Happy Wednesday everyone. I’ve got a kid home sick and I’m even less productive than usual. In Sportzball, the Astros-Rangers series is being held in my neighborhood. The Astros may have been a little distracted last night, losing 12-2. Hoping to take the wife and kids (he’s not THAT sick) to the game tonight. Tickets are only $10 and the Rays are donating all tickets, concessions, and parking to Houston relief efforts — so good on ’em. For my own sake, I hope the Astros never get to repay the favor. The NFL version of the Dallas-Houston rivalry, scheduled for tomorrow, has been cancelled. Which, preseason game, so whatever. And now… the links!
One can only imagine how badly the internal polling is going for Antifa when Nancy Pelosi and the mayor of Berkeley have started talking about violent gangs on both sides. Or maybe they’re just dogwhistling to all those Democrats in the Klan. I can’t keep up with the narrative. (Acknowledgements to beloved commenter Chipwooder, who I see had this same thought at 9am this morning. I’m still not taking this down.)
Wow, you’ll all be shocked to find out that Bill Nye is pitching what appears to be a huge solar scam. To be generous, I assume he is just the first sucker and not actively participating in creating a corporate structure no one should ever put money into unless they’re in a Brewster’s Millions type scenario.
And Pope Jimbo, I gotta know, what the hell is an “ax-like tool“?
Someone’s not getting shit for his 12th birthday.
It’s weird how the GDP revisions go in one direction for Democratic presidents and the other for Republicans. Not to worry, though, there’s gonna be lots of broken windows to fix in the Houston area for the next year.
A little cheer-me-up for your Wednesday.
Looks like old Nancy is on her way out.
White Squaw will soon lead the charge of Bernie bros to get her scalp.
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die”
“With a hiditihi, with a hipitiho
Who needs to think when your feet just go?
Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon, Bohannon”
THIS IS MY BOOM STICK
A stick? Looks like a gun to me. Glass/acrylic this sucka.
There’s no need to embarrass yourself.
I know where it’s from…just like you shoulda known what glass meant hoser.
Me: “Wow, that wedding went off without a hitch. Easy as pie”
4 days later: Mother-in-law divorces father-in-law, wife an absolute wreck
I feel like this needs more explanation.
I got married Saturday and nothing went wrong, everyone was happy, no drama to be seen. And today my mother-in-law informed her husband and my wife that she was filing for divorce. My wife is now upset.
Wedding stress or the depression of seeing another happy couple?
I’m guessing the decision was made before the wedding, and they postponed announcing it to avoid shitting all over the wedding.
Yeah, but man, maybe give it few more days.
It appears to be something that had been brewing a while. She had the decency to not do it immediately before the wedding, but apparently not enough to at least wait an entire week.
When she’s ready, try out the “Hey! But two Christmases. That’s a lot of presents!”
Inner DOOM: stop laughing.
I will inevitably say this when I think she’s ready, but it will be before she’s ready. *steps on rake*
Congratulations, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
It’s funny because I’m not sure what you’re congratulating.
It’s 50:50, really.
My mother-in-law stopped talking to us because it hurts to see what a real marriage looks like.
She’s on husband #5 and counting.
Giving storms ‘names’ makes for stupid headlines.
i’m not even going to pick one. they’re all stupid.
Here, have this: they’re trying to find a way to combine “storm, bad!” with “trump bad!”. this is the best they could come up with today
people who live in storm-prone areas have no incentive to fix shit properly themselves, you see.
groan.
I CANT HELP IT
*belly laugh*
Thanks for that
Sounds like the Obama approach would be . . . hospitable to graft and overruns, no?
Feature, not bug
There has to be more to this story that I will not fault you for not telling people on the internet. Sorry, man.
Thank you.
From what I have been able to glean, it’s nothing horrific like infidelity or abuse. Mundane financial issues that have been snowballing for 30 years is the culprit.
While I can sympathize with that, again, maybe hold off a few more days
Same thing happened at my wife’s nephew’s wedding. Parents held it together and no one was the wiser through the wedding, then right after they announced the divorce.
I got married Saturday and nothing went wrong
Well, since we’re all friends here, we’ll just ignore the fact that you got married and agree that nothing went wrong.
Yeah, what part did you play in the break-up, hmmm?
/Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, knowhutamean!
My niece got married on the 19th, and everything went great except….
The husband is supposed to be a grad student at Texas A&M this fall. I have no idea where they ended up after getting back from the honeymoon (or even where they were supposed to fly back into).
The airports reopened today.
The wedding was in Massachusetts, since that’s where they both went to HS and college. Niece has been working in Dallas for a year, but any wedding gifts were supposed to be sent to my other sister (the one who’s not the mother of the bride) just outside of Dallas. The couple flew out of Providence for the honeymoon.
The bride’s father took an executive position he couldn’t refuse in Minnesota about a year ago, and he and my sister finally sold the house in MA with the transfer being just after the wedding. So the night before the wedding there were a whole bunch of bridesmaids getting ready in an otherwise empty house.
Get to the part about the pillow fight.
*starts paying attention*
So the night before the wedding there were a whole bunch of bridesmaids getting ready in an otherwise empty house.
See, that’s how you euphemism.
I think the rest of my family would be horrified by the raunchiness of Glibertarians.
Congratulations on the nuptials!
In all sincerity, I hope you are as happy in your marriage as OMWC and I (inexplicably and against all odds) are in ours.
Thanks!
She didn’t tell you about her having me served today.
I assume you mean served a hot delicious meal, homemade with love and care
I misread that as “serviced.” “Man,” I thought to myself, “what a lucky guy that OMWC is!”
The fact that Yakub is running this suggests that there’s some kind of tricknology involved.
Bill Nye is getting really mad at you deniers now. How much of that 3 million does he get?
The whole thing is very sketchy. I don’t care enough to read the circular, but it’s sketchy.
