Brett has been downing bottles of vodka in an effort to keep warm while in space Michigan. We received this note: “wud u giys do teh pm links all my 19 fingers are blu.”
Investigating saboteurs in outer space!
Calibrating a measuring rod in outer space!
Bonus link: Wonky Germans.
Also, Christmas music!
Comments
306 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links”
heh-heh….measuring ROD
Go ahead and Just put ’em on the GLASS!
I was just about to post that the links were late. You were *that* close. I’ll let it go because I like links with a theme, even the theme has nothing to do with the links linked. But then you broke the theme with the wonky Germans link. And posted Christmas music.
The theme has always been: be unpredictable.
I liked it, in an “exception that proves the rule” way. Bring the chaos.
No one cares what you want.
I think a good 75% of all the comments you leave around here are responding to me.
Still, he’s not wrong.
Also, best part of the Trump-Pelosi/Schumer throw down yesterday is Pence just sitting there numb to it all. Did he say a single word through any of it?
At one point he muttered “Ah like french fried pertaters.”
Taters. I can assure you it’s taters. I lived in Indiana. Taters, maters, and soup beans.
It’s amazing.
Those four in one room.
The most powerful nation in world history.
It makes me wish some alien race would push a sizeable asteroid into our atmosphere. The most prosperous nation on Earth, and this is what we have for leaders.
A shark that shoots whales out of its mouth…impressive.
Impressive would be if they came out of its ass.
Investigating saboteurs in outer space!-
Incompetent workmanship! In Russia! Now I’ve heard everything!
Apple hired the wrong commies to make their crap. Whatever would have been lost in wages they more than would have made up for in design flaws that would have forced their stupid hipster audience to buy more of their shit to replace the broken shit. I mean, it’s already their business model. The Chineman is too competent.
+1 railroads
Eh? There can be other complaints about Apple, but quality isn’t one them. I just replaced my 10 year old macbook with a new air. My wife’s macbook is 9 years old. The old macbooks work, but were becoming a little slow.
A coworker replaced her 8 year old macbook this fall.
My 6 year old iPad is similiarly going strong
Yeah, the only reason I trade in my phones is because I want the new model. None of them have stopped working.
This. I don’t much care for iOS, but the hardware is high quality.
We are an Android family, but I have Apple products for my work, and my daughter’s school issues Macs. We are so not an Apple family. That said…
Ever since my Galaxy S7 got a forced update to Oreo, my battery life tanked to 3-4 hours on a charge.
I haz a mad. Bout to have Mr. Mojeaux flash the firmware back to Nougat.
I had the same issue with my S5 after one of the upgrades. Bought a replacement battery (because they could be replaced back then), and the battery life still sucked.
Upgraded to the Note 8, and have been happy so far, but I don’t like the precedent of the phone taking an upgrade induced nosedive after a couple years.
Yes. I’ve been all over the internet and the only real solution offered is, “Well, you could upgrade.” Um, I LIKE my phone. I don’t WANT a new one.
/Looks mournfully at 2 year old android tablet that just decided to die one day
Do you get +1 free social credit point with your iThingy?
10 social credits are redeemable for one transgression against the hip cause of next month. For 20 you can transgress against the cause of last month. For 50 you can even transgress against this month’s cause!
“Model awarded $125G after she unknowingly became face of HIV
A Brooklyn model has been awarded $125,000 after she unwittingly became the face of HIV when a state agency used her stock photo in an ad campaign.
He noted that she’s not in counseling and has a thriving vintage clothing business. He said a $1.5 million award was more appropriate for someone falsely accused of being a drug-dealing, alcoholic prostitute.”
https://www.foxnews.com/health/model-awarded-125g-after-she-unknowingly-became-face-of-hiv
G for grand?
Seems like the kinda thing you waive when you become a model for a stock photo company, but good for her i guess if it was not permitted by her contract.
She’s a bigot for having a problem with being the face of HIV.
It wasn’t AIDS, it was HIV. Magic Johnson has the cure for that
It’s not as easy for women to sleep with virgins.
:Gets idea on how to monetize incells:
Injections of cash.
*insert South Park clip here*
She must have had a lot of awkward first dates after that.
I would, but the vintage clothing is a turn off to me.
How “vintage” we talking? Like bell bottoms and tie dye, or like fig leaves and animal pelts?
Wasn’t this an episode of “Friends”? Joey was some PSA Billboard re Gonorrhea/Chlamydia/something similar.
Dammit
But you had a link so….
SOCLOSE!
Friends did it better
Friends didn’t do anything better.
…except when they did this
Turkeys are done.
It took three click thrus to figure out. Your link and two to the NY Post.
