When, as a nation, did we get to the point of media talking heads asking if the party that’s made monumental gains over the last 6-8 years across the country can govern? Oh yeah, I guess its after they can’t agree on a health care replacement for 1/6th of our nation’s economy in a matter of a few weeks and decided to wait a few months before tackling it. It also happened when that party was the GOP, which most media do not agree with politically. Oh well, let’s get on with the SUNDAY MORNING LINKS!!!
We need to keep swine like this off the streets.
Speaking of the aforementioned failure, Rand Paul is taking a victory lap.
Pig opens fire in Bellagio hotel. I have no other comment.
I had no idea there were places that effectively banned images of happy adults with Down Syndrome from media because they might make people think twice before they abort a developing child with the disability. That its in a civilized, western nation is even more surprising.
Not a hot chick.
Remember that pretty good looking Texas teacher who was smiling in her mug shot after being arrested for having sex with a 17 year old student? Yeah, well this is from the same state but is not quite the same situation.
Asshole pharma company funds large part of effort to keep marijuana illegal. Turns around a few months later and get approval for synthetic form of drug. People like this should be in stocks. So Should the clowns at the DEA.
Hey you! Don’t watch that. Watch this!
Yeah, If weed was legal and acceptable (ie I can’t go to work smelling of weed), I could give up xanax, and we can’t have that.
People like this should be in stocks. So Should the clowns at the DEA.
A sheriff of a neighboring county a fee years ago for running a drug dealing operation out of his sheriff’s office. The state police investigated him after a lot of complaints and busted his operation. That got me thinking. If the state police bust the local police for drug running, them who busts the state police when they do it. The answer I came to was the federal police, (dea, fbi, etc)
But what about when the federal police do it? There is no one higher. That led me to draw the conclusion that the federal drug police are probably the biggest law enforcement pushers of narcotics there is, since they have the least chance of being prosecuted for it.
Who will watch the watchers.
That got me thinking.
Zardoz, that was typed awfully, Good edit fairy please?
People like this should be in stocks. So Should the clowns at the DEA.
A sheriff of a neighboring county a few years ago was running a drug dealing operation out of his sheriff’s office. The state police investigated him after a lot of complaints and busted his operation. That got me thinking. If the state police bust the local police for drug running, them who busts the state police when they do it. The answer I came to was the federal police, (dea, fbi, etc)
But what about when the federal police do it? There is no one higher. That led me to draw the conclusion that the federal drug police are probably the biggest law enforcement pushers of narcotics there is, since they have the least chance of being prosecuted for it.
That got me thinking,
who will watch the watchers?
That led me to draw the conclusion that the federal ____ police are probably the biggest law enforcement pushers of ____ there is, since they have the least chance of being prosecuted for it.
All of the following are valid substitutions:
drug/illegal drugs
terrorism/terrorist plots
gun/gun running
organized crime/protection rackets
child exploitation/child pornography
financial crimes/money laundering
…
Game/poached meat
fire marshals/insurance fraud
etc.
You are correct.
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!
No, I just bang on the drums all day.
I worked all night and still have another hour or so before I must go to bed, so I can do it again tonight.
I just buy lottery tickets and hope
Lottery tickets are just another tax. I refuse to buy any.
Nonsense. I have a system. Fullproof. Guaranteed to win sometimes in the next 600 years
Yep, the chances of winning are one in 300 million or so, yet oddly someone always wins.
Thanks for the reply on what a drop bear is. My answer may have been somewhat tongue in cheek, but there is an etymology for “northern critter.”
I have never heard the term outside of the circle of people I grew up around who were all born around 1910-1940 and were the descendants of German catholic immigrants. Ther term “northern critter” was used to describe ideas and objects that were foreign and opposed to their beliefs and/or understanding.
I spit that term to you somewhat hoping for a response, as I have been using it for years and very rarely does anyone recognize it.
I have never heard the term used that way. Germans use that term? Interesting. I assume it is a reference somehow to Scandanavians? Do the Krauts, a people who did not make important decisions of state without first consulting mirrors into the 19th century, consider the Scandanavians backward and superstitious?
Do the Krauts, a people who did not make important decisions of state without first consulting mirrors into the 19th century, consider the Scandanavians backward and superstitious?
I don’t think it is a reference back to their European ancestory. My family and the families I was around immigrated here in the 1880’s.
I think it is a north/south United States cultural reference, though I don’t know for sure.
That is interesting. So it just means ‘a foreign thing we dont know about’.
Where is ‘here’? I grew up with a stepfather who was a second generation german but he grew up in Minnesota…a northern critter. Here in Louisiana I dont know any german families that have not been here so long that they aren’t completely anglicized.
Here is Altus, arkansas.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altus,_Arkansas&ved=0ahUKEwiWpOrzufTSAhUp6IMKHUApCKIQFghrMBA&usg=AFQjCNFwnsWnL40K32X_IcomN41fo63rCQ&sig2=6MzjTfPBoMiFlUGjyge7Cw
My grandfather spoke German as a child. He was a more recent descendant of an immigrant than the families you know, I would guess.
A tax on people who are bad at math
You have no idea.
Thanks for the morning Ska Sloopy.
Heavy, heavy monster sound.
Nutsiest sound around.
Huh, I always thought he was saying it was the Naziest sound around. Thanks for clarifying that.
I played that for my daughter on her 18th birthday. She’s smart enough to invert the genders.
Ugh, got the reference, botched the song. The one I played was this one, since we’re on a theme.
Insys is confirming all of those hippie conspiracy theories about legal week and evil corporations mannnn.
DNA testing spares death row inmate. Nothing to cut.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/03/25/remember-that-wolf-dog-hybrid-well-the-verdict-is-in/
He’s a made dog.
Great news!
Legal weed that is.
I propose this as the Glibertarian national anthem.
Or, at least, the club drinking song.
Yeah, it’s by the Gaither Gospel singing group, but I guarantee no secular humanist sensibilities will be offended by the lyrics.