Sketchy is a nice way of describing it.
*standing O*
I keep reading that as “Raytheon”.
Same here, which somehow makes the whole thing seem even more scammy.
Adze?
Oh f*** you.
Shut up unless I adze you a question.
RACIST!!!!!!
Don’t mattock to me like that you tool.
Ima make you my hoe.
Pipe down, this is getting too McCloud.
That’s an Irish slur ain’t it?
*drops gloves and takes ol’ drunken Irish fighting stance for 3 seconds then falls*
Chief!
Just write it out man.
RBS is right on the fucking money.
We have a
Family friendly certification to uphold.
Hoedad?
I assumed it was one of those tools who wears axe body spray.
Probably a mattock.
The ice axe is another classic for that particular application.
what the hell is an “ax-like tool“?
STEVE SMITH DEMONSTRATE! WITH RAPE!
Is Steve Smith a tool-user?
I’m guessing Steve’s tool has seen a lot of use.
Chopping wood.
Should I have used DOOMCOCK instead? I was under impression that thing was not as simple to describe as “axe-like”…
No, that thing’s the Swiss Army knife of death cock technology.
It even has cup-holders.
Adjustable A-DD size?
The Rapesquatch toolkit you mean?
Clearly, he was old school when it came to tools.
I have one Juan so there. You had to google it.
It was a teachable moment! Don’t you know it’s your intentions that count, shitlord?
Best intentions got me kicked out of college. I intended on studying for finals instead of drinking, smoking, partying & chasing the college girls.
Shitlord!? Now you’re going to get our family friendly certificate revoked. Asshole!
*Starts chanting “This is my safe space” over and over again as the walls close in.*
*throws Juan a puppy*
*puppy lands on concrete and breaks neck*
*throw coloring books*
“use this for the mess”
What the fuck is going on here?
The beginnings of very expensive litigation.
Holy shit
Things that need to be refrigerated to stay below T[sub]boom[/sub] are not being refrigerated. Appears to be a crapshoot whether they will get the refrigerators turned on before self-ignition begins
They should at least sell tickets to the event to offset some of the costs.
I’m going to guess that if you’re close enough to see it, you’re in the potential debris field. They evacuated a 1.5 mile radius.
Well, the H2 and the O2 will just combine and form water, which is perfectly harmless, right? Unless they have too much oxygen, in which case they’ll get hydrogen peroxide.
Organic peroxides vary in toxicity, but are almost uniformly explosive and highly reactive.
What’s a little picric acid between friends?
The article says the diesel generators are flooded. If the diesels were running when they went under, repairing them will be a night mare. Not to mention the stators on the generators will burn up if they were energized when the water got to them. Those generators are probably totally shot.
Ice. Lots of ice. Clear out ALL the Bucc-ee’s
So is the rain getting to your corner of Arkansas yet?
not yet. It’s just been cloudy and surprisingly temperate. I hear tomorrow we are going to get some rain, but I don’t think it’s going to be much.
ax-like tool?
Botched circumcision?
+1 David Reimer
It will ALWAYS be too soon for David Reimer jokes. There are no winners there.
And the two that inflicted the most trauma had both taken the Hippocratic oath.
“A Oregon mom was arrested for driving under the influence last week after her 11-year-old son called 911 from inside the car, police said”
Oh damn. I don’t spank my kids very often, but that deserves an ass whipping.
“THE SNITCH IS INSIDE THE CAR!!!”
You know who else encouraged kids to report their parents?
The D.A.R.E. program?
I believe they offered rewards.
The Inner Party?
The Grammaton Clerics?
Equilibrium is an underrated flick.
^^^^THIS MAN IS FEELING^^^^
By “underrated” you mean “cinematic abortion that couldn’t even be made vaguely watchable with the combined powers of Sean Bean and Christian Bale?”
No. Not what I was saying.
DIE DIE DIE
I always like how the last two guys were just standing there. Big ol gunfight. No biggie.
RAINN?
Pol Pot?
My cousin did that once. She really wanted to go to the mall. She’s now in her 30s and rides her bike everywhere.
Jay Thomas and the lone ranger story. I love it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PxGJxjOmfg
I listened to his show on Sirius from time to time. Too bad about his passing.
Thanks everyone for your participation on my post-retard pieces. C. 600 comments. I’m humbled.
/pulls down pants doing nothing.
Pulling your pants down for all the groupies?
Yeah, but we mostly weren’t talking about your article.
NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS
Funny story: Some of us went out for drinks with Shackford a while back, and he was telling us how annoying it was to get back from lunch to see 500 comments on his article, only to find out that it was John arguing with everyone.
LOL.
DON’T YOU THINK I KNOW THAT?
I’m the kid with no friends but still likes it when they came to his house because he had a swimming pool.
Yeah, the pool was great and all, but do you have any Sunkist or just this purple stuff?
Ted S. will be along shortly to tell you that it’s Sunny D.
Sunkist > Sunny D
Tang >> Sunkist
Partial credit.
Fanta > Sunkist > Sunny D > Orangina
Faygo FTW.
Whoop Whoop.
http://imgur.com/AF2rRRY
Full credit:
Jenkim>Fanta > Sunkist > Sunny D > Orangina
Faygo is actually a boutique soda here because it’s hard to find. 2 bucks per 12oz bottle.
Clearly you’re all idiots. It goes
purple stuff > sunkist > sunny d > fanta
You assholes better be pulling my leg. The proper order is Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew, Mountain Dew!
Mountain Dew isn’t part of this.
It stands on its own.
You should try HOT TANG. And no, it’s not a euphemism, although it probably already is.
Heat up Tang and it’s like some really hyper-orange tea beverage.
When I was young all I would drink was milk. (Well, water, too.)
I want Sunny D!!!!!!
Ice rink?
Jesus, I leave to go running and come back to… an orange discussion?
