OK, I don’t want to say I was coughing a lot last night but, my wife was walking up to me with a tear in her eye, a tank of CO, a hose and mask set up, and a copy of an instruction manual by Jack Kevorkian – I feebly waved her away and am still here to give you some links.
- The Wheels of Justice grind slowly….hopefully they will grind this guy into dust.
- We’ll have to see how this works out – take a look, San Francisco.
- First step on the path to bunny boiling?
- This headline got me thinking they were going to skip the rape/casting couch stuff. Bah.
Imma go rig up the shop vac to suck the crud out of my lungs. Nobel Prize for Medicine, here I come!
Soon you will be mine!
Too. many. great. racks!
http://archive.is/18NZm
13. Not many naturals in that group.
13 yes! and 2 as well.
Not many naturals in that group.
Yes, numbers 9, 18 and 25 look like they picked the lowest-cost bidders for the plastic surgery.
Always remember you get what you pay for.
#13 yes and I’ll bet you’d love to motorboat her!
That dog’s face in 17…hahaha
7 & 38
Best first ever right there. ^^^
Good God, we are starting off links now with boobs? Ok, I’m all in.
You’re all wrong.
29 and 41 can bear my children.
Rock on KMFDM vs Skold
“The Wheels of Justice grind slowlyā¦.hopefully they will grind this guy into dust.”
And some call him pig.
Sounds like Training Day.
Married teacher ‘forced students to have SEX with her to get good grades’ at Colombian school THICC, but that crotch tat is a little aggressive imo
Would
Yeah
Butterface
While technically accurate, the THICCNESS certainly corrects for that
The blurry picture you can’t tell which means I’ll just have to drink more.
STEVE SMITH PICTURES ALWAYS BLURRY. WOULD DRINK WITH RBS.
Was hoping the first link was about Jon Burge.
“Imma go rig up the shop vac to suck the crud out of my lungs. Nobel Prize for Medicine, here I come!”
You may have to settle for a darwin award.
The soldiers that shot at the guy and didn’t manage to kill him are undoubtedly in a prison camp now. SHould have run with him.
404’ed that mother.
I think that story has been disappeared into a prison camp, too.
Fuckin’ “V” key is sticky. Sometimes I end up double-pasting
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42076543
Fuckinā āVā key is sticky.
Go on…
I just saw that. I watched a Net Geo special on North Korea last week. What a hell hole. Going through ones entire life being absolutely terrified to death to say the wrong thing or not sufficiently praising the great leader everytime you great someone. I would rather be dead.
It’s funny how over the top gore just gets a shrug from me, but this grainy footage is like a shot to the gut.
No pun intended.
Dis page no be found.
Say May vs. Hammond headline and was worried about
Top GearThe Grand Tour.Facebook will let some of its users see if they interacted with Russian propaganda
When you live in a bubble of like minded people, you come up with really bad plans like this. Some asshole in Facebook thinks this is the best way to make people feel as if they were manipulated on an individual level when in reality it’s just going to reveal that Russian propaganda didn’t influence a single voter. They’re going to do the work in showing how ridiculous their arguments are.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
That is exactly the first thing that popped in my head. Holy shit the left is dumb. They are just getting skewered everywhere. Nobody except true useful idiots are falling for their bullshit. Everyone is just rolling their eyes and waiving them away.
By all means pinkos, double down.
Didn’t Jill Stein abruptly call off her recount effort after the initial results illustrated the complete opposite of what she expected?
Don’t underestimate stupid.
My coworker is a leftie and I think he buys the whole thing hook line and sinker.
If the Russians managed to do what these idiots are alleging they managed to do, decisively sway an election in a major power with a shoestring budget, they deserve to be our masters.
Will there be sufficient vodka rations? And do I get an AK74?
All that and a Slavic model too.
Can you trade the 74 for an AKM?
I for one welcome our new sexy overlords.
According to the last Family Guy, not only did the Russians rig the election, but all the NFL games as well.
This sounds like it has even less credibility than the Equifax “enter your social security number to see if you were affected by the breach on our systems”.
They should make it so you can see who “interacted” (whatever the fuck that means in this case). Like I can click on someone’s profile and it tells me “John Smith saw this ad which was paid for by THE RUSSIANS!!!!!!!!!
Any blue who gets it will pat themself on the back for being too smart to fall for that propaganda and instead being a loyal lever puller.
What about Soros propaganda?
Speaking of which — I’m sorry, but I’ve had a ton of work for the past several weeks, so I haven’t been on much — have the Tom Steyer “impeach him now” prime-time TV commercials been discussed on Glibs? I saw one of the commercials, and he had enough straw men to fill a corporate cornfield.
I saw one of those on CNN at a restaurant where I was eating lunch. It really was laughably bad but if he wants to piss his money down a hole while preaching to the choir he can be my guest.
I was in San Diego a few weeks ago, and that ad was on repeatedly when I turned on the local news. A billionaire twat really thinks he might get traction in nullifying an election through teevee ads calling for impeachment based on…. something. He may want to at least diversify his market targets with the ad, because it takes, like, a bunch of votes from all over to get an impeachment.
Oh, he’s got a big billboard in Times Square too. It made a big splash with my morning news-idiots.
Based on I’m spending a lot of money and gawdammit money buys political results! Doesn’t it?
Facebook: “Attention plebe. You know those ads that we slip into your content that you usually ignore? Well, it seems that, during the last election season, you may have stumbled upon a Russian-backed advertisement that duped you into voting for a foul-mouthed Nazi.”
Plebe: “Well, actually, I studied the important issues and voted my conscience.”
Facebook: “Nope. The Russkies are pretty tricky. You were fooled. They do things like convince people much smarter than you to hide classified material in pumpkins and stuff.”
Plebe: “See, I don’t even really use Facebook much. I just look at pictures of my grandson sometimes.”
Facebook: “It’s okay. The Russians did steal the election with your help, but you were just a patsy.”
hide classified material in pumpkins
And to use Jello carton labels to identify super-secret spy contacts!
I’m still waiting for an explanation of how some Facebook ads are totally the deciding factor despite every major media outlet sans Fox News was undeniably in the tank for Hillary.
Pa is in the Pedro Miguel Lock now
Cool
What a great trip!
Facebook will let some of its users see if they interacted with Russian propaganda
“This proves my innocence. I was duped.”
I feel for you Swiss. We have a bug in our house too. I feel like hammered cat shit.
You people aren’t drinking enough. No virus can survive inside my body.
Poor Vhyrus. Just one more rejection in a long sad string.
I’m trying!
My girlfriend got me sick. I’m not codeine syrup sick, but woke up feeling less than healthy this morning.
I do get the last laugh though…she lost her voice today. It’s going to be a quiet night at home.
This happens to my wife every time she gets sick yet she refuses to take my advice and stop talking.
I’m sure you’ve already done the cost benefit analysis.
I was lied to. She came home and won’t shut up. ?
Joe Barton
Since when is volume of crude oil measured in gallons? I guess “5,000 barrels spilled” doesn’t give off enough punchy hysterics.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/200000-gallons-of-oil-spill-from-the-keystone-pipeline/546158/
Why, that’s 1.6 million pints!
757 million ml !
No photos? I wonder why.
Eh, reporting on the Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon spills included both gallons and barrels. But this is chump change compared to the Valdez (52x this spill), and that in turn was nothing compared to Horizon (980x this spill).
So quick rant. I work on a help desk fixing custom SQL procdures for customers. However yesterday a compatriot made a mistake and now everyone on the help desk (of which im the only one who’s supposed to be running SQL queries) has to get every single query checked before it can be run. This has gotten incredibly ridiculous as I often write quick small stuff to understand the bugs that get reported to me.
I don’t always test my code, but when I do, I do it in production.
Don’t know your workplace, and that sucks, but there should be an integration or testing SQL server for this sort of thing.
Im mostly frustrated that I can’t run my procedures (in a test environment it otherwise) without first getting it approved. It has killed my ability to troubleshoot errors rapidly.
It’s been my experience that people don’t like confrontation. So, instead of dealing with the one guy who caused the problem, they’ll institute a blanket policy that slows everybody down. I’ve seen it happen with SAs. Management types don’t seem to realize it leads to people getting frustrated and sometimes leaving.
That sounds pretty much like what happened.
Yep. We went through several years where, every time some office assistant forgets to check a box, the hiring manual grows by 5 pages. We have new top administrators now and are starting to dig out, but there is a lot of sand in the gears that has to be flushed out and it’s going to take a while (and we still need to get rid of one or two people who bear a lot of responsibility for the current mess. You know who you are, GC)
Did he run a delete or a drop table or something?
And how about having read only accounts for 95% of use. I would assume select is most of what you are doing.
You can wreak havoc with SELECT if you’re not careful working on a large enough database. For example, join two massive tables on unindexed columns. Fun times.
Been there, done that.
Correlated sub-query. Hey, it did work – you just had to be careful with it.
Wait, what? You can JOIN two (or more) tables, or selected data from tables, without directly making a JOIN statement?
If so, I’ve been fucking lucky.
It happens when you’re testing things for Little Bobby Tables.
I recently had a project held up for 5 weeks while waiting for our DBA’s to change the type on two fields in a database that wasn’t holding any production data yet.
Loving this Ajit Pai dude. Anyone who gets the Net Neutrality dumbfucks to ‘sperg out so hard is alright in my book.
Couldn’t they just die ‘sperging out rather than inflicting their rants on the rest of us?
BUT PRIOR TO 2015 THE INTERNET WAS SO UNFAIR!!!!!1!1!!1!!!!11111!!!
AND I HAVE THESE PICTURES OF DATA PLANS IN PORTUGAL AND NEW ZEALAND TO PROVE HOW BAD IT WILL BE!*
* The pictures are actually mobile data adverts for plans that would allow users to have certain apps, say Skype, not be counted towards their data cap. But we won’t mention that part.
Sort of like T-Mobile not counting most of the audio application streaming and some video streaming against their user’s data. The horror… the horror.
Or Netflix actually doing the thing they said NN would keep from happening, and fucking it up.
I’m not up on all the minutiae of this battle but me… I don’t stream. So I bought the mobile plan with a 2GB limit and I bet I’m still subsidizing all the idiots watching their TV on their little 4″ screens anyway. As for internet, I don’t even know if my provider offers anything that might save me a little money but I sure doubt it.
The more they squawk the bigger grin Trump is going to have when that whole steaming pile goes in the trash. Has he shitcanned it already?
He’s proposed rolling back key provisions, as I understand it. Mainly revoking the common carrier status, which shunts regulatory obligations back to the FTC rather than keeping them under the FCC.
Ajit Pai is pretty much a free market guy, as far as I’ve read. I have no idea how he got where he is.
Well, he’s Indian. That’s like holding a special snowflake card and being very intelligent at the same time. So there’s your answer.
The look on the face of that clothes burning detective. *shudders* She will boil a bunny one day for sure.
Also, would not
I thought it was great. Yeah, I did it, and I’d do it again bitches. I would.
Crazy and thicc.
Yeah, she’s firmly on the “wood” side of my hot/crazy matrix.
“NYPD headquarters in lower Manhattan, set the blaze destroying $200 worth of her husbandās clothes in his master bedroom close”
A lousy two hundred bucks? I’ve got shoes that cost more than that.
Proof that cops are underpaid!
/copsucker
Are you secretly Kmele Foster?
Wayne Cochran dead at 78
Gilmore hardest hit.
I’ll really miss him.
Goddammit. The generation in music and entertainment that I have known all of my life are dropping like flies. I feel old. The one that still gets me is Rodney Dangerfield. I loved that guy.
Donāt feel bad, I still miss Jackie Gleason.
One of these days, Stinky. Right to the fucking moon.
Agreed, it’s starting to hit closer and closer to home as it were
Tell me about it.
I’m not aging well.
You and David Cassidy.
At least we still have Lou Reed.
I will wear a black armband
I thought a black headband would mess up my hair
I cant belive roger waters is still touring. I remember an interview circa 1984 and he hated touring. Circa 1999 sone kind of switch flipped.
Fell off a wagon? ugly divorce?
/money
And from what I read, is loading his tour with TDS.
Yeh, like I’m gonna spend money to see that.
TDS in addition to “it’s all (((there))) fault” or just TDS?
Oh, he’s still kept the “It’s all (((their))) fault” part of his show, he’s just incorporated TDS into the BDS.
*golf-claps*
We went to his show in Oakland a few months back and had fantastic seats. Yes, there was TDS, but you could ignore it. Played all of DSM, Animals, Wish you Were Here — which were all mind-blowing, with great lightshow/multimedia effects. A couple of nice surprises, too, and only a couple of ‘here’s a song from my new album”. We were very, very glad we went, and still talking about it/humming songs a few days later. Two sopranos in a duet nailing ‘The Great Gig in the Sky” was a real treat.
DSM-IV, or DSM-5?
I’ve probably mentioned this already, but in 2002, I saw the Dead Kennedys in London, on their ‘Mutiny on the Bay’ tour. They’d kicked out Jello Biafra, and had Brandon Cruz singing, which I for one was pretty happy about, since it meant that I wouldn’t have to hear any 40 minute lectures from Biafra on GW Bush (not that I liked him) or Monsanto or whatever.
I’ve only seen jello once…but he was kinda just bumming around with Reverend Horton Heat and they played a few DK songs (sounded pretty cool with a stand-up bass). He strangely enough didn’t rant about politics either. It was a great show.
Who of us will be around to comment on Keith Richards’ passing?
