Happy Monday everyone. I hope everyone is working hard or hardly working! Whatever you can get away with this (American) Holiday weekend. I’m snowed-under with meetings as everyone frantically tries to clear their desk for a long and restful weekend.
Vox 2018 (or is it 2016?) If only the rules were different, the Democrat would have won! (Florida edition). “If we only assume this one variable changed…” in a complex system is junk.
Trump administration causing people to drink themselves to death!! You think I’m exaggerating, but… “The Trump Administration’s tax cut last year included an 18 percent break for in the federal tax on beer, wine and liquor”
Organized group causes terror scare in UK! Runners using white flour to mark route inspire police reaction.
NYT angry uncle-bot does not include a libertarian option. I’m triggered! Luckily, my only uncle with political opinions will be elsewhere.
It takes a real man to wear an animal print shirt and a different print tie! This is also in the running for highest energy song, lowest energy video. Turn the sound off for 20 seconds and try to figure out what the tune is… not what I would guess.
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That would be fantastic.
Why limit it to just women?
That’s a cause I’ll gladly contribute too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBCZtz0MYDQ
Holy cow. I’ve never seen the video, just 3 pics or so.
There is something wrong with that guy…
The great thing about counterfactuals is that you can change just one variable and nothing else at all will change.
Florida’s Bill Nelson would have likely beat Rick Scott if ex-felons had been able to vote
Sounds like a tacit admission that Democrats have commonality with criminals.
“The Trump Administration’s tax cut last year included an 18 percent break for in the federal tax on beer, wine and liquor”
The fact that the Rs did not run on this only confirms their title of “Stupid Party”. “We made beer less expensive” is a winning slogan if I’ve ever heard one.
I’m working my ass off but hiding and coming here as a refuge. Which shows how bad off I really am mentally right now.
Next on the list of one-time civil rights organizations that have thrown off the mask, the anti-Defamation League cozies up to Al Sharpton, the man who stoked the Crown Heights riots and got two men killed (and never apologized for it).
That is infuriating. Looks like most commenters feel the same.
“The hypocrisy of having Sharpton on @Morning_Joe to talk about hatred. Have we forgotten about Crown Hights? Because the family of Yankel Rosenbaum who was murdered after he came into town to incite violence sure hasn’t.”
https://twitter.com/ReaganBattalion/status/1064532333154443266
Good video.
The alcohol tax cut is old news, several people (who probably never drank it to begin with) promised to never drink Sam Adams beer again after Jim Koch (what is it with that last name in politics and beer?) thanked Trump for cutting taxes on his business.
I feel like a basic-bro, but I do love the SA Octoberfest. And Winter Lager too.
I don’t hate SA. I’ve had a few stinkers from them, but more often than not, I enjoy their beer.
I had a fall variety pack from them once that had “Bonfire Blonde” in it. That was the worst beer I have ever had. It tasted like I was drinking ash.
Whatever hops they have a soapy aftertaste to me.
Weird, SA doesn’t taste soapy to me but Sierra Nevada tastes like dish water.
For both of you, is this straight from the bottle, or after being poured into a glass?
And for the soap flavor, dirty, soapy, lemon, or something else?
For me, I mostly notice it on draft, but I’ve now tried it 4 or 5 different places. It is soap flavored, not textured.
And of course the opposite of Brett, Sierra out of the bottle tastes like dish soap.
Well, CPA, the first thing I’d like to point out (that most people don’t realize) is that Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is a different beer on tap and in bottles. Is it all of the Sierra Nevada beers, or just the Pale Ale? And do you check the freshness date? Sierra Nevada Pale uses exclusively Cascade Hops, which gives a pine, citrus, and floral notes. If the beer is fresh, and you don’t like it, stay away from beers that are predominantly hoped with Cascade (or go try a Single Hop beer using Cascade to see if that’s it).
Brett L, assuming the lines were properly cleaned, and the glassware (the most common cause of soap taste), there shouldn’t be anything causing that taste. I’m also operating under the assumption that you’re referring to the Boston Lager and not all of Sam Adam’s beers. But it’s made with two noble hops: Hallertau Mittelfreuh and Tettang Tettnager, both of which will impart mild floral and spice notes, with a touch of earthy notes.
I picked up this little fella last week.
Enjoyed a Fezziwig and their chocolate bock over the weekend. Looking forward to trying the holiday porter, and I know I enjoy the winter lager.
That looks like a decent mix. Their winter box used to have Cherry Wheat in it. Cherry wheat was also a terrible beer that should never be made again.
That sounds just terrible. I’ve heard they have a cherry chocolate bock that they used to make? I’m kind of intrigued, but if it just tastes like muddy cough syrup…
That Cherry wheat used to be a summer seasonal, and it was still bad, and Jim should feel bad for trying to sell it.
They used to release the chocolate bock in pretty painted 750 mL bombers. And there have been countless cries for them to release the Fezziwig as a stand alone seasonal instead of putting it in the mix pack. While I enjoy the Sam Adam’s mix packs for the most part, I wish they would stop putting the Boston Lager in there.
I agree re the Boston Lager. Look, if I wanted your flagship beer, I’d buy it. I’m buying a seasonal pack for the odd and tasty … seasonal flavors. I still have a bottle or two of their Boston lager in the fridge from the last time I bought a SA variety pack.
