As much as I would rather be sleeping in another hour, I’ll get up an hour early just for you lovable bastards.
Born on this day we have Crazy Horse, Jeff The Dude Bridges, Comedian Fred Armisen, Jay-Z, and Genius Tyra Banks.
Regardless of the results, Democrats will still hold their endless congressional hearings. So you have that to look forward to.
The French suspended their planned fuel tax increase for 6 months.
North Carolina woman claims she was paid to collect absentee ballots.
Italian government fires entire health expert board.
Crazy Eyes makes a good point.
For any of you looking to volunteer.
That’s all I got for today. I’m off to get myself and children ready and out the door. But will leave you with a song before I go.
Sorry Sloop – went went back and forth on this a few months ago, Urban Meyer is done at Ohio State.
The school administration treated him like shit. He has all the fuck-you money he needs to take time off and find another job if he wants.
I don’t blame him after the way they treated him over the Zach Smith idiocy.
Unless they find a drug that eliminates stress or a way to remove the brain cyst, I don’t see him coaching again.
A bit of skepticism given the health issues that caused him to leave Florida though.
He’ll be back. Maybe not for a couple of years, but he’ll be back.
Just keep your hands off whoever it is my school is trying to hire.
Unless we are making a mistake, then steal him from us.
Plenty of drugs that eliminate stress – although most probably would impede his ability to coach and recruit at that level.
In a couple years when he’ll take the helm at Texas or some such high profile school fallen on hard times and stomp tOSU in a bowl game.
He could probably have the USC job right now if he wanted. Given their freshman class and Meyer’s recruiting skills, easy national championship in 2 to 3 years.
All that reminded me of was that my narrator with an eyepatch was Not the one who engaged in piracy at sea.
I know that has nothing to do with why the link was posted.
“I know that has nothing to do with why the link was posted.”
When has that ever stopped you?
I know you don’t see the comments not posted, Switzy.
I am sure you can see this:
You really should feed that cow better, it’s all skin and bones.
That’s a cow? I thought it was Bernie picking up his undies.
*sitting ovation*
“He invented boy bands as revenge against a group Juliard graduates who had come together to work for the return of originality, depth, emotional movement and cultural enhancementt of modern music. One if them said “NO to Rob once. There’s an idiot born every minute.”
Why, precisely, would government be using tax dollars to invest in a publicly-traded company anyway? I mean, it’s not like they don’t fritter away trillions every year in unproductive crap, but still…
Because Barry O loved to pick winners and losers rather than let the economy work?
I think when Obama was talking about how good he was at picking winners and losers, he was talking about his drone strike program.
He was real good at drone striking people. He was only good at picking winners if you consider instances like Solyndra, GE, and GM, where the top men got stinking rich and stock holders & employees got super shafted, to be winning. Then again, when the whole objective of your social justice crusade is to make sure the things your ideology hates lose, at any and all costs, you can see why people subscribing to these SJ crusades see this as a victory still.
Note that, for example, being a champion of killing cheap energy to enrich some connected asshats peddling what amounts to snake oil solutions, and repeatedly telling us we can’t drill our way out of ever increasing energy costs these policies they championed instituted, has not stopped Obama from claiming that the current situation created by those that managed to make shale oil/gas a profitable enterprise, was because of him.
The fact that the US is now a net oil/gas exporter, has broken the OPEC monopoly, and in the process has caused some of the most despicable players on this planet that propped up evil regimes with the money they garnered selling energy at ludicrously high prices to lose their power or ability to finance evil, pisses these people that felt the Americans were an entity that should lose (because of patriarchy, racism, and what not).
The fact he’s acting like he is right now just shows what kind of insecure, low life he is.
If he did in fact do those things history will judge him accordingly. The truth will protect him
Why is he claiming credit so vociferously for things? He just comes off like a loser.
You’re right, I immediately thought of Al Gore too.
I think he knows exactly how history will judge him. That is why he is so busy trying to muddy the waters.
^^^THIS^^^
His holiness beat me to it.
Say, has Trump murder-droned anyone since taking office. Seriously, I was thinking about that last night.
Yes. The program continues apace. Fortunately, we have a new media that is very aware of proto-fascist policies such as extrajudicial killings by the state and ready to sound the alarm when they become institutionalized.
That’s why I’m sure the “Democracy Dies In Darkness” folks will be writing about this any day now.
^^^What UCS said.^^^
With these fucking SJW types it is all about making sure the “right” people/entities/ideas win and the “wrong” ones lose, and with big government now masquerading as what the old-time religions would term God, the only entity allowed to pick is government. The fact that there is constant evidence of how evil government bureaucracy is has not yet dissuaded these social justice crusaders a bit.
For the SJW left, the most important thing is that what they believe to be wrong/bad be punished. Even when it means everyone, including the good, must suffer or lose in the process. It’s a system of oppression in search of equality of outcome (for the plebes). The fact that we have 100 plus years of history, over 120 million killed by marxism and another 80 or so million by fascism, both collectivist systems predicated on picking winners & losers to guarantee equality of outcome, and billions that have suffered because of this evil, will not dissuade them from trying again. Because envy and jealousy drive them.
Even when it means everyone, including the good, must suffer or lose in the process.
Even? Of that, I’m not in the least convinced. I’m increasingly convinced that they want to destroy the good for being the good. Listen to them sometime. When they reference “white privilege”, what they’re describing is the rights natural to free men. They don’t think the injustice is that the rights of non-whites are too often denied. It’s that the rights of whites are too often observed. As others have said on this blog, if their goal was to lift up the poor, you’d think they’d be eager to recreate the patterns and behaviors that make people affluent. But, they make clear, in no uncertain terms, that they reject that option utterly and totally. Their aim isn’t to lift up the poor, but to bring down the rich. I could easily enough cite a dozen other examples.
We assume that they want decency and joy and happiness and success because that’s what we want. What if they don’t. What if they want depravity, misery, suffering and failure?
“I’m increasingly convinced that they want to destroy the good for being the good.”
They want to destroy any system that stands in the way of their ability to wield power unrestricted to whatever means & goals they are after.
“We assume that they want decency and joy and happiness and success because that’s what we want. ”
I don’t assume this at all, Bill. I firmly believe that what they are after, always, is power and the ability to wield said power against whomever or whatever their enemy du jour is.
These are not decent people gone wrong, and making the mistake of thinking that’s what is going on when you engage them in any attempt to compromise, is going to lead to failure, loss, and more evil. I believe they are wholly evil entities that care little about anything other than their ability to force reality, and by that definition everyone and anything, to conform to whatever warped belief they want.
” When they reference “white privilege”, what they’re describing is the rights natural to free men. They don’t think the injustice is that the rights of non-whites are too often denied. It’s that the rights of whites are too often observed.”
It’s not quite that, from the Privilege Conversations I’ve had with my AA fiancee. She sees being oppressed less as being given something because of the relative advantage. It got kinda heated when I said the problem with the privilege notion is that it is designed to pit the victims against each other, instead of focusing on the oppressors in government being the ones with the actual privilege, and the serfs they want to own being a way of distracting them from that fact as they fight over crumbs.
The fact that these identity pushers are using the old “Divide & Conquer” tactic seems to always escape people that want to virtue signal or fit in.
“Government investment” A phrase that should never e used.
We wouldn’t have the internet without government investment!
Have we used up the reserves of dark fiber yet?
RACIST!!!!
Democratic Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York slammed the electric car company Tesla Monday night for failing to give American taxpayers a return on their “investment.”
And yet she supports a full litany of “investments” with even worse ROIs. Why so bitter, Alexandria? Didn’t they provide good-paying jobs all over the country? Didn’t they showcase “green” technology? By every standard you’ve advocated, they’ve been a rousing success. Who are you to put profits before people?
“And yet she supports a full litany of “investments” with even worse ROIs.”
With the peddlers of marxism, you need to understand that the ROIs they care about Bill are the ones that keep them in power. Operating at a loss, even a unsustainable loss, is of no consequence to them, since they figure some other asshat will have to deal with the economic collapse they are causing while they are becoming stinking rich.
I always find it funny that the furthest left congress critters like to make noise about ending corporate welfare but never do a thing about it. This should be a bipartisan issue where the ends of both spectrum can work together an stop this non-sense but……our crony fascist system exists to perpetuate itself and its lobbyists so….
Every standard? Tesla is run by a white cishitlord so it missed one of the standards.
Well, she misses the point, in my book.
She assumes that the government (not taxpayers, you bint) should be investing in companies. In some ways, its worse to demand that the government make a profit when it does so. Having the government “invest” in order to (nominally) advance the general welfare and public interest is at least in line with what the government is supposed to be doing. Having the government invest for profit is having the government not act as a government at all, but as a very large business that can (and therefor will) do whatever it takes to ensure that it profits from its favored companies.
For a commie, she sure is a good little fascist.
Unclear whether he responds, or ignores you and instead strong arms some unfortunate stranger.
The man truly is a national treasure.
Michael Brown?
Honestly, Ocasio-Cortez has drawn attention to a few things worth criticizing, I just suspect we’d differ on the remedy.
the return on our “investment” we “deserve”
Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.
“Deserve” seems to have changed meaning since I lived in America.
A lot of things have changed meaning with these marxists SJW peddlers Straff.
Urban Meyer retiring after the Rose Bowl.
Thanks for the 7 wins over TTUN, a national championship and 3 conference titles (plus an undefeated season where we couldn’t play the CCG) in your 7 years. Go Bucks.
O-H…
M?
Sloopy as #resistance confirmed!
Those rodents are probably setting up a parade to celebrate Urban retiring. Now little Jimmy will think he has a chance…until he loses again next November.
If it makes you feel any better, the parade they have to celebrate Harbaugh’s firing when it comes will be twice as big.
They’re stuck with Jimmy. Who are they gonna replace him with?
Urban Meyer
/troll
Jimmy is going to the Packers.
*wretches uncontollably*
…I-O!!!
*wipes nose*
Too bad they limited Crazy Eye’s time so she could only slam Tesla and had to cut out Solyndra.
Because I’m sure that she remembers that fantastic investment that the public made.
I guess I should contact my new congressman because my invitation to decide what new technology to invest in was lost.
The last time I invested in something, I did it with my own money, not funds taken from unwilling people at gunpoint.
Also, an investment implies that you have a reasonable expectation of a return on your money. This shit is just government spending.
You probably chose to invest your money in things that would yield a positive return at an acceptable level of risk – not somebody else’s money based on campaign gifts, connected friends, and wishful thinking.
Of course if the technology was actually cost effective it wouldn’t need government subsidies.
That was my first thought as well.
I think she was in middle school when Solyndra hit.
On the other hand, she was probably just as well-informed then as now.
It was attached to your Social Contract.
That you automatically agreed to by being born and continuing to exist.
Because FYTW.
I wasn’t aware my investments in the market were guaranteed because I deserve a return on my money. Why does every brokerage commercial end with “results not guaranteed” disclaimer?
It’s not as if Karla Marx studied economics… wait, she should demand a refund.
Boston University should be ashamed.
They should lose their accreditation.
^^^^THIS^^^^
The fact they gave someone this stupid and ignorant of basic economics a degree, is just chilling.
Unemployment is low because people have two jobs.
A “degree” in economics, no less. From someone entirely ignorant of how economies work.
So you won’t be surprised when the govt steps in and seizes your account to help pay for Social Security and health care?
