After several amazingly busy days that have kept me away from you gang of relentless perverts racist swine wonderful people, I have returned with links and snark. Oh, and birthdays. December 1 marks the birthdate of such notables as Madame Tussaud, my spirit animal Woody Allen, the beyond-amazing asshole and brilliant talent Jaco Pastorius, supposed funnyman Dick Shawn (who was directly responsible for the only sequence in The Producers that was worthy of fast-forwarding through), and object lesson in the inevitable fruits of prohibitionism, Pablo Escobar.
I’m Poppy. Oh wait, not any more!
George Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the father of the 43rd, who steered the nation through a tumultuous period in world affairs but was denied a second term after support for his presidency collapsed under the weight of an economic downturn and his seeming inattention to domestic affairs, died on Friday night at his home in Houston. He was 94.
The adoration then follows, of the sort the press loves to heap on any Team Red political figure who is no longer relevant, but whom they savaged while in office. This is going to be pretty sickening for the next week. At least this NYT hagiography mentions Bush puking on the Japanese prime minister. It neglects to mention his relentless ass groping (“Everybody knows that you stay out of Poppy’s arm reach!”). And of course, no one will dare come at it from the standpoint that he was an authoritarian statist big-government piece of shit, a paternalistic elitist who ran a corrupt spy agency, whose legacy is decades of war, the Sleazy Lawyer Full Employment Act the ADA, David Souter, unprecedented expansion of the carceral state (though that record was broken by his Team Blue and Team Red successors), spawning another generation of privileged and incompetent shitheads who styled themselves as “leaders,” inflicting the now mercifully forgotten Dan Quayle on us, obstructing the Iran-Contra investigations because Team Red corruption is just fine, and continuing the march of Team Red away from any notion of actual constitutional conservatism and to becoming largely indistinguishable from Team Blue.
Oh, and remember the Big Issue that was central to his 1988 campaign? Banning flag burning. Nice one, Poppy, glad you had your priorities straight.
To be fair, he did appoint Clarence Thomas, who at least mixes some good First Amendment advocacy and opposition to eminent domain with an utter contempt for Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights. If that’s the only good thing I can say about him, that he appointed a justice who’s no worse than Sotomayor and better than his son’s appointment of Roberts, that’s more than a little sad.
Bush is dead. Please clap.
This one is a good news/bad news sort of story. The cop who murdered her neighbor is actually getting charged with murder.
A police officer who claimed she killed a Dallas man in his own apartment in the mistaken belief that he was in her home was indicted Friday on a murder charge, authorities said.The indictment of Amber Guyger comes more than two months after she was arrested in the shooting death of Botham Shem Jean at the Dallas apartment complex where both lived — a killing that sparked days of protests.
That’s the good news. Really good news. The bad news is that the whole thing is being promoted as a race thing rather than a police state thing. This despite the fact that it took almost 3 months to charge her, she was given all of the usual protections for cops (like having several days to get her story straight before being questioned), and had the full-press support of the cop union. The Progressive racial narrative is almost a guarantee that the core issues with police (union protections, immunity, and militarization) will never actually be addressed.
How shallow of a human being am I? Oh yeah, very shallow. I only had one thought about this story.
The Kansas City Chiefs have released star running back Kareem Hunt, a decision that came after video surfaced earlier Friday that showed him shoving and kicking a woman in February. The team announced the move Friday night. Minutes earlier, the NFL had announced that Hunt, 23, had been put on the commissioner’s exempt list.
My first (and still principal) thought was, “Fantastic! The Ravens have an upcoming game with the Chiefs and this is one less defensive worry!” Like I said, I’m shallow.
I travel a lot for work, yet I really don’t participate in the various rewards programs. And here’s why.
Hackers stole information on as many as 500 million guests of the Marriott hotel empire over four years, obtaining credit card and passport numbers and other personal data, the company said Friday as it acknowledged one of the largest security breaches in history.
As usual, the first instinct is to figure out if liability can be trimmed back a bit.
The full scope of the failure was not immediately clear. Marriott was trying to determine if the records included duplicates, such as a single person staying multiple times.
The affected hotel brands were operated by Starwood before it was acquired by Marriott in 2016. They include W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton, Westin, Element, Aloft, The Luxury Collection, Le Méridien and Four Points. Starwood-branded timeshare properties were also affected. None of the Marriott-branded chains were threatened.
Guys, you own it. Stop making excuses and make people whole. Immediately. As if they will. But the lawyers are already circling, and of course, they’ll come out as the only winners.
Here’s a delightful story from the Land of Team Blue.
A Massachusetts landlord told a Harvard University graduate student that he wanted her to move out of her apartment because her legally owned firearms made some of her roommates uncomfortable. The request that the student, Leyla Pirnie, move out came after her roommates searched her room while she was not home and found her firearms. That prompted one of the roommates to email [the landlord, Dave] Lewis requesting he verify that Pirnie was in compliance with applicable firearms laws.