I would have guessed Lemmy but that didn’t work out.
You might be right, taking an entity from another plane of existence to witness that.
At least we still have Lou Reed.
Not too much derp here, but the title made me laugh.
SOCIALISTS ARE WINNING THE BATTLE OF IDEAS
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/socialists-are-winning-the-battle-of-ideas
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Have a look at the Democratic Party Platform. Hillary Clintonās campaign didnāt talk about it very much, perhaps because itās a strongly Sanders-influenced document, but itās actually impressive. It goes through every area of policy and explains what the problems are, and what the Democrats intend to do about them. Itās not a list of complaints about Republicans. Itās a set of clear, though simplified, policy priorities, on how to fix the financial industry, campaign finance, education, health care, and civil rights. I donāt agree with all of it (it contains a totally unnecessary disavowal of the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions movement).
…
Thatās partly because on our side, there are plenty of people who are offering ideas. Independent left media outlets like Jacobin are explaining clearly what the left stands for, how particular plans would work, and what the strategy is for achieving them. The Peopleās Policy Project is offering clear explanations of why economic injustice occurs, thinking through bold new ideas about how to give workers a greater say in how their companies are run, or responding clearly and carefully to criticisms of single-payer healthcare, and then examining ways to actually bring these changes about. Black Lives Matter released an incredibly detailed and practical policy agenda, full of suggestions for real reforms that would address the hideous unfairness of the criminal justice system.
…
The American right no longer has plausible-sounding answers to the serious questions people need answers to. So it barely even tries. (Again, read the leading right-wing websites and see for yourself.) Socialists, on the other hand, are having what Ross Douthat called in 2014 a āminiature intellectual renaissance.ā Douthat thought the intellectual popularity wouldnāt translate into political popularity, because ordinary people werenāt as upset and frustrated as socialism presumed them to be. 2016 blew a great big hole in that theory. The left is doing well, because millennials are tired of life in the āgig economy.ā Young women preferred Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton by a stunning 37 percentage points. Our ideas are doing well, and with the right incapable of offering alternatives, weāll only grow further.
***
Well of course it’s winning the battle of ideas… within the Democratic Party. Nationally it’s going to ensure a few decades of Republican rule.
Bonus points for the out-of-nowhere anti-
SemitismZionism.And then the republicans will over-reach and do several equally stupid things, swinging the pendulum back to the democratis. Rinse. Repeat. It’s fucking tiresome.
You’re right. I’ll just add it’s also predictable.
He cites young people as evidence. Apparently he has never heard “If you are under 30 and not a lefty you have no heart. If you are over 30 and not a righty you have no brain.”
I’ve leaned right but was much more liberal minded back in my 20s. Then I matured and worked towards something and now have something to lose. There’s not question I view left-wingers (be it in the mould of Sanders, Trudeau, Democrats, NDP whatever) as threatening my lot.
I also find myself, admittedly, questioning someone in a similar situation as mine who would nonetheless vote NDP or cites Sanders. It’s not a good look to be in your 50s and still think like that. But that’s me and strictly a personal view.
By being in “a similar situation”, you mean owning your own business that doesn’t depend on government grants and set-asides. Any Sanders supporter that owns their own business is guaranteed to be feeding at the trough.
Yes. I mean that. Or just plain have something to lose be it via estate taxes, property taxes, capital gains/divdend taxes, owning rental/revenue income properties, investments etc.
A personal view shared by me. My own son came out of college very smart and very lefty. He has a lot of drive and ambition so snagged a primo job. After he looked at his first paycheck he was aghast. He leans way right now. Winning the war of ideas, my ass.
Also notice that the article’s illustration is of a fist. Same ol’ pattern with these fuckers. They start with ad hominems, then threats, then the fist. They are the same always and everywhere like they are stamped out with the same cookie cutter.
Obama tells me you didn’t build that; therefore it’s OK for me to take it.
That little trick about ‘you didn’t build that’ is a perverse interpretation of ‘it takes a village’ and is used to guilt us into thinking and believing ‘we’re all in this together’.
I remember a lefty socialist here on radio – Anne-Legace Dowson – would always inject that ‘taxes are the price we pay for civilization’ and ‘we’re in this together’ crap.
I always tell people like this one thing: Where were YOU when I snuggled to make rent or payroll? Are you gonna lend me money if I come up short with this month’s mortgage?
They couldn’t care less and suddenly ‘civilization’ takes a different turn.
For them to metaphorically take ‘credit’ is exactly how losers think.
They literally think they have a right to what you – and you alone – built.
This sounds like a story
/face palm.
I swear ‘snuggled’ never entered my brain.
STRUGGLED.
Are you sure? Sounds like you have something to add to #metoo.
#snuggled too
They are certainly winning in Venezuela. And Cuba. And North Korea. Everywhere else they are winning are circling the drain too. Yeah, they are winning alright. Keep telling yourself that. How’s that red/blue map of the US looking these days Nate?
It was nice to hear again today the story of the first two years of the Pilgrims, about how the first year the Mayflower compact was essentially creating a commune, with public ownership of all the lands, buildings and crops, with everyone getting an equal share. And how when some people started realizing they’d get a share no matter what they did, so they stopped working. And then others thought ‘what’s the point of knocking myself out to give it to that lazy ass’ and slowed down. And next thing you know, the Pilgrims almost starved to death over the winter. So they redrew the contract for the next year, and gave property rights, and increased reward for hard work and performance, and what do you know? They had a banner year, with so much bounty they could invite the nearby Indians to come for a big feast. And so became America.
It should be a tale told at every Thanksgiving table, especially at those families with smarty-pants college kids who insist that ‘real communism has never been tried’. It never works on any scale, kids.
This guy.
I also have to question the intellectual and moral compass of people who think it’s a good idea to name (and write for) their publication ‘Jacobin’.
It’s the very definition of reactionary.
I mean, it’s an explicitly communist-supporting magazine, so you know what you’re getting into all the way through.
Well, they get a plus for that.
Unlike the NYT and other mainstream outlets who still try to laughably convince they’re objective and centrist.
I think the NYT has thrown their mask away. They just published an open love letter to Kim Jong…whatever his name is. Porkchop. They are in love with Porkchop.
If I owned a newspaper and one of my writers tried to publish that in my paper their ass would hit the sidewalk in ten seconds. From the top floor window.
That wasn’t their worst article of the year by the way. That was this Paean to Mao, which manages never to use the words “great leap forward”.
They were op-eds as part of different series they did
e.g. they did one series entirely on “The Legacy of Communism” (Red Century) and another called “The Stone” which invites various philosophy professors to write think-pieces.
the formats allow them to spin all this stuff as just 3rd party perspectives. Of course, the 3rd party perspectives they choose to highlight are entirely the decision of their own editorial staff and obviously are trying to establish these ideas at the center of what ‘smart people’ (what NYT readers think of themselves as) should be thinking about.
they were always very lefty in their editorials and their choice of coverage, and every now and then they’d write something that would show their hand; these new series are more like, ‘showing their hand every 5 minutes’ and making it far more part of their core-content.
Just remember Walter Duranty reported for ’em.
What some organization should do is sponsor a Walter Duranty Award for the biggest political lie that a leftard news organization publishes. Trouble is, given the enormous amounts of derp out there, how could you find only one outfit to honor with the trophy?
Indeed.
In a battle of ideas only an idea can win.
Logic is not the strong suit of socialists. Nor is grammar. Or definitions.
Their ideas don’t have to actually work, they just need to be “plausible-sounding.”
Infantry loads in 20th century wars
WW1: 60 lbs
WW2: 58 lbs
Vietnam: 68 lbs
Now: 80 to 120 lbs
I blame overzealous supply moles
https://youtu.be/0HmT5jqy-iE?t=4m30s
Fun fact: WW2 riflemen carried only 88 rounds vs. 210 today.
That’s because they carried 8 shot rifles. 88 rounds is 11 clips, while 210 rounds is only 7 magazines today.
Not to mention 30-06 vs 223 weight
How much of that is body armor?
helmet 3 pounds
armor (IBA type) 15 pounds
bull to the shit. Body armor is at least 25 of those pounds.
depends on the type
wiki sez:
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Originally the IBA system weighed 16.4 pounds (7.4 kg), with the vest weighing 8.4 pounds (3.8 kg), and two plate inserts weighing four pounds (1.8 kg) each. This is lighter than the previous Ranger Body Armor fielded in Somalia which weighed 25.1 pounds (11.4 kg).
***
Why Some Countries Are Poor and Others Rich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-4V3HR696k
“Comments are disabled for this video.”
Of course they are.
short version: not enough tax revenue! tribalism! religion! anything except socialism!
Property rights?
Absolutely not! Did you know most poor countries are landlocked? Yeah, that’s the ticket. Bolivia isn’t poor because of socialism. Heaven forbid! It’s all geography.
I know you are being sarcastic but I have to say…I have spent some time in Bolivia and I assure you geography has nothing to do with it. I am amazed they know how to breath on their own.
Switzerland is poor because it’s landlocked.
That stretch of coast they lost to Chile wasn’t exactly prime port country.
Botswana has one of the highest GDP’s per capita on the continent. Property rights and Rule of Law have nothing to do with that.
nope. Nothing.
The Almighty nails it. Property rights are the heart and soul of wealth creation.
I mostly lurk, but I just wanted to post that Derpe is the worst person ever for showing me that youtube channel last night. It is the living embodiment of that Black Science Guy tweet about needing Rationalia. Top Men know everything and if humans just don’t act like humans then we can all live in Utopia. It’s pure evil pretending to be deep thoughts.
Also, its funny. None of the other videos on that channel had their comments disabled. So the second they get any push back and they hide behind the youtube protections. Fuck these people hard.
I have received nothing but the highest praise from the commentariat:
PapayaSF|4.29.14 @ 9:10PM|#
You are truly the Duke of Derp.
Cytotoxic|4.29.14 @ 10:36PM|#
I’m not touching that, but I already known this may be the most concentrated ultrapure derp you’ve ever brought here. Your Derpology masterpiece.
Sudden|4.29.14 @ 11:22PM|#
Y’know Derptologist, I made a conscious decision not to have children so that I wouldn’t get pissed off by shit that’s 11 years old.
Thanks for fucking that up for me.
Bobarian|8.10.14 @ 6:02PM|#
That, right there, is the derpiest thing you’ve ever brought on to HampersandR.
Well played.
Suthenboy|3.11.15 @ 5:44PM|#
Why in the name of God would you show us that? What the hell did we do to you?
sarcasmic|11.8.14 @ 6:36PM|#
That was awesome. I’m stealing that.
BigT|7.2.14 @ 10:37PM|#
GMSM, Derp is obsessed. Just walk away. You don’t want to go where he can lead you.
Free Society|3.12.15 @ 10:29AM|#
I watched the video. I hate you Derpetologist.
WTF|3.12.15 @ 10:36AM|#
You really are a Sadist, you know that, don’t you?
BuSab Agent|3.8.14 @ 2:21AM|#
Okay, Derp you owe me a keyboard.
Scruffy Nerfherder|4.22.14 @ 9:01PM|#
You’re hurting my brain with this shit.
Jordan|3.27.14 @ 10:29PM|#
This comment needs more love because that shit is hilarious.
jesse.in.mb|3.27.14 @ 10:08PM|#
Hail Derpetologist, our libertarian messiah!
Notorious G.K.C.|11.9.14 @ 9:07PM|#
Derpy, this could well be one of your most frightening finds yet.
Hyperion|11.9.14 @ 9:43PM|#
I have to day, that link that Derptologist posted above with Yuri Bezmenov, that is one of the best things I have ever seen here or anywhere.
SweatingGin|8.21.13 @ 8:31PM|#
That’s worse than SugarFree’s musings.
Irish|1.29.15 @ 9:38PM|#
You’re a master, Derpetologist. I take back what I said about you.
Wasteland Wanderer|3.13.15 @ 5:52PM|#
You are an evil person. I hope you know that.
Swiss Servator… Switzy!|3.18.15 @ 10:49AM|#
Never link to that again, plz.
GILMORE|1.10.14 @ 11:12PM|#
Oh god, that’s painful
Aloysious|8.6.14 @ 7:37PM|#
dear god.
DesigNate|5.13.14 @ 2:29PM|#
You are a good man Derpetologist, I could never steel myself to study the Derp as you have.
Warty|3.9.15 @ 2:00PM|#
You are truly a monster.
Cytotoxic|11.30.14 @ 11:19PM|#
Brilliant. You truly are the leader in your field.
GILMORE writes:
Then there’s other stuff for which I blame Derptologist – I click all his links to ‘leftist retards’, and now I get all sorts of stuff that is supposed to appeal to ‘fans of leftist retards’. Not “people who want to mock them!”
Aloysious|5.26.14 @ 4:08PM|#
You have nothing to apologize for, keep ’em coming. I admit I torture some of my prog family with what you post. They haz a sad.
Sidd Finch v2.01|9.11.15 @ 10:41PM|#
Derpotologist does more background checking for fun than the Times does for new hires.
Agile Cyborg|10.8.14 @ 9:13PM|#
You seem very interesting.
Francisco d’Anconia|4.17.16 @ 3:09PM|#
My blood pressure was so much lower when you were in training.
Lord Humungus|2.5.15 @ 12:28PM|#
You’re a great American, Derpetologist.
Homple|9.28.16 @ 7:39PM|#
Thanks for eroding my will to live.
This one should go on your tombstone.
Yeah. That’s my favorite one.
That’s the one that made me lol.
