ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. IT HAS BEEN GOOD FOR ZARDOZ TO GET BACK TO THE BASICS – GRAIN DELIVERY AND GIVING THE GIFT OF THE LINK TO HIS CHOSEN ONES. ZARDOZ HAS TRIED MANY NEW CAREER PATHS – DRUG MULE, LABOR ORGANIZER, RACER, COUNTRY MUSIC….BUT THINKS PERHAPS LIFTING HIS CHOSEN ONES OUT OF BRUTALITY IS BEST.
GO FORTH AND SNARK!
- ZARDOZ NOT SURE WHAT TO THINK OF THIS – “PIZZA” “BEAR” “MONSTER”? PERHAPS THE BRUTAL WAS WARNING ABOUT ZARDOZ’S FRIEND, STEVE SMITH?
- ZARDOZ WOULD ONCE AGAIN REMIND HIS CHOSEN ONES THAT COMPASSION TO BRUTALS IS NOT FOLLOWING ZARDOZ’S COMMANDS!
- ZARDOZ WOULD COME UP WITH A BETTER METHOD OF GETTING RID OF USELESS BRUTAL POLITICIANS THAN THIS.
- FOOLS! THE GUN SHOULD BE A GIFT!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Ok. Quick technical question. Had my current laptop for nearly 5 years – hopefully upgrade soon. In the meantime, I recently got a message saying that my copy of Kaspersky (2012 I guess) will no longer be supported for updates soon – presumably definitions still covered. What’s the current assessment on best home use virus scanning software? I already have a permanent malwarebytes subscription/license.
Thanks.
There’s nothing wrong with Kaspersky, if you like them you should just get a more recent version. You should be able to carry the license over to the new laptop when you upgrade.
That’s what I figured. I just haven’t followed tech/software as much the last few years and I hate trying to dig up reviews for them – even cnet seems to be iffy on software reviews the last few years compared to a decade or so ago.
over the last 5 years i’ve tried all of the major free antivirus platforms (bitdefender, avira, AVG, avast, ad-aware, comodo, etc)
most of them had some minor detail which annoyed me (inflexible whitelisting, very resource-heavy autoscans, unwanted browser-blocking stuff, lots of upgrade nagware, unable to quickly disable it, conflicts with various audio plugin software i use).
I ended up sticking with Avast mainly because its the least annoying in terms of interfering with daily activity. it has a very intuitive interface, easy whitelisting of false-positives, and while it does bug you to upgrade every now and then, its not annoying. its basically the most functional, and least transparent AV program i’ve used.
I also used Malwarebytes to do manual scans, but i don’t think its idea as a one-size-fits all AV platform.
*most transparent
So it’s the Obama administration of AV software?
It sometimes lies to me and tells me its doing a great job, while the performance of my computer slowly grinds to a halt. then i’m delivered a graph showing all the possible things that *could have failed*, which didn’t, which therefore are a measure of its stunning success.
AVG Free.
I’m a fan of Avast!
Same here. Went to it from AVG after, IIRC, AVG 4.0 (or was it 5.0?) Anyway, the nagware went to 11 and it tried to lock down a bunch of stuff that didn’t need it. Scans also took forever compared to before. Went to Avast, and not many complaints.
I always thought Malwarebytes was what you used after you got an infection, not something you had running in the background. Though it definitely tries to be that now.
yeah, its core value-proposition is that it covers all the stuff that the AV software doesn’t stop before you run it
e.g. ever download some freeware and accidentally install some bullshit “toolbar” which requires registry hacking to remove? That’s when MWB does its thing. Often those bullshit freeware progs leave behind little bits of themselves which continue to occasionally run in the background. MWB will find and kill them.
newer versions also will have a background application which can be ‘always on’, which either can or cannot function happily alongside your existing AV program. Call it the “2 condoms” approach.
its not a full-blown AV program, but more of a browser plug-in which provides its own real-time protections from (which may or may not be something that your freeware AV program offers; or the version which it does offer is annoyingly visible, too often interrupting normal browsing activity)
I still use MWB as a monthly security scan, but skip the extra bells and whistles.
Thanks for the recommendations.
Malwarebytes saved my ass after I picked up some weird viruses/malware that Norton refused to locate – being able to do clean scans pre-boot, etc. back in 2010 and I’ve been sold since then. (that was the free version too).
I would also recommend installing Spybot Search and Destroy. And the best time to install that is on a brand new OS so you can whitelist everything.
I’ve used ESET for about 5 years. I’m happy with it.
Buy a Mac Book Pro when you upgrade. Problem solved.
I just need another computer – not a 5 lb paperweight without a drive.
I assume you’re referring to a CD/DVD drive? I don’t miss them any more.
I do plenty of work with CD/DVD still – ripping audio CDs, video clips, installations, etc.
Fair enough. I converted all my CDs long ago.
I still get new CDs that aren’t available on itunes too – losing that capability would suck.
Hm. I use a mix of Bandcamp, Soundike, and iTunes. I can think of only 1 or 2 instances where I couldn’t find what I wanted.
Mostly import CDs from Asia or Europe. Itunes is still remarkably stupid when it comes to make cross-country purchases.
Yeah, iTunes is my last resort. I don’t run across anybody not putting out digital music any more though. If it’s older stuff, I can understand.
NO….it’s on itunes…but I can’t buy off Itunes Japan, etc – without a Japanese credit card or going out of my way to buy a Japan Itunes gift card.
Yeah, I regularly have to author DVD masters. Needs muh drives.
My God, ZARDOZ, that couple is so British I lost 12 years of orthodontics work just by looking at their picture.
My thoughts when I saw it. Makes you wonder why Americans get the bad rap for poor health, when every Brit I see looks like that.
“ZARDOZ WOULD COME UP WITH A BETTER METHOD OF GETTING RID OF USELESS BRUTAL POLITICIANS THAN THIS.”
Wait, isn’t this Limeytardia we’re talking about? Don’t they already have death panels?
Yes, but those are for little people, Hyperion. This is the House of Lords we’re taking about, they’re important.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. It’s
importnathighly inbred people. In that case, I suggest universal mandatory death panels.I have a hunch they’re the last line of defense against GB going full retard. Why else get rid of so many?
We were promised beer themed links Zardoz is a false god! #Resist #Beerlinksorbooblinks
¿Porque no los dos?