“We discussed with Leyla that all of us are uncomfortable with having firearms in the house, and that their presence causes anxiety and deprives us of the quiet enjoyment of the premise to which we are entitled,” the roommate wrote to [landlord]Lewis.
I wonder whether they were actually looking for her vibrator? In any case, and I know this is a vain hope, I do hope that she moves away from those meddling kids, sues the shit out of them and her landlord, and discovers that she’s actually a libertarian.
Old Guy Music, and in honor of birthday boy Jaco Pastorius, here’s one of my favorite songs from what I think was his absolute best collaboration. Some fantastic jazz vocals and Brecker-style LA sax sound.
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The news reported Bush’s death this morning. It elicited a sad “awww” out of my gf. I found it sort of odd.
He was my CinC when I was a young soldier and I just adore the episode of The Simpsons where he moved in next door to Homer et al but that’s about it. He was better than Bush the Lesser but that isn’t saying much. I’ve never been one for respecting those who feel entitled to boss me around and the only POTUS I’ve met personally (evil Drumpfhitler, I worked on a few episodes of The Apprentice) was disarmingly charming and obsequious but that should come as no surprise. I guess I’ll always remember him as the asshole who sent me to Panama to arrest the head of state of a sovereign nation because he stopped cooperating with CIA drug running.
Well, there’s always a bit of contrast between not wishing ill of the dead and spitting on someone’s grave (and I’ve seen plenty of both on twitter since waking up). Between surviving getting shot down in WWII and today – it’s quite a life with all it’s ups and downs. Funny how AP decided to consolidate it to just 4 years.
Better than the WAPO version I guess. https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1068753239380819969 (Life imitates SNL).
He was a decent man and had a family that loved him. Today that’s all that really matters.
Indeed. One of my favorite P.J. O’Rourke anecdotes concerns the ’88 Evil Party convention wherein Sen. Kennedy (D-Kopecky’s Bane) gave a speech punctuated by the applause line “Where was George?” to which O’Rourke and company in the press gallery kept responding “Dry, sober, and home with his wife!”
“Read My Lips”
He was an asshole and a liar.
Classless. True colors day here at Glibs? Yikes.
I won’t speak ill of the man
I will.
Whatever makes you feel better. I personally don’t see the point. I’m not gonna praise him, but in the end he is a flawed human, just like the rest of us. Forgive me for not following suit…
He was John McCain with a nicer veneer – and a bigger job title to do damage.
I would agree that it’s wrong to “speak ill of the dead” to the family and friends face to face, but as far as comments on the Internet that none of them are likely to see, I don’t see the problem.
Dying doesn’t absolve you of the wrongs you did when you were alive.
“Dying doesn’t absolve you of the wrongs you did when you were alive.”
Exactly. Hitler was evil but after he died no one was going to say “he had issues but was a wonderful artist and writer.”
People in powerful positions who do things that undermine the constitution, liberty, or are criminal should be called out on it whether alive or dead.
I hope after I’m gone people say “McGinty needed to use more glue and less wood filler.”
Bondo.
They were so afraid of her they dug through all her stuff and decided to kick her out. Fuck them.
“Fuck them”
Seriously. ?
Do people no longer sit and think, even if only for a moment, “Maybe I’m the problem”?
Self-awareness and humility are dead.
Like Poppy.
Touch my stuff, I’ll kill ya.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtEjGgdZhc4 ??
That strawberry blonde, have her bathed and brought to me immediately.
The Strawberry Blonde
“Yum-yum”
?
SO GAY!
supposed funnyman Dick Shawn (who was directly responsible for the only sequence in The Producers that was worthy of fast-forwarding through),
You didn’t like his performance in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World?
One of my favorite movies; I can watch that at any time. Sylvester was a great character.
Really?
I find it almost impossible to watch.
Yeah, I really love to watch Terry Thomas and Ethel Merman is just fantastic. Also, Sid Caesar, being quite the silly ham, made a point of being the last person to exit the frame of every shot in which he appears; it’s great, he will walk out of frame then come back in like he forgot he hat, mumble and leave last.
I love the scene where Merman sticks the key down her cleavage.
And to think she and Ernest Borgnine were married to each other. Briefly, but still….
I like it, but I understand why it divides opinions so sharply.
Unlike, say, Jaws.
Who doesn’t like Jaws?
James Bond?
Anyone with an IQ greater than their shoe size.
Wrong, chum face!
We’re gonna need a bigger thread.
I love the line of Mickey Rooney (or maybe it’s his companion) asking Jimmy Durante if he’s OK after the accident, and Durante’s “Is he kidding” response just before kicking the bucket.
Edward Everett Horton made a little cameo too – he was a regular in some of my favorite movies of all time, the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies from the 1930s.