Just when I thought….
Don’t you work?
They like that article I spent days research….. FUCK!
I wonder how he feels now?
OK, that’s it, no more comments on Rufus’s articles until he agrees to keep his pants on.
feels good man
They interviewed a guy on local news about this. Vomited half a dozen times a day for SEVEN MONTHS before he finally figured out it was his constant pot smoking that caused it.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/cyclic-vomiting-syndrome/538398/
What a great way to lose weight.
Not to mention damage your esophagus and tooth enamel.
Playboy did a piece on Bill Nye. Something about him being a defender of rational thinking.
When Nye is your spokesperson for reason, the end is neigh!
Oh I’m sure he fits right in at Reason.
*rimshot*
Is it rational thinking when you deliberately conflate orbital mechanics with climate change “science”?
Or glass with acrylic?
Yes, one of us did conflate those things.
Says the guy with Manhattan in his name.
Rob Stein has an ear-melting voice made for print
Not only does he have an intemse lisp, you can hear the saliva slapping around inside his floppy maw as he gyrates his jowels to utter a broadcast script.
*jowles
*jowls
/spelling Nazi
Ja Voll
/Nazi
(((Ls)))
/UberNazi
*hat tippe*
Dear god he sounds like Neil from Family Guy.
Yeah, he sounds like somebody lodged a vaginal sponge in his nasal cavity.
So, is there a code for that?
8=====D (i)
*opens ICD-10 Book*
I was hoping there was one specifically for a contraceptive lodged in a nasal cavity.
I’m still looking….only one I can find is IUD specific.
Nope. Nothing. Closest I can find that is remotely billable is the one above and this:
and now the QM Nurse behind me wants to know why I’m looking up contraceptive devices…
Ask if she’s interested.
She’s almost 60–but attractive for her age.
You mean, an ICWYDT-10 code?
I am stealing that.
The article was about declining sperm counts among Western men…
It’s NPR, so I’m legitimately surprised that they didn’t shoehorn a Trump reference in there like “One possibility is that the toxic environment of racial hatred incited by President Donald Trump is causing stress and depression, which in turn affect sperm counts.”
At some point, as Antifa increases its stupidity, the DNC will have to distance itself and the media will have to report them for what they are.
The Washington Post is basically the mouthpiece of the Left and they wrote this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/yes-antifa-is-the-moral-equivalent-of-neo-nazis/2017/08/30/9a13b2f6-8d00-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?utm_term=.5cf3bd300ed8
Comparing antifa to fascists? I thought that was false equivalency?
Gotta check the byline, though. Thiessen is one of their house Republicans.
D’oh
All is right in the universe then.
Mother Jones is still happy to defend them.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/08/what-the-media-got-wrong-about-last-weekends-protests-in-berkeley/
The far left are not going to like that. They need antifa.
Members of my family just a couple of weeks ago were giving me a ton of shit about defending Trump’s Charlottesville statements, saying that “Nobody’s heard of Antifa before, you were the first one in the house to ever bring it up. You may have liked what Trump did, but you are not the majority of people!” A few weeks later, they agreed with me. Amazing what time can do to prove my point.
Yeah, but the thing is, not only do most American not like antifa, they aren’t exactly likeable, they don’t like the statue removal either. So your family members were misinformed from the start.
One of the Republican columnists said the other week, imagine what McCaskill must be thinking. She barely survived some guy they painted as a fundy woman hater last time. Now she’s going to have to survive attack ads of her standing next to Bernie Sanders, and clips of antifa attacks. And there are six or eight Senate seats that are all about like that.
One difference between last year and this year is that left wing violence from Antifa and other groups wasn’t relevant until after Trump was elected. It was mostly contained to a few BernieBros causing a few, isolated fights at Trump rallies. I bet you that post-Antifa, Trump would be a landslide popular vote winner if the election was held next year, and would pick up NH, NV, CO, VA, ME, and MN at least.
It will be interesting to see how this affects the primaries. The main argument I hear against choosing non-establishment repubs is that they’ll lose against the Dem in the general. I think it’s more case sensitive and can’t be generalized, but this argument should be be nullified regardless if the Dem opponent can be painted as being in bed with antifa.
Like someone already said in an earlier thread, if the GOP had any sense at all, they’d be going all out in tying antifa to the Democrats.
Exactly, and instead those dumbasses are publicly backing Antifa!
I know there’s the joke about repubs being the Stupid party, but surely this takes it to the next level.
*I realize that could be taken either way. I was referring to the establishment Repubs publicly backing Antifa.
The nu-Right and Trump wings are not the Stupid Party (most of the time: I think they learned their lesson from Todd Akin). The GOPe is painfully, nearly irredeemably stupid, and it drags everybody down.
I think it’s a terrible argument post-Trump. Those old milquetoast GOPe voters are going to be far more comfortable with picking non-traditional candidates if the economy remains strong and he doesn’t have any major screw-ups. Look at Scott Walker in WI: he’s never had great approval ratings, but he has a hardcore base who always turn out to vote and gives other GOPers in the state coattails. I think it’s because he’s a conviction politician who stood up to the unions. Wouldn’t be surprised if Trump has the same impact next year if he keeps standing up to the establishment uniparty class.
Scott Walker also benefited from having truly horrible people as his opposition.
When you are working your ass off and the teacher’s union is rioting because they might have to pay copays, you start to side with Walker just because.
Now she’s going to have to survive attack ads of her standing next to Bernie Sanders, and clips of antifa attacks.
Assumes Republican competence not in evidence.
I think the old Tea Party wings are slowly learning from Trump about how to win on an anti-establishment platform. I don’t expect many Akin-sized gaffes next year from those folks anymore.