“#Beerlinksorbooblinks”
Both
“some women have reported feeling tingling and/or fullness in their breasts the morning after drinking beer.”
Yeah, that’s not the beer. Whores.
For you:
Technology makes for fresher kegs
Fridges can now replace significant others
All other crimes in MA have been eradicated
Hopefully this will show up at some point, figured waiting for the moderation was better then trying to type up three different posts.
How many hours and people did it take to set up that sting? And for what?
Just send the guy a damned C&D letter already, if you can’t possible ignore him. Of course, they might have tried that at first.
“The thing I can’t get my arms around, I know when the Constitution was passed, I don’t think they could envision these types of guns.”
I know this is nit-picking, but the constitution was ratified. Stop treating it like a law similar to other laws.
Having visited Monticello a couple of times, I’m pretty sure they envisioned what these retards could never envision, more than 200 years ago.
I mean they certainly could envision freedom, and these retards can’t understand the simplest concept of freedom…
What kills me about some people who make that argument is that they’re completely clueless to the fact that private citizens in the colonial era had weaponry on par with and at times superior to the Continental Army. Private citizens even had they’re own artillery and warships for fuck’s sake.
Absolutely. Why else would the Constitution discuss letters of marque? They were the authorization for private naval vessels to operate legally. So if local citizens were better armed than the most powerful army of the day AND there was a provision for regulating private naval vessels with naval artillery I think the only thing the Founders would say about an AR-15 would be “Cool foreswith, I wanteth one. No make that two.”
I want a nuke. If some crazy Korean with a bad haircut can have one, why can’t I?
The ratifiers were familiar with the gunpowder incident.
A bit of an off topic question here… as we seem to have a fairly large contingent of financial people around. What are the general opinions of the algorithmic trading platforms that have begun to be made available?
No clue, but that’s a question for number 6. If no-one else has an answer, ask him the next time he’s around.
The keys to a successful algo platform really rely on two things.
1. Adaptability. A successful model is capable of either adapting its curve to observed phenomena. because ultimately, every instrument you track with your algo has a kind of signature. I worked with a Managed Futures firm some years ago, and they had a trend-following model (which is basically what an algo platform is) which – after 7 or 8 years was ‘well tuned’ to about 8 instruments (and poorly tuned to about 40). But each curve evolved over time. When a given instrument stopped behaving in a predictable manner, the curves were changed, effectively by hand. Nowadays, that kind of stuff is done internally by such systems.
The potential problem here is that on occasion a model breaks, and sometimes quite spectacularly. The up-side is that if you use a popular algo platform and it blows up, everyone takes a bath and that creates opportunities once you’ve changed underwear and freshened up. Once you clear those margin calls.
2. Data acquisition speed. This is the real killer. About 10 years ago, just before we were comprehensively blown up by the banks, a slew of algo trading firms started up, and spent a LOT of money on ensuring that their feeds from NASDAQ (mainly) and the NYSE had the lowest possible latency. If you have a high volume algo trading system an you get your data points 30ms ahead of the other guy, you win. If he’s also using the same trading model as you, and you’re 30ms ahead of him, you ALWAYS win – as long as you can execute your trade ahead of him.
To be blunt, if you’re on a slow-ass internet connection with a popular algo program, you’re doomed to enjoy sloppy seconds almost all the time. Your signal latency really isn’t an issue an algo platform can overcome. If you’re “close” into that data source, you have a natural advantage, if your setup can exploit it.
Lastly, more a comment on the general landscape, when you take all the noise, error bars, point-and-figure charts, stochiometry and coin-flipping out of the equation, it’s worth remembering that what moves the tickers up and down is largely investor sentiment. The algo platforms just identify the impact of Vanguard deciding that one their growth funds might possibly be over-allocated to a firm they expect to miss its earnings target by 4 cents, or even more, the momentum trade you’re offered when some blowhard on MSNBC does a lunchtime analysis of the future potential of some firm that applied for FDA approval for their new line of inflammable tampons. These generate signals and trends that won’t fit a pattern, and I’m not sure any off-the-shelf algo package will be able to do it.
People like Millenium make the money they do because their algo models are backed by, and maintained by some ridiculously clever people, with a discretionary overlay.
Not all algo platforms are the same. They’re different for a number of reasons – some deliberately aim to flatten-out short-term volatility, and I’m personally emotionally biased toward them in that success or failure is less predicated upon information speed, but in excitement terms, it’s like merger arbitrage (a dead strategy nowadays, and probably forever), vs Russian roulette.
Disclaimer: Still not a registered investment advisor, this still isn’t investment advice.
I appreciate the information, and will not take this as investment advise. I’m not looking at the high trade algorithms, I’ve got some money in one of the rebalancing ones. I dislike the fact that it’s in ETF’s only, but I’m happy with the return so far. I’m curious if the general consensus is that I should move more money into it, or just keep managing my funds myself. I do truly appreciate the full response though, which is much more then I was even expecting.
But do take his advice on porn.
Not so much investment advice, as investor psychology.
If you can’t watch your investments all the time, you should rebalance, or have something/someone rebalancing your portfolio regularly. For most people, this isn’t that much of a chore, simply an issue of organization. It’s never a bad idea to be ‘close enough’ to your investments that you have skin in the game. Just how much is dependent on your appetite for risk.
I have no idea how your whole portfolio looks, but *in general*, you’re missing out on some diversifiaction opportunities if you’re running an ETF portfolio.
Lastly, that old line about “Nobody knows if you’re swimming naked until the tide goes out”. Nobody knows what’s going to happen when the Street and Fed finally has to deal with a solid sequence of interest rate increases, or when it will happen. A slew of state bankruptcies? (I’m looking at you, Connecticut). An economist with enough balls to challenge the orthodoxy that a modest level of inflation is a public good?
When that happens, algo systems will be exposed to proper, rather than fake stress tests, so from a *personal* point of view, I always maintain enough oversight that I can use discretion as an overlay.
Whatever happened with the NH lynching story?
I don’t think I saw it.
The family put together a go find me to cover the costs of treatment and therapy and plan on leaving the state.
Something about the story sounded suspect. Apparently the boys were playing with a rope swing and the police didn’t seem to think NAZIs were to blame. Then I didn’t hear anything so I figured it must not be fitting into the correct narrative.
