Here I am in Florida again. It is a beautiful rainy day here. I hope everyone else is having a wonderful and laid-back day.
Trump gave Christie a little thrill, but no Chief of Staff offering.
Here’s a man bites dog story. Clearwater police fail to give suicidal man his suicide by cop. Good work, po-po.
Ukraine is strong like bull, creates its own Church.
Good-bye to The Weekly Standard. I guess nobody wanted a NeverTrump, warmongering, big-government version of conservatism.
Throwback Friday. Looking forward to these guys going out on tour again.
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Trump needs to start a new reality show to pick his chief of staff.
So the “conservative” Weekly World News is finally dead? If only they could take the rest of the media down with them
Bill Kristol Revealed as Real Bat Boy!
“unapologetically conservative” voice
I read and watched a lot of Buckley when I was a kid. Between him and Team Kristol, even as a Southerner, I just could never get drawn into this thing they advertised as “conservatism.” I thought “conservative” should begin and end with the Constitution, but it turns out it has to do with paternalism: my DCdaddy, apparently the living incarnation of my SkyDaddy, runs around blowing up various Asians to make for a better world. I thought then as I do now: “fuck off” is so much easier and useful than all that.
More like the Weakly Standard, amirite???
…I just wanted to be first
We all want things we can’t get.
One of my all time favorite grandma southernisms is
“Yeah and people in hell want ice water”
But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need.
I still don’t know why that song was the theme song for the Trump 2016 campaign.
Because the country wanted Hillary, when what they needed was Trump.
“You may want a corrupt sociopath, but you need Trump”?
Couldn’t even get a narrowed gaze. Tough crowd.
See Comment #6.
The Weekly Standard: I didn’t know that Lee Smith, who is among the best reporters on the illegal counterintelligence operation against Trump and his campaign, was fired a year ago from the Weekly Standard for an article exposing FusionGPS.
Yep, once that sweet Soros cash started rolling in, they couldn’t have someone like Lee Smith reporting bad things about Democrats.
He was better as a relief pitcher anyway.
Shouldn’t be in Cooperstown, though.
Yeah, that was a real headscratcher. He always made us Cub fans nervous as he wildly tried to save one of those rare games the Cubs had a lead in the ninth back then. Now a HoFer? Also, Harold “always strikes out in clutch situations” Baines in the Hall too? I don’t know about the Veterans Committee getting to induct these guys.
Not defending the writers, but was Baines considered a clutch hitter ?
Good to hear you’re home safe and healthy.
*Preemptively narrows gaze at the lot of ye*
It’s Friday afternoon. I think you just saved yourself a lot of typing.
Why are you always trying to make homosexuals thinner?
You can never be too rich, too thin or too Republican.
Your buddy OMWC isn’t going to like your Capt. Squint routine.
Sorry Brett to go OT so early, but i gotta run but i wanted to post this here and rant real quick:
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/its-been-more-than-30-years-since-the-house-reversed-an-election-outcome/
Now i don’t doubt that there are GOP fellas that are engaging in Fraud, and if this guy did, he should be hanging from a light-post. But Why is this getting “serious” attention, when almost every Repub in California lost after having won on election night? Why is it that Election Fraud is fake, until this instance? I’m pretty sure 538 has an old thought piece talking about how fraud is unlikely/impossible.
Orange County Republicans would like a word…
That word should be “asylum” and they should look for it in any other state
Because what the guy in NC is alleged to have done is legal in CA.
So the first 302 report the FBI ever drafted regarding Flynn’s January 24, 2017 interview was drafted on July 19, 2017? Come on….
https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-special-counsels-office-files-reply-flynn-sentencing-memo
But Flynn is the liar.
It makes things MUCH easier that way
I just saw in the Federalist that it’s now admitted that Team Mueller had the text messages on Page and Strozk’s phones scrubbed prior to the IG investigation. This thing has gotten beyond ridiculous.
Your problem is that you mistakenly think the same rules apply to everyone.
Damn. I just don’t know enough about gubmint hierarchy, but who in the justice chain of command should be doing something about this? Who can/should charge the department of justice with obstruction of justice?