I miss that crazy cosmonaut.
I don’t see my name in there.
Here you go:
PlĆ ya Manhattan.|3.30.15 @ 3:43PM|#
You forgot the part where you told me I looked like Dane Cook.
That’s the meanest thing anyone has ever said to me.
Derpetologist|3.30.15 @ 3:49PM|#
I left it out of the story on purpose to be nice and now you bring it up again.
Sheesh!
So you keep a collection of the cries of pain from your victims then huh? I think that qualifies you as a sociopath.
I regret nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSTOHa4Im4
Male shrikes and butcher birds attract mates by displaying their larders: thorny places where they impale their prey.
That’s quite an endorsement.
I agree
Good Ol’ AC did more drugs than everyone at Woodstock.
Both of them.
Agile Cyborg Facts
According to an analysis by electron microscope, Agile Cyborg actually is insane in the membrane.
Crop circles are actually the results of Agile Cyborg’s attempt to mow his lawn.
The works of James Joyce are based on Agile Cyborg’s performance in a spelling bee.
Agile Cyborg once got really high and played in a sandbox. This was the inspiration for the novel Dune.
Agile Cyborg used to be an optometrist. His first and only patient was Salvador Dali.
Agile Cyborg uses his third eye so much he has to put Visine in it.
Imagine if every human being who ever lived was Timothy Leary and they all decided to drink coffee and play Scrabble until they died. This is basically what is going on in Agile Cyborg’s brain.
Agile Cyborg won a staring contest against the eye of a hurricane.
Agile Cyborg once got high enough to gaze OUT of his navel.
The album covers of Judas Priest are actually the attempts of Agile Cyborg to draw a smiley face.
Agile Cyborg|11.15.15 @ 9:07PM|#
Derpe melted into a death sandwich on a very hot prison pan.
Where the fuck was edit fairy that day?
You actually keep a journal of people’s comments to your posts? You really are involved with this derp thing, man, I can’t remember the Yuri Bezmenov post right now, but if I said it’s good, it damn sure must be.
Nothing around here surprises me any more.
Here ya go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA
That’s the short version. The full length videos are worth it.
Oh yes, now I remember, that is great stuff right there.
I would love for any leftist to listen to that and actually understand what the guy is saying. Of course, they won’t be able to understand it because of the exact reasons he’s stating.
Ah, yes, Bezmenov – only would be interviewed by a Bircher. I still harbor a suspicion that he might have been the ultimate disinformation op.
Keith Partridge dead at 67.
Still?
I thought he was 57?
That’s the number of States, C’mon now
I hope your health situation improves Senator Paul.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/opinions/kelley-paul-since-the-attack-opinion/index.html
Man, sounds like that POS Boucher really did a number on him.
“DumpChumpTrump 52 minutes ago
I think Boucher tried to talk to him, but Rand Totally Ignored him.
Rand’s wife makes sure to mention that Rand was wearing noise cancelling headphones.
Apparently Rand was uncomfortable with the lawn mower noise, but he was not considerate if the noise also bothered neighbors.
But then, being inconsiderate of others is a Republican Trait.”
I hate the sound of lawn mowers especially when I finally get the chance on a lazy Sunday afternoon when all is quiet and someone revs it up. But that’s what it is living in a civil society but apparently the left, who squawk on about civility, don’t have a problem with acting uncivil when it suits their infantile world view.
I’m surrounded by ‘keener’ neighbours. All they do is work on their houses and cars and what not. They’re the only three on the street who are this keen so it makes for some action. One of my neighbours cuts his grass every four fucken days and right into November. He’s a pain in the ass but a really nice guy and I’m not about to make a stink about it. Another bad habit of his is when he starts his snow blower….at 11pm at night during a school/work week because he can’t bear to have one inch of snow on his driveway. That really bothers me because it goes on for one hour or so.
That is when I get the chance to sit down with a drink outside on my deck – which I don’t do as much as I could or should.
“Noise cancelling headphones” means he was listening to music or some other audio while mowing his lawn. What a monster.
I love the sound of a lawnmower. It reminds me of the summers of my youth, girls in skimpy clothes and the smell of fresh cut grass.
There is definitely something not being said about this attack on Paul. I find it disturbing. Speaking of which, we still know jack shit about the Vegas shooting.
Speaking of knowing jack shit – how about the Justine Damond and Ismael Lopez bad cop shootings (MN and MS respectively). I run a google search each week and nothing on what is happening in either one.
I love how these idiots want to have it both ways.
Mowing your lawn == inconsiderate of your neighbors’ ears.
Not mowing your lawn == inconsiderate of your neighbor’s eyes.
That reminds me of my neighbour to my right. Where the other guy it’s overkill, this one has ragweed that have morphed into real beings now. I have conversations with them he cares so little for his grass.
I’m a tweener. This year I didn’t feel like going to war with my grass.
The Grass Wars of 2017: A five-part mini-series about life, death, and the search for peace on the Canadian plains. Staring Mark Harmon as Rufus, and Sam Eliot as his neighbor. Lemonade provided by Country Tyme.
I’ve been told I look more along the lines of Pierce Brosnan and Keeanu Reeves. My wife, sister and mother think I act like Ray Romano and Seinfeld.
Look, pal, when we say “inspired by a true story” that means we made this shit up. We’ve already cast Mark Harmon and he’s not going away without several million dollars. So, from now on, you look like Mark Harmon. Capisce?
MARK HARMON IS MY PAL!
+1 Ted Bundy
Franken and Huffington, sitting on a bed, Al grabs Arianna’s boob, and doesn’t get hisself smacked in the head.
Franken’s version of an “O-face”
Arianna has never been afraid of her sexuality.
So when we joke about ‘would’ around here, is that now considered sexual assault?
Yeh, she *vagged* her way into money I’ve read.
“Would” is just a precursor for rape!
I cant wait to see that smug prick sink.
Ummm… is fun one of those humpty dumpty words now?
I too have contemplated ysing a sopvac to suck the crud outta my lungs when I was sick before. Let me know how that works out
I’m thinking he should ask his wife to string up by his ankles and let him drip dry.
ah, the famous Turkmenistani poet, Ysing Sopvac
He never got the credit he deserved you know.
I’m writing an opera based on His Life, comes out next Year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/21/dont-force-your-kids-to-hug-family-members-during-holidays-girl-scouts-advise/?utm_term=.7c4b2a6e539f&wpisrc=nl_mix&wpmm=1
TL;DR version: encourage your pre-adolescent daughter to hug grandpa during the holidays and she’ll grow up to fuck half her co-ed dorm by age 20.
Because of reinforced patriarchal privilege, or some such shit.
Pinkos are totally not trying to destroy the family.
I just be satisfied if the theory was backed up by even the most flimsy of studies showing a horribly flawed algorithm ‘proving’ correlation equals causation.
As far as I can see, this is just a case of hyperventilating over a big fat hill of nothingburger. Or, THE PENIS IS EVIL, HAIL ZARDOZ!!!
I’m getting pretty sick of hearing “social science” bull shit embellished with the term algorithm.
It’s just one more item in a trend of grandiose language designed to intimidate people into agreeing with you.
Social Sciences are the white people of society.
today I learned
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At first, the view by the Department of War Ordnance Department was that soldiers would waste ammunition by firing too rapidly with repeating rifles, and thus denied a government contract for all such weapons. (They did, however, encourage the use of carbine breechloaders that loaded one shot at a time. Such carbines were shorter than a rifle and well suited for cavalry.)[8] More accurately, they feared that the Army’s logistics train would be unable to provide enough ammunition for the soldiers in the field, as they already had grave difficulty bringing up enough ammunition to sustain armies of tens of thousands of men over distances of hundreds of miles. A weapon able to fire several times as fast would require a vastly expanded logistics train and place great strain on the already overburdened railroads and tens of thousands of more mules, wagons, and wagon train guard detachments. The fact that several Springfield rifle-muskets could be purchased for the cost of a single Spencer carbine also influenced thinking.[9] However, just after the Battle of Gettysburg, Spencer was able to gain an audience with President Abraham Lincoln, who invited him to a shooting match and demonstration of the weapon on the lawn of the White House. Lincoln was impressed with the weapon, and ordered Gen. James Wolfe Ripley to adopt it for production, after which Ripley disobeyed him and stuck with the single-shot rifles.
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John Thomas Wilder (January 31, 1830 ā October 20, 1917) was a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War, noted principally for capturing a key mountain pass (Hoover’s Gap) in the Tullahoma Campaign in Central Tennessee in June 1863. Wilder had personally ensured that his ‘Lightning Brigade’ of mounted infantry would be equipped with the new Spencer repeating rifle, though he initially had to appeal to the rank-and-file to pay for these weapons themselves, before the government agreed to carry the cost. Victory at Hoover’s Gap was attributed largely to Wilder’s persistence in procuring the new rifles, which totally disoriented the enemy.
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His men also carried Spencer repeating rifles, which were capable of a rate of fire far greater than their Confederate adversaries. Bypassing Army red tape, Wilder had asked his men to vote on purchasing the rifles and they agreed unanimously. He obtained a loan from his hometown bank and each man of the brigade co-signed a personal loan of $35 for his rifle. Embarrassed, the Government paid for the weapons before the men expended any of their personal money.[6] On June 24, the Lightning Brigade seized and held Hoover’s Gap. Despite orders from general Joseph J. Reynolds to fall back to his infantry, which was still 6 miles away, Wilder decided to hold the position, defeating repeated attempts to dislodge his force until the infantry arrived and winning the most significant battle in the Tullahoma Campaign. The Army of the Cumberland’s commanding officer, William Rosecrans soon arrived on the scene. Rather than reprimand Wilder for disobeying orders, he congratulated him for doing so, telling him it would have cost thousands of lives to take the position if he had abandoned it.
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break rules intelligently
The whole thing is a lovely whine about the frumpy, mean press secretary.
I can’t tell if this is complaining that she’s doing a poor job of improving her looks or annoyed that she is trying to look more polished despite being described in the press as a “no-frills yeoman.” Cake and eat it too?
Diabeetus’d the link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-built-a-wall-her-name-is-sarah/2017/11/21/e89a5fe4-cee9-11e7-a1a3-0d1e45a6de3d_story.html?utm_term=.2fbd6ea535b4
Wow. First comment on that story: ”
missrumphius
9 minutes ago
Media should have told the lovely Ms. Sanders that they were thankful for the fifth amendment which allows them not to play her childish game.
That is just…amazing.
Is a tingle up the leg a symptom of being in the opposition?
Who is the douche that owns the WaPo again? Oh yeah, Jeff Bezos. Funny that.
I know.
One of the reasons that I voted for His Orangeness was that if we had a President Trump, the press would actually do their jobs (as opposed to the eight-year long ’69’ that occurred in the previous administration). I expected that the legacy media wouldn’t let the President get away with anything.
I didn’t really expect they would immediately devolve into making up crap out of whole cloth.
The cavalcade of lefty derp is starting to be tiresome.
You are correct. They are not doing their job. Trump is going like a freight train and they are just running around with their hair on fire. I think part of the problem is that most of what he is doing is something most Americans would approve of so they dont want to report what is actually going on.
Carney and Earnest never even had to ask the press to drop their adversarial posture and roll over onto their backs for a tummy-scratch. The press did it without prompting. Fucking shit-eating hypocrite.
The New York Times asks ‘How could this HAPPEN?!’
The More Education Republicans Have, the Less They Tend to Believe in Climate Change
They take classes that are applicable in the real world, unlike the NYT journalism majors.
Shorter: They know a scam when they see one.
I’ve noticed the last few days that the people bitching about Net Neutrality have no idea what it’s about and use it as a reason to bitch about Comcast. Over the year I’ve noticed the same thing with the global warming folks. They have no knowledge about the specifics and the only reason they support it is because people pollute and something something the environment. It’s the oversimplification of freaking everything these days. Drives me nuts
The rest of the chart is enlightening
“The Dems are wrong about everything except climate change.”
I’d like to see the correlations between republicans and major and do they believe climate change.
I’m no fan of Peter Thiel, but if he does this we should give him an award.
He’s also been quietly dumping his shares of Facebook.
He knows what’s up.
“…The case against unrestrained wealth…”
*facepalm*
and….unfettered capitalism in these blurst of times.
/takes a ciggy puff from Mr. Burns’ monkey writer.
You stupid monkey!
That had better be, “It was the best of times, it was the *blurst* of times”
Didn’t even have to look. JB has never let me down.
What kind of a libertarian Simpsons fan do you think I am?
Still not the best line of that episode though. That came after Homer is elected President of the union.
Homer: “How much does this job pay?”
Carl: “Nothing”
Homer: “D’oh!”
Carl: “Unless you’re crooked”
Homer: “Woohoo!”
You really let me down here. The best line from that episode is….
“I don’t go in for these backdoor shenanigans. Sure, I’m flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!”
Stressing about my drug test. Would just like to have a relaxing Thanksgiving.
I thought I saw that you had taken and passed it?
THose were my home “practice” tests
There should be plenty of cranberry dishes on the Thanksgiving table. Overserve yourself on those, and create a nice acidic urine to wash away your fears!
*rings bell*
Urine for sale! Urine for sale!
Omni-Cleanse. It is the best route unless you have a drug free 8 yr old running around. “The toilet is broken, you’ll have to pee in this cup instead
Every drug test I’ve ever taken involves someone watching me pee.
They’d probably notice if I smuggled an 8 year old in.
