Tiger shot -3 in his return to golf. I guess the ankle bracelet didn’t have an effect on his swing, but that interlock device on the cart sure is a bitch. In college basketball, Michigan State continues to impress with a win over Notre Dame. aTm also won. Seattle destroyed Houston 3-0 to win both legs of their MLS Cup semifinal with ease. They take on Toronto in a couple of weeks. The usual suspects all went through in the Spanish Copa del Rey.
There was plenty of action on the ice with seven games last night. The results: The Kings royally screwed the Crapitals. Dilly dilly! Les Canadiens throttled the Red Wings. The MINNESODA WIIIIIIIIIILLLLLDDDD doubled up the Army, er Las Vegas Golden Knights. The Canucks took down the Predators.* The Blackhawks fell to the Stars in OT (sorry, Swissy). The Flames consumed the Coyotes. And the Maple Leafs bested the Oilers.
*I, for one, think its time the NHL looked at the insensitivity of the nickname “Predators” in this day and age of sexual assault becoming as commonplace as it is, especially in the media and political arenas. This is literally worse that the Redskins, Indiana and Hitler put together.
Tennessee football downgraded from dumpster fire to row of shitters on fire
And last but not least, the college football coaching search at Tennessee continues apace. The NC State coach turned them down yesterday but they are now talking to Mike Leach from Wazzu. He’d be a hell of a get for that dumpster fire. I sure hope he turns them down. Also, aTm says they’re about to make their move and Arizona State is going to make a splash by apparently hiring…Herm Edwards? I can’t think of anything that would get the boosters more fired up than a guy who last coached 9 years ago…in the NFL…with little success. Also Conference Championship games all day tomorrow. Go Bucks! Beat Michigan! Beat Wisconsin! (Also Go Miami in the ACC and Go SMOD in the SEC game. Go TCU! And I don’t care who wins the Pac 12 game. Oh, and Go Boise State. Because Fresno being ranked with three losses was a fucking joke and a deliberate attempt to make Bama’s schedule look more impressive.)
Jeez. I meant for that to be a very short sports update and then I went on a rant. Sorry about that. I’ll try to make it up to you by doing extra good with…the links!
Apparently NOT a murder victim, but a victim of bad luck according to San Franciscans.
I seriously don’t like linking all bad news, but I can’t avoid bringing up the acquittal of the illegal alien, multiple felon who killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco. The “it went off on its own” defense seemed to have worked. Even though Sig Sauer’s aren’t known for ever doing that. Even though what the fuck was he doing with the gun anyway? And why would he have been pointing it anywhere in the first place? Seriously…fuck that shit. Oh yeah, he’s being deported now. But I’m sure he can find a way back, with a new stolen identity, and make his way to another sanctuary city.
Gloria Steinem adds her name to the list of hypocrites that defended Bill Clinton vigorously while he was in office. So brave.
You want good news? I’ll give you some good news: The 15 year old Texas girl that disappeared on November 25th and most people had given up for dead was found safe and sound in Louisiana yesterday. That’s good to hear.
You want more good news? I’ll give you some more good news: Chicago’s soda tax goes pop! for good today. LOL, nice work, dumbasses.
I didn’t even know Argentina had submarines. Are they planning on invading another British territory or something? Anyway, this is very sad. But seriously, Argentina? Submarines?
Are you gonna jail or kill all these people too?
A Spanish judge will rule Monday on the fate of ten Catalan separatists. Let’s see how this shitshow of the way the Spanish government has handled this can get any crazier. My guess is that it will.
BONUS BULLSHIT LINK: Check out the most common last names by state. I found it interesting. I’d like to see a comparison with 50 years ago to see if there are any migratory patterns.
…and it opened up my eyes. (A video of me singing this better not show up here.)
Enjoy your Friday and weekend! Go Bucks! Beat Michigan! Beat Wisconsin!
Glad to see the Nelson’s are out of Wisconsin.
“Smith, Johnson, Williams”
Perfect since those are the names for my left testicle, penis and right testicle respectively.
The Law *Firm*
With all the Johnson’s covering the US how did Gary not win last year?
“Wait, which Gary? I’m not voting for my Cousin Gary, or my other Cousin Gary.”
“Gary hasn’t spoken since he tried to ride a porcupine.”
Seems fitting.
You doesn’t has to call me Johnson.
My name is Yon Yonson,
I live in Wisconsin.
I work in a lumber yard there.
The people I meet as
I walk down the street,
They say “Hello!”
I say “Hello!”
They say “What’s your name.”
I say: My name is Yon Yonson…
The Spanish judge is sure to rule for the separatists right?
Depends on how hidalgo the judge is.
Guns have agency, it is known.
Can you imagine being the children of those jurors? “Yeah, my homework jumped out of my backpack and flew into an aliens mouth.” “That must’ve scared you. Here, have some ice cream.”
More like: “Yeah, my homework jumped out of my backpack and flew into an aliens mouth.”
“Goddamn Trump and the Republicans! Its their fault Hunter, not the aliens.”
Murder might have been a bit of a stretch but they should have gotten manslaughter without too much trouble. I wonder if this was essentially jury nullification, gotta stick it to you know who you know, or just plain inept prosecution.
From what I heard last night, many legal analysts were saying the prosecution was inept and it was unthinkable that they couldn’t even get manslaughter. I suspect the prosecutors likely semi-tanked the case for political reasons, while there was probably some jury nullification as well for the same reasons.
I don’t get the people from the immigrant community celebrating this decision. Great, now people are going to hate illegals even more. I’m glad when they lock up foreigners here that clearly commit grievous crimes. Why would I want that stench on me?
I don’t get the people from the immigrant community celebrating this decision.
Simple stupid tribalism. They’ve got a significant number of people trained like seals to only look at first order effects. One of “theirs” got off. That’s the only outcome from this. It won’t have any repercussions. Nosiree, Bob.
Stick it to whypipple.
Meanwhile no justice for Kate.
For shame.
Sorry, the invite to the No Justice, No Peace riot must have gone to my spam folder. Where are us whiteys supposed to assemble?
The re-education camp.
WLDM
If it was, it was badly calculated – this kind of a verdict plays right into Trump’s whole narrative about sanctuary cities coddling illegal alien killers. This verdict is the best possible scenario, politically, for the “build the wall” advocates.
Like they would name their kid Hunter.
Like they would name their kid Hunter.
More likely they would name their kid “Gatherer”.
The poor guy was wrestling the vicious firearm, trying to subdue it, so he could turn it in to police!
That double action Sig has a long 10+ lbs off pull on the first shot – damn near impossible to squeeze off by accident. Single-action (with the hammer cocked) is much lighter. But that takes a conscious effort to put the gun in that state. The proscecuter should have let the jurors dry fire it.
He would have fried somewhere like Texas where the jurors knew guns.
Or the prosecutor could have explained that such guns can’t “fire accidentally”, they are negligently discharged.
There was a confluence of stupidity and ignorance with this jury. Lack of knowledge of firearms coupled with TDS = verdict of innocence. If this happened in a place where there is common knowledge of firearms and populated by normal (not uber-progs) this comes back as a guilty verdict in 4 hours.
But then again, the crime probably wouldn’t have happened in a place where the second set of circumstances apply.
its ‘not guilty’. no one is ‘found innocent’. And the most common reason why is that prosecutors charge more than they can convincingly prove.
e.g. w/ Murder – evidence of intent/motive isn’t always available, esp with crazy people. Random-killing is probably the hardest to ascribe ‘motive’ unless you can show a pattern of similar behavior which led to the act.
It’s not even “Not Guilty” it’s “Not (Guilty Beyond a Reasonable Doubt)”
I sometimes have trouble coming up with the right words for things, but Not Guilty was what I was reaching for. Either way, the real point that I was trying to make was that the totality of circumstances that led to this outcome can only exist in a highly prog-infested area.
Any cop could have told you that the things just discharge of their own accord.
This seems like a reasonable request to me; are requests of this kind usually denied?
If there is a narrative to uphold, yes.
Seriously, I can’t imagine why this would be denied. As you said, it seems pretty reasonable. Not to mention very germane to the case.
Well, the whole point of a double-action configuration on a semi-automatic was as a way of delivering a long-heavy-first-shot trigger so they could sell them to cops who were used to revolvers, and overcoming their (arguably legitimate) concerns that a single-action sidearm was too prone to negligent discharges.
Otherwise, we’d still be shooting each other with 1911’s and Browning Hi-Powers, assuming we were trained well enough to release the safety.
It’s the woman’s fault for mowing her lawn too early and growing pumpkins on her land.
What are the chances, had the guy been a white dude wearing a MAGA hat, that he would have escaped manslaughter (or worse) given the exact same set of facts?
He’d have been pillories before the brass hit the boardwalk.
Build that WALL
You can put the wall closer to the coast, keep the mountains and the central regions on this side.
YEah, also move it a bit further south, The wall should end at the northern tip of San Francisco bay and we’ll add 2 states, Jefferson and San Fernando
Matt Lauer: How Cheap Is Contrition?
He’s an addict, show some sympathy.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon… you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time.”
Mr Lippman: You’re fired.
George: Well, you didn’t have to say it like that!
You are all missing the lede:
“media bigfoot”
STEVE SMITH HARDEST HIT
STEVE SMITH NOT FAN OF ONGOING HARASSMENT. STEVE SMITH RAPE ‘EM AND LEAVE ‘EM.
” I realize the depth of the damage and disappointment ”
i.e. “I understand my wife is speaking to a lawyer and I’m going to be taken to the cleaners in the divorce”
Matt Lauer was a highly paid, very visible, very popular anchor who made NBC quite a bit of money and after one woman’s attorney writes a letter to management accusing him of some pretty horrible behavior not only does the network fire him on the spot but he cops to it. Why in the hell would he do that? Why wouldn’t he fight this kicking and screaming? Maybe pull a Clinton–“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”–or claim that it was all consensual?
He wants to quash this before an investigation happens, because there’s probably much worse that hasn’t come out. If he folds now, he can pull a Harvey Weinstein and go to a spa for a few months until shit cools down. Then the story becomes about Matt Lauer’s battle with sex addiction and not the twelve other women he raped or extorted or whatever. That’s where I’d put my money.*
*Although since I put $50 on the ‘Skins to cover the spread last night I might not be the best man for betting advice.
MATT LAUER = STEVE SMITH. STEVE SMITH WILL COME COLLECT BET ON REDSKINS.
STEVE SMITH LEAVE HIKERS SKIN RED AFTER COLLECT ON BET, AND BY COLLECT ON BET MEAN RAPE
I toss out a softball like “cover the spread” and nobody takes a swing? Seriously? Do I need to put a bow on it next time?
Gruden is gonna swoop in and save the vol program for us.
Is there a local high school coach named Rick Gruden I’m unaware of? Because Chucky, who only did well with another coach’s entire team and staff, ain’t coming into that shitstorm.
Too comfortable on MNF. He’s got a sweet gig.
Ohio State sucks balls…. Ha. That’ll teach you to badmouth my favorite college team.
C’mon, Chucky actually did a pretty good job of building the team he beat in the Superbowl.
The team that got robbed the year before by the tuck rule.