The Fezziwig was pretty fine, indeed. It’s a shame there’s only two in the box. Mr. Riven may or may not get that second one…
I remember one of their seasonal packs (I think it was a summer one a couple years back) had both the Boston Lager, and the Sam Adams Light. Look, those are available all the time,
In fairness, Sierra Nevada does the same thing with the Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Sweetwater does the same with their 420 Extra Pale Ale, Stone does it with their IPA, and New Belgium usually does it with their Fat Tire.
NewWife buys every ounce of Winter Lager she can find for me; I’m a case ahead for now, but it will run out probably before winter itself does.
I’ve been known to buy a six pack or two of those this time of year. Fine drinking, imo.
Ok, I am no longer ashamed then to like Sam Adams. I also like Boston Lager and Summer Ale.
Whatever the seasonal spring beer is (Cold Snap?) I will pass on. Too sweet.
I like good beer. I don’t care who makes it. If some macrobrew house comes up with great ale or lager, I’ll drink it. SA has a few winners, and some acceptable ones as well. They also don’t get into a hops arms race like some of my local micro places. Good beer doesn’t taste like grass clippings.
No. Sam Adam’s tried to get into the hop race. They did not do to well with that series. And here you go, a solid beer from a macro.
There are so few large corporations that are not openly hostile to the deplorables.
I’d really like to know the mechanism by which these leftists infiltrate and alter the companies’ cultures like this. It seems to happen without exception once a company reaches a certain size.
In short, how does HR get so out of control?
In short, how does HR get so out of control?
Step 1. Create laws that can utterly destroy a company no matter what they do.
Step 2. Create additional laws that can immunize a company against the wishes of its shareholders
Step 3. Create a caste well versed in the result-driven demands first set of laws.
Step 4. Profit.
While the business and STEM majors are doing all the actual work, the SJW majors are going into HR.
This is where Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy
meets
O’Sullivan’s First Law
.
https://matiane.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/osullivans-first-law-an-eternal-truth-by-john-osullivan/
Sam Adams (Lager or Seasonals) is my mass produced beer of choice.
I have nothing more to add.
It takes a real man to wear an animal print shirt and a different print tie!
Or you could be a 15yo dude that doesn’t know better.
I’m severely disappointed in all of you.
We live to serve.
How disappointing would it have been if you weren’t severely disappointed in us all.
But not as disappointed as we are.
Are you my wife?
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Thank goodness Winston’s mom isn’t as hard to please as you are.
I’m pretty sure they would have to have carried me away and I’d still be a gibbering wreck:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/elevator-at-one-of-chicagos-tallest-skyscrapers-plunges-84-floors-after-cable-breaks
Great – now they’ll probably mandate multiple elevator inspections per year at my condo building.
Elevators aren’t cheap. If you can, don’t buy a condo in a building that has them.
Make sure you don’t buy a condo on the 79th floor..?
That would be some walk.
Frequently when I read articles, my biggest questions go unanswered and I wonder at the lack of curiosity of the reporter (or worry that I’m just dense and miss a lot). In this case, how did the elevator stop safely, rather than crash at the bottom of the shaft (not a euphemism)?
I was wondering the same thing.
They all have emergency braking cables. They aren’t supposed to take 84 floors to kick in. Also, most have a bigass spring at the bottom that turns a certain death into a probable one.
Thanks.
I thought they also had friction brakes – I assume that’s what the clacking sound they described was. But, yes, that took an awfully long time to stop.
This was the big question I had after reading it. That and what exactly was the clacking noise.
A city official told the Tribune the elevator was last inspected in July, and that a “hoist” rope connected to the car failed shortly after midnight.
“That rope is one of several that are connected to the elevator, and, even with this one failing, there’s a redundancy in place,” City Buildings Department spokesman Gregg Cunningham told the paper. “Specifics of how it failed, and what type of failure, is still under investigation.”
These systems have redundant cables and brakes. My guess is that they have to brake slowly when a car starts to drop because 1) you don’t want to hurt the people inside as the car stops suddenly but the people inside don’t and 2) you don’t want to snap the redundant lines as the momentum of the falling car gets applied to the back up line.
Thanks.
Otis
He loves us!
Ha! Maybe I should change my handle 😉
That seems to be a major theme in journalism these days. It makes me kind of want to go into journalism as a second career, but then I remember how old I am and how little (according to them) journalists make. And how I don’t really like talking to strangers.
I’ve been up to the top of the Hancock building several times. I totally would have shit my pants.
What is with renaming longtime Chicago landmark skyscrapers? Sears Tower and Hancock Center forever!!!!!111!!!!
The left really believes there’s voter suppression. They even wrote books about it. How real is it?
https://twitter.com/AriBerman
Holder believes democracy did not win in Georgia.
But in California it was all good where no Rep. ran.
https://twitter.com/EricHolder?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
I’ve seen the “Kemp stole Georgia” thing several times in the last few days, so I did some digging to compare Georgia in 2014 (the most recent mid term) to 2018.
In 2014, Georgia had 7.63 Age eligible votes/ 5.191 M registered voters and turnout of 2.567 M (something like 50% of reg voters).
In 2018, Georgia had 7.9M age eligible voters, 6.9 M registered voters and turnout of 3.9 M voters (nearly 60% of reg voters).
If that is voter suppression, it isn’t working very well.