Robert Heron Bork
Theoretically, it’s Congress’s job, but I doubt that’s going to happen now.
Destroying evidence is just routine investigative work for the guy who drove an innocent man to suicide when he served as FBI director.
So looking again, the 302 attached to the motion, is the 302 of, presumably, the IG interviewing Strzok about the Flynn interview, rather than Strozk’s 302 about the Flynn interview. Maybe there are more documents coming today, per J. Sullivan’s order?
Nah, Strzok’s 302 of his interview with Flynn was stored on his phone.
That is what it boils down to – Strozk saying Flynn lied. No recordings, the only other witness to the interview disagreed with Strozk.
There’s also this:
Sean Davis
Verified account
@seanmdav
1h1 hour ago
More
But it’s not just the missing Flynn 302 that raises red flags about this investigation. It’s the fact that the Strzok 302 interview–the sole basis for the Flynn charge–was conducted just 4 days after Lisa Page was fired and days before Strzok himself was fired by Mueller.
My wife texted me to tell me that there’s a police helicopter hovering near our neighborhood.
Which one of you fuckers ratted me out?
Hovering? Fools. Hovering helos are easy targets for your libertarian doom prepper .50 BMG rifle.
I have some tragic news for you guys.
You may want to sit down for this.
Ready?
Irish woman who married ghost of 300-year-old pirate says they have split up
So she gave up the ghost?
Is she still in good spirits though?
He was too transparent and she lost sight of him
You can’t specter to stay with him forever.
She’s just exorcising her rights.
Now you’re just astral projecting.
He wasn’t as good in the sheets as she thought he’d be.
No more matey for him!
Nah she just needed a new Boo.
*Opera Applause*
“ I don’t normally fuck dead Haitian pirates without protection, but then I figured when is the . next time I’d be in international waters. “
Bravo. Still one of the best one-off SNL sketches.
Her name isn’t Mrs. Muir?
I just now realized that the ghost from the TV version was also Devon Miles from Knight Rider.
Saw this the other day. That ship has sailed.
So what you’re saying is she’s available ?
Wouldn’t, even with a wooden leg.
Isn’t this a campaign violation?
Uffda. These new comers to the state need to learn manners. It isn’t nice to mock one of the things we hold dear. ‘Minnesota Nice’ reveals lingering White supremacy
At least Leslie Redmond, the head of the local NAACP, is refreshingly honest about the “conversation” she wants.
Yeah, fuck everyone else – nobody built anything in this country except for slaves.
And for reasons no one can explain, people who had nothing to do with it are supposed to make reparations to other people who were never slaves.
C’mon, Minnesota was known for its huge plantations. Slaves making tons of maple syrup.
Where do you think all those hockey pucks come from?
The Chinese would like to have a word as well.
I did enjoy my tour of New Orleans where they pointed out the Irish dug many of the canals because slaves were far too valuable for such dangerous work.
I don’t see what the issue is. There were only two black guys from Minnesota, and one of them died.
Um….. Kirby passed away too.
Damn, he was only 45.
Oh, yeah? Well explain Kirby Puckett then, mister.
Nobody can explain Puck. He was a force of nature and a true HOFer.
“…a true HOFer”
Second.
How do the local Somalis feel about their responsibility for slavery? I mean, they’re part of “everyone”…
If you were truly a slave, I might help you out. But you weren’t. Neither were your parents or grandparents. And I’ve never owned slaves, nor did my parents or grandparents. So buzz off.
“Minnesota’s Black households, at just over $30,000 a year, make less than half of what White households make. White homeownership is at 75 percent, while only 24 percent of Blacks own a home.”
It’s hard to make more that $30k per year when you are a single mother on welfare. It’s also harder to buy a house. I live in north Minneapolis and the number of single black mothers is amazing. I’m not saying anything bad about single mothers, but it’s just the way things work.
Those poor decisions are Whitey’s fault.
No kidding. I remember as a young man, getting together with my white buddies, driving in from the suburbs and trying to find black chicks to knock up.
Good times.
If you want more single mothers, there’s hardly any better way to achieve that than showering them with cash. See: the last fifty years.
This chick has it all wrong, construction equipment builds things. Farm equipment does not.
