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Rape is just another way of saying, “I love you!”
The girl Roman Polanski raped now wants the case dropped.
Yeah, Whoopie convinced her that it wasn’t “rape-rape”, just “rape”….
That progressives still praise that sick fuck demonstrates how morally bankrupt they really are.
See also, Lena Dunham’s career seemingly taking no knocks over admitting to molesting her sister. Hell, she had a fucking NYT piece the other day.
That thing gives me the fucking creeps. That she became famous during Obama’s presidency makes a great deal of sense: both fortell the decline of America in similar ways.
STEVE SMITH MISS NESSIE, SHE FIRST RAPE SLAVE UNTIL SHE RUN OFF WITH MOTHMAN.
Mothman?! Ouch, that one must have stung.
IT FINE. STEVE SMITH REALIZE HE LONE WOLF, NO NEED TO SETTLE DOWN.
*STEVE turns away to hide a single tear, cue soundtrack.*
STEVE SMITH THOUGHT MITT WAS GOING TO PUT Y’ALL BACK IN CHAINS?
I meant to comment on that in the am links but I got there late. That little get together was a “Donors” meeting? Organ donor? What kind of donor? Are they just not hiding it anymore that we really have one political party running the show now or what?
Biden also discussed a need for bipartisanship in Congress, lamenting how Republicans and Democrats don’t sit together anymore in the Capitol dining room, and spoke of his efforts to improve cancer research,
I wonder what kind of behaviour over the last, say, eight years would warrant such bipartisanship. I wonder why kind of ‘bipartisan’ solutions Biden and his party members offered up during that time that would bring his opponents over to agreement? And of course, at no time in the recent past have the voting public shown they’re sick of the ‘bipartisan’ solutions the Democrats provide. Like say, through large shifts in support to the other party in the legislative and executive. It’s almost like ‘bipartisanship’ is a bullshit term that actually translates to ‘do what we want’.
And hey, remember the time Obama promised to cure cancer? Jesus Christ, at least with Trump no one is pretending he’s here to heal the sick and the planet.
It’s funny because Democrats spent like a year trying to attack the Koch’s for their cancer institute.
It’s almost like ‘bipartisanship’ is a bullshit term that actually translates to ‘do what we want’.
It is exactly that. If you don’t concede to their demands you are an obstructionist. The R’s gave Obama everything he wanted for 8 years but were still slammed for being obstructionists. What was the Schumer quote after Obama’s last budget? “We never thought we could get this much”. or something like that. There is no winning strategy that includes working with progressives like Biden.
Words mean things, and the Left is great at twisting words.
The other one I like is when they say they “want to have a conversation” but in reality it is them lecturing you.
^See the constant use of the phrase “conversation about race” by the Left who want to convince the rest of us that we are literally Nazis if we don’t do exacty what they say.
Case in point: by their OWN GODDAMN (NON) LOGIC that Dolezal lady should be celebrated for overcoming boundaries and prejudice but instead she’s ostracized by all Good-Thinkers ad as a faker and a cheat.
“We need to have a national discussion about gun violence in this country…”
OT: Last night’s gun thread
My gun is at my mother’s home in the sticks! Left it there two months ago for her to play with and forgot about it. Jesus Tap-Dancing Christ on Rubber Fucking Crutches, that was nerve racking.
So…has she racked up a respectable body count of critters?
No; she used it as a sex toy.
Goddamn, Ted.
If I wasn’t inoculated to the tone around here I’d almost be insulted by that comment. 😉
Almost?
I really need to up my game and be more tasteless. 😉
It is best to include yourself in any mom joke scenario. It doubles the tastelessness.
You know what I included in your mom?
Exactly!!!
Heyoooooo
As of yet, no. Strictly target practice. But she’s more than capable, far more than I am. Farm gal, I’ve seen her rip apart blue racer snakes that were going after her chickens with bird shot many times.
My experience with using a gun to kill animals is limited to using a rifle to kill a rabid possum that sauntered up to my house as a kid and shooting my older brother’s dog in the head with a .38 to put it out of its misery after it got its back legs ran over by a combine.
It still kind of bugs me that he was too much of a chicken-shit to do it himself…My dad ended up forcing me to do it in order to toughen me up, or some such bullshit…
“I have learned a valuable lesson, Dad. When it is your time, I shall not hesitate to pull the trigger…”
Damn, was your Dad Walt Disney forcing you to make another movie about dead dogs?
sauntered
I haven’t heard that in a while. I’m bringing it back!
I thought you were making a joke. I had a good laugh.
Me too. And I rarely laugh
Me three.
But I’d have laughed anyway.
Left it there two months ago for her to play with and forgot about it.
That’s responsible gun ownership right there.
That was just in case the revenuers came by.
“Gosh, I don’t know where that gun ended up!”
Let’s see…
7lb Trip tip in the smoker with Weber’s chop rub (mostly garlic and onion flavor). I’m running apple and cherry.
20 more minutes, and then it’s sear time.
Dang…I just grilled cheese burgers, campfire potatoes, heart of romaine and peppers.
*Kicks pebble*
I actually wouldn’t mind a burger. Haven’t eaten yet today, and the beef won’t be ready for a while.
I picked Dad up at the train station and we went out to eat since neither of us wanted to cook.
Golden Arches?
No; one of the mid-priced chains. Frankly I was just going to heat up some baked ziti leftovers for myself but dad doesn’t care for it and there was nothing in the house for him.
He was telling me some interesting stories about the underclass people he met on the train.
You were in too big of a hurry to bother remembering the name?
IT WAS IHOP OK, ARE YOU SATISFIED??
I will be when I know what he ordered.
Probably a white wine spritzer.
I doubt it. That’s carbonated. Ted, I know yooouuu-ooouuu-ouu
Midori Sour?
Maybe, but that would indicate Ruby Tuesday or TGI Friday’s tier.
Whisky sour. With a single malt.