A photographer “friend” uploaded the picture to Getty without her permission. The Getty use agreement said nothing “unflattering” or “controversial”.
She settled the suit with Getty for an unspecified amount.
In metric-speak, G means Giga (billion).
Remember back before STD? Joey was the face of VD
I’m giving a friend of mine the clap for xmas.
https://smile.amazon.com/GIANT-MICROBES-GMD0150-Clap-Plush/dp/B000JZ08US
Obligatory
I’m conflicted on “artist concept of ———“ in the space pictures. On the one hand they are nice to look at and on the other they are fabrications.
Did Gordilocks already get kicked off twitter? I was gonna forward him a trucking story and I can’t find him at all.
Banned for Trans-Hate Speach. He really hates those Automatic vehicles.
What’s an S peach? Also, don’t manuals still have transmissions?
As opposed to automatics?
They both have transmissions, right? I don’t see how trans hate equals hate of automatics.
Only the after-market conversions.
Ahh yes the Trans Tranies
+1 factory air
Gizmodo is sad: Last-Minute Push to Restore Net Neutrality Stymied by Democrats Flush With Telecom Cash
With 5g around the corner (or so I am told) isn’t NN effectively already obsolete? Could someone smarter than me provide insight?
State control of essential infrastructure is always simultaneously fashionable and obsolete.
5g may be “around the corner”, but it’s going to take a few years to deploy all the infrastructure. In the mean time, people are dying in the streets, the telecom companies are out of business, and the reapers are free to roam the land, raping the horses and stealing the women.
“This gay Black furry is esports’ player of the year—and he’s teaching the far-right a lesson
Meet Dominique “SonicFox” McLean, a self-described “Black Queer Furry who will mix your shit in fighting games.” SonicFox was just crowned Esports Player of the Year at the Game Awards 2018, and for a victory lap, he’s been dunking hardcore on Twitter’s right-wing users all weekend.”
https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/gay-black-furry-sonicfox-esports-far-right/
Much stunning. So brave. Very educational.
It’s great because of all the historical stigma against gays and blacks in the esports arena.
One thing playing anonymously online brings out is judging people by the color of their skin…
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a black queer furry.
Have you ever interacted with a furry? They can’t go more than 5 seconds without letting you know.
How do we know he’s black? Cuz I betcha he’s a 4’9″ Japanese dude named Haruto.
He’s a fighting game player. They don’t really do online. You fly out to events and sit side by side with every other schmuck who entered. He’s definitely black. Very much a furry. Rather talented. And actually invested all his winnings in smart things like his college fund and savings.
You’ve yiffed?
Eeewwwww.
But they also don’t know that you are NOT a black queer furry.
But who cares about some dudes playing girl games?
JFC
Take that you right-winger! *finger-snaps*
He’s proving that black people can be just as crazy online as even the most melanin deficient white person. It doesn’t seem like actually being a good gamer is a prerequisite to being the Player of the Year, though. But we’re in a brave new world where you don’t have to be a female to be Miss Universe.
“you don’t have to be a female to be Miss Universe.”
Or good looking, or talented.
He’s taken 1st in quite a few major fighting game tournaments and different games (which have different metas and skill sets).
One of the most talented fighting gamers of the current generation.
https://liquipedia.net/fighters/SonicFox/Results
And he jerks off to cartoon animals.
I think I’m more impressed by that.
The kid’s got joystick technique. Also nuts.
I’d one headshot him in an action RPG. And I bet he’d cry.
Maybe if you get a critical for a blind status effect
Pol Thot / Sonicfox 2020
“Strabismus with Wolves”
I see Twitter is still cancer.
Verified.
‘Baby, it’s cold outside’ controversy explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGWsNPfZWx4
https://imgur.com/a/5StQNXg
It’s a real Hershey highway.
I’ve loved that phrase since I was a little squirt.
“Godiva highway” doesn’t have the same ring.
Had a lady tell me it was more classy..
that’s tushy.com’s business model
Ancient astronaut theorists make everything better.
It always kills me when they start out a statement with ‘According to ancient astronaut theorists…’, and I’m thinking ‘Is that really where you want to start?’.
I love it. Guilty pleasure.
It’s entertaining for sure. Also, David Childress sounds exactly like my oldest brother and is just as full of shit. One time he was going on about chemtrails and some crazy non-sense and I said ‘So when’s your next Ancient Aliens episode?’.
Wait, are you saying its aliens that are doing the chemtrails and not the deep state that wants to turn the frogs all gay?
No, that was my brother going on about chemtrails. I don’t pay attention to him anymore when he starts on shit like that. He has this weird friend, they play music together and I think that is where he gets this stuff from.