OOFDA
Ya’ll didn’t spell it right. It’s “Uffda”
That sound you heard was the simultaneous orgasms of every mesothelioma attorney in the nation.
“Shares of Johnson & Johnson tumbled Friday, after a Reuters report that the drug and consumer-products company knew for decades that its baby talcum powder was contaminated with asbestos, a known carcinogen, that is alleged to have caused cancer in thousands of its customers.”
Yikes! How did they accidentally asbestos in baby powder?
I’m sure it was in the talc source. And if that was the case, then they definitely knew about it from testing. They is fucked.
Asbestos is a mineral. Talc is a mineral. They’re commonly mined together.
You don’t want your baby catching on fire do you?
Alright all. I’m off for the weekend, keep the place going while I’m gone.
Paaaaarrrrrrrrh-teeeeeee!
!!!
If U didn’t come 2 party,
don’t bother knockin’ on my door
I got a lion in my pocket,
and baby he’s ready 2 roar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i9ixH_ja7c&vl=en
Fuck off Slaver. You can’t tell us what to do.
Striving for relevance
Parkland, Fla., school shooting survivor David Hogg offered “thoughts and prayers” to the public relations team at the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Thursday after a Russian woman with ties to the group pleaded guilty in federal court to acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
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Butina admitted in a District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday that she conspired with and acted under the direction of a Russian government official to establish unofficial lines of communications with people able to influence U.S. politics leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
How the fuck is that illegal? How the fuck is it anything? I find it hard to believe that even qualifies as a meaningful form of “intelligence gathering”.
Is he just trying to get a piece of that sweet, sweet Russian honeypotting?
It’s not. I doubt they could get a conviction in court. But what they can do is pressure Butina into a guilty plea in return for letting her leave the country and escape the process they’re putting her through
At worst, I think Butina is guilty of being an unregistered foreign agent, or something like that (assuming what she “confessed” to after months of abusive incarceration is true).
What were her “ties to the group” again? Doesn’t matter – the lie has its boots on, and the DemOp Media is waving it on its way. Christ but I despise those people.
Party of the People and the Downtrodden
“Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin joined a slew of big-name guests at a $100 million, weeklong wedding joining two billionaire Indian families — one of which has given big bucks to the Clinton Foundation.
The former Democratic presidential candidate and her longtime top aide danced up a storm as Beyoncé belted out hits at an extravagant pre-party the weekend before the union of Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal.
Ambani, daughter of India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, who is valued at $43 billion, according to Forbes, tied the knot Wednesday night in Mumbai with Piramal, son of industrialist Ajay Piramal — worth $4.3 billion.
At a pre-wedding bash, Beyoncé performed smashes including “Crazy in Love,” as Clinton — whose husband’s Clinton Foundation has been on the receiving end of sizable donations from Ambani’s family, according to Fox News — got her groove on alongside Abedin, fellow former White House hopeful John Kerry, and some of Bollywood’s most famous faces.
Beyoncé’s show-stopping performance, held at a 16th century palace in Udaipur, included a full backing band and multiple costume changes, with a least one Indian-inspired outfit.
The wedding week was so jam-packed with festivities that it had its own app to help guests get around, Fox reported.”
https://nypost.com/2018/12/12/hillary-clinton-huma-abedin-attend-100m-week-long-wedding/
They sure are behaving as if they believe CO2 emissions are going to kill us all.
What are the odds that Bill and Hill didn’t ask one single person at that get-together for money?
Why would anyone give them money now? Although I guess if you’re a billionaire looking to grease the levers of power it’s no sweat to cover all the bases.
No question. I just can’t imagine those two grifters being able to restrain themselves in a room full of extremely wealthy people.
Oh, so it’s just Bill’s foundation now? Hillary had nothing to do with it, nosiree.
On Discord MLW just won the derp-off. There will never be anything as good as this – if it’s derpier, it’s too derpy. This is what perfection looks like
The Trouble with White Women
It’s from January but I’d remember if someone posted it already.
Duke sucks.
*standing ovation*
Relevant
Thank you for that.
This is amazing. Every SF writer should be using this.
The device has a long and delightful history.
Basically what Star Trek has always done.
