The several thousand people who showed up to watch the Rams-49ers, and the hundreds that watched from home got a treat last night as the boys from Los Angeles won 41-39. In an odd twist, both teams were also eliminated from the playoffs without another squad taking the field. In college, USF beat Temple like a rented mule.
In baseball news, The Cubs came from behind to beat the Brewers for the second night in a row and all but lock down the NL Central. Fortunately for Milwaukee, the Rockies are doing everything they can to help them in the wild card race as they dropped another one to the Padres. The Cardinals topped the BIG RED MACHINE to gain ground. The Dodgers won. As did the Nats The Nats didn’t. On the junior circuit, The Indians topped the Angels and the Twinks got a much-needed win to stretch the lead to 2.5 games…although that lead is now over the Angels and the Rangers, who doubled up the Mariners. Hey, the Orioles won a game! KC topped Team Canada. And lastly, the White Sox beat my Astros, who have long since clinched their playoff spot and home field in the Divisional Series.
So that’s sports. And here’s other things in…the links!
Sorry, Limeys. Big Brother says no.
Uber is stripped of its license to operate in London over safety fears. Over 40,000 drivers for the service are now losing their income and the millions of passengers a week they carry will have to resort to something else to get them around (like a drunk Wayne Rooney, perhaps). Also, no word whether every Muslim in town with a license will have their cars taken away.
President Trump’s racist travel ban temporary travel restrictions from a few countries other Presidents have restricted travel from is set to expire Sunday. And people are scrambling to figure out what’s going to happen.
Well, um, what the hell did you expect to happen? Is it A: a money grab from the state to help shore up a little of its pension crisis? or B: a simple way to beef up the surveillance state? Or there’s always C: a big bunch of free money to a company connected to a few high-ups in the IDOT? (Feel free to answer D: all of the above. Its probably right.)
Never in the same room. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
I’m Mister Snow Miser, I’m Mister Snow. Say goodbye to Summer. Because I’m starting to blow. (With apologies to John Kerry.)
Did you know they had Comicon’s in Africa? Dis wat dem dey look like in Lagos.
Holy shit, did Maria ever do a number on Puerto Rico. Looks worse than after Hugo.
Its the last day of this theme. And the name of this song seems appropriate.
Hope its been a decent week. And I hope its a better weekend.
That pic… *shudders*
It’s getting hot in here / so take off all your clothes
That’s not something to see first thing in the morning.
He’s the Filipino Chuck Schumer.
OK, who the hell hacked my computer camera?
Dammit, heads are gonna roll.
🙂
Somehow, the fact that I cant see his nipples makes it better.
70) One thing in the never-ending white privilege discussion that gets me is this one—“even if your ancestors weren’t slave-holders, you still benefit from slavery, because slavery supported the whole system that created modern America.”
But…but… you benefit from that too! Or do you, the one making this argument, not also live in America? Even a person from the poorest income quintile in the United States has as much wealth as all but the wealthiest in any African country. Maybe it wasn’t fair, but insofar as slavery helped build modern America, that’s something that everybody in the country benefits from.
We would’ve had much more economic growth if we hadn’t had slavery. Or are those people saying that slaves are more productive than non slaves?
This right here is what I always think of when I read that argument. If anyone ever uses it in person I am totally going to raise this issue, as it is the uncomfortable implication of their assumptions.
Slavery also build Mauritania … oh wait
—“even if your ancestors weren’t slave-holders, you still benefit from slavery, because slavery supported the whole system that created modern America.”
Even if you did. I had slave holding ancestors, but then I also had ancestors who were in Scotland, and others who had left the US only to come back under the domain after the Mexican American war. No one has one single lineage, and I don’t see how you can quantify it. The left sees no interest in this other than shallowly claiming it.
Another point. If there was so much benefit to slavery, then where would the wealthy be from. Wouldn’t the south be known for its wealth? But it’s got some of the poorest areas in the country.
No one has one single lineage
Inbreeders?
+1 Spanish Habsburg
+1 Cleopatra
She’s actually a surprising exception to the common mal-effects of inbreeding: only two great-great-great-great-grandparents, yet still ended up intelligent and attractive.
Her attractiveness is a bit up for debate. If you look at the coins of Cleopartra produced while she was alive, she was the perfect candidate for a nose-job. And most of the contemporary accounts about Cleopatra were that she was actually rather plain looking, but she was as sharp as a tack.
Now who among us hasn’t added a couple of points on the hotness scale just because our partner ‘got us’. I know I dated a 6, but I thought she was a 9, but that only became obvious after we broke up. No reason to think the Caesar’s were any more clearheaded.
Good point. And her extravagant theatrics probably added some points based on the “exotic” factor as well. And Caesar and Antony probably added points based on the power/domination factor too. Makes me wonder what the reality was. She very well could have been 4 (beauty) + 3 (gets me) + 2 (exotic) + 1 (powerful lady) = 10 in the eyes of her suitors.
A woman of comparitive leisure who could spend a lot of time on cosmetic therapies, compared with your average (or even exceptional) Egyptian commoner whose life consisted of activities which certainly wouldn’t have been conducive to good complexion, hygiene and health.
Ones whose image and reputation could be curated in a manner in which no patrician Roman woman’s could, in a location free from slurs upon ones own reputation.
Yes, some strange with a rich Egyptian bint would have been exciting, and liberating. Even if she did have a passing resemblance to some of those greek house-servants back at the villa at Ostia.
Your pale pasty skin is the only lineage that matters to these people.
Proper response to the white privilege argle bargle: “No. I am not giving you any money. Get a job.”
Exactly. Don’t even dignify it by acknowledging it as an argument. It’s preposterous, postmodernist blackmail used by people who want something for nothing.
These people refuse to realize that everyone has ancestors who were oppressed, and everyone has ancestors who were oppressors. When people are given power, they use it; it’s human nature.
In other words, Mr. White Privilege whiner can fuck off.
That entire argument is nothing but an attempt to rationalize collectivism. And it’s largely an incredibly inaccurate one. Slavery did not uniformly benefit even farmers in the South. Small, independent landowners, for just one example, were hurt by slavery in that it magnified economies to scale for their competitors.
With these people it is always a roundabout way to appeal to collectivism. Everything in history was bad and the only chance to fix it or get justice is collectivism, with top down rule from top men. It’s nothing more than the same old KGB propaganda from the 50s and 60s wrapped in a clean burrito covering because the old one had been leaking the shit that was in that sammich.
Fuck them.
just what I need, more carbs with my murderous ideology.
poetic
I thought it was the industrial north that made America an economic mega-power.
I would like to see actual empirical evidence and studies demonstrating what the economic output of the south courtesy of slavery was.
It did create scores of cottage industries that never seem to die even after slavery ended.
Honestly, if it was the cause of barbecue, it might have been worth it.
I’m only half-joking. I would trade ten years of life expectancy to have really good barbecue whenever I want it.
Not entirely related, but I get spare-changed all the time when I am at work, walking to the courthouse from my office. There’s a regular group of dudes who do this. I routinely say “I can’t help you.” That’s because I won’t really, and I’m too nice to say what I really think. But the other day, I saw another random female pedestrian tell this fairly aggressive homeless dude “NO! I work hard for my money, and I’m not going to give it to you!” So I thought, right on, lady, tell it like it is.
If only more women did this. I’ve seen these guys ignore men and zero in on me because they think I’m a soft touch. Little do they know… a common ploy here in the city is “I need money for my fare home.” One guy turned on the beggar and loudly, slowly, patiently told him he needs to plan to have enough money for a return journey before he sets out. It was hilarious.
Lol! Love it. I think I’ll just try “No,” from now on, and try not to apologize.
My go-to is “I don’t have any money for you, sorry.” It has the benefit of being technically true. I don’t have any money to give strangers in the street asking for cash, and I’m sorry they’re at a point in their lives that they’re begging from passers-by.
I’ve been known to hit them up for cash first.
Dude, this asshole down the street just conned me out of my last ten and I need bus fare home.
You sound like a Catholic. NTTIAWTT. Technical truth! Sin of omission 🙂
I like to try to give people a way to save face if they’re savvy enough to pick up on the subtext. Plus, I was raised by southerners so I have an almost physical reaction to being impolite.
Or the thousand-yard stare
I can do that – I have driven off sales people with it before.
I actually had a guy try the “I need bus fare to get back home” on me …. while talking on his cell phone.
I ran into it from someone at a rest stop on a limited-access toll road. He wasn’t asking for gas money (which would have been plausible, as there was a gas station there) but fare – which would not be usable from that location.
I had a guy in a wheelchair tell me he needed $5.00 for bus fare home. I told him straight up to fuck-off. First off, bus fare is only $2.25 at most (ruch hour rate) and second, cripples ride for $0.75.
There was a dude panhandling near Menards one Saturday. Immediately behind him was a huge “NOW HIRING ALL POSITIONS” sign.
He was not grateful for my calling his attention to it.
I rarely give out change to beggars myself but I once drove up to a red light and a guy was jumping around and holding a sign that read ‘bet you can’t me with a dollar’. So I crumpled up a buck and he darted around to avoid it as I threw it at him.
At least he was creative.
*bet you can’t hit me*
Goddammit.
I live and work in SF, Bum Paradise, USA. I have enough bum stories to fill a book. One of my favorites was walking down Haight Street a while back and one was sparechanging outside a pizza joint with a sign saying, “Hungry, need your help.”. Someone exiting saw it and offered him the pizza slice they had in a to-go box. “No, I’m getting enough money together for a hamburger,” was the reply.
At Purdue, there was a famous beggar named State Street Steve. He would try to shake down the co-eds for money. He was well known for becoming irate when offered pizza or other food.
I appreciate the guys who have entire, actually-hilarious comedy routines planned out, or who will sing for you, often gobsmackingly well—although it’s awkward if I’m just trying to get somewhere and don’t want to interact with anyone. That’s pretty much the only time I’ll part with cash—because people asking for cash almost never really need it. Buying food or giving cigarettes is a different story. (Yeah, I’m a monster, giving poor people cigarettes when they ask for one. Basically Hitler.)
The only time I gave a beggar money was the one honest one I ran into. He said, “Man, it’s been a long day. I need money for beer.” I rewarded him for his honesty. The guys who ask for gas money I’ve a few times just said, “I can give you a ride.” or the guy who said he needed to get his pregnant wife to hospital, but he didn’t have any gas, I offered to call an ambulance. They just walk on looking for another target then.
Sounds a rage:
Join The New Republic and experience Cuba through the lens of politics, culture, and society in an all-inclusive tour.
Didn’t they do the same thing with USSR back in the day?
I don’t know if TNR did a trip to the Soviet Union, but P. J. O’Rourke wrote about a trip to the Soviet Union he took with the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. If I remember correctly, he was amused that the American Commies on the trip took their own toilet paper with them.
I have your Romanian beer article queued up. At some point I’ll read it. I skimmed part of it and it looks good.
That piece of his is absolutely fantastic, as are many of his others. Unfortunately, he caught TDS and his excuses for Hillary about her “being corrupt within normal parameters” or whatever the fuck he said were nauseating. What a pity.
I thought you were talking about Pie and that 2nd sentence confused me greatly.
Lee Harvey Oswald upvoted that experience.
That should be rich. Enjoy having no air-conditioning, no potable water, a daily bowl of gruel and return with no money, a case of the drizzling shits and a fiery burning itch on your junk.
Sounds great.
My understanding is that once the country opened for American tourists there was an initial rush but that dropped off very quickly. Once they saw what an absolute shithole the place is pinkos started planning vacations in other places.
That’s not quite true. I went to Cuba twice almost 20 years ago and the Euro-touristy areas were quite nice then. No reason to think they wouldn’t still be.
