. Combustible liquids like thinner are invariably lighter than water, so the flaming fuel will ride the top of the sprinkler water downhill into the next room, quickly involving more space more quickly than the sprinklers were designed for. Total building loss would be a common outcome. 3% AFF foam is the proper suppressant; I’ve recovered the cost of such installations in a few years of lowered insurance rates.
Everything is in steel cans. Thankfully. Although it got here via the lowest cost LTL carrier that serves NYC.
It’s not my company’s warehouse, just my paint. Actually, total loss would be great. I hate dealing with these people.
Interesting story on the banana variety we are all used to (Cavendish) and it’s possibly imminent demise:
The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it’s too late
The link title could just as easily be a statement regarding my pantry at any given point in time. I think we buy bananas mostly to let them spend their final days in a nice, quiet, dark place, possibly to become banana pudding.
This made me laugh. We have such a place in our house.
We also refer to the drawers in the bottom of the refrigerator as ‘the rotter’.
BREAKING: Matthew Yglesias Is An Asshole
““If you want change, you should vote instead of yelling at politicians in restaurants” would be a more compelling in a system where getting more votes than the other guy guaranteed electoral victory.”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1053768133926965249
All they have to do is not be crazy and god damn it they just can’t. Progressives cannot bring themselves to act like adults. This is what happens when the base of your political party is entitled and unmarried white people
His argument would be more compelling if senate and congressional elections that take place at the state and local level worked the same way as the national system we use to elect the president, who is not on the ballot this year.
Hey hey hey, enough of you and your “facts”
I think Democrats still take the House of Representatives, but their majority is going to be razor thin, probably only a couple of seats. And then the shit will really hit the fan. If Democrats are repudiated again in the midterms (which it appears that they will actually lose seats in the Senate) we’re going to look back on their behavior now as an era of civility.
Their ideology is dying out throughout the West. And so naturally, entitled people who have been taught that “history is on their side” (Hegelian nonsense) and that they, the college educated, are owed power will naturally turn to violence when reality won’t conform with their theology.
Historically, in-person early voting tended to be weighted towards Dems. This year, the in-person early voting is more heavily republican. Either this is a sign of a behavioral change in when people vote, or a bad sign for team blue. I’m not even convinced their illegal court-forced districts in Penn and NJ will buy them the seats they want.
Historically, in-person early voting tended to be weighted towards Dems.
I’m looking around and can’t prove that. I suspect early voters have been older generally, so it’s mainstream voters regionally, so Republican in Alabama by Democrat in New York ?
No, it’s a statistical average across the country. This year the early voters have been redder than previous years in overall composition.
Plus New York doesn’t do early voting.
I live in one of those gerrymandered districts. For 20 years I had a Republican Rep (first a moderate one, then Scott Garrett primaried her out from the right). Two years ago our district changed and now I’m represented by a Bergen County liberal. I have no idea what to think of that election.
I am guessing the Democrats lose big in the Senate races, fail to take the House, and go completely fucking nuts.
If that last sentence bears out, there will be rioting in the streets and violence. To what degree I’m not sure. “This is what democracy looks like” is a great chant for people who can’t handle their side losing a legitimate election.
I am leaning toward Drake on this one. I think there is a good chance the D’s get their asses handed to them next month.
Their ideology is dying out throughout the West.
I think that’s a vast overstatement. They overplayed their hand because they overestimated their influence, but their mistake was one merely of timing. They’ve pissed off a dying constituency that still votes. In another 20 years they’ll get what they want, when enough of the boomers start aging out.
Except the percentage of the youth vote that actually goes for their bullshit is lower than in previous generations. If we have some more good economic years and the basement dwellers emerge into the real world, the left will shrink even further.
I hope you’re right, but the youth vote is still pretty overwhelmingly Democratic, and issue polls are not encouraging (they love the word ‘socialism’ and a lot of what it stands for; they think the government should be doing more to alleviate poverty, to address climate change, etc). And the youth vote is not the entirety of it either. The fastest growing demographic groups (Hispanic and Asian) are overwhelmingly Democratic and poll to the left of the youth on issues. Of course those trends may not hold indefinitely, but that isn’t a given.