Basically.
*modulates main deflector shield for maximum tachyon harmonic subspace emissions*
Euphemism?
USS Make Shit Up
Outstanding.
“‘Quantum carburetor’? Jesus, Morty, you can’t just add a sci-fi word to a car word and hope it means something… Huh. It looks like something’s wrong with the micro-verse battery.”
If nobody else is gonna step up, may as well just get this out of the way.
That’s solid-platinum retarded.
Citation needed.
I understood the first paragraph, but the second one just looks like they took the new entries for Webster’s Dictionary from the past 3 years and strung them together.
Read the article. The snowballing of small, clear stupidity into avalanche of jargon is just one of its many great features!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLXOLlvoEBY
“The author, Kyla Schuller, is not a political scientist or pundit, but a professor with a background in literary theory.”
Thank you Stanley Fish, you dickhead.
Biopower? Is that renewable?
Or sustainable?
I don’t know about biopower, but there’s Lionpower.
Albert King has Blues Power
And Mike Tyson has Double-Shock POWAH!
That’s an unreadable word salad. Basically, “How dare white women who disagree with me vote against what I, but not they, see as their best interest?”
the problem of white women
Yet, somehow, this is neither racist nor misogynist.
“the problem of white women”
is that they all don’t put-out when asked, amirite?
That’s because this is the good kind of bigorty. The kind that denigrates others as inferiors due to intrinsic characteristics… Wait oops!
I eagerly await this vital revelation
With the midterm elections over and attention turned to the next election cycle, CNN and The Des Moines Register will release their first polling Saturday on Iowa’s 2020 presidential caucuses.
“The Iowa Poll” will be released Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET. This will be the first poll The Des Moines Register releases in partnership with CNN since the poll’s founding in 1943.
Saturday’s poll will provide early insights into likely Democratic caucus goers and their views on the potential 2020 candidates.
Set your dvr.
*palpitations*
*applies AED to Scruffy, hits override button until battery gives out*
+/- 30 points?
I’m not going to link it, but a Jezebel writer, apparently hearing country music for the first time, wrote an article stating that “Country radio hasn’t historically been interested in promoting the music of women”
I don’t think there’s a genre of music that, historically, women have meant more to than country.
What does she think about rap?
Just shake that ass bitch, and let me see what you got!
Rap had way more women bitd.
How many songs has Dolly Parton written over a 50 year career?
Or June Carter Cash?
Loretta Lynn?
Emmy Lou Harris?
The list is endless.
suddenly notice you beat me to it
Canadian chicks jumping around in leather catsuits ain’t country music, NTTAW……but who knows what she heard.
you could have your choice of man but i could never love again There are other couplets that are as good as this, but none better.
Sometime’s it’s hard to be a woman.
well played
TN and MS leading this pack, I must say.
But do you feel like a woman?
Like a natural woman!
That don’t impress me much.
From Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, June Carter, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Crystal Gayle, Barbara Mandrell, Reba McEntire, the Judds, Shania Twain, Martina McBride, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, etc etc……nope, country sure is unfriendly to female artists.
Yep. There are other genres of music that she could have picked, metal and rap come to mind. But the music those deplorables listen to? That dog don’t hunt.
Correct.
Well you can’t say country without cunt, so make of that what you will.
Ah, a fellow scholar of the Bard, I see!
Yes, I’m a gentleman and a scholar and a French tickler.
Facts don’t pay the bills, homes. Clicks do.
Hell, I’m not even sure this is true anymore. Is Jezebel self-funding, or just another boutique grifter publication funded by mostly white donor-class leftists?
Sometimes its hard to be a new man
Givin all your love to just one tran
You’ll have bad times and xir’ll have good times
Doing things that you dont understand
But if you love xe you’ll out jizz him
Even though it hard to understand
And if you love him
Oh be proud of him
Cause after all he’s just a tran
Stand by your tran
Give him two shafts to cling to
And something warm to come into
When nights are cold and lonely
Stand by your tran.
http://browncardigan.com/post/56063
Multiethnic feminisms lead the way to disentangling feminism from biopower, and woman as an entity from naturalizing logics. Intersectional and assemblage feminisms and multiethnic #MeToo campaigns are pointing to a new politics in which women no longer serve as civilization’s remainder, the sponge to absorb the impressions and stimulations of which power is itself constituted. Feminism may be born of the biopolitical logic of sex, but it thus also contains the seeds of biopower’s demise.