Mammary Monday provides fleeting stimulation in an otherwise unremarkable existence.
http://archive.is/6CNBR
15 will do nicely.
9 and done.
Not just any runners, hashers.
I should have known. Anyone who drinks that much on a run is suspicious to me. Only because beer and running do bad things to my guts.
It’s a drinking club with a running problem.
I used to run with the Hash in Eastern Europe in the 90s. We’d get berated by the babushkas for wasting food by throwing flour on the ground.
A remarkably unstupid article by Jacobite (if you can ignore the retarded Commie “unequal no fair!” bullshit at the end).
https://jacobitemag.com/2018/04/24/uncanny-vulvas/?fbclid=IwAR1Ik3PTdhyfHrwk92uJln97Zik7eFRJOuZt_FZqW-TZ-R7gM_mtfw2nhAk
“Underpinning feminist anxiety [about sexbots] is the specter of female replaceability. Having long been concerned with governing male desire, the feminist project now faces the possibility of being routed around. Men can build alternatives to a sexual market that has been made less navigable because of ideology. Substitutes are built and bargaining power dissipates. Sex robots are to gender politics as scabs are to labor relations.”
Related:
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/happens-men-stay-bachelors-forever-200622198.html
Finally the female genocide can begin.
sex robots are to gender politics as scabs are to labor relations.”
I would think that sex robots would be equivalent to automating robots and prostitutes would be equivalent to scabs, but what do I know?
Considering that prostitutes work for true market value, I’d say you’re correct.
Well it’s also why feminists are working so hard to try and prosecute/shame johns into driving prostitution to extinction.
SEX TRAFFICKING!!!!
Scabs are what I look for in all my sexual relations.
I smell a new SF story!
“[Sexbots] reinforce an incredibly dangerous idea: that women’s bodies are only bodies, and exist only for men’s use” says founder of Feminist Current”
What else are they for?
Making sandwiches?
Truth. And finding things.
“Vibrators and dildos mean that men’s bodies are only penises, and exist only from women’s use.”
https://youtu.be/VrbybKWwb7c
Linked from that same article. Steve Smith has a sad.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601/evidence-mounts-more-porn-less-sexual-assault
Most serial offenders are pretty fucking fearful of being caught. Not a shocking insight on its own, but sociopaths and sexual deviants get depicted in weird ways in media…for people already doing pretty weird shit. They seek to minimize the risk to themselves at every turn, even the really dumb ones. Outlets like porn are an obvious avenue to engage in their fantasies without repercussion.
Yeap, and while the kiddie sex dolls are disturbing as hell, I’d prefer some pedo perv gets his rocks off on plastic than victimizing an actual child.
“The Trump Administration’s tax cut last year included an 18 percent break for in the federal tax on beer, wine and liquor”
Brett Kavanaugh approves. ///MAGA
Chipotle is not improving.
CHIPOTLE FIRED MANAGER AFTER ADMITTED DINE-AND-DASHER CALLED HER RACIST FOR REQUESTING PROOF HE’LL PAY
Being in corporate customer service today has to suck. Your corporate overlords want you to enforce their policies, but will quickly throw you under the bus the second someone takes out their phone and threatens to record the awkwardness of doing that. You’re doubly fucked if its a minority.
They are apparently trying to backtrack and even rehire her. Hopefully someone else makes her a better job offer.
https://twitter.com/RandomShy/status/1064595415952027648
Christ, what an asshole.
I’ve only been to Chipotle once so I don’t remember, but don’t you pay when you place your order?
*looks around to see if Playa is watching*
You pay once the burrito has been assembled to your liking.
So… never?
That part I do remember.
Yes, but similar to Subway, you could just grab your sandwich off the counter while they try to ring you up and make for the door.
I think in later news they decided to hire her back?
Only. In. Canada.
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/curling/curling-team-ejected-extremely-drunk-1.4910869?__vfz=profile_comment%3D1208100017960
I’m confused. I thought curling was one of those things you needed a minimum BAC to play like darts. Now you’re saying there’s a maximum BAC.
I’d assume ‘Too drunk to curl’ would fall in this range?
NSFW
Do they understand that sexbots aren’t actual women?
This went in exactly the right spot.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6406387/Demi-Rose-23-shows-perky-posterior-tiny-thong-gets-non-surgical-lipo.html
Her?
*cue Arrested Development music*
Not ‘perky posterior’ — that there is ’10 lbs of silicone in a 5lb bag’.
Bernstein: Media Should Edit President Trump’s Press Conferences Before Airing
“We need to start thinking of a different way to cover his press conferences and briefings,” Bernstein said on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday.
“I don’t think we should be taking them live all the time and just pasting them up on the air because they’re basically propagandist exercises because they are overwhelmed by his dishonesty and lying. … Maybe we should be there, edit, decide as reporters what is news, and after the press conference or briefing is over then go with that story with clips rather than treating the briefing or press conference as a campaign event, which they really are,” he said…
Bernstein said news sites could still post the complete unedited version of the press conference or briefing, but should simply stop giving Trump “free” airtime.
“But we need to start editing. We need to say, ‘Here’s the story,’ not just give him a microphone when we know that his methodology is to engage and manipulate us on the basis of lying, propaganda and agitprop,” Bernstein said.
So now they think editing* video is ok? Anyway, as if people needed another reason to think the msm is dishonest. . .
