Good morning and welcome to another week. This one will hopefully be relaxing…for a few of you. It certainly won’t be for me.. But that’s fine. It also won’t be for Patriots fans after getting thumped by Tennessee yesterday. That was a surprising one. The other NFL winners were: Buffalo (who crushed the Jets), Kansas City, Chicago (although they may want a new kicker), New Orleans (who may have scored again while these links were being written), Cleveland, Indianapolis, Washington (who are gonna win the NFC East now), San Diego (or whatever they’re going by), Green Bay (they may sneak in yet), the LA Rams (adios Seattle bandwagon fans from the last 6 or so years) and the Dallas Cowboys pushed the defending champion Eagles to the brink of disaster.
Winners from the top European games of the weekend were: Liverpool, Man City, Juventus, PSG, Naples, and Dortmund. IF you support somebody else, they either lost or tied. Unless you’re a Spurs fan. But then again, they’re not a top club. College football went according to script this weekend. The SEC prepares for its fall break from decent opponents while the rest of the college football world continues to play decent opposition. And that’s about it for sports.
Those born on this day share it with: suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, sculptor Auguste Rodin, argon discoverer John William Strutt, bluesman Bukka White, American toy inventor Jack Ryan, the lovely Grace Kelly, crazy fuck Charles Manson, sportscaster/blowhard Al Michaels, Canadian singer Neil Young, rocker Donald Roeser, feminist Naomi Wolf, pharmacology fan and baseball player Sammy Sosa, Canadian “dreamboat” Ryan Gosling, retarded hottie Anne Hathaway, and Aussie golfer Jason Day.
Its also the day the following occurred: Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union, the first photo of the Loch Ness monster was taken, the SF Bay Bridge was opened, “Song Of The South” hit the silver screen, Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes, Ellis Island closed, Ferdinand Marcos was elected president of the Philippines, Buzz Aldrin too the first selfie in space, and ISIS suicide bombers killed 43 people in Lebanon.
That’s it, here come…the links!
Tax man gonna get his money! I mean, shit, you didn’t expect the hotel lobby to get nothing in return for all those campaign donations, did you?
The wildfires continue to rage through both northern and Southern California. They really need to start considering forest management that involves removing or culling the decades of fuel buildup so as to minimize this kind of thing. Or they can just blame Trump.
The shitshow in Florida continues apace. And in Georgia, and in Arizona, and in California….etc, etc, etc. We need all paper ballots and we need a better system for counting absentee votes. Because this election in a few counties lacks any form of integrity or transparency.
When you’re a remora, you don’t bitch when your shark shakes you off. You thank it for the ride. But when you’re the corporate equivalent, you just take your host to court, apparently. My take: fuck you, hipsters. Go ruin something else that already sucks.
A Chicagoland machine politician is leading the charge to compete with Nancy Pelosi for Speaker Of The House. Frying pan…fire…wash, rinse, repeat.
President Trump plans to cut disaster relief to Puerto Rico rather than continue to give free shit away to the idiot complaining that she can’t get water while standing in front of pallet after pallet of bottled water. I, for one, welcome Puerto Rican independence.
Damn, Beto sure is out campaigning early for 2020. Oh, nevermind. Turns out it was somebody else.
Sorry, Canada. Young is too much of a dickhead to get airtime from me. Instead you’re gonna get this. And of course you’re gonna get this. And if this surprises you, you’ve been under a rock.
Have a great day, friends. Especially those of you (like me) who will be working like a dog. And especially especially those of you who took time out of your lives to protect out nation by serving in the armed forces. God bless you most of all.
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386 responses to “Monday Morning Links”
There sure are a lot of votes being “discovered” in Broward County.
Comrade Stalin would be proud.
I have to ask if anyone doesn’t by now immediately assume criminal intent since whenever these extra ballots are “discovered” they always end up shifting the count in the direction of the one and same party. It reeks of the same bullshit “data normalization” the AGW cultists apply which ALWAYS ends up in the raw data shifting in such a way that the temp numbers show an increase, except in this case the ballots are just “found suddenly” in some location no ballots should be..
I assumed the minute that several races just froze in time and continued to stay that way, into the next day, into the next week, that tricky goings on were going on. So we have:
The Senate and Gov race in FL
The Senate race in AZ
The Gov race in GA
and most people apparently don’t notice this one, but
The special Senate election in MS
In all of those races, Democrat votes are being found right and left, but not a single GOP lost ballot can be found. Expect the D totals to just keep rising until victory is declared in all those races. I wonder how long before thousands of lost Beto votes turn up out of nowhere?
I cannot recall even one time in my life that I claimed voter fraud. Except for illegals voting, which we all know is happening. I mean in a case like this where ballots are being found everywhere, in school rooms, in trucks parked beside the road, in Hillary’s closet. Seriously, WTF is going on?
MS wrote up a piece about AZ last night. (hit the back button) It doesn’t look like there is fraud there, and just Maricopa counting mail ins after every other county quite, which has been rectified. They also knew how many votes where cast which is not something Broward county can do. It looks sleazy down there.
They are resisting…
I just found a nice box, apparently it was full of R votes this time though. I had it in my closet since last week or so, but I think it should be safe for me to send back to my old home state. These things happen, ya know?
“There’s no proof of fraud!!11!!”
– Every fucking media talking head
If a tree falls in the forest but the dnc operatives with bylines vehemently deny it happened, did the tree fall?
Who are you gonna believe? The DNC operatives with bylines or your own lying eyes?
(I hate beer snobbery.) A couple years ago Pabst got moved into somebody’s trust fund. The person who’s trust fund it is is a complete asshole. The contract is running out – and there’s plenty of large-enough contract brewers that would be happy to take the work. But the trust funder is just a whiny little bitch that doesn’t want to pay the going rate. Constellation Brands would probably jump at the chance to buy the company. But the company can’t survive if owned by a moron.
The Pabst brands also owe a lot to Not Your Father’s root beer.
Pabst has the greatest history of brand ownership ever. Literally ever important player in the beer industry of the 70s and 80s (other than BMC) owned or were owned by Pabst at one time. That they survived as a brand is amazing.
They survived because neck beard hipsters working on a Starbucks paycheck drink them “ironically”.
They don’t drink it to be ironic. They drink it because it’s cheap—and trendy among their peers. No one’s going to consistently imbibe something they actually hate.
Heineken? Fuck that Shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4
“I’LL FUCK ANYTHING THAT MOVES!”
-Winston’s mom
“BULLSHIT! IT DOESN’T NEED TO BE MOVING!!”
-Winston’s mom
Gotta love a lady willing to do all the work….
For Q Continuum:
Staring at boobs is just one of six easy ways men can live longer
So Q is immortal?
You know it.
Also wandering?
(Yawn)
Good morning, peeps. I’m at the San Diego airport, getting ready to board for Salt Lake City at around 5:40.
High temp will be 34 where I’m working outdoors this week.
Thank goodness I finally got that promotion so I don’t have to do the grunt work anymore…oh,wait.
34? Stay out of the sun and drink lots of water
^^Stay hydrated, yo.
34 Fahrenheit, wise ass.
But sunscreen and hydration are still required. The salt flats are quite good sun reflectors.
Bonneville is a magical place. I’m jealous that you’re going, even though the races are all over for the year (I think?)
What she’ll be doing will be a hell of a lot cooler than any silly races.
Good morning, Sloop!
Those fire pics are insane. I hope all our CA peeps and their families are ok.