I assumed a blooming onion was involved
You know what gets me about the blooming onion, it isn’t that it’s a deep fried battered onion, it’s the side of peppercorn salad dressing dip on the side. Horrendous creation, just way too much.
Indeed. If you are going deep fried onion, it needs to be a ketchup/mayo based Russian dressing thing going on for dipping.
Short ribs braised in red wine. Olives. Over spaghetti noodles. Mountain of parmesan.
Are you trying to make me fat?
Ohhhh, I was eyeballing tri tip and drooling over the meat counter last week. That sounds really good. I am going Asian Chicken tonight. I have not decided if I am doing tacos, salad, or fried rice.
I’d go Korean Tacos. Any excuse for Sriracha, really.
Scrambled eggs are an excuse for Sriracha. But then again they are also an excuse for sausage and Asiago cheese. That was breakfast.
If you have asiago, the tacos are good to go. All you need is some cabbage and some sweetened vinegar.
I have cabbage and rice vinegar, red wine vinegar, ACV, white vinegar and balsamic vinegar. What is sweetened vinegar? Vinegar and sugar?
Marukan Orange Top.
So basically, add sugar and salt to regular rice vinegar, and you have your cabbage dressing.
Sushi rice vinegar. I am down with that. Decision made. Tacos it is.
Sriracha? On *Korean* tacos? You’re a monster.
Fuck that noise. Gochujang or GTFO!
The original, the REAL ORIGINAL, was with Sriracha. I have 3 different flavors of Gochujang (Mother In Law Brand, I highly endorse), but none of them go on tacos.
Today was a 25 mile bike ride with the girlfriend, then a late lunch at a bar in the plaza we parked the car at. Schofferhofer Grapefruit is the ultimate in after ride beers. Tomorrow will be a ~35 mile ride out to the other side of town, grab lunch somewhere over there, then ride back home.
Your town is 35 miles in diameter? That’s pretty big. 🙂
Not really.
From the Southwest side of Cleveland to the East side, so technically I’m going through 8 cities. But it is Cleveland, so town it is 🙂 . It’s about fifty/fifty bike trails and road riding. My goal is to beat my average speed on the ride out from last year of 13.1 MPH. The ride back is a tougher one, mainly because of adding weight (crowlers are my favorite craft beer innovation of the past decade).
My sister lived over in Painesville before the family moved down to Dallas.
Wait, someone you know lives in Dallas and you think 35 miles is a large town?
Well, I know the Metroplex is huge. But Dallas itself isn’t 35 miles across I don’t think.
OTHER SIDE, Ted. OTHER SIDE.
You’re slipping.
He’s on one side of town going 35 miles to the other side. Granted a circle doesn’t have sides, but he didn’t mean side in that way.
Now, if he lives in a town shaped like a Möbius strip….
Eschertown
He didn’t say how far outside of town he lived.
If I rode to the other side of LA, that could be 50 miles.
You’re not starting in LA.
Don’t have a fancy name for it but chicken breasts over pasta with a butter, bacon, spinach sauce.
Buttery Bacon Breast fettuccine with spinach. If the sauce base is sherry or white wine and finished with heavy cream more butter and Parmesan that is a winner there. Throw in some caramelized onions and you got a super dish.
I ordered a pizza so I didn’t have to leave the house.
Man after my own heart.
Always a classic.
A plan so cunning, yet so simple, that it will work!
Hate Chicken (with extra pickles) on the way home from the range. Now I’m trying to stave off tomorrow’s aches and pains with ibuprofen and Beefeater. I’ll probably pass out shortly.
I grilled some burgers (with local grass-fed beef) and put them on homemade sourdough buns with onions, tomatoes, fresh spinach, Swiss cheese, mayo, ketchup, and Colman’s mustard. Fucking delicious.
From the church link:
The demolition came as row between the church and government escalated over allegations the church refused to pay a £450 arbitrary road usage fee.
Petty. Very petty.
The real reason is likely to be that the church didn’t register as an official Commie-approved, watered-down “Christian” church.
STEVE SMITH buried the most important story. From the sidebar of the church story:
Math teacher in NC arrested for sex with students
Erin McAuliffe, 25, reportedly romped with the boys – two aged 17 and one 16 – away from the school.
But the maths teacher came under investigation after admin staff at her school in North Carolina tipped off cops about her illicit behaviour.
After a month-long police probe, in which colleagues and students were interviewed, the tutor was arrested by police with the Rocky Mount Police Department
I initially read “Eric McAuliffe,” and I was angry. Why would anyone link to that? Then I saw it was Erin and I was relieved and clicked. At 16, I definitely would have.
I would have too.
Also, she looks like a waitress at a bar I sometimes stop in.
I just don’t understand. She’s a solid 7, and decided to ruin her own life.
I made this point on the old site, and I’m pretty sure it was Nicole of all people who defended them and offered an explanation. It still didn’t make any sense to me.
Seven? Seven?! I think she’s smokin and at least an 8 good sir (even if she is a pervert!)
*Draws dueling pistol
7. Sober 7.
6.5. We have elevated standards where I come from.
But yeah — at 16, I would’ve pounded her privates like the beaches at Normandy until she couldn’t walk straight for a month.
In my defense, I have been drinking. Also a bit of a hound dog so maybe my scale is lower.
In any case, she’s a drunk & horny 8.
At 16, would – so much so that she would have had to be buried in a Y shaped coffin.
Don’t get me wrong here. I would totally “accidentally” eat her ass. But she’s not an 8.
Whoa
Away from the beaches, she’s probably a high 8. We’re just jaded.
Jaded? No. Do we get to see the menu before we order? Yes.
I remember back in my fast food working days. One of the shift managers (who was probably a 6, but she was in her early 20’s while we were all teenagers) wound up hooking up with an underage employee. She had a boyfriend she was living with, and she threw it away. Never could understand it.
People have nutty sex drives, don’t they?