Asshole pharma company funds large part of effort to keep marijuana illegal. Turns around a few months later and get approval for synthetic form of drug.
And the trust of lefties in government ever increases
Advice: If you ever visit Romania and think to buy somne weed, don’t its usually shit. Not worth the coin
Plus your hookers have colonized Western Europe. I would fear the ones that are left.
Nono if you know where to look you can find the good stuff when it comes ty hookers. In Bucharest at least
From the Rand Paul Victory link:
“GOP lawmakers haven’t signaled that they are preparing to take up another healthcare bill, instead telling reporters that they didn’t have a plan B.”
TryanCare WAS “plan B”. Plan A was the repeal they voted on several times for the past few years.
This is why I don’t vote for rebublicans. Spineless creatures they are.
If I were a shit stirrer (guilty) and a Democrat congressman, I’d reintroduce one of those flat out repeal bills, make some popcorn, pour a drink, and watch the R leadership fall over themselves killing it.
I think that is a stellar idea. I dont think they are that smart.
As interesting as the story about the happy Down Syndrome people promises to be, I refuse to subscribe to the Wall Street Journal to read it.
You shouldn’t have to. My link worked and I’d never subscribe to their site either.
Go to realclearpolitics.com and link to it from there. That’s how I did it.
It’s thissa way.
Thanks for the link, straff.
Was tempted to link to this, but sloopy deserves better. Links on a Sunday. *takes puff*
Yep. Sunday links are the bees knees. Thanks sloopy!
Stop trying to prove that your link is better than mine, sloop.
Ditto
“dour, self-righteous and conformist version”
Is there any other kind of Liberalism (Modern not Classic)?
“That’s what happened in Sweden’s case of Ellinor Grimmark, a midwife who has been denied employment by several hospitals over her refusal to take part in late-term abortion procedures. This, even though Sweden is facing a severe midwife shortage and such procedures are always planned in advance—meaning there would be no situation in which her refusal to participate would endanger patients.”
She will never get promoted to fullwife with that kind of recalcitrance.
Kneel before Zod
So I officially lost the NCAA bracket thing. Disapointing
I have a shot at winning the whole thing, but if Kentucky manages to lose to NC, my position is threatened!
Thanks for nuttin’, Kentucky! I have lost the top spot, with no way to regain it. Ah, well. Not too bad.
Nightclub shooting.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39397938
Police initially said at least two shooters were involved, but Cincinnati Assistant Police Chief Paul Neudigate has since tweeted that there is “only one reported shooter”.
I think that there have been multiple reported shooters at every shooting in the past few years. Almost every time it’s has turned out to be one. I just assume there’s only one until a few days later and am almost always correct.
It’s easy to see how convoluted info can be early on.
I always assume there are multiple shooters, but only one of them is the patsy that gets “caught”.
Man Has “Offensive” Personalised Number Plate Withdrawn Even Though It’s His Surname
No clicking unless you post your guess first. Honor system.
Mc’Fuckofferson
White
Trump
Ooooh.
You were close
“USASUX”
Yeah no one’s guessing that. Lol. I would love to drive around some college campuses with that plate.
It would have been fine, except that his wife’s vanity plate was her name: “Bydie Pussy”, and they insisted on driving side-by-side.
IVPLAY
ASSMAN
Ha! Great episode
ANUSTART
Woodcock
Andy Dick?
This happened to me in CA because my last name could, with a lot of squinting and mispronunciation, be taken for a racial slur. In my case, they just refused to issue. When I pointed out that it was my name, the DMV lady responded, “Look, you know that, I know that, but the guy in the car behind you with a gun may not know that.”
it’s CA, they don’t have guns there. right?
Yeah, Oakland and Richmond are famous for being totally gun-free.
But the Mythbusters always had guns!
http://www.killsometime.com/videos/3756/The-Niggar-Family
My last name is synonymous with a certain kind of drug user. I’m not a vain guy, though.
Your last name is Jenkemite?
How is this NOT discriminatory? Why should it stop at a license plate? Who is to say at some point his name is deemed offensive? It’s nuts. People are just fucken nuts.
A couple of years back there was a writer in a Quebec paper who argued that a person with an Anglo name shouldn’t be allowed to have a store front containing the name. For example, if your name is ‘Davies’ and wanted to call your store Chez Davies it should be rejected.
Stupid evil racist bitch.
Unwoke
HITLER.
NOTHING OUTSIDE OF CANUCKISTAN.
Uber suspends self-driving cars after crash. Sounds like other driver at fault.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39397211
*shocked face*
failing to yield is a dick move.
It’s Uber’s fault because they didn’t have the force field on to prevent idiots from running into it.
That new Wolverine movie (set in the near future) has robotic tractor-trailers racing along the highways that just kind of honk and flash their lights, mere seconds before they’re right on top of whatever the hell might be in front of them.
That video? The one we were warned against watching?
That was Madness.
From the “Houston School Worker impregnates a 13 year old girl story:
“The defendant is believed to be the father of the unborn child,” said Assistant Harris County District Attorney Patrick Stayton.
He’s the assistant district attorney because he still hasn’t figured out the difference between a fetus and an unborn child.
If she wants to keep it, it’s an unborn child. Otherwise it’s a fetus.
Unless your a prog trying to signal how you are such a good prog by referring to your baby as a fetus throughout your pregnancy. I had the unfortunate luck to be acquainted with this person
Ah, Madness!
Man, I haven’t listened to them in years! Remember this gem?
Possibly already posted but here you go
Has anyone else here heard of using cyanide bombs to kill coyotes? A 270 works much better.
Oh, and BTW, the Department of Ag didn’t issue so much as an apology to the family.
Jesus tapdancing christ! What is so fucking hard about issuing a bounty?
The count I lI’ve in issues a 5 dollar per tail bounty on beavers. I have had a massive beaver problem on my place since I bought it. My good friend’s 14 year old son has made quite a bit of money killing beaver on my place.
Insert beaver/muff jokes as needed.