Surprised? No. Looking for blood? Yes.
That’s the day I start shooting. I’ve been putting money into my IRA and 401k my entire adult life.
“You didn’t build that.”
And the crooks peddling the nanny welfare state are counting on one day raiding the accounts of those of us that realized they were running several unsupportable Ponzi schemes to keep their “vote for us for free shit” state alive, and planned for our own future. After all, they believe that by then they will have definitely established a monopoly on the ability to use force.
I wonder if Vanguard offers any funds that are specifically designed to be out of reach of any US govt seizure. They should get on that.
LOL! Yeah, like the hyenas running government (sorry Evan) can’t just change the fucking rules mid-game or something. i know you were being sarcastic man, but I just couldn’t pass on the opportunity.
I’m sure they’ll see it as “you should be grateful, we’re going to give some of it back to you, why do you hate sharing?”
So, what WTF said?
to fund renewable and green technology research with taxpayer money
Not in the legit purview of the gov’t, honey. And if these technologies were economically viable they could stand on their own without subsidy.
Defenders of those “investments” argue that 1) you need to look at the whole portfolio not the individual investments, and 2) that overall the investments were in positive territory. They are correct about #1. You can’t judge an entire portfolio by a single investment. There will be some losers. As for #2, I don’t trust the accounting that says these investments were a net benefit.
Never listen to the crazies. It only encourages them.
Last time we heard from the Audubon Society they were hectoring us on how we should pony up several million more dollars for special bird friendly glass on the Vikings stadium. Why would we give a shit about a bunch of bird brains?
I wish the court would rule the lawyers personally liable for the costs incurred by the court and the defendants in frivolous suits, barring them from billing their clients for the bad advice of moving forward.
The courts actually have that option under the rules of civil procedure.
They never do it, though. They apparently believe that any argument that can be made in a grammatical English sentence isn’t frivolous.
So, is the Audubon Society strongly opposed to those giant wind power generators? Because those things are just giant bird grinders.
Bon bon, Audubon…
/Kraftwerk
Super bon bon…
/Morphine
(psst: I think it was Soul Coughing)
Dammit, you are correct. They both have a lack of 6 string in their respective bands, so I get them confused.
The group said the city’s plan “is likely to cause the pollution, impairment, or destruction of the air, water, land or other natural resources located within the state,” according to the lawsuit.
That covers pretty much anything. That’s kind of like those warrants where they are searching for “evidence of a crime”.
I was under the impression that water is kinda hard to destroy.
They’re going to electrolisize it into hydrogen and oxygen gasses!
I like the Audubon Society. That’s who my husband won his car from.
I had a semi-favorable opinion of them until had a hissy fit about the Vikings stadium – demanding that special glass be used to save 120 birds/year
If birds are that crazy important to you, maybe fundraise for the extra $1M for the glass you want. Or just stamp your feet and demand that everyone else do it for you.
Since then, I’ve noticed a lot of other stories where the Audubon Society sues somebody or demands that somebody spend a lot of money for the birds. Never seem to see a story about them raising money and using it for the birds.
I wish the gun rights groups were that litigious.
I offered my pro bono services to armslist and they ghosted me.
“Won,” as in a legal settlement? Do tell…
No, my husband enters all sorts of sweepstakes and contests. He actually works quite hard at it. I used to scoff because all his winnings were things like Chiefs tickets and $1000 on the lottery here or there (considering how infrequently he buys a lottery ticket, his odds are extremely poor) till he won us a trip to New York. Then I said I’d stop laughing when he won a car. Then he did. I don’t laugh anymore.
Not even when he gets naked?
BAZINGA!
Uffda. That wasn’t meant to be a joke. If Mojeaux confirmed it, I was going to print it out and show it to my wife as an example of what good wives do.
That hurts your holiness.
I have absolutely no reason to laugh when he gets naked. He (and I) got lucky there too.
Uffda…..
My wife just handed me a printed out copy of Mojeaux’s response and said something about good husbands.
Glad to be of service.
Fun fact: I grew up just a few miles from the John James Audubon State Park in Kentucky. It’s actually quite lovely.
So there.
They gave us our only hill in NOLA.
When is some publication going to call the name “Monkey Hill” problematic?
They should be sued into oblivion just for booking Coldplay.
So the Macron blinked. In 6 months I predict some déjà vu.
Why that long of a wait?
That’s how long the delay was. “Stop rioting and we’ll screw you next year instead. Deal?”
So new riots in 6 months. Got it. Will the vests still be yellow?
Speaking of college football…
The D 1 playoffs continue – North Dakota rolls on. It would be cool if they play Maine for the championship.
https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/football/fcs/2018
In D2, Notre Dame beat both my teams and they play again this weekend in the semi-finals.
https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/football/d2/2018
Oh – and in the beauty-contest league, a team that hasn’t lost in 2 years didn’t make the “playoffs”.
I predict that Maine will be grilled by Weber State.
And it doesn’t matter. The Bison will trample anyone who shows up (oldest Altar Boy is attending NDSU).
What a real D1A playoff would look like:
UAB (CUSA champ) @ Alabama (SEC Champ)
Washington (P12) @ UCF (AAC)
LSU (at large) @ Oklahoma (B12)
Penn St (at large) @ Georgia (at large)
N Illinios (MAC) @ Notre Dame (at large)
LSU (at large) @ Ohio St (B1G)
App St (SB) @ Clemson (ACC)
Florida (at large) @ Michigan (at large)
I put the 3 teams unranked in the CFP top 25 to the closest opponent in the top 3. They matched up nicely geographically, so I preferred pissing off Bama to giving them the true 16 seed.
error correction, That is Fresno St (MWC) @ Oklahoma. I don’t know how LSU got in there twice.
You forgot the Gophers.
*starts to make a joke at the Gophers expense… Remembers the Badgers getting crushed for Paul Bunyan’s axe… *
I remember during the Brewster years them cutting away from the game to show the trophy room at THE U of M and it being completely empty.
I tried to explain to Altar Boy #2 that in normal years there should be at least one trophy there. Floyd from Rosedale, Paul Bunyan’s Axe, the Little Brown Jug. Something!
He just stared at me like I had two heads.
We can commiserate about the championships both teams have… From before my father was born…
My dad went to THE U of M back when they were still good (lived on same floor as Bobby Bell and Carl Eller in the dorms).
He still thinks that they will be relevant at some point again. Sort of sad to watch him get mad every year because they won’t go to the Rose Bowl.
My team is playing the gophers, I havent forgotten anything.
The Motor City Meh!!
We was screwed over by the ACC. We are 5th best ACC team at worst this year, and somehow drop to the 11th pick bowl.
I’m assured by my putative betters that vote fraud never happens… oh, wait, it’s a Republican? Nail ’em to the wall.
Putative- accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.
Huh. I learned a new word.
In CA it’s called ballot harvesting. It’s how Democrats win weeks after the election.
We should simple de-certify every questionable district’s results, arrest those involved in running it for treason and hold new elections with stringant voter identification and verification requirements.
First you would need a House Speaker with a set of balls. Then law-enforcement officials who actually care.
The donk strategy has been to win AG in as many states as possible to prevent exactly this.
I don’t what it is about Fred Armisen, but that dude always makes me laugh.
Among those removed from their posts is former council president, Roberta Siliquini, who also serves as the head of the school of hygiene and preventive medicine at the University of Turin.
Medice, cura te ipsum.
Minnesoda fucks NoDaks over to the tune of $600M.
To be fair, the entire project is bullshit and just shouldn’t be done. However, those matching Fed $$ will keep the NoDaks scrambling to do this flood control project no matter what.
The whole thing stinks. Bad. And Fargo recently, quite happily, passed a sales tax increase to help pay for it. Because what is more fair than making people who shop, but don’t live there, pay for it? Assholes.
Re: the lion/hyena talk recently. I stupidly, but intellectually-entertainingly, got a minor in animal behavior. I had to write a 50-60 page thesis on an animal in my 416 class. I chose hyenas because I didn’t know too much about them. Here are my favorite facts about them:
Most people struggle to tell if they’re dogs or cats. Neither. They are pretty unique and belong to a family called Hyenidae. They are closest related to to mongooses and meerkats.
As is largely known in these parts but seldom elsewhere, they are a matriarchal society and females possess a clitoral pseudo-penis that SugarFree uses as his primary Spank Bank material. Hyena births are…ugh…problematic.
The spotted hyena, which is the one that you generally think of (Lion King hyenas) actually hunt 85%-95% of their prey, and although they do scavenge it is not their primary method of getting food. (Striped hyena’s are indeed primarily scavengers.)
People give scavengers a bad rap and I understand why. But taking on a pride of lions to get your food is about as badass as you can get.
Throw your balls away, for they are superficial and useless. Do click on that link. That’s like going through the Battle of Kursk, but actively choosing to do it on your own LIKE. A. FUCKING. BOSS.
Due to their (hyena) social structure and their (leopard) hunting ability and survival flexibility, they are by far the most successful large mammalian predators in Africa. (Non-human. Duh.)
I find it interesting how some animals are–literally–lionized, and how others demonized based on our perceptions of them, despite ours largely being false. There’s no real point to this, but I missed out on that thread and I obviously have an interest in such a topic.
There is a quiet desperation in their laughter.
I’m a leopard guy myself. Amazing night vision, ambush predator that can climb a tree with a kill bigger than them. Also prettier than lions.
You are just biased because when you were a kid all the “classy” Floridians wore leopard print apparel.
*life flashes before eyes*
OMG! You’re right!
I have a visceral reaction to watching a pack of hyenas stealing stuff. The animal equivalent of a bunch of rioting French commies or urban youths. So sure, I’m happy when the leopard gets her kill up into a tree or the lion shows up and kills a few hyena.
Eh. I get the “like a pack of hyenas” talk, but it’s just a way of living in your niche. We shouldn’t anthropomorphize animals like that.
As much as I hate them, I don’t begrudge mosquitos for ‘making a living’ the way that they do. It takes all kinds to utilize all the resources available in an ecosystem. You outcompete a pride of lions to get your food? Fuck. You’ve earned that meal. Take it to the hoop.
Eh, not like I’m hunting them down. I’m just choosing sides on an animal show about a place thousands of mikes away.
Strength in numbers does not equal outcompeting. And you want to talk badass? How about a single male lion rushing into a herd of hyenas and proceeding to kick multiple asses? That is badass.
Maybe I’m underestimating a hyena’s toughness, but I would think that any flavor of .416 is overgunning it a tad for that species. A properly placed .270 should do the trick without tenderizing your shoulder too much.
Democrats will still hold their endless congressional hearings.
“The
beatingshearings will continue untilmorale improvesDemocrats dominate the government.”And then the hearings and indictments will continue in order to punish those who dared to oppose them.
^^^THIS^^^
The freak show is not about any kind of justice or punishing of criminal activity. It isn’t even so much an exercise in limiting the other side’s power, as it is a lesson for those that might think to buck the oligarchy’s cushy system, and again support or try to elect an outsider, in the future. People that want to drain the swamp are verbotten, and those that might think they have to support the overthrow of the oligarchy, need to know there will be harsh consequences.
Lachowsky may need an alibi.
Officials say humans — not Satan — behind flaming hole in Arkansas
What sad times are these when any passing “scientist” can say nie to a Southern Baptist over their claim that the Devil was behind some event?
I figured it was just some gonorrhea courtesy of Bill Clinton.