Rule 34 man… Rule 34.
Nice. I’ll have to remember that.
It’s not sex drive. It’s…. something else.
I saw, conservatively, maybe 2 dozen women who were sexually attractive this morning. I managed to not ruin my life.
At 16? Hell yes I would have.
STEVE SMITH GO LOOK NOW!
I’d hit it
She’s a slut.
Damn. Looks like freaking Fallujah III down there. 13 Marines in one day? I know their gear is shitty but still, sounds like Maute group was prepping some things a little longer. I haven’t been tracking things down there for a few years…but nuts. That really sucks.
I hope they do it right. Surround the city, no ceasefires.
Honestly, it kind of amazes me that casualties have always been so low. Most of the military to include the glorified Marines doesn’t understand basic shit like 360 security or anything about terrain. If anything, both Afghanistan and Iraq have reinforced the notion that American soldiers shouldn’t and won’t really die because we’ve fought an incompetent enemy. We’re a country not willing to take losses at this point, and ending the hawkish bullshit will just take one semi-respectable power to call us on our bullshit. Watch how quick the McCain’s and Graham’s back down then.
Um…wut? Spend much time with the USA or USMC in combat?
Also, you do realize those were not US Marines, but Filipino ones that were killed, right?
No, I did not. I just saw multiple stories about the Marines today and assumed.
But I stand by what I said about the American military overall.
I guess I will defer to your superior experience with the USA and USMC.
I only got to work with 3 Marine BNs and a MEU, and two different Army Divisions….in Afghanistan and Iraq. So I am quite unqualified to offer any observations on terrain use, understanding and security/Force Protection.
The units you worked with were far better than mine, I assume. You are more experienced than I was so I’ll bow to you on that.
Meooow.
I do not know if the Filipino Marines are any good – their Army is partly useless.
It’ll be interesting to see if some of this winds up being the result of teaming up with MILF/MNLF and/or NPA rather than just asking us for help up front.
I certainly wouldn’t put it past the separatists to team up with ISIS-PI behind the gov’ts back.
Are there any NPA down there? I thought they were a northern thing. Luzon and all.
I think the Moros are being joined by every AQ, ISIS and others that escape from somewhere else. Not exactly what the Philippines needs.
Well, they made some formal statements, but you’re probably right. They may not be operating South of Sulu.
Last year I did a risk assessment on the Philippines for my Swiss overlords…..they have some issues in the islands. If the headloppers don’t get you down south, a typhoon or volcano or earthquake might get you up north. And their government is … something. Oh, and China looms menacingly in the background.
It’s really tragic that PH is such a mismanaged place dicked up by corrupt creeps. Every flip I’ve ever met has been warm and first class genuine.
+ 1 Cryptonomicon
“Filipinos are a warm, gentle, caring people – which is a good thing because so many of them carry concealed weapons.”
(paraphrase)
They have an interesting English accent that I can now immediately identify after working with hordes of them doing software releases and such for my company.
Tagolog, if I remember correctly is unique in that it is not derived from another language nor does it have any deriviates. I served with several and all were computer geeks.
I’d like to team with MILF if you know what I mean.
Semi-OT: from what I’ve heard from guys stationed in S Korea, fucking with RoK marines is a bad, bad idea.
Yeah, ROK Marines are decent quality.
Definitely. Similarly, Indonesian marines have an interesting rep (compared to the horrible rights record of the Army) of being extremely impartial when being called on to deal with sectarian violence, etc and are generally the preferred military force for Christians and various minority groups to deal with. Good folks, but as always, bottom of the totem pole when it comes to gear (just like our guys).
From the sidebar of that story: Hamptonites’ weekend off to a late start because of Trump
I wonder how many of these people bitched about the traffic problems caused by Obama’s jaunts to New York and other places.
The horror.
The horror.
The horror.
Were probably afraid of being attacked as racist or something.
When Trump does it, it’s racist. When Obama did it, it was empowering. See? Easy.
Another reason that I am glad BHO is gone. Every time he would come to Hawaii it would screw up the traffic on Oahu (and my neighborhood) and cost the county millions of uncompensated dollars in security costs. Have fun with DT Hamptons.
I’ve noticed that people bitch about traffic regardless of politics.
Fake news. They have a NOTAM, and that’s it.
Trump is trolling again?
Trump’s going where he’s going. It’s a non-issue. When Bill Clinton holds up LAX traffic for 3 hours to get a haircut, that’s an issue.
He was just talking with the current AG about their grandkids.
They were just exchanging photos of their grandkids. Why would anybody think there was something nefarious going on there?
Sounds like Mosul. That is just what the world needs.
In the sidebar of that another war we don’t need to be in article was this.
*good edit fairy flutters by to make Ted S. show his arse*
You’re no worse than Gilmore.
STILL #1 !!!
The Good Edit Fairy can help with only so many things…threading, that ain’t one of ’em.
…..
STILL #1!!!
*hands over trophy*
So you drop the bomb and sort them out later, right?
So I started watching The Handmaid’s Tale because I was having too much fun listening to bien-pensants howl about how it’s literally what’s going to happen 15 minutes into the future now that we’re living in the Trumpenreich. Spoiler: it’s not. There are lots of little minor details in it that make me roll my eyes, particularly to do with the depiction of the ludicrously abrupt and badly-explained transition from the United States of America to the Republic of Gilead. I kind of want to wait until I finish it to fully dissect things, but I’m seeing a lot of parallels to that other new dystopia netshow, The Man in the High Castle, and I can’t help but notice that that handled some of the same “life in a new American regime” stuff much better.
From what I can tell (I haven’t seen the show, just some of the discussion around it) the producers seemed to have specifically wanted to maximize their market share by deliberately avoid the idea of it being about a ‘Trumpenreich’ or batshit feminist propaganda. Which oddly enough is going against the source material, and I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Also, if it’s anything like the book, the transition to the Republic of Gilead will be hilariously retarded. Because Margaret Atwood.