Wynona hardest hit!
She might of had a porcupine however.
“might have”
Its’ dialect.
Even then it would be might’ve. But in the song he says “might have a porcupine.”
It’s one of those things that grates on me when I see it.
mr. simple is correct:
Yes, but the song is happening in the present tense and I’m referring to it from the future so therefore, .i.e., I used the idiomatic form of the expression, and I may add, I did it very good.
I yield to your superior intellect.
made quite a bit of money killing beaver
American Gigolo?
Want to make a friend for life out west? Kill a coyote and give it to the rancher on who owned the land you were hunting on. First he’ll be happy that there is one less coyote raiding his ranch and b) he can use the bounty to buy some drinks down at the saloon.
It is also fun to watch your kid who thinks he is a pretty good shot try to catch up with a coyote once he’s missed the first shot. The look on his eyes as he sees how fast a coyote can run across broken ground is priceless.
Those fuckers are quick. Interesting tidbit though, we’ve never seen them eat each other when we shoot one. Also, it’s nice that they stay away for a couple weeks after you kill one or two.
Nothing can kill a coyote. I used to watch this Saturday morning documentary when I was a kid, and the coyote never died, even when falling from great heights.
Bugs needed to buy a .25-06
coyote killingist round known to man.
The true Rifleman’s cartridge. I am surprised to see it come up as most people aren’t familiar with it.
something something I’m a gun nut, redneck, deplorable, bitter clinger, etc….
I have one. I love it. I rarely hunt with it, but I love shooting the thing.
I was in the gun store not long ago and some guy was spending 5K on two rifles…signaling to his hunting buddies I guess. He asked the owner something about hunting rifles and the owner referred him to me.
“I have damned near every rifle there is. I have more rifles than I ever dreamed I would have when I was a kid. You know what I hunt with?”
He shrugged his shoulders but obviously very anxious for the answer.
” I hunt almost exclusively with an old, beat up Winchester ’94. I have one in 30-30 and one in .375. If you see me in the woods I will have one of those two.”
He deflated instantly.
Although the long cartridge has worse internal ballistics than say .243
On the upside it doesn’t eat barrels like a 22-250, which a very popular coyote round.
.243 is great man, but it is for the children. You can’t be caught with a .243 in adult company, you would be laughed off the gun range.
*slips .243 back into case and slinks away*
Because it’s flatter shooting and has less recoil? I think these people hunting deer with cannons are more laughable.
*follows Mike’s lead pushes 243 back under bed*
+1 SEE.
Thats jacked up. Might as well just napalm an area or two
Yet the govt will give you a ticket if you don’t buckle up. They’re all about safety first.
Some people are just sick.
This fucker better hope some resident doesn’t catch him in the act. Say what you want about the Sconni’s, but most of them own (and know how to use them) rifles and shotguns.
Some asshole threw hot dogs with snail bait over our fence when I was a kid. Fortunately my mom caught it in time and both our dogs were able to get their stomachs pumped and recovered. If it had just been the one dog, she might not have realized what was wrong, but when the second dog got sick she went out to investigate and found the evidence.
Anyone want to help a brother out? Im workin on writting standup and have had writters block for couple days. Anyone have a premise with potential i can run with? If it makes it into my netflix special ill send a case of beer or a hooker .
If you do Trump jokes, make sure who your audience voted for first.
Staying away from politics except in the most general sense
You can do it, you just have to trash both parties.
Thats kinda what im doing on a coupke bits but i despise politics. Dont wanna write about it too much
Hipster Beer snobs fighting wine snobs, fighting food snobs, fighting increasingly ridiculous levels of snobbery until you get to the ultimate self absorbed, one uppedness. You are riding a handmade one of one German motorcycle, to pick up your post mortem calf milk organic and somehow vegan cheese and artisan sausage made from a free range pig that has a genetic lineage that can be traced back to the first domesticated pig, and beer and wine made and fermented with the same yeast that Alexander the Great brought back from India, then separated and bottled separately. While waiting for your cheese and sausage you make you own crackers in line where each cracker is toasted at its own temperature and is thus unique. You then pack all of this pretentious shit on to the back of your uncomfortable German pseudo cafe racer and rush to the hipster gathering where they are playing a song made by a Russian dissident in the gulag in 1968 that was recorded using a toothpick and a old vinyl bowl that he was fed his borsht in. To claim he was into borsht bowl recordings years ago before they were a thing.
Spoken as a rant.
A priest, a (((rabbi))) and a hooker walk into bar…
You take it from there. You’re welcome.
I don’t think it is that easy to send a case of alcohol from the US all the way to Romania. Which is sad seeing I have so many fantastic ideas.
Tie it to a floatin pallet and push it in your direction should do it
You gotta do something on Ovaltine, man.
Why not call it circletine. Or squaretin. What do tthey know about ovals that we dont know
Ask them how did the Mongols know if their kids had Down’s syndrome.
How many whores could the mongols hoard when the mongol horde hoarded whore.
My target audience “what the fuk is a mongol”
Test your set on Mike M. first.
I may post an open mic on here at some point to get feedback
Remember, the best advice in doing standup is “always target the top of the room”. Go smart and don’t worry that some in your audience won’t get it — most will, and then the others will laugh along because they don’t want to seem stupid.
A family walks into a talent agency to pitch their act. It ends with the agent asking for the name of the act. All you need to do is come up with the middle part.
Or, a family walks in to a porn producer to try and get their porno made. Either way could work. U sir may have made yourself a case of beer. Or a hooker. Or some blow
Idiots in traffic are always relatable. Like are turn signals no longer required? Why are you in the passing lane? Get off your damn phone. Roundabouts are one way and you don’t change lanes in them just like you don’t in an intersection, not that hard. Are the people driving 50 on the freeway, the same people who drive 50 in parking lots?
I have a very weak local use bit about roundabout being the most fun thing to do in my city.