Didn’t you see the dismal ticket sales for Bill’s latest tour? No one claps for him anymore.
I’m tempted to go as a heckler. I figure I’m already on a couple of lists, since I reported myself to Attack Watch.
Whooosh…
Don’t get crabby, Jimbo. I got it.
As my Asian wife would say: “you say the licest things”
Baxter County has a Chipotle?
Maybe satan just uses paint thinner to start his fires with. I bet ya never thought of that did ya, smart guy.
“The party’s vaccine-skepticism has also been well-publicized. During this year’s election campaign, MS5 promised to reform a law that made 10 vaccines mandatory and required a doctor’s note to confirm the injections.”
There is a difference between an administration that is against vaccinations, and one that is against requiring them by law. Although it sounds like the Italian government is both. Which is stupid.
Hey, they are only 38% as bad as MS13; look on the bright side.
There’s an argument to be made that not vaccinating violates the NAP. I’m not saying I believe that, but I’ve heard it, and it does make some sense.
Vaccines shouldn’t be mandated by government (though I don’t have a problem with them being mandated to attend government schools). And it goes without saying that you’re an idiot if you don’t vaccinate (except for those with legitimate medical reasons why they can’t, obviously).
*lights John signal*
You used to be smarter than this, Scruffy, you idiot!
Middle-age comes with some desire to see the world burn.
I don’t need nuanced takes; I need to know who I’m supposed to throw this brick at.
The person closest to you? Or the person farthest away from you? Both are good options, but you’ve got to remember that you’ve just given them a brick. If a couple thousand more people do that, that person could build their own house.
I think you should be more concerned about the person throwing the brick back at you than building a house.
I think people should certainly immunize their kids. It’s one of the best developments in modern humanity.
I get private orgs not allowing kids in who have not been immunized.
I don’t want to make it illegal in public spaces. The logical conclusion is stripping a child from their parents, tied down, screaming, and forcefully injected with a foreign substance. That’s not a place I want to go.
I don’t wash my hands (except in hospitals) and I walk amongst you all. Well. In Korea. Feel afraid, pussies. (Not washing your hands =/=polio.)
The problem is not all vaccines are the same. Some vaccines are incredibly beneficial (pertussis, tuberculosis). Some are not, which is why they aren’t on the CDC schedule (yellow fever). Some are idiotic to make an hours old newborn get (Hep B preventative). Some only protect against less serious forms of the condition that actually raise your susceptibility and danger to the more serious strains.
I think it’s just as idiotic to inject kids with every fucking substance under the sun as it is to be an anti-vaxer. Yea, my four hour old newborn is really going to go on an IV drug binge and share needles with strangers. Definitely has to have the Hep B vax ASAP. GIve me a break. Had to go through this shit with at the hospital at each kid’s birth.
On the other hand, my kids get DTaP and tuberculosis as soon as possible. We use the 1983 CDC schedule. It’s what I had and I don’t remember my school-age peers dying in the streets from rampant epidemics. Vaccines added to the schedule since then have been a focus of intense debate among the pediatricians recommending they be added. Some passed by only a single vote.
This.
The Hep B vaccine gave my immune compromised son a systemic yeast infection that persists to this day. (It’s cultured in yeast.)
I’ve also learned that most patients are simply cattle to the medical system.
I’ve also learned that most patients are simply cattle to the medical system.
That’s a little harsh. They aren’t cattle, they are Meat-Based Billing Units.
Cattle you have have reason to care for.
Jf they were cattle you could eat them when they’re dead. Not that I would put that past them if it wasn’t so difficult to get away with.
I’ve been asked to stop using the term ‘subjects’ in my medical publications. From now on, I have to use ‘participants’ because it sounds nicer to the patients.
It wouldn’t surprise me to hear that some hospitals had a nice bottle of Chianti and some fava beans tucked away for the right opportunity.
“What happens in pathology, stays in pathology.”
Hep B vaccine used to only be recommended for babies born to drug addicts. It was added to the schedule after a contentious vote. Probably not a surprise to learn that many of the physicians on the committee are well funded by the vax manufacturers.
Vaccines have become some kind of magical talisman word to too many people instead of being evaluated individually. Each has it’s own benefit/risk profile. Polio vax is essentially pure benefit with zero risk. Most of the newer ones are not.
Also, I meant polio, not tb, in my original post. That was an incredible step forward.
Well I just pissed off an employee.
I was rather dismissive towards their concerns over inventory accuracy when they wanted to blame it all on the ERP and not on human error/not doing the fucking transaction on time.
Oh well…..
As they say, if you’re name isn’t on the bathroom wall, you’re not doing your job.
For a good time call SugarFree?
Depends on your definition of “good”
That seems to be the over arching topic of discussion today in most of the threads. Did Banjos do so by design, or is this just the libertarian singularity?
Whatever you do,
Don’t put the blame on you.
Blame it on the ERP, yeah, yeah.
“Bernie Sanders just claimed that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a climate change “expert””
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1069744951804616704
I guess she is as expert as any of the other asshats pushing that pseudo-scientific nonsense.
As long as your solution to that “problem” is a global marxism and wealth redistribution, then you seem to be considered an “expert”.
Tard Tuesday: Now Russians Are Cool Again
That proposal made by an associate of a representative for a deal that was dying and ultimately went nowhere? And that nobody is even claiming Trump knew about?
I’ve seen spaghetti noodles that would make a better nail.
About time we deported illegals who are doing jobs no American will do.
I doubt the feminists will want to allow Kolaci into their sanctuary city.
Without the illegals, who will shit in the romaine fields?
Yeah, that defense was something:
See, this is why you don’t necessarily want to get out of jury duty.
I was called for jury duty three times, all while I was stationed in Germany.
30+ years later–zero.
Apple’s CEO Suggests It’s ‘A Sin’ To Not Ban People From Platforms
Cook made the remarks while “accepting the Anti-Defamation League’s first-ever ‘Courage Against Hate’ award at an event in New York City,” CNN reported.
“We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence: You have no place on our platforms,” Cook said. “You have no home here.”
“If we can’t be clear on moral questions like these, then we’ve got big problems,” Cook continued. “I believe the most sacred thing that each of us is given is our judgment, our morality, our own innate desire to separate right from wrong. Choosing to set that responsibility aside at a moment of trial is a sin.”
“From the earliest days of iTunes to Apple Music today, we have always prohibited music with a message of white supremacy,” Cook added. “Why? Because it is the right thing to do.”
“As we showed this year, we won’t give a platform to violent conspiracy theorists on the App Store,” Cook continued, referencing Apple’s decision to remove podcasts from Alex Jones from its Podcast app. “We believe the future should belong to those who use technology to build a better, more inclusive, and more hopeful world.”
Is that even a thing? And, sure, inclusion by exclusion. I know how this will go…
Me: I think we should have low taxes and less government involvement in the market.
Prog: “ZOMG HATEFUL BIGOT NAZI!!!
*Banned*
Cook: “Inclusion!”
Procul Harum?
Edgar Winters?
The Moody Blues?
Average White Band?
Jack White?
Wake me when Apple bans Antifa podcasts on iTunes.
Worth repeating again, Tim Cook and Apple work closely with the Chinese government to help track down dissidents through the IPhone. Tim Cook is a monster. He should be afforded no “moral high ground”
No friend, that’s just the later stages of ensuring the future belongs to those who use technology inclusively.
When I heard about this it makes me wonder just what aspect of the equation motivates him more… does he want to be “in” with the people in charge in the PRC to have some favor in that market? Does he figure the people who would end up on the shitty end of the stick are just “little people” who are pretty much Effed no matter what? Or maybe he just sees them as part of a market where most of the software is pirated anyway so nobody he has to be concerned about…
Yes
They’re not willing to sacrifice market share in China. That’s all it is.
Their principles extend only as far as their stock valuation. Which is tolerable to some extent, but don’t start moralizing to everyone else.
Alex Jones is a violent conspiracy theorist?
It’s a Sin…
Tard Tuesday: PARTY OF SCIENCE
Let’s suppose that climate change is real and that scientists come up with a way to not only stop it, but reverse the effects. How soon will these same people sue the scientists to stop the lowering of the temperature because some small newt (that only expanded its territory northward due to warming) would go extinct?
And if they truly, believed that we are causing global warming, isn’t it the height of hypocrisy to keep shit posting on the internet? That uses gobs of electricity that is produced by burning coal. If they wanted to do something, they would focus on cutting down their carbon foot print which means, no car, no phone, no computer, etc.
In this article, a man-child defends his god in the cute illogical way only children can.
It really is an astounding display of numerous logical (and factual) fallacies all wrapped up in one little post.
I seem to recall several studies showing that smokers cost less in health care costs, because their end of life care (seems like the beginning and end of life are the most expensive) was usually shorter.
You recall correctly, although I believe the net savings to the government came from both reduced Medicare and Medicaid spending (smokers tend to die fast, and therefor cheap) and reduced Social Security payments (smokers tend to die younger, and therefor cheap).
Yup. My mother was a heavy smoker from her early 20’s until the day she died on her feet at 76. Basically no medical costs incurred from her tobacco habit.
Yeah, I guess I have issues about it.
Considering the Rs are not the ones who want society to pick up the tab, there’s no contradiction here.
Decriminalization of Domestic Violence Was a ‘Mistake,’ Russian Official Admits
In 2017, Vladimir Putin signed a law that scrapped prison sentences for first-time abusers whose beatings result in “minor harm,” such as small abrasions, bruises and superficial wounds. Since the law was adopted, human rights activists say that domestic violence complaints have skyrocketed, negatively impacting the situation for women in Russia and giving abusers a sense of impunity.
Sammiches hardest hit.
Rule of thumb.
So what do the Gliberati think about The WSj’s claim that there is a revolt/rebellion against the whole carbon tax scam?
It was inevitable that raising costs on working people in order to appease the bizarre naturalistic faith of the rich was bound to have negative ramifications. Clinton’s whole “I’m going to put a lot of coal miners out of a job” probably helped tip the Midwest in Trump’s favor. Working people saw that remark and though they themselves may not work in coal mining they knew that it was only a matter of time before their job was next on the chopping block
I think it’s still more about gimme than it is about a principled stand, but this says it all:
Magic money!! It appears fully formed from the mist…
“Apple CEO Tim Cook suggests it’s “a sin” to not ban certain people from social media and technology platforms: “We only have one message for those who seek to push hate, division, and violence: You have no place on our platforms. You have no home here.””
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1069783830033162240
Deja Vu!
woops!
Apple works with the Chinese to help crack down on dissidents by rigging their IPhones sold there. Pretty sure he’s a monster and not those who support free speech.
What social media does Apple have anyway?
Podcasts.
I believe that podcasting on iTunes is still pretty big.
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but…
A NASA scientist says intelligent aliens may have already visited Earth but humans would not have noticed due to their ‘extremely tiny’ size.
Silvano P. Colombano says the extra-terrestrials would have looked hugely different to the carbon-based organisms currently roaming our planet.
He says that ‘super intelligent’ aliens capable of interstellar space-travel would posses technology that humans cannot even imagine.
It comes as NASA scans the universe for civilisations as prat of its ‘Search for extraterrestrial intelligence’ (SETI) programme.
Dr Colombano told Califoria’s SETI-backed Decoding Alien Intelligence Workshop back in March that scientists need to broaden their idea of what an extra-terrestrial would like like.