Greatest movie ever made.
I never realized how many gay guys are oin this board. 😉
https://kcby.com/news/nation-world/kansas-woman-74-shoots-burglar-has-heart-attack
As Suthen said recently, a .22 will get the job done.
One less scumbag.
I love happy stories. I hope she feels better soon.
If she dies is it felony murder?
At least this NYT hagiography mentions Bush puking on the Japanese prime minister.
I was a freshman in college, doing the morning news at the college radio station. That story broke over the wire during my morning shift (those old wire machines were fucking LOUD). Interesting to see a story develop as a series of one-line reports without knowing what was really going on.
Read my lips.
Bye.
But did he see a thousand points of light at the end?
Sexy Saturday.
http://archive.is/pg2JI
16 with 28 close behind.
Number 8 should tell you all you need to know about the familiar depiction of a heart.
21.
1, 15, 22
Why Aren’t Millennials Spending? They’re Poorer Than Previous Generations, Fed Says
Of course, they don’t mention who’s responsible for the higher-ed bubble.
The greedy right-wingers who run all the colleges?
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one mass shooting each day,
Where’s the breathless wall-to-wall coverage of every mass shooting since Thousand Oaks? If there’s one a day there must be quite a few of them.
“Shall not be infringed” clearly means “shall infringe at every opportunity”.
Somebody in the links thread either yesterday afternoon or the night thread compared it to the Illinois pension kerfuffle.
Hmm… the only way I can parse this is he is referring to the fact that each bullet has mass. So if there are shootings which involve the use of bullets, which have mass, then those are mass shootings.
Either that or I’ve had more Tequila than I need to be able to follow his process of feeling.
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People still have answering machines?
Dial-up voicemail is really a PITA with rotary phones
We technically have a landline (Dad worked for Ma Bell for 30 years, so he gets it free), but since we’re at the end of the line they never fix any problems with the line any more. And we get few calls.
I should have added that the phone on the landline has an answering machine.
Of course, Dad’s and my cell phones have voice mail.
“All of us”? Pretty sure Leyla was comfortable with having firearms in the house.
Were I in her shoes I would have offered to take each one of them shooting until they were comfortable with firearms. I expect this would not be the solution they were seeking but I would bet that (in my fantasy world where I am allowed to try) we would end up being the best armed household outside the closest National Guard Armory.
According to the article, Leyla had a MAGA hat in her room and she’s from Alabama. That’s what made her roommates uncomfortable.
She’s pretty. Odds on her roommates being ugly?
No one’s taking that bet.
You have to admit, Sean, that they jump out at you all the time and often just ‘go off’.
Guns are like that.
Harvard students you say?
The best and brightest.
They were worried that someone might break into her room. After all, look how easy it was for them to break into her room.
Serious case of projection for sure. “If I owned a gun, I’d turn it on every one of these goddamn people. That’s why I don’t own a gun.”
Yup, it’s all like John Wick up in here.
“”A few weeks ago, I came back to my apartment from a weekend trip and was confronted by one of my roommates who asked if I had guns in the house,” she told the Free Beacon. “After being told far too many lies to count, my roommates finally admitted that they searched my closet, under my bed, and all of my drawers in pursuit of finding my guns.”
While she was given several different explanations for why the roommates entered and searched her room, the 24-year-old said she felt her political beliefs and where she is from played a significant role in the roommates’ actions.
“When I asked them why they were in my room to begin with, they each came up with completely contradicting stories (none of which made any sense), but one comment struck me in particular: ‘We saw that you had a MAGA hat and come on, you’re from Alabama… so we just kind of assumed that you had something,’” she said. “I asked why they didn’t just call me and ask me before intruding. One of the girls responded that fear took over her body and she felt compelled to search my room until she found proof… I cannot make this up.””
Wow.
I’m gonna say that the reference to “quiet enjoyment” is flag that at least one of her roommates is a law student.
And, typically of law students, gets it wrong. “Quiet enjoyment” means peace and quiet, habitable premises, etc. If Leyla was in the habit of shooting her guns in the house, that would be a problem. Merely having guns in the house is nowhere near a breach of the covenant.
C’mon Dean, creative interpretations of phrases like that is why you guys get paid. It’s the reason there is such a thing as “constitutional law scholar”. Penumbras and emanations all the way down. And the guys in the robes pay attention to this nonsense instead of laughing these so-called lawyers out of the room.
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I was looking for some good derp on free speech this morning, when I stumbled across something that was not written by a gender-fluid mobile game designer living in Brooklyn. Here’s some George Lakoff.
The new technocratic argument against freedom of
speechthought.I need to sue that guy for the way he just fucked up my neural circuitry.
Does that mean I can’t hate my friends anymore?
I think he needs a demonstration of the difference between speech being hurtful (you’re a dumbass George) and violence (anyone got a baseball bat handy?).