I would not leave the areas that are based solely on European tourism though. Not on your life.
European AND Canadian.
Once you leave those resorts and venture off into real Cuba it’s like two different countries.
People who go to Cuba and say it’s beautiful from their resorts are a disgrace.
Same for DR or Jamaica though, right? You dont leave the resorts?
And the Bahamas. First time I’d ever been to a third world country, and I realized it as we were driving to the resort. ‘This place is fucking poor!’
Yeah, the Cuban resort we went to was a 5-star, and was quite nice. Then I befriended one of the higher-ups at the resort, and he started telling me sotto voce the real struggles he and his staff were facing. Then I took a trip into Havana, and left the Potemkin-Village-like tourist zone by the waterfront.
It’s atmospheric, but also incredibly dilapidated. And the shops for the natives have nothing in them, as far as I could tell. The nicest shops that were available to the populace were in the diplomatic zone, but almost all seemed to take only CUCs (Cuban Convertible Pesos) in payment for everything, which most Cubans don’t have access to. Cuban Pesos are virtually useless in those shops.
And the seafront away from the harbour looks like recently-shelled buildings on the beaches at Normandy, occasionally punctuated by one rebuilt café meant for the tourists. I’m betting Irma beat the Hell out of that strip of real estate.
The kids loved me and the wife, though. I brought a backpack filled with candy and other goodies which we handed out.
Smarties on a fishing line?
OMWC doesn’t want competition.
It’s also fun to ride in a car from the 1940’s…until it breaks down during your trip.
oh so it’s your plan to make your city look like a broke down pile of garbage. I see.
” It’s bound to leave you with a better understanding of why Havana looks the way it does today”
This is what we like to call a “tell”. It would be like Turkey giving talks on the technical definition of genocide.
“Now, Puerto Ricans are reportedly faced with the prospect of living without power for weeks or even months even as officials work to get things back up and running. ”
What they obviously need is more people in codes enforcement citing people. –Miami/Dade County
I wonder how much of the delay they will have in getting the system back up will be because of bullshit regulation and the fact that the money for the work will be stolen by the people in charge?
Is it OK to ask these sort of questions, or am I a shitlord for pointing out the problem is the crap the proggies have straddled us with?
Or saddled us with.
Wait, I’m pretty sure it isn’t officials “working” to get power restored
Uber is stripped of its license to operate in London over safety fears.
Isn’t having a potentially dangerous driver just part of living in a big city?
“I fully support TfL’s decision – it would be wrong if TfL continued to license Uber if there is any way that this could pose a threat to Londoners’ safety and security.
So the black cabs don’t pose any threat to safety or security.
When people make this statement, do they know what they are saying is ridiculous? It do they truly believe something can be truly risk free?
UBER is private terrorism.
if there is anything Londoners love more than the NHS, it’s their black cabs. It’s more about them wanting to support what they see as their culture than whether they have the best stuff.
It’s a love-hate relationship, and the love- side has been diminishing for some time, but nostalgia prevails.
Plus, a vein of anti-americanism
More like a sizeable vascular system ….
A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic
Did the TV residuals expire after 30 years?
Is that like the Patrick Swyaze Christmas?
“The Dodgers won. As did the Nats.”
The Nats actually lost 3-2.
We still get a physical newspaper at my house, and I usually leave the sports section out for my kids to see. My daughter often adorns the pictures with marker doodles of her own, and when the Nats, Redskins, or Caps lose, will often “re-write” the score to have them as winners.
Whoops. Thanks for the correction. Not that anybody comes here for real sports updates. But I’d rather it be right than wrong.
Speaking of fake sports updates, I was disappointed no one commented on my “Battle for Madison’s Shoe” idea. I was proud of that one.
If nothing else, I thought a certain fan of a B1G school would appreciate the idea of a really stupid trophy.
*glares, hefts Sweet Sioux Tomahawk*
I do like the fact that the $5 bits of broken chair trophy is a real thing again.
The Illibuck trophy is an affront to God.
Real rivalry games are played for tiny pairs of gold pants…
…and to make memes mocking perpetual losers like this guy:
You misspelled “Land Grant”
https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4303065/LandGrantTrophy-2.0.jpg
Holy fuck, I forgot how retarded that thing was.
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/iowastatedaily.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/7/1c/71ccd132-cc69-11e0-966c-001cc4c03286/4e51c3df645ef.image.jpg
Possibly worse.
Paul Bunyan’s Axe is pretty cool, though.
Leave the Illibuck alone!
Illibuck is cute.
::sigh::
But it’s almost meaningless. Illinois has only won twice in the 21st Century.
Oh wait. That’s the same number of times Michigan has beaten us as well over that span.
Lol, suck on that TTUN chumps. Illinois has a better win %age against us this century than you do since we haven’t played them every year.
I like the Illibuck because it used to be a real Turtle. Personally, I think it should be replaced by a Galapagos tortoise (since they live forever). Both schools can build a habitat for the critter, and it gets to live in whichever one wins that year. They can still pass the wooden turtle, since a Galapagos Tortoise can weigh a lot, and it would likely be animal cruelty to put it into the ‘Shoe with 110,000 screaming fans. For bonus points, the schools can paint his or her shell!
Good song. Fats had a great haircut, looks like you could land a plane on it.
One minute 25 of Jackie Chan jumping over fences
I always just walk through the gate, but I also do that badass spin move once I’m on the other side.
i do all my own stunt
Tribune investigation: IDOT approves red light cameras for already safe intersections
You know what other idiot was missing an eye?
Team?
Polyphemus?
Odin?
*rumble of thunder*
That’s just the ice giants playing nine-pins again.
*beserker charges Jatnas*
65) I mocked Odin today and some fat dude that smells like bacon is swinging a axe at m
(Thought ends)
Skol
I believe he gave up the eye voluntarily so he could stop being an idiot
Snallygaster?
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes?
The Jack of Hearts?
The Jack of Spades?
Oedipus Rex?
Cyndy?
California Mountain Snake?
Snake Plissken?
I thought he was dead?
The man in the Hathaway shirt?
Dick motherfucking Vitale.
HE’S A PEP’er!!!
(Partial Eye Possessor)
This is how Usher gets laid, according to someone suing him for infecting them with herpes:
I think she slept with him to get him to shut up.
Poor old Usher, forevermore known as “Stinky Dinky”.
Usher: Yup and then we went out and got a pinball machine for those deaf, dumb, blind kids….”
Girl (grabs Usher’s dick and inserts in vagina)
Usher: Whaddya doing!
Girl: Shutting you up.
Usher (thrusting): And thennnnn, when we were in Sierra Leone – that’s one of the poorest places on earf….I fucked Bono….aannnd….
Girl (pushes Usher off examines herself): What’s that spot on my clit?
Can’t have contaminants in the toilet. That’s just gross.
Wow, Fats Domino certainly earned his nickname. Don’t think I’d ever seen footage of him before.
Derp Entry 1
Negative, harmful… By what metric are they making these normative statements?
*Edit Fairy flutters by*
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weredamn phone.
Peeing standing up – harmful
But entertaining!
Not sure if shared yet, but…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4888484/Academics-say-projectile-pee-makes-boys-better-scientists.html
The metric is money,
Well hello there!
Much better….still prefer the thick edit faerie though
Yeah, almost like a phenomenon that is seen in all humans, regardless of culture is not a cultural creation. It’s like there’s something biological driving it.
Don’t you try to bring that pseudo science into this.
Soap for hipsters
From all of the evidence I’ve gathered, that will not be a fast-moving product.
Soap for Hipsters: Desperation, Lack of Creativity, Unwarranted Arrogance.
Lol. I like the snark at that site. Soap for #Blessed People: Scented with Extra Specialness
GAAAHHH! WTF??
Just so I’m clear, identifying as a different sex is brave and powerful, identifying as a different race is horrifying and ugly (unless you’ve been a local NAACP president and then people try to pretend you never existed)
Yes, even though race and gender are both nothing more than social constructs, which have nothing to do with biology.
And race, of course, is much more of a social construct than gender. You can be many varying levels of various races. You can’t be 50% woman and 50% man.
Hermaphrodite…
Seriously! How is this any different than a man saying he’s a woman? It’s utter lunacy.
People with extreme body dysmorphia like this woman and transexuals need help. Step 1 is to stop validating their delusions. It’s neither kind nor loving to encourage someone to mutilate themselves.
You don’t even nuance right, brah!
Honey, those aren’t your boobs, it’s skin cancer.
“White air hostess who identifies as BLACK after spending £50k on boob jobs wants to go to Africa ‘because the food is tasty’”
Why is that a bad reason for going to Africa? People go to Italy all the time on food tours, and nobody thinks they’re demeaning Italian culture.
“Why is that a bad reason for going to Africa? ”
You should only go to Africa because of pity, duh. You shouldn’t treat them with human dignity, and definitely not encourage anything that could help their communities escape poverty. Why that would destroy their unique culture ours depends on to social signal. /Left
Good point. Think I should go out for Ethiopian food tonight.
I’m going for Ethiopian tomorrow.
Last weekend was my twins birthday, and on each kids birthday they get to pick whatever restaurant they want to go to for their birthday dinner. Unlike normal kids we never get requests for burger or pizza places, no my kids gotta be frigging gourmets and always pick Sushi, Korean, Ethiopian or similar expensive cuisines
Man I love this about Ethiopian cuisine in the US. The actual ingredients you need to make most Ethiopian food are incredibly inexpensive, extremely tasty, and easy to make at home for a very small amount of funds.
Tray of injira with a scoop of doro wat alone with one drumstick and one hard boiled egg: $25. Actual cost of 10x this much food cooked at home: $4.
Best Ethiopian I ever had was in Geneva. It was actually a hangout for Ethiopian locals and they barely glanced at me, just served me great food and a good Ethiopian beer.
The other place I saw a lot of Ethiopians, or from that area anyway, was Milan. Probably lots of good Ethiopian there, once one is done eating northern Italian cuisine.
GenevaGenf.
The hell is wrong with some people?
It starts with a B and rhymes with Cats hit lazy.
She has her own YouTube channel and has released her own range of dolls (presumably to finance her trip to the proud nation of Africa)
Maybe that’s why she wants to go to Africa, so she can be black and an ethnic majority? Although I suspect wherever she goes, she’ll be in an extremely small minority: crazy extreme dysmorphic.
Valerie Plame Is a Twitterin Twit
*perks up*
/S. Richman
So I’m assuming this is the moment when Plame ran out of Interstate like the Coyote? A man can dream!
Valerie Plame sounds a lot like this guy.
I wonder if this author also thinks that progressives shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions related to humanitarian policy and conservatives shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions related to national interest. He either holds some weird views on decision making (only disinterested parties should make decisions) or is an anti-Semite.
Well, as we all know, men shouldn’t be allowed to have opinions on abortion and whites shouldn’t have an opinion on what constitutes racism.
D
It’s hard to believe but I seem to have misplaced my shocked face. I have to put it on so often you would think I would know where it is.
Once again, you didn’t take it off last time. Also, your missing glasses are under there.
It’s tilted up on your head, like it always is you doofus!
NSFW, probably: cospenis
And now that’s in my history….
Oh well
LOL
Don’t click on the snowman one. Gawddammit.
I thought it was real snow, dammit
Let’s run and we’ll have some fun before I melt away.
The hell is wrong with some people?
Thank you
Sadiq Khan has always been out to get Uber. The company itself should have been an awful lot more careful, but this is protectionism, pure and simple.
The really infuriating thing is that this won’t have any impact on the noddy little Millennials who slobbered over Khan when he got elected, despite the fact that they’ll lose out over this. Nothing can ever shake the statists’ grasp on young minds.
Also, my proud boast of having a five star rating on Uber is now meaningless.