Yeah, when I saw the complaints of “they won’t call it a feminist movie,” my response was “maybe they don’t want to actively drive potential audience members away?”
Believing that Gilead is coming to fruition is, like believing in cultural appropriation, diagnostic of severe mental illness.
I have never read the book, or watched the show, and am not sure if I ever will, but I have read a few discussions on it and kind of got the gist I think. It all reminded me of a political conversation I had with last girlfriend. She said she supported the Democrats because they were the one thing keeping the religious right from implementing christian Sharia on the US. If it wasn’t for the progressives people would be rounded up and put in camps. She was serious. I then read someone say that similar things about Hand Maids Tale and wondered if that is where she got it.
Is it worth reading?
You kind of got it already. If you want a window into the dystopia fever dreams of hysterical left-wing feminists (and Atwood actually originally wrote it because she was scared of Reagan) Handmaid’s Tale is their 1984. She’s not actually a bad writer, it’s just that her premises tend to be really retarded. Oh, and she’s a WASPy, self-righteous snob.
She is what every presenter from the CBC strives to be. A chic, urbane cunt that probably went to McGill and considered it Oxford.
I read it a couple of years back. If you like dystopian novels it’s not terrible. But it’s not up to the level of 1984 or Brave New World.
1984 and Brave New World come off as thoughtful studies of intelligent men recognizing fundamentally easily ways to psychologically manipulate human populations into conforming to totalitarian systems that horrifically, by the efficiency of their control, may be eternal.
Handmaid’s Tale is because Christian conservatives are scary.
1984 had an impact on a young me. I wonder how many young ladies Handmaid’s Tale impacted and what their political views are today, and what they thought of 1984.
Now I have to read the damn book.
I love the juxtaposition of this article with the girl-on-girl pic to its right.
OH?! Um, brb.
While taking a look, I found a link to this article on favorite sex positions from around the world.
That’s my Post.
What is the methodology on this study?
You mentioned the girl-on-girl pic. While taking a look at that article, I found the sex positions article.
It’s Saturday night. We should drink instead of arguing.
I’m already ahead of you DEG. I’m working through an old keg of cream ale I have on tap. After killing a bomber of a barrel aged dubbel.
For dinner, I stopped in at the local Tilted Kilt. I had two Rogue Dead Guys with my burger and eye candy. After returning home, I opened up a 22 oz bottle of KBS from 2017. I am finishing the last of the bottle. I won’t drink more tonight.
That dubbel looks good. I don’t think I can get Rhinegeist up here. Sad.
I remember explaining the Tilted Kilt to people before they expanded here. The closest I could come was Hooters meets Catholic school girls, with some craft beer.
On the KBS front, I’ve never seen a bomber of that, just the CBS.
The dubbel was a beast. Higher ABV then I was really looking for on a 80+ day, and the tannins added some astringency in the finish I wasn’t the biggest fan of. And it was picked up at the brewery by a friend of mine, I don’t think this was even distributed.
Damn, you two are bringing the quality beverage tonight!
Swiss, tonight? I’ll challenge you to a duel at dawn. I had people comment on the fact that I included my beer cellar on my renter and homeowners insurance. I’ve got beers set aside for my nephew’s 21st birthdays.
Do you pull a trailer with that bike to get your beer home?
westernsloper: I’m still able to drive, I just took up the biking because I needed a healthy hobby as I got older. There is a yearly ride where you can volunteer to haul a full keg of beer for at least 10 miles. You get to pay extra for the “privilege”. I’m just happy drinking other beers that haven’t been shaken up for 50+ miles at the end.
Easy, friendo. I just saw what you two were discussing. If that is representative, then *salutes*
Swiss if you (or any of the other Glibs) make their way to Cleveland, I’ll gladly open the cellar up to them.
Founders revamped their line to include a barrel aged series of beer. KBS is one of them. All barrel aged beers will be released in 22 oz and 11 oz bottles. There was also more KBS available this year than previous years.
Neph: My hats off to you for the bike rides. I was kidding. I went on my first ride in a long time a few weeks ago and thought I was going to die. I have been out of saddle for too long, and need to get back on the bike.
You do know this group could probably empty your cellar right? I am not known to turn down free beer. Good to know you are insured though.
Swiss: I have a lot of barrel aged Clown Shoes, a barrel aged Sierra Nevada (Bière de Garde I think), and a Left Hand milk stout in the cabinet. I have six or seven bottles of wine, at least one of which is my trip to Prague last year. I have several bottles of various stouts for occasional Sunday breakfast drinking. I have a selection of Samichlaus for Christmas season. I have only a little bit of hard stuff: some Jameson’s, some Kahlua and Bailey’s for coffee, and some Gosling’s Old Rum.
I’ve refrained from buying booze lately as I decided to reduce the amount of stuff in the backlog.
I’m done drinking for the night. So, no more backlog reduction tonight.
The closest I could come was Hooters meets Catholic school girls, with some craft beer.
Also, better food.
Hooters meeting Catholic school girls is a good description of the women’s Tilted Kilt uniform.
/went to Catholic school.
westernsloper: No offense taken at all. My longest ride in a day so far is ~75 miles, and I’ve been hoping to do a century on of these years. I’m already signed up for a 75 mile and 65 mile charity ride this year. On the cycling side, I just took it up a couple years ago, I needed a healthy hobby on top of all my other hobbies.
If the entire group of Glib’s is willing to show up at my house, then my cellar might be in danger. If it’s a couple of people, they’ll pass out on the Sumo before killing it.
DEG: 13 years of Catholic education turned me into the strong agnostic I am now, I just like plaid skirts more then I should.
Nephilium, I also spent 13 years in Catholic school (K-12). Yep, school girl outfits are one of my many fetishes.
Still on metronidazole, so no booze for me. *sigh*
Oh, and Catholic school is one of the reasons I am an atheist.