*Of course, all video is “edited”. What matters is whether or not context is maintained or altered.
“I don’t think we should be taking them live all the time and just pasting them up on the air because they’re basically propagandist exercises because they are overwhelmed by his dishonesty and lying”
People can’t be stupid enough to believe that all preceding presidents didn’t put a good spin on the narrative and flagrantly lie? Why are these reporters playing dumb?
I’m not convinced they are playing.
An insistence on edited press conferences is easily remedied, just don’t have them at all, but I’m sure he’d bitch about that too.
Damn, Bernstein is a fucking idiot.
He’s never gotten over the fact that Woodward got the lions share of fame after Watergate.
Plus Bernstein got Dustin Hoffman in the movie while Woodward got Robert Freakin Redford.
For you millenials, that’s pretty much like Woodward getting portrayed by Chris Hemsworth while Bernstein gets portrayed by Michael Cera.
Thank you for translating.
Does Bernstein want straight to Youtube or “get your press statement from the WH.gov site directly, or only Fox News gets the exclusive interviews with the White House press secretary?” Because this is how you get those things.
Bernstein is clearly a Trump plant. What an excellent way to prove a media outlet’s bias.
So in other words, they should follow Veritas’ example.
So… just like the late-night “comedy” shows already do.
“A SEX-MAD firm has become the UK’s first to offer its employees four days off a year to have orgasms – in a pioneering bid to make them more productive.
During these “self-love days” LELO encourages its staff to “fulfil themselves sexually and have plenty of orgasms” with or without a partner.
LELO, an intimacy brand, is also encouraging other firms to follow suit and says the move would add more than £90 billion a year to the UK economy if it was widely adopted.
This came after a survey discovered that 78% Brits said they felt happier and less stressed after having an orgasm and almost two thirds said they were more productive at work the next day.
More orgasms could contribute to boosting Brits’ happiness by 10% to 20% – allowing them to produce the same output in four days instead of five.
A 10% rise would translate to an increase in output of £129.13 per week, per person.
If every one of the 32.4 million people working in the UK increased their productivity by 10% this could add £3.5 billion a week to productive output.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/743446/sex-business-orgasms-days-off-work-uk-lelo-news
Wait, do people not normally take, er, self-love breaks during the day? Man, working in IT has totally fucked up my ability to relate to the larger working world.
All you need is a bathroom stall, 90 seconds, and a bottle of hand sanitizer-no additional vacation days required.
What kind of prudish work environment requires you to use a bathroom stall?
Don’t give HR ideas.
Or take work breaks from their days of self love?
Now we know where Q will work next.
What a bunch of jerkoffs.
More orgasms could contribute to boosting Brits’ happiness by 10% to 20% – allowing them to produce the same output in four days instead of five.
Note: Happiness =/= Productivity.
I feel so bad for the HR department at that company.
You know that policy is going to be “abused”. Some gal will say she is staying home to roll the bean all day, then she will end on being tagged on FaceBook out having fun at an amusement park or something.
At that point, you have to decide. Do you want to let an employee get away with blatantly lying? Or do you want to run the risk of writing up a woman for faking an orgasm? Think what a shitstorm that would cause at Jezebel.
What if thats how she gets off?
I am a bad person for laughing out loud yesterday when I got this e-mail from OMWC?
“Quit doing “test” posts. SP hits me every time one pops up.”
It took Herculean self control not to rapid fire “test” post every thirty seconds.
“Am I”
Test?
All my posts were flagged for moderation. Every now and then I would post “test” to see if it was fixed. And OMWC took a shot in the arm.
TEST.
TEST.
TEST.
It’s not working Jim!
“Chinese writer Tianyi jailed for 10 years over gay erotic novel
Book features ‘obscene sexual behaviour between males’
Using the alias Tianyi, the female writer published the novel Occupy in 2017 and sold it on China’s popular online platform Taobao.
But the work of fiction – which reportedly features gay sex scenes between a male teacher and male school pupil – ran afoul of the country’s strict pornography laws.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/tianyi-jailed-china-erotic-novel-occupy-gay-book-teacher-pupil-sex-taobao-a8641221.html
I guess it depends on how old they are, but if underage, that isn’t terribly different from the fact that the US has criminalized drawings of imaginary minors.
This article is so well written that it’s worth pulling out of yesterdays black hole.
https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/what-started-as-a-tiny-brush-fire-became-california-s/article_9b32290d-1cb4-554b-a984-ef7ae358b189.html
I read that yesterday: well written, terrifying, and depressing at the same time.
I don’t get the treating pets as people. In that situation I would probably shoot my dog out of mercy but I as sure as hell that endanger other humans by losing time trying to coax it.
Good, if depressing, article. Thanks for linking it again.
Crimony. What a shit-show.
The distaff variant of the Brojob:
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a39099/girlfriends-with-benefits/
“These hetero flexible women say they want long-term romantic relationships with men but are consistently drawn to women purely for sex, whether a girlfriends-with-benefits scenario or a Sapphic sidepiece hidden from their boyfriend or husband.”
So basically something that closeted gay men have been doing for centuries?