‘I simply want to point out the fact that the intelligence we might find and that might choose to find us (if it hasn’t already) might not be at all be produced by carbon based organisms like us,’ his report read.
He added that scientists must ‘re-visit even our most cherished assumptions’, which has implications for everything from an alien’s lifespan to its height.
‘The size of the “explorer” might be that of an extremely tiny super-intelligent entity,’ he says.
I thought it was already understood that aliens are little grey men.
extremely tiny super-intelligent entity
I wouldn’t call Robert Reich super-intelligent.
*snort*
This asshole is being paid with tax dollars?
Nothing left to cut, huh.
Then Colombano paused at the door, turned around, pulled his hand out of his trench coat and said, “Oh, one more thing..”
“PETA Billboard Says You Can’t Be A Feminist If You Eat Eggs
SAN JOSE (KPIX) – A billboard with a strange message connecting feminists, eggs, and animal rights is turning heads in the South Bay, but turning some women off.
It was put up by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, and it basically says ‘you can’t eat eggs and still consider yourself a feminist.’
It’s often been PETA’s strategy to be provocative. The idea is that it’s okay to say something a little outlandish or a little offensive, or just out of left field, if it brings attention to your cause, which in this case is the ethical treatment of animals in the farm industry.
A new ad campaign, titled ‘You Can’t be an Egg-Eating Feminist,’ is definitely in keeping with the tradition of being provocative.
The second line of the billboard reads, “Eggs and Dairy Are a Product of the Abuse of Females.”
“Many people who consider themselves feminists are unthinkingly supporting this violence against females every single day by consuming these cruel foods,” says the narrator in a video for the ad campaign.”
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/12/01/peta-billboard-feminist-eggs-animal-rights/
TW: autoplay
Has PETA stopped financing domestic terrorists yet?
Mmmmm I had two eggs for breakfast this morning. Oh, and I’m not a feminist.
So PETA just threw all those woke Hell’s Angels who earned their red wings out of the feminist movement?
Isn’t this campaign going to put them at odds with NOW and their full support for abortion?
PETA isn’t suggesting that every egg is sacred from the moment that the shell forms are they?
I saw the bumper sticker “Good Women Have Abortions” in the wild yesterday (in the suburbs even). I think PETA’s drivel makes more sense then that does.
The second line of the billboard reads, “Eggs and Dairy Are a Product of the Abuse of Females.”
They’re misgendering chickens. Not just chickens make eggs or something else profoundly stupid that we are suppose to take seriously when referenced with regards to people
I always wait till that time of the month is done anyways. Yeah! I’m a feminist.
You Can’t Be A Feminist If You Eat Eggs
I eat eggs and bacon.
thicc?
ttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6457329/Demi-Rose-leaves-little-imagination-flaunts-buxom-bust-daringly-cut-mini-dress.html
Working from home today – waiting for the flooring guys to show up to rip out the carpeting and replace it with wood floors. This will be interesting – concrete slab floor and all.
And it’s nice to see the sun out – the Sun God hasn’t been showing his face much.
What product are they using? I have slab I’ve been debating about replacing carpet with something else. My floor guy told me a standard wood floor (like the rest of the house) is a no-go.
It can be done, but you really need to perform moisture mitigation on the slab prior to install. Otherwise the vapor transmission will cause problems with the glue and/or the wood.
Pergo underlayment and then cork locked flooring. Reading the packaging it supposedly can be laid on concrete, provided the flooring is smooth enough. We shall see what they say when the carpeting gets pulled. *crosses fingers*
They suggest vinyl flooring but gah – I hate that stuff.
I’ve also looked at bamboo products.
Please let us know how it turns out.
Will do – I’m half expecting them to not install it, which would mean the carpet route.
The problem with bamboo products is you end up with a bunch of pandas laying around your house shooting the shit.
Are they tasty?
Taste too much like zebras for my liking
Well, once they’re gutted and skinned they look a lot like long pork. But they generally work well with recipes for mutton so there are options.
You meant laying around and shitting the shoots, right?
See, I think that calls for the narrowed gaze.
I’ve been contemplating doing the main floor in some of the bamboo flooring as well. If the estimated life is correct, it seems like a deal. If that’s off, then it’s a whole other story.
Ah, a floating floor. The cork will help mitigate the sound that most of them make. I hope you’re satisfied with the end product.
Yeah I don’t quite understand the idea of putting a wood floor down only to cover most of it with a rug. But at least rugs are easily replaceable. The carpeting here is sad – probably installed in the 80s – and is really beat up and stained (ewww!) by the previous rental tenants.
Did you look into faux wood tile? We did that in our bathroom and over the concrete in the basement. Works great don’t have to worry about moisture.
I have 1200 sq ft of pergo on concrete in the basement.
Vapor barrier first, underlayment second, then pergo.
13 year so far and no problems.
They suggest vinyl flooring but gah – I hate that stuff.
There are some old-school linoleum floors which are just the ticket if you have the right house. I’ve seen some mid-century modern and craftsman houses with period-correct linoleum that looked really good.
I just installed some vinyl that looks and is textured like dark wood. 100% moisture proof. I’m pleased so far. Install for 400+ sq ft and a closet took 2 dudes ~ 6 hours. It’s in the bonus room where my big dogs, sometimes wet, enter the house. It’ll also be where my 21yo son hangs when he house-sits; and maybe the gf’s 15yo daughter will too if it comes to that. I wouldn’t put it where I hang out in the house.
Not LH, but we did that twice now. Engineered wood over a something in1 pad. Installer had to grind down some spots to get it level for the hallway.
Stained concrete is the way to goy and very easy diy.
The Hill commenters….
Yeesh.
Two congressional Democrats endorse the “Boycott, Divest, and Sanction” campaign against Israel. These same congressional Democrats oppose sanctions on Iran and oppose tariffs against China. Thus making their position pretty much entirely informed by antisemitism.
I’m not one to jump on the screaming “bigot” bandwagon. But, I don’t know how this can be labeled anything other than bigotry.
https://twitter.com/AG_Conservative/status/1069779946229391366
I’m assuming one of them was Minnesoda’s finest Ilhan Omar who swore during a primary debate (in a synagogue) that she thought BDS was counter-productive.
You would be correct. The DFL has gone all in on crazy
So a travel ban is totes evil because it is based on religion. But the BDS movement is absolutely great?
It’s A-OK to lie to infidels.
You misspelled “idiots”.
Their opinions are entirely informed by ‘Fuck America and Fuck Israel’.
Absurd. Everyone knows that it is Republicans who are anti-Semites.
Ocasio-Cortez finally said something sound. She probably blanked out.
But Porsche are fans:
“Porsche’s North America Chief Executive Klaus Zellmer made the comment in an interview with the Los Angeles Times:
“If you look at what Tesla has done, if you look at their volume and look at their price level, it’s truly astonishing.
If you can do that with one brand and a sales network that is not comprised of dealers and a real sales organization, it’s even more astonishing.”
https://electrek.co/2018/12/01/tesla-astonishing-porsche/
Um, the number I see is the number of broken promises, unfullfilled orders and the cost overruns per unit.
Have you ever actually seen one on the roads? I haven’t, but that’s expected.
I’ve seen a few ’round here – two in the immediate neighborhood, a Model 3 and a S.
I see them all the time. We are oh so woke here in the Star of the North.
Their Model X is Aztec-level hideous. The other two are OK. My sister has both the S and the 3.
Woke.
I actually saw one in the wild.
It was the most boring looking car I’d ever laid eyes upon. If not for the fact we were stopped at a red light and the logo was on the vehicle end facing me, I’d have never noticed.
The Model 3 is an ugly duckling. The S is better but still not as good as a Mercedes S-Class, or a BMW 5 or 7-series.
Or an Audi A8 or a Maserati or even a Porsche Panamera. Plenty of pretty sweet options in that price range.
If I can convince the wife, my next car is going to be a Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross. My neighbor has one and I drool over it every morning.
‘splosives has one and loves it.
More than you think. I see quite a few.
Same here.
I see dozens every day. But I live near a bunch of very well compensated tech workers who have money to burn and a love of gadgetry.
I see them daily here in the Philly burbs.
They were a rare sighting until ~ 6 months ago then *poof* daily.
I think plenty of manufacturers would like to adopt that sales model.
The one where the government pays part of the purchase price? Yeah, I bet they would.
“The French suspended their planned fuel tax increase for 6 months.”
Screw that. Burn down Versailles.
Bad idea. We need a place to sign a treaty that will end all wars.
The French can sign a treaty of capitulation somewhere else.
(The Hall of Mirrors was first used to end the Franco-Prussian War)
Gadfrey.
Between Rebel Scum’s Tim Cook link and Scruffy’s science denier links, I’m either going to crawl back into bed and pull the covers over my head, or start shooting at cars on the interstate.
Or maybe I’ll just have a cookie and some more coffee.
But the elections board elected not to certify the results, citing “claims of irregularities and fraudulent activities related to absentee by-mail voting.”
Even though it is apparently incredibly easy to commit voter fraud I am assured that it never happens.
But Russia totally hacked the election…..somehow
Denmark Plans to Isolate Unwanted Migrants on a Small Island
Based Denmark
I’m sorry, but isn’t a gay prison guard – named Virus – only going to spread the AIDS faster in that prison?
I see. Now give the Steamer captain a nickname.
Cleveland?
Who could have seen this coming?
Do you know who else wanted to deport a minority population?
This is stupid, but it is the juvenile kind of thing that amuses me to no end and would get me thrown out of a gift shop.
Lol. You know you’d put a couple in front, too.
Is that Probus?
It ain’t Biggus Dickus!
All hail Caesar Protogoli!
The only thing missing would be little chocolate smears on the tips of the fingers of the other figures.
Proof Jordan Peterson is a NazBol
https://twitter.com/ExistentialEnso/status/1069008255958085632
Do I really want to find out what an Existentialist-Anti-fascist has to say about JP? “He has Nazi imagery in his house!” I think that means he tries to make out with Kevin Spacey.
I am not sure how parody that account is but there was an argument in the comments about anarchic socialism that seemed serious.
After the demise of poor Godfrey more good parody accounts are needed. I think Titania McGrath is the main one these days
“libertarian socialist” = Safely ignorable
owen cyclops ? ?
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ocasio-cortez is every late twenties feminist u meet at parties in new york who gets drunk talking about how the impending clitoral matriarchal utopia is going to subsidize their friends abstract paintings about toxic masculinity before going home with a buff apolitical white guy
truly no wonder she appeals to the now massive demographic of faux professional women who fetishize the idea of having a career but majored in post colonial views of renaissance erotic literature and are now going to grad school for some dressed up version of working at a desk
when i see her face, i can hear the chorus of harpies waiting in a 45 minute line at trader joes, buying a 3 dollar bottle of wine, attempting to shoehorn their rage from 1000 one night stands that they wished turned into relationships into some cohesive political viewpoint
Ouch?
Dang.
Tssss.
Such vigour!
He ain’t lyin’.
Bullseye!
Eighteen days left of work.
I want my stapler, and I can promise that I won’t burn the building down, but I am actively masturbating at the thought of doing so.
My job is almost identical to Costanza’s quandary where they keep fucking him over, hoping that he will quit. I’m sorry that I keep harping on this, but I need my own solidarity in order to fight through this bullshit.