Does he think he is surrounded by Bene Gesserit? Whatever happened to Sticks & stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me?
Your words hurt mah brainz
My name is a killing word!
Words can kill
The comments are heartening, anyway.
Commenting to soon be removed from medium.com
Screeds like his cause me anxiety. Shut the fuck up George.
Like violence, hate speech can also be a physical imposition on the freedom of others. That is because language has a psychological effect imposed physically — on the neural system, with long-term crippling effects.
Having a physical effect =/= being a physical imposition.
I remember when words had meaning. We seem to have raised a generation or two who probably cannot remember such a time.
Shorter George – “I will decide what you are not allowed to say in a free society herpa derpa shmerpa”
Fuck you.
You realize, of course, that Lakoff’s side is winning.
In other news came across this one….the translate kinda works on individual tweets, but not great: https://twitter.com/pmakela1/status/1068785003423772672
Painting over unit id #s. I’ve seen that for transfers I think – but not sure if it normally happens in transit. Obviously makes things a little more interesting.
Was the orchestra on that train?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCabI3MdV9g
Ao my anova precision cooker just arrived? Anyone have any good sous vide recipes? I mean i did a steak and it was great but then again I did good steak in just my cast iron. I am thinking of getting some beef shortrib and doing it for 60 hours or something
Here you go.
I did a 48 hour short rib cook and it turned out amazing.
linking serious eats in uninteresting. I know about them. was thinking personal experiences…
I’ve tried a bunch of his recipes and all have been excellent.
My favorite.
I don’t ever want salmon another way.
Yeah, that’s how we are with fish in general. Sous vide or GTFO.
I’ve never gotten salmon right. I don’t have fancy schmancy sous vide equipment but now I’m thinking of trying a reverse sear on it.
Sous vide is really ideal for salmon because otherwise you can fuck it up so quickly. Do you have a grill? That’s how I used to do it and got decent results.
Not a real one. I probably just need to watch my times better (and maybe not walk out of the room and get distracted like I usually do when I’m cooking).
Works fine on my gas grill.
I just rub it with olive oil, sprinkle on some herbs, and put it under the broiler for roughly ten minutes (depending on size, of course).
The problem with salmon (and most fish) is that the meat isn’t an even thickness (there are exceptions). By the time you get the thick bit in the middle cooked, the edges are dry. Sous vide solves that. Plus, sous vide keeps fish from drying out much at all, and with salmon, at least (and other fatty fishes) you get this awesome moist tender meat.
Browsing the gear now on Amazon… tempting
Another
Playa posted this one. I haven’t tried it yet, but you should and report back!
Pastrami in Romania has a very specific meaning of salted mutton
Well not really is is also used for some types of cold cuts. So you have cooked pastrami and not cooked pastrami.
Also it an be made of beef although it is mostly mutton
Speaking of steak what is everyone drinking?
Me I opened a bottle of this
https://www.vivino.com/cave-de-tain-l-hermitage-les-petites-cabanes-cornas-mfdf4/w/2036489
North Rohn syrah, although I think Cornas it is at the edge of north and south.
not bad at all
The Tain co-op is one of the better ones. Cornas is at the south end of the Northern Rhone, but is firmly a Northern Rhone. Steep granite hills, 100% syrah. I love Cornas, it’s one of my 2 or 3 favorite wines. One day, I’ll write about my conversations with Marcel Juge, who was not only the best producer there, but also as clise as France got to having an actual libertarian.
Oh, and I should mention that Spud and I visited Thierry Allemand and did barrel tastings of his cuvees from a particularly rich vintage. At one point, Spud noticed that my tongue was stained purple and exclaimed, “Dude, you look like you just blew Barney!”
I’m about to start making these for the second time based upon recommendations from (I hope my memory serves and if it doesn’t, I’m sorry for whomever got shortchanged) I think OMWC and SP. They are fantastic and didn’t last a day in our home.
https://simplydesigning.porch.com/sous-vide-dark-chocolate-pots-de-creme/
SP, not me. She’s in charge of baking and dessert.
Well, thanks to both of you regardless. These are really, really yummy.
Mrs. Dean did those (different recipe not online). Much bueno.
Damn I loved Joni’s voice, and her cheekbones. Sad that later life has been so cruel to her.
And I hate the hi freq hearing loss that prevents me from enjoying her voice, but ah, still got the cheekbones.
” Sad that later life has been so cruel to her.”
Sad that later life has been/will be so cruel to us
”
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Yeah, I had a serious heater for her in those days. The music is what did it. Yeah, the music. That’s it, that’s the ticket.
Like violence, hate speech can also be a physical imposition on the freedom of others. That is because language has a psychological effect imposed physically — on the neural system, with long-term crippling effects.
No kidding. Reading that gave me brain damage.
Don’t these people understand that their logic can be applied against them? They would say it’s not the same thing, but when you are appealing to someone’s feelings and how they perceive something, it is.