Ya, that one caught my eye. But I thought the one about the lawyer suing the theaters was funnier. Gotta love the NY Post.
Saw Wonder Woman this morning. Have to say I liked it. Compare to Captain America, where WWII was just this… thing, in the background, Wonder Woman actually showed war. In all its gruesomeness.
And Gal Gadot makes the movie watchable without any of that. Smoking hot and a great actress, and she could kick your ass in real life.
I caught it opening weekend, I enjoyed it as well. I think it was a good movie, but DC missed the chance to make it a great movie.
Trying to avoid spoilers here… but if they had made Steve’s speech near the end be correct, I think it would have been great.
Oh I agree. It’s the best DCAU movie though. Which really doesn’t say much. But at least it was worth what I paid to see it. Which I couldn’t say for the other DCAU movies.
Only reason I saw it in the theater was discounted tickets from T-Mobile. Same reason I saw Suicide Squad in the theater (which had… issues). I saw Man of Steel (which was tolerable, but not good) in the theater, and waited for months to see Batman V Superman, which was just flat out bad.
The strangest articles I’ve seen so far regarding this is that the DCAU is now better because Wonder Woman will be carrying it forward. And how she’s the DC/WB Iron Man. The biggest sign of good news is the tragedy that has Zack Snyder stepping away and having Joss Whedon stepping forward for Justice League.
Mentioning that bit at the end made me realize that I can’t decide which is worse, Snyder writing Justice League or more of Joss Whedon’s dialogue.
Also, according to wiki:
He (Snyder) is also working on an adaptation of the 1943 novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand.
Holy shit that may possibly be the dumbest movie ever made. I must see it.
*Howard Roark intensely draws at his drafting board, going into slow-mo at every curve of his pencil. As he blows up Courtland, he does it while the flames erupt behind him because cool guys don’t look at explosions*
Please tell me that’s just one of those things inserted into Wiki for ridiculousness.
Fountainhead is the one Ayn Rand novel I like.
We The Living is best waifu.
It’s sourced to an interview he did:
We have The Last Photograph that I’ve been working on for a long time. It’s a small, sort of weird project about a war photographer in Afghanistan. I have been working on The Fountainhead. I’ve always felt like The Fountainhead was such a thesis on the creative process and what it is to create something. Warner Bros. owns [Ayn Rand’s] script and I’ve just been working on that a little bit.
Yes, there may be, in the near future, an Ayn Rand/Zack Snyder collaborative movie script.
What a time to be alive.
The movie was already made into a mess back in the 40s. The problem was that Ayn Rand may have been able to write realistic villains, but she couldn’t write a screenplay.
I know when I think of ‘ways to fix messes’ and ‘writing screenplays’, I think Zack Snyder’s the man for the job.
I’m glad I had no beer in my mouth when I read that comment John, otherwise I may have had to bill you for a new keyboard.
What, you didn’t like King of Kings?
Ayn Rand couldn’t even write a decent novel. Even if you agree with her politics, she’s a shit writer. The big speech from Atlas Shrugged would take something like 20 hours for a basic human that that speaks English to deliver.
I can think of several guys that enjoy giving 6+ hour speeches. They weren’t Libertarians, and tended to have orders to shoot on site anybody not clapping hard enough.
Wait, Snyder is leave the DC movies? Damn, between this and hearing WW is decent, I might have to give the DC movies another try. I cannot stand Snyder’s “style.” Completely ruined BvS and ruined the battle scenes of Man of Steel. Maybe their universe will actually start to take off now, without that clown.
*is leaving. Is it really so much to ask for an edit button? Just have it functional for only a short time after a post is first made, so it can only really be used for proofreading purposes, not completely changing what one said.
In fairness, I didn’t hate Watchmen, and I think the changes made to the source material make sense. And I can even enjoy Sucker Punch. I also have a love of terrible movies, as well as those that make people wince. As an example, Hard Candy is a movie that more people should see.
Pretty much 80% of the complaints about Watchmen comes down to the fact that he almost fanatically devoted himself to representing the comic as close as he could on film. Credit where credit’s due, he tried to be faithful to the original product, but comic books are not movies, and vice versa. Moore’s style and storytelling progression is not fit for movies, which is probably why the bloody thing clocks in a three hours.
John,
Hearing people complain that they got rid of the giant alien squid attack in the finish just fueled my rage. The giant alien squid was a terrible idea in the comics, and couldn’t be replicated in a film. Making it be nuclear attacks that “only” Dr. Manhattan could do makes a lot more sense for the end. Zack even stuck in the dumb sex scene on the Nite Owl flying vehicle.
I entirely get the replacement of the alien thing, and in all honesty, Snyder’s change is actually way better and a hell of a lot more coherent (especially if you’re making a movie). Moore’s random ‘aliens attack’ concept is the most, for lack of a better term, ‘comic booky’ idea he pulled out of his ass.
His daughter committed suicide, so he’s understandably off on personal leave. I don’t know if that equates to him being off DC projects forever.
That’s sad to hear. Still hope that would mean he’s off for good.
I’ve heard enough good things about it that make me likely want to check it out on cable or something down the road, unlike the recent heap of generic crap superhero movies.
Always side with the topless women.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/public-safety/battle-over-bare-breasted-women-brews-at-one-of-mds-busiest-beaches/2017/06/09/ba18c3a2-4c7d-11e7-bc1b-fddbd8359dee_story.html
TW: WaPo
Always cool in theory.
But….
Tits or GTFO!
On my last trip to Australia, I went to Bondi Beach on a warm day. I walked from Bondi to Coogee. I noticed a few women sunbathing topless. They were all women that I want to see naked, and I think other men would like to see naked. I did look for women that I wouldn’t want to see naked (for science or something like that), and saw none.
South Beach is, if not de jure then certainly de facto, top optional. The quality tits definitely outnumbered the spoiled milk.