I have to admit that this caption made me laugh a little, though:
telegraph poles still exist? Were any pony express stations damaged as well?
The caption writer has been playing a little bit too much Red Dead Redemption 2, I think.
It’s fairly mind-boggling that however well-known the electoral corruption in Democratic strongholds is, the media for the most part ignores it or actively denies it exists.
My wife grew up down the street from an electoral commissioner in Philadelphia. That woman was a god among mortals in Philly. Nobody fucked with her, ever. And if there was an incident on her street, the cops always showed up en masse. All because she delivered the goods to the party in every election. It’s no coincidence that several of the districts go 100% blue.
It’s no coincidence that several of the districts go 100% blue.
Hell, in some places it’s 110%.
It just shows enthusiasm on the part of the vote counters….
Stalin knew what he was talking about, yo.
The mind-boggling part is that the Republican legislature and governor didn’t fix this shit a decade ago. They let it keep happening because they don’t have the guts to fix it.
There is nothing they can “fix” these criminals are elected, and the governor can’t touch them. From what I hear Scott forced the FLA legislators to pass laws that now allows the law to go in and actually look for the criminal activity, so this time the perp might finally be caught and charged, but the problem is with the system that allows unaccountably in the first place.
Are those elections in the state constitution or from legislation? They could impeach her, prosecute her, or at least strengthen the rules, enforcement, and penalties.
It sounds like these new laws will allow them to take action – criminal action – against her, but considering the propensity for democrats to keep voting for criminals, even when in jail, she might still win another election for the job from behind bars…
Let’s see her find ballots while in prison.
You joke, but I would not be surprised they find them in the cell next door.
Mammary Monday motorboats in to start your week off right.
http://archive.is/OjFL7
1 and done.
You do not believe girls can go directly from highschool to thechive?
22. Same backwards as forwards. Also lucky 13.
3, 19, 49. Truly the land of milk and honey right here, Q.
5 and 12.
So far, zero overlap. We’d make great wingmen – no competing for same woman.
Swapping t-bone for tofu – but does it add up?
Fuck. That.
For the sake of argument, let’s grant this as true and switch over.
What do we do with the existing 1 billion or so cows?
::shrug::
Send them home to India to be with their families?
Who are you, Abraham Lincoln?
I can save 10% of my food budget by going vegan?
Yeah, I’ll pass. I enjoy eating too much.
My friend stopped being vegan. He couldn’t hack it. It was too much. Lol.
How did he do when he lost the ability to virtue signal his moral superiority?
Lol. He’s not that kind of cat.
He gave it a shot is all.
I date a girl that tried hard to make me go that way. Needless to say she gave it up when I questioned if “no meat” meant she was not gonna get eaten…
I was vegan for 10 years – that’s the truth.
And I wonder how much processing all the fake TVP / Soy products cost; ie turning soy into something more “appetizing” that looks (and kinda sorta tastes) better than tofu.
Enough of the tofu bashing. It tastes delicious when served in miso soup or even cold and topped with soy sauce and Negi (leeks). Vegans took a legit food and ruined it by trying to make it a substitute for other foods. *Finishes annin dofu desert*
Cold with soy sauce, sriracha, and nutritional yeast is awesome
That’d make a fine snack with beer.
Someone else here posited something that I agree with. Forget who.
Tofu as tofu is just fine. Tofu masquerading as other foods is where the problem lies.
Tempeh is better, anyway.
Deep fried tofu is good, too. Just don’t put ketchup on it. Yes, I’ve seen it done and threw up a bit. Tempura is originally Dutch. Weird.
Oops. Thought Tundra had an auto correct mistake. Indonesian? Never tried it.
Yup. But it’s pretty widely available.
Wait, negi are leeks? I was taught that negi were green onions/scallions. Or do the Japanese not distinguish between various allium greens?
You don’t like tofu. You like Miso Soup, soy sauce, leeks, etc.
I gotta say, I was making a big batch of Chile Verde for a D&D game night last year and one of the players was vegetarian so I made 2 batches, one with the chicken and pork I usually put in it and the other with Tofu and Mushrooms to take their place and I will be damned but the vegetarian version somehow tasted better.
Fuck tofu.
I will have my hamburger, thank you very much.
Economist Janina Grabs, who has studied Swedish consumers’ spending habits in detail, found switching to a vegetarian diet meant savings of about 10% on food and drink costs.
Swedish cooking show.
If tofu identifies as meat, who are we to say it is bean curd?
You are too woke for me brah.
Soy gives me hives. So please pass a plate of cow or pork.
I think I may have found the problem…
When your virtue signaling is more important than whether or not poor Africans starve to death, you’re an evil motherfucker.
I always like to remind idiots that botulinum and ptomaine are natural/organic too.
There is nothing more unnatural than making beef out of been curd.
Nobody needs more than protein to choose from.
Seriously, these articles are asinine. Who cares if meat costs more? I want meat. No… these assholes want to take my meat out of my hands.
Ugh edit fail – “more than one protein”.
I could slash my food budget by eating ramen for every meal. I am not going to.
Why do you hate Gaia?
The solution to the electoral system is to extend live voting over 5 days with cameras recording all people entering and exiting the polling places to ensure counts are correct, abolish same day registration, require valid ID (that volunteers from two parties look at) and to have absentee voting for only those who provide documentation that they will be unavailable the entire 5 days. And those purple fingers the Iraqis had wouldn’t hurt either.
Who could complain about this? Except for people trying to steal elections, that is.
How about am estonian system where all people vote online?
Too much opportunity for corruption. A paper ballot that can be reconciled by auditing the video for each polling place.
Oh yeah, and whoever heads the polling place goes to jail if their count is challenged and results in anything greater than a 1% discrepancy after a video audit.
Blockchain tech could potentially be useful for secure and auditable voting.
I was thinking about that earlier. Not necessary. Something more like public/private key encryption where you can verify your vote is counted correctly without revealing the vote would work.
I think it would be tricky, but doable.
RACIST!!!11!!!!11!!!
How about a constitution that limits the extent of govt power so much that it is basically a waste of time trying to rig an election? Can we have a vote on that?
I’d like to ratify that constitution.
The American Empire has had a couple hundred years to figure out this voting thing. If you can’t figure out voting in 200 + years,ago you ate an idiot. This Empire is just too stupid and needs to die
Yeh, I don’t get any of this.
Here, once the election is done it’s done. Count ’em, call ’em, go home. Buh-bye.
The only scandal I saw in my liftetime was with the Parti Quebecois during the Referendum in 1995 when they were playing dirty like the rats they are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995
While it has some bad side effects, how about a system where your precinct all shows up at time X, and you stand in the corner of the gym representing your vote and get counted.
Sure, you lose privacy of the vote, but its hard to fake the numbers (except in those precincts that vote 100% a certain way).
Also, also, sure the libertarian corner might be lonely, but I could get some reading in or something.
I believe ballots should have the name of the voter on them and the voter should be contacted to verify his votes. You do that for a couple of elections, and I think the democratic party might cease to have offices they hold in most places.
Except for people trying to steal elections, that is.
Which is precisely why the reforms you cite will never get implemented. We have a party in this country that has a history of voter fraud going back at least a hundred years. Fundamentally, they don’t see rigging elections as wrong. And the legacy media, largely steeped in the tradition of that party, largely advocates for making voter fraud as easy and widespread as possible. Hell, look at the journalistic treatment you see toward the old-time political bosses and fixers. They romanticize these bastards as some sort of benevolent local nobility.