“Our town is really quiet, there’s nothin’ here to do, except watch the meat slicer down at the deli”
*pause*
“Although, she does have a nice ass, I’ll say that for her”
I wrote a shitty druvers bit and then a month later watched bill burr do one strikingly simila. So tryin to be kinda obscure
How do horribly failed movies get made into sequels
They become a meme on a new website causing an increase in google searches and youtube views of the failed movies. This in turn is noticed by a producer who uses this increase in interest to pitch a sequel/reboot
Why does everyone go to a club to get laid but most people go home alone? Is everyone that ugly or is it just not worth the extra effort beyond showing up?
?
NYC clubs are so expensive it’s cheaper to just hang with your buddies at the local bar and then call a call girl.
I even had one the other day, but now can’t remember the setup.
It’ll come to me.
Why do atheletes always thank God. Was that the most important thing on God’s agenda that day?
Why does god hate atlanta sports and the buffalo bills. Dod matt ryan pray to budda or something
God prays to Tom Brady…
You can always do stuff about how crazy women are. Just think personal experience.
I always stayed away from crazy but a buddy married a breaker. I have a solid bit on that.
Am i missin somethin g having never been with crazy?
Stewed rabbit.
They’re all crazy. It’s just a matter of degree.
Someone just came jlhome from a No Maam meeting
*Am i missing something having never been with crazy?*
Only panicky calls from the gal threatening suicide, when you are far away, so you drop everything and rush to save her, and get to her place only to find her sitting happily in sweat pants watching Wheel of Fortune. “But now I know you really love me, sweetie.”
I occasionally randomly think of something that I think would make good standup or a good SNL skit but I never write them down.
Rodney dangerfield wrote those down for 20 years till he had an act.
Snl bits are easy though. I can cum up with a dozen of those a day
I’d love to see someone do a parody bit on an SNL sketch where their cue cards are suddenly taken away. With clever actors it could be hilarious.
I haven’t been able to watch the show in years — and when I do catch snippets, it’s still exactly the same thing — all the cast standing staggered at 45-degree angles, clearly reading their lines off cue cards, not even bothering to do any acting or even emphasize words. They all sound like your mother, from those times when rehearsing your part in a play where your mother reads you the other actors’ part.
I always thought the following would make a good sketch:
It’s a silent movie. The actors are doing their thing, the action card flashes across the screen, the actor does it…then the action card becomes self aware, realizing that the actors will do anything the card tells them to do. So the cards command the actors to do totally ridiculous things. Even better, the actors understand what’s happening too, but are powerless to do anything about it.
I think Benny Hill did one like that.
“I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.”
How big an asshole do u have to be tobuy a $100 ink pen…
7-11s in India, with a white guy behind the counter. And the Indians make fun of the way he talks.
That may be the winner. Did u come up with that or rip it from somewhere?
I’ve been doing it for years at dinners, much to SP’s distress. Unfortunately, I can’t type the accent shifts, or I’d lay out the whole routine here. But once you get the premise, it’s easy to run with.
That’s just plagiarizing Goodness Gracious Me‘s most famous skit.
Fucking thieves. I’ve been doing this one since the last century.
And why do 7-11s have locks on their doors?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
U are on to something
To get to the other side?
To prevent the Indans from sneaking into America? (7-11’s are foreign)
Because sometimes there are emergencies like hurricanes and earthquakes, so they close up shop sometimes.
I mean the, first question is what’s the ‘vibe’ of your act.
Do you have a narrative theme, or do you appear to ‘freestyle’ like Emo Phillips used to do where he’d just pause and you’d wonder where his persona would take him for his next step. Do you have a ‘pet’ theme?
If daniel tosh and bill hicks made a baby that grew up and ejaculated in sam kinisons hair and then spawned a kid that slept with norm macdonald. i would be the spawn of that.
Goin for a fair amoint of self deprecation with a “what grinds my gears.
OK, so you can resort to very short sequences about a variety of topics, not necessarily connected.
“I’m so unlucky …”
“I don’t understand people that …”
“I was the school’s dumbest bully”
“I know fuck all about subject X, but I know more than the guy in the newspaper”
” – how the fuck does it work?”
It hasnt been hard to make my stuff flow. Im more in the “made a lot of bad decisions in my life, took the expressway to fuckedville. Who is to blame for my poor decisions. People are different in fickedville. Dreams are dead etc. Then a lot of more random shit.
So, loosely-threaded chain of thoughts.
Yeah with a couple long bits. I have a great long bit on i voted stickers.
One of the terrific things about coke-habit Robin Williams was how he had everyone fooled that he was ad-libbing. IIRC, his act was more like one of those “Write your own adventure” books where at pivotal points in his act, he could choose a new narrative path.
I read somewhere that he always found one or two of the audience that if he could ‘hitch on’ their responses, that he’d play to that vibe and he felt it improved his act a lot. So if he got great feedback on one of his “Vietnam” lines, he’d divert down an anti-government path.
Of course, his whole “lookit me, I’m doing improv” schtick wasn’t perfect, because when he did veer off into unscripted territory and pull himself back, he pulled himself straight back to exactly where he’d left off.
Improv would not be my thing. Im having to script it entirely.
That’s the point. Williams wasn’t improv either. He made it look like it though,
One thing that occurred to me recently is that a lot of my (and other people’s) sense of humor works by “agree and amplify”, which gives you multiple punchlines.
I’m not a TV watcher, but back in the 80’s there was a TV show in Britain, called “Crossroads” that had a character in it named “Benny” who was meant to be a bit intellectually slow. One comedian who had great timing, used this in his show (back in the 80’s. I doubt anyone would call you Amy for stealing it)
“Do you guys watch Crossroads? *pause* I do. I know [goes off on a thread about the lousy scenery, budget etc, establishing it as a lousy show by inference]”
*pause*
“I worry about Benny. No, really, I do” [acts doing seal-clapping and retard noises]
*pause*
“I mean, is he really like that?” (seeking agreement in a pause)
“Because, if he isn’t – he’s a damn good actor! *pause*)
“And what’s a bloody good actor doing in Crossroads?” (seeking agreement thru’ amplification)
It strikes me that if you’re on home ground, you have an opportunity to do that “agree and amplify” idea, via points of shared experience.