But she isn’t doing it for a parol officer like I assume u were.. hehe. Never had that happen and taken about a dozen. I had always planned to do the “shy bowel syndrome” thing if I had to.
Every drug test Iāve ever taken involves someone watching me pee.
And I bet you were turned on by that.
Which, in turn, makes it difficult to pee.
It’s a vicious cycle.
Anyone ever thinks they are going to watch me pee, I’m going to tell them “here, you hold this”.
She could just say the 8 year old is her service animal.
And item #3 is added to my list of “Reasons to Have Kids”!! Wow!
I already took the test, gize.
Before the practice tests??? That’s just crazy enough to work!
LOL no – took 2 tests before (both negative), and took 3 more when I got home. You know, because I’m some kind of fucking masochist.
It would probably take that many tests to flag all of the substances in Agile Cyborg’s system.
I probably missed it, but what’s the back story? New job? and if so what kind?
That’s something I hope and pray does not get instituted where I work.
It’s almost always pre-employment, and yes, it’s stupid.
“stupid”? spare me your big-shot legalese, counselor.
When I worked for an aircraft maintenance facility it was FAA protocol that *every* new hire be drug tested — even when they were working in marketing like I was.
And those that passed, were hired for aircraft maintenance, and those that failed, were hired for marketing?
The FAA is VERY concerned about amphetamine use. They’ll pull your ticket if you get caught, no questions asked.
New job with the Feds. I’ll be working for a gigantic company as a contractor, so they do drug testing. The smaller contracting companies I worked for previously did not require one. The thing that’s stressing me is tomorrow is THanksgiving, so no one will be at work to tell me what the results were.
Ah… no danger of that for me. OTOH I’ve been “clean” for a couple years so… Nope, still not working for the Feds.
Good luck!
Took another practice test just now (even though I already did the real one) and it was negative. Feeling a bit better.
You’ll be fine. Trust me, I’m a doctor.
Meth only stays in your urine for a couple days, consider switching your drug of choice.
Yeah, but you don’t want to strut in there confidently, only to find out that it’s a hair test.
And now you know why Pitbull never sweats a drug test.
*The More You Know*
They gave him the green light.
He shaves his pubes??
ANY body hair.
Now you REALLY know.
āYou guys arent testing for PCP I hope?ā
That’s the unfortunate thing – I hate “uppers”. I only use for the purposes of sleep – I never use socially. And fuck no, I don’t use opioids! I refuse them when the doc or dentist tries to foist them on me.
I could use a Xanax right about now, though.
If you took uppers in the morning, it would be easy to get to sleep when they wear off.
*taps temple and nods*
Dude, coffee makes me jittery and crazy. No fucking way I need that shit to be amplified!
You don’t like coffee? What kind of monster are you?
Do they test for mescaline? It can be pretty relaxing.
I like the taste of coffee…do not like the drug effects. That said, I almost never drink decaf. Oh, and I also drink Starbucks fancy drinks. Today I had a gingerbread latte.
So, yeah. I’m a monster.
Three double shots of tequila?
who wants more lefty retardation?
POLITICAL THEORY – Karl Marx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSQgCy_iIcc
not mentioned: Stalin, gulags, Holodomor, Great Leap Forward, etc.
My favorite moment is when they used a fifty trillion Zimbabwe dollar note as a visual aid for the crisis of capitalism. (3:57 mark)
I will post Crowder’s rebuttal video next.
the rebuttal- freaking hilarious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFxWXbdqGIg
It’s actually more good than hilarious. The is pretty much spot on.
The central thesis of academic Marxism seems to be, let’s have all the benefits of capitalism, and none of the costs. In its most benign incarnation, Marxism is just a desire to get free shit.
“Crises of Abundance”
Whatever
Another sign that my life has been barren in a number of ways. Today was the first I’d heard of John Schofield:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GYTmoSFO5Q
Great guitarist
Unbelievable.
I’m listening to Country for Old Men right now.
-He was part of a group of jazz guitarists who came out of the 1970s/1980s like Pat Methany, John Abercrombie, Bill Frisell… basically, no one listened to jazz anymore, so they needed to do “different stuff” to be interesting. Scofield’s thing was mostly to play funk/soul stuff. He sort of preceded/lead the way for a bunch of later crossover ‘jazz/jam-bands’ like Medeski Martin+Wood and SoulLive and the more-recent Vulfpeck.
his style is pretty minimalist, and he’s known for using chorus pedals with this slow/wide open setting which makes notes feel about a quarter-step detuned. You can pretty much tell its him on any track he plays on.
Cool.
this record came out when i was in college and it got played a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJ9-tyPYJo
his slightly earlier stuff (late 80s-early 90s) is often more ‘fusiony’ sounding, but this was on the rootsier/bluesier side
Thanks!
today in bathos
‘Female Freedom Has an Expiration Date’: Being 35 and Single | Op-Docs | The New York Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNLdLKTYNtw
My stepmother has a dozen friends like that. They are mostly in their forties now and cannot figure out why they are single. I spend five minutes with them and I can see exactly why.
Yeah, I watched enough of the video to see that she’s pretty attractive. I briefly dated a woman earlier this year like that. 34 (like me), yoga instructor, ridiculous body, mixed race, funny, with a cute English accent. And a few hours with her was enough to figure out why she hadn’t been nailed down already.
This isn’t some sexist point. Men who can’t find a relationship need to work on themselves too.
Oh yeah, it is absolutely true for men as well. Five minutes with a single man over 40 and I can tell you exactly why they are.
I’m 45, and single is the best way for me to be. I am just not meant to be that intertwined with someone. Sometimes I think I would be happier without even a boyfriend. But it’s nice to get laid once in a while with someone I know & trust.
I think I was headed that way when I met my now wife. I had dated a hundred women and finally realized I didn’t like any of them as people. I would spend an hour or two with them and couldn’t wait to get away. I had just about resolved that I would forever be single and I was ok with that. Then I met my now wife and realized when I did have to leave I couldn’t wait to go back to her company. 20 or 21 years now and not a single fight. Not one. We are both retired and spend all day every day together and I find it very comfortable.
I won’t say “never”, but I am always super happy when I am 100% single. I like to do my own thing in my own time. It’s possible there’s someone out there that I would cohabitate with, but at my age marriage is unnecessary. I wouldn’t mind sharing a home with the squeeze, but that is down the road when (if) he’s ready to give up being a nomad. For now, it works for both of us to be the way we are.
That is what is important. I could have made being single work for me and if not for that one in a million, I would be.
Pretty much the same for me. Made single work until I was late 40s.
I’m not 45, but single is the best way for me to be, too. (Shhh. Don’t ruin the surprise for OMWC!)
I think that is me too. This used to really bother me until my 40s but now not much at all. If it happens, it happens.
48, single and happy. Sometimes I think it would be nice to meet a guy, and I do sometimes date for a while, but I don’t want to live with anyone. I am an extreme introvert and I’m good at being single.
You and me, sistah!
What did WC Fields say? Something like:
Women- they’re fun to look at, but I wouldn’t want one living in my house.
Self-indulgent masturbatory bullshit.
Hey, that’s no euphemism!
“You’re confronted with one silent question”
So…. Not confronted.
OK, so the guy conducting this superfluous and ridiculous background check on me (superfluous because I HAVE A FUCKING ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE!) emailed and asked for contact info for my most recent employer.
Good sign? Bad sign?
Don’t they have that from the application?
The investigation company probably doesn’t have a copy of my resume, no. They’re totally separate from the company that is hiring me. The only info I gave them was my full name, address, and SSN.
I HAVE A FUCKING ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE
DID YOU TELL THE FEDS ABOUT THIS PLACE?!
“Oh great, guys. Kristen’s here. Let’s talk about Game of Thrones or something.”
Relax. I “fix printers”* and I post here.
*this is what I’m supposed to say if people ask me what my job is.
Good thing this place didn’t exist when I got my clearance, eh? Nah – secret is the lowest level clearance. It’s a fingerprinting and criminal background check. No personal interviews or anything like that. Boy, did I ever hate giving them my prints! But it turns out I loved that job, so it’s a wash.
Lucky you. I get a polygraph in a few weeks.
People who fix printers must be screened very carefully…with an unreliable, unscientific, worthless method.
Yes, because no one ever beat one of those things.
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The KGB instructed Ames to get “a real good night’s sleep. Be fresh and rested. Be cooperative. Develop rapport with examiner. And try to remain as calm and easy as you can.”
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And that’s all it took.
I’m an Eagle Scout. Went to college on scholarship, served in the Peace Corps, and graduated from one of the hardest and longest courses in the military. And that was after I lost 50 pounds to get into the Army in the first place.
Clearly, I’m a sleeper agent.
I was very pleased that I didn’t have to go back to my college days for derogatory information – I was no Agile Cyborg but I was also no Eagle Scout.
Well, I’ve watched The Americans. Only a Russian agent would be so dedicated.
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Additionally, when asked about the polygraph tests, Ames said, “There’s no special magic. Confidence is what does it. Confidence and a friendly relationship with the examiner. Rapport, where you smile and you make him think that you like him.”
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Drunks, lost keys, lamp-posts…
A quibble: Confidential is the lowest form of classified.
I don’t think anyone gets cleared to that level though, at least not in the years I’ve been, uh, doing stuff.
There sure are a lot of printer repair-people on here.
Not printer repair – thank the god(s) I don’t believe in.
I’m only at the lower level myself – contractor scum to the USA.
We’ve seen the sausage being made. That’s why we’re libertarian
I wouldn’t think too much on it. My wife is a nurse and has had to go through all kinds of crap changing jobs. That’s just how it is for done companies. I remember one job I had, they make me take some long ethics test. Was total BS.
Reading your post and then looking at your avatar, it seems like you should be the arbiter of ethics, rather than taking ethics tests.
I know right:)
Swiss, I hope you feel better soon. Codeine syrup makes me nauseous, so I recommend drinking peppermint tea when taking it.
I think they put something in it to keep you from drinking too much.
Fuck! They’re doing it to peppermint tea now, too?!
I never take more than a teaspoon. This last go round the Dr told me she takes two teaspoons and that’s what she recommends. One and I sleep for ten hours. If I took two I couldn’t go to work the next day.
Or mix it with 7-up at least.
Peppermint tea is better than 7 up for an upset tummy. My mom always gave us 7 up as kids, but once I found peppermint tea, I never went back.
Fucking awesome start to the sports night: Rangers score in the first minute, England loses their first wicket in the third over, then Rangers score again in the 3rd minute.
I recognize two phrases on either end but what language is that in the middle?
Someone is a tiddly-winks fan, and someone else isn’t.
Rather puts one in a sticky wicket.
More surprisingly, someone is a Rangers fan. Or a sarcastic Hurricanes fan.
Nope Rangers. First place I lived in the States was in north Jersey. By the grace of God I somehow avoided becoming either a Devils or Islanders fan. Also a Yankees fan but hate both the NFL teams and am indifferent about the Knicks.
I don’t take any of it very seriously. Rangers are my team but I’ll root for the Islanders or Devils over most other teams. Except the Sabres.
Dang, Rangers gettin’ it done.
Ha! Why’s that punk batting first (or second)? Oz for the Ashes!
But you’re still a horrible person for being a Yankees fan. Then again, you’re a drop bear, so you’re used to being horrible.
BP! How are you? Your name came up in the AM Links.
Tell him the truth. The rabble want more SNP! š
I was hoping to surprise him!
*kicks pebble*
RN: Okay, for the most part. I’ve had some family issues, but I’ll deal.
Tundra: I’ve got most of it plotted out, but due to the issues mentioned above, I’ve had to focus on other things.
Sorry to hear that. Hope things get worked out.
Brother, your body of work speaks for itself. SNP has been one of my favorite features of this crazy-ass place!
Take care of you family and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Conan taking over for Manson in trying to start a race war.
Yeah, Trump is so racist he’s been on Oprah and the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1gj010oa8
Trump has said some ignorant things but I don’t see any indication that he’s a racist. That’s just the typical left response to anyone they disagree with.
“Racist is like ketchup for the left. They put it on everything they dont like.” – Thomas Sowell
That’s perfect, Sowell does have a way with words:)
Christ, what an asshole.
Where in hell did this ‘Trump is a racist’ stuff come from? As far as I know no one has ever said anything about it before he ran for the office.
I love the hate there coming from blacks. Black unemployment is at a 17 year low and getting lower, black home ownership I think is at record highs. Both of those numbers were much worse and getting worse under Obama. These people are insane. Just baseless allegations, ad hominems and outright lies is all they have.
Who is it that votes against their own interests ? Tell me again?
I’m guessing it comes from the “some, I assume, are good people” stuff but I think they’re reading things into that which aren’t there.
This point gets me as well. Trump has been a public figure since the 80’s. His actions and words recorded most of his adult life. Nobody figured out he was racist until he ran as a Republican. Ask for a racist quote, you’ll get nothing.
MS-13 gang ‘behead man’ in park near Washington DC
Dude looks like a child
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42089052
Investigators are still trying to identify the victim, but he is thought to be a Hispanic male.
Thank God that at least it wasn’t a hate crime.
Charming.
Ron DeSantis. Whoever he is, I like him. And he’s probably not one of the ones that used tax money to pay off harassment accusers.
Hello mammals. I have finally upgraded my phone. I must say the old 4s was on its last legs
Can’t go wrong with an LG 470. It’s served me well since 2012.
to….
The iPhone 8, cuz TRUE DOMINEERING SPECIES LIKE STANDARDIZATION.
Domineering species – Apple fanbois?
Sick burn, dude.