As a huge fan of Uber from the consumer side of things, what sorts of things do you mark down a passenger for? I noticed my rating on Uber was 4.5 stars, and I am like, WTF? I am always courteous and low maintenance.
“Nobody deserves 5-stars, there’s always room for improvement” is a review philosophy I’ve seen.
Of course, they forget that managers are stupid and anything less than a perfect response results in punitive measures (if only loss of bonuses, etc)
I am going to say that while not impossible, I think it is highly unlikely that my drivers were management philosophers. Also, when it comes to being a customer of a service, what else could I possibly do to make the experience more smooth on my driver’s end? Offer them a handy?
Sorry there were two separate rants.
These “No 5-stars” are general public people who are of the opinion that a perfect score is a disservice.
They are separate from the short-sighted managers who penalize anything other than 100%.
Uber explicitly encourages you to give ‘most’ (i.e. the average, decent) drivers/passengers 5 stars. 5 stars is the default. Any less means something was the matter.
Is Lyft gone too?
London has never had Lyft. Given that (broadly) the same body gets to decide on who gets a licence as would be damaged financially by a successful competitor I half-suspect we won’t, either. That said, it is a big market that probably won’t be ignored forever. If there is any gap, though, there’ll be plenty of drunk women getting into unlicenced minicabs and the like, rather than shelling out for black cabs like the protectionist left apparently believes they will.
I’m amazed we managed to have an industrial revolution in this country sometimes.
From what I understand, Wayne Rooney’s wife won’t even let him in London. So that option for drunken broads is also off the table.
So this new Health Bill actually stands a reasonable chance of passing. I know Rand has come out firmly against it as Obamacare lite, and I can’t disagree. On the other hand, it does get rid of the mandate to carry health insurance and drops the medical device tax. What do the glibs think?
Obviously repeal would be best. With that off the table, is passing this new bill better than Obamacare? I don’t know. I do know though that at least one tangible difference is many of us wouldn’t be on the hook for thousands if we can’t afford health insurance so that might be something.
Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good enough-even though this ultimately needs repeal it’s better for liberty than what we have now.
So what does this new bill change? My gut reaction is that anything that doesn’t fully remove the ACA will in the end backfire, but I’d like to know the details before coming down one way or the other.
It leaves Obamacare in place with a GOP “fix” so the GOP then takes ownership of the subsequent continued failure.
They are not called the Stupid Party for nothing.
On the other hand they don’t have the votes to repeal it outright, and sadly there are actually some parts of Obamacare that are popular (the parts being left alone), so I think they get blamed for the system whatever they do. Fix it and you get blamed for fixing it, don’t fix it and you get blamed for not fixing it, or repeal it and get blamed for that. I agree that they should do more, but I also think they need to get the ball rolling with something, as the longer they leave it unchanged the more people will grow attached to it (see every other welfare program ever).
Once people were told that they shouldn’t have to pay more for insurance because they have pre-existing conditions the game was over. Once that camel’s nose got under the tent, I became convinced we would have single payer within 20 years.
“Paying for shit is something other people have to worry about,” says every Prog ever.
I’m not sure of the exact details. On the surface it repeals the individual mandate and the medical device tax. It also provides a fixed amount of money to states via grants to spend as they see fit instead of writing blank checks to directly cover expenses.
The bill also provides the ability for states to petition the Federal government to dispose of most Obamacare requirements. For example, a state could petition to remove guaranteed pre-existing coverage but would need to set up high-risk pools to cover insurance for high-risk people. Rand says these will not work because the Feds will not grant any of them no matter what and we will be left with Obamacare by another name.
I am on the fence. On the one hand, there is an immediate and strong tangible benefit (loss of individual mandate) which cannot be said of most legislation. On the other, I’m concerned that there will only be one shot at tearing down the ACA monster and passing this will wreck the chance for future repeal. On the third hand, there may never be another chance, especially if the R’s take a massive beatdown for their utter and complete fuckup of this.
So, it gets rid of a couple bad things, and leaves the rest relatively untouched? So, like WTF above says, it mostly just gets Republican fingerprints on this BS, so the Dems can have the appearance of a legitimate target for when it falls apart. “Those Republicans screwed up The One’s legacy and ruined his bill. So, to really fix this problem we need single payer.” Yeah, not surprised. Go Rand!
Rand says these will not work because the Feds will not grant any of them no matter what…
So did Rand forget that he voted to confirm Tom Price as head of the HHS? The states will get any waiver they want. The onus will be on the states, which are currently more conservative than the Senate, so this may be the best way forward. I think Rand needs to remember that “politics is the art of the possible”. What he wants may be best in a theoretical world, but in the real world he’s not going to get it unless he has some fool-proof plan for electing a bunch more like-minded persons to the Senate in 2018.
I think a lot of R’s are going to lose their jobs next year.
Pencils in significant time to read Ken’s response.
Ken is for it if Rand is against it.
The opposite of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29E6GbYdB1c
I’m not pleased. If the GOP pass this, they completely own the fucked up health care system in the country that Obamacare created and that will continue to spiral the drain.
Full repeal and let states deal with it through diminishing federal block grants as O-care expires. Couple thatbwitg a federal law that prohibits states from outlawing companies selling insurance across state lines (Commerce Clause might as well do some good for a change).
Let the laboratories of democracy do better.
Get rid of government-mandated coverage, let people pay for the coverage they want, and not be forced to pay for shit they don’t want.
Which is why I’m for full repeal and letting states exclusively deal with it. The block grants ensure a smoother transition than cutting them off immediately, which would be a nonstarter for myriad reasons. Phase them out over 4-5 years and let the states tinker with it. Some will go free market and some will go full commie and tax the everloving fuck out of wealthy and middle class people.
But a law that stops states from refusing carriers to cross state lines will do a world of good.
What are the chances that they will actually choose to compete, instead of doing what most telco’s do, and keep on their side of the lines?
And this is where I go fully against libertarianism and say, “If they aren’t willing to compete, then by the Commerce Clause definition laid out in Wickard v. Fillburn, they are stifling the market and performing actions to make themselves into a trust, therefore crucify them in court with Anti-Trust law.” Or just point out to Trump that they hate his guts.
If the GOP pass this, they completely own the fucked up health care system in the country that Obamacare created and that will continue to spiral the drain.
They already own it, by virtue of being in power. When Obamacare goes belly-up, the common voter isn’t going to look into the past and see who passed it (which will be over a decade prior…and people have short memories), they are going to look at who is in charge and blame them. Heck, you see this all the time with people blaming/applauding the president for the economy. If the Rs do nothing and let O-Care collapse they will hold the entire blame for it (in the minds of the populace) even though none of them voted for it. This isn’t a great plan, but do nothing is worse. Maybe they can all get together and agree on a better plan, but if not they need to at least take a step in the right direction.
This this this
This piece offers an interesting perspective. While probably better than the ACA, it is still a colossal federal power grab.
We lost this battle when the ACA passed so we could find out what was in it. The losers here will always be the American people (especially the productive ones).
It looks like a shit deal to me.
This guy thinks it could end up worse.
I say let the fucker die. No subsidies, no nothing.
We will never get that I am now sadly convinced is the case, because it is the best thing that could happen.
Two of those three red flags are really concerning…hopefully they can negotiate those away and still pass the thing.
Derp Entry 2
It’s exactly the same mistake they made in the UK in the early 80’s. They basically dragooned perfectly serviceable maths teachers into becoming CS teachers (for which many math teachers were unsuited) so that everyone could learn Basic and write crappy tic-tac-toe games, because that’s where the future was.
Naturally, the Gods of the Totally Predictable Unintended Outcomes prevailed and math competency fell thru’ the floor, but on the other hand, the program ensured that Britain would never need to use code written by dirty foreigners.
Except for that written by the NSA…
GCHQ’s personnel were more than tangentially involved in ensuring that DES was breakable. They have a rather competent crypto department.
Yeah sure, whatever you say Pommy…
I don’t disagree with the premise that teaching everyone to code is a fool’s errand. I disagree with the nefarious caricature of the Silicon Valley CEO rubbing his hands together while cackling about lower wages for programmers because they tricked them into teaching programming to everyone.
Oh, that? Sure. It’s the modern equivalent of the (((big-nose))) people in Weimar political magazines.
You don’t need to cite scheming CEOs when politicians decide to ‘re-imagine’ education.
“when politicians decide to ‘re-imagine’ education.”
Scary enough to compete with “We are from the government, and we are here to help you”…
This^. The whole thing isn’t a conspiracy any more than the fact that people (apparently recently?) began to realize that pharmacists get paid six figures and now there are tons of pharmacy students, potentially about to glut that market. I don’t know for sure what will happen, but my guess is that a lot of them will have to find other employment.
Another problem with coding is that a large percentage of the population just can’t do it. So, while it may seem like a good ‘skills’ class to take, it’s actually pretty useless if you can’t do fizz buzz when you get an interview.
I was sitting there trying to reprogram a mod function in bash when I realized that wasn’t really the point of the exercise. I should have picked an actual programming language since they tend to have mathematical functions. So I decided to just throw the psuedocode out there and wander off.
for i = 1 to 100
output=””
if i mod 3 == 0 then output=”Fizz’
if i mod 5 == 0 then output=`output concat “Buzz”`
print output
loop
oops, bugfix
output=””output=i
Version 1.2
if i mod 5 == 0 then output=`output concat “Buzz”`if i mod 5 == 0 then
{
if output != “Fizz” then output=”Buzz”
else output=”FizzBuzz”
}
I realized they cared about the non multiples of 3 and 5, and 5Buzz was not valid output.
In my defense – I’m a mere sysadmin, and I can’t be expected to understand the vaunted realm of the application developer…
the nefarious caricature of the Silicon Valley CEO rubbing his hands together while cackling about lower wages for programmers
Is this a thing? No. The H1B in America makes sure that the the market trifurcates into:
1) Rockstar programmers who make huge incomes after being successful at either Google, FB, or some other mega startup
2) Citizen programmers with decent chops and experience who make good money
3) H1B who work for half of (2) until they get a green card
As best I can tell, (2) & (3) would meet about 75% of the way to (2)’s range. Because even with the H1-B’s, there aren’t enough competent programmers for all the seats.
My experience has been that the problem with the software industry isn’t really solely the H1Bs, but the offshoring. Quite a few of the H1Bs are capable enough developers to add value in one way or another, but the crowd of code monkeys working offshore really does nothing but produce crap. A lot of horrible crap. I know because I have spent a lot of time cleaning up some of the most horrible attempts at coding imaginable. And yet we keep using them because some manager that will never be held responsible for the horrible code or the crap gets a big bonus for making it look like this offshoring stuff works and actually generates value because it is cheap.
I’m not convinced of the value proposition, either. But I think that emigration really shrinks the pool of actually good programmers who feel trapped in Bangalore by family obligations, yet write really good code. I didn’t mention it, though, because I don’t think it materially affects what I as a coder can earn in the American market. No one has ever said to me, we can’t give you a job or a raise because our off-shore partners have really delivered consistently. OTOH, I know enough H1-B programmers to be impressed by both their intelligence and work ethic. If those folks weren’t trading $50k/year (or more) in salary for the chance to eventually be an American permanent resident or citizen, there’d (a) be more of them and (b) would depress salaries somewhat, but not enough to make me go look for a different career. But I don’t consider the off-shore/near-shore to be absorbing sufficient demand for skills like mine to be competitive. YMMV.
This.
I am all for offshoring where it actually saves money but in 15 years of working on IT projects with offshore resources the best case scenario I have ever encountered was a break even with just having done the work in-house. Sure the bill rates are lower for the offshore resources and it makes the financials look good for the executives but the reality is working with offshore resources always adds enough overhead in coordination and communication that it eliminates the savings and usually increases your costs. Problem is you don’t see the counterfactual on your balance sheet.