I’m not buying the narrative either, for the same reason. This would be on every channel 24/7 otherwise. The “national conversation about race” would be dialed from 11 to 12.
That kid could pass as Mexican or Pakistani.
Or “Balloon Boy”, even.
If any of y’all are loose leaf tea drinkers, my recommendation is adagio teas. Good tea, reasonable price, and they always toss in a ton of freebies and samples.
I’ll back that recommendation. They also will do quite a few seasonal deals where you can get sample packs or themed packs on the cheap. Their IngenuiTea is also a good tea maker on top of that.
I’m not much of a tea drinker, but the girlfriend is, as is my niece.
Their IngenuiTea is also a good tea maker on top of that.
Yep. That was the reason for my order. I had lost my old one in the move, and I finally got around to replacing it.
The only thing that would make me put away the IngenuiTea would be one of these.
They look good; thanks for the tip.
I’ve not tried adagio, but will give them a look. The IngenuiTea looks interesting as well. I’m a fan of my Bodum Assam tea pot with integral strainer, although it does lose temp quickly without a cozy or hot towel wrapped around it.
Harney and Sons are who I recommend to people for tea. https://www.harney.com/
Fantastic Early Grey and Lapsang.
Earl Grey, of course. Try their “Supreme” version.
I love their samplers. I am the only tea drinker in my house so I get a good variety and it lasts awhile.
Not vivace or prestissimo?
Maybe I’ll check them out.
My go-to brand is Elmwood Inn; you can get their stuff on Amazon. Of course, I’ve never really tried any other loose-leaf teas, so I’m no expert. But their English Breakfast, French Breakfast, and Earl Gray teas are good.
+1
I’ve got an entire shelf for tea and half of it is theirs. I make it by the pitcher since it’s good and cheap.
Aaargh! You guys are killing me! I had to give up tea because it stains my dentures and I’ve been a “tea-granny” for forty-five years.
I’ll think about for the future. I’m too lazy for that right now – just use the coffee maker to make lots of hot water and a large 24 oz mug for my teabags.
Tea is for the British and fags. But I repeat myself.
JK, not really
OT: Is the Shareaholic thing on the bottom left new? I only just noticed it today.
Yes.
I’m not familiar with that. What’s Shareaholic?
I use Monocle and just today notices a little green tab on the lower left, it opens to something called Shareaholic, and wants your username and password, I simply click off since it says nothing about having millions of dollars in escrow and needing an american to funnel the money through.
I use NoScript and I had to disable it to see what you’re talking about. I promptly re-enabled NoScript.
I don’t see anything after disabling Monocle and Stylish. Is it some donate thing?
It’s just a sliver of green in the bottom left corner
Judging by the name, I’d say it shares the article to all of your social media at once. I can’t wait for all the random professionals in my LinkedIn network to get a big dose of The Hat and The Hair.
“Content Marketing Platform & Website Traffic Tools”
Huh. Carry on, I guess. Me, what happens on Glibs, stays on Glibs.
There’s a little green line in the bottom left which, if you hover over it, pops out to reveal a logo. Clicking on that logo reveals the log in for Shareaholic. I’d guess it’s some sort of “social” media garbage where you can tell everybody on Twitter how much you like this post or something.
Nope. Been there since week 1. Various browsers treat it differently and it can be disabled, so you may not have seen it until a browser update, for example.
From the gun raffle story:
OK. I’m a Township Supervisor in the township I live in. If I am reading this retarded ordinance correctly, I could legally posses an AR-15 in Melrose Park, but the majority of the people who live their can’t.
I
^ this guy gets it
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+1
he prefers “| this guy”
I love when the NYPost gets their hooks in a juicy story, they don’t let go. Here’s this morning’s Antifa econ prof slamming Deblasio for not being cop-friendly enough (!).
Actually, my mendacious friend, it’s the same mayor who gave hefty, retroactive three-year raises to all the union scum he could lay his eyes on when he took office.
The typical commie: he’s like
“I only want them DEAD, whereas he wants to cheap out on paying the unions what they deserve!: WHO IS THE REAL MONSTER HERE??”
I think we can all agree that the cops are the real monsters.
Well, them, Deblasio, and the Profa econ professor.
To be fair, I do recall some cat-fights between Deblasio and the cops early in his administration – Deblasio would suggest being a little less trigger-happy, and the cops would respond like little bitches – turning their backs on him and shit. But that all died away years ago. Not a peep. I’m guessing that dollars have something to do with that.
I don’t think there’s a single person involved with or related to that story whom I don’t hate.
i tried watching the tucker carlson interview w the guy just now.
i lasted about 45 seconds. it was like DEFCON SMUG-LEVEL-RED
Oh lord, he got himself some airtime?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1dW5GUwuTw
he’s like 80% neck, 20% hair-swishing
“When I was younger I was a libertarian.”
LOL
“Then i grew up, and became an anarcho-communist”
I rarely hear people say that they “used to” be a libertarian, but when I do, I think they must mean they were basically a Republican who favored legal MJ and gay marriage (which is really not an accurate description of the libertarian philosophy).
I have yet to see anyone who has actually read Mises, Rothbard, Bastiat, and Hayek, apprehended and understood the contents of their works, and somehow made the switch to being a “progressive”. Maybe I’m underestimating the human capacity for stupidity and self-delusion, but I don’t see how someone could read the works of those guys but then start believing the rhetoric of Paul Krugman and other “progressive” dunderheads.
I doubt this guy was ever a Republican of any sort. I’m guessing he went around saying he was a libertarian without actually knowing what a libertarian is.
What’s funnier is how they act like it gives them some kind of moral authority over libertarians and validates their current beliefs.
Found him former member of the LP reform caucus. https://www.holisticpolitics.org/Home/About.php
“This Hegelian material dialectic shit is so off the hook and intuitive!”
Wow, that is a human cartoon character.
From the comments:
LOL
That comment made me have to take a look at the video.
It’s no exaggeration. His neck makes the Chicago Giraffes QB Glennon look normal by comparison.
If the fuzz or one of Richard Spencer’s boys ever puts him in a chokehold he’s finished.
I’m thinking of that scrub baseball method of who’s home team and you start grasping the bat from the bottom, last hand wins.
Ain’t that easy to choke out a giraffe.
He’s like a white Merton Hanks.