The problem with the GOP is the Ryan and McCain type. They’re only there to play in the good old boys club. They don’t have a principle to them. I’m surprised that McCain is not a Democrat already. He probably would be if they’d stop losing. Trump really has shown the cowards the way to win, but they can’t get their balls re-attached apparently, or they’ve been in a jar for so long they can’t be re-attached.
Given McCain’s health, he’ll have the reasoning capacity of a Donkey very soon.
He probably won’t finish his current term.
Heck, they don’t even need to do that; the elephants just need to play the video of that Mizzou professor (Click?) saying “we need some muscle over here” on a loop (with occasional video of BLM burning down St. Louis added in for variety).
This made me laugh today.
It’s like watching a train wreck of stupid.
“Hot Nuts!”
Tell me he said that.(I’m at work can’t listen to audio.)
yes.
Yesssssss!!!
Are peanuts racist too, now?
Only Nazis sell peanuts.
“This lady is cowbelling me really hard!”
That was his best line
I liked “My grandfather fought the Nazis with hot delicious snacks.”
And the Juggalos were the nicest people there.
They were. He did sell to that MAGA couple, they didn’t seem mean.
My god those people are fucking pathetic. Say what you will about the original Bolsheviks, they were some serious motherfuckers.
People could be allergic and so he was initiating violence
Ha. I always thought the best defense to the stupidity of cowbells and little air horns would be a red wagon with as many scuba tanks you could make a rack for, a regulator of some sort and an array of giant fuck off air horns meant for tug boats. That shit would knock you over.
“beloved commenter Chipwooder”…..can that become my new screen name? I’m emotionally needy and require affirmation frequently, y’see.
Shut the fuck up, Tulpa!
no one cares.
You’ve come to the right place if you’re needy!
*steps back twenty paces and reaches for popcorn*
STEVE SMITH HAVE NEEDS, TOO!
Oh, we have plenty of negative attention.
Yep.
A one-time break from the consequence free world of academia.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/08/29/university-fires-professor-for-tweeting-that-hurricane-kinda-feels-like-instant-karma-for-texas/?utm_term=.1b7497bdb78c
This is what the left are. It’s nice they’re putting it on display for everyone. The guy sounds like some radical Imam in Pakistan cheering because some natural disaster hit America. What a sick fuck.
Watched a bit of MSLSD while at lunch. Saw this:
***
Without an actual journalist even saying a word, MSNBC on Wednesday slimed Donald Trump as uncaring. Apparently, it’s inappropriate for the President to have the federal government do more than one thing at a time. During Trump’s speech on plans for simplifying and cutting taxes, MSNBC ran this nasty graphic: “Trump Calls for Simplifying Tax Code as Texas Floods.”
Got it? The President wants to cut taxes as Americans drown. If that wasn’t obvious enough, the network graphic changed a few minute later to this: “Trump Talks Taxes as Gulf Death Toll Climbs to 19.”
***
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2017/08/30/smear-job-msnbc-slimes-trump-talks-taxes-gulf-death-toll-climbs
“President Trump drowns puppies in Houston flood waters while outlining plan to make taxes for the top 1% negative by stealing the meagre property of the other 99%”
“And I’m gonna drown 5 more Texans every day until I get a tax bill on my desk that I’m willing to sign, so get moving f*ckers.”
Well, I mean he already caused the hurricane by pulling out of the Paris climate accord. And now he wants to cut taxes, which will cause 2x as many hurricanes, a scientific fact!
PS: “MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!11!!1!!
Rand keeps giving me more reasons to like him.
http://nypost.com/2017/08/28/no-the-feds-shouldnt-give-war-machines-to-the-police/
I SAW HIM FIRST.
Q, you are responsible for FLBPs, I’ve got the Rand beat.
Sheesh.
OK, fine.
*kicks pebble*
Them girls are fine.
*looks at 8 again*
May I suggest a side order of 11?
I’m feeling Poppy #20 too.
I shout his name in the bedroom sometimes. My wife is really starting to get creeped out.
Rand!
Dude is solid.
HA!
Late by 60 seconds.
Properly formatted with a quote, however.
Just sayin’.
Yes?
Hope you are having a great day, man.
Likewise
PAULISTA CULTIST!!!
*snicker*
PREEMPTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST AGGRESSION!!!
Bunch of Paulistas.
+1 Goober
To be fair, every solar project is a scam.
“It’s not a scam if you still get rich off of government money”
– Elon Musk
“That guy smells funny”
-Amber Heard
New from Axe, Elon’s Musk!
Huh. Her then-boyfriend introduced her to philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand, of whom she said, “I’ve read all of her books. Ever since then, I have been obsessed with her ideals. All I’ve ever needed is myself”.
*swoons*
UN gets in on action:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-un-rights-idUSKCN1BA1B6
don’t recall if they had comments on the threatening of James Rosen w/ jail, or the wiretapping of AP, or yadda yadda yadda
So brave.
Fuck the UN. They have no power. Kick then out of the USA and turn the building into a casino and bar.
Trump Casino and Bar. Mother of God that’s a good idea.
Trump tower is literally across the street from the UN.
Are you sure? The last time I saw the Trump tower, it was on Fifth Avenue. Has it recently moved to First Avenue?
Different building
http://streeteasy.com/building/trump-world-tower
Wow, this Trump guy has lots of buildings named after him in NYC.
Wow.
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20170830/downtown/chicago-teacher-gun-sales-ammunition-charges-brent-turpin
Today I learned that there’s at least one Chicago Public School employee who understands capitalism.
Well you can’t expect a guy to live on a measly $78K a year alone. That’s starvation wage.
Hero
10 years in jail for selling ammo? Sheeeeeeeeeeeezus.
Can the FBI not afford a decent camera?
2mp is the standard. This is the government we’re speaking of. I don’t even think Nasa has a 4mp camera yet.
NASA has inter-planetary bandwidth problems. What’s the FBI’s excuse?