You silly billy, that’s what double standards are for!
And if they call you out on your double standard, you can just accuse them of “whataboutism”!
And if they call out the logical fallacy of that, you can call them racist.
I don’t understand what’s so hard about this.
Every communist thinks that after the glorious revolution they will be the one walking around with a clipboard looking over their glasses at everyone else.
– A commenter here that I cant remember.
They never imagine that instead they will be standing naked on the edge of a dirt pit watching hard faced men load their rifles.
– Me
True. They always imagine that there would be some “reasonable, common-sense exception” made in their case.
What amazes me is that even right now, Lefties find a way to blame private actors for what is pretty clearly a government policy. My stepdad got all worked up because Wal-Mart refused to sell him a bottle of wine because he had two young-looking adults with him who weren’t carrying ID. He seemed to direct all of his anger at Wal-Mart, as if their board of directors just decided one day that they’re going to be dickheads and implement a strict ID-checking policy for alcohol sales. I tried to explain this to him, but he just kept insisting that “they could have sold it to me anyway”. No, they couldn’t. They would be fined heavily, possibly lose their alcohol license, and the cashier would lose his job.
Wait, what?!? I almost always have my kids in tow when shopping and they have no ID. I DID get carded for children’s cough and cold medicine last night but my kids didn’t (even though I bought it for them).
These were two people who were over 21 but not obviously old in appearance.
I can’t really blame the cashier for doing what he did; he’s following the law and the company policy. I don’t get why my stepdad would blame the Wal-Mart corporation for that.
Because then he would have to take some of the blame himself. Governments dont usually just up and do stuff like that either. They do it in response to the demands of people like your step father.
@Suthen:
Exactly. He’s the kind of guy who is always pounding his fist and saying “they need to start regulating that!”
People are happy to say that you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, but then they whine when they’re the egg that gets broken.
My lefty friend is a huge proponent of regulation and he’s a huge pothead. He was all excited when they legalized rec pot here because now he can fell safe with the government finally overseeing product safety.
He kinda shut right up when I pointed out that pot got better and cheaper the whole time it was legal and the only time it was ever contaminated was when his precious government poisoned it with paraquat. No fucking clue, that guy.
somebody might break in and turn the guns on them or the guns “might go off on their own.”
Sounds like a rape fantasy.
You know these links could have had a mention about it being the national day of Romania just so that everyone felt included
Good news for those of us in Ohio, Cigar City is going to start distributing their beers here in January. And for the hipsters here, PBR is safe.
Sorry I’m late, especially with a bunch of BIF posts in tow but Cigar City Guayabera is my go-to beer.
Here we go:
In response to the email from Pirnie’s roommate, Lewis contacted Captain James Donovan of the Somerville Police Department to inspect Pirnie’s firearms and ensure they were in compliance with Massachusetts law. Pirnie agreed to allowing the police to inspect her firearms and said she was told she is in compliance with all applicable laws. Lewis acknowledged the department’s conclusion that Pirnie was not breaking any gun laws in his email telling Pirnie to move out.
That Beretta 92, the one with the fifteen round mag just like the one your dad had in Iraq? It’s sending you to jail. Nobody needs more than ten rounds.
Captain Donovan is actually in charge of issuing permits to own and carry guns in Somerville. I know because I had to write a letter addressed to him when I applied. My CC permit was approved; he is not all bad. By the standards of the inner Boston suburbs, the town is not terrible with respect to guns.
My earliest memories from trips to Mass. are the large gun control signs on the interstates after crossing in from NH & VT. This would have been in the late 70’s I think. It always confused me how the state in which the spark for the revolutionary war occurred became anti gun rights.
The Kennedys. Most of that is their doing. For some reason I cant remember they dont like guns much.
– 1 cranium
Both companies declined to disclose the terms of the settlement, including whether MillerCoors would continue to brew Pabst beers.
I am unaffected, but I know a few people who will be relieved to hear that.
If BUD drops their deal to brew Rolling Rock, it might sting.
By the standards of the inner Boston suburbs, the town is not terrible with respect to guns.
That’s good to hear. I was pointing out that the roommates got the cops involved, in hopes that she was breaking some stupid law. I believe Mass is one of the ten-round-limit states, so a pistol legal in 46 or 47 states might get you in the shit.
Also- unless the lease specifically prohibits guns, she should stay put and force those other dumb bitches to move out and continue to pay their shares of the rent, if they are so traumatized by teh gunz.
Teaching moment, FTW!
Can she have her roommates charged for the burglary of her room?
That was my question. Burglary classically involves breaking and entering a residence with the intent to steal, but its also not necessary that the residence be locked so the “breaking” part isn’t essential. I don’t think they committed burglary or robbery (which requires that the victim be present).