This guy gets it. The problem is people will tolerate cheating as long as they (or their side) benefits. And the people most likely to cry foul are those who’s side loses. The actual constituency for integrity will fit very comfortably in a Fiat.
Let’s just get rid of the Australian ballot. Everyone should be able to stand behind their vote. And it’s Australian so furriners and all that.
When your solution to Stalin is better poll security, I’d say you are missing the real problem.
Add in …
multi channel vote counts – the voter fills out a ballot electronically, verifies that it is correct and prints it, after it is printed the voter reviews the paper ballot to ensure it matches his votes and once he does he approves the ballot on the computer and then the vote is submitted to a local server which has no internet access, the paper ballot is then carried to a separate system where it is scanned and stored in a lock box. The scanned ballot is then uploaded to a centralized database over a secure VPN. You now have 3 unconnected systems containing a record of the vote, the paper ballot, the local server, and finally the central server. The odds that anyone could successfully manipulate all 3 of those systems would be close to 0
Yeah, most people can’t operate a microwave. And you want them to correctly follow a multi-step process?
Sure, it would have the benefit of filtering out stupid people. But I really doubt that this would pass constitutional muster. Too close to a poll test.
Also, any system that allows you to see your vote from a remote location also allows for paying for votes. Russia thanks you for your cooperation.
Where did I say anything about the voter seeing the vote from a remote location? I actually thought about including a reciept for the voter who could log into the election site sometime after the election and review how their vote was tallied as yet another check against corruption but decided against it because of the risks associated with 3rd parties being able to definitively tell how a given individual voted.
Yeah, but you failed to account for me misreading your post.
Kudos to the cameraman for creating comedy gold
That is the funniest thing that I’ve seen in a long time.
Has a very Arrested Development feel.
I lol’d.
One study in 2015 suggested that feeding nine billion people using organic agriculture rather than higher-yielding conventional methods might be feasible if they all switched to vegan or vegetarian diets.
And if we sawed that guy’s legs off, he could sleep in a shorter bed. So what.
I can only maintain an erection during oral sex
I find my girlfriend of seven months very attractive, so why do I lose my erection during intercourse?
Or you’re just gay, NTTAWWT
Don’t other oralsexuals!
*Facial palm*
Is there anyone in the Glibertariat that can take thier valuable time and give this man a hand? “Hey dude, I kept a hard on fucking your wife. So it must be you.”
I bet this dude will tell you he was able to not just keep his erection and rub one out watching you do that, but that he found his groove…
I thought you were going a different direction with that first sentence.
You get hard in her mouth and then put a twist-tie around the base to keep it hard enough to fuck her.
This isn’t rocket science, people. Yeesh.
Too much ZARDOZ?
Hot dog -> hallway
^^This^^
Tally of Venezuelans who have now fled the country to escape socialism: 3 million
Deflationary spiral.
Chomsky haz a sad and is disappoint Maduro didn’t go all Pol Pot on ’em.
It’s all Walt Disney’s fault!
Seems low to me
The rest are dead.
Sometimes a tie is a good result. @Chelsea, yeah, I am okay with that.
They really need to start considering forest management that involves removing or culling the decades of fuel buildup
This is what happens when you can’t legally remove dead trees form public parks.
Stupid people with understanding of how nature works shaped by Disney movies have done more damage to Gaia than any of the people they accuse of wanting to rape & murder Gaia so they can virtue signal.
First off, this is the California eco-system that developed over hundreds of thousands of years. You want to get back to nature mother-fuckers? The fires are “so destructive” because too many people live where fires are a key element to nature. Then you had a century of fire suppression which simply builds fuel supply far in excess of what is natural. Now, even with better management, it still only takes one good rainy season to build up an over-average supply of brush – which inevitably dries out and becomes tinder. What did we have a couple of years back? A 150-year cycle of extraordinary rain, right?
And frankly this is nothing compared to what is going to happen when the San Andreas cuts loose.
^This.
People aren’t willing to see the forest change. They don’t want to see the ‘ugly’ fire scars or stumps. Nature doesn’t give a crap about beauty.
Partly. It’s what happens when people want to preserve something as it is rather than acknowledge it is a dynamic system. The main issue I have with laypeople on forest management is that lack of understanding. Forests (grasslands, deserts, etc.) are always changing. They are constantly and regularly affected by multitudes of disturbance types at various temporal and spatial scales, from pathogens to a changing climate.
Ten thousand years ago where I live was covered by an ice sheet. That’s not much geologic time and amazing to think of the change that has happened in that short amount of time.
Ten thousand years ago where I live was covered by an ice sheet.
*looks out window*
Uh,..
this election in a few counties lacks any form of integrity or transparency.
Some would consider this a feature.
Facebook reportedly pressured Palmer Luckey to support a politician
He was fired for being Trump supporter. Seriously, he should sue the fuck out of them for political retaliation.
Can’t wrap my head around Zuckerberg. After seeing The Social Network, there’s no way in Hades he’s a full-on progressive — I’m sure he does his fair share of signaling, but I think deep down he’s probably some kind of Libertarian (but the totalitarian nature of how Facebook can work doesn’t jibe with that, either.)
I hate all hands meetings. I dont know why i still attend… well mostly I dont but once in a while. Stupid corporate bullshit. Back in the day the company gave us beer after but not any more.
You do have hands, so no choice.
https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/images/i-survived-another-meeting-that-should-have-been-an-email-ribbon-640×533.jpg
Hysterical? Us?
(CNN)President Donald Trump is intensifying his challenge to constitutional constraints and governing norms that are already facing their gravest test since Watergate in the 1970s.
Trump has reacted to the coming Democratic majority in the House by upping the assault on the Washington system he was elected to upend, but in a way that could be taking the nation into perilous political territory.
In the days since the fracturing of the Republican majority on power in Washington, Trump has challenged political order across a broad front.
The President has installed Matthew Whitaker, an acolyte who shares his skepticism of the Mueller probe as acting attorney general. In addition, he has stoked conspiracy theories about stolen elections in the wake of Florida’s latest vote counting controversy and has threatened to use the mechanisms of government to investigate Democrats if they investigate him.
And he has stepped up his assault on the press, including by confiscating the White House pass of CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who asked multiple, challenging questions of Trump during a White House news conference.
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Events of the last few days point clearly to an escalating challenge by the White House to political conventions and guardrails, one that could further sharpen if Trump’s reshuffle of top officials rids him of remaining restraining influences.
It is more difficult to assess whether the President’s actions have already tipped the nation into a constitutional crisis or whether the system of checks and balances has kept him on the right side of that line.
After all, two years after he was elected, voters did decide to introduce new accountability in Washington with a Democratic House after Republicans gave no sign they were willing to rein in the President’s excesses.
Wake me up when he locks the Congress out, suspends habeus corpus and throws the Washington press mob into a desert internment camp.
He has a pen and a phone.
an escalating challenge by the White House to political conventions
Yeah, everyone knows the Republicans are supposed to just lie there and take it. Fighting back on the Democrat’s terms is just gauche.
^^^THIS^^^
Trump’s crime is that he won’t roll over so they can ass fuck him…
Political conventions?
OBAMA DOESN’T HAVE THE DECENCY TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Yeah, the political convention is that the peaceful transfer of power is the norm in America, which requires the losing side to accept the election results and allow the winners to govern. The Democrats threw that out the fucking window in November 2016.