Meh. At this point I’ll take the job. What harm could it do?
Now if you could just point me toward the appropriate scoring zone, I’ll make sure those boys shoot more six-pointers than anyone thought possible.
No man I’ll do it. My fantasy team is outscoring every other team in the league by almost 20 points a game so I am clearly qualified and I will even do them a favor and agree to a very reasonable salary of only half a million a year with a 4 year guarantee
What league are you in ?
Not j sub d memorial for sure.
Nah only in 2 leagues this year, one with my family and one Yahoo public league
I missed out on the leagues they started up around here because I was too busy to be online much back in July and August.
That said my scoring dominance ain’t done me a lick of good in one of the leagues.
In the family league my team has scored 1584 points so far on the season, 2nd highest scoring team is my Brother in Law with 1429 points and 4th is my Sister with 1344 pts and 3rd is their son with 1368 pts. Everyone else is below 1300 total points on the season. I did all of that with my team being anchored by Aaron Rogers and Odell Beckham Jr. Somehow however my team is only 5-7 and not going to make the playoffs.
But seriously, Argentina? Submarines?
They bought them surplus from the Polish navy and forgot to replace the screen doors.
It was an older…German model.
*shifty eyed gaze*
I wunder warum..er, wonder why the Argies went with German submarines, ja?
You know who else commanded a fleet of German submarines?
Dan Quislingberry?
Schmidt’s deli?
Magneto?
Matthew McConaughey?
Wolfgang Petersen?
No scheiße-porn references? I am disappoint.
Grand Admiral Erich Raeder?
Jürgen Prochnow?
Werner Hirschmann? Another Place, Another Time: A U-boat Officer’s Wartime Album https://www.amazon.com/dp/1896941648/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_F9viAb244JXBM
Cornelus Drebbel?
Me, playing Axis and Allies?
Hong Kong journalist mocks #metoo movement with Facebook post
My long lost brother!
When I was 17 my boss good looking milf boss made advances on me at work
#metoo
Yesterday while signing some documents a female client of mine reached across the table, rubbed my hand and commented on how nice my skin is. #metoo
The cleaning lady left a shrine to the destroyer god Shiva made completely out of her used tampons at my work station. #metoo #storiesfromthepsychward
Do you need to take some days off work to recover from your traumatic experience? You may need to go on some medication to handle the PTSD to.
When I worked at the women’s prison, an old, disheveled, mentally deranged inmate looked at me – her eyes danced up and down my body – and she blurted out, “OOOOH! Good mornin’! Sunshine has come!”
#metoo
That is not a very good women’s prison story.
You should try making something up.
God what I wouldn’t have given to have had the school secretary make advances on me when I was 17. Übermilf.
When I was 16 my (female) boss was told by my co-workers that I had a big dick and asked to see it.
I’ve always regretted saying no cause she was pretty hot, but now I realize its another arrow in my #MeToo quiver.
When I was just out of college, a female supervisor came up behind me and started rubbing my shoulders. After I said no, she began to badmouth me in front of other employees (and customers).
#metoo
“(A video of me singing this better not show up here.)”
Unfortunately, I can’t find my copy of it. Your daughter has it though. What really is agonizing is losing the video of you drunkenly breakdancing with cowboy boots.
There is literally no shame in singing along to Ace of Base OR breakdancing in cowboy boots.
You’re dead to me Pat.
If you want to leave, I won’t beg you to stay
The correct form is “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
And don’t turn around?
REWARD POSTED FOR THAT!
Hell, I might even chip in!
*starts investigating into gofundme*
Lets just send Banjos $30 to get him drunk again.
Oooh. Efficient!
I’m just wondering what’s next, Pocket Full of Sunshine?
In local idiocity
http://5newsonline.com/2017/11/29/proposed-business-license-fee-would-generate-money-for-fort-smith-police/
I believe this is how it works in Mexico too. Businesses having to pay protection money to the cartels/police is a south of the border tradition.
“Gee they really need that,” McMillen said. “I wish they could find the funds somewhere else.”
::shakes head::
No they don’t. Fuck you, cut spending!
“Vest and helmets, you know that all costs money.”
at least when you pay protection to the Mob, you actually get protected. The cops don’t even do that (and have a Supreme Court decision stating that they don’t have to do so).
Steinem:
How politically convenient. What an unprincipled piece of shit.
A woman needs a Clinton like a fish needs a cigar.
+1 human humidor
A woman needs a fish like a Clinton needs a cigar.
They both smell like tuna?
‘I wouldn’t write the same thing now’
Of course you wouldn’t write the same thing now, Gloria. Bill Clinton’s political career is over and he’s no longer useful to you. The Clinton op-ed revealed you were an unprincipled hack. This just confirms it.
China Detects Weird Space Signals With Its Dark Matter ‘Monkey King’ Satellite
I once read a Chinese journal article on cellulose where they got 110% conversion of reacted mass. i’m not saying its not real, but…
Until we get independant verification, I’m going to bet on “instrumentation failure”
To be fair, they probably just coped the results section of another publication but forgot to properly convert units.
or maybe the Lite Brite ran out of batteries.
The Hispanic Caucus denied a Republican congressman membership because they use the group to strategize against Trump
That seems to violate congressional rules. Caucuses are supposed to be open to any member.
Well that completely skates over the secret “Democrats can do whatever they want” rule.
That’s a secret like Israel having nukes is a secret.
Shh…
They need safe spaces.
race-baiting hypocrites give me giggles
Boob fact: We know about the eye tracking study showing that men look first and most frequently at a woman’s tits when engaging her in conversation. Information that is kept under tighter wraps is the fact that women (even straight women) do exactly the same thing. There’s a reason why scantly clad women work for advertising to everyone.
http://archive.is/pCR7v
2, 27, 36 hoo doggy!
You should put these in a binder. I’m going with number most of them except the ones with the “I voted” stickers. They need to earn the purple thumb the correct way.
Alright buddy. that’s it for your political career. You want binders full of women? Who are you? Mitt Romney?
They need to earn the purple thumb the correct way.
Do you eat a lot of blueberries?
Or just BooBerry cereal?
9, 25, 27. 30 …sigh.
Imagine getting stranded on Gilligan’s Island with #36!
It’s getting too difficult to pick favorites. I’m just going to list the ones I wouldn’t:
24 looks like Frank Castle.
Swiss town will pay you to move there
Throw in a Alps Horn and I’m in.
Do orphan laborers count toward the $10,000 per child credit? Asking for a friend.
Welp, I’m out.
Get me the residency and I’ll start selling the wife on it.
Not a bad deal, I’d even wear lederhosen twice a week if they’d waive the residency requirement.
*waves hand vigorously*
Now, where is that residency paperwork…
I too could be a Swiss Servator? This is tremendously exciting!
All those narrow gazes lead to some horrible headaches.
If you keep making that face, it’s going to stay like that! /Swiss’s grandmother.
Have you been working on your gaze technique?
JOIN US! JOIN US! JOIN US!
It makes me wonder what is wrong with the place. It must be a trap. It’s like Hostel.
It’s Switzerland, that’s what’s wrong with it.
It’s a wonderful place to visit if you’re rich or on a fully-comped business gig. The normies have their problems like everyone else. They don’t subsist on Toblerone, confiscated (((gold))) and Knorr soup.
When I used to travel a lot, one of the ways you could figure out how ‘rich’ a society was measured by disposable income, was how often the in-country guys would dine out, because people are very forthcoming when you ask if there are any reasonable restaurants you can eat at rather than using the hotel. People will admit that they can’t afford to dine out often far more readily than admitting that kids clothes are expensive, tax is high, cars are a luxury, etc.
And this is how I’m reasonably sure the US is still – in practical terms – one of the cheapest places in the world to have a good life. I can get home and SWMBO says ‘we decided to go out to eat’ on a whim.
*narrows gaze*
C’mon man, you can’t not comment on this. Living *well* in Switzerland is not easy.
Id love to have swiss citizenship, I hear it is minimum a 14 year process though.
Best have mad useful skills (i.e. specialized medicine, really high tech stuff, etc) or piles of money. Otherwise, you ain’t getting anywhere near it.
They got slots for Lawyers / Rocketsurgeons?
I keep asking myself if I’ll piss anyone off by showing a fictional military branch in a less than flattering light.
Though admittedly their problems stem from being far from the first choice for quality volunteers, and a desperate need to prove themselves to be a “real” branch instead of the typical butt of the joke.
You could piss off a sizable contingent of internet retards by showing a fictional puppy bonding with a fictional child in an idyllic fictional town with fictional white picket fences. Do what you want.
That sounds like a boring story, they have cause to be pissed.
They are boring people seeking cause to be pissed.
Instead of pissing them off, why not confuse people instead by portraying an effective French infantry division. Or an efficient Italian navy.
Fighting aliens in a giant mech suit is less liable to strain credulity.
Well, with the Italians, the primary discussion is whether their Armor units have 5- or 6- reverse gears.
Naval competency, at the moment, is a subject that Americans might want to avoid joking about.
Look, Number 6, that lighthouse should have moved out of the carrier group’s way!
We haven’t had any ships sunk by the Argentinians…
6 sunk, all by Argentine Air force. The Exclusion Zone worked. CAP was inadequate.
Marines will rally in defense of any military organization with “Marine” in their name, even if entirely fictional.
It’s “ATOM” (formerly an acronym, but they realized no one ever remembered what it stood for), their main inter-departmental rivals are the Army and the Air Force (the rivalry is not mutual, as ATOM is more like the annoying kid down the street in their eyes) They don’t have much contact with the Navy or its sub-departments.
soo the Coast Guard?
If they were tasked with watching for aliens.
*extraterrestrial aliens.
I don’t know why, but I find that funny.
You might also find it funny that the worlds second largest Air Force is the US Navy.
Doesn’t the US Army boast the most boats* and airframes* out of all branches.
*They count drones and rigid boats
They have more airframes than the USAF?
The navy I mean. Off the cuff I’d second them to the USAF with the PLAAF as the first
I believe so. There were Seabees in my tech school that pointed out the fact the Navy does have more planes than the Air Force. I pointed out that while that was true, it was only true because they were counting the number of naval planes in the Boneyard at DM. Carrier operations takes a heavy toll on the airframe and shortens the service life.
AH counting the boneyard I can believe that, most of the target drones are old navy stock. Much of the old USAF stuff gets chopped up quick under SALT / START because, until recently, they all had provisions to carry special weapons, Navy not so much.
I want the narrator to gripe about the marching cadence, but the scene would work better if I actually had it for him to complain about rather than a theoretical cadence that irks him.
I shouldn’t keep letting myself get stuck on these small details and push forward with the story as a whole.
Are you a “relentlessly edit every line to perfection as I write it” writer or a “get it all down now as fast as possible and take a hatchet to the whole thing later” kinda guy? Just curious.
Neither.
I get a “pretty good” first pass with the amount of fussing inversely tied to how well I’m able to get the scene to move along in my head. Then I go back and polish out obvious errors and hand off the the editor to catch what I missed.
“I shouldn’t keep letting myself get stuck on these small details and push forward with the story as a whole.”