Limited bandwidth, extreme changes in momentum, extreme temperatures, lethal radiation, …
Honestly, it’s a wonder the cameras we’ve sent to Mars even work.
Winston Smith at it again.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2017/08/30/l-a-city-council-votes-to-rename-columbus-day/
And, for maximum gag-inducing smug wokenosity, they went with “Indigenous People’s Day.”
Retch.
Well, I’M indigenous!
That’s speciesist! Some of those People might have identified as animals!
Indigenous Otherkin/Human/Organocarbon Lifeform Day.
Much better.
So, how many Clovis people are living in Los Angeles now?
So, black lives matter 28x as much as indigenous peoples’ lives? Is that what we’re supposed to take away from this?
Time to change the name of the ‘District of Columbia’, because we’re a stupid country now
“District of Indigenous Peoples” – goes by DIP.
I’m in.
district of indigenous people’s
still happen in time
Random question:
When’s the swag gonna show up?
Stand downstream of Houston and wait. Shouldn’t take long.
Current timeline.
But seriously, it’s on the list!
If there isn’t a shirt with STEVE SMITH raping a minority while shoving an elderly lady in a wheelchair over a cliff into ZARDOZ’s gaping maw emblazed on the back I’m going to be very upset.
STEVE SMITH NOT SHOVE LADY OFF CLIFF! THAT WASTE OF PERFECTLY GOOD RAPE!
One place I worked, whenever someone asked a ‘yes or no’ question, we’d always respond with “yesh.”
I just remembered I owe scruffy a reasonably priced item of Glib swag for hatting my avatar, is all. No pressure.
“No pressure.”
I understand all the swag is being designed by SugarFree. Some of it is very elaborate, and there are issues with insufficient spoilage during shipping.
I thought he was having a hard time sourcing the right thickness onionskin paper for crafting the nethers of his life-sized Hillary Clinton sex dolls.
Yes, yes, the thorns kept tearing the paper.
That time a bunch of hippies tried to build a utopia in India
Trouble in Utopia
India’s Auroville was envisioned as an international community free of government, money, religion, and strife. It hasn’t exactly worked out quite as planned.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/roads/2015/07/auroville_india_s_famed_utopian_community_struggles_with_crime_and_corruption.html
***
I would quickly discover that for an anarchical township, Auroville’s bureaucracy rivals that of India itself. Aside from the fact that you had to take your shoes off before entering, Town Hall seemed no different from any other government building anywhere in the world: A swath of administration desks lined the rooms in what felt like a slow-paced newsroom as long lines of customers waited to be called on. Everyone seemed to be wearing the same get me out of here expression.
…
Auroville was officially founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa, a French woman known locally as “the Mother.” Her photo is plastered on nearly every wall inside nearly every home, building, and public space.
…
The Mother turned Aurobindo’s ideas into an international project to “realize human unity and establish an ideal society.” On Feb. 28, 1968, more than 5,000 people from 124 countries flocked to what, at the time, was a desolate red desert and a dream. They carried flags and soil from their home countries. The Mother declared Auroville would create “a new consciousness.”
She decided who could join by looking them in the eye; many recount meeting her as being a surreal and deeply spiritual experience. If she approved—often in the form of a single rose or nod of the head—the newly ordained Aurovilian was instructed to “go plant a tree.” In a few years, the forest formed.
…
Another woman I met from America told me that she’d moved to Auroville because everything in the States “just feels really fake.” She was on the waiting list to become an Aurovilian, a two-year process that requires applicants to prove they are self-sustainable and dedicated to the cause. Applicants are not allowed to leave Auroville for two years and must work for free as a contribution to the township. After two years they face the Entry Services, a small group that reviews applications and ultimately decides who can become an Aurovilian. An Aurovilian from Germany who worked for Entry Services told me her primary job was to weed out what she called “the cuckoos.” I didn’t ask what that meant.
…
Still, most Aurovilians aren’t interested in the question of who controls the funds. After all, Auroville isn’t supposed to have currency—a principle the township is still trying to enforce.
When I arrived I was forced to buy (with cash) an Aurocard, and told to use it in shops and restaurants around the township. It was a bit like a meal card in college: If I lost it, I would have to pay a $10 fine (in cash). But the idea hadn’t quite caught on. The first shop where I tried my Aurocard asked for cash instead. As did the second. When the third asked for cash, I asked why the Aurocard existed. The shopkeeper shrugged uninterestedly.
Most Aurovilians I met didn’t seem bothered by money. They were artists, spiritual dreamers, eco-farmers, and creative adventurers. They moved into a world that allowed them to forget the real one.
***
Libertopia?
Reminds me of this passage from Good Omens:
Obviously State Utopia, not real marxism.
I think there was an article on The Old Site about that before it sadly succumbed to TDS. If that’s the same city, then about 75% of their funding is from the Indian government, and a great deal of the remainder is from private donations. In other words, they haven’t discovered the secret to “living without money”; they’re just mooching off of already impoverished taxpayers and gullible donors.
Aren’t they appropriating culture?
So they built the DMV and called it Anarchy? Wh… whatever man.
Ok, that was weird. I liked this part.
Wokest Shit You’ll Read All Day
You gilmore’ed link.
Or . . . not.
Fuck yeah, bruh.
*fist bump*
Unintentionally hilarious x10.
…. i’m having a bad day
here
Oh, I dunno. I can think of a few uses for the wypipo in the pic.
I stopped there. If he loves the movie so much he would know that when Sgt. Rawlins was promoted they explained that no officer’s commissions were allowed to be offered to blacks. They promoted him to Sgt. because the rank of Sgt. is a non-commissioned officer–a technicality Col. Shaw was able to get away with.
Sgt. Rawlins was not a Sgt. Major. That was the angry white guy training them a the beginning of the movie, with a bunch more stripes.
THE NARRATIVE IS EVERYTHING! MUST PROTECT THE NARRATIVE!