My general observation is that relatively stable and wealthy societies trend toward leftist collectivism over time. Liberty only increases across society as a whole when an existing, entrenched order is swept aside in some more or less traumatic/catastrophic event, although liberty can increase in isolated issues in a stable society.
The smart play is to try to insulate your life as much as possible from the inevitably increasing grasp of the state. Rolling back gun control at the margins and decriminalization of pot are relatively small potatoes when you look at the ever-increasing scope and power of the state at all levels.
I know there is disagreement around here about whether we are more free or less free than a generation or three ago. I invite anyone who thinks we are more free to go to a law library, and ask for the current federal, state, and local statute books and regulations now, and from 30, 40, or 50 years ago. The increase in the bulk of the rules by 4, 5, or 10 times doesn’t make you more free.
The media has gotten to steal a base on Venezuela. I think the Republicans should focus more on calling attention to the actual reasons why it’s so bad. Point out constantly that is what “real” socialism looks like, that it wasn’t “sabotaged” by capitalists, and that Denmark, Sweden, etc. are not socialist (like that). Force them to own the reasons why Denmark “works” and Venezuela doesn’t.
Force them to own the reasons why Denmark “works” and Venezuela doesn’t.
I suspect it mostly boils down to Denmark is full of Danes, and Venezuela is full of Venezuelans. Which may sound racist, but is really shorthand for the superiority of Northern European culture, even in its current form, over Latin American culture.
It is hard to isolate cultural factors because frankly culture is so nebulous. Denmark’s culture today is not the same as it was two generations ago, never mind what it was at the peak of Europe’s dominance. The French Revolution was as bloody and destructive as anything that’s happened in Venezuela, yet France is a stable modern country with a much higher standard of living than Venezuela before Chavez, never mind Venezuela today.
In case so start as this, it is more instructive to look at what was done than at what people believe, and culture is an extended form of belief. If Venezuela had implemented the same policies and carried them out the same way as Denmark, things would look different today. Ditto for the reverse. Culture plays a role in how the policies are carried out (e.g., while rampant corruption may be the end result either way, you’ll get there at lot faster when you start out corrupt), but it wasn’t culture that nationalized every industry in Venezuela.
In cases so stark as this*
It is hard to isolate cultural factors because frankly culture is so nebulous.
Very true. I dislike the term for that very reason, but its a useful catchall (I think). I like “culture is an extended form of belief”, but might refine it a little to “culture is a set of shared beliefs that are acted upon”.
If Venezuela had implemented the same policies and carried them out the same way as Denmark, things would look different today.
Seems tautological. The question is, why each society did things differently.
No, but Venezuelan “culture” is shorthand for the set of shared beliefs that led Venezuelans to put the people in power who nationalized every industry, and supported them while they did it. Nationalization and hard socialism were, and may still be, pretty popular in Venezuela.
It is hard to isolate cultural factors because frankly culture is so nebulous.
This is true. But, there’s also a feedback loop. Sure, policy is the result of culture. But, culture also flows from policy. In the 1800s, the Chinese were widely seen as indolent and unenterprising. Yet, when they were put into places where policies encouraged industriousness and hard work, they wound up producing remarkable work ethics and notable “strivers”. In contrast, the Scots were once considered the epitome of industriousness and thrift. Add socialism, and they wind up Trainspotting.
“I suspect it mostly boils down to Denmark is full of Danes, and Venezuela is full of Venezuelans.”
Uh. Yep.
Team blue is about absolute power. They got impatient and decided they didn’t want to wait that long to get their grip on all power. Especially if in the interim others could put blockers like a non-liberal majority in the SCOTUS that could last for a generation. The reason they advocate illegal immigration – for now I point out – is that they believe this too will help them at the ballots (most illegals are here now for free shit). I expect many of these millennials, forced to deal with how shit works in the real world and realizing they were had by the marxist bullshit, will age out of collectivism sooner than later too.
“…realizing they were had by the marxist bullshit…”
Check out the optimist over here.
It’s hard to say what things will look like in 10, 20 years. If the past 30 are any guide, then the Democrats will retake the government at some point. However, that’s more because of oscillation than demographics. The Democratic assumption that opinions held today by race, sex, and age cohort are immutable while the demographic makeup along those lines will change in their favor may end up being more wishful thinking than accurate prediction.