But my brother has an uncanny likeness to David Childress. The first time I realized this, I was hanging out with my wife in the kitchen and the TV was on in the living room. We were talking and all of the sudden I’m hearing this voice coming from the TV. Next thing I know, my wife is going ‘hey, pay attention to what I’m telling you!’. But I couldn’t, because my brother is on the fucking TV. So I just said ‘minute’ and I went in there. If was an episode of Ancient Aliens and Childress is on. The guy sounds exactly like my brother, the voice, the way he articulates things, it’s identical. So I told the wife, sorry, my brother is on TV. She hadn’t yet met my brother, she gets it now. They don’t look too much alike, there’s the beard, the glasses, the grey, but the speech is just uncanny, never seen anything like it before.
I read Chariots of the Gods as a kid and thought it was great. Then in 5th grade our “science” teacher brought up evolution and started talking about how full of holes it is and how you can’t really believe it.
I was so excited to add to the discussion. I raised my hand and told Mr. Burgeson and the class how true it was that there were other theories on how humans got on earth. Then I told them all about ancient alien astronauts.
That is when I discovered that Mr. Burgeson was setting us up to learn about Creationism and not about ancient astronauts.
It was a long year after that.
He was just lucky there are no holes in Creationism. It’s an airtight theory.
Laughing. Scared the cats.
I bought all of von Danikens books. The hardbacks. I was obsessed with the guy. When I found out he’s a charlatan I was actually hurt. Then really pissed. I’ve been the biggest skeptic since then, pretty much always correctly of course.
Alien abductions are real bro
Caught a few minutes of an Art Bell rerun featuring a flat-earther and a hollow-earther. They’re two great tastes that taste great together, apparently. I love this crap. It’s strange that skeptics get so worked up about it.
Teresa May survives no confidence move: https://www.foxnews.com/world/british-pm-theresa-may-survives-no-confidence-vote-despite-brexit-chaos
Any brits with even a drop of self-respect left should be doing their best impression of a Mohammedan in the suburbs of Paris tonight.
Why would any Brit have self-respect?
“Mohammedan”
Are you from the early 1900’s?
I’ve been listening to a bit too much CS Lewis as of late. It’s rubbing off on me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wUYTMcXBE
You’ll get a kick out of this speech then. Last time I heard “Mohammedan” was watching this
Muselmann is the term I like to use.
P.S. May sucks.
The UK sucks in general.
I watched Michael Malice’s interview with Count Dankula and the stuff they put him through over a stupid video is Orwellian
I think he was charged under local Scottish law and Scotland seems to actually be worse than the rest of GB who are terrible enough as it is. It’s a damn shame really.
Man (Graham Chapman): I wish those bloody bells would stop.
Wife (Terry Jones): Oh, it’s quite nice dear, it’s Sunday, it’s the church.
Man: What about us atheists? Why should we have to listen to that sectarian turmoil?
Wife: You’re a lapsed atheist, dear.
Man: The principle’s the same. Bleeding C of E. The Mohhamedans don’t come ’round here wavin’ bells at us! We don’t get Buddhists playing bagpipes in our bathroom! Or Hindus harmonizing in the hall! The Shintoists don’t come here shattering sheet glass in the shithouse and shouting slogans…
Wife: All right, don’t practice your alliteration on me.
What is that from?
Monty Python skit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBBlRB1HH2g
Thanks
“Mohammedan”
Are you from the early 1900’s?”
We must keep a constant vigil for those Mohammedans and Orientals.
Would you prefer Saracen?
I just got done reading a different article stating that if there were 100+ votes against her, it indicated that her brexit deal would be very difficult to push through…
May is a UK pawn. Her mission from the start was to prevent Brexit in any way possible. They really cannot be serious in thinking Brexit ever happens with that hag in control. It’s her number on mission to make sure it does NOT happen. Duh.
I meant EU.
Meh. She wants to be PM and knows it’s now or never. She probably doesn’t want Brexit but knows neither how to stop it nor how to carry it out. She’s a fraction of the woman and PM Thatcher was and she probably knows it. She’s more incompetent than evil, which is really par for the course for British conservative leadership since Thatcher got the bright idea to institute a fucking poll tax.
Wet Wednesday — five women wearing wet clothing. NSFW, obviously.
One:
pinimg.com/originals/1f/19/07/1f1907bd9043dcc048bed7cbda51ad28.jpg
SF’d the link:
One, again:
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/19/07/1f1907bd9043dcc048bed7cbda51ad28.jpg
Two:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/69/ab/6d/69ab6db74854ced518213e0cf703b7a0.jpg
Three:
pinimg.com/originals/9c/16/3f/9c163fce50e8d72cee38990362590140.jpg
Links are hard!