That’s why you outsource it to the Commentariate
What is the usual sentence pattern for a boot camp marching cadence for running? Is it as strict as Haiku, or does it merely need a smiliar beat?
Most jodies use the same cadence. The leader shouts a line in cadence, the rest of the group repeats that line. The exact rhythm may vary based on whether they’re marching or running, and there are some creative outlier patterns out there too, but mostly it follows the “Napalm, napalm sticks to kids” pattern. Can’t link you any examples right now, just look up “marching jody” or “running jody” on YouTube.
Merely similar…
C-130 rollin’ down the strip
Airborne Ranger on a one way trip
Stand up, hook up, shuffle to the door
Jump right out and count to four
If my main don’t open wide
I got a reserve by my side
If that one should fail me too
Look out ground, I’m a comin’ through
For real fun, Google Full Metal Jacket scenes with Gunnery SGT Hartman running with the trainees…
I once did use Elvis’ “Blue Suede Shoes” as a jody call.
Tried to turn the Prison Work Song from Les Miserable into one, but never got a chance to use it.
Poor Sweden.
In tech school I had our flight do a formation run at the request of a new MTL. At the time there were about 120 electrical students. The base implemented a “no formation running” rule later that day, because of how much we gummed up traffic at PT.
C-130 rollin’ down the strip
Airborne Ranger on a one way trip64 dummies gonna make another trip
Stand up, hook up,
shuffle tostumble cross thedfloorJump right out and count to fourslip in the puke and fall out the door
If my main don’t open wideI got a reserve by my side
If the wind don’t open his main
Airborne trooper gonna go insane
If that one should fail me tooLook out ground, I’m a comin’ through
If his reserve don’t open either
he got a date with old saint peter.
/Former Leg at Fort Bragg
“I got your leg hangin, Wind-Dummy!”
Like “Catch-22”, or “Stripes”?
My concern stems mainly from being just about as un-military as I can be without voiding any of my privilege traits. I write from a position of ignorance and know it will show at the seams.
You know, you could just blatantly steal something and call yourself out for stealing it.
Example: Use one from Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann in FMJ and have a character comment about the DI being addicted to the movie. That of course depends on the time frame the story is set in.
“Man’s Best Friend”
Dog shoots hunter after man leaves shotgun on ground
“How did the hunting trip go?”
“We’re having Korean food tonight.”
Newsflash: San Fran jury acquits dog on all charges except illegal possession of firearm.
Needed saying.
Damn!!
And a San Francisco jury found the dog not guilty of all charges except for illegally possessing a firearm.
Needed saying, again.
That almost happened to me once. I rolled out my sleeping bag, laid the shotgun on it and then walked off to get firewood. Of course Smokey, my dog went straight to the sleeping bag to curl up. Fortunately I was out of line with the gun. Seems like a freak accident but in hindsight it is pretty obvious that is exactly what would happen.
But did the dog ever try to jump in your sleeping bag again?
Now that you ask…no, he didn’t. Also I never laid my shotgun on the sleeping bag again.
Safeties Suthen. There is a reason they put them on firearms.
Dogs, apparently.
Joe Biden hardest hit.
Doors spared.
Because you’ve all been good little Glibs all week long, here’s your bonus.
http://archive.is/t4tLx
No need to thank me.
San Francisco just handed Trump another thing to beat his opponents over the head with in 2020. They even wrapped it up nicely in wrapping paper that has his Tweets printed on it, held together by a ribbon of the red tape he seems to be slashing.
#Resistance = #Trump2020
Donald Trump is a psychopath, suffers psychosis and is an ‘enormous present danger’, says psychiatrist
I think Dr. Dodes should not be attempting to remotely diagnose people he’s never met.
Not if he wants to keep his license.
Frankly, this “institute” sounds made up.
You’re a Synth, Aren’t you?!
Anti-synth bigot alert!
I burned the Institute with a clean conscience. Purged it with nuclear fire.
Professional ethics are so 20th Century, especially where Trump is concerned.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/201701/shrinks-battle-over-diagnosing-donald-trump
I wonder if Dr. Dodes would be ready to put his license on the line on that claim.
I think this is the same elderly asshole who’s been pushing this since the inauguration. Embarrassing. Stick to Woody Allen-style psychoanalysis like a good dinosaur, sir.
The true proof of TDS is that this meaningless person gets any press at all.
For Swissie
COME ON, COWS! STOMP THAT HATE BIRD, THE BIRD THAT HATES!
These Chick fil A commercials are getting strange.
Charlottesville Residents Unite to Protest Likely Surge in Health-Insurance Premiums
https://www.wsj.com/articles/charlottesville-residents-unite-to-protest-likely-surge-in-health-insurance-premiums-1512037801
I don’t know what to say. These liberal families are getting slaughtered by Obamacare. They make just enough to not be eligible for subsidies and are seeing their premiums triple this year. Instead of attacking Obamacare for the monstrosity it is, their solution is to make it “personal, not political”. Moving past the buzzwords, they are of course making it political by lobbying congress to keep the mandate that forces them to pay so much and to restore subsidies to lower income families that wouldn’t help them.
It’s like the Dems are slapping them across the face and all these families can say is Thank you sir, may I have another. What is wrong with them?
Because they are fundamentally stupid. Faced with absolute evidence that contradicts their political views, they just choose to ignore it.
“What do we want?”
“Free shit!”
“When do we want it?”
“Potato!”
Where are you going to carve out electoral success in a country as ignorant of civics and economics as ours? Democrats have the Free Shit vote locked up and now their Republican quislings are tacking that way, too. What do you offer a voter who’s already promised everything? Liberty and solvency obviously don’t work.
Meant for LH…
You can’t win an election against Santa Claus.
As Edward Longshanks probably said, “The trouble with Charlottesville is that it’s full of Charlottesvillians.”
Charlottesville, MY ville.
I think I have a larger claim to that…claim.
I think that would have been Cromwell
and there’s likely an ACA provision that prevents them from incorporating and creating their own health insurance pool.
“When the news of the higher costs landed in early November…” So they had the opportunity to act out their rage at the voting booth immediately. Which they didn’t.
Goddamnit, I am so fucking sick of hearing people supporting government action while insisting that it’s not political.
Repeat after me: GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS POLITICAL. GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS POLITICAL. GOVERNMENT IS ALWAYS POLITICAL.
I think a more accurate way of putting it would be “It’s personal, not principled.”.
NBC Poll Finds 71 Percent of Millennials Want A Third Major Party
socially liberal instead of civil libertarian
A fiscally conservative social liberal is a liberal Republican or a conservative Democrat. They both say the government should let people do what they want within certain broad limits. Libertarians say the government doesn’t have the right to keep people from doing what they want except for a very short list of instances. There’s a huge, huge difference. And that’s why Gary lost the support of libertarians.
Johnson only did comparatively well because Trump and Clinton were reviled by many-a retarded monkey could have matched his “achievement.”
Proof of the libertarian moment! /Nick G.
Gary Johnson is the Nick Gillespie of politics.
I believe that is the correct usage there.
Textbook.
The More Free Shit, Especially Free College and Brunch Party?
(I know #notallmillenials)
Maybe you are looking for this?
“For that reason, and many others, while support for a third party may be at historic highs, third party support at the ballot box won’t be.”
This guy is either mendacious or stupid. The reason we’ll never have a competative 3rd party is that our election system very heavily favors a two-party system, not to mention all of the special rules hindering 3rd party votes. Unless that is changed (which it won’t) a competitive 3rd party won’t happen regardless of how “moderate and sane” it is.
I don’t know, I think a 3rd party is highly likely at some point in the next 3 election cycles. It won’t necessarily last long and it won’t be a new party from the ground up, rather it will be a splintering of one of the 2 major parties but I think there are very high odds for a 3rd major party to form soonish
Third parties must moderate if they want to gain support…He took a hard tack towards the middle by labeling libertarianism as nothing more than being fiscally conservative and socially liberal.
Except, it’s not at all clear to me that Johnson’s positions were particularly moderate. I think a moderate position on same sex marriage is that you’re not going to stop gay people from getting married and you’re not going to force anyone else to participate. It isn’t telling Jewish bakers they have to bake kosher Nazi cakes. A moderate position is that you’re going to try to address the problems with police excess. It’s not that you’re going to start a massive government spending effort to make wealth and income comparable across races. A moderate libertarian would be a libertarian-light. Johnson ran as a fiscally moderate social justice cadre.
Suddenly I’m for the tax plan.
DU;DC
For the less adventurous among us, I shall provide a summary:
The AARP opposes the tax bill.
So the people with the most wealth *may* be taxed more. I thought DU would have loved that.
Only when Democrats propose such a bill.
Republicans could pass a bill providing free daily backrubs for all people over 60 and the AARP would still oppose it.
Seasteading: Floating city aiming to cast off in 2020
The idea is intriguing. The execution will be a joke of which libertarians are the punchline for the next 50 years.
Until the first Hurricane of any size, like Guam, THEY GONNA TIP OVAH!
I’m wondering – is it safer to make the city submersible (or at least semi-subnmersible) and ride out major storms slightly below the surface? Since they’re going to dome them anyway…
They were domed from the start.
… is it safer to make the city submersible…
No.
That’s how you get Rapture.
Not on it’s own, you’d need mutagenic sea slug extract.
Will Pauly Shore be the first mayor?
UR DOIN IT RONG!
My thought exactly.
My floating city would be under the jurisdiction of Supreme overlord Lachowsky and no one else.
Will there be Plasmids?
Krazy
There is a debate over whether Trump is unaware of reality or merely indifferent to it. He might be delusional, or he might simply be asserting the power to blithely override truth, which is the ultimate privilege of a despot. But reports from the administration all suggest an increasingly unhinged and chaotic president. Trump’s aides are trying to spin his behavior, which they clearly expect to get worse, as a sign of heightened confidence. “Officials tell us Trump seems more self-assured, more prone to confidently indulging wild conspiracies and fantasies, more quick-triggered to fight than he was during the Wild West of the first 100 days in office,” Mike Allen reports on Axios.
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If you think 2017 was bad, imagine an America without allies fighting another two-front war, this one involving nuclear weapons, under the leadership of the most hated president in modern history, while a torture apologist runs the C.I.A. The world right now is a powder keg. Trump, an untethered maniac, sits atop it, flicking a lighter that Republicans in Congress could take away, but won’t. If everything goes up in flames, we can’t say we weren’t warned.
In case you were wondering, Trump is the crazy one, and don’t try to pretend he’s not.
Yet another Republican president bringing us to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. How original.
JFK was a Republican? Man, my public school history class teacher really screwed up on that one.
JFK was long since dead when that ad dropped. It was a Johnson attack ad on Goldwater, which kicked off the quadrennial tradition of accusing literally every single Republican president (or presidential nominee, you pedantic buttface) of being a nuclear warmonger.
I think the Goldwater campaign was also the introduction of the tradition of calling the Republican a Nazi. Which goes to show how classy the Dems have always been: comparing an ethnic Jew who fought for the US in WWII to Hitler.
I always found it odd how even though I grew up in AZ, they didn’t teach anything about Barry Goldwater in school–other than he once ran for president.
Facts that are inconvenient to the narrative must be covered, with a pillow, until dead.