No one would ever #walkaway !
/DNC
Part of that occilation will involve shedding the deranged and decrepit elements that are driving their own traditional bases away. While in the short-term these elements have a death grip on the party aparatus, that can, and will have to, change.
Then again, even in our system, parties have died before. We may see the rise of an alternate second party in the near future as the Dems implode.
Maybe. It’s possible the Democrats and Republicans are undergoing yet another shift. The Democrats as the party of welfare recipients, unskilled workers, government employees, and big-company executives vs. the Republicans as the party of skilled workers and small-to-medium business owners and executives could settle and be stable for a while.
That’s where they used to be, but the Dems kicked the unskilled laborers under the bus.
That’s not where they used to be. Skilled (blue-collar) workers were Democrat voters. I should have thrown white-collar workers in there on the Republican side to illustrate the difference. Also, big-company executives used to be Republican while smaller businesses weren’t so thoroughly Republican (back when the Democrats were more business friendly).
models indicate
Red Senate by 1
Blue House by 30
Whose models based on what data, because that strikes me as… off.
I decided to just assert stuff and see if I got more popular.
The fashionable reply is “polls are garbage, see Trump 2016” and that’s very hard to argue with. It’s interesting to watch models improve: who will actually vote, how do you find and interview voters; life is changing and it’s very hard to guess which factors and therefore which coefficients and exponents should change. Who’s models do you follow?
I’m not actually taking sides, just reporting the best understanding I have, but if I had said Red Senate by 5 and Red House by 10, no one would have challenged me. Glibs are always laughing at the echo chamber that progs live in, but there’s more than a little incestuous amplification amongst us as well.
I honestly wanted to know, because, snark aside, the methodologies matter.
I keep seeing “Models assert blue house” but find questionable data behind it (if the data is even released).
I am also not arguing that there is not an echo chamber here – I specifically leave certain opinions unvoiced because I know them to be unpopular with this crowd. The only distinction is that I think a lot of the other chambers don’t see any ‘leakage’ from the groupthink elsewhere to evaluate it.
if I had said Red Senate by 5 and Red House by 10, no one would have challenged me.
Actually, I think would have, because while I think a four-seat pickup in the Senate is kind of optimistic, even given the terrible math for the Dems, I think the House is basically a toss-up now, and don’t expect either side to have a double-digit majority there.
there’s more than a little incestuous amplification amongst us as well.
I wouldn’t disagree with that.
See, we have an echo in here!
I find it hard to believe that the math in the Senate will work that well for the Dems. They have 25 seats (including the nominal independents) to defend, and the Repubs only have 8. Not jumping out at me, but I believe that the Dems have more seats to defend in states won by Trump, than the Repubs have in states won by Hillary.
Now, every race is local, etc., but I think it would take a serious Blue Wave for the balance of power in the Senate to not change at all.
I think they’re using the model that had 99% chance Hillary in 2016.
It does you dipshit. Trump got more Electoral votes, Nay the MAJORITY of electoral votes, you know the ones that matter because that’s the system that every F****** presidential election has been run under. It’s not like it was an unknown quantity.
“Hidden genius”
Yeah, it’s very hidden.
What a perfect set-up. What a maroon.
It appears the DNC platform in 2018 is “Burn It Down”
They no longer even bother to hide the fact that unless they hold power they are willing to resort to destroying the nation and fucking over the masses to either get it back or prevent anyone else from wielding it…
They hate us. They really hate us.
“I’m pissed because under one of several alternative voting systems my candidate would have won!!”
There’s really one main lesson from 2016: the majority of voters didn’t want Trump, and the majority of voters didn’t want Hillary.
This is what both main parties should learn, but won’t.
Well, if you look at the comments on his Twitter feed (and you shouldn’t), you’ll learn that a vote for a third party is a vote against democracy.
Nothing suspicious in death of Zheng Xiaosong, China’s top official in Macau, police say.
https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/2169726/nothing-suspicious-death-zheng-xiaosong-chinas-top-official
Well, now we know where the Saudi hit squad went after they left Turkey.
Top shelf journalism; dispassionate, even-handed analysis.