A different three:
https://www.biphoo.com/product-images/cms/news/cel_news_img/Heidi_Klum_Hot_Wallpaper.jpg
Four:
http://www.brswimwear.com/149-thickbox_default/green-sheer-micro-bikini.jpg
Five:
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/5c/7e/82/5c7e82e3513be373810322aed0e8da85–wet-t-shirt-sexy-wet.jpg
I like pokey Rachel better.
^This guy gets it.^
“Waitress puts Hot Dog in her Vagina! Tasty”
https://twitter.com/Mens_Corner_/status/1072159070608654337
“I’d the ‘Bill Clinton’ with ketchup.”
Man, when I first read that, I saw “Her Dog”
She looks fun.
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/4/obamacare-medicaid-expansion-beneficiaries-ineligi/
LA has perhaps the worst run Medicaid system in America. Unlike other states, LA long ago decided to create its own state run hospital system with its Medicaid dollars (in contrast other states operate Medicaid more like an insurance company). They have been trying to wind the system down, but the cost of their Medicaid is still outrageously expensive in comparison to other states.
LA also receives a very high reimbursement rate (75%) from the federal government. Shortly after Hurricane Katrina, the State enjoyed a temporary reimbursement rate of 90% from the federal government, which went on for several years.
Recently the state expanded its Medicaid system. A recent audit shows how wasteful LA’s Medicaid system is (spoiler: all states suffer from similar problems).
FTA:
“Louisiana’s legislative auditor wanted to know how the state’s expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare was doing, so he picked 100 people who were deemed eligible under the rules.
He found that 82 of them made so much money that they shouldn’t have qualified for the benefits they received.”
And
“Two of the 100 people he examined were using Medicaid despite annual incomes exceeding $300,000.
Four other recipients had six-figure incomes. One of them, with an income of $111,785 per year, received $17,807 in Medicaid payments. Another, with an annual income of $126,284, spent 12 months on Medicaid and received nearly $11,000 in payments, according to the report.”
Someone disagrees with the method.
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander snaps its first stunning selfie
Stunned, I am.
InSIght has a phaser!
I’m not sure why they named the rover after a crappy hybrid Honda.
NASA’s InSight Mars Lander snaps its first stunning selfie
Those headlines usually include an ad where you can buy whatever the spacecraft is wearing.
With it’s technological wonder 2 megapixel camera, I’m sure.
Wapo headline on googlenooz:
If Trump Weren’t President, He’d Be in Serious Jeopardy of Being Charged, Says Comey
Umm, if trump weren’t President, there’d be no basis to charge him with a technical violation of election funding rules, or violating the “emoluments clause” or whatever other treasonous perfidy they’re whacking off about in the WaPo newsroom.
Well, Comey is an expert on whether people would hypothetically be charged.
I’m relieved to see Comey finally has a problem with the elites getting different treatment than the proles.
Like Hillary?
Mens Rhea!!!
I don’t even get it, she’s a woman.
You can violate campaign finance rules without winning an election. You just have to run, not win. However, even if he lost, he’d likely be too close to winning for their comfort which would still keep him in their sights.
All of that, in space, and still no SPACE SMITH!
In space, no one can hear you not consent.
https://goo.gl/images/KndJAx
A spokesperson for the Werl fire department told Reuters that about a ton of chocolate ran from the factory into a street and, after hitting the chilly pavement, the milk chocolate quickly hardened.
I, too, have been known to quickly harden.
Chilly Pavement would be a good porn name.
Slanted and enchanted?
Even when it’s chilly?
“2018 Year in Review
All that high definition video means a lot of data gets pumped out by Pornhub’s servers every day. In 2018, we transferred 4403 Petabytes of data, which equates to 147 Gigabytes per second. That’s more bandwidth than the entire internet consumed in 2002!
When they’re not busy watching videos, Pornhub’s users enjoy socializing, with nearly 64 million private messages sent and 7.9 million video comments left. The most often used words in Pornhub comments include lots of feel good terms such as love, hot, like, good and sexy. More than 141 million people took the time to vote for their favorite videos, which incidentally is more people than voted in the last U.S. presidential election.”
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2018-year-in-review
TW: Pornhub
Hmm. I’m not sure I want to socialize on a porn site. I’m more of a “get in and get out” shopper.
Minuteman?
You flatter me.
You don’t like to brag in the comments section about how long it took you to spooge while watching said video? What kind of Florida man are you?
The kind that likes to talk about it face to face like gawd intended.
…standing on top of a table in a crowded bar.
After falling through the ceiling nekked.
You’re doing it wrong if you’re paying for your porn.
Pretty certain that Pornhub is free. A friend told me.