However, they may well have committed theft, depending on whether they took the guns without intending to return them. Its a close question, but I would say there’s a decent chance they committed theft, and only returned the guns after they were told they were legal. IOW, when they took them (and all they have to do is move them from where they found them, not take them out of the apartment) they did intend to return them. The intent to return them arose later.
Dammit.
IOW, when they took them (and all they have to do is move them from where they found them, not take them out of the apartment) they did not intend to return them.
I would further note that having the intention to return them conditionally (if something happens, like, in this case, the cops say they are legal) doesn’t cut it. Depending on the jurisdiction, taking anything without permission, even if you intend to return it when you are done with it, may also be theft.
Also- unless the lease specifically prohibits guns, she should stay put and force those other dumb bitches to move out and continue to pay their shares of the rent
So much this. Why should she pay their rent if they move out, it’s their obligation (I assume).
If the lease prohibited guns, they wouldn’t just be asking her to leave.
GHWB41 is dead, and, speaking of other irrelevant things happening in Texas, TU will lose to ZeroU by six today.
In the I-95HooGiffsASheetBowl, Pitt goes goes for a walk in the Carolinas and CLEMSON GO FULL SMITH ON THEM, AND BY FULL SMITH MEAN 30.
In the SloopBowl, Wilbon and Colbert has a sad: tOSU over Northwestern by 11.
Out west yestidy, Huskies pulled past Utah by exactly the 10 they should have.
In the PopeBowl, the money says UCF (-4.5). Darrell Henderson will prove once again that Mississippi is by far the best football state in the Union on a per capita basis. Memphis is pumped, and USF mushed the UCF QB last week, so I’m going out on a limb all by myself and calling it Tiger High by 3 .
NewWife doesn’t want to hear this, but Bama over UGA by nine; one way or another, we will be drinking heavily, so no calls after 7 Georgia time, folks…thanks.
Back to north Texas and the upcoming fling-a-thon at the DeathStar, just remember that, even in collidge ball, it’s all about Jerry; appropos of little, I give you FakeJerry and FakeWade
Can she have her roommates charged for the burglary of her room?
I’d give it a shot.
Been watching Aggretsuko on Netflix. Actually pretty decent and funny for a cartoon based on Sanrio characters.
Overhyped, pretentious, not very jazzy, not the future, let Jaco stay dead, he sucked
Chewing on paint chips again?
I’m not much for noodling gibberish, but enough about Hendrix…. sorry neither hold up well
Electric Ladyland is one of the top twenty rock albums of all time.
There really isn’t anything to debate about.
noodling
I thought you were a guitarist ?
Bush 41 cost me an AR-180. There was one at a gun show in Denver, didn’t have the cash but got the address of the owner/store. New week, HW makes the import ban permanent and the AR-180 becomes not for sale. Moral of the story; buy that gun you want now and never trust a Republican (or any politician)
Of course he banned it. It’s like 12 times deadlier than an AR-15.
Shocking discovery
Thanks to new polling data from the Associated Press, at least one thing is clear: Romney’s constituents back in Utah don’t want another presidential lapdog.
According to the poll, 64 percent of Utah voters want to see Romney stand up to the president when he gets to the Senate. That’s an eye-popping number for a conservative state, particularly in a year when Trump is consolidating power elsewhere in his party and boasting high approval ratings among Republican voters. (Notably, the AP found that even about half of Romney’s supporters in Utah want him to confront Trump.)
So, what they have found is that the people who didn’t vote for him want to do do what the loser would/might have done? No winning candidate can be expected to conform precisely to the needs and wishes of a large disparate group of voters? Okay, that’s helpful.
Stand up to him on what policy? Lower taxes? Immigration? Trade deals? Gun control?
Or just his bad manners and trolling of ducks like Romney?
Ha. My phone Auto-corrects “cucks”.
Stand up to the president. Confront Trump.
About what? Raising taxes? Reinstating 8 bazillion regulations? Getting back into the climate scam? Growing government as fast and big as possible? Because they love them so low flow shower heads?
What the fuck are they talking about?
My guess – AP is a bunch of lying sacks of shit.
HW is the guy who got scales to fall from my eyes. I thought all Republicans were onboard Reagan’s “revolution” in the 80’s. Then that moderate fuck came in and undis the whole thing as fast as he could. He was by far Reagan’s biggest mistake.
Jeffery Lord wrote about Bush’s backstab many times with Ed Rollins – one of the few Reagan hold overs – as the inside witness to HW assholery.
https://spectator.org/65551_why-bush-dynasty-fell/
This thread may be dead but here is an article about HW and gun control
Bush & Guns
He was just awful on every issue. If Reagan had selected a conservative like Pete DuPont, things would have been a lot different – probably no Clinton Presidency.
But then there would be no Hillary and hence no Trump!
Bah. They’ve all been terrible since Coolidge.
^this x 10000000
Aaaaand Tundra nails it.