Which enrages me to no end. At least we still have the Goldwater Institute – Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
My AZ curriculum involved far more dwelling on the sex life of Henry VIII than on post-Vietnam American history.
You’re a zonie? More of em on here than I thought! We should organize a southwest booze and guns fest.
“he might simply be asserting the power to blithely override truth, which is the ultimate privilege of a despot”
Trump seems to be despoting wrong, considering how the deep state and spineless Congress prevents him from doing pretty much anythig yet there still haven’t been any free helicopter rides.
Additional findings from my delve into human sperm counts et. al. yesterday:
While the gender of your baby is always a numbers game, there are some ways you can tip the scales in your favor if you prefer a boy or a girl. The difference comes in that Y-carrying sperm and smaller and faster, but not as hearty compared to X-carrying sperm. Therefore, if you want a boy, you want to give them the advantage to race to the egg ahead of the X sperm but before they start dying out. To do this, you want to have sex as closely to the peak of ovulation as possible and ejaculate very deeply inside her using a position like doggy style or reverse cowgirl. This gives the speedy Y sperm not as far to swim and they have an immediate target of opportunity. If you want a girl, reverse the advice. Have sex a day or two before peak ovulation and in a relatively shallow penetrating position like missionary or lotus. This means the Y sperm will mostly die off and the stronger but more ponderous X sperm will have their shot at the prize.
The ratio of Y to X-carrying sperm is a bit of a puzzle and studies conflict about the ratio of Y to X sperm in a typical ejaculation. What is known is that there is an excess of boy newborns that eventually becomes an excess of girls as time goes on. The accounts for a higher rate of X-linked genetic diseases in males and more premature death. However, there are some odd correlations based on the parents’ appearance and behavior (all from the male, sorry ladies you donate an X no matter what). Men who are rated by women as highly attractive, and especially if he has attractive female relatives, are more likely to have daughters. This is likely due to the fact that physical attractiveness is a more important evolutionary trait for women than men. Men who are rated more masculine, dominant and (especially) promiscuous are more likely to have sons. Again, these traits are more advantageous to males than females. What’s unclear is whether these genetic attributes are expressed in the ratio of Y to X sperm in those men’s ejaculations. Further study is required.
I see no mention of moon phases in there.
Huh. I have four brothers, no sisters.
*ponders*
*opens Google in new tab, searches: “brain bleach”*
Two tiers! Real and fake.
Down-to-earth tier!
44 wins. Super hot, amazing face and something a bit human about her.
23 would be second–again. There’s something real there.
18. yuuuuummy.
CRAZY TIER!
12 and 26….scare me in ways that I desperately need desire. They both look like absolute freaks.
In real life 24.
DAMN YOU 38!! YOU COULDA BEEN A CONTENDA’!
God dammit.
Brilmore’d.
You were clearly distracted from threading correctly
Facebook will temporarily disable a tool that lets advertisers exclude people of color
This is delicious. Facebook spends a decade collecting the most intimate possible personal data on their users so that advertisers can target ads precisely, and they’re going to end up using the same model as print or TV media to appease the SJWs.
“Facebook to inflict White-centric ads on minorities”
If you’re entering into any of those types of contracts off a Facebook Ad, you deserve to be exploited. Why does she hate minorities and want them to be exploited by people who advertise on Facebook?
How in the fuck is that school still open?
And I’m sure this rule will apply for political advertising? Yeah right they’re gonna deny Dems the opportunity to target one of the key parts of the base.
We’re supposed to believe that this tool isn’t actually being used to exclude white people too?
It’s like the Dems are slapping them across the face and all these families can say is Thank you sir, may I have another. What is wrong with them?
Stockholm Syndrome. “After he forced me to suck his cock, he gave me a damp towel to wipe my face with, and a juice box.”
Cop taunts would-be killer with lube on way to prison: ‘You are going to need a lot of this’
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/30/cop-taunts-would-be-killer-with-lube-on-way-to-prison-are-going-to-need-lot-this.html
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A police officer taunted the Jacksonville man who shot him multiple times last year by taking out a tube of K-Y Jelly personal lubricant in court Wednesday and saying, “You are going to need a lot of this,” local reports said.
Kevin Rojas, then 19, shot the undercover police officer three times during a 2016 traffic stop, including once in the face, the Florida Times-Union reported.
The critically-wounded officer, who was taking his son to school during the incident, returned fire but did not hit Rojas. His son was not injured.
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Meet the new professionalism, same as the old professionalism.
I’m sure he was held in contempt and hauled off just like you or I would be too.
Super unprofessional and I don’t condone it or the way that no one (present company, excluded, natch) gives a shit about prison rape.
But I’m gonna say, even as a cop…I can’t get too riled up over someone being a dick to someone who shot you multiple times. I think that warrants a lifetime Get-Out-of-Being-a-Dick Card when it concerns his attacker.
YMMV.
Yes, I think I’m in that boat as well.
I don’t begrudge any crime victim their resentment, it’s the double standard I don’t like. If he wasn’t a cop and pulled something like that in the court room the judge would have had him removed.
That’s a fair point.
Hold on…
Undercover cop taking his son to school pulls someone over?!?
LOLWUT?
That’s some deep cover right there. I hope the son was on the payroll.
I think he could have handled it better, but if some fucker shot me three times and tried to kill me in front of my child, and I got a chance to talk at his sentencing, I’d probably do the same thing or worse.
The real question is why isn’t he up on child endangerment charges for bringing his kid to a felony traffic stop.
I don’t understand. Why was an undercover cop taking his son to school involved with a traffic stop?
“Watch Dad, son!”
At least I can hope the resulting psychological trauma will mean the kid won’t become a cop.
This is almost certainly literally what happened.
People who shoot or kill cops are probably a bit higher on the prison hierarchy. It’s not like he’s a pedophile or something. Depending on how tough he is and how he handles himself in the joint, he might do just fine without the need for any anal lube.
Brooks, I think it was you commenting on Yohimbine the other day. Try this:
https://www.amazon.com/Primaforce-YOHIMBINE-HCI-2-5-CAPS/dp/B000P1QOHM?th=1
This is the best supplement I’ve found. You and your lady-friend each take one about .5-1 hour before the deed and you both will be quite content with the result. If you can handle the jitteryness, take two and you will feel like Aphrodite herself is extracting your soul through your dick.
Um. Go on…..Tell me these things that you know.
It’s no joke; one of the few products that has actual aphrodisiac properties (not just some wives-tale BS). Since sensation, arousal and erection are all different, it helps much more with the first two than the last. It has also been shown to work on women as well as men. Pro: try it yourself and see but turning the act and (especially) the finish up to 11. Con: Can and will make you jittery and (if you’re prone to it) anxious, especially if you take too much.
If you feel like punishing your partner with your penis for unspecified crimes against humanity, combine with Viagra.
I doubt I can get it here in Korea anyway, but now I’m very conflicted.
I obviously enjoy trying to get the most bang IYKWIMAITYD…but I also have tons of general anxiety issues. I’m also just interested in altered states and have tried just about everything under the sun.
JESSE! You’ve lived here! Tell me how I can get poppers! I’m so curious!
*Alights bear flag and waves it heroically over the ramparts*
Assuming you can get it in Korea (try ordering from Amazon), you can cut the capsules open and put a little bit of the powder under your tongue just to see how it affects you. You can then work your way up to see how much you can handle. It’s worth a try because, I shit you not, you have not experienced a real ejaculation until you’ve tried this stuff. Used to be prescription before Viagra became a thing, now it’s OTC.
Poppers aren’t really just a gay thing, or at least, they never used to be.
My Uncle Oswaldwas an instruction manual?
Journalists’ group ‘grateful’ after Walmart pulls ‘offensive’ T-shirt
http://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/2017/12/01/journalists-group-grateful-after-walmart-pulls-offensive-t-shirt.html
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Following a complaint from a journalism advocacy group, Walmart has ended its online sales of a T-shirt that the group argued sent a threatening message.
The shirt design read “Rope. Tree. Journalist. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.” It was listed on Walmart.com through an outside company, Teespring, which helps users market their T-shirt designs.
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It wasn’t the first time a shirt with controversial content has slipped through the cracks at Teespring. In August, the company vowed to increase oversight of its product line after complaints prompted the ending of “rainbow swastika” T-shirt sales.
The Radio Television Digital News Association said Walmart confirmed the journalism shirt was being removed about five hours after its initial complaint.
“We are grateful for Walmart’s swift action, but dismayed that it, and anyone else selling the shirt, would offer such an offensive and inflammatory product,” Dan Shelley, the group’s executive director, said.
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Pity, I would have bought that shirt. It would go well with this one that I already have:
http://shop.tacticalshit.com/i-love-guns-and-titties-t-shirt-black-and-grey
Admin slams ‘homonormative whiteness’ of LGBTQ Centers
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10212
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Despite being designed as “inclusive” spaces, one university administrator claims that many campus LGBTQ Centers are bastions of “homonormative whiteness.”
Jonathan Pryor interviewed 8 LGBTQ students, some of whom even found things like the pride flag problematic, because it represents “a specific White gay ideal, one not representing trans, non-binary people, and people of color.”
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Excelsior! The wolves devour each other.
Are there different translations of Darkness at Noon? I remember the line with “bravo” rather than “excelsior”.
There was a time when that was a useful function. That time has long since passed.
Evergreen State’s student newspaper includes no-whites-allowed opinion section
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/39514/
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‘For people of color by people of color’
The student newspaper at Evergreen State College has a section in its opinion pages described as “for people of color by people of color.”
“This should be a place where we can be us without it being overshadowed by the dark cloud that is living under white supremacy and having to see things from a white perspective. This is why when we do cover these issues it will be in the context and from the perspective of POC and POC only,” according to the section’s editors as they reintroduced it to readers in September.
The anonymous column, known as “POC Talk,” debuted in the bi-weekly Cooper Point Journal last year and returned this fall to the newspaper’s pages following racial unrest that erupted at the public university this past spring.
“Dear White people, please take a step back, this isn’t brown-people-answer-white-people’s-questions-hour, we’re asking specifically for submissions from POC,” the section’s editors added in their September intro. “As being told no seems to be a difficult concept for some of y’all I await your emails about the Irish, how the term white fragility is mean (great example of white fragility) and how we need to view people through a color-blind lens (just lol). You will 100% not get a response!!!”
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The egotism of these racists still has a small measure of surprise.
I dig the new avatar. SOOPER DERPY TO THE RESCUE!
I’ve been overloaded with derp! too much, have mercy!
They just need to turn off the lights and chain the gate on that place.
I cant understand how that hasn’t happened already. It’s a fuckin’ crazy house.
Does this mean wypipo aren’t allowed to read it either? Do they have police roaming campus to enforce compliance with that policy?
“This should be a place where we can be us without it being overshadowed by the dark cloud that is living under white supremacy and having to see things from a white perspective.“
That place already exists. It’s called America, you stupid fucking assholes.
I don’t want to curb stomp those people because I disagree with their politics. I want to curb stomp them because they’re obnoxious, spoiled brats who have the bravery and courage of snowflakes who have never been told “no” or had to work for a single goddamn thing in their lives and have the gall to claim to be some kind of victims who have managed to triumph over oppression. By being disgusting racists, of course.