BREAKING: Matthew Yglesias is an asshole.
https://www.vox.com/2018/12/12/18134945/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-president
It’s ridiculous that Vox is always the citation for every millennial writer at TOS
Shorter version:
“We should be able to selectively set aside the rules we don’t like.”
Also, I noticed what someone else observed earlier today, she is kinda top heavy in a good way.
Glib Pol: God-given or Bolt-ons?
Padding
I don’t think there’s any padding.
That’s not a flattering shot for her face. She looks like the Hee-Haw mule
She’s a bit toothy.
Your focusing about 12″ too far north
…which is why I specified her face
She has a face? Ever since I found the link I posted below its a blank spot in my mind….
I mentioned that, because I always focus on the important issues. And she’s 32 C. I imagine they’re real
If so that’s just an inexcusable waste of a precious resource.
Likehref=”https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/9n0m0x/young_alexandria_ocasiocortez_as_an_undergrad_bu/”>for realz
Damn it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/9n0m0x/young_alexandria_ocasiocortez_as_an_undergrad_bu/
Great comment:
“Being attracted to boobs is a social construct of the Patriarchy”
/some articleI’m sure exists on Everyday Feminism or Jezebel that I’m not going to bother searching for
More like; “Being attracted to boobs has been leveraged for gain by the Patriarchy for millennia.”
“Being attracted to boobs has been leveraged for gain by the
PatriarchyMatriarchy for manymillennia.”FIFY
Dammit! That was a legit FIFY. Thanks Bob, I owe you one.
I’m probably going to make a dumb short-sighted decision this weekend because of the sway that matriarchy holds over me
Godspeed, Bob Boberson. Godspeed.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1072846863785701377
LOL, he’s retarded. The SC would have nothing to do with it. the FEC and states would ensure that only people who meet the age requirement are posted on the ballot.
Oh, it would wind up in court, make no mistake. The states that refused to list her as a candidate would get sued.
Honestly, I look forward to it, just for Roberts’ opinion on how the Constitution actually allows someone under 35 to be President.
I believe the lawsuit already happened back in the 90s. You can run for President at any age, you just can’t hold the office. I am not sure if the EC is allowed to vote for you or not.
But, in theory, she could be put on the ballot.
My reading of Amendment XII doesn’t seem to require the electors to vote for candidates eligible under Article 2, Section 5.
Interesting. I’ll have to set up a cut-out so I don’t wind up on Dem begging lists for perpetuity, but I might just cut a check for her to run for President. The chaos would be glorious, especially if she actually wins the election but can’t actually, you know, take office.
Isn’t setting up a cut out now illegal?
What’s ridiculous is her winning a seat in Congress.
Absurdly ridiculous to the point of being Kafkaesque.
We’re nearly to the point where our populous is so vapid and superficial that every race is a high school class presidential race, whoever is prettiest and makes the most outlandish promises will be the winner.
She did promise her district that there would be chocolate milk at every lunch and that Tab would be put in the soda machines.
“All of your wildest dreams will come true”
…the really awful thing about being old is that you just keep getting older over time.
Matty Y discovers aging.
Jeez getting older seems better than “…the really awful thing about dying is that you no longer keep getting older over time. “
Sadbeard is retarded.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the biggest star in the Democratic Party”
They are in deep shit if that is true.
This. The only reason she gets any airplay is that she’s cute when her eyes aren’t bugging out. 3/4 of the country would be immediately turned off when they hear her speak.
Yeah, I always knew he was an idiot but this just seems like he’s trolling. I mean he can’t really believe it.
Indeed, it’s been three whole years since she was on her parents’ health insurance policy!
The number is irrelevant. Her inability to speak on any subject with even a hint of competence says far more than how many years she’s been alive.
CPRM needs to see if this guy does an actual Trump voice and not just a Thanos-Trump.
NY Attorney General Says She’ll Investigate Everyone Around Trump
New York Attorney Gen.-elect Letitia James is buttressing President Trump’s claims that there is a “witch hunt” pursuing him; she told NBC News that she intends to investigate not only the president, but also his family and “anyone” in his circle who may have violated the law.
James blustered, “We will use every area of the law to investigate President Trump and his business transactions and that of his family as well,” adding, “We want to investigate anyone in his orbit who has, in fact, violated the law.”
Surely you’ll inform us from where you derive this authority.
When she campaigned for attorney general, James stated that she supported legislation allowing prosecutors to charge individuals who received a presidential pardon. Because of the double jeopardy clause, if an individual receives pardons for crimes at the federal level, they cannot be tried at the state level. James stated:
After careful deliberation, I am urging the state legislature to swiftly pass legislation which safeguards against President Trump’s attacks on the rule of law in our country. The pending legislation closes a loophole in our state law that effectively allows the president to pardon individuals for crimes committed in New York State. Given President Trump’s recent use of the presidential pardon in a case adjudicated in New York State and his claim that he can pardon himself as he pleases, it’s clear that we must act now. We can protect New Yorkers from double jeopardy prosecutions without giving away our state’s ability to deliver justice for all.