Paper biped green macaroni igneous nag forsooth bib.
I saw that episode of ST:DS9.
Time for another thrilling edition of Trashy cuts through the bullshit!!
Multiethnic feminisms lead the way to disentangling feminism from biopower
White women are lower on the oppression totem pole than other women.
and woman as an entity from naturalizing logics. Intersectional and assemblage feminisms and multiethnic #MeToo campaigns
Non-white women
are pointing to a new politics in which women no longer serve as civilization’s remainder
Can believe the Marxist oppression narritive, too
the sponge to absorb the impressions and stimulations of which power is itself constituted.
The powerful oppress us.
Feminism may be born of the biopolitical logic of sex, but it thus also contains the seeds of biopower’s demise.
Despite the fact that feminism is about females, I’m all about that trans shit, too!
“Country radio hasn’t historically been interested in promoting the music of women”
Shania Twain probably doesn’t even fit the definition of “woman”, in Jezebelspeak.
She fits mine.
Or, as others have said, Dolly Parton, June Carter Cash, Reba McIntyre, Peggy Lee, Tammy Wynette, Patsy Cline, Tanya Tucker, Brenda Lee….
I’d like to see if she Feels Like A Woman, IYKWIMAITYD
Isn’t blackmail the same as requesting a non-disclosure payment up front? Discuss.
Not sure… But it is the same as selling the exclusive right to your speech to someone on a specific subject.
Agency manifests the fuck-off factor.
The difference here is opting in versus can’t get away. I can walk away from an NDA (or any other contract) with an FO over the shoulder.
I think it boils down to who makes the ask.
If the person with the information asks for money or else they will disclose, that’s blackmail.
If the person the information is about offers money to keep the information from being disclosed, that’s an NDA.
NDA payments usually are one time things with severe written legal consequences for not honoring the NDA.
Blackmail often entails repeat payments to people who have no intention of honoring their end of the bargain unless you keep paying, with no recourse if they break their promise.
Paging David Hogg…
The panel investigating the Florida high school massacre recommended Wednesday that teachers who volunteer and undergo extensive background checks and training be allowed to carry concealed guns on campus to stop future shootings.
The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission voted 13-1 to recommend the Legislature allow the arming of teachers, saying it’s not enough to have one or two police officers or armed guards on campus. Florida law adopted after the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 dead allows districts to arm non-teaching staff members such as principals, librarians and custodians — and 13 of the 67 districts do, mostly in rural parts of the state.
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“We have to give people a fighting chance, we have to give them an opportunity to protect themselves,” Gualtieri said. He said there aren’t enough officers or money to hire one for every school, but even then, officers need backup. “One good guy with a gun on campus is not enough.”
The state teachers union and PTA have previously expressed opposition, saying teachers are hired to educate, not be police officers.
Commissioner Max Schachter, whose 14-year-old son, Alex, died in the massacre, cast the lone vote against the motion. He said the state should focus on hiring more police officers for campuses and allowing non-teaching staff to carry guns.
“We do need more good guys with a gun on campus — nobody understands that and wishes we had more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas than myself,” Schachter said. But arming teachers “creates a host of problems.” The father and wife of other victims, who are not on the commission, also spoke against arming teachers.
Strawman army, assemble!
Commissioner Max Schachter, whose 14-year-old son, Alex, died in the massacre, cast the lone vote against the motion. He said the state should focus on hiring more police officers for campuses and allowing non-teaching staff to carry guns.
“We do need more good guys with a gun on campus — nobody understands that and wishes we had more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas than myself,” Schachter said.
So he’s saying teachers aren’t good guys?
I can agree to some extent.
What about when your school is in a democratic stronghold where the primary law enforcement agency consists entirely of goldbricking cowards?
You end of with proportionately fewer democrats passing on their genes.