The Racism Test: Take a quote from a “progressive” and ad-lib the races, then see if it sounds racist:
““This should be a place where we can be us without it being overshadowed by the dark cloud that is living under Jewish supremacy and having to see things from a Jewish perspective. This is why when we do cover these issues it will be in the context and from the perspective of white Europeans and white Europeans only,”
Yep, all they’re missing is the armbands and shiny jackboots.
Hugo Boss was a white guy – they’d never wear his work.
The latest Roy Moore accuser (who got herself quoted in the NY Times) seems to be insane. She does’t even pretend that she isn’t making this shit up.
I won’t lie, I did not make it past the first photograph.
woah – that’s some crazy Harpo hair there.
Yet there are still people saying Moore should drop out, and that the accusations against him “are credible.” Hell, I just last night read a Larry Elder article at Townhall saying he should drop out. Do all these media personalities just live in their own bubble, even the more right leaning ones? I just don’t get the disconnect between people like Elder or Shapiro saying “these accusations are credible, and he should drop out. Afterall, this isn’t a court of law, we don’t do innocent until proven guilty in the court of public opinion,” and everyone else saying this is obvious political BS by the Dems.
I was somewhat confused when I first ran into someone saying the allegations were credible, because even without regard to the suspicious timing, what was presented was mightly flimsy. I was reserving judgement at the time in case new evidence arose.
All that evidence says the claims are not credible.
Indeed. Just look at the “signed yearbook.” Copied from some document that was signed on Moore’s behalf by an assistant. So damn sloppy, yet Shaprio says that’s credible? The hell is he smoking?
From the comments on that Michelle Goldberg story:
Tribalism led by derangement must be called out and resisted – normality will snap back some day.
Yeah whatever, dude. Take your meds.
Russia Man gets cat out of tree.
I’m so glad that didn’t end the way I thought it would.
I was sure the cat was going to fry.
Same here. I was waiting for a big puff of smoke at the end.
Here is what you are looking for.
OK, that was fantastic.
Thanks for a good laugh this morning!
People are now asking why I’m guffawing.
as a former cat hostage for 14 years, that’s exactly how i would’ve done it.
After visiting Moscow a dozen and a half time in the 90s, I can verify this is how everything works in Russia.
Tennessee can’t find any…
*dons sunglasses*
Volunteers.
BOOO!!!!!!!
*throws anything at hand*
False. Check upthread.
😀
Shut up and go back to your adult diaper fetish with Mika.
https://news.grabien.com/story-scarborough-people-close-trump-during-campaign-told-me-he-ha
I see Joe’s anonymously-sourced nonsense follows on the heels of this:
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
But isn’t the only sanitary method of disposing of a portapotty infestation to burn them out?
Brooks, I think it was you commenting on Yohimbine the other day. Try this:
I need a new lab partner, first.
I found a combination of yohimbe and ginseng (with a couple of aspirin for the Yohimbe-induced headache) to be extremely effective, in my previous full contact scrimmages.
Dong facts.
http://www.dailyedge.ie/time-for-penis-facts-2064919-Apr2015/?utm_source=thedailyedge
Can’t be nothing but boob facts!
Come for the wet n’ wild fun, stay for the parasitic infections!
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2017/11/29/report-kennywood-eye-eating-parasite-lawsuit/
I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929.
Lul.
The depression would have been a short, sharp shock if not for the interference to try to “fix” it that prolonged and exacerbated the problems. You don’t turn a market correction into a depression without added effort after the fact.
I would make a crack about how history majors don’t have to take any math or economics, but his wikipedia-summary understanding of the Depression is pretty mainstream in economics departments as well.
My Macroeconomics professor was an honest to goodness Keynesian. I fought against the urge to laugh when she earnestly declared “Deficits are not a problem” and meant it as a perpetual truth.
Then she wasn’t a Keynesian. Keynes suggests running surpluses during good times to pay back the deficit.
To quote him after meeting with FDR, “I was the only non-Keynesian in the room.”
I know Keynes was not what we’d call a Keynesian, but sometimes these labels get away from their namesakes.
Real
MarxismKeynsianism has never been tried!…just ask a liberal.
Bingo. Keynes would be considered a budget hawk of the highest order in today’s economic circles.
My econ professors were honest to goodness Marxist. I tried not to scream when they takes about how much better the feudal system was for the common man than Capitalism, where they were debased to only owning their labor.
So once again – those who can’t, teach.
And you let em get away with it? Disrupt the classroom and call em out on their shit.
Well that escalated quickly
there was that one-year 10% surcharge back in ’68 too. we’ve come a long way.
And non-cash benefits, such as medical care, increased during that period too. Gee wonder why.
“Yet the plain fact that the trickle-down approach has never worked leaves Republicans unfazed.”
Ronald Reagan’s GDP growth figures would like a word.
Not to mention his own example, the 20s, which were so prosperous the decade became known as the “Roaring 20s” despite being kicked off by the Depression of 1920. Spoiler alert: the Republican government reacted to that depression by cutting taxes while broadening the tax base (sounds familiar…) and otherwise did relatively nothing.
Quoting Bryan? Seriously? Someone really quoted WJB on purpose?
What’s next, quoting OWH, Jr?
Three generations of economic imbeciles is enough.
“Follow the Yellow Brick Road”
And that’s why shoeshine boys had the wherewithall to dabble in the stock market.
I dig the blatant appeals to authority embedded in this headline writing style. It’s no longer sufficient to simply summarize the article’s premise. You now have to throw a heaping scoop of TOP MEN into it.
it’s just like all these cocksucking assholes have forgotten all about Quantitative Easing.
the current tax bill CUTS FUCKING TAXES across the goddamn board.
Irrelevant. Any reduction in taxes for the rich is stealing from the poor, don’tcha know? The government actually has to go to the poor families and take their money and then hand it over to the fat cats. That’s how it works, right?
/Prog
thankfully no one anywhere has any definition of the ‘trickle-down’ theory and no one in the GOP supports any known group of ‘trickle-down’ economists, so we’re in the clear i guess
This should be a place where we can be us without it being overshadowed by the dark cloud that is living under white supremacy and having to see things from a white perspective.
The Dark Cloud of Whiteness.
Sounds like a wrasslin’ name.
Hey, Toby, that dark cloud is the shadow of my palanquin which you are obviously forced by society to carry my lazy white ass around in, and you’d better shut your hole before I bring the whip out again. Sheesh, the way these uppity negras behave these days you’d think slavery ended over a hundred years ago, there are long-established cultural mores against racism, and there are innumerable legal protections against discrimination!
Fuck. It may be time to retire from athletics.
Every year I sign up the boys and I to run in a Thanksgiving 5K. We’ve been doing it for years. As part of the signup they ask you for your age. Since there is no good reason for asking that, I do what I normally do. I scroll way down the year picker to some really bogus year that is a long time ago.
This showed up in the mail yesterday.
I’m in my very, very early 50’s, so I will probably have to figure out how to get this trophy to its rightful owner now.
My son was in hysterics laughing last night when he saw that. What made him laugh hardest is that I came in 3rd. Not even 1st.
*slowclap*
That’s not the worst of it. The two guys who finished ahead were over 80 and one had a walker!
The son wondered aloud if my wife would leave me for one of those virile octogenarians.
Personally I am blaming my oldest son. He’s been at college fucking off, so we ran together during the race. He held me back!
The anchor son is on the left in the UPS hoodie. We finished at about 30 minutes. The youngest son finished in 19 minutes or so.
19 min for a 5k? That’s pretty damn good.
He’s 17 and has shit tons of energy.
I did get some joy that he was pretty sore the next day.
I used to do 18 minutes in the yearly physical fitness tests in the Marines back when I was young.
You maxed out the run? Oh, I totally hate you now. I really, really tried for a while to at least get my time in the teens, but 20:38 was the best I ever did.
Pullups were my weakness.
If I had been running, I could work hard for a month and do the 18 minutes. If I hadn’t been training the secret was to not do anything the week before and just go crazy. Hurt like hell the next week, but you could do it.
Most running is mental. Once you know you can do it, it is pretty easy to keep doing it. Especially if there is someone you can follow who sets the pace.
I’ve never cracked 20:00 in a 5K, so I’m obliged to hate anyone who has. Sorry about that.
I’m not athletically gifted so everything was my weakness 🙂
Best pullups was 14 or 15. Unfortunately, not on the same PFT as the best run time.
What is a good way to build up the required muscle groups to start doing pullups if you’re, say, a fat bastard who can’t currently lift his own body wight that way?
What is a good way to build up the required muscle groups to start doing pullups if you’re, say, a fat bastard who can’t currently lift his own body wight that way?
On my mobile right now so I’m having a hard time finding the original Q&A, but Rob Shaul at MTI recommends doing negative pull-ups. You jump up, grab the bar while your chin is still above it, then lower yourself down slowly until your arms are fully extended. Do that three times for a single set, then do three sets (or however many you can do).
“What is a good way to build up the required muscle groups to start doing pullups if you’re, say, a fat bastard who can’t currently lift his own body wight that way?”
Go to a gym and find an assisted pullup machine.
I have this horrible image of me jumping up, grabbing the top bar of the strength cage, tipping back, landing on the table saw and having the cage fall on top of me…
Q – If anyone can see me, I’m not going to be exercising. It’s embarassing enough alone.
Anyone remember those stories about W. running the 3-mile Presidential fitness challenge in 2002? Finished with a 20:29.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/03/01/run-president-run.html
At age 56.
Also, for Uncivil, there are bands (pretty much giant, thick rubber bands, really) that you loop around the pull-up bar and create a stirrup for your foot. This creates the poor man’s assisted pull-up machine.
Who’s the dick in the Michigan hoodie?
Based on the map you posted today, I’ll guess “Ole Johnson”
Nice photo. Too bad some background choad in a Michigan sweatshirt had to ruin it.
You sure you didn’t Cartman-Special Olympics the old folks category?
It’s coming fast enough and you have to push it? don’t fuck it up for the rest of us Olde Folkes
THIRD place?!
Right?
If it makes you feel better, I started getting AARP mailings when I was in high school. Stupid grandfather having the same first name as me.
Lol. Did you eat a 4:00 Dinner then turn on Wheel of Fortune?
Test. Getting errors posting this morning.
Bend over I’ll show you errors.
Where’s robc? He hasn’t been around this morning.
Who?
BUG ALERT!!!!!
Okay, that worked. I was getting “you must be logged in to post”, even though I was already logged in. Logging out and back in fixed it.
I also have an issue from my android tablet using chrome, the “post comment” button only shows up in landscape. I normally read in portrait, it is annoying.
Why is this blank space here?!
/gaslight
Random awesome fact I discovered today: the official presidential car of Chile is a 1966 Galaxie XL convertible.
Journalism!
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/11/30/go-fck-yourself-wonkette-headline-about-sarah-sanders-may-well-be-the-most-hateful-sexist-ever/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
Wonkette still exists? Well, I’ll be damned.
Probably the next site to start asking for donations to keep fighting capitalism.
I believe it exists in the same sense that “Circuit City” still exists. I think the original wonkette left long ago.