SO. MUCH. PROGJECTION. I’ll note, “We can protect New Yorkers from double jeopardy by subjecting them to double jeopardy.” And that “loophole” is in the Constitution. What a piece of work.
New York Attorney Gen.-elect Letitia James is buttressing President Trump’s claims that there is a “witch hunt” pursuing him; she told NBC News that she intends to investigate not only the president, but also his family and “anyone” in his circle who may have violated the law.
Law enforcement in this country has gone from “we need to punish the person who did this crime” to “we need to find a crime to punish this person for.” In a better world, they would be hanging from lampposts.
“In a better world, they would be hanging from lampposts.”
I wouldn’t rule that out just yet.
You are far more optimistic than me.
Minorities can’t be oppressors.
She literally ran with the tagline “The People’s Candidate” and has a long career in city council (!) to prove it. How the fuck she wound up AG is a god damn mystery.
“California’s Background Check Law Had No Impact on Gun Deaths, Johns Hopkins Study Finds
The findings—which run counter to the conventional wisdom that gun control saves lives—have received almost no media attention.
In 1991, California simultaneously imposed comprehensive background checks for firearm sales and prohibited gun sales (and gun possession) to people convicted of misdemeanor violent crimes. The legislation mandated that all gun sales, including private transactions, would have to go through a California-licensed Federal Firearms License (FFL) dealer. Shotguns and rifles, like handguns, became subject to a 15-day waiting period to make certain all gun purchasers had undergone a thorough background check.
It was the most expansive state gun control legislation in America, affecting an estimated one million gun buyers in the first year alone. Though costly and cumbersome, politicians and law enforcement agreed the law was worth it.
More than a quarter of a century later, researchers at Johns Hopkins and UC Davis dug into the results of the sweeping legislation. Researchers compared yearly gun suicide and homicide rates over the 10 years following implementation of California’s law with 32 control states that did not have such laws.”
https://fee.org/articles/california-s-background-check-law-had-no-impact-on-gun-deaths-johns-hopkins-study-finds/
“the conventional wisdom that gun control saves lives”
Conventional wisdom in an asylum. Where do most gun deaths occur and what is the level of gun control laws in those places?
Gun grabbers are evil fucking liars. They aren’t interested in reducing gun crimes, they want the bulk of the population unable to defend themselves. Anyone who cant see that has their head up their ass.
Every mass shooting report should have the same headline: “Crazy person kills many unarmed, defenseless people in gun-free zone”
gun-free zone
The thing about ‘gun-free zones’ is that they are not (and never will be).
Conventional wisdom tends to involve plugging your ears, closing your eyes, and pretending that inconvenient data doesn’t exist. Even the ridiculous low ball estimates on using guns for self-defense are pretty damn high.
The whole “guns cause crime” trope should have been shut down for good just by pointing out trends in the past few years. One panic after another has resulted in an astronomical rise in civilian gun ownership rates* yet the crime rate is lower than it’s been since the ’60s. And that crime is highly concentrated in inner cities (most of which already have strict gun control).
* Some gun-grabbers counter that this is only because a shrinking group of gun owners are just buying more guns, but that doesn’t explain things like an increase in FOID card registration in Illinois.
Well, if it wasn’t for the fact that mass shootings only occur in the United States… OK, not always. I mean there was yesterday when there were 2 mass shootings, one in a church in Brazil and one at a Christmas market in France, which combined took the lives of nearly 20 people. But you know, that’s never happened before, except for yesterday… oh wait…
“Vegan single mum drinks sperm smoothies every morning to give her energy
It’s an unconventional start to the day, but this woman swears by gulping down a smoothie every morning, with the key ingredient being… a teaspoonful of sperm.
29-year-old Tracy Kiss has been drinking the interesting concoction for the past month, saying it’s boosted both her mood and her immunity.
The mum-of-two is currently single, so harvests her sperm from her best friend – or rather, he harvests it and delivers it to her up to three times a week.”
https://metro.co.uk/2016/11/14/vegan-single-mum-drinks-sperm-smoothies-every-morning-to-give-her-energy-6257252/
Spunky.
If she keeps that up she won’t be single for much longer
I need Q to come here and explain the evolutionary psychology behind the guy who would date the chick drinking some other dudes seed.
I don’t even think a Critical Cuck Studies major could sort that out.