“‘I was a little freaked out’: Heroic subway rider dubbed ‘Platano Man’ speaks out about the moment he performed a citizen’s arrest on Brooklyn lawyer who attacked another woman with her umbrella”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6496669/Subway-rider-speaks-attacked-Brooklyn-lawyer.html
The crazy lady was a lawyer?
Every expression on that guy’s face throughout the entire thing was priceless.
I couldn’t make it past his insufferable race-card pulling to give a shit about watching the video. I hate everybody involved.
Sorry, I’m not buying it. Something in that whole story sounds off. They just happen to be filming when she starts yelling “fu** off”? With a big goofy grin on the one guy’s face? And ‘You’re not letting me hit her back!’?
This stinks of a set-up.
‘B****, I’m Dominican,’ Ayala shot back. ‘I just had a bacon, egg and cheese yesterday. Literally the whole world is laughing at you.’
Either way, I’d watch the show.
Friday (something related to thots starting with an “F”):
https://thesexier.com/hotties-in-leggings-always-look-awesome/
2 and 15 win the bootylicious award, 10 for the upper body thang
21.
12, though I have to think that’s ‘shopped.
Friday Fantasies
#1 or #25
AND!
Also Wednesday, a judge rejected former Stoneman Douglas campus deputy Scot Peterson’s contention that he had no obligation to confront Cruz.
see also
Nikolas Cruz
Nikolas Cruz asked brother of student he’d shot for a ride after massacre: report
Refusing to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parent of a victim, Broward Circuit Judge Patti Englander Henning found after a hearing that Peterson did have a duty to protect those inside the school. Video and other evidence shows Peterson, the only armed officer at the school, remained outside while shots rang out.
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Peterson attorney Michael Piper said he understands that people might be offended or outraged at his client’s defense, but he argued that as a matter of law, the deputy had no duty to confront the shooter. Peterson did not attend the hearing.
“There is no legal duty that can be found,” Piper said. “At its very worst, Scot Peterson is accused of being a coward. That does not equate to bad faith.”
It will be interesting to watch the heroic cop unions contort themselves over this one.
I thought the po-po owe you no-no per the USSC
Coming here to say that. I know we’re not an honor or shame culture anymore but sometimes I feel like we should dust off the old pagan virtues. Calling this man a coward is correct.
we’re not an honor or shame culture
I’m a Southerner (motto: ignoring convention for 300 years), so, being forty years behind the times, I’m still beholden to the honor culture.
So, yes: he’s a coward. I’d rather die than let a similar story be true about me.
Somewhat related. Listened to an interesting interview where Tom Woods talked to the author of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Victimhood-Culture-Microaggressions-Spaces/dp/3319703285/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544827614&sr=8-1&keywords=victimhood+culture
His thesis was pretty unique. SJW’s sensibilities are that of an honor culture (easily slighted, feel the need to retaliate) but their reactions are the opposite (appeal to authority, attack in groups). I’d never thought of it from that standpoint before but it makes lots of sense to me. They need get that book recorded into an audiobook.
Maybe Dr Fronk’s “shame” part is the difference: it’s one thing to have the honor to stand up for what’s right, but it’s another to go running to your mommy to get the job done?
I blame “zero tolerance” policies in school. I was a kid during the transition from ‘sometimes its best to let them sort it out’ and ‘everyone is equally punished no matter the reasons for the fight.’ I think we are seeing the fruits of a generation that has been told since toddlerhood that its virtuous to appeal to authority.
Soooo they are cowards and won’t defend their sense of honor without a mob.
Reply, yep pretty much. The distinction he made was Honor Vs. Dignity. Honor requires answering slights with physical bravery and ferocity, Dignity makes that unnecessary because it is internal and unassailable. SJW’s I guess lack the fortitude to have an Honor code and the self-worth to have a sense of personal dignity. It’s pitiful.
SJW’s I guess lack the fortitude to have an Honor code and the self-worth to have a sense of personal dignity. It’s pitiful.
Instead they have the self-centeredness to avoid all principle and the fragile Self-esteem bruised by the faintest slight.