Evan Hurst
@EvanHurst
Senior Editor, Wonkette. I beat the shit out of Glenn Thrush and he thanked me for it.
Evan has issues.
The perks of being a politician.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/city-official-reportedly-spent-8000-city-money-buying-guns-tracking-devices/
*sigh*
Alright. I don’t want to, but I’m going to lawsplain this.
1. Nobody claimed the gun went off on its own. Not even the defense.
2. First degree murder was a blatant overcharge. Not sure how premeditation could’ve been proven in the first place.
3. The gun was fired, the bullet hit the ground, skipped, travelled about 100 yards afterwards and hit her.
4. Even given that, the definition of second degree murder isn’t met, so you’re left with the manslaughter charge.
5. The prosecutor, either through incompetence or throwing the case, didn’t really do a thing to prove the lesser included offense. And involuntary manslaughter wouldn’t have gotten him much more time than felon in possession of a gun anyways.
6. I’m of the mind that the prosecutor didn’t throw the case; he overcharged due to political pressure and it blew up in his face. Sort of like the Casey Anthony case.
Patterico has a pretty good rundown on Red State: https://www.redstate.com/patterico/2017/12/01/lawsplainer-california-homicide-statutes-relevant-steinle-murder-case/
Speaking of Casey Anthony…
I was taking Evidence in law school while her trial was going on, and the prof I had was a district court judge. So even though I didn’t have cable, I was treated to a sideline sort of play-by-play for the evidence at her trial. /this ends the law school memories story of the day.
The Patterico link seems to undercut your point #2, though:
Doesn’t really matter. This looks terrible to the public and can so easily be spun as “multi-felony illegal murders pretty All-American girl and gets off because Dems care more about third-world illegals than your daughter”. Either way, it’s an early Trump-reelection Christmas present.
The sad fact of the matter is, unless this girl is personally known to them, most Democrat politicians are going to care about third world illegals more than an American, since that third world illegal is a potential vote, once they are granted amnesty.
The second joke seems appropriate:
http://www.commonsenseevaluation.com/tag/dixon-diaz/#sthash.RA6GTes6.dpbs
Wow, I love that site.
That’s not untrue, for the reason given in the article: the people at fault aren’t the prosecutor or jurors, they’re the politicians who made San Francisco a haven for multi-felony illegal vagrants.
I’m ambivalent about the sanctuary city arguments. On the one hand, I see why local law enforcement want the cooperation of illegals, who probably wouldn’t give it if they’re concerned about being deported. On the other hand it seems insane that local PDs shouldn’t cooperate with specific requests made by ICE.
None of that matters JB. All people know is that an illegal alien and felon was in the country and killed a pretty white girl and got away with it.
If we weren’t getting a wall and mass deportation before, we will now. The pitchforks and torches are coming out.
Truth. This features a number of bugbears besides illegal immigration, such as anti-white prejudice and government incompetence. San Francisco might not turn purple over this, but I’ll bet a bunch of people on the fence about enforcing immigration laws just made a decision.
IANAL, so I don’t know if or how this translates into legal mechanisms, but if you’re carrying a loaded firearm that doesn’t belong to you, and either you fire it accidentally or it fires because you drop it, you’re responsible for where that bullet goes. No, it isn’t the same as planning to shoot someone and then doing it, but you have, through your own actions, caused a sequence of events that were predictable and preventable: predictable, because you can easily anticipate that a cocked and loaded firearm has the potential to go off accidentally, and preventable because you can take simple steps to avoid the possibility of accidental discharge. On that basis, how is it that a person here illegally in possession of a firearm illegally does something that would get any of us at least some sort of legal trouble and is sent home with a stern warning?
I don’t want anyone to bust their asses explaining this one, but wouldn’t negligent homicide have been a prosecutorial option?
At the risk of sounding like a dumbass, that’s kind of what I was thinking would be on the table. I’m just thinking that if I had a stolen gun cocked and loaded on me, dropped it in a public place causing it to fire, and the bullet hit someone or something, I would be held responsible. There wouldn’t be a scenario where I walked out of the courthouse scot-free.
Of course, the really hard sentencing would be applied when the prosecution manage to prove he lied about talking to the Russians.
the official presidential car of Chile is a 1966 Galaxie XL convertible.
Excellent. Not quite as imposing as a Mercedes 600, but easier to get parts for.
Officer accidentally Tasers partner
*cue Benny Hill theme*
Damn you! That actually made me guffaw audibly. Now people know I’m not actually working!
There is nothing that Yakkity Sax can’t make funny.
I’m of the mind that the prosecutor didn’t throw the case; he overcharged due to political pressure and it blew up in his face.
Thank you. As I understand it, what he actually did was (literally) criminally stupid and reckless, but not intentional or directed toward any person.
I saw “directed toward any person” as not directed toward any prison. Huh.
I don’t know why the Gloria Steinem thing bothers me so much. Maybe I just don’t want to believe there are people who are that terrible, and they have a lot of political clout.
She is particularly vile and unhinged.
I reached this conclusion by using Dr. Dodes Diagnostic Discipline – I listened to her speak.
In the sidebar of the “I Love Guns and Titties” site.
http://shop.tacticalshit.com/liberal-tears-gun-oil-bacon-4oz
I would like a 55-gallon drum of this please.
okay.. next time i’m in the market i will buy this.
Michael Flynn charged with lying to the FBI.
Remember: The cops can lie to you all they want, but if you “lie” to them it’s a crime.
Result of a plea deal, apparently.
No word on whether this means he’s flipping on anyone.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/michael-flynn-charged/index.html
The charge against Flynn is the first in Mueller’s probe that has reached someone in the Trump White House and is the latest sign that the special counsel investigation is intensifying.
Or petering out. Trump fired Flynn for misleading him and the FBI. And this is why Mueller called Kushner in to talk: so he’d confirm Flynn had lied.
This all but proves to me they have nothing on the Russia investigation. Anything else they get, if there is anything, will he totally separate from the task Mueller was given. We’ll see if he has any principles and shuts it down or if he plays politics and continues with a “three felonies a day” witch hunt.
“We’ll see if he has any principles”
Short answer: he doesn’t.
This. I can’t stand it when I read dumb shit my clients have said to the cops, and then they say “I just wanted to get out of there,” or something like that.
You need one of those fish mounted on a plaque that says “I wouldn’t be here either if I had kept my mouth shut”.
Hang it on the wall in your office.
My understanding is that it’s never a good idea to talk to the cops. Guilty or innocent.
Never. Never never never. Never never ever never ever never ever say anything to a police officer except for “I will not speak to you without the presence of an attorney”. And be sure to say those exact words, or they’ll get to claim they didn’t think you really meant you wanted to speak to an attorney. Doesn’t matter if you were 3,000 miles away at the time of the crime and have a thousand witnesses to that fact. Don’t say a damn word.
+infinity
+1 “I had the right to remain silent, but not the ability”
“They call me…tater salad.”
“I want my attorney, dog” is definitely not a qualifying statement.
So Dog should not have gotten his law degree?
Elsepeth and JB, I’m curious about your professional point of view for Ayoob’s advice below (his actual article I copied, not my brief hashed up summary of it). It makes sense to me, but do you still think it’s not a good idea to establish the role of who is the victim and who is the perp before clamming up?
Yes, I agree that police reports are written with the good guy/bad guy story pretty often. And I have often defended people (for assault/battery, and DV) who tell me “not the way this happened, I was defending myself, but that’s not in the police report.” In fact, I had a dude I defended who was 1. beat up by the bystanders because his girlfriend said “he hit me,” and then 2. was manhandled by the cops to “restrain” him, even though he was seeking help from the cops (see #1) but 3. police report didn’t reflect that at all, instead it said GF was the victim, and dude got his injuries by hitting the GF.
So, I agree with the advice that a witness needs to be clear on the story that “It happened like this” instead of “yes, I hit him.” However, years of police training will still mean that the report reads something else.
Furthermore, even if you say that – say nothing other than repeating you request. If you start talking about something else they can claim you waived your rights.
I can’t remember his name but there’s a firearm legal expert, who has deeply involved self defense shootings, who recommends initially telling the cops that yes, you shot in self defense, you want to press charges, and then shut up. He said lawyers will tell you never to say anything but that’s because 99% of their clientele really are guilty.
The reasoning is that when the cops come on the scene, there’s going to be a bad guy and a good guy. The guy bleeding out the floor is doing a really impersonation of a good guy so you have set the correct narrative from the beginning or risk being pegged as the bad guy from the get go.
1) Tell the cops that you were attacked, threatened, etc. and you acted in self defense
2) Tell them that you want to press charges against the perpetrator, further solidifying the bad guy/good guy roles
3) Once that has been done, tell them all further questions will have to go through your lawyer.
I have always thought that telling the cop that I feared for my life and just wanted to get home to my family would smooth everything out.
Just remembered his name. Massad Ayoob. Here’s one of his many many articles:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/20/massad-ayoob-5-things-to-know-after-a-defensive-shooting/
Supposedly if you take one of his CC courses and actually do have use it, he will testify in court on your behalf that you were properly trained.
IANAL, but I play one in my mind.
It seems to me as though JB’s absolutist approach is not entirely at odds with this Ayoob’s. It always seemed to me that a volunteered statement to the effect that you were standing here minding your own business when the guy over there on the ground ran at you with a baseball bat at which point you told him you were armed and that he should stop, and he failed to do so and so you shot him. (yeah, like you’d have time to do that.) The real danger lies (assuming an effective and honest cop) in the apparent narrative that is created based on the subsequent two-way exchange between you and the officer, as you answer his sequence of questions.
On sober reflection, I think I’d just decock and holster before the cop arrives, and then offer to surrender the firearm when he arrives. And then shut the fuck up. Hopefully, it’s a situation I’ll never experience.
Not a lawyer but I know a few cops.
My understanding is that the police who respond are basically going to take you into custody and file a report, but they’re not going to investigate; that’s a detective’s job. So, they’re concerned that a.) you’re not currently shooting anyone, b.) you’re not going to shoot them, and c.) when they write their report they have some sort of a narrative to justify their actions. With that in mind, in general, the move is to follow Ayoob’s advice but maybe don’t volunteer as much.
So, yes, say that some dude came running at you with a knife so you shot him in self defense and you’d like to file a complaint, point to the knife, and mention if any of the bystanders were there at the time, but don’t be so over-helpful that you get in the way or seem like you’re trying to do their job for them. And definitely, after giving them the bare minimum, say something like, “I really don’t want to say anything more without my lawyer present.” Give them enough to establish that there’s no further immediate threat and then let their part of the job be done by kicking it over to a lawyered-up at the station level. And be polite but firm. Oh, and don’t think there’s some information you can give the police that isn’t going to result in you being taken into custody.
Oh no! The intelligent, thoughtful, hard working people that make up the group known as millennials don’t think too highly of the job Trump is doing right now! Michelle Obama set to win in 2020!
Didn’t Trump garner like 6% of the millennial vote to begin with?
There will be a lot more of them in three more years.
Student loan debt is going to be the dominant issue one of these days.
I fear this
If he can get a bill passed to make it discharged in bankruptcy that’ll go a long way to getting the vote.