Just got the 8 this week. It feels weird.
I must agree. Although text input does seem a bit better. Still trying to sort out a proper case. I have a clear life proof with some sort of glass protector. Had to put some grip tape on the back so it wouldnāt slip out of my claws
I bought mine thru Sprint and I chose the “recommended” case which is actually great. Just a simple, light, clear plastic wraparound thing, nothing in front but who needs that anyway. Grippy on the edges.
I bought the insurance. No case necessary.
The most notable difference between the 8 and the 6 is the camera. I took some pics of my newborn niece at the hospital today, and the quality is incredible.
I have the insurance too but it’s still worth using a case to avoid any hassles IMHO.
This old broad gets it.
This makes me miss Sugarbush Squirrel: America’s Greatest Pet, International Superstart, and Internet Sensation of the late 1990s
that was the highlight of the internet of the 1990s for me. I now realize that the squirrel was probably always dead, stuffed, and had wires inserted into where its skeleton used to be…. but i still like to pretend. Because America.
GQ: It’s your job to ruin Thanksgiving.
https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-ruining-thanksgiving
lol
They’re really sticking with their genius plan of halving their potential readership, aren’t they.
They have a readership?
For a magazine called “Gentleman’s Quarterly”… *Drink!*
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Donāt show up. For some parents, your absence will speak louder than any sodden arguments over the density of pumpkin pie. If you canāt even look them in the eye, theyāll know you mean business. Besides, Friendsgiving rules.
Show up and be kind of an asshole. No hugs; only stiff, formal handshakes. During the football game, talk about police brutality nonstop. Take any opportunity to emphasize just how much Bruce Springsteen and the entire E Street band loathes Trump. Come out as an aspiring professional DJ.
Scorched Earth. Not even a handshake; just stare, disgustedly, at their outstretched arms. Build a wall out of mashed potatoes. During the football game, order 10 Papa Johnās pizzasāthe official foodstuff of the alt rightāand use them as pie charts to demonstrate who benefits most from the GOP tax plan. Refuse to be alone in a room with your mom, citing the Mike Pence rule. Call your parents by a Donald Trump nickname of your choosingāperhaps Little Rocket Mom or Liddleā Dad. Insist on setting a place for Robert Mueller, the way Jews do for Elijah on Passover. Wear a coal miner hat for solidarity. Punch a cornucopia right in the mouth.
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Lemme know how that works out for ya.
“Take any opportunity to emphasize just how much Bruce Springsteen and the entire E Street band loathes Trump.”
What is he? 15?
Who gives a shit about them? Fuck them.
You fucken unprincipled baby.
Asshole.
And the misplaced cockiness and arrogance of it all.
These people act this way because they truly and honestly think they’re all that.
Being a pariah to everyone you know, even family, is a lonely thing. This guy wants some company.
At least they’re honest.
Gentleman’s Quckaldry.
Appeal to the worst parts of human nature and you attract the worst kinds of people. Christ, what an asshole.
But what happens when you piss them off to the point that they kick you out of the basement?
They won’t ruin my Thanksgiving. If you’re an asshole, get out of my house :-).
Real easy, real simple, real fast.
10 Steps to a Fat Shame-Free Thanksgiving
https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/11/fat-shame-free-thanksgiving/
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1. Donāt make any comments about anyoneās body.
2. Donāt make any comments about your own body.
3. Learn about concern trolling.
4. Donāt make comments about anyoneās food consumption.
5. Resist the urge to keep track of anyoneās food consumption.
6. Donāt acknowledge changes in anyoneās body.
7. Reserve judgment.
8. Speak out against fatphobic and body shaming comments.
9. Apologize and respect boundaries.
10. Seriously ā just donāt talk about anyoneās body.
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That’s great. My policy is to do the exact opposite of all of those.
“As a fatass-American, I recommend you stop at the first serving of potatoes and gravy. And is that really your third roll? You aren’t leaving enough for me.”
I’d say this is good advice to just being a tolerable human being. Who the fuck would do that? I mean, other than at extreme eating events.
Parents, Doctors, Nutrionists, Close Friends, Siblings etc. Fucking with a fat stranger eating a plate of hotcakes at IHOP is being an asshole. Telling your buddy to layoff the potato chips because he’s turning into a fat slob? That’s a good friend.
Well yeah. But other than those people, who the fuck would do that?
I certainly don’t give a shit what strangers eat. Busy bodies, Mike. SJWs and, as HM refers to them, Culture Justice warriors.
No, I get it. I was being obtuse for (mild) comedic effect.
But seriously, I get worrying about a loved one. But “keeping track of someone’s food consumption” seems to be crossing a line no matter what. To me that behavior comes across to me as something akin to appointing yourself the arbitrator of everyone’s eating habits.
If you see your brother getting fat, sure, sit him down and have a talk. But spending Thanksgiving dinner watching him out of the corner of your eye and keeping a running tally of his caloric intake in your head seems pretty fucked up, regardless of your intent.
If I split an 8 piece combo from El Pollo Loco with someone, I’m certainly going to keep track of what they eat because it’s a zero sum game. Same with a large pizza.
Point taken. Sharing food with someone is an entirely different game.
Thanksgiving is shared, and yes, I’m counting the wings.
My ex?
Their readership would do all of those things. It’s not like normal people are reading that garbage.
Aside from people obsessed with their own bodies, who does any of that anyway? This sounds like the psychotic who goes around constantly and frantically reminding themselves not to talk back to the voices.
My derptologist inclinations have led me to reading many reviews of the new Taylor Swift album, itās 2017 and the mask is off. It seems like almost every website has something about ādealingā with her being white without apologizing.
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/on-loving-taylor-swift-while-being-brown/
Remember 2008? There were lots of editorials out on the disappearance of racism in America. Mixed couples everywhere you looked and no one paying attention. I haven’t seen racism as bad as it is today in my lifetime.
I don’t see any other way that the end of state sponsored racism would’ve have ended. From slavery to Jim Crow, we saw people organizing themselves into groups to fight the good fight. Then we get to the 60’s and the CRA and most people would’ve said wiped their hands and said, “Cool, we’re done with this”, wiped their hands and gone on with their lives. Problem is those orgs that fought racism weren’t going to just pack up and go home. Incentives. There was still money to be made. It sucks, but it’s life. The good guys become the bad guys.
Man. What a train wreck of a comment.
Look at mine. I am tired and half brain dead. I cant think of common words. I feel like I rode ten miles in the back of a cement truck today, aching head to toe. You spelled everything correctly, you’re good.
Tell me more about this turnip truck.
Racism, race-baiting, or race relations? I concur that we are at a high-point for the latter two.
How to Survive Thanksgiving If You Have to Spend It with Die-Hard Trump Supporters
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/survive-holiday-and-trump-supporters-radical-empathy
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If progressives are having trouble understanding the conservatives in our own families, how can we begin to empathize with Trumpers who donāt share our blood?
The sharp division in beliefs among Americans today has prompted some to search for solutions. Meet Narrative 4, which was launched five years ago with the goal of spreading the practice of āradical empathyā across the world using the act of storytelling. As the groupās founder, author of Let The Great World Spin Colum McCann, says, āevery story has a place, even the stories we donāt like.ā McCann proposes radical empathy as a way to actually make people listen to one another.
Those who live near or on college campuses may recognize the term, as radical empathy has taken off in universities in recent years. It entails literally placing oneself in anotherās shoes by living in a personās house, shadowing them or otherwise initiating close contact. Radical empathy means knocking down the walls that exist between yourself and another person to better understand them.
Narrative 4 brings radical empathy practice to schools, universities and workplaces in the form of workshops where participants follow a simple story exchange. Partners A and B share a story with one another; then, Partner A tells Partner Bās story to a group using the first person, as if Bās experiences actually happened to A. Then the two switch. Participants in Narrative 4ās radical empathy story exchanges say they often feel changed after the experience. āItās changed my life for the better,ā said Narrative 4 student ambassador Alondra Marmolejos. āItās such a positive and beautiful thing.ā
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The much less derp-shitty version of the idea.
This year it’s just me and the Trumpette wife. I’m sure I’ll manage. Even if it was a challenge, which it’s certainly not, I have alcohol, lots of it.
LOL
Harsh. I like it.
As soon as I saw this post, the song Aqualung started going in my head.
I must be getting old, because wife and I went to home depot to get some stuff and our plan was to from there go to the liquor store and fresh market to stock up on a few things for the holiday weekend. So I cut through the country side because it takes me right out near where I wanted to go. So it’s 6PM and fucking pitch black dark outside because fuck you DST. So I’m driving and I see this round thing in the sky and I’m thinking ‘what the fuck is that, there’s no full moon tonight’… So I say to Mrs. Hyperion ‘what is that?’. That’s about the time I realize it’s a damn clock on some sort of tower or something. Which was a sort of WTF? moment, because I’ve never seen this clock before. So then I don’t know where the fuck I am or how I got there, lol. We were talking and so I apparently missed our turn.
After we got back where we were going, I’m driving back towards Fresh Market, and that road is hilly, windy, and heavily forested and it’s pitch black dark out, no street lights or anything or even any houses that aren’t way back off the road. All of the sudden this huge fucking white owl flies almost right into my windshield. The thing was huge. Ok, that’s my adventure for the day, I need a beer.
Former ‘Charlie Rose’ producer: Racism, sexism were ‘inherent’ to the show
A former producer for veteran journalist Charlie Rose’s canceled PBS show says that racism and sexism were “inherent” to the behind-the-scenes atmosphere at the show.
Producer Rebecca Carroll, who now works at Shonda Rhimes’ production company ShondaLand, tweeted Wednesday evening that Rose would regularly belittle her and that she was punished for speaking out about “casual racism” at the show.
Even the perv wouldn’t listen to a conversation about casual racism.
Is there any doubt that it’s all projection all of the time with them?
Shondaland ?
I wonder if her theme song is Shama Lama Ding Dong
Man it feels like a Friday. *burrrrapp*
recently I learned
I read a book by an FBI guy about body language (What Every Body is Saying). He came to the US from Cuba when he was 11 and struggled with English. As a result, he became very attuned to body language. He says the feet are the most honest part of the body. If you’re talking to someone and their feet aren’t pointing at you, they want to be somewhere else. If their feet are pointing at the door, they want to leave. Even poker players have trouble not bouncing their legs when they have a good hand. If someone bounces their leg during a conversation and suddenly stops, they have just heard something they don’t like.
Interesting stuff.
There was some Old Man Yells at Cloud stuff too. On his shit list are: tattoos, eyes wandering around the room during a job interview, and young people not sitting up straight in chairs.
That bouncing leg thing drives me nuts. In Japanese it’s called Binbo Yusuri. Nervous twitching seems to be much more common here. Knee bouncing, pen twirling, excessive blinking. Inner turmoil is going to manifest physically unless you’re a psycho.
I like the cut of this guy’s jib.
I have a torn hamstring from back in my football days. One of my feet never points forward.
Do they point towards the ceiling?
One does when I’m laying in bed.
Verbal Kindal. Playa is Kevin Spacey.
Hmmm… My internet is down. Who did Verbal Kindal turn out to be in the end?
USC.
The last chapter was all about deception. He said most people are no better than chance at detecting lies, and even those of exceptional ability are only right about 60% of the time. Polygraph accuracy ranges from 60 to 80%
Deception is difficult to detect because most people get a lot of practice at it. Low level dishonesty is the norm. That’s we often hear things like “Honestly,…” and “I’m not gonna lie,…”.
The most reliable tell of honesty is strong emotion. If someone angrily denies something (yells, pounds on the table, etc) they’re most likely telling the truth. The part of the brain responsible for emotion is automatic- you can’t become sad or happy or afraid on command. The part of the brain responsible for lying is in the part with all other higher level thought. Most people try extra hard to stay calm when they lie.
I’ll be honest with you, I can’t lie for shit.
Liar
I’m watching *you*, motherfucker. [puts on aviator shades and best glower]
OK, interesting, then culture might have a big impact on the polygraph. Doesn’t Japanese culture for one value little to no outward expression?
I read a comment from some FBI or CIA guy to the effect of: “polygraphs work on Americans because we are raised to tell the truth, unlike the godless Chinese.”
Murdered Baltimore detective was set to testify against his colleagues and was killed with his own gun.
We may never know the motive or who did it!
Ever since this went down, I’ve had a feeling that something was very hinky. Slowly, we find out why.
*Nelson laugh*
https://nypost.com/2017/11/02/in-a-new-york-minute-ricketts-shuts-dnainfo-and-gothamist/
“Both sites had been racked by layoffs over the past year, but it was not enough to put them on a successful footing. Last week, employees voted to unionize.
DNAinfo āis, at the end of the day, a business and businesses need to be economically successful if they are to endure,ā he said. āAnd while we made important progress toward building DNAinfo into a successful business, in the end, that progress hasnāt been sufficient to support the tremendous effort and expense needed to produce the type of journalism on which the company was founded.ā”
Let’s see. Struggling company lays off workers trying to remain solvent. Employees vote to make it more difficult for the company to be solvent. Owner decides to quit throwing good money after bad and shuts down the company. Employees whine ‘You’re just doing this to be mean!’.
*sigh*
I shouldn’t enjoy the schadenfreude but I do.
I’ve had a couple (private) unionized jobs and what few “benefits” there were, were in place entirely to either (1) feed dues to the union via the slightly higher wage or (2) give perks based purely on seniority and fuck over the new guy. Fuck ’em all.