I think they did long before that. The only reason it didn’t get as bad as it is now when that asshat GWB managed to prevent ManBearPig’s lawyers from stealing that election was 9/11.
People seem unable or unwilling to see that the left has basically made the case that they will not allow anyone other than one of their own to be in charge, and if that somehow happens (despite them rigging elections like happened with Clinton & Trump), will resort to undermining and outright destroying anyone that gets in their way of holding the levers of power. Democracy now means democrats have all the power. We can keep ignoring that at our own peril.
President Donald Trump is intensifying his challenge to constitutional constraints and governing norms that are already facing their gravest test since Watergate in the 1970s.
Nope. But the last admin. made Nixon look like a boyscout.
“by upping the assault on the Washington system he was elected to upend,”
I fail to see the issue here.
I took this photo at Walmart this weekend.
https://imgur.com/jYkYXh1
Jesus H. Christ’s little sister.
I thought it was Buddy’s sister.
Cream filled.
First you have to pay the $2.
I honestly don’t have $2.
Hope she’s not related to Charlie, that flim-flam man.
Is that one of them there Gnostic Gospels?
Shouldn’t that be Noshtic?
Boo! Boo this man! Boo, I say!
$2? That is a deal for holy Little Debbies of salvation. I hope you scored some of those.
“This is my cream filling of the covenant, which is poured out of the snack cakes, for the forgiveness of diabetes.”
Snack cakes would go better with wine than bland bread.
Unfortunately, Little Debbie’s blood is pure orange soda.
Orange Soda >> Grape Juice
“Bless you my son, go now and snack in peace with blood sugar levels as stable as a house built on the rock of salvation smoked in the glass pipe of the lord.”
Imgur showed me this at the top of the list on the right side:
https://imgur.com/gallery/9BYdGvE
YW
When I was in a road band we would tell the audience that we were proud to be sponsored by Little Debbie snack cakes, because nothing tastes better than Little Debbie. We even handed them out on occasion. People will believe whatever you tell them.
My second job with Walmart was creating the database tables for Christmas stuff. Never thought to look out for Christ. Too busy keeping ASS from printing on people’s receipts.
Those are cheap indulgences.
In a statement, Facebook said “unequivocally” that it didn’t fire Luckey over his political views
Good enough for me.
House Democrats plan aggressive gun control effort next year
After a shooting at a California bar last week that claimed a dozen lives, Democrats have decided to shift (briefly) away from prioritizing several investigations into the Trump administration and President Donald Trump, and focus instead on passing strict gun control measures, including universal background checks, a national ban on “high capacity magazines,” a ban on “assault-style” weapons, and a provision that would allow law enforcement to temporarily confiscate weapons from individuals deemed a threat to themselves or others.
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) told The Wall Street Journal last week that he intends to immediately push for the universal background check legislation which would require gun retailers and gun sellers to register all gun purchases through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The effort would close what Democrats call the “gun show loophole,” which they believe allows individuals to purchase guns in private transactions — at gun shows and elsewhere — without registering their firearms with any state or federal body.
It’s not clear how many more gun sales that system would record, given that most gun shows feature federally licensed retailers who are already required to do background checks through NICS and disclose sales to the federal government. Gun owners and gun rights groups also fear that a universal background check system could lead to a national gun registry.
Newly-elected Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath (GA) is a former spokeswoman for Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation’s leading gun control advocacy organization, and is likely to join the push for a national gun registry and a national ban on “assault-style” firearms, even though Democrats have difficulty explaining what an “assault” weapons ban would outlaw.
I fully support this decision. Let your freak flags fly.
I fully support them failing to pass anything after screwing over their colleagues in non-safe districts who vote “yes”.
Look for a perfectly timed triple header mass shootings. Most likely they will space them exactly 3 weeks apart so that they stay inside the attention span long enough to pass the legislation
Yes, the nation needs the CA gun control regime because of how successful it is.
I prefer the non-partisan term “Gun Monopoly”.
Government has proven to be quite incapable of controlling anything.
They really need to start considering forest management that involves removing or culling the decades of fuel buildup so as to minimize this kind of thing.
I heard a story on the radio yesterday, (Don’t remember if it was NPR or not) where they interviewed people who snuck back into the closed area around Malibu so they could clear the dead/dry brush from around their homes. Some people do that before a fire. What happened in Paradise is a damn shame.
Here’s the thing that bothers me. When I see disaster happening, my natural instinct is to feel bad for the people affected. What can I say? I’m not a sociopath. But, what do you say when the disaster is predictable and preventable and the affected vocally insisted that the disaster not be prevented? California’s forestry policies lead to this. Everyone with an IQ above room temperature knows this. And everyone knows that, this time next year, we’ll be talking about the California wildfires of 2019. How much can harm be self-inflicted before sympathy is inappropriate?
I mean, if it turns out I’m wrong about AGW, I’m not going to stand around expecting sympathy for any negative consequences I incur. I made my call and decided the risk was worth it. And I suspect many of the “pro-science” progressives wouldn’t have much in the way of sympathy for me anyway. But, why should I feel sympathy for them when this sort of thing results from their policies?
Ya, I am with you and especially since the same people will have no problem forcing their stupid policies onto you and use government force to do it. I still feel for anyone that burns up in their car. That is a terrifyingly horrible way to go.
You would think CA would have two things as policy: 1) building codes that require high fire resistance and 2) brush clearance of no less than 100′ from all occupied structures.
My wife is on the Trump Derangement Syndrome Train.
Here’s her take:
Trump is an insensitive asshole for tweeting about forest management. She was obsessed with that tweet for hours, looking up various responses.
This is how it plays out. The left cannot even see that he’s responding to people losing their lives by saying “let’s never let this happen again – here’s the cause and a solution.” They think he’s being insensitive by pointing out something that can be done. There’s literally no way out of that trap. Propose no solution – insensitive asshole. Propose solution – insensitive asshole.
Once you enter the partisanship trap, everything you see is evidence that your side is right and the other side is evil.
When I was a kid my parents made me clear all the weeds from around our house due to the potential fire danger. Given all the trees around our house and the wood shingles I doubt it would have done any good, but they were at least thinking about the potential for danger.
Krieger approves
Family sounds like a bunch of bigots to me. You either indulge the delusional fantasies of others or you’re basically Hitler.
Well at least they will get to enjoy Mushi night
He’s marrying Miku? Pig.
Everyone knows Megurine Luka is the superior Vocaloid.
But does she have her own pedal?
https://www.korg.com/us/products/effects/mikustomp/
That is one of the more dehumanizing things that I have read in recent memory.
They really don’t care about another person’s life–their political utility is far more sacrosanct.
That’s vile. And they don’t even have the capability of realizing that they are being so ghastly. Wow.
I think it’s worse than that. They are saying all of this, meaning all of this, but just think they are making a joke.
So Pete Davidson?
Good satire even if unintentional.
That was obviously parody.
Do you not understand that she is all that stands between us and the Handmaid’s Tale?
Literally. Like there is absolutely no other structure, legal or otherwise, that would prevent the Handmaids dystopia.
That line was not written by a prog. This is someone trolling.
I can’t tell anymore.
Yes. They had me going until that line.
They had me until the line about feeding her like a bird. I can see super fans saying everything else (and in fact, much of it was cribbed from supportive tweets), but not that.
I hope.
Please don’t anyone prove me wrong and show me someone has actually said that.