If a project should take 10000 hours to complete cutting your blended costs from $75/hr to $60/hr looks like you are saving $150,000, what you don’t see is that making half your team Contractors located 10,000 miles away is going to increase the time it takes from 10,000 to 15,000 hours and now you are losing $150,000
Back in the day when GE demanded everyone do Six Sigma shit, my blackbelt project was precisely about the fact that offshoring benefits were a delusion. The facts I had collected proved we were not only not getting the bang for the buck, but in the long run it would cost far more and introduce some serious risk with real financial consequences. My boss’ boss made me kill it. He told me in not so many words that so many manager types had made offshoring their project and that the offshoring model was absolutely their cash cow, that me producing this would cause a major problem for the company. I left GE 9 months after that, just as their offshoring investment project started to unravel. One of my friends inherited the technical side of that debacle, and he ended up losing his job because he couldn’t make it work even though he was putting 80+ hrs weeks.
There is no way to make someone with a few weeks of piss poor coding training a good programmer, even when they are supervised by geniuses, and for the cost vendors charge for offshoring, those are the only people you can get to code offshore. But managers will never admit that. Their big bonuses are based on keeping this failing house of cards propped up.
And yet, Steve Jobs was leading a ring of business leaders in Silicon Valley that conspired not to poach employees from each other to keep costs down…
They should be putting funds towards teaching African refugees how to program Javascript.
This guy is a moron because it doesn’t work that way.
Programming is largely not a field that can be solved by throwing large numbers of people at it it is at it’s core more art than science. If you gave Leonardo Da Vinci an extra 50 painters to work with him on the Sistine Chapel it would have increased the speed at which you got a painted ceiling but it would have utterly prevented the creation of the masterpiece.
With programming dropping another 50,000 coders into an economy is not going to depress the wages for developers much at all, what it is going to do is drive the marginal developers out of the market place faster because companies don’t want hundreds more bad coders they want a half a dozen more good coders
*psst*
Da Vinci isn’t associated with the Sistine Chapel…
And flooding a market with poor talent does depress the ages of the competent for a simple reason – the cost of sifting the cruft for the competent. Each person able to bluff past the interview and proves unworkable represents a cost to the company, and the preliferation creates the expectation that the average quality of talent available is lower, thus employersa will be willing to risk less on any given hire.
It may not reduce the long-term salary at a company for the person who has proven themselves, but it sure as hell will depress those starting wages and lead to knock-on effects down the line.
*wages of the competent, not ages.
Da Vinci, Michaelangelo I knew it was one of those damned turtles
I was once reprimanded for pointing out to an Ivy League manager that what he was trying to do was get nine mothers to make a baby in one month, and that was not a feasible, let alone reasonable, solution, because the mechanism was unpossible.
Yeah I’ve had to try and explain that to many executives over the years.
Whenever we tell them that there is no way to meet their deadline the answer has always been, well what if we brought in a bunch of Indian contractors?
Hit them with This book
That’s funny, true and sad.
Lol most of them had read it and even quoted it. Like most with business degrees however actually understanding eluded them.
This however does touch on one of the good things with teaching a lot more people to code. Chances are most of them they won’t be good enough at it to get jobs as developers but it can help them when they go on to a job in project management, business development, technical sales, etc.
How much would developers lives and corporate profits improve if their sales team actually had a basic understanding of the code before they went and sold features which are years away from implementation? If the business side of the house understood the importance of minimizing technical debt? Learning to code doesn’t necessarily mean you will use those skills to write code, that knowledge can be put to good use in many other jobs in a technical company.
Their lives would not improve one bit. They are in a competitive situation and no matter how much intelligence they have, they are not going to be honest when a competitor is making headway at the prospect with dishonesty.
The PURCHASING team is where you need the intelligence. And purchasing is ALWAYS the low man on the totem pole because their job is to spend money.
“Lol most of them had read it and even quoted it. Like most with business degrees however actually understanding eluded them.”
I think it is far more than them not understanding it. Their very nature is to think they can buck reality. I remember one of these guys telling me that to be a good manager in IT you didn’t need to know anything more than how to read people and squeeze them for work. You just had to always assume they were padding their numbers and randomly cut stuff, and never buck when they told you that what was asked for was impossible. That’s when I realized these people were not driven by any sort of logic or reason, but by the same crap that creates your usual high school cliques. A lot of managers are pissed that a good developer, someone they used to make fun of because they were considered a geek, could end up making more money than them, especially since short of jockying spreadsheets or MS Project numbers, these manager types didn’t add much value to any of the work being done.
Alex:
This is my complaint with Agile/SCRUM/etc. Its mostly* used as a way to get developers into crunch mode for two weeks out of every four instead of four weeks a year. That’s going to raise productivity, probably. But unless you’re paying me by the hour, I’m not falling for it.
*I know of a few organizations that have actually used things like level of effort/story points/retrospective to get realistic sized sprints and had good results. That is not the norm in my experience.
Probably should take UCS literally there. Take the book, with two hands, and physically strike them with it. hard, that’s why you grabbed it with both hands.
Eh. I think new methodologies have gone a long way towards addressing many of the Mythical Man Month complaints. My company routinely brings people in to pinch hit, and have pretty good success as long as we are using standards in a reasonable way and have small pieces of well-defined pieces of work that are fairly orthagonal to other efforts. But I also have the most competent coworkers of anywhere I’ve ever worked, by a high margin. And the average experience of the people who get parachuted in is probably at least 10 years.
Methodologies don’t turn idiots into competents. Competent workers work well with methodologies, but they also work well without them.
Maybe. I’m pretty convinced that better process makes better product other things being equal. As you say, when you try to substitute process for competence, it doesn’t work. It seems very realistic to me that a better process could create as much as 10% improvement in efficiency in a strong group.
A methodology is not a process. If you have a good process, you can wrap it in a methodology. But a methodology does not create a good process.
Agile/scrum never forced anyone to gather requirements first, then design, followed by review of requirements, followed by final design agreement, etc. If anything it produces shittier deliverables faster, so people can say they met a wild-ass-guess deadline. But you’re actually farther from a finished product because you forced haste into the development.
It only makes sense when you realize that billing for ongoing maintenance is the cashflow that IT consultants crave. The same attitude that doctors have – they prefer managing patients over curing them.
The problem still lies in picking an offshoring counterpart that knows what they’re doing. Partner selection is what will make or break the project, and unless the firm has a solid commitment to getting this part of the process right, it’s going to be a shitshow.
My firm has a long history of going out and making price the primary selection criterion, and we suffer the consequences every time.
It’s not just your firm 6. Most companies reward the managers for keeping costs down, and the thing they thing is the easiest to do so with is offshoring the work. Most of these manager types also assume that when the project is over they move on, and someone else will have to deal with the spaghetti code monster they pushed out.
Before they decided to push me off into the weeds and ignore me, I suggested that we should institute a code review body that evaluated offshored code.
Nope. Easiest way to have code deployed in our firm is to have it committed in via the offshoring firm, because “They have their own quality control”.
An internal code review body would be a ‘costly distraction’.
Well – OK then!
Cause it would expose the fact that what they were doing sucked? My company actually instituted such a system only to abandon it a month later when not a single piece of code sent from offshore was deemed deployable without being rewritten from scratch. The solution they implemented instead? We went back to not having the reviews and deploying shitty code. At least now there was no record that the code was shitty, so they could feign ignorance.
I think you’re only talking about competent companies.
Typically I’ve seen the demand for offshoring and H1B’s coming from places that have no idea how to control their scope creep. It doesn’t help when you have CIO’s who’s sole motivation is finding work for their buddies from their last place of employ because they encourage the scope creep.
This study on UBI would probably be interesting. But… (1) is $1,000/mo really enough money to incentivize someone making a decent living to stop working? Methinks no.
And (2) the whole study is randomized and controlled and all of the things one would expect, but they slip this quote in:
Yay! We already know what the outcome will be and none of the options are bad! Cope or thrive… Sounds awesome. Once it is completed, the results of this study will be cherry picked and used as propaganda to push UBI, no matter what the overall outcome of the experiment.
Let’s see, people like free money. Do we really need a study for this?
Yup
$1,000/mo works out to about $5.75/hr full-time wage. That’s $1.50/hr less than Federal minimum wage, and way less than some states’ minimum wages (before taxes). You know what would help people get $1,000/mo without government redistribution? Letting them work!
Derp Entry 3
There are too many examples of incompetent CEOs, far too many revelations of corporate corruption and way too many instances of businesses cheating their customers to suggest that America’s many would-be Galts are uniformly men and women of superior intelligence and unquestionable virtue.
Unlike government, which is pure as driven snow
How dare you!
Government is the new PROGRESSIVE god, and it will deliver us heaven on earth!
Good Lord, they can’t NOT see things through Marxist lenses. To Ayn Rand, the opposite of the John Galts of the world are not workers–it’s Marx who saw things in terms of capitalists and workers. The “makers” versus the “takers” are the entrepreneurs against all the leeches in government or high society who don’t work at all and hinder those who would like to.
Our Russian friend remarked on this. He said once they are brainwashed they can only see things one way and you cant fix them. I have experienced this first-hand a number of times.
Given the almost total institutional seizure of public education and academia by people who think Pol Pot was a swell guy, despite any recent electoral upsets, I am not particularly sanguine about the future.
The “your speech is violence, my violence is speech” stuff is going to continue to spill blood.
Someone who hasn’t read Rand, obviously. The number of Rand CEOs who were as described above far outnumbered the ones Galt went after.
I mean, that is the fucking plot of Atlas Shrugged.
Elon musk is a genius? I guess if you count gov welfare and running Ponzi schemes than i agree
Failing to pay contractors but yet they keep working for trump? Somehow I don’t buy it
Failing to pay contractors but yet they keep working for trump? Somehow I don’t buy it.
I buy it, because it is common practice in the construction industry not to pay contractors what they bill if you are unsatisfied with their work. Which means the confident/competent contractors will still work for you, and the latter are probably still getting paid (and well).
While the article is full of derp the part you quoted is pretty spot on
The comments. Don’t…read…the comments.
That comment…wow. Yeah, the revolution was totally about redistributing wealth. That’s why the prime hero of the revolution was the wealthiest man to serve as president until Trump.
Not taking is giving, not giving is taking.
Thirst! Ah fuck it, I worked all night. Time to hit the hay. Godspeed good Glibs, Godspeed!
My grandparents owned a bar in Norfolk, NE in the 1950s. Their busiest time of day was in the morning when the late shift at the phone company got off.
I was up for most of the night – yay! This lack of sleep thing is getting old but oddly enough I’m starting to get used to it – just a little.
Two against the EU: Hungary PM Victor Orban visits Poland
Sappy string section and Helen Reddy. “I love you! I love you too, Mommy!’
Lengyel, magyar – két jó barát,
Együtt harcol s issza borát,
Vitéz s bátor mindkettője,
Áldás szálljon mindkettőre.
The Confederate Statue Controversy Isn’t About Slavery, It’s About Ending America
My family first came to the United States 60 years after the Civil War ended, so I don’t really have a dog in the heritage fight. However, my wife, whose family has been in this country for generations, had a plethora of relatives fight and die in the Civil War, mostly because those gol’ durn Yanks wouldn’t get off their lawn (if you can believe the letters they wrote). Her uncles are re-enactors, and her grandma has shared memories of meeting Civil War veterans as a young girl. The “heritage, not hate” slogan is very real to them, which makes it very real to me, even though I had no ancestral involvement and growing up I actively despised the rednecks screaming “WOOOOOOO” as they peeled out of the high school parking lot in ancient trucks held together by rebel flag stickers.