This semi sentient bag of shit is openly attacking ‘Glory’, one of the most pro black movies ever made. I can’t wait to see the review for ‘Amistad’.
I would give anything to see the faces of the author and commenters in that article when they die and are sent to racist hell where they belong.*
*Assuming there is a just and loving god… which means never.
Crikey. Who the fuck are those loons?
Don’t Be Evil.
her mouth keeps moving and sounds come out but all i hear is “Math is Hard!”
Hipsters hardest hit
Fleccas asks kids why they miss Obama.
Jesus. That’s pathetic and hilarious at the same time.
“Fuck Trump. Gonna get high.”
I connected with him the most.
“Congress would not work with him”
“He lost Congress”
People really do memory hole the fact that the 110th and 111th Congresses were D majorities.
“I wasn’t keeping track of how many bombs he was dropping” hurr durrr derpity durrr.
Why the fuck can’t the guy be honest and say he’s black and I voted for him and it makes me feel all smug and righteous?
NPRavda: What Can India Teach Us About Abolishing High-Value Currency?
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/09/513736356/what-can-india-tell-us-about-the-worth-of-abolishing-high-value-banknotes
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When India abolished its highest-value rupee notes last November, it sought to rein in hoarders of big bills who evade tax. However, the move sucked so much cash out of circulation that it destroyed the wages of millions of Indians who earn in cash, and deprived millions more of access to their money.
If it seems radical, it turns out a lot of countries have considered scrapping big bills.
Benjamin Franklin, the Founding Father who extolled the virtues of paper money, graces the $100 bill, which Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff says ought to be retired.
But instead, he says the $100 bill has been growing as a proportion of all U.S. currency in circulation.
…
Rogoff is the author of The Curse of Cash, which makes the case for eliminating high-value currencies, including the $100 bill. A former chief economist for the International Monetary Fund, Rogoff says in the United States, more than 80 percent of the value of U.S. currency is in $100 notes, which “amounts to $3,400 for every man, woman, and child.”
But if, according to surveys, the average American reports holding no more than $50 to $60 in their purses or pockets at any one time, where are all those $100 bills?
“We don’t know,” Rogoff says. “But in every major criminal and tax evasion enterprise, cash plays a big role somewhere down the line simply because it’s so liquid, government sanctions it and you can use it anywhere. But there isn’t really a centralized database. Most of it’s unaccounted for.”
…
Rogoff says eliminating high-value currency alone won’t end crime, but it could disrupt the business model of the “bad guys.” He says that in the U.S. it could also increase tax compliance among ordinary citizens. The small businessperson who earns income in cash and doesn’t report it to the IRS represents about half the losses the government incurs thru tax evasion. Pushing money to off-shore accounts, barter exchanges and corporate shells also contribute to lost tax revenues.
Rogoff says getting rid of the $100 bill would help reduce the $500 billion that tax evasion costs the U.S. government each year.
In addition, with cash transactions dwindling in advanced economies — in the U.S., less than 10 percent of all transactions are conducted in cash — scrapping big bills results in no real hardship.
***
[head desk]
Proof that these people have no fucking clue what the word ‘money’ means even at a basic level.
Fuck that guy. Cash is king.
OH. MY. GOD. This guy is a total moron. Even aside from his economic stupidity, it’s this part: “We don’t know where the bills are.”
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK IS IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANKS, YOU UTTER IDIOT??
*deep breath*
if you get a chance to visit one, it’s very cool. It’s also WHERE THE MONEY IS. The one in Los Angeles holds, at any given time, something like a billion dollars in 100$ bills. Maybe more, I can’t remember exactly the number quoted to us, but it was A LOT. There are large pallets full of nothing but wrapped bills.
And yes, criminals and terrorists also traffic in Franklin notes, this is known. But jfc, to pretend that if people don’t have them in their pockets, they’re not *necessary* or useful? Besides, his reasoning is why they spiked the $1000 note and I didn’t really notice any reduction in criminals being unable to pay for stuff.
Rogoff says getting rid of the $100 bill would help reduce the $500 billion that tax evasion costs the U.S. government each year.
You know, he might be right. If you eliminate people’s income, then they’re not evading the tax anymore!
That is pretty funny that that ejit thinks that the $100 bill is “high value currency”. It buys fuck all these days. Bring back the $500 and $1000.
Anyone in the LA glib contingent care to provide any restaurant recommendations, specifically in the areas around LAX and Marina Beach? I’ll be out there this weekend for 72 hours of swing dancing. I’m partial to Mexican but am open to most anything.
Sure. Jump on the 10 east, drive for about 6 hours, and get a hotel in Phoenix.
You’re welcome.
Phoenix came to visit Us this week
You really would have been better off not telling this to anyone
I’ve made a huge mistake?
(Yeah. I realize I’ve left myself open to a roasting. Oh well. It’s not like I’ve admitted to being Tulpa or anything like that.)
It’s not like I’ve admitted to being Tulpa or anything like that.
That’s just what Tulpa would stay!
Casablanca and La Cabaña are solid options a bit further north in Venice on Lincoln. They’re kitty-corner to each other. El Tarasco is simple but effective Mexican and there’s one in El Segundo just south of the airport.
Thanks jesse.
Marina Del Rey isn’t really my strong suit, but if you like New American/gastropub style food The Tripel in Playa Del Rey is a great option, Firestone Walker has a tap room just north of MDR and Culver has Public School 310 and Father’s Office (among other things). Sugarfish is a highly rated (and a bit pricey) sushi place in MDR; the food was tasty, but not cheap.
We’ve had at least one H&R meetup at The Purple Orchid in El Segundo if you need tiki drinks and people watching.