I can’t tell if the author is being serious. I think he/xe is.
The left can’t meme.
That has to be sarcasm.
Or else….right….not a cult.
Belated happy birthday to my fellow Devil Dogs. I went drinking and upheld the honor of the naval service (even if I did spend all of Sunday lying in bed wondering what happened).
Right back atcha, Teufel Hunden.
Semper Fi!
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https://thetrumpybear.com
“People know me as Frankie the Broom.”
nice, “making my golf game Great again”
For Sugarfree, an image to use with future episodes of Subaru Horror Theater. Courtesy of the California wildfires.
Hmm… a little Firestarter action.
“Suppose there is a little girl out there, somwhere today… this morning!… who has within her, lying dormant at present… the power someday to crack the very planet in two like a china plate in a shooting gallery?”
I just noticed that the plate surround says “Diablo Subaru”, that could be useful.
Firestarter vs. The Devil… this time fire will fight fire!
Magnificent Booty Monday:
http://thechive.com/2017/12/30/look-back-at-it-35-photos-3/
They “recommend” 100 feet of clearance. 3.
Good idea or bad idea: start a TV game show in Pakistan called “The Inbred Family Fued”. Same title but with British Royals?
Hapsburgs vs. the Muhommeds
“Top five answers are on the board. Words that difficult to say with a cleft palate.”
This morning they were saying PG&E power lines caused at least one of the current fires. Previous fires have been blamed on sparking power lines. I can’t help wondering how much brush clearing is permissible along those power lines. Because we wouldn’t want an ugly gash in the trees to spoil our fantasy of pristine beauty.
When the Santa Ana winds kick in, it really doesn’t take much to get a fire going. The key is being legally able to clear brush away from homes and developed areas to prevent significant losses. Some areas however, like Julian, are just waiting to go up in smoke.
In the suburbs I live in, the power company will come out and cut your tree if it gets too close to the lines. So you have some bizarrely shaped trees in people’s lawns. It stands out even more now that the leaves have fallen.
I don’t remember there being this many massive fires in the past, though memory can be faulty. I’d be curious to know what has changed in the past decade. Power lines have run through the forests for a long time. Are they not maintaining the lines, or are they not clearing the brush? We’ve had some dry winters, but we had a severe drought in the 70s too without these fires. There also has been a massive die off of trees due to a beetle infestation which adds to the fuel available. In the 70s I remember a lot more logging trucks on the roads, so a lot of the fuel was removed that way. Unfortunately instead of an actual analysis of the problem we’ll just hear about climate change.
I see the loser in Georgia is filing a lawsuit. Democracy is broken if the Democrat loses.
DO-OVER!
That or impeachment based on manufactured accusations of criminal activity that are pure projection…
Scotland to embed LGBTI teaching across curriculum
That was obviously parody.
I hope so. But day by day, “obvious parody” becomes harder and harder to be sure of.
Too bad for the rest of you. Minnesoda is getting sunnier and sunnier.
The good news, the county commissioner here who was most responsible for light rail and bike trails was bounced in the last election. The even better news? His replacement looks like she is going to be a lot of fun to work with. She ran on a platform that said she was the right person because her skin was the right color and she has a vagina.
What could go wrong with a plan that does away with
rule of law“one-size-fits-all approach”?Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
We’re fucked, Holiness.
Yeah, when Peter McLaughlin finally gets bounced and you aren’t happy? I think your assessment is succinct and spot on.
I’m still pissed that your pal didn’t win. Nuking the Met Council would have been the single greatest governatorial move since Jesse killed the car inspections and lowered the plate fees.
I should start buying property in Hudson.
When you’re paid to see disparate impacts, guess what the only thing you see is?
EQUALITY OF OUTCOME OR BURN!
Douglas Rain: Actor who voiced Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey dies
Jordan Daly, the co-founder of TIE, said the “destructive legacy” of section 28 had come to an end. This legislation, introduced in 1988, banned local authorities in the UK from “promoting” homosexuality, until it was eventually repealed in Scotland 2001 and in the rest of the UK two years later.
Daly said: “This is a monumental victory for our campaign, and a historic moment for our country. The implementation of LGBTI inclusive education across all state schools is a world first. In a time of global uncertainty, this sends a strong and clear message to LGBTI young people that they are valued here in Scotland.”
They have just switched from one state religion to another.
Why should the state education system care who you fuck?
In that work, Conley has said there has been a “one-size-fits-all approach” to solving disparities between white residents and those of color in terms of employment, health-care access and more. She instead aims to think more comprehensively about such issues, largely by seeking input from people in the community who feel the effects of inequities firsthand with the creation of a new Race Equity Advisory Council.
That doesn’t sound ominous. Not in the least.
Got any room out there for us soon-to-be refugees?
Meanwhile, in New Jersey, they have apparently outlawed ghost guns. Because they can do that.
Until and unless they get slapped down by SCOTUS.
“Ghost guns”?
Sounds like they were three sheets to the wind when they passed that one.
Don’t worry–they’re just trying to spook everyone. But I do understand your wraith.
Boo!
The Great War’s Great Price
Just a reminder that the war was retarded and Wilson was worse than you already think.
If you’re a time traveler and you want to prevent the Holocaust, you strangle Woodrow Wilson in his crib.
As much as I despise Wilson I don’t think that would have stopped it. Unless your argument was without Wilson we don’t go to war, then a different outcome happens. Even then I still think Germany loses the war. In my opinion Germany’s opportunity to win was lost in the early months of the war.
The influx of 100,000 fresh American troops every month forced Germany to accept much more draconian peace terms than they otherwise would have.
But it was the European powers that pushed for more draconian terms.
Which they never could have done without the US severely pushing the power differential in their favor.
I agree with LJW. Wilson was hardly the linchpin of the course of events. In fact, if you can only kill one person during your time-traveling escapades, I’d bet your best bet to prevent the Holocaust is to kill Karl Marx. Sure, there were other communists, but his writings really seemed to galvanize the cause. If the communist movement didn’t get so strong, post-WWI Germany doesn’t have a communist revolution, and without that (failed) revolution, the German people are less desperate for anyone to protect them from the commies and thus less likely to tolerate and support the fascists.
Whatever you do, don’t go back and kill baby Hitler.
***They really need to start considering forest management that involves removing or culling the decades of fuel buildup so as to minimize this kind of thing. Or they can just blame Trump.***
Yeah, it’s bizarre, from my morning commute I often see prescribed burns being done. In fact I think the modern version of the practice was developed here. But Natives had been doing it centuries before. In fact, the southeastern US has a forest type that requires fire (longleaf pine/wiregrass ecosystem).
It almost seems criminally negligent for forest managers to allow those conditions to build up. I wonder if some idiot prog watermelon laws contribute to it. I’ve also heard (but seen no proof of) that wealthy Californians living in the hills had prescribed burns stopped because the wind would blow ashes in their pools.
Got any room out there for us soon-to-be refugees?
I think there might be a few unoccupied square feet left.
Well if both Tundra and I move there, we will be able to vote ourselves a lot of your stuff Brooksy. Unless you are some un-American anti-democracy jerk?
Sure, fine for you guys but you leave me here all alone.
It almost seems criminally negligent for forest managers to allow those conditions to build up. I wonder if some idiot prog watermelon laws contribute to it.
There are multiple forest management / fuel mitigation projects up here which have been approved but are being held up by lawsuits from the “ecologist” geniuses. I guess they’d rather see massive fires.