“She’s one of thousands of women across the country, judging by Craigslist and other sites, who identify as straight — explicitly mentioning boyfriends, husbands, or dating dudes in personal ads — but are also looking online for casual, lesbian sex. It’s more than experimenting with your college suitemate, and it’s not about turning on bros at the bar. These hetero flexible women say they want long-term romantic relationships with men but are consistently drawn to women purely for sex, whether a girlfriends-with-benefits scenario or a Sapphic sidepiece hidden from their boyfriend or husband.
“It’s a huge phenomenon,” says Chelsea Reynolds, who researches gender and sexuality in mass media as a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Communication. In a pilot study, she analyzed (or “expertly lurked,” as she calls it) the Women Seeking Women section of Craigslist in 10 U.S. cities, including San Francisco; Chicago; Boston; Louisville, Kentucky; and Lubbock, Texas. Over a three-day period, she analyzed more than 400 such ads. Based on that data, she estimates that, over the course of a year, there are hundreds of thousands of ads posted online from women who “self-identify as straight, who want relationships with guys, but also enjoy a woman’s body and affection here and there.”
When straight girls shop on the Web for gay sex, Reynolds found that they maintain their “stereotypically heterosexual” (read: basic bitch) identities. They reference the guys in their lives, most of whom are in the dark. “My husband will not know or join,” clarifies a 30-year-old from Austin looking for “the touch of a woman” on Craigslist. Many ads toss out invites for girly activities like mani-pedis and brunch. “I want to hang out and go shopping and be friends outside of sex,” explains a 24-year-old woman from Evanston, Illinois, in her Craigslist callout.”
1 in 5 Army generals could not deploy last year due to medical conditions.
9 out of 10 Army generals are redundant and shouldn’t even exist.
The first stat is mostly bullshit, because it includes shit like not going to the dentist in the past year.
I’m OK with your 2nd stat.
The stat is comical merely because it is bogus. For all soldiers. They’ll run you through that shit if they really need to deploy you. They know why they’re off on the target. It’s just bureaucratic bullshit.
I’d deploy them all to Afghanistan.
Hell, deploy every non-civilian at the Pentagon to Afghanistan tomorrow.
They all should be rotating through forward areas at least 3 months out of every year.
Blah, blah, blah. Boy is CNN ever tiresome.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/cnns-powers-all-trump-supporters-are-racist/
She used to be somewhat sane for a true-believing leftist but I guess measured statements don’t pay too well these days.
True, back when she was on Fox.
“For those upset abt my comments about racism+Trump supporters, I also said that ALL white ppl (not just Trump supporters) need to examine their own racist assumptions/white privilege that are the result of living in a society that privileges white people. That includes me.”
https://twitter.com/KirstenPowers/status/1064181140959965184
Rich white liberals are never ending scolds who have little to their arguments beyond righteous feelings
Maybe she should give up her cushy job in favor of a person of intersectionality.
So… you’re evil?
She used to be somewhat sane for a true-believing leftist
That’s my recollection as well.
WHITE WOMEN ARE OPPRESSED!
CNN’s Powers: All Trump Supporters Are Racist
BREAKING: Kristen Powers is a major c-u-n-t.
Still, would.
Never.
Stick it.
In.
Crazy.
I thought we had already established this?
There’s a scale.
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This country desperately needs more immigration, for economic productivity, cultural inspiration, and sheer work ethic.
Empty platitudes is not a political position. The essence of the virtue signal
The US already takes in the largest amount of immigrants than any country in the world (and it’s not even close). Nothing has changed with regards to immigration since Trump’s election. So, I’m not sure what the demand is here. That we should make green cards more readily acceptable? That would be a fair point, if that was specifically said.
As it stands this is just as mindless of a statement as saying that the US should control its borders, which is also an empty statement with no specifics.
This is the essence of the “virtue signal”
Take a moment and think about what you are saying.
There exist people want to do business with would-be immigrants. There are would-be immigrants want to come here to work hard and make their lives better.
When the mafia prevents those people from doing business with each other, we are left poorer than if they were allowed to do business with each other.
It’s not virtue signalling.
It’s basic economics.
I’m not knocking the concept of immigration. I’m knocking empty political statements that mean nothing. What specifically has changed with regards to immigration in the US?
I’m even fine with the concept of “open borders” if there was actually a real definition for such a position. But, alas, “open borders” is another catch phrase that means literally nothing.
The mafia was turning a blind eye to some people breaking their stated rules and then when the new capo took over he told his crews to stop letting things slide.
So, yes, the law is much the same. But as Christians trying to flee religious pogroms from Syria and Iraq can attest, the reality is that the doorway that was sort of open twenty years ago is getting harder and harder to get through.
“The mafia was turning a blind eye to some people breaking their stated rules and then when the new capo took over he told his crews to stop letting things slide.”
If this analogy is with reference to illegal immigration, I don’t believe the last president was “letting it slide” so much.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/story?id=41715661
“But as Christians trying to flee religious pogroms from Syria and Iraq can attest, the reality is that the doorway that was sort of open twenty years ago is getting harder and harder to get through.”
I disagreed with the ‘Muslim ban’ and thought that it disqualified Trump from the presidency. And I generally oppose refugee restrictions, but you might be surprised to find out that it was actually tough during the last administration to get refugee status here too.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-bars-christian-not-muslim-refugees-syria-497494
You have me confused if you think that I am an immigration restrictionist. I just don’t find empty platitudes to be anything more than stupid
OK. Maybe I should have said that gradually, the last four capos stopped letting things slide.