” he harvests it and delivers it to her up to three times a week”
Just three times a week? Who else is he delivering to?
Still on a stupid liquid diet and I’m hungry. Still wouldn’t.
Not your bag of tea?
tea-bagging may have something to do with it
*retch*
What kind of world do we live in, where a grown woman can’t harvest sperm herself? Back in my day, we had to walk uphill…both ways!
That article is hilarious.
Two things:
1) I think this means she is not a vegan.
2) She could do the decent thing and “harvest” it herself.
If she blew her boyfriend or husband three times a week and swallowed, no rag would find it newsworthy.
It would definitely be newsworthy if she blew her husband three times a week.
Agreed. Though there was this one blowjob enthusiast I knew… I’m cynical enough to think that wouldn’t last after “I do”.
It’s tough being straight.
Yeah, the sexual dynamics are a tad different.
The politics of this story are strange.
The guy “harvests it for her”? Jesus if you’re going to do that for a woman, have her ‘harvest’ it. I mean, she’s drinking it anyway.
Friendzone Guy: “Why don’t you, you know, “harvest” it for me?”
Crazy Vegan Chick: “Ewwww, that would be weird.”
I don’t know about that friendzone thing. I think if some broad is wanting to drink your jizz, it’s not a far stretch in her mind to sleep with you. But who really knows?
I mean, I’d at least try and turn some profit off this.
Shoulda known that wouldn’t be an original thought.
I could swear I’ve read that bef…
Oh.
Still single
If people actually clicked my links, they would have known about Ms. Kiss.
To corpse-fuck the 70s TV shows comments from last night, who remembers Richard Benjamin in QUARK ?
Not me.
Why does every other actor from the 70s look like some kind of genetic variation of John Saxon?
Wikipedia says it aired at the same time as Wonder Woman.
So, not me.
State rehires doctor accused of Flint water crimes to new protected position
The state’s chief medical executive is facing a jury trial on Flint water crisis criminal charges including involuntary manslaughter but that hasn’t prevented her from securing a new job — one that pays well and has civil service protections.
Dr. Eden Wells has been hired to fill a new position created within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services at an annual salary of $179,672, a classified position that will afford her job protections she doesn’t currently have as chief medical executive, an unclassified — or at-will — position, a DHHS spokeswoman confirmed.
Wells was the only candidate to apply for the “advisory physician” position, which was posted for less than one week in November, according to the state.
Flint was such a market failure.
Yup. As mentioned in the AM links. Socialists say that water is so important that we don’t trust it to private companies, why not other aspects of the economy. I say water is so important we can’t afford to let the government to fuck it up.
You underestimate just how retarded these people are.
Not. Possible. I assume the stupidest person I have ever met, after several blows to the head.
I defy anyone to look at that story and tell me that democracy is better at holding government accountable. I mean, monarchs and the nobility had to fear pitch fork wielding mobs when they fucked up.
When that happened, i had to explain to my coworkers the concept of Sovereign Immunity, and how the victims were unlikely to see any recompense.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Democracy gives an artificial sense that the government is us so they have our tacit approval even when they do stupid shit. Other forms of government don’t have that out and they get removed if they do things like this. Hiring that woman should be a firable offense.
+1 Aquinas
Ten bucks says that was so she wouldn’t roll over on some higher ups.
“Word games: Government targets veggie meat
Across the nation, government food police are launching a crusade against what names we call our food. Whether the food in question is veggie “sausage,” cauliflower “rice,” or almond “milk,” government officials appear eager to restrict the free speech rights of food companies.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/word-games-government-targets-veggie-meat
It’s about time someone put those god damn vegans in their place. God bless Trump.
As long as it plainly says what it’s made out of who cares? Has there been a rash of companies passing off almond milk as cow milk that I’m unaware of?
I had the same opinion about mayonnaise at TOS and was called an idiot. But what company goes to the trouble of manufacturing vegan mayo, which I can only assume involves vegetable oil, bean curd, and tears, and doesn’t market it as overpriced vegan mayo?
Caveat emptor. If you don’t know the difference between rice milk and cow’s milk that’s your own damn fault and if you make the mistake more than once no one can save you.
Lab-grown “meat”
Relevant
Cancelled too soon.
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I concur.
Great show.
cops + incendiary rounds + indoor range ≠ safety
Roast pork.
I had a couple of vodkas, took a nap and wake up in a bad mood. The first thing I see here is a story on gun control. I will try not to go off on a foaming at the mouth rant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/12/gun-control-group-claims-victory-ballot-box-statehouses/?utm_term=.97e34e4b2a04
Rant away my good man! I for one enjoy your ‘grabber’ rants.
More vodka will calm you down.
We won’t stop you. Have at it.