Not sure if you’re going to see this, but thanks again, jesse. We’re going to be mostly confined to the banquet halls of our hotel nearby LAX, but we’ll have two four-hour stretches where we’d like to sit on a beach and maybe have a cocktail or two. What you’ve listed along with a few spots I’ve found — ASAP Phorage for one — gives us plenty.
If the beach you choose is the one in Playa Del Rey grab ice cream on the way down at Playa Provisions. They make their own stuff and usually have interesting and tasty flavors.
Taco Bell.
Del Taco.
The cartoonists comment makes me think “when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/30/yes-must-talk-politicos-awful-smug-insult-texans-faith/
Also, Twitter is a magical retard identifier.
Red flagged!
A real feel good story from North Dakota.
A guy loses a fancy fishing rod months ago, the while trolling in the same spot, he hooks it.
* You have to love NoDak wives. His wife bought him a $250 reel for his b-day.
Flyfishing with Pater Dean a few years ago, we had some bad tippet and lost some flies before we figured it out. Were back at the same spot the next day, and almost immediately caught a fish with one of our flies still stuck in his mouth.
I’m thinking fish aren’t really very smart.
One of the ranch hands (straight out of cowboy central casting) was talking to somebody new to the ranch, who asked him “Where’s the best place for us to fish here.” The ranch hand pondered for a moment and said in a perfect deadpan “Well, fish are attracted to water. I’d try there.”
Tell me he wasn’t pointing to a puddle in the parking lot.
When I was 15 I lost my favorite lure, came back and caught it the next day, I suck at fishing
This list of rules for a utopian community looks like a high school project:
http://puritytheutopiansociety.weebly.com/list-of-rules.html
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Everyone will contribute the same amount of effort in the society regardless of their job.
There shall be no crime or violence in the society.
Everyone will be treated equally regardless of race or religion.
There will be no firearms or explosives permitted in the society. Only small arms for defense against wildlife and wildlife only.
You must have permission from a member of high authority to have a child.
The community makes decisions as a whole there is no dictator or one individual who holds all the power.
Every family will have their own residence, resource permitting.
Must attend at least town meeting once a week.
Kids must attend school Monday through Friday for a regular school year. School is not mandatory five days a week if additional labor is needed or family is struggling.
Sunday is a day of relaxation and rest, work is not permitted unless in dire situations.
***
Why is it that when you ask people to describe the ideal society, it always sounds worse than what we have already?
Abortions for some! Miniature American flags for others!
“Yep, that should do the trick!”
/author of that website as he nods in satisfaction with a smug look on his face
If I contribute nothing, and you contribute nothing….
Rules 5 and 6 are a touch contradictory, yes?
For pointing that out, you are heretofore not allowed to have children.
I’m pretty sure it is a high school project, or one person with multiple personalities.
Look at this town meeting “thread”.
http://puritytheutopiansociety.weebly.com/transcript.html#/20111130/childcare-and-education-1060409/
Its wonderful how many of those are self-contradictory:
No firearms . . . only small arms . . .
No dictator . . . permission from a member of high authority . . .
“There shall be no crime or violence in the society.”
Well, there’s a lofty goal. Where are they going to find all of these perfect people? Or maybe it’s only going to be like 4 people or something.
“You must have permission from a member of high authority to have a child.
The community makes decisions as a whole there is no dictator or one individual who holds all the power.”
Someone has a serious case of cognitive dissonance.
MC 55-Million-Year-Old-Species Spits Mad Fire in His New Video, “You’re In My Pond, You’re In My World”
Well, I’d post a pic of the axe-like tool that gave my wife that nasty axe wound between her legs, but it would be NSFW.
Booooo
Confession:
I’ve never been a particular fan of Mike Patton (*this will upset some, as his fans are always rabid-fans); I liked 1/2 of Mr Bungle output, Faith No More was ‘meh’, and his other newer projects have been hit/miss. (*tho his recent thing singing italian love songs? is a blast)
That said… I somehow ended up watching an interview with him (the one where he’s eating a sandwich), and now have watched like 100 “Interviews with Mike Patton” on Youtube and am completely in man-crush-love with the guy. Its not that he’s brilliant, but he’s so incredibly candid and honest and confident that everything he says is bloody hilarious and ends up making the interviews look stupid, usually because they are asking very stupid questions that they don’t want real answers to anyway. He basically doesn’t give a fuck. He reminds me of what was good about Generation X’s collective attitude.
*completely irrelevant side note:
I recently found the Faith No More CD i bought in 1990. It was in perfect condition. Because i think i listened to it twice.
‘..ends up making the interviews look stupid, usually because they are asking very stupid questions that they don’t want real answers to anyway.’
They want it all but they can’t have it.
I’ll have to check that out. The best interview ever given were the two guys who spread the Mooninite signs around Boston.
Oh man. That was funny shit.
The rich sea of derp yields its bounty once more.
Trump’s Media Pals Are Busy Creating a Left-Wing ‘Threat’ to Balance Out the Awful Racist Right-Wing Hordes That Threaten Civil Society
We have to be vigilant about the coming smear project against Antifa.
By Thom Hartmann / AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/activism/trumps-media-pals-are-busy-creating-left-wing-threat-balance-out-awful-racist-right-wing
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“You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,” Hitler proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out German Parliament building, surrounded by national media.
“This fire,” he said, his voice trembling with emotion, “is the beginning.” He used the occasion—”a sign from God,” he called it—to declare an “all-out war on terrorism” and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion.
***
[head desk]
I keep forgetting i was banned by Alternet. I can’t even remember why. I remember why i got banned from Raw Story. Maybe they share ban-lists.
What got you get banned from those places?
oopsy- I wrote it one way and then rephrased it- scratch the get
I was banned from Raw Story by asking a question in the comments of an Amanda Marcotte rant where she was accusing all critics of the current ‘campus rape’ (invented crisis) of being “Rape Deniers”.