Interesting. Thks. I meant more of how animated you gotta look with improv or just looking like you are improving. Maybe in time as i get better.
Why not abuse Tesla drivers for awhile? You’ll likely get a pretty strong reaction from both sides.
Used to be a rich man’s toy, but the new ‘Series 3’ opens ‘smug lifestyle’ to a whole new demographic.
Just a step up for the insuffereable Prius/Leaf crowd.
I live in the sticks in ky. Never seen a tesla
YOU WILL NOW!
“I’m so unlucky, if I bought a lottery ticket, I’d win my own sister.”
*pause*
“That would be funny in a county other than “
Somebody has been in ky
It’s like North Wales, but with an accent.
“Things are looking up around here. Saw a Tesla Series 3 up on cinderblocks”
“Dunno about you guys, but I spend a lot of time on the internet, on one of those “blog” things. It makes me wonder about what those people who say smart stuff are really like. I mean, do they ALL live in grandma’s basement?”
U shoulda stopped at cinder block joke. That was close to gold
Yeah, that was a good line, even for the wilds of ky.
Well, I think it’s all about finding points of cultural similarity. If your audience is mostly glued to their smartphones, you’ve got a shared point of reference.
God damned kids and thei smart” phones. With their “myspaces”. I just dont understand it.
Now you’re channelling me.
What’s with airplane peanuts?
Archie, I’ve noticed that a black person doing a given activity usually does that thing with a certain flair, while a white person doing that same activity will often come off looking awkward, even clumsy.
Airplane food is always ripe for a good laugh.
Pro-gov’t columnist says Turkey should bomb Pennsylvania to kill Gülen
https://www.turkishminute.com/2017/03/25/pro-govt-columnist-says-turkish-bomb-pennsylvania-kill-gulen/?utm_content=bufferb72e8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Who does he think Turkey is? America?
Turkey’s always jive-talkin.
US Media Falls in Love With Unhinged British Witch Who Wants to Bomb Russia
http://russia-insider.com/en/unhinged-british-witch/ri19330
What, not with those nice witches who cast a positive energy spell on Trump?
What the fuck is it with the left and going to war with Russia? Are they that mad that Putin made Obama his bitch over and over? Are they mad about the Ruskies giving up on communism?
What the hell is wrong with them?
Only foreign Other they can demonize. White, resurgent Christian, has policy against minorities the left claims to support (of course, the fact that their policies against gays are nothing compared to say, almost every Islamic countries’, is ignored). Putin playing ‘3D chess’ with Obama and coming out on a top despite every disadvantage probably has something to do with it as well. But really that’s more about Obama’s diplomatic incompetence than Putin’s skill.
And Trump already took China.
Can’t demonize China as the left-wing, they’re non-white (with an exotic and non-Christian culture) and so trendy and modern in their authoritarianism (and also owns or partially owns a ton of Western media that spews blatant CCP propaganda).
You’re assuming too much principle on their side. In Earth-4, where Trump is cozying up to Xi Jinping, there are breathless op-eds all across the Progress-o-sphere concerning the organ-harvesting, Tibetean child-eating, American Millennia-job taking inscrutable China-man’s plan to destroy the environment with their endless copulating and animal eating.
The Russian demonization was already going on pre-Trump, Trump just kicked it into overdrive and into full hysterics. Current Russia represents everything the left thinks they’re fighting, i.e. what they think Republican America is, a white Christian ‘fascist’ state that is just waiting to march the gays to the ovens and attacks poor, innocent countries for resource and strategic reasons.
I thought East Asians were “white” as far as SJW victim status went. But China’s ideology isn’t that different from the progressives and illiberal left. So there is that.
That’s the beauty of intersectionalism. East Asians are sort of Schrodinger’s minority. Sometimes they are oppressed and abused by privileged white males, like when a white guy who isn’t attractive asks one of them out, but they are sometimes privileged abusers and don’t count when it comes to things like over-representation in math and science majors.
When they’re a part of your society and over-excelling both the other minority groups and whites, sure, but if they’re foreign they’re part of the mysterious, civilized Orient. Especially, as you mention, if they get misty-eyed over the glorious Red future, instead of being a backwards, racist Japanese capitalist.
It wouldn’t be the first time the Chinese were called the “Jews of Asia”.
See: Malaysia for recent examples
There’s some first rate Jew-hatin’ in the comments of that site.
The comments come with the ruling-the-world part
Yes, but they’re all written by Putinbots.
Does “never stick it in crazy” apply to political crazy?
Never stick it in political, so yes.
You could be missing out on some great hate fucks.
Denver meet up still happening this afternoon/evening? Looks like AA is operating an airline today and may actually make the later (drunk) part of it.
Yeah, I’ll be down there!
The Nova Scotia government has withdrawn a man’s eponymous personalized licence plate, saying Lorne Grabher’s surname is offensive to women.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/03/24/lorne-grabher-loses-personalized-licence-plate.html
You don’t say
When, as a nation, did we get to the point of media talking heads asking if the party that’s made monumental gains over the last 6-8 years across the country can govern?
Silly Sloopy. The question is not “Can they govern?” it’s “Why can’t/won’t they ‘govern’ precisely as we want them to?”
Same thing as that cretinous dishrag Suderman pretending a proposal to eliminate top down comprehensive government control isn’t a plan because it isn’t rooted in comprehensive top down control.
I hate that word, ‘govern’. Basically what that means in plain honest English is ‘suppress the peasants’. We’re supposed to be governing ourselves, assholes.
And the clowns at the FDA.
Wanna see a weird fish?
https://twitter.com/Strange_Animals/status/821353903010693121/photo/1
how does he eat?
Did you not read the part about ‘accidentally’ swallowing some of the eggs?
I figured that was reflex.
Prolly.