Good… good…. Let the hate flow thru you….
I’m sure this effort by Minnesoda lawmakers to control insulin prices is going to turn out just dandy.
I can hardly wait to read the story about how the insulin supply in Minnesoda is “unexpectedly” low after they limit how much they can charge for it.
Surely price controls always work?
Price fixing causing shortages and rationing!?!! That’s unpossible.
That just means you need to get in early on the insulin black market while the gettin’ is good
Insulin is not generic?
Manufacturers are subject to FDA approval, no approval, no sales.
“No rational reason” = “There’s a reason and it looks bad for our politics”
Uffda. Must have been some ruffians from Wisconsin causing this trouble.
No way Minnesodans would ever be this un-Nice.
I will agree that fist fighting at a movie is beyond what decent society can tolerate (although talking is still OK if you are clever).
What a nice hard hitting profile on Minnesoda’s local race hustler.
How hard hitting? Check out these questions:
and
Don’t get me wrong. Nekima Levy Armstrong (subject of the interview) was just as silly as the interviewer.
She’s obviously not a victim of the superiority complex affliction.
That actually describes the progressive attitude pretty well.
Seeing everything through the lens of collectivism? Yep.
If you strip out the oppression narrative you find a nugget of truth
I wouldn’t be that adoring when interviewing Norman Borlaug, let alone some two bit hack lawyer with a schtick
JFC.
WTF does this drivel even mean? “Award-winning columnist”?! Wow.
“literally”
Walsh has always been a woke hack.
His music columns have annoyed me for years.
Hook, line, and sinker for the Dems
“I have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that I accepted the offer to work for a real estate mogul whose business acumen that I deeply admired,” Cohen told the judge, saying his blind loyalty to Trump led him to choose “darkness over light.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/michael-cohen-gets-3-years-cases-involving-stormy-daniels-lying-n946956
Poor guy, he was an innocent babe in the woods before he met Trump and look at him now: corrupted, convicted, incarcerated, broken. God bless him for finally telling the truth about that horrible man though.
Why did Trump have such a putz as a lawyer? That’s what I find baffling.
He helped Trump win a dispute with one of the boards at one of his condominiums and Trump was so impressed that he brought him into his inner circle.
Thanks!
Isn’t that kind of his blind spot? Someone impresses him with one job well done, and all of a sudden they are BFF’s. Look at basically every Apprentice winner.
Speaking of The Apprentice; I watched the first season or two. The last one I watched was when that cunt Joan Rivers won. I lost any respect I had for Trump then. Annie Duke clearly should have won. Hell, Joan never should have made it anywhere near the final two. But Donald liked her as a comedienne, and I think they may have been friendly, if not friends, before the show. It blinded him to her very serious shortcomings.
I see this played out in the Oval Office. See; Omarosa.
Someone impresses him with one job well done,
Or just blow smoke up his ass, look at how fast he goes from “He’s a great guy, the best.” to “He’s a loser, always has been, sad” and back again depending on whether the last thing a person did was praise Trump or criticize him.
“Why did Trump have such a putz as a lawyer? That’s what I find baffling.”
Trump’s greatest weakness is the people he surrounds himself with. He seems to believe that as long as he is in charge, everything will go okay, regardless of the bad choices he makes in personnel. He really needs a personnel manager. Jeff Sessions? Really? And a personal lawyer who winds up hanging around smoking crack with Tom Arnold and looking to peddle non-existent pee tapes? There are plenty more examples. And let’s take the most recent one. Appointing Barr as AG to me has mistake written all over it. I would feel the same about any Bush administration appointee.
“Massive supernova explosion may have wiped out giant prehistoric sharks, scientists say”
Weekly World News confirms.
You would have to be nuts to get on a Russian craft. Hell, I wouldn’t ride a bicycle made in Russia.
I have become very skeptical of many claims made by certain scientific fields, namely anthropology, archaeology, astronomy and especially the field that stopped being science – climatology. They make an awful lot of sensational, sweeping claims based on very little data.
Often, when you read the source material, it will literally say “we are not concluding that [insert article headline here] is true, but rather [some boring conclusion that would never make the news]”
Science journalism is worse than political journalism when it comes to accuracy.
^This. The study says siltcores indicate that we are in a warming period between glaciation expansions, and goes on to point out the relevant dates all of which are prior to extensive fossil fuel use. The reporter reports “Global Warming Confirmed by Geologists”
I would like to remind everyone who thinks that journalism is declining in quality of the term ‘yellow journalism’. It has always been this way.
Meh, I’ve flown Aeroflot.
If the current trend continues, they will all stop being science. All of Einsteins theories will be replaced by theories from some person who is not a white JOO. Wokeness > math and logic.