Wise man that Tundra.
Some other Poppy:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6449363/Poppy-Delevingne-Natalie-Portman-Troye-Sivan-lead-arrivals-NGV-Gala.html
Of course, some Utahns will want to see more than disapproving tweets from Romney. In liberal enclaves like Salt Lake City and Park City, there is growing appetite for a more confrontational approach to the president.
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Few in Utah expect Romney to join the resistance once he arrives in the Senate. (And as I’ve written in the past, those who do are likely to be disappointed, given his consistent support for the more traditionally conservative elements of Trump’s agenda.) But after witnessing outgoing Senator Orrin Hatch’s lockstep devotion to Trump these past couple of years, many in the state are simply hoping Romney will distinguish himself with a degree of independence.
When I asked Catherine Eslinger—the co-director of the Utah chapter of Mormon Women for Ethical Government—what she’d like to see Senator Romney do to hold Trump accountable, she rattled off a detailed wish list. She hopes he’ll push for more robust oversight of the “dysfunction and upheaval” in the Trump administration; that he’ll provide a check against what she considers draconian policies toward immigrants and refugees; that he’ll speak out against Trump’s racist rhetoric.
I wonder if he talked to anybody outside those “liberal enclaves”. He should have driven out toward the Wyoming or Colorado state line and done a Rednecks in the Mist piece. Maybe stop by a shooting range.
Re Hunt. What are these guys thinking?
I was in college and working during Bush I and didn’t pay much attention.
I was fresh out of college and believed his “Read My Lips” lie and voted for him (after voting for DuPont in the primary). Fought in the first Gulf War for the guy, then voted for Perot.
“Fought in the first Gulf War for the guy, then voted for Perot.”
#metoo
#notmetoo The 7th ID (Light) sat in Monterey twiddling our thumbs; we were told that because we went to Panama, we were not going to Mesopotamia. Not that light infantry is in any way suited for the sandbox. Our participation in the very 1st light/heavy infantry combined arms deployment at NTC confirmed that. OPFOR brutalized us. Well, them; I was pulled from my squad and tasked with testing a new portable radar system for McDonnell-Douglas called TDAAR… we broke the fuck out of it; proving it was not soldier proof enough to get fielded.
I was going to vote for Perot then he withdrew on some conspiracy theory and got back in again. I was like, “There’s something wrong in his head.”
No new taxes? I thought he said, “No nude Texans.” He kept that promise…
“Twitter needs to decide if it’s a platform or a publisher
Yesterday, Laura Loomer handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter’s New York headquarters while donning a Star of David in protest of the company’s permanent ban of her account. For a woman who has campaigned for and cavorted with white supremacists, it’s rather remarkable that yesterday’s spectacle may have been her most cringe-inducing moment yet.
But between Loomer’s sad show and the recent, unexplained but brief Twitter ban placed on conservative commentator Jesse Kelly’s account, Twitter faces an existential crisis: Is it a platform or is it a publisher?
Twitter is a private company. It is not bound in any way to abiding by the principles of free speech or protecting speech covered by the First Amendment. But as it increasingly engages in inconsistent, seemingly politically motivated bans and suspensions, the company is slowly wading away from being a platform with a fixed set of rules and heading toward taking on the legal liabilities of being a publisher.
Social media companies are exempt from the enforcement of libel laws thanks to the Communications Decency Act. Because social media platforms are meant to be open forums with extremely rigid, limited, and consistent rules to moderate “offensive” content, they aren’t liable for what users post on their sites.
However, as Twitter’s staff begin to act like editors more than technological facillitators, they run the risk of losing the legal protection of neutrality. They face the same risks that newspapers and traditional media companies take when they publish reader-submitted material.
Loomer has previously tweeted abhorrent things that could reasonably fall under the category of “offensive” harassment. But of all of her thousands of nasty tweets, Twitter chose a fairly innocuous one as an excuse to ban her. To all appearances, the decision to impose the ban was purely political.
Twitter banned Jesse Kelly, who, to my knowledge, never engaged in hate speech, harassment, threats, or even profanity, without any explanation or warning at all.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/twitter-needs-to-decide-if-its-a-platform-or-a-publisher
Good. I’m glad the platform v publisher conversation is getting out to a (somewhat) wider audience.
Tucker Carlson did a piece on it last night.
What the fuck did you think they were paying her all that money for?
Originally, Sandberg denied that some of those efforts—such as hiring the Definers Public Affairs, a communications firm that reportedly ran the Soros efforts—were conducted at her direction or even with her knowledge. But apparently, Sandberg was more involved. She reportedly requested “an examination into why Mr. Soros had criticized the tech companies and whether he stood to gain financially from the attacks.” Specifically, Sandberg had emailed Facebook colleagues asking if Soros had sold Facebook’s stock short, a way of betting against the company’s stock price.