Ha! Forgot about ol’ Merton. The distance between his chin strap and his shoulder pads was something to behold.
Heard him on Nick Di Paolo’s show on Sirius.
What an uber-douche bag.
Carlson: ‘Are you a professor?’ Lol.
Antifa is on the defensive? GTFOH.
Yeah, it’s difficult to take your eyes off – that – and remember to express what an asshole he is.
Holy moly, Furious 7 has became reality. Did they at least get a good car chase in on the arrest?
Yeah, I’m calling bullshit on the connotation the Sun was trying to convey there.
The dude was probably on their radar long before he (allegedly) went explodey, they put out their version of an APB for him and others after the explosion, and that triggered the check at ports of entry. Like the Dover ferry.
They might want to start grabbing these guys before they blow shit up or try to. Yes, that can be abused.
Started with this. Them a Harp.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/17282/45303/
Number 3.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/19126/49646/
All 3 quite tasty
I’m drinking rye with this as a back
Smirnoff with a splash of grapefruit juice and topped with Perrier lemon, over ice.
Also putting the finishing touches on a standing rib roast, baked potatoes on the side.
That sounds so good.
The Ig Nobel prizes for 2017 were recently announced.
I was impressed by the winner in Obstetrics:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1742271×15609367
I don’t want to keep you all in suspense. It turns out that fetuses prefer to hear their music intravaginally. The researchers, subsequently, went on to develop intravaginal speakers.
In addition to keeping fetuses happy, I suspect music with a lot of bass in it probably doesn’t create entirely awful sensations for the owner of the vagina either. I imagine there might be a market for a device like that if it, say, plugs into a USB port and also runs off of iTunes. It’s not autoerotic–it’s for the baby!
Pregnant or not, though, the subject female could both hear the music through her speakers and really feel it in her . . . bones, too.
You probably don’t want to go to crazy with that when you’re pregnant, though. Just ’cause it has a lot of bass doesn’t mean it’ll make Jr. happy. Maybe stay away from Metal. No reason to blast the poor kid with rap or EDM either.
Maybe try some Ravel, say, Bolero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZDiaRZy0Ak
Bolero has a steady beat that builds and builds in intensity over the course of about 15 minutes.
. . . and then it climaxes.
Best version of Bolero, ever:
https://youtu.be/Y2hiDYE5Qdw
that better be bo derek on a horse
Even better, it was Frank!
Get me a Bluetooth speaker, a dildo, and a patent lawyer, stat!
Or duct-tape your iPhone to a Sybian.
What’s the difference between a refrigerator and a woman?
A refrigerator doesn’t fart when you pull your meat out.
I wonder if fetases/feti laugh when they hear a good wet pussy fart? I know I do.
That is probably why the “fart joke” portion of the average toddler’s brain is so well developed.
It is amazing how farts are so funny at a very young age. I need to write a grant proposal and study this.
The reaction of my toddler Grandson when I did the pull-my-finger jape was priceless. He stumbled backwards a few steps, fell on his ass and started crying. I blame his Father for not training the boy properly. Reason #516 why I hate my Son-in-Law.
“It is amazing how farts are so funny
at a very young age.”Fixed that for ya
Akira gets it.
My baby’s momma got mad custom subwoofers
I am curious about who agreed to be in this study. I bet there is quite the selection effect going on. I mean intravaginal speakers while having a sonogram?
“Trump isn’t just the first white president, as @tanehisicoates recently argued, he’s also the first male president.”
https://twitter.com/NewRepublic/status/908457900632416257
Trump is many things, but he’s not whipping his dick out randomly like a certain other ex-President.
Which one?
Jimmy Carter.
Come on now, he felt lust in his heart! That’s gotta count toward some bonafides.
Jimmy Carter wooped it out? I was thinking Bill Clinton or LBJ who liked to wag his weiner at the press corps which is hilarious in my opinion in spite of him being a total douche who probably killed Kennedy who also had no problem wooping his dick out on occasion.
No, not Jimmeh! I’d wager that he and Rose did the dirty just enough times to procreate, so once (Amy).
Johnson.
(I’m just going to leave that out in the open there)
This is an example if motte and baily tactics. If you called out SJW’s for being antagonistic behavior to men, they will say “no we’re just against ‘toxic’ masculinity” but here the clearly are using make in a derogatory manner.
“not whipping his dick out randomly like a certain other ex-President”
Except Michelle wasn’t President.
*smattering of applause*
I’ve been paying attention to the SSM debate going on in Australia right now.
Two quick observations:
1) There may be something to the argument that marriage is about procreation.
Whether the government should discriminate against people is another question entirely, but don’t we still annul marriages if the bride or groom can show that the marriage was never consummated?
2) There’s a lot of opposition centered around concerns about public accommodation, but since they don’t have the First Amendment like we do (they’re like Canada that way), there’s also a concern that people voicing opposition to gay marriage or homosexuality on the basis of their religion will become a hate crime.
Will your minister be arrested for a hate crime if he condemns gay marriage or homosexuality? Will you? There are plenty of progressives, of course, who think that would be a good thing, but for the rest of us . . .
It’s an argument you don’t hear very often about hate speech laws–that the existence of hate speech laws may make people more reluctant to extend equal protection to minorities.
“Boys have a natural advantage at physics because their ability to ‘pee’ up walls helps then understand projectile motion, academics have controversially claimed.
So-called ‘playful urination practices’ gives them a head start over girls in grasping this crucial aspect of the secondary curriculum from a young age.
By the age of 14, they will have had the ‘opportunity’ to play with projectile motion around 10,000 times – based on urinating five times a day.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4888484/Academics-say-projectile-pee-makes-boys-better-scientists.html
“Playful urination practices – from seeing how high you can pee to games such as Peeball (where men compete using their urine to destroy a ball placed in a urinal) – may give boys an advantage over girls when it comes to physics. And we believe there’s something we can do about it.”
https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/taking-pee-out-physics-how-boys-are-getting-a-leg
That’s the best part of male privilege – writing your name in the snow! Girls can try but it looks like they’re all named “O”.
What about boys that pee sitting down? Are they physics dumb?
No, just pre-castrati.
They neglect to mention that Dr. Anna Wilson also has a PhD in Nuclear Physics and that Dr. Kate Wilson has a PhD in Physics. Dr. Low seems to be some sort of atmospheric physicist.
I’m biting my tongue.