Also: Got handcuffed with a rope pulled tight around my throat last night while being waterboarded (AGAIN!) at my friendly drinking establishment and made it to 32 seconds. That record will not be broke for long, and if it is, I shall make it my business to regain my belt.
Is it at least the Red Swingline Stapler?
“Eighteen days left of work.”
6 left for me. Then I am off till Jan 5th!
Man, you live a far more interesting life than me
Buck up. Conan the Barbarian had to push that Wheel of Pain around, but then he switched jobs to pit gladiator. Next thing you know, he’s reading the philosophy of Sung and being bred to the finest stock.
That was not in the original RE Howard source materials. He went from free barbarian to mercenary to sea reiver to mercenary to wanderer and eventually to king.
He was no Trump, but…
The problem is that Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. His current assault on democratic norms, his authoritarian leanings and his embrace of fascist tactics, are the logical endpoint of longstanding trends in U.S. politics, and especially in the Republican party. To look back with nostalgia at the Bush family patriarch is to ignore the fact that Bush past is what led us to Trump present. And if we can’t acknowledge this uncomfortable history, Trump may be all we have to look forward to in the future.
Bush’s patrician civility is supposed to stand in contrast to Trump’s gutter racism. But Bush, for all his decency, fully embraced the GOP’s post-Lyndon Johnson southern strategy, using racism to rally white conservative voters around white supremacy — all in the interest of solidifying his own political power. His infamous 1988 Willie Horton ad, which blamed his opponent Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis for a murder committed by a black parolee, was a grotesque dog whistle linking racism and crime.
————
So Bush isn’t Trump. But he was a leader in the Republican party which would embrace his successor. The cocktail of racism and authoritarianism in which Trump marinates has been brewing for decades. Bush was a wealthy white man who used racist rhetoric to solidify power while making sure to shield himself from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the law. In that context, Trump feels more like an inevitable successor than an exception. We know that Bush’s brand of civility won’t save us, because we tried it.
Yeah, okay.
Funny how republicans go from Hitler/Nazis/Monsters to noble statesmen as soon as they are out of power or dead, huh?
Office prog was waxing nostalgic about what an amazing man he was. He seemed taken aback when I said I was glad he’s pushing up daisies.
“but, but war hero!” Bleh.
I was gentler than Eric Peters, though.
Yikes!
Wonder if Eric feels the same way about the Clintons & Obamas, though.
Yep. Big time hater of those two.
Can these people name one thing Trump has done (that no previous president has) that would be considered authoritarian?
You and your demand they be logical or factual. Don’t you even prog right brah?
No, they cant. That’s why they never do. He is a liar, a Nazi, a woman hater, etc….no cite necessary.
Muslim ban!!!!
Putting babies in cages!!!!!
“And if we can’t acknowledge this uncomfortable history…”
I’m having a hard time acknowledging this because you gave no example of it. *Totally not a cult.
His current assault on democratic norms
You mean like refusing to accept the results of a free and fair election? It ain’t Trump doing that.
his authoritarian leanings
Because undoing Obama’s executive orders is authoritarian? Like actually enforcing immigration law?
and his embrace of fascist tactics,
Citation needed. But I haven’t noticed him encouraging mobs to attack and harass political opponents.
“the GOP’s post-Lyndon Johnson southern strategy..”
Dafuq? Lyndon Johnson was a Democrat…
His current assault on democratic norms, his authoritarian leanings and his embrace of fascist tactics
Surely you can cite examples.
The cocktail of racism and authoritarianism
Such progjection.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-a-fringe-idea-about-the-supreme-court-is-taking-over-the-left/amp/
Because might makes right, and what you do to your opponents can never be turned back around on you.
You know if we expanded the court to include everyone (including illegals you shitlord) we’d solve a lot of problems. For one, with the cushy health care and pension plans SC justices get, you’d instantly solve all the problems that Obamacare, Medicare, MedicAid and Social Security are having.
It would also help people who get out of prison and are having a hard time getting a job. You might not want to hire a convicted felon to run the fryer at McDonald’s, but when he can also put “Supreme Court Justice” on his resume, I bet you change your tune.
We can’t include everyone. That would mean that even more shitlords would be on the court. We just need all rightthinking, non-white, cis-male people on the court.
Don’t worry. All the wrong thinkers will be at work and unable to vote on important cases.
They might as well be 6 year old children stomping their feet and holding their breath.
“Because might makes right, and what you do to your opponents can never be turned back around on you.”
It’s dumber than that. They’re talking about using presidential power to pack SCOTUS, when the current president could pack the court if this idea takes hold.
With a packed Supreme Court they can overturn any election and keep the desired candidate in power.
Easy-peezy
Ivy League Students Kick SNL Comedian Nimesh Patel Off Stage
https://pjmedia.com/blog/ivy-league-students-kick-snl-comedian-nimesh-patel-off-stage/
You can never be pure enough.
“When older generations say you need to stop being so sensitive, it’s like undermining what our generation is trying to do in accepting others and making it safer,” said Jao.
“Obviously the world is not a safe space but just accepting that it’s not and continuing to perpetuate the un-safeness of it… is saying that it can’t be changed,” she added.
Define the word safe, you fucking dolt.
“accepting others”, by banning those you disagree with?
“Making it safer” somehow means threatening and punishing a lot of people.
I miss the days when words had meaning.
You make it sound so awful, when all they are trying to do is “cleanse” the public space.
ZARDOZ APPROVES.
what our generation is trying to do in accepting others
Inclusion by exclusion. Accepting by rejecting.
Comedy is dying and the left is killing it. I was thinking about this the other day while looking for a movie to watch. My go to decades for comedy are always the 70s, and 80s with a few 90s. There hasn’t been a comedy released in years that I wanted to see in theater.
Comedy isn’t dying – Hollywood is.
This is a good point. I was just reading an article about the highest earning youtube personalities, and the list was full of people who are decidedly not woke. Offensive entertainment is still profitable, and as long as there is profit to be made someone will be selling it.
Not a fan of Owen Benjamin, but he nailed it: People don’t laugh anymore. They applaud.
I used to listen to O&A, Jim Norton, Ron and Fez, and Patrice Oneal to escape the PC fun police. Those days are over although I still revisit them on youtube.
There are a handful here and there – The Hangover, Horrible Bosses, etc – but yeah, there are very few comedies that appeal to me anymore.
Hollywood hasn’t produced a decent comedy since Caddyshack and Airplane! – both 1980.
Cmon – Ghostbusters? Fletch? Stripes? Planes Trains and Automobiles? The Great Outdoors? Tommy Boy? There were plenty after 1980.
I laughed so hard during “There’s Something About Mary” I hurt myself. But it seems like “comedic action movies” are the best place to get funny stuff at this point. Like “The Nice Guys” from a few years ago.
Congratulations to academia, from kindergarten to post doc. You have created a generation of useful idiots.
Which of course is the goal of the Long March through the institutions.
The first one to
stop clappinglaugh gets a bullet in the back.Why on earth would a comedian agree to perform on a college stage in the middle of f’ing NYC?! When there are zillions of performance spaces everywhere. That is just asking for trouble.
Rhy,
We had USO acts with comedians in Afghanistan…. you go where the work is.
(Funniest joke told… “Everywhere we go here, you guys tell us ‘Oh, its worse over at the next place’. What happens when we get there? ‘We got guys in Hell. They have to give the Devil a lap dance every morning.’?”)
I’d rather go on a USO tour than a college campus these days. At least humor probably still exists there.
Another day, another fake racist note. And the usual horseshit dissembling after the fact by supposed “campus leaders”:
I couldn’t possibly roll my eyes more.
The frightening thing is that they want this to be how thing works: a member of the SJW-club manufactures a situation to peddle fear and the narrative, but when they get caught doing this it should not result in that member being punished for trying to get others in trouble. What needs to happen is that everyone should shut the fuck up and acknowledge the narrative. WTF?
The question never gets asked in these stories quoting SGA president type clowns – if there is so much racism on these campuses, why the need to manufacture fake notes?
I can’t wait until I’m 90 and sitting in my rocking chair on the porch with my grandson on my lap. “I remember back when we didn’t care about other people’s race or sexual proclivities. Boy were we bigots.”
I’m still waiting on the swastika investigation at Columbia teacher’s college
“People still feared for their lives even though it was a hoax.”
“Their feelings don’t care about your facts.”
Somehow, we have gotten to place where emotions trump reality. I blame Oprah.
“People still feared for their lives even though it was a hoax.”
Let that sink in.
Want a reason to hate HW?
No HW, no Shrub. No Shrub, no Obama.
Sigh… how nice 2000 would have been if we were about to enter a second term of President Dole and VP Kemp.
How nice would 1993 have been as we entered President DuPont’s second term?
“I remember back when we didn’t care about other people’s race or sexual proclivities. Boy were we bigots.”
Not caring is the ultimate expression of hate.
Whatever
“Not caring …”
You misspelled “celebrating”…
I hate to disappoint my fellow Glibs, but I missed a great article opportunity this weekend. My wife and I went to the Renegade Craft Fair to obtain some locally sourced, conflict-free artisinal stocking stuffers. For those unfamiliar, this is an annual event that brings together hipsters from Chicago and much of the Midwest to peddle their arguably overpriced handmade wares. I’ve never been to a gun show, but I suspect this could kind of be likened to a progressive mirror image of one in the cultural and ideological makeup of attendees. It ran the gamut from fairly well adjusted hobbyist soap makers to kooky pamphleteers warning of the next existential crisis you’ve never heard of. In all it was thoroughly enjoyable. Unfortunately we weren’t able to stay very long, so I didn’t have much time to take photos and notes. I guess I could do a brief synopsis from memory, but it would probably end up being comment length and not worthy of a full published piece.
kooky pamphleteers warning of the next existential crisis you’ve never heard of
And stealing light from climate change alarmism? How is that permissible?
To illustrate, one particular example was – and I shit you not – bee activism. I didn’t grab a pamphlet, but the slogan on their t-shirts caught my eye:
ALL OF THE BEES ARE DYING AND THE BEE SCIENTISTS ARE BEING CENSORED
My primordial Homer Simpson brain immediately thought of bees in little lab coats before realizing it probably wasn’t meant that way.
I cannot fathom doing that while sober.
https://twitter.com/lindsey_brink/status/1069625734434574338
Niskanen Center goes neocon and hosting a joint conference with Jennifer Rubin and Bill Kristol.
I mean, if we’re being honest, the woke brand of libertarianism was always more similar to the Weekly Standard than anything. You may recall Brink Lindsey for his Reason article in support of the Iraq War from way back when (he later recanted when it was cool to do so). But, you may not recall that Brink Lindsey has pretty much supported nearly every American foreign intervention since the 90’s.
So we’ve gone from “liberaltarian” to “bleeding heart libertarian” to “neocon”. Haha
It must be eating them alive to see a large swath of the “center right” (appears to me, anyways. *Tucker C. etc) turning their backs on stupid wars.
I have yet to have any of those kinds of assholes explain to me what we are supposed to be getting out of these wars or what winning them looks like.
I know what it is, they and their cronies are getting rich off of military contracts, but they will never admit that. It is war without end, without meaning and without victory. They are evil motherfuckers.
I have yet to have any of those kinds of assholes explain to me what we are supposed to be getting out of these wars or what winning them looks like.