My main point stands though.
I don’t buy the argument.
There is a good reason why we have people talking about illegal immigration only, when discussing immigration, but never discuss making green cards more easily accessible. And it all comes down to the need for business to have cheap labor.
Which is fine, but the fact that domestic labor cannot accept wages below the minimum wage does not mean that they are “less productive”. It means that a bunch of people who don’t believe in the minimum wage and believe that it impedes economic growth are too afraid to say that and would rather talk about the beauty of illegal immigration.
Cultural inspiration and sheer work ethic are virtue signalling.
Well, as someone who came from a totalitarian country as a child and fell in love with America, I can attest that it’s true when people say immigrants bring their fucked up attitudes to the U.S. and are incapable of assimilating.
*throws rock at Tarran*
GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM
I take it you’re one of the Armenian kids from Watertown?
Then you have Pie who apparently assimilated without having come to this country.
“I can attest that it’s true when people say immigrants bring their fucked up attitudes to the U.S. and are incapable of assimilating”
As the child of immigrants, I largely disagree with this. By the second or third generation most of their descendants are fully assimilated.
But, none of that means that I pay any mind to empty gestures of “I (heart) immigrants” or some other virtue signal
Check your sarcasm detector. 😉
It’s wrong to claim that no immigrants assimilate. It’s just as wrong to claim that no immigrants bring their attitudes to the U.S. Also, there are many parts of the American culture that are not worth assimilating to. For example, everything related to the identity politics, white guilt, etc. And immigrants absorb this crap since it’s the easily accessible part of the local culture.
That’s true. That’s why I am infamous for trolling libertarian boards to promote Kemalism.
s/That\’s/That\’s not/
Fuck it. I’m going on vacation.
It’s wrong to claim that no immigrants assimilate. It’s just as wrong to claim that no immigrants bring their attitudes to the U.S.
Absolutely. Some people come to be remade in the image of America, others come to remake America in the image of the old world, and still others just do their own thing without any feeling one way or the other. Makes things complicated.
What you’re saying and what Tucker is saying are basically true. But, they’re also incomplete. While immigration, on net, is beneficial, there are downsides. And those downsides tend to be experienced by people other than the people advocating for dismissing immigration law. You’re kidding yourself if you don’t think immigrants put pressure on domestic wages. Or that largely poor immigrants are somehow or another exempt from the social problems that are so common among poor people. (For the record, I’m still generally for immigration liberalization because those downsides are more than offset by benefits). And it’s been the indifference of the dons that you reference below to legitimate concerns (border security, assimilation) that has given rise to the “get tough on immigration” attitude.
cultural inspiration
I thought we were not supposed to “appropriate” other cultures.
Piggybacking on the earlier posts about the ADL snuggling up to Al Sharpton, this would be awkward for Joe Scarborough if he had any shame or integrity, which, of course, he doesn’t.
“The founder of the Women’s March just called on Linda Sarsour to step down for allowing “anti-Semitism, anti-LBGTQIA sentiment and hateful, racist rhetoric to become a part of the platform” Ocasio-Cortez supports Sarsour”
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1064622219685376000
“Neiman Marxist”
LOL
Of course, they’re both Marxists.
I don’t know who this founder they’re referring to is, but it sounds like she’s tired of Sarsour’s shit.
Sarsour is a straight up racist bigot who wants Sharia law in America. Her entire being is devoted to sowing discord.
And AOC isn’t even in office yet and she’s already providing superb material. She’s the gift that keeps on giving.
She was complaining because she was being mistaken as a congressional aide last week..well sweetheart, you aren’t anything at this moment so suck it up.
Yea, that was a stupid complaint, especially because (if that happened at all) it was most likely because of her age, not her gender or race. Contrary to the Leftist narrative, it’s not The Handmaid’s Tale out there; minority female legislators are not a rare sight.
Hell, given her tendency to spew out highly specific economic figures that are completely incorrect, I would probably guess she’s a 7th grader on a field trip who got separated from her group.
And yet, I’m sure she would also complain about the lack of female and minority congressional aides.
In historical news, today is the 4th anniversary of Rolling Stone’s publication of “A Rape on Campus”.
So if Robby had gone to Columbia back then, he’d finally be getting that coveted degree?
And it continues to amaze me that a large swath of the country refuses to acknowledge that a rape accusation might be false depsite the UVA incident and numerous other rape allegations that turned out to be complete fabrications.
What are you, some kind of misogynist?
“AirBNB Goes Anti-Semitic, Targets Jewish Businesses In Judea, Samaria
On Monday, AirBNB, the home-rental company that is often used by tourists to rent apartments in locations around the globe, announced that it would not allow Jewish settlements to be listed in Judea and Samaria. AirBNB stated:
We concluded that we should remove listings in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians.
This is the sheerest form of corporate anti-Semitism in recent memory. Not only did AirBNB specifically target “Israeli settlements,” according to Professor Eugene Kontorovich of George Mason Law, they’ve announced that they will only disallow listings in Israeli settlements when those listings are owned by Jews. In other words, if a Jew owns an apartment in East Jerusalem, that won’t be allowed for listing; if an Arab owns an apartment in the same neighborhood, it’s fine for listing.