Oh, this is just going to be awesome….
Hillary was so pissed off at the Democratic Party for 2008 that she decided to burn it all to the ground and completely sabotage the party. That’s all that can explain it.
Paywalled.
Is she saying she is going to run?
One of her people is saying she will.
I would ignore that unless it’s a named person going on record.
“Hillary Clinton will reinvent herself as a “liberal firebrand” and mount a third presidential bid in 2020, her longtime adviser Mark Penn predicted in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published Monday.
“Get ready for Hillary Clinton 4.0. More than 30 years in the making, this new version of Mrs. Clinton, when she runs for president in 2020, will come full circle—back to the universal-health-care-promoting progressive firebrand of 1994,” wrote Penn, who co-authored the op-ed with New York city council president Andrew Stein.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/longtime-clinton-adviser-guarantees-hillary-will-run-in-2020/
In 1994. GTFO of here.
That reads more like an adviser who can’t get a gig anywhere else and is trying to convince her to hire him and run a new campaign.
OTOH, we need a William Jennings Bryan for the 21st century.
OTOH, we need a William Jennings Bryan for the 21st century.
All of the stubbornness and foolishness with none of the eloquence, plus gender-swapped to keep it fresh. Sounds about right for a 21st century reinterpretation.
This makes me giddy.
She won’t let a little thing like two stunning defeats stand in the way of her claim to the White House.
Something something political dynasties.
Whenever I read that type of thing I think of that great Simpsons episode where Homer gets an old crayon removed from his skull, and becomes super intelligent, but eventually all the “smart” things he does drives away all his friends. At one point his co-workers get pissed and walk away, and he says, “But I’m your better. YOUR BETTER!”
So I will admit I don’t really understand much about WWI or why it happened, and we have the national WWI monumnent here! This helps. Sorta.
It happened because the Europeans all were vying for power and empire.
Europe had a fight over colonial empires. Woodrow Wilson decided to join in for “democracy” even though we are a republic and most of the combatants on both sides were constitutional monarchies. 50,000 dead Americans later, the war was over and the stage was set for WWII.
Me either, but Dan Carlin’s ww1 series will change your life.
Listening now. Thank you!
The short answer is that it was a giant pissing match between asshole nation-states that Wilson decided it would be good to stick America’s collective dick into after explicitly campaigning against getting involved.
Okay, that was one of my big questions: Why were we involved? A president getting full of himself is something I can understand.
This shit helped him consolidate state level powers bigtime, and advance that “progressive” movement which has led us down this path to extinction.
Okay, that makes sense. Thank you.
It wasn’t just wilson. There was a Rovian figure in the Wilson admin named Edward House.
House was a massive anglo-phile, and was pushing for the U.S. to attack germany pretty much from the get-go.
Fuck “getting full of himself” is shorting Wilson.
He was the first President who thought that he knew a lot more than the Founding Fathers did and had some ideas about how to fix that pesky constitution.
That’s as succinct an expression of the left’s evil as we’re going to see.
“asshole nation-states”
Easier than that: inbred cousin spat
It had something to do with Franz Ferdinand
There was something in the air that night.
I like that song.
WW1 – from my point of view – is the key to understanding the 20th century (and on). It’s so important, but the “heroics” of WW2 always get the attention.
Yes. I remember WWII from high school history fairly well. I don’t remember WWI being given much but a mention.
The World at War documentary, narrated by Laurence Olivier, removed all the gung-ho, rah rah pro-war out of me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E
WW2 documentary that is.
For WW1, this overview was good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzf9aHZmCAM
WW2 was really just a continuation of WW1.
All I can say to this, is that this guy must be smarter than they make him out. That is, unless that hologram starts telling him what to do and his answers all turn into “yes, dear”. Then he fucked up just as bad as people that married real women.
Drunk patron opens fire in crowded bar. Security guard takes him down. Cops show up … and shoot and kill the security guard
Next level passive voice here.
This is why an armed citizenry can never work!
WTF??
For everyone that isn’t familiar with the region, Robbins is about as close as you can get to a single perfect example of everything that is wrong with Illinois.
Theodore Dalrymple describes the problem with self-esteem.
Self-esteem, like respect, is earned by doing hard work and making a difference. It is not something you get from others, and definitely worth shit if it was not acquired by hard work.
““Suppose,” I would ask, “someone told you that he had allowed his children to starve to death because he preferred taking crack to feeding them and that he had stolen all his aged mother’s savings, but that at least he had no problems with his self-esteem, what would you say?”
In fact, this was only just a rhetorical question because I had met many such persons, bursting with self-esteem and quite without any discernible virtues. Indeed, one of the sources of their bad character may have been their self-esteem, insofar as nothing could dent it, not even the hatred or contempt of everyone around them. If I were younger and more energetic, I would found a Society for the Prevention and Suppression of Self-Esteem.”
“Miley Cyrus ‘completely devastated’ after losing Malibu home in wildfires but grateful animals and Liam Hemsworth are safe
The 25-year-old pop star’s rainbow-hued recording studio appeared to be still standing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6379339/Miley-Cyrus-reveals-Malibu-home-destroyed-California-wildfires.html
Okay, that was one of my big questions: Why were we involved? A president getting full of himself is something I can understand.
I think Wilson viewed himself as a Messiah, come down to Earth to herd the the sheep onto the path of Righteousness. That’s pretty much what they taught me (approvingly) in college. Out failure to ratify and join the League of Nations was the great tragedy of the 20th century.
Walmart is selling shotgun shell holiday lights, and people on social media are not happy
Christ, people are idiots.
307 mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. so far in 2018.
Define “mass shooting”.
Using shotgun shells as Christmas decorations may be a reference to a twisted version of “Jingle Bells” that referred to killing African-Americans during the Civil Rights movement.
I fail to see the connection.
Oh FFS, get your head out of your ass. It’s redneck kitsch.
Besides, a live human body and deceased human body have the same number of particles (minus the shot).
And that’s exactly the problem. The rest of that handwaving is just a smokescreen.
First sentence of the article is a lie. Didn’t read past that.
I kinda like this decoration.
Fixed.
The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album
Alternatively, they put 30 fucking songs on wax because of a contractual obligation, and they happened to sound thematically alike since they were all written and recorded within a short time frame. Like every other commercial album put out since 1910.
Bingo!
Man, that’s a lot of words.
Tundra’s review:
It’s got a few keepers, but all in all I prefer Abbey Road.
I prefer the entirety of Rubber Soul or Revolver over the keepers on Abbey Road or White.
I love how AP is now outsourcing its “reporting” to fucking Axios.
“This time, I chose as impregnable a venue as I could. Second floor, no windows, no street access, only two doors, and underground parking. I asked the L.A. Proud Boys if they would serve as my security for the night, an offer they gladly accepted. The event was going to be completely private, invitation only, with the attendees culled from my personal, vetted mailing list. I was glad the Proud Boys were going to be there, but a week before the event, things took a turn for the bizarre, and all of a sudden the Proud Boys’ presence became far more vital.
My former podcast partner, Edwin Oslan, a self-proclaimed “punk rock right-winger” who moved to L.A. last year from West Bloomfield, Mich., was initially going to assist me on the event. After he cocked up the first task I gave him, I let him go. Bitter and angry, he demanded money from me. He also demanded that a Proud Boys leader pay for his drinks all night at the shindig. He had no rationale for those demands beyond a sense of entitlement. When he was refused, he decided to publicly dox the event, and then he embarked on a weeklong campaign to entice Antifa to violently disrupt the function.
