SEA SMITH DECIDE GO SEE AREA NEAR CAROLINAS HURRICANE. HE GIVE LINKS ON SAME. SEA SMITH NORMAL SAY “COME ON IN, WATER FINE” – NOT RIGHT NOW. WAIT WHILE, UNTIL FLOOD GONE. ALSO, SINCE IT (((SEA SMITH))), TOO MANY (((US))) THROW SIN IN WATER, NOW SEA SMITH DROWN IN THEM! THAT HARD TO DO TO (((SEA)))! NO MORE ATONEMENT NOW, PLZ!
ANYWAY, HERE LINKS:
FRIEND ZARDOZ WILL LIKE STORY. HE MISS HE KITTY. NO STAY IN HOUSE WITH WATER RIGHT THERE!
US NOT ONLY PLACE GET BAD STORM. SEA SMITH HOPE CHINA AND PHILIPPINES HOOMANS OK.
SEA SMITH GO NORTH AND TELL SHARK, “BAD, NO BITE HOOMANS!” THEN SCOLD SHARK. BY SCOLD, MEAN RAPE.
SEA SMITH LEAVE FOR PEOPLE SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT “JAWS”
NOW UK PEOPLE GET STORM. SEA SMITH HAVE TO VISIT MANY PLACE.
The Ravens already blew the week, so I can look at today’s games with objectivity, as a fan of football rather than a fan of the Ravens. In Jewish tradition, an adult male starts the day with a prayer thanking Yahweh that he’s not a chick. Today, I started the day thanking Yahweh that I’m not a Cowboys fan, unlike certain Irish midgets whose handles I will not mention beyond “it rhymes with ‘cruddy dishes.’” And if he’s up early and looking in, I can only say, “You know who ELSE was a Cowboys fan?”
Some auspicious birthdays. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, of course, but even more importantly, Korla Pandit.
This is a horrifying story, and inevitable given that our government puts armed agents out in the wild without a lot of scrutiny. I’m sure this guy passed his polygraph tests as part of CPB’s rigorous screening, right?
Ortiz is a 10-year veteran of the border patrol and had been working as a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol in the town located roughly 150 miles south of San Antonio on Texas-Mexico border, according to local media reports.
Authorities said they plan to file four murder charges and one charge of aggravated kidnapping against Ortiz.
Ortiz was arrested around 2 a.m. Saturday morning after a woman he allegedly tried to abduct fled and gave police a detailed description of Ortiz, including his tattoos, Alaniz said.
But at least he kept our country safe from drugs.
Did you know that Silicon Valley has a diversity crisis? A CRISIS! I had no idea. But thank the various gods, there’s people who recognize this and know the solution: a formal program of discrimination.
Silicon Valley wants to believe that we live in a meritocracy, but we need to accept that we live in a sexist, racist and anti-LGBTQ world, and that investing in pipeline programs and unconscious bias training alone is not going to close the hiring gap.
So we took a simple step and implemented quotas: 50% of our speakers had to be women of color. Later, we mandated that 10% of our speakers be non-binary and trans and 20% of our speakers be black and latinx. We’re not done: we plan to do the same for veterans, mothers, and people living with a disability.
Implementing quotas not only changed the way we operated—we created tracking systems to make sure we were on target to meet our quotas, because what gets measured is much more likely to get done—but it changed our community. It meant thinking about representation during every hiring process, planning meeting, or public event. It meant having some difficult conversations with friends, colleagues, and even with myself. It meant saying no to very successful and established white women. But change and evolution is often uncomfortable, and discomfort and friction are the keys to growth.
By “discomfort and friction,” I guarantee you she doesn’t mean hers. And I’m sure people of color like Asians are underrepresented in tech, right?
The Baltimore Orioles will make history Tuesday when they become the first American professional sports team to feature Braille lettering on their uniforms.
This explains the inability to hit.
National Federation of the Blind President Mark Riccobono, who will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game, expressed his appreciation for the Orioles’ initiative.
The Associated Press consulted with 17 meteorologists and scientists who study climate change, hurricanes or both. A few experts remain cautious about attributing global warming to a single event, but most of the scientists clearly see the hand of humans in Florence.
For years, when asked about climate change and specific weather events, scientists would refrain from drawing clear connections. But over the past few years, the new field of attribution studies has allowed researchers to use statistics and computer models to try to calculate how events would be different in a world without human-caused climate change.
“Attribution studies.” That’s a new one for me. Apparently a synonym for, “ignore the actual data and pimp for funding and more government.”