This is absurd. As Dr. Michael Oren points out, AirBNB lists apartments in Turkish-occupied Cyprus, the Moroccan-occupied Sahara, Chinese-occupied Tibet and Russian-occupied Crimea. Not only that, but AirBNB allows listings in a wide variety of countries without any democratic rights and with wildly discriminatory policies.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/38519/airbnb-goes-anti-semitic-targets-jewish-businesses-ben-shapiro
I’m sure the BDS idiots are involved in this.
AirBDS, I like it
I can’t go full opposition to Israeli actions is anti-Semitic. It’s more just disappointment in another corporation that is constantly being attacked by the progressive left feeling the need to advertise that they engage in right thing (while undermining the regulations and taxes they support for fucking everyone else).
I’m with you. I see it more as cowardice and stupidity as opposed to anti-Semitism…generally speaking. I have no doubt that the BDS movement is ripe with anti-Semitism. I just think most corporations do it out of fear rather than hate.
I really hope I’m not naive.
Mike Lee continues to school known idiot Tom Cotton on the sentencing reform bill. https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1064634614214479872
Cotton is a twat. He loves the punishment state with a vengeance.
Yes he is an absolute asshole.
The guys at PowerLine have to get a drip bucket out any time they talk about him because they get just as excited about putting people in cages. I haven’t seen PowerLine so histrionic as they are over sentencing reform since Rand Paul looked like he might make an impression during the primaries.
The most interesting thing though is how many commenters on PL seem to be calling BS on them. Definitely a strong libertarian contingent there.
Harvard Law really churns out the winners on both sides of the spectrum, don’t they?
Top. Men.
Just got back from a three-week road trip to help my aunt move to Montana.
Highlights:
First has to be the dinner that we had with Riven and her hubby. Wonderful folks, great meal.
The next day we had the best chicken sandwich ever at her suggestion. We gave a virtual wave to P Brooks as we went by.
The Oregon coast is spectacular and we got our crab cocktail fix for a while.
I’ve noticed in the past that LDS girls are generally smoking hot. This was affirmed in Price, UT while we were eating dinner. Every girl that walked in the door (as well as all the young ladies in the place) was a stone cold fox.
… Hobbit
Aw! It was a delightful evening for us, too. We don’t get out much, so the company has to really be stellar for us to be “worth it.” 😉 Feel free to email anytime you’re back!
Damn, now I want a spicy, Nashville-style chicken sandwich… with extra pickles. (Roll tide, I guess?)
Glad your travels were safe, especially this time of year here.
spicy, Nashville-style chicken sandwich… with extra pickles. (Roll tide, I guess?)
I have confused
At that particular restaurant, if you want extra pickles, you have to say/shout, “Roll tide.” … Which I think is some kind of sportsball-related…thing?
I’ll say whatever you guys fucking want–just give me my extra pickles.
Euphemism?
She’s naughty.
Phrasing! BOOM
“Roll Tide” in Tennessee is a no-no. Those pickles were probably poisoned.
Their “Our Story” link doesn’t explain either the Alabama connection or how they wound up in Bozeman.
Great chicken, though.
The I’ve totally given up on life look. Alyssa was impressive until the crying part.
https://www.nbc4i.com/news/state-news/police-ohio-man-claims-bathroom-emergency-is-why-he-ran-from-officers/1607338607
Evidently, if it’s good enough for Shania Twain he coulda gone in place.
Also related .
Lol.
+1 Mexican Dinner
Are you sure those mug shots aren’t from Chillicothe?
They were just outside of Youngstown which is probably worse than Chillicothe. Yeah I know.
Canfield is quite “provincial”
Canada: a nation in Chaos
Too much Labotts and crown Royal – eh?
Lights YUFUS signal! Someone finally decided to check the thermostat .
Rep. Maxine Waters reportedly wants global finance organizations overseen by a subcommittee that looks into terrorism and criminal finance
“Rep. Maxine Waters hopes to make changes to the House Financial Services Committee that could have implications for one of President Donald Trump’s favorite lenders, Axios reported late Sunday.
However, the possible tweaks to the panel that the outlet described may not affect German institution Deutsche Bank — which Waters has promised to look at more closelydue to its relationship with Trump”
How is this not a gross abuse of power?
Because politics
I mean, what actual power? Does she understand how congressional committees actually work?
she’s been in congress for almost three decades; the things she says are stupid: that would apparently also qualify her for president now
government is a gameshow; at least we have Don Pardot to let us all know what consolation prizes we will be getting any day now
Maxine Waters is stone cold stupid and as corrupt as the day is long. She couldn’t care less about rules.
Im certain that SF can give her a cameo in Hat & Hair as ‘the wig’ .
Yeah, she’s pretty much saying she wants to use a Congressional committee to go after people because they have some connection to the President.
Deutsche Bank is in trouble anyway; we dropped them as our offshore
money laundering frontcaptive insurance banker.I’m loving all of them going with their gut instincts. Power-grab harder!
Turns out my BIF report was collateral damage when the weekend anti-squirrel nukes were deployed. Glad I checked, and even more glad that I draft and save everything on my computer. Its back in the queue, baby!
Long winded piece on Adam McKay and how sure he is he got it all right with Vice, the Dick Cheney biopic:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/christian-bale-takes-washingtons-ultimate-gamesman-vice-1162366
The story sounds pretty bland. An exaggerated take on the narrative the left pushed for 8 years that Bush was the puppet wielded by Cheney to ruin the country. This lone paragraph, though, was a gem. Yes, Adam – everything was ROLLING in the ’70’s! America was at its peak…until people foolishly decided to vote against their own interests. Because we’re all stupid rubes. We just don’t get it like you do.