Also, I am firmly in the “If you give those bastards an inch, they’ll take a mile” camp regarding the current mania for vandalizing monuments. Sane Americans need to stand up against these lunatics.
– George Orwell, 1984
Of course it is about ending America. Everything they do is about ending America.
Hope and Change, Shitlord. Hope and change.
Fundamental transformation.
Weird weather today – high of 94 in Michigan in late September. The high school football game is going to be interesting.
Derp Entry 4
That is not a “nit” – That is a Blue Whale.
It think it was a white whale.
I saw one of those in the IFH link above.
*narrows gaze*
No, blue, but they’re the wypipo of whales, so…..
For the people stuck paying for it, its a blue whale. This isn’t targeted at them. People like the guy who wrote this never have to bother with the messy details of reality (a media analyst for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). All their life, they’ve never been the one who’s had to deliver. Throw a tantrum and make a bunch of demands. Mommy and Daddy will handle it. Or the professor. Or “the rich”.
If the US went single payer, would that mean that the government would be paying for every abortion?
“nuance trolls would find other nits to pick”
Welcome to your introduction to the socialist calculation problem. If you are going to advocate for socialism, then you will own that. Get used to critics showing you how fucking dumb your arrogant ass really is for thinking you can create a simple plan to replace an entire market. Because any plan your simple mind comes up with would pale in comparison to the complexity of the emergent market.
That’s just it. Everything from paying for it to defining standards of care to getting doctors to actually provide care without market incentives is just “nits” or “nuances” to these guys. They don’t have to make their plan actually work. That’s your job. Or somebody else’s. They’ve made a demand. That’s enough. That’s “bold”. Actually fulfilling their wishes is up to other people.
The insane thing is that there are people who our civilization lets go through life with this attitude. I helped a friend out with a graduate school project he was working on. It was focused on teacher pensions. I helped him figure out something tat mighty actually work. His (education policy) professor actually wound up faulting him for being “too in the box”. Actually focusing on some policy that might actually work wasn’t something that entered into the professor’s mindset. Making demands was sufficient.
Aren’t they the ones huffing and puffing over spending on a border wall where the money will come from?
I always take policy advice from propagandists.
And here’s how you break antifa legally.
Love it. If they want to be pricks in public, they shouldn’t be allowed to do it anonymously.
I don’t love the law, but I do enjoy the poetic Justice.
Yep. Now I can’t wear my hockey mask around Richmond anymore, but it’s a price I’m willing to pay.
*Carl voice* Not the Clown makeup, Moe! Think of the Clowns!
Leave the chainsaw home too, Straff.
*clears throat*
Don’t you mean his machete? I doubt his hockey mask is made up of other people’s faces.
That is delicious.
hahaha….beautiful. A good day to be a Richmonder.
But Martin Luther King, Jr. wore a mask on the march to Selma. Oh wait.
Good morning.
I arrived too late to comment on PieInTheSky’s excellent report on Romanian microbrew yesterday, and it’s also Friday morning; why not start to at least think about drinking beer right now?
This is my local beer merchant, and they carry over 1000 beers.
Oh noes, somebody drank all the beer!
Your local beer merchant is SF?
A beer that will make you think… and then shudder.
Finger Lakes Beverage center doesn’t carry Purple Space Dildos, I’m afraid.
“Purple Space Dildo” – that just has to be a Double IPA.
Impressive, maybe? What’s the store?
Sorry guys, SF’d the link.
DRUNK ALREADY!
*EDIT FERRY CANNOT HELP*
Double SF, nice
“Ah, he managed a Double SF – that will earn a ’10’ from several judges!”
GOddmanit
http://www.fingerlakesbeverage.com
A bit out of the way for my trips to PA, but I think I should stop in at some point. Thanks!
“And the judges are lifting their cards… oh now, three of them SF’d the cards! France and Norway are holding them upside down, and Liechtenstein’s got it sideways!”
*standing ovation*
Except the Canadian judges.
Does the Edit Fairy also have the same power as a bouncer? Clearly I’ve had enough …. chances.
Someone needs to design a Glibs “Achievement Unlocked” popup like in video games
I like this idea:
Achievement Unlocked – Took your life in your hands
Clicked on an HM link.
Achievement Unlocked – I’ll be in my bunk
Clicked on a QC link.
Achievement Unlocked – Pussy Patrol
Earn 3 cat butts without being banned.
Achievement Unlocked – Diabeetus
SF 3 links in a row.
Achievement Unlocked – ?! 😯 !?
Read all the SF stories.
Achievement Unlocked – Do you even work
Read through a whole comment by _________
We need one for getting Glibs to read the entire article before commenting.
We need one for getting Glibs to read the entire article before commenting.
So you don’t want anyone earning the Platinum Trophy for Glibertarians is what I’m hearing.
“Jack! Help me! I’m drowning!”
“Cling to your vagina hat. This door is mine.”
Got it this time.
It’s 5 O’clock somewhere!
Go home, you’re drunk.
What am I doing wrong? I double checked the link and even posted it below Swiss’s reply without altering it. What gives?
<a href=”target_address_here”>Text of link</a>
Yeah I gotcha that part, obviously.
Squirrelz from TOS. I swear.
ONE. FINAL. ATTEMPT.
“By George, I think xe’s got it!”
That’s XE to you, Mister!
I can’t tell, the work proxy blocks Alcohol and tobacco links.
Wait… they block everything the ATF Superstore would sell – Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives!
Dammit, New York!
Go on…
admit it, you’re trying to get one of the cute edit faeries to show up.
Cover = blown.
Of course someone had to come along as pester me around the time the lynx went up.
Now I’m trying to tune out this stupid ‘fanfare’ that someone down the cube farm set their e-mail notification to.
Anyway, I need to name Owen’s cat. It’s the same feline that swatted him awake a while back and prompted discussion of woken versus awoken.
Schrodie.
That… actually sounds pretty in-character for Owen.
Slappy
Malcolm
The Grey Mouser
GoddammitKitty (not the official name of my last cat, but the one I used the most when addressing him for the first two years of his life)
Fafnir might fit better (it’s a piebald orange and white rather than grey)
… and of course I remembered it wrong.
In my defense, the Norse mythic figure has an easier name than ‘Fafhrd’
it’s a piebald orange and white
Or depending on the owner’s personality, 50-50
Could also work on another level if the animal is 50% adorable – 50% annoying
Paddy, as a reference to Owen’s friend in Throw Momma From The Train
Bill.
Richard Fartzegen.
Randall.
It’s common enough for stories with castles and knights and shit. Plus it’s a nod to Archer.
Waldo.
See’ay’tee
I’m Mister Snow Miser, I’m Mister Snow.
Ugh! You’re too much.
Metal
Italy’s Ufomammut. New album.
Bigfoot Symposium returns to Stilwell area
They research female Bigfoots? STEVE SMITH has a sister?
STEVE SMITH HAPPY TO HELP WITH “RESEARCH”. AND BY RESEARCH, MEAN RAPE.
there will plenty of first-person stories
MY NAME AM STEVE SMITH. AM RAPEAHOLIC.
GOD GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THINGS I CANNOT RAPE
COURAGE TO RAPE THE THINGS I CAN
AND WISDOM TO KNOW DIFFERENCE
THERE NOTHING STEVE SMITH CAN’T RAPE!! STEVE SMITH STICK DICK OUT THE DOOR AND RAPE WORLD!!!
HI STEVE
UNC Charlotte offers 345 ‘diversity’ courses
Students requested these classes? They need to run another survey but this time make it anonymous. There are a few classes I’d request.
A fool and the money they borrowed to waste their college years on are easily parted…
“including Religious Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Languages and Culture Studies, and Africana Studies”
Two that cought my eye.
1. Religious studies: I wonder if having a more diverse choice is nice. When I was in school I had about 10 classes to choose from for my diversity credit, and they all seemed like hotbeds of leftism.
2. Africana Studies: see our above discussion, but don’t you think it’s a little demeaning to treat Africa as “our kid brother who were don’t take seriously and study to signal that we are diverse”. I know the standard reply to: no we stay Africa to see how different their experiences are from our own. To which I say: then stop advocating policies that hinder then from getting too where we are.
It’s scandalous to me that there is a “diversity” class requirement, since “diversity” is really just leftist political thinking.
Thought police are coming for you..
no we stay Africa to see how different their experiences are from our own.
No, you study Africa because you’re a third rate scholar incapable of hacking it in a real academic discipline and you wanted to be afforded more academic respect than you’d merit otherwise.
“Should I major in particle physics, computational linguistics, or Africana Studies?” asked no one ever.
The whole point of ‘diversity’ is to end the notion of meritocracy. To create incompetence. To put easily manipulated incompetents in positions of power. I dont know how they could be more transparent about it.
Point this out to these people and they will try to ruin your life for exposing their scam…
Tremble before the might of the mustache
Michelle Pfeiffer’s appears to have fallen off
Man I hope this is good, but I’m prepared to be disappointed.
Gatorade punished for dissing water in video game
Let me fix the headline. “California extorts money from Gatorade.”
You Mean Like In The Toilet?
Brawndo’s got what plants crave!
“It’s got ‘lectrolytes!”
Well I wouldn’t put it beyond Californians to be too stupid to know to drink water.
California’s Falling Into The Ocean https://youtu.be/wRLw5vajupk
I’ve been relying upon Gatorade to keep me hydrated lately but it seems to be doing weird stuff to my evacuation routes. Too much potassium maybe? There are a lot of lifters on this site. Any thoughts?
Probably the sodium.
“weird stuff to my evacuation routes”
Well I don’t lift, but clearing the hallways of your empty Gatorade bottles is probably a good idea.
lol
I tried that for a while. I mainly found that drinking large amounts of gatorade causes your jeans to shrink.
I don’t know how much you’re sweating, but if you’re not exercising (or working) for more than 45 minutes outside, water and the salt in your food should get you there. Gatorade is really good for giving you enough sugars to get through the 2nd half of a football game or putting some of the sugars you’re burning back in on long runs or rides. If you just like to taste something other than water, cut it 1/3rd gato to 2/3 water.
Don’t drink Gatorade. Drink water.
Unless you’re running a marathon, Gatorade doesn’t do anything for you other than make you fat.
You could try to go half and half. I make my kids do that so they aren’t drinking so much sugar.
On the other hand, at least the Kool Ade is free.
I was roused from slumber by the sound of heavy wet snow slumping off the roof. It makes a big thump when it hits the ground. Still too dark to say for sure, but I’d guess close to 6″. Wheeee!
WOOT!!
There’s a 6″ joke somewhere. Anyone wanna take a stab?
Anyone wanna take a stab?
That’s what she said
STEVE SMITH MUCH BIGGER THAN 6″
I’ve been in Raleigh for a month now. The GF and I are still playing the ‘how shitty is it in Maine right now’ game. I expect it will continue through until at least next April.
I felt so clever picking up the Rams defense for my work FFL. After all, the Niners hadn’t scored a touchdown so far in the first two games of the season.
FML
I got Brady and Todd Gurley. I don’t even have to start anyone else.
*sigh*
I’m Mr. White Christmas
I’m Mister Snow
I’m Mister Icicle
I’m Mr. Ten Below
Friend call me Snow Miser
Whatever I touch
Turns to snow in my clutch!
I’m too much
(didn’t even Google it)
I think it was my favorite growing up. Does it still air?
It does.
Unfortunately now when I see those lyrics I think of Ahnold singing them in the classic film Batman & Robin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRH-Ywpz1_I
If you have cable, it’ll air on one or another channel during the season.
A friend used to have a Xmas party every year where she handed out the lyrics and we all sang along.
I also made a Snow Miser Halloween costume, but haven’t had a chance to wear it.