Can you not go one night without bringing up your fetishes?
“Why does the caged bird sing”?
No.
Challenging, but not impossible.
Have some thicc:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4890988/Demi-Lovato-flashes-flesh-skimpy-bikini-Selena-Gomez.html
One other observation about reading world news.
The problems of minorities do no appear to be a function of a country’s peculiar history.
The arguments made by minorities in Australia sound very much like the arguments made by minorities in America–despite the fact that Australia had no history of slavery like we did.
I’m not saying the circumstances would be exactly the same, but the rhetoric probably would–even if American had never had slavery.
Another example: If you isolated q
Damn, that wasn’t supposed to be published! I must have hit the wrong keys! Didn’t have the chance to double check it or anything . . .
: (
Anyway . . .
Another example: If you isolated quotes from Australia about aboriginals and isolated quotes from Canada about aboriginals, I bet most people couldn’t tell the difference between them. And yet the experience of Australia’s aboriginals and the experience of Canada’s aboriginals are very different. They’re even about what happened to two very different cultures.
Maybe what’s the same about them is the vulnerability of the dominant culture to certain arguments. That might be what makes our minorities sound a lot like them, too.
It’s unfortunate that when the US started getting a little more enlightened about how to treat Native Americans (after the breaking of tons of treaties, the Trail of Tears and other blights on our history), they decided carving out Reservations where Natives could live their own lifestyle and have some self-rule was the best path.
As anyone who has seen or lived near a Reservation (especially those of the Southwest, but also in the Dakotas) knows, those places are like open air prisons and there seems to be no way out for the residents. The gov’t handouts aren’t helping. I was hired by the Chickasaw Nation in high school to tutor a younger kid in hopes of boosting the NA graduation rate. He told me about how he gets hassled by his elders for betraying his culture for wanting to get a degree and become a doctor, yet he feels he also doesn’t fit into white culture. He stopped showing up after about 4 sessions.
The Native Americans who have done best are mostly those who formerly lived in the East US and assimilated more into US culture (some even ran plantations and owned slaves). They still got screwed by the Trail of Tears and such, but their descendants today live pretty successful and typical American lives.
Reservations are just slow torture.
I’ve lived on a couple of reservations during contract work and it is fucking bleak. Picture the worst stereotypes of Appalachia and add the government teat. Just awful places. Brain-bleachingly awful.
The land should be privatized.
Where I grew up that was called “acting white”.
Still is, Rhyun.
Yep, and it’s revolting.
One of the ideas I was trying to get across was that those problems don’t seem to be a function of public policy.
We did things with reservations differently than the Canadians. The Canadians did things differently than the Australians. The Australians did things differently than the Americans.
We’re even talking about cultures that had little or nothing to do with each other.
And, yet, the Aboriginals of Australia, the First Nations of Canada, and the Native Americans in the U.S. all have the same kinds of problems. The things you’re talking about that happen on U.S. reservations are the same as all those other places–that didn’t create reservations like we did.
You want to go elsewhere?
The Aboriginals of Australia have a different culture from the Maori of New Zealand. Whether you’re talking about substance abuse problems, looking down on those who pursue education as selling their own heritage short to buy into the dominant culture, low income levels, unemployment, etc.–those problems don’t seem to be a function of the specifics of uniqueness of various commonwealth country’s history, public policy, the situations those aboriginal cultures were in, or the differences in their own cultures! After all, Pacific Islander, Australian aboriginal, and Native Americans have nothing in common culturally–at least not in their indigenous culture.
They all have certain aspects of the dominant culture in common.
And they all seem to be having the same sorts of problems–to the point that you could write about the problems of one group, and they’d ring true about the others if you changed the name of the group involved.
Yes, but see, America, Canada, and Australia were all settled by white British people. And that was meant as snark at first, but perhaps, instead, it points to a common culture that responds to specific arguments/complaints in similar ways.
South Africa was colonized by the…. Dutch, I think. Did the white people of Dutch heritage respond similarly to the complaints of the native people? Not sure, just spitballing, here.
Here’s the kind of thing I’m talking about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people#Socioeconomic_challenges
Change the word from Maori to Native American, aboriginal, or Aboriginal, and we could be talking about any of the other groups.
The statistics might vary (a bit), but the song remains the same.
Blame it on reservations, slavery, etc?
Did New Zealand or Australia have those things?
Australia had some aboriginal slavery but not to the same extent as in the US.
Again, the problem with reservations is the same problem with socialism. The residents don’t actually own “their” land. The government holds it in common.
Like “public housing”.
The mob agrees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQacZB0NRw
“Oh, Lovely: The Tick That Gives People Meat Allergies Is Spreading
Yep, one bite from the lone star tick—which gets its name from the Texas-shaped splash of white on its back—is enough to reprogram your immune system to forever reject even the smallest nibble of perfectly crisped bacon.”
https://www.wired.com/story/lone-star-tick-that-gives-people-meat-allergies-may-be-spreading
I blame PETA.
If I were bitten you could superimpose my face on Scruffinherder’s avatar.
Have you ever seen a commie drink water?
You can lead a commie to water but you can’t dunk his head under until he stops struggling under penalty of law. Stupid Law.
“Scientists are racing to trace its spread, to understand if the lone star tick is expanding into new territories, or if other species of ticks are now causing the allergy.” So, the whole story has the wrong focus. As far as is known it is the allergy spreading, not the ticks. They might not even be connected.
I knew that headline was misleading right from the get-go. I’ve learned all about the misleading headline game after a lifetime of mainstream media exposure.
How do allergies “spread”? I thought they were virtually all genetic?
They spread by word of soccer-mom mouth.
https://twitter.com/blanketboat/status/909130272712675329
Sounds legit.
Stuck at home sick on a Saturday night while my husband (also sick, but less so) is playing a gig with his band.
All I have to cheer me up is a blanket, a scarf, and a 16 year old good and faithful cat at my side.
And Glibertarians with college football in the background so I don’t feel alone. Because I would hate to be drinking this Rum n Coke alone.
With the Glibs you are never truly alone. Check the closets and under the bed before you turn in.
Yikes! That thought might keep me awake.
As long as it’s not STEVE SMITH, I probably have enough alcohol and/or firepower to handle a Glibs infestation.