How’s the job going?
It’s not bad at all. lot’s o standing, which I have to deal with. My knee doesn’t like me, so posture is important. People are very nice though, good group to work with.
It’s still all the shit parts of retail, but that was expected.
At least I have energy after work to do some studying.
Well, the answer is “Sensible Shoes” of course.
Good. I’m glad it’s working out for you!
This morning, I have learned this from our nation’s elitest thinkers: less than sixty days in, the Trump administration is a failure. It’s dead in the water, because they couldn’t pass the insurance bill.
Methinks the gloating is premature, but I guess you can’t blame the left, they haven’t had much to do a happy dance about lately.
All that happens is that some of the Republicans save the GOP from owning a big stinking mess. Now maybe we’ll get actual repeal. The other good thing is that this weakened Ryan, and Ryan is the Democrat’s best friend.
I’ve been wondering, is there so much Obama and the Democrats ‘in’ Obamacare, that the GOP can’t stand the idea of just fixing the worst parts? I would think Trump could boast himself as “The Man that (fixed)(saved)(cleaned up) Obamacare”. There would be so many pluses in doing it that way, including getting a ton of Democrat support so you could pass it.
I mean, it’s pretty clear now there’s not going to be a repeal and replace, so why not just accept that and try to make the situation as good as you can? For example, allow selling policies across state lines, allow insurance portability, and do tort reform. Do all those things and you can drive down costs, and everyone’s a winner.
Unfortunately, I think the GOP will just be happy to let the whole thing explode so they can say, “see, you should have let us repeal and replace.” But they are so damn stupid, that all the Dems will have to say at that point will be is “Obamacare was working just fine until we had Republican leadership” and all their lickspittle in the press will trumpet that.
Lottery tickets are just another tax. I refuse to buy any.
The Idiot Tax. The dumber you are, the more you pay.
DON’T MAKE FUN OF MY RETIREMENT PLAN
Nonsense. You are wrong. I have stood patiently in line at the 7-11 many times while some glassy-eyed zombie spends ten minutes scratching off tickets, turning them in, buying more, scratching them off, turning them in…..until people lose patience and make them move. I can tell they are smart because when they do that instead of doing it quickly and efficiently, since they know they are pushing people’s patience, they move like molasses.
Every goddamn bodega around here has one employee who is stuck handling that shit while I’m waiting to buy coffin nails or something. It’s rage-inducing.
I suggest a cigarette, it’ll calm you down.
A tax on the poor, no doubt probably supported by the poor man’s best friends (Ds)
Boston is the most openly racist place I’ve ever lived.
I have no problem believing that. Never been, but everyone I’ve met from Boston has been an asshole.
Anecdotal evidence, but many years ago I was seated next to a black man who worked in NY but was from Louisiana on a flight between NJ and Houston. At some point in our conversation I asked him if he saw more racism in the North or the South. He let out a good laugh and said by far the North has more racism.
If you encounter an opossum who appears dead—and it’s safe to do so—checking inside her pouch for offspring could save a life or even a few lives! A baby opossum can be as tiny as a fingernail or up to several inches long.
http://www.peta.org/blog/viral-photo-of-baby-possums-teaches-a-lifesaving-message/?utm_campaign=0317%20Mother%20Opossums%20and%20Babies%20Are%20on%20the%20Move%20Tweet&utm_source=PETA%20Twitter&utm_medium=Promo
What the hell? Whoever wrote that doesnt live around possums. They are the cockroaches of the mammal world.
My bosses had similiar words when first surveying your puny world…
Congratulations on making national news
Ha ha, actually not me. But I know that particular reptile. He has taken to some of your more popular mammal vices.
He was likely drunk or trying to affect the outcome of the match. (Or simply dodging his bookie)
Wait, not you? Damn, you all look the same to me.
Also, it is not safe to do so. Not at all. Possums are flea incubators. You cant believe how many fleas they have. If they are dead the fleas are hanging around the body waiting for something to come along to eat the possum so they can hitch a new ride and offload some of their bubonic plague.
Just because a possum appears to be dead doesnt mean that it is. they have some pretty nasty teeth.
My grandfather told me when I was a kid – “If you want to find a possum just find a dead cow and kick it.” Nasty bastards.
I think that person is trolling.
It’s PETA. Definitely not trolling.
Euphemisms!
Boo hoo hoo profit is unjust and inherently misogynist
“Integrating feminism into our marketing is not a ploy, and it’s not exploitative; it’s a reclamation of how brands treat and speak to women,” proclaimed Miki Agrawal, a founder of Thinx, in a Medium post last year.
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Thinx’s story has significance beyond the allegations against a single executive. It exposes the logical limitations of a common narrative about employment and profit in our market-driven society: that profit-seeking can be compatible with social justice.
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The popular myth that profit and social justice can go hand in hand underlies every would-be ethical business venture. It’s a seductive prospect: Who doesn’t want to prosper while making the world a better place? The problem is that the market makes entrepreneurs choose between maximizing profit and transferring to workers the full returns of their productivity. All employers are forced into this choice, no matter how socially progressive.
Profits are evil, and we will never attain enlightened harmonious coexistence in a capitalist world. Or something.
GRRRRL power will save us.
Umm, no. Sargon of Akkad is right when he decries feminism and ‘social justice’ as Marxist.
Modern feminism is marxist. No only did second-wave feminists travel in the same circles as communists, they were often the same people. The first-wave was about women having the same individual rights as men. The second-wave was about collectivizing women as a “class”.
I was raised to believe, and as a libertarian and and individualist can’t help but come to the conclusion that women deserve all the same rights as men.
But, dang, the more I interact with feminists the more a part of me thinks that perhaps grandpa and great grandpa maybe had the right idea about keepin’ the wimmen folks barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the kitchen.
The more I meet of them in person though, the more I think it is simply that most of the patriarchy/rape culture/socjus type feminists aren’t being descriptive about the world as it is. Rather, they have fantasies of being sexually subjugated, and the weak-ass men they run into in their circles frustrate those desires, and so they wind up projecting their fantasies of how they wish their personal relationships were onto how men treat women in our society in some kind of screwed up attempt to fulfill the fantasy.