It’s pretty funny, in a way. Part of my transition from conservatism to libertarianism was when I ran across the Weinberger Doctrine and the Powell Doctrine on Wikipedia. Pretty basic standards that you’d think should be baked into a conservative foreign policy. Today someone advocating such standards would get labeled a hippy pacifist or a right-wing isolationist.
This. The Weinberger Doctrine was successful and very short-lived. Good for America, bad for politicians.
If only Powell had insisted on his eponymous doctrine when he was SecState instead of that “you break it, you bought it” bullshit.
Someone at NR yesterday said it’s imperative we keep helping fund Saudi Arabia’s “activities” in Yemen. Because Iran, duh.
The only good anti-war conservative publication is The American Conservative. They get bonus points since most of their original writers were denounced in National Review by David Frum for opposing the Iraq War.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/unpatriotic-conservatives-david-frum/
Yeah, OK.
We fund Saudi Arabia’s wars because they accept American dollars for oil. We went off the gold standard in the sixties. Without world oil markets accepting american dollars, our currency becomes worthless.
Aren’t we the largest exporter of oil in the world? Until that stops, the oil market won’t stop accepting us dollars.
Not even in the top 10. Saudi is the biggest, by a lot.
In the 70’s, when the US made its agreement with Saudi Arabia, the US was not the world’s largest exporter. And for most countries importing oil from the US is not as economically feasible as importing from some other oil supplier.
I see your problem, you’re looking only at crude oil.
Do the Saudis have any refineries?
^^^^THIS^^^^
Why do we continue to play the game that this has anything to do with oil rather than maintaining our high debt levels?
If oil is no longer sold in dollar than the demand for treasuries declines. If the demand declines than the interest rate increases. If the interest rate increases than our debt costs start consuming more of the budget. Which leaves us in the situation of cutting spending (not going to happen, until the Apocalypse) or raising taxes.
Is there some law that says you can’t predict any future or review any history with the assumption of logic on behalf of the players . . . because that’s just not what people really do (think)?
Or maybe I just need to live amongst a better class of managers/politicians/activists?
I do wonder how much our endless war making is due to our desire to keep the dollar the world’s reserve currency. I know the answer isn’t “0 percent,” but I don’t know at what percent I stop being sufficiently skeptical and start being an irrational loon.
We have always been at war with Eastasia…
Here’s the question I’m going to ask – is anyone in the libertarian establishment going to distance themselves from the Niskanen Center? At a certain point, it’s absurd to even call yourself even remotely connected to libertarianism. And Frum, Rubin and Kristol are about as far from actual libertarianism as you can get on the right today (I’d suggest that even the socons have retreated to a more libertarian-friendly position than these guys). At some point, if libertarianism means anything, you have to say you don’t agree with the people who have stopped being libertarians.
I would guess that since many of them are moving more toward the Niskanen Center they’ll just continue to smear the anti-war contingent of libertarianism as “racists” or “Trumpists”.
the anti-war contingent of libertarianism
Isn’t that supposed to be the libertarian contingent of libertarianism?
Well, one would think, but Brink Lindsey was still being billed as such ten years after supporting US involvement in Iraq and Syria. And then there’s Cathy Young and her insistence that the US arm Ukraine and sanction Russia for lolz. And let’s not forget that Gary Johnson was being praised by the Weekly Standard in 2012 for his foreign policy positions that included a permanent base in Afghanistan and sending troops to hunt down the Lord’s Army (anyone remember Kony 2012?). The LP nominated Bob Barr in 2008, for Christ’s sake. A man whose foreign policy was closer to John McCain’s than Barrack Obama’s.
When I think libertarian foreign policy, I think Scott Horton. When your casual observer thinks libertarian foreign policy, I doubt someone like Horton comes up since he doesn’t have as big of a platform as the Niskanen Center or Reason.
Yes.
“War is the health of the state”
The state can never be shrunk as long as it has wars to fight.
The kids at wired are concerned
As technology advances, so must policing. Last week, when a couple of California Highway Patrol officers spotted a man apparently sleeping in the driver’s seat of a Tesla Model S going 70 mph down Highway 101 in Palo Alto around 3:30 am, they moved behind the car and turned on their siren and lights. When the driver didn’t respond, the cops went beyond their standard playbook. Figuring the Tesla might be using Autopilot, they called for backup to slow traffic behind them, then pulled in front of the car and gradually started braking. And so the Tesla slowed down, too, until it was stopped in its lane.
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Blah blah blah
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But if Autopilot did allow a slumbering and allegedly drunk driver to speed down the highway, it brings up another question: Is Elon Musk’s car company doing enough to prevent human abuse of its technology?
Why didn’t that car have a BAC test ignition lock? Why didn’t that car pull over and summon the police?
Because nobody fell asleep behind the wheel before semi-autonomous driving technology was invented.
I still remember the commercials from the 80’s about the warning beeper you could hang on your ear. If your head tilted down too far, it would beep in your ear to wake you up.
One of my great^3 grandfathers was a doctor out in the New England country-side. He used to go out and make house calls at all hours. And, especially after attending a birth – which often took hours and left him utterly exhausted, he’d crawl into his wagon, tell his mare that it was time to go home, and fall asleep.
The mare would plod back home, and he’d wake up in front of the barn.
Back in my day, drunks came to a stop only after plowing through a minivan and killing a family of six.
Highest-Paid YouTube Stars 2018
#1 Ryan ToysReview $22 million
Ryan’s just like every other 7-year-old: He loves Legos, trains, cars—and his 17 million followers. His latest mini-mogul move: a line of collectibles and more, now selling at Walmart.
Kill me.
It’s sad I know immediately knew this one. My kids have seen several of these videos. The family gets paid millions to just play with toys.
Surprise egg videos are another big hit. Hour after hour of anonymous hands opening toy eggs.
I hate youtube. Though I did enjoy the lion vs hyena videos.
Meh, they hit the media lottery.
According to the minor-league youtubers I listen to, it’s basically impossible to make big bucks on YT nowadays. YouTube has drastically lowered their advertising payouts and “demonetized” the shit out of everything, and even if you’re pretty popular, you have to grind out content daily or you lose your place in the all-controlling ranking “algorithms”. To hear it from them, if you’re not in the top 10 list with millions of subscribers, you aren’t getting shit.
At least “pewdiepie” isn’t in the top 5.
Here is a fun story.
Wife and I got the munchies last night so we got up and went to the kitchen. As she was turning away from the fridge the damned dog got under her feet and she stumbled. I reached out to catch her and as I did so the dog got under my feet so I stumbled too. We both went down like a couple of bowling pins. We have a hard tile floor. Luckily her head landed on my arm so that cushioned her head at least, but both of us smacked the floor pretty hard. We cursed the dog and laughed it off, ate our snack and went to bed.
This morning we both woke up in agony. Apparenly we both cracked a rib, mine on the left, hers on the right (we were facing each other when we fell). We are both creeping around like invalids, cant cough, cant laugh, cant move around. It might have been funny last night but it sure as hell aint funny today. I have had a cracked rib before and I know they take forever to heal.
Lesson learned: stay out of the dog’s way.
What I dont want to admit is that we had both taken an ambien. Ambien munchies. Medicaid wont pay for ambien for old people because after a certain age falls become a problem. When I found that out I gave them a cussing and told them they were full of shit.
*facepalm*
Oh, and the dog is a 115 pound catahoula who is nothing but a teddy bear who thinks any time we go to the kitchen it is to serve him.
That sounds horrible. Man’s best friend, indeed
I found it kind of funny but I cant laugh without causing agony.
Yeah, I’m not a fan of dogs.
Sorry that happened, Suthen. Take care.
“I’m not a fan of dogs”
Me neither, though I’m usually loath to bring it up on this board since it seems to be populated by militant dog-people. The only time I’ve ever had a dog was growing up and it wasn’t really my dog, it was the family’s. The neediness and servility just annoy me for some reason. They also smell. Universally. I’ll take the odor of a catbox over the normal BO of the typical dog any day of the week.
/unpopular opinion
#metoo
The problem with most dogs is the sheep who raised them. A simple tap to the ribs will stop/undo almost any behavior.
I’m always the pack leader, and every dog I’ve ever had was able to read my mind within a year.
But yeah, they stink . . . and I’ve tripped over them (more simple taps needed there).
To be fair, cats have a habit of tripping you up too. Little bastards do it on purpose, I think.
Yes, our permanent cats are just as bad as the occasional foster dog about getting underfoot.
“I’m not a fan of dogs”
I tend to be suspicious of the character of people who do not like dogs. But your love of boobs somewhat redeems you.
I’m a fan of my own boobs, nobody else’s.
You get half credit then
I associate dogs with having to clean up shit. I don’t like having to clean up excrement, regardless of source.
BURN THE WITCH!
Seriously, though, fuck cats.
I have a black cat. My second.
And a torty who is mostly black.
Because that’s how my caudron roils.
my smart cat is beautiful
my dumb cat is dumb
Most points made ever with NewWife: I built a catio out of cedar stud and 2×4 fence wire; cats can go out an unused door into their huge, safe walkabout and enjoy some ferns and herbs and climb the ledges; they usually perch at four or six feet above ground. Bird feeders on either side are their cable feed, and dumb cat occasionally snatches an even dumber bird in there. They always face into the wind, so they are experts at Arkansas now.
When I was a kid, we had a bird feeder right outside the window to the dining room table.
One day our dumb cat noticed all the birds and was entranced. Next day dumb can was outside lying directly atop the feeder and completely befuddled as to why there were not birds.
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
No surprise you’re not a dog person. It’s pretty obvious you’re into pussies.
Uffda, that’s rough. Have some whiskey and feel better.
What size dog? Our Great Dane is not big for the breed, but at 120lbs she’s a large animal. Unfortunately she likes to stay around your feet (waist?) like a toy dog. I have damn near tripped over her numerous times. She also loves to lean into people as a submissive trait. At 6-2/220 I can handle it but most can’t.
Damn slow typing…
Our dogs are seemingly designed for tripping over – pretty much the size, shape, and weight of a cinder block. I think I’ve tripped over them once in 8 years. To be fair, the little fat one likes her alone time, but the big dumb one is rarely more than three feet away (except at meal times – I won’t tolerate a dog near me when I eat).
The hardest part is having youngish kids (8-12) and the dog thinks she can play with them like one of the pack, when she outweighs them by about double. And they are STRONG.
My old mutt would look at me a few times every year with a look like “WTF are these idiot pups doing above me in the pack hierarchy?”
For the most part, he was more right than wrong. He was a lot more useful to me than the kids were. (Cleaner too).
Our Dane is mostly for show since we live in the country, but I wanted a big dog with a big bark that would tell potential intruders to find another place when we are gone and to alert me when we are home and sleeping. She probably costs much more than house alarms, but is likely much more effective as well.
Thank goodness Kitty is so skittish and stays well out of grandmother’s way. (Anyone’s way, but most of us can see.)
Agree to disagree.
Just kidding – hope you both feel better soon.
–Mel Brooks
wow
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kinda romantic
The moral of the story is: don’t try to catch your wife when she falls.
Titty Tuesday has arrived once again.
http://archive.is/K1WzI
30 looks terrifying but in a good way.
Yeah, 30 has a nice bod, but the Ocasio-Cortez crazy eyes is a turnoff. Been on the receiving end of crazy too much to disregard that.
9 has great hair and a sense of humor.
I’m shocked to find out there is lobbying going on, here.