There was some discussion last night about First World Problems. And here’s a perfect example, massive outrage over… a fucking pattern on a sweater.
“Michael Kors copied a Mexican sweater design and I’m pissed. It’s not fair that he is stealing ideas from people that make their own pieces to make a living, for him to come and not even credit or pay Mexican artisans for taking their ideas.”
Vanessa Solivan and her three children fled their last place in June 2015, after a young man was shot and killed around the corner. They found a floor to sleep on in Vanessa’s parents’ home on North Clinton Avenue in East Trenton. It wasn’t a safer neighborhood, but it was a known one. Vanessa took only what she could cram into her station wagon, a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica, letting the bed bugs have the rest.At her childhood home, Vanessa began caring for her ailing father. He had been a functional crack addict for most of her life, working as a landscaper in the warmer months and collecting unemployment when business slowed down. “It was something you got used to seeing,” Vanessa said about her father’s drug habit. “My dad was a junkie, but he never left us.”
In May, Vanessa finally secured a spot in public housing. But for almost three years, she had belonged to the “working homeless,” a now-necessary phrase in today’s low-wage/high-rent society. She is a home health aide, the same job her mother had until her knees and back gave out. Her work uniform is Betty Boop scrubs, sneakers and an ID badge that hangs on a red Bayada Home Healthcare lanyard. Vanessa works steady hours and likes her job, even the tougher bits like bathing the infirm or hoisting someone out of bed with a Hoyer lift. “I get to help people,” she said, “and be around older people and learn a lot of stuff from them.” Her rate fluctuates: She gets $10 an hour for one client, $14 for another. It doesn’t have to do with the nature of the work — “Sometimes the hardest ones can be the cheapest ones,” Vanessa said — but with reimbursement rates, which differ according to the client’s health care coverage. After juggling the kids and managing her diabetes, Vanessa is able to work 20 to 30 hours a week, which earns her around $1,200 a month. And that’s when things go well.
So, no skills, no education, no spouse, three kids, and we need to be shocked that this has consequences. The comments, of course, run heavily toward the notion that bad decisions should not cause any problems for people.
I’m Black, a woman, 28, disabled and I work- everything I want to say about how miserable it is to live in this country cannot FIT into this comments section. The constant racism, isolation and looks of pity from other people, the bend-over-backwards work I do with a compromised body for 10 bucks an hour that will never get me off SSI- on and on. All I can say is TRUTH to every word of this piece. BTW: for those shaming Vanessa (“why did she have the audacity to have 3 children when she knows she’s poor and undereducated, why did she drop out of high school”)- human nature cannot be policed, no matter how much America excels at shaming. So what she had three kids, the rich often have twice that number and no one says boo. I have no children, I’ve only got my own mouth to feed and even I cannot make it! Trump voters need to learn to punch up and not down: corporations are the enemy, not the poor and brown skinned.
Of course. It’s racism, greed, and Trump. There’s no agency.
Fuck it, let’s spin some Old Guy Music. And although I was going to answer the other question from last night (“Desert Island, which music do you have with you, the Beatles, the Stones, or the Kinks?”) with, “None of the above, the Byrds,” and put up some classic Clarence White, I fell into an alternate YouTube hole. And damn, Annie Ross really was the best.
“Wait, I thought I was supposed to blow the chauffeur on Yom Kippur?”
Gut Shabbos, fellow Glibs! It’s the run-up to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And you know what? I’m not sorry in the least. Do you know who else was not sorry in the least?
It’s the Ides of September, and of course that means it’s an auspicious day for anniversaries and birthdays. Following the Charles Whitman sampler at UT, shit-heel Lyndon Johnson made a formal call for gun control, because of fears of death coming from above. He then bombed the shit out of several Vietnamese cities over the next few days, killing tens of thousands. But that was OK because intentions. Harper’s Ferry was captured by the Confederates, Sandra Day O’Conner was approved for an inauspicious Supreme Court career, and the Nuremberg Laws were passed. In birthdays, Oskar Klein (of the Klein-Gordon equation), Murray Gell-Man (developer of quark theory), and Neil Bartlett (who showed that so-called inert gases could be made to form compounds). In deference to SP, I’ll also note Agatha Christie, who apparently wrote something or other.
Among the fatalities so far is a person in Lenoir County who died while plugging in a generator, according to a news release from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s office.
While we’re on the subject of Global Warming, please allow me to plug Roy Spencer’s new e-book on the subject. Dr. Spencer has been a rare voice of sanity, with an admirable, “We just don’t know” point of view. “The science is settled” is an infallible marker that you’re dealing with someone ignorant or dishonest. There is no third choice.