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I jest, I jest! This is a darn fine community as exemplified by the out-pouring of support during the recent events in Texas and Florida. A lot of stand-up people here. I can only hope that I’d react the same way if disaster struck where I live and I’m pretty sure, curmudgeon or not, that I would.
99.997% of the support was just motivated by looking to get laid.
That’s all the motivation that we need!
All I have is some ribs on the BBQ, a fridge full of pseudo-craft beers, Glibertarians, and my collection of ~100 year old records.
Drinking alone is an art that I’ve mastered over the years. That happens when you are one of the very few people who like cocktails and beer but can’t stand the typical bar environment.
Sick and drinking? I like your style.
Yeah, it helps fight the creepy skin crawly feeling I get when I have a fever.
They say Tequila has some immune boosting properties (or antibiotic or whatever–can’t remember), but I’m out of tequila so I should probably just drink twice the rum.
If you are sick and only have rum you probably should be drinking a rum toddy. Add copious rum, honey, lemon juice to a glass. Stir in boiling water and top with a dash of nutmeg and a cinnamon stick. Have two if necessary, You should be tip top by the morning.
*Lifts glass to Hayek
Prost!
G’suffa!
I had a borderline retarded German friend when I was growing up and he used to drunkenly roar “ROAST!” at bush parties. It must have Haroldese for “Prosit”.
*been*
Prost!
Skol!
Cheers!
What date is the Sept Minnesota Glibs get-together? I have some travel coming up but might be able to make it.
Haven’t nailed it down exactly yet, but the three options are Sept. 26-28
My wife took the kids to spend the day at her in-laws. A Saturday alone and I spent it studying for my biostatistics test. At least I was able to spend most of it outside while I read and cursed the calculator on my phone. Seriously, no square root function?
They’re back now. The wife fell asleep on the couch while my two hellions are currently reenacting WWF moves. I too would hate to be drinking this Bourbon n Coke alone.
On Spiked there’s ads running for a tour of a university discussion event called ‘Unsafe Space’ Brendan O’Neill’s a part of.
Another one of their members? One Robert Soave.
I know when I think of ‘risky, thought providing public forum on the nature of free speech’ I think ‘simpering, qualifying, whiny and frankly dumb milksop’. The boy seems to fail upwards.
I can’t remember a single Soave “article” I’ve read that didn’t leave me rolling my eyes and wondering why he even bothers identifying as libertarian.
Does he? I thought he just wrote for a purported libertarian magazine/website.
I’m generally forgiving on the “I don’t like this speech, but it’s your right to have it” side of things. More freedom for you than I take for myself. It’s not a bad position to be in, really.
Soave goes far, far beyond that though.
Soave’s blatant handwaving of left-wing idiocy (BASH THE FASH) while his needlepoint obsession with anyone on the right (THAT BIG MEANIE MILO!) is his absolutely worst trait.
It’s like he’s wearing the retarded cousin-brother of the Hair from “The Hat and the Hair”. He bleeds blue is what I’m saying.
OOOO. Someone make sure SF sees this! Robby’s hair infiltrates the vault, followed by to be sure statements, the hat going through withdrawls…ART!!!
The Hair does seem to possess some serious JU-JU! Wapo here I come!
Yeah, I’ve had that thought myself. Seems to be pretty frequent among the pundit/journalist class… but, you know, I expect that kind of shit from other assholes, not from supposed libertarian ideologues.
Doomco – you disappoint me. “Mystery Team” wasn’t as bad as a broken lizard flick – but it was pretty bad. Fails to make the cut!
aw, dang.
I like Super Troopers.
The second one is supposed to be coming out soon. I forget exactly when
420
Haha! Of course they’d release it 4/20. Can’t wait
That’s about the only one doe
Didn’t care for Mystery Team, but how can you not love Broken Lizard’s Club Dread?
It started out fine, then fell apart towards the end.
CD was the worst piece of crap ever. That’s what I’m comparing Mystery Team to favorably.
As a reviewer of films, I’d like to know your thoughts, because Club Dread (as a film maker) was an inspiration for me. Perhaps we simply enjoy different things, and on any other website I would then call for a law to be enacted because I think you’re wrong.
College Football spoiler..
Wow! Miss State is putting a beat down on LSU.
Hot take: Mueller just obtained a warrant that could change the entire nature of the Russia investigation
*sigh*
DENIER!!!!
Asha Rangappa?
A big fat would.
You reckon that she went to Barbizon, or sprung for Glamor Shots? Also wood.
Yeah. Dat shnozz tho.
Takes all kinds…takes all kinds.
Just to clarify, I like women with big noses. Especially Indian chicks.
Ah, I see.
The nose knows.
I’m into All Kindsa’ Girls
https://open.spotify.com/user/egould310/playlist/0wdMumpyEqSuQnGdKFbXmn?si=UxUtwAcv
She is a beautiful woman
The author of the article, Natasha Bertrand, is no slouch herself
Upon further review…no thanks
It’s amazing what the right makeup, hair, lighting, and photoshop can do
Would.
Yeah, I’m not seeing what’s wrong with that.
We all have bad days.
Plus, you can just screw with the lights off, you know.
Paper sacks are cheaper than dirt.
Yes, you’re right on both counts.
But I was too harsh on her. That pic was just such a change from the one you posted. Upon further, further review…still would
Young East Indian ladies can be among the most desirable women in the world but once they marry their kids off it’s game over, Man, game over.
That, and everything tastes like curry. I keed, I keed! She’s an attractive woman.
But, seriously, all the fake Facebook accounts are Russians? How fucking stupid so you have to be to believe that?
Saw that today. They’ve gone from ‘Russians Hacked election voting terminals!’ to ‘Russia has this thing called RT, where some things they said supported Donald Trump!’ to ‘The Russians had ads on Facebook, of undetermined content!’ Would be funny if these FB ads were for Clinton.
The mainstream media has been acting like a toddler having a tantrum in the middle of the aisle at your favourite grocery store. Since November it has been sturm und drang, screaming fits, raging, random flailing arms and legs akimbo but now it has simmered down to some spasmodic jerks, snuffles and soon the thumb-sucking foetal mode. This storm will pass but you just know that another is just over the horizon. Batten down the hatches.
Never mind that. This is the final nail in the coffin for Drumpf. They’ve proved the Russian collusion beyond any shadow of a doubt this time. He’s finished!