Bah! I didn’t want to do the research. Besides, mine captures the essence of John Kerry’s idiocy.
Here’s a blast from the past. Patrice O’Neal Interviews Social Justice Warriors. I really miss that guy.
He did some web clip show back in the day (like 10-15 years ago) that was hilarious.
Nice.
I can’t find a video now, but he did one of the talking head news shows when Don Imus was fired, and some grievance monger was lecturing him for defending Imus. He asks him “You think “nappy headed ho” is somehow funny?” and he shoots back “Nappy headed ho is HILARIOUS”. The guy was just stupefied. It was brilliant.
Why is the video in 4:4?
He was always great on Tough Crowd.
The interesting thing about that show was that the real comedians always went for the laugh regardless of politics, but the unfunny hacks *coughsarahsilvermancough* would not if it meant criticizing “their side.”
The Confederate Statue Controversy Isn’t About Slavery, It’s About Ending America
Rome wasn’t burned in a day.
They can keep throwing matches if they want to. There is an old saying about playing with fire. The vast majority of Americans are not on board with the Marxist horseshit.
I see the NFL ratings are down over 10%. Shit, that’s like losing money on a casino. Keep it up progs.
Well, apparently the kneeling and sitting during the anthem wasn’t enough, so now Michael Bennett is giving the black power salute after sacking a white quarterback.
I don’t get why their employers let them continue to alienate and piss off their customers.
Did you see the comic writer quote posted the other day? A comic fan complained to the author of his favorite comic that the authors were ruining comics with SJW bullshit. The author replied in no uncertain terms that it wasn’t about what the fans want, that the authors dont give a shit about their fans. It’s about justice.
You dont get it, and neither do I, because we aren’t brainwashed pinkos. They are sinking themselves and have no idea why it is happening. We should throw some sandbags in their boat. Adios comics. Goodbye NFL. Good riddance. Someone is going to see a market opportunity and build something on their graves.
Oh, and I did see where marxist apologists are explaining the woes of the NFL on the greed of the owners. It is like watching a Jerry Lewis skit. Painful to watch but you cant look away.
Yes, owners so greedy they continue to lose viewers and revenue in order to pander to social-signaling leftists.
It really is fascinating that they can’t seem to see or understand that they are destroying their own businesses.
Some people really just want to go out of business.
Hey, these morals aren’t gonna preen themselves.
The author replied in no uncertain terms that it wasn’t about what the fans want, that the authors dont give a shit about their fans. It’s about justice.
And this seems to be the mindset of a lot of the entertainment and media industry. To which I ask, how bad do sales have to get before adult supervision steps in? These guys aren’t operating out of the back room of their apartments. They’re making use of an Imperial Shit-ton of stockholder resources. And if they gave a shit about actual justice, they’d feel some level of responsibility to the people who’ve entrusted them with their money.
He and a few others (Malcolm Jenkins is the only one I can think of right now) are also petitioning the league to have some kind of official Activism Month. I swear I’m not making that up.
They should just call it the official “Fuck You, Fans” month.
Why I hate people, part #2394872394
TV Station live Facederp feed: “The accident is on southbound Route A, near Highway B”
Facerderp commenters: “Where is this????”
Also, another commenter: “It’s dread lock out there”
I think I know that person. I love malaprops but I just cant for the life of me come up with them. It takes a special kind of brain to do that but the funniest ones are always unintentional.
I love a well-turned malapropism too, but autocorrect on smartphones takes a lot of the fun out of the game.
You try a deliberate malapropism and have to make sure you don’t let autocorrect fix it, or you type a normal text and autocorrect fucks it up.
Turn off autocorrect.
It saved me a lot of screaming at my phone over the years, and I hardly use the thing.
I love my autoerect.
My favorite was when I posted about a government anti-vaping commercial, and auto-correct changed it to “anti-camping”. People actually took it at face value.
My best ever (unintentional) was “Deciduous and Carnivorous trees”. I nearly killed my college roommate with that one.
You tried to feed your roommate to a carnivorous tree?
Tried? I succeeded. The tree just wasn’t that hungry.
+1 Old Man Willow
+2 Audreys
Charles Shackleford: “I can shoot with my left hand, I can shoot with my right hand. I’m amphibious.”
This old chestnut.
Well if you stop having above average expectations from the average person, you might be a happier person.
I think my problem is I overestimate where ‘Average’ lies.
A common mistake if you are college educated and spend most of your time with others who are educated or at the very least, competent.
I get regular reminders by spending time with woodcutters and tree planters. Of course I may be in error in the opposite direction.
Hanging out here doesn’t help. U People are fart smellers. I mean smart fellers.
Here’s the crash in question. Yikes!
I’m thinking I may never attend a professional sporting event again.
Major League Baseball brass is examining stronger protection for fans — with the players union even calling for extending nets all the way to foul poles — after a 105-mph foul ball struck a young girl in the face at Yankee Stadium Wednesday night.
My local A league team has nets much further than Louisville AAA or majors. Nearly to the bags. That is enough. The lower the level, the cheaper the seats, the more needed as people are paying less attention.
No, they have not been hiding it. I don’t know about other parks, but at Yankee Stadium, they have warnings and signs on the seats in the lower sections regarding the danger of flying bats and balls and the need to stay alert and pay attention. The last time I was there in seats behind 1st base, I made sure to have my wife sit on my right so I would be between her and home plate because I know she doesn’t always pay attention and I would be able to shield her if needed.
Hey, if she gets hit by a few foul balls, she’ll learn to pay attention.
No, a kid that small should be shielded by the adults she was with. Who should be paying attention.
Kid? You didn’t mention a kid. It sounded like you said you’re shielding your distracted wife.
Eh, the foul ball was hit 105 mph. You have a split second to react to that.
This is why I buy tickets in non-foul prone sections for my kids, who only sporadically pay attention to the play on the field, when we go see our local AA team. I either pony up for box seats behind the screen down by the field, or we sit up in the upper deck. I won’t take them to field level seats down the third base line because it’s just too risky.
Exactly. I normally get seats in the outfield for this reason.
Where the kid was sitting, the ball hit at that speed would take approximately 0.75 seconds to get there. Normal human reaction time is about 0.25 seconds. So you have half a second to move out of the way/shield others. Even an adult paying perfect attention might not be able to get out of the way of that.
I’m not sitting with my kid in those sections, but netting is necessary. Didn’t do anything to diminish the experience in NHL arenas (after it took someone dying to bring the rule on board).
“Hey, if she gets hit by a few foul balls, she’ll learn to pay attention.”
Well she will at least learn to demand that Elite Elite take a few more showers and soap all over.
You patriarchal shitlord! Your wife doesn’t need your “protection” she is a strong powerful women.
Too bad the toddler’s father was a cheapskate who wouldn’t buy tickets behind the plate where the net already is.
The worst I ever saw was an elderly woman get nailed by a foul ball in Tampa a year or two ago. She was behind the net! But the Rays put a hole in it on purpose for cameras and they made the hole far larger than necessary.
There’s a 6″ joke somewhere.
Atrophy’s a bitch.
De Leon apologizes; Leaked audio clips of foul language, slurs go viral
That’s an awful polite way of saying “local politician calls assistant DA a nigger”. Can you guess which party commissioner De Leon belongs to (hint: it’s not mentioned once in the entire article)?
Lemonparty?
NDP?
He used racist slur, so he must be from the racist party.
Oh, why didn’t you say so.
He’s a Democrat.
“They are [F-word] … and I would say this, that I would never dare use that word, but you know what, yes, there are a couple of [N-word] in there that think that all of us are [F-word] taco eaters,” De Leon said.
Took a shot at lesbians, too.
Maybe he was aiming for a George Carlin level of overall misanthropy.
Oh, yeah… Lesbians. I didn’t think that was a slur against Hispanics… That would be silly of me…
What’s the intersectionality ruling of oppression if you call a gay mexican a “wet back”?
Party With Me Punker?
https://youtu.be/NRp88MU4hOo
Court rules Stingray use without a warrant violates Fourth Amendment
Hillary worries that Federal workers might quit due to Trump. Howie Carr assures her that they’ll never lift their snouts from the public trough and get a job.
If Hillary has said anything I would support, this would be it. Don’t hire anyone else then
Well she wants them to fight it out. It might be hard on those cushy jobs, but they have to try.
That is exactly what Trump is doing. He is thinning their ranks by attrition. I heard some government slug complaining a couple of weeks ago that some of the headquarters of federal agencies are starting to look like abandoned buildings. I nearly had an orgasm.
Trumps greatest attributes are being in control of federal agencies and court appointments
I don’t care as much if they don’t pass legislation other than tax reform
Just tax reform would be fine with me. The rest can gridlock, we’ll be better off.
Bring all of this crumbling to the ground.
I so much want to be him.
My daughter loves that show. She told me that he reminds her of me.
/proud dad
Most .gov workers, particularly the ones that are >10 years in are in it for financial security and retirement assuming they started their careers early enough.
Meanwhile, there’s a headline on the googlenews reading, “Montana Average Temperature Continues to Increase.”
It was a dry hot summer, therefor, it will be a dry, hot winter. Or maybe not.
Did they actually show the averages by year in say a table? Funny how the average temperature of US has remained the same I saw somewhere but that isn’t cherry picked
Did they specify time frame? “From March 1 to July 1, Montana temperatures catastrophically increase!!! OMG!!! REEEE!”
Look at how much worse the trend is if we measure from the start of the year!
Fuck PETA, part a lot
Daily reminder that PETA kills 96% of the animals in its shelters.
Never knew this, makes me sick.
Clearly she should be conducting her experiments on naked refugee babies instead.
Or PETA execs.
“Snatching sparrows from the backyard, injecting them, wounding them, shaking and yelling at them, using them in several different experiments and then killing them — this is what is at issue,” said Kathy Guillermo, a senior vice president at PETA.
CIA’s avian rendition program.
After the Scientologists get RICO’d, I’d love to see PETA get taken down. As to what organization I hate more it’s a toss-up between them, Scientology, and the SPLC.
No federal gun control for new silencer-muzzleloader
What hath god wrought?
Well, for Connecticut, I predict another late-night legislative session with a decidedly draconian outcome.
I would think that burning black powder in that thing would plug up the silencer pretty quickly. It may increase demand for BP substitutes.
A buddy of mine (who traded me a pristine Mosin-Nagant last weekend) made an AR thing that actually fits in the ATF category of “firearm”. He specifically made it so that it’s not a pistol, a rifle, an SBR, or an “any other weapon”. I think he secretly hopes he’ll get it confiscated and the ATF will have to come up with an entirely new category and name it after him.
The “FYTW” Category …
I’m going to run for office iocal elections in a few years.
I just thought you all should know because there will be one reference to STEVE SMITH made during each electoral campaign. If I make it to the Presidency you heard it here first.
If I end up stripping down to a jock strap on sgage you also heard it here first, but that could also happen when running for President at this point.
On the old site, I promised if I was ever in a televised debate while running for office, I would use the phrase “Fuck off, slaver”.
I’m narcissistic enough to do it.
Hope the NSA doesn’t unmask your comments on Going.
Ah fuck you autocorrect going = glib
I don’t know what Going is.
STEVE SMITH GOING TO RAPE THUNDERKITTY
Wait, you were that guy in the Libertarian Party conference?
I’m more articulate…a d drunk.
Shit. Time to head to the office. A bit late, but I was hoping Q would post some Future Lower Back Problems. Sad.
Wait!
Too late. Some of us are already at work. You need to post these within the first hour of morning links!
That would still be a bad time.
I’m ato work before the links post. 🙁
Hey it’s not my fault you guys live in the wrong timezone!
West coast best coast.
Left Coast Losers.
Someone’s envious. Pacific Time, is real time.