Iron Chef Showdown is on tonight at 9. Hopefully, I’ll get some new inspiration to destroy the kitchen tomorrow.
I have enough cooking competition shows in my life already.
Not possible. No such thing as too many cooking competition shows.
I have a backlog of Cooks v Cons that I need to work through. I love that one.
We were watching that too, but there hasn’t been a new episode in quite a while.
I hope it involves meat
Just as long as it comes from a grocery store and no animals are killed.
I really loved the original Japanese version. Not too keen on the ‘Merican version, even though I do love Alton Brown and the cheesy sound effects and writing.
I still remember when Ron Siegel won.
The local high end place here pretty much copied one of his dishes from that episode. They swapped out lobster for blue crab, but they know they copied it.
I like Cutthroat Kitchen for some reason. Good mix of food & stoopid I guess.
I love the over the top dramatics. I would love to be a judge.
I’d pay to be a judge.
The best meal I’ve ever had was cooked by Jose Garces. I skipped the wine pairing so I’d be sober enough to remember it.
The Japanese version was the One And Only True Iron Chef.
My fave may have been the home cook lady (Mrs. Kobayashi?) who finished early and pissed off Chen by coming over to his side and offering to help.
When my son was young (like 4 or 5), he was obsessed with that show. I sent him swooning when we “accidentally” met Ron Siegel.
What ever happened to him?
His name isn’t on any restaurants. He’s working for the guy who runs the steak joint in the Mandalay Bay.
When we met him, he was working at a hotel in SF. These days, celeb chefs are thick on the ground, RyÅri no Tetsujin is forgotten, and there’s no glory.
I see the pinkos are going balls-to-the-wall defending Conyers and Franken. The hypocrisy is so over the top it’s laughable. They unleashed this monster now it is so much fun watching them eat themselves. More popcorn please.
Yes, this. NYT, CNN, WaPo, all in on the act. They don’t even pretend to not be totally depraved hypocrites anymore.
It’s not just that they’re hypocrites. They’re flat out saying “Yeah, we’re hypocrites; so what. Franken and Conyers should get a pass, but Moore should be crucified upside-down.”
Of course, I can understand why this will be the reaction, since you know this will catch ten Dems (at least) for every Republican.
It’s too late now. Franken is sunk they just dont know it yet.
It looks like their whole party is falling apart and leftism in general.
Don’t be overly optimistic.
Holy shit, is this true? /Millenial
I don’t know if it’s true. I’ve heard that women lean the way of the dominant culture on average.
Mega Episode of Forged in Fire right now
So I work two jobs one at a college as a professor and the other at a private business. We found out that the new owner of the private business I work at is probably going to lay off all the top management including me. My performance reviews by the new owner are excellent but I guess somebody in the company wants their buddy to have my job. Word is the new owner who is a real asshole btw is going to fire top management at the Christmas party. This will be the second Christmas party in a row where I get either laid off or had my salary cut and I am beginning to hate Christmas. Last year I had my classes cut at the previous university I worked at. (I’m pretty sure its because I am an ewwy libertarian and was hired as a consultant for a Republican campaign in 2016 in my area). But now I might be losing my backup job. Excuse any grammar issues I am in the process of getting very very drunk.
I will have one for you in solidarity.
And I will drink to the idea that sometimes unplanned (and unwelcome) circumstances lead to great opportunities later.
Also, your reason for dreading Christmas is way better than that chick’s weak-ass excuse in the original Gremlins movie.
JFC. Hope he goes under in a year. Like, right around Christmas.
At the Christmas party?
Dick.
Christ. He is going to fire everyone at the Christmas party? What an asshole.
Does sound pretty sociopathic, doesn’t it?
I get the argument for laying off BEFORE Christmas so people don’t take on debt with shopping, and I get the argument for waiting until after Christmas so everyone has a blissfully ignorant Christmas, but AT the party??? That is a dick move.
Yeah. It is sadistic as hell.
“Word is…” One thing I’ve learned this past year is to be very wary of anonymous sources and hearsay. If true, that is a true asshole.
I have actually worked with this guy for a year and seen him do far worse. He doesn’t pay vendors, contractors and has been in a lot of trouble with the state and local government. He screamed at a vendor from a small business after the guy refused to deliver a shipment after not being paid for four months, told him he would ruin him whatever it took. Anyways it is not surprising to me in the least. Luckily I won’t hurt for more than a couple months because my teaching job wants to boost my salary by double. But I feel bad for everyone else who is getting the axe.
I know what people are going to say, why did you stick with this business? Well the guy doesn’t live in town he lives hundreds of miles away and shows up randomly every few months for a couple of weeks. My direct boss who is my friend and also getting laid off is a really nice guy and he is the one I work with day to day.
Do you teach part-time?
Yes but next semester I will nearly be teaching full time. The key is nearly. But i have been told that I am being considered for a full time tenure track position.
Ooh. The holy grail. Good luck!
Sweet. Do you mind if I ask what field?
Political Science. And yes I teach libertarianism. Ron Paul was the reason I chose this field, and I totally include real libertarianism as part of my curriculum. I say real because it is not cosmo shit. I am talking Ron Paul, Mises, and Rothbard. Every student is introduced to their ideas. I have a lot of leftist students who are attracted to libertarianism. Although I pride myself on being neutral. I just include their teachings. In other words, talk about them.
“He doesnāt pay vendors, contractors”
That’s a death sentence in business, the company is going to close anyway.
Fuck, sorry. I’ve been there. More than once.
I see that Franken has 2 more accusers.
All of my friends who were mocking Mike Pence seem to be silent now.
Yeah, I notice that too. Pence aint lookin’ too dumb now, is he?
Pence was never dumb in that regard. I don’t like him at all as a politician, but he might be the last known at all guy on earth to fall to the MeToo hysteria.
They’ve manage to keep the blinders on.
Segregation is bad unless we say it isn’t!
Good grief.
Unfortunately for now, nothing will happen to Franken, no matter how guilty he might be. There is a rule in this country, if you are a well known Democrat politician, you are 100% exempt of any consequences for your actions. This is true even when Republicans hold a majority in Congress and the presidency. The reason is obviously the media.
If the left ever lose control of the media and academia in this country, they will be so fucked I’d be surprised if there’s not an open season on hunting them.
I’m guessing this #metoo hysteria is cyclical and what led those old stuffed shirts to develop behaviors to avoid the possibility of misconduct. I’m sure people 100 years ago or 500 would be just as happy to make jokes with women but discovered it led to big problems. Even before lawsuits a man coming after you with a gun to protect the womens was a consequence.
After all this bullshit burns out we’ll have returned to sexual segregation leading our grandchildren to ask, why can’t we just hang out with women like the guys? Rinse, repeat.
Chaperones are going to make a comeback. For her and for him. Heck, they might end up with one each, bearing licenses like public notaries and the whole nine yards.
So glad I am already married.
I hope Rand Paul is well enough to Tweet his Festivus Airing of Grievances this year.
There’d better be some justice for this, 4th degree misdemeanor assault is a totally unacceptable conclusion to this. And that’s coming from a person most in society would describe as ‘soft on crime’. Causing great bodily harm to someone is NOT a misdemeanor. And at this point I’m 100% convinced that it’s at least in part politically motivated.
Most talk of improving the military revolves around technology. I think the easiest places to make improvements is in the simple stuff. A very easy way to increase the effectiveness of infantry would be to reduce the amount of stuff they have to carry.
THE OVERWEIGHT INFANTRYMAN
https://mwi.usma.edu/the-overweight-infantryman/
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The Infantry has a weight problem. The amount of weight soldiers or Marines are asked to carry has grown exponentially while their ability to carry that load has not. This issue was brought to the forefront recently when retired Army Col. Ellen Haring wrote an opinion piece for the Marine Corps Times in which she was critical of the requirement for Marine Corps infantry officers to carry a load of up to 152 pounds for more than nine miles, at a twenty-minute-per-mile paceāa standard that Haring argues is unrealistic and prevents women from successfully completing the Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course. At first glance this may seem like a reasonable argument: 152 pounds seems like more than most humans can carry.
Many of the rebuttal articles, including one on Tom Ricks Best Defense blog by former Marine infantryman Aaron Ferencik, state that not only is this a realistic requirement, it happens regularly in Afghanistan. Ferencik writes that he was required to carry almost 200 pounds of gear, armor, and weapons.
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From the ancient Greek hoplite all the way up through the American Civil War infantryman, the overall weight carried by a foot soldier changed very little, holding steady at about forty pounds. Infantrymen didnāt see a significant jump in their load until the beginning of the twentieth century. During World War I infantry loads increased by 50 percent, up to over sixty pounds. World War II saw those loads increase again, to 80ā100 pounds, depending on the type of weapon system the soldier carried.
Soldier loads stayed pretty constant from World War II through Vietnam. In the last thirty years, however, loads have skyrocketed. During the operation in Grenada soldier loads went unchecked by leaders, resulting in soldiers carrying over 120 pounds. In their paper Load Carriage in Military Operations, Joseph Knapik and Katy Reynolds quoted one soldier in Grenada: āMy rucksack weighed 120 pounds. I would get up and rush for 10 yards, throw myself down and couldnāt get up. Iād rest for 10 or 15 minutes, struggle to get up, go 10 more yards, and collapse. After a few rushes, I was physically unable to move and I am in great shape.ā
The story hasnāt changed much since then. In the video below, a soldier steps up on a scale to illustrate how much he carries on a two-day mission. With weapon, body armor, and pack his gear weighs in at over 130 pounds.
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Now consider the fact that the enemy is carrying about 20 pounds of stuff- weapon, ammo, and that’s about it. There is no way US infantry with a typical load can move as fast. It is pretty much guaranteed that US infantry will always be exhausted by the time they make contact with the enemy.
Combine that with difficult terrain (as in much of Afghanistan), and it becomes almost impossible for US troops to fight effectively.
In various training scenarios, the soldiers are often so tired that fail to see the enemy and cannot react fast enough. In practice, about 1/3 of medical evacuations from Iraq and Afghanistan are from muscle-skeletal injuries caused by carrying excessive weight.
My suggested load
helmet- 3 lbs
armor- 15 lbs
Camelbak, 3 liters water- 6 lbs
M4- 7 lbs
ammo, 10 mags- 10 lbs
MRE, first aid kit- 2 lbs
total: 43 lbs
That’s enough stuff for about a day in the field- 12-20 miles round trip from base.
It’s true the insurgents don’t have to carry as much because all their stuff is nearby. Well, there’s an easy fix for that. Build more bases and keep them stocked so troops don’t have to carry so much. There’s a very good reason the Romans built forts with a 1 day march of each other.
It’s crazy to spend so much money training and equipping troops only for them to quickly become disabled after a short time.
If the enemy can keep up the fight with a minimal load, so can US troops.
In the same vein
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The problem is, todayās infantryman has a lot less fat to trim. The emphasis on force protection and duty of care means he canāt do what his counterparts in the A Shau Valley (Battle of Hamburger Hill) or East Falkland did and ditch his body armor, because to put it bluntly, commanders have become risk averse.
The question isā¦ are they making the risk worse?
Half the problem we face in Afghanistan is that dismounted troops canāt move fast enough to bring the fight to the Taliban. A lot gets said about the fitness of the enemy, but really theyāre just scrawny, malnourished tribesmen from a society with no health care. They donāt outmaneuver ISAF troops because of superior fitness; they do it because 3 AK mags and a cotton jacket weigh a lot less than what our side is carrying. Maybe theyāre more vulnerable to fragmentation and small arms as a result, but they get to choose when and where they engage, and unless they can be fixed by fire support, theyāre also free to disengage pretty much at will.
Two Options
With their weight burden reduced, friendly troops ā who really do have superior fitness ā could move faster and close with the enemy. Thatās the key to dominating the ground, and in Afghanistan we failed badly at that task. Afghanistan is winding down now, but before we find ourselves in the same situation again, we need to take a serious look at cutting the load. Some smart procurement has managed to shave of 24 pounds off the total, but we need to do much better than that.
There are a couple options here. By no means the only two options, but food for thoughtā¦
In a permissive environment, helicopter resupply ā or perhaps cargo UAVs in the future ā could keep foot patrols topped up with water, ammunition and batteries. That falls apart if the resupply canāt get in, and it doesnāt take the enemy to do that; accidents and weather can manage it easily enough. So thatās likely out.
The other is to accept a higher level of risk by having another look at armor. Its weight and bulk is worth paying for mounted operations, but is it really saving soldiers on foot, or is it making them more vulnerable by slowing them down and wearing them out?
The soldiers themselves often say they feel safer when theyāre more agile. Maybe the brass needs to start listening to them.
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https://blog.uspatriottactical.com/armor-agility-todays-infantry-load-slowing-soldiers/
the clusterfuck continues
Weight of War: Gear that protects troops also injures them
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/weight-of-war-gear-that-protects-troops-also-injures-them/
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For years, the Army only had an estimate of how much weight foot soldiers carried in combat.
In 2003, Col. Charles Dean, a military-equipment expert, formed a seven-man team to conduct a detailed study of weight worn in the combat zones of eastern Afghanistan. āWhat we were proposing was highly irregular, and my chain of command had to pass this all the way to the generals to get approval,ā Dean said.
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When soldiers headed out on extended foot patrols, their average load ranged from 87 pounds to 127 pounds. When they came under attack and dropped their rucksacks, most of their fighting loads still exceeded 60 pounds.
In his final report, Dean sounded an alarm.