/”progressive”
“Until I see the footage of Bernie shooting a kneeling Drumpf in the back of the head on the White House lawn I’ll never stop resisting!” – Random Prog.
To be clear. I’m not a Trump supporter. But DAMN, these people be crazy.
I try to keep the term “hate” from infesting my vocabulary. Some of these peoples’ actions are sorely testing my limits. Red-lining, even.
So bar I’m at big on olde hickory. Had the hefeweisen, the ruby lager, and the Octoberfest. All very good.
Wut?
“So[, the] bar I’m at [currently] is big on olde hickory. …”
So far, I’m not big on Olde Hickory
All I’m getting is something about Andrew Jackson in Munich.
Apparently the bar carries microbrew from NC.
* whispers
I think he’s drunk.
Schoolmarm! Burn it! Burn it with Fiyar!
If you drink five 750 ml bottle of high end sour ales from Portland and can’t focus your eyeballs, is this the result of a progressive conspiracy?
Sound’s like a normal Saturday night. Keep a wing-man handy to periodically reset your beer goggles to an acceptable calibration and you should make it out unscathed. Hydrate when you get home and forgo coffee tomorrow morning. Gatorade is your friend, Friend.
I’d like to add to Festus’s hangover prevention advice and suggest that you eat something as well, preferably something with a lot of vitamins and minerals. In my experience, going to bed hungry is just as bad as going to bed dehydrated.
Oh yeah, nothing worse than that five AM hunger vibe. Eat something, pretty much anything (so long as it is not showing its own signs of life) and you will be golden. Brunch and shandies, anyone? Who’s up for a quick eighteen? Manage your monster and he won’t eat you.
I suggest a big glass of milk and some raw eggs and protein powder.
Not really, do not drink that with a belly full of alcohol!
For Science!
One hungover morning about 10 years ago, I made a soup that seemed to whack the hangover on the spot… It was chicken, chicken stock, tomatoes, habenero and serrano peppers, onions, corn, egg noodles, oregano, a splash of tequila, and a little squirt of lime juice. It was fucking delicious, and I felt better very quickly. To this day, I call it “hangover soup”.
The peppers and tequila were probably most of the cure. But it sounds delicious.
Hangover soup is what I void from my bowels when I’m hungover. Green, has a nasty sweet bouquet that you only get in the finer peeler bars and dive-spots along your chosen city’s skid row.
I just um, don’t get hangovers anymore. It’s really kind of simple. Pussies.
Just keep drinkin’?
As long as I sleep, I don’t get hangovers. Good strong stock. Only good genetic advantage I have. Lord knows it’s not my weight, height or hairline.
I have to get seriously loaded up to get a hangover. Respectable drinking is nothing to me. I almost never get colds or flu-bugs, either but if I do catch sick, it is with a vengeance. Doubled-over, praying to God misery.
That sounds like a body bag is in my near future.
That was me last Sunday. I took a Gravol and an Immodium and halfway through my shift my legs were numb. Cold sweat. So cold…
How much is that in moon landing units?
*One giant leap toward the porcelain altar*
750mL is a fifth.
Give me my damn liter of cola!
Kat Timpf is totally working the LBD on Gutfeld, and her shoes are fabulous.
Kat Timpf is wearing out her nerd-girl schtick. Gutfeld is a much better writer than a talk show host. The Five is pretty much unwatchable for this cat’s ass. So dumbed down, so juvenile.
Besides the glasses, she didn’t look nerdy.
I haven’t watched The Five since they moved it from 5 o’clock.
I was always more a fan of Joanne Nosuchinsky.
I think I might crawl across a ballpark covered with broken glass, just to sniff her microphone.
“… just to sniff her microphone.”
Careful, bra, this a family friendly site.
“was”.
On the issue of the House of Lords, the real problem goes back to 1997 when Blair pretty-much abolished the hereditary peerages which were typically filled with small-c conservatives, and whose tenure would typically be about 30 years, and then replaced when they died off by their eldest sons. The life peerages have been politically driven ever since their introduction, but ‘diluted’ with the hereditary peers, the House of Lords represented an effective speed-bump in the passing of controversial legislation, and arguably benefitted both sides of the aisle.
After 1997, the proportion of nakedly political life peers exploded and the HoL’s head-count almost doubled, so that a party with a couple of terms’ governance could pack the HoL with partisans that would represent a true poison pill in the process of legislation once that party was out of power. Hence, the longstanding value of the Upper House was eliminated, and to be sure, could be considered to be simply a pointless expense at this stage.
But the pomp, #6, the pomp!
Fuck the Pomp, I want Circumstances, damn your eyes!
The Texas/USC game is getting good. Finally.
17-14 (Texas) with 30 seconds remaining and USC scrambling to get to field goal position.
Texas vs USC (2005) made so many NFL GMs make mistakes.
Tonight’s USC kicker missed his only previous FG at 46 yrds, so they got him really close (15 yrd line or so?) and he made it.
Headed for overtime.
Glad you found something to enjoy during your illness.
Young’s knee was down.
I had to google it and found this summary. Quite the rosters, but yeah, didn’t quite live up to expectations.
Tonight Leinart is on commentary at the game.
Yeah, many were drafted high, none became NFL stars. Vince Young had like 6 good games, Reggie Bush had one kind of good season, then an ok one, then went to Detroit.
OT!
alright!
When I saw that Trump was sticking with the Iran nukes deal, I was a bit disappointed–but I understood. The reason that was such a bad deal was because we had Iran on the ropes back then. Their inflation rate was approaching Weimer Republic era extremes, they had burned through all their foreign reserves, and the U.N. had sanctions imposed against them that even Russia had blessed (by abstention). None of that pressure is in place anymore. There’s no reason to think they would agree to never have the ability to enrich their own uranium without that pressure, and there’s no reason to think Russia or the EU would sign on to pressure them like that again.
I don’t like it, but I understand.
Now that Trump has, apparently, decided not to withdraw from the Paris Climate accords after all, I’m more than disappointed. I’m seriously pissed.
I don’t think Trump would give that leverage away for free with congress. He may have cut a deal with congressional Democrats on tax reform in exchange for this.
To some extent, Trump has been chased into the Democrats’ arms. If he can’t win reelection without legislating and if he can’t legislate with the Republicans, then it’s no wonder he’s turning to the Democrats.