Sure, whatever soothes your poor deluded mind from the ache of being forever behind everyone else.
When I got to work at 4:45am EST you loafers were still taking your midnight piss breaks.
Fuck that. The titties link needs to be at the fucking top of the page.
TGIFLPB.
http://archive.is/sbJtM
It must be 11 and 33. 35 looks like she trying to communicate that she’s being held against her will.
7. USA! USA! USA!
10. Nintendo Tattoo.
10. Nintendo Tattoo.
Console peasant.
1, 25, 33.
11 is nice but pretty damn fake.
21 for the THO.
13 with a glorious win.
24 with a very natural place.
45 with a very impressive show.
26 stealing my heart, but out of the money.
And thus has it always been.
I miss Manly Mondays.
Hmmm. Perhaps we should “unhook” Manly Mondays from its day of the week, and simply have occasional articles entitled “Beefcake Bingo” or somesuch. The advantage being, of course, that they could be published anytime. I’d take a crack at it, ‘cept all the guys would end up looking like me in my 20s and 30s. 😉
And for this latest round of FLBP: sadly, none of them did it for me. Too many ducklips, plus using cellphones to take the shots tends to exaggerate certain features (noses, eyes) that are better left unexaggerated in most people. Once a portrait photographer, always a portrait photographer…
I mean, all of them except duck-facers and the overly fake, but in particular 1, 4, 5, 8, and 25. 4 and 25 are particularly my cups of tea.
16!
22 for sure
41 looks like she is going to drain and collect your blood.
Nice shakedown attempt…shouldn’t they be going after the users of said fossil fuels which include them?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/21/san-francisco-and-oakland-sue-top-five-oil-and-gas-companies-over-costs-of-climate-change/
Since there is no appreciable climate change the cost is zero. I think they should be paid for that cost.
And then charged legal fees.
How the Right Lost Its Mind and Embraced Donald Trump
So let me guess a conservative that happens to support whatever liberals want?
If anything is Trump is saving the GOP. Sooner or later folks were going to figure out they weren’t interested in actually following thru on their campaign promises
Everything said about Trump today was said by the GOP leadership about Reagan in ’76. Stupid actor with no depth or credentials. Destroying the genteel sensibility of the Republican party. Foreign policy lunatic who would start WWIII.
Yep
Heh. Newsweek. Another ‘I am an X but…’ propagandist.
Lemme guess before I hit the link. David Frum?
Jennifer Rubin?
David Brooks?
Bill Kristol?
Hitler?
Newsweek, I’m going with Frum.
It’s kind of a sad statement about the position Newsweek has fallen to that they can’t even get at least B-list names to write this piece. Whatever else you can say about the likes of Frum, Brooks, and Kristol, they are at least well-known. Instead, they get someone who is anonymous outside of greater Milwaukee.
Actually, since Kristol’s name was brought up, it reminds me of Kristol crowing about the great mystery candidate with loads of credibility and a “a real chance” he was running against Trump…..and then trotting out Egg McMuffin after David French turned him down.
I have never heard of this guy in my life. Who the fuck is Charles Sykes?
You’ve never heard of THE Charles Sykes?
So he had a local radio show in Milwaukee. Newsweek is really scraping the bottom of the NeverTrump barrel.
Evan McMullin fanboi …
Oh, boy, that’s always a good sign.
Makes it easy to understand why a journalistic sewer like Rolling Stone is still worth more than Newsweek.
For a quarter of a century, I was a major part of the conservative movement.
Yet, strangely, I’ve never heard of Charles Sykes.
Not the kind of movement you were thinking of …..
Don’t know if we have any Missouri Glibs, but I’d love to hear an inside opinion.
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2017/09/not-recover-crisis-mizzou-edition/
Sigh…I went to school there in the mid 90s. It was a great party school then without all this SJW crap going on. Shame what happened to it.
I’m a Missourian, and from reaction hereabouts (Kansas City) consensus is that the Mizzou faculty and administration needs surgery to fit them with plexiglas navels.
I wasn’t aware of the multiple suits brought against one of the UMC professors regarding carrying guns on campus, but it seems to be in line with the proggie infestation among instructors on most campuses (campi?). Expect enrollment – and alumni donations – to drop even further. I don’t have kids, but if I did I wouldn’t send them to what appears to be Evergreen college Midwest.
This doesn’t inspire a confidence in the judgement and intelligence of our clandestine services.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-left-catapulted-valerie-plame-to-stardom-without-figuring-out-what-she-thinks/article/2635180
Hiring a prototypical anti-Semitic left wing nut to jockey a desk in Virginia is among the least concerning things the CIA has ever done to lose my confidence.
Sno. Kidding. No one has died by her hands that we know of
Let’s not kid ourselves that the security services are bastions of the politically neutral and the well-vetted.
Remember “Reality Winner”?
They only hire the absolute best and brightest. Trust me 😉
NPR explains it.
Yiannopoulos posted a YouTube video this week saying the university is using “slippery and bureaucratic tactics” to try to prevent the event from happening.
The university has not tried to outright cancel the event, as Yiannopoulos suggests, but a group of about 130 professors, graduate students and lecturers are calling for a boycott of classes and university events next week.
An open letter argues that many students, faculty and staff will feel unsafe at school because of the anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay rhetoric of many of the speakers. They say they also fear there may be an “uncontrollable confrontation” during the week.
Since Yiannopoulos’ appearance was canceled earlier this year, students and right-wing groups have criticized Berkeley – widely considered to be one of the centers of the free speech movement in the 1960s – for shutting down conservative speech. Berkeley officials say the school is committed to preserving free speech, but at the same time must protect safety on campus.
“As Yiannopoulos suggests”? He suggests no such thing. He states specifically that the school is trying to use bureaucratic obstacles to induce the conference organizers to cancel on their own initiative.
“Fear of uncontrolled violence” or a thinly veiled threat?
If the First Amendment really does protect hate speech, it’s stupid and needs to be discarded.
many students, faculty and staff will feel unsafe at school because of the anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay rhetoric
This is what pisses me off the most.
Milo doesn’t just criticize groups out of thin air.
He criticizes subsets of those groups that he thinks are acting like assholes, and gives his reasons why.
If you haven’t already listened to his (censored) NPR interview from a couple months ago, do yourself a favor and check it out. He does have a strategy and he is much more intelligent than any of his critics give him credit for.
The more I hear from Milo the more respect I have for him. I don’t necessarily agree with his viewpoints, but he gets there honestly and rationally, and he’s not at all afraid to engage critics or opposing arguments. He’s a smart, well-spoken guy with a hell of a lot more intellectual integrity than most of the people against him.
Here are some of the emails Berkeley has sent the student group:
https://milo.yiannopoulos.net/2017/09/redacted-emails-from-berkeley-prove-the-school-is-lying/
As far as I can tell, they are demanding that the conservative student group take full legal responsibility and financial liability for anything Antifa does in reaction to Milo and the other speakers.
This shit is outrageous enough to me that I think Janet Napolitano should be held personally liable for any damages to the campus Antifa causes. After all, she is the head of the university system, and has sufficient experience in a security position to be able to allow the speech of all of these people on her university system’s flagship campus.
I don’t claim to have any evidence of this, but it wouldn’t surprise me to find that Milo, Inc. isn’t lawyered up ready for the inevitable shitshow.
Chavez was a noble and benevolent leader whose successor betrayed the revolution and strayed from the path of true socialism.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/9/19/16189742/venezuela-maduro-dictator-chavez-collapse
The historical revision project has already started.
TW: Near peak retardation from an already retarded publication.
Vox has seen the future… and it works!
This is actually a real good article on Chavez…except the title is kind of derp
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/hugo-chavez-wasnt-a-dictator-but-he-crushed-democracy/article9336246/%3Fservice%3Damp
“Nicolás Maduro, the president of Venezuela, is scrambling to cling to power as his country is battered by an unprecedented economic crisis. And in the process, he’s becoming an autocrat.”
That’s as far as I could get without laughing. Unprecedented crisis. Who could have seen it coming? It is unprecedented just like all of the unexpected economic downturns and bad luck that Obama had to deal with. It is unprecedented. To be fair we have never seen pinko policies lead to this before, have we? It’s unexpected.
Socialism is custom designed to create poverty and misery so that autocrats can grab power. That is the whole purpose of that system so you could say socialism works just fine. It is about power, nothing else.
I was going to try and pore through there to see if they give any details on exactly how socialism was not properly implemented but I think I will spare myself. I guess they had to try and hit back after Trump called the pinkos out at the UN with ‘socialism didn’t create a disaster because it wasn’t properly implemented, it created a disaster precisely because it was properly implemented.’
“He’s becoming an autocrat”
Does anybody want to tell this poor bastard that he, and Chavez, were always autocrats?
No you got it all wrong
Mancilla, according to El Nacional, has solidified the idea that the socialist economic model of the 21st century is unquestionable, and that any failure is the result of attacks from the opposition.
https://panampost.com/orlando-avendano/2016/08/16/spanish-marxist-professor-alfredo-serrano-is-the-man-behind-venezuelas-economic-messalfredo-serrano-the-man-behind-the-economic-crisis-in-venezuela/
Of course this is like saying my experiments in cold fusion failed because of the interference of the extraterrestrials. At this point socialism is to the economic realm as bloodletting is to the healthcare realm.
capitalism is the white people of economic -isms.
Another one
UMass Boston Chief Diversity Officer Georgianna Melendez says it’s “a hard hair to split,” especially for a university that tries to balance its commitment to free speech and open academic debate with its responsibility to make all students feel welcome and safe.
She says the white supremacist posters were ultimately removed from campus because they lacked required permission, but not because of their content.
“Everyone has a right to their own beliefs,” she says. “We didn’t take a position on their message except to say that we understand it’s harmful to some members of our community, and we can’t just let that go.”
Like many schools, Melendez says UMass now has a kind of hate incident SWAT team ready to counter hateful messages and counsel hurt students. It includes an early alert system, a counter messaging response team and counselors on call.
We’ll never tolerate intolerance. We’ll show our strength and resilience by sucking our thumbs in the corner.
At least there’s the ritual obeisance to the idea of free speech before she pisses on it. Hypocrisy: the tribute vice pays to virtue.
It isn’t a hard hair to split at all. Speech is the manifestation of ideas. Speech, understood as both voiced and written communication, can spread ideas. If you believe white supremacy is a bad idea, argue against it. If you think it’s a worthless idea, you’ve got nothing to fear from its communication. The only reason to quash speech is to prevent the spread of ideas you think might catch on.
It’s comically easy to come up with good, rational counter-arguments to racial supremacy, unless of course you want to leave collectivism and racial identity politics intact for your own use.
unless of course you want to leave collectivism and racial identity politics intact for your own use.
^^This^^ So much this.
How many of those incidents turned out to be hoaxes?
*raises hand excitedly*
I know this one! I know!
My default position has become assuming any campus “hate incident” is complete bullshit until proven otherwise.
It is not surprising that the two groups that hate freedom of speech the most are academia and the mainstream press. Pinkos have been trying to co-opt them for the purpose of subverting freedom for decades because those are the two best places for defending freedom.
Were Brett in this position: “In this case, the ideas being expressed are almost certainly not going to move our society forward. However, previous administrators of this university felt the same about ideas that women and POC were fully equal and able to participate with white males in university settings. The strongest argument for allowing their expression is our own humility. We may be wrong. If not about this than about something else. And by giving all ideas a fair chance to be expressed, we can better refine our own moral and logical arguments for the position we believe correct. Perhaps, even, generating arguments that allow these same individuals to perceive the faults of their current worldview. Without allowing people the freedom to express unpopular, wrong, and even hateful ideas that ultimately harm no one by their mere expression, we deny ourselves the chance to hear radically right ideas that can make society a better place.”