āIf an aggressive ā¦ weight-loss program is not undertaken by the Army,ā Dean wrote in his report, āthe soldierās combat load will continue to increase and his physical performance will continue to be even more severely degraded.ā
Back in the United States, Dean said ājaws dropped,ā when he disclosed his findings to Army leaders.
The Army launched new programs to develop lighter gear. But at the same time the Army was looking at ways to lighten the load, it also focused on trying to reduce casualties by beefing up body armor and other measures.
Itās unclear if any headway was made in reducing the overall weight during the next six years. A 2009 study by a team of Army advisers indicated some soldier loads had increased by 25 percent or more compared with 2003.
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The most common injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan are musculoskeletal because of the weight they carry.
We just need some of those exoskeleton suits like in the movie where capitalist murder the noble savage blue people for fun and profit. How else can we carry out our evil plan to kill Gaia?
Chainsaw 30lbs
water jug 10lbs
gas/oil and chainsaw tool and extra chain 5lbs
rifle 7lbs
ammo 5lbs
pistol and belt 6 lbs
machete 2lbs
Pack with marking tape/lunch / spray paint odds and ends 7lbs
72 lbs. Huh. I didn’t realize I was so strong back then That was for hiking and working all day in the woods. I did have one big advantage over the soldier in the field; Trees are easy to locate, cant run for shit, and offer little resistance.
What do you shoot them with?
375 winchester. Seriously. The best christmas trees are from the tops of the bigger cedar trees. Better than a tree bought on a lot. Climbing up there and cutting the top out is pretty dangerous. So, my winchester severs the trunk with 2 to 3 surgically placed shots.
That is awesome! WHen I lived in Oklahoma (and when I visit in fall), I used to “hunt” mistletoe by shooting it out of oak trees with a shotgun. Great fun, and way safer than climbing.
Good times, good times.
(for you northerners, mistletoe is a parasite that grows in weak trees. It’s not readily visible until the leaves fall and all that is left are lovely clusters of green mistletoe and berries growing straight out of the host tree limb.)
That is the traditional manner of collecting mistletoe. Wait, you are drinking with friends or family when you do that, right? Cuz if not you aren’t doing it right.
*Since the best place to find mistletoe is in marshy areas in pecan trees near water it isnt uncommon to return with mistletoe and a couple of ducks.
I’m not doing it right, I guess. I don’t mix firearms and alcohol. Less for me and more because I don’t want to have to be checking on everyone else in the party. The drinks flow afterwards.
I always got the mistletoe from oak trees because that was what grew on the family farm and also on the lands around the university.
Where are you located, Suthen?
Sorry for the late reply. Grant Parish Louisiana. Family timberland is over in LaSalle and Catahoula parish. I was kidding about the drinking but not the ducks.
If the snark is referring to my being armed while doing forestry work I should explain.
My lawyer has said more than once “I just cant believe you go up in those hill by yourself. Those people up there…”
To which I reply “C’mon Jim, I am one of ’em, born and bred”
What would be foolish is going up there unarmed.
Hill? In Louisiana? š
Apparently a spot that isn’t periodically under water.
I guess the question is when and how far are they carrying it. The infantry would march across European WW1, not in Afghanistan. I don’t see them carrying that on patrols. Carrying it to establish a COP is fine, carrying it into a firefight is stupid.
The increase in load may be related to the decrease in the need to physically carry it everywhere. I see guys fly or drive in with mountains of gear then march to a location several miles away.
I’m not in the infantry so not an expert but I have observed that “training” rarely mimics real life. It wouldn’t be surprising if the hardest requirements are imposed in garrison for hypothetical scenarios instead of in real combat.
Certainly if I were going to a place for a month where I was driven or flown for 25 miles then rucked another 7 I would be willing to accept more weight than if I had to walk the 32 miles with just what’s on my back.
So just thinking in the Army’s hamfisted way of solving problems this could lead to guys at outpost with barely any gear because the command decided to cut what they can pack even though they only have to carry all that shit a few miles before downgrading their gear.
I’ll probably not be around tomorrow, as I’ll be busy cooking and dealing with guests. But I hope all of you magnificent bastards have a great Thanksgiving, gorge yourself on the foods of your choice, and have your fill of drinks.
Same for me. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving, or Thursday, which ever you prefer.
I already started on the drankin. Wife is marinating a chicken with all sorts of magical herbs and concoctions. I’m sposed to make some fresh salsa up, and I don’t know what else. Moar drankin!
I’m just home, me and wifey. I’ll be commenting for sure, so at least some of us will be here.
Same here Hyp, just the two of us. We have a bug and none of the grand babies have any business being exposed to us. My wife has mastered baby back ribs, potato salad and baked beans. Mint chocolate chip ice-cream for desert. Then drinks and pile on the couch to watch her TV shows. I expect it to be a thoroughly wonderful day.
We were going to visit my parents, but I’m just not up for it this weekend. 2 years ago, we drove out there and on the way back, Sunday after Thanksgiving, it took us 5 hours to get from Hagerstown MD to here, that’s 150 miles of stop and go traffic, bumper to bumper. And this year the traffic is supposed to be record settings. Last year we flew because of this, it’s just too expensive to justify. I just have to pass, too stressful. Holidays are not supposed to be stressful.
We are having the first non-travel Thanksgiving in as long as I can remember. I really need it, too, as I’ve been on the road for the vast majority of the past three months, including stretches where I wasn’t home for over two weeks, which included several cross-country trips and one to Europe. I’m so excited to spend the morning in PJs, clean up for a nice simple home-cooked meal with my wife and son, and maybe some holiday-themed TV and an early bed.
Amazing how such a simple day can seem so wonderful at this point. I hope all the rest of you have a fantastic day as well, whether you are making a huge trek to be with family, staying in like Hyp, Suthen and me, or whatever your plans might be.
I cant find the quote so I will wing it. “The quiet, contemplative life affords more happiness than the constant unrest of the ambitious. ” – Some dude named Albert
My wife and I joked today that being both retired we spend most our days in pajamas. When we dress to go out we dont stay long and so our clothes aren’t dirty and we set them aside to wear again. Thus we are seen around town in the same clothes for days on end. She was too embarrassed to go into the grocery today because she had been in there two days in a row wearing the same things. So, she stayed in the car and advised me via cellphone while I shopped.
I hope you have a fantastic day with your family C Anacreon then go to bed and sleep like you did when you were 5 years old.
It’s pure bliss is what it is. I’m going to get up tomorrow in PJs, and start helping with food and drinking. This is the good life. People who don’t have to travel hundreds or thousands of miles to have a holiday with family cannot understand this.
I don’t get all in on the avocado or pizza debates, but potato salad is my sticking point. Most are so damn bland, unless it has Milwaukee Dill pickles it is useless.
I was told when I moved to MN that the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin was sharply demarcated by greater freedom in WI (liquor on Sundays, legal fireworks, etc) but very importantly by potato salad. Wisconsin potato salad has dijon mustard, paprika, bell peppers, often bacon and boiled eggs, green peppers, celery, etc. Minnesota potato salad is potato chunks and mayonnaise. It’s kinda horrifying.
It was funny for me moving straight from living in Sweden to Minnesota because it was so obvious that Minnesota is Scandahoovian and Wisconsin is clearly German. But WI Germans seemed to be the ones who said, “Eff this statist crap, let’s go to America and be free”, while MN Scandies are like, “We left home for forgotten reasons but probably should lie low and turn this place into the exact crap we fled from.”
My German grandpa and I approve ^this message. Wiscaaahnsinite here.
I might move across the border someday… I like Wis.
Wisconsin has absolute speed limits.
My family’s potato salad comes (to Wisconsin) from Florida. Potatoes, onion, boiled eggs, Miracle Whip and pickles. However, Milwaukee Dill is the only acceptable pickle.
I will have to look for those Milwaukee Dills. Might be available here in
North KoreaWest Wisconsin.And in my post when I said “Green pepper”, I mean green onions.
(the key is to wash out the miracle whip jar with pickle juice and dump that in the mix)
Duly noted!
“Wisconsin potato salad has dijon mustard, paprika, bell peppers, often bacon and boiled eggs, green peppers, celery, etc. ”
Cajun instead of dijon (Ok, they are essentially the same thing) add in some pimentos, sometimes jalepeno/sweet pickle relish and we are good.
You too.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
I did the turkey brine, giblet boil (stock prep), 24 hour veggie salad, cranberry salad (cranberries in sugar, grapes, walnuts, bananas, sour cream), and that’s about it. We are trying to be relatively low carb this year, so no dressing/stuffing, rolls, or potatoes.
Good thing too because I caught a bad-ass bug (as did several of you guys apparently) and am completely beat. Tomorrow all I have to do is roast the turkey and make the gravy.
I will probably make some wild and brown rice too (lower carb than white, and darned tasty).
In the meantime, a healing cocktail and lotsa zinc tablets!
That cranberry salad sounds good. Care to share the recipe?
Sure! Back in a jiffy…
Cranberry Salad
1 lb ground cranberries
2.5 cups sugar
1 lb red seedless grapes
2-3 bananas
1/2 cup pecans or walnuts, broken or coarsely chopped
1/2 pint sour cream
Grind cranberries in blender/food processor. You want little chunks 1/8th inch–1/4 inch (If you need to add water to get your blender to do this, that’s fine, just strain it out afterwards.)
Mix cranberries in sugar and let stand overnight for the sugar to dissolve and sweeten, then refridgerate until ready to mix.
Chill grapes, bananas, and nuts in fridge several hours before mixing. Shortly before serving, add grapes, sliced bananas, nuts, and sour cream to the cranberry mixture and keep chilled until serving.
This stuff stays good for days but you WILL run out as you consume leftovers. Sometimes I put it next to turkey, and sometimes I just eat it straight as a sweet but not too sweet dessert.
We make a cranberry salad with Apple’s, grapes and cool whip. What?! I’m from the Midwest.
Oo! I bet apples would be great.
I bet that cool WHHHIP (thanks, Stewie) would be great for sweet tooth folks, but I really like the sweet-tart of the sour cream. I’d probably even use Granny Smith apples if I add them next time! š
Nice! Thanks Hayek’!
My prep work is all done. I’ve got two types of twice baked potatoes prepped, stuffing, bacon mac and cheese, pretzel rolls, sourdough bread, turkey in brine, chex mix, cheese, sausage, pumpkin stout tiramisu, pumpkin pie ice cream, and enough alcohol to sustain the commentariat here for at least two hours. All I have to do tomorrow is bake the turkey, pull out the sides (to heat them while the turkey rests), make mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and some broccoli.
This is the first year that I’ve decided to take advantage of hosting, and making stock as well, so I’ve been saving up the scraps from onions, leeks, shallots, and other veggies in a stock sack and brought up the large slow cooker and stashed it under my serving bar.
Damn, son. That is a lot of hooch.
I homebrew, make my own wines, make my own meads, and love whisk(e)y (at last count, I had 13 different types on my shelf). That’s on top of my beer cellar, which has vintages back to 2002.
Happy Fucksgiving (the day to give a fuck)! I’ll probably hop on for a minute while I’m waiting on Mr. or Ms. turkey to cook.
Tomorrow I’m packing for vacation. Have to take the dog to the boarders. Then a week on the beach. Ahhh!
I’m sure I’m not the first to come up with this, but instead of hanging the NAP at the door of the tent, why don’t we go with The LAP or Less Aggression Policy?
The thing I found most remarkable when attending the Reason Weekend earlier this year was that none of the Reason writers or foundation bigwigs knew what “NAP” stood for. I even had to explain it to the current Reason Foundation President when I ended up sitting next to him at one of the meals.
Well, that’s disturbing.
I’m not going to lie. It gets worse.
I find your lack of NAP…disturbing. /Darth Glib
Hence this website.
Hey, CPRM. Thanks for finishing the story. Had me rolling. Two thumblike appendages up.
It has been requested that I continue…so I shall. The buddy comedy of Ted Nugent and Harvey Weinstein will this centuries…Plunkett & Macleane ?
NAP made it into the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism. Reason’s been pimping that lately.
https://www.libertarianism.org/encyclopedia/nonaggression-axiom
I hung around Mises people for so long before I started visiting Reason that I just assumed all libertarians understood what the NAP was and mistakenly filtered all their articles through that lens. Once I saw the commenters, especially the long timers, that lens got shattered and I saw them for what they are; fakes. I still will check it out to see stuff by De Rugy.
Whoa. This should not come as a surprise, but it does. I didn’t realize it was that bad.
Yeah I would expect anyone who writes about politics to be familiar with the basic tenets political philosophies. I think most Republican pundits could attempt to explain what social democracy means even though it’s not their philosophy. Certainly democrats could explain it, or would have heard of it.
It’s not just that they are ignorant of libertarianism if they don’t know the NAP, they are ignorant of politics in general.
Not just ignorant of political philosophy. I am very suspicious of the state of their moral compass as well.
That was tounge in cheek of course. Anyone that would ruin a college kid’s professional prospects over a sandwich joke…I am pretty sure about the state of their moral compass.
For you, sloopy. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bbz3mmBnTkM/
Since it’s Thanksgiving eve, I feel kind of exorbitant; so I changed the thermostat from 58 to 62. Living life on the edge!
You shitlord. I have my thermostat on 70. Anything lower than that is for sleep.
We can’t…ugh…drive our SUVs. Aaaand eat as much as we want and keep our homes at 72 degrees.
Of course we can. I’m busy proving it right now.