After years of bitter fights over oil and gas development, Colorado voters have managed to get a statewide anti-fracking measure on the November ballot.
The “Colorado voters” who matter, anyway. Those poor downtrodden Colorado voters who are ground into paste beneath the heel of corporate plunderers have finally found a voice and struck a blow for peace and freedom and putting an end to natural resource extraction.
I fucking despise the term “activists” but “Colorado voters” should be replaced by “anti fracking activists”. I liked living in Colorado, but I would never even consider moving back there, now.
Meanwhile, here in Montana, there is an “initiative” on the ballot which will effectively put an end to mining if it passes. They have been running the shit out of an ad which features a woman with an Oscar-worthy sad disappointed mommy voice, talking about the “thousands of miles of poisoned rivers and streams in Montana”. It’s an egregious lie, and I suspect not two out of ten people who hear it bother to ask, “Is that really true?”
The only poisoned river in recent memory was caused by the EPA when they turned one Orange.
Gee, who was president then?
I’m sure he planted an additional eco-crucifix for his sins against Gaia.
MT has one remarkably poisoned lake, one of the attractions of Butte.
So you’re saying your Butte spoiled the lake?
Well, I guess the “Colorado voters” bit is technically correct, because the activists needed to collect 100k signatures from registered voters to get the measure on the ballot. Of course the proponents are hitting the news hard about all of the dirty, untracked money that greedy oil and gas companies are pushing into opposition ads.
Man, Obama really packed the house for his little rally in Vegas!
Is that a middle school gymnasium?
Heh, not quite, it’s Cox Pavilion, home of the UNLV’s womens basketball and volleyball teams.
So, smaller than a middle school gym.
I love the way they fill up the bleachers behind him first, for the cameras. That’s why he is standing in front of the podium looking toward what should be the back of the stage for this shot – that’s where most of the people are.
Personally, I am shocked that any ex-President couldn’t get a better crowd than that. Of course, most ex-Presidents don’t go campaigning after they leave office, because they aren’t quite complete pieces of shit.
My kids’ elementary school will get a better turnout for their annual Veterans Day program in a few weeks.
So many better things to do in Vegas…
He hasn’t really campaigned much.
Only reason he’s come out now towards the end is because of the incessant whining of Democratic media that he hasn’t done enough to help Democrats. They grossly overestimate his popularity of course.
“Not campaigned much” is still more than any previous President has campaigned. I don’t even recall Clinton campaigning for anyone after he left office.
If Obama keeps himself in the news, I’m thinking it won’t improve the Dems midterm chances.
I early-voted today since I will be out of town. In my blue county there are lots of un-opposed Dems but my state district rep is an unopposed GOPer.
No, I didn’t cast a vote for the libertarian running for governor, nor for the next highest office. I did vote Lib for Secretary of State. Greens ran in the water reclamation district, I actually felt less conflicted voting for one or two of them than Dems – the greens are complete morons but they are so naiive they don’t know how to do patronage (yet).
Otherwise, my voting went along ethnic lines: anyone who’s name sounded like “Madigan” was a “no”.
I don’t see a single Libertarian Party candidate (not to be confused with a libertarian) on my ballot this year, for the first time that I can recall. A crapload of propositions to wade through, though.
This is the first mid-term I’ve voted in a long time. As ever, I am voting against, not for, and this time I’m voting against a Democrat Party that is evolving into hardcore collectivists with a militant/violent wing that isn’t even plausibly deniable.
Just vote “No” on all of them. You can be sure there’s nothing good in there.
There’s a couple good ones. One prohibits taxing services, and one prohibits campaigns that take tax money from transferring money to political parties or other political operations. I’m still trying to figure out the one on retirement benefits.
Oh, lucky you. Our are always grabs for more power and/or money.
The one on retirement benefits caps the growth of the benefits for some pubsecs, so its a winner.
But more seriously, that’s gotta sting the ego when the vulgarian undoing his legacy packs full stadia to overflow capacity, and he can’t even get more than a few lines of the press operatives in such a small venue.
^this.
I bought a nice hunk of meat to roast. The wife asks if we’re going to have stew with it. .. I say I was going to make potatoes, but it would go nice with stew, as long as three were potatoes. So she uses the meat in the stew. So. Much. Hate.