South Beach is often like a CGI alternate reality. There are lots of fitness models in Miami, and they like to hang out there. It can be quite surreal.
*takes notes*
*adds South Beach to the list of places to visit*
Key Biscayne is list worthy too.
“For science”, not a fetish.
*narrows gaze*
Bitches be crazy.
http://nypost.com/2017/06/08/woman-records-boyfriend-having-sex-with-teen-as-blackmail-cops/
You know, she looks like a woman who I encountered while working at the women’s prison. She was a fucking insane murderous psychopath who jammed sausages up her butt and tried to drown herself in the toilet.
It’s shit like this that makes me want to believe in phrenology.
Seen today at Barnes and Noble: Smash the patriarchy with arts and crafts!
And if that’s not your style, you can preorder Crafting the Resistance: 35 Projects for Craftivists [ed note: that’s a word?], Protesters, and Women who Persist
Fucking pathetic. Leftists can’t do ANYTHING without making it political.
Yes, that is their mantra.
Step one: Put pink shit on stuff.
Step two: Pat self on back.
From the reviews =
Blood print art. Is that referring to what I strongly suspect it’s referring to?
OF COURSE IT IS YOU PATRIARCHICAL SHITLORD
Fucking gross, also would, wouldn’t, would, wouldn’t, and would.
I see you are going with the well tested “flow” meter of wouldness. Good call.
Left to right? I agree.
Wow edgy.
” I bought it for my 12 year old goddess daughter”…
I’m sure your “goddess daughter” will grow up to be a productive and well adjusted member of society and totally not a shrill atomic powered cunt with a degree that ends in the word “studies”.
Arts and Crafts: A project for women
“EMPOWERMENT w/ A PICKLE= 36 SLICED-MEAT+ CONDIMENT COMBOS WHICH SMASH LUNCHTIME PATRIARCHY”
– Confront Male Dominated Spaces With a Handheld Mealtime Revolution
“Why giving blowjobs then shutting the fuck up is the most woke, empowering thing a strong independent woman can do”
I thought the wording was a joke but it’s in there. Thank heavens we have the USSR as a blueprint for where this shit leads, so we can hopefully nip it in the bud this time.
Thank heavens we have the USSR as a blueprint for where this shit leads, so we can hopefully nip it in the bud this time.
For those of us that know something about history.
….
badterrible fempunk bands?Silly Rhywun, the USSR was Stalinst state capitalism, not socialism. This time, we’ll get it right.
STEVE SMITH NEVER NEED ARTS OR CRAFT TO SMASH. AS LONG AS SMASH EQUAL RAPE
I am feeling ripped off here. I am working on a book, “Bedazzle your balls”. The working theory is ball bedazzling followed by photo sending to your favorite feminist for approval. I have not worked out a marketing plan yet though. Or shopped for glitter. Work in progress.
I don’t even see why’d you need marketing for that. Now shut up and take my money!
STEVE SMITH EXPERT AT MARKETING SELF TO OTHERS. ALWAYS WILLING TO GIVE TIP AND BY TIP MEAN PART RAPE
Part?!
“Bykbansheeon December 26, 2016
Format: Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
I’m very disappointed in this. It is 180° from what I would expect from such a title. I bought it for my 12 year old goddess daughter & I to do projects from. Not really appropriate for a 12 yo…at least not in my & my best friend (goddess daughter’s mom)’s opinion. I might have pushed it for the right book as teaching her feminist ideals apply in all areas of her life is important. But ever one of the crafts in the book is more simplistic/cheesy than anything I’ve done with her in the last 4 years. Would have received more respect from me if they just went all the way & guided readers through making blood print art. The book comes across as someone just trying to come up with something to jump on the bandwagon of female crafters & makers out there to make a buck.
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Ok, that smells of parody. Or is it the blood art I smell? What rule is that again?
Oh, there is a stench. You’ll learn to love it!
Met up with my old buddy from campaign days for lunch downtown and we ended up watching the commies and the nazis yell at each other on the capitol steps. We hung out with the bums and drug dealers in the shade who had no interest in the politics and were getting a kick out of the white folk shouting at each other. The most fascinating part for us was the complete lack of advocacy going on. No free shit, no pamphlets, no campaigning. A couple of folks waiting for buses asked what was going on and an antifa girl started screaming about how they were nazis and taking over society which didn’t exactly convince the proles. All theater and personal satisfaction. Thankfully no dumpster fires and only two small exchanges that the cops broke up very quickly. One funny tidbit was a couple of the antifa signs were painted on the back of democrat yard signs. I’m sure those candidates appreciated the affiliation.
Downtown Provo, UT, eh? Fucking crazy place.
Denver. Plenty of crazy but not enough for a critical mass. Several were from out of town given they were asking for directions after things broke up.
“And I gave that lady directions even though I didn’t know the way!”
What do you have against dumpster fires?
No pictures? I would have taken some “hot or not” pics just for lulz
Nope. Despite the nice warm weather everything trended in the not direction.
Still worth a full camera album just for the lulz.
but those are the most fun
Oh, that’s rich.
Huh… 2nd try:
Oh, that’s rich.
OK, I don’t know why the link won’t post but do a search for this and marvel in the irony:
Saudi vs. Qatar: can’t they both lose?
Wow, apparently it’s a clusterfuck of more epic proportions than we already knew down there now.
Qatar better fold and quick or they just might be hosting the World Cup from a bombed out pile of rubble. The Saudis are shit and I wish we’d drop them but this would be no contest.
Too bad Trump threw in with the Saudis.
Qatar has hired John Ashcroft’s law firm now.
Peninsula vs peninsula’s peninsula. Qatar is like having a uvula on your uvula.
Qatar: the Arabian peninsula’s elongated clitorus.
Then the Qataris are in trouble. Saudis like their clitorectomies.
As long as Barça and Real both lose, too.