Thank you. I couldn’t find that quote before when I wanted it but I remembered that he said all of that shit. That was his Kim Jong Il ‘prepare to eat roots’ speech. What a fucking POS pinko that guy is. Congratulations to every asshole that voted for him. I will never forget it and I will never forgive you.
It’s 70 outside. Much to warm for sleep/
If you like scotch blends like I do, I’m a big fan of Chivas, there’s a gift set available right now with 2 very nice glasses for the same price. I’m going back tomorrow to see if they have any more I can buy for gifts for my SILS (son-in-law) version.
It’s great how those asshole administrators that tried to censor Sheppard at Laurier are getting savaged online by everyone from Sargon to Independent Man. That secret meeting leaked tape needs to be heard by everyone. It is amazing how much of their bullshit they take for obvious truth.
The Acting Manager of Gendered Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention and Support at the Diversity and Equity Office.
George Carlin was nowhere close to the insanity that job titles would go to.
Tomorrow I’m the only person who will be at the radio station all day. If I had another job lined up I’d set it up to play an audio version of Milton Friedman’s ‘The Incredible Bread Machine’ on a loop for the following 24hrs.
How to Talk to Your Family About Planned Parenthood This Holiday
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/blog/how-to-talk-to-your-family-about-planned-parenthood-this-thanksgiving
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So. Tis the season for gathering āround the holiday table with your loved ones, or your liked ones, or your in-laws you have no choice but to tolerate once a year, or your college bestie and her āUGH, what is she even thinking?!ā significant other.
And you know one of the most important questions people will ask ā besides āWhereās the wine?ā and āAre two dozen pies really enough?ā ā is: āWhat will happen to Planned Parenthood?ā
….
The fact is that the majority of Americans support Planned Parenthood and donāt want to see it defunded. Trump and Pence know that millions of patients rely on Planned Parenthood every year for essential health care, like STD testing and treatment, birth control, cancer screening, well-woman exams, and, in some locations, hormone replacement therapy.
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Here I am concerned with whether I can afford food and heat for the winter, and pissed off my knees are so bad at 34 I have to use a cane; where are my priorities!
34? your knees are fine, back to the Mines! Prole!
/happy Thanksgiving day
Because if the American taxpayers aren’t forcibly made to fund PP, it will not be able to raise funds with drives, 5k walks, etc.
As passionate as progs seem to be about abortion, you’d think some of them would open their wallets and take care of it charitably.
“A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity!”
-some prog idiot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdVw0wFmCA
ERMRGRD.
Just so terrible.
I do think that people love to be seen running for a cure for cancer, or building a house for homeless, etc. But when it really comes down to it, they know it wouldn’t really look that good to be overtly raising funds for aborting human life. So it’s easier to call it reproductive health and get taxpayers to do it.
My Boss was a Dick so I didn’t get paid even though we have no work Friday, So I can’t make the Shultzies Taters, I’M that broke.
No beer, weed, nothing but food (big fucking deal) and dealing with idiot family members, i hope you all have a great day,
Is Wednesday your normal payday?
In America before Thanksgiving? yes
I’m in America. My payday has never been shifted for a holiday.
Yeah, my normal payday is every other friday, but we always get it Wednesday if payweek is the week of Thanksgiving.
You want a loan over paypal? I could spot you a bit if you pay me back within a week. If you answer in the affirmative I will give you my email address and we can talk details.
That is way cool, but I’m going to be fine, i really appreciate the offer however.
Maybe a raincheck it i get Homeless desperate
OK. Wanted to make sure you at the very least have some drinks and the option to Uber yourself out of your surroundings if needed.
I’m not rolling in it myself, but i am really good at timing my debits and credits! š
Find something to be thankful for, and be good to yourself.
You are a cool chick, hayek.
I just finished getting things squared away for tomorrow.
I’m thankful for a lot – including you people. Happy Thanksgiving!
My Wife, My Puppy, “strangers” on the Internet willing to loan me money, I’m really almost in tears with your kindness, Thanks for That!
Tundra, since you weren’t on the Nudge’s hit list, be thankful he didn’t come after you for his two dollars! Happy Thanksgiving.
“He’s skiing on one ski!”
Thanks, CPRM!
Thanks, Tundra.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours too!
(As an aside, Mr Hayeksplosives’ band is playing Friday Nov 24 at the newly reopened Route 47 in Fridley at 9 PM. It’s on University Ave, former Pickle Park. If I am well, i will be there. )
Dammit. I play hockey on Friday nights.
You have my info. I would love to come and watch the kilted madman!
They are playing at Serum’s in Anoka on Saturday too.
Website with schedule and sample video.
“The Midwest’s Premiere Southern Rock Experience” kind of head spinning. Tell me Mr. splosives is the keyboard player with the bowl cut. That would make my thanksgiving.
No kilt, but a sweet Rickenbacker!
Nope! The bowl cut keyboardist is “John” and is as fun as real life as you would expect from his hairdo.
Mr Hayeksplosives is the thicc bass player wearing embroidered shirts.
He’d love to wear a kilt on stage but thinks that wouldn’t fit the Southern Rock vibe, so he reserves the kilt for playing in our church band.
Watchagonnado?
How long have you been hanging around with this crowd Yusef? Hell, I know some of you people better than most of the people I interact with in meatspace. I would kick in a few bucks. If you get in a spot let us know.
LIBERTARIANS ARE HORRIBLE PEOPLE WHO ONLY CARE ABOUT THEMSELVES 1!!!111!1!11!
I have benefited greatly from a spot loan from friend ($500 or so) when timing just sucked on getting reimbursed for work expenses, the mismatch in a biweekly pay cycle and a monthly billing, and other unfortunate events.
I finally swallowed my pride/awkwardness and took the loan, and man, did it feel good to stay in creditors good graces. I paid it back as soon as the salary came in, and determined to be that non-interest bearing short term loan for somebody else. Has only happened once since then, but I’ll happily do it again for friends.
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.”
I can’t guarantee money before the first week of December, too long and too sketchy, it’s not pride at all, it’s reality, at least for me
Oh yes, I have done loans for my Friends and will again, pass it forward seems more a Karma thing than a Commie thing IMO
Just in case, my email is my Glibs handle at protonmail.com.
Who knows? Good for you to have options. At least try to feel that you don’t have the weight of the world on you alone. We gotcha.
I’m also a firm believer in giving spot loans based on character. I’ve always asked for it to be paid forward to someone else. If you need it, my e-mail’s my handle at the mail of Google.
RKDY,
Absolutely pay it forward is karma/voluntary vs commie.
It’s the difference in opening your wallet or giving your time of your own accord vs a bureaucrat grabbing your wallet and enslaving you to work for something you didn’t sign up for. Even if the final cause is the same (say, a needy family with a disabled vet and a cancer stricken kid), isn’t the voluntary giving far superior to the appropriating???
I know, pretty cool huh?
Good on you Man!
He is free to do as he wishes, and so am I, funny how that works out. I am his #1, and He forgets that conveniently.
You should drop him a #2.
Lolz.
Why did I picture Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin giving that advice?
It’s about to get all stupid up in here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iaujFvs8sc
Tee-hee
I’m thinking about something Fiscally painful
Go Ahead, Talk Politics at Thanksgiving
Six in 10 Americans say they dread the topic coming up, but better to embrace the challenge than try to stave off the inevitable.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/go-ahead-talk-about-politics-at-thanksgiving/546536/
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This year, however, hereās my (probably bad) advice: Go ahead, argue about politics.
There are two primary reasons to just dive in. First, President Trumpās ability to grab the spotlight and inject himself into so many facets of life makes trying to avoid politics practically futile these days. Iām a political journalist and spend all my time talking, reporting, and writing about politics, so I am not especially representative, but I also live far outside the Beltway in North Carolina. I am astonished at how often conversations with āciviliansā outside of politics and journalism drift inexorably toward politics, followed by an awkward silence as everyone realizes the discussion has gone there. Besides, what else are you going to talk about? The weather? Thatās going to be a climate-change debate in no time at all. The NFL? Donāt even get started. Might as well embrace the inevitable!
Second, the stakes are higher this year. That isnāt to say that politics doesnāt affect our lives deeply all the timeāif I felt it didnāt, I wouldnāt waste my time covering itābut the matters that the last year or two have brought into the arena are central to the nationās identity: the role of racism in American society, the fate of longstanding norms about how the U.S. functions, the appropriate role for our country in global affairs, what rule of law means, and nuclear war, for peteās sake. These are more important than the details of health-care legislation, marginal tax rates, or any number of the mundane topics that might have caused friction at previous yearsā family feasts. If the things Iām talking about here are more likely to cause screaming matches, thatās because theyāre so important.
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Can someone please pass him the dicks? He clearly needs to eat a few.
Meh. I try to avoid it, but as a libertarian when I do interject it’s usually to moderate and tell the two parties involved they’re both wrong.
From Bill Kristol, on Twitter:
“It’s obviously time for a 28th Amendment to the Constitution: ‘Until we can figure out what the hell is going on, only Americans of the female sex shall be eligible to serve in the Congress of the United States.'”
i had no idea He was a Woman
How he has fallen from the City Slicker days.
Interesting. I appear to have found a site even nuttier than Everyday Feminism.
3 Problems With Talking to White Kids About Trump
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/3-problems-with-talking-to-white-kids-about-trump/
Check out the radical self love guy on the right.
Attend protests and rallies together and make signs.
If you donāt have one already, put Black Lives Matters signs up in your yard and talk about what that means. Also rainbow flags and other signs of visibility and support.
The oldest can help with childcare at meetings.
Asking for holiday presents to be donations instead.
Making our own supportive shirts with sharpies and blank shirts.
Participating (with us) in boycotts.
You shouldn’t have. Just what I always wanted, a $100 donation to NMBLA in my name.
5 Ways People with Thin Privilege Can Fight Body Terrorism …oh, that sounds like a Cinemax movie…looks it up…
There is no end to this crap.
How to Talk to Your Family About the #TrumpTaxScam This Thanksgiving
When your crazy right-wing uncle starts spewing lies between the main course and dessert, here a few key facts to keep in mind
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/11/22/how-talk-your-family-about-trumptaxscam-thanksgiving
He goes through an entire imaginary debate on his Twitter feed.
I have noticed this in years past. They see holidays where families gather as opportunities for proselytizing. Nothing ever comes of it. Start blathering gibberish about non-binary gender roles and how the weather is a social construct and see how fast your ass gets shoved out the front door and locked behind you.
Oh no, Bacon Magic is here, fellow aspies brace yourselves metaphorical hugs. Almost as bad as actual touching.
Little Kids, Big Fears: How to Talk About Nuclear War and Donald Trump with 2nd-Graders
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/08/11/little-kids-big-fears-how-talk-about-nuclear-war-and-donald-trump-2nd-graders
That’s very important stuff for an 8 yr old to know. I can’t even remember how old I was when learned about it. 12 maybe?
Time for Red Dawn to surge in DVD sales.
I was younger than 8 when my dad told me a siren lasting more than 5 minutes meant nuclear war. That was the world, I went back to playing with my GI Joes.
We lived in Duncan, OK. Dad said that if it ever went down, he’d pile us in the car and drive us to Ft Sill to get it overwith quickly.
When I was 6 I was pretty sure the commies were going to nuke us at any second (this was 1983, which was probably as close as we got to nuclear war with the USSR, so I was almost kind of right).
I can’t remember whether I even asked my parents about it.
Today I found out that you are way older than I thought you were and you probably shouldn’t be watching anime girls.
The USSR died a year after I was born.
Good God John, do you even shave?
*Remembers watching Nixon announce his resignation*
Since the age of thirteen. Fucking Eastern European genetics.
Romanian?
I don’t know whether to take that as an insult or not.
That made me laugh. yeah, same here. My sympathies. A few hours after I shave I have a Five’O clock. Damn, you can even see it in my Avatar. It is like 40 grit sandpaper. I can grow a magnificent beard just by taking a nap. I go through razors like they are potato chips.
Something something Neanderthal genes.
I quit Beards at 25, way to much maitnenance
I’m a product of mongrel genetics, and for some reason the most beardilest decided to spawn when I was a young age. Same with ear hair, which I frankly find a greater annoyance. Recently my girlfriend and I spent some time with a (non-related) baby, and said baby spent mostly of its time stroking my two day stubble in awe. I was not entirely amused.
@Russian Kia
Polish-Ukrainian, for some bizarre reason. My identity of French-Metis-Dutch was eternally destroyed. That’s why you have to go for the Brian Blessed, such glories of the beard are meant for those of higher statue. I’m with the Orthodox; the longer the beard, the glorious the manliness.
Kids Talk Trump – SNL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmqaTzF1vyI
horrid. unfunny.
Why Arts Graduates Are Under-Employed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D0fLisyjBY
stage 5 fart sniffing
one of my rules: anyone who says “society” more than twice in a space of 10 minutes or less is an idiot.
Because artists have few marketable skills and in their field of expertise they dont actually create any wealth?
Thank you all for your Generous offers of support, I have about 10 days to get my cash together, and I’ll just make it, if I’m careful.I need to adjust my finances and not in a good way but what ever needs to work I do. What a group of people, out of no where offers of help and encouragement, I am humbled and in your debt, (rhetorically for now),
Bob
Like I said above. If you get in a spot let us know.
I’ll kick some Ass and let you know,Awesome people!
So, the Wife had her foot cut off in April, she’s been driving multiple wheelchairs ever since. We have ramps and various helpers but to get her to Thanksgiving will take 2 vehicles. the Wife and Son in a Kia and me with my Work van with the Ramps, now you know Why I need a beer