The generation after the Millennials is trending conservative. That may balance out the leftist kooks among my generation.
A friend posted this on Facebook, and I pointed out that the first three steps, as well as the ball and chains are all highly regulated. Bernie’s Socialist step propaganda
All major milestones in life are preceded by purchasing a car, which is itself the most arduous endeavor.
Maybe…. the first step is so high because cash for clunkers killed every affordable used car in the US?
That is probably being generous to the artist though. And what kid dragging around a ball and chain of student loan debt is fucking shackled by medical bills? Don’t they teach them not to marry the genetically inferior?
Exactly. The problem that many Millennials have about Trump is that he came after Obama, who gave them everything that a young prog could possibly want short of single-payer. Thanks to withdrawals, those same folks are nostalgic for an even stronger hero drug like Bernie.
Success! I managed to score a bottle of this for the girlfriend for Christmas. She’s wanted to try it ever since she heard it was being released back in October.
looks ridiculous
That’s nothing compared to some of the other flavors they make. Some highlights include:
Planet of the Grapes – Peanut Butter and Jelly flavored mead
CinnaMan Bun – Cinnamon roll flavored mead
Stranger Bings – Cherry Pie flavored mead.
CinnaMan dude I believe the preferred nomenclature is cinnamon american, please
Nope. I think Swiss would go blind with how narrow his gaze would have to be after looking over the mead names.
*NARROWS GAZE*
My teeth are itching just imagining that stuff.
Because mead flavored mead isn’t sweet enough…
*barf*
I don’t know how they got so wasted on that stuff in Hrothgar’s Hall.
I’m only a mead dilettante (some friends are more into it) but Superstition Meadery has some good stuff that isn’t sickly-sweet at all. They’re not cheap, though.
Indeed they’re not, but they do good work and I am a fan of the Jucius Cesar…
Houston really had no business being there. I hear this is what is supposed to make playoffs “exciting”.
55% of the teams make the playoffs. Why even both with a regular season?
Agreed. Top two from each conference should go and do home/away series to the end. If you insist, throw a couple wild cards; but as it stands way too many teams go on.
I despise both teams in the final. Can’t they both lose?
I would have liked to have seen either NYC team put in some effort for a change but apparently this wasn’t the year.
Yeah, I don’t care who wins.
Apparently their AD went rogue in talking to Leach, the UT brass (and Jimmy Haslam) doesn’t want him, Phil Fulmer’s stabbing the AD in the back, the AD has either been stripped of his powers or fired, depending on who you ask, and the coaching search is starting from scratch again.
And given that this plane is scheduled to fly from College Station to Tallahassee and back today, I’m reasonably sure that means aTm is getting Jimbo.
Hah, Tennessee manages to become even more of a dumpster fire today.
I loathe UT, so I was really enjoying the whole shit-show. Then I started feeling sorry for them. Now I’m laughing again. (And the delusions of grandeur among Tenn fans just make it funnier.)
“Hey, you know that guy who ran his dad’s company into bankruptcy and has made the Cleveland Browns into even more of a laughingstock? Yeah, Haslam – let’s give him the final say-so on our coaching hire!”
He’s a billionaire booster and his brother’s the governor. He runs the show.
The least embarrassing explanation for Tenn is that every decision maker is an Alabama double-agent.
Nah, they dont want their SOS hurt this badly.
Hmm – Auburn double-agents?
UK double agents. They just want the win.
Conquest’s Third Law in action
I’ll take the dumpster fire though, because Neyland is a place I’d love to see a college football game, and the less people who want to go, the lower the ticket prices will be.
As a Texas Ex and FSU grad, I’m rooting for it. Enjoy mediocrity, Aggies.
Do you really think FSU is going to hire someone better?
You should get someone with less control issues though, so you have that going for you.
Maybe someone who can keep his players from punching women at college bars on the regular?
Really, CNN?
SO today is Romania national day, celebrating the day the last known vampire was killed. National days are stupid. Now I appreciate a free day from work as much as the next guy (2 free days actually 30th of November is St Andrew’s day in orthodoxland and him being the saint who allegedly Christianized Romania, it is also a national Holiday). But the traffic was fucked all day due to army parades and a lot of stuff is closed for the Holiday. Also there is n o way in hell I am leaving Bucharest on this particular long weekend, everywhere is crowded and expensive.
Romania has a military?
I learned something today.
Swiss where are those pictures of camp dracula?
See below!
The Air Force consists of bats.
They are very good at avoiding radar, and at spot targetting engine systems. Just don’t expect saturation bombing capacility.
They’re also very buggy.
we actually bough some used f 16 although I think we would have been better off buying new saab grippens
Who’s in the shot?
I thought I was on the wrong thread for a moment…Deja Vu.
HEY CHIPWOODER!
I responded to your blacksmithing question late last night so I don’t know if you saw it. Just in case, here’s the repeat:
I do some. Like Lt. Fish said, the startup costs are somewhat high if you’re just going to dabble, but you can get away with a homemade charcoal forge and an old section of railroad track to use as an anvil. You can make a charcoal forge out of an old brake drum or old grill and a hair dryer, and you could probably find a section of old railroad track on Craigslist for like $40 or $50, depending on how big it is.
The least expensive step up from railroad track and homemade forges would be something like a stake anvil and a two-burner propane forge:
https://www.oldworldanvils.com/4-x-4-stake-anvil
http://www.majesticforge.com/2-Burner-Knifemaker-Economy.html
That’ll put you in the $500 vicinity, not including tax or shipping.
Getting into actual anvils starts to get pricy. You can expect to pay easily $3 or $4 per pound for a good used steel anvil, but most likely higher. Cast-iron anvils are generally to be avoided since they’re much softer than the metal you’ll be working (and your hammer for that matter …). You’ll dent the shit out of them as soon as you hit with any force, and if they don’t dent, they’ll crack.
There is ton of information available on YouTube. I took a few classes at the Appalachian Center for Craft but mostly I’ve just looked stuff up on YouTube if I can’t figure it out.
Yes indeed, my friend, saw it this morning. Interesting that anvils cost that much – you wouldn’t think something that’s just a big hunk of metal would cost that much. I might try the grill-and-RR track thing just to see if I actually like doing it before I sink any money into it. Thanks for the advice.
I know, right? I was shocked when I got into it. I think a lot of it has to do with the type of metal used and the complexity of the hardening process. Also, outside of farriers, there’s not a huge demand for anvils so you don’t really get economies of scale.
All of that to say, I had no idea how wealthy Wile E. Coyote was until I got into blacksmithing. Making it rain anvils. Sheesh.
Well, in his day there was a surplus of used anvils from the industrial revolution and America was still making steel in quantity.
And for his purposes, he didn’t need quality anvils, just weight.
SO today is Romania national day, celebrating the day the last known vampire was killed.
Ceaucescu?
*I don’t actually care if I spelled it correctly.
you need a ș in there. And old Nick was just a ghoul
I prefer tabbouleh.
The video of that last speech of his, where he looks panicked once he realizes he can no longer control the crowd, is priceless.
Damn shame to see prominent fat liberal douches turn on each other.
Battle Brewing Between Michael Moore, Harvey & Bob Weinstein Over Donald Trump-Themed ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Sequel
Oh, that’s delicious.
SO I was at my moms place where the TV is generally on on Eurosport and now it is winter sports season leading to the winter Olympics in Korea Inferior this year. My question is since y’all are all about shootin’ why ain’t no USistanis in biathlon? Cant you teach a bunch of rednecks shooting and cross country skiing?
We need an even that requires chugging a 6-pack of beer, driving a shitty pickup through a swampy obstacle course, then shooting targets with rifle that’s been bouncing around in the back of the truck.
Is this close enough?
The winter Olympics are much less popular here than the summer games. Besides ice skating and maybe hockey, nobody’s really into the other sports that much. So it’s not surprising we have fewer participants.
Have you forgotten curling.
Having pointed out your glaring omission, let me followup with the statement that the Olympics are super stupid and boring as a rule. The only reason I was interested as a kid in them was to watch us thrash the godless commies.
Yeah, that was event television when I was little. Then again I sat up half the night watching the Jerry Lewis telethon when I was like 7 so I was a little strange.
At least around here, the art of shooting a deer in the head at night with .22 magnum while sitting in a truck appears to have been perfected by the local poachers. I don’t know if that would be sanctioned by the IOC as an official sport, but I think Arkansas Rednecks would be perennial champs.
I remember the first Olympics had pigeon shooting as an even. Release a n umber of birds which flew away and who got most won.
https://shootingsportsman.com/754/
It’s still legal in the U.S. In most states anyway. I have never done it, but I know people who have.
Probably the same reason we can’t play soccer or rugby – lack of interest.
Biathlon is a sport for cross country skiers who are not fast enough, so to compensate they learn a bit of shooting. And cross country skiing is not popular in the US.
Up here in the DPRofCT there’s some interest in biathlon, but it’s an odd intersection between urban skiiers who aren’t shit scared of firearms, and rural shooters who would actually put skis on for fun and wander around the cold, inhospitable countryside. Given that many of us end up having to deal with gray lumps of ice and miserable roads during our work week for months on end, the ski places around here are populated mainly with NYC weekend escapees.
Add that to the fact that suitable locations for the shooting part are hard to come by, and it’s easy to see why it’s not super-popular.
There are summer biathlon events in PA & NY.. we used to have a group in NJ… It is mostly runners/skiers that shoot. There are larger groups in VT/ CO + NY that have access to the facilities and good all winter snow cover.
The problem is having a rifle range (50m) adjacent to a system of trails + moving and storage of the equipment (rifles, targets, cones, signs etc).
If the range is a NRA style range that has conniptions every time a rifle does not have a chamber flag, you have a culture clash with participants that are used to skiing 5-10KM with the rifle on their backs with the bolt closed to keep snow/moisture out of the action.
Simo Häyhä nods.
Is Spicier back?
Oh my goodness. Can it be??
… I think that yes, yes it is!
Cant you teach a bunch of rednecks shooting and cross country skiing?
Cross country skiing? Fuck that. In America, we ride chairlifts, like God intended.
I remember trying that in Austria and wondering why in hell anybody would waste their time on this when there’s a mountain right over there?
To get home after they’ve gotten down the mountain.
?
Cross country skiing is one winter sport that I have never gotten.
My aunt, who is a giant dog nut, once tried to bring her 100+ lb. Lab/Newfie mix on a cross country ski trip with her. She had the fancy leash that goes around your waist. Everything went well until they hit the first hill. The dog was pretty alpha and always wanted to be first, so when he heard/saw her coming downhill and gaining on him, he took off like a bat out of hell and jerked her off her skis and then drug her for several hundred yards down the hill. That was the end of her cross country skiing days.
All due respect to your aunt, but the mental image I get from that story is hilarious.
I have the image of the event inspiring her to take up dogsledding.
It was supposed to be funny.
She is a crazy dog lady. She adores all of her dogs. The dog in that story was a rescue dog that she took in and then spent $10K in vet bills to fix its knees. So if you are a dog that falls into her pack, you won the lottery.
She wasn’t forthcoming with the story. Her husband – who is one of most patient men on the earth to put up with her antics – was the one who told me. It took a while for him to get it out because of all the laughing he was doing.