Due to the doxxing, the venue received threats (including bomb threats).
The L.A. Proud Boys stepped up in a way that went beyond my expectations. Marshaling a force of almost forty men, they kept us, and the venue, safe—at the doors, inside the room, inside the garage, and at the perimeter. They were as discreet and professional as the highest-paid security guys I’d ever hired…and they didn’t ask for a penny. Far from being a band of “thugs,” they were disciplined, coolheaded, vigilant, and friendly. I cannot say enough good things about them. They saved the day. In fact, at the start of her speech, Ann remarked that she’d never felt safer in California.
That’s why the left is so committed to destroying the Proud Boys. They are our anti-Antifa, and we need them. Without them, who knows what might have happened at the Coulter event?”
http://takimag.com/article/in-praise-of-proud-boys/
Whatever there is to be said about these guys I cant recall any incidences of them initiating violence.
White Normals are not allowed to fight back. That’s the rule – just lay back and take it.
I cant recall any incidences of them initiating violence
To be sure, they haven’t physically attacked anyone. Yet. However, it’s important to consider the broader context of political violence. This fellow from Buzzfeed that I met at last week’s cocktail party (Ohmigod, the fruit sushi was absolutely amazing) made an interesting observation that Millenials (who we all know are the most libertarian generation in history) strongly identify certain types of speech as a sort of violence. And, if that’s the case, making a public appearance when your persona is associated with associated with certain types of violent speech can be construed as, in itself, a form of aggression. Now, if that’s the case, surely such restrictions wouldn’t only apply to actual physical threats, but political positions that are associated with violence. Or, at least associated with violence to enlightened observers. So, obviously, private action against these sorts or the mouth-breathing Neanderthals who make Twitter jokes about sandwiches, is entirely justified.
/am I ready for a gig with TOS or what?
You didn’t signal your own virtue hard enough. Work on it.
“I would never associate with those terrible people, but I suppose they should have some rights even though they are really really awful…”
Once the Democrats take control of the United States House of Representatives, they are planning to look into President Donald Trump’s attempts to block the merger between AT&T and Time Warner, according to a report.
“We don’t know, for example, whether the effort to hold up the merger of the parent of CNN was a concern over antitrust or whether this was an effort merely to punish CNN,” incoming House intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff reportedly said in an interview with Axios on HBO.
“Schiff said Congress also needs to examine whether Trump attempted to block AT&T’s merger with Time Warner as payback to CNN,” Axios wrote.
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The DoJ filed its appeal against the ruling in August, citing a “clearly erroneous” decision by a judge who made “fundamental errors of economic logic and reasoning”, the government appeal argued.
According to the government, the ruling relied on “two fundamental analytical errors: It discarded the economics of bargaining, and it failed to apply the foundational principle of corporate-wide profit maximization”.
A merger between AT&T and Time Warner would increase media prices for consumers, according to the government.
Mergers and monopolistic control of markets are bad, except when Public Enemy Number One is opposed.
Those Chamber of Commerce-owned Koch-sucking Republicans and their damned anti-trust laws!
Vivien Leigh gets “one of the most beautiful actresses of all time” and Grace Kelly only gets “lovely”? You’re trolling, right?
You are starting an argument about a topic in last weeks links? I like it.
No, it’s about today’s links, I’m just using a “whataboutism” reference to last week’s links. There’s a huge difference.
Good. Now I can pretend that NYCFC’s pathetic display never happened. If only the latter half of the season would go away along with it.
A merger between AT&T and Time Warner would increase media prices for consumers, according to the government.
I’m not sure about the time line, but it would not surprise me to learn that this position was initially taken when the Obama administration was in charge.
At least until the proper campaign donations were made.
novelty holiday lights for sale at Walmart made of used shotgun shells.
I might have to swing by Walmart one of these days.
Get a box of those Little Debbie snack cakes of salvation too.
Oops
Att/Warner link
Shall not be infringed.
In New York your social media and internet search history are sufficient.
Wow. I don’t save search history and don’t use google, I assume my provider saves it? Is that how that works?
Also, if they looked at mine: “Why was this freak searching pumpkin fucking?”
I don’t save search history and don’t use google, I assume my provider saves it? Is that how that works?
They could subpoena your ISP and Google and correlate search terms from your IP address, but it’s a costly and time consuming maneuver that I doubt they’d bother to do in most cases. Most people are logged into Google services at all times through their browser and/or phone, so that would be the easier and more customary method.
it is my understanding Firefox is not part of the google and doesn’t track. True?
It depends, basically. Let’s say you use Firefox to navigate to Google.com in a private tab and type in a query. Google will receive the query from your IP address to produce a result for you. Since the connection is encrypted your ISP may not be able to directly spy on it in real time, but the record of the query will still exist somewhere in Google’s logs. So in a very generic sense your searches can be correlated that way, with a little sleuthing, if the relevant agency is willing to go through the hassle of subpoenaing your ISP and Google. But not every search engine keeps logs (DuckDuckGo and Startpage, for example), and your IP address is dynamically assigned from your ISP and changes frequently, so the IP address you had a year and a half ago is probably about 3 dozen iterations different from the one you have now, and your ISP may or may not have logs going back that far to correlate the old IP to your service account. Also when you close the private tab in your browser the session cookies and history from that browsing session are deleted. So no local record exists.
Now let’s say you make a practice of keeping yourself signed in to your Google account on Firefox and navigate to Google.com in a normal browsing window. Unless you’ve disabled it in your privacy settings, the search query will be saved in your Google account history, as well as logged in the same manner described previously, and the session time and results page will be logged in your browser history along with session cookies. So in that case it’s a lot easier to figure out what you searched for – it’s in your Google account history as well as your local browsing history.
For something as routine as a background check it wouldn’t really be practical to spend the time and resources to sniff out your search history in the former case.
I am strictly a Firefox browser and a duck duck go searcher. I don’t know what my provider does about issuing isp’s. I fully expect them to go to any length to find search histories if that law passes. Just think, as long as it was being investigated you would be on a no buy list until cleared which if they get their way would be never.
You’re already making it relatively difficult to snoop on your web searches that way. If you wanted to be really paranoid, use a VPN so your ISP won’t even know you visited a search engine, and always search in a private tab (or periodically clear your entire browser history, cache and cookies). If you wanted to be ultra-paranoid, put TAILS on a flash drive, boot into it as a live environment, and use a VPN. All your traffic will be routed first through the VPN and then TOR, and no local records will be kept since the OS runs from the flash drive and RAM only.
Ya, I have often considered the VPN route but decided I didn’t care that much. Maybe I should. I know many here do, but I figure is anybody going to be surprised that a middle aged single man spends most of his online time on porn, political and cooking sites?
LOL what could possibly go wrong, citizen.
I blame OMWC and it was quite an education. I had no idea.
Myth
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi strongly urged state police Sunday to investigate Republican claims of voter fraud in Broward and Palm Beach counties — a day after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said it found no evidence of it.
In a sharply-worded letter to Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen, Bondi wrote that she was “deeply troubled” that he hadn’t opened an investigation.
“Your duty to investigate this matter is clear,” Bondi wrote, in a letter to FDLE Commissioner Rick Swearingen. “I am directing you to take the necessary steps to promote public safety and to assure that our state will guarantee integrity in our election process.”
Fake news. Those people at the board of elections are pure as the driven snow, just hard working dedicated servants of the public.