I went to Qatar for a few days of training once. The most important thing to know when visiting Qatar is buy booze in the airport. Especially around Ramadan.
Don’t any of you……WORK?!
At work right now. Gettin’ paid while y’all not gettin’ laid.
On the weekend?
It’s a weekend, even in Canada.
I multitask, brah
Yes. Just not tonight.
From the ‘MOAR WAR’ article:
“—“They are not fighting. They are just providing technical support,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera told a news conference in Marawi City.—”
Hmm. didn’t we start out providing ‘technical support’ (and advisors) in some other Asian shithole once upon a time? How did that turn out?
We’ve had an official mission in the Philippines for 15+ years now. It just never made the papers all that often.
Back in the 80s I heard there were American troops doing combat patrols in Philippines.
I was going to add that we’ve also had an unofficial presence in the southern islands for decades longer
They’ve had a low grade Islamic insurrectionist movement for a while now. As in a few decades.
you can go back farther if you really want
“Civilize them with a Krag”
Thinking about it, haven’t we had troops in the Philippines since the end of WWdos? Bases there?
Subic and Clarke officially closed in ’92 after Pinatubo (and other agreements). We’ve started re-using Subic in the last few years semi-officially. On the verge of standing things up similar to how we do business in Singapore I believe.
OEF-P technically ended in 2012 according to the campaign trackers I’ve seen.
Yes, but technically the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are “ended” too, so how much is that really worth?
also – *this says it wasn’t given a paper-ending until Spring 2015 – w/ the always-handy caveat, “advisors remain”
“Hmm. didn’t we start out providing ‘technical support’ (and advisors) in some other Asian shithole once upon a time? How did that turn out?”
Too soon to tell…
I just we’re everywhere doing whatever the hell we want.
“assume”
If the USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) takes a missile through the bridge that will be the height of irony.
Takes a hit to the bridge and keeps on going?
Persisted?
+, plus the rudder system is stuck to one side
hard left?
You got it
That would be the USS James Brown
I was expecting a link to Maxine Waters.
*rolls up newspaper*
I’ll just leave this here.
butt
There you go.
I am intrigued.
On the other hand, I have not yet seen a proper squat or deadlift picture or video from her yet.
On the gripping hand, maybe I haven’t gone back far enough in her instagram history. More research is required. For science or something.
The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed. Go back to Instagram.
This means nothing to me!
SFd I think
YOU TEASE
Google search on this topic is giving me a headache, so I’ll see what you glibs have to say. The question is: Did Protestants in Elizabethan England believe that ghosts were not the ghosts of actual humans, but had to be either good or evil spirits? For example, the ghost in Hamlet was trapped in a kind of purgatory (if it really is the dead king) and therefore it would’ve been a Catholic way of seeing the afterlife. Or to put it another way, did Protestants at the time believe ghosts could be humans that had died or was that only for Catholics?
I am thy father’s spirit,
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night
And for the day confined to fast in fires,
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away. But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison house,
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combinèd locks to part
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fearful porpentine.
But this eternal blazon must not be
To ears of flesh and blood.
Bingo. That’s the part I just pointed out to my co worker who is claiming that the dead king’s ghost was actually a Protestant version. I’m saying it has to be Catholic. You’re just the man, Eddie, I was hoping to get a response from.
I found this one:
Paranormal activity: Do Catholics believe in ghosts?
From John Donne, a Protestant divine preaching some years after the Elizabethan era:
“God made the first marriage, and man made the first divorce; God married the body and soul in the creation, and man divorced the body and soul by death through sin, in his fall. God doth not admit, not justify, not authorize such super-inductions upon such divorces, as some have imagined; that the soul departing from one body, should become the soul of another body, in a perpetual revolution and transmigration of souls through bodies, which hath been the giddiness of some philosophers to think; or that the body of the dead should become the body of an evil spirit, that that spirit might at his will, and to his purposes inform, and inanimate that dead body; God allows no such super-inductions, no such second marriages upon such divorces by death, no such disposition of soul or body, after their dissolution by death, but because God hath made the band of marriage indissoluble but by death, farther than man can die, this divorce cannot fall upon man; as far as man is immortal, man is a married man still, still in possession of a soul, and a body too; and man is for ever immortal in both; immortal in his soul by preservation, and immortal in his body by reparation in the resurrection.”
Was the ghost of Samuel a real ghost?
“The Church Fathers and some modern Christian writers have debated the theological issues raised by this text. The story of King Saul and the Medium of Endor would appear at first sight to affirm that it is possible for humans to summon the spirits of the dead by magic.
“In the Septuagint (2nd century BCE) the woman is described as a “ventriloquist”, possibly reflecting the consistent view of the Alexandrian translators concerning “demons… which exist not”. However Josephus (1st century) appears to find the story completely credible (Antiquities of the Jews 6,14).
“Medieval glosses to the Bible suggested that what the witch actually summoned was not the ghost of Samuel, but a demon taking his shape or an illusion crafted by the witch. Martin Luther, who believed that the dead were unconscious, read that it was “the Devil’s ghost”, whereas John Calvin read that “it was not the real Samuel, but a spectre.””
Well, I’m thinking I may have bitten off more than I can chew with the piece I submitted yesterday on Hamlet. We’ll see how it turns out if/when it pops up. Interesting topic, though.
Enjoy this short horror film
“The story of King Saul and the Medium of Endor would appear at first sight to affirm that it is possible for humans to summon the spirits of the dead by magic.”
Or to be fooled by the devil. The prophecy came true, but that could have been self-fulfilling prophecy. He kept winning with God’s help, and if God had withdrawn that, then making that prediction wouldn’t have been hard for the devil to do.
Saul kills himself after that.
It’s not like going to the witch turns out to be a good thing.
I grew up in a really fundamentalist family–and I mean fundamentalist protestant as opposed to evangelical. Baptists would point to us and say (no exaggeration) that we took the Bible too literally. Jehovah’s Witnesses used to skip our door because they were sick of arguing with us about the Bible and what it really said.