Cincinnati police and firefighter recruits are asked to describe their “most unusual sex act” in a questionnaire that can later become accessible to the public… “Not counting self-masturbation or legal sexual activity with a willing partner, what was your most unusual sex act?”
Is there a masturbation that isn’t “self-masturbation”? The other interesting thing to me is that all of this is part of a polygraph screening procedure for recruits. I hope that part of the screening also includes Tarot cards, astrological projections, and aura-reading, all of which are at least as accurate. I note that one of the driving reasons for me getting out of aerospace R&D was that I refused to subject myself and my reputation to polygraphy, which restricted me from being cleared into some key programs. Polygraphy has caught exactly as many spies as the TSA has caught terrorists, but in true government-incompetent manner, it’s still universally used.
Bob Evans Farms is recalling nearly 47,000 pounds of pork sausage links because it might contain pieces of plastic, the Agriculture Department said.
Apparently, the aggregate plastic is the size of Texas. Or twice the size of Texas. There’s a soda straw joke somewhere in there as well.
Look, I’m just as much in favor of the Free Range Kids concept as anyone (perhaps to excess, IYKWIMAITYD), but this might be a bit over the line.
Police in Vallejo on Wednesday admitted to making a serious mistake when it took a half an hour Tuesday night for officers to respond to a call about two unattended toddlers on a second-story window ledge.
The voice of Marianne Kearney-Brown can be heard in video she recorded Tuesday evening from the window of her downtown Vallejo office. She took the clip when she saw a couple of toddlers in diapers outside the second-story window of a nearby loft.
I think the cops are being treated unfairly here. There’s priorities involved, and donuts are not going to eat themselves. Context for those not familiar with the area: Vallejo is the slummy asshole of Napa Valley.
“In California, with science under attack, in fact we’re under attack by a lot of people, including Donald Trump, but the climate threat still keeps growing,” Brown told delegates assembled at Moscone Convention Center. “With science still under attack, we’re going to launch our own satellite, our own damn satellite, to figure out where the pollution is.”
Brown’s office said the satellite — to be developed in conjunction with the San Francisco-based Earth-imaging company, Planet Labs, and launched by 2021 — will allow the state to track greenhouse gas emissions.
I’m sure that this will be a totally honest and graft-free effort, and that the contractor never donated any campaign or lobbying money.
Old Guy Music! This time, a Canadian import I knew in Austin whose work spanned folk, jazz, blues, and gospel. This is a live version of an upbeat lament. Yeah, I know, but it’s a great tune and she has a really fine voice.
STEVE SMITH WORRIED ABOUT FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE IN HURRICANE. HOPE ALL OK. THINK COUSIN SEA SMITH GO THAT WAY, SEE WHAT UP.IN MEANTIME, FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE GET LINKS SO CHEER UP. AFTER LINKS, STEVE SMITH GO RESEARCH. HIM PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER, NEED KEEP UP ON LEGAL EDUCATION. WRITE BRIEF ON BIRCH BARK.
RUSSIANZ TRY GET CHEESE PEOPLE LAB HACK? THEM GET NARROWED GAZE! HAHAHAHA!
STEVE SMITH NO LIKE GREYHOUND, BUT THIS NOT RIGHT. HIM SHOULD GO TRAILWAYS NEXT TIME!
IT LOOK LIKE CHINA HAVE NEW COLONY. THEM GET FOR CHEAP.
HEY? NEW JERSEY…YOU STOP STEAL FLORIDA SHTICK! GET OWN ANIMALS.
Man, am I tired. Wife and I had what appears to be the 2nd best meal of the night (behind the Glib meetup in Chicago), but stayed up waay too late indulging her obsession with some cook dude who’s good at cooking things… I don’t remember his name, but I’m pretty sure he said he had tongue cancer but got better. I’m amazed by the precision of it all, that’s for sure.
Venezuela raises minimum wage, unemployment “unexpectedly” rises as well. Not to worry, comrades, that only happens in State Capitalism. When True Socialism is implemented, no running dog capitalist lackey would dare to fire a worker.
Carolina isn’t the only royalty-named location to get hammered by a tropical cyclone this weekend. That’s a big fucking storm, I hope the Filipinos have a Cajun Navy.
It’s been a while since I posted the theme song. Because Fuck you, that’s why.
I’m back in action today. And yes, the reasons given for my hiatus have possibly been exaggerated. Sometimes we just have too much work to do to get to the fun stuff. This week presented me with a lot of that work. Speaking of work, the 2018 Cincinnati Bengals put some in last night, and beat the Ravens.They’re off to a 2-0 start, which means they might make the playoffs this year…and lose the first game as usual.