Most obviously, Sandberg’s interest in a hypothetical Soros short position—which also recalls Elon Musk’s obsession with short sellers, the consequences of which were dire—looks like an affirmation of Sandberg’s, and Facebook’s, ongoing communication strategy. Over the last year, a barrage of denials and deflections about malfeasance and error, from data-extraction practices to security breaches, have seeped out of Facebook, often later confirmed to be as bad or worse than initial reports indicated. It’s looking increasingly clear that Sandberg, and Facebook, can’t be trusted. If that’s news to you as 2018 nears a close, then you haven’t been paying attention.
The obsession with shorting also suggest that Facebook only cares about the financial motivations of highly capitalized individuals and institutions (Facebook has been a favorite investment of hedge funds), which belies the company’s ongoing insistence that it is a force for social good, including Sandberg’s own crusade for women at work. As my colleague Olga Khazan put it, these days “Sandberg comes off looking more like just another executive shark than a feminist STEM star.”
Oh, the horror. A corporation pays people millions of dollars because they expect those people to help them make even more money? My god, it’s mindboggling.
He was just awful on every issue.
As I said at the time, “Bush didn’t get re-elected because he didn’t *deserve* to be.”
Twitter is a private company. It is not bound in any way to abiding by the principles of free speech or protecting speech covered by the First Amendment.
Something something tell it to the judge, mister baker man.
Tune in to WFMU. Two hours of great music and nostalgia for the over 45 crowd awaits. Trust me.
Michael Shelley?
Yes. With a very special guest.
Grazie!
Have a great day, EDG!
Enjoy the toiletectomy.
Im soon to be sitting at my kitchen table peeling resistors from a circuit board for re-use. This will make lovely background music.
Lucky. I’m preparing to replace a toilet.
Trade ya.
Its a close question, but I would say there’s a decent chance they committed theft, and only returned the guns after they were told they were legal. IOW, when they took them (and all they have to do is move them from where they found them, not take them out of the apartment) they did intend to return them.
We can probably assume the
Harvard scholarsdopey bints were operating under the presumption that there is no such thing as a legal privately owned firearm in Greater Metropolitan Boston. They more likely than not believed they were striking a blow for the Social Contract by turning those (stolen) guns in to the police to be melted down and turned into a statue representing the proletarian struggle.“She let him touch her. They were quiet. His friends were asleep. She felt his hand slide under her pajama pants and start touching her clitoris. She went along with it. Still facing away, she grabbed his penis and inserted it into her vagina. They had sex. It was brief — maybe a minute, if that. She stopped it when she told him she had to use the bathroom.
When she was done, she climbed the ladder to get back into bed. It was only then that she saw who was in it.
It wasn’t her boyfriend. It was Grant.
Abigail was right to be confused. Under her state’s law, what Grant did was not technically illegal — even though he later admitted that he knew Abigail wasn’t consenting to sex with him. That’s because in Indiana, sex only becomes rape when it’s compelled through force or threats, if the victim is mentally disabled and can’t properly consent, or if he or she is unaware that the sex is occurring.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/rape-fraud-consent-purdue-abigail-finney-joyce-short-grant
TW: buzzfeed
See The Canterberry Tales: The Reeve’s Tale
Can her boyfriend legally beat Grant into bloody pulp? That’s how these things used to get resolved.
“It wasn’t her boyfriend. It was Grant.”
I smell a rat. I would have to be completely blind, shitfaced drunk to touch a woman and not realize in two seconds that she wasn’t my wife.
She got caught….. didn’t she?
“These vegan milkshakes are made from hummus”
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1068392432344096768
No.
I dont get the ‘Let’s make people eat bugs’ crowd. Between them and the low flow fixtures crowd, the warmistas etc I think they are just malcontents and misanthropes who want to punish people. It’s just sadism.
Friend – “I have a recipe that makes turnips taste just like potatoes. You wont know the difference.”
Me – “No.”
Friend – “Why not?”
Me – “Because I can eat potatoes.”
Not according to this jackass:
“Healthy portion of fries should only contain SIX, Harvard professor declares
Professor Eric Rimm, of Harvard University’s nutrition department, says they are ‘starch bombs’ and half a dozen should be our limit. After that we should sate our appetite with salad if we want to avoid life-threatening heart conditions.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6446933/A-portion-fries-contain-SIX-Harvard-professor-declares.html
You’ll have to pry my French Fry Po’ Boy with Debris Gravy and Chip Butties out of my cold dead hands.
“An even more detailed chart of red-brown alliances and associations.”
https://twitter.com/ExistentialEnso/status/1068159711437041664
“libertarian socialist “
She let him touch her. They were quiet. His friends were asleep. She felt his hand slide under her pajama pants and start touching her clitoris. She went along with it. Still facing away, she grabbed his penis and inserted it into her vagina.
Sounds like a contestant in a “bad erotica” competition..