The question i asked was about how dumbing-down definitions of “Rape” (which the CDC famously did in their 2012 ‘sexual violence’ study, helping to reinforce the ‘1-in-5’ claims) had an actual effect of reducing resources devoted to *actual* rape victims. e.g. If you’re spending 1m a year to combat ‘rape’, and 80% of that funding is being spent on inappropriate-1st-date-titty-touching? You’re not helping, basically.
I didn’t even get into any tit-for-tat debate. I just asked a question which no one had any good answer for, so i got banned. Alternet, i have no idea why. Just pre-emptive-ban.
I also discovered a few months ago that I was shadow-banned by the WaPo. I make a comment, and its visible to me if i’m logged in, but if i log out, they vanish. Now they don’t even post in the first place. Which is weird because i had basically stopped commenting anyway. And, like the above example, nothing i ever said was ‘confrontational’ or vulgar or anything. Given the high-level of retarded shrieking vituperation on their site, you’d think i was the voice of calm and reason. Which makes me now suspect that they LIKE that, and would prefer to have commenters screaming invective at each other rather than have sober, sane dialogue.
*interesting footnote:
The NYT for a very long time had a very shitty commenting system (*and still do in some ways), and tended to filter out almost everything except their own cherry-picked content (which they then masked by picking ‘the best’ from that already filtered commentary, making it seem like the ‘unpicked’ stuff was actually unmoderated)…. but about a year or so ago, in the midst of the election, they made an announcement via their Omsbudsman/Public Editor that they were changing their policy, and not limiting comments the way they had in the past. I guess it was mostly a cost-reduction effort, since they also fired lots of editorial staff a few months later.
tho they do still screen them (there’s always a delay of a an hour or so before your comments post), they actually publish almost everything now. I’ve posted little mini rants kicking Krugman in the balls over some small point, and they publish them.
I think they must have looked at their web stats and realized that ‘commenter engagement’ actually improves site traffic.
You’re even worse than we thought, rape denier.
I don’t really care whether this person is real, or is a sockpuppet made by alt-righty types, but i sort of love it. They should be encouraged.
Reading the comments on Alternet? Even I don’t do that.
Seriously. I’ve read comments on Gawker/Deadspin. I’ve read comments on Slate and Salon.
I’m not reading comments on Alternet. Nope.
I read the comments on DU, it’s nearly total retardation. There are a few slightly reasonable and sane ones who get attacked by the rest of the angry mouth breathing mob.
“Hey! Hey mister, you dropped your mask!”
Is this supposed to be about Nazi Germany or the United States post-9/11?
(just saying…)
So, does the transcript of that speech actually say anything remotely like declare an “all-out war on terrorism” and its ideological sponsors, .
Not a Hitler or Nazi expert, either, but was their gripe with the Jews really that they were sponsoring terrorism and found motivation for their evil deeds in their religion?
I think the Jews were accused of perpetrating or facilitating a few acts of terrorism, but by and large, it was more about painting them as an obscenely wealthy elite who used capitalism as a tool to fuck the working people out of the wages and benefits that they deserve.
The Krupps are Jews? Bayer, Siemens? they all got the picking of jewish businesses when the true owners either bailed out or were “held for crimes”
eeeeh, sort of. It was more that he basically took this social-darwinian view of races, and believed that Jews were purposely, conspiratorially undermining the strength of the German state in order to maximize their own relative advantage. Their gain was Germany’s loss in his Zero-Sum racial-view. Ergo, lots of rich-jews meant fewer rich-Germans.
He basically combined nationalism with racism and argued that non-ethnically-german people couldn’t be loyal to a truly German state. People seem to forget that he didn’t *just* murder jews, he murdered lots of Roma (gypsies), Slavs, gays, and assorted other classes of people considered outside normal german society.
I think this is the transcript.
Its long, so I scanned it quickly, and saw nothing like what was claimed. To the extent a target is named, its Communists. It also wasn’t given in front of the Reichstag, but was the speech announcing the enabling act that put the Nazis in control. I found none of the quoted material in it.
This account of Hitler’s reaction to the fire is inconsistent, to say the least with Thom’s account. It does have the “sign from God” quote in it, but Hitler is squarely blaming the Communists, not some middle eastern religious ideology.
Pretty sure ol’ Thom is just lying out his ass.
read The Rise and fall of the Third Reich by Wm. Shirer, you will know
When my friends ask how I know so much Derp, I tell them of your Heroic adventures, they ask if I’m serious,
Hail Derpetoligist!
I can’t encourage this enough. Keep going antifa, every “Nazi” you punch is 100 more votes in a swing state for Trump.
“the Awful Racist Right-Wing Hordes”
Hmm. I made some jokes on TOS about how shreek and Tony are having to hide from those guys. And here they turned out to be real. I shouldn’t have done that.
And now Trump has invented antifa. He really is an evil genius.
Jerry Springer considering run to succeed John Kasich as Ohio governor
I mean, why not?
He used to be the mayor of Cincinnati IIRC.
He was mayor of Cincinnati ages ago.
He’s going to turn all of Ohio into one giant episode of Jerry Springer. Shouldn’t be that much work really.
I mean, besides cameras….
I put in a solid 40-60 minutes worth of work today. I think I deserve a little me time.
Go on. You’ve earned it.
+ 1 Office Space
I didn’t put in any work today.
It’s all just me time, baby.
But did you get paid for it?
Checkmate.
I get paid for it when my wife gets home, winkwinknudgenudgeknowwhatImean?
I can beat that. A Dr called looking for my boss. I answered an email. Total work done: 6 minutes.
I should note, my work is cyclical and I normally have nothing at the end of the month. I’ll be busier next week.
I heard about this, Lileks lost his Puppy, and found her remains 3 weeks later, and She looks like the 2 Bellas that live with us Glibs,
I shed a tear, or twenty
https://ricochet.com/452097/about-a-dog/