Interesting. In an traditional honor culture you have to continually prove your bona fides and are in constant danger of losing it. If someone says you aren’t honorable you have to do something about it. In the SJW’s world if someone says you’re a racist you have to prove/apologize that you’re not. The difference is the SJW’s don’t believe in individual condemnation. It’s more of a pack thing.
Yep. It’s an honor code mentality completely disconnected from the requirements of maintaining said honor. Put simply, completely fucked and irrational.
That was an interesting interview. Jonathan Haidt also explains it in detail. To me it is that one fucking sibling that screamed, “I’m telling Mom!” Usually we would get the shit kicked out of us for doing that just on principle alone.
Totally Agree, see my response to Don.
Oh, it’s Haidt actually quoting Manning. Still an interesting lecture. https://youtu.be/3H20jwYq8WI?t=141
Thats really good. I’m going to read Mannings book at some point. I’ve read several other books about honor culture and that will make for some excellent practical application.
I thought it was pretty well established that cops have no legal duty to protect the public.
more janqui lame-duck fun for RCDean
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/michigan-governor-signs-bills-to-gut-wage-sick-time-laws/ar-BBQYbj8?li=BBnb7Kz
the right thing done the wrong way ?
I’m sticking with my position that lame duck sessions are illegitimate, unless every incumbent won re-election. So, yeah, this is the right thing done the wrong way.
As a parliamentary procedure technician, I have to admire the maneuver that reduced the majority needed to make changes from 75% to a bare majority, though.
We agree. I just thought of you when I saw it.
So, when you see somebody exercising power illegitimately and through trickery, you think of me?
*blushes*
No; we just think of lawyers in general, of which you’re one.
Sometimes we use the power of proofreading to exercise power.
Oops- looks like I caught a photo caption in the quote by mistake.
“At its very worst, Scot Peterson is accused of being a coward. That does not equate to bad faith.”
It sounds like bad faith to me. The school district should sue him for fraud and theft by deception.
I thought it was pretty well established that cops have no legal duty to protect the public.
I did, too, but that judge kept the opportunity to revisit that decision alive.
/Crosses fingers
Then we need to revisit Graham V. Connor and whatever case made no-knock raids allowable.
Son of deposed Shah urges US to back regime change in Iran
I mean, it worked out so well last time…
Why was it so urgent to trade in skirts and heels for wife beating and unkempt beards?
Brett using a pic of my computer screen to introduce the links.
And this one doesn’t really need a caption, but caption contest anyone?
something something *droopy the dog voice* “hello folks”
https://youtu.be/5Q84oP5JilU?list=PLD7D97B079637374C&t=14
Poor dawg. Quick meme take. https://i.imgflip.com/2p0hhf.jpg
Nice work.
and then I hit it off with this guy I met at the HOA annual meeting
Old Fonzie has a sad
Not a surprise, but Dogfishead 75min IPA is stellar.
I saw Dogfish had a new one when I stopped into the gas station on my way home called “Pennsylvania Tuxedo: Pale Ale brewed with Spruce Tips.” I was intrigued but the last ‘spruce tip’ beer I had was positively wretched, it tasted like I’d done a boiler maker with a shot of pine-sol.
That was what I thought of the Yards spruce beer. Awful. I haven’t had the dogfishhead version yet.
I read that as 75mm and was suddenly very interested.
Why would 2.95 inches interst you so?
PAK 40 gonna kill some tanks
It’s an upgrade?
“This woman has never been on the cover of a national fashion magazine…”
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1073438569128050688
It just shows how petty the media has become.
I guess you can’t eat caviar every night. Sometimes you just have a craving for a Stormy Burger.
I don’t eat horse.
It would be interesting to see how many Chewbacca had been on by this point in Our Lord and Savior’s presidency.
Too many.
Who buys/reads national fashion magazines? I don’t imagine it’s Budweiser swilling, Skoal chewing, NASCAR rooting, daisy duke wearing redneck women. perhaps they just don’t want to piss off their market share, unlike Dicks and the NFL and Levi’s.
Get yokel, go brokel?
Oh, bravo. well done.
That would be like saying a baseball player shouldn’t be on the cover of SI if he doesn’t have the right politics.
Are you implying that it would be the slightest bit surprising if SI blackballed some player because of wrongthink?