Went something like this?
I present to you skijoring
Scallops have 200 eyes, which function like a telescope: study
https://phys.org/news/2017-11-scallops-eyes-function-telescope.html
Scallops may look like simple creatures, but the seafood delicacy has 200 eyes that function remarkably like a telescope, using living mirrors to focus light, researchers said Thursday.
Most creatures’ eyes have lenses that focus light.
But scallops have concave mirrors at the back of their eyes.
Scientists have known since the 1960s that Pecten scallops see by reflecting light off these concave mirrors onto the retina above, said the report in the journal Science. Some crustaceans and deep sea fish also have eyes like this.
But now they have found a way to peer more deeply into these mirrors than ever before, by using a microscope that rapidly freezes samples so they do not get dehydrated and retain their shape.
The result is first-ever view of a mosaic of tiny mirrors and crystals, carefully arranged inside scallops’ small poppy seed-like eyes which line their outer edge, known as the mantle.
Does this affect the taste?
No.
For scallops the part you eat is the muscle that closes the shell, not the rest of it.
not that you would eat scallops
My main issue with scallps tends to be the price tag. I don’t want to spend what they’re asking on it. They are easy to cook, and if you get big enough scallops you can wrap them in bacon.
My grandpa treated my family to the San Diego Charthouse a few years ago, and that’s exactly what I got. So delicious.
I love scallops
I’ve never had much luck with the bacon wrapping because you have to promise the bacon to crispy because the scallops don’t take very long to cook and if you wrap while that bacon is still pliable it won’t crisp up. Seems easier just to cook the bacon and crumple it over the cooked scallops.
Pre-cook, not promise
Precook to “cooked but pliable” wrap it and finish cooking with the scallop – if you must have only extra-crispy every time you apply bacon and it cannot have any give to it.
It can be done, somehow. One of the best meals I ever ate was some bacon-wrapped sea scallops that my mom cooked on the BBQ. I don’t know how she did it, but the scallops were juicy and the bacon was crisp.
That’s the secret. Have your mom cook them!
Aye, it does.
*narrows ten-score gazes*
Put a lid on it.
What’s that you say?
Speaking of those who are utterly untethered from reality
Do you see what they’re doing? If facts don’t matter, then a professional press that tries to deal scrupulously in facts is irrelevant. Everyone is a liar. Welcome to the club.
Trump is a hooligan to the Constitution. But he has a gaggle of people being paid very well to help him subvert truth, justice and the American way.
Poor Timmy Egan. He worked so hard to become a “legitimate” journalist, and now, any right wing crackpot with an ISP can puke out propaganda contradicting Egan’s propaganda. It’s just not fair.
“Trump is a hooligan to the Constitution.”
This pisses me off. The fucking media all of sudden gives a fuck about the constitution. Where have they been the last 8 years?
You should know by now that taking the media seriously is not good for your mental health. I treat news media as comedy these days, because everything they say is laughably stupid.
So Trump’s undermining “truth, Justice, and the American way.” What hacktastic prose, the guy sounds like he wants to call Batman to put a stop to it.
A rich, self-appointed arbiter of “Justice” who ignores the rule of law?
Isn’t that what they’ve already got on the case?
Mueller? He looks terrible in black spandex though.
Tennessee just fired John Currie. Dumpster fire back on.
Yakety-sax time.
https://twitter.com/BradenGall/status/936621176952119297
This is a good tweet
The Scholarly Journal for Studying Photos of Mark Zuckerberg
The inaugural edition of ‘The California Review of Images and Mark Zuckerberg’ was released Monday.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyjznb/the-scholarly-journal-for-studying-photos-of-mark-zuckerberg
And they are worried about the tax bill reducing the amount of money that can be dedicated to programs like this? Fuck right off!
Alex DeLarge Forced To Step Down As Leader Of Droogs Amidst Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
https://www.theonion.com/alex-delarge-forced-to-step-down-as-leader-of-droogs-am-1820854092
ok this was funny
My aunt, who is a giant dog nut
NOT OKAY, DUDE!
Vox can’t trust their employees with an open bar at a holiday party but we should definitely listen to them on healthcare & economics
Nice.
Virtual wall.
http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/688666.pdf
So…
Well, this should be interesting
It’s a very long way from “Flynn, contact the Russians” ro anything illegal, much less criminal.
Exactly. Everyone on twitter is all like, “OMG Flynn going to ‘testify’ against Trump”
No one bothers to explain what the ‘charges’ are.
Logan Act, I guess? Not that anyone has ever been prosecuted for it.
conspiring to undermine the sanctions regime? Did we have one in place at the time? unless they can prove that was the specific subject of discussion and some evidence of quid-pro-quo is established, i don’t see how merely even ‘talking’ amounts to anything.
Looking at this Google Trends map, it makes sense why Ben Shapiro finds every damn sexual assault allegation to be “credible”. On that note, he needs to get out of Los Angeles, move to Salt Lake City, and run a primary challenge to Mitt Romney next year for the Senate seat. He’d be perfect for that state, too: just NeverTrump enough for the McMuffin Mormons to love him, and conservative enough for both libertarians and hard-core conservatives to support him.
Here y’all go…
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/01/us-stock-futures-data-opec-tax-on-the-agenda.html
Sounds like Flynn is willing to testify that Trump directed him to talk to the Rooskies.
as above: What charge is that material to?
Doesn’t matter: Something something Russia, something something IMPEACH!!
Exactly! What more proof do you need!?
Oh man, this is damning. I mean, what possible purpose could a national security adviser have to talk to one of our longtime geopolitical rivals? What possible good could come from a national security standpoint if we were to have a good relationship with a country that we had a 40 year cold war with?
So… in the realm of absolutely batshit fucking insane, I just ran the ACA subsidy calculator and got the following results:
Family of five, AGI of $115,000, subsidy of $2300 per month.
Change that to $116,000 and the subsidy drops to $0 per month.
Got that? The subsidy calculation follows a hysteresis function at 400% of the federal poverty level.
You know it’s a well-designed program when you have to subsidize a family with a 6-figure income to make it work.
Just think how much worse off they’d be without the subsidy!
on Virginia’s exchange, that would almost cover 2/3rds of the monthly premium.
I’m curious how removing the insurance mandate will affect this (assuming it makes it to the end). Health insurance companies will still be forced to provide “comprehensive insurance”, but there would be no penalty to buying catastrophic insurance which is about $100/month for a family. Will insurers start offering in between plans like we used to have? They would still not be allowed to count as official “health insurance”, but why would anyone care without the mandate? I guess maybe employers would still be affect by the comprehensive nonsense.
I have made this same comment many times, but it bears repeating.
My family of 5 has a healthcare plan that covers precisely 0% and $0 until I hit the deductible of $13,100. Its unsubsidized cost is almost $1200/month. So I can either have barebones catastrophic healthcare coverage or pay a mortgage on a 2nd home worth $250,000.
$2300/month is more than my mortgage was. That’s a big incentive to hide your income.
$2,300 is more than my mortgate for a whole quarter.
That’s a big incentive to hide your income.
No shit.
Not to mention get divorced.
Assume Mom and Dad’s combined incomes are $140k
So they can divorce split the kids between them and now each can file Head of Household, they no linger have to worry about phasing out deductions and credits or bumping up against the AMT and they qualify for the Obamacare subsidies.
At the end of the day you’d be looking at possibly as much as a $50k a year hit for the privilege of having an officially recognized marriage.
For argument’s sake, let’s say you made $120,000/year in salary. It would be sensible… nay intelligent… to ask your company to reduce your pay by $5000 so that you could collect more than $25000 in subsidies.
Let alone the incentives this creates for small business owners with pass thru situations.
It’s nuts.
It’s theft. Goddamned fucking socialist pigs. I hope every motherfucking piece of shit that voted for Obamacare burns in hell.
Saving education from the savages
We need to start asking which public goods universities are producing and whether government support gets Americans more of them. Taxing graduate students is a crude, destructive mechanism for extracting goods from academia because it would diminish both scientific discovery and the size and scope of the educated public that has been improving our country for generations. The current plan for taxing endowments does not address the problems that rightly drive citizen fury: soaring costs, educational inequality and schools’ resistance to change.
I love how, in all of these “think pieces”, the graduate students under attack are all incipient physicists just a few billion dollars of government grants away from making household fusion reactors a reality, or biochemists just *that* far from concocting a pill which will wipe out cancer everywhere. Who could possibly object to pumping unlimited amounts of money into our institutions of higher learning?
Heh, I’ve mentioned my experience before, but the STEM funding is often used as a trojan horse to fund the liberal arts.
My former grad advisor received 7 figure grants for science research. The school forced her to give half of the grant money to the liberal arts programs. It’s just a more advanced version of Three Card Monte.
I wonder how the school can do that and still comply with the federal program guidelines… should start rattling some cages.
Oh they didn’t redistribute the Grant money, they just lowered the school’s contribution to the work… into the negative.
i feel like 1:16 of this video is a perfect snapshot of our society right the hell now..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxPDLmrPz6E
Christ, what a (whole bunch of) assholes.
It’s always shocking just how evil progressives can be. There’s no better word for it: they traffic in such perversion, such rot, in service to a lunatic ideology that seeks to utterly crush the human spirit. If I were religious I’d ascribe it to devils wandering about in people skins, but as I’m not I can only suppose it’s always and at all times an animating force for some, the petty politics of envious and broken people, and only in the twentieth century has society enjoyed wealth enough to give it room to flourish.
I can only suppose it’s always and at all times an animating force for some, the petty politics of envious and broken people, and only in the twentieth century has society enjoyed wealth enough to give it room to flourish.
I think that modern progressivism (it may be uncharitable, but I’m lumping communism, socialism, et. al. under this label) merely harnesses an ancient vice and gives it a façade of modernism and rationalism. From time immemorial man has desired to plunder his neighbor (hence the necessity for the Tenth Commandment), and quite frequently this impulse has been indulged by pirates, thieves, highwaymen, and, with more organization (and government approval), raids on neighboring tribes and kingdoms. The impulse is not new, the indulgence is not new, the only novelty is in the presentation. Instead of being required to do the hard work of plundering oneself, now all men can live as kings and outsource the dirty work while enjoying the spoils. But no matter how well it is dressed up, at heart the person advocating redistribution is a pirate.
My former grad advisor received 7 figure grants for science research. The school forced her to give half of the grant money to the liberal arts programs.
Fairness demands it.
She didn’t earn that.
And, of course, add to the picture that, for most universities, graduate programs at the main college itself are subsidized by the business and law schools, which don’t offer these sorts of freebies.
The truth of the matter is America is over-colleged. The industry should shrink and prices should fall. The problem is oversubsidization keeps the whole house of cards afloat. And it can only be kept afloat with ever-increasing subsidies. The truth is that there really isn’t that much demand for people with advanced degrees in Women’s Studies or Cultural Anthropology. And the system isn’t ultimately going to be kept afloat by creating more graduate programs in Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology and positions for Junior Assistant Deans of Student Life and Multi-Cultural Diversity.
Not to mention the occupational licensing schemes that make college degrees mandatory for certain lines of work.