So, I have an experience that I’m not sure a lot of people can really grasp, but when I was growing up, me, my family, the people at school, and church–everyone I knew and talked to! They all believed that demons and fallen angels were just as real as the island of Hawaii. This religion also believed that the soul is not immortal–that you rot in the ground when you die and “The dead know nothing”. When you’re resurrected at the Second Coming, it’ll be like an instant.
That doesn’t mean they didn’t believe in ghosts. They just believed that ghosts were actually Satan and his fallen angels trying to trick us into believing that like God, we’re immortal. Those demons are also behind Ouiji boards, seances, new age mediation, alien abductions–you name it. Those things are all real in those people’s minds; it’s just that they aren’t what people think they are. They’re demons tricking people.
Anyway, another possibility is that Hamlet’s father’s ghost isn’t a real ghost at all. Certainly, nothing good comes from what Hamet’s father tells him. It’s a tragedy.
That’s what Nobita has to learn in every Doraemon episode: Magic tools just fuck you up in the end.
No matter how much knowledge we get, people are still stuck with the same problems.
Natural laws aren’t good enough.
We can learn to fly, extend our lives, cure disease, send live video all over the world using natural laws–but the natural laws still aren’t good enough. There’s gotta be magic!
In that way of looking at it, you can believe in God and see natural laws as his will. You can read the first two temptations of Christ in terms of getting him to use his magic superpowers to give the people what they want and protect them from harm–but he resists the temptation.
It doesn’t even change for atheists really.
Ron Bailey wants the singularity so that he can live forever. Natural laws aren’t good enough.
Progressives invent a worldwide catastrophe to justify their craving for self-sacrifice for a cause bigger than themselves. ’cause natural laws aren’t good enough.
And nobody likes uncertainty–despite the fact that it’s inescapable in the natural world. You can’t run from the problem of induction and hide in science, even! The natural world can only be properly perceived through a veil of uncertainty–and that’s just not good enough for people.
So they’ve gotta believe in the magic singularity, settled science, and that their sacrifices are both justified and effective.
There isn’t that much difference between believing that ghosts and spirits are actually just fallen angels tricking you and having faith in the natural world to tell you the honest to God truth and real science and reason. It’s believing in magic shortcuts that’s the real difference–but people gotta believe in them. They crave magic shortcuts. It’s the way our brains developed. The capacity for magical thinking (religion) and language is why or neocortexes evolved differently than our ape cousins. You can deny the existence of God and still crave those magical shortcuts.
By the way, that little speech sounds a lot like a NYT anonymous source.
Source.
That is where my co worker went full idiot on me. She’s claiming that Hamlet’s audience wouldn’t have been familiar with Catholic beliefs. That’s when I gave up.
Yeah, that’s just plain wrong. Hamlet was written only 25 years, give or take, after the reign of the very cargo Catholic queen Mary. The one that earned the moniker of bloody Mary for her notorious persecution of protestants.
Exactly the point I brought up. “What about Bloody Mary?”. My co worker just hand waved it away. She really does think all those people going to the globe were knuckle dragging fools that didn’t know even the more recent past.
Shakespeare’s father was Catholic before the reformation.
Shakespeare certainly would have known what his father believed. How can you grow up with a dad and not hear the old saw grind on about what’s really going on and why?
And pretending to be a religion you’re not and just practicing in secret is as old as the hills.
Didn’t know that about his dad. The arrogance of people today in regards to people’s knowledge in the past is disgusting. They actually think they’re enlightened because the knowledge exists today, but they don’t even understand it. I’d take Aristotle’s knowledge base over some modern Wellesley professor.
1) Shakespeare and his family are widely thought to have been secret Catholics.
2) Hamlet is taken from the story of Amleth by way of Saxo Grammaticus and the Gesta Danorum. Hamlet may have told Ophelia to get to a nunnery, but Shakespeare might have been thinking of them as pagans.
It was early in the Gesta Danorum that Amleth shows up–Amleth would not have been a Christian.
Shakespeare confused his shopping list with his play ideas. He saw “omelette and a Danish” and went from there.
Drunk Shakespeare to drunk Marlowe: Let you in on a secret. I’m Ca….
/passes out.
MARLOWE: I should see a doctor about this stabbing pain I’m having…
“William…William. I said this pain…William? Bloody sot.”
/falls down.
My Eggos came out just right.
Leggo
Voter fraud in the first paragraph.. Good job, paper of record.
It’s not “voter fraud”, Playa. It’s “ruthlessly pragmatic”. Besides, everyone knows there’s no such thing as voter fraud.
Frank Bruni wrote the 1 not-so-retarded editorial of the entire 2016 election
Basically: “Dear democrats = you can’t just scream “racist!” and accuse people of being Hitler forever. At a certain point, no one listens.”
Obviously, he was ignored.
You’re a totes raisin Hitler.
You know who else didn’t listen to warnings about Hitler?
Dahlia Lithwick, idiot.
You want to know why people despise your side? Read your fucking article you dried up cunt.
Not once do you mention that almost all of the violence is coming from the left. Then after talking about the alt-right you bring up the guy who killed two folks on a train in Portland without mentioning that he’s a Bernie supporter! A man of the left, you lying whore scum. Yet the structure of the article would lead one to think he is part of the alt-right.
You people do nothing but lie, mock, attack, and destroy the lives of the people you hate but get just a little, and it is very little, turned back against you you yell and scream and throw a fit worthy of the world’s biggest baby.
You people are pure shit with no redeeming characteristics. And if you think you can win if all-out violence becomes the norm then you’re going to be very surprised and upset….but not for long.
Guttdamn you guys need a thumbs up/down feature for the weekend! Some of this stuff is solid gold, Jerry!
You know who else took gold from the Jews?
George Soros?
I rest my case, Your Honor.