Also, this has to be the most boring controversy ever. Omg, industries that are clearly elitist and progressive are acting elitist and progressive!!!
No. Not at all. I expect it has already been done.
And yes, boring as all fuck. But, there’s no denying what’s going on.
I actually don’t blame conservatives in engaging in this sort of whinging. It’s the way our culture works, and they’re going to lose relevancy if they don’t fight on the same level as the left. I still can’t help but point out how juvenile it is though.
But they shouldn’t be progressive.
Shouldn’t they? If their owners decide that they’re gonna tolerate injecting progressive biases into their editorial decision, that seems perfectly in line with their ownership of the publication.
It may make them idiots, but they’re welcome to be idiots with their own property.
Just because they should be allowed, doesn’t mean they should.
I don’t think it’s “progressive” vs “conservative” as much as “elite” vs “populist”. And as Hype asks, who is more interested in haute couture?
Fashion magazines are more about prêt-à-porter. Regardless, the people most interested are those who can afford to buy it, and that includes women who married rich husbands.
Vouge isn’t a ‘national fashion magazine’?
Come on. Like 1 minute of Google.
That’s from 2005
And?
He didn’t say she’s never been on a cover. She hasn’t been since Trump was elected despite previous First Ladies often being on them. Especially the most recent former FLOTUS
I’m pretty sure “this woman has never been on the cover of a national fashion magazine…” means “this woman has never been on the cover of a national fashion magazine…” If he intended to qualify the statement as you say, then Woods needs to write a fucking blog and not communicate through Twitter.
Oops. My bad, misread it. I guess I assumed he meant since inauguration day and my brain skipped a word.
If he intended to qualify the statement as you say, then Woods needs to write a fucking blog and not communicate through Twitter.
*applause*
Or the reader needs to put things in context.
Let’s agree Woods meant that she transitioned somewhere btw that Vogue cover and the time she became FLOTUS.
Ah, but there’s the rub, Potato! Context requires a shared pool of knowledge. For what it’s worth, English is typically categorized as a low-context culture, in which conversational norms assume that information tends to be expressed explicitly.
I am not a regular reader of Woods’ feed, thus, I have no way of knowing if Woods is just spreading fake news or if it was connected to another thought..which I don’t see on his feed. If he had wrote “this First Lady ….” then there would have been less ambiguity as to what he meant.
But, again, that why you write a fucking blog post instead of communicating through fragmentary tweets and relying on your readers’ skill in telepathy.
Wait…I’m telepathic? Hot damn!
Then you know I’ve been thinking about this all day.
The bottom of the cover is cut off. The original says: “Exclusive. Donald Trump’s New Bride.” Back then Trump was not Literally Hitler yet.
They were truly more innocent times.
Other than Jacqueline Kennedy I can’t think of another flotus that I’d want to bang because of how she was while flotus.
IDK, Laura Bush had a little sumpin’, sumpin’ early on.
Hm, maybe kindof a GILF that could teach me things, if you take my meaning.
I’d knock the bottom out of that.
“Shakira: Colombian pop star accused of tax evasion in Spain
The complaint covers the period between 2012 and 2014, when prosecutors argue she was living in Spain while listing her official residence as elsewhere.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46572272
Agencia Tributaria: So where were you living between 2012 and 2014?
Shakira: Um, I was in Columbia.
Shakira’s Hips: She was in Spain!
Shakira
Hot ladies coming in groups.
http://archive.is/fIHte
Is 19 Poppy and her evil twin?
Poppy is much prettier.
55.
Why are none of them kissing?
14, far left.
You have no idea how much I hate Generation Z now.
I’m sure they hate you too.
You upload 1 upskirt video and all of a sudden you’re the new Hitler.
To be fair, you were playing “pin the swastika on the co-ed”
So this is a video of a pair of mentally defective people commenting on a video of mentally defective people commenting on video of morally defective people?
Yes.
But Ethan and Hila’s mental defections are funny.
Her eyes say do me, but her teeth say I’ll bit it off.
His eyebrows and hairline say Rowan Atkinson, but the rest of him says whatever.
Papa bless the FUPA.
I can’t wait for the next generation to see if HM’s links hold up.