But this sucks. This really, really sucks.
I was afraid of this tendency of his. If he can’t win the hardball game he’s apt to go down the block and be a superstar in the whiffleball league. He doesn’t care about anything but “winning”, even if it means tricking his Granddaughter in a vigorous match of “Got Your Nose!”. Donald would be a superstar athlete in the Special Olympics and would feel no shame about being first among Unitards (Shout out to HM, that was masterful).
“Trump Administration Seeks to Avoid Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord, International Climate Officials Say”
White House spokeswoman says ‘no change’ in U.S. position on deal
NEW YORK—Trump administration officials said Saturday the U.S. wouldn’t pull out of the Paris Agreement, offering to re-engage in the international deal to fight climate change, according to multiple officials at a global warming summit.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-wont-withdraw-from-paris-climate-deal-1505593922
That byline is weird. It makes it sound like the spokeswoman at the White House is denying the story.
I want our brash, boorish President back. The one that slaps his wife’s high, fine ass on the way to Air Force One! I don’t care for the pod person that is trying to fill his clownishly large suit. I don’t rely on Manna from Heaven but I do expect a Donald that kicks ass and takes names, not this watered-down bullshit peddler. Love me! Love Meeeeeee! They hate you, Donald and the more that you Chamberlain, the more they will demand and hate and demand some more.
Yup, Trump is starting to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, back when he was gov. Started out good, but quickly turned to crap. Hope it doesn’t turn out that way, but we’ll see.
We can only hope that he’s playing the long game.
Which of you was this?
Secret Hitler board game an unlikely hit for Chicago game-makers
I think around here (according to how we’re perceived) the game would be ‘You’re Not Hitler!’ or to be more truthful ‘You Know Who Else?’
I dunno… those dudes look kinda , sorta (((themy))).
random thought
“You can’t say that!”
“You hurt my feelings!”
“I’m offended!”
“How dare you!”
“Totally inappropriate!”
If I could write “I don’t care” on every atom in the universe, it would not even begin to describe my indifference to the above expressions.
So much of life revolves around routine acts of minor dishonesty. How many people ask “how are you?” sincerely?
“How are you?”
“Well, I’ve been contemplating suicide.”
“Your change is $3.50. Have a nice day.”
And there it is. A never-ending maze of lying and ass-kissing, smiling when you don’t mean it, pretending to follow rules which everyone ignores, all day every day until you’re dead. Honesty? What the fuck is that?
Gather round, everyone. We’re going to point at a deer and call it horse. Someone’s feelings might get hurt if we don’t. Why hello, Emperor. What lovely new clothes you have.
Old story: Obama apologizes for making fun of art history majors
https://hyperallergic.com/106217/obama-loves-art-history-but-thinks-its-economically-useless/
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Speaking on the floor of a General Electric plant just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, today, President Obama made some remarks on the state of education and employment in the US, bringing up art history degrees in the process. Politico reports:
“A lot of young people no longer see the trades and skilled manufacturing as a viable career, but I promise you, folks can make a lot more potentially with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree,” Obama said.
“Nothing wrong with art history degree,” [sic] he added. “I love art history. I don’t want to get a bunch of emails from everybody. I’m just saying, you can make a really good living and have a great career without getting a four-year college education, as long as you get the skills and training that you need.”
Some people, chief among them the College Art Association, have taken offense at the comments. “Humanities graduates play leading roles in corporations,” they argue. So. If you’re an art history major leading a corporation, here you go. If you’re stuck in the education bubble, here you go. Let us know what happens.
UPDATE: President Obama has written an apology to University of Texas in Austin art historian Ann Collins Johns explaining his comments.
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[head desk]
related story
KY Gov suggests cutting degrees like interpretive dance
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9784
For those of you overcome with the desire to eat a fresh turd with a knife and fork, feel free to read this French literature professor’s defense of why his field of study should be subsidized:
http://www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-ed/article56915288.html
Holy Fuck, Derp! That was masterful!
I cribbed a line from a famous sci-fi story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream
The “point at a deer, call it a horse” thing comes from a Chinese expression. A powerful and cruel warlord wished to test the loyalty of his courtiers. He summoned them and brought forth a deer. He pointed at the deer and called it a horse and then asked each of the courtiers what animal they thought it was. The ones who said it was a horse were put to death. In modern Chinese, the expression means bending to the will of a powerful person instead of doing the right thing.
Let the wookiee win.
Moochelle 2020!
I read that story when I was a youngling.
the actual quote
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“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.”
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Yeah, that’s the spirit!
My hope for the youth is restored. My opinion of public school teachers…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBLCr0DW7ME
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Recently the videos on this channel were demonetized because YouTube doesn’t like me making fun of feminists and social justice warriors.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W1N_iq7YTg
cue Hallelujah chorus
I have to hit the hay soon but it’s been a pleasure bantering with you! I’m batching it for the next week because wifey fucked off with her horsey friends to ride horses, howl at the crescent moon, call up the Elder Ones, dance around bonfires, sacrifice goatlings and ride horses. Obviously I have no interest in any of that so I’ll keep the home fires burning, make sure that all of our pets are fed and maintained and wish for the day that I get to have an actual vacation. Five years. I just take the pay out every May. Fucking pathetic.
Trump critiques the Death Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadmeQK_Z0U
How did I not see this before?
“Sir, Lord Vader was in charge of marketing.”
I larfed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deIC2w3KHnk
Thanks for sharing.
This is possibly another piece of evidence that likability is a crucial part of winning presidential elections, regardless of policies etc.
B Clinton seemed more likeable than George HW Bush
B Clinton seemed more likeable than Bob Dole
George W Bush seemed more likeable than Al Gore by a long way
George W Bush was certainly more likeable than Lurch
Obama came across as more likeable than McCain (and than HRC in the primaries)
Obama seemed more likeable than the “uptight” Romney
Trump, despite his crudeness, is far, far more likeable than HRC
Trump could have run that youtube vid as a campaign ad and it probably would have helped him, even though it’s a joke and has no bearing on politics.
Well he did win on every conceivable metric and is the sitting President. I feel a need to hold every popular votist down and shove a copy of the constitution up their ass and give them the Big Brother face-farting of a life time. So tired of the whinge.
So if the L Party wants to actually win, they need to run Mike Rowe or Drew Carey. More likeable than them does not exist.