But what do I know. I am a level 170 shitlord.
That’s some next-level negging, bruh.
Is it really negging if you don’t want to sleep with them?
That is worthy of being a Zen koan.
Your insolent female mammals are blatantly signaling for a can of ActRight, and large dose of genital hydraulics
I have now expanded my vocabulary. Truly you grace us with your superior, reptilian ways,
There is plenty more where that came from…
As I mentioned here recently, the amount of politically ignorant women I’ve met who said they voted for the Liberals last election “because Justin Trudeau is hot” makes me start to wonder if the anti-suffragettes didn’t have a point.
Men vote for stupid reasons too.
WHAAAA?!?!?!?
Oh, I’m aware (there’s a reason why I’m even more extreme and am considering full-on restriction the vote to land owners and DOING YOUR PART), just for the love of God don’t say it with such a sense of pride.
Fuck that.
No voting.
Also, no gods or kings. Only man.
So an underwater autarkic benevolent autocracy that falls apart as soon as some fake populist manipulates the masses into a civil war?
If Ryan had the good sense to purchase some Mecha-Washingtons from old Columbia, none of that would have happened.
Also fuck not having a third Freedom Force game yet.
Doesn’t matter, SHODAN’s probably just going to wipe the slate clean sometime in the future.
Yes, practically bragging “because Justin Trudeau is hot” is a bit much. But looks do matter. It helped JFK. I’m thinking if HRC was a gorgeous idiot, like the the mayor of Baltimore, she probably would have won.
Yes, yes men do. Which is one of the reasons I’m able to quiet that suspicion.
I don’t think that women are any less informed than men are about politics. In general, people are very uniformed about politics and have little to no idea what goes on in government.
The thing about a lot of women is that they think someone should be protecting them and their children and providing for them, no matter what they say. Now, this used to be the job of a man, but modern society has decided that it can no longer be a man, because equality and gender is a social construct and patriarchy and blargle argle blargle. So now, big daddy gubmint is the head of the household, the protector, the provider.
That has long been my take on it as well.
Like all the ladies in SF who voted for Gavin Newsom when he was mayor. Those same ladies are going to carry him to the governor’s mansion next.
I can’t GTFO soon enough. I can’t: my sons are at state colleges so I get the resident price. 3 more years, which means I’ll have tl deal with Gavin Nuisance for 2 years.
tl should be to
Remember, in the first national election that women had the vote, it’s assumed that Warren G. Harding won because he was ‘the handsome one’.
Apparently she was accused of sexually harassing female employees. Which might be bullshit.
So being a tit-grabbing cunt is somehow linked to desire for profit?
“The ‘Dear Future Mum’ ad risked “disturbing the conscience” of women who had aborted DS pregnancies, the Council of State held in a November ruling.”
To be fair, there’s a lot in French history they don’t want brought up. Say, the period 1940-45, for example.
What, you mean the period where everyone in France joined the Resistance?
Virtue signallers, ASSEMBLE!
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — What can you — just one concerned person — do about global warming?
It may feel like a more urgent problem these days, with proposed cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and each year warmer than the previous one.
You could drive a few miles fewer a year. Reduce your speed. Turn down your thermostat in winter. Replace your incandescent light bulbs with LEDs. Reduce your meat consumption. Any one of those actions would help.
But none would come close to doing as much as driving a fuel-efficient vehicle. If vehicles averaged 31 miles per gallon, according to our research, the United States could reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by 5 percent.
Improving fuel economy carries particular salience after the Trump administration announced this month that it would re-examine the progressively more stringent Obama-era fuel economy standards for vehicles in model years 2022 to 2025.
IT’S A CRISIS! GAIA IS DYING!!!!!! HELP HERRRRRRR!!!
“Reduce your speed.”
I found myself behind some fucking virtue signaller on I-90 who was hypermiling his goddam Toyota Yaris. I didn’t realize he was SLOWING DOWN on a downhill until it was almost too late. The temptation to nerf that retard into the median was almost more than I could control.
“reduce your speed”
isn’t going faster downhill more ‘fuel efficient’? i thought using gravity to your advantage would be a prime technique of hypermiling.
I can’t be bothered to get furious about economic stupidity @ the NYT anymore. Of course the only thing which can make vehicles more efficient is govt mandates. The fact that consumers don’t actually want to buy those fuel-efficient vehicles that are available right now is just a minor roadblock to a “greener” future.
Is it really negging if you don’t want to sleep with them?
“No, seriously. I don’t give a fuck what you think of me. I just want you to go away. Cross my heart and hope to die.”
Everything at Reason has come full circle.
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/845810849264611335
Yes, that’s Robby Soave with Anna “Masters in Journalism from Columbia” Merlin.
Looks like they finally got that invite to the cocktail party.
make Robbys non-alcoholic
A very nice video of a woman slapping an antifa asshat blocking the sidewalk. The antifa shits were blocking the sidewalk and then when people walked in the dirt around them, they’d jeer “Nazis walk in the dirt.”
For some inexplicable reason, you have to confirm your age to watch the video. It’s almost as though there is a deliberate effort to hide anything that makes progs look bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WDkZ8EfHOM
The lack of self-awareness is really quite remarkable. It’s like their brains are broken.
…said the black-clad guy in a mask
So there IS a female libertarian.
No idea why it’s down everyone’s memory hole (phrasing!), but Robby’s initial article on the issue bought the entire story hook, line, and sinker.
my comment at the time was about how quickly modern journalists will go from “a handful of unconfirmed anecdotes” to asserting the existence of “A RAMPANT CULTURE OF _______”
The whole thing was a deliberate political invention to save the decline of feminism after Roe v. Wade. They desperately needed an emotionally incendiary issue in order to remain relevant.
You mean, the “rape culture” narrative?