On the diamonds, the results were: Colorado over Arizona, New York (NL) beat Miami…twice, Chicago (NL) beat Washington, Boston beat Toronto and lowly Baltimore beat Oakland (and Houston thanks them). And that was all the games that were played. My focus, obviously, is already elsewhere as I prepare to point the wagon toward Dallas and head up to see the Buckeyes take on TCU in Jerry World tomorrow night. The other “big” games include LSU-Auburn, Bama-Ole Miss, Wisconsin-BYU, Oklahoma-ISU, Boise State-Okie State and there might be a few people interested in Texas-USC.
Diplomacy then…”treason” now.
Today’s birthdays include: psychologist Ivan Pavlov, sociopathic racist Margaret Sanger, Star Trek’s Walter Koenig, underrated actor Sam Neill, bassist Barry Cowsill, rocker Morten Harket, errand boy Dmitry Medvedev, and the late, great Amy Winehouse.
Its also the date on which the following events happened: Handel finished his “Messiah” oratorio. Aaron Burr was acquitted. Napoleon occupied Moscow. Francis Scott Key wrote what would later be known as “The Star-Spangled Banner”. The USMC entered “The Halls of Montezuma”. Teddy Roosevelt was sworn in as President after McKinley died. The first ever prefrontal lobotomy was performed. LBJ gave the Medal Of Freedom to Walt Disney (and I would assume he kept all the WH’s jewish staffers away as a courtesy). “60 Minutes” made its debut. So did “The Golden Girls”. And Cal Ripken’s consecutive games streak was broken.
Dianne Feinstein reaches a new low as a human being. Can’t say I’m surprised. She’s facing a tough re-election challenge…from way to the left of ever her retarded politics. This ought to help in some fund-raising.
Chicago taxpayers: prepare to be royally fucked. Oh, and you’ll have to bring your own lube. The city ain’t doing this for your pleasure.
The New York Dam primary for governor results are in: And the results are…the people lose. They’d have lost anyway, as the state slips further into the deathtrap of NYC and away from any semblance of a place where self-defense and freedom of association are real things.
3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000…
…..This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!
This is one of those times where I really like to imagine the future looking back on us. Will there be this confusion that there wasn’t a real death toll available? Will there be a lively debate over who counts as a hurricane death and who doesn’t? Are we going to have a wave of Puerto Rico trutherism? Or will history just encyst around a received truth like so many other things?
For many middle- and high-school students, giving an in-class presentation was a rite of passage. Teachers would call up students, one by one, to present their work in front of the class and, though it was often nerve-racking, many people claim it helped turn them into more confident public speakers.
“Coming from somebody with severe anxiety, having somebody force me to do a public presentation was the best idea to happen in my life,” one woman recently tweeted. According to a recent survey by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, oral communication is one of the most sought-after skills in the workplace, with over 90 percent of hiring managers saying it’s important. Some educators also credit in-class presentations with building essential leadership skills and increasing students’ confidence and understanding of material.
But in the past few years, students have started calling out in-class presentations as discriminatory to those with anxiety, demanding that teachers offer alternative options. This week, a tweet posted by a 15-year-old high-school student declaring “Stop forcing students to present in front of the class and give them a choice not to” garnered more than 130,000 retweets and nearly half a million likes. A similar sentiment tweeted in January also racked up thousands of likes and retweets. And teachers are listening.
As a smartass, smartmouth, loudmouth and all-around disruptive student, and would have had the excuse of anxiety to get out of doing a presentation in front of the class… but I might have faked it if I could have gotten out of it. But at the same time, I don’t get how something making you “uncomfortable” is a way to get out of doing things. All of school was uncomfortable, seemingly designed by sadists specifically to be so. Maybe instead investigate this crippling anxiety that these students are feeling and treat it? Nah. Let’s create an intricate series of exceptions and carve-outs and set-asides for teachers to juggle for every individual student. That’ll work out fine, I’m sure.
Once again, the third time appears to be the charm when it comes to just saying some words about a controversial topic without making it sound like something everyone else at Thanksgiving dinner would just silently, awkwardly cringe at without wanting to acknowledge.