Your wife cooks? Lucky.
Yeah, I didn’t make a big deal out of it, especially as she is trying to learn more western cooking at my behest, but I am still sad that I am not having a roast now.
Also, your wife doesn’t cook? What do you eat?
Everyone who likes to eat should know how to cook.
Especially when you are unmarried.
I do most of the cooking. She does most of the other housework.
Fair trade, especially if that includes dishes. I don’t make Yorkshire pudding nearly as often because I have to clean it up later.
Someone here linked to Quilette a few months back and I have been enjoying some great articles there. This one here may not be new ground to most here, but I like the way the author frames it.
On socialism: “Believing that private property inevitably leads to conflict, Marxism seeks to improve the future by correcting this perceived mistake. That is, it jettisons the idea of enclosure and reaffirms the commons. Socialists fail to understand the causal relationship between the enclosure of the commons, the protection of private property, and the near miraculous increase in the fecundity of the environment that has raised the material standard of living for human beings so dramatically. So they seek to pull up stakes and tear down fences in the belief that the productivity found in a state of natural and voluntary social interaction can be equaled, if not surpassed, in the commons—provided we all work together according to the right plan.”
And it even comes out of ??.
Oops, forgot the link
https://quillette.com/2018/10/06/dont-get-fooled-again-the-continuing-necessity-of-anti-communism/
Its a daily read for me.
Believing that private property inevitably leads to conflict,
As ever, ass backwards. (Perceived) resource shortages lead to conflict over who will control the resources. Private property resolves that issue with relatively minimal conflict.
There’s a reason it’s called the tragedy of the commons.
Kindergartner parties alone after no one shows up to birthday bash
Maybe I’m too cynical, but something isn’t right with this. I think it might be fake.
No, you’re not too cynical. Yes, some people are inconsiderate and refuse to RSVP. That said, I simply don’t believe that zero of 32 kids showed up. We’ve have disappointing turnout at birthday parties a time or two, but there will always be kids who want to go simply for cake and pizza, even if they aren’t really friends with the kid.
I’m waiting for the retraction where it turns out the mother put the wrong date on the invitations.
I actually thought that might be a possibility. It’s just strains credulity that none of 32 invitees came.
Another possibility, she never actually sent them out and they turn up in a drawer somewhere.
A third, they listed the wrong location.
Smells like bs to me
I wonder what else might have been going on at the same time.
Maybe the kid’s mom is a real bitch
It’s bullshit.
The parents would have known if they weren’t retarded.
My middle kid’s birthday is the last week of June. We don’t have a birthday party because we know everyone will be out of town. He gets to pick a destination instead. Last time, it was Vegas.
We always move my daughter’s party ahead a week or so because her birthday is almost always around Memorial Day weekend.
It’s never too early for blackjack and hookers.
Close. Blue Man Group and Gameworks.
Teddy has no friends meanwhile 13 kids showed up to Christy’s birthday party. It’s past time we made fairness and equality our national focus… Teddy deserves just as many friends as Christy, and republicans want to take that away from him.
Um, that already happens in a lot of schools.
Literally you are not allowed to hand out ANY invites to classmates unless you invite the entire class
Did she bother to have them R.S.V.P?
Kid gets leftover pizza for days and doesn’t have to put up with loads of obnoxious classmates. What’s the problem?
(Perceived) resource shortages lead to conflict over who will control the resources. Private property resolves that issue with relatively minimal conflict.
MNG haz a sad, in his lifeboat.
If an elite few own it all – in the name of the people of course – then the chances it goes bad go waaaay down… Right?
Cognitive dissonance. How does that work again?
https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1054527758070677504
Socon, but still adorable and funny.
That was funny.
Why do people continually make things too long that aren’t narrative stories?
3:49? That video should be 1:45 tops.
MT has one remarkably poisoned lake, one of the attractions of Butte.
True, but that is not exactly a recent development.
Was this been discussed here yet?
“Trump says that he might nominate Hillary Clinton to the Supreme Court, just so the media will investigate her deleted emails”
That was almost funny if reality wasn’t this fucked up.
Things not looking good for Brother Keith.
Nothing to worry about.
*begins stuffing ballots into the back of the ’03 Impala for a poll worker to “find”*