I think that’s a decent theory.
I’m not 100% sure there *was* a decline of feminism after Roe v. Wade tho – or maybe if there was, it was a decline of the sorts of “TO THE BARRICADES!!”/1970s-hairy-armpits-feminism, and an increase in the sort of lipstick-friendly, magazine-editor feminism.
Basically we’re talking about “what happened to feminism in the 1980s”, which i don’t really know much about. I did read <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/html/campus-rape-myth-13061.html"heather mcdonald's very good article about the way the Rape Culture narrative was born on college campuses
etc.
I know HMcD has written other things which would rightly sicken libertarians (i think she wrote something about the War On Cops which was pretty ridiculous), but i did think it was idiotic how people like Robby or ENB would routinely parrot claims about said “rape culture” and never actual acknowledge some of the very-sharp criticisms of the idea that McD presented (*and despite having the same pointed out to them repeatedly)
*Classic Gilmore’d link.
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That HMcD article is good (and I agree she has written other things that aren’t good).
Against Our Will, which started the rape culture narrative, was published in 1975. It just took feminists several failed attempts before Mary Koss figured out a way to generate bogus statistics that showed the kind of numbers they wanted. And they’ve been using the same methods ever since.
I recall Robby wrote an article where he described Mary Koss as a “Campus Rape Expert“, noting halfway through the piece that she was the source of the bogus 1-in-5 stat.
I made a comment in that piece which i think is similar to your own argument about how Feminists often leapfrogged from one ginned-up source of oppression to another
I graduated from college in 1991, and never once heard about or encountered rape culture. The girls were just as drunk and stupid and clumsy as the guys, and we all looked out for each other.
There was one night at my dorm where a girl brought a guy home and she kicked him out of her room and then he started banging on her door. Did us guys go over to the room, bust down the door, and cheer him on as he raped her? No, we beat the shit out of him. And that’s the way it was.
men only get included in group-photos 77% as much as women
Most of the criticism of this video pretty accurately sums up the problem with the Other Site (not to mention the Other Site having an DC office).
Also, remember that Soave’s first reaction to Trump being elected was to pen a screed declaring a Libertarian-progressive alliance to fight off the horrors of Rapist Hitler 2.0. Whether this alliance would have any benefit for the vastly outnumbered libertarians is not brought into question. This isn’t new, he has regularly shown a willingness to throw his support behind progressives and blatantly accept their argumentation rather than articulate a libertarian view.
Why would you hang out with a person who was that condescending to you? Where her friends accuse you of racism?
Maybe that’s his fetish?
“…Robby had won the victory over himself. He loved
Big BrotherAnna Merlan.”Jesus, we got out just in time.
Yes, that’s Robby Soave with Anna “Masters in Journalism from Columbia” Merlin.
Looks like they finally got that invite to the cocktail party.
How nice for them.
Socialism is bad for people and other living things, exhibit 13D
Desperately poor Venezuelans are increasingly turning to black market gold mining to stay alive. The mining companies are controlled by violent gangs, the working conditions are very unsafe, and the mining is causing terrible pollution.
I have a dream of teaching a college class called Understanding Socialism. It would begin in a normal college classroom. The students would be given little red books and told that they were about to take part in a great experiment. Then burly men with sunglasses and red berets would march in, drag students out by their hair one by one and beat them with ax handles until they confessed to being class traitors. Whatever money or valuables they have would be confiscated, and then they would be confined to the room until they could recite a 1,000 words or so from the little red book from memory.
Extra credit earned by joining the beatings and ratting out their fellow classmates?
Those who completed the course successfully would be invited to return as revolutionary guards who get to each the next class about how socialism works.
I have a better idea. Send them all to Venezuela and they can come back when they can write a good paper describing why socialism sucks.
“The signal on my phone, like, really sucks.”
Isn’t that what diversity training is?
Maybe it never went away, but “Muh INFRASTRUCTURES!” seems to have re-emerged as a talking point. And, of course, no proper analysis of infrastructure investment would be complete without a kowtow to Eisenhower’s Interstates. The infrastructure mavens conveniently omit, however, any references to the Law of Diminishing Returns, however.
I college, I decided to take a side trip (a pilgrimage to Hannibal, Missouri, for reasons which should be obvious) on my way back to school. This little expedition involved a trip across Middle America on U S 30, I believe. It took for-fucking-ever to go a couple hundred miles, passing through innumerable little podunk burgs and farm country with tractors pulling hay wagons, etc. It takes no imagination whatsoever to see what a great improvement the Interstates were at the time, but the network is pretty much built out, at this point. Maintenance and repairs are both necessary and welcome. There are, without question, choke points which need to be addressed, as well, but some sort of massive marginal productivity gain is just not there.
But still we see people trooping past the teevee cameras, calling for a trillion dollar
slush fund to placate their preferred special pleaders“investment in productivity”.poofreadng is hsrd
This is an interesting story
Its basically about how an SC case may have huge repercussions for the way all sorts of products are sold, and how manufacturers may increasingly tie use-restrictions to hard-goods the way we’ve long gotten used to w/ Software licenses.
I think its via Instapundit. I can’t remember. I opened it up hours ago and don’t remember why
Since the ‘90s Lexmark has used what’s called a “shrink-wrap license” with its cartridges. It offers a “prebate” to consumers by knocking off 20% of the price in exchange for their agreement to never resell or reuse the cartridge. The consumer agrees to this the second they open the package. Essentially, Lexmark believes that those cartridges belong to them, not the consumer reselling them because the consumer didn’t have the right to sell them in the first place.
It seems to me this is a long, long reach. I lease an argon bottle from the gas company. When the argon is all gone, I return the bottle to the dealer, and he trades me a full one. Both of us knew at the outset this was the case.
I have bought Lexmark cartridges before, and they do not say, “Return for refill” on them anywhere.
Finding in favor of Lexmark would be a disaster. Is Penguin going to demand I return my copy of Tristram Shandy when I’m done reading it, so I can’t sell it?