That’s what Junior Soprano claim he was too when they dragged his ass into court..
Get a box of those Little Debbie snack cakes of salvation too.
*sticks out tongue*
“Body of Debbie.”
I had a “little Debbie” of my own, long ago. She definitely had a snack for me.
*OMWC signal lit*
Did anyone see the latest South Park, episode 6? Are they seriously backtracking on spoofing Gore and AGW? I can’t tell if they’re going prog or doing some pro-level trolling.
I saw it, I’m leaning towards pro-level trolling. I’m curious where it’s going to go in the second part.
Me too. It’s quite the set up.
Meh, bear in mind that most of us are long since aged out of the target demo for that show. Continuity with shit they did 12 years ago isn’t all that important.
And regardless of how it turns out, South Park, The Simpsons and It’s Always Sunny are all at least 5 seasons past their expiration. No sitcom should run longer than about 7 seasons.
Sunny was great last year. The few episodes I’ve seen this season have been underwhelming.
Old man with Candy foiled near Phoenix:
Police: 11-Year-Old Stops Would-Be Kidnapper by Using ‘Code Word’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/11/police-11-year-old-stops-would-be-kidnapper-using-code-word/
11-Year-Old Stops Would-Be Kidnapper by Using ‘Code Word’
Word Up?
Hmmmm…..
Is an 11 year-old better off living with parent so deranged that they believe in stranger abductions enough to come up with a code word, than she would have been being abducted? Seems like a push in my book.
Magic Stash of 8,000 Ballots Turns Up in New Mexico warehouse – Democrat is now the winner.
I told everyone I knew before the election that the democrats would do anything to kill the republican Senate majority, because if Trump gets to nominate RBG’s replacement, they will be royally fucked, and without controlling the Senate, they would not be able to pull the trigger on their impeachment dreams. Republicans better wise up and start not only legally challenging these shenanigans, but demanding there be real consequences for the asshats doing this shit.
*election night*
“Alright, we didn’t do quite as well as we were expecting, but we made some incremental gains. We should see this as a morale booster for our base and a good step forward toward 2020.”
*RBG breaks ribs*
“WE NEED TO MAKE SURE EVERY VOTE IS COUNTED!!!”
Start scribbling NOW!
Republicans are outraged.
I know I am.
I want to see serious FBI/DOJ investigations and fucking RICO charges.
It’s just a coincidence that all the ballots they find are skewing towards one party.
Ayup, I made the same comment above. Statistically at least one election where this “ballot finding” happened should have skewed for team red, but they have never done so. That tells me that what we have here is the same nonsense that results in climate data temps being normalized and always ending up higher than recorded: bullshit cheating.
In the case of the AGW cult we can mostly tell them to fuck off, but when elections are being stolen by these asshats, I feel it is time for someone to fight back.
No idea
But it’s fair to say that they’ve always made fun of everyone: Streisand, vegans, hunters, cops, teachers, Gore, racists, Mormons, Christian Scientists
What Happens to Men Who Stay Bachelors Forever, According to Science
They live fabulous lives?
+1 southern gentleman
So people who already had these qualities are more likely to remain bachelors, rather than vice versa.
It takes Democrats to rescue democracy
Democrats will take control of the U.S. House in January with big items topping their legislative to-do list: Remove obstacles to voting, close loopholes in government ethics law and reduce the influence of political money.
Party leaders say the first legislative vote in the House will come on H.R. 1, a magnum opus of provisions that Democrats believe will strengthen U.S. democratic institutions and traditions.
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The bill would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act, crippled by a Supreme Court decision in 2013. It would take away redistricting power from state legislatures and give it to independent commissions.
Other provisions would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, which declared political spending is First Amendment free speech; they would mandate more disclosure of outside money and establish a public financing match for small contributions.
Okay then.
Yes, because the supreme court looks fondly on the legislature overturning their constitutional decisions with more laws.
they would mandate more disclosure of outside money and establish a public financing match for small contributions.
Except for unions. Because everyone knows that the unions are inside money. And pure as the driven snow. Not like those icky corporations that are only set up to serve the interests of outsiders.
Democrats will take control of the U.S. House in January with big items topping their legislative to-do list: Remove obstacles to voting for Democrats, close loopholes in government ethics law for Republican politicians, and reduce the influence of political money directed toward Republican candidates.
FTFY
The bill would establish automatic voter registration and reinvigorate the Voting Rights Act, crippled by a Supreme Court decision in 2013.[…] Other provisions would overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling
You, uh, can’t overturn a supreme court ruling legislatively. That’s sort of the entire fucking point. The court voided legislative action that was deemed unconstitutional or illegal. Remember how we can’t ever revisit abortion or Obergefell, you retarded fucking pricks?
Nah, let’s do Roe v Wade, and watch the heads explode,
It might prove interesting to see how many of those 30+ flipped seats were accomplished only because the Democrat outspent the Republican? Restrictions on campaign spending are “incumbent protection” measures.
Also, for the edification of our highly trained journalists, you need to pass a bill in both houses and have it signed by the president to make a law.
I’m OK with them spinning their wheels on this sort of overreach rather than doing real damage with “bipartisan” crap.
Mandate!
Yeah, because that shit will pass the Senate and then get signed by Trump.
^OBSTRUCTIONIST^
The good news for bachelors is that scientists are starting to suspect they’ve underestimated the upsides of being alone.
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Single people have a heightened sense of self-determination and are more likely to continue growing as people, one study found. Single people also demonstrate more emotional self-sufficiency, especially when it comes to dealing with negative emotions.
No shit, Shirley.
And I’m not even fabulous.
“WE NEED TO MAKE SURE EVERY VOTE IS COUNTED!!!”
As many times s needed.
OT: I managed to go to the cemetery yesterday. I have been meaning to go for a while, just couldn’t get the guts to do it. It was a sad thing to see my dad’s grave. But as my husband told me, if he were still here, he’d tell me “don’t worry about me,” which is true. So I have to go buy a beer he’d drink, and have one for him.
That’s rough, but I hope you got out of it what you needed to. Ultimately the funeral and the marker are for the families, not the dead. What really remains is your memories and experiences.
“We have our memories and they can never be taken away” as my mother told my children before she left. I visit my parents’ grave a couple times a year, go alone so I can talk out loud and not be embarrassed. After a few minutes of one sided conversation I feel better and can go another few months. There is no one else left to visit the graves so its incumbent on me to do all the talking. The loneliness part never goes away…
Thanks guys.
Let the draining of the swamp commence!
“We will drain the swamp of dark-interest money,” Pelosi said to cheers from Democrats and supporters at an election night party near the Capitol on Tuesday. “The Democratic Congress will be led with transparency and openness so the public can see what’s happening and how it affects them.”
Pelosi said a vote on campaign finance reform legislation is at the top of the agenda.
Something something we’ll let you know what any of that means later, after we pass it.
I don’t get the hard on for campaign finance legislation. They destroyed the R’s in money this go round.
They need to make it even harder for team red to get money while allowing their side to get all the cash it wants no matter how criminal the activity is.
They often do. The last few Dem presidential candidates outspent the Rep candidates 2 & 3 to 1.
ROFLMFAO
Same stupid claim that the Obama admin made before going on to run an administration that made Nixon look like a fucking piker.
And apparently nobody has pointed out to her that the Dems aren’t running the Senate.
So they are going to stop passing bills in the dead of night with zero opposition party votes?