Norm Macdonald has had the kind of week that makes publicists find a back-alley doctor to supply them with a triple prescription of Xanax. First, it was some jarringly tone-deaf statements about how the victims of sexual harassment and racism don’t have it as bad as the comics who had to publicly account for their appalling behavior—statements that got him booted from a Tonight Show appearance. Next, he made an apology for those comments that got him in trouble all over again, because he chose to use people with Down Syndrome as an example of what it means to have no empathy. And while in between there were some other not-so-great takes that seem well-intentioned but still really missed the mark—in part because he thought apologies were a good time for more outdated jokes about gender—Macdonald seems to have finally just realized a simple and sincere apology is the best route at the moment.
The protracted auto-da-fé of Norm McDonald might finally be over. But he better watch his step. The Internet of Rage never forgives. The Internet of Rage never forgets. Squirrel!
An unusual visitor has been hanging out in the St. Lawrence River for the past three years: A narwhal, more than 1,000 kilometres south of its usual range.
But the lone narwhal is not alone — it appears he has been adopted by a band of belugas.
The narwhal — thought to be a juvenile male because of its half-metre-long tusk — was filmed in July playing among a pod of young belugas, thought to be mostly or all males.
The video was taken by the Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM), a non-profit group dedicated to whale research, conservation and education based in Tadoussac, Que.
“It behaves like it was one of the boys,” said Robert Michaud, the group’s president and scientific director
Aww. So adorable.
No, my black, dead heart! Do not dare to love
The lonely narwal. Back in your cold cage!
One beat, two beats, three–a rush of warm blood.
Save me, Alien Sex Fiend! Save your true son!
In sports, I guess the WNBA season ended? ESPN put it front and center so… congrats to the Seattle(?) Storm. In beisbol, A’s pound the Orioles for 6 straight victories, Mets, Nats, Sawx East get their 100th win, Brewers, Twins, Rockies, Doyers, Rays, Pirates, Braves, Padres, Sawx West, and Los Anaheim all won, as did the World Champion Houston Astros. Goddamn A’s, Houston is 10-1 in September and can’t shake the fucking A’s. But the schedule favors the ‘Stros, whose last 10 games are series with the Angels, Blue Jays, and close with 4 against Baltimore. Speaking of Bal’mer, they take on the Cincinatti Bengals tonight. Gooo, Flaccos!
Born today, some dude named Milton Hershey and some doc named Walter Reed. Bill Monroe, father of bluegrass; Mel Torme and Roald Dahl.
Also, on this date five years ago, under the watchful eyes of our families and her daddy’s shotgun, my wife and I were married in her back yard with her being a wee bit pregnant. Afterwards we had a nice lunch at our favorite asian place in Tallahassee and went off to stay at one of the Disney properties for a long weekend. She still has not strangled me for being a jerk, or stabbed me for being an idiot. I definitely married up, so I think I’ll keep her another year. Enough of this sentimental shit and now…. the links!
Jeebus, New Mexico, get your shit together. I’m not saying its aliens, but… its aliens.
Some asshole in Bakersfield went on a murder spree before killing himself. From the pattern, it appears that he believed his wife might have been stepping out. Not a good reason for killing people, by the way.
Holy shit, can you imagine if your son fell out a tree-house, stood up and had a fucking meat skewer through is face to the handle? Glad he survived and will make a full recovery.
And by the way, this stall pattern is what fucked up East Texas so bad last year. Don’t pay attention to the Category rating, 40 inches of rain will fuck things up. Less wind is good, but Florence isn’t nothing.
I’ll put up one of my wife’s favorites. When she wants me to watch this song on her phone, I know its time to put down the booze and head to bed. Love ya, babe!
Well, well, well, here we are on hump day and I’m not dead yet. Speaking of not dead yet, if you live on the Carolina coast, or inland from there prone to flooding, get the fuck out. Its going to be nasty by tomorrow morning. You’ll be waiting for the Cajun Navy to pick your ass up, with no power, hoping rapesquatches stay in their caves during floods.
It’s good to see Microsoft go back to their asshole roots. Bruh, Edge sucks. I mean, Chrome and Firefox also manage to suck almost as bad, but not quite.
Health officials warn of “chaos” if federal judge suspends the ACA. I got a semi just reading the headline.
There’s even hope for the Walter Pecks of the world now that man born without penis (XY sex chromomes) has member crafted from scratch.
Popping in to give you some quick links because it looks like Sloopy is still, uh….indisposed…as OMWC so generously shared yesterday morning.
First up, this blasted hurricane. I have cousins down south who are going to be getting hammered. And they also have to deal with the hurricane. It’s a big motherfucker.
Once again, the third time appears to be the charm when it comes to just saying some words about a controversial topic without making it sound like something everyone else at Thanksgiving dinner would just silently, awkwardly cringe at without wanting to acknowledge.