Next day headline after University President Brett L makes this statement: “SIT-INS, VIOLENT PROTESTS IN RESPONSE TO UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT’S WHITE SUPREMACIST STATEMENT. FACULTY DEMAND PRESIDENT BRETT L RESIGN”
“All students engaged in violence will be de-matrictulated.”
Whoa. That’s got to sting.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/glanton/ct-obama-community-dahleen-glanton-met-20170921-column.html
Do they only expect depressed Muslim ghosts to patronize the facility?
Well it is a depressing building.
I guess the wedding parties decided to congregate there.
Even his most solid constituents are beginning to realize Chocolate Jesus was a bloviating, self-important, narcissistic, windbag? Unpossible. Once again, the Biblical prohibition on idolatry is more and more prescient.
His defense of himself, of course, is that comment he made in his primary campaign about being a blank canvas onto which people project their wished and desires.
To us, we heard:
To them, they heard:
From him, when challenged:
speaking of being a narcissistic windbag…..Obama gave an 18 minute speech to the Bill Gates foundation. In those 18 minutes, he referred to himself 42 times. The speech was followed by a 30 minute Q&A session, where he added 54 more uses of I/me/my for a grand total of 96 in 48 minutes.
You should always concentrate on talking about the thing that interests you most.
Here’s an exercise – can you think of someone else with an even larger, more undeserved ego than Obama? Someone with even fewer real accomplishments and even higher self-esteem? I’m sure there’s someone out there, but I’ll be damned if one is coming to mind right now. Trump is in the ballpark but, while he’s had plenty of failed businesses, he does have some notable successes as well. Which, of course, is more than Obama can claim.
Yes. Yes, I can. The person I’m thinking of is still persisting.
Nevertheless?
… you don’t know me vewwy well, do you?
Those uppity nigras need to shut up and keep voting Democrat
like loyal subjects praising their king
yeah right. i’m giving them the benefit of the doubt and calling bullshit on the writer.
The Iowegians are taking our Jobs … with wind power!
No mention of any subsidies. I wonder why not?
It’s Iowa, subsidies are taken for granted. I’m surprise the windmills aren’t made from processed corn polymers.
I used to wonder why Iowa was such a Democratic stronghold until very recently. After reading a bit about ethanol and corn subsidies, I nodded my head and said “Ah, I get it.” (Note: I know, every “reasonable” Republican loves farm subsidies, but they have a minority of “loonies” that agree with us)
I asked an old man recently if we have ever had so many openly socialist shitbags in the country before.
“Oh yeah. The midwestern farmers. They were trying to force everyone to buy their produce.”
Why did he limit it to Midwestern farmers? If anything, it was the southeastern farmers who wanted subsidies because of Lincoln.
I’m surprised each windmill doesn’t have a big ethanol-powered fan standing in front of it.
This made me laugh because it is so absurd and a realistic possibility at the same time.
These are the same people that would love to ruin productive companies that they claim they want to attract
Created jobs? Did these creative jobs involve taxation and government spending?
The “wind race”? Who can pump out the most hot air, journalists or politicians.
Sure they did. It’s right there in the first sentence.
“Fortunately for Milwaukee, the Rockies are doing everything they can to help them in the wild card race as they dropped another one to the Padres.”
Ugh. After 24 years, the Rockies finally have some okay pitching (and they’re mostly rookies) but can’t hit a baseball. No runs in the last 19 innings.
Today’s “Is it real or The Onion” headline (tinyurl’d to hide the truth)
“I’m a Marxist-Feminist Slut. How do I find an open relationship?
We need Admiral Ackbar over here.
Traps are gay.
Get your goddmaned politics out of your relationships and it is not really all that hard.
It always gives me a happy when I see real-life examples of how the left will inevitably eat their own.
*sniff* They grow up so fast!
—Transcript follows —-
Me: You do realize that using every kind of pick to open the lock is analogous to me using every tool I have in the basement to drill a hole, i.e. hammers, saws, grinders, paintbrushes etc. Yo’re meant to select and use the right tool for the job!
Me: I’ve never seen that pattern of tool. Looks a bit overengineered for a pick – my guess – and I’m sure the information is out there somewhere – is that it’s a specific tool to hold a guard tumbler out of the way so you can get to the normal levers.
Libertarian Student Daughter (LSD): Okay,l. And the lock I was unlocking was the practice one they gave me so I think I can use every one.
LSD: Either way, every one works and I know how to use each now
Me: Probably. Now, wrap electrical tape around it so you can’t see the mechanism. Then get back to me.
LSD: I stopped even looking a while back
Me: Time for a balaclava and some night-vision goggles then.
LSD: Yeah, but idk if that’s just cuz I got to know that lock so well
LSD: I might go to Walmart and buy an inexpensive key lock for a change of lock
Me: One of the problems with a plastic body lock is that when you trip the levers and pins, it doesn’t feel the same. You really need some metal locks to practice on
LSD: Also, I need to practice my single point picking some more because the raking style of picking was way too effective on that lock
— TRANSCRIPT ENDS —
Why am I paying for her to get a liberal arts degree? She needs to be enrolled at ninja college ….
There’s always an internship with the Gambino family as a non-college option.
Raking is the best. single pin is a pain in the dick, and only useful sometimes. There’s a reason I always went and tried to slide a credit card through the door to unlock it before the picks came out.
Single pin is helpful on harder stuff, or when raking almost does it all.
She might try the bump method, though she’d have to file the key down for that. I doubt anyone would sell her one.
Maybe I’ll send her a set of bump keys and a slim jim as a “care package”
You are right about full metal locks. it’s a lot easier to ‘feel'(?) what’s going on. I don’t know what picks she has, but the ones that are full metal are also easier in that regard. they make some that have a foam or rubber handle. Some people really like em, but I can’t tell what’s going on.
I think it’s just a simple 15 piece SouthOrd kit and one of those cheap transparent.
.. locks
15 piece is perfect. You really don’t need too many. find what you’re good with, and keep it.
once she knows whats she is doing on the training one, she should pick up a cheap metal padlock. I liked to give the full brass american one to people next. Master is made by the same company, i believe.
Because the locksmith won’t hire her without a degree?
You always have the most delightful, tasteful images to share.
Why am I paying for her to get a liberal arts degree?
Sounds like she’ll be able to repay the student loans. One way or another.
IFL these guys. Question is, can I wake up at 5am?
Amazon to showcase BBC-commissioned series of stand-alone Philip K. Dick adaptations. Bryan Cranston is set to star in one episode.
I really should go back and finish TMitHC.
The Man in the High Castle doesn’t always work, but it’s well-made and entertaining. I mean, cmon, this is a show that somehow manages to have you hoping Hitler isn’t assassinated and gets you to be pulling for Himmler to win a power struggle. That’s a pretty amazing trick.
I kinda lost steam after the thing with the sister and kids. Just seemed too contrived and senseless. But I’d been enjoying it.
“I’m a Marxist-Feminist Slut—How Do I Find an Open Relationship?
Monogamy feels antithetical to the type of feminism and anticapitalism I subscribe to. I am repulsed by the idea of being a man’s property. Also, monogamy—like capitalism—requires us to believe in a false scarcity: that we have to struggle for every little bit and that everything we gain comes at someone else’s expense. The kind of liberatory future I’d like to see is one of abundance and generosity and sharing. One of the few places we can experiment with that now is in our love lives.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/im-a-marxist-feminist-slut-how-do-i-find-an-open-relationship/
Wow.
If you think monogamy is about being someone’s property, then yeah, maybe it’s not for you. Also, please don’t raise children.
By that rationale, is the man also your property?
That ring around your finger is just a symbolic version of the metal torq that was worn around Saxon slave necks, demonstrating that while the slave may claim ownership of his thoughts, centered in the head, the owner of the slave claims ownership of the body.
I joked once that I was going to buy my girlfriend a ring, to chain her to the kitchen sink.
She was not amused.
I am repulsed by the idea of being a man’s property.
IOW she doesn’t understand what monogamy is.
In fairness, at least she’s honest about it. I’d much rather know going in that my hook-up is trifling than finding out a year later she’s been running around on the sly.
Author can’t see the obvious.
I love that video. Most of the women I know love it too.
We were shown it in the interpersonal comms class I was required to take. The instructor used it, totally unironically, as an example of how men should be better listeners. Just listen and patronize your wife, guys.
Holy shit is that funny! Thanks, commodious.
My wife damn near peed herself when I showed her that video awhile ago. It’s simple genius.
The young lady in the video absolutely, ahem, nails her rôle, too. (Yeah, I went there. Get over it.)
Hammered already?
Just got around to reading this. Holy shit.
Excuse me.
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“No exes or class enemies?”
Class enemies? What the fuck? For the record, the Soviet Union was incredibly sexually repressive and you would have been gulagged for loudly proclaiming to be a “slut”. Just FYI.
“a false scarcity: that we have to struggle for every little bit and that everything we gain comes at someone else’s expense. ”
WTF was “You didn’t build that” but the false concept that everything you gain comes at someone else’s expense?
hahahahahaha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs8X44ypHmM
TDS is child abuse.
https://twitter.com/MPasset/status/910513444734062592
https://twitter.com/MPasset/status/909593294232887298
And just above is “Also, monogamy—like capitalism—requires us to believe in a false scarcity: that we have to struggle for every little bit and that everything we gain comes at someone else’s expense. ”
Lefties deny reality, news at 11. The numbers of these people are only increasing as academia pumps out thousands of snowflakes who cant handle reality.
That’s fine. Some of us are preparing the opposition.
James Delingpole interviewed a Cambridge philosopher who had finally concluded that philosophy is just an elaborate denial of reality, and that socialists/Commies are the most deluded bunch of reality-deniers of the lot.
Actually, that’s a pretty good description of wealth redistribution. In a free market, wealth is created through voluntary exchange between individuals. People trade what they want to trade with other people, and the people on either side of the transaction benefit. If you actually want to eliminate or reduce poverty, you’d be all for it. Of course, if you just don’t like the idea that there are people who are wealthier than you are, income redistribution probably sounds like a better idea.
There are people of good faith who disagree with me, for sure. Then, there are people like this guy. They’re not serious people, and shouldn’t be sitting at the grown-ups table. Spend the time and effort to have meaningful discussions with the former type; hand the latter a box of crayons, sit them in a corner, and don’t waste any more time with them.
Of course he’s not a serious person – he’s a producer for John Oliver.
Eight years of “the most transparent government ever” bears fruit: agencies adopt practice of suing FOIA applicants to block requests.
(Yes, it’s an unfair dig at Obama and no, I’m not going to apologize for it.)
BULLY!
Racist!
Is this for journos only or if I happen to be a grad student and need access to government data and I going to get sued because I need to write a research paper?
Depends: are you towing the public lion, or are you just some prick trying to embarrass the agency?
Saw this story, titled Moderate Blue Dogs see new influence over Dem recruitment, linked at Instapundit. It’s mostly unremarkable, but at the end there was this rather interesting quote, responding to the notion that the far-left progs have taken over the Donks and won’t vote for the supposed moderates:
Absolutely true….and the perfect example for the voters of why so-called “Blue Dogs” are a sham. He’s explicitly saying here “Look, we don’t openly espouse the same policies, but since we’re all Democrats it doesn’t matter anyway. We’ll vote with the party, which is entirely prog.”
“We are never going to get any of our far left lunacy made policy if we dont get moderates to front for us.”
Got it.
Note to site operators – I just lost a comment because I got a “login expired” message when I tried to post it, and going back from the error screen deleted the comment. I ain’t cryin’ about it or nothin’, just letting you know it can happen.
Happens to me every lunchtime. I really should log out and back in at a quieter commenting time during the day.