GM has tried to tamp down the fury over its planned cuts, insisting that it is essential to its long-term future and that many workers will find other roles at the company.
“Many of the U.S. workers impacted by these actions will have the opportunity to shift to other GM plants where we will need more employees to support growth in trucks, crossovers and SUVs,” a GM spokesperson said in a statement to The Hill.
But dealing with the fallout has been no easy task.
No kidding.
Guess what- there is no point in building shit people don’t want to buy. That’s just how it works.
“there is no point in building shit people don’t want to buy”
The Obama administration would like a word…
We need another C4C to get some of these pre-2010 cars off the road to make room for new GM sedans.
I get into with Avis when they keep trying to give me some kind of tipping half-assed SUV. I asked for a mid-sized car, give me a car.
OT: Ant drone flyers out there? I’m considering getting one to use as a service for my fledgling forestry consulting business. I’m familiar with some of the regs and such from my time with Fedgov and know I need to jump through numerous hoops to use one commercially (of course). I’m looking for real world experience in their use, differences in models or types, etc. more than help navigating the red tape, though I won’t look a gift horse…
I have considered the same thing. I haven’t made up my mind yet. If you do it I would appreciate some tips.
Will do. My buddy bought one recently and we played with it at the deer shack a couple weeks ago. Everything about them is getting much better. Video is amazing, pretty much flies itself (including knowing how much juice it has left to get back home and will bee line that way when that point is reached), and relatively cheap. Only thing is you can’t go above 400 feet so small scale pictures are the rule.
I would say you should get the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper. Put some Hellfire missiles under those wings, and you can play Obama and drone strike people that piss you off!
“Unit cost = $16.9 million”
That may be out of my price range, and I’m looking for something a bit…smaller.
Though rather than drop bombs I could contract it out for aerial prescribed fire ignition…nah rotor wing are still better for that.
Well, you can buy the Chinese copy of it for half the price. Probably also have half the chance the thing doesn’t drop out of the air too, but if you want cheap that is how to go according to third world dictators.
So the worthless, spineless, mealy mouthed, corrupt, useless pussies in Congress came up with a 2 week extension to avert MUH GUBMINT SHUTDOWN. What are they so fucking afraid of? They already lost! This is Trump’s gut check moment. He said when he signed the last one that it was the last time he’d do it. Make good on that promise and veto the bill and tell them to come back when they have something not so embarrassing.
Not gonna happen but I can dream I guess. I don’t think we’re ever going to see an actual budget bill again. I truly think they’ll just keep kicking the can down the road for who knows how long until the economy collapses.
If they can’t go balls to the wall on a radical budget that cuts shit in a lame duck session than they don’t deserve to be in the majority anyways.
Oh, they failed spectacularly long before this. They had the once a decade (at the absolute best) combined control of Congress and the Presidency, and they did absofuckinglutely nothing with it (with the sole exception of a tax cut, that still did nothing to fix the fundamental problem with the tax code). There can be no other conclusion than that the Republican Party leadership doesn’t want to actually do anything, they just want to be in Congress.
That’s why I don’t give a shit that they lost the House. They were worthless when they had it, so fuck ’em.
^This^
The only thing I’m looking forward to with the new Congress are the resumption of brave calls by the GOP to repeal Obamacare.
Sadly, they will probably fire up their base and retake Congress with such posturing.
Judicial picks is the only thing I’m looking forward to.
https://indianapublicradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/barrett_headshot-1560×900.jpg
Soon…..
What are they so fucking afraid of? They already lost!
They have cushy K Street contracts to think of now. Cutting off the money to cronies ain’t going to land them phat lobbying gigs.
The Fedgov gets a paid day off tomorrow for mourning GHWB. Let that sink in.
*pukes on nearest Japanese person in memory of GHWB*
* throws broccoli spears in his general direction
Yeah, they’re also closing the markets and the post office. What the actual fuck? Why do so many people want politicians to be nobility?
People don’t like being free. It’s uncomfortable. They’d rather be ruled.
Throw in the fact that most in the Fedgov are lefties who hated him (though plenty were children at the time) and it makes even less sense. The same strange phenomenon in discussion here for a while now.
Stock market is closed so I do as well. Thank you President Bush!
You would think that giving him a decent budget would be a huge priority.
If they kick the can down the road and the new Dem house gives him a bloated budget he’ll probably sign it. And that might make the light bulb go off for the Dems and he’ll go from “NAZI” to “someone we can work with on important issues”.
I have no faith in Trump to resist bloated budgets. Especially since if they are bloated Dem budgets he will receive compliments in the media for “evolving”
Why not pass a two-year budget that is ever-shrinking?
Because they can’t legally?
*thinks a second* shit, you’re right, why not?
How are you gonna buy votes when the pool of vote buying cash shrinks, huh? You gonna make it up on volume?
I have no faith in Trump to resist bloated budgets.
Seconded, although I have some faith in the Dems inability to compromise. Were they but willing to shovel money in the directions of his pet projects (such as the wall), he’d let them spend whatever they want. But they don’t want to give him a win, and he has to have wins, so there could be some stalemates in the future.
They should be taking lessons from the lame duck legislature in Wisconsin
What good is power if you aren’t willing to wield it?
I’m opposed in principle to any kind of lame duck session. There was an election. Some of you didn’t win. If you didn’t win, you shouldn’t still be legislating. It makes no more sense for a legislature to convene a lame duck session immediately after an election than it would be for the members of the legislature from ten years ago to reconvene and pass laws.
Lame duck sessions, as near as I can tell, are an anachronistic holdover from the time when it took weeks for information and people to travel across the country.
duuude: love the buuubes, but ya gotta be smoking sumpin awesome
Trump’s gut check – uh, no: identity populism has zero to do principle, so Trump’s political potency relies neither on the issues or his performance
He said when – you’re killing me / can’t breathe
I can dream – I get the Herself hate: I’m not a fan, either, but this thing where the enemy of my enemy is the Messiah?
It’s totally okay to laugh all day at the infancy of the progs, but taking Trump seriously is just broken; attributing desirable politics and managerial intent (all the while working so hard to live with all the obvious “policy” problems) to that ass-clown is just a bit too much
still love ya duuuude *wipes away tears* oh doG that was funny *still wiping*
taking Trump seriously is just broken
That’s a little strong. There’s a bunch of people who didn’t take him seriously who are picking their teeth up off the floor.
oh I know what you mean: I never guessed he’d win
But I didn’t mean he wasn’t successful in that truckdrivers-love-me sort of way; I merely meant his politques-de-jour range from hapless to wrong; his concepts that I happen to agree with are far between and apt to change any moment based on . . . I don’t know what goes in this space
it’s imperative we keep helping fund Saudi Arabia’s “activities” in Yemen
Yup: so I learned from FoxNews four times an hour while the MIL was here. I instinctively flashed back to our domino theory days and wondered if this would get my son killed.
There is so much bullshit baked into that:
1/ Sunnis (Wahabi?) are better than Shia?
2/ What Iran does is any of our business?
3/ American lives are a small price to pay so we can pretend that we make the world a better place one war at a time?
4/ Oil isn’t fungible?
“American lives are a small price to pay so we can pretend that we make the world a better place one war at a time?”
As long as it increases Lockheed’s stock price a couple of points…
Pedantically, oil isn’t fungible as metals.
Oh I definitely don’t think Trump is the Messiah; however I do think he stands a better chance of doing something outside the box than any other “politician” in my lifetime simply because he’s not a politician. HOWEVER, there is every reason to think that he is/has become just as power hungry and corrupt as the rest of them, hence the wishful thinking.
I believe it’s been game over for some time; there’s no fixing these problems even if our leaders actually had the will to do so (they don’t). I actually think this is just the natural course of human events. The right amount of government is the right amount of cancer in spite of the founders trying to limit its power as much as possible; logically then you’d think that I’d be ancap? No. I think ancap is just as utopian as Communism. I simply think that there is an expiration date on any and all human social organizations and the type of prosperity and peace we’ve experienced for the past 200 years is the exception, not the rule. I sympathize with your “pox on both houses” attitude, what I’m looking for is some group to preserve as best as possible the peace and prosperity long enough for me to punch out my clock. The collapse *will* happen, I’d just prefer to not be around when it does.
I believe it’s been game over for some time;
Yeah, we are seeing the proof of this now. The administrative state has simultaneously (i) escaped all political control and is now fully autonomous and (ii) relieved elected officials of any responsibility to actually govern. Regardless of whether they actually take Trump down, they have proven that they can conspire with foreign governments to try and control our elections, violating innumerable laws in the process, and suffer exactly zero negative consequences. The only thing worse than being governed by elected officials is being governed by unelected officials.
what I’m looking for is some group to preserve as best as possible the peace and prosperity long enough for me to punch out my clock.
There is nobody who can preserve the peace and prosperity against a government that does not see the advantage in doing so.
“There is nobody who can preserve the peace and prosperity against a government that does not see the advantage in doing so.”
I was about to add that it gets more likely by the day that the peace and prosperity will outlast me. To that end, I purchased land far, far away and continue to quietly stockpile necessities. Not that it really matters much one way or the other. Just another way to occupy my time while waiting either for the Fall of Rome or the Big Sleep.
I believe it’s been game over for some time; there’s no fixing these problems even if our leaders actually had the will to do so (they don’t).
Well, at least we can rest assured that we still have a representative government. Our leaders have no will to fix the problems because our people have no will to do so. One has to look only at the direct democracy of policy referendums to see that this is so (the popularity of the unsustainable combination of high spending and low taxes), and the refusal of people to vote against openly corrupt politicians.
The controversy is even uniting political rivals. Trump spoke with Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D)on the phone last week about how to keep GM jobs in his state.
Brown is pushing Congress to pass his bill, the American Cars, American Jobs Act, introduced in August. It would encourage customers to buy American-made cars and close tax loopholes for companies moving jobs overseas.
That’ll fix it.
Murphy said GM’s lobbyists will be “caught in the middle” as the company takes a public battering.
Explaining to the American public and elected officials that the cuts are necessary for the long-term health of the company would be a hard sell, he said.
“The people who run GM, Mary Barra and her staff, they got to plan to endure the long-term success of the company with a huge cloud of industry disruption on the horizon,” said Murphy.
“They know all this. The politicians don’t.”
Mary Barra should go to Capitol Hill and explain to Congress what a bunch of idiots they were for bailing GM out.
Berkeley knuckles under, agrees to quit discriminating against conservative groups and speakers.
They got off lightly, frankly, and it’s not like these censorious jerkoffs don’t have campus shock troops ready to enforce their policies, official or not.
I’d quibble about how Berkeley is supposed to suppress the heckler’s veto without allocating resources to police protestors, but since they were extorting security fees mostly to let police lounge around watching rioters set fires in trashcans, I suppose it’s a wash. How many Pinkerton agents could those fees buy?
I don’t see anything about Berkeley not being allowed to allocate resources to police protestors.
I just meant that any assessment of a proposed event by conservatives is bound to elicit greater concern over security than anything leftists put on, hence requiring more funding, some of which should, all else equal, be borne by the conservative group.
Of course, not all else is equal: conservatives pay for security they can’t rely on, they are nowhere near as reactionary and violent as the leftists who troop in to protest, and the university itself is largely to blame for the Maoists they let riot through the quad.