Gas rationing is a sign of Socialist utopia!!!
“We were all poor.”
McKay is a dope, but I think the truth of Bush being led around the nose by Cheney and Rumsfeld is fairly accurate. GWB never met a business he couldn’t fuck up. He was a sucker for compassionate conservatism, aka Democrat economic policies. My impression of him is one of someone who just couldn’t hold his own in a room full of experienced neocons with dreams of making up for Vietnam.
Fuck em all. They deserve every last bit of ridicule and hatred they get.
No stupider than the following president, who got a fawning picture about his first date.
Damning Bush is not praising Obama.
Fine. Let’s reappoint Volker.
I like Volcker, but I think he has too much invested in the myth of good government.
I logged into my TD bank account today and they “lost” all my bill pays and scheduled transfers. ?
Do you still have your money?
Yup.
Owner of Buzzfeed.
To me, all of that just sounds like a bubble is waiting to burst.
Internet advertising is way overdue for a market correction.
I thought that happened years ago.
It did which is why Buzzfeed is trying to sell itself as the responsible content provider so that Google/Facebook squeeze out competition while they merge with what’s left (other left leaning click bit sites).
Responsible as in putting pictures of chicks with giant boobs above all their links, but if you click on said links there are no boobs? That’s just evil.
Say what you will about Q, but Q delivers the goods.
Shouldn’t you be The Last American Gyro?
Chiefs. That is all.
My money is on Andy Reid finally kicking the bucket tonight. I mean that literally. He’s a heart attack waiting to happen.
I am ashamed for chuckling.
He could always OD instead like his son.
Should be a good game. Wish I could stay up for it. Woke up at 4 this morning so not going to happen.
The NFL is establishing right away that no defense will be tolerated in this game.
This isn’t good anything. It’s watered down crap. But we’ll see a lot of points and stupid people will tune in in droves.
Women should not be allowed to watch the Chiefs. The country simply cannot deal with the mass baby boom caused by Patrick Mahomes.
This is a primetime game. MNF. We could literally see millions of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies caused by that beautiful man rolling out to his right and casually throwing a laser 50 yards back across the grain. The healthcare system can’t deal with it.
1.5 million? Bullshit. Of course I don’t expect actual facts from Newsweek. Also, Jazz the 70s called and wants their devil worship pants shitting back.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/11/19/even-witchcraft-flourishing-economy/
“Witch” is the new “lesbian”.
That’s fine. As long as we still get lesbian porn.
Fucking Kasich. What sucks is he’s being replaced by his mini-me in DeWine. Hope they do have the override votes.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/governor-kasich-promises-to-veto-controversial-new-stand-your-ground-bill
Are you going to pay his bills when he’s out of office? Because CNN fucking will. Who are you to judge?
AlmightyJB.
Why is self-defense “controversial”?
Evidently self-defense is racist. At least according to racist democrats in Ohio. ‘Cause you have to be racist to think like that.
Because of instances like the asshole in Florida?(I think) who got pushed to the ground while berating some woman so he killed her boyfriend?
He should have been charged.
I think he was but haven’t heard anything about it for a while, If I wasn’t
lazydrunk I’d google it.More seriously, from the little bit in the article that JB linked it sounds like the state has to prove a killing wasn’t in self-defense, it’s the South Park “It’s coming right for us” defense. Basically, everyone gets the same treatment that cops get when they off some punk.
Fair enough. Appropriate use of force in defense is relevant.
I don’t know what the hell happened to Kasich. In Congress, he was a somewhat tolerable establishment Republican. Since he became the governor of Ohio, he’s gone full on progressive douchebag.
As a resident of SW Ohio, where do I even begin my list of grievances ?
Oh he’s gotten even worse once he was no longer up for re-election as governor. He’s a legend in his own mind.
Shades of Boehner.
Haha, good ol’ John Boner…
When our 6th grade class took our trip to DC, the itinerary included some dumbass ceremony at the Capitol building where John Boner was going to present a flag that flew over the rotunda to our school as a gift. The kid selected to receive the flag and introduce Mr. Boner was this kid who was a straight-A student but still cool enough to break the rules now and then. The teachers warned him a thousand times during the trip, “His name is pronounced ‘BAY-ner’, just remember that. Don’t say ‘boner’.”
The day we were at the ceremony, this little rascal gets up there and says, “Introducing your Ohio congressman John BONER!”
The original Orange Man is to the right of Kasich these day. Christ, what an asshole.
So it’s OK when he stands his ground?
I assume that his security detail is well armed, and not with knifes or pointy sticks.
More She Guevara porn.
https://hotair.com/archives/2018/11/19/ocasio-cortez-can-take-back-three-chambers-government-presidency-senate-house/
Pass. I’ve come to realize I wouldn’t assfuck her on a Gadsden flag, out of irony.
It would have to be oral sex so that she couldn’t talk.
Only if she chokes on it.
She’s from the ‘Harry Potter’ generation. Perhaps she thinks the legislature has the House, the Senate, and the Chamber of Secrets.
“Sssssssocial justissssss…”