So in that sense I’m pleased to see them getting it on both ends, committed to shutting down hecklers while denied the figleaf of extortionate fees they charged despite allowing hecklers. They set the policy, now they can live with the contradictory mandate of not extorting money from conservatives and actually having to protect them.
(That said, having glanced through the settlement, I can’t tell that there’s any language to justify bullet #4 above—but IANAL, so.)
any assessment of a proposed event by conservatives is bound to elicit greater concern over security than anything leftists put on, hence requiring more funding, some of which should, all else equal, be borne by the conservative group
Not sure that follows. Providing adequate and even-handed security on campus benefits everyone, so why should anyone have to pay more? Especially since much of the threat to conservatives on campus comes from faculty and students themselves, requiring conservatives to pay more looks like straight-up extortion “Pay us and we’ll protect you from . . . us.”
“All else equal” is doing a lot of work, sure. If lefties wanted to host a flag-burning event, at the risk of attracting a bunch of alt-right provocateurs (I know, I know), I’d like to think the university is working for its student body, employees, alums, etc. to reduce the likelihood of violence, even if that means extracting concessions from the flag burners. Should security guarantees have no strings attached? If a student group wants Pam Geller to host a Mohammed draw-in, should the school require nothing of them?
But yes, not all else is equal, and I’m glad to see some pushback. Though I don’t think much will change other than limiting the extortion.
They can easily police the hecklers by putting sanctions on them up to and including expulsion. The fact is that the shitweasel pinkos that run the school and the town are the ones responsible for what has been occurring. They encouraged it and allowed it to happen. The school staff may as well have set the fires themselves.
They settled because they were bound to lose and bad.
I dont believe they are going to do any of that. Pinkos are gonna pinko. They cant help themselves.
As I predicted (though it wasn’t hard to predict), the cops’ stories in the mall shooting in Alabama Thanksgiving Night continues to be worse.
Background: Someone was shot at a mall. Police responded. Shot and killed man with gun.
First, the police said he was the original shooter.
Then, they said he wasn’t, but he might’ve been associated.
Then they said probably not, but he was brandishing the gun.
Then they said he wasn’t brandishing the gun, but he had it out!
Now it comes out the guy was shot in the back. Three times.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46434717
Love the little side-links on how horrible America is. Never change, BBC.
Wait until we find out the gun was planted in an attempt to make it a good shoot.
Was there ever a shooter other than the cops?
Well that makes CC a bit more scary. I mean we discussed what to do when the cops show up in our class and it was essentially, drop the gun and put your hands up. Not that I carry or anything.
“Under Alabama gun law, it is not illegal to carry a gun in public, but the Riverchase Galleria prohibits firearms on its premises.”
Welp, there you go. Good shoot. Case closed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/03/trumps-move-to-stem-chinese-fentanyl-greeted-with-optimism-from-lawmakers.html
did i just read a positive article from NBC about Trump?
the winning has gotten to be too much.
Waste of time though.
Cue article on Trump’s sadism, denying pain relief to the suffering masses, etc.
^^^Something that is actually true.
Here’s something for technology and history nerds! It’s actually pretty interesting.
From World War II Radar to Microwave Popcorn, the Cavity Magnetron Was There
Speaking of GM
General Motors (GM) shutting five factories and cutting 14,000 jobs reflects poorly on a legacy approach to managing. Big shots making transactional decisions — buy or sell this, open or close that, hire or fire them.
What is required is a dynamic approach of building capabilities to be agile and resilient, learning quickly how to bring value into the marketplace with speed and responsiveness.
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General Motors (GM) shutting five factories and cutting 14,000 jobs reflects poorly on a legacy approach to managing. Big shots making transactional decisions — buy or sell this, open or close that, hire or fire them.
What is required is a dynamic approach of building capabilities to be agile and resilient, learning quickly how to bring value into the marketplace with speed and responsiveness.
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Investors and management gurus regularly celebrate the dynamic of “knowledge work” in robotics, pharma, biotech and the like.
Great new products invented by curious people regularly seeking and solving problems, inventing and deploying new ideas are lauded. In order to regain relevance in this hyper-driven 21st-century economy, GM must learn to do the same.
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Agile, like Tesla?
Does this idiot have a clue how much regulation and compliance car manufacturers have to follow? Does the idiot think “Well, the Chevy Cruze only costs 14x what an iPhoneXS costs so it must only have 14x more parts.”??
No agile like a certain Cyborg
Or maybe GM could start designing better cars and trucks.
Have you seen pictures of the 2020 Chevy Silverado? https://jalopnik.com/2020-chevrolet-silverado-hd-gaze-upon-it-and-weep-1830846265
i’ve seen better grills on rappers
Maybe that’s the latest focus group?
For God’s sake, why?
As the proud owner of a new iPhone I wish Tim Cook would have made his dumbass pronouncement a week ago. The last thing I need is a kajillionaire with suicide nets around the upper stories of his Chinese factories preaching to me about moral behavior or how you should treat your fellow man.
Apple is to the Chinese what IBM was to the Nazis
To be fair, they aren’t “his” factories. Foxconn supplies many manufacturers.
“Foxconn”
Rupert Murdoch at it again!
So I read an article about some LGBT writer getting death threats over a review of an Ariana Grande song called “thank u next”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl1aHhXnN1k
It’s absolutely awful.
The man had to review an Ariana Grande song. Hasn’t he suffered enough? What is wrong with these people?
Fucked that up. Middle part of that quote was supposed to be this
Rather than being agile, the company was stuck with an old school view of what managers do — making “resource allocation” decisions — about what to introduce or discontinue, what to open or close, whom to hire and fire, based on a steady flow of aggregated data that periodically forces a choice. It’s management work as a series of transactions with everything and everyone commoditized.
This is far from the responsibility managers should have: creating, energizing and harnessing the discovery capabilities of people. Equipped with such capability, the enterprise can have an up-to-date appreciation of what the market needs and will reward, back by a stream of alternatives to meet those needs.
This only happens with a workforce that is regularly recognizing new problems and opportunities and developing new ideas in a self-generated process of constant rejuvenation.
This depends on viewing people not as disposable commodities or variable costs to be taken on and shed but as people that are distinctly capable of solving problems — micro to macro, local and systemic.
Not that I want to deflect any part of the well deserved opprobrium which may be heaped on GM, but let’s consider, for a moment, what the product line might look like absent a couple decades’ worth of CAFE regulations.
Rather than being agile, the company was stuck with an old school view of what managers do — making “resource allocation” decisions
JFC – does this halfwit think that being “agile” magically grants unlimited resources?
I’ve read about it being the new thing in development, why can’t you use it for developing cars?
/journalist
CAFE regulations are about 5% of the regulations on car manufacturers.
Even if we imagined a regulation-free car industry, an “agile” car manufacturer responding to “market needs” still has to do engineering, testing, tool and die casting, etc. The more agile your approach, the less you can amortize all those expenses over several years. I think the piece of shit just hates poor people using automobiles.
Tuesday Tatas:
https://thesexier.com/sexy-selfies-sexy-babes-pics/
Too many winners to winnow down to three, but if you like nerdy hot, 9; if you like AA women, 27 and 28.
More Tuesday tatas.
their JV with Marcopolo * sigh *
does this halfwit think that being “agile” magically grants unlimited resources?
He’s a “lecturer” at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. So I’d say yes.
Unexpectedly
Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick.
The world’s largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with Brain Corp., which makes the machines. The autonomous janitors can clean floors on their own even when customers are around, according to the San Diego-based startup.
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The robots, which look like a cross between a miniature Zamboni and a motorized wheel chair, already scrub floors at airports in Seattle, San Diego, Boston and Miami, Izhikevich said. Brain last month unveiled a smaller version of the machine developed jointly with SoftBank Group Corp.’s robotics arm and aimed at the Japanese market. At that time, Izhikevich said he’s looking to deploy the robots for security patrol and deliveries inside big-box stores.
“BrainOS is a powerful tool in helping our associates complete repetitive tasks so they can focus on other tasks within role and spend more time serving customers,” John Crecelius, Walmart’s vice president of central operations, said in the statement.
They don’t show up for work drunk, they don’t go on strike, and you don’t have to pay them fifteen bucks an hour.
I look forward to Walmart aisles being filled with gonk and mouse droids like a retail Death Star.
Meh… unless they scream in pain when tortured it just won’t be the same thing. /Bitter memory of when I went from loving Star Wars to hating it.
I was more perplexed than hateful about the prequels. I was twelve, and hey, it’s Star Wars, what do I care? Of course, I never wanted to rewatch TPM like I did all of the OT. By the time TFA came out I was already numb to the series, so I enjoyed it as a summer popcorn flick with some really, really dumb plot points. (The Starkiller Base destroying like five planets at once, all inexplicably visible from one world, was the dumbest thing I’ve seen since the supernova plot that kicks off Star Trek 2009.)
I haven’t and probably won’t see the TLJ or anything else. At this point the youtube videos deconstructing how a franchise commits suicide are much more entertaining, anyway.
But they will break down, so “robot repair person” seems like a lucrative field to train for and invest in.
So the latest thing in the pervert world is that Tumblr is going to eliminate all porn from its platform on Dec 17th. Apparently someone snuck some child porn past their industry database (?) and they got booted from the apple store. So now no more naughty videos or pictures of any kind. If we’re going to have the neo-puritanism, we should at least get Primers too.
Well, shit, I botched that. I tshould have been Neo-Victorianism.
Vickies are the best clave.
CAFE regulations are about 5% of the regulations on car manufacturers.
My point about CAFE is the shell game the manufacturers ended up playing with their product lines in order to offset the profitable models. Instead of specializing in trucks and SUVs, they end up building a bunch of cars some wokr bureaucrat think people *should* drive. They buyild small(ish) cars because they have to, not because they want to, and definitely not because they’re good at it.
I like small efficient cars. I always have, but the cars I like and buy are cars built by manufacturers who specialize in small efficient cars, not people who toss them into the mix as an afterthought. *cough* Cadillac Cimarron *cough* They should have let Roger Penske buy GM out of bankruptcy.
And those are all the cars that failed GM.
I was just trying to point out that CAFE regulations are only the tip of the iceberg of regulations. The tip of the iceberg creates perverse incentives like the Cimarron, but all the other ones that are less obvious also create perverse incentives.
I remember the complaints from the 1980’s: “$300 for an alternator for my Accord, and I have to wait over a week? Hell, the three alternators I bought for my Chevy Celebrity only cost $40 each and were installed in three hours!”
I talked about this with a friend’s 65 year old ex-hippy father when Ford announced essentially getting rid of all cars. He had no idea that those cars were only there to meet the average fleet mileage requirements. But he was incredulous that they would get rid of cars people don’t buy. I mean, I wish Ford would build a 2-door Bronco, but of course they aren’t because I assume they figure not enough people would buy them to justify it. Or maybe they can’t meet the safety standards with a 2-door, or some other regulatory reason.
I was just trying to point out that CAFE regulations are only the tip of the iceberg of regulations. The tip of the iceberg creates perverse incentives like the Cimarron, but all the other ones that are less obvious also create perverse incentives.
Absolutely true.
Just for fun, we could try to imagine what a “home computer” would look like (and how much it would cost) if the Department of Energy regulated them in the same manner as the NHTSA and EPA regulate motorized vehicles.
Hell, the three alternators I bought for my Chevy Celebrity only cost $40 each and were installed in three hours!
They remedied that with the Northstar.